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.
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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.
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STREET.