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FROM WASHING TON.
Despatch to The Associated Press.
The Post Office C0ntraC

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. - Postmaster General
Randall has made awards on thu proposals sub
mitted, under advertisement toIsupply the de-
paItment for the ensuing year. Letter balances,
S4 for the large ones and 75 cents for the small
size. From 1900 TO 1900 may be required.
Eighteen thousand reams of wrapping paper, %
pounds TO the ream, 10 cents per ream for large
sized paper; 80 pounds to the ream, As cents
per ream. One hundred thousand pounds OF
cotton twine, 33 cents per pound; $4,000 pounds
coarse hemp twine, 20 cents per pound.
No Duty Oh Wheat-EnternaI Reyenue
Decisions.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has decided
that wheat, the product of the United States, ls
not liable to duty on account of its transporta.
ton from one United States port to another
through contiguous foreign water, owing to the
wreck of tie vessel. A fee of one-half storage
for one month, under act thirLy-tive, revised
warehouse regulations, does not apply where
merchandise is withdrawn for expectation
before putting it in store. Baggage
must be duly entered, or, at the option of the
collector, it may, on declaration, be examined
by an Inspector instead. If dutlable articles are
found therein entry must be made thereof and
duty paid. Under the first section of the act of
June n, 1864, all baggage of passengers from
contiguous foreign territory is to beinspected by
a regular inspector or other officer of customs at
the first port OF entry at which it shall arrive,
and such officer Is empowered to require the
trunk, sack, or other envelope containing the
baggage to be opened, or the key delivered to
him, and refusal to comply with such require
ments forleits the trunk or other envelope and
its contents.
1t is doubtful whether the concealmout of
dutia5ie articles would carry with 1t more than
the forfeiture of such articles. By the fourth
section of the act of July Is, 1866, dutiable
articles concealed in baggage for the purpose
of evading the duties are forfeited, but not the
remaining articles of baggage. II baggage
entity is made, and if, upon examination, duti-
able articles are found, not included in the
entry, all such articles are forfeited, and the
person in whose baggage they are found Is
liable to forfeit and pay treble the value of such
articles. No allowance can be made for leak
age, evaporation, or deterioration, etc. etc., OF
goods In bonded warehouse. Such merchandise
NAV remain in warehouse If duty is paid
thereon and, If exported within three years, is
entitled 10 q return OF the duty. A drawback,
however, Is only allowed on the same quantity
and proof of the article actually exported.
From New Mexico.
A despatch received to-day rom Sante Fe,
New Mexico. says that f. F. Chavez, is the
unanimous nomiuee of the Republican Conven.
tlon for Delegate to Congress. Chavez is now
here contes.ing the seat occupied by Mr..
CleaVer.
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CALIFORNIA.
Terrible Ravages of the Smallpox =
The Town of san Juan DeciInated.

The New York SUMS San Francisco (Cal.)
correspondent writes on the 18th ut:-
Early in December the smallpox broke out in
this city. At first but little attention was paid
to II beyond the ordinary course of vaccination.
But the disease grew ViTulent and many deaths
occurred. Through some fearful mistake q
mum Der OF persons were Vacclnated with impure
matter. and the ordinary medical treatment
seemed 10 have scarcely any effect upon the
disease. So fatal we're It's rayages that public
attention was Immediately drawn TO 1t.
Tne people became excited, and a large
meeting was held to devise means to stop the
spread OF the contagion. The proceedings OF
TINS meeting were published in the San Francisco
journals, but they were toned down to mode.
rate degree, through tear OF affecting the usual
winter and sprung tide OF immigration. People
seem disposed TO cover up the fearful raVages of
the disease and TO conceal its deadly character.
The streets are filled with funerals, and the
gTave-digger has his hands aud graves full. II
rome cases burials ale made by night.
Despite every precauton the contagiOn re.
mains as deadly as ever, and Though II can
toarcely be sald to be increasing, its decline is
hardly perceplble. All the pest houses are
full. Fathers and children, mothers, brothers,
and sisters expire daily, and nearly every
person in the city has lost some acquaintance
or relative. The Chinese have suffered terribly,
Their native doctors have neither experience
nor common sense in tue treatment OF the
smallpox, and, as a natural consequence, three
out OF every five OF their patients run into
eternity.
But the ravages of the epidemic are not con.
hned to San Francisco. Nearly the whole State
Do infected, and some towns have been decimated
by the pestileuce Thus lar Sacramento Marys-
VILE, and Stockton have csc tped the malignant
type OF the disorder, but it has run through the
lower counties OF the State like murrain. In
@llroy and Los Angeles the disease has been
fatal beyond precedent, and San Francisco can
be called reasonably healthy when its
death-rate Is compared with those
OF the former towns. Some of those
affected appear to rot by inches, in spite OF
every available prescription. The physicians
stand aghast. In some cases vaccination seems
TO have entirely lost It's power and men,
women, aud children, with vaccine scars on
their arms as large as twenty-shiImg pleces,
have fallen victims to the pestlence. Hospitals
have been hastily furnished, and every effort
has been made in these towns to stay the pro
gress OF the disease, but thus far with but little
effect. Whole families have died. In one In.
stance, father and four children died within
twenty-fOur hours, and In a hotel at Los Angeles
nine persons were buried within q week.
But the plague spot OF the state thus far has
been the town OF San Juan, In Monterey county
some one hundred miles from San francisco
The town contains about a thousand persons
the alarming accounts of the mortality IL
Gan Francisco and Gilroy excited some ap
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.KUK.LUX HORRORS.
Cutting on n Mans Ears-Frighttul
MutifaIiOn.

The New Orleans ReptIb icdn OF the 9th ult.
says: On the night of the l4th inst. Susan Jones,
seven years old, the daughter of q blacksmith,
I. z. Jones, who resides near Bartletts staten,
eight miles from Memphis, Tenn, on the
louisville road, disappeared. That night, also,
Jones, was also missing, and MIR. Jones dis
covered, likewise, that his money, S400 IN gold
and $45 in greenbacks, was gone.
According 10 the reports in the Memphis
Post the daughter and the colored man Henly
were captured at Germantown the next day. 1t
appears that the girl was not enamored of her
chosen escort, but had INDUCED IN stage in
fatuation to abandon her parental roof and
seek q home elseWher'. She accordingly made
known her folly 10 Henly. She took her
fathers money, and at night denly ae.
companied her from the parental roof
she afterwards asserted. The daughter
was discovered, as stated, in Germanto Wn,
with the money she had taken, aud her father,
who had gone to Memphis to put the detectives
on the track, fastened to Germantown, and, IN
company with a friend, started for his home
with his daughter, his money, and the colored
man Henly. On the way some twenty-five
hends dressed as KukluX seized Henly. To
adopt the language OF the Post the mild recital
of the particulars OF the awful deed they
perpetrated will be more terrible than any
anatbemas we could frame from the seVerest
words that the language affords,
They cut Oft Henly's ears and otherwise
mutilated hun in a shocking way. They tied a
rope round his neck, suspended him few
Inches from the ground, covered his body with
turpentine and set IT on are. They allo we'd this
TO burn until the rope was seVered-and life
not being yet extinct, he started to run to q
stream near by wien they fred upon him and
pierced him with seven balls. They then
ripped him open with their knives. slashed and
gashed him all over, and left him lying IN
huTipd.
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Hunsworth Sheylor Vs Abraham p, po.tsD.
An action on o book account Verdi. ss5ns 5s
plaintiff, sl95 83. 0' i"t
Brown d Buzbey VS.. Jonathan Lodge An
actlon TO recover damages for an alleged Greaoh
OF covenant on the part or the defendant n
refusing to give up the possession of premises
on the expiration of his lease. The defence
allt ged that possession was given to the person
whom the plaintiffs had authorized to take AZ
and who was to be the next tenant. On trial
CURT OF COMMON PLEAs-Judge Peirce.-
Morley VS.. Herizler Daily. An action 10
recover rent In arrears and possessi on OF goods,
Before reported. VeTuct for plaintiff for All ~
rent, aud value Of goods Sl00.
Thomas Waddington VS.. Charles Leach An
action to recover for money loaned. On trial.
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MEDICAL.
The First Woman Doctor I'm Rns

hnrp conferred. at its annual conference week
or two ago, the degree of NJ. d. upon Madame
Kaschewarow, the first female candidate for
this honor who had presented herself before
dean IL was received with an immense storm
of applause, which lasted for several minutes.
The ceremony OF investing her with the in
sigma of her dignity being over, her fellow
students and new colleagues lifted her upon
chair and carried her, with triumphant shouts,
through the hall. But at this moment Madame
Lucca was espied among the audience, and such
was the students 6ckleness that the lady Doctor
had to yield her elevated seat to the popular
singer. The primG donna not only remained
in undisputed possession Of the extemporiSed
throne, but was carried upon 1t to her carriage
whilst the new doctor had to find what comfort
she could In her diploma,
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LAFA AYETTE COLLEGE,.
RearranRement of the Departments
The aAOO,OOO EndOWment.

The Eastou (Ps.) Brpress yesterday said:-
At the recent meeting OF the trustees OF
Daiay ette College the Department OF Ancient
Languages was divided. DR.. Coleman retains
the Latin aud Hebrew, and Adjunct Professor
1Oungman was promoted TO the char OF the
Greek Language aud Literature: Mr james
Moore, A. NJ, was elected Adjunct Professor OF
Mechanics and Natural History; Professor
Hitchcock was made resident Professor OF
Geology, with the view OF devoting more OF bis
time TO the enlargement of tue Geolog cal aud
Neurological Cabinets. Professor Wallng
who was engaged only for a course OF leC-
lures, was also made resident Professor aud
intenos to give his whole time to the engineer
ing department He has organized the senior
class as an engineering corps, u go through all
the necessary operations Tor constructing q
railroad from Eas on to some selected terminus;
both the held and office work, including drafting
ana calculation, beng performed under his
immediate direction. r. s. M0Hat M. E., a
graduate OF the Columbia School of Mines, was
elected Adjunct Professor of Mining and Metal
lurgv, and this department also put on a Dract-
cal basis, embracing actual work in the labOra-
tory, helu, iu mace, aud rolling mills, accompa-
MED by text book, study, and lectures. Large
appropriations were made for this department,
as well as for that OF practical chemistry, which
now includes not only the laboratory practices
ofReneral chemistry, both inorganic aud organic
but an extended course OF qualitative and guam
titatiye analyses, reaching LhI ough two years.
All the departments OF the PaTdee Sc eutihC
Course were arranged so that both theory and
practice shall be thoroughly taught; and vita
view of securing the latest Information Ms to
the course of study, the method of teaching, aud
the apparatus necessary for the advanced
studies of the course, President Cattell was
directed to visit the most celebrated PO POlyteChnic
schools of Europe, and report to the Board what
further improvements may be needed at
Lafayette.
The additional endowment of two hundred
thousand dolars' (S20O.000) was reported to
have been completed, and the Board were thus
enabled to raise the salaries of the Professors,
who now number tHenty-one. thus providing
amply for all the various departments of
instruction both in the Clas ,ical Course and In
the Pardee Scientific Department.
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LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Troubles in our New Possessions
Internal Revenue Rulings
Tragedy in IOwa-Rail-
road Progress in
the West.
Finan ciaI and CornmsrcAal
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Indian Troubles at sitha.

SAY FRANCISCO, Feb 1.-The ship Duke OF
Edinburgh in proceeding to sea to-day collided
with the steamer General McPherSon. The
steamer was seriously damaged, aud the sh D
slightly. Lieutenant Rockarello9 ana Captain
Kinsman, OF the United States Army, aud the
captain of the steamer were injured.
The revenue steamer Waganda, from Si.ka
arrived at Victoria, January 80, en- route for san
Francisco for repairs, having struck a rock not
laid down on the charts.
Serious Indian troubles have occurred at
Sitka. The Indians disarmed soldier aud car
ried his gun Off to their village. a guard was
sent TO recover the property, but the Indians
defed the guard and hoisted flag. General
Davis prepared to lombard the place, when the
chiet surrendered. A few days afterwards a
canoe full of Indians was seen leaving the
harbOr, contrary to orders. The sentries fired
on the Indians killing aud wounding seven.
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FROM HARRISBURG

Editors and Publishers Convention.
Special Dcspasoh 10 The HUeTit',g Telegraph.
HARRIsBUBG Feb. "A preliminary meeting
of the editors and publishers of the State was
held this morning in one OF the committee
rooms of the House of Representatives, about
fifty being present. Mr.. Darlington, of the
DoYlestown Hateiigenser, acted as temporary
chairman, and r. s. Menamin of Phiadel lphia,
as temporary secretary. After an interchange of
opinion, business committee. consisting Of R.
5. henamin, f. H. Kissloe, J. b. Brattou, J. b.
Sausom, and G. D. Elliott, and q committee on
permanent organization, comprising L. II. Davis
of POttstown, A. G. Henry, w. Hayes Grier,
George Bergner, and A, Ii. Burch, were ap.
pointed. Adjournment was ordered until 2
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prehensons, and 40 effort was made to prevent
the appearance of the epidemic in San Juan.
man came down from the grape-growng
strict OF Sonoma county, and registered
his name In the hotel. When questioned
concerning the smallpox in the north, he
acknowledged its fatal virulence aud said that,
fearing he might catch IL, he had taken tn ,
precaution to be Vacciuated before leaving
home. In twenty-four hours his arm sweled
to the size OF his body, and was covered with
gangrenous sores. An examination by the
physicians resulted in the discovery of the fact
that the man had actually been inoculated with
the most malignant type of the smallpox.
He died, a sickening mass OF putre'action,
within forty eight hours, and was buried at
midnight. Steps were taken on the instant to
prevent the spread OF the disease. The dead
ments were burned; but unfortunately some
school children discovered the halt-Ourned rags
and caught the injection. In one week NUN
bers OF them died aud the epidemic obtained a
firm footnold IN San Juan. Out of q population
OF a thousand tour hundred we're taken down
with smallpox, and OF these four hundred per
sons one hundred and sixty died.
This is a fearful rate of mortality, aud |
doubt whether the annals OF this oathsome
disease can surpass 1t. In some country towns.
away from the reach of skltul doctors, and
where the proper medicines are scarce two.
thirds of the cases prove fatal, Throughout
the State the mortality has been unprecedented.
have thought it my duty 10 give your
readers this Information, because of the disposi-
ton throughout California TO keep the Wnole
thing as quiet as possible. 1t is proper that
should be made acquainted with the facts,
and send them TO you, earnestly hoping that
you will place them before your readers, The
truth has been too long concealed.
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FROM TENNESSEE.
The OisfrancISIsed Ex-Rebels-The Bee.
Cholera Prevalent.

Cholera Prevalent.
SpeciGI Despatah 90 The EvsIItI0 Ie.S graph.
NASHVILLE, Feb. 2-Tbe bee cholera, lately
60 prevalent in Ohio, has made its appearance
among the hives here. No remedy Is known for
this new malsdY among honey makers.
Mr.. Richards, Speaker of the House OF
Representatives, telegraphed to hr. Boutwell,
yesterday as to what effect his constitutional
amendment would have on persons disfranchsed
on account of having participated in the
Rebellion. Mr.. Boutwell, replied as follows:-
at will leave them as they are"
This, OF course, will be sad disappointment
to the dIsiranchised In Tennessee, as the i'm
preston had become pretty general that the
proposed amendment would certainly cover a 4
the disfranchised whites, and as such would
have been heartily welcomed. The bill autho-
riziDg the tale of those railroads which have
failed TO pay the interest on their debt to the
State passed to the tAird reading in the House
Yesterday.
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FINANCE AND OOMMEROE.
oTTIcH OF THE EVENING TEInsRAPH,l

Tuesday Feb 1859.
There is no material change to record I'm the
Money market. Call loans rule at e6ne ner
cent. Firsi-cla-s nero tile paper ranges from
7@l0 per cent. per apUum. there was rather
more disposition TO operate in stocks this
morning, and prices generally were steady
Government securities we're drlly held Civ
loans were higher; lhe new issue sold at I0OF
an advance OF 8: and Old do. at 97k, an al,
vance OF 4.
Railroad shares were the most active on the
list Camden and Anbog sold ut l24b, mo
change; Reading at 495 no change: Penn3vlya-
MIA railroad az 57S6p57R. an al vauce of A; Little
SchuylkIll at 43s. no change; Phlladplpha and
Erie at 26b. DO change; 6S3 vas bid for Norris
town; 55 Tor MlDehill; 80 Tor North Pcnnsyl-
vania; 408 for Elmra preferred. and "a ior
Catawissa preferred.
City Passenger Rail way shares were IN fair
demand. Tenth and Eleventh sold at GSl no
change, and Hestonviiic at 1lg, an advance of !.
46 was bid for Second aUi Third: Sc for Fifth
and Sixth; l8 for Thirteenth and Fifteenth: az
tor Spruce and Pine; and 46 FOR Chestnut and
Walnut.
Bank shares were in good demand for invest.
ment at full price. Farmers aud Mechanics,
sold at 1924 and Mechanics a. 315. 10 change.
l67 was bid for Ph l4dp phid; 81 for COMMERCIAL;
1893 for KeuslUetcn; 81 Tor Penn Townsnio; rs
for Western: and 735 TOR Guy.
In Canal shares there was very little move
ment. Lehgh Navigation sod at 3l2, q decline
OF !. 10 was bid tor SchuylkIil Savigation
common; 2Os Tor preferred do. 60 for Morris
Canal preferred; and 123 forSus luehauna Canal.
PHILADELPHIA STOOb EAOHAN8B SALEs TO-DAY
Reported by DE Haven Bro, No 40 Is, Third street
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INSANE.
Alteration of Famous French
Preacher.
French

The Dominican Father Minjeard, few years
ago celebrated In France for his preaching, has
become Insane. The first symptoms OF his
about a year ago, during charity sermon in
the church of ST. Roch for the benefit of the
Polish eXiles. when the congregation were pain
fully struck by the extraordinary excitement OF
hls manner. His advent sermons at the Made
leine some eight years ago attracted numerous
crowds, and his first charity sermon produced
IA 0OOf., exclusive of the rings and je wells which
ladies tore OF Ia q moment OF enthusiasm and
threw into the velvet bag of the collectors. He
promised to equal, IL not surpass, Lacordalre.
Some short time since he retired from the
dominican Order, owing, it was said, to some
the ranks OF the secular clergy. He is not more
than thirty-siX years old.
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TRAGEDY LNIOWA.
Brutal Murder of n Wife by III or Hus.
hand.

CAIoAGo Feb. "A terrible tragedy occurred
in Merwin county, Iowa, on Saturday. man
named George shafter, who had twice deserted
his wife, returned recently and ordered her 10
leave her fathers house. He went there with
loaded revolver. His wife's mother met him at
the door, and he knocked her down with
chair. He then knocked his vile down, and
shot her in the head, killing her instantly.
He next fired three times at himself without
effect. He also gashed his throat with a
botcher's knife. He was found lying with his
head on the bosom of his dead wife and one OF
their children in his arms. He declared his
predetermination to kill his wife, oyeu If he
had TO murder the whole family.
The bill transferring the capital of Nebraska
10 Omaha has become law.
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FROM MISSOURI,
Railroad COnnectiOns-M Mercantile En-.
IerDrkSea-

Special Despatch TO The EUenin0 Telegraph.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2.-Ctmmit,ees from the
Pacific, Iron Mountain, and North Missouri
Railroads met yesterday to take action on the
subject of connecting the roads with the East
st. Louis Elevator. Resolutions favoring in
mediate connections we're adopted, and COM
mittees were appointed to carry out the object.
The Terre Haute Railroad will also take steps
to obtain similar connection. The merchants
ofSt. Louis estimate that they will save 400 per
cent. per auuum by having au agent at New
York to look after their freight interests. They
already begin to give evidence of strong oppo-
sition TO the st. Louis Transfer Company.
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The pittshmrg OII Traae.

The magnitude of the oil trade of Pittsbarg is
known to comparatively few persons. Many OF
the extent and Importance of the trade. We
have forty eight Ieaneries, with capacity 10
refine over eighty milton gallons per yesr. The
capital invested exceeds twenty million doilars'
The total pumber of barrels refined and crude.
shipped east in 1868 was 766, 1853; in 1867, $780, 656
barres; 10 1866 T73, ,625 in 1866, COL ,l62; and IN
1864, 546, 78l--making an aggregate OF 3,267, ,29S
barrels shipped for the period OF Ave years
Pit burg ChroHtcie
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The Pnr.loning Power.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 2.-Governor Hays declines
10 interfere with the sentence of the court in
the case of LeWls Davis, condemned to be
hanged on FeDruary4
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Vermont celebrated her ninety-ssoond
birthday on Friday week.
One million postage stamps are daily used
In the United States.
Salt Lake City contains population Of
46, 900, Of whom 38, 900 are kormOns.
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THE EUROPEAN MARKETS.
By atlantic Gable.
This Mornings Quo tatiOna

both money and account. q. s. 5-2Os, 75s
American stocks steady. Ene Railroad, 26b;
Illinois, 93i; Great Western Railroad, 444.
a hIyEHpNoL Fey 5A a MCGtton Sndo 1rm MD
ll6@12d. Sales to-day are estimated at $4,000
bales. Corn is quoted at 34s. for old and 33s.
TOR new. Refined Petroleum. 2S.
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This Afternoons Quotations.

LONDON, Feb. 2-P. NJ -Consols 93a for
money and account; United States 5.2Os, 76. Bail
ways firm; Erie, .26; Illinois Central, 90; At
lantic and Great Western, 40l.
LIyERPooL, Feb. 2-P. M.-Lard and Pork
firm; SPLITS of Petroleum, 81.
LONDON, Feb. 2-P. M,-sperm Oil, eos.
Cotton at Havre is UNCHANGED.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 2-P. N.-Yarns and fabrics
at Manchester are frmer and higher. California
Wheat, lis. 5d.@ lis. Cd; red Wes:ern, 9y.
Flour, 26s, Peas, 445.
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Markets by TeHeWrADh,

HAvAEA, Feb. I:-Bank notes are quoted at s1s95
Der cent. dlscOunt sugars el16AShc.
AniYeo, eafqus Elbai frOm New YORK.