OJESON PEACOCK-. Editor. OLUME XXIII.-NO. 261. EI)DING CARDS, INVITATIONS for j arrta9, 440. New etyleo. MASON h 00., 907 °stunt I. tr. t. do,lofmw if§ WEIDDLNO INVITATIONS EN slreve4 in the newest end best manner. LOUIS S Dkeet HA in and Sumer, 10X Ohemtnnt , fe2o tf MARRIED. CHOLL—SNYDER.—On the 9th Inst., at the reslitmes of Dor, Thooshilas mtork,Wllticuu X. Cron to Mary IC. tinyder, all of this cit.). - DAY-aWKDlTXß.—At — Webeterqdsoi, - Marthlll4, MAIL, Feb. fth by the nee, William Y. Morgan. /lector of Mt. Thomas's Church, New York ! James Cleddsos Day, Xsry., of New Fork, 4.0 Carotins W, Webster, daughter of Fletcher and Caroline Webster, andArand-daughter of Daniel Webster. tiTOW—JARDtar.—On the Bth inst., et the residence of the bride's permits, by the Nev. J, il. Kim* Ed gar D. Stow, of Cincinnati, to Maggio A. deo r of Jacob Jsrden, Keg., of this city. (Cincinnati Olsen; please copy.)' 101.(tWN.—On the 10th list., James M. Drown, in the 11114 year of his ape. di a relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, from hie late residen ;,, 10.34. Bac, str.mt, of Partin - lay afternoon, at 3 o'clock. To proceed to Woodlands CemeterY• COSTKLI,O.—Diary Ann Costello, aged 63 ye stre,relict *Ube late Michael Costello. Ilus pato) will be given of the funeral. tf. aged ll,tilabOWAlr. On Des - lust. „John 13. liallowaY, el years.' ' The relatives and male friends are invited to attend ma funeral services. nt the Western Pr. sbyterlan Chard], corner of Seventeenth and Filbert stra , is. on EA t Urda y itt- 2 o'clock. punctually. PRILLAPI4.—At St. Paul. Minnesota, on February -1. 'Florence, wire of D. C. Phillips, in the Mth year of her ape, off MITT.—On the 9th lust., -Josephine M.. daughter of Louis and Catharine Schmitt. • Tim relatives and friends of the fancily are,invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, No. 207 South Thirteenth street, on'l(iistrday, February 32, at 1 o'clock. Interment at Laurel 11111 Cemetery. .' CO.VENANT LODGE" NO. 114, I. O. of o;Y.—The members aro nog motted to, as lactlibla at tho Mill to-morrow (SATURDAY) at 42 o clock /1140 attend the funeral of our late brother Wm. 73. Paters. lt• • WSI. ff..I.kOKSON. N. G. T ARG E PLAID NAINSOOKS FOll. LA WICAPPZItti. SATIN PLAID CAMIIIIII . B. SOFT FINISH CABIBRICS. NULLS AND FRENCD NUtiLINS. EYRE & LANDKLL. SPECIAL NOTICES. Finest Ready-Made Clothing. JOHN WANAMAKER, 'CHESTNUT Youths' And Boys' Clothing. tu. HORACE GREELEY AT ACADEMY OF 111731 C, TUESDAY EVENING, February Snb;sct--" TUE WOMAN QUESTION." Sale of tickets; at ASUMEAD's, 721 Glicstwit Street, will begin on TUESDAY, 15th inst., at 9 o'clock. Reserved Scrag. 75 cents. Admission and Stage Tickets, in cents. Reserved Seats in Family Circle, tij cent, 1••11 )214 16 18 23 . 1.--? APPEAL FOR THE. POOR. P uziloN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION --- . . There has not been more inallgring among the better elansee of the poor than at preseutstnce liS54. A visitor vas called to a family living in a good house on Sixth street who had not tasted food tor forty eight hours. The children had gone to flunday.ftboot without any break fast. A manager received a note, written in a beautiful female hand, appealing for aid to keep her family - 01" little children from starving and freezing. The coil` miss obeyed. but in' the mestitime the hunbend and father of the familyhad attempt' suicide. in de- spair at Fleei s] ng his family suffering. with out the means to relieve them. A family of _four little childrEtt ger e found in a teal ful tastes/ suffering. Their mother lay d"ad on an old carpet on the floor, and the father was raving with delirium tremens over the body. A young woman of refined apeenranc••, pale and elna clattd with consumption, was diacot (Ted by a citizen 1 1 , an attic on Willow street, apparently tlying,without fire, food or attendance. It the goo,' mon end women of l'hila• xlel Oda who are lie in in comfort, to say nothing of luxury, many of them troubled :most to know how to •• invest their surpluses at this time, could but see face to faro the misery' which is lurking within ten minutes' walk of their dwellings, they would pour out of their treasure to relieve the suflerings ; °tit' they could bet re slue but half the distress they would rush into the lanes and alleys to do that which they only want the knowledge of to rumba - . There are one hundred and twenty visitors of the Union Anrrolent Association, and all the • money they have to distribute is live dollars per month for each visitor, in all of thin great city. The Association is se complete in • its rainitleat Mon that it can relieve the wantifof thii poor if the public would but constitute it almoner. It e. gets less than W,OHO per Wllllllll, and a dia. tingnisited• philanthropist, not of its Board, but who knows its thoroughness, says it should get *100,(.00. The demands bare been so great upon it the 'present season and the collections to meagre, that it has run behind, an d Ave thousand dollars is needed unwed i .ately. to meet its presstnn wants. An appeal is made to the public, with all the earnestness which language in sexpress, to make up this sum without delay. Thirty uubseriptions of one bniadrod dollars. with the smaller contributions which should be added, will meet the re quirement. The 'Treasurer is R. R. WOOD, Esq. 404 AClu,ddatlt, street, and • the agent, Dr. IIIcOALL6IONT; "will alto receive subscriptions at the office, 11l death tieventh street. SAMUEL H. PERKINS, President. Jour H. ATWOOD, Sec'ry. • fe9 f 3trp§ fr - OFFICE OF THE LOCUST MOUN -4/•,..Y TAIN COAL AND IRON COMPANY. . PIIILADELPIIIA,Feb. 16.11, 1870. Ate meeting of the Stockholders of this Company, 'held on the 7th Inst., the following-named gentlemen -were elected Directors for the ensuing year : John Biddle, Israel Morris, James A. McCrea, M. D., Benjamin Marshall, Jacob P. Jones, Charles Hartshorne, Edward . Trotter. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held this day, JOHN BIDPLE was to elected President, and ED WARD BWAZN Secretary and Treasurer of .the Com „ EDWARD SWAIN, It Secretary. 10. OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA, January 25.1870. NOTICE TO bTOCKHOLDENS.—The annual meet ing of the Stockholders of this Company will ho hold on TUESDAY, the pith day of February Id7o, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the Hall of the Assembly lacilldings, S. W. corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Tho annual election for Directors will be held on MONDAY, the 7th day of Starch, 1870, at the Office of the Company, No. 2.48 South Third street. JOSEPH LESLEY, ja2M(elfrp§ Secretary. , IW. MERCANTILE LIBRARY.--THE %mune electio swillix Directors, to carve for the ensuing three yearsbe held at the Library, on TUESDAY, the 15th Instant, botwoen the hours of 4 and 8 P. Id. The Special Meeting of Stockholders will be hold the Porno evening, in the Lecture Room, at 8 o'clock, when the subject of keeping the Heading rooms open until 11 B. M., and also on Sundaye,' will bq dieonseed, and the reports of the committees appointed at the annual plotting read. JOHN LARDNER, , fee , strp§ - - - -Recording Secretary.' firHALL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN" ASSOCIATION, MO CHESTNUT street. 'arolineTalbot and Sarah Jenkins, Ministers of the Goepol, of tho Society of Friends, from Mount Pleasant, 'Ohio. propose to hold a religious meeting with tho As- Nociation on SATURDAY EVENING, 12th instant, at 2io'plock. - " Young men aro cordially invited, lt* LEO lIRB BY MAJOR A. It. CAL:. NOUN on" Subterranean Wendere," at the Hall of Fred. Taylor Pont. No. 114 G. A. R.. No. 605 , Arch street, on IIIONDAY EVENING, February Ilthi 1870, at °Week. , - ZAdinlealon'oo cents. IE4A , /10 GIRARD STREIT, r, ill7fiBlAN AND X"ERPOIKEID DATNII; Bath" oven frcga i rg. PlT,Tittifee. • , t . l, ' •- . , 3 • .3 r 1, '1 I' t •. '. • • i .. . 4 . • . . , I . . . , . . I , • . . , . . . , , . . , • , . , . , . , . -_ _ . DIED Gents' Furnishing Goods. Fashionable Merchant Tailoring, SPECIAL NOTICES. OffICEitEOEPTHR OP TAXES. PIItLADELOILIA; Feb. 11, UM. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS. —Title office will be open rn Wl , l)Natil/A Y, 16th fruit, for the receipt of city sad Stet° TitIUT for the year 1870. • JOIIN,M.MIEGLOY, - Receiver of Titloll. . _ cr 1/OWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1618 1520 Lombard Street, Dispensary Department., edi ct treatment and medicinefarnlehed gratuitously . ...to the pow- . • THE COA Important and Interesting Statements. The Mauch Chunk Gazette of this morning has the following report: • There was transported last week over both Railroads 65,9118.00 tons against 55,175.06 the corresponding week last year—an increase of 10,792.14 tons. .Of this , 5,459.11 tons were delivered to the LackaWanna and Bloorrisliurg Railroad and forwarded north, and" 60;50.09 tons were delivered along the line and .at tide water. Our reports Show a decline of 7,711.14 tons from the shipments of the : previous week. . The posture of a ff airs remains pretty , nmeh as reported by us last week. There is no irn ' prevenient in the trade. Prides have been forced so low by the Scranton combination that the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre operations are practically ruled out of the market. The new 'prices of the Lehigh Coal Exchange average but $l5 per ton at Elizabethport, and considerable quantities of coal have been sold below even that, . figure. Over one hundred thousand tons' are stocked at the shipping points,and demand is literally crushed. Under these circumstances and at the present prices of labor and transpertation, it is exceedingly doubtful 'Whether work will he continued much longer. lu-fact rumors of a suspension have been current for the past ten days, and a stoppage is likely" to occur soon, unless a healthier tone is given to the market, We have heard it suggested that a strike would be the best cure for the existing evils, and If it could be Made general it perhaps would. But with the recent unsuccessful at tempt in Schuylkill and the independent piilicy of Scranton it is not probable that such a suspension could be brought about . . It has been found that judicious production in times of a i.toppage is -profitable, and there are usually enough .operators who ; sue this -and continue we, k. to prevent the exhaustion of the supply. the coal new at the ship ping points, the Scranton • companies could keep up the supply for a long time, and un less their production can also be stopped; it :oohs to us, to the event of a cessation of ope rations in this region, that the parties' con cerned would.liave their labor for their pains.. It Las been intimated, too, that a strike while Congress is in session and the tarifl'undis posed of would be extremely hazardous to coal and t lie interests of protection generally. In view of these facts it may be advisable to keep up a limited production rather than to risk a suspension. .At least it will be wise toawalt the close of the present month. The violent storm which visited us this week has swept over this entire section of country. It has materially interfered with coal transporta tion, and map be followed by a cold snap that will help dea lers out of their difficulties. High Retail Price*. The extremely low wholesale prices of coal ought to secure correspondingly reasonable ilg,ures to consumen. In New York, through the sagacious operations of several extensive producers, this is 'the ease, but in Philadel phia the retail trade is very unsettled. :For instance, when Schuylkill Stove is quoted 71; to ,S 5 at Port itichinond, remitters are a.sking S 6 50 to $7 25 for the loug ton. Lehigh Coal, which is.ot a superior quality to Schuyl kill, blimp from 57 59 to 540 per ton. Un der the circumstances this is altogether too high, and strengthens 'the presumption that the days of these retail sharpers are num bered.. —The announcement made in these volumns last week by a correspondent, to the effect that an effort is on foot to induce the railroad companies to accepta pro rata share - of prices of coal at tide, instead °fa fixed rate of tolls, has not yet been confirmed. It is very doubt ful whether any such an arrangement can •be made. Lehigh and Wyontaing. Our reports from the mines are meagre. The majority of the collerles are barely work ing, and nova few are at a stand still. Opera tors are dissatisfied with the 'depressed state of business, and the miners mourn the un settled condition of the .basis and ventilation questions. REBEL SCHOOL. ispous. How South Carolina Taught. It is some years since the South Carolinens engaged iu the business which One of their own leaders designated as " making history." That mode of manufacture having come to grief, it seems that a new method is to be adopted. The facts in this new history are to be made subservient to political education. The House of Representatives of South Caro lina were discussing, last. week, a bill to pro vide for common schools. was all going right; but unfortunately asquabble arose about school-books;-and it was—more•• -than hinted that some legislators 'laden interest therein,as they had been "seen" by publishing houses. Somebody gave somebody else the lie, but afterward withdrew it. Hitherto the pro ceedings had presented no point of novelty for assemblages in those latitudes. But at last a Mr. Ransier stated that be was opposed to the bill, if such school-books as ho would read, extracts from were purchased. He then read :' " Question : Who was Abraham Lincoln? " Answer : A Republican who was elected President by the people, and who issued a proclamation emancipating the negroes, knowing at the time he did it he was doing wrong.' One or more of the other extracts men tioned" negro Legislatures." Another mem ber remarked that there were eleven Demo crats among the School • Commissioners who were perfectly willing to put such books into the colored schools. This little disclosure of the kind of intellectual illumination intended for the benighted Aftitiangave a twist to al fairs, and the selection of school-books was referred to a committee. Query: Did they issue from the presses of Northern publish ers'? A Revolutionary Retie. The Germantown Chronuae says : A gentleman brought to our office yesterday a relic of rare interest. It is a three-pound cannon ball picked up on the field of German town, Oct._ _,4 1777. It was found lying near ,the Chew Mansion, and was picked up by Derrick Lukens. Whether Derrick was a soldier or not we cannot say. When the de tachment of British troops under Col. Mus grave entrenched themselves in the Chew Mansion, and the American army brought their artillery to bear on it, this ball was fired at the house. It is said to have glanced and broken aprivate's leg.' There are Many little incidents and anexdotes in connection with this battle in possession of mimeo( our oldest inhabitants which may probably be brought to light some day, and we shall be very thank ful to be furnished with them at anytime. TAB 'COURTS. SUPREME Comm.—justices Read, Agree*, Sharswood and Willittnasalie Philadelphia. list is Still before the court,on third call. „ OYER AND TERMINER--JEdged Ludlow and Passon.—ln the case of Charles B. Goff, charged with voluntary manslaughter; in causing the death of Caroline Oltiflold, the jury this • morning returned, a'verfilet'df„ , not,' „ guilty. QUARTER SESSIONS dodge Ludlow. --- Prison oases were taken up this morning, Arrest of the Wllkesbarre Hank Rob lbers—Elteltime Chase Its she :Woods one'thieves Wade the Myer Varies the Storm +prima Cue*dar. The Mauch Chunk Gazette says The quiet town of_ -14ehightonisvas the seems of' limn 'excitement on Tuesday. it was rumored during the day that the Wilkes barite bank robbers were in the town, but the statement was hardly believed till constable J. T. Weston approached fourenspicious looking characters who bad been loafing about Mantz's Hotel with the intention of arreSting Vieth. The constable' had no sooner made this 'attempt at securing the scoundrels, than they pulled out pikols and pre pared for resistance. But seeing how futile such a course would be the robbers tried to escape by running. They crossed the Lehigh Valley Railroad' and plunged in the river, hoping to find security in the heavily wooded mountain 'on the opposite shore. 'This cer tainly was not' a pleasant undertaking, as in rome places the water is deep and swift. The teirible snow storm that was raging did not make the journey through the black watersany more pleasant than it Would have been otherwise, and we should suppose rather added to the discotnfort of. the whole party, after they got out and be gan 'to climb the mountain. The constable summoned a posse and, at' once -began the'pursuit. Nearly all of both parties were armed. After a long cha.se through the snow the robbers were overhauled. At first they refused to surrender and again drew their pistols, which eould not be fired, as they had got wet in the river. After some show of determination from the constable's men the thieves gave 'themselves up, and the wattle party returned to Lehighton to recount their adventures to the eager citizens who crowded around the hotel. The prisoners were kept over night at Mantz's Hotel, and sent to Wiikesbarre next day. CAPTAIN JENKS paorEcrED BY A WOMAN. Dra. Dr. Walker Rubbed by Ifla%way- . men In Louisiana—Bold Coudact of the Plucky Woman. [From the New Orleans Ilerinblican, Feb 5.1 On the 3d instant the renowned Dr. Mary Walker, being on her way from Clinton, La., , to Bayou Sara, availed herself at Jackson of an invitation from Captain Thomas 11. Jenks to ride over in his buggy, there being no othei conveyance. Betwee-n. a -and 4 &clock P. M., when within three miles of Bayou Sara, the Captain was startled by the lady suddenly reaching forward, seizing the reins, and bring ing the horse to dead halt, when simultaneously with raising his eyes, and iliscovering on either side of the buggy a highwayman in a kneeling position, covering him with double-barreled guns, the order was given, "your money or your lives." At this moment the Captain was feeling under the cushions for his revolver, when the robber shouted : "Move a muscle and I fire." The lady comprehending the danger, seized Captain Jenks's hands, and held them up, showing him to be disarmed, when they were ordered to leave the buggy. A lad of about fourteen years old, with a revolver in his hand, conducted the vehicle behind the thick growth by, the wayside, the prisoners, under cover of the guns, being ordered to follow. Captain Jenks observed, the moment that he fixed his eyes upon the robber covering him with his piece, that the man became nervous, whigh was ap parent from the trembling of the gun-barrel, and he was ordered to turn his back, which he refused to do, saying: " You have our lives and property in your hands;" to which the robber replied : "We want your money." The captain bad considerable funds arid valuable papers about him, but slipping his band in his vest pocket, threw upon the grass about fifty dollars;'the lady wits then ordered to throw her money upon the grass, which she did to the amount of between' Sixty and seventy dollars—all she had, but a ten-cent piece— and, holding it up between her fingers, she asked the villains -if they- wished that, too, to which they replied, " No." They threatened, however, to search the prisonerS, and if more was found they would murder them. One of the highwaymen then- stated that they would break open and search the captain's trunk. The captain threw him the key, and requested that he would 'not spoil the lock. After an examination of the trunk the bandits retired slowly to a distance of some eighty yards, continuing to cover the parties with their guns. On reaching Bayou Sara, au affidavit was made, and a descrip tion of the bandits given as near as possible, notwithstanding their half-blackened and dis guised faces. The coolness and self-posses sion of the lady probably preserved both her and Captain Jenks from being murdered. An inspection of the neighborhood showed a Spare revolver at the foot of a tree, while a few yards distant in the road was a dead mule, bleeding from a wound in the haunch Children are Melancholy Suicide on the North niver. The Times of this morning says : The ferry-boat which left the slip at Hobo ken for Barclay street, iu this city, at 9.15 last evening, was the scene of a melancholy sui cide. When the boat had reached the middle of the river a woman of more than ordinary beauty, eleg,antly attired, leaped from the how of the boat into the river. She was caught in the wheel, and must have been horribly mangled. Her body descended forever be neath the waves, in the presence of a number of horror-stricken passengers, who had 'been apprised of the occurrence before it could be prevented. She had been observed by the pilot of the boat upon; its bow, but ha did not divine her intentions until after she bad taken the fatal leap. As soon as she had done so, the boat was, stopped and preparations made to rescue her, but, before these could be made effective her fate had been decided. She sat in the ladies', cabin for some while before going to the place from which she leaped, and during that time her conduct was so eccentric and betrayed so much agitation as to elicit remark. She di vided her attention between a ring which she bad upon the fourth linger of her left hand and aletter which she had drawn from her pocket. , Her going out of the cabin before the boat reached the pier was remarked as Singular, but unfortunately none of her fellow passengers followed her. A Remarkable Itiarrlage. The Wilmington Cofiniterciat says: A. correspondent writes vs that a short time ago a local preacher at Roxatta, Sussex county, performed the marriage service be tween a man and woman, whose names we withhold for the present:notwithstanding the fact that it was known to the entire commu nity, the officiating preacher included, that the man had a wife and, child living in Wil mington', and that he had never been divorced from his wife, nor even so 'much as applied for a divorce. Our correspondent, mbota we. know to be a trustworthy gentleman, writes with great positiveness and gives the names' of 'the par hitt the story is 'so remarkable a one ;that we hesitate to print ,the urtMes mita the investigation the. writer urges shall have Placed the facto of the cesecbeymidthe passi- Idlity or dodbt — if thp , ..marnage Jan, may: he thus violated with impunity, divorce cases are likely to become rare. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1870 anirwm. IPITASITIFING A GANG OF TIIIEVEV. A NEW YORK TRAGEDY. BIGAMY IN DELAWARE. OUR WHOLE CauNTRy.. SORE ABOIIT TUE COLORED DIESSLS. RIPPE SERATOIL He Is Wore Indian thsiefrlesn. The Nashville Union gives a sketch of the colored Uuited States Senator elect from Mis sissippi. which shows that he is more Indian than African; very nearly a full-blooded abort gine.• The Union adds : • , neat is very little negro in him. Persons who pass up and down Cedar street, to and from the Capitol, see on the north side of the street a drug store with the sign of " ReVels & Aru." The store is N 0.112, and the senior partner of the establishment is Willis R. Revels, a brother of the veritable 'Mississippi Senator, who has taken his seat back of Chas. Stunner. His residence is No. 72 Cumberland alley.:We know something of Senator Revels. biram R hodes Revels was born in Chatham county, N. C., and will be fifty years of age on the ltith of June next. His paternal ancestry was Indian, of the Choctaw tribe. His father was the Rev. Elijah Revels, who was a mix ture of Indian and African, the former pre ponderating. His father was reported as "big injun" in times of anld lang svne from the Mississippi's reservation, and his grandfather, It is claimed, fought with the patriots at Stony Point, with Mad Anthony Wayne. So much for the ancestry. • Hiram Rhodes grew up as boys generally do. Nothing remarkable about that. Being very young at the dine of his birth, he was, in early youth, started to school, and graduated at Galesburg College, Illinois, at the preco chaus age of, thirty-six; when and where at which time he. was regarded as a peculiarly sprightly boy. ' Between the ages of 36 and 45 he did that extraordinary feat of what we old fogies call Sowing wild oats. But there was a change. Hiram went to Baltimore, where he remained for a while in the Monumental City. From there he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and we doubt not but the everlasting span of the big bridge which is to be "swung to-morrow" owes. its completion somewhat to his sojourn there. From Louisville he went to St. Louis. Thenceward Hiram went to Vicksburg, arriving in the Bluff City in 1860. Froth there his peregrinations led him to Leavenworth, Kansas, and from that re gion back to Louisville. Finally he glided noiselessly and imperceptibly on his way to .Natchez under the hill. In that city in 1869 he was elected a member of the City Council, of which be remained till with -Alcorn he was sent to the United States Senate from Mis sissippi. Revels and his brother were never slaves or in bondage. 'tens of the Lewd Tender Aet. A Philadelphia correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune t•ays: In a Washington despatch in to-day's Tri bune,' think injustice is done to the Hon. Wm. Strong, in reference to his position on the Le gal-Tender question. In what are 'known as the Legal-Tender cases, decided by onr Supreme Court, Judge Strong delivered an opinion sustaining the constitutionality of the act of Congress and its applicability, to debtS contracted before its passage. The eases are reported in 2 P. F. Smith, page 1, &c. On page 69 Judge Strong says : " I cannot doubt the constitutional power of Congress to issue Treasury notes of the United States,and to make them lawful money and a legal tender for the payment of all debts, public and private. * * It remains only to add upon this branch of the eases,that I do not perceive any force in the objection that the act of Congress impairs the obliga tion of private contracts. The objection is not founded in fact. It assumes, at its start, false premises. It asitumes that an engage , ment to pay money is the assumption of an obligation to pay the kind of money recog nized•bylaW when, the engagement was' tin-, dertaken, or, if not that kind, money of equal intrinsic,value in the market. But this is a mistaken meaning given to,the contract." Further on he asserts that the Federal Con stitutibn dots not forbid Congress to pass acts impairing contracts. The only point upon which he disagrees with the majority is that he does not think the principal of a ground rent is a debt. This question arises out of our loc:al laws and customs. Upon this latter point Judge Woodward, then Chief-Justice, and now in Congress, held with Justices Bead and Agnew, both elected as Republicans, that it was a debt. The contracts in most of these cases were made long before the passage of the act of Congress. It is well to remember that these cases were derided in 1866, after the war was over. . During the war, when an effort was made to impede the enforcennint of the Conscription acts, the *dice of Jndge Strong saved our State from being placed inantagonisin to the national .authonties. When those cases ist Lane, Lehman, and others, Provost Marshals, were pending in the Supreme Court, the anxiety of the supporters of the war was very gsreati and they were thankful_that, with. Judge Strong, there was a majority of three to two in favor of sustaining those laws. THE: NEW. PRESIDENT OF MATTI. His Personal Characteristic's and Mili tary Ilistory. ' Nesage Saget, President of the republic of Hayti, is a genuine Haytien, of the same caste as the late President Geffrard. He is about 62 years of age, of tall and slender build. Saget was kept in a dungeon for over ton years, and maltreated by the imperious Sou- Tontine. The overthrow of Soulouque by the Geffrard party caused his release, in 1861. When Oh! Spain retook the possession of St. Domingo,. once a part of the govern ment of Hayty it was conjectured by the Haytien people that slavery was to be again introduced into the country, and Saget was selectpd by Gerrard to take charge of the en tire northern district of the country, known as the District " Artibonite " great tears being entertained that the people would be inclined to revolt. He succeeded in winning the confi dence of the national guard and prevented an outbreak. When the ride of the south clamored against e kard's govern ment in 1864, Saget, being in the confidence of the govern ment, was again selected to pacify them. He took charge of the District of Leogane and re stored order to that "section. After a time he was again removed north, and was continually made the instrument of preserving peace beween Gefitard and a dissatisfied people. Ultimately Sager himself became disileased with the Geffrard government and all its mea sures, and told the President so, at the same time tendering his withdrawal from office. On the 23d February, 1867, a revolution broke out in Port ail Prince which induced Gaillard on the 24th March .ts , abdicate. His authority was tendered to h'aget. and he accepted it only to arrest 'disorganization, but took it under protest ! , publicly stating that he desired to bave 'the fatlice of prewdent made by constitu tional enaotinent, „, and. not by the mo mentary imptilees of mobocracy. Re acted , ,on this occasion as provisional presiden' ' until the usurpation and nomination or Salnave. Being of • retiring labits„and not mid uly anibitio us, he gave 'way for Saluome, on condition that the choice of pre.ident ehould, be by, election, according to law. After Saliaave's election as president, under the new. Oenhtitutioo, b'aget became mice, noire cimrif i ed ,with the department of the north,„\tide he ki4pr until the flhal over 'tiff() \ , v iit'i§ait)4Ven-goyerntoent. - , . I • „' o, eir , n ,• i l y •7 o. 7l °a""--L --7 A -%- gun in 7 ,' 1 1 `ra n de ha4.tihnled,Autrnyt.:J43l§or, Chaidas - tinn, ner, Benjamin F. Butler and 'Horace tireele3- honorary members. JITDGE•STRONG. lIIIDERILDIAN IDOLATRY. Solemn Adorektion of Dlohomet's Tee Mind Cloaks. (from tho Loyamt Times.)r This most. reletrin of Mussulman ceremonies, which is celebrated yearly on the 15th of Ram azan, took place on Saturday last, when the sultan, the whole of the Ministers, and all the great dignitatiea .of Church - and State pro ceeded to inspect and adore the personal relics of the - Prophet. These venerated remains amount to seven, exclusive of several minor artieles,such as arms, praying carpets, turbans, &c., either appertaining to him or to his im ediate successors,the first four caliphs, Ebou Bekr, Omer, Osman and Ali. generally distils guiehed as " the four friends." Of theseaeven articles, five are preserved in a chamber• or chapel at the upper. Seraglio, opening into a gallery northwest of the takht Odassy (throne room), and fronting the beautiful octagonal pavilion, caned Erivan kiosk, erected in honor of the capture of that place. This chapel is termed hirkayhereef (lassy (chamber of the holy mantle), from one of the relics therein preserved. Unless under accidental circum stances, this chamber is not accessible to Christians, no matter what their rank. Indeed, no Moslems are ever admitted within its pre cincts, excepting the Sultan and palace inams, and the guardians who keep, watch two by two, night and day. On the 15th of Ramazan, however, the Sultan, attended by his court and the grand dignitaries of 'the em pire, enters test() homage. The whole of the relics are then uncovered and exposed with extraordinary ponap,and solemnity. The re maining two personal relics consist of a tooth and , a second- mantle, belonging to the Prophet. The one is preserved in the mauso leum of Sultan Mohammed IL, and is shown to the public on the 27th Ramazan, the night of power or destiny. The second- is at present in the possession of the second astrologer to the court, , who resides in the immediate - vicinity of . Sultan Mo hammed's moss ue. The possessor of this latter relic, whose ancestors are said to have in herited and preserved it in direct succession from one of the Prophet's disciples, is honored with the title of hirka-v-shoeef sheikhy (sheikh ,of the holy mantle). It is exposed to public view during the last fifteen nights of Rama zan, and the owner reaps a rich annual harvest from the numerous presents brought to him by the multitude of devout persons, especially women, who throng to his house from sunset until midnight, during the last half of the fes tival. On Monday evening two transport steamers left for Autivari with troops, incon sequence, it is said, of the receipt of, unsatis factory news from Albania. Two local prints, the Djevath, an Arabic and the Terab, a Turkish paper, have beeni suspended for two months, the former for publishing and the latter for reproducing an article on the dispute with the Viceroy, favorable to his Highness. Palace gossip reports the early re turn of Nevrez Pasha to his old post of bash rnassehib (head buffoon), combining with it thit time the more dignified functions of Grand Marshal of the Imperial Household. The ru mor of Mithad Pasha's proximate recall from the government of Bagdad is also current,and Mehemet Rushdi Pasha, Minister of the Inte rior, is spoken of as his most likely "successor. A new envoy is also to be sent to Teheran. It is probable that these and some other changes will take place immediately after Bairam REDUCTION OF TAXATION. ' Views of the President. ' The Washington despatches of the Boston Adrertiser of Thursday morning contain the following statement " The readiness of the President to avow a .change of opinion on public questions when satisfied that he is wrong, is shown' by what lie now says about the reduc tion of taxation. , In his Message last Decem ber he took ground against the project for re ductiou, and held that we would do better to continue our present policy for another year. He has lately spoken on the subject in private conversation, and says further study and ob servation have convinced him that the country needs and expects some redactions. This declaration leads to the conclusion that' he will assent to ank measure of a reasonable character that is passed by Congress." —A Rio Janeiro correspondent of the St. Louis Ihiriblictin says: " Female beauty is not very common here: Perhaps the elements are not yet well combined. But . the richest colors of the skin—more charming than the rose and more soft than the sunny peach,—l have seen on the Campos Geraes, where health, clime and culture conspire to peace-. tion. The cheeks seem animated like the diamond with inner light; the eyes are black, seldom blue, and brilliant; the dress and de-. portment always modest; and what they lack in regular beauty is forgotten in their amiable deportment. They have intelligence without much book knowledge. I remember a senhora, who asked me if my country, the 'United States, bordered on Spain." ' MARINE BULLETIN. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA—nu Erse. Marino Bulletin am Inside Pate. ARRIVED TIDS DAY. Steamer F Franklin. Pierson. 13 hours from Balti more, with midge to A Groves, Jr. Steamer Centipede, Fenton, 3 days from Portland, in ballast to W b Scbr Rising Sun, Hastings, 12 days from James River, Vu. with lumber to Collins A Co. tichr Gen Palmer, Huston,from Capo May, with gravel to captain: Say Alaska, Pierce,l day from Brandywine,Del. with flour to It II Lea A Co. BELOW. - Brig W H Bickmore, from Sagan. CLEARED THIS DAT. Bark Bertha (Norw), Arentsen, Antwerp, L Wester (mord & Co. Behr Light of Home, Nickerson, Providence, Knight Boas. Soler Sally 0 Morton, Garwood, Newborn, S Lathbnry & Co. WENT' TO SEA. Bark Mexican, hence for Sagua; brig Estelle, do for Rio Janeiro; schrs James Ponder, do for Cardenas. and Adeha, for St John, NB. went to sea 9th instant. Ship Tuscarora, hence for Mobile, went to sea yesterday. MEMORANDA. Ship klindora (Br), Cameron, cleared at San Francisco yesterday for Liverpool, with 29,009 sacks wheat. Ship Horatio, Harris. cleared at San Francisco yester day for Manila. Steamer Saxon. Sears. sailed from Boston 9th Instant for this port. Steamer Ariadno. Eldridge, from New York for Gal. veston, arrived at Rey West 30th ult. with steering gear damaged. Bark Agnes, Thompson, from Rio Janeiro 9th Dec. at Baltimore yesterday, with coffee. Brig Herald, hence for Sague. was ashore yesterday morning on the bar off Marcus Hook; she remained last evening, but it was thought she would get off without damage. Sohr Jasper, for this pert, cleared at'St John, NB. 9th instant. tiebr Tlvlo Davie, Mond, hence for &Won, returned o Bohm& Hole AM Bth Inst. . . . Behr Wanderer, Ricketts at Aspinwall 27th ult. from Boca del Toro, and sailed 29th for San Andreas. Sohr Al. H titockham, Cordery,at Wilmington, NC. Sth lost. from New York. , • - • . Elehr Chita E Elmer, Cordon, at Savannah 7th Instant from Baltimore. echr Mary -D, Cranmer, Davis, hence tor Boston, at 'New York testerday. Schr Ida F Wheeler, Dyer, from Portland for Segue, at Holmes' Hole Bth that, Ship Kendrick Flsh, from' Cardiff, before reported burned and scuttled at Callao, was raised prior to Jan 14, and wonld be repaired The wrecking steamer Rescue was to leave New York last night for Townsend's, Inlet, NJ. to tow wreck of echr Willie blows to jt York, she having been hauled off the shoals. Tho Atlantic 'Submarine Wrecking Co , s steamer Lack , manna and schr j - da Grant; are moored over the wreck of, tho steamer Brunette; sunk off Sven; NJ, and divers • aro getting out her cargo. •.'• NOTICE TO MARINERS. Notioo ix IngebY given that the 2d ohm Can and Nun Mitriyit have been removed from Spring Point and Stan• ford Ledges, Portland harbor, Mo, and their pliteev sup• Plied by Spar Buoyie trir the , rentaintior'of the winter cowgirl. , Notice is hereby given that a2d clime iron Nu■ Doer has been placed to mark 'Triangle Lodges, entrance to Po.tetnoutli harbor, NH, instead of 4 :id class, as here- By order of the Lightheme Bout!, J B HULL, L 11 Inspector, lit District Portlautt, Fob. 8 1870 , . Z. FETITERSTON. Publslitt. PRICE THREB OgNTS. PALM AND FANCIES. ' A Wife's IWoudor,,, , (From Good Words.' !0 If I had never met thee, my beloved, As in this world, where so much waste lit wren, Or seeming waste, might easilrhaveo beam, I wonder what my nature wotild have proved! I am so much thy work; thy thoughta rgila mine, Give them direotion, lift from what is loyl What grasp or play of mind I have, I ow To the strong happiness of being thine. I catch thy takes, enjoy what pleases thee, Learn what is beautiful from thy delight; Wait on thy choosing to decide art ht; ' 'Tis but thy shadow any praise in me!' To love, to pity, to forgive with ease, ' In others hopes- and fears to claim a piart,.... Aro but the o'erflow of a alissful' heart ; And having thee, how should'l fail irs these? If thou shouldst leave me t—in that utter wee I wonder what of life could still be mine! Would mind be quenchrd, and heart grow cold with thine ? 0 God ! forbid,that everl should know f —The medical question of the period-L-ffsi vaccine matter de-Jetinarated • —Even the title of Mir. Dickens's nexbaoreil is yet shrouded in mystery.; —Shad in the Wilmington market are woe.* two dollars and a halfsi pair. ' • ' , —A little girl, after a funeral, was seen rum maging, in a drawer :—" There I .rwassure it—grandpapa has•gone to heaven Withouitlift spectacles !" —Persons who never acknowledge Altef right of weigh , -Tradesmen who give shed weight. —The independcmce Berge says that it, payht more for its. Paris correspondence than •14ts) whole English'press taken together. —The King of Prussia, it is said in Berth* lives at the present time ~principally on oggs, caviar, milk and very strong French brandy.; —" A woman is not able, like a man, to protect her inner castles of air and sentiment on the outer side exposed to the weatlier."—; Richter. . • —A youth who rescued a .voung woman from suicide in the Erie canal has been ar rested for assault and battery. He wrenched her, chignon out of shape. , - —When Jacob got rich watering his uncle Laban's stock, he set an example that Van-. derbilt, Gould, Drew and Company have 411,- gently followed.. —" The husband must always stand ,neat the liquid silver of the female spirit with a spoon, and continually skim off the scum' which covers it, that the silver glance ,of the. ideal may continue to glitter."--Riehter. —The heir. of Crosby Opera House 'Leo has become the heir apparent; He was, found in. Missouri, working on a farm, and, not hat/Digs read the papers for three years, didn't knots!". of his father's hick or death. ' —Said Stubbs to one of his debtors: " it about time for you to pay me that' little bill'?" "My dear sir," was the reply, " his not a question of time--it is a question of eternity." —Dr. Prime, of the New York Observer°, who is gossiped of as being a rejected suitor of Harriet, Beecher Stowe in his younger days, is savagely assaulting his old name in connection with the Byron businem. —A Aiissoinrian tried to trick an insurance company by drowning himself immediatel3r after taking out a policy. By dying.; her, escaped a great disappointment, for while hiss application for insurance went by inail,.the r news of his death was 'sent by telegraph, ends, the policy was not issued. s —The President after two hours, of hand shaking at one of its levees, is described asi` fellows His eyes begin to have a far-oillook k great drops of• perspiration Stand on his' fore; head, and his thin, qMvering nostrils rise and, sink like the gills of a darling dolphin when taken out of the water. —A country preacher, holding forth on a, very sultry day in Small hall, was much an noyed by those who kept dropping in after the services had commenced, and invariably, closing thedoor after them. He bore the vexation with Joh-like •• patience ; butt; at , length, being exhausted by the extreme op-• , pressiveness of the heat, he vociferated town offender: "Yrieud, do for goodness sake let that door be open. I believe if I were preach lug in a bottle yon would, put tke cork.in.," • —The poor Pope is' still run, down. with: - visitors, Dupanloup and Manning each had an audience the other day; then there was an overzealous priest who came to solicit a brief' forbidding ecclesiastics to use tobacco in any form, as beina source of scandal to their flocks. Pius ]X.was very much amused at the homily read him by the worthy missionary, ' who was struck ,dumb with confusion when his Holiness 'minted to his tabatiere, and said that " he could not in conscience forbid snuff; as he used it himself." . —A kicotchman, who was at mortalettpaity, with one of his neighbors, fell sick, an* being' given over, sent for his enemy that hen:light, be reconciled. " Oh!" said he, when the Man' entered the room, "I am very bad, very bad,. indeed—do you think I shall die'?" hope not," replied his visitor. "Yee, I shall, I know shall die, so I sent for you to be friends, that ' I may not go out of this world at enmity with. anybne!" This token of reconciliation was granted; but when his visitor was about to take leave; the sick man cried out: "Stop! if I should not die this time, all this goes for nothing—mind now, it is to be just as it was before, if I don't die." —At a very successful seance in Cincinnati the other night, a man burst into tears, when the medium described ver accurately a tall, blue-eyed spirit standing 'by him, with light. side whiskers and his hair parted in the mid, dle. "Do you know him?' inquired a man; at his side, in a sympathetic whisper. "Snow-, him I guess I dor replied the unhappy man,. wiping his eyes. "Eli was engaged to my wife. If he hadn't died he would have been. her husband instead of me. Oh,. George,: George," he murmured, in a voice choke& with emotion, " why, why did • you peg out?"' —A mild old man,. just a little how-camis,' you-so, lifted his hat the other day to wipe leis forehead, as he sat recovering on a seat. Central ,bark.. A party of gay ,v.oung ma% who for a freak had been buying India-rubber balloons of a pedler, passed at the moment. , By a happy thought two of them passed behind the old gentleinan and attached their balloons to his wig, which was loose.nedi the removal• of the hat. It sailed gaily Ctf4l.le,' a brisk wind, borne by a pair of the bladttere; Ecstasy of the spectators, as the old felletyr, sobered in an instant, clapped his I=4o his, - forehead, too late! • —The proprietors of a distillery at Milford.' Ohio, not having enough stook in ,theit peas., to drink the slop, turned %t into 'the, leorthwith the sober inhabitant:a of the beau- tifuhriver wereseizgd with a desire to go on, one grand " bender. , :By the time the tletlit, reached - Plalnville thO whole river primompaftlk, scene of the wiklest revelry- among theta Thiss, salmon and white perch vied With eaoh,,, other in all kinds of ' ridienlous glnkasstios.l, 'ey appeared it(nhoals noon the top or Eke water, swam to the shore and, juin,m4 ilpenu the dry land, audit' their drunken spree. ts& tated the performances of a highet epiker , ahlinalii.• A wagon load was caught they were in this tipsy condl4ol{ 4114 sold 4s the market.
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