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VOL. LV.
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LEGISLATIVE _PROCEEDINGS.
SITDIMAILY NEWS
WEnNEsDnr, April 18
Pennsy'vania Legislature—ln the State "Le•
gislature, yesterday, the Senate passed a bill
to confirm the title of Mr. Totem-to Windmill
Island. In the House, a large number of lo
cal and private bills passed first reading
Bills were passed finally relative to the main
tenance of the House of Refuge, and supple
mentary to the Philadelphia Consolidation act.
The latter Was amended so as to attach to the
19th ward that portion of the 23(1 ward which
is in the \ third Congressional district. Messa
gos were Veeeived from the Governor vetoing
the bills to increase the. capital frf the York
County Bank. Those bills being then put to
vote, were rejected. A bill to incorporate
the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Philadel
phia was then rejected.
Col. Benton has written a letter, dated the
15th inst., in which he states that there is no
- Indian war on the Upper Missou,l and North
Platte—that ho has received ample proof to
sustain this assertion. Yesterday .morning
coyly, n steam - boiler conneeta - withy
ton factory belonging to C. Spencer, of (ler
mnntown, exploded, shattering the mill,;and
destroying the drug and dye houses, and also
an adjoining boiler house. S. Seltzer, the
Engineer. was killed. Fortunately the`explo
sion occurred before work hours. The total
receipts of the . Americhn Tract society, during
the fiscal year just terminated, reached the,
large aggregate of $113,173 ; of which in do
nations, $110,278 ; from tracts. and bdidis
sold, $265,875 Mr. Williams,'Canton, China
encloses a list of the entire Chinese missionary
force, namely, Amercan 46, English 24, Swiss
2, Cermau 8, total 75; and states that the op
erations,of the Christian press ere much in
terrnpted by the civil strife. The St. Louis
Republican says that active preparations nr,
making for sending the military expedition to
the plains, and the troops ore put en route as
rapidly as possible. Two companies left a
bout the middle of last week, and a much lar
ger foreeleft on Monday. The whole" army
will be ready to march frora Fort Levenworth
before the grass is suflieiently high for forage
for the animals attnehed to the expedition
Something of the extent of the expenditure
may be inferred from the fact, that 2,000 bar:
rels of flour at $l2 per thl., make one of the
items of the account of purchases. It is to
be put up in sacks.
Pennsylvania Legislature.--Yesterday, the
Senate postponed indefinitely the Madison new
county bill, and passed"bills for the removal of
the State Powder Magazine from the First
Ward, Philadelphia, and a bill relative to fines, •
forfeitures and penalties in Philadelphia and
Allegheny counties. In the Rouse, on Tuesday
night, a large number of private bills passed,
among which was one to incorporate the Mo
nongahela Savings and Trust Company.—
Yesterday the amendments of the Senate to
the Windmill Island bill wore concurred
and bills were passed relative to the Chester
Valley Railroad, to -incorporate the Nanticoke
Railroad and Bridge Company, relative to the
Pennsylvania Railroad, to charter the Lebanon
Valley Bank, and the Pittsburg Dollar Savings
Bank. •
A fine military display took place in Phila
delphia yesterday, ou the occasion of the dedi
cation of the monument of the Scott Legion,
in Glenwood Cemetery: A part of the Legion
appeared in uniform similar to that worn by
them in Mexico. Tho military parade con
sisted of ono company of cavalry. ten-rof in;
fantry, two of artillery, and fonr of rides. On
reaching the Cotnetry; an Oration was deliver
ed by Joel B. Sutherland. The American
City Convention yesterday nominated Air City
.Treasurer, F. Knox Morton,aud for City Com
missioner, Goorgo 11. Ilill.
Penne,ylliania Legislature.—ln tho State
Senate, yesterday, Mr. Price introduced an- 1
other supplement to the consolidation act.
Several local bills were passed. . In the House;
'a bill was passed to increase the capital of the
Columbia Bank. A new bill was introduced
and passed by both houses, to incorporate the
Prdsbyterian PubliCation House. This bill is
satisfactory to the disputants of both the Old
and New 'School Presbyterians; which the
formor•bill was not, on account of tho title of
I the corporation. ,The ,House concurred in the
Senate amendments to the bills pplementary
to the Consolidation Act.' The n ill to erect
the new county . of Buffalo out., f parts of
Allegheny, Armstrong and Westmeland coun
ties, was passed. - .
Washington Irving, the eminent author, was
thrown on Wednesday, at Now York city,
from his heat) and dangerously wounded.—
Immediately after the rodent declaration of
,Senor Luzuriaga, the Spanish minister, in the
Cortez of Spain, relative to slavery in Cuba,
Mr. Perry, the U. S. Secretary of Legation,
waited upon him for an official copy of hie
statement, which he gave; with the remark
-that Spain would defend and protect slavery
in Cuba.
lhlttr fur tly
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THURSDAY, April 19
FRIDAY, April 20
DNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1865.
SATURDAY, April -1
Pennsylvania Legislalure.—Yestorday, a bill
relative to the Training School for Idiots was
-rejected. A bill- wa-s-passed to regulate. the
Northern Central Railroad. In the House, the
fourteenth section
.of the supplement to the
Consolidation Act, ns further amended by the
Senate, was concurred in, and the bill now
goes t ) the Governor. The bill for the sale of
the Main Line was considered and amended.
The minimum price was fixed at $8,500,000.
Mayor Wood, of. Now York, has received
from the U. S. Minister. in Switzerland, a cir
cular of the Federal Council of that Republic,
condemning the sending of Swiss pauper emi
griints to the United States, and prohibiting it
in future.. A new prohibitop , liquor law has
just passed the Legislature , of Massachusetts,
and been signed by the Governor. Lieut.
Beale, formerly -Indian agent, of California,
whose accounts have just been allowed and
passed by the Treasury Department, attacked
Col. Maypenny,, Commissioner, of Indihn At'
fairs, at Willard's Hotel, yesterday afternoon,
and beat him very severely - with his fists.—
Lieut. Beale attributes the temporary disal
lowance of his accounts to the personal hos
tillity of Col. Maypermy, and hence the as
sault. The °cern rence has caused no little
excitement. The mail from Salt Lake has ar
rived. Brigham Young continues the acting
Governor 'of the-Terrltory.----The—ltrdians-on
the Plains are reported to he peacably dispose
ed. They have returned the stock formerly
stolen by them, and Are anxious to' make
amends for the past.
Pennsylvania Legislature:—ln the State Sen
ate on Saturday, the House amendments to
the act relative to insolvents were concurred
in. Tho bill extending the charter of the
Bank of, Commerce, Philadelphia, and a num
ber of private bills., in the House, the bill
fur the removal of the sent of government of
State from Ilarrisburg to Philadelphia was
made the special order of the the da`y for
Wednesday afternoon. - Several private bills
passed.
A tire at Easton, Pa., on Satiirtley night
destroyed ten buildings, including a Metho
dist church and parsonage, and the stable and
five horses of Ilowlird & Co's Ex - pYres. Loss
$20,000. Aineb ntParkville, Platte county,
destroyed the printing materials of the
Luminary" a newspaper published there,
because of its being opposed to slavery. Tho .
mob passed resolutions declaring the paper a
nuisance, threatening to tar and• feather its
editor, and announcing that no Methodist
preacher is to be allowed to. preach there on
pain of tar and feathers for the first offence,
and hanging for the second. Platte county is
where Senator Atchison lives. A bloody riot
has taken place at Chicago, between the po
lice and a body of Germans and Irish, who
were having an anti liquor law procession.—
The disturbance commenced on - Saturday,
morning and in the melee ono man was killed,
and five or six wounded., Tho . principal riot
ers were arrested. In the afternoon the riot
was renewed - IT it band of •nrmed Germans,
who ki.led a policeman, end badly beat
others. Two Germans were .shot by the
police, and dragged to jail, and several more
wounded. A military force was ordered out,
artillery planted, sentinels posted, the police
strengthened, and the riot finally quelled.—
The propellor Oregon, of Cleveland, exploded
her boiler on Friday, near Detroit, killing ton
men, wounding six, and so completely wreck
ing the propellor that she sunk.
CONNECTICUT.-A letter addressed to Thom
as M. Day is panelled from Ezra Clark, the
X. N. and FaSion member of Congress elect
from the Ibirtford District, in favor of the pro
hibition of Slavery in all new States and • Ter
ritories against the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, in opposition to. the Fugitive
Slave bill, for the protection of American In•
dustry, and in favor of the Prohibitory Liquor
Law. The new Haven Palladium says; i•The
four Congressmen elected from Connecticut
entertain similar views to the above. What
a glorious change from last year especially,
and particularly in view of the Nebraska out
rage."
, PHILADELPHIA, April 20._
A re; ort is very prevalent that a secret as
sociation exists here, composed of the , dealers
in potatoes, who, by ingenious mitnagment;
have covered with their contracts and opera
tions all the region of country from which the
city of Philadelphia draws its supplies of that
vegetable. In this manner it is alleged that
the conspiratory have monopolized the supplies
to such an extent that they have .the market
entirely at their mercy, and can 'keep up the'
prices to suit themselves. c lt is further alleged
that largo quantitles.of potatoes aro stored in
various parts of the city by perions who are
said to be members of this potato conspiracy.
The rumor has created act much excitement
that one of the papers calls upon the Mayor
and District Attorney to investigate the matter,
BREADSTUFF/I FOtt, EUROPE —The Now York
Poal says the export of flour and wheat to
England has wholly ceased. COrn has been
the only eereal shipped in largo quantities ;
and of this 4,040,000 bushels have been sent
forward against 4,199,000 in the correspon
ding period of 1864, namely, let September
to date,
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A STORY FOR :THE CREDULOUS.—Tho Cali
fernia-Chronicle-of March-.6tb; - gives the fol
lowing extract of a letter dated " Kern River
,February 14th." -r
" I have discovered a rock of gold. I esti
mate its its value at not less than $8,000,000,
or $10,000,000 it might even be! Now, Bob,
don't laugh at me. I was desperately wild
with joy. I, who had been a dreamer and 'a
poor devil so long, was to he rich to be a
king I to be able to carry into execution all the
darling schemes which have so often brought
the ridicule of the stick in-the muds upon me.
I was at last to be able to go home and claim
Rosetta, under the hard conditions claimed by
ye& father.
" Towards noon I got hungry. I wont up
the side of the mountain to some pine trees,
in the sides of Which the squirrels had placed
acorns in holes made by wood-peckers in
'search of worms. I dug out a lot of the
acorns, carried them to the creek, ate them
with fine 'peppergraso- growing alongside of a
spring. I went back to the rock and staid
there till three o,olock..studying what I should
do. I could not resolve. I then went to my
camp about ten miles off. The folks wanted
to know what was the matter. I said I had
wounded-a buck and got lost in chasing him.
thn E
been stolen. I bought some provisions, ano
ther revolver, and a pick and shovel and pan
and went back. About 50 yards from the
rock was a trail upon which miners passed
every day, and I was afraid to work in the
day. At night I went to work to cut off a
corner of the rock, hut I soon broke the pick
so that, it was useless'. I could find no chisel
or haminer,
MoNDAY, April 23
People got suspicious of me. Several
followed me. One man found me sitting
down not 100 yards from the rock. I got
seared. I carried water in my bucket the
whole two miles tram the stream, and made a
mud, with which I washed over the whole rock.
In doing this I had to get 27 buckets of water
and just that job alone compelled me to walk
108 miles, and Iwai a was a whole Week about
it, doing a greater portion of the work at night
and sleeping in the day. time.
" I am nearly starved out, watching the
rock. kn went to mining at Jones' camp for a
few days, and now am waiting with the great
est impatience for you to came, with every
preparation necessary for breaking up the
boulder. After we get into piece, we can melt
sufficient in crucibles to pay our expenses and
buy the mules necessary for carrying cif our
rook.
"I am in—till you come. The rock is
in sight from the trail.- Before I washed it
over I could stand on the trail and see the
gold glitter in the sunshine ;' now the dirty
yellow wash may attract attention. What
gives me most pain is, that minors make a
short cut by passage within ten feet of the
rock, and I have no money nor provisions.
I have no.beart to work, and When I want to
mine can get no good diggings, though other
people are making plenty of- money. lam
very glad that the report of rich diggings,high
er up the river is taking nearly everybody
- away from this neighborhood."
A ROCK OF COLD
NEW MATERIAL ron 1311ILDING.-WO were
shown yesterday a "specimen brick;" made
of - lithe and sand, which appears as though it
would take the place of the common clay brick
altogether. It is very smooth and hard: It
is larger than the common brick, and a .vacant
space in the center. We are informed that
the materials used in the manufacture of these
brinks are simply lime and sand, the proportion
being about cloven parts sand to one part lime,
and they can be manufactured ntless cost than
our common, clay brick. The bricks can, of
course, be made of any form or shape, ac
cording to taste. It is fully equal to sand
stone. The advantages are the facility with
which they are manufactured; lathing and
plastering becomes unnecessary, and the out
side and the inside of the wall is Made at the
same time. The cheynical 'ciSange which takes
place in the menu - Maine of bricks hitrdens
them so that they nro not more affected by the
action of the atmosphere than stone. It, is
not affected by frost, and experinterits which
have been tried to test its strength and other
qualities have resulted satisfactorily. • Scien
tific men have examined the material and have
arrived. at the same conclusiou.—Cincinnati
Gaz.
No IVAtt.—:-A correspondent of the St. Louie
Republican, writing from Platte River under
date of March 10, confirms Colonel Benton's
assertion that the war is all "in the imagina
tion of our administration." He says:
"The Indians have all left the Platte, and
gone to White River end L'eauqulcOurt; they
have been anxiously awaiting. to hear from
their Great Father at Washington, to see if
the whites are determined to fight. They say
they are . determined not to fight the whites. But
I should not be. surprised if . they move to the
Missouri, to hear of murders and thefts , when-•
ever they have a chance,
WHAT IS A TON WEIGHT?—The Supremo
Court of this State has heretofore dooided
that a ton weight of coal, &o. was 1000 lbs.,
but the U. S. District Court of Philadelphia,
lately decided that 2240 lbs. constituted a ton
of coal. If This position is seconded by the
Supremo Court of the U. States, coal dealers
•
• ill ham) to go fip in the figures.
LATER FROVRO
M S E" ~-.Pi'E!
Continued Fighting in the Crimea.
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
NEW YORK, April 22.—The steamer Nash
ville, chartered' by' the Collins company in
place of the steamer Pacific, arrived here at
noon to-day. She left Liverpool at 8 P; M.
on the 7th inst., bringing Livtiri!ool and Lon
don papers of the same' : date, and about fifty
passengers. •
The week's news may be briefly summed up
thus: Poliiical affairs are just where they
were at the period of the closing of previous
accounts,, except 'that the feeling becomes
stronger thatt — nothing is left but to fight out
the difficulty. The adjournment of the Con
ference until the 9th was to a wait the Rus
sian ultimatum and the arrival of the French
and Turkish Ministers of Foreign Affairs -at
Vienna.
NO. 34
The Vienna Conference having adjourned
until the- 9th, there is no news of importance
from that point. The consideration of the
Third Point was, to
,be the first subject before
the Conferende On reassembling. Public
opinion is about equally divided as to the final
mutt.
Ali Pasha arrived at Vienna on Friday, and
would take part in the future discussions of,
the Conference.
A despatch from Berlin, dated Friday,
April Gth, ?antes that the Russian party
there is predominant. and that Prussia will
probably throw herself into the arms of the
Czar, in cw . e — Of an unfaiorable' reeu't Of the
conference.
. Since the date of previous advice. there has
been a series of fierce sorties and assaults, be.
tween the Ruasian and French; for - possession
of the rifle ambuscades in front of the French
position and under the Malakoff tower.—
These rifle pits, which have led to so consider
able a sacrifice of life, are placed in front and
to the right and left of, the tower_ and about
600 yards from the Allied works. They are
merely excavations in the ground, faced round
with sandbags and banked with earth, loop
holed for rifles. They are six in number, and
each contains ten men- 7 , 60 - 9u all. Oen Dos
(pet considers it a point of honor to take and
hold, or destroy these 'ambuscades. He has
several times, by night assaulted, driven out
the Russians, but as these pits.are covered by
the firo of the city batteries,. the French have
hitherto found, it impossible either to destroy
or. hold them. Tho importance of this posi
tion to both besiegers and besieged is very
great.
The Malakoff round tower is regarded as
the key of the defences, and hence the energy
of the Russians in strengthening it. Con
siderably in advance of the tower is the eleva
ted mound, or hill, now called the ollefamelon,'
on which the besieged are erecting a battery
of great strodgth. A . little further in ,advance
is tlic eminence recently siezed so skilfully by
the Russians, and fortified with earthworks; it
is now crowned by a square redoubt, with 16
guns visible on its three outward sides. but
they have not yet opened fire., Outside of
these defences are the rifle pits. The Russian
batteries at Inkerman, their forte on the other
side of the Tchernaya and the works of Mala
koff oover this redoubt, and converge on the
approaches in front of it. This explanation
will convey an idea of the strength of the po•
sition which the French nightly contest.
Night of the 17th, a fierce encounter took
place. At half-past
. 6 o'clock, in the evening,
the French, who had retired before the fire
from the batteries, marched down to re-occupy,
the =brocade, but found the Russians had
antipated them. A fierce conflict immediately
commenced. but it was. evident the Russians
wore in strong force, and the
‘ French,„were
again and again borne back by the werght of
fire. For four hours and 'a half they perse
vered in their attempts, and all that time a
continuous,roll of musketry rang out, broken
only by brief pauses in the advance. In these
lulls - the British ' could distinctly hear the
voices of the Frenoh officers cheering on their
men—" En avant, mea enfanal" "En .avant,
Zouaves!"—and the tramp of foot and the rush
of men, followed; then a roll of musketry was
heard, diminishing in volume to rapid file
fighting. Then a Russian cheer—then more
musketry—a few dropping shots, and the
voices of the officers once more.
The Zouaves bore the brunt of the light, and
the action was somewhat peculiar, as artillery
took no part in it. The British 2d, Bd, 4th
and light divisions were told off for action, and
the entire British camp remained under arms
until the French desisted from their attack:
but as the; gall int' French Make it a point of
honor to take those pits without aid,no assist
ance was offered. The French were. BON
strong, and they state their less at 100 killed
and wounded, besides a' few prisoners.
Tho Russians and the allies in thfi Crimea
aro strengthening their positions, preparatory
to the opening of the spring campaign.
A council of war was held by the allies on
the 12th ult., at which Omar Paoha desired
the assistance of the allies, which could not
bo granted. The Turks are_only_expeoted_te.
hold Eupatoria, acting merely on the defen
sive.
On the, 18th ult. large reinforcements of
Russian troops entered Sebastopol.
General Canrobert states that In the attaol:
of the 22d and 28d of March, the Russians
lost 2,000 men and the allies 600.
A portion of the Baltio fleet sailed on the
afferooon of the 4th.
The Russians have established two fortified
camps of 80,000 men each, for the defence of
the Baltic provinces. They have also block
aded all their ports by sunken vessels.
Parliament was not in session, having ad
journed for the Easter holidays, and would re
assemble on the 16th.
The London Times devotes a leadintedito
riot article to defence of the know nothing
movement in the United Shads.
The same paper announces that the Spanish
government had demanded the recall of the
British ambaseidor at Madrid, on aodsunt cf
his interference in religious matters. :
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