Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-05-21

at least Kansas is out of the way The deficiency BILL
and nearly all the other appropriation bills have been
got out of the way-ew outside borers for mail steam
ship contracts or the like nfest the Hobbies. With an
exhausted treasury their day is for the time being
No grants of land have been made, and hardly any
grants of anything that could be avoided. No new
works. even although authorized by former legislation,
have been proceeded with by the Departments of the
Executive Government. Economy is the order Of the
day No movement has been made towards resembling
the joint resolution providing for adjournment OF
both houses at an early day in June, and none will be
necessary.
On Friday, communication was received by the
Senate from the Secretary of War; relative to the re-
port of military commission sent over to Europe in
1855 The Secretary thinks that the reports made by
the commission referred to of great Importance and
contain facts knowledge of which ought to be dissent
mated through the army and militia and he therefore re-
commends the printing of certain number Of copies
communication was also received from the Secretary
of the Navy giving information in relation to the pro-
posed naval depot at Brunswick, Ga. The Secretary
says that there is money i'll the Treasury which can
be applied to that work, without dverting it from other
indispensable Objects and that falling within that class
of works authorized by Congress- which have not been
commenced it is not deemed expedient or proper to
commence it during the present state of the treasury
good many reports made relative to private
claims.
resolution was adopted calling for information rea-
tive to the recent search seizure of American vessels
by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico Or the
seas adjacent and ALSO what measures if any, have been
taken in relation thereto
Shields and Rice then drew lots to determine in which
class of Senators they should respectfully stand Mr..
Shields drew the short term, Mr.. Rice the longer one
Mr. Shields term will expire next 4th of March, Mr..
Rices March 4th, 1863.
Mr. Clingman of n. c. appointed to fill the va
cancy in the Committee on Revolutionary claims, occa
stoned by the death of Senator Evans of S. e. We
might as well state here that the vacancy in the Com
mttee on Foreign Relations of the House. occasioned
by the removal of Mr. Cngman to the Senate, was filled
by the appointment of Hon. L. OBJ Branch
The Speaker laid before the House of Representatives
communication from the State Department in answer
to resolution of the House calling for papers relating
to the claims of Mr.. Wheeler late Minister to Nicara-
qua Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and ordered to be printed.
The Speaker also laid before the House a commune
cation from the Commissioner of Patents, transmitting
the agricultural portion of the report.
A bill making appropriation for wagon and emf
grant road in New Mexico was rejected on its third
reading Also bill for the same purpose in the terri
tory of Washington. A number of private bills were
disposed of.
On Tuesday next tomorrow the House will finally
decide the Ohio contested election L. D. Camp
BELL othng, is the sitting member and Mr.. Val
andigham Democrat the contestant. Considerable in
teres is felt in this case and there will no doubt be full
House.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
thinks it doubtful whether Congress adjourn on the
th day of june without rendering it necessary for the
President to call them back at early day. There
are many contingencies upon which an extra ses-
sion may be necessary Considerable feeling is enter
tanned and exposed with reference to the recent
visitation of American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico
by British cruisers The British offer by way of excuse,
the plea that they only overhaul vessels hosting the
American flag, in order to ascertain their right to that
flag. They say that any SLAYER pirate of any country
might be, and no doubt would be, provided with an
American flag, which they would hoist when pursued.
Philadelphia Tragedy.
Last Thursday morning about 10 O'Clock, Franklin
Square, Philadelphia, of the most public places of
resort in the city, the scene of double tragedy re-
sulting in the DEATH by his own hands of man named
G. L. F. Goodwin, and the dangerous woundng of wo-
man calling herself Lizzie Marshall" who had until
recently been living with Goodwin as his wife-her real
name is Anna Garland Both came from Massachu-
setts he from Boston, and she from Lynn. Nothing
more is known about them than that they were not
married How or when their illicit relations commenced
is not known. 1t would appear however, that they be-
came mutually jealous-he certainly with cause, an
intimacy had sprung up between the supposed Mrs.
Goodwin and one Samuel w Randall an agent for a
New York manufacturing jewery establishment, and the
woman left Goodwin twice. and finally refused to
stay with him any longer. The day before Goodwin
wrote Randall, saying he was going to leave Philade-
phia and begged an interview with Lizzie and him
which he obtained in Franklin Square at the time sta
ted After some mutual examinations between himself
and the woman he shot her, and then himself with diff
erent barrels of revolving pistol which he had pro-
vided The womans corsets broke the force and altered
the direction OF the ball, and she may live. Goodwin
himself died in about hour. He was barber or
HEAR dresser about twentyfour years of agethe
man about the same age. The Philadelphia papers
publish OF correspondence some of it incoherent
and all foolish and evidently the production of persons
without education. Some accounts say Goodwin had a
wife in Boston. Some again, say that Randall is mar
red Both these accounts are doubtful Both the men
seem to have been infatuated with the woman Natu-
rally such thing happening at ten o'clock in the day,
in full presence of groups of children with and without
their in the midst might say of numbers