W&t ?j)?ilt?t0m Jails jfefeg, VOLUME X.-NUMBER 2179. ' CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1873. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR7 WHAT IS SAID IN ENGLAND. OUBSELVES AS OTHERS SEE VS. A Liberal Englinh Journal on tho Credit Mobilier Disclosures-Tue Corruption of American Congressmen Serving in Europe as an Argument in Favor of Qstrta. [From tlie London Spectator, February 22.] Nothing can be more disheartening io Radi cala, or indeed to any men who believe in ^* self-government, than the revelations o? cor? ruption recently reported from the United States, and yet we appear to discern among them one gleam of light. A belier lo the cor? ruptibility of American pol'.!?clans has ol late years been very widely spread in Europe, per? haps unduly spread, but until this month lt was corrected by an impression that the Sen? ate, ai all events, was pure. That body was not elected by a Democracy, but by the ?lite of the people, the State legislatures; lt was tined by men of a different stamp from the repre? sentatives, and lt had a long tradition ol honor. Its members might "Job" as British ministers have Jobbed, but the snort tenure ol American office might account for i bat, aud after all some one must recommend for locul appointments; but there was a belief that they would not betray their truBTfor money. The revelations tn the American Credit Mo? bilier case and the Pomeroy case show, how? ever, that this belief was Ill-founded; that the position ol senator, the h'ghest In the Union next to the President's, la sometimes bought and sold; that the Legislatures which elect the Senate may be corrupted; and tbat lu the Senate Itself there exist men whose votes can be regularly purchased for a moderate sum of money. Without going Into unproved scandals, there seems to be no doubt what? ever that certain managers of the Pacific Billroad formed a Ring; that under the title of the Credit Mobilier they sold tc them selves concessions made by Congress to the Pacific Railroad; that they resold the?e concessions at enormous profit-witnesses talk ot divi? dends ot 1500 per cent; that tney were ar? raigned In Congress, and that they gave shares-that ls, money-In amounts nt about * ?1000 to senators tor protection. How many senators are Implicated lt ls Impossible to say. but it Is certain that three at least are j held by opinion to be guilty. Including Mr. Schuyler Colfax, the vice-President, who avers that he can make a lull defence, but wbo has only escaped impeachment by three votes. It is certain also that "lobbying," i.e., THS PRACTICE OF CARRYING BILLS BT BRIBERY, bas reached the Senate, that several men have grown rieb lhere without cause, and that one man. Mr. Pomeroy, of Kansas, has been convicted of buying his seal, In order, as every one admits, io sell its powers. The revelations are of the most frank character, and though ibey do not cover a majority of | the Senate, or any thine like lr, ikey do cover names heretofore generally respected. Anything more disheartening could scarcely be conceived. If ademooracy itself uncorrupi cannot find or does not care to find repr?sen? tatives who, after a double winnowing are commonly "law honest," will abs'ain from actual bribes or actual plundering of the State lill, Democracy Is dead before it has well been born. No Slate can loug survive pecuniary corruption in Its rulers. They may urge, as we believe Americans do urge, that, they do not sell their countrymen; that an anti-natlooal vote cannot be bought; that they only receive gratideations for votes on indifferent matters, or lhat at worst they only traffic In concessions, bm all that Is delusive. The men who sell conces? sions wilt sell . contracts, and in our modern civil (tulon the very life ol. a nation may de? pend upon contraer? being honestly perl orin? ec?, upon ship rivets, and soldiers* boole, and the quality of powder; and the step from fur- j nianing boots of paper to betraying an expe? dition io very* abort Indeed-how short we may discover from any Hie of the first Duke-] of Marlborough. When once such a practice becomes general, the work ol legislation I? sure io fall to men who make a trade ol' it; | who, profiting by their work, attend lo lt and make a monopoly of lt; and the control ol' a | great country mav be abandoned, as the con? trol of the great City of New Tork was aban? doned to a regular Ring, whose almost avow-1 ed object is the plunder of ihe people. The Ring did not govern New Tork well, but bad? ly, its ultimate Interest being not only h lc h prices, but scamped work; und a Ring, lt il obtained control ol the Union, would not govern well either, but as badly as Frauce was governed in the later years or Napoleon. We do not hesitate lo say that, immensely powerful as the Union 19, and splendid fight? ers as the Americans are, It her resources iel i into the bands ot men like the New York Bing, she would in her next campaign be de? feated by Bea and land, If only through cor? ruption amoog her contractors. The vice ls fatal, and if lt spreads only a lillie more, we .ball yet see TBE TALL OT THE MIGHTY AMERICAN REPUBLIC, and of the brightest hopes of the race now covering'he globe. There ls uo conceivable reason why Australians should swindle less than Americans, or why Englishmen under the same conditions should be belter than either, and ali good or far-sighted men weld give np the Democratic cause as a hopeless J fallacy. However, as we said, with the intelligence comes also a gleam of light. The real difficulty In 8indying this problem ot corruption IB to understand why the people bear it, to decide whether the electors acquiesce In their sale by their representatives. If they do, the struggle ls over; but if they do not, all may be redeemed. A nation may fail Inti; the hands o?a corrupt class as into the nandi of a cor? rupt king, and yet remain Itself uncorrupted. That certainly happened in England under - Charles II, when klog, courtiers and states? men alike accepted bribes which the electo? rate would have rejected with contemptuous scorn; and under walpole, when peers apolo? gized for rejecting bribes which tailors would have thrown in the laces ot those who offered them. We see some taint reason io believe that this Is the case alBo In America, a jd t hat the ultimate cause of the popular toleration for corruption ls. popular ignorance. The electors do not believe their representatives corrupt. The moment that by any accident the evidence comes before the people in a war they trust, there ls an end of the bribe taker. In this very Pomeroy affair, the moment Colonel Tork had produced Indisput? able prools the contest was at an end. The members ol the Santas houses dared uot face thftr constituents indignation, and with Pomeroy'a money In many ol their pockets, unanimously voted bis dismissal, the election of bis adversary, and his own arrest on a criminal Information. In the United States House of Commons there has been no h?sita? tion to investigate, no refusal loexpel-Mr. Ames, 'or instance, belog expelled-except by the cumbrous method of Impeachment, and DO Idea that any convicted member will be re-elected. There ls much lenity about punishment, as there used to be In England, and indeed still ls about buying Beats In the House of Com-1 mons; but lt ls evidently felt that tho della quent? are politically dead, that the electors) do not intend votes to be sold, and that al? though they may choose men no better than those expelled, they will not knowingly choose the agents ot the "lobbying" Rings. Wtille they think them merely extravagant they will bear with them, partly because they are loo comfortable to care-remember the debt ls being reduced by ?25,000,000 a year and partly from that . Horror ot pecuniary "meanness" which among certain classes in America, as among the whole lower classes In England, hos made of thrift an artificial vice but corruption they decidedly dislike. This ls so far satisfactory, but we cannot deny that each of theBe r?v?lations, necessary as they are it there ls ever to be reform, ls A SEVERE BLOW STRUCK AGAINST DEMOCRACY. Grant the electorate Innocent, and we must I still concede that lt is excessively stupid, it looks as li average, half-educated working, men, such as make up the constituency of Kansas, while ihey can be trusted to fight for their country, and even to see that slavery is an evil, cannot be trusted to discern tbe char? acter of their representatives. They select in ordinary limes a "bad lot," and when select ed do not look alter them with anything like adeqnate keenness and Intelligence. It they remain poor, that is no credit to them, and If j they become rich, that ls no cause of suspi? cion, for they may bave been speculating In steaks. We do not like the outlook-for En? glishmen and Americans are essentially ihe same-any more than we ?Ike the deduction we are forced to draw-that I he reverence for muk acts as an antiseptic on the reverence for money. We never feel sure, as we read these stories In American papers, and French pipers, and German papero, that the Eng lah cuaraniee [ ag dost a repeiiiiou of them ia this country is not caste pride, the strongest argument lor aristocracy IQ some sense or other it would be possible to suggest. It Is a disheartening thought from our point of view, but we never den Y a (act, ac ri lhere the fact is that any man who" offered ?1200 or ?12,000 lo any Ecgllsh pe- r or county member for his vote would be summarily ejected from the room. There are lobbyers among us, too, but they refrain from punir-? temptation Into that crude form, and they are powerless against the caste. OUR SOUTH ATLANTIC NEIGHBORS. Georgia. -"Bill Arp" ls to wile a new book, and have lt Illustrated by a Georgia artist. -The Eagle and Phoenix Factory of Col um bus has more orders than it can fill, and the orders come from all parts of the Union -A wealthy manufacturer now visiting Co? lumbus Intends selling out bis interests In Massachusetts, and building new mills there. -A man was 6hot lo death In his own house and In the presence of his lamily, in Gordon County, on Saturday night last, by a drunken mob. -The family of Colonel R. A. Alston, of Atlanta, has entirely recovered from the re cent serions illness that visited every mern ber thereof. -?x-Muyor Screven, of Savannah, was pre? sented, on Tuesday, with a set of eight parlor pieces of ormulu work, by the city police force, . -The Brunswick Appeal says : "A steam yacht, containing a party of excursionists from New York, floated Into our bay this week, tarried a dav, and then proceeded to Florida." -An old gentleman ol sixty years, resident near Keppard's Mills on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, and familiarly known as "Old Nab," was run over by a passing train on Sunday evening last, and crushed to death. It is thought he was Intoxicated. -The steamer Nick King, recently sunk near Darien, has been sold tor eight hundred dollars. Her purchasers have abandoned the Idea of raising her, but wl'l take out her machinery and remove the hulk from the channel. -Mr. Joseph Alexander, of Savannah, while out hunting with a companion, Mr. Joseph Smallwood, was accidentally shot by Ibe prem? ature discharge of his gun. Tne deceased was thirty-two years of age, and leaves a wife and seven children. -Atlanta ls to have another new bank, with a capital of two hundred thousand dol? lars. It will make the ninth in the cilv. It will be called the Bank of the Slate of Geor? gia. Mr. Cofer, late cf Amerlcus, and a man of great wealth, will be president. -The Cc'umttuB colton mills have manufac? tured about iZy* bales ol cotton this Beason. This cotton, if sold irom warehouses, would have brought, at eighteen cents per pound, $i65.000. Sent oat as yarns and cloth from our manufactories, the' value has been In? creased to at least $1.200,000 In round num? bers-a gain of $835,000-and besides all the money remains In ibe Souih. Would lt not be a grand thing if the bouth worked up all ber cotton In yarns and cloth ? -Of the celebrated watering place known as ibe Warm Spring?, in Merri wether County, the Columbus Sun says: "There Is a current report that several Northern gentlemen have offered Colonel J. L. Mustian, of Columbus, the proprietor, $75,000 tor thia property. It is slated that if (hey purchase they will con? struct a tramway to the North and South Railroad. Dine miles distant; and by erecting suitable bulldlogs und Improvements, make the Springs both a winter and Bummer re? sort." -OD Tuesday, the 4th Instant, fire was dip covered in one ol the barns of the magnifi? cent Butler enlate on Bailer's Island, opposite the Town of Darien. The flames rapidly leap? ed from hulloing to bulldiug, destroying Ute barns, engines, steam saw mill, stables, farm? ing implements, together with a lot ol choice seed rice. The loss will not tall short ot twenty-five thousand dollars, and la covered only by a policy of five thousand dollars. The estai-- ls amply able to and will promptly fur? nish the means for the reconstruction oi the buildings, &c. The origin of the fire is un? known. Florida. -Miscegenation is on the Increase In Jack? sonville. -Governor Hart ls appointing Conserva? tives to office In the second Judicial circuit. -The boat races and other amusements in St. Augustine, on the first, created conside? rable interest. -Amos J. Cummings, managing editor of the New York SUD, IB still recreating in Florida. -The managers of the Florida Winier Home Association have changed the name ot the tine stream formerly known ad Pottsburg Creek to Arlington River. -The revenue secured to the United 8tates Government by the Key West Customhouse footed up for the past current year something like $200,000. -Tne moss trade still continues brisk. The business at Ihe present lime brines to Gaines? ville $1000 to $1200 per week. Mr. Reed, from Jacksonville, ls the nrlnclpt'i deuler. -Tue Key West DiBpatch says: "From a careful examination among our cigar manu factories, we ure enabled to state that the weekly supply ol cigars made In this city amounis to the modest number ot 472,000, worth at the factories $35,400." -The crops in this county, says the Florid) an, are well advanced the present season Everybody ls through planting corn, and, on many farms, the crop ls np and a good stand obtained. Preparations are rapidly making now for pulling in cotton. -The regular trips of tbn steamer Clifton to Arlington Bluff, the of the Florida Winter Home, together with the daily excur slons upsn the Bu John's and Arlington Rivers, supplies a want greatly felt by busi? ness men, iuvalids and pleasure-seekers. -The St. James Episcopal Cnnrch at Jack? sonville will be an elegant building. Sub? scriptions for building the church amount to $17,000, ot which $2000 have been secured by Mr. A. F. Maison, a BO] aimer, principally lrom guests at the St. James Hotel. -At Lake City on Monday night, the 5th instant, the residences of Judge Holt, Sheriff Keene, Clerk o? Circuit Court Waldron and Dr. Luther, one o? the county commissioners, were fired into some twenty-five times euch bv parlies outside. Strange to say no one was injured. It is ihe Impression that this Inhuman and savage rascality ls the work oi disappointed office-seekers. -A mest cold-blooded and heartless murder was committed in Manatee County on the 16th ult., In the vicinity of Fort Ogden. The vic? tim was an Irishman known as "Fred," em ployed as a boat hand, the perpetrator being one Marlon Allen. Fred was shot while asleep in the the preseoce o? eye-wilnesses. The murderer at once fled, but the citizens of the county were at ooce aroused, and he was taken a few dave after and sent on his way to the Jail at Key Wear. -A bloody rencontre occurred off Fernan? dina, on Monday last, between a lol of whales from filty to 6lxty feet In length, and a smaller species o? the same animal known BS black? fish. The latter lor a time sustained the un equal contest, but the superior size and power of their adversaries drove them to take refuge In ihe shallow waler ol the harbor, where the whales were unable to follow. Many of the blackfish, io their headlong flight, ran on the shoals, and the receding tide left them strand? ed hi^b and dry. Twenty six blackfish, one ol them twenty-three leet In length, were placed hors du combat. The fishermen turned out and secured a quantity cf blubber. North Carolina. -Sunset Cox was to have lectured in Wil? mington, last evening, on "National Humor." -Mr. Richard D. Morris, of Wilmington, died suddenly, on Tuesday morning last, from an overdose ol laudanum. -A. J. Morrison, Esq., of Lincoln County, has tendered his resignation to the Governor as a member of the State House ol' Represen? tatives. -General ColBton, ol the Cape Fear Acad? emy, was precented by the cadets of that lo ,otl TueBday last, with a handsome watch chain. JMSL^?SSI ca8.e of Olcott vs. Wilkes, Sft??0,1^^ "He to the Sigh hhoal8 Miulng Company's Drorjertv has been decided In favor o? the defaffis S the United States Supreme Couru NOTES FROM NEW YORK. MURDER JOTTINGS IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS. Insanity Itnus-Voit. on Reprieves anti Pardons-Sympathy for Foster-Train and Other Lunatics-The Martyrs Woodhull and Claflln-Beecher and his Vagaries-Successor tho Graphic Modesty of the Author of London. Ag suranee, ?fcc. [FROM ODB OWN CO H RESPOND EST.] NEW YORK, Maren 10. The prospect ol gelling our murderers hanged IB very poor indeed. Just aller the Slokes trial and the affirmation of Foster's sentence by the Court ol Appeals-which eveniB came together-lt did look as ir Justice was going to have a show; but the situation changed very speedily. Stokes got a stay and Fosler a respite. Now Ihe trial of Scanoell has ended with Ihe disagreement ol Ibe Jury. It is difficult to convict a murderer, and If be is convicted, it ls still more difficult lo land bim at the foot ol the gallows. The deleDce in the Scanneil case was insan? ity. Wo wonder what lt will be In the ca?e of | King and in ibat of Simmons, both of which are now to be tried-sell-defence or mono? mania ? If Ingenious counsel should attempt lo rrove an alibi for Simmons, who hacked his victim almost to pieces willi his knife, on the sidewalk of Pine street, In the presence ol a ere .7d of people, I dare sey a part of ibe Jury would believe bim. Desperate efforts will be made to get Sim? mons clear. He has a powerful moneyed influ? ence at his back. Illa brothers are engaged in the lottery business and are very wealthy. They almost succeeded lu clearing him In the preliminary examination, by tampering with the coroner and packing the Jury of It-quest. A mllllou of dollars will doubtless be used, ll necessary, to save the "honor'' of the Sim? mons family. Money goes a great way In this-1 world of New York. Speaking of Insanity in murderers reminds one of Scannell's demonstra! ion In open court on Friday, while his adroit and eloquent law? yer, Mr. Beach, was haranguing ibe Jury. The prisoner went into a hysterical tit and broke for ihe doors shrieking, "Let me go," ?:. A great many people are uncharitable enough to assert their nelief tnat Scanneil was acting Insane. Eight of the Jury, lt seems, were Dot convinced of his Insanity IQ consequence of lt. The pressure brought lo bear on Gover? nor Dix lor the commutation of Fosters sentence to imprisonment for life IB tre? mendous. I doubt if any machinery like lt was ever put in operation in New York before. The appeal for mercy is made by ministers, Judges, lawyers and prom? inent citizens, by a majority o? the Jury which convicted the prisoner, aud by Mrs. Putnam, Lae widow of ibe murdered man. Backing this are the most vigorous editorials, day liter day, of leading newspapers, notably those of the Sun. So distinguished a lawyer IB William H. Evarts has written an opinion that ihe crime commited by Foster was not tnurder. Most ol these petitions, affidavits ind expressions o? opinion, though filling several columns, have been printed in ibe newspapers, showing that Foster has some wealthy sympathizers who can afford lo pay tor exoensive advertising. Public opinion lu 'avor bf the murderer has been manufactured ?apldly, and you will even hear bin cause stunt ly maintained wherever New Yorkers isserable on the cars or ferry boats. Governor Dix has the reputation o? posses ling backbone. H-- resisted uti appeals male n behalf ot poor Beale of the Confederate irmy, who waa hanged, or rather murdered, ty the United Suites authorities on Governor's slam), during the war. Bul he will probably five way In ihe case of Foster. Yon may hear >r the oonmulalton by telegraph ere Kiln up jears in TOE NEWS. It Is a curious tun v?*ry tlgnidcant tact that an investigation has ?ho wn Unit the awi agu years ol Incarceration ot persons sentenced for Hie. lu ibis country ue four and a hall. The chances of a min? ierer ure decidedly belter than those ol a ourglar or pickpocket. The taller are sure of i rom len to twenty years. Beturulnglo the subject of Insanity-there ?a a real lunatic cunuued lu the Tombs, t he i reprensible Train, lie refuses to gire ball ind slicks, contented with the honors ol narlyrdom. He makes use of ihe Sun to v?n? date his Imaginary wrongs. A visitor lo his jell the oilier day said: "Train, you are no fool; how ls it possible pou could go around the country us you aid asl summer telling peuple thai you would be the next Pr?sident ot the United Stains ?'' "I earnestly believed ll," replied George Francis, "and I tell yon, Bir, 1 shall yet be lictalor ol America. Yes, sir, the people trill rebol wilhln ninety days and place me in power." The women, for whose bad cause Train got Himself imo trouble, ure io be tried next week before Judge Blatchlord. It Is ut der jlood that they have employed eminent coun? sel, and will do all they can lo nuke the trial i great advetUsing card. They play the role }f martyrs, or course; "the victims ol the ?ecret machinations of detected und frenzied 08eudo-respeclHi.il.ty lu Rrooklyu aud else? where." They are to be crushi d, they say. ?iuce that congenial ras cal. Ben Butler, has 'spoused their oatiBe they feel correspondingly jncouraged. Ben got his friend Oakes Ames iff; why not Woodhull and Caitlin ? lu ihe meanwhile Mr. Beecher goes on his vay, lecturing on education anu preaching igaiost immorality, and uilerlog not a word n public in reply to Ihe shocking aspersions in his character. It is useless to conceal Hie act that many people believe him to beguilly, ind many others think there is "?omelhing rery strange aboul the affair." Ills Irlends say ie proposes to "live lt down." Privately, he de lies the charges. But since that melancholy illp up of Schuyler's, lhere ls not so much Hock taken in ihe asseverations of the saints ts formerly. I hope Beecher will come out j *ight In the end, for there ls much lo admire n the man. Souihernets will not forget how ie came forward In behalf of General Len's inlverslly, when it upoealed for funds a lew reara og ), aud the brave words he aald for our ?bier, lt was not popular to praise a "rebel" ust then, but Beecher did lt. He ls buck from his Western lecturing tour, ind preached al Plymouth Church yesterday. Voile be has been absent Brother Cnyler baa teen pegging away at him unmercifully, be lanse be look part in the farewell banquet riven to Prolessor Tyndall. D:. Cuvier says hat Tyndall ls an infidel, aud no Christian ninister should rive him the slightest counte lance. It does seem difficult to keep Mr. beecher In the orthodox track. He came out a support ot Andy Johnson ia 1865, and a ?owl went up from his church. Then he an ?ounced himself as a believer in free irade, ind the wealihy nabobs of the North flew into 11 i rage. AgalD, he mai ried Richardson on his ' leath-bed to Mrs. McFarland, and ibe proprie y of tlie newspaper editors was shocked. He | l s always doing something that somebody loes'ut approve ot. Il is rumored that his so iiety propose to appoint a standing commit? en to sit up with him and keep him straight. | j The publishers ot ihe Graphic claim lhat Hie lew paper has already achieved success. Thev lave been printing Atty thousand copies dally, ind have not been able }*et to supply any of J he out of lown demand. The pictures lro irove wlih each number. The literary matter s unexceptionable. The report in newspaper ilrclcs is that Frank Leslie ls so convinced, by he Graphic experiment, of the feasibility of j in Illustrated dally press, thal he is prepar ng lo get oat a morning paper on the same dan. Edmund Yates returns to Europe this week. Ie had a hearty send off on Saturday night rom Ibe Lotus Club, ol which Whitelaw Reid, >f the Tribune, ls president. Mr. Yates is vldenlly delighted with ihis country. Hell ays so pertinaciously. He has been greatly 11 ionized, and ls not averse to that sort of at enflon. The Herald sends him over as its pecial al the Vienna Exposition. Bouclcault announces a piece fresh from 'his dramatic easel" for Booth's Theatre next londay night. He calls lt "Daddy O'Dowd," nd says that lt IB another of those "truthful tage portraitures of Irish life" which it has 11 een his "mission" to write until he hassuc eeded In "obliterating the gross caricature" ( Irishmen which has hitherto held posses Ion of ihe stage. Dion ls nothing If not i ?odest. The coming sensation at the Grand i ipera House is Dal} 's translation and repro- 1 uction of Sardon's caricature upon American i manners, entitled "L'Oncle 8am," which has been prohibited i rom representation on the French stage by the censor. Bardon studied America In the pages of Frank Leslie's "Days Doings," consequently he hus fashioned the American man . and woman on the model ot Jim Fisk and Josephine Mansfield. The play would have exasperated us thirty years ugo. Now we are a "great country," and eau afford to emile at the Impertinences of the effete Europ?ens. NTH. THE GRANITE STATE. Heavy Democratic ?atna in the New Hampahire Election. CONCORD, March 12. The returns from one hundred and forty one towns show a net loss for ihn Republi? cans ol about 900. There will probably be no election of Governor by the people. The Democratic candidates for Congress are un? doubtedly elected from three districts-E. A. Hibbard, from the flrst; Samuel N. Bell, from the second, and H. W. Parker, from the third. In the Legislature the Republicans will have a strong majority, and also In the Senate and Council. LATER-The returns from one hundred and forty dve towns give 8traw, Republican, 27.476; Weston, Democrat, 24,459; Blackmore, 8C4 and Mason 503 The Republican loss ls 1937. Tne remaining ninetv towns last year gave Straw 7488, Weston 9058. This probably defeats the choice by the people. Ia the city election Kendall, Republican; was re-elected mayor. BALTIMORE ITEMS. A Princely Charity-An Insurance Case Ended. BALTIMORE, March 12. A : hort, time since John Hopkins, a well knov u millionaire ot this city, deeded to the trustees thirteen acres of land, bounded by Wolle, Monument, Broadway and Jefferson st reel s, for the erection ol a hospital for the re? lief (f the indigent sick and orphans. Ata meeting ol the board of trustees lost evening they were notified by Mr. Hopkins that he had further deeded two million dollars worth ol properly tor tne support, and maintenance ot tne hospital. The building will be on a mag? nificent seule, and will be commenced In the spring of 1874. In the Superior Court of this city yesterday the case of Eilzub-*th Gellerman, administra? trix, against the Knickerbocker Lite Insur? ance Company of New fork, to recover the policy issued to ber deceased husband, came up. Under a ruling of the oourt the plaintiff submitted to a nol. pros., which concluded the case. The policy contained a provision re? citing that the insurance should be void lo case the Insured shall become so far Intem? perate as to Induce delirium tremens. During the trial lt was In evidence that the insured died of this complaint. THE NEW ORLEANS STEAL. NEW ORLEANS, March 12. The postofflce defalcation is estimated at eighty thsusand dollars and over There may be some credits In Lowell's favor. Lowell's official books are not to be lound, and have been removed from the office. A search war? rant, has been Issued and writs of arrest against Charles W. Lowell, Thomas T. Mon? roe, assistant postmaster, and John V. Doug? lass, cashier. RUN ON A SAVINGS BANK. WASHINGTON, March 12. There was a run on the Washington City 3avings Bank yesterday, groking, lt ls said, mit ot the threat of the comptroller of the Mirreney to withdraw its charter, on account )f a violation of the law. The bank yester lay paid three thousand depositors, and lt is ?veli lortiOed this morning. There U little or io excitement about Ihe other banks. There ire probably fifteen hundred -colored deposl ,ors in me Freedman's oavingd Bauk, but not ne least excitement ls auparen!. TUE WEATHER THIS DAY. WASHINGTON, March 12. Pohnbilit.es for Thursday: In the Middle ind Elstern Stuios, rising barometer, wester? ly winds und generally clear weather. For Hie Gulf Siut.es, northerly wind* and some? what low* r temperature. For the South At? lantic Stares, northerly winds and clear wea!her. For Ibe Luke Region, southwest winds and r.sing temperature, preceding an area nf low barometer. In the Northwest, Ironi Iowa lo the Upper Lakes, brisk souther? ly winds and cloudy and threatening weather. The storm centre will pass lrora Central Da? kota inio Wisconsin. JOTTINGS ABOUT THE STATE. -Columbia complains ol its defective drains. -Columbia grumbles nt the Incessant "toot? ing" ol Us railway whistles. -The ball ot the Columbia Mechanics' So ?lety, ou Monday night, was largely attended. -The Conn of C urinion PleaB opens in Marion on Monday. -Marlon looks for a One supply of shad from the Peedee next week. -The Greenville Palmetto Fire Engine Company paraded on Saturday last, making a good display. -The old Southern Hotel at Greeovlle ls being repainted, and will soon opeu Its doors xa the City notel. -The supper to be given by the Hibernian Society, ol Columbia, on the 17th, is io be a ;rand affair. -As the beautiful grove of stately pines In the centre of Marion slowly disappears before tho axe, the citizens vululy plead, ' O, wood? man spare that tree." -Mr. Jame? Canton arrived in Columbia on Tuesday Irom the mountain districts of North Carolina, having In custody Montgomery Bishop, charged with the mulder of his uncle n Spartanburg last tall. PAUL MORPHY. Borna time since wo referred to Mr. Paul ilorphy, the groat chess player, as a successful a wy er of New Orleans. We did this upon the inthority of an exchange. Sosequently a New 3tleans journal corrected us, and now a New Drleans correspondent gives tne following ac? count of Mr. Morphy after his triumphal jour jeya through this country and Europe: "But Moiphy returned to be disgusted with ihoia. Ho has never played in public since, fio is sick as with surfott of the very name. At the time I met him, ht* could think with pa? tience and Dleasure of everything save chess. With his abdication, Captain McKenzie, of New York, remains the best player in tho United States. "Mcrphy, upon his return, renounced at onco il) his chesa-oonuectiona, and, nnder flattering iuspice?, with sanguino faith in his success ou the pin, of all who kuew him, and theorists ivho did not, he began the study of law in tho New Orleans Law School. What is the result? He bas turned out no lawyer-not even a com? mission merchant! Ho is at present doing nothing. "Onco in a while tho solitary athlete can bo ioducod to show that his power ia only in abey? ance. I saw bim at a private seance.just before [ left, beat simultaneously, in two hours and tbree quarters, sixteen of the most accomplish sd amateurs in New Orleans. His strength has never been tully tested, and will probably never be fully developed. ' Paul Morphy is poor. Uulike a Yankee, ho Hods it impossible to live on his talent. Op? portunities there are in abundance-rich offers for public exhibitions of himself as delicate as those grasped at by men who would pretend to more honor. He steadfastly refuses them, rle wau morbidly sensitive to misjudgment, lest ho be taken for ono who "travels on his xiuscle," and, on all his journeys, defrayed bis )wn expenses, and always played in the pres ince only of select companies, to which no Doney could gain access. There seems to me :o be a certain attraction in this fine delicacy, ?vhtch one would encounter not elsewhere imong us than m the half-foreign society of I New Orleans, amid wbicb Mr. Morphy was reared. It ia dearer to bim than wealth or re lown, or the strange gift by which he must get lis daily bread or go without it. Some there ire who do not live by bread alone." FIELD-DAY Di PAKLIAMENT THE EXCITING DEBATE UPON THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. Defeat of the Minister?, and Resigna? tion of Mr. Gladstone-The Author of Lothair Invited to Form a New Cab? inet-CarlUt Victory in Spain-Open? ing of the German Parliament-Kai **r Wilhelm Announce? an Early Evacuation of France-A New Turk- | lah Cabinet. LONDON, March 12. The Irish University bili, Introduced by the government in accordance with their pledges, came np for a second reading in the House of | Commons last night. The galleries were crowded wlih distinguished personages, among whom were the Prince of Wales and Prince Chrlailan, and the Princess Louise. Forty members took part In the debate. At an early hour this morning a division was ordered, and the second reading of the bill was lost by a vote of 284 ayes to 287 noes; a majority of three against the government. Not a sing'e Conservative voted tor the bill, and 170 Liberals, of whom 06 were Irish mem? bers, voled against lt. John Bright and his brother. Jacob Bright, and the Marquis of j Lorne voted willi the government. Seven? teen members of the House, Including Mr. Isaac Bull, the member from Limerick, were absent. When the vote was announced, ihe Bcene in the House was indescribable. Tho excitement in the galleries and on the floor was intense, while the opponents of the bill expressed their delight in tumultuous cheering. Mr. Gladstone arose as soon as the tumult gave signs ol ceasing, and said: "The vote Just given Is certainly ot a grave character, and as the house never wishes to continue Hs delib? erations when the existence of the govern? ment ls In doubr, I move an adjournment until Thursday." This motion was adopted. This morning, Mr. Gladstone walled on Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace, and tendered his resignation, it ls probable that Mr. Disraeli will be invited to iorm a new ministry. In consequence ot the lateness or the hour at which the debate closed, the comments ol the London morning papers are meagre and restrained. A Oarllst Victory In Spain. MADRID, March 12. It ls reported that a Bevere engagement took place yesterday bet