TUB DAILY EVENING TELEGRAm PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 24, 1870.
3
irawo auzviiviAiiY.
City Aflnlra.
On the complaint of Fire Marshal Dlack
burn, Ctarlefl Foehl, who occupied the fourth
Blcry in the building No. 148 North Third
street, in which a fire oocnrred on Monday
bight, was arrested yesterday, find had a par
rial bearing before Alderman Kerr on the
oharge of being concerned in firing the place
The circumstances upon which the suspicions
of the Marshal are based, are that the fire
broke out m several parts of the room at the
name time, and that the insurances in the
Royal and (iermania of $1000 each were
ranch in excess of the value of the stock Mr.
Fofchl will be held for a farther hearing.
Q Last evening an explosion of coal oil oc
curred in a small grocery shop on Pleasant
avenno, kept by Mrs. Beaumont. A lamp
sufpenried near a Can of the oil net fire to the
fluid in the can, and an explosion was the
re6t.lt. Benjamin Jackson, a eolored man,
was very seriously burned in attempting to
extinguish the flames. He was removed to
the Pennsylvania Hospital. Lewis Howard
and Emanuel Toll, also colored men, were
bmned, but not badly.
.The following Democratic nominations
for the Nineteenth ward were made last
night: Common Council Ferdinand Geis
Jer, George Altmaier; Constable John
Spence.
The Ellongcr brothers were yesterday
held in !f:KK)0 for their appearance at the
United Mates Court to answer the charge of
interfering with officers in the discharge of
their duty. .
Dotnaatlc Affairs.
Gold closed yesterday at 110j.
President Grant has left Long Branch on
A visit to Newport.
On and after Monday next the Septem
ber interest will be paid without rebate.
The new rules relative to the examina
tion of office-seekers are more rigid than
heretofore.
Secretary Cox and Pctm aster-General
Creswtll are the only Cabinet officers now in
Washington.
In San Francisco the French have been
rejoicing over despatches announcing a great
victory and the capture of King William and
all his staff.
- A handsome increase in population, and
remarkable development of productive in
dustry, are indicated by the census returns
from this city.
The investigation into the Wiley case was
continued at Raleigh yesterday, and the case
for the State was closed.' Nothing at all posi
tive was elicited.
Consolidation of the Internal Revenue
Collection districts will, it is believed, have
to be deferred nntil the States are redistiicted
tender the ten year law.
A new organization, to take the place of
Fenianigm, has been put into operation by
the Irish in St. Louis, under the title . of the
Irish National Brotherhood. There are to be
no salaried officials.
Eighteen more of Kirk's prisoners were
discharged by Judge Brooks yesterday. Kirk's
f nards wished to enter the court-room with
them, but the judge refused te allow armed
fcoloiers m the court.
TUP WAR.
LANT NIGHT'S DESPATCHES.
EAZAINE'b GREAT MOVETENT HE CUTS HIS WAY
OUT OF METZ AND ARRIVES AT MONTMEDY
THE GREAT BATTLE OF GRAVELOTTE-A SPLEN
DID TIECE OF DESCRIPTION.
London, August 23. The details of the
battle of August 18, at Gravelotte, are still
wanting, even at Berlin.
German dispatches are meagre to-day, but
from them we gather that the military situa
tion is as follows: The 12th Prussian corps is
now between Metz and Thionville, and serves
to keep up communication between Prince
Frederick Charles and General Steinmetz. Tho
fortress of Metz is inclosed on all sides. The
communication between Chalons (Metz?) and
Paris are cut off", and the headquarters of the
Crown Prince are. at Bar la-Duc. McMahon
and Failly are still retreating to cover Paris.
The following statement from a semi-official
source foreshadows the demands likely to be
made by Prussia in case of a successful termi
nation of the war: "The time has arrived
when Germany must be freed from French in
terference and menaces, and have a long pe
riod of unbroken peace. A mere change In
the dynasty of France, would not be sufficient
to insure this, for the next sovereign would
seek, as soon as possible, to. secure the lost
military prestige of France, andthe burdens of
an armed peace would be perpetuated.
Birlin, August 23. The German forces lit
France have undergone a partial reorganiz
ation, and, as reinforced and redistributed,
will go into battle in the following order: First
army, under General Steinmetz, composed of
the 1st, 7tb, 8th and 9th Prussian army corps,
amounting in all to 100,000 infantry and 28,000
cavalry.
Second army, under Prince Frederick Charles,
composed of the 2d, 3d, 4th, 10th and 12th
Prussian army corps; corps of Prussian guards;
Royal Saxon corps, and a division of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse. This is the strongest
of the three armies, and contains forty-eight
regiments of infantry, with three batteries ot
artillery each, and thirty-four regiments of in
fantry, with two batteries each, and thirty
four regiments of cavalry. Aggregate in round
numbers 220,000 men and COO guns.
Third army corps, commanded by the Crown
Prince, composed of 2d Bavarian army corps,
under Generals Tann and Hartman, containing
each 8 regiments of infantry, 5. battalions of
riflemen and 5 regiments of cavalry, one mixed
corps of Baden and Wurtemburg troops, under
General VanWerderj and composed of 8 regi
ments of infantry, 2 battalions of riflemen, 4 re
giments of cavalry, and 9 batteries of artillery,
belonging to Wurtemburg, and six regiments
of infantry and three of cavalry, eight batte
ries of artillery, belonging to Baden, and the
6th and 11th Prussian army corps, containing
the ICth infantry and 16th cavalry regiments,
and thirty batteries of artillery. Total of
German forces in France 520,000 men, divided
into sixteen army corps. Up to this time
300,000 of the landwehr have entered Alsace
and Lorraine, to invest and occupy places in
the rear, and relieve the regular soldiers of
those duties, so that they may join their own
regiments in the front. Orders have been
issued to disband the veteran reserves, which
were called out at the commencement of the
war.
VI
-Ppecial to the Jew
York Tribune. The following detailed ac
count of tho great battle at Gravelotte, on
August 18, was received this morning in Lon
don from our special correspondent, who wit
nessed the battle at headquarters and stood by
the side of Bismarck and the King:
The first intimation we had at Pont-a-Mous-son,
where I found myself on August 17, of
the extent to which the fighting had been
going on Tuesday and Sunday last at the
front, was the coming in of the wounded men.
At first it was surmised that these had been
wounded in skirmishes, but on the 16th, late
in the evening, there were signs that a great
battle had taken place in the vicinity. The sol
diers, with ghastly wounds, walked about the
market place in Point-a-Mousson, surrounded
by eager groups of their newly arrived com
rades, and told the story of the disaster.
Poor fellows; it surely was disaster to them,
borne away as they had been from the field
without having heard of any result.
I stood among these groups and the narra
tive of the men all amounted to their having
been set to confront a much larger force than
their own, and that their division had been
cut up. I was struck by the fact that, al
though there was some dissatisfaction sug
gested by their tone of voice, I heard no word
uttered by the narrators or listeners, which
accused any one. They dwelt rather on the
fact that they had dealt a heavy blow on the
14th, and that though the division Had, as an
available organization, been demolished, it had
sold its life dear.
On August 17 the wounded from the prece
ding day began to pour into Pont-a-Mousson.
They were brought in long uncovered grain
carts lying upon hay. From my window,
which overlooked the main street and com
manded also a view of the market place, 1
counted more than ninety of these long carts,
each holding on an average about ten men. It
was strange to see them as they passed amid
files of i rench unable to conceal their joy, on
the one hand, and Prussian soldiers on the
other.
But now come to the other side of the ac
count. The streets began to swarm with
other wagons, with other wounded; the wear
ers of red trowsers, and now and then a batch
of unwounded prisoners. At length arrived a
carriage with a French General. It was fol
lowed by a vast crowd of French, and for a
little time it seemed as if there might be a
collision between the inhabitants and the
Prussians, so earnest were tho demonstrations
of the people; but it was now at least evident
that the struggle was very serious at the
north.
At midnight, on the 10th, all the trumpets
for miles around began to sound. This was
the first time we had been startled by such wild
music. Trumpet answered to trumpet through
all the bivouac arround the little city. For
several days previously there had been troops
almost perpetually marching through; but now
tho tramp through every street and byway,
made between midnight and dawn, a perpetual
roar.
Hastily dressing,! ran out into the darkness
and managed to get a seat on a wagon that
was going in the direction of the front, which'
was now understood to be a mile or two be
yond the village of Gorge, some twelve miles
from roint-a-Mousson. va our way we met a
large number of French prisoners, who were
looked upon with much curiosity by tho con
tinuous line of German soldiers with whom we
advanced, but only one or two offensive cries
toward the prisoners were heard.
The way was so blocked up with wagons,
that I finally concluded I would do the six or
seven miles on foot better, so I got out of my
carriage and began to walk and run swiftly
ahead. At Mouvient, on the Moselle, about
half way to Metz, I found vast bodies of cav-.
airy, uhlans and huzzars crossing the river by a
pontoon bridge, and hurrying at the top of
their speed toward Gorge.
Hurrying my own steps, 1 soon beard the
first thunder of the cannonade, seemingly com
ing from the heart of a range of hills on the
right. Passing through the village and
ascending the high plain beyond, I found my
self suddenly in a battle-field, strewn literally,
as far as my eye could reach, with dead bodies.
In one or two parts of the field, companies
were still burying the dead, chiefly the Prus
sians; the French, being necessarily last, were
still lying in great numbers on the ground. A
few of those I saw were not dead.
As 1 hurried on, a splendid regiment of cav
alry came on benind, and when they reached
the brow of the hill they all broke out into a
wild hurrah, and dashed forward. A few more
steps, and I gained the eminence, and saw the
scene which bad evoked their cry and seemed
to thrill even their horses. It would be diffi
cult to imagine a grander battle-field. From
the hill to which I had been directed by good
authority to come, the entire sweep of the
Prussian and r rench centres could be seen,
and a considerable part of their wings.
The Bpot where 1 stood was fearful, it
was amid ghastly corpses, and burdened with
the stench of dead horses, of which there
were great numbers. I was standing on the
battle-field of August 16 the Prussian side
thereof. On the left, stretched like a silver
thread, the road to Verdun and Paris, for the
possession of which this series of battles had
begun. It ran between lines of poplars,
which stood against the horizon.
On my left, and on as far as the eye could
reach toward Metz, with military regularity,
strewn on this road like beads were the pretty
villiages, each with. its church tower, which,
although they have separate names, are only a
few hundred yards apart.
On my right were the thickly wooded hills,
'behind which lies the most important village
of the vicinity, the one I had just left, Gorge.
So environed was the foreground of the battle,
which should one day be called the battle of
Gravelotte, for it was mainly over and beyond
that devoted town that it raged. The area I
have indicated is perhaps four miles square.
I arrived just as the battle waxed warm, that
is about noon of August 18. At that time the
headquarters of the King of Prussia were at
the spot I have described. The great repre
sentative men and , soldiers of Prussia were
standing on this ground watching the conflict
just begun. Among them I recognized the
King, Bismarck, Von Moltke, Prince Frederick
Charles. Prince Carl. Prince Adalbert and
Adjutant Krarbki.
Lieutenant General Sheridan, of the United
States army, was also present. At this mo
ment the French were making a most despe
rate eff ort to hold on to the last bit of the
Verdun road, that between Rezonvilla and
Gravelotte, or that part of Gravelotte which
on some maps is called St. Mariol. Desperate,
but unavailing; for every one man in the
French corps had two to cope with, and their
line was already beginning to waver.
Soon it was plain that this wing (the
French right) was withdrawing to a new posi
tion. This was swiftly taken up, under cover
of a continuous fire from their artillery, from
the heights beyond the village. .
The movement was made in good order, and
the position reached at 1.30. I believe nine
military men out of ten would have pro
nounced it impregnable; '"When once this
movement had been effected, the French re
treating from the pressure of the Prussian ar
tillery r, and tho Prussians as rapidly ad-
W 9 m v
vancing, the battle Vas no longer about
Rezonville, but lad been transferred and
pushed forward to Rravelottc, the junction of
the two branching roads to Verdun.
The field, in front of the village were com
pletely covered by the Prussian reserves, and
over it interminable lines of soldiers were per
petually marching onward, disappearing into
the village, and emerging on the other side of
it with flaming volleys. This second battle
field was loss extensive than the first, and
brought the opposing forces into fearfully closo
quarters. The peculiarity of it is that it con
sists of two heights, intersected by a deep
ravine, which is one hundred feet d ep, and at
the top some three hundred yards wide.
The side of this chasm, near to Gravelotte,
where the Prussians stood, is much lower than
the other side, which gradually ascended to a
great height. 1
From their commanding eminence the
French held their enemies fairly beneath
them and poured upon them a scorching fire.
The French guns are in position far up by
the Metz road, hidden and covered among
the hills.
There was not an instant cessation of tho
roar, and easily distinguishable amid all was
the ctrious grunting roll of the mitrailleuse.
The Pruiwian artillery was pouted to the north
and south of the village, the guns of the Utter side
being necessarily, raised for an awkward half
vertical Are. The French stood their ground, and
died by hundreds I had almost said by thousands.
This for an hour or two, that seemed ages, so con
stant whs the slaughter. The hill where I stood
commanded chiefly the conflict behind the village
and to trie soutn or it. .
The Prussian reinforcements coming up on their
right, filed out of the Hols ties Ognous, and it was
at that point, as they marched on to the field, that
we could, perhaps, get Uie best idea of the magni
tude of the invading army now in the heart of
France. There was no break whatever for four
hours in tho march of men out of that wood. It
seemed almost as if all the killed and wounded
revived and came back, and marched forth again.
Hurnmn wood advancing on Punsenane was not a
more ominous sight to Macbeth than these men of
General Gorbenz's army, shielded as they were by
the woods nntil they were fairly within range and
reach of their enemies.
So the French must have felt, for between four
and five o'clock they concentrated upon that spot
their heaviest force, massing all available guns
and shelling the woods which covered the Prus
sians unremittingly. Their shot reached tho Prus
sian lines and tore through them, and though the
men were steady, it was a test to which no general
could long to subject his troops. . They presently
swerved a little, from that line of advance, and
there was no longer a continuous column of in
fantry pouring out of these woods. The attack of
the Prussians in the centre was clearly checked.
About five o'clock, however, another brigade or
fresh infantry was again formed in the wood and
emerged from its cover.
Once out from under the trees they advanced at
a double quick. 1 watched their movement, for the
French guns had not lost the range of the woods
nor of the ground In front; seen at a distance
through a powerful glass, the brigade was a huge
serpent, bending with the undulation of the fields,
but it left a dark traek behind it. and the glass re
solved the dark track into falling, dying and dead
men.
Asthe horrid significance of that path so traced
came upon me, Igaaidon more intently. Many
of those who had fallen, leaped up again and ran
forward a little way, striving still to go on with
their comrades. Or those who went backward in
stead of forward, there were a few, though many
fell as they powerfully endeavored to follow the
advance.
I don't know whether, after the vain efforts of
that brigade, another movement was attempted.'
From the wood, about half an hour afterwards,
great numbers of troops began to march over the
bill where 1 was standing, and moved lorwaru to
ward the field where so hard a struggle had been so
long protracted. These were, 1 think, a portion of
General Goeben's troops, who had been directed
upon a lees dangerous route.
The conflict from this point on the Prussian
left became so fierce that it was soon lost to us, or
almost lost, by reason of the smoke. Now and
then the thick cloud would open a little and drift
away in the wind, and then we could see the
French. I tried to net a better view ot this part
of the field. 1 went forward about half a mile,
and from my new standpoint tound myseir not tar
from Malmaison.
The French line on the hills was still unbroken,
and to all appearances they were having the best of
the battle, but this appearance was due perhaps to
the fact that the French were more clearly visible
in their broad height and fighting with such singu
lar obstinacy. They plainly suencea a Prussian
battery now and then, but the Prussian line also
was strenghtened by degrees on the northern point,
by infantry and artillery brought up, and from far
in the rear, seemingly in the direction of Verne
vime, shot and shell began reaching the French
ranks.
These were the men and these were the guns of
Steinmetz who there and then e fleeted the junction
with the army of Prince Frederick Charles, and
completed the investment of Meti to the north
west. With reinforcements thus continually arriv
ing on both sides, the battle crew more and more
obstinate. There could be no doubt that the Frenoh
understood the meaning of the new movement of
the Prussians, and of the gradual development of
their line to the north.
Steinmetz was able to extend his line gradually
further and further, until the French were out
flanked and began to be threatened, as it appeared,
with an attack on the rear of their right wing. So
long as the smoke from the Prussian guns hovered
oniyover their front, the French clung to their
position. The distance from headquarters, where
the Prussian flank attack stretched forward, was
great, and to add to the difficulty of clearly seeing
the progress of the battle, the darkness was coming
on.
HI know not how long the French held out nor at
what precise moment the Prussian onset became
Inevitable. What X saw was this: The putt's of
smoke from the French guns mingled with the
Hashes, brightening as the darkness increased, re
ceded gradually. The very volumes of cloud and
flame trom the north, as they gradually and
steadily approached, aseiited the advance of the
column, and with that' advance the French fire
grew every moment more slack.
It was nearly nine o'clock when this ground was
vlelded finally on the north and the east shots
fired on that terrible evening were heard In that
direction.
THE QUESTION OF PE1CE.
No Hope from (he Interference of Neutral
Nations A Urrataa View.
The Berlin Post regards the summoning of a
Congress, in the hope of restoring the peace of
Europe, either now or Immediately after the
first engagement, as a Utopian Idea:
"Da questions really exist between France
and Germany mat can ue settled oy discussion
or are there conflicting pretensions that may be
reconciled by mediation? Neither we nor the
great powers know of any such thing. What
we do know is, that Germany has been most
audaciously challenged, ana that when the
cause of complaint adduced by France to justify
her insulting demeanor had been completely
removed, the Imperial Cabinet, which had long
before made up its mind, declared war, without
being able to bring forward a single fact that
even remotely resembled a casui belli. The
conduct of France - stands morally! in
the same category with the plundering
expedition of a robber chief in the
Abruzisi. When a traveller is attacked by
bandits he defends himself as well as he can.
lie may even accept the aid of others, but he
will hear of no mediation between his own good
cause and the bad oue of the robber. - We too
are resolved to defend ourselves, and with our
own strength: we require no foreign assistance,
and only ask that no one shall protect or favor
the aggressor (and we have reason to lay stress
on the latter demand); an attempt at mediation
which could produce no good results we uauesi
tatinelv decline. But iust because France bus
conjured up a causeless war, this contest is In
me Highest sense oi tne word a national one; it
is a war in which no art of diplomacy can me
diate between the attacker and the attacked, a
war in which the whole nation is unanimously
resolved to risk all for all, and by Its own
strength, and Its own strength alone, to prove
its right to exist. Let no oue misunderstand the
earnestness of our purpose, which is equal to
the magnitude ot the danger. When a peace
loving, and, only a few weeks ago, a divided
people, suddenly rises as one man, when all dis
tinctions of parties and the still broader diffe
rences that separated the races of Germany are
completely forgotten, when the thought of dan
ger to the Common country rouses to action the
individual like the masses, those who go to the
battlefield and those who remain behind; when
the youth of the country rush enthusiastically
from the lecture-rooms, the schools, the offices
and the workshops to join the ranks of an army
that Includes all classes and conditions, the
spectator may be convinced that fneh a people
will not consent to lay down Its arms in order to
take them up again a few years afterwards, but
that it Is firmly resolved, eonoe what will, to
continue the strnjrgle to the last. England
knows what a popular war Is, and we hope she
will not refuse us her sympathies when we fight
as boldly for our canse as England did ' for hers
against the uncle of our present enemy."
A STRANGE HISTORY.
Death of no Irish Patriot.
The death, at Trague, of Laurence Duffy, a
companion of 8mllh O'Brien, of Irish revolu
tionary fame, has revealed a strange history.
Since 18.10 Duffy has been a teacher of the Eng
lish language In tbat city, living in a miserably
furnished house, and, as everybody thought,'
poverty-stricken. In the commeneement of
April be was taken to the hospital, and, feeling
that his end was approching, he called
a carriage, drove to a notary and
bad him come into the vehicle to take down his
testament, lie there willed two thousand florins
to the advocate as his executor, two thousand
florins to his physician, and twenty thousand
florins to his sister in Ireland. He then drove
back tq the hospital, where he died about an
hour Later, 6ixty-three years old. His rooms
were found to be very dirty, with scarcely
any furniture. In an old sack, however,
were found a number of letters of greU
interest from Maz.lnl, Garibaldi, the chiefs
oi tne lrisn movement, and many irom
ffcjQith O'Brien. From these letters it is
seen how bard pressed Smith O'Brien was by
the constables towards the last; how, when he
fled to the hills, the peasants feared to give him
shelter; how he, not wishing to bring injury
upon them, determined to go down to the plain,
in company with Duffy. lie was just about to
enter a railroad car when he was arrested.
Duffy endeavored to shield his friend, but the
pistol of a policeman pointed at him brought
bim to silence. Smith O'Brien was taken by a
numerous escort to uubiin. uuity, however,
escaped, fled to the continent, and lived over
twenty years of his life in Prague.
MARINE TELEGRAPH.
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ALMANAC FOB PHILADELPHIA THIS DAY.
Son Kirks 518 Moon rihsb. 2-34
SCff SKTB 0 4.VHIQH WATER- 1149
PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE.
Thomas G. Hood, )
Cbhiu. J. Hoffman, V Committee of thjb Month.
Tbomas C.Hand, J
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN MTKAMSI11P8,
FOR AMERICA. '
Nevada. Liverpool. ...New York Aug.
C. of Maneht'r. Liverpool.... New York Aug,
C. of Limerick . Liverpool. ... New York Aug.
Leopold L Antwerp ....New York Aug.
Cambria Glasgow New York Aug.
City of Cork.... Liverpool.... New York Aug.
India uiasgow new xorx Aug.
C. ot Wash n.. Liverpool.... New York Aug.
Malta Liverpool.... New York. .....Aug.
Calabria. Liverpool.... :iew york v B..Aug.
W isconstn Liverpool ....NewYork Aug.
Fra nee Liverpool .... New York Aug.
Brit annia Glasgow. .... New York Aug.
C. of Mexico. .Vera Cruz... New York v lL.Aug.
Ocean oueen..Aspinwall. ..New York Aug.
Samaria New York... Liverpool Aug.
Paraguay New York... London Aug.
Helvetia. New York... Liverpool. Aug.
India New York... Glasgow Aug.
Col Washton.New York... Liverpool. Aug.
Colorado New York. . .Liverpool. . . . Aug.
Fereire New xora...iiavre sept.
City of pans... wew xork.
Cambria New York.
..Liverpool Sept.
..Glasgow Sept.
C. of Antwerp. New York.
Pennsylvania.. New York.
Wisconsin New York.
..Liverpool Sept.
..Liverpool Sept.
..Liverpool Sept.
Anglia New York... Glasgow Sept. 10
C.of LoLdon. .New York. ..Liverpool Sept. 10
COAST WISH, XJUMUBTIU, J&AU.
Moro Castle.. ..New York ...Havana Aug. 25
Salvor. Philadelphia. Charleston...-. .Aug. '20
Tonawanda.... Philadelphia. Savannah Aug. 21
Mariposa ;Ncw York... New Orleans.... Aug. 21
Mans are rorwaraea ny every steamer in me regu
lar lines. The steamers for or from Liverpool call at
Queenstown, except the Canadian line, which call at
Lonuonoerry. 1 uu uieuuiera iur or trum me vuuu
n fut call at Southampton.
' CLEARED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Fanita, Freeman, New York, John F. Ohl.
Steamer H. L. Gaw, Her, Baltimore. A. Groves, Jr.
Steamer Sarah, Jones, New York, W. M. Balrd & Co.
Steamer C. Comstock. Drake, New York, do.
Br. brig John Sanderson, Colter, St. John, N. B.,
Souder & Adams.
BrUr J. H. Dillingham, Mudgett, Portland, Walter,
Donaldson & Co.
Schr Annie Shephard, Weeden, Boston, Quintard &
Ward.
Schr Sarah, Cobb, Boston, Blnnickson & Co.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
: Steamer Anthracite, Green, 84 hours from New
York, with mdse. to W. M. Balrd & Co.
Steamer J. a Shrtver, Webb, 13 hours from Balti
more, with mdse. and passengers to A. Groves, Jr.
Br. bark Queen of Scots, Smith, 40 days from Ant
werp, with old iron and empty petroleum barrels to
order vessel to B. Crawley & Co.
Schr II. P. Russell, Nickerson, from Bangor, with
lumber to Brown Woelpper.
Schr M. II. Read, Benson, S days from Providence,
in ballast to captain.
Correspondence of The Evenina TtUtjrapK
EASTON & McMAHON'S BDLLETIH.
' Nxw York Offiok. Aug. 83. Three barges leave
in tow to-night, for Baltimore, light.
Baltimori Branch Offici, Aug. 23. The follow
ing barges leave in tow to-night, eastward :
James McMahon, H. L. Wligus, and J. E. Dunham,
with coal for New York.
Phii.adilfhia Branch Officb, Aug. 24. The
Ada Virginia, with coal, for New York, will leave
to-day. L. S. C.
Special Despatch to The Evening TeltgrapK
IIavrb-dk-Gracb, Aug. 84. The following boats
left this morning In tow :
Win ituu Edward, with lumber to Patterson U Lip
plncott. J. B. Hall, with lumber to Craig tt Blanchard.
Four Brothers, with bark to order.
Niagara, with lumber to Trump & Son,
Wilmington Little John, with lumber, for Newark.
Harrison & Son, with lumber, for Jersey City.
B. C. Bowman, with lumber, for New York.
Ida and Emma, with coal, for Wtlmlngion.
IBu TelearapK)
Lkwbb, DelH Aug. 234 P. M. The ship James
town ta sun beiow, out win go up wnen uie smoke
and fog clear on.
WlndE. Thermometer, 62.
MEMORANDA.
Br. ship Athenais, Baker, from Antwerp for Phila
delphia, was passed is tu inst., lau 43 sh, long. 41 no.
Ship C. S. Packard, Packard, for Philadelphia, en
tered out at Liverpool 11th Inst.
Ship Wyoming, Godfrey, for Philadelphia, entered
out at Liverpool run inst.
Ship John Patten, Hall, from Shields for Duladel
phia, passed the White 11th inst.
Ship Rome, Otis, for Philadelphia, sailed from Liv
ernool istb inst.
Ship Expounder, Crocker, for Philadelphia, sailed
from Liverpool 9th lust.
Ship Hudson, Anthony, hence for London, at Deal
10th inst.. and proceeded.
Ship Nimbus, Kelley, hence for Hamburg, was
spoken 7th inst., CO miles W. N. W. of Heligoland.
Ship Enoch Talbot, Talbot, from Liverpool 8th
June lor rcuaaeipnia, was spoxen win insi., iau i,
long. 67 63.
Ur. steamer City of Limerick. Phillips, from Liver
pool 8th inst. for New York, was seeu 19th, lat. 44 84,
lonir. 61 2fi.
Br. steamer City of Baltimore, Delamotte, cleared
at New York yesterday for Liverpool.
Br. ateamer Srotia, Judkins, from Liverpool 13th
and Qucenstown 14th, at New York 2 id inst., with
44 niinaeiicerH.
Steamer Utorge Washington, Gager, at New Or
lrmna Vluf lnnt from New York.
Steamer Cortes, Nelson, sailed from Liverpool 80th
I nut fur New Yfirk.
Steamer Cuba, bukchart, from New Orleans via
Havana lor Buiumore, s in irom nej wesi ju iubu
Steamer Mississippi, Henry, at New Orleans 80th
Inst. frnm Now YorK.
Steamer Hunter, Harding, for Philadelphia, sailed
from Providence lat tnsu
.steamer Achillea. Coiburn, for Philadelphia, s'ld
fmm Kntttna tid lust.
Steamer Wyoming, Teal, hence, at Savannah yes-
steamer Centipede, Wllletta, hence, at Newbury
tmrtulut mat- " ' Jl " -
su-amer Norman. Nickerson, hence, at Boston
Ph mut
ual. trk Pennsylvania, Pontremoll, hence, at
Get ca CUi mat.
! Br.-bArtt Jnny Berteah; Tatln, hence' for Havre,
in 1 be Knads, imnklrl, luti lost. , ,
Bark Argean, Llndwy, hence, at Clvlta Veechla 6th
Instant, . i ,: r t-i n ' i
Bark Ormns, Pettlnglll, from Antwerp for Phila
delphia, sailed from Flushing Roads loth Inst.
Bark J. II. Pearson, Taylor, hence for Swlnwmnnde,
In the Sound, Klsinore, 8d lnt., and proceeded.
Bark Indefatigable, Falofc, hence for Copenhagen,
ip the Bound, Elslnore, 6th inst. ,
Bark Atlantic. Jacobin, henre, at Stettin 6th Inst.
' Bark Amy A. Lane, Carver, for Philadelphia, cl'd
at Liverpool nth inst.
Bark W. K. Anderson, Prnmmond, hence for Stet
tin, psssed out from the Motherbank 11th Inst.
Bark Jenny Armstrong, Brooks, hence, at Trieste
4th Inst '
- Bark Sarah A. Dudman, Rogers, hence, at Havre
iihtnsf.
Bark ProteuH, Enslew, for Philadelphia, sailed fm
Gloucester 9th Inst.
Bark Louis, Wicke, from Bremen for Philadelphia,
was on" Iover 9th intt.
Bam Providence, coalfieet, hence for London, s'ld
from Falmouth 11th Inst.
Bark Forest Eagle, from Liverpool for Philadel
phia, was passed lath Inst., lat. 41 20, long. 61 80.
Bark Enterprise. Mulder, for Philadelphia, cleared
at Rotterdam 9th inst.
Bark Queen Victoria, Xanders, from Liverpool 17th
nit. for Philadelphia, was passed 17th Inst., lat. 44 30,
long. 44 88.
Bark LeonldaS, Gates, from Liverpool for Phila
delphia, was spoken 13th Inst., lau 41 10, long. 67,
and again on the 19th, lat 40 60, long. 69 i
Bark Carrie Wyman, Cochran, for Philadelphia,
cleared at Portlai 1 22d inst.
Br. brip Cairo, V ance, hence, at London 13th Inst.,
via Wilmington, N. C.
Br. brig Lophema, Congdon, her-ce, at Genoa 7th
Instant.
Br. btTg St Peter, Le Blanc, hence, remained at
Force 8th Inst, loading for the I nited States.
Brig L. M. Merrltt, Eaton, hence, at Bordeaux Oth
iDstant.
Brig Clara, Jenkins, Coombs, hence, oif Bilboa 6th
tnstant.
Brig Nathaniel, Stevens, Saunders, hence for Bos
ton, at Holmes' Hole 21st inst
Brig AlBton, Sawyer, reported for Philadelphia,
sailed from Providence 21st inst
Schr S. T. Baker, Davis, hence, at Barbadoes, anil
a'ld 9th inst for Orchllla, with part of Inward cargo.'
Schr Hamburg, Sanborn, for Philadelphia, cleared
at New York yesterday.
Schr Eagle, Seavey, for Philadelphia, cleared at
Portland 22d Inst.
Schr Allen II. Brown, Pierce, nencc. at Bristol 2isi
lnstaat.
Schr E. SlnnictBon, w insmore, nence, at uignton
21st inst. '
Schr I-amartlne, Butler, hence, at New iwaioru
22d inst
Schrs P. F. Heaton, Watson, and Frank Herbert,
CrowelL from Boston for Philadelphia; Fanny Hau
nter, Brooks, from Ply mouth for do. ; Anna Spoitord,
Jluise, anl Alice Aia, i-ikp, irom rroviaeui; nr
do. ; Golden Eagle, 11 awes, hence for New Bedford ;
Minnesota, Pbinney, do. for Fatrhaven; G. It. Mur
n v. Mnrnev. do. for Bridirerort: M. I Lewis, Lewis,
do. for Boston ; and Cloud, .Seaman, from New Bed
ford for Trenton, passed through Hell Gate 22d lust
MISCELLANY.
Schr S. Nelson. Hall (of Portland. Conn. Jones,
from New York for Philadelphia, with dyc-8'.ntls and
scrap iron, ia ashore In Little Egg Harbor, bilged
and full of water. The vessel and cargo will be a
total loss. The S. N. H. registered 123 tons, and was
built at Mlddietown, Conn., in 1S50.
REAL. ESTATE AT AUCTION.
N
1
E.
By virtue and In execution of the powers contained
in a Mortgage executed by
THE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY
COMPANY
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date the
eighteenth day or April, 18C3, and recorded in the
office for recording deeds and mortgages for the
city and county of Philadelphia, lu Mortgage B jok
A. C. II., No. 5C, page 465, etc., the undersigned
Trustees named In said mortgage .
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of
Philadelphia, by
MESSRS. THOMAS &, SONS, Auctioneers,
at 12 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the eighteenth day
of October, A. D. 1870, the property described In ami
conveyed by the said mortgage, to wit:
No. l. All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and Improvements
thereon erected, situate on the east side of Broad
street, in the city of Philadelphia, one or them be
ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven
inches and five-eighths southward from the southeast
corner of the said Broad and Coates streets ; thence
extending eastward at right angles with said Broad
street eighty-eight feet one inch and a half to ground
now or late or Samuel Miller; thence southward
along said ground, and at right angles with said
Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northeast cor
ner of an alley, two feet six inches in width,
leading southward into Penn street ; thence west
ward crossing said alley and along the lot of ground
hereinafter described and at right angles with said
Bread street seventy-nine feet to the east side or
the said Broad street; and thence northward along
the east line or said Broad street seventy-two feet to
the place of beginning. Subject to a Ground Rent
or f 280, silver money.
No. 2. The other or them situate at the northeast
corner or the said Broad street and Penn street,
containing In front or breadth on the said Broad
street eighteen feet, and in length or depth east
ward along the north line of said Penn street seventy-lour
feet and two Inches, and on the line of said
lot parallel with said Penn street seventy-six feet
live Inches and three-fourths of an inch to said two
feet six inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent
or 72, silver money. ....
No. 8. All that certain lot or piece ot ground be
ginning at the S, E. corner or Coates street and Broad
street, thence extending southward along the said
Broad street nineteen feet seven Inches and flve
eighths or an Inch ; thence eastward eighty feet one
Inch and one-half or an inch ; thence northward, at
right anglea with said Coates street, nine feet to the
south side or Coates street and theuce westward
along the south side or said Coates street ninety feet
to the place or beginning.
No. 4. Fonr Steam Dummy Cars, twenty feet long
by nine feet two Inches wide, with all the necessary
steam machinery, seven-Inch cylinder, with ten-Inch
stroke or piston, with healing pipes, &c. Each will
seat thirty passengers, and has power sufficient to
draw two extra cars. 1
Notx. These cars are bow In the custody or
Messrs. Grlce fc Long, at Trenton, New Jersey,
where they can be seen. ..The sale or them Is made
subject to a lien tor rent, which on the first day of
July, 1870, amounted to 1000.
No. 6. The whole road, plank road, and railway of
the said The Central Passenger Railway Company
of the city of Philadelphia, and all their laud (not
Included In Nos. 1, 2, and 3,) roadway, rauway, rails,
rights of way, stations, toll houses, and other super
structures, depots, depot greunds and other real
estate, buildings and improvements whataoever.aud.
all and singular the corporate privileges, aud fran
chfses connected with said company aud plank road
and railway, and relating thereto, and all the tolls,
Income, Issues, and proiita to accrue from the same
or any part thereof belonging to said company, and
generally all the tenements.heredltaments and fran
chises of the said company. And also all the cars of
every kind (not included in No. 4,) machinery, tools,
implements,and materials connected with the proper
equipment, operating and conducting of said road,
plank road, and railway; and an iuo personal pro.
pertiy of every kind and description belonging to the
said company.
Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas-
sagta, waters, water-courses, easement, franchises,
rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments ana ap
purtenances whatsoever, unto any or tne aoove-
mentioned premises and estates belonging and ap
pertaining, and the reversions and remainders,
rents. Issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate,
right, title, Interest, property, claim, and demand of
every nature and kind whatsoever or the said Com
pany, as well at law as In equity or, In, and to the
name ana every part uu puruei luereux.
TERMS OK SALE.
The propertlea will be sold in parcels as numbered.
On each bid there shall be paid at the tune the pro
'perty la struck on Fttty Dollars, unless the price Is
lest than that sum, when the whole sum bid shall
be raid.
W. L. SCH AFFER, Truutwa.
813 Clt W. W. LONGSTKKTII, lru-Jlee8-
IAMUBEMENT9.
WALNUT STREET T II K A T It E.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, Angurt S4,
FOURTH NIGHT OF THE SKASok.
Bonclcault's Great Racing Irama,
tub flying sera
In Art 2 Will be shown Mr. Geo Hrn.ns'g
GRAND CHARACTKRISTIO PANORAMA,
Comprising Seven Thousand Feet of Canvas.
A IMagniOecPt ami Animated Pictnre, Illustrating
theGWtAT CARNIVAL TIMK OF LONDON,
1hi Dkrbv Day: or, Ooinm to thk Racks.
Saturday, Flying Scud Matinee.
NEW ELEVENTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.
Eleventh Street, above Cheanut
THE FAMILY RESORT.
Established in 1S62.
CARNCKOSS A IUXEY'S
MINSTRELS,
The Groat Star Troupe of the World.
OPEN FOR THK SEASON.
Iresent1ng to the public the
FINEST TROUPE OK ARTISTS IN EXISTENCE.
Box oillee open from lo to 1 o'clock.
Scats can be secured after 1 o'clock at Carncross ii
Co. 's Muslo Store. No. North Eighth street
R. F. SIMPSON, Treasnrer.
J. L. CARNCROSS, Manager. 8 28tf
DUPREZ BENEDICT'S OPERA HOUSE,
SEVENTH, below ARCH.
' SA1THO OPERETTA COMPANY.
Every evening.
THE BEAUTIFUL "ENWYMION '
IM1SS MAGGIE HAROLD as DIANA!
. SAPPHO as CUP1DJ
Oirctbach s Great Operetta, entitled
. "HOPE AM) THE CROCODILE,"
NEVER BEFORE PLAYED IN AMERICA.
Matinee every Saturday at 2jtf o'clock. is 24 t
AMERICAN
THEATRE.
the Worlds amusement.
Every Evening and Saturday Matinee.
THE WONDERFUL BLONDES
In the New Can.Can.
TMMKNnK BALLET TROUPE,
GREAT ETHIOPIAN COMPANY.
Grand Bullets Burlesque Songs, Danoes, Local
Sketches, Negro Acts, ti
PROPOSALS.
CHIEF MEDICAL PURVEYOR'S OFFICE,
n. 12R WOnSTM? Rtrnnt TJonr Vnrlr
AuofST 1.1, 1970.
PROPOSALS will be received at this otllje until
10 o'clock on THURSDAY, the 16th day of Septem
ber, 1S70, ror the sale, on tho part of the United
States to the highest bidder, of the following articles
of hospital bedding and clothing, vi& :
Bedsacks, 15,000 ; Blankets, 10,000 ; Counterpanes,
15,000; Gutta Percha Bed-covers, 1000; Mattresses,
hair, 300: Musquito Bars, 20,000; Hair Pillows, 6000;
Pillow-cases, white, 20,000 Plilow-tlcks, 20,000;
6heets, 30,000; Drawers, 20,000; Dressing-gowns,
19,000; Cotton Shirts, 20,000; Slippers, 10,000; Wool
len Socks, 60,000; Towels, hand, 7000 dozen ; Rollers,
200 dozen.
The above-mentioned goods are new, have never
been used, and are believed to be in good condition,
and will be sold as they now stand.
The Government will reserve the right to rejcot
bids deemed cither unreasonable, or from irrespon
sible parties. No bid will be considered for less of
any one article than tho amount advertised. Sam.
pies will be shown and any information given at
the offlce, No. V16 "WOOSTER Street, near Prince.
Terms cash. A fair length of time will be al
lowed to purchasers to remove their goods. Pro
posals to be Indorsed "For the Purchase of Hosplta
Bedding and Clothing."
CHARLES SUTHERLAND,
Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Chief Medical Pur
veyor, United States Army " 8 IS Ot
PROPOSALS FOR TREES AND SHRUBS
FOR NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERIES.
QUABTERMASTEa-Gf NHRAL'8 OKKICK, 1
WASHINGTON, 1). C, 17th.AugUSt, 18T0.f
Proposals for supplying Trees and snrubs for
ornamental planting of the National Cemeteries
are Invited from nurseries and gardeners in good
standing.
une trees anu snruos snoum do securely packea
and delivered at the railroad station most conve
nient to the garden or nursery. Bills and
tills or lading, properly addressed, to be fur
nished.
The freight will bo paid by tho United States, and
the bills will be settled upon receipt of the treea
and shrubs at the places to which they may be con-
signca.
The orders will be given by the officer In cliarce
of national cemetcries ln this ottlce upon estimates
or requisitions from local officers.
It Is suggested that the most convenient form
of proposal will be a printed catalogue, with sucti
Miscount on me wnoie or on any classes or
kinds of plants as the proprietor may be willing to
oner.
Purchases will be made wherever most advan
tageous to the United States upon tne basis of the
proposals thus received.
There are about eighty (SO) national military ceme
teries scattered over the whole United States; and
some planting will probably bo needed in each of
them.
. Proposals should be scaled and addressed to the
Cuartermaster-Gcneral'8 Office, marked "Proposals
for Trees and Shrubs;" and they will be opened at
noon on the l'Jth of September, 1970.
, M. C. MEIGS,
(Quartermaster-General,
8 19 6t Brevet Major-General, U. H. A.
G
OVERNMENT NOTICE
BAHAMAS' MAIL CONTRACT.
Tenders addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Nas
sau, New Providence, will be received by the Gov
ernment of the Bahamas nntil the 10th day of Sep
tember next, for the conveyance by a steam vessel
or vessels, or her Majesty's malls between Nassau
and New York.
The service will have to be performed either fort
nightly or every four weeks, as may be ultimately
decided on by tho Bahamas Government, and the '
parties tendering must consequently state the rate )
at which they are wiling to contract tor the diner
ent modes of service, or may tender for both, or may
confine themselves to either separately. Every con
tract vessel must be of not less capacity than five
hundred tons net measurement, i. ., exclusive of
space required lor machinery, etc., of at least seven .
and one-half knots average speed, be able to ac
commodate at least thirty first-class passengers, If
the service be a fortnightly one, and a projwrtlon
ately larger number if a monthly, with a space for
the stowage or from (forty to sixty tons of cargo,
and be of sufficient draft of water when loaded as
to enable her In ordinary weather to enter the har
bor of Nassau for the purpose or landing an 1 taking,
oh board mails, passengers, and freight.
A form or tender and the conditions of contract
may be seen at the Secretary's offlce at Nassau, and
at the offlce of U. B. M.'s Consul at New York.
The proposed contract will commence In February
next. By order of the Governor.
8 16tsl6t j G. U. STRAUAN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, 18thMay, 1870.
ENOINEB, MACHINERY. ETO.
PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER
f fill Wl .liKS-NEAFIK LEVY, PRAC'IT
CAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MA
CHINISTS. BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS,
and FOUNDERS, having lor many years been la
auccessfdl operation, and been exclusively engaged
In building and repairing Marine and River Engines,
high and low pressure, Iron Boilers, Water Tanks,
Pre pellers, etc. etc, respectfully offer their servieea
to the publlo as being fully prepared to contract for
engines or all sizess, Marine, River, and Stationary;
having seta of patterns of dirteient sizes, are pre
part d to execute orders with quick despatch. Every ,
description of pattern-making made at tne shortest
notWe. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and
Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal
iron. Forglngs of all size and kinds. Iron and
Urata Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning, -crtw
Cutting, and all other work connected
with the above business.
Di swings and specifications tor all work done
the i atabiishinent free of charge, and work gua-
raThVeubBcrlbers have ample wharf dock-room ror
repaii s or boats, where they can lie In perfect
aafety, and are provided with shears, blocks, fall,
etc. e,c, ror raising heavy oMigbt wets.
JOHN P. LEVY,
8 188 BEACH and PALMER Streets.
S lRARD. 1UBE "WORKS AND IRON CO.,
JOHN H. MURPHY, President,
, rBU.ADii.rBiA, rA.
MANUFACTURE WROUGUT-IRON PIPE;
and Sundries lor Plumbers, Gas and' steam Fitter 1
WORKS, TWENTY -THIRD and FILBERT Street
Office and Warehouse,
4 1 NO. i N. FIFTH Street