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Supplement to the act revising, amend ing and consolidating the corporation tax laws, which provides fot. the collection and payMent. • Mr. CONNELL, supplement to the act fixing the number of officers of the Sen ate and House, providing that hereafter the number of transorining clerks in the Senate shall, be five, and only one assist ant messenger. BILL PASSED. Mr. SEARIGHT, incorporating the Trustees of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, which was passed. BILLS MI-CALLED. Mr. STINSON, a resolution re-calling the Philadellphia cattle -market bill from the Some. 'Adopted. Mr. ERRETT, a resolution re-calling from the Governor the bill incorporating the Allegheny Savings Bank, for amend axient. Adopted. - • . BORDER COI7,ZTY CLAIMS. Mr. DUNCAN, a resolution authorizing -the Printing, of two thousand copies of the Report of Boriltiii.Vonnty Claims, re vently:ad,judleated. Defeated. CONFEREi;CIE C024211%71.1E. „, The Senate • Committee of Conference :., on the appropriation bill cr,lisists of Meters. Connell, Errett and tieintire. TRESPASS ANO anissE raopirs. s l - Mr.. SEARIGHT called up the bill relit ji - titre to actions of trespass and for mesne iprofits, providing that thesatue shall not , abate by reason of the death of the per a.in liable therefor, but suit may be brought against personal represents, • tires. lirl',.` • • BILL VETOED. . •fl , The bill Incorporating ;the Westtnore Soct ha ;hand ; C Ottisty Agricultural - -,aety has been vetoed, on the ground that, the tourtahavejurlsdiction. . • AOUSE OF 'REPRESENTATIVES. - BILLS YA.SSED; Mr. WILSON called up the bill legal ising•the ordinances of Pittsburgh Conn r l ells. Passed. ' The General Insane bill from the Sen. atewis Visaed. KUTING DEATH PENALTi: ' .0 The Senate amendment to bill au thorizing the Governor to commute the , 3 death penalty was adopted by the House. IZ. The bill is as - follows: • -Be it enacted, &a., That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Commenwealth, in any case where a seri tence of death has been or shall be pro. nounped against any person by any Court of Oyer and Terminer of this Corn -4 mouwealth, to reduce such sentence to. , imprisonment for life, or for any term --Of years in the penitentiary in the proper ;:, district. PERSONAL EXPLANATION. • Mr.STRANG referred to the article in Monday's -Philadelphia -Evening Tele graph, criticising his objection to the , consideration of the Rogers bill the other . day; abowing.the Philadelphia Society .for tt.e prevention of cruelty. to animals to erect public fountains. He pro mounced the article contemptible. His object in objecting was to reach the Reg fairy bill, no.l to defeat the Society's bill. ' • INTEREST BILL. I; j The bill allowing parties to contract t for lillyment of interest at seven per f ;cent. passed second reading. , • i•:.*- ALLOWING PARTIES IN INTEREST TO P . - - TES'IIFY. , . ,;.',,:' The pill from the Senate allowing in ',.'.. ctereated parties to testify in Erie county, :'pissed finally, including Crawford, War *l ten. Susquehanna, Lebanon, 'Dauphin. .. •-•:• Potter, Lycoining, Backs, Snyder,Frank :: lin, Westmoreland, Somerset, Arm • ;;.strong, Chester Huntingdon, Indiana, 7 .• Beaver, Bedford ' , Fulton, Barks and Phil 7 ,,, ... , adelphia. :':. PRIVATE SENATE BILLS PASSED. - '-r- Authorizing the Erie Canal Company ,i to inortgage the canal and issue bonds, k S;ir redeeming the present indebtedness ;,•-• aniteniarging canal. Requiring , • equiring licenses for the sale of goods by sample in Pittsburgh eau Allegheny. : , Authorising the Mercer Mining and = Mannfacturing Couiptuy-. to `guarantee 44:leads of ShenanguAtut •AllinalenY Rail' road, - not exceeding. twenty thousand i .„ : dollars per nine: '', t • Inuorporating ShariniviUn and Butler -,.. County Rallutan, •:. . . , • • , - o'rinnthlms PASSED. • . The follovilpg House bills , passed: Extending* - itnefertpayment of enroll ', •.1 Dent tax on cliattet' - of Pittsburgh, - Mo• ,It port and Itrowus9lfleßaileoad.' utlmizingthkoppothtotontondowers 4 of ~M• 0 11 PiPifttgh - 144 uotinens. ftag in ,i it e naurma.l t/...it,r ,x.s il. xy . .. . . . GETTISBFAG BA:FTI4IMO3I:IIIUMT4 i An invitatinnotipailicipate in the Get- Sysitrurg" Tatt le 'Monument dedication aulY•l 6 4 whe*Weitia - 6174ortonwIll"do: • 1 liver an oratioh,llaytinilnylor an origi- I.ititZiallens and Milky Wurd /teacher the tlt wasitcoOpted; 1 - • ' iirspow MAYOR. J., Mr. MORGAN up the' Senate bill 'authorising' . the ~ . Mayor. of Pitts _ 'l' ;'burgh , toappoint Delmties t hum& • • •TAx ' l!/I'llk • - I, The bill frow the Senate for the better ~C) • - a ssessnient of taxes Allegheny will 1 - • - ::...Aever. be reported from the, Committee, laid cannot pass, the general feeling of ' the Allegheny delegation going against it. rTHE PHILADELPHIA CATTLE BILL. The C orporation Committee t his 14ter • I,* • _ noon negatived the Philadelphia Cattle bill. THE PHILADELPHIA. MURDERERS.. At eight o'clock this evening it is cer tain that the Governor will not corn mute the. sentences of Gerald Eaton and George Twiteaell, under the act passed to-day, as was hoped by parties putting the, trill through. He may sign the bill. but not embrace the opportunity to re. lieve Eaton or Twltcheil. CUBA. Expeditions from the Mississippi—Pond cal Prisoners. HAvArta., April 6.—lt is known here that the authorities at Washington are aware that two expeditions are preparing to leave the Mississippi., Admiral Hoff has been ordered to prevent them from effecting a landing. and also to watch the movements of the Peruvian monitors. - The Spanish war steamer, which brought in the steamer Comanditarits, also -brought as prisoners Live persons found on board. They are now being tried by .0 Naval Court Martial, and tf convicted, will be hanged or shot imme diately. - Six hundred artillery men arrived frOm Cienfuegos, the volunteers welcom ing them in procession on their arrival, during which the flag of free Cuba was dragged and trampled on amid much en thusiasm. HAVANA. April 7.—The Diario says the rebels are leaving, and the jurisdiction of Soon La Grande is becoming quiet. Several men from Segue, lately, in the rebel ranks, have returned - to the city and joined the volunteers. HAvArt4t, April 7.—lt is reported to: day that the burning of settlements and farms in the interior is still being carried on by the insurrectionists. The. Von de Cuba newspaper to-day comments bit terly on sales of property belonging to emigrant Cubans. A fleet .of ten gunboats is expected from Spain, and orders have been sent to builders in the United States for the construction of thirty more. A battal lion of artillerymen, which lately ar ' rived here front Cienfuegos. will proba bly be sent to the Viella Alijo region. Theodor° Munez and Francisco. Gon zales, two of the captors of the steamer Comanditerio, who were made pris oners when she was recaptured, are in irons on board a ppanieh man-of-war at Nassau, where they are kept for the purpose of identifying their companions, who escaped to that island. A batch of twenty rebel prisoners have just arrived from Santo Espiritu. The Governor of the town of Guanbaca is banishing young men suspected of rebel tenden cies. A reyival of the late volunteer demon stration is anticipated on the arrival of volunteers from Catalonia. =gm PEITLADFLPHIA. Preparations for the Execution of Eaton and Twitehetl To-day. tßy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.] PHILADELPHIA, April 7.—Preparations for the execution of Gerald Eaton. con victed of the murder 'of Timothy Mur phy, and of Geo. S. Twitchell. convicted of the murder of Mrs. Mary E. Hill, have commenced. The same scaffold will be used upon which Probst and others have suffered the death penalty. The execu tions will be private. Only the officials and six reporters are to be present. Eaton. in conversation to-day, 'ex pressed himself ready to meet his fate. He declared decidedly that .he did not fife the fatal shot, and should not have been convicted of murder. He says he is really to go' out and die like a man. He was thirty-three years of age on the 10th of March, the day on which the death warrant was read to him. -Twitchell bus Just taken farewell leave of his brothers and young McCully, who was his steadfast friend during the trial. The parting 'was very affecting and all wept bitterly.- Twitchell became some what more composed after the de partnre of his friends. He appears to have lost much of that firm ness which characterized him during his trial and since his conviction. Twitch ell said he was!as well as any man could be under the circumstances, and he had suffered all any person could in his posi tion. Nothing was said about the mur der. ' The Philadelphia, Marderers. [By Tolegrapb toile Pitteburgu ilazette.) HA8R11331720, April 7.—Tremepdous exertions aro being made for the pardon of Eaton and Twitchell, bat the Governor has frilly decided to let the law take its course with Twitchell. and ,more than probably iriEaton's case also. NEW YORK CITE. NEW YORK, April 7, 1869. The grand jery have indicted Deputy Sheriff John Moran for aiding the escape of George King, the bond robber. The contractor who had charge of the nitro-glycerine which -caused the terrible explosion to-clav in Jersey City, has been arrested. Lasses by a Ire which occurred in West Washington market to-day amount to I 12,000; distributed among several firms, mostly insured. A heavy thunder storm, accompanied by hail, passed over the city at noon. George F. Nesbitt, a well known printer, 11ed to-day, aged sixty-one. Applications at the Custom House for office are estimated at four thousand.' •It is reported Judge Barnard will to- morrow order the- commitment of Du rant, Cisoo and Tattle to Ludlow street jail, if they persist in their refusal 'to testify, in hia Court under , Judge Shack ford's decision. This will necessarily ;provoke a cOsillet between the Federal and State Courts. Another rumor is that the persons concerned in breaking open the 'Union Pacific :Voinpluay's safe will be proseoUted for treepass. -Antonio Matter° wasarrested today on suspicion of being the.'tnurderer of a German Jew. who was found murdered on Match 14th in Spring/ ValleY, Beak- Dliappearance of a Banker. UV Telegraph to the Pittibtitgb POUGEIKEUPSIE, N. Y., A.pril 7.—F. G. Jewell, private banker of Skaneatjas;N. Y., and formerly of this city. has Mete. rionsly disappeared. He left New York one day last week, having on his' person $20,000. He proceeded as far as Hudson, where the train on which he was a pas. aenger was stoppppeed • by a freshet in the river. No Intelligence has been received of lilm since that time., 1:02-44Waig,AAVAi i . " •••1H A •,-40441.3-1• ,‘ , ;1"t . 4eli**gi,l4ai , z' S „% _ .DN PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY, APRIL . 8. 1869: SECOID EDITION. 36 , 01311 O'CLOCIT. A. M. FORTY-FIRST\ CONGRESS. [FIitST'SESSION.] SENAIII: Re-organization of Judiciary System—Deficiency Billi Taken Op-- 9 prague Bel— ligerimt--Message from the President. HOWSE: Indian Appropriation .Bill Passed— Ohio River Bridges—BM to Reconstruct Georgia Ani mated Debitle. • ' Car Telegraph to the Pittsburgh 6uette. WASHINGTON, April 7, 1868. SENATE.. The Chaplain prayed that the patriot arms of Cuba might be strengthened and the Isles of the Sea be severed from their oppressors. • . Mr. TRUMBULL, from the Judiciary Committee, reported the bill to carry intneffeot the treaty between the United States and the Emperor of Russia. Mr. MORRILL, from the Committee on Public Biffidings, reported a joint ree -1 elution providing for a ComnaisCon team ' lect a site for a new building for.the De- • partment of State and new aceommoda ;ions for the War Department. Mr. SUMNER, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported a bill to pre vent counterfeiting foreign trade marks protected by treaty stipulations, Mr. WILSON, ftc m Committee on Military Affairs, reported, without amendment, the joint resolution for the protection of soldiers and their heirs in regard to the payment of bounties. Mr. EDMUNDS, from Committee on Pensions, reported a bill to authorize the officers of executive departments to.ad minister oaths in certain cases. It au thorizes their administration by any officer or clerk detailed to investigate frauds on the part of any officer or agent of the Government. , Mr. DAVIS, from the Committee on Contingent Expenses. reported a rosolu tion providing for the investigation to a certainty what Committees have clerks whose services can be dispensed . with. Mr. WILSON gave notice he would of fer a joint resolution authorizing the. President to appoiet a Committee to ez amine into the best mean*, of establish ing a ship canal serene the Istbantiii - of-Da- TIVDd • Mr. TRUMBULL called up the bill to amend the Judiciary system of the United , States, as returned amended by the House. From the Committee on Judici ary he reported an amendment allowing the phraseology of House amendment, providing any Justice of the Supreme Court who, on attaining the ageof seventy years, shall retire, shall hereafter receive his salary during the remainder of his natural life. It apd other amendments of detail reported by the judiciary Com mittee were made to bill, which now, goes back to the House for concurrence. Mr. WILLIANiS called up the bill to aid in the construction of a branch of the ; Pacific Railroad to Portland. Oregon, which was amended and passed. 1 The expiration of the morning hour brought up the joint resolution to pro ' tect the interests of the United States in the Pacific Railroad. Mr. FESSENDEN moved to postpone all prior orders to take up the Deficiency bill. Mr. HOWARD 'opposed the motion and urged the Senate to dispose first of unfinished business. Mr. FESSENDEN feared that unless 1 the deficiency appropriation wits passed to-day, it could not pass thip session. His motion was carded—veas 35, nays 14. Mr. SPRAGUE said : "I promised my self to-morrow Mr. President, that I should beg the indulgence of the Senate for the consideration of an important subject. My pesition has been selected, my wings are Well covered, my infantry is ik line of battle, my artillery has been assigned to position, but my shells, can ister and grape, are behind in conse quence of the unfavorable state of the roads. shall be ready to-morrow to go to battle." Mr. Sprague then took his coat and' hat and left the chambor, amid general laughter, in which he indulged. The Senate proceeded to the Deficien cy Appropriation bill,and certain amend ments reported 'by the Committee on Appropriations were agreed to. Mr. FESSENDEN, from the Commit tee, reported an amendment creating the office of Buperintendent of the Depart. ment of the Interior. ' Agreed to. Mr. DRAKE offered an amendment making an appropriation for the salary of the Solicitor and Naval Judge Advo cate General. Agreed to. - , Mr. WILSON, from the Military- Com mittee, offered an amendment, authoriz ing the Secretary of War to makes trans fer of appropriations from - military dis tricts haring themln excess to carry into effect reconstruction lawsi in districts where money may be needed for that purialse. , • Ad amendment appropriating 1150,000 for the improvement ..of St. Clair Flats and rive, and 150,000 for the improve ment of .the, month of the Miesissippi river, were voted down. - • Mr. WILLEY, by unanimous consent, offered an amendment to pay salaries. of 1 fourteen first-class clerks in the Patent 4 Ofile4 atiV,4oo escheat:id twenty-one sea and-class (darkest 0,290 each. Agreed; to. Mr. MORTON offered an amendment. directing the Secretary of War, with the Approval of the President, to appoint a - Board, of Scientific Engineersto examine .and report on the proper width , of-spans for railroad bridges across the Oslo' river, and providing that, until Congress . shall act on said report, no bridges shall be erected over it with a span less than , tons hundred feet in width norms-the; main ch • annel. Tfftatitendtrient was_ ruled out ofpr der end the bill then riagsed." Mess* .I.easencien, 'Harlan And Cole were appointed a remthittee of Confer ence on the Indian Appropriation bill. The Vice President submitted a mes-: sage &OM the reoomniending' that before adjourning Congress shall! provide for the submission of the Vir girlie Ccnstitution to the people sometime dining May or Jona next at an election to be held under the direction of the Commander of the District, with a view to the'submissioti of the Constitution as adopted by the people to Congress at the commencement of the next session, and the early admission of the State to rep resentation. The message makes a simi lar recommendation as to Mississippi. At four o'clock P. M. the Senate went into Executive Session. •The Senate, after Executive Session, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. PAINE, from Committee on Elec tions, -reported resolutions authoring a sub-committee to take testimony in Louisiana during the recess, in reference to the elections in that State. Mr. HEATON, from same Committee, made a report that John B. Rogers be entitled to a seat as Representative from Tennessee, as soon' as Congress should enact a law for that purpme, and he also reported such bill, which was ordered to be printed. Mr.-DIXON, from Commiltee on Com merce, reported back the Senate bill to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska. Ordered to be printed and recommitted. Mr. WHEELER, from the Pacific Rail read Committee, reported back the Sen ate bill in relation to the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Paased .with amendments: The House then proceeded to the con. aideration of the Indian Appro — frr cation Mr. DAWE.S, Chatrmin of the Com- mittee on Appropriations, moved m an amendment an additional section, pro- Tiding that nothing contained in the act shall be construed asratifying or approv -1 lig any Indian treaty made since July 20, 1887. Agreed to. The vote was then taken ()Jilin amend- ment placing two millions at the disposal of the President to preserve peace with Indians, and agreed to—yeas, 98; nays, 33. The Democrats voted in the negative. The action of Committee of the Whole on all the other amendments was oon• coned in. Mr. INGERSOLL moved to suspend the rules, that he might report from the Committee-on Roads and Canals a bill for the creation of a - Commisaion of EU.. gineers on the erection of railroad bridges across the Ohio river, and prohib iting, until further action by Congress, the erection of bridges across the river of span less than four hundred fist over the main channel. The rules were noianspended—yeas nays 53—not two-thirds. Mr. BUTLER, Massachusetts, from the Reconstruction Committee, reported a bill to enforce the Fourteenth Amend ment to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and restore the State of Georgia to the Republican Government elected under the new. Constitution. There was some 41iimintslisis by htesaL. BritlM 'Bett;'‘ - itiligiintildrige and Woodward, all except M.r., Butler oltdin ing tame for' debate and not strenuously