GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX. EVENING BULLETIN. PIIBLISTFFE EVERY EVENING, (Sundays excepted) at Mo. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia ELIE= ' "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPRIETORS. ^GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOLIDER, Jr.. T I . L. EETHERSTON, ERNEST C. WALLACE , THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON. The BULLETIN is served to subscribers In the city at 18 cents per week, payable to the carriers, or 48 00 per annum. MARRIED. HARRiS— DAVIS.:— At Philadelphia, on the 17th instant, - by the Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D.D., ;Bishop of Rhode Island, Mr. 0. alske Harris, of Pro vidence—R. L, to bliss Emily Stevenson, daughter o the late Charles Davis,Zsg,. of Philadelphia. • 1 . . ,, TR0UD-011NE—January 18th, at tit. Matthew's Church. Francisville, by the Rev. Edward Lounsbery. George D. Stroud, Esq.,to M. Annie, youngest daugh ter of the late Edward H. Orme. SIIMNEII—FOItSTER—At Harrisbuk, on the 18th instant by the Rev. Wm. B. De Wia,D.D ,Brevet Lieu' Colonel E. V. Sumner, 11. S. Army, and Miss Margare R. Forster, (laughter of the late General Forster, o Harrisburg. TOMLINSON—LONGSTRETH—On the 18th inst. at the residence of the bride's brother, J. Cooke Long. streth, Esq., by the Rev. P. Stanton. Jesse R Tomlin son,to Lydia C. Longstreth, all of this city. No cards. DIED. DORAN—On Fourth day evening, 17th instant. Car • aline, widow of the late Wm. W. Doran, of Moan Holly. Funeral from Friends' Meeting-house at Mount Holly, on Seventh day morning, 20th instant, at nine o'clock. HEWETT—On the morning of the 16th instant, _Anna C., wife of Charles Hewett. The friends of the family are invited to attend her funeral from the residence of her husband, one mile west of Jdnkylitown Station, N. P. H. It., on Satur day. the 20th, at 11 A. M. HEY—On Tuescay morning, Jan. 16th, Moses Hey, in the 73d year oat his age. The reuttives and friends of the. family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral from his late rest -deuce, No. 2638 Green street, on Saturday morning, at 30 o'clock. Funeral services at the Bible Christian 'Church,' Third street, above Girard avenue. Inter ment, at Laurel Hill. JOHNSX ON—On the morning of the 16th instant. +Capt. Benjamin Lowndes Johnston. eldest son of the late Capt. 'Thomas Johnston, U. S. Army. The relatives and friends of tue family, also the members of Eastern'Star Lodge, No. 186, A. Y. M., are respectfully invited to atte,na the funeral from his late residence. 1209 Spruce street, on Saturday after noon. Jan. 20th, at 3 o'clock. JUSTICE—In this city, at the residence of her father, No. 1732 Green street, this morning,. Jan. IStli. Emma C. Justice, wile of D. J. Justice, of New York, and only daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Rao , . The relatives and friends of the family are respect• fully invited to attend her funeral on Tuesday, Jan. 23d, at 2P. fd To proceed to Laurel Hill. [New York Herald, Raleigh, N. C.; St, Paul, Minnesota parers, please copy.] . Hal - SKR—On the morning of the 17th instant, of typhoid pneumonia, Andrew Keyser, in the 76th year of his age. The relatives and friends'of the family are respect fully invited to attend his funeral on Saturday afte •ssoon next, at 2 o'clock, from his late residence, No 372 South second etreet. LAFFERTY-On the 19th instant, Daniel W.,:infant -son of 'Wm. T. and Elizabeth Lafferty, aged 7 months and 13 days. The foneral *ill take place from the residence of his parents. No. 607 ciouth Tenth street, on Sunday -anorning, 2lst Instant, at 9 ['clock. MTI.I - El-1-On the evening of the 17th instant, John Miller. in-the 75th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral from her late re sidence, r o. 309 South Fifth street, on Saturday, the 20th instant, at 2 o'clock, without further notice. * PAUL-un the 18th instant, Elizabeth D. Paul wife of 'Dr. John Rodman Paul, In the 57th year of her -age. ss OBITUARY It Is our melancholy task to record the demise of an old friend and much respected citizen, JOHN MIL LER, EsQ He passed from earthly scenes on the evening of the 17th instant, we trust to a happy eter nal abode in the realms of tin, blessed. Mr. Miller has resided for the last seventy-five years in the Fifth Ward of our city, and though unostentatious in his manner and seeking rather the repose and retire ment of privacy, had endeared to nimself not only the affections of his numen.us relatives, but the last ing veneration and esteem of a large circle of friends. We doubt whether those who have held higher posi tions in public life have left behind them a memory more honored, a character more stainless, and an ex ample more to be Imitated than our plain, unobtru sive honest old friend Join: "May the turf rest light pn his breast!" ilti S. TVS= MOREENS FOR SKIRTS. . V Green Watered Moreens. 6-4 and 5-4 Green Baize, White Cloth for Sacks. White Evening Silks. EYRE & LANDELL, Foarth and Arch SPECIAL NOTICES. IZHOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and 1520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med. atment and medicines famished gratuitously terthe poor. ee2B OFFJCE OF THE HAZELTON RAILROAD U- COMPANY, NO. 30 , WALNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA. January 18, 1866. The Board oLDirectors of this Company have this .day declared a semi-annual dividend of SIX PER CENT., equal to THREE LOLLARS PER SHARE, payable to the Stockholders or their legal representa tives, flee from tax. at the office of the Company in Philadelphia, on and after February Ist next. The transfer books will be closed until February Ist next, ALEX _DER 0. GAW, jal9-Its Treasurer. 10' FIRST BNATION., DELPHIA.—Pathe. At an annual election he 3886, the following named Directors of this bank H. CLARK, JAY COOKE, S. A. CALDWELL, E. W. CLARK, kw- W. a MOORHF.A T), W. S RUSSELL, GEt). F. TYLER, J. A WEIGH. R. B. CAREEN. And at a meeting of the Directors this day C. H. CLARK, Esq., was unanimously re elected President. MORTON atcancn" A Fr , JR., .. Jal7-rp3ti WOFFICE OF THE WARREN AND FRANK LIN RAILWAY COMPANY, 2.853 i WALNUT EET, PHILADELPHIA, January 18, 1866. At the annual meeting of Stockholders this day, the following gentlemen were elected Directors for the en suing year: H. P. RUTTER, HENRY D. MOORE, CHARLES P. B. JEFFRYS, E. C. EicCLIIRE,. E. B. JACOBS, R. D. BARCLAY. (CEO. W. AVERY. c. GEO. C. THOMAS, J.A., Secretary. jalS-Sti 3 - AIcUABYI9, 1886 JUD FOURTH NATIONAL BANK OF PHILA.' DELPHIA, 723 ARCH Street (Designated De -,pository of the United States). PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11, 1866. At an election held January 9.1866, the following gen tlemen were elected Directors to serve the ensuing year: WM. P. AA MITI, 1 JOHN PAREIRA., ALBERT C. ROBERTS, ROBERT CLARK. JAMES C. KELCH, J. HENRY ASKIN, 'WM. BROOKS, SAMUEL MILLER, WPC S. STORLEY. M R HARRIt , And at: a meeting of P. HAMM% Eso., was unt dent; ALBERT C. ROBE] jal9-3t/ • SOLDLEItS'_ FAM:ILLEs. , g 7 . The immediate Relief of the Soldier, the Widow, -the Orphan, in their own homes, is the only object we .have in appealing to you for pecuniary co-operation. such families are numerous, and their terrible destitu tion i* known only to those who visit their humble homes. their damp dark cellars and cold, cheerless garrets. Rev, WTI. McELWEES, Pastor of the Fifteenth Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, and extensively :known by the name of "City Pastor," has been devot ing much of his time, by his pen and personal labors, • during the last two years, for the benefit of this needy -and deserving class. Convinced that our citizens have -a heart in such a work, and stand ready to aid it when -appealed to, and finding that the calla for aid are daily increasing, and that hinds are needed to meet them, :you are earnestly solicited to contribute liberally to aid this noble and Christ-like work. was an hungered, -and ye gave me meat; thirsty, and ye gave me drink; :naked, and ye clothed me." All contributions will be acknowledged in the public Tapers. bend contributions to Rev. WIIL >ll"cELwnln, ."City Pastor." Superintendent or immediate Aid for Soldiers' Families, Residence, 1.341. Lombard Street, Philadelphia Mrs. tirr ic PASTOR, Superintendent of Clothing "Department and of Visitation and Distribution. DfNs H..2IOONRY, Agent and Assistant Superin tendent of Supplies and Distribution. "We know CITY PASTOR, are acquainted with 11.9 work, and cordially recommend his cause and hi eel/rim worthy of the aid and confidence ofourcitisen "JAMES POLLOCK, "ALEXANDER HENRY, "JAMES ORNE, Jeaer.Scsa-Btrpi "HENRY D. MOORE." . . . , . . . • . . . . .. . , . „ . , . .. . . . . - •. , . . . , . ... ' '„,„." • ... * . • ' • . " • ' .• . * . , . • , . • . „ . , . , .. ~ . • . . , . 1 .. .. .:A• . .. • • , . . . .. '. . ... . . , . ~ . . - 4 '. - ' -- - i'l.. ~,, 4 •-•:- ;.1 • z.: ~ 1 , , ".' if . : •-••••:;? . ' - ' •„ 1 y - 4 li• - •:-- •.";1 ••,- ' ,4; , '_ , ' ' $ .. 4 c;•'; .i,, . . .., . .. • .-., V ' ~,:' # n• , ~.. . & . ::i; . 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The Loan of this Company, due April Ist, 188$, inte rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent, per annum. This Loan is secured by a mortgage on all the Com pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Slackwater Navigation in the Lehigh river,and all their Rallroads,constructed and to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and Wilkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith, and the franchise of the Company relating thereto. Apply to SOLOMON SHEPHERD, Treasurer, de2l-rpti? 122 South Second street. PHILADELPHIA, JA GARYI7Trt, 1866. At a meeting of the Stockholders of the rieLMOKIN COAL CO3IPANY, held this day, the following gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing year: GIDEON BA ST. Schuylkill Haven, Pa. W31. mcc,f ROBT. F. TAILOR, Philadelphia. M. HALL STANTON, do. LAZARUS MAYER, do. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the SHAMOICIN COAL COMPANY, held the same day, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: [Jais-DC GIDEON BAST, President. M. HALL STANTON, Vice President. C. R. LLNDSAY, Secretary and 7 reasurer, [For the Philaaelphis Evening Bulletin.] House of Correction. In the annual message of Mayor Henry for 1864, on page 220, under :the heading of "House of Correction," there is a report from its Board of Managers, stating that "they have not yel (Dec. 26, 1864) been able to obtain from the Councils of Philadelphia, any appropriation to procure a site and erect the necessary buildings for a House of Correction, and thus carry out the bene volent intention of the legislature." The Commissioner of City Property, in his report to Mayor Henry, in 1864, says: "I would advise, as a saving to the city, the sale of the Tobacco Warehouse and all the dwellings belonging to the city, not necessa ry for public purposes." And the mayor also remarks in the above mentioned mes sage, that, "Many of the halls and other buildings owned by the city, notwithstand ing their continual repair, are being dilapi dated, to the great depreciation of their marketable value. Sale should be effected without unreasonable delay of all such pro perties that are not required for official use." Would not the sale of the above mentioned properties yield a suffici nt sum to secure the site and erect suitable build ings for a House of Correction? In the year 1864 no less than . 7,578 men, women and children were taken care of in the Alms-house, and out-door relief given by the Guardians of the Poor to 61,051 other suffering poor. In the saate year 26,084 persons were lodged in the station houses. In the county prison during the same pe riod, 14,067 were received. Over fifty benevolent institutions and half-a-dozen soup-houses, a dozen hospitals and half-a dozen dispensaries also did their share towards assisting the poor. The account published in the BULLETIN of the 16th inst., of the suffering among the inhabitants of some of our criminal streets, certainly call for action at once, in relation to the erection of a house of correction—an establishment so conducted that it may be a relief to the tans-house, the county prison, the station houses and our many private benevolent institutions—and so managed that healthy paupers may find work, and be made to help along the feeble and dis eased. Decreasing the number of licences granted to the numerous grog-shops where these poor creatures are ruined, mind and body, would also assist materially to lessen the number of those now taken care of by the city. H. P. L. January 18th,1866. [For the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. "A N eedy Case." In nearly all the papers of yesterday the local columns contained the following: "A seedy Case." It gave an account of an aged woman who had fallen on the ice and broken her leg. Her husband was a soldier of the war of .1812, and her two sons fought in the Union army during the late rebellion. She was soliciting food when the accident happened. This morning we visited the case and re port as follows : After much difficulty found No. 5 May nard's court. On inquiry was told that the poor woman lived in the garret, but the stairs were so narrow and dark that the wo man below said I must geta candle, thougL it was nearly 10 o'clock A. M. While pre paring to ascend a gentleman who resides in the neighborhood and who had visited and relieved her the day before, enters and kindly offers his escort. We lighted a wax candle and ascend—up, up those narrow, winding stairs to a Philadelphia garret. We had neither absorbents nor repellants with us, but on entering the room we had to beat a hasty retreat till the old gentleman—the husband of the disabled woman—put up the window and admitted a little oxygen. The poor old woman was lying on some thing like a straw matress, on the floor, al most destitute of personal and bed clothing. It was indeed a trying case. Her aged hus band—a nice man—her only nurse. We wound our way with our providential com panion and our lighted taper down stairs; came to City Pastor's, selected clothing suit able for the case, and are now in company , with Mrs. City Pastor setting out with our bundles, etc. A more wretched looking location is not in Philadelphia, yet this garret was neat and as clean as we could, under the circum stances, expect it to be. Any special con tributions sent for the relief of this case to City Pastor will be judiciously applied. This is a good sensation' 1 story, and yet it does not compare with the touching, tender, pathetic hundreds of cases that call at City Pastor's house and come daily under our observation. The poor lonely widow, still in many cases young in years, with a large family of small children, and no work: hungry, cold, naked and yet nice, modest, bashful,tearful, is the most touching if not the most needy case. This is the class that needs special atten tion, and this class is numerous. Let them have our aid, our sympathy, as well as these extreme cases. Nay more, far more deserving are they. Miss H. M. Agent and Assistant Super intendent of Supplies and Distribution for City. Pastor, 1341 Lombard street, Phila delphia. January 18th, 1866. 17Nro3inEn DEmi-Gons.—A Southern poet has found anew name for the young South ern chivalry. Hear him: "You may talk of peace with the Yankee, ForSeaven hath mercy and rods; But not where slumbers our young chivalry, The untomb'd demi-gods !" If the demi-gods are;untombed for want of money to bury them, a small contribution can. soon be raised to put them under ground. There cannot be many of them; and perhaps an appeal to. Jove, and the other gods, might be successful in getting them decent sepulture. The dwellers on Olympus should be ashained to let their offspring lie thus uncoffund.—Pittsburgh Gazette. , PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1866. MEXICO. Additional Particulars of the Capture of Bagdad---Important Liberal Suc cesses---Two Silver Mines Said to Have Fallen into the Hands of the Juarists---French Officials to Have the Management of the Mexican Customs--- More Executions of Li berals--Arrival ofthe Ex-Rebel General Early at Vera Cruz ---Effect of the President's Message in Mexico. f Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.] 'ERA CRUZ, Jan. 6, 1866.—Admiral Dide lot, the new French commander, arrived at Vera Cruz on the afternoon of January 1. He proceeded immediately on his way for the city of Mexico, to consult with Marshal 13azaine on the subject of the existing rela tions between the United States, France and the "Maximilian empire." Rumor has it that the Admiral will be followed immedi ately by a large fleet of naval vessels; but, at the same time, while some say that these vessels will be used in a manner hostile to the United States Government, others say that they will prove to be only transports intended to convey the French truops from Mexico to other parts of this continent. The very latest reports which we have re ceived from the interior confirm one another in the effect that Marshal Bazaine, acting on instructions received from France, and through the Imperial government, is pre paring for an extensive movement of some kind. The report which has reached the Impe rial government, and been tolerably well confirmed, that both branches of the United States Congress passed resolutions favoring a war to sustain the Monroe doctrine, has had a very marked effect, and disposed all those in authority here to act at once. It is understood here, and credited, that the French and other imperial troops will be withdrawn from several States now oc- copied in part by them, and concentrated at the city of Mexico, San Luis Potosi 'and Orizaba. These are all strategic points, at which the imperialists can prepare for de fensive and offensive operations, or to leave the country entirely. It is said that the Emperor is placed in a very embarrassing position in regard to Matamoras. While he would like to evacuate it, in order to avoid as much as possibly a difficulty with the United States, he cannot do so now, as the evacuation of Matamoras would leave it too easy for the Juarists to obtain supplies, and at the same time act asa "dampener" on the imperial cause. The States of Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua and one or two others are to be evacuated immediately. On the Pacitic side Mazatlan and one other port will only be held. The French authorities are constantly sending large sums out of the country, in specie, to France. According to the official newspaper of Fresnillo, in its issue of the 3d of January, San Juan de Guadeloupe was attacked by three hundred liberals, among whom were twenty North Americans. The liberals evacuated the place on the sth, taking the road to the Spring of Reyes. The official newspaper of December 30 publishes the following; There has been discovered an attempt of assassination against his Excellency the Minister of War. The assassins were surprised and arrested on Monday, the lsth just:, with arms in their hands, and at the morhent when they were about to put into execution their hor- rible project. The colonel, Mariano Pico, was arrested, together with one of his ac cumplices, the latter giving his name as China Cirilo. Cirilo, on being questioned, confessed the plot and gave the names of other individuals who were also engared in the conspiracy, and who will speedily be arrested. The criminals are to be tried be fore a court martial. On the 15th ult. Saltillo was crowded with refugees from Monterey. All the hotels and nearly every one of the private houses in Saltillo were crowded to excess. Some of the larger private houses were entertaining as many as forty persons. At the latest accounts there were still at Monterey about rive hundred native Mexi can (imperial) soldiers, under the respective commands of Tinajero, Montejano and Qui roga. The two first were still holding the citadel and the Bishop's palace, while the latter picketed around the city. Three separate liberal commands were near the city, and were expected to move upon it at any moment. United, it was said, they would make a strong force, having with them considerable artillery. Only Mazatlan is in possession of the im perialists. , The liberals are triumphing everywhere. They have assumed the offen sive quite spiritedly. The very latest important information which has come to hand is that the French are expected to take possession of the cus tom houses in a short time. This is under stood to be one of the arrangements made by M. Langlais. Notwithstanding the cons tpublication by official authority of parable misstate ments, it is very evident h re that the im perial situation is anything but encoura ging. On the contrary, it is evidently be coming every day more and more embar rassing. Some of this is attributable to the impoverished condition of the imperial trea • sury, to the ill feeling andnon-co-operation between commanders in the field, but mainly to the fact that the ,Tuarists are becoming powerful and active and where they do not drive the enemy before them they at leabt harass them to a considerable degree. With each day there seems to come a further confirmation of the report that the imperial forces will berinly concen trated at Mexico city, Orizab and San Luis Potosi. General Jubal Early arrived here a few days ago, accompanied by several Con federates. It is understood that he will leave to-day for the city of Mexico. He has dyed his hair and beard black. He rode all the way through the Southern States from his place of concealment in Western Virginia. General Manuel Ruiz has made an appli cation to the Iniperia). government to be permitted to return to his home and practise the profession of the law. Information has been received,verbally, of an attack made on Karavatio by the OUR 'WHOLE, COUNTRY. liberals General Regales advanced upon Maravatio (which had in it at the time only. a garrison of seventeen men) with a large force. The garrison of Maravatio was under the command of D. Mariano Lopez, who, when it became known that. Regales was advancing, was urged by the inhabi tants to surrender the place, the object of the citizens being to lesson the 'evils ex pected from the forthcoming attack. But Commandant Lopez declined, saying that he bad wagered his head not to give up the place, When the citizens saw that his de termination was to resist to the last, and that he would give them arms, they nobly seconded his efforts to protect the city. Regules presented himself before the city at nine o'clock on the morning of the 16th of December. At the time the contra-guerilla command, under Gonzalez, was on their way to reinforce the garrison of Maravatio. Gonzalez's command was mounted and about eighty strong. About one hundred and fifty soldiers and quite a large number of citizens were at once armed and made available for the defence of the city. Re auleS' first move was to form his men in columns, deploying each column separately. He then made a general attack simultane ously upon three points but was defeated in all. At the same time the contra-guerilla command made an attack upon one of the enemy's flanks, and came very near being surrounded and taken. In this particular part of the action Gonzalez, the chief of the contra-guerillas, killed the commanding officer of the.Juarist cavalry. The attack proving unsuccessful, Regules withdrew his troops to a distance of half a league from the defences of Maravatio. Regules lost twenty- ft ve killed, a nu ni ber of wounded and eight prisoners. Among the prisoners was one officer. It is further reported that Regules, after his retreat from before Maravatio, was met by the command of General Menelez on a rise Of ground known as Santa Clara, situ ated between Acambaro and Zinapecuaro, and that a battle took place there, in which Menelez was the victor, taking about seven hundred prisoners. This news comes from the city of Mexico. , Thie E,Tcranza in its issue of the 17th says —Frbm Jerecuaro we have been informed that h column of liberals under General Replies had moved upon Acambaro on the 14th inst. The column of imperial troops under Jueretaro continued to advance wiih General Lamadried through the heart of Il nasteca. According to an official note from Gen. Calderon, Gen. Alatorre has agreed to sur render XI izantla to the imperial forces. All of the above news is derived from Im perial sources, and should, therefore, be taken ceatgruno sails. The commandant of Zitacuaro, under date of the sth of December, reports the follow ing In compliance with instructions I 'marched for Mulillo yesterday. At a quar ter before ten o'clock in the morning I reached San Nicolas Amealo. My object was to ascertain the route which the enemy bad taken. About half an hour afterwards -- they presented themselves on the heights of Titlillo. The enemy was immediately at tacked and dispersed. We then moved on to Monterillo. There a serious combat took Place. The enemy wail thrown into disorder, but rallied again. Another ad vance was made, whereupon the enemy was disorganized and driven in all directions. The enemy had four killed and ten wounded. Our infantry being greatly fa tigued aid the cavalry suffering from the encounters of the day, I did not pursue theta. We captured a large number of prisoners and considerable 7natt'riel. VERA CR C' z. Jan. 7—A. M.—Court-mar tials continue to be held in various parts of the country by the imperialists, and the number ordered shot increases with each succeeding day. _ The newspaper _Yoticios-, of Vera Cruz, has been otlicially prohibited from publish ing correspondence sent to it from the United States relating to Mexican affairs. Only the official paper is allowed to publish anything of this character. The French authorities here have been showing the greatest politeness to the cap tain of the United States steamship Man hattan. When the weather was bad and the sea rough, and the Custom House offi cers would not trouble themselves particu larly to enable the steamship to discharge, a French authority very politely sent some of his men and some boats to start the work. some few of the Confederates here are going to join the liberals. This I know to be a fact. M EX ico CITY, Jan. I.—Tol uca—the capital of the empire, situated thirty-six miles from Mexico—has been taken by the Liberals, under General Pascual Muiloz. There were with him Generals Gomez Garlardo, Riva Palacio and Augustin Granda. All of the Imperial troops at the capital have been sent to retake the city, and Marshal Bazaine commands in person. It was reported on Saturday that the Libe rals had captured the silver mines at Pa chucha and Real del Monte, and destroyed the works.. No diligence has arrived from Pachucha since Friday last, which is an ominous sign. Toluca is a fine city of twelve thousand inhabitants, and has been used for the ca pital of the country for forty years. The Liberals are increasing in numbers in the State of Durango, and, unless re enforcements can be sent there, the Prefect writes that the State must be given into their hands. Thirty-three of the Zouaves who revolted at Martinique, and also on the march be tween Puebla and here, have been con demned to the chain gang and to work on the pu Min works. In Guanajuato, General Baron Armand has assumed the command of the sub-divi sion of Leon. Colonel Tarquet, military commander of the city of Guanajuato, was ordered to Morelia with the battalion of his command. The Mexican Times says that Garcia Morales is on the American frontier; but this paper is too unreliable to quote with any idea that you are obtaining correct war news. In each number are made up battles in which fifty or one hundred French have routed one or two thousand well armed Mexicans. The editor has had Figueroa routed several times, and General Figueroa happens to be one of those Mexican generals who has never yet been whipped by the Im perialists. He has taken several important posts, with garrisons, and hurried back to Orizaba and. Puebla the Imperial troops just as often as they have ventured into the valley of Tehuacan. A convoy, with $4100,000 in silver, reached here on the 26th ult., from the mint at Queretaro. The mint here has only coined $1,636,785 during the past year. A convoy, with $2,600,000 is expected soon from Gua dalajara. All the mints, except the one at Chihuahua, are coining more than the mint here, which has the largest capacity of any in the empire. It is rumored that Rican don's mines at Real del Monte and Pachuca which supply the mint here, are failing. These mines have yielded immense profits for forty years , and enriched their owner until he is the richest man in the empire. An article in the Vera Crnz Noiicioso de clares that war between the United States and France is inevitable. The article thus concludes: "To say which intervention would be most favorable to Mexico, whether the French or lki#erican, is not possible at the present time, in which. it would be very dtificult to speak without passion and listen only to the voice of reason and public utili Both nations are great and power ful. ty. Both have ties of union with us. One is united to us by ties of religion and race; the other by identity of interest and ideas. From the one we already know that we have to hope; from the other we experience that vague and indefinite feeling which the un known produces upon our souls. "The die is cast. The veil which conceals the future is drawn. Whatever may be the new trial through which our blessed coun try must pass to complete its social and political regeneration, we hope it will tend to make it stronger than ever before and give it that peace and security which make prosperity and cause the aggrandizement of nations." AlExico, Jan. 1, 1866.—Mexico has not ap peared like the same city for the past few days, or since the arrival of the steamer Vera Cruz, which brought the message of President Johnson. Before it came all par ties were in a deep state of anxiety. Many hoped that there would be war, and many feared that there would be. Business and pleasure alike seemed to have lost all attrac tions to men. No one was willing to invest money, because in case of war no investment Rota be safe. But, when the message comes to hand, and people learn that the Government of the United States has no in , tention to interfere in the quarrels of others, a different state of affairs takes the place of the old quiet and dullness. It is supposed that more sterling exchange will be sent to New York by this steamer than has ever before been sent at one time. An immense trade between the two countries will now spring up such as has not been known be fore. ADRIFT ON THE ICE. A Fearful Adventure on Niagara River— one Man Drowned and Two Wonder lolly Saved— rhe Survivors Afloat on takes of lice for Three Hours, Drilling Seven Miles ton tird the FalLs. [From the Bnffalo Expre , s, Jan. 16..] We have to recount this morning one of the most fearful and extraordinary stories of perilous adventure, death and suffering that it has ever been our lot to make public. Of the three actors and sufferers in it, one is a prominent and widely known gentleman of this city, William A. Thompson, Esq., the proprietor and now Vice President of the new Erie and Niagara Railroad, run ning from Fort Erie to Niagara. We have obtained our particulars of the story from the lips of Mr. Thompson, who survives to relate such an experience as few men in the world have passed through. It seems that on Saturday afternoon the quantity of ice passing down the river from the lake caused the ferry-boat plying be tween Black Rock and Fort )brie to suspend her trips. Mr. Thompson, who was on the other side and desired to cross to this, ac eepted the effer of a colored boy named William Bartlett to row him across in a small boat, not realizing at the moment the difficulty of the passage occasioned by the movement of ice. Subsequently he was joined for the trip by a man named Warren, foreman under the contractors of the Erie and Niag,ara Railroad, who was very anxious to reach this side in time to take the 6P. M. trains to Suspension Bridge, ' going home to his family at Prescott, C. W. On reaching the river side Mr. T. saw the hazards of the attempt at crossing, and would have receded, but Mr. Warren pressed him to go on, and he was prevailed upon by his companion's anxieties. About half-past 5 o'clock the three pushed out into the stream. The found much diffi culty in making their way throngh the ice which ran close to shore, and again Mr. Thompson advised a return. But presently getting through the shore pack of ice they found clear water, and went forward con. ficently, meeting no obstacles until they again neared the shore on the American side, near the Erie Mills, when the ice pressed about them thicker than in the first instance. Mr. Thompson then gave an im perative order to the boy to back away and return, but it was too late. They had en tered so far that return was impossible. they were caught by the ice, wedged fast between its grinding cakes, and could go neither forward nor back. Another mo ment, and it had crushed the sides of their boat, so that it began to fill rapidly and sink. The three immediately leaped out upon a cake of ice nearest at hand, which proved to be but a small one, scarcely larger than a door, and drew the boat partly upon it after them. Their hope was in being able to turn the craft bottom up and mount its keel, in which position they might be floated by it; but the mass was not large enough to per mit such an operation. Mr. Thompson then attempted to bail out the boat with his cap; but while doing so, the boy Hartlett cried out that the ice was upon them again, and they bad barely time to throw themselves into the half-filled boat when the piece upon which they had stood was crushed by another mass coming down upon it. An instant more and the boat also struck, turned bottom upward, and Mr. Thomp son and Mr. Warren plunged into the water. The negro boy succeeded in leaping upon an ice cake. Mr. Thompson sank once and came up, when he clutched the boat, made his way to the stern, and climbed bpon the keel. Here be saw his companion War ren sinking for the last time, a short dis tance away, and drowning before his eyes, while he was utterly powerless to help. He had scarcely witnessed this, when death rushed upon him again. The boat was once more struck and rolled over. Again he sank, and again, on rising, he clutched the boat, which again had righted itself. Climbing into its stern, which sank with his weight two or three feet below the sur face. he sat for a time with the water to his chin. By this time it had long grown dark. He could see but little about him. Presently. a cake of ice drifting down upon him. he put out his hand to ward it away, and feel ing it to be several inches thick and appa rently of some size, be concluded it best to escape, if possible, from the boat to the ice. He very nearly failed in doing so, barely getting Ids breast upon the cake when he sprang from the boat, and finding it impos sible to lift his body above that position. Providentially, however the boat in rising just touched his foot and gave lihn a slight push forward, after which he was enabled, by long and , exhausting efforts, to crawl upon the cake." Here, he stood'uPrigbt, and not knoWing_the size of the icemft,' dared not move. Hailing ;the • boy Bartlet, he found him still afloat upon his bit of ice, one F. L. FETHERSTON. Publisher DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS , hundred or two hundred yards away, loud ly engaged in almost frantic prayer. And now began the wonderful voyage of the river, through the darkness and the storm of freezing sleet which fell upon their trail rafts of ice. Those who were out Sat urday evening will remember what a bitter cold night it was. A fine rain, driven by keen north winds, stung the face of the traveler, and casedeverything exposed with a quick mail of ice. To all this pelting storm, these wet and exhausted castaways, drifting along the cold waters of the Ni agara, with the horrid dread of imminent death freeze their hearts within them, were exposed for three mortal hours. Mr. Thompson had lost both cap and gloves. His clothing was frozen into the rigidityof iron armor, and he became incapable of motion, except as ,he slightly swung his arms to keep them flexible. All that he could do for himself was to shout and cry for help, which he did steadily and with the whole strength of his lungs for hours. Fortunately, pos sessed of a magnificent physique in every - respect, his voice was capable of the exer tion. Once, somewhere in the vicinity of Lower Black Rock. he received a response from shore, but to his appeal for rescue the voice out of the darkness replied that it had no oars and could do nothing. The miser able fool, or worse, who heard and hailed, seems to have made no eifort to rouse his neighborhood and set its energies to work for the rescue of the periled men who appealed to him. And so they drifted on beyond Black Rock, beyond Strawberry Island, past the head of Grand Island, and steadily on toward those currents of the great cataract where no hand could save them. Steadily the cry for " help" rang out across the water and through the black night, and no ear heard and no tongue answered. Three hours had passed—seven miles of the river traversed —it was 9 o'clock of the night. Hope began to die in the heart of Mr. Thompson, stout and strong as it was. He called to his com panion, the negro boy, and gave him a mes sage for his wife and children, if it should be his lot to escape. His thoughts, as he describes them, were very quaint and curious. They were too busy to give an opportunity for fear, and death was faced calmly and coolly. And so they drifted steadily down, be tween Grand Island and the America& shore, until Tonawanda was passed, and the last houses upon either shore from which help could come before help should be too late, were going by. But there, at the last, by the good providence of God, help did come. The shouts were heard on the Grand Island shore. Lights began to move from house to house. The neighbors were run ning together. Presently the gleam of a lantern moved upon the river, and they knew that boats were coming out. Mr. Thompson, when reached, had to be rolled into the boat like a log. He was taken off by Mr. Charles Poplar and Mr. George Glide. Another boat, manned by Mr. William W. Blackney and Mr. John A. Bacon, rescued the boy Bartlett. The boy, being hinly clad, had nearly perished when taken off; but Mr. Thompson, a man of large, robust frame and great vitality, felt himself capable of enduring an hour or two more of the latter trial. Astonishing to say, neither were seriously frozen, and. Mr. Thompson, whom we saw yesterday, appears little the worse for his extraordinary es perience. Mr. Warren. who was drowned, was an elderly man of about 55 years of age. He resided at Prescott, C. W., where, we under stand, he leaves a family. Pails—Justice Read.—The Penn sylvania Railroad Company et al. vs. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Com dany et al. Arr. Gibbons resumed his argument this morning, on behalf of the complainants. lie referred to the act of Assembly requir ing the agreement of consolidation to be tiled in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and contended that there had been no compliance with the act, by the respondents. There had been no filing of the agreement. The act authorizing this consolidation is one of the most reckless „pieces of legislation in the history of this Commonwealth. It imports the laws of New York and Ohio into Pennsylvania to control the parties to the agreement of con solidation. Is such a law constitutional? Was it within the power of the legislature to pass such a law ? Mr. Gibbons exhibited to the Court a map prepared in England, showing the road of the Atlantic and Great Westrn Railway Company, and it is advertised on the map that it is a road connecting the city of New York with St. Louis. It is also advertised as the only road from the Oil Region to New York. The map does not show the exist ence of any road from Philadelphia to Pitts burg, nor is there any reference to a road from Philadelphia to Erie. Mr. Gibbons next read from the The Money Market Review, an 'editorial -dis cussion of the importance of the oil trade at New York, and ignoring entirely the State of Pennsylvania, and the subject is referred to by the writer in connection with the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Com pany, as a means of communication be tween the oil regions and New York. The same paper contains the proceedings of a meeting of the holders of bonds and shares of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail way Company, held at the London Tavern_ SirS. Morton Peto presided and explained the object of the railway, and stated that "we will treat all alike and get the largest amount we possibly can for ourselves. The policy of doing the best for our neigh bors and at the same time doing the best we can for ourselves, will be the policy followed by the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Co." Another fact referred to by the chair man, was that when he took the position of the chairman of the London Board of Con trol, he required that all money should be sent over to London that they might know what was earned—that is 40 per cent. of the receipts. In closing, Mr. Gibbons said—lf the busi ness men of Philadelphia, instead of avail ing themselves of the advantages open to them by these two great, improvements of our own, and instead of uiting their efforts to secure their share of the products of the' West, are willing to confide their fortunes to the Board of Control of the Atlantic and. Great Western Railroad Company, of Lon don; the time has almost arrived to write the epitaph of the city of Philadelphia. Mr. Cuyler closed the argument. FOUR boys from Stafford, Ct., got on a!, spree in New Haven, a' night or two ago, and when taken to the station house their",' ';) pockets produced one paintedtrumpet, painted toy houses, one doll, full'dress, one, doll's bust—China, three papers ladies' but!:' tons, nine , coarse combs, one:old table knife,' ; coarse linen thread one-half pound, three; paper of pins,. two toy books—paper covers,' two cornucopms—littleones, brokon heatt sager, one old thitable, - COVRTS
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