GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 252 EVENING BULLETIN. PIII3LISHED TEARY EVENING, (Sundays excepted) at No. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia BY TUB "Evening. Bulietin Association PROPEMISTOBI3. crrssoN PEACOCK i CASPER SCHEER, Sr., '2'. L. PETHERSTON, I ERNEST 0. WALLACE. THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON. • The Briararrix is served to subscribers in the c cents per week, payable to the carriers, or f 8 pet annum. - NN7ET.BEERBir—KILLEN— In Dover. on the lath zdt., by Bev. T. B. Bradford, Charles P. Wetherby, Esq., Clerk of the Delaware State Senate, to Mies An gelica B. Killen, daughter- of Timothy C. Killen, Esq., all of Dover. DIED. Add A DDICKS—On the evening of tho 6th Instant, Mar- M' M. garetta , i youn In ges the et d 9th ugh year of ter ofJoh her n E. . and Margaretta The relad , vea of the family are invited to attend the' funeral on Friday morning next, at 11 o'clock. from No, 1102 Girard street. ss RELBOSE—On the 4th install% in the 18th year of his age, Harry Belrose,soa of Louis and Julia Belrose. The relatives and friends of the family are respeetr fully Invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday afternoon, the 7th instant, at 3 o'clock, from residence No. 2003 Green street. . *. • CREAN —On the .6thinstant, Mrs, • Margivet lCrean. ss BUMM—Suddenly, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Hannah Bumm.in the 19th , year.of her age. • The relatives and friends of the family are re epectfnily invited to attend her funeral, from her late residence, No. 1111 Marlborough street; on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, without further notice. * ROWLAND—EarIy on the morning of Feb. sth, Benjamin, youngest child of Benjamin and Virginia L. Rowland,•aged (6)' six years. • The reiatiVes' and frignds are invited to attend his Mineral from the residence of his father, Cheltenham, Montgomery county, on Thursday, 9th instant, at two o'clock. Interment at Trinity uhurch-yard, ;ord. * • SOMERS—Feb. sth, 1866, Charles Edward Somers, eon of Wm. E. and. Sallie Somers, aged .2 years, 5 months and 3 days, .after an illness of two weeks. The funeral will take place on Thursday, Feb. Bth, at 2 o'clock, from - the residence of his grandfather, Chalkley Somers; No. '2604 Green •street. The rela tives and friends of the family are respectiblly In vited to attend, without further notice. • • as St YTH—On the sth instant, at his residence in Wilmington, Del, David Smyth, in the 84th year of his age. Funeral on the Bth instant, to leave the house at 12 o'clock. . WATSON— On the sth instant, William Inman Watson, of Burlington, New Jersey, in the 72d year of hie age WHITF .111031EENS FOR SKIRTS, Green Watered Moreena. 6-4 and 5-i Green Baize, White Cloth for Sacks. White Evening Silks. EYRE & LANDF.r,r, Foarth and Arch. SPECIAL NOTICES. 117 HOWAR D HOSPITAL. Nos. 1518 and 12320 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med treatment and medicines ihrniahod gratuitously Soithe poor. se2B cfiZTHE "AMERICAN" SYSTEM—ITS CLAIMS AND FEATUERS.—A. Lecture explanatory e ' satue, with the German TWE.NTY-ONE FEET CHART, by C. C. Schaeffer, Professor of the German Language. in the U .versity , of Pennsylvania,: to be given itt, HORTICULTURAL HALL S. W. corner Broad and Walnut streets, on THURSDAY, February Sth, , ,at quarter before eight o'clock, P. H. Ad/minion RS cextte. Tickets may be had at Zieber's, 106 South Third street. fe7-Iti OFFICE OF THE LEHI COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, GH PHILAD/r.LPMA, i5.,51 - ..amber 21st, 1885. IN SUMS TO bun' PURCHASERS. The Loan of this Company, due April let, 1881, inte rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent. per att This r,catut is secured by a MortfaiT on all the 0310.- t in tle 's ( "a l i a riZ,2l l d' a .l . llll s 3tacihroalr,gansifttialt and to be constructed, between Manch Chunk and Wilkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith, tared the franchise of the Company relati n g thereto. Apply to SOLOMON uHFrHF,RD,..Treasurer, de2l-rptfs . 122 South second street. • It— CONCERTHALL.— - COURSE OF LECTURES By SOCIAL, WV1.1.. and STATISTICALTam .ASSOCIATION. Feb. Bth—FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Subjece Assassination and its Lessons: , Feb..l.sth—WM. LLOYD GARRISON. Feb. o.4—Gen. CARL SCHURZ. SubJEct—" The Problem or the Day." March Ist—Mrs. F. E. W. HARPER Subject — "TheNation'sGreat Opportunity." March Bth—Prof WM. H. DAY. 11 March 157-Hon. WM. D. KELLEY. MISS E. T. GREENFIELD ' (The Black Swan), has kindly volunteered to fuknlsh appropriate music on each evening. - - Tickets for Course, $1 50. Single tickets 35 cents. • Doors open at 7. Lecture to commence at 8 To be had at T. B. PUGH'S Book Store, Sixth and Chestnut. • fe7- 2trps NOTICE.—HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIE TY,The Second Concert of the Season will i li l iTS; l BT,L e 924447111 D At"V alTsg l eerr ebriu will L7ke no tice that, in consequence of the PUBLIC BEBE A_R SAL taking place on THURSDAY AFTERNOON. the CONCIIHT will be on FRIDAY NIGHT; there fore, all Subscribers' Tickets dated Fep. 8, are to be used on Friday night. All subscribers that wish t o avoid the crowded house on Friday night can use their tics eta at the Rehearsal. 'The public will be ad mitted to the General , Rehearsal on Thursday after noon, Feb. 8; doors open at one o'clock—to commence at two o'clock preclsely. • All members of the Society will be punctually on the platform before two o'clock. Doors will be opened on Friday evening at 63.i' o'clock. and Concert to commence at-7.5i. As the Concert will be over before 10Y; o'clock, it. Is requested that the audience will remain seated until the close. Librettas amend e Oratorio, containing- the Life of Mendelssohn xplanatory remarks, will be on sale at the Muslc Stores and at the Hall. Competent ushers will be In attendance to seat the audience. -Admission to the Rehearsal • —...... cents.. oncert_ A limited Contest ed number o Tickets will be on alba at R W. R. TRUMPLEIVrS, Seventh and Chestnut streets; LEE & WALKER'S, Chestnnt, above Seventh, and at W. H. BONER ' S , Chestnut street, above Eleventh. By order of the Music Committee. • -feS-3t/ U, 277 SOUTH FOURTH, STREET, Permansi, Para, Feb. 5, 1866. To Dr. /soßraT E. ROGERS, Professor of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania: Dker.Sm.:—A number of ladies and gentleinen, who listened with great pleasure and Interest to the lecture delivered by you at the Academy of Music on the 17th alt., in aid of the "Soldiers' and Sailor's Home" of oar city. - have expressed a very earnest wish and hope that you would give another address, in continuation of the subjects brought forward by you on that occa sion. -Thetopics introduCed by you are of so attractive a nature, and, of such educational Interest; and your illtuitrations so masterly and elegant, that 'we do most earnestly desire a .repetition of that most agreeable evening's entertainment. Very respectlully, Yours, ELLERSI.m WAL LAOE, . . • - President "Soldier's Roma." UigivErtsrry or Pe., Phila., Feb. 6, 1866. To Da. E7.T.V171511,-P W4k.L.Lmni, . : . President "Soldiers' Horne., &c." Dgan. Sin: Your complimentary note of yesterday, is received. Permit me to say that it has given me great gratification to learn that thelecture wha I had the pleasure of delivering on the 17th ult., forteh benefit of the "Soldiers' Home" has been acceptable. In addition to the satisfaction which I feel in contri buting my small, share to the gad cause.is the plea sure which I have had in being greeted by so large an auditory as that assembled on the above occasion, to witness the familiar exposition of soma of Nature's truths. It will give me pleasure to continue the suilect"A 4Glance at the World we Live In "—on the Evening of MONDAY, February Is. . , Very respectfully - it! • •- ' ROBERT E. ROGERS. . . SMEGOTANO ON ,THE FLORIDA COAST.- The Commissioner of Customs at Washing ton on Saturday received intelligence from an agent of the Treasury Department, sta tioned on the coast of Florida, to the effect that the smugglers axe very active in that locality. The agent, during the war, was in the navy and on blockade duty along that coast, and he states that most of the vessels now engaged in the smuggling business were blockade run Recently a vessel was overhauled at Rey'West by the collector at that point, which was found to be heavily laden with imp orted goods,on which the dat3r had not been paid, and the collector com pelled the master to pay duties on the cargo, amounting in the aggregate to $2,30. ' _The Couunisslonerhits sent down another officer, who was on blockade duty on that :coast; darin the war, with a view to assist in bringing some of these offenders to justice: THERE are four hundred ah dsevent-thiep. money ;order "offices in the Pest Offfeepe-, inirtment of the United States. • ' , . ' ""-• • - . ;- • ••: 7 7 .-•;- -• • - "":- . - 7 -- - - , - • - r" -- '". - -' ' - , 1 ::: . - /-;"" :.. J" , ;: 1 77- . . - ....'..: .•:-: : 2 l'^ -- ' , , .- --- ‘. , " L .. - ;-"-` l' i '•--- --- '. l :'• - i - ' -c ,,' ~,-: : ''.. '-•-.' '''' "'.- ''-'.- . . .. , . .-, .... ......-.,. . -........-....., ,_. -_ .- .. -- . ... .. . _._. , . . : • . , . . . • .' '-, : . ..•-• . . , ~ - , , . . , . • , ..-;:-,'''.• - ,1... 1 " 4-: '' - ''•. ' • - ' '- ; ... •• .. . • _ -•- • , . . . - . , • • , ... • . . ' ''''' ' - ••• 1 .?•-i0:•.::- • ..?.. .f..-L. -. ' -... , . ; . . A *\.. 4 :- . 1: ..:••••'•-• •• . -• ~ •-• % • ; • • ~.,....-,....,••:, ••.', • - „.. . . . .... . .. . . ._ . .. "Ittsrroirr OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.'—We, are happy in being able to announce that one so well fitted to the task as Hon. Wm. H. Herndon, of Springfield, 111., Mr. Lin coln'slaw partner from 1844 to the time of, his death, is preparing for the press an au thentic history of the life of his old friend. Mr. Herndon has delivered three lectureslon different phases of the character of our late ! President; all of the deepest interest, ex-,. tracts from which have been very thoroughly disseminated through the country by the newspaper press, with marked commenda tion, and these of course will be embodied in this new work. In order to prepare himself more perfecily for this labor of love, Mr. H., has visited Menarcl county, Illinois, and various other localities, rich in Incidents connected with the early life of the distinguished man, and has collected•many facts known only to the few; which will place the noble martyr higher in the estimation of lire world th.lur ever before. No one could be better qualified for the work than this gentleman. His in timate business relations with the deceased, for the 'last twenty years, have given him more know ledge of his inner life, habits of thought, sayings and doings, than almost any other marl living, and he will therefore be able to produse a work full of interest and valrie. Mr. Herndon and Mr. Holland, as the Eastern and Western biogitaphers of Mr. Lincoln, will furnish us with two contem poraneous histories of our great 'President, which will undoubtedly form the chief basis upon which the historian of the future will build his more philosophical and exhaustive work. "Guy Deverell," by Mr. Le Fanu, just published by Harper & Brothers, is a capital novel. Its predecessors, Uncle Silas and "Wylder's Hand," have achieved a high reputation for their author, which will be still enhanced by this last effort, which we regard as a better literary production than either of those we have named. Mr. Le Fanu belonged to what may be fairly called the best modern sensational school. His plots have always an air of weird mystery about them, but never the wild absurdity of exaggeration into which the inferior representatives of this class of writers de light too plunge. We heartily recommend "Guy Deverell," as an exciting and Most readable novel. For sale by T. B. Peterson Et Brothers. "Simplicity and Fascination" is a capital - domestic novel,reprinted-from the English edition, by Loring, Boston. The authoress Anne Beale, hasi laid her"scene in a small market town of England. She haa grouped together a charming,set of characters, sus taining the plot and the 'various incidents of ithe story with much skill, and weaving into it the best possible lessons of home-life, There is nothing startling or sensational in the book, but- the interest of the narrative never fiags and its denbuement is pleasant and satiafactory. For Sale by Ashmead da Evans. Walker, Fuller, ct Co;, Boston, have pub lished the fourth and last volume of their " Youth's _History of the Rebellion," by W. M. Thayer. The third volume brought us down to massacre at Fort Pillow, and the present one oompletes the record of the rebellion, with the capture of - Jeff. Davis. The whole series forms a very accurate and lively narrative of the war, and will be very populta. with our American juveniles For sale byßmith, English ek Co. • Margery Swindling. As long as credulous people are ready to be swindled, there will be rogues .ready to swindle them, and the public press is con stantly called upon to expose the various processes by which ignorant and gullible people are relieved of their money. We publish below a letter received by a poor woman in this city, who has been fleeced out of ten dollars by the tempting bait of a prize in a lottery. We' exposed a similar case a few months ago, which was detected in Pittsburgh.' The letter, which is a care fully lithographed circula and not a menu script, as it at . first seems tcr be; explains :itself. It is accompanied by the ticket re • ferred to, and 'a circular • purporting to be 'the official catalogue of prizes drawn, in chiding, of coarse, the .number of the ticket with which the' hook is •haited. The poor woman, whose address had been obtained by some of the accomplices in the scheme, remitted her ten dollars, and of course, that is the last she hasheard of her investment. The publication of: the case may possibly save others from similar losses. . SECRETARY'S OFF/OE OF THE MUTUAL PROTECTIVE UNION, HARVARD, N. H., January 17, 1866.—Y0u will see by the Cat ' alogue that the ticket you hold has drawn a prize of $2OO. If you will tell no one, and Ballow my in ; utructions, you can obtain a part, or the whole of the Prize. • This money does not come •out of my pocket, nor even pass through my hands, but comes to you direct from the Treasurer's Office; but I shall expect ybn to show your "Greenbacks" to your friendg, and sell all the tickets you can for me in future distri butions, as all the benefit I derive is a com mission upon all tickets sold through my office. • - ' I •To obtain :this Prize 'llfoney, you niust have a' eceipt from ' the 'T.rustees, to show that your ticket has-been...paid : for: To get one write me :a letter . dated -TO-DAY, and enclose $lO for one half, or sge for the whole, being sure to state in your letter tile number ;of each Treasury note or -- Bank : . bill you send; also, to - write, your name,_ yourself, one . corner of the back Of each to . avoid • auepicion, and prevent the return:of your :money and - urder , ; dishonored the Trustees. Be very careful what you write .es I have ;to open all letters I receive before the Board ;of Trustees,and theyfinding the DATE 01' !YODEL DETD aricj.!money correct, will send ;you a,recerpt that: .will:. swam t0. 7 .Y0u. the moneyyour ticket ; has drawn. '---Aii. # ool * E gc.7.*kedel*Ao',l3tilatirees' ' cbiriA you ; forward , . your ticket ,to the t reastrer''arid • 1:611 . 1110,1' ; to. what . eapreeti l . . - NEW PUBLICATIONS. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEB office to send your prize money, you Will deliver the Trustees' Receipt to the express,' who will return it to the treasurer to show that the prize has been paid. Hoping that you will not betray my con fidence in you, and that you will sell many tickets for me, I am Your friend, CHARLES:A. GRANT. Report on Taxing. United States Seen. Mr. S. S. Hayes, one of the United States Revenue Commissioners, has submitted a minority report to the Secretary of the' Treasury in favor oflevying a special perms-; nent tax on the incomes of the United States. securities. The majority of the Corrunis sloners do not accede to this proposition. In support of his recommendation, Mr. Hayes presents numerous statistics to show that the bonM of the United States are able to bear taxation and still pay a higher in terest than the securities in England. He argues that the power of Congress to impose such a tax is complete. Government Secu rities being exempted by law only from State arid * municipal taxation, and the in come thereof being in fact taxed by existing laws. He then proceeds to inquire whether justice and sound policy demand that they should'., be further taxed. An abstract of Mr. Hayes' argument is subjoined. It is necessary first to consider the pecu niary condition of the country. Business being. wholly carried on under the legal tender system, has no fixed standard of values. The effort to return to a specie basis on the plan generally suggested, will produce a convulsion, and be attended with inevitable injustice. Both might be avoided ho providing for the redemption of the legal tender currency at its actual value in specie. If a legal dollar is worth only 68 cents, that sum may be paid extra in a less amount of the former coin or in a new coin of the same value as the legal dollar. In this way no change will be made in existing contracts. "I suppose "says Mr. Hayes, "the Govern ment paper dollar might be left as now, a legal tender for debts, and be made con vertible into new coin at the Treasury, upon presentation, and the whole work will have been done, without injustice, without in jury to individuals, without lessening the revenues, without retarding for one moment the grand development of the material in terests of the American people. "Should the other alternative be resorted to, and continued, that of adding arbitrarily, either at once or by successive steps to ex isting indebtedness, we have reason to fear the most disastrous effects upon trade, com merce, and the general welfare," The probability of the adoption of one policy or another, in respect to the standard of values:and the natural effect of different policies on the resources and industry of the country, are necessary elements to be considered m connection with measures of taxation. Other elements of the calculation are the resources of the country and the present forms of taxation. The present internal revenue system is unequal and burdensome in its operation; that articlesof consumption are taxed from 25 to 50 per cent. of their value. State taxes are added, but from these taxes the United States bonds are exempt--introducing a large element of in equality. The real and personal property in the United States- is estimated at $18,000,000,000, of which A 500,000,000 hire Government - securities, and - not taxable by State authority. The fact of thin exemption causes irritation everywhere, which may be removed by a tax levied by Congress, :Moreover, the operation of the indirect taxation of the internal revenue system and the tariff; is not adjusted Ac cording to the ability of the tax payers or the value of the property taxed, but in versely. Hence the necessity for a modifi cation of these systems. The revenue system should not - be abandoned at pnce, but modified and ameliorated to the greatest possible extent. But in the end the whole system should give place to a better; viz: direct taxation on the assessed valuation of property throughout the United States. The Constitution forbids 'this, requiring direct taxes to be laid in proportion to num bers; and an amendment of the Constitu tion, to as to allow taxation in proportion to Property, is therefore advocated. That being, done,-all indirect taxation should be swept away,and direct taxation substituted. A moderate excise on one or two articles, and a moderate tariff, purely for revenue, might be continued for a term of years, yielding $150,000,000 per annum, in ad dition to which a direct tax of 1 per cent. would yield, with the others p2o,ooo,ooo—enough to pay all interest and expenses, and add $50,000,000 a year to the sinking fund. "A general system of indi rect taxation, on as large a scale as ours, will either be abandoned for a better, or it will reduce the masses to pauperism and dependence, and build up a moneyed aris tocracy, who i will obtain and keep control of the politics and Government of the ccerntry. The ultra result will be revo liitioxi, or the loss by the people of the right of suffrage, and the overthrow of republican institutions." The argument is summed up as follows: 1. Our debt is not excessively large com pared with our means of payment. The interest paid is ,unreasonable and extrava gant. 2. For want of further taxes upon the property in the public securities, the most glaring and tremendous inequality and in justice exist, to the advantage of a special class, who hold free ofpublic burdens one sixth of the whole of the property in the United States, and to the injury and irritation of nearly all the tax-payers and voters in the country, who have the power to obtain: justice through • the ballot-box,. and will have the opportunity of using that power in less than three years. A tax of about 1 per cent. on the property in those securities wouildietlualize, to a satisfactory extent, the entire -present amount of taxation on the accumulations, the real and personal estate of all property. owners. 3. There is no contract, moral obfigations, or law, which forbids the imposition of that tax. 4. It is required by other considerations of public pplic3r of the most weighty character. To the objection that the proposed tax would impair the public credit, it is replied ;than it would strengthen it by removing doubts as to the length ' of time during which the people will submit to unequal taxation, and by making the debt no longer a source of irritation; prejudice and hatred, because its owners are a privileged class. The testi mony of various persons is adduced in sup ,port of the proposition to tax, and a form of ;bill is submitted,, levying.. a -tax .on the in come derived froth United States securities, 'and owned at the .time of the passage of the act; by any person residing in the United States, or by any citizen of the United States residing abroad, eqbal to one per cent, of the principal of the said securities : or indebted- ales; thiliroceeds thereof ttihe held and'aph iTed izill'a 't r # t fi t * u . f :Pr:o*.PEol 3 4cinP of We orn. WHOLE bOINTRY THE ADAMS EXPRESS ROBBERY. Detectives at Work... Another "Pile of Gold" Recovered•..Tbe Way the (4.lme was Committed...An Impudent Attempt at a second Robbery. During the course of the trial at Bridge port, Conn., of Clark, tale young man im plicated in the recent Adams Express rob bery, a large force of detectives have been at work guarding both sides of the railroad for a distance of nearly twenty-five miles. Their labors have been rewarded by the recovery of another extensive pile of gold, which has been duly turned over to the Express Company. It appears that suspi cious persons, as well as persons speculatins on the chance of finding some of the scattered treasure, have been met at various times by officers and warned to quit the neighbor hood, an, admonition which has, in most cases, been effective. It is possible that other- persons more directly interested in the robbery may be arrested in the course of a few days. It is supposed that old and experienced thieves were engaged in the first part of the robbery; that they threw gold aside, put the less available property into the hands of Tristram, and planned so as to benefit by the gold themselves. - Such a scheme has been most remarkably un successful. the Adams Express Company appear, fully determined to pursue the thieves until they are all caught and pun ished, even if it should cost more, than is recovered. They propose, in connection with this case, to make an investment for safety in the future to public and private property. Perhaps the boldness with which crimes are committed at the present time may be illustrated by an attempt which was made on Monday to steal the small safe containing a large amount of money and articles used in evidence during the trial last week, from the ante-room of the Court, at Bridgeport. The thief was frustrated in his design, how ever, by a detective, who found the safe lodged in a position convenient for imme diate removal. The person suspected of this transaction was seen about the Court previous to the finding of the safe but was subsequently lost sight of,—N. Y. Tribune. Interesting Archaeological Discoveries About Rome. A letter from Rome in anEnglish journal says: "The little town of Civita Lavinia, btiilt on the ruins of Leal:min m,has during the recent autumnal months amply re warded the researcues of Signor Alava!, one of the principal proprietors of the place, whose residence is situated precisely on what are considered to be the ruins of the Temple of Juno, In excavating a portion of this locality, more, perhaps, for the foun dations of a new house than with any ex pectation of treasure trove, Signor Augoni discovered some massive pilasters and arches of peperino stone, two chambers, one of which was adorned with mosaic pave ment, and a quantity of architectural sad sculptural fragments, besides an interesting inscription indicating the resto ration ofthe ancient theatre. But the most valuable discovery was that of a colossal statue of the Emperor Claudius, two metres and fifty-two centimetres high without the base, wb if is fourteen centimetres high. The figure is upright, resting on the right leg, and is draped with a great cloak, which, falling over the left shoulder, leaves the breast naked. Its dignified 'position well suits the type of Jove, under whose at tributes the Emperor is represented, with a crown of oak leaves on his head and the eagle at his feet. The hands, which, with the arms, a portion of the drapery, and the upper part of the eagle, are unfortunately missing, undoubtedly beld'some emblems of the power of the father of the gods. "The statue appears to have been an ciently restored, but it was never completely finished behind, from which circumstance it ip• to be inferred that it originally occupied a niche, as the front parts are worked to perfection. The features especially are transcribed with marvelous accuracy and fidelity, and serve by their exp . ression to confirm all that ancient historians have transmitted to us respecting the stupidity of the Emperor Claudius, or whom a more faithful portrait cannot be found in any of the sculpture galleries of Rome." The same correspondent writes : " Thei Appian' Way has again been exca vated at the spot known as Santa Maria Nuova, at the expense of Count Michael. Tieskiewicz, who has been rewarded by the discovery of a draped statue of considerable merit. In uncovering a tomb, interesting on account of its interior distribution, a mosaic pavement was revealed represent '. ing a very uncommon subject, that of a skeleton reclining on a couch, with the inscription, in • Greek.- letters, which I Socrates formerly observed on the facade !of the temple of Apollo at Delphos, Gaothi eeauton, and said was the most valuable instruction he had obtained from I that oracle. Near the same spot colossal fragments of architectural ornaments, sup% !posed to have belonged to a splendid tomb of the Antonine period, have been brought to light, as well as a quantity of objects of. minor interest. Count 'lleskiewica is not desirous of profiting personally by the re searches, as he has already expressed his intention of offering his mosaic to one of the public museums at Rome, and of plae ing the large fragments, of frieze, dm, as ornaments .to the Via Apple. The Count ;some time ago made important researches and purchases in Egypt,and the objects he collected at that period are now in the gal lery of the Louvre at Paris.'? From Montana. Captain Nicholas Wall arrived in the city tFriday, from Virginia City, Montana Terri ;tory, which place be left on the 6th of Jan leery. As, he came by way of Salt Lake City, Denver, Atchison and St. Joseph, the time allowed, himself shows that he did not loiter by the way. He brings with him some specimens of theproducts of that Ter ritory, in the shape -of rich. gold-veined quartz and nugets of nearly pure gold, one of which we'ghs twelve ounces, and is xalued at $216.' He brings also favorable accounts of the prospects in the,mining re gion of Montana. Montana, abounds in gulch or placer dig gings. These extend from the Grasshopper diggings at Bannock City to near the mouth of Sun . river, comprising Alder creek, at Virginia City, Helena and Blackfoot, with their numerous gulches and. Confederate on the Missouri:river.- These have all proved Nery, rich. So 'far, as explored, the quarts ;rockyields finely, and many mills will be in operation this year. With its placer and quartz deposits, there is every prospect that Montana prove productive in gold as ever California was in its best days. It has already got such reputation in California - that miners .are docking to it from that State in large num._ :tier& There. are. now go,ooo 'people in thei Territors:, - and great' additions x be , made;, to - thisnumber the present season. Virginia - City bna e.popilittion of 6,000.—Zt.3 lor:Us , l4ub/ican,..Feb. 4. "• " " ,1866 COURTS. QUARTER COURTS. Judge I t udlo The February term commenced in earnest this morning. The dock was crowded with prisoners, and quite a number pleaded guilty to the charges praigferre4 against them. of steal Daviid B ng a silveromberg p watc d leah. ed guilty to a charge Clement Bonsler pleaded giiilty to a charge of stealing a pair of boots. L Wm. Gravdeson, colored, was convicted of a charge of larceny as bailee. George Wilson pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing goods. Samuel Bass and Henry Lane, colored, pleaded guilty toa charge of stealing a coat. George Callahan. as convicted of a charge; of stealing a pair of innate. George W. Black was convicted of_ a! charge of stealing a quantity of wearing; apparel. George Briggs was acquitted of a charge of larceny as bailee. Charles Sands, colored, was acquitted of a charge of larceny. James Burke was acquitted of a charge of larceny. Joseph Ashly, colored, was convicted of a charge of larceny. Sent to the House of , Refuge. Ramson Jones, colored, was convicted of ; aicharge of larceny. &Charles F. Hall, colored, pleaded guilty to a charge of false pretences. EJohn Brown convicted of a charge of steal in g a lot of stockings. James Riley was convicted of a charge of burgh:try, and, sentenced to six years in the Eastern _Penitentiary. DISTRICT COURT Judge ShaTSWOOd.— Martin Nugent and Nancy Nugent,his wife vs. The West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad Company. This was an action to recover damages for the loss of a child of plaintiffs, who was killed on the 19th of August last, near the depot in West Phila delphia. The plaintiffs were waiting for a train when the accident occurred. The defence set up that the plaintiffs were to blame for the accident, having gone upon a portion of defendants premises, to which They had no right. On trial. SUPREME COURT— Chief Justice Wood. ward and Justices Thompson, Read and Agnew.—The Philadelphia list is still be. fore the court on third call. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION—FOUR PERSONS ?PILLED=-THIRTEEN WOUNDED.—On Fri day night, a terrible explosion occurred at the factory of the Merchants' Manufacturing Company, situated on Swift Creek, near Petersburg, Va., which did considerable damage to the walls and machinery of the building, killed four persons outright, fatally injured three or four and slightly wounded nine or ten others. The Dead.—Charles Tatum, fireman, aged twenty-one; David Stevens, aged forty-two; Henry Franklin Stevens, aged nine; Wm. Grubbs, aged twenty. Seriously Injured.—p. H. Roberts, engi neer- ' John Norris, fireman; John Stevens, aged 11; James Daniels, aged 8. All or the above, with the exception of Mr. Roberta ? the engineer were in the boiler room. David Stevens arid his two sons had no connection with that department of the factory, if, -indeed, with the factory at all, and were only in the boiler room for the purpose of warming themselves. The body of the old-man was blown into the creek, and was not recovered until Saturday afternoon. P: H. Roberts sustained a fracture of the skull, and had both arms badly scalded, and is thought to be fatally injured. John Norris, it is thought, was fatally scalded, as also Stevens and Daniels. • Nine persons up stairs were more or less severely injured by the flying bricks and ailing timbers—among them Mr. Malden, Mr. Gale, Mrs. Gale and Miss Rosa Scott. And now as to the cause of the accident By those best able to judge, it is supposed to have occurred from some defect in the fire box of the boiler, which was very im perfect. Or, it may have ensued from some defect or stoppage in the steam gauge, which probably indicated , a much lighter pressure of steam than the boiler actually I su d. The damage to the building is about $1,000; to the machinery, $4,000. Several of the spinning frames were broken and knocked out of place up stairs, but they are old and comparatively valueless. Several narrow escapes were made by ' persons in the building. One woman was knocked through a partition, and sustained only a few scratches. Mr. Charles Robert. son narrowly escaped being crushed by two heavy beams. A heavy ball, weighing 150 pounds, used to guard the safety valve was blown upinto the air,and in its descent, crushed through the roof, ceiling and floor: of the building, and lodged in the base meat. ASSASSINATION OF ..914 OFFICER IN Nits sissrpm—The Nashville Press and Times of Tuesday last contains the following: "A gentleman who has just returned from Pon totoc, Miss., states that a few nights since the Agent of the Freedmen's Bureau at that place was murdered in . cold blood, while sleeping in .his bed, by a party •of rebels. His body was riddled by bullets in the most , shocking, manner. The peopleat Pontotoc. hated the Bureau intensely for interfering, with them in exercising,control over their slaves, and are heartily glad over the sum-, mary method in which its agent has been dismissed from service. We are informed' that the people of Mississippi generallysym pathize with them in their hatred of the Bu reau, and speak of the Federal Government as a despotism, to which they must yield,: for the present from necessity,and.notfrotn inclination. Union men are compelled to, be as silent and cautious as they were in • 1861, and look as if they were the subju gated party. The secessionists treat them with contempt, and speak of them on all occasions as "traitors to the South." 1N.717RT TO A PRILADELPTITAN,=-LaSt Friday evening, on the arrival of the down train at Bridgeport, Ohio, it having stopped a short distance above the depot, where the trestle work is very high, a Mr. D. A:. Stet ser, of Philadelphia, evidently thinking that the train bad arrived at the ground stepped off the train and fell to the ~ aloDut twenty feet below. He was picked up badlY injured and insensible, and taken to the La Belle House, where he has been kindly cared for. It was not known until yester day who the unfortunate man was, when his name was discovered by accident. He is thought to be a merchant. His recovery is considered extremely, doubtful.—Pitts burgh Despatch, - Trim Concord Statesiwn learns • that the mife,of _Rey. Samuel H. Riddle, of 'Tam worth, N. H., • committed suicide on' Sun day last, by hanging : herself with a skcain Of yarn• Shoucester t •Mass.,- Avertiser the Georges fleet will number two hundred Yessels - this season, which is twice as many were, epgag /a ;the same fishlug i lakit, year. F. L. FETBZRsTON. Paßider. DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS Fasts and Fanciftt. I Carl Formes has joined Gran's opera • troupe, and has gone with them to Havana —for the Grouse season. Miss Harriet Martineau is said to be the author of the tribute to Mr, W, L. Garrison, which lately appeared in the London News. Theidea of putting a garrison to the noose , in time of peace! Mr. 'W. Eugene Thayer, the Massachu setts organist, has given four concerts at Berlin. There! the Berlinese show Thayer taste. Hart has prepared another copy of his statue of Clay for the city of Louisville. The model was Clay, but the statue was marble. A man, the son of a white man and a half breed mother, has recovered $lOO damages from the town authorities of Green, Illinois, for refusing his: ote on the ground that he was an Indium hose untutored fined, And A r cifigl i to have the ElreEn-les fined, And held, admitted to one equal sty, Greens, Reda and Blacks should vote to company, They kept him from the ballot-1n a horn-- This was acknowledging the Indian - corn." The Boston Advertiser says: The state ment thit , twelve hundred quails were cooked for the supper of the Seventh Regi ment Ball, will be taken as the quails would have been,—eurn grano scais. All a mistake, you could not seize on those quails with a grain of salt. Come, Granary sal is too slow for that! The Peak family of Rell-ringers are now performing in this city. These nine clever artists are not Swiss, however, but evidently belong to the Italian Peaks, known as the "A ppy-Ninea." The most rapid passages are played by them on their silver bells, two hundred and forty in number, and their prestiasimo is a regular 2-40 one. Unlike most belles, they become attractive in proportion as they become Peaky. The peaknliarity of their music is its peakancy. The tallest of the Peaks is disting,uished by his snows, by which he is constituted the Head Centre of the family. Mrs. Peak is familiarly known as the Beller• donna. AFTURE OF AN ALLEGED RUCK ROB.. BER.—In August last a bank in one, of the Northern counties of Ohio was broken into and robbed of some $57,000, by three men who had.already robbed a bank in Illinois of the sum of $27,000. The Illinois bank has never recovered one cent of the money stolen from it, but after the robbery of the bank in Ohio two of the burglars were caught, and their share of the plunder of the bank recovered, and they are now suf fering the penalty of their misdeeds in the penitentiary of that State. The other thief; who, by the way,was the leader of the gang, was so adroit as to escape detection at the time. A few days ago, however, he was arrested in Charleston, S. C. IPCOST OF TIIE FECELADELPICL9. /*ZAP! ARD.—It appears from a communication sent to the House to-day, by the Secretary of the Treasury, that the total cost of the improvements- and appurtenances of .the Philadelphia Navy- Yard has - been $1,993,355. The land cost $127,000 (twenty acres); improvements, including the dry docks, $1,837,087, and ordnance building and magazine, $34,267. The Secretary says it is impracticable to give the total expendi tures at that point ever since it has been used as a Navy Yard. SALE Os' GOVERNMENT BtrILDrKGS.—The sale of government buildings at Camp Pa role (near Annapolis), on the Ist of Feb..ruary; and at Annapolis, Md., on the 2d, under direction of Col. M. L Ludington Chief Quartermaster, Department of Wash , ington, realized as follows: Camp Parole, • $5,418; Annapolis, $3,743 50—total receipts, $9,161 40. Seven buildings were turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau, and seyen more of the buildings were retained as an addition to the hospital there. FATALLY WOUNDED..--Lient. Killian, in command of a squad of soldiers sent out from liewbern to make an arrest of some: desperadoes in Lenoir county, was shot• down, and it is thought will not survive., These attemps to resist arrest are becoming, quite common, and if they do not cease, the result will be very disastrous to our people. —Raleigh (N. C.) Progress, 31st. Tmn ion nuaTass are getting a fine crop ' out of Wenham pond. The ice was never better—not less than fourteen inches in thickness, clear as crystal and solid as granite. 150 men and 100 horses are em. ployed on Wenham pond. The Aroostook. (Me) Pioneer says that on Wednesday night last week a shingle camp upon the Tobique river, occupied by three men, was burnt; Two of the men lost their lives, and the third barely escaped, having his clothing burnt entirely off. BIIRIVED TO DEATEL—Three sons of Ma thias Reimer; of Salisbury, N. C., were burned to death in a "play house" they had• built recently. Two other children escaped. &URINE BULLETIN. Pk g) Poal) ,, C9:iimiwin;t:sit=44 air Sul ileCrine Bullectin on Third Asps. • ARRIVED TERI DAN" steamer Renear,fram N. York. with midge to Whittlell. Tatum & Co. SeimDeborah Jones, Totem. from Lynn, in bailait Ito captain. Scbr Ira B, Monroe. from Chincuteagne. • Behr J Riaabbins, Mead, from Chincoteague. Behr Phattotn. Stebbins, from Chincoteague. 'Bar TwO Brethers, Johnson, trom Chticotesine. CLEARED VERB DA . EitesmerMmville, Belmar, Milivllle, Whltttil, Tau xrp. ~•tt Co. MEMORANDA. • rfsteamer Aries, Crowell, cleared at Beatenyeate , for this port rday Steamship Virginia (Br), Prowse, at New York yes terday from Liverpool 18th, Via Queenstown -19th ult. has 892. passengers. Had very heavy wtnterly Raley the whole passage, with heavy head sea. Jan 31, , fat so, lon 5618, saw steamer Germania, from New York for Ramberg: same day. 9 Pill; lat 43, lon 18, saw steamer The Queen, do for LiverpooL Steamer Narmlon, WarsaW, from New York, at New Orleans yesterday. Bark Ocean Steed, Flinn, hence for Ge noa h a d am . pleted repairs at Bermuda 24th ult. and would sail in a few days. , Bark Helena (Br), Megray. GO days from Algoa Bay. with wool. at New York yesterday. Dec 29. tat 18 St.., lon 17 05 W, spoke balk John Gilpin, from Table Bay for Boston. Schr May,lifurray, hence for St John, NB. way charging cargo at Bermuda 24th ult.—was leaking redly. Behr Delaware, hence for Providence, at Newport 9th inst schr W Godfrey, Weeks, cleared at Wilmington. NC. 2d inst. for New York. • . MARINE CELLANY. Pchr Edwin Reed. from aMIS coal port, Is one of the ves sels overdue at Boston. She passed down Vineyard Sound previous to the gale of Jan 8, and fears are en tertained for her safety., , , • Advices received from the Arnerican Consul at .TO remie state that the bark Civilian. wrecked at that" port en the Gth ult. is with the cargo a total loss., The master, Chas I" .Canningham; died on the lith. - from, fever, occasioned by exposure on the wreck .. It is also.-: stated that a _French brig, laden .Wilb • icoirile, wag, ; wrecked daring the late gale. • . FOREIGN PORTS. At Bermuda 24th tilt ship Nary - Whitridge, nom Antwerp for New York: wtg ordem nemreging -, (la leaking badly) hark 43.1pseyleakin timore for Belfast, dlsg Cis and ' as entire suit of sails •and set or allarok:.umouraultis't/311,..-, Itaymond,tnntlitansetllealbr , New York;to Ban in's, few d , having -coropleted rePairtli_+_olltexia.Swartri'l from Rotterdam for N3rorktrill4 1 X O,lO 1 440 1=e v,- from Gelvestim4for .Liverpooti - retleadlng„ to few dam and others.
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