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tOLUME LXXXIAT.
FIRST 311101.
sewmi.via O'CLOCK;
I RA. RISBiTRG.
Proceedin sof thelLegislature—
Bates' History of Pennsylva
nia Volunteers—The Frank
ing' 'and
Folders—Newspapers Assailed
—Comn4ittee of General An
vestigation—DiVorces.
tßy Telegraph Ito s the Plltsburib. Gazette.l
HAnnistuno, January 29.
SENATE.
BATES' HISTORY.,
Mr. CON NELL, from. the Conference
Committee on Bates' HistorY of Pennsyl
vania Volunteers, reported sixteen hun
dred copies for the Senate and twenty
eight hundred for the House, provided
there should none , be sent by mail. The
matter was postponod.
NEW BOROUGH.
Mr. ERRETT introduced a bill incor
porating Union borough, Allegheny
county.
paiNchsci TIME' OF ELECTION.
Mr. KERR presented a bill changing
the time of holding the spring election in.
Butler county to the time of the general
election.
Mr. TAYLOR, a bill allowing interes
ted parties to testify.
HOUSE OF itEPRESENTATIYES.
FRANKING PRIVILEGE-PASTERS AND
FOLDERS
. .
Nearly the whole Morning . session was
occupied in discussing the oint resolu
tion of Mr. Davis, of Philadelphia,pro
hibiting members franking pacages
over five cents postage, or franking letters
:for other persons. .
Mr. BROWN, Clarion, moved an
amendment dismissing all pastern and
folders but live.
`Overruled as irrelevant.
Mr. STRANG, Tioga,moved an amend
ment abolishing the franking privilege,
but afterwards withdrew it:
Messrs. Brown, of, Huntingdon,
Strang-, of Toga, Playford, of Fayette,
McMiller; 'of Montgotueryfand Rogers,
of Philadelphia, opposed the resolution.
as implying dishonesty on the part of,
members, and because the law already ,
Provided against the abuse of franking.
Mr.: - D.1153, of Philadelphia, made it
Rink 'speech for the resolution, in the
course of which he said a good deal had
been uttered aaainst thaiextravagance
of the - present Legislature, which would
cast forty or fifty thousand dollars less
than ,any other. session. He had been
-charged by the Pittsburgh Dispatch as to
blame for the enormous abuses as
Speaker in 1888. If that- editor knew
nothing more - than - his article proved, he
shouldhe ashamed to publish a respect
able newspaper. The Speaker had neth
. ipg rttoreLro.da witirthe,psyruent of Offi
cers than the Czarof Russia. it seemed
strange that journals should single lmt
one individual. He defied any, member
to prove corruption on him. The Pitts
burgh Gazette had fallen into the same
error, and called upon him for an expla
nation. He could no more explain than
the gentleman from Beaver.
These editors did not know what they
were talking about, He, wanted to be
reported properly on this occasion. He
expected to make several editors of this
State acknowledge the "Lie," Or sc.'
knovrledgo their ignorance of the law.
They - must take one or the other horn of
the dilemma. Theie were the very last
papers that should squeal about extrava
gance. These newspapers were not in
the habit of attacking persons and inter
ests favorable tp them. He found in the
advertisement of the twenty millions loan
enormous charges, whicn they would•
not make against individuals, yet they
had not called upon the Auditor General
- to explain why the Pittsburgh Gazette,
.-r ) kiPatch , and other papers had got ouch
- large suini.
Mr. NICHOLSO.7S . , of Beaver—l proved
an editor here a liar last winter, by
twenty-one witnesses, and next morning
he repeatod it,
Mr. DAVlS,•continuing, said he never
drew a Ns arrant for any officer or any
body else. He thought the And:-
hor General .ought to examine why the
- Pittsburgh tiAZETT6i Dispatch and other,
papers made such enormous charges for
advertising the twenty million over due
loan, The, Speaker never appointed offi
cers. That was done by caucus. He was
__not to blame, but several Pittsburgh
papers had thus atta.eked him. Standing
here, before Glodclie pronounced it a lie,
and the editor could take it as he Saw fit,
either in a personal or public sense.
COMMITTEE TO.4I4II2STIOATE.
. .
Mr. DUNCAN, of Venango, thought
the fault lay elsewhere as to postage.
His constituents had informed him that
documents name •to them• with double
and treble \postage' which the weight
called for. Ile moved the' appointment of
a committee, of three to investigate.
Adopted. • '' - -
Mr. DUNCAN offered a resolution to
refer to the same Committee all Exiles:ad
abuses of the franking privilege. Aden
ted. •
:.. Mr. - F07f,,0f Phlia.: a resolution refer
ring to the same Committee the invesd- •
gatton of alleged extrava,gant charges
by newspapers in 'advertising over-d.ue
loans, as, per, A.u.dit9i• general's rePort.
Adop W ted.
Mr. RBR,e.f. Bradford: a resolution
.
for a Committee of ,Three to ascertainby
'what authority : dove _thousand copies of
' Bates' HistOry-of ,Pennsylvania Whin
' teers Were printedand the probable cost.
Adopted. I '
\ Mr.,.IICIFPER,. of , Westmoreland: a
, resolution imposing a fine of five hun
dred dollars for the abuee of the franking
privilege,-oreednViction in court. :' Refer
red to Investigation Committee.
\
Mr. KIir.CHNER.,' Phila., a resolution
abolishing the franking privilege, allow
iing each rnetnber one hundred and fifty
'dollars for postage. Beferred to Inves
tigation COmmittee. ''
Mr. BROWN, Clarion, a resolution re
• Questing theAudltor Geheral to report
hylVm. B:,Mann,-ef.. Philadelphia; re
ivedthifly
Iho:sa= dollars fo x
V an :
ringfcreonlwrapapers. feat
oworms&
- ,
Mr. NICHOLSON', of - Beaver: Resolu-•
ion instructing the Judiciary Commit
. • ee- to oxamine into the' expediency of
- passing a law referring all divorces to
c marts. Adopted. .
1 A.d,journed till Monday evening.
FORTIETH CONGRESS.
[THIRD 5E351.01141
SENATE: Appropriation Asked
for Eclipse Observation—Me
morial Against the Alabam'a
Claim Treaty—The Suffrage
Amendment—The Resolution
for Choice:' of Presidential
Electors by the People—Cen
sus Resolution. HOUSE:Post
- office Appropriation Bill Re
ported—The Constitutional
Amendment Discussed—Mr.
BoulwelPs Resolution Re
jected.
IBY Telegraph to the , Pittsburgh Gazette, 7.
WASHINGTON, January 29, 1869.
SENATE.
The PRESIDENT presented ,the cre
dentials of Zechariah Chandler, Senator
elect from Michigan. Read, and placed
on file.
Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN presented a
memorial from Rev. McCosh, President
of Princeton College, and Professors of
that institution, asking Congress to make
an appropriation to enable them to take
observations of the total eclipse of the
sun in August next, and stating that such
observations can be best made in the
Southern part of the United States.
Mr. SUMNER presented • the petition
of George B, Upton, a merchant of Bos
ton, remonstrating against the treaty for
the settlement of the Alabama claims as
unjust to himself and other American
citizens; also, a petition from the National
Executive Committee of Colored Cal
lens, for the passage of a bill to secure
the application of the homestead law to
certain lands in the lately rebellious
States for the benefit of colored persons.
Referred to Committee on Public Lands.
The, PRESIDENT submitted a mes
sage from the House transmitting the
papers, in relation to the McGarraban
case.
Mr. MORTON moved to refer the bill
for the relief of Mr. McGarrahan, with
accompanying papers, to the Judiciary
Committee.
But after discussion Mr. MORTON
withdrew his motion, and the bill and
papers were referred. to Committee on
Private Land Claims.
Mr. HARLAN introduced a bill, at the
request of its friends and without com
mitting himself to its support, to aid the
Memphis and El Pa.so Pacific. Railroad
Company of Texas in the constructiortof
a railroad from the Mlssihsippi river to
the Pacific Ocean, awl to secure to the
Government of the United States the use
of the same for militate , and postal pur
poses. Referred to Committee on Pacific
Railroad.
The Senate then resumed the; consid
eration of the order of the day, the pro
posed Constitutional amendment.
Mr. DIXON made an argument against
it. He insisted the pewer to , regulate
suffrage was an essential of the (nsti
tution of a State having a republican
form of government, and that. therefore
no such State could divest itself of that
power, either voluntarily or upon com 7.
pulsion, without thereby losing its re
publican character.
Mr. POMEROY moved to amend the
constitutional amendment by striking
out the words "on amount of race, color
or previous condition of slavery," and
to insert instead. "for any reason not
equally applicable total citizens."
Mr. POMEROY then addressed the
Senate, commenting upon the statement
of Mr. Wilson, yesterday, that the advo
easy of equal rights had neen and was
still unpopular everywhere through
out the country, and had cost
the Republican party many , votes.
He said, if that party were 'to
abandon the cause of equal 'rights, it
would'losci all its votes; bemuse the peo
ple would no longer have a motivelor
sustaining it, nor would it be worth sus
taining. The advocacy of equal rightii,
instead of being a source of weakness
to the party, was really the source of all
Its strength He would have the party
raise high the banner of equal rights, and
by one comprehensive amendment
strike out from the Constitution all dis
tinction between citizens as to: their right
betore the law on account of race, color,
condition or sex.
Mr. TRUMBULL, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported adversely on the
following hills:
Robertson's bill to extend the jurisdic
tion of the Court of Claims to claims of
loyal citizens for property taken during
the late war.
Mr. Fowler's bill to authorize payment
for stores furftiehed the Engineer and
Ordnance Departments.
Mr. Stunrier7a bill in relation to the
competency of witnesses.
To authorize impri-onment with hard
labor lu certain owe..
To provide for' the trial and punish
ment of accessories to criminal offenses.
House bill renidtting penalties where,
through inadvertency, Instruments have
-beeteimproperiv stamped.
Mr. VAN WINKLE, from Committee
on pon.sions, reported back unfavorably
the joint resolution granting a pension to
Mrs. Mary Lincoln.
Mr. MOR.RILL, . of Maine, from the.
Committee .on Appropriations,, reported
the. Consular anci Diploinatic Appropri
titicrn bill, with am'endments. The pro-
Aston for consolidating the various Cen
tral add 'South ,Amerlmn..Missions is
stricken out. • ' A
Mr. WILLEY introduced a bill 'pro- ,
viding for the sale of lands to,aid,,in the
confetti:mann of the West Virginia Cen
trial Railroad. It authorizes the. Secrete-
Ty of thd Interiorld sell to the Cornpany
0,450 sections of land, to be selected in
Louisiana, Missblsippi, Alabama and ,
Arkansas, at seventy-five cents per acre
in preferred stock, on condition that.
Pfo,ooo be expended in improving and
settling, said lands within ten years.
Mr. POM.EROY, front the Committee
on. Public „Lunde. reported , adversely ou
qn the_bill granting lands to aid in • the
construction - of 'the,Wisconsin and Lake
Superior Railroad; also, on. Mr. Howe's
bill - to regulate the'dispogtion of lands
that mar he gratititil in aid of rkillroads,
and favorably on the bill granting lands
to the State of Minnesota to-aid in im
proving the navigation of the Mississip
pi river, immediately above the Falls of
St. Anthony.
"'Mr. MORTON, from the Select - Com-.
mittee on Representative Reform, report
ed, with a slight -amendment, .the joint
resolution introduced yesterday by Mr.
Buckalew to amend the Constitution to
PYrTSBURGH, SATURDAY, JANUAR 1869.
I compel the choice of Presidential electors
directly from the people, and advocated
it in a brief speech.
Mr. DAVIS said he would meet the
proposition of the Senator from KftineS,
affirming, equ I rights to all citizens,
with n11111(1_1 better founded- and more
philosophical propositidn, viz : That
every State in the Union is entitled to all'
the rights and privileges under our Con
stitution that any other State is entitled.
The party in power had ignored this
great truth, and deprived certain States
of their cons itutional rights by various
schemes of force and fraud, but he
warned th theirldoniinatton was ap
proaching el. ' , ,
Mr FERRY to k the floor to speak
upon the Conatit tional amendment. but
yielded for a motion to adjourn, which
was lost and, the. Senate, on motion of
Mr. WILSON, took up the' bill to pro--
vide for the reduction of the military
foreman:id forother purposetr. - ,- -
SeyeraVamealimenta were reported by
the Military Committee.
Mr. CONKLING' moved an amend
ment providing that the vacant Brigadier
Generalships shall•nor be tilled at pres
ent. Adopted.
The bill then passed. ' • ' .
A motion for adjournment till Monday
was lost. , .
The joint resolutiori introduced yester
day by Ur. Conk ling, for the appoint
ment of a Committee of five to , inquire
whether any legislation is necessary in
regard to taking the next census, was
passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES.
Mr. BEAMAN, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported the Postoffice
appropriation bill. Relerked to the Com
mittee of the Whole and made the special
oraer for Tuesday next. The bill appro
priates $5,740,000 tor deficiencies in the
revenue of the Postotlice Department for
the next fiscal year.
Mr. WASIii3URNE, of from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
the bill appropriating $54,766 to pay sala
ries and contingent expenses of Patent
office for January and February, 1869.
Referred to Committee of the Whole.-
Mr. MOORHEAD introduced a bill to
provide.for the better security of life and
property frbm dangers Of coal oil, crude
petroleum and other prOucts. Referred
to the Committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. CULLOM offeredl a resolution re
questing the President tolurnish any
information he may have showing that
the people of Hayti ad San Domingo
I f,
are desirous their gover ments shall be
come part of the Unite States.
The House then proceeded to priv&te
business. • - -4; .
The Sentit s e', amendment to the
Honte bill confirming the title to Rock
Island in tlie_Mississippi river was con
curred 1n...
Mr. :JULLB.I , 7, from Committee on
Public Lands, reported a bill to close the
land system in States where public
lands do not exieett tire thousand acres.
Passed.
Mr. WILSON, lowa,
from Judiciary
Committee, reported a bill for the benefit
of Blanton Duncan, in reference to prop
erty In Louisville. Ky.
After some discussion it was tabled:-
The morning hour having expired, the
resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Law
rence. of Ohio, for the arrest of Henry
Johnion, who had raused to obey the
summons of the Select committee on
Now York election frauds, was taken up.
After some discussion between Messrs.
Lawrence, Ross, Kerr and Dawes, touch
ing the frauds committed by both p 'Uti
ca! parties in New York, and also as to
the materiality of the evidence sought to
be obtained, which is that a number of
naives had been put on the poll list by
two Democratic politicians, the House,
without action, resumed the considers--
tion of the Constitutional amendment,
and was addressed by Mr. KELLY in ha
advocacy. -
Mr. SHELLABARGER next ad
dressed the House in support of the sub
stitute which he Offered the other day to
the Constitutional amendment, the dis
tinction being that• the substitute allows
the disfranchisement of those who have
been engaged in rebellion, while the
original resolution does not: also, that
the original resolutioniwould allow the
establishment of property, or educational
qualifications. The colored race, he ar
gued, could be virtually disfranchised
by a law making property and intelli•
genes a condition of suffrage, and such a
law would not be forbidden by the
proposed Constitutional amendmeht.
There were reasons, however, why
some such proposition should be
adopted at this time. The proposition
was in itself "so eminently :tot, in its
relations to the Constitution, that it could
not fail to recommend itself to every
right mind. 'That government was notch
government at all which has not within
itself the power to declare who should
take part in carrying it on. One reason
why it should be adopted now, was that
this proposition. once submitted by Con
gresP, by a two-thirds vote of the States
was irrevocable, unless by a like two
thirda vote, and would be pending tintit
withdrawn or ratified; and if a State Leg
islature refused to ratify it, the people
could elect another Legishiture , in
hat
mony with the TOiee of the people of the
Repbblie. - It Would be dishonor InVon
gress to insist in retaining a policy in the
reconstructed States which it refused to
inculcate against other States. ,• •
Mr. JONES, of Ky., addregsed the
House in opposition to the proposed Con
stitutional amendment and the bill, the
object of which was to divest the people
of power over the regulation of suffrage
and elections, and vest that power in the.
Congress of the United Slates. That
,right Was not Only p iright restuved to
the States, but it was encouraged as in
the States by the Federal Constitution
itself.
r: Mr. WARD addressed the House in
'fiver of the substitute he had offered to
the proposed constitutional amendment.
The proposition of the gentleman from
Ohio (Mr. Binghatn) was in substance
to hand over the State governments to
traitors and rebels. He was opposed to
Ahat. He was willing to he merciful.
He was willing to be just. Ho was will
ing to give to the erring men of the South
'
their lives their liberty And ' their prop
erty, but he was not willing to banish
from . the statute books the last sem-.
blance of puniihment for treason:
Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, spoke
against the substitute, offered by Mr.
Bingham, and said when he could see
every man, white or black, free to utter
any sentiment he pleased, within the
bounds of propriety, anywhere in the
Republic, when that safety and that
•peace were secured, he would be ready
to relieve every body from all burdens..
Mr. PILE addressed the House five
minutes i supporz of the constitutional
amendin nit and bill.
Mr. SCOVIELD al occupied tiveinin
uten in -an argurnez t in favor of the
pending measures,and against Mr. Bing
ham's amendment.
Mr. BOUTIVELL proposed to alter the
proposed constitutional amendment so as
to make it read 'the' right of any .citi
zen of the United States to vote at anT
election in the Stat 4: in which he shall
actually reside fora period of one year
next preceding suchi, electlon shall not
be d,enied or abridged by the United
States or any State thereof, by reason of
race or color or previous. condition of
slavery of any citizen or class of citizens
of the United States, Or on account of his
want of property or education."
After furthardiscuasion, Mr. Boutwell
offered an amendment to add to the first
section the following: . stlll educa
tional, attainments, ca. the possession or
•ownership of property. ever be made a
test of the right of, tupy citizen to vote."
Mr. BINGHAM argued against the
amendment.on the legal principle that
thetexcluston of certain things was the
admission of all bther things, and that
religions or other,testa might, under that
• amend Ment,. bp,etitaltillabed.
Discumion on tfill i point Was carried
on by Messrs. Bingham; Eldridge, Bout
well; Shellibergety Wilson; of lowa, and
Jenekes. • • • •
Mr. BOUTWELLinoved the previous
question on his "amendment, which was
seconded. -
The amendment was rejected without
a vote by yeas and nays, the count on
division being 45 to 95.
Mr. BINGHAM moved to amend _the
first section so as to; make It, read, "no
State •shall • make or enforce any lais
which shall abridge lir deny to any male
citizen of the United States; of sound•
mind and twenty one-one years of age or
upwards, the equal exercise, subject to
such registration laws as the State may
enact, of the elective franchise at all
elections in the State wherein he shall
have actually resided, for a period of one
year next pi eceeding such elm ion, ex
cept Such of said citizen - A as shall engage
in rebellion or insurrection, - or who may
have been or shall be duly convicted of
treason or other infamous crime."
Mr. SHELLA.BAR'GER-offered the fol
lowing as a substitute:: "No State shall
make or enforce any laws which shall
deny or abridge to any mate citizen of the
United States of the age of twenty-one
years or over, and who is of sound mind,
an equal right to votl at all elections in
the State in which he shall havehis ac
tual residence, such ( ) right to vqte to be
under such regulati ne as shall be pre-,
scribed by law, except to such as have
engaged or may hereafter:engage in in
surrection or rebellion against the United
States, and to such asahall be duly con
victed of infamous crime."
This is known as the Ohio amend
ment, it being agrd -upon by the Re
publican delegation front that State by
fourteen to one, the pninority being Mr.
Bingham. .
Mr. BURR movedi to - lay the joint res
olution and amendment on the table.
Without voting On that motion the
House at4:4o adjourned. ..•
.NZW - YORK - • -.•--••
(By Telegraph to the Ptetahurgh tiazet te.)
likw Yonki l January 29, 1869.
Mr. Manton Marble has bought out all
the other owners oil the World newepa
per, and is now its sole proprietor. The
price paid for one quarter of the stock
was one hundred thousand dollars, ex
clusive of any real estate.
A serious disturbance occurred this
forenoon at the corer of Canton street
and Bank avenue, Brooklyn, between
white and colored persons, resulting in
the mortally wounding of John Hop
kins, white, by Samuel Halsey, colored.
The apparent origin of the trouble was
the unprovoked knocking down of a
colored man. A large number of people
become involved and the, rioV .was with
difficulty stopped by the 'police.. ,
The Rogers murt er inquestziVasoon
, tinned to-day. The only thing of im
porta4ce was that the colored , boy. Glou
cester again identified Talent as the tall
est of the two men he saw in Twelfth
street the morning pf the murder. The
case was adjournedito Monday, . ,
A daring attempt at burglary was
made last night at 49 Maiden Lane, ,but
only fifty dollars w re secured, and two
of the burglars wee subsequently cap-
I.
tured.
Waldreo alias B tts, author or the re
cent heavy bank robbery In Brooklyn,
was arrested to-day.
The sailors' strike continues, but hav
ing no regular organization or accumu
lated fund to maintain themselves, quite
large numbers hay? been glad to ship at
any reasonable offer.
Judge Ingraham! to day dissolved the
Injunction issued against James Fisk and
others In the matter of the Morning Star
Sunday School.
CUBA
Progress of the Devolution —The Peace
Commission —spinish Reinforcement*
Desperate Quiet.
,
till Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
HAVANA, January . ' ; 28, via KEYWEST,
January .---AdvlePs from Nuevitas to
Monday last, received . here, state that
Gen. Quesada, hearing Rpanish reinforce
ments bad arrived at Puerto Prircipo,
abandoned his march and returned to
the neighborhood of Nnevitas. He has a
force of six thousand men, armed with
Peabody rifles, and is confident of suo
cess. Occasional iikirmishes take place
with the garrison it -Nitevitas, two thou
sand strong, but it remains inactive.
Two of the Puttee Commissioners had
arrived at Nuevitas and had gone under
a flag of truce to have an interview with
Cespedez. A flag of truce from rebels
arrived at Nuevittui on the 19th, and the
bearer dined with the Governor of the
town, lie was instructed by General
Quentin to demand that the property of
non-combatants he respected , and to no
tify Spaniard t hat retaliation would be
resorted to. i
San Migu 1, has , been abandoned...
Count Valinazeds entered Tunas with
one hundredlmen wounded. He fought
a desperate battle at :the crossing, of t e
'
river Canto in which LOGO was kills
Afterwards the Insurgent s ceased to o
pose his march. ;The aggregate loss f
Government troops , was eight hundred
killed and wounded. •
The Pren*a advocates the military oc-'
cupation of the; island. Late disturb
ances in Havana ,had not been'renewed,
and the City is perfectly quiet. ,
Sugar, X 0.12 putell standard,
,active
at 84 reals; "Musovoado Sugar, fair to
good refining, quiet at 7,.4®715 reals, at
out ports. 1
*MD EDITIOI.
FOUR O*CIJOCF. A. M.
NEWS BY CABLE.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette. ]
SPAIN.
Manntp, January 29.—1 t is stated the
members of the Provisional Government
are unanimously in favor of the Duke
Montpensier for the Spanish throne.
The Provisional Government yester
day issued an address to the nation,
tending to' restore calmness to the
public mind. They decline to take
active steps against reaction, but
declare they are closely watching
it, and if necessary. will combat it.
All religious questions they leave to be
linally (flamed of by the Constituent
Cortes, which is soon to assemble.
The Abolitionists have presented a
petition to the Government asking them
to issue a decree setting free all children
born in Slavery since September,. 1868.
The petition-was referred to the Consti
tuent Cortes.
The Diplomatic Corps have addressed
to the Government a protest against the
treatment of the Papal Nudnio.
It is said that' all the members of the
Cabinet are now in favor of the Duke of
Montpensier for King of Spain.
The city of Madrid is quiet, but the
volunteers are kept under arms.
The A;cb Bishop of Burgos has been
arrested, and is now in the custody of
the-military.
GREECE
- A.TECENS, January 29.—1 t is reported
that the Bulgarian • Priine Minister_ has
resigned.
The action of the. Klnsr of Greece upon
the terms submitted by the recent Con
ference is considered uncertain. .ISioth
ing definite as to his intention relative
to the matter is yet known.
United States Minister Tuckerman, in
a speech delivered at a public dinner in
Athens,• yesterday, expressed the kind
liest feelings of the American nation for
Greece, and pledged the cordial sympa
thy of his Government for the Greeks in
their anticipated trouble with the Turks.
SOUTH AMERICt
I.crsho.,;, January 29.—Details of news
from Rio Janerio show the success of the
allied powers in Paraguay had been
most complete., All the Paraguayan
forts were in their hands and they have
captured all the artillery and baggage of
Lopez's army and two thousand prison
ers. The dictator Lopez was a fugitive
in the forests, and surrounded by armed
troops.
MOM
GERMANY
BERLIN, January D.—The Efouse of
Deputies has passed a bill confiscating
the property of the King of Hanover.
Tho proposition to indict the "King for
high treason was rejected.
GREAT BUITAIN.
LorrnoN, January 29.—An invitation
has been extended to Reverdy Johnson
to dine with the corporation authorities
of Glasgow, in February- next. He has
accepted the invitation.
FRANCE,
Pants, January.. 29.—Prince Napoleon
crave a reception to-day to Mr. Bur
lingame, the Chinese Ambassador and
suite.
FINANCIAL - AND. COMMERCIAL.
LONDON, 'January 29,-Evening.-Con-
I sola , 93;g; Five-Twenty Bonds, 7.5 1 ,4.
Stocks' quiet; Erie. 25%; Illinois, 923‘.
Frankfort bonds, 71q. -
LTVERPOOL, January 29.-Cotton; stock
269,000 dales,including 77,000 bales Amer
ican; quantity , afloat, 31,000 bales, inelu ,
ding 141,000 bales American; the market
to-day wag firm; middling uplands,
11%
pn spot; a fl oat, 11.4611 N; sales of 2,000
bales. Manchester market unchanged.
California White Wheat, IN. 6d.; Red
Western, 9s. ld.®9s. 11d. Corn, 34®358.
6d. for old; 33@33. 3d. for new. Mess
pork firm at 95e. - Beef, 105 s. Lard, 775.
Cheese firm at 74r. Bacon active at 595.
Common Rosin, ss. 9.1.@65. Spirits Pe
troleum, 9d.; refined, ls. 11d. Tallow,
365: 6d. -
Loxpow, January 29.-L'nseed oil dull,
• at 1655; 27 pounds. ss.
lAnsitkort, .Tauttary 29.-Tallow, 475. 6d.
SperM oil. ,£94: Sugar, 365. 6d. Calcut
ta linseed, 598. Petroleum at-Antwerp,
58a59 francs. '• '
HAVRE, January 29.--Cotton, 233 francs
on spot.
PARIS, January 29.-The weekly state
ment of the Bank of France shows bull
ion increased 600,000 francs.
Farour. January 2.9.,-Eveni
.ont ng.-
A.mericaia bondaelosed flrnidr and high
er: 5-20 s 7934@7934.-
PARIS, January 29.-Bourse steady;
• Rentes 70f.-450.
ANTWERP, January -29.-Petroleum
market closed dull; quotations nominal
-I.y unchanged.
Case of Mrs. Lincoln.
tlir Teleirraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.
WASIIING:rO3S, January '29, 1869.
The report of the Committee of Ten
siona in the case of Mrs. Lincoln says
they, are unable to perceive that she is
entitled to a pension underthe letter and
spirit of any existing law:,: The Com
mittee are. aware that the friends of the
resolution expect to make:} permanent
provision for the lady, but no .
_evidence
has been furnished them, or , reasons as
signed, why such provision should ba
made if such was the intention. 'The
Committee subibit the referetiee Should
have been made to some other Com
mittee. •
• : • Lease , ef a Railway. '
Clir Teleftratat to tht. Pattsborittt Gazette.)
COLUMBUS, -January 29.—The • stock
holders .of the Columbus( Chicago and
Indiana Central Railway. Company, at
their meeting to-clay, refused tci , lease
their road to 'the Atlantic !arid Great
Western Railway Company,land ratified
a lease of their road and•prupertY,ln
•petuity r tothe 'Pittsburgh, Pinoinnat St.
Louis and the Pennsylvania Railroad
Companies- The vote was large, cover-'
ing nearly all the stock 'of the Company.
The• lease takes eFeeton the first of Feb
ruary pmxirno:
—Weston,lthe pedestrian, and suite ar
rived at Bellows Falls, Vermont, yester
day, a few hours behind time, in conse,
quenee of bad roads. He has averaged
fifty miles a day since he left Bangor, :ode.
NUMBER 29.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
Miss Auguste M. St. Clair, lecturer,,
died at Salt Lake City on Wednesday.
. —The ,billiard match at Montreal. on • •
Thursday night, wag won by Dion, wilco
scored 1,200 to Foster's 1,116.
—The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Virginia has called a State
Convention for March 9th, to nominate
candidates for State offices.
• —Mina Rousche t of Burlington, Wis
consin, has been in a trance since Janu
ary Bth. Physicians have visited' her,
and from a vein tapped by them blood
flowed as from a living person.
—Government Commissioners have ac
cepted another section of the "Union Pa
cific Railroad, ending at the one thou
sandth mile post. The Central Pacific is
now completed five, hundred and three
miles east - of Sacramento: . ' '
—A petition to the Senate of the
United State's, signed by Hon. Geo. B
Upton and others, against the confirma
tion of the Alabama claims treaty, has
been placed at the Merchants Exchange.
at Boston, for signatures.
—A freight agent on the Ohio and Dna
etssippi Railroad committed suicide at
St. Louis, in Wednesday, by shooting
himself on the head and also in the left
side, while laboring under despondency,
induced' by sickness.,
—At Baltimore, William Hetzbold,
convicted in the 'United States Court of
not giving notice to the Assessor of his
place of business as a rectifier of distilled
spirits, as required by the revenue law,
was fined one thousand dollars.
• —The officers of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company state that
there is no foundation for the report fur
nished by the Jay .Gould party that the
Erie Railroad Company would have con
trol of their road and change its gauge
to six feet.
—Near Owensboro, Ky., some days ago, •'
a negro man seized a white lady and
brutally outraged her person. The negro
was afterwards captured and committed
to-prison, but on Wednesday night a
mob broke the jail, took the prisoner out
and hung him.
—ln the Kriel wife murder case at '
Louisville, Ky., the evidbnce for the de
fense was to the effect that at the time the
time the.deed was committed the ac
cused was. laboring under an attack of
the mania potu, and, therefore, not re
sponsible for his acts. •
—The Maine State Temperance Con- .
vention met at Augusta on Tuesday,
with Ebenezer Knowlton as chairman.
A letter from Hon. Woodbury Davis was
read, opposing the re-enactment of the
State constabulary law and favoring im-«
Trisonment for the sale of liquor.
—A petition was presented in the 'Ord.'
,ted States Senate, on Wednesday, pro
testing against Congress chartering
Afasmic Societies, - believing secret
societies dangerous to a republican
form of government, and cflarging the
fraternity with upholding slavery and
instigating rebellion. The petition vas
referred. .
—Four colored men and a white man,
ctarged, -With
. tte crime of.stealingl the,
body of a Colonel from a tomb
about seven miles from Kingston, North
Carolina, were taken from the jail in that
place, where they were held, a few days
ago, and murdered by a band of thirty
or forty-citizens of that place. No arrests
have as yet been made.
MEM
—The. Supreme Court of the United
States has granted a writ of prohibition
against Judge Underwood, returnable on
Friday next. The application is signed
by the Attorney qeneral of Virginia,
who says Judge Underwood has dis
charged several prisoners convicted and
sentenced for murder and arson, thus
acting contrary to the Constitution and
laws.
—The residences of several wealthy
farmers near Morris, Illinois, .were
entered lately and numerous valuables
extracted therefrom. The suspected
thief was arrested on Wednesday, and
some of the stolen articles were found on
his person. A t night injailthe attempted
to commit suicide. but the large dose of
poison he took acted as an emetic and
saved his life.
—A letter from Caracas, Venezuela,
States Mr. Talmadge, American Commis
sioner for the settlement of American
claims, has been accused of fraud, and.
the abrogation of the treaty. -The im
putation, its is aid, can be disproved, and.
the trouble is supposed to,have been in
duced by a wish to avoid paying the
heavy instalments already adjusted to
the - United States.
—A. Hyatt, alias Samuel R. Allen-and
seven others have been arrested at IttoCh
ester, N. Y., on a charge of conspiracy to
defraud the Union National Life Insur
ance Company of 0,000. Hyatt had his
life insured to that amount, sold his
policy to a lawyer named Garland, and.
shortly after had a report circulated that
he was drowned while hunting: The
case will be tried immediately.
Army Deserters ; Punished.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gir.ette.l
MEMPHIS, January 29.—Three privates
belonging to the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
named M. H. Strong, Harmon Spring
stein and Stephen Mandon, for desertion,
had their heads shaved, were tattoed
with letters and driven out of the service
to-day in the presenoe of the regiment.
Strong had been a clerk in Grant's oilice
during the war. ' •
new England Labor` Convention.
By Telegraph tothe,Plusburgh azette-.1
BOSTON, .Ta . nui'y 23.—The Nov Eng
land Labor ConVention %vim in session to
day, and was largely attended. An or
ganization was toerfected, and the name
of "New England RefOrm ~ League"
adopted. The Convention closed with
the adoption of resolutions making the
League the advocate of every kind of la
bor reform.. •
Mortuary Report.
Dr. A G Weandless Physician to the
Board of:Heeß,l3 4 reports the following
interments fritlie city of Pittsburgh for
week jcominenting January 17, - and. end
ing January 24, 18694 =
Melee 12 t White. 18 # ibtal**/7
Females..... 8 t Colored— 2y Diseases—thceration of the bowels, .1;
ovarian, tumor, 1; .gastro enteritis, 1;
consumption, 2; typhoid pnounionfri, 2;
pneumoola, - 5; whooping cough, 2; con
vulsionti,i.l;. still born, 1; debility, 1;
scarlatin It eiesipelas, 1; triamosis, 1.
Of the 130V43 were : Under 1 year, 5..
from 1 t. 2,5; 2to 5,2; sto 10, 1; 80 to
40, 2; 40 0.50, 2; 50 to 60, 2; 60 to 70, 2;
70 to 90, .
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