GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 271.
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at Kt. Peter's ()Mirth, by Bev. lb•nry J. Morten,D.,
(Medea Coatis Harrison to Ellen Nixon Wain daughter
(of:dwarf! WlOll.
WATPON-BLACKFAtt .—On the 224 Instant, by
Friends' ceremony, George Watmon to Martha C. Blzek•
fan, both of this city. No cards.
DIED.
• bleililßTßlE.—February 2bit . in New York .ftebeces
Mifflin Mehturtrie, widow of James Mciduntrie, in the
79th year of ter age.
WONLYPNIL—On the 2dd Instant, suphie U. w if e o f
O. Freon Woelpper, and daughter of the late G. Adam
Might.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully
Invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of her
husband. No. 924 North Eighth street, on P riday after
noon. at 2 o'clock. Interment at Laurel Hill.
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THE STAR COURSE . OF LECTURES;
4taLlmBste wit:Luau cuuTpx,
O! TlitattillAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24.
Subject—Our National Folly—The Civil Servl
PROF. lIENEY MOUTON.
ON MONDAY EVENING. February '
tin ileet—tiolar Eclipse!.
BAYARD TAYLOR; March 3.
Stibiett—Referto and Art.
JOHN G. tIAX F:. kfa.rch
litibleet —French Folk* at Home.
Prot. RoDERT E. ROGKILS, floret' 24.
Subject—t'betolcal Force, in Nature and the Art...
• ' ANNA E. DICKINSON, April 7.
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PITILADtLPIII4I. Fehrriary 11, Pad.
NoTICE TO bTOCKlioyonim.
The annual election for Directors will he held on
MO?.DAY, the 7th day, of !larch. 1.274, at the Mlle.; of
the Curnwsny, Nu. Iffe South Third street, The nalle,w
be open front 10 eleleek A. X. until o'clock P.M. No
elisre or ..hares tranrferrod within sixty days preceding
the. leete,n will entitle the helder or holders thereof to
Tote
JOSEPH LESLEY,
felGtu,ll.9rg B ,, cretary.
IL - 0. EYE AND . EAR DEPARTMENT,
The Philadelphia Niaptni.ary have operied nn "•Eye
and Nar Department at No. 315 ffoittb Seventh atrvet
t batareen Spruce and Ptar9.wherodiaeaaca of the gyn.
awl Ear are treated daily at 1: o'clock,
TTENDENG
Dr, GEORGE. STRAW (MIDGE.
Dr. .10111 N F. WEIGHTMAN.
WM. F. Gird FElTTili..Prosi4ent.-
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Y. 31cCAY:A1lEft., TIIE (.IGAI:ISP,
at etereutoentb and Locuet, has .1.44 rr:ceived from
the Key West Factories a frail line of tilos. celebrated
Key West Cigars, equal, if not superior to the genuine
Havana Cisztre. FrnakPrr would do well to call awl ex•
amine these goo a, as they are very cheap and very fine.
Also, a, full line of all the choice brands of novel l a
Cigars. at the lovreet possible prices. lel9 rp tfg
lob °EVICT , : OF THE UNITED EMS.
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The annual election for President : arid .Direetero will
he herd at t of the Company on WEDNEiDAY.
Marxh si, 1670, het woon the, lieur. of 12 o'clOck M. and 2
o'clock M. WM. FAG EN,
felntruh3ro Secretary,
THE ANNUAL OF
Ba b the Members of the. " Vessel Owners' and ("An
toine' Association " wtil be held at 2 P.A.. on WED
NESDAY, the 21day of March, ls7o. at the office of the
Association, No. 1'2.3 Walnut street. '
JOHN W. EVERMAN, President.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
cab WEST SPRUCE STREET CHURCEI,
Seventeenth and Spruce streete.—There will be
speelal services every evening thle week lu the Lecture
Room. Prayer meeting at 734 o'clock. preaching at $
o'clock. Sermon on Monday by Rev. J. L. Withrow;
Tuesday ' RP .I)r.W iswell ; Wednesday, Rev .Dr. A. Reed;
Thuraday, Rev. Dr. Herrick Johngou, and Friday, Rev.
B. M. Patterson. ThOpublio conlialiy invited. fe2l-stre
lub GRAND • MASS MEWLING OF
Baptista will be held in the Fifth Baptist Church,
Eighteenth end Baring Garden streets, this Wednesday
Evening, at 7,n o'clock. An ehrtion for oaken will be
held, sod several addresses on Church Extension made.
CHESTNUT HILL M. E. CHURCH:
-The " PILGRIM" will he exhibited for the
benefit of the Chestnut Hill M. E. Church at CON
CERT HALL, THURSDAY EVENING, February 24th,
at 8 o'clock. f 023 2t6
AMVSWOM!ZMS.
—The Clime n: Tenth and Callowhill etreeta will be
open this evening with aperformanceby Mlle. Henrietta
anti the entire company.
—A number of novelties are promised at the Eleventh
Street Opera Blouse, this evening, the chief of which is
an original burlesque of Brougham's Red Light. There
will be a capital minstrel entertainment besides.
—Duprez & Benedict premise a first-class perferninnco
at the Seventh Street Opera Rouse, to-night. Mr. Jingle
Dougherty will appear in new delineations ; Cud there
will be a miscellaneous performance.
-
—The very handsome panoramic Illustration of • Bun-
Yan,s Pilgrum's Progress will be exhibited at Concert
Ball upon every evening during the present weeks
—Signor Blitz will, indulge in magic and legerdemain
at Assembly Buildings, every evening this week, and on
tiaturday afternoon.
—The American Theatre Were for the evening an at
tractive miscellaneous bill, including pprformaticoa
by Budwortb and dancing by the excellent uallet corps.
—At the Walnut Street Theatre this evening, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Watkioa will appear In Trwlden Down.
—Mr. !frank Mayo will autisor at tho Chestnut to
night in The Sireeis ti Now York.
—Mrs. Thayer will hare a benefit this evening In a
iirst•rato bill.
—A number of colored, men in. St. Louis
have formed an association for tho purpose of
building a first-class steamboat to ply on the
MisSissippi river.
In such a time as this, of general depression
in all branches of trade and industry; the
people will silently study and consider the
causes, and will scan all the measures of Con
gress for their relief. No fact of public interest
is more patent than that the people are just
teady to demand a lightening of this burden
of taxation—a lifting of so much of the load as
the Government can throw offwithout detri=
ment to its own • best interests. They have
hailed, therefore, with a satisfaction that will
brook no reversal, the recent action of the
Committee of Ways and Means in Congress
reporting a bill to reduce internal taxation by
thirty millions of dollars. But the question
comes up: Why not double this relief? It is
inexplicable that we must be paying war
taxes in time of profound peace—the same
taxes with gold at 18 to 20 points above par
as we paid when gold ruled - 50 to 75 points
above par. Every production of our soil and
of out mills will now only realize prioes cor.
responding with the decline in gold premium.
In fact, they have well nigh
anticipated spay b;
guishes ; jar striki
universal reduction •
come down to an eq
against unneceasary
abatement ae the (.1
Fine !Wiry Orer , ;ook,
.ultable for this
weather,
yield—nay nixty tA) Be ,
ally ; or, under lightc
the reduced revenur
Our ability and dispi
and interest of the as
maturity aro now I
vi
Ntralisl,l
and they ., •iil be elm
and in the sp• it of tlfe
But we\ may ert I
dispensable—excep 't
tattling to one's pertm7
der, able to carry a I
in the Treasury, and
eipate payment of tin
due for
.years, at the
Millions per mouth-1
The interest of eye
Is none the less because
to-day paramount to
(9.tbiug
or kinds
siwmrs tisad
party, exceeding thei
ricafitogtna tbat ran
out of Congrer4e. 'Let
but one that Shall be a
of the (Ail of a deprv.
tive-twenty and all
their entirety until
ing generatiotni,who
than fhb+, Pay the wit
or periu it, as be._
most convenient means that could be devised
for the investment of funds of public and pri
vate corporations, capitalists, trusts.- estates,
widows, orphans and all Classes of a money
saving and investing people.
Attention •to the currency question is first
demanited by common sense and the genera/
Welfare. When we have a medium, of do.:
merino exchanges equal to that we are obliged
to settle our foreign balances With, then can
We pay off a five twenty six per cent. bond at
par, and negotiate a four per cent. at par, and
not'scioner.,
Reduce taxation to a specie basis at once;
discharge an army . of assessors and collectors
of revenue, and apply the vast sum thrtssas - Cd,
a : fund for the redemption of the illegal
tenders.. These restort_xf to a par with . goldi
and every bond—due at the option of the Gov
ernment—is worth just par, and may be paid
out of the proceeds of the sale of a '.bond
bearing a lower rate of interest, which may
be readily negotiated then if made payable in
not less than thirty to fifty years ;so keeping
gold in the country in sufficient gupply to
hack our currency and to settle all home and
foreign exchanges. ; 8.-R.
Horrible Tragedy in ltaarachnoette-.4
31an Shoots his Brother and then Hills
The tenement house in the rear of Mr. Mc-
KeN;itt's, N 0.16 Fifth street,was the scene ia4t
night of a shocking murder and suicide. The
parties concerned iu this sad tragedy were
William and Thomas Booth, brothers, who
occupied adjaCent tenements. William, the
elder brother, was about 38 years of age, and
was a widower with one child, a lad about 13
years of age. He occupied the tenement in the
west. end of the Louse, on the first floor, and
his aged mother kept. house for him. Thomas,
with his wife and two children, occupied the
tenement in the east end; same floor. He was.
about '4B years of age.
Last night, a little before ten o'clock, two of
the Night Watch, Officers Hall and Brennan,
found William Booth on Ferry street, in a
state of, intoxication, and took him to his
house. His mother had retired to bed, and
soon after entering the house William began
a conversation with her about what would be
eome of them if he should die. She spoke
kindly to him, but he finally became exaspe
rated at Some remark she made, and going.
Into her bedroom struck her several severe
blows. She screamed for assistance, when her
son Thomas rushed in, andeatching hold of
William, compelled him to desist. His mother,
in the meantime, got up and wont to Thomas's
tenement. Thomas followed, and closed the
door. William then took down his rifle,
capped it, and proceeded to the door Of
Thomas's tenement, with a request to be ad
mitted. Thomas opened the door a little way
to admit him. when he raised his rifle and
fired. The shot passed through one of the
panels of the door and lodged in Thomas's
neck. The blood spurted instantly in copious
streams from the wounds of the unfortunate
man, who began to stagger and fall. His wife
sprang forward and caught him in her arms,
and fixing his dying gaze upon her he almost
immediately expired.
William, on looking into the room and see
ing his brother weltering in his blood, wont
up into the attic and procuring a bottle of cor
rosive sublimate (which bad been kept on
hand for killing vermin), he swallowed the
poison. He then came down stairs, entered
his own tenement, fell once or twice, and
finally throw himself on his bed moaning
g aud
groaning, and calling to his brother : 1 0,
come and speak 'to me before I die!" The
Wretched man lay in this condition until about
4 o'eiock this morning, when he died also.
Dr. Hartley was called to Thomas, but be
fore any physician could arrive the unfor
tunate man was beyond the reach of any
earthly aid. Both parties were Englishmen.
William was a spinner in the Robeson Mill,
and Thomas was a second hand in the mule
room of the now Union. The latter is said to
have been a very likely, sober, industrious and
worthy mail. The two children which he
leaveuttre a boy about 4 years of age and , a
babe Of 13 months.
—The Chinamen recently taken to Texas
are thinning . out the dogs. A good
sized dog will bring ten dollars there just for
the meat. Dogs axe learning the tricks of the
Chinamen so well that when they see , a pig
tail coming they lay right down and froth at
the mouth, to make believe they have the hy
drophobia, for your celestial must have a
healthy dog.
—Mau may often take a lesson in morality
from what he is pleased to call the inferior
animals. For instance,' who ever beard a
horse telt a lie, or ever read of a salmon be
ing tried for the possession of unjust mass ?
groi the Rhiladelphia EinHotta .3
DOWN WITH THE TAXES.
4RIME'.
A DOICHLE nuniext.
From the Fall 'River (faaLt.l News, Feb. '11.)
PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1870.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
OVEN* DOINGS IN HONE.
The rather** Advseate Some Very Nom.
soneleal Theories.
The Roman correspondent of the Tribune
tayn: '
Should the dogma of Infallibility be defined,
there will be at least this advantage derived
from it, that the Pope may, settle all the
spiritual affairs of us poor mortals in his own
library, and dispense with the attendance of
the Bishops—many of them poor and feeble
—from all quarters of the globe. On Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday (yesterday; the Con
gregation met, and was occupied with discus
sions, of the scheme now before them, " de vita
et onotate elerieoru2ii." How his remarks were
introduced it would be difficult to say, but a
Neapolitan Bishop distinguished himself on
Tuesday by . the rare novelty of his speech.
Jesus Christ, he asserted, wore the robe
which the Italians call the Talaro, along dress
reaching to the heels—so did the Apostles and
Martyrs. Long before the time of the Mes
siah, too, prophets and priests wore the same
i
dress ; hence it was ndisputAble that our
Saviour, seated in Paradise, on the right hand
of the Eternal Farber, wears the Talaro as it is
represented in all paintings of the Holy
Trinity. Even the venerable Fathers were
amused, and the Council broke up, with a
laugh. Strong-minded, sensible men in
America will read such statements with
incredulity—but is anything incredible of
Rome, when we consider what are the
avowed objects of the present demonstra
tion—when men are appealing to the
Pops to put down suicide and to
terminate wars? The appeal in favor of the
latter projects has already been signed by 25
s, and is still circulating for signatures.
As a et-off against the projects and proposi
tion of the members of the Council, there
n • Iles on my table a_pamphlet published in
, urin, entitled "A Petition to the Very
• everend Fathers of the Council for the sup
ression of the Roman Observatory" Castro
•.,omical). The author argues that as modern
:tronomy lies at the very - basis of Rationalism
that as its conclusions are in direct opposi
ion to the Holy Scriptures, an institution
which tends to the propagation of such
principles is iujuriotis to the faith ,of
the Roman Catholic Church, and
ruinous to souls. The prayer
of the petition therefore is that Father Sec
hi, the learned Director of the Observatory,
b called on to refute from the Bible the prin
cip • of modern astronomy, or that, if he fail
to tic so within a given time, both he and the
obse vatory be suppressed. Oh, what wicked
wag: I You will not be sunerised to hear that
ape
,p into the & Romano ; lama de Rocrno Pontifiee ins
form thAt PIP Tpmrnral PiawrPr of
.the
Pope is to be proposed as a dogma to be ac
cepted under menace of excommunication;
SO that a zealous care for human souls
does not exclude a desire to obtain
worl ly influence. But, alas for the
prete (ins - cif---o - ur spiritual superiors,
since yes ay a rep . oit - has gained ground in
Rome that the Nuncio in Fans has made the
following communication to e Pontifical
Governor: The Emperor promises protec
tion and all that kind of thing'to the - Pepe;
but (there is much contained in those three
letters) he requires that His Holiness should
fulfill the conditions demanded in the cele
brated letter addressed by the Emperor to Ed- „
gar Nev in 1851. It demanded a return to the
slate of . thinks existing in 1841-48-. a Constitu
tion with one Pontiff as sovereign. The de
tails were: The secularization of all public
employnients—the Senate to be the ruling
power.
A COUNTERFEIT BISHOP.
Hon a Sharp Reporter Tried •to Get Into
the Roman Council.
A Roman correspondent writes
Some weeks since I sent an account of the
arrest of a false bishop, who was incarcerated
at Fort St. Angelo for his unauthorized as
sumption of epEsccipal vestments in order to
be present at the secret delibemtiods of the
Council.
His personality has been at last discovered:
he_ was not, as at _first supposed, _a --spy
despatched by Signor Visconti Venosta, the
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, but
simply the correspondent of a French
newspaper, which has been, for the past
month, very prolific in ecclesiastical indis
cretion. How he procured his disguise is still
a mystery, for the arrest of his tailor has
turned out to be a myth; but at the Cafe de
Rome they say he bought the credentials from
the confidential and incorruptible secretary
of an Oriental prelate, who was prevented by
ill-health from appearing at the evangelical
rendezvous. At all events, while the police
was investigating his case, the prisoner disap
peared, and gossips assert that the doors of
his dungeon were opened by one of the keys
which were bequeathed to Pius IX. by St.
Peter; in plain language, the Pope sent him
his passports and gave him an escort of gen
darmes to the frontier.
JENKINS
How He it Consideredln England.
The amenities of journalism, as between
British and American papers, have never
been more sweetly or touchingly exhitited
than in the Pall Mall Gazette on Jenkins,in the
matter of Prince Arthur's call at the White
Rouse. Referring to the account given by the
Washington correspondent of a New pork
daily paper, of the Prince in the outer hall
about to depart and being "assisted into his
overcoat by the President's valet," the Poll
Mall Gazette says :
"Can we imagine the possibility of any se
rious disagreement arising between two na
tions when the valet of the President of one
helps a Prince of the blood royal of the other
into his overcoat?: Never did valet perform a
nobler mission than that Republican Jeames
when be thus assisted a Prince ; never did
Prince honor himself more than in thus grace
fully accepting such assistance. If the two,
the Prince and the valet, could have
looked beyond the mysterious film which
shrouds our limited vision, they would
have seen the Ango] of Peace smiling through
tears of joy at the scene in the President's
vestibule—a struggle, but not between hus
bands and fathers and brothers in oceans of
blood diluted with the tears of the widow and
the orphan. Only a struggle to get into an
overcoat, one party playfully assisting the
other—first the right arm, then the left. It is
over now ; but the buttons of that overcoat
have linked two mighty nations together, and
who will dare to unstitch those links of love
forged by President's valet and our own
Arthur? ,
AMERICANS IN BRAZIL.
Failure of the American Colonies in
Brazil.
A correspondent of the Buenos Ayres
Standard writes from Rio Janeiro, under date
of December 15:
"Emigration to Brazil as yet has been a
failure = out of the thousands who came front
the United States, there are very few who
have been successful; these few are Texans
who settle, in Sao Paulo, where they have suc
cessfully planted cotton ; the proapects of this
part of the country are very good, and
colonists who have been settled here a year or
eighteen months are now sending
for their friends and relatives. These are the
kind of people we require—men who not only
bring labor into the country, but capital along
with them. There,seems to be a bright future
in store for this Texan'colony of Sao Paulo,
while these of the, 'seaboard Iwie diindled
away one by ono until there ii 4 not a rennont
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
left of them; either the colonists have moved
up among the highlands, of they have gone
back 10 the States.
." There are also over two thousand German
tamillea in the province of Hao Paulo, „who
are 'Educing their friends to come out and
settle there.'
A STRANGE STORY OF• MISWORTEiNR.
Singular Adventures of an English Wo.
mss --An Unfortunate Passenger—.
Shipwrecked Twice on the Way From
England.
Mrs. Susan Morris took passage in Novem
ber last at Cardiff, Wales,-on board the bark
Carnie Hill, bound for the port. of 'Mobile,
with a cargo of railway iro. The voy
age was quite a pleasant ono up to the 13th of
December ; but on that day, In the afternoon,
the - vessel ran on a coral reef off the coast of
St. Domingo, and the captain, crew, Mrs.
Morris and another passenger—a gentleman
named De Wolf—were compelled to take to
the boats. They succeeded in reaching Saona,
a bleak island at the southeast extremity of
Hayti, and about 120 miles from the town of
St. Domingo. The crew made a tent of the
sails of the vessel, and endeavored, as soon as
they could get to work with safety, to bring
asboreall the articles they could rescue frbm
the ship, which began to break to pieces
shortly after she bad struck the reef.
The morning after the wreck a sail was des
cried. A pole was at once erected and the
Stars and Stripes run up, with the Union
down, as a signal of distress. The signal was
answered and a boat put out from the strange
vessel, which proved to be a pleasure yacht
of a Spanish general, who had just sailed from
the island of Uma. The general himself came
ashore and expressed his willingness to let
Captain Smith, of the Carnie Hill, take his
yacht with her own Crew and go to St.
Domingo for assistance. The general and one
or two of his party, after the departure of the
yacht, erected a tent beside that of the crew of
the Carafe MIL
the
Island
latter had succeeded, after being on the
Island five or six days, in Saving a great
quantity of' articles . from their ship, which
they piled up near the tents. They did not ex
pect any marauders about, and so did not
keep a very strict guard over them. .On the
sixth day a party of natives, about thirty in
number, all armed with long swords, swooped
down upon the tents and deliberately went to
work putting the goods' saved from the ship
into their small boats they had brought with
them. The Spanish general said be was power
less to prevent the robbery as the natives
were not under his jurisdiction. After the
natives had gone away he .gave the ship
wrecked people to understand that they were
in a dangerous part of the country, and that a
short time previous the entire crew of an
American bark, which had been, wrecked oft
the coast, had
-been brutally murdered when
they landed. ,
o.n the eight day after' the wreck the gene
ral advised the first officer of the' Carnie Hill
that lie Lad better not wait any longer .for the
return of Captain Smith in the .yacht, and to
take the small boats and make his way as best
he could to St.' Domingo. The first officer
Melt• tbe advice, and the whole party at once
set out and wer e fortunate enough to reach St.
Domingo without any mishap: According to
Mrs. Morris, outbeir arrival at the town the
story of the irdered American crow was
denied by the a horities, and'the general was
thrown into prise On 'suspicion ,of being a
party to the robbery \of the goods saved from
the Carrie Hill. •
Three weeks after ar •ving at St. Domingo
Mrs. Morris took passag Qi-i board the British
schopner Grand Pri,, Captain flormley. There
were four other passenger.= on Ii;la:r(1, namely:.
—William Samuel Dunbar, of 80-ion ; Frank
De Wolf, of Nova Scotia ; Otto Ernes; of
Boston, and another - gentleman named De
Wolf. When 250 miles from this port the
British brig Nora ran into the Grand Pre, the
latter vessel sinking in a few minutes. The
passengers and crew Were rescued by the
Nora, but they lost all their effects. The Nora
finally arrived at this port safe and sound.
Mrs.-`Morris • lost,---be4de • all- her -wearing
apparel, some very valuable papers which
cannot be easily replaced. She is now tempo
rarily stopping at No. '5
_Carroll street,
Brooklyn.
AWFVL DISASTER ON., 4 18-
SIPPI.
P
A Steamboat, Burned.-4'ncel4Ne I* - assen
Kers, Pax 011icers and Et e teret
Lost.
The steamboat Emma No. a, 7 ;11 eft
Memphis on Friday evening, fo Cii 'Mood,
while going through the chute at island al,
Saturday morning, struck a snag and upset,
setting the boat on tire and totally destroying
her. A passenger of the steamer
Forsythe relates that about ten
o'clock on: Saturday morning the Emma
struck a snag, tearing a large hole in her how,
causing her to sink gradually, and upsetting
the stoves in the cabin, which set the heal on
lire, causing the wildest consternation among
the passengers, a number of whom were
ladies. Captain Maratta immediately manned .
the life-boat .and attempted to rescue the
ladies, but the boat was swamped by the ex
cited crowd. The Captain, then, with the
assistance of the other officers, made a float of
the cotton .-bales, planks, &c., on which a
number of passengers paddled to the shore
in safety.
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Among those lost and missing aro the fol
lowing: Miss Lewis and aunt, of Covington,
Ky.; three — ladies, names unknown,. one of
them from New Orleans, one from Vicksburg,
and one from Memphis ; three Frenchmen
'from New Orleans, unknown; Thos. Flynn,
St. Louis; Jos. Sealey, Lexington, Ky.; Thos.
Trunuel, pilot; Wm. Forstuer, Pittsburgh,
second engineer; the chambermaid, (colored,) .
New Orleans ; Joseph Chapman, two firemen
and a roustabout, unknown; M. McFarland,
first engineer. Mr. Loynberey died from ex
hatistion after reaching the shore. The boat
now rests with the bow on a snag and the
stern in twelve feet of water. She had a cargo
of groceries, and added 400 bales of cotton at
Memphis. T,he Columbian passed her two
hours after the accident and took the survivors
to Cairo.
CAIRO, February 21.—The following addi
tional names of missing from the Emma No.
3 disaster is furnished by Mr. Altcnborough,
pilot: Win. Fastner, second engineer; James
Bcaley, Lexington, Ky.; second cook, un
known, white; Davy, roustabout; James
Chapman and two other firemen, names un
known ; McFarland, a passenger, died after
reaching shore ; George - Webster, pantry man,
in hospital at Cairo, badly burned, but will
probably recover. Additional names of saved,
as follows: James Lynch, St. Louis; Joseph
George, Cannelton, Ind.; James Ruedrecker,
Dayton, Ky.; C. Charleston, second mate; Ed
ward Wylie, watchman ; James Ford, John
Johnson, C: Collins, Frank Burns. Amos
Burns, E. Ewing, Ben Baker, Wm. Foes, of
the deck crew; - Henry Nelson, fireman.
—Since the story has been told how Judge
Breckimiclge married a country girl he saw
jump over a rail fence with a pail on her head,
it is said that out in Orange_county, all the
young women are putting water-pails on their
beads and jumping rail fences from morning
till night. As soon as they see a carriage
come along the road with a man in it they
snatch their pail and go for the fence.
—A man in Michigan who shot a stranger
because he didn't givsPim all the sidewalk
has , been sentenceti to . Orison two years and a
half. Murdering is getting so cheap that the
poorest people can indblge In it.
DISASTERS,
CITY BULLETIN.
Locm. Cfrownxts—Tbo temperature this
morning had so , risen as to dispel all prospect
of an ice crop held out by the freezing tent
peratnre ,of the previous two days. Upon
sleighs and skates even' auctioneers •fitivr flint
themselves unable to• obtain bids.- Even
velocipedes can hardly beanere-useless.
Rev. Doctor Willetts, at the big temperance
meeting, last night t eaia that $43.000,000 werth
of whisky was last year sold in Philadelphia.
As this was just 580,000,000 more than was
spent for religion, the learned Doctor con
sidered the case a hard one.
For butter this morning in the retail
markets the averageprice was 70 cents. For
the produce of fancitul dairies . was realized
as high as 80 cents. With a winter so
open as this has been—a winter with even a
fair bite of grass upon the southern slopes and
warmer soil of aersey—there is no possible
reason for this extortion. One reason why
people with small pocket-books cannot help
themselves from being imposed upon is that
the wealthier classes pay the prices that are
asked,. without taking the trouble of ninon.,
strance.
The show of salt oysters at Vine street
wharf, this morning, is very - fine. What the
oystermen complain of is the unusual destrue
tiveneSs, this season, of the oyster's natural
enemy, the star fish. This univalvular pest
gets into the shell of an oyster as a horse
jockey gets into the pocket-book of an inex
perienced rustic. The boats that "come from
Delaware bay and the Capes are exulting in
fcod. catches. To them the late immunity
rom coldis a grateful exception to the gen
eral rule.
Tho very beautiful new Methodist Church
at Thirty-eighth and Morris streets, West
Philadelphia, will be opened on Sunday.
Bishop Simpson will preach in the morning.
Of Methodist church architecture in general
this edifice is about fifty years in advance.
Its exterior exhibits three large crosses. In
front of the chancel is a fourth. To many of
the primitive brethren of the denomination
this will probably appear as something shock
ing. A splendid organ will, for the first time,
be opened in the church on Sunday next. It
was built in Boston. ThiS entire beantiful en
terprise, costing $43,000, was the work of a
few earnest,believers that Methodism, like the
sun; should "keep On the move."
'To fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Mr. Horace Binney, Jr., Hon. Morton
McMichael has been elected President of the
Union Leag - ue. Mr. William Sellers has been
chosen Vice President, in the place of Mr.
•
McMiehael.
Messrs. Powell & West, auctioneers, sold
yesterday, on the premises, the property
known as the Bristol .Woolen' Mills, for
$26,100, over and above a mortga.ge of $15,000.
JoSeph Doughertv is a small boy. He was
before Ald. Toland this morning.' He was
charged with stealing steel. He stole it, it is
alleged, from Rollin's rolling-mill, on Beach
street. _ The boy, lives near by. He was_ held
in $l3OO to answer.
John Harvey, arrested at Crown and Vine
streets last night, was sulThring from a rush of
whisky to the cerebellum. A long-bladed
dagger, ground to a razor edge, was found
• upon his person. The very gleans of its pol
ished aortae° seemed to smack of murder.
The accused was this morning held to answer.
He claims that his residence is the house of the
Western Engine Co,
The surface of the Delaware, to-day is as
clear as in the ' middle of the summer. The
river craft glide or snort as sail or steam pro
pels them. The gulls wheel and circle over
the floating offal as they wheeled and floated
in-Angust last and will continue to do until
-the crac f doom. Meanwhile we hear of
gentlemen beady fitting un their, pleasure
yachts let t e approaching sailing season.
What is true o' sailing yachts is true, also, of
steam yachts.. ' these, the fleet upon the
Delaware is of anything bet second-class
order.
At 10 P. M. yes • rday a well-dressed citizen
walked " kersplo,•h" from Lombard Street
dock into the rive Delaware. He was per
fectls, sober. The fa x-pas was the result of
the Cimmerian dar • ness enshrouding that
' portion - of the D laWar. front. After-remain
ing in the war aboutett minutes, clinging
to the propel rof a tug-boat, his cries for help
were beard by Captain Bouvier '
Captain of
the United 'Mies Customs night inspectors'
barge, who, ith his crew, rescued the man
from...his - npleasant position. This is the
"Eleventh rescued from the river by Captain
Bouvier and his crew within the last five
months; two ,of the persons saved being
females.
For two dresses and a silk sack owners are
now wanted at the Central Police Station.
They were recovered trom the notorious
alleged shop-lifter, Elizabeth Wagstaff. The
portrait of Elizabeth has long enriched the
_Rogues' Gallery, at . Fifth and Chestnut
streets. She, is 110 W ,in durance, awaiting the
production of the necessary evidence to place
her in retirement.
A man was seen at one o'clock this morning
by Policeman liarrington to tumble in a fit
at Twelfth and Chestnut streets. He fell with
great violence, his skull coining in contact
with thq Sidewalk. He was , taken by the
Hpoliceman to the Pennsylvania Hospital.
is identityis not known. The duo to it, if
any exists, is in the name "John Otto" that
was marked upon his shirt, and a certificate
in his pocket of the mem benhip of John Otto
in Wissahickon Tribe of Red Men:
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A boat 'laden gunwale deep with Pig iron,
supposed to have been stolen, wa.s last night
taken charge old at Green street wharf by the
Harbor Police,
• Annie Green was arrested sonic time ago.
'She stole seven pairs of blankets froth No. 830
South Second street. She was forgiven. She
was told to go and sin no more. Yesterday
she revisited the scene of what now seems to
have been mistaken clemency. She undertook,
it is alleged, to commit a repetition of the of
fence. She was now arrested. Upon her per
son was found three pawn 'tickets represent,.
ing three of the stolen blankets. Ald. Lutz
sent her, this morning, to prison.
A PAIR OF DANGEROUS CHARACTERS.—De
tective-policeman Levy, this morning, at nine
o'clock, stumbled upon two long-wanted char
acters. What had long been , vainly looked
for the detective hit upon by chance. At
Fifteenth and Coates streets Mr. Levy saw
two noted burglars, named George Bass and
James Kelly. Kelly glided up an alley flank
ing a photograph establishment on the north
west corner. His companion posted himself
as sentry at the door. Levy kept them under
surveillance from a standpoint—like '• a lodge
in a garden of cucumbers"—in a drug
store on the opposite side of the street.
Harbor Policeman Morris loomed up at that
moment. With Mr. Levy he watched the
Movements of the men. Kelly soon emerged
from the alley, and in five minutes afterwards
the duo were securely bagged. Upon the per
son of Kelly was foupd a well-made jimmy.
They realized nothing - by their venture. They
will be arraigned this afternoon before Justice
Kerr.
.A 111 min. Der.—The ver 4 y general pbt
servance of yesterday in this city is indicative
that a year hence it will be celebrated with even
'greater spirit than the celebration of yester
day: The hour of 11 P. M. found the cit3r as
tranquil as'enthe evening of a Sunday. The
lixonoises:i announced seem everywhere to
have passed oil in a manner still further to
eabaace, as a place over which peace fairly
broods;this city of good-looking women and ex
tra superior pressed bricks. We shouldn't he
surprised, a year''hence, to see the twenty
second of February as generally' honored as
any other feast-day in the calendar.
F. k FETHERSTON.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Tun Youno MircuNnitatton.---What Ger
man-American resident. of Philadelphia are
unable to abstract in the way of enjoyment
from the 'twenty-four hOurs that go to make
up a day isn't worth very serious study. A
case in point was last evening, given in con
nection with the lath atiniversary, celebration
'of the birth of the Young Mantierehor. It
took place;at their spacious hail in Cherry,
above 'Fifth street. The entertainment was
begun by a banquet, continued by music,
and finished by a , very 'beautiful
ball. The occasion was akin to that at 'Bel
gium's capital on the night before the battle of
Waterloo, but—withent the battle. There were
plenty of soft eyes. to " look love to eyes that
spoke again." Many distinguished guests' were
present. The effect of the vocal music was in
no small degree heightened by the fine singing
of Mr. Jacob Graf, the well-known tenor.
The assemblage present dispersed as people
do who at the close of a day mark it with .a
white bear.:
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. PROPOSED .I...t,Lawlbr. IN TEE Juni
claim—The following is. the"! Committee of
twenty-flve appointed by the Chairman of the
Bar meeting held, yesterday—some of the
names of the gentlemen having been errone
ously printed in the morning papers : Wm.
Botch Wister, Chairman; Amos Briggs,
George Bull, Arthur M. Burton, Lewis. C.
Cassidy, Wm. H. Drayton, Themes J. Diehl,
T. Bradford Dwight, James E. Gowen, Thus.
Greenbank, George Junkin, Richard . Ludlow,
James W. Newlin, J. Otterson Jr.,-Samuel O.
Perkins, J. Sergeant Price, Wm. .11!. Barrie,
Samuel ltobb, Gustavus Remak, Edward
Shippen, Lewis Wain Smith, George W.
Thorne, Samuel G. Thompson, H. E. Wallace,
R. J. C. Walker. To whom were added, by re
t solution, the officers of the meeting--Writ. A.
I Porter, Peter McCall, Isaac Haziehurst, G.
W. Biddle, Joseph B. Townsend, _Mary M.
Deehert and Geerem D. Budd.
...OYE AND JEALousY---11. men named Louis
Hehnbold is enamored with the personal
charms of a young lady who executes pirou
ettes at the American Theatre, on Walnut
street. Isaac Beidighenner is correspond
ingly spooney in the same direction. Both
were at the theatre last evening. They quar
reled about the girl. What might otherwise
have been 'a bicker proved to bo a brawl.. In
the course of it thegentleman with the Teu
tonic name received four inches of a knife
through his cheek. The knife, it is'alleged,
was in the . hands of Helm bold. The latter
was locked up. The former was conducted to
his home, 24 - 0:853 Randolph street.
A D-
...)EADLY lich, , o.stitE.—Charles Kara
nah, at half-past 5 o'clock this morning, had
not.yet gone to bed. He had been spending
Washington's birthday. At the drinking
house of Patrick McCormick he ordered. rum.
He didn't pay for it: He ordered, more.
When refused, he became pugeacious. Me-
Cormick disposed of him by drawinghis head
down over: the counter, and firing a bullet
through . his cheek. The ball entered above the
lip; came out just below the eye. Ho was
taken to the hospital. McCormick 'fled
He. was afterwards. found hidden In
the attic of a friend near by. He xvas com
mitted by Aid., Pan coast. ' •
A H - '
..EAVY 1/xi's "WORK.—Tite flratday's
'work 'of Mi. Mx-Receiver Peitz Was the irto.st
arduous ciVeriknown.in_the.antlals,of , that
partmont. Between the.• opeping,and Closing
of the' °nice 'on Slotiday the gtosA reeklits
were 5116,65.3 40. • The . discount for proMpt
.payment amounted ) t0.•;',..432,ti11t3 .71i. The anzu to
'tie paid intti the 'office of 'the City Tr'easurbras
the result of one day's' collet tioifas
s2tia,Ui6. 66. The sum exceeds any ever ~prev
iously paid in during a single day. siitee the
opranization of the Tax Receive/ I '4 depart
.,
mcnt by the sum of 81:10 eon.
A --
,1.74011 G PHILISTINES. A Hebrew- pedlar
last night entered a hippie on Alaska ,street,
above Sixth. He carried his pack with him.
Whisky was duty plied. While tho pedlar'
was interviewing a woman his stock! in trade
was stolen by a lot of others. The police came
to his relief: His doleful appeals for assistance.
sank deep into their hearts. ' They arrested
Mary Maginley, Annie Morten, L'liza Steward
and _Robert Thompson. Aldertna.ti Dallas-sent
to prison the entire bitnel).
13,
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iow-Wow.—A.l,•A...m,t;r uoyle and Ainliow
Farrell were this morning entfeavoring to dis
pose of a thirty-dollar poodle fora, dollar anti
a half. They were arrested at. Fifteenth and
Locust streets. They were held by Alderman
Morrow to answer the charge of stealing the
quadruped in question. The inference is that
the dog was " registered." But for .this
stealing of hint would be no more a lartAmty
than the larceny of an umbrella. • ' •
141 E xuesuay evening' the
closing exercises of the night school came otr
at the City Institute, Eighteenth, and cliest
nnt streets. The good done by thiS .
lion is incalculable. The number of adults
Who have, by its instrumentality, acquiredfat
least the arts of reading and writing, is yery
considerable. ft should have alike tlic bene
diction and benela.etiozi of every humanita
rian.
A I'
"OLD ScAm e.—.Heury smith was ail:ailed
this morning. He broke into .N0."14-13-Norili
Thirteenth street. He filled a bag with 'table
cutlery and silverware. He then undertook
an exploration of an upper room. Ite.here
found a lady keeping vigils over an invalid.
He was arrested. This afternoon, at the Cen
tral station, he will be arraigned for his offence.
.
TitounLE.—A man named Frank ,Des
moulins will be heard at the Central Station
this afternoon, charged with " suspicion - of
burgla4-." Ho was found in the rear of a house
in Locust street, above Ninth. He had entered
it by false keys. For hie enterprise be sceins
to have realized nothing,
LinOLICAL.—Owen Satter entered a tavern
at Sepviva and. Huntingdon streets. This was
late last night. He refused to pay for refresh-
Meat. He added injury to insult; he beat the
landlord. Aid. Heins this morning held hint
to answer.
THE BANK MESSENGERS' PROT Ecir GN.-
The extremely 'useful invention entitled as
above is the property of the weWknown brass
working firm of \Viler & Moss, No. 22.5 South
Fifth street, in this city. The counting-houso
lad or porter who makes the daily deposits
carries his money in a case of which he can
not be deprived unless previously stunned or
knocked down. The, erase is of vulcanised
rubber, securely banded and locked. _The
bank holds one key to it, the clearing-house
holds the other. The case is strapped around
the messenger's waist. The only way to carry
otl the box is also to carry off the boy.
THE COURTS.
SUPREME COURT—Justices Agnew, Elharitwood
Williams.—The Philadelphia list Willi resumed.
Now Paced—Chief Justleo Thompson.—fitattltew
Ridgway and Christopher Lea is vs. Atkin's Itrothers.
An action to recover for the use of a patent. The'de
fenee denied that the plaintiffs had a patont.
QUARTER SEssioNh—Judge Luillow.--.lohn Monne *a
charged with conernittin g an aNidtult Raft 'WAT! 'with in •
tent to kill Robert McKenna. The Conaluonwealth
alleged that the defendant assaulted - arid: atiabilwl'the
prosecutor. prosecutor, efe alleged that the aqqault.yrao
made by the and that the defendant act in
self-defence. On trial.
7 tnnrrlSr , h4lt — Judge—Pettirc-ages bret, , o :L o,rsre ware
—At a lawsuit in tirawfordsvillo, In the,
principal witness got drunk, and Lilo lawyer
niarie a speech of several hours' duration to
kill time until the man could get sober enough
to testify. Ho touched on everything, in
eluding the.Filteenth A.tnendment, and tituilly
his man came to time.
--One of the daughters of Doninatti, the
illustrious composer, is a sehoolxna's,tu at 'No
vara. and the other keeps a aaffaa4totaaa: at
Breads, Lai
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