Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1866, Page 1

\ ‘THE EVENING STAR PUBLIEAED DAILY, (RXCEPT SUNDAY.) AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, eesent carmen of Pomme events and 110 stress 3 =, XXVIII. Ehening Star. "WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1866. qOLOTHING, &c. FoR oo Daya) FOB 60 DAYS" FOR 6@ DAYB'h od iene aes os lien oo ORLY 60 Bays hi 4 "Relic guaranteed. »Di 3 OFFER 1 OFFER + OPFEB 930,000 950,000 936,000 930,000 $30,000 930,000 WORTH OF ict Othee, ity Hal ‘ ~.°* GC. ROLE ATTORNEY AT LAM a gtres oe Ke.26 Lesislane Avenss, shave Eats Dires! 4 oLoTnINa: DENTISTRY. pa Ot Extracting and messheane Be also cures Rheuma’ As lam making large improvements tn wy store, Washington Building, 334 e8 vill incr PD } offer al) ef cur immense stock ef Toots ‘extracted without pais. 0 2-lm* BETH. OOMIS, M.D. Inventor — Aone the MINERAL At 2 per cent, deduction for the next 60 daye. 7 OLOTHING ar PLATE TEETH, attends pe his office in this city. y persons cap, a ‘wear these teeth who = wear others, « i copolagaad ‘i hy not weer | OVERCOATS for $26, $13, $18, $78, $20, $25, Persons at my effice can be accommodated with style and price < —_ ther ew —* $30 and $40. . he 3 et camel stseaint oat maak Bevis deathre | BOYS? DO., $8, $0, @30, 901. £12,819, 34, 918 that art can procure, be be more fully warranted. neal euanbacs and $6. betgeen Sth and’ J0th sis, Aisoe SOT Arch merect, | The largest stock ef BOYS’ JACKETS and Philadelphia. ce Qi REAT DISOOVERY IN DENTISTEY. — A |, JA |, JACK RTB. ‘YEXTH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIB. Se ee J from $5 to $8. BOYS’ PANTS, 92.20 to 96. ALSO, 60 DOZEN UNDBRSBIRTS, Your ehance ef al) these goods at 25 per cent. Jees than apy bouee in the city. Call early and secure the Great Bargains. Remember that these Goods must be reli before ‘We get into the new part of the store, REMEMBER 460—460—460—460—400—460—466 Pificenth werets, opposite Treasury, Buy and sell at current rates, and keep always ep Band, a full supply of all GOVERNMENT BONDS, 7-30 TREASUBY NOTES, OERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS, &e., And pay the hichest prices for QUARTERMASTER’S CHECKS SEVENTH STREET—SEVENTH STREET, AND VOUCHERS ausdty OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, First National Bank SMITH ’S_SMITH’S, eae SMITH ’S—SMITIVS. B.D OOORE, (of Jay Cooke & Oo.,) President WM. 8. HUNTINGTON, Oashie?. GOVERNMENT DEPOSITORY A. B.— We shall open an entire new stock of AND SPRING GOODS FINANCIAL AGENT OF THE UNITED on the let of April, by that time ovr store will b STATES, improved and enlarged. 290 1m 127 B es? , OPPosITS THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. = —e Ho 70 Bea CONGRESSMAN, BY THE BARD Gevornment securities with Treseurer United Btates @7 ONE MILLION DOLLARS. We buy and sell all classes of GOVERNMENT SECURITIRS at corrent market rates. 2 FURNISH EXCHANGE and make Collections Be be detitered on he atampy on ALL THB PRINCIPAL CITIES @F THE | But why be wont uote did Boow. UNITED STATES At last Oak HALL. ‘Two lawyers lived in a Western town, Lawyers they were of some renown— To Congress each did wish to f°; But how to do it they did not 5 ‘We purchase Government Vonchers on the MOST at same time. all through the State. FAVORABLE TERMS. snd give careful and Te stump, aa eae: debate. contest did commence; prompt attention to Betatked' smart, and falked with sense; so awkwardl: ACCOUNTS OF BUSINESS MEN AND FIRMS pos 2 oe nt Mineiewn end sound att. “POLL INFORMATION i vegur Zenby, Sraterens aPeateale er a “Hooray |” FULL INFORMATION tn regard to GOVERN. Recek pepe Saou MENT LOANS aati times cheerfully furnished. phey believed all he said and twice as much, WH. 8. HUNTINGTON, Cashier. Hamper one at last gave wp in despair ; Wasnine ton, March 20, 1865. mm-t = aaa to paves =e there ; = = And ¢ that suit at Shaith's Gak Hall,” BOOTS, SHOES, &e. SMITH BROTHERS & CO., r WIREMAN’S MERCHANT TAILORS, AGENCY 4t3 11TH STREET, one svunre from GENTS FURNISHING GOODB. OAK HALL, 464 SEVENTH 8TREBT. Fenney lvesie venue. A large aseortment of Ladies’ Fashionable fe 5-tf poets AbD SBOE LARGE STOCK OF MERCHANDISE, from bay Sere etoeneit te. United Government Hospital and Army 20 13 tm" @ "S8QHON, Sole Agent. a, ce | Saeee Red Bpcents, oy Se = HOTPLS, RESTAURANTS, &, fon hatin wom" — inen Pillow Blips, Striped Bed Sacks, ott Shirts, Tron Bedsteade, Betton. Drawers, Bedside Tables, ressing Gowns, Mosquito Netting, Ui rash, French Furnitnre, Chintz Curtains, &c., Ac. — — offers Seasugl medscemente to parties wie jor housekeeping purposes. The abore property Will also be sold tn quanti ites te accomm: yuyers who wish tosell again. Goods of all descriptions bought, sold, and ex- changed. POM DAMBOR 2 CO. 506 Ninth atreo fe2-t! one door north of Penn. avenue. T° BSONS BKOURING ICE. Fer sale. five hundred cart-loads of SAWDUST. 23°F, at GALT'S Kindling and Stove Wood Office, 2 ‘epn. Sreape, between Hth and 12th street: ——— = = YOUR PROPERTY AT HOME. FIBRE INSUBANCB. TED RATIONAL f RANOE OOM. | of at Mil! feot of 17th st jowee A IGELOW ON THE TARIFF QUESTION. CHARTERED BY GONGBESs. B ircttioen's Literetars ar Pondeeee on: —_— lop. Newcome’s Financial Policy. Raymoud’s CAPITAL $1,000,000. Political Econemz List's Political nomy Ool- jeans of Payment. Chevalier on Dey Weys and FA an onere Care: ence; 3 vols. uta ic of Pitiet Economy. Whateley'e Lee. tical B ; Lona mond ’s wade Prodacts; Lowdca Mite mona oye __¥RANOK TAYLOR. RISKS TAKEN AT THR LOWEST RATES. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. NO CHARGE FOB POLICIES, orrics: #24 16th st.. nearly opposite Biggs & Co.'s Bank- ing House. ANARY, Mi NG, RED BIRDS, AND BRANCE orrice: CAN ibors for sale at No. 463 3d street, + J0nR 5. JoHNEGR BT No. 64 : aA’ —_ of Whe woes jo. 64 La, Capiieheti avenue and A Nad south, This Uo y is DOW prepared to inenre all de- | - = c inst PORTANT 10 LADIES AND GENTLE- Papp Bp ne FS ES fe ve | AMEN As the season for fashionable ry ‘onal the citizens of the Dist: 5 MEROW you | now at hand, wedeem it dueto the ladiesof this ; FURNITURE. MEROWANDION, hat. the 1 rch WAREHOUSES OR DWELLINGS for s year at + Capi to state, t ince to fine PERF AEBS, HAlB WOR ae kek * Ecmpany starte with « CASH OAaPrray | seartiveneee. ee of D 3 Pteoetes ab | oe ia also reper te state, that the finest HAIR. secue | DRESSING in the 000, all paid im. the: ir cher to the citizcas of the District lateat style, ie done at the above Aty than has ever been offered re. Sctablishment. Madame Demongeot will give par- Boiiciee wit shovementloned "Ail erdets for outdoor will’ be foro rapce attended promptly = om —_ EBATES AND PROCEEDINGS of the Gea prpuctons: 4 D eral Triennial Oeneean mot Protestant Epis- Owes les K nap, President. Wallach, ‘hb, Goulbarn’s Devotional St of $5. Kigas, View Pros ae . Pewle’s Glimpses of History. Mo- ey ry ©. Fahnestock, Human Life. Smile's Lives of Marshall Brows,” et Ba, Tvl. Dickens? Work se wae eile oo tom "NOBLE D. LARNER, Secretary. nite PRANGR TAY LON Bb SCOTT pNE FIV m Poy jy Js eat: aim “treet, between Band F. O MINE WonSE BD et eed By yi tay Ss “aie savithe Stenger’ ri Thee sale * *y argain, at Bakery, corner in rye bs ies wt? Sorkmen 2 Le . a. ee podem annals mma be. GHTLY's EST OF LAWS} ARLYLY'S Precer reat, vol. 5. Prisop Busia ST. aes 17. La Frost pot hey Lthe Rass ‘Ring pee’ Toub- < he tm the South, by Lieut. 40. A Ox T. ee eee deletes ot to7; Ourtain will rise at @ Doors open newer in Geeta SIXTH APPEARANCE OF MB. ARD MBS. RrinCe momecaceen TH orfermane res ype! }. Feb. Sy Tame oO: The Thrill LL HALLOW EVR; or. Seap-Appte Fight, lewed ee omedy hed oe CUSTOMS UF Saw SouNt iY To ok ~ oo a ‘arce of the Monday Evening next, of i LE. epee Sinisa SEATON HALL. Cerner of %h and D etreets. POSITIVELY FOUR DA¥8 ONLY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2}, 22, 23, and 2%. _ i CBANG AND ENG, the world-renowned BIAMESE TWINS, Accompanied by their Ubildren. Also, the Wonderful WILD AUSTRALIAN CBILDREN. TWO LEVEES EACH DAY —AY¥TEBNOON AND EVENING, Doors o) Aamicston FRANJO! BANJO! BANJO i—Instrnction by (LARENOE PETERS. Pupils guaranteed one 3m re perfect tunes the first leeecn. or no charge. ™ 479 wth etreet. rw fe Wt a METZEROTT HALL. 3268 Pennsylvania bet. 9th and th sts. INDIMINISHED SUOCRSS | - WUHOUSES CROWDED! ‘he great aror a janiat, sree. ROBERT HELLER. THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVB- LER'S ORIGINAL WOOD. MivsrRets casio ees AND GOBLIN DRUM. 7 ei rat a) rance 8 Be Dp. THE OADILISTIC CLOOK ARIEL B SECOND SIGHT, = RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS, A MESICAL STORY, : Accompanied with selections from the Great Ovmporers on Steinway s Grand Action Planoforte, and HOME, SWEET HOME.” GRAND MATINEE BATURDAY, Feb. 17, commencing at 2) o'clock. Admission t0cepts, Reserved veats, 21. Feats secured three days in advance at METZE- ROTTS. ____ fe 15-30" NTERRURY. Cerner Pennsy)vania avenue and Ninth street. QBOBGR BEA esse. ssereeemeefole Proprietor THE GRAND RESORT OF THE CAPITAL, A succession of crow: houses nightly greet the performance at this standard MUSIC HALL AND THEATER. NEW PERFORMERS EACH WEEE. Firet appearanes of ROBERT NICKLB, The Great Prestidigitatorian, Fecamateur and Wonder Worker of the 15th century, who will ap- pear im his Grand Prestidigitatorial Entertain- ments and boirces de Prestidigitation, entitled 4A NIGHT WITH SATAN. First appearance of MISS KATE HENNESSY, the accomplished Vocalist, aud fret appearance in Washington, JOHN MULLIGAN, in bir great cearacter of Slim Jim in the laughable Durer fthe . MASQUERADK BALL, : zs = ae BOFS. J. W. & H. P. KREIS’ DANCING P ACADEMY, PARKER’S HALL, Pennsy!vavia avenue, between 6th and 7tb eta., Oppesite Metropolitan Hotel, Asoor Winter Season is abort to close, those Wishing to join our classes should avail themeclves of this opportunity, And as during this qaanter_prepar: 3 will wede for our Grand May 6: tion. all those desiring to take p should lose vo time in entering. Days and Howrs of Twition: For Ladies, pd Masters, Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, frow 3 to S0’clock. i For Gentlemen, Tuesday and Friday to 10. rivate inetruction given to euit convenience ef destring. at 3. F. Bilis’; rs can be hed 5, a Solomon's, slso, at the Academy during the hours Apis 6 OHBBSE. SB. vis: ITALIAN CHEESE ULO CAVALLO CANBSPRATO. #WI88 CHEESE, viz clipe asian | Via GRUYERES. me eet BAP BAGO. eee LIMBURG DAM. ENGLIGE OBRESE, via: ; ER HEDDER, APPLE, RICAN CH _ (hourly expected.) AMETINNEOTI TRY, NORTO! Por sale by fe }2-6t — a p4™ DE FUIES GRA Tee TRUFFES DU PERIGORD, ' CEPES A LHUILB, sd HARICOT’S VBRTS, CYLAMPIGNONS, PETITE POLS, i . Jam Feceiveds yw BURCHELL fe12-6t Corner 14th and F le Boexixe oF FULTON FERRY CAB 1B- OOKS. PAPERS AND MONRBY PRESERVED Boor, WRMWINGS PateNy CHAMPION New Yorn, Feb. 6, 1886. Besse, Herring & Co., No. 28h Broadway : Gents: We had s severe trial of one of your Patent Champion Safes in the aor lestraction of our depot buildings on Saturday night, the 3d inst. The Bafe was in our office in the second story of Jarge brick building on lith street, and expoerd to een oe @ great bedy of flame. from the and other combustible material Pie got the safe ont next day sed opened it, The books” papers, money in ware were ail well ng frererves— pothing Thy, the ther bindings. OB 8 President of tho Bleecher-street and Fulton Fer- ry Railroad Company. THEY FOATATE FASHION YR OWN. HERBING & 00.8 he ATENT BANKERS it hay joe faye & Fa a Aare hice wis =r. oe nee DRILL. WE ARE AGENTS FOR THESE CELR- Parties hi mie miahed at the ices at th will same prices pic they'sre furnished in’New York mt Baila: ted ritke of Transportation are saved by the pur- eer. We guarantee this, wea wate Be BARTROLOW ft 00... _ fe 10-€03t ‘Washington, D.C, N OTIC“ TO LADigEs. M: TsOne on and ask for im- itation Numan fine.’® iris te ey This is to give gotice that we keep only genuine and first class _ fe 8-iw* Corner ef DER SUCESr, BtAF52%8 a7 2 sackivice. ONE-HALF THE © AN oosT. Aliso, BED COMFORT ue REN SHEBTS, Green WINDOW SHADES, &c.,at No. 5 de 19-1" Bext to Perry's De Goods btote, preg cieene eee 480 AMERICAN CRRONOMETER, Mavef Dealer in Ob Waicbes, No, 460 Fenua, ave., et. 3d and ts tes Watches Mopatred and Warranted. 40 2-4m* NE. 4,042. TELEGRAMS, &c. Hovolale dates to the 27th of January are received. The United States war ship Lancas- ter was still there. The officers were being ex- teneiv Jetea by the Hawaian authorities. There E Chreni : oa Se ean bark Mustang, January 21. lett San Franciseo on the lth. The ship William Tell, reported lost some time since, has entirely gone to pieces. The steamer America, from Nicaragua, has arrived at San Francisco with paesengers and freight from New York. The steamer Moses Taylor, of the San Francisco line, sailed for San Juan San Fancisco, Thursday. A Portland despatch says the steamer Pacitic sailed for San Francisco with $140,000 in treasure. Navi nh Was not yet open between Dallas and Umatilias. The merchants of San Francisco held a meeting Thureday night te adopt measures to secure Montana trade, claiming the five best routes from that side. The Brownsyille Courier of the 7th reports that General Mendez, with two hundred men bad taken possession of the roads leading trom Tampico. The French garrison, one hundred strong, was reinforeed by a few bundred and ordered to attack the Liberals. The latter formed an ambuscade and cnt off and massa- ered sixty of the French advance guard. The remainder of the French troops attacked, using bayonets vigorously, and forcing the Liberale to retreat. They were closely pur- sued for several miles, and Mendez and almost allof his staff officers are reported killed. Liberal loss *50; French loss 100, At the Sontbern Assiciated Press meeting held at Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, there was represented the Mobile Times, Tribune, Register, Macon Telegraph, Atlanta Intelli- genee, New Era, Montgomery Advertiser, Mobile Ledger, Columbus San, Selma Times and Meseerger. Mr. Clarke, was elected presi- dent. William Selma, secre’ , and F. G. De- tonaine, A. F. Crutehfield, Thos. De Wolfe, Seaton Gales. and G. G. Read were elected directors. The Convention adjourned at five o’elock to make out future business. The Fenian Chiefs, Sweeney and Boberts, addresseed a thronged house at Nashville on Thursday night, and were received with great enthusiasm by the audience. They propose to hold a grand meeting of the brotherhood at Pittsburg on the 19th instatnt, when the plans of the campaign would be finally determined. The occupation of Canada was hinted,and after ossession was gamed it would be offered to the United States, Tbe Vicksburg and Shreveport railroad has been sold by the sheriff at Monroe, La., under @ mortgage sale. It was bought in for $50,000 by @ company com of the contractors, to whom large debts were due, and to whom were joined a numberof the old stockholders. The road will cepat in running order immedi- ately from Vicksburgto Monroe. The railroad from Shreveport to Marshall, Texas, will soon be finished. Havanna dates to the Sth inetant are at hand. ‘The steamer Louisiana has arrived there from Franee,en route to Vera Cruz. She had on board 2 special Commissioner from the Em- peror Napoleon to the Emperor Maximillian onimportant business. The Louisiana also had on board a Belgian general who will inform Maximillian of the accession of Leopold II to the Belgian throne. The Mobile Adverteser says it is informed that T. C. A. Daxter yesterday instituted a suit in the United States court against Chas. R. ‘Wood, Mr. Pomeroy and all the members of the court martial engaged in the investigation of the charges against Dexter, laying his dam. age at $500,000 for false imprisonment. The defendants were cited to appear at the next term of the court, which commences in April nex The advices received from Governor Morton Gre highly encouraging. His sor, who went With him to Europe, has returned. He left the Governor in Paris on the 27th of January. His health was much better, and his physi- cians are confident of his speedy recovery. in overnor bas gone to Rome, by way of Nii A cotton store and warehouse in Battle Row, Savannah, occupied by J.T. Rowland, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The storehouse contained three hundred bales of cotton, mostly insured. 1t was owned by Ty- son & Gonsdin. One negro fireman was killed by 4“ falling cetton bale. The Grand Lodge of Free and Aecepted Masons of the State of Louisiama is now hold- ing its annual communication in New Orleans, The country lod; are fully represented for the first time in five years, Oscar Derby, charged at Nashville, Tenn.. with altering postal currency from 5 to 50 cents, wae put under $2,000 bail to answer the charge yesterday morning. Heabsconded, and his bail was declared forfeited. The Louisiana Legislature the Paro- chial eleetion bill over the Governor's veto by an a)most unanimous yote. The Ouachita river, at Monroe, La., is quite low. Cotton continued to eome in there and at Trenton, and also at Shreveport. The Louisiana Legislatare has passed the municipal elecion bill almost unanimously. SUPPRESSION OF THE RICHMOND ExaMINER. The Kichmond papers eontain but few par- ticalars in reference to the seizure of the Examiner office by military authority. The Enquirer of yesterday says: Between nine and ten o'clock Tuesday night, the office of the Exammer newspaper, in city, was taken possession of by military authority, and 4 guard placed Upon the premises. The pro- prietor endeavored to procure an audience with General Terry, on yosterday, but was refueed, In x to massage asking b what authority » Sever bad been pred 5 and for what reason, General Terry stated that it was by his authority, and for the course pursued by the Examiner during the past two months. In addition to this, it is reported that the subject of suppressing the Examiner had been discussed in for several days, and was decided upon on Friday last. A “hop” at the Ballard House has» been mixed up with the affair, the said “hop” being in pregress when the ‘Was taken 5 session of. It is stated that reflections upon Union le present were anticipated; and Visit M Mx. Lixcoun’s REwAINS.—A few days a ry Monu. meat of Goy. Oglesby, Hon. Newton Mr. Hatch, in pur- Pp slight degree the this examination the day or two sinee, ue the via it, he was observed to sentatives. ry re- fold eBastily hud lok aboot oof tame ag ry per; sir. 7. . Jenekes, of R. I upied the next to him, Mr. Hooper asked, in & vexed tone, as he un. consciously again unfolded the despatch, “ What shall 1 erbbry pod Here I have been opening another man’s .” The Rhode Islander read, as be leaned over, the tollowing, beating date: “Salt Lake City—Mr. Hooper: One of your wives has just been delivered of arson.” The amacement the story ereatcs said to be intense, 7 The Rey. Henry A Wise, Jr., whois at —— residing in Halifax County, in this tate, has received a “cali” toa ehurchin Hur- risopburg, Virginia, and another «call, backed by $5,000) in gold (not greas green- back:.)to preside overa wealthy ehnrch in California.— Culpepper Observer. & SF The Richmond Diepateh annonaces that Mr. Corcoran, of Wash wardedto dollars ax @ contribnison to the funds of tbe Pemsiec Humane Asylum. CONGRESSIONAL. Sunatr.—After our of yesterday's = Teportofy "8 pro e Mr. Hendricks concluded his speech, when Mr. Uhandler made a 1 explanation, and after a short Executive Session the Senate adjourned until Monday. In THE Hover— Furtber consideration of the contested elec- tion case of Koontz vs. Coffroth, which was being discussed as our paper went to press yes- terday, was postponed until Monday. Mr. Orth asked leave to offer a resolution, that the Committee on Reconstruction, report an amendment to the Constitution that no per- son who has held a civil or military office un- der the late so-called Confederacy shall ever be eligible to hold an office of honor or emoilument un the Government of the United States. Objection was made. . O'Neill presented a petition, nomeronsiy signed by citizens of Pennsylvania, praying that the specific tax of one dollar a barrel ley- ied on crude petroleam may be changed to a moderate tax, to be rated by a perceniage upon sales at the welle, as being less oppressive and more easily arseseed and collected. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Darling presen: the petition of assist- ant assessors cf internal revenue of the Ninth district of New York for increase of pay. Re- ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means. The House took up the Senate bill providing for the exhibition of mineral specimens of the United States in the Patent Office Building, the Secretary of the Interior being authorized to prepare suitable cases for the same, and re- ferred to the Committee on Mines and Mining. Mr. Ingereoll reported a bill to establish a nniform system of sewerage in the city of Washington. Adjourned. Financial and Commercial. The New York stock market shows con- tinued firmness; the bull interest is gainiuy strength, and large operations are made foran advance in prices. The Commercial Advertiser says that yester- day Governments were in more demaiid and decidedly firmer. Ten-forties rose 4; Five- twenties, of 1865, %; amd Seveu-thirlies, \. There was more demand for cali loans, owing to the increased activity of stocks. The banks generally lend at 6 per cent: some private lenders, whe Thursday accepted 5 per cent., Were yesterday morning lending at 6 per cent. There is, however, a good deal of money lent at5 per cent. on both Governments and stock collaterals. Discounts unchanged. The de- mand for paper moderate, and the supply ample. Prime names are discounted at 6} per cent.; “good” at Sa9 per cent.; other gr: at 10ai5 percent. Gold was less active. The Government has sold moderate amounts du- ring the last few days, which has greatly eased the market, and there is, consequentiy, less borrowing. The highest rate on borrowed gold was 1-32 per cent. per day. The Baltimore American of this morning, in its weekly summary of the market, gives the following quotations: Flour.—Upwards of §,000 bbls. City Mills Shipping Extra have been taken during the past week forthe South American market. In- cluded in the sales were 6,4 bbls. Codorus brand at $11.50; balance on terms not made — understood to be $11.25a811.50. We lave also to notice sales of 1,000 bbls. good and choice Howard Street Super at $5.50a85.75; 100 bbls. very choice do. at $9; 300 bbls. common and fair do. at $8a$~.37 x; 300 bbis. fair Howard Street Extra at $9a$9.25; 200 bbls. very good do. at $9.50, and 200 bbis. good Western Extra at 89 bbl. Receipts continue smali of Howard treet and estern descriptions, and the stock of choice Flour is very moderate. - Grain.—Very little wheat has come forward during the past week, and prices have been steadily maintained. With the opening of Tiver navigation receipts of Corn have im- proved, and prices have receded, the market closing dull and unsettled. oe of Oats and Rye continue moderate, and rates show = little alteration. heat.—Transactions in white have been small, and ranged from 200a2%0 cents, for infe- rior to very prime samples. The entire re- ceipts of red, some 17,000 bushels. sold at 1758 200 cents for inferior and ordixary Pennsylya- nia, at 210a220 cents for fair do., and at 225a235 cents for good to prime do. No Southern Wheat at market. ‘o-day 2,700 bushels were received. Sales of good and prime Western White at 2552265 cents, and common to prime Pennsylvania red at 210a2% cents. Sugars.— With an active inquiry prices of all grades have advanced and close firm. Trans- actions reported embraced 2%) cases Brazil at 113g cents. and 3,177 bags do. at 11% cents, four montbe: cargo of bark Lizzie Raymond, taken for refining, 333 hhdé. refining Porto Rico at 114, cents, 275 bhds. grocery Porto Rico at 12 ¥ al3y cents, 200 hhds. grocery Cuba at 12813 cents, and 20 hhds. new crop Porto Rico, ex brig Echo, at 144 cents. Whisky.—Prices have further declined, and the market closes inactive and depressed. Sales comprise 50 bbls. Country, fair Packages, at $2.20, £0 bbls. do., inferior packages, at $1.15, and 200 bbls. City and Ohio at $2.20a$2.22, prin- cipally at $2.21. To-day asmall sale of City Was made at $2.30. Supply of all descriptiens very light, but@arket inactive and heavy at the close. ————$————_ SHOCKING MURDER IN PENNSYLVANIA.—The Philadelphia Press says :—The citizens residing on the line of Montgomery and Delaware coun- ties were horrified yesterday on learning that Joseph H. Levering, M. D., a physician of ex- tensive practice, who resides near Rosemont station, Montgomery county, close to the line dividing Delaware and Montgomery counties, had been murdered. It seems that fhe Doctor, on his return from a professional visit, at7 o'clock Tuesday evening, passed his house and P to his barn with his horse and wag- on. His wife senta person witha lantern to enable him to see how to put up the horse, and the messenger found the dead body of the Doc- tor lying underneath the horse. The wife h the report of a gun, but on some one was shooting muskratsin the neighbor- hood, and paid no more attention toit. Little did she and her four children think that that shot sent her husband's soul into eternity, and terrible was her an, h when the horribie fact was communicated to her. news soon bs poze and borsemen scoured the country in 1 directions in search of the assasgicn, Yester- day the coroner of the county com? "‘ced an investigation. It was as: mer bullet and four buckshot had penetraft— and that the assassin dis: ‘weapon he used from an ten feet distant from where the authori- ties, communicated with Chief Detective Franklin of this city; and, as the scene of the murder is but four miles from the line of this county, that official repaired thither, and is en. our &@ disloyal committee of another State, and, if very mech later in the revelion, ean aes —— tion, surely these things were no crimes oi Everybody knows that such offers, if made, did notinfiuenc us, Not fora day through all the rebellion did we cease to urge with all our Power the vigorous prosecution of the war. ®7-One of the lions of the skating season at the New York Oentral Parkis said to have been a young man who has lost both legs, but skates swiftly and gracefally witha pair of artificial ones. i Be ntryman in Savani + Ob- ween Ys of darkies working on the streets, each wearing aballand chain. He asked one of thy m why that ball, was chained to his leg. “To keep people frum stealing it,” said the darkey; “heap of thieves about here, massa.” a7”“Modern Astronomy,” as studied some of the freedmen, is defined 4 of Staunton, as “looking around in the day to eee what can be stolen at night.” ST Dr. Stewart sal New York Herald A bad! correspendent of the Was assaulted ~~ y beaten at rears nt in needa; Col. Jack Garrett, jaa@ Of the repel army? a AUCTION SALES, dintaecieeanaieeliaeatemrmnstiraretaiaieas Late Southern Itemss ~~ ~ Coionel Whitaker, of Kentucky, brether of Major General Whitaker, committed at Frankford, Kentucky, om the 10th, by shoot. ing himee!f with & pistol. a fr. R. J. Breckinridge, son of the Rev. We. L. Breckinridge, and cousin to General Joba ©. Breckinridge, bas become a citizen of Hous- ton. Several ex-Confederate mili Officers have been arresied — direeuen ofthe United States Court Kentucky. Colonel Jack Allep, of Shelby co: Bel Jobn D. Morris, of Hi Mirsissippi, raise no obj ‘ction to the of the butare v uy receiving the first ray of intelligenee ebape ofeducation. Some yOung meu from the 5 § North went down there to & freedmen school, but the tide of public sontiane not Against them, compelling them to abandon thetr enterprise and go into the more lecrative business of “keeping hotel.” Two papers in the Southern States are now edited and published by negroes—the Colored Tennesteean, by Scott, Waring & o., and the True Communicator, at Baltimore, by Wi- Nome & Cook The Courts of Texas admit negroes to testify like other persons. They bold that the law againet this fell with tle reason of the law They also decide that Texas is not a “congquere. country,” and therefore an unconqw State of the Union. veare informed that some time past a mis- cegenation hall bas been in full operation Within the lines of the regiment stauioned on duty at Bridgeport, Alabama. At length the doings at this den of infamy became so joath- some and provoking that a y of citizens as- eembled to take the matter into consideration The meeting ended by the appointment of a committee of three to see to the abatement of the nuisance. Accordingly, on Sunday even- ing, 8 Mr. Glascock, who lived across the river and two other men, started towards the camp of the regiment with the intention of breaking up the den. As yf spproached the guarde on duty ordered a halt. his order was disre- garded and one of the sentinels fired, shooting Glasscock through the body, almost instantly killing him. Thereupon the other two eur- rendered An investugation of the ciream- stances Was made, the prisoners were re. leased, and the nuisance was abated. — Narhesice Press and Times. The celebrated pacing horse Kinney, Jr, died at New Orleans a few days ago. He was valued at $25,000, and his owners once offered to bet that amount that he could pace his mile in2.10. Kinuey was alarge roan. and ome of the most remarkable horses of the age The Lancaster (South Carolina) Ledger re- ports that ip some portions of that district there is actual suffering among the poor for the want of provisions, they baving no means of buying corn, and if they bad, the articles cannot now be procured, owing either to sts scarcity, or to the unwillingness of those whe have it w sell. TRE Sgqvet or THE PaILapELrnia Qnoet EXCITENENT.—The Philadelphia papere have for some me past contained extraordimary ac- counts of singuiar transactions which have been going on in the se of Mr. Mulford, in Fifth street, above Uarpenter, in the Second Ward, which bave generally been attributed to gho: The “manifestations” seem to have Principally consisted of things being suddenly whirled across the room, taking especial de- light in the destruction of ented and thiogs ofa like frail nature, occasionally varied by loud knockings and strange noises being heard in different paris of the house. Mary Madeline Scout, a girl in her fourteenth year, who has been employed in the family of Mr. Mulford for the past four months, has, after constant Watching, been discovered to have been the cause of these mysterious occurrences. On Tuesday last she Was committed to the House of Refuge, on the complaint of her mother, who charges her with being incorrigibly vi- cious and beyond her control. When arraigned before a magistrate she stated that she had not been instigated by any one to do what she had done at the house of Mr. Mulford. She did not know why she did it. She said she never heard anything about spiritualists, nor had she ever read anything about them, or an: worke about ghosts or devils. She admitted that ifshe should want to make a clock, jook- ing-glaes, or picture f#1l, she would so loosen the fastenings that any one of the things would come down without trouble. After being committed to the House of Refage it is stated that she commenced cutting up her capers there, and was very saucy and insul:- ing tothe matron. lt appears that the magis- trate before whom the girl was brought had just opened a new docket. The first entry thereon is as follows: On thie 13th day of February, 1866, sent to the House of Refuge Madeline Scout, under fifteen ears of age, charged by her mother, Mary Ano Scout, with incorrigibly vicious conduct. by pretending to be possessed of the devil, and tmashing up things generally at the house of Mr. Mulford, South Fifth street, above Car- penter street, thereby causing a great excite- ment and bubbub thronghout the eity, and giving rise to rumors of ghosts, &c., much to the annoyance of citizens. U. S. Svrremwe Covet, Feb. 16.—No. 210 James B. Townsend et al., plaintiffs in error, vs. George G. Greely;and No. 276. James B. Townsend et al., plaintiffs in error, vs. Caleb Burbank. The motion to dismiss these causes ‘was argued by Mr. Stewart in support thereof, and by Mr. Browning in opposition thereto. No. 267. Frederick Brewer et al., plaintiffs in error, ve. Daniel J. Hansell. In error te the Circuit Court for the Northern District of illinois. The matters in controversy im this cause having been agreed and settled between the parties, it was, on motion of Mr. Oarlisie of counsel forthe piaintiffs in error, dismissed, with costs. No. 10. Original docket. The United States vs. The Hon. Ogden Hoffman, district judge of the United States for the Northern Distriet of California. The motion fora probibition in the matter ot Thomas J. Reddish, special adminie- trator of Wm. Griffin, deceased, libellant, ys. The steamship Pacific, was argued by Mr. Carlisie in support thereot. No. 144. Wm. Dayton et al., claimant of the schooner Monterey and cargo, appellants, vs. The United States. The motion to dismiss this cause was argued by Mr. Ashton, Assistant Attorney General, in support thereof, and by Mr. Ridgely in opposition thereto. No. 161. John McGuire, plaintiff in error, ys. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The motions in this cause were argued by Mr. Cushing in support thereof, and by Mr. in opposition thereto. MonToomery County (Mb.,) Arrame— The Georgetown (D. C.) Courier says W.V. Buie, Esq. of Rockville, has been a Attorney for the Baltimore and Obio Railroad Company, who will ina tew days proceed with the condemnation of land through the railroad from Point of Rocks to this District is to ran. The Rockville Hotel was sold for $6,000, on Friday week, the sale of the furniture having —— taken place, and brought together a large company, among them the bidding, our correspondent inferms us, was q' Heavy Dectine in Coat. — Six thonsand seven hundred tone of Schuylkill coal was sold &t auction in New Yorkon Thursday. A jotof two bundred and fifty tons was at $9.12. The rate then fell off to $7.50. A esle two weeks ago of Treverton coal, which was of similar quality, took and by comparison of that sale with present one, the decline is, oy grate coal, $1.36 a ton. The coal was sold by the ton of 2,2 pounds. BS? During the festivities of Christmas a large cake of very rich appearance was sent by some unknown persons as a present toGen, anteuffel, Prussian governor of Schleswig. The gift was received with great pleasure by the governor's tamily. and one evening it was =e oo tenplong inside was ton cui it, was found to ele a shell, containing nu- merous copies of journals prohibitedin Sehles- wig by r of general. a7-A Captain John T. Hill, of the reguier army of the United States, has been tned in San Francisco S& court martial, and sen- tenced to be dismi the service, upon the pirited eharge of having ordered an Indian child to be ee of its dead mother and killed. s7 Amen out West says that he moved so often during one year that whenevera covered wagon stopped at his gate his chickens would fallon their backs and hold up their feet, in order to be tied and thrown in. 7 The first bale of cotton goods manufac- tured on the Pacific has arrived ai San Fran- cisco from Oakland, on the te side of che bay. The raw material was in Mex- ico, but enough is expected to be raised in Ual- ifornia to eupply the demand this year. a7 Mrs. basa im the forth- coming Atlanuc Monthly an Ams- zonian Pic-nie Party, which she and tne Pro- fessor lately attended in Brazil It is the hay of a series of arti y this accomplished describing ber South American experience — Boston Transcript. a7°A_ writer wants to know bus and car drivers will do for overcoats when she government supply is wora out, i se