THE HEW YOEK PRESS. Ml 11 Olll AL OriMOKS OF LkADIXG JOURNALS UPON CURRENT 7 OF WO. COMPllin 1THT DAT FOR lVEIICt TM.TvjnAPk, Wat In Eniope-Revival of the Imperial (,'ame oi Napoleon tbe Great. Fmrn the Herald. The tittle speech of Napoleon at Auxerre has BtartM the llsteriinfr nations ol Europe. They will accept it as the signal of another imperial crtiade of the armies of France. He has played his part as the champion of pence, and now, a the living embodiment of war, Bed batle stamps his foot, and nations fool the shock. History repeats Itself. The restoration of the empire In France under Napoleon the Third means the revival of the Imperial game of Napo leon the First. As the Julius Casar of the nine teenth century Louis Napoleon, may be cintem platlns the empire of Augustus; but it is more probable that with Russia he meditates another division of Europe between an Eastern aud Wenlern empire. Since the fifth century of the Christian era, when the Western empire of Homo came to an end and the monarchy of France was founded, theie have been several attempts to re establish an Umpire of the Vcit. In the year 8i0 such an empire was proclaimed by Charlemagne, who was orovroed at Home by the Pope, Bh King of Italy, Germany, and France. But six years later this empire of the great Charles diiuppeared with its division between his three sous. In any event Its main tenance in that day was impossible from the bai harous and turbulent condition ot the various warlike diviHlons, tribes, and races of the conti nent. In the latf'-r bnlf of the eleventh century the Tope hiniselt Alexander II claimed supreme temporal and spiritual dominion over all the CbriKtiau (States; but a lew years later, in an attempt to exercise this authority, his successor, (Jrepory VII, was expelled by Henry IV, of Ger many, and diod In exile. Charles V, of Spain and Germany, lor a time established a dominant Western empire, but was anally driven to a doctor by Luther and the Reformation. Napo leon the First, after bis subjugation of the conti nent west ot Russia and Turkey, fell at last under the coali'ions bought by the gold of Eng land; but in exchange lor St. Helena he left to England his legacy of her present national debt ; thus binding her hand aud iooi under Napoleon the Third. " Within fifty years," said the Napaleon of St. Helena, "all Europe will be republican or Cospack." He doubtless meant that the conti nent would be governed by the decree issued Irotn l'aris or St. Petersburs. But the Cossack of that day has since been brought within the pale of modern civilization, aud the power of Ruscia may profitably to Frame be now diverted to the eastward. Russia and Turkey are both arming lor war: but 'Neither appears to be in any way connected with the complications ot the Western Powers. It is thus apparent that the game for dominion iu this impending conflict will be lor a division of Europe between France and Rusiia. While thu9 relieved ol one of the two most powerlul enemies ol the uncle, the nephew will be relieved of the other by the national debt ot England, In all other respects the situation of things is in tavor ot Napoleon and his emphatic declaration against the treaties ot 1815. Holland and Belgium, and the emallcr German States, are within his giasp, Prussia is committed against Austria, and Italy is dependent upon and devoted to France. The grand drama, therefore, will probably be opened by a movement of Italy upon Venetia. Prussia, then seizing her opportunity, will ad vance against Austria on the other side, and then the six hundred thousand available troops of France will be rut in motion for the Rhine and the Danube, and the treaties and boundaries of 1815 will be blotted out. Such, we conjecture, will be the western sec tiou of the coming European war. The eastern division, by coocert with Napolecn, may be left to Russia. Against either of those two powers, thus co-operating; for the division of Europe be tween them, England cannot interfere. Nor will she long be able to survive the general wreck of kingdoms aud dynasties without a close alliance with the United States. In any event, the financial revulsion which Europe will suffer will be the building up ot the credit, power, and prosperity of the great republic. Governor Seward's Manifesto. From the Tribune. There are to-day Inhabiting the United States about tbirty-three millions of people. Ot these, sonic eighteen millions believed in and upheld the war for the Union as a Just and necessary resistance to aristocratic conspiracy and unhal lowed ambition using the fanatical devotion of many others to human slavery as their fulcrum, whereby to upheave the foundations of our Union. The minority of fifteen millions are composed, 1, of the original and implacable Se cefalonnts; 2, ot a larger number of Southern people who had no faith in nor love for dU union, but who were overiwed or coerced iuto acquiescence in and ultimate support of the Re bellion by systematic falsehood, violence, and terrorism, and by a concertod outcry, "Defend your hearths and homes I Stand by your own ! Be true to the South! Obey your State!" etc. etc. Hundreds of thousand! were swept into the maelstrom with no lata of dissolving the Union, but in the belief that, it the South appeared unanimous, concessions would be proffered and made by the commercial, money-makine North which she could proudly accept, resuming her former position with the prestiae and power of a conqueror. Fiom all nidus these were vehe mently assured that, it the 8311th were but unanimous in demanding her "rights," the North durst not refuse them, and that there would be no war that only by Southern unan imity could civil war be averted. Thus were Vugiala, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc., whelmed in the abyss oi treason. Tho third and most numerous section of the minority is composed ot the Northern Copper Meads, whose hearts were iu the main with the Rebellion throughout not that they wanted disunion, but that they accounted the Republi can party tbe tret aegressor and the Rebels more sinned aaraiuttt than binning who firmly believed that the Union could only be restored by buying off the Rebels with fresh cincesstons and guaranteed to slavery who deprecated national victoiies as grave impediments to the only possible or truly desirable reunion who regarded the war merely as a politician' strug gle for supremacy, and never doubted, what ever might be set lorth at Richmond, that, if ttiey were In power, they could negotiate a speedy "restoration." In their view, therelore, every national demonstration against slavery, whether by conflscatiag the slaves of Rebels, or arming negroes, or proclaiming emancipation! Wat- a nail in the coliin of the Union. These three classes, forming a strong minority of Ultceu against eighteen millions ot the Ame rican people, are now united in counsel and purpose, as they have long been united In sym pathy. They mean and confidently expect to clutch power over our country in what they agree to call "ree toration," and to confirm and perpetuate it in the approaching Presidential election. Their platform has been changed, In ipite of themselves, by the abolition of blavery. Instead of 'The Constitution as it Is, the Union as it was, and the niggers in eternal bondage," it Is now simply "Up with the Rebel, and down with the nigger I" Tbe calculation at Its base is shrewd and elmple:"Restore the Rebels to all that they have forfeited by Rebellion, putting the blacks ii mler their ftet, tad ws can surely and abso THE DAILY lutely monopolize and wield all the political power ol the eleven 8ate lately in revolt, with tlint ol Kentucky, Delawaro, and we trmt Maryland and Missouri. for we are a m ijoritf ot the whites in those States and can uuite and way them on the issue of keeping the blacks under our feet; with this monopoly as flx?d capital, we can exert an enormous commercial Influence over the politics or tho ol l-time Free Stales; thus their Copperhead and alllliatcd politicians will be enabled to carry enough Electoral and Congressional votes thereiu n eivc, when combined with ouis, a majorit; thus making the Government our own hence forth for years, and perhaps forever." The logic ot this new conspiracy runs tbu.-i: "The Staies lately in revolt trie 1 to get out of the Union but la'lled; hence, they were never out; hence, they have forfeited no right which they ever possessed; hence, having laid down their arms, they are now entitled to be repre sented in Congie3, and to do in all things as though they had never revolted." TbU logic, followed to its legitimate conclu sions, makes the overthrow of slavery a lawless usurpation, and every exaction or condition in sisted on by President Johnson a niked abuse of military power. If it be lust, not only these, but the Congressional test oath, and every ols ability inflicted on the late Rebels, are invalid and iropcrtineut. Governor Seward does not say this In his last Auburn speech. He simply presents his plav of hamlet wlin the part of "Hamlet" carefully erased. To the lour millions ot loyal blacks, the one hundred and eighty thousand black soldiers who presented their breasts to Rebel bayonets in detenso of the Union, he virtually says, "You shall have such rights In the re stored Union as jour delcatcd, humble I, cha grined, wrathful Rebel masters defeated in part by your arms shall see tit to accord you." Is this the proverbial crat tude of republics 1 Let lid hear Mr. Seward's own callous, evasive statement of the problem: "Another class of these partisan insiet that Con press shall securo the right ot sutl'rnee for the African race in the b rates lately involved in rebel lion, six months nave Docn, poiuaps not unpr jtlt ablv Stent in brmgin?, Congress to accept the tact that the subject of African eutlraire has only bouun now to to debated, with no troDoot that tho assent of a consti utional number ot Sta es to an amend ment ot tbe Constitution to that effect could bo in anv way secured through any foim of action which Congress con Id adopt at tho presont time." Why "no prospect," Governor ? Why is it that the late Rebel Slates so readily, unanimously accepted emancipation, and repualaied the Rebel debt, yet notoue of them has begun to con cede that the freedman has any political rights whites are bound to respect? It is not simply because the President, with the national s vori in his hand, peremptorily required the former, and did not require the latter? What use In seeking to ticlbg so plain a matter? "There Is no prospect of the assent of a con stitutional number of States" to auv right of sullrnge for the blacks, simply because they are ioki uy your master that the loyal (States do uoi, exact it. Hence, thev sav. "If vou will oulv re store us, red handed Rebels of yesterday, to the Fcdeial power we forlcited by our treason, on condition that we allow the blicifs, vour hum ble compatriots iu our gicat etrinrsrlo, to enjoy equal rights with ourselves, then we reject your terms, choosing to stay out of Con gress tin we can come in with Hying colors, trampling your blnck allies, in our discomfiture, under our feci." The spontaneous response of the loyal heart of the nation is. "Then sLiv out. and be blest ! We can stand it as lom? as you can. When you have cooled vour fleets sulli- ciently in the ante room, come in, aud welcome. You know the terms, and can find tho door whenever you want to. ' Governor Seward threatens us with defeat If we do not consign the lojul blacks to tlie tender mercies of the late Rebels. Our answer is short and simple: Better deleat and los of power than perfidy and dishonor I In th natural course of events, we must in time give place to our antagonists. How can we lose our power mure nobly thau br seeking to do ins lice to a race which never yet has had Justice which Rebels and Copperheads hate with redoubled venom because It powerfully aided to belie their confident assertions that "The South cannot be conquered?" Every liberal on earth every man in Europe who sympathized with us in our line trial unanimously demauds or us tho full enfranchisement of the blacks. You cannot find in all Europe one man who calls himself a republican or democrat who Is not zealous in this demand. If we are doomed to fall before the oligiircby which so long ruled the land with a rod of iron, why is not this the best possible issue on which to be divested ot power ? But who knows that we are doomed ? Mont gomery Blair thought he wore our scalp in his belt when he returned last fall to Washington from stumping our State for tho Democratic ticket; but he didn't. Governor Seward has ere now proved inapt at prophecy: how can we bo sure that he reads aright the stars to-day? We do not care to follow the Premier through his discussion of the President's vetoes, nor ot the propriety of admitting to Congress loyal rep resentatives from certain States lately in revolt. These are known to be matters of circumstance and detail, merely thrown in as make-weights in the grand controversy. "Has the triumphant nation a right, in restoring the Rebel States to their former power in the Federal Councils, to exact guarantees that its loyal upholders, who are a majority of the people in several of those States, and a very largo proportion iu the residue, hall henceforth enjoy equal power and con sideration with pardoned Rebels? Or shall they be left entirely at those Rebels' mercy?" Governor Seward clearly places himself in line with the Copperheads and Rebels on this issue. He will induce but few of those who have hitherto followed, upheld, and honored him, to train in that company. Justice, gratitude, and public safety combine to dissuade them. Ho talks poftly, smoothly, plausibly, but with no such force aud cogency as in the grand old days w hen his voice rung over the land with his heart in it. He is able to darken the future ot the great and patriotic party which once loikd to him for inspiration and guidance, but the lurid shadow he casts over its fortunes reliacts no light upon his own. The Financial Panic in England -Its Causes and Features. From the Timee, Tbe financial excitement in England cannot "be said to have occurred unawares. The cul minating point has bcon reached suddenly, as it always has been in s'milur circumstances, but for some time past it has' been distinctly indicated. The collapse consequent upon a period ot excessive inllation had already begun, and the enormous depreciation which has been going on in certain commodities, and in securi ties of almost every description, has both hastened the disaster and coutributed to its intensity. Compared with the panic of 1857 this difference is evident then, external influ ences precipitated difficulty, and were the Im mediate causes of the crisis; now, the operating causes are mainly domestic, the offoct arising out of the warlike prospect in Continental Euiope being but secondary in its bearing upon the London market. There is another distinc tion, too, of which the United States may well be proud. In 1857 the drain of gold was from Eugland to this country, the first great failure that of Dennistoun & Co., of Glasgow having been a result of embarrassments on this side of the Atlantic. In the present instance, instead of inducing business trouble, we are contribute ting munificently to the mitigation ot misfor tunes for which neither our trade nor specula tions can In any degree be held accountable. What may be termed the key-note of the diffi culty has been equally distinct in each case. The Dennfetoun failure potntud to the American trade as tbe controlling weakness of the time. In the same manner, the suspension of Overend, Gurney & Co. now reveals the relation of the financial companies which have sprung up like mushrooms in the British metropolis to the period of inflation through which England has passed, aud tho want of real strength which has cbaracteilced the most pretentious of these con cerns. Perhaps the Credit Mobilier, of Paris, EVENING TELEGRAFU. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, should be regarded as the great exomplar which the speculators of Indon had In view at the outset. Its lacillties lor promoting gigantic tindpitaktngs. its potency as a compe titor v.ith tho most wealthy capitalists, and Iho opportunities It ottered for boundless speculation, were considerations which no doubt weighed heavily in the minds of those Mho aiterwards became tho organisers of flnan C al companies on the opposite'side of the Chan nel. Be this as it may, tti discount-house ot Gurr.cy 4 Co., with unlimited liability attaching to its partners, was converted into a huge flnau cial company, on the principle of unlimited lia bility, with prominent railway men among its directing partners, and wilh an actually piiiJ-ln cash cnpnal only partially representing its nominal basis ol opt-rations. Companies ol this nature then multiplied rapidly. Freed from the old liability ot paitneis, and tempted by the prospect ot prodigious profit, speculators'with money and speculators without money rushed into theni with a recklessness which should hereafter moderate the reproaches of our Bug ltsn cousins. Nothing was more easy than the creation of financial companies, with nominal capitals of millions, of which but a fraction had really been contributed by the stockholders. They were so many financial pyramids inverted a great pile of credit resting upon a minute amount ot cash. The companies, nevertheless, went to work lend ing money to help all sorts of ente rprises, and paying dividends which looked like Usui ions profit. The money they advanced, however, was tor the most part not their own. They were mere discounting agencies, assuming hazardous risks with the chance of enormous profit, aud hypothecating the securitiei they received to obialn the mouey tor their custom ers. The remainder ot the stcry may be soon told. The securities on which the companies had obtained and iu turn made advances, shared theextraoidinarv depreciation which has been observable in the English market since tbe commencement ot the present year; and the bar ks that had supplied the funds shrauk from an extern? on ol their Invcatnieuh. In some cases as m the continental railroads, In which many gi eat contractors are deeply engaged the further negotiation of loans became Impos sible. Tho financial companies, themselves unable to borrow, were no longer able to lend; and their availade cash capital being utterly unequal to their business, a stoppage ensued. The largest of the companies were the fim to suspend, aud then sprang up the panic, which, according to our present advices, although it may be but temporary, has had no parallel since 1825. Although, then, the 9uddcn and almost unpre cedented rise iu the Bank ot Englaud rate ot dis count, and its flr.al relusal to assist the financial companies on any terms, must be regarded as the immediate cause of the excitement, tho real source of the embarrassment must be sought in other directions. So, again, with reference to the drain of gold from Englaud to thecontinent, attendant upon tbe prevalence of a war panic. That is but a subsidiary cause, involving issues connected wilh the policy and charter ol the bunk, but uflording an inadequate explanation ol results which are mainly attributable to pio longed inllation. Tbe Oracle of Auxerre. From the Daily Xmos. WLeu the French Emperor, in response to the address of welcome of the Mayor of Auxcrrc, said, addressing the populace of that town, "in the midst of you I breathe at case, for it is among the laborious populations of the towns and rural districts that I find tue. true genius of France," he expressed no more significantly his lriendly feeling towards the lower classes of the French people than he had long before done when a prisoner in the Fortress of Ham after his unsuccessful attempt at revolution in 1840. In his "Historical Fragments," a social and politi cal essay written during his incarceration, he expressed his resolve to act always in the "in terests of the masses, the sources of all right and ol all wealth, although destitute of the one and witnout guarantee tor the other." Thus, then, when we fled the ex-philosopher of the prison at Ham to-day the great Emperor with almost boundless power speaking words of encouragement to the masses, it is not to be supposed that he is, at the commencement of a deep political scheme, attempting to secure the popular sympathies in his contemplated move ments, or that he is desirous of exhibiting his displeasure at that element of Frencu society that ranged itself in opposition to the Govern ment nominees in the late elections. That he would seek to enlist the concurrence of the mass ol the French people in his plans, what ever they may be, is natural; but he would scarcely attempt to propitiato one clas at the expense of the Iriendship of another. But it is his declaration that, in common with the inhabitants of the borough of Auxerre, In which town, according to the words ot its Mayor, "the t acred tire ot attachment to the empire has always been kept burning even in the darkest times," ho detested those treaties ot 115, whereby the armed coalition against France made nugatory the spleudid fruits of that empire'9 existence, that his utterances, oracular though tbey be, partake of an ominous significance. It gives evidence that in that sombre nature ol his the lire of delayed ven geance is not extinguished; that the wrong done to the hcud ot his house and the lounderot his family is not forgotten; that the letrlbutive dent that France owes to tnose who gloried in her shame must some day be paid. No wonder, then, that the gossip-mongers of Paris and the auk'nuues of the continent 1 should see iu his weighty words at Auxerre Testimony to nis contemplated aotiou in the pending German quarrel. And it is upon a troubkd and complicated Held, indeed, that he looked when be toreshadowed in his carmag nole to the workmen listening to him the policy that should govern France in the near future of war. There is scarcely a nation of any preten tion in Europe that does not occupy its alloted piace in tho foreground of the battle-picture. Austria, Prussia, and Italy are at imminent odds. Of those cations which seem destined to become inolvea in the struggle for empire or tor existence, France is the chu-f. In a remote way, but as a consequent upon the threatened over th l o w of the stipulations of those trea lies of 1815, of which Louis Napoleon has just declared his detestation, Lngland. too, mav become an active agent in the prevention of the menaced recoa strui tionof the map of Europe, may be com pelled, also, to arm in another cause which ha3 not yet made itself appareut, but which is destined to appear upon the scene In due time, aud when tae combatants shall have become hotly engaged. This diversion will occur with the gradual unfolding of the Russiuu policy, which would extend the power of that empire into Asia, and towards tbe British possesions ol India a policy which, in its attempted exer cise at the expense of Turkey, brouaht on the Cr'mean war, and which, tor these many years, has been the guiding-star of Russian diplomacy. With the whole of Western Europe convulsed with conflict the "giant of the North" will avail itself of the vexed question of the Principalities to advance upon the stolid Turk, who, in the throes of an untimely dissolution, may call upon Allah, but m vain, for protection irom his foes. And thus, in the great storm of war that seems destined to arise from even so small and poor a beginning as the dispute over Suhleswig Holstein, may we catch a glimpso, is it were, of the wonderful workings ol that destiny that follows in the course ot nations, converting ignoble causes into the opportunities of ambi tious and daring men, aud drenching a conti nent in blood to satisfy the greed tor territory or tho long cherished spirit of revenge of a single man armed with plenary po er for war or peace. The cloud that now threatens Europe with tho tremendous calamity of combined ami involved warfare is the most formidable that has ever towered upon its political horizon. With the vast numbers of men that would be engaged; the destructive implements of death employed; the comprehensiveness of the tueatre of strife, the mind is lost in the attempt to understand at what terrible cott the nations implicated and to be implicated in the existing quarrel would gain their respective ends. But as the bload of martyrs is the seed of the Church, so Is the blood of the people the seed of national aarrran-di-eroent; and so while the conscript shall go from the village to swell the ranks ot his coun try's delenders. there will never lack those who shall twine the garland and the tributary rib bons about the barrel of the gun upon his shoul der, and throw up their caps when he marches awav by the sergeant's fide to the tap ol the diem. .i r The Tottuie of Jefferson Davis. From the World. It !s no longer a matter of newspaper rumor that the treatment whtch Jellerson Davis has re ceived during his incarceration In Fortress Monroe has been such as to break down hU constitution, and to put him, after twelve months of protracted suffering, in imminent pel il of death. Upon the recommendation of tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury, the President ol the United States recently ordered the Post Surgeon at Fortress Monroe to make a careful and thorough report upon the condition of Mr. Davis' health. That report has been made, and is now published. It cannot be read by any honorable and right minded American, no matter what his sectional feelings or his political oplulons may be, with out a sickening sensation of shame lor his coun try, and a burning flush ot indignation against the persons who have prostituted their, otlicial positions to inflict upon the American name an ineilaceable brand of disgrace bv the wantjn and wicked torture of an invalid lying a helpless prisoner in the strongest fortress in the Union. The report of Post Surgeon Cooper is all the more damning that It is perfectly calm and for mal in tone, and that it deals only with tbe strictly medical aspect of the investigation which its author was ordered to make. We hear nothing, for example, from Surgeon Cooper of the stories which have been repeated over and over again, in all varieties of tone, but with a singular consistency in the main details, by cor respondents ol all shades ot opinion, iu regard to the petty insults heaped upon Jefferson Davis in the routine of his daily life. The relusal, by express military orders, of the common courte sies and simplest decencies of life to a man who, lor lour year?, wielded the resources of eleven belligerent Mates against the whole power of the Union, while it would be unspeakably dis graceful to the authorities perpetrating it, might be ot very little consequence either to the health or the spirits of the captive at whom it was aimed. A man of pfrong aud self-sustained character might be annoyed, inleed, at fluding himself in the hands ot persecutors so paltrv, but tliey would scarcely be able to disturb his digesHon or his sleep. The American people, should these stories prove to be true, will have a serious account to sett'c with tbe functionaries who cojld thus misrepresent and belittle them in tho eyes of Chiistcndom and of history. But the crying rcsun oi ourecon cooper's report, the result I wh'ch demands the most prompt aud emphatic expression possible oi tue popular indignation, il we are not to be written down all of us us accomplices In the vile transactions which it reveals, is this, that the health of Jefferson Davis, which was notoriously p ior at the time ot his capture, has been systematically broken down by a cruel and deliberate perovcraaee in applying to him one ol the worst toitures known to uumanity. Here are the fatal words in which the truth Is told. After describing the general prostration ot the prisoner's physique, Surgeon Cooper says: 'Slipht noises, which are scarify perceptlblo to a man n r bust health, cau e aim mtioti pain, the de scription of the toiuahoa being a of one flayed and having every sentient rorve exposed to the waves ot sound. Want of si op has been a rreat and almost the principal caus of Ins norvous excitability fins has been produced by the tramp of the croakiug Coots ot the sentinels on post round tho prison room and the relieval ot the guard at tne expiration of Aery two houis, which almost invariably wakens him. Prisoner Davis states that be has scarcely enjoy ed over two hours of aloen unbroken at one time since InS confinement. Utans have boen taken, by placing matting on the floors tor the sentinel to walk on, to alleviate this source of disturbance, but with only partial sucoess ilis vital condition is low, and he ha but littlo recuperative ft roe. Should he b- allocked by any ol the severe forms of disease to which the tide-water region oi Virginia fs sub foot, I with reason, tear for the lesult." In a very minute and horrible treatise on the toitures practised by tho Inquisition, an Italian writer tells us that a certain Grand Inquisitor, at Rome, famous for his skill at jangling God's work in tbe human body, pronounced this spe cial foim of torment, the torment by insomnia, to be "the most exquisite and victorious of all ho had ever essayed." No picture in all that oroud gallery of imperial madness and misery which Suetonius has bequeathed to us, is so iearlul as his portraiture of Caligula, roaming thiough the vast halls of the palace of the Casars. night after night, with blood-shot eyes, sleepless, aad driven on by sleeplessness to insanity. And in what light are we, this triumphant Ameiican people ot the nineteenth century, to appear before posterity, weighted with the damning image of our most conspicuous enemy tbus tied by us to tae stake, and tortured by us, w itn worse than lrdian lortures, unto death? We make, and seek tomake.no party issues with any man or men on this matter. It is the honor, the bumauity, the Christianity, the civili zation ol the American republic which are here involved. Since the eloquent pen of Mr. Glad stone, near a scoie of years ago. concentrated the indignation oi the civilized world upon the barbarous treatment inflicted by the Bourbon rulers of Naples upon Baron Poerio and bis tellow-captives, there has been no such rove lat.on as this of the brutality to which mea may be tempted by political passion; and it is intolerable that the scandals of Iacbia and San Elmo should be paralleled in the sacred nume of liberty, within the walla of Fortress Monroe. We abstain purposely ironi niscus8ing the nature aud extent of the political ofienses for which Jefferson Davis has thus been made to sutler. For we are un willing to believe that any man can be found, even in the ranks of the most extreme ot the Radical party, who would dare import such a discussion into the case. Tbadduus Stevens could shock the moral sense of mankind bv ' demanding the "penitentiary ot hell" for mil lions ot his tclJow-countrvmen: but even Thad- dcus Stevena, wepreier to tbink, would shrink MU1U lUUULUniUI bllOV VU3b Mlltl lUtlUFIVt auathema Into practical and downright torture ol a single human being. When Laiayette was su tiering the extremes ol cruelty m tbe Austrian dungeons ot (Jlmutz, Edinuud Burke, trans potted by a blind rage against the French Re volution, could respond to an appeal in behalf of the injured and hlgh-souled victim by ex claiming in his place in Parliament: "I would not debase my humanity by supporting an ap plication in behallof such a horrid ruffian!" But is it for a moment to be supposed that tho most fanatical member of an American Congress, which assumes to itself a special philanthropy, and sits in the year 1(.6, can be tound to imitata Uie savage bigotry of an exasperated British loyalist in the year 1794? 1 the members of the Congressional - majority at Washington are not weaker and more wicked men than the sternest of their political oppo nents would willingly believe them to be, they will compel a prompt exposure of tho authors of this shameful thing, a prompt exposure, and a punishment as prompt. The President hay done his duty In laying bare the facts, and will do his duty, we doubt not. in arresting at once and summarily this continuous outrage upon the national character. But we live in an epoch of Congressional inquiries into national scandals and national rumois of al) kinds; and the con science of the country will bold the presont Congress to a dread responsibility if it shirk or evade in any way a duty more important to our national honor than any which it has yet assumed. ' I It is stated that there are yet twelve mil lion acres ot arable land iu Iowa untouched by hiiriIi or nloiiL'h. 1 l I n According to M. Jule Simou, there are oulv 25 booksellers iu France. , MAY 25, 18C6. SPECIAL NOTICES. jggT PARDEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE tAFAYETTK COLLEGE. In addition 19 ins g neral fours of Tn'tntctlnn in tin Iippfirtmrnt. orl(.nwl to ly a substantial bnl or knowlrdRr rd scholarly cnltuie. stmlflm can pursne tlidSf -lim tc lies which ar estenUall praciioil and if cbnf al. Tlr. t t(il..FIO Civil. Torosphlral. and Vectin niciili MIMMltnnd MET A I l.l'HUY t AHlHllUJ 1 1 Hp, ana the aerliiailon of Chemistry to AUHIC'Uli H Rr. and th ARTS. 1 I pip is a so atiordrd an opportunity tor special study Of THADk. and I UtMF.Kl.K ot JlODI HN LAN (.T1M.1 k nl 1 H1I.OLOUY, and oftha U1HTORT and INPTlTin K'NH otonr oountiy. For Llicuiars apply to 1 jeslclent CATTTLL, or to I'tol. H B. VOUNUM N. Clerk of the Faculty. Fajok, PfltinsjlTinla April 4. 1S06. 6 lo TO THE SOLDIERS OF PEXN3YL- VAMA. , J, , HAaatsacBO. May 1. M In obedience to amhorltr t esied In ma b a rosolo tlon adopted br tne Convention or Soldier lie d In this city n the elutito day or (March 1HS6 I do herebt re quest tlie honorably dlnchamed soldier of t eninyl vanla to meet in their respective I eg'amtlve Districts and eteat Jielepates, not eaceedln Ave In number to repteMnt Uielr district In a Soldiers' Convention, to be held In tbeoit.r ol Pittsburg, on TUESDAY. Uis fl.th of June neat, at 1" o'clock A.M. ' Where any Representative dls'rlct comprises more loan one county, tbe manner ol electing the delegates Is ttspcctiully referred to tbe soldier of the at riut lor such conference as will result la a lair representation jf each county t'ltlitens nbo have borne arms In defhtue of the nation t avalnM mason have erpeolal Interest in the parpoiwa of this Convention, and it Is desirable that an tuli a repre sentation ot the brave delenders ot the coantry as pos Mble should bo secured on this occasion ( .1. F. UARTRAKFT. I.ste Brevet Mnlor-tietu-ral USA. Papers favorable to the cause will please puoilah the above. s 4t6 ft TlIK FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN' HAVE a--' heer du y elected Officers of tbe 1'HIT.ADKt, rillA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, to serve for the ensuing year s PBRH1DRNT JOSEPH 8. PEROT. MANAGKRS. AI.RX4NDK.ro. CATTELL. CUARLE.S II. CUMHINUS, jamk a. WRimn, HOWARD II INCH MAN, CHARLES KNECIl l 8KNKCA JR. I' A LOSE, NATUAM BHOOKK, JOHN 11 Mil HKNEIl, TRKASt'URR. 8 A MUM. L. WARD. Subscriptions will be received at the Rooms of the Cora h xchenge Acsoclation, tor the balance of the cnpnal stock, dally, itom II A M. to l'i M. iHikdciI) kAM I'LL L. WARD.Trcamrcr. I'tilladelpMa, May It. 16 5 II lui ITPP TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Notice ts hereby given to ho'ders of Certificate of In debteilnoss, isxued under acts of Congress approved Marcb 1 und 17, Wi. that tho Secretary oi the 1 reaaury. In accordance with said acts, and the tenor ot said cer tificates, la prepared to redeem, before maturity, all Cer tlttaate ol Indebtedness lallina due In June, July, or AiiKtiht, II-b6 with accrued Interest thereon. It presumed for tedemptlon on orbelore May 31, and that horea'ter such CertiUcates will ceae to hear interest, and will be paid on presentation at this Departuiei.t, with lntero.it only to the said 31 Ht uisL (K.Kned) HUGH McCULLOfn '23 6t Secretary ol tlie Troaaury. Kg? FAIR TO SECURE A HOME FOR s3 THE AOhl) AM) INK1UH M UMBERS OH' TIIF M E. CHIRCII The ladles of EUsNEZ:K M. F. CHURCH would respectful v solicit Donations in Money, Flowers I eel til and Faney Articles. I ir the above object. Donatloas may lie sont to Mrs T. W. Mnipers, o. 4IM Ca'harlne stree, i Urn. 1). H. llowen. No. Hlft s. second street! and Mrs. Charles Thompson, Ko 1216 S. Second street. The Fair will beheld at Concert Hall, commencing June 11. lt-6'i. a IB 20t fTTJp PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM PAN X. TRRASIJRRB'8 Dkpartmf.nt, I 1 .nviniiT. lu .. i luim r .......iv.. i. . i. jn ..law a, nwi 1 NOTICJK TO STOCKHOLDERS. The Hoard of jnrectors nave mis nay iiccuro l a semi annual dividend ol FIVJt PER CENT . on the capital stock of the Com pany, clta of .National and state taxes, payablo on and ui tor May SO, 1806. r Blank powers of attorney or collecting dividend can bo had at tho office ot the Company, No. Z3H s. I HIRo fctieet IHuilAS T. FIRTH, 6 Hot Treasurer. PHILADELPHIA AND READING ZSJ RAILROAD COMPANY, Office ho. 227 South FOURTH btrcct . . Philadelphia April 28 I8f. Notice Is hereby (riven to the Ntockbo ders ot this C tnnnry. tnat the option of receiving their Dividend In Hod orluKh under the texoluilon ol the Board oi 1 Lib I'ecember, I8t4. w ill cease on and after the 31st ot Mat, lfbli, and that such Stockholders as ao not demand their Dividend to be paid to ihem In Stock on or before that day , will lie thereafier entitled to receive It In Cash opiv. (4 30 1m . 8. BRADFORD. Treasurer. rJ" OFFICE OF THE LFIIIGH COAL AND SAVIGA1I0N COMPANY. .t Philadklpria, May 22 1866. The Board ot Managers have this day declared adivl OBndot FlVK. PER CKMT , or TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF PER SHARE, on the capita' stock of tbta Com pany, payable on demand, clear of national and State taxes. All persons who have not a' ready done so areenrnestly requested to present at this otllce their cerilllcatos of scrip or receipts for their subscription to the new stock Issued In 1M5, and receive the certificates ot stock lu lieu thereof. SOLOMON hUEPHEKI), p 8 Treasurer. OFFICE PORTAGE OIL AND MINING fY COMPANY, No. 1003 Bonth BROAD Street, Philadelphia. 'J be proprietors ot tbe shares who have neglected to pay the sum duly assessed thereon (TWENTY C'i:NTS). i the action el the Board of Directors In pursuance of the terms ot the Charter of this Company, are hereby requested to take notice that a su'llcient number of shares to pay ail asueatments. with necessarv and inci dental cfaariies thereon, will be sold at public auction at tbe office of the company, on I l'E.-DAY.Juneo,atl2 M. ft 14 lt H M. IIUNSICKEtt. Treasur r. (2I0.IKIU), clear of Mate Tax, payable on and after 2lat InHt , at tho oftico ol tho Company. o. 218 Waluut street. 'J rangier books will reopen on the 23u Instant . CHARLES H. REEVES. ft ' ' Secietary. rTT HATCH ELOR'S HAIR DVE. ZXJ TIIF BEST IN THE WORLD. Haimlfps reliable. In-tantaneous. The only perfect dve. No disappointment no ridiculous tints, but trae to nature, h ack or brown GENUINE 18 blU.NKD WILLIAM A. BATCBELOB AI-0. Regenerating Fx tiact oi M IlilHeurs restores, preserves and beautllies the har. prevents ha dneas. So d bi all iTugglstg Factory No.frl BARCLAY et. N. Y. ' 33S ri- JUST PUBLISHED s By tne PhMclans of the NEW YORK MUSEUM, the Ninetieth Edition of their FOUR LECTURES, entitled PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE. To be bad Irec. tor tour stumps b) addressing Secre tarr f tw York Jlueum of Anutomv. 7 1" No. 618 BROADWAY. New Toik. WT0 DINING-ROOM. V. LAKEMEYER, ls-3-' CARTER'S Alley, would reopectiuby inform the l ubllo geneially that he has leit notii'iiy undone to make this place comfortable In every respect lor the accom n odfctlon ol gueKls. He has opened a large and cont u colons Dlnliik-Hoom In tlie second s orv Ula SIDE BOARD is lurnlshrd with BRANDIES. WINES. AV WlhKY, Etc. Etc. Ot SUPERIOR BRANDS. 11 refrigerators! E F Tt I G E R AT O II S. SMITH & BICHARDSON, Agents for the sale of tbe lastly celebrated CHARCOAL LINED BEFRIGFBATORS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, l'IU)M fIJ'OO TO $25'00. 6 2lir6p) No. 611 MARKET Street. OE DOLLAR'S WORTH OF ICE PElt WEEK Will keep your provisions cool and sweet In the warmest weather, by using one ol i Scliooley' Iaree Refriaeratora. Ibty Save three apartments, and are thorough ventilators. Tbe sma 1 izo require but 60 oenta worth oi Ice per week. , E. S. FAIiSON & CO., j MANUFACTURERS, . i 4 251mrp No. 220 DOCK Street j fsrQ TRUSSES, SUPPORTERS, BRACES, bcSeTT and all other Surgical appliances or the most approved kinds, Infinitely superior to all other, at No, V) Nortn i-tVr NTH street. Ladies attended by Mta, Dr. MoCLEN ACHAN. Male dauartiueut by a compo teut surueou. Jilliupj I DRY GOODS. JJH E I P U S S & B E L S I N 0 K R, No. 49 North EIGHTH Street, Have 'ast spened a complete stock e SPHINO GOODS, CONM8T1SO Of LACES, EMBROIDERIES, AND FANCY GOODS. 8"0 pieces plain and striped Jaconets, the newest style hlrre d and I ucked M uslins, w hich are oflerlog at low pneee. nntifchd Handkerchlofs, at bid price ZD, 87, 40, and SO cents. ta if21i,,or,?1,,.,2!ri'l "wat design LACK COL. LA 1.8 and COLL A R1T1 ES, irom Ueenu up to II. 0L0VF0t-0I.0TE8. inE,r!1,r.of Jr..v,N KI" GLOYBa.tewhicb we Invite attention, which we oner at low figures. QABRIELLE SKIRTS. OABRIILLE SKIRTS. worn6"'1"' mt des,rabl M y"h Bklrta new for1ladl"wafIBTIKO,el,W'P ,nd dMlrW rt,0l No 1W4 rtHESNCT HTREKT. E. M. NEEDLES, fVb. 1024 CUESNU1 STREET, i orEita at tow rmcss, 2000 PIECES WHITE GOODS, 3 Ik. ft Inch dins all varieties Shirred. Pnffod. To-ked, Plaid. Striped Plain and Klaured MUSLIN?, suitable k.r White Bodies and I.reases. "ao' 23 '.hi. .frETa.:?. l r u W LAWNS, desir able styles for Dressea. Cluny. Vaitnclenne and other Laeos t Insert Inns, kdiilnas. flouuclnp and Bands. Handker , chiefs, Vella. Collars. Sleeves, ete 1 he above are ollored tor a,. cHniP. .n t. great VARIETY. ' LADIES WOULD DO WELL TO EXAMINE. ,tjin..p l.flfHaHf tin UZO . HOOP-SKIRT jZO Manufactory. No.MSARCn Street. Above Hxtb street. Phiadolphla. . W holeealo and Retail. Our assortment tuibraccsall tho new and desirable styles and sizes, oi every length and size waist lor Ladles, Misses, and Children. Those of ViH OWA MAKE" ate tuffriif In Unit and tlurabtiiip to any other Skirts made, and warranto to (five satisfaction. S k Iris made lo order, altered, and repaired. 14 SUMMER RESORTS. SUMMER ItESOltTS OX LINE OF Reading Hall road and Branches. MANSION 110 USE, 210 UNT CARBON, Mrs. Caroline Wunicr, TottsvllleP. O., Schuylkill CO lUSCARORA HOTEL, Mrs. Hannah Miller, Tufcarora P. O., Schuylkill co MAIIAlOY CITY HOTEL. O. W. Frost, Mahanoy City P. O., Schuylkill oo. WHITE HOUSE, Mi 9. Susan Marsaorf, Reading P. O ANDALUSIA, James 8. Madeira, Reading P. O. LIVING SPRINGS HOTEL. Dr. A. Smith, Vt'erdersvtlle P. O., Berkjco SO U1H MO UN TAIN EO USE, 11. 11. Maoderbach, Womelsdorf P. 0., Berks oa. COLD SPRINGS HOTEL, Lebanon CO., Charles Roedermel, ilarrisburg P. 0. DO YERSTO WN SEMINAR Y. J. B.Ucnky, BoyerslownP. 0., Berks co. YELLOW SPRINGS HOTEL, 8. B. Snyder, Yellow Springs P. O., Chester oo L1TIZ SPRINGS, Samuel Llchlenthaler, LltlzP 0., Lanoasterc EPHRATA MOUNTAIN SPRINGS, Alexander S. Feathei, Epbrata P. 0., Lancaster o A rniL 21,1866. 4i33 CONGRESS HALL, CAPE ISLAND, N. J., WILL, RECEIVE QUESTS ON Thursday, Mav 31, 18GG. 611 J. F. CAKE, Proprietor. COAL. JAMES 0 ' B 11 I E X, SEALER IN LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL COAL. BY THE CA1IGO OH BIItOLK TON. Yard, Broad Street, below Fitzwater. B as constantly ou band a competent supply of tue above superior Coal, sui able for family use, te which he calls the attention ot his frionda and the pubiio gonerally. Orders lelt at Ko. 205 South Fifth street, No. 32 South Seventeenth aireet, or tnroujdi Despatch or Post Ofllce, promptly attended to. A 8UPEK10R QUALITY oF BLACKSMITHS' COAL. 7 6 5 IN ORDER TO SAVE MONEY AND (JET AN .1 article that nearly every one Is rushing for. buy FBEbTON COAL, at tins per ton. xg and Stova size;, also the genuine Eagle Vein Coal at same price i and a very tine ouallty of Lehigh at 760 per ton lor Kyg and Stove, delivered to all parta of the cltv, free of slate aud dirt. Orders received at iio. 114 8. TUI It It Street. i'U BENDER'S COAL AND ICE DEPOT, 8. W. CORSEB OF BROAD AND CALLOWHILL STREETS, Offera the celebrated West Lehigh Coal from the Greenwood Colliery, Move, Kgg. and Heater slse. 7M; JSutattf60. Also, the very superior Schuylkill t)oal, from the Keevetdale tollleiy, Xutslao, 6 til. All other sixes 70(1. &ll Coal warranted and taken baok bee of expense to the norchaser. Ii not sb represented. Alao, the Coal for. teitta It not fun weight. il6ia g p ii i n a. BEDDING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, ' HOLESALE AND RETAIL, AMD MATSBIAL8 JOB TBI BAkll. BEST QUALITY AND STYLE OF BPRINO MATTRESSES. "J. S. FULLER, 4 llDiutUSm No. 9 B. SEVEN TU Street. t e
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