6ESON PEACOCK. - Editor.
VOLUME XX.---NO. 57.
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MARRIED.
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racy the Rev. G. H. Ludlow, Wm. - D. hdson, of Bosteu, !
• - to lOW Sue P. McComb, of Philadelphia. • *
GiTir liiiisPEE=MIRINGER.-On the 12th inst.,by the
'ev. S. H. Blow, Wm.Oillespie, Jr., to Bliss Emelt ne
44-daughter of.T.-T.Deringer; Roo., both of thilt city*
" • DIED. • - •
BUNTER-On - First day -. evening, Mary Hunter;
Aged.-61-yeata.•
- Her relatives and friends are invited to attend her
Inuereljninithe residence of her sister, Alice Minter..
-M.o. VI - West' Street.: -
near . Ninteenth and Coates
,:streets,- on Fdtliday Fourteenth of Sixth month, at 9
-o'clock: • • - - • .
HEIBREIRT.Oti the 10th but , Mr. William H. Hob.
Bert, in the Slat year ethic age. .
The relatives and - friends, of the faintly, alio
Lodge, No. 230, Girard Mark Lodge, No. 214
I.Reystone Chapter: No. 175, - A. Y. M., - Radiant - Star
Ledge. No.: 2A J. 0.. of 0. F.. Ark of Safety,Dlvisien
No. 985,5. of T_.. are respectfully invited to attend the
Itmeral, from Ida late residence, No. 233 Poplaireet,
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"n Thursday afternoon. neat, at, 2 o'clock. aer P 9 in
the Front Street M. E._ Church.. To proceed Oild
.Yellows' Cemetery._
JANNEY.-On Tuesday. the 12th inst., Mrs. Lydia 0.,
'widow of the late Dr. Benjamin S. Janey, in the 69th
year of her age. • • - - • :
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully Invitedh• attend the funeral. from her late resi
•slence.lVo. 11•WoOdland Terrace, West Philadelphia,
gan Friday morning, at 9 o'clock.
tieorgetown, D. Q. on the sth inst., of
- paralysiOn.the 75th year of his age, and the 45th year
ref his ministry, Rev. Charles B. Mackie, formerly
passer of the Twelfth Presbyterian Church, of Belli
in-re. -
MIFFLII9 - .-On. the 10th inst., Benjamin Mifflin, in
the 69th year of his age. -
The relatives - an friends et the heir,l, 'Rising Star
_Lodge, No. 126, .A. Y. M.; and ypograh
- .Society, are invited to attend his funeral, from his late
aysldence. Net:24BB. Twenty-dist street, on (this) Wed
i•miesday afternoon,-at o'clock •
BHOADS.-Th a morning,Junelllth.at her residence,
;No. 19 - 11fouitt 'Vernon Street, Elizabeth L. Rhoads,
-wife or George Rhoads, in the 40th year of her age. *
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OFFICEOF THE CONTROL.LEB OF PUB
LIC SuHOOLS, FIRST DISTRICT OF PENN
PHILLI)ELPRIAt June - 1V:41866.
At a metal= o r the INontrollers of Public Schools,
First District of Pennsylvania, held at the Controllers'
tChamber, Jane 12,1866, the following Resolution was
adopted.
.73eisoiped; That from and after the 14th inst., and un
til summer vacation. there shall be but one session
per day in all the Schools in this District: said session
- so commence Nit 8 A.M., and terminate at 12 M., with a
trecess of fifteen minutes.
.From the Minutes,
reNORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
. .AND }BEEN LANE.—The undersigned are
ti meting the best quality of Lehigh Coal from the
above place, to the residents of Germantown and
"vicinity, at the following low rates, viz: .
.broken and Egg for Furnace and Stove for Range $3 00
Nut or Chestnut $7 50
Address Box. 62 Germantown Post Office.
Office, 15 South SEVENTH street, Philadelphia
.0r yard, NORTH PENNSTLVANLA. RAILROAD
and GREENE Lane.
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WOFFICE OF THE BIG MOUNTAIN IM
.PBOVEMENT COMPANY, .Pisaltenxteirre,
-June 12th, 1866.
The Board of Directors hays this day declared a
odividend of TW.e.NTY-FIVE 0 teNTS PER SHARE,
.on the Capitai Stock of tne ompany, clear of Slate
tax, pay able on and after thud instant, at the office
Mo. 320 Wa nut street.
The Tra• afer Books will be closed on,thel2th inst.,
:and reopened o a Wednesday, the 20th inst.
jel3-9tt S. WILCOX. Treasurer.
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HOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and 152
110 . Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Me
dical treatment and medicines furnished gratultocts.y
to the poor.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
" Life, its Nature, Varieties and Phenome
na." By Leo H. Grindon. Philadelphia';
J. B. Lippincott dr. Co., 1866. Nothing is
'snore marked at the present day than the de.
tided passing over of the great army of pro
viders of popular reading from the realm Of
-dreamy and happy dogmatism to science.
But there are different classes of readers,
from the clear-headed and little-fearing, who
face facts, asking only for truth, down to the
.great number who- " want to learn some
-thing," but will not abandon old prejudices
and old habits, and who, above all, dislike
good hard thought. These latter like "easy
reading," r are fond of the marvelous, and
dove to have all the phenomena of nature
referred to mysterious and " inscrutable "
-causes. For this class Mr. Grindon's book ,
is especially adapted. As the author of
.41 Emblems" and "Figurative Language,"
we are prepared to find him one of those
who rather saunter through science as a
tourist who travels for pleasure goes easily
and lazily through some simmer
scenery, than an. earnest pilgrim
.to a distsuit shrine. He is always
might agreeable in his style, and, we
add, always as careless in his thoughts.
As may be anticipated from any man who
4notes Franz von Baader,Emerson and Cole
_midge, and dwells lovingly on the alchemis
tical palingenesis, he is at heart anything
but s man of science, and yet he writes of it
- with great love and very pleasantly, as all
ado who virtually treat nature -in its every
form, like Jacob Boehme and Swedenborg,
k—thoseohil' dren of Paracelstus—as a shadow
-or reflection of a spiritual fairy-land. "Sol_
*nee, belt remembered,"he says,"has neve r
made a single step except in the wake of
imagination; the - practical ideas of one age
Slave all been begotten of the impractical of
a former—the morning star of all philosophy
Is poetry." Then he tells us that the actually
primitive elements of our earth are probably
only two—that "gold, silver, oxygen,
Ate., probably come each of a special play of
molecular afftnity"—and in the strength of
this niostvague assertion informs us several
pages further on that''the elements as we has ;
already seen are only two!" This is of course
the mere parody of science, and we are
-.summed to learn that the author is
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XE. W. IEALLPi'TELL,
Secretary
BIKES & SHEAFF
actually a professor of botany—the
more so as he is manifestly and
sin galarly ignorant of nearly all that has
been written of late years in France and
Germany, on the very subject of which
his,book treats. The very title of his work
will naturally suggest to the student Moles
chott'a Kreislauf des Lebens, but though
professing a delicately critical knowledge
of German, Prof. Grindon nowhere indi
cates a knowledge of that celebrate& book.
In fact the author's erudition, as displayed
by the very character of - his frequent and
ostentatious quotations, is of an extremely
worn and - meagre cast, reminding one of an
imperfect Hone's Year Book. Such - is the
:only judgment which can be pronounced
on this as a scientific work. Proms 'literary'
point of view it is however highly attrac
tive, abounding in that Pleasing, essay-like
style of thought and expression, whichis so
remarkably popularat the present day. In
his disquisition on correlative subjects, his
"by-paths and nooks," we find the poet, the
symbolist and the man idealizing nature
into beautiful marvels, in a most agreeable
form. "Human life," he says, "is one un
broken endless spiral, and here-we realize
the greatness and amplitude of the signid
cance of the spiral form. Life winds its
little circle's hour by hour, day by day,year
by year, faithfully concluding each before
another is begun; but never failing to com
mence afresh where it left off, and so goes
on everlastingly, ring rising upon ring,
every circle covering and reiterating its pre
decessors, on a higher level, nearer and
nearer to the heavens. The material body
drops away like dead leaves, but life goes
on, in beautiful and ceaseless aspiration.
Nowhere in Nature is there a more charm
ing emblem of life than the common scarlet
or twining bean of our gardens while rising
to maturity."
Who is there can resist the charm of such
writing as this—recalling the most exqui
site sentences in old Kenelm Digby or
Cardanus ? No general reader or scholar
can deny the fascination, and he will read
the book with relish—enjoy it even as we
haire dope, though he be, Ixion-like, dimly
conscious that it is only a rainbow cloud
and not the Heavenly Queen of Science with
whom he is solacing himself. And the
work is full of this pleasing, bewildering
writing, which, as it continually turns to
cheerful religions aspiration or illustration,
bas the high credit of always meaning to do
"the best possible" for the reader. Hence
we are not astonished that it should have
gone through three or four editions in Eng
land, since to the laity in science and those
who simply read to be gratified, or to pick
up some second-hand facts withal, it can
not be other than extremely interesting.
Southern Sunday Schools.
One of the officers of the American Sun
day School Union called on us yesterday.
He says they have a large number of appli
cations of the most urgent character from
Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina
and other Southern States, asking for the
requisites for re-opening their Sunday
schools, stating that in many cases their
school houses have been destroyed, their
books scattered, and that they are utterly
without the means of providing for them
selves. If they cannot be helped at the
North, they must give up all idea of carry
ing forward their Sunday Schools with any
hope of success.
They appeal to Northern generosity, and
there can be no doubt that aid bestowed
now will greatly tend to -the restoration of
kindly feeling and also promote the best in
terests of these uncared-for youths.
We are assured that the American Sun
day School Union has given to the utmost
• extent of its ability. Indeed, we are in
formed that their means foimaking further
grants are entirely exhausted.
In this extremity they appeal to the good
people of. Philadelphia, with the confident
expectation that they will respond cheer
fully and liberally to the cry of those who
are so destitute of the means of knowledge.
A Superintendent, writing from Georgia,
says, "There are seven Sunday Schools in
this county, all of them destitute of books,
except the one at this place, and our library
is very small. -
We need here question books for infants'
class; Union question books, vol. 1; Union
I hymn books,
and some supply of reading
matter. We have not more that form dozen
volumes. Wp would like also to have a, few ,
hymn books, with the music.
The other six Sunday Schools, I ,hardly
know their wants—l would say that they
average fifty scholars, each, and they are
entirely destitute of books or money. -
This county lies southeast of Chattanoo
ga, and but a few miles distant from here
was fought the battle of Chickamauga.
Here both Bragg's and. Sherman's armies,
lived for months. The country was com
pletely prostrated, fencing destroyed, stock
of every kind killed up, provisions con
sumed and the country left 'in a-destitute
and helpless condition.
The people have not yet recovered froth
this deplorable condition, but many of them
are now hungry and begging for bread.
I have heard that your society—a society
famous for its Christian liberality—ls pre
pared to give to the destitute—will it take
into consideration our wants and come to
our rescue? W J. E—."
Persons willing to lend a helping hand
can send their contributions to the Trea
surer of the society L. Knowles, Esq., 1122
Chestnut street.
FIBE nc NEW YORIC.—A large fire broke
out yesterday at the box factory and plan
ing mill of W. 0. Robbins et Co., No. 148
Bank street, and extended to several build
in the vicinity. A number of thieves who
were present,commeneed an indiscriminate
robbery during - the excitement occasioned
by the conflagration and several very vain
able articles were taken from their rightful
owners. The loss altogether is roughly es
timated at $50,000.—N. Y. Herald.
JOHNSON'S ISLAND ABANDONED BY Go-
VERNMEZIT.—.Tohnson's Island, used dar
ing the war as a place of confinement for
rebel prisoners, has recently been released
from government control. The enlisted
men on duty at the post have been ordered
to Columbus, Ohio; small arms and muni
tions will be sent to Detroit Arsenal, and
the heavy guns and cord wood to Fort
Wayne, near Detroit.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1866.
THE FENIANS.
Petermination of Our Government to
Prosecute> the Leaders for Vio
lation of the. Neu
trality Laws.
Colonel Roberts Liberated on Parole
---His Examination to be'
Resunied on Friday.
Bait Required of Sweeny, Spear and
Mahan---The Surety Offered
Not Accepted by the
Commissioner.
Canadian Court for Trial of the Pri
soners Nearly Ready.
Some of the Prisoners to be Htmg,&c.
WASMENGTON, June 12, 1866.—The case of
Roberts, Head Centre of the Fenian wing,
is attracting considerable attention on the
part of the Government at present. It is
fully determined that his attitude of de
fiance to the law and thd l government shall
not be countenanced in any way,and orders
have been forwarded to Na* York to have
him indicted and to have him held in cus
tody
. until proper bonds for his good beha
vior in the future shall have been filed and
approved.
In reply to an inquiry of District At
torney Dart, at Potsdam, New York, as to
whether any , of the subordinate officers
and men of the Fenian prisoners should be
indicted, the Attorney General telegraphed
instructions to-day to indict the leaders
only, and to prosecute them for breach of
the United States neutrality laws,with such
diligence as would be consistent with Vie
dignity of the United States,_
The inquiries made byeneral Meade
areas yet incomplete, but so far as they
have gone they do not result in confirming
the report that the Canadian or British
forces crossed the boundary line or that any
of the Fenian have been killed by them, or
that any prisoners were captured by them,
on the American side of the frontier.
Examination of Generals Sweeny and
Spear and Colonel Dalian— The Ban
Fixed atss,ooo, but the Surety Offered
Declined.
ST. ALnsacs, June 12th, 1866. General
Sweeny, General Spear and Colonel Mahan
bad a private examination this morning be
fore Commissioner Hoyt t land the bonds for
their release were fixed at five thousand
dollars. The amount required was imme
diately offered, but the Commissioner de
sired the party becoming surety for them
to be personally known to him
self and to be a resident of this place. Mean
time the parties under arrest have been pa
roled, and will appear upon their own re
cognizance before the authorities whenever
needed, provided they furnish satisfactory
surety. Nothing further will be done until
Mr. Hoyt hears from New York. He leaves
here to-day for the purpose of conferring
with the United States District Attorney in
New York, and will probably return is
four or five days, when the case will be
finally disposed. General Sweeny's case
will come before Judge Smalley, United
States District Judge, at Windsor, Vt., on
the 24th of July.
Lynn Circle sent tickets, so that their
men should not be obliged to sign the United
States pledge to abandon Fenianism.
The Prisoners at Malone Released on
MALONE, June 12; 1866.—The Fenian pri
soners—Murphy, Refferman and company
—were brought up for examination to-day,
before United States Commissioners Myers
and Tappan, and remanded until to- morro w.
Bail is demanded in the sum of six thou
sand dollars each for Murphy and Heifer
man, and three thousand dollars for each of
the others.
The Fenian Prisoners in Canada.
OrrAwA, C. W., June 12, 1566. The ad
dress in response to the speech from the
throne was presented by the Speaker of the
Assembly to, the Governor General this af
ternoon. The Minister of Finance to-day
moved that the House proceed to vote the
necessary supplies on Friday neit.
1. am informed that the Fenian prisoners
now in the handsof. the Canadians will.be
tried by the regular criminal court, which
has jurisdiction. The law says: "All pri
soners found guilty of lawless aggressions
must be sentenced to death;" the court
having no discretionary power in pronounc
ing judgment. The ,prisoners will be tried
immediately at Toronto, Hamilton,London
and Kingston.
MONTBRA.L, June 12, 1866.—The Military
Court is now being organized for the trial
of the Fenian prisoners at an early day. It
is certain that , some executions will take
place. The prisoners are being well cared
for.
The English Admiral, Sir James Hope, K.
C. 8., accompanied by several officers of the
Duncan, arrived in this city to-day. The
government has fully restored the Grand
Trunk Railway to the traveling public.
Mail steamers have resumed their places in
accommodation of the public. British troops
will guard the border front until fall, at
least.
The Robert Case in New York.
OTrom Today's N. Y. Herald.'
The farther investigation into the charge
preferred against Colonel W. R. Roberts,
President of the Fenian Brotherhood, of
having violated" the Neutrality laws of the
United States was resumed yesterday in the
United States Commissioners' office, before
Comnaisbioner Betts: Five witnesses, were
examined.- - -
renians in Ireland.
[Dublin (June) Correspondence of London Tim's.]
There was some extraordinary evidence
given at the trial of Sergeant McCarthy by
court martial yesterday. The court resumed
its sittings at half•past ten o'clock, when
Constable Talbot, of the Detective Depart
ment of the Constabulary, was examined.
He stated that he met the prisoner at a
public house on,the Ist of January, 1866, at
Carrick-on-Suit, and that he then said his
removal from Cloumel was a great loss to
the Fenian cause, as he had the guns and all
there ready to band over the, moment the
work commenced; that he had got false
keys made for some military arms stored
there, and could distribute them at any mo
ment. He:said that on his arrival at Carrick
be bad looked a good deal into matters, awl
found there was too 'much talk; to keep quiet
and to keep silent, and victbry was at
the door. "You won't have much fighting
;to do, and we will do most of it for you."
Kelly was introduced by him as the soldier
who had made the - false keys for the mili
tary stores at Clonmel. The prisoner stated
that if he was long at Carrick he would have
, it in the same good order. On the 6th of
'January; the 'witness was at Clonmel with
the prisoner, by appointment, with Morissy,
a working "B," and a person named Daniel,
a sub-centre,.and that there, in Burke's
public house- m Clonmel, in company with
Bombardier Lowe, of the artillery,he stated,
in Lowe's presence, that here was the man
who had enlisted the forty-four Fenians of
whatever artillery was then in Clonmel; he
'then invited Lowe to come some day to Car
rick to see us, and - Lowe promised to come
on the following Wednesday. Lowe said he
had enlisted all the men he could in the bat
tery, or half battery, think be called it, of
artillery, in Clonmel, and that he could do
no more. He said forty-four; he did not say
:or what purpose.
The witness further stated that he had met
the prisoner on several subsequent occa
sions at meetings cf the . Brotherhood, he
himself acting as a member, and among
other things, he thus described the objects
of the conspiracy, and "its means and in
tentions:" The objects of the Fenian Broth
erhood were to make war on the Queen in
this country, to establish a republic, to seize
on all property, and kill every person who
opposed them or would not join them. They
were to rise on a certain night in certain
places, where arms were to be distributed
among the Brotherhood; the men were then
to form in different places where the Fenian
leaders were; they were to seize every one
that would not go with them, and hang or
shoot them, until they succeeded in over
throwing the government of the conntryand
establishing a republic in its place by force
of arms.
The question having been read over by
the shorthand writer, the witness said,
"There is more I wish to add to that reply.
The informers were to be carried to be car
ried to the camp, stripped naked, and tied
to trees, and a man told off to keep stabbing
them now and again every half hoar or
quarter of an -'hour, - going from one to
another where they were."
Major Mcßean—This was in earnest, and
not joking?
Witness—Upon my oath, sir, this was not
Major Mcßean—l can scarcely believe it.
Witness—That was what was alleged to
have been done in Wexford at the time of
the rebellion there; it was mentioned that
they should take pattern from Wexford.
The military, it was stated, were to be
made prisoners, and it was stated what was
to be done with the guns and arms in Clon
mel. The guns were to be given to the
militia artillery and the arms to the militia
infantry. The soldiers and officers who
were greatly opposed to the movement were
to be shot. What was meant by the officers
greatly opposed to the movement was the
officers who prosecuted the soldiers for be
ing Fenians.
'When Talbot's examination had con
cluded, Color Sergeant Lowe, 53d regiment,
was produced to prove that the prisoner
was on terms of unusual intimacy with pri
vate Kelley, after which there was a little
altercation between counsel for the prisoner
and the Court, which adjourned at 4 o'clock.
Patrick Ralph, militiaman, a supposed
Fenian, has been arrested and charged at
Castlebar with using seditious language at
a railway station. He was'released on bail.
It appears that some persons tainted with
Feniamem had managed to hold their situa
tions in Richmond Bridewell under the new
Governor, but have at last found the disci
pline too strict for them, or perhaps got
afraid of detection. It is stated that two of
the officials, John Breslin, the hospital
superintendent, and another warder named
Joseph. Casey, have suddenly resigned,
under mysterious circumstances, with the
supposedintention of going to America. s,
THE PIRATE SHENANDOAH.
Sale of a Portion of her Equipments.
[From today's N. Y. Triburte.l
A number of articles, which once com
prised a portion of the equipment of the
Anglo-rebel pirate Shenandoah, and which
were surrendered with her to the British
authorities at Liverpool and subsequently
transferred to the United States Consul at
that port, were brought to th.s port in the
ship Cultivator, and were yesterday sold at
public auction by . Messrs. Leeds d Miner.
The catalogue is quite an extensive one,
embracing mathematical and surgical in
struments books, clothing, medicines,
arms, uniforms, flags, cto. Quite a large
number of persons were present at the sate,
the greater of whom were evidently curi
osity and trophy Minters. The first thing.
offered was a shipla hour bell, about six
or eight inches in height. Two dollars
about its ordinary value, was at once of
fered, and the bids speedily ran up to sri 25,
at which price it was knocked down. Five
ship's clocks, probably . taken from captured
vessels, brought $1 apiece. Three cases of
surgical instruments, somewhat rusted for
want of use (for Capt. Waddell'-was careful
to engage in no battle), brought $3 each.
Several bags of bullets brought 75 cents
each. A quantity of fine grey cloth for
rebel officers' uniform, brought, after some
rivalry, $1 70 per yard. Some coarse gray
cloth, tor private's uniform, could only com
mand 31 cents per yard. Some woolen
blankets, English, uncut, brought $2 37.1-
apiece. Some shoes, evidently of English
manufacture, brought 75 cents a pair; a
quantity of English thread, 75 cents per
pound, and some loose tobacco $3 50 per
pound.
A number of flags were offered, the first
being the "Stars and Stripes," six yards
long by three yards wide. Tne holding it
up excited considerable enthuSiastic pa
triotism among the spectators, who were
liberal in their remarks and exclamations.
It sold for $l5. Another flag was bid in by
the auctioneer at $l3 50. A British flag,
said to be the one under which the Shenan
doah first sailed from Liverpool, excited
considerable discussion, and some very un
amiable animadversions on "English neu
trality." The bidding was started at $l,
and speedily went up to $22, at which price
it was purchased by. Dr. Bryne. who inti
mated his intention to send it to the Presi
dent.
A number of other flags, national and sig
nal, sold at various prices. Most of them
were undoubtedly taken from vessels de
stroyed by the pirate. The library of the
Shenandoah, a rather mixed collection, pro
bably, also, mostly stolen, sold at low
,
prices as did also the small ' arms, most of
which were of English manufacture. A.
number of flags containing the names of the
vessels from which they were taken, are in
the hands of the auctioneers, and will be re
stored to their original owners on proof of
ownership, as will, also, a number of ohron-
ometers, the personal property of officers of
American vessels.
The ship's guns, with the carriages, &c.,
which comprised the axmament of the She
nandoah, are now at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard on exhibition.
SOUTH ADIERICA.
THE WAR ON THE RIVER
PLATE.
Advance of the Allies.
THE DECISIVE BATTLE SOON
EXPECTED.
Note from the Argentine Republic on
the Bombardment of
Valparaiso.
An English Blue Book on the Spanish-
Chilean War.
BRAZIL.
The Anglo-Brazilian Times, of May Bth
gives the following summary of news.
Military Movements.
Since the summary given in our issue of
the 4th inst., comprising the Brazilian vic
tory on the island, the passage of the Parana
and second victory on the morning of the
17th, followed by the crossing of the whole
allied force, and the abandonment of the
Paraguayan fort of Itapiru, we have to re
cord the evacuation, by the Paraguayans, of
their intrenched camp on the road to Ein
malts, and its ocenpation by the Brazilian
vanguard, Lopez having retired either to
Humaita, or to some other position nearer it
than than the one he abandoned.
A division of the Brazilian fleet, together
with a sufficiency of boats and light steam
ers bad gone up the tipper Parana to trans
port the Baron de Porto-Alegre's army
across that river, he having reached Cande
laria with his whole force; and reports as
serted that he was already across and on his
march to Asuncion, or to come in on the
communications of Lopez with that capital.
The remainder of the fleet was within the
Paraguay to proceed upward toward Hu
maita to attack it from the water side while
the army assailed Lopez's other forces and
the decisive conflict was daily looked for if,
as expected, Lopez would offer battle in the
neighborhood of that fortress, which is only
30 miles from the Parana.
Abandonment of the Paraguayan Camp.
On the 20th of April and the two follow
ing days the transport of the material of
the army was continued, and both armies
occupied their respective grounds without
more serious engagement occurring between
them than occasional exchange of musketry
between the outposts, and that some vessels
of the squadron having found a situation
whet ce their heaviest cannon could tell,
threw occasional bombshells into the Para
guayan camp.
On the 20th, however,an unfortunate mis
take arose during the darkness of the night,
when two Brazilian battalions oi'the line, in
the advance, mistaking each other for ene
mies fired on each ether for some time,caus
trig the death of nine men and the wound
in gof 30 more.
The Paraguayan camp havingbeenrecon
noitered,ascertaining there were sixty pieces
of artillery placed to defend the fortifica
tions, preparations were made to assault it,
but on the morning of the 2.2 d flames were
seen issuing from it, and on Gen. Netto's
cavalry brigade advancing and entering the
camp, it was found that the Paraguayans
had abandoned it after removing everything
of value, and setting fire to the buildings
inside. Whither Lopez had withdrawn was
unknown on the 23d, when the steamer left
Corrientes.
Part of , the fleet, with a number of
steamers and boats, had started up the Pa
rana towards Candelaria, where tae Baron
de Porto-Alegre was awaiting their arrival
to enable him to cross the river. The re
mainder of the squadron was in the mouth
of the Paraguay, ready to ascend to
Humaita.
Another iron-clad and two bomb Vessels
left for Parana on the 4th and sth.
Bank of Brazil.
With regard to the Bank of Brazil. the
gradual contraction of its issue is under
taken, and it is understood that the new
President, the Visconde de Jequitiuhonha,
has called on the principal debtors of the
bank to commence the reduction of their
debts to it, so as to permit the_more rapid
withdrawal of the excess of issue.
Peruvian Iron-Clads.
The Peruvian iron-elads,after some delay
in port, left on the 29th ult., for the Pacific.
Marshal °soil°.
Marshal Osorio has been made Baron de
nervel t with "grarideza." in acknowledg
ment of his late services and those of the
army, the order of the Cross being likewise
bestowed on the banners of the two battal
ions which' so distinguished themselves on
the 10th of April.
ARGENTINE REPIIBLIC.
The Bombardment of Valparaiso -Note
from the Argentine Government.
In Buenos Ayres the news of the bom
bardment of Valparaiso was received with
universal reprobation, and the Minister of
Foreign Affairs had sent a note to the Ar
gentine envoy to Spain, conceived as fol
lows
"Sir—The Argerditie people has just been
sorrowfully impressed on knowing that on
the 31st of March last the city of Valparaiso
was bombarded and deliberately burnt by
the naval forces of H. C. M. blockading it.
"The civilization of modern days has al
ready acquired the principle thatoperations
of war are limited to what may have direct
influence on the exit of the struggle, con
demning those which can have no other end
beyond doing an unnecessary injury to the
enemy, in satisfaction of a cruel and Sterile
vengeance.
"By bombarding and burning a city es
sentially commercial, unprepared to oppose
resistance of any kind, without, by so ex
treme severity, augmenting its power or
weakening the enemy, or even approximat
ing to the end of the war, H. C. M. mani
festly violated the principle under whose
guaranty cultivated, nations now rest.
"The Government of H. C. M. knows the
interest felt by the Government of this Re
public in the development of the events
which have unhappily taken place in the
Pacific.
"Joined as the Argentine nation is to the
Spanish people by a recent treaty fortifying
their amicable relations, by an extensive
commerce, and by a large and indastrioaa
F. L. FETHERSTON. PublEkr.
DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS
population following steadily toward it;
bound on the other side to the people of.
Chile by the same links and by the yet
livingtradition of community in the perils
and glories of the struggle which founded
their independence, its Government, without
pointing ont the causes which placed arms
in the bands of two friendly nations, limits
itself to deplore that it was not permitted to
it, that it was not possible be it to prevent
the evils consequent on so terrible an ex
tremity, observing the dutieS of the strictest
impartiality, which it hopes will have been
duly appreciated by the Government of E.
C. M.
"The Argentine Government believes that,
this same specialty of its position author
izes it to make its voice heard by that of H:.
C. M., protesting against the employment
of means which it considers contrary to the ;
principles consecrated by the law of nations
and against tbe injuries caused or which
may be caused to Argentine citizens and the:
property, whose indemnification it will op—
portunely solicit, and to show to it, at the
same time, the difficulties that there would ,
be in the preservation of the good relationa,
which happily exist between both countries
and on which, for its part, it places especial:
value on cultivating and rendering closer,
should it persist in employing these means
of war against the peoples of America.
Your Ex. will give a copy of this note to
the Minister of State of H. C. M.
God keep Your Ex. many years.
REFFINO DE RT.TZABIJOE."
An English Blue-Book of the Spanish.
Chilean War.
The correspondence respecting the war
between Chile and Spain has just been is
sued. It is comprised in a blue-bcok of 230
pages, and ranges over all the events which.
have occurred since the blockade of the
Chilean coast on September 27. The conclud
ing
despatches. of course, refer to the born.:
bardment of Valparaiso. On April 2, Rear-
Admiral:Denman, dating from on board the
Sutlej, off Valparaiso, gives an account of
this attack, and concludes his despatch with
the following paragraph:
"I regret to say that several English
merchants have endeavored to excite the
feelings of the inhabitants against their
own country, and I have forwarded, in
another despatch, a copy of the resolution
passed at a public meeting, condemning
the conduct of Mr. Tbon3“3n, the Minister
and myself, with my reply; and I regret to
state that Mr. Thomson's despatches last
received from England were stolen from
his room at the Hotel Aubry last night."
In a second despatch to the Secretary to
the Admiralty of thesame date, the Admiral
ssys:
"Several of the British residents,on Satur
day, the 24th, called on me, informing me
of a rumor that the Spanish squadron was
about to bombard the town, and stating
that they intended to address me on the
subject, as also the foreign consuls; but they,
had called upon me without delay, in order
to save time. I promised to do all in my
power to prevent this calamity, which
having had no intimation of from the
Spanish Brigadier-General, and supposing
that no fresh instructions had arrived from
Spain, I believed would, if true, take place
on his .own responsibility. In this case I
felt some confldencts that I should be able - to
induce him to postpone such a measure un
til he had communicated with his Govern
ment. I was very careful to avoid giving
grounds for supposing that I should inter
fere in any other way than by remon
strance, taking care to inform those who
had called upon me that I was bound by
my orders to a strict neutrality. Next day
(Sunday) I called on the Brigadier-Gene
ral on board his flagship, and have
already detailed what took place on that
occasion in my letter of March 31st. Her
Majesty's Consul, Mr. Rouse, accompanied
me, and on our return I requested that he
would inform any British- residents, and
any of the consular body he might meet,
that unless the proposals of the United
States Minister were accepted, the Brigadier
General v. ould issue his manifesto on Tues
day morning, the 27th, at nine o'clock, and
that he should bombard a few days after
ward. On Monday morning, the 26th, my
communication through Mr. Rouse was
universally known. In the afternoon of
that day I received the. letter above referred
to, of the 26th March, and letters also from
several foreign consuls. On Tuesday morn
ing, the,27th, the Spanish Brigadier-General
issued his manifesto, stating that the bom
bardment would take place on Saturday,
the 31st March. Thus my n.
,communicatio
through the consul had the effect of giving
authentic notice of the probable bombard
ment of the town upward of 36 hours before
it would have been otherwise known "
With reference to the resolution passed by
the British residents, the Admiral says:
"I never gave any 'positive assurance
that I would interfere by force, if necessary;
to prevent a bombardment;' and this asser
tion being untrue, it follows that the state
ment that I caused a 'loss of much valuable
time which might have been profitably em
ployed in securing safety to life and pro
perty' is entirely contrary to facts. I made
no 'plea of want of sufficient force tooppose
the Spaniards,' and 'the co-operation of the-
United States squadron' was not pressed on.
me by its Commodore. The circumstances
which took place on this subject are re
ported in my letter of the 29th of March, and
referred to the case of the bombardment of
the town without notice, in case a torpedo
was exploded against the Spanish
squadron. When the intention, of
bombarding the town by express
orders direct from. Spain was known, the•
United States commodore devoted himself
to the attempt to prevent it by endeavoring
to propose terms between the belligerents,
which of itself shows that he had no inten
tion of otherwise interfering; and he was,
like myself, ordered to observe a strict neu
trality. The statement that the U.S. Minis
ter and Commodore used 'their utmost en
deavors to prevent, by co-operation with
the British forces, the bombardment of the
city,' has no foundation whatever. The
subject was never mentioned to me by
Gen. Kilpatrick at all, and by. Com. Rogers
only with reference to the contingency ex
plained in my letter of the 29th of March,re
iative to a bombardment, without notice, in
case a torpedo was exploded against the
Spanish squadron."
JEFFERSON DAMS.—The craving for every
particular concerning the condition of the
solitary captive in Fortress Monroe bids
fair to be increased by the, appearance, in a
few days, from Carleton's press, of an' ex
traordinary volu m e,enti tied The Prison-Life
of Jefferson Davis, by J. J. Cravery physi
cian to the prisoner during his closest con
finement in the Fortress. Dr. Craven, in
his book, takes Mr. Davis out into the broad
day and sunlight of public notice, hoping
to dispel the dampness and mould or the
dungeon by the renovating and disinfecting
influence of a better acquaintance. Mr..
Carleton will publish at the same time, his
Lfe of Tames Stephens, the Fenian Head.
Centre, and a new novel by Walworth, en
titled tStorinth'in