SECOND EDITION. BY TELEGRAPH: LATE FROM WASHINGTON. THE RECIPROCITY. TREATY. ANOTHER SHOCKING MURDER. FIRE AT BINGHAMTON, N. Y. MORE MARINE DISASTERS, From Washington. [Special Despatch to the Bulletin.] WASHINGTON Jan 11.—Canadian officials arc here in strong force to urge the renewal of the Reciurocity Treaty, before the old one expires. Both Government and Con gress are opposed to taking steps in the matter. The Reconstruction Committee have ad journed till Friday, without accomplißhiug anything. It is now settled that intelligence will be made the basis of suffrage in this district. Secretary McCulloch , was in conference with the Ways and Means Committee, to day, in regard to his financial bill. The principal features of the bill will be adopted by the Committee. Murder in Schuylkill County. [Special Despatch to the :13ulletia..1 Powsvima3 Jan. 11.—Mr. Henry H. Dunne was murdered last evening, about a mile and a-half from this place. No arrests have yet been made. Mr. Dunne was a highly respectable resident of Heckshers ville, and was engaged as a coal operator upon the lands of the New York and Schuylkill Coal Company. Fire in Binghampten. BENGEAMPTON, N. Y., January llth.— The stores of Lowell Harding, Howell Brothers, R. H. Hall SL Co., and Finch dr, Roe were burned this morning. Hall's loss is $lB,OOO, insured for $13,000; -French ez Roe's loss, $9,000, insured for $7,000; Hor ton's loss $4,000; insured for $2,000; Har ding's loss $3,500, insured for $2,000, The total loss including buildings is $52,000, with an insurance of $36,000. Marine Disaster. Boa Tow, Jan. 11.—The brig P. R. Curtis, Captain Atherton, from Philadelphia, for Portland, with coal, went ashore on Dia bury beach, on Monday night. The vessel bilged and filled with water. The crew were all saved.' Recognition of Consuls. WAstalloTow, Jan.lll.—Tharesident has recognized Jules Philippe as Vice Consular Agent of France, at Mobile and Hyacinthe. Prevost De St. Cyr as Vice Consular Agent of France, at Galveston. Detective Baker. WASHINGTON, Jan. llth.—A morning paper states that it is reported that the mus ter out of Detective Baker as a Brigadier- General was not in consequence of any dissatisfaction in the mind of Secretary Stanton towards him, but in obedience to express orders of the President. The Alexandria Riot. WAMINGTON. Jan. 11—A Military Com mission, of which Major General Fessenden is presiding officer, is in session at Alexan dria, trying seventeen or more persons, charged with complicity in the disturbance in that city on Christmas day. PennsylvaUla Legislature HARRISBURG ' Jan. 11, 1865. SENATE.—Mr. Royer read a bill incorpo rating the Pottstown Iron Company. Mr. Connell, one incorporating the Fi delity Insurance, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Philadelpnia; also, one incor porating the National Silver Mining Com pany; also, one incorporating the Pniladel pbia and Arizona Mining Company. Mr. Donovan one allowing Passenger ears to run on Sundays. Mr. Bighorn one repealing the act of 1864 relative to the Pittsburgh and Cermells ville railroad; also a general Railroad act. Mr. Shoemaker, One incorporating the Susquehanna and Delaware; Railroad Com n pay. 114:rusE.—Numerous petitions from the interior, on local subjects, were presented. The following resolution was offered by Mr. Mann: That the Judiciary Committee _report a bill increasing the liability of rail road companies for injuries to life and limb. Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Glass the Governor was requested to return the bill relative to tolls on the Wyoming Canal. Mr. Thomas, from the Committee on Federal Relations, reported favorably an act urging Congress to equalize bounties. The following bills were introduced by Mr. Glass: Restoring the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad to rights of which it was deprived by the act of 1864. Ship News. NEW YORE, January llth.—The steam ship Santiago de Cuba, from Greytown January Ist, with the California !passengers of December 15th, has arrived here. From Boston. BosTow, Jan. 11.—The Canada arrived here at 10.30 this morning. Her mails will be due in Philadelphia, on Friday morning. Price of Goldin New York. 3.13 y the People's Telegraph.] 'NEw YOBS, Tart y 10.-03 old has been quoted to-day as follows : 10.30 A. M. 139 11.15 A. M. 10.45 138 k 12. A. M. 11.00 TEE CRANK MonoN.—Watt devised no fewer than five distinct methods of obtain ing rotary motion without using the crank, by means of wheels of various sorts rotating around an, axis. The motion eventually preferred was that invented by - Murdoch, and known as the ' , sun-and-planet motion, which has the singular property , of going twice round for each stroke of the engine. Watt has spoken of the sun-and-planet mo tion as an old plan of his own, revived and executed by Wm. Murdock, but the late Mr. Josiah Parkes has stated that, at an in terviw he had with Mr.. Watt, at which Murdock was present,. the latter spoke of the sun-and-planet motion , as his invention, which Watt did not' contradict. Boulton has also attributed' the , invention to Mur dock, in an authenticated letter, written about the time the motion:was toeing pa tented. One of the original Boultbn dc Watt engines, fitted with the sun-and-planet mo tion, still exists at the brewery of Messrs.' Combs it Delafield. The engine is used' occasionallywhen the moremodern machine is stopped, and does good work.—Afechanid 8 Magazine. CITY; maammic THE GERMANTOWN 'MURDERS FINDING OF THE BLOODY RAZOR Who the Murderer I. Partial Confession of the Horrible Dee'd. INTERESTING DETAILS. The excitement in regard to the murder of Miss Mary L. Watts, in Germantown, on Saturday morning last, is unabated in ;hat portion of the city. The age and cireurn stancesef the deceased, the horrid manner in which the.deed was perpetrated, and the mystery surrounding it, have all tended to keep up the interest in the affair. The De tectives, aided by tho police of the Twenty second Ward, have been diligently engaged in investigating the matter, and the devel opments made, though known to us, hive been withheld from the public,. at the re quest of Mayor McMichael and District At torney Mann, in order that the ends °Nue tice might be better served. Garbled state ments have been published in some of the papers, and it Is due to our readers that the true facts should be laid before them. The murder, it will be remembered, was discovered shortly after seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and was communicated to Sergeant Dickinson. who resides close by. The house was then taken passession of by the police, under directionstof Lieut. Dungan, and a search was made for any clue which would lead to the detection of the murderer.. No weapon could be found, and the only matter to work upon were the tracks in the snow, which indicated that the fiend fled across the fields into Green street, and there all traces were lost. No person had witnessed the flight of the criminal, and the supposition was that he had got little or no money. Therefore the case was involved in great mystery and 'twee very difficult to work up. Detective Tryon was on the ground on Saturday morning and succeeded in obtain ing some "points" in reference to a man who it was said had been seen standing on the porch in conversation with Miss Watts a short time nrevions to the discovery of her dead body. The investigation was con tinued on Sunday by Chief Franklin, and Detectives Tryon and Levy, assisted by the Germantown police. Some portions of the mystery were then unraveled. On Saturday evening a young man named Harrison was arrested by Lieutenant Dungan, but he made a satisfactory expla nation of his whereabouts at the time or the murder, and he was discharged. Suspicion then pointed to a man named Christopher Berger, who resided on School street, and he was taken into custody by Sergeant Dickinson. Berger has resided in Germantown about a year. He was never known to be engaged in any employment, and how the man managed to support him self and family was a mystery to his neigh-- bors. For some days previous to the murder he had been seen several times, about half-past six o'clock in the morning, lurking about the corner of Germantown avenue and Queen streets, apparently wait ing for a car. On one or two occasions he got into a car,and on another, in reply to a question he said that he was waiting for a conductor with whom he was acquainted, as he had no money. On the day of the mnrde4 it was ascertained that he had "made it raise" somewheres, and that led to his arrest. His house was searched but no weapon could be found, and there was nothing to show that he had been implicated in the affair. Since Berger has been in custody, Detec tive Taggart has had several interviews with him, in the presence of other officers, and the vague and different stories which he told soon satisfied the officers that they had the .right man. On one of his boots blood was found. This he said was caused by kicking a piece of meat or liver in a gro cery store. The proprietor of the storestated, however, that he had seen nothing of any such man, and be could not find any meat or liver about his place, as represented by Berger. When arrested, about fifty dollars were found on the person of Berger, and he had previously redeemed a couple of silver coins which he had left at a grocery store. This money he said he had received from a man who had owed it to him about a year, and when he left home on Saturday morning about half-past six o'clock he told his wife that he was going to town to see a man who owed him fifty dollars. No confirmation of this story could be obtained by the officers, and Berger finally acknowledged that it was untrue. The next explanation in regard to the money was that he had committed a high way robbery about a year previous. He said that he had got about fifty dollars, and that he had hidden the money in the stone. work of the Germantown railroad bridge, over Shoemaker's lane, and that the ma sons had built up over it. On Saturday morning he went down to the bridge, found some of the stones loosened, and then gothis money. This matter was soon settled by an examination of the bridge. There were neither loose stones or a convenient place where money could be hidden. Other stories were told by the prisoner, and after they had been investigated, he would acknowledge that they were lies. After several interviews, Berger admitted that he had been to the house on the morn ing of the murder, that he had been admitted by Miss Watts, that he had struck the old lady, and that he had made those tracks across the 'lot in the rear of the premises. While up stairs, ransacking, he says, he heard a knock on the door and looked out. He saw that it was a boy, and came down stairs and locked the door. Then he left by the back door. He claimed to have been desperate, and remarked that if he had cut the throat of Miss Watts, he didn't remem ber anything about it. His grocer had threatened to stop his supplies if not paid, and the nurse in attendance upon his wife, who had just been confined about two weeks before, was about to leave because she had not received her wages. At another interview, Berger said that he had thrown the razor away on Fisher's lane near the York road. An officer was sent to the spot indicated, and there found the weapon. It was in a case and the blade was covered with blood. The razor, it was then ascertained, belonged to the father of the prisoner, and had been on the mantle-piece in his house a few days previous to the murder. Coroner Taylor will resumethe inquest in the case this afternoon at the Twenty-second Ward Station House. Berger is of German descent and is about, 27 yearsofage. His father is engaged at the Reading Railroad coal wharves at Port Richmond, and had offered him employ-. ment, but he declined it. About a year ago he married a very respectable young lady of Frankford :and then his mother-in-law desired that he should live with her so that he would be under no expenses for house hold purposes. At the time of his marriage he received apresent of $5OO from his father. This sum and a weekly stipend which his wife made by tailoring, have all been expended by him, and since her marriage, all the wife has received has been two phirs of shoes. It -is not, known how Berger got rid , of the money, but Ye has fre quently spoken of having had to make a trip to different places. He is of forbidding countenance, and is said to have been much 1tti.K..1 3 / 1 .1f 4 Y, EYENIN.O7.I3II disliked by-pis acqui home-early on the mo and returned cooly to apparently 'as , num nothing had happen . Miss Watt, the mur ered woman, is thus; spoken of by, the Germantown Telegraph': "A number,of years ago she. converted many of the valuables - into money, which. Was invested. She was ihe sister of Mrs. Darienx, the widow of Mr. John Darieux, at one time a well-known and most re= spected merchant of philadelphia. After the • death of her sister, Miss Watt pos-:• sensed the property that was left. which, in valuables, was considerable. She was very careful in her expenditures, WS she had need to be, but was very fond of promiaing to all her intimate acquaint ance that each was to be her heir, and made herself out to be much better off than she really was. Miss Watts, though over seventy years of age, was very active, and was by no means as feeble as is described in some of the papers. Except at night and in the morning she was not much alone, there being almost always a visitor or two fond of interclianging gossip with her. FOR CuTnENG TEETH EASILY, there is nothing like Bower's Infant Cordial, rubbed on the Rams with the finger. Bower's Laboratory, Sixth and Green. Bottle 26 cents. . PACKAGE OP "PHARAOH'S SERPENTS" sent by mall, 50 cents. Bower's Laboratory. Sixth and Vine. HERNIA OR RiorwußE—Treated with pro ftselonal and practical skill by O. H. Needles, S. W. corner Twelfth and and Ladles' Department conducted by ladies,street, Ird door below /lace. Dm:reams' SUNDRIES IN EVERY VA warn SNOWDEN et BROTIMB, _lmporters. 23 South Eighth stmt. Bnozrzo Ink Stands, Fans, Card Receiv els, Isere Caatera, Cigar cases. Cutlery etc. SNOWDEN & AROTILEIR. Importers. 23 South Eighth stmt. Col:mows, due January let, Gold and Silver wanted. Seven thirties and Five-twenties bought and sold. Drexel & Co., 84 South Third Street. LOOK our son BARGAINS.—The stock of clothing saved by Rockhill & Wilson from the fire at their Brows Stone Clothing Hall. Nos, Ste and SOS Cbesimot street, above Sixth, is going off like hot cakes at astonishing low pric es. The goods were not damaged by the fire. hot the Aria hasdecided to selloff at low rates and replace the stock with spring goods. Now is the chance to procure elegant wearing apparel at a low figure. • too PenneWar Loan ItO 200 ski Sug.ar Val b 5 3% 1500 City 65 new :01 400 sh St Nicholas 0 56-100 200 do 913 54 sh Lehigh Nay 54 100 sh Read B b 5 51 500 sh Spencer 011 13 155 sh do 51 12 oh Cam .it Amboy 126 10 Eh do 503,' 118 sh Penns B 56% 100 eh do b 5 50% teh do 56% 100 sh do 050 50% 20 sh do 56+, Rosh do 1330 50% Boh Little Sch R 2sl, 400 sh do 05 50% 214 sh do 30 800 oh Catawis pfd blO 44%121X sh Big Tank 100 sh do 44%1100 sh Mom:Wain 800 sh do co 05 30 1 c., b 30 6 '4OO sh do b3O 303 i I Public Board—Philadelphia Exchange. ILISPOUTED: BY B. C. JOHMSON, STOCK BBOKKB, NO. 3C3 WALNUT STURST. FIRST CALL. 100 sh Maple Shade SIWO MI American Green 110 sh Reading B 51 Paint Co 200 sh Dalzell 830 21 161100 sh Ocean Oil Man' class. American G01d_..—.338.ri sales _Reading Railroad 5081-100 sales New York Central.____.. 913 i sales 11. IR. ris 'SI int ofr..-.---104.!, sales U. Ei. ss, 15-20s—_______..10434 sales Hodson Itiver--._—_1051., bid Illinois bid Northwest...-...-.. bid Weak. With the exception of Government Leans, the gen. exal tendency of prices at the stock Board to day was for a lower range of flgures. Beading Railroad opened at 51 5 - 13{, and closed doll at Soli'. Catawista Railroad Preferred, which sold largely before the Roark at 45, fell at the close to 44. The Common stook sold largely at 30g ~w%. Lehigh Valley Railroad sold at M Camden and Amboy Railroad at us; Pennsylvania Railroad at 50. i—a decline of and Little Schttylkil Railroad at 29.4. 54 was the best bid for Mine Hill Railroad; tali for Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and .fi; for North Pennsylvania Railroad. Canal stocks were very weak. Lehigh Navigation sold at 54—a decline of 3i. DI was the best bid for Schuylkill Navigation Pre ferrek—a decline of 1. The War Loan sold at par, but the FiVe Per Cents were heavy. City Loans, of the new issues, sold to a limited extent at si@siS. Rank shares the only sale was of Wee ern, at /034. Oil stocks were almost unsaleable. Ocean declined 1. Passenger Railway shares were inactive. Hestonville was offered at .39.%, with SSAi bid. Jay Cooke . & Co. quote dovernment.Securities, dte, to-day, as follows: Buying. Selling. U. S. 6%1881-- --.1C4 104.5 i Old 5.20 Bonds--7 — .......- ..... -.......-104 10433 New " 1864.—.—..».-101F 102`3 6.20 Bonds 1865. 101.4 1023; 10-40 80nd5...................................... 93%i 93% 7 8-10 August... _ _—_.-.—.. Sill," 99 99 3 ' i Ju1y...._....-........._.. ...- - 984 98 ~, Certificates of Indebtedness 98'i 69 Gold-at 12 o'clock----." . -.-I:*„%' 130 Messrs. DeHaven a B r o ther. No. 40 South Third Street, make the fbilowing qnotations of the rates of exchange to-day, at I,A, 1.1,: Buying. Selling. American Gold.. .....--I,Wi 139 Quarters and halves.-.=,...... E. ,.....100 Dimes and half dimes---, ..-126 Spanish Quarters----- • -116 Penna. Currency.-................—.. 3 dis. hedis. New York Ezekiel:tire. ---.--. 1.10 dis. oar. Smith, Randolph dr, Co., - Bankers, 16 South Third street, quote at 1 o'clock as follows: Gold. —.. ........ .- ..... - ........ -...........138% U. S. Hal 80nd5........ ........... _- ......... .. . ........104.4 lOtli 11, S. 5-20, 1602 104 , 4 10134 1864 1014 101 1865 ..».. .101% 102 U. B. 10-40 -... 93, U. S. '7-30's-ist series...-. 98?-il Mi 2,1 series. 98a 98'i 3d series 98'41@i 9833 U.S. Certificates of Indebtedness. 983k64) The following shows the shipments of coal over the Delaware, t.. ,. .k.wanna and Western Railroad for the week ending Jan. 6, compared with same time last season: Shipped North Shipped South. Total 18,635 11 For corresponding time last year: Week, Year. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. . 4,021 18 .13,599 03 .17,621 01 Shipped North_ Shipped South Increase. g THURSDAY, Jan. 11.—Cotton is lower and sales of middling axe reported in a small way at 51 cents. ? There is nothing doing I Quercitron Bark and holders continue to ask $32 50 ton. Cloverseed bas declined an B@4oo bushels sold at $7 50@7 75 and inferior and old at $5 to $6, Prices of Timothy are entirely nomi al. There is a steady demand for Flaxseed and it 18 taken on arrival at $3 15. The Flour market continues extremely flat. There is scarcely any demand for shipment, and only a few hundred barrels Northwest extra family were sold at $0(419 50 ? barrel. The sales to the home trade range from $7 25 for common superfine up to $l3 50 for fltncy—according to quality. In Rye Flour and Corn Meal there is nothing doing. The Wheat market is at a stand; 1500 bushels sold at $2 25 13 bushels for good Red and $2 50 for fair Indiana Amber. 10( . 0 bushels fair White sold at $2 50@2 75. Rye ranges from 95 cents to $ll5 for Southern and Penna. There is very littletorn coming forward and not much demand for it. Small sales of yellow, from • the cars, at 82, cents, and MO bushels damp at 81 cents. Oats are steady at mom cents. An invoice of P. R Barley sold on secret terms. Whisky &firmer. Sales of 150 barrels Ohio at $2 28 and 50 barrels refilled at. $2 26. • V.V.]VeL:I 7 .!.TEW CROP. OOLONG TEA, • BO 19333—L8, Just received by THOMPSON -13Litax '6 SON, stcOBROAD AND CHESTNUT BTB. axe rpt Mpg dIOAL BOXES, In hanasome cases, MIAOW frern two to twelve FARR choice teelodiee. for sale by dr BROTHER, Importers, No, tai Melanin street, below NoneJa, LE'rlg: PHIL , 1; tances., He left hh; ; ing ofthe murder, his dirtier at xuion, ; cerned as - though BALES OF STOOKS. PRICES OF STOCKS IN NEW YORK. (By Telegraph.) Finanee and Baaineaa.—Jan. U. 1866 Week. Year. Tone. Cat. Tons. Cwt. 6,686 13 ...11,949 04 Philadelphia Markets. 1 1 LPIT1A, lIIURSpAY. JANUARY "11,.;1866. LATER FROM WASHINGTON. ,Tudge Kelley's Speed!. on Suffrage MURDER AT; WILMINGTON, N. C I I NTERESTING FROM MARYLAND Governor Swan's Message From Washington. [Special Despatch to the Bulletin:l WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—Judge Kelley's speech on suffrage is admitted to be the ablest yet delivered on that subject.' He will speak next week in reply to Mr. Voorhees' free trade speech. The Navy Committee :will take up the League Island matter at .their next Meeting. Brourder Fear Wilmington, N. C. WIT Twirterrox, N. C. Jan. IL—Thomas S. Pickett was murdered in a house, six miles from Wilmington, on Middle Sound, last night, by a party of negroes. Two of his daughters were wounded. The particulars Will soon be received.- BALTIMORE, Jan. Swarm sent in his message to the extra session of the Le gislature, at Annapolis, to-day, at noon. After expressing gratitude to Almighty God for the protecting arm which has been extendedover the State during the rebellion, and for the overwhelming triumph of free principles in the conflict which has so re cently terminated in the restoration of peace within our, borden3_, the Governor proceeds at some length to discuss Stateand National affairs. Speaking of the finances of the State he gives reason for the call of the present extra session. The finances of the State under the extraordinary demands growing out of the rebellion, and the failure to make our credit available under the provisions of the late bounty act, upon terms satisfactory to the Treasurer, imposed upon me the duty of calling you together, in advance of the time appointed for the regular meeting of the General Assembly. The Governor congratulates the people upon the healthful condition of the State Treasury. He says: "At the close of the fiscal year of 1863, her sinking fund had increased to such an extent as to justify a large reduction of the taxes, and her trea sury contained more than a million of sur plus over and above her legitimate wants. It may be gratifying to the people of the State to know that the whole increase of the permanent debt, referable to the expen diture of the war, owing to the healthy condition in which the treasury was found. and the aid furnished by taxation does not exceed, up to this time,ssol,ooo, and our claims on the General overnment, should the war debt of the States be as sumed by Congress, a measure not unlikely to be reported daring its present session, will amount to $5,000,000 upwards. Referring to the bounty bonds of the State, the Governor gives the cause for the failure to procure the four millions appropriated , for bounties by bounty bonds. It can hardly, he says, have been expected, that in competition with Govern ment and other securities offering the strongest temptation as to soundness at much more favorable rates of interest, the bonds of the State of Maryland could be thrown upon the market, unless at great disadvantage. I would recommend that the bounty act be so amended as to exempt those bonds from both State bounty and municipal taxation before another attempt is made to offer them in the market. OSLO - D CLASS. salsa sales .—. salsa sales ..-.. sales ...... sales The Governor sustains the justice and constitutionality of the State Register law in reference to the disfranehigpment o f a por tion of the citizens of the State. He says it has been alleged that the dominant party who now control the State represent a min ority of her gggregate population. Small however as the minority may be it cannot be denied that it is the fair ana legi timate representative of whatever there is of loyalty among our people. They are the men to whom you are indebted for the safe ty of your State, and without whose uncom promising devotion to the Union, Maryland would have been handed over to indiscrimi nate destruction. In reply to those who urge the repeal of this law he says: I do not feel authorized to recommend a repudiation by the Legisla ture of the organic law of your State by any radical modification of the terms of the re gistration act. The Governor next discusses at length the subject of Federal relations, reconstraction and negro suffrage. He approves the re construction policy of President Johnson, who, he says is but following in the foot. steps of his pfedecessor and adopted the same plan of reconstruction. Referring to the suffragequestion he says: With the Southern and Middle States, and perhaps our own, this issue of negro suf frage is a subject of the gravest import. Massachusetts with her nine or ten thou sand, negroes, in an aggregate population of twelve hundred thousand souls ; Maine, with her six hundred, in an aggregate of more than thirteen hundred. thousand; Vermont with ber seven hundred, in an ag gregate of more than three hundred thou sand; New Hampshire, five hundred in an aggregate of more than five hundred thou sand', and other free States -standing in the same numerical relation would hardly claim to approach this issue from a common stand-point, even with our own State. The loyal men of the South, admitted to be ever so limited in number, stand in no relation which would justify, even if the pow& existed under the Constitution, the forcible surrender of their country into the hands of the African race. I have adverted to the cause of universal emancipation in Maryland and throughout the country because I believed it to be a , measure of duty as well as urgent State ne cessity; but I could not justify myself to the people of MarYland if I should give counte nance to the effort now making by some impulsive men, no doubt sincere and honest in their convictions, to confer universal " auffrtige upon the negro race. ' I cordially accept the views of President Johnson in reference to the only practicable mod ' of adjustment between these conflict ing iterests. ; n1 I a willing to do the colored race fa justice. If they prefer to remain with u upon terms not inconsistent with our claimf to exclusive control in the government o the State, I am id willing to try• the expe ment Nvithont prejudice and to the fullest extent* but I am not at liberty to withhold the opinions which' were foreshadowed by me o taking the oath of office under our new nstitutien, whose provisions - denied the right of suffrage to the negro, that his 1 0 manifest destiny assigns him sooner or later, not as the result -of legislative com pulsion but of his own voluntary motion, to some more congenial locality, where his distinctive characteristics will furnish no 3:00 O'Clook. 3?..Y TELEGRAPHS Naryland Legislature. ..r to h i s barrie enjoyment of soc ial: and poli tical rights. . XXXIXTH CON GRESS—ITBST S;' lON. WASH:I:N(I4ON, Jan. 11. SENATE.—Mr. Chandler (Mich.) presented the yetition of certain citizens of Michigan against the renewal of the reciprocit3 , treaty, Referred to the Committee on CoMmerce. Mr. Sumner (Mass.) offered the petition of the, Convention of Colored Baptists for universal suffrage. Referred to the Special Committee on Reconstruction. Mr. Fessenden (Me.) called up the bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasurer to appoint Assistant Assessors. I Mr. Sumner offered an amendment a a proviso that no person shall be appointed an assistant assessor without being obliged to take the oath required by the act of Con gress. Mr. Fessenden objected to they amend ment. There was a law on the statute book requiring the oath to be taken; and the provision offered by Mr. Sumner was unne cessary. Mr. Sumner said the Secretary of the Treasury had, in a published report, ad-, mitted , the appointment of men to offices in the &kith without requiring theme to take the oath. Mr. Sunnier subsequently withdrew his amendment, and the bill was passed. HOUSE. The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the Secretau of War, stating, among other things, that Commissions were appointed in Delaware and Maryland to make awards for slaves Who were mustered into the military ser vice; but the order was suspended by order of the President as to the other, Slave States as all money available was required for carrying on the war. Referred to the Com mittee on Military Affairs, Mr. Stevens (Pa.) from the Committee on Appropriations reported the .Army Appro priation bill, which was made the special order for next Thursday. The House resumed the consideration of the bill extending suffrage to negroes inthe District of Columbia. Mr. Rogers (N. J.) made a speech against it. Murder near Pottsville. Porrsyn.r..s, Jan. litb.—Henry Dunne, coal operator and Superintendent of the New York and Schuylkill Coal Company, was brutally murdered by three men last night about 7 o'clock, while on his way home to Pottsville. The murder was committed on =public highway, about two miles from Pottsville. No arrests have vet been made. Mr. Dunne was an accomplished gentleman and a uni versal favorite with every one, and his death causes the most intense excitement all through the country. Maine Legislature. AUGUSTA, Jan. IL—Resolutions were in troduced into the Maine Legislature this forenoon and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, demanding that Jeffer son Davis, and the principal traitors among his late colleagues in rebellion, be brought to immediate and speedy and exemplary punishment for their most odious crimes. Markets. NEw Yonx, Jan. 11.—fLautton is steady at Sec. for Middlings. Flour Is unchanged; State 7h35335;2 Ohio Fa el° 25: Western s7@7 35: SSouthern 7arce4s; Canada $3 IC© {ll 25, \Wheat andtorn dull; sales =- Important. Beef quiet. Pork firm; sales of f=io bbls. at 1129 75 for Mess. Lard quiet at 1!,%©17 c. Whisky steady at Ir. a@e2 28. Stocks heavy; Chicago and Rock Island, 1044 f: Cum berland preferred, 4214: Michigan Southern, 44' New Tork Central, 96: Penn. (osi. 67; Reading, 102; Hud son River, 105!.,; Canton, 43: Virginia 6s. Erie Rail road. 944; Treasury Notes, ss!,,; Five-Twenties, loupon Ss, 104 h; Gold, 13S:i. I, te:DJ Pi Dit VIA CHEAP CLOTHING FROM THE LATE FIRE. —By an advertisement in another column, it will be seen that Rockhill dz: Wilson, the proprietors of the Brown Stone Clothing Hall, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, have arranged their stock of clothing saved from the late fire, and they are selling it off at low prices, preparatory to getting up their spring goods. The customer department of the establishment is now located in the sec ond story of the building, entrance on Chestnut street. HER Cosnrrior..—Birs. Jacob Weaver who was badly beaten yesterday morning, by her husband, was in about the same condition this morning. She is delirious, but the physician is of the opinion that she will recover. Lieutenant Loveaire has detailed two officers to see that she is properly attended to. gB Nis] Parrs—Justice Read.—ThePhiladelphiattErie Be ilroad Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, vs. the CatawLssa Railroad Company. and the Western Central Railroad Company of Pennsylva nia, and the Atlantic & Great Western Railway Com pany, of the btates of Ohio, New York and Pennsyl vsnla. This case, which has attracted so much atten tie° throughout the country, was called up this morn ing for agreement. The counsel engaged en either sloe represent the best legal talent of this State, and beiore the argument commenced the tables were filled with law books, while models and diagrams of mere than the ordinary size, were placed against the wall and on the desks. Before the case proceeded. Mr. George W. Biddle, apylled in behalf of the Reading Railroad Company. to be made a party to the bill. This was agreed to. As the case then stood the following counsel were in Court• representing the several Companies—Theodore Coyler, Esq. and Charles Gibbons, Esq. for the com plainants. Judge Black and Judge Church, for the Al lantic and Great Western Railroad Company. Judge Porter. son. Alex. Henry, for the East Penn sylvania Railroad Company. Geo. M. Wharton, Esq., Wm. If. Drayton and Francis W. Hughes, Esq., tbr the Catawlssa Railroad Company. Geo. W. Biddle, Esq. and F. Gowan, Esq., for the Reading Railroad Com pany. Hon. Robert J. Walker (one of the attorneys for Sir Morton Peto) was also present. The bill sets forth that the railroad authorized to be built, by the Philadelphia anq Erie R. R. Company has been leased by them to the Pennsylvania R. R. Com pany, and the said road has been finished and put in public use from its terminus at Sunbury to Erie- that by the act of Assembly. of 21-St of March, 1831, there was created a corporation, whose powers and privileges are now invested in the Catawissa R. it. Company, and In pursuance thereof said Company have In use a railway commencing atMilton and terminat ing at its junction with the Little Schuylkill R.R.,near Tamaqua and connecting at Milton with the railroad ofthe Philadelphia &Erie R. R. Company, that while said roads were to connected the said The Philadel phia di Fate R. R. Company (then called the Sunbury & Erie R. B. Company) and the said Catawissa It R. Company, upon the 31st day of October A.D., 1860. en tered into a contract and the Catawissa R.R. Company has from that time enjoy ed all the rights and privi leges thereby conferred; that the Atlantic and Oreat \\ ester)) Railroad Company of Pennsylvania, alleges itself to have become consolidated with eel , ain •cor• porations, established by the States of New York - and Ohio, and claim to be the Atlantic and Great Western Rahway company of the States said Ali York, Penn sylvania and Ohio; that the said Atlantic ana Great. W.-stem n Railway Company. have In use In Penn sylvania, a railroad extending through Erie, Craw -- ford, Mercer and Warren counties and connecting with be Erie Railway at Salamanca, in the State of New York, and extending by a contiguous railway Into the State of Ohle, ; that the Atlantic and Great Western Railway being constructed of six feet g.iuge, does not and cannot connect with the railroad of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. or with any railroad connecting with the said Catawissa Railroad, which are of a four feet eight and one•half inches gauge. That said Catawissa Italroad Company, without notice to complainants, and with a view - to the forma tion of a line of railroad which shall be a great through line In opposition to the said Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and to deflect the trade frorn Philadelphia to the city of New York, have entered into a lease, under which the said Catawissa Railroad Company have given public notice that on the first day of December, 1865, the said alleged lessees will take possession of and operate the said railroad; that the said Catawissa Railroad Co., and the said lessees aver and claim that said lessees are entitled to the benefits of the contract entered into upon the 31st Of October, 1560. between said Catawissa Railroad Co. and said Philadelphia and Brie Railroad Co., and claim to have, ere, else and enjoy all the rights and privileges which were granted to the said Catawissa Co. by the said contract. That the complainants deny that said lessees can have or exercise or enjoy any of the said rights or privileges and aver besides that said contract is at an end. The complainants pray an injunction, declaring that the contract dated the 31st day of October, 1860, is at au end and that neither the said Catawitisa Railroad Com party, nor the Western Central Railroad Company, nor .the Atlantic and Great; Western Railway Company, can claim any right, authority or privilege by Virtue thereof, and.that said -contract be decreed to be 4e.: livered up to be canceled: • , • _ Sales at Philadelphia Stock. Board, j AFTER BALES AFTER FIRST BPARD. . - f 300 811 Ocean Oil bswnl7 29 sh Fenno E, -. 561 r, 100 eh Catawissa pf b 3 0 ,14.% 20 eh ' , do i3swn 50lf 300 eh ..do - . 13 10 d 6. 12 811 Mech lik , ._2B . 100 sh ' do corn b5O 30 300 eh Philo& Erie c- 30 100 eh do 135 30 41 oh Lehigh Nay 54 50 811 Mabanoy Coal 7% 500 sh Bngar Nal 1330 3 " 300 eh llide Farm A /a SECOND BOARD. $BOO City 60 old 861200 al;Sagaa Celt 93‘ 1200 13 f 3 5-20's '69 102111700 8h Rosa Oil X 100 sh Maple Shaded 94-11'01 7sh llead 51 50 ah Big Tank' Phibt ds Xrle b6O 26X lARINE BVLLETIN. ni 11ke):41,ki37,9 w: • I PEI 0;1 , 1 v:11 t:=4.l.lv*.plal Jar &As Marine I/attain on Sixth Rig& ARRIVED TEM DAY. Schr Northern Light. Ireland, from New York. Behr P M Wheaton, Townsend. from New York. Behr. E W Perry, -Risley, from Bridgeport. Behr B S Miller ,Barrett, from Boston - . , OLFABED THIS DAY, Bark Imperador, Power, Pernambuco, A. I` Damon. Schr P M Wheaton, Townsend,Charleston, D S Stetson & Co. RANDA. Steamer Aries, Cr MEM owell O , from Boston for this port, at Chester last night. • Brig P R Curtis. Atherton, hence for Portland, went ashore on Duabory beach on Monday night. The ves sel bilged and filled with water. Crew saved. Scar Moses Will n q, Lake, hence at Port Royal 21st ult. A three.masted schooner, • name unknown, wen ashore inside of Cape Henry Bth inst. A schooner with foremast gone, wits Lowed into Sandy Hook on Tuesday night. There was a large fleet of vessels in Holmes's Hole AM of 9th inst. it blowing heavily, and several of the vessels pitching Jibboom under. The underwriters' Steamer Chas Pearson lett Boston on Tuesday forenoon to assist brig Caroline E Heft ~ey andschrs Saxon and Eliza Frances, before reported ashore at East Dennis. Narragtinset, RI, San 9—A schooner, supposed to be the Richard Borden, Bordon, from Philadelphia for Fall River, came in and anchored near the wharf at this place on Saturday evening with loss of main boom. On Monday afternoon a large body of ice came down and started her adrift, but she brought TIP again when about one-half mile from here, where she re. maths at 9 this' M. WINDOW SHADES. Window Shades--Holland. Window Shades—Gilt. Window Shades---Painted. Window Shades—Plain. In Every Desirable Color, Style or Price. LACE STAINS Parlor Curtains, Drawing Room Curtains, Library Curtains, Dining-Room Curtains, Sleeping-Room Curtains, Piano and Table Covers IN ENTIRELY ,NEW DESIGNS, I. E. WALRAITM, MASONIC HALL, 710 Chestnut Street. FIRST NATIONAL BANK,' Philadelphia, Sept. 20,1865 TIME DEPOSITS ON INTEREST, INTEREST AT THE RATE OP .FOUR PER CENT. PER AN NUM WILL BE ALLOWED BY THIS BANK ON DE POSITS, FOR 'WHICH CERTIFICATES WILL BE ISSUED, PAYA BLE AFTKB, FIVE DAYS' NOTICE. INTEREST WILL NOT BE Air. LOWED UNLESS THE DE POSIT IMMIAENS AT .LEAST FIFTEEN DAYS. C. H. CLARK, President. DREXEL & CO., BANKERS, 34. SOUTH THIRD STREET. 5-20 9 5, 7-30 9 5, 10-40 9 5, ISSl's, Certificates of Indebtedness, Compound Interest Notes of 1864, and GOLD A D SILVER, Bought and Sold. Drafts drawn on England. Ireland, France and Ger many. 5-20'6 of •186 xchanged for the old Issue of 1862 and the market 0 erence allowed. no2l•tfsp GEO. S. BE CHELL, ARCHITECT, 52,0 Walnut Street, Specialty, Churches and Country Houses. ia6•lm rp FINE OPERA GLASSES,; A VERY LARGE VARIETY JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., do.ltfrpf Fourth and Arch PAMIL R SUPPLIED WITH GOOD MUSLIBS, GOOD PLAMWELO, • GOOD TABLE MIEN, GOOD TOWEL'S'S:IB; GOOD BL&GIC SILEg. &e.. &a. BARLEY. -4,000 Stab elrt Canada Earley Lu Stoke an d for sale by .11. A. 8017DINft & CO., Dock stree& - ENSIGLISH PICKLES, CLA.TISUPS, Be -IA Crosse '& Blackwell's English Pickles, clamps. Sauces. Durham Mustard, Olives, r &e. IT= c. ship Yorktown dud for sale by JOB. B. sal CO., /08 South Delaware avenue. - C.: -,..,-...-;'. 7...;:(..;:f STREET.
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