©BSQN PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XX.—-NO. 158 EVENING BULLETINS tobubhed every svSanNG, (Snnday’e excepted,) u nmWSWBtUBTDI BCIUHSG, ©O7 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia . BY ;*THB . fe Kvening Bulletin Association.” ■«wsaa«oflenaß&» wallaob JiItJ3TSSS5 TO “' THOS. J.WILLIAMSOK OAIFBH «3TOEE, Jr„ IFEAHOIS WELLS. Thaßroanica reived to gatecrlbera In the city at £* ranti Mr' week, payable to the carriers, or 18 oo per lßßtmi T ~ - . •' DIED. /BONSAIX.—On the morning of the Bth Instant, at 'Washington, D.P., Lydia C.» wife of Henry L. Bonsall. Due notice will beuivenot interment, [New Jersey papers please copy.j; . * HOWIE.—On the lth inst, James A. Bowie.-ia the •48th year of his age. - ■ i His Masonic brethren of Solomon’s Lodge. No. 114, A*.Y,AL, the . members-of the National Union Club, and all other. Societies of-whlch he < was a member,and the relatives and friends of the family, are respectfully Invited to attend his fnxeral.from his late residence, Nq. 634 South Second street, on Thursday, lith Inst., at 2 o’clock, P. fiL To proceed to Odd Fellows’ Ceme tery. , •* CARTER,—On the Bth inst , Margaret, wife of J. G. Carter, in the69th year of her age. ~ The relatives and friend* of the family are respect fully Invited to attend the funeral, from the resideace. of her hnanand. No. 821 Norm Ninth street, on Thurs day afternoon, the lith inst, at 2 o’clock. ** CARTER—On 9th inst Martha H., daughter of Rodman and Helen a. Carter, aged 2 years and 4 months. «« FISHER.—On Sunday morning. 7th Inst., Eliz %A. Fißher, widow of the late Samuel B Fisher. In the 72d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the fiunllyare invited to attend the funeral,from her late residence, in Potts ville, Schuylkill county, Pat on Wednesday afternoon. Oct 10th, at 3 o’clock, wthhoui further notice. HELMBOLD.—Suddenly, on the Bth inßt, George H. son of Edward R. and Louisa J. Helmbold, inthe 2iat year of his age. Therelatives and friends of the family are respeefc fhUy invited to attend hia faneral, from his fathers residence, No. 1917 Lombard street, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, without fur.her notice. * McCLELLANI).—Suddenly, on the7th instant, Ann -H. McClelland, relict of the la’e John MoClelland. The relatlves&nd male friends of the family are re spectfully invited to attend the funeral, from th«> rest -dence of her son-in law. No si South Sixth street' Thursday morning, at 10 o’clock. ** • NORB±®.- In hew, York, ou the morning of ath inst., Gertrude, daughter of Joseph P. aid Fanny -StevensNorris, aged nine months and twenty-three 4ays. ** ROWLAND.—On the merulng of the 7th instant, Charles T. Rowland. Hia mile friends and those of the family, also the memheta of Robert Morris Lodge,No. 29,1.0. of o. F, of Pa., Hope Lodge,No. 21,1.0.0 f OJF.,and Washington Engine Co- of Wilmington, Delaware, are respectfully invited to attend his run oral, from his mother’s resi dence, No. 624 South Eleventh st., on Wednesday •afternoon, at 2 o’clock it SANFORD—On the Bth inst. Mary A. widow of Alex. Sanford, and daughter of the late William Lane. Her friends are Invited to attend her faneral, from the residence of her sister, S.W. corner of Girard and Corinthian avenue, on ednesday morning, at lo •o’clock, without further notice. * STOCKTON.—At Moreen. Princeton, N J., on the 7th inst., Robert £ ield Stockton, late a Commodore in the U. S. Navy. Funeral from Morven, on Wednesday, the 10th inst., at 2 o’clock, P. M. * SMEIBURSr.—On the Bth inst., Emeline, wife of W. A.' Smetfcurst, of this city, and daughter of the late Jno. Millar, of Lancaster. Due notice will be given of the faneral. » UTAYLOR.—On Third day morning, Tenth month. Stb, 1866, Jane C., daughter of Benjamin and Jane Taylor. The friends of the fern fly are respectfully invited to attend the faneral, from her father’s residence,-No. 134 North Tenth street, on Fifth day afternoon,at 3 o’clock:, without further notice. ** WHOHRALL.—On the 7th inst., Captain Gehrge W. Whorrall, aged 24 years. His relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral, from, hia late resideace. No. SO4 North Twelfth street, on Wednesday, at 2 o’clock. . * Eyre a landell imported fob fall BARBS, St, Bernard Woolen'Cloakings. Dagmar Woolen shawls, Mosaic Woolen Shawls. Splendid Plain Silks. Magnificent Plaid Poplins. SPECIAL NOTICES. [See Sixth and Last Pages for Special Notices.j CITY COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE. iMy' TVKUPHTA, Oct. 9,1866, . .) To the Judges and Inspectors of auctions— From the number oMnqulrles at this office there appears to b-* 2i misunderstanding as to the mode of voting the several tickers. 1 his Department would inf inn you, the law requires for the city, four tickets and boxes, as follows: ONE FOR STATE. ONE FOR JUDICIARY. ONE FOR COUNTY.* ONE FOR CITY. / The city box Includes for this year, the City, Ward* aud Division Tickets. JAMES SHAW, ltj . .Clerk City Commissioner. lOFFICE OF THE AMYGDALOID MININ'* COMPANY OF LA,KB SUPERIOR, No. 324 "Walnut street. NOTICK is hereby given that an instalment of TOOK FOLL ARS <s4) on each and every share of the CapltalSlock of the Amygdaloid Mining Company,- vpijlbedua and payable at theofficsof the Company, No. 324 WALNUT* street, on or-before SATURDAY, 2oth inst., with interest added after that date. . By order of the Board. OC9*toc2o fkmale medical college of penn- SYLYANIA,—The Introductory to the Seven teenth Annual Session wtll be given on MONDAY, October 15th, at 4 o’clock P. M , at the College rooms, ■ North College avenue and Twenty-second street, by ANN PRESTON, M; D„ Professor of Physiology ani Hygiene. The regular Lectures of the Course will commence the next day. EMELIN E. H. CLEVELAND,M.D., ocD tu th &3t* Secretary of the Faculty. A PUBLIC MEETING OF 'VELCOMR to the delegates from the Irish Wesleyan Confer ence. will'be held in the Union M. E. Church, ou WEDNESDAY EVENING, Oct. 10th. at7>s o’clock. Bishop Simpson will make the address of welcome, ■and Rev. Rohiuson:ficdtt. D D.. and Wm. McArthur, Esq., will reply. r 2trp* At DoyiestoWn, Bucks (Pa.) County Pair, after a severe contest, the first premium for;‘‘BEST sewing MACHINES?’ was awarded to Willcox & Gibbs. ; . ; ,V. A Theatre on Fire.— Jfist as the doors of the theatre at St. Etieqne, France, were about to he opened on the 29th ultimo, two violent detonations.were heard. An explo sion of gas had, taken place at,the moment that the lamplighter .applied; his match. His clothes caught, fire, and his body was dreadfully burned, but he had still strength -enough tp walk to his own home, where, '-.however, he died soon after. In the mean time the theatre had caught fire, and an ; alarm was given. The Duke de Persigny -who was giving a dinner at the Hotel du Nord to the members of the Council-Gen eral, having been informed of the accident, hastened to the spot with his guests, and en couraged the firemen. In about an hour the flames were got under, . The Sewing Maohine Committee at Mount Holly (N.:J.) Fair, held last week, awarded the HIGHEST PREMIUM toWILLCOX* GIBBS, African Travelling not Pleasant.— Passengers.on.the railroad from Alexandria to Suez make bitter complaint- of the nad usage they receive. The carriages they, say, : are “something between beast trucks and -fourth-class carriages,” and between six o 1 clock in the evening and seven O’clock the following morning—the time taken by the journey—no food or drink could be had at the stations. . " / . v The York.... county. Fair, just, closed, awarded-to Willcox & Gibbs the first pre mium for “BEST SEWING MACHINES.” A' Flock of. Sheep Killed by Light ning;—Lightning struck a tree under Which, a flock - of sheep had taken refuge, near Marlboro’, Prince George county, Mary land, on the 22d ultimo. Twenty-two of the animals were killed. The New Jersey State Fair, held at Trenton Isat month, awarded the highest premium to Willcox & Gibbs for “best Sewing machines.” " r '' ' ' | Deep in his slumber the President lay, Heavy his brain from the work of the day, Heavy his brain; for the President Bacchic, "Spernit nec veteris pocula Snored he, the President loud in his sleep, Through his brain long-cherished visions didcreep,; And he saw, Phoenix-like, from his own ashes rise. Another A. Johnson, a man good and wise. A tailor he saw himself plying the shears— Alderman, Congressman, Governor -with years, Till, Liberty's Champion, he saw himself stand ■* With the bravest, and brightest, and best of the land, O,soundly the President slept as he dreamed, A halo of glory around his soul beamed; ' For he saw himself risein his majesty there Again as a man to the President’s chair! The chief of the Na tion then seemed; he to walk, The delight of their pride, and the theme of their talk, - Till, loaded with honors, and ripened with years, He retired amidst a great Nation’s best tears. ’Tis sad, when the poet in greatness has wrought His song - to the glory his hero’s self taught, That, like that same hero, his song most descend To the meanness of numbers most fitting his* ' end.- Farewell then Calliope! best of the Nine, Beneath thee has fallen this hero of mine, And; Welcome Thalia, so fond of a joke! In language most fitting ire’ll give him a poke. Oh! President, weep! for the tale I nowteil, Will fall on your soul like a shadow of HelL G, weep! for I know that your conscience now J sang of the glory my hero achieved— Alas! can my song have the reader de ceived? The glory I told of was seen in a dream. Behold how the plight of the man of my theme; A. Johnson lies snoring in drunken repose, When, lo! a musquito..alights oa hisnose, Inflicting a sting in that ; prominent part work ill As he found himself going around in a circle. Visions he saw as he ’gan to gyrate— Before him stood Bill, Secretary of State, % Gens. Farragut, Grant, and some friends, too, stood near, And the tomb* of Great Douglas was seen in the rear. “Hie Sew-ew-ard,” said his Highness, sup porting a chair, “And you, Farragut-hic Gen’ral Grant over there, The tomb of great Douglas I’ll visit to-day And help my good people his • corner-stone lay; Then, too, as we-ic travel ’tis plain how ice i all-J-see • . Can expound to my people the course of F, k. wombats:, Treasurer. 'My Policy.’” “’Tis yours to command,” cried Bill Seward, “and we Will obey your injunctions with zeal' to a J ~ , And I know, when the people see Grant with ns travel, And hear what a beautiful tale we unravel, They’ll subscribe to ‘My Policy’ without hesitation, And consider ns all the best men of the nation.”- rt “Hold, hold!” exclaimed Grant, “a Boldier ... - - obeys, - - But my voice for a policy I’ll never raise;, The nation entrusted their .arms to my care And my policy is to the traitor 'Beware,’ ” . ,‘Your right, my dear Grant,” - cried old Farragut, true, “And my policy strikes for the red, white and ' blue.” . ~ - ... The President shook, for though drunk, their words fell On his traitorous heai;t. like a death-telling » knell, And visions chaotic now thrpnged through his brain— Of cities, and majors,and 2ilain! (Mirabile diotu I the Brotherly City • Had no mayor to. greet him; .alas, what a New he now. sees, where his Billy once ruled, But I, his minions swear, were not very well schooled; Yet the city itself Was quite ready to greet them, - And the Mayor and Councilmen hastened So meet them. - i The visions whirled on in still-greater ’ _.2confttsion, ; _ But his 'hearty reception he found an . illusion; . . .. . And instead of the loyal, who gave him his station, , He was cheered by the traitors and scum of the nation.,, ... O, with anguish and pain then the President started, . ;• < : ' , As vision by vision across his sight darted - Till the fumes of his Massic had passed from his brain, ; , And he fell on his bed in a stupor again. Soon he wakes with a start; wnat his dreardf may portend*- - • 1 The votes of the people Will tell in the end, [Por the Phlla. Evenlne Bnlletin.] THE PRESIDENT BACCHIC. Ees qnseln vitausnrpant homines, coeltuts curant vident. <jnm qae agnnt vigilantes, agltantqne.es si cnl somno accident, Minns mlrandum eat. Accnjs. Tis not to be wondeiei at If those thlsgs which men Practice, tblnh, care for. see, and do while awake, should run In their heads and agitate them while they sleep. stings With the truth that stem Justice from wrong ever wrings. ’Till his Majesty sprang from his bed with the smart. Alas! for his Highness,the bright dream has fled, For the fames of his Massic now oozed through his head, And his tott’ring endeavors to stand did but ... ■ B. - *»Does not despise cups of eld Massic.” The Massie Wine ww to great repute m<ps the Roman!}. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1866. [For the Phfla. Evening Bulletin, j BASH STEPS. After witnessing, as I mentioned, what is called familiarly the Benediction of the Sardines, I felt an interest -in those oily little neophytes which they Sever had in spired me with in their merely lay or lunch-serving character. I thought I would go and study them out, learn their treat ment and history, and pnrsue them In fine, even to their bitter or bitten endy This gad presented itself all too promptly. The first object I saw in Concarneau (a : little chalky-looking eeaport on the southern coast of Finiflterrejwas my friend the sardine ■ wriggling, positively wriggling, in the jaws of a small hoy. You never ate a fish alive, perhaps, except it was a sheifiah; the Bre tons munch the sardine as yon munch a banana, and kill him by inches, six verte bras at a time. The urchin was a smeary young sea-weed, brown as sorghum, plump as an oyster, majestic as an alderman; he stood, with a great display of bare leg, in ; bine clothes and a blue cap the - shape of a cake. His shirt, apparently, cut’ from a very old sail, was fastened under his round chin with a jewel of beads and wire. Bight before my eyes he removed his victims head with his fine shark’s teeth, and I am greatly mistaken if I did not Bee it wink to me from the pavement. Then he stripped him of bis shining shirt, and then he ate him. ' “ Do you love it well?” I asked, with an interrogative cast of a sou. He corrected me affably, in consideration of the coin. “No : I do not love sardines, since they are like dirt; I love pig, and the tails of mutton.” He must, by some strategy or other, have tasted meat already in his short life. The sea-faring families have an ad vantage over the small farmers, who live almost exclusively upon potatoes and the meaner cereals. Behind this barbaric repast I could see the town and the little harbor. The latter was* covered with.eardiner’e coming Into port. It was yet early in the afternoon, bat the lack had been good, and all over the spark ling blue the square brown sails rode gal lantly’ in, fifty schooners together. With my glass I could watch the fishermen emp tying their nets, and see myUnteiesting little friend again among his comrades, turning the sub-like silver crescents, or like the bright scraps of the sardine-boxes which covered all the neighboring walls, and served as spikes or broken glass with us. Other boats, already arrived, laid their noses in a group to the long granite quay. Here was a busy scene. Under, the nets, which fell in fine and graceful veils from the mastheads where they were hung to dry,the fishermen were counting outthen - prize into baskets. The baskets became the prey of a multitude of very wet, dark, lean boys,- clothed in blue, where they clothed ai all, which was hardly anywhere. I could not repress my admiration in regarding all these boys. They were just at the age when the American boy is a savage nui sance and Ishmael, without a friend, (ex cept some other boy equally insupportable) a terror, a killjoy, and a bore to all. But here was Europe utilizing him, as she utilizes sewage. The reclaimed race wrought’ away merrily, rinsing the baskets offish by dipping them several times into the sea. ana the vanishing with them into the town. They appeared to consider that they were playing, and some of them supported a Celtic chorus, their voices breaking from time to time into alarmingtrebles, agreeably to their time of life. <■- The fishers weresitting about the thwarts, smoking short black pipes of contentment and attending to the slippery arithmetic of their toil. The man I happened to ask had taken eleven thousand for his morning’s work. He numbered his gains into the baskets with the ease of practice, occasion ally throwing two or three sardiaesinto the aprons of the beggar-women, who were ex citing themselves around the boatß like a range of starving dogs. " Getting my direction from the fishy lips of the child who liked pig, I proceeded to make use of an introduction I had to M. Gnion, the governor of ah imperial estab lishment for pisciculture at Concarneau. 1 found him on the steps of his office, enjoy ing a stiffish breeze in shirt-sleeves. He was stout, snh-burnt, and fifty—,the model of a sea captain ashore. He Jwas dressed like a rustic gentleman, but his shoe-leather was of a ligut bluish color from salt water. Ad dressing him in sad, sad French, I got a cheery English answer, blown through the nose in a dialect almost as vile, maybe, as xuy own. From some absurd sense of eti quette, we continued throughout the adven ture exposing ourselves in each other’s lan guage. In the highest good-humor he re created himself by tracing out my meaning and adjusting itmentally into French, and I with eqoal satisfaction seized his English at the nostril, corrected it like a difficult proof laid it up in my mind,-and answered it in fresh enormities, ‘ • ; “I you’ll take at te ’stablissemsnt more grant of te place”—or something like that, (was my invitation to the large (and com plete packing house of M. D—a heavy exporter, a little way back in the town. M. Guion showed an old habitual expertness in avoiding the heads and offal of different inarifie monsters which made our path a thorny or at least a spiny one. : The first exhibition was tbe bait laid up in hogsheads in a store-room, It is tbe spawn of tbe cod. imported express from Norway. Ido not profess to judge for cold blooded gourmands; but I thought the ex pensive'dish brought so far to give distinc tionto my- poor iriendte last meal a very vile dish. It lay stolidly quivering in the casks, looking like something very; nasty, and smelling like something badly spoilt in the first place, 1 and' badly over-salted in' the second. If I nad my choice I had rather eat a nicer article, even at second-hand in the fibre of a sardine. - : - ; The next exhibition was an infinite ad vance,. It wasan exhibition of girls,nearly a hundred gigantic creatnres doing - an un pleasant duty in the centre of an eminently ancient and flsblike smell. They were gnillotining myiriehd the sardine; but so sharply ana convincingly that I indine to to think be acquiesced > in it. i They .were hired from various departments in. the. vi-. Cinity; and their different dresses revealed iheir geography at a glance to the learned. The hare-legged, streaming boys shot in with their two baskets apiece, poured their tribute .before the - blooming girls like adoring Tritons, and darted shyly off with a hurried glance at-us—acting-as if they oould exist only a minute or > two' out - of water. The greatest ,'girl and the was before me, a young rfier-woman of seventeen, with broad surfaces .like a Hindciostatue, I went up to where she sat, a Destiny of sardines.— I have compared the Brsfon cap to the OUR WHOIiE COUNTRY head-dreßS of a sphynx. This superb crea ture was everyway fitted for the r6le. The face, between its broad falling wings, was an ample oval, dark and silent. She sat scattering the slain in showers from her hands, victims of a too inquisitive tempera ment. Their heads fell from her left hands, their trunks from her right—lively emblems of adventurers who had guessed wrong, and gave it up. Her fall red lips wefe placidly pressed together, and each time she nipped off anew a little inquisitively-gaging coun tenance, she set -their rosy breadths a trifle closer, as if she tasted him. As I darkaned her work she raised her massive head, smiled, and asked me some question in Celto-Breton, as if she hoped I might be the CEdipns at last. Finding I could not converse, she resumed the silence that seemed so suitable to her, and hit upon a better means of communication. She lifted from time to time her eyes, large, solid and lustrous as those of some soft sea-brute, and through those interpreters carried on an agreeable conversation for .a lengthened period. ■ * . The rest of the girjs sat with her in two rows, up and down a stone gutter. Each had a clasp-knife, with which she pinched off the head at the gillsjn such a manner as .to draw the viscera after it. Then with a nimble turn of her two round wrists she dropped both, simultaneously, heads to the left, tails to <fhe right. Eaoh Egyptian-like creature sat \on a little hill made of the appealing heads of her victims, who had gasped their'last gasps in her hand, and died of the embraces of their Cleopatra’s supple fingers. This was £he end reserved for my delicate pilgrim when he floated bo gaily off from the benediction of the Church into the broad ocean of good and evil fortune. At this Eoint he became commercial. J saw him roiled, a single minnte, on great wire grid irons the shape of Staircases—each step the height of hie body. Then I saw him handily packed, heads and tails, into his pretty tin coffins. Then,-in a corner filled with the pleasant perfume of the best sweet oil, I saw the golden stream running from large cis terns upon a pile of boxes arranged to receive and communicate it. Then, in a great tin-smithing establishment, I saw him soldered up, and cleaned and polished off in bran by some little ragamuffins who had never dreamed of cleaning themselves. Then I saw his English labels attached by more boys; and finally I saw him in his kegs , and barrels, being weighed under the eye of the, eternal gendarme. In the court where this took place, I had my farewell interview with the noble animal I compared to a sphynx. I ought to have mentioned the important part played by water' throughout the establish ment; the eardines, and everything they toneb, are kept as neat as if in the most spotless Philadelphia kitchen; the sphynx had come for water. If she had looked im posing when seated In the dim Interior, she was terrific here, where a full light fell from the blHe upon her towering proportions. Ifi recognition of me she filled the air with a goblin laugh projected from a diaphragm like a drum-head.-. Then she addressed the pump, which became as a weed in her hand, and developed from its astonished nose an inundation like the Nile. As I turned my head at the gate way she was still rocking.the engine to its roots, and innndating.ana de tonating. My hospitable conductor, M. Gnion, wil ling to exalt the credit of the town,informed rue that the sardines of Concarneau are con sidered choice in commerce, as the smallest and most delicious on the coast, Lindley Murray groaned in his sepulchre to hear him sqy it. In return, I was delighted to assure <tjlm of my surprise at the appetizing nicety abd cleanliness of the Establishment D . Thus pleasantly we passed again to his own quarters, the fish nursery. In this silent asylum, besides the hugh turbots and mullets, fattening for the imperial table, I was gratified with the sight of a very com plete aqnarial museum, replenished from the neighboring seas. Dozens of the grace ful little sea-horse were caracoling through a crystal pasture. There were gorgeous creatures with wings like tropical butter flies, cultle-fiah and electric skates, sea-cats and congars; bnt the prettiest sight was his pet class of young tame turbo'ts. These were lying in great numbers upon breadths of sand, of the greatest va riety of hue, ryhich they were able to match precisely with their own speckled coats; though from the posture of their eyes they can never see the bed they cover. And at a peculiar call from their master, they came fluttering like ladies’’fans to the sur face, and hit sharply at our hands/for the expected morsels. - / Exchanging some last words with M, Guion upon his steps, he pointed out the walls of the original town, forming a circle within that part of the city lying opposite to us across the harbor. Jjn the fourteenth century an English garrison held the fortifi cations before me, controlling a disreputa ble village of fishers and sea-robbers. Later, during the wars of the League, the little port had its adventures between the Hugue nots and the weavers of the white scarf; and, about three hundred years since, an heroic Protestant sentinel made a leap from these ramparts, under circumstances which may bear relating. ' In January, 1576, Henry IV. being yet Calvinist, the Protestant Steur de Kermas sonnet, with two other lords mid a handful of thirty men, took Concarneau by a nearly bloodless stratagem. They manned, the towers, and shut up all the inhabitants ex cepting a few upon whom they quartered themselves. There was small love for the heretics either in or around the little fishing harbor. Two hours after in occupation a besieging force uf eight thousand, sum moned by the tocsin, menaced the poor thirty around the walls. Having sent a midnight boat by the water-gate to La Rochelle for supplies; the occupying force exerted themselves to hold the place'during the interval. Five days passed, the siege was close, an ugly wind was industriously blowing away their allies, and the besieged were tired out with forced watches. That was the chance for Charles le Bris, Charles was a youthful merchant of the town, who lodged the Sieur de Kermasson net with most reluctant hospitality, and bad his freedom on that account. Coming home from a promenade on the twenty second of that January, Saint Yinceat’s day, he found his lordly guest and another, gentleman, torpid with long watching, - snoring upon' one - of his beds in their clothes. A very short time served to make up the mind of the - astute little Jesuit. The men were asleep, were his guests, arid de fenceless; but on the other side, they were unbelievers and not men; their swords and belts of poignards were at a safe distance upon a table; tbe town keys were invitingly tied around the arm of the Sieur; and a radiant vision of rewards flowing from Saint Peter’s chair clinched the argument. Grasping their two daggers in his hands, the counter-jumper stabbed away in har mony. at the pair of sleepers, trying to aot with strict impartiality and making the two as it ;were, prqngsof tbesfune fork} aftM a little perseverance he released the m both, without a cry, to the heretic’s hereaf ter. Disembarrassing his ehief visitor of the heavy keys upon his arm, and bidding him 1 sleep well, this model hostfitow stole softly down the street to open the door to a party of his own kidney. A nameless, noble soldier on the wall, half-dead with waking as he was, detected something suspicions in the haggard figure softly hastening up to the gate with a bunch of keys. There was a racefor the portal— the Protestant on the wall with a drawn sword, the Romanist below, advancing the most probable-looking key. Tbe.disadvan tage of the stairway was arranged by the sentinel ih a large hut radical taste; he leaped from the rampart (a height as it seemed to ine of nearly twenty feet); leaped in his armor, alighted like a cat, and up and after screaming treason. The pious Be Bris, whose shoulders had a narrow escape, flew on to the gate, had luck with the key at the first selection, and turned the lock and low ered the bridge by the same action. He shot out into the Catholic camp .singing de liverance, the point .of the Huguenot sword an inch or two from the small of his back. The stout sentinel did not consider, eight thousand enemies any valid objection to running his man down if he could. When quite surrounded, and equally unable to advance or retire, he leapeaoff into the mud bordering the cove at low water, and - there perished of a much* perforated skin, alone and grand against eight thousand hostile swords. The communes retook the place without opposition, and had fine sport with the rest of the over-sanguine thirty. My story is told, with a piquant Roman ist bias, by the canon Moreau, a contempo rary writer. ’ Entaxt Perdu. TERRIBLE DISASTER. LOSS OF THE. STEAMSHIP x EVENING STAB. THREE HUNDRED SOULS ON BOARD Nearly All Supposed to be Lost. Arrival of Two of the Steamer’s Boats at Savannah and Fernandina. LIST OF THE CABIH PASSENGERS DESCRIPTION OP THE VESSEL, &e., &e., &c. Savannah, Ga., Oct. S, 1566. The steamer Evening Star, from New York, hound to New Orleans, foundered 180 miles east of Tybee, with 250 passengers and fifty crew. Five of crew and Frank Gerrard, a passenger, were saved. Savannah, Oct. S, IS66.—The boat from the steamer Evening Star arrived at Fer nandina. It left the steamer with eighteen persons, including Captain Knapp, one lady and a child. The boat was capsized nine times. At the sixth time the captain was kst As the steamer Sylvan Shore left Feman dina a boat was reported to be coming in with Lhe.puiser and engineer of the Even ing Star. Four boats left the steanier as she sunk. The other two are supposed to have been swamped. The schooner S. J. Waring, from New York for Apalachicola, put in in distress, Having thrown overboard part of her deck load. The Waring brought the chief engineer, the purser, two passengers and six of the crew of the steamer Evening Star,picked up at sea. [From to-day’a X. Y. Herald.] The above despatches, brief as they are, dispel all doubt as to the fact that the loss of the ship has entailed a large loss of life. The- Evening Star, Captain* lvnapp, of the New York Mail Steamship Company, left this port at three o’clock P, Mi. of Saturday, September. 29, having onboard two hundred and fifty cabin and steerage passengers and a crew of seventy men—over three hundred sifuls. The vessels of this line were fami liarly known as the Star line of steamships, and comprised the ships Morning Star, Mis sissippi, , Mariposa, Rising Star, Guiding Star, Monterey, Havana. Theyareall first class ships and rank A No. 1 at I,loyds. list of Cabin Passengers., The following is a complete list of the cabin passengers of the Evening Star,' pub lished the day after she left port: Geo. H. C. Palfrey, lady. H. T. Rocheson, child ana servant, " Alias B.'Merserole, Miss Palfrey, G. Saverac, Miss Moo, T-Coignard, E. A. Van Blckle, " S. Robert, . Mrs. J.T. Mason. 8 Myers. " Mr. Frank K. Dennis, AUss G. L, Conin, Mr. Halcrow, . , AG. Fraser and aunt. • Mr. Rockwell, J. Havens and lady, Jobnnouro, C. O. Ackerman, Mrs J.J* Adams, J. Polglars, ' Airs W«H. Robbins, J. L. Herzog, Alisa hilly Parker, P. T. Fontainebleau, JUssMlnnie Taylor, S. J. Deheirris, Miss Addle Horton, H. Spader, Mhs Rosa Barnes, C. T. Low, Miss J. Sterrets, G. T. While. Mrs J. King, . S. M. Davidson, Mrs. J.T. Phllbtn, J. M. Pell, Miss Jolla Monro. S, M. Barlow, M.ssa. Cibbard, F. Denison, A Goette and wife, T. M.Mver, Mi's. S. F. Gordon. Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Vila, Mrs. fcpangenberg and J. Harkness, Jr., three servants, • T. X>. Maroremas, Alex, and Alfred LanglDis, Mrs. Caillaut, Mrs. .Henry Newell ana G. Fisher, daughter, • , capt. Wo, Shipman, Geoige Hillman and J.‘E. Smith, Miss Margaret Hillman, 1 H.H. Register, ' D, Pretxo and wife: 1 M. T. Hail, , Mrs. Gillespi and daughter I. Happer, Jas. Gallier and wile, J. McGuire, iir. Chenesti, - Miss Cathburt, Mr. Capian and wife,, lira. L. De 3H ontvieire, fiSissTapian, * MlseJ.De Bonne Cam pans, O. Deittorbuy and wife, J. Hniibled, • , HlesDestocbny, C. Fisher, bliss ByaKrepps, • J. T Dewey, Misa Nelliesevere, •* . . J}M: Parlzot, •* ; Jiisail, Hudson T. Bavan, Mrs. Elodle Girard, H. D. Bertean, MIS 3 G. Eerney, • T. Perchal, MssEußorand, 8. Morensbilageir, Hiss J. M. Ster, T. I*»cqnemout, ; Mrs. T. Marie, J- E, Straaas, Miss T. Campena, J. Geiser, Miss T, Borel, - F. Stott, HfasC.Rajob, H. Quinan, Mr, and Mrr. Coppini* Jas.Bouffe, 0- Alhaiza and lady, S. Feme, Mis, Chvrch, . G,Sandal, 9. Francis, ' J. Harper, . Mrs. G. Thomson', I. Franconian, H. Smith. Geo. Eatel!, V. Michel Miss £2. Devlin, Mrs. N. Frontier, ' D. B. bmall. §. Humboldt,MissMary Duvall, iss H. Jeremal, M. Boyle, Mr. Tadontine. I*. Schwerin, Mr. and Mrs. P. Polydor, J. J. Reed, G. Harrison, . D. Juilen, Mrs. J. T, Yoore, W.S.Nigage, ~ Miss H. Pomeroy, 0. Puckaeachel & daughter J, H, Dupaneur,’ J. Ulrich, - , j. T. Martin, - Mrs. 8. Gels,er and child, Cinwa, mi^g.a^uoet, j> '* ' 'l •' F L. FETHERSTON. PeSjMs&w^J DOUBLE SHEET, THREE GENTS. Mrs. H. Renont, Miss G. Read, MissT. Beniaettl, Miss Lagnemeat, Miss H. Straus. Miss J. Fonsonbj, Miss A. Feme. and others In the steerage. Tlie Gale in Which the Evenins stanvas liOSt. The'subjoined account, compiled from the logs of the steamers Santiago de Cuba and the Daniel Webster, which suffered in the Mine gale, will give the readers of the Herald an idea of the hurricane which toast-* dered the Evening Star: During the first ' days of the voyage ' the weather was mild and agreeable, with now ana again slight breezes which were mors refreshing and pleasant than uncomfortable or threatening. Towards the morning of the second day the wind became a little stronger, filling the sails with a Stiff breeze, which increased in the afternoon, at which time a pretty fair gale was blowing,causing the steamship to roll heavily but not -so as to create any apprehension in the minds*of the passengers or (hew,many'of whom were used to such on the Georgian coast. The wind continued at about the same strength' all during this day, neither increasing’dr changing until the morningofthe Ist, when' a very strong gale, but still nothing alarming, began to blow. The . shiv still continued to roll, obliging, ike passen gers, particularly the ladies, dFleave the deck and retire to the cabin. Things now be gan to look ominous. The /breeze still freshened, the clouds looked gloomy; sails were taken in, and every preparation made' for the coming storm, which now, to even, an inexperienced eye, seemed inevitable; The wind continued all the afternoon to blow stronger ahd stronger, night come on and still no change for the better, A strong gale then was blowing, with nothing but darkness, solid darkness all round; no view to cheer, nothing to remind the terrified passengers of the deep sea over which they rode but the foam of (the spray Which came in showers over the deck. At last, toward midnight, the dreaded hour arrived, and then, with all its wildest fury, the dreaded hurricane burst upon the trembling ship, which rocked and pitched about like a tiny boat, every timber of which threatened to come asunder each mo ment. The furyof the hurricane was fear ful, terrific and appalling, so much so, that it might be reasonably expected that nature would exhaust herself, but no, alaa ! no, for the doomed ship and her living freight, it continued with all the fary of a demon proud of its strength, and feasting over the sad desolation which was so soon to follow. At last day breaks, bat still the storm was r there and continued with remorseless fores' all through the day, the gallant steamer : fighting as brave as brave could be, but the fight was unequal. On came one fearful' gust, came furiously along, disturbing the, waters with, fearful violence. Then one heavy sea strikes the hull of the ship; and all is over with the Evening Star and all on , board. • She struggled for awhile, but only ' like the faintest gasps oftleath, or the last flickers of the dying lamp, to give one last wild throw and then down to be seen no more, the victim of one of the most severe storms that has visited the coast of Georgia for many years, and which has caused more marine disasters than have taken place for . some time; for, iifaddition to the deplorable loss now chronicled, there also went down , in the same wild storm, which seemed to be general along the western and southern coast, the Daniel Webster, bound from New York to Mobile, the crew and passengers (eighteen) of which were providentially ' saved by the ship Cromwell; also the Mary ' 1 McKee, of Philadelphia, and the Minne haha, from Savannah to Hichmond; also • the steamer Santiago de Cuba, seriously; injured. The Evehing Star was built for the New York Mail Steamship Company, of which. - C. K. Garrison is.j President,. and plied between New York and New Orleans. Sha - was a splendid vessel and was built by ' Messrs, Koosevelt, Joyce & Co,, of New York, and was of tbefollowing dimensions: Dength;over all, 253 feet;sbreadth of beam, 39 feet 4 inches; depth of hold, 23 feet, and was 2,022 tons Durden, Custom -House ■ measurement. She was mainly ' built or 1 white and live oak, and hack matack and yellow locust, and was -= braced and bolted in the most secure man ner. She had two full decks, fore and aft “ (the main deck and spar deck), the main : deck being placed eight feet below the spar - deck, and eight feet above it is a promenade deck, 212 feet in length. The'space occu- ■ pied by the engine, boilers and coal bunkers' : was enclosed by watertight - bulkheads. ; The engine was constructed by the Morgan Iron 'Works, and was a single'beam engine, " with cylinder eighty inches in diameter ana - twelve feet stroke of piston. The engine was a superior one, all its parts being of extra size and strength. She had two’tubu- - lar boilers, which were made by the Allaire ; Works. ... ; ' ; The Evening Star had very superior ao commodations for , passengers; , All the, : staterooms were of large size, lighted and , ventilated in the mo ;t perfect manner, _ ■while the height between decks gave-to. the saloons and staterooms an.air of comfort and luxury,as well as fitness for occupanoy in warm climates. There were two hun- r fired and twenty-three berths in the state-' room of the first cabin and twenty-four berths in the second cabin. The cabins' were painted in pore white, relieved with pink'' and gold. Of the furniture and 'fittings .. Messrs. E. Y. Haughwout it Co., of Broad way, supplied the china ware, glass ware, , silver ware, mirrors,-lamps and heating ap- ' paratus;-A. T. Stewart & Co M the carpets and upholstery; and Bruner & Moore, of . this city, the furniture. Salement of President C. K. Garrison. ’ One of the reporters of the JSCerald called on Mr._ Garrison, President of the New" York Mail Steamship Company, at an early hour this morning. Mr. Garrison had re ceived no news of the disaster until thus in- . formed of it; and at first could scarcely re- , allze the intelligence. He stated that the ' Evening Star .was. the favorite ship of the line, and went' out with fuller berths than any of her sister vessels. Frequently pas-; sengers remained over waitinefor her to sail, . She was almost new, and Captain Knapp,- • her commander, had the fullest confidence* of the company, and- bore the 7 reputation of . an old and tried sailor, besides that of as • experienced a navigatoras any sailing from this port. Mr. Garrison inquired particularly if any news had been received as to his fate. He expressed great concern at the loss Of life i reported,but thought it over estimated.’ His-o idea of this is that theorew and passenger#,- had taken to the boats when all hope of sav ing the vessel was gone, and that the num- ' bsr reported saved were those in one boat that had reached Savannah. The others., ■ he thinks, may yet be heard from. On this' impression he stated that he would imme diately despatch a vessel to oruise in the vi cinity of the scene of this disaster in hope# pf picking up more of the passengers and crew. Mr; Garrison estimates the value of the yesse! at about four hundred thousand. (CQatimiffl on the Last Page.) Kiss M. Lyman, B. aDd J. Corls,- JS O'Brien and thlld, F. Smith, H Orowther, K. Tape,
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