GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XIX.---NO. 301. EVENING BULLETIN. PIIRISISHED EVERY EVENLbIe, (Sunder' excepted) et *29 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. - BY THE "Evening Bulletin Association." P.SOPECIETOBS. <GIBSON PEACOCK, 'ERNEST O. WALLACE. L. FETNER,STON, THOS. T. WILLIAMSON CASPER SOLIDER, Jr., FRANCIS WELLS. The Bursarrus la served to subscribers in the city at 18 cents per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 00 per MARRIED_ • SPILT—DAVIBIBM—On the 22d March, in the Ken. aington.M. E. Church, by the Bev. J. H. Alday, John F. Wilt to Belle C. Davieon, of Philadelphia. r TT TATA BINGAMAN—On the 4th Instant, Robert, son of :Frederick and Amanda Biagaman, aged 21 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respect.. 'fully invited to attend the funeral from his father's - restdence,at Lionville, Chester county, Pa.. on •Satur +lay morning.. Leave the house at 10 o'clock. * CARR—On the 4th instant, Fannie Elizabeth Carr, daughter of Geo. W. and Fannie H. Carr, aged 6 mos. land 9 days. The relatives and friends of the family are respect tinily invited to attend her funeral from her parents residence, No. 5360 Germantown avenue, on next Sa• 'tueday afternoon, 7th instant. at 2 o'clock. To pro ceed to South Laurel Hill Cemetery. sa PENN-GASKELL—On the 3d instant, Peter Penn- Gask ell, aged 66 years. His male friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence. No. 1613 Chestnut utreet. on Saturday next, at 11 o'clock. A. M. Services ,at St. Sterol:writs Church. eC . I3O . Ii'LBR—At Berlin, Prussia, on the 16th of _3larch, in the 86th year of his age, Carl C. Schot tler,late Prussian Consul and Merchant of this city.* EYRE & LANDELL' FOURTH AND ARCH, ARE • OPENING TO-DAY FOR - SPRING SALES, FASHIONABLE NEW SILKS, NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS NEW STYLES SPRING SHAWLS. NEW TRAVELING DRESS OOJDS, SINE STOCK OF NEW GOODS. SPECIAL NOTICES. Oa HOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and is2o Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med g c,..1 treatment and medicines fiarniiihed gratuitously so the poor fre. THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAIL ROAD COAL parry has declared a . Quarterly Dividend of two ~..„, and a half per cent, payable at their office, N 0.412 Wal nut street, on and alter Monday, April 16th 1166. L. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer. al6:st:f.m,w* I:IV — THE PHIL A D 14;LP HIA. socrEVY FOR THE EMPLOTBMN'T AND INSTRUCTION OF TME POOR—The annual meeting and election for officers will be held on the 9th inat., at 4 o'clock, P.M., at the HOUSE OF li.NT.OUSTRY.77I.B CA.THARINE street. I !ap6-2t* • CHARLES P. PEROT, Secretary. IsiuTLJE—The annual meeting of the Stock 1 7 ,Eholders of THE TIOG.a. lIAPRIVEME ANY; will be held on the first of MAX, at the Philadelphia Exchar ge, at 12 o'clock, M., at which Aline an election will be held for hi anagers, President and Treasurer, for the ensuing year. WILLIAM. ELLIR, Treasurer. UUNIVERSITY OF •PENNSIL ARIA, DE PARTMENT OF ARTS.—The Third Term of the College year will open on MOND .3Y, the 9th inst. Candidates for admission will appear , at the Untver .sity. for examination, on that day, at 10 o'clock A. M. Tuition for each Term, Thirty-five Dollars. GEORGE ALLEN, Secretary of the Faculty of Arts. aOFFICE OF THE WESTMORELAND COAL COMPANY. No. 230 t• ou th THIRD street, corner g's AtIey.—PHILADELPHIA, April 4th. 1856 At the Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the Westmoreland Coal CornpanY, held this day, the fol lowing Directors were elected to servedurlng the ensa •ing year: EDWARD C. BIDDLE, • JAMES MAGEE, JOHN COVODE, SAMUEL REG...Ia, SAMUEL C. MORTON P. PEMBERTON MORRIS, STEPHEN H. BROOKE. I PEMBERTON HUTCHINSON, • WILLIAM S. PEROT, JAMES A. McCREA, M. D., • GEO. AUGUSTUS, WOOD. F. H. JACKSON, Sec'ry. GERMANTOWN ! GERMANTOWN ! ! ! Tile undersigned are delivering to the residents of .Germantown and vicinity the best quality of Lehigh .coal, prepared with care for family use at the follow .,lng greatly reduced prices, viz.: Stove or range Coal $7 75 ..Broken and Egg for furnace, 7 50 Chesnut 7 25 It is believed coal cannot decline further this season, therefore the preseit time seems the best for purcha -.sing the winter's supply. Adhering to one price, orders by letter will procure ,coal as low as a visit In person. Address Office. Franklin Institute Building; 15 South ,Seventh street, Philadelphia. Box 62, Germantown Post office, or at the yard. I, Green Lane Station, on North Pennsylvania railroad apt-26trp/ BINES & SHEAFF. NEW PUBLICATIONS. The Lost Tales of Miletus. By the Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. New - York: Harper Brothers, 1866. Philadel phia : T. B. Peterson. The Milesian Tales, .:now lost, were short Greek prose romances, - cultivated with great success at Miletus, and enjoying a vast popularity not only in their original tongue, - but in Latin. .:That they partook very largely of that spirit which is called the Romantic, as contra •distinguished from the Classic,is extremely probable, a fact which was possibly due to 'an Oriental origin. The Pentamerone of 'Giambattista Basile, a collection of Neapoli . tan Fairy Tales was unquestionably de rived through Latin s legends from that East 'which in every age has pervaded and colored the sailors' and travelers' stories of - the Mediterranean. Ia this volume Sir. E. Bulwer Lytton, has endeavored from the .anecdotes, myths or tales given by Parthe- Mus, Athenams, Patuntnias and others, to 'reconstruct narratives in the Milesian style. .It cannot- be denied that we encounter al the outset two formidable contradictions. 'The original Milesian Tales were regarded as extremely licentious in an age, when - what to us of the present day would be :frightfully immoral, was smiled at as trifling. They were, too, unquestionably ;in prose. But the Bulwer tales are very :sentimentally moral; as the writings of ancient roues are apt to be; and.secondly, they are poems—poems in form and feeling, :and of such excellence that wit cannot pay them' the ironic compliment of being - prosy. As for the author's attempt to Prove that some of the Milesian tales were - in verse, it is laughable in its impudence. It appears, he says, that Aristides told some 'of his Itlilesian tales in verse, the authority for this being a line from Ovid, in which it - it is simply stated that 'Aristides, a Mile -sian, wrote carmine& or songs. How would E. B. Lytton like the Rrospect of having all his prose works assigned away from him by that Coming Man; the New Zoalander of the thirtieth century, because it could be proved that Sir E. B. L. was unquestionably poet? It is true that he has fallen into the blunder through that second-hand . scholarship, which is his besetting sin; but then his blind guide Dunlap it is well .3lnovm 'was blind on many points, There has, however, always been even more or -the second-hand in Sir E. B. L's erudition than the public imagine& When he published his , translation of the ballads o :Schiller he was positively unable to read German—and employed one more learned than himself to make a literal'prose transla tion of the text—so the writer of these lines was informed by an eminent English writer whose knowledge and whose word are be yond suspicion, But that,this volume contains in every in. stance beautiful stories, exquisitely set forth in finely woven, delicately colored poetry, cannot be denied. More than this, with one or two exceptions, the poems are Greek,not only in form, but even in spirit. The world is wearied 14 the present day with mock classic lyrics, which ,are sick with modern sentimentaliqm,maudlin with self-conscious-; ness, and wretched with The timid fear of of fence jangling with: fevered desire; but downright, plain, plastic heathen art—art real, natural and oldective—is almost as rare. now as it was before the Revival of Letters and the Reformation tore stmdryvery large holes in the dirty, dusty curtain' of the Catholic Middle Ages, and let in fresh sun.; light. Among these tales, •'Corinna, or the Grotto of Pan," is as affected and as afflicted with one of the worst faults of the Maud school of poets as well can be, while its ex tremely ridiculous ending surpasses in ab surdity even that of the popular ballad of "Lord Lovel," from which it was appar ently imitated. How it would ever have occurred to the poet to attribute the usual consequence of a visit to the cave of Tro phonius to sitting under a myrtle, we know not, but it can hardly fail to strike the reader as a "missed shot" at the dramatic. Yet before it and after it come and follow &ems of rare beauty—poems which, had they been written of old in Greek, would have been regarded as pure gems of Greek art. "Death and Sisyphus" has already been selected by the lovers of the original and vigorous in poetry as the best of these. Sisyphus, unconquered to the last,is a Greek Don Giovanni in his "gameness and pluck"' and surpasses the latter in "holding oat," even after his final sentence; for, as every body knows, he of the opera must fall into remorse so soon as the black-monkey-look ing supernumeraries have dragged him into eternal colophonium, muriate of strontites, or whatever it is that constitutes °rens ac_ cording to a property-man's ideas of a fu ture state. The Rabbins of old provided a story in which Love and Birth were sus pended on earth for several days; in "Sisy phus" it is Death who is held fast from his work, with even worse consequences. The "Oread's Son" is simply Pouque's "Un dine" Greeked; but then "Undine was Greek —nay, world-wide, ages before Germ= ro mance.was dreamed of. Like "Sisyphus" it is very beautiful; a poem to get byheartand repeat on sunshiny days, in land and under green leaves. • And, indeed, allot* these poems, excepting the "Corinna," are extremely pleasant to perhaps every taste, while their elegance of form, their airy lightness, their strength and genial freshness are such as to merit the warmest praise. With the exception ofsome little lyrics scattered the "Last Days of Pompeii," these are. Bulwer's best poems; and so much better than many whichhe has written, that we would exclaim from our heart, 0, si sic onmes! It is to be presumed that their circulation will be very great; certain it is that is long since the public has received a volume of poetry which better deserves patronage. GE RZIANT OWN ! M. W. Dodd, New York, has just issued "Cherry and Violet," a pretty little old-time story, by the author of "Mary Powell," The scene is laid upon London Bridge in the time of the great plague of 1665. Bar ring an occasional trifling anachronism, such as the introduction of a "blacking brush" in describing the appearance of the heads of the Cromwellians, the story is quite up to the mark'of the whole series by this most popular writer. For sale by J. B. Lippincott dr Co. Harper & Brothers have published " A Text-Book on Chemistry," by Henry Draper, M. D., the son of Professor Jno...C. Draper, of New York. The work embodies the substance of the well-known work on Chemistry, by Dr. Draper, senior, which has been a text-book in our medical colleges for twenty years past. The whole subject is brought up to the present time, covering all the late discoveries in this important branch of science, The work is profusely illustrated with well-executed engravings. 'For sale by T. B. Peterson it Brothers. Mr. James K. Simon, 33 South Sixth street, has received the fifth volume o Little, Brown & Co.'s beautiful revised edi tion of the Works of Edmund Burke. This volume contains a number of the letters of the great statesman, the most remarkable of which is, perhaps, the reply to the attack mede by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale upon Mr. Burke and his po sition. We cannot too highly commend the publishers for the handsome style in which they are presenting this standard work to the public. Cirionsuum, April s.—Two heavy boilers in the iron works of Pomeroy, Ohio, ex ploded this morning, killing two men and seriously wounding eight others. The dam age to property amounted to about $15,000. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPR.—The HOIL3B of Mr. Ira Morgan, of Lykens, Pa., was de stroyed by fire a few, days ago. Mr. Mor-,, gan was away at his work and no one was at home but Mrs. M. and two young Wye. Mrs. Morgan has been an invalid confined to bed for over two.years, and was • unable to get out of her bed. The two boys behaved nobly, carrying the bed with their mother on it to a safe place. • Had they not been providentially at hand, their mother must have perished in the flames. SUDDEN DEATH OIL CITY.—On Taos day a man named Brennan, a resident of Cleveland, died suddenly at Wyatt's dining saloon, Oil City. The Aeceased was eating dinner, and his head was seen to drop for ward on his bosom.:On going to him life was found extinct. -It is supposed he died froth apoplexy. Edney Explosion and Loss of Life. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY . , APRIL 6, 1866. [Correspondence of the EN , 'ening pulletind OVER THE PLAINS. LETTER Solna - PARR, COLORADO, March. 17, 1866. —.4ressrs. Editors : Having described the principal mining regions of this Territory; and shown a few of the advantages they, possess for mining, I propose to make some few remarks on a question of vital interest to this Territory—itis the mining legislation now before Congress. , A region of country; when discovered to contain lodes, is here divided into "Districts" as they are called. The miners in each district by the proc,eed ings of a miners' court,frame the laWs for the regulation of the mines in that district . specify of how many feet a lode shall con sist; how many feet a discoverer is to re ceive for his discovery, and, in short, in de fault of other couxts, decide allquestions o mining titles. Under these laws all mining property has been obtained. When the Territorial 'organization' of Colorado was completed, the Legislature ratified all these laws and declared them to be binding, which was approved by the Goveanor ap pointed by the General Government. When Nevada was admitted as a State, the United States Government also ratified their laws, and recognized all titles held and obtained, and distinctly said that in default of other laws, those should be considered as valid. During the last session of Congress a bill was passed, duly approved by the Presi dent, making the fact that miners have no right in law (U. S.) to their mineral lands no bar to proceedings in the Supreme Court, in mining suits which might be carried on. This was clearly recognizing our titles in fact. In the present session of Congress, a bill has been introduced by Senator Sherman Loa the survey and sale of the mineral lands of the United States. The most important (to Colorado) provision of which bill is that mineral land is to besold by the acre. There are other provisions in this bill providing for the appointment of geologists. and one that prevents the bullion obtained in each district from being taken out of the territory without being coined in one of the mints hereafter to be established, for which coin ing one per centum is to be paid on gold and three per centum on silver. The objection to this bill is simply that it is utterly impracticable. There is not a single acre of mineral land which does not contain at least five lodes which would make eighty claims of one hundred feet each, pad it is safe to say that thirty persons hold these eighty claims. In the more developed dis tricts many more lodes even than the num ber mentioned will be found to be contained in one acre of land. To sell this land by the acre would inevitably lead to dispute among its owners, and would as certainly deprive many of their rights. Capitalists would be able to over bid the rightful owners of the land, and the real result would be the making more wealthy of a few millionaires and the ruining of hun dreds who have given these lands the values they now possess. Government has per mitted miners and prospectors to develops to a certain extent these lands, which it now proposes to sell; has allowed them to dis cover the lodes and record them as such; has permitted sales to be made of these lodes, and now, when the richness of the country is known and being appreciated and valued as it should, will, it Senator Sherman's bill becomes a law, give to the capitalist the benefit of the hard labor and privation of the very men who have shown a hat the country possesses. An occupation of five years of the agricultural lands is con sidered by the government as a sufficient guarantee for the fee simple title of the same. The mining region of Colorado has been occupied for nearly ten years, and as far as their capital would permit, the miners have developed - and improved the same. Had it not been for the men whom Senator Sher man's bill will reduce to beggary, Colorado would not have had a name, and the $16,- 000,900 a year of gold she now produces, would never have been mined. The liberal policy of the Government towards settlers on the agricultural lands has been produc tive of the best results and has been the cause of the rapid settlement of the Western States. A similar policy towards those who now hold the mineral lands of the great west, will assuredly have a like result, but if any attempt be made by harsh and retro spective legislation, to force a great revenue at once from the holders of these mines, the result will be that these lands now held by hundreds and thousands will become the property of a few, the production of bullion will be stopped, and Colorado will become the wilderness she was before our mines were discovered. the pursuit of agricul ture offers here no inducements when com pared to the fertile lands of the prairies, ir- rigation is necessary to raise crops,and if the miners should by proscriptive legislation be forced to leave, Colorado is dead beyond a hope of revival. It is idle to suppose that this bill will not be resisted if it become a law; there will be combinatirms of capitalists and there will as certainly be combinations of miners, and even if the sale of the lands be allowed to be made peaceably, the first attempt to take possession of them and to deprive their rightful owners of them, will be the signal for bloodshed and war. A - standing army will be required ' to enable capitalists to keep possession of the land. We appeal to all who love justice; we ask is it right that men who have spent years here, years of toil, privation and hardships of every kind, deprived of every comfort of civilized life; who have periled their lives day after day in an Indian country, who know what it is to go hungry and ragged, away from home and friends, toiling on, in the hope that future years will give value, to their property and just at the very.moment when that property does acquire a value, to have the. Government by an unjust. law; sweep into the pocket of, the rich man the results of their labors?—for such will be the result of the bill. Another great objection to it is that the Government will not be knowing what Ala selling, for every lead now discovered and recorded there are - at least one hundred, which , yet remain unknown, and for the, trifling sum of $5O per acre ' the price pro posed, at which to sell these lands, the pur chaser may become' possessed of many valuable leads. Miners here all agree to two things. Fikat, that the , pioneer and pro spector, should reap the result of his lab Ors, and second, the Gene;a l GovernmentshoUld be paid for their lands: , I- am certain, that all who possess mineral: propertylere yvjll be willing topay fora fee simple title to ;the same the sum of two dollars and fifty_centa per claim of one hundred feet. Granting OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. that an acre of the land here contains but a _single lode, this would produce a revenue of forty , dollars per acre, and that too obtained without any cost or trouble. The number of leads to an acre will certainly average more than , one, but were it only one, the revenue to be derived in this way would be equal to that proposed by the bill of Senator Sherman. This, with a small tax on the net proceed of all mines would certainly remunerate the Government for their lands and produce from the same area, a revenue vastly greater than that derived from the agricultural lands. Another resolution bearing on the same subject has been introduced into the. House by Mr. Hasson. The main feattire of which provides that all owners of lodes shall be deemed such as long as they work them nine, months in the year. As far as the _capital of the owners of lodes here has per mitted, they have worked them; but being poor men that work has been but small. In order to properly treat our ore, expensive machinery is required, such as but few of the actual discoverers here can afford. To compel men, in a country where money is worth fiveper eentpermonth,to thoroughly develop their mines, and incur the expense necessary for proper machinery, in order to have a title thereto is most unjust. We think that even did nothing more than discover that such mines existed we would have a title to the same. It is utterly im possible that the present owners of these leads work them all; they have not the capi tal wherewith to do it, and to wrest from them their property on this ground would be most cruelly unjust. The qaestion as to what provisions to embrace in a bill for the sale or regulation of mines in the great west of our country, is a, most serious and important one, affecting as it must the acquired rights of thousands. Colorado is not a State, and therefore has no voice in Congress; but as far as protest, petitions and the like can go, we have done all that lays in our power to prevent the passage of these unjust bills. Far from having the result desired, that of raising a revenue commensurate with the value of the pro perty to be sold. they will but decrease that value. If passed, they will effectually alienate the favor of the people of Colorado from the dominant party. If by judicious and liberal legislation the miner be encouraged to proceed, ten years from this will see the yearly production of gold and silver from Colorado alone reach the sum of one hundred millions. The gold is most abundantly contained in our ore, and capital judiciously invested can but reap a rich return. The miners here are willing and eager to have their mines opened; property, can be bought for a rea sonable sum; companies can be formed, and can purchase mineral lodes mainly for stock, and in every way possible, all assistance will be given by the owners of the mines here. But against the selling of their hard earned property, they do most earnestly protest. It is their all, the sole result they bave of years of toil and privation, and in equity the right to it most certainly belongs to them. Deal justly with Colorado, gen tlemen of the Senate and House, and she wilirepciy your kindness a thousand fold; and do not, we beg of you, by such unjust legislation as the bills above-mentioned, throw back the country Into the wilderness and waste, from which the -very men these bills would ruin, rescued it. Yours, Ike., KINGSESSES'a. 7LIEIE P_ENIA.INTS.t LATEST REPORTS ABOUT THE EXPEDITIONS. A Hoax or Not a Hoax P Singular and Varying Rumors. Head Centre Stephens's Visit to America. Address to the Brotherhood in the United States. DEMONSTRATION IN ALBANY. ((From today's N. Y. Herald.] The Roberts-Sweeny Explanation of the O'llahony Sensational Raid on Canada, ac. It turns out that the reports put forth by the Union square people as to the Bermuda expeditions, ships, dcc., are a hoax made out of whole cloth. No ship left on'any errand of that kind. The chieftains of Union square are not on the sea, but in the Moffat Man sion still, with the exception of Killian,who, in company with a few others, is reported to have started for New England to aid the O'Mahony Senator, Sinnott of that district, in heading off by this sensation" the tide that is sweeping the New England organization from "the. Mansion establish ment" to the common sense move ment directed by. President Roberts and General Sweeny. This latter organi zation claims to be satisfied that Ri Man feels be cannot rule the movement and is ready to ruin it. They are therefore pre pared to hear him telegraph his "proelama. dons" any day from some point on the fron tier, with a view, as they, say to distract the organization from the Roberts-Sweeny movement. They further assert that find ing their cry of "To Ireland direct!" played out, they want to get into the management of the real movement by "striking the wires" as though they were redcoats. The Roberts administration, with their gallant Secretary of War; are confident of working out their mission, even though theyare sub jected to another sensation furor as great as the habeas corpus tactics.. They claim that the beat the Killianites can do is to turn over, their funds to the military exchequer and get mustered into the army in such positions as their skill and calibre will suit them for. Meanwhile Killian's "startling" tele grams are hourly expected. It is said they are be dated from some point on the frontier,and his twenty or thirty clerks and retainers will become •two or three or ten thousand troops to gull the rurals into a far ther investment in 'the bonds." " The hour of action of the real military movement under President Roberts and General Sweeney draws nearer and nearer. The "sensation" caused by this will be of a inculiar, character, and beat explained by a bullet lecture to her Majesty's redcoats. • A great demonstration of the East Jersey : FenirMa is to take place to-moriow evening at Odd Fellows!, Hall,Hoboken. President Roberts,,General Sweeny and all,the tary leaders are to be present and, make a final aPPeal• • - ; • Circular from Itead Centre O'Rtationy. HEADQUARTERS FENIAN BROTHERHOOD, NEW YORK, April 5, 1866.—T0 the Fenian Brotherhooa--BRonams: It, is my duty to announce to you the arrival in Paris of. James Stephens, C. E. L R., and to prepare you for his coming to the United States. Four days previous to his leaving Ireland he despatched aspecial envoy to me, your Head Centre, with instructions to publish the following facts as soon as it became cer tain that he had reached the French capital in safety Ist. He informs the American and Irish- American public l through me, that 'he left the organization in Ireland in as good a con dition as it has been since the'recent Fenian scandals had begun in America and had cast a glOom over the hopes of all true lovers of freedom; and that he had placed the reins of his government in the hands of competent, devoted and well-tried leaders, to direct it during his temporary absence. 2d. That he went to Paris on most impor-' tent business connected with the present struggle for Irish nationality, and not be cause he had been/ . forced thereto by the enemy. 3d. He is now coming to the United States for the purpose of restoring harmonious counsel and well concerted ac tion among ail true friends of Ireland on the American continent; to reconcile all dis cordant elements, and to make a last appeal for his suffering country to all liberty loving men throughout the world. His stay will be but short in our midst. Let us receive his advent to these shores as his patriotic devotedness, his high talents and stern fidelity deserve. May dire dis cords and hateful jealousies vanish from among us at his approach. May they cease thenceforth and forever to be the fell and constantly recurring destroyers of oar hopes for national resurrection. I remain, in fraternity, your faithful servant, JOHN o"Mano.Yr, H. C. F. B [From to.Llay's,N. Y. News.] Hundreds of men were at the O'Mahony headquarters, many of them dicsatiFified be cause they had not been taken on board some of the vessels, but upon learning that others were soon to follow those that have taken the advance, they seemed perfectly satisfied to wait and bide their time. A great many Centres of Circles visited the headquarters, and from what our re porter could learn from them, it is the unan imous resolve to "push the work forward with allpossible despatch." They say that the men can be had by the hundred thou sand, and that the sinews of war shall not be wanting. "Oh," said one, "if it was not for the cursed split or disruption of the Brother hood, what might we not have done before this." Another said: "There is no use in talking about that now; that is all played out; the first blow is struck, and we must 'put our shoulders to the wheel.' It will not do to lose time arguing points of law as to who is wrong or who is right. The`ball is up,' and we must now roll it along. I have always knew that O'Alahony meant fight." Did our space permit us, we could treat our readers to columns of similar conversa tion; but the above gives the interest and meaning of all else that was said. It is claimed that all that has now been done has been by the direction and under the advice of James Stephens, and that James Stephens has no intention whatever of coming to this country at the present time. Business at Headquarters. After the excitement consequent ripon the work of the past few days, business wears the usual appearance of order and regu larity; every desk is occupied, and the pen runs with the same facility as heretofore. Head Centre IYAfahony is hard at work with a secret council, which is now sitting. We understand he has no intention of leav ing the headquarters—for some time at least. Several cases of arms, etc., arrived at the headquarters from the country yesterday. Fenian Demonstration is Albany. ALBANY. April 5, 1866.—A grand demon stration came off here to-night in the Capi tol square on the arrival of Gen. Sweeny, at which Mayor Perry presided. The cause of Irish liberty was warmly advocated and most enthusiastically responded to by a large mass of the people. Gen. Sweeny and Sena:or Baly of Indiana, made earnest ad dresses, anti were followed by CoL Burns, of New York, formerly of the Sickles Bri gade, in a stirring appeal. George M. Curtis and others also made speeches. The whole affair exhibited a spirit of the utmost earn estness and enthusiasm. Mayor Perry and Gen. Sweeny held, a levee in the City Hall after,the meeting, when large accessions of signers were en rolled for the cause of Irish republicanism. The Scare in Canaan. TORONTO, C. W., April 5, 1866.—The city is greatly excited by the news of the sailing of a Fenian expedition, and it is believed that the report of its going to BermUda is a blind, and that Quebec is the destination of the Fenians. . Information deemed reliable has been re ceived here that the Fenians are putting guns in vessels at Chicago, and have too schooners loaded with field pieces for an attack on the Western boarder. We are on the eve of another great alarm. PRIJSSIA AND AITSTRIA. The Austrian Military. Preparations— Concentration of Forces on the South eastern Frontier. [Berlin (March 23) Correspondence of the London Times.] As has• been frequently hinted in the course of this correspondence it would be erroneous to assume that the Austrian military preparations are necessarily de signed against one enemy, and that a north ern enemy alone. In conformity with what has been previously stated ou the possible multiplicity of her objects, I may to-day affirm that Austrian forces are being con centrated, not only in Bohemia, but also ;in Galicia, Bukovina, and. on other points near the southeastern frontier of the empire. Much as the Austrian papers endeavor to conceal the latter fact, you may regard it as implicity correct and deduce your infe rences therefrom. That the armaments are being carried on by the Imperial Cabinet with considerable zeal is admitted on all sides. • Amid all this clearingfor action and pro viding for events, I must not omit directing your attention to a leader which originally appeared in the St. Petersburg Vedomosti, and was copied into the journal de St. Pe tersburg, the semi-official organ of Prince Gtortchakoff. It fully corroborates my statement that Austria, contrary to,appear ances, • does not necessarily mean war against Prussia, but that, perhaps, she may be looking forward to a very different event. The article says: "The Russian people have no reason to wish for war. They have too much work at home to mix themselves up,in foreign complications; their domestic •reforms re quire time end care to heo,developed. Rut this does not mean that Russia. will - allow <. foreign Powers -to deeldet". mitiitrarily, and, F. L. FETHERSTON. Mister. DOUBLE 8111.1 ET, THREE CENTS. single-handed, questions of Vital importance to herself. This does not mean, for in stance, that Russia will allow Austria to oc-. cupy the Danubian Principalities and to aggrandize herself at the cost of Turkey, without the co-operation and assent of Rus sia. Were such a thing to take place, were the rumors which have foreshadowed it for some time past to be borne out by fact,*Rus sia could not but resist their realization. The Russian Government, nay, the Ruisian people, as a whole, would look upon such an event as a casus belli." The English, note alleged to have been sent to this capital in the interest of peace is a reality, notwithstanding that its existence has been denied by inspired 'paper& Prussia linprepared for War. [Prom the Vienna Prune, March 19.] The loss of a battle would be attended with the Most terrible con Sequences to Prussia. In that event it is not an army but a kingdom that would be disintegrate& If Prussia succumbs she can expect no con.. sideration=no moderation, on the part of the victors. The more the small States of Germany were threatened, the more they will endeavor, the moment cir cumstances„shall have removed their ap prehensions, to escape for evermore from similar dangers. Should Prussia meet with a reverse in this war, it will be so severe that she cannot again recover herself. Tee appearances are warlike. A spirit of deter mination prevails at Vienna. They reek oned without their host at Berlin when they imagined that a sentiment of weakness would prevail here. If we do not despair of the maintenance of peace, it is because we appreciate the stateof affairs in Prassia. To begin war, the - Prussian Gwenament must take the senseless step ofrisking much to gain little. If Prussia does not con quer Schleswig-Holstein, no one will guar antee her the ulterior possession of Silesia, Saxony, the Rhenish Provinces and West-, halia. If she does annex the Duchies on _T "the Elbe, France will be ready to make her remonstrance, and to call in question that acquisition once more. Even admitting that Prussia is not solicitous about rights which stand in the way of her advantage, we cannot suppose that she is totally devoid of judgment, foresight and prudence. If this be so, and if she is aware that she has to deal with an intrepid and prepared ad versary, Prussia will beat a retreat at the last moment. We should not be surprised to find the officious trumpeters of Berlin making merry in a few days hence at the expense of those who believed in a coming war. When the bay trees are too high and necks may be easily broken in trying to bend them low, the foxes of the Proselan Marches are wont to despise them. The Critical Position of Affairs. [From the Nene Preussiach Zeltnng, March 19 .] We have to announce a grave fact. Aus tria and Saxony are arming. Up to the present we have not done so. In situations so critical as this, the party who begins to arm compels the other to arm in its turn. The first step is fatal. That step has been taken. The financial embarrassment of Austria does not prevent apparent demon strations on her part. She therefore means war. Any other interpretation is impossi ble. The Prussian Government :must -not under such circumstances allowthemselves to be taken by surprise. No doubt this will exasperate the situation, but the •responsi bility must remain with those who have commenced warlike preparations. Prussia Getting' eady. ißerlln (March 19) COrresiiipl9oo.llo9• oat the Augsbn.rg Gaze - 4743.i The order for the mobilization of the troops may, I understand, be issued from one moment to another. The fortrpwlrks of Saxony and Silesia are being put on a war footing. To-day the railway companies have been informed that they must.- be ready to convey troops and war materials to Saxony and Silesia. Prince Frederick- Charles,if he has not been actually appointed Commander-in-Chief, has been named for that post, and at 6 o'clock in the evening of the day before yesterday he telegraphed for the Generals commanding the Rhenish provinces, Saxony and Silesia, to meet him. Italy in Alliance with Prussia. [From the Vienna Gazette, March 21.] It is positively stated to-day that General Govone, the military agent of Piednaoht, has arrived in Berlin. By a corresnonderice from Florence, addressed to the Wanderer, on the 15th, it appears that a council of war was held at which King Victor Emmanuel presided. Gens. La Ildarmora, Cuchiari, Cialdini, Menabrea, and Durando, were present. The correspondent has reason to believe that it was decided in case of a serious war between Austria and Prussia, that an army of 45,000 men, under the com mand of Cialdini should be sent to the Po, and that another of 30,000 should be placed under the orders of Durando, for the pur pose of threatening Austria and profiting by events. A match factory in Western New York is noted for the curious machinery used in the manufacture, 720,000 feet of pine of the best quality are used annually for the matches, and 400,000 feet of basswood for cases. The sulphur used annually for the matches is 400 barrels, and the phosphorus is 9,600 pounds. The machines run night and day, and 300 hands are employed at the works. 500 pounds of paper per day, are used to make the light small boxes for hold ing the matohes,and four tons of pasteboard per week for the larger boxes. 66 pounds of flour per day are used for paste, and.the penny stamps required by government on the boxes amount to the snug littler sum of $1,440 per day. There are four machines in use for cutting, dipping and delivering the matches.. The two•inch pine plank is sawed up the' length of the match, which is 21 inches. These go into the machine for cutting, where at every stroke twelve matches are cut, and by the succeeding stroke pushed into slats ar ranged on a double chain 250 feet long; which carries them to the sulphur vat, and from thence to the phosphorus vat, and thus across the room and -back, returning them at a point just in front of the cutting ma chine, and where they are delivered in their natural order, and are gathered up by a boy into trays and sent to the packing-room. Thns 1,000 gross, or 144,000 small boxes of matches -are made per day. The machines for making the small, thin paper boxes and their covers are quite as wonderful and in geniously contrived as those that make the matches. A long coil of paper, as wide as the box is long, revolves on a wheel, one end being in the machine. It first passes through rollers, where the printing is clone, from thence to the paste-boxes where the sides and ends only are pasted; from thence to the folding-apparatus,where the ends are nicely folded and the whole box is pasted together and drops into a basket. A similar machine is at work at the covers, and thus 144,000 boxes per cite are manufactured. Fib.—Last evening about nine, o'clock Holmes's. etable on Twenty-fourth street, below Walnut, was discovered to boon fire. The flames were extingtilshed r by the police. J) amage-triPig* . A. Match Factory.
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