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
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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.