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hiciffl)AS.Y; ATJOUST 'l3, 1860.
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Mass Peen,„ obson .versus 'Disraeli; An Ilse_-
dent in the Lilo . - of Ps-kkoe from
EureP• Polttteat;',lhati4elteickent
in To ni, ttsiie4T, ,The..lBlsee - Trade.
Founts - 44:44406 esistiOnif 'An Pommies;
Ida filtate>.Teaeheine',Alaaptationi' Arrivals at• the
Prinoipstifoteis; , Llit of•Lettere reinainhiji to the
Post °Moe f, Marine rnielßenes;
Tie' Nevis.
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From 1:41 jet rio'ner of any
im
portanei; 'cispintonctlioughnt the head, of power
(al army ; ; hid done , nothing, while Miramon was
at Lagos, evidently holding in contempt his adver 7
sari's, who wernhovoring around him on all sides.
In the capital a movement welaild' to bi on &et,
origins* hy:Mis Spanish minister .Pacheco,- to.
displace Afiraition, aad• put one of the brothers
Cuevas, formerly Minister oflear under Zolosgo;
at the held af ttie elturikpirty. There were some,
apprehetiloiti that' the populace, and military
might get up an unsure and seek the
city. The attempt had been made to get .
up a Liberalist movement, but failed. It is evident
that the lettai 'party 'is in need cf.& notePetent,
leader. :The
. prespeata Of. General: Cornonfort
ere spoken of 'very confidently by'soure.
the various rumors in circulation is one piit Mira
men is to be made Emperor - of Mexico. ' *This pro
position' le laid to have come kieign di
plomatic body: , On- the other hind,,Matbeirs,
British ifirrigi, Was aboct io levy,on' the privets
property:„Of Mitinton ' , Oororur, .Ledo, and other
leaders, in retaliation for the forted loans exaotsd
from Britbdssubjeets. — ItiNew'Leoti, thrrattexpV. -
-ed revolution 'valid the anther* of Vidintri bad.
been suppressed, and at 'present everything Is quiet .
in that Slit& . Oirvef sl, of Rlo.Grande notoriety,
had sacked a large Own, and' was committing the
most horrible atrocities in the name of the /stares
party. Some 'Will conduCtes of Spoile had eizirird
at the coesceird others were expected. ••
The steamship 11limb sailed from New York
city on Saturday for Southampton and Havre, with
a fall compleasebt of. paaiengene and 1927,318 in
specie; and-, Use City of -Washington sailed lot
Liverpool,Witis 'l9O pumas!'" and R 99,200 'in
We learn front, Thistailion that Saritary Oars.
has retuneetto his post of dutyin good Us", the
newspapiritithe astray toterilitstading.,'7
The stinutishipGreatNaterk ailed' from:Ana,
pone o 4 44atken fhit4tiay . .Mondni for,
New York. 'Shi„did not set all her coal'on board.
On Thursday night, at Now t Orlowsw, I row of
building! Ms Haifa-street,' aziading fr*,finstoni:
house street to Blinville,, ad. octipplid hy funktore,
tore, pia* store,, was daitroyed by,
fire. The be, amounted to 8500,000 i which is
mostly Mara... , - -
TrOM Loulmille we learn that the returns of the
late State 0160 A M -ilium foot up: • '
Leslie Coombe; 46,806 t Clinton IdetliartY, 26.504
R. R. Bolling, 8,672 ;Napkins; 885 ;, Kelly, 284.. -
The vote knit fall fortlietanbr. hood la follows :
Demeoratki,:76,lB7 ; OpPindtia, 67,271.
The steamship Adriatic, from Havre end South- .
ampton, with dates to the bit instant, arrived at
New York •01 Heard's, 'inerning, bringing four
days later Eirosiean'advices, a fair cargo, and 261,
eabin passengers. Among the latter wm. Lady
Franklin; the witioief the Joni diode oxplorer.
The gamete' news by, ail Adriatic) is able interest.
fug. The most lisportanipoint of the intelligence
is a letter franc - pais - Napoleon to the French am
bassador it Laden, Containing an exposition of the
Imperor'si With raped to tits intervention
of the Powers in Syrian affairs; Lord John Russell
had authorised Lord COwlej to slip" the convention
for regulating the interiention,,,cm the oonditien
that the free aegniesoenee of the' Porte shall have
been previonslyobtaitsid. The Inibasidors,isrehti
upon adopting the , 'zliadiftinitiiisijdaitired: by , the.,
Porte. As soon - 1511M said'andiflations,abill hive
been appreadbythe great Powers, the , Confererce
will dolinintljilingeosiest ,,-- asuesttusnti the
Frenoh force destined for Syria wee preparing fur
their depaitare With allpoesiltie dispatch: , Large
subscription in. 01 'of disetititte - Christians
in Syria mamboing- taken up in Prance. From
Sicily we luitotimeetmte whieb mann the'previ•
ously•published rumor that Garibaldi bail entered
Naples , mois quiet. Nepoleorei letter
had exercised bat little Milne - AM upon financial
circles in Loiiiio.":," - . Tho latent iiiotagona 'mean-
Jobs were 98ta931"fei,u1Opep—an!improvament of
one-cluarter American stook* had
improved heitivintriemaad demand:- 4
pool we heft that . dour • Was dearer, cotton dull,
and grain ateady..- -
rime*iva?art. Poitios
Hon. He* B.lcsitein 1850 r a boding okOm'-'
"pion of th• Coeiprambil reataro; and, the 'Mune'
who fought tide by Ode with
~Olay and Webster,
and who deflated ,J40.i . 190 Davit on • the • 'Union
lame in thiitiltate: of ,Mississippi,-har consented ,
to Manes the. Desioensey Harrisburg; on
Wednesday, nest, , General • Poeta ' in' fiior
of the straiglit-out •Dtroglie . milvoment;,iont>iii,'
of course,..atter, his t ientlisiintS . with Chatacierii,
tto candor, iiiit'Ooigage,
Hon. Itiohnii Vani,, the, Democratic *het r at
larp for this Stem - willaddruitheDsMooracy of
Chester county, at OiCsatti, at 'liven o'olook
tomorrow morntng. This speech, coming .from au
elector whO biiritood by the regular organisation
of the Dmitiltailti Party, and who instil* Eltophen
A. Daugliiii , the only, nominee of that .regular
organisation, nest -Importaateoraily
In view of the fact 'thel Wields iinkiliinotitration
since the late Meeting
,Welith.'imatnittee
Oration. It will - be lootadlorWilh luMmet, as it
will no dotilitanditate:,Hin oilstone of *angular
Democracy,on the feltOtoral thiket.v In this con.
nestion let us add-Auttpaliltotigla , it, has not been'
our for tune tio Ititreir Areui t ;it b at i
boon our dnti',l6,'Oatinsr4 froatiola upon
what we ciciceived to be ' his hesitation at a certain'
period in the great , !astute, against the protorip
ions of titnidAminilitrailoin, it • givecmCsineere•
pleasure to emigratabite him upon the,attitisda he
now ocemilst and tOapprovilihVopionittoSici the`
attempt of tbs iilltioholders and Dhiuniontits to
degrade the Democracy of Pennsylvania to a con
dition of almost absolute iireitude. -
.
We hear it itated;on competen t authority, that
the friendi •Ot Braokinvidp and Lame intend to,
invite Hon. Wm. L. Yam, ey, of Alabatiat, into tbi
State to addrem the people in favor of his °and(
dates, and in debt* and illustration of hi pcoo.
liar opitionsC Br. Ittimy in a bilillatt, - orator,
and an actimnpliehed gentleman. Be in the head
of the Seosselon movelasnt, and;if ins follows the
lops of his honest opinlort to their emniultion,
ought to be airtimtly 1n favor' of dbnition, for to
. that end must • - thts. opinbis Lad, ibould be
be sumeadil in • his premnt, "beide' igainst
the regular irginisation of .the .Demottiatio
party, and_the fielinp , of - the conservative
mums. nithist 'Br, , Yancey will be 'kind.
ly treated 4. itennsovaais. Be will not notni;
we are cure, to 4-advoeit• distil:lion - in our midst,
but will pursineOti Are' - tindetstaitd, t line of
argument marbly 'tliffereht Bub that which ii im ,
derstood to' be his rail orleoent - opinions: Let us
welcome Moro BOuthern states.
man, and that let us ask him to carry to tie South
one of the ablest of one Northern orators, and in:
Mat upon assuring for , him asequalith6spititble
It is also annoutiOrd that Bon, Entry A, Wise
of Virgin Is, • will, 'PreTiolo .to 'Me P r i ddintild
eleetke, siddreas.,the people of Penasylvania on
the side of,J3reektatidge, and Lao, 1:114. Wile
-
will hardly be greeted withlhe 'thistle entbusierat
that would here bemired and - balled hiirippriaeh
had be stood lit Dingiest — and ibbnicitl but he.,
too, will siiittrilm'enitistity.of *et'of - , 541 Fettles,
The advtttiitei'Of the itteireMent t it, Will
thus bo seen, intend to make it mujoutOemonstra
tion upon Pommies:sin, They, believe, that, by
sending their ablest Minnie' this ihate,.they may
secure snob a vote lorslthilr ticket kr tO`girit it a
reasonable chance of mesa in Notenibei next.
We repeat,their expeStationarrithontryinpithisbig
with them. • .•-• • -
• . .„
Meanwhile,,the'Hipubliaana ,ar• by no means
inactive. After %tierce beat of Anoint bra pan
ed away, arid the, aniiimpe of fleptimblq
tober come to toed tho"iiroiii of the puttenne tin ggi
sides, theyOf
,i . i,onree; . 'brlnt. forward thelr ,
eholeast ohazipbme, - . Aiwnwthoes who are en—
peotad, aerial:ay, to . additive 'Os, met " of, thin
State in favor of Linenbi ind ilvadin,wn hoar the
names of MOW: - finwirti,lion. Daniel
'Ullman, and Bee.lliorace 'Greeley, of New. York,
F l ank Blair, of Mlloserl, rilex t Wade, and
Hon. John Sherman; of Oh* , •
The frista!ofir:riot; 0414, 1 6
meat tram* Of :Weir oriwilasiltal In Kinitsekn
will no doubt inalelliteriths pretends of Ron. Wino
J. Otte:odes; atilFollinto', thinr:Otlitiniibbnr
Thil'6 ,44:iipp*fliiiiciadss-1
trio baps of
being abla tgeongwu itspartowi,
awes 11 tlu tibinbl :froplorans, tit:ll4 Pt
pietist sod
England and France.
' betty after Lours NAPOLEON mounted to
e highest position in the French Empire he
`fi,filsed to gratify the expectation of other
nations in regard to his future plans, and maka-
Mined a steady and unbroken .rennve. Then,
Ins Motto was that cc Silence wiirgsnater than: -
speech." Indeed, secrecy .Ipia -4ition C his
'Characteristics. Every one it i ltifileteps
concocted in private,,iuul*:-alone;
He had few confidantes, andnien his coup d' itat
startled the world, and Saved France from im
pending revolution and bloodshed, its success
wad not mor,e
_amazing than the caution and
mystnry With Which bad bemkarranged.
Now, honeisr, anew spirit; Seeing to ani-
Mate , LouniNazotizon., The:sllent max Or a
few yearsage, has become, a writing and ,
talking man. ' from ' hid eqia
, uimity, , he- has suddenly -become OE keenly
attentive to ; the affairs, of the surrounding na
tions awbeibre be seemed to be indifferent.
PALtaiurastoti, speaking for the British
p6Vple, aid 'evidently doubting the peaceful
'professions of the Fiench Emperor, is a recent
speeeitibefere the House of Lords made such
an appeal to the pride, and interest, and fears
of England—based upon the stupendou s mill
taxi Mavementa of Locos Naporioli—that the
lattet has-beerfeompeiled to respond in a man
'nor more effective, becanse more - brief,
0041,6 'arid 'carefully' adjithted
' inanifeete of the English minister. In this
lie recknides the force of that public opinion
which is, so often derided :by European . mo
narehlshOle appeals- to: the judgment, of
Europe, and without, waiting far, diplomatic
forms; or . entrusting his case to cabinet ,
officials learned in that which• uses language
simply for the purpose of concealing thought,
be, takes charge of hie own Cause, and; in the
letter published this morning, displays equal
ability,, sagacity, and proplptitilde: -
That:which . ie apparent to all impartial 'ob
'servers, in this novel made of discussion ba
it-Veen the first minister of Great Britain and
the first rulerof,France, is the ill-concealed
dibtrust entertained by the one nation in regard
f : I
o'the other. , England watches the ambitious
movements of France with- badly dissembled
Minn, and France, on her part, while disavow
ing any Warlike - intentions, gradually stretches
forth her military ling; and dayafter day un
folds-the programme by which she hopes to
extend her influence. Great events are evi
lentlyin store for both countries.
We understand that a Mr. JougsON; a Mein.
bee of the Welsh committee from Cambria
beauty, wh ich Met at Cresson ' a few days ago,
'Made certain 'strong allusions to the editor of
this "jtinrnal. Mr. Jonsson, if we know any
thing of him, - hati lately been admitted into the
Democratic party, and is therefore consistent
in bas, aseaults upon those who demand that
the Democracy shall stand by its established
We beg to ' assure him, and all
others Whir , are disturbed as to the course of
Tan Plass or its editor, that, while perfectly
Willing to indulge them in the utterance of their
own opinions, we claim the same right for our
selves. Nobody is responsible for what ap-
Pears in this journal but the editor, and. if it
will give Kr. Jonsson any pleasure to disavoW
,what' is Published in !ran Pauss•—either ,
'please h imself orany 'of his immediate friends
—he is at Perfect liberty eo,"ta, du, Mil; if, he
'wishes it, to do so every day. It is character
istic of the:present 'contusion of strties that
the most offensive and arrogant antagonists of
'Democratic 'principles, as , they have' always
been recognized in the Democratic party, are
men like this Mr. Jonsson, who, having been
admitted into that once honored organization,
busy. themselves assailing the champions of
the old-fashioned Democratic creed.
, -It Is rare that so general an expression el
grief Itas pervaded any, community as that 00-
'neatened' by_ tinr,announcement of the death
of our young townsman, Wrxrant A. ED
WARDS,
,Esq. His life had been so blameless,
and his deportment so unassuming—his talents
BO marked, and the promise of future useful
ness and-distinction so certain—that the news
of his deatircame upon his large circle of ad
roit:era and friends like a great shock. Active
in , everiiiiblie.eMerpriae, responsive to every
cause in which:popular .'Principles were in
warin_and manly heart was always
seconded by his warm and open hand. It
mak be some consolation to the stricken
'household mho mourn his loss to know that as
in litehe wits univervally beloved and esteemed,
so his 'death universally de lored. The
.. - etefermr: - zevrastigv e p
o'clock tbis . thorniug frona the residence of hie
father, Omer of: Eighteenth and Walnut
streets.
WASHINGTON .00B3ISPONDINCE
' .Letter from “Occamonal.”
[Correspoadenoe of The itess.l
Westruteros, August 12,1860
The State Department is constantly in reoeipt of
`noost Dopertenteonrearolel talon/nips from every
siert Of the world. It, is the duty of the United
Slates aomnisniat agents, consuls;and ministers to
at °misinform the Government of what transpirei
in their lien* jtirisidiotions, which (Briefly or re ,
mutely involie'eur Materna interest; lint ibis
information; iu valuable when received, if pub
lished to our 'merchants, in turned over to
Some of the' olisrke Department, who take
their Smelt doing theWoik, oo that long after the
facts line teased to be frioticalii useful, they are
printed in heavy volumes and at great expense, by
' order of Colognes, under the title of " Commercial
Statistics." - Why should not a monthly' bulletin
be issued trout the Foreign °Moe, with snob Infor•
mallon received" from our agents abroad as will
help American commove in, all its - branches?
Surely, if they are of value, that value is enhanced
by early publication. Those who have a knowledge
of the matter know full Well that the
,ponderous
Tiniest are 'Olden conned over, except by station
al** writersonetiromerce, and journalists, whereas
Commercial information given to' the public as soon
as It cape to hand, would bayegeneral distribution,
ant be generally read. I would like to see issued
from the State Department, monthly 'papers, like
then so well prepared by Mr. Blodgett secretary
lof the Philadelphia Board of Trade on the mann
fennel, trade and 'commerce of his oity,, Don't
you think thetmuedlon is as good as ills practical?
Whilst Napoleon Is expressing to the linglish
people, 'and to:int the world, hie desire for profound
peace, the northern Kings of Denmark and Sweden,
, Mehow upon what terms of amity they stand, are
tickling eseh'ether with"the most delimits comet i
mann. The'Elbg ,of !linden appoints the King
of, Darimarli to 'a ttoloneloy In the' Swedish Chim
e-mire, and in return the King oiDenmark appoints
the King of Sweden to a colonaley in the Danish
Bunn
' Tickle pm.' tickle me. tickle me. do;
Yon twain XIS and tickle ion."
In, the, .."`lsuk,ppidanee Beige of 26th July,
ultimo, it U slated in a tidegiam from Copenhagen
o,that they speak - already of a project of making
a new °anal that will reunite the North Sea and the
Baltic, traversing the Istbmne of Holstein. This
'canal will dO,aWal with the neeeisity 'of doubling
the Cape of Jutland, the, , pariloas -passage of the
battegat. , AlLAnteriean eolitits authority to exe
outs the work, which will eon an enormous sum of
money. They say that several members of the
Cabinet warmly favor this enterprise, netwith
itanding the, opposition of certain interests that
are' Monate& by it." This has reference, I
presume, to the construction of a ship-oanal
aeriaf ilielethsetuoof'lloletele.'from Giuokstadt,
on that Bibs, Kiel, on the „Baltic, parettleg
the, route ,sof the river: Blips: An agent went
„fioM AN! country three years ago, with the
sanction of the Government, in order to push this
work along . by scoring the co.operation of the
nations immediately interested. It seems that he
lei met, io far, with only partial success, which,
howeVer, may be accounted for by the recent wars
and Mae:dine on the continent. 'lt la probable that
they have absorbed all attention to the exolusion
of everything else. The United States is deeply
interested in this shlponnal, for by shortening of
thedistance and dangers of navigation, it affords
utioPportaithy to'-compete for the vest trade of
Pentatith,;6lWideo, and Norway, which is
now mostly; +tarried. en. , in British bottoms. The
,disespoi betithen Mel and Gluokatadt is only fluty
=Bee, and' th e distance. distance. by' this 'foots' from the
United, States:to Su Peterebtirg "is "boat 1,000
miles less than by ehti present dangerous trick of
vessels by the coast of Jutland, Skagerage, Oette
,gati the Sound; fated the Isiah& of Denmark, It
is propelled to Make the canal 130 feet wide at the
top water mark,llo feet at the bottom, and 20 feat
deep. The estimated cost ID 19,000,000. It was
alleged that Palmerston, in making the Sound Dues
treaty, took care to provide for the construction of
this email by British' subjects, but it now appears
that we are in a fair way to, reap all the advan
tage that must Mime from the canal being under
pa Control of an American company. •
EriSPORMIffiSi Tas ?014E.-:-Mayor Henry,
in toonfermity with the recommendation of
having the matter under oonsideration,
haejlisted ?Hirt to the lieutenants of the different
distriemto put thipolloemeb in uniform. Ito new
numilmont . 11140 Iske 'effect on the first of October,
Mont which the men will be thinking of
donning their winter clothing: 'The Style of the
unfform'has not been decided- upon; but it is pro
bible: that the dreg now worn by the recut re
Spree' will be followed. This omudats of coat and
.pmts of -a dark-blue °loth; theoestaingle-hrsasted,
.irltlistraly. buttons, and ; the pants with "a white
cord up the outward sedue—Se whole forming a
neat welform. The telegraph operators are not M
OWS In the order' betted b 7 th* Mayor.
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Letter from " Nox."
[Correspondence of Tho Frees.]
WASHINGTON, AIWA 11, 1860
Gen. Case arrived last night from the West
quite unexpectedly. It is very` likely that the
various reports of his removal in the newspapers
`have something to,.tio_ with hie speedy return.
treed toilficial life, and: believing, as he does, that
hewill die as soon as ha enteroprivate Die, it is by
no mea ns hie intention to give up the ship to Mr.
Thichansa without a light.
Breoklnridge has at last accepted the nomi
nation of the Richmond Disunion Convention, as
will be seen from th; subjoined letter :
-" Dara 818 I In answer to your letter of the 26th
ultimo, containing official information of my nomina
tion for the Fresideney of the United States by the
Demoaratio Convention assembled at Richmond, I have
to eay that I accept "the nomination, and shall strive to
merit the confidence implied by the notion of the Con
yention.
" I trust that a full diSouraion of existing issues will
result in establishing the Constitution and the Union
of the States upon immovable foundations.
"With good wishes, I am your friend,
"JOHN C. ORECKINRIDGE.
" Hon, John Erwin, President of the Riohmoini De
mocratic Convention, Oreenaborough, Alabama."
Who will now' deny that Dreekinridge is the
candidate of the Diennion party?
The Charleston Mercury of 'the 7th Inst., under
the head of army and navy intelligence, says:
"Should the yellow fever make its appearance
this season at &aren't! Island, and the measure
be recommended by the surgean at that poet, the
commanding officer at , Isit Moultrie his been
'authorized to remove hie command to limithville,
North Carolina."
On the mars recommendation of a surgeon, Sulli
van's Island is to be vacated, simply to permit the
Disunlonists to throw into it a nucleus of rebellion,
in the emergency of Abe Lincoln's election. Are
the President and his Cabinet already paring the
way for rebellion and disunion?. He onset to know
that the indications given by leading Southern men
'cannot be construed otherwise than as evidences of
a determination t.o . reeist and upset, f possible, the
United States Government in certain emergen
elm
The following was one of the Fourth of July
toasts at it(e celebration in Hendersonville, South
Carolina:
" By RObert B. Snead.—The eleotion of Old Abo Lin
coln : The shortest way to a Southern Confederacy."
That explains, also, the object of the Breokin
ridge movement In the Northern States, which is
to elect Lincoln, and to pave the way for a South
ern Confederacy. Are the A.merloan people asleep?
The overwhelming defeat of the Brackinridgo
ticket in Kentucky has not been without effect
upon Mr. Breckinridge himself. Letters from him
to his friends here, in Washington, have very mush
discouraged the latter, and it is said that some ap
prehensions are felt that be will resign some time
before the election. His amour propre has been
deeply offended by that crushing defeat, and he
regrets that he ever permitted himself to be used
as a tool in the hands of Buchanan anti Slidell.
He thinks that by withdrawing hie name from the
field he may regain his former position is the
Democratic party,-and make 'himself ono of the
foremost candidates for the Presidency in 1864.
Mr. Crittenden's recent eulogy of Douglas ; his
open 'declaration. that he considers the "Little
Giant" a good enough Union man; the speeches
made night before last at the Union meeting in
this city, severe against the present corrupt Ad
ministration, and ridiculing the young Major, on
account of his versatility of changing his prin
ciples according to eiroumstances—having been in
1856pr0, and being now scuba; popular sovereignty
-alluding at the same time, in a quiet and rather
flattering manner, to S. A. Douglas as a gentleman
worthy of the confidence of the Aoierloan people,
rather prove that the apprehensions of the Sece
ders aro not entirely beyond plausibility. The
Union men would have no objection to take the
Southern offices, leaving the Northern to the Don:
glati men. The idea that the Condors would go
out of the Union Is utterly absurd. They may
leave individually, but their States will remain in
the Linton.. The Union men, who probably may
get a mejority of all the Southern Stater, will not
permit a minority,of Are-eaters to rule.
Some of our ladies who expect to oonfor the hot
nor of dancing with them upon the Prince of
Wales, if he comes here, have not been a little
amused that the Prince, in the dance, gives the
lady his left hand, and she is not permitted to take
his right, as being contrary to etiquette. That's
well enough as long as he remains In Canada
among his subjects; but here in the Lulled States
he is among, equals ' among sovereigns, and our
belles will remind him of that fait. Princes are
sometimes rude, but gentlemen never. They will
tell him that it Is well enough to be , a prince in
Canada, but in the United States he has to be a
gentleman; they won't dance with him without
his giving them the right hand ! They abhor
morganatio matches. Nox.
The Prospect Poi Breckinridge.
LIMIER PROX ♦ SZCIDER.
ICorrespondence of The Press.)
Yon must not al%w your correspondents from
this point to underrate the. strength of Breokin
ridge in the Sointh. I know your own feelings, per
frlendls_as their tr. h..--3a+,
enlisted against him, and I can realise that his
friends have been greatly discomfited by the late
result in Kentucky; but r beg to assure you that
the Southern people are-:allying heartily to his
standard, and that his friends in Kentuoky are
confident of the success of his electoral ticket in
November next. Mr. Senator Benjamin sends
word that two. thirds of the entire vote of Louisi
ana will be polled for Breckinridge. The divided
faotions of the Demooratio party in Virginia will
come together at Staunton in a few days, under the
load of Wise and Bunter, and that State, I think,
wilt go for Breekinridge. .
We have every prospect of success in Maryland;
the very action of the State Committee the other
day, in striking the names of Douglas men from
the electoral ticket, proves that we have. Douglas
has no full electoral ticket in Georgia, and in North
Carolina it is uncertain whether' his friends will
attempt one, although Mr. Dick, a delegate in the
National Committee from that State, has initiated
a movement in that direction: In Alabama we
have more trouble than we expected, but nobody
pretends to doubt that Breekinridge will extermi
nate all opposition in that State. Arkansas will
go for him almost unanimously, and in Tennessee--
although you will not like to have me say so—An
drew Johnson and A. 0. P. Nicholson, the two
Senators in Congress from that State, both mode
rate men, are both for Breokinridge, and both cer
tain that the State will go for him. There is little
or no Douglas feeling in Tennessee, except about
Memphis, and that grows out of the activity of J.
Knox Walker, and Carrot, the lately removed post
master.
Missouri will probably not go for Breokinridge,
but Ido not think it will go for Douglas. Thera
aro no Douglas men in Mississippi, few or none in
Texas, and as to South Carolina, the sentiment is
unanimous against him.
Do not ridicule this rough estimate, which I send
you merely to protest against your habit of misun
derstanding us in the South, and which I insist
upon your publishing, as an impartial journalist.
If Pennsylvania mould give us a lift in November,
Breokinridge would be elected; with' the aid of
California and Oregon, and the South would have
a President pledged to her own peculiar doctrine.
One who is not afraid of the name of SECEDER.
From Shippensburg, Pa
fOorregoondenoe of The Preu.l
SIIIPPENSIMEG, Aug. 11.
For weeks past, there has been a constant talk of
the excessively dry weather is this neighborhood ;
bat last evening blessed us with a delightful rain—
one worth thousands of dollars to this immediate
neighborhood. It commenced raining about six
°Week, and continued, with but short intervals,
until nearly ten. During tho night we had several
showers. This morning we had a beautiful. clear
ing up shower, but not equal to the one we had
last evening. This Is said to be the finest morning
we have had this season. Tho'corn crop, of which
the farmers had given up all antiolpations of real
ising anything near a good crop, now promisps a
good yield. All we want is, another good rain, In
the course of a week, and the fall orops will be
abundant in this section of country. J. 11. 11.
Joint O. KZIANAN.—That ,4 time and opportunity
make the man" is an old adage, and a true one
Gentle Willie Shairepearo has told us, and the Ire..
racily of his declaration does not admit of dispute,
that there is a time in the tide of human affairs
which If taken at the flood leads on to fortune, but
.few of us are ready to take advantage of the tide
which sets in, In our favor, and the opportunity
given once in a lifetime to every mast is too often
lost, and he is compelled to " row up stream" for
the balance of his existence. The subject of ear
notice le a man who has bided hie time, made his
opportunity, and become a man of mark in the pc
°miler sphere which he has seleeted for the display
of his prowess, and we question if to-day—apart
from the political arena—there is one whose name
is as familiarly known throughout the Union
as the muscular champion of the world,
long time known among his friend's as " The
Benicia Boy." What senses have led to this
dietinotion which the champion so modestly
wears are patent to the public. Mr. Heenan is not
by profession a pugilist. He emerged from a quiet
sphere of usefulness in defence of a principle—
stung by the taunts of would-be opponents In both
hemispheres. Etc seltimposed mission has termi
nated, and he desire+, to return to privet° life and
the pursuit of those avooatione which will render
him a worthy member of our groat community,
and not merely the champion of the athirst° of
Americus. In this determination the thousands
who, have sung his praises and gloried in his suc
cess should aid him.
OcoAsiox/L
AN Irishman named Edward Burns, a wea
ver, of Fall River, Mass., was arrested on Banal
street, Providence, on Sunday morning, on a charge
of having attempted to poison his wife and family
some months ago at Bebronvine, Maas. The poison
was 11118/110, and was mixed in largo quantities in
a barrel of four. By the timely assistanoe of a
physician their lives were saved, although Mlle of
the parties feel the Whets or the poison now, in the
lose of power• in their limbs, whinh will probably
affect them for life.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TVIONI)A'Y, AUGUST 13, 1860.
" LEXINGTON, Rai , 24,1860.
WASHIBOTOS, Angus ]2, 1880
Lotter from London.
Cortearondorme of The Prooll
Loms, July 110, 1800
At the clubs, in the coffee houses, upon the
etroets—overywhere London, nothing is talked
of but Lord Palmmstores panto speech, and the
dashing, straightforward' reply of Louis Napoleon,
through Id. Persigny. The latter has taken us all
by storm. Palmerston's speech and the ministerial
measure asking a vast sum of money for the pip
pose of constructing coast fortifications, besides
soaring the kingdom out of its wits, touched Eng
lishmen in one of their weak points, inns sneer at
the English navy being incapable of defending the
Island from invasion. Ni a all know with what ac
cord and smacking relish Englishmen have shouted
at home and abroad; in 'the words of the poet
Oarkpbell,
"Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers aloes the steep;
Her march Is o'er the mountain we've.
Her home is on the deep."
It would seem to be conceded by the Govern
ment now in office that that may be fine poetry
but very poor fact, and that, instead of " wooden
walls," frowning and bristling Bebastopols and
Oronetadts must dot the British oast to save the
purlieus of Bt. James, or the more sacred precincts
of Buckingham Palace, from the Zouavo yell of the
French troops. While the Tomes hesitatingly ap
plauds the Emperor's avowal of an ardent desire
for peace, yet ft catils, and one way or other ex
hibits ate distrust of " the nephew of his uncle." In
this it only re-echoes the popular opinion. We
hear that Napoleon, in his expedition to Syria,
with its armament and body of troops of gigantic
size in proportion to the enemy to bo assailed,
looks more to an annexation of that country to
his Algerine province under the vice royalty of
Abd-el-Bader, than to subserving any pretended
purpose of humanity. I know that nothing offends
the people here so much as to run a comparison
between the villainous, cowardly Sepoy troops of
British India who rebelled and massacred men,
women, and children, and the gallant, faithful
Turcos and Zonaves who fought well and with des
perate valor for the glory of France upon the re•
cent battle-fields of Italy. And it is more than
insinuated thit Napoleon has been unearthed
too soon by Palmerston, and that now he resorts to
duplicity to conceal his cherished scheme of ad
ministering upon the effeets of " sick man" Tur
key, whose dissolution, it is believed, rapidly ap
proaches. "Geiger's and hydras dire " start up
every morning to affright honest burghers and ner
vous traders. Mr. Bentinok, in the Rouse of Com
mons, a day or two ago, to add to the general alarm,
called attention to the present aspect of the affairs
of Europe, and the necessity of conferring on the
Government more stringent powersfor dealing with
foreigners of suspicions character, resident in this
country. The matter was deserving of the serious
attention of the Government, and one which they
ought not to overlook, when the possibility existed
of an invasion on the part of France; for the pre
sence of the agents of foreign Governments might
greatly embarrass our defensive operation', and
facilitate the successful landing of troops on dif
ferent parts of our coast. He did not wish to im
pugn the character of foreign residents in this
country ; but no one denied that there were many
thousands of foreign residents in London whose
character was of the worst description, and who
might be employed in the destruction of the rail-
ways and telegraph wires. He doubted whether,
in case of an emergency arising, the Government
had the power of adapting such sammarymeasares
as might be necessary to deal with it in an effectual
manner.
To whieli Sir G. O. Lewis replied that her Moja!)
ty's Government did not atitiolpate any Immediate
danger; bat, looking to the changes that had taken
place of late years, they bad come to the conclu
sion that our coasts ought to be placed in a proper
state of defence. In the event of any imminent
danger there would be no difficulty in passing an
Allen Aot. It would, however, require amok
stronger reasons than those advanced by the hon.
gentleman to ludo° the Government to ask for a
discretionary power of dealing with aliens, and it
wee not their intention to propose any such mea
sure to the House.
Notwithstanding all this, I am inclined to be-
Have that France intends no war with England.
Austria hates her malignantly; and, in such a
war, it might be that Russia with Austria, and
perhaps Prussia, would avenge their wrongs, real
or pretended, by the destruotion of tho empire.
Wellsandeed, does Napoleon know that with the
complications in Italy, his war in China and Syria,
he cannot involve himself, without great risk, in
a war with England.
Subseriptione continue to be taken up for Gari
baldi. Re has, indeed, won for himself immortal
fame, and I am glad that Viotot Emmanuel has .
had the good sense to start off to th e mountains to
hunt instead of obstrnoting Garibaldi's way toward
the complete demolition of Bomba's hateful des
potism. Wo wish, as I have no doubt you do in
the United States, that ere long Francis 11, S not
sent altogether to the devil, has at least been forced
to hurriedly seek quarters at Vienna. Yon know,
dear Colonel, Glancy Jones is there, and young
Bombs can have consolation from him, for both
have been exiled because both have been rejected
of the people.
Members of Parliament _are 2111 Wino f
unsiramonutou: — .Clloy era eager to be upon the moors
with guns and dogs. Bat most important business
has been put off to the fag-end of the session, and
Ido not look for a prorogation until September.
The fortifications bill and the bill on Indian affairs,
with, others equally important, demand conside
ration and notion before the separation of the
Home.
I hear that the English Government have insisted
hat the Government of Syria should be re•ergan-
ised, that the ftillest inquiry should be made into
the late 'disturbances, and the fullest retribution
should follow where the guilty parties wore dia.
covered, and that a European protectorate should
guarantee the security of the Maronitea, and from
Sicily that Garibaldi will invest Signor Depretis
with dictatorial powers as soon as possible—a mea
sure which will leave Garibaldi free to go where
ho likes whilst it secures Sardinian responsibility
for the Island of Sicily. /TOFU.
Napoleon's Letter to Lord Palmerston
OPINIONS 0? THE PRESS
The New York herald comments upon this Im
perial epistle after the following manner :
"But it should be remembered, in addition, that
the Emperor cannot, it he would, give a fresh di
rection to the career which destiny has chalked out
for him. Europe is divided into two hostile camps
—the one progressive, the other conservative, and,
in fact, we might almost say reactionary in its
principles. Circumstances have placed him at
the head of the former, and his energetic and
restless temperament renders him peculiarly fit
ted to conduct it to the results at which it
elms. But in doing this the greatest prudence and
eimumspection aro required. Were he to show
his hand too freely, or to suffer those opposed to
him to fasten upon him the imputations by which
they endeavor to embarrass his plans, he would
lose the hold that he possesses on men's minds. It
is in his apparent amenability to public opinion
that the secret of his great influence lies, and
therefore it is that he so trequently demands from
the diplomatic reserve in which monarchs and
statesmen usually involve themselves, and com
munes in a familiar and informal manner with the
world at large. Ile knows that in no more effec
tual way can he paralyze and disarm the combina
tions that are certain to be formed against him by
those interested in thwarting his projects.
"Whatever may be the temporary object of the
declarations put forth in the Imperial epistles, one
thing is certain, and that is, that they cannot alter
the logical sequence of the writer's, ants. Thus, he
may disclaim any designs of aggression against
England, but it cannot be denied mat ho is rapid
ly placing France in a position by which, if ho en
tertains such designs, they may easily be carried
oat. We must not, theretore, feel surprised at the
susceptibility of the English mind on this suhjeot, or
at the Emperor's anxiety to allay its approben—
Mons. 01 course, it by no means necessarily follows
that because he desires to place Prance on a par
with her powerful neighbor in regard to her fleet,
he meditates any aggressive steps against her. His
conduct in Italy certainly entitles him to a more
generous oonstrootion of his motives on the part of
the English people. Not only has he adhered
meetly to the doctrine of non-intervention pro
pounded by him in the affairs of the Busbies, bet
lie still proclaims the same doctrine in regard to
Naples, where hie family interests might well have
induced him to hold beak. If his policy were
purely a selfish one, ho would have reserved in
connection with that kingdom, the pretensions
which Prince Murat might reasonably put forth in
the event of the ejection of the Bourbons. In the
matter of Byrthothatever may be his ultimate object,
he cannot be blamed for giving effect to the gene
ral sentiment of horror and indignation with which
the news of the atrocities committed there was re
ceived by the Preach public His proposal of an
armed intervention was made to England in two
forme, either in the shape of a delegated Authority
on the part of the Christian Powers, or conjointly
with them. That interference of same sort was
urgently called for no one will deny, and the Em
parer deserves craftier the promptness with which
he responded to the general conviction on the sub•
jeot. He may have, and no doubt bee, a political
motive to serve In taking the initiative ; but be can
hardly be found fault with for that. Both Great Bri
tain and Mesta have exhibited too little sorupu
loneneee in connection with the affairs of the Porte
to render tho intervention of France on a question
in which the interests of humanity aro so deeply
continued a matter for the world to feel alarmed
at. We believe the Emperor when he tells us that
it is for the interest of France that the stata quo in
Turkey shall be preserved as long as possible; but
we can also understand that it is for her advantage
that she shall be on the spot when a term is put to it.
By having an army of 000upation in Rome, Louis
Napoleon has, for the last ten years, been able to
make Italy the lever of all his political movements
on the Continent of Europe. By an armed inter
vention in Syria, be will gain a similar foothold in
the affairs of the East, and when the partition of
the Ottoman territories takes place, will be in a
position to insist upon a fair division of the spoil."
ATTEMPT TO FIRE A VEeeET,.—On Saturday
night, about half peat nine o'clook, a fire was die
covered in the forecastle of the sohooner J. E.
Coohlin, lying in the Delaware, at the third wharf
above dallowhill street. It commenced among
some old sails, pine woad, and other combustible
materials. No person was on board the vessel at
the time, but two men who were fishing en the
wharf, discovered the tire, and it was soon 'satin
guishtsl. Sunioion rested upon a man, named
James Jackson, who had been employed on board
the boat as a hand, but had been discharged a short
time bef re. Jackson had been heard to utter
threats against the vessel Previous to the Oro
breaking out, Jackson was seen to go on board the
yeses , take off one of the batches, and then go
away. The pollee of the Eleventh ward sueeeeded
in arresting Jackson yesterday morning, and toek
him before Alderman Butler, who oemtnltted him
for a further hearing on Tuesday.
LATEST NE W'S
By Telegraph to The Press.
['RECUT , DESPATOU TO " TUE PRESS.")
Recapitulation of National Approprin-
WAstuNOTON, August 12, 1860.
The following table will exhibit a reoapitnla
tion of the appropriations made by Congress, du
ring the first session of the Thirty sixth Congress
Legislative, executive, judicial, oivil and
nrsoellaneout•••-. ...
lliplomarm arid constdar
Indian department, rovolutionary • lnvalid,
and otner 'Pensions— . 3327,213 23
Army, fort•fieations, Military Aeademy,
and military r0ade............--..... 11,476382 01
Naval service...., • ••-• • ........... 10361,030 47
Post office far 1860 --• • ....• •• • ..... 24967 332 98
Foist Mho .for • • • —...... 19,024,025 76
The Post Office appropriation for the ye a r 18 703
8074
embraoea a double appropriation for $3,128,321 for
the same object; one being an appropriaUon out
of any money in the treasury, and contingent upon
the insufficiency of the revenues of the Post Office
Department, out of which the other is appropriated
to meat the same.
The Post Office appropriation for the year 18(11
embraces a double appropriation for $5,007,424 75
for the same object; one being an appropriation
out of any money in the treasury, and contingent
upon the insufficiency of the revenues of the Post
Office Department, out of which the other is appro
priated to meet the same. OCCASIONAL.
From Central and South America.
TAR NORTH STAR AT NEW YORK.
NEW Yonk, Ang..l2.—The steamer North Star,
from Aspinwall on the 4th inst., arrived at this
port this evening.
The United States frigate Sabine and eioops•of
war Lancaster and St. Mary's wore at Panama.
The North Star brings no mails,
General Harney is a passenger.
The spode list of the North Star amounts to
$1,000,000.
The following are the principal consignees :
Duncan Sherman, A C0mpany....5264,000
Welts & Fargo 138 000
American Exchange Bank 97,000
William Bogs 60 000
J. Patrick 50 000
Tee°, McCain!, A, Company 50.000
E. Kelly 42,000
PERU.
Advioes from Buenaventura report that General
Mosquera, well supplied with men and money, has
sent an agent to Peru to purchase a small war
vessel, Also, that be has seized alt the gains bark
belonging to the native merchants, and sent it to
Callao for sale.
The dates from Lima are to July 14th. They
are unimportant. Many of the troops are going
south.
General Flores was advancing with 3,000 men,
and is nearing lloclega, where General Franco's
headquarters are situated. A collision was ex.
pasted.
Political Excitement at IlleConnelle
burg.
McCommunion', Pa., Ang. 11 --The Demoora
ey held a county meeting hero beet night, at which
a regular skirmish was indulged in between the
Douglas and Breokinridge parties.
Minh bitter feeling prevailed, and the meeting
broke up in a row.
A personal reneontre also took place het night
after the meeting, between Mr. Sansom and G. A.
Smith, a Breekinridge attorney.
Sansom gave Smith the lie, when the latter col.
fared him. The parties were then separated.
Daring the absence of the editor of the Demo
crat, Mr. Lawson, at Cresson, an edition of that
met was issued with the name of Breekinridge
at the head instead of Douglas, and a lengthy edi
torial, signed by Mr. Lawson's son, deolaring in
favor of the Maryland Institute nominees. The
affair has caused considerable exoltemont, as well
as amusement.
The Kentucky Election.
Louravnxx, August 11—Sixty out of the hun.
dred and four counties from which official returns of
the recent election have been received, give the
following vote :
Leslie Coombs (Sell 4, Everett) 48.808
Clinton M'Clarty (Breckinridge). 26 607
B. It. Bolling (Douglas) 8 572
Bo king '385
Kelly 284
The vote last fall for Governor stood as follows :
Democratic 76.188
Opposition ' 67,271
Eoursvisms, August 12 —Returns from eighty
four counties have been received.
Coombs tam 25,841 majority over MeMarty, and
8,555 over all.
Douglas State Convention in Kentucky.
PDLL ELRCTORAL TICKET NONDIATED-COALITION
DRNOlusCieD
LOUIBVILLE, Aug. 11.—The Douglas Demooratlo
State Convention met here yesterday.
Eighty-seven counties were represented by 700
delegates.
D. P. White, Req., presided.
Araby Dixon and John O. Mason were nominated
electors at large, and a full electoral Douglas
tioket was formed.
Resolutions repudiating any coalition with the
Brookinridge wing, and reaffirming the Cincin
nati
..platform, were passed amidet immense ap
plause.
The Missouri Elee,tion.
Br. Loma, August 12 —The Republican says that
John B. flonderson (Democrat), for Congrese in
the 26 district, Is defeated by Jame A. Rollins
(Oppooitlon), by 249 votes.
Otairborne F. Jackson (Douglas Demoorat), an
far as heard from, lends Sample Orr (Union), for
Ocorernor, 6,290 votes.
Ala4 . ratotilua Alva. la
UALIL4NEI, Aug. IO.—A row of buildings on
Royal street, extending from Oustatn House street
to BienNille, and occupied for furniture, liquor, and
piano stores, was destroyed by Are last night. The
loss'amonnted to $600,000, which Is mostly insured.
) Prom Plke , B Peak.
Xoteern, Mo., Aug. 11.—Advloes from Den
ver Oily state that the trial of Oar! Wood, for at
tempting to kill the editor of the Rooky Mountain
Nt3ol, had resulted In hie acquittal, one of the
jurymen having stood out for his release. Wood
tree left the Territory.
Secretary Cass at Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Seoretary Cass has re
turned, apparently in improved health, and this
morning he remand his official duties.
All the members of the Cabinet are now hero,
Secretary Cobb excepted.
Mexican Affairs.
SPAIN AGAIN AIDING MINAMON
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10.—Lerdo Tejada writea
that the Constitutional Government has reotived
reliable intelligence that Spain is fitting out an
expedition to give moral support to Atiramon's
third expedition against Vera Orue.
Homicide at Baltimore.
BALTLIIORE, August 12 —Emanuel Irons, a mem
ber of the City Council from the First ward, had a
difficulty lest night at his residence with his
brother-in-law, during which ho discharged the
contents of a shobgun at him. The shots took ef
fect on a brother of his intended victim named
John Witt, killing him instantly.
Departure of the Great Eastern from
Annapolis.
BALTIVORL, August 11.—The steamship Great
Eastern sailed from Annapolis Roads at an early
hour this morning, for New York. She did not got
all her coal on board.
The Schooner Treasure nt floston.
nom*, Aug. 12.—The schooner Treasure,
}lon. Geo. W. Boranton noting commodore, with a
number of Pennsylvania politicians and editors on
board, arrived here last night. khe will probably
go east tomorrow.
Non-Arrival of the Anglo-Saxon.
Raman Polar, August 12-9 o'olock P. M.
There are no sigma of the steamship Anglo Saxon
now due with Liverpool advices to the 2,1 lust.
Fire at Mobile.
Monica, August 11 —A number of buildings,
inoluding a railroad depot, wore destroyed by fire
to-day. The lons amounted to from $75,000 to
$lOO,OOO,
'Suicide.
Louta, Aug. 11 —F. 0. Atkinson, of the firm
of D. G. Fuller ,fc Co., of Paducah, committed sui
cide last evening.
[From the Londoi times, Au 41.1
The Emperor's Letter will be read with interest
by all, with satisfaction by those who can forget
the logic of facts. The style Is the fall Roman
hand, familiar to the man who has won an empire,
who has more recently annexed two provinces, and
is master of a hundred legions. With the argument
of success nothing is so easy as selfqnstilloation.
ft must be observed, however, that it to no excuse
for the annexation of Savoy and Nice that it was
condithinal on Tuscany and the Duchies declaring
for Piedmont. A steam navy may be far above
the real wants of a nation, and yet be far short of
the previous number of inning vessels. Prance may
have only 400,000 men actually "under arms ;" but
when, for our own security, we measure men against
men, it le necessary to take into account the [tun
manse addition she can make with a single fort
night's notice. "But why are all these topes to be
brought up, when we are only invited to a common
policy in the affairs of bouthern Italy and the
East?
Certainly, there is a case for interference of some
sort in Syria; and, as neither the British Parlia
ment nor the British press have given the leant
countenance to the susploions and rumors which
are current respecting the origin of thu civil war,
the prejudice against which the Emperor ~eerns to
defend himself. can only arise from the actual ope
rations of French diplomacy in the Bast, They
may or may not have contributed to the 'present
deplorable results, and the oonsequent appeal for
European intervention; but English statesmen
and writers have expressed no opinion on that
question. Wo are, however, glad of any occasion
which has elicited the profession of such friendly
sentiment, and tenet that they may foreshadow a
policy under which we may enjoy peace without
being compelled any longer to support all the
burdens of war.
Two Men Drowned at Long Branch.
The Now York Herald says :
A sad easualty occurred at Long Branoh on Sa
turday, at the usual bathing hour. Among the
bathers wore Dr. Edward G. Demmer, of Jersey
City, and Mr. John Whittaker, of Trenton, and a
party of ladies. From some cause the ladies be
came apprehensive of danger, and Dr. Demmer
and Mr. Whittaker proceeded to their relief, and
in their efforts became exhausted, and before as
Bletanoe could reach them both wore drowned:
The Doctor was drawn into a boat as soon as he
could bo reached by Mr. Green, a fisherman, and
taken ashore, and as several physicians were at
I hand, every available means and effort!' were used
to restore both of the gentlemen, but without M
OMS ; they bad passed beyondthe power and skill
of man to bring back life.
Mr. Whittaker was a largo, stout man, who, it is
said, a brother of Mr. Green swam ashore with.
His wife and son, about seventeen years of age,
were with him at the time. He had been here
about three weeks, and was about returning for the
rest of the family an Monday. There aro five or six
other EOM and daughters left to mourn the unex
pected and sudden loss.
It is said Dr /haulier lost a mother and slater In
the ateamcblp LYerinalse, when she went down
some years ap,
THE CITY.
SUNDAY IN PHILADELPHIA.
POPULAR REsORTS.
WALKS WITH THE MASSES.
No question has been, of late, so pertinaciously
agitated as that of the modification, repeal, or en
forcement of the Sunday laws. The people of the
two great oities of America have discussed the
moral and social relations of man to the Sabbath
with an interest akin to bitterness, and the contest
still continues with little hope of an early adjudi
cation.
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It may not be unwise to glance at the amuse
ments and labors of the Philadelphia masses, as
now conducted upon the First day; for, if there be
a necessity for a modification of the Sunday laws,
a comprehensive review of the Sabbath as i . it is
will go far to assist that modification.
4105 CHURCH•QOINO PUBLIC.
Probably 100,000 citizens attend religious wor
ship at least once during the day. The majority
of these are not oommunioants, nor professed con
verts to any faith. They go to church from various
oonsiderations—respeot to the services, family as
sociations, curiosity, etc. The Sabbath schools
hold two sessions, and most of the scholars like
wise attend worship. The scenes upon Sunday
morning, when these are collecting at the several
schools, are very picturesque. The sound of the
church-going bell" rings out its cheery but mono
tonous muds, and straightway the tremulous air is
laden with the harmony of footfalls. . Little
urchins, with chubby faces, patter along the clean
pavements, their wrists grasped by the stronger
bands of little sisters, and each bearing blue-back
ed hymn books and tracts. Then the father
of the family goes by, with oaoh hand clasping
the liners of his prattlers, and sober ladies,
who teach In the basement of the neigh
boring church, pass lightly along with mutton ,
but kindly faces. Then oome boys in irregular
squads, with library books. Some have coats
which set upon them ungainly, and most have
rowe of gilt buttons upon the untarnished blue
'sloth of their " roundabouts" and jackets. Every
body has something to say, and mingled choruses
from happy hearts oho along the streets. The
streets are nicely swept. Most of the swellings
are closed. Business men lounge in their clean
shirt sleeves upon the white marble threshold of
their homes, reading with a dignified interest the
oolumns of the Sunday papers. Dark eyes peep
through darker lashes from the crevices of parlor
shutters, and delicate white hands are seen st
upper windows to hurriedly tie the red ribbons
of the bonnet under dimpled chins. Now the
'Mimes of bolls from St. Peter's and Christ ohurches
peal grandly forth, " and children of larger
growth" begin to stir toward the tabernacles.
flare is the minister who bows in return to a hun
dred salutations. Tottering along, with vacant
and dim eyesight, goes the aged Christian, LL
white looks sparsely streaming from beneath his
bat, and leaning trustfully upon his staff. The air
has a fragrance which work-days do not know, and
souls which never worship at the altar nor heave
with the gush of the deep-lunged organ, glance
tenderly through the tree leaves at the serene
sky, and look with a faith they may not doubt,
through the beauty of Nature up to Nature's
God. But the most motto of the churchmen crave
some enjoyment. The afternoon is fresh, and with
a cigar between their lips, the young and the.old go
out for some
When we speak of promenading, we mean plea
sure promenading. Thera are certain avenues and
suburban [Tots which are noted for Sunday walks.
Prominent among these comes Broad street, from
Poplar street to the Germantown Railroad. The
spacious mansions upon that broad avenue form
weekly objects of admiration. Monument Ceme
tery is the resort of thousands, and there aro two
or three diverging lanes beyond the cemetery down
which the pedestrians stroll. At three o'clock the
promenade eommenees. Here are oitisens of
Southwark, who have sauntered listlessly up the
Ridge avenue; denizens of Kensington coming by
scores up either side of Girard avenue; and sober
people of Spring Gartien swell the number by me.
mentary arrivals through 'every alley and street.
They pause before the beautiful mansion of the
Anspaohes—once a flourishing college—and speak
in transports of the whiteness of its marble and
the elegance of its architecture. They throng the
sidewalks, and through the iron railings gaze with
curiosity at the orange and lemon trees, whose
tropio fruit bangs fall and yellow under our colder
sky. There la the " laburnum's drooping gold ;"
over statues of sylphs, and satyrs, and old divini
ties are trailed the greenest of evergreens. The
cedar tree, low and bushy, stands in dwarfed pos
ture beside the deeper foliage of the "balm of
Gilead." Through these the eye meanders down
gravelled paths, over which bang the snowball and
the tulip, while the tinkle of waters which one
cannot see comes to the ear from some hidden
fountain. But the mind of the chronicler turns
instinctively from these to the crowd on the pave-
The fire " b'hoy" is there, not a whit altered
from the original "Jakey," and a living testimony
against any transmutation of species. Be nourishes
that whalebone cane with Its heavy .head as if
spoiling for a row, and speaks aloud with a care
lessness of conventionalities which is very refresh
ing in this methodical age. Some dashing young
gents provoke his /mount, and he makes some un
generous remarks about their neektiee and boots
which add speed to their nighty perposo.
The crowds press on and the " b'hoy" with them.
They go by in a very demooratio array, men and
women, dogs and babies, calmly and nervously,
anions and careless.
, Here is a peanut stand kept by a Entail boy, who
cries very loudly, in two syllables, " Yersyernice-
Caleforneypeanutx on'ey slxoenteapint !" In a
bucket of ice water rest three stone bottles with
the cork tightly tied. In response to a request, the
small boy states that they contain " Basyprilla,
only one cent," and immediately the small boy
screams very loudly, "Right away now, real Cale
forney peanuts, only six cents !" and we move off
to the musio of " right away !"
Beneath spacious residences of brown stone,
guarded by watchful cupolas, we move on. There
pass ue hundreds of pedestrians who are returning—
dozens of girls, flippant and orderly ; of boys, rough
and mannerly; of men, devout and worldly; of
dogs, (and dogs have no fears of Captala Frannie
and hie bloody marinas on Sunday,) shaggy and
smooth.
We are at Broad and Master streets, beneath the
massive residence of the 'renowned Forrest. Lit
tle boys, who have boon twice to the theatre, and
once to Sanford's," are lurking wistfully on the
sidewalk. They hope to get a glance of the emi
nent tragedian. Folks come by, look up to the
polished windows, and say —' 4 Ned Forrest's
place."
Look up ! There is the tragedian ! He appears
at the window a moment, without coat or vest, his
tremendous body looming up beneath his knitted
brawls and deeply lined features. There is the eye
which flashed upon Leird Bay, and made Deademo
na tremble; the muscular arm and fingers which
strangled Appian Claudius. The small boys look
up. Everybody looks up. Every eye runs over
the outlines of that broad form and faoe, whose ap
pearance has raised the dust from the pit, and
shouts from the galleries. The eminent tragedian
glances at the upturns 1 faces, and walks away.
But the small boys linger about the side-walk, and
speculate as to when the eminent tragedian is to
again appear upon the stage, while the lad down
the street is faintly heard to vociferate "peanuts."
Bat here is a new sensation—a crowd beneath
the shade of a large tree. Somebody is making a
emporium° epeeoh, and relating very original aneo•
dotes. The people listen good humoredly. Pubis
cans are assailed as enemies to the race, and alco
hol and malt stigmatized as deadly poisons. The
marriage at Cana in Galilee is overhauled, and
ingeniously proved to have been destitute of wine•
But there is an interruption. An individual, slightly
oblivious, ventures to make a profane remark. Ile
is at onoo dragged off by a valiant policeman, and
the juvenile element of the audience immediately
give obese We are at Monument Cemetery—beneath
its high wall, while the terraces above are crowded
with sitters. Let us go in. ' Show your ticket !" from
the stern gate-koeper—!! only eabsoribers pass in
on Sunday." We are inside. Down the long
paths the visitors saunter among the tombs and
around the monuments. Here is the grave of
George khiflier—yonder the firemen's granite
shaft.
A mother site down upon a little mound and
whispers to Johnny that Mater sleeps hero. Johnny
throws a sprig of cedar on sister's grave, and
mother's tears trloklo down the blades of grass.
In this city of the dead there is much of life, for
laughter and joke echo over the graves, and totioli
ing tombstone verses are read with a sneer or a
pun. In vain do we road that in the midst of life
we aro in death, for hors, amidst death, there are
vetoes of life.
Bach is Sunday on Broad street. The thorough
fare to haunted until dusk, and in the moonlight
trodden again. A tramp of ten minutes through
the meadows, beside Oehooksink creek—not the
rude, turgid culvert, but the sparkling rivulet,
leaping and gurgling—brings us to Cameo's Woods,
and thin introduces to another class of Sunday re.
aorta, viz. :
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The German mind is peauliarly active and im
pressers. The German institutions and habits have
been naturalized into this country, and are no
longer German. Lager beer was formerly a dis
tinctive Teuton beverage : not so any more. It has
been nationalized, and a a ealons reformer might
succeed in upturning any one or all of the mots
and parties, but to attempt to eradicate lager beer
would be as impossible as dangerous. Beer has
been Judicially pronounced intorteating, and the
law lays down that the sale of intaxioating drinks
shall be prohibited on Sunday. flaw is it, then,
that the beer gardens are not, closed? Because the
Sunday law, in this direction, is an utter nullity;
for the masses prefer the beer to the law, and the
voice of the people is all-powerful.
Thera are around Philadelphia more than one
thousand sores of • hind deToted to beer ,trardens.
SUNDAY PROSIENADING
We Include four or five Owes in New Jersey, sup
ported by Philadelphia patronage. One of the ,
largest gardens in the city ie known as Engle and
Wolf's farm. It stands east of the Eohuylkill, near
Columbia bridge, and at s distance of half a mile
from the Ridge turnpike.
The extensive breweries adjoin the river. In
the centre of the farm there is a fine grove. An
old-time mansion, standing beside it, has been
stripped of its ancient furniture rind,turned into a
bar-room. Here the beer comes sparkling and ,
rosy from the breweries. A spieket is driven in
the head of the keg, and the beverage babbles out,
with a snowy foam, into strong glass goblets.
Four cents will purchase a mug of this infusion,
and two mugs are warranted to upset- the most
stubborn gravity. About the old-time mansion
cluster scores of long tables with broad seats:
These are peopled on Sunday by hundreds of
citizens. To show the democratic tendency of
Teuton luxuries we enumerate some prices: Beer
with Schweitzer cheese and mustard, ten cents ;
beer with Limberger cheese, eight cents; beer
with red herring, tan dents; beer with ham, a
herring, or sardines, twelve cent'. To them)
who are fond of it, Schweitzer or Swiss cheese, is
a great luxury. It comes, as its name implied,
from Switzerland, and looks unlike ordinary curd
or dairy cheese, only in certain effervescences or
holes. Eaten without condiments it is fulsome
and rank, but coated with a spoonful of the dark
English mustard, and washed down with a quantity
of beer, is exceedingly palatable. These German
beer gardens are likewise tarnished with gymnas-
tio apparatus. Some of them have theatres, al
though
in that partioular this oily is superseded by
Now York. There are but three or four places in
the city where these theatres are kept, and these
are not opened upon Sunday.
There is ono at Engle and Welt's, which gives
two performances per week and supports a fall
German dramatic company. The scenes in these
gardens are interesting to sabbatatiene. Each of
them has a, large dancing platform, where from
morning until night the music is gushing, and the
lassies of Hesse and Baden dance with a lightness
which has no dependence upon the frequezoy of
their inabibitions. Outside, the families are indulg.
ing. The mother's hand pours beer for the Infant,
and sturdy Teuton sons drink good-humoredly with
their parents. It may be that the domestic attach
ments of the Germans are strengthened by this
unity of enjoyment. For the family ties are never
kindlier and more enduring than in the homes of
our Teuton citizens. An American would blush at
the thought of taking hie wife to a beer garden,
but he may imbibe himself, while she le in solitude
at home.
As a general thing, good order prevails at these
gardens, not leas so on Bunday than upon lese•re•
mended days. Where difficulties occur, our own
rowdies are the assailants.
It le a singular feet that most of the old man
atone in the vicinity of the Schuylkill are being
turned into beer houses. At Iggiesfield, &NIP'
kill Heights, at the Falls, along the line of the
Reading Railroad, and in sundry spots, we find
this metamorphosis going on. The parlors, which
were ones solemn with gentility, are now gleeful
with song, and under the paternal oaks the Teuton
site down to sport.
BIINDAY GROGGEIIIIB
The Brinday enjoyments of our own people are
not so commendable. Hundreds of low groggerlea
are open during the day, and alcoholic. stimulants
dispensed as on week days. The spacious saloons
on Chestnut street do more than their usual busi
ness, and the resorts of seamen upon Water and
Front streets dispense poisonous liquors. Efforts
have been made to inaugurate suburban drinking
places in the manner of beer gardens, but these
nave invariably degenerated into scenes of bee.
tiality and wickedness.
SMITH'S IBLLIID
Just opposite the city, as every olthen knows,
lies Smith's Island, a famous juvenile resort. The
lads who screens newspapers at Third and Chest
nut streets make this a place of rendezvous on
Sunday. A small steamer carries passengers across
and back for six cents. Oa the island, the.attrao
tions are a bowling alley, a quoit ground, a pond
of muddy water, filled with snows, a fishing pond,
and a large bath tub. The latter is enclosed,
and water forced into it from the river by a steam
engine. The scenes at this place, partioularly on
Sunday, are very diversified and unique. Hun
dreds of boys are swimming; some moneyed charac
ter throws a penny into the tub ; instantly a wore
of youngsters dive. Sometimes two get the nickel
at the same time. Then there results a fight, in
which one manages to pummel the other, and
bold his head under water until half drowned.
Sometimes the lucky diver ii assaulted on all
sides, and the nickel taken from him, where.
upon the second possessor is also assailed. We
witnessed a humorous scene yesterday at this place.
An urchin had been successful in diving for a
three-cent piece, which he placed in his month
Immediately upon coming up he set up a yell of
triumph, whereupon a ohsgrined party struck
him a stunning blow on the cheek, which forced
him to swallow the coin. The parties fought for a
half hour, greatly to the delight of the crowd. The
assailant was repulsed. Pickpockets find this
bath-tub a convenient resort. The clothing of the
bstbers Is _deileSited_ in _boxes and_ it is an easy
matter to get off with watches and °alb. — zrapplly
the parties who patronize the tub are not generally
troubled with these responsibilities. A boy was
drowned at this place a few weeks ago. The quoit
ground Is extensively patronised. The players
pitch for "drinks," aad the booth accordingly
does a large business.
One of the moat frequent luxuries of Smith's
Island is a dog fight. The canines are trained by
promising urchine, and some gentleman divides a
dime between the owners of rival doge to "set
them at it." The news flies over the bland.
Everybody is alive, and the scene of conflict is
narrowed to a broad ring. The dogs are held by
the quarters and instigated to engage, but are not
allowed to "go at it " until grown ferocious from
constraint. Then, amid a yell of triumph from the
delighted witnesses, they plunge upon each other
with a howl of gratification. They leap into the
air and grapple. One of them is a bull mastiff, the
other a heavy black, shaggy beast, with strength
but net endurance. Isn't It beautiful? They roll
over again and again, the throng opening to give
them play. Now the mastiff has the shaggy ani
mal by the nose, but the shaggy sees coming
events. lie backs to the brink of the pond, and
with a sudden turn hurls the mastiff away
off into the water. How the blood gushes from
his muzzle, but valiantly be takes hie place on
the bank, and wherever the enemy swims up
he is there to defy him. The dog cannot land.
The crowd cry " foul." Somebody goes out in a
scow to rescue the bull dog. Owners Bay they
shan't be put at it again. Crowd know better.
Dogs taken away from owners and ring formed
anew. Then, with yelping and worrying, bleeding
and feroolty, the noble animals engage. The bull
dog gets the shaggy dog by the ear and sinks his
long canines through the flesh. The shaggy dog
grows faint. He falls. The bull-dog, true to hie
instincts, hangs like a vice to his ear, and not until
kicked, cuffed, and beaten, will he give up.
Then the air rings with shouts of applause, and,
by way of finale, several human brutes finish in a
skirmish.
OTHER SUNDAY RESORTS
We have written until wearied, and yet there
are many spots of Sunday resort of which the
reading public do not know. There are delightful
groves and beautiful drives, and up-river cottages,
promenades over Schuylkill bridges, and along
the towpath. With these we will not deal. But
they may be marked ; for the oharaoter and tastes of
the people may be known from their amusements,
and their wishes as to the legal disposition of the
First day ascertained from the manner of spend
ing it. When worship is over in the still evening,
the reporter makes his customary rounds, and the
printer labors at the morning paper. They take
their several ways upon foot, for there is no public
riding, and jog at the coming of the small hours; to
perhaps distant homes, weary of foot and longing
for rest.
Tatung OF RESPECT.—A meeting of the
members of tie Philadelphia Bar was held on Sa
turday morning at the Court House. The meeting
was called in consequence of the decease of Wil
liam A. Edwards, Erq.
On motion, Daniel Dougherty was called to the
chair, and Richard Ludlow appointed secretary.
Mr. Dougherty, on assuming tho chair, made
some feeling and appropriate remarks.
Isaac Oerhart,,Esq., offered the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted, prefacing
them with a beautiful tribute to the virtues and
talents of the deceased :
Resolved, That we have heard with sincere sorrow of
the death of our late brother at the bar. William A. Ed
wards. whn has. at the early tie of twer ty•eix years,
been out off by the heavy hand of death from a profes
sional career most auspiciously begun
Resolved. 'I het we feel that it becomes 011, us profes
sional brethren of the deceased , to give istil° laurea
tion. upon this melancholy occasion. to oarlock sense
of the worth acil virtues of the deceased, and of the
loss we have sustained by hie rem val from among us
Resolved, That in the death of William A. kdwards
we have lost a brother whose many generous (mimes
endeared him to ailment, enloved 'mist communion with
him i and whose never-failing courtesy. kindness. and
high toned sense of honor rendered professional inter
course with him always a pleasure, and bid fair to ren
der him an ornament to our bar.
Resolved, That we amoerely sympathize with his be
reaved family, and that a committee of five be Instruct
ed to forward to them a copy of these resoiutione
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be
pubinthed.
Eloquent addresses were also mede by .T.shua T.
Owen, Richard Ludlow, and. Robert l'alothorp,
Esquires.
On motion, tbo Chair appointed Pane Gerhart,
William Sergeant, Se Jeshua Jeshua T. Owen,
Esq., Charles S. Paccoast, Esq., and Robert E.
Randall, Esq.
On motion, the chairman and secretary were
added to the committee.
VISIT OF SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICIALS TO
PnicenstentA —A committee of the City Coun
cils of Charleston, N. C., waited upon Mayor
Henry, on Friday afternoon, bringing an intro
ductory letter from the Mayor of Charleston.
Their principal errand is to examine into our ar
rangemente for making gas. The Councilmen
I were courteously received by Mayor Henry, in hie
private office, and all nceerscry facilities were
promptly extended to them to attain the object of
their mission. The strangers were taken to the
Central Police Station Independence Bell, and
the Gee Works. The visitors bad been to Boston,
and stopped in Philadelphia en their return.
ROIMERY IN GLOUCESTER, N J.—On Fri
day evening, the cafe in the counting-room at
ttched to the lumber yard of William McAllister,
at Gloucester, N. J., was broken open and robbed
01415 in pennieg.
PROPOSZD HEPORME IS TIM FI111D11:Pittl-
XENT.—For some time put a subcommittee of the
Committee on Fire and Trusts of the City Coaneila
and a rub-committei of the Board of Fire Direetore
have been consulting together for the purpose of
suggesting reforms in the 0111110111 orgabisatiOn of
the Fire Department. Last week we published in
The Press a list of the soggestione proposed by the
sub-committee of Councilmen. These were re
ferred to the Committee of the Fire Directors, who
had several meetings lug week to discus the sub
ject, and the following are the saggeetions proposed
by the Firemen's Committee, to se submitted to
the Council Committee :
1. ,Vach company shall elect a foreman and as
sistant foreman, who shall have control of the ap
paratus at fires.
2. The foreman and assistants shall form &Board
of Fire Directors for the government of the Fire
Department; and the said board shaft elect a com
mittee of Ave persona, sot oonneotad with the Fire
Department, to whom all complaints and dirt:ill•
ties between companies Will be referred.
3. The number ofas-Mani engineers to be in
creased from five to seven—one for each fire
district.
4. The tire districts shall remain as at present.
5. Companies are to be restricted fr.m going
into service only in the portion of the district in
which they are located—that is to say, Tenth
street shall be the dividing line, and if a fire occurs
oast of Tenth street, in the Fleet and Second firs
districts, all the companies east of Tenth street in
that district are permitted to go in service while
those located west of Tenth street, although they
may come to the fire ground, will not go into ope
ration until requested to do so by the chief or
assistant engineers. If a fire should occur west of
Tenth stree:, the oempanies on the west elle are to
attend to it, those east of Tenth street laying off
until their services aro required. Tenth street in
made the dividing line between the First, Second,
and Third districts, and the same rule in relation
to companies going into service east and west of
Tenth street, will prevail throughout alt the dis
tricts east of the Schuylkill.
A SERIES or BOLD BOBBEIttk2.-7sc-20n.x
ter Astaxar.—For some time past, the residents of
the Sixth. Seventh, and Eighth wards have bean
metering from the depredations of thieves, who
took advantage of the absence of occupants of the
heroes, to enter and carry away everything of
value they could lay their bands upon. On Fri
day, Lieut. Goldey, with the officers of his district,
succeeded in arresting Perry White and Henry
Smith, on a charge of being concerned in these roi
escrow, robberies; and Saturday the same officers
found, after visiting a number of pawnbrokers, a
large quantity of geode, consisting of black velvet
mantles, silk opera cloaks, deem coats, overcoats,
silk dresses, pants, vests, opera-glasses, and jewel
ry of every description. The accused then made a
clean breast of the whole affair, and acknowledged
that three persons were engagd in the business.
They confined their operations to the day-time, as
the removal of the goods then was not calculated
to excite so much suspicion. In the few months.
they have been engaged, they state that they have
stolen about $15,000 worth of goods, from which
they received but a small proportion of the real
value. Smith acknowledges that be has taken 150
silk dresses, and with the proceeds he purchased
an oyster boat. This boat was, however, taken
from him by his companions, who threatened to
inform upon him, should he "make any objeetlon.
The accused also state, among other things stolen
was a lot of old coin, and the police, in thefr scarab
for the articles, found they had been melted for
old copper. Where they took watebee the move
ments were destroyed, and nothing bat the cases
pawned. A few of these were recovered, but the
greater portion had been disposed of by the pawn
brokers.
Mr. McCabe, who keeps a pawnhonking esta
blishment in Fatah street, and at whose house a
portion of the stolen goods was found, was arrested,
and, after a heating before Aid. Bolder, was com
mitted to answer a charge of reeeivtng the goods
knowing them to have been stolen.
CENSUS RETURNS —The following returns
have been made to the Marshal by the deputies to
take the census for Chester county :
West Whiteland.—lnhatiltanU, 1,214; increase,
72; families, 210; dwellings, 216; blacks and
mulattoes, 160; deaths daring the past year, 23.
East Whiretand.—lnhabltasos, 1,188; decrease,
6; families, -220; d 228.; biacks and mulat
toes, 102; deaths, 10..
Charlestown.—lnhabitante,. sea : decrease, 19 ;
dwellings, 189; families, 189; blacks and meat.
tees, 78 ; deaths during the pest year, 7--one 72,
one 82, and one 83 years of age.
West Pikeland.— Inhabitants, 906; increase,
164; dwellings, 165; families, 167; blacks and
mulattoes, 30; deaths, 7—three admits, and four
children.
Etat Pikeland.—lnhabitants, 796; Inertmee, 74 ;
dwellings, 150; families, 150; blank, and mulat
toes, 5 ; deaths, 3. -
West Vincent.—lnhabitante, 1410; increase.
270; dwellings, 272; families, 270; blanks and
mulattos, 12; deaths, 14.
West Chester.—lnhabitants, 4,770 ; increase,
1,598; colored, 550; increase,99; prisoners, 49
20 of whom are colored ; dwelings, 926 ; families,
904; dwellings unoccupied, 22, and good; deaths
within the year, 65 • farms, 4
Walleoe.—lnhabitants, 757; families, 150;
dwellings, 150; blacks and mulattoea, 10; deaths,
s—one person aged ninety years.
East Brandywine —lnhabitants, 1,044 ; increase,
71; families, 198; dwellings, 193; blacks and mu
lattoes, 43; deaths, 4—the oldest person aged 86
SirTTLEKIeNT OF A DISPITTIL—Last week a
committee of the Board of Fire Directors of Phi
ladelphia- Messrs Edviard C. Richardson, of the
Southwark Rose Company, James McCaliey, of the
Fairmount Bose, and •dohn M. R. De Beast, of the
Schuylkill Hose and Ladder Company—visited
Lancaster, at the request of the Firemen's Parade
Convention of that city, for-the purpose of settling
a dispute which has existed for tome time past. be
tween the Union, Friendship, and Sun Fire Com
panies as to which was the oldest company. There
is to be a parade of the Lancaster fire department
on the 27th of September, and it, was necessary
Wet Inns asspaes. *heat/ be settled before the pa
rade came off. The committee entered upon their
duties, and, after a careful inVestigatton, they de
cided that the Sun Fire Company was the oldest
company, and should take date and rank from
December 10, 1763. The Union Fire Company was
deckled to be the next oldest, dating from June,
1784. The Friendship Fire Company was decided
to be the third in seniority, dating from December
31st, 1791. The decision caused some little disap
pointment to some of the members who expected to
take rank as "No. 1," but, nevertheless, the re
port was received with decorous acquiessence.
TESTLMONISL TO HARRISBURG FIREMEN
The West Philadelphia Engine Company visited
Harrisburg in October last, and during their stay
were the guests of the Friendship Fire Company,
of that city. The former company have prepared
for presentation to the Friendship, a splendid sil
ver fre-born, as a testimonial of the kindness
shown to the Philadelphians on the occasion. The
horn stands two feet high, and is twelve inches
across the bowl. The mouthpiece is of gold, and a
massive silver cord with agnielettes, adds cond.
derntly to the appearance of the whole affair. The
ornnuentation is elaborate, consisting of firemen's
implements—plugs, horns, spanners, &c . and, as
an emblem of friendship, the figures of two fire
men, members of the West Philadelphia and
Friendship, are represented in bold relief, shaking
bands. The inscription is, "Presented to the
Friendship Fire Co., of Harrisburg, by the West
Philadelphia Engine f Philadelphia." The
whole cost was $2OO Co., The presentation is to be
made on Monday evening, 20th inst , by a com
mittee who will visit Harrisburg for the purpose.
MILITARY.—The Washington Ekren, Capt.
John B. Goslme, will celebrate their forty-third
anniversary on Friday next, 17th inst., by a parade
in the afternoon, and will proceed to Belmont Cot- -
tage, on the west side of the Schuylkill, above
Fairmount.
The Continental Guards, Capt. George Spear,
will parade on Wednesday next, 15th inst., for
target practice, and proceed to Bath Springs, near
Bristol, Pa.
The following gentlemen were last week °tsetsd
commissioned officers of the Warren Guards : Se
cond lieutenant, Daniel L. Malseed; third lieu
tenant, Augustus H. Wilson.
The Philadelphia Grays, Capt. Rush, have de
cided to attend the state encampment at York,
Ps., early in September. nie Grays :noose of the
best-disciplined companies of Philadelphia, and
will reflect honor on the eitisen-soldiery of Phila
delphia.
The Columbian Rifle corps have elected Captain
George P McLean, who commanded the corps se
veral years ago, a member for life, as a token of
their appreciation of his services while in com
mand. This compliment was well deserved.
AN EXTENSIVE VAULT FOR BURLIL PUB.
rossa.—The Passenger Railway Relief Association
contemplate erecting in extensive 'snit in Glen
wood Cemetery, on the lot presented to them by
the company. It will contain 500 bodies. On the
inside it will enclose 1200 square feet, having a
walk five feet wide in the centre. There will be a
skylight at the end to admit light to the interior.
The vault will bo arranged with partitions, suffi
ciently wide to admit a coffin. These will be placed
in layers, one above the other, and the aperture
will be bermetioally closed up, and a marble slab
placed over it, containing the name and age of the
deceased, so that the relatives and friends may al
ways be able to distinguish the place where the
body is deposited. In this way, everything offen
sive is avoided, and the vault will be opened to ad
mit visitors whenever desired. The vault will be
fire feet deep below the level of the ground, and
nix feet above, being eleven feet in the clear, the
upper part forming a mound. Above this, in the
centre, will be placed a shaft or Column of white
!tallith marble, thirty-eight feet high, which will
be surmounted with a marble statue of " Chas ity,"
ornamented with scroll work, and in the centre of
the shalt will ho a shield, bearing the stars and
stripes of America. The whole will bo enclosed
with a neat iron railing The work, it is expected,
will be commenced In a few days, and will be eons.
plated in about biz weeks.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A FIIILADELPIIIAN,—
On Friday, an accident, which resulted in the
death of Mr. William F. Seiser, a young gentle.
men of this city, took place on the Delaware and
Chesapeake Canal, near the Delaware Railroad
bridge. Mr. S. was a member of the William Abe)
Yacht Club, which, with two other yachts, bad
been en a pleasure trip to Baltimore and Norfolk.
The boats were returning to Philadelphia, and, at
the time of the disastrous occurrence, Mr. Geiser,
who was ±.pon the towpath, was derireas of re Lug
on board Etta Lilly, which was under tow. Its at
tempting to do so, be was caught between the boat
and the side of the canal, and his body was so bad
ly crushed that he died in boll an hour. The body
was brought to the city the tame evening. The
deceased was connected with the mercantile house
of James, Kent, fh, Srntto. lie had a very large so-
Wel and business acquaintance, and be was much
esteemed by all for is manly qualities. Ile wan
an active member of the Washington Grays The
Yacht Squadron held a meeting, on Saturday even
ing, and passed resolutions wreaths their regret
at the decease of Mr. Seine The Washington
Grays also held a mewing on Saturday evening for
the same purpose. The funeral will take place to
morrow afternoon, at Rona/dson's Cemetery.
SLIGHT Finr,3. — Yesterday afternoon, at
No. 813 Tasker street, in the First ward, an alarm
of fire was caused by children playing with match
es. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning, some
mil:ailerons boys bet fire to the gram fa the square
sarroundlog the Spring Garden Gas Works. The
fence was considerably burned before the flames
could be eatinposbed. A slight fire occurred at
eight o'clock last evening, at a house In Rope
street, above Girard avenue.
ARRIVAL or THE ClTAitrPlo2f.—Mf. John
0. Heenan and hie party of friends and anistants
will leave New Yetis by the 9 A. M. train on Tues
day, and be due et Walnut-street wharf at 1 P. IN;;
where they will be met by the reception mum*
tee.