GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLITME XIX.---NO. 258. EVENING BULLETIN . PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. (Sundays excetted) at !No. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BY THE "Evening Bulletin Association," PILOPErSTOYS, 'GIBSON pis.ooos, CASPER SOLIDER, Sr., 7. L. PETHERSTON, J ERNEST C. WALLACE. THOMAS J. WILLIAMSON. The Burma= is served to subscribers in the city at IS cents per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 00 per DIED. COL.LADA,Y—On the 12th instant, Samuel 33, Collo .alay,:in the Seth year of his age. His male friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No. 117 North Seventeenth street, at 10 o'clock, on Friday morning, the 16th in stant, without further notice. • ** • MICHIGNIER—On the 12th inst., Mary L., daughter • of Amos J. and Anna De B. Michener. aged 2 years. MILLEB---On the morning of Third day, the 13th Instant, Daniel L. Miller, aged 75 years, His relatives Bud friends are Invited to attend his frulersl- from his late residence, No. 105 North Nine teenth street, on Fifth day afternoon, at two o'clock, without farther notice. Interment at Fair Hill. it Ptru.bnON—On the morning of. Feb. Bth, 1866, Chas. A Poulson. aged 77 pears. The fhneral services will be held at St. Peter's -Church. on Thursday, the lath instant, at 11 o'clock, ,presisely, and the interment take place at German town.. His relatives and friends are invited to at •tend: WBITE .111.0REENS FOR BEIRTS. Green Watered Menem. 6-4 and 5-4 Green Baize, White Cloth for Sacks. White Evening Silks. EYRE & L - ANDELL, Fourth and Arch SPECIAL NOTICES. to. THE SEASON AND THE POHL UNION BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. For thirty-four years this society has been going in and out amongst the citizens of Philadelphia, „giving and receiving their alms, and it has never ap_ pealed for aid in vain. At the present crisis it needs all it can obtain to enable it to carry on its work. With a hundred lady visitors distributed over the entire city, it reaches nearly every fhmily, and the experience of the visitors enable them to discriminate 'between Me worthy and the unworthy. The principle of the society is to distribute favOrs with a cautious hand,being convinced by long experience that this is the only true plan of right charity. Numberless or ganizations have risen and fallen upon a different principle since its foundation, and numberless others will rise ann fall whenever they fail to recognize this principle. Indiscriminate alms-giving is the foster-father of pauperism, and is will eventuate in filling any community with beggar. There are myriads of poorwho now labor willingly for a living that would not do so if encou, aged in idlenes s by a mistaken philanthropy, and there are myriad s whom') LIVE without labor upon the gains of their chit• siren, sent through the streets to beg. At the Homo tim e there is and always will be a very great deal of rea suffering, which it is the bounden duty of the good to seek out and relieve. These are principally women .and children, not often men, whom women can best minister tS At this crisis many of these are families of discharged soldiers, who would suffer and die in their garrets and cellars unknown to the great public, but for the efforts of our benevolent women, who thread the byways and alleys of the city, to seek out and relieve them The number of visits made by our visitors last year was 17.166, number of families relieved, 7,750, number of sick cared for, 1,020, number of persons found em ployment, 817; amount of cash distributed, 115,684; number of tons of coal given out, 1.740: number of garments, 800; number of stoves loaned, 351, and 80 women were found constant employment. In all this visiting there have been, of course, numerous instances of intense hardship brought to light, which, if related, would appeal to every charitable heart; but it has never been the practice of the society to obtrude harrowing cases of suffering before the public to excite .sympathy. It has relied rather upon the intelligent judgment of the public to sustain its steady work. Its respectable Board of Managers is a guarantee of re sponsibility, and they all now urge upon the public no tice the wants of the poor at the close of the season, Messrs. COOPER. and EVAN'S, the authorized col lectors, will immediately make their final call for the year. Money may also be left with EDMUND WIL COX, Treasurer, 404 Chestnut street, or with JOHN HICKS, Agent, at the Office of the Society, corner of Sansom and Seventh streets. [SAMUEL H. PERKINS, President. JOHN H. ATWOOD, Secretary. fel2-m,w,fst [Ov CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. Filbert street, above Seventeenth. Divine service and sermon, this(Anh-Wedriesday)kvening, at 'I% o'clock.. EZT.ti_e, AMERICAN SYSTEM.—Horticultural Hall, Broad and Walnut, to-morrow, Thursday, ore S o'clock. Admission 25 cents. its C. C. SCHAEFFER. eHOWARD HOSPITAL. Nos. 1518 and 1520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med treatment and medicines fttralshed gratuitously Soi t he poor. se2B [IO3, HE REVEREND HENRY WARD BEECR AT CONCERT HALL.—This distinguis tied divine and popular lecturer will deliver a lectbre at the above hall on Wednesday evening, February 21st. "Places for the sale of tickets will be announced in a few days. fel3-tf 1:0. THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ORA TION before the SOCIETY of the ALUMNI of the PHILADELPHIA CEN TRAL HIGH SCHOOL, will be delivered on THURSDAY EVENING, Febrir rary 15th, at niusice L FUND HALL, by CHARLES HANBY BROCK, ESQ. fei2-Itrps iIc?THE SOCIETY for supplying the Poor with SOUP. N 0.238 GRLSCOM street, find themselves vathonttrufilcient funds to meet the current expenses of the season, and make this appeal to the public to enabiethem to supply the more than usual demand for 4.saistance. JEREIIELAH HACKER, President. 316 South Fourth street. WM. EVANS, la., Treasurer, 252 Sough Front street. f€4l.6tirp , 2•••": OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, PRILADEIXECIA, December 2151, 1865. LOAN FOR SALE. IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS. The Loan of this Company, due April Ist, 1884, lute crest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. This Loan is secured by a mortgage on all the Com goany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Slackwater Navigation in the Lehigh river,and all their Itailroads,constructed and to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and Wllkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith, and the franchise of the Company relating thereto. Apply to SOLOMON SHEPHERD, Treasurer, de2l.rptf/ 122 South Second street. CONCERT HALL. WM LLOYD GARRISON will deliver the .tecond Lecture of the Course belore "The Social, Civil, :and Statistical Association," on THURSDS.Y EVE• _NENG. February 1 th. Subject—' Liberty Victorious." February 22d.—Goseral CARL feCHURZ. Subject— " The Problem of the Day." March lat.—Mrs, F. RW. HARPER, Subject—" The .Nation's Great Opportunity." March Bth.—Prof. WM R. DAY. March 15th.—Hon. WM. D. KELLEY. Miss E. T. GREENFIELD (tne Black Swan) has :kindly volunteered to furnish appropriate music on each evening. Tickets for the course $1.25; single tickets 8.5 c. To be /lad at T. B. PIIGHIi Book Store, Sixth and Chestnut, :and at the doer, Doors open at 7, lecture to commence at 8. fel9.-4trPd INDIAN D/STIIEBANCES. - Complaints lave occasionally been made of petty depre dations committed by both the Omaha and Winnebago Indians. Agent Farris alludes ;to them in his January report. The charges, says, are doubtless true in many in ',stances. There is, however, but one remedy. Let the settlers quit trading with and -employing the Indians, and the evil, so far as the Indians are concerned, will cease, and the agents will be able to keep their Indians on the reservations. The agent states that many mean white men commit depredations, that are often wrongfully ~charged to the Indians.. A womArr being enjoined to try the effec of kindness on her husband, and being told "that it would heap coals of fire on his head, -replied that she had tried " boiling water, :and it didn't do a bit of good." . - • ' • .' '-. ' ..... • . ,;.., 4. : ': i...... ;: , . ....._,., -... • . i. :7 ...;:, , , , r. . ' s . .—, . . . ‘. 7 . 1 , I 2... ."7.. ' . ''..- ''.',, • - I ' .. 1 ' . • 3-... ~ tf . :4" . ' , I ' • is, . - ... ....,. • 4 ' t 2 . - ' 7, .., :f ';''.' ~.1. . • -- -.- .... . . , . . ..' 6'3. ... 3 . .... ~..,. .s . .. ...... . . , .. . . ' I,' .tc, f . , ,..i1• 4., 1 " 4 : . 1 .... - .• , . - ...,,r,, 1i! -!.'• , AL! 1 i . . . '.... . ('' - • . Private Presses. "There is yet one other, and a somewhat generally prevailing symptom, indicative of the prevalence of the Bibliomania; and this consists in a fondness for books which have been printed for private distribution only, or at a private press. What is executed for a . few will be coveted by many; because the edge of curiosity is whetted from a supposi tion that something very extraordinary, or very curious, or very uncommon, is propa gated in this said book, so partially distri buted." So truly saith Dibdin in his Biblio mania, and, though nearly fifty years have elapsed since its publication, it is as true now as upon the day on which it was written. Of works printed solely forprivate distribu tion, perhaps, the most extensive and costly was the Museum Worsleyanum, by Sir Richard Woreley, atlas folio, 1798-1802. But 200 copies were printed, and all of these were intended for presents. A copy falling into the hands of the auctioneer brought one hundred guineas. There is, as far as I am aware, no copy of this magnificent work in America. The Strawberry Hill press; so called from the residence of Horace Walpole (afterward Lord Orford), at which it was located, is well known to Bibliophites, and the productions of the Haford, Frogmore and Lee Priory presses are scarcely less known and esteemed. The prices brought by these privately printed works are calcu lated to astound the uninitiated, unversed in the mysteries of the Bibliomania, a single tract of ten pages sometimes bringing double that number of pounds at a book auction. Walpole's Hieroglyphic Tales, a small pamphlet (or as Wormius would call it a dissertatiunculus) of two sheets octavo, was once sold for sixteen pounds ! In this coun try private presses are very rare, though editions of limited number are far from un common. The Andr6 papers and the Sign ers of the Test Oath may be cited as exam ples. The Wormsloe Press,the publications of which are eagerly sought for, the Diary of Winthrop Sergeant bringing $BO at In graham's sale (No. 1,435), was located in Collins's printing office, and the works of many other so-called private presses might be traced to the same or similar localities. The little magazine called the Bizarre, which some years ago enjoyed an ephemeral existence in this city, was, however, printed on a private press located in the house of one of the editors, and from this press also issued one work, The Epithalamium of Se cundus, accompanied with a translation, edited by Hipponax Roast, an anagram on the name of a gentleman well-known in bibliographical circles. The translation is said to be by Dr. John Nott. The editor states in the preface that he is in possession of undoubted evidence of the fact, but Mr. Nott'a translation having since been pub lished by Bohn, of London, and having been found entirely different, it is shrewdly guessed that Mr. H. R. himself is the author of the translation. The work contains sixty-four pages, and of it only twenty copies were printed. Thrice happy he who like ourselves is fortunate enough to possess one. The paper and typographical execu tion leave nothing to be desired. The date of this work is 1856. Another and still more privately printed work appeared in 1861. It is entitled Translations from the Classics, French and Italian, by an Idler. This work is a true literary curiosity, as the transla tion, composition (typographical), press work and binding were done by one gentle man, the late Mr. Peries, of this city. But few copies were printed, and none, as far as we are aware, have as yet been subjected to the tender mercies of the bookseller. A rie l vv private press has lately been started in this city. A gentleman, well known in the medical and scientific world, having been smitten with the typographica, mania, has established at his residence a press to which he has given (for what rea son we know not) the name of the Oakwood Press. Having, with tolerable skill,priuted a few brochures relating to the rebellion, he has taken a step backward to the days of the revolution, and has produced an edition of the "Battle of the Kegs," by Francis Hop kinson, an engraving of which important event appears at the head of one of our Sun day cotemporaries. But one stanza is printed upon a page, and is surrounded by a ruled red border; the effect is very pleas ing, and the work is very creditable to an amateur; though better printing has cer tainly emanated from the presses of Sher m an,A shmead and Collins. The motto,"Non me trado sed commodo"—Seneca. ("Not toy business but my pleasure,") is very appropriate for a private press. Instead of a long explanatory preface and copious notes, to which editors are alas too prone, it has, as an introduction, an extract from one of the newspapers of the day, which, though in a burlesque style, gives a full and lucid account of the incident. The work is, on the whole, well gotten up, and the editor, compositor and pressman, Cerebus-like, three gentlemen in one, has performed has parts very creditably. No copies, we under stand, are-to be sold, the entire edition being intended for presents to the proprietor's biplio-maniacal friends, of whom we are fortunate enough to be one. A REAL TRAGEDY.—On Tuesday night, at the theatre, while Miss Herron was harrow ing up the feelings of the audience with the fictitious griefs of "Medea," a real tragedy was being enacted in the parqnette. A young, beautiful and accomplished lady, who resides on Tennessee street, in company with a male friend, was observed to take a vial from her pocket and hastily swallow its contents. Noticing something strange and wild in her manner, the young man asked her what it was she had taken, when she replied that it was only a little, cough mixture. In a short time, however, she be came deadly ill, and was taken home, where she confessed that she had taken poison—a mixture of oxalic acid and opium. Dr. Carter and two other physicians were called, in, and everything possible was done for her relief. At last accounts it was thought she would recover. The affair, so far as we' can learn, is enveloped in mystery, no cause being assigned for:the rash act.—lndianapo- PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1866: Musical. WOLFSOHN'S MATINEE.-Mr. Carl Wolf sohn's fifth matinoe was rendered addi tionally attractive through the presence of Mrs. Fanny Raymond Ritter, of New York, who sang four songs, by as many different authors, and acquitted herself to the satis faction of the audience. It is seldom that singers favor us with arias of sueh antiquity. The "Lascia ch'io planga" is from an opera dedicated to Queen Anne, by the illustrious Handel. Though the operas then in vogue have, for various reasons, lost their hold upon popu lar enthusiasm, there are scattered among them many gems which need but to be re moved from their antique settings to hold their own with the favorites of to-day. While composers appear and disappear, and operas without number descend to the land of limbo, there are pearls of perennial beauty that are cherished by cotemporaries, and which posterity "will not willingly let die." Some glorious inspiration, on which the tone-poet has, perhaps, bestowed less care than on other portions of his work, may thus oome to outlive his weightier labors. Filled with the glow of genius, it contains within itself the elements of greater vitality than may have fallen to other parts of a work, upon which, however, the com poser rests his hopes of success. Thus truly may It be said of music, as of books, that the greatest effort does not always bring about the moat successful work. In reference to one of the songs, a few lines from Shoelcher's Life of Handel may not come amiss ; "It has been asserted that, in music, the beau idea/ changes every thirty years; but that is ill-natured criti cism. Certain forms of accompaniment may grow out of fashion, like the cut of a coat; but a fine melody remains eternally beautiful and always agreeable to listen to. The 100th Psalm of the middle ages is as magnificent to-day as it was when, three or four centuries ago, it came from the brain of its unknown composer; and so "Leach. ch'io pianga, i miei sospiri" will be ad mirable and admired to the end of the world." We have also to thank Madame Ritter for the aria from Gluck's "Pa ' -cif. Helen." The same intelligence whin. marked her performance of these works displayed itself in the songs by Liszt an. Schumann. She has a powerful voice an. seems to have a fine conception of the spiri of the song-writer, which makes us the more regret that her vocal means see scarcely sufficient for an artistic renderin: of this order of music. Her voice is no very flexible and her style is, at times, too Italian' in its mannerisms, With all these objections, there was yet much to praise the matter and manner of Mrs. Ritter's songs. We feel that thanks are due her for the character of the selections and think that they prove her to be earnest in her musical studies; believing which, we ca. only say that with continued application she may be able to employ her natural gifts in such a way as to insure permanent sue cess as a vocal favorite. The sonatas performed were most happily chosen, lending variety to the programme, and were given in Mr. Wolfsohn's best style. MR. JAEN/5'S THIRD MATINER.—A beau tiful trio for piano, violin and violincello of Mozart heads Mr. Jarvis's programme for to-morrow afternoon, while one of Mendelssohn's charming suite of variations for piano and vi olincello is followed by a couple of piano solos, which may be expected to be bril liantly interpreted by Mr. Jarvis. The :Scherzo by Chopin is one which Schumann so warmly praises in his critique, and com pares to a poem by Byron, full of love and contempt, tender spirited and impassioned. A string quintettee by Gade, one of the new lights of Germany, closes the interesting list of pieces. Mr. Jarvis will be assisted by Gaertner, Schmitz, Kammerer and Plagemanu. The concert takes place to morrow afternoon at four o'clock. MENuFassontes "EmJA.u."—lt will gra tify our musical people to learn that the Handel and Haydn Society have made ar rangements for repeating this grand ora torio at the Academy of Music, on Friday evening, the 2.3c1 inst. The orchestra will be enlarged, and everything will be done to render the performance even superior to that of last week. MR. PERELLfS AMATEUR OPERA.—On Friday evening, at Concert Hall, Lucrezia Borgia will be played by amateurs, under the direction of Mr. Perelli. The principal parts will be sustained by Mrs. Davis, Miss Denqre, Mr. Waterman and Mr. Taylor. Facts and Fancies. The Duke de Morny's Chinese curiosities sold in Paris for $30,000. It was probabl,y i more 'n he valued them himself. A man in Illinois has been fined $2,000 for calling another a thief. He admits that it was not elegant in his, but he says he has LO desire to be re-fined at that price. Frequenters of New York restaurants say that they cannot partake of venison and game there, because they are so high. When was venison anything but dear., Stonewall Jackson's widow declines help. She says her father can support her. We heard of to woman the other day, -whose whole claim for public help rested_on the fact that her father would sup porter, in spite of all remonstrances. There are twenty-five balmoral skirt fac tories in Berkshire county. We are glad to know it, but if somebody would start the fashion of moral ball skirts, society would profit by it. The present supply of ball skirts is very short. A smart young woman in Chickasaw county, Ind., has been appointed notary public. The male aspirants object to her appointment, but she says that the more pro tests they make, the better for her business. Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, says that the Federal troops are "a disturb-, ing element" in the South. We doubt if' they are half as disturbing as they were I this time last year. We saw some splendid shad in market to day and we knew that Spring was at hand . —"Coming events, Ito." UUE3LI' THE CONCORD BANK ROBBERY. Arrest of Two of the Gang---Recovery of Over $196,000 in U. S. Bonds and Money---Interesting De tails of the Robbery and Detection of the Thieves ---A Neat Piece of Police Work--- Method of the Robbery. The mystery attendant on the robbery of the Concord National Bank of Concord, Mass., on the 25th of September last, has been at length cleared up, and a large amount of the missing money recovered. Soon after the robbery, the details of which are probably fresh in the minds of our readers, the subject of ferreting out the burglars was intrusted to the Police, Captain Jourdan of this city becoming the leading spirit of the enterprise. While the officers were revolving in their minds who among the thieves who follow thts particular line of business would be the most likely to have committed this robbery, one of them suddenly remembered that one Langdon W. Moore, alias Charley Adams, a counterfeiter by profession, and who was an expert in altering the numbers of bonds, (a most dexterous mode of preventing stolen bonds from being traced), had resided a short time previous to the robbery on a farm adjoining the village of Framingham, Massachusetts, situate about twelve miles from Concord. Here was a discovery. The fact of Adams having resided so near the scene of the robbery was sufficient, in the minds of the detectives, to connect him with it. Messrs. Heath and Jones went back to Boston, and Captain Jourdan, who, from this time forward took the direction of affairs, at once despatched Detective Hunt, of the Boston force, to Framingham, ;to make inquiries concerning Adams. Detective Heath then went to Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and other places in Upper and Lower Canada, but could find no trace of him. Other parties had been looking for him in the various cities throubgout the Union, but all were at fault. None of Adams' old companions professed to know anything of his whereabouts, and probably they were sincere in their expres sions. Finally, all of the party,but Messrs. Jourdan, Elder and Hunt gave up the chase,declaring that it was useless to pursue the matter further—the thieves, whoever they were, bad made their escape. From information received by Messrs. Jourdan and associates, the case was clear that one Bouton, in this city, knew the whereabouts' of Adams; and he (Bouton) was therefore arrested and sharply ques tioned, though he at first denied all know ledge on the subject. Counterfeit money to the amount of $l,OOO was found on his person, and at length, on suitable promises from the officers of the law, Bouton was allowed his liberty on bail, with the mis sion before him of hunting up Adams, which, he affirmed, he thought he could do. In a short time Bouton informed Capta is Jourdan that one David Kinney was in communication with Adams, and that he was the agent of that person for the sale of the stolen' property. He thought if he was furnished with money, he could without difficulty purchase from him a quantity of the bonds.: On this representation Bouton was furn ished with 03,000, and told to go to Kinney and purchase from him $20,000 worth of the stolen bonds. Kinney was visited, and pro fessed his willingness to let Bouton have the bonds, but said he was afraid that Adams would not at one time trust him with so large an amount, but he would try, nevertheless. In the meantime, however, he had with him $2,431 in Concord bunk bills, old and new issues, and these he offered to Bouton for 50 cents on the dollar. This proposition was accepted by Bouton, who took the bills and left the $3,000, with the understanding that Kinney was to visit Adams, and, if possible, procure from him the amount wanted. This interview took place on January 18, and on Sunday, January 21, Kinney promised to return syith the bonds. Detective Hunt was at once set upon the track of Kinney, and followed him to Phila delphia, but there lost all trace of him, and returned to this city. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Sun day morning, the 21st. Capt. Jourdan, with Messrs. Elder and Hunt, arrested Kinney in West Forty-fifth street, while on his way to keep the aypointment with &Alton. He was placed in a carriage and driven to the Station House. There he was searched and $12,000 in United States bonds found on him. He was committed for examination by Justice Dowing, and by permission of Su perintendent Kennedy was kept in the Sta tion House. To all the questions put to him, Kinney persisted in saying that the bonds were his private property, and finally de clared that he would answer no more ques tions until he had seen his lawyer. Two days after the above occurrence, Kinney sent for Captain Jourdan, and told him if the bank officers would consent not to prosecute him, he would make a clear breast of the whole affair. Mr. Heywood, acting for the bank; on finding that Kinney was not concerned in the robbery, gave the required promise, and the prisoner then in formed them that he had purchased the bonds of Adams, and, further, stated where Adams was then residing. The amount thus far recovered is $190,431. This amount has been paid over to the bank officers by Superintendent Kennedy, they having identified it as a portion of the sum stolen from them. Adams was arrested in Panlsborough, N. J.. Jan. 24, and was brought to New York. Search about his residence in the former place, at length brought to light a glass jar with $lOO,OOO of the stolen bonds sealed up in it; also a tin box containing $19,000 in addition. Some frightened individual sub sequenly sent to the police $3,000 more, which he bad unwarily possessed himself of by purchase from Adams. Both Adams and Kinney await the disposal of the Mas sachusetts authorities. They are smart, vigorous men, well "posted" on all mat ters, in or out of their "profession." There is a person named Henry Howard, with several aliases, also concerned in the rob bery, but no trace of him exists. Adams has given to Captain Jourdan the following statement of how the robbery was committed. About eight months before it took place, Howard was passing the bank, when the thought struck him what a splendid job it would be if it could be robbed. • Impressed with this idea, he entered the [From today s N. Y. Tritium:s.j bank and asked to have a bill changed, for the purpose of seeing where the specie was kept and taking a general observation. The cashier, either not liking his looks, or from some unexplained cause, declined to accommodate him, and hej retired disap pointed in the object of his mission. About one week after Adams,who had in the mean time been communicated with, went 'to the bank and purchased some United States 7 3-10 bonds. By this means he ascertained Where the safe waii 'located, and the additional fact that the key of the safe was kept during the daytime on a small shelf adjoining, He at once communicated with his com rades, and now it was his opinion that the bank could be robbed, if the usual precau tions were observed. The first thing to be done was to obtain an impression of the lock of the outer door in wax, in order that a key might be forged. This consumed fifteen nights, and when this labor had been completed, and the door yielded to their efforts, it was found that no less than seven other doors barred their progress to the safe. Perseverance, however, is the burglar's motto, and for no less than eighty nights did they work in the interior of the bank, taking impressions in wax of the locks of the intervening doors and adjusting the keys made by them to the same. At length they reached the desired haven of their hopes—the safe—and as it was found im possible to operate with any hope of success upon the combination locks, it was deter mined to blow it open. On the day of the robbery the conspira tors watched the paing teller and other employ es 3 leave the bank, and as soon as they were out of sight set to work. Adams —being the cooler hand of the two, decided to enter the bank, while Howard was sta tioned in a covered wagon in such a posi tion that be could see any one who might approach the bank, while he himself was unseen. While engaged in unlocking the outer door, a little girl came along, and asked for the cashier. She was informed by Adams that he bad gone to dinner. She passed up the street, and met a young man with whom she conversed for a moment, and then passed (n. The young man then came to the aoor of the bank, and rapped on it. In the meantime Adams had gone into the bank, locking the door behind him. No at tention was paid to the young man, who, becoming tired, and probably believing that no person was inside, turned and walked away. In a short time Adams made his appear ance with the contents of the safe; made up in a neat bundle, under his arm. He had found the key of the safe in the position in which it was kept during the day time, and after taking from it the contents, looked it, placed the key in his pocket, and then care fully locked the various doors behind him. On reaching the street he locked the outer door, and taking no notice of his companion, with the bundle under his arm he sauntered coolly and carelessly up the street. Passing through the village, he turned into a wood on the outskirts, and sat down to wait for his companion. The latter had remained in his wagon until Adams was out of sight, and then, jumping from his vehicle, went into a hardware store in the vicinity, and purchased some nails. On concluding his purchase, he returned, took the blanket from his animal, unhitched him, and, getting into the vehicle, drove off in an opposite direction from that taken by Adams—to all appearance a quiet country farmer, who had come to town to make a trifling purchase, and was now proceeding leisurely homeward. On reaching the out skirts of the village, he made a detour, and, joining his comrade, they drove hastily off, and for the time being escaped with the plunder. The case is without doubt one of the most remarkable that has ever occurred in this country. Its conception and execution were daring in the highest degree, while the manner in which the case was worked up by the detectives is above all praise. The reward obtained by the latter is no small one, the bank authorities, in their circular issued soon after the robbery,having offered a reward of ten per cent. on all the stolen property recovered. St. Domingo-Interesting Incidents o itlr. Seward's Visit. [Correspondence N. Y. llerald J. ST. DOMINGO CITY, Jan, 15, MM.—The steamer De Soto, Captain Walker, arrived in this port yesterday, having on board the Hon. William H. Seward and his son Frederick, accompanied by Mrs. Frederick Seward and Miss Gordon. The distin guished party were visited in the outer road stead by Mr. Jones, the American Consul, and General Cazneau, late United States Special Envoy to this republic4They landed at about ten o'clock, A. M.. and proceeded to the residence of Mr. Fabeus, our late Con sul at Cayenne, where they received the visits of the diplomatic and consular corps. At mid-day an official call was made upon President Baez, at the national palace. The President was surrounded by his Cabinet ministers and the officers of his personal staff. The Seward party was ac companied by Messrs. Cazneau, Fabens and Jones, and Captain Walker, of the De Soto. On leaving the President's palace the party proceeded to the great Cathedral where Gen. Cazneau pointed out the spot where the ashes of Columbus and his son Diego re posed till their removal to Havana in 1795. As Mr. Seward paced the sounding aisles of the grand old pile he spoke of the auspices under which it was erected, the pomp and circumstances attending the settlement of St. Domingo, once haughtily styled the metropolis of the New World, and contrasted it all with the beginning of the mighty empire growing up within the limits of his own country—a beginning made amid want and sorrow snd persecution— and then with pardonablesride alluded to the present. There powef, youthful fresh ness, irrepressible vitality; here ruin and desolation. Yet St. Domingo city is majes tic in its ruins, and this old cathedral begun in 1514, and finished in 1540, may yet outlast many of the proudest edifices of grand New York—a type of the church which, as Ma caulay says, "saw the commencement of all the governments, and of all the ecclesiastical estaolishments that now exist in the world," and which, he suggests, may be destined to see the end of them all. From the cathedral to the ruins of the monastery of Santa Clara, thence to the roof of a once splendid palace, erected in the style of the Moorish palaces of Granada, whence there was a fine view of the pictur esque city, which caused Mr. Frederick Seward to regret that they had not brought with them a photographic operator, and a stroll through the . streets where Columbus and his companions rode their Barbary steeds three hundred and fifty years ago; round by the crumbling forts at which oar Monitors would laugh; past the barracks of the barefooted soldiers, who humbled the pride of imperious Spain; a glance at the -grave of Santana, where the old traitor sleeps friendless and alone—anon walking • F. L. FETHERSTON. Punisher. DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS. amid decaying but not tottering corridors, in some of which the native of to-day has built his hut, and in some of which only the lizard shot forth from his hole in the moul dering wall to look upon the representative man—past the towering front of vacant and desolate houses, and the open doors of the adobe hut, where this mysteri ous race is ever seen working at the problem that seems to have no solution; crowds of faces and crouching figures at every door and window, gazing with a wonder not un mixed with fear at the party strolling so carelessly along—down again into the com mercial quarter, to be amused with• the grotesque display of European and tropical. wares commingled, including parrots, monkeys and fruits of many lugcions kinds, which even Hawthrone would have termed toothsome; a lunch at General Cazneau's; thence to the river side, where Captain Walker of the De Soto is horrified to detect in Mr. Seward symptoms of a desire to buy a parrot. From a parrot to a monkey the transition is easy, and the bold mariner, looking at his watch, hints that it is time to be off; and so ends a memorable event in the history of this old town. To•dav the populace, realizing that Dir. Seward has been here and gone, are wild wtth excitement. They crowd along the sea wall, peering across the waters, and per haps some of the more imaginative sort fancy they can detect a trail of smoke along the horizon where the De Soto was last seen. As this is particularly a Seward letter I will here close, merely adding that St: Do mingo is rapidly recuperating under the wise and fostering policy of President Baez, who is a man of a thousand. The weather for the past fortnight has been remarkably cool and pleasant, and the health of the place is excellent. The British brig Ocean Belle sails to-day for New York with a lull cargo of the products of the island,including some fine specimens of copper ore•from the mines of the New York and St. Domingo Company. There are no American vessels in port. Tbe nemalms of President Lincoln. SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, February 10th, 1866.—The vault recently constructed at Oak Ridge cemetery, near this city, under the direction of the National Monument Association, and to which the mortal re mains of the late President were removed a short time since, was visited a few days ago by a committee of the Association, con misting of Governor Oglesby, Hon. New ton Bateman, LL. D. and ex- Secretary of State Hatch, when the casket containing the sacred ashes was opened, and for the last time, till "thereat trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible," were the features of the lamented Lincoln viewed by mortal eyes. The visit of the committee was an offi cial one, and made in pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Association, the object being to enable them to certify to the actual presence of the body in the casket. The face was ex amined through the glass covering which underlies the outer strata of the case by the several gentlemen above named, and iden fied by each of them as that of the martyred President. The sad ceremony ended, the lid was again nailed down and sealed with the signet of the Association. The great stone or slab was subsequently rolled to the door of the sepulchre and fitted into its place, the finishing stroke imparted to the solid masonry, which was in like manner as the casket, impressed with the great seal of the Corporation. The remains will now rest undisturbed till the "National Monument" shall be completed, when they will be deposited in their final resting place, nor ever be re moved hence "till the heavens are no more." The feattu - es of the deceased were scarcely discernible—the embalmment seeming to have offered but little, if any, resistance to the•encroachments of corruption. DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED DIVINE.- John B. Fitzpatrick, D. D., Catholic Bishop of Boston, died in that city yesterday at twenty minutes betore seven, A. M., aged fifty-three years. The immeiate cause of his death was violent and frequent bleeding at the nose, produced from apopletic oauses. Bishop Fitzpatrick was born in Boston,in November 1812. In the public schools of that city he received the preliminary educa tion which fitted him for college. His col lege life was spent in Montreal, Canada, where his rare amiable disposition and his genuine intellectual and Christian qualities won for him the admiration of all his asso ciates. After graduating at Montreal, he proceeded to Paris to finish more completely his education before assum ing the solemn obligations of the priest hood. He was ordained there some time in 1840, and almost immediately upon his return to America he was settled over the Catholic church in:EastCambridge, Mass. He remained there but a brief time, how ever, for he was soon appointed coadjutor to the then Bishop Fenwick, of Boston, and was consecrated in March, 1844. Two years later, upon the death of Bishop Fenwick,his mantle fell on his coadjutor. Twice after having become Bishop he visi ted Europe, first in 1854, on matters cotees netted with church duties, and again in. 1862 to seek relief for declining health. He returned from his last visit something over a year since, but instead of having found relief, it was evident to himself and friends that disease hati•seized him for a victim. Si 4 months ago it was thought for several days in succession that he would live but a few hours, and for several days preceding his decease his death was expected at any moment. The spark of life would seem at times to die completely out, when he would suddenly revive and be comparatively con valescent for several days. Thus he lingered for weeks and almost months, until at length, after passing through the sufferings of a declining life, his spirit was gently borne to its long and peaceful home. IN GEN. SICKLES' Department of South Carolina, John Ferguson, of Charleston, former owner of the steamer Planter, has had the brass to apply for possession of the steamer, claiming that she was stolen by negroes, and captured from them by the Federafblockading squadron; that he has taken the amnesty oath, and tat the steamer should be restored to him with his other property. General Saxton reports that the Planter was employed by the rebels, and while in this service was brought past the batteries and surrendered to Admiral Du. Pont by a slave named Robert Small. The steamer has since been employed by the quartermaster's department, and Small placed in command. NOT long since there was a dancing party at the house of Mr. Scott, near Avena, Law rence county, Ala. The weather was very warm in the early part of the evening, but it became exceedingly cold when the party broke up heated and fatigued. Thecompany went home, two of them died the next morning, and seven have since died. Others are seriously ill, and none of the partioiparita in the affair are well.
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