EMW PEtiCOCK. Editor. VOLUME X%.--NO. 56. EVENING BULLETIN. TIGIGIBEED EVERY EVENING. (Sundays excepted) at THEE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, 4307 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. "Evening Bulletin Association." • PROPFLINTOBS. GI SON PEAGCKEE, lERNEST O. WALLACE. Z. L. nITHRRSTON, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON CARPER SOURER, Jr., FRANCIS WELLS. Thu Buxaarnia is served to subscribers In the city at p aenlaput weak, payable to the carriers, or 18 00 per lIIMILEL • SCE L T I OZE'S ANEW PATENT: SELF-VENTI AbiENIC&N ItZFRIGERATORS Patented Jimmy 5th,1864, szix...vENT is the best and onlyy•er fect ILATING PRESERVER the sz e rl t ts &e nd. will keep finch articles.as vegetables, menu. DRIER, AND COLDER, with less Ice any other Re , trigerstors now in 113 ir ARSON & CO, It Nos. 220= Dock street. MARBLED. EDSON—McCOME.—.In New - York, ou the 9th.lnst., lay the Bev; G. H. Ludlow, Wm., D. hdion, 01 Boston, - So 20 lea Sue P. EfeComb, of Philadelphia. ** STOKES—WOOD.—At New York. Thursday, Hay -list., by the Bev. Sand. Carlile,C.Eugene Stokes.° f thls .city. to Carrie K. Wood, daughter of Peter Wood, Esq., of New York. DIED. HUNTHR.--On. Firat day evening, Mary Hunter, aged 61 years. Her relatives and friends are Invited to attend her - funeral, from the residence of her sister, Alice Hunter, lgo. 721 West Street, near Ninteenth and Coates streets, on Fifth day, Fourteenth of Sixth month, at 9 o'clock. a* HDBREIRT.—On the 10th Inst., Mr. William H. Hob. bort, lathe 51st year of his age. "The relatives .and friends of the fatally, also Rich ,snond Looge, No. 230, Dire' d Mark Lodge. No. 211, Xeystone Chapter, No. 175, A. Y. M., Radiant Star Lodge, No. tar, I. 0. of 0. F.. Ark of Sarety No. 385, 8. of T. are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late r, sidence, No. 233 Poplar street, on Thursday afternoon. next, a: 2 o'clock. Services in the Front Street M. E. Church. To proceed to Odd Fellows' Cemetery. as HERTZ9O.—On the evening of the 9th inst., Mrs. Ann Hertzog, widow of Peter _Hartzog. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the ttuseral, from her late residence. No. 1502 Arch street on Wednesday morning. the 13111 inst , at 21.1 o'clock. tNew York and New Brunswick papers please cow.biOLD —On the 9th inst., Jennie Davis, wife of Wm. N. Moland and daughter of petty and late Jesse IV. Davis, in the 2.1 d year of her age The relatives and friends of the family are respect lully invited to attend tne funeral, from the residence <•of•her mother, 4102 Spruce street, West Philadelphia, <this) Tnftday afternoon, at 5 o'clock. MIFFLIN.—On the 10th hist., Benjamin Mifflin, in the 69th year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family, Rising Star lodge, No. 126, A. Y. M., and the Typographical :Society, are 1 uvited to attend his funeral, from his ate xesidence, N 0.218 S. Twenty first street, on Wednesday -afternoon, at 3 o'clock *4 - LtYR) . LAP; DELL, Fourth and Arch streets, have Buff Linens, for ladles' suits. Pongers. light shades, for do. Crape Hagenlas. for do. Pearl-colored Mohair. for do. • , Light Lenos, new goods. SPECIAL NOTICES. cyPARDEESCLENTIFIC COIDILSE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. addltkia 'a, we general Comae orinatractlon fn this Ileßartmept, lealgtled to lay ay:glum:Mal Owls of gestaiWedaimad ictiobirly coltiare.students campursue thosebrancheswhichare essentially practical and tech mical, via.: ENGINEERING, Civil, Topograptillal and ykr T,,v MINING and METALLURGY ; ARCM •PRXHIFEE and the application of Cnemistry to AG atICCFLTIOUCsord the ARTS. There is also afforded lan itrraltyfor_special s,ndy of TRADE ana COM. m ag ,of MODERN LANGUAGES and PHILO LOGY; andof the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS of 'of our own country. For Circulars apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. B. B. YOUNGAIA_N, EAsromr. PA., April 4,1866. Clerk of the Faculty. x93/460:101 CONCERT HALL.—Fancy, Floral and Straw ytYbrny Fair. to aid in purchasing a home for the aged and infirm members of the 31. E. Church, corn = June 11th, and continuing two weeks. Naito wliTbe fn attendance. Donations thankfully received 41:stony of the DL E. Churches or by the officers. PRESIDENT. Mrs. Bishop Simpson, 1W Mount Vernon street VICE PRESIDENTS. 311 a. Rebecca Hammitt, 113 Vsne street. Mrs. Alexander Cummings, 1525 Walnut street. Mrs. -Casidy, Tenth street, below Vine. Mrs. James Early, 814 South Tinth street. Mrs. 7.0. Winchester .734 South Ninth street. Ma. A. W. Rand, 1821 Wallace street. TREASURER.. tj el 2 trah B,6trp3 Ma-Tames Longpllo6 Shack amaxon street. TO. INADOURATION of the SOLDIERS' HOKE Music by Germania Band. Prayer by Rey. Dr. E. R. Beadle. Music. Opening Address by i ff o o s rLisiorton McMichael. Report-HoQ,Cilarles Gibbons. Addresses by Gov. A. G. Curtin, Gen. John W. Geary, .Gen. Geo. G. Meade, Col. Wm. B. Mann and Hon. Chas. Gilpin. The "HOME" will be open to visitors during the day, and the Inaugural Ceremonies will commence at 8 .o'clock on THURSDAY EVENING, lith inst. Tickets to be had at the Home, Sixteenth. and Filbert :litreets. lc ÜbOFFIrE OF REVENUE EXTENSION SIL VF.II MINING COMPANY. 142 South FOURTH 'street. PHILADELPHIA, June 9th, 1866. Whereas. The Superintendent has notified the Com 9any by telegram of June Ist, that the property of the Company isflourishingcondit ion and that he has 'shipped the product of the workings of ore from the 'nines; therefore, be it Besolved, That the Directors' of tills Company take - the necessary steps to close the subscriptions to the Stock of the Company. The Books will remain open but for a few days longer. WM. L. XI PE, jeeStrpi • ' Secretary and Treasurer. NORTH PENNSYLVANIA. RAILRO 31) AND GREP.N . LANE.—The undersigned are d vexing thebest quality of Lehigh Coal from the above place, to the reaidents of Germantown and 'vicinity, at the following low rates, viz: Broken and Egg for Furnace and Stove for Range $8 00 aVut or Chestnut. $7 50 Address Box 62 Germantown Post Office. Office, IS South SEVENTH street, Philadelphia; or yard. NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD and ORZENE Lane. jes-26trpf 10. HOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and 1528 lombard. street, Dispensary Department. Me sdical the poor. s treatment and medicines furnished gratuitously to e2B Facts and linneles. The difference between Carlyle's Works , and Beadle's Dime Novels is that while the tone are sententious the others are ten-cants- Rms. Horace Greeley and Horace Clarke are - two of the friends who wished to bail that poor, dear prisoner at Fortress Monroe. The selection of these two editions of Horace was in order tormake treason Ode-ions." A man in Haynes county, Miss., slept 56 hours on a stretch. If it had been a atreteher,he could have slept on it all his life. Tbe Paris correspondent of a Boston paper (tells this story: "I heard the other day of a mot of Miss Cashman's. Some one-said to her while recently in Paris, `Miss Cush man, were you born in Boston ?' 'lf I had not been I would hang :myself with my Carter.' " The Firmegans say now that they were .only in fun. They wanted to scare the Ca medians with a feigned attack. In fact they were merely Feignians. In the event of "Oar Mutual Friend" 'being played in this city, the Street Com missioners have kindly consented to fur nish the dust-heaps... • The introduction of steel collars is the last agony. There will be no trouble now in getting one's linen ironed. Jeff. Davis's fondness for onions, as mani fested in their great prominence in his bill of fare, has transformed him into a sort of prodigious leek. This accounts for the difficulty in bailing him out. THE BRITISH IN VER- THE HOMEWARD BOUND Bitter Feeling of the Canadians Against The Examination of "President" Roberts, ate. PouurificEnrsis, June 12.—A steamboat having a barge in tow, both loaded heavily with disheartened Feniana, passed theuity, on their way to New York, and a car load of Fenians has also gone down the railroad MALONE, June 11.—The Fenian excite. nienthae subsided, and large numbers are leaving for their homes. General Murphy addressed them from the windows of the room where he is confined, telling them to remain,and when he was ready to have them go, he would go with them. He announced to the crowd that fifty thousand men were on their way here from New York, and that they would manage to get through this place. Colonel O'Neill has left here for St. Albans. A Fenian was shot on the fair grounds, yesterday, by one of his com panions. We have not the particulars, but understand the affair was not accidental. The officers under arrest here were handed over to the civil authorities, and their ex amination will commence this evening. It is reported that O'Connor and Brady, of N. York, are coming here to conduct the de fence. - A number of the Fenian officers have gone on a reconnoissance to the enemy's lines. Many of the ladies here contributed bread and other provisions for the Fenian dinner yesterday, and loads of supplies were brought in by their friends from the country. Two companies of U.S. infantry are coming here from St. Albans, and -an extra train with troops is on the way from Ogdens burg. It may be that General Meade is to disperse the Fenians by force, as he inti mated he should in his proclamation to them if they did not leave of their own accord within a reasonable time, Notwithstanding the hard fare they receive, they conduct themselves in a qquiet and orderly manner. ST. ALI3ANS, June 11, 1866.—[Soeoial to Herald.]—The sworn statements of George W. White, to North Cainbridge, and Ber nard Manning, of Sommerville Mass.,to the effect that. the British crossed the ine and captured Fenian stragglers, are corro borated. Hart's statement that one man was killed on this side of the line needs con firmation. The whole number of Fenians captured was seventeen, five of whom were of Captain Grace's company, of Lowell. Colonel Livingston, United States Army, in his report of Major Gibson, does not positively deny the crossing, but it is his impression that they did not. The following is the substance of Col. Livingston's report to Major` Gibson : He states that he had his men stationed about five yards on this side of the line. There remained behind a considerable number of straggling Fenians upon the Canadian side of the line after the withdrawing of the main forces, and these men evidently remained for the purpose of I plundering. Some of them stationed them ' selves on the road and prevented citizens from crossing either way. During the after noon they were charged upon by a company of Canadian cavalry, upon whom the Fenians fired, and then, throw ing away their muskets, endeavored to get upon the American side of the line. Some of them succeeded in - reaehing it, but others took to the woods, and one was captured by the British. As the cavalry neared the United States troops, they were compelled to rein in, otherwise all of the Fenians would have been taken. Theyenfins only reached the line a few yards in advance of the English troops. Colonel Livingston redorts that the main body of the Fenians were quiet and orderly; hat:the-Jew who remained did so purposely to pillage. The stragglers :were loaded with voils,,which Colonel Livingston took possessiiiff - Okitnd wLich will be restored, tic) far as ,possible, to tile roper owners. The goods art' now in the.hand of responsible citizens on the American side, and will be given up to parties prrYing property, John Reynolds, of Chelsea, Mass.; John McCleary ; of Boston, and Captain Kennedy, Third ',cavali- saw Thomas Madden shot by citizens of Canada on, the other side of the line,nr,l saw him pursued and captured ,on ti 's side of the line, -- on Saturday after noon, ' ,.. 4..ween three and four o'clock. The nian br.d Lis hand cut off was a mem ber of C:.' m ace's company, from Lowell. The nuat,,er of prisoners captured by the Canadians from General Spear's command, is reported be sixteen. .Mrs. Eccles, an American wema::, the wife of John Eccles, at whose house General Spear 'established his headquarters while et clamp Sweeny, Canada,• was shot• dead last night by a British soldier on her way to a welt to draw water. The Canadians, suspicious that Fe nians were still lurking about that Nicinity, and imagining that some were concealed in the house, set a strong guard around the house, and when Mrs. Eccles attempted to cross the field to the well she was chal lenged. Not answering she was mistaken for a Fenian and shot dead. She was a na tive of Massachusetts. Her husband is an Irish Canadian. While. General Spear oc cupied their premises as headquarters all purchases from them were paid in cash. Two companies, Third artillery United hundred andregulars, consisting of one and twenty-five men, under command of Colonel Wildrick, left here at noon to-day for Malone. BINE,SA SHEAFF. A well-known citizen, residing in Ver mont, near Canada, named Mulloney, has made affidavit that he saw British troops on the American side of the boundary line capturing Fenians, and carrying them back to Canada. Mulloney's veracity is vouched for by ex-Governor Smith and other respon sible citizens. .The Fenian prisoners were carried from St. Armand through St. John's for Montreal this morning. They were strongly guarded, and subjected to many rude taunts and in sults from the Canadians. One boy was THE FENIANS. MONT. FENIANS. the Prisoners. The Feniamt. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1866. badly maltreated. Nine hundred British troops 'went into St. John's this morning from Montreal. It is the impression. that L the prisoners will be tried, and either shot or hung. • Col. O'Neill arrived to-night and has had consultation with Generals Sweeny and Spear and other Fenian officers. At a general meeting of officers this afternoon General Sweeny made a feeling address, which was cordially responded to by all the officers present. General Meade, Major Gibson, and other United States officers, are still here, watch ing the interests of the government. General Sweeny's examination will be fixed in a day or two. The question of in ternational comity and neutrality may be discUssed in a novel and interesting form; The' Situation in Canada. OTTAWA, C. W., June 11, 1868.—The gun boats St. Andrew and Watertown returned to Kingston, C.-W., at five o'clock this after noon, after making a close reconnoissance of the American shore from Ogdensburg to Oswego. The officer in command- of the squadron reports that in all thatlirie ofcoast nothing.was available en which the Fenians could effect a crossing to this side. An iron plated gunboat is being sent up from Mon treal to Kingston. • Paragraphs of the address were voted upon in the House of Assembly to-day. In amendment to the address a motion was made by Messrs. Dorian and Holton, of the opposition, seeking to pledge the House not to vote on Confederation; but the motion was lost by 79 against .19. .The financial statement will be made to-morrow. The Ministers of Finance will be prepared to show a respectable balance for the first time in many years. Geo. Brown, of Toronto, will be sent as a delegate to the Iniperial conference of which I informed you yester day. Nearly all the Civaadian Fenians have left the provinces or concealed them, having re ceived timely warning of the passage of the Habeas Corpus Suspension act. The police are on the alert, and some are pounced upon occaelonally at different places. The Fe nians are reported demoralized all along the frontier, and our Government has received notice that they are willing to surrender their arms and munitions to the United States. The, three schooners which passed down the river St. Clair with Fenian on board yesterday were captured to-day by thegan boat Rescue, according to a telegram re ceived here. The Government has received offers of thirty thousand volunteers. The feeling of public security begins to return. The ex citement is dimini - Ited; bat still there is a great yearning for news. ' MONTREAL, June 11th, 1866.—The Fenian prisoners, sixteen in number, arrived at Bonaventure station this morning, at ten o'clock, under a guard of the 25th Regulars besides a heavy police force, armed with rifles. There were fully ten thousand people at the station, in the streets and at the jail, who evinced the strongest desire to take them front_ the guard and bang ttiem. There were but two adults among them, but they were received with a perfect storm of biases and groans, and with cries of "Lynch them." Their trial will take place early next week, and it is more than probable that the old ones will be hanged. A deep commiseration is felt for the boy dupes among them. Their names are as follows—Thomas Madden, of Bridgewater, Mass., wounded; Jas. Bowen, of Lawrence, Mass.; James Reardon, of Boston; Edward Gillegan and Edward Car roll, of New York; Michael Crowly, of Lowell; Thomas Smith, of Boston; Fenton Holmes, of Lowell; George Howard, of Bos ton, and Joseph Kelly, of New York [Kelly announces himself as a correspondent of the New York Tribune and a resident of 66 Portland place, New York city); Cornelius Owens and Augustus Morrell, of Boston: Edward Rogers, of New York State; Ter rence McDonald, of Waterbury, Conn. A Fenian prisoner, in a United States uniform, was brought in to-night. All quiet on the border and throughout the province. Fenian Return from the War. lifAtoicE, N. Y., June 11.—Eight hundred and twenty Fenians have been registered for passage up to this time. About twelve hundred remain. The Canadians have seven hundred and twenty-two muskets behind earthworks at Huntington, twenty-three miles from here. John Cochrane, private, from First street,WilliOnsburg ? N. Y., who was shot at the Fair grounds in a row on Saturday night, is dead. The remains will be sent home. BUFFALO, June 11-9 P. M.—The govern ment has instructed General Barry to fur nish transportation to the Fenians on condi tion that they sign a bond not to take up arms against any foreign province or king dommith which the governmentis at peace. The order bas been received by the men from the Easterd Eitatea- with the greatest satistaotioti. treneral Barry intends that the leaders shall contribute towards sending the men home: Senator Fitz Gerald had a lengthy inter view with General Barry this afternoon. It is supposed that arrangements for transport ing lhe men to their homes were perfected during the interview. The Fenians were ordered to vacate the old Melodeon building this morning. One thousand men were quartered there. The sale of the bonds of the Irish republic is is very slow. ALBANY, June 11, 1866.—Every train from the north brings a few stragglers. They are badly demoralized and very hungry. Nnw - HAVEN, Jane 11, 1866.—The two companies of Fenians who went to St. Albans returned herelast night. WATERTOWN, June 11, 1866.—An extra train of eight cars, loaded with homeward bound Fenians, passed here at seven o'clock this evening. MALONE, June 11, 1866.—Tw0 companies of United States troops from Potsdam Junc tion and two from St. Albans have arrived here. The regulars outnumber the Fe nians about one thousand. The spirit of the Fenians, rank and file, here is broken. They say there will not be a hundred left to morrow night. The examination of the cap tured officers was again postponed till to morrow- morning, believing they will fur nish bail and depart: OGLEIiISEURG, June 11, 1866.—The game of capturing and recapturing material of war is being .played pretty briskly here. a This evening quantity of arms and ammu nition was seized at a point west of Dellalb Junction and lodged in the arsenal. Lieut. Cox, of the 4th regulars, in the recruiting service, says he is in a fair way of filling the ranks of his regiment by enlistments of wandering Fenians. ST. Louis, June 11, 1866.—The Fenian war having ended, Judge Treat his dis missed the case of A. L. Morrison in the District Court, and it is probable that all the other arrested parties will be discharged. • 6 Presidenti'" Roberts. [From to-day's N. Y-Herald.] Commissioner Betts commenced yester day the examination into the charge pre- OUR 'WHOLE COUNTRY. ferred against Col. W. R. Roberts,President of the Fenian Brotherhood, of having been concerned in the fitting out of a military expedition to Canada, contrary to the neu tralitylaws.of the 'United States. Col. Rob erts was cheered on making his appearance in court.. Four witnesses were examined for the prosecution, which was conducted by Mr. S. G. Courtney, U. S. District At torney, and Mr. Ethan Allen. U. S. Assist ant District. Attorney. Mr. John McKeon and Mr. Smyth were • : for the defence..: The case stands adjourned till this morning. A recent French writer has alively ac count of the western part of the United States., There are several mistakes in his facts, but his sketch is worth reading. He says: In.the West the hotel is , always the real monninent. In the great marble-paved halls there is an incessant crowd of travel ers, idlers and Speoulators,bwor redding the papers, the monstrous hand-bills, the tele grams, the price of gold, or the book of the hoteli - mhere the names of the, new_ corners are inscribed. - Bhick .servants rtm in all directions; a smell of brandy and tobacco smoke comes from the bar, fall of noisy groups. The ladies receive their visits in the drawing-roorus, covered with rich and glaring carpets; • now and then .; a young girl tries the last waltz from Paris on a ' piano whose worn-ont notes only give out a dead false sound. In the enormous dining-rooms stretch out the tables, where you• can sit at any hour, and where under different names you can eat the same meal three or four times a day. Beside a woman elegantly dressed, whose white hands, covered with rings, handles her fork witil dainty slowness, sits down a stout farmer, who has devoured in an in stant all that is set before him. A child drinks a glass of iced milk, while an officer on furlough, drinks a bottle of Catawba. Active and smiling negroes stand behind the taciturn eaters, attentive to their slightest wish, and always ready to satisfy it. In the West, the hotel and the political meeting are organs and instru ments of social intercourse; life is too busy for those social relations which require lei sure, the disinterested love of intellectual things, the half frivolous, b serious pur suits of a conventional ideal. Democratic roughness ignores or despises shades, de grees and classifications; among so many equals a man really feels alone. Everybody has his own mouse, where he shuts himself up with his wife and children. But at the hotel the American sees new faces, he hears people talking about something beside his own business, he learns to love order, neat ness, luxury and large and high rooms; his manners are found on those of the stran gers with whom he mingles. He watches the motions, listens to the smallest words of the celebrated people—generals, statesmen, orators" or writers—whom chance has brought hefcire him for a day. Among these continuous streams of new comers, among so many different faces, he learns the gran deur of his c6Mitry better than on a map. If he is unable to go to all the States, all the States come to,_hiat, His horizon is en larged, and from the centre of his great con tinent he can look to the Atlantic coast,,the Gulf of Mexico, and as far as the valleys of California. The hotel is a sort of abridg ment of the confederation. A people without traditions lives in the West—a new, simple, creative people— childish still, though civilization has put all the weapons of maturity into its hands. Everything seems easy to it, everything beautiful. It is joyous, impatient and in toxicated with a chronic enthusiasm. In deed, its language is stamped with a per petual exaggeration. What name did Il linois give to its favorite statesman. Douglas? The Little Giant.. I could hardly help smiling when I heard, every- other minute, an ordinary man, unknown out of his town or country, spoken of as "a splendid man." That is the formula of the West; talent quickly assumes the proportions of genius, mediocrity those of talent. . . . The spirit of analysis has as yet touched nothing; rule and measure are unknown. Not only does the Western man admire everything, but he wants you to admire with him. He goes into ecstasies before a church, a picture or a monument, never suspecting they may ap pear monstrous to you, and naively enjoys. fhe pleasure you do. not experience. Open and generous, he shows and gives all he has; and his hospitality has really some thing royal about it, for everything he touches is transformed, seen through his imagination. At Chicago I was shown a room where dusty bundles of maps, papers, and modern books were kept; that was the library of the "Historical Society of Chica go," and I was informed that the Prince of Wales had been shown solemnly over it during his visit to the town. Everywhere, where I went over libraries, it was thought necessary to tell me, "This is not the Astor Library (the largest in New York and the United States) yet, or the British Museum, but we are only beginning." Generosity like enthusi asm, knows no limits. A young man who made a fortune in a few years, distilling brandy, has just given $1,000,000 to the city of Chicago to build a new opera-house. For several year the, observatory of Harvard College has possessed a magnificent tele scope, that in the hands of Messrs. Bond has rendered great service to astronomical sci ence. Chicago wished to outdo Boston, and has just made the acquisition of an objective a third larger than that of the University of Massachusetts. One rich merchant has been found to buy it, another toVity for mounting it, a third to give the other instramenth; so that now the observatory of Chicago Is furn ished with everything but an astronomer. The Cotton Crop. NEW OarEANs, June 11.—Letters from the Red river country give affecting ac counts of the overflow and the destruction of property. The floods everywhere are subsiding; and the planters are putting in cotton again as fast as the water recedes. The hopss of a crop are small. The meteorological observations in the centre of the cotton growing districts, taken since April 15th, during the whole of the planting season, are generally unfavorable for cotton growth, more so than, ever before recorded in the Mississippi Valley. GREAT FlRES.—Constantimple has been the most unfortunate of all European cities; since 1729 the intervals between the great fires have never exceeded a few years, and in 1782 there were six hundred houses burnt in February, seven thousand in June, and ten thousand in August, besides corn mills and mosques. These ,calamities -may be partly attributed to the inefficiency of the fire engines in Constantinople and to the defective supply of water. London has suffered severely, eapecially in its theatres ; the Dalian Opera House, the Lyceum and the Olympic have each been burnt down once, Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Surrey twice, and Astley's three times. A Firetaeh View of the West. JEFFERSON DAVIS. The Interview Between His Counsel and Judge Underwood. Bail is Refused on the Ground that He is a Prisoner of War. [Coryeepondence of the N. Y. Thinme.] WASitimexoN 4 Monday, June 11,1866.—A meetingOf Messrs. O'Conor and Pratt, of counsel for Jeff. Davis, and Judge Under wood, was held at the Attorney-General's Office to-day. - Counsel desired to argue the point in regard to bail. Judge Underwood informed them thE t he had no doubt it was a bailable offence, but that as Davis was a prisoner in a United States fort, and under military jurisdiction, and had never been withm the jurisdiction of his court; he could not take any cognizance of the question at present. Mr. O'Conor then desired to have that state ment in writing, that they might take the case to the President, who would remove that objection. He gave them a statement to that effect, and they proceeded to the White House, and were granted an inter view with the President. The question will be brought before the Cabinet to-morrow, and an answer be given this week. All the sureties except O'Conor left to-night for New York. Mr. Boutwell's res olution to-day was intended to prevent anti cipated action by the Presidant,and, as such, was resisted by the Democrats, who are de sirous of leaving the President untrammeled and to secure Davis's liberation. Tire . Re publicans voted solid with Boutwell-105 yeas to 19 nays—that while the charge of conspiracy in the murder of President Lin coln still stands indorsed by President Johnson, he should not be released. Another Account. Mr. Shea, of counsel f Jefferson Davis, made a motion before Judge Underwood, in Chambers, in order to testthe jurisdic tion of the Courts in Virginia involving the power to hold the prisoner to bail, it being a judicial question with which the Presi dent of the United States has nothing to do. It is stated that Judge Under wood expressed the opinion which has always been insisted upon by Chief Justice Chase, that, so long as martial law or military surveillance was enforced in, Virginia, the Courts were a mere adjunct and used in aidof the military power. _ Mr. O'Conor, the senior counsel of Mr. Davis, was present with Attorney General Speed, and ex-Governor Pratt was among the auditors. Judge Underwood declined to exercise his power to issue a writ of habeas corpus to bring the prisoner beford his Court until he had received from the President a relinquishment of the accused to the power of the civil authorities, Mr. Davis being now a prisoner of war. Judge. Underwood reduced his opinion to, writing, which, having been given to counsel. was taken to the President by Mr. O'Conor. All further action in the prem ises is therefore suspended until the future order of the Government. It is stated on the authority of one of the counsel that no application was made by them to Chief Justice Chase with reference to bail, within the last two days. ADVEICTITROUS.—An Eastern paper says; "The ship Red Jacket, which arrived at New Bedford Friday afternoon, made the passage from Honolulu in one hundred days. She commenced leaking when five days out from Honolulu, and the pumps have been kept in constant motion ever since, discharging water at the rate of one hundred thousand gallons per day. A wind mill was rigged up by the captain, which rendered the crew valuable aid in working 'he pumps. Captain James S. Dillingham, of Chelsea, who commanded her on the voy age, has led an adventurous life for the last few years. In 1860 he brought the ship Na bob, of Boston, into port, after a voyage of ten thousand miles, most of the way under temporary rigging. He served a year in the navy; and afterward, while in command of the clipper ship Snow Squall, was wrecked in the Straits of Lemair. He procured ano ther vessel, which was burnt by the pirate Florida, and he reached Baltimore on a Portuguese brig. He had proved himself so capable, however, that the owners of the new ship Red Jacket. placed him in com mand of her. He took out a cargo to the Sandwich Islands last summer, and by good seamanship has managed to arrive home safely." FIRE NEAR Pirrsauncm.—A. day or two since a fire broke out in the Union Gas Pipe Factory, connected with the extensive works of the Union Iron Mills. The gas pipe fac tory was situated near Two-Mile Run, in Lawrenceville, and was entirely consumed. The valuable property, including the Cy clops Rolling Mill (another department of the same company),oil refineries, &c., in the neighborhood of the burning pipe factory, were in danger, but fortunately escaped. The advantages of a fire alarm telegraph were again shown in this case, as informa tion of the fire was telegraphed to the city over a, private line, and steamers were on their way to the scene before the existence of the fire was known in the borough of Lawrenceville. The loss by the burning of the pipe faCtory will reach $14,000, on which there are insurances in the 'Home, of New York, and Phcenix, of Hartford, to the amount of about $ll,OOO. We have - not learned the origin of the fire.—Pittsburg/t Gazette. DARING Dme.D.—The St. H3racinthe (C. W.) Courier has the following: 'As a train of the Grand Trunk was ioassing through this locality during the night a young gen tleman, Mr. Bachand, noticed that a house was on fire, while the people seemed not to have wakened up. He urged the con ductor to stop the train; or at least to slacken it, but met with a refusal. The courageous young man leaped, however, from the cars, broke his leg, and yet crept to the burning house, which was that of Mr. Urgelc Desmarais, merchant. The family were all asleep, as Mr. Bachand had supposed, and he roused them in time to save their lives, with one exception, that of a young lady twenty-two years old, a niece of Mr. Desmarais." A ST. LOMB dispatch says. that a gentle man just returned from the plains, reports the Indians in the neighborhood of Ash Hollow are having considerable difficulty among themselves. At a grand pow• wow, three hundred young braves refused to yield to the older members of the tribe, who were going to Fort Laramie to the great peace treaty, and painted for the war path, whereupon the wise heads surrounded the youngsters, killed their horses, burned their tents, and killed on or two of the ringlead ers. after which peace reigned among the red men. F. I. FETHERSTON. Mister. DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS Important Instructions for Marshal Flaw zitine--The French Troops to Make no More Hostile Demonstrations —Seventy-flve Per Cent. of • the Troops to Leave In • October, dcc. , dke. WAsnackerrox, Monday, July 1,1.1.866.-=ln-- formation from Mexico, received by the - French Legation here, states that General Bazaine, the French commander, has re-' ceived positive orders from the Emperor Napoleon to concentrate the French troopk at Meiico, Pnebia, and - Orizaba, and make no more hostile demonstrations. Seventy-L. five" per=cent. of the troofts will go to France in October and the ;remainder next year.; Maximilian .is also .reported to be out of money, and to have made a raid, under,thst sanction of Gen. Bazaine, upon. the chest of the French Paymaster-General. There are also intimations , that Louis Napoleon de= sires to cultivate the most friendly - relations with the 17nited States. " BRIBERY IN THEREW JERSEY !AEGIS. Proceedings Yesterday in the Court a* Trenton. , [From the Trent= State Gazette, ofte-dayj In the Oyer and. Terminer. three of the parties indicted for bribery appeared to plead to the charges made against them. The first called was Barclay Haines of Bordentown, whom the indictment charged with having, on the 23d of February, offered and promised to give Senator David S. Blackman, of Atlantic county, the sum of $5,000 to influence his vote against the pas sage of the bill to incorporate the Newark and New York Railroad Company. Two other counts charged the same offence, the amounts offered being respectively $2OO and $3OO. • Hon. John L. N. Stratton was retained, together with Messrs. Joseph P. Bradley and Frederick Kingman,for the defendant, and asked" the Court to give counsel some time to look into the indictment. • The Court held that it would be necessary for the defendant to plead, and that, ulti mately, it would be at the discretion of ther Court whether the plea should be permitted to be withdrawn or not. _ Mr. Haines then gave in his plea of not guilty. Charles F. Ruh, of Hudson county, was next charged on three counts, with offer ing a bribe to Mr. Ryner A. Staats, mem ber of Assembly from Somerset county to influence his vote in favor of the Newark and New York Railroad. The offence is charged to have been committed on the 15th of February, and the amount of money offered is stated at $l5O in each count. Pleaded not guilty. - • Garret Vat Wagoner, of Paterson, •was charged with offering bribes of $5O, sac. and $2OO, respectively, on the 3d of April to Isaac D. Blauvelt, member of Assembly from Passaic county, to ialluenoe his vote in favor of the Hudson River Wet Basin and Warehouse bill, and pleaded not gailtn Mr. Bradley stated that he expected Daniel Holsman to be present during the morning, to plead to the indictments against him, but subsequently returned to the court-room and informed the Court that he had received a despatch from Mr. Hols man announcing that he would be here on Tuesday morning. Mr. Socrates Tattle, on behalf of Mr. Van Wagoner, asked that as early a day as possible be fixed for the trial of his client. Chief Justice Beasley said it was with that view that the Court had retained the jurors: His engagement in the Court of Errors and Supreme Court would prevent his attend ance for two or three weeks. After those Courts bad concluded the business of the term, he would be ready to proceed with these trials, if the State were ready to move them. Mr. Hagerman, on behalf of the State, said. it was his intention to apply for a "struck" jury. Witnesses had to be summoned front various parts of the State, and it would take some time to prepare the cases. He could not see that the cause of justice would suffer by a postponement of these cases until next term. Mr. Tuttle said he was perfectly willing to have a "struck" jury, or any other kind of jury. and if the law world allow. he would be willing to try the cause before the Court without any jury at all. Mr. Bradley objected to an adjournment until July, as he would not like to try any cause in the months of July or August. Mr. Stratton, on behalf of Mr. Haines,said he saw no objection to let the trial go over until the next term if it could not be dis, ! . posed of at once. Mr. Albert A. Hopper, of Patterson,was offered as bail for Mr. Van . Wagoner, when the Prosecutor of the Pleas raised a ques tion as to taking parties as bail who resided out of the county. After some argument by the counsel, the Court signified its willingness to accept bondsmen who were not resident§ of the county, if the State Prosecutor was satisfied. Mr. Hagerman then put some questions to Mr. Hopper, under oath, as to his property, and the re plies being, satisfactory he was accepted as Mr. Van Wagoner's bail. The securities for the other defendants were as follows: for Mr. Rub, George W.. Thompson, of Bur lington, and Col. E. Livingston Price, of Newark; for Mr. Haines, Capt. George M. Smith, Runyon Toms,and Stephen B.Sraith. THE NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL.—The People of New Haven voted a day or two since on the question whether the high school should be kept up or not. The points raised by the opponents of the school are directed to the instruction of the classes in. Latin and Greek, and the fitting the sons of rich men for college, while the more pop ular branches of education are neglected. New Haven has one thousand children for whom there is no room in her public school rooms, and it was claimed that, a just econo my demanded the suppression of the upper school and the increase of more practical departments. It WAS decided by a heavy majority that the school should continue. BURIED ALIVE.—The Zanesville (Ohio) Signal reportis that recently a coffin, contain ing the body of a lady, was shipped from Parkersburg on board the D. M.• Secher, for transportation to Guernsey county; via. Wheeling. Upon reaohing its de.stination, and being opened by the friends, their bor. ror and dismay may be imagined upon dis covering that the unfortunate lady had evi dently come to life during her incarceration. - within the marrow limits of her coffin, Her hands were rip to her head, and the tangled and disordered hair gave evidence of "e, struggle which must have been.ae brief as terrible. MEXICO.
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