THE DAILY GAZETTE _G~:~! Ocoee, 84 and. 86 IVA Avenue. P. 3 TEM." , T. P.l BOIIIITOI. ANDL TICRIIILO Ur TU DAILY. 3 7E 1 41. per Deltiered by vkr.urp, per eta tb'e littstratr et‘tt ',MERIT. NEWS. . —.,...-- Vicronu has 03,000,000 laid up. - RIME FORREST is said to like Yachter's acting: In Southern gardens flowers are already in bloom. Tea Roe. B. F. Wade says Cuba must and shall be free. - A Esau Al3lll has joined this regiment of eloping clergy. • , lowA has given about one-fifth of its area to aid railroads. Mutt of our politicians, though not speechless, are senseless. =Scenes are resting uneasy onthe heath ' of white settlers in Texas. Tag Chicago. wheat speculators are in the dumps, priceshave fallen so. A SANTA ANNA conspiracy has faded for the hundredth time in Mexico. Pouso smuts are Riving the most britliant.balls in Paris this winter. Then of the wedding gifts of Mark Twain'i bride was a fttrnished house. Maw Your slaty for ifoe at two dot. lam a %OD, which is a small size indeed. A ILIJUIOAD is proposed to be built through the notch of the White Mountains. Tea Chinese in San Francisco bought up .44,500 worth of real estate last month. Owe oftlettactuda's female admirers in Brooklyn is modeling a bust of the pi anist GEORGE SAND has brought a libel snit against a scribbler who impugned her Trespass was eseorterhoini from the opera in Hamburg by a torch light pro- Tag. maple Sugar manufacture In Ver. -wont has begun this - season much earlier than mull Tux Kansas .Pacific Railroad makes baggage masters personally responsible for smashes. . Ma HOAG, of Ohio, The member of Congress who lately died, is said to ban left *1,000;000, VICTORIEN SARDOI7II next historical drama will pot Washington and Lafay• ette on the stage. ' ,_ • A BRETLA.ND coLT, near St. Louie, is three weeks old, 20 inches high, and 101 pounds in weight. CINCINNATI proposes to annex REM. cline of the suburbs to make it a city of forty-two square miles. Tmt parlor of the Leland brothers' big 'hotel at Saratoga is to hare walls of mir rors, and to coat ;75,000. 1 CANADIAR objeCtion to frattlonal currency is that it would be troublesome to those who cannot read. ,Trtg New York police are better skilled in originating bogus assassinations than in catching genuine assassins. Monsessesre Saratoga club house is to cost $40,000, furniture as much more, and the /air of the tiger VO,OOO. MAssAcatencres has 2,235 miles of rail road in operation which are represented by • capttal stoc k of $113,107,805. • Tess now have in Wall street not only "bulls" and "baba" but "deers." since Ohs female shaving shop was started.- . Trot iiiime - of the Polish chemist who has found the "philosopher's stone," is Theophilus LUdovicaskentschtk Zehinte kopsky. • --.. Tog California Legialat n re has changed -the name of Lake Tahoe to Bigler. • It will now proceed to rig out Yosemite as Joe Smith. - - - 1 A-Foire Score man, in excavating a cellar, came upon a vein of yellow ochre six feet thick;, which sold for 110 a load as Put as taken out. - .. Mae. CAROLINE Ricamsoer BlitlinAliti lea added the "Grand Duchess" to her list of characters, and is this week play ing it In Cincinnati. ' . . Tim engineer of the Howse tunnel mays Wei nitro-glycerine explosion heel dents there are dub' chiefly to . "whisky and reckless carelessness.' ' Rgv. 'Gnomic BANGILAILT ' M O. 0 be oldest Methodist clergymen l n .lite coun try, died at Bridgeville; Warren co y, New derseY, last week, aged 88. A our mum' who- lost a diamond ring is Montreal fourteen yeais ago, re- ciitatal it on 'Friday last. It vrasoffered for sale by the person who found it. A Kennet Adulterer.* 'Virginia amid. era that the otfero, $l,OOO reward for his arrest is extravagant, as he never was worth that in the belt days of slavery. • Tuterms by a love of a - bonnet, the price of which was above her limited means,' a Louisville young lady last week sacrificed her "beautiful golden hair." Furies papers are discussing whether Cembronne was heroic or merely profane at Waterloo. An old friend of the Gen wars ' inclines- to the opinion that he 1110/E. 011.1100 N has three soda srings, one of im which h been analyzed by an experi enced mineralogist, and pronounced equal. if not mperior, to the Saratoga Springs. ' • A XEMIIER of the idabania 'whose neat is ,contested, asks that the hearing be postponed, as ho is about to be married, and ono such affair at a time is enough. ' Tea Now York papers still print col. nmne about the female broken who have invaded Wall street. They are said to be -.interne:3g . ln business — engaging.. but - reticent: • - • Haub gst courts have derided that news papers have a copyright on every part of, their original contents. Some of them - will never have a chance to complain of 'lnfringements. A LADY of New York to whom Mrs. strewe sent her. "Vindication," with the compliments of the author, returned the volume with the Indorsement; "Life is 41DV - short —encase me." , x nix Wisconsin Legislature has enacted that games :dull not play leapfrog in Hui • Assembly Chamber, or throw wads - of • rusticated paper where they - are:likely 10 hnthe heads of mernbent. •Anown the contributions to the Job!. lee fund of a religions sodety in Ertgland wax one of L - 21;• given a Wink offer• log for an excellent wire in Heaven, and au excellent wife on earth." Tun •-Loninille Courier Journal telli tbeeprotesting Mormons that when they shalt We once ,learned the luxury of .a :single wife, they -.will be ready to wor. - 'ship Mr. Oulturmas one of their sweete s t TM: Wally of a Baltimore tinker were surprised to lied a nose and tongue stkk, hug to the parlor ceiling the other day. *The husband:end father had blown off „Illsbeadtecause a mortgage on hts Inthe - wee fore Closed - r.oans of an election bet at Roches. ter, N. T., has recovered his 'bike from the holder by process of late; after it was paid over to the winner. - k 2 This is gather bard, as the other marfilinn recelYe odds against the law. Tun New York Express says: "The skate business In rather lively fn the Yertsmouth. N. IL, Navy Yard. Ono °Meer bffs just had ten pairs made for himself and his friends, which coat un. fie Bain $l O la Pittg.' a - dolietialatemant for the cur rent month will show a bandome -reduc tion etoin. The receipts - from customs . . and internal revenue hero been fully up to the oversize and expenditurW•have been unusually light. n a y. PST= Otaresarty; baying ser ved sixty-ffee years as. a Methodist m i n har, and for fifty consecutive years as a prudding elder, - is now :devoting his • time to lecturing on "The•Hise and pro gress of Methodism In the West.? A Wrscougix - paperandetnirtha State University trading as a dome -crowned deformity, and asserts that the man who designed it should no carted over to the )J,3itsaciasylum, and tbe man or men who ' accepted it sent to the State prinim - • Mn. RATZLI, the colored Senator from Mississippi, says ho Ihinks there we too MEE 11, ".jelttL ce ,114 titt-.11F:1 • ,A4k JOIIIII2 IBIS, I. P. lUD. . many personalitiesan d too much useless speeckt•making in Congrms, and when he gets into the Senate he Intends to see if these habits cannot be suppressed. SENATOR Cita:now pronounces the letter of A. K. McClure false in all its particulari, lie says he is too much ac. customed to . such attacks to pay , any attention to them. .No person, he asserts, who knows McClure will bellevelnything he Lays or write!. Tun Pittsfield Eagle says "We know of a wedding that is to take place this week, the man in the case being induced to accept his yoke for a consideration of 1 $BOO, to be paid him on the wedding day by the lady who has chosen him for her husband. We wish him much jaw." Two stock farmers in California had a dispute as to whether Cashmere goats or fine blooded sheep furnished the finest meet. A jury was appointed, and about 100 persona partook ofthe barbecue with which:the trW was celebrated. The jury decided In favor of goat by a vote of 8 to 4. Lonnow is aghast -at the thought that a shrewd enemy, in ease of war, might send pestilence into every house and blow up every highway in- the metropolis, simply by a soup de main at Barking, du• stroying the machinery at the month of the great sewer there entering the • A BOY named Beguine had his tongue cut and was murdered by some negroca at Hickory around, Virginia, last week. His alleged offence was that being sent to make a email purchase, he reported that he had boat the money, and they did not believe him. The murderers after wards fled, NOATH ' CAROLINs has the ebampion old man. He has reached 143 years by dint of living on a purely vegetable diet and drinking spring water, and is likely to live as much longer from all appear. ances. He has survived seven wives, end as the last one died sixty years ago he is beginning to fell lonesome and talks about going courting again. . Tax Liberals of North Germany. are trying to win Count Bismark over to the aide of the opponents of capital punish. meat. They have recently published , pamphlet on the subject, in which they assert that at least onethird of the per sons beheaded or hung in Germany and Austria during the last twenty.tlve years were guiltless of the charges on which they were tried and sentenced to death. nix owner of that orchard at B3nton Harbor,' Michigan which was twice girdled„ at a loss of _thousands of dollars, last year, concluded that he was the ob ject of personal dislike to some of his neighbors, and therefore sold out to a Chicago gentleman. About a fortnight ago some 300 of his trees were again girdled, and now it ts proposed to hang the perpetrators of the outrage on 'Gm dying trees, if they _the be caught. STATE ITEMS: Beaus couteru has excellent sleighing. lizexaxo has a soup society for the poor. Parr.apal.pnra. had a 24 deaths lary west. Tnr.concert saloons of Reeding Dili U 43 city $17,000 in license fee& dollars( HEMPHILL, HEQ., a leading lawyer of West Cheater, Pa., died last week: Tag project of a' rallroail from Lunt berville via Carveraville, to meet the North Penna. Howl at Doylestown, is now on foot. • - Tame have been twenty eight exetu thms for murder in Philadelphia since 1789.. This shows how judges ia cheated In the city of Brotherly LOVE. How. Journ. S. 'Mum, Conmuje sioner of the General Lsnd Office, esti. mates in twenty years hence Pennerlya• nis will have a population of 5,500,000. The calcnbitlan is bun! upon the ratio of Increase during the put decade. . art Saturday last, two cows belonging to Israel W. Muller, near West Pairyiew, commenced fighting, and in the struggle for the mastery managed to get their horns so completely lociced that it'AVIB foetid impossible to extricate them until one horn was sawed 08. . . , THE special committee appointed by the Legislature to meet in Philadelphia to investigate 'whether any Improper moans had been used to defeat the Metropolitan , Pollee Bill, met on Saturday and ' after some 'alit talk adJourned'until such time u clerk may be appointel at Siete ex pense to the committee. Moonshine 1 .11E2iIIT MAT line ..been found gidlty .of murder In the first degree in the Bucks .county court and goes twelve years to the penitentiary. Re stabbed_ to. death, while fighting with him, a young man 'tuned T. B. Bennet. The difficulty• took place at a ball held in Northampton township. The prisoner has since con fessed his guilt. -- Tug following postal chromes ar made In Pennsylvania. Chary. Tree, enan go county, Pa., —R. Irwin, vice . Hil ler, deceased. Reestablished—Bimpson's store' ' Washington county, Pa., John Fitarratrick Postmaster. Estabilshed Caifibriai Cambria county, Pa.- B. Naylor, 3i. Postmaster, Established—Watt. Indiana county. Pa., John Mem Postmaster. Established—Kest• ing, McKean county, -Pa., R. C. Kent Postmaster. Established— Cooks burg, Forest county, Pa., Andrew Cook, Postmaster. Ix the Supreme Conzt, now in sessio In PhUadelphia, the CM of Behoeppewas thew disposed of : Behoeppe VI. the Commonwealth. Error to the Oyer and Terminer of Car. hale. In this Care. which has attracted so much attention throughout the country, Justice Reed delivered the opinion of the Court, holding that under the statutes the supreme Court cannot review the evi. deuce, nor can have anything to do with the guilt or Innocence of the prisoner, and therefore Is compelled to affirm the judgment of the Court below. Thou{{ in ton Is based upon the technical objections to the appeal fro the Cour t below, and at its close uses this language: "The bearing, J,herefore, before us was upon a writ of error at common law, upon which no error could be assigned bat those which were apparent on the face - of the record itself. We could, therefore, not legally or In our judicial capacities, look at the evidence. We bill of- exception' and the charge of -the 'Court, much less at the large mass of ex halftone matter pressed upon our atten tion and notice. •We have nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of the prig: oner, and all we can say Is that we dis cover no error In the record." 01110. Urweatof of 50,000 pounds of woo! bus been purchitted In Harrison county during thepsitt two weeks. The ruling price Is 45 cents. • Ter Chrontelo office of Uhrlckville wu recently destroyed -by fire.- Inas much as the inatmco was far leas than the loss, the eiticens'sre moving to make up the amount to the energetic proprie torn This is right. a good Jour nil as the oksaes's worth ten thousand dollars -to the people Indirectly awry year. as it keeps up the reputation and business of the town. . Env. JO= NEAP, of. Ober'irk known for the last'quarter 0f..1 .lb_ "Fattier Keep." and one of the pstria sy c h, of Northern - Ohio, died In Oberlin on F r iday, at the advanced ass of ninety years. All his Ilfe he was a Arm and ardent anti-slavery man. It was, we be. liars, at Father. Keep's house in Oberlin that the meeting of the trustees was held, which decided by the casting vote of the "chairmen, to adroit colored people to the privileges of ednaltiOa• In the great agitation which follow:A Father Keep was not Idle,- lie visited England, as financial agent of the antlalavery cause, in 1838, and received valuable onntribm lions In Its aid from the leading English abolitionists, like Clarkson and Sturges. in the last thirty years he has acted Ire , quently as financial agent for the Oberlin College, and his aid to the College his been Very able and timely. FIRST ENVOI. IfifIDAIGHT. HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania Legislature THE TREASURY INVESTIGATION. Nothing Done—Another Adjournment. THE SCULL-FINDLAY CASE. SENATE: 'Variety of Bills and Resolutions Introduced—Ohio River Obstructions Bounty for Conscripts—Free Pipe Bill. ROUSE: Wrangle 'Over the Police Bill Investigation—Bills Introduced. 'Special Diesel<4 to the Ptttabor[b Gazette.] HARRISBURG, Fab. 16, 1670. THE TREASURY INTIDITIOATION—ANOTII xn ADJOURNMENT. The Senate Finance Committee met to-night. Chairman Bit'logien announ ced that Mr. Wallace _requested him to state he could not be present and desired the Committee to adjourn tin to-morrow. Mr. Mackey said he had thought 'sat night that the statement he than presen ted answered the requirements of the Committee, but was surprised to see by the morning pipers that it was not satis factory to the Comrultt no. Messrs. Brooke and Billlngfelt said what ttie annittee desired particularly was a detailed monthly statement of the balances. Mr. Mackey aaid be wan prepared now to present such a statement. After discussion it was unanimously agreed to recnire Mr. Mootrey's statement to morrow afternoon and agaln placo him on the stand. Mr. White thought the Committee should have proceeded with otheiwit nesse% when present, but acquiesced In this decision. THU SCULL-FINDLAY CABL The Scull-Findlay case was decided this morning by the withdrawal of Mr. Scull, who wrote a letter to the Commit tee, which the Committee deemed In suiting and unjust and refused to re ceive, and by a unanimous vote returned . . It to Lim. Mr. Lawry made a speech, stating that Irani the very Inception of this matter Mr. Scull had attempted to steal into. the Senate. The Committee will report tolinorrow.morning. SENATE. ATLLS INT4.OI,I7CED By Mr. HOWARD: For the more °ar ida collection of Wage,' of female ser vant., seamstxeases and minor children, which deprives defendant of pleadlog the three hundred dollar exemption act en levy or execution for the wages of inch individuals. Authorising the employment of a ape• cial detective by the District Attorney of Anoltlion.7 county, being "a impjof the Philadelphia law. Trawsferring certain taxes on, otileera from the Commonwealth to counties. Declaring• children of slaves married to be lawful heirs of parents. By Mr. WA LLACE: , Ttegniating the appropriation of sinking' fund revenue and authorising the selling of certain securities of the State. . ' Joint resolution proposing amnia. menta to the Constitution controlling and preventing special legislation, which requires the yeas and nays on the final passage of every bill and general laws to meet all subjects. • Construing the eleventh. 'action of the act of 1869, creating the Board of Public Charities. In favor of admitting prison immectom as members of the Board. Passed: . By Mr. WHITE: Extending the lim its of Indiana borough and creating two wards in thn same. -By Mr. LOWRY: Joint moludon urg ing Congress to , plugs a bill grsottug pedow s. nsions to soldiers of 1812, and their wi By Mr. GRAHAM: Supplement to the act regulating turnpike and plank road companion. = Mr. WHITE introduced a Joint rem , lotion for a joint committee to Inquire into the propriety of continuing the publication of the Illatory of Pennsylva nia Volunteers.. Passed. Subsequently the House amendment was discussed without result. OHIO I/IVNA NAVIGATION—WHOM THOR Dzn? Mr. GRAHAM introduced a resolution urging Congress to bill preventing obstnictiorut in the Ohio River;explain ing that the resolution bad o prima. red by him in consultation wlthan emi nent member of the Pittsburgh Bar, largely Interested in the coal butanes. He Intended to introduce it In the Senate on Friday, and gave it to in ()Meer of .the !Icing° to transcribe copies for the Pittsburgh papers; but that a member of the House had obtained from said °Meer a copy :and introduced It in the House on Monday evening. Mr. Graham said that he had no objection to this appropriations if the gentleman had. not marred the resolution by the trans. position of two words and adding three llnestathich impaired the - force of the whole proposition. • At the request of Mr.' Graham, the Senate 'responded the rules and anent, mouldy passed the resolution. 80U2171i 70 CONSCRIPTS: Mr. OSTERIIOI3T introduced a Joint resolution asking Congress to pass a bill extending bounty act to dratted soldiers and their widows. =I The bill for protection of coal miners passed that reading. =EDZEME! Mr. GRA. AM, In compliance with a resolution paned several days ego, introduced rom the Oommittee on Our• potations a roe pipe bill. HOUSE ON REPRMENTATIVFA I= A debate on the nlllsdelptua Police . bill sprung out of Fowltalon tn trotter:ad authorfslng e the InvetApa. Cominittee to employ aclerk, In Which allegations of fraud and corrup. Um' were made on both sides. The row. /4MG2=;=il dlr. BROWN introduced a resolution requiring the Committee to eh with Open doors and afford facilities to tile pries. Carried. PUDDLE.IIB' ARO. Ilotiana' CONVEZIITIOZI. Mr. HUMPHREYS Jotrodneed a vase 'Litton granting the use of the Hall to the National Convention of the Iron Pad dlers and Holten 'Union next- .August. TIT - 241113MM FLUE DEPARTMENT. liit,TAYLOßlntroducod a bill irleot- POrating tbo Pittsburgh Firo Depart- =1 By Mr. WALTON: A suppynnent ter the Columbia oll.Comeany. By Mr. HUMPHREYS: AuthorlAng verso township to construct tow n:aka.' WASIIINOTON . B DIET/1 DAT. Both Mama have agreed' to adjourn over ham Friday to Wednesday, In re. - poplttouot Waibington'n lArtlH2lly. =ZCMMM! FORTY-MIST CONGRESS. (SECOND SESSION.) SENATE: The Mississippi Admis sion Eill Further Considered— Constitutionality of Fundamen tal Condition& HOUSE: &s -olutions to Maintain Neutrality in the Cuban Revolution—The Oreene•Fan Wyche Contested Elect tii Case Decided. (HY Tdeariall to t►e Pittsburgh Quetta.) Waarirx otrroN. February 16, 1870. SENATE. The Homo bill to provide for furnish ing artificial limbs to disabled soldiers Was Miaowed and amended by extend ing its provhdona to soldiers 01 the Mex ican war. ' Other amendments were offered but not rigroed to, or not acted upon, includ ing a proposition by Mr. Edmunds to strike atom the bill thoaection providing for commutation in money, which was rejected -21 against 31. '.The bill was then laid aside and the consideration of the Mississippi bill re sumed. • Mr: YATES said that injustice to him self and his high appreciation et the Senator from WISCOTISIO. (M r. Carpenter) ho voluntarily withdrew whatever of a personal character was contained in his recent reply to than Senator's position. Referring to the Chinese question he said the greatness and glory of our gov ernment would bo further Illustrated by extending to the Chine..., and their ran glen the same toleration and freedom enjoyed by all races and religions under the protection of the government. Mr. STEWART made an argument agaln■t the constitutional power of Con ifrelle to impose unwarranted conditions upon Mississippi. In reply to a question by Mr. _Edmunds, Mr. Stewart Bald be did believe the condition problblfing any change of the Constitution of Alisa lesippi in the present pmvielorus for school rights and privilege.' for citizens of the United State, wee unounehtutlonaL • Mr. EDMUNDS Inquired upon what ground the Senator voted for the &ewe condition In the case of Virginia, If he believed It unconstitutional? Mr. STEWART said he was anxlowi to put Missiaitippl In the Union, and he would vote for thts bill to admit her with the condition in it, though he did not believe Congresa had any constitutional power to impose such cculdittons. Mr. WILLEY said he opposed the con dition,' upon Virginia, but alter they were imposed voted for the bill contain ing them. If the Benator from Vermont, (Mr. Edmunds) and others acting with him, thought • there wee an hit propriety on the part of those who opposed the conditions upon Virgin ia. as unoonstitutional, In afterwards voting for the bill, he (Mr. Willey) woula relieve himself of any charge of I inconsistency and stand fairly upon the oblig■tione of his official oath. by moving the repeal of the action of the Senate. He therefore 'submitted an amendment to lepeal so much of the Virginia act as declared the State admitted to represen tation upon certafii fandainental condi tions therein expressed. Mr. MORTON awed why, if the Sena tor desired to be consistent, he did not include all the States which were ad mitled on conditions? Mr. WILT.EY said the pledge or Con gran had been given to admit the late rebellious States to reprenentation upon doing certain things. Mhinisampt and Virginia hail complied with all these re. ilalrectients. While the pending bill. In very Inception. declarint Misabinippi to have a republican government, there• 'fore conditions to make her government republican 11747) 4717:i n ei u t o us. that Congxem had ever entered into any-bergs= to re nonatruct any State upon certain mmdi. Clone. He proceeded to review the sub ject in detail. Referring to what were called admonitions and threatening* of popular storms, if which New England had been warned to take heed, he said the principle upon which the institutions of that section were established could never be overthrown, and that the win dont of her belief In the . power of the Government to preserve in peace what It had maintained in war, would be vindl. rated in the future. MOW= for Executive Seusion, and to adjourn were defeated by one and the latter two vote, Mr. FOWLER -then addressed the Senate against the power df Congress to impose conditions. , Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. BENNETT introduced a bill for the better protection' f the northern and northwestern frontier, dta. Referred. Mr. TRIMBLE (flared a resolution di recting the Secretary of the Treasury . ..to take Into consideration the erection of suitable tmildings at Paducah. My., fir pos op tofficei United States Courts, an. Adted. Mr. CRESS offered .a resolution in structing the Judiciary COmmiltee to inquire into the expediency of repealing the law conferring admiralty j urladiction on State courts exercising common law Jurisdiction. Mr:CUL:L.OK from the committee ma Territories, reported several bills ting the jurisdiction of Probate Courts, salaries. of Judges, etc., in territories. .• . • • Mr. CULLOM also presented a petition of ettizons of Mansaehneette 'that that State bo remanded to a territorial condi. Lion on account of lts Stews rights bare. ales in 1812. [Lstighter ) Referred to the Recorodrnetion Committee. Mr. DYER reported • bill to redefine a portion of the boundary between Ne. brsudta and Daeotah. Peened. Mr. POMEROY reported a bill setting aside the net proceeds of the. internal revenue collections in Arizona, Dacotah, Idaho, Montana And Wyoming Or 1870, tfl, 72, for the erection of capitol buildings in those territories, not to ex ceed 110,000 In each. Referred to Oom. mittee of the whole, Mr. CULLOM reported back adversely a bill providing a territorial government for Alaska. Tabled. • Mr. CULLONI reported a bill to aid the execution of the law In Utah; eo as to pre vent and punish polygamy. During the• reading of the bill the morning hour ex pired and it went over till to- morrow. • .Mr. BANKS, Chairman of the Coin =flea of Foreign Affairs, Introduced the following joint rem:anon, which wis read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs : • . -• Resolved, By the Senate and !louse of Representatives, In Congrese assembled, that the President of the United States be and he hereby Is authorized and In. strutted to declare and maintain a strictly Impartial neutrality In the con test now existing between the people of thtba and the government of the King dom of Spain. And be it farther Resolved, That ail seta or parte of acts and allprovisions of statute approved April.2o, 1818, entitled an act In addition to the act for tbe pun- Ishment of certain •crlinee against the United States and to repeal acts therein mentioned, which are or may be constru. ed to' be in conflict with the .faithful execution of the object and 'purpose of the foregoing - resolution, shall be and ail!' hereby declared to be, in regard to the existing Wide at between the people of Cuba and the government of Spain, and co long as that contest shall continue do operation, null and void,: The Home then renamed the consider satin of the Greene•Vaii Wyeireonteated election one.. The diabase:on continued till tudf-past four o'clock. • The resolution of the minority deals. ring Greene, sitting member, entitled to the lend, was defeated-543 to 121, and that of the majority, giving the teat' Van Wvok, wee adopted—yeas 111), nays 51. - A motion to adjourn was then made on the Democratic aide, pending . the swetrincln of Mr. Wan Wyek. • , Mr. BROOKS, of N. Y.—Swear him in; swear Min. Mr. sTiGits —After that outrage the House bad better adjourn. . _ BPEAKHH—The gentlenuina language le verp unparlbtmentarY. It appearing on a "divialon that no quorum wits present. the .House at 5:2D adjourned.: • . , . —lt is said that banters, brokers, In surance cOmpanles and brialsosa men In AIL parts of. the North, have sent word to tbelionthern lawyers and bualnee men that they shall not take advantage of the .tiatent decision or the Supreme Court, ratattra to contracts and tuortgagea. NEW WM CITY. &ported Gold ;Stale by the Ger . eminent—lnjunction against a bnin—Funeril Obsequies—Sec tarian Schools Agitation -7 he Relapsing Fever—Wife Murder. . . . (By Telegraph to the rlttobargh -Omen.%) Mem Yoßic. Feb. 16, 1870. IN . WANT or OWIENNOT A report comae frbm Washington that the Secretary of `the Treasury 'mold through a °armee banking home of this AIRY i 1,000,000 In gold, the roma' is signed for the reported sale being that the Secretary required more currency. This motive seem* teconalatent with the fact that the Tresso4 , Mirrency balance le now . 5t3,000,000. also appears that theAgslittant-Treairdier has been advised by the Secretary of the Treasury there I 4 no authority for the practicehitherto In force of receiving deposits of bullion at the Sub-Treasury against advances. The Secretary on Saturday Instructed the Artstant Treasurer to notify depos• non to withdraw their deposits within sixty days. The total. amount at present depoatted here is abole$5,000,000: /Lathe firm mentioned as having sold gold for the Treasury is a del' mltor of bullion, and has been notified to withdraw Its deposits, it le possible the report alluded to may have . ariaen from a misconception or that fact. This etipialetiiol2 Is con. tinned by the fact that no such negotia tion as the one alluded to has been made through the Sub-Treasury.. -INJUNCTION AOAINOT A LOAN. In the Supreme court to-day an In. junction was gran*. on complaint of Sanders W. Johnstoni against the Kansas Pacific Railroad_ Oonpany and others.. *mats of the Compatly In this city, from parting with any ney • proceeds of #6,500,000 gold lout of maid Company, now being negate Au order to show enure why the loan' hond not be pre. hibitod was also g tuL The plaintiff charges that an a meat has been made by which the Issued to said ("company end Its I rt nts by. tbn gress . have bees t erred to B. Shoemaker ,k Co. for o-ussof the tons personally midi In • fraud of the rights of stookholdne, and that their profits therefrom amount to two hundred per cent, of the capital 'of tho Oampany, . voirsaac. °tannin. The obloquies of base , Greonurald, murdered in Bassin. took place this morning and wu sgended b several Hebrew societies. The Spanis h Consul was present. At the *quest of relatives no public demonstratlen was made, • The funeral of Mr. Super will take place tonoorow at Minds street Mahe.. list Epieopal Chunk, Brooklyn. Mr. Harper, during his name, made choice of persona who shouldect as pall bearers at the funeral, compribing of four of the trustees of the Church., and four of the oldest of the employesia Harper Bros. SECTARIAN mtOOLS. The question of settarlan schools ex. eitae much etientiol• ;Jt is under dia. emotion In the Legislature and much op position Is shown to the taxation of citi zens forthelr support: , A petition to the Governor, calling MO sittentien to the unconstitutionality °flinch • tax, and slaking auth o ri ze . ' have the law repealed which s the. support of @urn Instituton out of moans/ collected as incise fees, is receiving signatures: =I -ibriargaret Sheridan, aged thirty, real ding at 517 West Forty-brat street, was shot and instantly kilted to night by her husband, Thomas. Mrs. Sheridan sepa rated frnm her huebeud three years ago end bee sines lived with Itilehael Powers, by whom she had one' child. The mur derer attempted to escape .but we, 'se cured. Timm:L.Annie PILVIUt. Tne Board of the relapsing fever tent end eeverlty ea to cacao public alarm or to require extraordinary action 'upon the part of the Board. • This action defeats the plan mid to have been urged of spending $5,000 In hospitals. =2 The •Rverting Post says : Oor private correspondence fully confirms the report that the French mission to the United Staten has boon altered to. M. Prevost Paradal. Whether M. Paradal will so. cept thin position has not tranapirsd, but the preaumption lithe will. REDUCTION OP CAPITAL. At &meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Mail Ociomany to-day a majority of thaw present favored a reduction of the capital stock from $z0,000,000 to $10,000,000..and a memorial to the Lees- Llture to that effect was drawn up. PiLLBRATION 'Susan B. Anthony celebrated her Illtleth - birthday lut evening by a _reoep lion at the Woman's Bureau. The richly funnehed parlors of the establishment were well filled, ,tbe ladles outnumber. log the gentlemen. I= Several revenue officers, while seizing "still In thekson's alley, BrOoklyn, were attacked by roughs and would have been severa , bandied but for the arrival of the po lice, who dispersed the asaallanta. TRADE CONVIINTION The manufacturers and dealera in troll Jars of this and neighboring States' met to-day at the Astor House and appointed a committee to settle their cordlletlng Interests. STALE LEGISLATURES. By Telerraph b thvPltt.burill assent.) CB= AUOVSTA, February 16.—The election of 11. S. Senators, as ended yesterday, was formally made in joint convention of the Legislature today. Gov. 'Ili:allot* sent a message to the Legislature this morning making an elaborate argument that tho act of Con gress of Dee. 22d, and previous recon struction sets, do not render Invalid any ordinary laws passed by the several Legislatures. All contracts entered Into by the State, or by corporations under State atithorlty, are legal and binding. The Governor says the impression sought to be created that load laws are invalids. ted, State bonds repudiated and-corpora. Lions_ organised upon the - baste of late legislation without legal foundation, is entirely groundless. _Fatter Blodgett this evening address. a letter to the Governor rtutteating him to withold the Certificate orkis election as Senator. Mr. Blodgett explains his previous political mime and retort to his having been indicted by his polltfe..l opponents for the purpose of destroying his influence. Be closes as follows: Al though item wno procured the Indict ment now confess it was done for politi• cal effect, and It rests uesonported by any proof, yet it is there, and never until It is withdrawn, or I have been triumph. rattly acquitted. can or will I accept the position to which the honorable suf frages of toy political friends have ele vated me. 1:13:32=1 LOUISVILLE, February I 6 —The Rau. tupky House considered the Cincinnati Southern Railroad bill. Sundryamond, meets were submitted and ordered printed. General Doke made a lengthy Speech in opposition. In the Senate the bill atiao came up, but was recommittad with several amendments: . ' The Committee on Federal Relation reported 'ageing the resolution for the ratification of the %TM Constitutional Amendment, E1332=1 , , RICHMOND, February le.-: A res o l u ti on was Intrettneed In the House today asking the government to &ion:11,8111g °root rights to Cuba. The resolution was referred. A bill was reported declaring vacant the place on the bench of the oourt.of Appeals now held by Meier Burnham. U. S. army. The Senate adopted a resolution that it is not neeessary to elect a United States Senator for the term ending March, 1870. LOUISIANA. Nnw 01/LZAWS. Feb. 10.—The Senate t o pawed the three million dollar ernor. levee hoed bill. It now goes to the Gov- The Rouse peeled -the mixed school educational billand resumed the anudd- Oration of the election bal. scam EDITIOII 'OUR O'CLOCK, 4..111. NEWS BY CABLE. The New Telegraph System in England—The Irish Land Re form—The Irrepressible Ereneh Press—The Great Connell at Rome—Wild Scene In the Span ish Cortex—Marine Disasters. . . Talepspb hie Ettabargh Clasatte.) GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON. Feb. 16—The new telegraph system Is . not yet completed, End the Oomplaluta of daisy are still numerous. The usual channels for messages have been temporarily clotted in eome instan ces, and In tide city a great number of dispstehes.must first be forced througha pneumatlo babe, half • mile long, to the Postoillbe,before they get on the wires. The service; .hoeiiiver, gralliiatly'lly be coming better and better. Loaves, February 16.—The Tdegraph, Liberal, reviewing the debates in . the House of Commons laat evening, on the mouton of the Introduction of the Irish land reform bill, expresses, great satis faction with the woceadinga.. , The writer thinks the real union of Great. Britain add Ireland may be dated with lut night. The bill is so perfect that It hi invulnerable In all lie points. The Standard, Conservative organ, urges an Inquiry Into the alleged cruel ties to Fenian prisoners. The Roue of Commons hold a brief session to•day. . The proceedings were unimportant. LONDON. February IG.—Tho' Nova Rootlet ship RIPS was lad oil the coast of Llocolnabiro. She was bound to Boston with coal; Eight lives were lout. . . . . . The hark liraloe, from New York, wait destroyed by fire at Rotterdam. 1 PARIS, Feb. 16—Seven jonrnaLa of thla city have been offlohdly warned this week. • Last evening • great crowd of people assembled at the re-union In Rua St. Marten, Belleville. It was suppressed by the people without much disorder. 8:ill another prosecution • has been commenced against the Montag/aim for a violation of the prose law. Continental Banks, generally, are re. during their rates of Interest. Father Hyacinthe blue remained silent Since his return to France. -It is assert ed on reliable authority that be will be relieved by the Pope from the obligation of his vows as a Carmelite monk and permitted to continue in holy orders as an ordinary priest. =l2 MADRID, Feb.l6 —oenersl Prim yea lards), officially assured the Cortes that the recent visit of the Duke of Montpen- Weir was not on political matters. The Cultist Deptithrd wild ex citement in the Ck. yesterday by charging that in .th recent election. their candidatee In many districts were defeated through governmental Interfer ence. Tim accusation was denounced as fshiehotxt. A wormy scene followed and after a violent debate the sitting was ad journed. DM3:I hone, February 16.—Another session of the Ecumenical Council was held yea • terday. Six of the fathers took part in the discussion. It was announced to the Council twat the Bishop. of Antwerp, =l=l title of Primate. Eight Bishops V a. received permleaion to return to their dioceses. lEGIO HAVANA, February , 16.—i*. Seward and party have Balled for Baltimore. Hugh Johnston, who was atutoged In oompany with Greenwald, Is ont of dan ger. Punter Is also Improving and the physicians think he will recover. =3 PAM!, February 16.—A1l the great powers - of Europe sustain the Russian government In Its demand upon Switzer land for the surrender of the felon Rat. ehojeff. MARINE NEWS Souritempiox Feb. 16—The steam ship Hansa. hie airired. • • Beaurr, Feb. 16—The steamer Parterre has arrived. NINANCIAZ AND COMMERCIAL, LONnort, Feb. la.—libelling. Consols 92% for money; 92% on account. Ameri can Becnritios tit m and steady: 62'a. MN; '6.5e,01d.117%; 1040 % 83X; Erlea, 20%, Illinois Central, 100 k; A. a GI. W., 211. Lours*, February 16.—Llnseed 01l 31s. Relined Petroleum firmer. Stirßow 10a. Tallow fist at 44. ed. Turpentine 308 Od. PARIS, February 10.—Boone firm Routes 73f 40e. AINTWLEP, February 16.—Petroleum firm at6O%t. J . Hamnuaa, February 16.—Petroleum flat, BREMEN, February 16. Petroleum quiet at 7t. HAVRE, Feb. 16.—Cotton quiet. • latitnroot., February 16.—Cotton quiet with middling uplands at .11%®11X; Or leans 11%@tINd; sales .10000 bales. Breadatuirs; California White Wheat 9s, rod western Ta 7d©7s 8d; winter 8a 6d. Flour 19s 6d. Oats Pa 5.1. Corn 27a. Pork flat at 95e. Beet 102s.CLard drill at. 675. Cheese 72a.- Bacon 57a. Spirits Petroleum unchanged. Tallow 44,. Tur pentine .10s 6d. • CINCINNATI. Railroad Mectlngs—Election of Direct. ors—Change of Time of Ferment. of Taxes—Suicide of a Woman—National Shooting. Festival—Western Freed. men , . Aid Commission. (sr Telegraph to the Pitimargh CliiettA) CINCINNATI, February 16.—At the an. moil meeting of the Marietta and Cincin nati Railroad today the following Direct era were elected for the ensuing year John King, Jr., John Hopkins, Henry O. Lord, Thomas Whlleridge,Nathaniel. Wright, R. M. Bishop, J. B. Camden, A. A. Chapman, Wm. T. McClintock, Wylie H. Oldham, John Donnel Smith, W. W. Scarborough, and Thomas Phillips. The Board was organized by electing John ' King, Jr.,. President, Charles P. Low, Secretary, and Wm. E. Jones; Cashier. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Cincinnati and Baltimore Railroad Com pany, the following directors wore elected: Win. T. McClintock, Kenner Garrard, Wiley H. Oldham Henry C. Lord, John King, Jr., John Donnell, Smith C. Oliver, 0. 'Donnell. The Board . organized by electing . Wm. T. MoCllri. tuck, President, C. F. Law, Secretary. Wm. E. Jones, Treaanrer. A. memorial to circulating throughout the city for signatures, asking the Ohio Legislature to consider the feasibility of extending the time of the payment of taxes to the Z/th of February and Au- gust instead ofDecember and Juno under the present law. The move originated with the board ofofficers of the Chamber of Commerce. • - Mies Soule Linebaugh, 'from tide city, Jumped from the steamer Mary Ament late night four miles above New Rich- mond, Ohio, and has not been seen ulnae. She claims to have been the wife of Captain Martin, lost en the Maggie Hays. Since the disaster she bas shown Mena of mental aberration. It was no doubt • ease of suicide. Preparations have already begun for great national shooting festival to be held hero on the let of next September: The Watteau Freda eaa Ald Com uneaten held their annual meeting to day. Reports from the various oflioere Indicate that the educational --work among the freedmen is progroolng em eouragingly. Over three hundred eel oied teachera have, been frantehed the eammon to of the 'oath. The tom. minion hae real estate • worth more than 1200.000. They complain that while the demands on them hareAnorramed, their rankling are falling cox THE ,CAPITAL. The National Union League and the Cuban .Revolution—The Navy Department Disputed • Railroad Claim—Judge Bnsteed Not to be Impeached. By TeJegxota to the ri!taborin WesaiNcpros, FebrQary 16, 187 Q. l=! The complement of men for the navy allowed •by law, viz, 8400, having been reached, the Department haw directed that enllstments shall wane. The effect of this order will be to detain the Colors- _ . 44, which is destined to relieve the Del• 'aware on tho Asiatic station, and to keep the men attached to the latter vessel over 'the term of their enlistment, for which they will receive ono-fourth addl. onal pay. The Department has Urged umm Congress the necessity of allowing an additional number of men to meet this contingency, but no action has been taken, and hence the Congress, Colorado and other- vessels cannot sail In any emergency that might arise. The De portment Is powerless to supply a single vessel to meet it. The House Committee on Naval Affairs to-day had under consideration a bill for the reorganisation of the navy and dia. nutted questions of nanny() and relative rant without coming to a coneltudon. ururow Luaus- The National Executive Committee of the Union League of America met to day, Goy. Newry, of Pennsylvania, in the chair. A report was read by the National Secretary. A committee inade a report favoring • radical change in the ritral of the order, In fact wiping out the whole Union League as It now exists and Minding up a new fraternity. Ex. Governor of NegilJersey, was unanimonaly elected Chairman for the year. After further Mistiness of a private character the Com mittee adjourned, - The National Council met in the after. noon. There was a very large attendanee from simian every State in tha Gov. Geary, the President, was in the Ch•ir,land Mr. Baker, Secretary. 'The Business Cbmmitteeveportedreeblutlona congratulating the country on the sun. can of the F Ifteenth Amendment, Insist ing on the practical exercise of equal rights, ending with the following resolu tions, which were received with tremen dous applause: Reeked, That ibis National Council of the Union League of America deeply sympathize with the struggling patriots of Cuba in the war in which for more then a year they have struggled to throw off the yoke of Spanish despotism and to secure for themselves the boon of liberty and independence. That In view of the heroism, fortitude and perseVerimos with which they have prosecuted the war against the power of the. Spanish Government, and bemuse they have further testified their devotion to liberty by the abolition of slavery throughout the Island, therefore Resolved, That we respectfully urge upon Congress to recognize the belliger ent rights of the Cabana as soon as they shall have shown themselves to have es. tablished a permanent government. The Councils throughout the country were Instructed to appropriately cello. bride the ratification of the Fifteenth amendment. The National Council then adjourned until December. I= • The President to-day sent to the Sen ate a letter from the Secretary of the in terior. relative to the claim of the central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad to a withdrawal of lands, dm., along the Re• publican Fork route in Kansas. The. claim was refused- by his predecessor, and Secretary' cox° has not been able, after a careful examination, to' reach a contrary decision. He has consequently detartteeed not to disturb the decision :-..! CASE Or JUDOS HUSTLED The House • Committee on Judiciary took definite action to day on the case of Judge Itueteed. They relayed there was no evidence to require or Justify impeachment and- to so report to the House. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. --Senator Sprague has returned to Washington. —Ex.Secretary Seward and family have arrived at Key West, en route home, —lt 'is not expected that Senator Grimes, now In Europe, will survive the Journey home. —The Darien Canal expedition. headed by the steamer Leipedg, arrived at As pinwall on the Bth inst., all well. —Eighty-six students were dismissed from the College of New York last week, having proved defislont at examination. —The Maryland Legislature and City . Councils of Baltimore have tendered hospitalities to the oilleen of the British war ship Monarch. —Therestoration to Mrs. Gen. Leo of the Washington relics taken from Arlington during the war, is the subject of Von. gresalonal consideration. —Owing to the freight blockade at Nulty'lle. shipments to points in Geer. gia and other Atlantic seaboard States are being made via Baltimore. —Oen. Jordan, who wee on Bemire. garde staff during the Southern rebel. lion. has been appointed commander of the Cuban revolutionary forces. . —Several 'counterfeit twenty dollar notes of the National Bank of Commerce, N. Y., have been received at the Sub. Tremnry at San Francisco in the put two weeks, —Halstead, Stiles & Co., woolen geode importers at New York, have compro mised with their creditors at elsty.live per cent., payable in three, nine and twelve month.. _ —lt Is stated that since the funeral of Caatenon. the Spantott editor killed at Key West by Cubans, there have been twentpdve Americans and Cubans mug dared in the street+, of Havana. —The Willard match between Rudolph and Deery, at But Francisco for the ahamplonahlp of America, has been poet. ponod to Mare bth, In consequence of the prolomration of the Camilla Unto festival. —Wm. Harper, of Baltimore, hat sued the Northern Central Railroad for fr. 5,. 000 for Injuries sustained by an aocident In crossing the road In a carriage in 1808. His wife will commence similar pro , . (feedings. —Gen. David Atwood, editor of the Madison State Journal, has been elected to Congress from the Second Wisconsin district, to till the place of Hon. B. F. Hopkins, deceased. He met with no organized opposition. —A Byron banquet is to be given In New . York city on die 25th of April next, the anniversary of the poet's final de. parture from England, by- a number of prominent lawyers and bankers, who propose thus to do homage to Byron and testily their reprobation of the slanders heaped upon his memory. —At the charter election in Syracuse, N. Y., on Tuesday, the Republicans re elected Mayor Clark by MI majority: The Republicans also elected the Super. visora In dye of the eight wards, and the Democrats live of the 'eight Alder man. The Council stands five cans to three Democrats. • —The friends of prohibition held con vention at Burton, yesterday, Whiting Griswold presiding; Speeches were made by several prominent temperance toes and resolutions In favor of a prohibitory law and looking to the formation of a third political party were adopted. .Tho oonvontioa was not large. —A Holland family; named Brnkenrs, living in eb.imwo, composed of husband, wife and two children, :was poisoned Tuesday night. Exactly bow has not yet been ascertained, but It Is supposed from eating from a kettle of mnah which was found standing on the stove. When dia. cevered the wife and one child were dead. The case was being inVestlfrated. —Prima Arthur has eent to Midi 7111 n. Me Sherman, daughter of the General, • chaste and costlygold medallion, having his likeness on one aide and that of the Queen on the other. Accompanying the . Olt was a polite note asking the young Miss to accept it as an' approclation of her father's courtesy, and as • slight tribute to the beauty of American wo. men 'of whicharhe was a striking expo. mint! ' —Judge Pratt, In the Brooklyn Ike. prams Courk.bas held that the recent deJ.lon of the. Supreme Court, en, the Legal Tender act, covered a ease where the plaintiff sued to foreman a mortgage' for three thousand dollars. dated July lat, 1857. He gave judgment in favor of plaintiff, on principal and interest, to be paid In gold, or the equivalent of gold in greenbackibactinF .under the de.t. , .sion referred to, that W e. principal and Inter eat Of oontracbt entered into prior to the passage of the Legal Tender act of July 11th, 1862, are payable In gold. —lt le pretty certainly homiletical that Adam Baird., a well.known brewer In Chicago, whose mutations disappear ance has been the subject of newspaper paragraphs for some days, has absconded. He ostensibly started for Catered to pay off the hands employe:l_ln his brewery there, but did not atop.. Itis asoertained that he was laboring under financial embarrassments, and be •hu absconded to escape their responsibility. His Ita- Mines amount to about 570,000. held by vationabankers, brokers, dec. Ills assets are said to foot up about $lOO,OOO. Ins wife, with her three children, has also NM Whither she went Is not known. hairdo had at least ;15,000 with him when he left. —The notoriety achieved by Traupp man haft produced an epidemic of crime in France. A fearful tragedy occurred January 29th, in the Rue du Faubourg St. H01:10f0, in Paris, a lady named Lom. hart having been murdered by her foot man, who also wounded her lady's maid and the cook. The man daring the day had had an altercation with his mistress, and when shoat six in the evening she .ardered him to serve the dinner, he rushed at her vrtth a knife and 'out two female killing her on the spot. Tho two female servants came to the assistance of their mistress, and In the struggle which ensued one was cut 80 severely that her Igo is despaired of. The murderer, w:)o is a Belgian by birth, and Is believed to have been at the moment in a state of intoxication, was eventually , secured by an upholsterer living In the house, and was given into the custody of the police. A terrible detail in connection with this crime is that the husband of Mine. Lou:- hart is stricken with paralysis, and saw his wife murdered before him without being able to afford her assistance, Mayorsity Squabble In Mobile ZEIT Telegrepo to the PlUmtata]. Casette. MontLe, Feb. l6.—Tho contest - for the Mayoralty I. atilt progressing. Price bolds hie seat and has no present thought of yielding the edicts without • etrurpgle. The municipal buildings are gFardect by half a dozen poticomem in Price elute:eat. Forty or more are on duty at the guard house. Mayor Price opened the Court to day half an hour earlier than usual. Mayor Ilarrington came Into Court at the usual hour. Finding;the bench emu. copied retired. Ile then took possession of the ()Mee of City Clerk and signed licensee, permits, etc. The case will be brought up at the Mayor's court to. morrow. It ed Prico'ht to jurisdiction is will pres be um disputeds rig . It Is reported Carrington will call on the military to aid him. Important Court Cue in Connecticut. 07 TeleKrapin to Um Plttalmr,koaZattli.] Buttroms, Feb. The case of the State Trasaurer against the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, to be heard before the Supreme Court of Errors next week, is the most Important pecuelanly ever tried In Connecticut. It relates to the taxability of govern ment bonds In the hands of mutual insurance companies, and involves directly 1102,000 and indirectly very much more. The main question raised under the section of the tax . law, ou which the suit Is brought, la whether the tax tee tax upon franchise or upon property, and there bean incidental point whether ascertained lcumea and dividends declared but not paid constitute a part of the proceeds of insurance. THE. OIL REOIOIi.S. 'tatters at Parker'. Kandla/lc—netting In Buslnesa—Weft Going Down and New Wilkey. From our tprelal Curramou dent.) PARK - RA . .9 Lemprivo, Feb. 16, 1870. I have been away from here' for awhile, whit% accounts for your not re , calving anything from me.. hope how ever-tobe'preeinf teas for some months, son shall hereafter keep you regularly posted. • Btlaintlia is quite brisk at the "land ing" for this time of year, and the pros pects for a large spring buidnoss are very favorable. New comers are aniving daily and our business men are making preparations for an active spring trade. Parker's Landing sopeara entirely differ , ant from all - the new oil regions I have visited. The excitement is not so great as It was In days gone by at Pithole, Shsmburg, Pleasantville, and such places, which no doubt fa owing to the fact that no flawing wells have been struck. But unlike all other regions we have no dry holes. All walla put down are producing from five to forty barrels per day. Operators all - feel Imre of get ting oil, and the only anxiety la In regard to the quantity. The latest devoloPmenta are on the Ferran farm, where a new well has been struck by 8. D. Karnes and Is now doing about twelve barrels a day. The Mar tinsburg well, which I spoke of In my former letter, is still increasing and la now pumping shout fifteen barrels daily. The Isabella' well is coins down and will be tested to-morrow. The owner feels confident of having a good well, At Silicate, three miles below Parker, on the river, a vein ham been struck at the depth of 660 feet, which is flowing oil and water. The owners find it hard to tube it on account of gas. They are to-day driving doem theft casing, and when finished they expect to have * big well. Several of the wells here are being, torpedoed and4he owners are expecting to have largo wells. Oil is dull aale here now, owing to the scarcity of cam on the Allegheny Valley - Road. The °exams's quotations of oil are cited here as the Pittsburgh price list among the buyers and sallera. -Your reporter is certainly accurate, as the tele.. grams arid received hero In the morn. ing invariably agree with the Ossarra. I hope to beable to chronicle some new strikes by the latter part of this week. • PETROLEUM TIMMS. ' On Saturday theTorbell and Hess well No. 3, located on the R. McClintock farm UNIX Rouseville, commenced pumping, and has since yielded about 60 barrels of oil per s day, and Is one of the beat wells on thi property. The new :well atruck butt week on the Dempeey tract, near Kane city, Is doing about 20 Lamle daily. - On Monday the James Davin well, on the Dalrell farm, was tubed and corn. menced pumping. This well was put down through the large casing, and of course la doing more than It will after the bead Is pumped off. The well hi yieMing at the rate of 200 barrels per day. The well la 669 feet deep. Tfii attra cting farm on Weat Pilhole Creek, la sortie attention from oil operators at present. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS arREQUESNE GREYS. A toootlng of the teat company DV- Cil./SANS GRAYS will be held la tAi A marl TIOS EVENINCI, at 73i o'clock • By taller of the ,trint St COMMANDINO OPIICEU. THE ior.latiokos or: THE Hoed t o INFANTRY ate Reran/ :a Nan .1 7 111ra, ' , plane's Hall, comae rim, ilVellite and emlib. Geld street. A full' attendance Is re:located aaCoL David I hiIDDIMU Will bold an electlan for . Colasalasioncd Onteerd._ 117.01d.r, ' ralTtaNl JulIN C. AIYLYB = WNOTICE.—To the .citizelui' 07 THE. CI Y Off PITTOB011011: Coronlstuts haslet been made tome ...Mt./. unbound me. .1 I fro,. Country Waren', nod others. to pet rats, lamlll., t►ls 4 to gleam:4kb toad person. who he'. been. Or may be, viable. Ise,: by Foal enecerepalee • dealer., time zeroth. .101 beat the off or of the Onnertnten dent ot the . Market•. Mr. Illlsute•s. settsre all sash