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FROM WASHINGTON. 
CoiigrcHBloiial. 
Little real progress has been made on any 
important measure, in the Senate, except the 
Funding Hill, which, after considerable debate 
and 6omo amendment, has been passed by a vote 
of 33 to 10. The Georgia Bill has undergone fur¬ 
ther discussion, and has been made the basis of 
a speech by Senator Hovels, or Miss., who was 
complimented warmly on his maiden Senatorial 
effort by Senator Morton. The House joint 
resolution, appropriating to the widow of the 
late Edwin M. Stanton a sum equal toonoyear's 
salary of an Associate Justice of the Supremo 
Court of the United States, has been passed. 
Much opposition Is developing against the 
House Army Hill, and It. Is thought it cannot go 
through In Its present form. A hill to organize 
a new Territory called Oklahoma,, has been in¬ 
troduced ; and several bills have boon reported, 
of which the one ro-organlzlng the Consular 
service is of most general interest. It abolishes 
many Consulates, Hxes regular salaries and 
makes sundry other changes. General Sickles 
has been confirmed as Miuister to Spain by a 
vote of 45 to 13, 
In the House Mr. Butler has reported a hill to 
admit the State of Texas to representation In 
Congress, staling that it was Identical with the 
Virginia and Mississippi Bills, with toe exception 
of an additional provision that its passage shall 
not affect the conditions under which Texas whs 
originally admitted into the Union, and the same 
lias been passed. Tim Funding Bill has been, 
after some discussion touching the proper ref. 
eronce, referred to the Committee on Ways and 
Means. The Tariff Bill has boon under consid¬ 
eration lu Committee Of the Whole. The Gen¬ 
eral Deficiency Bill has also consumed consider¬ 
able time. It appropriates an aggregate amount 
of $2,477,711 for deficiencies in the civil service 
for the present fiscal year. The largest Items 
nro as follows:—For Post-Office at New Fork, 
$400,000. Boston, $300,000; Mint at Han Francis¬ 
co, $100,000, and Reconstruction expenses, $3s5,- 
000. The case of Mr. Butler of Tennessee, 
charged with improperly disposing of a West 
Point cadetship, has boon dually disposed of by 
a vote of condemnation. A resolution of expul¬ 
sion failed of the necessary two-t birds majority. 
miscellaneous. 
Tiie State Department has received favorable 
answers from Sweden and Norway, Denmark, 
Austria, North Germany, Turkey and Greece, 
to the proposition for a conference to regulate 
ocean telegraphs. 
The resignation of Colonel Daniel Butterfield, 
Brevet Major-General, has been accepted by the 
President, to take effect March 14, 1870, 
Secretary Fish announces that thirty States 
have rat ified the Fifteenth Amendment. 
The Treasury Department proposes to make 
counterfeiting unprofitable by covering the bill 
with printing so finely executed that counter¬ 
feiters cannot afford to copy It. In one case one 
word was repeated on n dollar note 32,000 t imes. 
The chief of the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing is preparing models for the bonds to be 
issued under the new Funding Bill. 
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LEGISLATIVE. 
In the New York Senate the General Appro¬ 
priation Bill has been reached, and ordered to a 
third reading. The hill re-organizing the Police 
Department of New York City lias also been or¬ 
dered to a third reading. The most important 
measures of the week have been introduced in 
the Assembly, among which are the New York 
City and County tax levies: a bill for funding 
the Canal debt, and extending the time of pay¬ 
ment to eighteen years.said bill lobe submitted 
to the people at the next general election ; one 
to incorporate the New York Arcade Ballway 
Company; and one which under a fair cover en¬ 
ables the Hudson River and Central IhUiroud 
Company to increase their fares one cent per 
mile. This latter project is also before the Sen¬ 
ate. Among the bills passed by the Assembly 
are the Senate bill granting a new charter to the 
City of Albany; that establishing u Police De¬ 
partment in Brooklyn; and that relative to the 
carrying and use of pistols, holding as indictable 
for murder persons us! ng a pist ol claimed to he 
in self-defense. The Senate resolution asking 
for a Conference Committee on the Excise Law 
lias been met by the appointment of such com¬ 
mittee. 
The Louisiana Legislature adjournod sine die 
again on the ltlth Inst. Among its last note was 
the passage of a bill giving $100,000 in State 
bonds to a company for the improvement of 
Bayou Rapids, and a resolution abrogating Ar¬ 
ticle 50 of the Constitution, the question lo be 
submitted to the people at the next general elec¬ 
tion. The appropriations made by the regular 
and extra sessions amount to about $13,000,000. 
In the Pennsylvania Legislature the House 
has passed a bill prohibiting the erection of any 
bridge across the Ohio River in that State, with 
spans or arches of less than five hundred feet 
span, or less than ninety feet above low-water 
mark, under a penalty of $5,000. 
The Massachusetts Legislature lias refused to 
pass the Act favoring the opening of the public 
library on Sunday, and the Senate has rejected 
the Liquor License Bill recontly adopted by the 
House by a vote Ql 22 | o 17 . 
The Ohio House has passed a bill to punish as 
a felony the placing of poison in the way of any 
person with intent to do injury; also, a bill au¬ 
thorizing the County Commissioners and City 
Councils to aid the soldiers' orphans, and a reso¬ 
lution memorializing Congress to confer on t he 
State courts a concurrent jurisdiction with the 
Federal courts in maritime suits arising on in¬ 
land waters. 
The Alabama Legislature has passed an act 
making habitual drunkenness a legal ground 
for divorce. 
The Now Jersey Legislature adjourned sine tiie 
on the 17tli inst. Among tiie bills passed at the 
last moment were those consolidating Jersey 
City and oilier towns in Hudson county, and re¬ 
lieving tiie Eric Railroad from municipal taxa¬ 
tion. 
The Maine Senate has rejected the House bill 
to abolish capital punishment. 
A colored Senator has introduced ft bill in the 
Mississippi Senate guaranteeing equal public 
and civil rights. 
in the Missouri Legislature the House has 
passed the Semite concurrent reeolutlon pro¬ 
viding for submitting to the people the consti¬ 
tutional amendments allowing negroes and 
rebels to vote and hold office; also a resolution 
preventing a division of the public school funds, 
or the appropriation of public moneys to secta¬ 
rian schools. 
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NEW YORK STATE. 
The storm which swept over a large section 
of country the early part of last week, was es¬ 
pecially seven: throughout much of this State. 
At Rochester, over two feet of snow fell. Trains 
were blockaded on the Central and Erie Rail¬ 
roads, and several buildings were crushed In ;by 
I lie unusual weight. Very high winds prevailed 
in numerous places. In Albany, the upper sto¬ 
ries of a large building were blown off, incur¬ 
ring a loss of $10,000. A schooner was driven 
ashore opposite the Highlands by the storm, and 
went to pieces, all hands being lost. Owing to 
the terrible gale, trains were Obliged to stop run¬ 
ning on the Harlem Railroad. 
The Fullerton trial was ended on the 16th 
Inst, by the acquittal ortho accused. The case 
was not sent to the jury for determination, the 
judges deciding that the evidence did not. war¬ 
rant, such a course; but the jury were Instructed 
to render a verdict of “ Not guilty,” which they 
did most willingly. Judge Fullerton received 
the congrat ulations of his friends on the result 
of the trial, and when Justices Woodruff and 
Blutchford left tho bench chccr upon chccr re¬ 
sounded through Min court room. 
The suit begun by the Erie Railway ugalnst 
Cornelius Valid* riff it, to recover about II vo mil¬ 
lions of dollars alleged to have been obtained by 
fraud and collusiou, was before Judge Barnard 
of the Supreme Court, last. week. Jay Gould 
testified that two checks of $429,000 and $510,000 
were passed to Vanderbilt, with the understand¬ 
ing that the suits against the Company, with 
which V r underbill subsequently claimed to have 
no connect ion, should be discontinued. 
A petition signed by Hie leading linns and 
prominent Cit izens erf Buffalo has been forward¬ 
ed to Albany asking the Legislature to grant 
( lie City Council ol' Buffalo authority to lease 
Terrace Park to the Mechanics’ institute to 
erect a large llre-poof building for the purpose 
of holding the international Industrial exposi¬ 
tions. 
The Northern Hotel, in Utica, erected in 1795, 
was destroyed by lire on Sunday night, (lie 13th 
hist. Among the historical personages who 
were guests in (his Old house in its palmy days 
were Aaron Burr, tho Indian chief “ Red Jacket, 
and others of less fame. 
Tho Wuverlcy National Bank, situated in tho 
village of Waver Icy, eighteen miles oast, of El¬ 
mira, was entered by burglars on the night of 
the 12th inst. Tho vault and safe were blown 
open and robbed of most of their oont.cnIs. 
The amount stolen is not yet ascertained. 
It is said that eight, new depots are to be built 
between Rochester and Syracuse, on the lino of 
the Central road, the larger number of which 
will be on tho Auburn branch, which is hi great 
need of them. 
Full time and full pay have been restored in 
the workshops of the New York Cent ral Rail¬ 
way at Rochester. 
The masons, bricklayers and plasterers of Al¬ 
bany have formed a co-operative association 
and have already nine houses to build. 
St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York 
City by on immense procession numbering fully 
10,000 men. 
Judge Johnson of Rochester has rendered his 
decision upon the motion made in tiie Susque¬ 
hanna Railroad case by tho so-called Fisk direc¬ 
tors. denying tiie motion and sustaining the 
Ramsey directors upon all the points. The mo¬ 
tion was to sot aside tiie judgment rendered on 
Judge .Smith’s decision, and restore the road to 
the possession of tiie receiver. Tins decision 
leaves tho Ramsey Board m undisturbed control 
of the road. 
The Stuta Temperance Society met in Albany 
last week. Hon. JohnO'Dounell of Lewis coun¬ 
ty was chosen President. The Society adopted 
a platform embodying their principles, and de¬ 
claring they would seek the nomination for po¬ 
litical positions of those who will indorse those 
principles and will vote for none others. Reso¬ 
lutions were also adopted calling on the Legisla¬ 
ture to repeal all license laws to sell liquor, 
and pass a law allowing people in (he county, 
town or city to decide liy majority on the license 
question; protesting against Mieeneouragcuient. 
of sectarian schools and appropriating public 
money to t heir support; and recommending 1 lie 
organization of temperance voters in every 
school district, prevailing on each voter to sign 
a pledge that ho will vote only for prohibitory 
men. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
A letter just received by It. C. McCormick, 
delegate from Arizona, lias the following re¬ 
garding political affairs in tiie State of Sonora: 
The older Gnndera, ex-Governor of Sonora, is 
reported to bo on tiie Rio Mayo with a large 
party of Mexicans and Indians prepared to tight 
Governor Pesquiera and his troops. To meet 
him, Pesquiera is impressing men into the ser¬ 
vice. and many of the people are fleeing to tho 
mountains, mid to Arizona and California, to 
avoid the draft. Young Miguel Gandora is in 
command of tho forces acting for his father. 
The Red River New Nation of Fob, 25, says: 
Tho late threatening movement of English set¬ 
tlors for i lie release of the Canadian prisoners 
at Fort Garry 1ms stopped. President Rielio, to 
prevent bloodshed, released all the prisoners, 
whereupon the English force, numbering six 
hundred men well organized and armed, dis¬ 
banded and returned homo. Dr. Schultz is de¬ 
clared banished from the territory. Delegates 
will shortly leave for Canada to conclude ar¬ 
rangements with the Dominion Government, 
It is understood that the Government of Canada 
is willing to grant all the demands of the Rod 
River people, 
Tho jury in session at Laramie City, Wyoming 
Terri lory, largely composed of women, were ro- 
1 eased on the 13th inst., having been locked up 
for five days and nights on account of their in¬ 
ability to agree on a verdict in the llowie mur¬ 
der ease. 
A large meeting was held in Cheyenne on tho 
I2th inst,,indorsing Generals Sherman, Sheridan 
and Augur. Resolutions were adopted sustain¬ 
ing t hese officers in their action in regard to Col. 
Baker's affairs in Montana, and thanking the 
soldiers under his command. The Big Horn ex¬ 
pedition will start about April 20, but will not 
interfere with Indian reservations. 
On the night of tho 12th inst. the jail at Dia¬ 
mond City, Montana, whs forcibly entered by a 
Vigilance Commtttoe, who seized \V. T. Patrick, 
confined there for Die murder of John Benson, 
at Oregon Gulch, on the 4th Inst., and hung him 
to a beam in the jail. The Jailor did not live in 
the jail. 
sUige coach, on the road to Helena on Sun¬ 
day evening the 13th inst., with ten passengers, 
all Chinamen, capsized at. Dey Creek, two hun¬ 
dred ami forty mlk j above Corlnno, Utah. The 
night was intensely cold, and two of the China- 
moil were immediately frozen to death. The 
remainder of the purty started on foot for Big 
San Hole Station. Tlneeof them reached there 
badly frozen; four were found dead on the road, 
ami the tenth is missing. 
The damage none to Southern California by 
the long-continued drouth has been great. The 
Monterey Democrat says: “In many instances, 
indeed, the sheep owners, in place of seeking to 
rescue the annual crop of lambs, are employing 
men to knoek them over the head ns fast as they 
arc born. In San Luis Obispo sheep aro selling 
at fifty cents a head, and cuttle from ten to 
twenty dollars.” 
Immigration to Kansas, this season, is unpre¬ 
cedented in the history of tho Stale. The rail¬ 
road company lias been obliged to order addi¬ 
tional rolling stock to meet the requirements of 
freight and passengers. The first shipment of 
Colorado cattle over the rotid has Just taken 
place, and there are 10,(KK) head ut Kit Carson's 
awaiting shipment. 
An arrival from Red Cloud’s entnpon Tongue 
River, Wyoming Territory, reports the Indians 
as desirous of peace. The Chief thought tiie eon- 
duet, of the Indians this spring would depend on 
the reply one of their representatives, then on 
a mission to tho whites, would bo able to bring. 
Tlio roofing on both wings ol the Court House 
in Chicago fell last week, under tin* union of 
snow thereon accumulated. Loss from $30,000 
to $ 10 , 000 . 
Gen. J. W. Shaffer o- Freeport, III., the newly 
appointed Govern* *■ of Utah, hus left Chicago 
for Stdt Lake City, to enter upon Ids official 
duties. 
Three painters were killed in Chicago the other 
day, by the breakliigof a staging sixty loot from 
the pavement. 
A seamstress named Mary J. Lunsford, was 
found murdered m her bed, in .Mansfield, Ohio, 
on Saturday morning. No clue to tho murderer 
has beeu discovered. 
Gen. Solomons, lately confirmed as Governor 
of Washington Territory, expects to take with 
him about LOCK) German emigrants from Chica¬ 
go, St. Louis and Cincinnati. 
In Mellon township, Wayne Co., Ohio, on the 
12th inst., tho boiler of a portable saw mill ex¬ 
ploded, killing Jacob Knapp, Robert and Frank 
McConnell, John Fritz, David Shook, and two 
men named Hover, 
The Governor of Illinois has pardoned Flora 
Mills, the young girl who was recently sent to 
Stall* Prison for burglary In QuinCy. She Is to 
be placed in a reformatory institution in Cin¬ 
cinnati. 
Gen. Sheridan, in a general order, announces 
to his command the complete success of Col. 
Baker against IrTTTTyu of Plcgftn Indians. Ho 
says the proximity of these Indians to the 
British frontier lias enabled them to commit 
murders and robberies with impunity. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
Tiie Rhode Island State Detnooratic Conven¬ 
tion was held in Providence on the 10th Inst. 
Lyman Pierce was nominated for Governor; 
Charles It. Cutler for Lieut.-Governor; William 
J. Miller for Secretary of State: Philip Rider for 
Treasurer; and George N. Bliss for Attorney- 
General. 
General James W. Ripley, of the United States 
Army, died in Hartford, Conn., on the 16th. Ho 
was horn In Windham, Conn., December 10, 
1731, and received his first commission in the 
army June 1,1811. 
Til** Long Island and Connecticut, oystermen 
being at war, their beds are guarded by armed 
men, with instructions to shoot any man who 
dares trespass. 
The finding of a team, with wagon attached 
filled with chromes and engravings, in the woods 
at Bridgeport, Conn., leads to anxious inquiries 
after tho driver. 
Tho severest snow-storm and gale known for 
years raged ill Hemiinglon, VI., on the 10th Inst. 
Tho Mount Anthony Observatory was blown 
down and much other damage was done by the 
storm. 
The members of the Sixth Massachusetts Regi¬ 
ment, in Lowell, aro making arrangements for 
observing the anniversary of their passage 
through Baltimore, on the 19th of April, 1861. 
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* FROM THE SOUTH. 
Colonel E. M. Yeroer, who killed Colonel 
Crane, of the United States Army, in Jackson, 
Miss., nearly a year ago,escaped from jail on tho 
12th inst. He was recently t urned over by tho 
military to the civil authorities. The sheriff is 
searching for him, hut without effect- A reso¬ 
lution appointing a committee to investigate 
the circumstance of his escape has been passed 
by the Legislature. 
Since last October 53,000 emigrants, black and 
white, have passed through Memphis, 15,000 of 
whom were foreigners, principally from tho 
neighborhood of Chicago, seeking for homes in 
t he cotton Stales. The blacks aro mainly from 
Virginia. 
The Memphis Board of Education has pro¬ 
hibited all religious exercises in tho public 
schools. 
Cumberland, Md H is suffering from an undue 
amount of rowdyism and crime. On tho night 
of the 12th inst., six buildings in the city were 
fired by incendiaries, the streets were filled with 
drunken men, stones were thrown through tho 
windows of several houses, and a general feel¬ 
ing-of insecurity, apprehension and alarm pre¬ 
vailed. 
Thirty-seven distilleries have beeu seized in 
Texas within the last twenty days. 
The passage of the Homestead Exemption Bill 
by the Virginia Legislature, is received with 
great delight by 1 he people of that afflicted State. 
The bill exompts $2,000. 
Forty colored families left Washington one 
day last week for Mississippi, wlitre they have 
been employed at high wages to work on cotton 
plantations. 
The cheapness of good sea-island cotton land 
in the Caroliuas is marvelous. Recontly, at one 
of the monthly sales under the hammer of t)*:- 
sheriff at Beaufort, a plantation of 780 acres sold 
for $1,290, one of 175 acres for $100, one of 400 
acres for $275, one of 550 acres for $100, etc. 
There are two firms in Wilmington, N. C., who 
arc regularly shipping a large quantity of lum¬ 
ber from that port to Cardenas, Cuba, for the 
use of the Spaniards. 
Tho Virginia Historical Society held its first 
meeting since the war, in Richmond, on the 10th 
instant. 
Governor Walker, of Virginia, has appointed 
a new City Council for Richmond, under tho En¬ 
abling Act. 
The University of Virginia has received from 
Count Bismarck a valuable collection of photo¬ 
graphic and engraved designs of recent Govern¬ 
ment works Jn Germany, exhibiting the modern 
improvements applied to bridges, canals, rail¬ 
ways and public buildings. 
Telegrams aro published from persons in Sa¬ 
vannah, Go., denying tho recent statements re¬ 
garding tho Ill-treatment of Northern men in 
that State, and ascribing the dist urbances on the 
Brunswick and Albany Railroad to the non-pay¬ 
ment of t he laborers by the contractors. 
There Is a municipal conflict in Richmond, 
growing out of a belief on the part or some 
that t he Enabling Act is unconstitutional. Gov. 
Walker has appointed a City Council, and they 
have elected Henry E. Ellison Mayor, and 
chosen a new police force. Mayor Gaboon re¬ 
fuses to yield the Mayoralty, and at last accounts 
was in a state of siege in one of the station 
houses. 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
No tidings have yet boon received from the 
steamer City of Boston. A dispatch announcing 
her safe arrival in Liverpool, was bulletined in 
New York City on the 10th inst., and caused un¬ 
bounded joy; but it was a cmel hoax, and her 
safety is t tow generally despaired of. Twoother 
steamers arc missing,—tho Samaria, of the Ctt- 
nard line, and tho Triumfo. The former sallod 
from Liverpool on the 26th inst., and has not 
since been heard of. Tho latter sailed from 
Philadelphia about the first of December, for 
Port-au-Prince. She belonged to the Haytion 
Government, but was officered by Americans, 
and laid an American crew of one hundred men. 
There were two Haytion Senators on board, and 
the wife of the captain. Once she was reported 
wrecked off Fortune Island, but this was after¬ 
ward denied. There is little hope of her. 
A desperate fight has taken place In Mexico, 
between Gen. Rogulcz and Gov. do (Jinlena, com¬ 
manding the revolutionists, near Coronclla Hill. 
Gov, do Cadcna was defeated with great loss. 
Gen. Rogulcz look 1,000 prisoners, among them 
many officers. At last accounts Gov. de Cadcna 
was hemmed in, and would have to defeat Gen. 
Rogulcz or lose his own army. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
A EEttATR upon I ho Ballot Bill, which is 
claimed by its friends to he the only remedy fox- 
groat evils, especially In Ireland, has been had 
in the English House of Lords. On a motion to 
adjourn it the House divided, and adjournin'*-nt 
was defeated by one hundred and ten majority. 
It was then agreed t hat the House should go into 
committee on the bill on the 3d of May. 
The investigation had nt Yokohama, Japan, In 
regard to the sinking of tiie Oneida secured only 
insignificant results. Although testimony was 
adduced even from other British officers strong¬ 
ly telling against Captain Eyre, who commanded 
t he Bombay, he was exculpated from all blame 
for running down the Oneida. For leaving the 
scene of disaster without lending any aid he was 
merely censured, and had his commission sus¬ 
pended for six months. 
A meeting was hc-ld at the American Chapel in 
Paris, on the night of the 15th lust., in honor of 
the memory of the late Anson Burlingame. It 
was largely attended by Americans, and some 
distinguished Frenchmen were present. Minis¬ 
ter Washburne presided, and made a speech pay¬ 
ing tribute to the political and social qualities of 
Mr. Burlingame, who, he said, had been his friend 
since 1855. Rev. Mr. Lam bon read resolutionsof 
eulogy aud condolence. Ex-Goveraor Bullock 
of Massachusetts delivered an eloquent address. 
Marshal MacMahon, Governor-General of Al¬ 
giers, lias tendered his resignation to the Em¬ 
peror of France. It is supposed that tho recent 
discussion in the Corps Legislatlf on the Admin¬ 
istration of Algeria lias caused the Marshal to 
take this stop. 
The Count do Montalcmbort, the loader of the 
liberal Catholic party in France, died on the 12th 
inst., in the sixtieth year of his ago. The respect 
in Paris for this eminent statesman and author 
was evinced by the appearance of the Journals 
of all parties in mourning. 
II is again reported that the Pope is very ill 
and weak. 
The x-eport that Austria indorses the demands 
of France on Hie Vaticau, rests, it is said, on 
trustworthy authority. 
The rumored departure of the French Ambas¬ 
sador from Rome is not confirmed. 
A London dispatch says that the union of tho 
English ami Scottish Presbyterian bodies ap¬ 
proaches realization. 
Another Japanese embassy is about to start on 
a tour through America and Europe. 
Gen. Prim was assailed by an anti-conscription 
mob in Madrid on the 15th inst. He succeeded in 
making his escape unhurt. 
Intelligence from Madrid says that a sentiment 
Is rising in Spain in favor of abandoning tiie 
Island Of Cuba to the United States. A fierce 
controversy is in progress over the bust means of 
disposing of the question, but tho proposition to 
give up the island, which is advocated boldly by 
some of the journals, is opposed by a majoi-ity of 
the press as cowardly and unpatriotic. 
A duel has been fought between tho Duke de 
Montponsier and Prince Henri do Bourbon, re¬ 
sulting in the death of the latter at the third 
shot . Montponsier and his seconds are in Mad¬ 
rid, and have not been arrested. It is said that 
this affair will injure the Duke’s chances for the 
Ihrone. It occasioned intense excitement among 
all parties. 
The Ministerial election in Portugal termina¬ 
ted on the J5th inst. Ail tho Ministers were re¬ 
elected. The country elections generally re¬ 
sulted in favor of the Ministry. 
Austria offers to assist, as an independent 
power, at tho International Congress suggested 
by President Grant, for tho protection of tele¬ 
graph cables, but declines to preside over its de¬ 
liberations. 
On the arrival of the steamship Idaho at 
Queenstown, on the 13th inst., from New York, 
a passenger named Phillips was arrested by the 
police for the forgery of United States bonds to 
the extent of $40,000. 
Another vessel has been run down and sunk 
by a steamer of the Oriental and Peninsula Line, 
to which tho Bombay belongs. The Sunda ran 
down and sunk t ho German ship Carry and Jane 
Off the const of Japan. 
Latest, news from the Paraguayan war is to the 
effect that the Dictator Lopez had retreated 
northward to tv point near Miranda, in Matto 
Grasso, a province of Brazil. He was accom¬ 
panied by a few followers, who were making 
every effort to pass the frontier into Bolivia. 
Prince D’Eu, the Allied Commander, had made 
O judicious disposition Of bis troops, aud enter¬ 
tained strong hopes of capturing Lopez and his 
band before they could escape from Brazilian 
territory. Additional troops from the Argen¬ 
tine provinces an* concentrating in Paraguay. 
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PRESS OPINIONS OF TEE RURAL. 
Moore’S RURA I. NeW-YOTIKER.- Wo nre not given 
tn (luffing Mi rough tiie rohimnx of tho I'nllr-go Advo¬ 
cate-In tact seldom .allow ourselves to notice. edito¬ 
rially, any enterprise, however deserving of enm- 
ini-ndnfcton it may be: hut. Moore's Rural New- 
Yorker hns challenged onr admiration to mi oh an 
extent as to cause us lo overate pour prescribed limit 
to mi y a word in lt» praise. We nave at wavs regarded 
the RURAL as the lu st Agricultural Guide utid Fam- 
By Companion in the country: but the long strides 
Widal) ii has rec-nlly token place* It pre-eminently 
in advance of nil competitors, if the high toned 
nnseelijiny which It enntnlns. from week to week. 
Could supersede tiie t ra*1iy si alt whloll has found its 
way Inin fo many families, It would he a glorious 
consummation. We coiouicud the Rural unsolic¬ 
ited, and hope for reward only in see*ml a higher 
moral tone imparted to tho literature of the day.— 
College Advoadr. llnchrstrr. ,V. I • 
Moore's Rural Nkw-Yorker. — Through tho 
pii-t ye .r our render* have been, from time to time, 
vastly benefited wo doubt not, hy reason of the many 
extracts wo have published from this truly able Agri¬ 
cultural woo Id, paper. It is not too much to say that 
it I* the best paper of its class In nil tho land. At 
every tlreside In Lincoln county wo should be glad 
to know it would go every week In WTO. Yes,in every 
county of our Statu, wo should tool gratified to see 
many hearth* am! heroes gladdened hy Its ever useful 
presence, i mr pooplo would be wiser and hotter for 
it.— Dispatch, tSiunfovA, lip. 
The Rural Is now a mammoth sheet, gotten up 
tn elegant style, very neatly printed, and tilled with 
a variety >■! useful liiLirioaMoo on almost :• 11 sub¬ 
ject* A: rt* *1 It a pc. Hm multure, Rural Life. News, 
Literature,Science and the Arl- Tiie Rural, under 
| the management **f friend Moore, has been an im¬ 
mense success. This success is owing to the fact 
j that he makes u paper which the people want, and 
one they will have.- American, Albion, .V. i r . 
The Rural New-Yorker D the greatest and 
Oldest newspaper devoted to Agriculture. Horticul¬ 
ture and general InterestsOt the people that we know 
of. it contain* more rending matter than any other 
paper of its kind, and a vast amount of useful Infor¬ 
mation to all. We cannot to*) highly recommend it 
to our friends.—At ics, (Jrortietuil/n, O. 
The Rural New-Yorker.—T his is the largest 
hast and cheapen Rural and Family Newspaper now 
publish pel. Rul ways contains a lurge amount of val¬ 
uable Information for farmer*, and Its literary col¬ 
umns are marie up from the productions of the best 
writers In the country, A*n family journal it is sim¬ 
ply indispensable, and should Ood lt« way into every 
homo circle in tho country.— Poet, Appleton, Il ls. 
The Rural New-Yorker ha* so long been nt the 
head or Hie Agricultural periodicals of the country, 
that any word said in its praise by us would he super¬ 
fluous. During the iroailog year ll* proprietor is de¬ 
termined to outdo all hi* former efforts.and will em¬ 
body In this, hi* favorite enterprise, nil t In* requisites 
of a perfect Horticultural and Agricultural paper. 
No intelligent farmer can afford to do without it.— 
Ohiejtatii, Pueblo , OoUinulo. 
WE must again call the attention of our patrons to 
the rural Xrw-YmiKidi. For two decades ttlins 
gone forth (ever Improving Itself ns well as Us read¬ 
ers) to gladden and enlighten tho farmers and people 
generally of our broad land. It Is, per * recllnuc, tho 
head and front or the Agricultural papers of the 
country.—Journal, TUUoute, Pa. 
Moore's Rural New-Yorker, since Its size was 
doubled at the opening of lids year, is the largest 
and handsomest Agricultural Weekly in America. It 
was always one nt the bust. Wc hear, without sur¬ 
prise, that its subscriptions are double those of any 
former year.—A’. l r . Tribune. 
THE Rural, us an Agricultural and Family News¬ 
paper, is the host and most widely circulated in tho 
worId .—Kvm lug Express. 
foe fetdiets. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, March 17.1870. 
Bonus nml PeaB.— There Isa fair local demand 
light receipts give holders a stronger position. 
Choice medium und marrows, suitable for grocers, 
are scarce and can bo quoted Sc. higher but full 
lines of general stock would not sell above owr in¬ 
side range. Green 1‘eas are lower; Canada and 
Black-eye dull and nominal. 
Houns Kidney, p bush., $2.30® 3.75 ; pea. prime 
»l.U0®*VJ)0t medium, band picked. $1.70tcl.S0, good 
to prime, $1.50(^1.65; common to fair, $l*5tl.10; mar¬ 
rows, hand picked. $2.35(52 45: good to prime,I2.1O&2.30; 
common to fair. $1.25".LU): J.ima, f.VH.V.V). Peas— 
Canada, bond, toc.&Ol; free, in toffs., $1.15(31 —; green, 
$1.00,5.1.70; marrowfat, $1 .T.Vjff.90; black-eye. South¬ 
ern, 2 bushel bag, fl.ltKrt.Zj. 
Beeswax. —There have been some small sales at 
40c., but l>e.st buyers wlU not now pay above 89e., and 
38c. Is quoted for other good lots. 
Broom Corn— Quiet, and tending lower. 
Bolter— Continued steady, and free sales have de¬ 
creased theauxiety of holders, and should there be 
no abatement in this local demand, wlilch Is helped 
materially hy the call from other cities, there is a 
fair possibility that dealers will not be hampered 
with n perplexing surplus at t.bo Close of the season. 
Receipts aie light, a fact with tho reported firmer 
rales In the country, strengthen t.lio opinion current 
in s..me quarters, which estimates that the bulk of 
stock has come forward. This feature does not in¬ 
cline sellers tv* stiffen quotations, and what shade of 
improvement a few of our price* tor State show, is 
created by buyers them selves. The export of butter 
to foreign port* since January 1st, add up nearly one 
quarter of a million pounds. 
State and Pennsylvania, pails, line,38® 40c.; do., fair 
to good, 80&]*33e.; Pennsylvania, tubs, !%35o.; State, 
firkins, fine, 32Pi)36c.: medium to good, &S*»30c.: kali 
tubs, line, 38".40c.; medium to good. 2SA.T0e.; fancy 
selections, 41«j4;tc.; Welsh, tubs, full made, 83©35e.; 
do., prime dairies, 30vc32e.; do., fair to good dairies, 
25(s,2,c..: Ohio, Reserve, fresh, 23i»24c.: do., common 
to good, 314x33c.; other selections, 20&23o,; othor 
Western, tlrlctns, &c„ fine. 2%**24c.: fair to good, 
20&32C,: Western l’olls, prime, 24&27«.; common but¬ 
ter, 156)1 Sc. 
Cheese.— Holdershavc metthe views of shippers, 
amt very many good lines of factory have sold during 
the week at I554l6.'4c. There n now some disposition 
to hold extra parcels for home nso; Jobbers are pay¬ 
ing 16c., and small lot* will bring lC.'fc*. About 17,000 
boxes have gone to exporters during the past nine 
days. The stock is heavy, estimated at 78,000 boxes. 
Factory, State, extra, «» m., Me.; good to fine, 
15osl5>jc.; common, 11 A&Ha'c-: Farm Dairy, choice, 
15Jf)0ff<k!.: good to fine, I5@15.J4c.; common to fair. 
liJsi'trtiU Jfc-: English Dairy, good to prime, 10'i@17>ic.* 
poor, 18J4wl0c.; Pineapple, State, 25&3UC.; do., Con¬ 
necticut, 26*2 27. 
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