GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 291
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DAVlS—On'Satarday morning, 24th instant, Eliza
T., daughter Of the late Thomas Davis.
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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 . **
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ROSE—On Friday. March 23d, Jane, Rose, widow of
the late Robert H. Rose, of Slyer Lftice, Susquehanna
.county. Pa. *
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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
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[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.
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for the whole course. either ticket alone $:0.
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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 <ices shew a ceesic balance. That is
the mad taxed by this law, and not the bonds or other
ceattels which may have produced the fund.
Therefore, tfeltber the prohibitory clause
of the act of Congress of 1862, nor, any of the prince.
pies of decision agates*. State anthorityeto tax that
which Federal authority has excepted front taxation,
hare any application here. The Federal Government
lies not prohibited the States from prescribing rules of
inheritance and succeeslon to estates of decedents,and
it would be a grievous mistake of legislation acid
judicial authority to apply it web such effect. Judg
er; et t is affirmed. 1
Clymer vs. the Commonwealth. This cese involved
the same question ad theabove, end the eidgmentwas
_affirmed,
• lJustice Read filed a dissertfng opinion in these
ceth*rwood's Appeal, from %decree of the Common
Pleas of Philadel his. Opinion ley Strong, J. Decree.
affirmed at the cost of the appellants. ,
, Mitchell vs. Watson. Error to. District COurt of Phil
edeltthia. Opinion by Strong. J.j Judgment reversed
it d Judgment entered on the case stated for the plain
tiff, the legatee eftbe income for life.
Peterson d Cots, The Union Bank. Error to District
Court of Philadelphia. Opinion by Strong, Judge.
Judgment affirmed.
• Hoffman vs. _Bechtel'. Errorf to Common Pleas of
Rucks county. Opinion by strong. Judge, Judgment
reversed and a venire deesovo awarded.
Appeal of Sarah Weseo. From, decree of Orphans'-
Court of Schuylkill county. Opinion by Real, Judge.
Decree affirt =ed.
help ve. Ctorch. Error to CeMmon Pleas of Lehigh
, county, Opinion by Read J. Judgment a ffi rmed.
Dorrance's Appeal. FrerreOrphans' Court of Phila
delpbia. Opinion by Bead J. Decree affirmed at the
costs of appellant
Freeman Scott vs William Sadler , Error te District
Courto of Philadelphia. Opinion by Read J. `Judg
ment affirmed.
• Pratt vs. Billin—Appeal from decree of Contnionb
Pleas of Philadelreda. Opinionley Reed, Justice. De
cree Eden:tied, at costs of appellant.
- Conyngliam et al vs. Cortright elite. Error to Come
mon pleas of Carbon County. Opinion by Read, Jets- .
ece Judgment affirmed.
Stroad's Appeal—From Orphan's Court of Philadel- -
phis.. Opinion by Read, Justice.l Decree affirmed.
' Philadelphia and Gray's Ferry Passenger Railway
'Company vs. The City of Philadelphia. Opinion by -
Bead J. Judgment affirmed. 1
affirm
„ Society ed. for the Visitation of the Sick, Opinion by -'
Agnew), Judgment affirmed. 1
Xelawarelivision Canal Corneaey se. Stewart and
others Opinion by Judge Agnew. .InOginent ree!
F
Brolaskev - iderson. Opi nion by Judge .
„ei -
.drolaskeyvs. Ani
fuogment affirmed.
Backus VP. Barman. Opinion by Judge Agnew.
Dccree affirmed.
Person & Drissel vs. Neigh. pinion by Jtidge
r, ew. Joe =lent affirmed.
OVER AND TERMLVED—TudgLudIow and Peirce.:—At noon to•day the jury in the case of Morris
Abrams, charged Kith the murder of Captain Joseph,
Cox, of the bile' Theodorus, came into court with a
verdict ofmureer of the drat degree
John Johnson. colored, convicted of manslaughter,
i n causing the death of Thomas Moultrie, was sen
tenced to three years in the Eastern Penitentiary,
Edward Simons, convicted of murder of tie second
degree, in causing the death of. Bernard Kane, was
sentenced to six etas In the Eastern Penitentiary.
The Rio Grande Border.
[(From to4ay's Ni Y. Herald.]
Our Brownsville correspondent, under
date of March 10, sends us some matters of
commercial interest on the Rio Grande
border, greying out of the late imperial
edict declaring Matamoras no longer a free
port and the recently enacted cattle law of
this country. The merchants of Matamoras
have seriously complained of the effect of
the edict on their town and business, and
strenuous efforts are making to have the
order rescinded. ' The new cattle order of
the - United States is said to injariowily
effect the people in 'Texas, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and other Southwestern States. The
dissensions among - the liberal chiefa
Mexico continued. and one, of the disputes
provident had led to a fight - betweewOor;
tina and.thiriales, in - which Ctortinik
Mated and several of his Men 'killeik.so
captured. The officers `of the - Ethriers.g#
arm, on the Rio,Graxidefrmely a rasa
opinion that the Frene4trOOPS:w4lOf:lie
withdrawn ; Napoleon
empire is a fixed bet: ' • •
COVETS;
Agnew.)