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Show YOBK. Col. Powell-Tho Failure lo tiet Mrs. '1 iliun ou tlie 54 laud -Pn-srul 10 1 ardiuttl Mc-CJofsky. Mc-CJofsky. New York, 10. Colonel John M. Powell, of Mississippi, wiiocommitted tuicido yesterday, was previous to the rebellion one of ihe wealthiest and most influential planters iu Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Wendell Pnillips once remarked re-marked that "cotton aud slavery grew spouiatouly ou Powell's plantation." planta-tion." In the assembly yesterday, the bill '.0 permit a wife to Uslily lor or against her husband in civil actions iu.d criminal trials was reported ad-vertK-iy ly the judiciary committee and the report whs agreed to. A s milar disposition was made of Speaker McGuire's bill allowing a w fe to testify against her husband or id behalf ot another person in cases ol erim. con. It is probable that no more efforts to alter the laws of evidence evi-dence in any way that will affect the Bcecher trial will be made in the assembly. as-sembly. A carriage and span of horses were presented lo Caidiual McClosky to-iday, to-iday, by a lew of the prominent Catholics Cath-olics of this city. |