SON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XX.---NO. 13 EVENING BULLETIN. pfty.TFlTru'i) EVERY EVENING. (Sundays excepted) at No. nil Chestnut Street, Philadelphia BY TICE "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPBEILTOIIB. .GIBSON PEACOCK, 'ERNEST 0. WALLACE. Z L. FETIIERSTON, THOS. S.WILLIAMSON CASPER SOUDER, Jr., FRANCIS WELLS. The Burzarrnir is served to subscribers in the city at 111 cents per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 00 Per A NOTHEB. AUCTION LOT of 917BTAINS at One Jo& Dollar. aP~7t PATTEN'S, 1408 Chestnut street pospiol --- - - BROWN.—At his residence, Chestnut Hill, on the morning of the 2241 inst., William H. Brown, in the bith year of hisage. The funeral wllltake place, from his late residence. on Third day, 24thiinst.. at 3 o'clock, P. M, Interment at Friends' Burying Ground, Germantown. ** INGEBSOLL.—Sudir enly, on the evening of Sunday. Apri 22d, Mrs. ,Catherine Ann Ingersoll, relict of the late Edward Ingersoll, of this city. -er male friends and those of the fatally are invited to. attend ,her funeral, from her late residence. No. 255 South Sixteenth Street, on Thursday, the 26th hist., at to A. M.. without further notice. 0RN.13.--On the 23d inst., William Orne, in the 69th year of his age The relatives and Mends of the fatally, are respect fully invited to attend the funeral. from his late resi dence, 265 North Ninth Street, on Thursday morning, 26th inst., at 10 o'clock, .FRICILETT.—On the 22d inst., Phcebe, daughter of Phoebe and the late deceased Charles Pr' chett. The relatives and friends of the family are respect• ftilly invited to attend her funeral. from her late residence, No. 1514 Stiles street, on Wednesday after noon, 25th inst„ at 2 o'clock without further notice. POULTON.—On the 21stinst., Alfred W. Poulton, in the 39th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family also the - members of the Scott Legion, are invited to attend the tune/ al. from his late residence, 926 'Casket Street, on Wednesday afterr oon, at 3 o'clock. To procee.i. to Wharton Street Church. &Ml+ DLEY —On the 29th Inst., Rebecca, daughter of James and Hannah F. Smedley, aged nearty s years. Funeral from parerrs' residence, 924 Mount Vernon :Street, on Fiftn day, 26th lnst., at 1 o'clock. Interment at 'Germantown. ** LITRE & LA.NDELL are prepared to supply ram! ..E4 lies with Dry. Goodr, at the lowest prices. LINEN SHETINGS, MARSEILLES QUILTS. TABLE LINENS, DAMASK TOWPT 4, 1-.01/BEHOLD GOODS. WINDOW SHADES One Dollar. More of then a PATT RN'S. 1408 Chestnut street. 117111. HEACOCK. GENF:RAJ, FURNISHING TT UNDERTAR - KR, No. 18 North Ninth street. above market. . ap2l-Ime NOTICE'S. VEAGLE MINING COMPANY.-A meeting of the Stockholders of the Eagle Mining Company e held at the Wetherill House,663 Sausom street, on Thursday evening, 26th inst., at 7.,V," o'clock. Punc tual attendance 'Bret/nested: business of importan ce. JOHN S. THACKRA.Y, Trustee. LqAlg ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE St ocU holder of the DAN gIHART COAT and , OIL COMPANY will be held on THIJR.,DAY EVEN. May 3, 18E6, at 7% o'clock at No. 144 South SIX CH -slava. By order of CHAS. T. PARRY. ==!lM!ffiffia:.Ei3l OFFICE' OF NORTHERN LIBERTIES GAS COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, April 26, 1866. in Election for two Trustees of the Northern Liber ties Gas Company will be held at the °lithe of the CeibPally. LAU.BEL street, below Front, on TUES DAY, May Bth, prat., between 11 o'clock A. M. and .2 o'clock P. M. . W. P. FODELL, ap2 , 1_,28,Mmy1,3,5, Secretary. 10'CAMBRIA IRON COMPAI , Y. At a meeting of the Directors of the Cambria Iron Company, held this day, a dividend of SIX PER CEN P.. free of State tax, on the Capital Stock thereof, was declared, ppayyable at tn and after the o office ohig;3,Company.oflst of No. aproximo. 400 Et o7 e eto Stockholder, of record at close of this day or their re preseitatives. JOHN T.11.11..LE, Secretary. PHELADELPIEIA, April 19, 1866. 11? UNITED STATES TREASURY7PainIa.nxt- PnIA, April 20th, 1866. I ' ders of twenty Coupons, and upwards, of 13. - iited - States Loans, due May 1, 1866, are hereby notified that they may presentthem for examination and count, at this Office, on and after the 23d inst., to be paid on and .after May let, 1666. Blank Schedules may be °Matted . at this Office. N. P. BROWN, ap2O-Sixp Assistant Treasurer United states. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Stock tl of the GREEN MOUNTAIN COAL ZMPAN Y Rill be held on TUESDAY, May Bth, 1834 at 3 o'clock E. M., at No. 3 Mercb Ants' Exenange, PALidelphia, to elect Five Directors to serve the ensuing year, and for such ether business as may come before the meeting The Transfer Books will close on 30th instant, and reopen on May 10th. ap24 tu,th,s,6t* Will. S. GREEN, Sric'y. A LECTURE WILL BE DELIVERED before the "Numismatic and Antiquarian So ciety or Philadelphia," by Ron, JAM..&S RO:iS SNOWDEN, at the Hall of the University of Penn 'sylvan's, N inth street, above Chestnut, on TUESDAY EVENING, April 24th, at 8 o'clock. Subject of Lecture—" Evidences of Christianity: with -nome notices of the Coins and money terms of the Bible, which corroborate its authenticity and bility." Tickets of admission, 50 cents. To be obtained at the principal Book stores, and at the University on the evening of Lecture. Doors open at 7;4* o'clock.LaplB-Ittro GERMANTOWN ! GERMANTOWN GERMA.NTOWN ! ! ! The 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 ing greatly reduced prices, viz.: Stove or range Coal, 67 75 Broken and Egg for furnace 7 5u Chesnut, 7 25 It is believed coal cannot decline further this season, therefore the present time seems the best for purcha oing 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 fievenitt-street, Philadelphia. Box 62, Germantown Post olnce, or at the yard. Green Lane Station; on North Penw‘ylvnnia railroad ap2-26trpf BINES - & SHE.IFF. 3VHOWARD HOSPITAL; Nos. 1518 and iaLD Lombwrd street,Tllgpermar^ Department. Mad treatment and Medicines feiniiihed gratonousls dnthe poor. - sets _ . . The Order of ikizierican 3lechanies. The Order of United American Mechahics held a session of the State Body at Mauch Chunk, on Friday, the 20th inst. The ses .ion"was a verY pleasant one. In the even ing the delegates were sumptuously enter tained at the Broadway House,by the mem bers of Carbon County Council. During the evening speeches were made by Messrs. -John Eckstein, John Krider and G. Test, -of Philadelphia, and songs were sung by M. Weckerly. The next day the dele gates, accompanied by the members of Car bon County Council, went over the Switch Back Railroad, and through the kindness of W. Line, the proprietor of the road, the ex cursionists were enabled to visit a coal mine and remain one hour at the summit. After returning to the Broadway House, much pleased with their visit, the delegates held a meeting and appointed a Committee of Five to prepare a set of resolutions of thanks to the members of Carbon County Council. The delegates from Philadelphia returned to the -city on Saturday evening. AT THE initial meeting of the First American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, held at Clinton Hall, New York, on Monday evening, Mayor Hoffman in the chair, and Major-:ens. Robert Anderson and Daniel Butterfield, and Messrs. Alexander T. Stewart, Mar -ahall 0. Roberts, Thomas C. Acton, Wil liam H. Webb, lames Leonard, Moses Taylor, John Van Buren and others pre sent, Mr. Henry Berg was elected Presi dent, William McMurray.l7Treasurer, and Mr. W. Coventry H. Waddell, Secretary. Subsequent to the adjournment subscrip tions were made to the amount of $B5O. Murrs'rEE TO THE HAGUE.—The nomina tion of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles was yester day sent to the Senate by the President as Minister to the Hague, in place of Mr. Pike, who recently resigned. NEW PUBLICATIONS. "A Rebel War-Clerk's Diary," just pub lished by J. B. Lippincott •35 Co., is likely to attract attention. A year or two before the rebellion a certain J. B. Jones started a small paper in. Philadelphia called the Southern Monitor. It was published at the corner of Dock and Walnut streets, and was devoted to the cause of Secession. It en joyed that obscurity which its sentiments deserved, and its entire insignificance in all respects enabled it to indulge its harmless tirades against fhe: North with perfect im punity. Its publisher remained in Phila delphia until the breaking out of the storm which followed the firing upon Fort Sum ter, and then, leaving his family to shift for themselves, fled to Richmond. He obtained a clerkship inEthe rebel War Department, which he managed to retain during the ,re bellion, and the work which he has now published purports to be a Diary kept dur ing that period. As a literary production it possesses no merit whatever. Mr. Jones is evidently built upon a very meagre pat tern, and there is a vein of littleness run ning all through his narrative which at times irritates and at times amuses the read er. Mr. Jones's recital of his personal pri vations and troubles in Richmond will not excite any sympathy. He was one of Mr. Johnson's "conscious traitors," a system atic and, to the extent of his ability, an in telligent enemy of his country, and we close his book without a particle of regret for the severe pinching which he experienced dur ing his voluntary sojourn in Richmond. In the early part of the author's career in the Rebel Witr-Department he gives us the im pression that he was quite a consequential personage, rather in a confidential position, writing editorials for the Richmond papers under the eye of " His Excellency" Jeff. Davis, and uttering sagacious prophecies of coming events, generally of a very decided rose tint. He dwindles away from this, to wards the latter part of the book, into hun gry prattle about bean-soup, and persim mons and cats-meat, and the wolf that prowled in general about his scanty larder and scantier wardrobe. But apart from this view of this Diary, it possesses much interest as showing the in side, every-day political and domestic life in Richmond during the Rebellion. Assum ing the record to be a veracious one, although it has probably been revised for publication, we have, from an eye and ear-witness, the story of the bickering; the jealousies and the dissensions which, from the very first, distuibed and divided the rebel camp., Per sonal ambition, official favoritism and cor ruption in high. places are the burden of the war-clerk's diary. Men grew rich out of the rebellion and then escaped with their plun der to the North, or to Europe. The pass port system degenerated into a mere matter of barter and sale. The vexations which we experienced from the suppression of unfav orable news and the circulation of unfound ed rumors of success, were felt in a hundred fold force in the rebel capital. Thus,for exam ple, we find the news of Lee's retreat across the Potomac, after his defeat at Gettysburg, reaching Richmond two weeks after the bat tle was fought; and so on throughout the war. The various sources from which en couragement was drawn to buoy up the falling spirits of the rebels are worthy of note. French intervention, a war with England, McClellan's election, disturbances at the North, the resistance of the draft,the exhaustion of our armies, even the riots in New York, each of these,in turn,are brought into play, and we trace the brief career of each through this Diary, to see each die out until the last flicker of hope expired with the fall .Of Richmond. Thus we find this 'retry: "July 18, 1864,—We have awful good news from New York; an IxsußatEurforr,the loss of many lives, extensive pillage and burning, with a suspension of the conscrip tion!" We meet with many familiar names in Mr. Jones's book, both of Northern Cop perheads, to whose good offices he was in debted, and of prominent Southern rebels. Our old friend "Bobby" Tyler turns up fre quently, and, on one occasion, treats Jones to a breakfast "where we had each a loaf of bread, a cup of coffee with milk (but brown sugar), and three eggs. The bill was sixteen dollars !" The straits to which the citizens of Rich mond were reduced are vividly depicted by Mr. Jones, and the expedients resorted to to procure food and clothing are curious enough. In the midst of the direst extremi ties however, we have glimpses of most luxurious living among the leaders of the rebellion. Champagne and oyster suppers larE plainly hinted at, and there are other indications that the worthy patriots who plunged the South into all her disasters took pretty good care not to share too largely hi the sufferings they were inflict ing upon their deluded followers. Taken as a whole, the "Rebel War Cleri's Diary" is very well worth reading. The Academy of Fine Arts. To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin : Flaying been for a considerable length of time very closely connected with the news paper press of this country, and being per fectly aware that a question, privately ad dressed, respecting a public matter, to any individual, rarely receives an answer which is not arranged to suit the individual him self; while a written question, published in a leading journal, generally receives'a cate gorical response, unless the query should chance to be so uncomfortable to the indi vidual or individuals applied to, that he or they decline to reply to it altogether, lam induced, if you allow me, through your columns, to propound a few questions to the gentlemen forming the active portion of the Hanging Committee of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. The Committee consisted—l name them alphabetically, 80 no one' of them can be offended at the order in which their names PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1866. occur—of Messrs. G. C. Lambdin, T. H. Smith, S. P. Waugh and I. L. Williams. Two of them, however, were alone tho roughly active. These were Mr. Smith and Mr. Lambdin, Jr. Mr. Waugh rarely ap peared in the Academy, and Mr. Williams only, semi-occasionally. Possibly I may not be perfectly correct. If so, I apologize to the derelict members of the Academical Hanging Committee of.this year, for doing so scant justice to their par ticipation in the peculiarly honest and 'un selfish labor of their fellows. . _ 1. The first question I would put is this : Upon what principle in an exhibition for the benefit of American, and more especially of Pennsylvanian art, do they give foreign paintings so large a proportion of the beat places—those upon the sight line of the Aca demy? 2. The next is Why they do so, when a large proportion of these pictures have been sold at auction, probably in Philadelphia less than one m onth since, having previously been on three days' public exhibition in this very Academy? 3. The next is : How they reconcile it to their natural modesty to give every one of their own pictures first-rate places, when Mr. Smith's answer on varnishing day. Thursday last, ton not unnaturally plaintive artist, was that "Somebody had to be sa crificed." Might not an intuitive sense of justice have suggested that they might, in same one or two instances, have made them selves the sacrifices? 4. The next is : Why did Mr. Lambdin, Jr., refuse to receive a very able picture by Mr. Knight, which Mr. Williams had re quested him to send to the exhibition, be cause it arrived something too late, as many other paintings did, and had been exhibited in a store window, when half a dozen or more works hanging on the walls, in pro minent places, could be pointed out as having occupied similar positions in Chest nut street. s.—The last is : for what reason they have given the greater portion of the New York pictures forwarded for exhibition promi nently good places upon the Sight Line, while, in the New York- Exhibition of this very Spring, every Philadelphia painting bent there has been slaughtered, with the sole exception of three paintings by Lamb din, Tr., which all of them have plums upon the Sight Line? I ought also to state that these paintings by Lambdin, Jr., although good enough, are by no means the best of the Philadelphia :corks which are hanging in the New York Exhibition. It appears to me that these are five very pertinent queries for the mass of the artists ct this city, and that in putting them to the active members of the Hanging Committee, I have carefully refrained from touching upon anything I might personally have to complain of. With great regret for intruding with a purely artistic subject upon the valuable space in your columns, I have the honor to subscribe myself, Yours most obediently, CHARLP.B G. ROSEMBERG. Mining in Canada. 'A Canada correspondent of the .Ainerican Mining Journa/ presents some facts regard ing the progress of mining operations at the Chau di tre,w hichare not unworthy of notice. Lie says: I transmit you the following state ment of the process of mining operations in the Canadian gold fields, feeling assured :hat all those interested in their development will thus, through the medium of your in fluential and interesting - journal, have an . opportunity of watching their progress. I may, however, premise, for the information of others not acquainted with the locality, that it is only within the past two years that public attention has been called to the fact of the existence of large deposits of gold in this district, now more commonly known as the "Chaudiere Gold 'Mines," and con sequently that mining operations here are comparatively in their infancy yet, but from the large results obtained by assay of the richness of the several quartz veins by which the whole district, comprising some ten thousand square mih, is reticulated, it is simply a question of time, as to the unlimited supply of the precious metals which must be eventually obtained from. the Canadian gold fields. I subjoin the proceedings .of a meeting of the Chaudiere Gold Mining Association, the formation of whichwas published in the Mining Index of the 19th nit., as giving some indication of the progress of the work going on. At a meeting of the. Chaudiere Gold Mining Assbciation, held at Gilbertville, St. Francois, Beance county, on the 3d inst., the following report concerning the different quartz reefs being worked in this division was received. The Gold Hill Mining Company have one shaft now sunk eight feet, the reef opened twenty-four feet wide, neither wall yet tOund. The quartz has been assayed and found to yield 675 per ton. Another reef, owned by some members of the same company, and generally known here under the name of the Kilgour Vein,is down thirty feet, and opened twenty feet wide. In this case the walls are not found. The quartz of this reef has been repeat edly assayed, and the average assay has been 682 50 per ton. A reef owned by Joseph Rigg it Co. IS being worked. Theyare now down a depth of forty-live feet, the reef being six and a half feet wide. For thirty feet they met with nothing but feeders, which have now formed into a solid reef. The quartz in this reef contains free gold, and an assay of the quartz made gave a return of $l3O per ton. Messrs. Longlin ct Co. have two shafts sunk, one of them 15 feet wide is down 15 feet, and another of 25 feet wide is down 16 feet. In both these shafts but one wall has been found, and free gold has been found in the quartz of both. Work stopped till Spring. The Victoria Company, Messrs. Dale & Co., have two shafts sunk; one of 22 feet deep, walls 10 feet wide. In the first of these consists a number of feeders, but the latter is a solid reef. They have also started two other shafts, which are down about 4 feet. No quartz from the above reefs has been assayed, but there is a good show of gold. The Reciprocity Mining Company have sunk one shaft on the Gilbert River of 25 feet in depth, where the walls are eight feet apart. They have as yet but a lot of teeders, but the reef is soon expected. They have also sunk another shaft on the Kempt stream, which is down 30 feet, and where the side walls are five feet apart. In this one visible gold has been found in the quartz. Capt. Nasson is sinking two shafts; one at Jersey . Point, which is- down 27 feet, and the other at Cranhourne which is down 12 feet. In both cases the indications are very good. Mr. Hall, for the Detroit Company, is sinking three shafts; one at Jersey, which is down 35 feet, and two - near the lines, on the Kennebec road, which are down 25 feet each These reefs have good indications, and quartz OUR WIIOLE courrnty, AFFAIRS AT EASTPORT, &c. [Correspondence of the N. Y. Times.] Oswioo, Monday, April 23.—This usually quiet city is to-day the theatre of a regular Fenian excitement, consequent upon the seizure last night by the United States Deputy Marshal, Stephen Bled, of about 140 Springfield rifles, which were secreted in a barn near the city. and destined for the use of the Fenians. These arms were brought here by' railroad in boxes marked " macni nery, and directed to Patrick Regan, a prominent Fenian. In making the search, the Deputy Marshal was assailed by .a squad of the United States regulars from Fort Ontario, and the guns are now securely stowed away in the fort. It has been ascertained that nine hundred rifles have been sent here, of which only three cases have been secured by the Deputy Marshal. Two hundred guns were dis tributed among the Fenians last week. The seizure is mainly due to the exer tions of a few British detectives, who have been in this city two or three weeks. All sorts of rumors are afloat, and great excitement prevails among the Fenian, who are vowing vengeance for this inter ruption of their plans. It is said that the arms were destined to be used in a Fenian expedition up the Bay of Quinte by means of sailing craft and steam tugs, having for its object the cap ture of Picton and Belleville, and the rais ing of the green flag in a situation almost impregnable by nature against assaults by land or water. The Gallore Islands in Lake Ontario, which at present are inhabited only by sea-gulls, are stated to have been pitched upon as a place of rendezvous and vase of supplies. Expeditions were to move simultaneously from other places on the frontier. I give all these rumors for what they are worth, without assuming that the affair will end in anything more serious than another big scare, in which our neighbors across the lake are likely to get as much excited as the Fenians now are over the loss of their arms. PERSLAIMON. CALAIS, Me., Monday, April 23.—Two supposed Pentane while crossing the bridge to St. Stephens, this afternoon, were turned back and refused passage. One of them drew a revolver and fired one shot, but without effect Both were arrested by the guard at the Calais end of the bridge, and afterward handed over to the civil authorities. , The affair has caused considerable excitement on both sides of the river. EASTPORT, Me., Monday, April 23.—The United States gunboat De Soto, Admiral Boggs, has arrived here. All quiet along the lines. All the western reporters left on the boat for their homes. DISTRICT Comm—Judge Sharswood.— lEliown,. Assignee, vs. Maples. An action on a pronnssory note. Jul.)) . out. N. iku A. Middleton vs._.Amanda Carnell, Admintstrator, &c. An action to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract in the delivery of certain castings. On trial. DisTnreT COURT—Judge kfare.—Ditsche vs. Beckent, Steppacher. An action to re cover for work and labor done in the con struction of a ten-pin alley. The defence denied the partnership. On trial. QUARTER SESSIONS—Judge Allison. Samuel Watt pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery. The accused presented a forged check to Drexel dc Co., and when they ob jected to paying it, he left and forged the signature of a bank teller who was repre sented as marking the check "good." James Young, convicted last week of highway robbery, was sentenced to five years in the Eastern Penitentiary. Sentence was deferred in the case owing to the alle gation of the accused that he could produce witnesses to prove his innocence. The'fudge sent for the witnesses, and when pred.aced in Court, he denied all knowledge of the defendant. THE St. Paul Press describes as fearfully grand the breaking of the immense ice gorge above the Falls of St. Anthony, last week. Twelve boom piers between the sus pension bridge and the falls were destroyed, causing a loss of about $6,000. A lumber sluice on the Minnesota side of the river was also carried away, involving a loss of $4,000. A portion of the upper bridge was also broken down. About $700,000 worth of logs were floated off. The suspension bridge was uninjured. , A DISTINGITISRED RESIDENT Of Mobile has been arrested on a charge of bigamy. During the war be ran the blockade, leaving his wife behind him at Mobile, and going to Halifax, won the affections of and married a lady there. Subsequently he returned to Mobile without his Halifax wife, and took up lodgings with his old spouse. The Hali fax wile following and finding out the state of affairs, very sensibly commenced pro ceedings to have the Halifax knot untied. has been sent to be crushed, but the result is not yet known. Powers & Co. have sunk a shaft of 10 net deep, with a good show of gold. Work to be resumed in Spring. • The St. Lawrence Company is now sinking 'a shaft on the Medjermet, but to what depths they have got I cannot say. There is also one shaft of nine feet sunk by the De Lery Company. at St. Fran cois, where free gold has been found in the quartz. A Mr. Michel, on behalf of the Canadian Government Geologists, visited this place last Fall, and took away specimens of quartz from the different reefs for assay; but the .. esnit will only be known when his report will be published, which will be, I believe,- about the opening of Parlia ment. In alluvium mining,the Reciprocity Com pany has given their land on the Gilbert out in lots to miners at very reasonable terms, and the miners so far have well succeeded.' I may mention that the Gold Rill Mining Company are daily expecting a quartz mill from Boston. Since writing the above, intelligence has been received that 13 cwt. of ore taken from Riggs & Co.'s vein, above referred to, was crushed in New York, and assayed by mill process $4O to the ton. This is the only ore from this district which has been passed through the mill so far, and has, consequently, inspired addi tional confidence in the gold-bearing cha racter of our numerous quartz lodes.--N. Y. Times, 17thinst. THE FENIf!iN S. THE EXCITEMENT AT OSWEGO. COURTS. THE CHOLERA BELOW NEW YORK, Reports from Physicians on Duly, Seventy-Three Cases on Sunday. [From to-day's N. Y. Times .1 Dr. Swinburne came up to the City yes terday, with an official report from Dr. Bissell, Deputy Health Officer, now sta tioned on board the hospital ship Falcon, at the Lower Quarantine anchorage. The re port is as follows : HOSPITALI SHIP FALOHON, April 22. Since my fast report there have been ten deaths on board the hospital' ship from cholera, and twenty new ;cases have been received from the Virginia. There have been two deaths on board the Eng land, one old lady and one infant, neither of them from cholera. There are seventy-three cases of cholera now on the hospital shit). _ D. H. BISSELL, Deputy Health Officer. The reports on the Quarantine Commis sioner's books show that from the 12th to the 20th of April, itclusive , forty-seven deaths from cholera occurred on board the Virginia ; on the 21st, four, and on the 22d, ten, making in all, down, to Sunday night, sixty-one deaths. On the 20th there were thirty-four cases in hospital. on the 21st, sixty-seven, and on the 22d, seventy-three. Dr. Harris will present a report to the Board of Health, this afternoon, detailing his investigations on board the steamship Virginia. Superintendent Dalton will also submit a report. These gentlemen insti tuted careful inquiry and investigation, but were unable to find a solitary passenger that had come from a town wherein a single case of cholera had been known. The pas sengers were healthy at the time of em barkation, on the sth, at Queenstown, and it was not until the 12th, when the air of the orlop deck of the Virginia had been poisoned, that cholera manifested itself— first in that part of the ship and then ex tending elsewhere. It is said by gentlemen who are conver sant with the subject that the hospital-ship Falcon has been for months ready to go to the assistance of any infected ship at an hour's notice; but that instead of sending her immediately to the Virginia on the ar rival of that vessel, somebody delayed eigh teen hours, leaving the sufferers all that time to be treated by a youthful physician, who had already been worn almost to ex haustion. The office of the Health Officer at Quer antine is overrun by the friends of the pas sengers on board the cholera steamer. It is irepos.siblli , to obtain satisfactory informa tion in this way. It may be as well, there fore, for the public to understand, that neither the England nor the Virginia, nor any other vessel containing passengers from Europe at the present time is to be allowed to come up the harbor until the proper au thorities are assured that it will be safe to grant permission. Satre-Glyeerlne—The Case before the 11. 9. Commissioner in New York—lmport ant Testimony. [From to dare N. Y. Tribune.] The examination in the case of the United States agt. Otto Burstenbinder, was contin ued in the United States Commissioxer's Office, before Commissioner Betts, yester day. Joseph H. Prentice was called for the de fence, and testified that Mr. Burstenbinder was absent from the city about five weeks, and returned about April Ist; he sold no oil before leaving. On cross-examination he testified that oil hut been shipped to the accused on several occasions, and once to the association; part of this oil was sold to Mills; Mills lett, I think, three or four weeks before the oil was chipped; I think the oil was packed by Jas. Davean; lam not sure: I saw the package after it was sold; it was standing in front of our office, I think in an express cart; I have no particular branch of business in cennection with the oil; the oil was sold on r. Burstenbinder's account; he owned it: he handed in a bill for this oil the other day; J. W. Brazear keeps the books; I have bad conversations with Mills about this oil; I was interested in the mining company for which he went out; I understood that any of us had authority to sell the oil; that Mr. Burstenbinder wanted to get rid of it, and we were doing him a favor in selling it; that was the second consignment from Europe as tar as I know;" there has been another consignment since the 300 lb. lot which has been mentioned; the oil has been used experimentally; I went with this to the foot of Canal street by Mr. Raymond's order; he bad been to the expreas office to see about having it sent overland; the box was too large or freight too heavy, or some thing, and as a favor to him I look it to the dock; Mr. Raymond went to the express since before it came down from the maga zine; I supposed I knew what the contents of the box were; I don't know how many pounds were in it, I think 100; I don't know whether it was in glass or in tin packages; I don't know how the box was marked; I suppose according to the weight I took down; I got to the dock, I think, about 4 P. M. on Saturday after noon; when I got there the porter told me it was too late; I went in and hunted up the man who seenied to have charge, and asked him to let me have it then, as otherwise I should have to send up to One-hundred- and sixteenth street, and it was late; I got the bills of lading on this receipt: Er. B. 'Rec'd from Mr. 0. Burstenbinder one case oil, marked as below ' W. H.Mills, LosAngelos, Cal. ,1 case oil;" I got the bills of lading„ I think, on Wednesday after. ; I handed them over to Mr. Daveau; Mr. Daveau has one now in the office; Mr. W. H. Raymond was formerly in partnership with Mr. Daveau; he has now gone out to Nevada, to develop some mines there; Brazear tt: Co.'s firm with which lam connected, does a general bro kerage business; about March 21st a pack age was sold to a Mr. Taylor, who wanted it packed not to weigh over 100 pounds, so that he could takeit in his cabin with him as baggage; I suppose the package ion tained 2511;5. of the oil, with a good deal of sawdust packing; I think James Daveau sold that to Mr. Isylor; I supposed it was going on that steamer, if we got it down there in time; Daveau had only a general understanding with Col. Burstenbinder; the magazine was 011114, and the keys hang in our office; we got the magazine a little after the Greenwich street explosion; before that we kept some in our office; Col. Buraten binder fixed the price, I don't know at what; I saw the Col. hand a paper to Mr. Daveau, which he said was a bill for the oil; I don't know the price of either that or the oil sold to Taylor, It was paid for; Mr. Mills left about the middle of February, and Mr. Burstenbinder about the last of February; there was some oil sold to a man of the Prltsktrr DOUBLE 811E:b.IT, THREE CENTS. name, I think, of Legendre; I did not see .hat package; I did not see the marks on either of the boxes sent by steamer; Mr. Daveau told me he got the oil ready; I don't know who the expressman was who brought it down; I paid him on the dock as he was leaving; Mr. Davean made a contract for bringing it down to the office, and I gave him.a dollar to take it to the dock; I heard there were two cases taken to the public store in Broadway for appraisal last week; Mills has been engaged in two or three mining companies about that office; we knew he was going to Los Angelos for open ing mines three or four months before he started; a month before he started it was settled that he should try this oil; the com pany then had but 3 or 4 pounds: the rest was Mr. Burstenbinder's: I know of no directions from the Colonel as to the packing of the oil; our office is Mr. Barstenbinder's headquarters. - To Mr. Burstenbinder—Mr. Burstenbin der offered the oil on hand just before he started to the company; they did not want it; I don't know of any letters from him au thorizing the sale of the oil; the receipt was made out in your name because it belonged. to you; I think Mills left before you, but I am not positive; I don't remember hearing you offer to sell any oil to any one but the. company. To the District Attorney—l hays never been at the magazine; I don't know who teok the key at that time. James B. Davean was then sworn for the defence—Mr. Burstenbinder left Ithe latter part of February, and returned the - begin ning of. April; before he went be offered. the Company his oil; they refused, as they had oils of their own on the way; I received no letter authorizing a sale of the oil from Col. Burstenbinder; Mills left after you left; we bad the receipt made out to you, as it was yours; there was no mark on the; box when it came to No. 26 Pine street; yon made out a bill and presented it to the Company for the oil on the 6th of April; it was in form— The Association to Mr. Burstenbinder Dr., for so much oil, I forget the quantity; you could not know that any had been soldbe fore you came back from Lake Superior; I suppose we had to report to you the sale of the oil, and to whom we sold. To Judge Dean—The box was put in the magazine while I was away; the box had no marks, but some numbers; the oil was sold in March, after Mr. Burstenbinder had left, several days after; I made no contract with Mills; he wished me to ship him some of the oil; the established price to the public for the oil has been $2 10 per pound; Mr. Mills got it at $1 75; we supposed we had the right from Col. Burstenbinder to sell the oil; while he was gone we sold this ease to Mr. Mills, and one carboy to Mr. Taylor; Mr. Mills left some days previous to the ship ment, and left directions with Mr. Raymond to send it by the overland route; when it came to No. 26 Pine street, Mr. Raymond found the freight by express would be so high that he directed us to ship it by steamer ; the box had no marks en it at No. 26 Pine street but numbers, and I gave no direction for marking it; I drew the receipt (Ex. B.); I employed a man up there to bring it &will I supposed the case contained oil; I knew the quantity from what Mr. Burstenbinder told me; all the cases I examined contained glass ear boys; one of them• contained four glass car boys packed very nicely in saw-dust; a carboy contained about 27/ English pounds; there were 12 cases last week being dis charged from ship-board; only two of those went to public store; the others were taken directly to our magazine; I have the dupli cate bill of hiding; Mr. Raymond left in the steamer Arizona, andl presume, in San Francisco; Mr. Burstenbinder before he left said,if any persons wanted the oil we might sell it; I can't say he said we might sell a part of it. charles G. Elliott, testified that he took a package from the corner of One-hundred and-Srventefnth street and Third avenue; a groceryman delivered it to him; it was not marked; he was to take it to aymond & Co., No. 26 Pine street; he came down Third. avenue to City Hall, and then down Broad way; he delivered the package at the office; from there he was requested to take it to Pier No. 42 North river; I left it on the dock there not in charge of anybody; I think it was marked at No. 26 Pine street, when it went in it was ajar in a wicker basket,when ttinie out it was boxed up; I think I saw Mr. Prentice there; I did not know the con tents of the box; there was no one to recive it on the dock, and I put it there and left it. To Mr. Barstenbinder—lt was not you who tployed me. Adj loaned to Wednesday at 12 M. Facts and Fanc ies. A 'gentleman in New Orleans has been connected with six business houses, all of which broke. He must be one of the greatest house-breakers in the country.-. Lou. Jour. Ron, Rustomjee Jamsetee Jejeebhoy has been re-elected a Inember of the. Bombay Legislative Council, and Mr. Munguldass Nathocbhoy has been appointed to one of the vacant seats. The B'hoys seem to be, ap preciated in that part of the world. Dickens declined a recent invitation to read before Victoria on the ground that he would not go as a performer whese he was not received as a gentleman. Dickens is tra-fastidioes, at least if it is true that the Queen, in directing her Private Secretary to send for him, said, "I invite our beloved Buz and Our Mutual Friend." What titore could the chap ask? A. Washington correspondent says that when the President in his speech of Wed msday evening, propounded the conun drum, "Who.made me your President?" a wicked strict constructionist in the crowd responded "Booth." The NEIN' buryport Herald says that every time the President speaks he rises in the public view. It would be considered very impolite in Mr. Johnson to make a speech without rising. A new custom house has just been estab lished at Stockton, Maine, and Captain M. Partridge is appointed deputy collector' We do not know how the coincidence of Stockton affording a comfortable subsist ence to M. Partridge will strike people on. this side of the Delaware, but it is sure to be appreciated on the other side. DESPERATE AFFRAY.—MiIes O'Reilly and his brother Dennis made a furious RS eault, on, Sunday evening, upon Patrick Donnelly, in the hallway of the tenement house in which all three resided in New York. During the melee Donnelly received. two severe stabs in thaViclotrien: and arm, the first of which wilt-PrObsW.7result fa tally. The two brother:llmM tieri)tiked and. committed to await the result :of Quiwo - ands inflicted by them, while Donnelly was re moved to 13ellevue Hospital, where hts aste 'merles& statement ivas taken by Coroner Gover. The disturbance grew oat of an old feud. ,
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