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FROM WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO EVENING TELEGRAPH
WASHINGTON, March 20.
Affairs in Virginia.

From Richmond we learn that General
Schofeld's approval of the action of the
Senate in calling a convention, is an indication
of the desire of that body to meet the require
ments of the Military bill, and will influence
the House to follow their example upon re-
assembling after the recess which will expire
upon the 10th of April. Their constituents
will doubtless force them into this measure
before that time. The people of Buckingham
county held a meeting on Monday last at
which the Military bill was indorsed, and their
representatives instructed to vote for the call
of convention though nothing had been pre-
viously said upon the subject.
1t has been rumored that General Schofeld
was about to change his headquarters from
Richmond to Fortress Monroe; but as Rich
mond is designated as headquarters in General
| Orders No. TO- the report is without founda-
ton. He will send his family there during
| the summer months.
There is great destitution prevailing in vari-
Gus portions Of Virginia among the poor of
| both races. Extreme want exists and in
Richmond alone there are upwards of three
| thousand people who can scarcely be main
| tanned by the charitable societies there. This
number are outside the protection of the
| Bureau. . - .. I.
Heavy freshets in the southwestern portion
| of the State have resulted in the destruction
of immense quantities of property, including
| mills, ETC., and the crops to a large extent
have been destroyed. This will further in
crease the starvation.
The supplementary yRecOnstructiOn Bill,
The presiding officers of the House of Repre-
sentatives and Senate To-day signed the Sup
Elementary Reconstruction bill, which was
afterwards presented to the President.
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Philadelphia Trade Report.

WEDNESDAY, March 20. - There is fair
demand for Flour for home consumption, and
some little inquiry for speculation; but there is
nothing doing for shipment. The sales reach
1900 bbls., including superfne at $S@S75; 100
bbls. extras at SlO50; 800 bbls. Northwestern
extra family at Sl1'5O@l825; the latter rate for
very choice; $50 bbls. Pennsylvania and Ohio
do. at sll'5O@l4; 100 bbls. California at sIlI5;
and fancy brands at sl45O917, according to
quality. Rye Flour is selling at S7'371z@7'50.
Nothing doing in Corn Meal.
In Wheat there is no new feature to present,
there being little or demand except for
prime lots, which are scarce. Sales Of 1000 bush.
choice Pennsylvania red at 1915, and 500
bushels No. Chicago spring at $780, and 500
bushels Milwaukee at S2'S5, and 1850 bushels
Chicago on private terms. Rye ranges from
sl45@l'50 for Western and Pennsylvania. In
Corn there is less activity, Sales of $500 bush.
new yellow, in store, at Sl'l3, a decline. Oats
are scarce and wanted. Sales at 6S6175c.
Cloverseed comes forward slowly and is in
steady request. Sales of 200 bushels new at
SS'75@9l213-the latter figure from second
hands. Timothy may be quoted at S350C036 go.
Flaxseed is selling at $3'20@325.
Whisky-The trade is entirely supplied with
the "contraband" article, which sells at atS0c@Sl.
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Markets by Telegraph.

NEW YORK, March 20.-Stock Market is ex.
cited. Chicago and Rock Island, 977s Reading,
Cleveland and Toledo, lis; Cleveland and Pitts
burg, S274; Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, 97l4;
M; New York Central, iO5sS; Cumberland pre-,
ferred, 3215 Virginia IS, 55 Missouri IS, 97 Hud-
son River 1S8; United States Five-twenties, 1852,
Tenforties, 9735; Seven thirties first issue. lO6
all others, 1885; Sterling Exchange, l08M; at
sight, 1925. Money steady at per cent. Gold,
l34L
NEW YORK, March 2O.-Cotton is shade
lower; sales at 32 for middling Uplands. Flour
s9,35@ll.25; Ohio, s1l'30@l315; Western, SO'35
@l3'25; Southern, $lO9O@l6'50. Wheat dull,
prices nominal and unchanged. Corn dull:
mixed Western, S1'2O@l'2l. Oats dull; sales of
1900 bushels; Western. 65@S6c.; State, 71@72c.
Barley quiet; 8506 bushels sold at Sl'25 Rye
firm. Provisions quiet; Pork, heavy; 1900 bbls,
mess at S23'60@23'6731. Whisky quiet.
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THE PEABODY FUND.
Meeting of the trustees In New


The trustees of the Southern Educational
Fund, at the invitation of Mr.. George Peabody,
dmed together yesterday. at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
General U. s. Grant, Robert C. Winthrop, of
Boston; Hamilton Fish, of New York; J. H.
Clifford, OF Massachusetts,; William Aiken, OF
South Carolina; Mr.. William NJ. Evarts, OF
New York; William A. Graham, OF North Caro-
lima; Charles McAllister, OF Pennsylvania; Mr..
George A.. Riggs. OF Washington; Samuel Wet
more, of New York; Mr.. Edward A. Bradford.
OF Louisiana; George N. Eaton, OF Maryland
George Peabody Russell, of Salem, Mass.
Bishop McIlvaine, Of Ohio; and William G.
Rlves, OF Virginia, comprise the Board. Up to
last evening all had arrived except the last two.
The object OF the visit OF these gentlemen
here is 10 confer with Mr.. Peabody in reference
TO the definite disposition aud purpose of the
So, 600, 600 which he has donated as school fund
tor the South. The Board will remain in the
city during the week. This evening there will
be party in honor of Mr. Peabody and the
trustees at the residence of Ex-Governor
Hamilton Fish, and tomorrow the trustees will
dine at the house of Mr.. a. T. Stewart.-M Y.
Herald tO-ddV
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, WASHINGTON,
March 8, 1S67.-EditorS Missouri Democrats
noticed in the Democrat of the 9Th instant,
an editorial, in which you say that "even Mr..
Colfax, on his return from his California
Journey, talked strong JohnsOnism." Your
memory must certainly have been at fault, for
know you would not do me injustice inten-
tionally. l returned home from the Pacific
early in October, 1862. The next month, at
Washington City, a fortnight before the organi-
zation of the Thirty ninth Congress, | delivered
a serenade speech, which Mr.. Johnson has
always denounced as the initiation of the Con-
gressional policy which antagonized with his;
and l remember the st. Louis Democrat, in
common with our leading Republican papers
West and East, specially indorsed it. While
conceGing that the Presidents conditions to
the Rebel States were judicious as far as they
went, that speech insisted on additional con-
ditons, as guarantees for the Union and for
the protection of the emancipated, whom it
declared should be called freemen and not
freedmen And it also declared as the true
policy of reconstruction, "Nlake haste slowly
it was my first speech after my return. Yours
truly, SCHUYLER COLFAX.
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Pay OF Army Officers.

The pay and allowance of the gentlemen
who wear stars and shOulder-straps in our
Army on its peace footing are reported to be
as follows:-
General Grant, slS, ,12O; Lieutenant General
Sherman, $14S14; Maior-General Haleck,
S77l7; Major-General Meade, SHY; Major
General Sheridan, $7717; Major-General
Thomas, s7717; Brigadier-General Mcdowell,
$55l7; Brigadier- General Rosecrans, S5517;
Colonels, $4,000; Lieutenant COlonels, 1894;
Majors, s3765; Captains, s3049; First Lieu
tenants, $27l3; and Second Lieutenants, $2653.
We don't realize that any twenty per cent.
addition can be urgently needed here.-N. y.
Tribune.
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FINANCE AND UOMMERCB.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEeRAPa,l
WadnaSdaU March ISf7

"euueSuhy1 hlhTCu ~, 1901.
The Stock Market was inactive this morning,
and prices were unsettled and droopng. Gov
ernment bonds continue in fair demand. July
1865 5-20s sold at l07, decline of &; and August
7'30s at LOG, an advance of !. 100 was bid for
old 5-20s; 100 for IS of 1881; and 97l for lO40s.
City loans were duh the new issue sold at l0ll,
slight decline.
Railroad shares were the most active on the
list. Reading sold at 50b@5l, decline of on
the closing price last evening; Catawissa pre-.
ferred at 30B, no change; Northern Central at
As, no change; Camden and Amboy at 1928, an
advance of Il and Pennsylvania Railroad at 56I,
no change; 81 was bid for Little Schuylkill; 57t
for Minehlll; 80 for Elmira common; 40 for
preferred do; and 2Ss for Philadelphis and
Erie.
City Passenger Railway shares were un-
changed. Hestonville sold at H. and German
town at 2S9. 79 was bid for Second aud Third;
66 for Tenth and Eleventh.; 2Ot for Thirteenth
and Fifteenth; 72 for West Philadelphia; u for
Girard College; and 4Oa for Union.
Bank shares were firmly held at full prices,
but we hear ofno sales. lO9 was bid for Sixth
National; 230 for North America; 1853 for Phila-
delphia; 1876 fer Farmers and Mechanics; 66
for Commercials; 32S for Mechanics'; 100 Tor
Southwark; 56b for Girard, So for Westerni 32k
for Manufacturers; 100 tor Tradesmen's; 90 for
City; A for Consolidation; go for Common
wealth. 63 for Union; and l25 for Central
National.
In Canal shares there was very little move
ment, Lehigh Navigation sold at 53B no
change 81 was bid for Schuylklll Navigation
preferred; 14I for susquehanlaa, Canal; So for
Delaware Division; and Sc for Wyoming Valley.
Quotations of Gold-l0s A. NJ, lS48; ii A. NJ,
l34g; - NJ, l34t; l P. NJ, l341, an advance
of / on the closing price last evening. .H
UIt ia announced that arrangements have
been made by the Telegraph Company and
the Associated Press for the delivery to sub
scribers, in every city and section of the
United States, Of financial and commercial
II is received by telegraph. Such an arrange
ment, carried out with energy and fidelity,
will prove of immense advantage to the whole
business community. A few individuals in
every city have always managed to obtain quo
tations OF the prices of stocks, produce, etc., in
advance of their publication by the press, and
have thus had an immense advantage for pur-
noses of Speculation over the great mass of their
rivals in business. All the efforts of the press
IN prevent this have proved unavailing. The
LARGEST speculetors were sure to obtain the
news first, and ether dealers were thus in a
great degree at their mercy. ID l.0r
"The only mode of remedying the evil is that
now adopted. The press receives from Europe
three times day, quotations OF all the leading
articles Of traffic, and prompt commercial re-
ports nom all parts Of the United States, at an
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RETURN OF PRESIDENT ROBERTS TO NEW YORK.

RETURN OF PRESIDENT ROBERTS To NEW YORK.
Colonel w. r. Roberts, of the Fenian Bro
therhoed, arrived in this city last evening
from his tour in the West. President Roberts
was present at the Fenian Convention which
was held in Chicago and reports feeling OF
great enthusiasm prevalent throughout the
entire West in regard to the proposed invasion
ofCanada. Companies and regiments are being
organized drilled, uniformed, and equipped
for the expedition, and vast amount of pre-
paration is visible on all sides. President
Roberts addressed a very large meeting in
Buffalo on Sunday evening. A battalion of
six hundred men is ready for action in Buffalo,
and a regiment of nine hundred men in Chi
cago, well uniformed and drilled. The Senate
of the Fenian Brotherhood will be in session
tomorrow. Colonel Roberts pronounces a
supposed plan of campaign published in
morning journal of this city yesterday, a ridi-
culous tissue of misrepresentation, and without
any foundation in fact. The plan of campaign
is alone known to President Roberts and the
Senate ofthe Fenian Brotherhood. d.--Net0 York
Tribune to-daV.
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Letter from the Infante OF Spain.

The following letter has been addressed to La
Frdnce:-
paris, February 2S:-in your number of the
25th OF February last / read letter from Spain
relative to the royal family, and In which find
the following phrase referring to myself:-'As
to the Infante Don Enrico, the only one whose
absence has hitherto been remarked aud re.
gretteu he is said TO be about to resume his
post Of honor by the side of the Queen l must
declare that assertion to be without foun-
dation. Faithful to the principles OF liberty
which have professed all my lite cannot ad
NIT that my place of honor at the present mo-
ment can be where illustrious Spaniards have
been victims of q most violent reaction, and
where regime of terror and prescription has
replaced the most essential sacred rights and
guarantees of the constitution. have left Spain,
determined to sacrifice everything, even the
future of my children, and live abroad, poor
and forgotten in my retirement, rather than by
my presence at Madrid appear to approve of
acts so deplorabe. In the meantime, until that
situation, so painful for my country, shall have
ended, il is in France, generous and hospita-
BILE nation. that my post of honor is at present
10 be found. Receive etc.
"ENRICO MARIA,n
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PENNsYLvAN1A LEGISLATURE.



HARRISBURG, March 2O.-The following bills
in place were Iead:-
BY Mr.. Connell, an act to secure grants for
mining petroleum from forfeiture; supple
ment for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
authorizing the construction OF additional
tracks.
BY Mr.. Randall a supplement for the Phila-
dPlphia Transportation Company.
The bill submitting the question OF sunday
cars running In Philadelphia toQualihed voters
on the second Tuesday in October being called
up, Mr.. Donavan spoke in It's favor, and Mr..
Hall against it,
House OF Representatives.
A communication was read from the MethO-
dist Episcopal Conference against the running
of cars on Sunday in Philadelphia Tabled.
The Senate Joint resolution providing for the
final adjournment of the Legislature was
amended and passed.
The resolution as amended reads-That the
Legislature adjourn sine die on Thursday, April
IL, at IL o'clock M.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Ghegan that
during the remainder of this session no mem-
Der shall be allowed the floor more tnan tiv o
minutes at any one time, nor more 1than twice
on the same bill
This was amended by Mr.. Jenks to read ten
minutes.
ION motion of Mr.. Stumbaugh, the words more
than twice on the same bill or subject" were
struck out, and the resolution as amended
passed,
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war he enlisted in Company A, Of the 143d
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, from
when he deserted several times, always esca.
ping the punishment which he so richly merited.
Previous to entering the army he was pro-
fessed admirer of Alice Gardner. But this un-
fortunate woman was remarkable for her easy
and yielding virtue and cOnsoled herself for
the absence of Wiley by accepting the attentions
of any one who came along. She finally married
McElwee, and the results OF this match we have
already seen.
The final arrangements for the execution OF
Wiley are completed, and unless the Governor
again interposes which is altogether lmoro-
bable the wre.ched man will be swung into
eternity on Thursday, the 2lst inst.
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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE WILLIAMS HOMICIDE.

Court Of Oyer and TermIner-Judges
Ludlow and Pierce.-William b. Mann District
Attorney; T. Bradford Dwight Assis ant Dis
trict Attorney. Mr.. Worrell Counsel for Got
lieb Williams, presented the following to the
Court this morning.
3GS Murder.-Now, March goth, A. ID. 1867, the
defendant, by his counsel, Thomas j. Worrell,
moves the Court for arrest of Judgment in the
ABOVE case, and assigns the following reasons:-
First. That the said defendant was entitled to
his discharge from custody and Imprisonment
on the second day of February, A. d. 1867, and
has since that time been Illegally restrained of
his liberty. Second. Because the Court erred in
refusing the petition of the defendant of Febru-
ary I'd, a. ID. 1867, he being at that time entitled
to a discharge from his imprisonment and eX-
einption from trial under the bill ofindictment
No, 36S, of October Sessions, 1866
The Court directed Williams to be brought up
tomorrow.
Court of Quarter sessIOns-Judge Brew
ster.-The Commonwealth VS.. Theodore Weiland
and Jasper Shull. In this case the defendants
were charged with assault and battery with in
tent to kill Joseph Clement. The prosecutor, a
young man, resides in the upper part of the
city, and Is whipmaker by trade. On the
evening of September II, 1866 he, with some
other young men, went out on the lot in Mar
shall street, near Oxford, and lay for some time
talking; soon after some other boys came upon
the lot and built a bonfire, which they fired
The prosecutor saw the defendants very near
the fire. He heard report of gun from the
leg. But he did not see any one raise gun to
fire, nor did he see gun in the hands of either.
But whoever fired the shot after having been
told that a boy had been shot, fired again.
Officer Howard, who arrested the defendants,
testified that the defendant Shull had acknow-
ledged that he had fired the gun, but did not
intend to shoot anybody. When Weiland was
arrested gunpowder and caps were found upon
him, and he said that he was with boy who
shot another, but had not fired the shot him
self.
The defense was that the gun was fired in
order TO cleanse it, 1t then having an old
load in it; but there was no bad intent, and the
wrong doing of the prosecutor was entirely
accidental. Good character was also shown
On trial.
Supreme COurt-Chief Justice Woodward
and Judges Thompson, Strong and Agnew-
The case of Gould VS.. Lee was argued this
morning.
VIM. ii. Walter VS.. Charles Knapp.
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The Woodward Tragedy In Indiana "A
Brave Little Girl, and Her story In

William Sanders is on trial at Bedford, In
diana, accused OF numbering three persons last
year in Orange county, of that state. While
this horrid butchery was going on, little
daughter of Woodward's seIzed the babe and
secTeted herself behind the door, at the same
time holding her hand over the child's mouth
in order that its cries might not betrGy their
hiding-place, and by that means saved the lives
of both. A little son, some five years old,
managed to escape by hiding under bed. The
little girl is only about seven years old, aud
very small for one of her age. She is a very
bright child, and answered the questions put to
her with candor and frankness that is seldom
witnessed in older persons. The first thing was
for the Court to determine whether she was
competent to testify. The Judge asked her
name. She gave it in clear and distinct tone
of voice. The Judge then ordered the witness
to be sworn, and she was then examined closely
in regard to what she saw and did on that fatal
night. She told all about how she hid behind
the door with the babe, and how she held her
hand over its mouth to keep it from making a
noise; how she went Tor the neighbors about
daybreak; and many other things which it is
impossible for us to enumerate. The recital
was very affecting, and if the defendant at the
bar was the guilty party, he certainly must
have had terrible emotions while the story was
heinp told.
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SECOND EDITION
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Financial and Commercial
Advices.
CABLE DISPATCHES THIS p. NJ.

LONDON, March 2O-Noon.-Consols for
money, 81; Erie Railroad shares, 4OI Illinois
Central, 7s31; U. s. 5-2Os, 74l.
LIVERPOOL, March 20-Noon.-Cotton quiet
at 13ld. for middling uplands. The sales to-
day will probably foot up 5000 bales.
Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions generally un-
changed. Lard, Sos. 3D.. Tallow, AS. Sd.
Linseed Oil, f39 per ton Iron, 5ls. I'd. for
Scotch Pigs; Rosin, les. Cd. for fine.
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aggregate cost of more than $500, 900 per anuum.
BS the arranpement now entered into, all this
news 10 handed over at once to the Telegraph
Company, mud by them transmitted to every
city and town in the United States wnere 1t
may be wanted, and is delivered to subscribers
az a stipulated price per week or month. The
authenticity and accuracy OF the news cannot
be questoned.n
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
reported by Dehaven q Bro, No. 40 g Third street
BEFORE BOARDS.
100 SIN ocean c. A'39
FIRST BOARD.
ioSS T2os = sS sSJyreg@Ss sh PenRS KGs
5000 Pa os w L, fls-loS 40 sh Leh SIX k"... 5S5s
'sIOo do New..iOZI sh Cam q AM. l32M
$500 do New."..iOI 100 sh Hesrye,.. $50. y
5000 do New wl9, 20S 0 sh ta Read y E's~sSO- S6 S6
soG0 Read mt es. 49,. Si "A sh ID & Sd sts...ls- 10
$1,000 Phil & Erie 6s.... 9l5s
-Messrs. De Haven & Brother, No, 40 South
Third street, report the following rates Of ex-
change to-day at l P. M.:-U. s. 6s of 1881, 100
C0l094; do, 1862, l096l094; do, 1864, l079@l074;
do, 1865, l07&6Dl08; do, 1865, new, lO7@lOlt;
do 5s, lO-4Os, 95l@95b; do. 1905, August, l056
@l06; do, June, lO58@lo5S; DO, July, lO6s@
1868; Compound Interest Notes, June, 1864, l78
@l7b; do, July, 1864, l7t@l7S; DO, August,
1864, ,16s @16b; do, October, 1864 l5S@l55; do,
December, 1864, l48@14B; do, May, 1865, 1249
125 do. August, 1865, llf@l1B; do, SeDtem-
beT. 1865. l02@ll; do, October, 1865, lOAGDlO4.
Gold, l34b@l349.
96 South Third street, report the following rates
of exchange to-day at IL o'clock:-U. s. 6s, 1881,
coupon, 1O9@lO94; U. s. 5-20s, coupon, 1862,
lO9@11O9l; do, 1864, l075@Dl07l; do, 1865, lO7a
@lOS; do. new, 1O7@l074; 10-40s, coupon, 97B
@97b; U. S. 7'30s, lst series, 105{@106;
do, I'd series, 1O5l611058; Sd series, 106l0lO54.
Compounds, December, 1864, 14S@l4b. Gold,
l34s ml34T.
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A LOthario Polished Of-Sce"e In n Rail-
road Carr

From the Troy Whig, 18Th.
On the New York Central train which left
the Union depot for the West on Saturday at
1870 P. M, was a good-looking individual, with
charming side whiskers and moustache. Pre-
suming upon his Vaccinations, the gentleman,
shortly after the train had left Cohoes, endea'
vored to become familiar with lady, the wife
of an engineer of the Central, who, accom-
panied Oy a couple of lady friends, was going TO
schenectady. Seating himself in the rear OF
her, he wrote on card, II would ike TO see
you on arrival at our stopping place." signing
himself John Brown, and dropping the card
into her lap. No attention was paid to this,
When, after while, he wrote on another
card that he would like to see her at her resi-
dence. The lady Indignantly requested him
not to annoy her further, when he had the
audaclty to try TO occupy part OF her seat; but
finally desisted, and took his place in another
part of the car. Track-master Victory Smith
happened to come along, the cards were gwen
TO HIM, with a statement OF the circumstances,
and, going up TO the chap, he asked him IT he
had written the cards, and the question was
answered in the negative. "You did write
them" said Smith; "and when we get to
Schenectady wish to see you" The chap
had a ticket to some point west of Schenec-
tady, but concluded 10 get Oft at the
Aqueduct, at which station he renamed until
the afternoon train came down, laughing at the
affair, and stating that he could whip Smith or
any other man; that he was so passionate
he knew If he got angry he should
down train brought Mr.. Engineer, the husband
of the insulted lady, and the offender being
pointed out, Mr. Engineer walked up to him
ana knocked him down, giving him a black eye
in the operation, and afterwards pummelled
him until his beauty was vastly damaged, and
he begged Justify for mercy. Then he was per-
mitted to get on the tram, and rode to Trov
with his hand over his face, getting off near the
bridge and skUlking down side street, since
which he has not made 'his magnificent ap-
pearance" 80 as TO be particularly prominent.
We judge from the cards carried by him, and
the lady, that he is an agent for the sale of
paper collars, cuffs, etc,