GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIV.—NO. 3. VJF>piNG CARDS, invitations fT forFjirt'M, *<J. New atylei. MASON * 00.. 90? mrtnnt >tmt. ddMfmwtr} ; ■ . DIED. ■■■ - '* ' . Suddenly, as the morning of the Mth ln»t ~ George W. Benner*, In the 42d year of hil a*e. ’ The family aro invited to attend hie funeral, from hta late residence, Holmesburg, on Thursday morning, the Mth Inst., at 10 o'clock. Tho friends, Also the Union , Lodge, No. 131. A. Y. H.,are invited te im*et the fu* ■ Laurel Hill* About 1 o’clock P. M. * CUNNINGHAM.—On Sunday morning, tho 10th Inst., «>f pneumonia. Nellie, second daughter or Wintbrop Aha W artba Cunningham,aged nineteen years. ~ „ A ° Her friends and those of the family aro Invited to at* . tend the funeral, this (Wednesday) afternoon, at three •’clock. Berrfces at the bouse. . w . GLEN.-an the lltb fust., Edward J. Glen, only son of the late Hr. Edward Jones Glen, In the 2M year of hfs age. Hi. relative, and friend, are invited to attend hi. fu neral,at AU Saint.’ Church, Torreedalo, On Thur.day, * jIIITTKIL— At Ppttvtown, on th. 12th instant, John P. Butter, E»q„ in the 74th year of hi. no;. The friend.of the f.mlly are reapectlully Invited to attend hie funeral, from hi. late residence, on Friday V nevt, atgo’ciock P. M. • * <hi BI.ACK SILKS. d>l SI COOP ENOUGH FOB DRESSES. 0 l v t)t BLACK SILKS. Q 2 These aro tho eame ue tho La«t Two Lote. EYRE A LAN DELL, Fourth and Arch. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANAMAKER, Merchant Clothier. W ANAMAKER, Merchant Clothier. WANAMAKEB, Merchant CloUiler. AVANAMAKEB, Merchant Clothier. JOHN WANAMAKER, 818 and 820 Chestnut St. NUTK.—Our I*OY9 ; Clothing is attracting much atten tion tbit .Spring, and justly so, for it is the Finest in PhiladtlpUe, ACADEMY OF. FINE ARTS, 1020 CHESTNUT Street. 8 IIE RIDAM »S BIDE, GREAT LIFE SIZE PAINTING, By the Poet-Art!.*, T. BUCHANAN BEAD. SEVENTH WEEK OF THE EXHIBITION. THE INTEREST INCREASING. THE I’OEM READ TWICE A DAY. M JOSEPHINE WABBEN will r-ctte each tUy. at 4 V. M. and ? P. M.. in front of the cunva.6#, the Poem of ** SHERIDAN 3 HIDE.” Chromo« of the 20x25 inches), $lO. ADMISSION .25 CENTS. Including tho entire valuable collection of the Academy. OfH n from 9 A, M. to 6 P. M.,and from 7Ji toiOP.M, upll tf j rp* ACADEMY OF MUSIC THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. SUPPLE RESTART LECTURE, ~ BY MISS OLIVE LOGAN, ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL If Subject (by request), “ GIRLS.’’ Utile Girls, Ugly Girls,Prettjr Girls, Yankee GirN, Western Girls, the G-rl of the Ptricxl, with a glance at the Comlug Girl. Admission, SO cent®. Referred Beats, 23 cent* extra. Tickets for sale at Gould's Piano Rooms, 923 Chestnut street. > Doott opeu at 2 o'clock, P. M. Lecture at 3P, It, CARL SENTZ'B PARLOR ORCHESTRA “Will perform choice musical selections previous to the Lwture. ■ , apiPtft SENATOR REVELS AT lIOBTICCLTUBALHALL. ON THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL If SUMJECr-’ Reserved Beat* . Tickets for salo at GOULD’S PIANO ROOMS, 921 CHESTNUT Street, FromO to 5 P. 11. Boor* open &t7K. Lecture at 8 o'clock npll.tf_. _1 r-S* GItAND GATHERING OF THE Friends of Temperance, under tho auspiees of the Young Men's Christian Association of the First Presby terian Chnrch, Washington Square, FRIDAY KVKNING, APRIL 15th, At 8 o’clock. Addresses hy Rr.v. A. A. WIGLITS, D. D., Rev. J. 8. .WITHROW, and pastor, It*\. H. JOHNSON,D.D. Choice selections of music by the Choir. 'AU are cordially tntritaf. ap9, b w th Af rpji r"3» NIiWSB OY S r HOME—TH ERE lh~y will l»o an oxtiiliition of THE PILGRIM, ATOONOEBTHALL.ON RASTER MONDAY EVENING, . tu.. . AtBo’clock, lor tho beholit of the NEWSBOYS’HOME. Tickets tor sale at tho Hull from 9 A. M. to 8 P.M. every day, anil at Bobbins, Clark & Biddle’s, 11H Chest nut street upISJtJ irs* OFFICE CATAWIBSA It. R. COM ILiy PANT, No. 424 WALNUT Streot. , Philadelphia, April 11th, 1679. The unuiml election for President and Directors of this Company will beheld on MONDAY, tho 2d day of May, 1879, betwoen the hours of 12 M. and 2 P. M. „ c EDWABD JOHNSON, apUwAatmy}§ Secretary. ITS* TELEGRAPH OFFICEAT OHEST "r£r nut Hill just oponod.—Telegraph to all points. Messages delivered in all parts or Philadelphia. Be dneed rates. Office ut Chestnut Hill.. In Philadelphia, SO5 Chestnut street anil Continental Motel, At Paciilc and Atlantic office. It" LIEBIG'S COMPANY’S EXTRACT of Meat secures groat economy and convenience in Housekeeping and excellence in cooking. None Konuine without the signature of Baron Liebig,* the jnveutor, and of Dr. Max Von Pettenkofer. delegate. ja2fi-w s-tf J: MILHAU’S SONS, 188Broadway,N.Y. ITS» THE CELEBRATED COMPOSER, ®v£y BENOR BAFFKLIN, Ims returned from Ha vana in tho steamer Do Soto. It" SI'S- HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 and 1829 Lombard street. Dispensary Department. ■—Medical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously o the poor. 1109 GIRARD STREET TURKISH, RUSSIAN AND PERFUMED BATHS ~ „ DepartmentsforLikllch liatliß open from fl A. M. to 9 P. M. RELIGIOUS NOTICES." - FIRST MORAVIAN OH UR OH, nnil.Wootl streota, Rov. J. H. KUMMI.B, Pastor. “Passion Week" service. 7.4 s «• Its l£§* ST* OLEMENT'SCHUKCHiTWiS * vt Oherry streets Confirmation and swr *?? 10 Atonement,” by the Right Rev. Blahop Ce*tsfreo^ U OVOIIU £’ o’clock, .Choral sern^o., AX \V U P «» vvvau o*» y * Hwuoas and Horae Goar of ’ M# - «2« Marketstreet.: Bid JD axljo (Etomiw Bit llefchi Finest Rkadv-Made Clothing. Finest . Piece Goods fob Spring. Finest Spuino Suits fob Youths. Finest Gents’ Fcbnwhino Goods.' -“ THE PRESS." 3O cents, .30 cents extra. SPECIAL NOTICES. - HOVAJHENSING HOSE SOMPANY’S ANNUAL BALL AND FESTIVE REUNION AT THE ACADEMY OP MUSIC, On the Evening of EASTER MONDAY, April 18th. 1870. On with the dgnee; let joy be unconflned! No rest till morn when Youth and Pleasure meel To chase the flying hours with winged feet 1” THE MOYAMENBING HOSE COMPANY Will inaugurate the Faster Season with an ANNUAL BALL ECLIPSE IN BRILLIANCY and enjoyment all their former REUNIONS, which have been pre eminently successful in affording unal loyed pleasure to their multitude of friends. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT Will- comprise TWO GRAND ORCHESTRAS: GBAFFULAS WORLD RENOWNED SEVENTH REGIMENT BAND •i NEW YORK MARK HASSLEB’S EQUALLY CELEBRATED BAND PHILADELPHIA. THE REPERTOIRE Will cnibrace BRILLIANT OVERTURES, NATIONAL AND POPULAR MELODIES, ARTISTIC SOLOS, MARCHES, PROMENADES, WALTZES SERENADES WILLIAM F. SOHEIBLEj EWJ., Will harerchsrgf- of tho DECOBATIONB, AUDITORIUM , Will be’exqufltt'cly decorated with FLORAL ADORN MENTS, while PICTORIAL DESIGNS And ORNATE NOVELTIES wig enhance the splendor of the scene, and Kratify the most exacting taste. SINGING BIRDS Will warble their sweetest carols, and th* .’ ’ / PAINTEE'SAET Will contribute its choictjst'productiona to inteusift tin! attractlreneesof spectacle, THE FOYER Will ho transformed into a GRAND BANQUET HALL, and with garlands of flowers, and fes tooned with flags and emblems, presenting A TOUT ENSEMBLE that will ebann the eye and augment the lustre of the : , JOYOUS REVEL, The cnisiae, viaudsaDd wines provided for tho EN TERTAINMENT OF THE GUESTS, will be charac terized by superlative sxcelleuce and protuso abun dance, aud be served by courteous attendants. THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT Will be entrusted to the supervision of tho ACCOMPLISHED PURVOYKrit, ADOLPH PUOSKAUEB. And hlr EXPERIENCE, ART and ABILITY will be unstintedly expended on tho appointments of th- SYMPOBIUM, whose completeness, ELEGANCE and PRODIGALITY wiU satisfy the most fastidious EPICURE, BON YIYANT and CONNOISSEUR. THE MANAGERS Will ttrive to txcel their PAST SUCCESSES, ADd every RESOURCE or MONEY, ZEAL, TASTE and TALENT will be exhausted to promote tho FELICITY Of the uccneion, and signalise the MOYAMENSING BALI. BRILLIANT EPOCH In the memoriea of the pariicipsnts, composed of the ELITE OF FASHION, WIT and BEAUTY of our own METROPOLIS, NEW YORK, BALTIMORE and OTHER CITIES. TICKETS. EXTRA NOTICE. THE MOYAMBNBING HOSE COMPANY Respectfully announco that on account of the extraordi nary demand for Tickets fai their ANNUAL BALL They have finally concluded, at the onruest solicitation ol many of their friends, to issue a limited number of ACD njNCE TICKETS ONE DOLLAR EACH, Admitting the holder to their GRAND ANNUAL BALL ON EASTER-MONDAY EVENING, April 18, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF:MUSIC. **" Entrance on LOCUST Street TICKETS CAN ONLY BE HAD AT THE BOX OFFICE ON LOCDBT BTKKET ON THE EVENING OF THE BALL, This will afford all those who cannot otherwise pro cure hekote. or who do not wish to participate in tho dancing, an opportunity of witnessing one of the GRANDEST and most : ELEGANT ASSEMBLAGES bf tlie season and listening to delightful niusio • FRANK A. DEVITT, Secretary, Rrps " Attl) THE Five dollars, PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13.1870. THE WOHA Jr " d «® Unt he Saw a More ralttattalvliitaltlf«nt and Bew> !EI* l ?a B L #, l®!2. «•*■*» and Petit Jar y than that at Cheyenne. f Vrom tlw Chicago J>ga! N«w», April ».] Wo Lave from the first taken great interest in the experiment in Wyoming, of allowing juries to be composed of both men and women, and as we saw many Contradictory statements mregard to the Wyoming juries going tha rounds of the press, we wrote to ,the Hon. J. H. Howe, Chief Justiceof the Supreme Court of that Territory, requesting him to give uh bte views as to tnesuccees of tbe experimeot. We are pleased to publish the letter of Judge Howe, which is all the most sanguine friends of the cause could desire. The Judge, after writing the letter upon request, consented to its publication as written: Cijevenne, Wyoming, April 4,lB7o.— Jfrs. Myra Bradweil, Vlticayo, Itf—Dead .Madam: 1 am in receipt of your favor of the 26th ult., in which yon request me to Vglre a truthful statement, over my own signature, for publi cation in your paper, of the history of, apd my observations in regard to; the woman grand and petit jurors in Wyoming.” I will comply with voitr request, with this qualifier tion, that it be not published over my own signature, as I do not covet newspaper publi city, and have already, without any agency or fault of my own, been subjected to an amount of it which I never anticipated or conceived of, and which has been far from agreeable to fie- I nad no agency in the enactment of the law ita , Wyoming conferring legal equality upon women. 1 found it upon the book of that Territory, and in accordance with its provisions several women wero legally drawn by the proper officers on the grand and petit juries of Albany county, and were duly summoned by the Sheriff without any agency of mine. On being ap prised of theso facts, I conceived it to bo mv plain duty, to fairly enforce this law. as l would any other; and more than this, I re solved at once that, as it had fallen to my lot to have the experiment tried under my ad ministration, it should have a fair trial, and I therefore assured these women that they could serve or not, as they choose; that if they chose to serve, the court would secure to them the most respectful consideration and deference, and protect them from insult in word or gesture, and from everything which might offend a modest and virtuous woman in any of the walks of life in which the good and true women of our country have been accustomed to move. While I had never been an advocate for the law-, I felt that thou sands of good men and women had been, and that they bad a right to see it fairly ad ministered ; and I was resolved that it should not be sneered down if I had to employ the whole power of the court to prevent it. I felt that even those who were opposed to the policy of admitting women to the right of suf *raKC and to hold office would condemn me if I did not do this. It was also sufficient for me that my own judgment approved this course. With sucli assurances these women chose to serve, and wero duly impanelled as jurors They are educated, cultivated Eastern ladies who are an honor to their, sex. They have, with true womanly devotion, left their homes comfort in the States to serve the fortunes ot their husbands and brothers in the far West, and to aid them in founding a new State be yond the Missouri. And now as to the re suits. With all my prejudices against the policy, I am under conscientious obligations to say that these women acquitted themselves with such dignity, decorum, propriety of con duct and intelligence as to win the admiration of. every fair-minded citizen of Wyoming. They were careful, painstaking, intelligent and conscientious. They were ffrrn and reso lute forthe right as established by the lawand the testimony. Their verdicts were right, and, after three or four criminal trials; the lawyers engaged in defending persons accused of crime began to avail themselves of the ri>»ht of per emptory challenge to get rid of tlie women jurors, who were too much in favor of enforc ing the laws and punishing crime to suit the interests of their clients! After the grand jury had been in session two days, the danee- Ijouse keepers, gamblers, and demi-monde fled out ot the city in dismay, to escape the indict ment of women grand jurors! In short, I have never, in twenty-hvo years of constant experience in the courts of the country, seen a more ialtbtul, intelligent, and resolutely honest grand and petit jury than these. A contemptible lying and silly despatch went over the wires, to the efl'ect that during the trial of A. W. Howie for homicide (in which the jury con sisted of six women and six men), the men and women were kept looked up together all night, lor four nights. Only two nights in tervened during the trial, and on these nights, by my order, the jury wore taken to the parlor of the largo, commodious, and well iuruisbed hotel of the Union Paciiic Railroad, in charge o. the bherift and a woman" bailiff where they were supplied with meals and every comfort, and at 10 o’clock-the women were conducted by the bailiff"to a and suitable apartment, where beds were prepared for them, and where they remained in charge ot sworn officers until morning, when they were again all conducted to the parlor, and trom thence in a body to breakfast, and thence to the jury -room, which was a clean and comfortable one, carpeted and heated, and furnished with all proper conveniences. The cause was submitted to the jury for their decision about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, and they agreed upon their verdict, which was received Ity the court between 11 and 12 o’clock at night of the same day, when they were discharged. Everybody commended the conduct of this jury, and yvere satisfied with their verdict, ex cept the individual who was convicted of mur der in the second degree. The presence of these ladies in court secured the most perfect decorum and propriety of conduct, and the gentlemen of the bar and others vied with each other in their courteous and respectful demeanor towards the ladies and the court, hothing occurred to offend the most refined lady (it she was a sensible lady), and the uni versal judgment of every intelligent and fair minded man present was, and is, that the ex periment was a success. I dislike the no toriety this matter has given me, but do not shrink from it. I never sought it nor expected it, amt have only performed what I regarded as a plain duty, neithor seeking nor desiring any praise, and quite indifferent to any cei? sure or criticism which my conduct may have invoked. Thanking you for your friendly and complimentary expressions, I am very respectfully, yours. J. H. Uowi:. AGITATIONS IN ITAI.Y. letter From Maszini, The ZietnocraD'o Union of Ravennapublishes the following letter of Mazzini, which serves to explain the origin of the agitation that has recently prevailed: March s.— Brothers: I receive very tardilv your letter of February 9. I shall preserve and remember with confidence your last written words, and I know that you will keep the manly promise they contain. May your rallying cry become that of all the towns of Romagna! May'they comprehend that if an, act of initiative, noble bv. its faith and ener getic by its resolve, takes place at any import ant point, every town ought to follow it up, without any delay, without any great anxiety. about an ulterior accord, and without any of those reiined calculations of strategy—service-, able, perhaps, in war, but ill adapted to the requirements of insurrection? ' Action must: engender action, and turn to account an op ' portuuity which we have the power to create i Ever yoiirs, &c., ~j (LMazzimi.- OUR, WHOLE COUNTRY. IF VTOUIXH. 'termination or a Oreat Caae---A Verdict Altai not Mr*. Howard's Child. {From the Pol) Mall Gazette of M»rch3l.| '.When the Committee for Privilege* met tbis morning the Lord Chancellor said that he most lay be tore their lordships a petition just presented by Mrs. Howard, in which she; charged most of the material witnesses against her case with having received various sums of money as bribes for their evidence in the case; He would only remark that if this were true! Mrs. Howarcf had hgd abundant time and op- 1 portunity of proving it in a proper way before the close of her case. o The Lord Chancellor then iiroceeded to give! bis opjnidzi to the committee, and said that lie considered that the claiih on behalf of Mrs. Howard’s child had: altogether failed. His Lordship elaborately reviewed the evidence, of the fact ofbiTtb", andconsidored that it was, under the circumstances of the case, unworthy of credit. As to the Liverpool case, his Lordship observed, the story of Mary ' Best as to the adaption of her child was; open to’ some' doubt, because ' her 1 second story showed that she had not in the first instance spoken the entire triitll. Bat Mrs. Higginson and other .witnesses gave evidence which at least proved that some such transaction oc curred. Still it would be unfortunate if the decision had to depend on the tfuth or false hood of the Liverpool story. There would, however, be nothing in tho failure of that ac count to damage the case of the original claimant. And as, looking at the whole of the Circumstances, the claim of the. infant petitioner had failed, he considered that the pnmafacie case presented by the original claimant must he regarded as conclusive. Lord Chelmsford concurred, and commented on the various.discrepancies in the evidence as to the child’s birth. There was really no proof of the pregnancy of Mrs. Howard, and the evidence of the dressmaker. Miss Godden, and of other witnesses, was directly opposed to the existence of such a fact. And Mrs. Howard’s own conduct, especially in her fre quent visits to a governesses’ institution, witli the object of obtaining a situation, up to with in a week of the alleged birth, showed that she could not have been pregnant. ! Tho proof of the fact of birth depended on the evidence of Mrs. Howard and the Bloors, and they' were not worthy of credit. There was, further, the absence oi material witnesses to be remarked. In 18C7 the late Earl of Wicklow had oflered to pay all expenses in order to enable her to establish her child’s legitimacy before the Court of Probate, but that offer had been ab solutely refused by her. Lord Colonsay and the Earl of Winchilsea concurred. Lord Kedesdale concurred, and put the question to the committee, that Charles Fran cis Arnold Howard hail made out his title to vote as a representative peer, a question which was answered in the affirmative nem. con ' Murders by the Ku-lilux In Alabama. [ From the Demopolis (Ala.) Republican.] On the night of the 31st of March a com pany of about thirty disguised inea rode into the town of Entaw, Greene countv; stopped at the hotel and went to the room of Alex. Boyd, the Solicitor of the county, took him out of his bed and shot him—piercin°- his body with a large number of bullets. The men were all disguised.with masks, and some had grotesque caps on their heads. . . . Mr. Boyd was a nephew of Hon. William Miller, Collector of Customs at Mobile, a na tive of Alabama, we believe, a Union man fluring the war, but was then a resident of Arkansas. He returned to Entaw soon after Ibe surrender; and at the time of his assassins lion was Solicitor and Kegister in the'Chan cery for the county. The immediate cause of liis assassination is supposed to be this: Numerous outrageshave lately been committed in Greene county, among which was the hanging of a peaceable old colored man early in March, who was found hanging toa'tree, with sixteen bullet-holes in his body. Mr. Boyd, it is said, had expressed a determination to keep tho Grand .Jury in session six months, unless tney sooner found out who committed this and other crimes, it is supposed that the parties who murdered .Sain Colvin, the colored man, heard of this determination of Mr. Boyd, and, in order to prevcntinvestigation into their former crimes, committed another by murdering him. In doing this, they only followed the advice of the Democratic organ ar, Eutaw,which openlv recommends that ths “ cartridge-box ” be used to dispose of members of the Legislature and other Badicals, when ballots are ineffectual. A coroner's inquest was to liavo been held over the remains on last Saturday. We have oot yetlieard the verdict: but this is known- Thirty cowards attacked one brave man iu his sleep, at the dead hour of night, and that none may know who tired the fatal shot, a dozen of I them pierce bis body with a bullet. I A DBEAOtIL MISHAP. Tlie Disadvantage of Losing- tin Eve. brow. A Roman correspondent sends the follow ing to the New York Post .- ‘•One of our leading fashionables; Madame -'j.B. She is quasi Spanish, and was once very handsome, twenty years ago—although still indisposed, has just torn herself away and gone to Naples. “Behold the history: “ She was at a concert; she hadgono through the entire first part with the constancy of a martyr, par parenthese, she hates mnsic, and if her life were at stake, could not turn a tune. Rut she was as handsome as—paint, to use a vulgar comparison; all the world had admired her lorest of fair hair artistically grouped in curls upon the top of her head; a necklace of priceless pearls surrounded her swan-like neck; a brilliant diamond aigrette was proudly glittering over her left ear, and her delicate] v arohed eyebrows gave an inexpressible charm to her classically-shaped face. . “ There was a slight intermission in the per ormance, for refreshments, during which Madame X. left hor seat to sav a few words to her hostess, Princess 0 * **, and then, as the second part of the concert was about to begin, sho hastened to. resume her place, opened her fan, and immediately obtained what the French call wn mcces dc xnvprixe so universal that for live minutes the voice of the artist was lost in tho general titter. There is no knowing now long tliis sort of thing would have gone on had not Madame \., who began to feel a little embarrassed by this excess of admiration, dropped lior eyes modestly and seen—Alas ! it was a beautifully shaped eyebrow—one of the great Auguste's triumphs—which lay upon her lap. There was but one of two things to do, faint or leave the room. Madame X. did both. Report savs she heat her maid when she got home ; for this, however, I cannot vonoli; at all events sue has announced her intention of never re turmug to Rome, whose climate, sho savs, is unhealthy.” ■.*. > —Punchinello, tor April ”3d, says: a Anne B—— ■, of Philadelphia; wfiio lives a. Roine, has just written a, charming . ,music far tho piano, entitled, “Liszt, p, Liszt!” _ In the .same number Stephens, who does aoout all the illustrations, perpetrates the following as a caption to one of his cuts l ■-' i -...- ■ Ho! Hangolina, : Hangelina v Hadams, Co .’ l ? o .halley-window and see a 'oss , with Ins oois turned up!” . ~~A Chicago music publisher has issued a ‘‘Father will settle: the bill.” Alj tlie young ladies ip tlie city practice it at home as well as St fUe stores. 1 THE WICKLOW PEERAGE. BEBEJL OUTRAGES. FIFTH EDITION. BY TKIiKGRAPH. NATIONAL CAPITAL. A Village Destroyed by Fire NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT FROM NEW TORE. The McFarland FROM WASHINGTON. (By the American Press Association J Belief Bill. Washington, April 13.-The House Com ni-ttee on Indian A flairs this mornincr asr&ed to report tie bill for the relief of the inhabit ?s*s ot „ citle ; s and towns upon lands purchased of the Great and .Little Osage Indians by the treaty of the 29tb of September, 1805 7 tillage Destroyed by Fire. The Freedmen’s Village near Arlington, Va.. opposite the city of Washington, is now in flames, and appearances indicate that the entire village, numbering some 700 shanties, wiil be consumed. The colored people who reside there are to-day celebrating the rati fication of the Fifteenth Amendment by a grand parade, and the rumor lias gained cre dence that during their absence incendiaries have been at work firing their buildings. Nominations. The following nominations for postmasters were made this afternoon: John A. Good- Mass.; Henry Chiekerihk,Pitts- field, Mass.; Wm. Stowe, Springfield, Mass. ■ Isaac seely, Great Barrington, Mass.; Edwin Rogers, .North Adams, Mass.; John H. Smith, Paola, Kansas: James W. Iliee, Gar rett, Kansas; James R. Brown, Odathe, Kan- B. Stephens,Binghampton, New Cole-fiOTham InvcMtlgatlon. The Republican Senators met in caucus this morning, and resumed the consideration of the case of Mr. Gorham, Secretary of the Senate. The reading of the written statement of that officer, which was commenced yesterday, was concluded, after which Mr. Cole addressed the caucus in lavor of removing Mr. Gorham He was followed by Mr. Stewart, onoof Gor ham & strongest friends, but before the latter concluded the caucus adjourned, as the time had arrived for the Senate to meet. The Postal Telegr.pb Committee The Special Postal Telegraph Committee this morning decided unanimously to renort favorably Mr. Washburne’s Postal Telegraph FROM NEW YORK. (Br the American Press Association. J Death of Lopez ConUrineU. .Yobk, April I.3.—Garcia, the Argen tine Minister, this morning received the fol lowing telegram by Atlantic Cable: , “ Paraguayan war ende.l: Lopez killed. | Signed| “ Johx p .ws, Argentine Consul. “ Lovdon, April 13.” Arrival ol the Steamship Hermann. New York, April 13.—Arrived, steamship Hermann, from Bremen March 30, via Havre April 2d. ’ The McFarland Trial., [Continued from Fourth Edition.l Witness was cross-examined,but no hew de velopments elicited. Further evidence adduced as to the pri soners peculiarities, which the Court observed was rather voluminous. Mr. Graham said lie proposed to prove the prisoner deranged from May, 1307, to >'c .yeinbcr, 18«>. , , then took a recess. The Court was reopened at I.M P. M., when another witness from Carr’s restaurant testified to tlie prisoner’s affection for hisbov. He kept talking to himself, with the excep tion when conversing with his brother. The only eccentricities the witness could remem ber were bis apparent indifference as-to what lie ate, and the disordered stale of his hair, which was litre that, of persons just but of bed! He looked as if he had very little sleep | (By the American PressAssociation.] FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session. - Housi-:—(Continued from tho Fourth Edition. ’ Dejected by a vote oi -18 yeas to 12 nays. The majority resolution decliiriiigMr. Shel cron .entitled to the sent lae now holds was adopted by about the same vote. Among the Republicans voting nav were Mdssrs. Bingham,Cook, Dockerv and ‘Poland. Un motion of Mi. Cessna, of the Committee , on Elections, the House proceeded to the con sideration ot the contested case of Taylor vs Beading,m the Fifth District of Pennsylvania. • Mr. Cessna yielded the floor for the in troduction of the following bills, which wpre appropriately referred. By Mr. Jenckes, to revive, consolidate and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights. By Mr. Bennet, authorizing the I’improve ment of the grounds at Fort Parker, near Buf falo, IS: Y. By Mr. Clarke, to reorganize the system of the government of Indians. ’ Mr. Cessna then moved the previous ques tion on the resolutiondeclaring Caleb N. Tay lor entitled to the scat from the Fifth District ot Pennsylvania. The demand being seconded, he floor for forty minutes to Mr. Randall, who spoke against the resolution and in favor of Mr. Reading, the bitting member. Ke re viewed the testimony to show that the votes for Mr. Reading which were thrown out 1 by the. Committee were not fraudulent or illegal. THE COURTS. tii’AiiTEit Skssions— Judge I‘axsou.—John Cornell was charged with the lavcony of a gun. It appeared from the testimony that there was a shooting-match at Tacony for a gun, and Connell, a professional shooter, was employed by the parries, one of them the prosecutor, to shoot the chances which each had bought. Cornell won the gun for the party, not the prosecutor, but it was alleged that afterwards ha took the gun away. The defeneeset up that Cornell had, on the dav alter this shooting, shot for a horse, and won it lor the same party that won the gun. and he alleged that ho was to receive the cun for winning the horse; Verdict, hot: guilty; . Jn the case of the boy charged, yesterday, with malicious mischief m breaking a pane of glass worth 10 cents, resulted in a- verdict of notguilty.tho defendant to pay $5 of the costs, the balance to,be borne by the county, the ,Co6te together amounted to $1(1. to say nothing of wh additionalcost of judges* salary, pay of flpstUves ahdjiirqrs, to settle a dispute about ten cents;' ~ •/., f ' —-Ex-President Johnson will go to Europe this: spring to be gone about six months, “ where the wicked cease front troubling, and t\ie- ICiftegnth Amendment is unknown.” PRICE THREE CENTS. ; 4:30 O’Olook. (Correspondence ol tf,» PhlUdelphl. avenlM inirettrf., . PA i ß !*’ Tuesday,March 29, 1870.—Jf. Olliviac nas lost do time in acting upon the inatru®- ttons conveyed in the Emperor’s lett^^ S ai^ efore the B«nate «heplS»wl ?“£ 6er -& u Cwultom destined to introduce ge ohanges into, the prerogatives of*that I *Ws time, once for, 'AH ImneWM n (aB s e ! ! n ‘ ioll>ate9) ’ tho fcWt* M*ib» 1 ° f BOll - 1 sha » not'attpit “ Ba, r of Minister's rhthL of (#S i i 1 * S6ems to >®V expdsiUda principles and philosophy 0 f tho h ® Proposes, and in which he quotw the authority and opinions, not only of Ben jamin Constant, Voltaire and Montesquieu French, and or MachiaveUl andt Cuicciardim among the Italians, but even goes back to Aristotle and Polybius among the ancients. I think American 1 Senator would stare at such an array of {authorities, begin P«haps to doubt the quahl facabons for practical statesmanship of the speaker who dwelt upon them. However there is practical matter in M Joilivier’s prol srAH dt l tUat 1 P . Ur P° 36 dressing ■f f* her than t 0 his historical and plnloso ptacal disquisitions.' . fluuoso ,wo m °Bt'interesting points in the, mat whho d i C , OM ' dCr;ltionare undoubtedly those of the Senat 6 ’ ,1Mt ' totheconsti ‘uentauthort(y of the Senate, and, secondly, to its constitu tion. As regards the first, the Smalm tonmltum simply abrogates it entirely and replaces it by according to the with the" . e , qua ' s . har ® in *l»o legislative power Frlne % ! latn er - 111 other-words, the * rench Senate ceases to be a Constituent, and. becomes a legislative Assembly, voting with nwu PS Leg,8 ' atlf - °“ an equal footing, all bills excepting those relating to taxation? which must, in every instance, originate in the [ representabveSChamber, and be voted there hrst. In addition to the above, the 33d Article of the Constitution, which attributed to the Senate, in very vague and dangerous terms, the power of talcing all steps necessary for the government of the countrjHn case the Corps Legislatif was not in session or in existence, has also been abrogated. As has been well observed, such a power might have been used to levy taxes and enable the, Sovereign to rule without a representative assembly at all. The above are the two principal changes intro duced by the proposed measure, as regards the privileges and authority of the Sedate As regards those things which were before the • subject-matter of its constituent authority, they are disposed of first, by abstracting from them all' that does not form an essential part of the Constitution, and tlirowingiti nto the domain of ordinary lea islation; and, secondly, by placing ali that dots form such essential part of the Constitu tion under the sole and immediate jurisdic tion of the people, by whose plebiscite alone in future any changes or alterations in it can be made. • The other great question to be decided by jiff Ollivier ,was the “ constitution ”■ of the Senate* and this he has solved in a different' manner from what I recently intimated and hoped might be the case. The present Sehatus Coh sultum preserves to the ,Emperor the sole and exclusive right of nomination to the Sonate and, indeed, considerably enlarges thq privi lege. For whereas before'the Emperor cook* not nominate more than one hundred andflfty Senators, he may now exceed .that number to anyextent not surpassing two-thirds of the deputies of the othor House. In his pream ble, jSti.Ollivier makes direct allusion, with rospeot-to this subject, to the elective prin ciple, and to the American system. Somcper sons had proposed, he says, that the Senators should be elected by the Covseits Gciicraitx ’of the Departments, and had compared the latter to the American State Legislatures. M. Olh vier will not allow that any such analogy ex ists. The American State Legislatures, he say?, are real Parliaments, very different from"; the Conuils Generous, even though the powers of the latter should - be greatly enlarged by tho Commission . on 1 Decentralization, which -is now sitting. Moreover, M.OHivier remarked with consid erable effect and truth of principle, "'in America, the organization of the Senate, in all its parts, is only the natural and necessary consequence of the Federal regime,’’ which, of course, does not exist in France. In another part of his exposition, wlftm de fending and insisting upon the necessity Of “ mixed” principles of government for the na tions of Europe, he again turns his glance to ward America, and says: Trial “North America alone has found in the circumstances of place, time and racej those compensating balance-weights which our So cieties, restricted in space and hampered by secular tradition, have only been able to se cure to themselves by political combinations. This is the reason why North America alone otters to us the spectacle of a people which hits grown great under a pure democracy. But the same conditions not existing in South America, the experiment has, not there met with the same success.” . The above is only a hasty glance at the im portant measure in question and the remark able State paper by which it is preceded. They have but this moment appeared,- and T cannot yet venture to otter any opinion as : ia the reception they will meet with.or the'satis faction they are likely to afford to the country at large. !: The result of the trial at Tours will, I think be received with some surprise in America, As it certainly has been in this country., A.sooro unexpected verdict has rarely been ddUs'qhsd, for no one anticipated that, tho jufy ilwOuki view the act of the prisoner (as; 'fe have viewed it) in - 'the . light a justifiable.homicide. ’ T ’ a 0 > pot consider, ho wo ver » -that; any. serious cause quonces will flow) drphi ; the; ! acquittal; vJt' ts quite astonishing, indeed, to scehow rapidly the afuiir .seems to be passing from the public mixrd. The Iqading organs of the press' take as littlenotice bit it as possible, and evidently regard it as something which is socially diere putable to all parties concerned, aud eron F. I. ffIHEBS'ON. PnMister. foreign coKfij^poirDßiici X.ETTEB FROM PARIS. ‘ j U ' : i
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