GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 246
pl EVENING BULLETIN.
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GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOLIDER, Jr.,
7. L. PETHERSTON, I ERNEST C. WALLACE.
THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON.
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• MARRIED. •
ViTARBURTON SHlNN—September sth, am, by
the Rev. J. R. Heal, fir. Wm. T. Warburton, Jr., to
.3k ass Annie P. Shinn, both of this city. No cards. •
DIED.
eltoWWT.T.—Fell asleep In Jesus, this morning, Jan.
-Slat, James Crowell, in the 79th year of his age. Dee
2aotice will be given of the funeral.
FUG uuzl—On the 29th instant, at the residence of
her brother, Stephen Fuguet, 1823 Arch street, Mrs.
Fuguet °ninon. es
GREAISLEY—SuddenIy, on the 28th instant, Grace
lOrne, daughter of Abraham and Sarah Greasley, aged
17 months and 13 days.
The relatives had friends are Invited to attend the
"funeral from the residence of her grandfather, No.
1010 Green street. on Thursday afternoon, at two
o'clock.
NiAL—On the morning of the 80th of Jan., Amos
mill, in the 45th year of his age. •
The relatives and friends, and Paradise Lodge, No.
'125, L 0 . 0. F.. are affectionately invited to attend the
funeral from his late residence, No. 430 North Eighth
-street, on Friday afternoon, at one o'clock. **
'TITHITB MOBBENS FOR SKIRTS.
TY Green Watered Moreena.
6-4 and 64 Green Baize,
White Cloth for Sacks.
__ White Evening Silks.
EYRE do LANDELL, Foarth and Arch.
MPE(ILAy• ROTICEIS.
grHOWARD HOSPITAL. Nos 1518 and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med.
reatment and medicines furnished gratuitously
10the poor. se2B
OFFICE OF THE h ORTIIWESTERN COAL
AND IRON COMPANY, 108 SOUTH. FOUR
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27, 1866.
The. Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company, Election for Officers, and transaction of
,such other bus.nesp as shall come before it, will be held
at its office on MONDAY, the 12th of February neit, at
32 o'clock, M. F. B. HUBBELL,
Jal3l-104 Secretary.
-OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD
COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 00, 1866.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The Annual Meeting of the stockholders of this
Company will be held on TUESDAY, the 20th day of
'February, 1866. at 10 o'clock, A. M., at the SANSOM
SSTREET HALL.
The annual Election for Directors will be held on
_MONDAY, the sth day of March, 1886, at the Office of
the Company, No. 2.35 South Third street.
— ja3l tfe2of EDMUND SMITH, Sec'y.
OPENING OF THEItitWORGA:27,BITILT
by Sohn Roberts, of the
UNION M. E. CHURCH, FOURTH Street, below
ARCH,
THURSDAY EVENING, February 1.
TirThe following organists will perform on the none.
Mon :
JCR. D. D. WOOD, MR. S. S. DOYLE and MRS. E.
MACK.
/The vocal arrangements are very superior.
Tickets 50 cents. No. 56 North Fourth street, or at
the door. Jaz'-s.tu.w,th,9t,rp•
lUD OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND
NAVIGATION COMPANY, PELUADELPILIA.,
)ecember 2181,1868.
LOAN FOR SAME.
IN BUNS TO SUIT PURCHABERS.
The Loan of this Company, doe April let, 1884, inte
enn rest
um. payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent, per
This Loan IS secured by a mortgage on all the Com
pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Blackwater Navigation
in the Lehigh river,and alrtneir Railroacls,constructed
dind to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and
Wilkesbarre, and branch roads con: ected therewith,
and the franchise of the Corn • relating thereto.
Apply to SOLOMON D, Treasarer,
de2l-rpta 122 South Second street.
10. CORRESPONDENCE.
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227 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PECELADRLPRIA, JAR
mary 29. 1866.
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,o .Afr. J. a. Clark, Walnut Street Theatre :
MT DEAR SIR view of the effort which the
Managers of ihe Soldier's Home in the city of Phi's
•vielphia are making to increase their fund for pro.
- viding for the sail= and soldiers who have been dis
abled in our country's service, we would respectfully
:solicit your co-operation in the matter, and world be
happy to receive the benefit of a matinee at the
• Walu.ut Street Theatre, if agreeable to you and at
your convenience.
Very respectfully yours,
ELLERSISE W A T.T. A CE,
President "Soldier's Home."
WA-LNUT STREET THEATRE, DEMADELPHIA, Jan
iiary 30, 18.
MT DEAR 6S
Sm. :—ln reply to your favor of yester
-clay, I beg to say that I cbeerfully comply with your
.polite request, and most respectfully proffer the use of
the Walnut. Street Theatre, and my professional ser
vices for an afternoon performance on Saturday, Feb
-IrUary 10th.
Very respectfully, yours,
J. S. CLARKE.
To Dr. Era.resm - r. WALLACE, President of TIM "Sol
Bier's Home," dkc. It
'Fire at Fort Columbus, Governor's
Island.
On Sunday morning last, at about five
'o'clock, the guard over the building at Fort
Columbus, Governor's Island, discovered
:smoke and flames breaking from the struc
ture known as the Post Library and School
House, a handsome wooden edifice contain
ing an extensive collection of rare and useful
books, and which was much esteemed by
the officers and soldiers of the garrison.
The alarm was instantly given, and all that
-could be done toward the savings of the
structure was done, but without effect, as,
before water could be put upon the
ignited mass the entire house was all
ablaze, and a short time thereafter reduced
to a smouldering heap of cia
ders. No books, maps or other property
- were rescued from the burning. The loss
to the five or six hundred military residents
-of the fort is almost irreparable. There was
:no insurance upon the building or its con
tents. The library and schoolhouse was
•erepted in 1864, 'the fund used in its constrac ,
lion being the accumulated savings of
:several years of the soldiers from their sur
plus rations. It contained a collection of
books upon military, scientific and miscel
laneous subject, of over four thousand
volumes; valued.at $20,000, many rare works
'baying been imported from Europe ex
:pressly for the institution. The origin of
the fire has not yet been ascertained, but a
"board of inquiry is now in session which
may succeed m explaining the present
'mystery.—N, y. Iferalci.
SOIriaLbRN GENERALS.—Southern papers
give the residences of various ex-rebel
~.enerals as follows : Brigadier General
:Joseph Finnegan, who fought and won the
battle of Olustee, is a native of Ireland, but
has been a resident of Fernandina Florida,
- for some years, and owns a plantation near
'that place. He has not received a pardon,
neither has his house and lands been turned
••over to him, which have been converted
into a freedmen's asylum._ He is living
- with a friend at Fernandina. Before
the war General Finnegan was engaged
:in the railroad business with the Hon. D. L.
Yulee. Major General Howell Cobb is com
-fortably fixed on a plantation near Macon.
- General W. L. Brandon is at his home in
Wilkinson county, Mississippi. General S.
'G. French is on his plantation in Washing
ton county. General S. J. Gholson is prac
tising law in Aberdeen, and General E. C.
rWalthall, in. Grenada, Mississippi Briga
-slier Generals N. G. Evans, John K. Jack
tson and Henry B. Jackson are practising
law in Augusta, Ga. General - T. Martin is
ppractising law in Natchez, General W. S.
Neathenton in Holly Springs, General
Robert Lowry in Brandon, General N. H.
Barris in Vicksburg, and General Stephen
31:1 4 . Lee is said to be studying law in Golan:-
'bus, Misssssppi.
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It is understood that a distinguished
English novelist is about writing a story
entitled - "Bleak'. Streets," some of the scenes
of 'which he designs to locate in Philadel
phia: The BULLET/If has - been favored
with an advance copy of the first chapter
which we give below :
Slush in the carriage ways where horses
trudge along throwing up cataracts of liquid
mud at every weary step; slush on the side
walk where pedestrians tramp; slush in the
water courses, which are not, water courses
at all in their anomalous contratriety, and
all because of slush; slush on the wharves;
slush down among the shipping where
despairing stevedores have dismal fits of
an inclination to smother themselves in
slush to escape the all-pervading slop, and
with a general idea of expediting their
slush-impeded work byNimmolating theme
selyes at an altar of slush. Slush tracked
upon great Ships to break the hearts of tidy
stewards and stewardesses and to the con
fusion of cabin furniture; slush mak
ing itself manifest on the boots 'and
the tempers of the skippers of small
craft, who wade - gloomily through the
, •
rivers of slush to mollify their wrath at tht
bar of the tumble-down,worm-eaten,rat- un
dermined and slush-invaded fabric of the
Jolly Boatmen, with its beery and creaky
sign sighing a dismal monody to slush over
a lake of slop beneath. Slush on City rail
'way tracks ; slush, briny slush upon the
City railway tracks; a slush pregnant with
diptheria; a slush eloquent of cold feet; a
slush damaging to draggling skirts. There
is slush in this . public squares, where va
grant squirrels leap timorously among
dank grass like the ghosts of departed ca
pering quadrupeds seeking after treasures
of prudently buried shellbarks. There is
slush at the doors of dwellings to worry the
spirits and the souls of neat housemaids and
to agonize the prudent owners of Brussels
and tapestry carpets. There is slush on the
pave where men and women, born with
decency in their hearts, move forward in the
great labyrinth of life, seeking pleasure and
profit and honors, and encountering a moist
Dead-sea-fruit -realization of slush, slush,
slush! And there is slush upon the gar
ments of men and women who emerged
cleanly and tidily from their decent homes,
like new comers into life, wandering
from Heaven to encounter the slush of
worldly disappointment. But neither upon
boots, upon trousers, nor upon draggled
balmoral, has slush made its mark so
foullyas that other slush that comes ofavari ce,
of meanness, of careless indifference and in
competency which has made its mark upon
human consciences. Slush so deep that
if we could turn casuistic ogres and trudge
over official human souls, we would wade
knee-deep itt lakes and ponds and rivers of
slush.
And thus there ie slush on the brains and
consciences of City Supervisors, who never
supervise; of Commissioners of cleansing,
where there is nothing cleansed; of Super
intendents where there is nothing superin
tended, of the high and mighty professors of
the art of Not Doing It.
Jones knew there• was slush when he
emerged from his comfortable mansion at
the West-end in the morning; Smith ex
perienced slush when he stepped into a
puddle of it on leaving the railway car at
the street corner, and Brown realized slush
when a passing wagon threw a diluted
muddy torrent of sloppy flower pots, cathe
rine-wheels and roman candles over his'
broad cloth and his highly polished calf-
skin. And thus day by day the Joneses
the Smiths and the Browns, and all the res
of us, realize slush ; and so right honorables
and wrong honorables; committees and
commissioners; superintendents and su
perintended; supervisors and supervised,
we endure slush, slush, slush! A slush
that while it defiles the garments and ruffles
the tempers of Jones, Smith, Brown and
the rest of us, sullies the souls, stains the
consciences and deluges with moral slush
the entire race of official knaves and in
competents, and professors generally of tie
art of How not to do it.
The reason that the fire on Delaware ave
nue made such a clean sweep was because
the store where it broke out was filled with
brooms._
Two human arms were found in a bundle
in one of the streets of Chicago, last week.
It is probable that this, as well as the mys
terious finger which came through a hy
drant, in the same city, is explained by the
suggestion of medical students on a lark,
wishing to create a sensation. But then a
lark with two human arms makes a greater
mystery than ever.
The idea that Pharaoh's baker is the
most ancient one known to us is a mistake.
There is the Dodo, for instance.
H. A.Wise calls Dickens, the Shakspeare of
prose. Shakspeare would probably say, if
he had the chance, that H. A. Wise behaved
like the Dickens, during the rebellion.
A broker in New York is undergoing a
law suit for selling stocks at a loss of $52,000
to the owner.. Is not litigation always a
loss-suit?
The council of the Irish Republic calls for
a war at once. Which reminds us of Neal's
" Berry Huckel." " War-ny once ! War
ny twice! War-ny three times!"—and
then, he—jumped over a fire-plug ! •
A young man residing in Lower Merion,
near Philadelphia, in 1865, told an Irishman
to put the saddle and bridle on his horse.
The horse was brought to the door with
the saddle reversed or wrong end foremost.
"What did you put the saddle on that way
for, John?" "An sure sir, I didn't know
which way you were goin'," was the reply.
This is fact, not fancy.
RAFFLES IN Ca - unc.ans.--Rev. Tames P.
Lane, pastor of the Congregational church
in. East Weymouth, Mass., lately resigned
bemuse the members of his church and
society, contrary to his expressed desire,
persisted in' allowing raffling at a fair held
to raise funds for the church. The council
which was called approved his course, and
expressed their thanks to him for his
"manly and Christian stand" in opposition
to Wiling.
Bleak Streets
SLUSH.
Facts and Fancies.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1866
SOUTH CAROLINA,
IMPORTANT ORDER FROM GEN
SICKLES.
Equality of All Inhabitants o
the State.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OP SOUTH
CAROLINA, Jan. 17, 1866.--'GENERAL OR
DERS, No. 1.-1. To the end that civil rights
and immunities maybe enjoyed; that kindly
'relations among the inhabitants of the State
may be established; that the rights anti
duties of the ethydoyer arid the free laborer
respectively, may be defined; that the soil
may be cultivated and the system •of free
labor undertaken; that the , owners of estates
may be secure in 'the possession of their
lands and tenements; that persons, able and
willing to work, may have employment;
that idleness ana vagrancy may be dis
countenanced, and encouragement given to
industry and thrift; and that humane pro
vision may be made for theaged, infirm and
destitute, the following regulations are es
tablished for the government of all concerned
in this Department.
11. All laws shall be applicable alike to
all the inhabitants. No person shall be
held incompetent to sue, make complaint,or
to testify, because of color or caste.
111. All the employments of husbandry
or the useful arts, and all lawful . trades or
callings may be followed by all persons,
irrespective of color or caste; nor shall any
freedman be obliged to pay any tax or any
fee for a license, nor be amenabl.to , any
municipal or parish ordinance, not Imposed
upon all other persons.
IV. The lawful industry of all persons
who live under the protection of the United
States, and owe obedience to its laws, being
useful to the individual, and essential to the
welfare of society, no person will be re
strained from seeking employment when
not bound 'by voluntary agreement, nor
hindered from traveling from place to
place, on lawful business. All combina
tions or agreements which are intended to
hinder, or may so operate as to hinder, in
any way, the employment of labor—or to
limit compensation for labor—or to compel
labor to be involuntarily performed in cer
tain places or for certain persons; as well as
all combinations or agreements to prevent
the sale or hire of lands or tenements, are
declared to be misdemeanors; and any per
son or persons convicted thereof, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding $5OO, or by
imprisonment, not to exceed six months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
V. Agreements for labor or personal ser
vice of any kind, or for the use and occupa
tion of lands and tenements,or for any other
lawful purpose, between freedmen and
other persona, when fairly made, will be
immediately enforced against either party
violating the same.
VI. Freed persona, unable to labor, by
reason of age, or infirmity, and orphan
children of tender years, shall have allotted
to them by owners suitable quarters on the
premises where they have been heretofore
domiciled as slaves, until adequate provi
sion,approved by the Gerieral commanding,
be made for them by the State or local
authorities, or otherwise; and they shall not
be removed from the premises, unless for
disorderly behavior, misdemeanor, or
other offence committed by the head of a
family or a member thereof.
VII. Able-bodied freedmen, when they
leave the premises' in which they may be
domiciled, shall take with them and pro
vide for such of their relatives, as by the
laws of South Carolina, all citizens are
obliged to maintain.
VIII. When a freed person, domiciled on
a plantation, refuses to work there, after
having been offered employment by the
owner or lessee, on fait terms,
approved by
the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, such
freedman or woman shall remove from the
premises within ten days after such offer,
and due notice to remote by the owner or
ccupant.
IX. When able-bodied freed persons are
tit miciled on premises where they have
been heretofore held as slaves,and are not em
ployed thereon or elsewhere, they shall be
permitted to remain, on showing to the
satisfaction of the Commanding Officer of
the Post, that they have made diligent and
proper efforts to obtain employment.
X. Freed persons occupying premises
without the authority of the United States,
or the permission of the owner, and who
have not been heretofore held there as slaves,
may be removed by the Commanding Offi
cer of the Post, on the complaint of the
owner, and proof of the refusal of said freed
persons to remove after ten days' notice.
XI. Any person employed or domiciled on
a plantation or elsewhere, who may be
rightfully dismissed by the terms of agree
ment, or expelled for misbehavior, shall
leave the premises, aad shall not return
without the consent of the owner or tenant
thereof.
XII. Commanding Officers of Districts
will establish within their commands re
spectively, suitable regulations for hiring
out to labor, for a period not to exceed one
year, all vagrants who cannot be advanta
geously employed on roads, fortifications
and other public works. The proceeds of
such labor ;hall be paid over to the Assis
tant Commissioner of the Freedmen's
Bureau, to provide for aged and infirm
refugees, indigent freed people and orphan
children.
XIII. The vagrant laws of the State of
South Carolina, applicable to free white
persons, will be recognized as the only va
grant laws applicable to the freedmen;
nevertheless, such laws shall not be con
sidered applicable to persons who are with
out employment, if.they shall prove that
they have been unable to obtain employ
ment, after diligent efforts to do so. •
xrv. It shall be the duty of officers com
manding posts, to see that issues of rations
to freedmen are confined to destitute per
sons who are unable to work because ofin
firmities arising from old age, or Chronic
di se ases, orphan children too young; to
work, and refugee freedmen returning to
their homes with the sanction of the proper
authorities; and in ordering their issues,
commanding officers will be careful not to
encourage idleness or vagrancy. District
comMandera will make consolidated , re-
liorts.of these issues, tri.monthly.
XV. The proper authorities of the State in
the several municipalities and Districts,
shall proceed to make suitable provision for
their poor, without distinction of color; in
default of which t the General Commanding
Will levy an equitable tax on persons and
Property sufficient for the support of the
•
poor.
i XVL The constitutional rights of all loyal
and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms
- Will not be infringed; nevertheless this shall
riot be construed•to sanction the unlawful
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY
practice of carrying concealed weapons; nor
to authorize any person to enter with arms
on the premises of another against his con
sent. No one shall bear arms who has borne
arras against the United States, unless
he shall have taken the Amnesty oath
prescribed in the Proclamation of the Pre
sident of the United States, dated May
20,1865,0 r the Oath of Allegiance, prescribed
in the Proclamation of the President, dated
December 8, 1863,within the time prescribed
therein. And no disorderly person vagrant,
or disturber of the peace, shall be allowed to
bear arms.
XVII. To secare the same equal - justice
and personal liberty to the,freedmen as to
other inhabitants. no penalties or punish
ments different from those to `which all
persons are amenable, shall be imposed on
freed people; and all crimes and offences
which are prohibited under existing laws,
shall be understood as prohibited in the
caseof freedmen;: and if committed by a
freedman, shall, upon conviction, be pun
ished in the same manner as if committed
by a white man.
XVII L Corporal punishment shall not be
inflicted upon any person other than a
minor, and then only by the parent,
guardian, teacher, or one to whom said
minor isrlawfully bound by indenture of
apprenticeship.
XIX. Persons whose conduct tends to a
breach of the peace may be . requilred to
give security for their good behavior,
and in default thereof shall be held in
custody.
XX. All injuries to the person or property
committed by or upon freed persons shall
be punished in the manner provided by the
laws of South Carolina, for like injuries to
the persons or property of citizens thereof.
If no provision be made by the laws of the
State, then the punishment for such offences
shall be according to the course of common
law; and in the case of any injury to the
person or property, not prohibited by the
common law, or for which the punishment
shall not be appropriate, such sentence shal'L
be imposed as, in the discretion of the Court
before which the trial is had,shall be deemed
proper, subject to the approval of the Gen
eral Commanding.
XXI. All arrests for whatever cause will
be reported tri-monthly, with the proceed
ings thereupon, through prescribed
the
channel, to the General Commanding.
XXII. Commanding :Officers of Districts,
Sub-Districts, and Posta, within their com
mands respectively, in the absencet, of the
duly-appointed agent, will perform any
duty appertaining to the ordinary agents of
the Bureau of Refugees, Fre ed men, and
Abandoned Lands, carefully observing for
their guidance ail orders published by the
Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner,
or other competent authority.
XXJII. District Commanders will enforce
these regulations by suitable instructions to
Sub-District and Post Commanders, taking
care that justice be done, that fair dealing
between man and man be observed, and
therm unnecessary hardship and no cruel
or unusual punishments be imposed upon
any one. By command of Major-General
D. E. Sickles.
Ofricistl: W. L. M. BURGER, Asst.Adj.-Gen
Additional Particulars Regarding the
Bagdad Affair--The Prisoners Cap
tured from Cortina Said to Have
Been Privately Executed--
Mats moras Considered
in Danger---The
Mexican Question
in France, &c.
i From the Matamoros Ranchero, of Jan, 14. J
We have news from the sacked city o
Bagdad up to yesterday morning. So
called filibusters were fortifying the place
against attack from both sea and land. One
hundred bales of cotton are reported to
havo been used for fortification purposes.
Siege guns are also reported to have been
received in Bagdad from Brazos Santiago.
and were already in position for service.
Among those received were two thirty
two pounder rifled guns and some twelve
pounder rifled pieces—number not stated—
besides which there were some smaller guns
included in the Brazos Santiago shipment.
Federal officers had gone in squads to
several foreign residents in Bagdad and
forced them Co make affidavits that the pil
laging of Bagdad had in no wise been done
or participated in by Federal officers or
soldiers, including niggers.
These affidavits are undoubtedly for use
at Washington, where, it is presumed, the
counter affidavits of the same parties, if they I
should have opportunity to make them,
will not go. Very likely a thorough espion
age of the mails may for a 'long time pre
vent the facts touching the pillage of Bag
dad by the federal soldiery reaching
Washington.
The arrival off Boca del Rio of Imperial
vessels from Vera Cruz was reported about
town yesterday.
All that we can say about the matter is,
that there were two war vessels in the ser
vice of France and Mexico lying off the
mouth yesterday morning, whereas the day
before there was but one.
At a late hour last night a despatch, bear.
ing all the marks of reliability, arrived up
from
,below, giving us the satisfactory in
formation that three men of war and four
transports had arrived off the Boca from
Vera Cruz. As firing has been heard in that
direction, probably the work of retaking
Bagdad has been inaugurated.
[From the Matamoras Ranchero, ran. 17.1
We conversed with several passengers
who left Bagdad yesterday morning. They
reported nothing of importance,
Bandit Cortina, with a force of forty men,
had arrived at Clarksville. It was under
stood that he was going to take supreme
command at Bagdad.
There are two separate commands in
Bagdad; one under Colonel Lyon, of the
'federal artily; and the other,one outlaw. We
•were told that only by the two commands
keeping a jealous watch Rikeach other was
there order in the sacked city.
War vessels were in the offing to the
number of three, one having left the day
before' southward bound.
We ' have assurances that the filibusters
and outlaws continue to quarrel among
themselves, and that most of them are
thoroughly discouraged. The prospect is
good for a general breaking up of the tui
holy alliances and combinations which keep
this frontier in constant alarm. • i
Who Pillaged Bagdad? •
The Matamoras .Ranchero discusses this
question editorially; and ,thinks the scheme
was set on foot by.ofticers on the Texas side.
The .Ranchero is bitterly hostile to the
'United States govettunent, he:wever, and'
MEXICO.
allowance must be made for that in estima
ting the importance of its views. Hear
what it says:—
It may be due to the truth of history that
it should be known who did the pillaging
and murdering at Bagdad. To settle that
question we would enquire where the out
laws and filibusters were when it took
place? They were not at Clarksville, nor
Bagdad, and knew nothing of what was
going on. We are well advised that Craw
ford, Escobado, Cortina, and all of them,
were taken as much by surprise as were we
of the Heroic City when hearing the news.
In fact, none of the leading land pirates
would believe it at fast--not until it was a
matter of public notoriety. Thefew second
fiddle thieves that happen to be at Clarks
ville (as indeed, where are not some ofthem
all the while), took a hand in the affair. It
was concocted and perpetrated by officers
of the - United States army, and the negroes
were used by them for' the work. The ne
groes crossed and re-crossed under orders.
There was no such thing as revolt among
them. At all events, this is our conclusion, after
talking with twenty or thirty eye-witnesses
to the whole affair ; - after ascertaining the
whereabouts and movement of the outlaws
and filibusters at the time; after ascertain
ing that the proceeds of pillage went into the
hands of Federal officers.
The chiefs Landes and Paramo havebeen
- routed and killed at Cnitzoo - de la Laguna
by forces raised and equipped by two estate
owners in the neighborhood. Theimperial
ist forces of the Piedad encountered and beat
the Jurists of Berduzco, near the hacienda
of Villachuato, killing six of them, taking
two prisoners and capturing horses, arms
and train.
Reports from the Interior—Rintamoras
Threatened by the Liberals, de,
CAIRO, Jan. 30,1566.—New Orleans papers
of the 24th say the interior Mexican papers
are tilled with accounts ofthe movements of
troops in pursuit of guerillas from the sea
coast to the mountains, and also report the
continuance of summary executions of guer
illas in accordance with the Emperor's de
cree, which were exhausting the people,and
the country was more unsettled than at any
time since the organization of the imperial
government. A plot to overthrow the gov
ernment in the State of Michoacan has been
discovered.
The liberal Mexican paper published in
Brownsville, states that the prisoners taken
from Cortina were executed privately at
Matamoras, and all the prisoners taken at
Bagdad were liberated. Additional forced
loans had been imposed by the authorities
at Matamoras, and all communication with
Brownsville was interdicted.
In consequence of the death of King Leo
pold. the Emperor andlEmpress had re
urned to the palace at Chapultepec.
The Emperor had issued a decree grant
ing to Lamon Zangronize the exclusive
privilege for 75 years of constructing and
working a railroad between Vera Cruz and
Puebla, vio . Jalapa and Perote.
A company has been formed in Tuscany,
with a capital of one million francs. for
the purpose of sending Italian emigrants
to the empire. A portion of the money has
already arrived,and some purchases ofland
made.
Monterey was garrisoned by traitors.
Matamoras being considered in danger
French men-of-war have been ordered there
with a force.
An earthquake was felt throughout Mexi
co on the 13th ult., and was severely felt on
the South American coast on the 15th. The
oscillations were from east to west. The
destruction of the city of Caraccas by an
earthquake was confirmed.
[From the Paris Journal des Debate Jam L2l.
The Mexican Question In France.
What will become•of Mexico? * What can
become of it? Great mystery hidden in the
depths of the future! We seek not to pene
trate it. Only we wish that Mexico had not
become such an embarrassing matter to us
and an obligation originating in a false rsoint
of honor, and we shall hold ourselves fortu
nate if, so far as France is concerned, our
experience, commenced with loyalty and
continued with courage, is conducted and
ended without obstinacy. In science, nega
tive matters, patientlyproved and resolutely
accepted, have as much importance as posi
tive facts. It should be the same in politics.
We recognize, without hesitation, the
grandeur of the problems which the Mexi
can question originates. They are prob
lems of different kinds, and all important.
One problem of political science is: What
time do a people, half doting and half
savage and consumed by anarchy, as are
the people of Mexico, require to restore
order and found its own government? ci
Another problem is : Is the European
population of Mexico sufficiently numerous
to create and sustain a , purely European
government, or is the union of the two
races—the European race and the race of
mixed blood—sufficiently progressed so
that this nation, half Spanish and half In
dian, may be capable for its part of creating
'and sustaining a government analogous to
its elements ?
The problems of political ethnology are
not less interesting. Should the Latin race
watch with jealousy the expansion of the
Germanic' race in America? Should it
seek to counterbalance it at every price? Is
it for us—that is, France—whose origin is
half Latin and half Germanic, to forcibly
maintain this difficult equilibrium? If the
Latin race has the same power of expansion
as the Gernianic,let it show it by individual
effort. Let it emigrate; let it colonize. It is
by activity and endurance that each nation '
expands and occupies a larger portion of the
space on which the sun shines. If, on the
contrary, the Latin race has not the gift of
expansion; if it is more domestie and less
adventurous, is it to replace emigration by I ouLeitEn TIDE DAY
armed expeditions? Is it to make conquests- Schr W P Phillips, Somers, Port Royal, captain.
in place of colonies? Is it obliged to carry Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.
cannon, ever and everywhere because it LEWEt3. DEL., Jan. tts--ii A hf.
knows not how to manage the plowshare? caar ri ies
ii r o e w r be a from New
for Cardenas;
Benr;:do for Marseilles ; o Zstebwrs°Stirs; brig Charles
What a sanguinary and devastating mission
it takes to itself. And, still again, is it for Boston. Minn vhoon; from New York. bot f i g . Plail l a c - t
s zt t s e
f l o teppller, from Boston for Norfolk:
us—is it for France to be the instrument of VL l ter a
this bloody vocation? In truth, we are and Tilt. front 'Wil-lanelgal%rY;l:s":gr.k?hruta
Elizabeth & Ellen, from New York for ' zieurbern, a ar d e
worth More than that, and we cannot con
demn ourselves to be the Janizaries 'of Kre r a in t o k 3 jil r e e e l c` ?
ater. Brig J H Dillingham, from
up this morning. It sst er nano-
Latinism, tab, for toe Pacific, and brig Tiberias, for Clenfbe ac gos c .
went to sea yesterday. Ship Lancaster, for Antwerp,
They tell us.of the aggrandisement andbelow the Buoy on the Brown in out. Wind E.
ambition of the United States, and of the NE. -J. mi V.D zusabN.
terrible and mighty shock that is to occur 0 A
between America and Europe. Europe warlv Sblp Chlefton (of Phlittilelphia)73i G e. i-5 days
culpable and impolitic in not profiting by, from San Francisco, arrived atN York c ll:i r is Zorning, .
the aid which it fbund in us. Besides, it has steamer Asia (Br), Anderson. cleared at Boston yes
abandoned us to ourselues from the begin - , St " . I.c e ' ; Lglvc:rg° .via Halifax.
Wylie.. cleared as
ning of the struggle. .., .., i..% New York yesterday for Liverpool via Portland.
Im e lzer r een costar, 'Beckett, cleared at New - York.
After showing the impenetrable uncer
tainty which hangs over the future of Steamer' aa r ledVninkr) Perrier, clea4iit..N:Yori.'
Mexico, despite the thousand ingeniou s zest sztri
an eraar trau for ber efiesso nian w atr . ;. Du i ton.o . o3x li tmpow , sla
theories and the thousand brilliant twist- _to evrry and Portland. at, Newl . ark./..esterdaY--:
ings given to it, let us try to see the serious isz pass , ..
and actual dangers which threaten , French 2 . l B dt e ral nt ~e li g icv. .s a n . l7B 2 t a t 3r i l lit tel e- r fmrcf k .e., /4141 " ft "ns' a - ,
policy in America, and which make us wish
__ltailitriiiicaiii; -- iff - p i ll ttvra .1.077'.1",erii"- - a Ala . : -,-.-*:,.
that
of government would take one or the JALeire, at...,PerpsebtleozAthalt:...,A, ~..'''-'.". '' •
tith e
of these resolutions—either to boldl • ' g 4 " l ' c l ar '' vi, f"'"-.•.vg - dig Pert.
St• ' , with a casgo stotat_ant salt. -strived 401 U Tkonum
augment our army of occupation in Mexico anti inst. eialmfax*Vrted ) -V=eaky° 4 dlt'l"'
in order to prepare against adjacent perils , , bs* ....lirlirTro. rs .4(pan. i . /*** tt . tcot. ct, , 'at
,eeryoric yr., .7 ,
'or to take counsel as to, the most - 4Ettitable 775airrje7 . 11=73e 4 , 3 ,..A4, "-t iiii44 l 4 4 i,rlo -
and most prompt means for the evacuation z terdaYiSt.thisPort= -..."..... "...... • .'-' 'Z... 7 ,- - '' - '
of a eeentry,where we eie,de ee it e an y ~,,,,,i„,. ,- ' BehrZolittßertituxt; mvau.o4`mated "topirr.man.cn 1 6. ,
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DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS
subjected to the alternative eitherUf doing
everything or doing nothing at all.
(Prom the Harrisburg Telegraph:];
The Founder of the Capital of Pennsyl-
vania.
There seems to be something so just inthe
suggestions of the following communica
tion, that we cannot refrain from givingit
place in our' editorial columns. John Harris
is not merely entitled to remembrance as
the founder of. Harrisburg, but as one of
those who helped to extend the limits of a
great Commonwealth and open the path to
empire and prosperity for the generations
which come after him, he deserves honora
•ble mention in_ history, and his name is
worthy of being perpetuated , by a monu
ment. It would be as little as the Repre
sentatives of theipeople of the State could
do, in honor of the capital thereof, to .erect
fa monument to the memory of its founder.
But it may be deemed indelicate for us; to
urge the proposition too strongly, and we
therefore leave it to be treated by one who,
while he iejnot a citizen or Harrisburg; be
lieves it is the duty, of the State, as much as
it was in the case of Corn Planter,.to erect
a monument over the remains of John
Harris. i•
,Editor of the Telegraph: I have frequently
resolved. while sojourning in Harrisburg,at
various periods, to call public attention , to
the fact that the marked neglect with which
the lastresting place of one of the pioneers
of civilization,.who•helped to create Ameri
can nationality, is treated, is disgraceful to
the people of Pennsylvania. John Harris
now sleeps on the banks of theSasquehanna
in a grave unmarked save by the hallowed
recollections - which cluster around his
memory; and while this neglect has been
suffered to continue for years under the im
mediate observation of the Legislature,
without an offer to rescue the grave of the
great pioneer from neglect, only a few days
since the same official body appropriated
f , ,500 to erect a monument over the grave of
Corn Planter, an Indian chief, who had ren
dered some service to the Colonies during
the Revolutionary war. I have no objection
to offer to this, willing to admit that Corn
Planter deserves a monument. But Ido in
sist, as a citizen. of Pennsylvania, that the
State Government owes it to its character of
justice, after the precedent made in the case
of the Indian chiefalso to erect a monument
over the grave of John Harris. A thousand
dollars would defray all the expenses of
erecting a suitable monument, which, while
it rendered all proper honor to the memory
of one of the fathers of the Commonwealth.
would also reflect crediton the gratitude and
appreciation of the rulers of the State.
V. L. B.
Jones House, Harrisburg, Jan. 25, 1866.
MYSTERIOUS MURIYFIRSi AT SEA.—A few
days since we received a brief account of the
loss of the brig Neva, of East Machla ,,
St. John's bar, Florida, the mard.
commander, Captain Talbot.
other murders, but the stateni , 1 ,
mysterious that we could. nutl.•
any one had been murdered *l.!
advices are not more satisfactory. The , •
sel had a pilot on board, and while attempt-
Ito cross the bar, inward bound, was
wrecked, and all but the second mak: and
two men who took to the boat and landed,
perished. Subsequently the body of Capt.
Talbot drifted ashore, and was found
gashed with wounds; the body of
the pilot had marks of violence on the head,
and the body of a woman, supposed to
have been a passenger, was picked up at
the same place, and all three weri interred
near the shore. The second mate has beer
arrested and sent to Savannah for esqm ina
ten. By all the accounts we have seen, we
cannot conceive what motive the survivors
could have had to murder the pilot, who
must have been a stranger to them, nor is
there any reason why they should have
killed the Captain just as the vessel was en
tering a port where detection was almost
certain. There may have been a row about
obtaining possession of the boat when the
vessel stranded, and this is the only theory
we can conceive for violence under the cir
cumstances.—Boston Traveller, Jan. 29.
.SLTIDEN DEATH OF A FATHER AND SON.
—Mr. Charles H. Haines, clerk of the Cir
cuit Court of Cecil county, Md., died very
suddenly on Tuesday morning last, of
typhoid fever. His father, Mr. Joseph
Haines, who was acting as clerk in the
office, also expired very suddenly of pneu
monia on the same morning, but a few
hours after the death of his son. These
gentlemen were efficient and accommo
dating officers, and their sudden deaths.will
be mourned by many friends, both in pub
lic and private life.—Elizton Democrat.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NEW JERSEY
CENTRAL RAILROAD.—On last Friday night,'
between seven and eight o'clock, as Mr.
Zabriskie was riding in his wagon, driving ,
a pair of horses, and while crossing the
track on the New Jersey Central Railroad,
near Cranberry station, the horses got
frightened at an approching train, and
upset the wagon, throwing the occupant out
on the track, and before he could get clear
the train of cars passed over him, killing
him instantly.
6,rattilj3•:ll)./tIVDit-lj
FORT OF PHIL.ADIELYECLA—JANtwax 31
mar Sea hfarine Bulletin on Third Ripe.
ARRIVED THIN DAY
Steamer Eastern City, Monday, M hours from New
York, with mdse to PP. Clark. At 4j PM, yesterday,.
off Brandywine Light. saw ship . Merrimac, hence for
Liverrmol, In tow of tug America; same time saw a
berm brig coming up; hark A W Sin_gletOn. far Mar
seilles, was at anchor off Fourteen .Veet•riank; two
barks unknown. and brig S V Merrick, from Havana,
and three schooners were at anchor off the Buoy on
the Middle
TON. PalMw