'GIBSON MOCK. Editor
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*VOLUME XXL—IsTO. 22.4.
(From the Atlantic Monthly for Januaryl
WHO WIFE.
An Idyl of: Bearettrup Witter.
BY ..tOIEN VVIIITTIEItj
Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawnyincas in thelf 'garden grew,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden roil,
And •the red pennons of,the'eardinal-flowers
Rang motionless upon their upright staves.
The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind,
Wing-weary with its long flight from the South,
:Unfelt; yet closely scanned, yon maple leaf
With tautest motion, as One stirs in dreams,
Confesses it. The locust by the wall
/Stabs the noon-silence with his sharp alarm-
A single hay-cart down the dusty road
Crealm slowly. with4ts driver fast asleep
On the lead's top. Against the neighboring hill,
Huddled along the stone wall's shady side
Thd sheep show white,as if a snow-dri ft sti ll
Defied the dog • star . Through the open door
A drowsy smell of flowers—grey heliotrope,
And white sweet-clover and shy nsigmm
ette
Comes faintly in, and silent chorus /ends
To the pervading symphony of peace.
No time is this for hands long overgrown
To task their strength• and (unto Him be praiss \
Who giveth quietneas!) the dress and strain
Of years that did the work of centuries
Have ceased, and ,r , e can draw our breath ones
more,
Freely and lull .j So, as on harvesters
Make glad theiriteionin underneath the elms
'With tale and riddle an old snatch of song,
I lay aside grave themes, and idle play
With fancies borrowed em remembered hills
That beekoa to me from the cold blue North.
And yet not idly all. A farmer's eon,
Proust of field, lore and harvest-craft, and feeling
All their fine poisibllitles, while yet
Knowing too well the hard necessities
Of labor and privation, and the bare
And colorless realities of life
Without an atmosphere, I fain would see
The rugged outlines touched and glorified
With mellowing haft and golden-tinted mist.
Our yeoman should be equal to his home
Set in these fair green valleys, purple-walled—
A man to match his mountains, not a drudge
Dull as the clod he turns. fain would teach
In this light way the blind eyes to discern,
And the cold hearts to feel, in common things,
Beatitudes of beauty: and, meanwhile.
Pay somewhat of the mighty debt I owe
To 'Nature for her ministry of love
And life-long benediction. .With the rocks
And woods and mountain valleys which have
been
Solace in suffering, and exceedinggoy
In life's beet momenta, I would leave some sign,
When I am but a name and memory,
That I have loved them. Haply, in the years
That wait to take the placed of our own,
Whispered upon some breezy balcbny
Fronting the hills, or where the, lake in the moon
Sleeps dreaming of the mountain, fair as Ruth,
In the old Hebrew pastoral, at the feet
Of Boaz, even this little lay of mine
May lift some burden from a heavy heart,
Or make a light one lighter for its sake.
We held crur sidelln way above
.—Tbe river's whiten shallows,
By homesteads old, th wide-flung barns
Swept through and through by swallows—
By maple orchardis, belts of pine
And larches climbing darkly
The mountain slopes, and, over all,
The great peaks rising starkly.
You should have seen that long hill-range
With gaps of brightness rlitiP—
How through each paw and hollow streamed
The purpling lights of heaven.
Rivers of goldaist flowing down
From far celestial fountains,
The shorn sun dropping, large and low,
Behind the wall of mountains!
We drove before the farm-house door,
The farmer called to Mary;
Bare-armed, with Juno's step she came,
Whltc-aproned from her dairy.
Her air, her smile, her motions told
Of womanly completeness;
A music as of household songs
Was in her voice of sweetness.
An inborn grace that nothing lacked
Of culture or appliance,
The warmth of genial courtesy,
The calm of self-reliance.
&fore her queenly womanhood
How dared our landlord utter
The paltry errand of his need
To buy tier &at-churned butter ?
, She led the way with housewife pride,
Her goodly store disclosing,,
Full tenderly the golden balls
With snow-white hands disposing.
Then, while across the darkening hills
e watched the changeful glory
Of sunset on our homeward way,
The landlord told her story.
From, school and ball and route she came,
The city's fair, pale daughter,
To drink the wine of mountain air
Beside the Bearcamp Wiptcr.
Her step grew Armor oe the hills
That watch our homesteads over;
On cheek and lip, from summer fields,
She caught the bloom of clover. -
For health comes sparkling in the streame
From cool Chocorua stealing
There'sl Iron in our Northern Inds
Our pities are trees of healing. N.
'She sat beneath the broad-armed deli
ThaC skirt the mowing meadow,
And watched the gentle west-wind weave
The grass with shine and shadow.
Beside her, from the summer heat
To share hergrateltd screening,
With forehead bared, the farmer stciad,
Upon his pitchfork leaning.
Framed in its damp, dark locks, his face
Had nothing moan or common,—
.Strong, manly, true, the tenderness
.And pride beloved of woman.
She looked up, glowing with tho health
The country air had brought her
And laughing, said, "Yon lack a wife,
Your mother lacks a daughter.
"To mend your frock and bake your bread
You do not need a lady:
Be sure among these brown old homes
Is some one waiting ready,—
'Some fair, sweet girl, with skillful hand
And cheerful heart for treasure,
- Who never played with ivory keys,
Or danced the polka's measure."
Be bent his black brow to a frown,
He set his white teeth tightly,
4 "T is well," he said, "for one like you
To choose for me so lightly.
`You think, because,sny life Is rude,
-I take no note of sweetness,
tell yon love has nanght.to
With meetness or untneetness.
"Itself its best excuse, It aslig.
No leave of pride or fashion
When silken zone or homespun frock
It stirs with throbs of passion.
"You think me deaf and blind; you bring
Your winning graces hither
.Ati free as if from cradle•time
We two had played togethq.
"You tempt me with your laukhlug eyes :
your chacii; of eitudowll'a ipluehes,
A motion as of waving grain,
. musle.,as of thrushes.
. .
"The plaything of your Bummer sport,
The spells yon weave around me,
You can not at your will undo,
Nor leave me as you found me.
"You go'as ligittly as you came,
Your life Is well witfiout me•,
What care you that these hills will close
Like prison -walls about me 2.
"No mood la mine to seek a wife;
Or daughter for my mother;
Who loves you loses in that love
power to love another!
"I dare your pity or your acorn,
With pride your own exceeding;
I fling iny heart Into your lap
Without a word of pleading."
She looked up from the waving grass
8o archly, yet so tender
"And if I lend you mine," she said,
"Will you forgive the lender?
"Nor frock not tan can hide the man :
And see you not, my farmer,
Bow weak and fond a woman waits
Behind' Ms silken armor? •
"I love you : on that love alone,
And not ray worth, presuming,
Will, you not.trust for summer fruit
The tree In Mayday blooming ?"
Alone the hangbird overhead,
His hair-swung cradle straining,
Looked down to see love's allude,—
The giving that Is galnibg.
And so the fanner found a wife,
His mother found a daughter;
There looks no happier hotue than hers
On pleasant Beareamp Water.
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our bard, Stiff lines of life with her
' Are flowing curves of beauty.
Our hO'hieE are cheerier for her hake,
Our door-yards brighter bloominw,
And all about the social air
Is sweeter for her cowing.
We send the squire to General Court;
He takes kis young wife thither:
No prouder man Election-day
Hides through the sweet June weather
Bo spake our landlord as we drove
Beneath the deep hill-shadows,
Below us wreaths of white fog walked
Like ghosts the haunted meadows.
Sounding the summer night, the stars
Dropped down their golden plummets;
The pale arch of the Northern ,Lights,
Rose o'er the mountain summits;
Until, at last, beneath its brilge,
We heard the Beareamp flowing,
And saw across the mapled lawn,
The welcome inn-lights glowing
And musing on the landlord's tale,
T were well, thought I, if often
To rugged farm-life came the gift
To harmonize and soften;—
If more and More we found the troth
Of tact and fancy plighted,
And culture's charm and labor's strength.
In theso hill-homes united--
The simple life, the homely hearth,
With bOttity's sphere surrounding,
And blessing toil where toil abounds
With graces more abounding% •
SASS
Correspondence of the Phfladelphta Evening Bulletin.
310tintARTRE.
In trying to grasp at one view a whole city,
you seek its hills. • At Paris, it you are in the
eastern part, you mount the uplands beside
Vincennes; if towards the north, you place your
self where the winds arrive to twist the creaking
mills, on the gypsum cliffs of Montmartre. Then,
the hurrying streets, reduced to caravans of ants,
are all beneath you. Whither are these light
multitudes flocking? They are hastening to
where you stand; for you are standing among
the graves.
Whether from Montnimire or Pere Lachaiss,
as your eye wanders over the pale-yellow city
with its gilded spires, you have an impulse to
say, come up hither, all you graceful, wise and
musical metropolis, and lie down beside me.
To a man who is a 'tourist, particularly, these
names, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Piro La
chaise, suggest his surest inn, his most reliable
hospitality, the only doors he is certain will open
to him. What was the motto written for the
necropolis of Canon? 0 traveler, -here is where
you must get down!
Last Saturday, being the Bth of this December,
I took the occasion of some funeral obsequies to
the poet Wry to examine for the first time the
pale marbles of Montmartre, written over with
so many names that are yet living in the world's
ear. It is not my purpose to describe at any
length the ceremonial accorded to Mdry. A poor
man of letters, who came up years ago from the
warm and noisy streets of Marseilles to try his
harp in the Paris salons, the poems he chanted
and the fame he won are too exclusively French
to awaken any interest across the Sea. They
dedicated s statue, a bronze Muse of heroic
height, who holds her harp suspended while
she lays her hand upon the works of the
poet, the Napoleon in Egypt, the How.,
the War of the Nizam, the Florid.
A hundred friends of the departed
—friends hardly won, I suppose, among the
Jealous literary ranks in a strange and cold city—
stood around the tomb and watched the poet's
medallion head, while a Parifloumalist,George's
Bell, pronounced the eulogy. After that, as
second orator, a Marseillakr, -paid a short tribute
of regret : and friendship to his compatriot, and
laid a wreath over the name, while his cheeks
were wet with teare. Then the little group dis
persed, each . leaving on departure such a fare
well token' as he thought meet. An employei,
loaded down with everlisting flowers, held a
wreath to each person who wished to - share in
adorning the monurnent,while for the less roman
tic and more orthodox, a priest stood ready with
a pupillon or holy-water brush, that any who
chose might bedew the grave with the consecra
ted tears of the church. Soon all' were gone,
and Durand's dark muse remained- alone to
weep over the laurel-heaped poetic clay. It was
not an imposing occasion, but it was decent and
respectful, and showed how gracefully the
French genius adapts itself to the requirements
of any pageant, even a modest one l It seemed
to me that the heart of the stranger minstrel
might, have warmed a little, even under that cold
earth, to find that he had come to Paris and
gained a hundred friends' who would visit
him after he had ceased to entertain them. •
To approach the cemetery I left the Boulevard
de Cilehy by a short avenue,eompletely bordered
with shops for the sale of tributes, to the dead.
You are familiar with something of this kind in
the,approach to Greenwood. At either necropo
lie the Mettrtter. 18 InoUlted by the cry of VA
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 28 ; 1867.-TRIPLE SHEET.
tradesman, making ghastly merchandise at the
very temple of his grief.
—Monsieur, models of tombs of every caprice,
the last expression of novelty and taste—deign to
throw your eye over these. All these samples are
our own exclusive patent.. Accept our address,
at The Inconsolable Widow, Avenue •
But, among these heaps of; abominable booty,
Paris offers an itcticle that is not yet fully com
prehended in America. This is the iminortellet
or memorial wreath, not fleece= U made of the
crisp yellow or black flower t!hichArtive it the
name, but of feathers, of fringed thline, , of beads,
of artificial pennies, or of stamped-lion. tome
Parisians are very thrifty irt their grief, and the
keen shopnaan recommends fo you a wreath that
is warranted to last with little change from one
Fite des Morts to the next. As I approached the
gate I was the object of great attention from
these speculators in piety. Happening to be
rather soberly dressed, and sufficiently like
vault proprietor, no one doubted that I wished to
hung my arms with garlands.
This, Monsieur, is especially chaste. The
. wreath is made of Italian laurels and Day, and
the circular space inside is tilled with a mirror,
against which reposes (!) alovely crucifix in bis
cuit.
Another, a rather stately woman-merehant in
black velvet, confidently displayed a kind of dark
porter's pad, set with silver letters : Ma.• Thais,
ma Phryne, ma vie, man time! •
The rich mourner purchases costly flowers, or
long chains formed of interiosked wreaths, with
which a whole mausoleum may be garlanded.
The wretchedly poor, for the husband or first
born who Iles undistinguishablo in the common
foam, pays a few sous for a black stuffed ring
wound round with a spiral of silver thread. Boon
after entering I '
saw a poor woman kneeling
upon the steps of the great cross that rises from
an intersection of the principal alley.. The
pedestal was a green hill of wreaths, cast there
in memory of these poor nameless dead, and this
old mourner was dismally weeping over a wreath
she had just added to, the heap, studded with the
name, in black immortelles:, Victor. Victor! The
triumphal appellation unexpectedly reminded Me
of the early Christian epitaphs of Roman mu
seums, where you sometinust see it stated that
the flown soul had conquered on the calends or
ides of such a month.
I have no quarrel with, the customary French
everlasting flower. It is not graceful, but it is
become clasele,and has acquired a certain funereal
perfume that every one recognizes. But to Imi
tate it with beads or velvet or any substitute
chosen because it is imperishable, or, what is
constantly seed on'the wealthier tombs, to erect
a little glass shed expressly to keep it from the
weather, is pitiful and almost comical. If flowers
en a grave Intend anything, they intend that then
fragilty shall be renewed whenever needful. The
forlorn pride of grief is that its sweets shall be
ephemeral, IteStrewments vbglind, but replaced
oftener than the dew.. _ The strength of the burial
flower is in its nothingness. How then if you
set your wits to economize, and invent an iron
rose, or preserve your immortelles like peaches
in glass?
However, Baron Helmsman, whose ambition
has ramie hisa.a little cynical, and who wants to
sweep all the city graveyards into some grand
and distant repository, has calculated the date of
tears, very much as Buckle would have done had
he thought of it. The Prefect of the Seine tells
us that no tomb is visited after it is forty years
old. ENFANT PEIIDU.
'For the Philadelphia Evening Bonet/33J
The Burial Place of the Whittier
FILM fly.
Among the spots I love to visit above al
others, is the little Friends' Burying Ground, in
Amesbury, Massachusetts, where lie my ances
trial kin, and honored parents, and the ashes of
the beloved Whittier family. Here the great
Poet will, in the Lord'S own good time, in al.
probability, add another mound to the family in
terment, which will be a spot of intense and
sacred interest to succeeding generations
to visit and re-visit, to behold
where the dust lies of him who has stirred mil
lions to tune the praise of liberty. • In the family
lot, with its low tombstone, marks the spot
where the youngest sister. Elizabeth H. Whittier
lies interred—died 9th mo. 3d, 1864, aged 48
years. She was tenderly beloved by her brother,
and she was sweetly united to him in sisterly
affection and sympathy. The adjoining grave is
that of the eldest sister, Mary W. Caldwell, who
died Ist mo. 7th, 1861, aged 54 years.
The next interment is the beloved mother, who
departed this life 12th. month 27th, 1857, a de
voted Christian woman, and much attached to
the Society of Friends, of which she was a long
consistent member. The fourth grave Is that of
the honored father, a consistent Friend,and much
beloved by his neighbors and citizens generally.
He was much in the hearts of his townsmen, as
he had their entire confidence as a truly honest
man.
Moses Whittier is the nest in the list of graves
He was uncle to the poet, on his father's side
He died First month 23d, 1824, aged 69 years.
The next interment is that of the beloved Aunt
Mercer E. Hussey, who departed this life Fourth
month 14th, 1846, aged 63 years. She entered
largely into the family-circle as a co-worker in
every good thing. Her n9ine will add no stain
upon the great
..poct's fame; its significance
has been truly known to many. The poet's allu
sion to this aunt, in his "Snow-Bound," is
most touching:
"Next the dear Aunt, whose smile of cheer
And voice in dreams I see and hear—
The sweetest woman ever-Fate
Perverse denied a household mato ;
Who, lonely, homeless, not the less
Found peace in Love's unselfishness,
And welcome wheresoe'er she went,
A calm and gracious element,
Whose presence seemed the sweet income,
And womanly atmosphere of home."
E. M. H.
Scum 4AEDEN INSTITUTE, 12th mo. 26, 1867
SONG.
Rich notes from a contralto vgicc
Loving, latighing.eyes,
Some one list ping to those notes—.
Sunlight in the skies.
Sad notes from a contralto voice,
Tear-drops in the eyes,
None to listen to those notes—
Twilight in the skies..
No sound from that contralto voice,
Closed for aye those eyes,
Some one pinin for those notes—
Darkness in the
skies.
Glad notes from a contralto voice,
Glory in those eyes,
Some one dreaming bears these notes—
Dawn lain the skes.
Moil:eau,' in► Dublin Universilg Magazine
—A stuttering gentionitm lately went to hear 4
well-known lecturer, and ,vrstfi, Pleased,
He remarked afterwards,' as One° Of tlio
attention of the audience: "It was (3?'
3 1 Q 1 A eQ4ld P-P-Pleked uy
OUR. WI -MIX COUNTRY
January.
1. President Johnson held, the usual levee at
the White Howse.
• The Legislature of Pennsylvania convened.
Napoleon deliveredhis New Year's speech to
the Diplomatic Corps at the Tuileries. It was of
a pacific character.
2. The Anniversary of President Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated gene
rally throughout the Northern States.
Financial panic in Havanaded. A lumber
of Fenians were arrested in Mfast, Ireland.
3. French official journals promise the evacua
tion of Mexico on the first of March. An extra
ordinary session of the Austrian Reichsrath is
convena, to give Hungary a constitution.
Theltalian Party of Action call for a movement
to annex Rome to Italy. An amendment to the
uonstitution of Ohio is introduced, giving women
and negroes the elective franchise. It will be of
fered'to the people at the next election.
4. England is visited by the heaviest snow
storm known tor many years. Congress de
prived the President of the power to kettle a
general amnesty.
5. The President vetoes the bill giving suffrage
to the negroes of the District of Columbia.
7. The President Is .asked to give Spangler,
Booth's accomplice, a new trial. ' Mr. Ashley, of
Ohio, to-day charged President Johnson, in the
House of Representatives, with high crimes and
misdemeanors; preferring enlace against him.
The matter was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
8. It is announced that the British government
has asked whether the United States will submit
the Alabama claims to arbitration. The anniver
sary of the battle of New Orleans is celebrated in
various portions of the United States. The Dis
trict of Columbia Suffrage bill is passed in both
Houses of Congress over the President's veto.
9. Tke President sent to Congress a list of the
rebels pardoned by him'.
11. The Freedmen's Bureau is informed of ter
rible outrages perpetrated upon negroes in Texas.
French and English journals contain excited
articles upon the threatened impeachment of tke
President. •
The Equal Rights League met in Washington
to-day.
12. The Turkish government calls for 150000
Men to
_quellthe nsurreutlon, in Crete. Grid
baldi is said' to Eta' i vii Tone to the Lsiand of Ca
prem. Gen. Crook defeats a large body of In
dians in Idaho.
14. The majority of the Judges of the U. S.
Supreme Court declare the test oath to be un
constitutional.
A committee of physicians appointed to ex
amine the murderer Newton Champion, declare
him insane.
The President nominates Ex-Senator Cowan
Minister to Austria, rice Motley, resigned.
15. General John W. Geary waft inaugurated
Governor of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg,to-day.
He made a lengthy address, reviewing Pennsyl
vania's record during the war, and promising
improvements in her various institutions during
his ajministration.
Advices received of a panic in Hong Kong.
Judge Wylie, of Maryland, remands two run
away negro boys to the custody of their master.
Hon. Simon Cameron was to-day elected U. 8.
Senator from Pennsylvania.
16. A Fenian convicted in Canada. Large fire
at. Elmira, V. Y.
17. Intense cold throughout the country.' Ad
vices from Mexico show affairs to be unintelli
gibly mixed. It appears, however, that a com
bined attack upon the French by the yuarlsts is
about to be made. In Congress to-day, Senator
Sumner declared it to be the duty of Congress to
defend the people from the assaults of the
President.
18. The Conservatory of the White House in
Washington was to-day destroyed by fire, with
many rare and valuable plants. Terrible •snow
storms through the northern States.
19. The Senate Committee recommend the pas
sage of the bill establishing a navy yard at
League Island.
Bread riots in Liverpool, England, to-day.
2L — Advices from Mexico declare that the capital
is entirely surrounded by the Juarist forces.
Napoleon issues a decree regulating the trial of
offending editors, and discontinuing , the address
of the Chambers to the throne. Another battle
in Crete, in which the Turks arc defeated.]
The Crosby Opera HOll3O lottery was drawn
to-day in Chicago. Mr. A. H. Lee, of Illinois,
was the winner.
The railroads all over the country are blockaded
with snow and much damage has been done.
22. Mexican advices state that the city of San
Luis Potosi has been occupied by the Liberal
forces
The thanks of the Cretans for expressions of
American sympathy have been received.
The German Duchies have been formally an
nexed to the Germanic Confederation.
23. East River, New York, is so filled with ice
that thousands walk across it to Brooklyn.
Mr. Bontwell's bill prohibiting rebels from
practising in the Supreme Court-passed in Con
gress to-day.
24. 71,500 head; of cattle have perished in.
Holland this winter, from the rinderpest.
Maximilian has returned to Mexico city. The
French troops are beginning to evacuate the
country.
The Spanish Government asks the United
States to mediate in her quarrel in South America.
The British Government accepts the plan of
fered for the formation of a Dominion, from the
British Provinces of North America.
25. Gold is discovered In Minnesota.
Four Fontana have been acqUittedin Toronto,
Canada, and one convicted.
28. e, the winner of the Crosby Opera House
sells it to Crokby for $200,000.
Enormous fh,nds have been discovered in the
Treasury Printhig Department, and an investiga
tion is to be made.
The President vetoes the bill for the admission
of Colorado as a State. - He denies the suffi
ciency of the population.
The evacuation of the etty of Mexico by the
French was' completed to-day.
29. Mexican advices tell of the execution of en
American Consul at Mazatlan by the Mexicans.
The commander of a United States gunboat off
the town demanded the punishment of the men
who did the deed, and upon tieing , olfused, bom
barded the town for eight hours.
President Allmon vetoes the bill adraittint
Nebraska as a State.
30. European &dykes say that Maximilian has
issued a protest against tile agreament of France
to withdraw from Mexico.
Indian troubles .in the West ave increasing.
Forts Phil. Kearney, Berm and Smith are in a
state of seige.
ill. Juarez is received with acclamations and
entimalasm wherever he appears in Mexico.
South American adviees tell 'of' the usual, incom
prehensible disturbances in, the different States.
Vebruary.
TIIO rrcrij,d,OlAt ifigNILA kktOCIAMP.MIX reigittrq
THE YEAR.
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1867
WAR ON EVERY CONTINENT.
President's Quarrel with Congress
- ''Year,, of the Vetoes.
Accident, Incident, Crime, Legisla
Lion, Shipwreck, Diplomacy,
• Disaster and Death,
&c., &c.
to duties on Hawaiian imports. Ho sends to
Congress a report of his removals from office.
1,500 -Greeks left Athens to-day, to aid the
Cretans.
2. A Commission is appointed to investigate
the Fort Phil. Kearney massacre. It is ascer
tained that 3 officers and 90 men were killed.
Minister Romero asserts that the story of the
bombardment of Mazatlan is false.
Serious labor riots are occurring in France.
Prince Napoleon received Gen. Dix at the Pe
tals Royal.
4. An individual named McCracken has written
from Europe, giving the names of our Ministers
and Consuls whom, he asserts, have spoken dis
respectfully of Mr. Johnson's administration. -
To•day the Grand Jury of Washington indicted
John H. tdurratt for aiding in the murder of Pre
sident Lincoln.
The English Parliament was opened by the
Queen to-day.
5. A United States gunboat has just returned
from the West Indies, with Assistant Secretary
Seward, who, it is understood, has been negoti
ating for the purchase of one or more islands.
The ice in the Potomac broke up last night and
carried away a portion of the Long Bridge.
L. W. Jerome, of New York, is robbed of
$lOO,OOO.
The case of Sanford Conover charged with
perjuyi was called up in the Washington
Court to-day.
6. The Tennessee Legislature requests Senator
Patterson to resign.
Jacob F. Hadopp was executed at Norristown
to-day. •
Southern and Western- England have been
visited by a terrible Eton&
Nevada asks Congress to give it jurisdiction
over Utah.
7. The Ways and Means Committee. in
Congress . to-day reported the Tax Bill. It
exempts one thousand dollars from the
income tax. Mr. Stevens, of Penn
sylvania, to-day had under'-discussion in Con
gress his bill declaring the ten rebel States sim
ple territories. A fierce debate took place. Mr.
George. Peabody gives one million dollars for
educational purposes in the South. •
8. Destructive fire in Baltimore. $200,000
worth of property destroyed.
The French and Belgium troops are rapidly
leaving Vera Cruz for Europe.
9. The Legislature of Wisconsin ratifies the
Constitutional Amendment.
Minister Burton has had a difficulty with Presi
dent Mosqnera of - Colombia, and has left Bogota.
A disastrous fire, involving a loss of $1,000,000,
_occurs in Mobile, Ala.
11. The Committee appointed to investigate
the New Orleans massacre reported to-day to
Congress.
An immense reform demonstration, the largest
ever known in England, took place ticitsy v ia
London.
Alfred Teufel was convicted of murder at Day
lestown, Pa., to-day.
Mr. Eliot's Reconstruction Bill for the State
of Louisiana passed the House to-day.
12. A heaVy freshet is announced 'in the Sus
quehanna river.
The Senate Foreign Committee to-day de
cided to report against Mr. Cowan's confirma
tion as Minister to Austria.
The Italian Cabinet have all resigned.
13. An immense Indian pow-wow is being held
on the plains to decide upon levying war upon
the whites.
A rebellion has broken out in Paraguay.
• 14. - Minister Campbell to-day informed the Pre
sident that he is unable to find any legitimate
government in Mexico. A large body of Fenians
In Ireland to-day appeared near Dublin. •
League Island was today accepted by Congress
ite.o.-stretor thttlo-yard::: •
15. There has been a conflict between a body of
Fenians and the Irish police at Killarney.
An earthquake destrOyed every town upon the
Island of Cephalonia.
18. The U. S. steamer &waters arrived at Wash
ington, yesterday, with John H. Surratt on
board.
The Tennessee Senate has conferred the right
of suffrage on the negroes.
• Advices from Mexico stab_ that Miramon has
been totally routedand Lim the &Lariats are
everywhere triumphant.
19. A convocation of clergymen was held to-day
in Reading, to discuss the propriety of forming
an additional diocese in Pennsylvania.
The President gave a State dinner yesterday at
the White House.
20. The Fenian excitement and Fenian arrests
still continue in Ireland.
22. Washington's birthday was generally cele
brated throughout the country.
23. The now Tax Bill passed in the Senate to
day.
A large number of officers who were in the
United States army and left unsettled accounts
when they joined the rebels, have applied for
their back pay. The Senate has just passed a bill
refusing all such applications.
25. The first session of the new German Par
liament v,as formally opened by the King of
Prussia on Saturday.
California has been visited by a terrible snow
storm.
A municipal election was held In Georgetown,
D. C. to-day, at which negroes voted for the first
time.
26. A large number of the bishops of the Epis
copal Church have issued a "declaration" against
Ritualism.
Governor Brownlow of-Tennessee issues a pro
clamation calling out the militia to protect the
laws.
The Reform resolutions were introduced in the
English Rouse of Commons yesterday, and sup
ported by Mr. D'lsraeli.
27. The privileges of the writ of habeas ecapas
have been suspended for three - months longer.
A prominent Fenian, McCafferty, was arrested
in Dublin to-day. .-
The difficulty between Mr. Burton and the Pre
sident of Colombia has been arranged.
King William of Prussia is announced- as Em
peror of Germany.
Congress to-day appropriated $66,000 for the
Philadelphia Naval Asylum, and $86,000 for the
Philadelphia Navy Yard.
28. The English Government has withdrawn
its reform resolutions,and promised to lay before
Parliament a regular reform bill.
1. The President issues a proclamation declar
ing Nebraska a State of the Union. The Senate
tiles to pass the bill admitting Colorado over
the President's veto, but falls. Vote—yeas 29,
nays 19. .7
1. The President vetoes the Military Recon
struction Bill for the government of the rebel
Stites. The Senate, by a vote 0138 to 10,and the
House by 185 to 48, pass the bill over his veto.
The President also returns with his veto the
Tenure of Office Bill, which the House immedi
ately passes over his veto by a vote of 131 to 87,
and the Senate by 35 to 10.
4. Meeting of the Fortieth Congress in Wash
ington. Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, is
elected President of the Senate; Hon. Schuyler
Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker of the House:
5. A general uprising of the Fenian organiza
tions in Ireland takes place. Several attacks aro
made upon garrisoned towns and police bar
racks. Several lives are lost, and the utmost
excitement prevailed throughout the country.
Drogheda barracks, Crerysfoo ,t Talaght, near
Dublin, Castle Martyr and Kilmarnock, in
Limerick;, are among the places attacked.
6. An earthquake occurs in Mytilene, Greece,
overthrowing a great many buildingsoand
tug 1,500 persons.
Very heavy inundations take place in Ken
tucky; houses, balms, bridges, lumber, crops,
&c., aro carrie off. The loss amounts to many
million dollars.
7. An accident occurs id New Hampshire, on
the Coneord anti Manchester Railroad. One man
is killed and several wounded. -
11: Au accident occurred on the New York
and Harlem River Railroad. Cars seVerely
smashed but no lives loa
n- PrekklentGeffrard,of Hayti,sends in his re
signation and leaves for Jamaica in a French
rean-of-war. Salnave is his successor.
Severe floods in the Ohio destroying a large
amount ofproperty.
Steamer Mercury sunk in ArkansaS river; ions
*60,000.
March.
V. L. FETHERSTON. Palifielim
PRICE THREE. CENTS.
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14. Destructive fire in . 4100,000
worth of property, Aestroyed. The t Presddent
yesterday appointed the following commanders
for the Military Districts, in accordanee.With the
provisions of the Reconstruction OM; ~-.l3rvt.
Maj.-(leta. Schofield, Firat District State of Va.;
Maj.-Gen. Stales, Second District, North and
South Carolina; Mai , -Gen , Q. R. Thomas !Third
District, Georgia, Florida and Alabaml; „ROL
Mai.-Gen. Ord, Fourth; District, Mississipptattd
Arkansas; Maj.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan Fifth, Dla
trict, Louslana and Texas : ,Maj,-(l.;an. Thomas
declining, Maj.-Gen. Pope was appohited to the
Third District, Gen. Thomas remaining in, com
mand et Department of Cumberland. •
15. Railroad , collision on the Pittabingis and
Steubenville Railroad, in which tine num its killed
and eight severely wounded. The accident ; sm
eared near New Brighton, Ohio, Colilskse;thkea
place on the Erie Railroad, near Liberty. , Slotte •
man is killed.
16'. A fire in Albany, Georgia, destroys 'PO.-
000 of stores and their contents. Jim in Mem
phis, Tenn. Loss $150,000.
20. The Senate of Massachusetts followed the
example of the House in ratifying - the Constitu
tional .Amendment. Steamer Borate, Aim Clyde
to Boston, sunk at sea. ,
22. Immense fire, in New York, destroying the
Winter Garden Theatre, with part of Southern
Hotel. - Mr. Edwin Booth losea a portion of his
wardrobe. Total loss $350,000.
Collision on Great Western Railroad, near
Woodstock. Two men killed 'and a large num
ber wounded.
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President vetoes the "PP .Re
construction BBL Bill passed over his vetoby
Congress. Senate, vote 40 to 7; House, 114 to 25.
25. The Foreign Secretary of Partway, Senor
Jose Berger, writes to Minister C. A. Washburn,
declining the offer of the United States , for me
diate between Paraguay, Brazil and the Argen
tine Republic.
27. General Sheridan, commanding the Fifth.
District, removes Mayor Monroe, of New Or
leans; Andrew S. Herron, Attorney-General of
Louisiana; and Edmund Abell, Judge of First
District. They were all implicated in the , riots
in New Orleans, in 1866.
Train ran off the track on Erie Railroad, near
Mount Hope.. One man killed and several se
verely wounded.
28. Steamer Ceres is burned at New York. Loss
580,000.
29. Great Ilre in New York. Volherting's saw
mill destroyed. Loss $lOO,OOO.
30. To-day the -largest hotel on the continent,
the Lindell House, in St. Louls,was bUrnetito the
ground. Loss $1,600,000. • -
The President sends to Congress a treaty with
Russia, ceding to the United States, for the sum
of $7,200,000, the whole of Russian America.
Congress adjourned until the first Wednesdaylur
July; if a quorum is• not present at that time, .
then until the first Monday in December. .The
English government sends to Spain a :demand
for redress in the cases of •the steamers Tornado
and Victoria,seized by Spain RS-property of Peru.
April.
1. Emperor Napoleon opens the Industrial Ex
position of all nations In Part with Imposing
ceremonies. ,
Connecticut holds an election. Jaynes A, Eng
lish„ the Democratic Governor is elected by a vote
of 47,565, against 46,578., for . J. Hawley, the
Republican candidate. Three Demetratk and
one Republican Congressmen are: elected.
8. A terrible explosion takes place_ at Bright
Hope Colliery, Clover Hill, Chesterfield coUnty,
Va. Sixty-nine mthera Eire Instantly abet
the mine kindled into almost inextinguishable
' flames: ~1 •1
6. The Austrian Minister, Cottnt Wydeuhnick,
sake Mr. &maul to hog. Juarez le-esve.-the-iffe
of Maximilian, the Austrian pretender to the
Mexican throne, If he is captured, as it la ex
pected he Will be. He desires to have Max
treated as a prisoner of war. Hon. Lewis D.
Campbell; Minister to Mexico, transmitted: from
New Orleans to Juarez the above request front
Secretary Seward.
8. Financial circles In Europe are greatly
perturbed over rumors of war between Prussia
and France upon the question of the occupancy
of the Ducby of Luxemburg, now held by.. Pru
ssia.
A train is thrown off of the track at Wells Sta
tion, on the Pennsylvania Central railroad, in
consequence of obstructions having been placed
on the track. Nobody killed, bat three persona
were Injured.
9. Tho U. S. Senate ratifies the treaty with
Russia for the purchase of Russian America,
11. A distillery is burned in Cincinnati, involv
ing a loss of $ 3 00,000-
12. An explosion takes place in a mine at Ban
croft slope, Schuylkill county, Pa.; twelve - oth°
miners aro instantly killed. Fire in Chicago; a
bookstore burned, Involving a lose of $l5O.
15. In the U. S. Supreme Court to-day the
filing of a bill on behalf of the State of Missis
sippi,praying for an injunction to restrain Presi
dent Johnson, General Grant and General Ord
from executing the Reconetruction law, was
refused.
16. The court-martial which has tried Admiral
Persano, of the Italian navy, for incapacity and
cowardice at the battle at Lissa, with the Austrians,
has sentenced him to be cashiered and dismissed
from the service.
17. The Chilean Voreigia Secretary, Senor
Covarrubla, writes to Minister Kilpatrick, de
clining the oiler:of the United States to mediate
in the war between =Child Peru_ and —The
new Constitution of Germany is adopted at Ber
lin, against tho protest of the Polish membbrs.
Spain yields to the demands of England in the
case of the steamer Victoria only.
18. A lire breaks out in a cotton warehouse in
Savannah, and destroys $lOO,OOO worth of pro
perty. A fire at Pomeroy, Ohio, destroys seve
ral buildings, valued at $150,000-
19. A battle takes place between a company-of
U. S. soldiers and a largo number of Cheyenne
Indians, at Cimerono Landing, in which six of
the Indians are killed. Car on the Erie Railroad
at Chemung Station takes fire, and causes a loss
of $30,000.
20. President Mosquera, of the United States
of Colombia, forcibly arrests the members of
Congress, dissolves it, declares himself dietater,
imprisons the President of the State of Oandina
marca, and conducts< himself geney. In a
most outrageous style. A grain elevator in Buf
falo, N. Y., valued at $200,000, is destroyed by
tire.
22. Petroleum Centre, Pa., gets up a first-class
conflagration and the larger portion of ,the;
town iiburned to,ashes.
23. An embassy sent by. the Tycoon of - .rapist
to the United States lands in New York City.
24. The Cosmtipolitan Hotel, in San Primates
is burned; loss $200,000.
26. An arrangement is entered "into between
General Marquez, the Mexican Imperialist, Gene
ral, and the Juarist General Benavides, w,kict is
besieging the City of Mexico, : by. which Mmi-
Anstro-Belgian troops are permitted to
go peaceably and joyfully home again.
the Brazilian Minister of State unwisely de-'
dines the proffered mediation of the United
States.
27. Queen Victoria having pleaded for a general
European Conference, for the purpose of eet
tling the Luxemburg dispute, Prussia agrees that
it shall be held in London, provided Francesloes
not enlarge her boundaries; that Luxeinbum is
evacuated and xlismantied; that the staturor the
Duchy is to be liked by the Conference. and that •
all the governments participating abide by the
decision of the Conference.
29. An attack is made by the:lmperialists In
Queretaro, Mexico, upon General Escobedio's be
sieging force. < At first the attacking partpt *as
successful, but finally was repulsed and drilitn.
into the town with great slaughter.
A Are occurred yesterday In Charlesten, is
which several stores were burned, hwelvlng
loss of $150,000.
To-day Senor De Tojada, 'Joann's Foreign
Secretary, in replying to Minister Campbell's in
tercession in behalf of Maximilian, accused...Nl=
of inhuman cruelties to Liberal prisonertk , :of
murderieg them in cold blood and of continift
the war at a fearful sacrifice o f life when ailhope
of success is gone. lie says that persoult,wrio
may be captured with the responsibliityfor ail
this on them , cannot claim the Jprivileges of pi.
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