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Baltimore Markets.

Dressed Hogs-Are scarce aud command
slU.5GaSl0.75 per 10o lbs
=, Flour-We report sales as follows: 100 bbIs
Howard street Super at 80 80; 800 bbls City
Mills Super at SO; 6i0 bbls Howard street and
City nIlls low grade Extra at Sl0.5O: 100 bbls
good Howard street 60. AT Sill per bbl The
market ssterday closed quiet, but no quota
bic change. The following are the inspecuons
of Flour and Meal in the city of Baltimore for
the week nding Thursday. February g. 1865:
Howard STR et s. lSU bbls and 90 half bbls: City
Mills 1855 bbls and ~ half bbls Ohio $40 bbls;
Family 2,tS6 bbls-total Wheat Flour I6.o5O
bbls and 20 halt bbls. Together with 24O bbls
Rye Flour, and ] .39J bbls Corn Meal
Grain.-Wheat was in light supply yester-
DAY, and the market little heavy; we report
sales OF l5U bushels white at 50 St $50 bushels
do. At S2.si: 400 bushels medium Virginia VAL
ley red at 275; choice hetd at So.sO; 1900 bush
els prime Pennsylvania At $3.50; $50 bushels
good at - Is, and 100 bushels common at So 20
Corn-l.325 bushels white and $500 bushels
yellow received; market steady included in
the sales Were Pa bushels choice white AT 81 o2
2,3O bushels prime at Sl.1s; Loo bushels in
lots. a. TO condition. at S1.l5aSl l7-IUOO bush.
els yellow in lots at SI.17aS 9, for uptown
and 200 bushels for Point delivery al 81 20
Oats-1,0Jo bushels offered and seld al 75a-6c
ProyisIons.-Bacon is very firm. we notice
sales OF 30 hhds. rib Sides, sugar hid i'm two
lots, at l2k cents; smaller lots NAV be quoted !.
c,ht nigher on orders; clear rib i3al3. cts:
Shoulders IiaIla cts. No sales of Bulk Meats
to-day. 100 bbls. Mess Pork, city packed, re-
ported Oh private terms. Lard IiaI4h cts for
steam and kettle Baltimore refined in kegs IA
cents. ~
Sugar.-We report sales yesterday of 20 hhds
Delnerara vacuum pan AT l5S cts, and I.U1O
bags Brazil brown for refining at NJ. cts Mar.
ket bare OF all other descriptions; quotations
nrm as last given. Refined sugars-Prices
were advanced yesterday u cts on soft crushed
market bare OF hard We quote for white soft
i6s CTS; circle A l6 y cts: extra e l5A cts; yell
Is cts per Id.
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Outrage in Observation-Disclosures of Two
Young Women.

from the Cincinnati Times Of Jan. 27thI
Yesterday two young gladies-cousins-name
Mary Thomson and Mary Schmidt, each about
eighteen years of age, came to this city from
Oldenburg, Indiana in search of employment
After wandering around the streets until about
dark. and being Germans, entirely unac-
quainted with any person here, they asked a
genteelly dres sed young man II he could inform
them " here they could get any work to do.
After questioning them as TO where they came
f ON, and if they had friends here, and learning
they had not, he said that his aunt, who lived
up on the hillside, needed help very much. and
if they would only go there with him they
would undoubtedly. get good places.
Only too happy at their apparant fortune i'm
SO soon finding shelter, they gladly consented
TO 60, and the trio started off up Sycamore
street as far as Price, and then mp the latter.
When the party had arrived the hillside,
the man said he would run ahead and inform
that they must follow right on and take the
II st strt ct leading to the LETT. This they did.
and had arrived at the corner of Rlnggo Id and
Price streets, when they We're suddenly pounced
upon by six or seven men, who gagged them so
As TO prevent any outcTy.
The larger girl, Mary Thomson. being very
powerfully built managed after desperate
struggle, to Iree herself from the grasp of the
villains who had hold Of her, and escaped to the
nearest house, where she was we'll cared tor
and remained all night. The screams of the other
girl Were heard by several persons, and only a
few minutes elapsed before several gentlemen
were on the ground, well armed. but not in
time. as the scOundrels had fled. taking the poor
girl with them, and it is feared that the mon
sters, TO hide any evidence of their fiendish
W ork, have murdered her, and in some ma nner
disposed OF her body. This morning the girl
Thomson left the house before the officers
arrived. and has not since been seen.
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The National Commercial Convention,

In the Commercial Con yention in session in
Ioston yesterday, a plan was reported. and
agreed upon 10 establish a national board Of
Trade. Resolutions were adopted, that the GENITAL
system for the measurement of all products of
the soil Is best adapted TO the req uirements OF
trade, and In harmony with our decimal cur
rtncy: that il be recommended that on and after
the first of August, 1888, in each association
represented in this convention to adopt the
GENITAL system in the sale. storage. and trans
poTtatlon OF such products: that we recommend
that on and after the first of August, 1868, two
hundred pounds shall constitute a barrel of
the enactment by Congress of such laws as are
necessary TO carry into effect the foregoing res
oluuons; that national market for agriculture
is a home market and as all the interests of the
country should be harmoniZed in a revision of
the tariff. the duties should be so laid as to Sc
cure the balance of trade in favor of the United
States, and TO place the heaviest duties on man.
ufactured articles, in which labor forms the
chlei expense was giving protection 10 labor,
and inviting the importation of laborers
Ihe minority report contemplating an imme-
dlate redemption of compound interest notes.
was reject d. The Western delegates objected
to contraction AT the present time. The conyeh-
ton expressed itself in opposition 10 the pro-
posed change IN the value of our gold coin.
The con vennon then adjourned.
The finance committee reported a long serie,
OF resolutions, which favor the gradual ap-
proximation OF legal-tender currency to spe.
Gle standard, by commencing on the 1st of jan
uary next TO refund three millions of dollars in
currency per month, and hold that the national
honor and faith require that the Government
should not avail itself of the right TO paw OF
the nye-twenties until the resumption of specie
pay Sment, ana the Government securities can
be paid in gold or its equivalent.
ne 1ree banking system was advocated, and
me making seven per cent the uniform interest
in all cases except where any other rate is
agreed upon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-02-08

During the weh "uding to-day ;here
has e"n r,cHiNed AZ the Treasury Depar;.
mint from the Printing Division, s532S0O
IN fractional curr"ncy During the SANE
perlod there has bee fOrIV grsd TO the Assistant
t. asur-r AZ NJ" York, $40. on: AZ Boetori.
Mass, 81 600; national banks and otharS,
SlStS51,'o Small notes to a.. :. Deposltarv at
PitsbUrg. $50, CO. Total, s&4l rs rs
The amoGnt of SsCur ties held nv the Treas
urer of the tnlt"d states in trust Tor NATIONAL
bar KS reported to-day were Is follows .-For
circulating notes. S24i 2sl 400: to secure the de-
posts OF public moneys. S}7.s-7,9JO, Total
So. 1880.
The amount Of national hank currency Issue a
during the wtss vas Si5l, ,OSgJ-ma king th, total
amount issued up IN date, - q. = .S3l. From
thus ~ to b. deducted the following amounts:
Muillated bills returned, S6,l}-,S55; notas OF in
solvent banks r'dt erned and burned by United
States 1reasur,r T, S-lS5,S6i; leaving in actual
clrt ulailon az thls date, S2s9.t03 li6.
he amount of iracuoual currency redeemed
and destroyed during the week was S57I.sOO.
The receipts from Internal Revenue to-day
were S;S's,53i TO- making the total amount for
The week ending to-day. S+,363, ,g64 -. and total
stnee the bf ginning OF the present fiscal year,
: 10 ,tSr .5S9.55
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TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.

FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.
Aismarck's Movements-New Greek Cabi-
net.feang Iturbide-Fenian Arrest and
by Gable to the Associated Press.l
BERLIN, Peb. s-Count Won Bismarck has
obtained a leave of absence from his post As
Prime Minister Of the North German Confeder-
anon, and will devote several months TO travel
ing through the various countries Of Europe.
His health, which has not heen good for long
time, has at length compelled him to seek relax
alton from his arduous duties. 1t is
nounced that for the present the Minister of
Finance will replace the Premier.
LONDON, Feb. S.-Despatches have been p
ceived here from Athens, which state that
new Cabinet has al length been formed, with
Bu igaris as President and Minister of the In
terror.
PARIS. Feb. s.-Young Iturbide, the heir of
the late MaximilIan, recently enlisted in the
Papal Zouaves at Rome.
LONDON, Feb. a-The notorious Feniau Gap
tam Mackay was captured IN Cork last even
ing by the police of that city.
While the police were en- route 10 the Jail
with their prisoner his friends rallied in great
force and for a time a desperate fight pre-.
vailed.
The mob was finally beaten down and the
prisoner lodged in Jail. The guards around
the Jail were doubled during the night to pre-
vent a rescue.
LONDON, Feb. -Forenoon. -Consols, G3 IA
e31s; U. 5. 5-2O's, 7l4; Illinois Central g; Fries,
~ -
75A.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. s-Forenoon.- Cotton firm;
sales of $1,000 bales. Prices the same. Bread
stuns quiet
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb e.-The steamer tierma-
MIA, from New York on the 2sth ult., arrived at
9 am.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. S.-The steamer Etna,
from New York on the 9th ult, has arrived.
LONDON, Feb. 8-Evening.-U. $. 5-2Os, 7laa
ia; Illinois Central, S73. Others unchanged.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. S.-Cotton closed active and
higher: sales of 1900 bales. Uplands, Sas y
on the spot, and Sd. to arrive. Orleans, 4as1.
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THE ALABAMA CONSTITUTION A
ELECTION.
TIE Result Still Doubtful.
IS.ooiaI ni.xa4.h u .ha S.an

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-Che tribune has the fol-
lowing from Alabama: Reports from the StIte
to-day are more favorable to the success of the
Constitution. Large gains over the last elec-
ton are reported at Mobile, Montgomery, and
i'm several of the middle counties. Tomorrow
is The last day for voting.
General Swayne is here, having been sum-
moned as a witness before a court-martial.
General Meade is in Montgomery.
The Worlds special says that a sergeant and
ten troopers were sent to Lowndes, a heavy
negro county, to be judges of the election. A
candidate from Massachusetts, is to select nine
additional polls there, and the troopers are to
preside. When thus order was given ii was
stated that it was expected that 300 votes would
be polled at each of the nine new precincts
The entire white vote in the State as reported
up TO tonight, does not aggregate one hundred
1t is thought at headquarters and Registrar
Generals Office that ratification is defeated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-02-08

DRUNKENNESS AS A DIsEAsR.-Dr Parrish
OF the Media Asylum for Inebriates, in Della.
ware county, Pennsy sylvania. delivered an inter-
estlng lecture in West Chester, on Tuesday
evening of last week, upon s.Habit and its
Laws We learn from the West Chester Vii
lage Record that the leading topic of the lecture
was the habit OF intemperance, and the question
was argued more from physical than moral
STANDPOINT Ihe doctor maintained that drunk
enness II disease, and its victims can no more
help 1t than they can help an attack of the
cnolefd, yellow fever, or consumption. This
disease may be hereditary, may be implanted
by the mother in administering remedies TO her
infant, or may be acq qulred as other diseases
are, through improper diet, etc. The doctor
was decidedly down on the profession for
prescribing so much alcohol IN many of their
reIned1es A great error of the day is the man.
ner IN which the disease of intemperanCe is
treated. II has become the very had habit TO
denounce II as crime. TO rate il among the
vices, and consequently its unfortunate victims
are cut on from the care and sympathy they de-
serve ana stand so much in need of, and are
looked upon only as meriting punishment for
their crime. This is all wrong. When the
great public-when temperance reformers-
look upon drunkenness in its proper light
when the same provision is made for its thirty
thousand victims in Pennsylvania that is made
ior the bllno, the crazy, or the poor-when the
urunkard is taken by the hand, encouraged.
sympatnIZed with. and is made TO feel that he
is suffering with a disease, and is not a orimi.
nal in the eyes of the moral W world an import
ant step will be taken in the true pathway to
temperance reform.
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FORTIETH CONGRESS-.
This Afternoons Proceedings
SATURDAY, February g.
SENATE WAS not IN session today

HOUSE OF REPHkSENTATIyEs.-By order OF
the House yesterday. he session of DAY was
devoted to debate on general topics, a. in Com
mittee OF the " hols.
As soon rs the Journal had been read. thore-
fore, the House resolved itself into Committee
OF the Whole tNr. Dawes. OF Mass, an the
chair.)
Mr.. Hawkins (Tenn.) addressed the commit
tee upon the right and duty of the Gov. rnInent
TO pay the claims of loyal citizens OF Tennessee
Tor losses sustained during the late war.
MIR. Hunter (lnd.), at half-past l2 O'Clock,
commenced 10 read Il speech upon the finanC raj
situation, and 10 urge measures which he be-
leVed 10 he nee ssaiy to relieve the country of
nnanclal embarras~ Inent.
MIR. Stevens N. II. next obtain cd the floor
and made speech upon general political TO-
pics, in condemnation of the principles and
policy OF the Democratic party, and urging an
adherence to the principles OF the Republican
party as the only safeguard for the country.
and as the only means Of perpetuating the GOV
ernment.
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LATE MEXICAN NEWS.
fSpecial Dispatch tn the Star1

HAVANA. Feb. S.-We have Mexican adyices
to the I'd instant.
lot Of pirates, under one Hernandez, had
surprised Carmen Island, and had taken away
all the military and government stores. He in
tended TO sail for TOBIAS to depOse the Governor
Gen. Alatorre's forces attacked the rebels near
Merida and defeated them. Everything was
very quiet at Sisal. Col. Villafana, command
er of the rebels, was killed, and the remainder
Of the rebel leaders escaped ny sea.
The result Of the election for Governor in the
State OF Puebla was that a new rebellion was
likely to break out in the Sierra.
A railroad project to unite the Capital of
Mexico with the United States by a line along
the Gulf coast, has been referred to a commit
tee of Congress,
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REPORTED ARREST or TWO OF THE BEN
NINGHoFF RoBBERs.-A recent paragraph in
lne !tus vile Herald states that TWO of the Ben
HihehoH rooDers were recently arrested in
memphis, Tenn, by an officer Of Westfield,
Chautauqua county. The account SAYS that
ne tracked them from Cleveland, followed
Sl5O,iO 90 in greenbacks and bonds and then
nad them arrested. 1t is also rumored that on
friday the detective returned to Petroleum
Iehtre, visited the Benninghofs, and effected
OF st5,0OO for the recovery of the money, and
the conviction of the meE under arrest.
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- The compensation of employees of the
New York Common Council has exactly don.
bled within seven years.
- woman In Townshead, Vt has haan
arrested twice in two years for leaving her
babies around loose.
- Dickens manifests his faith in Amer,..n
institutions by investing his savings In Five
twenties. i've
- woman In Milwaukee eaye bir,h N a,
infant without head. The chiid,s mouth 10.
In Its breast and its eyes in its back.
y sales OF land are made in South Caro,ina
ior one-third cash, and the balance in one. two
and three years.
~ The employees Of the Ellie Locomotive
works, AZ Schenectady, have a .free lunch -
every DAY. A few days ago some wag jalaped
- Lord Monck has been directed 70 r,m IN
IN Canada another year as governor gene 4
and Lord Mas, who is 70 succeed him, remains
in Ireland.
, - The wife Of John Quinn, residing NJ
Beaver Dam. Wisconsin, killed herself a.
week because she felt that her life vosld no n
burden to her husband.
0The Columbus City Council grants orss
ans second-class liquor licenses, accordinx "a
the quality Of whisksy sold.
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A SAD CASE OF WIFE DESERruoN.u

The Cleveland Herald records a case Of wed
ded woe IN high life, of " hicn that city was the
theatre. One w. II. Birney, while a student AT
Hale College, married a Miss Hawley, a rela-
tive OF Governor English, Of Connecticut.
Owing 10 rule Of the College that no student
should marry " hile an inmate thereof and Bir-
ney not wishing TO forfeit his scholarship the
marriage was clandestinely effected. But the
bride thought she could not be happy until she
had revealed the fact 10 her parents, which she
at last Nentured 10 do. The father once be-
came very irate, and exposed his precocious
son-in-law 10 the Faculty. Birney WAS there
fore Obliged 10 leave the College, when the
couple struck out for the West. They brought
up al Cleveland, Ohio, in October last stopping
al the Birch House.
Birneys funds soon became very low ana no
employment could be found. Finally he de-
serted his vile, only four DAYS after she had
given birth to a child, and W whlle she was lying
very i'll at the Birch House. Before going he
pawned several articles of his wife's clothing,
using part OF the proceeds TO pay the hotel oill:
81 by his friends or relatives. The desertion SO
EXCITED and weakened the poor wife a. 10 en-
danger her life; and under the most careful
medical treatment, and the constant ursing of
her mother, she partially regained her health
but few days ago, when she was strc ken by
new Bereavement in learning OF the death of
her father, which occurred from an illness lnto
hieh he had been thrown by his sou-m-lsw's
perfdy.
Mrs. Birney, the Herald SAYS, is a refined and
cultivated lady. Her sad history touched the
hearts OF all who heard IL, and substantial syin-
pathy was manifested for her by citizens OF
Cleveland. Finding that she had become strong
enough to travel, she and her mother left CIeye-
land for the East on Thursday last, via the
Lake Shore Line having received passes from
the president of the road to Erie, and others
from friend from thence 10 Buffalo.
Mrs. Brney is a charming vocalist. and a
year ago last summer sang regularly at Trinity
Church, New Haven. On one occasion Mr.
Humiston, of the Institute on the Heights
Cleveland, no was East in search of a music
teacher, heard her sing in the church in ques-
tion. He was so charmed with her voice thai
he sought out her Residence, and offered her
Sl.NO year TO go 10 Cleveland. This was
before her marriage, when she was living AZ
home with her parents. Her father declined
TO give his consent to the proposition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-02-08

RETURNED HoME.A-Andrew Armstrong the
sole survivor Of the yacht John L Ford, which
was capsized in the British Channel. on the
voyage from Baltimore to Paris, has returned
to this city. He reached Boston some two
weeks since, in the steamship Aleppo, but was
detained there by sickness, and reached here
on thursday night, in The steamship McClel-
Ian, from Boston. Mr. Armstrong was first
picked up from the bottom of the yacht on
the 23d of August, by the ship Areolite, Cap
tam Alleged and afterwards transferred to
the schooner Mary Blake, Captain Browne,
who landed him in London on the 18th He
was in dreadfully emaciated condition when
rescued. after having undergone the hards hip
OF the exposed voyage across the Atlantic, and
then the four days and nights in the water,
chnging 10 the wreck. In consequence he was
IN hospital in London for four months, and is
now afflicted In his whole system by rheuma-
us m, and has lost the sight of his left eye
RlIf. .Nnn. Nfh
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TBy Ban kero' and Brokers, Telegraph

I'D! bfI N'lo aIIu DFohtTs ItI'graph.
Lewis johnson Go. quote slocKs and bonds
in home and foreign markets as follows:
NEW YORK, Feb S-Eirst Board-U. y s's
iel, coupon, l12; 52C's, ls62, coupons. lII&;
lebi, coupon, 1t97t; lSGh coupons, I09a 1865,
coupon, new, lU7 81 's, 1861, coupon, l07 Z;
lH4U's coupons, lt4 73Os, second, l07 73U's,
third l"1S; Pacific Mail. no; Atlantic Mail,
~ :; Canton, u u; Cumberland. 3G1s; Western
Union Telegraph 361; Quicksilver, 25; MARI
posa, = dc. preier'd, -; Boston Water Power.
-; n l. Central, l@sh; Ere: a :; do. p'd, sOA
ll2: Michigan southern, S2s: Illinois Central
l36k Cleveland and Plttsburg, g. a; Northwest
srn; 90; do prefd, AN Cleveland and Toledo,
,i2b; Rock Island, 9sT: Adams, 90; Wells,
"a y; American Express, 3: United States
Express, 9h Ohio and Miss. Certificates, 23;
Fort Wayne, lG2A; Gold, li24. Market steady
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"A DEsCENDANT OF MARTIN Luther
descen dant Of Luther, the Great Reformer, is
now living in HageIstown, Maryland. He is
VI ne oth generation, In regular descent from
his distinguished ancestor
~Charles Davis, in Cincinnati. tried five
times.to kill himself and succeeded only last
Sunday.
~Napoleon forbids pawnbrokers to take
adVantage OF the necessities of the poor of
Paris.
IFlora Temple, the trotting mare. is repor
hd to be in the same condition as the Empress
of Austria.
~A Vermont genius has patented a saw.
Ming machine that files all the teeth at once.
~ Gas in Cincinnati costs $3.50 I-3 per
thousand.
~ The hair for full dress occasions is now
arranged in pufis and curls.
~ The colored Catholic Church In Charles
ton, ). C., is well attended.
~ In Tensas, La, neither planters nor freed
mt n are willing to make cotton the leading crop
next season.
~ The Clerk of the New York Board Of
Aldermen is TO have almost as much salary as
a Cabinet oficer-S7,C LOO. -
~ John Stiles sQuandered 21,l5O, the pro.
ceeds Of burglar at Schenectady, at a gaming
table in Albany.
~ Gentleness and moral suasion is recon.
mended to the public school teachers Of Brook.
lyn.
NTwo of the editors of the Memphis AVA.
lanche have been sentenced to paw fincs of
8: 200 ZACH and be imprisoned seventy days, for
hbelling Judge of the Criminal Court of thai
city. srtt t-lt-s. asH 4a.- - -
H%Short dress skirts are daily growing in
favor, and plain girls now stand some chance.
As Punch aptly remarks, '.what nature has
denis the faceshe gives to the understanding. Y
~ Near DantMg yonng man of twenty.
four. who has INST married widow of forty-
two, has discovered since the marriage that bis
wife was his wet nurse. French paper COM
ments: "Thus 1t is! One always returns to
his first love-" .aaatf 49,
~ The French Prince Imperial is said TO be
evidentiy in good heaifh but losing his good
and rather lack lustre gray eye, but is pleas
ant hammered child. ever ready to acknowIedae
with smile the saiutations of those whom he
approaches. as -. = q
HAuatria has had paper currency tor 20
years.
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THE PRESIDENTS REPLY TO GENT
GRANT.
pecial Dispatch to the Star.1

Especial Dispatch 10 the Star
NEW YORK, Feb S.-The Times Washington
correspondent says it is certain that Secretaries
Welles and Browning will sign the forthcom-
ing presidential rejonder TO General Grants
last ''brOadside," but it is not certain that any
of the other members of the Cabinet will en-
dorse it, although it is probable that Secretary
McCulloch and Attorney General Stanberry
will DO SO. If not published before Monday
Mr.. Eldridge will present a resolution calling
for further information regarding the matter,
when it Will be brought to light in official form