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VOLUME XXII DETROIT MICHIGAN THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 17 1859 REORM BILL CHANGES IN THE BRITISH CABINET i 4 0 Louisville the Alvin Ohio has Nebraska 18 19 20 21 24 25 26 14 15 16 28 29 30 23 24 25 takes to 30 to 26 KB takes Kt Canties side to square to 4lb to 3d to 3d to Kt 3d to square QR to 7tb to 2d takes takes to Kt 7th to square to 3d takes to 4th takes WILBUR STOREY SUITOR AND PROPRIETOR trflve Continuance or Jr Preparations Unfortunate On Saturday night as a party of ladies and gentlemen were returning home through the woods from a singing school in East Palestine a tree broken by the storm fell on a lady and gentleman who were together and engaged to be married fracturing the skull and left arm When we last heard from them they were still living but no hopes entertained oftheir recovery The rest of the party escaped unhurt Salm O) Republican Brazilian Mediation Accepted by Paraguay The Proposed Military Evacuation of the Papal States Tiro Great Eastern The London Times reports as follows of the mammoth steamship Great Eastern and the pros pect of running her under joint stock auspices The first meeting of the Great Ship Company was held this morning Mr Campbell in the chair The company are now the registered owners of the Great Eastern having purchased her from the Eastern Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £165332 Of this sum £161482 has been paid in shares and money The proprietors of the old undertaking have shown extraordinary unanimity in coming into the new scheme and in many cases have largely increased their holdings The total of shareholders is 2261 and the list in cludes persons of all classes from leading mer chant and bankers members of Parliament and scientific men to domestic servants The com pletion of the ship is expected iu August and although the necessary contracts have not yet been entered into tenders have been received from houses of the highest respectability It was observed that in the event of the ship being suc cessful India and England will be independent of Egypt for intercommunication At Portland in America about £25000 have leen expended for a wharf in anticipation of her arrival and it is still proposed that her first trip shall be to that place unless considering the present position of affairs she should be required tor military is the entire score: Detroit Black to 4th Kt II 3d Io ft 3d KL to 3d 5 Kt takes 6 takes 7 to 3d 8 to 4th 9 Kt to 3d 11) 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 to Kt 3d 42 to Kt 3d 43 takes 44 takes 45 to 46 to 4th 47 to aq 48 II to 2d 49 to Kt 3d 50 to sq 51 to Kt 2d 52 takes 53 to Sth 54 to 7th Postmaster General Brown Predic A Gurions Coincidence A Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun relates the following of the late Postmaster General: lu his office on last Saturday four oeeks an incident took place the solemn verification of which vividly revives it in the mind of the only survivor of the three gentlemen present at the interview Postmaster General Brown was signing op his official journal his clerk standing on his left turning over the pages as each signature was af fixed Mr Marron then the efficient and vigor ous Third Assistant Postmaster General having undercharge at that critical period the import ant responsibilities of the finance division enter ed the room to obtain Mr signature to a draft Turning to the right he cheerfully signed the pa per and Mr was retiring when the head of the department remarked: I wish you would come iu and see me when I get through with Being then long after the usual office hours Mr turned and said: wish me to see you again to day replied Mr Brown 1 want to know if you have set your house in order for in a month or less we shall have neither a habitation nor a name Mr Marron with a conviction that his official house was always in order paused moment and with surprise and a smile remarked My bouse in or sir your honse in order for in a month or less we shall have neither habitation nor a name replied Mr Marron the storm comes I can stand it as well as and then pleasantly left the room "The lamented bead of the Department then said that bis remarks referred to the action of Congress indicating the defeat of luipoitaut measures then under review lamentably was the pre diction of that hohr! On that very day four weeks the efficient and beloved assistant was fol lowed to the tomb and now the nation is called to mourn over the enlightened patriotic virtuous statesman from whose lips with so much empha sis It Jealousy aud Revenge Prom the Philadelphia Journal March 10 Yesterday afternoon a little affair occurred in the vicinity of ourth and Walnut streets result ing in exposing the details of one of those cases of conjugal infidelity which have of late jears be come so extremely fashionable iu this and glorious Mr Thomas Price is a young gentleman employed iu Megargee's dry goods store at No 249 Market street is of rather excita ble temperament and withal an individual of good parts Mr Richardson is also a young man aud the secretary of an insurance company Price was oftentimes called to the country and during his absence it is said by certain knowing ones that Richardson would slily visit the wife of the former and encroach upon the honor of his friend The wife in question is represented to bo lovely in face and form and just such a woman as could successfully play the part of a temptress At all events Price heard of the alleged illegal attachment between his wife and Richardson and was almost driven to despair Yesterday at noon he was furnished with what he considered un doubted evidence of double dealing and at once in an indescribable state of mind re paired to the office of the insurance company where he encountered the object of his search He accused Mr of having played a false and cowardly part towards him by seeking to bring dishonor upon his name and said in an excited manner that he came to rebuke him by physical force Suiting the action to the word Mr Price gave a very severe drubbing A number of gentlemen in the office interfered and after some difficulty succeeded in rescuing him from the iron clutches of Mr Price The assailant was then sur rounded by the friends of Mr It who took him into custody aud handed him over to an officer 1 who carried him before Alderman Heitler and 1 bad him held to bail for a further hearing Somo rich developments differing from the usual de tails of such cases are expected to grow out of I the proceedings in the case SIX DAYS LATER ROM EUROPE Arrival of the Steamer City of Washington that the movements were wholly fear 1 less and his subjects claim for him the usual con comitant of such natures kindliness of heart An instance is cited by them with much approba tion in his visit impromptu and unannounced to Madame de Hatzfeidt on learning the death of her husband the Prussian Minister The little Prince Imperial however somewhat too young to manifest his own preferences is guarded with a degree of military jealousy which 1 think is regretted by the population The child has his daily mid day airing in the bois de Bou logne sitting upon the knee of his nurse in a close carriage at each window of which rides an armed cavalry officer whose troop precede and follow the equipage iu open rank with drawn sabres The escort is usually a detachment of cuirassiers of the guard the pace commonly a brisk trot or baud gallop and their clatter along the avenue of the Champs Elysees is a circumstance as regular as a tine lay and two o'clock The object of so strong and close a guard may proceed from pater nal tenderness chiefly although I should think the same paternal piety would apprehend evil effects upon the nature of the child from such jealous display Otherwise it is evidence sad tor humanity that ruffians of the breed of unconverted Huberts are suspected of having transmitted themselves inalienably in Christendom to rench posterity Departure of Jlrsu sickles from Waali ingtou rom the Washington States March 11 Mrs Sickles left for New York in the train yes terday She was accompanied by her mother Madame Bagioli and two gentlemen friends of the family Her departure has been delayed by her inability to leave her room in which ever since the sad event which has excited so much public attention she has spent her weary hours The frightful condition of nervous prostration into which she was thrown when the dreadful truth burst upon her that she was dishonored and more than widowed produced an illness which has been very severe rom day to day her friends have striven to rally her strength but without success until Wednesday last when it became evident that she would be able to endure the journey the next day Although importuned to do so Mr Sickles has from first to last kindly but resolutely refus ed to grant her a personal interview He has placed his country seat at Bloomingdale on the Hudson at the disposal of her parents with the understanding that Mrs Sickles may occupy it so long as she remains under the protectiou of her proper guardians As he has never allowed any deprivation to justify her departure from du ty heretofore he is determined that in the future while he cannot consent to pardon her offence yet no want shall ever justify a second yielding to temptation Tbeir little daughter was placed temporarily in the care of Madame Bagioli who will reside with Mrs Sickles and thus for the present enable the latter to enjoy the society of her child Eveu this concession is prompted by motives of humanity for a poor mother whose ag ony is greater than she can bear On Wednesday evening Miss Laura was taken to the jail to see her father and the artless prattle of the child in that gloomy place was very touch ing indeed but not more so than when as she was about to depart with a little bouquet which her father bad given her some dark iudelinable dread seemed to overcome her and she burst in to uncontrollable tears for which she could give no reason Those who were present say that the emotions of Mr Sickles when his child took her leave were more poignant than he has ever be fore exhibited The Position of Austria Correspondence of the London Times Vienna eb 22 The Agrwm Zeitung an official paper thus con firms inlormatiou which was contained in iny letter of the 13th inst: Austrian government has expressed its readiness to recommend administrative reforms to the Papal government but it will never even if a war should result from its refusal co operate iu an attempt to enlorce the execution of such re forms In regard to the occupation of the Papal 1 dominions the Imperial government has declar ed that it will withdraw its troops from Bologna i and Ancona at the same moment that the rench quit Rome and Civita ecchia The right of gar rison in Coinmachio errara and Piacenza which is secured to Austria by treaty will be main The rench Government or rather the Em peror Napoleon considers the foregoing condi tions unacceptable but this Cabinet is by no means likely to make any other During the last few days the policy of Austria has undergone a change Count Boel was so strongly urged by the representatives of England aud Prussia to avoid giving the Emperor Napoleon a pretext for going to war that he was much more submissive than was agreeable to the Emperor rancis Joseph who is resolved not to bear any part of the yoke which Louis Napoleon is trying to im pose on bis brother sovereigns Majesty's says a perfectly well informed person may be expressed in a few words or the sake of peace he is ready aud willing to make any con cessions which are consistent with his honor and dignity but he will not recognize the claim of the Emperor of the rench to be considered soie ar biter of all European questions of importance His Majesty is of opinion that one power has no right to put a constraint on the will of another and he therefore declines to force the Papal gov ernment to make those reforms which are con sidered Prince Influence Correspondence of the London Times Paris eb 21 The general topic of conversation and com plaint is the great influence of Prince Napoleon in the control of the business of the State It may be exaggerated but whether or not the deep discontent it gives rise to is deep and general The worst of the matter is that his Imperial High ness intelligent as he and this quality is ad mitted by persons competent to form an opinion is supposed to listen too readily to a few reckless persons without standing stake or influence iu the country and who urge him on to a course of policy disastrous to rance and to Europe The policy of peace was and it is to be hoped still is that of the Emperor but as a Senator bad the courage to remark the other day that policy can not from some mysterious cause maintain its ground against the exactions of a coterie whose opinions find an echo in the Presse the semi official organ as it is called of the Palais Royal The Prince has the luck good or ill as he may deem it of not being generally popular It gives him perhaps but little concern personally but every word every act of bis and of those who are in bis confidence is unhappily referred to a higher ori gin There can be no mistake as to the opinion of the public on this important subject public opinion cannot be set at naught and we have the opinion of the Emperor himself that it inva riably triumphs in the end The dis content extends to all classes of society and you hear sinister predictions as to the con sequences of such an influence being para mount in the Imperial counsels A per son said to be the confidential friend of Cavour stands by general report high in the fa vor and confidence of the Prince His mission is to preach war and to incessantly urge that the honor of rance is pledged against Austria LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Police Coart Dennis Doyle was accused by a man named Martin of assault and battery The complainant owed Doyle who went to him to get his pay in order that he might buy a barrel of flour "for the ehildher at This was refused him I and he lost his temper and went at Martin in a stylo that draped his face in mourning and caused him to appear in court with various hieroglyphics depicted on his countenance in the shape of fan tastic bits of sticking plaster Doyle was sen i tenced to pay a fine of five dollars or go to jail for ten days William Wilson was up for gaming on Sunday He said that himself and his companion were 1 playing bluff and that the officer suddenly changed the game to grab by which he got all the money He was fined five dollars Joan Mahany and his mother Catherine Mahany were arrested for being disorderly They were discharged Robert Brown entered a barber shop in a drunk en state and insisted upon being shaved The barber demurred upon which he smashed a pane of glass and was in return knocked into the middle of the street Several officers seized him bnt were unable to control him and a rough and tumble fight ensued which ended by his being handcuffed with his hands behind his back and carried to jail on a dray with several men sitting on him Having been in for several days he was discharged on condition of paying the costs Mary Jano Tucker was up for stealing from a private family where she worked She protested I her innocence with extreme volubility and being gently reminded of previous delinquencies of a like nature which were within the knowledge of the court owned up to them frankly but said that she had reformed since then Her argument was rendered more interesting by a peculiar lisp in her speech which caused her words to quarrel with each other in their efforts to get out Her case was adjourned Dennis Mahany was arrested for interfering i with an officer by gently knocking him on the i head while arresting a prisoner He was fined i the costs Augustus Shuenfield was fined the costs for i being drunk John Redmond a young boy was put in jail at i his own request His predilection for limbo was i not considered a good trait of character for a juvenile to exercise and he was turned out into the street emale Two amiable females engaged in a fight on Atwater street yesterday to the great disturbance of peaceable citizens and de light of assembled urchins One of them had a baby in her arms which she placed against the fence and propped up with a block on each side preparatory to sailing A general hair pull ing aud scratching then followed in which both got a beautifying which will render their coun tenances emblematic for a month to come Du ring the melee a hog rooted the baby over and would probably have made a meal of it but for the chivalry of the juveniles who unmindful of consequences let fly a volley of bricks which by a miracle missed both hog and baby The affec tionate mother noticing this movement and mis taking the object charged at the crowd and fin ished her work by drubbing several of them soundly for the effective service they had render ed her offspring inal Decision A final decision has been rendered in the long pending suit between the steamer Atlantic and the propeller Ogdensburgh in the collision case which resulted in the total loss of the former on Lake Erie in 1852 The owners of the Atlantic Messrs Ward Co of this city instituted action for damages against the owners of the propeller which has gone through the various courts and was finally decided upon in the Supreme Court at Washington last week the Messrs Ward Co being awarded damages in the sunt of 841200 The judgment has been satisfied and the matter is at last brought to a close having been iu litigation for several years The points brought out by the case are of great importance to our lake marine The Ogdensburgh was owned by the Northern Transportation Com pany Painful Accident An old lady met with a painful accident yesterday on Jefferson avenue by which she had a leg broken and received other in juries quite serious for persons of so advanced an age She was crossing the street at the time and being unmindful of carriages which were passing came quite near being run over The fright oc casioned by this circumstance caused an undue baste in getting out of the way in which she slip ped and fell upon the pavement breaking her right leg and severely bruising one of her arms She was carried home in a fainting condition There is great carelessness on the part of drivers who generally expect foot passengers to look out for their own safety whereas it is emphatically the duty of the person who guides the horses to see that they injure nobody Conviction of the Riveb Pirates The Re Court has been occupied during the pres ent week with the trial of the river pirates who it will be recollected were charged with commit ting a series of burglaries and larcenies carrying off the plunder on the little schooner Prairie lower The trial was concluded yesterday after noon when a verdict of guilty was rendered by the jury A motion was made by the counsel for the defence for an arrest of judgment on the ground that the verdict was not in accordance with the counts charged in the information The prisonershave been attended through the trial by the wife of Robinson the leader who has attract ed much attention by her devotion to their cause and energetic efforts in forwarding the defence Seeking Connubial Bliss A pair of forlorn old vagrants made their entrance to one of the offices yesterday and with a desponding air inquired for somebody who would be kind enough to marry them They had been the rounds of the priesthood clergy and magistrates without finding anybody so lost to good sense as to unite them and were quite disconsolate about it BoQi were old stagers in the petty courts having alternated between those tribunals and the county jail the largest portion of the time for two or three years What charms matrimony could have for them or what either could find to desire in the rags and misery of the other it was difficult to imagine The only solution was that misery loves company Dayton and Michigan The Cin cinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company have decided by a heavy majority of stock to contract with the Dayton and Michigan Railroad which places that road on a favorable footing and insures its completion within a few months Cars will probably be running regularly through to Toledo by the 1st of August Then we shall have a direct communication by rail to Cincin nati hnd a large amount of travel and traffic will take this route on its way to the seaboard 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Ths Daily ree Press J6 the Tri Weekly $3 th ek year invariably iu advance The Daily to city subscribers 1214 cents per week The Telegraphic Chess Game Detroit Vic torious The first game at chess by telegraph with Cleveland was concluded last evening at half past eleven Cleveland resigning the game Their efforts were directed towards ma king it a draw as they gave up at a more advan ced stage all hope of victory It was the opin ion that such a result might have been attained by a well conducted play on the part of Cleveland but it was not and Detroit has the honor of the first game The following Cleveland White to 4th Kt to 3d to Kt 5th II to 4tli to 4 th takes Kt Kt takes I' 8 Csstles 9 to square 10 BtoK 3d 11 takes 12 Kt to Kt 4th 13 Kt takes Kt 14 takes li Kt to 36 111 to K3d 17 18 19 20 28 29 30 31 32 to 2d I'toQ Kt 4tb to 3d to II 4th I to It 4th KtoQ 3d It takes It to 7th to 2d The rcueh Imperial amily Paris Correspondence of the Boaton oot The aspect of affairs has been entirely altered during the last week or ten days Napo leon not Louis Napoleon is Etuperor The change has been felt for some time past but is now openly proclaimed and the events which are now in preparation will astonish none but those who may not have followed with attention the symptoms of dissolution which have been manifest so long The first open quarrel between the relatives has taken place and all Paris is fuH of the details they overflow at the cates they boil over at the Bourse and for once however nu merous may be the recitals given they have not the usual merit of variety aud as yet I have heard but one version of the dispute which you must accept as we have doue and believe until further orders It seems that immediately on his arrival in Paris after bis matrimonial journey Plon PIon began to complain of various griev ances which had befallen him during the pro gress and already somewhat soured by the per petual reminding of good natured friends the Emperor began to answer the whining of his cousin in the sharp tone which he has at com mand Then came the speech which was taken by the country in a pacific sense whether meant so or not which exasperated Plon PIon to such a degree that be immediately sought an interview with bis Imperial relative who already feeling ill and grievously vexed was in no humor to lis ten to miserable fears and puny complaints Un der the visible influence of dread of the interview the Emperor sent for Delangle in order that he might bear the brunt of Plon wrath and be at hand to give the explanations which be evi dently sought by demanding the audience What passed between the pair is only known to the public through the indiscretions of the Palais Royal whose walls seem to have not only ears but eyes and a tongue as welt The pacific tone of the speech was of course the subject of the representation to be made and the reply savored both of defence and excuse: opinion is as you are well aware in favor of war but that of the country is so de cidedly in favor of peace that it would be mad ness to oppose Then why make me pro nounce that bombastic discourse at Genoa which has raised the hopes of Italy and rendered me a mark for ridicule? that discourse was penned I had not yet received said the Emperor as be took a packet of letters from his bureau which he handed to Plon PIon They were letters from the prefects of various depart ments of rance all expressing the great aver sion which existed in their several departments to the war the impossibility which manifested itself of keeping the rural population in order should any fresh levies of men be required or any fresh taxes be laid on Plon PIon tossed them carelessly aside and was beginning further recriminations when Delangle was announced and the ire of the warlike Plon PIon was iu stantly directed into the new channel afforded by the entrance The coolness of his re ception on his entrance into Paris bad laid rank ling at Pion heart the more so that it was all along his decided opinion that no public display ought to have been made and he was not sorry to reproach the Minis ter with having yielded to the opinion of the Tuileries you as Minister of the In said he to the astonished functionary after having given way to a flood of vrtuperative language such as he is famous lor doue your duty aud taken a little trouble in the mat ter my reception would have been very differ Pardon replied the Minister with blanched cheek aud quivering lips if I had not done my duty and taken a little trouble iu the matter your Imperial reception would have been very different Where upon Plon PIon forgetful of the presence of Im perial authority was so carried away by passion at what he persists in calling impertinent of the Minister that seizing theinkstaud from the table he was about to dash it at the of fender's head when bis arm was arrested by his Imperial cousin who held him fast until his pas sion has subsided and Delauirie on a sieu from the Imperial orduiner had left grinning from the room It is from this scene that dates the tit of gout with which his Majesty has been seized and which beginning by lumbago is said tohavenail ed him to the chair in which he was seated and which he was unable to leave without assistance The whole world agrees however that the Em neror's reiuu is over and that another sovereign is setup in his stead The disease of which Louis Bonaparte laid the inundation uy ins me iu Don don is beginning to claim its never failing rights in Napoleon 111 How often has he said to the doctor whose sole care is considered as availing in this complaint that the race was running be tween three of the best racers who ever started forward together Prince Belgioso was one of the steeple chasers and ever since his deaththe Emperor whose symptoms arc exactly the same as those exhibited by the Prince has displayed a doubt an uneasiness and above all a want of con fidence in his medical advisers which is said to give much to think of to those about his person Under these circumstances the tit of gout was considered most favorable but the heaviness and sleepy indifference which render him so unfit for business ami have assailed him ever since his visit to Plombieres still continue and render us rather shaky likewise iu our plans aud projects for the future Emile Girardiu is once more at the head of affairs and it is not an agreeable re flection for the Emperor to wake now aud then from his sleepiness aud find that he has been nothing more than the paw to his more pru dent cousin One consolation amid all this annoyance ex ists however even for the devoted party at the Tuileries There seems to have sprung up a tyrant to tyrannize over his tyrant and the sudden setting to rights and reorganization of the do mestic affairs of the Palais Royal afford the only subjects of amusement of the Imperial Who would have thought that even fat old Jerome would have to submit to the school room arrangements of the Princess Clotilde who sweep ing the apartments ot that rather evil reputed res idence insists upon the instant departure of Madame who having accompanied Jerome from lorence where for years she had been all iu all to the old man has nestled snugly in the Palais Royal aud transformed the boudoirs and saloons of Egalite into the most splendid retreat ever devised by Calypso or Aspasia or de Lyon for the dazziement of blinking old eyes like those of Jerome Not more than three months ago much scandal was occasioned by the refurnishing of these apartments in the Palais Royal and hints were thrown out concerning the white velvet carpets and white satin curtains with tbeir bullion fringe which ordered by Mad ame were for some time on view at the ma which all Paris although boiling with rage and bitter in expression rushed to see notwith standing It seems that the Princess Clotilde in sists upon reformation in that identical wing of the building and backed by her governess pro poses a barring out of the fair lorentine in spite of the representations made concerning the obligations owed to the lady whose fortune in lorence was placed with the greatest generosity at the disposal of the ex King who did not scru ple to avail himself of it in time of need Com pensation is proposed by the little Princess an annuity a settlement but out the lorentine must go at once and Prince Napoleon stands by and shakes his fist at the Tuileries as he curses the necessity which has already led to intimacy close enough to make his little wife so soon acquainted with Cfie sore place in the ar rangements of the Palais Royal Dav4a Cnoerxrinrtani'o nftliD While Europe is so strangely agitated how docs the Empress Eugenie occupy herself and wile away the time which hangs heavily on her hands? A paper which is well informed on this subject 1 describes her favorite game in the following man ner: game which is ingenious and not more of a romping nature than is consistent with the activity and high spirits of her Majesty is played lv ucnilcman to whom the Dart falls by lot and i i i who is al noeny vo piaceuie mruuurc iu uuj uh ticult and intricate fashion he may choose He is then furnished with a handful of paper cut tings and calling in a loud voice upon any one of the ladies present Ramassezmes petits he starts forward in and through and round about over between and under the furniture the lady thus challenged compelled to follow him iu every turn and extreme expedient he may think proper to resort to in order to pick up les petits papiers which be of course takes care to drop at the most difficult juncture This game is always a welcome one and has been found of the great est resource in whiling away the hours unoccu pied by ceremony In spite of all the gay cava liers aud diplomatic dandies assembled at Com piegne it was the grave and learned pundit Pros per Merrimee who was considered the best lead er of petits papiers and numerous and spiriluel enough were the puns to which his professional science at the game gave We can vouch for the exactness of this de scription and we can add besides that the game was invented originally hy the Emperor himself He shortly before making himself an Emperor played it with the ladies at court with the vari ation that he dropped jewels and trinkets instead of papers At that time it bore the more ignoble but more characteristic name of "stag and the President bein the stag and the first ladies of rance and Europe the hounds Still as an English lady of high rank object ed not to the game but to its name and was un willing to be called a perhaps aware that females of the species hound wear in English a somewhat different more vulgar and not at all scientific nomenclature the name of the game was altered In any case it is a remarkable spe cimen of the high intellectual culture which pre sides at the amusements of the Tuileries and characterizes sufficiently the tone of the Imperial society Paris Correspondence of the National Intelligencer 1 am reminded to notice what cannot be inten tional misrepresentation in some of our late jour nals in relation to the precautions for his personal safety 1 see him constantly on horseback or driving an open phaeton ften witn a single horse (a most unpretending equ'ge) attended rarely by more than a single servant The C2L escorted her barouche and four preceded by a single piquetsr in front footmen and two out ridfrs Her equipage is extremely elegant and in much approved taste The horsee are driven by postillions I should judge from observation New York March 16 The City of Washington arrived at 9 i bringing Liverpool dates of the morning of the i 2d She passed in lat 46 long 38:40 a steamer supposed to he the Africa on the 24th in lat 41 long 63 35 the City of Baltimore hence She had a continual succession of westerly gales almost the entire passage She brings 170 passengers It is explained that the ground for supposing the rench and Austrians will evacuate the Papal States is because that the Pope bas invited them 1 to do so Nothing has transpired to indicate how either power will proceed but rumors from Paris say the rench will withdraw War preparations continued actively and the funds which were so buoyant on the departure of the Arabia had become depressed The rench threes closed at 6750 Lord Cowley reached Vienna and had an in terview with the Emperor reform bill confers the franchise upon all members of the learned professions and upon parties having small investments in the funds aud savings banks The representation of fifteen small boroughs is reduced from two to one member each and the vacated seats given to counties and new boroughs The bill is strongly attacked by the reformers but a large meeting of conservatives 200 strong at Lord Derby's had pledged tbeir unanimous support to the measure Walpole the Home Secretary and Henley Pres ident of the Board of Trade had retired from the Cabinet on account of differences of opinion in regard to reform Mr Sotherou Escourt suc ceeds the former and Lord Dunnemore the latter Lord March replaces Escourt as President of the Poor Law Board There were rumors of further secessions from the Cabinet including the Earl of Salisbury and Mr Adderly The British exports show an enormous increase over last year The latest Paris letters say the chances of war or peace continued still the same The war fever ran high in Germany Latest London Wednesday morning The Daily News says that a gloom once more over shadows the stock exchange the most reassuring portions of the statement made by the Ministers on riday having been officially explained away The prospect of a Ministerial crisis had likewise somo effect on the Paris bourne Yesterday rentes fell 4 per cent Money continued in fair demand at 2u2 per cent Exchange on Austria further advanced At the meeting yesterday of the conservatives to consider D'lsraeli's reform bill Lord Derby stated that if on a second reading or upon any main clauses of the bill in committee they found themselves in the minority he should unhesita tingly advise the Queen to dissolve Parliament This is a challenge to Lord John Russell There is a rumor that Count Cavour is expected at Paris The Sardinian loan of 2000000 had not been negotiated at Paris by ould as was at one time supposed This is looked upon as an un favorable symptom since ould as Minister of State must have opportunities of foreseeing if events are at hand which might render the spec ulation hazardous Advices from Rio Janeiro of ebruary 7 are received at Lisbon Lopez has accepted the offer of mediation by the Brazilian government in the difficulty with the United States Calcutta mails of the 22d January and Chiiaa of the 15th had reached England Private letters confirm the complete pacifica tion of Oude Lord expedition up the Yangtze Kiang extended as far as Hong Kong is reported suc cessful The steamer Powhattan was at Hong Kon gand the Mississippi in Canton river The ship lying ish had been sold at oo Choo London Money Market As advised in the latest news by the Arabia consols bad advanced per cent on the 26th tilt under the influence of the pacific assurances in Parliament on the night previous At one time in the day the ad vance was equal to per cent but it was not sustained On Monday the 28th the market opened heavy and under the unfavorable tone of the accounts from Paris prices subsequently gave way per cent On the 1st inst the market wns fur tber depressed and prices gave way per cent The official closing quotations for consols were 95ja95J for money and account but afterwards sales were made as low as 95f There had been rather more demand for money to meet a pay ment on the Turkish loan and the rate for best bills was rarely under 2Ja2J per cent American Securities On the 28th ult the shares of the Illinois Central Railroad receded to 37a35 discount New York Central G's of 1883 sold at 854 shares were quoted at 73a75 Erie shares 12al5 Liverpool RichwJson Spence A Co report wheat and flour in imiproved inquiry with sales to a limited extent at fully ri rates Western red wheat 5s 9da9s 2d white 8s 7da9s lOd southern lOsalfls 9d Corn steady with retail sales at 5s 10da6s 2d for mixed and yellow 7sa7s 3d for white Beef dull but holders firm Pork quiet Irish rather lower Bacon unchanged Lard no trans actions reported and prices nominal Clover seed dull and drooping and owing to receipts of fine new American nominal at 60s Coffee little doing Breadstuffs heavy at former prices Corn and wheat firm Sugar firm for good quali ties brown rather easier Coffee firm Tea quiet hut rates steady Tallow dull and rather lower at 52s 3d Linseod oil 29s 9d Scotch pig iron 51sa51s 6d In the periodical sales of colonial wools now in progress there is an increased firmness and the demand is animated A Distressing The Easton (Pa) Ex press furnishes the particulars of a distressing case of poverty A child tielonging to a poor woman died at that place and the mother being too poor to purchase a coffin placed the little corpse in a raisin box and on Sunday morning started with the box under her arm and accompanied by her little boy of three or four years of age fora grave yard in New Jersey! about two miles below Easton where some of her friends are buried and where she thought she would be allowed to bury her child though she had no money to pay ter its in terment but upon reaching the graveyai the sexton refused to dig the grave because she had not a dollar to give him and roughy carry the dead child back to Easton again The poor creature was almost exhausted from carrying the dead child such a distance under her arm and went down upon her knees imploring him to bury her little one and offering him fifteen all the money she bad but this did not move him She then took up the box again and returned home with her little boy who was too small to be of any assistance to her in getting back her sor rowful load In the evening a gentleman who had been told of the case went to the garret in which the poor mother lives and took away the dead child kindly burying it for her without charge A Costly Piece of Jewelry There is an Austrian family in this city who though living in very humble circumstances have a diamond brooch which is worth $5000 The family were once very wealthy and the head of it who is a man of remarkable intelligence used to occupy an exalted position in his native province He got into a government broil and was compelled flee his country taking with him this precious gem He came to America and in time succeed ed in getting his family here The diamond has been in the family for a hundred years or more and its present possessor prizes it so highly that no amount of money could buy it and no kind of privation could induce him to part with Cleveland Plaindealer Bell fob Brooklyn City The bell cast by Henry Hooper 4 Co for the Brooklyn Ym City Hall was exhibited in Boston on Sat urday It weighs 8626 pounds The Adams Street Shooting Affair The case of Hie colored preacher Lett came up before the Police Court yesterday morning The affair will be remembered as a black parody on the Sick les case to the extent of an attempted shooting of this oily elder by the indignant Dr Carey the oc currence gaining greater publicity from the cir cumstance that the outraged husband followed the alleged assailant of his honor at full cry through Adams street in the open day A per fect thunder cloud of witnesses opened up the case before his honor yesterday as the result of which Lett was fined $100 for an indecent assault upon the wife of Carey Chicago Tribune Mon day Terrible LEAP While Rev Thomas Calhoun Presbyterian minister and bis wile were crossing a bridge at tit Cloud Minnesota in a sleigh on the 20tb ult the horse became un manageable and jumped from the bridge to the hard frozen bottom below a distance of some thirty feet killing Mr Calhoun and severely in juring his wife The horse was also killed and the sleigh broken into fragments Mr Calhoun was a native of Tennessee Chicago Journal Seduction and Deatb Correspondence of the Herald San rancisco eb 10 Wm Durie a special police officer formerly of New York was killed last Sunday evening by a man named owzer Durie who was a married man with several children living seduced three years since the daughter of owzer then about sixteen years old A child was born of the illi cit intercourse In consequence of the disgrace attending this affair owzer separated from his wife and daughter the two latter living on Stock ton street and the old man in the lower part of the city where he vended segars Durie also lived apart from his wife anti children It seems that last Sunday evening Durie visited the house on Stockton street and tapped at a back window in the yard The girl told him to leave accord ing to her testimony at the inquest and soon after her father was seen by her in the yard Presently she heard the report of a pistol and supposing that Durie was the person fired at went outside but could find no trace of either him or her father save that to the right the fence which separated the yard from the street was broken to the extent of allowing a man to pass through owzer is an old man and has one wooden leg The yard is fully one hundred feet in length but the examination was not prosecuted to its end and it being dark nothing could be seen of Durie whom the girl thought had been wounded but had made his escape Next morning bis dead body was found lying in a pool of witter adjacent to the tear fence as if he had fallen and parted with life iu attempting to scale the same The whole family was arrested on the homicide lie coming known aud at the inquest subsequently held though not fastening the commission of the deed on the old man yet all the circumstances point in the strongest manner that way The Boston Elopement rom the Albany Knickerbocker March 11 We published yesterday the particulars of the elopement of Mrs Ingersoll with a young lawyer named Yeager from Boston and the fact that the husband bad gone in pursuit of bis truant wife Ingersoll tracked her to this city and on Wed nesday afternoon arrived here and entered his name on the register of Stanwix Hall He soon ascertained that his wife was an inmate of the ho tel and set to work to procure an interview Ho found that her paramour was quite unwell and that she was engaged in nursing him He secured a room within a short distance of the one occu pied by the amorous pair He sent the ball to their room to say to Mrs Ingersoll that a lady desired to see her at No 67 Mrs Inger soll complied with the invitation and rapped gen tly at 67 the door opened wide with Ingersoll behind it Mrs Ingersoll walked in when the in jured husband slammed the door shut and locked it We cannot say what exactly occurred when the runaway wife found herself confronted by her legal lord and master sue uiun i scream utiu faint away Mrs Ingersoll is not of that make Like Othello or a baulky horse she is not easily moved High words were heard between the par ties The husband besought her to return to his bed She relented and fell into his arms where it is supposed she remained till morning as she was not seen outside of the room until breakfast lime Yesterday afternoon the parties left for Boston Yeager accompanying them and all appearing to be reconciled and happy Ingersoll we fear baa loved not wisely but too Marder aud Suicide Hartford March 14 Chistopher Colson for many years a fish deal er in this city was divorced from his wife in January last Sunday noon he met her athia house when he drew a large knife and cut her throat killing her instantly Ho was arrested shortly afterward and committed to jail After committing the deed he partook of a large dose of opium which combined with a sud den stoppage of liquor caused his death afternoon thus fitly ending one of the most cold blooded murders ever committed in this city An Exciting Incident at Niagara The Rochester Democrat of Monday morning has a private dispatch from Niagara ulls mating that on Saturday while three men were crossing the Niagara River from Canal Dock to Chippewa in a small sail boat the wind blowing hard Houtb bouthwest and wlnlo a little below Grass Island near the middle of tho river a squall of wind struck them carrying the sail overboard npsetting the boat and throwing them out Two of them who could not swim clung to the side of the boat while the third who was banging to the lxw succeeded iu swimming with the boat near the shore The boat floated down in the rapids until it reached a point opposite George house when Thomas Sullivan started with a boat from the shore to rescue them from going over the alls After reaching them he took two of them in his boat and allowed the other to hang on the stern aud thus succeeded in landing them safely on shore The three men arc now enjoying the hospitality of Mr Holley and are in a fair way of recovery Eaten by Snakes The body of a vagrant Scotchman was found a few days since on lat Rock near West Chazy Clinton county New York Near the spot where the remains lay is a large chasm or ledge of rocks that has long been known as the den of a great umnber of rattle snakes and from the trails leading between the corpse and the rocks it is evident that the un fortunate man was killed by the serpents The was literally picked from the bones It is supposed that the poor fellow wandered to the spot when intoxicated and falling down in a state of unconsciousness became an easy prey to the reptiles COMPLETE PACIICATION OCDE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE three nations shall land together should it be rom Washington necessary to afford protection to their re Correspondence of the 1 spec live citizens It appears urther that I ingenious plan has been proposed to the our government does not take the ground President for sustaining the mail service without 1 that the Monroe doctrine precludes any Enro I resorting to an extraordinary session The pro gi0? whatever the cause which might exist It in ing iaterest from their date to all the contrac 1 tends and means to take care that the Spanish tors for mail transportation and other creditors I American States shall not again be reduced to of Department These post office notes are to i be in sums of one thousand dollars each and will I European dominion but does not maintain that gerve 8S a currency The amount to be imme those States may commit just such wrongs as diately issued for the purpose of meeting the de I they please against European powers without be ficiencies in the revenue for the present fiscal year i ing responsible to those powers for the tortious wi1' Wi" I look to Congress for the redemption of the same 1 acts Spain has declared that it has not the re contractors to whom the money is due would i motest idea of attempting to subjugate Mexico gladly take certificates for the same if they be 1 The United States have no objectionlto one canal Put a which they can be used i i i iLa The District Attorney Mr Quid will assign or twenty canals as large as the Ene in Central Monday the 21st for conimencement of the America This is not a question under the Mon trjai Of sickles roe doctrine What they mean to make good is Special Dispatches to the Times thatthe contracts already made and existing with Washington March 13 Tho disclosures made by Commodore Charles their citizens shall not bo violated and that such gtewart respecting the Cuban policy of Mr Jef canals when made shall be equally free and open administration were drawn out in reply to all commercial nations and shall not be con to a communication from Commodore Kearney i trolled by any one power especially a European ai1 werenrotddresscdto Mr Buchauan but only power Our government is officially assured that Postmaster General Holt takes his seat in the England is not pursuing a tortuons or dishonest Cabinet on Tuesday for the first time and will in nolicy in Nicaragua The British government sist on the extra session He will have with him in the official figures called for by the President professes fairness and ours is not at liberty to Bhowing necessity for further login doubt their honor in tho treaties they meditate iation by Congress prior to the regular meeting with tho government of one for the Mr Buchanan will then announce his determina regulation of tho transit route and the other for tjon and ask for the time to be fixed not earlier than August This will give every State time to the abandonment of the Mosquito protectorate rcpregente(j The general principles have been submitted to the Washington March 14 government of the United States and approved The Grand Jury examined twelve witnesses in the Sickles case to day but it is a singular fact lL that Mr Butterworth who had testified before tt a Canafnw the examining court was neither examined nor New Jersey Senator subpoenaed as a witness before the Grand Jury Trenton March 16 bm wji probably be returned to morrow and The joint meeting of the Legislature for the the trial set for Monday next The counsel of election of a United States Senator in the place of Mr Sickles desired to avoid any unnecessary ex nir amination of the case before VV illiam right will be held to morrow at 3 itjs not true that the friends of the late Mr Key have employed counsel The Judges oppose any Railroad convention such course as highly improper Unless govern Buffalo March 16 ment employs additional counsel the probability The railroad convention met at Kremlin Hall is that none will be employed Mr Sickles is snr in this city to day at 11 A and organized by rounded by New Yorkers and others and is in the election of Orrin ollett of the Sandusky good spirits Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad as President The Mexican Legation is without any informa and Anderson of the Pittsburgh ort Wayne tion touching the rumored defeat of Miramon and Chicago Railroad as Secretary A commit Gen Jerez is also without any news from tee of sixteen with Judge Jewett of Steuben Nicaragua although it is believed that the Cass ville as chairman was appointed to arrange new Y'rissari treaty will bo returned with one article timetables Adjourned till 3 only slightly modified The Cass Herran treaty was so changed before School Disturbance ratification by the Senate that it must again go Boston March 15 before the New Granadian Congress Some 200 or 300 children of Catholic parents When the steamer ulton reached Montevideo attending the Elliott school in the north part of ft was discovered that she bad her big gun but the city caused yesterday and to day quite a dis that the gun carriage had heen left at Norfolk turbance by refusing to chant the Prayer Special Dispatchea to the Herald and Ten Commandment in conformity to the Washington March 13 rules of the public schools The school commit Although by the recent news from Europe cer tce and teachers remain firm and a large num tain extraordinary details are given relative to her have been dismissed from the school extravagant pretensionsand stock jobbing schemes about the Nicaragua ship canal the whole Peak magnificient fabric must shortly fall to the ground Leavenworth March 16 I have seen a letter from Mr? Baring the great Dates from the gold mines to the 12th eb LnghMi financier to a distinguished gentleman rnary are received Accounts continue flattering in Sanal P10Je': The rush towards Peak has fairly coln spoken of as visionary Mr Baring says that menced Seven large companies left here yes noue of will touch such terday Emigrants arrive daily by hundreds an 1 3 a3 sured that the Emperor Napoleon does not interest himself especially for Belly or any one else in vllllllgO OI venue be Bbip canal matter Louis Napoleon desires Leavenworth March 16 simply to favor a great work if practicable which In the case of Doy and son who were abducted would lie invaluable to the commerce of the world from Kansas into Missouri charged with aiding Any wish to promote any particular rench in the escape of slaves a change of venue has been terest is disavowed granted and the trial transferred to St Joseph Washington March 14 The question of an extra session of Congress Burning Of a Steamboat willbeundertheconsiderationoftheCahinetto Memfiiis March 15 morrow The President intends to decide then The steamboat Morton with a load if possible to carry on the government without of hay for ort Smith was burned on the lltb one An impression prevails outside aud among sixty miles above LittleRock The boat and car the gentlemen engaged in examining the post go are a total loss No lives were lost office affairs in reference to this question that without money to pay employes and contractors International Hotel the postal communications ol the country will be seriously disarranged and that no money can be national Hotel at Niagara alls to vu'rtra lors and employes the government can go on till the regular meeting ot Congress in Ctoilino tbn nrmn December The President is undoubtedly iu bailing Ol tne uropa clined at present to avoid an extra session There New Iork March 16 jHj bowever the ugly fact revealed in the investi The Europa sailed at 3 with 1U0 pas gation of the post office accounts of some six sengers and $56000 in specie millions of dollars of arrears All the exhibits Jses were submitted to the President for examination Terrible Tragedy in Newaygo to day Murder and Double Suicide Postmaster General Holt was introduced to day rom the Grand Rapids Eagle Tuesday to the heads of bureaus and clerks of the Post Of We have been informed of a terrible tragedy Department and addressed them in a neat which was enacted in the town of Ensley Neway speech alluding in touching terms to the death go county on riday night last in which a young the late 1 ostmaster General He said while man named White was shot down iu cold blood he should regard the feelings and interests ot all and the life of his father attempted followed by within and without the Department he Kliould the suicide of the perpetrators ot tne Horrible aeeu soiupmousij The narticulars which seem almost too diaboli rection it might cal for belief are as related by our infoimant Mr Holthad a long interview with the President substantially as follows: to lay in reference to matters connected with the In the early part of the week Mr who Department lives near the south line of Newaygo county in Mr Stoeckl the Russian Minister and Senor Ca the town of Ensley on the Muskegon road was vancanti the Brazilian Minister are expected to visited by two men named Jacob Dopp aud Enos return to ashington from Europe in April or Merritt who stated that they wished to borrow May some money Mr White int'onned them that he Dy latest news from Mexico I learn that had no money either to lend or hire and they de Gen Garza had resigned as Governor oflamauli uaried On riday as he and his son were enga Pa8 an'l that Andreas I anno was appointed to ged inputting up a well sweep Merritt came up the vacancy by President Juarez from the to them and wished the young man to go with movements of Robles aud Ins intimate friends him to a marsh about three quarters of a mile there was every reason to believe he intended from the house and help him fetch in a deer within a short time to pronounce against both which he pretended to have shot White con the Miramon and Juarez governments sented and as soon as the sweep was raised Mer The leading republicans ot the Seward school ritt and young White started his father con have been in secret consultation for the last few tinuing his labors about the well Not long after days to take preliminary steps in arranging the the elder White was startled by the crack of a ri programme for I860 fie anda ball whizzing past his head just grazing Special Dispatch to the Tribune his temple and lodging in the corner of his honse Washington March 14 The old man ran into the honse and loaded his The question of an extra session will probably rifle and upon coming out saw Merritt step out be determined at a Cabinet meeting to be held from behind a tree about ten rods distant and to morrow in order if it be decided affirmatively raise bis rifle aiming it directly at him He to admit of sending the information by the next cried and again retreated into the California steamer Since the new deficit was dis house from which he kept a cautious look out covered the necessity for an extra session is con crying at the top of his voice until sidered imperative Merritt fled Mr McLane will not remain in Mexico after White then became alarmed forthe safety ofhis negotiating a treaty His prepossessions are son and rallying his neighbors a search was strongly with the liberals and it an opportunity commenced and continued through the night offers or can be made he will recognize them without success In the morning they sent into having full discretion to that point the town of Solon for more help Before it arri Count de Sartiges expects to receive a conge for ved however towards noon on Saturday Dopp six months by the next arrival and desires a Eu and Merritt were both found in an old house which ropean appointment but has no better assurance had been vacated a few days the former of getting it than when he applied on a former dead shot by his own baud the latter but just occasion He isnowatthe head of the diplomatic alive having taken strychnine rom Merritt corps here by seniority before his death however they learned enough to Special Dispatch to the Journal of Commerce enable them to find the body of young White and Washington March 14 to gather further particulars The Cabinet is opposed to an extra session of The young body was found behind an old Congress log near the marsh spoken of He had been shot Dispatch to the Associated Press from behind the ball entering his hack and com Washington March 14 ing out at the right breast This deed it appears It is credibly ascertained that both England was committed by Dopp as when Merritt and and rance disclaim any other intention in send young White had proceeded a short distance into ing naval forces to the coast of Mexico than to the woods they were met by him when Merritt procure due reparation for wrongs to British and turned hack leaving him to conduct the young rench subjects The further statement is made man to the pretended deer that it is not their purpose to take sides wither Dopp ft seems after shooting the young man favor cither of the contending Mexican govern proceeded to the house of John Osborne not far ments There is reason to believe our govern off where the family noticed that he appeared ment is not apprehensive that anything will be verv restless and uneasy After dark Merritt also done hv them in conflict with the Monroe doc came in and the two went outside and conversed trine or to shape the political institutions of that in an undertone some time Upon coming in countrj' Dopp complained that he was sick and Merritt Mr Holt entered upon the discharge of his du directcd their clothes to be prepared for an early ties as Postmaster General to day start in the morning They then retired for the General Denver left this afternoon for Califor nighL Dopp laid but a few minutes before he nia His resignation as Commissioner of Indian got up saying that he was in too much distress Affairs is to take effect on the 1st of April Mr to lie abed and walked the floor till morning when Mix Chief Clerk of the Bureau has been commis they took their clothes and leit iney only wept 8iOned as Acting Commissioner about 70 rods to the old house before spoken of The last weekly Treasury statement up to the where Dopp laid down upon the floor placed a 7th inst shows a balance in the Treasury of $7 pistol to his head and blew bis brains out Mer 188000 The receipts of the week were $710500 ritt wrote upon a piece of paper the words The drafts paid amounted to $732000 and the well to this world you will find ns and left drafts issued to a reduction of $329 it upon a shelf He then took a dose of strych (JOO as compared with the previous week The nine and was still alive when found as before receipts in New York for the week ending on stated though he survived but a short time Saturday last were $2272000 including $1600000 The result of the inquest we have not On account of the loan yet learned Chief Clerk Shugert is now acting as Commis We understand tBat Mr White and family had 8ioner ot Patents but lately moved into the county from Elba Gen Mr lorence who has been ill ever since the esee county 1 ana are consiuereti very nne close of Congress is convalescent respectable people The son who was murdered Ex Congressman Joseph Miller of is said to have been a very estimable young mau been appointed Associate Justice for and his tragical death is a terrible affliction to vice tiamuel Black resigned his doting parents Mcrrittwas one of the individuals who were in dieted with rench in this county some time A ather Kills his Son The I Courier earns from the officers of teTn a bis passing counterfeit money and managed to es ouft a cape from the officers Both were unmarried March 7 A dispute arose between father and men The former is thought to have been about 3on abo1 cal9 a younger brother thirty years of age the latter about twenty four wa3 the fatler dld a There is much of mystery as to the causes such his house when the young man left which led to this dark deed The solution which house followed by the father who told appears most probable however is found in the b'm not to return or he would stick his knife fact that Merritt and Dopp seem to have supposed son returned having no idea his that While had money in the house It is thought I erwub' knife when his father stab that tbeir intention was to murder the whole fam bed him through the left breast causing instant ily aud then rob the bouse and that the young Both were considered quiet and good cit man was enticed into the woods with the expec 'Zen3 ftnd were worth considerable tation that his disappearance would be the occa father assisted in burying the son and has sion of fixing suspicion upon him when the mur 1 been arrested der of the rest of the family was discovered Thb Mother of Philip Barton Kby A Bal Melanciioi A gentleman informed us last itmore correspondent of the Washington Star evening that his father and mother five sisters Mrs Key the mother of the deceased one brother two sisters" children aud two young now 188 very 1L She supposes her son died of ladies to whom he had become devotedly attach aPplexy and will likely be kept id this blissful ed had died victims of consumption and now ignorance When told there was bad news from said he my wife is afflicted with the same dis Washington the old lady exclaimed sou ease and I know not how soon I may be left al Barton is and askedif he did not die of most entirely alone in the Bedford she had always had a presentiment Mercury taat would terminate in that way Her next inquiry was Did he die in the atal Capt Brown of the ship which was answered in the affirmative without Belle Creole was instantly killed at Boston on compromising the truth She then sank in her Saturday by falling through the main hatch I Bed and became quite ill The impression is she He belonged to Marblehead I cannot 4 i 'i I rf 4 St Day To day being the 17th day of March is univer sally observed by Irishmen in all parts of the world as the anniversary of the death of their tutelary saint who died in the year 493 It is to the natives of the Emerald Isle what the various national anniversaries are to other countrymen and is never passed without the most enthusiastic demonstrations We shall see to day the thou sands who claim allegiance to the Green Isle dressed in their holiday costumes and in the fall enjoyment of an occasion which perhaps of all others brings them nearest back home again National themes national sports and above all national religious observances call up the past which to the exile in a foreign land is laden with tho clinging associations of youth and home never while life lasts entirely forgotten The observance is not of course so general and en thusiastic as in Ireland but there is little left un done that can bo douc to make the day one of general rejoicing We gain an idea of what this day is at home from the following extract taken from an old English book: This being the anniversary of the day whereon Ht Patrick died it is commemorated as a high festival in the Catholic Chureh and it is cele brated to his honor iu that country with every demonstration of affection for his memory as the apostle and patron saint of Ireland that a warm hearted enthusiastic joyous people can possibly express An eye witness represents that tit Day in Dublin is a scene of festivity and mirth unequaled by anything observable in this country rom the highest to the lowest all hearts seem inspired by the beneficence At daybreak flags fly on the steeples and the bells ring out incessant peals uulil midnight The rich bestow their benevolence on the poor and the poor bestow tbeir blessings on the rich and on each other and on tho holy St Patrick The green shamrock is in every hat Sports of manly exercise exhibit the capabilities of the celebrated and before uight many a head gives token of the application of its wonderful powers by a muscular hand Priestly care soothes querulousness laughter drowns casualty innumerable bright eyed rosy cheeked jauuty lasses dance with their mirth loving lads old women run about with children in the hoods of their cloaks to publicly share care drowning cups of sweet consolation with each other and by the union of wit humor aud frolic this miracu lous day is prolonged till after the morning SL Patrick's Society will celebrate as usual There will be religious services and processions during the day and suppers during the evening St Society entertaining at the Biddle House and the Shields Guards who celeb rate the anniversary of their formation several years since at their new hall on Michigan avenue To those who are familiar with these occasions wo need hardly say that wit and senti ment will bo the ruling characteristic tempered by a fervent reverence for the memory of one who is held by time honored tra ditions as the ideal of the great and good Set ting aside the extravagances which are the results of religious enthusiasm there is no doubt that St Patrick was an apostle of great influence and piety who obtained prominence in his time and being canonized has been handedlown from generation to generation as the tutelary saint par excellence As such his memory is celebrated wherever Irishmen are found and undoubtedly always will be The love of his country his religion and his patron saint cannot be effaced by time or circumstances ROM WASHINGTON Washington March 16 Diplomatic correspondence from Madrid says Mr Preston will be received unconditionally but that any proposition touching Cuba will be follow ed by the government seuding him his passports The Grand Jury have found a true bill of in dictment against Daniel Sickles for They have not yet decided respecting Mr Butter complicity in the affair The Secretary of State recently submitted to the Attorney General the question whether the Chinese Coolie trade as carried on by American ships comes within the law for the suppression of the slave trade The Attorney General decides that it does not The Attorney General to day appointed A McAlmont of Penn Assistant Attorney General The Union of this morning in an authoritative article on our Mexican and Central American re lations says there is not the least reason to be lieve from anything which has transpired that either the rench or the British government meditates any interference in the political con cerns of Mexico and it is known that Captain Tarner the American commanding has entered into an arrangement with the rench and British commanders that the naval forces of 1 a to square to II square Kt to 26 Kt to Kt 36 to 36 toQ Kt 36 to 2l takes take to Mpiari it to nquare to II Hfiiare 1 to Kt 4th Kt to Hoiiaro 31 takes Kt to tl 2fl 1' to LI 3l to 2l to 3'1 1' to 4th to square 1 takes 1 Kt to 4th to 6th (check) to Sth 42 takes (check) 43 one 44 takes 45 Kt to Kt 3d 46 to 26 17 to K36 48 to B4th 49 to 36 50 to Kt 5th 51 to 8 62 take 53 to B6I11 54 Kt to sqr 55 Cleveland reeigus Man Overboard An inebriated individual fell off the dock yesterday and came near drown ing was reeling along near the foot of Gris wold street and in endeavoring to pass a sharp corner lost his balance and pitched head foremost into the river His sudden disappearance was noticed by a number of people who hurried to the spot just as he came up An indiscreet person launched a plank at him which hit him on the head and sent him on a second exploring expe dition to the bottom lie remained under so long that there was little hope of his ever coming up again butbe finally made bis appearance looking exceedingly blue and with just strength enough to seize the plank and eventually to get pulled out He came out entirely sober and evidently astonished at the application of cold water to which he was a stranger Ice in the Lake Superior Country Advices from the Lake Superior country report that Mar quette harbor is clear of ice and ready for tho reception of steamers from lielow There is three feet of snow on the overland route between that place and Green Bay and a heavy field of ice on the latter which is used for purposes of transportation The Saut River and the Straits of Mackinaw are frozen up solid with no prospect of a break up at present The ice will probably move however with a continuance of warm weather before a great length of time Marquette harbor has been open all winter aud the season is reported as having been exceeding ly mild Tub New Cent Poisonous Several instances have lately occurred iu different parts of the coun try where children have died from the effects of poison taken into the system by swallowing the new nickel cent As this coin is small and easily swallowed there is great danger in allowing young children to have them in their possession The metal which composes it baa had a fatal effect and would seem to be poisonous Parents bonld Ite cautious Dennis Hobbioan Tho Milwaukee pa per state that a man named Dennis Horrigan was killed in that city several days eiuce He is probably a diminutive specimen of a prize fighter who contended with one Scotty for the champion ship of light weights in Detroit last fall He was beaten in a row until his head was smashed in from which he subsequently died Two men named Neil and Leahy hare been held to answer for killing him I.