K(ITEAPM H PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1870. DOUBLE SIJEET THREE CENTS. VOL. XIII NO. 155. FIRST EDITION THE UNIVERSITY. D B P A K T MKNT O F ARTS. The One Hundred and Thirteenth Annual Com mencementA Brilliant Nceue at the Academy The Master' Oration and the Valedictory Addrene. It Is now considerably over a century since the University of Pennsylvania was established In our midst and since Its first annual commencement In 1867, the attendance of students has increased yearly, and the facilities of the old structure have been enlarged to a corresponding extent, until now the space of ground occupied by it aud the adjacent tonlldings is too circumscribed In dimensions to allow of any further improvement. Necessarily, another Bite had to be selected, and on the west bank of the Schnyikill, In a short time, the ground will be broken for the erection of the proposed buildings. It had been Intended that the services of laying trie corner stone should have taken place to-day, hut owing to the impossibility of preparing that article In time, the ceremony has been postponed to some future day. The annual commencements of this department have always been among the il nest in Philadelp'ila.aii's they have always been attended by the moBt refined audiences. The 113th commencement to-day was no exception to this rule, but on the contrary It out rivalled all the preceding ones. The doors of the Academy of Music were thrown open at 9 o'clock, and in the next hour a constant stream of most elegantly attired ladles and gentlemen poured into the mammoth auditorium. So crowded was the building that the aisles in the p irquette, parquette circle and balcony were made use of by those who had been unfortunate enougU to believe that the ex cessively hot weather would deter hundreds from being in attendance. Each of the ladies seemed to be armed with a bou quet intended for her favorite graduate, and the ushers were kept busily employed in transferring these tokens of regard from their fair custodians to the stage. Here gentlemen commenced by laying them In a line along the footlights, but It was soon found that If that were continued the spectators would have no view of those taking part in the cere mony, and the floral gifts had to be conveyed to the green-room, from which they were distributed at the closing of the exercises. At lo o'clock the Germanla began the proceedings with a delightful piece of music, after which Pro fessor and Kev. Charles P. Krauth addressed the Throne of Grace. This was followed by the reading of the Latin Palutatorv, Harold Goodwin, the gentleman carry ing oil' that honor being too ill to deliver his oration. The programme subsequently was as follows: MUSIC. The Ideal of True Greatness The Hinderer. MUSIC. War as a Civilizing Power The Law of Advance MtsiC. Character the True Sovereign. . . George M. Christian . . .Theodore L. Harrison Robert M. Huston Ah rod James Miller George F. Martin MUSIC. ftlaater'n Oration) by Hainuel II. Collins, Esq. Samuel B. Collins, Esq., delivered the Master's oration, in which he paid particular attention to the progress of education. He referred to the Middle Ages, which had no prizes for the poet laurels alone for the warrior; which had its very continuance and life in arms, not in acquirements ; which obeyed ouly the law of force of the stronger, and which had the sword mightier than the pen. In conclusion, and in referring to the progress edu cation hal made since those duys, the orator said : Our school systems are the admiration of the world. And other civilized nations follow, some of them not far behind, in the glorious course we have taken. Right education. To its Importance and its claims the whole world, the whole modern world, has awakened. The revival of learning in the Mid dle Ages aud the revival of learning in these ages! Why, the one was but the flashing of a star, the oiheris the blazing of a sun. Education with ui is intellectual; and, a strange expression, it is intelli gently intellectual. It not ouly takes hold of the minds oi men, but of dissimilar minds ; and, know ing this, it adapts itself to the mind strong and the mind weak, the mind acute, the mind obtuse, the speculative mind, the practical mind; it adapts itself to every variety of mind. It is Intelligent. Tbo farmer does not bow the same seed on the highland and in the lowland what thrives on the mountain dies In the valley. Ho with modern education. The same thoughts, the same Ideas, the same studies are not salted to all minds, and she treats different minds in a different way. But why dwell on this? To do it justice would take the many pages of a voinme. Yet that volume is not needed to-day. Of the truth of my words in this regard you are all witnesses. The educational institutions of the world, of this land especially the colleges, the seminaries, the public schools are witnesses. Ap peal to them. The colleges of the land I said ; I add universities. And here a word rather let me glory. I glory in this ; I glory in the University of Pennsyl vaniathe venerable, the grand. I glory In my Alma Slater, the Institution whose one hundred and thir teenth commencement we celebrate to-day. One of the first founded In America, her history has been honorable, her repute noble. But for some years she stood stllL she disobeyed the law of progression, on which we are dwelling. Her children feared for her lest she was to be removed. To-day, thanks to you, Gentlemen of the Board, to you, sirs, of the Faculty, to the energy and push of her friends, the kindness of the city, she is again on the advance, and the far advance. Is lie satisfies the law. With the swelling of the new life within her, her old dwelling-place, the classic halls her children trod for many generations became too small. She has driven her stakes anew beyond the river, and there she will be first and proudest among universities. Take her catalogue; run over her corps of profes sors ; see her curriculum. As a classical school she never bad a superior; as a medical, never; her law faculty is composed of eminent jurists ; and now ar rangements v.re being made to furnish her with a scientific school, which her friends fondly hope may rival those of Yale and Harvard. I'nllke many the great majority of our colleges she is built upon no sectarian foundation ; she recognizes no religious 'tests;" within her walls the believer of any creed, the adherent of any sect, may become a student. Her views are the broadest, the most liberal. And this being so, in a great city like Philadelphia, she should be a pride, and from the citizens the wealthy and cultured especially her claims for support should receive munificent recognition. The University of Pennsylvania, complete la all her parts, should be . the glory of Philadelphia, as she is the glorv of her children to-day. And she is a witness of the truth of my words in respect of modern education. With her you are witnesses. Tais I said. Many of you whom I address are grey with years of honorable service in education's cause; you have beta in the battle, and yon now wear the laurels; you know if lny words be true. Are they true T I assume your answer, and carry it for confirmation to the younger here, those who are not veteran, many of them still In the held. I ask the studonts here, I would ask the students of every college in the land, every pupil in every common school, I would ask them whether that education they are now receiving, which is arming them for the conflict and girding them for the race of life, which has taken physical and intellectual and moral beings, and Is developing them beautifully, symmetrically, grandly, which is furnishing them for the useful arts, or llttlnir them for the professions, which is opening up for them mental avenues leading to green hills and glorious iiruspecui ui luuuguh wmcu rg mating oi mem men, men of mind I would ask them whether their edu cation la not intellectual? And sure I am their aeswer wouia oe, x es i l ne various ueKre were men conferred unon 11,. 1 ..........I r. )...., n .. . 1 BACHELOR OF ARTS. Francis Enoch Brewster, John Marie Campbell, George Martin Christian, Theodore Herman Ernst, Harold Goodwin, William W. Grlscom, George Kenelm Hunter, Robert M. Huston, Charles A, March, George Fox Martin, Alexander J. Miller, William D. Neilson, Francis F. Rowland, Henry Galbraith Ward. BACniLOB OF SCIENCE. Theodore Lelund Harrison, of the Senior Class Ocieutino Course). MASTER Or ARTS. George Henry Ball, Fred. Carroll Brewster, Francis Herbert Bruner, Willard N a glee Bruner, Haiuuel B. Collins, Jr., Gerald F. Dale, Jr., Alonzo Potter Douglass, Herman Cope Duncan, Robert Frazer, Jr., Wm, Alex. L&mberton, William Henry Lex, Thomas II. Lyman, Wm. Wainwright Maris. Archibald R. Montgomery Edward Fox Pugh, arwur iiitvuie, or., - Charles Shatfner, M. D., Newcomb B. Tnomnson, Cbas. Edward Van Pelt- John Wandesford Wright. BACHELOR Or LAWS. Wm. D. W. Bennett, George 8. Graham, Addison M. 1 latin, George K. Jefferson, Charles A. Sagen, John Mckinley, 8.- Edwin Megargee, Edmund J. Russell, William Stover, Horace I. Hubers, James M. West, John W, Wright, DOCTOR OF MIDlLlXsV. JUefcwdson b, Okie, A certificate of the Auxiliary Faculty of Medicine was awarded to Thomas Sozinskl Smith; the hono rary degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon Professor C. A. Young, Professor of Astronomy In Dartmouth College; and the honorary deg'-ee of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Rov. Beall M. Smucker. Another fine strain of music, and the exercises concluded with The Valedictory, by II. tJ. Ward, Esq. Henry G. Ward, the valedictorian, after paying a handsome compliment to the Faculty and the Board of Trustees of the University, addressed his feilow stixlents as follows: The true character of college life as the era of preparation, the time for the formation of character which conditions alike the future tuauhood and the future man, is too little appreciated. Students who should be training themselves for great things, often act as a gardener who. having sowed a precious seed, lets the sun bake the earth hard about It, and the weeds grow thick aronnd It, expecting that by some marvellous freak it shall shoot up strong and beautiful, an exception to the laws of nature aud to the conditions of its true existence, louth and manhood are two stages not related in the way of consecution alone, but so intimately blended that manhood, with its glory or lis shame, depends almost entirely on the youth of which it is merely the development. Neglect this all-important fact as you may, hereafter, when you consider the successes and failures of your life, you will trace them with the certainty of intuition to the axioms which you assumed in your youth. We ourselves write down our futures in the book which we ignorantly call the book of Fate. While in your college course do your duty without fear. Cultivate mental strength aud moral firmness, ami you grasp the elements of mauhood In your youth. This is not only moral it is politic ; this is not only re ligion It Is prudence; this is not only the command of the Gospel it la the wisdom of the world. In these years of preparation you may neglect the laws of nature and the laws of God, but they are laws still. You may forget the future, but the fu ture will come; aud when you have emerged from a course that once seemed long enough to err and amend in a thousand times, you will look back and see, as we do, that those few years were shaping the conduct of your lives. Valete. And to you, my classmates, I come last of all, to say vale over the ties aud associations which have crept around our hearts and to bid them farewell forever; to cast a vail over the irrevocable past, and to bid you look forward Into the future determined to make your new commencement with new im pulses and higher resolutions. Though a sad occasion, it is one on which we may drop good seed iuto our hearts, chastened by the sorrow that accompanied our new-bought freedom. There is no more tender nor more humane passion than the regret man feels at relinquishing those persons or things which time and association have made a part of his nature. Including every variety of sorrow and love, this feeling has within its com pass the sweetest and richest chords of the heart. And these are the chords which are so rudely struck to-day. Those who for years have met to gether, those who have shared the same toil, the same pleasures, the tame pains, separate to-day to meet again only by chance and each to enter a new and different sphere. The connections and relations of college life are severed, and we feel a void within us, a void which hungers to be tilled, but which nevr can be really satisfied till we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree or Life. Of the first we have already tasted, and to-day it shall be mine to point you to that other tree which can add to know ledgeLife. The days of our fellowship are gone and the heart involuntarily demands "Is it all over?-' Our youth is passed, aud we ask "Is it dead for ever ?" No, no, my classmates ; four years arc gone, but the fruits of those years are stored within us the acts of those years are becomo a part of our nature are entered into our souls. How bitter the retrospect to him who can look back aud admit that they have made him no nobler, no purer I To such an one this day should give a new heart and a new goal. The day w hlch introduced ns to life is a tit one to fill our souls with tho resolution tp for sake those crooked paths which moat be trod with bleeding feet aud aching hearts (or thoso higher walks which with toil bring satisfaction, and to whose wayfarers, when night cometh down, "He giveth His beloved sleep." We may look back upon our college course and find every possible element of life and character. Each has been tested in youth, and experieuce points out those necessary to successful manhood. We have found that steady application is the con dition of solid attainment; that chicanery and de ceit may mislead for a season.but In the end come ex posure and remorse. We have learned that an honest appreciation of every man's work crushes that jealousy which belittles Its posstssor without lnlnrjng lis oojeci; ana, iinany, we nave learned mat nib de sire to make others happy aud ourselves contented is the true love of our feliow-men the genuine philanthropy. Let us, thpn, as we enter upon th? great highway of life, cast away those elements of character which can only weigh us down, ami resolve to keep that clear conscience and stout heart which, even after a life of trial and disappointment may make our motto our epitaph : "Ad astra per aspera." I have spoken of the future because it is to be met, and because, had I spoken of the past, I could have uttered no greater, no truer eulogy than that we have lived together, and now separate without envy, hatred, or dispute. And now, my classmates, we part for the first time. When we meet again in the battle of life may the old spirit of 70 make us young once more, and when the last name upon our roil shall be marked "absent," may the whole class of '70 meet In that Eternal Chapel where no rod shall be called, no absence recorded, and where never again shall be uttered the word Valctel T1IE GREAT OIL FIRE. The Disaster at PlttsbursT-OlI Tanks Struck by Lightning Loas of Lite Terrible (Scenes Hall ii Million Dollars ef Property De stroyrd. The Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday elves the following particulars of the disaster previously re ported by telegraph: "ine most uisasirous on connagration ever Known in the State of Pennsylvania occurred yesterday afternoon, in the Eighteenth ward, opposite the borough of Sharpsburg. THE THUNDER STORM. . Shortly after 8 o'clock there loomed up around the horizon black threatening clouds and the ram bling thunder told of the terriho etorm that was approaching. In a few moments the wind became almost a tornado; vivid flashes of lightning and terrible peals of thunder followed, aud soon the awful work of devastation commenced. THE CON FIGURATION. About half-past two o'clock tho lightnlntr struck simultaneously a 20,ooo barrel tank belonging to the Eclipse works, anu one neionging to tne citizens' Woiks. The burning oil from these set Are to the adjoining premises, and flowed rapidly down to the bridge, setting lire to all buildings that came In its way, and soon the bridge was enveloped in flames. It was hut an Instant and a pall as black as midnight settled over the entire vlclnltr,and men were fleeing from the terrible scene without scarcely being able to see then way. The flames swept down upon the office where Mr. H. B. Foster, the book keeper of the Eclipse Works, was iltting, and only a few charred remains are left to tell his sad fate. In a few moments the scene presented was in describably and awfully grand. The spectator who stood upon the hillside above the bridge could obtain a complete view of the dreadful conflagration. About fifteen acres of burning tanks, dwellings, and buildings lay just before him. From each tank came rolling up lmmease columns of deuse smoke, and ever and anon the flames wonid leap skyward, as If anxious to follow the pillars of smoke in their upward course. Five huge columns of smoke marked the points were oil tanks were burnlnir. and the dwelling house of Dr. Tweedle and the buildings of the Eclipse Refinery tilled In the intervening space with lurid flames. Beyond this, clearly eleaming through the smoke, the Sbarpsburg Bridge was to be seen, clearly defined and blaztug ami cracking, about to fall. Soon it fell: on each side of the high piers the woodwork fell into the river, and, serpent like, floated hissing down the current. Just then there arose from the burning mass or the Eclipse ruins the screeching of the steam, es caping from the safetp-valvea of the six large boilers, and the crowd drew back In momentary expectation of an explosion. The valves whistled and screeched in a tone that sounded like the mourning of some unknown monster over the awful spectacle. The conflagration extended along the river bank for about hail a mile, and the ties of the Allegheny Valley Railroad were set on Are and the rails warped into almost every conceivable shape. The air was tilled with burning cinders, and some f the nrst struck and ignited a tank of crude oil belonging to Forsytbe Bros., and also set Are to the settling aud agitating house of the National Ke nning and Storing Company, over a quarter of a mile below the place where the first tire broke out. TUB LOSS. Dr. Tweddle estimates the total loss at his place at atout tiiso.ooo, on which he has an insurance of $iu,uoo. His loss on the buildings and oil machinery was about iwi,0ii0 snd on oil SiO.ooo. and on para- one and machinery iioe.ooo. -i n loss at the ciu ulj' Woria was tsUuwicd. at f iQfiW early last even leg, but it was not Improbable that their building might be destroyed. This company ts pretty fully Insured. The loss of Forsythe Wrothers, by burning of a tank, is estimated at tl.vooo on which there is no Insurance. The Astral OH works lose f 50.000; slight Insurance. The loss of Dilworth Brothers Is probably not over 11200. The loss of the National Works will likely be upwards of 130,000. Eight cars of crude oil standing on the track of the Allegheny Valley Railroad In front of the Citizens' oil refinery were burned, and also the same number at one or of the refineries below. The Sharpsburg bridge was Insured for l-m.ooo. The most of the property destroyed was Insured In Eastern companies, a great deal of it through the agency of Swearingen & McCandless. TDK DEATH Of MR. FOSTER. Our reporter conversed wi'h Mr. John Moreland, who found the charred body of Mr. Foster, and he stated that the remains were found Just where Mr. Foster, who was book-keeper of tho Arm, was likely to have been. The body was subsequently Identlflcnd as that of Mr. Foster by the finding of his pocket-knife and other articles near the charred remains, the articles being recognized by Dr. Tweddle last evening. Mr, Moreland, the Ulegraph operator of the Western Union Telegraph Company, whose office is in the same building with Mr. Foster, stated that when he left the office but a few minutes before the Ore, Mr. F'oster was there. It appears that Mr. Foster h id been np town about 13 o'clock, but had returned shortly before the Are. It is net improbable that he was knocked down by the shock of the licrhtnlng and failed to recover in time to make his escape. Mr. Foster was a brother of the late Stephen Foster, and a most worthy and estimable citizen. VARIOUS INCIDENTS', An employe of the Citizens' Oil Refinery, It is Stated, observed the flash of lightning and saw it strike the tank alluded to. He also felt thesh ick produced by it and canr.e near being prostrated. Almost instantly, however, he rushed frantically to a window in the second story and leaped out. By this time his brother and several other persons em ployed in the refinery, who also felt the shock, had run upon the bridge, and the immense vol ume of flame and smoke which immediately thereafter entered the opening on this sld of the river caused an exciting chase over tho bridge, the brother on tnis side of the river, and who was the only person who saw them run on to the bridge, being frenzied in regard to their safety. The time consumed in the burning of the bridge was only eight minutes, and we can imagine the feelings of these men on the bridge, who, iiaving once enturcd it, were terrified at beholding the burning oil sweep ing after them with a velocity almost double what they could run. A car of the Citizens' Passenger Railway, well filled with passengers, had just turned the curve In the road leading to the bridge when th lightning struck the tank and sent the burning oil high In the air, and the driver barely had time to check the car beiore getting into the midst of the fire, as there is a very steep grade here. Had it reached its usual stopping place, there would have been little hope for the passengers, for a number of them would either have been on the bridge crossing, and possibly all of them would have sought shelter in the bridge, a slight, rain prevailing at the time, or len in the otllce of the Ecllrse Oil Works, where Mr. Foster was located, as it was generally used as the railway station of the passe.cger railway by those acquainted with Mr. Foster, whose geulality won lor him many friends. In any event, these passengers would have been hemmed in on all sides by the fire, aud escape would have been next to Impossible. THE DARIEN EXPEDITION. The Protect a Failure Dolnc of the Murvey. ors Their Privation., aud other Details. The United States gunboat Nipsic, Commander T. O. Selfrige, of the Darlen Ship-Canal Explora tion Expedition, fifteen days from Asplnwall, ar rived at this port last evening, and now lies an chored abreast of Bcdloe's Island, discharging her ammunition. From her officers our reporter gained addition! particulars yesterdayarternoon regarding the expedi tion, and the conclusions arrived at after six mouths of privation and hard work among the mountains and rivers of the Isthmus, in their great undert ik ing to solve tne problem or tne possibility of uniting tne Atlantic aim racinc oy canai. as nas oeen be fore announced, the work begun in Mav and con cluded duriug the present month, has been a failure for reasons the chief of which ts that the obstacles encountered have proved to be of such magnitude that it would require a century s work to sur mount them, and would involve an exDemliture r Hi.: .1 1 f ttla. a....1.1 ..!.... 1.,... 11 .-.-. .1 pajmeut oi me iitiuuuai ueot lor years : j coia.'j L,icuieianc uuooara, oi tne wipsic, informed our reporter that during ail tneir explorations and sur veys they encountered a series of rivers and moun tains that were not supposed to nave been in exist ence, from the reports and charts that had been previously giveu uui, aim niuu lusreau oi meeting with slight elevations in the interior, as was gene rally supposed, they came across hnge mountains that it would be almost impossible to tunnel, throw ing aside entirely the matter of digging a caual; but as a last reson ue whs unoertne impression that between the two glgantio difficulties, if a canal has got to be made, tunnelling is the most feasible plan oi uie vwo. THBIR WORK. Since the departure of the expedition from this port on the U'id of January, both the Guard and Nipsic have been as busy as bees. Their crews have woiked diligently from Monday morning until Saturday night, and frequently the Sabbath has been made a day of labor, in order to achieve the great object oi tneir unuei taking, on account or the rugged nature of the country on the Pacific side, the expeditionary corps selected Caledonia Bay on the Atlantic Slope as us Dase oi operations, and accord ingly in this naturally spacious and hill-bound haroor both vessels cast anchor on the 23d of February, and on the morning of the 24th all the instruments aud men were on shore ready for work. Here their first difliculty was encountered In the shape of hostile natives, wno irom tne Deginniug tin the end an noyed the party by their jealousy of foreigners and their tricks to mislead them in their endeavors to survey tne route. THE INDIANS, unlike those who roam our plains, are small In stature and exceedingly treacherous. It was only by the utmost exertions that a sufficient number were brougnt over to interpret and act as guides. Thprfl ara Itptwppn M 0(M1 unit fUl non nn rha Tutimuid divided up into tnree trmes, tne two most powerful of which are the Sassardl and .Morti. The latter have their habitation on the isles and shoals adja cent to the coast, where they live on fish aud crabs ; while the Sassardl, the largest and most powerful. dwell In the dense; juDgles, and subsist on the tro pical fruit and other products which they raise when not too lazy to work. During the whole time spent in me country, out one or two women were seen. THK BXPLOKATI0N8. On account of the celeerity that had been given "Dr. Cullen's route," which was supposed to have been the most practicable, the first expedition was started out on tne road on the 25th day of February. under command of Lieutenant L. Hubbard, but after many privations and the immense quantities of rain that deluged the country, they were obliged to put UUCfc. Two days afterwards. Captain Solfrldge. accom panted by Lieutenant Schultzand Major Houston. of the marines, with sixty men aud a full corps or surveyors, staited over tne Cordilleras Mountains iu charge oi an luuian guiue oi tne bassardl tribe. They took Strain's old route along the Sucubtl river towards the Pacific slope, and on the batiks or that stream, when a tew days out. Captain Selfrldge held a "pow-wow" wiih the Chief of the Sassardls, on the River jjiaoio, wno exnimteu a very unfriendly feel lng towards the whites aud intimated that there would be trouble ahead, which afterwards proved to be correct, one party of the expedl lion, wno siarteu on anotner route, were com relied, when on the dividing ridge between the Atlantic and Pacific, to halt and build a block-house for their own defense until reinforcements arrived, so threatening were the menaces of the savages. On this route they found the highest altitude to be over iixio feet above tne level of the sea. This nrov lng to be impracticable, the party returned to Cale douia Bay, and during the latter part or the mouth (February) a transit line and a line of levels was started up the river Aglaslnicla, under the command of Lieutenant Schultz, of the Ouard. The source of the river was reached, after which they crossed the Corderillas at an elevation of looo feet above the level of the sea. and descended down the Faclrla side until they struck lb- R ver Sucubtl at an eleva tion of 650 feet. This party was out forty dava. and suffered great privations for the lack of food, and owing to the tntente heat and rain. The donkeys secured at Carthagena In the early part of the expedition proved to be of great ser vice to the worn-out explorers, tne rough country through which they were compelled to hew their war completely wearing out their shoes. The best pair that could possibly be secured ouly lasted four days, tour otner expeditious were sutiseuuentiv sent out, and made their way over the mountains to ' San Bias, on the Pacific, but they all proved to be impracticable, and after near six months of intense Buttering and hard work Captain Selfrldge, on th yj the fcutcs v. Y, 'lima tv-day, SECOND EDITION LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. TO-DAY'S CABLE JMEWS. The Anglo-French Treaty. The English Educational Bill. Disaster to an American Ship. lite. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FROM EUROPE. f SUE AT HRITAM. Opposition to the Analo-Prench Commercial irenij. Lonhon, Juno 30. A meeting was held in this city last evenlne, which was participated in by opponents of tho Anilo-French commercial treaty. Joshua Fieldcn, conservative member of the House of Commons for York, occupied the chair. Ue delivered a violent speech a. iinet the treaty. Himself a cottoa manufacturer and merchant of Manchester, he was able to show the unfavorable effect of tho treaty ou tho cottoa trade of Great Britain. After speeches by other persons, resolutions were unanimously adopted denouncing tho treaty as tho cauao of tho indus trial prostration,' md calling tbo ministers to account for denying an invebtigation of t'io sub ject. The meeting was large aud harmonious. Specie from the I iilteu Mates. The financial editor of the Times, this morn ing, thinks the specie sh'pnieuts from Now York for the next few days will be unusually heavy. This expected flow of specie will be produced by eules of American bonds on European account. The Enallnh Kuiicntton Ulll. Viscount Ambcrly made another speech at- Newcastle last evening, elaborating his itKjaa on the education bill. Death of a Celebrated Physician. Sir. James Clark, the celebrated physician, is dead. II e was 82 years old. Decease of a Quaker Patriarch. Josiah l'orstcr, uncle of William Edward Forster and patriarch of tho Quakers, died yes terday. The Farl of Clarendon. The Provincial Correspondence thinks that tho most important guarantee cf European peace has been lost in tho death of the Earl of Claren don. THE CONTINENT. Dlxtorbnncen at llnrrelona. Madhid, June 30. Slight disturbances oc curred at Barcelona yesterday, but were soon quelled. Four persons were wounded. Ittrrulta to Infallibility. Home, June 30. The supporters of the infalli- bilily dogma count ou Cardinals Cullcn and Boa- ncchose ns their latest recruits. Disaster to an American Kb! p. Bremen, Juno 30. Tho steamship Deutsca- land, which arrived to-day, leporU hiving spoken tbo American ship Joseph Clark, Captain Carver, which sailed from Bristol May 5 for New York. The ship hai experienced heavy weather, and had her rudder broken. Sua re quired no assistance. On the 20th of June, in longitude 8 deg., the Deutschland passed a quantity of wrecked stuff, including a number of tallow casks marked "Joaquin." This moraine's lliiotatloa. London, June 3011-30 A. M. Consols opcaed at 923i for money and account. Amtrican secu rities steady. I'nited States 6-iJ0r of 1862, JWii : of 18C5. old, 00; and of lstiT, 69-;: 10-408, S3. Rail ways steady: Erie, 19: Illinois Central, 114: At lantic and Great Western. 28. LivKiu-ooL. June 30 11-30 A. fli. cotton opened aniet: uplands, 9jin0d. : Orleans, D waiovd. The sales to-oay are estimated ai iu,ww naiea. uau fornia Wheat, 10s. fid.ca ios. Cd; red Weste-n, No. 2, at 88. lOd. ; red winter, Us. cu.dnas. in. 15HEMKN. June ho. 1'etroieuni ciosea unu yester day at 0 thulers '11 groats, and at Hamburg closed firm. Hi-mil. .Time SO. Cotton onens flft at HCf. for tres ordinaire on the spot aud low miudlinirs afloat. Antwerp. June 3D. Petroleum opened nim. Paris, June 30. The Bourse opeuj quiet. Rentes T2f. 670. Tula Afternoon's Quotations. LONDfiN, June 801 P. M American securities dull. Stocks quiet. Liverpool, Juno no l r. m. ureaastuns urmor. Flour qilet. Lard firm at 70s. (id. FROM NEW YORK. rtlnrder and Nulclde. Albant, June 30. Burton Elder yesterday 6hot his wife and then killed himself, near Hamilton, New York. The wire may recover. The assault on his wifo was excee ling'y brutal, the murderer using an axo ns well as a pistol. Jealousy is said to have been the impelling oaase. Fatal Railroad Accident. George Detamble, a laborer, was instantly killed, and Henry W. Hammond, superinten dent, seriously injured yesterday by a construc tion train on the Black Rivet and St. Lawrence Railroad being thrown from the track near Curthagc. Fell from a Scaffold. Robert Fleming, a pin sterer, fell from a scaf folding hero to-day and wai killed. New York Money and Stork market New Yore. June 80. btocks steady. Money easy at B(8 percent, Oold, ill,', o-aos, ise-4, coupon, ill?:: do. 18&4. do.. Ill;: d;. .W dj.. HUii do. do. new, 113?;; do. 181. 114; i. utea, IU 10-408, 108 ; Virginia 6s, ne it, 69)tf ; Missouri 6s, 94 ; Canton Company, 67 ; Cawneriaud preferred, 87; New York Central and Hudson River, lrV 5 Erie, 'ii', Hearting, iu; auuuis axprran, vjx; uncut ean Central. 118 : Michigan Southern, 93V; Illi nois Central. '4"v: iiieveiann ana muiourir, iuj?4 : Chicago and Rock Island, 116 V. Pi.tsourg and Fort wavue, 6?i ; Western union Teiegrapn, 84. FROM JVEW Eli Q LAND. Alleged murderer Arretted. Boston, June 30. Eugene Bradley Is under arrest awaiting the result of an inquest upon the body of his wife, who was found dead and badly bruised last night in their lodgings In the rear of Salem street. Anll-Chlneae Meeting. At a meeting of citizens and workmen, in Tre- mont Temple, yesterday afternoon and evening, speeches were made and resolutions passed airalnbt the Introduction of Chinese labor iuto this country. FROM THE WEST. Death from a. Lamp Kxploalou. Wheeling, June 30. barah Beelci attempted fill a lamp while it was burning, which en u v '. .-1. ... t..iri....l I... .-.A. I ufly tiiat ele died a lew Lours afterwards. FROM WASHINGTON. Naval Affair. BpteiaX Dptfek to TK Rvtnina Telegraph, Washington, June 80 Commodore A, M. Pen- nock will to-morrow relieve Rear Admiral John A. Wlnsiow bs commander of the navy yard at Torts mouth, N. II. The Oneida, to be Mold an Whe la. Tho Navy Department vsterrtav advised Rear Ad miral Rodgers, commanding the Aslatlo Fleet, that it is not considered to tne advantage or tne uovern ment to contract for raising the . wreck of the Oneida, but authorises htm to sell her as she lies, reserving to the navy her gnns and gun carriages ; also to the friends of the neceasd orncers and sea m'n of the Oneida, and to the survivors, the private efftcts recovered ; and also agree that any bodies re covered will be properly interred. Movement of Iron-Clad. S ecial Despatch to The Evening Telegraph, Washington. June 80. Admiral Poor has been directed to send the Tuscarora and a tug of his fleet to New Orleans to convey three iron-clads, which have been repairing there, to Key West, taking the ln-Fhore route and stopping en route at Pensacola. At KeyW'estthe officers and men of the Iron-clad baukus will be transferred to one of these newly an-ived monitors, and she, with the others, will then probably come North. Untaxed Tobacco. Collector J. P. Wilcox, of the Fifth Virginia dis trict, has called the attention of Commissioner De lano to the increasing retail sales and consumption of leaf tobacco throughout the South, from which the Government cannot derive a cent of revenue. He estimates the amount or tobacco so used In Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, and South Carolina during the past year at over five million ponnds. xne law provides ror taxing oniy "mannractnroQ" tobacco, and Collector Wilcox says he has construed the law as applicable to only this class of tobacco, it being ready for consumption. Copies of the letter were yesterday transmitted to the Chairmen or the Committees on Finance and Ways and Means, and the revenue law will be so amended as to cover the case. Increase of Revenue In North Curollna. Supervisor Perry, of the District of North Caro lina, reports an increase of fifty-eight per cent, in the Amount of assessments in the Second district of that State for the month of May, 1870, over that of the corresponding montn oi last year. Promotions Confirmed. Special Despatch to The Evening Telegraph. Washington. June 30. The Senate has confirmed the promotion of Commodore O. S. Gllsson to be a rear-admirai, captain wiiuatn iteynoius a com modore, Commander 8. Nicholson captain, Lieut. K. i 'l ull commander, and Lieut, u. C. schuize lieu tenant commander. The Active Naval F.Ut. A very Just Joint resolution passed Congress yes terday which provides that thoBe officers of the navy who remain on the active list ten years longer than authorized oy law on account ou naving re- tehed the thanks of Congress shall not prevent others next them on list from receiving tholr promo tion at tne time tney won id nan these orncers not remained longer on the list by the thanks or Con Kress. This will promote to the rank or Kear-Ad- mirai commodores smith ana unanes s. uoggs. VOIf UK IlHtf. FOItTY-FIRMT TKIliM NECOND SESSION. House. Mr. O'Neill nresentod the memorial of mites in thn United Istutes nuvj askiog for the same par as boatswains r ud gunne's. Air. Lpsun introduced a Din to cnange tne union of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United Sttes in the IV on barn district of Ohio. Passed. 1 hd Liouse ttaen resumed tne consideration of the r-rnate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill. H e report of the Commit tee on Appropriations recom trending concurrence iu some and non-conourrenoe in (' hers of the henate amendments was agreed to as a v. hole, eiespt where special votes were oallod for. Mr. Ferry inked for a separate vote on the amendment, in which the committee recommend non concurrence, ap- , . ; iLj '-') f . .. . T .1 . i VI . i, . I'.ui" in.iu. ipwtivij iui iiuduv w iuumuh iu uuuui.u lor Hie difference between coin and currency paid to them in !St:3anri lt-4. nnder treaty stipulations, with 6 per cent, interest added thereto. He argued in favor of the aniend- Mr. Barxpnt opposed tne amendments as establishing a most dangerous and costly precedent, that would apply as well to the soldiers and sailors, and pensioners, and all otner creditors of the Government, as to those ludinns. whose asants bad boen sharp enoncu to have stipulated for payment in coin. The principlu was as bti uiuK morally in tne one case as in too otner. On a oonnt by tellers there were but 21 ayes. No fur ther o nnt was felted, and the amendment was non con curred in. Mr. Seek asked for a separate vote on an amendment in Which tlie Committee on Appropriations reoonunandod non-concurrence, making large appropriations undor In dian treaties of 1Hi7 and 1h, which treaties the i ortieta Cor.grets had refused to ratify. Ue said there were fifteen or twenty of these amendments, aggregating 1, 500,000, ard he wished to have the vote of the House upon them as an instruction to the committeo of eonforenoe to which tiie fill would be reierreu. These appropriations, if made, would run for thirty years and woulu cost the Uovernment between 5u.tXHJ,0tu and ri0,0O0,000. Mr. Paine hoped that the recommendation of the Com niit .ee t n Appropriations would be adhered to, and ex pressed his disapproval of the entire system of In Jiaa treaties. The amendments in question were all non-con curred in. Mr. Axtell asked a separate vote on the amendment increasing the appropriation for incidental expenses of the Indian service in Oal'fornia from s75,0O0 to IHO,0tK). lie opposed the amendment, as being intended forth removal of the peaceful, industrious, oivilized Mission Indians, who are citizens and voters, to a reservation in Han Diego county. lie represented the movement as a speculative one, to secure tue farms oi tuose onssion Indians. .... Mr, bsrgent indorsed: tne remarks oi uis ooueague. '1 he Senate amendment was non-concurred in. FROM TEE SO UTE. Htrainrr Burned Ears pe of the Passenger. Wilmington. N. C. June 80. On Tuesday even ing the steamer Tennessee left Charleston for New vol k. wun a large ireignt ana over nuy passengers. At 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning tire was dis covered in some pressed cotton stowed In the for ward hold, livery enort was raaue to stay the progress or the flames by pumps throwing six streams of water Into the hold, but without suc cess, and finally the steamer was headed for shore, and at 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning she was run en the beach and scuttled at a point a short dis tance above Little river and thirty miles south or Cape Fear. The passengers and crew were all saved. The united states revenue cutter wuuam ii. Seward was to start last night to the relief or the Tennessee. The passengers are hourly expected In thlB city. Weather Report. June 30, 9 A. M. WintL Weather. Tlier. 63 72 Flaistercove w. w, ciouuy Portland W. hazy. New York S. clear. 85 Wilmington, Del N. W. do. Richmond N. do. (savannah S. do. Oswego W. do. Pittsburg S. E. cloudy. 81 82 92 SO 73 MODlie ciear. 82 65 74 81 Khv West HO. Halifax 8. W. cloudy. lioston 8. W. do. Philadelphia S. W. clear. Washington N. W. do. Charleston 8. W. do. Augusta W. do. Buffalo S. W. do. Chicago 8. W. do. New Orleans W. W. do. 82 86 85 81 82 64 Havana " 82 LUCTAL lUTHLLianrJCD. Continuances. Ceurl of Oyer and 2 erminerJmntt Ludlow ant This mnrninor the case of Officer Charles Max. cliarired with the murder of James Walsh and James Murtagh, w as called ior trial, tne uisinct Attorney Ha) in g that ne was reaay to proceea wuu iu messis. Mhiui and Cassidv. counsel for Max, applied for a continuance upon several strong and sufficient rea sons: first, the serious indisposition oi air. assiciy ; secondly, the non-attendance of witnesses. i.ii aiiHi' ni a miBunaerstauuuiK ucinccu nuu bia r.onnsi-l! and. thirdly, because the case was of such a character that If begun now it would run ever into the middle of next week, and as Monday next was a legal holiday, and the July term then be gins, this would be impracticable. The mistrict Attorney opposed the motion, but the Judgt s satd that, although they were very anxious to dispose of the homli ide cases aud would go to unw reasonable lemrth to effect that object, yet the grounds f or'a continuance were such as made It com- puiaory upon ine vouri vu auuw u, ami mntiumu whs piantt-d. Two or three other caes were called, In which the Commonwealth was ready, but nad to ue con tinued at the motion of the defendants, upon grounds equally as strong as those suggested In Ma a CASK. The Court then adjourned until to-morrow, when the regular business t: me ieim wiu ui iueu up. FITI AH CIS ABD COMMERCE tnimta TauamAra Orrros,! 1 hnrsday. Jan 30, 1870. I The Intense heal of the weather is very un favorable to the transaction of business, and our prominent men are leaving the city for the sea shore resorts in goodly numbers. This exodus Increases the dullness in business circles, whilst it materially adds to the consumptive demand for currency to meet extraordinary expenses; hut there is no lack of funds to meet all wants present and prospective, and these are furnished freely on the usual conditions of security and interest. Gold opened strong, with sales at lllfj, ad vancing to 111 and closing at 111. Government bonds were active and strong. Local stocks were dull, but prices of yester day show no yielding tendency. State and City loans are unchanged. Sales of the new city os at 100X. Reading Railroad was very quiet but firm; small sales at 53; Pennsylvania was taken at 57; Minchlll at 534; Camden and Amboy at 119, and Philadelphia and Erie at '). The balance of the list was almost entirely overlooked, the only sale being Philadelphia Bank at 101. PHILADELPHIA 8TOCK EXCHANGE SALES. Reported by De Haven & Bro., No. 40 S. Third stree FIRST BOARD. two City 68.N..1S.100XJ 1 sh Penna RR. .. 57'.' liooo do 100i (2000 Leh V R n bds cp.ls. 95 12000 O C A A li bds 80 v 8 8h Phlla Bk 161 23 do is. 67?f 6 sh MlnehiH R. . . tifi 100 sh Read K..810. o3!rf 200 sh Ph ft E R.18. 89 V 8shCam A AmR.119 Nark fc Ladner, Brokers, report this morning Oold qnotatlons as follows : 10-00 A. M lltx;ll-10 A. M 11I- 10- 09 " 111 11-15 " in? 11- 10 im,iliiw ' m 10-15 " 111111-30 " HIV 10- so " in? i2-oo M. ... in 11- 0T " Ill '18-19 P. M llljf JatCookk &Co. quote Government securities m follows: D. 8. 6s Of 1881, USllBV ; 6-208 Of 1862, 111(9111;, 5 an., ISM, llixlltx ; O.O., I860, 1111 taill2; do, do., July, 113?i(4114: do. do., 1867. U4&U4.Y; do. 1868, 114(3114 10-40S, lOSlj'lg xusi ; racmcB, ixaoiii. uoia, iii,i. N. Y. MONEY MARKET YESTERDAY. JVom the N. Y. Herald. "The report of the oonferenoe committee on the Cur rency bill was rejected this afternoon bj an emphatic vole of the Hiuee, which is no more than was expeoted by those who knew that the Western members and many of their Eastern brethren are unalterably opposed to contraction in any form. Tne Washington telegram further ssys that 4 new conference committee has been appointed. The question naturally sugitests itself. Are the new committee to act upon the virt ual wishes of the House as manifested in the rejection of the Contraction bill and ro to the other extreme by reporting one or lnimtionr i tie defeated bill originated in the benate. Should the new one to be prepared by tbe I!oue committee propose expansion it would meet with little favor at the bands of the Henate, and for tbis reason the currency question will go by the board for tbe present aeuion, Tbe whole country will then rejoice that the antagonistic position of tbe two brunches of Congress on tbe question of tbe finances has prevented tbem Irom tinkering witb tbe currency. Last winter tbe Funding bill hung like a pall over commercial circles. It is time that tbe depression in trade resulting from tbe agitation of this currency question was for ever dissipated. "Kxcopt during a brief interval In the afternoon, when the vote was being taken on tbe Currency bill and when tbere was some unosinoss lest it niiabt accidentally go turougn (wan stroet being vsry suspicious as to wnat tne speculators in uongresa mignc do), gold was steady and strong. At the period referreif to a large sale eccurred on Canadian account, the proceeds to bo reinvested in five-twenties, and the price declined from lllsi to llljrf. Tbe average price of tne day, however, ws IUM. The stronger tane of the market was dne to advanced quotations for foreign ex change, whioh in turn is firm in consequence of tbe light snpply of commercial bills on the market, and also by reason of an expectation, not deeply founded, however, that tbe activity in money in London reported to-day will suggest, if it does not occa sion, an advance in the (discount rate when the Bank of Kngland directors meet to-morrow morning. These faota must account for the sodden strength whioh the market (hews, despite the continued dinbursement of coin in terest at the Sub-Treasury, wbere$l,2Hl),13 gold was paid out to-day, making a total, thus far, of $3,ti87,i39. PHiladelpma Trade Report. Tuuksuay, June 80. Bark Sales of 100 hnds. No. 1 Quercitron at 827 per ton. Seeds In Cloverseed and Timothy no sales were reported. Flaxseed is scarce and In demand by the crushers at 82-25. The Flour market Is quiet, and prises are not so firm. There Is no demand ror shipment, and the operations of the home consumers are confined to their immediate wants. Sales of a few hundred barrels. In lots, at I.V25 for superfine: !5-25a5-60 for extras; (5-75(7 for Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota extra ramuy: o-2fiS6-io ior rennsyivania uo. do. ; 86-26(7 for Ohio do. do.; and 7-50(a9 for fancy brands, according to quality. Rye Flour may be quoted at 8525. In Corn Meal nothing doing. 1 ne v neat iiiarKut preseuui uo new feature, ins demand being confined to prime lots for the supply of local millers. Sales of Pennsylvania red at fi'45 1-4S. Rye may be quoted at 1 for Western and tl'10 for Pennsylvania. Corn is quiet, but prices remain without change; sales of yellow at $1-08ii-10; W estern do. at tl'09 ; and Western mixed at 11-03 1-05. Oats are dull; sales of 6000 bushels at 60c, and light at 65c. In Barley and Malt nothing doing. Whisky dun Dut steady, w e quote w estern iron- bound at 11-03. LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. For additional Marine Xewt tee Inside rages. By Telegraph.) Fortress Monrok, June 301 P.M. Arrived, bark Fordar, from Rio, for orders. Passed In for Baltimore, bark Templar, from Rio. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA JUNE 30 BTaTl OF nURMOMETKR AT THI IVSNIKQ TELEGRAPH OrrlCS. 1 A. M SO 1 11 A. M 87 1 2 P. M 92 CLEARED THIS MORNING. StTTacony, Nichols, New York, W. M. Baird t Co. Steamer Frank, Pierce, New York, do. Steamer A. C. SUmers, Lenny, New York, W. P. Ciyde A Co. Brig Canlna, Coombs, Boston, Lennox & Burgess. Tug Hudson, Nicholson, Baltimore, with a tow of barges to W. P. Clyde & Co. Tug Chesapeake, Merrlhew, Ilavre-de-Grace, with a tow of barges to W. P. Clyde Co. ARRIVED THIS MORNING. Steamer C. Comstock, Urate, 24 hours from New York, with mdse. to W. M. Baird & Co. tsteamer Fanita, Freeman, 24 hours from New York, with mdse. to John F. Ohl. Steamer J. S. Sliriver, Webb, 13 hoars from Bald more, with mdse. to A. Groves, Jr. Steamer Empire, Hunter, from Richmond via Nor. folk, with mdse. to W. P. Clyde & Co. Steamer Mayflower, Fultz, 24 hours from New York, with mdse. to w. p. Clyde & Co. Schr J. C. Henry, Dilks, Irom Lyan. Bchr Cohaasett, Gibhs, from Fall Kiver. Schr Wake, Candy, from Bristol R. I. Schr Morning Light, Simmons, 1 m Rappahannock. Schr P. Boice, Adams, 6 days from Boston, with Ice to City Ice Co. Schr Anna and Emma, Scull, from Great Egg Harbor. schr Ethan Allen, Blake, from Kennefiec, witn Ice to Johnson & Co. Schr 8. A. Boice, Yates, from Boston. Schr E. B. tfhaw, Shaw, from Boston. Schr Transit, Kockett, from Boston. Schr Maggie Van Ousen, Compton, from Boston. Schr Alexander Young, Young, from Boston. Scbr William Wallace, Scull, from Boston. Schr C. J. Watson, Adams, from Nantucket Tug Thos. Jefferson, Allen, from Baltimore, with a tow of barges, W. P. Clyde Co. Tug Fairy Queen, Wilson, from HavTe-de-Grace, with a tow of barges to W. P. Clyde A Co. Special Despatch to The Evening Telegraph. 1U Ra-DH-UKACK, June 30. No boats this morn ing. Leakage la the canal ; expect it to be repaired UaUy' MEMORANDA. Br. steamship Minnesota, Whlneray, for Liver pool, and steamship Rapidan, for Havana, cleared at Kew York yesterday. Steamship Voluuteer, Jones, hence, at New York jjifrk Hilda, Fleming, for Philadelphia, cleared at New York yesterday. Sehrs A. E. Safford, Howell, from Boston for Phi ladelphia; Reartiug RR. No. a, Little, from Norwich lor do. ; Lizzie, Sherman, f i out llorton s Point for do.; Pennsylvania, hence for Bridgeport; and J. Truman, Uibin, hence for New Bedford, passed Heil Oats vesterdav. bl Auuiu4 A. Van deaf, )atiir, lroui f , Eavcn for Philadelphia, air. at N. Vwk Jtjtr-lay,