©BSQN PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XX.—-NO. 158
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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,