GESON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 238.
EVENING BULLETIN.
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING,
(Sundays excepted) at
No. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
BY THE
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PROPRIETORS.
, GEBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOLIDER, Jr.,
X. L. EETHERSTON, I ERNEST C. WALLACE.
THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON.
The Eur.xxxii* Is served to sabscrlbets in the city at
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annum.
MARRIED.
BRICK—PHILLIPS—On the 16th Jan.. 1866, by the
Rev. Semi. Durborrom, Mr. Harry C. Brick to Miss
Macre J.. daughter of the late H.P. Phillips, all of Phi
*
GRA.EFIN—CALDISAN—At Camden. N. J , on the
18th instant.. by the Rev. J. F. Garrison, D.D., Mr.
Barris Graffiti to Mary A. daughter of the late James
Carman. of Camden N. J. •
McDOWELL—STONE —On the 16th instant. at
- Washington. by the Rev. Wm. Pinckney, D,D., Hon.
W. G. McDowell of Fairburg. to Mrs. Marion L.
'tone, of Prince George's county, Md.
DIED.
COOPER--On • Saturday evening. the 20th instat'
Mary Ella. only child of James B. and Annie If,
oper, aged 5 years, 4 months and 11 days.
The relatives a, d friends of the family are respect.
fully invited to attend the funeral from the residence
-of her parents. No, 474 North _Eighth street, on Wed•
needay morning the 24th instant. ate o'clock. us
zumnitrra—On Saturday. the 20th instant, Mrs.
- Catharine Helmuth. relict of Mr. John K. Helmuth, in
the 90th year of her age. se.
JANEWAY—At Richmond, Va., Jan. 18, Wm. Mac
tier, son of Isabella G. and and Dr. John H. Janeway,
Ti. S. Army, aged 2 years and 10 months.
JUSTICE-1n this city, at the residence of her father,
No. 1732 Green street; this morning. Jan. 19th, Emma
AC. Justice, wife of D. J. Justice, of New York, and only
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Hagy.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully Invited to attend her funeral on Tuesday, Jan.
23d, at 2P. DI To proceed to Laurel Hill. [New York
Herald, Raleigh, N. C.; St. Paul, Minnesota. papep,
please copy.] .
LYON—At Pittsburgh, Jan. 10th, Miss Jaue Lyon.
STEEL—On the 19th instant, Fannie, daughter of
Wm.•G. Steet, in her 9th year.
The funeral a 111 take place on Tuesday, 23d inst.,
at 2P. 7N., from the residence of Edward T. Steel.
818 North Eleventh street.
WHITE MOREENS FOR SKIRTS.
Green Watered Moreens.
64 and 5-4 Green Baize,
White Cloth for Sacks.
White Evening Silk - s.
EYRE & LANDELL, Fourth and Arch
DOI IEII 1110[11 0.(11I0t.19
RELIGIOUS SERVICES will be held in the
Lecture Rboxi of Olivet Pr.esbyterian Church
every Evening this week. It*
HOWARD HOSPITAL. Nos. Isis and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med
ics estment and medicines fbrnished gratuitously
totthe poor. se2B
17 , , b NO FICE.—The Directors of the PHILADEL
PHIA &TRENTON RAILROAD COMPANY,
have this day declared a Dividend of TEN (10) PER
CENT., (clear of Taxes) upon their capital stock,
payable in stock, on the I.sth day of FEBRIIARY.I.B66,
-at the Company's Office. No. 224 S. DELAWARE
AVENUE. Frac ions paid in scrip.
. J. PA_RE_ER NORRIS, Treasurer.
REELLADELPIII4, Jan. 20, 1966. jEcl2-tfels
lUv THERE WILL BE A UNION TEMPER
ANCE MRPTING in connection with the First
Anniversary of the "UNION REFORM ASSOCLA
- TJON, in the Church of the Epiphany, CHEST NU P
street, above 'Fifteenth street, on MONDAY, January
- 22 d, at 7,41, o'clock, P. M.
Bishop SIMPSON. President of the Society, will
make the opening adess.
Rev. ALBERTBAR dr NES, and Rev.Drs. EDWARDS,
RENNa RD, MARSH, NEWTON, TALMADOE, and
-others, will take part In the exercises.
'V on are respectfully invited to a' tend.
B'O OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND
NAVIGATION COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA,
December 21st, 'Ms.
LOAN FOR SALE,
IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
- - -
The Loan of this Company, due Aprll let, 1881, bate
rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent, per
annum.
This Loan 1e secured by a mortgage on all the Com
pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Slack water Navigation
in the Lehigh rlver,and all their Itailroads,constructed
and to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and
Wilkesbarre, and branch roads conwected therewith,
and the franchise of the Company relating thereto.
Apply to SOLOMON SHEPHERD. Treasurer,
de2l-rptni 122 South Second street.
Facts and Fancies.
After a recent English execution men
went through the streets of London selling
pretended pieces of the fatal cord at two
pence for "elf an hinch." Most of the sales
were made in the Strand.
It is said that the Kentucky Legislature
want to elect Breckinridge U. S. Senator in
place of Garret Davis. They can't go Garret
fol. another term, but if Breckinridge should
turn up in Washington, somebody might go
-a loft.
A clerk, named Jonas, said, in Washing
ton, that he should like to see Senator.Sam
ner sentto his long home, whereupon Secre
tary Stanton' threw Jonas overboard. A
great wail was heard immediately there
after.
Ex-Governor Magrath, of - South Carolina
is ,a sensible man. He is writing editoria
articles for a Charleston journal, to show
that the success of secession would have
been injurious to the South. What a pity
- that these expost facto prophets did not get
to work about four years ago.
During a high wind_ which prevailed in
Queen's county, Ireland, a short time since,
the thatch from the cottage of one Patrick
Murphy was blown off, revealing to him a
horn filled with four thousand guineas and
Several Spanish dollars. Profitable horn
blowing, only we don't believe it. Now if
it had been filled with notes, the case would
be different.
A lady in SL Lords who used belladonna
to eve brilliancy to her eyes, at a recent
ball in that city, is :now blind in come
•quenee. We venture to, assert that that
was not all the belle 'ad on 'er at, the ball.
A man and woman named Brandon have
_just been charged before the tribunal of
Correctional Police in Paris with annoying
a neighbor named Faucoianet; by having
trained a parrot to repeat the words, "Fau
•connet is a thief, a miser, a pig." Training
Pa.rrots is now a regular branch of instruc
tion on our men-of-war, but the most they
•can get out of them is a sort of bawl.
I once met a man who made nerve-and
bone-all-healing salve; he was an enterpris
ing kind of a fellow, so he thought he would
•experirdent a little with it. He first cut off
Ids dog's tail, and applied some to the
:stump—a new tail grew out immediately.
He then applied some to the piece of tail
which he cut off, and a new dog grew oat.
He did not know which dog was which.—
.Barnum.•
TIxPtOBION OF SHELL.- On yesterday
:two men named Wm. Barch and Mike
Martin were in an old shed , on the river,
near the Lock' Gates extracting powder
from some old shells when two of them
-exploded, wounding tie men in a horrible
manner, one of whom, Mike Martin, has
aince died, and the other, Burch, at last
.accounts was not expected to live through
the night. These shells have been thrown
into the river, by order of the United States
Inilitary ordnance officer, to prevent injury
- to those persons who wanted them to sell
for old iron.—Eichmond Sentinel.
MB. McConnimi,,,the reaping machine
inventor, of Chicago, is thq gentleman who
gave $lO,OOO to the Washington (Va.) Col
lege, to establish a McCormick professor-
Am . :mix"), the homestead of Henry Clay.
sold on Priday last, by the widow of James
B. Clay, for $90,000. It is said the Agricul
tural College of Kentucky will be located
en this property. .
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The New York
painters desiring a labyrinth, andalus was
brought to life for the purpose of construct
ing one. His master piece is known as the
Tenth Street Studio Building. Ariadne
afterwards went through it; pinning up lit
tle legends, This way out, This way out.
The alleys ,are so dark that nobody sees
them, and I have constantly met, in dim
passages, a nation of pallid persons whom
I believed to have wandered there since
the foundation, , It is so simply impossible
to find the room you' want, that you have
every incentivoond excuse for blundering
into the studios of painters to whom you are
a stranger, ~blandly apologizing, and sur
veying their Productions while in the act of
bowing out._ Hinc I have seen hal
the art in New York on the theory of dis
covering Bradford and Haseltine and the
few other artists to whom I have been in
troduced. In this pleasantly confusing
pursuit through the building, I have all
unwittingly stumbled upon the most un
looked for experiences; one time it was
Gambard's interesting foreign collection,
with its Ary Scheffers, its Millais, and its
Gallaits; then it was an affable Hercules
in blue uniform, wedged tight in a little
closet, and guarding untold treasures laid
up in the strong rooms under his feet; then
it was a square central tower, springing to
the zenith through the central parts of the
structure, in which I found a delightful
housekeeper who weakly imagined me an
artist, and gave me a delicious lunch. Get
ting lost is always delightful; but I know
no place in which it is so richly remune
rative.
Bradford being absent, I set myself to ex
tract all possible entertainment from his
paintings and Esquimaux trophies. Brad
ford is the man of the Labrador excursions,
the first of which was detailed by one of his
party, in the Atlantic, a year or more ago.
His conversation about seals and reindeer
and icebergs is powerful enough to freeze
ice-cream. His great work, intended for
the Paris Exhibition, is now on the scaf
folds in a condition of forwardness. It is
an iceberg picture. Every artifice of rare
and costly color is exhausted to get the
purity of those blue ice-shadows. I once
asked if they retained their color when re
lieved against a really blue sky ; he said
that in such contiguity the strongest sky
was weakened to gray, while the ice re
mained as the peacock's neck or the Bay of
Naples. How imperiously nature defends
her passion for luxurious color! where she
may not have the violet and the rose, she
will revenge herself with the tulip cafions
of Colorado, the purples of Liberia, and the
unspeakable glories of the ice-coast. Brad
ford is pious, and will preach about it by
the hour. In the centre of his picture tow
ers the gigantic monster of ice, milk in the
sun and lapis-lazuli in the shade. It has a
noble and harmonious outline, slightly al
tered from an actual sketch; around it is
piled the white crush of the northern sea,
interlocking little pools of emerald water.
In the more open space, to the right, acrowd
of sailors are burning their ship, which has
become hopelessly bedded in the floe. The
thick rolling line of sombre smoke is useful
in the composition, both for drawing and
for the value it gives to the pure, thin hues
of the ice.
The room is one great cabinet of Northern
curiosities. Everything that was ever done
with a seal's skin or a shark's tooth is done
here. The 'unlimited gamut which an Es
quimaux is able to play on a reindeer's
sinew, fills the studio with reverberations
while Innuit tailors teach the same mono
tonous animal that he has not found out the
best side to wear his fur. Dr. Hayes should
.make a raid on this apartment just before
his next exploration.'
A side door,defended only by a small and
ineffectual errand-boy, gave a private com
munication with Bierstadt's celL With the
occasional violence of a weak nature I sub
dued the unprotected boy, and found myself
at a Step 'in the heart, of the Rocky Moun
tains,
Bierstadt's Mount Rosalie is of the race of
the Titans, for which, a pair of wedding
sheets joined would not begin to furnish the
foundation. It is as big as the side of a
house, many times the size of a lump 'of
chalk, and of its length and breadth a string
can give no idea. It also is for the French
E.xposition,and I would like to see its effect
upon one of those Gallic landscape painters
who never get beyond a score of poplars or
pollards in a row upon a flat, with patches
of grass laid like doormats over the, earth.
The English have endeavored to kill
Church's pictures by cracking over, them
one bad word, the word "cosmoramio;" but
comprehensive as are his views and those
of Bierstadt, they possess an artistic unity
which delivers them from the power of even
that terrible ban, and prove how idle is tra
dition. For these masters, whatever falls
within the visual angle when the eye is
fixed, may be considered the scope of a pic
ture.
The "Mount Rosalie" is one of those broad
hits of light-and-shade which Bierstadt finds
as simple a matter in his immense canvasses
as a designer upon his two-inch block. It
exhibits his powerful love of breadth; many
other artists love breadth (to speak in their
own patter) but it requires infinite nerve to
express this affection on a large scale,
Bierstadt's peculiar talent is in sweeping all
the innumerable data ; requirefl., for a large
picture into a few easy, masses; and in this
ability he certainly declares himself master
of the grand style. A man must have a
wonderfully clear and cool brain who can
modify the scale of a Itembrandt-etching to
the scale of a drop-ourtain,'and play with
all his thronging materiel and personnel the
simple game
,of the first design. In this
picture: a , nobly-managed crescendo , ' of
massy lighti leads the eye by airy steps' to
ART IN NEW YORE.
[Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Balletin.]
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY,, JANUARY 22, 1866.
he pure phantom of Mount Rosalie, hang
ing far in tbe heavens above a bright tumult
of rolling clouds. Beneath and to the right,
a subordinate light is obtained by a burst of
sunshiv.e which parts the clouds and splin
ters full upon a face of warm rock, with all
the triumphant luminousness of Calame.
Around these centres are disposed the
mountain woods • and crags, among -whose
dim, delicious depths the eye can sound
to every degree of gorgeous gloom,
so that returning to the sun-bathed crag or
the snowy summit, it gathers from one the
richest lustre of earth, or from the other the
whitest effulgence of heaven. In the right
hand middle distance a phrase is introdu
ced which expresses the force of nature in
the wild region of Denver City. A -moun
tain torrent, following some landslide,
breaks from the trees on the top of a moun
tain-spur, and drives, I should think a
thousand feet, diagonally across the scene,
in a line straight as a hypothenuse in
Euclid, coasts down the rock white as
bolted flour,Snd cuts into a little mountain
lake with a hiss that you can hear, it is
painted so plainly. This seemed to me gran
der than the Staubach; the accessaries well
explain the scale on which the slide takes
place, the texture of the powdered water is
given so perfectly that a mathematician
could calculate its accumulated velocity,
and I have never seen in any large land
scape a thought more original, more abori
ginal, more keenly western and savage,
than this unswerving impulse, euttinz off
a third of a picture with the edge of a
cataract.
LATE FROM MEXICO.
JUAREZ AND HIS CABINET AT
EL PASO.
Prospects of the Republi-
can Cause.
f Correspondence of the Phil/Ida. Evening Bulletin.]
EL Paso, Mexico, Dec. 21, 1565.—1 t may
be of importance to you and some of your
readers to know that Benito Juarez, Presi
dent of the Mexican Republic, and his
Cabinet, including Yglesias and Lerdo, have
again retreated to this frontier before a su
perior force of French Imperialists. The
only known armed force of Republicans in
this section are 300 men, under D. Luis Ter
razes, Governor of the State of Chihuahua.
Juarez is determined not to leave the Re
public unless expelled therefrom by force.
It is said he will make a fightinthis vicinity
if the Imperialists advance; if not he will
march against them as soon as a sufficient
force can be organized, and *expel then from
the State.
Juarez had a grand reception upon his
return on the 19th, which must have been
flattering to him. However, many of his
chiefs, and it is said several of his Cabinet,
look upon General Gonzales Ortega as the
man upon whose shoulders the Presidential
mantle fell, when the term for which Juarez
was elected expired.
General Ortega has the reputation of
being a good soldier and a man of talents,
and is a favorite with the military. Should
that General present himself in the Republic
claiming the Presidency, it is almost certain
that two-thirds of the officers would desert
Juarez and join the standard of Ortega. A
decree of outlawry has beep promulgated by
Juarez against Ortega for presuming to
claim the Presidency.
' It is almost certain that should the French
withdraw from the Republic to-day, civil
war would be inaugurated td-morrow be
tween the parties claiming the Presidency.
We cannot permit the French to establish
an empire on this continent, nor is it likely
that the United States will much longer with
folded arms look upon the civil war that has
for so many years retarded, and will again
retard the progress of liberty in that country.
In the present crisis Mexico wants a , live
man for President, talented, energetic and
enthusiastic, one that will inspire confi
dence in the people. Juarez is a mere pup
pet in the hands of Yglseias and Lerdo:
There is no question but what he is a good
man, but , he lacks the essentials to carry his
cause to a successful issue. .
The late news from the United States has
inspired the Mexicans with great hopes that
they will receive assistance from that Go
vernment. They must have money and
men, or they cannot sustain themselves
much longer. During the twenty days
Juarez and his government occupied the
city of Chihuahua they 'Opined #30,000 in
copper Cols and levied a forced loan on the
merchants of that city of $15,000. This
small sum will not supply ; the wants of the
government long, nor put a large force into
the field. They turn with anxious looks
towards the. United States for assistance,
and we hope - they will not loek in vain. It
is the interest of -the United States to assist
Mexico and vindicate the Monroe doctrine,
and give peace , and security to the country.
R.
Interesting Official Doctunents.
,We have received the Periodico, gOciaZ—
ffie official organ of the republican govern
ment of Mexico—published at El Paso on
Xovember 9. The sheet is filled with a
lengthy decree from President Juarez and a
circular from the;republican Minister of the
Interior; the former extending the presi
dential term until a general election can be
held, and showing the necessity for this
measure, while the circular relates to the
prolonged absence abroad, without leave, of
General Ortega, the former President of the
Stipreme Court of Mexico and constitutional
successor to' the Presidency in the event of
the office becoming vacant during the term.
General Ortega Is covertly, censured for
abandoning the republican cause,' being
charged with deserting from the army in the
field, and ordered to report Idritself forth;
with for trial. -
The Republic, a liberal jottrnal represent--
OUR 'WHOLE COUNTRY.
ing the interests of the RepOlican Army of
the Centre, and issuedat Noeupetaro, in the
State.of Michoacan, has published the fol
lowing documents in French and Spanish :
To the General Commanding the Republi
can Army.. of the Centre,—GENERAL :—Our
hearts were filled with indignation upon
learning the outrages committed upon offi
cers of your army by Colonel M z; and
we cannot do less than send the following
protest to Maximilian, which we are con
vinced will be concurred in by all our
brothers. We beg, therefore, General, that
you will cause it to be sent to the other
Zitacuaro prisoners,who will,hasten to sign
it, in order that it maybe laid before Maxi
-miliaz's Cabinet as speedity as possible.
Accept, General, the expression of the res
. pect of your prisoners.
BREIIR, FI.ACRA.T,
GIIYOT, VAN HOLLENBECK.
TACAMBABO, Oct. 23,- 1865.—Sire:--We
have learned with horror and dismay of the
act committed by Colonel Mendez, who in
violation of all the laws of humanity and
war, has executed a number of officers of
the liberal army taken prisoners by him.
In all civilized countries military officers
respect prisoners of war. The liberal army
—to which you refuse to accord even the
name of army—pays a greater respect to
those laws than the leaders of your forces;
for we, who are prisoners, are respected by
all, from Generals down to private soldiers.
Were we not with a genuine liberal force the
act of Colonel Mendez might provoke a
bloody revenge; and we Belgians, who came
to Mexico solely in (order to act as a guard
to our princess, but whom you have forced
to fight against principles identical with our
own, might have expiated with our blood
the crime of a man who is- a l traitor to his
countty. We hope, Sire, that this act of
barbarity will not remain unpunished, and
that you will cause the laws existing among
all civilized nations to be respected. We
protest most earnestly against this un worthy
act, hoping that the Belgian name will not
much longer continue mixed up with this
iniquitous war.
RItEUR,
GUYOT,
and two hundred others.
TACII3.IBAROi . Oct. 24, 1865.—T0 the Itcpre.
.ventattres of the Belgian .Nation:—GENTLE.
31EN—The Mexican question has frequently
been discussed by you, but the chief point
has been the legality or illegality of recruit
ing for the Belgian Legion. Now, however,
an event of great gravity obliges us to call
your attention to it anew. " The lives of two
hundred Belgian prisoners are involved.
considering the question some time back,
the force was intended solely as a guard of
honor voluntarily offered tbr the protec
tion of a Belgian princess. The Emperor,
disregarding the special service for which
the legion was destined and the neutrality
of the Belgian nation, ordered us to take
the field, and„being Belgian soldiers, we
obeyed, and marched to the front cheer
fully, animated by the love of war. Al
though we achieved triumphs, we also,
unfortunately, sustained reverses, and
two hundred of us Belgians are pri
soners: Without taking our position into con
sideration the Emperor recently issued a
decree which may cause terrible results. It
announces:to the Republicans that after the
15th IsZovember all persons, caught with
arms in their hands would be shot. At the
commencement of this month an imperialist
colonel, named Mendez—an ex-republican,
who sold himself to the empire—a man
hating the Belgians, took a large number of
prisoners from the republidan army in a
tight, including two generals and several
officers of high rank, whom he caused to be
shot, without regard to military law, and
without waiting for the expiration of the
period fixed by the decree; stating, after the
execution, to persons who remonstrated
with him upon the enormity of the deed,
"What matters it? They can only revenge
themselves upon the Belgians." This
alluded tolhe tact that all the other (French)
prisons had been exchanged.
We expected that all the Belgian prison
ers would be put to death; but the republic
of Mexico, being great and generous, like
all free nations,' deferred to act until after
learning the action of the administration of
the empire towards this Col. Mendez.
The Emperor is very fond of this man.
He has already sacrinced our brave colonel,
and he may sacrifice the lives of all the
Belgian prisoners.
Gentlemen, it is incumbent upon you to
intervene. The Belgian Legion desired
long since to return to its native country.
It did not wish to take part in this iniquitous
war or to serve longer under an empire
wherein such deeds are allowed to be com
mitted.
Representatives of the nation; your duty
calls you to act wherever the Belgian name
is at stake. This is not a question of party,
but of nationality.
Representatives of Belgium, remember
our motto, " Unity and Strength." It be
hooves you to speak. We call upon you in
the name of Belgium, whose honest confi
dence has been abused. Representatives of
Belgium, it behooves you to see that the
blood of Belgians be not sacrificed. In the
name of the country, do your duty.
BREUER.
On behalf of the Belgian prisoners taken
by the republican army.
Opening* qi Steam Communication Be
semen S Francisco and Honolulu.
SAN FnAricisco, Cal., Dec. 30, 1865.—The
steamship Ajax departs for Honolula,Sand
wich Islands, on next tiaturday, January 6.
She is the pioneer ship of a regular line to
ply between this port and Honolulu, owned
by the California Steam Navigation Com
pany. Her dimensions are as follows:
Length over all, 235 feet; depth of hold, 25
feet; breadth of beam, 35 feet 6 inches; regis
tered, 1354 tons; carrying capacity,2,ooo tons - .
Accommodations for two hundred first
cabin passengers and several , hundred
steerage: Passage $75 and $lO.
The passage is expected to occupy eight
days. One link of the great chain of com
munication around the world was wanting,
viz: the connection of the Western shores
of the 'United States with that bast Eastern
continent, beginning at the Amoor and end
ing with the Ploogley. This line of steamers
;will partially , - supply that want, and open
fresh fields ior California enterprise. Two
thousand miles . of steam communication to
Japan and China is now open. g; A few years
ago the commerce, with Honolulu was
limited to about one vessel a month ; now
there are three lines , ofpackets plying, and
clipper ships, hence for China, find it worth
their while to advertise freight ;and passage
to Honolulu. ' I '
It is proposed to despatch two steamers
each month, and, from the large, amount
of passenger and freight carrying there can
be no doubt the business will he remunera
tive, as the trade is constantly increasing.
Coal, water, fresh meats and vegetables can
be produred during the trip, from San
Francisco to China.' The contract for= car
rYing the Chinese' and . Japan6e mails-by
FLACIRAT,
VAN HOLLE-NBECK,
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
steam from San Francisco, with the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, comes into force
in about six months, but before• that time
arrives we hope to hear of some of our
merchant princes at Hong Kong or
Shanghae having established a line of steam
ships in conjunction with those of the Cali
fornia Steam Navigation Company, and
running from Japan and Canton to Hono
lulu; or may be the company itself, en
couraged by the success that will attend
their enteil - irise, will carry their line of
ocean steamers to the Eastern El Dorado.-
2 4 1. Y. Herald.
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN NEW YORK
A Large 'Cotton Warehouse with Its
Contents Destroyed---Loss $640,-
000---Fireman and a
Citizen Injured.
{From to-day's N. Y. Tribane.l
Early onSaturday evening afire was dis
covered on the first floor of the large five
story storage warehouse, Nos. 45'9 and 491.
Water street, occupied by Miller it Conger.
The alarm was promptly given, and the
Fire Department were soon on the spot, but
the flames had attained such headway that
efforts to suppress them were unavailing.
The 'immense building was filled with
cotton, hemp and sugar, and the flames
mounted rapidly from story to story, until
the entire edifice was one mass of fire,
against which the 15 or 20 streams of water
thrown by the powerful steamers of the
Department were utterly useless. This fact
soon became so apparent that all hopes of
saving the building )were given up and
attention turned to the adjoining buildings.
Shortly after midnight the walls fell, a
portion of the debris covering the lumber
and lath yard of Robert J. Murray, No. 487
Water street, smashing the office attached
to the yard and seriously damaging the
stock.
The 'warehouse extended through. from
Water to South street, numbering 248 and
249 on the latter street, and had a frontage
of 50 feet on each street, and a depth of 160
feet. The contents were owned as follows:
J. L. & D. S. Riker, 139 casks of bleaching
powder, $5,560; A. Uhlmann, 3 casks of
black lead, value unknown; J. Hoy & Co.,
187 bales cotton, $37,400; C. C. & H. M.
Tazer, 44 bales cotton, $8,800; Wm. Brice,
110 bales cotton, M,000; Rice, Chase & Co.,
32 bags cotton picking, $2,500; Murray &
Nephew. 101 bales cotton, $20,200; Hopkins,
Dwight & Trowbridge, 257 bales of cotton,
$51,400; Murchison & Murray, 57 bales cot
ton, $11,400; J. M. Jones, 79 bales cotton,
$15,800; M. Beeber & Co., 27 bales cotton,
5.400; 0. K. King & Co., 11 bales of cotton,
$2,200; J. H. Brower, 5 bales cotton, $1,000;
Berger, Hurlbut & Livington, 136 bales
cotton, $27,200; A. C. Schaffer Liz Co., 19
bales cotton, $3,800; C. B. Dibble, 46 bales
cotton, $3,200; C. B. Dibble, 73 bales
of rags, value unknown; J. B. Far
well & Co., 252 bales cotton, $50,400;
Curtis & Peabody, 1,497 bales of
hemp, $50,880; •A. Begoden 500 bales of
hemp, $20,000; J. A. Wilkinson, 12 bales
cotton, $2,400; Watts, Crane S. Co., 32 bales
cotton, $6,400; G. W. Attwater, 3 cases
roots,valuennknown; F. S. Morgan,l3ocases
bleaching powder, $5,200; Barley & Davis,
40 bales of cotton, V 8,000; Terry Smith& Co.,
121 bales cotton, $24,200; Easton & Co., 189
bales cotton, $37,800; J. L. Smallwood & Co.,
125 bales cotton, $25,000; Kearney 6: Wa
terman, 44 cases bleaching powders, $1,720;
N. F. Palmer, 500 bales hemp, $20,000; Hugh
Herman & Bro., 267 bales cotton. $53,400;
Lloyd Parsons,
92 bales cotton, $18,400; M.
W. Griswold, 107 barrels of clay, $1,070; C.
Windt:miller, 34 casks clay $340; R. Hill, 16
cases sulphate of lime, value unknown; H.
G. Meyers, Jr., 7 tons of iron tubing, value
unknown; George B. Buell, 1,496 dozen
peach baskets, $5,200, E. S. Higgins & Co.,
17 bales of flocks, $1,190; Dennison S. Wyc
koff, an unknown quantity of molasses; C.
Balmfortb, 32 bales of docks, 41v2,240.
The building was owned by the late W.
W. DeForrest, and is damaged to the extent
of $50,000, understood to be insured. The
damage to Murray Roberts's property is
estimated at $lO,OOO. John McMahon, ship
wright, occupied the second floor of the
building No. 247 South street; loss $5OO,
luny insured. The storage warehouse of
J. H. Hobby, No. 249 South street, is only
slightly damaged. It appears from a state
ment made by the receiving clerk that
about 90 bales of cotton were taken in on
Saturday afternoon, and from appearances
there is no doubt that the fire was in the
cotton when placed in the store. The esti
mate of the property, in its sound condition
as stored, is as publishgd. In all probability
there will be salvage of from 30 to 40 per
cent.
Fire Commissioners Brown and Pinck
ney, Chief Engineer Kingsland, Assistant
Engineers Perky, Everett, Orr, Mackey,
Stinivan and Sheridan were conspicuous for
their exertions in checking the spread of the
fire.
Sections, of Police were present from the
Seventh and adjoining precincts under the
command of Capt. Jameson, and, forming
their lines kept all persons from the vicinity
of the fire but those whose business called
them there.
When the wall fell, at midnight, Christo
pher Fahnes was struck by some of the de
bris and seriously injured. He was taken
to the station house and received medical
attention, and was then taken to his resi
dence, No. 81 Jackson street. Shortly be
fore 4 o'clock yesterday morning George
Wayman, a member of Engine Co. No. 11,
fell from the roof of one of the buildings ad
joining the fire, and Wag seriously injured.
He was conveyed to the engine house, No.
437 East .13ouston street, and attended by
Police Surgeon Bliven.__' _
Incendiary Fire in Mul berry Street-
Early on Sunday morning John Lyons,
who occupied the rear basement of the tene
ment house No. 64 Mulberry street, quar
reled with his wife, and, in a fit of anger,
applied a lighted candle to a straw bed in
his apartment, setting it on fire. The build
ing was soon filled , with smoke,
and the
frightened inmates rushed out in their night
clothes. The fire was extinguished by Mr.
Marks Davis, who occupied the front base
ment. Lyons was arrested by Officer Mc-
Guirk, of the Sixth Precinct, and on the
complaint of Fire Marshal Baker was com
mitted•for trial byJustice Dowling.
Comic IN Imintots.—The Mattoon Jour
nal learns that B. F. Wright, living at Okaw,
some seven miles northwest of that place,
raised last season on two, acres of ground,
two thousand pounds of cotton. In order
to bring .it to maturity . more iapidly, he
clips off the top of his plants in the dark of
the. moon .in August, .Mr. W. thinks by
this method an energetic farmer will have
no, trouble in raising thls valuable crop in
that section.
F. I. FEMEISTON. Pail=
DOUpLE SHEET, THREE CENTS.
FiENTA.NIS3I.
Proceedings of the Fenian Senate---
Adjournment Subject to the Cali
of the Chairman---Address to
the Circles---President
Roberts and General
Sweeney to go on
a Western Tour.
[From to-day's N. Y. Tribune.l
The Fenian Senate reassembled on Satur
day morning. The most interestingportion
of the proceedings was the adoption of
vigorous measures for stirring up the dif
ferent circles throughout the country. Col.
Roberts—the President of the Brotherhood
as recognized by the Senate—and General
Sweeny, the Secretary of War, are on the
point of -starting upon a tour among the
Circles of the Fenian Brotherhood, with the
view of effecting the object of this action of
the Senate.
Their route will be mainlythrongh the
Western States, and will embrace Troy,
Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Louisville, Springfield, La Salle,
Chicago, La Fayette, Indianapolis, Milwau
kie, and other places on that line.
An "Address" (a new one) was adopted,
reviewing the Causes and results of the im
peachment and deposition of Mr. 0' Mahony
by the Senate, and giving an explanation of
the position as it stands to-day.
The next feature of interest was a state
ment from Senator Meehan, in which that
gentleman reviewed the origin and progress
of his difficulty , with O'Mahony;•described
the nature and consequences of his visit to
Ireland; and also treated other matters with
which be has been mixed up. Mr. Meehan
appears to deny that the loss of his papers
while in Ireland contributed to the arrest of
any Fenians in that country, and concludes
his statement by prophesying that the day
is not far distant when traitors and deceiv
ers in the Brotherhood will receive their
just reward from an avenging Heaven,
Amen ! The Senate adjourned at noon on
Saturday, subject to the call of its Chairman,
James Gibbons, of Philadelphia!
There is nothing of interest to be made
public from the 0' Mahony headquarters.
The authorities there do not appear to be in
the slightest degree disturbed by the action
of the "Senate,' and still pursue operations
on the same line, which they will probably
continue, if it takes all summer.
The Attempted Forcible Opening ofPorts.
[From the Straits Times, Nov. T2.]
The news from Japan is summarized in
the paragraph given - below from the North
China Herald and Market Report:
YOKOHAMA.—Private advices inform us
that on the Ist instant the following vessels
started for the Inland Sea, for the purpose,
it is said, of opening Hiogo and Osaca to
foreign trade: H. B. M. steamships Prin
cess Royal, Pelorus, Leopard, H. I. M.
steamships Gnerrier ' Dupleix and Kien
chang (gunboat). H. N. M. steamship Zottt
patui. The British, French and Netherlands
.itlinisters accompanied the expedition.
From our files, by the same opportunity, we
learn that the second murderer of Major
Baldwin and Lieut. Bird was arrested is
Jeddo, and confessed his crime. The name
of the culprit was Mamiya Flajimel. He
was executed on the 30th ultimo. On the
20th H. M. steamship Perseus arrived from
Sbanghae via Nagaski. On the 20th. a
French gentleman, about to go on board the
Dupleix, was assaulted by a number of Ja
panese officials and severely bruised.
Strange to say, no swords were drawn, and
the injuries sustained were merely the effect
of blows of the fist. The matter is under
investigation; but no sufficient cause had
been assigned to justify the assault.
Until we know something more definite
with reference to the movements and inten
tions of the foreign ministers in Japan we
can say nothing. If; as suggested in the
extract above given, theirobject is ttrobtain
the consent of the Mikado to the treaties en
tered into by the Western Powers with the
Tycoon, we wish them every success. No
thing that they could possibly _do would
more surely consolidate our position in
Japan. With the- Mikado's ratification to
the treaties the opposition of the Daimios
must cease, and the doubts and fears of
many of our own statesmen as to the entire
legality of our claims against the Japanese
must be at an end forever.
success of the Expedition—The Ports
Thrown Open.
The Mikado of Japan has given formal
sanction to the ratification of the treaty for
opening the ports of Osaca and Hiogo, and
they are to be opened on the Ist of January
upon the terms of 'the existing tariff with
the other open ports.
The Robbery of a Bank Messenger in New
York—Arrest of the Alleg e d Thieves.
(From to-day's N. Y. Tribune.]
The entire detective force of this city, in
cluding many of our sharpest ward officers
have, since the robbery of Samuel B. Terry,
the messenger of the Farmers' and Citizens'
National Bank of Williamsburgh, on Friday
morning last, at the corner of Beekman and
William streets, been on the lookout for the
thieves.
The manner in which the, robbery was-.
effected, and its boldness in execution,
stamped it as the work of two of the boldest
thieves in the city, andtsuch as -would only
be attempted by about' half a dozen of the
thieves known to the police.
Several of the most determined of this
class were arrested, prominent am0n,,,0• whom
was the wel 1-known Billy Pitt, Who was
apprehended by Sergeant Davenport. and
Rmindsman Hart of the. Tenth Precinct.
None of them, however, could be connected
with the affair. , _
Detective Shangle t of the Eleventh Pre
cinct, having ascenamedthat a well-known
fast bay pony and blue butcher's cart, used
by "hog" thieves in their nefarious opera
tions, were, missing from their accustomed
r
ini
place in an up-town s g
, d believing
from the description ven that it was the
one used by the thiev s who re bed the boy,
instituted a search fo the owners, and on
Saturdaynight found Q1:12 inStanton street
andtook them into stody. The boy was
sent for,an n beingfairly confronted with
the men at P 9 dquarters, fully iden
tified them as e Men who had robbed him.
The prisoners are. Daniel Schiff, a German
peddler, aged 24 years, and George Boyce;
also a peddler, aged 27 years,, and a native
of this city. Boyce was recognized, by Terry
as the man who struck him with the pistol
and took from him the satchel containing
the money.
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~None of the money has yet been recovered
by Detective Shangle, nor has he pet sue.
ceeded in finding ,the 'horse and cart. - ; The
prisoners are; confined at Police .lEfea4qaari.
ten awaking further developments in .tit, .
JAPAN.