TATEIN ESS NOT ICE'.
IStirldrafirlilleotary Cures COMemsespelOM•
pla J. If: Siberia. preprieber of Ochenek's Minorite
"PIM Seaweed Tonic, and Mandrake PAU% more than
Itarts 4 ae Years ago, was supposed to be in • dill* eon.
liil4ll9.llt.sikcere being pulmonary consumPtlon, Which
bad Proeteded, as his Merl& and physicians believed, to
fie very lastatage. No one thought it poseiblo that be
scald live two menthe, When lie , began to use the Byrne
Welch new-bests his mime. The result was moat &stem
Stan& Ile 'speedily recovered his health; and now, after
---' ll l4obirse Ma -quarter of a century. his constitution ay
paean to he as sound al if - h - ohad never experienceda
(
' , flare sickness in his life.' Ile is not only healthy. but
earpalent, weighing considerably more than two hundred
peasida lb ban since prescribed , the same medicine to
*bastards of consumptive patients, and much the greater
*umber of them have recovered in like manner. Dr. 8..
Drees Observed that liver complaint and dyspepsia are
often concomitants of pulmonary disease. and that
gber not unfrequentlYproduce it. has invented two other
wassissiami, adapted to p cases in which conaumption In
seseplicated with disorders of the stomach and liver.
These auxiliary remedies are the Seaweed Tonic and
Mandrake Pills, the first of which strengthens the coneti.
Illation of the patient, and greatly improves the power of
el,ogstkm, and the latter removes all obstrnotione from
Vetiver, and restores it to a state of healthy activity.
Dr.'llehenck is professionally at his principal office, No.
$ North Sixth street, corner Commerce. Philadelphia,
every Satutdas , where all lettere for advice meet be ad-
Sassed.
Be is aleo professionally at 'No. 39 Bend street, Now
link, every Tuesday, and at Ne. 35 Hanover street, Boe.
Um, every Wednesday. Ire gives advice free, but for a
Sirongh miaridnation With ids Reioirometer, the
peke is 115. Office hour's at each city from 9 A. M to
VS.'S
Poise of the Pnbnonic Syrup and Seaweed Tonle, each.
ell SO per bottle, or 17 60 shelf dozen. Mandrake . Pills
SS sate per box. A frill supply - pi Dr, Belionek's Medi
nines for sale at all times at his home.
Abe, SY all druggists and dealers. It
6444; MEYER'S NEWLY IMPROVED CRES
CENT KALE
- , OVERSTRUNG PIANOS,
SElodged to be the beet. London Prize Medal and
Awards in America received. MELODEONS
ND HAND PIANOS.
Wien IF witin Wareroome. 7/2 Arch at..beL Eighth.
EVENING BULLETIN.
Saturday, March 28, 1869.
Ni lo JOHNSONIS PZKPLEXITY.
When the reckless Don Ceesar De Banns
was sentenced to death for taking part in a
dttel, he was much perplexed to know how
to pass the two hours which were to inter
vene between his sentence and his execution.
The first thought that occurred to him was to
send for a confessor and unburden his con
science;,but he dismissed that idea with the
remark that two years would not be sufficient
Ibr the task and it was not worth while for
him to make so small a beginning. Then he
thought of making his will; but he protested
that two minutes would be time enough for
that, and so he still found himself with two
hours hanging heavy upon his hands. Finally
be concluded to make a compromise between
contrition for the past and provision for the
future by getting gloriously tipsy in the
present
Mr. Andrew Johnsen, in his various de
mands for time in the course of
the impeachment trial, constantly brings
to mind the case of the eccentric Don.
Mrs% he wanted forty days in which to . pre
pare-his answer to the Articles of Impeach
ment. The Senate gave him tat days, and
Sea minutes would have been sufficient; for
all he enbstantially says is : "I didn't do any-
Miing of the kind ; and what if 1 did ? I had
a right to, do it!" Any scolding fish-wife
would get up the substance of such an =-
ewer, and also put in a characteristic Johnso
trim rejoinder to the replication of the Mane
aters'of the Impeachment inside of ten min
utes. The last demand of the Great Im
peached was for thirty days in which to pre
pare for trial. The Senate gave him five
days, and now, that he has secured it, the time
must hang as heavy upon his hands as the
two hours of Don Queer rested upon his.
How will he employ the _time? In making
a confesaion of his official sins of
commission and omission, or in the attempt
to get up a sufficient defence? Five months
would not suffice for that. Would he make
his official will? That would be a needless task)
for the Senate will arrange all that for him
by promptly relieving him of all further pre
sidential cares.and giving him permission to
retire to Tennessee. Five minutes would
have found idtanbery et at as well prepared
as five days will find them ready to make a
&knee where there is no ground for defence,
and where certain conviction and well
merited punishment are foregone conclu
sions.
Perhaps, upon the whole, it would be as
well for the doomed President to kill his few
remaining days as Don Cmsar De Bszan killed
his heavykanging time. We would be sorry to
recommend it; but unless his Aaeldency is
very much bglied he will need no hint as to
how to tide hlmself over present perplexities.
Sailors are prone to attack the spirit room
when the ship is about going down. Mr.
Johnson had the same propensity when the
presidential craft was under full head of sail.
Wow that Its masts are gone, its rudder un
shipped and the leaks are gaining fast upon
the cow, it would be no subject for wonder
If the soon-to-be-deposed ---p Per would
hollow the example of so many of his un
derlings in the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, who have sought and found comfort
among the illicit brewers of rye and mo
lames.
TILE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
Every one should read the argument of the
Bon. Wm. M. Meredith, delivered on
Wednesday last, in the case of the contested
election in the Fourth Ward. It is brief, but
admirably to the point. Stripping the case
of all details, and resting it upon the clearly
recognized precedents of this very Court, he
demands the rejection of the election divisiona
where these gross frauds were perpetrated.
He sums up those frauds in a few graphic
sentences, condensing the elaborate ar
gument of Mr. Mann into a crystalized form,
and leaving the case in the hands of the Court
as a demand for protection and justice in the
name of the whole community. He asserts,
what' is undoubtedly true, that all decent
men of all parties desire and demand
that the ballot-box shall be kept
pure. There can be no doubt that it has been
dragged down to the lowest depths of degra
dation by the, politicians of the Eourth-Ward,
and if they should escape the condemnation of
the law now, there is little nse of attempting
to keep the ballot box pure anywhere in Phil
adelphia. The corruption of that infected
district must spread its poisonous influences
xnpidlp lrrem one Ward to another. What is
sow done so easily in.the Fourth Ward will
sawn c e si to be diffieult in any other, and
•
th e Cola* •themeelves will, ere long, come
ander the fatalrpower of this political demor
, a jk la sk e .; ;The Fourth Ward System will
c l od au judgee, and, tben, nothing short of a
reroh4kin will bring Philedelphte bank 10 her
eld proud , poeition when her judiniary and
ballotbnx werernilie pure.
.4marnm
A iste number of the 'Richmond _Enquirer
devotes a two-column leader to a disserta
tion upon the aims and objects of this mys
terione brotherhood. It pretends to be ig
norant of its exact organization and the de
-tails of its workings, but it very clearly in
dicates that it knows more than it cares to
reveal, and that it only reveals what it does
for the purpose of gratifying its malignant
hate towards the Union and encouraging
the South to an attempt to resuscitate the
"lost cause." The article seta out with a
eulogy of white rebels, and a bitter denuncia
tion of the freedmen and Southern whites
who stood firm in their loyalty to the Union.
Those of the Northern people who do not see
the newspapers of the South, and who are
consequently ignorant of, their utterances,
should occasionally have spread before them
such specimen extracts as the following,
which we take from the article in question
"It is now very evident that this " Km-Klux-
Klan" is not a meaningless Alt rry Andrew organi
zation, but that under its cap and btlls it hides a
purpose as resolute, noble and heroic as that which
Brutus concealed beneath the mask of well-dissembled
idiotcy. is rapidly organizing wherever the
insolent negro, the malignant white traitor to his
race and the infamous squatter are plotting to
make the South utterly unfit for the rebid .nce of
the decent white man. It promises, we hope, to
bring into the field for the defence of our lives, lib
erty and property hundreds of thousands of those
heroic men echo hare been tried and. indurated by
the perils, dangers and sufferings of military ser
vice "
The article throughout teems with expres-.
sions of the rankest treason •to the Federal
Government and with the strongest appeals
to the bad passions of the men who for four
years openly sought to destroy the nation.
Such ranting and raving would be unworthy
of notice, but for the evidence which they
afford of the feelings of the ex-rebels of the
South, and but for the mischief which flows
from such teachings. And these are the men
whom Andrew Johnson and the Democratic
party of the North would forthwith restore to
their forfeited rights and start upon a fresh
career of rule or ruin! From the
time of the surrender of Lee to the
development of the treachery of Andrew
Johnson, no such utterances as these came
through the organs of Southern opinion.
The defeated rebels fully recognized and ac
cepted the situation, and however keenly
they may have felt the pangs of disappoint
ment, they were prepared to yield to inevit
able necessity and accept the terms of their
conquerors." The false President is clearly
responsible for this dangerous re-action, and
"Ku-Klux-Klans," and other treasonable
organizations and devices follow such teach
ings as his as surely as disease and death
follow the inhaling of noxious gases. Pos
terity will be amazed that the American
people of the present era submitted for so
long a time to the rule of this bad man, be
fore they arose in their majesty and demanded
his removal from the office which ha dis
graces.
ARILIISERIENT HALLS.
Complaint is often made of a want of
proper ingress and egress for the audiences at'
places of public amusement, and in many
cases the complaint is well-founded. Too
little attention is paid to this important con
sideration, and there is probably not a hall in
the city, unless we except the Academy of
Music and several of the theatres,
from which a large audience can be as
easily and rapidly dismissed as would be de
sirable in any case of sudden emergency.
But while there is fault to be found with
the construction of the buildings, there is as
much fault to be found with the habits of our
people in getting out of them. Any one who
will watch the process of emptying any one
of our large halls will see that the
great difficulty and delay is in the au
dience itself. Men „ and women stop
and stand, and talk, and dawdle in the aisles
as if they were at an evening party, or as if
they were not quite sure that the performance
was over. When the stairs are reached, the
feminine portion of the crowd creeps slowly
down, with its voluminous and most inap
propriate train dragging over two or three
steps behind and compelling those who come
after to hold back, and so retarding the whole
moving mass to a snail's pace. Upon this
principle, it is in vain to abuse the halls as if
they were the whole, or even the chief; came
of the discomfort which is n , ghtly experi
enced by the frequenters of almost all places
of public amusements. If the people would
not dawdle;—if they would only "stand not
upon the order of their going, but go at once;"
—if ladies would remember that their long
dresses are dreadfully in the way, at such
times and places;—if the ushers would exert
themselves, politely, to keep the ebbing cur
rent in motion;—in a word, if people, gen
erally, would consider the convenience of
those around them a little more, and make a
little mare active use of the common sense
with which nature has blessed them, it would
be found that the difficulty which is now
constantly and loudly complained of, would
be so far abated as almost to disappear.
The streets are now in first-rate condition
to receive the attentions of Mr. Contractor
Bickley. No trace of ice is left, the last
vestige of the great snow storm has disap
peared and the all prevailing residuum is mud.
Mud in all its varieties is seen on all sides.
The substantial article that is piled in great
heaps, that is the accumulation of a long and
hard winter and that has been kneaded and
mixed up by thousands of hoofs and cart
wheels, is unpleasantly plentiful. Thin and
watery mud, that'is more the accident of the
hour than the result of deliberate neglect, is
spread about profusely, and pedestrianism
with clean shoe-leather is out of the questbn.
Now is the time for the application of the
-broom the scraper and the fire-plug: - April
windiAtilll convert this mud iato dust, the
dust will damage oyes, clothing, goods and
furniture, and it will then be an • open ques
tion whether clouds of dust or piles of mud
are the greater nuisance. The present con
dition of the streets of the city does no credit
Bickley or anybody else who is in any
way responsible for, the general diffusion of
dirt. The public who pay for having the
streets cleaned would like to see some more
comprehensive and vigorous efforts made
toward the accomplishment of that result.
THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28;1868.''
Ilrham3as appears, after al4to have adopt e d
the excellent Constitution agreed upon by the
late . Convention. Moro th an the re
quired ' utumber off votes were oast,
and there is a eifficient majority
in favor of the new ftmdamental law. , The
same machinery was set to work in Arkansas
that defeated the new Constitution in Ala
bama. The President and his followers used
all the influence_they_poasessed, and there
were threats against the negroes who should
dare to vote against the Constitution. But
it has been adopted, and now it is to be ex
pected that an election will take place, and
that representatives from Arkansas will be re
ceived into the Fortieth Congress before the
close of the present sessiun. Thus does re
construction go on,. unler the Congressional
plan, in spite of Andrew Johnson's hostility.
Let the other unreconstructed States profit by
the examfle of Arkansas.
The lower Bowe of Parliament has passed
Mr. Gladstone's bill abolishing Church Rates,
except among members of the Established
Church, throughout the British Islands. It
will scarcely go through the House of Peery
at present, for the Lords, spiritual and tem
poral, are very jealous of their prerogatives
and of any innovation upon aristocratic ex
clusiveness. But even though the bill fail
to become a law, its passage through the
popular branch of the British Legislature is a
great point gained, and it will stimulate the
friends of Reform to exertions that will be
crowned with ultimate substantial success.
The English people are becoming heartily
tired of royalty that has such prominent re
prerentatives as the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of Edinburgh; they have grown sick of
the Tite Barnacles that nobility has fastened
upon the government, and they are weary of
supporting in luxurious ease ecclesiastics
who are is the receipt of enormous revenues
for attention to duties that are performed vi
cariously.
The revenue paid by the county of Lan
caster, Penna., to the United States Govern
ment, during the year ending June poth,
1667, amounted to $779,486 61. This was
exclusive of the sale of stamps and the tax on
salaries of Government officers, which would
make a large addition to the amount. Al
though Lancaster is the home of Buchanan,
it Is also the home of Stevens, and it gives
rousing Republican majorities. It sent a
little army of good soldiers to fight against
the rebellion. Those of them that came back
continue true to the cause, and the population
of Lancaster pays cheerfully its share of the
taxes made necessary by the war. There is
probably no county, so largely agricultural,
that pays, in proportion to its population, a
larger share of the annual revenue of the
Government.
MISS ANNA E.. DICKIN4oI4.—This talented young
lady will deliver her first and only lecture of the
semen at the Academy of Music next Thurs
day evening. The subject of her loch= will be
"The Duty of the Hour," a theme which, in view
of present complications in the political world,
allows her a wide•fleld for the exercise of her
peculiar powers. The sale of tickets will com
mence at Gould's, No. 923 Chestnut street, on
Monday morning.
Bunting, able w Co. Auction
eere, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street, will hold during
next week, by catalogue, the following important
sales,viz.:
Os MONDAT, March 30, at 10 o'clock. on four
months' credit, about 800 lots of French, Saxony. Brit
ish and Inala Dry Goods, embracing Paris Broche
Grenadines, Percales, Mohairs, Alpacas, Delainee,
Scotch Ginghams,Poplins,Reps, ;Black and Colored
bilks, Stella Shawls, Linen Shirts and Chemises, Un
dershirts, L. C. Handkerchiefs, Balmoral and Hoop
Skirts, Trimmings, White Goods, Quilts, Umbrellas,
Braids, Buttons, Fans, Ties,soocartons Paris Ribbons;
sloo. 400 nieces Monitor Brand Paris All-wool De
laines.
61e°, 40 pieces Scotch Girg'tair B. account of under
writers.
ON TUERDAY, March 31, at 11 o'clock. on four
months' crerh., slam& 2,000 ptcktges Botts, Shoes,
balmorals, &c.
ON TIIUItHbAY, April '2, at 10 o'clock, on four
months' credit, 'packages and lots of Foreign and
Ihanertic Dry Goods, umluding Clothe, Cassimeres,
Tricots, Menons, Sittlne.s, Italians,
&c.
Alro, Dress Goods, Silks, Shawls, LinenQ Shirts
and Drawers, Hosiery, Gloves, Hoop and Balmoral
Skirts, Sowings, Ties, Umbrellas, &c,
Alto, 130 packages Cotton and Woollen Domestics.
(IN FRIDAY, April 3, at 11 o'clock, on four months'
creni , about 'NO pieces Venetian, Ingrain, Hemp, List,
Cottage, and R 1 1 ,2 thirpetintrP..te.
Ex tensil e same til Stocks and Real
itstate.--7 Manus & Sons advertise for their sale Tues
day next, 'valuable bank, railroad, insurance, gas and
other t tetchy and desirable loan'; fifteen elegant resi
dences, Sixteenth street, and one, No. 2043 Green
street; desirable dwellings, ground rents, &c. Sales
Apra 7, 11, 21 and 28 will comprise a number of valu
able estates, by order of the Orphans' Court, execu
tors, trusieis and others. See catslogues, issued to
day, and full advertisements on seventh and i/Set pages
~r a , pot e
GEAUINE ROMAN SCARFS,
For Ladies and Gentlemen.
A full line plat received by
J. W. SCOIT & CO
No. 814 Chestnut Street.
ruh:l3 th tarp,
ELDER FLOWER ISOAP,
H. P. & 0. IL TAYLOB,
T \OWNING'S AMERICAN LIQUID CEMENT, FOR
.1J meading broken ornaments, and other articles of
Glass, China. Ivory, Wood, Marble, dm. No heating re.
quired of the article to be mended, Or the Cement. Al
ways ready for use. Nor sale by
JOHN R. DOWNING, Stationer.
fe7.tf 189 South Eighth street, two doors ab. Walnut.
JOIL. CHUMP. BUILDER.
1781 011.ESTNDT STREET,
and 218 LODGE STREET.'
Mechanics of every branch required for houeebuilding
and fitting promptly fundebed. fetl7 tf
in JUNES TEMPLE & CO..
gg SOUTH NINTH STREET,
1111 Have introduced their Spring Styles. and invite
tlemen that wieln a fiat combining Beauty, Lightness
sue Durability to cell and examine them. -
J., T. & Co. manufacture all their bilk Hate. mblatf4p,
itWARBURTON'S IMPROVED, VENTILATED
and oaey-fltting Orem flats (patented), in all the ap.
proved faehione of the eoason, Chestnut etreet, next
door to the Poet-oftce. beltilyrP
TACK CLAWS MAT DO NOT , `GET LOOSE IN
the. handle" (because they aro riveted through the
tang) and ti e ordinary kinds, are for Hale d with Car net
Strttebere, a variety of Carpet Hammers and a ton ;ft
article of Carpet Tanks, by TRUMAN SHAM, No. a:.:5
(Eight Thirty-five) Market Went, below Ninth.
L'iuß MARKING BEERY BOXES, MARKET
L . Baskets, 'tools, dm. Brands end Stoncils may be had
at the LI ardware 'Ore of TRUMAN dr, di - , Ne. igl6
(Light Thirty five) Market area, below Ninth..
BRAN MUFFIN OR WISCONSIN CAKE VANS, AC.
corepanied by a printed receipt for making the cake,
for sale with a variety et other kinds of cake pane, by
TRI;IdAN &13I1AW. de. 886 (Eight Thirtyftve) Market
S 2 sioo
. L?ni t .i?v AN AN FIRST-
City Atortittageo Mortgage
ands 6,04, for :sae. tr e
tt. JONF,S,
mh2BJBlv, Wain it NtroeG
IptLACK !LAMA LACE BACQUES, --CEO. W. VOGEL,
J., . 1016 Chestnut , street, hes )net received an assort
ment of Mark Llama Laco Bacques.
Also, an Invoice of very cheap BLACK LLAMA
LACE POI -DUES.. mh97,6t•
A. FINE LOT OF BANANNAB
On Loud at -
' JOHN G. KUIINT.E.E4
Fruit and Confectioner y Store,
uab274 ' No. 036 Market etreet.
1.90K11 LOOK II! LOOK: I /I—A
1033.71;niguilleent assortment of Wall Papers and
Linen -IN inflow Shades lust in for spring sake; cheap
prkes. JoIiNSTON , tI Depot, 'al Spring tiarPen street.
N. B.—Skades manufactured. se)4•l9rP.
NO. 641 North Ninth Street.
CLOTHING.
• Wanamaker & Brown's Opening.
• Wanamaker & Brown's Opening.
• Wanamaker & BroWn'S Opening.
Wanamaker & Brown's Opening.
bpring Clothing. /a
Spring Clothing...bat
Spring ClOthing.jo
Spring Olothing.mi
arrine Tailoring, Goods.
girFise Tailoring Goods.
Or Pine 'I snoring Goods.
erFine Tailoring Goods.
SPECIAL CAI:W.—We have the
be at stock Gents', Youths', and
Boys' Beady-made Clothing, and
Cloths, Casbimereb and Vestings for
Measured work ever collected in
one establishment, and those who
make an early choice will be well
repaid. Our prices are considera
bly lower on many goods.
WANAMaKEIL & BROWN,
The Largest Establishment,
SIXTH and MARKET Streets.
LACE C UKTA Mo.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A FULL LINE
• OF
LACE CURTAINS,
AND CORDIALLY INVITE THOSE ABOUT
PURCHASING CURTAIN GOODS
TO CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOOK,
CARRINGTON, DE ZOUCHE & CO.,
S. E. Cor. Thirteenth and Chestnut Sts.
Itrp
CONFECTIONERY.
RICH CREAM
•
AND
CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONS
OF EVERY DELICIOUS FLAVOR THAT HARE AND
DELICATE FRLI IS CAN GIVE.
STEPHEN F. WHITMAN,
N o. 1210 Market Street.
t.:51-3try
JLII7IIIB E K.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT
OP
BUILDING LUMBER
aw
HARD WOODS.
F. H. WILLIAMS,
Saenteenth and Spring Garden StreAs.
r Thivo Btu th ftn
SBTAIL DRY GOODS.
SILKS Y. SILKS
RICHEY 2 SHARP & CO.
727 CHESTNUT STREET,
OFFER AT
POPULAR PRICES
A full aebortment of tbeinoet deeinble
SILKS.
Rich Brown, Node and Steel Taffetas.
Heavy Black Gro Grain Silks.
Sepal) Black Tapissier Silky.
Superb Black Gro de Rhine Silks.
Superb Black Taffeta Parislen.
Superb Black Gro de BriWantes.
A full lice of Elegant Heavy Luatreleca Silks
for Salts. ,
RICKEY SHARP & CO.
No. 727 Chestnut Street.
w.rpu
Walking Suits. Traveling Snits.
JOHN W. THOMAS,
Nos. 405 and 407 N. Second Street.
Just received. a fall Lino of
PLAIN AND CIIENE POPLINS.
SILK AND WOOL POPLINS,
SILK AND LINEN PO PLLIB.
ALPACA POPLINS
CREPE POPLIAS,
PLAIN AS ND CURNE BISHAIRS.
K SURGE.
NEW GOODS ARRIVING ktAILY.
mhYl.2mnas
Mourning Goods.
NEW SPRING AND , UNSER srom
NOW OPEN.
LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
"MOURNING BONNETS"
IN THE CITY.
Myers's Mourning Store,
1113 Chestnut Street, Girard Row,
naafi th I tU4310
TITHITE PIQUE.
TV Jest opened, 45 pieces of very good Pique, price
42 tents s, Yard ; cheap goods.
QUADRUPLE, QUINTUPLE AND ocrupLE
PUFFING,
Muslin and Linen at the lowest 'prices.
• BLACIC LOTTED VEIL NET.
Various qualities, from 60 cents, all Silk, to dl 75 per
yard, unusually good for the pnce.
PLAIN BLACK BRUSSEL NET,
Double Ground, varietal qualities. This net is strong,
wilt not null out of shape, bias or straight
NOTTiNGHAM LACE CUR FATES.
NOITINGILAM LACE FOR Cunt/arm,
ity the yard.
NOTTINGHAM SHORT CURTAIN LACE,
to a yard wide, for arrow windows. sash:doors, &c,
NOTTINnIIAM LACE Tun Ea.
NOTTINGHAM PILLOW LACES,
frem S inches to 18 inches; Valance Lace, from 3 cents a
yard to 13 cents for the 13inch wide; actually lose than a
gold valuation.
From the stocker' hand we can fill the, largest orders at
once in any dessription of• Nottingham Laces at
WORN VS
Lace and Embroidery Store,
Eighth street,
- Fin' t Lace Store above Filbert, west side.
T IA EN CENTRE PlEtzs.Fort, HANIJKERCI tIIELPS.
3.4... tine and cheer, at 20 ~ ogother. with . F.kings:
Lam end insorttnv to make Hondkorolatlf% at ono•holl
snore prlcee, at WORNS.
No. W.l North Eighth etroet.
TY/IMBURG EDGINGS AND INSARTLNGS, ON
I linen and 'muslin. flubbed in Bt. Gall and Glak.gow.
on band; the largest quantity and at the lowest market
prIVA
WHITE corms.
Invite spscial aiteution to this stock of White Goods,
ninny of Nalich have been purchased at January price
Hsi a since which time the_ advance haw been consil
erable.
WORNE'S Lace and Embroidery Stara
No. 35 North !Eighth street.
QTOXES itc WOOD. Rd ARCH WI'IMET. OFPFIR
thin day p nue of good Black Alpacas, 5", 138'.61X,
713 aLd 41,1;.3tohairs and bummer l'opllna for sults t Suin•
Dar • it good ahlce, 11. till 12 and Isl Brown
and Oray In variety; Tai lo Linorw, Aapkine and
Towele.• a- louvre , aaaottrnent ; I adios' •Ckaskluga, a' full
ABE Ortment of dioled stylea; Clotho and Catedinarea. for
11113'a and boya , e nitr, l&1 to Si 25, " Ixotalf
RETAIL DAV 4110010Utre
E isTyLaws
D . :1t1,..5....5.--G05 . .0-D—S
WALKING SUITS.
Silk Corded Poplins, New Shades.
Plain Silk Poplins, New Shadei.
Takko Cloths.
Honey Comb Pongees.
Plain Pongees.
Llama Cloths and Mohairs.
Wash Poplins.
Chenea Mohairs, &e.
The opecial attention of ladles It invited to theie:soode.
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
NO. 28 SOUTH SECOND. ST.
Ttb2B P 21 ry
PLAIN ALPACA POPLINS
At 31 Cents.
All New and Choice Shade&
JUST OPENED.
H. STEEL. it SON,
Nos. 713 and 715 N, Tenth St.
SPRING CHINTZES
,AT
REDUCED PRICES.
All bonght tkix week. dice the decline In Mew of
Chintzes.
Spring Chintzes, Fast Colors, at ico.
Spring Chintzes, Fast Colors,l2 1-20.
Yard-wide Light Chintzes.
Choice Styles at 22c.
Bleached and Unbleaded Mgni, -
All the Best Makes,
At Less than Wholesale Prices.
H. STEEL & SON.
Noa 713 Pnd 715 N. Tenth St
11. STEEL Br, SON
AIM NOW
CLOSING OUT
TUE BALANCE OF THEIR STOGIE OF
DARK AMERICAN DELAINE%
At 14 Centh.
Noe. 713 and 7151. Tenth St.
H. STEEL Atr, SOW
Have new Open a very complete assortment of
Plain Colored Silks,
Rich Black Silks,
Fine. Dress Goods,
New Traveling lllhlares,
Ard pe►tvariety of New Stylee of
DRESS GOODS,
At Very Low Prioee.
Noe. 713 and 715 N, Tenth St,
10,000 Yds New Spring Chintzes,
PACIFIC,
BREAGUE and
MEBRIBIA.CK,
Very Choice Styles,lse.
IL STEEL. & SON,
Noe' 713 and 715 N. Tenth St.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
e aro now receiving our Spring ruPPIY of
WHITE GOODS,
EMBROIDERIES, and
HOSIERY,
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
New Style Fringed Lice Tidies.
" Applique Tidies.
" Crochet 'Tidies.
Tucked Muslin ,
Puffed Muslin,
Lace Mtu
Brilliantes,
French Mull,
soft Carabrice,
Jaconets,
Tape Checks,
Nainsooks,
India Mull,
Sheer Lawns,
Organdies,
Tarletans,
White and Colored Piquet*
French Percales, Pdadapolanis,
Together with a eholocamortmeat of
Collars, Cud's, .Sets, Worked. Edgingi,
Insertions, Bands, Cambric Ihikfm.
HOSIERY.
Sheppard, Van Harlingen & Arrieon,
14:108 Chestnut Street*
rahl9l.otrp
OIPENING.
NITOOD & BUII3IB, • "
(Former.h , Thornhill ea Mum)
/208 Chestnut. street,
Aie now opening an unusual dne Moe& of dprind Good.
Late*, Liuma ISsequoe,liaric Antolnetto Caper. IL:wen:lra
ibfatte , Cape; etc:mottos. 'rilmpadOnll l . &a.
Into
111 0 : aim assortment of Glovea and Efoeissvfn aditio
th carefully eeleeted stook of policy wpm) 0d 09 4 %
1120 Earl , " •
norAtti DRY 0074-1119.
BILKB, SILKS BILKS, \
BILKS BILKS .
S L - K
•
, .
NKAGNIIIIIIVENT NEW STOCK
SPRING AND SUMMER ISILIEUI,
•
BLACK SILKS. $1 NS.
BLACK ILKS. $1 lb.
BLACK (iI{O GRAINS, $2 CO.
ELEGANT C4IRDED 811.$$. $2
BLACK AND WHITE (111kOK 811X13. $1
PLAID BILKs. $2 22.
1 CABE VERY SUPICRIOR PLAIN BILK, ALL TIM
8, AT $2 IA A (Ito,AT BAROAIN.
CHOICE 811ADER CORDFD SILKS.
BLauf. EIGIURED BILKS. $1 $7.
J. C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO.,
N. W. cor. Eighth and Market ete.
FRENCH. POPLINS,
112PNCH POPLINS,
FRENCH PorLINN.
WILL OPEN, ID is DAY, ONE VASE FRENCH alilt
,AND WOOL POPLINS, AT $1 H 6, worni sa
J, C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO. t
N. W. corner Eighth and Market.
Will Open This Day,.
FORTY ALLWOM MAMA;
AT ae. PER YAW.
J. C,, STRAWERIDGE &
N. W. eor. Eighth and Market.
CLOTHS AND OA.SSIMEntiI.
ALL•WOOL CASSIMERES, FOE BOYS. Os, •
GOOD PANT STUFFS, AT We,
HANDSOME CASSIMERES 76, 87c.
El EGANT CASSIMEHES..I4. $1 25.
ONE OF THE LARGEST 610 C 'OF CASSIVER_FAI
AND LAMES' CLOTHS TO S.E. FOUND IN THE CITY.
J. C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO.,
N. W. cor. Eighth and Market.
WHITE CLOTHS.
MUTE CLOTuS,
SCARLET LO T
BLUE tun, 8,
PCR MUME.66,4I4I,II,IIII,LUREWS-PLACEL
J. C; STRAWBBIDGE & CO,
N. W. car. Eighth and Market.
SPRING DRESS GOOPM, AT 1.15
SPRING DRESS 000DS, AT IS (M.
SPRING DRESS 60011)s. AT ; TS.
D.REAS GOODS, AT 25
STRAWBRIDGE.
INTERESTING NOTICE
TO TBE
Ladies of Philadelphia and Surrounding
Citie&,
Extension of our Business
AND
GRAND OPENING
Of an entirely New Rock of
MICR, IMLIK GM dB ABM
FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS,.
No. 920 Chestnut Street, Phihida.,
Monday, March 23d.
In again appearing before our patrons to announce our.
embarkation In the more diversified channels 04 a
GENERAL DRY GOODS BUSINESS;
it would be mere affectation to attempt to represe the
gratification we experience at thp sacs OPR which has bith.
erto attended our efforts—an exultation whlzh wo trust
e shall not be thought vain hi supposing 's participated to
by many among our numerous supporters—and we hope
that the same energy and tact dbplayed in the paella t he
generally reliable quality of our st.ck the happy Judg
ment exercised in Its choice,combined with the thoroughly
ECONOMIC CHARGES,
which we purpoee Anil prevail in eves y department. will
give a celebrity to our home unparalleled on thla coalmut.
The varions Departments in our new additions will
omelet or •
THE BILK DEPARTMENT, which will embody in the
assortment all grades and quahries of all the celebrated
makers, including Bonnet. Belton. Penton, so..
Mack Taffetas, Gros Grain, Gros do Paris, Drap de
France, Gros Imjetial. Al,O, Rich Colored Glace Du.
capes, Fault de Boles. Yancv and Checked Silks. Thefts
good/ hare been penal:Laity selected in the various.
European markets by Mr. Ad mom/ whose management
the care of this department will be tuatrusted.
THE DUPES GOODS DEPA ItTIiPNT will be tinder the
direction of MI. David Hughes (of onr firm), who has
devoted hi. time and 'mature indement for nearly three
months to the selection of his Hack. comprising Plain
and Printed Percales, Orgat.dies. Norwich and Irish.
Poplins, Itobsire, Silk Taffeta.. Chene Poplins, Colored.
Alpacas, Brilliances, Plain and Printed Piques, de., dm.
THE HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT.inchItna Irish
Linens Lawns.. Napkins , Table Cloths. Brown and
White Damasks, Linen Sheetines. all widths, Irish and
Scotch Diapers, Quilts, Counterpanes, tinchnictle in.
Bleached and Brown:allelic& etlirtings Alto, In White
Goods, Cambric& Jaeonetr, Swiss Mulls. Vittoria,
Lawns, Shirred Muslin& dre.., dc.
Families. Hotel Beepers. Steamboat Builders. ate., are
invited to examine into the merits of this Departs:mut, as
no pains will be sparod In the selection of the stock, or in
the moderate charges fixed for the same, to acquire and
secure a prominent and large trade In these geode.
THE MOURNING DEPARTMENT will be fully supplied
with all the 'eluting and moat desirable fabrics, includ
ing also a large variety of the minor details, SO Crape
Collars and Veils, Muslin Collate and Setts, Crape and
TarLetan Ruches, Sleeves, Mourning Hasulkerchiefe. ate.
IHE LACE AND FANCY GOODS. DEPARTMENT will
comprise a choke and rare assemblage of real POW.
Applique. Thread. Maltese. Guipure, Valenciennes.
Cluny. Blond Laces, Edgings and Insertions, Real Lase
Collars and Setts, nerd's. Barbee, Coiffures, Crowns.
etc, Infants' Embroidered' Robes and Waists, French,
Scotch and Hamburg Edgings and Insertions, Ladies.
and Ciente Plain and Fancy Handkerchiefs. Puffed
Lace Waists, GamPo.Pelerince, Habits.Beribas„ Sleeves.
etc. This department will be under the superintendence
of Mr. Richard wane, to whom all orders , attitude&
will meet with prompt and careful execution.
THE SHAWL DEPARTMENT will include all the lead
ing styles of Freud , Epgibilt and tierman manufacture
lot Summer and Seaside wear; also Brodie. Lone and'
Square Shawls. of which c onnec tion ucted assortment will
at all times be offered in ith
THE CLOAK DEPARTMENT, which, with the fernier.. .
will be under the management of Mr. Charles Hall:
will always contain our must. elegant and extendoo
variety of the latest Paris and London styles as well au
acquired manufacture. The ominence we have
In this department will be sustained.
THE 'HOSIERY AND GLOVE DI PARTNIENT will in. ,
elude every deecriv bon of French, English, oOrmszt and.
Irish 030 6 r i ggon ) manufacture. and will be under the.
management of Mr. A. Straohan, who has had a life
long experience in these mod!.
. .
"SHE NI
DRESS MAKING DEPARTEIk.7 will be con
tinned ender the dtrection of Ilro. Pronto; by whons
; all orders will bee Xecated in the shortest' time and in
the highest excellence.
_Tile General Direction will be in tho hapda of Mr. W.
.Att Wind, to wholualj-coluplaints of, loatfention tj t e,
Part of the attgin dn nts. errors intlellwry of merchandise..
or o th er Ryer. Illai Mee. ft is!cspoctf 'thy requested will bo.
OUR ALTER ANIONS
being now ermpleted. 'we find it IllereevAry, in order to.
per f ec t the arrangements of our various departments, to
still furtiter duspend business until
Monday, March 23d,
on •vv yrelt day we purpoie to ix Wu, our Grand Opening at
TEN OTLeicH,
Cox:ninonding our new enterprise to the. Patrodage Of our
friends and the public,. • • - f
We row Veryrespeodulig.
J W . PROCTOR & CO
te.i.&thbri„
SECOND EDITION.
.BY TELEGRAPH.
LATER CABLE , NEWS.
AMERICAk'spumliES FIRMER.
TAE COrNTON MARKET.
'W A:~3H~N : C~TQI~,
GENENAL HANCOCK'S COMMAND
THE PRESIDENT'S DESIGNS.
Gen. Emory'e Removal Probable.
The Alabama Question.
By the Atlantic Cable."
Lostuou, March 28, A. M.—Tho steamship
Atlanta, from New York March 11, arrived late
last night.
Cusack, 0349 a% for money and account;
American securities firmer and a fraction higher;
Erie, 46%; Iliinols Central, 80%; U. S. Five
twenties quiet at 720 72 34-
LIVERPOOL, March 28, A. M.—Cotton buoyant
and excited, with a sharp upward turn in prices.
Brisk speculative demand. The sales to-day are
estimated at 20,000 bales. Uplands on the spot,
1090.; afloat, 1050;10 1 ,1d. Orleans,lo3<d. Bread
stuffs quiet and unchanged. Provisions dull and
Steady.
Losinox, March 28th, Evening.—U. 8. Five
twenties, 72872 X; Erie, 47; Illinois Central,B29 .
LIVEIII'OOL, March 28th, , Evening. Cotton
slostd active and excited at a further advance;
sales 30,000 bales; closing prices, Uplands, .1.0 X;
Orleans, 11.
Breadetriffa firm and unchanged. Bacon firm at
43a. Naval Mores dull.
Aarvr-car, March 28th, Evening.—Petroleum
steady at 441.
Gen. Hancock's Appointment.
gtEr pedal Despatch to the Philadelphia. Evening Botlettal
Wssursoron, March 28th.—The President last
evsnirg issued an order assigning General Han
cock to the command of the Department of the
- Atlantic, headquarters in this - city; This move
on:the part of • the President bas caused
considerable comment in political cir
cles this morning, and it Is be
lieved to be the first move toward
having control of the national troops here in
ease he should go so far as to attempt to resist
impeachment. The order assigning General
Hancock to this new command had not been
issued at General Grant's headquarters this
morning, but it is expected that it will
be done to-day. After General Hancock assumes
command General Gordon Granger will be as
signed by the President to the command of this
District, in place of General Emory; at least Gen.
Grant stated this A. M. that he believed that this
would be done. .
The Alabama SUL
Medal Despatch to the Phtlactelphis Evening Etalietin.l
WASIIIECGTON, March 'lB.—lmmediately after
the reading of the journal in the Rouse to-day,
lie Alabama Bill was taken- up, and Mr. Kerr,
,Indiana, took the door in opposition thereto.
Gen. Farnsworth, who has charge of the bill, on
behalf of the Reeonstruction Committee, stated
In reply to the question that it was his intention
to obtain a vote on the bill to-day.
The Florida Canetitatiou.
idlpeeiti/ Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.)
WABIIIIIOIISN, March 28.—The Reconstruction
Committee, at their meeting this A. M., had be
fore them zeveral citizens of Florida, who were
examined in relation to the Constitution framed
by the recent State Convention. Persons were
examined for and against the Constitution.
The Impeachment Trial
(Special Despatch to the Philadelphia iEventaa Benetittl
Wasnuicrrow, March 28.—The Board of Im
peachment Managers were not in session to-day.
General Butler is still engaged in preparing his
argument to open the case next Monday, and ho
earpects to occupy the time of the Court during
the entire day.
From lowa.
DES MOINES, March 28.—A meeting of the
Directors of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad was held at Davenport yesterday.
Several resignations were arcepteit and the va
cancies filicd. A majority of the Board now are
Illinois and lowa men. The act of the lowa
Legislature in regard to the road was accepted
and a certificate of acceptance will be filed in the
office of the Secretary or State, is this city, this,
afternoon. The new members of the Board are
not parties to any pending suit, and a majority
being competent to transact the business of the
Company, without reference to the suits in Now
'fork or elsewhere, it is believed that its affairs
will go on smoothly again.
From Washington.
WASIMOTON, March 28.-01&IA proclamation
is made of the Postal Convention , between
Ilkt United States and the Colonial Government
of Hong Kong. The mails are to be'carried by
the direct lines of American packets plying be
tween Ban Francisc.o and Song Kong, via Yo
kohama, Japan.
Weather Vapors.
Ararat 28. Thema
9 A. M. Wind Weather. meter.
Port Hood, N. W. Clear. 50
Halifax, 8. W. Clear. 40
Portland, N. Clear. 39
Boston, N. E. Clear. 37
New York, N. 1.3. Cloudy. 44
Wilmington, Del., N. E. Cloudy. 44
Washirudon.D.C., N. W. Cloudy. 44
Fortress Monroe,N. W. Cloudy. 40
Richmond, Va., N. Cloudy. 37
Oswego, N. Clear.
4 50 9'
Buffalo,
N. E. Clear. 49'
Pittsburgh, N. Cloudy. 39
Chicago, N. E. Clear. 40
Louisville, N. W. Cloudy. 53
New Orleans, N. E. Clear. o 56
Mobile, N. W. Cloudy. 58
Key West,* N. , Clear. 76
Havana,j . N. Clear. 77
Barometer, *3O-10, f3O-10. , .
The Democratic Election Frauds in
Pennsylvania.
Our readers are aware that a contested election
is in progress before a committee of the Senate
of Pennsylvania, in which enormous frauds were
proved to have been perpetrated bythe Demo
trade party.
A witness who disclosed his knowledge before
the committee was assassinated, and the Legis
lature have offered a toward of s3,o(x) for the.
apprehension of the murderer. Another feature
of extraordinary character was disclosed by the
evidence before the committee during the present
MichaeTO'lifettra had testified tO hie knowledge
of the distribution of large •numbers of fraudu
lent naturalization pagers,and had said that $5 OO
bad been given him by a Catholic priest to leave
the State and not , testify. This statement was,
scarcely credited, but the priest alluded to was •
blmself brought before the Committee and ad
mitted its truth. We give his testintony. Ida as
follows:
Rev. Thomas•Traey sworni am the priest in
charge of the congregation at Clearfield; I did
pay Michael O'Meara X5OO beibre this investiga
*ion commenced ;it was in his own' house at
Clicarfieldi in the evening,• about a week before
She trial; In consideration of It he was to leave
the State, and to remain absent for three months;
Mr. Gorman, the boss of Coign s on
the raibtoed gave me the money to
give him for that varpotte; I had conversations
with the man ,who gave me the money ; no
other party, had" knowledge of the transaction
that I know of; I had correspondence with Mr.
Wallace on the subject of getting him to leave
the State; I understand that he was to remain
out. until afteethis trial should Nam; Ile Is
aired (Mormon; his name is Patrick; he Is the
only person that knew of the transaction that I
am aware of; he 'was the only one that
gave me any money, or authorized me
to make the arrangement; Mr. Wallace
never - gave — me - any -- money or attheftd
me to give any; he said as regards him Self,
'Would not give any, as it was not necessary; I
saw O'Oonnon within two weeks, at Clearfield;
I know Jas. Collins; have seen him about two
months ago; I do not know from whom the
money came that Gormon paid me; the Mr.
Wallace I mentioned was Senator Wallace, the
Chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee."
Murder did its work 'against one witness.
Britgry failed as against the other. Heaven help
our Mende In this Senatorial district, who have
such agencies contending againgt them.
:i'4' i i i : (:►i a /I `~
PORTO RICO.
A 3 ova Scotian Crew saved by an Ame
rican Brim.
HAVANA, March 27, 1868.—The brig Thomas
Tway'. has arrived at Mayaguez with the crew of
the Cotaam, bound for 'New York, which was
lost at sea.
jibe brig Thomas Turnll, of New Haven,
Conn., and the schooner Cotnam, of Windsor, N.
S., are likely the vessels referred to above,—En.
IST. DOMINGO.
Cabral's Debts Temporarily Outlawed
Refugees to Remain In the Comm.
hates or Leave the Republic.
RAVASA, March `l7,lB6B.—The siege of St. Do
minco city has ruined the place. San Carlos has
decreed the liabilities of ex-President Cabral to be
invalid - until the Legislature discriminate thereon.
lle has also prohibited the refugees who are
sheltered in the consulates from remaining In the
republic. "
Generals Moelou and Carlos Baez are expected
from Ilayti.
MEXICO.
The Tehuantepec Railway to be
Begun-AI r • of Maxlm►lltenht Late
Moister to Home.
HAVANA, March 27.—Among the passengers
who arrived hem on the the way to Mexico fa
Mr. La ECre, president of the Tehuantepec Rail
way Company. He gees hence to complete ar
rangements for building the road.
tenor Ignacio Agnllary Mareche, who repre
sented the Mexican empire at Rome from April
17, 1864, until near the end of the empire, Ins
been impriFontd at the capital for alleged coin
plicity in the late insurrectionary movemente.
CRIME.
booting Affray in New York.
[From the N. I'. Ilk:raid of to-dayj
About six o'clock last evening another one of
those tragic occurrences, unhappily lately of so
frequent happening, resulting from the immode
rate use of stronedrink, startled the loiterers
about the bar of a liquor store :NJ West street,
the particulars being the shooting of one of their
number (Charles Norris) by the proprietor of the
place, Thomas Fitzpatrick. As Is usually the
case, much conflict exists in the statements
of theparties possessed of information
respecting the circumstances preceding, leading
up to as ityrere, the affair, each bearing favorably
or adversely to one or the other of the princi
pals, according as the sympathy of the narrator
inclined. Carefully piecing together the several
histories ae related, It is learned that an ill-feel
ing had for some time existed between Fitz
patrick and Norris, growing, it is said, out of
a suspicion entertained on the part of
the former that the latter Lad stolen
from him, some six months since, the sum of
&50; but whether such suspicion had its
origin upon good and sufficient grounds does not
appear. In consequence thereof, it is further
alleged Fitzpatrick bad forbidden Norris to enter
his place, but, notwithstanding such prohibition,
the latter did so yesterday, accompanied by a
friend. Fitzpatrick's friends say a crowd; but
this Norris's friend, one Westley hillier, denies,
saying that they met the other parties in the store.
However this may be, Norris, who was under the
influence of liquor when be entered the placedrank
several times there, at the solicitation of those
who accompanied him or whom he met,
and became involved in an altercation with
Fitzpatrick. Twice he was put out of the store
by the 'Wer t and warned not to return, but per
sisted in doing so. Another discrepancy here
occurs in the respective statements. It ia alleged
on the one side that Norris seized an oyster knife
lying on the counter near him and made a pass
at Fitzpatrick, while his (Norris's) friend denies
that any such incident occurred. Upon the occa
sion of Norris entering the store the third time,
Fitzpatrick, it is conceded, caught up a revolver,
one of small pattern, from a drawer, and point
ing it at him threatened to shoot him if he did
not instantly retire, immediately returning it
to the place whence he had taken it, when,
seeing that the threat was disregarded by Norris,
be again drew it. using much the same language,
but again,at the suggestion of Miller, who leaned
over the counter and caught hold of his arm to
enforce the advice, put it up. A third time he
drew it, and fired, the ball entering the right
breast of Norris. Seemingly unsuspicious that
any very serious wound had been inflicted, Fitz
patrick advised Miller to convey his friend to a
surgeon to have him attended to, and upon Mil
ler protesting he had no money repeated his ad
vice in such manner_ as to induce Miller to essay
this teak. They had advanced but a short dis
taece, however, when Norris became faint, and
meeting Officer McNally, of the Fifth precinct,
Miller committed the wounded man to his charge,
who thereupon procured a cart and bad him con
veyed to the City Hospital. In the meantime,
Officer Fulmer, of the same precinct, arrested
Fitzpatrick and conveyed him to the station
house. Norris was attended at the hospital by
Dr. Stnyvesant F. Morris, and at a late hour last
night it was learned from him that be was not in
a dangerous condition. The bail had apparently
entered the right lung and lodged there, but being
a small one serious consequences need
not necessarily be apprehended, while
internal
hemorrhage
the same time, should
hemorrhage take place, the condition of the pa
tient would become critical. He was, however,
then doing well and in no immediate danger.
Captain Petty last night notified the coroner of
the occurrence, that he might, if he so desired,
hold an ante-mortem examination, Both the
Freaks to this affair are Irishtnen. Fitzpatrick
is about twenty-eight years of age, is married,
but has no family. Norris is about twenty-six,
is unmarried, and by occupation a fireman or
coal passer. He resides at 76 Greenwich street.
Fitzpatrick resides where he, does business, and
has hitherto borne a good reputation in his
Ward.
Another Chicago Tragedy.
[From the Chicago Journal or the ;Nth.]
A saloon on West Madison street, near the in
tersection of Jefferson street, was last night the
scene of an encounter between two men, which
may prove fatal in its results to ono of them. It
appears that a colored man, named Ephraim
Mohan, and a' white man, named C. D. C. Wil
liams, entered the saloon in company and engaged
in a game of cards. They played for some time,
and it would seem that fortune favored the
'negro.• The latter baiting pocketed bis
winnings and being weary of playleg, rose
from the table, intending to leave the saloon.
Williams objected to this, and requested him to
hive him a chance to win bark some of the money
o bad staked. Molson insisted on leaving, how
ever. and proceeded toward the door. Williams
then called upon a merchants' policeman, teto
was present, to arrest Nelson. That officer re
fused to do any such thlug, telling -- Williams to
do the Job himself. Upon this Williams flew into
a terrible passion. Drawing a revolver from his
pocket, he cocked and pointed it in sh ine with
the retreating form of 3dolson, and' before he
konid be prevented by the bystanders bad
discharged' the weapon. Molson fell to the floor,
bleeding from a wound in his thigh. The bail
had penetrated between the main artery and the
bane and had inticted a most dangerous wound.
Williams's arrest was rat once effected. The is
jured man was carried on a stretcher to his home,
where Medical aid was summoned. ,
Today Williams was arraigned tittle Armory.
A physician stated that Melon's injuries wore
very severe, •in feet might terminate fatally.
Should the wounded man not die; amputation of
the llm would be ablealuteV unavoldeble.
- THE DAIIY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 28,1868.
TIHRD EDITION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
RECONSTRUCTION IN FLORIDA
FROM T. I.OOT_TIS.
Storm Along the Pacific Railroad
FIRE IN TROY, NEW YORK.
WASHINGTOI9, March 28.—The Committee on
Reconstruction had before them to-day two sets
of delegates from Florida, each presenting a con
stitution for that State. One of the delegations
is composed in part of Wisconsin men and the
other of men from Massachusetts, who are set
tle dln Florida. The former have the advantage,
as they eabibit a constitution sanctioned by GEM
era Meade, and signed by forty-five delegates.
The latter object to this constitution on the
ground that these delegates signed it because
otherwise they could not receive their ply.
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) promised Mr. Brooke that he
would offer a resolution in the Hottse calling
upon Gen. Meade to report all the facts in the
ease, in order to relieve the Committee from
their embarrassment.
The Committee on Elections have placed the
Utah contested election case in the bands of Mr.
Chandler : one of its members, to prepare a re
port in view of all the facts.
The friends of Mr. Hooper say that although
the allegation was made before the cOmmittee,
no proof was produced to show that he had
taken an oath as a member of the order of
Melebezedie in hostility to the Government of
the United States.
The fractional currency received from the
printing bureau for the week ending to-day, .is
$913,500. Amount shipped same period to As
sistant Treasurer at New York, $100,000; to As
sistant Treasurer at New Orleans, $100,000;
United States Depository at Baltimore, $70,000;
National banks and others, $167,280. Total
$437,280.
United States notes forwarded to the Assistant
Treasurer at New York, 02,000,000; do., at New
Orleans, $50,000 . National Banks and others,
492,179. Total shipment of notes, $2,142.174.
The Treasurer of the United States holds in
trust as security for National Banking Aesocia
lions the following amounts:
For circulating notes, $391,643,906; for depo
sits of public money, $38,177,950. National
Bunk notes issued during the week, $170,700.
Total to date, $307,020,091. To be deducted as
follows: Mutilated notes returned, $6,783,755;
notes of insolvent banks, redeemed and burned,
*3B9"o.—leaving in actual circulation at this
date, 0299,896,970.
Fractional currency redeemed and destroyed
during the week, $400,010. ,
rem ffl Poseur'.
ST. 1.01:1. arch 28.—A planing mill, the
reeiden,ce o f t T. C. Kelley, and a carpenter shop,
with considerable lumber, at Clarksville, were
burned on Wednesday. Loss, $15,000; insured
for 0,600.
Another heavy snow storm occurred along the
Union Pacific Railroad on Thursday. Work on
the mountain division was suspended on that ac
count.
General Sherman leaves for Omaha on Mon
day to meet the Indian commissioners.
Destructive tire. •
TROY, N. Y., March 28.—C. D. & D. A. Rous
seau's brick planing mill, office, and a large pile
of lumber; also, several piles of lumber owned by
Bturdevant &Andrews, in West Troy,were burned
this morning. The fire is still burning fiercely in
the lumber pile of the latter firm, but will proba
bly spread no further.
Rousseau's loss 18420,000 on the building and
lumber, which is insured for $lO,OOO.
Bturdevant & Andrews lose $5,000, and are in
sured for $15,000. •
The fire was the work of an lncendiary.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 28.—A fire occurred yes
terday which burned the steam mill of Willey
Brother, at Bhamplin. Loss 1120,000.
NEW YORK, March H.—Arrived, steamships
Europe, from Havre, and Union, from Bremen
and Southampton.
STATE OF THE THERMOMETER TEEM DAY AT
'1 HE BULLETIN OFFICE.
10 A. M 48 deg. 12 M.. .40 deg. 2 P. deg.
Weather cloudy. Wind Northeast.
CITY MORTALITY.-Thu number of interments
in the city for the week ending at noon to-day
was 311, against 268 the same period last year.
Of the whole number 153 were adults and 158
children-80 being under one year of age; 181
were males and 130 females; 95 were boys and 63
girls.
The greatest number of deaths occurred in the
Twentieth Ward, being 80, and the smallest num
ber in the Twenty-eighth Ward, where only one
WAS reported.
The principal causes of death were: Croup, 6;
congestion of the brain, 6; consumption, 61; con
vulsions, 15; dropsy, 5; disease of the heart, 8;
debility, 12; scarlet fever, 7; typhus fever, .3; ty
phoid fever, 10; Inflammation of the brain, 13;
inflammation of the lungs, 24; marasmus, 10; old
age, 10; palsy, 5, and scrofula, 6.
March •[ the British Army for the
Illighlands—The troops “All Wello7
QUEEN'A ROTEL, LONDON, March 27, 1868.
Dtepatehes.just to hand from the British military
expedition In Abysainla report that the entire
force, with the exception of a mountain battery
and four companies of the Forty-fifth regiment
of infantry, had just left Zonla and commenced
the march for the highlands •of the country.
The army was ingood health and the general
sanitaryreport is favorable. The ascent to the
highlands of Abyssinia Is regarded here as a
very difficult undertaking; but it is understood
that General Napler's advance is by the safest
and moat easily traversed route—that on the east
by Senate and Doganta. The country is repre
sented as being very variable in appearance—
fertile and extremely barren alternately—and
some of the mountain passes formidable.
FINAITCLA.L and COMMERCIAL.
The Philadelphl
Bales at the Made!.
- YTRBT
1009 USS-208'65 Jy cp 108;i
500 do small 107
200 Pittsburgh Scrip 70
1000 retina Os war ln
rag 1023,s
2000 Pa Gs 3 ser 10934
503 Pa Os 1 series s 5 105
1000 Nunn Os war ln
coup 102
2000 Penn B. 2 fue 68
3dys 09
1000 Phil &Sun 78 2ds 79
1000 Read 66 44-80. 9334
2000 Ca&ilion mtnes'B9 96%
-8500 Lehigh es goldin
its 8914
10000 do do b6O 89%
1500 do do 891 t(
8100 016 v Os new , Its 103
1500 do men 103
11 sh 2d &Rd tiat 5535
9 eh Pei:unlit its 55
- 'unarm!
2000 Bun & Ihrie 7e 103
2000 Cam&Ant 613'89 96%
5000 Lehigh 68 R In 8836
2000,; , do do 58%
200 sh R ' 10,11
200 eh do 1560 10N
96 eh 2d & 8d tIL R • 6634
• OLOOND
1000 17 8 10.100 cp 100 K
8000 Leh Be'B4 6614
1000 sh•Lehion eld In 89%
5000 do b 5 6934
10000 do bswn 6934
I 911 Fenno It 00 .
PintantrOPM' 11Olitlirdiit Mardi . 2i—The derma for
•
=my coattoute very presdna awe cast wime " O"O5°S
2:30 O'Olook.
BY TELEGRAPH.
From Washington.
Ship News.
OI.TY BULLETIN.
ABYSSINIA.
a Money_ Marke
1 . hla Stock isatchahge.
50 eh Mluohill R s 5 5G)4
53 eh Loh Val R eswn 63
200 eh Pbilikllrioß 25';
100 sh Soh Nay pf 2296
100 eh Itcadß 459"
1800 eh do 2dys&la 451{
1100 eh do reg&lnt.ls3.(
400 eh do2dalota 451 4 ',
100 eh do 45 81
100 sh do bS&lnt 45.91
200 eh Leh NI, stk bso 261(
100 eh do o 263
leo eh do e3owo
100 eh do blO 2636
200 eh do • Ile c 281 f
200 eh do b3O -26 X
100 sh do cash 201(
100 eh do 1380 shay,
83 eh do 26 . 4 6
100 sh SEIM Canal .15
100 eh - de b3O 1514
80AR1513.
100 eh Pldl&Erieß e] 26
100 eh do 26
100 eh • do b3O 2c3i
100 sh Fulton Coal Crli
100 eh Leh Nay stk 60dys
lttur BO 26%
200 sh float 21 its 530 46
7 eh Leh Val R sdys 53
4501111 do
26g
'tai eh .do b3O 26K
100 eh , ' do s6Owa2o)4'
, .
he emoted 'ender 1(37;15 per cent. The *meant Of meir
contile paper offering is mall. but it cannot be negotiated
ender 8 012 per eent for the best names. In trade dirties
brisinses le dull, but a more animated Mae of aff tire Is
looked for after the first proximo, when the tide of mas .
renal will again set towards the seaboard.
There wee a fair amount of briefness at the Stock Beard
this morning, and prices generally were well maintained.
In Goveinment•Loans the transactions were light. at yes
terdars figures. State Loans and City Loans were Ices
firm, with ealesof the new iffellen pf the latter at 1102—a
decline of %. Lehigh Gold Loan wan in better request,
with eaten at 89,"•i. _
Reading Railroad was .14 higher and closed at 46 II
Pennsylvania Railroad wait steady at 66, and Camden
and Amboy Railroad at 124; Mine HM Railroad at 5034,
Lehigh Valley Railroad at 53; 2934 was bid for Little
Schuylkill Railroad; .9 7 3.; for Catawissa Railroad Prefer
red ;21.,Uffor Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and 32 for
North Pennsylvania Railroad.
In Venal Stocks the tendency was upward. Lehigh .
Navigation advanced'{, and Schuylkill Navigation Pre'
{erred ;; and Susquehanna 34.
Bank and Passenger Railway Shares were inactive.
Messrs. De Haven and Brother. No. 40 South Third
street, make the following quotations; of the rates of ex.
change today. at 1 P. M.: United States Sixes, 1811. 111
@Hat' do. do. 1862, 109341g109. 9 ,‘; do. do., 1884,
107 n ;do.,1881,108,qq108: d0.,435.new,1063 , 00%; do., 1607
new, 107€.19'1U; Fives. 'fen-forties, locesqlocc.; Seven•
thirties, :June, i106,14R.106; July, 1f6U03106; Compound
Interest notes, June, 166!,19.40; do. do., July, 1861. 19.40;
do. do., August, 1864, 19.40; do, do., October, 1814
19.40; December. 1884, 10.40; do. do., May, 1866, 1811834;
do. do.. August, 18r8.17(31734; do, do.. September. 1865.
163(316%; do. do.. October. 1866,16(31634; Gold, 1083".4
138%; Silver. 182441134.
Smith, Randolph & Co., Bankers, 18 South Third street,
quote at 11 o'clock. as follows: Gold, 111834; United States
Sixes, 1881, inkginl:: United States Five.twenties, 1863
1003;®1093.1; do. Mt, 10r:0108; do. 1865, 108.4101OEN; do,
July, 18135, 106nA106 7 A1 d 0.1867. 107X®107U:Unlyed States
Fives, Ten-forties, 1003 , 1®1005,1; United States Seven
thirties, second series, 11 rNdel0e3.1; do., do., third " d a l
106%@166N.
• Jay Cooke & Co. quote Government Securities, &c., to
day, as follows: United States 6'5,1881, 111,%03111%; old
IFive4wentles, .10014@,1(4%: - - new Five twenties of 1884.
1077.4108; do. do. 1885, ; Five.tweallsn of
July, 100,4"@107; do. do. 1887, 107(4107.4; Ten-forties, 100 X
®100,1;; 7 3-10, June, 1053.1@1053i; do. July, 1053'fA1uePi:
Gold, 138;'s.
Philadelphia Produce illarket.
Sa'maims, March 28.—There is very little demand for
Cloventecd, and prices have again declined; sales of 100
bushels fair and good !Pennsylvania at $7 60@$8 00.
Timothy ranges from $2 50(42 75 per bushel. Small sales
of Flaxseed at $3.
The Flour market is firm, but the demand is lees active.
and meetly ernfined to the wants of the home consumers.
Sales of 1.000 tnrrels, mostly Extra Family, at sll] - 4512
per barrel for Pennsylvania and Ohio, and $lO 6e(41111 75
for 1• orthwestern do. do., including small lets of Superfine
at $7 75]?$8 80; Extras at $8 60(419 60. and Fancy We at
SlBaSsls. Rye flonr is steady at $8 Fo®sB 75, lie Com
Meal no further sales have been reported.
The clock of good Wheat is now reduced to a very low
figure, and this description Le held firmly at yesterday's
quotations. Small sales of Red. at dull 15; White
may be quoted at s3@isa 30. Rye is at 411 Eargon 86
for Pennsylvania. Corn is unsteady at the late -advance-;
sales of yellow at go 18(0$1 19; 3,000 bushels No. 2 Woot
en] mixed at 51 1644.51 a lot of damaged at $l 10, and
10,00 Western in the Elevator, •n secret term]. Oats are
firmer; ealrs rf 2,000 bushels Pennsylvania at 85qt0ic, ; the
latter an advance.
The Now York Money fflorket•
(From vsßecal.l •
blamer 27.—The gold markset wa weak at the opening
this morning, and sales were made at 138'6, but
subs •-
fluently it gained strenath, and an advance to 1383 s took
place, following which, however, it relapsed, and the
closing traneactiens were at 1383(. There was considers,
Ho pressure to lend gold. and althongh the "short"
interest ha e been largely there aaed within the
I set fortnight, the borrowing demand was not oriel
to the supply. Loans were made at rates varyine
from seven to eleven per cent. per annum. and at
2,-82@3-64 per diem for carrying The gross clearings
amounted to *35 443.1 Of): the gold balances to 181.7(r3.331.
at d the currency hal:weep to $2.5488.3 The epeetil ',nye
feeling in the room Is for tr e time being bearish, owing
to the dither Ity and cost of carrying Gan, out the un
settled condition of affairs at Washington. and the possi-
Millis a growing out of the impeachment and trial of the
. President operate against any fur her material decline.
The stock• market continues dull under the existing
condition of local monetary affairs, but it has neverthe
less been steady throughout the day. 'I he news from
Albany that the Railway . Committee of the Assembly
had unanimously reported against the Erie bill. and that
the- report had been agreed to by a vote of 83
to 12, • hardly attracted remark in the
street, and -its -influence upon the price.
of the stock was barely perceptible. The affidavit of
-Mr. Jay Gould. which goes to show that.tho Vanderbilt
party is as deep in' the mire as the other Fide is in the
mud, continues to attract attention, and the street is
amused at the criminatton and recrimination in which
the rival parties indulge with regard to each other. The
claims of the Vpnderbilt party to purity and unselfishness
of native in this litigious contest are thrown to the winds
by MrGonid's unvarnished narrative, and the animus of
the legal proceedingsagainst the Erie party is
revealed. It was a stock-jobbing quarrel in the beginning,
but it bassinet` assented the magnitude of a railway war.
The representatives of the narrow gauge are trying to
punish the representatives of the broad gauge, and vice
versa, and each side threatens to bankrupt the other. Se
that if both are to be believed Messrs. Drew and Vander
till will cometo grief and some day will be. begging cop
pers in Wall street.
In view etthe expanded condition of the banks of this
city, en fir le - leans on iiiiiivaY'atid''ruiecellarieottestoCks
are concerned, the amendment to Mr. Cattell's bill relat
ing to the national bank currency offered by Mr. Cameron
in the Senate today was in the right direction, but it was
not put in a practical shape. It says:—"Nor shall any
hank located in said cities (New York, Boston and Phila
delphia) loan to brokers or other persons engaged in stock
speculations any portion of their funds:.
There is no abatement of stringency in the money mar
ket, and up to half-past two this afternoon the supple of
loanable funds was as limited as it has been at any time
since the present pressure set in: but after that time those
who found that they bad secured more than they wanted
were lenders, and this imparted an easier feeling to lin
rowera. Loans were made at seven per cent. in gold by
MOM of the banks, as well as by nearly all the private
bankers, but the majority of the former still adhere to the
principle of not charging more than' the legal rate in
cur( ney. It is not. however. a question of price for
111 , nu' so much as of quantity. The banks here aro
still being draWn upon against country bal
ances; but at Ch'cap,o on Tuesday exchange
on ibis city was very scarce, and some lots aAd from
eel to cents t TeMitlM, while in some quarters it was
thought that it would soon he necessary to remit
, o ur, [i vy. It must, however, the remembered that
"reining Day" in various States, will not be until
uext W.. dnesday, and that' Preparations for the
ststements of the national banks will con
tinue throughout the country- until the Saturday fol
lowing. Next week is, therefore, not likely to be any
better for borrowets than the present one has been, and ,
an aggravation of the strirgency to borrowore on iniacel
lan, ous collateral:: is not improbable. The banks have
loaned so much on stocks that they have ne means left
for the discount or purchase of commercial pape.T, and
their mercantile customers ate complainingaccordinglv.
Where commercial paper is negotiated It is either by
.perial favorer at usurious rates.
'I here was an improved feeling in the market for
government securities, and under a moderate 'nye -tinent
demand and some speculative purchases on buyers'
options of thirty days at one per rent. above the current
quotations prices advance 4 slightly. The Sub-Treasurer
is understood to have bought seven-thirty notes to limited
extent; but as ho also Fold geld the
money market is not likely to expe
rience any relief through the operation, and it is
claimed that his currency - balance is too small to enable
him to do more than he is already doing towards mines
ting the prevailing stringency. With the return of a
moderate degree of ease governments will be the fret to
experience a reaction from their present depression, and
in view of the demoralized condition of the railway share
market capital is likely to seek them .in preference to
other secaritieth At the close the market was strong but
dull.
I From today's World.l
. . .
bfensus n—The money market was easier to-day, and
the usurious National Banks were not enabled to obtain
7 per cent. in gold. The stock brokeiii were well supplied
with money, and generally carried over large balances.
The bank managers and money-lenders who have figured,
conspicuously ,in charging high rates and fostering the
stringency, called In ' all their loans at an early
hour this morning in the expectation of creating
nu increased demand - yvhich. _would _enable them
to obtain stilt"' htg.her rates. The reverse, how
ever was the case. The supply from other (mailers wan
ample for the wants of borrowers, and when these parties
sound that applications for loans were few they tried to
lend their surplus and were glad to do so at 7 per i eent. In
currency, and some loans were made at 6 per emit. in
currency. At aboutB P. Df. money was offered freely 018
to 7 per cent. in currerey. The Assistant 'Treasurer's
movements are not calculated to make moijey easier. as
be sold about 16500,000 in gold and bought 'Only a small
amount of Fevendhirties. The convoy ions of coven
thirties were $425000, a symptom that the stringency is
Passing away in the public mind. The panic-mongers
are ?till talking 'about the extraordinary pinch iu the
.money market width will take place to morrow, but as It
is ascertained with tolerable certainty that the country
banks are already supplied with all the greenbacks they
ri quire foitheir quarterly
ro exhibit on April 1. there is uo
probability of any additional stringency toinorw un
less it is engineered by Treasury -Department move
ment& which is not likely.
The Government heed market was strong throughout
the day, and advanced. The attempt to break the market
yesterday by forcing sales of the tive-twenty bonds- of
1662 at 109.-; through a- prominent German blotter, in
order to start notion that the Germans were selling,
signally failed. the price closing at 10e to 109?.(, with tow
offering, and 110 bid, buyer 10.
The gold marketiranged between 1103; and open
ing at 138'4 and closing at 1364 at 3 P. M. 'I he rates paid
for carrying were 3 64,10, las 11, 9 and 7 per coat. After
the board adjourned sales were made at 138 N to I3Bf.
The !Latest Quotations from Now York.
[[By TelegraPh.]
Smith, Randolph & Co .. Bankers and Brokers, No. 11
South 'Third street, have received the following quota.
tions of Stocks from New York: .
61 Anon 28, 1868, 13)6 P.M.—Gold, 138.31f;17. B. 661881. llliy
; do. Salk. lad% 109 3 ,4g110; do. do. likt4.lo7Wr
do. do. 18136. 106%0'00i:do. do. July, BM 106.N14107 ; do.
do. :July, 1867, 10744107 M t do, fe-10 40. 100 (4100 ( 4;
7als . , ad seriesaloo,l 106%; do. do. ad seri.* 06% 005,;;
New York Gears!. ROY,: Rrie.7o%; Beading. 46.81.: !chi.
Ran t Southern, Plttstsirgh 91• Rock
Island 02;_ North West, common. tri; Do. preferred.
74 , 74 Froeffie Mall, 104%'• Fort-Wavne. 102%.
II DTA RUBBER GOODS!
ItrADIJCIED PRICES.
MARCH 1. 1866.
micuiris Bum% INGLIS AND HOBAN ;1, /4
RICHARD LEVICK;
No. 708 Chestnut
ue. east ut Street.
RubberOKen{~ of tae lVeflotul
FOURTH EDITION.
, X LlUtt Congresa-Second SeliNdOlb
WAHIIINGTON, March 28.
tia.wair.--The Chair _laid before the Senate a
resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, asking
Congress to declare that naturalized citizens owe
no elk to foreign powers. Referred to the
Committee on 'Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Rowe (Wis.) presented a memorial of the
Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee, praying
that money expended on that harbor lx;refunded.
Referred to the Committee on Corn merce.
Mr. Edmunds from the Committee of Con
ference on the bill to cover into the Treaeniry the
proceeds of captured and abandoned property,
presented their report which was agreed to.
Mr. Patterson (N. H.), from the Committee on
the District of Columbia reported formally the
bill to incorporate th e Evening Star Newspaper
Association. Also, the bill to incorporate the
National Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Edmunds offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
Resolved, That the President of the United
States be requested to communicate to the Senate
whether he has established or ordered to be es
tablished any new military department since the
18t day of August, 1867, and if so what depart
ment or departments, and under what statute or
other authority.
Mr. Davis (Ity.) offered a resolution inquiring
of the Secretary of the Treasury, whit amount of
U. S. bonds is ontstanding,of each class, with the
rate of interest and whet each class was worth in
gold at the time they were issued.
Mr. Sherman (Ohio) suggested that it would be
impossible to give that information at a mo
ment's notice, and the resolution was laid over.
On motion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate took
up the report of the Committee on Conference
on the bill to relieve certain manufacturers from
the internal tax.
Mr. Sherman explained the amendments.
Mr. Nye (Nevada) spoke in opposition to the
amendment for punishing whisky frauds. He
objected to the price being taken asprista facie
evidence of guilt on the part of all distillers, the
innocent and guilty alike. A foreigner smug
gling whisky and selling it at less than the tax
could thus suspend all the distilleries in a
district after ten days. Distilling was a business at'
legitimate as leather-making. The bill now pro
ceeded on the hypothesis that all distillers were
rascals, whereas the onus) of prOof should be
thrown on the assessors until the . guilt was
shown. He denied - the right of Congress to stop
a legitimate business without evidence. It
would not withstand a scrutiny of the Judiciary
for one moment.
Mr. Frellngbuysen (N. J.) said the effect of the
bill would be to close up every distillery in the
country, He asktd it such was the intention of
the Committee.
Mr. Sherman said the intention of the• Co
mmittee was to enable the Internal Revenue Com
missioners to close up every distillery in the
cities.
Mr. Nye said the effect would be to deprive the
Government of any revenue whatever from whisky,
and perhaps to till the pen itenti.sries with revenue
officials. The remedy lay in another direction.
He understood that a case was In preparation to
cover the whole subject, and be submitted that it
would be better to -leave the matter until then,
instead of establishing a system of spies upon a
legitimate business. The bill was oppressive and
unjust.
Mr. Morrill (Vt.) said that not one-eighth of
the whisky paid duty, while the accomplices re
ceived more than the Government. It was not
altogether uncalled for to suppose that all distil
lers were leagued in the fraud. The bill was,
however, too stringent. He suggested an amend
ment, leaving it in the discretion of the Internal
Revenue Commissioner to close up distilleries,
instead of mandatory upon him. •
Mr. Sherman said it was useless to attempt
another Committee of Conference.
Mr. Morton (Ind.) objected to the punishment
of these frauds, as there were existing laws on
the subject. The trouble was that they were not
enforced. He had inquired at the Internal Reve
nue Department on the 6th of January,and found
that there had not been over a dozen
persona punished for these crimes up to that
time. They might multiply penalties, but until
it was made a personal danger to commit such
frauds, they could not collect the tax. The cages
usually ended in compromises and the payment
of fines 'Pm in amount than the tax. Such men
cared nothing about the name of fraud., t
the evil would never be corrected until 50 or 100
of them had been sent to the penitentiary, in
stead of being allowed to settle the matter by
compromise with the District Attorney. They
should take it out of the power of the Internal
Revenue Commissioner, the Secretary of
the Treasury, and above all, of the Dis
trict Attorney to compromise. The District
Attorneys were tempted by the law giving them
only $5O for every conviction, but allowing them
two per cent. if they obtain ed a suppression of
judgment for $20.000 or $30,000. This evil
complained of would be increased by the propo
sition of the committee. He imputed noi cor
ruption upon the Secretary of the
"treasury or the Internal Revenue
Commissioner, but they had not proper opportu
nities, away from the scene of action, to make in
vestigation. If the power of compromise were
taken away, however, and a few of those com
mitting frauds were sent to the penitentiary, an
other state of things would' soon be manifest.
He read a joint resolution, introduced by him in
Januarylast, removing this power of eompromlse,
and making it compulsory that criminal proceed
ings he carried forward.
Mr. Fessenden coincided in the opinion of the
Senator in regard to compromises. Is addition, if
the Commissioner of• Internal Revenue had not
the means al his command to make the investi
gations provided for in the bill, he had no sym
pathy with those engaged in the business. He
thought it evident that it could not be car
ried •on honestly with the present price
of whisky. Reduction \of taxation might
mitigate the frauds somewhat. He,
too, believed the present provikion for additional
penalties would be found impracticable. Ho
called the attention of the Chairman of the Com
mittee to the fourth section, and asked whether
it did not cover all manufactures, imposing five
per cent. on all wholesale manufactures above
*5,000.
Wilson (Iowa) presented joint re
solutions of the lowa Lea's'stun, in reference to
the Des Moines rapids canal and swampland sec
tions.
Mr. Van Horn (Mo.) introduced two bills
amendatory of the present naval regulations. Re
ferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
Mr. Pike (Me.) introduced a bill to equalize the
grade of the staff corps in the navy. Same re
ference.
Mr. Judd (ill.) introduced a joint resolution in
reference to the rights of United States citizens.
Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The House then proceeded to the considera
tion of the bill to admit the State of Alabama to
representation in Congress.
kir. Ashley (Ohio) offered a substitute.
Mr. Kerr (Ind.) addressed the House in oppo
sition to the bill.
He declared that if the State of Alabama were
admitted into the Union under the law and with
the shackles which the last section imposed upon
her, she could never stand up in the family of
republics and say that she was the equal of
her sister States. She would come in
with a brand of degradation and
inferiority upon her, made perpetual by the
fiat of Congress. And yet they were told that
this was to be a Government republican in form.
It was a Government which the people of Ala
bama despised, which they loathed, which they
rejected in every way left to them by military
despotism in which to express thole feelings..._
When Alabama was first admitted she had in
scribed on her coat of arms the motto "Younger
but Equal." In that fnotto was expressed the
law of this country—a law most valuable, most
vital to the essential nrinciples of equality _of
Stateovernment. - But they were told
that the reconstruction measures of
Congress were for the better government of the
rebel States. If- the =literal were not , such
solemn ones, that might bff'received as a carica
ture. as a bitter and - e - irel wrong in the conduct
of Congress. If it were the - duty of Congress
to make a Constitution for Alabama, it should
make a decent Constitution ; one which would
bein fact and truth republican government.
But Congress had no such right, and if it should
make and force upon Alabama, the most prob
able 1060m:tient, It would 0111 notbe a constitu
tion republican in spirit and intent. As to the
constitution now - Sought to bo imposed on 'Ala
bama, if it.were republican, Haynau himself was
the very impersonation of a lover of libertY.
Mr. Kerr proceeded to criticise in detail the
various provisiono of the proposed constitution.
'.FIFTH EDITION.
3:15 O'clock.
Lennon, March 28.—The case of George
Francis Train, who was arrested for debt due an
English firm, incident to the street railroad
speculation, some years ago, came before the
Court of Bankruptcy, at Dublin, a day or o
since. Train presented to the two
Court a schedule
of his assets and liabilities, which the Court re
jected as a complete farce, and denounced it•asi
"worth less than so much blank paper."
Later despatches mention that the"riots at
Charleroi, Belgium, haVe again broken out, and
the disorder has spread with alarming rapidity to
other mining districts in the neighborhood. The
authorities have posted troops] and taken other
measures to meet every emergency.
The trial of the Fenian, General Nagle, whieh
was unsuccessfully attempted at Sligo Maize,
some time ago, will take place before, the Court
of Queen's Bench, In this city, some time in May.
MAinio, March 28,—Tbe Government is vig
orously excluding all American newspapers ' seiz
ing them In the mall or wherever found. Even
those addressed to Mr. Hale, the American Min=
later, have been suppressed. Mr. Hale bm' pro-
tested to the Spanish Government against the
outrage.
[Sees!al De etch
to Phil dlpha Evening 13elletin,
by Franklin Telegraph (kunpany.)
BOSTON, March 28.—lhere never has been such
a general depression of business in Boston as
now. Some twelve hundred mechanics who had
managed to get through the winter, hoping for a
revival of business, have become thoroughly dis
couraged, and will leave for California next
week.
Wasumerrox, March 28. —The Secretary of .
War sent to the House to- day a communication
from General Meade relative to the recent vote
in Alabama on the Constitution, showing that
under the law requiring half of the registered
voters to cast their votes, the Constitution is not,
ratified. He does not favor the immediate ad
mission of the State by Congress, but would pre
fer 'seeing the Convention reassembled for a revi
sion of the Constitution, to be submitkd to the
people under the new law.
AUCTION SALE
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OF
CARPETINGS.
R. L KNIGHT di EON, being about to remove to their
New Store. No. 1222 CHESTNUT Street, will aefl at Ano.
lion, in lota to suit purchasers, on MONDAY MORNING.
March 80, at 10 o'clock, a large assortment of CARPHT
INGS, for Rooms, Stairs and-Halls. at their Old Stand,
No. EO7 cHEBTNuT etreet. Catalogues are now ready.
and the goods may be examined to•dny. Ito
TO THOSE
Who Appreciate Good Fitting Garments,
ALBRIGHT & HUTTENBRAUCK,
915 Chestnut Street,
Can be Depended On.
The reputation of
JOHN W. ALBRIGHT
as a Coat Cutter is without equal. The specialty of
RICHARD HIITTENIIBACCR
lsPantaloon and Vest Cutting, for which he hue
anviable reputation.
s a good fitting Garment is the great de
iildomtum of the public, they can be fully satisfied
by Riv
Mintit.sing them a teal.
nih
FITLER, WBLVER & CO.
NEW CORDAGE FACTORY
Now IN FULL ()mummy.
No. a N. WATER and a N. DBL. ►wmom
INDIA RUBBER MACHINE BELTING, STEAM PACK
.I trig Hose, ite.
Ensineens and dealers will find a fall assortment of
Goodyear's Patent Vulcanized Rubber Belting, Packing
Hose, &c., at the Manufacturerie Headquarters.
GOODY EA R.S.
918 Chestnutstreet,
South side
N. B.—We have now on hand a large lot of Gentlemen's,
Ladles' and Misses' Gum Beets. Abe, every valeta , and
style of Gum Overcoats.
NEW
GRENOBLE WALNUTS-53 BALES NEW
Crop Soft shell Grenoblo Walnuts landing., and for
sato by JOS. B. BO:MEE Al CO.. IDS t3outh Do/aWarer
avenue.
WALNUTS AND ALMONDS.—NEW CROP OREM)
V I Me Walnuts and Papa shell Almonds, for sal°y
J. B. BIJBSIER & CO.. led dontb Vslawars avaane. b
- _....—.. . .... . _ .....__-- .
TTA I.IA N V ER..SIICF LLI -100 BOXES FINE 2QUATATT
A. ti bite import d and for sale by JOS. B. BUIISIER de '
CO;-.-, 108 Hoptit I solaware avolue. ._. __..........._._ ~_:.„ _ t
1017 Brim (immix SOAP.. 400 LOXES OIMUT:qt
T T W into Caatile Soap, landing from botc•rennooTantn,.
from Genoa, nod for Endo by JO B. OUSSIER dt , CO 108
South TIPIASCRrIP avenue.
CIANNED FRUIT, VEGE,TA HIES, ac x.-1 000'018E3
fresh Canned P , settee ; 500 cases f",,,b , c o, is " ?me
Apples: 200 ea ve s fresh Plue APPles. inleo I 1,010 muse
Green Corn and Green Peas; aoo ems* heart nem In
eons: 200 ewes fresh Green
e Gages: 500 avail Uherries. in
syrup; 5t 0 eases illsekberrie syretp; 500 eases etnisr.,
berries, In syrup; 500 sums / ro b war 4 in sox
eases Canned Tomatoes*
if 600 moss QFstent s Leßers and
claws. 500 eases Roost B eef . gotten,. Sou due.
or Pfl h ti OBEPH BUSiirSH & BouLDeus
Ith'S Boning ZiIdUVIT., , -BOMPaIifj7BILTD.
trr and DIU tilecnit. I Aneltpig from etaturvr onufm,
end for tale by JOB a; BUSSMR 41 00 4 Agent, a /3044
In; Rntilli btwora ovsmns. •
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cnnisters anittiumit boxm ink e
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CASE OF GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN'
FEiO N 1 Et s T ON
A General Depression of Business.
Mechanics Leaving for California,
LATER FROM WAKE:MOTO&
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
fly the Atlantic Cable.
Fs orra Boston.
The late discharges of workmen from the Navy.
Yard have caused considerable suffering and s
great number of those bound for California are
among those once employed by the Government.
The counting-room of A. S. & J. Brown, fruit
dealers, on State street, was robbed of a large
amount of money to-day.
The Alabama" Election.
AIICTION SALE&
C1:0111111ING.
4400 O'Clook.