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IN COTTONS. OJAIfXCOES—I2X and 16 Cents, FAST COLORS AND GOOD STYLES. |BO HONEYCOMB BRIDAL QUILTH, AT S3.SO—ABOUT HALF PRION. ass The Celebrated Konselceeper Manila, EXTRA HBAYY-BB CBNTS. 10-4 FEPPERAL SHEETING, 85 CENTS. Splendid lot of YARD-WIDE FRENCH CHINTZES, AT 50 CENTS—WEBB SOLO AT $l. J. COWPBRTHWAIT & 00., B. B. CORNER HINTS and ABOS BTBBBTB, aplfitr . .. Philadelphia. 10241 CHESTNUT fITBBET, E. M. NEEDLES, load Chestnut street. Hat “nfitmA’' hi* stock ** to «om *»oKd with the recent heavy ''DECLINE IN GOLD.” Ann now offers foil unna of WHITE GOODS. LACES. ZMBBOIOEBIBS. ■iimfflMS* Ain, arrest variety ofPlqufie, shirred.puffed, striped, plaid, figured, and otherfaney MTaellne, suitable lor ___ WHITB BODIES. Jnst received, a very large lot of ehclee styles Needlework, Kdilnts, anilnsertlngs, very low. Also, Dnehess, Empress, Queen Bess, and other new tty lee Collars and Seta. 10914 CHESTNUT STREET. TJ?ROM AUCTION, •I- I,OCO yds. 4-4 Bleaehed Muslin, 1,000 yds. 4 4 Bleaehed Muslin, Only 20 Cents, Only » Cents. -PlUow Case Muslin, 28 Cents. Pillow-Case Mnslln, 28 Cents. They will all go In a oonple of days apl4-tf J, H. STOKES, TO» ABOH BA STILL GREATER REDUCTIONS IN PRIORS. . i . We have made eweepln* redactions in the ptlees of DOMESTICS, and our entire Stock of Faney and Staple »ry Goode. »o es to meet Hie last fall In gold, and place the price, of all onr ntock far below the lowest market * rt ° e tlLKA eyory yariety, at reduced prioea. DBBSB GOODS at redneed plteee. MUSLINS, all the beet makes, redneed. CALICOES at greatly redneed prices. Onr entire Spring Stoek at redueed£>rljjgs, mhß-tf Non 713 and 715SortimTgSt. (SPRING DRESS GOODS, OP NEW V BTYLBB, OFBBING DAILY. Sprint atrlu yikHia, Sprint it>l« Mnranw. Sprint iSrlstjOf Poplin*. BpSindld Ortandl**. »«l«i in nntwmr. M«w itylM of PlanM. Sprint Coltnnd* Lain**. «M-W M Sonth SECOND Strut. 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"t?OR NON-RETENTION OR INOON TINBNOB of urine, irritation, Inflammation oi Mceratlon of the bladder or kidney., dieeaaee of the Nroatate xlanda, .tone la the bladder, ealeulue, «ra "rel or bnek.doat deposit, aad all diseases of the blad der, bidders aad dropsical swelllms, sea HBLM BOLD’B FLUID IXTBAOT BUGHU. VOL. B.—NO. 225. SILK. & DBY GOODS JOBBERS. 18657 «““» 1865. HALLOWELL, GARDNER, & CO., 615 CHESTNUT STREET, JAYNE’S MARBLE B tUMING, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN SHIS ASD FANCY DRY GOODS, Hare now In stoek an aneortment ol BLACK AND COLOBED DBEBS SILKA ' BLACK AND COLOBED MOOS. DE LAINES. 3-4 AND 8.*.: BLACK AND COLOBED ALPACAS. CBAPB MABBTZ, BABS9S HEBNANI. _ MOZAMBIQUE, TOIL DB NOBD. PARIS PRINTED AND PLAIN JACONETS AND ORGANDIES. PACIFIC LAWNS AND ORGANDIES. SHAWLS. MANTLES, Be. apW-lm gPRING. '1865. SPRING. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & €O., UtPOBTKM AND JOBBBBS OF DRY GOODS, 797 CHESTNUT STREET, OFFEB TO GASH BUYERS AT WHOLESALE An extensive assortment of .holee fabrtoe In fOlSICffl Ain AMKBICAir BBT 60088, At and under market ratee. At their etoek le dally replenished with the inert de* drable offerings of this and other market.. It will tlweya prove worthy ef lnepeetlon. mh7lm WHOLESALE BOOMS UP STAIRS, gPRING, 1866. ttELLOB, BAINS, & MELLOB, Noe. 4# gad 42 NOBTH THIRD STREET, ntFOSTHUS OF ■ -war m %7" JjLvJ>BsM.Jrj Jtl • JK| SMALL WARES, AND WHITE GOODS. XAnUFAOToamts of " mMO-lm EHIBT FBONTB. - gPRING—IB6S. EDMUND YARD A OCX, *l7 CHESTNUT AND 014 JAYNE STREET, HAVE NOW IN BTOBB A FULL STOCK I SILKS AND FANCY DRESS-GOODS, AMERICAN DELAINES, BALMORALS, SHAWLS AND GLOVES, WHITE GOODS. 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LINDSAY h BLAKISTON, Pnhllehera, apIO-tt No. 85 South SIXTH Street. PYTILLIAM EVANS, JR.. , , »BS» SOUTH FBONT BTBBST, Wholeeale aud JUUH Dwjer in . COLOBB. _ AMIEIOAX AND FOBSIGN WINDOW GLASS. AT LOW^T B £alklt BATES. A»M»W»r PATMBT BLABS LinMA mM-hnN |"TPWARDB OF THIRTY THOUSAND Aj eertUeatee and rteommendaterr letters hire been redyed. atteeHnc the merit, oi HELMBOLD’S Gl- NHIHB PKKPABaTIONB, nnr or which are from the Mnheet eonreaa. bdnqn, amlneut itateemu, elei (ymes.koTernon, State jadcee, Am HAH OPENED HIS MannCeetnrers of than any other. GET TH B- BEST! PHILADELPHIA HANHFAOTHBEKS OF AKD FOU PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,/APRIL 20, 1865. C jn ,fjms + THURSDAY, APRIL 20,,1865. Patent Laws Abroad. In the innocence and confiding simplici ty of our heart, we 'gave the British Go vernment fall credit for a desire to reform' the costly, cumbrous, and complicated Pa tent Laws of the United Kingdom. In the Queen’s speech, at the opening of the Par liamentary session, a distinct promise of this reform was paraded. It was a fact," also, that the question had been referred to and investigated by Commissioners specifi cally appointed for that purpose. This Commission consisted of eminent gentle- 1 men, who, from experience in office or business, might be reasonably expected to arrive at a fair conclusion. For example: Lord Stanley of Aldertey, who has been President of the Board of Tijade ; Lord Oyerstone, formerly Mr. S. Jones Lloyd, the banker Sir William Ebub, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas;; Sir, Wil liam Page Wood, Yica Chancellor of England; Sir Hugh M. Cairns, ex-Solici tor General; William Fairbairn, of Man chester, the eminent civil engineer and machinist ;,Mi. Grove, and three other practical men. ; Their report has been published, and a singular document it is. The cost of ob taining an unopposed patent in our readers may be aware, is ;$5OO, and, even when the inventor uses the utmost diligence, pressing the clerks of the va rious offices [to expedite the work, six weeks are wasted before the betters Patent are in his hand, securing him in his invention. There must be sepa rate patents taken out," if the inventor re quire protection in Scotland and Ireland, making the cost, for the United Kingdom, $1,500, which, sensible people might be justified in believing, ftks considerably too much. Not so, however, Queen Vic toria’s special Commissioners, who re port that they “do not find that the pre sent cost of obtaining letters patent is ex cessive, or the method of paynient incon venient ; they do not therefore recommend any alteration of the present system on those points.” Of course not! An unop posed patent might be issued within ten days after it was applied, for, at a cost of $25, instead of being delayed six weeks, while it is passing through thirty-five dif ferent hands, from Queen Victobia to “ Deputy Chaff-wax,” at a cost of'ssoo, and thrice that, if also extended to Ireland and Scotland; but the Commissioners do not find that the cost is excessive, or the cir cumlocution or delay at all inconvenient,, and therefore “do not recommend any alteration of the present system on those points.” All they alsorecomfeend is: 2. *That in quiry-be made, before the issue of letters patent, whether there has been any pre vious documentary publication of the in vention; that, if such has taken place, the patent shall be refused. 3. That the validity of a patent should be tiled, not before a judge and-jury, hut before a judge" and a board of scientific assessors,. selected by the judge, and paid by the, parties. 4. That the granting of licenses to -use patented inventions not to be made p|fiipulsory. 5. That. patepis ougft noito fe granted to importers of foreign indentions. ( 6. That in no case ought the term forwhich a patent is granted to be extendmfoiyond the original period of 7. That in all patents hereafter to be [granted a proviso shall be inserted to the effect that the Crown shall have the power to use any invention therein patented without pre vious license or consent of the patentee, subject to a payment of a sum to be fixed! by the treasury. 8. While, in the of the commissioners, the changes above* suggested will do something to mitigate the inconvenience now generally com plained of by the public as incident to the working of the patent law, it is their opinion that these inconveniences cannot be wholly removed. . " Two or three points in .these recommen dations are important. At present an American inventor can take out a patent in England—in his own. name, we believe, but certainly through- a-British agent, who states that the invention has been ** com municated to him by an ingenious foreign er.” It seems to us that the Commission' ers would not allow foreign inventions to be imported into England, which is not fair,'though it may be a set-off or retalia tion for our charge, of $3OO to a foreigner who takes out a patent at Washington; the fee to American citizens and intendingciti. zens being respectively $lO, $l6, or $3O. The restriction of patents for fourteen years, without any exception, seems scarce ly just, for cases may arise where, from invasion of the patent right, litigation, or ether cause, it would be only fair to extend the patentee’s exclusive period. Such cases, however, ought to be rare—though the extension of time, it appears to us, should not be peremptorily prohibited. There is no general rule without an excep tion. The inconvenience now generally com plained of as incident to the working of the British patent law “ carntot be wholly re moved,” we are told. Perhaps not; but the suggestions of the Commissioners are calculated rather to increase than diminish them. The Queen’s Commissioners, 'it may be suspected, have a pet fox in the fence whose interests they carefully look afteri Their seventh ..^commendation—that the Crown, which means any department of c the .British Government, may rise any patented invention without the patentee’s previous license or consent, subject only to a payment of a sum fixed by the Treasury —is not only a dead robbery of the patentee, but a most unconstitutional invasion of* the rights of every, British subject who, unfortunately for himself, has had ingenuity enough to invent something likely to be of public advantage: On one hand, the Queen, under her sign manual, and fur ther guaranteed by the seal or signet of the realm, grants exclusive rights to the inven tive patentee, but, on the other hand, in her Majesty’s name, the patentee is to be robbed of his-rights. The fact is, the Queen haß already come into collision with a patentee on this point. Mr. Feather patented an invention for making ships impregnable by constructing them partly of, iron and partly of Vood. He complained that the Lords of the Admi ralty, in the construction of the Enterprise, had pirated his invention, and he filed a Petition of Right for redress of his griev ance. The Crown demurred on .two grounds, first-admitting the infringement that the Crown had a perfect right to use the patent, which was one of a process of manufacture, without payment to the in ventor, and also in the manufacture of any article required by the Crown, but that if they called in the services of the paten tee, then he was entitled to such re muneration as was agreed on between him and the officers of the public de partment. The second objection was that a Petition of Right was not the proper remedy for a claim in tort. This constitutes the case-Feather vs. the Queen, which is des tined to become celebrated in the English Court of Queen’s Bench. The case was tried, and the judgment of the Court was for the Crown, but in order to allow Mr. Feather to appeal, tire Judges took time to put their decision in a written form—a thing very rarely done in England, and Which imposes an immense amount ,of un- necessary labor upon the Jiidges in the United The Judges were Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, arid Justices Crompton, Blackburn, and Mrklor. The judgment examined the: arguments pro and con, arid, then, to use the report in a Loridon paper: f | ‘ "‘lt referred to the earliest recorded grants by the Crown, both with regard to trade and commerce, arid patents and grants for other!purposes, and especially for markets, fairs, &o. Id this patent there were no express words to prevent the Crown from nsingß, and In grants from the Crown nothing parsed except,that which -Is expressly stated. AU grants of the Crown had been construed strictly against the grantee, and that-oonstraction was con firmed by that pat on the grants of fairs and mar -kets, tho OrCwn being alwayslree of tolls. It was urged that this esse was to ® oonsldered and de welded upon what Waa bonslderod trio settled state of the law; and when this prant toss--' made it was gene rally understood that a'patent could not Se used by the departments of the Crown except on payment for its use to the patentee: No doubt, when a patentee matured his Invention, and took out a patent, he did so In the hope and belief that If le was adopted by the Crown he would bo remunerated for it the same as If It had been Issued by a' private Indi vidual, and there were numerous Instances where It had .been dene. So late as 18S2 it was considered by the Crown that patentees ought to be. paid, for in that year Slr'Jbhn Jervis, the then Attorney General, appeared before the Privy, Council and Asked on behalf of the Crown that a provision should jbe Inserted In a patent to give the Crown permission to nse U without payment to the patentee. In this ease, no doubt, the patentee took out his patent in the hope and, expectation that if it was adopted in her , Majesty's Sock yards he Would be remunerated for it, and, although that tended to show that this was a -ease ot great hardship, It did not affect the con; struetton to be put upon the terms of this grant. Even if the court had been of opinion In favor of the suppliant on the. first paint, they were clearly of opinion that the suppliant could not recover by way of Petition of Bight against the Grown In a claim for tort. Under all the circumstances, their judgment was in favor of the Crown." Comment upon the injustice of this case is unnecessaTy. /If ever robbery was legal ized, if ever the usurpation of power was condoned by a Court of Law, it was in this case. We have so many members of the legal profession among our readers that we entered into details fpr their in formation, ‘ Of course, the judgment in questiori will be appealed against. We cannot be too grateful, in this country, for the existence of,a system of Patent law which cannot he perverted, as in England, to the advantage of usurped authority, to the detriment" of the ingenious inventor. Telegraphy with the Old World. One of the greatest works of modern science has -lately been completed, a work of which use should be proud, for the Elec tric Telegraph was suggested l>y Frank lin, who stole lightning from heaven and the Bceptre from tyranny, and! was first made a practical reality by Mobbe- The direct line of telegraphic communication between England and Tier .possessions in. Asia is now open, and messages are hourly passing between London and the most distant parts of British India, even to-the borders' of China itself and to Asiatic Russia. Clreat difficulties had to be overcome, of -course, before this great achievement could be accomplished. A new conducting wire was invented, (com posed .of a strand of seven small wires drawn, together in a hollow tube, and having the appearance of a solid wire,) a length of 1,500 miles had to be manufac tured, the weight was about : 6,000 tons, and not the least of many difficulties was the conveyance, in six ships, of this cable from England to its destination, a dis tance of 15,000 miles. All this has been done, however, and apparently done welE From “farther Ind” to white cliffed England, -the telegraphic commu nication has been completed. There are stations at the mouths' of the Euphrates and Jhe /Tigris, and there acre land likes from.-! .the. Tigris to Bagdad, and thence through the wilds/ of Mesopotamia, oyer the site of ancient Nineveh, and thence on to Aleppo and Constantinople. The time occupied in transmitting a message from one extremity to the other, that is from London to the boundary of China or to the - Russian station in the Amopr country, is now about eight hours and a half, but it is expected that this will be reduced to six hours'or even less. The poet’s fancy of girdling the earth in forty minutes cannot be exactly realized; perhaps, though there is no . knowing what further miracles Science may perform, but more is now done than even Ms “ philosophy hath dreamed of;” and "to waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole” is as easy now as to transmit a mes sage, along the wires, from one city police station to the other. Much has been done, but more remains to do, and therefore two efforts are being simultaneously made to -establish -a tele graphic communication between the Old World and the New. In England, so for ward is the work that it is expected that the Cable will be deposited in the Great East ern early in June, and that about the mid dle of July it will be safely attached to the coast of Newfoundland. We wish it speed, but we must here renew our protest against the unfair manner in which this country has been treated in this matter by the British shareholders. It would have been only ordinary fair-play, we submit, to have the western terminus of the Atlantic Telegraph upon the soil of the United - States, the eastern or British terminus being at Yalentia, in Ireland.' Instead of this, both termini are on British territory, and therefore wholly under British control. Should there ever unfortunately culties between the United States and Eng land, the first step taken by the latter would probably be to cutoff our communication with Europe by telegraph. Mr. Cyrus Field, to whom this probable contingency has been submitted (and who appears to act as agent for the British shareholders), has' declared that a treaty between the countries could easily provide against this! But the late Sir George Cornwall Lewis declared in the House of Commons—and ho one contradicted such an obvious truth that in time of war all international treaties were necessarily and practically inoperative. There is another telegraphic project to which nonobjections can be made. This is the Overland line, projected by Mr. Col lins, of California, adopted by the Czar, recommended by Mr. Secretary Seward, and sanctioned by the substantive approval of the United States Congress. The de sign is to connect this country with Rus sia, which would really make the-connec tion with Asia as well as with Europe,%nd has already been commenced, with great activity, by order Of the Czar, whose ope ratives are now working in concert with Major Frank Pope, Colonel Bulkley, and Major Collins, a Marmora replied In the most em phatic terms that It did not. Had not the house abolished the punishment of death, he would, be said, answer for the truth of this denial with his head; as lb was, he would answer for.lt with something he prized even more highly, viz;, his honor. Signor Visconti Venosta, the late Minister of Foreign Affairs, by whom Signor Mazzlnl de olares the treaty was signed, was equally emphatic in his denials. Public optolonybeeald, had already done justice to these pretendedTevelations, respect ing which the only thing true was the credulity with which they had been listened to. In ans wer to a suggestion from Signor Orlsjff. he denied, more over, that any conversation upon the subject of such a treaty had ever taken place at the time when the convention was being discussed.” With this year the British'Parliament has been In existence six hundred years,out'of which X-ord Palmerston has had a tenth as his share. Attempted Assassinations la Modern Times. A crime so horrible as assassination Is held In do* testation and abhorrence by every civilized people* SSt*??*® tri s? B 5 f America, by whom it is Byst*- matloally practiced, resort to It only to a venire tin ■murder of a relative. Unless under peculiar cist cnmstances, it carries with it the presumption of cowardice, the exceptions being whore- the horrid deed Is done In public, and the perpetratorplaoes hie own life In Imminent hazard, either frora-the fury or the populace or those more regular step* which lead through a judicial prooeßStoa felon’s death. The assassinol Mr. Lincoln could hardly Hope toes. eape,thongh the murderer—in Intent, If Pot in foot er Mr. Seward had'more chance In his favor. There are not wanting, In recent times, plenty of Instances of attempts being made to assassinate royalor othor eminent political personages; but they have al most Invariably miscarried from one cause or another. The attempts on the life or Napoleon 111. are flesh in the public recollection; but though they have been more than once repeated, the Em peror of the French still lives. We are many of us - old enough to remember the plot ol Flaschhto-mur derLoule Phillippe, and to raoaU the days when the Duke of Wellington found it necessary to secure Mb windows with tMok Iron shutters. Not all the vir tues of our own Queen and the love wMeh Is borne her by her subjects have protected her, at all-times, from attempts upon her life. Id 1840 a madman shot at the Queen and the Princess Royal; and at another time, a captain of dragoons assaulted her Majesty by horsewhipping her. The successful at tempt In recent times to assassinate a statesman tn the ease or Mr. Perolval, shot by Bellingham, In the lobby of the House of Commons, In 1811. Belling ham acted from a sense of personal Injury. A Bus elan merchant, he attributed his ruin toPerolvaL and took this means of revenge. At a still later date, within about twenty years, an attempt was made on the life of Sir Bobert Feel, and the ball Intended for Mm struok and kilted his private sec retary, Mr. Drummond, in 1820, was formed the Gato-sireet conspiracy, with Thlstlewood at its head, for the purpose of assassinating the whole British Cabinet, at a dinner to be given at Lord Harrow toy’s house In Grosvenor square. The conspiracy was denounced by government spies, and Thistle wood was executed for the crime. About twenty years before this time, a madman named Had fleld fired from the pit of Drury-Lane Theatre at George 111. In Ms box, and, missing Ms aim, was tried for treason, but not oonvloted, on account or his Irresponsible condition. He was 'kept in eon finement for safety. This was the second attempt on the life of that king, Margaret Nicholson having, in 1788, attempted to stab his Majesty with aknlieas he was alighting from Ms carriage near St. James’ Palace. The woman was treated as a mantao, and confined in Bethlehem Hospital. All these attempts to assasslnatoroyaland distinguished political personages taken together were not at tended with as much success as the two which were made simultaneously at WasMngton last Friday night. The success of these attempts Is more uu usual than the acts themselves. And the reasons for that success are plain. An English King may be fired at, as we have seen, from, the pit ora theatre, or an Emperor of tit F Touch may encounter an attempt at assassination the moment ho passes cut of the opera Into hla carriage; but.at Washington an Msasslu eanget Immediately be hind the CMot Magistrate In Ms box at the thea tre, s&d make sure of hls murderous purpose. Per- Clval was shot In the lobby or the House of Com mons, and Sir Bobert Peel was shot at in the street: but at Washicgtonthe assassin, with a clumsy lie In hls mouth, finds le&dy admission to the sick chamber of a feeble and emaciated minister of State, and strkes blows which he intended to be mortal. This strange facility of access to great poli tical personages having proved fatal, may cause the notions ol primitive simplicity wMeh were thought to comport with the character of that Republic to be revised, audit may henceforth be found ne oeisary to surround the President of the United states with that protection wMeh Is accorded to' Kings and Emperors In Europe, m this way the manners of the Republican court of Washington may undergo a change. Whatever may have been the motive for the assassination of Presi dents Lincoln' and the attempt on the life of Sec retary Seward, they can but Inspire horror In all right-minded persons everywhere. So for as the cause of the Southls Identified with these acts, It will suffer in the estimation of the world. There Is nothing to be gained to any cause by so horrible a crime as assassination, and mash to be lost. One or the effects will be, In this case, to exasperate tho-Noith a garnet the South, and to cause It to In sist on much harder conditions, when the question of final reoenclllatlon comes to be dlssußsed, than it otherwise would have done. There were two parties In the North; one In favor of mild measures, such as foregoing the right of confiscating the property of men who had been In arms against the Washing ton Government; the other Insisting on the hanging of Jefferson Davis whenever he should be caught, and similar measures ol extrema severity. The “malignants,” as they were not Inaptly called, were likely to have been greatly In the minority; but the temper of the North will be exasperated by the assassination of their President and the mur derous attack upon Secretary Seward, and mild and merciful councils will be likely to be forgotten In the bad feeling that will once more become pre dominant. Outside the United States these as sassinations will Injure the cause of the South In the estimation of the world, precisely in the propor tion that Southerners maybe found to bavs been in the plot or to have approved of the crime after Its perpetration. That the death of Mr. Lincoln trill alter the war policy of the Northern States cannot be supposed. He was but a representative man; and the large vote he recorded on hls re-elec lion -Bhows how mueh more fully he came- up to the Northern standard than General McClellan. The assassins have not learnt the great lesson that Indi viduals, In great emergencies, count for very little; that It la the general bent of the national mind and -not the will or the power of an individual, that con trols the policy of the nation, In elroumstanees simi lar to those or the United States. The policy of the North, be It right or wrong, will not die with Pre sident Lincoln.— Toronto Leader. The Late President’s Body Lying In ■ t ■ State. No more suggestive sight was ever seen than that around the White House on Tuesday last. It was publicly known that the doors would not be opened till 10 o’clock that morning, bnt the crowd began to gather at the gates by 8 80, and by 9 30 the line, fonr and slxpersons deep, was nearly a quarter of a mile long. The arrangements at the house for entrance and exit were the same as usual on New Tear’s re ception days, viz., entrance at the main aeor,thenoe to the Green Boom, thenee to the East Boom, and ont at the window by the customary steps. It Is scarcely an exaggeration to say that 25,000 persons passed through the rooms, and that half as many more, seeing the Immense throng, left without try ing to get In. The approaches were guarded by a battalion of veteran reserves. The East Boom, In wMoh the re mains were laid, was tastefully decorated in mourn ing, the work being aone under the supervision of Mr. John Alexander. The windows at either end of the room were draped with black barege, the frames of the mirrors between the windows, as well as those over the marblemantels,being heavily draped with the same material. The heavy gildings of the frames were thus entirely enshrouded, while the plates of the mirrors were covered with wMte crape. The chandeliers at the western and southern ends of the room,were also draped with mournlog—the cen tral chandelier having been removed to make room for the catafalque. This was a very handsome af fair—the dais or platform, on which the ooffinrested, being raised some three feet from the floor, and being covered with evergreens and japonlcas. The corpse was in charge ol several army and navy officers, among whom were Gan. Hitohoock and Gen. Eaton, ana Liout. Commander Stone, of the monitor Montauk. Bat a limited number of persons were admitted to the home at a time, and these were required to pass through as rapidly bb was consistent with decency and propriety. The expressions and appearance of the people, as they looked for the last time on the face of the honored dead, were con clusive, if farther proof were needed, that the great majority regard the President’s death as a personal ana Individual loss, as well as a national calamity. Hundreds addressed -words of farewell to the cold and Inanimate body; and thou sands passed from the platform with weeping eyes. Every class, race, and condition of sooiety was re presented In the throng of mourners, and the sad tears and farewells of whites and blacks were min gled by the coffin of him to whom humanity was everywhere the same. The most touching exhibi tions of sorrow were made by many whoße dress marked them as of the poorer Classes of society. “He was the poor man’s friend,” was a very common re mark. The vast throng outside, as well as inside, was quiet, orderly, and reverent, all day. though two to three hours was the average period of waiting for admission, and many persons wolted even five and six hours. The clerks of each of the public depart ments were marshalled at 11 o’clock, under their respective heads of bureaus, and marched In grand ana solemn procession into the White House, and passed the body in the East Boom. Such jtntonse anxiety was manifested to see the loved Ffaoelonce more, and so many persons were unable to get ah opportunity to do so, that It Is proposed now to let the body lie in state during Thursday, In the rotunda of the Capitol, and not start westward with It before Friday. Preparations to this effect are making this evening, with the con sent of Mrs. Lincoln and her friends from Illinois. The features of Mr. Lincoln retain their sweet, placid, natural expression, and the discoloration caused by the wouna Is so slight as not to amount to disfigurement. Thb Lath Prhsidbht asp his Assassin.— The personal relations existing before the murder between Booth and the President, augment the horror of the oceuiresce. Mr. Lincoln saw Booth play more than once, and particularly admired him. He once applauded him rapturously, and with all that genial heartiness for which.he was distinguished. Booth, when told of the President’s delight, said to his Informant that he would rather have the applause of a negro. The President had never spoken with Booth, bnt wished to make his acquaintance, and said so. Booth evaded the Inter view, yet he knew Mr. Lincoln thoroughly well so far as his whereabouts and appearance were con cerned, but never appreciated the President’s good nature ana personal benevolence.—A. Y. World. Thb Makeiasb of Pribstb.—A Turin corre spondent says: “ A great victory has been achieved In the Senate. The law on oivll marriages has been voted by a large majority In spite of the efforts of a minority which spared no means to obtain its fejeo tion, or at least to delay its coming Into operation. The most remarkable feature of this long discussion was the attitude of Mgr. dl Giacomo, Bishop of Allfa, who opposed alltheamendments moved by the minority, thus ImpUoltly adopting the 'substitution of civil for religious marriage. One most Important amendment, tending to declare all persons In holy oroers Incapable of contracting marriage, was re jected by a large majority, and Mgr. dl Giacomo was one of Us most eager opponents. The question of the marriage or priests, whloh has given rise to so many contrary Interpretations in France, seems to be decided in Italy fit the affirmative by the rejec tion of the amendment tending to declare them In capable of marriage. Our Italian juriioonsnlts seem all to agree on this point. In France the tri bunals have nearly always declared priests Incapa ble of marriage, because, by an article In the concordat, the registrars of marriages are bound to observe the ecclesiastical laws whloh forbid marriage to persons engaged In the higher orders of the priesthood. Here there Is nothing or the kind. All the concordats have been annulled by the over throw of the dynasties which reigned In Italy before 1889; besides, our eonoordatß oouldnot provide for the present ease, as hitherto everything relating to marriage has been subject to the exclusive jurisdic tion of the church. This vote made a profound im pression on the Senate—never before has snob agi tation prevailed in that grave assembly.’’ Gbibbppb Mazzoti. A New Joint Stock Company,—ln a town In the south of England, some youths have formed themselves into a joint stock company for breeding and selling pigeonß. A pair of these birds breed tight Or ten times in the coarse of the year, and have two at a brood. Their keep costs about Id. a week each; they will fetch Bd. each for the table when a month old, and there IB alwayß a demand for them. Fancy pigeons feteh a mueh higher price. The stock consists of ibout twenty pairs (pW»“ are monogamous), which produces nearly W mmo a year. Not long slooe the company • dividend of ten per cent. _ wfeleh roll over and over infclie alr» arewuuiycauea the company’s rolling stock. A GOOD Sug oßSTioffi—A correspondent odors to sv. wtithApitiM of the Government tbs following & relation to means taken to apprebll the murderer Booth : “ Tomany,ln dzebepnfillsbed and inserted In all the prominent iournala ofthe nation, and that posters, containing snchpletures, be prominentlyposted and scattered abroad without respect to limitation.” FOUR CENTS. (Ptf BLISS BD WBBBXY.I Tua Wax Pxsss will be «enc re juhMrtbera by enul (per annum Jq advance) - -,. ft Vive topics—™ .......... .. j(j on Ten copies . ———3 o l-arzer Clnba than Ten will be charted at the same rate. 83,00 per copy. money must always accompany the order, and tn no instance can these terms be deviated from, as thsyafOrd eery latu man than thecost of paper. TueW**ifoSjT “* tKlnMt, B to act as agents for HOME ANO FOKXIQN NOTES, Some one has asked if General Lee ooula be exchanged. The cartel agreed upon at Hax»u’s Landing, July 22,1882, between General Dlx, United States Volunteers, and General D. H. Hill, Con federate States Army, says: “A general, com mandor-ln-cMer, or an admiral, shall be exchanged for an officer of equal rank, or forty-six privates or common seamen.” Since the Federal occupation of Richmond many citizens hare made their appearance who have for two or three years fled or Md themselves to avoid oonsorlptlon. —A Hartford jury has awarded a verdict of *2,400 to a Miss Calldns, In a suit against the city for da i mages by a fal! on toy pavements last winter. | Lieutenant Webb, a so* of the belligerent Bra. Milan Plenipotentiary, was fined last week at Fo-t Trnmbull (New London), for an assanlt upon F. L. Allen, Esq., the Democratic candidate for Con gress. —Nine English peers of the Upper House have greater landed and house property in London, west and northwest of Temple Bar, than any ninety com moners of the Lower House. Here are the names of the nine htoky lords-.-1. The Duke of Bedford; 2. The Duka of Portland; 3, The Marquis of Es eter; *. The Marquis of Salisbury ;5. The MarquP Of Northampton; 6. The Marquis of Westminster ; 7. The Marquis of Camden; 8- Earl Crawn; 9. Ear! of Portland. Another considerable decrease In the pauper ism of the cotton manufacturing districts Isreported. The Poor-law Board return for the third week of I March shows a net dimmlnntlon of 2,620 paupers;! during the first three weeks of Mareh upwards of 7,300 persons went off the union relief lists. | —lt is stated the Northeastern Hallway Com pany have arranged, on and after April sd, to carry “single copies ol printed matter, newspapers, &e from and to any of the stations on the North eastern line, at the charge of one half-panny for each parcel. Arrangements have been made for the unique collection ol coins belonging to the Bank of Eng land to be transferred to the British Museum, sub ject to the right of the bank to recall them at any time. I A compoßltor employed on one of the dally! newspapers In Glasgowhas recently baen denied! the privileges of membership in the Free Church,! simply on aoeount of the fact that he Is employed j for a short time on Sundays. A great portion of the immense quantity of honey consumed in France is suppUedfrom Corsica! and Brittany, Corsica produced so much wax In ancient times that the Homans Imposed on It an annual tribute of 108,000 pounds weight. Snbse quently the Inhabitants revolted, and they wero punished by the trlbnte being raised to 200,000 pounds weight annually, which they were able to supply. I Wax is to honey In Corsica as one to fifteen, so that! the Inhabitants must have gathered 8,000,000 kilo grammes ol honey. When Corsica became a de pendency of the Papal Court It paid Its taxes itj wax, and the quantity was sufficient to supply the consumption not only of the ohnrohes In the olty of Home, bnt those In the Papal Stateß, Brittany likewise supplies a great quantity of honey, but o! Inferior quality to that of Corsica. The annual value of the honey and wax produced in that pro vince is estimated at S,oco.ooof. The Berlin Tribunal has cited a noble Gorman scamp, Prince Felix of Hohenlohe, to appear and answer actions fordebt. The prinoe’s four chateaux In Western Prussia have been seized at the Instance: of Ms creditors.. Visitors to Hombeurg were in the! habit of crowding round the roulette table whenj this prince was playing. The piles of gold which hs j would, with the utmost sang froU, place upon sj dozen cumbers out of the thirty six, were regarded! with mingled awe and wonderment. j The Homan Catholic Church In Ftiland hail sustained a severe loss by the death of Monsignor! Leon Przylnskl, Archbishop of Posen and Gresen. ' The latest news from Caprera states that Gene- 1 ral Garibaldi has perfectly recovered from hls' wound, and walks freely without limping, though! he still uses a cane. ] Prince Holtn, eldest son ofMehemed Pasha, himself a great Uon-klller, has sent lo.ooof. to the mother of Ms old Instructor In the « savage virtue of the chase ’’—Jules Gerard. It turnsout that Jules Gerard was not drowned hut assassinated by hlB guide and native followers The Empresß Eugenie has paid a visit of en couragement to the typographic workshopof Cilohy. where a number of female compositors are em ployed. Her Majesty took the most lively. Interns. In all the details, and tried her own hand, not oniy at case, but in the other departments of mauipc-' latlon. The result of her performance was a stanz via old French, the typo of which was first struck off on the 21st of March, 1568, by the hand of Mjfguerlcr de Valois, Queen of Navarre, on the occasion r her visit to the printing press of-the famous Bober: Etienne,(Robertas Stephanos). —As Italian statistician furnishes the following list of States which have abolished capital punish ment, with the dates of the abolition: Grand Duchy Of Finland, 1826 ; Louisiana, 1330; Tahiti, 1831; State of Michigan, 1848; Duchy of Nassau, 1849; Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, 1849; Duchy of Brunswick, 1849; Duchy of Coburg, 1849; State of, Bhode Island, 1852; Bepubllc of San Martino, 1859;' Tuscany, 1859; Roumanla, I 860; Grand Duchy of Weimar, 18(2; Duchy of Saxe Mennlngen, 1862; Canton of Neufchatel, 1883 ; District of Columbia, 1864. A rather startling railway project Is before the Porte—one wMoh Is to traverse the whole of Eu ropean Turkey from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, and by a branch to the Archipelago. Avion* fs the starting point, Adrianople the centre, and Varna and Enos the extreme points. j The London correspondent of the New York' News says that Mr. Seward has procured the de tails of the organization at the Fenlanx and re ported the foots to the English Government, I Literary Notices. “ Hymns for the Church on Earth,” published by Anson D. F. Randolph, New York, Is a collection o' Three Hundred Hymns and Spiritual Songs, mostly of modern date, selected and arranged by the Bev- J. C. Byle, Hector of Helmlhgham, Suffolk. This Is one of the best volumes of Bacred lyrical poetry ever produced, judiciously culled from English". Scotch, Irish, or American poets. Where It could be done, the author’s name Is given In each case. The Southern lady (the only living novelist ye . produced by Elchmondj who writes with the nom de ; plume of “Marion Harland,’’and whose “Nerae sis ’’ Is a very striking story, has brought onta new volnme entitled “Husbands aq-’iiSmes,” piriv Ushed by Sheldon & Co., Newrbrk. This book 1 may be set down as a dead IklluTt It contains half i a dozen short tales, most, If nc an, 0 r which had 1 already appeared In fitshlon-mgazlnes, and sr-1 only equal In merit to the not vty Mgb. standard o' | literary.articles In such periodlcgg, Beeelved from I J. B. Llpptoeott & Go. ” | The Bev. James K. Hosmer, formerly an arm? chaplain,haspnbllshed “The Thinking Bayonet,” a story of the war. It has a great many faults, but the character of thehero la well conceived,and forci bly as well as consistently drawn. The tale Is crowded with Incident and the interest increases 11 the close. We do not understand how a high] ? educated University soholar could have written^even at the age of seventeen, “Considerable game around,” and “I mean to try hunting some.”, Mr Hoamer Is haunted, too, by the word “patrician ” which he repeatedly applies to a Southern alnmona, who afterwards becomes aßebel. “His mind was coming upon the threshold of *The Everlasting No,’ ” may have some sublime meaning, but plain minds will think It affected nonsense. “Often his conversation Is striped, as a sergeant’s arm is striped, with the bluest blasphemy In streaks,” is miserable language. Mr. Hosmer will do well to avoid the use of patois, whether Yankee or Irish, In hlsfutnre volnmes. There Is no wit In making a man say ef Instead of if, and no Irishman on earth, ex. cept on the stage of a theatre, would ever speak of krays Instead of knees. Mr. Wells, an aged school roaster, who afflicts his correspondents with quota tions In Greek and Latin, Is a regular bore here—a derided Jnenbus on the heart of the story. Pub lished by Walker, Fuller, & Company, Boston. Re ceived from J. B. Llppincott k Co, F. J. Huntington, New York, a new pub lisher, we believe, has brought out a chamlov volume, by the Bev. Edward Spooner, an English clergyman, which Is entitled » Parson and People; or, Incidents In the Every-day Life of a Clergy, man.” This Is, most decidedly, a sound andhealthy boob, entirely free from Puritanism, cant, and affectation, m recommending it, thus strongly we suggest to our readers that their pleasure to Its perusal will certainly not be weakened by their shipping the Preface, by an American clergyman, to this edition. The preface-writer, who signs “ Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Brooklyn, E. f> ought to have left Mr. Spooner’s admirable volume to itself, Beeelved from J. B. Llpptooott & Co. The Bev. J. W. Cummings, of St. Stephen's Church, New York, one of the most elegant scho lars to the Boman Catholic Church to the United States, Is author or a pocket volnme ealled “ Spiritu al Exercises,” which, more than any book within our knowledge, reminds us of Blaise Pascal’s beau tfful “PensOes sur la Religion.’’ The intention or Dr. Cummings was to explain Catholic morals to a plain way, “to tell people of common intelligence what they are expeoted to do to order to he good Christians, and how they shail do it,and there-’ suits that will follow. That Is, if he does not « set j up his own pergonal views against the teachings of j rise Chnroh.” There are fifty-two short, practical j essays to this volnme, mid Christians or all shades] of heller may read it with advantage. It* Is not at] all controversial. New York s P. O’Shea. Be- < ceived from J. B. Llpptoeott & Co. j Peterson’s “Life and Public Services of Abra J ham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United > States ” though written for too familiarly (the j dignity of biography Is violated when its subject Is] repeatedly called “Abe), gives an accurate general i View of Mr. Lincoln’s career, from Ms birth, over [ fifty-six years ago, to the time or his re-election, at 5 the close of last year. His Inaugurals, speeches, •' public letters, and proclamations,are all given,] which-make the biography valuable for reference | Published by T. B. Peterson, SO® Chestnut street, j . We have received The Dental Cosmos, a very use ful and well-edited class periodical, and TAe Ameri can Exchange and Seeiea, chiefly devoted to finance, mtotog, insurance, railroad, manufactures, patents, trade, jotot-stook associations, commerce, and soolal and economic science. The opening paper, on “The Mines of Cornwall,” has evidently been written by one personally acquainted with the lo cality and its productions. “American History,” relating to events of the war, win probably be com pleted, to tills magazine, about the year 1900, if con tinued at ita present rate of six or eight pages a month.