GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 275. kiAL=MEMAIMMEI YUBLIMED EVERY EVENING. (Sundays excepted) at 220. 229 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BY THE • . "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPBEETOILS. ,GD3SONTEACIOCK, CASPER SOTTDER, T. L. FETEEERSTON, I ERNEST C. VTALLACE. IsomAs wrraa.a.msobr. The Bunvorror is served to subscribers in the city at Is cents per week. payable to the carriers, or td os per SUMO= MARRIED_ BISLEY—LELNALT—March 6tb, 1866. by Bev. Dr. Roeder. David Risley. of Georgetown. S. C.. to Mies Georgie H. Leins.o., of Philadelphia. No cards. • DIED. .h•Lha,D— On the 7th instant. Harry Grant. infant son of Claire W. and Charles J. Field. GRANT—On Tuesday morning. March 6th. 1866. -Judith R., wife of Samuel Grant, in the 75th year of her age. Funeral service at St. Peter's Church, on Friday morning, at 10 o'clock, punctually. es BJESTMAN—SuddenIy, on the 6th instant, Urania, 'widow of the late Solomon C. Hinman, in the 85th year of her age. • Her relatives and the friends of her family are re spectfully invited to attend her funeral from her late residence, No. 10 Miner street. West Chester, on Thnrs- Slay, Bth instant, at 2 o'clock. P. M. JAYNE—On Monday. the sth instant, of typhoid pneumonia, David Jayne, M. D., in the 67th year of his His. His. relatives and friends, the friends of the fa many and his. Masonic Brethren, are respectfully in -cited to attend his funeral from his late resi ie.: ce, No. South Third street, on Saturday morning next, the 10tti instant. at 10 o'clock. without further - notice. To proceed to Woodlands Cemetery s• LAW—On the sth instant. Henry M. Law. after a .short Dinesss; of smenrcionla.,:iti the 66th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family, are re .spectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late resid.ence, No. 1175 Ridge avenue, on Thursday .afternoon. [the Bth instant, at one o'clock. P. 31. To proceed to Mcnument Cemetery. 31chUaN—At Geneva, Switzerland, on the 15th of February, 1866, Aslahurst 31cEuen, of this city, in the 26th year of his age. SD:RENE—On the morning of the sth inriant. Mary .Angnsta, daughter of Benjamin F.and Marion Shreve, aged 6 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respect filly invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her parents. Mill street, Mount Holly, N. J., on Thursday, Bth instant, at 12 o'clock. 'without further -notice. EYRE & LAriDELL' FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE OPENUNG TO-DAY FOR SPRING SALE% FASHIONABLE NEW SILKS, NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS, NEW - STY - Lk. S SPRING SHAWLS. NEW TRAVELING DRESS GOODS, FINE STOCK OF NEW GOODS. rz.) 09) 1.1 (I) 3=zll Lg .nu w AMA> HOSPITAL. Is 08. 1518 and Lazo Lombard street. Dispensary Department. Med ical treatment and medicines fan:abed gramitinsly 10 the poor. sea 111. T.ARE NOTICE! TARE NOTICE!! GREAT LITERARY TREAT!!! CONCERT HALL. FRIDAY EVEN - LNG. March 9th, Rev. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, at the request of many citizens, will deliver his popular and amusing Lecture, entitled_ " GRUMBLEM At CO ," for benevo lent purposes. Admission ,2f, cents : Reserved Seats, So cents. Tickets at T. B. Pugh's Book Store, Sixth and Chestnut streets. rah2.-Strp fri" CO.NCERT TT ALT ""Trofessor Wm. H. Day will deliver the F. 1 1 ,1 a LEG. TUBE, of the course before the Soelal. Civil and Sts tistical Association, THURSDAY EVENING,Ifarch 8, at Concert Hall. Subject: " EQUALITY RPFORE THE LAW." The BLACK SWAN will sing a few select airs. 171 35 cents, to be had of T. B. Pugh, Sixth and:Chestnut streets. and at the door. Doors open at I Begin at 8. mh.3-strpi 10 , NORTH AMERICAN MUTING COMPANY. Office. No. S WALNUT street, (Second floor.) 10°,000 SIT A TCFS, CAPITAL STOCK. Par Value.- This Company owns in fee simple several valuable Silver Mines in Nevada. 50,000 BTT A Tt'F's FOR WORKING CAPITAL. 25.000 TO BE SOLD IN 25 LOTS AT 115,000 EACH. Subscriptions received at the office until Mar ch 14th. BY ORDER OF 1 HE DEFLECTORS. • T. S. EMERY, Treasurer. UNTVERSITY OF P.ENNSYLVA_NLA. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Cl OSE OF THE 100TH SESSION'. The Commet, cement Exercises will be held at the A FRICAN ACADEMY OR MUSIC, WEDNESDAY, March 14th, at 12 M. Valedictory by Professor HENRY H. SMITH, M.D. 'Music by the full Germania Orchestra. be public is invited to attend. Tickets may be ob tained at PUGH'S, Sixth and Chestnut, and at ASH MEAD S EVANS', 724 Chestnut street. Doors open at 10k o'clock. Music,will begin at 11 o'clock. mli7-w,f,m,tu,4t/ •R. E, ROGERS, M. D., Dean. ity' THE MEMDF RS OF THE DRUG TRADE of the City of • Philadelphia, are requester to tosimble at the RE.,01319 of the DRUG EX CHANOr, ASt.OOLATIO: B I. No. 17 South THIRD street. on THURSDAY NEXT, the Bth inst., at one o'clock P. M., to give expression to their feelings of regret on the decease of Pr. DAVID JAYNE. and to take such action as may be suited to the occasion. Powers & Weightman, f Russell & gandis, James F. Magee &. Co., Ziegler & Smith, Bobt. Shoemaker, William Gulager 31. G. Rosengarten, Harrison Smith. Geo. H. Ashton, Ferguson &. smith, John M. Marts & Co., J. C. Griffith. William M. Willson, lt* U. OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, PECCLADELPHIA, December 21st, 18.65. LOAN FOR SALE. IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS. The Loan of this Company, due April Ist, 1884, inte rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent. per annum. This Loan Is secured by a mortgage on ail the Com pany's Coal Lands, Canals, and Siackwater Navigation in the Lehigh river,and all their Railroads,constructed and to be constructed, between Manch Chunk and Wilkesbarre, and branch roads convected therewith, and the franchise of the Company relating thereto. Apply t o SOLOMON RH FPHEItD, Treasurer, de2l-rptii 1= South Second street. . NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD urY AND GREEN LANE STATION. The undersigned have on hand a supply of T:FRIGH COAL, equal to any in the market, which they prepare with great carp and deliver to the residents of GERMANTOWN and its vicinity at the following prices, viz BROKEN OR FURNACE COAL 9 00 per Ton. EGG OR SMALL FURNACE 9 00 STOVE OR RANGE__ 0 00 •. .Gma TX STOVE OR CITY NUT 9 00 " .NUT OR CHESNUT 8 50 " A deduction of FIFTY CENTS PER TON will be made when taken from the yard. Adhering strictly to ONE PRICE, an order by letter will have the same effect as a visit in person and will 'l9e promptly attended to. Address to the Office, FRANwr.rN INSTITUTE BUILDING, 15 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET, rOr to the Yard, BINES & SHEAFF, Green Lane and North Pennsylvania Railroad. Pzaman e. Feb. 24, 1266. fe:26-Lmrpi AMUSEMENTS. At the Chestnut to-night "The Three Guardsmen" and "Charles XIL" At the Arch "Sam." At the Walnut Clarke in two capital characters,the entertainment c'osing with "Jonathan Bradford." At the Ame rican a melange of attractive dramatic and other performances. At National Hall the Old Folks. At Assembly Building Signor Blitz and the Sphynx. A MAI. - DIVORCED FOR. MONTHS WITH -our KNowma IT.—A curious petition bas been presented to the Legislature tiy a man named Warren Johnson, of Potter county. He swears that he has recently discovered - that his wife procured a divorce last winter without his knowing that she made an ap plication for such divorce. He was first. Informed that such an act had been passed by seeing it in the published laws. He also says that she deserted him without any - cause to his knowledge, and that the court has full jurisdiction in the case. The affi davit is fortified by a document signed by forty-two citizens of Potter county,who say they knew both parties; that he is an hon -orable,upright and indulgent husband,and that his wife deserted, him without any reasonable, cause and has refused to live .with him for theltst two or three years. The Artists* Fund Reception. The Academy of the Fine Arts was crowded last evening by lovers of pictures, the occasion being the Reception of the Artists' Fend Society, which continues open during the present week. The concourse was so great that it was difficult to examine the pictures with any care, and any notice of them must necessarily be quite cursory. The catalogue shows that one hundred and fifty-seven works of art by the most dis tinguished artists, mainly American, had places on the walls of the Academy. Among the most prominent we may cite pictures by Messrs. E. Moran, Rothermel, J..R. and G. C. Lambdin, E. D. Lewis, S. B. Waugh, F. De B. Richards, W. T. Richards, T. Sully, Paul Weber, J. Hamilton, W. E. Winner, C7Schuesselle, L L. Williams, tc. We can only briefly point out a very few of the paintings which attracted the most atten tion from the throng of visitors. Mr. E. Moran contributes a grand view of a stormy eoast, with a wrecked ship dimly seen through the tempest; a life boat is being launched and the picture is called "The Life Boat." It is the finest work by this able artist we have yet seen, and though nfinished," itbetraysno evidence of crudeness. Itw so surrounded by ad mirers last eveninhat we could only catch an "angel's visit" glimpse of it occasionally. Near it hangs a "Heath Scene," which is remarkably beautiful. It is by an Irish artist, Mr. J. Faulkner, who has lately ar rived in the United States,after quite a series of adventures with custom house officials. Mr. F. also has one or two other charming pictures on exhibition. Mr. George C. Lambdin contributes several delightful pictures. Among those most admired were " Com pen sation," "Flowers," "Tired Skater" (a very graceful sketch.of a young girl who has exhausted herself with her winter sport; and "At the Front." Mr. E. D. Lewis exhibits several fine Pictures: one a view of the Hudson at West Point, one entitled "On the Hudson," and two characteristic landscapes. Mr. Hamil ton's contributions are few, but flail of his usual power. One of the largest and most carefully elaborated pictures in the exhibi tion is "A View of New York, froin East Brooklyn," by Mr. Charles G. Rosenberg. His picture has called forth the most varied criticism from the New York press since Church painted "The Heart of the Andes." One critic thinks its color bad; another thinks it excellent; a third objects to the clouds in the sky; a fourth thinks they are the finest features of the picture, .tc. There . are three points in which the picture is cer tainly excellent; we allude, first, to the ad mirably painted vessel and wharf at the extreme right of the view; next, to, the waves of the river, particularly in the wake of the ferry boat in the "middle ground' , (or rather middle water); and, third, to the disposition of the line of the edifices of the great city. One of the oldest and most distinguished artists in the city last evening cordially endorsed our remark that it was "a very good picture," and we feel quite fortified in our opinion thereby. Mr, Rosenberg is a good critic, a pleasing feuilletonist, and as a playwright has con siderable power; but we think if he would cleave to his brush and drop his pen, he would make a higher reputation than he can possibly do while he has so many irons in the fire. We have exhausted our space, without doing justice to very many really charming pictures, and will close by stating that there has seldom been so fine an exhi bition in this city, and any of our art loving readers who fail to see it will miss a _ermine treat. GERMAN OPERA.—The second perform ance of William Tell showed decided im provement over the first. Mr. Wilhelm Formes, who took the part of "Tell," has a fresh, agreeable barytone voice, and he made a favorable impression. The other artists seemed more at ease than on the first evening, Mlle. Naddi, as "Mathilda," singing very beautifully. This evening Kreutzer's lovely opera, A -Vight in Gre nada, will be played, with Mme. Rotter, llabelmann and Wilhelm Formes in the principal parts. An act of The Magic Flute will also be played. To-morrow evening Era Diavolo will be repeated,and on Friday evening the season will close with The Hu guenots, Mr. Theodore Formes making his debut in the part of "Raoul." Columbia College and Xining Engineers. The condition of the country, at present, awakens a wide and searching interest in the future of our mineral lands. They are real wealth, but like any other land, only so when combined with intelligent labor. The labor they require, however, differs in quality from any other, and the responsi bilities of the chiefs are in some respects singular. In most industries, the engineer is separated from the commercial adminis tration of an enterprise. A railroad com pany require no information from their en gineer as to the probable traffic on their line, they inform themselves of that, and only demand his constructive ability. But the mining engineer alone can judge of the probable future or a mine, distribute the work to undertake, and determine the cost price of the product, which is the basis of all commercial administration. Never theless so imperfectly is the whole duty of the resident engineer fulfilled in this coun try, that in very few mines do the chiefs-:il lustrate their daily work with maps and sections, although these are absolutely ne cessary in order to foresee the exactions of the future, provide for the replacing of ex hausted fields by new, and prepare the de velopment of the production in a wise measure. To administer a mine is, in short, to ap preciate its past, present, and future, and to economise everywhere, but it requires a considerable course of special studies to do so intelligently. To produce is • not generally the most difficult problem, but rather to produce at a price which assures the progressive ex tension of the works; offers security for time to come, and makes the enterprise march in that normal and rational manner which inspires confidence. Columbia College was the first of the learned institutions in this country, which, PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1866. aroused by the peculiar importance of this subject, established a school for the instruc tion of the engineers we need. The school she opened in 1864 met with success. It has now nearly eighty young men studying this useful and and attractive profession, hith erto taken out of their hands by foreigners. Whatever learning was once to be found only abroad, is now transplanted here, and will be vitalized by American culture. As the test of success is imitation, so the ex ample of Columbia College was followed, and other schools similar to hers were promptly established in various parts of the - United States. The demand for instruction tends to increase, and the school in blew York will probably graduate for some time fifty students per year. These engineers will have the advantage of a complete prac tical education, and an indorsement whose value any one can estimate by visiting the School of Mines, Columbia College. It remains to be considered whether there is a demand for the graduates. There is doubless room for them, but we have now • moreover an institution by means of which their influence may be distributed from a centre, and their action guided by the real power that moves them—that is the capital of the country. Mr. John Pondir imagined and established a bureau of mines, which is in some sense a reservoir of accomplished and reliable engineers. These men will come into wider contact with capitalists and owners of mines, through the bureau, and so find their interest, while on the other - hand the capitalists will find it to their ad vantage to apply for mining talent or infor mation to the bureau, as the fullest, most accredited and independent source. A school of mines and a bureau of mines seem to be two ideas almost cognate and mutually involved, passing from education to application, in the only orderly way. The interest of mines is so great, that all foreign nations make its regimen a prominent object of the general government, ant their schools and bureaus are subsidized by the public treasury. We do by individual en terprise what a government must do for a less energetic people; yet in our method of operating we cannot be wrong in adoping that organization which abroad -has made mining engineering the most conscientious and perfect in the world.—N. Y. nmes,Feb.2. Letter of General Geary The Harrisburg Telegraph publishes the following correcrcopy of a letter of General Geary's, written last summer: NEW CUMBERLAND, CUMBERLAND Ps.., August 14, 1865.—5 M—, Esu.— Dear Sir: Haying been absent and just re turned, I have the honor to find your two letters, viz.: that of the 26th ult., covering your excellent. letter of S= J—, and that of the 3d inst., from Connellsville. The sub ject matter of both, and of the letter en closed, has been carefully noted, and for the fraternal manner of its presentation I feel deeply indebted to you. I feel assured you will bear me testimony that I have never personally aspired to the honor of the Chief Magistracy of the State of Pennsylvania, for which position you have the kindness to indicate my name; and, further, that when it has been a subject of conversation, that I have instinctively shrunk from the responsibilities it devolves upon its possessor. I have never been an aspirant for that honorable position. I never have, directly or indirectly, given my consent to any person er party to use my name . for it. Therefore lam perfectly free from any entangling al liances on the subject, and frankly say to you that if the nomination and elec tion were laid at my feet, I would still feel my inability to fill so high a position with that exalted capacity and sparkling intel lect which is so eminently desired in the Executive chair. Impressed with the considerations to which I have just glanced, to which I may superadd, the .wealth, and which it seems necessary for the candidate to possess, is not mine; I must, therefore, at present decline to be considered a candi date. I have been a life-long Democrat, and I am still a Democrat in the truest and most ample construction of the word and mean ing of the term, without any prefix or affix whatever, maintailfing all the immutable truths which under the superstructure of our form of government, in all their length and breadth, height and depth—not as mere abstractions,but as active and positlye vitalities, invigorated by the greatest iii= tensity of patriotism. This letter has been written in haste for your own inspection only. Again thanking you for your many kind expressions, I have the honor to be truly, Ac., Fraternally yours, JOHN W. GEARY. PROF, MARK BAILEY, OF YALE COLLEGE. —The announcement, in another part of our paper, that this popular elocutionist is to give a reading, at Concert Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 13th instant, is hailed with pleasure by all, of our citizens who appre ciate this refined, instructive and pleasing class of entertainments. We only know Prof. Bailey by reputation, but if he is what the New Haven Journal and Courier of De cember 1, 1865 ' claims for him, he can just as readily fill Concert Hall for a score of nights as for a single evening. We give the paragraph referred to entire: "Of Prof. Bailey's reading we can hardly speak too warmly. His rendering of the ghost scene in Hamlet, and the conversa tion between Hamlet and his mother, ex hibited most forcibly his wonderful power of expression in the most delicate shades of meaning, and was strangely effective. We doubt if there is a reader in the country who can render these passages with more power or perfect appreciation of the text. The dialogue between Hubert and Price Arthur, from King John, was also rendered very finely, and with most excellent effect. Many a hearer, however, familiar with the drama, found the tears coming perforce as the little prince pleaded so passionately for his eyes. The ballad, Charley Machree, by Hop in, also gave opportunity for the display of the most intense emotion, and closed in a pas sage of rare beauty and tenderness, which was finely given. The brilliant wit of Sheridan, in the family quarrels between Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, received new point and polish from the effective render ing, and even Dogberry, Shakspeare's drollest caricature, seemed more laughable than ever as we listened. On the whole, the reading was a decided success, displaying a perfection of skill, a command and excel lence of voice, and a keenness of apprecia tion and power of expression which very few, readers possess." NEw ILlivresitinE holds her State election next Tuesday. Her Union State Com mittee has completed a careful canvass of the legal voters, which shows the following aggregates for Governor: Smyth (Rep.) 86,3641Sinchdr (Dem.) .. . 590 Doubtful.-- I,B33lSmytli's clear maj 2.941 If the vete is all out, Gov. Smyth must have at least 3,000 majority. Lincoln in '64 had 3,529. OUR WELOLE COUNTRY. ANOTHER ALLEGED NEW YORK SWIN DLE. A Clerk Charged with Squandering Forty Thousand Dollars [From to•day'a FL Y. Herald.] COURT OP COMMON PLEAS- SPECIAL Tzam—Before Judge Cardozo.— Another interesting case, involving alleged misap propriation of funds intrusted to a person in a fiduciary character, turned up in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday,at Cham bers, before Judge Cardozo. The matter had been kept quite secret up to yesterday, but necessarily leaked out at last, owing to a discussion on the subject in open court on a motion to discharge the party implicated from arrest. The latter, whose name is Louis A. Colin, was, it appears, for some time for eign clerk in the banking house of Dun can, Sherman Co., of this city, end in such capacity had charge of the box con Riving a large amount of securities deposited with the above firm by parties traveling abread and desiring to obtain letters of credit. In the complaint it is charged that Colin ab stracted from this box an amount of United States bonds and railroad securities valued at forty thousand dollars, and that he de posited them with brokers as margins for private stock speculations of his own. The entire amount was swallowed up in Colin's unfortunate operations, and as the natural result of his ill-luck discovery became inevi table, so say the plaintiffs. In November, 1565, the absent securities were missed, and it is alleged that Mr. Colin made a clean breast of his misdeeds to Mr. Mclntosh, a member of the firm of Duncan, Sherman Co. On the other hand, the defendant claims that he confessed the deficiency voluntarily, and that his offence was condoned by his employers, who subsequently settled with him, on payment of $4,000 in cash, and on the understanding that he would refund the balance in yearly instalments; further, that the plaintiffs afterwards redeemed the se curities hypothecated by Colin, and paid some $24,000 for that purpose.. The action was brought against Colin to recover this amount so paid for redeeming the securities, and the defendant was arrested last Novem ber on civil process issued by a Judge of the Supreme Court. The Judge demanded bail in the sum of $25,000, in default of which Mr. Colin was committed to the county jail, vc here he has remained ever since. A motion was made yesterday by Judge Dittenhoffer, on behalf of the defendant, for his discharge from further imprisonment on the ground that he had no property out of which the judgment could be satisfied. Mr. Larocque, the counsel for Duncan, Sherman & Co., opposed the prisoner's dis charge, asserting that he hsd horses and carriages, and was the owner of a farm and other property situated in the State of New Jersey. s Judge Ditterkhoffer replied to this state ment, and incisted that his client had lost his farm. horses, carriages and everything else by his unfortunate stock speculations. The counsel contended that there was no ev idence before the court that the defendant possessed any property whatever; that the papers contained a true statement of the af fairs of Mr. Colin and that the debton which be had been arrested was one on tort and not on contract, and that these proceed ngs only applied to cases on contract. The prisoner had a right to regard the debt as one on contract, since Duncan, Sherman t Co. had waived the tort, first by settling with Mr. Colin, and second by advancing the money to defendant with which to re place the stocks and securities abstracted. It would be monstrous to compel an insol vent to adopt the language or allegations or frame of complaint made by plaintiffs, be cause a plaintiff could at all times frame his cause of action so as to make it one of tort, and thereby could prevent a defendant from taking advantage of these proceedings by insisting it was one of tort. At the conclusion of this argument the Judge took the papers and reserved his de cision. Grand Consolidation of Telegraph Lines. [From the Boston Traveler. ktarai The negotiations which have been in pro gress for several weeks past looking to the consoltdation of the principal lines of tele graph in the United States under one corn peny, that which before controlled only the American wires, were brought to ,a close on Saturday last, in New York, where the papers were signed, sealed and delivered. In a few weeks all the details will be per :ected, when the vast telegraph connections of the United States, including also those ihrough Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, will substantially come under one head, with tens of thousands of miles of wires, running from Newfoundland and Halifax west to the shores of California and south to the Gulf of Mexico, and having a capital estimated as high as fifty million dollars. The American line, which absorbs the other lines, controls the wires from Halifax, through Maine, Massachusetts Conn tient, Rhode Island and the Middle S es to Washington, and thence by two route , the Atlantic and Southwest, or inland, to i ons posts in the Southern States, endin at New Orleans. The Western Union line uns from New York to St. Louis and San F an cisco, covering many important points in the Middle and Western States, and c s trolling all the lines in California. The United States line runs from Portland south to Washington and west to Omaha,liansas, and many stations in the Middle and West ern States, and were building, when the consolidationtook place, a line to San Fran cisco. - - - Thus it will be seen that all the important working wires in this country will soon be under the entire control of one company. The only exceptions so far as we know,are the Van Choate or Insulated line, recently erected, running from Portland to Wash ington, and the Franklin Company's wires, from this city to New York. A charter has recently been granted by the Legislature of Maine for another tele graph line through that State, and subscrip tions to a considerable amount have al ready been, made. There may be also some small lines in the Middle and Western States not included in the grand consolidation; but practically the •new corporation sweeps the board. From small beginnings telegraphing in this country has advanced during tne past quarter of a century, with rapid strides, to become a great power, perhaps bothfor good. and evil, and when the line by way of the western coast of the United States and British North America, through Behring Straits and Russia to London,is tinished,the mighty circle will be complete, with nearly the whole combined world in telegraphic communication. This great result, if no unexpected obsta cles are encountered, will be reached within a very few years, perhaps by the time of an other Presidential contest in this country. Gen. Grant's Adjutant General instantly railed on the Hudson River Railroad. [From to-day's N. Y. Herald ) Col. Theodore S. Bowers, Adjutant Gen eral on Gen. Grant's staff, was instantly killed by falling between the cars while at tempting to get on the train just as it was starting from Geson's station (opposite West Point), on e Hudson River Railroad, yesterday afternoon. Gen. Grant ordered his remains to be sent to West Point, in care of Major Erin. One of the most infallible proofs of Gene ral Grant's greatness is the singular facility with which he reads men's characters at a glance, and selects his subordinates. Almost every early member of his staff, selected when unknown and when their latent qualities were hid to all other eyes than ttioie of Grant, have become successful and famous. He saw and appreciated Sherman when laid on the shelf as a madman. He made McPherson his chief engineer, when all others saw in him only a talented captain of the Engineer corps. He made General Barry, now recognized as one of the best artillerists in the army, his chief of artillery, when only a captain, and saw him rise to be a Major-Geneftd. He selected Sheridan out of the midst of the first battle in which he had ever seen him to command his cavalry on the Potomoc. He selected John A. Rawlings to be his adjutantgeneral when he was but a captain in the volunteer service, and has seen him rise by merit alone to the position of brigadier general in the regular army. Away back in the days of Fort Donelson, when, as a brigadier general, Grant was only entitled to one ad jutant general, he selected Private Theo dore S. Bowers, in whom he had discerned the qualities which afterwards made him distinguished, to be a sort of assistant or chief clerk to his adjutant general No sooner had he obtained the requisite rank than be made Rawlings his chief of staff and made Bowers his adjutant general, and saw him rise from a private in the volunteers to be a colonel in the regular army. Colonel Bowers was an ornament—is a loss to any service. He would have honored any rank in the army, and in his specialty bad no superior in the service. A quiet, patient little gentleman, always pleasant and always gentle, and at the same time thoroughly systematic and methodical in all he aid, his office was a hive where labor was pleasure, and drones and loungers were ashamed to be. For more than three years of the war he carried Grant's papers in his brain, and never wearied with the labor he delighted in. Every man who ever came in contact with him, will recall, as he reads the sad story of his death, the delight with which he granted, the pleasantness with which he refused a request or favor. He was yet young,and life held out to him many alluring hopes,promiss of fame. He had in deed already attained success, and nothing more remained for him but to wear his "blushing honors thick upon him," when he is suddenly cut off in the horrible man ner we have described. He'has long been in General Grant's canlldence and the Gen eral loved him as a son. Within a month past be introduced the Colonel into his own family, and made him, as far as he could, a member of it. Col. Bowers was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, in IS3;. In early life he learned the trade of a printer, and when the war broke out was engaged in publishing a paper in his native place. He was at one time the best compositor in the Missouri Republican office. He was originally a pri vate in one of the Illinois regiments. His last promotion bore date March 13th, 16'65, and read "Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Theo dore S. Bowers, United States Army, to be Colonel by brevet, for faithful and merito rious services during the war." Death of a Prominent Divine. From the Pittsburgh Gazette of Tuesday] The telegraph brings us the news of the death of the celebrated divine, Alexander Campbell, who died at his home in Bethany, West Virginia, on Sunday night last. "Bishop" Campbell, as he was popularly called, was born in Scotland in 178, and was educated there, emigrating with his father to this country in the early part of this century, settling in the western part of Virginia. He was educated as a Presby terian, but withdrew from that body and joined the Baptist in 1812. His resistance to creeds in this body led to considerable discussion and asperity, and in 182.9 he was expelled. He had, however, many sympa thizers, and he immediately began to form churches based upon hostility to all creeds and taking the Bible alone as a formula of faith. Shortly after his exclusion from the Bap tist organization he commenced the publi cation at Bethany, Va., of the Christian Baptist, a monthly work, which was con tinued for seven or eight years, when the Harbinger took its place, and has ever since been maintained as the organ of his peculiar views. The religious movement, of which Mr. Campbell a - -as the chief promoter, grew ra pidly throughout the West and he South, and the denomination known by them selves as "Disciples," and by the outer world as "Canapbellites," has since become a potent religious element. He was' gene rally regarded as its originator, but erro neously; many independent Baptist con gregations based nponthe saute idea having existed in various parts of the country for years previously. The "Bishop' was an ecclesiastic rather aggressive in his disposition, and besides numerous controversies in his monthly paper, he held three notable public discus sions—one with the celebrated infidel, Robert Owen, at Cincinnati, in defence of the Christian religion; one with Bishop Purcell, at Cincinnati, on Catholicism; and one in Kentucky with Dr. Rice, on Bap tism, in all of which he showed great con troversial ability and profound learning. In 1841 he founded Bethany College, an institution to which he directed the main efforts of his declining years, and after many discouragements he succeeded in putting it in a flourishing condition. He was a very popular preacher, and always drew crowds to hear him wherever he went. A man of large mind, clear com prehension, and with great force as a public speaker, he was very justly regarded by his religious friends with great veneration. There have been undoubtedly, and are, many religious leaders as able as he; but his peculiar position as the foremost man in an active religious movement doubtless made him seem, in the eyes of some, a giant taller than them all. It is noteworthy that in the denomination of "Disciples" lately, a strong feeling has developed itself in favor of reunion with the BaptiaN and although Mr. Campbell did not live to witness thataccomplishment, its success at an early day is no means im .roVable. A NEw:and somewhat expensive fail:don has latterly been introduced by the Em press of Austria. Her Majesty attaches a diamond, to represent a dewdrop, to a natural flower, which is worn in the hair or borne in the hand as a bouquet. F. L. FETHERSTON. Pubban, DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS. Facts- and Fancies, If the President should (let:lde to- part with his Raffaelle we can recommend to - him a rare 17andyke,aia undoubted original. The celebrated Paris preacher, Father Hyacinthe, is in disgrace with the Pope. It . is reported that Monsignor Chigi, the papal nuncio,has conveyed the censure of His Hol iness to Father Hyacinthe, and ordered him to go to Rome to give an explanation of his conduct with his own Tulips. • •-• It is an amusing fact that the debate . in Congress yesterday,on the lisherygnestion, was led by a Down East Pike. Judge Daly, of the New York Court of Common Pleas, has decided that the - fare of six cents charged by the horse railroads is . illegal. In 1864 the Daily Fair was ten cents in Philadelphia. We avoid this- new decision now by paying seven cents. How could the Fenian branch of the De mocratic Convention expect to get along with their erratic Valks,with sucha Clymer ahead of them. • A danseuse in Floreneq was called-before the curtain sixteen times. The whole house was irradiated every time they saw her foot light there. An opera in Florence is entitled the "Suez - Canal." Palmerston and Lesseps are- the two principal characters, and play a duet on boat-horns. It is said that the "Suez Canal" had to be extensively "cut" before it could be brought out. The tickets of the opera ball in New York are said to be about the size of an ordinary window shutter. They will be very handy to carry young men home on.. The Charleston (h urler is gratified to ob serve indications of the rebuilding of the burnt district in that district. At present the visitor imagines himself in 'Ashville. A permanent Petroleum Board is to be' established in Nashville; also a weekly pa per in the mining district. There is not as much permanent petroleum bored in Ve nango county now as might be desired, though we believe they have several weakly papers. The lady who writes under the nom de phone of "Elolme Lee, - a Miss or Mrs. Harriet Par, is about to publish, in two volumes, "The Life and Death of Jeanne &Arc, called the Maid." Few ladies make themselves "Holme Lee," voluntarily. It seems like a useless depreciation of what might just as well be par. A serial novel in course of publication in Paris is called "The Embalmed Husband." It is to be followed by a sequel, called "The Embalmboozled Wife, or Can a man marry his own Mummy?" GRANT NOMINATED.—The Republicans of Rochester, N. Y., in city convention to nominate charter officers, concluded the proceedings by the spontaneous and unani mous nomination, by acclamation, of Lieut. Gen. Grant as their candidate for the Presidency at the election of 1868. Remark ing on this;the Rochester Democrat says.— "We speak what we know when we say that Gen. Grant is in sympathy with Con- gress and the Republican party on the great questions of the day. His nomination • therefore is a= safe and sound one, and he is himself a• safe man, on whose discre tion we can thoroughly rely. Few candi dates for the Presidency could be trusted to , undergo the ordeal of a two years' cam- t paign. But Grant is one of the few. We can depend on his judgment and reticence. He will write no foolish letters, he will make no disgusting speeches. He will harmonize and reconcile all factions, and draw to our standard multitudes of good and quiet citi zens who care little for parties and do not concern themselves about platforms, but who earnestly desire to see the Government in honest, strong and wise hands." A BREEZE.-W. J. Florence. the actor, was charged with having said,some months ago in St. Louis, that "there is no such thing as a Southern gentleman." This statement appears to have been given to the public by F. G. De La Fontaine, of the Charleston News, who added that Ben De Bar bad horsewhipped Florence for saying it. When Florence appeared at the Mem phis theatre last week to play, he found the audience had been stirred up against him by the Avalanche, which had given currency to the story. Florence telegraphed to De Bar, who replied that no such language had been used by. Florence, and no assault had been made. CLOUDS OF PIGEONS.—The atmosphere of Cincinnati was disturbed on Thursday, by the flight of prodigious flocks of pigeons, the whir of whose innumerable wings at times was heard like the rush of the wind through a leafy wilderness. It is conjec tured that this extraordinary movement of birds indicates the breaking up of a pigeon roost in Indiana. The pigeons were flying from the southeast to the northwest out of range. A CONNECTICUT Yankee is in Washington with a patent labor-saying Constitutional amendment machine, for the use of mem bers of Congress, warranted to turn out thirteen hundred amendments per hour. He'll make a fortune. NINE young Roman Catholic priests.,edu cated at the College of the Foreign Missions in France, recently left Paris for Mar seilles, whence they will proceed to Egypt, and thence to preach in Japan,Cochin China and Thibet. vr,l:4 la I :Ili M I I tTr'''r.7.lffV7lVlPl • Su; Marino btaletin on Sixth .Page, ABEIVED THIS DAY. Schr A L Massey, Donnelly, from Washington, in ballast to captain. lfaaMlD THIS DAY. Steamer Cambria. French,Savannah. E A Souderb•oo. Brig Surf, Sweetland, Trinidad. 33 S Stetson & Co Schr Moses Williamson, Donnelly,N Orleans. Dorton & Steady. Schr Lydia A May, Baker. Boston. E V Glover. Schr Gov Burton, Peacock, Boston, Bancroft, Lewts & Co. Scbr Cherub Layman, Manville. do Schr Industrious, Wright, Quinton. do Scbr HenrylPerkins, Burden, Newburyport via New Castle, Holbrook& Hughes. MEMORANDA. Steamer Saxon, Matthews, hence at Boston at 3 o'clock this morning. Steamer Claymont, Allen, sailed from 'Richmond sth inst. for this port. Ship Dreadnought, Cushing, at San Francisco tette t nit. chartered to load guano at Chincha Islands ib Hampton Roads at $l6 (gold). Ship Marcia C Day, Chase, cleared at Boston SestnEs.. day for New Orleans. Brig Valencia, Small, cleared at Boston yasterdai for Barbados. Behr Ocean Wave, Jeffers, hence at Fall River - '4721 instant. Schr H Comma. Christian, cleared at Boston yester day for Jaclmonville Sohn Adele Trndell, Timmons, and L M. Wing, Ett. dicott, hence tbr Boston, at Holmes Hole sth inst. MARINE 2,IISCY . Se.hr We Wind (of Portland), Captain Harrington. sank off Chatham, Cape Cod, yestuday. Crew saved and went on board the /to G wyer. The was el tons register built atntine BrewerSa W Me. in 1856. W Schr Matamoraeof Portland). Wilson, from Port. land for St John, NB . went ashore in a snow squall on Sunday night, 25th ult. on Saltkill Ledge‘olf Point Papuan, and went to pieces in four hours. Henri sizing (a boy) of Dennis - Otpe. was lost by the cap sizing of the boat alongside. The rest of the crew were all saved, but badly frostbitten. Steamer Vartma, of Mystic, 1,093 tons, now at New York, has been sold to parties in that city for pup&
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