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PHILADELPHIA Trade Rennrt.

MONDAY, January 28.-The Flour Market con-
tinues extremely quiet, there being no demand ex-
cept from the home consumers, who purchased a
few hundred barrels at ssasT6 y barrel for super
fines S9@1O'5O for extra; sll912'75 for common and
choice Northwestern extra family; S12914 fOrPenn-
sylvanIa and Ohio do, do; and 145O917 for fancy
brands, according to quality. Rye Flour is held
firmly at S725 " barrel. Nothing doing in Corn
Meal, and prices are nominal
, The market is nearly bare of prime Wheat, and
this 10 the only description for which there is any
inquiry. WeIqUote Pennsyly yania red at $2763' 10
Southern ditto at So 1908 %; new white at SO 2O9
40 Rye is held at 81 356D1 81. Corn is scarce and
quiet sales OF 5000 bushels, now below, at 99c GS1,
and 2OC0 bushels white at ST 90 Oats remain with.
ont change; sales at 67d58c Nothing of import
ance doing in either Barley or Malt.
Prime ClOverseed Is scarce ara in good request
small sales at 81 75@S76 " GA lbs, the latter rate
for prime. Timothy ranges from SO 7594 90 Flax
seed is selling at S2'85192 e6.
Nothing doing in Whiskey, and prices are
nominal
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have much weight with either the present or
the incoming Congress.
The Question OF Impeachment

have much weight with either the present or
the incoming Congress.
The Question OF Impeachment
seems to be the most absorbing topic now dis
cussed in the Federal Capital. Other matters
pending before Congress, such as reconstruction
of the late insurgent States, the terms Of their
admission to representation in Congress,
the Tariff and Bankrupt bills, and the pro-
posed revision of the laws governing COM
merce, all excite certain amount of interest,
and are speculated upon by the law makers and
other prominent men of the country, who are
called hither by business interests, but wherever
a group is found in conversation the pro-
babilty of impeachment is touched upon, and
the earnestness and vehemence of the speakers
and the attentiveness of the listeners indicate
the profound interest felt in the question. Men
who are deeply versed in the affairs of Govern
ment and the intricacies of politics, shake their
heads obviously when asked to give an opinion
upon the compliCati ons which surround the
several branches of the Government. Few be-.
lieve that either Congress, the Supreme Court
or the President have any clear conception of
what will be the result of misunderstanding
existing between them.
The general opinion is that some one must
give way to the others, or difficulties of the
most serious nature will inevitably follow. The
President is still firm in his construction of the
Constitution, and exhibits no shadow of turning,
believing as he does, that the Constitution re.
quires him to protect the minority from the
partial legislation of the majority, and Congress,
supported by the voice of the people in the
loyal States, is equally unyieldmg in its under
standing of the necessities of the country and of
the remedies to be applied to existing evils.
Now is the time for public meetings to be held
throughout the country, and the voice of the
people heard upon these momentous topics, and
first of all the voice of the city of New York
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PLEA OF GUILTY.

Mary Monegan plead guilty to charge tf hs
larceny OF clothing amounting to SIz, belonging
TO Matilda Cornwall.
John Jackson lead guilty 10 q charge The lar
ceny of a cloak and some clothing valued SS6, the
property of William Lyons.
FIeHT IN PRISON.
John Ginelebach was convicted Of q charge OF
assault and battery, with intent TO Kill Edward Carl
The two were prisoners in the same CELL Carll
deaf and weak. minded. He one day asked Gin9le-
Oach to tell the Prison. keeper that he wanted no
dinner. Gnglebach would not do so. Carl him-
self started to the door TO tell the Keeper, and GIN
ElebacE knocked HIM down, kicked him, and
The prosecutor had the oath administered TO him
in writing, ,
Louis &. Harold plead guilty to q charge OF she
larceny of gold pencils and pen knives, valued AZ
$685. BELONGING to Moss & Co Market street, above
Fourth, He entered the store IN the evening IOlOW-
ing Christmas-daY and committed the theft.
Benjamin Hanson was acquitted OF oharge OF
assault and battery. The prosecutor not appearing,
the bill was submitted without evidence.
George Hubbard was charged with assault and
said that he arrested the defendant IN order TO re-
move an obstruction of the street, which the man
made bv standing constantly on the street corner.
When he was arrested he struck and kicked the
officer.
Hubbard said that the officer in arrestlnG his bro
ther was without cause choking him. he went to
the officer and demonstrated with him for such
conduct. The officer then left his prisoner, and
began an attack upon the defendant
The officer having failed to tell the whole story
at first the Jury were In doubt to what verdict to
render The Court said the jury should render such
a verdict as the evidence given by the of1cer would
Justify and that afterwards the Court would tnVes-
tlgate the matter and remedy anv injustice that NAV
guilty and recommended the dcfendentt to the mercy
n tha COurt
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LonCitude bv enc AtIantlc Gable.

A writer in the Boston Traveller furnishes the
following Information
The difference of longitude between England
and America has hitherto rested upon the Chro-
nometrlc expeditions instituted by the Coast
Survey during the years lS49-5l aud 1855. FIFTY
chronometers were transported between Liver
pool, England, and Cambridge, Mass, tree
times in each direction across the Atlantic. The
probable error OF the result by these expeditions
was nneteen-hundTedths of a second. The value
thus obtained though for all practical purposes
sufficiently precise, is not so for the necessities
OF astronomical science in It's present refined
state. When, therefore, the success of the cable
provided telegraphic Transatlantic connection
with England, parties of the Coast Survey were
formed under the direction of DR.. B. A. Gould,
to take advantage of this means of obtaining a
value more precise than that furnished by the
chronometric expeditions, illusions to which
have been made.
ratus employed in workingthe cable render the
process of determining longitude by its means
different in many respects IRON that by the land
telegraph lines. New obstacles, which made
success exceedingly doubtful, were to be sur
mounted and new sources of error eliminated.
But thanks to the genius, experience, and per-
severance OF DR.. Gould, these have been over
come, and results of remarkable precision
ELECTED. The probable error of the resulting
longitude Is about four hundredths of a second.
Perhaps 1t will give the reader a clearer idea of
the nicely implied IN this, by stating that dis
tance of about nineteen hundred miles has been
Measured, aud that the measure is not probably
more than forty feet from the truth.
The time required for a signal TO pass through
the cable has been discovered with still greater
precision to be thiTtY.one hundredths OF a
second, which is probably not in error by one
| hundredtb of q second.
This is equivalent to velocity Of six thou
| sand and twenty miles a second, and is notably
! less than the velocity OF the electric fluid upon
| land lines, which numerous observations have
shown to average sixteen thousand miles in a
| second,
It should be a matter of national pride that
Americans have obtained the precedence in q
| work OF such importance. This Importance
will perhaps be more popularly appreciated
from the fact that this longitude determination
was fully determined upOn and partially pre-
| pared for, by the English, and seriously con
templated by the French, when Americans, witt
characteristic vivacity, stepped in and bore
away the prize.
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The Two voioes-when Guttenburp. the fir

The Two Voices,-When Gutteuburg, the first
printer, was working in his cell in the monas-
ieUy OF St. Abersgot he tells us that he heard
yO voices address him. The one bade hin
dasist; told him the power his invention would
put in the hands of bad men 10 propagate their
wickedness; told him how men would proIane
the art he Lad created, and how posterity would
have cause to curse the mar who cave it to the
world. So impressed was Guttenburg with
what he heard that he took a hammer and
broke TO pieces the types he had SO laborlously
put together. HIS work OF destruction was only
stayed by another voice, sweet and musical,
that fell on his ear, telling him to 90 on, and to
rejoice in his work.. that all good might be
made the cause of evil, but that God would
bless the right in the end. So to all of us still
come those voices that came TO Gutenberg;
the one calling us TO work while It is called To-
day, to try TO leave the world better than we
found II; and the other tempting us to give over
and take our ease-to leave the plough In mid
turrow, and 10 rest on our oars when we should
be pulling against the stream,
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A Rebel Rising in Bowie County, Texas

New ORLEANS, January 27.-Bowie county
Texas, is in revolt. Captain Tremble, late of an
Illinois regiment, planting there, was recently
shot, wounded, and hls life threatened. He
cavalry to remove his family. He found that
his wife and child had been driven from home
into Arkansas. The negroes on his place were
manaced and driven through the streets in
presence of the cavalry, who were forced to fall
back before 800 unreconstructed. Mrs. Tremble
died from ill-treatment, and was buried here
yesterday. Generals Mower, Hatch Kirby, and
many Union officers and members of the "Grand
Army of the Republic" attended the funeral.
The Captain is at the point of death from wounds
received from theschiyalry.
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THE TRAGEDY AT AUBURN, MAINE,
Arrest of a Frenchman on Suspicion OF
Being the Murderer OF the Two Old


Arrest of a Frenchman on Suspicion of
Being the Murderer OF the Two Old
Ladies.
BOSTON, January 26 Intelligence from Au-
burn, Me-, says that Frenchman was arrested
at New Gloucester, Me-, on Thursday evening,
by officer Pease, OF Mechanics Hall, who is
believed to be the murderer of the two old
women at Auburn last week. The evidence Is
of circumstantial nature, but points strongly
to the accused as the guilty man.
The principal circumstances are these:-On
the day after the murder man called at a
house in West MinOt street, about six miles
from the scene of the murder, and asked for
supper. The woman of the house noticed that
h shirt bosom and wristbands were bloody,
and that there were spots OF blood on portions
OF his pantaloons and clothing. This man, at
the time of his arrest had the bosom of his
shirt torn out, and his wristbands were gone,
and the lining of his coat had also been re-
moved He had on a soft felt hat, which bore
the marks of having been sCraped with knife,
as if to remove stains. Spots which the physi.
cIan declared to be blood were found
on his clothing. He gives a clear ac-
count of his whereabouts except during
the time between Wednesday night and
Thursday morning, when the murder was
committed, and admits having called at
Libby's Rhouse in West Auburn, about half a
mile from the residence OF the murdered women,
about o'clock on Thursday morning. Mr..
Libby saw the person who thus called moving
off in the direction of the scene OF the murder.
Another circumstance is the tact that tracks
about the house after the murder showed that
some person had been there who wore a boot
without heel. The prisoner has such boot,
and it fits the tracks mentioned. The supposed
murderer is a small man, about four feet ten
inches in height, and about forty years old. He
says he came from Montreal, and that he ha:
been working at woodchopping for various par
ties in Maine this winter, but does not give theil
names. He is represented as Ga man of very
vicious aDDearanCe,
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BEFORE BOARDS,

-Messrs. De Haven q Brother, No. 40 South
Third street, report the following rates of ex-
change to-day at P. M.:-American gold, 1874
@l343; Silver Is and Is, 15O; Compound Interest
August, 1864, 15s; do, October, 1864, 148; do
December 1864 l3S; do, May, 1885, l3i; do,
August, 1865, la; do, September, 1865, 104; do,
October, 1865, 10.
-Messrs. William Painter g. Co., bankers, No.
SO South Third street, report the following rates
of exchange to-day at IL o'clock:-U. s. 6s, 1881,
coupon, 1O78@l078; U. s. 5-2Os, coupon, 1862,
lC7@lO74; do, 1864, lO5s@lO52; do, 1866, 1867
@l05a; do, new, 1865, l04t@lO42; U. S.
series, 1O4A@1O44; do, I'd series, lO4t@1Ol2; Sd
series, lO4B@lO4g; Compounds, December, 1864,
l3sml35
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FRANCE

General Dix Makes n Request OF the
French Government.
PARIS, January 26.-General Dix, the Ameri.
can Minister, has urged the French Government
to abolish the odious system of searching the
baggage of strangers arriving in France. 1t is
understood that the Government made favora-
Bile reply to the application of General Dix, in
view OF the coming international exposition.
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Latest Financial and Commercial New

LONDON, January 26-Noon. -Consols ad-
vanced !, closing at 81.
LIVERPOOL, January 26-Noou.-The Cotton
Market opens firm, and prices are unchanged.
Sales to-day Will probably reach 5000 bales
LONDON, January 26-Noon.-Erie Railroad
Illinois Central advanced /. and is quoted at
8l4 United States 5-20s unchanged; sales were
made at last evenings rates, g. e., 72i
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AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
Strong Defense of the President In
the Chimes"

The London Times OF this morning co ntains a
long letter from Washington, in which the
writer reports conversation had with Presi-
dent johnson. The latter spoke very stongly,
iustifYing himself in the position he had taken
on the subject of reconstruction, and violently
assailing Congress for, as he expresses it, usurp-
ing executive and judicial power.
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Is it Chance or scien, The Supreme Court
of Missouri is at present trying to decide, upon
well known to billiard players is a game OF
"chance" or ''science.n Games of chance being
prohibited in that Commonwealth and saloon.
keeper being indicted for playing the game OF
''pool - he wants TO get out of his trouble by
proving II a game OF "science," aquestion which
this Court is about 10 decide.
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The New Five-Cent Piece.

WASHINGTON, January 2S.-Samples of the new
fve-cent piece have been received at the Trea-
sury Department. The coinage has already been
for them must be made.
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Markets by Telegraph.


New YORK, January 26 Cotton dull. Middlinps
3S5a84c. Flour has declining tendency state.
SY'5O@12l5; OHIO, Sll 80G14 80; Western, SO 50D
1900 bushels sold 81 .16 for mixed and Western
Oats drooping. Beef quiet. Pork drmer; new
Mess, $50 80. Lard heavy at l29lS WhI'ky dull.
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Obituary.

PoTTsTowN, January 28.-William Mintzer
Esq, President of the Pottstown Bank, and an
influential citizen OF this place, died here on
Saturday afternoon last.
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Philadelnhin Cattle Market.

MONDAY, January 2s-rhe Cattle Market was
rather dull this week, and prices were unset
tied and lower About 1900 head arrived and sold
at 15a16c. for extra l3a145c for fair to good aud
1Oa12c. % ID. Tor common. The following are the
particulars of the saIes;-
"a head Owen Smith, Western, 14616
so A. Christy Bro, Western. 15Gl5j
100 j. McOlese Chester county, 6G6B gross.
So 7. McFiilen, Western, 6I08B gross.
20 =. hathaway, Western, 140Dl6.
90 " James s. Kirk. Chester county, 14dl6.
SO James McFillen, Western, 7(98. gross
20 Ullman s. Bochman, Western, Sfe183 gross.
l27 Martin Fuller & Co., Western, 14dl6
$50 Mooney & smith, Western 1Sd16
80 a. Mooney Bro, Western, 6olS3 gross.
72 H. Chain, Pennsylvania, Sos, gross
80 J. A. Chain Bro, Penna., 1854 gross.
46 l.. Frank. Western, 140Dl6,
ia Frank ShOmberg, Western, 13Gl6.
80 Hope Co., Western 8lD84, gross
8S Blum & Co., Western, 6t0)S5, gross.
40 S. SeldOmridGe Western, l3dl6 80, :.
sheep were IN talr demand. 10000 head SOLO ~
6d7lc. W bound, gross. .,oo,oo a.,
Cows were firmer. $50 head sold at S60eSO iOr
sprinRers; and S60G100 for COW and caii ,oo had
Hogs were in demand at an advance ioV he"u
sod at S9Gl0 % 100 pounds net
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HUNGARY AND GERMANY.
Hungarian Ministry Union Betwe,
North and South Germany.

PEsTH, January ga full Ministry has been
formed in Hungary.
BERLIN, January 26. The South German
State have proposed a military union with the
Northern States.
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
OFFICE OF THE EVENING TELEGRAPH, |
Monday, January 28, 1867.

The Stock Market was more active this morn
ing, but prices we're unsettled. In Govern
ment bonds there was very little doing. 1919
was bid for 6s of 1881; 99l for 10-40s; and 104I
for 1905. City loans we're in fair demand; the
new issue sold at 1901 and old do. at 964.
Railroad shares continue the most active on
the list Reading sold largely at 515@5ls no
change; Catawissa preferred at 2S4D29, slight
decline; Norristown at 62, no change; and
Pennsylvania Railroad at 564, slight advance;
Sc was bid for Minehill; SO for North Pennsyl-
vania; 9O4 for Little SchuYlkill; 20 for Elmira
common; 81 for Philadelphia and Baltimore; 80
for Philadelphia and Erie; and 464 for Northern
Central.
City Passenger Railroad shares were in fair
demand Hestonville sold at l44@148 a slight
decline; and Germantown at 26 no change. 82b
was bid for Second and Third; 40 for Fifth and
Sixth; 65 for Tenth and Eleventh; 1914 for Thir-
teenth and Fifteenth; 81 for Spruce and Pine;
Al Tor Chestnut and Walnut; 20 for West Phila.
delphia and 10 for Ridge Avenue.
Bank shares were in good demand for in.
vestment, but we hear of no sales.
Quotations of Gold-l05 A. NJ, 1914; IL A. M,
1874; IL NJ, 1349; P. NJ. 134s.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TO-DAY
Reported by De Haven 6 Bro No. 40 S. Third street
FIRST BOARD
sh READING s10 III 100 sh RaadinO sQn ri
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CROSBY OPERA HOUSE

Letter from the Man Who Drew the
Elephant''-Mr. Lee Says He
Wants to Sell the Property
HOW re Received the
NeWs-A Remarkable
Instance Of Conju-
gal Affection
Some Of the
numoFs of
the Draw
ing, Etc,
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A MARVELLOUS YOUTH.

The St. Louis Republican, of last Friday,
has a bully sensation about a boy who
possesses the marvellous faculty of appear
ing in two places at the same time. 1t
says:
Many persons have addressed us in
quiries concerning the boy, and one gen.
tleman whose letter we giTe in full, stated
a similar circumstance of lady with
whom he was per oaally acquainted.
Yesterday we received visit from Mr..
Enlow, of Sangamon county, Illinois, who
confirms some of the startling statements
which we have already made. He says
the boy (wkose EaIne we must still with
hold out of respect to the earnest wishes
of his parents) was seen at his house sew
eral times during three days in April last,
at which time, his parents assert solemn
ly, that he was at home in this city and
momentarily expected to die. In one
instance he was seen walking in the road
near the house. a little girl who knew
him, thinking he had suddenly come on
visit, ran out to meet him: but returned
in few minutes saying he had disappeared
and that she had seen ghost.
Mr.. Enlow, uncle of the youth, further
informs US that on last Sunday evening,
while sitting in private chamber con-
versing with the parents, the boy entered
the room as in perfect health and walked
up to the table in presence of them all.
The mother almost tainted, and rushing
into the next room found her boy In a
violent spasm. lie is daily wasting away
and cannot long survive.
The writer has had an interview with
the family and has seen the boy, together
with number Of gentlemen in this city,
,rh0 VIII vouch for these statements.
a few facts concerning his history may
be of interest to superstitious persons and
those fond of the wonderful. HIS mother
states that he learned to talk with diff
Guilty, and has always been strangely alb
stracted in manner, and yet in all other
respects he is not unlike any other child.
Two years ago he was drowned in a pond,
while playing with other children, was
brought out OF the water and restored 70
life after having been dead eight minutes,
In his birth there is nothing mysterious.
He is not the ''seventh son of a seventh
son." nor anything of the sort. He is
simply flesh and blood. Professor Will
helm, of Bethany, Va, has, we learn,
written to parties in this city informing
them that he was coming hither to investi-
| gate the case.
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Romance of Three Husbands and
One Wife.

A correspondent at Monroeville, Huron
county, Ohio, furnishes the following bit
of romance in real life, the facts of which,
though too briefly related, yet contain
enough to ''point moral, if not to ''adorn
a tale" The correspondent writes:
In the year 1859, an old man John
Wilson by name) and his wife came into
this (Huron) county, from Canada, bring
ing with them an adopted child, named
Margaret. Shortly after coming here,
she became acquainted with and married
a man by name Edward Gray. Gray,
after living with her short time, repented
his course, and, becoming tired of married
life, went into the army. Having sur
vived the war, he took up his residence in
Tennessee, where he was living at last
accounts. The wife being thus freed from
all restraints by the absence of ber hus-
band in the army, became a common
prostitute, and endeayored to procure
living by hanging around the camp, then
located at Monroeville and Norwalk. Be-
coming an intolerable nuiFance, she was
finally seized and tarred by command of
the officer then commanding at Monroe
vile. The result was that she left here
and sought her old home in Canada. She
! had not been there long before she made
the acquaintance of man by the name
of Eli Doane, whom she married. After
living with him sufficient length of time,
she became the mother of pretty little
curly haired girl, who was christened
Alice About this time she became ac-
quainted with young man from the State
of New York by the name of Edwal d
Teeter, who had thrice jumped the bounty
and had evaded the law made and pro
vided in such cases, by escaping to th
Queens dominions. Learning that hC
was about coming back to ''the States,
on visit to his mother, she sought ant
gained permission of her husband to &C
company him across the border to visi
her foster parents, living in Huron county
Instead of visiting his mother, as he pre-
tended, he came on here with her. Afte
staying here about three weeks he swor
out license The must have perjured him
self and was married. So things stoo
for about ten months, when a child wa
born to them. When the child was abor
two weeks old, husband No. turned ul
in search of his wife and child. Cor