TEE DE.ERIN G MASSACRE, TRIAL OF PROBST Conclusion of Yesterday's Proceedings The Court met again at 3 o'clock. Dr. Shapleigh recalled. Mr. Mann renewed his offer to show by Dr. Shapleigh the character of wounds upon the bony of Julia Deering, and the bodies of all the victims, A minute description, Mr. Mann said, he desired the doctor to give. Mr. O'Neill, for the prisoner, objected, be cause the evidence thus proposed to be eli cited was not part or the res gestw, and was not corroborative. A description of the wounds inflicted upon any of the bodies, except that of Christopher Deering, did not come into this case, and ought not to be per mitted in evidence. • The Court, by Judge Allison, said they thought proper ground had been laid for the introduction of the testimony, since the offer was first made, and ruled out, and it would therefore be now admitted as corro borative and proper evidence. Dr. Shapleigh here proceeded to give at length, and minutely, the nature and char acter of the wounds which he examined on the bodies of Julia Deering, Miss Dolan (in her case there was no fracture of the skull), Cornelius Carey, John Deering (eight years old), Thomas Deering (six. years old), Annie Deering (four years old), and Emily Deer ing (aged two years). In all these cases, ex cept that of Miss Dolan above referred to, the skulls of the victims had been broken and their throats cut. In the cases of John and Thomas Deering, their heads had been nearly severed from their bodies, but a small portion of skin holding them on. The arm of the child, Annie Deering, was broken by a blow which the doctor said must have come from the front. Abraham Everett, sworn—l was a neigh bor of the Deerings; lived about a quarter of a mile from them; went over to the place on Wednesday, when the bodies were dis covered; I live in Stone House lane, next house to Mr. Deering's; went over there on Wednesday morning; my wife had been over in that neighborhood on Tuesday; I passed by Deering's on Tuesday afternoon; passed right through, between the house and barn; I noticed the dog, and saw no other living thing; on Wednesday morning went over again; went first to the stable, and found the horses in the stable; looked as if they were in a starving condition, and I gave them something to drink; I got a bucket and watered the horses; there was no water in the trough when I went to it; I took the water out of the ditch; I gave one horse five and the other four buckets of water, and poured ten buckets in the trough and one drank near all of it; the other drank at the ditch about fifteen minutes; I turned them out in the meadow. Mr. O'Neill here submitted that this ex amination was not evidence. Witness resumed—l went from the stable to the house, and was the first to enter; things looked knocked around considera bly; it looked to me as if some one had ran sacked it; the doors were all fastened, and I got in through the window; I went np stairs and things looked like they were tossed around like the things were down stairs; the beds were each turned upside down; that is, the clothes on them; I saw Miss Dolan's furs there: I think I saw a muff and a shawl in one of the beds. Cross-examined—A scream could be heard from Mr. Wild's house, if it was loud enough; the distance is about three hundred yards; don't know the prisoner; never saw him nearer than from a distance of 400 yards; saw Mr. Deering on the Friday pre oeding the day mentioned; saw the furs on the bed in the room on the left hand side of the stairs as you go up; I believe there was a bonnet there, also; all the windows were locked, except one on the west and one on east side of the house; the doors were also locked and fastened; had been in the house brit three times altogether; the wagon was in the wagon-house when I got there, and the horse that had been attached to it was in the stable; he had his halter on, but had not been fastened; he was dirty, like the others, from lying down in the stable; I never knew of a horse drinking five buckets of water before. Dawson Mitchell.—l was on the ground at nine o'clock. on Tuesday morning; went down stairs; saw things in confusion, saw books that were lying on a table; up-stairs, in a corner, saw a coat; on the coat there was blood, and saw blood on the pants also; took the pants and coat and hid them away, so that they would not be disturbed; in the room there was a woman's frock, and a muff and tippet; it lay on Mrs. Deering's bed, and the bonnet alongsideof it; a clock lay over a little crib alongside of the bed. [All these articles were handed witness, and were identified by him.] Pants and coat handed witness. Found these on the bed, and the shirt against the headboard on the same bed. Cross-examined—ln the frontroom,as you go up stairs, I found all these clothes, pants, Coat and shirt; the bonnet, tippet and furs were in the room to the right as you go up; the bed was all torn up,and the feathers all torn out; the bed clothing in all the rooms was in much confusion, and tossed up; the room on the left looked as if it had been used by a hired man; the room on the right looked as if it was used by women; there was women's clothing there; this was Thursday, the 12th, that I was there. Re-direct.—(Cap shown witness)—l saw this cap:found just at the hay rack where the boy Carey was found. Robert Walsh; sworn—[Hammer shown witness]—l found this hammer in the barn juit inside the door opposite the house, on the right-hand side going in; the hammer was covered but the handle was not. Mr. Franklin recalled—[Axe shown]— This axe, was found behind the kitchen doors,on the bench. [Apron shown witness.] This apron was found in the east room on the lower floor. [Pocket-book shown.] This was in the kitchemon the top of the closet; nothing was in it. Jane Greenwell, sworn—l knew Christo pher Deering; last saw him alive on Satur day morning at Thirteenth and. South; that was the 7th of April; he bought of me six pounds of beef; he took it in his wagon; it was nine o'clock; he looked at the time ny his watch; he told me he had to go to Mr. Mitchell's, and started from me to go: that is the last I ever saw of him. Cross - examined—Am a married woman; knew Mr. Deering about a year; saw him every Saturday; he bought meat of me; on this Sattirday he was alone; no one was with him. Theodore Mitchell—Live 1629 Arch street; Iltriew Mr. Deering; I own the 'place he lived on; he dealt in cattle and farmed; he was at times possessed of large sums of money; sometimes he would have $lOO, and sometimes he has had as high as $10,000; he has paid money to me in the last year or two; he was at my house on the 7th of April at between nine and ten o'clock. [Pocket bobk shown.] I think he had that pocket bodk in his possession then; he' paid me a small BUM then; I gave him $lO that morn ing; that is all the money he had that I know of ; the ,(00. was advanced to Mr. D. with which I charged him; I do not know where be went when heleft me; he left me in haste; I don't know in what direction he went of my own knowledge; so far as asl know he hastened to go to the steamboat; that was the, last I saw of Win alive. cross-examined--I suppose the large s ams of money I have spoken of as being in his possession belongs tome; I was in the habit of advancing sums of money to him to bay cattle. • Tide line of crass-examination was ob iec_ted to as not material to the case, and the :obtion was suStained. Mi. Deering was often in'possession of sums as high as $5,000, and occasionally has paid me as high as $10,000; he left my house on that day at a quarter to nine o'clock; he paid me $B6, which he took from his pocket book that has been produced here; when he received large amounts he was generally in the habit of making payment 3 to me the same day. • Mrs. Wilson sworn—l live in Stamper's lane, below the Navy-yard, between Point House road and Stone House lane; I think my house is about four squares from Mr. Deering's house, across the meadows; last saw Mr. D. on Saturday morning the 7th of April, at about half-past 9 o'clock, on Sec ond street, below Myfflin; he had with him a horse and wagon; he stopped and talked with me from ten to fifteen minutes; when he left me he turned down' Moore street to wards the Delaware; while we were talking he saw Miss Dolan coming. 'down Second street; she had a black bag in her right hand; [bag shown;] it was a bag of that kind; she had on a black cloak; when Mr. Deering turned the corner of Moore street she got in the wagon with him; they went then towards Front street; that was towards home; this was the last I ever sawof him. The cross-examination elicited nothing. Timothy Slocum, sworn.—l worked for Mr. Deering- from the 27th of June to the 27th of July, and from the 3d of March to the 11th of March; I know the prisoner; I worked with him for eight days, and slept in the room with him; lam sure he is the man; Mr. D. discharged me on the 11th, and I left the prisoner there; he came the same day I did, the 3d of March; I left him at work there on the lith of March; never talked to me aboat Mr. Deering having money. Cross-examined—Have been in Nicetown at work since I left. Mr. Deering's place until last Saturday. Lavinia Whitman, sworn.—l live at No. 7.16 Front street, near .Brown; Christian Hauer keeps the house; I rent a room in the house; I know the prisoner Probst; I saw him first that Saturday night when he was there, the 7th of April; it was last Saturday three weeks I guess; I was before the Coro ner at the prison; it was about eight o'clock when I saw the prisoner; .he was there, and had with him a gold watch, a silver watch and a pistol. [Pistol shown.] It was like that; I guess that is the pistol. [Watch shown.] That is the watch; he stayed all that night in my room; he had, that I saw, a $2 and a $1 bill; the watch had a chain on it; he was away that evening for a little while, but came back early, say about eight or nine o'clock. Cross-examined—l first saw the prisoner in the kitchen; I drank with him once a glass of beer; he showed me the pistol and watch in the morning in my room; showed both the silver and gold watch to me; he took them out of his pocket; he gave me a two dollar and a one dollar bill, greenbacks; he took the watches away with him. Re-direct—l noticed about the thumb be ing off his right hand. The Court- here adjourned, and amid great' confusion outside, notwithstanding the excellent arrangements of the police for the preservation of order, the prisoner was removed to the van and sent back to the prison. The crowd in the street was very noisy, and as he made his appearance in charge of the officers, they gave him three groans, and three more when the van drove off. The court adjourned until this morning From the Lumber Region. [Correspondence of the Phtluda. Evening Bulletin. j FARMERS' VALLEY, McKean county, Pa., April 23d, 1866.—8 y the the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, twenty-four hours' travel will find the citizen of Philadelphia transferred from the scenes of city life to a face to face view of wild .country, one that will fairly startle him. I write this from such a point. A tavern and scattered houses stretched along a road leading through a valley growing green in the early spring, constitute the village; the valley is apparently completely enclosed with high hills wooded to their summits, while a branch of the Allegheny river, marked at its margin by alder and willow, runs swiftly through it. On th hills or mountains, as they would be called by many, grow the hemlock, pine and oak, maple, birch, beech and bass trees. - The life a lumberman of the Allegheny is one of hard work and exposure, requiring thick blood, strong muscle, and quick wit for emergencies. In the Fall they begin cutting the timber and skidding it or placing it on a foundation elevated above the ground, so that it may not be frozen fast and immovable. When the snows set in the trees that are cut down are at once put on sleds and drawn by ox-teams to the• skids. Chopping and hauling finished, the spring freshets carry the logs down the streams and float them to the booms of the saw-mills, where their round voyage i. finished, and they come out into flat, board life. Each log bears the initials, or marks of the owner, made by one blow from a sledge hammer, one end of which is flat with the initials or mark raised on the iron surface. The lumberman's life of exposure and hard work lays the foundation for an iron constitution, and long after the lumber trade has lost its present importance, by the disappearance of the trees they war against, their descendants turning the naked hills into grazing grounds and farms, will reap the benefit of the sturdy ,life of their fathers. Into the branch of the Allegheny river that runs through this valley, innumerable creeks and brooks empty their clear, spark ling waters, and in them those beauties of the brook, the speckled trout, dart and swim at their own pleasure, until jerked out by the angler. Half-pound fish are consi dered good sized for these brooks, but pro tection of them during the spawning season would ensure their growth to a much larger size. The deer in good numbers are found in the wooded hills and mountains in a cir cuit of twenty miles to the south, and in some degree to the north of the valley, and the bears and wolves still haunt the neigh borhood. Only a weekgo a black bear that, during the winter hiii d killed a dozen sheep, was caught in atr p, not three miles from here, and after a- htd fight, was shot and killed. His weight as five hundred pounds, and the fat on lais haunches was four inches through. A large flask of this same bear's grease is not before me, and would delight the heart of many a per fumer. Otters, minks and foxes are killed here during the fur season, and as for birds, woodcock and pheasants are abundant. Pure air, fine scenery, Sweet water, plen ty of exercise, enough room to work about in, insure'%a hearty appetite, sound sleep, and an easy conscience. It certainly repays one for the • little trouble it takes to reach here. By the Philadelphia and Erie rail way you can come to within twenty-seven miles, and from the railroad a stage carries yon to this point. There is far more real enjoyment in an old-fashioned comfortable country tavern, like this, than in the bravest of our city car avansanee. What do the latter know of eggs, fresh from the original package? thick, unadulterated cream? honey from the hon ey-Comb, and not from the sugar-barrel? rich syrup just from the maple-trees, up there on the bill-side? trout, hard and firm fleshed, hardly an hour out of the clear, sparkling brook? Go to the White Mountains; travel to the Berkshire Hills; visit the sea -coast, but do not entirely overlook the fact that Pennsyl vania has scenery that every Philadelphian should visit, to know what a magnificent State he has to be proud of, and what a ster ling population lives within her borders. A few years more and coal and iron mines, awl oil wells will call in a new population to change the present wild character of all ,this region. While it still has the hand of Nature on it, come here and catch trout, THE DAILY EVENING lILLETIN PHYLA.DELPHIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27,1866 hoot deer in season, and renew yonr health and youth generally . by taking the fresh, bracing mountain air, and clear sunlight of this half-Alpine part of the Old Keystone State. McKean county has increased in popula tion rapidly since 1810, when it was 142, it must now be over 7,000. During the war, from her small population she contributed soldiers bravely fo supporethis country and is as plucky a county as we have along the borders. More than one of the Bucktail Rifles killed deer on these hills before he drew a bead on a "rebel cavalier;" and now, returned from war, he handles the axe with a renewed dezterrmination to see things properly clearcca np and out. Attention is being moreawakened to agri culture, now that the lumber is slowly dis appearing, and the cleared land is laid open to sunlight. The bottom land of this valley is admirably suited to corn, potatoes. buck wheat and garden vegetables, and as the population increases and greater deinands are made en the soil, we will find its capa bilities doubly developed. The Philadel phia and Erie Railway should, by a branch road, securing the bituminous coal trade in the mines aboutßunkerHill,in this , county, strike in and secure the lumber trade, by continuing the road to this valley. The Erie Railway, of New York, seems to have serious intentions against our mineral and lumber wealth, and it behooves oar Penn sylvania capitalists to be on guard and pro tect the interests of their State. H. P. L. Observations of a Loyal Person in Vir The following letter from a resident of Richmond,who was always a strong Union ist, though of not very recent date, gives a true account of things as they still are in that city: RICHMOND, Feb. 6.—Dear 81r: Finding myself with many others in a. most disa4 greeable predicament, I write to beg your aid and counsel. I want to know whether you think it would be better to make im- mediate application in Washington for par don for loyalty, or to run the risk of being again ingulfed in the secession maelstrom with the odium of Unionism upon me. Everything seems so rapidly tending that way that I think there is reason for serious alarm. Would it not be better to take time boldly by the firelock and come out as a staunch leader in the relapse which is about to follow? Principles to the wind ! We've fully demonstrated that as regards the American Government, these are the last to be considered and respected. We, of the South, have already given to the world a new and improved signification to the words —chivalry, honor and humanity—and our blessed and wise Government has itself shown us that treason aboveall other things is to be admired, respected, and favored. I can myself but be struck with its (treason's) altered mien from its carriage two week'b after the occupation of the city. How beau tifully, how proudly it bears itself; how vaunting, how glorious in its magnificent defiance of all truth and decency. Listen to its bold relation of its deeds. It clothes Wet( in sackcloth for nothing but its want of suc cess. Exemplars above all heroes, wonder ful and glorious among warriors—Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Yon findthein as household gods in every parlor; th ey gladden the eye in many a store and win dow. Favored people! We have our Semmes and our Mosby; our brave Gens. Pickett and Mercer--domestic manufac tured examples of valor ! Ah ! legion is the name of such modals after which to form the plastic youth of Southern soil. Sister republic of Sparta, you rewarded theft—we reward treason! Now, dear friend, I want really to come up to the exigencies of the times—to denion strate that in all ignorance and sincerity I was loyal—thinking it best for the wliole South to be so. I cannot.do things by halves—l want now to be radical—a real out and out secessionist—it certainly is the best thing (for self). You cannot doubt this. Witness everything around us. Who re ceive all favors? Who is powerful? Who has made money and kept it? Who legis late for us ? Who preach for us? To whom, with but one exception, belongs the press ? The secessionists. Who are the true pa riahs—wanting food, raiment, employment, office, snubbed by women, scorned by men, ignored by Government? The loyal peo ple of the South. To be a Unionist or a ne are both unpardonable marks of low caste. The negroes have always been loyal—poor t ignorant creatures as ourselves ! How purifying to the moral atmosphere of the community to have two such scape goats on which to lay all their sins. Such tried material to a nation as the loyal peo ple of the South are worthy of considera tion and all pride. With a sublime moral courage, they have walked through years of doubt and darkness with the crushing weight of public obloquy and peril of death upon their head—sustained by soul-exalting patriotism, bright hopes and strong faith— with no protection but a Government whose corrupt heart called good evil, and whose greatest heroes found only death in private, death in Salisbutt, or on a gallows. The 'Union people of the South !—no ingratitude could be baser thatt ignoring them. The Union men of the South, reviled, abused, persecuted, hunted, betrayed, shot down in their tracks—fair game for all, de tectives, Baltimore plugs and bayonets. "Fourteen were shot last week, trying to escape by the Peninsula," said a detective to me; then; with a sly wink, "We think they were all Jews." I know of one loyal man who was sentenced to be deprived of all food for sixteen _days. He was a North Carolina Friend, who would neither fight nor pay the fine. After four days' total ab stinence the noble efforts of a friend pre vailed, and he was allowed nourishment, though other punishments continued. Ah! what pictures of misery in human frames has loyalty presented ! You might find men of mature years—yes, old men—of spot less lives and purest characters, in densely crowded prison cells, without even stool, bench or table, lying on the bare floor, with the festering flesh falling from their poor backs, and murmuring with their dying lips words of divine love and mercy for their cruel persecutors. For loyalty, have I seen the long gray beards of seventy and eighty years at the loathsome prison win dows of one of our wretched jails, which, for its peculiar misery, was named, or rather called by the Confederate rulers— " Sodom and Gomorrah." It was some thing to be a Unionist—South. To be bound hand, foot, and tongue, with heart strings trailing from your revered flag. Think of it ! Yon knew how merciless we were to prisoners of war. We were more so to our own Union people. Noble army of mar tyi s are the glorice Union dead of the South! Row often were a man's foes those of his own kindred, and sometimes the nearest and dearest became infamous. The Union men of the South should be recog nized as jewels. I They had nerve to be brave for truth; they have nerve to aid and act, if countenanced as they should- be. You can never know what they passed through, I can scarcely realize it myself, now, it seems so contrary to - nature. The blessed sun shine and fresh air, I. have only suffered with them, had I power to speak, it should be for them. Will Congress pass over them? God help us, if they do. Are they not even to be heard before the Reconstruction Com- Mittee? There are many loyal men at the South, if a kind hand should be stretched toward them. I do not mean by Union men, those who are all right, unless you touch upon the negro question, but those who are—yes, radical men. You do not know how many there are. Their present position is deplorable. Do not say that the press leads the people. I assure you that the Examiner is the exponent of the people. Think you, that if Congress gives no help, no consideration,' no hearing to the loyal pen of the South, that Government, under promise of their future treason, might be induced to pardon their antecedents? At any rate, will you pardon me, and believe me, most earnestly and faithfully, Yours, Equalizotion of Soldiers' Bounties. The following letter has been addressed to the Chairman of the Revenue Commis sion: "TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 19,1866. --Sir: A bill has been reported for the action of Congress in respect to the 'equalization of soldiers' hounties, which will, in my opin ion, require an expenditure on the part of the Government of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred millions of dollars, thus adding an equivtilent sum to the prin cipal of the public debt, and requiring an additional annual 'payment for interest of from fifteen to eighteen millions. As the relations of the national debt to industry and resources of the country have been especially referred to you for consideration, I desire that you will inform me at your earliest convenience what effect this pro posed increase of the national debt and annual taxation is likely, in your opinion,to have upon the finances and development of the country, and what changes may be necessitated thereby in our future revenue service and policy. "I am, most respectfully yours, "H. McCuhLom, Secretary of the Treasury. "Hon. David A. Wells, Chairman United States Revenue Commission." The following is the reply- of Mr. Wells: WASHINGTON, April 23, 11366.—Sir= In reply to your note of the 19th,relative to the subject of appropriations involving addi tional loans or increased taxation, permit me to speak without reserve. The country is now passing through a critical period of its financial experience, and it seems essen tial that the proposition should be pro claimed and maintained, that the borrowing period for the nation has passed, and that henceforth and until another extraordinary emergency arises, the national expenditures are to be met by taxation exclusively, nothing less can satisfy the holders of the public debt; nothing less can sustain national credit at such stanaard as will keep open to the nation the resources of loans for future emergency. The existing public debt of the 'United States, taking accumulated wealth and rate of interest into consideration, is now com paratively larger than that of any of the States of the old. world, and is only excelled in actual amount by that of Great Britain. It is now proposed to increase this enormous debt to such an extent, that the annual in terest on the addition will be nearly equal to one-fourth of the average annual expen ditures of the whole Government during the decade prior to the commencement of the rebellion. The largest amount of revenue ever drawn from the British people in any one year, ir respective of loans, has never exceeded three hundred and seventy millions of dol lars, while the amount of revenue which the United States has drawn during the first three-quarters of the present fiscal year, by the various forms of direct and indirect taxation, has been four hundred and ten millions, or at the rate of upwards of five hundred and forty millions per annum. This immense sum, in opposition to the settled policy of all other nations, and, in defiance of their experience, has been taken mainly from the industry of the country. The present large receipts of: revenue can not, however, be accepted as any sure indi cations of the future, and so long as they are drawn mainly horn taxes on industry, they are no satisfactory indications of the prosperity of the country. For the next fiscal year, moreover, a large falling off in receipts, arising from diminished importa tions, changes in values and quantities of in dustrial products and from other causes, may be expected. This deficit cannot now be easily estimated, but that it will be large cannot be doubted, especially If the country, as now seems probable, is to be visited by pestilence. It would seem as if the mere statement of these facts ought to suffice as argument against any immediate increase of our enormous burden of debt and taxation. If, however, we further consider the manner anti distribution of the taxation by which the nation is at present raising its revenue, the argument becomes even more cogent and unanswerable. As is well known, the exemption from taxation at present in the United States of any form of capital, or any process or result of industry, is the excep tion rather than the rule. This system necessarily involves a most extensive duplication of taxes, and this in turn entails and maintains and undue en hancement of prices, a decrease of both pro duction and corisumption,and consequently of wealth ; a restriction of exportations and of foreign commerce, and a large increase in the expense of the revenue collection. It needs no gift of prophecy or trained finan cial intellect to determine the result of a persistency in such a policy; for nations, like individuals, have limits to their re sources, and nations, like individuals, may have their patriotism even taxed beyond endurance. A reduction and equalization of national taxation has therefore become not merely expedient, but imperative. Cir cumstances will not, however, admit of a reduction sufficient to give all the relief de manded by the nation being made at once. Hither. o, as has been already stated,a very large portion of revenue has been derived from the taxes on industry, or the capital which directly supports industry, and a comparatively small part from spirits, to bacco, liquors, legacies and succe.saions,aud other sources, which all experience has de monstrated may be taxed most heavily without in any way arresting the progress of national developments. Indeed, it may he asserted that laws sufficientto insure col lection of large revenues from these latter sources have not yet been enacted,the exist ing laws being in many. respects inoperative upon the statute. Until, therefore, newlaws can be enacted, and their efficiency proved by experience, many of the worst features of the piesent revenue system must be re tained and endured. In order to at present raise by taxation a sum sufficient to pay an annual interest of six per cent. on an addi tion of two hundred and fifty millions, to the principal of the public debt, viz: fifteen millions, the present rate of taxation must be maintained on the following articles or their equivalents, the receipts for the fiscal year 1665 being assumed as the basis for the estimate: Hate, caps, bonnets, coats, vests, pants, overcoats, shirts, collars, stockings, gloves, mittens, bouts, shoes, moccasins, salt, cheap soap, starch, paints of all kinds, paper of all descriptions, books, magazines, pamphlets, maps,engravings and all printed matter, plows, harrows, cultivators, rakes, winnowing mills, hay and straw cutters, trunks, harness, lime and cements, build ing stones, bricks, stoves, pottery, wire and window glass. The revenue from the direct tax on all these articles for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, not haying, been in excess of fifteen millions of dollars. If, however, it is urged that the Govern merit can afford to relieve all the above enumerated articles and many others from taxation, and pay the interest on the pro posed addition to the debt, .I reply, that that condition of the revenue will not at present allow of an exemption of the necessities of life and all the common forms of industry from taxation; and that no principle of political economy is better established than that a tax upon one of the necessities or in dispensable forms of industry. is in filet a tax upon all. •• Under the above circumstances, therefore, it would seem as if nothing but the salvation of, the nation itself' could warrant any Immediate increase of the na tional liabilities of the people's tease. I am yours, most respectfully, DAVID A. WELLS, Chairman U. S. Revenue Commission. Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Seoreniry of the Treasury. EUROPEAN NEWS. Arrival of the Steamship Africa. HALIFAX, April -26 .—The - steamship Af rica has arrived with Liverpool dates to the 14th instant, and via Queenstown on the 15th. The steamers Pennsylvanian and Austra lasian had arrived at Liverpool on the 13th, The steamer Tarifa had arrived at Queens town. In the House of Commons, on the 13th;the debate on the Reform bill was resumed. Among the speakers were Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Liddell against, and Stuart Mill and Baxter in favor. The debate was again adjourned. In the Commons, on the 12th, Mr. Card well, in reply to an inquiry, said that the question of protecting the interests of the fishermen on the North American coasts on the termination or the reciprocity treaty was under consideration by the law officers of the Crown. Mr. Maguire gave notice that he would, at an early day, call attention to the serious inconvenience arising in Ireland from the too stringent exercise of powers given by the suspension of the habeas corpus. A terrible accident took place as the Chel tenham races. A stand gave way, burying three hundred persons in the ruins. Many were severely hurt but none are reported dead. The weekly returns of the bank of France show a decrease of eAgh on hand of 1,100,000 francs. The Paris correspondent of the London Times says: If the object of Head Centre Stephens in going to Paris was to attract general attention to his cause or person, it proved a failure. A severe panic prevailed in the Paris Bourse on the 13th instant. Routes de clined to 66f. 15e., but afterwards rallied to 66£ 40c. An official contradiction has been given at Berlin to the assertion that the Prussian government would take reprisals on ac count of the expulsion of Count Waldensee from Austrian territory. It is reported that the French ambassador at Berlin has been instructed to state that France considers a radical reconstruction of the Confederation not as a question of Ger man policy, but one which would admit the intervention of the dignitaries of the Vienna Congress. The Paris correspondent says that what ever little hope there was that peace would be maintained, seems rapidly vanishing. The Crown Princess of Prussia gave birth to a daughter on the 12th. The ex- Minister of Prince Consa has been impeached for wasteful expenditure of the public funds. LIVERPOOL, Saturday, April 14.—The funds to-day remained dull, and closed rather firmer. Alluding to the panic on the Bourse, the Paris correspondent of the London Times says that one of the disquieting rumors was that the relation between the French and United States Governments were such as to justify the very worst fears, all of course on account of Mexico. The same writer says that the hopes of peace in Germany are rapidly vanishing, and he intimates that the semblance of neutrality by France few be lieve to be sincere. Warlike rumors continue in circulation in Vienna and Berlin, and the armaments continue. A Viennadsspatch says - that the Prussian reply to the last Austrian note was received on the 12th. It declines in laconic language to accede to the demands of Austria for the demobilization of the Prussian force. LONDON MON'EY MARKET.—Money is in good demand. The discount rate remains at 6 per cent. On the stock exchange ex cessive flatness prevails and stocks, in cluding American, were lower. Consols touches the lowest prices since the Crimean war. but afterwards slightly rallied, closing at 861@861. The Latest via Queenstown. LONDON, April 15.—The Paris Bourse is firm. Rentes closed at 66f. 90c. The German crisis continues. The rumors concerning the difficulty are vague and con tradictory. The news from Vienna is still warlike. The Independance Belge has rea son to suppose that the question of arma ments will be satisfactorily settled by mutual and simultaneous disarmament. It is informed that confidential overtures have been made to Prussia by Austria to that effect. Commercial In Lo April 14.—Messrs. Baring reports; Bread muffs dull; flour. scant*: American quoted at Pie Ev.tss. Iron quiet; bars and rails £6los; scotch pig, Gartsherne Wand, Sd. Sugar heavy, with a down warn teneency. Coffee firm. lice inactive. Tea quit t and steady. Linseed Cull and quotations barely maintained. Linseed cakes, stock scarce and the mar kt,. firm; American £ll Ss. epirits turpentine firm at 4Nitoa 6d. Linseed oil steady at 40s 3d@403 6d. !Sal4. Pe: re dull and declined Ed. Tallow steady at 4§6448s 3d. Petroleum is steady at ZS ISd for refined. LIVERIOOL, April 14. Evenlng.—(cotton salestEeilay 5,t or, including 1,10; bales to speculators and exporters. the market is very dull with a panic, and the decline of yesterday and to-day amounts to id.Cill4d. "f. pound. iddling uplands are quoted st about 14d., bat the mar. ket la nominal, The depression has been caused by the con' lined large receipts at American ports, toe heavy arrivals bare. and the threatening aspect of the Ger man question. Breadstuff§ firm. Provisions dull. LeNnori, April 14, Evening.—Consols closed at ,85,ti© ES for money. American stocks—United States 5-vs, tr;@.,67.14. ex-coupons, Illinois Central, 79i3,' 841. .E.rie R. 52h@S3. Military vs. Civil Authority in Kentucky LOUISVILLE, April 26.—This afternoon, Judge Ballard, of the United States District Court, issued an order for the arrest of Geu. J. C. Davis, for interfering with the course of public justice, in disobeying the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Hendersen. Marshall Merriwether was resisted by Da vis in attempting to enforce the order. The older against Davis is returnable in May. Attachments were also made against Maj. dens. George H. Thomas, R. W. Johnson, and Gen. W. D. Whipple, Provost Marshal of Tennessee; returnable at the next regular term. Separate attachments have been or dered to be issued against Gen. Davis and Lieut.-Col. W. H. Cooper, for resisting the United States Marshal in the discharge of his duty. Bail was indorsed on each writ. Marshal 31erriwether has notified the President of the position of affairs. Mr. Henderson was taken to Nashville last night by order of Gen. Davis, notwith standing the writ issued by Judge Ballard for his prosecution before the United States Court. IsruviLLE, April 26.—The Court Martial in the case of Isham Henderson, assfm bled to-day. Colonel W. H. Coyle, Judge Advocate of Kentucky, appeared as Mr. .Heuderson's counsel by permission of Gen. Thomas. Col. Coyle objected to a member of the Court Martial as having formed an opinion adverse to the accused. The defence not being ready , to proceed, Abe Court adjourned till to-morrow. _NroAiii THEATRE. WALNUT street. above Eighth. POWERFUL ATTRACTION. EVERY IsVENING AND ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY AFTER NOONS, THE WONDER—EL NINO EDDIE, Mr. G. W. SMITH and BALLE r TROUPE. BURLESQUE ETHIOPIAN OPERA CORPS. Two Grand Ballets, Dramatic Company and Comic Pantomime -Troupe. AfSBEMBLY BUILDINGS. SIGNOR BED Z.'S DODBLE SPHYNX SIGNOR BLITZ'S DOUBLE SPHYNX Is still the great attraction at his TEMPLE OF WON. DERS. All the best feats, including the 1 , OPE DANCNR, GRAND TURK, CANARY BIRDS and VI NTRILOQUISM.. are also given EVERY EVES. .D.,*(l at 736, and WEDNESDAY and SA.TUBDAY AFTERNOONS at 3 o'clock. ---•• • - • • . Admission, 25 cente—Chlldren, 15 cents. Reserved seats, 50 center mhlO I)IIrFERTA DT'S LAST WORK—"STORDS ON,THE -1-PRODFLY MOUNTAIIV St" now on ExhinPion, by:per mission or the artistaor the henettt ofthe"Lincoln Resti tution, and Soldiers' find Sailors' Orphan *toys Home," at Wif NI/EROTIC TAY LOS de SRO WN'n,9l2. and 914 Chestnut street... For one month only. Season tickets. 41; single tickets, 25 cents. Open from 10 A.M., to 10 ap2l-lna fIEBSIAVIA OttelitilsTßA.—tonblie BettearatJa ‘-.T every, Saturday afternoon , at the Musical Fund Hall, at h alt-past three o'clock. nugageruente mad 4 CY addressing ElikiliGE litnECTEBT, agent. BM Nor! erey street, between Race and Vine. Witt AItifSMKIIINMS. krl=o ei ar4lizt Ceßio V 34.00ffil rkyito : : 1 CHOICE SEATS To all places of amusement may be had up , to SX o'clock any evening. - nals2s-tzf CHOICE SEATS AND ADAUSSION TI can be had at THE • • •Te ,•,se• • • : 431 CHESTNUT street, opposite the Pod 0111 m, for the ARCH, CHESTNUT; WALNUT and ACAD OF MUSIC, up to .6 o'clock every evening. Beis.tf MUSICAL SOIREE -EVERY EVENING, AT THE City Chess and Reading Rooms, apl6-240 No. 12;5 CHESTNUT street Philada. A MERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Corner of BROAD and LOJUST Streets. Lessee and Manager WIL WHEATLEY. FOURTH AND LAST WEER BUT TWO of the successful engagement of THE GREAT RAVEL TROUPE. G , tEAT ATTRACTIONS. THIS: hVmefiNG (FR DAS ), ONLY BENEFIT OF - The RIVEL. The following excellent programme is offered.: The pet of the city, YOUND AME RICA, on the THRE NG REZE. The screaming and FLYING Pantomime of SIMON'S MISHAPS. GABRIEL BAVELT. First sight of the beautiful Ballet of ' SLA Tim SORCEREs • .ANTOINE RAVEL- Concluding with lire trail.- Fairy Pantomime of RA.OIIL. WIIRCI ...... BABIBOLA ADMISSION, 80 CENTS. Reserved Seats, 75 cents. Family Circle, SO cents. Amphitheatre. 25 cents. Doors open at X past 7.- Performance commenceef X before 8. TO-HORROW (SATURDAY) AITRFINOON, at t o'clock, THF FOURTH GRAND RAVEL MATINNN. VOL-AU-VENT—JEANNETTE AND .TEAN7s, crp, will be pres ented , with otber fine attractions. ADMI ON, with reserved seats. 59 cents Seats secured six days in advance at Mr. TRUMP LER'S Music Store, SEVENTH and CHESTNUT streets, and at the Office of the Academy from 9 A. M. till 4 o'clock P. M. ISTEwCHESTNUT STREET THEA eELEB.Lri Street, above Doom open at 7. Curtain risen at 7.45. THIS EVENING, BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT micr, MAGGIE MITCHELL; I,lJir•S MAGGIE MITCHEIa,„ IS3 MAGG'FAMITCHELL, MISS MAGGIE MITCHELL, MISS MAGGIE MiTCITELT , ANTI POSITIVELY LAST NIGHT POSITIVELY LAST NIGHT Of the beautiful beart drama in 5 acts THE PEARL OF SAV6Y. THE PEARL OF SAVOY. THE PEARL OF SAVOY. THE PE 4 RI. OF SAVOY. 3IAGGLE _lures:mu, Will be szpported by 3.115. I. W. COLLIER, MISS JOSEE ORTON, And the STRENGTH OF THE COMPANY. MAR I E.... Miss MAGGIE MITCHELL NI.W AIkLBETEi IFUL SCENERY. EXPENSIVE APPOLNITMENTS, dtc. In active prep.ration, LI - TTLI , BAREFOOT. SAT - URI+AY AFTERNOON. April ?..3, GRAND FAN ILY M.^ 'Ms.:EX. bRAND FAMILY MATINEE. Second Matinee performance of Tile.. FLYING DUTCHMAN. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Admiszion to Evening Perk nnance. 25c.. Sec. and $l, _ _ TITALINUT STREET THEATRE, N. E. corner 11' NINTH and WALNUT Resins to g. THIS (Friday) EVENING, April 27, BENEFIT OF ME. EDWIN BOOTH, MR hOW IN BeJOTH, MB- EDWIN BOOTH. On which occasion he will appear in a DOUBLE SHAESPEAREAN BILL, SHY LOCK. Lfi THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, AND PETRUCHIO, IN TAMING OF THE SHREW. CHARLES BA_RIION Oraiiano ».. . Air. J. H. TAYLO.R. Mil EDWIN aOOTH as RICHARD NIL MONDAY. EDWIN BOOTH as BUY .BLAS. RS. JOHN DREW'S NEW ARCH STREET THF.A TRH. Begins at to 8 o'clock. AN ENTIRE CHANGE OF FERFOR cA NCm BENEFIT 0.17 MADAME CELESTE. TONIGHT (Friday), April Z', 1666, THE FRENC.H. aPY. VICTOTRE. HENRY hT. CELESTEr- HAMET, Previous to the Drama THE WA GMENSTRIEL. Jens Rage with songs..... Robson A great hilt for t - ATUROAY . NIGHT. MADAME CELESIE IN THREE CHARACTER..S,, MONDAY NEXT—THE WOMAN IN RED. Beats ssziired six days in Ai:mance. A CADE:MY OF NATURAL SCIENCES— Corner of .101. Broad and Sansom atreets.-1 he Museum of this Institution, containing, the largest collections in Natur.l History in the United States, will be open to the public daily, Saturdays and Sundays excepted, from 11 o'clock - . A. M., until sunset, during APRIL,- MAY and JUNE, 1666, in order that our citizens may become better acquainted - with its intrinsic value and importance to the city, and the necessity of a new hall, with accommodations fbr the more convenient display and preservation, as well as futo , e increase or it s col lections. Each ticket will admit but one person during the three months' daily exhibition, and may be obtained of any member, and also of the following namedr en tl em en : F. BROWN, Drogglat., N. B. corner Fifth and Cheat, nt streets. T. B. PUGH, Bookseller, S. W. corner Sixth and Fstntit streets. .ASHMIiILD & EVANS, Booksellers, 724 Chestnut treat. TRYON, BROTHERS & CO, Gun Store, 625 Market. treet EDW. PARRISH. Drug Fist. Soo Arch street. WILLIAM e , HENZE), , Druggist, Eighth and Mar et streets. JOHN KRIDEIt, Gun Store, Second and Walnut treeta. B. TAYLOR, Druggist, 1015 Chestnut street. O. CAFFAR, Druggist, N. E. corner Broad and Chestnut' F treets. BASSItD&Z . O., Druggists. Twelfth and ("begun; streets. 100 tickets issued at the door of the Academy. A CADEMY OF FINE t e a TO, CHESTNUT, ADO?, Ten Open from 9 A. M. till 6 P. M. still on exhibition HARNESS, SADDLES, ado THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SADDLE a HARNESS Manufacturing Establishment in the Country. LA CEY,MEEKER & Co No. 1216 CHESTNUT . STREET OFFER OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE BUGGY HARNESS, from tzs 50 to 5150 LIGHT BAROUCHE from ............. 00 to 350' H.EAVY do 75 00 to 500 E.' , RESS,BRASS 'MOUNTED Haztantes-27 50 to 00 WAGON and SELF-AD.TUSTMi .15 00 to 30. STAGE and TPA Ar do .30 00 to 50 , LADIES' SADDLE do .12 00 to 150 GENTS' do do. ..... 300 to 75. Bridles, Mountings, Bits, Rosettes, Horse Oovers, Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Blacking, Ladies' and Gents" Traveling and Tourist Bass and Sacks, Lunch Baskem Bre:lslay and Shirt Cases,Trauks and Valises. nihiO,6m No. 1216 Chestnut Street- FOR SALE. BOTTLE MOULDS .— Bottle Honlds for Flint tuidb Green Glass. [apb•lnall C. SOISTBid.N ds SON, S. W. corner of York avenue and Noble street. ASTABLI,SIIAD IN 1840. A t ?, A great variety of Sun 'Um- Av s , .441 _.• brellaa. Fancy and Mourning Parasols, Sun-shades and Child ren's Parasols, at reduced prices, at HINCKLEY'S Old Stand 905 VINE St. ap9-Im* STOVES AND KEEkTEBEI. At THOMAS P. DIXON & BON% Late Andrews & Dixon, W4No. 1844 (THISTNUT street,- Phllade/phis. '. xi Opposite United states Min, LOW-DOWN. PARLOR. OHAMB OFFICE F,R, • , And other GRATES, 134sr Anthracite, Bituminous and Wood Fires. ALIA WARM-Aaßertrazums, For Warming Public and Private mcaisTEßsf-viawnwro as sxn 00 9 . yrkl RA nT 7Iq. r.a G A I T: YRA an -cIa's HT H RET -1113 1 - TrA. 41.1" ELATIN. T PIOCA AND BAGO.—Cox's Scotch , tx Gelatin, Itio tapioca and East India Pearl Bagnr landing and for eale by J: BUBBIE$• & ca,loB 8, Delaware Avenue :FRANCOIS RAVEL -ANTOINE R &VET, ..YOUR A MTrßratt,
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