how could I go for help without the risk of abandoning him to his pursuers? And how could I leave him now, when he was wanting to dash his head to pieces against the stones, and was craving to drink up the sea to assuage his consuming thirst? During the night I had several times gone to the spring for water, and when I brought it he was always very grateful. Indeed towards daybreak he grew much quieter, so that I indulged the hope that after all we should soon be able to get away. At last, overcome by exhaustion, I fell asleep; and must have slept some time, for the dawn was already glimmering when I was awakened by the touch of a hand on my shoulder. Herr von Zehren stood before me: I looked at him with horror. Now I saw what he had suffered in that fearful night. His healthy bronzed face was of a clayey pallor; his large brilliant eyes were dull and deeply sunk in their sockets; his beard dishevelled, his lips white, and his clothes torn and covered with dirt and blood. It was no longer the man that I had known, but more like a spectre. 'Do not think of your daughter!' I cried, losing all my self-control. 'She has rent the single tie by which you were still bound to her.' And I briefly and in hurried words told him of Constance's flight. And it seemed that my design had succeeded. He arose, as soon as I had finished my hurried recital, and calmly said: In this water had drowned herself the wife of the man who had borne her from her far-off home over her brother's corpse, and who was now lying dead in the ruins of the castle of his forefathers. Their daughter had thrown herself into the arms My intention was to tear away at all costs every of a profligate, after deceiving her father, and pretext that he might allege for not doing what he playing a shameful game with me. This all came considered unworthy a Zehren. It was most in- at once into my mind like a hideous picture seen considerate in me to make such a disclosure to him in the black mirror of the tarn. As if some pitiat such a moment; but my knowledge of human less god had rent away the veil from the pandenature was then very slight, and my faculties were monium which to my blinded eyes had seemed a confused by the anguish of the last thirty-six paradise, I saw at a glance the two last months of hours, and my fear and distress for the unhappy my life, and what they really were. I felt a nameman at my side. less horror, less, I think of myself, than of a world where such things had been, where such things could be. If it be true that nearly every man at some time in his life is led or driven by malignant demons to the verge of madness, this moment had come for me. I felt an almost irresistible impulse to throw myself into the black water which legend represented to be of unfathomable depth. I do not know what I might have done, had I not at this moment heard the voices of men who were coming down the path that led from the park. The instinct of self-preservation which is not easily extinguished in a youth of nineteen, suddenly 'Do not mind my giving you so much trouble, awaked within me. I would not fall into the George. Take my thanks for all.' hands of those whom I had been since the previous evening making such prodigious exertions to escape. In a bound I sprang up the bank that surrounded the tarn, leapt down on the other side, There was no time to be and then lay still, buried in the thick bushes and lost; streak after streak of pale light was appear-fallen leaves, to let them pass before recommencing ing in the east; in half an hour the sun would my flight. In a minute more they were at the And he seated himself on a projecting piece of rise. I had hoped that by this time we would have spot I had left. They stopped here, where the the wall, and leaned his head upon his hand. path branched off toward the ruin, and delibera'Then I also stay,' I said. ted. A faint smile played about his pale lips, and there was a touch of the old vivacity in the tone of his voice, as he said:-'I am sorry to have to awaken you, my poor boy, but it is high time.' I sprang to my feet and put on my coat which he had carefully laid over my shoulders. That is, it is high time for you,' he added. 'How so?' I asked, in alarm. 'I should not get far,' he replied, with a sad smile; I just now made a little trial; but it is impossible.' 'They will soon follow us up here.' 'So much the more reason for my remaining.' He raised his head. 'You are a generous fool,' he said, with a melancholy smile; 'one of those that remain anvils all their life long. What advantage in the world could it be to me, that they caught you with me here? And why should you give up, and let your self be caught? Are you brought down to nothing, and less than nothing? Are you an old wounded fox, burnt out of his den and with the hounds on his track? Go, and do not make me entreat you any more, for it hurts me to talk. Good-bye!' Is it then so with me? Am I a vagabond, and my daughter dishonored? Then may I well do what others would do in my place. But before we set out, get me another draught of water, George. It will refresh me; and I must not fail soon again. Make haste!' I caught up the hat, joyful that I had at last persuaded him. When I had gone a few paces, he called me back again. 'How can you speak so?' I said. 'Step back out of the cold wind; I shall be back in five minutes.' I started off at a run. been leagues away in the depth of the forest. I could not wait for the water; I was irresistibly All was over. Upon the very spot where I had parted from him, where I had last pressed his hand, he had shot himself. The smoke of the powder was still floating in the excavation. The pistol lay beside him; his head had fallen sideways against the wall. He breathed no more-he was quite dead. The Wild Zehren knew where a bullet must strike if the wound was to be mortal. CHAPTER XIX. This must be the way,' said one. 'Of course; there is no other, you fool,' said another. 'Forward!' cried a third voice, apparently belonging to the leader of the party, or the lieutenant will get there from the beach sooner than we. Forward!' The patrol ascended the path toward the ruin, and I cautiously raised my head and saw them disappearing among the trees. When I thought them at a sufficient distance, I arose, and struck deeper into the wood. The impulse to self-destruction had passed: I had but one desire, to save myself; and the almost miraculous manner in which I had just avoided a peril from which there seemed no escape, filled me with new hope, like a player who has hitherto been steadily losing, at the first lucky cast. When we boys played 'robbers and soldiers' in the fir-wood around my native town, I had always managed to be of the robber-party, and they invariably chose me their captain. The duties of this office I had always so discharged that at last none were willing to take the part of soldiers. The boast that I had so often made in our merry sports, that no one could catch me unless I allowed I was still sitting, stupefied and incapable of re-myself to be caught, was now to be tested in deadly flection, by the dead man, when the first rays of earnest. Unfortunately just now when life and the sun which rose with tremulous lustre over liberty were at stake, the most important thing the sea, fell upon his pallid face. A shudder ran of all was wanting, the fresh and inexhaustthrough me: I arose and stood trembling in every ible strength that carried me through my boyish limb. Then I ran, as fast as my tottering feet exploits, and which now by reason of the terrible would bear me, along the path that descended mental emotions of the last twenty-four hours, from the ruin to the beech-wood. I could not now and the excessive physical exertion I had undersay what my real intention was. Did I simply gone, was well-nigh broken down. To my other wish to flee from this place of terror, from the sufferings, I was tormented with gnawing hunger presence of the corpse whose glazed eyes were and burning thirst. Keeping always in the thickfixed upon the rising sun? Did I wish to get as-est of the forest, I came upon no spring nor pool sistance? Did I design to carry out alone the plan of water. The loose soil had long since absorbed of escape I had formed for both, and thus save the rain of the previous day, and the slight moismyself? I do not now know. ture that I was able to suck from the dead leaves only increased my sufferings. 'Well then,' said he, 'I will make a confession to you. It is true that it so happens that I can not get away; but were I in condition to escape, I would not and will not do it. I will not have a hue and cry raised after me, and placards posted as if I were a vagabond or common criminal to be hunted through the land. I will await their coming here-here where my ancestors beat back so many an attack of the shopkeepers. I will defend myself to the last: they shall not take me from this place alive. I do not know what I might do, if I were altogether alone in the world. Probably this would then not have happened. I have paid dearly for the folly of trying to help my brother in his distress. And then I have a daughter: I do not love her, nor she me; but for this very reason I reached the park and the tarn, the water of she shall not be able to say that her father was a which looked blackly through the yellow leaves coward who did not know when it was time to die.''that yesterday's storm had swept from the trees. My intention had been to traverse the forest, which bordered the coast for about eight miles, in its whole length, in order to place as much distance as possible between me and my pursuers, before I made the attempt to leave the island at any point to which chance might conduct me. I had trusted that I should be able to accomplish this distance at the latest by noon; but I was compelled to admit to myself that in the condition in which I was, and which grew worse every minute, this was no longer to be thought of. I had also formed no just conception of the obstacles that impeded me. I had often before been in this forest, but it had only been for short distances, and I had never been compelled to keep to a certain direction, and at the same time anxiously guard against every possibility of being seen. But now, unless I made long detours, I had to break through dense thickets scarcely penetrable even by the deer, or again ⚫ take a circuit which took me far out of my way, soon give way again. But how was this to be done? a knife and fork. Could Hans be at home again prompt recourse to his universal specific. Then he shutters of both windows, came in and bolted the arose without a word, went out and closed the door, took a seat opposite to me, lighted a cigar, and waited in silence until my ravenous hunger was appeased sufficiently to allow me to converse. 'Suppose in the meantime you tell me what hap pened to you,' I said without raising my eyes from my plate. to avoid some open space where there was no suffi- Herr von Granow's estate Melchow; further on, cient concealment. Then I had to bury myself in embosomed in stately trees was the proprietor's leaves and bushes while I listened to discover house, and from a slight eminence rose the white whether some sound that I heard really proceeded steeple of the new village-church. Further to the from human voices, and to wait thus until all was left, lower down in the valley, lay Trantowitz, and again silent. More than once I came upon forest- still further, but on higher ground, had Zehrendorf| Hans had but little to tell, and told that little in paths, where double caution was necessary; and stood. Indeed, as if to leave me not an instant of the fewest possible words. He had been left on with all I felt my strength constantly diminishing, doubt that I had got back to the old well known board the yacht; how it happened he did not and looked forward with terror to the moment district of country, there suddenly sprang from know. The captain had sworn and cursed terribly when it should fail me altogether, and I should the immense pile of ruins where the castle had at the uninvited passenger; but as Hans was not sink, probably to rise no more. And to lie here stood a flame so high and so vivid that the steeple dead, with wide-open glazed eyes, like what I had of Melchow church glowed with rosy light. But seen-by this time they had probably found him and carried him down-and then in some fashion or other they must bury him; but how long would I lie here in the depth of the forest before I was found, unless it were by the foxes? By why did I fly after all? What had I then done that would deserve such extremity of punishment? What could they do to me worse than the torments I was now suffering? And what was this? Here was a path that in half an hour would bring me out of the forest. Possibly I might then at once come upon the soldiers. So much the better; then there would be an end of it. there must either have been little fuel left for the Then he took s the man to suffer himself to be passively thrown So at the sacrifice of all my strength, I had wandered about the whole day in a circle, and now at night-fall found myself not far from the spot from which I had started in the morning. This was not consolatory, but it was ridiculous; and I laughed not very loud nor cheerfully, it is true-but still genuine laughter. And at the same moment the And I really went some distance along the path, fancy seized me that perhaps my good genius had but suddenly I stopped again. My father! what led me here against my wishes. Where would I would he say when he saw me led by soldiers be less likely to be looked for than exactly here? through X., and the street-boys shouting after Where had I better friends than here, at Trantowme? No, no; I could never bring that upon him: itz for example, where everybody at the house and better that the foxes should devour me than that! in the village knew me; where I could knock at I turned again into the forest, but ever more any door and be sure to find help and relief. Beagonizing grew the strain upon my rapidly failing sides, the circumstance that during the entire day powers. My knees tottered; the cold sweat ran I had met no human creature, to a certain extent from my face; more than once I had to stop and assured me that the pursuit towards the last had lean against a tree, because all became dark before not been so hot-and finally I was at the point of my eyes and I feared that I should faint. Thus I starvation and had no choice left me. dragged myself for perhaps half an hour more,- So I pushed on, almost carelessly, across the it was by my calculation about two in the after-fields to Trantowitz, wondering to myself what had noon-when my long agony found an end. In the become of Hans. If they had overhauled the smugedge of a small clearing which I had just reached, gler yacht, which was but too likely, the good felstood a little hut, lightly constructed of branches low was now sitting behind locks and bars, and it and mats of straw, looking almost like a dog-ken- was I who had brought this misfortune upon him. nel, and which probably had been built by wood- I grew very sad at heart as I thought of this. cutters or poachers. I crawled in, buried myself Hans behind locks and bars was a dismal picture. in the straw and leaves with which the floor of the Without observing where I was going, I had hut was deeply heaped, and which happily were approached the house nearer than was necessary This was about what I elicited by persevering tolerably dry, and fell at once into a sleep which to reach the village. From the field a path led questioning from Hans. He was quite dejected. was almost as heavy as death. across a dry ditch into a wilderness of about two probably the consciousness of the somewhat com When I awaked it was quite dark, and it was acres extent, of potato and cabbage-fields, salad-ical part he had played in the drama, weighed upan his spirits. some time ere I could recollect where I was and beds, blackberry-thickets, and stunted fruit-trees, what had happened; but at last I recovered full which Hans, by a singular delusion, called his garconsciousness of my desperate situation. I crept den, and valued highly because he here in winter out of the hut with great difficulty, for my limbs shot the most hares from his chamber-window. felt as if they were broken, and the first steps I Toward this chamber, famous in all the country There were other things which weighed heari took gave me excruciating pain. This however round, my eyes involuntarily turned, and to my upon the hearts of both of us. Constance's name presently passed off. My sleep had somewhat re- great astonishment I perceived a faint glimmer of was not mentioned; but we still returned s freshed me, but my hunger, the cravings of which light in it. The window was open, and the light, and again to Herr von Zehren's tragical fate. He had aroused me, was now so torturing that I re- as I discovered upon a nearer approach, came from made me more than once recount to him how solved to appease it at every hazard; especially as the sitting-room, the door between the two not had last parted from the Wild Zehren, and while I felt that unless this was done, I must of necessity being closed. I listened, and heard the clatter of I did this with eyes full of tears, Hans slowi him. 'I meant all for the best,' he said; 'but it is a ways so with me; I never succeed in anything I undertake.' L E rocked his great head from side to side, sighed deeply, and drank deep draughts of wine. At last, however, we fell to consultation what each of us had better do under the present circumstances. Thanks to the lucky accident which had removed Hans from the scene just as the affair began to grow serious, he was much less compromised than I; but still the mere circumstance of his intended participation might cost the good fellow dear. This was quite a new point of view for Hans, and one for which he was entirely unprepared. -Mr. Bright made a speech at the banquet of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, in which he urged of ocean penny postage. sent to the field. The troops are reported to have defeated the Cubans in a fight at the mouth of the Da muji river, in the Cienfuegos district. There was also a report of heavy fighting at Colonia de St. Domingo, and the Spanish newspapers in Havana say that 300 insurgents surrendered at Villa Clara, also that Aringo had joined Valmaseda with 2,000 revolutionary troops, and that General Lasca was meeting with no opposition in his march into the interior. Emigration from Cuba continues undiminished, with reports of great suffering among the people. the importance and necessity of adopting the system 'I do not know what you mean,' he said. 'Am happen what may, it is the same to me. I shall wait for it quietly.' Probably this was the best that Hans could do: he was just the man quietly to await the issue of any affair. cial relations, has been awarded to Dr. Joshua Leavitt, free, neutral centre of commerce in San Domingo. -The Marquis of Hartington, Postmaster-General, -The Prussian Diet has granted 2,000,000 florins to has been elected to the House of Commons from Rad- the municipality of Frankfort, to which the King will nor. -In the case of Saurin vs. Starr, during the trial of add 1,000,000 from his private purse, in the hope that such action will draw closer to the monarchy and That my position was quite different, and a far which exposures were made of convent life in Eng crown the hearts of the inhabitants of that city. land, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff, who is -A report is current in London that the present Cuban insurrection. FRANCE. -The North German Parliament meets on the 4th of March. The Prussian Diet closes its sessions on the 6th. -The North German Parliament was opened at Ber lin March 3d, with a speech from King William of Prussia, in which he said that the first duty of the North German Parliament was to maintain peace and friendly relations with other powers, in consoby the action of the late Conference on the Eastern nance with the general desire of Europe as expressed question. more serious one, even Hans perceived. I had forced Pinnow, pistol in hand, to take me with him; I had taken the most direct and most active part in the expedition; I had fired upon the officers; I had accompanied Herr von Zehren in his desperate flight. In the eyes of the law these were far from being meritorious performances; -Alphonse De Lamartine, the French poet and hisand the less I came into contact with the law torian, died March 1st. During the reign of Louis enceforth, the better it would be for me. Phillippe, Lamartine was distinguished for his elo'And yet,' I said, 'would that this were my quence in the Chamber of Deputies. He contributed reatest trouble; but my father would never out-greatly to the Revolution of 1848, and after the coup ive the shame of having a son in the house of d'etat of December, 1851, retired to private life. Mr. orrection; and therefore I am resolved to fly Troplong, President of the French Senate, is also dead. possession of two cities in Turkistan, near the Cabool -A bill has been introduced into the French Corps Legislatif to authorize direct loans for the improvements of Paris. In a speech M. Rouher referred to the What if I went to America?' inconvenience of the Government in controlling cerSo brilliant an idea as this, which at a blow re-tain financial societies, and intimated that a bill would fat moved all the perplexities of the situation, secured be introduced with a view to abolish such control. instantaneous adhesion of Hans. TE though it were to the uttermost parts of the earth.' Hans nodded approbation. the [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] News Summary. FOREIGN. GREAT BRITAIN. SPAIN. -Marshal Serrano, Prime Minister of Spain, addressed the Constituent Cortes last week, and said that notwithstanding the retirement of the late Provisional Government the members who composed it would still retain their seats in the Cortes. He stated further that the policy of the Government would be to follow the programme which the revolution had —Mr. Gladstone introduced into the House of Com- established. Every effort would be made to disarm mons, March 1st, a bill for the disestablishment of the the attacks of the Rebublicans by reducing expendiIrish Church, and to make provision for its temporali-tures in all quarters and pursuing a liberal policy genties and disendow the Royal College of St. Patrick at Maynouth. Mr. Gladstone made a lengthy speech on the bil 1, maintaining that the Irish Church, as at present constituted, defeated the intent of the act of union between the people of England and Ireland. He declared that religious and civil liberty were the only means of establishing the union, and explained that the bill, if passed, would go into effect after January 1st, 1871; that its provisions gave life annuities to the clergy; that private endowments would remain intact; that the Presbyterian clergy would receive annuities, instead of regium donum, and that the Roman Catholic College at Maynouth, and the Presbyterian colleges would be granted capitalized sums of money; church leases would be sold, tenants having first option. The capitalized value of church property is estimated at £15,000,000, of which £8,000.000 would be appropriated to compensation and the remainder employed to the advantage of the Irish people, in public charities, beyond the ordinary and stated modes of relief given the poor. The bill was read the first time, and March 18th was appointed for a second reading. -In a reply to a request of Mr. Torres for information, Mr. Ottway stated to the House of Commons that the Government had received no authentic advices of the rejection of the Alabama convention by the United States, nor had it any information what ever in regard to the ratification of the naturalization protocol. -In the British House of Commons, March 4th, Mr. Gaschem, President of the Poor Law Board, advocated the removal of restrictions from emigration, and thought it advisable even to give facilities for and otherwise encourage the emigration of paupers to America. erally. He regretted that the liberal reforms which WEST INDIES. portico of the Capitol, where General Grant was sworn in, and assumed the obligations of President of the United States, amid the acclamations of an immense -A number of small engagements have been re- concourse, gathered without the walls of the buildported from different portions of the Island of Cuba ing. General Grant delivered a very brief inaugural between the Spanish troops and the revolutionists. address, in which he expressed himself in favor of The statements are, as usual, contradictory and devoid peace, restoration, and economy; against any repuof perspicuity. The announcement that General diation of the public debt, and in favor of the Suffrage Roda would succeed General Dulce as Captain-Gen- amendment to the Constitution. After delivering eral created great excitement in Havana. General his address and receiving the congratulations of those Dulce has succeeded in quieting the mutinous and immediately about him, the new President was esdangerous spirit of the volunteers, and it is said that orders have been given the Spanish troops in the field to take no prisoners in arms, but to shoot them all. The volunteers have been mobilized, and are being corted to the Executive mansion, where he was received by General Schofield, Secretary of War, who had been left in charge by the retiring President. General Schofield is the only member of the late ad resolution directing the requirement of security from the Pacific Railroad Companies for the good construction of their roads. On Tuesday, 2d inst., a Conference Committee was appointed by the Senate on the Public Credit bill, and a conference report on the Diplomatic appropriations was agreed to. The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered, and Mr. Morton moved to add a section repealing the Tenure-of-Office act. The proposi tion was rejected-yeas 22, nays 26. The bill was passed with various amendments, and the Senate remained in session until 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning. ministration retaining office after the hour of noon week previous Senator Whyte, of Maryland, intro- passed. The House passed a bill creating a board of enon the 4th. duced a delegation of ladies of Baltimore to President gineers to report on the bridging of the Ohio; and a -Among the last official acts of President Johnson Johnson on behalf of the prisoner. The delegation was the publication of a lengthy farewell address to consisted of Mrs. J. Hanson Thomas, Mrs. Samuel W. the people of the United States, in the daily papers, Smith, Mrs. John S. Gittings and others. on Thursday morning last. The address bears date -Pardons have been issued by President Johnson Washington, March 4th, and gives a comprehensive for Spangler and Arnold, now imprisoned at the Dry review of the policy, motives and objects of the late Tortugas for complicity in the assassination of Mr. administration. Lincoln. All those living who were sent to the Dry -The Republican members of the Forty-first Con- Tortugas for connection with the assassination of gress, on Tuesday night, in caucus, made the follow-President Lincoln are now set free. O'Laughlin died ing nominations: Speaker, Jas. G. Blaine, of Maine; there over a year ago. The President has also exClerk, Mr. McPherson, the present incumbent; Ser-tended the Executive clemency to the two Lamars, of geant-at-Arms, Col. Ordway, the present incumbent; Georgia, convicted in 1865 by a Military Commission Doorkeeper, O. S. Buxton, of New York. No nomina- of conspiracy to defraud the Government of a large tion was made for Postmaster. The Democratic cau- amount of cotton claimed by them as their own cus of the House complimented Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, property. with the nomination for Speaker. -A private letter from Mr. George Peabody, dated -The Kansas Legislature ratified the new Suffrage London, February 8th, states that his health is very amendment to the Constitution, on the strength of a poor. He still takes the greatest interest in his Ameritelegraphic report of its passage in Congress, the day can charities, and speaks of his Homes for the Poor in after its enactment. The vote in the Kansas Senate London as a gratifying success. Should his health was unanimous, and there were only seven negatives permit, he expects to return to this country, to rein the lower branch of the Legislature. The Louisi-main, in 1870. ana, Missouri, West Virginia and Nevada Legislatures -Mr. Grant, father of President Grant, met with a painful accident in the Capitol, after the inaugura-Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House, holds the tion on Thursday. He missed his footing on one of Georgia credentials to be imperfect, because they do the flight of steps in the interior of the building, and not state, as required by law, to what Congress the fell a considerable distance, striking his head against claimants were elected; and the Louisiana credentials the steps and badly hurting his right hip. He had to imperfect, because they do not certify that the claim-be conveyed home in a carriage. ants were duly elected. In the Third and Fourth districts of South Carolina two conflicting credentials have been signed by the State officers. have also ratified the amendment. -A committee of the subscribers for a testimonial to Gen. Sherman have purchased of Gen. Grant his house and furniture in Washington, and presented them to Gen. Sherman. -A number of articles, formerly the property of Gen. Washington, which were taken from Arlington House, Virginia, (Gen. Lee's residence,) during the war, have been restored to Gen. Lee, on his application, by the Secretary of the Interior. -The U. S. Supreme Court has decided Russell, Major & Co.'s Floyd acceptances to be illegal. The Court also delivered an opinion sustaining the gold contract case from Maryland of Butler vs. Horwitz, on the same principle as that involved in the case of Bronson against Rodes. -Gen. Canby has written to the Secretary of War, that the Texas Convention will order the election in that State for some time in July. This was Gen. Canby's suggestion, in view of the remoteness and want of civil organization of many of the counties. Gen. Canby adds that nine-tenths of the "loyal" people of Texas desire a division of the State into two or three separate States. In the House, the Senate amendments to the bill relating to the certification of checks by National banks were concurred in; also, the Senate amendments to the bill exempting manufacturers of naval machinery from tax. The conference report on the Diplomatic appropriations was agreed to. A conference was ordered on the Public Credit bill, also on the bill relating A substitute for the to reports of National banks. Spanish sympathy resolution was adopted and sent to the Senate. The first part expresses sympathy with both Spain and Cuba in their efforts for liberty, and the second authorizes the President to recognize Cuban independence. The Senate on Wednesday, 3d inst., non-concurred in the House joint resolution tendering the thanks of United States to the people of Spain. The Conference -The Democratic members of both Houses of the Committee on the bill to strengthen the public credit Indiana Legislature have resigned to prevent or avoid made a report. It accepts the essential features of the a vote on the Suffrage Constitutional amendment. bill as originally passed by the House. The report -There was a prize fight near Baltimore last week, was concurred in-yeas 31, nays 24. The House also for $200 aside, between Newton Montgomery and Peter concurred in the report. The Army Appropriation Joyce. The latter broke his arm accidentally, and lost bill was passed and the Massachusetts war claim rethe fight. Thirty-three rounds were fought and both |jected. The Senate bill for the protection of criminals men were badly punished. -Friday of this week was fixed for the execution of the four negroes, Wilson, Wells, Rounds, and Bailey, at Princess Anne, Md., for the murder of the captain and mate of an oyster schooner in the Chesapeake, one year ago. CONGRESS. The only business transacted in the United States Senate on Thursday, February 25th, was the passage of the House bill to exempt manufacturers of naval machinery from internal taxation. surrendered by foreign Governments under extradition treaties was passed. In the House Mr. Colfax resigned his office of Speaker, and made a valedictory address with references to the successful termination of the war, to the growth of the country, and to his own conduct as Speaker. Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Democrats of the House, offered a resolution of thanks and congratulation to the retiring Speaker, which was unanimously adopted. Mr. Theodore M. Pomeroy, of New York, was then unanimously elected Speaker for the remainder of the session, (about twen In the House, a bill was passed to establish a uni-ty-four hours) and the House proceeded to legislative -It is reported that Judge Weisel, Hon. Patrick Hamill's late competitor in the Fourth Maryland Congressional district, has written a letter stating that he will make no further opposition to Mr. Hamill's get-follows: ting his seat in the Forty-first Congress. business, remaining in session till a very late hour. The 40th Congress expired by law at noon on the 4th inst., and the 41st Congress immediately entered upon its legislative career, with the installation of new officers and members in both houses. All the appropriation bills of the 40th Congress were passed and signed, On the next day, Friday, the same report was considered and agreed to by the Senate, by a vote of 39 to except the Indian Appropriation bill. The following 13, and the amendment declared adopted. The amend-bills failed by the refusal of President Johnson to ment thus passed by both Houses of Congress, is as sanction them with his signature: Bill for reorganiz ing the Judicial system; bill for reducing the Navy Be it resolved, &c., (two-thirds of both Houses con- and Marine Corps; bill for the further security of -Additional reports of a fresh outbreak of Indian curring,) That the following amendment to the Con- equal rights in the District of Columbia; Mr. Schenck's hostilities on the Plains are received. The war seems stitution of the United States be submitted to the Leg-bill to strengthen the public credit; resolution auislature of the Several States, and when ratified by fiercest in Arizona, where several engagements have three-fourths thereof, it shall be a part of said Consti-thorizing the Secretary of War to lend four hundred stand of arms and equipments for the use of visiting recently taken place. The Apaches are particularly tution: Article XV. The right of the citizens of the United military to appear in the inauguration procession. In unruly. Little Raven and 300 Arapahoes had surren-States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the dered to the authorities. About the middle of Janu- United States, or by any State, on account of race, the re-organization of the House, the Clerk excluded from the list of members the representatives from ary an Indian village west of the Witchita mountains color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to Georgia and Louisiana. Objection was also made to was totally destroyed by Sheridan's troops. enforce this article by appropriate legislation. In the Senate on Saturday, a resolution authorizing Maryland District, and his case will go before the the swearing in of Mr. Hamill, elected from the 4th the President to recognize the independence of Cuba, Committee on Elections. Mr. Blaine, of Maine, was when, in his opinion, proper, was introduced by Mr. Sherman and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The joint resolution relative to donating cannon for the McPherson monument was passed Mr Schenck's bill to strengthen the public credit, declaring bonds payable in coin, &c., was passed by a vote of 30 to 16. -The Union Pacific Railroad has been blocked since the 12th of February by snow, the disappearance of which must be awaited before the mails can be sent through. A train of cars was blockaded for some time by the snow, and the passengers compelled to eat horse and mule flesh to prevent starvation. The railroads in Canada were also blocked up with snow. In some places the drifts were over thirty feet deep. -James Grant is on trial in Richmond, Va., for the murder of H. Rives Pollard. Great difficulty was experienced in getting a jury, and the twelve could not be made up without drawing talesmen from other cities. Several jurors were obtained in Alexandria and Norfolk. -The ex-Confederate naval officer, Lieutenant John C. Brain, who captured the steamer Chesapeake during the late war, and who has been confined for thirty months in King's county prison, New York, on the charge of piracy, was released on Monday, March 1st, by order of the Attorney General of the United States. A nolle prosequi was entered in the case. During the The House tabled the Louisiana contested seat question, but gave the contestants fifteen minutes each on the floor. Menard, the colored contestant, who holds the certificate of election, then briefly addressed the House, urging his claim to the seat. His remarks were delivered in an easy, good-humored style, and were listened to throughout with the closest attention. Mr. Hunt did not reply. The vote against Menard's admission stood 57 yeas to 130 nays. The Senate, March 1st, passed the bill to authorize punishment at hard labor in certain cases; the House bill for the removal of political disabilities was also elected Speaker of the House. PRICES CURRENT AND REVIEW OF THE For the Week ending Thursday, March 4, 1869. BEANS AND PEAS-There is a better inquiry. We note sales of prime white Beans at $2.75a3 bushel; 66 BUTTER-The better grades are in fair demand and prices well sustained, while common is dull. The sales for the week foot up 500 packages, in lots to the trade, at 38a40 cents for choice Glades; 30a35 cents for fair to good do., and 28a30 cents for common do. Common Roll 25a30 cents, and choice 33a35 cents. CANNED GOODS-Are in good demand, especially for vegetables and oysters. We continue to quote: 1 lb Cove Oysters, per dozen cans..........$0 00@1 50 0 00@2 50 2 ib Peaches.. 4 00@4 50 0 00@5 00 0 00@6 00 2 b Pine Apple..................................................................................................................... 4 00@4 50 2 lb Green Corn... 8 25@3 75 0 00@3 75 3 25@3 50 0 00@4 00 0 00@4 00 0 00@4 50 0 00@4 00 2 75@3 25 000@3 25 68 2b Green Peas. ................................................ 2 lb Strawberries. 2 b Egg Plums...... 2 b Cherries.... b Tomatoes..... 2 b String Beans.. 1 lb Lobster.. 2 ib Salmon.. ....... 0 00@2 00 0 00@3 00 4 50@5 00 1b Spiced Oysters... 0 0001 75 0 00@2 75 Brandy Peaches, quarts 0 00@5 00 CHEMICALS-Demand moderate at unchanged rates, viz: Soda Ash 2a24 cents; Caustic Soda 5a54 cents: Sal Soda $1.90, and Bleaching Powders 3%1⁄2 cents, gold. CHEESE-IS in good demand at last quotations, viz: Eastern Factory 22a23 cents fb. COAL-We quote Cumberland at $4.90a5 ton f. o. b. at Locust Point, and Anthracite at $9 for hard, and $9.50 for soft, delivered. COTTON-There is a good inquiry, but at lower prices. The transactions have been limited, owing to the firmness of holders, and our quotations are nominal. We quote Ordinary at 264 cents; good Ordinary 27 cents; low Middling 28a281⁄2 cents; and Middling at 29a294 cents atb. COTTON DUCK AND YARNS-Are in fair demand at unchanged prices. We now quote 22 inch No. 1 Duck at 57 cents; No. 2, 54 cents; No. 3, 51 cents; No. 4, 48 cents; No. 5, 46 cts.; No. 6, 44 cts; No. 7, 41 cents; No. 8, 38 cents; No. 9, 35 cents; and No. 10, 33 cents yard, and Yarns at 40 cents b. for low numbers. COFFEE-With a good inquiry the market is firm, although we have no large transactions to report, the sales being confined to supplying the wants of the trade. We quote choice Rio at 18a19cents; prime 171a1734 cents; good 15%a16 cents; fair 14a15 cents; and ordinary 124a13 cents; Java 24a25 cents, and Laguayra 17a18 cents. DRIED FRUIT-Is still in good request and meets a ready sale on arrival. We quote Apples at 9all cents b. Peaches, halves, 13a15 cents; quarters, 9all cts; mixed lla13 cents; and peeled 14a24 cents. Blackberries 12a20 cents; Whortleberries 18a20 cents; pitted Cherries 38a40 cents, and unpitted do. 8a10 cents fb. FISH-Are in demand with limited supply. We note the sale of two cargoes from the wharf on private terms. From store we continue to quote: Mackerel-No. 1 Bay, per barrel. $28 00@30 00 19 00@20 00 14 00@15 00 8 50@1000 50 45@ 40@ 45 FEATHERS-The demand has been equal to the supply, and we note a firm market, with sales of prime Live Geese at 77a80 cents; fair do. 60a65 cents, and common and mixed at 40a42 cents. FLOUR-There is some inquiry for export at low figures, but the disposition of holders to ask prices above the views of purchasers has the tendency to restrict transactions. We hear of sales to the extent of 4,000 to 5,000 bbls. for this purpose, at $6.00 for Super. The local demand is good;. the sales for the week foot up 12,000 bbls, included in which is 1,000 barrels City Mills Shipping Extra at 89 bbl. We also note the sale of 600 barrels City Corn Meal at $4.50. We quote: Howard Street Super........ Bone $56; Super Phosphate $60; Rhodes' Standard ma- our last report, but there is still no special activity. WHEAT-Has ruled very dull and inactive, although CORN-The offerings on 'Change foot up 125,000 bush- RICE-Is in better supply and less active. We note sales of Carolina at 9a10 cents for fair to prime. SALT-Sales are chiefly in small lots to the trade, but the market is firm and steady. We quote Liverpool at $2.10 for Ground Alum, and $2.90a3 sack for Fine, and Turk's Island at 50a55 cents bushel from store. SUGAR-The market has been dull, with but few transactions, the sales being confined to the supply of the retail trade. We quote the market nominal at the following figures: Fair to good Refining at 132a1334 cents; Grocery Cuba, fair to good, 137a144 cents; prime 141⁄2 cents; Porto Rico, fair to good, 13%a14 cents; prime 14a144 cents, and Demarara, good to prime, 16a17 cents. REFINED SUGARS-The only change is the dullness in the market compared with last week. We quote Hard Crushed, Powdered and Granulated at 2014 cents; A, 194 cents; Circle A, 19% cents; B, 19 cents; Extra C, 1834 cents; C, 184 cents, and Baltimore Syrup 87 cents SEED-Clover continues in good demand, and we note a still further advance. The sales include 900 bushels in lots at $10.25a10.50, and firm. We quote Timothy at $3.65a3.70, and Flax at $2.50a2.55 bushel. SHOT AND LEAD-Baltimore Drop is selling at 111⁄2 cents, and Mould at 12 cents fb., and Bar Lead at 101⁄2 cents. RYE-May be quoted in good-demand at 150a155 cts. HOPS-Are dull. We quote them at 10a12 cents for HIDES-The demand continues good, with a small IRON AND NAILS-Are steady, with a moderate SHINGLES-Are still in fair demand at $10.50a11 M. for primeNo. 1 Cypress. TOBACCO-There is a good inquiry, and the market is firm. We quote: Maryland frosted to common................................................. Good to fine brown... Upper country. brown and greenish.. com. to med. spangled.. Kentucky-common to good lugs. 38 00@ 40 00 34 00@ 36 00 33 00@ 34 00 66 45 00@ 46 00 45 00@ 46 00 46 45 00@ 00 00 66 44 44 dark lots are very saleable. We quote NAILS-Duty, Cut 12 cents; Wrought 2 cents; Horse Shoe 5 cents; 5d. and upwards, $5; 3d., $6.50; 4d., $5.50. LEATHER-Is steady in price, but with little inquiry. We continue to quote Light rough Skirting at 40a43 cts.; Middling do. 38a41 cts.; City Slaughtered 43a46 cts; Country do. 36a40 cts,; Spanish Sole 35a38 cents; Calf Skins, rough, 75a100 cents; and finished $1.30a1.65 D. MOLASSES-There has been nothing of moment done since our last report. The market is quiet. We OILS AND CANDLES.-There is no change to no- $6 26a 6 75 Sperm Oll, winter....................................$2 40 to $2 50 Fine.... WOOL-Market unchanged. We quote Unwashed at 33a35 cents; Burry do. 28a30 cents; Tub-washed 52a55 cents; and Fleece 43a48 cents. WHISKEY-Dull and inactive. Sales of Western and City at 98 cents, free, closing with 96 cents offered. It is seldom that we use the columns of this pa per to "puff" or notice the "thousand and one articles known as "Patent Medicines." We, however, vary from our rule in the present case, that we may call attention to the article known as ". T.-1860-X., Plantation Bitters." We desire it understood that we do so without any solicitation or promise of benefit from the proprietor or other interested parties. We simply do it as an act of duty towards those who are laboring under phys:cal disability, weakness, and the various conplaints arising from impurities of the blood. Hav. ing used the Bitters at the instigation of a friend, (and, we confess, with some misgivings at the outset,) we found them a most valuable medical conpound, and to our great satisfaction, accomplished the object for which they were used. 38 to 40 MAGNOLIA WATER.-Superior to the best im55 ported German Cologne, and sold at half the price. PETROLEUM-Is firm, with sales of Crude at 23% POTATOES-Are in good supply and prices are a |