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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEGRArH,
LrldnN EphrnnrN lR lRRR |


There was frnor feeling in the Stock Market
this morning. but the transactions continue
moderate. Government bonds are in fair de-
mand at the advance. 6s of 1881 sold ut lOl !, an
advance of b; 5-2Os at IO3; ard 7'SOs at 09l; 9ll
was bid for IO,AOs. State and City loans are
more active. Pennsylvania 5s sold at S640S6},
an advance of I; new City 6s at 0li6932, an ad-
vance af /, and old do. at 81.
By the Bremen it is stated that on the 3lst OF
January, at the London Stock Exchange Amcri-
can securities we're steady without much activity.
Flve-t twentes closed at G6@66f; Illinois Central
at 75I975s; Erie at 564Q956t.
Railroad shares continues irregular. Penn
sylvania sold at 55l decline of 4; Little Schuyl-
kill at 81, decline OF }; Reading at 5Os05OI, an
advance of Z; Catagissa preferred at 36f@937, a
decline of !; and Philadelphia and Erie at 29l,
an advance OF }; ll6 was bid for Camden and
Amboy; So for Norristown; 81 for Minehll; 36S
for North Pennsylvania; COZ tor Lchigh Valley
| 25 for Catawssa common; and 43 for Northern
| Central.
City Passenger Railroad shares are without
change. Second and Third sold at n and
Hestonville at Sag. 945 was bid for Spruce and
Pine; 12s for Ridge avenue; and 23 for Union.
In Canal shares there is very little movement.
Lehigh Navigation sold at 524 and Union
Canal preferred at AZ decline of l. 234 was
bid for Schuy.kill Navigation common; 294
for preferred do; LA for Morris Canal preferred
l25 for Susquehanna Canal; 30 for Delaware
Division; and 573 for Wyomrngvalley Canal.
There is more doing in Bank Shares, and
prices are we'll maintained. Northern Liberties
sold at so; Mechanics at 2SS; and Corn Ex-
change at 81; 206w was bid for North America; lao
for Philadelphia; 12O for Farmers and
Mechanics; 53 for Commercial; 50 for Girard /;
rs tor Western; So for City; 40 for Consolidation,
| and 55 Tor Union.
Oil shares continue dull. Curtain sold at q;
Oak Shade at %; Sugar Creed at 2f; and Maple
Shade at a.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
| RepOrred pY De Haven & bro No 40 S Third strhnt
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Report of the Department of Agriculture
Interesting Statistics.

From the report of Hon. Isaac Newton, Com
missioner OF the Bureau OF Agriculture, tor Janu-
ary, we learn that the decrease in lmportations
OF foreign wool for 1866 was 22,5ll,67l lbs,
which the Commissioner notes as u gratifying
tnc-, because it shows the progress that IS made
III supplying the domestic wants OF the country
in o commodity so essential TO its wants and
comfort. There was an increased importation
of woollen goods during the year 1865, amount
ing &C. 81, ,632 620. .,,r
We III port nearly million dollars wo.th of
cigars, mostly oil the best Havana. C!ear manu-
facturers say that the import is occasloned By
the internal tax being greater than the duty on
the fo1eign article, and the Commissioner thinks
such an inequality OUGHT not to be permitted.
1t is noticed that several conventions, represent
inR tho growers Of raw material and of It's
manufacture, have been held, and their dele
gates sent to this city 10 press upon the attention
OF Congress the adjustment OF the claims OF
different interests affected by the internal taxes
and the tariff duties.
The Commissioner says:-"Some agricultural
and horticultural associations have passed reso-
lutions uniavorabe TO my continual on in
Office. Whilst l much desire the appro pa
ton Of all persons, especially those con.
nected with agriculture, | cannot hope to
purposes to accomplish. In, the eXecu-
ton OF the duties and trusts confded to
me as Commissioner of Agriculture, am often
compelled by sense OF duty to deny to indi
vlduals The opportunity OF taking the funds oi
the department. without rendering proper ser
vice therefor. l have to reject schemes which
have personal gain much more in view than the
advancement OF agriculture. This action on my
part creates hostility, which is manifested, not
by specific CHARGES OF official wrong.doing on my
part, and which could answer, but in secret
correspondence and private conversations, by
which well.meaning but unreaecting persons
are misled and induced to consent 20 the adop.
tion of the resolutions referred to-"
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1G, 1866.
nnion stnfe Convention.

A Stated Convention Will be held in the Hall
OF the House Of Representatives in Harrisburg.
Pa, on "WEDNESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF
MARCH, A. D. 1866, at IL O'Clock M for the pur-
pose OF nominating a candidate for Governor, to
be supported by the friends Of the Union.
The ordeal of war has tried the strength OF
our Government Its fire has purified the
nation. The defense OF the nations lille has de-
monstraied VINO we're its friends. The princi-
Piles vInd Gated In the field must be preserved
in tie councils OF the nation. The arch-enemy
of freedom must be struck once more. All the
friends of our Government, and all who we're
loyal to the cause Of the Union in our late strug
gle, are earnestly requested to unite in sending
delegates t. represent them in said Convention.
BY oder OF the Union State Central Com
mitlee. JOHN CESSNA, Chairman.
GRO. w. UAMFRsLy, socro+o.ios
A. w. BEEEDICT,
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r, ''The Senate military BILL reported few DAYS
since by Senator WILSON, will be materially
amended and changed by the House,"
WE ARE glad to see that the suggestions made
by us in regard to the Quartermaster's De-
pariment are about to be acted upon. This
unnecessary increase in time of peace will
never be assented to by the House. Retrench-
ment is being executed in cases where it can
hardly be justified, and for SO unnecessary an
increase to be made is utterly at variance
with the order OF the day. We hope that the
bin viii be reduced to the status previous to
the war. 1t win then be more than sufficient.
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A Last Look at President Lincoln's Re
mains.

SpRNdFIEID Ill, February 10.-The vault re-
Gently constructed at Oak Ridge Cemetery, near
this city, under the direction of the National
Monument Association, and to which the NOR
tai remains Of the late President we're removed
n short time since, was visited few days ago
by Committee of the Association, consisting of
Governor 0glesby, Hon. Newton Bateman, LID,
and eX-Secretary oil State Hatch, when the casket
containing the cred ashes was opened, and ioc
the last time, TIL "the great trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised iuCorruDti-
ble,r were the features of the lamented Lincoln
viewed by mortal eyes.
The visit of the COMMITTEES was an official one,
ara made in pursuance of resolution of the
Board of Directors oil the Association, the object
presence OF the body in the casket The face
was examined through the glass covering which
underlies the outer strata OF the case by the
several gentlemen above named, and identified
by each OF them as that OF the martyred Presi-
dent. The sad ceremony ended, the lid was
again nailed down and sealed with the slJnet OF
tue Association. The great stone or SLAP was
subsequently, rolled to the door of the sepllchre
and fitted lnio its place. the finishing stroke i'm
| parted to the solid masonry, witch was in like
manner as the casket impressed with the great
seal OF the corporation.
The remains will now rest undisturbed till the
'National Nouumenp shall be completed when
they will be deposited in their dnal resting. place
nor ever be removed hence It'll the heavens are
| no more.p
| The features of the deceased were scarcely dis
| cernible-the embalment seeming TO have offered
| but little, II any, resistance to the encroach
ments of corruption, and the piece of clay that
| once lived, and moved, and talked, and was
| known as Abraham Lincoln is being fast dis
! solved-"ratterf from rafter and beam from beam,
| and the particles of which 1t was cur ously com
pounded are rapidly returning to their original
| elements.
What a comment ls here upon the "frailty Of
man in his best estate,n the liteness OF the world
| and the nothingnesS of all created things How
| 0elusive the amusements OF honor, the gaudy
| tins els OF wealh and all the empty shadows OF d
| rerishnp world
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The Widow OF Ex-President I yler in Court.

The case Of Julia G. Tyler, appellant, dgt.
David L. Gardiner, respondent, was argued
before the General Term of the Supreme Court
ham, Lott, Barnard, ana Gilbert, the case for
Mrs. Tyler being argued by William L. Eyarts,
ana for the respondents by Mr.. G. L. jerks.
Mrs. Tyler, who Is the widow OF President Tyler,
was in Court. ru ..-l
The argument was on an appeal by Mrs. Tyler
from decision OF the Surrogate of Richmond
county, setting aside the will of her mother az
invalid. Mrs. Tylers mother, Mrs. Gardiner,
her property was left to Mrs. TYLER. David l..
Gardiner, the brother of Mrs. Tyler, contested
the will, as having been made by mis- mother
while under undue influence and the Surrogate
decided in his favor, and from this decision Mrs.
Tyler appeals. The arguments in the case were
listened to with great deal of interest-Nel0
! oTk Egening Post 18Th. 1'.. .n
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A NUMBER of respectable firms of our city
presented yesterday to City Councils petit
lion that all warrants, not otherwise specially
provided ior, shall be paid in the order OF the
date of their presentation for payment at the
City Treasury, a record of such presentation
being made there Ior the purpose that the City
Treasurer shall publish, from time to time,
the numbers OF other necessary description of
such warrants as he is prepared to pay, in
accordance with the above rule; and that no
warrants shall be paid without such public
notice.
1t is question of great doubt whether the
remedy suggested will be at all sufficient.
Should law similar to the one proposed be
enacted, then it would be easy for the holders
off warrants to present them en- maSse,
and thus continually anticipate any payment
which the condition of the Treasury might
allow. Would it not be better to have the
warrants paid in accordance with the date of
issue, and not as regards the order OF their
| presentation?
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The Press says, speaking OF private con
cert given by Master CoKER:-


"The delightful parlor concern given last stnight,
by Master RICHARD CoKER, was attended by
some of the best and most exclusive people in
the CITY,"
Who are the "best people in our city?"
What does the most exclusive people"
meanP Could we not have list of who con-
stitute the best? We hope the parlor was large;
for if, as was implied, number OF "the best"
were there. we should desire, for municipal
credit, that it should not go abroad that all
the "best" of our citizens could be included
in small parlor. Was the critique Of the
Press there? If he was, we hope he will
give us list of the "best," of the creme de
la creme, and we will employ "Jenkns" to
work it up into an article which viii cause
suicide through jealousy in the corps OF the
New York papers. eve ask" as Rosa
Dartle says, "for information"
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"STIIL HARPING ON MY DAUaHTER."-
The New York Tribune returns again to the
charge on the subject of the League Island
Navy Yard. In its issue of yesterday IL says:-
"The ice in the Delaware IS eiving those who
have the iTon-clads in charge much trouble.
The Nelc lronstdes, which lies in front of the
Island, has been protected by heavy timbers
secured on the outside by chains, and iron
sheathlng has been put upon the bow over the
copper to protect 1t from the ice. The timoers
which nave been placed outside have also re-
ceived coat OF iron mall Tue ice has been 50
heavy thai they have been obliged to get out
extra onchors and chains, Notwithstanding they
were moored with two heavy bower anchors and
one hundred and tNenty fathoms OF three-inch
chains, besides breast anchors and beam moor
ings The little iron-clads tare better Tor they
lay halt the time IN the mud, where the ice can
not reach them II any difficulty should occur
during the winter months II would BE- quite impos.
sibe to get these vessels ont in any thing like a
reasonable time These iron clads cost the country
many millions OF dollars TO build them, and II
the ice in the Delaware continues much longer
II will cost millions tOrepaIr them. Orders have
been issued to allow no visitors on board these
vessels, as 1t Il said some one has written the
truth about their condition mt League Island,
which Is no more fitted for an anchotage for the
iror-clads than is Batfin's Bay"
About month ago like charge was made
in the Times, In reply to which we took the
trouble to inquire the facts of the case from
the officers of the Yard. Upon their state
ment we denied the truth of such an attack.
We said: "Ihe truth of the matter is that the
ice, instead Of rushing at the headlong rate OF
five or six miles an hour, as pictured by the
New York reporter, sweeping and destroying
all in its path, in reality gently glides down
the river at less than one mile per hour; and
even then cannot reach witn ripple the
back channel, sheltered as it is by protecting
bar, which throws all the ice out of its course
and into the main channel"
To all the charges made we replied by
giving the facts; and it is unnecessary for us
to repeat them here. The whole conduct not
only of the press OF the Empire City, but also
of the Board of Trade and her merchants, is
without a parallel for its falsity and injustice.
They DO not scruple to make the most damag-
ing assertions without the preteXt of truth,
so that a jot or title could be said against
having the Navy Yard here. We are thanx-
iul that it is the intention of the Naval Com
mittee OF the House of Representatives to pay
us speedily . visit, and by their official report
will the SANDER set afoat by the New York
journals be refuted.
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Philadelphia Trade Report.

FRIDAY, February 16 The TORPID and unsatsfac-
tory condition OF trade noted Tor weeks past still
contnues but there is very little change to record in
prices.
No. QuercitrOn Bark is steady at $S2 80 per ton,
but without sales .H
Cotton is duh; small sales of Midding at 44{945,
There is more inquiry Tor Cloverseed. and aOout
1000 bushels sold at o. 1901 90, chiefly at the latter
figure. Small sales of Timothy at S4'25. There Is
not much Flaxseed comiue forward aud not much
demsnd Small sales at S3 per bushel.
The Flour Market Is very dull, but prices are un-
changed. There rs no shipping demand and the
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salee are only in small way for home consumption
at g6 2b6 70 bsrre for supsr rtne 81 508 30 for
Extras; es0i9 for Northv vesern Extra Family $3.50
d1O for PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio do do. and S11@ ala
INC IN small way at s4',5g5. Prices OF Corn Meal
ere entirely nominal tNNft Hl.uf 1T
Wheat is verv quiet In the absence Of sales we
quote red at 81 b0d2 20, and white ne So 2502 g.
Rye is steady at $780, Corn is unchan0od small saos
of yellow at zoe. Oats are firmei AT 45q41c.
whisky Is dull small sales at 50 24d2 20.
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Greuing Trlegraph

is published eeg ofernoon tStmdogl ercepted)
at No. l0e 5. Third street. Price, Three Cents
Per Copy (DoubLe Sbeoi), or Eighteen Cents Per
Weeh, payable to The Carrier, and mailed TO
Subscribers otd ofhe city at Nine Dollars Per
AnStum One Dollar and Fif1y Cents for Too
Months, inUdr,dbg IN dducHce for rte period
ordered
To insure he Insertion OF Advertisements IN all
Of our Editions, they must be for1oardedtO 10 our
Office not later hdn 10 O'Clock each Mora,ng.
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e-sse:SsszI9 SCHOBIAOKER Il CO.'S PHILADE
TTBRBF PHIA MANUFACTURED PIANOS
Are acknowledged the best instruments made
They have been awarded the highest Premiums
all the principal exhibtons ever held IN lhls count
with numerous testimonials from the hrst artists
Anne riea and Europe.
TheN are now the eadng Pianos, and are sold 20
parts of the wOr and offered on liberal ter
than any others in the cits for the reason that
instruments can be obtained directly from the MAJ
lecturers Our extensive facIliues ENABLE US to
great Inducements over Others.
fsetnTinG com many. 1891
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Mr.. J. G. Smart, Justice of the peace for
the Sixteenth Owl District OF Sumner county,
Tenn, was found lying dead in his house, with
two bulletholes through him-One penetrating
his heart and the other his brain. No one knew
Wien the deed was perpetTated, but the villains
are well known to be from ten to fifteen o Har-
per's old Dand OF guerillas, who still iniest the
counties of Sumner and Robertson.
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TT WOULD SEEM that the Mayor OF Balti-
more is at swords point with the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company. j. w. GAR
RETT, Esq, in his speech at the meeting of
the Company on Wednesday, stated that "the
rawlings OF an inhabitant of the Mount Hope
Asylum could not present more palpable non
sense than such message as that of the
Mayor" We infer that there is scram-
Bile for the spoils. he design which has been
partially frustrated by the quarrel is stated by
the PRESIDENT .".
'The cooperation of the city of Baltimore
with the city OF PIttsburg, and citizens OF West
ern Pennsylv a and the Baltimore ami Ohio
Railroad Company will ultimately secure trI-
umph oN er the antagonIsm OF che Pennsylvania a
Railroad Company, and give to Baltimore aud
Plttsburg and the Yves great Inc by the dou-
bic track road of the Baltimore and Ohio TO
Cumberland, and thence by the PIttsburg and
Connellsville Road to Plttsourg."
In other words, the tide of trade was to
flow through Baltimore and be diverted
entirely from Philadelphia. OF course the
object is laudable one on the part of the
Company, and our only surprise is that they
were willing to openly quarrel with the
Mayor on sny ground. If they can succeed,
they deserve all the trade and all the profit
that can accrue therefrom. If we allow them
to triumph we deserve the loss. 1t is for our
business men to decide whether the scheme
thus openly declared shall succeed or not.
THE EAGERNEss with which the Demo
cratic organs are watching for any salient
point in the Republican party is amusing. In
an article on the grafton OF Hon. GEORGE
BANCROFT, we took occasion to give candid
opinion. The address was well executed, but
poorly conceived. Mr.. LINCOLN had nothing
| to do with Asia or China, nor yet with Europe
directly. We regretted that the orator had
not confined himself to an elaborate eulogy,
and not wandered to the tour quarters of the
globe, to seek in all the continents some
illustration for the lie Of great and good
American. The Democratic papers are en-
deavoring to make the speech of Mr.. BAN
CROFT party issue. They do not criticize
its literary merits, but abuse the historian.
They examine into his record and are guilty
of a graver fault than was he; for what has a
speakers record got to do with the literary
excellence of his productions The question
is not political one, and when we see the
Democratic journals, without exception abus-
ing the address, and endeavoring to make it a
partisan quarrel, it furnishes strong argu-
ment to those who ridicule ur system, and
gives testimony to the ridiculous partisan
ship which is turning to scorn all the political
ontests in this country.
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Prices OF cold in New York.

By BdRkrS and Brokers Telegraph Line. ..
New YORK, February l6.-The following are
the prices of gold in New York this morninR:-
l030A. 1879 10 ] l2 90 r. M. 49,. ,137a to-
11e6 A. III. .... 1871 10 100 ?. Mo-. 1871 to
TLere are ali changes in PodIo-day.
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only because Of It's strict obedience to the WIN
of its omnipoteDt Author. And disorder, dis
ease suffering, sorrow, and death are expe-
rienced here only as the result of dlsobedience
to Divine authority.
But those who would desecrate the Sabbath
assert that the State or its Government has
nothing to do with religion. There Is fatal
lallacy in that argument. 1t Is, perhaps,
true, that Government, in this country, can
not lawfully establish national church, or
interfere with mems consciences or f'eedom
of choice as regards their religious faith; but
it is not true that, while the Government,
whether State or National, leaves the iad-
vidual citizen free to indulge religious be-
lief of one kind or another, it therefore tole-
rates Deism or Atheism, or will sanction, at
least by lis own act, universal lrrehgion aad
popular disregard and violation Of the posi-
tive institutions and laws Of God.
There is q wide difference between decree
ing what religion man shall profess, and
declaring, by special or general legislation,
that he may, if he pleases, have none; between
not constraining a citizen to accept one
'SDClStlan Creeu raLner J1ln tuOJueT, ana
allowing even majority Of the people to
abolish, utterly or partially, those positive
institutions of God (such as the Sabbath)
which form vital part Of the religious sys-
ten Of all Christian commonwealth.
We are really panied to feel that there is
cny necessity to seriously argue such aues-
ton as this IN pennsylvania. II we were ad-
dressing the Leathen in the Feejee Islands or
elsewhere, there would be pleasure in the
ask. But to have any sufficient occasion to
convince the people of this State, much less
their legislators, that the Sabbath is Gods
day, that it was created by Him by express
ordination, and that, being an institution of
Els, human legislation should not attempt to
annul it, is positively revolving. We cannot
persuade ourselves that the Sabbath is in any
danger even new. Powerful as the pressure
against it may appear to he. our faith ia its
saLctity is abiding. 1t Is hedged about by a
divinity that is above all human power, and
whi we trust that no Chr stian legislature
would willingly defy Or profane.