enSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 293. II DCA DidleSti I FIRDV 111101 PUBLISBED EVERY EVENING, (Sundays excepted) at No. 229 Cheitnut Street, Philadelphia. BY TEM "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPRIETORS, GIBSON PEACOCK, CASPER SOTIDER, Jr. IP. L. PETHERST ONOMAS J , ERNEST 0. WALLACE. SOMAS wrradAmsoN. The Itax.r.krrer is served to subscribers in the city at mirth stauton per week, payable to the carriers, or ts oo per . 01)18i1 1 1 DAVIS—On Tuesday, the 27th, Morgan S. Davis. Tine notice of the funeral will be given. • KNIGHT—On the 26th Instant, Esther Knight,in the - 28th year of her age. Her friends and those of the family are invited to -attend the funeral from .Friends' Meeting-house, Fourth and Gretn streets, on Fourth day, ttie 28th instant, at 3P. M. Interment at Fah Hill._ • TOWNSEND—On the :6th instant, Dr. Charles Tbwrimnd. His male.frlends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, No. ao W. Logan Square, on Thureday, the 29th instant at 11 A.M. • WOLF.F.—On the morning of the 27th instant, Dr. Wm. W. Wolfe, of ettliton, Del. OBITUARY Departed this life on the 25th instant, SAMUEL C COOPER, Esg. He was a gentleman of sterling worth ..and strict integrity. He possessed allot those noble and rare qualities which go to make up the character of a high minded and honorable man. For very many years past, Mr. Cooper was identified with all the ac tive and progressive interests of our city; he was the dirat of marctiants who more than thirty years ago, embarked a large capital in the wholesal ready-made clothing business. The firm of B. C. &S. C. ckioper, so long asd favorably known to our old merchants, of 'which he was an active and energetic member, occu pied the entire building situated on the Southeast cor ner of Third and Market streets; from thence the firm removed to what In those days was esteemed a large and elegant store under the old Philadelphia Bank, -Chestnut street, above Fourth, where they continued =any years As a politician, he was an active and zealous old line :Whig; for ten years prior to 1845 he was Treasurer of the Whig bxeeutive Committee, and was always closely identified with the interest of lb. great party. He was at the time of his death, with . to exceptioa, le oldest School Director In this city: he was first 481 ected to that position at the Northwest Grammar .thool, where he continued a Director for sixteen Tsars. He represented with marked ability the trolem srty of the ESixth Ward in Common Council during t ie years 1848 and '49. For the last few years of his life was engaged in the real estate business. His death a an irreparable loss to ihe community of which be was an honored and valued member. Thus one by one pass away our old and much es. eemed merchants, who contributed by their daily can• net and exemplary lives to establish and build up ur city's greatness. lt* EYRE:& LANDELL' FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE OPE.NING TO-DAY FOR SPRING SALES. FASHIONABLE NEW SILKS, NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS, NEW STYLES SPRING SHAWLS. NEW TRAVELING DRESS GODS, PINE STOCK OF NEW GOODS. itYll4l/JMft. VHOWARD HOSPITAL. Nos. 1518 and 1820 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med treatment and medicines fbrnbibed gratuitously -Snake poor. sea lUD OFFICE•OF TECH COAL RIDGE IMPROVE MENT AND COAL COMPANY, PHILADA.., Illarch2B, 1866. The Adjourned Meeting of the Stockholders of the Coal Ridge Improvement and Coal Company will be held at their Office, ns WALNUT street, on SATUR DAY. March 81st, 1866, at T 2 o clock M. All the Stockholders are urgently requested to at tend. SAMUEL C. MORTON, 131D28 Std Chairman Stockholders' Meeting. iY IiERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.— SOME B. GOUGH, Eso-, Will deliver a Lecture on • TRILESDA* 1101.C. , 143, March Subject—TEMPKRA_NCE. TICKETS, 250., 80c.t, and 7.5?. Vor sale at Claxton's. 606 Chestnnt street; and Ash mead dr E - vans's. 724 Cbestrut r treet. _ . Doors open at 7 o'clock .O'clock. OFFICE OF DENSMORE OIL COMPANY, i~ T 7 h ll4 South THIRD Street. e ' regular Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the • 'DENSMORE OIL COMPANY."- For the election of officers and Board of Dlre - tors for - she ensuing year. and other business. will take place at the office of tce Company, on Wednesday. April lltn, 1866. T. TUT/'.LE, Secretary. IL--Stockholders are requested to bring their cer tificates. r01r28.104 'The Brevoort Fire Insurance Company. [From To-day's N. Y. Herald.] A rumor was current among the members -of the business community yesterday morn ing to the effect that the Directors of the Brevoort Fire Insurance Company held E meeting at twelve o'clock yesterday for the purpose of passing judgment upon the future fate of that institution. No details - were given, and the result of the meeting did not subsequently transpire. The finances of the Brevoort Insurance Company have recently been heavily mulcted by the acci dental fires that have taken place in this .city, and it was principally the knowledge of this fact that -gave an appearance of veracity to the rumor. COURTS. - - - - SIIPIEEN.LE Coumr—Chlef Justice Woodward and _Justices Strong, Read and Agnew.—The Pennsylva nia Railroad Company et aL vs. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. This morning tee Court ordered that the motion to dissolve the injunc tion should be argued at Wilkesbarre on the 19th of _June. . . _ P. S. Peterson & Co., vs. Union National Bank.— ,Error to District Court of Philadelphia. Strong, J. That the check of Stampford & Houston was not ac tually paid is a conceded fact. No more is claimed than that the bank paid it, in legal effect, by charging it to the drawers and crediting its amount to the plain tiffs. But what of that? Surely it needs no argument to prove that the plaintiffs can retain no credit ootained be their fraud. 3he drawing a check upon a bank in -which the drawer has no funds, and uttering -it, is a fraud. It amounts to a false affirmation that the money is ready to meet It. Hens.-, it is a deceit, prac tised upon any person to whom the check may be ne getiated, and equally upon the bank upon which It may be drawn. It is manifestly impossible for the otii- CerS of a bank to keep ever in memory the state of each depositor's account. To a certain extent conti .dence is reposed in the depositor that be will not present for payments checkwhich he has not provided funds to meet, and the abuse of that confidence Is dis honest. It is not easy to see how it is less dishonest in the holder of a check drawn by another to present it for payment. when he knows that the drawer has no - Minds in bank to meet it. His knowledge makes him a party to the fraud of the drawer, and he becomes a willing assistant therein. • It was therefore, a most important inquiry in this -case, whether the plaintiffs at the time when they sent - the check to the bank to be credited to their account .knew that Stampford and 73ouston,the drawer, had no funds there to meet it. If they had such knowledge they made themselveg parties to the false affirmation, :and that secured the credit which they now seek to en force, and we are of opinion that the case was properly submitted to the jury. The evidence was, that the check was presented after one o'clock, and there was Very consid. cable evidence that before that hour the plaintiffs had been informed that the drawers would :not make the check good. It would then have been a gross error had the Court directed a verdict for the plaintiffs, or refused to submit to the jury the question whether tee check was fraudulently presented; that is, - presented with the knowl e dge that Stampford and _Houston had no funds In bank to meet it, knowled g e withheld from the officers of the bank. The principle case relied upon by the plaintiffs, Levy vs. Bank 4 Dal 238. and 1 Bin 36. is distinguishable from the pre sent by the very important fact that the depositor -then was ignorant of the worthlessness of the check when he deposited it, and obtained a credit on its :account. We told them that the exceptions taken to the charge of the learned president of the D. C. are all unfounded. and so are the exceptions to the admission and rejec tion of evidence. They are all unimportant, except the first, and that will appear from what has been said to be unsustainable. It certainly was a natural Pet that the deposit of the check was not made until after the plaintiffs had been informed that one of the draw ers was gone away and that the check could mg be met. The 2d. 3d, 4th and sth assignments of error may be dismissed, with the remark that they are immaterial. Even if there was error in the rulings of the eoart re ferred to which we do not admit. it was entirely harm- less. Thejudgment is affirmed. F. Carroll Brewster and Henry H. Phillips for Peter son &Co., William S. Pierce and Benjamin H. Brews ter for union National Bank. iftiCHENESE HOUSE-BOATS IN INDIANA.-- The New Albany (Ind.) Commercial re marks that houses are so scarce in that city, that several men in the lower part of the town are building flat-boat houses, intend ing to anchor them out in front of the city and move their families into them. Several .of these aquatic dwellings are now in course -of construction at the city shipyard. • • all 41 11,e Ittitg 1 • Ixtlictilt Mrs. Henry Wood has produced another thrilling, absorbing novel, called "St. Mar tin's Eve." The plot is admirably con trived, .the interest increasing with every chapter. Although a great many characters are ,introduced in the story, all are well managed, occupying distinct positions and contributing decidedly to the entertainment of the reader. What is more remarkable, is the fact that not a single character, male or female, bears the stamp of those exas perating, yielding natures, with which so many people are endowed by novelists, and made to do terrible deeds against their weak wills. All speak intelligently and act from sufficient motives, and their sufferings are inevitable, while their delights are rational. The men are real men, such as Charlotte Bronte delighted to sketch. "St. Martin's Eve" is undoubtedly destined to cause a reaction amongst "conservative" novel readers in favor of Mrs. Wood, inasmuch as it is full of the characteristics which marked the earliest and the very best of her romances. Messrs. T.. B. Peterson dr, Brothers are the publishers, and the de mand for the work is already very pressing. We are in receipt of, and have read with great pleasure, "An Address, delivered be fore the Erie County Medical Society," by its President, Dr. William M. Wallace, a distinguished physician of Northwestern Pennsylvania. It is a complete analysis of the position, powers, duties and faults of the ifiedical profession, mingled with such a ju dicious eulogy of its usefulness,its indepen dence, its conscientiousness and regard for truth and real science as only a practitioner of many years standing could give. Its style is clear, nervous and thoroughly prat-. tieal, and can be enjoyed as much by the reader as by those who were fortunate enough to be present at its delivery. It is published by the Society, and at the unani mous request of its members. A large and highly intelligent audience gathered at the Academy of Music last eve ning, for the purpose of listening to the lec ture of Professor Fairman Rogers, upon the glaciers of Switzerland. The lecturer went into a thorough explanation of the causes of these wonderful phenomena, their magnifi cent beauty and grandeur, gave graphic descriptions of the perils attending their ex ploration and explained the various theories that have been held as to how they advance through the mountain gorges, until they become disintegrated and wasted away in the warmer temperature of the valleys. Masset of solid ice, as the glaciers are, be was clearly of opinion that they flowed, not slid, into the valley below, and he gave many familiar illustrations, to demonstrate the correctness of the the flowing theory. The rate of motion of the great glaciers that flow through the Mer de Glace into the valley of Chamouni, was at the rate of from thirteen inches to two feet per day, or about four hundred and thirty feet is year. When it is taken into consideration that some of these glaciers are formed of ice and snow half a mile in width and hundreds of feet in thickness, the phenomena will appear more wonderful. The lecture was illustrated by scientific diagrams, immensely magnified photo graphic pictures taken upon the spot, and by paintings. • Among the most interesting features of the lecture was an experiment which exhibited the process of the creation of ice and snow. The formation of beauti ful ice crystals, by artificial means, caused great gratification to the The en tertainment throughout was one of the most pleasing and instructive we have ever at tended. Lecture will begin at s ml/27-3t The Sale of Pictures by the /Messrs. Earle, The northeast gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts was filled with a very choice com pany of connoisseurs last evening, and the sale of the pictures was promptly began by Nit.. B. Scott, Jr., at the time named. Some of them brought good prices, but many went for much less than their cost. Of the more important pictures in the room we note the following: Leach's "Future Daugh ter-in-Law" brbught $900; Jordan's "Pro posal of Marriage," $590; Meyer von Bre men's "Coming from Market," $600; Ho g,uet's "Off Brest,', $465, and his "View of Heligoland," $195; E.D. Lewis's "Valley and Falls of the Amonoosack," $450; two mode rate-sized pictures by. Engelhardt, $250 and $245 respectively, ttc., ittc. Bat many really tine works were sold fora mere song. This evening the pictures in the southeast gal lery, which include the best in the collection' will be sold. There has seldom been so good an opportunity of getting fine works of art at moderate pribes. MR. JARVIS'S MATINEE. -We inad vertently spoke yesterday of Mr. Jarvis's classical matinee as to •be given to-day in stead of to-morrow afternoon. The bill for the occasion is a very rich one. Schubert, one of the most genial (whether in the German or English sense) of the German composers, heads the list of contributions to this delightful programme. His melodic forms, and the abundance of them, render his works acceptable to all hearers and at all seasons. His fantaisie for piano and violin may be expected in rare perfection from the hands of Messrs. Jarvis and Gaert ner. Mr. Schmitz givesi a new solo from Gross, entitled a Ballade, and Mr. Jarvis the great sonata in C from Weber, wbo is yet regarded as the brightest ornament of German musical composition. His works, like Schubert's, flash and burnjwith the in spiration cif genius, and are full of beautiful melodies. Mendelssohn, the great favorite of young Germany, closes the programme with a brilliant quintette for piano and strings, to be performed by Gaertner, Jar vis, Kammerer,Plagemann and Schmitz. The concert taes place to-morrow after noon at four o'clock, at the Foyer of the Academy of Music. NEW PUBLICATIONS Professor Rogers' Lecture. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1866 I For the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Express Business. Transportation by express has become a large and very important interest, affecting most directly the merchants and manufac turers of the country, who contribute seventy five per cent, of the business done in, that way. It has wonderfully increased. The con stant fluctuations of prices, and the l sharp competitions of trade, have compelled fre quent and comparatively small purchases of goods, and greater dispatch and certainty of shipment, than are furnished by the or dinary freight lines. Hence expresses have become a commercial necessity, the out growth and complement of our railroad and telegraphic systems; business competition compels their use. Their employment by a few in any locality compels their use by competitors in trade until, at whatever cost, they must be, and are, very largely em ployed. The great complaint has hitherto been that this large and important interest is not open to that free competition, which, in all other important matters regulates charges; but that it is an exacting monopoly, demanding, and receiving more than a just equivalent for the work performed. This conviction has finally led the mer chants and business men of the country to organize an Express Company of their own, on a large scale, giving them at once an ample capital and full brisiness, both con tributed by the members of the organiza tion, who are , thus united by - the double ties of sympathy and interest. The organization is denominated The Mer chants' Union _Express Company, with a capital of fifteen millions of dollars, distri buted in small sums to the patrons of the business throughout the country. The dis tribution of the stock was commenced in the Great West and continued by a careful canvass of the great lines of trade, from St. Louis to sea-board cities, and with a degree of success exceeding the fondest hopes of the projectors. We are assured that fifty millions would have been subscribed, had that sum been needed. The organization in this city has juSt been completed by the appointment, as trustees, of two of our most thorough and enterpris ing merchants, who see and appreciate the necessity and importance of the enterprise. The trustees here are Henry Lewis, of the house of Lewis, Boardman & Wharton, and Stephen A. Caldwell, of Stokes, Caldwell Company. A limited amount of stock is allotted to this city, which can be taken by the patrons of express business here, and will doubtless be speedily absorbed. The trustees_can give all necessary infortnatlon. The New ".ork Times thus speaks of this organization in that city and elsewhere: " We learn that subscriptions to the stock of this Company are very liberal in this city and throughout the country. The plan of this organization appears to command the favor of our merchants and business men. Its stock is distributed in limited stuns among the merchants in the interior and to the large Metropolitan jobbers; thus com bining in the interest of this Company those who contribute the business. The Trustees in this city are: William H. Appleton, of D. Appleton cf..; Co.; William A. Budd, of Sullivan, Randolph kt: Bqdd ; Aaron Brin kerhoff, of Wright, Brinrerhoff h Co., and J. Trumbull Smith, of J. T. Smith ca Co. These names will commend the enterprise to the favorable notice of the business pub lic. The organization has secured in the Wrest equally strong names. Charles Far well and Clinton 33riggs, of the houses of Farwell & Co., and Ewing, Briggs Co., are the Chicago Trustees, and John Nazro, of Milwaukee; John How and Barton Able, of St. Louis; L. C. Hopkins, of Cincinnati, and ex-Mayor Mills, of Detroit, are also among its Western Trustees. "We understand that the stock of the Company is nearly all subscribed, and that arrangements are being nnade to open at an early day its principal office_th this city. "The President of the Company is Elmore P. Ross, President of the First National . ' Bank, Auburn, N. Y., and its Vice-Presi dent is Witham H. Seward, Jr." Testimonial to Mr. J. P. Crozer. At a meeting of the Board of the American Baptist Publication Society, held on the 26th ins t., Mr. Henry Croskey in the chair, the following minute was presented and ordered to be recorded: It having pleased the great Disposer of Events to remove from among us the late Chairman of this Board, Mr. John P. Crozer, we desire to place on record our estimate of his character and services. Our brother was a man possessed of fine natural abilities, ripened and mellowed under the life long influence of religion. Converted at the early age of 14 years, he maintained'his Christian integrity to the close of his career. In him was combined the simplicity of childhood with the wisdom of age; great tenderness of feeling with stern inflexibility of purpose, and the ability :for stupendous enterprise with marked diet], deuce and humility. We desire also to record our gratitude to God for She grace which illustrated in our brother, the self-sacrificing generosity of the gospel. Of the various benevolent or ganizations of his own denomination, it is believed there is not one which has not re ceived some token of his expansive benefi cence, while our own society has been a pe culiar object of his attachment, and the re cipient of large contributions. He also.ex tended the sphere of his 'liberality beyond the limits of his own denomination. The expressions of regard for his memory by other branches the church attest his freedom from sectarian prejudices, and his Wide and profound sympathy with every effort for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. Largely as we and others have profited by his princely benefactions, the richest gift he has - left to us is his own good name. PHILADELPHIA, March 26th, 1866. A DESPATCH from Baltimore dated yes terday says : Bradly T. Johnson. who left Maryland at the outbreak of the rebellion, and subsequently returned during the inva sion of the State as a General commanding a rebel brigade, was arrested yesterday, by United States Marshal Bonefant, on a war rant issued on an indictment for treason found by the Grand Jury in August last. motion was made before Judge Giles for the discharge of the prisoner on the ground that his parole exempted him from civi prosecution. Judge Giles refused to enter tain the motion, and held Johnson to 'bail for his appearance in the sum of ten thou-; sand dollars. OUR 'WHOLE COUNTRY. Five Thousand Dollars Worth of Goods Some time between Saturday night and Monday morning last, the extensive United States bonded warehouse of John B. Hobby, situated at No. 116 Washington street, cor ner of Carlisle street, was entered by bur glars and robbed of goods amounting in value to nearly $5,000. The burglary was not discovered until the place was opened tor business on Monday morning. Captain Helene, of the Twenty-seventh Precinct, was noified, and repairing to the store pro ceeded to investigate the affair. It appeared that the burglars passed through the tene ment in Carlisle street adjoining the bonded warehouse, and from the second story window gained the roof of a building on West street, immediately in the rear of the warehouse, which slopes down toward the area-way in the rear. They then must have lowered themselves into the area-way, and with a "jimmy" pried open one of the rear basement win dows. This gave them free access to the store, and they then ascended to the second floor of the building, and by means of the "jimmy" forced open several cases of goods belonging to Christ, Jay it Co. importers, of No. 4S Park place, from which they stole between fifty and sixty pieces of hatters' silk goods, valued at nearly $5,000. They also broke open several cases of valuable silk goods, but strange to say, not a single piece of the goods in these cases was stolen. The burglars opened the pack ages of the goods which they deter mined to carry off, stripped off the covers, which were strewn about the floor, and packing the goods in bags left the place with the plunder the same way as they had en tered it. It is supposed that the goods were taken down to the pier at the foot of Carlisle street and placed ou board a boat, and thus carried out of the city. Captain Helme is endeavoring to ferret out the perpetrators of the robbery. Some three months ago the same bonded warehouse was entered by burglars and robbed of a large quantity of silk goods, the greater portion of which was subsequently recovered by Captain Hahne, but the burglars made their escape. It is stated that the warehouse is not as secure against burglars as it might be. THE OIL STOCK BUBBLE.-"THe late de cline in prices, and general stagnation of business, have completely knocked the bot tom out of oil stop s, so that, with two or three exceptions, securities of this charac tei would hardly tempt a bidder now at any price. Even an old, reliable company . , which, but a few months ago, was deemed the most desirable stock in the market, is down to $2O, and can't find buyers even at this, while of the seventy or eighty other companies, whose stock figured so promi nently here during the oil excitement of 1864 and 1865, not half a dozen are now ever heard of, and their shares, if put under the hammer to-morrow, would' hardly bring more than -so much Confederate scrip. The amount of money sunk in these stocks here has been variously estimated at from $12,000,000 to $18,000,000, yet we hear but little complaint from the victims, and with a very few exceptions, no oue seems the poorer. How so much money could have been lost and so few failures fol low is a mystery which we confess ourselves unable to unravel. Had one-tenth the same amount been lost in any other enterprise, it would have resulted most disastrously to our business interests, and entailed a vast amount of hardship on our people ; but, as it . is, no one seems to mind it, and a few years from now the bubble will be tbrgotten.— Pitt.sburg4 Dispatch. VINgLAI•ID.—In this prosperous settle ment, it is said that from eight hundred to one thousand buildings are under stipula tion to go up the present season. A large amount of fruit will come to the Philadel phia market the present season from Vine-; land. Extensive Eorgery in Allegheny. [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch of Yesterday.) In our last issue we briefly referred to the fact, that an extensive forgery had been committed upon one of the banks in Alle gheny city. From an authentic source we have been enabled to obtain the following particulars of the case: On the 19th day of February last a check for thirteen hundred dollars, purporting to have been drawn by Mr. Bernard Gray, a wealthy drover of that city, was presented at the Allegheny Sav ings Bank. The teller, without any hesita tion, cashed the check, and paid no particu lar attention to the young man who had drawn the money. On Monday last another check for twenty-one hundred and ten dollars, likewise purporting to come from Mr. Gray, and bearing a _lac simile of his signature, was presented and cashed. In both instances the checks were drawn by the same hand, and the signatures were ex ecuted in a very clever manner, although upen close comparison with the genuine autograph of Mr.. Gray, there is a very per ceptible difference: On the 21st inst., - Mr. Gray having occasion to use several thou sand dollars,: called at the bank with a check for the amount he required. The cashier of the institution politely informed him that while they were willing to cash his check, perhaps Mr. Gray was not aware that he was considerably overdrawing his bank account. Mr. Gtay stated that such . could not be the case;.as he had not been 'checking for some time-past , and a large balance was certainly due him. The cashier immediately produced the checks, which were at ence pronounced for geries. There was considerable flurry among the officials of the bank upon the discovery that they had been so extensively victimized. Able detectives from this city were sent for without delay, and employed to work up the case and discover, if possi ble, the guilty parties. Suspicion was im mediately attached to a couple of young men hailing from the Eastern part of Ohio, who had by some means obtained the sig nature of Mr. Gray, and had been seen practising it with a pen. They had been in stringent circumstances up to about the time that the first check had been cashed, after which they were flush of funds. They squandered their money freely till the time of the presentation o f the second check, after which they decamped. They were traced to Salem, Ohio, where they were living a fast life and appeared to have a superabundance of money. The detectives thought they had spotted the guilty parties, and left last Wednesday to capture them. Perhaps ere the resent writing they have been arrested. The bank teller feels posi tive that he can identify the person who pre sented the last check. We have the names of the suspected parties, but fearing to frus trate the ends of justice, and knowing no good can be accomplished by the publica tion, we withhold them for the present. Upon the whole, this was one of the bold est pieces of viliany upon record, and has occasioned considerable excitement in bus iness circles of our sister city. It may pro bably turn out that - the young forgers have victimized other parties, as they appear to have been adepts at the business of coun terfeiting. Stolen. jrrom To-day's IC Y. World.) TRADE WITH CANADA. A Pystept of Retaliation Proposed in Re venge for the Abrogation of the Reci procity Treaty—Antustng Exhibition of Pro cincial Wrath. [Prom the Quebec Daily News, March St.] On Saturday last the Reciprocity Treaty between the Provinces and the United States ceased to exist. Surmises and con jectures of all kinds with respect to the pro bable policy of the Canadiah Government p are indulged in. The peculiar and unex pected fiscal crisis should be dealt with, we think, in a fair but defensive spirit. We pro posed reasonable terms to our American neighbork and they rejected our overtures in a tone of assumed superiority that cannot be Mistaken. Our supposed weakness constituted their imaginary strength, and we were expected to bow inhumble submis sion to the dictates of a Derby, a Morrill, or a McCulloch. Foiled in every effort to demean and subjugate us commercially, they have resorted to the last and most reprehensible of strategems. They have assisted in hatching the egg of Femanism,. which was conceived on the dung-hill of Yankee spread-eagle orators, and laid in the nest of New York degradation and demor alization. The progeny may take wing and land on the Canada size, but the filthy rooster will be chased back to peck at the Washington bird that, warmed it into life and vigor. It is clear that our fiscal ;legislation must now be retaliatory. The slightest sign of weakness in this respect well force us down from the dignified and well I supported pe destal on which we now stand. Whether our Finance Minister will direct his atten tion to the free exchange of the products of the industry of all countries, commonly called free:trade, involving, of course, direct taxation as a means of produeingarevenue; or whether he will so remodel our Customs tariff astoprotect Canada against commercial aggression, remains to be discovered when his policy is matured and presented to the Legislature. When Mr. Galt pub lished his resume or 'summary of po litical affairs in London, in 1859, under the title of "Canada. 1849 to 1359," he considered free trade and direct taxation' - as utterly impracticable. It is quite possible that seven years may have operated serious changes in his opinions, and none perhaps greater than that produced by the unex pected abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty. Whatever his plan may be, let us hope that having broken off all treaty obligations with our grasping neighbors, he will so arrange it that they must be held to the Strict letter of our Proclamations, and that in the mat ter of our fisheries, no concessions will be made, unless a thorough equivalent be ten•- dered from the other side. Let us, at this point of our career, strive to be confident, prudent and self-reliant. If enemies assail us, let us be prepared to repel them; and in trade,,as in arms, let us protect ourselves agains the wiles and stratagems of an enemy. Facts and Fancies. A recent number of Grimon's "Veber Ku en stler and Kunstwerte" speaks of a hitherto unknown painting by Leonardi da Vinci, in the possession of a resident of Berlin, by the name'of INlendelasohn. It is the portrait of a young man, in the highest state of preserva tion. A young man in that state is an ex cellent subject for an artist. Why was Topsy like a door? Because she was an 'egress. Mr. Stockton stuck to his seat until the question came down to a Riddle. Then Stockton "gave it up." The new Atlantic telegraph cable will bear a strain of cwt. toa ton more than the old one. The "old familiar strain" was always finished by an imperfect chord. Possibly a simple Virginia reel would pay it out better than the cumbrous English machinery, which certainly has not done much in the way of paying thus far. An army correspondent of the New York Herald has been ipominiously expelled from a barber's ship in Toronto, while en joying a shave, for venturing to predict the triumph of the Fenians. The patriotic bar ber declared that he had no time to shave a fellow with such an extent of cheek as that. Mr. T. B. Read has written a letter to re pudiate certain changes which somebody has made in his poem of "Sheridan's Ride" during its journey through the newspapers. The interpolations are said to be almost equal to a new . Canter. When the United States stßamer Canan daigua entered the harbor of Kingstown, near Dublin, a few weeks ago, the authori ties did not return her salute, perhaps thinking she was a Fenian frigate in dis guise, until they had bad time to telegraph to London for instruction. Her guns seem to have given the brave Kingstowners a sort of cannoned-ague. An English married lady has consulted her lawyer on the question, whether, hav ing married her husband for his money, and that money being all spent,- she is not a widow and at liberty to Marry again. The lawer decided that if it was merely a matter o' money without affection, she was a widow. He quoted J. Miller as his au thority. Mr. William B. Reed, in the Age, criticises the English of Mr. C. E. Lex. How does Mr. Reed like this favorite Latin axiom of Mr. Lex ? .De minimis Non carat Lex. Washington Square. To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin:— The Board of Health having been ineffectu ally appealed to for the postponement (until after the winter snows) of the spreading of fertilizing matter over the grass-plots of Washington Square, and for the removal of the piles of muck deposited about the Square, it seems netNisgAry to call public at tention to the matter. The collections on the north and west sides have since been scattered over some of the plats, and the prevailing northwest winds (instead of the commonly expected easterly equinoctials) have been carrying the effluvia towards the disinfecting Delaware; but as the weather moderates and 'the winds change, we may expect the noxious exhalations of the piled or oritspread matter on the south and east sides of the Square, to be carried into the heaxt of the city, and this on the threshhold of a cholera or sickly season. HYGEIA. Note.—lf we were living in the good old times of Louis Quatorze, and in a city near byithe overshadowing chateau of Vaux,and if the senior of the cashier of Fouquet, or if Colbert, even, were our mayor, a direct ap peal to him might promise to be successful.: As it is, the editors of the BULLETIN must serve our turn. HYGEIA. MR. HAMILL, of Pittsburgh, Pa. and Mr. Kelley, of England, have each deposited $1,250 in gold, as a preliminary to the great International Sculling Match which is soon to take place .between these champions in England. F. L. 14'.0171ERSTON. PubMzr DOIJBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS New Jersey Matters. NEW JERSEY M. E. CONEEItENCE---• SIXTH DAY-EVENING SF...SION.—At 7i o'clock the Conference met. Reading of the Scriptures and prayer by Thos. sergeant, a no occupied the chair by appoint, meat of Bishop Scott. The interesting t documentciety was then read. It was an as It gave fall particu lars of the operations during the peat year. Toe re port was received, and oraered to be primed in the inmates. Bev Mr. Ashbrook was ordered to for ward the meneys in his hands to Dr. Sheldon, Bible Agcnt. The Committee on Temperance male their report, strongly, discountenancing the practice of driniting do mestic wines, as it was a nroldic source orevii The Committee urged the necessity of observing a strict de sire to further the cause of temperance, and of organ izing the children into temperance societies. This re-' port elicited much discussion.. A remit:Won was offered to instruct the children against the use of intoxicating liquors. An amend ment was offered and carried, also instructing them to abstain from the use of tobacco. The report was then adopted. The report of the Committee on the State of the Union was then read, relocating that none of the noto rious traitors, who have toetrayed the nation into war. remained unwashed of blood of the slaughtered thousands of freemen. An earnest effort was made to prevail on all mem bers of the Conference to be careful, to bring only large and s. good money hereafter in reporting their collec tion '1 he present clerical stewards-were direeted by votetO continue to flil their offices. viz.:—G. B. Snyder, E. M. Stokes F. Vansant and P. Cline The Presiding Hiders were instructed to associate two persons from each district with themselves, ha appointing and arranging for Conference Centenary camp-meetings some time during the month of Augusta. Adjourned. Morning Session.—Seventh Day.—The Conference convened ato'clock, Bishop Scott. The exercises were conducted by Bev. Mr. Ballard. Minutes of the eveningsession were read and adopted. The Committee on Statistics made their report, which was adopted. It contains many interesting facts connected with the progress of the c.hurob, giving the amount of increase, decrease, &c., of the various charges in the Conference districts. Rev. Mr. Perry made a foil explanation in reference to the progress and condition of the Pennington Semi nary, and represented its affairs in a favorable light. The Conference mid a vote of thanks to Mr. Perry for the faithful performance of his duties in connection with the Seminary, and having succeeded in paying the debt of that Institution. At the close of the report. Bev. Mr. Stokes made a very feeling and touching speech, and then presented Mr. Perry with a splendid gold American manufactured hunting-case watch, with an engraving of Pennington Seminary. and the proper inscription, It was feelingly responded to by its recipient. The watch was the gift of the members of the Conference. The }mance committee made their report, repre senting that in some instances some persons did not get salaries enough to pay their way, and asked some arrangement to obviate the difficulty. Adopted, and printed in the minutes. The exhibit of the Methodist Book Concern was res. ceived and read. It shows that the assets of the Con cern are E 366.213. The establishment was represented in a flourishing condition. The place of holding the next Annual Conference was fixrd at Keyport, in Monmouth county. A large number of motions, reports, &t., were pre sented and adopted_ It la thought that the ference will so far get through with the business as to be able to adjourn to day. LUMBER BY Nfrus.--Says the Pittsburgh Dispatch: A large amount of lumber is now reaching the city. It is stated that in the "pool" at Bethlehem, CLsrion"county, there are now lying no less a number than five hundred lumber rafts destined_ for Pitta burgh, and that so completely is Red Bank Creek, in Jefferson and Clarion counties, filled with rafts, that one can walk trobo Bethlehem to Brookville,a distance of about fifteen miles, without having occasion to step off the rafts at any point. AnotrT 7 o'cLocs, yesterday morning, a fire was discovered in the room of the Clerk of the Board of Councilmcm, on the first floor of the City Hall,New York. The flame' were soon extinguished, but the carpets auct the furniture of the room were destroyed, entailing a loss of about $2,000. The origin of the fireis somewhat mysterious, but it is supposed to have been caused by a leak in the gas pipe near the stove. A raur from the West reached Spencer.- port, N. Y., Tuesday evening, on a visit to her parents. She had her infant with her, and on meeting her mother, she joyfully disrobed her infant of the shawl in which it was wrapped, and found it dead. It had been suffocated. IMPORTATIONS Reported ior the Pnuadelpnia Evening Itffletin. BoSTON—Steanier Saxon, Captain Matthews -5 pkgs dry goods C Amory Jr &Co: Bdo J T Bailey & Co; 2do Li brewer & Co; 79 do B W Cause & Co; 11 do Frotbingham & Wells: 6 do 1' King:l3 do T T Lea & Co; 15 do Lewis, Boardman & Wartop; 75 do HP& W P Smith; 15 do Wa/n, Learning& 0o; 15 cs boots and sheen Amy & Cl 2do DI) Brodhead; 31 fridge;er & 114 do P F layton; 55 do Clatlin & Par 14 do Cun ningham & Etnier; 21 do Couoreo, Dorir it llo; 19 do , Foster & Bennett; 21 do Con Fay; 120 do P Ford & CO; 26 do J . Harmer; al do Haddock, Reed & Co; 57 do F & jai Jones: 14 do R R Levick & Co; 13 dn Munroe. Smelts& Co; 28 do .TB Myers & Co; 28 do Nickerson & .9; oseley; 24 do E S Reeve: 10 bbls vinegar T H Atwood; 14 bags coffee Boggs is Kirk; 42 pkgs mdse J B Brassier & Co; is pcs pipe 97 bdls do Breeding & 4.,N): 26 bxs fish Brown & Allingbam: 26 bls do Cottrell & AYer;36 bills paper 60 ris doA M Collins; 25 bbls syrup J W Canion & Co; 19 do beans J W Campbell; 25 do fish 2 hxs do Clunet & Claghorn; 10 qr mks wine G Cromllan & Co; 25 barrel. moss W Cunningham; 14 bales rags Ilownes. Garlan & Co; bxs tish. Geo F Fields; 15 do tacks C M Gbrisky; 186 do chocolate W S Grant; 23 cks palm oil C H Grant & CO: 35 cases Grover & Baker S M Co; 73 bbls cranber ries 26 cs horse-radish Glthens & Rexamer; 18 bxs fish J A Hopkins & Co; 10 bbls peas N Hellings & Co: 72 bdls plates G Halfmtua & Cu; 73 bbls syrup Howell. Barr S. Co: 175 cs 88 bills Kilburn & Gates: 10 btffs oil 5 bales hides ST Kirkpatrick; 100 bbls fish S H & If:Le vin; 10 do oil Z Locke & Co. 42 pkgs glass Homey & Munroe: 338 bdls iron MWheeler bale 4a bagas coffee 84 bbls syrup P Mcßrideßrde& Co; 13 hair W II Miller; 50 bbls peas Neff & Zurn; 26 bbls fish J Nicholson; 15 do gum Powers & Weigitman: 31 bags coffee Roberts & Mscaltioner; 29 do T Reynolds & Co; 60 bdis ,chair stock Richmond & F; 100 bbls syrup Reiff. Howell:0k. Harvey; 7 casks oil Shober & bags pepper Thompson, Clark tt Toting; Worms peas 15 do cranberries.Tas Wilkins; 14 bxs dsh seldorf .Vlamine; 20 do Wroth & Powell: 10 bbls cranberries I . Varrington & Co; 14 bags coffee White BrOe & Co; 50 pkgs mdse order. MAIIINE BULLETIN. /liras 'Marine Builstirs on Sixth fags. ARRIVED Tars DAY Steamer Saxon, Matthews, 60 hours from Boston. with mdse and passengers to Henry Wiusor & Co. Steamer Claymont, Allen. hours from Richmond, with mdse to .. PVI3 - de & Co. t chr Ashland, Burton, from Richmond, Va, in bal . lsst to J T Justus. ...ht. J B Henry. Weaver, from Adams Point. Schr Oriental. Crocker, from New York; schr Rachel Miller, Anderson, from Providence. Schr J E Simmons, Smith, from Providence. Schr Joe Porter, Burroughs. from Providence., Rehr Ann S Cannon. Cobb. from Providence. - Schr 0 B Smith, 'Joker, from Wareham. Schr Ocean Wave, Jeffers, from Fall River. Schr John Cadwalader, Steelman, from Boston. Schr Col Lester. Perry. from New Bedford. Schr John Stockham, Smith, from Marblehead. Schr Jas Bradley, Bradley, from Washington. Scbr Reading RR No 45, Powell. from Richmond. CLEARED THIS DAY. Brig Abby Watson. Watson, Manzanillo, Madeira& Cabada. Brig Alfaretta, 13ibber, Warren.Gregg&Morris. Behr War Eagle, Kelly, Providence via New Castle. Del. D Cooper. Scbr Ashland Burton, Washington, .1" T Justus. Schr J B Austin, Davis, Milton, Mass.Caldwell,Gordcra & Co. Scbr G B Smith, Boker, Richmond; do Schr .7 E Simmons, Smith. Boston, do schr John Stockham,Smith, Boston, Street & Co. Schr Sas B Henry, Weaver. Boston, Mammouth Vein C. al Co. Bohr Flyaway, Crowell, Boston, do Pair Oriental, Crocker, Boston, L Andenried & Co. Bohr Rachel Miller, Anderson, Boston, Castner, Stick ney & Wellington. Schr Ocean Wave, Jeffers. Cambridgeport. do Bohr Jos Porter, Burroughs, Providence. E V Glover. Behr John Cadwalader, Steelman, Salem, N York and Schnyl Coal Co. Behr Wm Loper, Oaten, Pawtucket, Wm Hunter, Jr. & Co. Bohr Reading RR No 45, Powell, N Haven, Qulntatil. , Sawyer & Ward. Schr A 8 Cannon. Cobb, Salem, Ri.ktgton , Schr Col Lester, Perry, Dighton, do MIIIMODANDA. Steamer Propontis. Higginson, cleared at Boston yesterday for tilts Dort. Steamer Africa, Raab% cleared at Beaten Yeeterday for Liverpool via Halifax. Steamer Bremen (Bram), Neynaber, from Bremen March 11 via Southampton Hth, with SU passengers, at New York yesterday. Ship Resolute, Holt, from New York 24th Aug. at Woosung Bth Jen. Eichrs John Griffith. Cobb, hence for Boston and Jonathan Cone, from Boston far this port, ats,Yor.
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