GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.-NO. 295. THE EVENING BULLETIN; PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING, (BundAys excepted). ET TUE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING. ON Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., EVENING BULL ET IN —r ASSOCIATION. 8113822aar 4:IASPEI4 EIOI3DEH,3 v. 1,, Tmos.A t WS WELLS. The 13IILLIITIN b served to sulworl. bore In the oft? at 13 pay er week. .ayable to the camera or 188 annum. New Tr DING fIARDEI. iverm ob re CO P . 51111 904 az 907 Chestnut s stre e t. an 2 VILT EDDING INVITATIONS ENGRAVED IN THE N ' v Nandt and best manner, LGUIB DREKA. Sta tioner ngraver MS Cbertnut street. tab 20,11 DIED. DONNALDSON.—On the 29th instant, Mrs. Mary C. Donnaklion, relict of Capt. E. M. Donnaldson. •• FRBNAYE.—On the 29th inst., Mrs. Bettie E.. widow of the late Peter Frenaye, aged TO yearst The relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of her daughter-In-law, on Thursday, at 10 o'clock A. M., No 213 13'ederal street, Camden, N. J. •• HUGHES.—On March 29th, 1869, Alice 8., wile of Isaac W. Ifinghep, M. D., and daughter Of the taut Charles Donne. The remains will be removed to Sanbnry for inter ment, on Wednesday evening, at.lo o'clock. QPRING GLOVES-PIRST. QUALITY ONLY. KELP ON LY LANDELL -- AND ARCH, KELP ONLY TDE BEST GLOVES. CHoICE SPRING COLORS. BLACK AND WHITE. 4 SIZES PROM 6 TO 8. SPEOlill. NOTICIIES. OFFICE OF TUE MORRIS CANAL AND ;BANKING CO. JELSET Ctrs'. March 1.6. MM. Notice Is hereby given that the Annual Election will be held .at the *Mee of the t.ompany. in Jersey City, on • MONDAY. the DAY ON APRIL NEAZ far the choice of five Di, ectore In the place of Uses No. 4. whose term office will then expire ; one Director of Ohms No. 3to fill a vacmoy. and of The Poll will be open from I o'clock until 2 o'clock. P. Th . e f3teick Transfer nooks will be closed from this date until April eth. inch e.uds mblAnt4ll4 JOIIN RODGERS. Bec'y. NV 'UWE.MURDOCH"ii "E'V ENING WITH TILE POETS." LIORTIOULat HAL HALL, TUESDAY kNENI*-0, 31 A )1,....11 80, 1.889. Secured seats 10 cents, at TRUMPLEPPo biu•lc Store. No. E4Chestnntst. Tickets !reed fur Monclay.tdarch eth, will secure seats ou this occasion. mbOO 4trp• rarnue.-BAPTIBT MARS MEETING.--A 111115 r Meeting of all the Baptists of Pnilestelphis will be held on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, March 3lst. et 73 , ‘ o'clock, at FilhalT CHURCH. BilliAD and ARCH streets. to consider the subject of City Miselous. Beversl eminent speakers will sddrets the meeting. Ali are Invited. mlOO-34 air HOVER'S CARBONIZED PAPER. recently improved. is the most durable for re. L. M. CO- al Routh Fourth street. IBM se.. NEW METHOD OF SUILDING CHEAP AND BEAUTIFUL COTTAGES Deautiptive Circulars fres. Apply to Ohh3o-10trvl A. 1). CALDWELL 4 SON. 112 South Fourth street. ba l .r j rat A re ßE) et, ll l/ B hr Pi-iii:. NO IN; S-1513 an 4 15211j34. treatment and medicine =bed :ratnit7o u tly -li to the GRANTIS WASHINGTON HOUSE. How the Sioney was Liaised to Par- chisare It. WASHINGTON, March 29.—There has existed grave doubt as to who originated and carried out the Idea to purchase a house here in 1865 for General Grant. It appears that Mr. Stewart was not the Originator of the scheme, and at its com mencement did what he could to discourage It at a meeting of the gentlemen composing what was known as the Grant Reception Committee. Said meeting was held In the Filtta Avenue Hotel in October or November, 1866, and Mr. Stewart was chairman of the meeting. The following is a short account of the move, and for the accuracy of the statements refer to any of the gentlemen who were present at the meeting. Among them were Marshall 0. Roberta, B. Darling, Mr. Vermilye and George Opdyke: Mr. A. R. Corbin, of West Twenty-seventh street, sold his house in Washington to General Grant. Mr. L. R. Eno was one of the witnesses to the execution of the deed, and noticed the whole amount of the purchase money ($30,000) was left on cdortgitge for a term of years, but with the privilege of payment at any time. A few days after the execution of the deed the Grant Reception Committee met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. At this meeting Mr. Eno mentioned the circumstance of the purchase of the house and the mortgage given for the whole amount of the purchase money to several gentlemen then pres ent. Each one to whom he mentioned the eir camstance expressed a willingness to pay $l,OOO or $5OO toward the payment of the mortgage Mr. Eno took down the names of the several gentlemen to whom he spoke until the amount they expressed a willingness to subscribe had amounted to about $lO,OOO. After the organiza tion of the meeting, Mr. Eno rose and said that it bad casually come to his knowledge that General Grant had recently purchased a house for the sum of $30,000, and that his means were so limited that he bad found it necessary to leave the whole amount of the purchase money on bond and mortgage, and that he thought that it would perhaps be a more substantial mark of gratitude to General Grant to raise by individual subscrip tion sufficient money to pay off this mortgage; that he had already mentioned the subject to several gentlemen, and they all thought as he (Mr. Eno) did. Mr. Stewart opposed the propo- sition, sad said that "it was not for individuals to furnish the money, but for Congress:" that Congress should do for General Grant as the British Parliament had done for the Duke of Wellington; to which it was replied that Congress could not do such things; that it could not estab lish such a precedent, and further, that putting the matter off on Congress was but evading the subject. Then Mr. Stewart said he would give as much as any other man for the object; that he would pay $lO.OOO if any other man would. Mr. Eno accepted; ,said he would give $10,000; that he had the names of gentlemen who would give $lO,OOO more, and that with Mr. Stewart's $lO,OOO, the whole amount of $30,000 was already subscribed. Mr. Stewart then "backed out squarely, and said he would only subscribe $lO,OOO on condition that $lOO,OOO was to be raised." It was perhaps thought that eo large a sum as $lOO.OOO could not be raised, as the subscription for Farra Fut had already failed. Mr. Eno did not abandon the scheme to raise this $30,000; but as he was about to sail for Europe handed the names he had already secured to General D. Butterfield, and as an in ducement to him to undertake to obtain the subscriptions promised to be responsible for the difference between what subscriptions were received and the sum of $30,000, should General Butterfield not succeed in ob taining that amount. Mr. Eno sailed for Europe in November, 1865. At that time the subscription to the fund amounted to only about $23,000, and instructions were left from him to see that a sum sufficient to pay off the mortgage on Grant's house was subscribed, and if such an amount was not subscribed to make up the deficiency by in creasing his subscription to the required amount. General Butterfield succeeded in obtaining the $30,000 subscription, and when this was done continued soliciting subscriptions until $lOO,OOO or $105,000 was raised, and the amount handed to General Grant.—Herald. HAW rz. ,nefeat,of Salnave by the nevebitten Reverie, March 23.—8 y the way of 81. Thomas we have additional news from Hayti. On the Bth inst. Sslnave with his forces encountered the revolutionists and had a desperate fight.' He was routed and eight itieces.of cannon taken from him. He lost 103 men. Otherwise the situation remains much the some. ' Up to tho 25th February tho British man-of-war Jason was lying at Port an Prince and the Dart At Atm Dune. LETTER FROM WAIMUIVOTOR. Prospect of a Speedy Settlement of the Vexed Question•of the Civil Tenure Law-A Committee or Conference will act as Mediator, from whose Decision there will be no Appeal- President Grant Worn Down by Ex. cessive Mental Labor-He will Rest for a Day or Tuve-Philadelphia Av. pointments Waitingr for she Embargo, to be liaised -Wholesale Removal of Mevenne Eitorekeepers and Gaugers in Philadelphia-flames of the Vie. tims-'l Ise brand Plano Installed in the White Douse, &c. (Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Balietin.l WASHINGTON, March 29.—At last we begin to see daylight through the almost inextricable mud dle which has existed for the last two weeks about the Tenure-of-Office law and what should bo done with it. The House having refused to concur in the amended bill from the Senate, and insisted on an absolute repeal of the law, the contest was re-Opened In the Senate to-day upon the proposition of Senator Trumbull that the Senate should insist upon its amended bill, and ask for a committee of conference. Ontnes moved an amendment that the Senate should recede from its amendment to the bill, winch, if carried, would have settled the matter beyond all further controversy; but it was evident the majority of the Senate were not willing to yield'up thepower which this bill gives them, and after a tedious debate, in which all the stale platitudes of a fortnight ago were again brought forward, to the intense disgust of the listeners, who are perfectly sick and tired of the matter,the Senate decided -to Stick to- its emended bill :and determined to "fight It out on that line." The matter now goes to a committee of conference, and as its decision will be binding on both Houses, and as the committee will doubtless frame a bill which will make both Houses, concede romething from their extreme demands, the pros pect of an early settlement of the vexed question seems very hopeful HEALTH OF PRESIDENT GRANT. The President has been indisposed for several da3 s past, and on Saturday and to day received no visitors, however distinguished. A report wire circulatsd that he was not sick, but was engaged In considering various important nominations, which are daily expected to be sent to the Senate. In order to disabuse the public of this idea, Gen. Grant came out of his office and spoke to several gentlemen present in the ante-reorn, and his ap pearance abundantly satisfied them that he was ruffering from a severe attack of neuralgia in the head and face. After this nobody pressed him for an interview, and none of the Cabinet Ministers ,called during to-day, as they knew the condition of the President. TILE PHILADELPHIA APPOINTMENTS have nearly all been decided upon, but are in a state of suspended animation, owing to the un settled condition of the Tenure-of-Office law. Last week, when it was supposed the law world be repealed or amended without any unnecessary delay, the Prealdent, to show his good faith in the action of Congrese.commenced making removals, and made a clean sweep of the New York Custom House, nominating a Collector, /level Officer and Surveyor; but when the wrangle as to whether the law should be repealed or modified began to look as if It would be protracted almost indefinitely, the President ceased making any more removals, and the nominations sent In for the last three or four days have only been to fill vacancies. - day or two, however, the "obstacle" will be re moved, 'and then nominations will pour in by the wholesale, as both Houses want to adjourn rine die by the middle of Apra. THE GUILLOTINE AT WORK IN THE TREASURY DE PAIITHILNT. The work of "cleaning out" the Treasury De partment Is progressing rapidly, and to-morrow, it is expected, several hundr ed clerks of both sexes will receive their "yellow covers," politely informing them that their services will not be re quired alter the 31st inst. In the Third Auditor's Bureau ninety-four discharges will be made, but the 'lucky ones" are yet in ignorance as to who the axe will fall upon. REMOVAL of STOREKEEPERS AND GAUGERS IN PHILADELPHIA. Last week the following storekeepers in the Internal Revenue service were removed upon the reeonimendation of Supervisor D. P. South worth: First District—John Carrigan, Michael Sulli van, John J. Kelley, John R. Kelley, John Kin ney, Geo. Hartranft, Joseph Plallibert, Archibald Frazier. Second District—Chas. R. Dougherty. C. A. royd. Third District--J. A Murray, Lewis Snell, John Quinn. Fourth District—James Gaffney, John Fred encks, Joseph L. McNeill. James 8. Ellgilley, Thos. Fair, Chas. Fair, Nicholas Sehoalee, L. Brannigan, Joseph A. Hook. The iollowitg gaugers of distilled spirits were also removed upon the recommendation of Mr. douthworth : First District—David R. McLean, Wm. Mc- Cormick. Second District—R. McCunney. Third District—George F. Gordon, John H. Platt. Fourth District—Wallace Clifton, A. J. Lechler. TILE PIANO FOR THE WHITE 1100811. The grand piano made for the White House by the Schomacker Piano Forte Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia arrived this morning, and was placed in the Red Room. Mrs. Grant was highly pleased with her selection. It la a fall concert grand, in a magnificent rosewood case, with pearl mouldings, exquisitely finished, white enamelled plate beau tifully ornamented, keys of the purest ivory, with the maker's name inlaid %lett gold. The tone of the instrument is rich and powerful, with great depth and sweetness, and the whole affair reflects great credit on the well-known maker. It is the custom to refur nish the White House every four years, and it is always a matter of great competition between the leading manufacturers to secure the contract for the White House piano. The Messrs. Chickering, of Boston, were suc cessful for many years, but on the accession of President Lincoln, he made choice of a piano from the manufactory of Schomacker & Co., Philadelphia. This instrument, now eight years old, is still very fine, and has been greatly admired by thousands who have toughed its delicate keys and listened - to its sweet notes. It will be removed to ehiladelphia by the Messrs. Schomacker, and placed in their warerooms to be kept as a relic, where the public can have an opportunity to see and hear it. Often the departed Lincoln listened to its sweet strains, which no doubt cheered him in his gloomy moments. It has truly become historic, and a valuable relic it is. For dine successive administrations has Phila delphia been favored In furnishing the grand piano for the White House. This speaks well for your artisans, and proves that in this difficult branch of industry, your city can claim the first honor. SUSQUEHANNA. Fire in Wilmington. Delaware—Lose 817.00 i). The Wilmington Commercial of yesterday says: About half-past five o'clock on Sunday morn ing a fire broke out in James Downward do Son's rope factory, near the Kennett pike, beyond Adams street, which resulted in the total destruc tion of the building. The factory had been stopped all winter, and the proprietors had Just laid in a large stock of hemp, ike. t intendlog to commence operations this morning. The buildings were fall of hemp and the flames spread with fearful rapidity. The firemen were Boon on the ground and sent copious streams of water upon the building, but were unable to subdue the fire until It had done about all the damage, possible. The low on building and stock is quite heavy, and will probably amount to $17,000, on which PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH SO, 1869. there Is an insurance of $lO,OOO in the following compbnles : New Castle County Mutual, $2,000; Delaware Mutual, $3,000; a Connecticut company. $3,000, and a company in Philadelphia, $2,000. A VIBUY SAM 0138 AFFAIR. Full Particulars off the Capture of the American Brig Mary Lowell try a spaniels Alum-of-lilar—Otßelal IState ent: Havarea, March 24.—The British gunboat Cherub came into port yesterday evening from Nassau, N. P., and brought news of sensational importance, since they tell of a great insult to and outrage upon the American and British flags by a Spanish man-of-war. I have told you of an American sailing vessel having shipped arms bud ammunition and a number of Cuban passengers from an American steamer that bad been disabled in her machinery, at or near Nassau, and of her having put into Ragged. Inland port, Bahamas, a here she was closely watched by a Spanish man (4-war, the Andalusia. By the arrival of the British schooner Margaret at Nassau, from Boned Island, the startling announcement was convo ed that the vessel in question had been captured in an English port of entry by the An- Mitosis, in direct violation of international and British laws. By the Margaret there came as passenger to Nassau Me, Walter Wit an,. the Custom House officer at. Ragged Island. who had charge of the American brig Mary Lowell, the vessel in question, in the ca pacity of pilot and Custom House officer, for a period of eighteen days, and who had the hatch ways sealed down with the seal of Her Majesty's Customs. To the urbanity and courtesy of one of the officers of the gunboat Cherub I am In debted for the following copy of Mr. Wilson's official report of the capture of the Mary Lowell, he having been on board of her at the time On the afternoon of the lEith, at about 4 20 P. M., I was In the act of removing the brig Mary Lowell from Man-of-War Anchorage to a safer place known as the "Harbor," when I was or eared to heave to and lower my sails by the com mander of the Spanish gunboat Andalusia, who, ending that I did not do so at once, gave the or ter three times, in a loud voice, to fire into us. Upon this I Immediately hove to, when a boat came alongside containing fifteen men, well armed, under the command of two officers, one o whom demanded permission to come on board. I replied that he might do so as a private indl tidual, but not in an official capacity, upon which he came on board. We had not, however, been in conversation more than a minute or so, when an order from the captain of the gunboat was given to the men in the boat to board the trig, which they accordingly did, and imme lately took formal possession of the vessel. I may here mention that the order, three times elven, to fire Into us, was prevented from being carried into execution by an officer who placed Lis hand on the cap of the gun to prevent its eeir g fired. 1 remonstrated with the officer who boarded me (who, by the way, could speak English fluently) in as energetic a manner as was con sistent with my duty, asking him whether he was aware of the illeenlity and gravity of the act which he was about to commit, and whether be t.new that the brig Mary Lowell under my charge was an American vessel, and that she was in British waters and under British protection, and, moreover, that I was an officer in the employ of her Majesty's government of the Ba hamas, to which he replied, " that he was 43/1 01 the orders of his enperior' officer." Be then ordered me to get into the boat and go on board the gunboat. as the commander wanted to see me. I then, with he six men that were with me in the brig—four ut whom belonged to her, and the other two of whom I had Nought from the shore--got into the boat and proceeded to the 13punialk man-cif war. On going on board I asked the captain what his intentions were, and what he wanted with me, to which he simply replied that I must at once go on shore. To - enable me to do so. he gave me the boat belOnging to the Mary Lowell, in which my brother, George W. Wilson, who was on board of the man-of-war, together with myself and the two men from the shore, reached the land. The other four men be longing to the brig,who were all British subjects, a ere detained as prisoners on board the Spanish gunboat. During the entire of the above pro ceedings, as narrated by me, the American nag was flying from the main deck of the brig, until I was obliged to lower my sails, when it was car led to the side of the vessel and spread over the rail. On our leaving the Mary Lowell, the American flag was removed, and almost immedi .tely afterwards, the brig was made fast to the gunboat which proceeded with her to sea in a -outhwesterly direction. --- The captain of the Mary Lowell had left her and Ragged Island sometime before the capture ut the vessel, and her Cuban passengers had all gone off ashore, many of whom came back to Nassau in the schooner Margaret with Custom House Officer Wilson. The good people of Ragged Island were thrown into a nigh state of excitement by the capture and consequent Insult to their flag, and some were even desirous of croceeding to extremities, not only in conse quence of all this, but also m consequence of certain threats which had been made from time to time by the commander of the Andalusia, The arty departure of that vessel with her prize, r,owever, precluded these desires from being car • led into execution. The good people of Ragged stand bare sworn vengeance against Spaniards, and the first Spanish vessel that puts into their port is likely to get a warm reception. ID Nas •an the capture also created no small excitement. Governor Walker at once pronounced It an outrage, wanton and unpardonable in its nature and execution, which demands prompt and vigorous measures in vindi cation of the honor and integrity of the British Empire, With this view of the case, his Excel .ency prepared despatches for the home govern ment, and sent them to Havana by the Cherub for telegraphic transmission. Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General here, the Hon. Jas. Graham Dun lop, has taken the matter of the capture in hand with zeal and energy. Yesterday evening he was to have an interview with Captain-General Dalce on the subject, but the latter was prevented by a review of the Havana volunteers, and by a engtbened conference with a junta of rural pro perty holders from attending. so the interview will take place to-day. The capture of the Mary Lowell is likely to lead to serious diplomatic com plications between Great Britain and Spain, in which the American government will necessarily have to take a part against the latter power. The Andalusia is supposed to have brought her prize to Nuevitas, and se we have no mail steamer from there before next fiaturday,we will probably have to wait till then before hearing the Spanish ver sion of the capture.— World. AU CINEMENTS AMERICAN COMEDY AT THE ARCH The comedy entitled Women Rude was pro duced according to announcement at the Arch Street Theatre last evening. The author, who t ver be may be, is evidently a man of some cul ture. Be boa a wholesome respect for the laws of good rhetoric, a tolerable fund of humor, and a considerable deal of that practical common sense which is impatient with the vagaries of foolish and fanatical people. As a literary work the play is excellent. It contains many witty sayings, some of them of exceeding brightness; terse epigrammatic passages; mum shrewd phi losophy; some learning, which verges, now and then, upon pedantry; a little genuine poetry without any maudlin sentiment, and, withal. plenty of evidence of the author's acquaintance with human nature, and the springs of human action. As far as the mere text of , the pity le concerned, the author maytipasonably regard his work with satisfaction. But a more accomplishe playwright would have remembered that-while polished and elegant language and sparkling wit are very desirable in a drains, they are not the first eattentiala to its OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. succeed. Sometimes a play that Is intense and powerful upon the stage, seems very bald and barren when' read in the closet. Unless a man has absolute dramatic genius,be is likely to make a failure - in this kind of composltfon; If he does not subordinate the language to the action. end depend for effectiveness more upon striking situations and ingenious climaxes than upon nicely turned phrases. The dialogue of a comedy representing modern domestic life, should be criep, rapid, and, to a degree, commonplace. I houid tell the story, too, plainly and naturally. Each act should have a separate and dis tinct Individuality; should possess a certain unity and completeness of its own, and be a little drama by itself. Like the strand of a rope it , ought to be worth something apart from its tellowe, to which, nevertheless, it should bear a natural and symmetrical relation as a portion of the whole. From the beginning, it should move forward with directness and obviousness of intention towards a climax; and the certain should descend upon the culmination, to produce be proper effect upon the audience. An act which does not, to some extent, close its portion of 'the narrative, but leaves to its successors the solution of every mystery contained in it, is an noying, ,dispiriting and unsatisfactory to the spectator. Robertson's Caste is one of the best modern instances that we know of, with which to Illustrate this truth. It is full of natural yet very ,powerftil situations, and the acts divide the, play so nicely that the art of the dramatist seems to be the result Of inevitable necessity. In these respects Women Rule Is a failure. The entire plot IS involved and confused to a perplex ing extent. The characters appear to get with out reference to any general design; and they talk too much and too irrelevantly. The first act Is obscure, and without any climax; and the cur tain descends just as the listener is trying to COM.' prcliend exactly what the action upon the stage means. "linked, there really 'Snot a culminating point anywhere in the drama, for when the vil lains are baffled they are off the stage, and the lovers are made supremely happy in the green room. The audience sees and hears only the re sults of the defeat and of the victory. The only dramatic situation in the play is that in which the most interesting lover Is left alone with his sweetheart, end, desiring to propose, is afraid to venture. This Is elaborated nicely enough to prove the author's capability for good effects; tut it is the only evidence furnished by the drama ' Some of the characters possess individuality. "Mrs. Paykaan" (played admirably by Mrs. Maeder) is a strong minded woman, with vague notions of honesty and with a propensity for wire pulling. She is strictly an American cha racter, but, although she makes one or two allu sions to the United States, we are not able to de termine whether she is an emigrant or not. Her position in an English nobleman's family is an ,nomalous ond "Lord Winterly" (played by Mr. Mackay) is a less striking and more impossi ble personage. He is a little bit knave and a great deal fool—too much of a fool to conceive and manage a deeply laid scheme. "Henry" (played excellently well by Mr. Everly) is a clever character, without any especial force or novelty. The same may be said of "Mrs. Winslove" (Mrs. Drew,) "Emily Meadows" (Mrs. Crease,) and "Valentine" (Mr. Hill.) Mr. Craig appeared as "Landoff," one of the most isterestirg personages of the piece, but not by any means a very striking character. The strong minded woman Is the most successful person,and the one that will be beat remembered by those who see the play. Perhaps the author's eoneep lion is unjust to the class of energetic women of whom this one Is made the representative, but he has drawn the character admirably in accordance with.his views upon the woman's rights move meat. The summary is, that this play, despite its many e xcellences , contains fatal defects, and will inevitably be consigned to the limbo of unanc meg tit &ulnae. Thia,we think,will be the verdict of every impartial and capable person who has seen it. —Mr. J. Gran hoe written to us as follows of his intention to produce a series of comic operas at our Academy : - I beg to inform you that I am about to visit Philadelphia to give a short series of Opera Bonffe at your Academy of Music; the season will consist of ten nights and two matinees, dur ing which the following operas from my reper toire will be given : Genevieve de Brabant. La Grande Duchene Barbe-Bleue, La Vie Partrienne, L'CEil Crevi, Fle ur de Thi. All the celebrated artists of the company will take part in those representations with the chorus and orchestra of the Theatre Francais. The names of the artists comprising the company are as follows: fddmes. Rose-Bell, Desclanzas, Gueretti, Beekers, Gabel (the original Gendarme Piton), Bcrargoin Genot, Deligne, Mussay, Juignet,with secondary artistes and auxiliaries. The rich costnmes,appolntments, properties and scenery will be brought from Now York, and will be the same that made each pro- ductiOn at the Theatre Francais so attractive." —The London Burlesque Company began an engagement at the Walnut last evening. They will appear to-night in Ilion and Miriam' s Crime. —At Assembly Buildings to-night, Merchants Tour of Ireland will be exhibited. —At the Theatre Comique, this evening,'Mr. and Mrs.. Madison Obrey will give one of their charming, humorous and musical entertainments. —The Field of the Cloth of Gold continues to draw large audiences at the Chestnut. It has been reconstructed and Improved by a number of new scenes and some very clever local hits. —At Horticultural Hall, to-morrow afternoon, the regular rehearsal of the Germattla Orchestra will be Riven. The following . is the programme : Overture, "La Dame 81anche"........A. F. )3ololdlen Concerto for Slide Trombone F David Performed by Wm. Brueckner. Dividenden "Walts"... ...... —John Strauss Allegretto from 7th Symphony Beethoven overture, Slmiramtde.... ......... ..... .RosAini (;rand Belection fr"m "L'Africabie" Meyerbeer Donnerwetter "Galop" ......... .. • ..... ...... P. Sekat —James E. Murdoch, Esq., the eminent actor and elocutionist, will read choioe selections from distinguished authors, at Horticultural Hall, this evening, for the benefit of Adam Lodge, No. 61, 1. 0. 0. F. The tickets are only 50 cents, and every ticket secures a seat. —For this evening, at the American Theatre, a varied entertainment is announced. —On Thursday evening, at the Arab, Mrs. Tha3er will have a benefit, and she offers a bill which certainly will fill the house. Everybody's Friend, Domestic Economy and Romeo and Juliet will be given. —Mr. A. Everly will have a benefit at the Arch Street Theatre on Saturday evening next, when tie will produce Strathmore, a play of intense dramatic interest, and a humorous drama en titled Helping Hands. or Love and Music. —At Musical Fund Hall on Thursday next a testimonial concert will be given to Mr. William Stoll, Jr., the young violinist, with whose.attain meats most of our citizens are acquainted. The list of artists who will appear makes the success of the entertainment certain. —The Italian opera season will begin on Wed nesday evening next, at the Academy of Musts, with Donizetti's opera, Belisario, in which Mad ame States and Signors Boetti and Orlandini will appear. On Thursday evening Martha will be elven, and on Friday Meyerbeor's Prophet will be produced in magnificent style, with Madime De La Grange in the role of 'Tides." At the Saturday matinee Ernani will be given, and the programme for the week eloseswith, a second representation of Le Prophete, on Saturday evening. Not only will, this be the last opportpnity to hear Miss Kellogg' before she goes abroad, but it will, very likely, be the only chance ever to hear the great artist La Grange, who will take her final departure from this country at the end of the present season. It is hardly necessary to say again that Mr. Marta zi k promises to cover himself with glory during the tor (night campaign. He will havens unusu ally large chorus, an orchestra composed of our bast musicians; and the appointed - enter of alluthe operas will be of the'most •elogent kind. Seats can be secured at:Trawler's. EXTRA. FIFTH EDITIOIii , BY TELBIaRAPH. ADDITIONAL CABLE NEWS LATEST PROM WASHINGTON THE TENURE OF OFFICE LAW The House Committee of Conferene The Redistribution of the Curren), The Pacifio Railrod Litigation By she Atlantic Cable. Lopromg, March 80, Eveninte.—Consols 93% for money and account. Five-twenties 83%. Rail ways steady; Erie 24%; 1111nels CentraL96%; At lantic and Great Western 31w. LIVERPOOL, Marcia% Eventok.---Cottonelosed active. Uplands 12%1.; Orleans 12%d. Sales to-day 20,000 bales. Spirits of peyote= 9%d. LONDON, March 30, Evening.---Tallow Sat at In.. 3d. Sugar quiet at 89s. 9d. Calcutta linseed 590. ANT - wimp, March 30.—Petroleum easier at 54 1 / 0.10530. tir.ssoow,March 80.—Arrived—Steamship Cale donia, from New York. LONDON, March 30.—Important despatches %ere received to-day from India, at the War Of fice. Lord Mayo received Share All with great splendor, and presented him with his own sword, enuring him that the British would always be friendly. !Mere All was very much gratified with the interview.which inaugurates an era of peace and good-NOLL From Waohinegton e [Special Despatch to the Phila. Evening Bulletin.) WasutNOTON, March 30.—The Senate this af ternoon refused to postpone the Currency bill in order to take up the Indian Appropriation bill. '1 se Mends of the redistribution of currency hope to get a vote to-day. The President sent but one nomination to-day: Chas. 8. Hamilton, for U. 8. Marshal for Wis consin. [Correspondence of the Amodated Prem.] WASHINGTON. March 80.—The entire maze of applications for situations under the Government, Ministers, Consulates, &c., have been classified and arranged at the Stare Department, and placed in regular order according to the weight of recom mendations appended to each, and the appoint ment?' will be made from them so as to give4.tke several States their due proportion of all, due regard being paid to 'strength in the Department in all crime. Tae general committee who had charge of the inauguration ball held a meeting last night, and resolved to devote the surplus fund of the pro ceeds of the ball, after paying the expenses, to the purchase of Clark Mills' statue of Lincoln. The President received several visitors to-day. At the- Cabinet meeting all the members wore present. al:. Etalsey has decided to accept the office of Retitistex of the Treasury, which was tendered to him. The President sent to the Senate, to-day, in compliance with a resolution, the letter of Mr. Cass giving his reasons for resigning as a mem ber of Buchanan's Cabinet, and also Mr. Bu chanan's reply. The Ironic Conference Committee, iBpecial Despatch to the Philade. Evening Bulletin.] WASHINGTON, March 80.—At the close of the morning hour General Butler moved to take up the Senate bill amending the Tenure-of-Office bill and agree to a conference. Mr. Schenck moved that the House recede from its farmer action, whereby the House disagreed to the Senate amendment. Not agreed to. Mr. Butler's motion was than passed by a vote of 106 ayes to 60 nays. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Butler, Bingham and C. D. Waahbarne as a Conference ComMittee. The Sate-Blowing Expedition. IF pet lel Deepatth to the Philads. Evening Ihillettal NEw YORK, March BO —When Receiver Tweed proceeded to the of of the Union Pacific Rail road, to exeente the orders of Judge liirnard to break open the safe, he was met by Mr. Dario w, who said he considered him a trespasser. The Receiver reconnoitred, bot took no mea sures towards breaking the safe open. He re turned to the Court and reported that In conse quence of the combination koy not being .in his possession he was unable to coal',•ly with the or der. Judge Barnard then directed him to take such measures as were necessary to effect the lteired object. ,Forty. First Vona re.e—Flret PlesslOn. Berewrer-Continued from the Third Edition Mr. Kellogg introduced a joint resolution to distribute the rank and number of Government employes among the several Stiles and Terri tories, which was referred to the Committee on Retrenchment. Mr. Sprague rose to object to the introduction of the resolution, but The Vice President decided that he was too late. Mr. Sprague said he was sorry, because the measure was evidently designed to interfere mis chievously with the heeds of departments, who lOWA be supposed to know better than any one else how to manage their own official affairs, and having been received at all, It would probably pass at some time when the Senators would not be paying attention to what was going on. Mr. Morton moved to take up the House bill to grant the right of way to the Memphis and El Paso Railroad Company. Mr. Abbott thought the bill ought to be referred to the Committee on the Pacific daliroad. Mr. Conkling objected to considering the biU at this time. First—Because he had been in formed that there were objections to it which could be best examined by a committee; and second, because it was not one of the measures which the majority of the Senate had agreed should be considered at this session. Mr. Howard urged the reference of the bill to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. It in volved, he said, many important questions, one of them being the question whether there is really any Memphis end El Paso Railroad Com pany in existence. The discussion continued until the expiration of the morning hour, which brought up as and lobed business the Supplementary Currency bill. Mr. Harlan moved to postpone this and all prior orders, and proceed to the consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill. Lost—yeas 23, nays 80. An amendment by Mr. Sherman was agreed to, Froviding that in the redistribadon of the bank n circulation the requisitions shall commence with banks having an excess of circulation ex ceeding 0100,000 in States haring an excess of circulation, and having withdrawn one-third of the excess above a millien,shall then proceed pro rata with banks having a circulation exceeding 8100,000: Flonio—Oolotipued from Third Edition. After some further' discuVion as cola the use or the Irreikeh' Weigh r(the 'prawns) in ge, and as to the unification of the coinage of the world, the bill was passed. 4:00 O'Clook. F. L. IMIIRKI)N.' il~lislt r. PRICE THREE CENTS; Mr. denekes, from the Committee ott Patents, reported a bill for the renewal of 'Wei natant cat James M. Miller, for the improvement of face condenser condenser for steam engines. • ' Alter an explanation, the blllwai riasSeT,'• • Also, a bill for the re-issno 'of Atkin'apatent for a self-raker, for seven yearal from Ike,l_B l Ohl December, 1860. After explanation, the bill' "ran' passed. Also, a bill for the extension of Ciark's patesitt for fastenings of hay and mannre,from the Crth Of March, 1864. After an explanation by Mr. Jenckets, the bill was passed. . Also, a bill extending the patent of 'Richard g. Hoe, for an improvement in printing-presses, ter seven years, commencing 29th of July, 1863, 'pre.; vidtd that It shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, as if issued under the general law; and, provided further, that all persons enelvitor the' lawful nee of such Improvement may continue:lite use without further payment therefor. Mr. Jenekes proceeded to advocate the bilL Be was satisfied that the extension of thepatent would not in the least affect the price of news. , papers. The inventor bad never charged shy' patent fee. Ells benefits had been from the nits n ufacture of paper. The publishers acknowledge& the benefits they had received from the invention and recommended the ex tension of the patent. The proprietor of the! New York Herald had set out in an affidavit be fore the committee how he had been able ter throw off many years ago what was then thought the extraordinary issue of 20,000 copies and how, if he wished to increase that number,he would be obliged to duplicate- his forms and provider mother set of machinery, Sze. The morning hour expired and this bill went , over until to-morrow. The House then proceeded to the business on the Speaker's table, and took np the Senate mes sage announcing the Committee of Conference: on the Tenure-of-Offlce bill. Mr. Butler moved to agree to the request for s Committee of Conference. Mr. Schenck moved that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate amendment, which, motion, he remarked, had precedence over every other motion. Mr. Wood moved that the House insist in its disagreement. Mr. Schenck's motion was lost—yeas 60, nags 106. The Home then voted to insist on Its disagreement, and agreed to tbe commit tee of conference, and Meseta. Butler, Waahburne and Bingham were appointed as said committee. A joint resolution was adopted to adjourn the session of Congress April 6th, at 12 o'clock. .144'0:11JAnDiii0A HORRIBLE MURDER. A WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN KILLED. A despatch from the Ninth District Police. Station this afternoon announced that a woman named Blackstone and two children had been murdered at a house in Judson street, in the neighborhood of Twenty-third and Parrish streets, in the Fifteenth Ward. No particulars or the horrible affair were given. FACTS AND FANCIES. —A party of Arabs promenaded Chestnut street this morning, followed by ae-rabble, of course. —Jewish synagogues have been'opened Madrid for the first time since 1492. —What could those Arabs be-donin in Chest nut street. to-day ? —The Richings-Bernard English Opera troupe Is in New Haven. —Mrs. Lander is playing Elisabeth and Mary Maori In Memphis. —The Arabs visited the Custom House, to-day, because they beard that it was a Moore4sh temple. —Mr. Ball Mangesh Wagle, the first native bar rister who has qualified in India, was recently ad mitted to the Bombay bar. —Gounod's nephew is an advertising agent. His illustrious uncle furnished him the necessary capital. —Miss Rye is coming to Canada in the latter part of May with another cargo of girls for To ronto or a market. —One of the converts In the revival at Ames. lowa, is a lady who Is over one hundred years. old. —A colored barber in Milwaukee has learned French and German within a year at a total coat of fifty cents. —The Arabs visited the New Ledger Building this morning, and furnished that paper with the latest boar-nouse. Their cards were printed in Arab Esq. style. —General Grant's inaugural address has been printed by an Indiana firm in a form auttable to be named for the adornment of chimney pieces. —Frank Pierce's cabinet was the only one In the history of the United States that remained unbroken from the beginning to the end of the administration. —Tbo book that had the largest sale In the present century in France is Bernardin do Bt. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia." Upwards of one hundred large editions of it were sold. —The extremes of climate in California are well illustrated by the editor of a paper in Alpine county, who rides to his office In a sleigh, the snow being five feet deep In some places, and . writes behind a bouquet of flowers, plucked in the open air within sight of his office window. —A "double-ender" locomotive is the last in vention in the railroad line. It hae no tender, but carries water in a tank over the boiler, and coal in a box In tho rear of the furnace. It has trucks and cow-catchers at either end, and it runs with equal facility when either end is fore most. —The London Deify Now made the following apt comparison : "Mr. Johnson's administration has been a period of delays. It has been like the six weeks of ,east wind which de lay our English spring—a period of obstruo tion and check, in which things have neces sarilyrogressed, but have not progressed naturally." —Very curious things are constantly being found among the personal property loft by the late King Louis the First, of Bavaria, once the lover of Lola Monies. At his beautiful chateau in the Rhenish Palatinate there was recently dis covered in the rear of his study a small secret vault half filled with carefully sealed rolls, which the persons who discovered the vault believed, at first sight, to contain gold, or at least sliver . pieces. Upon opening the rolls they wore found ' to be tilled with copper krentsers and pennies.. ' Nobody can imagine what the old King wanted to do with these coppers, and why he kept Wets so carefully concealed. —The Boston Bulletin says: A list of disast ers. tt the fishing fleet on "Georges," though rather et, sombre record, presents 80010 lively features connection with the names of the vessels. Ttitus we learn that—" Fanny Fern lost her triairtbOeut.''' Poor Fanny! We hope she didn't "Whir • her ' stays." The Vice-President is supposed to be well • settled just now, but the report says: "Sebnyler Colfax lost anchor and thirty fathom% The Sage of Ashland was considered &Ohl with , cards, but it seems that "Henry owe bad dacki swept." Tho ladies acorn to sulfer - worat of all t the llat, "Florence:" "Clara," "Efattle," "Mary," "Marlon," "Annie," "Luellteand others toeing thtir ariebore and any quantity of cable; but the meet touching line In the net le, "Bophronla teat a man." • • , •
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