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PERSISTENCE.
unhWeceesful attempts to BursIarIxe 81 Ulsss-
nut birect House.

UnsHeceesful Attempts to Burglarlxe 81 Ohes~
nut hGrect HOuec.
About ! o'clock this morning, bieutenant
Campbell of the sixth dietrict whilst walking
alopg Saneom street, discovered that an attempt
had been made to enter the dry goods ana i9ncy
trimmings store of Messrs Sheppard, Van har-
lingen & Co., No. 1908 Chestnut street, Inc
would-be burglars had succeeded In drilling
hole through an iron shutter, when they were
probably frightened of by the Lieu enants APP
pToach,
About o'clock Officer Ewing, whilst patrol
ling the same beat, discovered couple OF Iel-
lows at work Mt the same place, ana lmme-
diately made for them. They were too quick.
however; for, noticing his approach, they cool
to their heels, and led the officer lorS chase
through alleys streets, and bywa5s, fnall,
eluding him completely.
PERsoNAL.-Mr. Blackburn, Chief Clerk o
the Cincinnati (Ohio) Board OF Aldermen, an'
Mr.. Walker, City Solicitor, are in this city ol
official hnsinese
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FROM THE VEST.
Missouri Legislature.

ST. LOUIS, March 9.-After three night ses-
sions of debate on the proposition to submit to
tending suffrage to women, the whole matter
was last night indefinitely postponed by vote
of GO to 81.
The constitutional amendment for the aboll-
ton of the double liability clause was adopted,
and that abolshing the oath of loyalty was de-
feated. The proposition to prevent the appro-
priation of any public money to any sectarian
Institution was referred to the Committee on
Constitutional Amendments.
The Wisconsin, Capital Removal.
MILWAUKEE, March 9.-The bill for the re-
moyal of the capital was defeated last night by
q vote of SO to 30.
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.
BILLS REPORTED FAYORARLY.

BILLS REPORTED FAvoRABLY.
HARRIsBURG, March 9.--House bill authorz-
ing the dedication of Diamond street, Philadel-
phia, to public uses.
Senate bill Incorporating the Pennsylvania
College of Pharmacy, of Philadelphia.
Senate bill conterring certain privileges upon
the Artisans Building and Loan Association, OF
Philadelphia.
Senate supplement relating to the Courts of
Philadelphia relative to advertisements.
Bill vacating portions of Woodpecker or
Rising Sun lane, Philadelphia.
Bill respecting Railroad Indemnity act OF
1868, with an amendment.
Senate bill authorizing the appointment of an
additional law judge for the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia. The amendment autho-
riZes two additional law judges.
Supplement to act Incorporating the American
Supplement to the Fidelity Insurance Com
pany of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Graham presented the report of the Senate
Educational Committee of 1869, instructed by
the Senate of 1869 to investigate the alleged
abuses in the Soldiers Orphans Department,
which entirely exonerates Colonel George f.
Mcfarland, State Superintendent of soldiers
orphans, from any fraud or completely in fraud,
and that he has no financial interest in any par
ticular school under his charge, etc.
BILLS CONSIDERED.
Mr.. Lowry called up the bill providing for the
payment of the State Historian, and his clerical
force for the last year, provision not having
been made for the payment in appropriation OF
1869.
Mr.. Wallace moved its recommittal to the
Committee on Finance.
The subject was debated for some time by
Messrs. Lowry Olmstead, Allen, Brooke, White,
and Mumma.
House.
An effort was made to pass the resolution in
troduced some days since by Mr.. Keene, of Lu-
zerne, appointing a committee to ascertain and
report to the next Legislature whether any rail-
road company in the anthracite coal region has
made overcharges for freight. The resolution
was indefinitely postponed.
bill releasing the bequest OF John Grigg
from certain taxation was recommitted
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IRON TIE SOUTH.

The Oxford Disaster-NIr. simont0n's state
inent C0ntradicted.
MEMPHIS, March 9.--Samuel Tate, President
of the Mississippi Central Railroad, publishes a
card denying the statements of Mr.. simonton,
DIR. Settle, and others, in reference to the late
disaster on that road, which, he says, twas an
unfortunate accident resulting from no careless
ness on the part of the officials of the road"
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Baltimore Produce Market,

BALTIMORE March 9.--COttOn dull and dr0opin0
and nominally 2OHc; Flour quiet and unchanged ;
do family, s6:25@7; City Mills superGne, s4,SS9
$50; do extra, so5O@6; do. family, s7@s75;
Western superiine, s4Ib95; do. extra, s5.25@o75;
s1's5@l 40; Pennsylvania do 81 26C@12 2S Corn firm
white, 93@95c.; yellow, 94c Oats, sec. Rye dull
Mess Pork quiet at s27 Bacon weak; rib sides,
1b14@1bNc.; clear do, 1e4@16Hc.; shoulders, 12h,
(912Hc; hams, 10000 Lard weak at 151ICa16c.
Whisky firm, with sales at SlO1.
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1RE COUNTY PRISON.

-.nrortRnt Details from the UepOrt os the tn.
spectOKs-The Criminal POpuiatp@n o. tse
Cnty-Th Thetr Offences. NatIvitIes, Ages, HNbits,
md EducUtion.
Yesterday we gave the annual report OF the
inspectors of the County Prison. To-day we
present important details from the taDles ap-
pended to the report. .,.,.- 4,
In the following table Is shown the number oil
commitments for certain crimes during the year
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New You'd produce NTnr,tet.

NEW YORK, March 9.-Cotton lower; sales Of 800
bales mddling upands at 2lc Flour dull and
declined &C.; State, s46O@5'6b; Western, s44596bO:
Southern, S5'75@9I5. Wheat dull and lower and
quotations nominal. Corn steady: sales of
10000 bushels mixed Western at CSC. (As1. Oats
dull State, 60@63cc; Western, 55a56c. Beef quiet.
Pork quiet; new mess s25. Lard dull; steam rem
dered, 1316@l3kc, Whisky dull at pg%c.
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A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE OUT FOR
REGIsTER OF WILLs.-A resolution passed by
Sixteenth ward, presenting the name of William
M. Bum (present member of the Legislature)
as candidate for Register of Wills, has been
printed In the form of circular, and is being
extensively circulated in this city. II is Stoned
Thomas j. Smith, President, and Eugene G.
Kuhn and John p. Sepler, Secretaries.
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ALUMNI MEETINa.--A meeting of the alumni
Saturday morning, March IL, at 101S o'clock.
AL graduates are asked to assemble at that time,
in the lower lecture room of the college, for the
purpose of organizing an alumni association.
The commencement of this college will take
place on the same day at noon.
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worthy OF the careful study of all who are
anxious to suppress crime by aiming at the root
of the evil, and applying the maxim that San
ounce of prevention Is better than pound of
cure"
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ANOTHER BRUTE.-Morris Smith, residing No.
1928 DarienE street, will have a bearing to-day
before Alderman Kerr, on the charge of beating
his wife. 1t is high time that some place of
confinement was provided for these misshapen
brutes, who, too cowardly to attack beings of
their own sex, wreak their brutal passions upon
poor weak womanhood.
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HEAVY ROBBERY. john Glenn, chap of
thievish propensities, has been committed to
prison by Alderman Toland for the theft of 85
cents from the money drawer of the store No.
720 New Market street. He was caught whilst
in the act of removing the cash by Officer Burns,
of the Seventh district.
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OPEN HousEs.--The police of the Fifth Dis
trict, during last night, found unlocked the
doors OF two houses. Had they been robbed no
doubt the occupants would have complained
bitterly over the inefiiciency Of the police force
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WANTS

IMPORTANT TO ALL INTERESTED. - THE
n arrears OF Pensions must be applied for within
sailor, or marine. Those who fan to apply lose s9S
per year. There are thousands In our midst widows
dependent fathers ana Mothers and orphan children
who are entitled but who have not yet applied for
pension. All who think they are entitled should at
once call on Messrs ROBERT s. LEAGUE q co.
No. 1876 South SEVENTH Street who will promptly
obtain their pensions, or cheerfuy give any infor
nation. free or charge Remember that the i've
years limit allowed by law Is fast drawing tos
close. ra0
r AND WARRANTS PROMPTLY REQUIRED.
- PURCHASED, TRANSFERRED, LOCATED
AND sOLD.-Apply to ROBERT 8. LEAGUE h co.
No. lab 8. SEVENTH Street. $50
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FATAL FALL.---The Coroner has been notified
to hold an inquest upon the body of John
Hewlett, aged seventy years, who was found
dead on the sidewalk in front of his residence,
No. 1928 Fisher street, early this morning. The
insanity, and sleeping in the third story, IL Is
supposed he either crawled or walked out of the
Window
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In the following table is given the whole num-
ber of prisoners, both before and after trial,
who were confined In the prison during 1885,
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VERY INTERESTING annual meeting of
the Young Peoples Association of the Taber-
nacle Baptist Church will be held this evening
at the church, on Ghesnut street, west Of Eigh-
in the meeting tonight one of the most inte-
resting of which will be the music by the Young
Peoples Choir of the church, under the leader
ship of j. M. Evans, Esq. An address will be
delivered by the popular and eloquent Bishop
Simpson, of the NJ. L. Church. Also an address
by Rev. q. A. PeltZ.
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A special degree was conferred upon James
III. Patton, of Richmond Va, and honorary de-
Erees on Carroll Durham, M. D., and T. +.
Allen, M. D., of New York.
The whole number of students at present In the
college is 1872,
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THE SALARIES OF SCHooL TEAcHBRs.-This
subject came up yesterday afternoon at the
meeting of the Board of School Controllers, a
motion being made by Mr.. Milliken that the
Committee on Accounts be requested to obtain
the opinion of the City Solicitor as to the power
of the board to fix the salaries of
school teachers Independently of the
action of Councils. Nr. Armstrong thereupon
read from an opinion delivered by Judge shars-
wood of the Supreme Court, in the case of
Josephine johnson vs.. the city of Philadelphia,
2 Wright's Reports, p. 1884, as follows:--
IF the city is liable at the suit of the plain
tiff then the discretion vested in Councils to
levy taxes for all the various matters Of public
expense is subject to the power of board who
are not responsible to the people for taxsrate."
The motion was finally amended 80 as to pro-
vide for taking test case into court, which
was opposed by several members on the ground
that it would tend to keep the teachers out of
their pay for an indefinite period. 1t finally
passed. however, by the following vote:-
Yeas1Messrs Abbot, Blynn, Cassidy, Fagen,
niger, Ridings, Smith, Weatherly, Widener, and
Stanton--l5.
Nays-Messrs Armstrong, Downing, Elkin, Free
born, Harris, Hartman, Holman, and SteinmetZ-s.
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The Senate took up the Georgia bill to-day,
and referred 1t to the Judiciary Committee
An effort was made to put 1t on it's passage, but
1t failed. The Judiciary Committee amended u
in several important particulars, aud the indi-
cations arc that 1t will finally go to a confer
ence committee for settlement.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-07
TELEGRAPH ITEMS

Richard SOpher and Antoine Varlandine
were arrested Monday at Mephi, Utah, for rape
on their step daughters, ten, eleven, twelve
and thirteen years old. They confessed and
while trying to escape from the guard were
fatally shot.
Joseph Manuel is on trial in Boston for the
murder of John Lewis, seaman on borrd ship
Abby Bradford. Vincent Bonovi and Giuseppe
Giglio also on trial for killing Luisi Gheral.
DIM.
The proposed strike of Crispins in New York
is delayed in consequence of want of concert
ed action. 1t is said that some of the manu-
facturers have abandoned the proposed reduce
ton and will continue work at the old prices.
The proposed new census of New York has
been postponed indefinitely
Sir Charles Bright's cable expedition has ar
rived at st. Thomas. They will lay cable from
there to Porto Rico and thence to Jamaica.
DR.. IL. G. Mclntire, Concord physician in
volved in the late case of baby farming in that
city, has been arrested on a charge of man.
slaughter.
The city and county officials at Portsmouth
n. H., visited Rockingham county farm at
Brentwood on Tuesday, where an insane asy.
lnm is being built. There are 118 inmates Of
the institution.
The Republicans of Lowell. have nominated
Charles A. Stoll for Mayor.
James B. Blake, represen tative, has been
unanimously re-nominated for his sixth term
as Mayor of Worcester, Mass.
The clothing house of Philip Warsworth &
CO., of Chicago, have suspended. Liabilities
$500, GOO; assets $500 OO0
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NEW YORK.
CITY AND VICINITY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Gen. Jordan was ar
rested last evening on charge of fitting out
a Cuban expedition on the 28th of October last
and of enlsting men in aid of the Cuban in
surgents. He gave bail in $4,000 for his APP
pearance at the February term of the United
States Court Warrants are out for the arrest
OF number Of other prominent Cuban SYM
pathizers
Minister Motley writes to friend that he
has accepted the Queen of Hollands offer of
the free use of an elegant mansion at The
Hague to enable him to complete the History OF
the Netherlands, and will proceed thither i'm.
mediately on turning over the affairs of The
embassy to the Secretary of Legation.
General Hiram Walbridge died at the Aston
House at four o'clock this afternoon after an
illness of four days.
The brig Samuel Larrabie of Bangor, for
New York, was run into this morning by the
steamer Old Colony, staving in her starboard
side and killing one man, name unknown.
The meeting of Crispins tonight failed to
take any decisive action on the projected strike.
The Crispins complain that country workmen
were paid at higher rate than the men who
have to do fancy work in the city, and whilst
men who have to do coarse work outside of
New York for $21 per week, those who put
forth all their efforts to suit Broadway cannot
make more than from $12 to $15.
The Court of Claims during the year ending
December 9Th, 1870, rendered judgment in 164
cases. The aggregate amount claimed by par
ties bringing suits against the United States is
about So, 100000. The total amount of awards
are 1881 1857. Most of the suits dismissed have
been appealed to the Supreme Court. Among
the awards is one of $751; 900 in favor of Roth
childs Brothers for the net proceeds of 1866
hogsheads of tobacco captured by the United
States military forces in Richmond and sold by
the Secretary of the Treasury. The total
amount of judgments against the q United States
edlsuits for the recovery Of proceeds of captur-
in cotton and sugar are 1896, 900.
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San Domingo.
THE INSuRREcruoN
co Nj Err GAL,

Receipts by Railroads and steamb oats.
, GRAND TRUNK RAILwAy--199 cans milk, 500 bbls
hour, 40 bdls tooth picks 80 BID. seds. car Shocks
20 potatoes, do capbOards, do laths do starch,
40 match splints, do hay, do butter, do sheen
SKINS do corn % do lumber, do boxes, do stats,
6ran do sundries; shipments to Europe, 2 cars of
noun, do pork, do cotton, do butter q do wheat
DO barley, do lard.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILwAY-97 cases, 10 obs. ap-
pies, quarters beet, 90 muttons, 81 bdls saws "a
boxes axes, 10 ale bbls. lot furniture, 3S pkgs
dries.
PORTLAND & KENNEBEC RAILROAD-2 cars lum-
M 40 iaths do sugar boxes, do furniture stock,
70 Ddls handles 81 do window frame stock 16 DOORS
Ddis sash, 16 boxes axes casks potash quarters
mdse.
STEAMER CHESAPEAKE FROM NEW YoRK-6S
pales WOOL 14O do rags, DO burlaps GO dry hides 20
Tolls leather, "a do hair docarI citing, 20 bds STEEL
10 40 iron, 20 bars and plates do, bank safe Ii
pigs tn Is bdls paper 80 bags shot do coffee, 2442
boxes rasins 1000 do cheese % do SOAP 65 do obac
CO. 50 do tin, 10 cases glass, $50 bbls sugar. 160 do
glass ware, 10 do saltpetre, 10 do oranges do oys-
tiers, II do OIL 10 chests tea, casks bleaching pow
200 pkgs sundries.
STEAMER FOREST CITY. FROM BosToN-1 carriage
1l5 bbls -four, 10 do rum, IA empty kegs IT coils OF
c0rdage cask OIL IA bdls iron 81 do chair stock 10
pkgs furniture 80 bbls. pork, 81 bds roofing paper
Il bales Irvine, casks spikes 81 boxes glass; hid
tierces lard 20 bags meal 1000 feet lumber 20 cases
and 20 domestics, 16 cases sewing machines, bales
Of carpetng, dressed hogs, boxes fresh fish, 200
pkgs to orders for Canada and up country 100 boxes
extract, pianos casks oil, 408 hides bales WOOL
16 empty casks So bales cotton 43 plates iron pkes
pumps, 80 bags dye wood, pieces marble, 1876 dry
hides 90 bars and 20 bds iron 16 casks soda ASH $50
pkgs to order.
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u. y. District Court.

JUDGE FOX, PRESIDING.
M0NDAY-James Keenan,, libellant, vs. schooner
Annie Harris.
A libel to recover balance claimed oil some $50 -
proceeds due upon fishing voyage in the Gulf Of
st. Lawrence, and Tor services in repairing the
schooner. The captain of the schooner commended
that the bellant had been fully paid for all services
and for his share of fish.
Hearing had and libel discharged with costs.
TuRsDAY-The December term commenced this
morning. The grand jury were empanneled as fol-
lows:
Daniel Goodwin, Foreman, Brownfeld; Drew
+ arlington, Henry G. Walker, Fryebure; Darius
Il. Dutch, Brownfeld; Isaac s. Curtis, Merrill j.
Rowe, Woodstock; Kingsbury F. Bryant, Dustin
Bryant, Greenwood; John H. Grant, Chas W. Flint
Sweden: james F. Reed, Actor; JAMES o. Goweli,
Albert W. Guptill, Berwick; Geo Thomas, Joshua
w. Davis. Denmark; Jas Perkins, Winburn Adams,
Lmerick; Henry Fox, Frederick II. C:oyes, Port
land.
The grand jury sent out to ind bills of indct-
ment. The petit jury will come in at 10 o'clock
FIilay morning.
The Portland daily press., 1870-12-07

BRIGGS Pile Remedies are success If.
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1t has been fixed fact for long time past
In every city of size in this country that the
moro refined and better educated classes of the
community do not patronize the theatre; that
those who do attend are the strangers within
the gates" and those who have no resources
for amusement within themselves. This state
o. things is owing to the reason that in most
Of our theatres mere sensational plays that
possess no literary merit whatever and are
wholly dependent upon stage effects, elegant
scenery, gorgeous costumes and pleasing mu-
sic for their attraction have taken the place Of
tragedies that both instructed by their histori-
eh information and displayed the influence Of
the passions-and of comedies that appealed
to the intellect by the sparkle and brilliancy of
their repartee and the charm of real life that
they possessed. Amateur theatricals that
from the very earliest times have possessed
greater attractions for the educated than pro-
fessional have increased in popularity and
draw to their represe ntations not only the mere
ly rich and fashionable but all who enjoy an
entertainment that presents to the eye and ear
scenes in domestic life; one too that we'll act
ed, offers nothing to offend the taste or take
away from the effect; where there is no rant,
no attempt at stage illusion, no paste jewels or
paint; where you see real ladies and gentlemen
moving quietly before you and you cannot be
persuaded that you are not looking in upon
some actual domestic drama. In truth so deep
Is the love Tor the stage. and particularly for
that form that comes under the head of anna
teur theatricals, that we find in the earliest
times the noble Roman youth disportinp in bur.
lesque, in the shape of the Atellan Farcas
that, among the Italians, Leo x gave up
chamber in the Vatican for the production of
play written by one of his cardinals, that
Machiavelli stirred his audience to tears in the
private drama and that in the old English
Mosques, Whitelock, Lord Bacon and Selden
struggled for precedence 10 procession, and
in France, that Richelisu thought as much if
not more of the tragedy he had written than Of
state affairs.
The play of"All that Glitters is not Gold' is
not unknown to the lovers of amateur per.
formances. Several times it has been placed
upon "the boards" in Portland and has always
proved a favOrite. 1t is one of the best efforts
of the brothers Morton and abounds in wit and
sparkling dialogue, while it fails not "to poin
moral" that is as appropriate now as it was
in the times when the comedy was written.-
Mr.. Frank Chase is "Stephen Plum" (the mar
who does net disdain the honest source of hi
wealth or the humble companions that have
helped to make him what he is), renewed hi
former triumphs. He showed keen insigh