fctos of tin Mctlx. 
DOMESTIC NEWS san,,! 8idc of tbo 
1,Lwa - that the Presidont of tl 
'Washington. “ , t, *° Geor < 
vm, o a , scribed hy I hi* Joint res* 
_ ••”" a ,? r ,? owar<i ’ from tho Oopunittee Houses, and that const* 
on the Pacific Hatlroad brought In an adverse wrong from ibe beginni 
' UI3Cm 11 “umber of bills, asking Govern- jj.. denounced tbo resold 
ment. aid in the construction of railway and as revolutionary and d It 
LZ‘nZ h r ' 10 '’ , defended Mr. Butler, and 
oenator Davis announced that he Intended to marksreflected upon fb 
speak several hours upon the suffrage amend- in directing the banrear 
ment. whereupon the Senate adjourned until fractory mem hem. Mr. 
evening when the subject was taken up and de- spirited manner, dcfondJi 
baled until half past eleven of Tuesday morn- lor replied to the attack 
ng. | Legislative days do not begin until noon, made a lengthy argument 
then-lore an till night session and everything lution. This he offered 
< one up to noon is considered ns taking place on to protest against the ue 
lie day upon which the session began.] no vote on the question 
,, 1, mt»o,ft bill was introduced and re- bate occupied tin- entire 
IZnl . ?" Now Vwk Gleetion fshed when the Houseadj 
J iHUfls, which iixoB the time for Mie election of i?,*,, t*> m r r v 
Representatives to Congress, and establishes n J, f bilf To mvtw'* 
uniform system of nat uralization. 1 ... pa * to < ; ori 
The Senate amendments to the Copper Tariff 
bill were agreed to *ne sum oi *..w,000 
••.m. h-The Senate met at 13 M. and consul- Z\Jtiaha,n« whkf' 
ered the ConstituUonal Amendments until 4.80 L". ‘1, ? 
1*. M.. when they were passed bv a vote of fort v TT An m,K ' ,,,1,ut ‘ 1 
to sixteen. The* read Sows: ‘ »K that no part of the m< 
son and Pruvn a committee on behalf of the 
House to notify the President and Vice-Presi¬ 
dent elect of their election. Mr. Shellabarger 
then spoke at length in opposition to Mr. but¬ 
ler's resolution. Mr. Eldridge spoke on the 
same side of the question. Mr. Bingham held 
that the President of the Senate was bound to 
count the vote of Georgia In the manner pre¬ 
scribed by lhe joint resolution adopted by both 
Houses, and that consequently Mr. Butler was 
wrong from the beginning of the controversy. 
He denounced the resolution in vigorous terms 
as revolutionary and disgraceful Mr. Scbenek 
defended Mr. Butler, and in I fie course of his re¬ 
marks reflected upon f lic notion of Mr. Colfax 
in directing the bcrgeant-at-Arms to arrest re¬ 
fractory members. Mr. Colfax replied in a 
spirited manner, defending his course. Mr. But¬ 
ler replied to the attacks made upon him, and 
made n lengthy argument in support of his reso¬ 
lution, I ids lie offered to modify so as simply 
to protest against the action of the Senate, out 
no vote on tbo question was reached. The de¬ 
bate occupied the entire day, and was not. fin¬ 
ished when the House adjourned, 
I' fit. 13. fiie House Naval Committee repor¬ 
ted a bill to pay to Commodore Winslow and 
* he Officers and crew of the vvur steamer Kear- 
Kargc the sum of HJUtUXtO us prize money, that 
sum being the estimated value of the rebel 
Pjrate Alabama, which was destroyed by the 
Kearsargc. An amendment was adopted provid¬ 
ing that no part of the money should be paid to 
» i,,,,.. , ‘ ’ an assignee of any rouriner, and the bill was 
a join' resolution proposing iimuniments to passed 
rbo Cousi out Ion of the liiiu.i State!,: ' . 
® It rwAtwl hji ih, : south and Htnixr of J Tr ° ,l8e thon resumed debate on Mr. But- 
frnhtlu'ro Av„ /oj Unth Htfligce concur- ,or ’ s privileged resolution protealing against 
th e Liurfs hlijuvrlm mV i'S! » t ' 0 proposed to the action of theBermte while the two Houses 
mentslo the <.'on- ritution o^ihi' 4 ‘l:td'tod , |Ste“^r *" • ,u ' nt A J' onv, ‘ n,i,J » were counting theeleoloraJ 
n y throe-fourths VOto8 ‘ Mr. Hftwos-offlctetod « Sponke. 
bo held as a part of said Ml - »*>gnn spoke in opposition to Mr. Butler’s 
Art. l;,. No.liserimination shall be made in the JP p,,f! ' 1, ‘Claiming ail 
f toted tibile- among the citizens of the United W1 n censuring ( he presiding officer of 
Mao - in the exercise of the elective franchise, ,ho Spnn,,! Personally, but insisting Bait the 
!".t 'if 0, ! k ' r -; in a,, y * s '«te, on lie- rights of the House had been invaded. He ac- 
tkm or Jre™d ’ ' nU " Vlty ’ pr ° 1,orty » 0<Iuc ^ fepted u substitute providing .hat the subject of 
Ari. HI. The second clause of the first section “"“-iiding Hie rules to govern the proceedings 
d tli'.-seeond ariiele of fin-(Vmstitntion of tli<» ol ,hr * John Convention whilo counting the 
State * Nl,uil be "mended to read as foi- cleotorto vote, be referred to a select, committee 
i: te-i State shall appoint, by a vote id' the Poo- u ,h r ‘ | Mr ; L<, ^ iU ,' ,,tfain took tho floor, and at 
le thereof qualified to vote for Bepresonf atives eonoluslon ol his remarks moved to lay the 
i Congress, a number ol' electors equal to the whole subject on the table, which was agreod to 
hole number ol Senators and Reprijsontaiiv.i an... mn ,, - , w u '"’ 
jiMiiebi.lie Slate shall be entitledin CoiijrreUr f . J Pjoviding lor the building of a rail, 
u no bona tor or Representative, or person J fl 'om Washington to Kow-Vork was Bum 
oldlng im olhee of iruKt or profit under The Passed. 
Art. IK. The second clause of tlx- first section 
ol ’h,. constitution of the 
l nil. .1 states shall be amended to road as fol- 
Kitoii state* shall appoint, by a vote of t he Peo¬ 
ple thereof qualified to vote for I (< -.preson 11 it/vos 
in <,ongn's.v, a number of electors equal to the 
wlmie number or Senators und IteDroscntatives 
to wmeb the Slate shuli be enfllJe</,n Coi.gr. 
bu no SiMinfor or Bepreseiiljiiive. or person 
r'n! If u / , ln,Hl <"■ profit under the 
niu.il SMtus, shall lie appointed an Kleeior* 
nilnilu’rfn 1)11 1 ,M ll '! V c l “ lwer to prescribe the 
by f li‘ |K-J,d, ,‘ K ' ‘ MJ< ' 1 Kk ' ct0r8 shuI1 be chosen 
In the House the Senate amendments to the 
Consular Appropriation bill wore uon-con- 
curred in. 
Feb. 10. —At 13.,w V. m. the Senate proceeded 
to tlie House fo form a joint convention for the 
counting of the electoral votes. At. 1-fiO it, re¬ 
lumed to its own hull lo discuss the question of 
receiving the vote of Louisiana. It decided to 
do so and ret urned to I he House halt. At three 
o’clock if again went back to Its own chamber to 
conider a similar point eoncorning Georgia, and 
settled li in a like manner, in the former ease 
the House agreed with the Senate, but in the lat¬ 
ter it did not. At 4.10 1*. M. the Senate returned 
to ns own Cliauiborand uppofnled Senator Mor¬ 
ton as its member of the joint committee in in¬ 
form Messrs. Grant und Colfax of their election. 
1 u the Ho list! ai the appointed hour for count¬ 
ing the votes, the Senate arrived, tho members 
taking the seats assigned them, and ITesldcnl 
Wade occupying lbe Speaker’s chair. Senator 
Conklin and Bepn-sentatlvcs Wilson and Pruyn, 
acting as tellers, took their places at the Clerk's 
de$k. Without arij- preliminary proceedings 
Hie reading of the certificates of the various 
States was begun, New Hampshire being Bio 
first on the list. When tin* State of Louisiana 
was reached. Mr. Mullins objected to the oount- 
mg c.f the \ otea of that State. Alter some de- 
li.ite Mr. Mullins was requiied to reduce his 
objections to writing, which ho did, selling forth 
that no valid election for electors was held in 
Louisiana. The Senate then retired to its own 
Chamber for deliberation. The House was 
called lo order, and the Speaker submitted the 
question whether the vote of Louisiana should 
be counted, which was decided In the nflirmn- 
Uve yeas 137, nays 03. Tho Senate having re- t 
turned, the vote of Louisiana was counted, and . 
the regular order proceeded with. When the 
State of Georgia was called, Mr. Butler objected , 
to the vole being counted, ter tho reason that i 
the vote of the electors was not east as required v 
by Jaw, because Geogia was not sufficiently re- 8 
constructed at the time of the election, and be- ! 
cause the election was carried by force and 1 
fraud. (J 
A scene of great confusion now ensued, many ^ 
members taking exceptions to Mr. Butler's oil- n 
.lections, and insisting that the vote should be " 
counted. The presiding' officer muni tested great '! 
reluctance to decide what to do, and stated that. J 
lie was inclined to hold the Convention to the o 
joint resolution adopted by both Houses, lie tl 
stated that the resolution declared that if the 15 
vole of Georgia did not affect the result it might U- 
be counted, la.t if it did it could not be. Great b 
excitement Billowed, and much laughter and e< 
applause. The Senate finally retired to deiib- fl 
crate on Mr. Butler's Objection. While the Sen- !! 
ate was out. the I louse voted on i lie question a ml 1 1 
sustained Mr. Butler. The Senate returned, and 111 
the presiding officer directed the tellers to «ulj t' 
the vote of Georgia. Mr. Butler protested, and ,,, 
raised the point of order that, tin* House was eri- w 
titled to lie hoard on the joint resolution. A rl1 
scene of the greatest confusion now ensued. Mi-, >l i' 
Butler insisting on being heard, and the proa id- !•' 
mg officer insisting on the . me of Georgia being m 
called. Members took sides, and encouraged one 
and the other amid in lease excitement. The 
presiding offieer refused to listen to any appeal sc 
irom bis decision, ami ordered Mi*. Butler to 11 
take his sent. The Sergnant-ut-Arms was called 81 
upon to restore order. Finally, tho confusion 
was brought to a close and the vote declared, l ne C< 
presiding officer announcing that Messrs. Grant s i 
and Colfax were duly elected President and M 
Vice-President. Cc 
l im. 11.—In the Senate the bill was passed 
winch strikes the word “white” from the City 
Charters of Washington and Georgetown. ' fh, 
In t he House Speaker Colfax announced that 'le; 
the first business ip order was the consideration ’ ll * 
of the question ol' privilege submitted by Mr. 1 
Butler on the previous day, which was lhe roso- nil 
lution protesting against tho action of the Sen- Life 
ire in counting the eleetorial vote oi Georgia in wo 
the Joint Convention ol the two Houses. The t 
Speaker appointed Mr. Dawes Speaker pn./m, | (hu 
who, on taking the chair, appointed Messrs. Wil- I tio 
° n Saturday the 18th, the Joint Committee 
called upon Gen. Grant to give him official noti¬ 
fication of liis election. After a few congratu¬ 
latory words, Senator Morton said: 
General TheJoint tbnanittnA.... 
"y ' ""I ' iniianne of your duty u rial loved 
p.il i iotiftin, inlle.tJble m legrity. greoi powers of 
luteilect, and all the high qualities that enabled 
jou to u« ItJeve sueli (listinguisbed success in an- 
; ‘ r Y'. They clierGh lull faith in 
in growth, it. ogrc^aud pmsp'erity"" ,wpttrtUru 
Senator Morion lianded the official notice to 
Gen. Grant, of which the following is a copy: 
Beit known that the Semite and House of 
Boprosenbiitvosof theUniicd States ol' America 
being tax: milled at the CapiB.I, JnB.eeii «,f 
VVasrungton. on the second Wedm*sd*.v i.V.i,,,, 
' he IUB, day of I 'el.rmuw. in the^*'of°S? 
L"id 1809. the under-written JTe.sfdeni ot ihe 
of'ltHouse 
Open tun la certiHc* 
he the Penitentiary and given to her daughter 
si- Anna, on condition that the re-interment should 
■er be strictly private. 
New York. 
,j(j Jambs T. Hhadv, whose fame as a lawyer is 
to known over the country, and whose forensic 
, e _ powers few have equaled, died at the residence 
th his friend, Mr. Edward T. Young- No. 14 West 
ug Sixteenth street. New York city, on Tuesday the 
y !, th Inst., of paralysis. IB* had been complaining 
‘ lfi *°r some weeks, but was not confined to his 
, k 11 oust* until the week before his death, and on 
L ._ Sunday the 'iisease increased in vlolenee and 
lx °° n Hnued until bis death, which took place 
about T. o'elock Tuesday morning, lie was bom 
tl hi New 1 ork, April 9,1815, and conseq i.ently,was 
in the fifty-fourth year of Ids age. His obsequies 
^ place at St. Patrick’s Gathedral on the 11th, 
ilI| d an immense congregation was present. A 
y solemn mass of requiem was offered up, and an 
i t eulogium pronnimeeil on the eminent, lawyer by 
Bov. Dr. MoGlynn ol Hi. .Stephen's, Twenty- 
eighth street. The remains were interred in the 
family vault under the Cathedral. 
In consequence of the funeral of James T. 
" Brady, on Tuesday the 11th, the Supreme Court. 
, (except Cham her,v,) the Superior Court and Court 
* of Common Pleas, in all their launches were 
Closed. The offices of each Court were open in 
1 conformity to law, hut, for all practical pur- 
'• poses, might as well have been closed for Hie 
' occasion also. 
■> Two bold thieves, at7.30 V. M.of thofith, broke 
the show window ol Benedict Brothers, jewel¬ 
ers at 1)01 Broadway, New York, and, seizing a 
■ tray of rings and diamonds, made good their 
escape with *1,800 worth of booty, 
i Recorder Hacket says he is determined to do 
all in his powe r to break up the crime now so 
prevalent in New York, and accordingly is pass- 
1 ln * tefttiy very severe sentences, and among 
B.ese was one on the 8th for twenty years in the 
State Prison for highway robbery. 
There is some little small-pox in the city of 
New York, and the Board of Health is taking 
measures to prevent Sts spread among the chil¬ 
dren of the public schools. In one which was 1 
visited on the fid Inst., two of whose pupils were 
said to be rick ol' small pox. there were found 1 
of I la- two hundred enrolled pupils one hundred ! 
and fifty-one present (the rest, having been kept 
by the storm then raging) and of these but fifty 
had ever been vaccinated. The sanitary officers I 
at once vaccina ted the remainder; and, taking > 
Bio school catalogue, they proceeded to the !l 
houses of the absentees and completed the offer 
of free vaccination. J 
A cOrnplIm&ntary banquet was given to Sena- s 
(or Casserlyof (.’alifornia in New York on the ' 
fiBi, Charles O Conor presided and speeches were •' 
made by Samuel.I. Tilden and others. l* 
A t 10.65 o’clock on t lie evening of tin* loth the 11 
jury of the New York Court of Oyer and Tor- n 
miner brought in a verdict of guilty against 
Jo>»» Beal for the murder of Policeman Smediek, * 
on the 341 h of July last. The verdict was aecom- •' 
paniod by a recommendation to mercy, which ji H 
is sdd was extorted from, the jury through fear P' 
of peinomil violence from “ roughs," friends ..( 
the prisoner. Ileal was imiiiedluiely sentenced 
to be hung on the fid of April next; but so many 
roughs were present Bait Judge Barnard ordered 
the court-room doors locked until tla* officers a j 
hud time to reach the Tombs wl lb their prisoner. r! 
Pinto, who attempted to steal a package of di 
bills from the National IVu'k Hii'ir. ,t New York 
city by smashing the glass in front, of the teller, th 
was sentenced to five years in the Sing Sing State j n 
prison l'or his pretty little freak. 
Front the annual report of the New York city or 
Metropolitan Police Department, it appears that 
during the your ending Nov. J, fiS.stil pei-sons , 
were arrested, being 4.408 less than in 1307. but v ' 
fi,400 more Ilian the average of the pest nine ' 
years. The whole foreo eonsiatsof 2.510 men; Jf 
ales,'aim ! p ^P ert J' stored to owners was valued at *6,301,- 
n) I'resi- , ; number of defects remedied In steam Jiollers, 
it to T., tl.. .. . -- . 
10th flay of Itebruary^.m oC ‘ 1,ato - thi8 
„ ... , B. F. VYADE, 
President pro ton. of the Senate. 
lien. Gram, on receiving thisoertifleate, made 
he following response, speaking very delibratc- 
ly* and witJi endout <‘nibiUT4i.ssnu*rd, 
end^.v'V^te^n^‘’«>,mnilB,,-that it will be mv 
, u. nnnV l ‘ “ "■''Sistauts sue], 
or even a third trial, will, u -\V, ^ ! 
Senate, who lam- tin* confirming |.ow.w and 
should jusl as soon remove one or rny owiihn 
potataeRtts ^o appolntno ol my ,,^^2 V n 
unuld nuiko no cilffornnc-o. r riicjv in oni* 
Bait f might prqpm*ly Bpenk of here, and tint is 
net without friends of (,om o tl i r • r ge n 11 cm- m 
making an etfori to seeure the pufliHon_im1 
r£mLm!Tut W ?h,!5 "! ">e party 
. .••■■•"iiiu.i, .inn hj.’i cjnro i uavf-*( omr* oa th n 
conclusion not to nnnounoc whom I ami n. 
Invile to Mjatfl in the Cabinet iuit.il I pend ut their 
111 U 11 C 8 * (.<i tho hr-iinte lor routirijiafiun 11 1 kav 
anything to them ahoflt It, it will eer’tainlv not 
be mow. Ham two or three *i..vs . - - uK 
sending in their names, i chink it we ’K!n 
n publiis 'b elnration of this to the committee 
so that my intentions may be known?" ’ 
Cr '» i ndttoo afterward waited upon Mr. 
< olt.i v at the t apitol, and were received in the 
\w? rv i'r! r°,° m ;, A Mrnil;,r no,i 0 c was banded to 
. . Colfax B> Mr. Wilson, and ho handed tho 
Committee his respond in writing as follows: 
Houses 
to Whie 
Bie r tot 
•leaver 
doneeb 
**: .. * * l 'i*. Huaure rnedLtluit i sii 
i pr pve worthy of this m,irk of 
f_i3 fla6lil> to jjj’iticipie mid Wiity.” 
shall en- 
ii f eonfl- 
rx-Miiyur Wallaoh gave a reception on the 
night ul the flth. and some thieves takingadvan- 
tage of the confusion, robbed the house of *1 mo 
worth of property. t ,UUU 
On the SB, instant the body of Mrs. Surratt 
(hung in l8U5 for participation in the assassina¬ 
tion oi President Lincoln,) were disinterred at 
- Hi the matter of the Morning Star Sutnlav- 
Sel.o*. 1 of New York City, Judge Ingraham de¬ 
cided Bait the paper given by Mr. Pile* w;w not 
a lease, and that the proper course of notion for 
the school officers was to 8Ue l'or damages, for 
being deprived oi' their place of assemblage, 
Maine. 
Gov. Cn amber la fN has reprieved Clifton 
Harris, the Auburn murderer, until March 13 . 
There was recently a reran rim Wo ebb and flow 
iu the tide of Belfast harbor, and rocks never 
seen before showed their heads above wiper. 
The Opportunity was improved to blast a trouble¬ 
some one out of the way. 
Ex-Gov. John Hubbard, a widely known and 
respected man, and t In- most prominent physi¬ 
cian in the State, died at HaJlowell, of bear I dis¬ 
ease, on Saturday afternoon, tho 0th lust. 
A German named Gunther, who robbed a Ger¬ 
man post office of $10,000, was arrested on the 
steamer Australia on her arrival at Portland, on 
Wednesday the 10th. ihdf the money was re¬ 
covered. 
New HaitipsliIre. 
The suit against the Boston and Maine Bail- 
road for killing Samuel Witberell of Plaistow, 
in February last, has been settled by the pay¬ 
ment ol $1,000 to t he widow and children, fune¬ 
ral expenses and court costs. 
Vermont. 
I ite engineer of the Southern night express 
i rain, on Saturday night flu* Cth lust., discovered 
a house on lire in Uoyalton, set the whistle a 
screaming and stopped the train. While the pas¬ 
sengers and train hands extinguished the fire, 
and saved tlu-ee women, (Bie only inmates of the 
bouse,) from being burned alive. 
Ill a kkh eliuse Its. 
Tiie largest and most powerful fog whistle in 
the world is to be put in use on Thatcher’s 
island, off Cape Arm. at ihe entrance to Salem 
Harbor. It is fo be worked by a ten horse power 
engine* and will be ready about the 1st of June. 
A convention of the two branches of the Leg¬ 
islature on the lfith elected Avery Plummer and 
Moses Iviiubail Directors ol' the Boston ami Al¬ 
bany Railroad on the part of the State. 
Joseph A. Duhoiul, a Canadian, eighteen years 
old, iv as instant ly killed on the lfith iu Lawrence, 
b.\ being caught in the shafting in the dve room 
of the Pacific Mills. 
The town liall in Southboro’ was completely 
destroyed by lire on the night of the 11th. The 
building has been occupied by a school, and it is 
supposed the lire caught from the stove. The 
loss is about $35,000. . 
Several years ago a young man in Milford, I 
iter * Mass., was divorced from his wife, who had pre¬ 
mia viously borne a good reputation. She went 
away, engaged in an honorable employment, and 
returned recently with $1,000 saved from her 
r is G ,rn 'Bgs. which she offered to give him if he 
tsic ^ voul(3 forgiv e her. He accepted, and they have 
nee -' IJS| bcG “ re-married. 
est k young couple in Rockport, while courting, 
the "'"Iked out together arm-in-ann andt'ell through 
ing ® kl,l ‘ ' n H"- sidewalk, each breaking a leg. 
his Paradoxical ns it may seern, their fall proved a 
on * blt ,u them, and set. them up in the world, u 
md ** ur - v ,mvlll * r just awarded them u verdict of 
me ^ 1; -* <,0(, "gainst the town. 
mi subscription of $35,000 from the friends of 
i as " 1 Hiatus College, to secure the same amount 
ies gratttod by the State I.lhi June, is complete, 
th, The grant of the Legislature was $35,000 a year 
A <or on condition that the same 
an amounts should be given by private subscription, 
by HinMy Bennett of Waltham, was taken 
Ly. suddenly III while atasoeiul gathering in a neigh- 
,h© 130, 8 ft'fitso, on a recent evening, and after two 
hours of unconsciousness rite died. Her mother 
,p died suddenly a few years ago, under somewhat 
rt, Miutlu* eireiimstnnecB. 
ut Ex-(.J tie I Justice Williams, who .lici recently 
re n ! x ew Bedford, was at the. age of r,& stripped of 
in in f Property by others' rascality, and burdened 
li-. wiBi *.i,0()0 del.(;. Straightway lie wont to work, 
[if, paid every mill, and retirod in eight years with 
a handsome competence — a rare business expe- 
rienoft. 
Al ,he recent meeting of the Board ol Eduon- 
a fation in Boston, it’was voted to provide a four 
it- ; v ,‘‘ irs course of study for the normal schools. 
Tlmy also determined to ask for an appropria- 
lo Hon for the enlurgement of the Westfield Nor- 
m ,r,ul School; proposing to add thereto .mother 
S- SU,r *Y. 
U r While some Bostonians were deliberating, at a 
IL . recent auction sale of 1,200 bags of Java coffee, 
how many they should take, a smart New York 
,f business man, at the first bidding, took the 
whole lot. 
I James G. Carney. President of the Boston Bank 
g " r Mutual Redemption, and for nearly forty 
e - V( ' ; " r , past an offieer of Lowell banks, died in 
j Low-li on Wednesday morning, the lfith, at tho 
,j age of sixty-four, 
j, New Jersey. 
V T|,E Hrio Railway depot at Ridgewood was 
s broken Into on the niglit of the fith instant, and t 
, robbed of a lot of tickets and the date stamp f 
, and die, I 
r 0,1 Hie morning of thoStb, n bnikem.nn on the t 
Morris and Essex Hal I road, while signaling, . 
. slipped from the icy platform of a ear, and, fall- . 
. ing upon the track, had both legs severely in- t 
. .iurod. No physician could be obtained at Mor- !■ 
ristown, and so the poor fellow laid to endure v 
, the agony of a ride to Now York —thirtv-two l 
miles. • ^ 
On the fith, the Hudson County Court gave a u 
Mi*. Ellsworth a verdict of $3,000 against the New t. 
Jersey Genlrftl Railroad, for damages arising vi 
from the neglect, of the company to provide a 
passage way to connect the land of the plaintiff, J] 
which had been severed by a high embankment b 
erected by the company. 
Pennsylvania. o 
i lie office of the Philadelphia, Wilmington 
and Baltimore Railroad, at Philadelphia, was n 
entered on the 0th Inst., the safe opened with a ,v>l 
duplicate key and $1,750 stolen. w 
Ui. the 4th an attempt was made to set fire to Iu 
the Children's House at Lancaster. One of the 
inmates, a girl of fourteen, confesses that she 
was author of the deed, and that she had failed ur 
once before within ten days. lc 
Tennessee. Hi 
State Representatives Arneli, Mullins and 
Nunn, in a card, denounce as willful and mali- tl! 
cions falsehoods the publications which connect ''' 
ti.em in any way with tho School Fund fraud in !LH 
that State. tr. 
Two steamboat bands, named Cart wright :utd N< 
Noe,employed on the Mississippi River, engaged ,UI 
in a quarrel on the fid about a young lady in 
Memphis, to whom both were paying attention. " ^ 
Cartwright shot Noe through the head, killing f< '' 
him instantly. That night. Cartwright learned lv/ 
that the young lady in question had discarded ,b 
liof I. him and his victim and bestowed her favors ,n 
upon a third person. He thereupon surranderad 
himself to an officer, and with the pistol used in Sa 
slaying ins comrade, blew* his own brains out, * 
Tito ball passed through bis head, and inflicted a n,< 
sligl.t wound upon the officer who hud lii... j„ N< 
custody. pr. 
Georgia, Lfi 
On the 8th inst. a resolut ion came* up in the * 
Senate pledging the Legislature to abide by the ' " 
decision of tho Supremo Court in regard to the oal 
rigid of negroes to hold office, and was defeated. Lo 
A resolution was also defeated requiring ment- af * 
hers to answer under oath whether they held ' 
office under the United States prior lo the'rebel- 81 / 
lion, or under Gm rebel government during its 
existence. Another to concur with the House wil 
in its resolution referring to the Supreme Court ,lu 
the question of the eligibility of negroes to 1 
office was adopted. The resolution to rescind E|1J 
the action of Hie last session which expelled the 1 lU 
colored members of the Legislature and to re- £l f. 
seat them at. once was defeated. ’* 
Missiti. rl. 
An insane man, named lloefer, living near 
Hannibal, on the()th inst. st rangled his daughter, n ,. 
tiged ton years, and then cut her body in two. , 
In the State Senate, on the lit It, the bill in re- '• 
lation to fire and marine insurance companies, 
with amendments requiring from *25.000 to $50.- •!' 
(KKI to be deposited with tlie State Treasurer by M "- 
foreign companies, was voted down; also a bill 
Illinois. 
Murray McConnel, an Illinois State Senator, 
was murdered on Tuesday morning, the rah 
inst., between nine and ten o'clock, while sitting 
in bis own house at Jacksonville. He was struck 
over the head with some blunt instrument, 
which left a double wound, as of a blow with a 
monkey-wrench or screw-hummer. A Chicago 
telegram of the 12th says the Coroner’s Jury* find 
that Win, A. Robinson is guilty of the murder. 
Robinson was seen by several persons entering 
the house of Mr. McConnell on the morning of 
H.<* murder. Uoowed the General four hundred 
dollars. The chain of evidence against him 
seems to be complete. 
I he i rial ol Mrs. Samantha Grier, for making 
a deadly assault upon Mias Eleanor Comstock, 
which caused a great sensation in Chicago some 
rime ago, is now in progress at Waukegan. 
Minnesota, 
At the burning of the international Hotel at 
!ri. Paul, on the night of tho 3d, a number ol' the 
guests were rescued with great difficulty, two 
State Senators and their wives being taken from 
Hie third floor with ladders. A Mr. Holyoke 
beettme bewildered in the halls and was nearly 
stifled by the smoke, but was rescued by a lady 
against whose door he fell. 
Colorado. 
The United states Marshal of Puebla, Colorado 
I erritory, is on his way to Fortress Monroe with 
seven convicts. Tho men comprised a gang of 
robbers who infested the Territory and commit¬ 
ted several heavy depredations, the Government 
being the chief victim. They were arrested 
Feb. 18, INIs, nud convicted on the 71 h of May 
following. They were tried and sentenced at 
1 uoblu. Two of them are sentenced to three 
years’ imprisonment, three for two years, two 
for six years and one for ten years. • 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
requiring foreign companies to invest eighty pot¬ 
een t. of their gross receipts in Missouri securi¬ 
ties or real estate for the first two -years they do 
business there. 
A bill looking to restoration of suffrage to per¬ 
sons now disfranchised, was rejected in the 
'House. 
A petition for women suffrage was referred to 
the Committee on Constitutional Amendment. 
The* House Committee on Education reported 
a bill to establish a Board of Physicians and Sur¬ 
geons ior the examination of all applicants to 
practice medicine in the Stale, those passing the 
required examination to receive certificates of 
quuiiiieatK.n. Poraojpracticing in violation of 
Hus law are to be fined $1,1100. except doctors 
practicing prior to the passage or this act, who 
are exempt from penalties. 
In response to the petitions from t he railroad 
companies and Merchants' Exchange the City 
Council of St. Louis on the 11th passed an ordi¬ 
nance permitting all the railroad companies 
whose roads center in that city* to extend their 
tracks to the large grain elevator on the river 
bank. 
ik Great Britain. 
(J A London cablegram of the fith inst. says the 
1,1 full text of the Clarendon-Johnson treaty lias 
he been received by mail in the New York papers. 
The Tintix of the fith denounced the treaty*, and 
says it. is incomprehensible and without order, 
us Unless i here was a secret stipulation somewhere 
ul to the eontrary, the consideration of theques- 
q* Hon oi tho recognition of the Southern States as 
belligerents was plainly provided for iu this 
a* treaty. Nothing, indeed, was excluded. The 
t, defects oi' fhe treaty hav e grown out of and arc 
i- owing to the semi-public fashion in which the 
t- negotiations were conducted. If the United 
St "tes Senate hesitate to ratify (be profit Ireland 
<• will not chafe. It is desirable that the whole 
o treaty will be revised and recast. As it fa now, 
practically, every claim may go to the sovereign 
a umpire for final decision. If tills is a “settle- 
V ment,” the Tings asks for a new definition of the 
g word. 
a London cablegrams of the fith announce that 
■'■> Benjamin Lee Guinness, M. P. for Dublin, has 
t been unseated. 
The Government has resolved on the abolition 
of Un i versify tests. 
, The London Standard of the 8th predicts that 
* Bio Alabama treaty will be rejected by the United 
x Stales, and is sure that the next administration 
will not get such favorable terms for the settk- 
, ment of the question at issue, 
. London cablegrams of the 9th state that the 
. Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have presented 
j an address to Hon. lieverdy Johnson, the Amer¬ 
ican Minister, urging the practical adoption of 
the principles of free trade in the United States. 
I Reports of shipwrecks and disasters, caused by 
the recent gales, are coming to baud from all 
quartern. Advices have been received of dis- 
i aster to two ships engaged In the American 
trade. The Pericles, Copt. Jones, which left 
New York on the 8th of January for Glasgow, 
lias put into Liverpool, disabled. She had lost 
sails and a large quantity of resin and grain, 
which formed part of her cargo. She had eight 
feet of water In the hold. The amount of dam¬ 
age is not ascertained. The Pericles is nine hun¬ 
dred and ninety-one tons burden, and is owned 
in Glasgow. 
The ship Persian, (.’apt. Temple, which left 
Savannah on Hie 14 1 h of .January for Bremen 
with a large cargo of Gotten, has gone ashore on 
the island oi Nordernoy, off Hanover, in the 
North Sea, The crew were all saved. She will 
probably prove a total loss. Tin • Persian was 
I.Dfiit tons burden, and belonged iu Liverpool. 
London telegrams of the loth announce that 
the Conservatives are making preparations to 
carry on a vigorous opposition in Parliament, 
I..a d ( aims will replace the EarJ oi Malmesbury* 
as their lender in ibe House of Lords. 
•Mr. Gladstone proposes to abolish the Univer¬ 
sity tests. 
'Hie House of Lords met on the 11th but 
without business of importance adjourned until 
the 10th inst. 
'rite regular weekly statement of the Bank of 
England, made public, on the 11th shows that 
tin- amount of bullion in vault has decreased 
4)100,000 sterling since last week. 
Ite verdy Johnson was the guest of the corpora¬ 
tion of Glasgow at dinner on the 10th. After -he 
usual toasts Mr. Johnson made a speech, in the 
course ol which he defended the treaty recently 
made for the settlement of the Alabama claims. 
He regarded this treaty its one settling the 
points at issue and preventing further trouble 
in future. He quoted from Earl Russell assay¬ 
ing that the escape of the Alabama from tlie 
British port was due to the insanity* of tho law 
officer of ti.c Crown. 
At tile banquet to the Ministry at Fish¬ 
mongers’ Hall on tho lltb. Mr. Gladstone re¬ 
marked that the last House of Commons had 
been condemned by the Government of the day. 
That Government had been brought to the bar 
of public* opinion on a distinct issue, and the 
policy of the people was now most clearly de¬ 
fined. 
A Dublin telegram of the lfith states that the 
Mayor of Dublin will take advantage of the 
first public levee to present Queen Victoria the 
monster petition for the amnesty of the Fenian 
prisoners, which has been so extensively signed 
by corporate authorities of cities and town 
throughout Ireland. i 
France. 5 
A Paris dispatch of the 5th announces that / 
the Government has promised the early pa.v- 1 
ment of one installment of the Mexican debt. J 
A Paris telegram of the 10th states that the ) 
Press ol that city deny with much indignation t 
the truth of the assertion made by M. Bismarck’s J 
organ in Berlin, to tbe effect that they ha ve been 9 
bribed by the Prussian Government. Ml 
