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VOLUME L X XXIX.
011101
O'CLOCK; M.
RA.RRISBURG,
Proceedings of the Legislature—
Bills and Resolutions—Co-oper-
atiie Life Insurance Company
of Western Pennsylvania—Ad
ditional Notaries for Allegheny
Counts —Abuse of the Franking
Privilege Depreciated State
'Funds Ratification of the
Election of United States Sena
tor.
ty Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
HARRISBURG, January 20, 1869.
SENATE.
POSTAGE BILL.
The postage account since last session up
to January Ist, $1,415, was ordered to be
paid.
BILLS INTRODUCED
By Mr. GRAHAM: Authorizing Etna
borough to borrow money and levy special
tax; supplement to an act enabling School
Directors of the Fifth ward, Allegheny city,
to borrow money, approved March 6, 1868;
relating to vehicle license in Pittsburgh,
Allegheny city,Birmingham, East Bir
mingham, South Pittsburgh and Manches
ter; authorizing Jefferson township-to bor
row money. _ .
By Mr. FISHER : Incorporating African
College.
By Mr. HENESSEY: For the appoint
ment of Police Commissioners for Philadel
phia.
By Mr. ERREIT : Fixing hours for
keeping open the State Library; consolida,
Ling wards of Pittsburgh for educational
purposes.
- - - - -
itfiSo Lin lONS
By Mr. BECK: Resolution requesting the
State Treasurer to furnish details, showing
the names or ofteens and employes of the
Senate and House of last session, and
amounts paid each. Tabled.
By- Mr. ERRETT: :Resolution ordering
one thousand copies of the Auditor Gener
al's bank report and two thousand re - ports
of the Cattle Disease:Commissioners. Adop
ted.
By Mr..ERRE' ReSOlution allowing
Messrs. White and McCandless, absent yes
terday, to record their votes for U. S. Sen
ator. Adopted. • ' '
Mr. White voted for Scott and Mr. Mc-
Candless for Wallace.'
BILTS'PASSED FINALLY
Mr.-GRAHAM called up the bill incorpo
rfitihg the Co-operative Life Insurance
Company of Western Pennsylvania. Passed
111r.'ERRETT called up the bill authoriz•
ing four additional /Notaries Public in Sl
legheny county, which he amended to six.
Passed dually.
HOUSE 9F REPRESENTATIVES.
ABUSE OF THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE.
Mr. wirspl,, of Allegheny, rose to a
privileged qlestion. He was credibly in
formed that private matter was franked
where the postage on single packaaes
amounted to five dollars and upwards.
This was a gross abuse, of the franking
privilege.
AFFI 'NATIVELY REPORTED.
The joint nisolntion opposing the transfer
of telegraphA to the Government- was re
ported affirmatively.
ORDERED PAID,
The postage account of tlie:Oous,v since
last session up to January first, - anaounting
to tf2,352 70, was ordered paid.
FRANKING' PRIVILEGE AGAIN
Mr. BEANS, of Bucks, rose to a privileged
question, desiring to read a communi
cation in the Harrisburg Patriot, alleging
that pasters and folders had arrogated to
theinselves the franking privilege. -
The SPEAKER ruled that a newspaper
communication was not a. privileged ques
tion.
Mr. BEANS subsequently desired to
make a statement, but was overruled.
Mr. NICHOLSON, Beaver—Can a state
inent be made at all?
SPEAKER—With the e',.nsent of the
House.
Mr. NICHOLSON—Then I fear few state
ments will be made. .
DEPRECIATED STATE FUNDS
Mr. NICHOLSON, from Joint Special
Committee on Depreciated Funds in the
Treasury, reported they consisted of broken
and counterfeit bank notes, and recom
mending that the Treasurer be - authorized
to destroy the same and discontinue men
tion thereof in -his report, This unavail
able currency amounts to -`41,032.
BILLS INTRODUCED
By Mr. TAYLOR, Allegheny : Repeal.
ing the act changing the nue in a certain
case from Allegheny to Jefferson county.
By Mr.. KLECK - NeR, of Philadelphia :
Relative to Aldermen -in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and Allegheny, requiring them
to provide official seals .with State coat of
aims, name and residence.
PASSED FINALLY
' ,The bill extending the term of Richard
Peitz, tax, receiver of Philadelphia, was
passed finally.
ELECTION OF U. S.' SENATOR RATIFIED.
,The Joint Convention to ratify the action
of the Senate and House on the United
States Senatorship yesterday, convened.
Scott, 78; Wallace, 51; Clymer, 1.
!Adjourned.
No'rE—Mr. Graham yesterday had passed
in the Senate the bill allowing the Guar
dians of the Poor of Pittsburgh to increase
securities of Treasurer; not Mr. Errett.
Georgia Legislature.
1 ,13. 3 , Telegraph to tho Pittsburgh tismette.)
ATLANTA., January 20.—A resolution was
introduced in the House to-day authoriz
ing the Solicitor General to inquire into the
reasons for the appointment of a colored
person to perform the duties of clerk of the
superior Court of Chatham county, to in
stimte proceedings against the same, and
to'carry the case to the Supreme Court, if
necessary. • After much debate the resolu
tion was referred to the Judiciary Commit
tee.
A member offered a resolution claiming
that the State is fully reconstructed, that
the -Legislature is the judge of the qualifi
2ations of State officers, and that Congress
3as no right to interfere, which was also re
_
ferred. .
1 Nebrasint United States Senator.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh 6 irette t l
Sr. Lours, January 20.—The Democrat'a
• )rnaha dispatch says HOP. T. W. Tipton
?vas re-elected tr. S. Senator yesterday,
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
[TIIIR t) SESION.I
SENATE: Remonstrance Against
Extension of Bankrupt la vv—
Bills to Reduce Military Force
• and Regulate Grade of General
Officers—Shermanls Air Line
Railroad Bill Considered.
HOUSE: Bill to Strengthen Pub
lic Credit and Relative to Coin
Contracts—Bill Passed Requii-'
ing the Exercise of Franking
Privilege Only by Written Au
tograph Signature.
Telegraph to the Pittet.ergbiGalette.)
Wasirticovox, January 20, 1869.
SENATE.
Petitions favoring woman suffrage were
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
A remonstrance against the proposed
amendment of the bankrupt law was also
referred to the Judiciary.
Mr. HOWE presented a remonstrance of
the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee
against the further eXtension of certain
portion of the bankrupt lair, and resolu
tions of the same body asking for the ap
pointment of a commission to locate the
canal above the Falls of Niagara. Referred.
Mr. THA.YER introduced a bill granting
lama in aid of the construction of a railroad
from „Sioux city,'lows, to Columbus,Ne
braska. Referred to Committee on üblic
Lands. It grants ten alternate sections per
mile on each side of the line.
Mr. ROBERTSON introduced a bill to ex
tend the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims
to the claims of loyal c.tizens against the
United States for the appropriation or de
struction of their property by the army en
gaged in the suppression of the rebellion.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
Mr. WILSON introduced a bill to pro
vide for tha reduction of the military forces
of - the United States, and for other pur
poses. Referred to the Committee ou Mil
tai7 Affairs. It provides for the mustering
out of some officers of minor grade, for the
enlistment of soldiers for five years, for the
abolition of drills and parades and other
unnecessary work on the Sabbath, and
gives privates the benefit of the provision
as to time of trial, which now applies to
officers.
Mr. WILSON also introduced a bill
which had some reference to reorganizing
general officers of the army. It retains the
General at the same pay, provides for
Lieutenant Generals at • reduced pay, ab )1-
ishes the grade of Brigadier, except where
held by chiefs of staffs, of statfdepartments
and the chief of staff of the General of the
army, and provides that in time of war
brigades shall be commanded by Colo
nels Selected for merit. -
After discussion' as to the order of busi
ness, the Senate refused-32 nays against
22 yeas—to take up Mr Edmunds' resolu
tion relative to the public debt, and by 26
yeas, 25 nays, took up-Mr. Sherman's air
line railroad bill.
Mr. WHYTE spoke at length in oppo
sition.
Mr. POMEROY moved executive session.
Messrs: SUMNER and SHERM.A.N op
posed the motion.
- The yeas and nays were ordered and the
motion carried.
So the Senate at three o'clock went into
executive session and at four forty ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. JUDD introduced a bill to enante the
city of Chicago to enlarge iti harbor. Re
ferred to Committee on Commerce.
Mr. CULLOM. introduced a bill for the
relief of States entitled to swamp land in
demnity. Referred to Committee ou Pub
lic Lands.
On motion of Mr. WASHBI: NE, Illi
nois, the Secretary of the Treasury was di
rected to communicate all the facts, esti
mates, &c., connected with the building of
the Marine Hospital at Chicago.
Mr. SCHENCK introduced a bill to
strengthen the public credit and relying
to contracts for payment of coin. Referred
to Committee on Ways and Means.
'The bill reads as follows :
Be it enacted, &c., That in order -to re
move any doubt as to the purpose of the
Government to discharge all just obliga
tions to public creditors, and to settle con
flicting questions and interpretations of the
laws by virtue of which such obligations
have-been-contracted, it is hereby provided
and declared that the faith of the United
States is solemnly pledged to the payment
in coin or its equivalent of all interest hear
ing obligations of the United States, except
in cases where the law authorizing the
issue of such obligations has expressly
provided that the same may be paid in
lawful money or other currency than gold
or silver; provided, however, that before
any of the said' interest hearing obligations
not. already .due Shall mature Or be paid
before maturity, the obligations dot bear
ing interest, known as United States notes,
shall be made - convertible into chin at the
option of the holder.
r SEC. 2. Be it farther enacted, That any
contract hereafter made specifically pay
able in coin, and the consideration of which
may be a loan oftoin er a sale of-property,
or the 'rendering of labor or service of any
kind, the price of which as carried into the
contract may have been adjusted on the
basis of the coin value thereof at the time
of such sale or of the rendering of such
service or labor, shall be legal and valid,
and may be enforced according to its terms,
and on the trial of a suit brought for the
enforcement of any Such contract, proof of
the real consideration may he given.
Mr. FA.RNSWORTH, Chairman of the
Postofrice Committee, reported a bill to re
strict and - regulate the franking privilege
as killows
Be it enacted, That it shall dot be lawful
for any oflicer of,the Government, member
of congress, or other persons entitled by
law to the franking privilege, to exercise
sail privilege otherwise than by his or her
written autograph signature upon the mat
ter franked, and all letters or other mail
matter not thus franked by the written sig.- -
nature of a person entitled, by law to exer
cise such privilege, shall be charged with
the rates of postage which :are now or may
be established by law.
SECTION 2d. That from and after the first
day of April next, no officer of the Govern
ment, member of Congress, or other person
entitled by law to the franking privilege,
shall by reason of such privilege be entice
tied to receive through the mans any mall
matter free of postage, but all matter direc
ted to such officer, member of Congress
or other person, shall pass duly franked or
otherwise declared by law free matter, be
charged postage its in other cases.
Mr. WASLIBURNE, asked Mr. Farns
worth to accept a substitute repealing all
laws and parts of laws conferring the frank
in privilege on any person whatever.
Nit - . FARNSWORTH declined to allow
the substitute to be offered, because he was
satisfied it could not pass.
After gonsiderable discussion Dir.
MIL
LER moved to add to section second, f•ex.
PITTSBURGH,
cept correspondence with Commissioners of
Pensions in relation' to pensions.", Re
jected.
Mr. JOHNSON moved to lay the bill on
the table. Negatived.
Mr. FERAYinoved to*rike out second
section. Agreed to, 123 to 56. -
The bill containing the' first section was
then passed without division.
" The following is the vote on striking out
the second section:
Yeas.—Mesars. Allison, Archer; Ashley,-
(Neb.,) Ashley, (Ohio,) Axteli,
Banks, Barnum, Beatty, Beck, Benjamin
Blair, Blair, Boles, Boutwell, Boyden,
Boyer, 11 ,, omwell, Buckland, Buckley,
Burr. Butler, (Tenn.,) Collis, Carey;
Chandler, Churchill, Cobb, Coburn,Corley,
Cornell, Cullom, Dawes, - Delano, Dockery,
Dodge, Elliott, - (Mass.,) Elliott, (Ark..)
Ferris, Ferry, Fields, French, Garfield,,
Getz, Glosbrenner,.Golladay, Gois, ;Gov°,
Griswold, Grover, Hawkins, Higby,
Holman, Hooker, Hopkins, 'Hum
phries, Hunter, Ingersoll, - Jefickes,
,JoneS, (N. C.) Jones. (Ky.,) Julian,.
Kelly, Kelsey, Kerr, Ketcham, Kitchen,
Knott, Konntz, Lincoln, Logan, Lough.;
ridge, Lynch, Mallory, Marshall, Maynard,
McCarthy,McCormick, McCullough, Mer
cur. Mulins, Mangan, Myers, Newsham,
Nichelsen, Norris, O'Neill, Ortb, Paine,
Perham,Peters, Pike, Price,,Peynee, Ran
dall, Raum, Robertson, Boats, Ross, Saw
yer, Schenck, Shanks,. Sitgreaves, Smith,
Stevens, Stewart, Stokes, Tittle, Thomas,
Twitchell, Vanaerman; Vanauxim Van
Horn, (N. Y.), Van Horn, (Md.), Wash
burne, (Ind.);' Walker, Whittenore, Wil
son, (Iowa), Wilson, (Ohio), Wilson, (Pa.),
Windom, Woodward, Wood and Young.
Nrlys—Messrs. Arsell, Baker, Baldwin,
Barnes, Beaman, Benton, Broomall, Clarke,
(Ohio), Cooke, Dewees, Driggs, Ela, Farns
worth, Harding, Haughey, Heaton, Hotch
kiss, Johnson, (Ind.), Lenin, Lash; McKee,
Miller, Moore, Moorhead, Lawrence, (Pa.),
Lawrence,) (0.), Marvin; Morrell, New
comb, Niblacs, Pettis. Phelps, Pierce, Pile,
Plants,Poland, Polsley, Robinson, Scho
field, Siellabarger,Spalding, Starkweather,
Stover, -Taber Taylor, Taft, Trimble,
(Tenn,), Trowbridge,' - Upson, 'Van Trump,
Van Wyck, Ward, Washburue,
WashbUrne, (Mass.) and Williams, (Pa.)
Mr. JULIAN offered a resblution in
structing the Committee on Banking to in
quire into the expediency of providing by
law that the existing contracts and those
that may hereafter be made, be adjusted
and paid in gold on the basis of the relative
value of Old and United States notes. _
Mr. FAIt.,NSWORTH, from Reconstruc
tion Committee, reported a bill for the re
moval of diSabilities from a• large number
of persons in the Southern States, which
was ,rased by the requisite two-thirds vote.
The huaidess of the, morning hour was
then, at a quarter past two, commenced,
being call of committees for reports.
A large number of bills fur pensions
were reported froid Committees on Revo
lutionary and Invalid Pensions, and were
variously disposed of.
Mr. SOHENCK gave notice, in reference
to the bill introduced by him to-day to
strengthen the public credit, that it'll* week
or two hence, when the business of the
House would admit, he expected to be au-
thorized by the Committee •on WayS and
Means to report it back and submit some
remarks in support•of it. An opportunity
would be offered: for discussion and he
would then-try to get.tbe action of the
House upon it.
Mr. GARFIELD ()tiered a resolution as
to'whatl legislation is necessary to provide
for taking - the ninth census. Adopted.
The House, at a quarter past three, re
sumed the consideration of the Sedate bill
granting land and right. of way to the
Denver, Pacific and Telegraph Company.
Mr. LOOAN offered a snbstitute 'for the
bill,lproposing.to authorize the Company to
connect its road with the Union Pacific rail-,
road at, or near Cheyenne, and to issue
coupon bonds to the - extent of dollars
per mile, to ba guaranteed by the United
States.
Mr. 00` - ODE addressed the House in ad
vocacy and explanation of the bill.
Mr..KELLUY followed on the same side
and Mr! VAN TRUMP in oppositisn to the
•
Adjoarned.
CUBA
The Banco del Comerclo Failure—Partic
ulars ,of theg Destruction of .flayoula by
the rectionibtsullering or Fugi
tive Citizens.
Tetegratill to the Pittsburgh Curette.)
HAVANA, January 20,—Contrary to gener
al expectation, the Banco del Comore - o has
not regained payment and its present con
di tion is doubtful. Merchants who depos
ited in the bank are embarrassed by the
loss of their money; and it is reported sev
eral houses intimately connected in busi
ness relations with the bank may fel:,
unless it manages to make sonic arrange
ment with its creditors.
The notes of the Spanish bank are fire
and a half discount. The general financial
condition at present presents au inauspi
cious appearance. Merchants complain that
they are unable to make collections from
country merchants.
The - Ferdail, the new Cuban liberal Jour
nal, makes a severe attack upon the Span
ish hank. The seine paper also denounces
the attempts made this week to assassinate
Spanish soldiers.
Ttir} iusurgents_have burned the town of
The particulars of the destruction Hay
atriO have been received. The inhabitants,
before and after the firing of their houses,
lied to the Woods and Gidra mountains. It
is reported the conflagration lasted three
days.
The Pre?cm says the rebels sacked the
city before setting it on lire. Afflicting de
tails are given of the want and suffering of
fugitive citizens in the mountainous dis
tricts, which are uninhabited and destitute
of urovisions.
Reports front Spanish . sources state that
Count Yalutazeda is advancing with his
whole force upon the rebels, who have
posted themselves in the mountains.
The .Diario is informed that General
Jesus Perez has offered tto surrender him
self and the forces under his command,
provided an unconditional pardon is
granted. The Spanish General at Santiago
has conceded these termsand expects Perez
will soon give himself up.
authentic particulars of recent events
and the condition of the revolutionists froin
Cuban sources are wanting, and there are
no means at present of condrtning the news
given above, which is derived largely from
official dispatches:
Indiana United states Senator.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
INDIANAPOLIS, January 20.—Two ballots
wore had in the Legislature in joint Cou
vention to-day. for U. S. Senator, resulting:
First ballot—Cumback 68, Hendricks 63,
scattering 17; two members absent. Sec
ond ballot—Cumbria.' 67, Hendricks 63,
scattering 18. • , • •
—Facts are reported to have just come to
light which leave no doubt that important,
negotiations are pending for the tranifer of
Cuba to the United States. The only ob•
abide in the way is the price to be paid the
Spanish Government. Agents of• Cuban'
insurgents are in Washington for the purw
pose of inducing our Government to recog
nise them as bellterents.
TH GIL'S D!iY. - JANUARY 2 - L 13f9.
SEEOI.II,. :11111.0 . 1 1
,
Nominations by ' the President—
The:froman's Right's Conven
tion—lmportant Case in the Su
prone Court—Colonization So
ciety' Report—Substitution of
- Currency Interest Pacific Rail
road Bonds for Bonds Bearing
' Gold Interest Suspended—New
Ariny Bill, &c., &c.
[iti'Pelegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, January 20, 1803.
NOMINATIONS.
The President to-day nominated to the
Senate Morgan L. Smith, Marshal for the
Eastern• District of Missouri; Felix A.
Reeve, Attorney for Eastern District of
Tenneisee; John L. Deer, Naval Officer for
New T'ork; Robert Flint, of Wisoonsin,
Commissioner to obtain the amount of
money expended by Indiana to enroll vol
nntedfs for the late war: Robt. C. Buchanan
and Ai. C. Gillein, Brigadier Generals, in
place Of Rousseau. deceased, and Hooker,
retired; Wm. H. Weisner, Collector of Cus
toms at 'New Orleans, in place 'of Perry
Fuller; whose nomination has been with
drawn.
T' i ll.E WOMAN'S RIGHT CONVENTION
Continues the scene of much ordination,
the black and white delegates* both taking
part in the proceedings, and the women
talking more than the men.
A spirited discussion occurred on a reso
lution! Snelling educational suffrage;
which , terminated in the adoption of an
amendment, offered by Geo. T. Downing,
that it would be an assumption of power
for any class to declare what should be the
basis of intelligence.
A resolution, that one of the objects of
the Woman's rights movement was to throw
an additional safeguard around the mar
riage Am(' family relations, was adopted.
A resolution as to both the Deinociatic
cry or"white man's government" and the
Republican cry of "manhood suffrage,"
was discussed. -
COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Therreport of the American Colonization
Society shows the receipts last year from
donations, legacies, Ltc., were over $51,000.
Over $30,000 wrs paid to transport emigrants
tri,Li ,1-5,060 t) repair their ships and
t 417.000 for othVY -purposes. The expendi
tures during the last three years have ex
ceeded the receipts by > 62,000, and they call
for more income. Emigration fell off near
ly two hundred last year.
The!United States Supreme Conn was oc
cupied to-day with the'clise of tho Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company,
appellants, vs. Ars/thee Emigh. This i ase
involves the question of the liability of all
the Railroad companies to Francis ~ : teveris
for the use of his patent car brakes. V sen
the Court adjourns it will ba until Mom ay.
THE ARHT BILL.
. •
A Special says Senator Wilson's . new
army bill 15 designed to make Sherman
General in place of Grant, and Sheridan,
Thomas and Meade are to he Lieutenant
Generals. It retains Hancock and Llalleck
as Major Generals; and ;promote to that
rank McDowell, Pope, Schofield. Howard,
Terry Ord and CanlJy. Gen. Cooke, who
has seen over forty years' service, is to be
retired.
TUE DENVER MINT.
The l Secretary of the Treasury has sea to
the House, with his approval, a bill pro
posed by the Directors of tri , Mint to con
y:4f the branch mint at Denver lino an
.assayoftice, and to establish an assay office
at HOlena, Montana. The Secretary also
inclosed a bill relative to refining gold and
silver: bullion at the United State:: , Mint.
The substitution of United States howls
bearing- currency interest, issued to the
Pacitie Railroad Company for United States
bondsi bearing eGid interest as security for
the circulation of National banks, has been
suspebded by the Comptroller of Currency
until ;the pleasure of Congress shall be
known on the subject.
The first reception of Attorney General
and Airs. Evarts to-night will rank with the
most brilliant of the season. Congress, the
army; the navy, .the bench and the bar
were hi! representtd by their most distill.
guished ornaments. The President and
Vice President elect, • General Grant and
Speaker Colfax, were of the company.
ThO Secretary of War to-day recommend
ed to the House the repeal of the slxty-first
article of war, which provides that officers
havfm , brevets may take place in court
mar.i7ls, oil detachment, when :com
posed of different corps, according to brevet
rank. The reeonnuendation is concurred
In by Gen. Grant,
TheDepartinent of State to-day received
a telegriun of the LT.'S. Minister at London
announcing the revocation of the order
prohibiting the importation of hay from
this country to Great Britain.
No:ammo:4: CONFIRMED.
The! Senate in executive session to-day
coutirined Robert Flint as Commissioner
on Indiana War Claims, and debated with
out action Stnythe's nomination as Minis
ter to !Russia.
The House Committee on Post Roads
continued to-dac the hearing of persons in
terested in uniting the Telegraph with the
Postottlea 'Department. •
mr.A.vm EXTENDED..
The;lesie of absence of Gen. Rilpatrick
has been extended until March.
—Ai Washington dispatch states that
though three treaties wore communicated
to the!Senate on Friday last, they had not
been committed to the Committee on For
eign Affairs. There will be no opposition
to the one relating to the naturalization
question, nor to the one relating to the set
tlement of the boundary respecting the
'San Juan matter. The Alabama treaty,
,howeVer, meets with strong opposition
the Committee, and it stands no chance of
beingiratifisd in its present form. The
Committee does not favor the mode of this
.settlement of the claims, nor do they ap
prove:of that feature allowing the English
to present claims that have occurred dur
ing the past fifteen years as a set-off against
those of our people. The ignoring of the
belligerent rights question by our Govern
tient is strongly censured. When the sub
pot comes up for consideration in Execu
tive
,seaslon, the conduct of the persons
a ma ml lan ad. thia treaty will be thoroughly er-
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1 THE CAPITAL.
st: PREME COT' TIT
SULSTITUTION SUSI'ESDED.
ATTORNEY OENERAL'S RECEPTION.
REPEAL ASKED
13IPOIZTATION OF HAY
POSTAL TELEGILA
NEWS BY CABLE.
The rrench Blue Book for the
Past Tear—Reported-Escape of
the Provisional President of
Crete—Cuba and Porto Rico Al
lowed Representation in the
New Spanish Cortes—Reinforce
ments for Cuba.
(By Telegraph thithe Paisburgh Gazette.]
FRANCE.
Pints, January 20.—The French Blue
Book for the-year 186 S has made its ap
pearance. Correspondence with the Gov
ernment at Washington shows that cordial
relations continue to be maintained! between
France and the United States. In reference
to recent events in the Spanish Peninsula,
the Blue Bopk says France, faithful to the
principles of her foreign policy and to her
frlendshp for Spain, preserves strict neu
trality and \ sincerely wishes her well
through the crisis. Statistics are- given 'to
show the strength, of the French army,
'which officially reported to number at
the present time 493,000 men, of whom 115,-
000 are on ftirlengh. The Blue Book also
contains dispatches "and communications
which were exchanged between the French
and Italian Government in regard to the
evacuation of - Rome by the French troops.
All attempts to make an arrangement to
that end proved fruitless.
PAM'S, Jan. 20.—Anson Burlingame, of the
Chinese Embassy, had au interview to-day
with _Marquis de la Vallette, MiniSter of
Foreign Affairs.
The Lille, lc asserts that the Piesident of
the Cretan Provisional Government has es
caped from Candia and rill go to the 'United
States, where he will endeavor to raise a
loan and purchase iron clads, with the, ob
ject of making one more effort to free an
din from the dominion of the Turks.
SPAIN
MADRID, Jan. 20.—The 'Provisional GOV
eminent has issued a decree authorizing
the Island of Cuba to send eighteen dele
gates, and the Island of Porto Rico eleven
delegates, to the Constituent Cortes.
Active preparations are being made for the
embarkation of additional reinfotcemeuts
for Cuba. Four Generals are to go out in
command of the troops.
TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, .Tanury 20.—The truth
of the report that Mr. Maris, Ameri
can Minister to the Sublime Porte, had
been recalled by his government, is posi
tively denied.
PORTUGAL
LiscoN, January 20.—The Ministerial
crisis has passed. Saldarha declined, to
form a New Cabinet, and the old Ministry,
under Marquis Banderia, remains in office.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
LON vox, January 20, Ere.—Consols. 93}.,1;
5.20,3, 75%. Stocks steady; Erie, 26%; Il
linois,
Fli.kNE FORT, January 20.—Bonds, 77%a
77142,
Pints, January P.O.—Bourse dull. Rentes
701 r. Set
LIVERPOOL, January -on. Cotton atead y;
Middling uplands, 11%; Orleans, 1.15.4;
sales. 15.000 bales. California white wheat
lls. 6d.al Is. Sd.; red western 9s. 7d.a9s. 9d.
oats, :0,1. 6d. Barley, ss. Peas, 445. 6d.
Pori: :.+2s.' 6d. Beef, 1055., Lard, 725.
Cliet.A-, 725. Mixon,' 575. Petroleum, 9d.
Turpentine; 31s: 6d.
Losnos, January 20.—Tallow, 475. Od.
Turpentine, 375. Linseed, 575. 6.dasSs.
Th!trolsow at Antwerp 58a59. Cotton at
Havre 133 fr. on spot, and 13Ifr. afloat.
H AVRE, January 2O—Evening.-Cotton
iilnseLl at 133 1 francs for tres ordinaire ou
spot, and 135 francs for low muddling to
arrive. .
NEW ORLEANS.
General :Mower Asslgned.to Command the
llistrlct—The Euniete Between General
Buchanan and Governor N urmouth.
CPT Tett graph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.;
N ORLEANS, JanuarY 20.—Gen. Mower
has been assigned to the command of the
District of Louisiana, and the headquarters
or his regiment transferred to this city.
General Buchanan has addressed a letter
to Senator Kellogg, in reply to statements
contained is GAvernor armouth's' letter
to Kellogg. He characterizes the Gover
nor's statement that he was satisfied that
State had no friend in General Buchanan
and that no reliance could be placed in his
active co-operation, as absurd. He says
"no one is better. aware than Governor War-
Mouth that to the active measures taken by
hint (Buchanan) was due the preservation
of the lives of himself and all the prominent
members of the Republican party in the
legislature told of the new State govern
ment fin* scA•eral days after the assembling
of that body." In reference to the Metro
politan Police force, he says the constitu
tionality of the law was queStioned and the
three was thoroughly demoralized, and
the Governor became alarmed. He details
the situation of affairs at the time and his
reasons for advising the restoration, for a
time at least, of the old police force, which
had shown ability to maintain peace,
and characterizes Governor Warmouth's
statement as unnecessary anti unwarranted.
"The Governor," he says, "finds himself
compelled to assail, not my. acts, but
what he is pleased to call my mo
tives, and this in ;the face ( "of the
acts themselves." He proceeds to detail
his acts while its command, to vindicate
himself against the Governor's assertions.
His fault, he thinks, consists in his having
executed the laws of Congress exactly in
accordance with what 'he believes to be
their intent and meaning, as a soldier and
not 'as a politician. He denies the truth of
the Governor's statement that he (Buchan
an) stated in General Rousseau's presence
that the'force was so smallthat the General
(Rousseau) would be as'muchjustitled in
retiring with his troops as he would'he be
fore an enemy. of superior force, which re
lates to the number of troops at the Gen
eral's, disposal during thu election excite
ment.
—The West Virginia Legislature organ
ized on Tuesday, Hon. D. T. Farnsworth
having been chosen President of the Senate,
and S. S. Fleming, Esq., Speaker of the
House. The election-for United States Sen
ator will take place oh Tuesday next. The
Candidates are. Wm. Campbell,' S. D. Hub . -
- bard, Ex-Gov. Boreman, Gen. W. H. Pow
ell, Plerepoint and Paisly. .
•
—United States Marshal Merriwether, of
Louisville, Ky., received a telegram on
Tuesday from Attorney General Everts
stating that a warrant of reprieve of Bly
meer and Kennard, the Lewis county mur
derers, until next May, was mailed yester
day and to delay execution of sentence.
—Both branches of the New York Legis
lature met In Joint session yesterday, and
the election of Fenton -as United States
Senator Ras announced. _
21.
BRIEF TELEGRAXS
—Four large business houses in Leroy.
Mich., were destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
Loss ;$50,000.
—The Maine Le,gislature have elected
lion. Wm. Caldwell State Treasurer for the
ensuing year.
—James King & Co., commission mer
chants at: San Francisco, havosuspended,
with large liabilities.
—A letter is published from Gen: Burn
sides declining to be a candidate for Gov
ernor of Rhode Island.
—Captain G. W. Dural, who fell from a
gallery at Memphis, as reported, died yes
terday morning from his injnries. .
—The trial of M. Twitchelli charged
with the murder of her mother, corn
meticed at Philadelphia yesterday.
—John Brougham has donated the premi
um of :;52.000 received at the sale of tickets
for his new theater to the Dramatic fund.
—The police of St. Louis made another
raid on gambling houses • Tuesday night
and seized the apparatus of about a dozen
dens.
—The grand jury of the United States
Court at San Francisco have found over
three hundred indictments for naturaliza
tion frauds.
—Gerard C. Quick, a showman for over
thirty-two years, died suddenly in New
York, Yesterday morning, of paralysis;
aged fifty-seven.
—Brevot Maj. Gen. John P. Hawkins.
Commissary of Subsistence. has been as
signed to duty as Purchasing Commissary
at Cincinnati,,Ohio. •
—A bill has been introduced in the Mis
souri Legislature against prize fighting,
inscribing severe penalties both to princi
pals, seconds and spectators. •
—General Grant declines the hospitalities
of Baltimore, voted by Councils, on account
of previous engagements. He will receive
the citizens,probablv on Saturday.
—The New California Theatre was opened
on Monday night at San Francisco to an
audience of twenty-five hundred. It is
one of the finest buildings in the State.
—Annie Sherlock, a middle aged women,
was found dead in her bed yesterday, in
Chicago. A. post mortem examination
proved that drunkeness was the cause.
—A. fire in Roundout, N. Y., yesterday
morning consumed an unoccupied build
ing, the canal store of G. Areilly,and cloth
ing store - of John Loss $40,000;
fully insured. .
—James W. Hey, a merchant of Sullivan,
Moultrie county, Illinois, was robbed on
Broadway, New York, yesterday, of a
purse containing $450 in greenbacks, and a
draft for $9OO.
-=-At noon on Tuesday, Joseph Trinnn, a
jeweler, who lived at Blue Island, in Chi
cago, while entering the dining hall of the
Franklin House, intoxicated, fell dead in
an apoplectic fit.
—The bill thanking the militia, which
has been before the Arkansas Legislator
some time, and produced warm discu s sion ,
finally passed the House on Tuesday by a
decisive majority.
—At Cincinnati, Tuesday night. the store
of L. C. Hopkins was entered by burglars
from the fifth story of an unoccupied build
ing adjoining, and robbed of three thousand
dollars worth of silks.
—ln the Kansas Legislature, on Monday,
ayesolutiou to allow negroes to vote was
inderfinltely postponed. A concurrent res
olution asking United States. Senator Ross
to resign was laid over.
—A Republican meeting at Richmond
I.4st night adopted a series 'of resolutions
protesting against Congress granting what
is asked by the Virginia Conference Com.
mittee now in Washington,
—The friends and neighbors of Hon. Han
nibal Hamlin, United States Senator elect
form Maine, met him at Bangor upon'.his
return. from Augusta and escorted him
to his residence amid deafening cheers.
—The bill providing for the sale of rail
.. .
roads which have not paidinterest on the '
State bonds loaned them, passed the gouse
of Representatives of Tennessee on the
third reading, without one vote against it.
Young Sears, the richest boy in Amer
ica, who has been attending school at South ;
Williamstown, was, it is said, allied on Sat
urday while coasting, having slid against a
rock py which his' brains'were dashed out.
• —lt is rumored that Van - derbilt is con
cerned in a new railroad project from Mid
dleboro to New Bedford,. and that he will
establish a steamer .line to New York in
connection with it from a terminus on Fish
Island.
—Tom 11cGiven was arrested at Wood
bury, Conn., Monday night, as the mur
derer of Mr. Rogers at New York. He is
supposed to• be the escaped Sing Sing con
vict to whom the-letter for Mr. Rogers was
entrusted.
—A three thousand dollar barn, six miles
west of Aurora, Illinois, was burnedgues
day night, consuming eleven horses; thir
teen cattle and seventy tons of hay. Joseph
Ingham was so badly scorched that his re
covery is doubtful.
fire at . the Derby Athenaeum, on
Broadway, New York, Teesdav night, al
though extinguished with little delay, de
stroyed or damaged several works of art,
including Rotherriles tine picture of Lin
coln's last reeeption.
—The Internal Revenue collections in .the
First and Second Ohio Districts for Decetn
ber last were three hundred and seventy
thousand dollars. The number of cigars
made in the First District last year was
twenty and a half Millions.
—The Salt Lake papers severel,v criticize
-Ashley's bill to divide Utah, ' and• pro
nounce it an infamous, project to suppress
"Mormonism. The Utah Legislature adopt
ed a memorial to Congress asking for the
early admission of Utah as a State.
—Wm.-Homes, for many years associate
editor of - the Misiouri Republican, a capital
writer and a gentleman of scholarly at
tainments and varied information, died on
Tuesday at New Haven, Conn., whither he
had gone for the benefit of his health.
fire in Milton, "Vermont, on Satur
day, destroyed a large wooden block owe
ed by C. L. Whitney, containing the Cen
tral House and several stores and dwelling
houses and the • lumber. yard of Lyman
Burgess. Total loss is estimated at ;20,000.
—Margaret Brown, charged with killing
Upton Murray, her negro paramour, upon
being arraigned iu General Sessions, at
New York, on Tuesday,plead guilty to man
slaughter in the third degree and way sen
tenced to three years and six months im
prisonment.
—The Democratic State Convention of
_New Hampshire nominated John Bidell, of
Bath, for Governor, and General M. T.
Donahoe for Railroad Commissioner. Short
resolutions were passed declaring adhesion
to the Constitution and in favor of the tax
ation of bonds.
—The trial of Samuel Hall, at Philadel
phia, for the murder of Christopher BYrnest
in October last, was concluded on Friday
evening, the Jury finding a verdict of not
guilty. The result was received with ap
plause, and two young men who . Joined 'in
the demonstration were imprisoned for
fotty-eight hours.
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