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ORIFFITHS—STEP HENS.—On Wednesdik eve
rting„ 9th Inst., by Rev. Dr. Brainerd, Mr. George
‹lriffiths, to Miss Maria E. Stephens.
RIPTOI39I9NS--JaCKlLS.N.—OnWednesday, May 9th
by the Bev. S. G. Butler D. D.. Geo. S. Hutchins, o
_TievaTorh, to Ella F., eldest daughter of Gen. D. K
Jkuan. of Philedelnuts.
MiarFORD—BASSETT.—On Wednesday evening
9th Inst., at the residence of the bride's parents, New
Britain, Connecticut, by the Rev. Mr. Goo.: ell, of New
Britain. assisted by the Rev. Edwd. Lonnaburg, o
- ThiladelphLa, Joseph P. Mumford, of Philadelphia, to
-Wary Eno, daughter of 0. B. Bassett, Esq. * -
DIED.
BllZET.—Suddenly, of congestion of the brain, on
-the 9th kurt...Edanuad H. Busby.
- The relatives and friends of the family are invited to
attend his ftmeral, from his late residence, No. 2i N
W. Penn Square, on Monday, 14th inst., at 4P. M.
without further notice. i*
- citiLLY.—on the sth instant, Cecelia, daughter of
Mears and lane Crilly, aged 15 years and 9 months.
The relatives and friends of the family, are respect
tally Incited to attend the funeral, from her parents'
residence, No. 1315 Marshall street, on Saturday morn
ing, May 12th. at 8.4; o'clock, without further notice.
Funeral service at St. Michael's Church.
DALY.—finddenly, this morning, May 11th, Thomas
; Daly, Sr. Surveyor of the r irst District. •
Doe notice will be given of the funeral.
HIITCEEIENSON:-.43n Wednesday morning, May 9th,
Pemberton Hutchinson, in the 77th year of his age.
The male relatives and friends of the fami,y, are,
without farther notice, invited to attend the funeral.
from his latereaidence, 1319 Wainnit Street, on Saturday
znorrt. 10 o'clock. Interment at Laurel Hill. **
KEENS—On Friday morning, May 11th, 1866, Miss
Sarah L. Keene.
Due notice will be given of the funeral. sa
MASON —On the morning of the 11th inst., James
S., infant son of Richard S., and Mary T. Mason. *
MOOSE.—On the 9th inst., of consumption, in the
..laappy hope of a blessed immortality, Bethuei A.
- - Moore, oldest son of the late B. A. Moore, Esq.. of
Philadelphia.
SM.ITH.—On the morning of the llth instant, of
tplitheria, Stanley Husettine, aged 19 months, son of
CI le S., and Wm. P. Smith, Jr.
SINEXON.— On the 9th inst., Mary Elizabeth, wife
of Thomas Siueron.
Due notice will be given of the time of the funeral. •
SHABPLESS.—On Fourth day morning, the 9th
Instant, Enos Sharpless, in the 86th year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family, are-invited,
without farther notice, to attend the funeral, from his
late' residence, near Chester, on Seventh day morning,
12th instant, to meet at the house at 10 o'clock.
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VeN lA.
TrF,Annias AND RECITATIONS,
BY
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At MUSICAL FUND HALL, Locust street, above
Eighth.
FRIDAY, MAY 11th, 1866, at 8 P. M.
Tickets 60 cents. Reserved Beats without extra
For sale at T. B. Pugh's, S. W. corner Sixth and
413hestnut streets. my9-3t2
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PECULIAR P.EePLE.
At the Academy of Music, Monday, 14th inst.
Tickets for sale at ASIIMEA.D & EVANS',7.24 Chest , .
snot street, and IItUMPLER's Music Store, Seventh
and Chestnut. Doors open at 7. Lecture will com
mence at ft. If any tickets remain unsold they may be
had at the door of the Academy on Monday Even
nayll•Strpf
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Mechanical; MINING and METALLURGY ; ARCHI
IMMURE. and the application of Chemistry to AG
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CE,of MODERts LANGUAGES and P HIL C!-
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of our own country. For Circulars apply to President
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t7)3ff: - 2t - iril4, 1866
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A GRAND CONCERT
Will be given at Concert Hall,
BY THE BLACK SWAN TROUPE,
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The Celeb ated BLACK SWAN.
Miss'Kate Lanier, Mr. Frank Woods,Tenor,
UMW Rachael Bennet, Mr. Wm Morris, Basso,
Min Rebecca Montmorency, Mr. Cliff, Barytone,
nave kiadly volunteered their services, assisted by a
Fun Chorus.
PROF. RING.
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Saleof Tickets to commence at T. B. PUGH'S Book
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FRIDAY EV.MILNG, May 11th, 1886, at 8 o'clock.
This instrument is of the very largest 1,5% and was
dormerly the property of the
HARMONks.. SACRED MUSICSOCLETY.
It Grabeen entirety rebulil and much '
enlarged.
Da resources ;will be displayed by the following dis
tinguished organists:
Mess/LILA% cross, Hugh Clarke,
Massa Warner, J. A. Getze
C. B. Stan dbridge and Frank DarleY.
Professor THOMAS BISHOP has volunteered his
services, and the vocal portion of the programme will
be sustained by several competent amateurs.
TICKETS ONE DOLLAR,
For sale at Trumpler's Music Store. 7th and Chestnut;
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COURTS.
QUARTXI3 SFaslorns—Judge Allison.—The case of
Michael and Daniel Mooney, charged with the larceny
of font COM Tra.9 concluded this, morning. The jury:
tad not agreed on a verdict when our report closed.
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EVENING, May 16th, 1866
Conductor
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
"Adrift in Dixie" is the taking title of a
little journal of adventure in "Dixie," by an
escaped Union prisoner. Lieut. Estabrooks,
26th 'Massachusetts Volunteers, was cap
captured at Berryville, Virginia, in Sep
tember, 1864, during Sheridan's famous
caraPaign in the Shenandoah valley. After
a brief sojourn in Libby Prison. he was sent
off towards some point further South, but
with a proclivity for freedom, inseparable
from the true Yankee soldier, contrived to
escape from the train, near Danville. Here
his adventures may be said to have begun.
Traveling at night, lying hid in haystacks
and barns by day, avoiding everything that
was white, and freely challenging the aid
and guidance of everything that was black,
he succeeded in making his way to the
Dan, and finding a certain John Randolph,
a free negro, who kept a ferry. John fur
nished him with much useful information
and started him on his final trip in an old
"dug-out" leaking at both ends, but which
he managed to keep afloat, as he dashed
and drifted down the rapids of the
Dan and into the Roanokii.
Below Clarksville he abandoned his ricketty
craft and took to land -again. Everywhere
he found the negroes ready to help him,
giving him food, concealing him, and pass
ing him on from one plantation to another,
sometimes through rebel pickets, and con
stantly exposed to the most extreme risks
of detection. Thirty days of this perilous
journey brought him within our lines at
Petersburg; and restored him to liberty.
Mr. Estabrooks tells his story simply and
truthfully, and we have read none of the
many similar narratives of adventure with
greater interest. Few of them so perfectly
illustrate the fidelity, sagacity and courage
of the Southern slaves, exercised in behalf
of Union soldiers.
Mr. Kirke introduces the story with a
rather heavy disquisition upon this subject,
which does not improve the book. Mr,
Estabrooks tells his own story so well, that
it did not need such a elaborate preface.
For sale by G. W. Pitcher.
Leypoldt & Roll, New York, have just
published a charming little volume entitled
"Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing." It is
translated from the German of Joseph von
Eichendorff, by our well-known townsman,
Charles Godfrey Leland. It is needless to
say that whatever Mr. Leland does in this
line is done in an elegant and scholarly
way. His mastery of the German langnage
is complete, and he gives us the most per
fect reproduction of the whole spirit and
genius of his author, as well as a very lite
ral translation of the text. This pretty lit
tle story is one of the moat fascinating spe
cimens of the German artist-life novel. The
hero, without a name, without a history,
starts out to make his fortune, with no capi
tal but a light heart, an empty pocket and
a pet fiddle. There is the most exquisite
art in the whole weaving of the thread of
his adventures. There is no appearance of
a plot. Like the "Good-for-Nothing" that
he is, he goes drifting along from one merry
scene to another, singing as he goes, and
seemingly with no ties to place or person,
until at the close of the simple story the
subtle golden thread that has really run
through all his wanderings and controlled
all his curious adventures flashes to the
surface and gives the reader the pleasantest
of surprises. Mr. Leland's peculiar talent
as a translator of German song is frequently
brought into play and we have some charm
ing specimens of his neat handi-work scat
tered through the book. A very interesting
memoir of the author, by the translator,
prefaces the volume, which is presented in
an extremely attractive typographical form,
and enriched by numerous original vignettes
by Mr. E. B. Bensell. It is for sale in
this city by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Stories of the School-life of boys rarely
fail of securing willing readers, and "The
Boys at Dr. Murray's," just published by
Graves dc Young, Boston, belongs to this
class. The story is admirably told and
abounds in capital suggestions both for
teachers and scholars. For sale by Smith,
English (46 Co.
Another "Boy's bnok," and equally at
tractive with "The Boys at Dr. Murrays,"
is "Frank Nelson, the Runaway," just pub
lished by W. H. Hill Jr. Co., Boston. It is a
story, connected with the period of the war.
although not a war-story. Its scenes are
chief.y in the neighborhood of Boston and
the old towns of Marblehead and Salem,and
there is a fine breezy style throughout the
book, which will commend it strongly to
our loyal American boys. It is for sale by
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
"Poor Matt" is a touching little story told
by Jean Ingelow, of a poor boy whose
clouded intellect made him a sad object of
commisseration. The talented authoress
seems to delight in devoting herself to stories
of and for children, and she certainly evin
ces a peculiar gift in that direction. The.
story of "Poor Matt" has appeared, we be
lieve, in the columns of some of our reli
gious newspapers, but is now published in
neat book-form, by Roberts Brothers,
Boston.
"Lost Lilies" is a • very pretty little juve
nile, recently published by J. P. Skelly &
Co., of this city. The lessons of kindness
toward the poor,which it inculcates, cannot
be too distinctly impressed upon the young,
and we are always glad to recommend these
works, which teach the simple truths of
charity and good-will.
J. E. Tilton & Co., of Boston, have an
nounced the publication of the report of the
New England Agricultural Society. The
publishers desire that Secretaries of State
and County Agricultural and Horticultural
Societies ,will please send their latest reports,
or information where they can be obtained,
to Messrs. J. E. Tilton & Co., Boston.
T. B. Peterson 6, Brothers have published
a cheap edition of Dickens's Life of Joseph
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1866.
Grimaldi. This entertaining history of the
English clown is said to be derived from
his own manuscript and notes, and is full
of amusing incidents and adventures.
THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD
ARRIVAL OF THE HEAD CENTRE
STEPHENS.
Great Excitement in =New York,
Appearance of the Head Centre--
Speeches, Serenades, &c,
rFrom to-dare N. Y. Simes.l
Yesterday afternoon, when the heat was
at its height, Broadway thronged with
sturdy men and graceful women, like a
thunderbolt from a clear sky, burst an ex
cited individual upon the astonished gaze of
the crowds in the ante-room of the Metro.
polition Hotel, shouting at the top of his
stentorian voice, "Where's Bill Leland,
where is Bill Leland?" A benevolent
contraband pointed out the fair features of
the afore-mentioned William, who' was
standing in a family group with Simeon,
Horace and Warren, at the entrance to the
most magnificent billiard-room in the
world. Reshing at him, the man gasped,
"Stephens 'a come! We want aroom; quick,
hurry up, he'll be here in no time." The
thumb of William's right hand being en
tirely disengaged, he placed it at the ex
treme end of his bonifacian nose,and gently
wagged his fingers. He knew it was a plea
sant hoax,:and laughed heartily at the gen
tleman's earnestness, but after a little was
convinced that the great Head Centre was
really on his way for the city, and would
shortly make his appearance at the hotel.
Where to put him was the question. The
rooms on the first floor were tall, ditto those
on the second, and dit'w very nearly through
the entire house, addition and all. At last,
however, a suite of rooms on the third floor,.
Nos. 231 and 232, were prepared, the fail
hands of Miss O'Connor and a score of others
proud to do the work for his Headship,
making them attractive and comfortable in
a very brief space of time.
The news spread rapidly. In the first
place the several hundred servants' knew it
and told it to the guests, who told it to out
siders and others in 'bus and car and shop
and street, until presently the people gene
rally became aware that the great man of
function was exnected momentarily. Great
crowds gathered about the Hotel. Men and
women, boys and girls, policemen and carts,
omnibus horses and hack drivers, peddlers,
pickpockets and gentlemen—all alike agape
for the arrival of the coming man.
Would it be well to attempt to describe
the `"feeling among the Fenians?" We
think not. A more excited, uproarious, up
sidedownish set of men and women were
never known. The whisky-mills did a
brisk trade, the rum-shops were largely
patronized, business was forsaken and din 4
ner forgotten, while one and all of every
shade and complexion of the Brotherhood
wended their dirty way to the pier whereat
the steamer was to land.
Tidings of the Arrival.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday after-
noon a messenger entered Col. O'Mahony's
headquarters, in Seventeenth atreet,bearing
a telegram from Sandy Hook, notifying
Mr. Mackenzie, the agent of the General
Transatlantic Company.that the new steam
ship Napoleon 111. had crossed the bar with
James Stephens, Head Centre of the Inde
pendent Fenian Brotherhood. on board.
Mr. Mackenzie politely transmitted a note
to Col. Oldahony, informing him that Capt.
Bocande would probably bring the steam,
ship into her berth, at Pier No. 50, North
river, at about 6 o'clock, and that any dele
gation which Mr. Stephens' friends might
send to meet and greet him should be ad
mitted within the gate of the steamship
company's pier. Hurried preparations
were at once made at the Fenian Brother
hood's headquarters, and within an hour or
two the
Committee of Reception,
consisting of Messrs. John Rafferty, Thomas
Egan, D. M. Sutton, l'atriok Daily, John
McGowan, John O'Conner, W. L. Creed,
William Griffin, Captain Duff, and Dr. D.
M. Brosnan, were on their way with coaches
to Pier No. 50, North River. When the
Committee reached the foot of Barrow street
at about 6 o'clock, the Napoleon 111. was
just rounding from the channel and point
ing her prow in toward her berth, and the
Committee hoped soon to take the hands of
the illustrious visitor; but a strong ebb
tide struck the great ship, and it soon be
came evident that she would consume an
hodr or more in getting up to the wharf.
The Crowds at the Pier.
The tidings of the Head Centre's arrival in
the Bay and expected landing at the foot of
Barrow street, rapidly spread through the
city; and although many persons—even
Irishmen—listened to the news with incre
dulity, yet so many had faith, that long be,
fore the steamer had touched her slip a vast
expectant multitude had gathered and
taken possession of every available point of
obsrrvation. Stephens was first seen and
recognized by the Committee as the ship was
swinging her stern into the slip, and when
recognized he was cheered vociferously by
the Committeemen and others who had Peen
admitted within the gates. These plaudits
assured the great multitude outside and on
the neighboring wharves that the chief of
the Fenians was really about to step on
American soil, and they took up the cheers
and threw their hats high in air in un
bounded enthusiasm. The news of the dis
tinguished arrival had been communicated
to the shipping in the harbor, and the pass
ing steamers olew a deafening welcome,
while a piece of Fenian artillery en the
New Jersey shore thundered forth a na
tional salute. The masses of human beings
on West street and on the wharves.—and par
ticularly outside the gates of Pier No. 50--
became denser and denser as the minutes
flew on, and the number of privileged per
sons who were permitted to pass the gates
grew apace, until the ship was ready to take
aboard her gang-plank.
Stephens Lands. .
At this moment the pressure toward the
ship's gangway was not only decidedly un
comfortable, but really perilous; and Cap
tain Bocande, apprehensive of accident,
shouted from the wheel-house to the police
men on the pier that he would not land a
passenger until at least fifty feet clear
space had been made on each side of the
gang-plank.
Roundstnan Muldoon, in command of a
platoon of policemen from the Twenty
eighth Precinct, soon cleared the required
space, and when the gang-plank had been
properly adjusted the distinguished guest
of the Committee appeared, leaning on the
arm of Colonel Kelly,
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
A deafening huzza went up, and in ano
ther moment the Fenian chief was in the
midst of his Irish-American friends. A
brief consultation ensued, and Mr. Stephens
and staff, consisting of Captain M. E.
O'Brien, of Keokuk, Iowa; lieutenant
William Smith O'Brien, of Detroit; Lieut.
James M. Gibbons,of New York, and Chief
Engineer Thomas Moore, were conducted
to the coaches in waiting.
Driven to the Metropolitan.
Outside the gates the crush was fearful.
It was with extreme difficulty that the
Committee were able to get'the Head Cen
tre and staff safely into their carriages and
off the •pler: and it is indeed a matter of
wonder that of the multitudes who climbed
upon the vehicles, and almost fell under the
horses feet (in endeavoring to get their
hands through the coach windows and into
those of Stephens), not one was the victim
of any accident.
The coaches were driven off at a moderate
trot up Barrow street, with a noisy multi
tude bringing up in the rear and on the
sides of the street; and this crowd rapidly
augmented until, on the arrival of the party
at the Metropolitan Hotel t it filled Broadway
from curb to curb. •
Arrived at the Metropolitan, the Com
mittee took their distinguished guests di,
rectly to the parlors (Nos. 230 and 232)
which had been provided on the third floor.
Here for the next hour Mr. Stephens and
the Committee were closeted.
About nine o'clock, Mr. Stephens having
been sufficiently rested, desired the Com
mittee to admit the representatives of the
press and several officers of the Fenian
Brotherhood who had come to greet him—
among them Senator Stephen J. Meany,
Justice Joseph Dowling, Senator Griffin
and others.
Interview with the Head Centre. ,
Mr. Stephens took his visitors severally'
by the hand and bade them a cordial wel
come. He said that he had not even
dreamed of making the transit of the At
lantic until long after the disastrous division
occurred in the Fenian organization here,
and he should not even now have come had
not many warm friends urged him to visit
America with a view to harmonizing the
Fenian Order. He had come to conciliate
and - win, if possible, every true Irishman
over to one common Centre, through whom
the great work of liberating Ireland may
yet be made an accomplished fact. The
people of Ireland were ripe for the shock
of war in September last, and he had no
doubt that Ireland might now be one of the
sovereign nations of the earth had it not
been for the rupture of the organization
here. But if the nation's independence
could not have been achieved in so short a
time, certainly the power of the British
army in Ireland could have been broken,
and by this,time England would have lost
foothold evrywhere except on the coasts
and in the seaboard cities. But the work
may yet ne wrought out if Irishmen in
America will make a united effort, says
Mr. Stephens, and it is to stimu
late his brethren to renewed and enthusias
tic labor for the cansethat he appears among
diem. Mr. Stephens acknowledges writing
the bitter letter which everybody supposed
to be one of the O'Makony gang's forgeries,
and be wrote it under the tint excitement
incident upon learning that a mortal stab
bad been made at the life of Fenianism
here. He is willing, however, that bygones
shall be bygones, and will throw himself
unreservedlyinto any measure which shall
promise to hasten that great and glorious
future which he fondly anticipates for his
native land.
Ata,itonr of Rest.
Mr. Stephens escaped from Richmond jail
on the 20th of November last, and imm&
diately took refuge in the mansion of a
friend in Dublin, and there he remained
four months, the British Government seek
ing him everywhere, on the highways and
byways, high and low, but never getting a
lisp of his whereabouts. And notwith
standing this search he was able to meet the
secret leaders of the movement as often as
he deemed it necessary. Once during his
four months' concealinent a council of
sixty leading Fenians was held in his
parlors in Dublin, right under the noses of
the British sentries. At length, on the 13th
of March, he left Dublin in a small shallop,
and after haying been driven out of his
course by a tempest, and once compelled to
put into Carrickfergus Bay, almost within
gunshot of a British fleet, he reached the
coast of France, entering Paris on the 18th
of March. Of course, he was warmly wel
comed by Mitchel and the other Fenian
leaders there. He left Havre on the 28th
ult., and after an uncommonly pleasant
voyage of twelve days, first saw the cross on
Trinity spire yesterday afternoon.
The Head Centre says that he is resolved
to fight in Ireland this year.
James Stephens is a man of fine presence,
though rather under medium stature. The
show-window lithograph conveyed a fair
idea of his cast of countenance, but the artist
has failed, as may be supposed, to catch the
language of his intelligent blue eye. The.
massive forehead and bald scalp are easily .
recognizable in the picture. He is appa
rently about 45 years of age. His speech is
that of a man of considerable cultivation, and
the unmistakable brogue proclaims him an
Irishman.
At midnight Manaban's Brassßand went
to the Metropolitan and serenaded the
Head Centre, and he appeared on the portico
of the hotel, and 11:113.110 suitable acknow
ledgments.
Mr. Stephens is to be permitted to rest
until noon to-day, and this afternoon, if an
arrangement can be effected with the
Mayor and Common Council, he will re
ceive the public in the Governor's Room at
the City Hall.
This evening he will visit Niblo's Garden,
and is soon to be made the recipient of an
"aggregate" ovation at Jones' Woods.
WOMAN AND CHILD KILLED.—On Tues
day, a distressing casualty occurred at
Glendale Station, on the Pitts Durgh, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railway, resulting in
the death of a woman, aged fifty years, and
her little daughter, aged five years. The
name of the deceased mother was Maria
Stoefel, wife of George Stoefel, who resided
at Kilbuck (or Glendale,as it is now called).
She had left home for the purpose of visit
ing a sick sister in Allegheny, and was on
her way from the house to the station,
where she intended to take 'the train, in
company with her little daughter, when
they were both run over and killed.--Pitts•
burgh. Dispatch.
COTTON. Sur rs.—The claimants of the cot
ton seized by the Government at Savannah,
have commenced suits in the United States
District Court of New York, against Simeon
Draper, cotton agent, for the recovery of the
value of the cotton. The suits number one
hundred and twenty-two, and a strong ar
ray of counsel has been retained.
BAIL IN MISSISSIPPI.-A terrible hail
storm recently swept over Brandon county,
Miss., stripping the trees of their foliage
and doing other damage. It is said that the
hail stones were seven or eight inches •in
circumference.
THE YELLOW FEVER ON THE
ICELRSARGE.
Six of Her Officers and Eight of Her
Crew Dead---Surgeon Vreeland
the First Victim---A Fright
ful Cruise on the Coast
of Africa, &c.
fCcirrespondenee of the New York Herald.l
MADRID, April 24.—1 t was my sad and
painful duty to inform you in my last letter
of the appalling visitation from the yellow
fever which the little community on the
United States corvette Kearsarge, Comman
der A. D. Harrell, bad been subjected to.
during their brief but unfortunate cruise on
the coast of Africa. I was not then in a
position to give you more than the genera
reports which had reached me from Lisbon
concerning the sad affair.
lam now in possession of some details,
which I received last night from our Consul
in Lisbon, Mr. C. A. Monroe,.who has been
so kind and obliging as to place before me
all the information he had, for the benefit of
the people at home. It will be seen that the
information Mr. Monroe sends, fortunately
does not bear outthe somewhat exaggerate - d
reports I received and sent on last week.
Still, sufficient details are supplied to show
that the cruise of the Kearsarge was one
that in every way farnishes accumulated
horrors enough to equal any that the records
of the navy can reveal.
The first victim of the dread disease was
the amiable, skillful and accomplished
surgeon, Dr. Vreeland, who expired after
an illness of five days, during which time
he was unable to prescribe for a single fel-
low sufferer. After this maiming blow the
disease had full range and scope. The last
defence against its insiduous and deadly ap
proach was swept away, and the unfortu
nate ones` who were struck down by it had
no mortal assistance to rely upon to ward
off or weaken the stroke.
The horrors of such a situation, under a
tropical sun, can better be imagined than
described. They were such as will never
be forgotten by any one who passed safely
through them.
In consequence of the Kearsarge being in
rigorous quarantine at the date of my ad
vices no further information had, been re
received than that - which I shall give; and,
unfortunately for the anxiety of friends and
relatives of those on board, thenames of the
dead are not embodied in the news. This
information I look for to-morrow or next
day, as the ship came out of quarantine the
day subsequent to my advices; and as soon
as she can be communicated with Mr. Mon
roe mill forward me the list, which I shall
at once send to you for the information of
those interested in the matter.
In regard to the detailci of the cruise I can
not do better than to give you an extract of
a letter from Com'der Harrell announcing
it,which gives the prominent points
"The
:
"The whole affair," writes Commander
Harrell, "can be told in a few words, but
the scenes on board the vessel, for the pe
riod of ten or twelve days,bafile description:
The fever made its appearance on board on
the 15th of March, immediately after leav
ing Sierra Leone. Unhappily for ns, our
doctor (Vreeland) was the first person at
tacked, and was never after able to pre
scribe. He lived five days.
"I continued my course down the- coast
for three days, when the fever continued to
increase so rapidly, that I found our only
hope of safety hinged upon getting north as
speedily as possible. Accordingly I steered
directly for St. Vincent, where I arrived
with three tons of coal in my bunkers.
"In the meantime, that is to say within
nine days, we lest six officers, and seven
men; the last death, which occurred on
the 28th of March, making fourteen in all.
"On the 24th of March, in thirteen hours,
we lost five., Until we reached the trade
winds, we had dead calms, with the ther
mometer standing at ninety-six degrees and
one hundred degrees in the shade on deck.
"The firemen and coal heavers were
struck down with the fever, and were
banded upon deck; others fainted from the
excessive heat. ,
"These scenes, together with the insane
ravings of the dying, vainly calling for that
assistance which it was not in our power to
render, formed a spectacle not easily for
gotten.
"When we fairly reached the trade winds,
the fever abated as rapidly as it bad sprung
into existence. The last case occurred on
the 25th of March, and the patient is now
entirely convalescent.
"The epidemic passed over us like a tor
nado, swept all before it, but happily left
none of its remains behind."
This is the captain's graphic account of
the visitation. Nothing could be added to
it. He remarks in conclusion, that he "has
caused the ship to be broken out below,
omitting no part of her, excepting the maga
zine,thoronghly cleaned and whitewashed,"
and he has "no idea that there is a particle
of fever in the vessel."-
The Portuguese authorities placed arigor
our quarantine of ten days upon the vessel
for observation. This term has expired,and
free pratique granted. Not a single new
case has been developed since March 25th.
The health of the crew is now excellent, and
the vessel is undoubtedly entirely free from
any seeds of the epidemic.
On her arrival in port, Assistant Surgeon
Hiland, of the store-ship Inc, lying in port,
proceeded on board, and has been doing his
duty there ever since. It is to be hoped
that he will not have occasion to exercise
hie skill against the Yellow Tack. I shall
give you further particulars in my next,
and a list of the dead ; but I presume the
latter has already been sent to the Navy
t i.)epartment.
Again I would express my acknowledg
ments of the very courteous and kind ser
vices of Mr. Monroe, who has enabled rue
to place the above facts before your readers,
and the people generally, at home.
The following is a list of the officers of the
Kearsarge:
Commander—A. D. Harrell.
Lieutenant Commander—Geo. Dewey.
Lieutenant—Edwin T. Woodward.
Surgeon—Benjamin Vreeland (dead).
Assistant Paymaster—William N. Wat
rnough.
Acting Master—L. B. Xing.
Ensign—William H. Whiting.
Acting Ensign—C. J. Barclay.
Mates—C.. J. Andrews, Samuel Payne,
Adolph Schauders, Samuel A. Davis.
Engineers—First Assistant, Sidney Al !
bort; Second Assistants, Joel A.' Bullard,
Joseph Hooper, J. C. Safer; Third Assist
ants, R. Edwards, Elisha R. Tyson; Acting
Third Assistants, J. A. Sleeper, Win, H.
Phitt.
Acting Boatswain—Wm. L. Bond.
Gunner,--Wm. Wilson.
F. L. FETIMSTON. Pubttw.
DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS.
A young man and wife arrived at St.
Louis by one of the Mississippi steamers
last week, with neither baggage nor money
to pay their fare. The clerk ofi the boat
seized the wife in payment, and kept her
on the boat as security-. Whereupon the
husband took out a warrant against hint
for kidnapping. A hopeless old bachelor
scoffs at the idea of a man taking his wife
with him on a journey, and then saying he
has no baggage with him.
Boston milliners and gardeners complain
loudly atthe backward spring; They sb.ould
see Young America at the Academy of
Music, before they talk about backward
springs.
All the troops serving in Canada are to be
placed under canvas, in isolated positions,
for.the better protection of their health. Th.%
idea is that by getting them into very Igo
lined positions they will be out of harm's
way, if the Finnegans should come. Their
excitement will now be in-tents.
Mr. Whipple, of Riga. N. Y., was tied up
with his family with cords one night, and
robbed of $.26,000 in bonds. A package by
mail restored to him $20,060 of it. Thatrob
ber must have been an eccentric fellow s
first to tie up the whole family and then,
immediately relieve them of their bonds.
Brother Whipple now understands the fall
meaning of "domestic ties."
A Wisconsin journalist has quit the news
paper business m disgust,and taken to edit
ing his garden. He will need a "Hoe" in
his garden, as much as he did in his press
room.
Stephens's disguise while in London is
now asserted to have been that of a sister of
eilsiritv. It was a bold thing for him to go
aboutlondon in such a-nundisguised way.
The latest name for a travelling show is
the Pantecnatheca. It appears to be a sort
of panorama, and we read that "the great
phenomenon of the moon rising from the
ses is to be witnessed by all, while in the
storm at sea all the elements in their ma
jesty are to be heard and seen with such
startling reality as to cause old men to
shiver, and the young children to cling
closer to their- parents!" Ugh! we hope it
won't come this way. Just imagine chil
dren who have not had a pa-nor-a-ma for a
long time before they entered the exhibi
tion, suddenly finding themselves clinging
to their parients.
Why are potatoes,baked with meat,heavy
food? Because they are gravy-taters. By
a quick pronunciation you can make it
sound like gravitators.
A man _rushed into our sanctum . this
morning, announcing that he had seen a rat
in our new building. We at 'once deter
mined, if we must have a rat, to have a bat.
tool
Contributed by Ceo. J. Henkel!, Cabinetmaker, -at
Thirteenth and Chestnut streets.
.1
Tim PROPER Tanaaranwr FOR VARNISH.
—When the polish on new furniture be
comes dull it can be perfectly renewed by
the following process: Take a soft sponge
wet with clean cold water and wash off the
article. Then take a soft chamois akin
and wash it clean; rinse it. dry as yon - can
by wringing in the hands,and wipe the water
off the furniture, being careful to wipe
only one way. Never use a dry Chamois OTh
Tarnished work. If the varnish is de
faced and shows white marks, take
linseed oil and turpentine in 'equal parts;
shake them well in a phial and apply a very
small quantity on a soft rag, until the color
is restored; then, with a clean soft rag wipe
the mixture entirely off. In deeply carved
work the dust cannot be removed with a
sponge. Use a stiff bristled paint brush, in
stead of a sponge. The cause of varnished
furniture becoming dull and the reason
why oil and turpentine restore its former
polish, it will be appropriate to explain.
The humidity of the atmosphere and the
action of gas,
ti
cause a bluish white coating,
to collect on
all furniture, and show con
spicuously on bright polished surfaces, such
as mirrors, pianos, cabinet-ware and polished
metal. It is easily removed, as previously
directed. The white scratches on furniture
are caused by bruising the gum of which
varnish is made. Copal varnish is com
posed of gum copal, linseed oil and turpen.
tine or benzine. Copal is not soluble as
other gums are in alcohol; but is digaolved
by heat. It is the foundation of varnish, as
the oil is used only to make the gum
tough, and the turpentine is required
only to hold the other parts in a.
liquid state, and evaporates immediately
after the application on furniture. The gum.
then becomes hard and admits of a fine
polish. Thus, when the varnish is bruised,
it is the gum that turns white and the color
is restored by applying the oil and turpenft
tine. If the mixture is left on the furni
ture. it will amalgamate with the varnish
and becometough; therefore the necessity
of wiping it entirely off at once. To varnish
old furniture, it should be rubbed with
pulverized pomice stone and water, to take
off the old surface, and then apply varnish
reduced with turpentine to the consistenty
of cream. Use an elastic bristle brush. If
it does not look well, repeat the rubbing
with pumice stone, when dry, and varnish
it again.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last
while Mr. Charles Log,an,of Meadville, Pa.,
was engaged in running a circular 63. W at
that place, he met with a terrible accident,
by which his legs were cut halfway through
above the knees, a deep gash matte in' one
of them below the knee, while the saute leg
was split open to the ankle. It was a part
of his business to file the saw, and at noon,
when the engine stopped,, and the mill
hands went tedinner, he forgot to run off
the shafting. 'Upon his return he sat down
across the saw and begun to file it, forget.,
ting that the belt was on, and when the en
gine was started it of course set the saw in.
motion, gashing him as described.
FALSE CALVES have made their advent in
Cleveland, Ohio. The Plaindealer says:
"We have a very startling arrival to &no- •
nick: 'False calves have come to town!'
They arriued a day or two ago. There are
two kinds. One is stuffed with hair—the
other with sawdust, the latter, of course,
being the cheaper. Yesterday afternoon,
a young lady with tilting hoops and false
calves was perambulating through the park.,
when suddenly one of the calves burst.
Our readers can imagine the result. The
poor young lady could be traced by a trail
of sawdust from Rouse's Block to the post
office. [Excuse a tear.] Thus the maiden,
who entered the park in form resembling
• the Venus de Medicis, emerged therefrom in
a state of spindle•shanked angularity , . Her
great mistake consisted in not getting hair
calves—they being less liable to burst, and
of amore pliable nature. Believe us, dear
ladies, if you will wear the new-fangled im
provement on nature's pattern, thatjlie
hair style is the cheaper. We presume the
yonnglady fainted when she learned the ax
tentof her misfortune. But, as an exchange'
says, what's the use of railing atfalse calyea,
they axe a mere matter ar forug •
Facts and Fancies.
Household Economy.