GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XIX.---NO. 275.
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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.
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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&