MCA=t=26Ei BiISIIVEbS A New luvoiee 4418 K. Goltl-notstiltN• fAte Patent LererVatrhee , full jeweled. BKOtadfl, wt exceedingly law price,. T. W. BALLY, No. 622 Market . On et. t§ 41eo. Meek dr Co.'st Medi* Plum. Pianos to rent ~k 214 EVENING BULLETIN. Friday, March IS, 1870. SHE DEVELOPJLIEN r OF PENNSIIM. tilito2l Forty years ago, the State of Pennsylvania Was comparatively a wilderness, and the wealth of her hills and valleys almost unknown. Over lier soil and through her mountain gorges lay the nearestand best natural routes to the fer tile acres of the Great West. The enterprise of Be Witt Clinton, and the projection of the New york and Erie Canal—, connecting the lakes with tide-water—roused the energies and stimulated the people of Penn sylvania to prompt action; and, as the result, we of this generation experience the advan tages and feel the influences of the system of internal improvement then inaugurated and since carried out. The prophesies of those days in respect to the future developments of the material interests of the Commonwealth sound strangely now; yet they may, to some extent, form a standpoint from which we of to-day nay predict of her future prosperity, forty years hence. • The financial aid and credit of the State were then actually necessary, and were given unstintingly ; but for every dollar then ex pended, a hundred fold of lasting profit and wealth has been returned to enrich her for the +outlay. Her example was followed by coun ties, cities and municipalities, eFtendiug aid to projected public improvements; some of which, languished for years in an incomplete state, through bad management and want of experi ence—perhaps of honesty also—in the men who controlled them ; but to-day, no com munity who may thus have contributed to their construction can say that a full equivalent has not been returned to theinif not in dividends, at least in the increased elements of wealth and prosperity, which new avenues of trade and rav_eLonenea_uato_And developed for the enterprise and capital of their people. Further aid from the loans. of the credit of the Commonwealth and municipalities has been prohibited by the Amendtnent of 1857 to the Constitution of the State ; in which year she sold the canals and railroads, the proceeds of the sales of which are, by the Constitution, appropriated to a Sinking Fund to help in pay ing the indebtedness mainly contracted in their construction. We do not propose to find fault with this action, but rather commend it, and only hope thane spirit of retrenchment and reform which inspired this fundamental change of our law may not run into the extremQ of , re striction anu.ownright sUppression of new and necessary enterprises, when it is within her power lawfUlly to encourage and aid them. This we hold the State may do by a liberal code of legislation, and a judicious use, under proper safeguards and restrictions, of the credit of the Railroad companies she holds in the Sinking Fund. The decision of the Supreme Court in the , case of Gratz vs: The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, Justice Strong delivering the opinion, seems fully to cover this question. There is now pending before the Legislature a bill to extend the aid and credit of the Com panies whose obligations are thus held,, to the construction of several roads, which, when completed, must be of incalculable benefit, to the State, and especially to those sections through which they are . projected, sections of country, which have, as yet, no outlets to market for their vast resource of fields and mines, and fore St. if then it be possible, within safe bounds, to aid these, and thus make the securities of the sinking fund per form the double duty of helping to pay the i debt of the State, and to ncrease her sources of revenue by developing her material interests, should it not be done? , The bill now pending before' the Legislature in reference to this development of the dormant resources of the State is full of the highest importance to every portion of Penn sylvania. It proposes the opening of the magnificent coal-fields of the northern and western tiers of counties, bringing them atone into communication with ,the East, with the ports of Erie and Buffalo, and with the South. The Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo road, Starting from the Philadelphia and Erie road at Jersey Shore, will traverse Tioga and Potter counties, in this State, and Allegheny county, in New York, and thence to Buffalo. This region possesses an almost incalculable wealth in coal and timber, hitherto lost to the State, for want of access to market; and there can be no reasonable doubt that Pennsylvania will be best subserving.her own interests in giving her substantial aid in plant ing an industrious population, and encouraging mines and Cannel ies and lumbering establish ments by providing those means of traffic and travel which have so enriched other parts of the State. The Tyrone branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad already penetrates to Clearfield, in the centre of Clearfield county, and the Clearfield and BUffalo road will carry fdrward this im provement through Jefferson, Forest, Venango and Warrencounties, striking the Philadelphia and Erie road;, while the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston road opens up the great bitu minous coal-fields of , the western and south 'western sections of the State. This whole project is a very grand one, but its scale of enterprise is only in accordance with the spirit of the times, and it is firmly based upon the results of the best experience of the best railroad minds of the State or of the country. The facilities which the enterprise seeks to obtain from the State by the use of the bonds of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny roads, now in the hands of the State, are a reasonable demand, whether we look at the immediate securities and guarantees proVided in the bill, or at the ultimate advantages which must accrue to the whole State, by 'the 'devel ipment of her great mineral wealth, the exis . tence and extent of which have been fully demonstrated, but the value of which has been thus far lost, for want of just soal a sound system of raihoad enterprise as that lin\N" .lie fore the Legislature. We are glad to see how favorably this bill is regarded by the best men in both branches of the Legislature, and we trust that it will speed_ US re au J. E. OOULD, No. 923 Obontroit street . Ml=t===l= 'THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDA.Y,' MARCH 18, 1870. ily become a law. Such a bill in the hands of the railroad gamblers and speenlators of Ney York might be regarded vbith well-founded dis trust ; but the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has so consistently av, ided the region of speculation and so wisely and profitably de voted its great energies to Ihe legit mate exten sion of its business connecl ions, that this new enterprise, in which it is, of course, much in terested, may safely be set down simply as one of those admirable measures for the internal improvement of Pennsylvania which have heretofore done so much for the commercial and financial prosperity of the State. A GOOD MOVEMENT IN cunt.' We are very glad indeed to hear that certain influential Cubans are busy organizing clubs, the object of which is to oppose annexation to the United States in the event of the success of the rebellion. That event, indeed, seems so remote, that this movement might be regarded as premature. But the rebels may win ;or if they lose, Spain may desire to sell Cuba, and it is very well that we should have from the people a decided expreSsion of opinion, even at this early day, upon the subject of absorption into the United States. We believe that the num ber of Cubans who favor such a scheme is very small indeed ; and the most popular and able men in the island are not to bb found in the ranks of the annexationists.The rebel lead ers are fighting for independence, not for a change of allegiance ; .while the Cubans who are loyal to Spain would also vastly prefer to al tempt a government of their own rather than suffer a forcible transfer of their island to the United States. In this country there really are a great many persons who are eager to annex Cuba. Some are actuated by merely mercenary motives, while others are believers in that doctrine of manifest destiny which claims the continent and, its "buttresses," the West . India--islands, as inevitably bur future property. Besides, there still remains in the minds of a porriDn; of our people a shadowy faith, , born of-the - territorial eagerness of. the slave power, that some supreme good must come to us when Cuba is enrolled in the list of American States. The war knocked a great deal of nonsense out of this nation, and one of thinos_of_this kind that it did was to convince the sensible people of the country that additions to our territory would not increase the strength of our govern ment. The present administration represented popular sentiment exactly when it declared by its action that we do not think Cuba worth a simple breach of flimsy international law. Upon the day that free Cuba knocks at Or door and demands admissidn, we may con sider seriously whether it would not be better to let her in: We are afraid that then our cupidity will play havoc with our judgment and good base, But we Will not spend a dollar or strike a blow to baSten tiat day; and we sincerely hope it will never come without such assist, ante. We can perceive nothing but danger in an act which would admit to the full rights of American citizenship a million and a half of people of a race that; in all quarters of the globe has shown itself incapa ble of Self-government ; that professes an other religion than that of a majority of our, people, and is accustomed to wholly differ ent manners and ideas from those which prevail here., The American 'annexationists who long for the time when Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico and Hayti,with their eleven million people of the Latin race and the Catholic re ligion shall be attached to our body politic, are so dazzled by the. glory of the dream that they cannot perceive the grave dangers which are involved in such an undertaking. To those who can understand the peril in which such wholesale annexition would place our free institutions, it is a subject for congratulation that the people of these countries themselves are averse to union with this country. We hope the Cubans who have joined the anti-annexation (dabs will labor right heartily to win all their countrymen to their cause. It they succeed in snaking annexation aniniplssi bility, we will owe !lens a debt of gratitude which we can best repay by repudiating and casting aside forever the manifest destiny doe- . trine» which were taught by the champions of slavery, who, in the old time, were anxious to strengthen themselves and perpetuate the ac cursed institution by appropriating neighlroi , ing territory. THE !FRENCH CABLE COMPANY. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has submitted to the House of Representatives a report in regard to the French Atlantic Cable. It was expected that the Committee would re commend some very decided legislation against the French Cable Company, so that the corn-, pany would be compelled to relinquish its ex elusive rights on the shores of France, and the French government would have -to recall its exclusive grants to this corporation and permit Americans to land cables in France if they chose to do so. But it appears that such action on the part of Congress has been rendered unnecessary. The committee assert positively that France will, of her own accord, recall her concessions to the Reuter-Erlanger Company, and that the company will surrender its fran chises without a murmur. Of course we un derstand that this cheerful disposition to oblige is the direct consequence of French compre hension of popular feeling in this country, and of the fact that we would have compelled such acquiescence in our wishes; but we are willing to accept the result without inquiry into or finding fault with the motive. We have not yet been made fully acquainted• with the provisions of the bill which accom panied this report ; but the brief abstract does MA indicate that any demand has been issued that the French government shall renounce its :claim to the privilege of exercising' surveillance of the dispatches sent over ocean cables /landed on its shores. Under the existing arrangement officials of the government have access to every word that.% received or sent to the United States. It must be distinctly understood that Cu! citizens will not submit to such espionage, and cur government will not grant , franchises to an) k'imich company unless its official dis patches to its European agents are to be ab solutely sacred from the eyes of" fi'renchofficers who will make it their business to translate the ciphers. This matter is quite as important as any of the others about which our people have complained in connection with this French cable , and any settlement which does not give Ameri cans protection in this respect will be entirely unsatisfactory. YJECILISS 1 r FIAN. The Inquirer has made an awful discovery, and there must be another Investigating Com mittee, instanter. The Inquirer, in its keen pursuit of knowledge, has, in some unexplained way, stumbled upon the startling fact that the members of the Legislature receive passes from Ike railroad companies I The unsup ported assertion of such an unheard-or charge would not,'could not have been credited, had not the Inquirer actually seen one of the 'dreadful things. A cunning artist, by some clever process, has made an exquisitely-finished eegraving of the iniquitous document. One hundred and thirty-three of these pestilent inventions, are said to have been given to the members of the Legislature, and the consequences to the stock and bond holders of the orth Pennsylvania read, when reduced to dollars and cents by the mathema tics of the Inquirer, make one shudder for the solve n•y of that road. For, be it noticed, all these one hundred and thirty-threeniembers,— supposing that they all live at Bethlehem, as the Inquirer intimates,—would purchase an nual tickets at 11.520 a-piece, were it not for this almost inconceivable device of the Com pany. Just exactly sixty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty dollars would annually flow into the funds of the Company. This would pay six per cent. interest on $1,152,666 . So that it must be set down that the North Pennsylvania Railroad has appropriated over a million of dollars to the uses of the Legislature I This is simply a horrible state of affairs. But this is not the worst of it. Will not the Inquirer extend its researches to the other railroads of the State, and give us wood-cats of all their passes and estimates of their cost to the various stockholders? The North Pennsylvania road is less than sixty miles long,. and there areieveral tbqusand miles of .rail roads altogether in the State, and who knows but that this, same mysterious business may be going on elsewhere? When we get the grand total,—and it will roll up. te`millions, while the Inquirer will need an extra to print all the wood-cuts, 7 -the question will arise; What is to be done? A docu ment, very similar in its, general nature is said to have been once traced to the office of the Inquirer itself, but that was long, long ago, and it will not-ne necessary 'or tub - Grand Jury to extend its inquest in that direc tion. We do oar virtuous neighbor the credit of saying publicly that nothing would induce 'biro,—short of a direct offer,—to accept a pass on the North Pennsylvania road. How it is with other, roads we are not quite prepared to state. But how it is that the North Penn sylvania road stands this tremendous drain of scrods,' thousand dollars, per annum, is quite past our finding out. Strangely enough, Select Council yesterday refused to direct the Germantown and Norris town Railroad. Company to place a gate at the Broad street crossing. The objections -were two-fold. Mr. Wm. F. Smith thought that a gate, "with so many trains passing," would cause too much delay to people driving on Broad street. And that excellent City Father, Mr. Kamerly, was of the opinion that a gate which would only be 'closed when a train was passing, " would permanently obstruct the street, and also destroy its I eauty." He also thought that if people were thus prevented from driving in front of locomotives, accidents would be largely increased. • Select Council was so powerfully moved by t lick> sagacious arguments that •it indefinitely postponed the whole subject. We shall now wait until a first-class accident convinces Coun cils [hat it might have been judicious to pre vent caieless people from driving across that intersection, when trains are passing. The Germantown people are as much interested in making Broad street safe for vehicles as any other portion of the population, and it may ‘I ell be doubted whether Mr. Smith repre sented his constituents in this important. mat ter, "When we have killed or mangled some pleasant little family party at the Broad street crossing, we will again call the attention of Councils to the subject. Meantime citizens must "Look out for the Locometive!" . For Public Sales of Real Estate, Stocks, Furniture, &c.,1 y order of the Orphans' Court, Exam' , (ors and °them ,eo Thomas & Sous' advertisements. Catalogues to-morrow. ruißEGo's TEABERRY TOOTH _I It lit the most pleasant. rho, poet and hest dentifrice extant. Warranted free from injurious ingredients. It Preserves amt Whitens the Teeth I Invigorates and Soothes the Gums I Purifies and Perfume-) the Breath I Prevents Accumnlfttion of Tartar I Cleanses and Purifies Art'ficial Teeth I Is a Superior Article for Children ! Sold by all pruggets. A. M. WILSON, Proprietor, mbl ly rp§ Ninth and Filbert streets, Philadelphia. HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING TEETH. WITH — FRESH NITROUS OXIDE GAS. "A BSOLUTIHA NO PAIN." Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly.ovrator at the Colton Bente! Ronnie, devotes hie entire practice to the painles, rstn ction of teeth. Office, 911 Walnut et. Mll s ,l9rP'l. ruid.uo.N DENTAL ASSOOIA.TIUN OKI %deflated the anesthetic nee of liITROUS OXIDE, OR LAUGHING GAS, And devote their whole thus end practice to extntottn# teeth withoutpain. Office, Eighth and Walnut street 4. apaOlv - DOMSFIING POWDER. THE BEST for cleansing Silver and Plated Ware, Jewelry,ote ver manufactured. FARR & BROTHER, mhl tfrp 324 Chestnut street, below Fourth. 4% bION EY TO ANY AM MINI JEWELRYON DIAMONDS, WATCHES. PLATE CLOTHING, &0., at JONES & (30.41 oLD-EBTABLISHED LOAN OFEIDE, Corner of Third and GOER' streets', Below Lombard. N. B.—DIAMONDS, WATbiIE 6, JEWELRY, Mille 011 9 FOS SALE AT ENDURE ABLY LOW PIIIOES. giv24 LA - ER.IQU aRI.POLI POWDER, FOR h_) polishing glass or metals.and other polishing (pow ders ; also, carious grades of sand and Emory Paper and Emory Cloth. and Emory in powder, for sale by TEU MAN k MAW, No. 515 (Eight Thirty•five) M ark et st Ninth. Els; OH CHAIR AND FURNITURE Casters—Font's Patent.—( One of the easiest to put n), and at reduced prices ; a toll assortment of other Furniture and Bed Casters, with wood, porcelain, brass cud iron wheels. TRUMAN & SHAW, No. ti3s( Eight Thirty-live) Market street, below Ninth. THE .NEW STYLE OF LAVA DOOR I_ 'Knobs and Escutcheons, beautifully carved as a (+wiper substitute for those of bronze. are for sale by TRUMAN lir SHAW, No. 838 (Eight Thirty-five/Mar ket street, below Ninth. 1 870 —GET YOUR HAIR CUT -- AT U . KOPP'S Saloon, by first-class Bair Outtoro flair and Whiskers dyed. Ladies' Children's 11 , iir cut. Razors set In order. Open Sunday morning. Vac Exchange Placa. Pt") G.O. KOPP. 11. P. at C. IR. TAYLOR, PERFUMERY AND TOILET SOAPS, 611 and 613 North - Nluth street bALE Olt TO LET, Vory Drein.blo Store Property, No. 738 North Ninti Ore, t, 20 by 78 to , t. Puenesdiou soon. I tICK Si tti It It Oft .• rio Wolnot Mroot. Tel 6 w 8 ta 101'10.1.: AND RIOE.-182 BALES COT N./ ton, 14 mike Rice—Now landing from ntoamer "onawanda, ,, from Savannah, Ga., and for sale by 00 T 4011111Ali, Bo3bibL ACIO .i 111 Chestnut urea. TRASK Sz WHITING, IVose 39 and 41 North 'Eighth Street, 4FO•RMERLY LAND'S,) Are now offering Special Bargains in 3Et S iGr- 0 0 S BLACK SILKS IN ALL THE FAVORITE MAKES, including the celebratedfLyons manufacturers, Bonnet, Ponson, and Belmont Freres, at the following prices: $1 40, $1 50, $1 00, $2 00, $2 25, $2 50, $2 75, $3 00, $$ 25, 43 50, $3 80, 14 00, $4 25, $4 50, $4 75, $5 00, $6 00, 17 00. We can warrant these goods to give the most perfect ,satisfaction I IRISH POPLINS, in all the new Spring Colors, at 50, 623, 75 and $1 62/. Silk-Faced POPL INS, in all colors, $l. 60, Silk• Faced POPLINS, Figured, $1,25. A beautiful assortment of All-Wool POPLINS, 55c. SPRING PLAIDS, All-Wool, double width, 50e. ENGLISH PLAID SERGES, in good colors, 3718. . - A job lot of COLORED ALPACAS, only 200. • , A •full line of GRANITE MOHAIR POPLINS, at 371, 42 and 45e. A job lot of .1 SERGE PLAIDS, in brigbt colors, only 16c. A splendid assortment of the celebrated Double Warp (Stag brand) BLACK ALPACAS, at the following prices : 33, 35, 40, 45, bo, 58, 62175, 80. Real MOHAIR DOUBLE WARP, 85, 90 and $l. 00. • - We shall receive in a few dayi a beautiful line of JAPANESE SILKS, bought at the LOWEST GOLD PRICES. 39 AND 41. NORTH EIGHTH STREET, (FORMERLY LANG'S.) CLOTHING. THE GOODS PUT DOWN. THE GOODS PUT DOWN. THE GOODS PUT DOWN. THE GOODS PUT DOWN. THE GOODS. PUT . DOWN. SPECIE AT OAK HALL SPECIE AT OAK HALL SPECIE AT OAHE, gat,.4 SPECIE AT OAK HALL OLD TIME PRICES OLD TIME PRIOES OLD TIME PRICES OLD TIME PRICES MEN AND BOYS' CLOTHES. ! MEN AND BOYS' CLOTHES. 1 MEN AND BOYS' CLOTHES. MEN AND BOYS' CLOTHES. CARD.—Last Monday we returned to specie payments, giving out Sliver for change, instead . of Frac tional Currency. We hare more Ready-Made Clothing than any Rouse this aide of the Atlantic Ocean, and pricee same as if Gold was at no premium. • WANANAKER 44 BROWN, OAK HALL, THE LARGEST CLOTHING HOUSE, B. E. corner ,t.:1X111 and MARKET Streete ROC MULL dip WILSON. FINE CLOTHING. Great Fall in Prices Great Fall in Prices The balance of our heavy stock will be dis posed of at such low prices that purchasers would find it to their advantage to supply themselves with Fine Clothing for next Fall and Winter. Spring Overcoats, $1 00. Spring Overcoats, $lO 00. Spring Overcoats, $l4 00. ipiing Overcoats, $l6 00 Spring Overcoats from $5 00 to $3O 00. Cohelmien's Coats ' • For Spring and Sumther. Coachmen's Coats Of all descrlptions Boys' Clothing Boys' Clothing ROCKHILL & WILSON. 603 and 606 CHESTNUT Street. FINANCIAL DREXEL & CO., No; 34 South Third Street, American and Foreign Bankers. Issue Drafts and Circular Letters of Credit, available on presentation in any part o!. Europe. Travelers can make all their financial ar rangements through us, and we , will collect their interest and dividends without charge. DREXEL, WINTHROP & CO., New York. DREXEL, lIARJES & Paris. A FIRST CLASS SECURITY. WE OFFER FOR SALE i.,000,000 LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE Y 2 A.11.4 - Ft.C , A.I3 FIRST MORTGAGE SEVENS at 87 1-2 And Accrued Interest froin Oct. I. Length of Road 390 Miles. THE ROAD IS COMPLETED AND FULLY EQUIP. FED AT AN ACTUAL COST OF OVER $1.0 9 0009000. AND HAS PAID FROM7TOSPER CENT. OIVI• RENDS UN ITS STOCK FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. The Bonds are Coupons of $l,OOO each, with right of Registration. $1,200,000 of the Bonds have been sold already (one party taking $500,000 as a permanent investment), and we have but $1,000,000 on hand, ivtileh we offer to in vehtors as a ilrst-class security. DREXEL & CO. No. 34 South Third Street fP4 'fro IILS.-1,(H)0 GALL ON — SW7SPERM OILS 1,.1 800 gallons B. W. Whale Oil; 1.200 Nat. W. Whale Oft 7 2t. barrels No. 1 Lard Oil: In store and for sale by cripit A N..llPlifilll,ll,, k 00., 11l Chestnut stroot., t,t EA'llilisi If ELT.—TEN FRAMES J English Sheath' g Felt for sale by PRO WRIGHT AILSONEI, /1/Walrint street. TRACK & Less than Gold Rates Less than Gold Rates New Patterns Now Patterns EMU;Sigi= EtriAIWIAL COLEBROOKDALE RAILROAD First Mortgage Bonds, Due 1898. Principal and Interest Guaranteed by Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co. six Per Cent., free from all tax. We are authorized to offer at MI, and Intereat accroad from December 1, thn bale TWO of about evomou of the bonds. eeturett by a Firrt Mortgage pon, all the MOP WY of the Co tbrooidale Rai/road Company, anttgurtran't,l absolutely, both as to principat and interest,by the Piti/a. thlyhia and Reading Railroad Company , • C. At H. BORE E, No. 3 Merchants' Exchange. W. 11. N EWBOLD, PION & AERSTE • 13. E. cor. Dock and Walnut Sts. nllll7-t1; NO SAFER OR BETTER INVESTMENT THAN THE FIRST MORTGAGE 7 PER CENT. GOLD BONDS OF 211 E CENTRAL RAILROAD OF lOWA, At 95, Free from Tax. This railroad runs 2.34 miles north and south through' the finest and most thickly settled portion of the magnificent State of lowa, and the only link wanting• to connect the railway • centres at St. Louis and St. Paul by au un• broken line, 147 miles shorter than any exist. ing route. This road offers many advantages. The building of the railroad north from St. Paul to Duluth, at the head of Lake" Superior, Where five railroads will soon centre—the con struction of the Northern Pacific Railroad, already begun—and the rapid develonMent of a new and productive country in Minnesota and the Northwest, must furnish a large Southern traffic, As the Upper MissiSsippl is frozen over during the Winter,and its naviga tion is often uncertain during the Sniiimer, from IoW water, this road mast have at all tiMes a large amount oftransportatiOn, and A monopoly of the business at some seasons of the year. Its connections with other linesln terested by mutual ownership or running ar rangements, will . give it, almost the entire north and Fouth travel between its terminal points and their vicinity. This road will have a great advantage over any other Western line in carrying the hest quality of coal from where it abundant in Southern lowa to Northern lowa and Minne sota, where none is tri be found, and in secur ing return freights of lumber, for which the demand is very great. Forty-six 'miles of the line are just com pleted, and eighty-eight miles more are graded. An abundant supply of iron, ties, and other materials has been contracted. for. The Company have a large and daily increas ing surplus of money on hand, and the stock subscriptions, and the sales of bonds, give them ample means to push the work forward, so that, with favorable weather, it is expected that the whole line. will be completed this season. SECURITY OF THE INVESTMENT. So far as we can learn, every completed railroad in the NOrthwest h not only - tarnirtg the interest on its bonds, but a dividend on its stock, andvse believe the, CENTRAL ol' lOWA must o cupy an equally strong finan cial position. The amopnt of Bonds to be issued is but $l'G,OOO per mile,or less than four millions,in all Of which over One Million have already been Sold. WE BELIEVE TITERE WILL BE NO ROBE FAVORABLE TIRE TO SELL GO VERNMENTS, AND OUT REALLY FIRST• CLASS RAILROAD SECURITIES-SUCH AS TUESE-1 TIAN TUE PICESENT. Pamphlets, with map, may be obtained, and subscriptions will be received at the COM PANY'S OFFICE, No. 39 Pine Street, Now York; and by its advertised agents. W. B. SHATTUCK, Treasurer. After a full examination, we have accepted an Agency for the Sale of the above First, Mortgage Bonds, and desire to, recommend them to our customers as thoroughly, safe, as well as profitable, investment. We have no hesitation in saying that, in our opinion, the CENTRAL IVA ILROAD OF lOWA will be one of the most important and valuable roads in the West. JAY COOKE & CO. E. W. CLARK & CO. BOWEN & FOX. B. K. JAMISON & CO. mh9 w f m Otr FRED. SYLVESTER, REAL ESTATE BROKER, 208 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, del7-Iyrp§ The Celebrated COMPAGNIE COLONIALE CHOCOLATE. Our Second Importation of this great HYGIENIC CHOCOLAtE Had just arrived. MITCHELL tit FLETOHER J N 0.1204 CHESTNUT STREET. •DS]yrp LI7CIZ CURRANT WINE. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, Dealer in every ascription of rine Groceries, Corner Eleventh and Vine Streets. " Silver Flint" BUCKWHEAT, THE FINEST IN THE WORLD. DAVIS & RICHARDS, ARCH AND TENTH STREET& je26 rptf REDUCED! REDUCED! GENUINE tilIT JAVA COF (ROASTED) 4-0 A. J. DE CAMP, 107 SOUTH SECOND STREET. Jail DRY GOODS. A CARD. Sheppard, Van Harlingen & Arrisan, 1008 CHESTNUT STREET, Will continuo tho sale of their Large Stock of Fine lif oda at Extraordinarily Low Prices, luallua a difl , reio - e of about 3.334 PER DENT. from fortuer pricem, being more than equal to the Great Decline in Gold. Our old stock we are selling rapidly, and NEW GOODS are BEING ngeEIVED DAILY, so that our Store shall continue to present to too era the GREAT-- n:BT POSSIBLE ATTRACTIONS AND BARGAINS, in all descriptions of Shirting and Fronting Linens. Table Cloths, Table Linens, Napkins,. Doylies, 0 r [ray new and al vgatitt fr,rnio Towels and Towelings Of ccery deacriptiou Marseilles Quilts, Aud nil tariction of House Furnishing Dry Goods. Furniture Coverings, Cretonnes 4 Chintzes. Table and Piano Covers. Real Lace and Nottingham Curtains. Curtain Materials . and Upholstery Hoods. An unusually large and attractive stock of .First-olass White Goods, - Piques, Tidies, Hdlds. and Staple Embroideries. 1008 CHESTNUT STREET. w 4,9 w f m 101rP 111 E -Fifi krAitThi-. "THE NINE MUSES" BANE BEEN RETAINED ON EXH 1131 . 1'1.0N AT EARLES' GALLERIES, 816 CheAtnat Street, • FOR A FEW DAYS LONGER. mh2 16try NEW CHROMOS. JAMES S. EARLE & SONS, 116 Chestnut Street, Are ronstontly in rt.c.ipt of numbers of NEW. EN GItAVING6andNEW Cllliohl.ol3. A few of the latest are as follows Artl4ls. " Little Eva," - J. G. Brown. Innocence," r. G. Brown • Uhy Don't Ile Corns I Companion J. G. Brown' Christmas Memories ' A. J. A. Way The First Lesson in Music Gehrlchon • Fast Asleep I Mrs. Anderson , Wide Awake 1 Mrs. Anderson The Queen of the Woods • ' J. G. Brown , " Little Bo Peep" J. G. Brown A Family Scene In Pompeii Coomans :4 “ Dotty Dimple," Mrs. Murray The Monastery In Vinter Jacobsen " A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea," De Haas . Slnthet on the. Coast Do Haas , Launch of the Life-Boat E. Moran Yo Semite Valley Thos. ill- The H Birth .place of Whittier Thor; Hill Beatrice Cenci Guido • Always on hand the largest collection iu the country at the very , lowest prices. Chromes and Engravings sent in safety by mail. CHAS. F. HASELTINE'S GALLERIES OF THE ARTS, No. 1125 Chestnut Street. THE AUTOTYPES I_4.A.N . I3SCA.P3OS IlAkVlll ARRIVED. I.I,OItbE,UR •ROBES, Lap Rugs and Horbe Gear. All kinds. Nono tater or cheaper. R.NIIIASS'S II arcane Store, 1126 Mar— ket street, Big Horse In ate do . .07-Iy4p MEI= SECOND ROITION BY, TEL CABLE NEWS. Finanidal and Commercial Qnotatiolls FROM EUROPE. (XI) , Um 1111enean Press A esoolatlon.l Winauthal and Vezninerelal. LONDON, March 18, 11 A. M.—Conaols for money, !KS; for account, 931; Five-twenty bonds 0f1E62, 91. Ten-lbrties 87. Atlantic and Oreat estern, 30 ; Erie Railway, 22; ll tinofs COntral,ll6l. Idvicin , ool,, March 18, 11 A. M.—Cotton is buoyant. Estimated sales, 13,000 bales. Mid.: dling Uplands, 11011 ; Middling Orleans, 11Z al2l. California Wheat, 9.4. 4(1.03. Lil.; Wintor ditto, 85.10 d.; spring ditto, Bs. Id. Flour, Ws. Corn,_27N. 9d, Pork 92a. Beef, 104 a. 6d. Lard, 645. Tallow, 445. Losnos, March IB.—Spirits of Turpentine, 21s. PAWS, March 18.—The Bourse IS firm Renter, 73f. 75c. PENNSYLVANIA. METHODIST EP INCOPAL CONFER.- 1;N CE. Coach:slots of Yesterday's Proceedlssas. [Spada Despateb to the Phila. Evening B 0114,031.) PorTsvtwat, Pa., March lit—Reverend W. Cooper, D. D., presented the condition of the north Philadelphia District, reporting the building of three churches; glorious re vivals of religion ; increased collections for all our church interests. The characters of Ministers were passed. Rev. J. H. McLaughlin, located at his own re quest. Rev. J. Thompmon, supernumerary re lation,without work. The death of Rev. C.W. Ayare was announced as occurring November 18, 1860. Rev. W. L. Gray reported the healthy con- Alitioti of the South Philadelphia District. Heavy church enterprises completed ; glorious revivala, of religion, in which hundreds have been converted. . The characters of Ministers mere passed. ltev. W. 3lcCombs was excused from the Committee on Temperance. Rev. B. Pancoast wax appointed to till his place. The serious illness of :dm. Ayres, the wife of Jtev. J. B. Ayres, an aged mi ulster of the of the brethren asked for.her recovery. • On motion, the meeting adjourned. Benediction was offered by Rev. J. Ruth. Reports of great interest have been re ceived; such as that of the General Tract So- ciety of the M. E. Church. Id 1869 the re ceipts were 515,417 76—an increase of f-101 99. Expenditures, $20,231 33-88111 14 over. those of 1868. Average circulation of Good 'News, 71.918—an increase of 9,598. The tract pages printed: I'ages of 2rno. tracts at home 5,171,000 Pages of tracts in 863,500 copies of • the Good News "25,905,000 12mo..pages of tracts in German.... 3,661,700 126.000 books and tracts in China, estimated 3,021,864 Total number of tracts printed... 37.765,231 Increase over 18613 4,653,716 The State Temperance Agent of Penlisyl- Tania,Rev. P. Coombe, reports that from the 15th of March, 1869, to the 15th of March, 1470, meetings were held in. 170 'different churches besides a large number of court houses, halls and school-houses, and 117 ser mons and lioo addresses Were delivered. The Secretary traveled 30,000 miles during the year., 1 hirty counties were visited during the year. Meetings were held in 41 towns and villages.. of which were county-seats. Of these towns only 11 had license to sell intoxi- eating liquors, leaving .N) without license, 5 of which had local prohibitory laws. The other 25 had abolished the license system by the action of the people. This proportion of 110-11C41715C towns (three out of four) will be found in most of the western couutites of Penn sylvania. It was resolved that this Conference app3iut a committee of three ministers and three lay 7 Men; to rainier with other Conferences wliose territory may lie in whole or in part within our State lines, on the propriety of calling a State Convention of Methodists, to be com posed of ministers and laymen; said Confer., once to be called at a convenient point some time during the coming autumn. • ArrprisooN.—.Stinday &Illicit A nnirsary.— This Anniversary commenced in the after noon, by a Sabbath School Institute, conducted by Rev. J. H. Vincent, A. M., Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday School Union of the M. E. Church—Rev. C. F. Turner, Vice Presi 'dent of the Conference Society, in the Chair. The singing was conducted by Prof. W. 0. Fischer. Opening hymn 'ens read by Rev. C. Cooke. Prayer by Rev. J. Neill. The hymu, " There is a Fountain Filled with Blood," was then sung by the entire audience. H. Vincent was then introduced. He spoke at considerable length on his topic, " The Worker and His Work. EVENING. - The • Anniversary drew a crowded house. Conference Vice President of the Sunday School Union opened the meet byreading the hymn, "Frontal] that dwell below the skies," which was sung. Prayer by Rev. C. I. Thompson, of Lancaster, Penn sylvania. The choir then sang the hytrin, "Watch and Pray." First address by Rev. S. H. C. Smith, of Columbia. Pennsylvania. Second address by Rev. B. H. 'Slade), Professor in the Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. Alter which address Prof. Fischer, of Philadelphia, sang the piece called "The_ Trundle Bed." The closing address was made - by Rev. J. H. Vincent, on " Geed Teaching." Notices were then given, and the audience dismissed with the benediction, by Rev. W. J. Paxton. Conference, Prayer Meeting.—A half hour be fore each session to be spent in prayer. Wed nesday—The meeting to be led by Rev. J. B. McCullough; Thursday, ,by Rev. John Ruth; Friday, by Rev. T. t 3. Cook. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. (Special Despatch to tho Phila. Evening Bulletin.] nAItAISBURG, March 18. SENATE.—Among the bills negatively re ported by the comtnittees were the following: The supplement for the Board of Port „Wardens of Philadelphia. The bill to protect stockholders of turnpike, plank road and telegraph companies, with amendment. The House bill for the protection of the rights of corporations in this Commonwealth. The following bills were favorably reported : The 11 wise bill to protect timber lands in the Commonwealth from fire. The House supplement to the Point Breeze Park Association. The House supplement to the act incorporat ing the Nautical and Engineering College of The House supplement for the Corn Es change of Philadelphia. The House F u pp lenient to the act incorpo rating the Schuylkill River Passenger Rail way. I.he Senate bill incorporating the Wissa hickon and Chestnut Street Passenger Rail way Company. ;" The supplement for Philadelphia, relative to the.collection of taxes. • The Senate supplement to an act to erect a free,hride over the Schuylkill, at South street. The bill defining the line of. Chestnut street in Philadelphia. From-the Special Committee of City Mein hers, the bill vacating a portion of Nicetown Lane, Philadelphia. • Mr. Miller introduced an act incorporating the new Freedom and Maryland Railroad Company. M r. Purman introduced the following reso lution : .feeo/ved, That William W. Irwin, hiving appeared before the 'Finance Committee in the TreaSury investigation, and refused' to be, sworn and give evidence to the said Com- , . /1111k/3 in ,srleilmatters ae, tho. Ileuato deetn necessary to the Perfortaan63of the' Legisla tive duties .of the Senate, the— . said William .W. Irwin • to hereby adjudged guilty of contempt, and ' therefore the Speaker of the Senate.be, and be is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant to the Sergeant-at-Anal, auttio rizi ng and 'requiring him to produce at- the bar of the Senate, William W. Irwin, there to be held and subjectlo such orders a the Sen ate may make in ,the premises. r , • • • Mr. liemzey moved to postpone for the present. Not agreed to. Mr. Randall moved to postpone until Sep ,t,em ber next. Mr. Randall's motion was disagreed to— yeas 7 nays 21. Mr. Itandell then moved the indefinite post ponernent of the whole subject. Mr. Randall then moved postponement for the present. Disagreed to—yeas 13, naysls. Mr. Henszey said he should call the .previ ens ejuestiOn if these dilitary motions were persisted in. was their eVidentpurpose, by delay, to 'kill the Police bill, which was to come up in order after the morning orders. Mr. [leek moved to make the resolution the special order for 'Thursday. Mr. lienzsey then called the previous ques lion, and the call was sustained. The motion making the resolution the spe cial oruer for Wednesday evening was agreed to—yeas 24, nays 6. Mr. White moved that the hour of adjourn ment be extended until the new Philadelphia Police bill should be finally acted upon. Agreed to, yeas 16, nays 15. Mr. Davis said that the bill incorporating the Brotherhood of the Union had been re ported by the Committee on the Judiciary General with a negative recommendation, be. cause they believed the courts have power in the premises. Since then the Governor had expressed an opinion adverse to this position. The Senate certainly owed some respect to the Executive, and he therefore moved that the bill be recommitted for further examina tion, which was agreed to. Mr. Lowry moved that the General Insur ance bill be made the special order, for Wed nesday morning next. Agreed to. The new Philadelphia Police bill then came up in order on its third reading. Mr. Nagle spoke at length against the bill, which, he said, wasgotten . Op by politicians for their personal and pecuniary benefit. It was extravagant. Under the preselit system there was but one man to be paid $5,000 annu ally, but by this bill there would be five Com missioners, every oue of whom would receive from four to five thousand dollars. Mr. Benszey denied that this was the effect of the bill. It liked no salaries, and left every thing to Councils, so far as appropriations and disbursements were concerned. Mr. Nagle asked if live ootopetent men could be tound in Philadelphia, who would take upon themseltes the onerous duties of this position without compensation? This tn..=•••_:!. party bill.parsingtirely outside of party interests, providing for the appointment of men with a view only to their fitness, he should vote for it; but this was a partisan measure, in , which a few poli ticians were deeply interested. There had been no meeting or • convention of either party in Philadelphia, asking for this measure, and the best men of both parties were op; posed to it. Mr. Davis moved to go into a Committee of the Whole for special amendment. Disa greed to. Mr. Henszey then called the previous ques tion, and the call was passed. The 3 tax and nays were as follows : YEAs— essrs. Allen, Bilhngfelt, Connell, Graham, Henszey. "toward, Kerr, Mumma, Olmsted, Osterhout, Robinson, Rutau, Warfel, Watt, White, Stinson (Speaker) NAvs—Beck, •Brodhead. Buekalew, Davis, Duncan Findlay, Linderman. Lowry, bran ti re, Miller, Nagle, Furman, Randall,Wallace. Y4us, 16 ; nays, 14. liousz.—The Senate hill extending aid to the .Jersey Shore; Buffalo and Pine Creek Lai lway: the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charles -town Itailway—up the Monongahela. Valley; the Clearfield and Buffalo and the Erie aud the Allegheny Bailroads,was considered. The Lill authorizes the companies above named to exchange their own bonds for those of the Pennsylvania Central and Allegheny Rail roads, now in the State Treasury. Mr. Strang deliVered a Jong and eloquent address in favor of the measure, asserting, . among other things; that our early public im• prove-mean; had been built by taxes coming from the people ; but that, as these improve ments had been extended, every acre of gronnd in Pennsylvania had been exempted from State, tax, arid hence some„ corporations had been made to contribute the greater portion of our revenues. The generosity of the State had Gins Leen returned to her a thousand fold. essrs..Tohnson. of Crawford, and Craig also favored the MIL Mr. Brown moved to postpone for the pre sent ; lost by :t2 ayes to 64 noes. The bill then passed by tJ9 ayes to 3i noes. FROM THE ,WEST. fly the American Pres* Aeeociatiou.l ILLINOIS. Conetitntional Convention. SpRINGFIELD, March IR.—The constitu tional convention has taken a recesis for one month: A Cent Vein Struck. Quixcy, March 18.—A company, which has been boring for coal for nearly a year in this vicinity, have at last struck a vein four hun dred feet below the surface. The coal is pro nounced of superior quality, and is believed to Lein an inexhaustible supply. WISCONSIN. Adjournment of the Lenislature., 34Antsoff, March 18.—The Legislature has adjourned sine die. No definite action was taken relative to the removal of the State capital.' NEBRASKA. The Storni—The Trains on the DeeLfle Railroad Not Delayed. OMAHA, March 18.—The Union Pacific Rail road is all right, notwithstanding the great snow storm. The line is open throughout it, entire length, and trains have nowhere been seriously detained. Despatches received here to-day state that the snow storm has been the heaviest known since the road was built, awl extended along the line from here to the. Rocky 'Mountains. It is very cold here to day, but the sky is clear. The Indians—much Trouble Exported. A letter from South Pass. dated the 11th instant, says that the Acapoes and Snakes have failed to agree upon a treaty which the former were trying to make. Much trouble is anticipated with the Snakes and the Sioux during the coming season. They are evidently making great preparations for war, and no thing short of a heavy dose of Phil. Sheridan's physic will reduce theni to quiescence. lOWA. Another Collision of Trnlns.••Nobody Se riously Injured. - DAvENPokr, lowa,- March 18.—A passenger train on the Rock Island Railroad collided with a freight train near here, last evening. The collision was the result of carelessness on the part of the conductor of the first-named train. Both locomotives and several cars were smashed. The brakesman of the pit.ssenger train had his leg broken,and was otherwise seriourdy injured. Fortunately, the passengers escaped with but slight scratches and bruises. INDIANA. The Straggle for Ur. lloars,Place. Fowl. WAYNE, March 18.—The contest for the Congressional nomination in the Ohio District, made ,vacant 'by the death of Mr. Hoag. Waxes warm and very exciting. Both candidates are making violent harangites to the people of the towns composing serfs probahl , the dis trict. It serfs that Gen. Shanks will be nominated, and i so he will certainly be elected. OHIO. The lealslature, COLUMIIVH,March 18.—The Legislature will adjourn sine die on April 9th. • .Tlik _ NT A VAL ST ORE S.-365 BA ItRELS all Rosin, 50 barren' Pitch, it, 51 barrels Spirits Tim pentinead barrels far, now landing from steamer Pioneer, from Wilmington, N. U., and for sale by COCIFI BAN. 111ISSYM, tt . CO.. Nit' 111 Chestnut 0TT0N2.04 BALES 001 ".CON, NOW V . landing from steamier 'Wyoming, from , Savannah, Ga., and for saio (.1001IRAN, RUSSELL di (.10,111 . Chestnut street. ,;.'• , F .. 'ff.. 7 ''. ..:f.'; . I ... ii - ,:: ' ; .--- ..- ‘ i.. ".. . , ~ , 4 3,7... - i4...;;:.). - i1.... .: ,, L . ;....;.` 1 ::. ..i. -ij .ii 2. , '.'f _ -,-..' IFr : - .EVENWerIfU - bLETTY.P-IIIittADELPTIaI'.;'4, 4O 7ItIDAiY .-- -MARCII*476' 44 - - : - ..''T . , ... ~.,... _ ..._ .„,„,......_.......... - -- _ -- - P AAPI Ca AL -ANDOIIIIIIERCAAL . . . . , ~. . . ll'iilladeliohllei Steck . Exothatinge Sales. lontst Boum, • - , ~, . 12600 tllty de new It 102 . 1160 oh Bead II 4B, 4 ?to do , 102 'lOO sh do own .- Oki . 1000 City 64.01 d . . 1004200 eh . do slOwil ltit ' 444 2000'Petin Os 2 her 100/4 100 eh do b3O 431 WO Penh R 1 Mtge 68 la 99 'lOO eh' do c 44,1 4 ' /3t 0 l'amt 6s 1 par • , 10336 24 ithPabif ' 343 4 2110 Pa 6a Ws r.Ln cp le .101312 00 oh' ,do Its bell itm 1000 C&Anla 0000 9314' 11 oh do 60'1 1000 N (/'11: BO Iwo aw Jou oh Loh Nay Stk b6O 314 too Lehigh Gld Ln '. ! .8916 Nll eh do 1/60114' 3134 101,0 do 89!4 Walsh .do • . 31 IWO do . .• 89 T OO OO sh 'do 860 W) 18 oh citetn An ' Ite 1!4.4 2 Ali do hal Its 3l'; 6oh do - 'llO4 100 sh do b6O 8111 2sh do 11416,200 sh do 0 60 Its 31 , i 32 sli hlinehill IL Its tdl/1 7 sit lash Val K 64 1 4 10000 Arno (ild ll2 124 eh do Its 0431 . 2INTWRIEN BOARtits. 2200 City Co old 1001( 300 uli Reading Rle c 4834 1000 do 0 10016 100 sh do b3O 4.4 lOW Coml./lAm mg6l/119 93:4 100 sh do 4814" aKb Girard 131i_ c IXII6 Marsh do Its 49-1-Id 200 slaeb Bay Sth bOO 0134 ; 100 sh do 48-3-13 20 sh N Coo 11W 481.(''300 lib do 24s 48 3-16 111 Peon R . t 0 1 .1700 eh dolts 48-3.16 44 sh do 610., ;700 sh do Ito 4971 SP.O.IND YRIAIID. 30001,00 h Can to 77 11 sh Penn B 661 i 1000 PhlladiErioisbs 871 . 61 to sh N Oen It W 49 At/Penn &Marin cp 101,4 10d oh Read 11 4.5!0 2(0 (illy Se new. 10 1 / a 700 sh do 49.1-13 21 1 10 do 102 1200 sh do b6O 48'4 16 Rh() Cdr . .ol RR W 42 , mob do Ito 431; /141 sh do . 4135 100 oh do !dye 48-I.ld Philadelphia Roney liaraes. FRIDAY, March 18,1870.—The demand fur money this morning is fairly active, but not particularly pressint, and borrowers in gdod odor with the market find no difficulty in procuring a fall supply. The bulk of first , claps business paper is generally taken at the banks at about I per cent., and call loans, as a rule, may he quoted at 6a6 per cent —the lowest figure ea PINUP of Geyerment colluterale. The banks are pr rceptibly teeing their strong reserves. and a few days of active demand will «lace to equalize demand and supply. The gold market is comparatively quiet and steady. the range of fluctuations during the morning being between 112%, and closing about noon at li2. The Government bond market la in full sympathy with specie and prices are sten dy and unchanged. The stock market was moderately active and prices were unchanged. Bales of Mate limns at 10354 for the iPir first series. and coupon war loan at 101 M. City sixes were steady, with sales of the old at 100% and of the now at 102. Lehigh gold loan Fold at 89% and 89) in 800's. Beading Railroad quiet, Small sales at 463aa18.31. Pennsylvania Railroad sold at 66%. Minehill Railroad at 61%, and Lehigh Valley at 647 i. Camden and Miami Railroad was taken at /14%.. In Clinal shares there was a demand for Lehigh at 31% b. o. Coal, Bank and Passenger Railway stocks were overlooked. Vituirton Smith bankers, 121 t3outlt Third street, quote at 10.1 b o'clock as follow's; ()old. 112; 11. S. Sixes.lBBl, )14,;a114%; do.do. 11.209, 1842,"10935a 31014: do. do. 1864. 11 1 94093 i do. do. 1999. 199, 1 / 4 000.14; do. do. .li:fly, 186 d% 107%4109 ; dd.do. July, 1667. 191%* 109; do. do. July._ 1868 , 109a1091.1 ; W. 40,. 1051411151.1; Ovlrwicv alien. 112,4 . If essrs.:De Haven B Brother. No. 40 South Third street , make the following quotatfona.of the rates of exchauge to-day at noon : United States hives of 1.831. 114?go11-1%. do. do. 1862, 10211a110; do. do. 1864. 30814;1109: do. do. 1866, 10914a109'4: do. do. 1866. now, 10730108 ; do. do. 1867, new 4 1015,7‘a109: do. do. 1563. 109a109.4; do. do. 6'5,10-406,I6Sh:ttlut% : 8.30 year 6 per cent. currency, 1/2a112. 1 4. Line Compound Interest Notes. 19. Gold, 11174a112.i1. 111012. - Union. Pacific, 855a965. Central. iti6a9t6 : Union Pacific Land Grants. 701 , i;0. Jay Cooke :k Co. quote f,overnment securities k .. to day, as follows :Lofted Statss 6s. 11g11, 1143a-r116:5-20'6 of 18C.2,1093.i0/103i : do. 1864. 1982,:a10:1"4" do. 1865, 11191.ia I 093;; do. July, 1565. 10840811 ; do. 1367, 1095109.4% do. lo6e. lhealof.l.i: Ten forties, 10574a106; Currency 60. 112a1)234 ; Gold, 112. The following is the inspection of flour and meal for Br - wrrn mairug - irarru /am; arrels of /Superfine-- .—........ do. 11)e do. Corn 3leal do. Condemned Total Philadelphia Produce Blarket. Fittnav, March 18.--.;otton has advanced and clonal at :3k233 c. for ?diddling Uplands, and 24c.for Now Oilcans. tio. l 15nereitron Bark fa steady at //1 per ton, but no Rolex come under our notice. Chererseed is in good request, and .500 bushels sold at VAS 12%. Timothy may be quoted ut esab 60, and Fiszseed at 62 21412 36. There is not much demand for Flour, the inquiry b-lug confined to the want* of the home' trade, hut prices are unchanged. Sales of bOu liartyls. Including Superfine at 44 25a4 LO; Extras at *4 112.54a4 75 ; Spring Whist Extra Families at Stab 75; Pennsylvania do. do. within the range of the Same figures ; Indiana and OhiJ do. et, at 45 25a6 25. and Fancy lots at higher figures. Eye Flour Is steady at e 4 62%, with small sales. In Corn Ali al no transactions. . . There is not much Wheat coming forward, but the supply is ample for the demand. Sales of 1,500 bushels prune Penusylvaiia Red at $1 24a1 25. Rye commands 95a5 e.. Corn is in f•ir request at yesterday's figures. Sale. of 2.100 bushels Yellow in the ears at 95c.. aid I,Otfil bushels in the elevator at 93c. Oats are steady at Ma Me. Barley is dull ; 7,100 bushels Canada sold on secret tei roe. hisky is Ivry quiet. Sales of wood-bound barrels at 61, and iron booed do. at tti tial 02. narketh by Telegraph. Spectal Deavateb to the Phila. Evenina.Bullettn.l Hkw You March 18.12.3 i P. M.--Uotton.—Themarket this morrilsig was dull and prices decidedly better. Sales of about WO hales. We quote as follows: Middling Uplands..Vm.; Middling Orleans, 27.4 c. Flour, &T.—The market for Western and State Flour is dull and a decline of talOc. le likely to take place at the present. Itereipts, 9.500 [ibis. The sales 64 , bbid. at Ss rtia3 &D for Superfine State; ar4 cU net. 10 for Extra State ; $5 25a5 75 for Fancy State; .!:Ua5111.5 for the , low grades of Western Extra f. 5 for good to choice Spring Wtioat Extras: tot 8% - 16 70 for Minnesota and lowa Extras; El Oil as 25 for Shipping Ohio, Hound Hoop; €5 50a5 10 fur Trade brands; C 5 77a6 Family do.; $5 35a5 5O for Anoloer Winter State and Western ; 7506 50 for 'White Wletit do do.: 86 55,1i7 for Family do.: $5 65 7.9 35 for St. Loris Extra Single. Double and Triple. California and Oregon Flour is dersid of life or Anima tion. Sales of 20 barrels. Rye Flour is firm. Sales of '74.4 1 barrels,. Grain—Receipts, Wlitat 13.001 bushels. The market is dull and prices It. lower. The zrzles are 20,000 bushels N 0.2 Milwaukee at 81 101111. and No.l —. at—: luther Wilder et 61 26a1 28. Corn—Receipts. 88.000 bushels. The market is a shade firmer, but not very active. bi.lea of 15.(O1 bushels Now Western at 95a99 afloat ; old at 81 Mal 04. Oats are active and a shade firmer. I:eceipts. bushels. Sales. ovisiona.—The receipts of 'Perk are 200 barrels. The market is dull and unchanged. Sales of 300 bbls. at 624 for new Western Mess. Lard—Receipts, pkgs. Tie market is dull and unchanged. We quote prime steamer at 14104.14 cents. Hoge scarce and nominal. V. hisky—Receipts. 760 barrels. The market is devoid of life or animation. We quote Western free at 999 cents. P irrimvuu it. March 18.—Crude Petroleum dull; no sales reporttd. 'We quote spot at 1114 cents ; March at 111,; ants; April at 11).; cents; April, May, J tine and July at 12 cents, and b. 0., all the year at 1314 cents. It efinen weak ; sales of 1,1)00 bids. April at cents, and Lae bbls. b. 0., all the ryf.ar at ;VS cents. Receipts, 2,004 barrels. hlaipped, 1,198 barrels. (kg . the American Press Association.) BALTIMORE, Alarch 18.—Coffee le firm, with an active inquiry. The stock hal-eh:MAO bags Itio. Oaten eery strong and buoyant. We took kw raid g at 2 . 134a23 cents. Flour is dull and steady ; sales of 600 barrels Howard SI reet Dainty, 80 BTh;a6 623-6; 000a600 barrels Western, $1 1,2,5a4 75 for Superfine ; 85 60 forextra. Wheat Is firm sales of 5,000 to 6,000 bushels. lied, for export, el 27a1 28 ; 1,000 do., el 20 for common, and 81 ; 300 30 good to prime. Corn—bales 7,100 to 8,000 bushels at 90a92 for white, 92 for yellow. Oats—Sales 2,000 bushels at 53 cents. • Beeds.—(loNer active and firm. Bales of 700 to 800 bushels et 88 00a8 28. Provisions are dull, and prices unchanged Whisky is firmer. Salos to day at 97 cents. The New York Money Harker. [From the Herald of toklay.) Tut risniv, March would seem that the specula tive \ eine of the leunding bit) ix not VI bl 3 suffered to ba in abeyance, fur thegold gamblers again employed it to great adt antago to-flay. The firmer tone of the foreign exchanges rendered the gold market strong in earlier traw.actiens. The report that Sieretar3 Boutwell had made a speech to (but nn intpression upon) the Ways and Means , Committee of the House 4 n favor of the Funding bill, rendered the mar ket active, and gold advanced to Mere came the story, next in turn, that ,Ir. Boutwell, WPM , - CC6811.11 with the rummitteo, had gone before the House and was working most zealously tor the hill, stud, more over, for the bill with its original features of foreign agencies. On this announcement gold reacted to 112!*". The undert 0110 of the market. 14 temporarily very firm and encouraging to thw speculators on the " 'shift. The holders of gold paid three to five per gout. to have their b81:111C,14 tarried. The operations of the Gold Exchange Bank wore cs follows ; Gold cleared, $41415,010 ;• gold balances, el ; ; currency balances, 81..172,592. The stock market was LAMY active in the loading fea tures, and steady.. if not strong; for the general list. The early speculation again ran on Pacific w h i t e n f e lt to 32,,1.but recovered to 333 ii on the report that the Senate Con mittee on Post-otneera Mel agreed to a bill providing for doubling the mail facilities with China, and alluding the line an additional sub sidy of 01,00,000 per annum—a donation equivalent to live par cent yearly on the capi tal stock. Thu Vanderbilt shares were barely ideally, end Lake Shore and hack Island firm. Erie again ad vanced to 27?!.4' on the strength of the suocessful progress of the anti-Vanderbilt snit and the expeetation of a re peal of the perpetual eirectors' bill. Ties weak spots were the St. Paul and Northwestern ehares. The COM inon of the fa iner broke to a3..1:, and the preferred to 7135. Northwesh rn preferred was erapeciay weak, and minim' to 8216, while the , commit touched 71.116, It •seems that the NI legislature tae passe, I a law, within a few days granting the present iiirentors of Northwestern the priv liege of classifying and olying in thee, as in the case of Erie, which has so disgusted the le thatought stock to to the road at the next, elee.ion they unloaded to the hest advantage possi ble since the knowledge came to their cars, tkie - decline being assisted by the 1086 in receipts for last week. These ay era the prin..' pal fester a of the rad way and miscellaneous list. In the mining shares Quicksilver was weak. and i , ohret 9. The government market was strong and steady at an nth - once efahout an eighth to a (limner per cent. on Yerateidae/i, quotations. The best limes wen: Mann a qu'orter per vent. I 'glum than teat night's eloraieg prises, but with the reatitlon from 11275 for gold the market closed quiet, The money market waft easy at four to five per cont. on choice collaterels. In some histances, particethrly on miscellaneous securities, loans were made as high as six per cent. ' _ 1111 RD EDII'ION. LATER BY CABLE. Terrible Disaster in ihe English Channel, Two Steamers CoHide—One Sunk TRIRTY-ONE PERSONS DROWNED lI,ARRISBURG. DIAMOND VS. WATT Important Testimony for * Mr. Watt NEW YORK REPEATERSAT WORK A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR Two Democratic Senators Have a Set-to [l , 3y the American Prete Arsocietion.) Another' Cobbdow-Two Steamers Col• Ilds-..31 Persons browned. LoNnoiv, March 18, 2 P. M.—A collision between the mail steamer Normandy anff the steamer Mary, a Danube packet, occurred this morning in the channel off the Guernsey coast. The Normandy was sunk almost instanta neonsly,.carrying down with her the Captain, crew, and twenty passengers, thirty-one per- sons in all, who were drowned. The Mary was not seriously damaged. The Infallibility Dogma—Spode to Op. pose It. • MADRID, March 18.—It is semi-officially an . • need I he ove of • • •aht oppose the promnlg,ation of the dogma of in fallibility. --,-- 9;01 115 300 -....10A53 Constitutional Reform--:Efforts to Divert Napoleon. LONDON, March 18, 2 P. Times of to-day a'rerts 'that certain influential State functionaries, led by M. Rouher, are endeav oring to divert the Emperor Napoleon from his policy of " Constitutional Reform," which has already been attended with the most grati fying results. The New Legislature•.. The Liberal Pro The Timcs also urges the assembling of the new Legislature for the purpose cf censum flirting the Liberal programme. Insanity of Col. Burke. Mr.,.Gladstone stated in Parliament this afternoon that Colonel Burke, the American Fenian convict, was insane, but is likely to recover his reason. Fenian Prisoners--Tbey Are Mot to be He also announced that the Government would not release the Fenian prisoners until the present disturbed condition of Ireland im proved, but that he is willing to grant an inquiry into the charge made of cruel treat. meet of the Fenian prisoners, though he did not believe the reports to be at all trustworthy. The Diamond-Watt contested Election Special Despatch to the Phlls. Exasingßnlletta.l j3ARBISBLItG, March 18.—The Diamond- Watt Committee sat until late last night. Lawrence Ball testified that he was a resident of New. York ; that he, with a party of twenty five others, were employed by George Brown, a well.known politican of that city, to come to Philadelphia at the last October election, and that they voted at various precincts in the ksccord. Third and:Fourth Wards. He him- . self voted eleven times, three of which were cast at the poll at Eighth and Sansinn streets.. He remembered, also, having voted at Twelfth, a ad Tenth,and Fifth,and Passaytank road , a.nd Carpenter streets, and Charles and South streets. The party quartered At the Spring man House, on Walnut street, above Seventh, and after 'breakfast were divided into squads of Jive and six, each being led ,by a Philadelphian. They kept voting the entire day, and returned to .;ti ew York the same night. 'flay voted the names and address furnished them, and were not challenged once during the day. The bargain made with Brown was that each of the party was to receive $25 and expenses. The witness testified that Brown had failed to keep the contract, which ac counted for their appearance in 'this case.- tbe w itness underwent ar severe cross-exami nation by Lewis. C. Cassidy, which failed to shake the testimony. He denied that any in d net ment, other than'that already stated, had been held out to. make Pins a witness. John . Blake and EdWard 13 unter testified that they were companions. of Ball; and corroborated him in ' , every particular. Blake voted. nine times, and Hunter seven times. The commit tee decided that the sitting member must close his case on Wednesday next, and adjourned to meet on Tuesday evening. Inhgruertni Conduct in the Senate Chamber--A Tussle lietween Senators Nagle and Linderman. RARRISISURG, March 18.—After the atijonrn ment of the Senate, a controversy took place in the chamber between Senators Nagle and Linderman. It appears that during the morning 'session. Linderman made use of language which Nagle deemed personally in sulting. Aftv the adjournment Mr. Nagle demanded an explanation. This «:L4 not satisfactorily given, whereupon Mr. Nagle took his redress in his own hands and blows were exchanged: Linderman was a sufferer. Mr. Josephs, of the }louse, and others interfered, and me- Vented further difficulty. METHODIST EPISCOPAL . CONFER. bird Day's Proceedings. Etipeeinl Deepnteh to the Phila. Evening lictlethi.l POTTbVILLE, March tB.—The ContHrence met at eight. o'clock, Rev. W. L. Gray in the • The devotional exercises were conducted by Bev. W. C. Robinson. Bishop SirupsOn was in the chair. The following Committee was announced : Ot the Subbcith-T. B. Miller, W. Michel, Joseph Welch, S. B. Best, W. 13. Hood. Ihe examination of effective .elders was re sumed. ' Rev. Jos. Castle. D. D.,represented the Cen tral l'hiladelrhia District as in a prosperous condition. A number of churches had been built or improved. Rey. A. Atwood granted a supernamerary relation with work, The characters of all the elders were 'passed. Rev. R. hi Pattison, D. Ih. represented the . Harrisburg District as in a prosperona condh. non. He had, attemled 174 quarterly' meet ings and traveled over 10,000' miles, and preached 106 times. • '. The characters of ; ll the elders Were Rev. T. W. Maclary was made a supernum erary without work. Rey. J. U. Vincent, Correspond( fig Secre tary of the* M. E. Church, addressed the Con- 2:15 CYClook. SPAIN. ENGLAND. gramme. Released at Present. PENNSYLV AMA. }a CF • t • 'crone!, nti the . 4 *botli.,.s*c4ool, 44re.i; at the, lifethodist;Book Concern in . New York. Bleb OP Bintiit, , iin,iintiounced the death of ! V . W: Cartel!, EAry., of 'New York, the deviated and liberal friend of city niisaion work. A requel4 from thelitate Temperance Society Wati preBented. ahking,, the re.appointinent of Rev. Coonibe as agent. ; 11ev.3 R. Raney wax readmitted to the Con ference. Ihe report of the Wesleyan Methodist Col, lege 'was referred• to the Committee on .Ednea- Bon. ' , the resolutions , of , the Baltimore Annual Conference, in reference to additions of re ttrictiori to rides of the Methodist Episcopal elinrch,.to wit, to add: - fiball not extend the limit of the pimtorial seryieC beyond thopresent term. Seventh—ney shall not clianem the Constitu tion and composition of the annual Con ferences. Lifibth—They shall not reBtrict tbo authority of the Bit , hopm. This wa.s followed by a protracted discus slob. FROM THE SOUTH. [By American Press Associationj MlSSltitil err. state Judicial Appointments. JACKSON,iss., March 18.—The judicial appointments for this State will be announced by Governor Alcorn, next week. " Colonel "Verger—Nothing' Heard of His Whereabouts. There are, as yet, no tidings of Colonel 'Ver ger, the escaped murderer. The horse used by him in effecting his escape from the city was found tied to a sapling, - last evening, a few miles from here. fill to Guarantee Equal Eights. A bill has been introduced into the Legis lature by a negro member to guarantee equal Pedal and political rights 'to the two races. The main features of the bill are considered very objectionable by the white members of both parties. FROM WASHINGTON. (Special Despatch to the Dhilada.Evealng Bulletin.) , The Feuding' Bill. WASHINGTON, MarchlB.—The House Bank ing and Currency Committee will certainly report the bill covering banking clauses in the FUnding bill, and they are considering the propriety of reporting a substitute for the en tire Funding bill. - • Secretary Boutwell was at the C'aPitol again to-day, looking after the measure. He had quite a long conference with Senator Sher man. •• Army Illatters. Feeretary Belknap was also about the Capi-' tol attending to various army interests. General Ames m 100421.1 The Senate Judiciary CoMmittee, this after noon, reported a resolution declaring Gen eral Ames ineligible to a seat as Senator, from Mississippi:' Senator . Rice dissented from the views of the Committee. The President's Visit to the Capital. The President expresses himself pleased with his talk with the Senators, yester day, and says he intends to visit the Capitol frequently. [By the American Press Amociatioml Treasury Statement. WasniwoTax, March 18.—The Treasury statement will show a currency balance of less than $8.000,000; gold certificates over $41,000,- 000; coin over $81,000,000. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK Money Market Unchanged---Gold Lower-- Foreign Exchange Lower. [By the American Press Association.] 1.1.5 w Yonit,M arch 18, 1 P. M.-The money market is unchanged. Call loans are quoted at .5a6 per cent. Foreign exchange is lower; prime bankers' 60-day sterling bills, 108/. Gold was lower at the opening, afterwards stronger. The two extremes now are given at 111/ and 112/, with the latest sales at 1121. Southern bonds are dull and lower, in sym pathy with gold. • Southern State Securities are dull for old Virginias and Louisiana Levee 6's. No impor• taut change in the other bonds. • Pacific Railroad mortgages are lower. Cen trals 1+3,1a94.; Union, 851051. . The stock market was very. irregular. early in the day. Fome stocks were strong and im proved a little, while others were heavy and lower. This afternoon the whole market is weak, with a decline all around. FROM NEW ENGLAND. [By the American Press Asmociationj MAISSACHUSEr IS. • Punishment of Refractory Pupils. BOSTON, March 18.—After a number of years' trial of the prohibition of corporeal punishment in the public schools, the School Committee of Cambridge (Massachusetts) have modified the regulations in respect to the n atter so to permit such punishment, under certain limitations. So that hereafter the schoolmarms will be privileged to administer rational doses of birch bark to the backs of refractory pupils. FIPIAPiCIAL. 'A Thoroughly Reliable Investment, WE OFFER FOR SALE 111:?, FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THE NEW YORK AND OSWEGO MID LAND RAILROAD. Film the City of New York to the City of Oswego. Principal and Interest SEVEN . PER, CE IT., payable In GOLD IN NEW YORK, free of Government Tax. Twenty-live years to rati, Coupon* or Iterastered ; at par and accrued interest. Th.Ls road has a large paid-up Capita , the.bonds are timitect to $20,000 per mile. Full ivformation in Pam);o,lets and eirett'ars an app4cation to TOWNSEND ViTEL.EN & 00., • No 809 WALNUT Street tiutill3 f 111.1 V tf tip :.'y 0 V R;'.7li.:'‘E',ll):ll'l.o.N, BY TELEGRAPO: IMPORTANT BY CABLE °sin Steame Samaria. amMi g h ews from the. She is Seen at Sea in a Disabled Condition, FROM WASHINGTON THE TENNESSEE CASE EMIGRATION 70 Tit E SOUTH THE FUNDING BILL FROM EUROPE. [By the American Press Aseociation. I News Front One of the lltering Stotruterik• The Samaria Seen at Sea in a ])foabled,, Condition. • LivEnroop, "March 18, 2P. M.—The , ship Madge Wildfire, just arrived here, reports passing, on the 12th of March, the . Cunard steamer Samaria:disabled, steering east. She wanted no assistance, and expected to arrive off Cape Clear to-day. FROM WASHINGTON. State of Affairs In'Tenuemate.--Darsey Thomas Before the Committee. . . (Special Despatch to the Phila. livening littilethi.r WASItINGToN, March 18.--Dorsesr Thomas; the Speaker of the Tennessee Seliate;•itrits be fore the Reconstruction Committee to-day; opposing any Congressional legislation for his State.' His admission as to the acts `of rebel violence are considered by some members of the committee as quite damaging to the cause which lie sustains. Emits rntion to the South. There is a large and increasing emigration from this city and vicinity to the South. plantations in M traitaippi. [By the American Press Aosociationl Specie Payments. WASHINGTON, MarchlB,—Senator Suniner, this morning, introduced an . amendment to the senate bill, No, 658, which provides that on after the 4th of July next, all currency or. the denomination of ten and fifteen cents; on, and after the 4th of September all twenty-tive cent notes, and on the 4th of November next; all fifty cent notes, shall be cancelled and de stroyed ; and thereafter no payments froin the Treasury, in, fractional parts Of a dollar,' shall be in any other money than in the coin of the United States. The IIIIR on Tobacco. Twenty-six Virginia tobacco manufacturers representing that their goods paid $lO,Ol/0,006 of tax last year, have issued a memorial .pro testing against the statement of Mr. Mint, of Brooklyn, before the Committee of Ways and Means, that the interests of the plug tobacco manufactories were not r c presentkrby ttre — Committee of the National As.sociation.here. four days ago. Mr. Hunt argued in faVor of increasing the tax on plug and other tobacco at a uniform rate of thirty-tWo cents a pound. The Virginia manufacturers hold that the tax • • should be reduced to a uniform rate of sixteen cents a pound. They also say that of the Com mittee of twelve here the other day,six were manufacturers of plug tobacco. • knanlitag Bill. The Ways and Means Committee of the House visited the Executive Mansion. this morning, and were closeted with the Presi dent and Secretary Boutwell for some time, in reference to the Funding bill now before the Committee. It is understood that the Pres', dud favors the bill heartily,withsoine amend ments. Arrest of Alleged Revenue Swindlers. General Bennet, formerly Supervisor of terual Revenue for North anu South Caro lina, and a man named Loring, an accom plice, were arrested at Atlantic City, lowa, on the 11th hist., by U. S. Marshal Clarke, and taken to Raleigh for trial,for conspiracy] to. defraud the Internal Revenue law. Treasury Coln balance. Coin balance in the Trf asury this morning, SO,tO9,CCO; currency, 57,760,000; coin cer tlfieate.-s, $41,:558,000. Internal Revenue and Customs Receipts. The receipts from the Internal Revenue, since the Ist instant, have been above the }WI rage, while the Customs receipts, co far, mach nearly SlO,Coo,l;6o.and it is estimatedthat the latter will exceed *1(1,0(10,000 for the Government Expenditures. The expenditures of the Government thus far this month have been about $12,000,000, about SS,CCO,COO of which way for penSions: The expenditures during,the balance of the mouth will be comparatively, light, and the ',Odic debt statement on the Ist of April will I,how a handsome decrease. Min to Give Mrs. Stunton One lrear's - holary binned' by the !President. The President this morning signed the bill appropriating one year's salary of an Assn- elate Justice of the Supreme Court for the widow of the late Hon. H. M. Stanton. , . I By the Antericau Prces Aseeciattou3 FORT'K-FIRSI CON Ult ESS. Second hies%lon. pr88611. - ted Irl6lllo. vial aAing for legisla,tioi, for tho relief of Phil) builders. ~ Referred to Committee ComMerce. Dlr. Wilson presented a memorial front the Italians of the Choctaw Nation; asking re dress. Referred - to the Coimuittee on Italian affairs. Mr: Cragin presented a memorial froth all the Bureau Chiefs of the Navy • Department, asking that when navy officers aroplaced over any Bureau or Department they May have the sea service pay of aCommodore. Referred. Mr; Williams reported a bill giving lands for the construction of the Green Ray and Lake Pepin Railway in Wiscomin. Mr. Colliding reported hack the New York Port Warden bill, with amendments. Ordered to be printed. Mr, Conkling also reportid adversely on the claim of Gen. Adelbert, Ames, Senator elect from Missisi-ippi, with a resolution declaring him ineligible to a seat, Mr, Rive submitted a minority report. The , resolution and accompanying papens were ordelisi to be printed. Mr. Abbott called up the bill toimprove the channel of the Carte Fear river, in North Carolina, and advocated its passage. The bill to exempt . - certain public; .ebar).itiee from taxation was taken np and pitsed. On motion of Mr. Spencer, it was ordered , that when the Senate giljourns to-day, - it tut journs until Monday next. : ~; . . The Georgia bill was then taken up and con sidored. Mr. Wilson offered a proviso extending the term Of the present Legislature oftho State to two years, from imxt - Nev em Orderod co. be. rated: Mr. Pomeroy proceeded to address the San; ate at length on the Georgia, hill. Jencicee, from the:Cominittee , on Patriots, reported a bill to refer to the Com nm.ion er of PntentS.the application of MAL Burns Goodyear, for ati extension of a patent, for his mprovementX in power-lomns. Flu stated that the'Coninuittee bad examined the ease, and •werefavorahle to the'extelOon. 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