GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 290.
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MARRIED.
I)1 NFU—DRAPE It —ln Dresden, on. the Ist of
Marob. Henry A. de Melt to.Florenee Morgan, daughter
of Theodore 6. Draper, Fag., all of New York. "•
WALLACE—WILtiON.—On February 1, Is7o, by Ttey.
8. Holliday. Dr. JarTl , ll Addison 'Wallace, of Brady 4
Bend, Armstrong . county, Pa., to Mina Sarah Ann W.ll-
sou, of Pltiladelptilts.
1 DIED.
e'PALEXANDEIL—On the 17th inetant, George, son of
George and the late Fannie L. Alexander, in the aith
year of his ago.
The relatives and friends of thefamity are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of his
father, N. E. corner of Third and Coates streets!, on
Monday afternoon, 21st Inst., at 2 o'clock. Interment
at Monument Cemetery. Iry
GALLAHEIL—On the evening of March ltth, Mrs.
Ail A. Gallaher, wife of the late Dr. William Gallaher,
of Mantua, West Philadelphia.
Due notice of the funeral will be given.
JONES.-00 the morning of the 15th instant. Eliza.
Loth II Jones, eldest daughter of the late Nev. Jos. U.
D.D.
The relatives and friends of the family aro invited to
attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 2111
Vest De Lancey piece, on Saturday,fit Ii o'clock A. M.•
LONG.—On Tuesday. afternoon, the 15th Instant,
Charles T. Long.
AfreltEA.—On Thursday morning, the 17th instant,
Mary Fulton, wife of Franklin McCrea.
The friends of the family are invited to attend her fu•
neral, from her late residence, No. Ail South Twenty
tint earoet. at 2 o'clock. nu Saturday next. •
W I l.firON.—On the 101 l instant, Theodure Wilson, in
the mil year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family, and atom Em
pire Lodge. No. 101. I. 0. 0. F., are respectfully invited
to attend his funeral. from hie late residence, No. MX,
Arch street. on Saturday afternoon, 19th inatant, at 2
o'clock.
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[From the Jackson (Mee.) Pilot, March 12,1
Persons just arrived in the city report the
most cowardly, bloody outrages at Jacinto,
Tishomingo county, that we have ever known
to be perpetrated on the soil of the State. On
Wednesda3r night last the County Jail,
'at that place, was broken into. by a
hundred or more masked men, dressed
in regular Kuklux habiliments, and all
the inmates Were taken therefrom and sum
marily dealt with. John J. Orr, a white man,
committed on the charge of stealing watches,
was taken a short distance from the jail and
hung on the limb of, a tree, after ille most
fiendish outrages had been perpetrated on
him. A colored man 'named Chandler, con
victed on a charge of stealin dry goods front
a store in Corinth, was literally shot to pieces,
more than fifty balls being put into his body.
Another colored man named Burnsides was
taken out, but for unknown reasons was
allowed to escape unhurt. It is thought
by our informant that there will be no diffi
culty In ascertaining who were parties to
this conduet,ais the maskers have become very -
bold in many portions of the country, fre
quently appearing in open day to commit
their outrages, and boasting of what they did
afterward. Tishomingo county is probably
the most lawless, ungovernable county in the •
State, and at this i ate bids fair to become the
section in which Governor Alcorn will be
iir:t required to use the correcting power of a
very severe militia to enforce the law and
command the obedience of all classes of citi
mons.
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HORRORS AT LOBO BRANCH..
FEAE}UL , SHIPWRECKS ON THE
STETSON HOUSE BEACH.
Swept Ashore in Wednesday's Hurricane---
Frozen to Death in the Icy Torrent---
Hanging Dead in the Rigging---A Head
Cut Off by a Spar and Tossed About in a
Terrific Sea---Frightful Experience of
our Pilots and Coasters.
WednesdaY's storm, though short, was ter
rific. It began about daybreak,raged for seve
ral hours with undiminished strength,and - died
away as suddenly as it had arlsen,at about 8.:t0
A. M. At Long Branch, the beach in front
of the famous Stetson House was the scene of
thritling interest. Several vessels intending to
make Bandy Hook, which is about seven miles
from Long Branch, were suddenly caught by
the gale,which blew with tremendous violence
right on the land: A large schooner from
Portland, which was thus cornered, was
watched impatiently from the shore. The
winu carrying away her gaff and foretopsail,
the Captain seemed to realize the impossibil
ity of rounding • the point, so he turned her
bow straight for the beach, and steered her
right on shore in front of the Stetson House,
the scene of so much summer gayety. The
8 till was thundering on the beach in three
serried lines, the foam-topped.
Wall of Water
rearing itself to a height of at least eighteen
feet. The giant waves broke over the stranded
vessel, and the men were in imminent danger
of freezing to death. When, however, the
storm subsided, the drenched men were
carried to a hospitable farm house, where
they were fully restored.. The vessel was trom
and was loaded with coffee and logwood. The
cargo is all sound, and the bull is uninjured,
but is buried six feet in the sand. Mr. Green,
the wrecking master, is in temporary charge.
Another schooner went ashore near the old
Ocean House. The captain, finding that he
mulct not weather the Hook, resolved to an
chor, but such was the fury of the combined
winds and waves that he was dragged broad
side on the beach, and there the ,'vessel
grounded, the waves
Washlnk over Her in vast Sheets
and breaking her to pieces. She was laden
with cordwood, which drifted ashore in im
mense quantities, and lines the need/. Her
crew of six men were all lost. They were
teen endeavoring to get out a boat, but it was
swamped and stove against the hide of tEM
vemel, its fragments drifting to the shore. The
men beCame frozen, and their lifeless bodies
were seen wa.shing about•amongthe dibrix and .
wreck of the vessel. One man climbed the
t igging to escape the furious pelting of the
waves, but he welt drenched with the torrent-4
of spray, and became stiffened like a wooden
blue{: His frozen fingers were broken from
their grasp, amtthe inanimate mass of icy hu
manity would have fallen on deck, but his foot
was caught iu the rigging, suspending him'
bead downward. As the shrieking demons
of the storm hurtled the unconscious body to
and flo, a broken spar, riding on the angry
tide, •
" Snapped the Head from the Trunk,
and it tell into the ;,wash on . the lee-side of the
doomed vessel, and drifting with the Waves ' it
was seemingly made a plaything by the surf,
bounding backward and forward between the
triple lines of foam. The Captain was a New
Yorker named Daniel Anderson; there were
also two other New Yorkers la the crew,
Clayton Cambern and a man nicknamed
Dumb Bill. The mate was German. The
vet's name was Jas. H. Hoyt.
Two Pilot Boats ,Went Althorn
some distance below the Jas. H. Hoyt. A
wrecking vessel from New York is working
at .them, and will probably save them.
The schooner Joseph Long, 158 tons bur
den, from Portland, Me., hail loaded at Kings
ton, Jamaica, touched at Key West, taken on
board there a passenger (Stephen Hayman, a
resident of Nyack), and was bound for New
York. She nation bofud a crew of five men,
a mate and captain, and was laden with coffee
and logwood. She was struck by the gale at.
about 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Tile
gait topsail and the jib were blown away, and
in a short time
The Vessel Became linmanazeable.
(7apt: Edward R.Perry,knowing that no an
chor would hold in such a storm, turned her
fairly to the beach and ran her on shore about
three hundred yards from Station No. 2,in the
charge of Charles H. Green, near the' place
where the Adonis was wrecked iu 1869. The
station-keeper, Mr. Green, and his crew wore
promptly on the spot, and e.stablished com
munication with the scheoner by means of a
line. Directions were sent to the Captain
through a brass tube, water-tight, and the lite
saving apparatus was then fastened to the bank,
and the men were brought off one by one, the
waves all the time breaking over the'vessel iu
tons and sending the spray
Hundreds of Feet Into the Air. .
Not a life was lost. The men being in a ter
rible conditien, nearly frozen and exhausted,
were removed to . the house of Mr. Green, and
tended by his wife. They are all well and
hearty. Their names are : Henry Burgess
(mate), John Mugan (steward), Harry Gale,
Charles Lee, Eben M. Cantu and John
Dooley. The passenger. Mr. Hayman, left for
his sister's residence in Hudson City. He was
wounded on the arms by the spars that were
floating about between the vessel and the.
beach. The Joseph Long lies
High and Dry on the Sand,
and lies uninjured as far as the hull is con
cerned. The mainmast went to the board
when she struck. The cargo is uninjured, not
a single bagof coffee being even wetted. The
other vessel, the James H. Hoyt, is a total,
wreck. She was about 180 tons register, and
belonged to James H. Hoyt, the President of
the New Haven Railroad. She was com
manded by Captain Daniel J. Anderson, of
Forked river, N. J., and bad a crew of five
men—S. Stevenson, the mate; C. Wehmeyer,
Clayton J. Cambren, of New York, Severn E.
Bowdein of Amnia° county, East Virginia,
and a man nicknamed Dumb Bill. The vessel
bad gone to Virginia for cord wood, and was
returning to New York when overtaken by
the storm. The Captain attempted to anchor
both at stern and stem, but the hurricane
overcame the resistance of the anchors, and
the vessel plunged into the laud, dragging
them after her. She
Struck the Bench
somewhere near Navesink HeightS, about a
mile from the Old Ocean House. The station
men were on the alert, and • tired lines from
their mortar to the poor wretches whom they
saw in the rigging. One line a bystander saw
fall within the grasp of a man, but ho was so
numbed that he could not seize it. He only
moved his head despairingly, and suddenly his
bold .breaking, fell into the debris of cord
wood floating on the deck. 'One by one the
men
Lost Their Hold on the Shrouds
and dropped either on deck or into the angry
surf beneath. The men on shore were power
less to help them, were obliged to see
them die. The bodies washed ashore with the
next tide all but that of the man whose head
was broken from the trunk. The bodies of
three have been recognized: that of the Cap
tain by his aged father, that of. Clayton J.
Cambren by his father, and that • of thephen
L. Bowdoin, by his brother, who arrived froai
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1870,.
Virginia last evening to• identify It if possible.
It was not bard, for none of the bodies have
suflered a sea change. But are
Like Frozen Men.
The foreheads are completely skinned, and
there are marks of bruises on the faces of all,
from the cord wood and the floating spars.
Tbere" , remain now to be, identified Steven
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son Wehmeyer and Dumb Bill. One of the
bodies iS probably that of Welimeyer. The
hair is light. and the features are distinctly
German. It is lying with that of , the hand
some Virginian at the office of Mr. James
Riddle, the Coroner of Monmouth county.
at Pleasure Bay. Bowdoin's body is to be re
moved this morning by his brother to Accomac
county. The bodies of Cambreu and Ander
son will also go to New York.
Stevenson bad served on the schoonerin the
capacity of mate for some time, yet no one
has been able to recognize the body. It is
probably one of those lying with the under
taker of Long Branch, Borden Morris. The
siiidly exertions and hospitality of Mr. and
Mrs. Green are spoken of with admiration by
everybody. They received a.gold medal for
their heroic cultduct in 18i19.—N. Y. Sun. -
DELAWARE CIVILIZATION.
flow New Castle Treats Its fathers'
The Wilmington Commercial says:
lu the northern part of the town of New
Castle is an old graveyard, now called the
Potter's field, and principally used for burying
any stray bottles found afloat in,the river, or
the bodies of those executed for crime. The
last body buried there was that of, Carpenter,
the half-witted colored man hung in defiance
of public sentiment because GOVO Saulsbury
does not like negroes.
This graveyard has been used as a public
hurylupground for hundreds of years. When
the old SwediSh Fort was builtat New Castle,
more than two hundred years ago, such sol
dies as died were buried in a large lot north of
the Fort, and this continued to:be the practice.
during all the years the fort remained there.
The ground thus used harms • . •
asme /Or Tne purpose, tint having never been
taken up by any of the settlers, it became by
COLIMOII consent a pubhc burying-ground,aud
to this day it exists as common property,with
out an owner, except one small portion within
which there are several graves, which Mr.
Elihu Jefferson haS fenced in for the enlarge
ment of his lOt adjoining, much to the in
dignation of the people. The loc - alitly is an in
teresting one, and all the more so as it is fast
disappearing.
Many years ago, tradition says, there was
an apple orchard between the graVeyard and
the river, the front of which was even with
the present water front of the town, but year
after year the tide has encroached more and
more until the apple orchard has disappeared„ .
and also two-thirds of the graveyard, the bones
of those buried there being washed down into
the bay. This encroachment has continued
fur years, unchecked and unheeded apparently
by the Ne* Castle people.
One Sunday, a few months ago, we had a
great . storm which caused a flood in the Dela
ware, and the tide again swept in and under-.
mined several feet of the grave yard bank,
and carrying away the feet and a large nor,
tion of the leg bones of the skeletons of a long
row of graves.
We walked along this bank at low tide,
seine time ago, and_saw twenty-seven pairs of
human thigh hones projecting out towards the
river, and in many cases saw portions of tho
coffins that bad inclosed the bones when first
deposited. there. The next great sweep of
high tide will probably unearth the remainder
of this row of graves, and carry off, or leave
grinning on the beach, from twenty-five to
thirty ghastly skulls, the skulls perhaps of the
great-grandfathers of those who now view
these horrible facts with so much indifference, I
for, the graveyard was, not always a Potter's
field. After the town became more thickly
settled, this began to be used as the common
burying ground for all - the people, and con
dialed to be used so up to at least
1770, when it seems, from a head-stone,
that Reuben Boon was buried, and it'
was possibly also used after that time.
The greater part of it so used has now, how
ever, been washed away. When the cholera
ravaged this country sonic years ago, and the
dreadful cry, Bring out your dead," rang
through the streets of the large cities, the little
village of New Castle did not escape the
scourge, and at onetime a great number of the
victims were buried -in a single grave, now
marked by a large square depression in the
centre of the present yard. These bones are,
for the present, beyond the reach of the en
croaching river, hut must in time be laid bare
if no measure to ward off the tide be taken.
Every new and then some one agitates the
subject and tries to secure action ; but appeals
for. humanity to dealt bodies are treated as the
sheerest sentimentalism by those who witness
with complacent satisfaction living bodies
bound to a postand lashed with the cruel "cat.
o'nine-tails "
THE POPE'S BURDENS.
How the Council _Bothers the Pontiff.
The Florence correspondent of the N. Y.
TilllEB writes as follows:
A priest, lately come from Rome, tells me
that the Pope begins to feel the weight of the
load which he has taken upon his shoulders.
He is like the man who drew the elephant in
a lottery, he does not know what to do with
his hard-feeding and unwieldy animal. I re
member hove Pius IX. descended from his
scatibld with almost a skip as the Council in
procesSion entered St. Peter's on the opening
day, the Bth of December. He looked as
pleased as a child holding in his hand his new
rattle. The Pope is the last man in
the world to fall into ill humor or
give himself anxiety about how he is
to make both ends meet. He has two
or three hundred ill-conditioned Bishops
which lie has taken upon himself to lodge and
feed, at au expense of twenty-live thousand
francs a day. His Holiness is as ready on all
occasions for a little pleasantry to enliven the
difficulties as was our President Lincoln. The
Pope was lately heard to say : " Quest/ vescovi,
per volernai fare intallibe,. mi cantina) future."
" These Bishops, in trying to make me in
fallible, will be the cause of my failure." A
bankrupt Pope ought to be as great a novelty
as a bankrupt monk or nun, and in Pius Id's
case it is little likely to happen as long as a
golden stream as broad and deep as that at
present'fed by the faithful in so many Catholic
countries continues to pour into Rome.
Although the question of Rome is less heard
of in public discussions, it is not lost sight of,
and 1 think in private circles plans are laid
and the matter examined with as much inter
est as ever. I heard an Italian who has had
much experience in public life say, not long
since,that for the present the Roman question
might be safely left in the hands of the Pope.
The conduct of the Pope and those around
him Is just that best calculated to serve the
Italian cause, which is that of anti-clerical
domination. Indeed, the Roman ques
tion can never be put to • rest with
out a settlement in accordance with the spirit
of the system by which the Italian State is
now governed. It is not so much a question
of national aspirations or the gratification of
Italian ambition, fortiiiiii regarded its interest
is limited and local ; but it has a universal and'
far greater imnertance as a question of prin
ciple, of political justice, and public right.
Whether Rero'e or. Poggibonsi is the capital
of Italy is of less 'consequence to the happi
ness Of the people than the breaking up of a
system which hinders with all thefpower given
to it a well-ordered progress.
—California is growing half a million mul
berry trees for silkworms.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
hones.
FIFTH EDITION.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LATEST BY CI :LE,
COTTON MARKET STATEMENT
Additional Cable. Quotations
LATER FROM WASHINGTO
THE CUBAN QUESTION
ißy lin American Preis Asaociation.l
ENGLAND.
Cotton Market statement.
Lora:wig - , March 18.—The sales of cotton for
the week have been 60,900 bales, of which
5,000 were taken for export, and 5,000 for
speculation. The receipts of the week are
62,000 bales, of which :32,000 are American.
The stock in port is estimated at 29;000 bales,
of which 111,000 are American.
Latest Financial and Commercial Quo
tuitions by Cable.
LONDON, March 18.—Sperm oil ix firm;
Whale oil quiet. Sugar is quiet for No. 12,
Dutch standard, afloat.
BMus, March 18.—The Bourse closed firm.
Iteutes, 781.75 c.
LONDON, March 18.—American securities
are quiet and steady. U. B. Bonds of the issue
of 1862 at VW ;of 1865, 89: ;of 1867, 81. Ten-.
forties, 86i. Atlantic and Great Western, 29,1.
Livsuroor., March 18, 3 P. M.—The Cotton
Axusi.mrt. n ti met. ne 81OCK or uotton at sea,
bound for this port, is estimated at 4-17,000
bales; of which ::;20,000 are American.
The trade report of the tuarket for_yarns and
fabrics at Manchester is firmer, and better
prices are realized.
The. Breadstulls market is dull. The re
ceipts of Wheat at this port for the last three
days are 22,500 bushels, 20,000 of which aro
American.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[By the American.Preee Aseectation.)
Cuban Recogul tion-.l9pposlttou Ex.
premed.
WAsntritrroN, March 18.—Of ten members
of the House Committee on Foreign ..ktfairs,
but four expre4sed an opinion, one way or
another, in regard to the Cuban question. ,Of
the four three are opposed to recognition..
!Mit to the Capitol.
Twelve colored members of the Georgia
Legislature were at the Capitol this morning,
and were introduced to Hon. Schuyler Col
fax, Vice President of the United States, by
Senator Wilson. They entreated Mr. Colfax
not to allow the colored people of, Georgia to
be given over into the hands of the rebels. Mr.
Colfax, in reply, said that his sympathies were
entirely with the loyal people of that State,
but he did not think the present Legislature
of that State could perpetuate itself.
[By the American Press Association.) -
FORTT-FIRST CONGRESS.
Second Session.
[SENATE—Continued fr,:m Fourth F.dition.l
Mr. Edmunds followed, and quoted from
the reconstruction laws to show that ld'r.
Pomeroy misconstrued and misquoted the
statute as to the power of Congress over the
Legislature of a State.
Mr. Williams denied that there could be any
construction of Republican government that
would admit of the authority anywhere for a
State Legislature to perpetuate itself. It was
repugnant to the idea of Republican institu
tions.
Mr. Stewart contended that under the pecu
liar circumstances of the ease, Congress might
agree to allow the Georgia Legislature to hold
over for two years, and at the same time pro
vide that such holding over shall not be con
strued as giving the right to the Legislature
of a State thereafter to so violate its Constitu
tion.
11 uusr-ICont limed from tho Fourth Edition.'
Mr. Dawes said there was a principle in this
bill which it behooved gentlemen to con
sider well' The most dangerous things in this
country are combinations, particularly in
patents. It had always been the policy of
Con grew to refuse to extend patents beyond
twenty-one years, and only by that practice
were dangerous patent monopolies defeated.
This application is a `Made-up scheme to
destroy a wholesome usage. The usual
plea of poverty was entered on behalf
of the inventor, but it would not influence his
action. In the name of his constituents, who
paid their tribute into the coffers of this mo
nopoly by every yard of gingham which they
wore, he protested against the dangerous
precedent established by this special legisla
tion.
Mr..Tenckes noticed that the cryof precedent
was always raised when the committee recom
mended an extension of patents. This case was
an exceptional and meritorious one. The in
vention applied only to the shuttle-boxes in a
certain kind of loom. TLe inventor `-had lost
-nearly fourteen years of the original time
granted.
After further debate, Mr. Washburne
moved to lay the bill on the table. Agreed to.
Several bills and reports Of it private nature
were then acted upon.
The patent of Samuel Gooding, Jr., for an
improvement in machinery for crushing and
pulverizing ores, was passed.
An act incorporating the Washington
Market CoMpany was passed.
The bill to indefinitely extend the time for
the presentation of claims for additional
bounties under the act of July ::(), 18illi, was
)assed.
Mr. Schenck obtained the general consent
that to-morrow be devoted to drkhat4 . on the
Tariff bill. He stated he proposed to close the
general debate on the • bill about the middle
of next week.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the Tariff bill. •
Mr. Stevenson proceeded with his remarks,
interrupted last ing;ht by adjournment.
His principal argument was in favor of de
ferring the payment of the public debt. The
country was progressing so greatly in wealth
and partial on.that the public debt would be
as nothing to the next generation. As an act
of justice to this generation, which has done
so much, the taxes ought to be reduced
to the lowest point consistent
with the expense of the Government and the
interest on the public debt. To this end the
tariff oughtto be absolutely free on coffee, tea,
sugar, coal and all prime necessaries of life.
It seemed like sacrilege to place a duty on
such an article as salt. He appealed to the
Pennsylvanians to abate the exorbitant pro
tective demands on coal and iron.
[A rule having been adopted last week. de
voting the afternoon of 'the third Friday of
each month to the District of, Columbia, that
Committee submitted severs acts of minor
importance. -
Mr. CoOk reported a general incorporation
bill for the District, It incorporates a num
ber of religious and charitable societies, and
certain railways. The bill.was passed.
Mr. Cook submitted a bill .fixing the legal
rate of interest hi,the District of Colombia at.
si per tent: Ile accepted an amendment al
kming special contracts at ten per cent..
Mr. Jugersoll said the usury laws were old
fogy institutions. They were only exeusable
when money. was so scarce that the detnand
grearly exceeded the supply. Then it was ne
cessary to prevent money -sharks from takine
man's heart when they take his blood. The
proper ietn edy was to make: the money free
and plenty. All want more greenbacks.
11,atighter.1 If we pass this law, why not
enact a law liking the price of dour at four
dollars?
41430 O'Clock
Mr. Kelsey thought the borrower should be
protected from the rapacity of the lender.
Money was not worth more than seven per
cent.
(By the American Press Association.)
The Cotton ltiark.et.
NEW 'Vona, March 18.—The cotton market
is steady and the " bulhi" are jubilant. For all
months Low Middling aro 23 cents—au ad
vance of one cone per pound Over yesterday.
The advance is caused by the lighter receipts,
advance in Liverpool,and this 9horts covering
[By the American Press Association.l
BIASSACMAIReII
Arrested for Robbery.
BOSTON', Mans., March 18.—A • thorough in
vestigation this morning showed that tile Gale
Brothers, who were arrested, onla telegraphic
despatch from Europe, on board a steamer in
this port,,clid not have 530 pounds in their
baggage, as alleged. Their luggage is still in
charge of the purser and stewards of the
ship. Police Inspector I ,Vetherill is satisfied
there was no connivance on the part of the
detectives or the Custom House officials.
Coal Stateament.
The following is the amount of coal transported over
the Philadelphia and heading Railroad during the week
ending Thursday, Ajar. IT, i 7U :
Prom tit: Clair..., 15,9.13 'IS
Port Carbon 3957 03
,
" Pottsville 913
" Schuylkill }lawn 6,407 al
" Auburn 1,731 12
" Port Clinton 5,02 10
" Ilarrishurg and baurbin • 1,366 18
Allentoun and Albans.' 379 13
Total Anthracite Coal for week _ 35.203 07
Dituniinone Coal front arg and Dan
phin for week.. 6,4319 15
Total for week payig freight. 42,823 Q 3
Coal for the Company's use 2,261 111
Total of all kinds for the week
Previously this year....
Total— ....
To Thurs day. Mar. 18, ISci9.
..
Delay of the Grand Attack on the Cuban
Capital---Garyenee4e and Paella Mud-
Bound.
HAVANA, March 11.—It is about certain that
the greater number of the insurgent raiders to
the environs of Guines have gotten back
safely to the Cienegas de Lapata with • con
siderable booty and many recruits. A few
stragglers anti a number of men on the way to
join the raiders have been killed by the
Spaniards, and a small detachment, corn
posed principally of recruits, is known to
have been intercepted by the numerous Spanish
troops sent after the raiders, and, to have
sought refuge in the woods and mountains of
the district. A close pursuit and search for
these men is being; kept up by. the Spanish
troops, and it is likely many of them will be
taken and Shot. The Dieilo de la Marina of
this morning claims that thirty-three of the
raiders and their recruits, principally negroes
and Chinese, have thus far been killed.
The claim is. no doubt, correct as to
figures, but incorrect as to the men killed
being all raiders and recruits; for private
letters from Guines announce, that the
volunteers sent to the distrist, in their thirst
for blood, have taken negrbgs and Chime '
from estates and shot them upon suspicion
that they were in sympathy with the raiders.
Most of the thirty-three reported killed by
the Mario are negroeF, and Chinese thus
butchered by the volunteers, and, as it is about
certain that inorenegroes and Chinese will be
thus butchered, one may expect to see the ,
Diorie's figures soon doubled.
The Insurgents Active in Santiago.
In Santiago the insurgents are a_aiu active.
Three engagements of greater dignity than
skirmishes have recently occurred, and in
only one of them can the Spaniards, with. any
show of truth, claim the advantage--that of
Canibute, where the insurgents lost sonic forty
tutu to the Spaniards only eighteen. The
Cuban troops have come as near to Santiago
city as the r\rmonia estate, which they occu
pied on the evening of the 241, Id lied ten Span
ish volunteers fOund upon the place, tired all
the buildings, and then anietly retreated to
the Lomas (Bills) del Gatti.
The 'lgnored° Conspiracy.
No more of the Freemasons arrested some
time ago hi Santiago City for disloyal reunions
have been shot, and' the expectations were
that most of them would be ere long set at
liberty. The Judge Advocate of the Santiago
Military Commission advertises for the arrest
,of twenty-two Cubans implicated in the same
so-called conspiracy,. but; as they are all
either in foreign parts or with the insurgents,
the advertisement will hardly allect them.
.. Cubans Monied in Holguin.
From Holguin the latest news is to the 7th.
The Spaniards report that a column of theirs,
2,010 strong, has completely routed the forces
ot the Cuban General Maximo Gomezairiving
them successfully from the beats and moun
tains of Barajaqua, San Francisco and Taca
mara, killing 200 men, and wounding a pro
portiwate number in a series of engagements,
the plincipal of which was at Aguas Verdes.
The Spanish losses are put down by„, private
advices at 180 men. General Goicattria is ad
initted by both the Spanish report and the
private advices to have escaped with most of
his party from the troops sent after him, and
to haVe joined tho Cuban army of General
l'eralta, in the District of Las Tunas. Count
de Valmaseda has gone from Holguin : City to
Bayamo.— World.
What ft Menus.
There is a very ridiculous conflict of au
thority at Richmond, Va. Immediately after
the readmi:sion of the State, the Legislature,
doubtless under the impression that the United
States troops and military officers would be
withdrawn,adopted a bill called "the Enabling
net," which authorized the State and City
Councils of the various towns to appoint and
elect - State and city . officers in the
Maces of those to be withdrawn. The
Richmond fathers held their election on Wed
nesday night, hut the new Mayor and Chief of
Police, on seeking possession of the offices to
which they wore assigned, were denied '
Mission, on the ground that the Enabling act
was unconstitutional. Thereupon, the new
Chief of „Police collected a band of bold fol
loWers and besieged the old Mayor and Chief,
with their whole the
force, in one
of the Station - Houses. Certain colored
allies purchased a bakery near by, and
emptied its contents into the kation-
House, by throwing the loaVes through the
wiralows. .We are afraid that feeling more
than judgment actuates , the contestants in
this foolish affair, It is gratifying. to believe
that though troops have been ordered into
the city, the conflict will result in uo blood
shed ; and that the threat of recoustrinaing
Virginia; In consequence' of this municipal
quarrel, which was pronounced in the Home
yesterday, will seem only loss absurd than the
wrql
Mr. Mungen Fpoke in favor of the bill
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French Comedy. ,
At the Amateurs' Drawing Room, last even.
ing, the French comedians gave Octavc Pen*
let's pathetic drama, " The Romance ofa Poor
Young Man" ., (Le Roman d'un Jenne lfotrame
Pouvre). It was an elaborate representation;
occupying the time till towards midnight,' and
straining to the utmost the numerical force of
the company and the resources of the littlo
theatre in appointments and scenery. '•'The
latter,—when they were forced to personate
locked-up interior of a ruin by means of
common rustic bridge and a chilet-doorWay,
or tried to simulate a Celtic dolmen in Brit
fany with a shapeless mountain„.of yet,
lowish sandstone— became amusingly, in
adequate. The company, however, vied
in accomplishments anti art-enthusiasm with
the personnel of any theatre in Paris. Bach:
artist worked with might and main for the
general effect, and the whole piece, for a first
representation on a strange and eramped stage,
marched with unexpected sraoothneas. 11f.
Moreau carried off the greatest honors as . the
young noble who clears his paternal estate
by parting with everything, inchiding his
Mother's jewels, and who engages himself im
disguise as intendant or steward with the man
who has wronged his father and who makes
restitution when dying.. M..storeau,in this part,
had to express almost every emotion, as well
as .indicate every modern. accomplishment;
and his varied successes, -carried on with a
liquid and charming diction,. were absolute in
every phase ; a slight want of grace in a few '
of his poses, as when sketching or'
dining, was the . only fault the most
crib al ermld nod AT
much annoyed by her bad cold to come fairly
into the province of criticism. Juignet,adinira
bly got up as a notary, was perfect, except his
incessant dandy trick of balancing daintily on
his legs and flirting his fingers when talking—.
little habits by which he destroys, illusion,
without menacing the excellence of his per
formance as a whole. Rousscau,•in two Op-:
posed roles—a faithful domestic and a gay man
of interested gallantry—played equally well,
except that, in the first character, lie kept
his . natural Parisian accent. The whole
performance was a marked success, and
should encourage 3E, Jitignet in, the repetition
of.mbre serious pieces. Such
.childish follies
as that of Henri Rochefort; playettoti Wednes—
day, hardly reward the patience of asen.sible
grown-up audience. To-night we have two
-very pleasant pieces—Le Bourreau des.Grenes
(or hero with a maniafor duelling and a talent
for escaping the consequences), and Brutus
Melte Cesar, the farce known in English as
Delico s te - Ground.
Mir. Feebler as." Claude Iffeluelte."
—Mr. Feebter appeared at the Walnut
Street Theatre last night as "Claude 31e1 7
notte," the hero of Bultirer's drama The Lady
I,f Lyons. it may be averred that the man
who can make this play or its hero very' at
tractive to a practiced and intelligent theatre
uocr must be an artist of very superior ability..
It is filled with the sickliest sentiment, the
cheapest romance, and the bald clap-trap
which is the commonest material of the corn-
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monest novelists. The language is stilted, nu:
natural, and oftentimes absurd; as whorl, for
instance, " Claude," desiring alittle exercise,
inquires of " Pauline!" " Wilt walk?" The
popularity of the play is limited '" to
uncritical and uncultivated i —the people
who cry over East Lynne, and• are
satisfied . with the intelleenal repasts 'offered
in the weekly story papers. It is undeniable
that the play does enjoy the favor of this class,
for it alwaYs attracts large audiences, and
arouses their enthusiasm to the highest pitch
Mr. Pechter, however, contrived to make the
drama entertaining even to those •of his
hearers who felt keenly the ab , urdity of the
situations.. He played "Claude" as. hoplayis
every part, with tire, energy, and that elect
trieal effect which evekes the keene.st sympathy
of the spectators. • We need not expatiate at
length, here, upon the special- -gpaltties
with which he produced his effectr4.. They
have been rehearsed befel) in these
columns. But wo may say that the
power a. human
being_andhrought him core to the hearts of.
Mr. Fechter's audience, made ‘. Claude Met-
noire" a splendid hero, whose. noble actions
excited the enthusiasm of the romantic per
sons in :the theatre last'night to the 'ver.st
highest pitch. ,M. Pechter was called before
the curtain four or live times, and upon one
occasion ho was received with lot:aid:leers and
waving of handkerO2iiels 7 cortainly an iistra-
ordinary demonstration from Philadelphians.
One sympathetic individual paid a tribute to
Pechter's genius which must have been espe
cially gratifying,because it was enpremeditated
and involuntary. In the third act "Pauline" is
attacked by the villain who struggles violently
to clasp her in his embrace ; at the identical
moment " Claude " mates in and hurls the
villain aside. The sympathetic party regarded
the struggle with blazing indignation, and
when at last " Claude" burst upon the scene,
be rose in his seat and greeted the defeated
villain with a loud, triumphant ".21/4-11Aur
at which the house roared with laughter. As
Mr. ll'ethter has won the hearty admiration of
more fastidious people, it is well, perhaps,
that lie should conquer also those who are
easily pleased: but while we praise his ver-
satility, we must express our pleasure that he
did not appear in this character upon the first
night of his engagement here
THE COURTS.
Nisi Pnws—Justice Read.—Burroughs
the Insurance Co. Before reported., Yerdint
for plaintiff for $5,802, 50.
Belay Johnson vs. Justus W. Acuff. .I%la
was au action ,to recover commissions for
negotiating the sale of a farin for defendint.
On trial•
—Mr. !triad n. of Butte, in a recent debate
In the California Legislatnreon the .litercan
tile Library bill, got off the following on a fel
low member as his own opinion of himself:
His polo scorns of tho sturdy oak,
His line a cable that never broke ;
He baits his hook with tigers' tall%
And hits on a rock and bobs for whales.
And the following as public opinion of his
opponent:
His pole is bf the peacock feather,
His line is of the finest tether;
Ho baits his hook with mites of cheese,
And sits on the bed and bobs for fleas:
DRAMATIC.