PTPTTi ITS uTTTTi "RTTT"KN IPIEi IDA V JJ2dlflMLl A o VOL. VII-No. 118. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 18G7. DOUBLE SHEETTHREE CENTS. SECOND EDITION THE 1TOLS OF THE SEA. The Slrandlus or tiic Santiago de Cuba Off the Jersey Coast. Seven Lives Are Lost in Landing the Passengers. IlLl PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER. KtCtf Ett., Ktc., Etc., Etc., Kte. Last evening our reporters Lad interviews Tvith several of the passeDgers of the ill-fated steamship Santiago de Cuba, the stranding of nhich on the coast of New Jersey, near Atlantic City, yesterday morning, was stated in Tub Kvbnino Telegraph of yesterday after noon. A careful comparison of the different accounts of the disaster, as given by the passengers, leads to the belief that the follow ing account of the affair is essentially correct: On the 27th of April, about 875 passengers lef San Francisco for New York, on the vessel of the Nicaragua Bteamship Transit Company. On the 14tb of May they arrived at Grey town, Nicaragua, and on that day took passage on the Hani into de Cuba, commanded by Captain Charles F. W. Behm, for their Anal destina tion. Nothing happened to mar the voyage until the night of Monday, the 20th instant, When the vessel was oil' Cape Haltoras. Most of the passengers assert and believe that the vessel grounded at this point, but when the circumstance was mentioned to the officers, it was ttoutly denied. On Tuesday evening, when the vessel was oft the Jersey coast, a heavy fog prevailed, and the fog-signal was sounded regularly at short in tervals. About midnight the fog cleared away, and then the passengers who happened to be on deck at the time noticed that the vessel was hugging the coast very closely. The heavens were clear and bl ight, and the shore was there fore plainly In view. Among tho passengers were Captain Kelley, of the steamer Montana, and Captain ratton,of the steamer Idaho, which were recently on the opposition line between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. About 1 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning. Cap tain Kelley went on deck, und noticing the proximity of the vessel to the shore, called Cap tain Behm's attention to the fact, and the dan ger it involved. Captain Behm replied that there was no danger, and even ordered the man at the wheel to steer still closer. Abont half-past three in the morning the vessel was near the point known as Dry Inlet, and live or six miles to the south of Atlantie City. At this time, according to some of the passengers who were on deck, the vessel was steering directly for the light-house at the latter Jilace, while others assert that her course lay 6c ween the light-house and the adjacent shore. At a quarter to four o'clock this foolhardy conduct on the part of the officers of the ship resulted In the bow of the vessel striking In the sand. The keel struck five or six limes before it be came fixed, and not until the vessel was im movably fixed was the motion of the wheels reversed. The ship then began to bump violently, and the slumbering passengers were awakened in the most summary style imaginable. Among the number were about one hundred ladies, and several children. With the utmost pre cipitation, the whole population of the vessel rushed on deck, where the excitement and terror were inteuse. Captain Behm, however, took the matter very coolly, striding up and down bis deck, with cigar in mouth, and appa rently but little concerned. All the officers of the vessel. Indeed, If the passengers are to bo believed, had lost their wits, and it fell upon Captain Kelley, of the Montana, to take the It'was soon apparent that the vessel could not be released without the assistance of tugs. Her position was about 210 yards from the shore at high water, and about IM yards at low water. But as yet no leak bad been discovered, and there was no immediate danger. Persons who are familiar with the coast assert that a safer place lor running ashore could not have been selected. About 7 o'clock preparations were made for landing the passengers. Three of the surf-boats were launched, as well as a large India-rubber raft. Captain Kelley took command of one of the boats, and was the first to gain the shore. Another boat load also succeeded In reaching the shore in safely, and then Captain Kelley started on Ma epnni irin. About a dozen of the passen- 'ers were in mis uuut, uau ui mom uoiug 'ortica .TiiRt an it reached the breakers, it was overturned, and the whole party were nrooinitntori into the ocean. Two of them were drowned, but the others managed to reach the shore by clinging to the bottom of the boat. A rope had been stretched from the stranded ves sel but at this time it had not neeu drawn taut, and was of no service. Boon after the oap sizir g of this boat, a number of the passengers succeeded in landing by means of the rait; but on the return of this two of the ship'B men were washed overboard. Martin McNulty, the Quartermaster, was drowned, but the other seaman was enabled to reaoh the shore by cling- iDAbout "o'clock still another disaster hap peneu. .o one of the boats, commanded, it la believed, by Captain Patton, of the Idaho. The number lost by the capsizing of his boat was four, the remainder suooeedlutf in gaining the 8lBy 2 o'clock in the afternoon all the passen gers were ashore, material assistance having been rendered by Captain Townsend, of Atlautlo City, and his wrecking crew, who arrived at the scene of the disaster during the course of WThe'pa8senger8alI award the most unbounded praise to Captain Townsend and his men, and credit them with the saving of many lives. The bodies of all the persons drowned, exoept-Ina- two. were recovered and removed to the Mansion House, at Atlantic City. The names oi those who were drowned were as follows: Mrs. Mary Watkins, an elderly lady, on her way to England to secure a legacy of 13,W0 recentlv lefi her. Mrs. Marcella Rlckers. of Louisiana. Mrs. Eunice 8. Gross, of Indiana. Mary Louisa Gross, daughter of Mrs. Gross. Miss Sarah MoAvoy, a young Irish lady, who has been thirteen years In this oountry, and was on her way back to Ireland. Mr. John Smith. Martin McNulty, Quartermaster of the Ban dit was reported in the morning papers that Mr C Gross, the husband of Airs. E. S. Gross, was among the lost, but we are happy to state that such is not the case. The bodies of Mrs. Gross and Mr. Smith had not been recovered at the latest advices. An lnauest on the bodies recovered was held at Atlantic City during the day by the Coroner. PrIhomas K. Keed, and a verdict of accidental ilrownlna rendered. The nassengers made their way up to Atlautlo Citv as fast as possible, some of them Journey ing on foot. Wagons were provided for trans Cortina the women and cuildren. and the Eeavlei portions of the baggage, all of whloh was landed fioni the vessel. About 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon, half-a-dozen of them reached this city, and at a quarter of 8 in the BvenlnK 25 or 80 more arrived, among the number several ladles. A few also came up to the citv this morning, but the greater portion remained I at the different hotels at Atlantic "tv during the night, and were taken to New York : to-day on a special train, by way of the Karltan and Uelaware bay Railroad. All of the passengers with whom we have eonverscd are loud In their denunciation or Captain Behm, and the other officers of the ves sVi whom they accuse of the grossest oare ess ness i Several even go so lar as to assert their belief that the stranding of the vessel was pre- part or opposition lines. They affect to believe, aiFO, that the grounding oil' Cape Hat teras was intentional; and that, having failed to accom plish his purpose there, Captain Behm made another and a successful effort to wreck the veiselon the Jersey coast. We give currency to tills as the mere srosslpof the passengers, and it must be taken for what it is worth. The Santiago de Cuba lies In an easy position, In about ten feet of water at low tide. Captain Towni end and his wrecking crew are in charge, tog th cr with the officers, and it is believed that as soon as the assistance summoned from New York arrives, the vessel can be put atloat without material dumnge to the hull or cargo. At. 1 o'clock yesterday nfternoon a powerful steamship of the Coast Wrecking Company left New York for the scene of the disaster, having on board nil the necessary appliances. An agent orthe Company owning the Santiago do Cuba accompanied this vessel. At 8 o'clock the steamship Saratoga was also despatched, with the general agent of the Com pany on board. At 0 o'clock in the nfternon further assistance was sent to the disabled vessel, In the shape of theiSubruarlne Wrecking Company's steamer Saxon. With all this assistance, the Santiago tie Cuba will probably be able to resume her Journey in a day or two. Description of tlie Santiago de Cuba. The Santiago de Cuba Is one of the fastest of our coast steamships. During the war she was owned by the Government, and did most effec tive service as a gunboat, under command of Captain Gllsson, of the regular navy. Among her iatct exploits was her participation in tire two attacks on Fort Fisher. After the first f.ttack she was chosen for her speed as the despatch boat of Admiral Porto" to convey to Washington the Intelligence of our reverse. In the second final attack she received several proofs of the enemy's skilful markman ship, one of their shells passing through her whtelhouso and over the bridge amidships. She was built In 1801, for Valiente & Co., rates A1J4, and Is of 1027 tons burden. She Is ill foet in length, and 88 feet beam, with a depth of hold of 19 feet deen, and a draught of 15 feet. Her materials are white oak and haokatack, with the floors solidly filled in. Her engine has a 66-Inch cylinder, and there are Independent Are and bilge pumps. She Is brig rigged, and Iron braced, and has two bulkheads and three decks. Her hull was built by J. W. Simonson, at the Greenpolnt yard, aud her maohlnery was put in by the Neptune Iron Works. Originally built to run between New York and Santiago de Cuba, she passed into the Government ser vice, and after the war was purchased by Mar shall . Roberts, her present owner, for the ser vice of the line between New York and Cali fornia, via Greytown. Relnspected in 180-", she was altered for passenger trafflo by the addition of mess houses, a cabin, aud a spar deck. LATER FROM LIE HI CO. LIBERAL SUCCESSES. CAPTURE OF CIIEPULTEPEC. Execution of Don Simon Peon at Sisal. New Yokk, May 23. By the arrival or the steamer Moro Castle, from Havana, Vera Cruz dates to the 18th instant have been received. Mirauion on the L'Tth ultimo tried to force his way through the Liberal lines out of Queretaro, but was repulsed and badly wounded. The Castle of Chepultopec was taken on the 14th ultimo by Guadaramn, after a fierce struggle. The Liberal army is being rupldly swelled by reinforcements trom nil the States. The Kmperor was still at Queretnro. Sisal was in the hands of the Liberals. Don Simon Peon, of the Imperialists, was executed at Sisal. From Havana. New York. May 23. The steamer Moro Castle, from Havana on the 18lh Instant, has arrled. The barque Ocean Home at length has been abandoned by her captain, the Government being about to sell the vessel to satisfy the claim of $7000, in the moantime the captain reporting the matter to the Washington Gov ernment. An awful tragedy occurred in the court-room at Matanzas. A man shot his own wife and her mother during the progress of a suit for alimony, and threatened the spectators who dared to interfere. He was at length secured. The murderer was named Santiago Manzarlet, and has some literary xeputution. General liulce and lainlly have gone to Spain. FROM EUROPE BY STEAMER. ABR1VAL OP THE PENNSYLVANIA AND AFRICA. New York. May 23. The steamer Pennsyl vania, from Liverpool May 8, has arrived. Her advices have been anticipated by cable. Boston, May 23. The steamer Africa came up at A. M. The bullion In the Bank of England, May 10, was 19,130,357 pounds sterling, and In the Bauk of France, on the same dale, 81,0.7,000 pounds sterling. On the London Stock Exchange money is a drug at 1 per cent. The London Times says that the embarrass ments of Pent & Co., of China, did not arise from ruinous speculation of John Dent, but from heavy losses through frauds committed by one of their clerks at Bhanghae. FRCffl BALTIMORE TO-DAY. "States' Rights" In the Constitutional Convention Dullness of Business, Kte. SPECIAL DE8FATCII TO THE EVENTNfl TELEGRAPH. Baltimoqk, May 23. Our Democratic Con stitutional Convention is discussing the ques tion of Htate Rights, aud there is no doubt will engraft that odious doctrine, to its fullest ex tent, in the new Constitution, making Mary land sovereign and independent of the general government. Complaints of dullness in busi ness here are unprecedented. Money is tight, and there are rumors of more failures. There Is a strong undercurrent of grumbling 'about the Increased oily aud State taxes. There Is an increasing anxiety for Congress to meet in July. The Financial Troubles in New Orleans. New Orleans, May 21 The examiners of me f irst National uauir consiuer lis assets suf ficient to nay all the debts of the bank. The stockholders, under the new dlreotlon, have decided to resume business as soon as the Gov ernment permits. The statements concerning General Herron's connection with the bank are untrue and mall olous. Yesterday tlie Govern ment ordered tne arrest or i nomas l. ilav and William R. Whlttaker, who were hold to answer In 825,000 each. Much sympathy is ex- Sressed for them. John Burnslde, A. B. James, . Friedlander, aud others volunteered as sureties. The Presbyterian Convention; Cincinnati. May 23. In the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday, the report of the Committee of ten on contested scats, and the declaration and testimony, was discussed at great length, aud occupied the greater part of me bcssiou. Rev. Thomas P. Hoover, of Cranberry. N. J.. member of the Presbyterian General Assembly, died here yesterday. From San Francisco. San Francisco, May 21. The Billiard Tour nament In this city closed last night. Every portion ot the Paclflo coast was represented. The champion cue was awarded to A. W. Bam json, of Virginia, Nevada. Flour and wheat quiet and quotations un changed. Legal-tenders. 74. i , The Late Collision. CfSciNWATi, May 23 L. Wood, of Massachu setts, engineer of the Indianapolis train which collided 'With the Ohio and Mississippi train yesterday, died last night from injuries re ceived Auui ttie accident. t' THE GREELEY-DAVIS BAIL BUGABOO. Sharp letter from Mr. Grfelcy to tlic New York Union League. Wendell Phillips on Treason and Straw Bail. Etc., Eto., Ktc, Etc.. Etc., Etc. BY. THESE PRESENTS, GREETING I To Messrs. George W. illtuit, John A. Kennedy, John O. Blone. Stephen Hyatt, and thirty others, mem bers of the Union League Club. Gentlemen: I was favorod, on the 10th inst., by an otliclal note from our over-oourteous President, John Jay, notifying me that a requisition had been presented to him for "a special meeting of the Club, nt an early day, f r the pnipose of tuklng lulo consideration the coniluciof Horace Greeley, a member of tho Club, who has become a bondsman for Jetfi rson Davis, lulo chief ollieer of the Rebel Govern ment." Mr. Jay continues: "As I have reason to believe that the signers, or some of them, disapprove of the conduct winch they propose the Club shall consider. It Is cleurly dins both to the Club and to yourself, tlmt yon should Imvt" tho opportunity of being heard on tlie snbleet. 1 Ix'i;, therefore, to nsk on wlrnt evening It will ba conve nient lor you Unit I call the meeting,'' etc. In my prompt reply I requested the President to give you reasonable time for reflection, but aMtrd him tbut I wanted none; since I should not attend tho meeting, nor ask any friond to do so, aud should rnuue no defense, nor oiler aught in the way of self-vludleatlou. Iiumsuro my friends In the Club will not construe this as Implying disrespect; but it Is not my habit to take part In any discussions which may arise among other gentlemen as to my fitness to enjoy their society. That Is their affair alto gether, and to them I leave It. The single polut whereon I have any occasion or wish to address you is your virtual Implica tion that there is something novel, unexpected, astounding, in my conduct in the matter sug gested by you as tlie basis of your action. I choose not to rest under this absumpilon, but to prove that yon, boin persons of ordinary intelligence, must know better. On this point, I cite you to a scrutiny of the record: The surrender of General Lee was made known in this city nt 11 P. M. of Sunday, April 0th, IMS, and lltly announced in the Tribune ot tho next morning, April 10. On that very day I wrote, and next morning printed In these columns, a leader entitled "Muguauluilty In Triumph," wherein I said: "We bear men snv, 'Yes, forgive the (rro.'it mass of those who have been misled Into Jtcbclllon;, but punish tho leaders us they deserve.' But who c;l accurately draw the line between lenders and toll-ers In tho premises T liy what tent shall they be discriminated 7 Where is your touchstone ol'leaUershlp ? We know of none. "Nor can we msree with those who would punish the original plotters of secession, yet spare their ultimate and scarcely willing converts. On Hie contrary, while we would rcviva or intlame resentment against none of them, we leel far lens antipathy to the original up holders of 'the resolutions of 'us' to tho disciples of Calhoun and Mcbullie to the Nulllliers of lnil, and tlie 'State flights' men of ISM than to the John Bells, Humphrey Marsballs, and (Alexander H. Stephens, who were schooled In the national faith, und who, in becoming disuhlnnlu and ltcbels, trampled .on the professions ot a life-time, anil spurned the logic where with they hnd so often unanswerably demonstrated tin t secession was treason. We consider Jeil'erson Davis this flay a less culpable traitor than John Bell. "But we cannot believe It wise or well to take the lire of any man who shall have submitted to the national uuthority. The execution of even one such would ba felt ns personal stigma by every one who had ever aided the Rebel cause. Each would Bay to himself. 'I am as culpable as he: we dilTeronly In that I am deemed of comparatively little conse quence.' A single Confederate lud out to execution would be evermore enshrined In a million of hearts as a conspicuous hero and martyr. Wo cannot realize that It would be wholesome or safe we are sure it would not b9 magnanimous to give the overpowered disloyalty of the South such a shrine. Would the throne of the House ot Hanover stand more firmly had Charles Kdwarrl been ciiuuht and executed after CiillodenT Is Austrian domination In Hungary more stable to-day for tho banging ot ISagy Handor ami ins twelve compairiois uiier me nuireuuur oi vu- lauos r "We plead against passions certain to be at this moment tierce and intolerant; but on our sloo are the ages and tho voice of history. We plead for a resto ration ot the Union, against a policy which would atlord a momentary gratification at the cost of years of perilous hate and bitterness. "Those who Invoke military execution of the van quished, or even for their leaders, we suspect will nut generully ho found among the few who have long been exposed to unjust odium as balers of the South, because i hey abhorred slavery, Aud, as to tho long oppressed and degraded blacks so lately the slaves, destined still to be the neighbors, aud (we trust) at no distant day, the fellow-clllzeus of the Southern whites we are sure that their voice, could it be authentically uttered, would ring out decidedly, sonorously, on tho side of clemency of humanity." On the next day, I had some more In this spirit, and on the 13tn an elaborate leader, enti tled "Peace Punishment," in the course of which I said: "The New York Timet, doing injustice to its own sagacity in a characteristic attempt to sail between wind and water, says: 'Let. us hang Jetl. Havis and spare tho rest.' We do not concur In the advice. Davis did not devise nor instigate the Hohel lion; on the contrary, he was one of the latest aud most reluctant of the notables of the cotton stales to renounce definitively the Union. Ills prominence is purely oillclal aud representative; tho only reason lor hanging hlin Is that you therein condemn ami stigmatize more persons tliau In hanging any one else. There is not an ex-Kebel in the world, no mat ter how penitent, who will not have unpleasant sen sations about the neck on the day when theC'oufede rate President Is to be hung. And to what good end? "We n.slst that this matter niust not be regarded In any narrow aspect. We are most anxious to secure the assent of the South to Kmancipatlon; not that assent which the condemned glvea to being hung when he shakes bands with his jailor and thanks him for past acts of kindness, but that hearty assent which can only be won by magnanimity. Perhaps the Kebels, as a body, would have given, even one year ago, as large und as heavy a vote for hanging the writer ot this article as any otter man living; hence, it more especially seems to him important to prove that the civilization based on free labor is ot a higher and huiuaner type than that based on slavery. Wecanuet realize that the gratification to enure to our trlends from the banging of auv one man, or fifty men, should he allowed to outweigh this consideration." On the following day I wrote again: "We entreat the President promptly to do and dare in tbe cause of magnanimity. The Southern inind is now opeu to kindness, and may be magneti cally allected by generosity. Let assurance at once be given tbut there is to be a general amnesty aud no general couliscatlon. This is none the less the dictate of wisdom, because it is also the dictate of mercy. What we ask is, that the 1'iesldeut say In ellect, Slavery having, through rebellion, committed sui cide, let the North and the South unite to bury the curcuss, and then clasp hands across the grave.' " The evening of that day witnessed that most appalling calamity, the murder or President Lincoln, which seemed in an instant to curdle all tbe mllK of human kindness in twenty mil lions of American breasts. At once, insidious efforts were set on foot to turn the fury thus en gendered against me, because of my pertina cious advocacy of mercy to the vanquished. Chancing to enter the club-house the next (Sat urday) evening, I received a full broadside of your scowls, ere we listened to a clerical ha rangue intended to prove that Mr. Lincoln had been Providentially removed because of his notorious leanings towards clemency, in order to make way for a successor who would five the Kebels a full measure of stern Justice, was soon made to comprehend that I had no sympathizers or none who dared soeni such in vour crowded assemblage. Aud some mal adroit admirer having, a low days afterwards, made the Club a present of my portrait, its bare reception was resisted in a speeoli from the Chair by your then President a speeoh whose vigorous Invective was Justified solely by my pleadings for lenity to the Hobels. At once, a concerted howl of denunciation andrugewas sent up from every side against me by the little creatures whom God, for some inscrutable purpose, permits to edit u majority of our minor Jonrnuls, echoed by a yell of "Htop my paper 1" from thousands of Imper fectly instructed readers of tlie Tribune. One impudent puppy wrote me to answer categori cally whether I was or was not In favor or hanging Jen". Davis, adding that I must stop his paper if I .were not I Boores volun teered assuranoes that I was defying publlo opinion that most of my readers were against we an Ui could be induced to write wUut they wished Bald rather than what they needed to be told. 1 never before realized so vividly the I aeness of tbe editorial vooatlon according to the vulgar conception of it. The din raised atul my ears now is nothing to that, I then en dured and despised. I am tin rail later! by the reflection that it Is (or was) in the power of such insects to annoy me, even bv pretending to dis cover with surprlso something that I have for years been publicly. emphatically proclaiming. I must hnrry over much that deserves a para graph to call your attention distinctly to occur rences In November last. Upon the Repub licans having, by desperate ell'ort, handsomely carried our State against a rormidable-looklug combination of recent and veuomous apostates with our natural adversaries, a cry arose from several quarters that I ought to bo chosen United States .Senator. At once kind, discreet friends swarmed about me, whispering, "Only keep still about Universal Amnesty, and your election Is certain. Just be quiet a few weolcs, and you can say what you please thereafter. You have no occasion to speak now." I f lcpt on the well-meant sucgpstlon, aud dell bprately concluded that I could not, in Justice to myself, defer to It. I could not purchase olflce even by passive, negative dissimulation. No man should be enabled to say to me, In truth, "If I had supposed you wou d nerlst In your rejected, condemned amnesty nobby, I would not hove given you my vote." yo I wrote und published, on the 27th of that month, my manifesto entitled "The True Bases of He construction," wherein, repelling tho idea that I proposed a dicker with the ex-Kebols, I ex plicitly snld: "I am tor Universal Amnesty so far as Immunity from fear of punishment or conllscatlon is concerned even though Impartial Siillrune should, for tho pre sent, be defeated. 1 did think It desirable that Jeffer son Davis should be nrruii;ued and tried for treason; und It still seems to me that this might properly have been done ninny months ago. But it wits not done then: and now I believe It would result In lur more evil than good. It would rekindle pnssloi.s that have nearly burned out or been bin. lied to sleep: It would fearfully convulse nnd agitate the South: it would arrest tbe progress of reconciliation 'and kindly feel ing there: It would cost a large sum directly and a fur larger indirectly: and unless thejnry were scanda lously pai kid It would result In a uon-agreement or no verdict, I can Imagine no good end to be sub served by such a trial; and holding Davis neither better nor worse than several others would navo him treated as they are." Is it conceivable that men who can rend, and who were made aware of this declaration for most of you were present aud shouted aunroval of Mr, l' essenden's condemnation ot my views nt me cinn, two or ttiree evenings tnerearter can now pretend that my aiding to have Davis naucu is something novel and unexpected? Gentlomen, I shall not attend your meeting this evening. I have an engagement out of town, and shall keep it. I do not recognize you ns capable of judging, or even fully apprehend ing mo. You evidently regard ino as a weak sentimentalist, misled by u maudlin phlloso- Eny. i arraign you as nariow-minueu uioclc ends, who would like to be useful to a great and good cause, but don't know how. Your attempt to base a great, enduring party on the naie ami wrntu necessarily engendered by a bloody civil war Is as though you should olaut a colony on an Iceberg which had somehow drifted Into a tropical ocean. I toll you hern mat. out ox a me earnestly nevoid! to the trood of human kind, your children will select my going to Richmond and signing that bail-bond ns the wisest act, aud will feel that it did more for freedom and humanity t han ail of you were competent to do, though , you had lived to the ageoi jMcinusciai). 1 ask nothing of you, then, hut that you pro ceed to your end by a direct, frank, manly way. j x n t suwe on into a muu resolution or censure, but move the expulsion which you nuroosed. and which I deserve If I deserve any reproach wnatever. All l care tor is. mat vou mane this a square, stand-up fight, and record your judg ment oy yens uuu ntiys. i care not now lew vmt ,tt i f 1 1 ,11 a , i 1 1' 1 1 , IT m I: Til' ,T. t 1 a nrn 1 M a f v"i t. , W L U IT I ...V, uv. u J . """.J . V J UU.UU I'll... for I know tho lutter will repent It in dust and ashes before three years have passed. Under stand, once for all, that 1 dure you nnd defy yon, nnd thall propose to tight itouton the line that I have held from the day ot Leo's surrender. Ho loug as any man was seeking to overthrow our uovcrnment, he was my enemy; from the hour in which he laid down his arms, he was my formerly erring countryman. Solougasany Is at heart opposed to the National unity, the Federal authority, or to that axsertlou of the equal rights of all men which has beoomo prac tically Identified with loyalty aud nationality, i suau uo ray nest to uepnve mm oi power: nut. whenever he ceases to be thus, 1 demand his restoration to all the privileges ot American citizenship. I give you fair notice that I shall urge tne re-entranctilsement or those now pro scribed for rebellion as soon as I shall feel con fident that this course Is consistent with the freedom of the blacks aud the unity of the republic, ana mat x suau demand a recall of all now in exile only for participating In the Rebel lion, wnenever me couuiry snail nave neen so thoroughly paclllod that its safety will not thereby be endangered. And so, gentlemen, hoping that you will henceforth comprehend me somewhat better than you have done, I remain, YOUrS, llOKACE UKKEL.EV. Now York, May 23, lb'67. Wendell Phillips Opinion of Trcasou and Straw Ball. From (he Anti-Slavery Standard. Mr. Jeil'erson Davis is released. Horace Greeley fives ball for his reappearance when culled f or. Mr. lavis has started on bis truvels to return, uo doubr, whenever the farce of a trial may still further dis grace the nation. Unless we are grossly mistaken, there Is a deep, seated, unappeasable Indlguailon in the hearts of the people at this act. The inoto.it may not be loud mouthed, but ull loyal hearts will swell lu secret with bitter hate which bides its time. What more could the Government bave done to en courage anot her treasonable outbreak? What more to bring law itself Into disgrace to bring, indeed, re- Euhlican governments lulo disgrace? For, if this e all republican governments cau do to punish treason, on how Insecure a tenure we hold peace I If such be the easy path of traitors, why should nut any disappointed, bullied party chief thus achieve world wide notoriety? Surely, as they say iuKngland, "high treason is one ot the cheapest amusements one cau now Indulge in." But there is another side to the medal. Maimed and wounded men will not thus patiently drag out bitter years; childless fathers, or, harder still, tlioso whose sous survived l.iboy prison and Audersonville in astute more pitiable thuu mere death, will leave bloody instructions tor those w ho come after them. If law is thus a sham, the recourse will be to the Mexican method, aud let rival chiefs shoot each other alter a drum-bead court martial. If this be all tho law can do to puuish treason, the next Jcllerson Davis who attempts to escape will be ruthlessly shot belore he has time to lilt tils disguise or attain the safe shelter of a prostituted court. Mr. (ireeley thinks the lesson tbe people will learn from this ais- Graceful exhibition will be one of rorglveness. The awning spaniel is no emblem or teacher of forgive ness. The survivors In tlie Army ot the Potomac tbe men who remember Met 'ook, Memphis, Fort Pillow, and the murders ol Belle Isle wib read this act In a dillerent aud redder llyht. They w ill resolve to buttle their own wrongs the next time, and prevent being cheated by law. When, during the war, soldiers found that guerillas and other Kebels, their bands dripping blood, bad only to lake the oath and get Immediate liberty, they did not learn the Ureeloy Uwson to forgive murderers; they simply brought In no prisoners So arrests were reported at headquarters; only rumors reached it ot men shut In the attempt to bring them lu. We think our bullied boys iu blue will lay up some such lesson from this occurrouce iu case they have another cull to arms. To beat down law does not always mean that you Bet up Christianity ; It sometimes makes room for an archy. Towards that gull Mr. Oreeley calls the na tion to take the ti ml step, and himself leads the way. There is such a tiling as l ight aud wrong. Honest men aud kuavtsare not Identical. The Government from knavishuess, and Mr. Ureeley trom unthinking folly tho dupe of catch-words are confusing the moral sense ot the nation. 'Tis a bad seed sowing, lieaven grunt we may not have a tearful harvest. The nation which pardons criminals because it has not virtue enough to punish them Is on the highway to ruin: hut the naliou that opens Its prison doors on tbe pretense that there is little difference between traitors aud honest uion, has accomplished more thau half that Journey. The maimer ol this sad deed Is as significant as the deed lWelf. (Jrunt, If you will, that such is our form of government, such the diluculiles of our rposltiou that we cannot puuish Davis, but must release him, still be Is a traitor the wretch who sought to crush the most beuillcient government hi the world de liberately did what he could to kill Iroedoin, aud rerpetuate slavery; still lie Is the chief cause why housuuds are childless arid hundreds of thousands are orphaDS. He Is tlie man who turned a happy land luto a field of blood, und made the name of American hideous with tha murders of Auderson ville. This murderer of thousands stands covered with blond. Who. then. Is this that rushes forward to match that bloody hand and oiler congratulations? What decent man dares to stand up clasping bunds, In the lace of the world, with the bloodiest, most heartless, and selfish villain of the cfintury? On what absurd pretext does the leader of I trie aomuiani ami loyai pariy J usury this fraternizing with crime? If Booth's trial had been long delayed, pud mliud he had betu biougut face to face with a Jury, would Mr. Oree'ey have becn'found g:'ap!iig his murderous hand and ouerlng congratulations? All tbe reasnns brought forward to excuse this rational Infamy are hollow shams. Those who oiler them do not In their hearts believe Davis criminal. This Is the saddest feature of the hour a nation wtiese moral sens slavery has so poisoned that it no lunger discriminates between rlcht nnd wrong. We have, so tar as mere law goes, abolished slavery; but generations must jibss away belore we get rid of It poison. Half a million murders committed In Its beliair only make thrt murderer worthy of an ovation. Of Mr. Greeley's part In this melancholy farce, we want words to express our opinion. Horrow masters Indignation. Jin has done many things to try tho patience of his friends: but we think nothing bus proved so conclusively tils entire lack of judgment and common snse, his fitter In ability to comprehend theepoch thestrnggle through which the nation hit passed, orthe slate In wh ch It start's. Generally obtuse In his moral sensn. we con fess wp tire obliged to lieilevo lit in more lacking In the power to discriminate between right ami wrong than we had fnnclPd. In order to preserve our faith In his honesty of Intention. If his friends can make out his claims to average intelligence in political matters, then Is he responsible for an amount of guilt In this ellort vain, we trust to mislead and confuse the nation, which all his well-meant elTorts In times past can hardly outweigh. WKNIiKf.T, rUILLir3. GEN. BUTLER DEFENDS HIMSELF. HIS ACCOrST OP TUIS DESEUTKRS, AND WHY TtlEY DID NOT VOTE ABOUT IKlOTIl's PIARY ORWIX OF TUB rilRASE "BOTTLED CP." liobTON, May 21. I mot General llutler this morning, and had a long talk with him on national alluirs. He Is as "full of fight and fun" as ever, nnd not a bit Inclined to throw up tho sponge In any of the span lugs he Is carrying on With ills political opponents. He Is attending to his law business, nnd will probably not make any public speeches this summer, although he lias received ne rly four liuLdred lnvllations to lecture, from nil parts of tho country. The t-tatement In the New York Jlcmhl, that ho has been corresponding with Mlsi Surrutt in the matter of tho trial of her brother, la not correct; although, Judglni; from his theory of a lawyer's duty, I do not suppose that lie would decline to appear as t he counsel for the pri soner, This, however, even If authentic (to use Orpheus C. Kerr's nice distinction), Is not oillclal. In the course of our conversation he referred to a paragraph in tlie Boston Traveller, in Mr, Ilazeweli's "Hevicw of the Week," aud said that, as it related to publlo alt'uirs, he was writing a reply to It. At his room I obtained a copy of it, which you can thus publish simul taneously with the Journal to which it is addressed, litre it is: "Boston, Mny 21, 1807. To the Editor of the Trareller:! clip from your paper of the luth: "Two of the big guns of tho impeachment taction have bePn completely spiked. It has been proved belore .the Judiciary I'ninmlttec of the United 8tates HouHeof Itepresentutlves, tbut the story which was Beta-going by Generul ISuiler, that President John Son corruptly pardoned oao hundred aud ninety three deserter, bus not one word oi truth In It, anil that the story that eighteen paires had been taken from Hooth's diary is also au Invention. General lluller must be more care. ul, or he'll get "bottled up" aguiu.' "Making It a rulo never to answer a personal newspaper slander unless it concerns some public Interest, it is generally a safe business cither to misrepresent my actions or misinter pret my motive. "To meet fale statements of proofs In a gravo public accusation, I 'break a custom.' "As no word of the evidence before the Judlr ciary Committee has been allowed to be pub lished, how could the editor of the Traveller know the statement to be true that 'it has been proved before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives that the story which was sot',11 -going by General Butler, that President Johnson corruptly pardoned one hundred and ninety-three deserters, has not one word or truth in it?' "On the contrary, It has been put in evldenco to the committee that President Johnson, at the solicitation or Tom Floience, editor of a Itcbel sheet In Washington, on the 21d of Ocloner, two days before the election in West ern Virginia, from a letter of the Democratic candidate for Congress to the President, that they would vote tlie ticket, and without any other evidence or their deserving than a letter cf a claim agent (who was to have half of their forfeited buck pay au. 1 bounties for getting tbe partlou), did pardon unconditionally, with restoration ot all pay and allowance forfeited by desertion, one hundred and ninety-three men who stood on tlie rolls of their rcgimeula marked as 'deserters,' and some of them chaigedwilh deserting to tbe enemy. It was alfo proved thnt the claim agent who expected to make thirty thousand dollars out of the Job, paid Florence one thousand dollars for his share ot tro piusuer. "I know that such testimony was given, be cause I have a sworn aliidavltor the fact mado before the witness went before the committee, and I have sure means of knowiug that tho same facts we) there testified. "It is true that the War Department order restoring these men is not dated till the 25th of November thirty days after election; but tlie President's order was dated before election, and tbe Department took thirty days to Investitive the case of one mnn of the one hundred and ninety-three, who was proved to have deserted to the memy, aud then obeyed tho Executive order as to tho one hundred and ninety-two. So that no thanks are due Mr. Johnson that all these deserters were not restored before the elections, as he had ordered to be done without Investigation before t bo election; thereby taking $75,000 trom the fund appropriated to the dis abled soldiers and giving it to these deserters and claim agents. "I hese faois no truthful person has contra dict! d anywhere. "Again: let me examine the assertion tlmt " 'The story that eighteen pages hnd been taken from hooth's diary Is also un invention.' "Booth's diary bus been before the Com mittee, and eltiliteen pages nro carefully out out, being the pages down to the very day of the assassination. "The only question I raised was When and by whom wero these leaves cut out? "Booth, while huuted for his life through swamps and byways, after tbe assassination, would hardly have leisure for such amusement; besides, on horseback, with one leg broken, It might be dlflicult to get a ruler of straight edge by which to trim tbe leaves us nicely us it is done. "Everything taken from Booth's person was put in evidence ou the trial of Mrs. .Surratt even to a bill of exchange taken out of this same diary except this diary Itself and the valuable diamond pin which he wore. "These alone were kept b.tck. "Why cannot eighteen leaves or the diary and tlie pin now be found? Until those having had custody of tbe articles taken from the body can account for all of them, linust be excused from believing the testimony that the articles are all now in the same condition as when lound. "If tbe witness can be found who has got the fln, perhaps he can tell us who has the miss n g li avtH. "Upon tbe whole, do you really think that the missing leaves are an invention ? "As my band Is in, perhaps It will be well to look up tbe origin or the phrase which uuin venilve persons have appropriated to tnem feelves. "Your article says: " 'General Butler must be more careful, or he'll get "bottled up" uguin.' "True, he mny be in the same way as before. "In May. 1801, when operating against Rich mond and Petersburg, General liutlor received orders from General Grant to send away all the troops be could with safety spare to rein force tho Army of the Potomac on the Penin sula then about to fight the battle of Cold Harbor. 'In obedience thereto General Butler sent General Grant seventeen thousaud ploked men or the twenty-five thousand elt'ectlve men, in cluding blsck troops, then under General But ler's command. Whereupon, General Butler complained that the necessities or the Army or the Potomao had 'bottled him up in Bermuda Hundred.' "Tbut complaint was repeated about his head quarters, and in the very words will be round to have been published In the correspondence from thenoeor the New York Timesol that dale. "Kighteen months afterward General Grant Incorporated tbe words In a grave otliclal re port, without giving, as I bave done, the reason for their pertinency; and the phrase thus used by him was deemed a scintillation of genius. "The inventor did not think as highly or his own production; however, even a borrowed l rushlight shines widely in a thick mist. "Itcnnectiully, your obedient servant, CHILD REX'S FANCY DRESS BALL IN PARIS. The Paris correspondent of the London Jturald gives the following account of a children's party lately given at tbe Louvre Palace: "Nothing is moro delicious and refreshing than a children's ball, when tlie dancers re main what they are children. Hut nowaday children have vanished. From six months to five years okl;one deigns to be a child; but aa soon as five years have struck, children are) only pedants and old men. Young gentlemen not yet In their teens, but alarmlugly foppish, scorn their sisters, and scold their mammas when they do not pronounce Kngliah perfectly well; prtitcs maitrtsncs, five years old at tho most, wear a lace mantilla, tie a soupron of bonnet with the experienced hand of a coquett?; criticize this, aud blame that, with the Immo vable nature of a veteran Journalist. Verily, there Bre no more children, they are only mini ature old people. At Furls, instead of 'grave aa a Judge,' they say now, 'grave as a school-boy;' In place or 'mujestio as a queen,' they say 'majestic as a young miss at a boarding school.' Tbe children in Paris are now so serious that you would hesitate to offer them sweet things. "Let us photograph the raney Juvenile party above alluded to, and given on Tuesday last la tlie Cnnlninconrl wing or the Louvre Palace, which wing is the residence or the said General Fltury, lim ald-de-cunip and great eiiuorry of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III. Tha Idea of that ball, the splendor of which Is with out precedent In thenuimlsol infancy, had been liiFpired by a true courtier fueling. The youth ful Prince Imperial was to have been the hero of it, and it lias been postponed from carnival till now lu the hope thnt the Prince would hava completely recovered from his severe Indispo sition, But 'man proposes and God disoosea,' and our Juvenile party was deprived of its Im perial attraction, owing to the slow convales cence of the boy. "M. le General nnd Madame la General Fleury assisted their two children In doing honor to the guests. Madnmo la General, stand ing at the right of the salon's entrance, kissed every comer on the right cheek; the General, posted on the left, had reserved to himself the lcitone. "The invited came In proud, grave, stiff, and collected; evidently they had identified them selves with the quality that their coats or their pourpoinln had imparted tothcia for an evening. une siurooieu on ins rapier, anoiiier entnngieu his spurs in a hanging. As to the misses, they were completely at home under their Queries; nnd, as to their flirting well. Frenchmen say that tlirlatlon Is to fair ladies what valor is to heroes, both aro Innate. "But to the guests. Among the creme de la crane were tho Lad Ies Hopliin aud Pasquallne de Mclternlch, tlie first dressed nsa vivandiert of Turcos, the other as a oocodelto of the day. Mad'lle Sophie, tlie sutler, made many cou que&ts by her desinvoltnrc; her sister killed many cocodes by her gr.icious way of making her long train whirl about, by her weeplng wlilow attitudes, by iier dexterity la manipu lating her microscoplo tan. "The stars of less magnitude were Mad'lle d'Albulera, metamorphosed into a white puss; Vandal into a letter-carrier, Marie de Verdiere Into a bus&ur, Janvier de la Molhe into Diana the huntress, Dolfus lulo au Irish bride. De Herkelm Into a gipsy, Boltelle Into Margfieritta,' Kspinasse Into a shepherdess, Nunez into the materunl diamond casket worth forty thousand pounds, etc. "As to the cavaliers, there were the young Prince Murat as harlequin; Godfrey de In Tour d'Auvergue ns a Castilian muleteer; Louis Con neau as a page: Gaston de Fre.ales as a torea dor; Pierre de Bourgoing as a hussar or the Hrst republic, etc "The musicians wore pink dominos. "Artcr several hours or danolng, polkalng, galloping, and cotllllonlug. there was an inter lude, during which the real Fan fan Bonollon, the baby of the 'cts Family, who kuows how to Jdck his father's patent-lock chest at the groat ubllatlon of tlie clever financier, recited a povhade quite above his understanding, albeit with so much enrain and intellect tliut he was encored. "Master V was so much enraptured wltb. Fnnlnn that he rau a galop echevele with him. Funfnn, eight years old, is the son of an actor, and played some two hundred limes in tho Mcnoiton Family. Master V , two years younger, knew that so well that he said to hla friends, 'Do not tell that I have danoed wltb. Fanfan Benoiton; mamma forbids me to mix With actresses." "Ho much for the Juvenile fancy ball of the General and Madume la General Fleury. One of her guests pushed the politeness so far as to call her 'Madame la Grande Ecnyere.' 'Uoni soil qui mal y pense;' for when the urchin was asked why he did so, he replied with placidity; 'Why, we say, Madame la Marechale, Madame l'Ambassadilce, and I thought that .' 'Enough,' said his mamma abruptly, and she thought 'tbut child of mine promises to be one of tlie enans teiribles elavarnl excelled to sketch.' " LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. rORT OF PHILADELPHIA., ..MAY S3. STATE OF THEKMOMETKK AT TUB KVENINO TKLB UHAPII OiFlCK. 7 A. M.............57ll A. M............tiiJ2 P. M 67 For additional Marine Nexus see Third Page. CLEAHED THIS MORNING. Steamship .Delaware, Thomson, Liverpool, A. R, Mc Henry fe Co. Parque Atlantic. Verner, Antwerp. Workman ft Co. Buimie liunloe, JBuleman. Kllgo, Jre., K.A.Bouder&Oo. Bi Ig K. P. Hlewart, Holland, bagua la Uraude.Oautaln. Brig Annie Vail, Grant, Port Mettway,N.W.,C. C. Van ' lloru. Schr J. V. Knlcht, Plum, Lynn. Westmoreland Coal Co. Bchr Freemason, Freeman, Frankfort, Bacon, Collins A Co, Bchr J. Pouder, Hudson, Boston, L. Audenried A Co. AltlUVED THIS MOKNINQ, Brig M. Miller, Anderson, 6 days Irom Boston. In bullabl to captain. Brig tiusan Duncan, Larrabee. 7 days from Banner with lumber to captain. " Bchr Light Bout, ttcaife, 29 days from Black River Ja., with logwood, etc.. to D. N. Wetzlar & Co. ' Hchr N. C. I'ulue. Doaue, 7 dayB from. Portland, with niOBe. to Crow el I & Collins. ' Hchr I. L. Howard, McDuflle. 10 days from Portland, wllh nidHe. to K. A. Souder A Co. 1 Bchr Charm, titudley, fj day a from Boston, with mdse. to Mershou fe Cloud. Bchr Ueadlug RH. No. 16, Clark, 3 days from New Haven, Conn., with mdse. to J, c. Bcott fe Bona. Bchr G. It. Murney, Murney, 8 days from .New Lon don, wilb uidse. to J. C. bcott & Bous. Bchr K. V. uiover, Iugersoll, S days from Boston. In bahabt to captain. Bchr J. Ponder, Hudson, 5 days from Boston, in bullusi to captain. Bchr William Townsend, Maxon, 1 day from Fre Oericu, I tel., with grxln to JanieB Barrutl. Hchr C. J. Bmlthers, Arils, 1 day from Frederlca, Del., with grain to James Barralt. Hchr M. Tiltoii, i'rluiuger, 4 days from Salem, In ballast to captain. Bchr 3. KelnKle, Lake, 8 cays from Boston, In bal last to cantain. BchrM.M. Freeman, nowes. 4 days from Ports mouth, In ballast to captain. Bteamer Diamond Btate, Talbot, 13 hours from Bal timore, with mdse. to J. I). HuolX Bteamer H. Willing, Cuudlif. 12 hours from Balti more, with mdse. to A. (jroves. Jr. bteanibhlp Black Diamond, Meredith, 24 hours from Kew York, wltb mdse. to W, M. Balrd & Co, MKMOKANDA. Brig Waverley, Terry, hence, at Hlo Janeiro 18th ult. Brig Thetis, Forbes, for Punoe. to load for Philadel phia or New York, sailed from Ht. Thomas 1st lust. Brig Annie Bmlth, tor Blayaguei, to load for Phila delphia or New York, sailed from Bt. Thomas 14th ult BchrB.C. Bliaw, fjiinder, hence, at Be Thomas mn lust., lor Fajurdo, P. K. lu Bchr Kri, Bprugue, hence, at Boston 21st inst. Bchr K. II. Wilson, Mull, tor Philadelphia, sailed from Fall Klver Itlst Inst. bchr Barau J. Bright, Bhaw, hence for Boston, at Holmes' Hole 20t)i hint. Bchrs Lamurtine, Griggs, and J, 8. Shlndler, Miller, from Boston tor Philadelphia, at Holmes' Hole Uuih instant. Bohr W. Thompson, Howes, from Newport for Phi ladelphia, at New York yesterdav. Bchrs U. M, Peltlt, Chase; J. B. Johnson, Sniltn; and W. a Doughten, Talem, for Philadelphia, sailed from Providence 21st lust, TOMTBTuTpOltTS. . , New Tobk, May 2A Arrived. V. 8. supply steanw Massachusetts, llolley, from 1'ensaoola. Hteauishlp U W. 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