aU3I3ON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME %X.--NO. 35
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BLASE—POLK—May 1, at the residence of General
Lucius J. Polk, Maury county, Tenn., Frank D. Make,
of South Carolma, to Sally H., daughter of the late
Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, Bishop ofLouislanaZ
MuIaVLAND—McINTOSH—At New York, May
16th, by. Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., Tleadwell
Cleavland and 'Evelyn S., daughter of the late James
Mclntosh, flag officer 11. S. navy.
DIIRLEY —FELLOWS—On the seth April, at the
ICfnited States Legation, in Paris, by the Rev. Dr. Bur
lingbain. Anna M. Fellows, daughter of the late Wil
liam Fellows, to Henry Dudley, all of New York.
HIIGER—LOWNDES—At Charleston, S. C., Maylo.
by the Rev. Mr. Howe, Dr. William H Huger to Sa
bina H. daughter of Charles T. Lowndes, Esq,
XIBRBBIDE—OGDEN—In New York, on the 7th -
Inst., by the Rev. George L. Prentiss, Thomas S. Htrk
bride, H. D., to Elba Ogden, daughter of the late Ben
jamin F. Butler.
MAY—BbANCH—On :May 16th, in the city of
Petersburg, Vs., by the Rev. Dockland Vase, Beverly
D. Hay, of this city, to . Miss Florence H. Branch, of
Petersburg. •
SCCRANTON—ELY-LAt New York, May 16, by the
Rev. Joseph T. Duryea, Gerard Ban ker Scranton to
Amelia Augusta, daughter of the Hon. Nathan C. Ely.
STEAD— OT ER—On the 17th inst., by the Rev.
John D. Rodney, Mr. Charles M. Stead, of Providence,
R. 1., to Mies Caroline C., daughter of William A. Po t•
ter of Germantown, Pa. No cards.
'YHOMAS—LLOYD—On the 16th inst„ by Friends
ceremony, John A. Thomas, of La Crosce, Wisconsin,
to Hannah H., daughter of Charles Lloyd, of Darby,
_Delaware county Pa. •
WHALEY—PICKENS—On the Sth of May, by the
Bev. E. T. Walker, at the residence of the bride's fa
ther, near Edgefleld C. H. Jennie M., daughter of the
Mon. F. W. Pickens, to E. Mitchell Whaley.
DIED.
vs - tv.r.vGA.N—On 17th Inst., Miss Mary Milligan.
Her relatives and friends are respectfully invited to
attend her funeral from the residence of her Brother
in-law, Mr. D. N. Slnn. 603 North Tenth street, on
Monday, 21 inst., at 10 o'clock, to proceed to Laurel
Hill Cemetery. Ca
STROUP—On the 17th inst., Anna M. Stroup, aged 79
years.
The relatives and friends of the family are particu
larly invited to attend her funeral, from her late resi
dence, No. 1013 Vine street, on Monday, the list inst.,
at 10 o'clock, without forth& notice. To proceed to
Laurel BIM ea
EYEE & LANDELL are prepared to supply aunt
Ike with Dry Goods, at the lowest prices.
LINEN &MEETINGS,
MARSEILLES QUILTS,
TABLE LINENS. DAMASK TOWELS.
)-OUt3EHOLD - DRY GOODS.
SUNDOWNS AND YACHT HATS FOR LADIES
in great variety,
AT _ _ _
Tli.k.o. H. MOCALLA'S
Ohl established Rat and Cap Emporium,
inylo-110 sO4 Chestnut street
WILHEACOCE, GENERAL FURNISHING
UNDERTAIMi, No. 18 North. Ninth street.
above market. ap2l-Ims
ItIICYGIOUS NOTICES.
Ri , EDKIIVICES FOR THE SABBATH 2N THE
new Southwestern Presbyterian Church, corner
entieth and Fitzwater streets. In the morning,
at 10% o'clock. preaching by Rev. I. H. :Young, of
Waynesburg, late 4 in the afternoon, at B%', by Rev. F.
I,.Robbins, of li-reen Hill Church, and in the evening,
at 8 o'clock, by Rev. Dr. March, of Clinton Street
Church. myll3-2t*
11? BISHO P . M. GIMP SON, D. D., will preach at
the Western M. E. Church (Twentieth and WM
nnt Sabbath Morning, the 20th inst. A Collection'
will be taken for Repairs in the Church. Beata all free.
Coale and welcome. — myl7.3c.
. _
Ity MISS ANNA E. pIOSINBON
WILL SPEAK, BY INVITATION,
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
THIS FRIDAY EVENING, MAY
SIIELTECT-"MY POLICY."
• This is Miss Dickinson's most popular lecture, and is
said to have created the greatest enthusiasm In the
West, where she has been, for several months past,
addressing immense audiences on "My Policy," or the
Johnsonian dogma of Reconstruction.
Tickets for sale at T. B. PUGH'S Book Store, S. W.
corner SIXTH and CHESTNUT Streets, and also is
the evening at the Academy.
Doors open at 7. Lecture at 8 o'clock.
Reserved seats, 50 cents.
• Admitudon. 25 cents. myls4f
B:3PARDEE SCIENTIFIC COTIRSE
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
In addition to the general Course of Instruction in
this Department, designed to lay a substantial basis of
Urnowledge and scholarly culture, students can pursue
those branches which are essentially practical and tech
nical, viz.: ENGINEERING, Civil, Topographical and
Mechanical; SEINING and ME PAI,LIIRGY; ARCHI
TECIURE anclAbe application of Chemistry to A
RICULTURE and the ARTS. There is also affordedG
.tun opportunity for special study of TRADE and COM
CE,of MODERN LANGUAGES and PHILO
LOGY; andol the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS of
<dour own country. For Circulars apply to President
VATTELL, or to Prof B. B. YOUNGMAN,
EASTON. PA., April 4,1868. Clerk of the Faculty.
ti351,6M01 •
'FAIR TO SECURE A HOME FOR TEE
Aged and Infirm Members of 'the M. E. Church.
The ladles of Ebenezer M. E. Church would respect
fully solicit donations in money, flowers, useful and
fancy articles for the above object. Donations may be
!sent to Mrs. T. W. Simpers, 408 Catharine street, Mrs.
D. H. Bowen, 815 South Second street, and Mrs. Chas.
Thompson, 1216 South Second street.
Fair will be held at Concert Hall, commencing June
11th, 1866. myl.B4,m,wtjes•
WbGPIRMANTOWN.—NOTICE THE GER
IkiANTOWN WATER COMPANY having de
ilveredpossession of their Works, &c., to the City of
Philadelphia. no further rents will be collected or per
mits-issued by the Company. Stockholders will re
,ceive their certificates of City Debt upon delivery of
their Stock certificates to
ISAAC C. PRICE,
President Germantown Water Co.
mylB•6t•
REV. T. B. MILLER, M. D.. will deliver a
Lecture this FRIDAY EVENING, May 18th, at
Erlrock, In Scott M. E. Church, Eighth above Tacker.
Bubieet—"Botany, with the Medicinal Virtues of
Blowers and Herbs." Tickets 2.3 cents; to be had at the
door. For the Benefit of the Old Folks' Home. Its
Bye HOWARD HOSPITAL, No& 1518 and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Me
dical treatment and medicines furniahed gratuitously
to the poor. se2B
ONE OF THE LOClO3.—irhe Washington
-Reporter says the Directors of the Wash
ington Bank have placed in their new vault
""a new steel lined safe from the manufac
tory of Measrs. Burk and Barnes, of Pitts
burgh, at a cost of $1,375, which is construc
ted so as to bid defiance to all the arts of the
burglar, - shrewd and ingenious as they may
have become. It is provided with a lock
having no less than 7,527,200 changes,which
-can only be opened by the man who shuts
it." A great - deal has been said and writ
ten of Hobbs' celebrated lock, which he
-challenged the world to pick, but it wasn't
a circumstance in the way of "changes"
compared with this. Seven millions and a
ball of changes in one lock; wonder who
computed them?
A DiKerturn ANSWEB.—The Albany Ar-
Aus says that-at a recent trial at Auburn,
New York, the counsel for the Government,
after severely cross-examining - a witness,
suddenly put on a look of severity and ex
claimed: "Mr. Witness, has not an effort
been made to induce you to tell a different
story?" "A different story from what I
have told, sir 7" "That is what I mean."
"Yes, sir ; several persons have tried to get
me to tell a different story from what I have
told, but they couldn't." "Now, sir, upon
your oath, I wish to know who those per
sons are." "Wall, I guess you've tried
nod. as hard as any of them." •
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Mn. CARL GARETNER'S MATINEE,, in the
Foyer of the Academy, yesterday afternoon,
was not as well attended as it would have
been if the weather had been more favor
able. The performance was uncommonly
fine, Mr. Gaertner playing in his best man
ner. as did the other artists engaged. The
novelty of the entertainment was the first
appearance of Mme. Abel, a pianist from
New York, who plays the most difficult
music in the most brilliant and artistic
manner. In the Sreutzer sonata of. Bee
thoven, with Mr. Gaertner, and in a duo
with that fine artist, Mr. Charles Jarvis, she
gave the utmost delight. But in a Polo
naise of Chopin, from whom she is said to
have taken lessons, she played in a style
worthy of that great genius. In elegance of
fingering, brilliant, crisp touch, force and
expression, we know of no lady artist who
appears in public that is her equal. She
would soon be a great favorite in Philadel
phia, if she were to appeax oftener. Mr.
Gaertner played a violin solo of • great
difficulty in admirable _style. Mr. Graff
sang several German- songs very agreea
bly. The concert concluded with a quin
tett by Schumann, very elegantly played.
Tun ATLANTIC MONTHLY for June opens
with a clever story by Mrs. M. C. Hopkin
son, called "Quicksands." It is followed by
q paper called "In the Hemlocks," which is
quite in the vein of Thoreau. The third and
last article on Walter Savage Landor, by
Miss Kate Field, is more interesting than
either of the others. "Dr. Johns," "Haw
thome's Note-Book,"""The Chimney Cor
ner" and "Griffith Gaunt" are continued,
and all are good. The poetry of the num
ber is contributed by Longfellow (an aver_
age sonnet), Whittier (a fine poem called
"The Dead Ship of Harpswell"), and E. C.
Steadman (a picturesque piece of verse
called "The Mountain"). There are several
good short prose articles, and the literary
notices are excellent. The Atlantic may be
obtained at Mr. T. B. Pugh's, Sixth and
Chestnut, who has also Our Young Folks for
June, which is well filled with nice reading
for the little ones, and plenty of pictures.
THE FIRST GREAT SALE OF PICTURES,
contributed solely by Philadelphia artists,
came off last evening at Mr. B. Scott's gal
leries, Chestnut street, above Tenth. The
prices realized were not very large, but,
taken generally, the result has been such
that those interested feel warmly encouraged
to persevere in the movement. Next fall
the second collection will be formed by
Philadelphia art followers, and each painter
is determined to be there represented by his
most loving and conscientious effort. We
are indeed rejoiced to record the success of
this enterprise, and hope that before long
these semi-annual sales will become a dis
tinguished feature in the art history of our
city.
Facts and Fancies.
A Michigan schoolmistress used up three
whips and a ferule in punishing a scholar—
then her strength gave way. J. Miller once
remarked that a schoolmistress of that sort
was very like a man's eye, because she
always had a pupil under her lash.
Casual readers might infer from the fol
lowing that Governor Brownlow is not a
favorite with the Louisville Journal : " Peo
ple of Tennessee, to your Governor—
" With one hand clenched tob ttter noses,
While 'tether scrawls 'bout Paul and Moses."
Abbott made $50,000 by his history of the
war. An 'abit quite worth imitating.
Charles Dickens is importuned to become
a candidate for office. That's always the
way with disappointed office-seekers. The
first thing you hear, is : " Dickens take the
office."
The oldest man in Thinois is Mr. Jordon
Rhodes of Huntsville—he is 104, and one of
the most continuous Rhodes in the country.
We don't remember to have seen the re
mark that the palmetto logs that were nsad
for floating batteries in Charleston harbor,
were all converted into sea-cedars.
Jet beads are very fashionable in Paris.
Indeed, says a letter to the Hort American,
"the other evening, at the I lien opera,
(
nothing else was to be seen up a the most
fashionable ladies present at Pa "s bene
fit." A cool opera costume.
The Fenian motto at Union Square—
O'Mahony soil qui mal y pease.
A lady is responsible) for the following :
Why is Dry Tortugas no longer dry? Be
cause Mudd is there.
THE SOLDIERS' NATIONAL ASYLUM.—The
organization of the National Asylum for dis
abled volunteer soldiers hasbeen completed
by the election of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler,
President; Gen. P. J. Osterhaus and George
H. Walker, Vice Presidents, and Lewis B.
Gunkell, Secretary. Three or more asylums
will be established. The managers invite
proposals for sites by donation or sale; the
premises to be situated in loyal States; must
contain not lem than 200 acres; must be in
healthy locations, and easily accessible by
railroad or otherwise. It is the
purpose of the managers to erect,
without delay, extensive and per
manent buildings upon the sites to be ac
cepted, including detached cottages for
soldiers with families. Plans, specifications
and estimates are invited for the Asylum
buildings and cottages, to be submitted for
the approval of the board. A liberal com
pensation will be awarded to to the success
ful plan; the Gothic style of architecture to
excluded. The Governors of States will be
called on for statistics as to the probable
number of disabled soldiers in their re
spective States, who may claim the benefits
of the Asylum. Proposals, specifications,
estimates and plans, must be . sent to Gen.
Butler, at Lowell, ass,, prior to June I.
Wash. Cor. N. Y. Times.
•
THE PERILS OF THE RAILWA.Y.—The
axle of the forward driving wheels of a pas
senger locomotive upon the New York and
New Haven railroad broke on Monday near
Fairfield, Conn., and a passenger who ex
amined it asserts that two-thirds of the area
of the axle had been broken so long that
the oil had clotted in the crack, and the
remainder of the axle was mostly crystal
lized iron. For weeks the lives of thou
sands of passengers have thus been care
lessly risked.
THE FlitE Ermimo.—ln three instances
at Hartford, Conn., recently, the heat of the
sun has set oily cotton waste on fire, and a
timely discovery has been all that prevented
a disastrous conflagration iueaoh case,
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1866.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
The Steamer Vera Cruz--- Death of
Governor Allen--The Confederates
Dispersing---Maury and Ma
gruder Come to Grief---
Condition of the Em
pire, &c., &c.
[Correspondence of the N. Y. Times.]
CITY OF Mr..xico, Sunday, April 29, 1866.
—The anxiety which has prevailed through
out Mexico, especially at the capital, over
the probable fate of the steamship Vera
Cruz, was relieved on the 27th inst., by a
telegram forwarded from the port of Vera
Cruz, on the arrival of the Spanish mail
steamer Barcelona, announcing the loss of
the Vera Cruz off the coast of North Caro
lina.
Henry W. Allen, Brigadier General in
the Confederate army, a year Governor of
Louisiana, and since the abandonment of
the cause of rebellion in the Trans-Missis
sippi Department, editor of the Mexican
Times, of this city, died here a few days
since. I wrote you in my letter intended
for the ill-fated steamer Vera Cruz,
and despatched in care of Captain
Bowen, of that steamer, that no hopes
were entertained of his recovery. He
died at 11 A. M. on the VA inst., at
No. 8 Calls de Cordobanes, near the great
cathedral, and was buried in the American
cemetery, in full confederate uniform,on the
following day, at 12 M. Some objections
were made to this defiance in death to the
Government he cursed in his life by our
Consul, - Mr. Otterbourg. He at first ob
jected to their burying him in uniform in
this burying-ground, by the side of all the
Americans who have died for the last eight
years. The cemetery is the property of the
United States Government. Mr. Otter
bourg withdrew his Objection and signed the
license when he saw that a general row
would be the result if he did not.
Three days before the death of Mr. Allen,
Maximilian notified Gen. Magruder, Sur
veyor-General of the Empireof Mexico, and
Col. Maury, who was then at the head of
the Foreign Emigration Bureau, on ac
count of his father's absence in Europe,
that they should return their portfolios on
the Ist of May, and that on account of the
lack of sufficient revenue, those offices
would be discontinued. The sun of the de
funct Confederacy has gone down at last.
Jubal Early left for Havana as soon
as he learned of the discharge of the
Confederates from oflice-Gen. Wil
cox is the last to linger, and he goes to the
United States by the steamer Manhattan.
The Mexican Times, by the will of the late
owner, has passed i nto the hands of John
N. Edwards, one of. Joe Shelby's soldiers.
He is also the recipient of $12,000 money in
bank and a third interest in the Conklin
Brothers' great American Circus, now
showing here. Mr. Edwards is a good
writer, and has had considerable newspaper
experience. He will support the Empire,
but discard political questions.
During the past week theprws has busied
itself in an endeavor to enlighten its readers
as to the status of the Empire. The ball
was opened by the evernotonous Idea Libe
ral, of Puebla, whose editor remains a pri
soner of Maximilian for violating the Em
peror's liberty of the press decrees. Nine
months ago he was imprisoned, and his pa
per suspended. He was soon after pardoned
by the Emperor, and ordered to be released
from prison. He refused the pardon, de
claring that though he was obliged to ac
knowledge the brute force that imprisoned
him, he would not acknowledge a usur
per's right to pardon him. Since then he has
written in prison. On the 21st inst. the Idea
Liberal published its first article,B7 Objeto de
la Intervention—the-object of the interven
tion. It begins by declaring that "the ob
ject of the intervention is too apparent for
discussion; and says that, primarily, the
French and other European and Egyptian
hirelings were sent here to put a stop to the
expansion of the United States,and to break
down the national ideas of the Western re
publics—that none but republican forms of
government should hold sway on the West
ern continent. As if by mutual under
standing between the editors of the two Re
publican papers, the Payaso, of Guadala
jara, and Idea Liberal,of Puebla,the former
in an article entitled "Aspect," thus pre
sents the situation. It says:
The Bandera Imperial, of Morelia,
assures us that the Empire has no opposi
tion, and that its only enemies are vandals,
libertines and bandits. We call the atten
tion of the editors of the Bandera Imperial
to the following organs which support the
Empire :
La Nation, of Mexico, semi-official and
paid by Government,(since suspended pub
lication—correspondent.)
El Mexican, paid Government organ.
El Ranchero, of Matamoras, organ.
La Esperaiaza, of Jalapa, organ.
La Paz, of Oajaca, organ.
La Uniformidad, of Puebla, organ.
La Bandera Imperial, of ttorelia, organ.
That is, there are six periodicals in the
Empire which directly support the Empire,
and which in turn are directly supported by
the Empire.
Also, we have among us three papers
owned edited by renegade citizens of
the United States. The L'Estafette Leri No
velle and Mexican Times—the last is pub
lished in English. They do not have any
influence, and beyond their exchanges
scarcely any circulation. At most they are
pitiable concerns, and we trust there will no
foreigner think iat these three papers have
any encouragement fromnative Mexicans—
surely, we are not yet so low in the scale of
being.
There are three other papers, called non
conamittals, the Sociedad, .Pajore Verde and
Cronista, but which, nevertheless, do not
allow any opportunity to pass which they
can use to ridicule the present Government.
For the consideration of the Bandera
Imperial and all interested, we will annex
tvlist of those papers which are antagonistic
to government. They are :
In Mexico, La Sombra and La Arquesea.
In Puebla, La Idea Liberal and Realidad.
In Vera Cruz, El Pensamiento, El Diablo
and El Cornetin.
In San Luis Potosi, El Eco Nacional.
In Zacatecas, El Porvenir.
In Aquascalientas, La Liberatad de
Mexico.
In Guadulajara, El Boletin Payaso.
The editor then asks "very good Seffor
Bandera, do all these periodicals represent
vandalism and libertinage?"
The article is lengthy, and sustains the
above tone threughout. The Orquesta (a
copy of the caricature is enclosed) follows
up these other , bold editors, and through a
caricature on government called the "New
Exhibition "of Bombs," which appeared
r (13 aidilwilvor4l
in the streets yesterday, Escalante repre
sents the American eagle striking-down the
unicorn of Maximilian. If the whole num
ber of newspapers lately become so bold in
the cause of Republicanism are not sup
pressed at once, we shall think- the poor
Dutchman's staidrawing to an end.
It makes little difference on which side
the Correspondent in Mexico leans—whether
he be eager to tell of Imperial victories or
Republican success—unless he wilfully
perverts the truth, he can but acknowledge
that as far as territory and order are con
cerned, that the Empire is steadily passing
from a government of disfavor to an object
of pity. With but few safe footholds in the
Northern Military Departments, no safe
retreat in San Luis Potosi, besieged
at Mazatlan, Guymas and San Blas t
the three Pacific ports, surrounded in
the Capital by Liberal armies, whose
mountain side camp -fires are nocturnal
signs, of the existence of a Government,
patient yet watchful, lest the usurper gain
some advantage he should not have; the
great Spanish high-road from his castle in
the suburbs, and Ids palace in the capital,
to his chief seaport city on the gulf, the
scene of daily manifestations of disorder
and brigandage; the occupants of the offices
of his patronage so often changed that a
watchful historian is hardly able to tell who
are cabinet members from day to day; im
perial decrees of one week which invite
the poor of all lands to come and par
take of his possessions; Imperial or
ders the following week discharging
from office all officers occupying offices in
tended for the improvement of the country;
taxes which, under Mexican Republi
canism, were onerous, quadrupled until
each pane of glass in your doors and win
dows, and every leaf in every blank-book
used in the country is taxed 61 cents at the
begipning of each year; the palace which
was good enough and ample enough for
"poor Mexico," repaired at an expense of
$3,000,000; public offices converted intoroyal
stables and private theatres—these, all
these, are the signs of the "Sailor Empe
ror's" Empire.
La Soetedad of to-day publishes a letter
from Morelia, dated the 23d inst., which
says that Gen. Mendez has re-organized the
French and native troops of his command,
and is preparing for a campaign against
Alvarez and Ortega.
The French transport Amphio foundered
at sea within five leagues of Sacrificios, the
military and naval port of the empire, one
league - below Vera Cruz, during the severe
norther of the 22d inst., 450 men, reinforce
ments for the French, were on board. It is
supposed all were lost.
L'Estafette, of Friday last, says that the
United States mail steamer, John L. Ste
phens, one of the vessels of the San Fran
cisco and Pacific coast steamers, was cap
tured by the Liberals off Cape St. Lucas
twelve days since, and taken to Paz, a
small port on the coast of Sonora, where
they were preparing her for a cruiser.
La Soefedatl says inreference to the above
that it has the latest news from Mazatlan,
and that no such occurrence could have
taken place. The 1,000 men composing the
Sixth Battalion of . the line of the French
army, which arrived at Vera Cruz on the
Rhone, a few days since, are on their way
to this city, having passed Orizaba during
Friday, the 27th inst.
The northers which have reigned on the
gulf for the past ten days have reached here
and have blown such a gale during the whole
of the past week that all fears of an inunda
tion the coming rainy season are dispelled.
The winds have lowered the water 23
inches.
Judge Chas. D. Austin, of Albany, N. Y.,
father of the Parser of the Manhattan, was
lying very low this morning, at the Hotel
Iturbide, from an attack of the heart
disease.
W. C. Corwin, Esq., our Charge d'Affairs
at this city, will return to the United States
by the steamer Manhattan.
DErosrrs or• PUBLIC FUNDS. Brevet
Major General Charles Thomas has issued
a general order in relation to the deposits of
public funds pertaining to the quartermas
ter's department for the government of dis
bursing officers. It is in the nature of a
letter to him from Inspector General James
A. Hardie, stating that the Secretary of
War directs that all deposits of public funds
belonging to the quartermaster's depart
ment for which officers of that department
are responsible, shall be made only with
the treasurer or assistant treasurers of the
United States.
In connection with this, however, the
Secretary of the Treasury has written a let
ter to the Secretary of War advising that no
changes be made of deposits now resting in
other places than those mentioned in the
letter of the Inspector General. The pro
priety of such action is plainly seen when it
is considered that an immediate and sum-.
mary withdrawal of all deposits placed in
the various national depositories might lead
to complications and cause great inconve
nience. not only to the banks, but also to
the officers making the deposits. Upon
these and other reasons of a minor character
the letter from the Treasury Department
relative to the matter is based.
Tan FEDERAL DEAD.—The work of re
moving to Arlington Cemetery the dead
bodies of soldiers of the Army of the Poto
mac, who died from disease and were killed
during the early years of the war, wher(the
army was encamped in the vicinity df, the
city and afterwards, had been completed.
There were one thousand six hundred and
seventy-eight bodies disinterred and re
moved. Captain J. R. Hynes, A. Q. M.,
who had charge of that work, ander direc
tion of the chief quartermaster of this de
partment, has been ordered to report to Col.
J. M. Moore,A. Q. M., for assignment to
similar, duty in the vicinity of Rich
mond, Va.
THE PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARD.—A shop
for preparing armor for ships by bending,
planing and fitting large plates of iron has
been recently completed at the Portsmouth
navy yard, and furnished with the best ma
chinery in the country. A reservoir of two
hundred thousand gallons capacity has been
commenced at the yard and will be com
pleted this season, and the expense of that
and other works to be performed by the
civil engineer of the yard during the com
ing year will be $400,000.
CUSTOMS ltiourms.—The receipts for ens
toms at the four principal ports of the United
States, from the sth to the 12th inst., were
as follews:
New York, - - $2,419,455 60
Boston, - - - - 477,339 06
Philadelphia, - - - 197,243 39
Baltimore, - - - - 99,486 97
Total, - - - - - $3,192,525 02
ATTEmr - sp ESCAPE.—Seven of the con
victs at the State Prison at Thomaston,Me.,
tried to break out one day last week,bnt the
atteroilt was discovered by the officers, and
a bullet in the leg of the ringleader crippled
him and defeated hie plan.
FENIAN AFFAIRS.
MOVEMENTS OF MR
STEPHENS.
Reported Embezzlement by Brooklyn
Officers.
[From to-day's N. Y. Tribtme.l
There seem to be no new developments of
special interest in regard to the Fenian
movement since the great meetingon Tues
day. Mr. Stephens is still busily occupied
at his headquarters at the _Metropolitan
Hotel in giving audience to all sorts of
people, hearing reports, suggestions and
advice, but still quietly keeping his own
counsel and going on in his own way to
achieve the ends he has in view. He is evi
dently a man of more than ordinary busi
ness capacity, and can interchange opinions
with a great many different persons, and
transact a large amount of business in a
very brief space of time, and without any
appearance of hurry or fluster. The re
ceipts of the Jones's Wood meeting—about
s3,3oo—were all collected, counted and ac
counts squared on the same evening,
and the money is already on its way to Mr.
Jehn 'Mitchel, the confidential agent in
France. Mr. Stephens expresses himself
as being less hopeful of effecting an entire
reconciliation of the opposing views of the
two factions than he was at first. He is still
utterly opposed to the proposed invasion of
Canada,which he believes would be ruinous
and suicidal;but the Roberts party declare
that they have pledged themselves to that
policy, and that they must carry it out.
Whether Colonel Roberts and his Senate
will be able to raise a sufficient force to
make the attempt with any propriety of
success against the known and expressed
wishes of Mr. Stephens, remains to be
seen. The rank and file of the Brotherhood
seem almost unanimously to have given
their adhesion to Mr. Stephens, and he re
ports that money—the sinews of war—is
now coming in to him from the various cir
cles much more rapidly,and in larger sums,
than he had even anticipated—a gratifying
proof of renewed confidence on the part of
the masses of the organization. We under
stand that it is now the intention of the
Chief Organizer (Mr. Stephens) to remain
several days longer in the city. in which
case he may give one or more public recep
tions in the vicinity. An application was
made yesterday to the Board of Aldermen
for the use of the Governor's Room in the
City Hall for this purpose. An invitation
has also been extended to him to addressthe
Long Island Circles at the Brooklyn Acad
emy of Music. '
Considerable excitementis reported to ex
ist among the Brooklyn Circles in regard to
the alleged mysterious disappearance of a
large amount of money which had been
raised by them and, as was supposed, trans
mitted to the Financial Department at
Union Square. but which, it is alleged, was
never received there. Upon the first dis
covery of the discrepancy, some few days
since, a meeting of the officers of the Brook
lyn and Long Island Circles was held, and
a committee appointed to investigate the
matter.
At a subsequent meeting held on Wednes
day evening last, at which some some forty
circles of Brooklyn and Long Island were
represented, the committee made a partial
report, alleging that they had discovered
some large discrepancies in the accounts of
the persons to whom was intrusted the duty
of conveying the funds from Brooklyn to
New York. The name of this individual is
not given nor the amount of the alleged de
falcation stated, but both are promised to be
speedily made public. It is also rumored
that two prominent Fenian in the Eastern
District have been guilty of selling a large
amount of Fenian bonds and appropriating
the proceeds to their own use, but no further
particulars are known.
Household Economy.
[Contributed :by Ge2rge_ l l - I , ,, Henk_els, Cabinet-maker,
ThlrCeenth and Chesnut stieeta.]
ANTIQUE FURNITURE AND WALNUT FUR
cITURE FINTRIT Ti IN OIL OR WAX.—This
style of furniture is very effective if the de
sign is appropriate. The French call it the
style Benoissance, or revival of old style.
In removing ancient buildings there were
many fine sculptured oak panels (copies of
those found in the Vatican at Rome, and de
signed by Raphael, Michael Angelo, and
other celebrated artists) the wood of which
from age had become very dark. They were
adapted to buffets, book-cases, cabinets, dc,c.,
in connection with new oak-wood. The
new wood was dyed with nutgalls to match
the panels and all finished in
oil or wax. This was to bring
the carvings out in bold relief
as varnishing or bright polish destroys the
effect. The color of American walnut, when
oiled, approaches very near the color of
dark old oak, and finishes much finer.
American walnut requires the grain to be
well filled with a composition to resist the
action of the heat of our dwellings, and
mere oiling will not do, as it leaves the pores
of the wood so open that it absorbs the heat
to such a degree that in a room at a tem
perature of 75 degrees the oiled walnut will
absorb the heat to within five degrees of
that of the room, whilst varnished oak will
reflect the heat and will not reach over 45
to 50 degrees. It is therefore important to
have wood well seasoned and the grain
filled with shellac or other material to pre
vent shrinkage. If thefurniture is well var
nished it is easily renovated by rubbing
with a rag moistened with turpentine and
linseed oil, in equal parts. If not properly
finished, and the dust collects in the pores
of the wood, so much that it will not wipe
off, the application of oiland turpentine will
restore the color, and a very light coating of
shellac will protect it in a great measure. If
nothing but oil is in the wood, it is best to
have a cabinetmaker finish it properly,
otherwise it must be oiled every time it
looks rusty. Linseed oil hardens wood, and
well-made walnut work finished with it and
shellac, will, in a few years, become
Polished almost like a bronze. The
French use this finish only on fine
sculptured work, or on very fine root wal
nut veneers, in connection with polished
ebony mouldings. They do not use it as a
finish for plain furniture, but use a polish
made of gum shellac and alcohol, applied
by manipulation,using a woolen pad,
moistened with olish, enclosed in a soft
old linen rag. It makes a fine, soft finish,
and wears well in a humid climate, but
evaporates soon in ours. Wax is used on
walnut when the natural color is to be pre
served, and in connection with ebony
mouldings, polished finely, the effect is
beautiful. This style is the favorite in Eu
rope, ' and will no doubt become popular
here.
F. L. FEMERSTON. Publisher.
DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS.
Baptist Missionary Anniversary.
BosToN, May 17:—The anniversary meet
ings of the National Baptist Home Mission
ary Organization are now being held in this
city and will continue several days. Among
qhe distinguished men participating in the
proceeding are President Barns Sears, of
BrownUnive.rEdty; President Anderson. of
Rochester - University; Rev. Galusha Ander- -
sen, :of St. Louis; President Gregory, of
'
Michigan. President Read, of Illinois. and
President Chaplin, of Waterville College;
Rev. Dr. Cummings, of New Hampshire;
Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of Philadelphia;.
Rev. Dr. Armitage, of New York; Rev. H..
M. Gallagher, of Brooklyn; Rev. E.
Goodspeed, of Chicago; Horatio G. Jones,
Esq., of Philadelphia; Rev. Samuel Morse,
of Lewisburg, Pa.; Rev. C. B. Crane, of
Hartford, Connecticut; Senator Harris, of
New York; Rev. Dr. Kincaid, for forty
years missionary in Burmalq Rev. 1.
Wheaton Smith, Philadilphia, and Rey. Dr.
Wilcox, of New York.
The proceedings to-day opened with
brief address from President Anderson.
The Executive Comlnittee report that $40,-
000 have been appropriated for the freedmen
during the year, and twenty-five white and..
ten colored laborers, with sixty-two assist
ants, have been employed among them.
The organization has two hundred ant •
sixty-five missionaries, of whom one hun
dred and eighty-two are new appointments.
Their field of labor has spread over thirty
seven States. During the year, eighty-mne
churches have been organized, and seven
teen meeting houses erected. The total re
ceipts for the year are $170,000.
A PHASE OF FRENCH LIFE—A Cumou
REGULATION.—The Tribunal of Correc
tional Police in Paris recently tried a man
named Ansart, who was in the employ of
a mover of fnrniture,on a charge ofatealing
eight dozen electro-plated knives and forks
and four dozen of coffee-spoons, the pro
perty of a lady whose goods he had helped.
to convey to her new apartment. The com
plainant deposed that she had made a par
cel of the spoons, and rolled it up in a mat
tress, on opening which she found that all
had disappeared. Suspecting that the pri
soner was the thief, she went to his em
ployer, who investigated the matter, and
found ihat Ansart, having stolen the arti- -
des, had sold them in lots for about fifteen
francs, and spent the money in drinking
with his comrades. Two dozen of the spoons
were afterwards recovered. When the pri
soner was asked to explain his conduct, he
said that he had taken the property because
the usual allowance of wine had 13een re
fused. The complainant here stated that
defendant's employer assured her
the drinking propensities of his men had
caused him endless trouble, and to prOve
the truth of his assertion he gave her a paper
which he had found containing the mks
adopted by them and their fellows. This
document she had kept, and now produced
in court. .It ran as follows:
"We are never to move bottles which are '
half empty, but drink the contents at once.
If there are none half empty we must make
them so. If the wine be in casks we tap it,
and each man drinks as much as he likes
before starting on the road and on arriving.
When the person whose goods we move
gives us wine, we take less, bat still as
much as we want. When there is no wine
and none is given to us, we sell empty bot-:
ties by the way to buy some. If the person
accompanies the wagon,
we try and induce
him to treat us, but we break his furniture
for revenge. If he will not give us any
drink on the road, we take some of his
property to make things even between us."
The prisoner smiled while this paper was
reading, but assumed a very different air
when the public prosecutor pressed for a
conviction and a severe sentence, on the
ground that Ansart had already been twice
condemned for similar offences. The tri
bunal declared the charge fully proved,and
sentenced the accused to six months' im
prisonment.
A FATAL PISTOL.—At St. Louis, on.
Thursday morning, Alexander _Krick, a.
sporting man, frpm St. Paul, Minn., met
his death in a private house on Sixth street
in a rather singular manner: He had been
to a frolic, and went to a ball, where he met
a female named Anna Hedges. He accom
panied her home, and while reclining on a.
conch in her house. was killed by the awl!.
in her hand. The pistol was a small fancy four
shooter, a mate to the one with which Mrs.
dental discharge of a pistol which she held
Bright was shot the other day in the county
Marshal's office; it had belonged to a certain
gallantpolice Captain, who, while handling
it,received two bullets through the sleeve of
his coat. It then passed into the hands of a
sporting man, who narrowly escaped death
by an accidental discharge of the weapon s
and he traded it to Anna Hedges.
EMIGPATION• FROM IRKLAND.—From a
statistical report just issued under the au
thority of the Irish Registrar General, it
appears that the emigration from Ireland
during the year 1865 was 101,497,
rather a
less number than in 1864. A great increase,
however, took place during the last three
months of 1865 as compared. with 1864, and
this increase has extended into the present
year. The registrar's returns are pm:laced_
in a very leisurely manner, and in April,
1866, we have only the figures for the quar
ter ending December, 1865, but it is under
stood that the emigration for the past three
months has been at the rate of 14,000 per
month. It is estimated that the Irish popu
lation decreased further last year to the
number of 50,000, which would leave the
total about 5,600,000.
NAPHTHA. As A POISON.—Geo. W. Prid
barn, of Portland, Me., a painter at the re
pair shop of the Grand Trunk railroad.
while engaged in painting the inside of a .
tender, suddenly fell, and assumed the ap
pearance of a man deeply intoxicated. He .
was taken home, and soon after went into
convulsions, attended by lockjaw. A phy
sician was called, who decided that his con
dition was the result of inhaling the poi
sonous vapor from the naphtha in the paint.
TECH Reading' Times has the following
"Bear" Miller, an old hunter, ninety-two
years of age, was in this city on Monday
morning, having walked from . Maiden
creek, a distance of twelve miles. He is a.
resident of Huntingdon county. He wears
a beard about a foot long, and as white as
snow. He has killed in his time seventy
bears, fifty wolves and five hundred deer. ,
Notwithstandingall this, he looks as if he
might live twenty years more.
THE New Albany (Indiana) Ledger saya
that while a number of young men were
drinking beer together. on Sunday evening,
one of them, named Xavier, Hublar took
up a gun, and as he was playing with it, the
piece was discharged, the shot taking effect
in the groin of his brother, Joseph Hublar:
The latter died in about an hour.
Bnoxinv Ur.--The organization known
as the "Ouachita-river District," in the de
partment of Arkansas, has been diseort-:
tinned, _ -