~ : .t:, ! ..,•(.1.,..) .i:;:-:-:.,,,,:,-'..i,i..i.;::_, CMSON. PEMOCIC. Editor. • •urrisvpuio . : :OAItPB, INVITAtIONS , SPECIAL NOTICI,KR; • v r for Parties, &c. New ptylen. .1 11 140 N 00 . , 90/. NOTIOE—AT A MEETING OH' THE Chestnut street: - de3ofrow Stockholders of MeI:HICK MOUNT 4,1 N 00AL "ty Ifibbasi IN VITATIONB EN-1 0031 PA NY, held at their otkir, No. DO 'iNatnut ^street, cstspred in tho newest and best manner. LOUIS on Fobrtn l . 7 .Y. D Stationer and Engraver. fiD2 Ohostnat , - rt.& ff sittotorm. Streit. tf i WILLIAM P. JENKS, • . AVILLIAM MOSBY 2 . 130110:. BOCS B. I§lc.FA RCA Nll. BENJAMIti• T. T•11,110(11t, . ' HUN Hy C. TOWSSEriIIk • JOHN. W. VIJCLD.. Ware ' duty ClottedDfrectore to 'Serve eanninit year. At a meeting or thoroard hid mi . ' thi.Sth inntant, NATHAN HILLIL A was eleeted Prreident, and THOS. H. TLIOTTELI appointed Secretary and Treasurer. PulLinal44lia, February 7. 070. ; lt" THE iNSURANCE O()MPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. - • PHILAIMPIirk, reb divid e ndlST). The Direetore havo this day declared a:0(81x Per Cent., or twelve dollars per mlotre, clear of United 'tales and State Taxes, payablo to Stockholders or their legal repfebentatives on &nom& fe7-ling J. H . 11OLLINETHICAD. Secretary. MAUI Out., James Canley. lu the 211 yen r of his Friend* of the family aro respectfully invited to at tend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 812 South Ninth etreeti - thls (Monday,/ aftProoon. at 2 o'clock. it 111A01-00 Itirst•day morning, the Stb luatant ;Ann pony, in the P,St rear of her two, The relatives and friends of tho family are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 5160 Main street, Germantown, on Sixth-day afternoon, the llth law., at 2 o'clock. es-• this rooming of the edh inst„ Bailie 0., wife of John M. klevipquat dAuFhtqr of the late Dr. Isaac It. Munn....:.• - The relatives and friends oldie family are respectfully invited In attend the funeral, from the residence of her husband. No, 610 Marshall street. eu Tuesday morning, at, 10 o'4o.'lamlo4 at Laurel [;dewYork ooi _Wane cepv•) MONTOOMERY.—The male relatives and friends o f the latoollardnian Philips Mentt omerv. and those of the fattikly s 'ere , particularly in vlted.i without .further no VW , . to attend his funeral. at _St. rot er'ealtai tclt, corner of Pine and Third streets, b.-morrow t Tuesdayl. at half- I v 0., titre. o'clock I'. M.. penrieuitm. 31VBILA Ir.-011 the 6th iq . ry. J.ouisa IZuhiit, daughter ni t tirtßlV.ll hartea. L 'and LOW L. timut r Ay, aired The relative. , and frlenik of the family are renmetfol I y Itiritrd to attend the funeral, from the residence of the pareeln, No 2 , , Nlyieenth street, Qll Tuesday, the rith t., at 2 o'clork P. M. * • Nl)jjtjltfrfq , .-11/ Crorsvoicks, N. J., on the stla Inst., Isabel Burnt, Norcross, in the stb year of her age. The relattycs entl,triende of the family are respectfully invited ttetittrosithe funeral, tient tko rreltlrner of her grandfather. J. P. Bunt ins, Clrotswicks. N.J., onilTues day nest, the Bth inst., at tl o'clock A. M. Interment at Trenton. N. J. ut Elf'lnfante,. Ps..i on Thfirsday. Yob. 3, Evan Hugh and Jennie Kenney, Only children of Howl and Hattie Vallentins. it LPLAID•NII.INBOOISI3 FOR 111, DIE ' WRAPPERS/ ' • ' SATIN MAID CAMISHICS. SOFT FINISH rAMBILICS. _ M itt LANDEL AND FiA/0311 L 2IIW3I4NS. • SPECIAL NOTICES. OUT Weed,patade Clotitlingis as ,fise ordinary erotism Work. 14 .: ei 0. il D• .. 0 ts 0 a ; a B g 4 ; JOHN - " i i , A : " I . w I .., , - / P 13 i t al • la al 1 a ; 0 CHESTNUT STREET.. Ii Y• , a 818 and 820 "Jolene you /save inspected lilyosi wHI hardly believe oar Readyarade Cloth. Ira eau bean line as It IM. up ACADEMY OF 311.151 C. THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. RALPH WALVD.ESILERSON, 1111S(MONDA.Y) EVEL ING, FEIIII,USBY 7. bial,Ject—tiocial Life u America. . • U4•T E CLIA D- D.. it - bruArs Subject—The Doll a Honor. ' ORO. WM. CUILTIS.'. ll'brunts , 24. utqett—Our National Prof- .1101a0N, February 20. Subject—Solt Nellyne, , IIAY A RD TATl.:kielltreit 3. Subject—Reform and Art. Jolll`i G. :... 4 AX1.7.. March 21. Subject—l - rebel' Folio. at Home. Prot. 11013k:ItT E. ROGE,RS, March 21. Subject--Clictuicat Vorera In Nature and the Arta. . . ANNA E. DICKINSON, April 7 Breakk. 19?" Athittrisfen to each Lecture, .50 cent e. 'Reeervett Seats. 7.5 Gent,. Tickets to any of the Lect nreii r r sate at i'S'a aid . 4 Piano Roman. 923 Chestnut street . from Si A. 11. to 5 Doom open all. Lecture at E. fel- tf ACADEMY : OF MUSIC. SOIREE GYMNASTIQUE • Dy the Pupils Of Lewitt's Gymnasium, 9ri_WEPONSPAYZVE,NING, February_9•lso ' A choioo-Programmo of Exerciso4 by Pupils of both sexost ootistoting of Heavy wall bightGymAwilles, Spar. sing, Acrottittic }`'ointt and Ortilteh. mat Mhsfo. ...... Iteeerved Beats; tAI c.ints. Can be secured :it Ninth and Arch streetag W. U. Bawl' & 1102 Cheat/int street, and at the Academy. 1.11-mid alit LOClltit etreet , :, on the' /lay and evening of Exhibition. re/ :Itrfi • . tc — ?a • OFFICE OLD THE MOSHANNOTI COAL COMPANY, Boom No. 12, Pomp Building, C.l) Walnut street. . PKrL.A.I4ILPIIIA . Feb. 5,183. At the nue ual meeting of the stockholders of the above Onapauy, held on the :nth day el' Jeuuary, ISW the fol lawillg unwed stockholders were duly elected Dlreetore to Nerve. the Ira lug year: DAVID Eli GIIT, 'JACOB KNIGHT, W. W. NEE . 4.1 t. C. E. SPANGLER, DANIEL BEITTAIN. Atui at a meeting of the Directors, held January 24th, 11.50,DAFIT KNIGHT was unanimously re-olected Prositieut, and J. FRANK KNIGHT, Secrotary anti Treasurer. • it' WOFFICE OF" THE DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL AND CAMDEN AND A BOY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. . PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 0,1370. The holders of the new scrip in the above Compan lee aro hereby notilled that the time for paying the last in stallment will expire February 10, 18/0. At, any time before that date it may be paid by those holding the re celpta of RICHARD S. TROWBRIDGE, Cashier, or F. : "CONOVER, Transfer Agent,to Mr. TROWBRIDGE; at his of ice. who is authorized t. receipt for the name on the back rf the receipt for first installment. Oplo-tfe9rp RICHARD STOCKTON. Treasurer. nOa OFFICE PENNY. ROAD COMPANY, Ritrtairon,Ploa, January 25. 1870. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.—Tho annual meet ing of Ow Stockholders of this 'Company will bts field on TUESDAY, the 15th - day of xr etulary,lB7o at 'lo'o'clork A. M.‘..atithei. Hall of thee Assembly Bui ldings, -S. W. corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. The annual election for Directors will be held. on MONDAY, the 7th clay of 'March, 1870, at the iORIC-03' of the Compapri No. 238 South Third street. • a JOSEPH Ixii4 - r i jliptter arns. Simrotary.. 110%, UNIVERSITY OF P - - R . ' ---- NR ,SY L: V ANIA .—LECURES ON SOCIAL CIENE. —Prefesaor J. H. li T cILVAINE, D. 1) , will delive C r a a Couriw , of TIN LECTURES, on SOCIAL SCIENCE, tit the llaf of thollniversity, Ninth a treot,near Market. The introductory Lecture will he given on WEDNES DAY Evioutia, February 8,187 Q, at 8 o'clobk, and the remaining leetores qn the NVednasduy eVeniug of each week thereafter. ' fes Ora§ - - EYE AND ,EAR DEPART4ENIf• The Philadelphia Diiipensary have opened au " Eye und .Ear Department " No. 315. Saulli Seventh id rent (between Spruce and Pine), whet() digoases a the yo and Ear are treated daily at 12 o'clock. ' ati (NN Dr, diciiiidditirlikifiiiilDGE, > ' 7 N 1' WEIGHT • , Dr, Jon N. AIA.N. ' • ' ' WM. P. GRINFITTS, Prekiient. fal 6trp'' ' THOMAS WISTAR, M.D., Si-a'r , . _ OterlWE OF ' THE BOARD;,gIe ;'BADE. Stated annual meeting of Philadelphia Board of Trade for choice of officers and member,' 'of I. Coun cil and for other Waimea, THIS EVENING, Monday, Feb. 7th, at a o'clock. Ilk ' - . ', . , • . . , . - . . ..• , • ~ ' . . . . . ' , • ' ' ' , . • . . ~.. , - . '' i ''' .' 1 ' 1t . ... '' ,... , -.. 0 l, -.. '1 .1 "i''' ri ,t r' r 4 l ; .' l i t.....4,'" / *el ; "., ~ ."' L . fir.- 11, (I tiii I fl.' , ‘! i, ,, f \.' Y - , -, 'i !' ,' i -, i. 4: '.. ''',' :'Si ~ 1,. ts 1..), ~ , .. , , . ....,, ft , . ' o... ''' ~,,, ..: .., . , , ... ~..,, ~.. . ... ..,.. .• „ , ' i . , . „ ,• , . , i I. ~ , , 1 •, 1 i 4 111111 ... .. . , „.! . ''' : ;,,, ~. ~. 1 . . . , ' ' • ' '// . , 2 ' ': .- -:--,, ~ ~ ' -ii ~'• .1 . • • ; ,7 , . '' . ', . ''''•'' • - • ' ':''‘' ' • • '''' . . ' •., -,' , ' e • 0 C 2 Ovum Hies In Schuylkill Couuty. Mi.. official report of the numb e r of persons !:illed in the collieries in Schuylkill county, troth May ixt to December 31st, 1b69, was 57, which is one for about 67;800 tons of coal ruined ~. and 91 persons were injured, which is ono iflr about every 42,400 tons mined during period,. Taking the whole year in the that , same proportion, it would give 72 persons . killed during the year, and 115 Injured. No official report has been.kept of the number of t iia injured that afterwards died, but as far as we received answers to fineries which we ad dressed to Opi:rators, about one-sixth of the injured penults have died, which would give the number ofdeaths caused by. casualties in mines in SchuYildll county, in 1869, at 91, learitig tiii injured that survived, in the . pro : duct of alsiut 4,883;000 tons . . The causa of deaths and Castitdties were'assfollews: Persons killed ' 57iMainied and ' "in- Falls of coal 22 jured Falls of rock ' 2jFallsiecOal. • . Falls in slopes and Falls of rocks shafts.. ... ..... ..,.. 10Falling in fells I Caught in screens. Falling in slopes, and and belts 3 shafts. Explosions of gns... 4,Explosion ofgas.. -.36 ExploidonS of pow- • I:Explosion' Of rpoiv der... '!, der. 9 ~ Crushed by cars.... ; 11(ing crll.4bed K By ands} canseil:.— 11;Sundry causes— i• • 9 Leaving 30' widows and 1:12 ofphans: TheSe (Alicia statisties shim - that there were but.fonr deaths, and thirty-six injured by ex plosions of foul ga4 in the call in Schuyl kill county from May 1 to December 31, a period of eight months, while the deaths from other causes were fifty-three, and the casual ties fifty-five from other causes. These are important figures in the framing of a bill for the in'otection of the lives of the miners in our collieries.--Yetterille Miner's Journal: tit im a .0 ;4 2 A d : 1 .2% Z t 2 1 ' The Chester Republican reportS the follow ing :—An aggravated ease of bigamy recently occurred in this city, in which two brothers —Daniel and Edward Agnew-s-both married men, with families, living in Philadlphia, married two girls—Rosanna and . I ritiget Dougherty—daughters of James and arneY Dougherty, aged eighteen, residing in - orth Ward. The Agnews were in the eru Ph • of a. picture and looking-glass dealer in h ladel 'phia, and brought their wares to this' Mty for ~. sale, returning to their homes at night. in their peregrinations in that locality they became acquainted with the ' Dough erty girls, to whom they repreSented themSetm;., as _ single and finally visited the girls often, and finally _.obtained permission of their parents to take them out carriage-riding. Affairs continued in this way for some time ; when the rascals professed love to - the girls, and married them/ atiout Christmas. The Marriage was kept a secret, and about the middle of last month he girls left their homes one evening, and have not open beard of since. Their disappearance led the parents to investigate the matter, in they . found the wives of the Agnews n Phila delphia--ono with two children; the 'youngest a little over a year old, in destitute circuit"- stances ' and the other with one child-both supposing. their husbands were in this place selling pictures. Nothing has been heard of the Agnews or their second wives since they left here. The New York 17entIcl save: We publish to-day au article from the/Phil adelphia Morning Post upon the subject/of the formation of a new press association: The ideas expressed are sound. The old Associated Press organization, as it now stands, is hardly up to the progress of the age as evinced in modern journalism. The ideas of a quarter of a century ago cannot be applied at this day to enterprises that have made such- wonderful strides in advance as are to be observed in the mode of managing and conducting newspapers. We anticipate much good from the new press association, even if it does nothing more than to incite the old association to renewed efforts in carrying out the objects for which it was originally instituted. Competition is the life of trade in the neWspaper as well as in all other kinds of business, and when the PresS Association shall discard some of its exchtsive features, practice more economy and infuse a little fresher energy into its operations, the better will it be for newspaper proprietors and the public generally. We hope the new aSSO elation will be allowed a fair trial ; for in the success of the experiment the people at large have a special interest. • VAN - . —A Missouri river captain has gone into the ice business. He built 'himself a cabin on a raft of ice ahout half An acre in extent, anti steered It safely down the Mississippi to St. Louis. —A little reconstructed Southern girl , live years old, asked a colored servant, in the course of a theological examination, what the loth Conunandment was. l'he reply that there *ere only 10 commandments was' scornfully recelvcd,and the child gravelximnommed that the 18th commandment was that the colored people, should vote. • , A. .L'PEUEINS. O%A URAND CONCERT.UNDERTRIE uspicee of the YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIA TION of the SECOND REFORMED CH URCHOeventh, almt r• Drown ',freer, will he given on THURSDAY EVEN/NO, February JO, 187 . 0, MP; ,the ph arch. MISS 'CAROLINE IIIeCAFFREF, MR. JOHN EVA lilS. . MR. W. DEMON NIB Midst Proteede for the root. licketn, AO cents. _ . At J . E. M'/NNEII'S MnaLc Store. fe7.3try Eight h, below Green street. .. NOTICE._ . THIRTY PER CENT. OP w r y U. the capital atock pf the Tulean Oil and Mining Company a ill be returned to the stockholders on WED NESDAY, February 2th, ou presentation of thelr certi flcatea ot Room No. 23, Philadelphia 'Exchange. fel 31; GEO. H. COLK ET. Secretary.' gabAN ELECTION - P O DIRECTORS for the Ex areas Steamboat Company will be held at their oMce on TUESDAY, February th, - /320, at io in . • 1109 GIRAR.D 8111.BEf. intliltsl RUSSIAN AND PgRETMED DATES, • Drpartmeuts for Lsdles. /fathe 01X11 from 6 A. M. to 9 P. M. - -- - HOWARD_ - HOSPITAL, .NOB. 1518 *l4 1620 Lombard street Dfspensary Department. Witt-6 treatment and medieine(a rulatiod gratuitous', DISASTERS. MEATUS IN TU'E MINES. CR IM E BIGAMY. Tao 'Aggravated Cases at Chester. MODERN JOERNALISAL A Step in the Right Direction. rottarait CORRESPOIMIOIOi LEIIIIER FROM PARES. Troppmann's Conduct, In his Last Mon Shocking Seethes at the Guillotine The Trial •f Prince Pierre elsellverte-- ' The Clay heascon...M.olllvier's First OM liteeeptioli;.-The Minister's Toning Wife, and her Tellette. • rVorremouden t cept the Petta.Evening Bulletin .1 YAMS; Friday; Jan. 21;:1870.,—The subjects iffhieb the publid mind had preSented to it of late are not, it must be confessed, of the most agreeable character. On the ono side we have been awaiting the execution` of the most daring and wholesale murderer of modern times; and on the other, the trial for homipide at least, if not for assaSsinaticm ? of a Prince; and.. cousin of the Emperor.• - Such things seem to infect the morality of the very ' air we breathe, and to impregnate, as it were, the atmosphere itself with crimp. One of these thrilling; but unwhOlesome ensode.s' arising out of the dark side of the web of human na ture has just been consummated. Troppmann died the slay before. yesterday;-died as he had lived, furiously, like a wild beast, dream ing of blood and :destruction to the very last, I and meditating new murders to emancipate himself from the laws of death, just as he had bef?re committed murders to escape from poverty and give himself the means of in dulging his vicious propensities. And he ex hibite.d in his latest machinations the same stupid unintelligence which marked hiswhole previous career of crime. Fancy a man in his position writing to the apothecary of the prison, the very day before his execution, offering him a bribe to supply him with chloroform and prussic acid ! Such a bribe, too—a thousand ,francs !--as though, even as regards the amount, he could. expect to purchase such an act for such a sum. A.nd then, the very same day, with stupid confi dence, and a cold-blooded Indifference to taking yet more human lives , which makes one shudder, he writes to tell his brother that he has found the means to evade the disgrace of a public execution ; and that, not by killing himself, as one would expect to hear, but by destroying his two watchers, and then escaping. disguised in the clothes of one of them. There is a bloodthirsty insolence about such a plan which makes one's flesh creep with indignation at the bare possibility of its success. I shall not dwell upon the de tails of the last hours of such a monster. Those present tell us that he looked the mur derous hypocrite that he was to the last, and persisted in his obstinate denial of being the chief and only perpetrator of the dreadful deeds for which he was summoned to die. There is something highly-characteristic in his manner of thus "-persisting." He did it as though he felt a sort of diabolical relief and satisfaetion in being able in some degree to wound and give pain to his fellow creatures up to his very latest utterance. He seemed to know that an avowal is always satisfactory to those who have been , engaged in the ar rest and execution of a criminal condemned to death, and this satisfaction he had a plea sure in refusing. " Say I persist in my de lie said to the priest, at the bottom of the fatal ladder which led to the scaffold. And then again, as he surmounted the last step, he turned round and shouted almost de monically : " Tell them I persist!" And_ all this was' - done, not with - an air - as though he wished to carry conviction, but only te provoke and annoy and give pain. The finale seems to have been a elisicking scene. Either from the savage instincts of his nature ; or more probably because he thought to Check the death agony by lashing himself into fury —he gave way to, a paroxysm of rage at' the last moment. a hen already bound upon the fatal plank. He struggled fiercely with all the terrible strength which he had so fearfully shown himself to possess ; continuing to draw up his knees, though strapPed down upon the board, and then dashed both head and shoulders through the orifice where hi.s neck was to be pinned down. •He had to •be thrust back by mutt force ; and in the struggle, by a . sudden bend - Of - hiss-head he contrived, to seize and bite severely with his teeth the thumb of the executioner. H orrible, horrible, most horrible! is all that can be said of such a life and such an end; and perhaps when the scene enacting on the scatlold is, combined with that which we are told was going on among the filthy and ribald rout around, it would scarcely be possible for imagination to conceive a picture in whiell buruau nature could be displayed in darker colors. The only relief to its sombre tints' and the melancholy reflections it inspires is in the thought that crime there met its reward, and that justice reigned supreme and inexorable. The preliminary examinations in the other melancholy case above alluded to—the homi cide at Auteuil—are proceeding slowly and laboriously, every effort Ming made to solve what will only too probably remain a mystery to the end, viz.: from which of the two par. ties the provocation, if there were such, arose, which produced the rash and fatal act. The most trilling facts are minutely inquired into, with a view to elicit or render probable who struck the first blow; as, for instance, whether the victim had his hat on when shot, at what distance the bail struck him, &c. But I fear no. human iugenuity will ever establish the precise truth of the ease; and the most chari table conjecture, perhaps, after all, is that the twi) survivors do not quite know it theniselv6 . Besides these darker edit ses edebrm, we have i now.also in prospect the trial of Rochefort, who is summoned before the Correctional l'o- lice Cpurt to-Morrow. But it is probable that the hearing of the ease will be adjourned. Scenes of a brighter description meet our eye on the other side of the Seine, among the 'Ministerial Hotels of the Faubouig St. Ger main. There we see the salons of the new .ministers crowded with a brilliant assethblage of functionaries ) all anxious to pay homage to ;power and success. The first reception of M. 011iviei• was quite ." an ovation, so ,unusually large wag the . attendance. At the most crowded moment entrance into the 'salons was barely possible, so thick was the jostlo Of foreign , ambassadors, dignitaries, depiFl es ; s,onators, academicians and men of !ail ranks and creations, not to mention a host of ladies. The task of receiving all her guasta CMLIMOLIK'MMMY. with : duo attention and dourtesy must have •been A severe one for Madame 011ivier, ,a young atld very , pretty woman, only some twenty years of age, who has been married scarcely three' months, and is thus brought out at Ghee from , a condition " of private life' ' .into all this • blaze of celebrity and officialify. But by universal AFfiClll; she acquitted herself most clifirmingly and successfully of her new duties. She was most chastely attired Ina plain black velvet dress, *ern high, with a long train, which set off admirably her delicate blonde complexion and fair hair, bound with only a single blue satin,ribbon. She held in her hand a black and gold fan, without a bouquet 1 and mani fested a , graceful consciousness, without the least awkwardness, of the, novelty of her po sition, which all present allowed to be far more attractive than the hardened aplomb of certain domes du • grand mondo. • .1)1. 011ivier himself was perhaps almost the only man in his own salons who was "distinguished" by the . absence of any decoration. For not' even the bit of red ribbon which dubs a man chew liar was to be seen in his buttonhole. He is probably the very first of his countrymen who has ever reached the rank of first Minis ter of the crown without having been the re cipient of a single order, native or foreign. The fashionable season is being fully inaugu rated, and balls are announced at the Tuileries and the Hotel de Ville. Great numbers of Americans have arrived in Paris from the - South and from Home, and form, as usuai,one of the most conspicuous elements of our-win ter society. 111. Ilechefort's Case.--Proceedings Before . the 'Criminal Tribunal—Charges and Sentence. b rein Galignaure Megoonger. of Paris, January 25 Eveming,jl The Allah. of 31..Rochefort came on Satur day before the "Correctional Tribunal, fiar an article signed by him in the-Maraddaise on the 12th inst., and in which ho. was accused of of fence against the person of the Emperor and of provocation to civil war. • . A charge was also made against .11. - Deremre, gOant, and 31. Grousset, writer on the same journal, for publishing on the said 12th Janu ary an article insulting to the Emperor and inciting to various crimes: • Although an announcement had been made that the principal accused would not appear, a considerable crowd collected in the hope of obtaining admission into the court. Unusual measures had been taken - to pre.serie order ; and the utmost tranquillity prevailed through out. Aulois, l'Avoeat Imperial, maintained With greattnederation the charge against the persons incriminated, and the Court con; demned 31. Rochefort to six mouths' impris onment and 3,0001. rine (but without any de- privation of civil rights, no allusion being made to that possible penalty); M. Grousset to a like term of confinement and to'pay 2,000 francs, and M.Dereure to six months, and to two tines of SCOI, each. No manifestation took place beyond that of a few young men crying out in the street, out side, " Vive Rochefort!" ' What the People Said of the Sentence. Ualignani's Messenger, of Paris, of the 25th of January, commenting on the sentence passed on 31. Rochefort, says : The extremely light sentence passed on M. Rochefort for his insulting language to the Emperor and his ex= citation to insurrection forms almost the only subject of remark to the Paris journals. That the government desired to have indulgence shown cannot be doubted, as M. Aulois, the Advocate Imperial, in his requisitory„ made use of the subjoined Language : "Many persons have recommended that the Most severe penalttea should be pronounced against the accused. But we, who are charged to support the prosecution, demand that a punishment as light as possible shall bo in dicted and that it shall have for its object only to cause the law to be respected by all." 31. Rochefort hiinsell, in the 3lae;:eillaiBe,, expresses great indignation at such leniency, his expressions running thus Why six months and not twenty years? Why 3,000 f. and •not .5,0o011? This is just as if the Ministry were to say to the people assem bled : "You must take our position into con sideration; we cannot withdraw the prosecu tion, as otherwise it would be impossible to extricate ,ourselves from the dilemnia— On the other hand, our courage fails us to brave pone opinion, which is narrowly watching us, so that under these circumstances we think that six months! imprisonment will conciliate all diflieultiefi: We will add 3,000 f. fine not to appear to retreat from the ground we have taken, and, so we will put an end to the matter." Such is the effect which this decision has produced upon me after having calmly and dispassionately weighed it. I was summoned to answer a charge of inciting to revolt, no more heinous otleuce than which can exist in the eyes of the Ministry, especially when the people are so happy anti contented under their rule. However much persuaded any Cabinet may be of its own incapacity, it can but de. clare that all hopes of happiness are to be centred in itself alone, for, were it not to ap pear convinced of that result, it would be guilty of not making room for another one. These Principles. being admitted, either I have nicited to revolt or 'I have not; it' really guilty of this crime—that is to say, it, with the aim of overthrow ing a beloved goverenment, • I have attempted to steep in blood thestreets of Paris, to impede commerce, to di.sturb public feeling, to drive away foreign visitors—l appeal to all Frenchmen, even the most indulgent, and ask them whether it be not a complete farce to pretend to, avenge seciety, outraged and threatened in its very existence, by a sentence of six months' imprisonment? That penalty,:. with the fine of three thotisand franeS, cannot' belconsidered as - meeting the merits of the' case, and from the moment I am declared guilty. I must claim what I consider I am en titled to, and I do: not think I exaggerate in fixing the Punishment at twenty years' hard labor. It - very extraordinary, and even insulting,' that the 0 4 oVernment for which I have always shown So little indhlgence should treat mo with SO much. If proved, how er er,-- that liaVe -not ineitetrto revolt, why has not the sentence removed' he accusation inade against me? What is' the use of six months? Whence does this conviction arise? What canf do with it? But if it be proved, 'on the contrary, that.l. did not provoke to in surrection; why hasnot the judgment set that charge aside? The whole mode of explaining the Whole business would be to draw up a :motive of sentence thus :"•Considering that if the citizen Rochefort , had' really made an appeal to civil war he would have been con donned to the bagne; but .as be has net done so the Court sentences. hint to six months" im prisonment." - • The Constitntionnel, explains the case very differently; and in a, manner which AI. Roche 'fort will Probably , consider most offensive. Our contemporary says • • M. Rochefort is strangely mistaken, as to the motives of the indulgence of the Correctional Tribunal ;he purposely forgets to tell Ida read :era that his appeal to revolt- was. thigrant,, ;but that he created for himself ineonteslable ielattes to the clentettcy Ofjustice, in,arreating, EVROPEANI AFFAIRS kIItUVCIE., on the day of ' Victor., Notes futberal, the ex plosion of the subversive passions to, which he had appealed on the preceding evening. The Public is iot by any means pleased at leniency being manifested. • The Opinion Nationale impresses itself these teams: Before the verdict the Marseil-: &rise prett nded that the Government wished , to get rid of a Deputy ;who was obnoxious. Now that the trial is. coded, :31:. itoaliefort, ' 11 1 1 (IN himself aggrieved at not beingttentencedi -to twenty yearsrhard labor.'r I RVlaical Assaults on Cons* Bengt.-,The Rremlees Reply. A telegram from Vienna of January 21 re ports : All the efforts of the centralist§ are, at! this 'moment directed against Count Betist. l The speech of M. de Kalserfeld, President cif the Chamber of Deputies, was a veritable id- I dietment against the Chancellor. The latter •-replied to these attacks, He i boldly avowed his preference for &policy pit conciliation and his desire to arrive at an un derstanding with all the nationalities of Aug tria; but he categorically denied having used underhand meana to. combat the numbers of the Chtleithal) Cabinet who do, ,not share his , Views lie protested'agabast the pessimiiin of MM. Kaiserfeld, Skene and _Others of their `party, who in their speee h&l. have predicted a i catastrophe—the cbmulete ruin of Atistria,—if the constitution of DeCember, 1867, was al-' tered to make any eoncessiolef to' the nation- ; alities. *New Treaty The Governmental Gazette of lit: Petersburg publishes a new commercial treaty between Chins and Russia. It has been - concluded for five years, and shinild no objections be raised to it in the ,last six months of that period it will continue in force for five years more. The new treaty is intended to regulate trade, on the borders of • the two empires, and its chief stipulation enacts • that in future no duties 'shall be levied for a distance of seven miles on each side of the Russo-Chinese frontiers. On passing this distance merchants will, of course, have to pay the legal duties. All the ports of each 'of the contracting parties are also opentil to the vessels of the other.. I 'revolutionary Proelanrestion..-Charges Alaithh, the Czar. The . Northeastern Correspondence publisheS a curious proclamation, which has been dis covemd by the. liusaian police - in its search for the members - of the late Socialist con spiracy. "Brothers," says the document; " our pa tience is at an end: Existence every day be comes harder to you. You have been deceived with vain promises. This earth, which God has made for all men, has" been seized upon by our masters. * Justice is no- Where. Tyranny reigay everywhere. For merly it was not thus. The fields belonged to those who cultivated them. Our ancestors knew, neither nobles, nor priests, nor mer chants nor usurers ' • and they,,therefore, lived free and happy. But foreign princes came from beyond the seas, brifiging in their train nobility and officials; they enslaVed the people and seized their fields, and have ever since lived' on the sweat of our broWs. * After becoming man, ters of. our country the conquerors built towns, whence they still lord it over us. It is to them that we owe those oppressive laws and heavy imposts which reduce as to misery. 'They are satisfied. Why should they not be? . They fatten on our bread. Their towns are so well fortified that it is impossible for us to at tack them, unless' by flying the' red cock.' (This is. the . term used by the peasants for setting a. town on tire.) " The Czar," proceeds the, proclamation, " was drunk. when he signed the ukase which' was read on the 39th of February, 1861. What says. this ukase? Peasants, you are free ; but only on one condition .thatyen shall pot possess an inch of ground. * * There was a moment in our history when.we were alloweit to hope—the Czar and all his faMily had perished? Unfortunately, the nobles got small prince from a German country, and it is from this stranger that has arisen the line of sovereigns who have so long oppressed us. This German family has multiplied indefi nitely. * 1 It eats a great deal, and the expenses of its courtiers are enormous. * The eonsequence is that we are deeply in debt, without a hope of clearing ourselves. Like fools, we allow ourselves to be governed by Germans, who,do so in order to fill their pockets. * * . -There is only one course left to us—to strangle our masters like dogs. No quarter! They must all perish. Their towns must be destroyed; the country must be purified by tire. * What is the use of these towns? Only to engender servitude. When the peasant will be master of his house and his field, when he can work in his village, he will not feel the want or being ethployetl as a - serveantin - a towns - As they have rifler; and cannon, and we are without arms, it is only by fire that we can attack and conquer them. When the walls hellind which these rascals entrench themselves are reduced to ashes, they will be forced to die of hunger." ENGLA.ND. An American Suicide , An English, exchange says: The Leeds Coroner has held an inquest on the body of Hr. Charles Hermon Thornton, a native of the United States, and a partner in the firm of 1 Homan,Thornton & Co., general merchants, • Bradford. The deceased bad been visiting at Sandford House, the residence of Mr. Homan, his chief partner. It appears that since No vember last he has been very depressed in spiiits. He had, two or three years ago,insured his life in a New York -office. A. gentleman representing that office had got his consent to increase the amount of that insurance. As a preliminary to that he had to he examined by a Bradford physician,and that gentleman had refused to give a certificate that would be satisfactory to the office. Then Mr. Thornton became depressed,and at times expressed fears ,that the business of the firm was alt going,. away, • and that it would take halt a': Million of money -to • set things right again. This the Coroner and jury were assured was all a delusion; and theremere no private speculations or anything, in the de ceased's private afiiiirs which would have originated his distress of mind. He had gone rqi to London to consult Dr. Gull, and the ad vice he received was that he should be careful as to his diet, and_ he would get well again. 'When -he returned - from London be asked his partner if he had received a telegram from some of their \ friends in London, for he said lie was sure hO had acted so strangely that they would be sending word that something was • wrong. That; was also a delusion. He'appeared better on Satur day night, and he was inn: advised to rise 'ally next morning. About 11 o'clock his partner . went to the deceased's room for his key ;of the letter-bag, when he foitml that • the deceased had taken his o',v Mt by cutting his 'throat with a razor. : ... ' ; , ., i( =Whatlli die dftrerOnce between a actor vralking.the " boards" and a sailor 'calking the ".planks?' One sees the upturned faces and the other faces the { upturned ‘seas.----ilos ion Bulletin., .. ' .! -- on mlying symptoms " was read at a recent Ft sition . of, the Chicago Acaitemy'of Medicine, .ku winch the. author niai.ntitined that; it is wooer to dud out what ails an in tatit than an though tho former eau not talk;it'also• eau not Play the hypocrito. AUSTRIA. IMMIA. F. L. ITIMIRSTON. POLITICAL. nianyrAaND ninotmiserk. A Specimen or Iliteigroplkobleii To the Editor of the Tribune-4km: 'Lluot, night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, the, fart* house of W. H. Ely, near Crampton, Md.,,yo. surrounded by an armed band of dlsgatsect dellieradoes. The owner was taking a lot glance at his cattle, &e., before retiring, when, be was startled by the sound of advanding. footAeps. Approaching the front fence, hh was thus accosted: 'Are you Mr. Eiy?7 I gm." . "Is- there a man, board ing with you minted - Hamilton, teaoher of thet nigger school` near here?" "Xes." "•Well, we want Mutt" (Cries from tliewaob, " Smash his lantern, so he can't see us !") Ely—" What do you want with him?" hang leader—ft We want to lynch. any white *Matt ;that comes here to teach. niggers, when , it's .against the wishes of the white people in this flart." Ely--" The man is cat anger here r apd knOW/Vtiothing of Yourprejudices; let ale 411,1 him your wislies, and if - he does not ,cbriipti with-them it is then time enough to tote'fbree." Ringleader—" No, we watt , no talk; we Went Hamilton." Voices—'Bring him onOI" • After considerable parley AIL Ely entitled the excitement, in some measnre,, _and. the promise was i made that if Ur. 11. would come out he wouldnot be harmed Ote ,was;aopo rd jag called. 'A few months Since he left' Sciit-- land for the United State% 'desiring to•see,the country, and test her far-famed iirdittiL Lions. Chance led him to 'Baltimore,' auth'as it was necessary combine, profit •witlo, plea, sure, he accepted from the Baltimore Assoc's,- tion for the Instruction of the Colored Rooe,the situation which he has been filling: for , the past two weeks. Naturally ho wan 'Sortie what surprised at his initiatory lassonin free dom, and remarked something to- that etreet. The answer was, ' ' We were free a few years ago, but now we are all put under niggers; you muBtleave the school and this neighbor hood, and the sooner the better for yourself," (Accompanied by the cocking of guns, Sco.). Seeing no means of continuing the school with satety, Mr. and promised to diesel the next morning, and the mob left; no doubt highly gratified at the success of their brave and loyal course. The school was relinquished this morning, and ~ t he teacher 'waits orders from headquarters. Crampton, Md., Feb. 3,1870. liiovriet' CAROLINA. • • Election of a Negro to the, Sunmno ' Bench* •of South Corolisais«...perseona iihetels of Judge Wright,:,-.Bcene•at'intr Election. - • • „. CoLtimiarA, Feb.3.--The election of JOrittS than J. Wright, a colored man, to the position, of Associate Justice upon the . ; bench of , the Supreme Donrt of South Carolina, which oc curred on .Tuesday, is an event of no, ordinary importance. The position is that formerly held by Hoge,*whoes election ,t 6 Qin= gress J udg e s—Ch ief " vac ThIS Court donsiSta of three Jmiticti MeseS (father o f the Speaker of the Housetifßepresentatives), a native of the State ; Associate Justice:WU hard, from New York, arid Associate Justice Wright (colored), from Pennsylvania, .luge Jonathan J. Wright ,is said to have been born in Pennsylvania ,and is about forty years of age. He, was graduated at the Lan ca.sterian University of New York; studied law for nearly two years at Montrose, Sinique hanna county, Pa., and a year at Wilkesbarree in the same State; he was, just before the War, admitted to the practice of law at 'Mont ivae;being the first man of las race ad mitted to the bar of Pennsylvania. 1111865 he came to S. Varonia as an attache to the Freed man's Bureau under Gen.'Howard; 'and 'wag employed ac an advisei in /aw to the freed= men about Beaufort. He was a merabei'dfl— the Constitutional Donvention lBo,,anti. under the new Constitution was elected to the General Assembly as a Senator from , Betinfort county, in which capacity he has'served , npto„ the present time. He has , always been known. as a man of temperate views and pleasant countenance, and is very often heard unerf-the • Senate floor. He enjoys the reputation of tieing the best educated "negro, in, the South: standing in this respect infinitely ahead of. his opponent—William J. Whipper, of :Michigan. also colored—who is softly deficient. Judge Wiight is apparently what. is known- as ,a. black piadroon—one who is' thred-foUrtlni negro—his features' being ofa more Caudal -fall cant than his skin t which is (mite dark. The scene at, the election on Tuesday weir. remarkable for its intense feeling .ande per soeal partisanship.. By.cofnnien - consent, thei General Assembly, white and blank,, had settled down into the conclusion to e lect, negro ; and. that question being settieilifthe only one remaining was whom to • elect: • The Republicans wore nearly equally divided be tween Wright and Whipper ; that. the-turn:. i of the scale was in the hands of thesrualt Democratic 'minority of . twenty votes.' Elaborate, speeches, were_ made.. upots---the - Merits of the two rivals. When. the voting worse: ver the confasion became - ,far . , SO that, in fine, .the President of, the ,joint Assembly, unable to put a. motion or control the attention of the House upon any subject, dissolved the convention of nip two , HunsilS with his gravel ; and the Senate retired to their chamber without formality. Yesterl. day Judge Wright resigned his seat the; Senate and qualified as ,fudge; and to-day-lie; is sittirir , on the Supreme Bench, at the left Of Chief-f-Justiee Moses. • • -•[ .1 edge Wri,ght is the first one of his race whn has ever held a like position, among white Inca. TIIE CIGAR TRADE. The Thislllness In Dacha Cannily. The Mirror says that the business has never, been in a more prosperous and nourishing . condition in Bncks county than it has been during the last four or live months, and ill at: this time. The law requires that on each and; every place where cigars are made, must:lei conspicuously exposed a sign, with the manu facturer's name, the letters of which are to lief at least three inches in length. A stranger passing through the town of Milford. Reck hill, Quakertown Borough, or parts of Rich land, would naturally think that, the inhabi tants were exclusively devoted to this branch , of business. In it are employed those ok; Loth sexes and of nearly all ages—from the., child of six years to the hoary heads of seventy., In all, there are (in what is called' the First. Division, Fifth ;District, embracing the pies-' viously named townships) some torty different persons and some twenty-tiv 0 different estab4.... _.. lisliments where elgars are made. During , the month of December last there, were matonfac , l tared about 3,00 1 0,000 cigars, and reported sold,, very nearly 2,700,04)0, bringing thus, at ,4,,1, pe . i thousand, the nice sum of nearly $14,000 fro' this alone. These cigars embrace all vimr-,, ferent grades—from those of $l5 per thoog a w to those of $lOO per tbonsand—from the strodg; t. ill scented cigar, made from Ohio aad polin.,. syl vani a leaf, i 4 the mild and pleassuOirotared Havana.. -,, • —The young Grand Duke or Titan)** spent three years of authorship upon a book on the Antilles, tbs retail' _price of which' is $260 a copy. Fortunately, he is not entirety dependent on the sale of his works for a liieli hood. —A Milwaukee luruttie sat nut doorit'otisrs. cent cold night, trying tatteozeatoap,babbi d p.,, His ears droppecl os'tAtt next (JOY., ' _---A gentlemiaa has ran in dobt for., 7;:o papers of tiliewim Ohacoo duringthe past; vear, to the viii hope of flodiog'4lllo g4e9ov, I :wk , with which to, p 4 (or thtw. • ' ' AIA t 'f • -21 i t
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