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IdoDONALD. introduced ,a , bill , granting landa to aid in the construction ..'«of Railroad and Telegraph lines from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi livers in Missouri, to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, att -Or -i trar Presido del:Norte, cliti the Rio /Grande, in the direction of the Harbor of Altata, on the Gulf of California, with a , bratickfrem some polin east of the nine. • ty-eighth degree of - west longitude to 'LaWre — rice, • -11.1Matis. _ Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. • • Mr. WILSON intrialneed a joint reso lution authorizing the President to place the name of Brevet Major GenetalHeint zelman on the retired list of the army, with the fall rank of the command held by., him when wounded. Referred to 31Biltary Conamittee. .t • t ‘•The-Dilito repeal the Tenurc-of-Office . law was taken up. Mr. VICKERS advocated the bill. Mr. THAYER nioditled his substitute for !hell:port of the Judiciary Commit tee, so as tegiVe the President thirty days - sifter the commencement-of a_ - session of the Senate within which to rep* the names' of Officers removed during the - preceding recess, and added to it a pro viso that no person- rejected by the :Senate irtSession Shalt 'boS• appointed to office during the following recess. He had offered the substitute, he said, with. . the:bhpeizif.getting a direct vote upon the 'question 'of repeal, since such a vote • could not be had at once upon the House bill. He had listened in vain throughout this long debate for some good reason why the act should not be repealed. The law had been passed solely to check the career of Andrew Johnson, after -he had treacherously abandoned :his party, vio lated his pledges and Itireswom his prin. olples. He (Mr. Thayer) had voted for - thelaw-originally, because it was neces sary, but tie 'would not now Note upon an hoiiest President the manacles be ha& ;helped to forge for a dishonest one. He had no authority to speak for President Grant;,hat from his knowledge of hunien • nature , lie felt, satisfied the President must desire the repeal of thelaw, and he believed if. any Senator occupied the place of Gen. Grant he too would desire , its repeal. It had been said the Senate 'had not time at the present session to confider properly the queition of repeal; - but the Senate could command its own time; anal could continue its session until 1 its work was done. One reason for which he 'desired the. repeal of this law was, that it would leave the President free to rtnnove the Johnson men and -copper beads still, in office . throughout the "country. 'The Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schurz) had denounced the system of distributing patronage in the interest of a party as a curse, but he (Mr. Thay er) believed the true doctrine to be that the patronage of the Government right- . fully belonged to the party in 'power; by . tbe.verdict of the . people. He knew it " was fashionable to decry this !view, Mit be would like to see a benator who did not exercise the right of dispensing pat ronage to his friends. The man who- , would not do so would soon be without friends, and would deserve to be so, and the party that refused to reward its own - supporters and followers would soon go - "to the wall, and would deserve to do so. Mr. THURMAN did not know any • such party as the "copperhead" party; but ha knew what party the Senator from , Nebraska, meant, and he supposed the Senator would hardly' -expect Democrats in the Senate to vote for repeal on the ground that it would facilitate the re moval of the few - remaining Democratic • office-holders. lii his own State (Ohio,) helinewofonlv two Democratic Federal office-holders. One of them had entered the army as a private and came up to be a Colonel, and the other had left the artny with the rank of Brigadier General sell With a wound which would Millet him for life, - Mr. THAYER, saki that in using the terursicopperhead," he made no allusion to war Demociats. 4r. DRAKE was in, favor of repealing -the law, but would .. .not vote for tempora ry suspension. The proposition of the • Judiciary Committee to suspend the law • !'was.only a wayy. Of saying: to.othe Presi ,dent,.,,,We will try you; until. the next • se&ilen of Congress and eee what tise you make of this power; if you' use-it td suit us, the repeal may stand, but if you do not use it to suit us, the law shall go into for& egain." lie Was' hot prepared to „say this to the President, and in , hie s . r jtoggient the President did not deserve .etti be.SO addreased E by "the Senate.' He hoped to leave the haeentive free to turn out corrupt officers and others unfriend ty tart a Republican :party. 4He bad no., 'hesitation In 'avowing himself'a party man. Hi§pirty.had saved • the country, and as hb believed its continuance in power would promote the welfare Of the country, he was in favor of using Ekeou tifeAlitroitage to keeji . 7t ih"power. Mr. IiORRILL'WouId tither modify the act than repeal or suspend it, and be- Aleyp questionthe Senate could reach vote up- of M o dif yin g soon tab' pen .= repeal:: Every: Senator who 'bad voted for the impeachment Of Pres!. dent Johnson on Article 8d had thereby „Aids* it to be ; liJßi indkuki* that in disregarding this act the President had been guilty of violating, not merely the latal but thepustitUtion. How, there fore, tionld those Senators vote snow for the repeal Ortfah' lawn - ms - dented that the purpose, of the sad' was merely to .check Mr. Johnson. A reference to „the record would show that it had - been tinetly 'advocated, not as a temporary device, but as part of the permanent policy of di d ounry. The proposition , to suspend wo n t strike him favorably ;in any view, lie dissented, at least in part, from the view of the Senator from 'hitasettri (Mr. Drake) in tegard to Gov- ernment patronage. It was unquestion ably true that the party In power at any given time might properly take to itself the chief offices of the , Governmenteyet it was just as certain that thesystetn that changed every public officer of the Gov ernment at the end of every, four years; was a great evil. " • ' Mr. CASSERLY bad not_ intended to take part in the.de ate, but in view of the character it ha tuned, he thought it due to himself' and his constituency to make a few- remarks in justification of. the vote'be would give. He would not discuss in detail the operation of the act, but confine himself to considering the question. Where Is the- power of re moval vested? He then made an argu ment to show that under the Constitution this - power belonged 'not to the Senate alone, nor the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, but to the Pres ident alone; and he insisted that this was not only the true constitutional view, but the Only reasonable view, because unless the `resident had- this power of prompt removal he could not possibly- secure the faithful adutinistration; of pttblic af fairs. The - doctrine imidied in theVet:l ure-of-Office act, that the power of remo val could be regulated by legislation, he regarded as a dangerous heresy. ,If this power waa properly a subject' ior legisla. tion, then Congress - rnight,by take:it entirely away from the President ‘and vest it wholly heitself, or in' either House, or give it to the Supreme Court, or any other tribunal or person. Retract heard during the debate many profes sions of 'confidence in President Grant. and this was not surprising; - but the subject before the Senate was one that ought to be considered and determined on other than personal considerations ; and his vote would be given upon general principles, without regard to the present or possible fature occupant of the White House. He would vote for the absolute repeal of the law, glad to be able by his vote to do some thing toward restoring the Government to the salutary principles upon which. It rested under the Constitution. The Vice President appointed the fol lowing Committee on Political Disabili ties:. Messrs: Robertson, °idiom, -Har lan. Howe, Ferry. Boreman and Vickers. The - Senate, without action on the bill,. adjourned. . • The Rockford (tilt) Bank Fallure—ln. teresUng Developments. tEtyTelegraati.to the Pittsburgh Garktu.3 • CHICAGO, March 21.—The Rockford Register ofliiaturday whose editor was the ,first. Cashier of the broken First National Bank of that city, giyes some interesting particulars in the history of-that institu. thin. The bank was started in June, 1864. Its first officers we'Ee Alonzo Wood, President,' and E. H. Griggs, Cashier; capital stock, fifty thousand dollars, al most entirely owned by Alonzo and W. , Early .in 1865, Mr. Griggs resigned the Cashiership, con Sequence: of his inability to reconcile .his ideas of sound banking with those of the principal owner. George W. Stratton succeeded Mr. Griggs, and continued to be Cashier up to the time of his sudden disappear ance'. The bank was, some' time after the change in Cashiership,Visted by J.H. Dunham, of Chicago, National Bank. E xaminer fur this district, who found it in , such a condition as, in his judgment, to justify the Government in closing it up, and ho so reported to Mr. Clark, Como troller of the Currency. No action was taken by the Comptroller, and he and his successor,•Mr. Hulburd, were after wards frequently- notified by Mr. Dun ham that the bank was in an unsound condition and should be wound up. Sec retary.McCallough was, also. in posses sion of the same information, but no action was taken by the offi cials to 'close the concern. Mr. Dun-- ham finally resigned his office, on Ac count of the neglect of the Department to act upon his recommendation. The bank had continued on in this way,- but never possessed the confidence .of the business community. 'By an offer of high rates of interest on deposits, how ever,' It induced many poor and hard working people to entrust their savings to its keeping, and in this way its failure causes much distress to this class of de positers. , Within the Last few months the bank has been reported as in an un safe condition, but, as In former cases, the recommendations of the Examiner were disregarded, and. - the . . bank allowed' to continue. It was in such 11l repute in Rockford that the other banks refused to receive its checks or drafts. On Monday evening of last week the Cashier left the city, ostensibly for the purpose of visiting Chicago to raise funds for the bank, and the next tidy the doors were closed. S. B. Scott, of Milwaukee, Examiner, took posses. aion immediately and found the entire assets in the vaults footed up about ten dollars in postal currency. Everything; else had been abstracted. It Is difficult to ascertain the liabilities of the bank,` but, it is believed they Will scarcely fall below one hundred thousand- dollars. Railroad Accident in Canada. Lily Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Casette.] . Lennox, C. W., March - 20:—The: Ex press train going west on the Great-Wes tern Railway ran.off the track at Beach- , ville, at two o'clook this morning. , The Pullman sleeping ear , was precipitated , over anembankmentlwelvelligit, making ono complete reyolution. No one wag killed, The following were wounded: James La Moot, of Ohathain, two ribs broken 04 ly 14,6 andur the head, not expeetea to recdveri'Mrs. P. A. Whittemore, Denver City, Colorado, colar• rbone.:dislocateds and severely budged; Mr. and Mrs. , Sticker, Pontiac, Mich., bruised and- cut, not seriously; pr:filekvot lug Chicago, - the tor. mer birdied and the latter about the head and shoulders; Mr. Chick, cage ' , aged -seventy•three years, • body shaken and-bruised; several others wdre slightly injured.% The wounded wore conveyed' to the Tecumseh House:at Lou.' doh, and are retied:4 the best medical attention obtaillable., Accident On 'this rt Wayne' Railway aly Telegraph Wahl, iqttabargh Gazette.) • OntoAGO, March 20.--Last evening, about Seven o'clock, tut,aceident Occur red en the Pittsburgh, „Fort Wayne and Chicago RitilWay at a•stathinstalled wood, about ninety miles frdakthis city. resulting in the death 'of Ode 'man anik the fatal !Wray 'of another." The fader.' dent occurred by the hollisimi 'cif two wood trains. The two men WOO em ployed on one of the trahts. Their names are nos made known. BOW . ° Crimlual Case!. By Telegraph Wee Plat burgh Gazette.] 111iiirAto,'Wreh 21.7-1461 el MCGuire, on trial for the . rufirderofJohn Ford,,was last night ocinvi6ted of manslaughter In. the third degree 'and sentenced to four years imprisonment in the State Prison. James•Rsynolds, charged with stealing $6,000, the property of the Golden Cheese Company, was found guilty. , The Alden...ol#em %11l be tried to morrow, :'..:7' . . '-:'•*'..-' • \ - ' -,Q't , - 4 4 . . ! 'N$ l _, . . ~ .„, .. , - , 7::: , ;-.L-1‘75k;:xl-vv,--, ,-.,,,,„,.. ~... z•. --4VAr..17.. - . , •WM.4- - ;0.t . ,*4:..,N0t..; ~.7. f .- . 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''. 4'...-- ' --tagi,,,n,..4,W s : 74 i ' ' :' , ' - '--,,...:, ,, k(' • . t I , PITTSB M SECHO vutra. o.ci,oc' 21. wr THE CAPITAL. :By Telegraph to the Plttabargh Gazette. 1 WASHINGTON, March 20;1869 AT THE WHITE HOUSE.. A very large number of Senators and Representatives were at the White Rouse this rnOrnlng. The Pennsylvania dile gationtalled in - a body and had'an inter view. 01JTIsaINNY IN TENNESSEIe. . . Commissioner Delano received a com munication from SuperViSorNolik, of the Tennessee, district, forwarding a letter from Collector Wilson, of the Third dis trict of that State, inforining the Super visor that he has commenced a vigorous campidgn against outlaws in • the moun tain counties of that State. Mr. Nook writes he is in receipt of information that the Sixth district is infested with illicit distilleries, whose proprietors defy the Government officers, and he has di rected the Collector .to push these viola tors to the wall. Collector Wilson writes he is operating in the mountain counties with a detachment of United States troops, and one of his deputies has re ported a seizure of five different distille ries in the mountain counties. The troops are now operating in Putnam and Jack son counties. • NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED' AND APPOINT. MEETS MADE. Senate to-day confirmed the following nominations: Wm. A. Richardson, 'As sistant Secretary of the Treasury; Jos. .R. Smith, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-first District of Pennsyl vania; C. C. P. Clark, Collector of Cus toms, Oswego, N. Y.; Israel Washbnrne r Collector of - Customs, Portland, Maine. Post : ters: Wm. Clark, Van Wert, O.; A. : lon, Findlay, O.; Richard J. Tomp . - kins, ount Carroll, Ill.; Enoch B. Pen dleton, Westerly, R. L . John W. Douglas, of Erie. Pa., has 'beeirappointed Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He has for several years past been Collector •of Internal Revenue for the district represented in Congress by Hon. Glenni W. Scofield, and has been regirded as one of the most competent men in that branch of the public service. The. President has appointed James W. Haines, Frederick A. Tridth and William A. Sherman as Go vernment • Commis sioners to examine and report on the completed sections of the Central Pacitio Railroad of Cali:brute and the Western Pacific Railroad, in place of John Bigler, Frank Danver and Thomas J., Henley, removed. • The Senate Committee on Commerce has msulela avOrable report on the nom ination of J. - F,.-to,be'Collector at New Orleans,' and has rep - One - a Neck , . James Longstreet's nomination for Col lector of Internal Revenue of the First District of Louisiana without recom niendation. ASSUMED MS DErrxEs Gen. Randolph Marcy, Inspector Gen eral or the Army, assigned to duty on Gen. Sberman's stair, assumed the duties of that office this morning. An unsuccessful attempt'was made last night to rob a bank here. .. - Thos. - L. Tullock bas been appal:lied a clerk of tho Treasury Department, and assumed his duties to-day, vice Niles. CURRENCY STATEMENT. Shipment, of currency for the week to national banks, $683,099; amount re ceived from Printing durean, $598,500 held in trust for banks, U 42.690.200; do. for public, deposits, *32,716,350; bank notes issued to-day, $313,301,736 ; insol vent bank notes redeemed, $10,200,221; circulation, $259,854,810. TIT ASIIIIIGTON, March 21, 1869. THEVOLORED PEOPLE MOVING. The colored people of the District of Columbia are making arrangements, on an extensive scale, for the celebration of the anniversary of the abolition of sla very in this district. . . George T. Downing, Frederick Doug lass and other colored men, have issued proposals for the publication of a.first class weekly journal In the cityo>f Wash ington in the interest of the colored peo ple of America. THE HIMION TO HAITI Mr. Bawtt, colored, of Philadelphia, has a competitor for the mission. to Hayti, in Mr. Dumas, of New Orleans. The latter: is, like the former, ropresented to be a good scholar, with the advantage of -being acquainted with the Eipaniah lan guage. Both are strongly recommended. corromissiogAi sEssios. The disposition -of members of the House generally is rto adjourn the ses- sion of Congreesa week hende: Senators are not so anxious for its termination. Sy'IIPATRY ABRED. In some churches to-day the' pastors read a, brief address from Cuban ladies in New York;__as4ing aid end sympathy in. behalf of the revolutionists in Cuba. Among the listeners to the reading at the :Metropolitan Methodist Church were Prealdent Grant,,Vice-President , Colfax and Chief , justice Chase. • Charges Against the Mayo.l*.o /Ads* Telefeahltt? the A'lttiburgh utzette.3 - Sr.Loma; *arch 21.—May6r:Thomas, of_ this oity• was examined, yesterday by a committee appointed by tint City Conn -ells to investigate certain charges made' against him hy Judge Clover, !Ito City 'Counsellor. the evidence of the Mayor illmsalf shows that he drew from the' pauper fund;and deposited ln bank in . his own name, mixing it with his private Personal and drawing :from It in a promiscuous way; Othar irregulari tieS were also shown,. snob as oompro• ;1 wising claims against the olty,Withoat proper alithoritY.. - - Nothing of a criminal character Was:proved but thelstabnent • • of the Mayor • !MOWS t hat he his a lobe° ,1 way of doing business. , • . . Ili CH '24: 1 NEWS BY CABLE. y Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Razette.) . GREAT BRITAIN. EBATE IN THE HOUSE . (iP COMMONS ON ' THR IRISH QUESTION. LONDON, March 20, 1269.—Mr. Glad stone's bill to diseatabliSh the Church of Ireland came up again in the was of Commons last evening and was debated at great length. Sir .1 ohn Girley,- a Liberal member from Kilkenny, regaid ded the established Churellin Ireland as the badge of conquest, and asserted that It must be abolished, Edward Mall, Liberal, from Bradford, also supported , the bill in a speech of Considerable length, and was followed. by the Right Hon. Stafford Northcote, in opposition. . John BMW, then delivered a long and able speech in favor of the Measure. The Established Church of England had the assent of a large majority of the; people of England, but the questionwasiwheth er that Church was good also ;for the people of Ireland. The opponent:o43(olls bill had utterly failed to proVe thlkt ~the opinion of the civilized world was hos tile to this, measure, as had beent stated. He reviewed the opinions of 'statesmen on the question, and quoted Lord Stan ley's remark thatl "Ireland was the ques tion of the hour." He referred to the conductt'of Lord Mayo while Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, and the posdlon of other Tories, to show that that party had no policy on the Irish question. The bill now before the House, he continued, was acceptable to the mass of the people of Ireland, Catholics and Protest ants as, well, and was almost unanimously approved by the peo pie_ of . England. as has been before stated here. The Established Church in Ireland was a badge of conquest. Conservatives 'of the intoire frould view the attitude of the present Conservatives on this question with surprise. He,quoted tlavotir's work on Ireland, where that author shows that the Established Church promotes disaf fection and animosities in that country, slid causes the peasantry to be th a worse condition than the slaves of the Antilles, and that the Irish were continually pro testing against it. The speaker then con trasted the position of the Church in Eng land. England's liberty, he said, was not secured by the Church, but by the Puri tans and Nonconformists. Nations never' forget their religious grievances until the cause is removed. The old policy pur sued by England rendered Ireland more ultramontane than any country In Eu rope. Catholicism was not only a mat ter of filth, but of patriotism, for; which the Irish were ready to suffer or :die, if need be. Since the union disturbances have been continual, Protestantism was the only tire that was destroying ,every thing that was good and-noble in Ireland, resulting in the absolute disappearance of peace and- loyalty. The Irishmen Who had 01:migrated to the United States ttridsrtristrialk weFe _ watching anxiously the restilt of the "Ritittian: entire Fenian prospect' was fed and , kept alive by the sympathy of Americans, under the idea that England never (lid justice to Ireland. There were no more bitter foes to England in the United States than Irishmen. The House was now asked to do justice to Ireland; not f.r fear of foreign enemies, but for the sake -of internal peace and tranquility. He contemplated the volun tary system prevailing in Scotland, and anticipated the best rcaults to posterity for Ireland if this bill became a law. Mr. Bright concluded by, saying this measure would have the approval of the Supreme Being, for It' was founded on the pribciples of merctr and justice, the attributes of his glorious reign.- . • FRANCE. ARIKY REORGANIZATION L'ltfinD PARTS. March 21.—1 n the COips Legis latif yesterday - Marshal Neil, Minister of War, urged the completion of the te organization of the army. Peace, tie said, was secure, but France would not toler- , ate a government which was not fully, prepared to avenge insult, if oilered. The budget report considers the present situation of Europe as eminently!peace ful. SPAIN. THE LOSS OF WEE IN RECENT FIOHTS. MADRID, March 21.—During the re cent tights at the barricades in Xeres, de, la Frontera, over one hundred solders - were killed and wounded.' The lbss of citizens was heavy, but the number of them killed is not known. I FIN X EFORT, March 21.—Evening.- Five-Twenties quoted at 87%@8734. 03333 QUESTION DRFINITELy SETTLED FLORENCE, March 21.—The question concerning the property of the "clergy has been definitely settled..: 1 MARINE NEWS. I Quusss.rowx, March 21.—The "'team ship Nebraska, froth New York March lOtn, arrived today. SouvrampTox, March 21.—The steam- ship Weser, from New York March 11th, arrived on her way to Bremen. QUEENSTOWK March. 21:—The steam er Australasian, from • New York •Mirch. Ilth, arrived at four o'clock yesterday afternoon.- • • - FINANCIAL' 4ND COADIERCIAL. Lo.NDON, March , 20 Euexinjj—Con• cols for money, 93%; for account 931(; Flve-Tmenties, 83, 1 4 . Stocks quiet; Erie, 2435; Lllnoie, , 97. Tallow, 478. Calcutta Linseed,'s9o. Od. Arrrwftnp, March 20.—Detroleurc, 5415 Fyyit 'NKFORT. March 20.—U. S. &MI'S. ABM. March . 20. 2 .-Evening.-13ourse ; easier; Fientes clotted at 70f. 250. Heveg, March /0....C0tt0n unchanged. LrvooPoor.,,Meroh- 20.—COtlon firmer, but not ,higher; Mtddlirig Uplands, 1254 , 12 1 45. r saleih.lo,ooo biles: Cali .fOrniaiwhite Wheat. 9s. 8d; red western, Bs. Bd. - . Western Flour, 235. Corn, 30s. for old; *end29s. for new. Oats, 3s: 4d. Pork; ~100 s. Beef; 90s. Lard, 758. Od. Cheese, 765.„ Baoon. 02s. Od. • Turpen tine-31s. Tallow. 45srad• The Cuban InnurreeUon. Ler Tilegraph to the Pittsburgh Ossette.l HAVANA, March 20.—1 n a skirmish near Villa Clara an insurgent male: was captured and. shot. steamer arrived to-day from Spain with one thousand soldiers. - CUBA; Tin Insurrection—Departure of Pella. cal Pribouers--Dlsturbances in Hava iia—itears of a Mot. IlAvAmk. March 20TE via LAKE CITY, `Fla., - March 21.—A float of transports, with the State prisoners on board, sailed to-day for Fernando Po, conveyed by the . Spanish frigate Legated, which . will ac company th as far as Bahama Chan nel. Tho wharves and roofs of the houses.., - commanding . a view of the barber were crowded - by' people to witness the departure. The prisoners embarkation was effected in an orderly Mariner, under a guard of the military forces. • Some trouble 'occurred on one of the wharves. It is reported that a thief was caught plying his trade, and was, badly beaten and taken to the vol unteers' barracks. About the same time there was a disturbance near thelGover nor's palace. A Cuban cried out,("Deczth to Spain!" "Viva Cespedes!" He was -instantly shot dead by one of the sentries on ward before the palace. Later iiithe day the Police Commissary, Romero, who was suspected of sympathy for the man arrested on the wharf, was assaulted on the streets by the populace, who shot and killed him. The Captain General, heanng of the affair, and hoping to pacify the people, went to the barracks and immediately organized a court mar tial for the trial of the called thief, who, after a brief investigation, was sentenced to beshot. Intense excitement prevails throughout the city. Frequent cries have been heard of ' , Viva Cespedea" and there are fears of a riot. NEW YORK CITY. NEW TORE, March 21, 1869. Prince Louis, of• Bourbon, was mar ried last evening to Miss Emilie Hamil, of Cuba. The ceremony was a civil one, Catholic Priests declining to perform one of.a religious character. The steamer City of Paris, from Liver pool, via Queenstown on the 11th ar rived today. - • The marble building, No.. 61 Reade street, was greatly damaged by fire last night. S. M. Loentril, importer lost, #6,000; Victor Franck, hoopskirt and cor set manufacturer, ;20,000,. and.the build ing injured to the extent of #/0,000; all fully insured. 69 was damaged 45.000, and the Dean ante, Taylor. Gibson and - Wilson, loss ;8,000, and MeMaab loses by water ;10,000—also fully insured About a million and a half dollars Wive been remitted from Cuba to a pri• vate banker here, the interest on which is to be devoted torthe sick and wound: ed of the patriot, army. The n rc;-glycerlne seized on Thursday appears to have been consigned to an agent of the United States Government at'Savannah. The •Waverly Hotel and-grounds and stables of the New Jersey State Xgricul tura • Society, at Waverly :Park, were burned .last night, Loss 850,000. • . - - Tile Appointment: of . Longstreet-4IL L CharaCter Attacked. IBy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.] LOUISVILLE, March 20.—The Couicr- Jourwal publishes this morning the fol lowing remarkable article: - "When it was announced that General Grant had appointed General Longstreet to the office of ..urveyor of the ;Port of New Orleans; we at once concluded that the President was apprised of his appoin tee's having once been indictedlor smug gling, and . therefore thought _ him the bettor qualified Lo detect others who might engage in similar practices. About the year 1855, as we are informed, Long street,' being a Major in the United States army, and in command of a military post on the American side of the Rio Grande, was indicted in the District Court of United States for the Territory of New Mexico for the crime of smuggling; but when the United States Marshal went to the fort to exeenuto the process of said Court, the gates were closed against him and he had to return without executing it. The Marshal having reported these facts to the then Governor of the Terri tory, he made application 'to Gen.' Gar land, who commanded that military.dis trict,to have Longstreet surrendered to the civil authorities for trial; but as Long street was a relative of the General, he evaded the application of the Governor and ordered a Court of. Inquiry to inves tigate the Matter. This Court, composed of his brother officers, found Lengstreet guilty, but the General disapproved of the finding of the Court and the matter was settled by his giving -a pledge to the -civil officers that there should• be no smuggling on ..the part of the military. Hence we infer that Grant, knowing that. Longstreet had some knowledge of holes .through which offenders might slip,. thought him a suitable hand to stop them, ,and therefore aPpointed him ,to the Office, netwithatandlng he had been a Confedt orate officer." • • Outrages at Chambersburg, Pa.--Great Excitement 7 4,yuch lLaw Proposed. (B . W. 'fileirratth to the PllttsburgA eueste.) OIitAMBERSBURG. Pa., .March Thursday afternoon last. a ;girl thirteen years old and two young ladies, daugh 'ters of neighboring .farmers, were rav ished by a : negrii.' a negro, "nineteen years old, named Conti Norris, a native'of Chambersburg, was arrested Bind is now in Jail, charged with perrie-0 :rating. these outrages.. There is but lit tle doubt -of bis;•beang the guilty ,party. The excitement in the community is in- On Friday Alight an effort was made to take Norris tivom the jail and hang him. No haul than eight.htmdretl people gath ered about. the jail building. Speeches were made by a number of prominent citizens, and the rnoblvas induced to dis perse; The prison has since been guard ed by a stroug force summoned by. the sheriff. The young ladi e s . daughtrspfroeofourmostresre ableiamers. C. 4 Telegraph to t ili d " er il l d tta li bit ft rg i a d. e azetZ49.l TALLAJIASSE, March 20.--The Pensaco la and Georgia Railroad and the Talla ,hasse'Rallroad were sold to-dap at public sale. - The first was knocked down at one million two hundred and twenty thou sand andthe, last at one hundred and ninety-five thousand, to Dibble and as- - soclaters, $OO,OOO to , be paid, on; taking poBBl3BBioll, and the balance as called for b_y the Trustees of the lateplaKimprove - . ment Fund. The Grain Que.rissis— %Ilion or the Cid. cago Board of Trade. UV Telegraph to the Plttsburth Gazette., CHICAGO, March 20.—The followliag resolutions in reference to a change. in the system of receiving, storing and sell. ingrain in New York City, that is, tio send'all grain to store on arrival, Nevi posed by a Committee from the ew York-.Eleyating and Warehousing Asso ciation, were unanimously and enthusE. rustically arlorted today by the Chicago Board of Trade : , . Whereas, 'l'nu preamble and resolu tions. or the Buffalo Board of Trade in referstice to the subject before us, meet with our hearty approval; and whereas, our eo•operatfon is askeil by said resolu tions; therefore Ik.solved, That the Board of cTrade of the city of Chicago , recommend such change In bills of lading at Buffalo as will effect the desired reform alone: Raohied, That we see , in this disposi tion on the part of the more liberal and enlightened portion of the trade of New York City an unwillingness to conform to and adopt the present system of re ceiving, handling and selling grain, which has so successfully prevailed in the western grain markets, a ready so lution of the embarrassments and imam growing out of the pernicious custom of selling our grain on seven to ten days' t qlietioived, That we invite the hearty co operation bf the New York Produce Ex change and of the various associations in the West in this movement, and trust that they will support the Elevating and Warehousing' Associations in carrying out so desirable a change. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. A . very severe storm has been raging at Salt. Lake and west of there for the past two days. —Two thousand poor children . were present at the anniversary of the Cincin nati Union Bethel. Judge James Morrison, a prominent attorneyt in .Indiana, and one of the oldest residents of Indianapolis, died on Saturday: —Gen. Samuel Fessenden died at Port land, Maine, on Friday night,"aged efgh tv five years. Senator Fessenden was his eldest son. —A special from _Omaha says the Mis souri river is rising rapidly,, with a pros pect of the opening of navigation within a few days. The weather is mild. Heavy sty rms are reported at Salt . Lake and further west. -The Denver Hews of Saturday even ing publishes a telegram from Pueblo, reporting a fight at Port Lyons, Thurs day night, between the colored and white troops, in which several were killed and four or live wounded. —An Omaha special says : General Warren and other mem - Jars of the:Special Cominlision who had 'bepn - examin- Mg the 'Union and Central Pacific railroad are expected to *return toSt. Lonisfr,his week. They will proceed to. Washington and there make report. • —The pedestrian Lynian, who is walk ing from Chicago to Savannah, Ga., for a wager-ofo, whil.e.at Seymour awaiting a change - iri - the' Weathei..,..was served with a notice by the Jackson County Vigilance Committee to' leave within a limited time. Lyman obeyed the notice and left for Louisville by rail to avoid probable lynching. —Robert McCabe, of Chicago, has con tracted to build the Grayville and Mat toon Railroad, to be equal to the Illinois Central Railroad, for seven hundred thousabd dollars, taking county, city and township bonds in payment. The entire road is to be 'completed in two years and the bonds only to be delivered as the iron is put down. The road is to run from Grayville, EdWards county, Illinois, via Albion, Olney, Newton and Prairie City to hlattoon,. Coles county, a distance of about one hundred miles. The,work will be commenced simulta neously at Maysville and Mattoon. Trouble. "Man is born to. trouble as the sparks to fly upward," and in nothing do we see it more fully exemplified than in the general turmoil and wretchedness of moving day. First comes the hurry and flurry of taking up carpets and packing furniture; then the necessary ' , express wagon" at "moderate charges," and hap py he who secures one early. Mid then “thefiitting" and unpacking of furniture, and the relaying of carpets on rooms too large or too small, or of-such a different shape that one's brains are puzzled to know,how to bring order out of the con fusion which reigns around. And just here we might say, to our friends who may be in trouble, that they should at Once call on Messrs. Roberts, Romig t Co.. at No. 61. Smithfield street, third door from Fourth aienue, who are adepts in the art of fitting and - laying carpets; hanging shades, curtains, dec. They also have on hands a large assortment of win dow shades, lace, Nottingham and Da mask curtains, cornice, mouldings, mat-. tresses'of all 'kinds, the best materials and latest styles, all of which they offer &the lowest cash prices at their new up fiheolldstietrrieengt; establishm , ent, 61 Smith More Litigation., Henry Hides-made lnfounation before Alderman W. B. -Hooper, on liaturday, • against Jane Charlesworth for adultery. The accused