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LATEST NEWS.
TELEGRAMS.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l3.-Mr. Glosbrenner was
supported for the position of House Printer to-day
by the Democrats, Mr.. Briggs and all the South
Americans present, excepting Messrs. Eth
er idge and Stokes, who voted for Messrs. Gales &
Seaton. Mr.. Defrees received the votes of all the
others present, including Mr.. Davis of Maryland
and excepting Messrs. Stanton, Adams and
Carey.
Mr.. Douglas had prepared eulogy on Senator
Broderck, to be delivered to-day, but last night
he was severely attacked by pleurisy
Mr.. Farnsworth intends introducing bill for the
transportation of the mails from Missouri to the
Pacific by railroad, and Mr.. Grow will shortly
introduce a bill for the admission of Kansas into
the Union.
Private accounts from the Rio Grande represent
ed statements regarding affairs in that quarter as
much exaggerated, the object being to afford a
restless set of adventurers pretext for crossing
into Mexico Apart from Cortinas' band, the
Mexicans are represented exceedingly friendly.
report prevails tonight that MIR. Cass has been
attacked with serious illness.
As the contest for the position of House Printer
is close, the expected arrival of Mr.. Stallworth to-
morrow, is matter of much interest among Demo
Gratis.
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Further proceedings under this order were inter-
rupted by the reception of message from the SEN
ate, announcing the death of the Hon. David c..
Broderick.
Mr.. BURCH, of California, delivered an appropri-
ate eHogy on the occasion, speaking of the deceased
in warm terms of friendship, and saying that the
memory of Mr.. Broderick will long be cherished
Mr.. HAsKEN, of New York, also paid his humble
tribute to the memory of the deceased
Mr.. HICKMAN spoke in the warmest terms of eu-
logy of Mr.. BrOderck.
Resolutions of respect were passed, and as a
further mark of respect
The House adjourned.
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Mills SrATUE-Crtics say that the new statue
ofWashington will be more admired than the sta
tue of Jackson 1t will be placed on a square,
plain pedestal of Maryland quartz marble but an
attempt will be made to obtain appropriation
for higher and larger pedestal, ornamented with
emblematical figures, like that of the statue of
Frederick the Great at Berlin.
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LONG LINE OF RAILRoAD.-By the completion of
the Mississippi Central Railroad last week, was
finished the last link in the continuous line of road
from Bangor, Maine, to New Orleans. There are
included in this line eighteen different roads, whose
aggregate length is 1884 miles, and whose aggre-
gate cost is 500 1884 0S4
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BUILDING RAILROADS SoUrH.-A new way TO
build railroad has been discovered down South.
The House of Representatives of Alabama has
passed, by large majority, the charter of a bank
in Mobile, with a proviso which requires that the
stockholders take an equal amount of stock in the
great central railroad from Montgomery to Deca-
tur. Alabama
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New JERSEY FRUIrERs.-A bill is before the New
York legislature whose provisions may be of inter
est to the fruit growers OF New Jersey. 1t proposes
to prohibit the sale of strawberries in baskets con-
kets containing less than three pecks each under a
nenalty of S25 for the first offence
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The San Francisco Board of Education has fixed
the tariff of teachers wages for public schools. All
but principals of grammar schools (males) have
$500 month"; first assistants, 500; all other as
sistants, $50. Principals of primaries (femaes)
have S05; their assistants $50. But the vacations
are not reckoned in, and the year really has but
ton months
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DESPERATE Cow.-The Houston, Texas, Tele.
graph, relates the following incident:
On Friday last, as the family of Mr.. W. B. Walk.
er were riding in their carriage in the lower part
of the city, they were attacked by belligerent
COW from of the cattle yards in that vicinity,
who overturned the carriage and attempted to
trample upon the ladies. She threw one of them
down, when negro girl rushed in to shield her
mistress, upon which the COW tossed the girl over
her head. She was then driven away. No one
was seriously injured, thought was most 1nirac-
ulous escape.
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PoGsoN TAKEN FOR MAGNEsIA.-A woman named
Mrs Sanders, residing at Ga HOyt street. New York,
had been sick for some time, and was under the
medical care of DR.. Chapman, who on Sunday last
ordered her to take dose of magnesa A person
was sent to drug store in Atlantic street to pro-
cure some, and shortly after Mrs. Sanders took it,
she was seized with violent spasms and had all the
appearance of having been poisoned. 1t is sup
posed the druggist gave arsenic by mistake
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The annual report of the Milwaukee and Mississippi
road is expected to show profit of $3.50 000 of which
$4,000 has been spent upon the track in work
As as the Receiver of the Erie Railroad Company
receives payment for back mail service appro
pration bill at present before the Senate he will adver
tse to the interest the Second Mortgage bonds
fhofN
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THE NAVAL ACADEMY.-We learn that the appoint
ments to the Naval Academy to the number of one
hundred and twenty-f will he made this year
from those Congressional districts which have no
midshipmen in the service, have had but one ap-
pointment prior to 1853. The full number allowed
by law could be appointed were it not for the linn
tied cOnveniences at the Academy.-NorjoH Her
aid,
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LARGE REwARD.-A proposition is now before
the Legislature of Ohio to offer S. 900 reward for
the production of the person of John Breslin, late
treasurer Of the State, who fed to Canada as de-
taulter. As the crime of which he stands charged
Is not covered by the treaty with England, by
which persons charged with crime shall be surren-
dered, the reward is an offer to anv one who would
kidnan him and hrinn him n thn L-ritaA SLatnn
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BANK RoBBED OF Sl7, ,6S2.-On the night of the ID
instant the Branch Bank of Tennessee at Clarks-
vile, was entered and robbed of ST. 8s2, most of
which was in twenty dollar gold pieces principally
new gold The locks to the doors were all as they
were left locked the night before. 1t is supposed
the locks were picked Thus far no clue has been
had to the discovery of the robber, nor is any par
ticular person suspected. A reward of 50, 500 is
offered for the discovery Of the thief and recovery
of the money
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lMPoRTATIONs OF AFRICAN ''APPRENTiCEs The
Havana correspondent of the New Orleans Delta
writes learn that it has been arranged to import
into Cuba, in the least time practicable from % OO0
to 5000 free Africans under contracts for twelve
years service. If this business is once commenced
by ntroductions under contracts which, il is said
have been authorized by competent authority, it
will be continued as long as sugar-cane is one of
the staples of Cuba
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PERPETUAL MorIoN.-A gentleman named Wig
gins after forty years of steady labor, and the ex
penditure of large capital, believes he has suca
ceeded in planning piece of mechanism that will
serve not only perpetual notion but allow of its
application to all sorts of machinery Cincianattt
ENQUIRER.
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CHARLESTON, Feb. l3.-The steamer Isabel has
arrived from Havana. E. S. Plumb, ESQ.,, comes
passenger as bearer of dispatches.
The Courier correspondent at Vera Cruz, under
date of the 4th inst, writes that Gen. Oelus with
1000 men, had been defeated at Oaaca by the
Liberals, and that Miramons expedition against
Vera Cruz consequently was probably abandoned.
The Liberals had re-occupied Coma and San Luis.
The Iacatecas Church forces had been defeated
Flascala with loss of 100 men killed or made
prisoners, quantity of artillery and munitions
Gen. Wool had been successfully opposed Jalisco,
and the Church Government reduced to a
small extent of territory.
The Liberals available force is estimated at 80
900 men.
Miramon, by extraordinary efforts, has negoti-
ated the sale of Sl5,000,000 worth of lands for
S4,050,000. Through illicit dealing with the friends
of the French Minister, S9,000 900 of these lands
will enter the French Convention as a Foreign
debt.
Mr.. Matthew, the English Charge, had presented
his ultimatum demanding the full payment of
the English claims in eight days, or he will demand
his passports. Little confidence, however, was
placed in his sincerity. General Ocampo had re-
signed his position of Minister of Foreign Affairs in
Juarezs Government, to accept the Special Mission
to the United States-Eng land connected with the
intervention of the former, and the recognition of
the Constitutional Government by the latter Gen.
Degollado takes the post thus vacated. Ocampo
leaves in the English packet of the 5th of March,
The commercial advices from Havana reports
the stock of sugar there at 35 900 boxes. Muscova
do 500 reas. Molasses arrived slowly, and sold
steadily at AZ reals for clayed, and 81 reals for
Muscovado Exchange on London 1319@14; on
New York 219@319.
There is nothing of interest from Key West.
The Liverpool Cotton Market.
New YORK, Feb. l3.-Hewitts Liverpool Cotton
Circular received by the steamer Canada says that
in consequence of the improved tone of American
letters, forming more moderate crop estimates, the
improved feeling in the market of last week is
impaired.
The imports for the week were As, 900 bales, and
the amount known to be at sea is 100000 bales,
against CO. 900 bales at the same period last year.
Messrs. Richardson, Spence & Co. reduce their
quotations for middling and lower grades Lied,
but quote the better qualities at full prices.
Messrs. Haketied Nash report strong staple
kinds IL 6 to I'D dearer
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PROBABLE SUICIDE IN CECIL CoUHrY.-A Young
man named John Mcguire, in the employ of Mark
Manlove, on Grave Point, Saturday last left
home ostensibly to walk the Sassafras river
at lis mouth, to shoot geese. He seen by two
persons standing on the ice large air-hoe,
and as he disappeared in less than two minutes, is
certainly lost. 1t is believed that he walked into
the water with deliberatinn
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The CHAMPION SwIMMER.-A Sandwich Island
boy recently deserted the whale-ship Franklin
when twenty miles at sea, jumping overheard about
eight o'clock at night, and swimming all night for
the land. By daylight he was within half a mile
OF shore, but there encountered strong opposing
current, and after bufeting the waves in a vain
effort to reach the beach, he saw a sail sew
eral miles to the leeward, changed his course for
the vessel, striking out to sea again, and was on
her deck by nine o'clock on Friday morning,
nothing harmed by his fourteen hours swim
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POSTAL DEoTsloN.-The Postmaster General, on
that
Under the Virginia statute, where single copy
OF any particular paper contains matter decided by
the State authorities to be incendary in its char
acter, 1t does not, therefore, follow that any sub
sequent numbers Of the same papers are to be con-
demned for that cause but every number of the
paper must be acted upon and disposed of separ-
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A rich miser in Auburn, N Y, has made ar
rangements to be buried in 0wasco Lake, beaut-
full sheet of water near that town. He has stone
coffin made which takes twelve yoke of oxen to
draw it. He gives man good farm for buryng
him. He is to take him to the middle of the lake
and sink him.
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GIRL Four YEARS OF AGE MURDERED BY 4 Boy
OF FIFTEEN.-A boy named F. Horton, aged Is
years, is confined in the Troy jail the charge OF
numbering Martha j. Horton, a child about four
stamping upon her with his feet. The parties
lived at PoestenkilI, few miles from Troy, in the
neghborhood known coax Hill" in the family
of Mr.. Martin Wheeler Utica ~ " Observer
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DIsAPPEARING.-The old copper cents, red and
rusty are rapidly disappearing from circulation
At the Philadelphia mint where they are being
redeemed, they received during the month of.
January to the value of S29l5, whish is doing
| well, considering that it is a one cent business
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BANK DEFALCATIoN AND FAILURE IN RHODE ISLAND.
"A despa tch from Providence states that it was
announced in that city yesterday that the Rhode
Island Exchange Bank, of East Greenwich, had
failed, and that the cashier defaulter to the
amount of $4,000 The capital is $50, 900, and the
Circulation S44, 900. He is also defaulter to the
Savings Bank in the same town, of which he was
Treasurer, to the amount of S36, 900. He has lost
the money in stock specuations. The assets of the
bank are ample for the redemption of its circula-
ton, and the holders of bills ought to sacrifice
them
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The New CUNARD STEAMER.-The new steamship
Of the Cunard line is called the Austraiasan and is
probably on her way to this country at the present
time. She is three hundred and thirty-two feet
long, has breadth of beam forty-one feet, and
depth of hold twenty-one feet. Her tonnage is
2,760, and her engines are 700 horse power. The
the Australian mail service, but owing to the EN-
barrassments of that company. she put up for
SALE She is commanded by Captain Hockey for
many years past in the Cunard service.
A MAN KILLS HIS STEPFATHER.-0n Thursday
last. Mr.. Augustus Binkley, living near Double
Wells, Warren county, Va, killed his stepfather,
Mr.. Edward Baker. The cause is stated to be that
Baker treated his wife badly, and on one occasion
recently he not only whipped her in the presence
of Others but exposed her person to the spectators
This exasperated her son, that he attacked him
and killed him, and then Immediately delivered
himself up to the authorities.
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SMoKE-CoNSUMING LoCoMorIvE.-The Superin-
Railroad at Altoona has introduced an improve
ment in one of the locomotives of that road, which
consumes the smoke. So that instead of the vast
volume OF smoke which the ordinary locomotive
oelches forth at every revolution, little steam
only is seen escaping from this invention In con-
sumlng the smoke, great saving of fuel is effect
ed. 1t made the run from Altoona-a distance of
III miles-upon 25 bushels OF coal, maintaining
high rate of speed all the time, and eyncing the
possession of extraordinary power.
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Munttarr ana Commercial 8sbitm.

SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.
MONDAY, February IL, 1860 - .
lonO ali Q-3, 95 shs. BGD. X. X ". g
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The CoSTINENTAL HOTEL, PHILADEIPHIA-Thi
new and largest hotel in Philadelphia was last
night thrown open to exhibition to the stockhold-
ers The building is six stories high, is 23O feet on
Ninth street and l7O on Chestnut street. 1t is pro-
and science can supply for the convenience of its
occupants, is magnifcenty furnished, and contains
accommodations for one thnnsand nersnnr
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STATE CAPIroLs.-The capitol of the State OF
Tennessee. at Nashville not yet finished, has cost
so far SS26 900. The capitol of Ohio, at Columbus,
unfinished, is estimated to cost, when completed,
81, ,552, ,2O7. The capitol of South Carolina, when
finished will cost s. 800. 900.
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Messrs. Thompson Brothers say Land Warrants are
moderately active with advance in some sizes We
quote to-day, as follows:
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Thrown on market... 11033415 29O15439 2S, ,521 479
The exports of specie for the ending February TO-
1860 were
Steamer Karnak, Nassausovereigns. 1850
steamer City of Baltimore Lverpoo-gold bars "a 500
Bark llva, Maracabo-Am. gold 600
The January receipts of the Milwaukee and Mississippi
Roilr
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Newark, New Jersey, having furnished Speak
er for the House of Congress, now wants the opera
to open in that city.
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SPLENDID DREss.-From an English papers cor
respondence we learn that at Calcutta, at the
Governor-General's ball, a beauty appeared who
was not ''put out" though apparently on fire. In
countless dimuntive bags of gauze she had i'm
prisoned fire flies, and these, tackled on to her
dress, far outshone the diamonds of the Oriental
ladies'. AS she walked in the more dimlv-Iichted
alleys of the garden and grounds she was indeed
most brilliant bnlIel
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George H. Hosgefross, Esq, formerly of Balti-
more, but for number of years past a resident OF
San Francisco, Cal, has resigned the position of
Chief Executive of the Monumental Fire Company
of that city.
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Since the appointment of Mrs. Blanding Vice
Regent in California for the Mount Vernon Asso-
ciation, she has collected and forwarded to the
central office $40, ,292.S5. This is since February
last Well done, California,
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$39,7SO AZ

Decrtase'. 2,5bS.l9
The earnings OF the indianapolis Cincinnati Road
for the first week in February will show handsome
over the same week last year The receipts
Cincinnati office for the week will be about 81 900 against
1880 for the same week in 1859.
The Panama Road during the past two weeks has
ried, on English account, as follows
Silver................... ........... $334,7S7.2
Gold. .............................. S5,7SS.37
Total. otal............................ S420575.62
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THREE DUELs IN LESS THANA WEEK.-The New
Orleans correspondent of the st. Louis Republican
gives the particulars of three dues in that city, in
the space of week. The first was about calum-
mated lady, and the calumniator received ball in
his leg, which ruined the joint and will probably
render amputation necessary. The two other
duels were between French Creoies, VINO fought
with smalswords, doing each other no injury of
consequence.
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A difficulty occurred in Brunswick county, Va,
on Friday last, between Nathaniel NJ. Spears and
Edmund W. Cole, which terminated in the death
of Spears. Cole shot him and he died instantly.
No,rorl- No,r Iorsa, boy;pcr frrn;sbad
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PRICES AND SALES OF STOCKS INNEw YORK
BY TELEGRAPH
trough WILLIAM FISHER Il Son, Stock and B Ill q rok
M % Snnth at

The New Yolk Tribune Of yesterday says:
The annexed is comparative statement of the imports
of foreign dry goods New York for the week and since
January l:
For the Week 1855 1859 1850
Entered at the port 43921S sS4l4O73 23l4 692
Thrown on market... 5S9,737 2,491, sos 1,639 61S
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DUELLING IN NEW ORLEANs-Two duels were
fought on the 2Sth ult., near New Orleans The
first was at the Oaks with small-swords, between
young man named Query, and another whose name
is not mentioned. The latter received slight
wound in the right side. The other was back of
the Halfway House, between Messrs. Ernest Can
onge and Victor Gerodias; the weapons, shot-guns
loaded with ball; the distance, forty PAGES Gero-
dias received his adversarys ball in the feshy part
of his leg, back of the knee, the ball passing
through and grazing the front part of the right
leg, and infietng wound which may render
amputation necessary
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The deficit of the Pope's budget is one million
of dollars; rather large, when it is considered the
whole budget is only Sl4. 900 900.
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paper manufacturing company has been or
ganized in Fredericksburg, Va, with a capital of
S1O 600 F p Wexford President
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An Austrian coin bearing the date of 1874 was
lately dug up, several feet below the surface, in
Decatur county, Ill.
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Mr.. Stephen Massett, better known as Jeems
Pipes, of Pipesvile. is preparing for publication a
volume of his adventures during his many years
of travel.
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The crew of the United States steam-frgate Mis-
sissipp at Boston, have contributed S5S from theil
wages towards the fund for the purchase of Mount
Nnrn
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At Oakville, Canada, last week, three women
were taken from their BEDS stripped and tarred
and feathered by a gang of rowdies. NO offence
on the part of the women can justify such brutality
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Some two doz.n camels, from Alabama, have ar
rived at Galveston, Texas, for the use of the gov
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TIE BAY ISLAND TREATY.-The Official Gazette,
of Honduras, says that the Government has resolv-
ed to take step in the matter without the sane
tion of the people, and for this reason it has been
published, that it might be publicly discussed be-
fore IL comas nm for final ratification
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CINCINNATI MARKETS, Feb. 10.-Flour.-There is
no demand of consequence, and the market continues
quite unsettled Small sales of Superne and Extra at
IS 6061575 Buyers offer 35 for Superfne and
rs so for Extra The receipts continue LIBERAL and
there is no export demand.
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Total, year 1882. 9..............s6, $50 ,o4o
Cincinnati Gazette of Safurdav sayS.

The Seventh Annual Report of the Receivers of the
Central Ohio Railroad filed with the Clerk of the
United States District Court evening before last We
abstract the following statement therefrom:
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The Buffalo Republican states that Mrs. Ellen
Wadron, whose husband was killed about two
years ago on the Buffalo and State Line Railroad,
has just recovered from that company $4,000
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Elizabeth Hidebrand has recovered SIS, 900 dana
ges from Nicholas Mathewson, in San Francisco
for breach of promise of marriage