IBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 28 UTEDDING CARDS, 'INVITATIONS for Parties, &c. New styles. REASON & 00., V 7 Chestnut street, &Wow tf) WEDDING INVITATIONS lON -11111frAavegaitohneertiewanIt, and hest a riA T. O n eVn l al istreet. fe2o tf MARRIED. OIIANT—TORREY.—Feb. 7th, at the British Con. sithite, Cairo. and afterwards at the American Mission Chanel, by the Rev. J. Barnet, D.D. .111111N4 Andrew Sand Hands Orant, A M., M. 0., Chevalier of the Impe rial Order of the Egyptian Government Medi cal Service, and .1101$111ent, Physlciau, Cairo, to Ada Northrop, second, daughter of the , Bon. John Term, iionesdale, Waynh county, Pn,, U. S. America. CLAGRORN.—On Monday, 11th, instant, suddenly, Bartle Rite, youngest son of 3. Raymond and Lizzie ft • A:bighorn, aged 7 months, FERGIJSON.—On Saturday, March 12th. after s short illness, at the_residence of her. 'parents, Tompkias's avenue, Brooklyn, Clara Marie, the: beloved wife of William Ferguson, and only daughter of Garrett and Margaret Dunn; • • LLAV ITT —On Monday, March 14th, at his residence In Germantown, Hart. A, Leavitt. LONG.—On Tuesday afternoon,. the 15th instant, Charles T. Long. • • _ . . SENNITT.On the evening of the 14th instant, after abort illuest,lliat Annie Seurat. Her Mende are reereelfUlli invited to attend her fu neral, from the residence of ft. W. Adams, MN Green street, on , Thuraday afternoon. the 17th instant, at 2 o clock. Funeral to prneavd to Laurel Mil. Wit In • 4 - altAit,At Newark, N.J., - on Sunday even ing, glareh 11th. Gertrude Mercer, dmi4htor of Itriliton and. Gertrude Y.. eWhltebead, of . Philadelphia, aged 1 yrrit and fitnoaths: DEABODY BLACK MOB • • 'EYRE & LAN DELL. FOURTH"i ARCH Ris itreete, SEEP ALL THE BEET B - „BLACKALPACA 1110I1A1118. DOUBLE CIIAIN'ALPACIA SP ECIAL — Ibi °TICKS . AD INTERIM ! For the brief space between now and the opening of our New Spring Importations we will dispose of the remainder of our limner mock (mon or whin is - not inappropriate for Spring Wear) at moderated prices. JOHN WANAMAKER, 818 and 820 Chestnut Street. Uaiu ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, CHESTNUT Street. SHERrEIANTS LITE-SIZE PAINTING BY THE POET ARTIST, T. BUCIIAIIAN READ. THIRD WEEK OF TUE EXHIBITION. • GALLERIES TcIuONGED DAY AND EVENING. OVER 30,0116 ,VISITORS: • • ...With (outland with duet the Meek charger was gray; By the fle,,h of his'ele, and the red nottril's play, lie mimed to the 'Whole great army to nay': r I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winehreter down to ear« the day ? 1 " • CRIIOIIO3 of the aboye, in else 20x.23 inches, now read Price, fIE). ADMISSION SSION •• .25 . CENTEL Including the entire Collection of the.A,caderut. Open from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., and from TN to 10 P. If. h 7 t tub ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. JOHN (1. SAXE, March 21. Prot. ROBERT E. ROO ERB, March 24. ANNA E. DICKLNIiON, Aprlll. Admission to each Lecture Reserved dents. Tickets for 13itio at Goohnl Piano M areroomx, '923 Chestnut street, from 9A. M. to SP. M., daily. mbL5 tf ACA R EM oP-AITSIC. 4 " How TO SAY' THINGS," A lecture by PROFESSOR SHOEMAKER. the Popular Elocutionist. At the , request of many friends. Professor Shoemaker will deliver the Above in ntructivo, entertaining and loinierous lecture at TIIE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ON FRIDAY EVENING, March 18. Tit keta, 50 cents. Roam-ied seats in Parquet, Parquet Circto, and Balcony, 75 cents : reserved 'seats in Family Circle, 50 cents. Tickets for sale at Gonhra Piano Ituonta, N 0.1,23 Chestnut -Street. Doors open at 7 o'clock ; lecture to conimenreat S. ' uitill 4trr" irtg. OFFICE CATAWISSA RAILROAD COAIPANY, Nit. 424 WALNUT STREET. PUMA DELPif lA, March 14th, 1870. The annual erecting of the Stockholders of the Com pany will ha held on TUESDAY the sth day of April, in, 0, at 12 o'clork.llooll. at Oa Company's Othce, 124 Walnut street, I n the city of Philadelphia. EDWARD JOHNSON, mhlslll th ii-tnps§ Secretary. FRAN K.L.IN INSTITUTE.-THE' stated monthly meeting of the Institute still be held THIS (Wednesday ) EY ANING, 15th instant, at 8 o'clock. Members and others having new Inventions or opeciniens of manufacture to exhibit, will please send them to the hall. No: 15 - South Seventh street, before 7 o'clock P. M. It§WILLIAM HAMILTON, Actuary. - ea. PILGRIM , BENEFITS. . Tuesday evening, Morning Star Lief:side S. of T. Wednesday 2.30 and evening 8, lierean Baptist Church. Thursday evening, Central Presbyterian Church. Friday , Evening. Darien M. E. Church. Saturday 2.301'.M. and 8 evening. Alt societies mae money by benefits. Office hours from 11 A. M. to 1 P. M. - nihls 2trp§ , .1. W. BAIN, Proprietor. LIEBIG'S COMPANY'S EXTRACT of Meat secures groat economy and convenience qiou su sokeeping and excellence in cooking None genuine without the signature of Baron 'Liebig, the Inventor, and of Dr. Max Von Pettenkofer. delegate. jii2B•w a-tf J. lIIILIIAII'S SONS, 183 Broadway,N.Y_ lUe PROF. MEIGM'S VALEDICTORY Address foreale at Madeira'e, ILS Tenth street, below Chestnut. mhls 2tro§ erHOWARD HOSPITAL — NOS 1518 moo 1520 Lombard. street, Dispenw►ry Depa rtmen t . edll , . treatment and medleinefa rubbed grttultoml o the poor MllO9 GUI Iorl HUMAN AND. PERSUitED BATHS, Departments for Ladiefl Baths omen from 6 A. 91. to 9 P. M . RELIGIOUS NOTICES g:g. ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, TWEN TIETH and Cherry streets.—During Lent, ser -vice every Wednesday Evening, at 7:i o'clock—Choral Bert ice. Soots tree. This Evening, sermon on " The 31inistry of the People," by J. B. B. Hodges, D. D., Ree• for of Greco Church, N ewark. . D.! to . DR. BEADLE WILL DELIVER his tiecond . Lecture in the Course of Biblical ll luetrations, in Whitfield (lhapolTwenty flret nod Wal nut, THIS ( Wednesday) EVENING, COPARTNERSHIPS. COPAItTNERSH IP NOTICE. The undersigned have a n dyfrmeds. Hittite& copartnership under the name style of LINNSLL ,i7t MURPHY, Druggists, at Green and Tenth s t reets . . HENRY P. LINNEL,L, JOS. D. MURPHY, JR. VIIILADELPIitiv, March 14, 1870. mhl6,3r PI.OW LINES, BED CORDS, oLoTnEs Lines, Rope Halters, Sash and Dumb Waiter Curds, Chalk, Marion and Fish Lines, and Twine, for sale by , TRum AN & BILAIV, No. 835 (Eight Thirty-fl ve) Mar ket street, below Ninth. M'MALLETS _FOR TINJAEN, BOTTLERS, Carpenters, otc. A heavy iroh-bounil article for fitore Mien. A small, neat Mallet for lads' tool (lotto. 'Nor sale-by TRUMAN A MAW, No. 835 (Eight Thirty lien) Market street,'bolow Ninth. ADECLINEIN THE COST OF' COAL may lJ indirotly ottnotod by using Yittont Ash 'Rawls or Ash Sieves. Bot'oral kinds for solo by TRU , MAN & SHAW, N 0.835 (Right 'Thirty 41vo,lilarket et., below Ninth. • . . . . . . i .. . . .., .. r . , , . .. .... ........_._......._ ......... . . .. . . , . . . . . . . . . . ,• . • . , . . . . . . . . • Coe il . ~..• . . I 1 ' . . n • . •. , • . . . . . ~ . . ~ . .. Nil , 1 i• . . . . , .. , . , . . , , r ~. . . , • . •-r . . . ; . , .., • . ~, : . . ..' • . . . , . . . . . . . , ~.. .. . . . . , . . .. . . .. . .. • . . , , . . . . . . • . . . ' . DIED. cents -.25 cent.; extra STREET. 1109 —Both the King and the Crown Prince of Prussia are noted for their penuriousness, so far as matters of dross and toilet aro concerned. They say in Berlin that tho Crown Prince almost wears his uniforms threadbare, and whon they will absolutely . ;do:for inm longer, begets his tailor to make out of thou' small uniform coats for hid ittle Prlndes. Clt M E BRUTAL MURDER AT WOODVILLE, PA. A' Woman Spot and Idstantly Ruled A Boarding House the Scene of a Fearful Tragedy. The Escape and Pursuit of the Murderer. • - A Pittsburgh paver of yesterday contains the following: • A fearful tragedy. in 'which an innocent woman wassnatched from . earth by the hand 'of an assassin, wax enacted 'at WootiVi Ile, a small hamlet or village 4boutlbrce•miles west of Mareitield, Pa., and nearly, on aline of the Pittsburgh, Climinnati and St. Louis Rail way, between three and four o'clock yester day afternodn,the victim being Mrs: Margaret Tobin.. The Murder. ' • ' - The first news of the murder reached the city about lialf•past 'seven o'clock last even.: ing, through a,brother of the deceased;Charle.s 31rearty. 31r. McCarty stated that he- wras working a short distance from the house. sister was washing and dressing one of the. -children, as he believed, and the little one be - coming troublesotne, she gave it a Btiv : ere "spanking!' Just then the brother heard one shot, then another inside the house,and hasten ing to the spot, he }vas horrified, at seeing the form of his sister lying upon the goer. of the down stair roots, the blood streaming from a wound in hor breast, and also one in her right arm. Site died alntost immediately, .never speaking a word. The murderer hatiescaped. No one appeared to have. been in the house at the tittle of the sad occurrence. but it seems that the murderer, Thomas Reardon, gave as a reason to 80111 e one he saw after the shoot ing, " that Mrs. Tobin had refused to let the little child look out Of a window, and had ulled it down and s naked ' • nau come Gown from at up-stairs apartment and shot her." There were two wounds on the person of the deceased, one In 'the fleshy part of the right arm and the other .through the heart. Jl rs.,,Tobin was_between thirty-five and thirty-six years of age ; was ts,th. in Ireland; and had been married-aboutrighteen years- - The, Murderer., Thomas It eardon,ia described aq being a large, hracy-set I rislima it. He wati. very shabbily drekied and fled from the hote4e itnimliate& after firing the fatal shot. A Short dhitance from the house ho met an acquaintance, and on bei»g.finetioned as to why he - Was in, such a hurry answered that . one of ,3frA. TObiti's children had' been taken suddenly illaud he was on his way fora physician, He waq al lowed topaszs'hy, and this person With Ivhont the 'murderer, conversed, arriving at the - houw stopped and looked in and 'there saw the deceased lying on the door dead. ,rty this tithe he ISM out of sight. ' Search tor the !fltarittcrer,. - , New's of the inurdersoon . .I , treteliedfroin one I,ml of the village to the Other, and scouting parties were formed and despatched ,in every direction, to, if po,sible, cut off the retreat of the euld-blooded villain. At last accounts, however, he 441 not been : apprehended. He had boarded with Mrs. Tobin about tour weeks, and worked with Mr. Tobin on the railroad. Mr. TOisn'Workedat the "dump," and :Reardon at the . pit. For some unaccountable reason he did not go to. work at all yesterday, elsethe horrible tragedy might -not have occurred. A FRENCH TRAGEDY. Another Dreadful Murder In Pails. PAins, March borribM murder was committed on Sunday night in the Rue Arne *. A carpenter named Maillot, who,oceupies aknall apartment on the fifth door of tilt. house ..No. 34 his, received the evening before last the following letter: " !t rtcnd : I murdered my wife at three o'clock this morning, after a dispute about her lbaster, M. Humbert. Be remains responsible' for our child. Be is the cause of our misfor tune. When you receive this letter. I shall, be dead. FBA This note bore the post-mark of Montreuil, near Paris. The writer lived on the same door as Maillot, who at once gave notice to the Commissary of Police, and the doer . of Praise's rooms having been forced open, a frightful spectaCle presented itself. The WG/11813 was lying on the bed with . the head 'nearly severed, and the,body mangled in au indescribable manner. The sight was so shocking that a medical man who, was sent for fainted away on entering the apartment. A razor with which the crime had been com mitted was found In the' room and had been carefully wiped, and the, bkiod had been partially washed from' the floor, no doubt to prevent it from penetrating to the floor beneath. The woumu- had evidently been murdered in her sleep, and the man must have remained with the body for about four'hours after the - deed— Praise was employed as porter on the Lyons Railway, and was thirty years of age ; his wife why a year younger, and they had one child, a girl of eight, at pre sent ill in a hospital. The woman before her marriage had been in the service - of M. H imbed. and had remained on friendly terms with her former employers ; on the afternoon of the day in question she had been attending on Mdine. Humbert, who was ill. The husband and wife had dined with thei neighbor .M.ltiaillot in the evening, and had retired at midnight, each in apparent good humor. Fraise was generally considered to be kind to his wife, but was from time to time somewhat irregular in his conduct, and would leave his work and his home for a day or two. This had ,occurred last Week, and he had slept out on the nights of. Thursday and Friday. According to Lis letter, jealousy of M. Hum bert would appear to be the motive for the crime. :No traces of Lim have yet been obi; tamed. Suicide of the Murderer. PARIS, Mulch 3..--1 4 `raiseovlio committed the murder in the Rue Amelot, hung himself yes terday. BIITCHEWS MEAT. ,Why Don't It Come DosVn? A New York paper asks : Why is it that the price of butcher's meat has nut fallen ? Gold has gone down ; , the prices of sugar, Hour, cotton, and all the chief necessaries of life have also fallen; rents aro sensibly declining ; and yet Meat remains as high as it was during the darkest period of the war. The same thing was observed iu the London market after the cattle-plague.. The prices which the butchers had been able to demand during the scarcity of live-stock re mained unchanged long after the panic had subsided and the plague entirely disappeared. It would be interesting to knoir by what pecu liar process butchers manage to evade the effect which the fall of gold produces upon the prices of all other commodities except the necessary oue of meat. THE CARDIFF GIANT' . True. History, of the Fraud. The'full history of the Cardiff giant has been revealed at last, by Mr. 11. B. Mortin, of Mar slialtown, in the State of lowa. This estimable :/111t1 ingeniinis gentleman, believing himself wronged by the partners in whom be trusted, has made a clean breast Of it. According to his cenfession, he "got up that giant," and, in part with 011(.) George Hull, bought a quarry of gypsum in lowa, from width the material of the statue was obtained. With much diflicultytheBP3llt3 was conveyed to Chi cago, and there chiseled into shape by a sculp , , tor named Saley. Then if was sent to Cardiff, in that famous iron-bound box, and buried on Isiewell's farm—Broome 'county being, as Hull remarked, "a great place forrelies.": Newell had a one.tburtia interest it; and various other persons were adinitted to partnership in the CD terpri s e though it does not appear' that anybody but Newell and Neill got mach except protested -notes. Mr: Merlin's statement 1m tolerably circumstantial and coherent, • and seems to • be accepted by those who : have ' heard it; although such is the depravity of human nature tbat we' dare Say a great many hesitatd ' to take his word as evidence. We ourselves are rather more interested in Mr. North:Vs story Of what he purposed doing than what be actually did. ItecOgnizing, the' fondnem of the public for being humbugged, he felt that his stone petrifaction, properly man- aged. was • equivalent'td a fortune; and "if Hull hadn't made a d—d foul of hiinself," he remarked, " . should have had, the 'mother of the Giant dug up near the same spat." This pleasing • old ' lady, was to' ,have, been ' represented - in the deadly , ern brace of a Inge serpent. _She was to have been built of iron, bone and plaSter of :Paris i and we have no donhtlhat her celebrated son would have been a very insignificant giant in deed by the side of hex. The behavior of the miserable Hull, irr making a dLzd fool of him- Self, is therefore to be deeply regretted; but we may console ourselves with Mr. Mortin's prediction that in less than two years he will humbug the American people with sonic colossal fraud in comparison with wide) , *6 wiii,ua flinging nut wooden nut megs. We shall await the next two , years With pleasing anticipations. This confession of the gentleman who ".2gpt pp" the - Giant will perhaps draw forth a few remarks from the gentlemen who gave It various Scientific recomMendationS. 'W -e, of course", understand that the eminent -PrOfes- Sors r geologists, antiquaries, and authorities on art and anatomy who vouched for the authenticity - of the, statue,-are..." not up, to small deceit 'or , any sinfulgames ;'" ~ b ut . should*" like to hear from the ititelliaent savants who declared, some that; it was a real petrifaction, some that it had evidently been in the earth at least 200 Years, some that, it was "stamped with the marks of ages, 3 / 'one that "only the-ancient; - Greek school of art was capable of such a per fect reproduction of . the human. form," and one-that Italy possOsed nothing which em bodied so perfectly '"tile intellectual and physical power-of a rock-hurling Titan."-- , BOMB AND FRANCE. Cardinal Antonellt's Reply to French Counseht. The 'tome correspondent of the Pall ifall Gazette, writing under date of Feb. 25, states that the notasent by Cardinal AntonellL to Monsignor Chigi, at, Paris,' by 'Prince, ghere,..replies to, the counsels of M. 011ivier and Count Darn by . representitig the motives whiclrprompted the Pope to with,' 2.. w abolish, in his mots proprio of Gaeta. th e reforms which he promulgated ..1.;,.in0 in 1847'48, His Eminence adds. hat his whole ex perience forbi chithe Pope to return tO the policy which he pursued in the first years of his reign, and which. was used .by the revolution as an instrument to overthrow the Pontifical throne. He points to the deplorable conse quences of such movements in. the present condition of other countries, as showing that concessions neverhring an element at force to Go's - emu:lents, hut, ou the contrary, always weaken the hands of authority, and open the way to revolution and anarchy. For the Pope to 1 - ,dve 'reforms would, in fact, be 'for; him to give arms to his enemies against"hituself; and the,agitation which has followed a change in the system of government in Spain and Aus tria, and in 'France itself, offers a sUfliciont warning against" such a course. No 'political reforms art- pos4ible till the . Holy Kee is re poFsest-eil of its lost provinces, and an end is put to the dream of Italian unity.. Then it may be practicable to devise some 'mezzo ter mine,, which will enable the PontiticalGovero went to; follow the counsels of France, with out laying itself open to the attacks of the Italian revolutionists or endangering those, Governments--which-shall succeed the Italian monarchy. Prime* Pierre Bonrapar!e.:-Preparations for 11147 Trial. Preparations are about to be made at Tours for the installation of the High Court of Jus tice, before which Prince Pierre Bonaparte is to be tried on the 2lst inst. The building in which the proceedings are to take place was, when the mail closed, occupied with the or dinary assize businms, but on the 9th' inst. it was to beiree, and the necessary. alterations Were at once to be commenced. About forty *eats were to be reserved for the representa tives of the r Frencli and foreign Press; us many vvill be regidied for'tbe exceptiOrtally large jury by which the accused Is to be tried ; hnd there are in addition fifty witnesses, for tvhorn accommodation has to 7 be found. Under these eircumstaneesit . Was thought likely, that ii temporary gallery would be erected capable of seating from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and Seventy-five ;person)), so as, to in- Crease the limited spaee'of the . court reierved ror the publre. The tritium') tit to be sur rounded by much formal state. The President is to have a guard of twenty-five soldiers, and two smarties always at his ; , w1)110 , . the Court is sitting a hundred soldiers, ottsttioned in an adjoining hall, will be placed entirely at his disposal; and when the Court goes out in it body the same number of men will aCCOM pany it as a guard of honor. TIRE Imo - ran iN ILL% GIONS. " Quiet at Last. From the Scranteu iPenp..) Bepublican t March 15.3 Thereislittle doing in the Schuylkill - coal ;region. .Several conferences have taken place !between the Anthracite Board of :Trade and 'the ' , Workingmen's Benevolent Association, but the latter demand the basis of last year, land the operators say that if that, basis is to be maintaimid more than half the collieries in ;Schuylkill, Northumberland and Columbia !counties must remain idle during the greater part of the ,coming season. The Pottsville lieurnal of Saturday contras,the activity !which lireValls the L'ackavanna 'region with the suspension of', Schuylkill, and urges the importance of, ' speedy resumption of ;buSiuess there, before the large mining .eorn ;panics of this vicinity monopolize all the sales tof the coming season. • • The-Jewish history is grand; but the 'modern Jews damage the ancient ones, who would otherwise stand far, above the Greeks Romans.• Were there no' Jews now, and kw ere it known that one, specimen of' this !nation could be found somewhere, I believe !people would, travel, a hundrecl.miles to see !him. and to press his hands—and now they !avoid us. The history of the modern Jews is ; tragic,'and. he who , writes of this tragedy is laughed at. for his pains --that is the most 'tragic of all,—Heinrich Heim; .` ~ •>' ~ti OUR 'WHOLE COUNTRY DELPH DISASTERS. TUE ONEIDA. CALAMITY. Heroic Conduct_ and Death Si Ensign ensm:t yractime Conrier of March 12. J Unit State Consul Shepard writes as fol- ICANS to Mr.'Alvord from •Yeddo, Japan, con cerning George K. Adams, who wait killed by the collision between the. Oneida and rfornbay: Dear Governors Before this reaches you, the telegraph and papers will have brought the news of a most terrible and heartrending-nail dent, which resulted in the loss of the United States steamer Oneida, and twenty officers and ninety-five men, among wheat your nephew, Ensign George K. Adams, lost his life, gallantly, heroically doing his - duty—in faci,more than has duty. The general particu lars the papers will give you; and as „we are all worn with searching day rand -night for the bodies and property of the deceased, you will ericuse me if Igive you only the _parties. tars of his heroic conduct and, deh. The collision ' carried away - the poop deck,. and the 'ttuartertnaster, - who - had - the keys of the magazine; and while the ship was sinking he (Adams)- and Lieutenant-Commander StewartOon of Senator-Stewart,, of Pennsyi yania,) went below, , forced the doors .of the magazine, got cartridges, loaded and fired' a glib three times,,and was the act of reading the fourth time when the'ship bad sutik'so far astern tliat the rifle gurrat the bow 'fell over _and killed him : He refused to take' to the boafa, and died like a hero, as he was.. Poor boy 1:I had seen a good deal of him:since' my arrival,he having been on board the Ashuelot,, which landed.. me, officially at Yeddo; and discovering your picture in my album (the :plfotograph gave me the winter I was at' Albany as Arr. Bennett's private secretary), as - be did upon a - nubsentient visit to my' consulate, he considered me. almost. as an old friend, and told me of his home, friends, yourself, and the high hopes that he had for the'future. Many tunes he had been detailed to command the cutter, the captain sent for, andWitli me, and the very day of the accident the minister (Mr. DeLong) and myself had offiffiall • been visitinv the mon . _ different nations in the:harbor, and he again brought: ashore,—took' charge of a fishing-rod for Police Commissioner Os trander of Syracuse, I had promised him; I;ade us good-by at 4 o'clock P: IC, - sailed at r, P. It, and at 6:30 P. • 3f. he was at the bottom of the bay. All his officers spoke very highly of him, and I had- taken a decided fancy to him. Depend upoadt, Gov ernor, all in our power shall be , done to re cover his _body and property. He had col lepted many cameos and very valuable ones. He bad economized in every reasonable way, in order to surprise his friends with presents. Noble boy ! an.lonor to any'comitry are such as , lie. Any questions I can answer, or any thing I can do for his mother, yourself, or any of his friends, command me for. Youra truly and sympathizingly, C. O. SHEPARD. U. S. Con.cul, Yeddo, Japan 15E1110113 :RAILROAD ACCIDENT. . . Two • Coaches Filled with Passenger* Thrown , Down.• on Embankment—A Number of Persons Injured. iFioni the Dnbuque (Town/ titnea, 731 - nrch 11.1 . One of the most serious railroad accidents that we have been called upon to note for some time past occurred on the lowa Division of the Illinois Central Railroad about 1 o'clock yesterday morning,,the particulars of 'which, so near -Os w 6 have been able to gather them ,from the wild - and exaggerated ru ,..-7..1' 'jig' — related upon the street, being as , follows : About midway between Manchester and Mason Ville is a hollow, the filling of which is fifteen feet high, laid with new iron. Passenger train No: 4, bound for Dubuque, John Doherty,conductor, and Edward Daven port, engineer, consisting of a baggage, two passenger coaches and a , sleeping-car, had reached this point, running at a speed of fif teen or eighteen miles an hour, when a broken rail was encountered, and in a - mo ment's time the complete train was wrecked. Two passenger cars , were thrown clear from the track and rolled down the embankment, end over end, at its highest point, the rear car finally land ing on the top of the other, while the sleeping car was turned completely round, but still re mained on the track. These were filled at the time of the accident with men, women and children, and the scene of terror and confusion that ensued may be imagined, while many of the unfortunate inmates were severely in jured. Three men had their arms and legs broken; and a lady with a small child was so severely hurt, her colar bone being fractured, that her life is &spared of. That all were not killed outright would seem to be a miracle. MALONE DISASTEEL Another One in Prospect. The N. Y. Times says At .:a time when we hear of so many disas ters at . sea,. ship-owners seem to be taking fewer tirecautionS than ever for the safety of passengers. On Saturday night, with a wild storm ragimg,a, steamer put off for New Orleans with ten inferior hands on board-•—her proper complement being 18 first-class seamen. What sort of a voyage can that vessel_be expected to make? Who would not wish to be in her just as she arrives oil' 'Oape Hatteras ? Half our coasting . Steameri•and sailing ships leave port undermanned at the 'best of times; ; Btit just new there is a seamen's strike going on,: and all kinds of craft are going ...to sea. with none. but `lantl-lubbers" on board. We should advise people who are traveling southward to use the railroad as Much as they can until these troubles are Over;and leave.' fast steam ers" to the rough crews now put on board of them. ANOTHER EDITOR IN TROUBLE. George Wilken Caned by Major William Leland. The wor/q; of this morning, says A scene occurred on Broadway, yesterday afternoon, which, for a short time, caused a great sensation and materially, shocked the promenaders of that gay thoroughfare. It ap pears that for some time past a storm had been brewing between the editor of Wilkes's Spirit of the Trines; Mr.l4eorge Wilkes, and Major William Leland, of the .Metropolitan Hotel. These gentlemen were. formerly on the best of terms, but it seems that, of late Major Leland : had bestowed some fa vors on the paper called the Turf, Fidd and "'arm, which is a bitter rival telhe',Spirit,and hence the jealousy and hatred of the proprietor of the latter journal were aroused. Mr. Wilkes expressed his displeasure several times to Major Leland and his brother .Charles, but the Major,feeling that, he was under„no personal obligation to the editor of the spirit, refused to mend his ways, or: to conform to the wishes of his fOrmer friend: Saturday last he was as tonished', 'on taking up the ,S'pirit, to find In its Columns 'what he regarded a ,gross attack on' hituself, an article in which Major Leland was dished ' up to the pub lic as a coward. In carving Mr. Leland; the editor also discovered other properties in him. Which he 'denominated, accordingly. Major Leland, after reading the article, denounced it as a ‘ metin; cowardly attack, and told his bro . -, ther he would g:et Satisfaction from tho editor in some way. He Seemed to be most offended at being repriisented'as a coward, and said he did not care - for - anything-else that- irad. been written about him: He asserted that he was no coward, and' that to,prove it he ,would meet Wilkes „anYwhera, and ..under, under any ' eireurn-; stances, Ills brother,Mr:C.Leland, endeavor.' Adams. Evan T.' Knight vs. Manuel McSbane.—An action to . recover damages for an alleged slap= der; the plaintificomplaining that the defen dant accused him of stealing lumber to make door-fraines and shutters. Mr. Knight was building a house for Mr. McShane, and the do fondant, it, is alleged, accused him . of taking the lumber of the defendant in order to con sttuct. doors and shutterS for an adjoining house, which the plaintiff was building at the win.) time. On trial. —General Berg, the `Military Governor of Poland, received a , sound thrashing, the other night, in Warsaw. at the hands of two unknown persons, ene"Of whom held hiS arms while the other belabored him with a oowhitio. alwy then ,drew his sword out of the scabbard arid broke it on' the pavement. The General shouted londlY for the police, but the latter did 'not make their' appearance, and, after dealing the General a terrible blow in the face, whick blackened, one of his eyes, the two , rollians succeeded in making their escape. Thelpolice, next,day, took the utmost pains to, dctect the perpetrateni of,. this daring mit ra6ge ;but. all their efforts remained: unsuc- Paul FeVal is translating Dickens's novels inter Prenclr.' new Prussian executioner, like his piedecesser; is said to be decidedly in favqr of the abolltion of the death penalty. . ed to diesnade him from any attempt ,to seek) redress by'yiolence, and advised him to pur 'sue the course provided bylaw where persons are libelled by editor*: Major Leland - , in his frenzy, replied that he' knew his business, and that ho would conduct the case himself. He saw no' more of Mr. Wilkes until about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the two met in firoadway,just befow Canalstreet,near the iliamireth House. Major Leland was The np and Mr. Wilkes was goin down. The weather was beautiful, anti at that hour the ntreetwas thronged witioa'crowd of busy pedestrians and gay. Major Iseland iinmediatebr stepped up to Mr. Wilkey, saying, " Why did:you make that outrageous attack on me in your paper, on. Saturday ?" Mr. Wilkes, much surprised,- straightened np and squared off, and exclainred, ' Hands off, sir. Iron'tyou touch me," aud'at the same time graspedltis undercoat in star a manner as led Mr. Leland to think ho W 215 drawing a Major Leland-, without further ceremony, raised his cane and struck WritrieS several smart blows on' the head and shoulders, " I Will show yen whether I am a coward." The. cane was soon broken into pieces, and, •as Mr. Wilkes tinned to escape punishment or. to look for an . )dicer, Leland dealt lan several blows on, his back : with his fists. . - . The affair created: an Immense sensation on the street; and tire scene was witnessed by a large crowd. , • , As M. Wilkes was making his way otit of the crowd as expeditiously as possible, Leland cried out to the throng of spectators: "There goes the cluvalroas• fighting editor, George IViikes." That ended the affair far the present There was no , interference 'by - the police, and up to last evening no legal proceedings had been in stituted by Mr. Wilkes:, A STARTLINGt . FRADD lIN.EAIITUED. Important Documents Seppreased in a lienatOrial Committee's Deportm•A liainuts Senator Implicated. so/towing correspondence between Sidney Clarke, Chairman of the House Com mittee on Indian Affairs, and Secretary Cox, relates to the alleged garbling of an official document sent to the Senate relative to some Indian lands in Kansas. The question is,who garbled it—the Senate Cominitteeon 'lndian - Affairs or somebody else,, and for what pur pose?• Housx OP REPRESENTATIVES, W./iglu:ft:- TON, D. C., March 8, I 8 O. 7. D: Cox, ;.ecretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C.: DEAR Sin—l have the honor to transmit here with Senate executive document N 0.40, being your letter •commimicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 13,1869, papers in relation to the sale of certain landS in Kansas known as the Black Bob lands of the Shawnees ; also purporting to contain the accortipanying papers in said case. This matter is now before the Committee on In dian Affairs of the-House of Representatives, and in order to a full understanding of . the subject a resolution was recently passed by the House requesting the Seu r ate to send to the House .for reference to the Committee on Indian Affairs all the papers' relating to the subject. On the receipt of this request - from the Home it Was stated by the chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate that the papers had been sent to the printer, and hence could not be furnished until printed, and the resolution was tem porarily laid on the table. An examination of tin:se papers as printed in the aforesaid Senate executive document and a comparison with the originals on file in your department will, I am confident, prove that this document is a partial and garbled publication, and that the great body of the papers in . the' case are omitted altogether. As lam .in formed by those familiar with •the precedents in both• houses of Congress in cases of this kind, and as it must' be evident to all that this suppression of an important por tion of a record Is Most, extraordinary and im proper; -I submit the whole subject to you • for such action as you may see tit to take. I ought to add that I was recently informed that Hon. E. G. Ross, one of the Senators from the State of Kansas, and a member of the COmmittee on Indian Affairs in the Senate, prepared the aforesaid papers for the printer. But I must add, also; that I am slow to believe that a United States Senator., before whom an important subject like this is pending for official action, would garble or simnress papers for any purpose whatever. Very re- Tectfully, your obedient servant, SIDNEY CLARKE. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASH , ix(rrosi, D. U., March 15, 1810.—.‘4r : In ac cordance with your letter of 'the Bth instant I have caused examination to be made to de termine what portion of the papers sent by me to the Senate in compliance with the MID. lotion of December 15,180.1, calling for papers in telation to the Black Itoli lands of the Shawne.o Indians, arefirinted in Senate execu tive document NO. 40 of the current session. I inclose herewith a copy 'of a letter ftbar Commissioner Parker, of the 11th:inst., from which it appears that the document in ques tion eontains , about one-lot - Mil,- of the papers transmitted by, me to. the Senate. As it :pur parts to furnish all those papers and not merely a selection froth. them, lam aware of no reason for suppressing any portion o. them I shall call the attention , of the Chairman of the Senate Committee. on Indian Affairs to Op matter, and.thall;•take pleasure. in trans mitting you any explanation which I may re ceive. Very respectfully, your obedient ser vant; , J. D. Cox, Secretary. Hon. Sidni3y Clarke,Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs. . . The letter of Commissioner Parker, referred to in the above, confirms the charges of Sid pey Clarke, and points out definitely where the garbling was done. THE COURTS,. • .Nist Pnitra•--juistice Read.—John Allender vs. Vharles E. Selma—An action to recover damages for the publication of an alleged libel. Before reported. Verdict for plaintiff for -a---- E L FETHERSTON. Pa 11.44: " rroll - FrOni " at the ChieWtont. Miss Keene deserves credit fer the eitter'-` prise she has displayed in pre•sentingpromptly and elegantly her own translationr and adapta-• tion of the comedy that happens at this mo- • mentto be the sensation. The version.of Sar don's play produced at•the Chestnut street Theattre last night, is Miss ICeerte's own pro-, perty, And when it is pruned a littlb of Its huperdbities it will, we hope, be as inipsittr and valuable as the Daly version, of is said vo.be the equal. • ' ; The plot of Frou-Frotr need not be reastftsetir at length here. It ,is :a. domestic start,: int which a giddy and foolish , woman, feeling 7eeri-4 self wronged by a condition of things which: lit the consequence of her owitheedless condnet forsakes her hnsband and ph:ages into splen-- , did misery', film which she eornes out at 1a..44.• heart-brokenand penitent. The tile has'oftifik. been told, and the drama aeted in real lifein every •country in' the yvorld. But the troatt• - -• mart of the thente , ,in this ease , , is peculiarkr F ren ohy. .No hottest woman sir apy, other race? , could ,condnetlierself as this, cue, does beforecr she sins,and then fbialn the trouble of which,. . • , she is the antlior,provocation to crime. Jin now other city but Phrisleould there be inducethent to such reckless Social' , life; and nobooTy hut.-f• a Frenchman would ever have tilled a morn drama with suck dissolute characters, and rakish, sentimeats., Our sympathy with tlte4 deep suliering of, f Flnatz-Frou ". is tinged,with a sense of the abauTdity or ,her Indignation, ,•• against her husband grid her . sister; and, our ideas ofpropriety are shocked at the easyin diftrenee with which she • regards: the in trigues of her own father, and permits the ad vances of the Man who afterwards' be- ' trash • r ; . • ••• • sawrill, anti 'it is an Onions one-and a, good one. It teaches , plainly that the? way of the. transgressor,is hard, mid it contains a lesson tailor sugges tion for all women, of every' laud, who hold their home duties hi light esteem beside their eagerness for furious enjoyment of society, , The evil things in the play can do no harm in the presence of these•stern truths, and we can • easily forgive them for that reason: . • • - The construction. of the comedy is admire-, ble. The text is, easy, natural and full..of , sparkle ; sometimes it is pathetic : and forci- , ble ; it is neVer tedious or dull, or so divorced , from the , action ag toeompelitto drag." After, the first act the scenes more rapidly rqi te!tlin climaxes, and these are at all times effective, sometimes even affecting in their intensity: ' In the lipids of inicompetent artists we .can eenceive that FrensFrou would be stupid; • but if it is acted with earnestness by shilfal , r persons, it is inteniely,interesting. we may say that the author: found some first-•,, rate' interpreters last night. Miss. 'Keene:: played "Frou-Prow" with grace and delleacy at-first, then with passionate earnestness, and in the final scenes 'with splendid trigie power. If we- pardon an occasional indulgence • in Inannerinns Iritittl are peculiar to this admirable actress, it will be, fair to assert that - the pitrt could not have been given in a better manner by any artist with whom we are aequainted. Mr. Merdaunt deserves equal praise for•his personation of "Sartorys ", the' husband- of " Fron-Frou." The' character , rather requires -repression than demonstratiori " Sartorys " is a quiet, amiable gentleman,' whose only. fault is blindness to. his - wife% ". folly. Mr. Mordaent represented this person.:, with delicacy and . feeling, exhibiting form,- where the occasion required it, but:never.- venturing into any excess or violating the artistic proprieties. - These tWo_ admirable-, . personations alone, should insure the sitccesa - .''' of the performanee at the Cheitnut. bliss Howard appeared as "Louise,";•and-' played the part in a most satisfactory manner Miss Jenny Anderson hardly gave a just terpretation of the character of the "Barontie . tie Cambre." This creature is a held, dashing, reckless, unscrupulous woman of the world,— without any conscience, withbut feeling or sentiment, or womanly tenderness. , 'An-' derson made of her a sweet and interesting' lady, who offended innocently, and' Who 'could ' not have been deliberately wicked if sheiliad tried, The.autbor intended her to be the-foil i.. of "Louise," who - is .completely a do.nrestio woman.- The antirkl force of the centyrostwas • destroyed by, Miss Anderson's performance of:. the charaCter.' Mr. Otis gave a. clevrr, per sonation of the villain, " Count Vairazs," but he, too; erred in making that indiViduat - . rather a species of 'gentlemanly idiot;.. than knowing libertine, who had intellfgecice an,S , energy and. wickedness'. enough . to•parsuelin 4 victim Until he ruined her. :.otl4, • has been so successful in h,is DendreArYf", character.% that he 80011;Ifi disppsed tfrp4y.ovqn, this part iu the same fashion s 13,at," Valrale'?' • is as Much unlike "Dundreary", Hatn;at?"-• is unlike " _Richard Third" One is an ass; the other is a deliberate scoundrel. Mr.-Wal lis appeared. as " Fron-Yrolfs* fatlier,.and, played as nicely as he dressed4ominably., t • The piece is placed *pan the.stage .:amost- elegant manlier. The. dresses in' the laZes are absolutely gorgeous, but ex•rsuisitely.tasteful, i, The scenery is very handsaw% AO ; alses, pointruents—the furniture, ' 47c.- T are of best description. Froll-Fplm4 will be .wpeated., to-night, we earnestly hope to a full',louse., ' French CoonedY• The largest audience yet attractsad by duo. French. Dramatic Company to the Amateurs', Drawing Room, was that assembloci lasbeven ing, The opening niece was a vwitlev,lllQ. Henri Rochefort of. Lallase, U Ilomme du Sud. It was funny enough, , ,, more fanciful and- e.xtra'llig:intt than riipot:Of the pieces of the repertoire. To this succeeded • the elegant little comedy, La Flare et Ai-. Beals - Temp,s, in which Mine. Noream agyi 3loreau acted delightfully. After this. canto Les Devi Areaytes, by Otlenbacl4 Elitgard and Genet taking the parts of the two Lazgus beggars, in which they were excessively droll, To-morrow evening a nOW subscription, season of ionr nights will , open', with. 'Oetaire: . Fleitillet's famous tive-aot comorly,. Le, Romicni, d'uzi „hung Ihminte Patt.ere, , —McKean Buchanan was recently caned before the curtain, twice one eventng, at Owensboro, Kentucky-pace, to restore order, and to " administer a scathing rebuke." Ire Niid he was at the head of 'his profegsion, and was the on)y Southern aetor acknowledged by foreign countries; that he 'was - a native of New (menus, andoybile of the firm of Kew= nedy fluchanaaebad . sent inallS hogsheads of ,sugar to Owensboro. He "(inbred to' play, agaliiifslsorwere guaranteed; and, as far AO heard from,he didn't play again, DRAMATIC.
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