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.—A t Pottstown, Pa'. on Sunday evening,Ma re h
20th, MO, rather Charles F.:Kinpit. J., aited ~,f+2 rear.. '
A . solemn Requiem . Mass .at mt. tfhtircits
Fourth street and Willing'. allay, on Thursday iat
o'clork A. M. Interment at St. , Josephil 00meter.r.
LUKNNS.—On the Zld invtant, at , hls residence, Ply•
moults, Pa—Reuben Lukent, fortntply of Philadelphia,
ID the 71st year Of hie age.
Tho relatives and (donde of'the family are iniitod !
attend his funeral, on Sixth-day, 24th instauttat J 0.4
o'clock A. 4. conveyapeop beat ,gontatob9cdcen to
Inert the 0 o Clock A. M. tmtla from" Philadelphia, Ninth"
and Breen Intarnisitit at Learnt Hill. -
McCUBDT.—On Saturday, litth ]net., Hannah Keem,.
'woof Robert B. McCurdy. and eldest daughter of John
Yard, Jr.' MAK.. aged 48 yeare.
Relatives and frieode are respectfully invited to attend
the funeral, ou Thursday, 24th inst., at 2 o'clock P.
front this residence ot her husband, No. Mt* North B ro ad :street.
SliF.lt:LOn the insetting_of the 20th inst., Margaretta
W.. wife of Bertlea 'Mee, Esq. •
Funeral on Thursday, at 2 o'clock I'. M., from the
residence. LVT Girard avenue.
SPILINOEII.—On the 211 last Theresa L., daughter
of Ftaanuel and the late Theresa Springer, In the 11th
year after age
relatiseeand friends of the family ere respectfullY
Invited to attend the tonere'• from the residence of her
father, IWI6 Wallace street, on Friday morning, lath
inst.. at 12 o'clokk. • .
WNIFFIN.—On the 23 , 4 Instant, at the residence of
her parent', 1101 Girard street, Mary, daughter
.. of
WOLFBlanche Whiff" n, aged tnonths.
—On J/dosolOY, 21.1 inst., James 'l' , eldest Ron
of Jonathan and Ann T. Wolf.
koneral from his lute residenee, No. 1105 Park avenue,
on Thtuadoy, 24th instant, at 2 o'clock.
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FOURTH WEEK OP THE EXHIBITION.
GALLERIES THRONGED DAY AND EVENING.
OVER 30,000 VISITORS.
The point choseh by the Artiet for the illastratton of
the subject Ls where
"With foam and with dust the black charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play.
Beseeched to the whole mat army to 0 11 /
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Prom Winchester down to have the day
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ob 'ACADEMY -OF MUSIC.
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' Bert erica*, Ikbpoi AtsOciation will Le a held atl
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OND DAY, Hl:month Ilth, 1870, at 3 o'elo,-Ic. P. H. - '
PHILIP C. GARRETT,
-,;lt` Secretary.
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eat etteurea gfeat economy - and convenience
in iousekee,ping and excellence in cooking. None
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GEARY. Silver Anniversary of ,Friendship
Division , No. 19, S. of T. Academy of Music, Irridar
Evening, Doors opon a LIBERTY 'eck. blusical oierture
by " McOLURG, S SILVESCORNET
BAND," at 7. Speaking begins at 7kf o'clock.
Admission Garde, 28 cents. 608 Arch street. It`
ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH. tWEN-
Selltand. Cherry Strests.—During Lent, sarviesir
*Teri Wednesday evening. Choral service. Seats free.
This evening at 736 o'clock. It",
pilgriM THE •
crowDed is niGhtly.
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urT TO-NIGHT. . mIiI3-6trp
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ansell2o Lombard street, Distieneary Department..
ed D lead treatment end med kin in stashed gratutton
o the poo.. ,
n•• 1109 GLRARD STREET. 1109
lUMBIAN AND PERFUMED BATHE,
Departments for Ladios.
Baths ODOrt from 6 A. ht. to 9 P. M.
COIiTA RICA.
The Interocennle
The Panama Mail of February 21 says : The
part.imilars of the Costa Rica, Railroad loan, as
nearly as possible, are as follows : The
Government contract with Messrs.() vermaun,
Freund &., Co., of, London . 1 and New York,
through Mr. H. .T. - oVerinann; to accept a loan
of from $2,000,000 to $3.000,000 for the purpose How It Won Fame.
of constructing the first instalment of theln.; The "female jury "of Laramie City, if their
teroceanic' Railroad, say. from Liinoty Bay labors were arduous, have 'at least their re
to Pactiare, provided thatthe cost of the road ward in fame. At the time of the drawing of
may not, be excessive '
such cost to be de- the jury, when .it was ascertained that their
termiued by competent engineers', to be sent names would be furnished' by telegraph, the
out forthwith 'from Ibiglara• • The,loan. Will. " operators" threw aside all other messages
be Issued, ' London and Paris; after being upon the wires throughout the country. After
ratified uy the Costa, .Riea'Congress r at tbe the message was ,sent, ejaculatory replies Of
rate of 70, bearing seven per cent. interest I astonishment came back. by wire. from overy.
Repayment'. is to be effected in tivinity:two . direction. The whole message was trans
years by means of • a sinking fund: Of `twnPPr milted through the cable, and printed iu full .
cent. per annum, the guarantee Icir.whieh and :in the leading journals of. Europe. We' .pity
the payment of interest, is to consist of :a the other ladies of Wyoming. itory
Terr; no'
mortgage upon the railway "and the hypothe-'1 future honors can soothe the envy with whic
cation of the 'public 'revenues, 'llalt-piarly:';, they regard the happy' few whose names were
drawings will be Made for the redelimtion of read, perhaps, by potentates and prinues , in
two per cent. per annum of the loan at par. • another hemisphere.
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IN
We acknowledge no inferiority to men.
We claim to have no less ability to perform the
duties which God has imposed upon us than
they have to perform those imposed upon
them. We behove that God has wisely and
well adapted each sex to' the proper per
formance, of the duties of each: We believe
our trusts to be as important and sacred as
any that exist on earth. We fetirthat our
present dutie!ti fill up the whole
measure of our time and abilities, and
they are such as none but ourselves can
perform. Their importance requires us to pro
test against all Whams to compel us to assume
those obligations which cannot be separated
from suffrage; but which cannot be performed
by us without the sacrifice of the highest in
terests of our families and of society. It is
our fathers, brothers, husbands, and suns Who
represent us at the ballot-box. Our fathers
and brothers love us. Our husbands are our
choice, and one with us. Our sons are what
we make them. We are content that they re
present us in the corn-field, the battle-iiekl,
and at the ballot-box, and we them in the
sehool-room s at the fireside, and Oat the
cradle;believing ; our representation, even
at the ballot-box, to be thus more full
and impartial than it could possibly be were
all women allowed to vote. We do, therefore,
respectfully protest against any legislation to
establish "woman's suffrage" in our land or in
any part of it.
FROM OUhA.
The insult to the, de
Flag irk
',Santiago Cuba.
Flight of Nr. Phillips on Board tlx6frenott
'Steamer Darien. ‘C
His Arrival at liEingston, Jamaica
i SANTIAGO DE Ct 11,4, March 9.0,1870.—The
steamer Villa Clain,"•which ttrrii i liesterday
z n ° lllll WwWE,Barahatio i _'
brought -dates Irani
Havana to the 4th, and 'few \ ork to the 2lth
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ult., causing us' a new awl' short-lived . excite
ment, which ended with: the unanticipated
departure of Mr. Phillips, acting Vice Con
std of the 'United ,Iltates. of ;, Ai:aerie* in the
evening by the ; French 030.1.mter , Darien for
Jamaica. , • -; • • •
In the Havana journals appeared an official
letter dated " United States Consulate, Santi
ago de Cuba, Jannary 3, 1870," and signed by
11 T. Phillips, which reflects very severely on
Vairnaseda, the volunteers, the Catalan resi
dente and the method of carrying on the war
in this department. Naturally this was not
agreeable to those referred to, who had
learned their power In the contempla
tion of a hundred massacres, and there
was great excitement during the day and
many conflicting rumors as to the action
of the government and of the calumniated
Catalan:, towards Mr. Phillips. Later it was
demonstrated that the former proposed to take
no action wkatever, and, furthermore, the de
termination was expressed to afford Mr. Phi
llips the fulleet protection in ease it should be
needed. Not 80 the Catalans, a number of
hem, as a commission from the Spanish
circle (Omuta Eepa7iull , , Whited on him, asking
an explanation of the utitiriotts remarks con
tained in the despatch referred to and
711 . 271 1 =1=fra ug ocua,
stun to know how little power the government
really has here, and that his character
as an American citizen and official would af
ford him no protection whatever, denied the
authenticity of the despatch verbally, and
signed a communication to that- effect, which
appeared in the Bandera Eapailol of this morn
ing, and a copy of which in translation I ap
pend. Still, Mr. Phillips could not consider
himself safe, as the feeling lgainst him was
very strong; so he at once embarked on the
French steamer.as stated, accompanied to the
wharf by the Government Secretary and the .
British Consul. isio demonstration of any
kind was made. . •
The Spaniards are not content with the re
sult of the affair, and regret that Valmaseda
WAS- not here in person, being under the im
pression that be would in some , maunertare
satisfied the popular desire for vengeance:
Is not probable, however, that worthy would
have paid any more attentionto the a iftix than
slid Colonel Ojzda, his locum tentra—an
amiable and harmless old gentleman.
The following is a literal translation of the
communication of Mr. Phillips herein re
ferred to : • • - •• -
eve's, March 8, 1870.,-,Genera/ Director of
the Spanish Circle :—I have read with great dis
pleasure in the Diario de la Marina and Voz de
Cuba, of Ravana, certain disgraceful expree:'
Mona, unmerited insults directed towards the
Catalan Volunteers and the worth,y, , chieLs who
command thern,,no lesis than to the natives of
Catalonia residents of this city, whom I know
in great numbers and esteem as they merit.
These expressions referred to , the American
Consul in tbitieity, and are attributed to me.
This has caused me great vexation. Itis a.
calumny, for I have not written or caused to
be written such ideas; and as I am about
absenting myself in order to seek explanations
of this same correspondence which so much
annoys me, and not having time tor more ex
tended manifestations, I hope that you will
persuade all those gentlemen who are ,your
friends, and those of the worthy society of the
Circle of my sincere appreciation and high
regard._Making such use of these lines as
you think proper, I take leave of, my friends,
remaining, &c., , A. P. !imbues.
.In the recent raid of the insurgents on the
estate " Amitosis," five white :men, employiss,
were Murdered. Of these one was thrown
into a sugar boiler and boiled to pieces. The
insurgents numbered about 200 and were com
manded by a worthless mulatto nained.Maseo.
They . came down from the Mogote, where
they remain in considerable numbers in
despite of the long campaign in that locality.
which letter in town from Valmesada,
in beclaims to have defeated Maximo
Gomez and Modesto Diaz, with a loss of 200
men, the Spanish loss being about fifty. The
action took place. near Canto, the insurgents
numbering 2,000 men.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Women Protesting Against It.
The folloWing memorial, signed by Mrs. M.
P. Dascombe, the Principal of the ladies' de
partment of Oberlin College4nroi 140 other
married ladies of Lorian , county, Ohio,
was read to the Legislature of that State last
week : • •
THE FEMALE JURY.
TSsviiiriksit
Letter From Reenter Sherman-. fl
Wiese of the Effects of the Bill on the
ataUonei Bonk Initnitlee Done.
[from the Olnottinatt Cont6rotal.l
March 17.-1 beg to avail my
self of the use of Your paper to answer some
criticising of the, bank sections of thelrunding
It is claimed that it is nn_just to , compel
the national banks tosecure their circulation
by a deposit of the nfiw bonds. ' It is . said ,to
violate the public. faithpledged to them, and
nentkintit, part of their property ... This is not
true, l a anyypspect • 'We have now the right to
redeem their five-twenty bonds at par, with
gold,' and prOpose now to exercise that, 'right.
borne of the national banks hold
..the:
bonds of 'Bl, and :the ten-forty bonds
Which are , not. yet
,dtie. These r they
have the right at any time to. withdraw,
and either to Sell in the market or.holdat their
Pleasure. The Funding bill advances the 'Bls
above par in gold, and the batiks get the bene
fit of the premium. All we require fs•that the
banks, within one year, shall secure their cir
culating notes with the, new , bonds, or re
tire with all their property unimpaired, and
gi - Ve way to new batiks who are willing, in'
exchange for a most valuable franchise, to aid
in redlining the interest of the public dplbt.
Now, this, is clearly within the power of
Congress, it is Just and right, it is for the inte
rest of the national banks,and its defeat in the
name of the banks would tend to overthrow
the whole system. The right, to issue circu
lating notes is held by the banks at the plea
sure of. Congress. No lir as this franchise
goes, they are "tenants at will." Congress
reserved the power to change, modify or alter
the system, and may withdraw at any mo
ment the right to issue notes as money, which
in its nature is a government franchise. Con
gress cannot deprive a bank of its bonds, bills
of exchange, or other property; but by the
terms of the Banking act and the nature of
the franchise it may withdraw the power to
home circulating notes, or make subject to any
conditions it may deem for the public interest.
The national banks were organized to accom
plish three great ob'ects
J. - .to ausorn tne mate bank paper.
2. To furnish a paper circulation of a uni
form value throughout the country, and con
vertible into coin.
'3. To furnish a market for United States
bonds.
The system has been a success—profitable to
the banks and useful to the public. The
Funding bill is based upon the supposition
that they will continue to be so. It provides
for withdrawing the greenbacks and giving
them the entire field of circulation. It raises
the gold value of their securities, and allows
them to sell any of their securities and pocket
the profit and premium. In return for these
great benefits, we require them to buy a por
tion of each of the live, four and one-half,
and four per cent. bonds. Is this a
hardship ? The five per cents. would to-day,
if in the market, sell at par in gold. They are
much more valuable than the ton-forties—uow
worth ninety-seven—because they run longer
and are free from income tax. The other
bonds are not now par, but probably noon will
be. The average rate is four and a half per
cent., so that at the most, the banks will not
lose over one-half of one per cent. interest on
their securities, until the bonds rise to par., In
,return,they get, the great advantages conferred
by this bill. They get tbe right to issue United
States notes—printed, issued, protected, and
guaranteed by the United States--- , to an
amount equal to four-fifths of their seemities;
and these they loan at to 12 per cent. Ought
they to complain? It is said theyy heavy
taxes. If they go into private banking, they
becorne'subject to every tax now paid y na
tional banks, except the tax of 1 per cent. on
`circulation. The tax on denosits, stamps, pro
fits, dividends, and all the State taxes, will ap
ply to them as private banks.- Even the tax
On circulation inures greatly to their benefit,
as out of it the United States pay all tbeeaSt
of printing, engraving and issuing their bills,
and all the machinery of the Banking Bureau.
lf, as private banks, they could hone circula
ting notes, it would cost them near one-half of
one per cent. As for going back to State hank
notes, that is out of the question. No
gent banker can hope •to renew the hetero
geneous absurdity of local banknotes,od
only in the State . where .issued. The truth is
that banks will be relieved from burdensome
Taxes only as fasfaii private' citizens are, and
their aid in, the 'reducing the interest on our
debt will be the strongest'argument for.the re
peal of taxes that hear hardly upon all alike.
I need not say to you that I- am now and al
ways have been a friend of the national bank
ing system. Their .matiagers; are intelligent
men, and are generally willing to bear their
share of the reduction of their profits, in
evitable from the resumption of specie pay
tuente. The movement against this essential
part of the Funding bill comes not from the
West; but from the very men who now have
a sectional monopoly of the banking
franchise, and chiefly from a gentleman who,
when Comptroller of the "Currency, in viola
tion of law, gave this' monopoly to the old
banks of New England and New York. In
my connection with this matter I wanted to
be fair and just to the banks, but I wanted to
secure free banking, and see that the Govern
ment in the reduction of the interest would
share with the banks the profits derived from,
circulating notes. The, Parliament of • Great
Britain, where property and caste , are en
throned, did with the Bank of England pre--
cisely what we propose in the Funding bill to
do with our banks, and I should regret ex
ceedinglyo see our banks less ready . than the
Bank of England to yield to the public good
Very truly yours,
Joux Snnumhx,
THE NATURE OF THE lIIIUDDLE.
The Associated Press despatches,of late, are
doubling not only in interest but importance.
The annexed may be set down as of about
their value. What they give one day takes
the whole of the next day to contradict. Per
Atlantic cable :
PARIS, March 2.3.—The city this morning is
in a state of painful anxiety. A rumor is cur=
rent that the Emperor's physicians have pro
nounced him to be threatened with Bright's
disease of the kidneys. The Bright of Kidney
notoriety is not John Bright of England. A
panic is beginning on the Bourse.
NEw YORK, March 23.—Alderman Porpoise
fell, this morning, while coming out of the
"Pewter Mug." He broke his 'knee-pan and
suspenders. The City Hall flag has just been
dropped to half-mast. An unrequited cord
wainer, should the disaster prove fatal, will
mourn his departure.
READING, March 23.—The barn of John
Smith, in the outskirts .of this eity, was last
night struck by lightning. The loss WA& a
spatted bull calf and two barrels of oats. In-
sued in the .New York Mutual.
PARIS, March 23, 4 P. M.:—The agitation in
the capital has subsided. The bulletins an
nounced that what ailed the Emperor was not
the malady suspected. It was merely an at
tack of bilious cholic. It yielded toa dose of
gin and peppermint.
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NEW YORK, March 23.—1 t Wasn't Aldernain
Porpoise who broke his leg this Morning at
the Pewter Mug. It was a thief who was run
ning away - insidethe Alderman's coat The
flag again ficiali from the top of City Hall
mast.
READING. March --.—The miming struck
by lightning last night wasn't struck. It
wasn't Smith's barn as reported. It was Jones's
grocery store. The loss is insured in the Hart
ford Mutual, not the Mutual'of Now York.
—Wat is the differenee between a wan
with acold in his head and a pugilist? One
blows his nose and the other knows his blows
OUR, wnoLE comTity.
ADtax
A IDOLEErf: 11 1 / 1 11f AT AI f IRANI%
liireadiral Mining:mei , Tnneeetita.
• Nov:tett ilia - H . o6d the war
And
71* they
kllird teiljactlitrifffEt°rlen.
After a long drought "it never rainh 'but it
poure.P It was adismal day among the faithful
at Albany,yesterday. 4,belongato the e.gegory
of such dreadful things as the Charh%ton Con- ;
verftion and the fir-t nun. ' The "liay-:
toft'atrd cheese-press' 'deinee,raCy" have 'itiiten
ished':the 'World. .The Upshot of their strange
doings is utterly InCoMprehensible,except to.
the eagacious Dutchman who got down from.
hie,horpe to get on , hetter, , The latest new ring,
is broken,the silk stocking?' are rumpled, the
faCk-knives are demoralized, and the big In
diana'of the wigwairi, like Achilles in his tent,
are contemplating the field, and,like the never
despliffitg britavrber; 'iv waiting for" sonic='
thingto turn up," they have-got it at last.
In'brief, the gladiators from the >rural dis
tricts, like Forrest a the mightyr Spartacus,
have ;"wade. Rome howl." 'What paltry
child's play appear the bushwhacking opera
ti6llB of such light weights as Genet, and Nor
ionln the Senate compared with the grand
charge by the sturdy yeotnartrY yesterday
along the whole line in the Assembly. It re
minds us of Sheridan at the battle of ,Cedar
Creek, When, getting his troops into position,
he said : to them, pointing to the "Johnny
Aebs," I tell you, boys,,we have got a twist
on 'em that, will put us in mix camps again by
sunset." The day's proceeding.' in the As
sembly, as an Irish orator has described the
First Napoleon, were indeed " grand, gloemy
and peculiar;" or, as an enthusiastic French
man said of Niagara Falls, "he is grand, ho is
supaarb, he is magnifique ; by gar, I tink he is
pretty good." So we may say of yesterday's
doings in the Assembly.
Behold the record : • Three bills—a city
police bill, a eupervisor's bill and a bill for the
local government of the city and (-4 - flinty of
New York, all nicely cut and dried au‘i hugar
coated, as compromises among our city fac
tions (excepting Murphy, that is, Owen
urphy, called for brevity. O'llurphy), all
smoothly ordered to a third readine. amt the,
our cruelly 1w as Were the,
non-combatants found in the Castle of Drog
heda by Cromwell, who called this proceeding
"crowning mercy." In that &mons Irish
song, " The Groves of Blarney," there is a
pointed allusion , to this affair:
But Oliver Cromwell,
Ile---(bad luck to the crop -eared
Seoundreli—he did her pummel,
And made a breach in her battlement
As the humane African women in their
shanty sang over poor Mungo Park, " let us
pity the poor white man," Kiernan. "Pharisy
his phelinks" in 'his sorrowful "exclamation,
" 'Methinks the destroying angel passed over
the camp of Israel last night" Fancy the O
wrath of the independent 'Murphy in his
denunciation of the happy family Police bill
as a thing for the benefit of "political trick
siert," as a thing.~ under which 'neither life
nor property will be safe." "Strike out the
enacting clause," cries the fiery Burns, "and
down goes the head of the bill in the basket."
The bewildered Jacobs, like Marius among
the ruins of Carthage, desires time to collect
his scattered senses. But the corn -cutters
are merciless, and the other two bills are be
headed, and the scaffold' is sprinkled with
sawdust, the tiunbrels roll away, and then the
Molise adjourns.
The country Demeccy are guilty of this
terrible day's slaughter. t do they want?
What do they mean: Do they want
mean
share of our city spells? Do they mean to
upset the Governor and his posse emitatus!
Is Seymour in this thing? Tliey.say that a
comprehensive City Charter is what they
want, and not thispiecemeal jobbery this
tricky patchwork. Very- well. There is time
yet for the task, but no time to waste. Albeit--
While the lamp bolds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return.
Ilevrits4 Milton sari, likewise ' of the lost
field there is some comfort,' for though "the
field be lost all is not lost." The nntemfied De
inocracy still live. But they can't all be' cap
tains. They must get over that trouble, or
Syracuse salt - won't save them. And how
foolish of Kiernan to call upon the Republicans
in his distress! Itis their, game to keep up
this Democratic confusion. Feehter's melon
ehet Dane is au Anglicized French Teuton;
but tbissorti of thing Will never do for the
Demoeracyat'Altiany. They must come to
gether, old ring and new rings, "jack-knives,"
silk stockings," "rough-and-readies" and
" shadbellits," ancigoto work, first, for the
interest oftlie neeple ; .seeondly, for the her--
stony of:the party,and lastly, for the division
of the spoils, if they would save the State and
the party, .They may save. both trpon this
plan, and so fortify themselvw in this metrop
olis as to Aecfire , the winning- hand 'in their
next Presidential convention. Otherwise
this Demoexatie Legislature will be a failure,
a ludicrous failure, a thing for mockery and
laughter, a ''shoo, fly,"• and the party wit'
pass from it to be routed, " horse, foot an.
dragoons," in our next November. election,
A". Y. llerald.
INVILTADOR.
The Alleged Assassination conspiracy.
GUAYAQUIL, Feb. 9.—Tinder this date the
correspondent of the Panama Nail writes :
The adyiees which I have just received from
Quito enable me to . inform' you that the at
tempt , to assassinate the President, Gabriel
Garcia Moreno, was' no attempt at all, but a
farce enacted by, the Government. ,' The Pre
'sident had instructed Imo, of, its low tools,
Sambrano,, to become-intimate with Pimento!,
Cornejo, and ether individuals, friends of the
Liberal party, and to form with them a plan
of assassination.' Unfortunately, these two
latter gentlemen; confiding too much on the
friendship of Sambrano, easily, fell into, the
trap laid forthem. Cornejo forged the Minis
ter of War, Gen, Darquia's, signature to a let
ter addressed to Col. Avila, commanding
the Artillery Brighdq, quartered in Guayaquil;
telling him, tb make a revolution in the latter
city immediately on arrival of the news of
Garcia Moreno's death. Through the instru
mentality of Sambrano the President obtained
the lettegandt all !thek details of the plot from
the same Sambrano and a Dr. Sanchez, lately
of the Liberal Side; but bribed to play the part
of spy with the offer of being elected Chief
Surgeon in the Government Hospital in Baba
hoyo. Cornejo and Plinentel were taken pri
soners and tried by court-martial, which sen
tenced them to death; but the magnanimity of
Garcia Moreno, could not permit, this, and the
sentence was changed to .ten years of public
works (chain gang) for Pinientel, and seven
for Cornejo. This is one of the many farces
which are daily represented by Garcia Moreno
and his servile foliOWers.
COLOMBIA.
The Plot to Seiko the President.
Plizrz MA, Feb. , —According to the Panama
papers, a plot has for sometime been brewing,
having for Its-object the seizure of the person
of the President, dead or alive, according to
the sworn testimbny of those from whom the
Government has derived its timely intima
tion. In the depositions of Capt. Medina and
Ensign Vega of the. Battalion Pichinoha, No.
8, it is set forth that overtures had been made
by Seiler Vejerano for,the overthrow of the
existing Government, and that,a movement
was to have been triadis,on' the ight of Satur=-
day last, commencing with the seizure of the
President. We' understand that Messrs.
Eduardo Guardia, Chiari, Russell and
Lewis have already been arrested as being Env
plicated in the contemplated revolution. , The
would-be revolutionists had intended placing,
Don Eduard4Giumaia in th* p residental obrur,
with Seiler Xosii Obaldia as 'Secretary of I
State, and Seiler Juan M.. Veierano af.t,
matider-in-Chief of the Btate.foroes.
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'Return of the 7 roops—Yeliow Fever and
Drenth- - .Feaiultizsmosiha---henater lie.
men-.-1 he Po:Simmer Loper.
-Rio DE JANEllto,' Feb. -3.—The country,
almost tired out with waiting for its returning
heroes, may now rest ,content. The first de
tachment of the volunteers have arrived from
Paraguay. Many had begun to wonder .
whether any' Braiilien troops were Coming
hinne or not; and the cltunors at la.st became
SO loud, and the attacks on the Government
were so frequent and so severe, that the Min
istry, -, loth to take upon themselves the re
:-ponsibilityl of: the detention, made an of.'
hcial declaration to the effect thati orders had
been sentagain and again to Conde d'Eu for
their return. But there can be no longer any
doubt. 'nig . army is really on ,its return
; march. 'A brigade of volunteers arrived yea
terday. The - Emperor and 'his suite were
among the first to welcome the' returning
veterans, going aboard of the steamers imme
diately upon their reaching the city.; After
ward he , • pensonally wa
isted. in, the debarks...
tion. The troops made i formal entry of the
city—marching through .the principal street!,
which - were - handsomely decorated with flags
and crowded with people. The night proba
bly will be one of' wild excitement. The thea
tres will be in full blast, and the National
Hymn will be sing everywhere.
The resent sickness in. Rio is extraordinary.
Old restdeng4re tell me that nothing like it
hall - been known ehice 1851. Alinest every one
is or,hatelieenatek with fever. The large- ma
! jerityofthe'eaties, r howevet, are slight,, the
feverna lasting more than a day or two, but
folloWed by many days 'af weakness, and, in
senue,instaucee, of prostration. The sickness
h most efthetie.easeais not considered yellow
leveT by the physigituis. The drentb,which is
also widely, complained of, is. not confined' to
Alagoae, miserable as that qparter is from its
effects. It is feltalso in the Provincesf Ser
gipe and Plunk!, and doubtless all along the
northern coast. From Sergipe we learn that
the sugar plantations have been forced to stop
work for want of water; end the crep t which
in any event would have been small, will, now,
it,is said,
,be a total
Aweek since died another of the . promi
nent Liberals' of. the' country, Visconde de
Jequitinhonha.-•He was a Couneilor of . State
and a Senator of the Empire. representing his
native Province of Bahia. His lite had been
• a -leng and eventful tine. andlais death,though
reasonably expected on account of his ad
vanced age, is another, severe blow , to the
Liberal party, whose ranks bad already been
Kally thinned by similar losses during the past
• year.
Torres Bonien has received the highest nuw
her of votes cast for Senator of 'the Empire in
the late election that took place in the Pro
vince of Rio Grande de Norte. This will give
him the first place on the triple list that must
he presented . to the ,Emperor for selection.
He is considered a man
.of tine ability, and
lately occupied the position. of President of
the 'Bank of Brazil. .
Even' the Brazilians themselves seem to be
in the dark regarding the actual position of
Lopez. They' spoke lately of crossing the
Apa, and falling upon the rear of the, enemy
there posted. Now, the Apa is a tributary in
the extreme north of the Republic, distant in
a right line say one hundred leagues from San
Pedro, the central position pat Count D'Eti is
reported - to have taken to direct his campaign.
But Paranbos, the Minister, also speaks of
the enemy retiring across the River
Aguarey, whichis a tributary of the Parana
in the extreme east of the Republic,
distant another 100 leagues, in a right line
from San Pedro. In other words, imagine a
right-angled triangle, with the right angle
placed at San Pedro, and the perpendicular
and base lines, each measuring 100 leagiies in
leugth, terminating the former at the river
Apa in the north, and the latter at the river
Aguarey in the east. Finally, imagine the lay
pothenuse filled up with the great Sierra of
Maracaju and the score or two of rivers that
hour down from either side, and you will
ave a very good general idea of the theatre of
operations.
Any one looking at the map will appreciate
at once the great natural strength of Lopez's
position, and understand something' of the
enormous difficulties with which the. Allies
have to contend. Lopez is furnished with a
natural- fortress,. in .the immense mountain
range of Maracaja, with its two frotita facing
the foe. His moveinents are 'perfiaitly .cou
eedled behind this great 'natural atirtain, and
he can easily deceive the Allies, no*sliowing
a stronger force in the north, and now sud
denly shifting himself to the:east ;• for it Will
be observed ne has.a most- important advan
tage te,alwaystnove upon, lute
,
—The *.ortdOn' correspondents of French
and Gerinah't finwilpepers concur in stating
that, despite the,'atatements to the contrary
made by inciiit London papers, the:gencratim
prpesion in :London is that the .Pritico of
Wales did not'tell all ho knew in tetifying at
the Mordauut trial.
THE FIN* ARTS.
• On exhibition in this city are just now some
rare foreign pictures e all the More , attraetive
from the small • and portable 'cabinet-Size in
which most of them'areainted.'
At Ratios'• galleries are now niacased
several exquisite works, perhaps the - ate-it
pdriafit ef - whieh is the "Girl of MoreceP play
ing An? tain-titut, a Souvenir' Constantinople'
Chailes Brun, to pupil of Gabanel) one of ,
the i finer' *tite-pieces displayed, in, th
64/on' iOf , 1869. Additional. ; 'pictures ; nn
o:hittition, are fi Children Bath by Meyer
von Bremen ;ra Family." (very minute);
by Prof( Ittenbaeh; " Cherries,!' by Desgoffb;(
the great painter "of still-life: " Children With
PloWers," by Otto Weber; «Infant Saviour,"
by Shake' " Infant btarY," by the same, and
a 'wondtlitul:httle Zanlagors, abott the slie
of an envelope; "An Algerian servant." Mr:
tOward Moran's great subject from the Beek
of Job, " Thus far shalt thou' come," &e.; ie
nearly coiripleted,and will appear in agrouP of
teit'paintings by this industrious artist, to be'
opened by Messrs. Earle on Friday, ter an ex
hibition of flvo or three days.
At liaseltine's Galleries we.bserved yester_
day a fine picture by Parini, representing au
oriental harem descending front their convey
ance and entering a mosque. A gilded Euro
pean carriage, of an obsolete pattern, remind
ing one , of the age of Louis XIV., stands in a
paved and shady court, and has given , outlet
to a stream , of veiled figures who make a dim
procession towards a private 'doorway in the-
moque. The horse of Fadladeen, the cham
berlain, stands in a corner. The contrast be
tween the cool, shadowy foreground, and the
flash of glittering light on the domes of another
part of the mosque, together with the dee -
Lime, rremonng — sty, shows this master's con
tryl of atmospheric effect. The composition
is• singular from the square forms into which
it is cut, and the expressiveness of the many
figures seen only in back view. Mr. Haseltine
has amassed up-stairs a really wonderful Col
lection of photographs, besides the unique spe
cialty of the " Autotypes." There is hardly an
old painting or.statue, or a modern one of any
eXcellence, of which the student may not here
obtain some memorandum in a photographic
form:,
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,THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.
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Oprresonsiderice indisda. Lurctoiti t r , B n uotr a
ILutaisnuno, . MZ rah 22 The at ofxi ' lti~Bt>>wt
of the 7astLegis sitttre a:fretidea aiasV . ittniiiitif.
of relief to the pteiPle,'thretigliont: the ( St4 f
they believing , th a t ne ve r again ! would the
State be so afflicted as'during the one hundred
days prior to that event. , I.t was' reSolired
that the scenes that were'enacted
period should never occur
,niaitn And ~ the; Citi- 7
zens of the,Coramonwealth to'ok a snore ea.
five interest' n the:primary elections, for the:'
purpose of sending entirely new men, td.,`rep-,!
resent them Ii the halls of the Legislature.
So successful were they in that respett, that ;
out of the one hundred members i 6 the
Houst., sixty-five were unacqtiailited:Cvith and
unskilled in the arts of legisratiOn. Ent how
different now, when, at the' ozpiraiion of
two short months, it has been actully demon-
strated that there never was'a more rapticiene
body of men on the Hill. Of course, r don't r
mean to Include in this category all the mem
bers ; for there are men here who deseryo the
bighest'prtdse for the manner in which they
have resisted the importunities of not only
powerful corporations but of friends. Batt
from every section of the State have emirs
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performance of their duties uninitiated• in the'
mysteries of enacting laws, who no - w , haver;
obtained the credit of being the ' , biggest
roosters" • that have ever :.perched
Harrisburg. To ' the credit of . those
who sat in the last session and were ;retarned. ;
to this, be it said that the noir men .};lave tin. --
immense majority in'this combination.' These.'
fellows have banded together for the JIMA T
corrupt purposes, and that they have not:sue, =
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seeded n their nefarious and perfectly iniqui
tous schemes, of, which more lave been con-,
cocted and teresented than at any previoua
session, has been owing to the few strictly
honest men who have not hesitated in - expo
sing these projects as they were introduced.
This session, thus far, has shown what can be '
accomplished by a few determined men --
and that there are but .few of• this
class in the Legislature is so evident -that. a
member—who„ by-the-by, is one whom Phila t
delphia cannot W
u. ord to keep .at home neitt
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year.the other evening remarked " thatyo -
could put all the honest members in an
bus, and then add more, without un
comfortably Crowding the. vehicle."' "Nti , mat- . '
ter, how small in number, should they con- i
tinue in the course they adopted lit the begin
sing, and: which .they have followed
ever, since, the. citizens of the State will
have the consolaton of,, knowing that a less
number of infamous measures will occupy ,a' '
placein our statute books than -has been cus-;
toruary.for years past.
A Startling Announeensent. • '
Your correspondent started this commtiniea-
tion with the intention 'of making a startling, '
announcenient, that will electrify the whole
community, but he has thus far digreatied;'
feeling that he has
,I•eallaect the allegation:
which was attributed to Governer Geary,, ;
" That" there are men in .tint Legislature who ;
have been bought and sold like eheep in; the
shembles." Now to the point.
The Klieester
For some time past, there have beensruntont
afloat that there was a " Rooster Ring" in ex
istence in the House, and that coming to the.
knowledge of your correspondent, he has de- '
voted considerable time in ascertaining the
truth of the report. He was soon 'led to sus-
pect that there was some phtusibility in ie t and,
tinally, he is LOW convinced of tile fact, atilt
he will proceed to narrate the vartieulara
fares be has karned them : At the commerce..
went of the session, there was a "small ring
fornred, composed entirely of Philadelphia
members, but its life. was a short one. • Thin
was known as. the " City Ring." Just , prior .
to its dissolution, a number of the countey ,
and two or three Philadelphia members. -the
latter being new men • who had been sent
hither for theirstrictly honest principles—get : ,
together and perfected an .organization, the ,
object of which was to control the legislation "
in'the House,and from which they would reap
great pertuniary results. It at first consisted of
but few, but it gradually . grew larger and..
larger, anti] the number reached about twenty,
when it - was deemed "advisable. to °lose the.:
d00r5.,.; There were more applicants, but •their
petitit* ; !Were refused. A presiding , Officer
was elected, And, it is said, but with hoW
much •Ittitli is not known, that an oath Was,
,arttninistered to each member.
In looking over the yeas and. nays on ,
portant measures, their names can be found
all on the Barnet side. Frequently have aueit
measures been postpotted in order that these
apostates Might consult upon their, moneyed ,
value. Th'y have no sutih'signitla as were '
adopt( d by a similar orgitniia.tion at Albany,
last winter, but have been led by their leader,
a blatant indirldual,who,like a certain School
Controller of Philadelphia;gets the floor upon
almost every bill that is introduced. This fel
low's disposition for evil is so well known that
he is shunned by. all. the. respectable. men "
arourd the le • islative halls, and his tieffigas
so apparent temporary Ppealtet*fail
to recogni 'n"htt-is desirea,f t riC 00-
taining e IS•a-Min
of semi Mild readiky,Sell'liis
own prin... : these of his patty,. "." •
'Rank and File.
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Having disposed of the leader, it might be
well to review those who follow his beck and '
call, but all that can be said of them eon be
summed up in a few words, viz. They are of
the most illiterate order, and are the most de- .
spised wretches in Harrisburg. Their work
has been chiefly confined to the Conimittee
room, and to them is due the credit of tonsur
ing the time of the House with the discussion
of infamous local legislation when it could ,
have been profitably spent in considering
geeeral laws. . They p ossess no feelings of hu
manity, or the Crozer divorce ease, of which
your correspondent proposes to speak at Au
other time, would never have been presented .
with a favorable recommeirdatitta to thti
House all they think of is the Money With
which their consciences have been bot'ght,',
The Ring and the Railroad Bllli. .
That this organization is no myth, wes t pad e
manifest during the recent 'consideration of t.
the great railroad 'project." Hardly ' had • "
Speaker Strang sat down after making his
powerful appeal to take up this
whenu
Jumped the leader of this elan, and, for a halt
of an hour, regaled the Members with his roar, ,
sons why the measure shoulii .considered
and hardly had he eat &mit, befbre' he was ',`
out of his seat and among . his confreres.. Not:: -
withstanding his. speech tavering the propoai- •
lion, he had made arrangements fora carious of
his satellites, and.to siiew:hia-ungratefuluestio
ht .had already -despatched a messenger to
New York to 666‘,Ifislf, Jr.,, who was to be
consulted as to whether 'this measure suited
hint. Think of it—a matter whielt was to de-
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