GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 291 EVENING- BULLETIN. PUELISHED EVERY EVENING. • (Sundays excepted) at Me. 229 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Eli= "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPRIETORS. cM.EBSON PEACOCK, j CASPER SOUDER, Jr. L. PETFLERSTON, I ERNEST C. WALLACE. THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON. The Bursar= is served to subscribers in the city at LB cents per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 Wper sautun. DIED. - - DAVlS—On'Satarday morning, 24th instant, Eliza T., daughter Of the late Thomas Davis. - - - . The relatives and friends of the family ;are respect fully invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her mother, 320 Marshall street, on Wednesday morning, 28th instant, at 10 o'olock, without further :notice. ae FERNALD—On the 26th instant, after a short ill. ness, John R. Fernald. Due notice of the funeral will be given. • HEHSE—On the 25th instant, George P. Herse, in the 63d year of his age. - - His relatives and made friends axe respectfully in vited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No, 656 North Tenth street. on Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock. Interment at Ronaldson's Cemetery. • 3.IILLERtrOn the morning of the 25th instant, Eli. tzabeth A., wife of Wm. H. Miller. and daughter of John W. and Ann B. Rulon. The relatives andfriends of the family are invited to attend toe funeral from the residence of her hus band, Green street, above Washington lane,- German town, on Wednesday morning, at IC .o'clock. Car. rlages will be in waiting at Germantown Depot, tmon arrival of the 9 o'clock train. . --r . ** . . ROSE—On Friday. March 23d, Jane, Rose, widow of the late Robert H. Rose, of Slyer Lftice, Susquehanna .county. Pa. * _ _ STEVENSON—On Saturday morning. 24th instant, Wm. G. Stevenson. in the 26th year of Ills age. The relatives and friends of the family. also the members ofllising Star Lodge, No.-126,_A, Y. M., are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the re sidence of his father, John Stevenson, Marcus Hook. on Tuesday. the 2.th instant, at to o'clock, A. M. VEA COCK—On the morning of. the 26th instant, :Nlrs. Ann Veacock, n idow of the late Capt. Samuel 'S. Veacock, aged 87 years The relatives and fiends of the family are respect fully invited to attend ber funeral from her late resi- Aence No. 237 Lombard street, on Wed. , esday after noon nest, at 3 o'clock_ Funeral services at Et: Pe ter's C. urch, at 4 o'clock, precisely , . • - LITRE cE LANDELL` FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE OPENING TO-DAY FOR SPRING SALES, FASHIONABLE NEW SILKR, NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS, NEW STYLttS SPRING, SHAWLS. NEW TRAVELING DRESS GODS, FINE STOCK OF NEW GOODS. mk'JEC.RAI.L NtislelCES. EDWARD HOSPITAL. Nos. 1518 and 15. M Lombard street. Dlzpensary Department. Med ical treatment end mediciro thrabihed gratuitously Ciothe poor. se2B lU:OFRN—NEW COURSE.—Tickets for sale at MA the University. NEsTa above CHESTNUT. •To•day and next Thursday, at P.M., at $l5 each. of the first Ten (papers included). Its COLLEGE :OF PHYSICIAN'S OF PHILA.. DELPHIA.—MUTTE.R .LECTURESHIP ON . I S I RICAL PATHOLOGY.—Dr. PACKARD will de liver the Second Course of Lectures under the bequest of Dr. Miltteiin the Hall of the College, at THIR TEENTH and LOCUST streets, beginning T • SAY _EV.I-NlN4 r April 3 at SP. M., and continuing on TUESDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGs, until May 4. Subject—Fraclui.er of the upper extremity. Fee, 5. mti2.3,26 ap3,3trp 11U.OFFICE CORNPLANTER OIL COMPANY', 524 WALNITT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, 31arch 26t.h, 18t6. The Annual Meeting or the Stockholders will be laeld at the Office of the Compa..,y on TUESDAY, April 17th, Ws, at 12 o'clock 31., for the election of Di rectors, and th. transaction of such other business as may be brought helot e them, nah26-m,w,f,tapi7p THOS. R. SE.A.ItLE, Secretary and 'I reasurer AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. JOHN B. GOUGH, ESQ., Wdeliver TWO LECTURES under the ausplces of the YOUNG BIEN'S CHRISTIAN' .ASSOCIATION llarch 26th, Subject—HAßlT March 2aLh, Sob act—TEMPER.% INCE. The sale of Tickets for both Lectures will commence on TUESDAY 3,IOIIICLN (4 20th inst. No Tickers will 'be sold or engaged before that time. Price, 25 cents, 50 cents and.7s cents. Tickets for the South half of the house will be sold at .J. S Claxton's, 606 Chestnut street, and for the North lialf at Ashmead &Evans's, 724 Chestnut St. Lahti- t [Us 17NIVERSPT Y OF PENI , TSYLV A.e.NI , ATINLLIARY FACULTY OF MEDICINE.— The first course of Lectures in this Department will ,commence at the University, Ninth street. above Chestnut street. on MO.O , DAY, April Id., and will con tinue until the end of June. The lectures will be e iven daily, as follows: Geology and itruleralogy—By Prof. F. V. HAYDEN, M. D., Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs days, at to A. M. Botany—By Prof. H. C. Wools. Jr., EL D.. Mondays, Virednesdiays and Fridays, at 4 P. M. Comparative Anatomy and Zoology—By Prof. M. At -132c,,M. D ,Xsandads, Wkdhesdays and Fridays, at 5. P. 311. Medical Jurisprudence and nxicolov— .Itly Prof. J.:J. Peess.X. IL - . Tuesdays, Thr rsdays and Satur days, at 4 P. M.' Hygiene—By Prof, H. HAILTSIIOB.NE, Tuesday se. Thursdays and Saturdays, at SP. M. Fee for the whole course. either ticket alone $:0. HENRY HARTSHOIL‘.7E, Dean Aux. Faculty, it* 1701 Filbert street. [For the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Contrast. It is remarkable ;to what an extent good or evil, kindness or unkindness, politeness or impoliteness, are affected when brought into juxtaposition with their opposites, increasing the beauty of the one, and the .unpleasantness of the other. We were never more forcibly struck with the application of this principle than in our • experience of yesterday. Contrary to our usual custom, we left our own church to visit, at' the request of a friend, a new church in the northwestern part of the city. _Arriving at the door, and seeing but a few present, we desired an official brother to :shovihs in, when he politely pointed to the last pew by the door,, requesting us to be seated, remarking that if, after the congre gation had all assembled, there was any room, we should be better accommodated. Thinking this want of Christian courtesy and the draft from the door might not tend to promote our spiritual enjoyment, we con . eluded to try elsewhere; so after walking a couple of squares farther, we stopped at _Brother Simons's church, where, upon en .tering the door, we were shown to a pleasant seat, and upon opening the hymn book, at • once felt at home, from the warm welcome to the stranger contained on the inside of the cover. We could not help noticing the contrast in these sister churches, and returned to our Itomf" well satisfied in our mind which ex- Most the spirit of the gospel. H. Slorawi, March 26th, 1866. WASHINGTON UDR RESPONDENTS. -A. 'Washington correspondent speaks as fol lows of the old school of reporters and cor respondents of the Northern press, that :flourished at the Capital twenty-five to thirty-five years ago: James E. Harvey, correspondent of the "N, Y. Tram* is now minister-resident at _Lisbon; James S. Pike, also of the Tribune, is minister-resident at the Hague; John Bigelow of the N. Y. Evening Post, is min ister-plenipotentiary at Paris. Kingman • ()tithe N. Y. Journal of Commerce, still lives here, reported rich; Nathan Sargeant of the Cinetnnati Gazette and some Philadelphia papers, is Commissioner of Customs here; Mr. Hart of the N.Y. Courier and Enquirer, --s. promising man, died early of consump tion in California, where he had gone for his health. - These men were followed by - Richard Hildreth of the Boston Atlas and N. Y. Triblow, the well-known historian, and Consul to Trieste, where he died; W. S. 'Thayer of the N. Y. Evening Post, Consul- General to Alexandria, where he died last year, and Benjamin Wilson of the Chicago Journal,Assistant Secretary of Legation at London, though he has since returned and resumed his editorial duties. . NEW puBLICATIONS. - "Lucy Arlyn"—Ticknor &Fields, Boston. For sale by G. W. Pitcher, Philadelphia. Mr. Trowbridge has written a novel which will neither do much good in the world, or add very largely to the author's literary. fame. It is a New England story, based upon a search for treasure supposed to be hidden in a cavern, the clue to which has been discovered by a band of spiritualists. The book is written in the interest of spiritualism, for although it brings toge a grOup of fools and knaves of the most odious type, professing the most exalted ideas and practising every imaginable hypocrisy and deceit, it strives to save from all the transparent humbuggery of the pro ceedings a select specimen or two of genu ine spiritualism. With the exception of the hero and heroine of the book, and the character of Ben Arlyn, the people are all bad, low, vulgar or vicious. 'Many of the situations are absurdly unnatural, and•a good deal of human wickedness is lugged into the story gratuitously, which has no particular connection with the plot. The incident of Sophy's. disgrace at the end of the story is a case in.point. The pernicious tendency of the book is increased by its very exposure of the grosser deceits of the system which the author advocates. Weak or careless readers may readily be betrayed into the idea that what is left after all this dross is disposed of must needs be pure metal. The truth is that the characters of Guy and Christina are as un real and wrong as those of any of their comrades. • Mr. Trowbridge occasional rises into the regions of blasphemy, making Christina wash Guy's feet and wipe them with her hair, while at a late period she places a crown of thorns on his head. The ;look is in bad taste all through, and does not deserve a place,,in Ticknor & Field's choice catalogue. A very spicy, animated and readable novel is "Broken to Harness." by Edmund Yates, editor of "Temple Bar," which has been reprinted by Mr. Loring, and is for sale by G. G. Evans. It is a story of London life, introducing authors, editors, club men, and, as a very notable character, "Kate Mellon," whose original was the "Anonyma," or "the pretty norse-breaker," about whom the London Times bad so much to say a few years ago. The heroine, however, is "Bar• bars," a young belle of the highest fashion, who falls in love, at a country house, with a journalist,and marries him. She grows ma nappy in her humble home, and goes through severe trials before she is "broken to harness." The plot is ingenious, the char acters are well portrayed, the descriptions of various phases of London life are spirited, the dialogue is animated and often witty, ~nd there is nothing sensational, nothing offensive. It is long since we have met with a more readable novel. J. L. Capen, 25 South Tenth street, has oublished an interesting little memoir of Rev. Wm. Metcalfe, M. D., written by his son, Dr. Metcalfe, was connected with the religious denomination known as b'Bible-Christians," and devoted his long life particularly to an advocacy of Tempe rance and Vegetarianism. As a modest, unobtrusive and earnest apostle of his pe culiar views, Dr. Metcalfe's biography is an interesting one; but the fact that nearly fifty years of a valuable life were employed in planting seed, that have never showed any considerable indications of a harvest, would seem to indicate either that there is some vital principle wanting in the seed, or that the selected soil is badly adapted to that particular kind of moral cultivation. Messrs. Harper dr Brothers have issued another work from the prolific pen of Pro fessor J. W. Draper. It is entitled "Text- Book of Physiology," and is an abridge ment of the author's larger work on "Hu man Physiology." As an elementary text book for schools and colleges, this volume of Dr. Draper's will be very valuable. The work-is illustrated with numerous well exe cuted wood-cuts, many of which have been expressly prePared for this publication. For sale by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. The same publishers have, just ,issued the third volume of "A. Child's History of the - United States," by John Bonner. In a very condensed, but lucid form, a sketch is given in this volume of the period of ,the Rebellion. It will prove a very attractive book to the young people, especially as it is accompanied by many well-engraved illus trations. For sale by Peterson & Brothers. D. Appleton ,& Co., New York, have pub lished a life of,"Stonewall Jackson," by John EstenCooke. The book is handsomely printed, and will be read with interest by ex-rebels and their sympathizers. For sale by Ashmead & Evans. e w Music. We have received the following new pub lications from Mr. C. W. A. Trumpler, cor ner of Seventh and Chestnut streets : The "Chant des Oiseaux," the "Planate Sylphides," and "Danse Idapolitaine," all by Sydney Smith. These are brilliant and elegant compositions, for advanced players. "The Arab Song," from the new opera of Lara,arraneed for the piano by Mr. Brinley Richards. . Brilliant variations on the air "Five o'clock in the Miming," by Mr. Charles Grobe, his 1,790 th composition. The "Fannie Schottisch," by Mr. C. R. Dodworth, and the "Caroline Schottisch," by J. H. Slipp—pleasing compositions and not difficult. "Das Biichlein" (The Rivulet), a graceful and easy melody for the piano, by E. A. Kavarger. DEATH OF AN ODDITY.—PhiIo Chase, of Litchfield, Conn., died a few days ago, aged seventy-five years. For the lai3t twenty.five years his daily =diet has been three pints of milk and one of whisky. Ile adopted that diet from conviction that solid food- injured' him. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1866 MEDICAL LEcTuitxs.—The first course of Lectures by the Auxiliary Medical Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania,will com 7 ._ mence on Monday next. It will beremem; bered that this course of lectures was founded, last year, by a munificent endow ment from Dr. Geo. B. Wood, of this city. The new professorships cover a range of medical science not included in the usual course of instruction in our Medical Col leges, such as Geology, Mineralogy, Toxi cology, Medical Jurisprudence, Hygiene, Botany, Zoology and 'other branches of science. The new faCulty is a very able one, and this new feature will prove a most valu able addition to those that have long made this venerable institution one of the leading schools of the country. EARLE'S GREAT PICTURE SALE.—As will be seen by the advertisement elsewhere tickets of admission will be required of those desiring to attend the great sale of Paintinglic to-morrow and .on Wednesday evenings. Tickets may be obtained at Messrs. James S. Earle t Son's, 816 Chest nut street, and of B. Scott, Jr., 1020 Chestnut street. The tickets will be issued in order to prevent the admission of too great a crowd, and in order that buyers may have a fair opportunity to view the paintings. Facts and Fancies. Our numerous_ subscribers who have stopped their papers in consequence of the non-appearance of "Facts and Fancies" on Saturday, are informed that the omission was purely accidental. The machine broke down, while running at a very high ;pres sure, on an unusual4v stubborn fact, but has already been repaired. We shall guard against similar accidents by procuring a duplicate machine. Our friends Can resume their subscriptions with perfect' safety. The 'Criminal records of England show that only one actor was ever hanged there. This was in the seventeenth century, for highway robbery. The curious part of it is t hat no class of people commit so many mur ders and other crimes. It is proposed in Paris, to construct a sys tem of subterranean railways diverging from :he Palais Royal as the common centre, and oonnected at their ends by an outside circle. Paris•does not alviays set the fashion. - In this case they are going:into underground railroads just as we have abandoned them. A scheme has been started in Italy for paving the national debt of that country by a popular subscription. Another Yankee _nation. Everybody remembers how :Ben nett paid off our national debt. The bakers in , Richmond have "consoli dated," and the result has been a sudden reduction in the size of the loaves. The _Ex aminer says one can easily put a five cent roll in each cheek, and a ten cent roll In the middle, and then whistle Yankee Doodle without difficulty. We believe all but the whistling. The Boston Post says that. We agree that Yankee Doodle is a role that a Richmond rebel can't whistle through. "Our Mutual Friend" was played at a Chicago theatre lately,with the part of Wegg , mitted, the leading comedian assigned to the character having quarrelled with the manager and refusing to appear. That fel .ow deserved to be banished to Boffin's Bay. The Fenians have not yet taken Canada. "All is quiet on the border." The suspected Fenians nno have had volunteers billetted on thima in .3lontreal report that there is a good deal of uneasiness about their boarders. The persecuted Quakers are fleeing from Sorth Carolina. The malignants of that State are determined to drive all decent peo ple out of it. Per contra, the Canadians are :11l turning quakers. - Adah Isaacs Menken is coming back to this country, and the New York Clipper says she has refused a guarantee of '41,500 for a hundred performances in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Wonder what steamer will bare- back the interesting fe , male to America. It hasjust been decided, at Buffalo, that a conductor is not bound to make change for a passenger. The latter must, if required, present the exact surd fixed as the price of a ticket. In this part of the world, we live under a sort of Dred Scott decision, that a passenger has no right that a railroad con ductor is bound to respect. In the debate in the 'House on Thursday in relation to vignettes on the currency, one member sent to the clerk's desk a new table of values, which read thus: "Two Clarks make one Washington; two Washingthns and one Clark make one Fessenden; two Fessendens make one Spinner; two Spin ers make one Chase; five Chases make one Madison, etc." The ladies in Paris now plate the heels of their boots with gold and silver. They are determined to stand on their mettle. • The Tycoon of Japan has made a present to the Emperor Napoleon of 15,000 papers of silkworms' eggs. It is probably the Ty-cocoon of Japan that is referred to. A despatch , from Gettysburg states that the Messrs. Leland have applied for the lease of the hotel projected in the vicinity of the mineral spring,s found on the battle fields. We hope they may get it, provided they are not Copperheads, for if there is a Leal-Land in America it is the battle-field of Gettysburg. Brooks protests against being ousted from his seat in Congress by what he declares to be a first-class Republican Dodge. A New York paper calla upon _the police to put a stop to the practice of flying kites in the streets. It would be fun to see the police try that in Wall street. A Paris letter giv6s an amusing account of the method adopted by Batty , in taming lions: "He gets.a lion and keeps him in a state of starvation for four days; and when the beast is in the extremity of hunger he throws him a Hungarian jacket—a regular full-dress Magyar costume, with lots of frog, embroidery, and buttons. The lion rushes at it, tears it and worries it, and finally bolts it. Then comes indigestion; and then, when the king of the . forest has headache, heartburn, and is generally shaky and seedy, Batty appears in another Hunga rian costume like the indigesta moles; and Leo shakes his head, and turns tail. From that moment he is a conquered lion—and learns to lick the hand which beats him." Batty has a roundabout way of appealing to the beast's Hung'ry instincts. A Mi:LAN LETTER r9ports that Dr. Giuseppe Ortori, of that city, - rhas just dis covered a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci, consisting of about - one hundred and twelve leaves of parchment in , which the illustrious painter, who was also one of the most dis tinguished men of science of his time, ex-; amines the different phenomena of light in their relation to his art. OTTR:WILOLE COUNTRY. The agitators for war in time of peace, and for peace in time of war,are not necessarily, or perhaps ordinarily, unpatriotio in their purposes and motives. Results alone deter mine whether they are wise or unwise. The treaty of peace concluded at Guadalupe Hi dalgo, was secured by an irregular negotia tion under the ban of the Government. Some of the efforts which have been made to bring about negotiations with a view to end our civil war are known to the whole world, because they - have employed foreign as well as domestic agents: others, with whom you have had to deal confidentially, are known to yourself, although :they have not publicly transpired. Other efforts have occurred here, which are known only to the persons actually moving in them and to this Government. I am now to give you for your information an account of an alihir of the same general character, which recently received much attention here, and which iltaibtless will excite inquiry abroad. A few days ago Francis P. Blair, Esq., of Maryland, obtained from the President a Ample leave to pass through our military lines without definite views known to the Government. Mr. Blair visited Richmond, and on his return he showed to the Presi dent a letter which Jefferson Davis had written to Mr. Blair, in which Davis wrote that Mr. Blair was at liberty to say to Pre sident Lincoln that Davis was now as he had always been, willing to send Commis sioners, if assured they would be received, or to receive any Chat should be sent, that he was not disposed to find obstacles in forms. He would send Commissioners to confer with the President, with a view to a 2 estoration of peace between the two coun- • tries, if he could be assured they would be received. - The President, thereupon, on the 18th of January, addressed a note to Mr. Blair, in which the President,after acknow ledging that he had read the note of Mr. Davis, said he was, is, and always should be, willing to receive any agent that Mr. Dania, or any other influential person, now actually resisting the authority of the Government, might send to confer infor mally with the President with a view to the I saturation of peace to the people of our common country. Mr. Blair visited Rich mond with his letter and then came back again to Washington. On the 2ttth instant, we were advised from the camp of Lieuten - - ant-General Grant that Alexander H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter and John A.. Campbell were applying for .leave to pass through the lines to .Washington as Peace Commissioners to confer with the President. They were permitted by the Lieutenant- General to cometo his heade uarters to await there the decision of the President. Major Eckert was sent down to meet the party from Richmond at Gen, Grant's headquar ters. The Major was directed to deliver to them a copy of the President's letter to Mr. Blair, with a note to be addressed to them and signed by the Major, in which they were directly informed, that if they should be allowed to pass our lines they would be understood as coming for an informal con ference upon the basis of the aforenamed letter of the 18th of January to Mr. Blair. If they should express their, assent to this condition in writing, then Major Eckert was directed to give them sale conduct to Fortress Monroe, when a person coming from the President would inset them. It being thought probable, from o report of their conversation with. Lieut. General Grant, that the Richmond party would in the manner prescribed accept the condition mentioned, the Secretary of State was charged by the President with the duty of representing this Government at the ex pected informal conference. The Secretary arrived at Fortress Monroe on the night of the Ist day of February. Major .Eckert met him in the morning of the 2d of Feb ruary with the information that the persons • who had come from Richmond had not ac cepted in writing' the condition upon which he was allowed to give them con duct to. Fortress Monroe. The Major had given the same information by telegraph ' to the President at Washington. On receiv ing this inforniation,the President prepared a telegram directing the Secretary to return to Washington. The Secretary Was pre paring at the same moment, to do so, with out waiting for instructions from the Presi dent. But at this juncture Lieut.-Gen. Grant telegraphed to the Secretary of War as well as to the Secretary of State, that the party from Richmond had reconsidered and accepted the conditions tendered them through Major Eckert, and Gen. Grant ur gently advised' the President to confer in person with the Richmond party. _ Under these circumstances the Secretary, s i by the President's direction,- remained at Fortress Monroe, and the Pre 'dent joined him there on the night of the2d of Feb ruary. The Richmond party was brought down the James River in a United States steam transport during the day, and the transport was anchored in Hapton Roads. On the morning of the 3d the President, attended by the Secretary, received Messrs. Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, on board the United States steam transport River Queen, in Hampton Roads. The Conference was altogether informal. There was no at tendance of secretaries, clerks, or other witnesses. Nothing was written or read. The conversation, though earnest and free, was calm and courteous and kind on bath side. The Richmond party approached the discussion rather indirectly, and at no time did they either make categorical de mands, or tender formal stipulations, or ~ absolute 'refusals. Nevertheless, during the * conference, . which 'aged four hours,' the - several points THE HAMPTON ROADS PEACE CONFERENCE. Secretary Seward's Offi cial Account. - The Rebels Propose an Armistice at Home and a War Atiroad. Mr. Lincoln Insists i)in Surrender and EmanciOation. (From to-day's N. Y. Tribune.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. DEPARTMENT :OP STATE, WASHLNGTON, Feb. 7, 1865.—Sir: It is a truism that in times of peace there are always ,instigators of war. So soon as a war begins there are citizens who impatiently demand negotia tions for peace. The advocates for war,after an agitation longer or shorter, generally gain their fearful end, though the war de clared is not unfrequently unnecessary and unwise. So peace agitators, in time of war, ultimately bring about an abandonment of the conflict—sometimes without securing the advantages which were originally ex pected from the conflict. at issue between the Government and the -insurgents were distinctly raised and dis cussed fully, intelligently, and in an amia ble spirit. What the insurgent partyseemed chiefly to favor was a postponement of the question of reparation upon which the war' is waged, and a mutual direction of the ef forts of Government, as well as those of the insurgents, to some extrinsic policy or scheme for useaSon, during which passion mightbe exPected tosnbside and the armies to be reduced, and trade and Intercourse be tween the people of both sections resumed. It was suggested by them that through such postponement we might now have immedi ate peace, with some not very certain prps pect of an ultimate satisfactory adjustment of political relations between this Govern ment and the States, section or people now engaged in conflict with% This suggestion, thotigh deliberately con sidered, was nevertheless regarded by the President as one of armittice or truce, and he announced that we can agree to no cessa tion or suspension of hostilities except on the basis of the disbandment of the insur gent forces and the restoration of thenational authority throughout all the States in the Union. Collaterally and in subordination to the proposition that was thus announced, the anti-slavery policy of the United States was reviewed in all its bearings, and the President announced that he must not be expected to depart from the positions he had heretofore assumed in his Proclamation of Emancipation and other doeuments, .as these positions were reiterated in his last annual message. It was further declared by the President that the complete restora tion of the national authority was an indis pensable condition of any assent on our part to whatever form of peace might be proposed. The President assured the other party, that while he must adhere to these positions, be would be prepared, so far as power is lodged with the Executive, to ex ercise liberality. His power is limitedbv the Constitution. And when peace should bemade, Congress must necessarily act in regard to appropri , ations of money and to the admission of RepresentatiVes from the insurrectionary. States. The Richmond party were then in formed that Congress had on the 31st ult. sdopted, by a constitutional majority, a joint resolution, submitting to the several Sates the proposition to abolish slavery throughout the union, and that there is every reason to expect that it will - soon be accepted by three-fourths of the States, so as to become a part of the national organic law. The conference came town end by mutual acquiescence, without procuring an agreement of views upon the several matters discussed, or any of them. Nevertheless, it is perhaps of some importance that we have been able to submit our opinions and views directly to prominent insurgents, and to hear them answer in a courteous and not unfriendly manner. I am, Sir, your obedint servant, WieruAx H. SEWARD. CHAS. FRANCIS ADAMS, ESQ., &C. &C. Terrible Tragedy near Chicago. CHIC AO°, March 2..' .) —Lake Station,thirty six miles' from Chicago, on the Michigan Central Ittlilway,- - was the scene of a fright ful butchery last night about seven o'clock. A man named Mclloy, who was' recently divorced from his wife in St. Lonis,followed Ler to the Little hotel and station house at' the Lake, where he shot at her with a re volver, and then cut her throat; Mrs.. Molloy, the victim, was a sister of Mr. Bo iterman, who keeps the hotel, and since her divorce had been living with him. Molloy, breathing hatred and vengeance, followed. her, with t4e evident intention of killing her. Last. Tuesday evening she was alarmed. at observing, among the arrivals at the hotel, the dreaded figure of her husband. :Co sooner did she perceive him than she fled to her apartment and locked the door. Mr. Bonernem was absent from the place at the time. Molloy demanded, admittance •nto the rotam, but was refused; after seve ral fruitless efforts to obtain an interview with his former wife took his departure Sor es'hicago,where he arrived yesterdav,morn mg. - He remained. inthecity all diy, wan t,... (tering about hotels an ccasiorally at.the depot, as if anxiously w 'ring for trains. At half-past five o'cloc k yesterday after r.con, he made his appearance at the Michi gan Central. Depot, and purchased a ticket ter Lake Station, where he arrived at seven o'clock, and finding the object oe his hatred in hei room with her children, defenceless 1 and unsuspecting, he murdered her by cut ting her throat from ear to ear. As soon as be had committed the foul crime, he rushed through the bar-room, where a number of men were seated, reached the door, and shouting, "sow I am revenged !" fled from the house and disappeared in an adjacent woods. So suddenly had things been done, and so completely taken by surprise were the inmates of the hotel that no attempt was made to bar his passage; but by morning a pursuit was begun. A large scouting party was organized, and at daylight they started in pursuit of Molloy, scouring the woods in every direction with the avowed deterhaftta tion of bringing him in dead or alive. , He was found dead this forenoon - within two miles of the house where he committed the fearful murder, and with his throat out from ear to ear. The instrument of death was the same knife that killed his wife. It lay by his side. From the fact that the body was still warm and bleeding, it is inferred that Molloy, fearful of being intercepted in his flight; had concealed himself, and upon the approach of the scouting party, had cut his throat. . PLAIN COMI4ON SENSE.-A Tempt discu sion in a country debating club in Indiana upon the policy of a high tariff, w , 1121 finished up with a round turn, by. a mecbanic,thns: "Mr. President, I don't care for any of your fine-spun arguments about political economy, balance of trade, and all :hat; they are Greek to me. But this I do know: when there is a • high protective tariff, manufacturers thrive, and I get plenty of work and good pay. I can buy everything I want and provide better for my family when butter is fifty cents a ponsid and eggs twenty-five cents a dozen. But what advantage is it to me if butter can, be bought for twenty-five cents a pound,and eggs at ten cents a dozen, if I haven't got the dimes? And I never have the dimes when the manufacturers are not i doing well." There is more sense in that man than in all the Free Trade Leaguesn this side of the Atlantic. He understands, among other; things, the harmony of in terests between agriculture and manufac tures. THE fur companies formerly sen; from. St. Louis two boats each summer to ,the Rocky Bionntains to supply their trading posts and bring back . the accumulations of tura and i?eltries, and the governmeht sent one to take out the Indian annuities,', No less than seventy-five ..steamers ,are'`ad vertised to leave during the month of April. f Immense quantitiea of goods - and,gr eries are being purchaied-to go to theDixt ntaiits this season. - ---1 , ' . F. L. FETHERSTON.PubIister DOIIIILk; SHEET, THREE CENTB SUI'3LEMR Couni—Chief Justice Woodward, and Justices F.iiorylihi-ed, and Agnew.- - iptnionswere de , ivered this ni• rainy on the Solloci log case.: Maltby vs. the Result, Band Columbia Railroad Com pany, certified tor IgisiPrins. Opinion by Woodward, LiiiefJustice: Tbe plaintiff 'a non-resident of Pennsyl vania, held ctrtain bonds of tbeileadiog and Columbia Railroad Company, with coup,itia attactited. represent ing the semi annual lotarest, stipulated for in the body of each bond. Upon pret enting tbe coupons for pay ment, the Company claimed thatit was their right and duty to deduct ana retain for the Commonwealth fs, Eta e tax equal to three mills on. every dollar_of the principal of the bonds. To resist this claim. 553 com pel the Company to pairtbe coupon la fun the plain tiff Med this bill In equity, upon w.alch three questions are made:., First—ls th e tax leviable at all. under existing' laws, upon the loans of the Company? Second—lf laws exist ia authorize the tax. are the loans taxable when heldand owned by a nen-resident of the State' Taird—lf sotaxable in the hands of a non-resident owner, is not the Company bound by the- terassrof its ccsixact to pay a - stipulated interest to - its credits; wi air at a deduction of the - tex In regard to the first point, the Court say there Is rue pose bi,ity of mistaking the legislative will in this re gard, and so long as the legitimate confine themsalve to that which is in the nature of a taxlaw; theirpowers at.' subject to no judicial review; they are only rearton sible to the people. setup d, as to - the non-residence of the holder of the loan, It is . undoubtedly true that , the Legislature of Pennaylvaniacannot impose persona tax upon the citizens of another State, but the constan practice is to tax property within our juriadictitin which belongs to non-residents. There must be juris diction over either,the properly or the person of the owner, else the power cannot be exercised: 'hut when the property is within our joiesdiction and-enjoys th Protect-ton of our State government, it is justly tax 'able and iris of no moment that the owner who is re quired to pay the tax resides elsewhere. The duties of sovereign and subj.-chi are reciprocal, and any person who is protected by government in his person or property "-_may be com pelled to pay for that protection. This principle of taxation as the correlative of protection, perfectly just in itself. is as - applicable to a non-resident as to a resident owner. because civil. government is essential to give value to and form of property withoat regard to the ownership aad taxation is indispensable to civil government. 'What 'would Lida plaintiff's loan be worth if it were not for the franchises c,inferred upon the Company by the Commonwealth and which are main tained and protected by the civil and mili tary power of the Commonwealth? Is it not apparent that the intrinsic_ and ultimate value of tne loan as an investment rests-en State authority— that it is the State which mad& it property and pre serves it as property .? Then it would seem that this kind of property.more than any Miter. ought to con riblate to the support of the State Government. In answer to the third point the- Court , says, that the three mi , l.taxabet . ; be assessed upon the par value of the corporation loan, and shall be retained by the Corporation Officers out of the ateruing interest thereon. Ihe decree at Nisi Prins, dismissing the plaintiff's affirmed. ' Strode vs. Commonwealth ole3ernsylettnia, lemur to common leess of Chester county. Opinion ay Woodward, Chief Justice 'I he single question is, whether our collatexal lab pritance tax is applicable to that part of decedent's estate - which consistea of bonds: of the Unite:: States that were by law exempted from State taxation. And the opinion of the learned judge below is so satiatectory as to leave very little for us to add. The misteke of the learned counsel for the plaintiff' in *rror consists, we conceive, in treating this as a tax of the government bonds when it is really a tax upoa a ceethent estate, dying without llneal heirs. And it does not help the argument that the bulk of the estate is made up sof these bonds, for that estate passed into the bands of the executor for administrallon and ht taxed in bee hands as an rotate. The law takes every decedent estate into custody and administers it for the benefit of creel fors, legatees, deeiseA and bells, and delivers the residue that remains, after discharging all oelegatiors. Le, the distributees emit ea to receive it, :One or the legal obligations to which every estate that :s to go to collate, at kindred issubject is tale five per cent_ duty to the Commonwealth. And it is not until ties work of aaministration eeperformed that the right of succession attaches The destributees may indeed cement to swept certain geode and chattels in specie without conversion, as is frequently dens in seetle ment of estst.-s, but such arrangements no wise affect [net heory of the law that the estate is first to bead ministered sad then enjoyed. Now, this five per cent. tax is one of the conditions of administration, and to deny the right of the Stale 10 impose It is to deny the r ght of the State to regulate G. 30 administration of decedent's goods. If aft estate consist wholly of Feder-al bonds and is Indebted. ern version of them into money is necessary to pay the then. and acitiody would doubt that the sum that re-" - mained after payment debts would be Rube , ct to a. &Auction of ace per cent. for the use of the Ntate. But slippage the Federal bonds be used I. pay the only indeteeteness that exists and a residue efestate remains. for distrieutees, is it not to pay the collateral in hereance tax Clearly it must. though ' it may be lessethan the aggregate of the bonds. Toe act operates upon the t *eel le of the estate after paying debts sae charges. and theoretically that residue is always a balance in money. The administration ac count always exhibits a belance in cash, not in specific go ds.whether bonds or horses. anti though an neir may take bonds or homes as cash, the account must thew and always