VENING BULLETIN SATURDAY , APRIL 30, 1884. EFFECTS OF THE WAR, NORTH AND SOUTH; That'exhaustion or weakening of popu lation, which is generally observed in courts tries afflicted with long wars, has, not come upon the loyal States of thiscountry during the present civil war. The losses of the battle-field, the camp and the hospital have been more than made np by immigration from foreign countries and from the rebel States. War generally 'averts strangers from the country where it exists. It par alyzes industry, deranges business and most frequently drives people to other lands. But this American war, in its effect on the loyal States, is of a wholly excePptional and un ique character. From Ike peaceful nations of' Europe several huedred thousands of hardy men, women and children have swarmed to our &eves since the rebellion began. From the rebellious States we have probably received a greater number of re fugees, including deserters from the army and fagitivellegroes. To these facts it is owing that,-after furnishing so many hun dred thoutanl men for the war, there is a population capable of fighting not engaged in the war, as large as we . had in 1861, and perhaps htrger. It is this singular mode of recuperation which:hes enabled us to fill up our armies - without the ruthless conscription that has heap required at the South. .There they have; had no immigration, and nothing but natural increase to keep up their popula tion. The loss of most of the 'border States has deprived them of •the ordinary supply even from natural increase, in a very large part of the territory claimed in•the begin ning of the revolt. Missouri, lentucky, , Tennessee, Arkansas, and-parts of Louis iana and Virginia cease to supply soldiers for the rebel army, andtheir inhabitants cannot be regarded as part- of the population of the rebel confederacy. Thus, while the fighting population of the 'South is becom ing exhimated by the war, its area of sup ply from the natural growth of its youth is reduced nearly one while it receives nothing from foreign countries and nothing from the loyal States, but, on the contrary, loses, by flight and desertion, thousands every month. (inc would think that even without battles, a •contest of this kind must, • in a not distant time, end in the triumph of the Union cause. As a mere question of physical strength, we would gain the advan tage by a simple ; policy of defensive inac tivity. But there, are other and greater mo tives which impetus to a vigorous and ag gressive war. The chastisement of the trai tors, the vindication of the national- honor, the total overthrow of the doctrine of the right of secession,tthe extinction of slavery, and the re-establishment .of our national Union on a basis that can never again be disturbed, are the motives we have for • using our unimpaired strength in the most active warfare. THREE DIETIPTIPTINEED ASTI.SLAVERY Thomas Jefferson, in. his .'Notes on Vir ginia," in speaking in the strongest possible terms in reprobation of slavery, said in res pect to the .Veciffiar institution," that when he reflected thatEGod was - just he trembled for his country. This language, if uttered now, even by the author of the Declaration of Independenceovould probably be visited with the halter; Tet it was the utterance of a Virginian who , had been born and bred in the midst of slavery and slaveholders, who was sufficient of a statesman to- become President of the-United States, and who is the conceded father of American democracy. How strangely some of those who profess to follow his political teachings have fallen from the pure old Democratic faith and praetise,,Ahe columns of the Copperhead or gans of the day will abundantly show. Mr. Jefferson was the exponent of the democ racy of the early days of the republic, be fore slavery had become the main plank in the party platform, and long ere the South ern Calhoun faction, with their Northern al lies of the Wood, Reed and Vallandigham school, had boldly and impudently claimed that the pestiferous thing should be made the chief corner-stone of .the national fabric. So mueh for .the sentiments of this states man of early days. - Henry Clay, himself a Southern man and a sla - veholder, is generally considered a fair representative of what might be called the middle age of our Naticinal politics. An original Democrat, a Whig -upon principle in later life, and always an earnest patriot, he was far from believing slavery to be "an incalculable blessing." As• late as 1850, , when the slave power • was showing the . snarling fangs, which have since been plunged deep into the vitals of the country, he spoke in a very depreeiting manner con teaming the institution of Slavery. At the time that the South was threatening civil war;:in the event of the admission of Cali fornia into the United States with a prohi bitionc.of slavery embodied in its Constitu tion, the great pacificator spoke in the Sen ate as,fcalows, at a time when he was using his bestideavors to ioofhp and mollify the .elaivalrous Fire-eaters. Said Mr. Clay : "Mr. President, we have heard, all of us have read of.the efforts of France to propagate, what, on „tile continent of Europe ? Not slavery, sir; not slavery, but the rights of man; and we'know tke fate of her efforts in a work, of that kind. Bot..if the two portions of this Con federacy should.Enhappily be involved in civil war, in wthich the effort on the one side would be o restrain the introduction of slavery Into new territodes, and, o the other side to force its introduction thereavhat a spectacle should we present to the contemplation of astonished mankind] An effort nOt to propagate right, I but 1 must say—though I trilst it will be under stood to be said with -no e to excite feel- I ing—an effort to propagate wrong in the ter r i_ I tories thus acquired from Mexico. It would be a war in which we should have no sympathy, no I. cod wishes, and in which all mankind would be against own—history Ilieey'..„ - would be against us; for, from, the commence ment of the revolution down to the present time, we have constantly reproached our British an isstar, fpr the introduction of slavery into thi THE DAILY ' EV ENING BULLETEN i PHILADELPHIA ; SATURDAY. APRIL 30 1864,---TRIPLE SHEET. lommiummiusenimer • i country; and allow me to say that, vw my opinion, it is one of the best defences width can be made to preserve the institution in this country, that it was forced upon us against the wishes of our ancestors, our own colonial ancestors; an by the cupidity of oisr . British commercial cm colcrs." •. We much tear that the cupidity of the present generation of the descendants of "our British commercial ancestors" :has had a very large share in encouraging and carrying on the war which has been inau gUrated for the purpose of supporting the institution which their forefathers planted in America., It must be borne in mind that at the time when Mr. Jefferson condemned slavery in language which clearly expressed. his Un qualified abhorrence of the giant wrong, and when Mr. Clay was its reluctant apologist, having no excuse to offer for it except that it was forced upon oar ances tors, and that it could not readily be got rid of, and declaring that it was a wrong that should not be forced into new territories, the slave power had done nothing more se rious than to threaten mischief. South Carolina had talked about nullification, but she had not had the heart to try the ex periment practically, with an Executive like Andrew Jackson in the chair; and while slavery had promised to do much against the integrity, of the country, it had as yet struck no blow.; the overt act had not been committed. We can easily imagine however, how, had he lived until the pre sent day, the Virginian statesman, of the time when Virginia produced genuine pa triots, would have denounced the traitors who were attempting to destroy the nation which he had so largely helped to create, and how he would, in the present desolated condition ofthe Old Dominion,realize his con viction that , lGod is just." And the grand old statesman of Kentucky ! How if he could have lived to have seen the times, the ap proach of which he must have predicted, and have witnessed the results which he so forcibly portrayed, how his eagle-eye would have flashed, and his eloquent lips have launched forth thunder-bolts of scathing in vective against those (some of his own de generate offspring among the number) who are striving to destroy the nation in order that the area of slavery might be extended. We come now to the . third one of our distinguished anti-slavery statesmen, who Among them represent three great eras in sour national history. We come down to the present time and give a brief extract from the latest utterances of the President of the United States upon this absorbing topic. It will scarcely be necessary to re mind the intelligent reader that when Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay wrote and spoke concerning Slavery,the institution was but a slumbering monster that had not yet lapped blood. In our time its Wolfish appetite has been whetted by the blood it has tasted, and it revels in its work of the butchery of -, helpless prisoners, and it is trying to fasten its fangs in the throat of the nation. In a letter, bearing date the fourth of the present month, Mr. Lincoln said : ecl am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I. cannot remem ber when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act. officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the beat of ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and 'break the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that, in ordi nary civil administration, this oath even for bade me to practically indulge my 'primary abstract judgment on the' moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Clay have . both undergone a political apotheosis ; judged by the light of their times and by common sense, were they not anti-slavery men both by implication and by direct testimony ? If they were anti-slavery men in their own day, how .much more anti-slavery would they be had they lived in the present era ? Mr. Lincoln appears by his writings and speeches to be quite as moderate an anti slavery man as Mr. Clay, and much behind Mr. Jefferson in .the violence of his denun ciation of the system of human bondage.. As regards the acts of Mr. Lincoln, there can be no question as to their wisdom and propriety under the circumstances. The only fault the great body of the loyal people of the country will find with Mr. Lincoln inthis respect is that he has not dealt harder blows at the accursed thing that is endeavoring to destroy the nation. The South comprehend perfectly well that Mr. Lincoln stands precisely where Mr. Jefferson stood in respect to stivery.. They know that they can only save them selves from universal reproach and indigna tion by ridiculing and misrepresenting the President of the Unites} States, and to their eternal shame be it•spoken,the Copperheads of the North, with' characteristic meanness and devilish malignity, echo the vile slander. BUSHWHACKERS. The most degraded and bloodthirsty rep resentativeof South,einchivalry is the bush whacker. Although really acting inde pendent of the government he assists with his murderous deeds, he is recognized at Richmond as a valuable adjunct, whose ser vices could not be well dispensed with. The guerilla is not unfrequently a scion of aris tocratic and wealthy stock, who, previous to the rebellion, would have had his sensi bilities greatly shocked if 'any one had had the audacity to inform him that he would at some future time become an assassin ; but the bushwhacker rarely has such pre= tensions to birth, honor or affluence. He is„indigenotis to the mountainous districts of West Virginia, or to the wooded highlands And-valiers-of-the Western .andlEinutirftes ern States, and is a roving bandit, with not P. , single honorable attribute to recommend -him to the friendly consideraticin of tile trai tors he so efficiently serves, or to mercy frOm his captors. An Arkansas correspon dent of the Missouri Democrat, in describing this sEecimen of depravq and vAt. l ,,- . , ,l ness, "says'se never owned a Mgr°, but he may have been a nigger driver on some planta tiOn.• Ten of -them dare not attack three armed soldiers, but five will go to the bya s e of a man who has a little money, an'', tor ture him by-setting him on live coals of fire, or Pulling out, his toe-nails with moulds, till he tells them wher....his treasure is concealed ; and the robbery completed, they retire to their render,rous. All seasons are alike to him, but, his more daring feats are performed When the-leaves'are on the trees, and effectually hide the approaches;to the thicket in some ravine; which is hishid ing place. His arms area big knife, one or two navy revolvers, and a rifle or shot-gun, -or possibly acarbine captured from some straggling soldier whom he had murdered and stripped. His original uniform is, of course, a ragged suitor butternut ; but h e now often has a blue coat or pants, the spoil of some unusual and fiendish butchery- When the Federal army is in the vicinity,he may be seen planting corn in the day time —at night he will be shooting the pickets." A bill, we are glad to notice, is soon to be 'offered in Congress which will give coin. manding generals in the field the power to execute these villains as soon as they are convicted by courts-martial, and without awaiting authority from Washington. Such prompt and decisive, action can alone di minish or terminate 'their infamous pro ceedings. THE LATE JAMES HOLBROOK. The United States Mail ce has expe rienced 11. severe loss in heath of Mr. James Holbrook, Special Agent, which took place on Thursday, at his residence in Brooklyti, Conn. Since 1845 Mr. H. had been employed in the agency of the depart ment, to the satisfaction of every successive administration, and his labor in protecting the mails, detecting robbers, and generally supervising the mail service was very ardu ous. He felt an absorbing interest in his work, and as he possessed considerable literary ability, he gave to the world many interesting facts ' connected with it. In 1855 he published " Ten Years Among. The Mail-Bags," and he also edited a journal devoted to postal matters, called The United States Mail. In detecting mail robbers. such as Tuckerman, the depredator who traveled between New York and Boston for so long a time without being found out, Mr. Holbrook showed great tact and skill, and it was extremely difficult:for any robber to escape him at any Wm.. In early life he edited a New England journal with con siderable ; energy , and ability. He is suc ceeded in his agency by his late assistant, Mr. James' Gayler. THE CONNICTIITO RaILBOAD The projected nuisance thus entitled, which is to cut diagonally across a large part of Philadelphia, is causing much ex citement in the northern part of the city, especially among property holders on and near the projected route. But all our citi zens are interested in defeating a measure calculated to do sumuch injury. If there were a necessity for pursuing this route,for the purpose of, - making a connection between the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and New York railroads, there would be some show of excuse for it. But an eligible route exists, along which a railroad might be built which would not be destructive and ruinous to any one, and we trust that the members of the Legislature will refuse to pass the bill unless such route be adopted. THE CHESTNUT STREET THEATRE AIM THE FAIIV-WC; again remind our readers that Ur. Grover gives the receipts at both the afternoon and evening performances at his beautifulthea tre to-day to the Sanitary Fair, including the salaries of the artists and all other expenses. This liberality should meet frith an equally generous response from the loyal public, and the theatre should be tilled to overflowing. We also commend the liberality of this enterpris ing manager to the conductors of other public amusements. TIIE.USION ADDRESS AND PLATFORM.—Ca the twelfth page of to-day's 13IILLETLV will be found the address to the people of Pennsylvania and the resolutions adopted by the Union State Convention which met on Thursday in Harris burg. They are worthy of Pennsylvania and of the cause of the Union. With such a plat form, the people of Pennsylvania will be sure to give a rousing majority for the nominee of the Baltimore Convention, who can be no other than Abraham Lincoln. TWENTY-SECOND Wean.—lD another column will be found the report of Jabez Gates, Esq., the efficient Treasurer of the Twenty-second Ward bounty.fund. He announces the report as final, and states his belief that the Ward is exempt on the two calls for five hundred thou sand men, and that about sixty recruits aro credited under the last call of the President!. We call the attention of every citizen of the Ward to the report. Niw JERSEY AND TUE FAl R. — Governor Parker's announcement of the New Jersey Committees of the Great Central Fair will be found to-day in our advertising columns. We hope to see New,Jersey well represented in the great demonsh ation, and we are glad t o see that Governor Parker is lending his influence to the movement. PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.—.The annual address before this Society *ill be de livered on Tuesday next, at 8 o'clock P. M., in ,the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Broad street; above Pine, by the Rev. Joseph T. Cooper, D. D. Subject—“ The Controversy Respecting Rites and' Ceremonies.,, WE. are requested to call attention to the sale by James B. Freeman; at the Exchange, on Wednesday, of a handsome brick rough cast house on Subunit street, Chestnut Hill. '7'7TGEOlielnhiblaricayilt .CittieeCntr detivei , second address in the, Covenantels2 Church, Cherry street, .below • leventh, next Friday evening. THE FINE ARTS. EXBT A 3211 1" - r/ON - OF THE PEENSYL *ARIA ACADEMY. • • It is 0110 of the peculiar feattires of thiErtime of War, that the fine arts are flourishink • turn. Pictures were never in so greit de `iattitncl and never brought such high prices. Really good pictures,command fabulous sinus, while even poor ones, not worth the canvass they are painted on, can be sold for much more than their , cost in labor and materials. Our Philadelphia artists, although much occupied with orders, and although work - mg also for the exhibition of the Great Central Fair, have not neglected the honored institution where so many of them have studied in their youth, an from whose walls all of them have learned use.. ful lessons. The Forty-first Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is not one of the best of the annual exhibitions; but it is far from being one of the worst. is a large number of superior pictures, but 'a larger one of inferior. In one or two depart ments—landscape and marine, for instance—it is quite h ric. Of the landscapes work,the most im portant which will command the admi ration not only of the technical critic, but of simple loiers of natural beauty, is undoubtedly lir: Edwin D. Lewis's cc Gates of the Susque- Lana," No. 15, of the catalogue. It has so re cently been noticed in these columns, thatit is not now necessary to attempt to point out its many beauties. There are several smaller pie hues by Mr. Lewis in the exhibition, all of which are creditable, and show such progress as to place him in very high rank among our landscape painters. Mr. T. Moran exhibits several landscapes, the most ambitious of which (No. 31, "Windsor .Castle,") we like least. The haze in the at mosphere has a smeared look, and the details are not happily executed. His two autumnal views, 199 and 63, are much more interesting pictures, and show not only fine effftt but ad mirable painting of foliage and rocks. Mr. W. T. Richards; who has made the paint ing of leaves a special study, and has brought it toa pre•Rapliaelite perfection, has gone far ther in the two pictures he contributes to this exhibition. No. 59, “Bouquet Valley, Adiron dack Mountains," is an exquisite landscape, somewhat lacking in warmth, but showing a talent for representing distance and atmosphere which has been denied to him by those who have thought that, in hiz patient labor over fa. lingo, he had forgotten there was anything else in nature to be painted. No. 85, by the same artist, is not so interesting a picture, but it shows great care in execution.- Mr. W. S. Haseltine, who has left us for .New`rork, is representedby one ofhis happi est sea-coast pictures, No. 165, a view near New Port• Mr. J. Hamilton has a number of his charac teristic paintings, all of them exhibiting his re markable genius, though not all in equal" de gree. cella Loss of the Monitor," No. 65, is a wonderful representation of a night aorta at sea. There have rarely. been waves pslnted that had such appearance of vital action and motion. No. 87, "On the Card of Wales," is a totally different scene, with one of those bril 'lent effects cf sunlight on water for which Mr. gazoilton is remarkable. No. 2, "Founder ing," and No. 178, "Morning on the Sea Shore," are also good specimens of Mr. Ham ilton's work, and there are several others that might be remarked upon, had we space to do them justice. Mr. P. F. Rothermel has in the exhibition two pictures—No; 64, "L'Ultimo Sospiro del Moro," and 157, "St. Agnes." Both are 'ad mirable in color, the latter being particularly good in this respect. The former is a larger picture, with Mr. Rothermel's characteristics strongly expressed in every part. There are several pictures by Mr. George C. Lambdin, of which N 0.73, "The Pruner," No. 56, "Autumn Leaves," and No. 79, "May Flowers," are especially admired. r Of portraits there is the usual number in this 'e:thibition—some very good, and others very bad. Mr. W. K. Hewitt has several good ones, among which we give the preference to No. 24. Mr. l J. R. Lambdin is represented by good and well-painted likenesses of Major- General Meade, and the late Major-Grener4 Reynolds, besides several of private indi viduals. The large group of. portraits by Schussele, No. 27, "Men of Progress," will command at tention not only because it contains likenesses of a number of eminent Americans, but because the grouping and the coloring are exaellent. There are a number of foreign pictures, fur nished from the private collections of some of our citizens. Some of these are of surpassing excellence: No. IE4, "The Christening," by Salentin ; No. 23, "Italian Ball-Players," by Oswald Achenbach, and No. 41,- "Grace be fore Meat," by C. Hfibner, are especially worthy, of notice. In the Southwest gallery there are several pictures from the collection of the Boston Athenmum, which deserve attention. A large original, of Ary Schefferis, called "The Weeper of Wirtcmberg," (No. 246) representing an aged man weeping over the body of his son slain in battle, is interesting as a specimen, though not one of the best, of its great author's style. A large and beautifnl, painted portrait of Sir Benjamin West, (No. 245) by Leslie, after Lawrence, will also attract attention. The “Sortie at Gibraltar," (No. 244) by Trumbull, is a very good battle-piece. The foarthßicture from the Boston gallery is No. 247, a Holy Family, by Page. In the Northwest gallery there is a huge pic ture by Philippoteaux, representing the Procla mation of the French Republic in front of the Hotel de Ville, February- 24th, 1848. Though not a work of the highest art, it is interesting from its hist'orical character, from the varied groups it represents, and from the fact that a number of the figures are portraits. We have referred rapidly to only .a few of the more important pictures in the exhibition. But there aro many that we have been unable to refer to, including a number of cabinet size of no little merit. These may be the subject of future notice.. 111178fCAL TIM GREAT 'MUSICAL FESTIVAL intid of the Sanitary Fair promises to•surpass anything of -the kiild Vv . drnriitterifpteWlit thinly nothing approaching the operatic repre sentations has ever been witnessed here. Mr. Fry's new opera of Notre Drone of Paris, which has been thoroughly rehearsed, is not only "a great musical work, but as a stage spectacle it w,lba of unparalleled magnificence. It will bo Drought; 014 , 94. Wednesday 'Qveuinf, neat, and the otnerperiorininces will follow-in rapid succession ) and will be of corresponding splendor. SIGBOR BRIGROI I will.give his last concert this evening at Concert Hall, with a most at tractive programme. He will have the aid of Miss Laura Harris, Signor Dragoni, Mr. Patti son, the pianist, and Mr. Mollenhauer, the violinist. MISS TEII.E . S.A. Cananno, the astonishing young pianist, who made a -sensation at Mr. - Perelli's concert last evening, will give her last concert this evening at the Musical Fund Hall. NEW PUBLICATIONS. "The Future" is the title of an essay by a New Yorker, named Montgomery 11. Throop. It discusses Reconstruction, and opposes, with a rather Copperhead twang, both Senator Sumner idea' of eg State suicide" and President Loneol's Amnesty plan. The author writes clearly and apparently fairly, even admitting the political power of slavery to be at an end ; but he thinks the South must be coaxed, and petted back into the Union, in the exploded "rose-water" style. All such attempts must fail ;' the age is too far advanced for their inau guration. The principal idea of Mr. Throop may be inferred from the following extract` from Shakspeare's Henry YIII. which he pla ces upon the title page : 'there .Ftsymy lord, And let your choler with your reason question, What ' Us you go about. Heat not your furnace for your foe ao hot, That it do sin ge yourself." Mr. Throop, if Scripturally inclined, might have referred to the heat of the Babylonish furnace, which burned up the men who threw Into the flames the Hebrew youths. James G. Gregory, New York, is the publisher. For sale by J. B. Lippincott k, Co. From Carleton, New York, through Ash; mead & Evans, we receive Renan's "Studies of Religions History and Criticism," transla; fed by 0. B. Frothingham. The volume coß tains a biographical sketch of M. Renan, fol; lowed by papers .on "The Religions of An tiquity," "History, of the People of Israel,' , "The Partof the Semitic People in the His tory of Civilization," "The Critical' Histories of Christ," “Rahoniet," "Calvin," "Chan ning," "M. Fuerbach and the New Hegelian School," and "The Future of Religion in Modern Society." Had it not been for the success of M. Renan's ((Life of Jesus," these essays would probably have remained in the pages of French' pamphlets and periodicals, forgotten by the literary and religions world. The fame of that remarkable work has, how ever, induced. Kr. Frothingham to translal t e them, and also to give a very interesting at count of the early studies and mental struggles of M. Renan, and we cannot doubt bat that the work will fhui thousands of treaders among theologians and philosophic stn ants, who will be iqterested in tracing the phases of thought which resulted in the "Life of Jesus." Geo: irge W. Childs has publialted u A Critical liistory of the . Doctrine of A Future Life," by William Ronnseville Alger, in a - volume of 676 pages, with a catalogue of works relating to the nature, origin and destiny of the soul, by Ezra Abbott, which adds over two hundred and thirty pages to the volume. As a summary of what theories of the origin and destiny of the soul have been held, among all races, from the earliest ages to the present day, Mr. Alger's work is of the deepest interest. It is written in a liberal, catholic spirit, and with grace and elegance of style, and-will be very generally read by cultivated people beyond the circle of strictly theological thinkers, while as a work of reference it will be an addition to any well selected library. It would be , c considering too cnrionily" to endeavor to point out here the manner in which we differ from the author when he expresses his personal views, but we have no hesitation in commending the book historically, Its a most able and thorough work. c.Dangerfield's Rest; or, Before the Storm," is the title of a spirited novel of Atnerican political and social life, written to illustrate the period between 1850 and 1860, when the Re public was drifting towards the gulf of the Rebellion. The name of the author is not given, but he .is evidently very familiar with American social, literary, and political life; and in the sketch of character and well-turned dialogues which make the main features of the book, he displays considerable earnestness as well as tact and wit. The plot is not very new or striking, it being mainly the vehicle for illustrating the views of the author as to life and manners in New York and among New Yorkers and other Americans abroad. Pub lished by Sheldon & Co., New York, and for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. • At this period, when people are going crazy over all kinds of fantastic speculations in stocks, mines, oil and - gold, a timely work has been translated by Frank S. Fiske. It is Thiers's able sketch of John Law's ci Mississippi Bab ble," written and published some thirty years ago, by the historian of c; The Consulate and Bmpire," the trtuislation being revised by the author. Accounts of, a The Darien Expedi tion," and cc The South Sea Scheme," are also added, thus increasing the value of the work. It is published in very handsiime style by James G. Gregory, of New York, and is for sale byJ. B. Lippincott & Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, have pub lished the Bth series of the ccSermons preached, at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, by the late Rev. F. W. Robertson." The volume consists of discourses more fragmentary than those which have previously been published, but they will be read with deep interest by all who sympa thize with the views expressed by Mr. Robert son. The orthodoxy of Mr. R's views has been questioned,but his eloquencC and earnest ness have been_the theme of most cordial eulogy in all quarters. The work is for sale by Ashmead & Evans. > - Mr. George Ticknor's “Life". of William Hickling Prescott," originally published in an expensive quarto volume, has been republished by Ticknor .& Fields, in a very elegint octavo, with- a portrait of the Historian: The work has - been received, both in. Europe and Ame rica, with the heartiest encomiums,and it is not necessary to do more than call the attention of Vitrreatkers:teati:witirtlipcmark - thatttis.thft: proudest tribute any historian could be honored with. It is for sale by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Be advised THE 'SQUARES. To the Editer of the Etzenine Builetin thank you most sineer for your hrticle-m dr9 • Tuesday's issue, s quar e s - . - What, iri the tialeiS cf bommon sense are the Squares for,? On would suppose, if it cannot he pressed into the beads of our City Councils that water can be made to run under ground, and thus re lieve us from an ice pond in winter, and a situigh-hole in summer at every door that they might be made to, understand thl,t the Squares were designed for the comfort and con venience of the people. Your correspondent spoke of the Rittenhouse Square. -But, is it not just so with most others? I live near a Square. It has been closed two-thirds of each year for the last five— closed all the' time from November to May---closed every - day when the sun does not shine, daring the summer, and every evening when the hens go to roost. Now, what cause is there for all these shutting ups? If the same thing were dohe in New York, or Boston, or any other city, the people would rebel, and not a single member of a Council, who should vote for such a foolish and ridicu lous measure would be chosen again during his natural life. On a warm summer evening, if ever, we need the cooling air of the Squares. But, at this time, 10, they are closed. Can-any man tell why Can any man tell why they are: closed every damp day ? Can any man tell 'why they are closed at all? No man can, for there is no such reason, save only that our Fathers. did so, and we must do as th?..y did. This folly is next to that of keeping squirrels trs destroy the girds, that we may enjoy the worms. C. AffiUSEBLENTIL THE —This afte: noon and evenin have been set apart by Mr L. Grover for the bene g . fit of the great Fair, and Mr. G. gives the entire receipts for that object. _ This is one of the most iberal and self- sacrificing projects yet aunounced. in behalf of the fair, and he is especially anxicnd that both the opera this afternoon and the dramatic performance this evening should be attended by the very largest houses of the season. We moat earn estly hope that his wish will be gratified, and that to- day will be a memorable one in tne annals of the Chestnut. By the advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that the entire services of the artists, or chestra, attaches and all the other expenses are in cluded in Mr. Grover' s magnificent gift, and that he has selected the molt attractive programme which could be offered. 'At the evening perform ance "The firetoroon," will be given in all Its splendor, together with an ,act of "The Italian. Wile" and a capital farce. - ' Tam Weracirr. —The Florenees appear this even ing in "Ireland as it Was" and "The Young Ac tress." "Robert Macaire" will close the enter tainment, with Hemple in his inimitable character of Jacques Strop. Xr. Florence's benefit last night was a sp:endid tribute to his eminent ability, the house being crowded in every parr, and the perform-nee going off with the utmost spirit.. There will be another brilliant audience this even ing. Tim Ancn.---.•Bosedale" will be performed thin evening for the twenty-foUrth time. After next week Mrs. Drew will probably present other novelties. THE ELEVENTH STREET OPIUM HOUSE will be Crowded by the lovers of the comic, the pathetic, and the eccentric this evening.' LARGE ERPORWIT PIOI33MPTORY SALES NEXT WEER OF MISCRLLANZOITS ARTI CLES. John B.• Myers it Co. Auctioneers, Nos. 222 and 234 Market street; will neat week hold the following important peremptory sales, by loß ue, on. Four Months' Credit and part for cash-, DlO3 DAY, May 2—About 675 lots of French, Swiss, German and. British Dry Goods, irt. Silks, Drees Goads, Ribbons. Shawls, Gloves, irt great variety; Paris Flowers, Slur Umbrellas, Balmoral Skirts, with a stock of Fancy Goods, Trimmings, Rich Silks, Lace and Cloth Cloaks, lateststyle and novelties, for city sales. Also, 37 cases Shaker Hoods, Palm Hats, kc. TrZEIDAT, May 3—About 1,100 package& Boots, Shoes, Brogans Army Goods, Straw Goods, Ice., a full assortment of prime articles, of city and Eastern manufacture. THCESDAT, May s—About 725 ,packages and lots of American, British. French, and Germane Dry Goods, in Cottons, Woolens, Linens, Silks Worsteds. Also, Ingrain, Venetian, Hemp, List, Rag and Cottage Carpets, Canton Mattings, kc. Ar Paivira Sai.z.-.41T A desirable Cotuitry Beat and Farm of 20e acres 'at well-cultivated land. with commodious dweltinr and out- houses, situated near the town of Newark, Delaware;. the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad being contiguous: LARGE SALE 'VALI7AI3LE REAL ESTATE AND STOCKS. TAMES ce Sons' catalogue for TUES DAY n'arr, 3d May, comprises such an amount and variety of property as to render it attractive td , every class of paretic:err-9 ESTATES (3 . 3 PROPER— TIES), by order of Orphare Court, Executors and Trustees, besides a large amount from other owners; altogether Foarr- Irrsz PROPERTIES. many of them very 'valuable and to be sad pereinp. tors/y.. Fee advertisements, auction head, and pam phlet ctajfgues issued to-day. HANDSOME RESIDENCES, 10TH MAT. See adver tisements eighth page to day's paper. This also Will be a very large sale. ELEGANT COUNTRY SEAT, HARRY.—They sell on the premises,-'Wednesday afternoon, the ele gant Cotuitry Seat of Joseph B. Conover, Esq., at Darby. • AUCTION NOTICE. The early attention of buyers is called to the attractive sale of 1,000 cases prime Boots, Shoes, Brogans, Balmorals, Congress Clatters. Oxford Ties, Cavalry Boots, Zcc., to be sold by catalogue, for cash, on Monday morning. May 2d. com meneing, - . at 10 o'clock precisely. by Philip Ford Co., Auctioneers, at their store, Nos. 525 Market - and, 522 Commerce, streets. SEAL ESTATE SALE Pamphlet catalogued of the large sale nest Wed. nesday, at theXxchange, by Salt RA. FRES3I.AS 3 are now readr ' HAITI AND LIDENLk.-04 the 14th ultimo e, treaty of amity, commerce and navigation was signed by Mr. Dubois, the Minister_ of Hayti, and Mr; Gerald Ralston, Consul-General of Li beria, on behalf of their respective negro re publics. Much advimtage is anticipated from this treaty to the social, political and commer cial relations between these kindred nations. One of the articles is as follows:—Slave trade is assimilated to piracy; it is rigorously prohi bited, and the vessels of the two. States which may be engaged in this infamous traffic shall be judged and punished according to the laws in force in their respective countries against pi racy. Th's is - more stringest than any article which it has bees possible to introduce into any previous treaty made by the Liberian Consul, and there is a manifest propriety in the two ne gro nations denouncing slave trade as piracy, and punishing it accordingly: Every nation has laws against piracy, but few have against slave" trade. If all nations would assimilate slave trade to piracy as Hayti and Liberia have just done, and also allow the right of search 116' England and America have lately done, this ne farious traffic would be put down effectually.— Liverpool Mercury, April 13th. IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER The follow ing important Military order has been issued '- by Major-Gen. Wallace: Headquarters, Middle Department, Bth ..Irmy . Corps, Baltimore, Md : 26th, 1864.--Spe cial Orders, No. 107.—Hereafter all persons embarking at Annapolis, by steamer or sailing vessel, will be required to present passes from the commanding officer of the post- Notice is hereby given that veitsels will *be liable to sei zure and detention if any passenger or other peon is received on board at Annapolis with out a pass from the commanding officer of the. post. Colonel A. R. Roof, commanding officer at. Camp Parole, at , Annapolis, is charged with: the execution of this order. By command of Majer-Gen. Wallace. , _ SAMUEL R. LAWRENCE, ASsistant-Adjutant General. i Official—Jews R. Ross, A. D. C. THE DEFENCES OF Nsw Yonic.—Purstrnt to orders the 4th Regiment New York National?* nar - wi!i.tassemlie .riatigue• - :fdrep wait knapsacks "peeked=oiie day"s - coo'ted tient+, at the armory, on 'Wednesday next, to depart for thirty days' duty in the defences or the Harbor of Net Yolk.
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