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pr;t;sh and Federal Provinces.

Tho london postthinks nothing Will save
pr;,;sb Columbia to the Crown by prevent
mo its annexation to the United States out
q railroad from Canada to the Pacific. 1t
is hardly POSSIBLE that such work can be
constructed. England would not build it to
save her Pacific territory; and Canada, il she
she we're able, would not feclintcrest enough
in the preservation of that territory to
spend so much money with that object.
and still. we're there inducements enough
for either to build the road, its location
would present such obstacles, Typographical
and climatic, that neither, nor both COM
hined, would dare to undertake II. Inc
present Pacific railroad with its hundred
miles Of tunnels and snow-sneds, IS quite
far enough north for railroad enterprises
England is gradually being wcaned OF her
love for her American provinces, and holds
nm n thrm now more as q matter Of pride
than profit. There will be no national con-
yulsion when she parts with them-as she
assuredly will in no great time from now.
Whether they will "anncx " themselves
to the great Republic or not is by no means
clear. British Columbia will be more likely
10 do so than Canada, rs she is sandwiched
between the Territories of the United States.
But Canada may set up for herself, and
she can do so very well, and live quite as
pcaceably ard comfortably ASH she entered
the ring Of the Federal Government. Our own
views about annexation will probably un-
derco considerable modification after
time. The geographical expansion OF
Government has its limits, beyond which 1t
cannot 90 without greatly increasing its
perils and curtailing the period OF its dura-
ton. We have n vast country within our
present boundaries yet to people and reduce
TO civilization. When that is done we may
look for further expansion; but for the
present, further than taking the principal
islands of the West Indies and placing
a military police over Mexico: it would not
be wise to spread out
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A NOVEL LAWSUIT DECIDED.-Bugdlo,
January 1s.-Judge VcrplancS, OF the SUI
perior Court, has just decided a novel suit.
George 4. Deakin, for twenty years past
member of the st. Adelphonso Society, a
religious benevolent association Of this city,
brought suit to obtain manddmus to be G.
instated to membership of that Society,
from which he claimed that he had been
maliciously expelled for refusing to pay a
fine of twenty-five cents unjustly imposed.
The Judge ordered a peremptory mandd-
mus to issue reinstating the plaintiff to full
membership
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IMPORTANT INSURANCE CASE DECIDED
It will be remembered chat the insurance
companies of this city, with two excep-
tons, resisted the payment of the claims
of the United States Mail Line Company
for the loss of the steamers United States
and America, destroyed by fire resulting
from a collision between the two boats on
the night of December 4, 1869. The main
ground of resistance was that as the boats
were insured against " fire only" their de-
struction by fire resulting from collision
was not within the terms of the policy.
The case decided was against the National
Insurance Company for $1,000, the amount
insured on the America, and the court held
that if the immediate proximate cause Of
the loss was fire the verdict must be for the
plaintiff. The jury, after delibcration OF
some thirty minutes, brought in a verdict
for the plaintiff, awarding the full amount
claimed, with interest.-Cincinnati Com
n1erciQl, 18th.
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EFFECTS OF THE LATE STORM IL KEN
TUcKY.-Louisrille, January lS.--All that
part Of the city lying on Lever (now Fourth)
street is completely submerged. The oc-
cupants are busily engaged in removing
their property to safe quarters by means Of
skifs.
Prewitt's Knob was completely destroyed
by the storm On Saturday night. John
MCGOWAN and his elder daughter were
killed, and Miss MCGOWAN was badly III
iured. Downcs's stable was blown away,
and large number Of horses and mules
were killed.
DR.. John Wilson and wife, of Prewitt' S
Knob, were badly wounded.
The storm was general along the Mem
phis and Louisville and Louisville and Nash
Vile railroads, and considerable damage to
property is reported.
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THE ALABAMA N0ntgom-
cry, January 1S.-In the House bill was
introduced to relieve all persons married
during the war from the obligations created.
This is done in consequence of the recent
dictum of the Supreme Court declaring all
acts of the Legislatures, judges, coRsta.
bles, etc., during the war illegal. A bill
was also introduced and referred to allow
the sexes to cohabit, provided they are lib
eral in their conduct and are willing to
occupy the relationship of man and wife,
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RErrpIATIoN.-General Butler was at
the Astor House yesterday. The General
expresses the opinion that there is no use
for the Republicans to commence laying
pipe for the next Presidency, or any sVher
Presidency, unless they radically change
their financial policy.
General Butler thinks that eventually the
colored population will 60 for reputation.
They have sense enough to see, he argues,
that il is not to their interest to help pay
an enormous national debt which they had
no hand in creating.-Ner York. Herald.
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aagss
ia ,,.,.r firs. men at this age.

v
While FIGHTER is winning laurels in the
great metropolis Epw1N BooTH and LESTER
WALLACE are holding their own with tena-
city and vigor. The Gothamites are trying
each in turn, and discuF-ing them with
great zeal.
1t is fortunate for the public taste that
real genius of the order of that OF these
men appears just now to elevate the pubic
taste in New York from the low ebb of vul-
raritv and RIGHTEOUSNESS in which it has
for some time foundered. Stage effect and
vice, paltering in double sense, have run
the community crazy and smartly shaken
the social virtues. If there may be re-
vival of better tastes and better morals II
will be public blessing.
Theatres will always exist; and IT is
better to undertake to improve the morality
of the stage than to wage crusade Tor lie
destruction. The former effort may no some
GOOD: the latter can only result in injury to
stage and people. The man whose influence
and liberality helps to make the theatres
decent, comfortable, and decorous, and the
representations on the stage useful Tor their
dramatic and moral worth, will do more
for society than an army OF crusaders VINO
make war upon the stage, and valniy at
tempt to destroy it.
Returning to the great stars whose pres
ence in this country is gratifying to the
true social philosophers, we would add thar
we trust they may not fail 10 make tour
Of the States. The drama has fallen much,
and needs rcsuscitation. Here in klch-
mond. where it has been proverbial lived
the best Judges of the histrionic art, ana
where formerly it was the pride of an actor
to win appreciation, we want something
GOOD and genuine to educate the. taste oil
the rising generation. Here the ei"er
BOOTH made his first appearance IN Anlc-
RIGA. and this was his favorite place. lie
used to he delighted to appear before the
Richmond audience; so we're other great
masters whom we could name gratltIed by
meeting the people Of Richmond. inc oio
critics are almost all gone, and the young
are sitting in their places. They have had
rood instruction but they need no" inc
GOOD illustration, which we have not had 1or
some wears. So we would hail with salts
faction q return of the truly great men 10
the Richmond stage.
And vet one word more Of the indlVldu-
ais above alluded 10. EDwTN BooTH we
bclieveto be really the greatest actor OF his
time. FIGHTER may surrass him IN some
particulars but in the aggregate, as per-
soniier Of passions, and more especially as
n master of clocuticn, We take 1t that
Boorn has no equal now. N1LLAcH IS
very highly-giftcd actor, but he may take
the third position without umbrage IN such
trio. Either would be welcome here.
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Aithlltu,td 4ispatth,
THURSDAY. .......JANuAhi zV' io'''
Virginia.

Aswe unprecedented, the Senate ON yester-
dow attached EpNuNns's amendment-re-
curing Virginia legislators to swear 'ha'
they arc not disqualified by the fourteenth
amendmcnt-to the House bill admitting
Virginia to representation by vote oil q
to 16. This sendsit back to the House a''er
it masses the Senate, as it now "nq"es''oh-
ablv will. The majority which passed the
hin IN tho House is Overwhelming, and will
no doubt scccpt the senate's amendment
and mature the hill promptly upon isa re-
rnrn 10 that body.
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,.rar. Wa would no. reestablish slavery

paper, We would not reestablish slavery
II we could but we may feel some corso'
lation when we remember that the pious
philanthropists who sought to set Free ana
thus bring nisery upon the objects OF sym
patty in the South, may still find oecupa-
ton in giving relief to the pale and hear'-
broken women of their own race who, ID
she dense northern communities,
"stltch, stitch stitch, ,.t. =.
In poverty, hunger, and dirt
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EVERY MAN HIS Own CLERK.-Judge
Blatchferd, of New York, has decided, in
the case of the United States against 4
wholesale liquor dealer and rectitier, that
it was the duty Of the defendant "to
make the entries himself in hid book, and
he had no right to delegate the making OF
them to any other person.
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The British consul at New York denies
having paid several millions of dollars, or
even one dollar, to the Miss Gray who was
reported to have had fortune left her in
England.
Mr.. Moncure D. Conway has delivered q
Sunday discourse in London On "The Old
in the New"
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ELECTION IN MIDDLETOwS, CoNNEcT1crr.
Middletoun, Ct, January l7.-At our city
election Yesterday the Democrats elected
their candidate for Mayor and q large ma
iority of the City Council for the first time
since 1861. They also elected their candi-
date for sheriff, assessor, collector, and all
but one Of the constables. Samuel Bah
cock (for Mayor had sixty-fye majority.
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FAITHFUL IHDEED.-Nlr. GREELEY Is H.
deed the ABDIEL Of the North on the sub
jcct of the restoration OF Virginia. 10
the last and to the letter and spirit he
stands firm. lie shows both fidelity and
craftsmanship with q zeal That shines
brightly in dark day.
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A German has discovered new kind of
printing ink, superior to any now in use.
The essential part of the discovery is that
by peculiar process the ink can be en-
tirely removed from the surface of the pa
per at a cost of fifty cents for every hum
dred pounds of printed Pc per, and the ma
terial is then ready for use again.
Ex-Secretary Seward has telegraphed
from Havana that he expects to be in New
York On or about the 25th instant. His
friends are intending to give him compli-
mentary dinner, with view of eliciting
his views of Mexican affairs.
So many of tile citizens of Peoria get
discouraged before they reach home in. the
evening that local paper suggests the
equipment of the police force with wheel
barrows instead of clubs. -
Some of the Cincinnatians grumble be.
cause General Breckenridge has been en-
ployed as counsel for them in the matter OF
obtaining railroad charter from the Ken
lucky Legislature.
The Mechanics Bank of New York has
been yictimized with an altered check from
$50 to Sl0,O6l, certified after it was altered
and sold to broker in Wall street.
There are three daily newspapers pub
lished in Calcutta.
Florida is receiving its winter population
of consumptives.
Texas cattle have quadrupled in number
since the war.
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MI SPECIAL NOTICE.-By the with
dr&wal Of NJ. y. PIZZIEL our capisal las been
decreased and it admits no longer endless credit
to some and long credits to other OF our patrons.
We are under the necessity OF carrying on CASH
BUSINESS rs far can, and earnestly re-
quest those iadcbted TO lis To pay up promptly on
presentation OF their accounts.
il ls--lW ANDREW PlLLiSl * 90.
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HdEEEESES.

NTOTICE.-Thc adjourned annual meet
" ing Of the stockholders Of the MA NCfIES-
TER COTTON AND WOOL NANUFACTU-
RING COMPANY will lie held at tnr rilicc "f the
Richmond and Petersburg itHlrU:s' Company on
10Th Of January. n II O'Clock. A
tull attendance is desired either in person or by
proxy. WILLIAM II. row l:RS,
In IL I'D Agent
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DEPLoEABLE CONDITION IN SOUTH CARO-
LINA.-Ihe following is m extract from a
letter to q gentleman in Baltimore. The
writer is one of the most estimable gentle
men in South Carolina. 1t is dated Janu-
airy IS, 1870:
"What is to become Of this POOR State no
body can do more than conjecture. You
have perhaps not known that, at the end of
the war, the old bank bills brought some
ten cents on the dollar. l mean the bank
of the State. l had good many of them,
and was glad to get that. Governor Scott
and his friends bought up all these bills,
then got the negro Legislature to redeem
them by State bonds at par, and soon after
to enact that these bonds, principal and
interest, shall be paid in gold. And so it
is in everything. Five or ten dollars will
buy, l hear, any vote in the Legislature for
anything. They sit for months, instead of
weeks as formerly, and vote themselves six
dollars day, instead of three, as before"
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Prince Arthur is to reach Washington
next Saturday.
A Washington telegram in the New York
World says that Butler has pr0fesscd his
readiness to 60 for Bingham's bill provided
they would put on Morton's preamble re-
citing the action of Virginia on the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments, and also
Willey's amendment, which provides that
each member Of the Legislature shall take
an oath in the words of the third section OF
the fourteenth amendment.
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The Pay Department has issued on order
instructing paymasters of the army not to
deduct the income tax from the salaries Of
the officers of the army, as, under the OPT
Mon Of the Judge Advocate General, no
such tax is operative now on incomes de-
rived during 1870.
Commissioner Delano has made deci-
sion directly in the face of the above.l
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MARRIED,

On tho seth ultlino. at tn" Third Eaptist church,
by the Rev. j. +. .lcier, ar. FFNEi M1ETEt
to Miss JOSEPHINE CAILE1T: both Of this
city.
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EalR SAEL.

TO CAP1TALISTS.-'f advertiser Of
4 fcrs for sale the TIiR&EE $UHMARiNE
LIFT Err, now III the port Of Rcnuo"a. II Is ac-
the most powerful liter yet Invented
having successfully raisrdth- United states frigatc
1T Norfolk. wei! ts other heavy
ITS. The whole affair (2IACliIN:.lI. BhRGl.S.
md PATEST.) will be disposed OF ~ very low
ate Parties wishing to purchas" wi:l please call
III OF address -
WILLIAM IT. MCCORMICK,
9lO Cary street, kicsn!ond. Va,
ia oD-rnd3t$ mp stairs.
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PROPOSALS..

H.
CHESAPEAKE AND Only ~ ~,
" ROAD-NoTICE TO CoNI Ky y: ~. T.st.
Sealed proposals will he receiErl "a, "a y VI
ncpr's 0llicc at Charleston, w. ~ .vU",%r> .I
March /. 1870. for the G,tADCArlnH;,,"'nt,, - "a
and the SUPERSrkUtTuRto s D hssr,q., ihe
the Chesapeake and Ohio r2iiroaa " i,ri.t.ss
Falls OF Kanawha aad the Ohio r.F''I, r., UF
THREE MILLIONS Ct3ic1 AEIr.~A<D
EXCAVATION, and SEsENii
CUBIC YARDS OF MASOHEl .h,n,rt ~.
Also, Ut the Engineer ottcc a. sI nv ,tc.
until II II. March 10, ts7o Tor seer .'S6Iz es
lions east OF the Fails OF hanaHAa. ~ ~. ylie;
unfinished work near M!nboro, Iuu -" - {. "a.
miles cast of the White Sulphur spring <l lt,..
Bend tunnel 600 feet; Lewis tIthf' inn.; >vye.
1--we other tunnels from 50 To gy teSE SO .ub.;
raj sections In rock. cutting; ana "0"''
yards OF masonry. -, ha found j. ~
office OF rhe company, u Nii.laIEah arriss.nn "
York; .tt Richrc ond, Va ana - -. c1r,n4ny.
Va, on and after JANUARY 10. ls'V. u III tg,r lids
reserves the right u reject any 90 OF ISr r..
offered an, 10 make private con'i"'''
work. ,u,.,t ven u The
Information as 10 ,imc. etc., Ti'i o. srSI H. D.
letting. For further information ~ ar 20
Whlteomb, Chief engineer, Rictnom% rr,eiacyt.
w A. KuDar Principa! Assistant H@s
Charleston, West Virginia. .r,~croS.
President Chesapeake an
Ohio Railroad CompaH!'
Il ls--daw& t2tawtMarchlo -----.
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EOR SALE, 4 BOX OF MAHOGANY
e NEEEERS. ahout $50 feet, all Si2cs, both
crotch and shaded veneer. Apply corner Frank
lin and Eighteenth streets. No. u. ia ls-r*
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ngI. d. BRIGGS, RICHMOND BA-

GY- ]. d. BRIGGS, RICHMOND BA-
kEHIES. T07 MAIN AND I2G BROAD STREET,
STILL GREATER REDUCTION IN PRICES!
Merchants, Il IS TO your interest to buy Richmond
made Crackers and Cakes, where you can always
find them fresh and as good not better than those
superior $50 called uorthern-made crackers and
cakes. You can get them rs cheap, II not cheaper;
you get them as good, If not better; you can
always get them fresh. Look ut the list Of prices :
Wholesale. Retail.
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Foreign Nsus.
EHGnATDs

Loypor:. January 18.--In consequence W "
tba disastrous effects Of the recent petro.-
leum fire in this city, merchants. are ds ~
sing means for the safe storage Oh coal oasi
and various plans are on loot 1or lhPio'sA
warehouses.
p.p1s. January 1s.-During q demonsfra-
4;or 10 st night on the Boulevard Moutmarlfe
bv tbe friends of Rochefort the croWo was
Sy;snarsed nv the military without q con-
a;ot ond The boulevard was occupied by
ths troons till after o'clock this morning.
Tic nolice we're also very active oil night.
There was considerable disorder, and many
arrests we're made. At this hour Il ~ +.
NJ the city is quiet.
Raspaii, one Of the Deputies in the Corps
Lerislatif, died this morning.
PANS, January 18.-The Corps Legisla-
+;f held an animated session to-day. There
wos m acrimonious discussion between
Minister Olivier and Deputy Gambetta.
The latter, in the course of his personal at
tack, declared that the Minister was the
last person to speak to any one OF con-
science, as his own was most supple ana
changeable. This caused great agitation
in the chamber, and the Deputy was called
to order. Later in the debate M Gam
BETA INDUCED in another attack ON the
Minister, when the Deputy exclaimed, Z" 1
recall the gentleman to ORDER Gambatta
replied. And recall the Minister to the
sense of himself" A scene of violent eIt
element followed this passage, and the pro-
ceedings we're interrupted for some minutes.
Az eoon as order was restored the discus
sion was dropped, and other questions were
taken. up.
1t is reported that Populations from other
cities are coming here to attend the funeral
of Raspail. Fears of disorder are enter
tanned.
Traupmann, the murderer of the Kinck
family, will be executed tomorrow.
SPAIN. ..--
MADRID, January 18.-The Spanish
bishops attending the Council at Rome have
united in protest against the authorlza-
ton in Spain of civil marriages.
PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, January 1S.-The relations be-
tween Bismarck and Burlingame are Of the
closest and most cordial character. They
have frequent conferences, and there is
good reason to believe that treaty with
China has been adjusted on most satisfac-
tory terms.
LONDON, January 1S.-Letters from Rome
say the American bishops object to the de-
claration of the dogma of infallibili'y on
the ground that it will tend to check prose-
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PRUSSIA

LONDON, January lS.-Letters from Rome
say the American bishops object to the de-
claration of the dogma of infallibility on
the ground that it will tend to check prose-
lytism among the Protestants.
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POLITICAL D1sAB1LITIEs.-The Recon
struction Committee, at their meeting Tues
dav, had up the question Of the practical
bility of passing general law vesting the
power of Congress to remove political disa-
bilities imposed by the fourteenth amend
ment in the United States district courts
of the southern States. A general discus
sion of the matter raised many legal points,
among which was whether Congress has the
power to pass by two-thirds vote general
amnesty law. This did not meet with favor:
especially among the southern members OF
the committee, who opposed any general
amnesty at the present time; but the chair
man of the committee, General Butler, was
requested to prepare the details of bill To-
eating the congressional power of pardon in
the federal courts, with such limitations as
will require each applicant for amnesty to
make out good case before the district
Judge. The committee, at their next meet
ing, will decide whether they shall report
such a Observation-Disclosures telegram.
Baltimore Sun.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Il RsstsrEREp LETTERS AND MONEY Or
DERs.-- Washing ton, January ls.--Among
the recommendations submitted by the
pogtmasters lately in consultation here are
the following In favor of reduction OF
the registration fee for letters from Is to 8
cents. reduction of charges to B cents on
money orders not above $40 in amount.
The Department is advised TO urge the
public to use these means of Transmission,
and especially that attention be called 10
the ease with which lost or missent letters
or packages, when registered, may De
traced; also to the certainty and safety Of
the money-order system, discouraging, as
far as possible, the transmission OF money
and valuable papers by ordinary letters.
Letter. Carrier Systen.-Thcy propose
to divide the carrier Offices into three
classes, according to population OF the
cities-viz., first class, 100,0 900 inhabitants
and UPWARDS; second class, between 50,ooo
and 100 900 third class, $4,000 and below
that carriers in cities of the first class 10
have $500 when appointed, and at tne "a
niration of six months service should oe
COMPENSATED at 5000, and at the expiration
If the next succeeding six months 81 ,ooo'
Carriers in cities of the second class to De
Amounted st 500, and at the expiration oil
six months service raised to $500, ana al
the expiration of the next succeeding fgsa SIX
months to 5000 per annum. Finally, leeis-
lation is recommended providing 'hat ho
letter carrier shall be removed from ONCE
except upon specific charges OF misoe-
havior, incompetency, or on his oe1ec1 i IL
the violation of the postal laWs.-h oS"-
;n0ton Recommendations Sun.
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WHAT BUTLER WANTs.-A Washington
telegram in the Baltimore Sun says thas
the unconditional bill of the House Will no"
fnil to pass the Senate without amendment:
indeed. General Butler seemed so confident
If this that he proposed at the meeting OF
The Reconstruction Committee this morning
that the committee should informally vote
to accent the amendment proposed in the
Senate By Mr.. Wiley, so that when the Sc,
note returned the House bill thus amended
the committee would be prepared to recon-
mend concurrence by the House, but ma
ioritv of the committee secuted such prema-
turc action, and General Butler did not
nress his point.