THE DAILY GAZETTE PENMAN, BSio k 00., Offlee, 84 and 88 .Filt)h Avenue. Y. E. PENITII4, man T. T acrderoi, X it'lltEX zone ilk MID IMOTIONTCIII.I4 IMBIIIIJ Or THEM DAILY ssa.u, cv~......._..~._~.._». M=!I:I2EMfIN JWIDJrIG4V 11 A 2 RISBUEU. _Pennsylvania Legislature. Extension of Allegheny City to Woods gun—Plan to Diminish State D ebt — Extension of Char ter of Erie Canal Company— History of Pennsylvania "Vol nnteers. Meahl D i .ehatth to the littaborirti Elazette•J rikIIILIBIIORO, February . 7, 1870. SENATE. . lATIIODUCED. •By Hr. GRAHAM: Bill for .the ea itenslon of Allegheny City, which an natio all that pact of McClure township beginning at thercar Stables, taking for boundary all south of the railroad track from the Maw:heater line, now a ward In . Allegheny City, to Jack's run In McClure townahlpe Also, a bill for the better prosecution of disorderly persons In Sharpaburg. By Mr. WARFEL: A bill to diminish public Indebtedness, which authorises the Stoking Fond Commissionem to lend out all money and receive interest from. the blithest bidder, secured by State or Hatted States bonds, and the Commis. adorers may sell all State securities and buy s.up the .publlc debt with the pro. .ceed . By Mr. HOWARD: Validating certain deeds to bar estates tall in Allegheny A county. HILLIS PAJ3BX.D. • • , The Senate bill authorizing railroad companies Idles*. or become imam named finally. Mr. KERR called tin Ma bill Incorpo• Parrating ed th finally. e retroleam Railroad Company. Mr. WHITE nailed op Ma bill relative lieut./oho:tent% Musa:l.second reading. Mr. WRITE called op the Renate .tip. pletnent to act for the entry of Rena against nonatented lends, extending the time for bewail reading. . ion of tabuicee. Passed ROUSE OF REPRFZENTATIVES. !titan rstrnonccEn. By Mr. . 10 MN6ON, of Crawford: Ex. tending the charter of the Erie Canal -I:lompany, Prodding that whereas it might benefit Pennsylvania to have the Erie Canal enlarged to mule boats of flee htuadred tong burthen between Ede and Pittatmrgh, therefore be it epacted, that the charter of the Erie Canal Comps. y ii hereby extender( from the terminus of the canal at the month or Beaver river to Pittsburgh, with Dower to construct a canal on either bank of river, m Ohio land locks, dams and =butes on said river, and maintain alack water navigation on the Chic and such penitent of the Allegheny and /rabe/a • riven as may be t he to form navigation within the limits of Pittsburgh of not exceeding eight !Set on the lower outlet look of the Monongahela the l ga ea rfaTition Company: provided that ks shall not exceed 350 feet leugth and 75 lbot in width; that no toils 'hall be charged on boats not using locks; the amount for which mortgages may be lamed on the canal is increased to Mx edition dollar' at seven per neut. By Mr. BOWMAN: Urging Congress to accord belligerent righ,• to Cubans. • BILL 1 1 The Cal appropriating eight thonaand. live.titindred do Wire for the ootuplettonol of the History of the Pennsylvania y "roma. ttotesus finally, cut down Weight • NEW YORK CITY. 'ffeet of lagal Tender Decisio— n Burns' Bat Plt—lmmense Revenue Fraud, &c, .fie. eat relerrapit to 'he Plitetonsli Gazelle.] Nave Tonic, Feb. 7, 1870. .THE I.SOAL TENDER DECISION. The filupreme Court decision on the legal tender question was the great sulo • ,ftiet ef disensai, on in financial circles this • afternoon.' The decision, as understood 'la Wall street, is that the legal tender sot was justified by the war, but that Congress bad no power to home any more legal tender notes, and that all contracts ' made before 1882 are to be paid In coin. In this shape the decision Is certainly a very important one, but its 111110800 e 0 on values was remarkably slight. The decision makes tome hundreds of millions of railroad bonds and en lot. manse rearaate of Btate and city. bonds payable bot principal and Inter est. the Interest of which for eight years, • hag beettruld in greentseks. • Payments of Interest on principal aloes 1802 having been accepted by the creditors, will not be affected by the decision, except . where money has been accepted under protest, accompanied with a demand for gold, which cases are, of mune, very oX. olipdOnal. Is Is, perhaps, not Improbable that r ioine of theimorer States with heavy debts, as North hemline and. Tennessee, being unable to provide for their debts' even ou a currency basis, may be driven by this deaden Auto open repudiation, placing the -iiection of the Supreme (-bort as impridog on them obligations which they could not honor. ' The price of gold advanced in the morning on private telegrams from Washington,to the effect that the de cision woul be in favor of all contracts made before 1882 beteg payable. in coin, but when the other part of the decision . was known, this a ft ernoon, the price of gold declined, from the fact that Osti limn under the decision cannot Issue any • more legal tenders. REPLACED ON CALL. The °fibers of the Chicago, B. L and .Itsilroad hare agreed to give • formal engagement to observe In future all rules of the Stook Exchange, relative registration of stock and notification Of of all new issues of shares, or of convert'. ble hoods, and Lida being all that is re. spired by tha Cloven:nog Committee con ditionally to the replacing of stock on cell, It .1. presumed tr will tomorrow be wan restored to its former position on the Stock Exchange. • IMMEIIBII refine. The arrest of A. Stevens, an es-United States Inspector and G augerappear s to have been Mae in Si. Louie ' by topers from this city. It Is said the fraud* per, petrated by Stevens and a number of Maness mem here wilt ^vregregu e to nOOO,OOO. Jo one case of 325 Carrels of proof •starlts. the Government IC said to have received only 11,000, Where it ws entitled to $25,000. Stevens was brought to New York and has been committed to KIT - nuaars' HA? PIT. ' The Inauguration of Kit Bums' rat pit at the Water street mission took _plaoe today. Bishop Jones, Rev. Mr. Tyng, Jr., 'and other., delivered addressee. Barns still runs the liquor salad next door, through which the ministers were ob_ligeen ho u se. Wald cekraomirat 07.1.n..0.1t1E8. Is the Court of Oyer and Terminer tot day, Judge Ingraham charged the Grand Jury that all agreements with persons who have committed felonies not to prosecute them if they return portions of stoleni property, are Illegal, and the offenders should be brought to trial. Picruirm GALL. the sale of the Thompson aolleoffon of piCturee Wes. opmea today, The macs wee spirite, and the pricalassl. though low, were fair for the poor pia • lures which were offered: • OPFER TO RIC=MG /XL Rockefeller, of the flievezity•firat Regiment, has rec eived: from an official in Richmond, a tender of the return to his regiment of two' howitzers captured from it at BaU Run in 1881. Five Inaba of snow fell at Louisville yileterday after two r. x., and the atotaa continued lastulght. • • rgaZzamul ST ME=l FORTY-FIRST" CONCRIISS. El (By Telegglibh to the Pittsburgh tissette4 WasniNcrrols, Feb. i, /SRL .SENATE. • Mr. MORTON presented resolutions of the Georglar Legistature accepting the condition% recently irupooed by Congress, by changing the State Constitution and also ntifying the 14th and 15th Amend .l MOWN. Mr.- FERRY remarked that inquiry already had been directed to be made whether the present Logialature of Geor gia was a legally organized body. Mr. EDMUNDS said the present laves. tlgatlon of the Committee would embrace that question. Mr. EDMUNDS, from the Committee on Pensions. made a report upon Various petitions from soldiers of tho war of 1812, for a change of the law by which they may be entitled to pensions, .I.le stated that the weight of our' taxation, caused by the payment of pension to disabled soldiers, was so great that In the opinion of the Committee the Gov ernment would not bejosthied in enters lag the penalon lie; for men ,who were not disabled. nILLB INTRODUCSD. B finr. TRUMBULL: More effeetn shyrevide far the execution of the charge for the protection of owners of trade mark,. Roulutions were introduced ow` Mr. TRUMBULL requesting the Attorney General to furnish information oolicern- Inn charges against the U. S. Marshal ' for the Southern - District of 'Meets. Adopted. By Mr. BAYARD, requeating the Poet. master General to report by whom the draft of the petition for the , abolltreu of the franking privilege was prepared, Ire whose order and at whose expense, Mr. TEIATER objected and the resolu tion laid of Mr. fd'DONALD, from the Commit-into on Postofflou and Post Roads, reported favorably without amendment, the bill to encourage the - establlshmerat of a line of steamehipe Cinder the flag of the Union tbr the conveyance of United States mails to European' and Asiatic Europens; for promoting emigration from Postepe„ and for reducing• the rates of Mr. HOWARD, from Committee on Pacific R.allroad, reported with amend ment the bill to amend the act of July 21, 18&i, granting lands to aid the con struction of railroads from Missouri and Kansas to the Pacific coast by the Routh ern route. It provides that if the Atlan tic' and Pacific Railroad Company shall nom Mete the road to the Weitern bound ary of Missouri by June /oth, 1872, the same shall be held to be a company with la the conditions of kaid act,... but • the United States shall secure to the compa ny the right of way over the lands grant ed thereby and occupied by Indians. Mr. OSBORN, front the Committee on Public Lands, reported with amend 'Manta, a bill granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads In Florida, Mr. CHANDLER, from theConimittee on Commerce, reported a bill with an amendment, amendatory to the act fix. log certain rules and regulations for preventing collisimis on water. Mr. COLE introduced a bill to amend the -act authorizing the establishment of ocean mall steamship service between the United States and Hawaiian Istauds and to extend the same to Australia. .Mr. FENTON Introduced a bill to pro vide additional commercial and pond facilities in the port of New York. Re ferred to Committee on Poatonices end Postroads. It Incorporates Marshall 0 Roberta and aaeociatea a company to cocurtruot a eubmerged tube or covered way from New York city to the New Jersey shore opposite, to be used for railway purrosea. All railway cnpa• ,lea are to have the use of and tunnel on equal terms. - Mr. STEWART introduced . bill ex 'tending the provisions ot the civil right, act and for the enibrcement of the XVIII Amendment. Referred to Judiciary Committee Mr. SUMNER offered. a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the Sec. rotary of the Treasury to report the Bev- Oral dates of bonds issued to the Pubic Reliroad Co., aggregate amounts Issued and dates payable, also the character of the bonds-held In the Treasury on Feb ruary first as belonging to the Sinking Fund, as also of the bonds parchaded and held subject to action of Courant. Senatetn of Mr. TRUMBULL, the took up the bill to -reihsve from Importridity and to preserve the inc). pendence od the several Departments of ' the Governinent. He explained that the bill originally prohibited recommenda tions to office by members of Congress unless In writing, and at the request of the appointing power. The Judiciary Committee believing this restriction would be evaded by members throwing Ithemselves in way of being asked to make recommendations, and that the Imbues complained of would not be our rected, had attempted to make the bill more effective by prohibiting reurm• mendations entirely. Mr. POMEROY said the bill would prevent a member from stating hie opinion, even when rem:Meted to do 1 by the Executive, in regard to the Mer , actor and fitness pre member, ' Mr. TRUMBULL replied that the bill I did not propose to prohibit a member replying In whatever manner he chose to a communicstion from the appointing power. If Raked In regard to an Indt sided, a member might state his I opinion. Mr. SCHURZ believed reform in the civil servioo was desirable. bat it should be upon a better basis than that pro pmed, for the effect of this bill would be merely to transfer the right to make a recommendation to office from the higher to the lower class of politicians, to the greater injury of public Interests. Mr. HOWARD recognized the extent of existing abused, but considered the bill of too sweeping a character. The President necessarily would have to rely upon 'somebody In making appoint , melds. The members of Congress were perhaps lead - fitted to act as his advisers. Mr. WILLIAMS proposed to prohibit judicial, military and naval °Moen, as well as memtera of Congress, from re commending applicants. and supmitted I en amendment to that effect. The morning hour expiring, the bill was laid aside In order to proceed with 'the Census bill. The House bill was read at length, and also the amendment of the Senate Com mittee, simply directing tho treasury of the Interior to so change schedules and blank, to be used An enumerating the Inhabitants of the United States to 1870 as to make the same conform to the cus tom of the United States. Mr. CONKLING advocated at length the prepared substitute reported by the Senate Committee, to take the ceneu,s under the act of 1850. Mr: SUMNER followed In support of the:Honse bill, claiming that the differ ence in the expense between the two sys tems 'Misery Immaterial. ' Mr. CORBETT, from the Comniittee on Commerce, reported without amend ment the bill to encourage telegraphic communication between the'Eastern and Western continents It gives to the American and Asiatic Telegraph Com- pany the exclusive right for _fourteen yews to conduct and maintain a submit. rine cable to Ada, commencing , at a point smith of Cape San Jun, in Washington Territory and provide, for detailing United States vessels to assist in the pro.. motion of the enterprise. Mr. WILSON, from the Committee op Military Affair; reported a joint rare la lt t Ylnin • (certain ien to give the National Soldiers' A timi n g from fines and forldted heen A12:30 a message Was receleed from the Iltreso announcing the death of re presentative Hoag, of Ohlo. I After short addresses by 1110,... I man and Thurman, and the adoption of the deceased resolutions of respect for the memory of , the Senate apjourned. . - HOUSE OF REPREENTATIVES.-- Bills were Introduced and referred as Mows: • By Mr. MORRILL., Marne: 'lb aid the construction of sea•gotng vessel; steam. boats and ohip o , by allowing a drawback of Maine on malaria* ninety pe r o . m. on home industries and eighty-life p er on foreign tooductimut By Bin - SCHOFIELD: To except fro m the law abolishing the franking priall oge the circulation of weekly_ newspap un within counties where published. By Mr. GETZ: To allow ail newspaper. . . - . . - . • . . . . . . , . - . ' . . . .. - • , , -.L • • e f - ' . ‘ • . ..:::: ' ''''. A J..: -, '; , - , - _ .. . "&y... 1 .- . ..„ ..... • -* \ ~ _ -,'• . pr- po•••......—_____ --- - . ..._ -- - end periodicals published within the United Steles to Le transmitted through the malls hen of postage when eent from the Moo of publication to actual and regular acibetribere. By Mr. KELLY, Pennsylvania: To promote the establishment of an inter net ions] metrical eyptem of coinage. By Mr. RIDGWAY: For the repeal of the act Droecrlblng an oath of office; also. relieving political disabilities; from the people of VI rginia.• for m rellrttul By Mr. D,OCgauge in tile U KERY: Requnitiried ng States. a ` Also, removal of political disabilitlea North Carolina. Mr. WELKER: Todiscontinue the Freed:nee'. Bureau. Also, amendatory of the act entablieb• leg a department of education. By:iir.STEVENSONI Toamend bank leg act, RD tIY to emend the that) for sults by and egalnat, aasigneee and for proceed. ] Inge to set aside the order of discharge. 'By Mr. ARNELL, To give female' employes of the Government the same compobeation ea men in like nektons. I By. Mr. JUDD: T Incorporate ) Nahonal Irish Wanigran o t Associatios. the •By Mr. ASPERt To amend the teat for a bridge across the Missouri river at Port Leavenworth. By Mr. STRICKLAND: For the ac• ceptance by the Government of St. Mary's Falba 'Miocene!. By Mr. SatYl'HE, of Iowa! To aid the construction of a railroad from St. Cloud, Via Stink Valley, to the Western boaudery et tile. Slate. aid By Mr. TA FF'E: Granting land to ) aiduxthe construction of arailroad from , breaks. eltY, lawn. to Coltenbus, SO. I Abdo, to reimburse Nebraska for ex- peens Incurred In Indian boatilities in 1867 and 1869. By Mr. SPI97K, Dakota: Granting hinds for a railroad from Spriegfield Yankton. Dakota, to Rock River, lowa. BV Mr. HAWLEY: Authorizing the .Secretary of War to have the Rock Islind bridge constructed fora Single track railroad only, and to place the wagen trek below the railroad track. the expenditure not to exceed ILT00.•• IMO Passed. The following resolutions, offered last Monday by Mr. MARSHALL, came as the next linnineae ill order; ittewrett, That the power granted in the Federal Constitution to levy.end col lect taxes, duties on imports and exelsee to pay the debts and lerovide.e9Pm°l3 defense and general welfare of the United State., does not batted° or embrace any power to levy duties for any purl:Kee other than the collection of revenue' for such es therein indiestad; that a tariff levied for any elopes° other that reve nue, and especially one levied t t foster and enrich one section of our country at the expense of another, or to Caster and enrich one Wessel eitetene at the sip onee °tethers, is nueethorited by the Coast!. tution,unjust to the groat body of the American people. and In its residte Inju rious eventually to nearly every Indlvid oat Interest of the country. Reaolved, That in the preparation of the bill for the modification of the exist ing tariff laws, Congress should confide its action strictly to the preparation of a tariff for revenue exclusively, and that duties. on no articles should be greater than that which would give the maxi mum of revenue on such articles The question was on Mr. Keleey's motion to lay on the table, which wan carried. Yeas fa), nay,. 77, as follow,,: Yeas—Messrs. Ambler, Ames, Asper, Banks. Beaman, Bennett, Benton; Bing) ham, Blair. Boles, Bower, Burk, Buck ley. Butlington, Burdett, Ceases, Churchill. Clarke, Cobb, (Wiel Conger, Dawes, Dickey, Dauley, Dave!, ale, Ferris, Ferry, Fisher, Gilfillau, Hale, Hamilton, (Fla) Heaton, Hawley, Hoar, Hoge. (S. U.) Hotchkiss., Jencks., Kel ly, (Pa-) Kelsey, (N. Y.) Ketcham. Kneoj, Ladm, Lien, Lied., Maynard, McGrew, 3isr) u-, Meives, Moore, (0.) Moere, (N. Y..) Morrill, (P. 1,) Moron. (Me.,) Myers, .Negley, Paine, Feltner Phelps, Poland, Prosier, Recto, Sanford, Recto, Schenck, (0.,) Schofield, Shel don, (La.,) Smith, (0.,) Smith, (Tenn.,' Smith, (Vt ,) Starkweather, Stevens, Stokes, Stoughton, Strickland, Strong, Taff°, Tanner, Tallman, Twiebell. Yee Horn, Ward; Washburn°, (Wis..) Wash borne, (Mane.,) Within, Wheeler, Whittemore, Willard, W llltenie,. Wilson. (0)0 and Wltcher.—.99. Nuya—Masara..l.llatue, Allbson, Archer, Arnett, Axtell, Beatty, Beck, Benjamin. Biggs', Bird, Beaker. Brooke, (N. Y.) Burcbard, Burr Butler, (Tenn.) Cat kin, Coburn, dm. Crabs, Cullom. De. Weeee, Dickinson Dockery, Dog, Fluk e:l:them, Getz, Gillian, Gallaway,. Gria. weld, Haight Ll,ldemen, liambleton, (Maryland.) yamill, Hawkins, Hey, Ingersoll. Joh son, Jona... (Kentucky,) Judd, Julian Kerr, Knott, Law rence, Slarehall, Mayhem, Meter wick, McCrary, McKenzie, McNeely, Niblack, Orth. Packard, (Indiana.) PolosfoT. Reading, Reeves. Roger,,, Scbumaker, Shanks, (toll.,) Sherrot, Moroni, ' - Smythe, (lowa,) Stevenson. Stile+, Stone, Strader, Swann, Sweent.y, Tremble, Tyner, Vanauken, Van Trump. Well., Wlleon, (Minn.) Wheel% Winchester, - Wood and Woodward-77. A motion to reconsider was tabled-- 41es 91, nays 80. Mr. BINGHAM introduced a bill. amendatory of the laws relating to the rates of postage, making letter postage two cents, and one cent for every addi tional half ounce or fraction thereof; ma king postageon newspapers or periodical's Issued daily, weekly, monthly, or other stated periode, one cent, where not ex ceeding four ounce, In weight, and ono cent for every additional ounce or frac. lion thereof; papers circulating in the Sta and Territory where published, or withinone hundred miles of the place of publication to be exempt from the pay ment of patage, and exclaaMgen between publishers to be free; postage on drop lettent and unsealed circular, tette ono ) cent and one cent for each additional] half ounce or fraction thereof menu leripts Intended for public:nide, not ex..) reeding two ounces in weight, to 'be three manta postage and one cent for every additional ounce. The mooed section makes it the duty of the Past. maser General to establish a uniform and moderate box rental. Mr. BECK introduced a bill to author. Ize the Government to adopt all patents and copyrights for its own purpose* on such terme as may be agreed upon. Mr. ORrm offered a lesolutiort Ogling on the Proficient Ter the correspondeoce with the Spaniel. Government and the American Minister at Madrid in eolith:ln 10 Cuban affairs, with curb' informegon as may be In his possession as to the present position of the struggle for In dependenee In that Island. Adopted. Mr. SARGENT, from Committee on Appropriations, reported the Indian ap- Ipropriatfon My, and briefly explained IL It appropriate. 13,0930 agalnet F1,2/7,- 781 imtyear, toe ampunt estimated :for the war, 19,048,334, being 11,959.404 more than amOttrit applied. The bill was made the e r pees.' order for Friday next. M. DICKEY Raked leave to report from the Committee on. Appropriations,. and have put upon it, Odeasge, the ) bill authorising the Indemnity fund received from the Governments of china and Japadto be covered Into the Treasury. Mr. BANKS objected, stating the ques tion had been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. DICKEY meted to enspend the rules. Not agreed to—yeas 81, nay.. 84. Mr. LAYLIN offered a resolution, doe daring It a wasteful expendito re to con tinue tile publication in . tbe•Gicee of p‘'. titkma against the franking privilege, as issued under the direction of the Poste master General. Mr. MAYNARD objected. protecting against an attempt to suppreas public opinion. Mr. LAPLIN moved to suspend the rules. Agreed to, sad the resolution wont over, as undid:Med business. At ten minutes beforethree, Mr. MOP.; .GAN erase to announce the death of 1.3 a colleague, Truman H. Hoag, of Ohio, and offered the usual reeolutions of con., dolence and respect. I 'After remark's la honor of the deceased Member by, Messrs. Margin, Bingham and Woodward, the resolutions were adopted. I Messrs. Dickinson, Beatty and Ara. bier, of Ohio, Winchester, of Kentucky, and William of Indiana. were ap. pointed a committee to accompany the remains to Ohio, and the House at three o'clock adjourned. (SECOND SESSION.) strike of Ratiroad Laborers. thy getserapa to the Plttamonto Gazettu. OIL Crry, February 7..—Owing to the reduction of wages from two dollars to one and three quarters per day, a large Portion of the laborers on the Jamestown and Franklin. Railroad struck last week. They are being paid off today. The 'dig kers threaten to force every men to quit work, several hundred in number. At 4 o'clock this afternoon It looks as If they meant badness. The foremen of those who remained at work have advised the men to quit work for their own safety. • _~ ~,. ~ PITTSBURGH, SKONII EllllllOl. FOUR O'CLOCK, .1. Jri THE CAPITAL. The Legal Tondo Law Decided Unconstitutional - - 'Dissenting Opinion. - (By Tide/daub to the eltutiuran melts.) WASHINGTON, February 7, 1870. LEGAL VENOM; PANE, In the ease of Hepburn vs. Griswold, brought from the Court of Appeals of kentucky, involving the legal tender was-decided in the United States Sur poems . Court tn.day. Chief Justice Chain delivered the opinion of the Court below, and held that a contract made be. fore the legal tender law could not be discharged In United States notes. The opinion Is very long, and discusses at great length the polder of Canteens: 'lt holds that Congress had no right to make, governinent notes a legal tender on pro exerting private debts. It does not touch the question el contracts made mince the law Watt passed. The nehilon was concurred In by Justice Justice clifilird and. Jostles Field. Jos lice Miller delivered the minority ein, which was ouncurred in by Justice Swayne anu -Jostles Davis, holding it to be constitutional and treating it intact , pally tic an Incident to the war power. The opirdon delivered te.day by,Chlef Justice Chaise on the n legal tender quest lion Is very long. After an able review Of the cue It Bayer No one queetions the bgeneral conatitutizmahty, and 'not very many, perhaps, the Ohara' expediency of the legislation by which linrrency notes have loath nialliorlied in recinit yeare. The doubt Is 43 to the power to decree a particular clue of these notes to he legal tender is payment of preexiet , logdebts. The only ground -upon which this power le resorted, • le not that the teat, of notes was an appro priato and plainly adapted means lei carrying on the war, for that la admitted: bet that the making of them a legal tender to the extent mentioned was such a means now. We have seen that of ail the notes homed those not declared a legal tendek at all constitute a very large proportion,....and that they circulated freely and without discount. It may be said that - their . • eqUality la eircalatlOn and credit was due to the provision made by law for the redemption of this paper in legal tender notes; but this provialoncif at aft useful in this respect, was of trifling Import. Jane% 'compared with that which made them ib for Goverent dues. I 'All m oden history teatitlea n th m at In time of ousted, especially when taxes are mug. large leans negotiated and heavy . disbursemeins made, notes leaned by the authority of the Government and made) receivable' for duos to the Government always obtain at nrst a ready circulation, and even when not redeemable by coin .on demand are as little and usually leas aubject to degree/. mum as any other description of notes for the redemption of .which no better provielola ta made,' and the hletory of the tegielstlon under consideration is, that it was upon this quality of receivabilly arid not . upon the plenty of regal tender that the reliance of dr dilution was orlgivally placed, for , the inconvertibility clause appears to to have been in the original draft of the bill, while /be legal tender clause seems ‘. to have been Introduced at a later elate of its program These farts certainty are , not without weight, as evidence that all useful purposes of the notes would have Wen fully answered without making them a legal tender for pro (uniting , debts. It fa denied, Indeed, by eminent , writers, that the quality of lege tender. adds enything at all to the credit ur ues retirees .of Government, notes. They meet, on the contrary, that It Impairs' both. However this may be, It must he rutswaat.ama a l that it lama a voestas to an end, to be obtained by the action of the makinGovernment, that the' implied power of ; g noes a legal tender In all pay. went. halftime:l under toe Constitution. Now, how far is the Government helped by this means? Certainly tecannot obtain newsoppilea or met vices ate cheaper rate. - for no one will take note% for more than they are worth at the time of the. new contract. The prices Will rise in ratio of depredation, and the la all that could happen lithe note* were not made legal tenders. But it may be Bald that the depreclatlon will be leas to him who rakes them from the Government if the Government will pledge to.hitii Its power to compel his creditors -to remise them at par - Inladments. - This la, as we have said, by no means certain. /f the quan [lcy leaned be exoessiveAnd redemption uncertain and remote, great de predation will take place. If on the other band, the quantity Is only adequate to the dematida of bust. • nese, and confidence in early redemption la strong, the notes will circulate freely, whether made legal tender or not. But of it be adm tied Hutt some increase of availability la derived from making notes a legal tender under new contracts, it by no means follows that any appreciable advantage la gained by compelling ore /Mors to receive them In satisfaction of pre.existing debt., and there abundant evidence that whatever benefit is possible from that compel:don to .404:14 Individuals, is outweighed by. losses of property, derangement of Mel ees; fluetuation of. curroneyippd values and Increase of priors to the people and government, and a long train of 'evils which dew from the useof an irrodeem __able paper currency. It Is true-that liege evils are not to be attributed alto. 'tether to making It a legal tender, but this increases these evils. It certainly widens their extent and protracts their continuance. We are unable to persuade ourselves that an expedient of this sort It, an ap propriate and plainly adapted means for the execution of power to declare and carry on war. If It adds nothing to the utility of notes, It cannot be upheld as • means to an end in furtherance of which notes are Issued. Noncan It, in our/ eds. meet, be upheld ea encb, if while faciti. biting In some degree circulation of notes it debases and Injures currency In its proper use to a much greater degree. And these considerations seem to US equally appllattae to the weer to regu late commerce and to borrow money. Both powers necessarily involve theme • of money by the people and by the Gov. ornment, but neither, Ss we think, ear. :lea with it appropriate and plainly adapted' means to exercise the power of making circulating notes legal tender la pavinent of pre existing debts, - But there is another view, whin seems to us decilitre:- To Whatever express power the Implied wirer in may be referred, In the rule stated by Chief Justice Marshall the words "iippropri. ate," "plainly adapted," "really calm/. dated," are qualified by a limitation, that the means most be not 'prohibited but coexistent with thatletter and - spirit of the Constitution. Nothing so prohibited or Inconsistent can be regarded as "lip. preprints" or ',plainly adapted" or "re. ally calculated" means to any end. Let en inquire, then, first whether making bills of credit a legal tender to the ex. tent Indicated la copal/dent With the epirlt of the Constitution. Among the great cardinal purpoees of that luaus. meat no one is more conspicuous or more venerable than eatabliekment of justice, and what was intended by the establish ment of jute, In the minds of the people who ordained It, Is happily not a matter of disputation. It is not left to inference or conjecture, especially in its relations to contracts. When the Constitution WU undergoing discussion in Convention, the Congress of the Con. federation-was engaged - in the consider -1 Mien of an ordinance tir the Govern. meat of the territory northwest of Ohlo, the only Territory subject at that time to its regulation and control. BY tills ordinance certain fundamental articles of compact were established between the original States and the people and States of the territory, "for the purpose," to use its own languae, "of extending the fun damental principles of civil and religions liberty, whereon these republics as the States united .ender the Confederation and their law and Constitution are erected," Among these fundamental principles wee ibis: "And In just eraser ' ration of rights and property, it a understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have fere, In the said Territory that shall- In any manner whatever Interfere with or affect private contracts or 44 / 1 1 e042111213, bona fide and without fraud previonsly formed." The same principle found a more con. dented expression in that notivaluable • - - ------ provision. of the Constitution of the Coned States, everrecognized as an am. dent Safeguard - against Intrigue, "that no State shall, pass aliy law impairing contract." It is true that this prohibi tion is not applied in terms to the Gov ernment of the United States. Ow:egress has express power to enact bankrupt laws, and we do not eaY that a law, made • in execution of any other express -power, which inct • dentally impairs the obligation of a contract, camber held to be Unconstitu tional for that reason. But we think It ' clear that thcise Who framed and those who adopted the Conte-Button intended that the spirit-of Ibis prohibition should pervade the entire body of legislation. I and that justice which the Constitution 1 1 was ordained to establish was not ~ thought by them to he compatible with ' legislation of an opposite tendency. In other words, we cannot doubt that a law , not made in pursuance of . an.expreas p r w ecetr , op wh at c i h o n nimep a sa s rl l t y ea obligation e i of contras:hi . la inconsistent with the spirit of the Donstitution. Another provielort, found in the sth amendment, must, be considered In Ibis commotion. We refer to that which or-„ doing that "private property alutlinoi be taken for public Use without oeinpensa• I Bon." Tale provision la kindred in spirit to that which forbids legislation impair. log obligations bf mintracts. But unlike . that, It is adds eased directly trfand solely to the National Government. It does tot in forme prohibit legislation- which appropriates Privelie property of one clime, but of eir Iseult to the moor another c.ass. taken lin t the if lamsche property cahoot be t of a compensation, it is la difficultll toWitheti Un t derstand how -It can be co. taken /for the benefit of a part, without violating this spirit of the prohibition. ' But therti branother prOfisiona, in the same amendment, which in our Judg ment cannot have lta full and intended effect unless construed as a diree prohl bithin of the legislation which w have been ermeiderlug.. It la that woh de. elaree "that no person shall -De deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." It is not doubted that h.i. all the provision of the amendment operate directly in limitation anu re. straint.of the legislative power conferred by the Constitution: The only gustation la whether an act which - IX)cp, pets all those who bold contract. for payment of gold or silver money to accept in payment a currency of inferior value, deprive/teach persona of property without "doe process of law." -It is quite clear that whatever maybe the operation of such an act, "duo proemial of law" znakes no part of It. Does it deprife any person or prop. erty? A very large proportion of the property of civilized men exists in•the farm of contracts. - These contracts al.. moat invariably stipulate for the pay ment of money, and we have already seen that contracts In the United States prior to the act under consideration, for the payment of money, were contracts to pay the some specified In gold and silver ouln. And it is beyond doubt that the holders of these contraeta were and are as fully entitled to the protection of constitutional provision es hOldersof any other description of property. But it may be said that holders of no deeerip• don of property are protected by it from legislation which Incidentally only Im baira its value, and it may be urged, in illustration, that holders of stock in a turnpike, a -bridge, or manufacturing corporation, or au insurance company. or bank, cannot by authorizing similar works or corporations reduce its price in the market. But all this duce not appear to meet the real - difficulty. In the cease mentioned the injury in contingent and Incidental. In the case we are consider. - leg it is direct and inevitable. •If in the case mentioned the holder- of stock was requested to convey it on demist:rte. any one who should think lit to offal half value for it, the analogy would be mere obvious. No one probably could be roust - deo contend that an art enforc ing the amoptance af 50 or 75 acres of land In satisfaction of a contract to oon fey lee would not come within the ro hil bitten neatest the arbitrary deprivation of property. We eonfese ourselves uua. be to perceive any solid distinction be. tweeu curb an act and an act compelling all elt.iaens to .iimpt.ineattafaction of all • contracts for money ono half, or three. fourth., or any other proportion leas than the whole of the value actually due, according to their terms. It Is difficult to oonceive what act would bike' private property without process of law. If such act wield not, we are obliged to conclude that an act making mere promises to pay dollars a legal tender in payment of debts pre. vlounly contracted Is not a means "ap. propriate " "plainly adapted," "really calculated" to carry into effect any express power vested in Congress; that each an act Is Inconsistent with the spirit of the Con.ditution, sad that it is prohlb• ited by the Constitution. It Is not surprising that amid the tu mult of the late civil war, and under the influence of apprehensions for the safety of the Republic, almost universally - dlr. terent views, never before entertained by American statesmen -or jurists, were adopted by many. The time was not favorable to considerate reflection upon the cionatitutlonal linilts of -legislation or executive authority.• If power was I assumed from patriotic motive; the 1 assumption found ready Jtuditiostien in 1 patriotic hearts. Many who doubted. yielded their doubts. 'Many who did not doubt, were silent. Some who were strongly averse to making Government notes a legal tender, felt themeelves constrained to accitueace in the Aimee of the advocates of the measure. Not a few who then Instated upon its necessity or acquieiced - In views, have, since the re. turn of peace a.sd under the Influence of calmer times, reconsidered their con clusions ,and now' concur In the views we have just announced. These conclusions seem to ref to be fully sanctioned by the letter and spirit of the Constitution. We are obliged, therefore, to hold that the defendant In error was not, bound to receive from the plaintiff the currency tendered to him in payment of a note made before. the mu f tsage of the act of February 25, 1 862. It ollows that the Judgment ef the court of Appeals of Kenteaky moat ho af firmed. THE DIIMENTING OPINION. Tho diesenting opinion by inatice Miller,- after arguing the case at much length, .aye: The legal tender Marines ortbe etatotes under consideration wore placed emphatically by those who ,n. acted them upon their necessity to the Maher borrowing of money end main. talnlng the army and navy: It was done reluctantly and with healtation, and only after the necosaity had been demonstrated and bad become Imperative. Our states. men had been trained in schools which looked upon such legislation with something more than distrust. The debates of the two Houses of Co,. green show that on this necessity alone could this clause or bill have been carried, and the they able prove. as I think very clearly, the exiatenoe of that neceiolty. Th e hi story of that gloomy time is not to be readily forgotten by the lover of his country. and will forever remain a full, clear and ample vindication of the exercise of this power by Congress. As lie results have demonstrated the sagacity of those who originated and carried through the measure, certainly it seems, to the best Judgment that Ican bring to bear upon the • aubJect, that thin law was a necessity -- in th e most stringent sense In which that word can be need. 'But It is said that the law is in oonflict with -the spirit if not the letter of several provisions of the Conati. tattoo. • Undonbtectlylll la a law Impair ing the obligation of. contracts made before its passage. Bat while the Mead. tutlon forbids States to peas such laws, it does not forbid congress. On the contraryo.congreas Is expressly author ised to establish a uniform systent of bankruptey, the emortoe of which in to discharge debtors from the oblige. tion of their contracts, and in pursuance I of this power Congress has three times passed such laws, which In every ' , M- I stancaoperated on contractemade before it was tossed. So it Is propertyt the o ! rhllooa that private shall t bo taken tor public use withoutpust com pensation, and that no person shell ' be deprived of life, liberty or Drop aret due course or low, comsat to the act ender considers. thou. The argument la too flee for my perception, by which the indirect effect of a great public measure in deproaLat- I int the value of land; stock; bonds taking Private property for an other contracts, renders such a law ipunTbailliedri ors depriving the owner of it without , d ourse of law.: A declare. don of war with a maritime power would thus be tin oonstitutiona4 be. cowl the value or every ahlp abroad Is loosened twenty-flve or thirty per cent., and those at home almoatas Much. The abolition of. the tariff on iron, or sugar. Would in like Manner destroy fanatical and sink capital employed In the manu- facture of these articles. Yet no states man, however warm an advocate of high tariffs, has claimed that to abol lab such duties would be unconstltutiouali as Inking private property. If the principle be :sound, every aucces. stye issue of Govern/nerd bonds; during the war' was void, be cause by increasing the public debt It made theme already In private hands less valuable This whole argument on the injustice of the law, and the injustice which, if it ever existed, will be repeated by now holding It veld, and of Its op. position to the spirit of the Comanitutlon, in too abstract, intangible, fur ap. Pileation to courts of justice, and le, ably° all, dangerous ground . on which to declare the legislation of CY:ogress void by the dentition of a court. I It would authorize thia c o urt to enforce theatrical views of the genius of our Government, or vague notions of 'the spirit of the Constitution and of abstract Justice, by declaring void laws which did not equare with them. It eubstitutesi I our ideate( policy for judicial construe. lion, an indefinite code of ethics for a ainatitution nod courts of law for o na- Ildcal legielat ere. Upon the enactment of theme legal tea -1 der laws they were received with almost unlearns! acquiescence, em valid pay meets were made In legal tender notes for debts lu existence when the law wait paullone sed to the amount of thounanda of of dollars, though gold was the onitttlaWful tender when the debts; were contjacted. An equal If not large amount' is now duo under contracts made mince their paseoge, under the belief that these legal tendert! wou be valld payment. The two Houses ld of 'Congress, the President who signed the bill and fifteen State courts of last resort, question, all bt one, that have palmed upon the e have expressed belien the couatltutionality of these laws. With all this great weight of authority, this strong concurrence of opinion among tbose who have passed upon the lineation I before we have been called to decide it, I whose duly. it was, as much as it Is ours:. to peas upon it In the light. of the Constitution, are we to reveree their action, to dieturb contracts, to decide the law void because the necessity for Its enactment does not appear do strong to Clean it did to Con greed, or en clear skit woe to other courts? I Such fa not my Idea of the relatlia tune. intoa of the lerslative and judicial departments of this Government. Where there Is a choice of means, the selection I fa.witti Congress, not the court. If the I act Is to be considered in any sense': essential for the execution of an acknowl edged power, the decree of that ricotta- eity Is for the Leglslatilre and not for the court to determine. In a cue In Wheaton the Court soy "that where a law la not prohibited and It is really calculated to effect any of the objects 'entruated to the Government, to i t undertake here keinquire Into the degree erns necessity would be to pout the line which circuruncribes the Judicial depart. inept and tread on legislative ground. This Court disclaims all pretenelores to. such power." This sound expendtion of the duties of the Court in this class of case, relieves me from any embarrass : ment or hesitation in the case before me. If I bad entertained doubts of the con alltutionality of the law, I must have held the law valid until those doubts be. come convictiene; but as I have a very decided opinion that Congress acted within the scope of Its authority, I most hold the law to he constitutional and diseent from the opinion of the'court. I am authorized to say that Mr. Justice titleSwayne aion.nd Mr. Justice Davis concur In opin NEWS BY CABLE. Interruption of the Telegraph in Ireland-:-The Rochefort Sensa tion in Paris—Outrage. Upon Americium In Havana—One 'filled and Two Others Wound ed Raft. . • VALZwrs.a, Fah. 7 .—There LI total. In terroption on the Irish telegraph lines. Comtnunleation eastward la entirely cut off. PRANCE, PARIS, Feb. 7 .—General Heine lea yes. Corday for Panama, to conduct the explo• ration for the new Darien Canal Cont. Meagre. Thompson and Vanchoate, the agents for the American table Company. have returned from the Hague whit the concession forte landing of a cable from the Dutch Government. The new arrangement for a postai Der. vice between France and the United States, recently announced by the French Government, applies solely _to prepaid letters, and not to thoee nriprepard, as has been stated. Steamers carrying these mane will call at English porta. The postage on unpaid lettere from America to France will be 80 centimes under 80 drammea. . The Afarscillais, Henri. Rochefort's journal, appears this morning with a characteastin letter over the signature of Rochefort himself, relative to the recent notice served upon him, ordering him to constitute bimetal a prisoner In °Nall. once to the sentence of the Court..-He declare,' boldly that he will not surren der himself. anti that if . the Ministers want him, they must come and take him and fakthermore. they must come pre , paredlo nse force. Fetus, Feb. 7—in the Corps Legialatif to-day 51. Cremleax rose and said ho desired to question the-Minister con. Corning the Rochefort affair. .M. 011ivier replied he would not await the result of , an interpellation, but would doh!, duty. M. jd that it was pro. I cisely as tow hat h the Silniaters considered 1 their duty he sought to ingrate and the Chamber would decide that this should be answered at once. He then proceeded to make a strong appeal against the con templated arrest of Rochefort as a wrong to his comultuente. M. 011ivier made a at i ne Tantaran agita ted tleliumer%Ys vote of 199 to 45 adhered to the view of M. 011ivier. It was expected Rochefort, who was in hie seat during the debate, would be sr reatedon leaving the house. but be wee not. At the termination of the sitting he procemled to his office, and up to eight o'clock this evening had not been taken into custody. Rumors are abroad that the Prince Im. period Is very 111 , but the Joternal! Le Public says there la no founilation for them. EMI! - - HavArts, Feb. 7.-=Yesterday morning about eleven o'clock, four Americans. Isose Greonwalt, Henry K. Foster, Hugh Johrumn and. Gardner Wells, all of .New . York, ware on their way to visit a pho tograph wa r ty. They Intended to have their WM taken and all wore blue neckties. -Wear the Talon Theatre they were stopped by a man who pointed to their neckties and addressed the men. in an excited manner In Blemish. None of the party understanding the language, no answer was returned. The unknown man then took out a revolver and fired upon thorn. Greenwalt was shot and killed, and Foster and Johnson "severely I wounded. Wells was ' , Unhurt and ran for his life. A number of people followed and raised the cry of "stop him." The wounded men were badly treated by the crowd which gathered aroundthem. The man who fired =he shots disappeariei mediately after and it Is not. known whether he was a volunteer or not, The declarations of the parties and witnesses I to the affair are. now being taken by the legal authorities in the presence of the United states Consul General. The.l Indignation of the Captain General at the outrage la very great. He Mut called on., the Chief Justice and other leading ofti. cent of the law to use every means to discover the perpetrator and abettors of the deed. People of all parties denounce the act. The officers of the volunteereare hunting for the assassin and his sworn. pllcea, and the Government has placed the entire police force In motion. Do Roden was offered a reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest of the culpable parties, who, If tonna, will b e tried by drum head court martial and executed, within two hours 'after the sentence Is passed. The victims of this unfortunate affair 'arrived here weeks ago to open a from New York several mery store tor oatmeal() and perfri. .Lsaman dr. Kemp . GREAT RRITAIR. Lozmos. February, 7.—The relisaam- Whig- Or PUllanaota to.nainnnr !braes the theme or coOvarmon and ammo. • L- • ME per comment. The genqal Impression is, that while the Administration Is so overwhelmingly etrong, the Opposition will be hopeless. The only hope of the latter will be to create a division in the Liberal ranks Mr. Austin, the representative of a largo American shipping company, has conciuded the purchase of the Depart ment and Government Dock Yard; and it is specially Intended for iron ship . building. The Indo-European Telegraph Com pany have just romploted their line from London direct to ladle. Thla line is composed of land wire and cables, and rune via 11:1-11n, Warsaw, °deists, Te heran, Persia, through the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean to Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Messages will be taken from all stations In the United States after the 15th instant at the follow lug rates In gold: To Kurraches, for ten. words, 18,10; twenty words, 112,16; to station,' west of Chittagong, ten words, 11,95; twenty words 114,25; to stations emit of. Chittagong, ten words 110.25; twenty words 115.25; every addi tional ten words, or a traction beyond twenty words, will be charged one.half of the twenty word rate. Chittagong le about ninety•two degrees east longitude. The Times this morning reprints a groat portion of the editorial art hole from the New York Times of January 24, and comments approvingly on the latter',' &assertion that American credit is dying in 'Europe beCauseruftlansalayit at home. LGEM Ecumenical Roma, February 7.—The Ecumenical Council will soon deliberate on the op portuneneea of a diecuaalon of the d of papal infaltbility. ogma --..--- SPAIN. • ' MADRID, February 7.--lliaturbancea have occurred at Ajan near Malaga, but have been eupproseed. FIMANCIA7, A.lllll COIIMEIitCIAL. LONDON, Feb. 7.—Acteroon.— Console 02.3. S for money; 02% on account. Ame rican mecuritien quiet; '6ss, 883;: '67e, 801.,l; 1040 s 84,;. Mocks quiet; Erles, 20; Illinois Central, 111534; lireat . Weet ern, LI. FRANKFORT, February 7. - 4 - Bonds active and Ilrut. iPauts, February 7.—Bourne flat at 731" 270. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 7 .—Cotton quiet and stoady; uplands 11%; Orleans 113 i ®Ilg; sales 10,000 hales. Flour lea 6d. Other breadetufth unchanged. Punlslona un changed. Linseed Cakes IS 6®-Ell 16a. Sugar .28.. 3JCS2Sa ed for afloat. Sperm all 86@87a. Llnseed oil dull at £3O 15a( A:3l. Common rosin , os 6d&ss tht; Tal low 46.@.4a1 3d. Harms, Feb. 7.—Cotton quiet at 137 r afloat. rwaltr, February 7 .—Petroleum flat - I at .59hfr. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. —The - Virginia Legislature meets to• Commissioner Delano resumed his official duties yesterday. —George M. Wharton, a distinguished lawyer da. , died Monday evening, at Phila. delpf • —Peter T. Washburn°, Ex-Governor of Vermont, died at Woodstock, Monday morning. . -Ed. Wise, a Nashville barkeeper, committed suicide yesterday by taking laudnum. . • —The trial of McFarland for the mur der, of A. D. Richardson, will commence March ith, In New York city, In the Court of General Scissions. —The residence of Colonel Walton Droeght, formerly occupied by Non. Daniel S. Dickinson, at Binghamton. N. Y. was burned Sunday morning. Loss $70,000; Insured for 1064.000. —N. C. Meeker, of the New York Tribune, Gen. Cameron and W. C. Flak have gone west to select a site or lows. lion (or the Union - Colony formed in New York city a few weeks since. • —Dining a fracas at a house of Ili fame at Canandaigua, N. Y., Friday evening lest, a young Marl earned Albert Day received serious injuries from which he died Sunday. Several arrests have been made. _ • ale the. Kentucky senate yesterday a resolution was Introduced for the ratifi cation of the Fifteenth Amendment. A motion to lay on the table wall instantly_ made, but on the suggestion of a member that such disposition was looked upon in the light of au aversion, and thin It would be better to settle the matter as far as Kentucky was concerned by a square, unmistakable vote, the remits. non was referred to the ommittee on Federal Regions. a recent meeting of Broo kly nrs of the Plymouth Church lt was determined that a committee should be appointed for the purpose of revising the articles of Faith. many of the meal bera demanding that they should reat on a broader basis. Mr. Beecher said that he approved of the proposition to revise tie creed of - the Church, but that Inas much as the committee for that purpose was to be appointed by himself, he would ask that a little time be given to him to make the proper ,selectiona. Tide was granted. —The Mormon mtssion In the vicinity of Kew York city is being pushed for ward with all tho vigor and energy Poe. named by its leaders, in the vicinity of of Freeport, Patchogue, Rockville. Ven tre, Uempatead, Long Island. Daring the earlier part of the week the molt favorable accounts of General Benton's work were given out. Meeting and prrefekluge are held three time a day to aid the mission. Many preachers hay% been sent from Utah.. They aro looked for daily. Elders and priests are travel. log and preaching to every tilling° and town situate within a circuit of seventy miles of Freeport. At Williamsport, yesterday, Eden Jackson, of Utah, preached to a large congreg ation. _ THE COURTS. "Harlot Court-4udgea Hampton and Kirkpatrick. MONDAY, Feb. 7.—Judge Kiritpatriek delivered the opinion of the Oourt dle: solving the special injunction .granted In the case of Johnston vs. Kier. Foster & Kier. The first case taken up this morning wee that of Phillip Welaei2berger vs. Francis A. Bates. This wee an action In covenant upon an article of agreement entered Into between pleb:dill - and dates. darns, as partners, io secure a Settlement of - partneratilp buaineas, On trial. TRIAL LIST 1 , 011 TUESDAY. 110. Citizens Oil Refining Co. vs. Dil worth et al. 166. limning et ux vs. Becker et al. 98. Leahy vs. Hobbs. 161. Gallagher vs. Sweeny. • 131. Rector, de., of St. Andrew's Chinch vs. Iloag. 140. Owners of Steamer "Wild Cat" vs. Steamer "Whale." 106.. Smith vs. Yopgh. Iron dt Coal 00. - 160. The Com. for use vs. &plat. 16d. Taylor vs. Reed. 167. Dean at oz. vs. Bolton at al. . Common Pleas—Judge Sterrett. MONDAY, February 7.—The tint CUB taken up was that of Coin. ex rel. divine Hoffman vs. Anton Hoffman. This was an Inquiry concerning theeanity of the defendant. The Jury found the defendant to be • lunatic. _ George Metsgar vs. Michael McGill, ac. lion on an appeal. On trial. A. Campbell va. Bias Duggan, owner, and D. B. Williams, contractor, action On a mechanim lien. Verdict for plain. tiff for 1189.04. A. Campbell va. Evan Williams etc:, owner, and D. B. Williams contractor, action on mechanics' lien. Verdict for plaintiff for *RM. A. Campbell va, eanae, action on me cenlm' lieu. Verdict for plaintiff for TRIAL LIST FOR TUESDAY. 328. Lynch va. O'Reilly. et ttx. 398. McClean vs. Patineeto*. 346. Klotzley vs. Jacoby. 849. Hartroan et US, va. Pinch. 851. McElroy vs. Barker fi Co. 185. Hocheimer vs. Vogle. 853. rltagentlit va. Lorimer. 98. Masainger vs. Patten's Ex. 188. Snodgrass vs. Hlll. 21t vs. Campbell et tax. 288. Schmidt va. Emery Erna. Accident from wren:mg.—Ur. Thou. McNally, of &nth Ettsbargh, met with rather a a saloon In eerioux accident while wrestling In that p heavily on the floorlace, and fracturing y being his thrown leg In two places below theftnee. Dra. MoOord and Meant.= werebrimedlate /y summoned and reduced the fracture. THE FIRE ALdlli An Old Dodge Itepeated—The False Alarms Last Bight. U seems we are to have a recurrence of the criminality which attended the discusaion of the. Paid The Department question last year. Yesterday afternoon the act creating the Paid Department failed to receive the aanctionof Lsat night the firemen_ were stalled out three them by hire alarms, One at (en, o'clock from box 83, on the outskirts of 1' Lawrenceville.' Another half an hour later from box 17, corner of Wood street and Sixth avenue, and the third at, len minutes before twelve o'cloct from box 45, corner Franklin and Logan streets, on tho hill. This Is the old programme, and It's well understood. These scala wag. who desire the paid system think they can hurry it through by. this method. It ' only defeats the object and makes oppoaltion stronger. The matter I should receive the , prompt attention of the authorltlet, I A reward should be offered for the de• iSection of the Milani!, and the severest I Punishment meted out to them. Lest year Ite matter dropped when the Dar ties ceased their nefarious practices. -This ought not to be the method of treat. lug the subject again. Let the moat vig orous efforts be put' forth until the of- fenders are apprehended and properly punished. The effectiveness of our fire ■larm:and the whole system Is too im , .. portent to be trifled with by such rogues. —At five minutes pant two this morn. log another alarm wee struck from box 81, Lawrenceville. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. UrDll. that the aent!eman . .bn DESIO 411, r a e n.42lto n ng m l yang. wme month. elaee 7.„ ft5::75 arPITTSBORGH .TOHNER II ALL. . THE SCRIPTURE _HISTORY AFTER THE CELEBRATED DRAWINGS OF GUSTAVE DORE. Tabteaux "Wants. SECOND EXZELIBITION WEDNESDAY, February 9tb. 1870. Overture BT Brent Wertem Band. 1. Tableans ...Toseoh Interpretlei the Dream of Pharaoh. Generic Chapter LXLI. 11. Tableanx../oeeph Maktni IHressAl ) Qum to HU Brethren. (kneels . : Chapter IXLV. 3. Tableaux Jacob , * Journey. to saw Ger:eels: Chapter 1.Xt.71. 4. Tableattx. Moses Hid Amang Mopeds. Chapter IV. • G. Tableaux. Pharaoh Chides Meats•MoseS And Aaron Before Plum& Beady.: Chapter V. G. Tableaux... Toe DestroelAgAngsl—Theltrat Born are Blain. Ilealus: Chapter XII. 7. Tableaux ......Motes DeseendleA MI. Bleat . Earths: Chapter 111. B.•Tablessix Water 113raardously Sepplled. Ixodus: .Chapter XVII. 9. Tableaux. .... . .......... .The Biases Berrien,. Number.: Chanter XXI. • 10. Tabltaux Jul And Mona. Judges: Chapter IV. An excellent Orchestra (Great Western Band) will entertain the audience while the Taldeaux Are art apectl. Tl,ke,. 30 cents. has THZ COMMITTEE. A SEARCH FOR WINTER MEALS. D. APPLETON & CO., -rnis. SO, 92 and 94 Grand Street, A SEARCH FOR WINTER SUNBEAII The Riviera, Corsica, Algiers & Spain BY Hou. 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