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SAFETY AND STRENGTH.
The New Banking House of the Trades
mems National Bank.

IHe NO" DHuhiuN-tNobse Ot tuo IfHuos-
mems National Bauk.
The Tradesmen's National Bank take pos
session of their new building at No. 113 South
Third street to-day. This structure, which is
one of the finest in the city, covers lot thirty
two by fifty feet. The granite quarries at Hal
lowell, Maine, supplied the material for the
construction of the 'front.' Immediately over
the door huge, handsomely sculptured block of
granite projects. This is supported by highly
polished Aberdeen granite columns while two
obloDg tablets of the same material on either
side of the entrance give O pleasing effect to
the eye. The windows are sixteen feet in
height, three feet six inches in width, and are
composed of one sheet of plate glass.
The interior of the building, the whole of
which is devoted to the purposes of q banking
room, has a height of thirty-five feet, width
of thirty feet, and depth of forty feet.
large skylight, seventeen by twenty-three feet
furnishes the light to this apartment. The
floor is covered with tiles in black and white
marble, while the walls and ceilings are painted
in imitation of mosaic, giving to the apartment
an unusually handsome appearance. The desks
and other inside woodwork are of oak and ash.
The vestbue is constructed of hard wood,
highly polished and oiled. The private apart
ments for the President, Charles H. Rogers,
Esq, and Cashier, John Cashier, are in the
rear of the banking room, and are models of
neatness and comfort
The fire. proof vault is of itself sight, being
of great strength, and surpassed by none in
this city. The sides, top, and bottom are of
iron bolts. Inside of this is burglar-proof
safe, the materials of which is franklinite and
steel of thickness of four inches. This safe has
TWO double locks. Inside of this is another
safe of a thickness of Swo and half inches,
also with two double locks The strength of
the safe and the other arrangements made by
the bank are a guarantee of the safety of the
funds deposited in its vault.
One of the most noticeable features of this
building is the elegant frescoing of the interior.
The curve of the ceiling is in blue, with classic
arabesques in yellow, and is bordered with ele-
CANT patterns in different colors. The walls are
neatly painted in q soft dove color, and are
divided into panels by blue borders filled with
an elegant pattern in yellow. These decorations
are unusually chaste and elegant, the various
patterns being in the best style of Greek decora-
tive art. The general effect of the interior is
exceedingly rich, while there is nothing gaudy
or extravagant in the colors which cover the
walls and ceilings. 1t can be said, without eX-
aggeration, that both externally and internally
the Tradesmen' Bank is one of the most beauti-
ful structures of the kind in this country.
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Philadelphia Trade Keporr.

"WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1.-Bark-In the absence OF
sales we quote No. Querctron at $50 D ton.
Seeds-The receipts Of Cloverseed are tri1ng aud
it meets with q fair demand at 10%9ll4c g pound.
Timothy is nominal at S626. FlaXseed is wanted
by the cIushers at &210.
TT ere is firm feeling in the Flour market but not
much activity The demand is mostly from the
home consumers, whose purchases foot up 700 bar
rels, including supertine at $595'50; extras at
s57b@625; Wisconsin and Minnesota extra family
at s797T5; 500 barrels Quaker City Mills on private
terms; Pennsylvania extra family at s6'25@T &;
Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio DIDO. at s6T597'76 and
fancy brands at ss@9'50. Rye Flour may be quoted
at S525@5'50. In Corn Meal no sales were reported.
The Wheat market is quiet but holders or prime
are not disposed to make concessions. Sales OF
Indiana red at sl5S@l 80; Pennsylvania and Ohio
do. at Sl'4508t'60; and amber and white at 81 100
S5. Rye is held at 95@97c. for Western and Penn
sylvana. Corn is quiet at former rates. Sales OF
200O bushels at s0@S2c for yellow, and T6@SOc for
Western mixed. Oats are unchanged. Sales OF
Western aud Pennsylvania at $4,000. In Barley
and Malt no sales were eported.
whisky is quiet aud may be quoted at 94c. for
Western IRON hound
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.


HARRISBURG Feb. The Senate bill prohibiting the
Germantown Passenger Railway Company from sailing
snaiiy "'A was i'pO''eN rum ''"'"'''e @0o pSsSso
MT Bucs.lev presented .suppo%ensal from the
which was ordered to be published with the petition snd
On motion Of mr. Buckalsw the committee in the
On Of Mr. Davis 5000 copies of the petition and
rePerts were ordered to be printed in pamphlet form
nal reported that the Postmastsr Of HsTrs6aTg had
Journal could be sent by mail al the ratio Of prepaiS
newspaper and NEGATIVE answer had been received
each Senator nat make out list Of % whom he
Mr. White said he had written to Washington to e1-
soon In the meantime he offered resolution authorz.
$1,000 and q the House for 5000 for the pSrShSse iS Of
e the ss 5s 10 Of sss
at the end of the month
House concur the for the publication Jour
nal be reseinded, which amendment was ruled out Of
The subject was finally postponed.
Of the bill creating additiona % Law Judge il sSsgykill
presented, one supplement- to the Criminal court bill
and the other the Assistant Law Judge bill BY mutual
would become laws both allowed 70 but subse
Mr.. Randall had a letter read written by Mr. f. W.
hughes showing the necessity Of having smother Judge
the ext ent OF the business.
the people the district might their legal
promptly attended to. uou.o
bill to exempt certain odd-Feows' Hall in the in
member from any locality was competent TO decide upon
for his acts Hs IN favor OF eEemptne
his positonSwas controyerted by Messrs. Marshall
Mann, Hail. who said that all these special exomp.
The dissussion continued at senEth ard took wide
range the se0 whether Odd Esoyhp
assSeiqsiOn Of men for 1. mutual % interest;
The Rons 70
AM6gh Ds IssaT JssPhs
voting ainst the bill were Messrs Elliott and Marshall
Absent not voting, Messrs Oloud,Dumbell, johnson,
On NOTCH of Mr. Elliott 5000 copies of tho Auditor
bill was introduced by Mr. Warner, authorizing the
yania and the sale OF the at cost viz three dol
Ell The G bill us'r was referred to a committee.
Mr. Ellis, from tie Printing Committee, offered bill
by mail to such persons the members may select
Nh the s Ssss ,o sSsursT to pay he
Mr. Moore said the members already received 300 for
postage and ought to use their money.
Of Ss. the
that they & would be entirely M willing to pay the pEstsSs
hSst IohmsOn JGssghs LSm0n Marshall
The one voting $ no was Haser Absent or mot voting
Mr.. johnson offered resolution to appoint a joint
committee OF six to superintend the printing of the
Messrs Renoehi. Miller and others thought the mat
son. to the aston s6ment Of the House. presented com
yssgsF' ss: in 1858 had been and in 1863 had been
MI. Miller immediately withdrew all opposition and
Mr., Reinoehl said he desired to threw the sponge.
M S@t on PPsaaspS apa Mr. Marshall
resolution authorizing the members of the Board OF
be Hnse " beSe napers Il is sS ere sent to th
House by General Sne President Of the board without
Mr. smith Of Philadelphia ndorsed the character aud
labors of the members of the board except the Pre-
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xRaAE INTELETanNCu.
scandai-The Robbins Divsrce Case.

Court ef Common Pleas--~Jttdge Peirce.
The Robbins divorce case is still being ventilated
to the delectaon OF large and picked audience OF
gentlemen out OF employment, gentlemen of the
bar who have few spare moments to devote to re-
creation Of body and mind, and young gentlemen OF
no particular class, but who have not vet reached
the age OF discretion.
vice attracts large and more persistent attend
ance Of persons who claim to be intelligent than
would the most edifyihg moral entertainment given
at the same prfce-the loss OF dinner the greatest
squeeze and discomfort, and the inhalation of the
most disgusting and poisonous atmosphere imagi-
nable Judge Peirce remarked that the effect OF the
air OF this room upon him yesterday was make him
dizzy, weak and almost unable TO walk.
Ex-Polce Sergeant William II. Johnson Being
Mrs. Robbins said to have visited were houses
OF bad repute.
James C. Allen testfed-That in the fall OF 1854
Mrs Robbins called at his furniture store, in Ches
nut street, near Twelfth corroboIating John Ridley.
William X. Robbins, a brother OF the libellant,
testified that he present at the separation Mrs.
Robbins before leaving the house, knelt before her
husband and said, "Charley, know have done
wrong and ask your forgiveness; !" he told her TO
get up and she then said, "Charley, want some
money to buy a bonnet: Iswi be shame-faced
enough, ana want TO get it now, 80 that won't
have to come to the city for it," he said 1t
time or place to talk OF such things, and told her to
go, and she then left in the carriage.
Emma Robbins. sister OF the nOellant testified
that on the day of the separation the respondent
came TO her house, No. 1873 Vine street, and told
around the neck OF MIR. Robbins mother and said
that she had taken her advice this sad thing
would have occurred.
The case is yet on trial.
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THIRD EDITION
MATTERS AT WASHINGTON.
First Speech ofa Colored M. g.
Proceedings of Congress
A Spicy Scene in the House.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Radical Recoustruotlon Of the Onblno,

Radical RocOustructlon of the Cabinet.
Special Despatch 20 The EveBtr,g Telegraph
WASHINGTON, Feb. IA number OF leading men
OF the Republican party from different sections OF
the country have called the Presidents attention to
the Importance OF a reconstruction of his Cabinet.
10 is believed that the President now satisfied that
a change in the personnel OF his administration is
perty. IL is probable that by the 4th OF March
MessTe. Fish, Robson, Oreswell, Akerman, Bout
well and Belknap viii give place to other and
popular men. MIR. Delano is perhaps the only mem
Der OF the present Cabinet who will be retained.
The impeachment Committee now trying
Governor Holden of North Carolina,
has subpRnaed Senators Abbott and Poole, and
Represen tative Dockery witnesses. They yester-
day notified the court that II it choose take their
0epositiOns, they willing to testify, otherwise
they would avail themselves OF their rights as men,
bers of Congress, and refuse to attend.
The New York and Boston Post Omces.
Secretary Boutwell, has addressed letter to the
Appropriation Committee asking for an additional
appropriation for continuing the work on the New
York and Boston Post once buildings. While the
committee is opposed to giving any money at pre-
sent for the erection OF new public buildings, they
will appropriate small sum to continue the work
already commenced in New York and Boston.
Pacific Railroad Interest.
The committees having before them the bill rela-
tive to the payment of interest due the Govern
ment by the Pacific Railroads have taken no action
as yet
Jef. C. Long,
The New Negro Member,
from the State OF Georgia. made his first speech in
the HoEse to-day, against the repeal Of the test
oath. Negro members being a novelty in the
House, Long was listened to with great attention.
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ASSUMING ANoTHER's NAME On Monday we
gave an account of sundry robberies, for the
supposed perpetraton of which q number of
persons residing in building at the corner of
Girard avenue and Sartain street we're taken
into custody. One of these gave the name of
Kate Moreste, but we have received the follow
ing note which shows that the culprit endea-
vored to hide her identity by an assumed name:
'In Mondays issue of THE TELEGRAPH saw a
notice Of woman who gave her name as Kate Mo-
reste, alias Kate Williams, who was arrested in
company with several Others on the charge OF shop
lifting, etc This notice has injured me very much,
as she gave my name and business and stated
that she. played in concert saloon on Chestnut
street.
II wish to state that there is no lady in this city
bearing my name except myself. In Justice to me,
wish You to be so Kind as to contradict the state
ment referred to, as 1 am respectable girl and
always have been respected by every one, both In
and out OF the profession. l defy any one to say
anything to the contrary. would also state that
reside home With my father and mother:
'KATR MORESTE.n
THE COAL TONNAGE OF the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad and branches for the week ending
Saturday, January %, 1871, was as follews:-
BY RAILROAD.
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BALTIhoRB, Feb. 1.--Cotton quiet and weak and
nominal; middling upland, 15C9l5Ac low middling,
14s1c. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat quiet
ana steady: fair to good red, s1'6o@l s5 Ohio and
Indiana, slG0@1'65; other grades unchanged.
ern quiet and steady at s3c. Oats dull. Rye easier
Mess pork firm at S23. Bacon firm and scarce; rib
sides, 12Ac.; clear rib 12slc; shoulders, 1O1l@
1O9lc. Hams 16@lSc. Lard, 13c. Whisky quiet at
9bG96c.
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THE CITY'S GROWTH.
Number of Building Permits Issued.

During the month of January just closed there
were 1870 permits issued by the Building Inspec-
tors, as follows-Dwelings, three-story, 49,
dwellings, two-story, 109; bake-house, 1; ice
house, /; shops, 6; clearinghouse, 1; Office Il
stable Il factory l; sheds, 3; stores, 3; aud
alterations and additions, a.
During the month two dangerous and ten
wooden buildings were ordered to be taken
down.
In the following is given a comparison of the
number of permits issued during the month and
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Passing over Main Line and
Iahanon Wollav and Eaat

THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF PENEsYL-
vANIA.-The regular meeting of the Agricultural
Society of Pennsylvania was held at noon to-day
in the rooms of the society, Ninth and Walnut
Streets the President In the chair.
The Auditing Committee reported that the
treasurers account had been found correct.
Reports were received from various parts of
the country stating that several new cheese
factories had been started lately by farmers,
and that the owners intend to go into the cheese
business to some extent.
motion was made by Mr.. Ingersoll asking
the manufacturers of butter to send specimens
of the article to the next meeting of the society,"
and that at that meeting a committee be APP
pointed to judge of its excellence. This was
agreed to.
A communication was received from q mem
ber of the Pathological Society giving a state
ment of what has been done towards establish
ing State commissioner of agriculture.
Other business of minor importance was
transacted, after which the society adjourned.
THE ELECTION To-DAY.-Tc-day the citizens
of the Seventeenth Representative district are
balloting for Representative to serve during
the uneXpired term of the Hon. Joseph A.
Campbell lately deceased. The candidates are
G. Howard Griffith, Republican, and Henry w.
Dittmau, Democrat. The election progresses
quietly, and up to the present hour no official
returns have been received by us.
ARRESTED ON SUsPIcIoN.-OfIice Carrigan
of the Fifth district, yesterday observed a
colored man, giving the name of John Powell,
acting in q suspicious manner in the lower sec
tion of the city. He had in his possession a
handsome set of harness and lap robe, which
the policen an believing to have been stolen, led
| him to make the arrest. Powell will have a
hearing at the Central Station this afternoon.
In A BAD CoNDITIoN.-The building at pres
| ent occupied by the Delaware Harbor Police
force is in shocking condition. The root is
| badly in need of repair as the water runs down
into the sleeping quarters of the men. This
| should be remedied at once, as probably no
force in the city police render such effective
| service as this command.
LoDGRRs.-During the storm of last night 1877
dodgers found shelter in the Third District Sta
| tion House and 40 in the Fifth district.
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The highest point attained in January, 1870,
was 70 degrees, while the highest point during
the month just closed was Ga deg, which ex-
ceeded every marking of the previous January
except that of the one day when the thermome
ter rose to 20 deg. Since 1861 there has not
been another occasion on which higher mark
ing than GA deg. is shown. But we are required
to 90 back to 1861 before we come to January
in which the lowest point of the past month is
equalled, when we find the minimum for the
month to have been l deg. below zero, that of
January, 1871 having been z deg. above zero.
The wide range of 81 deg, however, has served
to counteract the unusual cold which prevailed
for few days, and to render the mean
temperature of the month 31'30 deg, or
but five-hundredths OF a degree below the
average since $780, and only thirtY-eight hun
dredths of degree below the average since
1926 The temperature of the month just closed
was therefore more remarkable for running to
the two extremes than for remaining long at
either. Yet the extremely cold weather was
unusually severe while it lasted. Beginning on
the 22d, it lasted until the Goth, the mean tenn
peratuTe of the eight days being but 2l'69 deg,
or 6S deg. below the mean of January, 1851
the lowest on record. In many sections of the
city, the thermometer fell somewhat below the
minimum of that at the Pennsylvania Hospital
during the severely cold week with which we
were recently afflicted. The following gives
the standing of the thermometer at the Mer-
chants Exchange during the eight cold days -
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Mr. Porter-You had better try it, That is all
M Patt in the mid SO Of much noise and confusion,
the Speakers gavel hammerng the desk repea edlv
tempted TO make himself heard in reply but his voice
was DR. owned in the din He understood 20 how
ever, that he had proved his the battlefield
Wyck) did.
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MEETING OF THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE
ASSOCIATION was held this morning at the
Chamber of Commerce building, when Mr.. c.
j. Hoffman, who occupied the chair, announced
the result OF yesterdays election. A resolution
was unanimously adopted thanking Mr. Nathan
Brooke, the retiring President of the Board of
Managers, for the very faithful and satisfactory
manner in which he discharged the duties of
that position during the past year. At the close
appropriate addresses were made by Nathan
Brooke, Esq, and Seth j. Comfy, Esq, the
President-elect.
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BoARpING-HoUsE THIEF.-On Tuesday last
Young man, giving the name of Watson, took
board at No. 30l 8. Eighth street. About 6
o'clock last evening he left suddenly, taking
with him two coats, two pairs of pants, vest,
and from Sl5 to $50 in money belonging to
other boarders in the House. He is described
as being about five feet four inches in height,
from eiphteen to twenty years of age, smooth
faced, black curly hair, and was dressed in a
short sack-coat and light pants, with dark
stripe.
ELECTION RETURNs.-The following returns
from the Seventeenth Representative district
show the vote as known up to the present time:
-Nineteenth ward, Dittman CD, 10 majority:
Twenty-third ward Qour divisions TO be heard
FROM Griffith (R.), 50 majority.
HOUSE RoBBERY.-Last evening, while the
family of Mr.. III. A. Brown, residing al No. l20
N. Tenth street, were at tea, their dwelling was
entered by means of back second-stOry window.
and lot of wearing apparel and bed-clOthing
were stolen.
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BEATEN WITH BLAcKJACKs.-An individual
named John Whalen was set upon last night at
Sixth and st. Mary streets by William Finley
(white) and William RockaWay (colored). By
the free use of blackjacks the scoundrels beat
him nearly to insensibility. Attracted by the
cries of Whalen, Officer German, of the Fifth
district appeared upon the scene and arrested
his assailants. Alderman Morrow committed
them for trial.
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POLICE ARRESTS DURING JANUARY.-The
Following table shows the number of arrests
made by the police during the month of January:
FINANCE AND co mMERCE.
EvENINe TELEGRAPH OFFICE !

wednesday, Feb l, 1874.
The month opens on an easy and rather quiet
market, though the amount of business trans
acted is fully up to the average at this period.
There Is fair supply of funds, especially of
national currency, both at the banks and in the
hands OF private lenders, and there is evidently
a disposition on the part of the latter to ex-
pand to the extent of their ability. This indi-
Gates confidence in the future of the market.
and If continued, will greatly facilitate opera
tions at the regular opening of the spring trade.
Call loans are very quiet but steady at 51SCO61S
per cent. Choice business paper is in demand,
and rates rather In favor of borrowers.
Gold is active, both on business and specula-
tive account and the market is firm at a range
of 1111s@11lS, closing at the latter. The Gov
ernment bond market continues active and
strong at slight advance on yesterdays clos
ing prices.
AT the Stock Board q moderate business was
transacted, and prices were barely maintained.
Sales of city 6s, new, at 1917, and issues prior
to 1862 at 102.
Reading Railroad changed hands at 40 1-160
493s; Pennsylvania at 62@641s; Lehigh Valley
at Co.'s Minehill at 51%; and Oil Creek and
Allegheny at 4615.
Canal shares were dull, the only transactions
being in Lehigh, which declined to 3331 CG331S
Bank shares were In demand. Sales of mau-
ufacturers' at 30; Philadelphia at 160; and Com
monwealth at SIS.
few shares of st. Nicholas Coal stock
changed hands at %.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Renorted nv De Haven ~ Rro NO A0G Third atreat
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FROM THE WEST.
Arkansns l.egIsIatIon.

MEMPHIS, Feb. IA Little Rock special SAYS the
name OF Brooks was stricken from the rolls of the
Senate yesterday by vote of Ia to and his creden-
tals were subsequently referred to the Committee
on Credentials. In the House articles of impeach-
meDt against Lieut.. Governor Johnson were in
definitely POSTPONED by a vote of As to 30
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FROM THE DOMINION.
Death ot Hon Johu Ross

TORONTO, Feb 1.-.Hon. John Ross member OF
the Dominion Senate, died at his residence near
Toronto yesterday. Mr.. Ross President OF the
Grand Trunk Railway for ten years, and prom-
nent politician and member of several aovernme ents
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IUIHI NO. UI FIbCt5. I,oI6,4IU FOOI, I55 70
MEssRs. DE- HAVEN BROTHER No. ~ s. Third
street. Philadelphia, report the following quotations:
u. s. 6s OF 1881, 113 91l34; do. 1852 1tO1G9l1O&;
do. 1854, llO@11O4 do. 1866 l09zS@l10S do. 1860,
new, 1Oe5S@1O9A; do 1867. do. lO99lO9!4; do 1868,
do. iO91S @1093s 1040s 1O97s@1O9X. u. S. 80 Year
per cent Currency, 111ks1l14; Gold, 1l1A@
my; Silver, l059l0I; Union Paclnc Railroad
slO9920: Union Pacific Land Grant Bonds. 680a70O.
NARR d LADEER, Brokers, report this morning
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GITK1NTHLLIsnNCR "a.
JANUARY WEATHER.

The MeteorolosIcRl Record Of the Month, aud
Its sPeculiaritles-Extremes Of Heat and Gold
and an Unusual Fall Of snow.
While January of 1870 was the warmest Janu-
Ary on record since $780, the mean temperature
of the month which has just closed fell a little
below the average. The following gives the
maximum and minimum standing of the ther-
mometer on each day of the month, and also
ing to the record at the Pennsylvania Hospital:
Mar. Ba. "a. M
(deg) (deg.) (deg) Remarks
/. s9'b.. 20. .s1. Morning and evening clear;