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[THIRD BE3ioN.I Private Bills' Considered and Passed—Mr. Jenckes Civil •Ser ,yice Bill -Denounced by Mr. Logan. [By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gant : z WAsttmeTON ;January 8, 1869. SENATE. ll i Mr. RICE introduced a bill to create a new judicial district in Kentucky. Re . ferrecf to the - Judiciary Committee and or dered printed. Mr. PATTERSON, of New Hampshire, introduced a bill to repeal the usury laws in the District of. Columbia.• Referred. Mr. SPENCER introduced a bill to regu late the price and encourage the production --of cotton in the;United. States. "Referred to the Committee on Finance. On motion of Mr.,,THAYER, a bill to , , conirm the title of 'certain lands in Ne braska, and a bill Supplementary - thereto, .were taken up and passed.. Tbe morning hour having expired, the 7 1 - 411 for the relief of Sue Muyfy, of Decatur, - came Mr. POMEROY, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported. back, without amendment, a bill granting lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the cofistruc tion of Green Bay and Lake Pepin Rail way. Ten alternate sections per mile are granted on each side of the road. Mr. FOWLER introduced a bill to amend the act of July 4th, 1864, to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, which was referred to the Committee on Judic iary: It provides for the payment to citi zens of such States as are now entitled to the - .benefits of .said . act - of claims for stores furnished to the Engineer and Ordnance Department. of the artily. A -long debate followed, but no action was taken. The Senate then- took up and passed a bill for relief of R.. W. Best and Samuel Philips, of North Carolina, and - then adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The House proceeded, as bu-iness of the .morning hour on Fridiy, to the call of Committees for•bills of a private character, and took tip the bill reported by Mr. FERRY, from the Postoflice Committee, on the 18th of December last, to allow Lewis D. Smith Postmaster at lonia, Michigan, -credit for public money and stamps stolen from his possession. not exceeding $1,861. After considerable discussion 4 the .bill WaS passed. - Mr. LINCOLN,' from Postomce Commit , . tee, reported a bill to make an additional -allowance to E. B. Hoag on a mail contract. Passed. Also, a bill allowing compensation to IL S.` Gibbons, Postmaster at St. Johns, Michigan, for money stolen from him ho-' - longing to the Postofflce. Passed. Mr. FARNSWORTB, from the Commit tee on Recopstruction, reported a bill re lieving from legal and political disabilities R. W. Best and Samuel Phillips, one a -clerk and the other a reporter of the Su preme Court of North Carolina. Passed. Mr. SCHENCK, from; the Committee on Ways and Means, reported .a bill amending the secoria Section of the law of March 31st, 1838, to, exempt certain pianufacturers . from internal - la*, so as to extend Its pr, visions to maniffacturers of naval machin ery for the .government, and remitting such taxes as had not accrued-prior,to,the let of April, 1868. "• - Oa motion of Mr. WASHBHRNE, liii nois, the naval appropriatioh bill was made the special order for Nionday neXt. Mr. BROOKS reserved the right of mak - sing points of order on- the various sections • of the bill. The House at two o'clock went into • a Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr,:llubbard, N.N.,in the Chair, on the Military Academy bill, and an hour and a half being allowed for general debate, Mr. LOUAN addressed the Committee in opposition to Mr. Jenckes' civil service bill, discussing, the whole matter and de daring that he desired the :business of this government to- •be discharged with the utmost intelligence, fidelity and despatch, and upon the principle of scrupulous economy, and that the employee shall re. •cleve such compensation as will make them proof against dishonesty. He would vote, for any practical measures, to bring about such reform, but he was opposed,to the establishment of a life tenure in office system, so opposed to the geniiis and spirit of our Institutions and • ! people, and regarded with so much appre ; hension by the debaters on the COnstitution. Beiheld that the people aro the rulers of theccounery, and that their representatives have no right to create a power not liable to their decision. The• whole bill be de -clared.to be an opekning wedge to an aristoc racy Which, once established bylaw, would result in two schools in this country, one for military and the other for civil educa tion, which schools would monopolize all the avenues of approach to the govern < went "and might, in the event of another war, prove a most formidable enemy. He appealed to the friends of those - who died on , their country's altar, that this great .government might bi preserved in form and in name, to ate that the law should , never again, adopt another code that would make men less free. • Mr. JENCKES replied : The key note of ,• -the gentleman's speech had been that the bill created offices With'a life tenure, and therefore. should not be Countenanced. 'The bill proposed no such thing. It pro , posed that the incumbentof an office should hold it only during the efficiency of his service, which _was an entirely different thing. In other words, it proposed that every person, in the service of the Govern went should render to the people an equiv alent for his compensation. Re ridiculed the idea bf the bill creating,an aristocracy, t saying it merely provided the means of knowledge for the' President and of pre >, -senting to him the names of persons quail ," Led for the various offices. . ! The general debate being, closed, the Mil ' itary Academy apprdpriation bill was con sidered and ordered to be , reported to the House. It apprOpriates V,715 58. J The Committee arose and the bill was - Teased by the House. - The House at 3:40 Went into Committee H of the Whole on-the State of the Union, IMr. Wilson, of lowa, in the chair, ou the President's message of 1807, and w as a d_ dressed by Mr. I3GYER, in a areech on i general politics, in reply chiefly to a .speech made by Mr. Bletine, of Me., before f! -recess. The Committee rose and the House ad - r s purned to Mouday. NEWS BY CABLE. The Eastern Question—Anxiety Concerning Turkey—Great Agi tation Throughout LBy Telegraph to the DittaborghGazette.) GREECE AND TURKEY. IZiENNA, Janusry B.—The Presse of this city asserts that •the representative of the Greek Government at the Paris Conference will not be permitted to offer any proposi tion, but will attend only for the purpose of giving infOrmation in regard to Subjects under dismission . . , The . Confeience will frame a project-of 4ttlemeut, which it will be the duty of Greecete adopt, after its ac ceptance by the Sublime Porte and the withdrawal of the Turkish ultimatum. LONDON, January S.-The firm atittude of Turkey on the Eastern question excites much alarm. SPAIN PARIS, January S.—A rumor is current here that an insurrection has broken out in Milan. Dispatches from Madrid report much agitation prevails in all parts of Spain. PARIS; January B.—The Spanish Govern ment is about to establish a corps of obser vation on the Pyrennes. MARINE NEWS SOUTHAMPTON, January B.—The steam ship West Philadelphia from New . York arrived this afkernoon; FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL LogrioN, January B.—Evenirg—Consols closed at 91% for money- and 92%292%. for account. 5.20 bonds quiet at 71. Stocks heavy, Frie 26%, Illinois 95V 0 PitaNKFORT, January B.—Bonds at - 79%a 79 1 A. LIVER P.' OL, January- B.—CottoM sales of the week amounted to 82,b00 bales,- of -which 20,000 bales for export, and--13,000 bales of speculation. The stock ou hand is estimated at 350,600 bales, of which 94.000 bales from America. The quantity afloat for Liverpool is 383,000 bales, including 111,000 bales; American. Market closed firm to-da}; sales of 12,000 balesof middling uplands at Ild. to arrive, 11d. do. for Or leans, for Manchester. Breadstuffs are less favorable. No. 2 red western wheat 10s.al0s., 2d. Flour 2.35., for western. CO'rn 375..,. for old mixed western and 355., for new. Oats and Ririe/ unchanged. Peas 455. Lard 455., dd., per cwt. Bacon 6Gs., 6d. Pork • firm at 92.5., dd. Beef at 10`,s. Cheese 71s. Naval Stores firm. Tallow 475. Petroleum unchanged._ , • Loxims, January:B —El:ming—Linseed Oil 27 pounds 15s. • Tallow 4tis.'; dd. Cal-, cutta Lindsaed 611.. dd.,as7s. Petroleum at Antwerp 54a5414 francs. • FRANKFORT, ' Jan uary 8. —Even Mg.-- American bonds closed Grin, and are quo ted at 794g79!.g. PARIS, January B.—Evening.—Bourse is weak. ' Rentes, 70 francs, 17 centimes. HAvnE, January B.—E:rening.—The Cot on market is dull; troy ordinaire, on spot, 27 francs. NEW 'YORK CITY • (By Telegraph to the l'ittsbnzgh Gazette.] Collision in 'the Sound-Submarl'tie• Cable Company—The Injunction Against 111er . chants Union Express ccimpany Modified . : —ltie . solistbitis or Sympathy for Cretaus to theirStruigl for Autonomy. NEW( YORK, January B:—The Newport steamer Old Colony, when opposite Execu tion- Rock, in the Sound, about six last evening, ran into a schoOner loaded with gravel, bound for this city. The bowsprit .of the schooner was broken; and two of the crew in fright leaped overhoard , and were drewned, The steamer loWered two boats, tlie first of which was swamped. The calla. took three men to the schooner. who suc ceeded in working her into G:en Cove. The Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolution recommending :Congress to grant the memorial of the New York and New Foundlund Telegraph Company for permission to land a submarine cable on the shores of the United States. . , In the, ease. of Blatchford against Ross the following order was • issued to-day by Judge Ingraham : "The order of injunc tion made in, this action 'by me is so far modified as not to interrupt , the carrying on of the express business now being trans acted by the American Ilerchants Union Exprest Co., or to prevent . the Company from using in said business property actu ally transferred and delivered to it by the -Merchants , Union , ' Ex press Co. before the service of said order of injunction." A meeting was held this evening in - Cooper Institute for the purpose of ex pressing sympathy for the Cretans in th-ir struggle for autonomy.` The:attendance was large and included some of the lead ing niinds, of the city. William Cullen Bryant presided. Addresses were made by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. Crosby, Dr. Bellows and ex-lieut. Gov. Woolfori. A-preamble fad resolutions were adopted reciting the fundamental and inherent right of self government and concluding with;s. pledge of the warmest sympathy ou the -part of the American . people. Missouri United Stateg Senatorfihip. ;fly 'releFraeh to the PttWnlrgh Gazette.) ST. Loins, janu'ary general caucus of the Missouri legislature .Was held at Jefferson City last nignt, Co hoar Generals Scburz and Loan, candidates for - the United States Senatorship' , define -their positions. The caucus turned out to be a mass meet ing, and was largely attended by the citi zens generally, as well as .the members. General Loan, being unwell, WIJEI not pres ent. The discussion was intended mainly to give General Schurz an opportunity to reply to the'eharges of: his oyponent—that he is in favor of immediately enfranchising rebels; and turning the State over to the hands of the enemy. A special to the 4 nzicgcr gives the follow ing account of the proceedings of the meet ing : General Sehurzdistinctly-denled the above charge, and stated he was astonished at it, after so frequently anti 'emphatical I y declaring his posit,on on the question. He, divided the question - into two parts—Fed -eral and State—and said in the--United States Senate he would support the follow ing amendments r First;—Genisial suffrage, without distinction of color or previous condition,- but recognizing -the right 01- l a • State to disfranchise -on account of felony or rebellion. -Second--;Art amendment to reduce every. rebellious Stale to territorial condition. So far as Missouri was con cerned, negro suffrage Was a justice dope the negro, and rebel suffrage was a grace to be done to the - - disloyal..lle was firstfor justice and- second for grace. Ho was for repealing the disfranchisement act only after negro suffrage was adopted. Ho ridi culed the comstitutional performances of Drake Sc Co., and said, had he been a mem ber of the Convention be never would have consented to make enfranchisement easier . than negro suffrage, as the Drake Constitu tion did. Ho severely criticised both - Senators Drake and Henderson for leaving Washington at so critical a moment only for the purpcse of defeating him. PTITSETTNGII, SATURDAY, JAINU A 11Y '18e.9. HUN trp" 11 1 . itt :ii in,:., FOUR oNcr.ocn A. Id. THE CAPITAL. Cabinet Meeting—Supreme Court —Excess of Internal 'Revenue Officers —Revenue Frauds—The Texas Conventlon—Central Pa - ' Railroad—lnfernational Penny Postage—The Virginia Committee. [By Telegtaph to the Pittebtrith Gazette., WASHINGTON, January 8, 1869. ' CABINET MEETING. There was a full attendance at the-regu lar Cabinet meeting to-day. • General Prank P. Blair had au int3rview with the President this forenoon, SUPREME COURT. The argument In the case of George W. White et. 'at., an original case in equity,has been fixed by the Supreme Court for the ,first day in February. This suit involves many important questions in connection with the disposal or Texas bonds in that =State during the rebellion. REVENUE STOREKEEPERS. Fifty internal revenue storekeepers were appointed for New.Ym k, who are nut as signed to duty an yet, there being no de mand for their serviced.. A sufficient num ber has been appointed for all other sections throughout the country, excepting the Fourth Kentucky District. Many of those who have been appointed are without as signment to duty. 'Tau TEXAS CONVENTION, Information has been received that the Texas Convention has passed au ordinance giving the right of way to the Interna tional Pacific Railroad from the eastern and western border of that State, and a reservation of twenty miles on each side of the road, the road to be completed within" six years. This road 1t one of the connect ing links of the international line from Cairo to San Blas, on the Pacific. Ocean. The Convention is debating the question of dividing the State. CENTRAL Ractrte eAfteoAn. Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad are running on schedule time to Carlin, in the north-east corner of Nevada, six hundred DOLOR distant from San Francisco. Tue trackl;tyers are at Humboldt Canon, twen tv.five miles further east. No interrup tion has occurred from snows so far, the twenty-two miles of euow sheds at the 'summit of the Sierras working With-Etc torily. The commercial business of the Central for lle - Ceinber exceeded f:;;',310,000. INTERNATIONAL PENNY POSTAGE. A cable dispatch states . that. the system of penny postage between Great Britaid • and this country is advocated by a large number of members ;of . rue new Brush Parliament, and that ;a memorial, signed by hundreds of the members of Par 'fitment, has been presented to Reverdy Johnson, requesting I him to urge the American Gov erumentto adopt the system , of postage between the United States and Great Britain. The LOudon• Times prints the memorial and comments favorably thereon. This is grati . l2,-ing to Postmaster General Randall, wh favors cheap rates of international postage. In negotiating the present postal convention with Great Britain, Which went into operatiOU on the first of January lest., the United States office proposed and urged a further retitle-. lion of the international letter rate of post. age, but without success, the British of fice' declining any reduction. An • impor tant reduction of the postage to Great Britain and the countries on the Continent of Europe, amounting to auout one half of the rates pi eviously charged, has been - made by the recent postal conventions with those countries, and Postmaster General Randall is ready and anxious to further re duce the present rates Of postage to the lowest - practicablei standard; The members of Parliament and British public who favor this important!postal reform should there- Jere'menioralieb their owd governlnent ou the subject, as the opposition of the Brit ish pustothce to a eheaptr rate of postage is the only obstacle to accomplish this object. . . ' THE VIRGINIA. COMMITTEE. The Committee appointed by a Confer ence of citizens:from different parts of Vir ginia, which Mot at Riblimond December aist, arrived here to-day. Their object is to ascertain the bast terms on which Vir ginia can be restored to the Union. The action of the COmmittee is to be submitted ton Cchiveritipn of delegates elected by the people, to be held in Richmond on the 10th of February. The Committee .held a pre liminary meeting to-night. HONORABLY DISCLIARGED. It • was recently. stated thiit Lucius F. Rolfe had been arrested on a charge of pre senting a! fraudulent claim against the Treasury ,Department. Ile—had a hearing to-daY-before U.'S.' eotritnisSioner Drown, 'who honorlibly discharged him. REVENUE FRAUDS IN LOUISIANA. Supervisor Creery, of the limishina Dis trict, is still in the City engaged in the in vestigation of frauds. recently discovered by him in that Suite. He will return iu few days to New Orleans. NATURALIZATION FRAUD CASE. The Rosenberg fraudulent naturalization ease, which has been certitied from the Cir euit Court of New York to the Supremo Court of the United States, will soon be argued. NEW YORK. REVENUE. FRAUDS. The Select Committee examining into the alleged frauds in the State of New York has already taken testimony enough to make eight hundred printed octave pages. Maine United States Senatorship. (By Telegraph to the filtAbergh Gaxette. AnnuerA, JanuarY• B.—The great Smut ted:al contest Is virtually settled. The -ex citement has, passed away and it is con ceded that Hamlin will receive the unani mous support of his party at the election, a week from Tuesday, next. —Tbe Lonisville,, Harrisburg Sc Virginia. :Railroad Company' has been fully °ma nized by the eleetiortof the following offi cers: President, Henry Dent;. Vice Presi dent, GePet_goard; Treasurer and Secre tary, Geo. W. Morris; Directors, Jacob L. Smvser, Thos. J. Tapp, Julius Dorn. W. B. Hoke and Henry Dent. Mr. Patton, the c hief engineer, submitted a very interest ing report, which was read. —Gon. Rousseau, commanding the Dis trict Of Louisiana and Texas, (the Fifth,) died at New• Orleans yesterday. Gen. Bu chanan assumed tomMand by virtue of sehiority.' His order assuming command simply announces the fact. —John Minor Botts is dead. His - remains will be taken from Culpepper to Richmond, Ira., lute:Mem. t WEST INDIE'7'. —a-- The Cuban Insurrection— Peat c Pr..spects —l2eporttu of Engagements—Revolution ary clue& ReTlve to Declare, All Slims Free Aru ae.ty Proclamation by the Captain Oeneral—Advices froth, Hayti. [ by Telegraph to the Pittsbureh Gazette.l 1-Lcv.ANA., January B.—The Proclamation of Captsin General Duke is favorably re ceived by the majority of the people, but is disliked by the extremists 'of both the Spanish, and Cuban parties.. . It is rumored an interview will soon take place between General Dulce and promi nent revolutionists in Havana. Should the Meeting be succeseful, it would tend mate tidily to the restoration of peace in the is-lend. Nevi's is received from Nassau that a schooner recently arrived from Cuba, after successfully landing fifty recruits and two hundred muskets for the insurgents. Many report's of engagements between troops and rebels in the interior are circu lating, but none of them hive yet received confirmation. The correspOndent of the New York Times ' at Bayamo, says the revolutionary chiefs have concluded to issue a proclama tion making all slaves free, and' fixing a day after whibla they shall receive pay for their labor, and they propose to carry this resolution into immediate effect. HAvxwA, January B.—The Gazetta will publish to-morrow a proclamation by the Captain General, granting general and ab solute ainnesty -of all political offenses, pardoning all persons, whether now con fined in prison or hiding, or absent from the country. General Dulce will Issue another proclamation to-morrow dissolving the military commission and restoring lull iuriscliction to the civil Courts. Within a few days General Dulce will promulgate the law establishing liberty of the, press. The public prints will be per mitted to discuss, without intervention of the public censorship, all questions except those relating to slavery,and the dogmas of the Catholic religion. The British war steamer Eclipse has ar riVed with Important news from Port-an- Prince. The Haytien, steamer _Salnave seized the British schooner Couch, from St. Marie with a cargo of cotton' and coffee, and carried her into Port-an-Prince las a prize. It was reported that the United States Consul at. Aux Cayes had been savagely handled by the revolution• ists, but the story is not credited. An at tack was about to be made on the port of Aquin. President Salnave has ordered his steadiers to attack the port in front, while he will personally superintend the landing of the forces in rear of the place. The women and children have all taken refuge in ships in the harbor. There was a tight at Aux Cayes on Christmas, In which the citizens and troops defeated the Piqnets. CHICAGO. School Ded lc:Mon—Swindler Arrested - e!eyinottr E.iipress Robbers—s.tieet Balli;- road War —iircision in Bankruptcy-- Huard of Trade la COurt. By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.; CHICAGO, January B.—The new Franklin School building, ereeted at , a cost of fifty thousand, dollars, on - the forth side, was dedicated today. • The arrest of a Swindler, named Horton, who has . been operating since Christmas, prevented several merchants and railroad cbmpanies from, being heavily, victimized. When arrested last night he had certifi cates of deposit and notes amounting to a large sum. . . Allen Pinkerton emphatically denies Detective Felker's statement that the Reuos and Anderson were innocent of the express robbery at Seymour,lndiana, and that • Felker knew, and could have arrested, the 'guilty parties. Pinker:on reiterates that Anderson and tbo•Renos were the crimi nals. - • The Street Railroad war has been carried into the Circuit CI •urt by an information against the West Side Railroad, with a view E o the forfeiture- , of its charter. The com plainant, Mr Daniel Worthington, makes three charges: that it is an imposition to charge more for a single ticket than for ten when they are sold,together, that the Company refuse to lay a track on Milwau kee avenue as their franchise declares, and that the charter is forfeited by the Compa ny refusing to furnish the public with ade quate accommodations.' A public meeting is to be held to hear reports on the matter 1 next Monday. . • - -' Judge Drummond,•in the United States District Court, to-day decided that upon a proper showing by a bankrupt he would lissue an injunction to restrain the sheriff from selling the stock of goods of a debtor, -awl that the inference of the judgment creditor could not be allowed until the crecßtors appeared duly in court. lii the Superior Court to-day, the Board of Trade of this city interposed their an iu•the injunction suit to prevent their expelling Murray, Nelson St Co. from the privileges of the Board. The Directors deny that they were 'parties to the late "corner" on corn, and uphold the by-laws and regulations of the Board as being legal, and assert that their action is based upon these by,laws. The case will come up for hearing tomorrow on the motion to dis solve the Injunction. ' - MEMPHIS. Cowardly Murder ay a Gambler.-The Arm !Lamas muitta. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.) MI.:311'111s, January B.—A. shooting affray occurred at ten o'clock this morning, corner of Second and Market streets, resulting in the death of Edwin Whitfield, of the firm of Moore and Whithfield, cotton factors, by T. A. Doran, a gambler.' Doran had rented a house from Whitfield's , father and kept such disreputable•company that an attempt was inade - in the'courts to eject him Do ran this morning published a card in the -Avalanche, denouncing both Whittields as thieves, liars and poltroons. Edwin Whit field and Maj. Moore went to the house for the purpose, it, is supposed, of chastising 'Doran. , On knocking at the door, it was opened and as Whitfield entered, the door was slammed in Moore's face and locked. • Shooting - commenced Himultaueouvly with the locking of the • door, when Moore and a crowd, attracted by the firing,.: burst _ opfm.. the door. Whit field Was found lying on the floor, dying, Dbrataiatid two women standing in the. centre of the rooraerled out , that they sur rendered. He and the women were taken to -jail. - Whitfield's pieta was found ,on him, never' havig been drown. He was shot thrpugh the 'body five times and beaten over the head with a pistol . . • There is strong talk orlynching Doran. Whitfield was an' exemplary young man, recently married, and during the war served on the staff of Gen. Dick Taylor. Mr. Dillard was also killed by the Ar kansas militia, at Fifteen Mile Bayou, as well as John Argan, as reported last night. Officers of the steamer Linton report that the militia boarded her near Madison, help ed themselves to the contents of the bar and abused the officers, who ordered them to leave. As the boat backed out they fired into her, the barkeeper barely escaping with. We life. E 3EAMS. —The thermometer at Cincinnati yesj tent:iv stood at 52: barometer 29:20. —The grorers of Philadelphia, five thou sand in number, have formed a protective 110 1011. —The reeoiptsi of the Girard estate, Phila. clelphia,last year amounted to nearly half a million dollars. —The Fails C.ty Sc Vincennes Railroad Company was .temporarily organized at New Albany, Ind.; yesterday. —Mr. Eggleston, of Cincinnati, announces that he will contest the seat of P. W. Strader, in the next Congress. —who fourth annual meeting of the New Hampshire veterans was held yesterday at Concord. There was a large attendance. —A vessel, supposed to be the A.R. Dun lap, from Boston to Halifax, has been wrecked on the coast and all on board lost. —Rev. Mr. Sparrow was assaulted and stabbed, by one Christie, at Eldorado, Canada, on Thursday night.. Christie has been arrested. --Sixty civilian clerk . B of; the Freedmen's Bureau at New Orleans were discharged yesterday, reducing the establishment to quite small proportions. —The large flouring and grist mill of S. S. Stevens at Big Flats, near Elmira, N. Y. ' was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss 10,000; insurance $7,500. —The Legislature of Kentucky adjourn ed t oyer yesterday in commemoration of the battle of New Orleans. A national salute was fired at Frankfort. —lda Eddy, a young lady of Philadel phia, while practising with a pistol on Thnrsday,had her right hand blown off by the premature discharge of the weapon. —Gen. B. F. Mitler has been employed to prosecute Samuel Bowles, of the Spring field, (Mass.,) Republican, for his editorial remarks concerning James Fiske, Jr. —Nine car loads of hay, attaChed to a freight train from Millstone, caught fire on the Jersey road, near Rahway, Thursday night. Four cars were destroyed and others damtted. —The Standing Committee of the Protes tant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania -have refused, by a unanimous vote; to sign a testimonial for Rev. Dr. Doane, recently elected Bishop of the new Diocese of Al bany, New York. —At the execution of Wooley, at Free bold, N. J., on the 7th iOstant, a large number of well dressed women were pres ent, and while the wretch was stilltanging a crowd of.school children were - admitted to witness the spectacle. —The City Councils of Cincinnati yester day passed resolutions requesting the Legislature to authorize it to issue one and a half million dollar of bonds for city lm ' p -ovement; also, a/resoiution purchasing fn - ty-ono acres addition to Eden Park for $1.15,009, on a ten years' tease. - • STATE NEWS. &24 pound wild turkey was lately shot near Newry; Blair county. • It measured nearly five feet from beak td tail. DONNELLY'S mill, near Hillside, on the Pennsylvania,Railroad, was destroyed by fire on Mondanight of last week. Loss $6,000. ON Tuesday the fire danip in one of the C. 1. Co.'s mines, at Johnstown, exploded, killing two men and seriously if not fatally injuring several others. A LITTLE son of Mr. Daniel Hoover, of Waynesboro, was fatally scalded by upset ting a large crock of .boiling water over himself last Wednesday week. ,‘ Roma WALKER, of Danville, died last week, aged eighty-five. The deceased emi grated to this country froin Ireland in 1819: 11c was one of the oldest members of the Masonic fraternity, having belonged to that order for over sixty years. HAnmsnurto and Pottstown are growling over the excessive faithfulness of the police to their duty in cutting off the gas after a certain hour at night, no matter what the condition of the evening may be as tcolight from the natural lamps hung in the heavens. Tim Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railroad Company is about to lay a third rail of narrow gauge between Scranton and New Hampton, a distance of eighty-three miles. With this rail down, the road named can reciprocate traffic without change of cars with all the great Pennsylvania and New Jersey railroads'. TUE Sunbury Whig says: "We under stand that Wm. J. Bear, Esq., has been au- , thorized to make arrangements fot the im; mediate delivery of telegraph poles on the, line of the Connellsville railroad, from Ursina westward, it being the intention of the company to erect 'a line at the earliest practicable moment." A:GERMAN named Fitres, murdered a countryman of his named Stein last Wed -nesday week, near Shippensburg, by strik ing him on the head with an axe and then chopping off his head. He let the body lie in the woods until Friday when he bu ried it, but there was snow on tie ground and his footprints were followed, the horrid corpse discovered, dug up and brought to town, where the murderer was arrested and confronted with it. He confessed the deed and is now in gaol. Arc old lady named Torms Was found dead to her bed near Mercersburg, the other day. Some time ago the nephew of the old lady died suddenly and she shortly afterwards made over all her property—no inconsider able amount —to a man named Jones, who was, unknown to her, living too intimately with her servant girl. The property was made over on condition that Jones would keep and take care of her as long as she lived. As Jones is of bad character, and as tbe old lady's death was an advantage to him, he and the servant have been arrested ou suspicion of foul play, and the stomach of the deceased is being analyzed. STEEL, it is asserted, has become the name of a genus composed of a large varie ty of species. Ordinary steel is aicompound of iron' and carbon, the latter' ingredient making from one:to one and a half per cent. of the metal. The carbon, however, by later manipulations, is replaced by other chemical elements and the results are steels described as alloys of iron and of tungsten, manganese, chromium or titanium respect ively. Other substances also can enter into combination with iron, as is the case with the silicon steel of the French chemists, where the iron is combined with silicon, the base of flint. Drawing an analogy from this latter compound, it is argued that boron, the base 01 borax, will also combine with iron, ,and that the tools possessing most extraor dinary hardness and cutting powers recently made in Glasgow are composed of boron steel. The instruments mention( d, it is as serted, performed thirteen times the amount of cutting work of an ordinary tool of car bon, steel. NUMBER 10.1; 1 —'. Arrest of Consumption. 1 - • • There IF no mnin!ly v, iiiell causes so large a mortality as consumption. Statistics show that, throughout the civilized world; an average of one death in six, every six in the lists ;of mortality, may be :attributed to its agency. 'though our own city shows a smaller average from this scourge, yet it is computed that even here it is the cause of one death in every seven or eight. It was formerly considered an incurable disease, and was often left noiselessly to run its fatal course unchecked ; but modern investiga tion and science have proved-that the tuber cular deposit, to which all its dread results may be traced, will frequently diminish under suitable treatment. This is fur ther proved by post mortem examina tions, where death hits occurred from other . causes, in which the lungs, scarred and puckered, attested the healthy closing of two and even three large tubercular cavities. Few are aware how muck the prevention and even cure of this dread disease depends upon their own. offorts. An eminent Amer ican physician has recently declared that, with pro Per precautions by any one now in health, consumpti,on will be well nigh an impossibility, even though hereditary influ ences may predispoise him to it, and that even those who are already under its grasp may have hope of arresting its ravages. The plain and simple principle, which din this case is the essence of ail-wise - treatment, is to raise the physical system to the highest possible vigor. In company with thise of the best curatives and preventives is to expand and strengthen the lungs themsel es by deep inspirations or breathing in of p re air. These inspirations should be ;ni de as slowly as possible 'through ai s all tube or with the mouth nearly. clos ed, and with the shoulders thrown. back and downwards. When the lungs or chest are filled, the air should be as slowly and gradually breathed out. By continual practice it will--be found easy to take long and deep inspirations, and the chest: itself will become permanently expanded; 'so' as _ give the lungs fuller play. Where strength has begun to decline, the efforts must be proportionally milder. As the air at first .:. enters the lower part of the lungs it only fills - the apex after a long and sustained 'effort, and hence; the necessity of making the in spiration as slow as possible. Six times a day in khe open air is not too much for this exercise. Indeed, the great advantage of mild , or dry climates to consumptives is the possibility of passing so much of the time out of doors. Much is justly said of the pure and bracing air of Minnesota, but those . who go there for lung diseases should re member that only as .hey breathe the are outside air habitually -can it prove benefi cial. A lady with tubular deposits and. severecough - Went here sometime since, and a month spent in the. ordinary way brought her no Iprovement; She then joined a camping pa ty of ladies and gentle men, who started in an open wagon, and slept in tents at night. After three days', exposure to this open air she manifestly imprnved,.and, though frequently exposed in the evening,' took no cold. The continn- - ance of this mode of life restored her health and so strengthened her constitution that in two months she could sleep with impunity while the air was bloWing freely across her. Many similar, and even more remarkable instances took place among the poling men of our army i in the late war, many of whom enlisted agtunst the advice of their friends, and returned with greatly improved physic al constitutions. The exercise thus induced is most essential to the desired end. Abundance of nutritious and wholesoine food, including fatty articles, is essential in the arrest of consumption. Most of. those who have such tendencies reject fat meat, but its. place may be supplied with butter, milk or cream. Restriction - in diet in:these cases is highly injurious.' The dress is alio a matter bearing strongly on the health 'of the lungs,Woolen fabrics worn next the skin; an warm covering for the extrem ities are all important. So also is the shape of the garment, - which should allow full. .play to the muscles. Relief from care and anxiety, as far as it can be secured, is im portant, but even where .this is impoisible, attentionso the other requisites, so simple as to be within the power of every intelli gent person, will in many cases prevent and in most incipient cases sliest the pro gress of this most distressing °Pall maladies. Giant's Inflexible Line. A Washington letter, reporting thq wri ter's recent interview with the Pretident elect, closes with the following highly inter esting statement: This conversation shows that whatever he may hereafter do he now.stands by his past record. He means that a citizen of the. *United States shall be recognized as such. and secured and protected in his righis and •. privilegei in every State; that the freedom of the freedman shall be recognized and his labor fairly compensated; that the national obligations shall not be increased, and that the promoters of the late war at the Smith • shall not be aided by the Government in re pairing the damages occasioned by the war. The result of the interview was a strong conviction that Grant is a Radical in the most radical sense of the political term, that all parties North and South would ddwise lif to recognize the fact and act accordingly. That lie will follow the course of Johnson and abandon the party that elected Min, and to any extent identify himself with his ene mies or opponents in war, is contrary to the character of the man, and his present posi tive and clearly expressed convictions, Grant's manner is ; that of quiet 'ease, perfect self-rellance, and the most pdsitive convictions. He expresses his ideas in short sentences, and in a low tone of voice. Although there is a remarkable quietness in his manner, there is at tile same time a marked positiveness of utterance to such a degroa indeed that one feels that thereis very little use in replying to an adverse opinion. Such is drant as I saw him. He ;s un- , changed. He is as positive and determined as ever. Whatever line' of battle he' may fix hpon, you may depand upon it, be will .fight it out on that line. • • Markets by Telegraph., NEW ORLEANS, January B.—Cottlin ex cited and Advanced : ,.;c; - middlings 26. Re ceipts 6,527- bales;. receipts for the week? ... 26,958. Exports to LiVerpoolls,o36; to con! tinent 7,904; coastwise 13,562; exports today' 8,488. Stook 122,483. - Sales today 9.509. sales for the week 20,800. Gold 135%., Ex change sterling 146 N; commercial 1.451‘a 14614; New York Sight Nag dis Count. Sugar firm; common 9!,4a114(; prime 123;; yellow clarified 14a1454.Molasses firm; common 60462; prime 68a70; choloe 72a75. Flour firm for low grades Genf•searce; white 78: yellow 80.. Oats easy at, 66a65. Bran dull at 1,30. Hay, prime, 26a27. rork firm at 30,50a30,75. Bacon scalce; show dens. 143;; clear rib sides 1856 t, clear sides 195(. • lArd firm a; .RX for tiers° and 24) for keg.- 111