gfinii i all, tizbOtriait.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—GENERAL ASSEMBLY
THIRD PAGE—MISCELLSNEOws
Overwork of Children in England—National Jus
tine.
SIXTH PAGE—FAMILY CIRCLE:
The Stream of Life—The thiseen Friend—An Excuse
Agency— What a Single
,Sabbath school Accom
'
- folished—ft OW to Conauct Family Worship—The
Closing Scene—A Jewish Marriage Service
'SEVENTH PAGE—RVRAL ECONOMY' :
- An Old Style Farm—Going to Market.
SCIEIVTIFIC — Cork - The Eye of an Engle—Coal as
• a Reservoir of PowerrAue as a Medicine.
DEDICATION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.'
trulY a matter of congratulgion
that we are again permitted to
of
the completion of another houseof wor
ship in our city.
.° 7 On the evening of the **ultimo,
Ine Southwestern Prekbyterian Church,
at the corner of Twhtieth and Fitzwater
streets, w as opened and set apart with
appropriate exercises f6ri the service of
the most. High—making the seventh,
church dedicated within twenty months
in connection w,ip our branch of the
Church in PlailadelPhia.
The bistory of this enterprise, now so
happily consummated, is one of trial, and
struggle, and sacrifice for the Master.
In '1852, the Rev. James McCaskie un
dertook the work of gathering a congre
gaion in this neighlibrhobd , In Feb
ruary, 1853, a church of eighty-four
members was organjoid bY : tle P esby
tery of Philailellibiat i- '''The element'con
stitutind the , OurelijwasAat good old
stock of Presbyterianism nt,the North of
Ireland—the, same' that long years ago
formed the nuclenA of the First, Church
and of " Old Pine Street."• After a
' time, the congregation worshipping in
the Western Rose Rouse, felt the-necee
sity of building, and encouraged ;by the
promise of assistance from the Church
Erection Comnaittee 'oft the' Presby
tery of Philadelphia, beian the work
upon the present site. The:walls were
up and under roof, when it was 'found
that owing to the pressure-Of Other en
1' -
terprises, the Committee enuld 'not fur
4ish the necessary aid, And Sektballat
Tobia,h, in the shape of unmanage
able debti3 threatened .much , mischief.
In their extre!nity,-at the= advice of one
, of their best friends, 1k IAc,C aside went
to Dr. Brainerd., Ap,d- hell) for the emer
gency was obtained, the relations of,
the—church being;_ r _traisferred..:: to'. the
Third Presbytery; in a spirit that gave
assurance of ,the time, which we trust
has now fully corne,—wben " Ephraim
Ashen not and Judah shall
'not vex Ephraim." On ' the 10th of
,March, 1861, the .lecture-room was
opened for service. In 1868, Rev. Mr.
McCaskie, after the faithful and efficient
labor of ten years, resigned: his. charge
and returned to Ireland for his health.
The pulpit was supplied by different per
sons till October, 1864, when. Rev. John
Ife - Leod entered upbn the work, which
he, bus after untiring: e ffort so successfully
accomplished. / Aided 'and stimulated
by the effort to free churches of
debt-- T startedpby one-of our princely
givers--this church has last been fin
ished at a cost of $26,600, including the
graund,
The building, occupying at lot '7O by
00 feet, is of brick, l 6o by 12 feet, with
basement, lecture and school-rooms, and
an ,audience chamber above, as chaste
and beautiful is any the I cAyi.,
It was stated at the service on Thurs
:dty, the, ,17,tyi that 0500 was yet.
needed to meet the expenditures in fin
ishing and furnishing the house, and
then the ground ~and all that stands*
upon it would be entirely clear. The
evening of the opening being unpropi
tious, many of the friends of the enter-.
prise were not present, so that the col
-4ectiton k was . not: so lane as At would
toth4rWide haVe been ;' but w J e4niderei'and
that the ipuni wanting has since been re
duced to $l5OO, and it j earnestly
hoped that this balance will at once be
,' , V - ontribilted*'Ohrint's stewards in our
churches, so .t) . iat o N interest account'
may remain to be paid out of the pee
tor's salary.
-Y . One thingziniiie ) ie lilt ,iiieeded for
this and all other. chi rclies , occupying '
such fields among the - laboring classes,
namely, a manse or parsonage for their
iniriister, as a supplement to the greatly
inadequate.,support.
It certainly woad go ,
a great way to
secure more permanency' in the pester
ate. The Church of Scotland hai al
- ways regarded the manse as a necessary
appendage .of the
,Ohureb, and our Gene-
Tal AssemblY fiaS called special attention
- to the subject.
We wish our brother McLeod and the
Southwestern: Church, great ,success
they enter their new and comely temple.'
PRACTICAL REUNION, IN CALIFORNIA.
—A - correspondent of the Pacific refers
to the following practical steps to re
,
.union among the PresbyteiianeLof this
coast, all of which, he says, with one
,•
— exception, have occurred during the last
year. The N.. S. Church in Watson
t' 'villa chose for their minister an 0. S.
minister, Rev. H. S. Huntington. The
a: N. S. Church' of Placerville, has invited
Rev. W. C. Mosher, 0
~ as supply for
six months. S.
The N. S. Church in San
Jose has invited to the pastorate Rev.
'J. S. Wylie, 0. S. :The N. S. Church,
Gilroy, enjoys the ministration of Rev.
Jno. gdwarda,lo).S.. The. S. First
Presbyterian Church of this
% city has
enjoyed the t hlGOrg, first, of Rev. J. A.
,•
Skinner,, .and now of Rev.. C. W. Wal
lace, N. S. The 0. S. Church in
Sttickton has' also been, until lately,
served by the N. S. minister, Rev. J. A.
Skinner. We might add that the N.
S. enterprise and minister on Larkin I
street in this city, became 0 S., without
exciting any considerable agitation or
unpleasant feeling.
THE MANAYUNK CHURCH.
The Rev. Andrew Culver, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Matta,
yunk, having made a statement in regard
to the condition of the building occupied
by his congregation, and:having, asked - the
approVal of the Pastor al-Association in his
application to our churches for help in
the repairing and improving of the
building, the following paper, expres
sive •of the views of •this Association
on the • Subject, was unanimously adopted :
Whereas, The Rev. Andrew Culver has
labored for nineteen years inManayunk, with
great diligence and large success, under many
oliscouragementi ; and •
Whereas, His people have secured by va
rious efforts $2300, which hay.e been invested
in Government securities for more than
twelve months, in hope of a favorable time
for making the contemplated repairs; and
Whereas; Owing to-the dilapidated condi
tion of the building, the repairs could be no
longer delayed without serious injury to the
congregation and.
Whereas These , '-repairs , have been com
menced and the $2300 expended, and almost
$4OOO additional are needed to complete the
work; therefore
Resolved, That this Association most cor
dially endorse the enterprise; and commend
the application of Mr. Culver to our people
for aid •
, •
[Extract front the Minutes.]
`JOHN MCLEOD, Chairnzam
CHARLES BHO,WN,ISCret4i* ,
PHILADELPHIA, May 21, 1866;
Brethren of the churchei; we are' now
worshipping in a public ball, and are
very desirous of entering our new base
ment. In addition to my ordinary pas-
Aoral labors I must now go from one
-person to another until we obtain enough
'to complete our building. We have
always avoided debt,, and do so
still. Will you not help us ? Perhaps
this appeal will meet the eye of some to
.Whom I shall not be able:to apply ,per
sonally., yo '
4eader, will *you pleaSe im
mediately to inclose something for us in
an envelope, and send it'to my 'address,
" Manayunk, Pa.,"—for
which you will receive , - a prompt and
grateful acknowledgment: We arer ha
boring hard to raise more-money among
ourselves - . -
Your servant iirthe Lord,
A: , CULVER..
THE OLD MAN'S HOME.
The impulse given by the great chari
ties of the war to the charitable spirit of
the community in general, is already
leading to great and permanent results,
in entirely different fields of human ne
cessity. « The Old Man's Home," in
West Philadelphia is an enterprise,
which, one would think ,should have
suggested itself long ago;to the benevo
lent , • but it has remained for the awaken
ed spirit, of liberality in our own time
to undertake it. And we are sure it
needs, but to he mentioned-to arouse the
interest of the charitableand the' Chris
tian.
The 'excellent men and women,
who have, it in charge, contemplate a
great enlargement of their accommoda
tions,' at present entirely inadequate.
Their immediate need is for $lO,OOO,
besides the annual expenses, for which
not only money but goods and provi
tsions will bexladly :received. _
From the Daily News of= this city we
copy : the folkiving .paragraph
'A SPLENDID aII:KITT.
We'have 'been finnislied:, a copy of the
Annual• report of : the'rmanagers of the Old
Man's Home. The purpose•of the organiza
tion i.s,to iirovide.not simply a place of abode
for the aged and friendless. butltv home in the
,most enlarged senseof *loin; to which the
'Old man, Sio.,_who has Seen 'better - trays, "and
perhapslived . in affluence, can_'' , retire, and
; come and fid,,ns in his best days; being at all
times provided with the coinforts, and a fair
'-kliare.,Of the ruinries of life:' Our old friend,
,Professor E. D. Saunders,D.D.,:who never
tires in doing good,- and who never'
what he undertakes is devoting: all the time
which the duties of 'his institution will allow
in obtaining subscriptions for the Old Man's
Home. The cause so comends itself to the
sympathies of' all classes—especially as the
'asylum'is inno sense , denominational—that
Dr. Saunders meets.with,remarkable success.
[Front an' editorial of the North American.]
That , : this Anstitntion isFiii;the" hands of
judicious and proper managers, may be seen
from the following fist of those who have un
dertaken the labor of supervision :
First Dkiectress—ths: John S. Henry.
Second Directress—Mrs. Robert Yalu.
Treasurer—Miss Phebe A. Attwood.
Secretary—Mrs. F. W. Grayson.
Managers—Miss Mary H. Boyles, Miss
Emily Lancaster, Miss Caroline M. Rulon,
Mrs. A. D. Kingsland, Mrs. Henry C. Gib
son. Mrs.-;lfenry D. Steever, Mrs. John
Sibley, Mrs.. Morton McMichael, Jr., Miss
Theodosia )3: , ' Henry, Mrs. Andrew R. Miller,
Mrs. 'Judge Alllson,fMrs, John IV: Latimer.
Prof E :B. Saunders, RD., whose untir
i -,
ing exertions during the war, n every patri
otic enterprise, procured for him siich",ahigh
reputation, bas devoted his•time in ohtaintrhg
subs.eriptions'for the Honi6, and we earnestly
commend the institution to all liberal givers.
It is quite as much needed,. as the asylums
for widows, orphans, and other helpless ones.
Cil.wrori, N. Y.—Twenty-five ',were
publicly received into the communion of
Clinton Church on profession of , laith,
and four by letter, May 6. Since the
Pear 1831; the church has not received
40 many at one time While the reli
gious meetings were in' progress, the
kind people of the church and e.ongrega
tkm made up, a purse of over $650,
Filial), together with various articles of
domestic use, wee presented, to the
pastor and his wife to assist, them in
'beginning housekeeping. Besides. this,
Oe.trustees have put the " parsonage"
•
complete repair.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1866.
ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE June 4.,—The Reconstruction amendments
.. _ . were taken up.' An amendment of Mr.
OLIVET SUNDAY-SCHOOL.—Stinday after-
Van Winkle designed to mitigate the severity '
noon, May 20th, the new edifice corner
' of the 3d sectionwas rejected by 26 to 8 votes. 1
of Twenty-second and Mt. Vernonc Honse,—May 29.—The Senate amend- I
streets was crowded with children and ments to the military appropriation bill were (
teachers, parents, friends and visitors to ' reported. Some of the amendments were I
participate in the first anniversary held not concurred in, and a committee of confer-
ence was asked. The bill to continuein force
ant- ! and amend the Freedmen's Bureau bill was
in the new sanctuary. It Was a n
mating service. I passed. The Senate amendments to the bill
The report of the superintendent, Mr. J relative to the appointment of cadets to the
Military Academy were_ concurred in. The
J. C. Chance, showed that the school
Committeeconsideration
on ol l '
e t
c h o e n
s b t ill n
e reported tionon
t fr e m 3 t o li ti c i
had grown from six teachers to a corps
of forty-four, and sixty children had mul- of April after some discussion was postponed.
tiplied into four hundred.• ' . ' May 30.—The bill to promote railroad corn
,
Assisted by Messrs. Gaut, Wilson and munication br i een the capital i and the North-
Fleming, the singing was maintained in demanded andan u cr seconded , ante
but the close us
of
its old reputation for accuracy and spirit ; the-morninghourprevented furtheraction
the
the beautiful sentiments of the hymns, at the time. • The bill for the completion of
Mu st
e Cveland an Mahonin was
combined -with. the lively tunes giving
called up,
animation to every heart. called up but wentd g
over until next rail day road
The
reports of Major-General Stonemen cOncern-
The speaking was by Mr. C. Godfrey, ing the Memphis riots were received.. A
orted goods. , , ..
of the American Sunday School Union, resolution was-adopted, recommending 'a
Gov. Pollock, G. tarry I)avi s , E sq. , an d a change in the system of paying drawbacks
the.pastor, Rev. W. W. May 31.—The Senate amendments to the
'
formed an appropriate mingling of the
Taylor, and on - i F l p
House bill to facilitate inter-State bommuni-
grave and lively, the serious, and. fanci- cation were agreed to. The bill. to promote; I
fill, needed to maintain the attention of the construction of a railroad from Pittsburgh,
both old arid young. ' Pa., to Cleveland, 'Ohio, was passed. The
joint •resolution for an examination of sites
Those' interested in this Church and for an iron-clads was passed. Resolutions of
school are persuaded that a large ma- respect to the memory of General Scott were
terial is in the hands of their friends, passed, and a committee appointed in con
junction with a similr de
which by love and labor may be wrought
Senate to attend the .a funera p l
's
into the pleasing shqes of knowledge June 4.—Severe resolutions upon
from the
upon the con
and piety. ' ' . .duct of U. S. officials in closing their offices
in honor of the rebel dead and in hindering
the payment of honors to the Union dead
were passed without division, in spite of
feeble opposition from Mr. Raymond. The
reconstruction measures were discussed.
PERSONAL. Milwaukie Presbytery
took under their. care Mr. John Van de
Leyster as a candidate for the ministry,
and licensed him to preach the Gospel,
and installed him over the First German .
church of Milwaukie.--Rev. Sanford
.11. Smith, late pastor of the, Presby
'treilin Church at Red Wing, Minn., was
on the IGth inst. settled ,ovsg,„the First
Church of Mendham;N. J., his relStions•
being transferred from the Presbytery of
Winona to the Presbytery of Newark.
Mr. Smith is a son of the late Dr. Lyn
don A. Smith of Newark, and through
his mother a grandson of Dr. Griffin.
He has recently married a daughter of
the late Chief Justice Whelpley, of
.Morristown, N. J. The church, as - wsll
as the parsonage, inherits. some dietig n
guished names. -Rev. Drs. Cox, •HIY;
and:Hastings, and' Xessrs. T. F. White
and D. Magie, Jr., have been in the
line of Mr. Smith's predecessors.
THE REV. EDWARD WEBB has been
unanimously elected to the pastoral
charge of the Pencador Presbyterian
Church. We congratulate this church
in the prospect it has of the services of
this excellent brother. He is a man
much loved for his many Christian
tues, and highly esteemed for his valua
ble missionary work in , India, where he
labored for about nineteen years. Mr.
Webb's address' for the future will be
Glasgow, New Castle county, Delaware.
Senate.--May 29.—A bill was introduced
and referred to the Committee on' Public
Lands, to donate public lands to the 'Several
States, which may provide , agricultural
colleges for the education of colored persons.
The reconstruction resobition was taken up.
The third section was spick.en out. Mr.
Howard offered amendments supposed-,;,t0
represent the views of the Republican Caucus.
The most important are the following.
- SECTION 1. All persons born in the United
States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
are citizens of the United States and of the
States wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any 114 which shall abridge
the privileges orimmunitiei of citizens of the
United States, nor shall Any- State' deprive
any person of life, liberty or property without
due process of law, nor ideny to any _person
within its,jurirgiietion the equal protection of
the iaws:
Section three being stricken out, the fol
lowing is proposed in. lieu of:it :
, No person.shall. be,a Senator or Represen,
tative in Congress or elector of President and
Vice President, .or hold any office civil or
military under :the United States, or under I
any State, who having previously taken an
oath as a member of Congress or as an officer
ii
of the nited•States , , or as a member of any
State Legislature, or as an executive or judi
cial officer of any Statelo support the Consti
tution of the United States, shall haie en
gaged in insurrection' or rebellion against the
,same in giving - aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof; but Congress may, by a vote of two
thirds of each House remove, such disability.
• May 30.—The bill for the payment of lien
tucky home-guards was passed. The act
continuing in force the Freedmen's Bureau
was received from 'the House and referred.
'The reconstruction re. Solutions were'taken up.
Mr. Doolittle argued against the bill, and
moved an amendment to exclude from eiti
"zenship tribal Indians. He asked the follow
ing vestion, "if thereare no doubts as to
the constitutionality of the civil-rights -bill,
what is the necessity for putting one of its
provisionsinto a constitutional amendment?"
Mr. Howard, of Mighigan, said , it was de
sired to put this question of citizenship
beyond the legislative power, ofsuch gentle
men as the Senator from Wisconsin: He
would fain the system •up by the roots and
destroy it, and expose the freedmen again lo
the oppressions of their old-masters.
His amendment and several others, design
ed to destroy the-tone of the bill were voted
down 'by 33 against 10.
May 31.--Resolutions of respect for the
memory of Geperal Scott were passed, and
the body agreed to adjourn until Monday.
The reconstruction resolutions were consid
ered.
Mr. Doolittle moved to amend the 3d sec
tion by insertipg after the Woids enemies
tliereof " the 'words " excepting. those, who
have duly received pardon and' amnesty under
the Constitution and laws." Disagreed to—
yeas 10, nays- 32.
The section as given above was adopted—
yeas 32, nays 10.
Thosd who voted in the negative' were.
Messrs. Buckalew, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle,
_Guthrie, Hendricks, Johnson, Norton, Rid
dle and Saulsbury. The further consideration
was postponed till Monday.
A bill was introduced providing for nation
al min.. ency,-which obligates banks of the in
terior to redeem their circulation when neces
sary, in the banks of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia. The exemption from State
taxation is stricken out. •
4tio nf
CONGRESS.
THE STATES.
Pennsylvania. Eighty-four stand of arms
belonging to the New York Fenian Senate
have been seized at Erie.--Half the busi
ness portion of Oil City, Pa., was burned
May 27 ; one hundred and seventy-five fam
ilies were made houseless. The loss is esti
rckated at $1;000,000.—The old Harrisburg
liridg,erfiem Harrisburg to Foster Island, on
the Su.sqliehanna,,.was also burned May 27.
twenty4neh - cannon, weighing 50
tons, is to be • sent froin,Tittsburgh to the
Paris exhibition.—A Pittsburgher was re
cently challenged to fight a duel. •He did not
fight, but laid the matter before the mayor,
and the challenger was arrested.
New York City.—The loss by the great
fire in New York, which destroyed the Aca
demY of Music, Medical College, and German
- Lutheran"Church t is about $1,000,000. Two
fireman perished in the Academy.—There
was paid the new Excise Board for licenses,
in New York, up to Monday a week,
$419,750.—A new style of boarding house
has been opened in New York, in which
organ grinders' monkeys are furnished with
all the comforts of a hothe at the moderate
rate of $1 50 a week.-40,300 immigrants
arrived in Ne. , York city during May, inclu
ding 3700 in the cholera ships now lying at
quarantine.
New York State.—Lemuel Cook, the last
surviving revolutionary soldier but one, died
in. Orleans county May 20, aged 102.—The
Brooklyn city government have received a
petitiop requesting that the running of street
cars on Sunday may be prohibited. An ordi
nance, prepared to meet the wishes of the
prohibitionists,. was sent in with the petition.
—Heavy claims for damages have been
brought against the proprietor of the mill in
Orange county, New York, which sent out
flour. containing particles of lead' derived
from places in the stones carelessly mended
with that material. Two hundred persons
were poisoned, and some have died, from
partaking of the flour.
Massachusetts.—The Senate has appoint
ed General B. F. Butler to command the new
militia organization in that State.--There
is=not a liquor shop in Beverly, and no one
can be found to take the State liquor agency.
Connecticut.—General Orris S. Ferry has
been elected U. S. Senator from Connecticut,
to succeed Mr. Foster, whose term expires on
the 4th of March next.—The New Haven
Beard of Education have voted. to exclude
colored children from the public schools of
that city..
Nich.igan.—Posting of quack handbills is
prohibited in Detroit.
Virginia.—On Thursday last `it"case was
brought up in' the court at Alexandria,
between two white men. One of them wish
ed to introduce as witness a colored man,
which was objected to,by the court as contra
rito the laws of the State.
West Virginia.—The people of this State
voted, by, a large majority, to disfranchize all
rebels and rebel sympathizers. '
Kentucky.—A band of men:attempted to
fox:oe an entrance into the house of a respect
able colored man, living about three miles
from Lexington. The negro resisted them
and in the struggle which ensued fired on the
party, killing ,one. and mortally wounding
another. He then went into the town and
surrendered himself to the authorities.
Tennessee.—Major G-albreth reports to
General, Howard that the authorities, have
not taken the ~slightest notice of the late ter
rible riots at Memphis, and seem to regard
them as simply 'a skirmish between the po
lice and the negroes. It was certainly a very
one-sided 'skirmish, as, from the testimony,
no resistance was made by the negroes tifter
the first night. The citizens have been ad
vised . to,,hold a meeting and denounce the
conduct s of the mob; but still they either ne
glect or refuse to do so. The papers of Mem
phis are at the root of the whole matter.
They' have incited riot and murder 'for
months, and this is only a legitimate result
of their inflammatory and incendiary articles.
And these poor whites, between whom and
the negroes a feud has always existed, have
been but their tools.—All the freedmen's
courts in Tennessee were abolished May 26
by the assistant commissioner, the law of the
State making Colored persons competent wit
nesses in all civil courts.—The admission
of Tennessee will speedily follow the adop
tion of the report of the Reconstruction
Committee.—John Porterfield, of Nash
ville, formerly a banker and an old resident,
bas been arrested and lodged in the old peni
tentiary, it is rumored, in consequence of
implication with the conspirators in Canada;
some time previous to the death of President
Lincoln.
Alabama.----Freedmen's schools, are in suc
cessful operation in fifteen large cities, and
in them more than - 10,500 pupils are taught.
In some of the white churches colored chil
dren are taught under the superintendency of
the pastors.. At Demopolis the citizens have
contributed of their funds to aid in the erec
tion of a school-house for colored people. At
Tnskegee the Mayor of the city has charge of
a large colored Sabbath-school.
Mississippi.—The freedmen of Columbus,
have organized a fire companaY.—At a
hotel table at Meridian, a Union soldier rose
from his seat and kindly waited upon a one
armed Confederate soldier, who could not
help. hiipself very well. The attention was
natnsillv- and delicately paid ) and . grate f u ll y
received, and it A n a & a decided impression
upon the, other guests.
Texas.—The freedmen are officially rport
ed to be - escaping into ~Arkansas from -Texas
in a destitute condition. Many of them have
been driven from their homes and families,
and many have been hung and shot for ex
pressing a wish to enjoy their rights as free
men.
The Territories.—There is reported to be
a great rush of emigrants, this season from
fLII parts of the Northwest for Montana Ter-
Critory. Captain Fisk, with a large party,
arted from St. Pan!, Minnesota, on May
Ath, to open another route by land from that
city to the new Dorado.—Judge Drake, of
the United States District Court, held at
Provo City, Utah, upon an. application for
naturalization papers, has refused to issue
them to any man practicing polygamy either
prior or subsequent to the passage of the act
of Congress on that subject. It was held
that a man who defied the anti-polygamy act
of Congress, or any other law of the country,
and.persistently refused to obey the law of
the United States, was.in no way, entitled to
citizenship or any. of the benefits accruing
therefrom. •
The Penis= in Cana a. t length the
Fenian movement has developed into actual
warfare, invasion, -and bloodshed. Oa Fri
day, June Ist, some 1500 to 2000 armed
Irishmen, under Cpl. O'Neill, said to be a
partner of the infanioui Wirz at Anderson
vine, crossed .into Canada, near Buffalo,
evading,. by some means, the vigilance of our
authorities. They seized the town of Fort
Erie; with 'an abandoned earthwork which
gives the place its name. It was not, how
ever,
until June 3, that they came in collision
with the Canadian Militia near a town called
Waterloo, a short distance immediately north
of Ft. Erie. Here the Canadians are, said to
have been defeated, with three killed and
twenty-five wounded. A number of the
Fenians were also killed and wounded, and
both parties seem to have retreated. The
Fenians attempted to recross into New York,
when seven hundred of them, including the
colonel, were captured by the U. S. steamer
Michigan which still holds them in custody.
Generals Meade and Grant are both on the
frontier.
Financial and Commercial.—Two steam
ers sailed for Europe May 26, and took out
$3,276,400 in gold. This is exclusive of the
large amounts taken out by passengers.—
The State Department is informed by our con
sul at Liverpool of the shipment of a quantity
of French wheat flour for this country. He
believes it to be the first instance of the kind.
The receipts from internal revenue dur
ing the - niChth of May amounted to $21,724,-
68040. The amount received duting the
week ending Saturday were $7,176,715 13.
—Over $3,600,000 itospecie was shipped
to Europe last Saturday.
FOREIGN.
Peace Congress.—The statement is made
in the London Post, May 22d, though de
clared premature in other quarters, thatit is
definitely arranged that the representatives
of France, England and Russia, on one side,
and Austria, Prussia and Italy, on the other,
will assemble at the Foreign Ministry in
Pails, under the Presidency of M. Druyn de
L'huys, for formally opening the conference
to solve pacifically the pending questions be
tween Austria and Italy.
Prance.—The reconciliation between the
Emperor and Prince Napoleon is complete.
Prussia and Italy.—A Vienna despatch
says the alliance between Prussia and Italy
binds each to support the other in case of an
attackr„by Austria, the treaty to continue till
the end of this year. •
Austria, Prussia, Italy.—Field Marshal ,
Von Benedek, commander-in-chief of the
Northern army of Austria issued the first
order of the day to - the soldiers under his
command, May 12th, from temporary head
quarters in Vienna. The Marshal expresses
his confidence in the army and in the justice
of the Austrian cause.
Mexico and Austria.—Adviees have been
received .It, the State Department, that -no
Austrian troops have been sent to Mexico.
Emancipation in Cuba.—lt is stated that
Cuban planters have lately offered to give cer
tificates of freedom to all their negroes who
would contract to labor for a term of years,
and that many of the latter have accepted
the condition.
limns or Doc. The root of the yellow
dock, so troublesome to farmers, is an effectu
al alterative and a most valuable medicine.
In the neighborhood of Lowell, Doct, J. C.
Ayer & Co. have planted fields - of it, where
they raise many tons at a crop. It is grown
like the carrot or beet, in drills, and its qual
ity or properties have , been much improved
by cultivation. It is one , of the ingredients
in s SARSAPARILLA, and, we are in
formed, the extraordinary virtues of this pre
paration are largely due to the extract of this
root that it contains. The Sarsaparilla root,
used by this firm, is grown on plantations of
their own, in Honduras, to secure an article
of superior and wholly reliable quality. One
of the reason s for the universally acknowledged
superiority of their medicines, may be seen
in the watchful care that is used in preparing
them.— Vermont Statesman.
This is a personal in
vitation to the reader to
examine our new styles
,of FINE CLOTHING, l;as
simer Suits for $l6, and
Black Suits for $22. Fi
ner Suits, all prices up
to $76.
WANAMKIKER BROWN,
OA HALT,
Southeast corner of
SraTE and MARKET STS
SPECTACLES.
WILLIALII BARBER,
tlanufaeturer of Gold, Silver, NiekeLand Steel SPeo
took% Eye Glasses, am., has neatly furnished a room
in connection with the factory, for RETAIL PUR
POSES; wherespectacles of every description may tie
obtained. accurately adjusted to the requirements of
vision on'STRICTLY OPTICAL SCIENCE.
Sales room and faotorY.
No. 248 NORTH EIGHTH Street, Second
Floor.
COAL' COAL!'
LEHIGH AND SCHIJYYMTTJ, OPAL of the best
quality, selected from the AyProved Mines under
cover.
P"Pared ihrrealiVier &ore and "assay U.
Northeast oorner of Passayook Road and Washdoison
Avwl4.,Yhiladeiphis
ALBERT RIMIEnER
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by .utairatim.
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