cnisom MCACK. Editor IVOLUME XX11.1.-NO. 3014 EDI) IN G INVITATIONS EN- V: graved In the newest and hst' manlier. LOlll4 r IRKA, Stationer cud Engraver. N 0.1033 Chestnut street. (.3ptt • M. BARE ILIC—IR—ZAn ARanca RIED L ster, March 29th, br Rt. rev. 10Flec, Andrew J. Baker. of Philad Ihl t p o Raffle 0. 'Labor, of Lancaster. DI En. AsTIIIUREIT.—On the morning of the 31st instant, Richard Lenge, eldest eon of Richard Lewis Ashlturet, In the sth tear of his ago. BURNiihts.—finddenly, on the Met instant, George rtuckort, only son of Mr. Wnt. W. and Lizzie D. Dar nell, owed s'yeare and 7 menthe. CLAGIIORN.—On-the 30th Mat., Lizzie Rico wife of J. Raymond Dia/shorn; *ldea:daughter of John Rica• The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 1729 Arch atreet, on Saturday afternoon , at 3 c ''"locit• DOI/ GIIIIRTY".---On the 314 Instant, Clara G., wife of John Dougherty, in the 22d year of her age. Due notice of the funeral .111 toy given. 110 4f 61 ANN.—On the 29th instant, in Rome. Italy, el 'pis to d If. 11 °pitmen's, in the4lth your of hie PETEILSON.--4 In the evening of the .10th islet., after long Olnrea , .loseph K., eldest son of T. B. and Mary . C. - Poterson; in she 70th year of his age. - The relatives' and friends of the family are Invited to attend the funeral, from his father's residence, south. 'tweet corner ni Rises] •nd Girard avenue, eu taturday afternoon, at one o'clock. V• 111 Err' MASONIC NOTICE.—THE MEMBERS ON rolemon'm Lodge, No. 114, A. Y. M., and the Order in general, will meet at the Altamonte Chestnut cm SATURDAY, April 2d. at 1 o'clock P. M., to attend the funeral of Oar late Brother I'. M. BENJAMIN .BOUSER EEPA:II. By order of the W. M. ttakSl-2e CBA TILER i 9. K INDS I ON. Seo'la rEABODY - MC C K - M N OFA L D C ' FOU Y TH s k r LA RH s tr e ets, EEP ALL THE BEST BRANDS, BLACK ALPACA stotruns, DOUBLE CHAIN ALPACA SPECIAL NOTICES. 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' JILIINET Cirt, March 79, isle, The Interuit Coupons of Itif First wilt - Second 'Siva s:mm.B of this Company. due April let, WO, and the semi annual interest upon the Boat Loan Bonds, due April 3st, IRO, will be paid a t this Office• oud es holders of the Coupons and Boat Loan, tr,ideut in and near Philadel phia, at the Other of the '•P nnsylvania Company fur lmurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, No, 301 :WALNUT turret, la that city. JOAN RODGERS, mh9o•t aps§ •. Secretary-. THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF the Ladies' and Futon' Christian Union will be Bald in St. John's M. E. Church, Third street, below George, on Thurtday evrning. 31st, at • 8 o'clock. Bey. Mahon Simpson will preside and speak ; also, Bev. Bishop Janos, Bev. .1. W. Wiley, Editor of the Ladles' Yerneitory. and Rev. Georgetllnnitaine. Chaylain Me• Cabe will speak and sing. The public are invited. • PILGRIM BENEFITS. qty Wodaeeda 2.36 P. M. Evening, South Street 'Presbyterian Thursday evening—South Presbyterian Murat. 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BUIST'S WARRANTED GARDEN Seeda.—Market Gardeners or Private Families "who desire the moat improved seeds should purchase /their supplies at DUIST'S SEED. WAREHOUSE, ' 922 and 9/4 Market 'area, above Ninth. *IS AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND GARDEN TOOLS, Ploughs, Harrows, COG vators. Seed - Sowers , Churns, Garden and Field Rollers, Town Mowers, Railroad and Garden Wheelbarrows, Nay, Straw and Fodder Cuttera, all at reduced priced. Call and extuuine our stock. _ ROBERT BOHM, Seed Warehouse, 922 and VA Market etreet --- • THE PHILADELPHIA LAWN MOW/ClL—This is the most, improved hand , ma. chine made. and is just the article 'needad by all who 9aave grass to cut. It can be operated by a lady without lattgue. Prlco 528, and every mower warranted. bold 1-0.9 ROBERT BUM. JR. gu/T Ita rp§ , Seed Ware/lame, 923 and 994 Market M. ..., • , . . , '• - . -,1,'',, !, 1 • . ' „ • •., ~.L. '' .. . - • ,-,' :. . I , ' , ' ' . : ' . . . . , • . . . :- :. ' • .4 • . . , * . ' - . . • - , t ' • ' • ". ~, • i'.; ~• - • ..... , . , • ~ . . , „ ..., • • 1 / , . , . , , . , ' • , ' ' , . . , , • . , . - • , 1•••• •••_•10•••••.._. _ OVERCOATS Work. Tricotne 1g69, 31.187,1 M 44 whit th it to Lltrp 2 / 1 E FINE ARTS. A number of the artists practising in this city are of French extraction, anilAve . find them, in every instance, good examples to our native practitioners in perseverance, study, attention to minutiw, and other qualities which the American is not quite so likely to develop. Prof. Christian Schnessele, of the Pennsyl vania Academy, is an Alsacian, with a Paris education. His teacher .was Yvon, who has celebrated the Crimean War in a number of very large battle-pieces. Mr. 'Sohuessele's modeling still retains an effective largeness, a slightly blocky look, which is referable to this scenic style of painting.' His best-known works are the "American Inventors," and the "Esther denouncing Haman," owned by the Academy. He is now engaged on a pic ture representing an Alsatian Fair, which we have not seen, but shall soon be able to report on. Ais best monument, however, hi the. School of the Fine Arta, which be has raised in a short term from a state of confusion to one of extreme activity and progress. J. A. Bailly, the sculptor, was•fully educated . in industrial art at Paris, but has been in this country for twenty years. Under the inviting influences of a new soil he expanded from a corner into a sculptor, studying meanwhile -as siduously in the Life School of the Pennsylva nia Academy. His works, three of which are in sight from the corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, are well and favorably known to our 'citizens. Mr. Batik has just opened,—iu con junction with Mr. Thomas MacDonald, for many years foreman of Struthers I*, Sons' stone works—an atelier and marble-yard at„, 2217 Chesthut street. The new location is excellent, and the disiday 'Shows a very attractive com bination of ideal and industrial art. A light iron railing is now being set up around the premises, through which are to be seen copies of the various works of Mr. Bailly, wLich form in themselves a large gallery of sculp ture. The studio building is in two stork* the lower Hoof being reserved for a show-room,` after the style of so many of the most tasteful, ateliers at Rome. The ground floor apartment has a large plate window,where are displayed some of Mr. Bally'e choieest works—the marble' life-size pair. named Echo and :Narcissus, lately the ornaments of Bailey's jewelry store, some medallion beads in marble and bronze, etc. A large chamber up-stairs is the sculp tor's' sanctum and work-room, where be is now executing in clay more than one elabo rate work. His largest order under, way at the moment is a life-size standing portrait statue of Mr. David A. Sayre, a wealthy geu tkman of Lexington, Kentucky. Mr. Balky has finished the - head of this figure, which is a very good example of realistic portraiture. His life-size sitting bronze statue of Mr. W. F. Hughes, of Phila delphia, is completed so far as the artist is concerned, and is at present being cast by the accomplished bronze-founders in the employ of Robert Wood Co.,—the brothers Bureau, from . Lille. It gives the most perfect satLs- j action to the subject and his frietuts, TLe marble bust of Eli K. Price, E. is approach ing completion, and the dexterous artist wil hortly undertake a portrait head of Charles H. Muirheid, Esq. The progress of these various works is somewhat delayed by the preparations making for the grand equestrian statue of Grant for the Treasury building at Washington, which Mr. Willy is now elabo- rating r in his mind, and which will show Army points of improvement over the miniature sketch which has neverthe less elicited so much applause., Mr. Bailly's new premihes present a totally different ap pearance from that of any establishment we have yet bad in Philadelphia, the influence of the artist, and the predominance of his works, modifying every part of the display. In his leisure moments, Mr. Itailly can very easily recur to those feats, of industrial art through which he has advanced to his present more exclusive position ; and a mantel-piece deco rated with arabesques and statuary from his Lana, or a mausoleum enriched with his de- signs, is a luxury for the wealthy'. We have seen several models for chimney-pieces, which Mr. 'lathy has thrown off with very little la- bur, but which betray in every curve the train- ing of the artist; one key-stone for a mantel representing a coquettish fernale head and shoulders, and a fantastic decoration of grif fins and chi/a:eras for another, were peculiarly original and choice. A Franco-Swiss artist deserving attention for his ability and consciencels Mr. J. J. Eyers, whose studio is at 108 S. Fourth. His.special excellence is in painting fruit and dead game. He is now composing, for a gentleman named Patterson, of North Carolina, a large picture representing an assemblage of the game to be teund in that State. A superb wild turkey, displayed from wing to wing, of life-size, forms the hero of the group, while snipe,' quail, pheasant and a rabbit are suspended above and below. This picture is the largest composition of still-life we have seen on an. American easel, while for accurate, legitimate representation it excels the photograph. Mr. Eyers, loving his subjects with professional ' love, has the, habit of copying them with mathematical fidelity. Audubon himself, in counting the scales on a wren's foot, could hardly be more scientifically minute, while the pictures of Mr. Eyers ex hibit an ant-feeling which the ornithologist bad not the education to develop. Every feather visible in this enormous wild bird is patiently numbered, put in place and covered with its own light and shade. The minute excellence of his work may be appreciated in the beauti ful little picture of two dead spipe, now in Henkols's furniture-rooms, at Thirteenth and Chestnut streets; the birds are ex quisitely soft, plumy and roundly modeled, while scientifically accurate for an ornithological museum. Another pic ture, representing five birds, has just returned to this city, from the hands of Mr. Prang, the lithographer. Mr. Eyers's 'fruit-pieces are likewise very tine, his -peaches and grapes being unexcelled for texture, solidity and qualite. Mr. Eyers having mkt, in North Carolina, with heavy necuniarylosses during a war in which he had no direct interests at stake, and having encountered a violent acci dent and fracture a few months since in this city, attracts the warmest sympathy of his many friends, and would be deserving of a more pitying sentiment still, but ft:llr the true. French energy and gaiety of heart witli which ho laughs hack. misfortune. . '• j CRIiPON A French artist, but a pupil of the' Pouusyl- BfilitlBBBl , ll.R PHILADELPHIA, THU anis Academy; is about returning to our sboree J alter some ten years' meidence abroad. M. Crepen was one of the most promising students of our Life Class of 1860, but retired to Paris, where be has had some success as a j Lamer and much greater success) as a de doter on wood. The edition of Beranger, pal tly illustrated by hint, is a now favorite. ..Four of his works are now displayed at Earle& galleries, where they attract the. soIIBIB especially. Two are fine sketchy eater-colors of Japanese subjects, which have been especially studied by M. Crepon. A third, 'a splendid India-ink drawing, repro st arts a procession of young priests crossing the Place tSaint-Eulpice, Paris, to enter their monastery. The different expressions, as they notice a cocodelle crossing the muddy place with lifted skirts, and the treatment of the monument and architectural background, are admirable. An oil-picture, which we saw in Paris in 1846, and which has been at Bast five years painting, represents with ex cellent effect the interior of a ruined church, us' das a sheepfold. It is a transcript from nature, and is almost worthy of Jacques. M. Crepon intends to embrace portrait-painting as an American profession. FRENCH AIITISTS IN RAW YORK. It is an obvious truth' that some of the best painting now going on in this country is re ferable to the thorough Frenclfsystem of edu- . cation. To define the neculiarity of the French school of art in a word is not easy, but the style at any rate includes close attention to na ture in the most trifling things, great distrust of idealized treatment, patient industry, and, in place of insular taste, a broad cosmopolitan. attention to preceding examples. This theory has such a reasonable sound, even, that, if our definition is true, it will be seen to be the very model theory for a young country just choosing its art-methods. At the ' same time we would recognize the strong Academic element now invading the English school—the lavish sweeping together orevery means of educatiten in the National Gallery . and Museum at Kensigton—and reserve our opinion of British painting until these means .shall have produced effects in kind. Ameri cans have little to do.with that at present. The. feWßritish painters among us are generally chevaliers d' industrie,coptemptunthdy dosing us with slop-work. The legitimate foreign artists to whom we look for counsel, are generally French. In New York there are the French artists Constant Meyer and Victor .Nehlig. The former can paint from life very beautifully, his modeling and light-and-shade being very firm and savant ; his color is impure. Mr. Meyer is now visiting his parents in France, but is anxious to have it understood, that his absence is only temporary, and that' he will return to his old studio early in the summer. Mr. Nehlig paints usually small genre picturas, in a manner somewhat resembling that of Vibert. He is singularly underrated in the country of his adoption, from two peculiari ties, both thoroughly French. He insists upon technics rather than upon su hject,and his com positions therefore lack narrative interest; and, like many Frenchmen, be appears to have nok conception of female beauty. His qualities and defects may be seen in several groups :menthe scenes of the " Pilgrim," now ex hibiting at Concert Hall. In a dull winter M. Nehlig very cheerfully engaged upon this diorinia,--asi French artist never possessing any pride of place: we would instance Comte-Calix, executing fashion-plates and sentimental genre paintings indifferently in. Paris. and the various French opera-singers who keep cook-shops and fables d'/ to in this country. FACTS AND FANCIES —The liquor question—What'll you take? —A new hat forladies is called "Frou-Frou." —Booth's theatre it to be used for opera. —Herr Wagner threatens another opera —" Buddha." —Greenbacks are described as "looking-up" in California. —Among the crowned beads of Europe, there are five drunkards. The number among the sovereigns of America is larger. —The next French cable to be landed with out asking leave on American shores is said to he a despi-cable—Prince Pierre Bonaparte. —Kentucky has its champion old man, " 115 years of age, and . _able to thread the finest 'needle," in eight different languages. —A man in Richmond, Va., advertises for news of his wile, who went out to take tea with a friend in August last, and never re t urned. She has probably gone to Indiana. —A negro girl living with Dr. Cook, near Vicksburg,'has been in a trance for ten days, lying as it dead and taking no nourishment, - I but is now recovering. —The New York Associated Press has got news by cable of a horse-race in England;but nothing yet about the dreadful collision in the English channel. —.Providence bootblacks delegate one of their number to kick a peanut vender, and while the latter is pursuing his assailant the others clean out his basket— —The Tribune says of Mr. Tweed that -thieves for eight or ten years - have bad his ear." This is probably why he has not listened 10 anything the Tribune has said.—Evening Telegram. —.Nilsson has been singing with Carvalho in opera at Paris, and the latter felt so bad at being utterly eclipsed by the fresh voice and wonderful genius of her rival that she almost fainted in the fourth act. —The New .Bedford Mercury mentions that the beneficiaries under the will of the late Sylvia Ann Howland are to be made happy lin the Met • bait, b., the payment to them of .10 per cent. of their legacies. The remainder will be paid soon after. —One of the applicants for soup at the Eighth Station in Boston, on Sunday last, on being asked w hat her folks had for dinner, replied, "Boast beef, potatoes and onions." •Then," said she sergeant, "why do you Conte here for sour ?" "I don't know, only mother sent me," replied the girl. —What is the difference between a mark who has been wrecked in the f3outh Pacific ocean and taken refuge in a small boat, which he has kept from sinking for three weeks by tailing with a rusty tin pan saved from the wreck— and a distinguished American author ? ADN'Well.—One is a tired bailer and the other is a Bayard Taylor. The Stealth of the Pope. I Tbe Paris Figkro says: "The 'health of Pius IX. declines daily. A foreign prelate, who was recently received in a private audience by the Sovereign Pontiff, was quite shocked by his appearance. 'Alas!' exclaimed the pre late, the proverb then is true, "Non oidebis winos alluding to the Roman saying t hat no Sovereign Pontiff carTreign longer than St. Peter, who occupied the Pontificia' chair during twenty-live years. Pius IX. is now in the twenty-fourth year of his' Pri macy. • The person who writes to us from Rome has recently been himself re ceived by the Pope, and found him sadly changed. Pius IX. now rises with, difficulty; his look has not the vivacity which formerly distinguished it; his voice, low and weak, no longer possesses, the sonority of former times. This increasing change causes great anxiety among the official circle at the Vatican, al though they endeavor to conceal the fact. It is, nevertheless, quite true,, and there exist apprehensions at Rome. Our, correspondent is the more' entitled to credit as lie is a man who is profoundly devoted to the Holy See." OUR WIIOLE COUNTRY. RSDAY, MARCH 31, 1870. FIFTH EDITION LATEST BY CABLE. Honor to Minieter 011ivier of France Spanish Government and the (Ecumen NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE TEXAS CONGRESSMEN Opposition to Swearing in of the Demo An Attack on His Moral Character A Very Exciting Debate THE MEMBERS FINALLY BWdRN IN Honors Bestowed Upon Minister 01Eis1er PARIS, March 31.—M. Emile 011ivier has received the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111. of Spain. This is his only deco- The Government and the tEennaenteal MAnnin, March 31--The Government has officially announced its determination to ab stain from all interference in the aflairs of the Pope and the fEcumenical Council. LONDONDERRY, March 31.—The steamship Hibernian, from Portland, touched at this port to-day, on her way to Liverpool. /101.14.11111 D. Cable lilvalay. THE HA<iti.E, March 81.—Animated debates occurred in the Chambers recently on the questions of ministerial concessions of special privileges to one of the' two rival cables to America. The ministers were at length in structed to equalise the terms. Financial and Canimereial. LozinoN, March 31, 4.30 P. M.—Consols closed at 933 both,. for money and account. American securities closed quiet. '62's, 91/ ; fAiii; '67's, 891; ten-forties, 87. Erie, 221 ; Illinois, `1141; - Atlantic, 281. LivimpooL, March 31, 4.30 P. M.—The Cot ton market closed quiet and steady. Middling Up/ands, 10/d.; Middling Orleans, 111allId. Sales of the day are 12,000 bales, including 3,- 000 for export and speculation. Provisiow—Chesse, 703.5 d. for best grades American, fine. LONDON, March 31.—Tallow flat and un changed. he Swearing In of the Texas Congress !Special Despatch to the Phila. Z vemlno BoMille.) WAHEINGToN, March 31.—The objection made to swearing in Mr. Conner, Democratic member of Congress for Texas, took quite a wide scope in'the House, and one of the most exciting debates followed that has yet taken place this session. General Butler had affidavits read vainst the moral character of the applicant,and made a strong speech in opposition to allowing Con ner:to have his seal. Mr. Stevenson kßepublican) denounced Butler's attempt to inquire into the moral character as a bold partisan move . Mr. Orth followed, advocating Conner's ad .mission, and denounced Butler for his coarse. Mr.. Dawes alsO questioned the right of the House to question the moral character of any pergen, or to consider it a; constitutional "oir jection. Messrs. Garfield, Hale, Schenck, Burr, and others made earnest speeches in favor of Con ner. The vote will probably be taken to-day, and it will be largely in favor of Conner's ad mission. , Four Texas Courresswen theses Is. The House rejected Mr. Shanks's amend ment not to swear in Mr. Conner. The reso lution, as reported from the Election Cora- Inittee, 'was then adopted, anti four of the members from Texas were sworn in by the Speaker. Case of General Ames. The Senate is engaged in discussing General Arnes's case. The Senators who have made a canvass of the Senate say that when a. vote. is reached, the report of the Judiciary Committee will be overruled and Gen. Ames will be given his seal. (By the American Preen Ameiation.) Mew Steamship ,Line Bill. WASHINGTON, Marsh 31.—Mr. Cole's bill., providing for ocean mail steamship service be tween the United States and Australia, author izes the Postmaster-General to invite pro posals, for sixty days, for mail steamship ser vice between San Francisco and some . port in Australia, to touch at Honolulu, Feejee, and New Caledonia, by a monthly line of first class, sea-going steamships, of not less than two thousand tens register, and a sufficient number to perform twelve round trips between said ports per annum. It authorizes the Pre sident' to invite the governments named to unite in establisbidg the said service. No proposal is to be received amounting to more 'than 5500,000 for the twelve round voyages per annum. The con tract to is go into effect Jan. Ist, 1871. The steamships employed in this service to be ex empt from all pert charges. and custom-house dues at ports of. departure and arrival in the United States. TAO tilold Contracts. In the Supretrie Court,. to-day, Attorne,y- General Hoar made a motion to re-open the recent decision of that Court in regard to gold , contracts, on theground that it was Het de cided when a. full 'Court was present, one va cancy then existing on the bench .. The mo tion was oppOseti by Mr.iCarliele, who, claimed that it is not a question of majorities, but was a decision of the - Court, and must he SU re garded. The matter was taken nnder advise ment: ' • ; ; Nonilnation. The following nomination was made to-day 4,:30 O'Clook teal Cou n cil. Oratic Member. FROM EUROPE. 1, By the American Press Meech;Bona FRANCE. . !SPAIN. CORincil. IRELAND. The lillbernlen. FROM WASHINGTON. John F. McCarthy to be Postmaster at Val paraiso, lad. • The ,11. a. Conanlshii, at Tripoli. The Senate Committee on Commerce to-day agreed to moon favorably on the nomination of Michael Vidal, of Louisiana, for Consul at Postponement of the Case of an Em. bersier. . • 'ln the 'United States Circuit Court the case of Veltman,charged with the embezzlement of $7.000 of the funds of the Fourth National Bank, began this morning. The indictment was found to he defective and the case for the government co muddled that the case was adjourned to allow a rectification. James Fit& of the Ninth Regiment. James Fisk,Jr., will doubtless yet be elected Colonel of the Ninth Regiment. The mem bers are now unanimously in favor of his election. The newly elected Colonel has de clared his•intention to withdraw. The Funding. Avni. The Ways and Means Committee failed to meet to-day, although this day was set down by`the Secretary of the Treasury to reply to the argument of the bank men against the Funding bill. FROM THE WEST. (By . the American Press Association.] ' ILLINOIS. The Weather... The Effects or the Morin: Galeaszo, 111., March 31.—The waters of both Greene and Rock rivers are causing considerable damage in this vicinity. Miles of laud on both sides of these streams are covered with water, and the bed of the Rock Island and St. Louis Railroad is being washed out in a number of places, and their bridge over the Greene river has already been washed away. • The track of the Coal Valley Railroad, over. Rock river, is under water for miles. The river has not been so high for 20 years. The track of the Chicago and Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, between Greene River, and Calona station - s, is covered with water. •It rallied and hailed Here all day .yesterdav and - the weather Is still very much unsettled: oHio. Bank Consolidation., CINCINNATI March 31.—The Directors of the Central National Bank have determined al wind up the business ot the concern, and consolidate with the First National Bank, with a capital of $1,500,000. • UTAH. Brigham Young and the Anti-Polygamy 8111. if GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, March 31.—A telegram from Taker, a few miles this side of St. G eorge, in Utah, says Brigham Young:gaud company Will start to-day, byway of Virginia, City, for ganabak. Meetings, are being held in the southern portion of the Territory to protest against . Mr. Cullom's bill. A mass- meeting will be held here to-morrow on the same subject. MONTANA. The Weather. Fowr BENTON, -March 31.—The river has risen two feet in the past two days, and there is every prospect of a very high stage of water. The weather is mild and pleasant. FROM NEW YORK. [By the American Press Association.] Bond Robbers Arrested. NEW YORE, March 31.—A detective yester day arrested here, Wm. Dean, or Dirl, a resi dent of Yonkers, having traced to him the dis position of $50,000 worth of stolen bonds of the Ocean and Norwalk banks. The arrest created a profound sensation among the thieves and the police. Violation of the Election Laws-.. Flue Men Sentenced. Bnooki.v3t, March 31.—Pive persons con ,victed of a violation of the election laws were sentenced this morning by Judge Gilbert, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Justice Buckly was sent to jail for ten days; Barnard ld ahony to the penitentiary for thirty days Henry Mayo, clerk of the Water Board, and Michael Hannon, clerk in the &lice of Tax Collector, three months' imprisonment: Geo. Brown, jointly indicted with Justice Buckly, to ten days in the city jail. The New Exchange Building. New YORK, March 31.—A meeting of the stockholders of the Stock Exchange is called for next Saturday. The committee appointed to select a site for the new Exchange building, it is understOod, will report in favor of the selection of grounds in the vicinity of the new - Post-Office. FROM NEW ENGLAND. illy the American Press Association.' • IIASSACH VSE Fatal Accident. LowEtz.,.Mass., March 31.—This inorning William Mankman, an Englishman, employed on the Boston and Lowell Railroad, while coupling some cars, was run over and killed. FORTY-Finsr CONGRESS. Second Seseldn. lier;E--1 Continued troni the Fourth Edition. i Mr. Paine, from the Committee. on Elec tions, reported that the Committee had ex amined the credentials of Messrs. G. W. Whitmore, John C. Conner, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Durgan, claiming to represent the First, Second, Third, and Fourth districts of Texas, and submitted a resolution that they be sworn. Mr. Shanks moved to amend that Mr. Conner be not sworn, but that his case be referred back to the Committee. He sent to the • Clerk's desk affidavits, which were read, concerning Conner's disloyalty and cruelty whilst captain of Company E, Forty first Infantry, colored, at Fort Mackintosh. Texas, in 18417. Mr. Butler (Mass.) sent up a copy of the charges and specifications on which Captain Conner bad been tried by, a military commis mission. They recite details of numerous in 'stances of inhumanity and refined cruelty practiced upon private soldiers by the order of Conner. 'Mr. Butler said on these charges Conner had been zacquitted. He proposed to show how that acquittal - had been obtained. He read the affidavit • of four military officers, which declared that Conner bad boasted pub licly of baying whipped forty-tive 'negro sol diers, and gave• as his. (Conner's) experience that the •niggers made poor soldiers but d—d good whippers. Air: Butler said the testimony proved that Conner, in order to get the votes of his con- • stitnents, bad boasted of his cruelty to •the; colored troops under his command and that he got •rid of the military penalties by bribing a - witness before the Military Commission. He would support the motion to refer the case back. • Mr. Stevenson said the Committee on Elec tions bad unanimously reported on the cre dentials of four members trom Texas, which credentials were all alike, and recommended they be sworn in, but it happened, unfortu nately, that Conner was a Democrat; there tbre Conner was a bad boy, That was what was the matter. He. had no high opinion of Texas morals or Christianity. • , But by what right did the gentleman from Massachusetts (Butler) propose to refer the military record of Capt.. Coulter to the Com mittee on Elections which ULLS no, jurisdiction in the premises. lieNl3utler) bud defended a gentleman or this. House(Nridttemore) when convicted of worse crimes than those of which Conner;bati been acquitted. , As a Republican he (Stevenson) considered this action, tO , thip base partisan proceeding, and denounce it as Such. 'E FETHERSTON. Publistir PRICE THREE CENTS, FOREIGN cailitEsi.ortin4es LETTERS FROM P. 10414. [The following letter was in the mail of the Sarnark, which had to put back to Queens town."h WAS brought over by the Java's want , along with the one that succeeds it:l [Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bulletin.F Pants, Friday, Feb. 25, 1870.:--The incidents of the last two or three days are of an interest to eupersede every other subject, and I must devote this letter to some further notice of them than you will receive bir the meagre revelations of the telegraph. X. Jules' Favre bad given notice, previous to the dis turbances created by the arrest, of .Rochefort, of his intention to interpellate the Ministry on, the _subject of its in ternalpqlicy. Ent in consequence 'of the excitemdt which followed upon the'event above alluded to, the eloquent leader of the Lull, with a'moderation which - did hith credit. deferred his motion until thelifinisters, the Chamber and the public were all alike more at leisure and more disposed tolisten calmly to the discussion which was sure to 'arise upon it. Last 3tonday, however, M:Juleii Favre brought the'subject before the Chamber in it speech which is generally 'acknowledged not to have been quite worthy 'of his reputation either as orator, or as a leader of the Opposition. Ha was wandering and diffuse, and failed to pro duce his usual impression upon the House.- Not so the Minister deputed to , reply -to laim„ both in his own name and that of the entire ' Cabinet collectively. Rarely bas so great and. genuine and well-meriteda success attended an official declaration of principles as that greeted the noble, manly and" dignified language of Count Darn, on Tuesday list. It was he who first claimed Air the first constitutional Ministers of the Empire the titbit ,of honnete yens -of' honest men; and is` far as Janguage goes (and language under snob circumstances may almost be said to anionnt to action), the claim to the above' title may = be said to be now completely establislieif and recognized. With a plainness and- horiesti of purpose which carried Conviction to' the minds of all who heard him, Countnaru re- plied to the questions of M. Jules Fevre. The Cabinet was asked, he said, who they were, '- where they came from, anii What they in tended doing. For himself, id a few almost' touching words, the Minister of Foreign Ail fairs told the House that he was one of" the few who refused to recognize the coup ' (l'etat, even when that act had been 'ratified bythe votes of eight millions. "I retited,"' he said, "completely into private life; I; re -maimed there for twenty years: I ha, - ve ciAly come out of it again now because free institu tions are once more restored to my country; and I have conic forward to aphold'and prac- - dee them. For France," he said, "is no longer under a despotism ; France is a free country.° The Emperor bad embraced ,their opinions, and frankly asked their assistance to carry them out. So long as the present ma jority in the Chamber consented to go along with them they were willing ' to make use of that majority,, and save the country, the renewed agitation of general elec dons within so short a period' since the list took place. But if the majority impeded or refused to act with them, then, said 4 . . Darn, amidst a buret of applause from all'parts of the- ' Chamber, except, perhaps,'the-very extreme Right—then the Cabinet would not hesitate one moment—the Emperor must choose be- tween his present Ministers and the Majority: In that ease, M. Darn meant to say, the EDIT peror must decide whether he would' retain a majority which did 'not represent the wishes of the country, and at - tempt to govern by it; or whether he would .at once dissolve the Chamber, appeal' to' the country, and obtain a majority which did' really represent those wishes. The only policy 'of the Cabinet, Count Datu said, was order and liberty;—peace abroad, peace and freedom at home. He de dared all the Ministers to be absolutely united" and agreed as to the platform on which they would stand or fall. They came into power ' together, and they would go out togethet. Not one stone shall be detatched'from the edi lice erected on the 2d of January,withoutthe entire building coming down. No words could' y say more plainly that unless the present` Min isters had completely their own way, their were determined to resign to masse and leave the Emperor and his reactionary majbrity shift fur themselves. One or the most im portant declarations also made by the Minis ter was to the effect that the present Cabinet , fully contemplated bringing forward au elec toral reform bill. The'eftect produced by the above admirable speecli, which' pas as elegant and pointed in diction as it was thoroughly honest and Araightforward in its declaration of prinei- , plea, was instantaneous and decisive. The Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the , Ministry by majority of 236 to 18. The, triumph was complete, and the chorus of ap probation is almost universal. even M. Jules Favre's journal, the Jaecteur Libre, says this morning that the vote of the minority of 18 was a " vote of prineiple * , 'rathbr than " of opposition ;" that it bas full confidence in thedeclarations of the 3finistere,, and is prepared to second them in all their, efforts towards liberal reforms. Nor is the above incident tbe only ,eele , which is to be recorded of the same chareetegy, The Ministers have, like the , Greeke, of old, , 0 burnt their ships" a second; r., time in face of the extreme Ittiperi r alist section: The day following the above debate, the Minister of the Interior, speaking on the subject of some recent • elections, fully admitted that, in principle, the change Ofp o l4- • tical system which bad taken place virtually : implied the abolitipn of,any„sueli ,ate; "official candidatcships.", This is AlWityNin,„ delicate question with ,the extreme. ltightt, au 2 1 many of whom owe their seats to. the ePlietre, then hi practice. Very unwisely, they Yew turetlto challenge rite above adm1.41012, of ; tbe Minister ; , and, prattler de Caseagnie, View • editor of, the Pays anti: the loader of Abe re-, • actionists, actually brought forward yesterday a motion to the effect that the intervention or ... ~ I~r I'i r .
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