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VOLUME LXXX
FIRST DITIOII.
yriAmiciinEl ONC r isOCIEs M.
HA RISBVIttI.
i i n
'
Proceedi gs of th Legislature
. —Final diourn entilefiolu
tion Bfled Ilirmatively
-Legg lug Primary 'Flee
iions--, 8 lip Iniroduced—lte
publica _ State Committee
Meeting. '•
qty Telegraph to the Vittettatitt Gazette.]
Hamlet:run% February 4, 1869.
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SENATE. -
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BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr.' Authorizing cor
porations possessing mining privileges'
to lease property to other corporations
having the same privileges; authorizing
ea West Branch and Susquehanna Canal
Company to abandon that part called the
'Lewisburg Cross Cut" and sell the same
to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad.
By Mr. STINSON: Authorizing the
- Wilmington and Reading Railroad, to
raise money by mortgage to build lateral f
railrdads not exceeding thr4 miles in
length.
By. Mr. GRAHAM: Enabling railroads,
,eastals and' slackwater navigation .com
- paniesto straighten, iriden, deepen, en
large and.otherwise improve their lines,
bridges, aqueducts; piers and struts
tures thereof; incorporating the De Soto
Gold. and Silver Mining Company; re
_ Pealing the act authorizing the Erie
County Court to appctint an individual
to act in conjunction with the Commis
sioners-and Directors of the Poor to sell
the real elle*: of the Poor House, &c.,
passed 1868.
By Mr. CONNELL: To prevent frauds
at electiceis. -
By Mr. SEARIGHT: Authorizing a
pension to James Thompson, a soldier
of 1812._
By Mr. WALL ACE: Authorizing the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Cattin
party to extend and construct their branch
railroad, now located and building in the
.counties Of Cameron, Elk, Clearfield and
Jefferson, to a line between Pennsylvania
and Ohio, and to connect the same with
-other railroads; .repealing 'act author
-is:Mg-the sale of property of incorporated :
eaMPardes , fitio*beirclairecured . b3r mort.
gage, with like effect as if sold Upon
mortgage; authorizing appeals to the Su-
Drama COUrt in appileations for changes
of corpor4te charters.
By Mr. • CONNELL: Resolution re
questing the Attorney General to corn
. inunicate his opinion as to the constitu.
tionality of the act modifying and dung
ing the revenues derived from taxes on
taverns and retailers and collateral in
'lreritance tax from the sinking fund, and
applying the - same to ordinary expenses
and current appropriations. Adopted.
HOUSE, • - -
FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
Mr. VVILSON, from Wave and Means
Committee, reported affirmatively the
joint resolution for final adjournment on
the 10th 01 March.:.'
PRIMARY ELECTIONS:
Mr. McMILLER, from the General
Indiciary Committee, reported nega
tively the bill embodying the Philadel
phia Union League proposition legaliz
ing something like the Crawford county
system of elpctions for all parties.
BILLS INTRODUCED
• -Mr. REA, of Erie, one incorporating
the Enterprise Gas and *ater Company
of Corry. Passed finally. •
Mr. HUMPHREYS, or Allegheny, one
for the better prosecution of disorderly
persons in Millvale, Allettheny county.
Also, one authorizing Ormsby bor
e& ough to levy and collect taxes; also, one
extending.the. Pittsburgh vehicle license
law to OrmEby borough.
Ur. MORGAN, of Allegheny, one pro
hibiting Aldermen in Plttsburgh
lug positions on the police force; supple
ment for Mechanics Savings Bank of
Pittsburgh, authoririzig It to invest in
government securities.
Mr. BEATTY, of Crawford, one an
thorizing the' Meadville City Connell to
fix the place of holding elections.
(GOVERISME2(T TBLEGRAPIr,
Thejoint resolution agahmt leavlng the
control of the telegraph In the hands of
the general government . passed finally.
Republican State - Convention.
The Republican State Confmittee to
day resolved that,the next State Conven
tion be hold in Philadelphia, June ltd.
The!Committee had a -long conference
with the Republican caucus of both
Homes in reference to the Police Com-•
udasioners' bill for Philadelphia.
- .Legislatnre. •
Zy Telegraph to the Pitteourgh Gazette.]
•
Citio,too, February 4.—ln the Leglsla
tnre to-day, 8, joint resolution was passed
subinitting to the. people an - amend-
Mont••to`the - Illinois Constitution, that
the • 1 4gislature shall havd no - power to
release the Illizmis Central Railroad from
the payment of - any tax on gross receipts.
It is positively asserted to Springheld
that Gov. Palmer will veto ••Fuller's bill
to regulate railroad fares.
Dry Goods Firm Failure.
&By Teiegrapu to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
PintottlGLPEttit, February 4.—A large
dry goodelobbing house failed here to
day- Liabilitiessaid to be live hundred
thousand dollirs, seventy thousand of
which are due one house in thi s city.
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FORTIETH CONGRESS.
[THIRD SESSION:I
.
SENATE . : Bill to Convert Reg
isterd into toupon
ff Bonds—
sus7ige Amendment Further
, ,
Discussed—Evenint Session'.
OUSE : Recusant Witnesses
,
isharged—lndian 4ppro
.
nation Bill Passed—Dele
tate Holbrook , Censured :by
she Speakere for Indecorous
and •Unparliamentary Lan
guabo—Evening Session Devo
ted to General Debate.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gasette.l .
WASHINGTON, February 1,1869.
t• SENATE.
Mr. POMEROY presented a joint reso
lution of the Legislature of Kansas re
lating to the mail service and post routes
in Kansas.
Mr. CHANDLER presented a joint res
olution of the Michigan Legislature, re
questing Michigan Representatives and
Senators to secure the passage of the
River and Harbor appropriation bill.
The Chair presented the credentials
_
of T. W. Tipton, Benator elect from Ne
braska. ,
Mr. NYE presented the credentials of
William Stewart, Senator elect from Ne
vada.
Mr. CATTELL introduced a bill to
provide for the conversion - of registered
bonds for the United States_ into coupon
bonds, which was referred to the Finance
Committee.
~"It authorizes the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue, upon such terms and
under such regulations as he may from
time to time prescribe, coupon bonds in
exchange for and in lien of any registered
bonds which have been or may hereafter
be lawfully issued, such coupon betide to
be similar in all respects to the coupon
bonds lasued under the acts authorizing
the issue of the registered bonds offered
for exchange.
Mr. HOWE, from the Committee en
Claims, reported favorably the bill to
pay loyal citizens in the States lately in
ebellion for services in taking the Uni
ted States census in 1880.
Mr. POMEROY moved to take np the
motion made by Mr. Conness to recon
eider the vote upon the bill relating to
the Central Branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad, to allow the Senator from Ore
gon, Mr. Williams, to offer an amend
ment. Lost. •
The Constitutional Amendment came
up at the" expiration of the • morning
hour.
The pending amendment was to substi- i
into for the joint resolution as it passed
the House the report' of the Judiciary
Xcanniittee of the Senatkvix: , 44 The right
of citizens of Vnited States to vote and
hold'office alien not be denied - or abridg
ed by the United States, or by any State,
on account Of race, color or previous con
dition of servitude." .
Mr. FERRY made an elaborate , vindi
cation of the representation of Connecti
cut, which Mi. Dixon had -spoken of as
"a Rotten Borough System.'
Mr. MORTON. briefly discussed the
question 'of the best form of itords 4n
which to put the amendment. He ob
jected to the form reported by the Judi
ciary Committee, because it merely pro
vided no citizen should be deprived of
the right to vote or hold office on account
of race, color or previous condtion of ser
vitude, leaving it still in the power of
the States to disqualify for other causes.
He liked better the form submitted by
Mr. Howard as an amendment, provi.
ding that citizens of the United States
of African descent shall have the same•
right to vote and hold office as other
citizens; but this, too, was open to objec
tion, because the States might establish
an educational test, which, while it die.
qualified some .white men, would dis
qualify most of the blacks. He prefer.
red, therefore, an affirmative amend
ment, declaring who shall have theright
of suffrage, making it uniform and leav
ing nothing on the subject open to forced
construction.
Mr. WARNER read an amendment in
favor of an affirmative amendment.
The Senate took up and passed the bill
to provide for the expenses of the Patent
Office for January and Filbrnary.
Mr. WILLIAMS offered the following
amendment, upon which he will speak
to-morrow: "Congress shall have pow
er to abolish or modify any restriction
of the right to vote or to hold office pre
scribed by the constitiition or . laws of
any State." ;,'_*t ..i . ''
At 9:30 theße4 took .a recess until 7
o'clock.
Evening Session ; - -A few private bills
were passed .. - ,
~•"'-•-• • '
The bill to amend the act granting
lands in aid of the branch of the Central
Pacific Railroad to Portland, Oregon,
was recommitted.
The bill amending the act for the sale
of the Arsenal grenade at St. Louis was
passed.
The bill to legalize ce-taro land appro.
priations and agricultural scrip was dis
cussed and tabled.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
After the read'ng of the . journal, the
Sergeant-at-Arms appeared at the bar of
the House with Henry Johuson, the re
cusant witness committed' yesterday to
his keeping. He having testified before
the Committee on the New York
Election 'Frauds, was discharged from
custody. Mr. Florence t3cannel was also
brought to the bar of the House and dis
charged.- .
Mr. WOODWARD introduced a joint
resolution changing the name of Wyom
ing Territory to that of Umatilla. Re
fera ed to the Committee on Territories.
Messrs. UPSON and FERRY presen ted
resolutions of the Michigan Legislature
in favorof the passage of the river and
harbor appropriation bill now before the
Senate.
Mr. SCHENCK said-he was Instructed
by the Committee of Ways and Means to
propose that there be no action to-night
on the tax bill y as the whisky and tobac
co amendments were hot yet printed,
and the Committee wanted to revise
them; but that the evening session should
be held for general debate.
Mr. WOODWARD inquired whether
Mr. Schenck was serious in desiring
final action en the bill at this session, id
view of the fact. which he believed was
generally understood by both Homes,
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PITTSBURGH, _ H FRIDAY,'
. .FE.I - I . R,UAR,Y,.:'S, "-1869
that the Senate could not take it up and.,
act upon it?
Mr. SCHENCK replied he was very
serious about it.
The proposition for an evening session I
for general _ debate was agreed to.
Mr. MOORHEAD wanted to have the
tariff taken up this evening, but objec
tion was made.
The amendments reported by the Com
mittee of the Whole to the Indian Ap
propriation bill were taken up and acted
on by the House.
Mr. GARFIELD moved to recommit
the bill, with instructions to report back
an additional section transferring the
Indian Bureau to the War Department.
On a point of order by Mr. WIND
HAW, the motion was ruled out of Order.
Mr. BUTLER, of Massachnsetts, de
sired the House to understand that the
bill now under considerationrwould not
pay- the Indian expenditdre by the sum
of $3,000,000. If the ayetent was carried'
forward which the Peace. Commisalon
had begun, and which' was
_now in pro..
cess of execution, that plan would cost'
from six to seven million dollars a year.
Mr. GARFIELD took occasion to de
nounce the Indian Bureau as one more
thoroughly &irrupt than any other branch
of the administration. He had even
heard the very nature of that service
Tres one which allowed all the baser and
More corrupt passions to effloresce and
'develops themselves. He declared that
lie never would vote for appropriations
of money that were to flow through the
unclean channels of the Indian Bureau.
Mr. WINDHAM replied to the re-
Marks of Mr. Garfield, and asked him
why,,if the Indian Bureau service was
corrupting as the gentleman front
Ohio described, he was so anxious to turn
it over to his friends, the military offi
cers. If the Chairman of the Military
Committee (Mr. Garfield) would look
after the stealings of military 'men in
the eammutation of fuel, quarters, etc.,
he would find that more money was sto
len every year, actually stolen, than
there was appropriated for the whole In
dian service. He was not hereto defend
the Indian service. He had endeavored
On various occasions to prevent this cor-'
ruption, and had brought in a measure
Which would have prevented it; .but the
gentleman from Ohio bad filet it with his,
transfer to. the War Department as a
qure for the evil.
Mr. CLARKE, of Kansas, a member
of the Continittee.on Indian affairs, said
he agreed in the main with the position
of the gentleman from Ohio, (Mr. Gar
field,) and disagreed with the chairman
of the Indian Committee. He argued
that the present bill should not pass, if
for no other reason than the abuse of the
treaty making power.
The SPEAKER interfered and said it
was clearly out of order to reflect upon
the official conduct of a co-equal [branch
of-the government.
Mr. CLARKE said he would take that
back. He went on to argue against the
corrupt system of. Indian treaties and
against the passage of the bill. '
Mr. HOLBROOK, Delegate nom Idaho,
havingsliteitied the•floctr.nona-M4,lkis.,
ler, proceeded to discuss the Indian ques
tion. xn the course of his remarks he
used these words: "The-gentleman hav
ing charge of this bill saw fit to silence
the Delegates here by raising points of
order and making assertions which he
knew at the time he made them to be
unqualifiedly false."
The SPEAKER.caIIed. him to order.
Mr. BENJAMIN asked that the offen
sive words be taken down.
Mr. BUTLER remarked he had not
heard whaftras Raid.
Mr. HOLBROOK began to repeat, when
the Speaker again interrupted him and
said it would be improper for him to re:-
peat the objectionable words.
They having been written by the
reporter and read by the Clerk, the
SPEAKER, in a sincere tone, said:
"The Chair rules these words to be out of
order, as being iumarliamentary and in
decorous. When a gentleman declares
that a member has stated on the, floor
what he knew to be unqualifiedly false,
he used the most insulting language that
can be uttered on the floor of a- parlia
mentary body."
Mr. HOLBROOK was about to make
some remarks, when
Mr. BENJAMIN, interrupting, said he
objected to the Delegate
,proceedinguntil
he retracted what'he had said.
Mr. HOLBROOK-1 do not propose to
retract onaword of what I have said.
The SPEAKER—The Delegate from
Idaho refuses to retract his words.
Mr. HOLBROOK Does the Chair
rule= , •
The SPEAKER—The Chair has ruled
that the remarks of the , gentleman were
not only unparliamentary, but_were as
insulting as could be made on the floor
of a parliamentary body.
Mr. HOLBROOK.--L desire to ask a
question.
The SPEAKER-The Chair can hold
no debate with the geutleman.
Mr. CHANLER appealed from the de
cision, as being contrary to a decision
which the Speaker made before in re
ference to language used by Mr. Logan.
The SPEAKER—The Chair can hold
no controversy with the gentleman from
New York, or any other. gentliman, in
relation -to other decisions. Every de
cision stands by , itself, on the words used,
subject to appeal at the time.
C LER--I withdraw the' ap
peal.
Mr. SCHENCK offered the following
resolution :
Resolved, Th ht.C. D. Holbrook, Dele
gate from the Territory of Idaho, having
uttered the following languor; (quoting
it) distinctly and in the presence of the
House, and refuses to retract the same,
be immediately brought to the bar of the
House by the iiergeant-at-Arms o and
severely censured by the Speaker.
Adopted without division. •
The SPEAKER having directed the
Sergeant-at-Arms to bring Mr. Holbrook
tO the bar of the House, administered
the censure of the Home.
Mr. Holbrook then retireffand the dis
cuasion was continued. at some length.
Finally Mr. GARFIELD moved to lay
the bill on the table, which was objected
to, there being only twenty-three affirm
ative votes.
The bill then paged. -
Mr. SCHENCK offered the following
privileged - resolution: • . .
Resolved, That James P. Wilson, of
lowa and John W. L. Pruyn, of New
York, be appointed tellers on the part of
the House of Representatives to count
the electoral votes for President and Vice .
President of the United States.
The SPEAKER stated that for °intone
reasons the Chair desired the House to
take the , responsibility of making these
appointments instead, of himself.
The resolution was agreed,to.
Mr. LOGAN int,rodtmd a bill protrid
ing for the payment ( of the ititional debt
.M
and for the reduction of the rates of in
terest thereon. Retorted to. Committee
on Ways and Means:
The House proceeded to the' business
of the morning, being the bill reported
:vestekdav from Committee on Roads and
Canals, 'to autherlze the building of a
military and postal railroad from Wash
ington to New York.
Mr. COOK spoke in favor and Mr.
KERR against it, when, at the expira
tion of the morning hour, she bill went
over till Tuesday next.
- The Rouse proceeded to busirees on
the SPeaker's table and disposed thereof •
as foUows .
, Senate- amendments to tense bill for
'the relief of John A. Ostler, of Guern
seycounty, Ohio, were concurred in.
Senate joint resolution directing the
Secretarye of the Interior to annul the
stationery contract with Dempsey and
O'Toole was passed; with an amendment
striking out the direction to give the con
tract to Maher and Blanchard. •
Senatejoint reisointion authorizing the
transfer of certain appropriations hereto
tofore made for public printing, binding
and engraving, was passed. -
Senate joint resolution' extending to
the reconstructed States the benefits of
the Agricultural College bill was refer
red Committee on Public Lands.
Senate bill to amend act of 18th of Feb
ruary, 1862, to prohibit the Coolie trade
in,American ships was passed.
-Recess till half past seven o'clock.
Evening session for debate only.
• Evening Session.—Mr. ELA. made a
speech, in defence of paper money, in
creased tariff on luxuries, government
economy, etc.
Mr. DARLING spoke for the prohibi
tion of the further sale of public latida by
private entry Or by grants to private cor
porations..
Mr. WILLIAMS maintained in a
speech that this honor and faith of the
nation must be maintained In the,,pay
ment of the publie debt, and argued in
favor of an early partial resumption of
specie payment. •
Mr. SCIIENCK spoke in favor of his
resolution for the withholding from the
'Union Pacific Railroad of a portion of the
bonds unti the completion of the road as
a first Cl railroad.
Mr. KELLY, of Pa.. resumed his dis
cussion of the report of Special Commis
sioner Wells, which he characterized as
full of plausible fallacies.
The Conornittee.rose and the House
adjourned.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—Senator Henderson, of Missouri, has
gone to Cube for the benefit of hie health.
—Maher, the man last arrested, is con
fidentlyLbelieved to he r the one who mur
dered Mr. Regard at New York.
B. Pinto, who robbed the Park
Bank atr New York, has • been - sentenced
to lye years in the State Prison.
—The_large copper works of Hill-dc
Wright, Esstfkiston, Maio., were burned,
Thursday morning. Toss 412,000.
1" dit: 4 ,7 181; or Cl :I t n i nn e tYvli nau (wludtll4l9 rd h e i° r ; O l f lllll" D c . t6 P iurt . B Wili k ee in e n nu e esY r : ,
last-Berileiribef."
=Ex-Goy-Brown - and ex-Senator Foote
haie written letters,which are published,
concurring in universal amnesty and im
partial suffrage.
:-1 - -The Metropolitan (New• York)
police
arrested last year 88,951 persons, of whom
$1,8611 were females. Seventy-eight t werp
charged with murder.
—The inauguration ball willtake plade
in the new wing of the Treasury build
:lug at Washington city, the committee
having secured it for that purpose. .
. —There are twelve persons in the New
York tombs charged with murder, in
cluding two women, the majority of
whom were arrested withipi the past two
months. •
—Gen. Comstock was married to a
daughter of Montgomery Blair, at Wash
ington city, on Wednesday evening.
Among those present were ° Gen. Grant
and family.
—A bill has been I utroduceci in.the New
Jersey Legislature to tax'life insurance
companies one-half of one per cent: on
all premiums, and thus create a new
source of revenue.
—President Johnson has directed the
Attorney General to make a report in she
case of Dr. Mudd as preliminary to his
pardon. The friends of Dr. M. say they
have no doubt he will soon be set at lib.
erty.
—The loiter House- of the Missouri
Legislature- has ,passed a bill providing
that joint stook companies or aasociatioos
from another State transacting businesi
in the State of Missouri may sue or be
sued in the courts of that State.
—A skating match at Buffalo, Wednes
day night, between, Miss Godbont, of
New BrunsWick. and Miss Dean, of Chi
cago, for Aye hundred dollars, was won
Mies Dean, the score standing thirty
four.to thirty-one. Another match is on
between the same parties.
-—A delegation of prominent women
have arrived at Jefferson City with a pe
tition from the Woman'a Suffraga Asso
ciation of Missouri, asking the Legisla
ture to provide for the amendment of
the State Constitution so as to strike the
world "male" from that instrument.
—Duriug the progress of a ball and
orincert at St. Patrick- 1 s Hall, at Alan
treal, Wednesday night, about two thou
sand persons being present, the cry was
raised that the roof was giving wag. All
rushed to the street, but while the last
were Vetting out the roof fell with a
crash, and several persons were injured.
—The New York Times says of the re
cent developments relative to tho eva
sions of internal revenue taxes in Wall
street, that when Mr. Webster - came
into office, a few months ago, he found a
large class of people who claimed, to be
brokers, and who had taken out a
broker's license, ..which is fifty dollars,
who were in reality .bankers and ought
Properly.to have been paying license as
such. which is one liindred dollars, and
two dollars per thousand on 'all over
850,000 capital. Many brokers and large
stock and -banking houses reported no
capital at, alt, - and none returned de
posits as taxable. Mr. Webster proposes
to make these people pay their arrear
ages, during the vast fifteen, months.
Several houses have 'already come 'for
ward to comply with the Assessotle view
of the case. It' Webster's ruling is sus.;
tained, that the law imposes a tax of one
twentv-fonrth of one per cent, on capital
employed, as apPlicable to the daily
temporary; bans negotiated by brokers
upon stooks, gold, the income from
this source alone, in Mr.* Websbm's dis
trict, will be over three millions of ,dol
lam added public, revenu e. ' I
ElllllOl.
FOUR. O'CI_AOCIC A. hi.
a• THE CAPITAL. *'
LEy Telegraph tO the Pittsburgh Gsgett4.l
WASHINGTON', February.. 4, 1869.
ItISSISSIPPi ItIiCONSTRUCTION.
The Committee on Reconstruction
were to-day to have decided definitely
as to the restoration of Mississippi to the
Union. but postposed action in conse
quence of information that another dele
gation from that State is on the way to
Waahington. The' Committee has de
cided to report a bill removing political
disabilities from a number of persona in
the South.
BROUGHT . TO THE BAR.
Mr. Holbrook, delegate from Idaho,
having used grossly insulting language
to Mr. Butler in the discussion of the
Indian appropriation bill, was brought
before the bar of 'the House in charge of
the Sergeant•at-Arms and severely cen
*lured by the Speaker.
PUBLIC CBEDIT BILL.
The Committee of Ways and Means
have agreed to report the bill introduced
by Mr. Schenck, on the 20th of January,
to strengthen the public credit and relat
ing to contracts for payment of coin. and ,
pledging the faith of the United States
to the payment •of bonds in coin.
CONVALESCING.
' Hon., E. E. Washburn°, who has been
detained at home by severe sickness for
several days, basso far recovered that he
expects soon to resume his seat in the
House.
NEW YORK CITY.
Bond Thief Canglit—Revenne Defraud—
ers—Gold Sales—Bast River . Bridge
-Libel Sult—Sentenced to Prison for
Forty Tears.
(By Telegraph to ibe Pittsburgh Garet te.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 1869,
John • Dobbs, one of the parties who
robbed
.Cambreling ..t Pine, in January,
of $150,000 in bonds and securities, has
been arrested and surrendered $20,C00 of
the spoils. His confederate, Charles
Doely, is vet at large with the balance
of the property.
Thomas O'Callaghan, Ex-Collector of
Internal Revenue in the Ninth district,
and John F. Entrich, distiller, have been
arrested and held in $lO,OOO bail for trial
on a charge of revenue" frauds.
The Chamber of Commerce to-day •
adopted as resolution recommending Con
oress to pass a bill forbidding secret sales
Con
of gold by the government; also, one
asking -the Senate to suspend action on
she Beet river bridge-bill until a better
plan for the bridge is adopted.' .
The libel suit of Isaac Cook against the
Tribune wailpostponed till the 19th.
Edward Boyle, alias Francis, was be
fore Recorder Hackett to-day for sen
tence. having pleaded guilty of felonious
assault and battery. Assistant District
Attorney Hutchings said' it had . been
`stated in the newspapers that the pHs !
oner was wanted in hiichigan for the
mOrder of the Sheriff of Kalamazoo
county. Capital punishment has been
abolished in Michigan, and therefore in
the event of conviction there he could
only be sent to . the States prison for life;
but as the sentence could be pronounced
on his pleas for a very long term, it
would be better for the Court.to make
his punishment quick and severe here.
as a warning to those desperate men who
were infesting the city, a large class' of
them coming from other , cities to pursue
their, lawless vocations. He moved,
therefore, that the judgment of the law
be • pronounced on the prisoner. The.
prisoner was sentenced to forty years
imprisonment lu the State prison.
Several burglars s'ere sentenced in the
Courts today to terms of Imprisonment
varying front two and a half to twenty
years.
Gen. Grant arrived to night and attend
ed Niblo's Theatre.
The snow storm 'began at New York
yesterday noon. A thunder and light
ning storm extended throughout New
England Wednesday night.
1_ Woman Suffrage in Dllesourl.
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l
- ST. Loins, February 4.—The delegates
of the Woman's Suffrage Association
were received by the Legislature in joint
session this afternoon and treated with
marked respect.. John E. Hendrick,
Rpeaker of the House, was called to the
Chair, and made a short speech, taking
strong grounds in favor of female suf
frage and making this a republican gov
ernment in fact, as itl is in theory.
Mrs. Joo. S. Phelps made a few re
marks,land gave an outline of the reasons
why woman demands the ballot. But
the principal speech:of the occasion was
made by Miss Pheebe W. Cozzins, of St.
Louis, who delivered a long, elaborate
and eloquent Address, going over nearly
the whole ground involved ib the ones.
tion, and making many strong points:
She was listened to with attention and
frequently applauded. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Standard, Senator Harbine and
several other members spoke and took
very decided ground in favor of woman
suffrage. After the adjournment of the
convention, the suffrage petition was cir
culated, and Gov. McClurg, Lieut. Goy.
Standard and some fortyor , fifty senators
and representatives signed which
almost assures that an amendrient to
the Constitution, striking out the word
"male,' will be submitted to the people
as a seperate proposition at the next
general. election.
The Inaarrectlonln Cuba.
tßi Teleirreoh to the Plttsbareh Gillette.)
HAVANA, February 4.—For several
days a rumor - has been current ,that the
reVblutionary Generals Ces es and
Aguilar have surrendered to 6 . unt 'Val
' =wade, but the /Wort proves untrue.
No - news has been received from tote
Eastern Department.
The journalanflifavana have refrained
for the past week from publishing news
from the seat of war, and it appears as if
there was a tacit understanding not to
inform the people of, - the 'situation of
ptrairs. •
The Dinrio of today says GenerarAu
gastine Arango, of the revolutionary
forces, has been assassinated by his cora
pUtions.
Sager Aran N 0.12 is quoted at 8% rinds.
NUMBER 34
SEWS BY CABLE.
(Ey Telegraph to the Plttlhurgh Garette,)
SPAIN.
'Manna', February 4.—Bands of Car
lists have made their appearance in Cata
lonia. They come from
_the Valley of
Andorra, and seek to produce a iising
against the Provisional gamnment
Troops have been sent out to *sparse
them. The press of this city,. fearing
civil war, urge the Government to take
active measures and the people to units
against the revtionary party.
GREA BRITAIII._,
•
LONDON, February 4.—The appeal s¢
eently made in tbe ease of Costello, the
American citizen convicted of complicity
in Fenian revolts, has been denied., ),
SOUTH AMERICA. • •
PARIS, February 4.--LateSouth .Amer
ican advices say it hrreported,thats Bra
zilian force has gone AS Asuncion to es
tablish a Provisional Government.-
GREECE. '
Lorruoic, February 4.—Di-stet hea - frontr
Athens announce the probabhenna"
of Greece to the protocol of the Confer
ence. it
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
LONDON, February' 4—Evening.--Con
'sole • for money, 95®95%: for account,
93g. Five-Twenty bonds, 7q4076%. do-
Stocks : Erie, 24: Illinois, 93%. Th e
crease of specie in the Bank of England
was £315,000.
FNANKFORT, February - 4.—United
States Bonds, 793‘@80.
LivEttroot., February 4.—Cotton is
`excited, with sales of middling uplands
at 12y,d, and Orleans stt.l23sci. The sales
amounted . to. 25,000 bales. California.
white wheat is held at lie sd@lla 6d,
and red western at 9s 9d@)93 101: West
ern flour is held at 265. Corn : ,i3sc
for old; Sis. for , new. Oats, 38' 6d.
Barley, ss. ' Peas, 445. Provisions: Pork,
97s 6d. Beef, 102 s Eld. Lard, 78s. _Cheese.
755. Bacon, - 593 6d. Tallow, 46s 6d. MP:.
pentine, 30s 9d. Linseed oil, 430 10s.
LONDON, February'4.--Sperm oil, .4396.
Sugar 93 buoyant. Calcutta Linseed, Met.
ANTW.DEP, February 4.—Petroleum is
591/, francs.
FRANKFORT, January 4.—Elenin9 Fire-Twenties, 80. 1 •
Rim's, January b.—Bourse strong at
7f. 2c.
HAvan, January " 4.—Eventing—Cotton
closed at 140 f. for trea ordinairs; 140 f. for
low middling to arrive. ,
LONDON,January • 4.—Evening--Lin..
seed fail cosed 27 pounds 10s. per ton.
Wawa from Mexico.
By Telegraph to tho2ltto9re . l Giutetts.]
CITY 07 hizxico t Aimary 28, viz BA-
N - Axe, February Mexican Con
gress adjourned on Thuniday, after pass
lug important bilis. Theltevernment
desires an extraordinary &melon of the
Congress. • The army and Civil emplayen
have been paid.uptothefitrat.ofJennery.
The Mexican papers accuse rresident
Johnson and Minister Rosecians of hint
ing at annexation in their public utter
ances. The report that Alvarez had pro
nounced against the government is .not
confirmed. The rural police have been
largely augmented. .41. a:M4iW/4 leaves
on the 28th for Vera Crua.
Stabbed at a Pair.
CBI Telegraph to the Pittaburgk Gazette.)
MEMPHIS, February 4.—An affair oc
curred at the Catholic Fair last night, in '
which Wm. Rice, a - wail-known sporting
man.' formerly of New Orlesunr, was
stabbed and probably fatally 'wounded
by a drunken man named TintMcGrath,
who was arrested after a terrible resist
ance, after being knocked senseless by
the poli&, and after. three 'of theca had
been badly cut. McGrath was commit.
ted to fail.
-A_resident of Brooklyn, New York,
while laboring under the insane Idea
that, some one was trying to rob him,took.
his watch and fonr unwired dollars out
on the street and gave them to the first
stranger he met. The stranger has :not
returned the watch and money,althoUgh
the Brooklyn man has. become sate
gym•
—Dennis McCarthy, Michael Warren
andn Patrick Fitzgerald have been. ar
rested for causing the destruction by
Are of the railroad bridge over Deerfield
river, at Cheap Side, Massachusetts,
January 17th, 1863.
—Miss Sophia, daughter of A. p. Rowe,
a prominent merchant of Springfield,
Mass., has been missing since the 80th
tilt., and is supposed to have wandered
away m a fit of temporary insanity.
Markets by l'elejOit;'
, , ~
NEW. ORLEANS, Tebrua ' 4.—Cetton.
higher: middling 29; VW bales;
w r i
receipts 1,549 bales; expo 4,900 balai..
Gold 130. Exchange, ster ng 148; 'coin- '
mercial 14634a147; New orirt Sight
discount. Holders of Lo Jana Coupons,:
due on the Ist instant, have been noti
fied that they will .be paid on DTSSESIts=
tion at the banking bonsai:of Pike Bros, •
& Lb., New Orleans.. Flour firmer; au.'
perfine 1.6,132. double extra 07,20, treble
extra $8,25, shipping grades scaroe. Hay,
dull at 020,85. , Bran unchanged... Oats
firmer at 70. Pork in demand and qua
ted at $35,26. Bacqti firmer;' shoulders
153 ; clear rib 18%; clear sidee 193 i.
Lard active; time 20X; keg ..V.X. Sugar
and Molasses steady and tmchanged.
Whisky and Coffee quiet and unchanged.
Cwino, January 4.--Evening-Inge
after
afternoon the grain market was inactive.
$ 1
Wheat dull. with sales No. 2 spring at
z
81,15 4. 'Corn almost nominal at 68,i0
fqr new. During the evening businesa
i etas quiet, and the: wheat market' en
tirely nominat''
i ln . 1 - the - ' , " afternoon
,
nothing was done n corn or oats. Pro
visions are quiet, . with sales, 120,000
pounds dry salted shotdders •• at Do; 200
bbls blege . Pork, buyer ifor February, at
033,75; 200 tibia do., buyer for February,
at PS. Sweet pickled hams at 173ic,
cash. Lard—sales 200 tierces, buyer to
February 16th, at 2034 c. Roug,li Sides—
sales 20,000 pounds at 16c, cash. • .
i BurrAto, January 4.—The market is
generally inactive, with sales four cars
new Corn at 78a79c, On track, and 500 bus
Canada Barley at 02,10.
~
• -NASHVILLE, February 4--Cottork
ket active; low middling, 27Maria good
to ordinary, 2427M0; sto4:lt, 41004 ban.*