HBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VO LUME XX.—NO. 169 EVENING BULLETIN. published eveby evening, _____ (Sunday 1 b excepted,) ■ HEW BULLETIN BtIIDISB, QO7 Ch*»tnut Street, Philadelphia BY THE '“lvßnlng Bulletin Association.” & ava aiAXvaci QIB*©M FBAOOOK, j ERNEST 0. WALLACE, XT. L. TETHEBSTON, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON JASPER lOTOER, Jr„ I FRANCIS WELLS , Hit Builbun la served to subscribers is tut, city at StcaoJa'ptt week, payable to the carriers, or IS 00 per aanaab ' • ■ JKIBBIED. HcKRE—MORELL.—On the 18th instant, at St, James Church, by the Rev. H. J. Morton, D, D., Ed ward H. Mcßee, to Mary H., daughter of the late 1 -Charles R. Moreii, all of this city. r DIED. ■’ BtJBK.—On the meming of the 22d Instant, James .A. Bute. Due notice will be given of the foneial. * ( __CBOMB,^RGB^, —On the 19th Inst., of pneumonia, Thomas S.Crombarger, aged fifty one years. • _ sia relatives and friends of the lamily are resnect fblly invited to attend his ftmeral, ftom histate residence No. 1322 North Thirteenth street, on Tues- Bofice tlie 23d luat '* at 2 °’ clocfe » wthout farther iTage. 2181 lnst - Jeremlah dence.inG^rmsntown.on Fifthday, 25th Inst“at lk _WOBTHINGTON.—On the 20th Inet., Henry*\V Df apoplexy. In the 51 year of his age _ The relatives and trl.nas of the family are resoect- Jfally invited to attekd the funeral, from his late resi* :2 tfciockF IMCestree 1 M Cestreet ‘ onThlrd the 23d inshfat ■ LaKI>ELI ' XIEPOBTKD FOB FALL St. Bernard Woolen Cloakings. SS££monSSSf3^£ wls * Mo6alo WtX)lenShawl3 ' Magnificent Plaid Poplins. jyj“cELROY’S CITY DIRECTORY FOB 1867. tihangos, remov.-ls and corrections will be noted In 'the forthcoming edition for 1567. if sent to the pnbP- rooms, No. 524 WaXJSTJT Street, third lloor, -No 22back. ’ The directory will be greatly emerged; csntain a map of the city, and be Issued as usual, and delivered to subscribers in advance of sales. Subscriptions so licited, a, McEitROY. ■CTJPEBIOR BLACK SILKS, t? A full Atsorunent 0 f Lyons Bros Brains, Taffetas K/fP deiPrance, Poults de bole. Mourning bilks, Ac, -of me best makes and at reasonable prices. BEbSQN & SON, Mourning Store, JSo. 918 Chestnut street. ai'iiiuiAjL. aio’iiciasi. SGIMIIFIG COURSE. UfAYETIE COLLEGE ..Ihaaaitlpn 40 the general Cenrse of Instruction In jUufl Department, designed to lay a substantial basis of Knowledge and scholarly culture, students can pursue those branches -which are essentially practical and technical, viz.'. ENGINEIERENG, Civil, Topograpical and Mechanical; MINING and METALLURGY; and the application of Chemistry 'to AGRICULTURE and the ARTS. There is also at- OLOGY; and of the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS of our own country. Tor circulars appiy to President CATTELL.or to Prof. R, B. IOUNGMAN, Easton, Pa. April 4,1666. Clerk of the Faculty. my3-6moj . OFFICE OF THE BOHEMIAN MINING COMPANY OF MICHIGAN, 132 WALNUT STREET, Philadelphia, October 22,1868. NOT ICE—Th e sale of the Beal Estate. Mines, Ma chinery, Buildings, &c.. Ac heretofore advertised to he So d at tbe Philadelphia Exchange, on tnls day at 12 o'cl ck, Noon; IS ruSTPONED TO THURSDAY THE 22D DAY OF NOVEMBER, PBOXtMOT AT THE SAME PLACE AND P OUR, WILLIAM H. BOYER, I, , BAML. T. DARLINGTON, (Assignees. oc22m-t0n022? C. G. MAUKAY, Auctioneer. OFFICE O PTH E BOHEMIAN MINING . COMPANY OF MICHIGAN, IS2 WALNUT ‘Street. Philadelphia, Oct. 22,1866. NOTICE is hereby given that ALL SHAKES that nave been forfeited, and not sold, for non-payment of assessments,wiU-be poittlvely sold at Public Auction •Hi the Office of the Company on BAI'URD tY, tfovemlxT ivfAtoe&f, a£l2 o'cioek. noon, unless said assessments now due, are not paid on or before that day and hoar By order of the Board of Directors. oc22,m,tnollg SAML. P. DAKLINGTON Bec’y, OFTipa KEKBrnGTON AND OXFORD boad COMPANY, 127 COUTH T O CRTS STREET, Philadelphia, Oct. 22,1886. The Annual Meeting of tie Stockholders of this Company, for the Election of Officers and Managers to serve for the ensuing year will be held at this Office cn MOEDAY, Not. 6th, atl o’clock, P. If. SAMUEL C. FORD, President. 0c22-m,w,f,6t» NORTH' PENNS7LVANIA RAILROAD IKS' AKB uRItEN LANE STAI lON. Xfae residents of Germantown can have superior • LEHIGH COAT* delivered to them from the above place at*B 00 per ton. Prompt attention given to orders addressed to Box 6* 'Germantown Post-office. Office,ls South Seventh stre et’ Philadelphia, or to yard at Green Lane Station. QC2 lmrp . BINES & BHEAFF. S£> HOWABJ) HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and 1520 street, Dispensary Department. Medi treatment and medicines furnished gratuitously to the poor. POI/ITICAX# 1 A Soldier’s Widow on the Beead and Buttes Call.— Mrs, Sarah E. Hammach, in charge of the post-office at Tamaroa. Perry county, Illinois, has Jbeen called upon ostensibly on account of her “official -relations with the President” to give him money to ffielp carry elections in his interest. Mrs. Hammach’s husband fell fighting for his country at Vicksburg, and h« official relations” do not satisfy the widow that Johnson’s shameless perfidy to the party of the war And open championship of the toiies of the land entitle him to her money. She has therefore fought fit to reply to the request in the following model style* Tamaboa, Peny county, 111., Oct. 9th, 1856. C. Knap. JEsq, t Chair jnan 0/ the Executive Committee , Washi laton D. C.— Sib: Yours of the 3d Inst, just received, in which you say, -“The Besideut Executive Committee ap pointed by the late Convention at Philadelphia pro pose to circulate at as early a day as practicable, a large Dumber of documents calculated to enlighten the public mind on the great questions now at Issue. From yonr official relations with the President, we presume you will cheerfally aid his friends and supporters in ths momentous contest in which thev are now „ Blr * if . I understand correctly, this Philadelphia Convention of which you speak IE* 8 composed of Copperheads, confiscated T\?££l Ica ?l. a ?4.S oted and traitors, each as Forrest, of Fort Pillow notoriety, Alex. Stephens, Vice te r hAto?!i°K<££ e re £ el Confederacy, who now claims it thiSJfivnSSSm he i was whi PP ed - and acknowledges Taylor, and Governor Orr, a member Congieas, out of which Congress he is now Sd lon lM!S.M° ngr^s of tHeWt ““taS ° n i slr , claim to be one ot a committee annnintmi by ttese men to raise money to aid'ffiteftH?p?J?i dent's) friends and supportera" in making^waruomi the loyal people of the United Stat€H^e&arinVrfS Ahey, the people, through thelx cSmltSb lantv t P oWOT "unwarranted fiy“he S Coi£ stltution. Sir, this country tA *i,, peopie, and tv ey arei all-powerM? asSemonstrotefbv thelate straggle, and they will Dreservp defend the. Constitution, and amend"®,’So t |o t - traitors rannot trample upon their rlgll “ and {P'S presumption In you to ask me to contribute money to . aid these rebels m their ciusade aeain■t rhll K people of the country. No, sir, not one dollar wm i contribute. These men, composing the convent oh of which you speak, (In part at least! are the murderera of a dear husband whom I loved and upon whom I relied for protection and sudl port, who belonged to the Bth Illfnoia volunteers and who laid down his Ufa before Vicksburg on toe • r Kd day of May, 1863, that his country might live You say: “Prom yonr official relations with the President, we presume you will cheerfully aid his ftiends and supporters.” This is an Iranit. Bo y°°° r President think for one moment that I would, for the little post-office, or any other office at Ms command, lose my self respect, dishonor toe blm I held most dear in this world, by 1 “““Ibntlng money to help those rebels who took his ¥£i.°aS?. n . t^ ea !?i ntlieGove ™ mentf Please say tothe £™ 5t n „\ th ? t xll “ ve suffered more by the late rebel- P, e tost toe bloop of 800,000 loyal sol ,Tw?Ait?e*bl2odo£ °nr martyred President, Abraham JiohSwi a S?„P a J t l£ nlarly 1116 Wood of my murdered e * r tbe 2l “Others, brothers, sisters,and orphans—cry aloud, keep loyalty at • a premium and treason at a discount. : Very re3oactiully, SARAH E. HAMMAOH, P. M., AMUSEMENTS. The Theatb.es.—The Chestnut is going ta try “The Past Family” for three nights,beginnlngthis evening. •The cast is quite a good one, and it wm be interesting to compare the performance with that attheArch the samepliy being revived by Mrs. Drew thisevan ing, with toe excellent cast wldchprevloral wcharac terizedit. At the Walnut Mr. Edwin Booth ananS tte be OthebAmchehenta—Signor Blitz appears nicht.lv -and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons rathn Assembly BuUdlng. At National Hall we have 1 the (Lincoln National Tableaux. At Eleventh Streeufonm atUairable bills areslwsiHisbtly'v anraicAE, The Italian Opera.— This evening L'Etoile dujtford, one of the inaster-pieces of the great Meyerbeer, will be produced at the Academy of Music for the first time. It has been performed a number of times by this company in New York and Brook lvn, and it will be brought out here in grand style, making a splendid spectacle as well as a 'delightful musical treat. Mias Kellogg. Miss Hauck, Baragli, Bell’ni, Antonucci and pothers are in the cast. To morrow /evening Yerdi’s best operai Ernani, will be performed, Mme. Poch, Mazzoleni, Beilin} and Antonucci taking the principal parts. The Bateman Concerts.— The Musical Fund Hall will present a gay appearance this evening, when Mr. Bateman’s grand concert troupe appears for the first time in Philadelphia, Mme. Parepa is one of the queens of song of this age, and the other artists that appear with her are all of the highest order. Testimonial to Mrs. Governor Cnrtln. [Correspondenceofthe PliUa Evening Bulletin.] Harrisburg, Oct. 20,1866.—N0w that the asperities and confusion of a heated politi cal canvas in Pennsylvania have given way to those cordial social understandings and good order, which are the peculiarities of our people, it is not out of place to refer to a pleasant incident connected with thefamily of Governor Curtin. It occurred some ten days since, and was of this description: After the Governor and his family had dined on a certain day, and were about to enter the large parlor of the Executive mansion, they were surprised on beholding a magnifi cent silver salver fruit stand, occupying one of the centre tables of the room. It was a surprise, intended as a compliment to Mrs. Curtin, the salver having been quietly con veyed to the Executive mansion, while the Governor and family were at dinner. It was, indeed, a most delicate style of render ing a well-deserved compliment to a most deserving lady, and as such is highly ap preciated by Mrs. Curtin herself, and can not fail to elicit approving pleasure from j the hosts of friends who have ever held her in Bincere respect. The salver and its supports are of solid silver. A grape vine stem, starting from an elaborately carved and chased pedestal of tripod shape, supports the salver, which is of open basket-work. The chasing and carving of the pedestal are very artistically executed, and as a specimen of American genius and skill are highly creditable. Im mediately above the tri-supports, whence the vine stem issues, are polished surfaces on which are inscribed the words, I ’ “From some Friends -- to -, Mrs. Andrew G. Curtin, ’ Harrisburg.” In the graceful curves of the vine are to he seen infant Bacchants sporting amid rich fruit and foliage. The workmanship of the H*ne and figures is of-the highest order of art. The figures were separately moulded, and, are of themselves, what may be truly called gems. Sustained by the vine-stem is the basket-shaped salver, which, when discovered in the parlor of the Executive mansion was heaped to overflowing with the rich offerings of Pomona. I understand Uiat the cost of the salver was five hundred dollars, and that the subscriptions to the fund were confined exclusively to the per sonal lady and gentlemen friends of Mrs. Curtin in this city; and that the offering is intended as the first of a series of compli ments in store for this lady before she vacates the Executive mansion at the end of the oflicial term of her husband as Governor of the Common wealth. It is in testimony of the high es teem in which Mrs. C. is held by her im mediate acquaintances in Harrisburg. As I have already said, in a few months wifi terminate six years of the official career of her husband as Governor, and it would be as unjust to ignore the great services and I important acts of the one as to pass over in silence the Works of mercy and benevolence performed by the other, while in the occu pancy of the Executive Mansion, During the exciting scenes of the last five years, when the State Capital became one vast camp for the training of soldiers, and a hos pital for the succor of the sick and the wounded, Mrs. Curtin more than once con verted the Executive Mansion into’a ward, I where sick soldiers were nursed and cared I for as diligently as in the regular hospital. I This was done by this lady without osten- I tation or display. All oler the State are thoughts of these deeds held sacred by men who survived war, and in respect for | the recollection of this noble service, so well performed, the tribute I have already described was originated and carried out. And in thus giving publicity to this incident, it is the desire of those who were interested in this tribute that the fact should be known, not that they expect to derive any credit | therefrom,.but that a true woman should have her meed'of honest praise proclaimed in a Commonwealth to whose cause she contributed much . service, without ever once passing beyond that sphere of action in which woman’s worth and attributes are seen to the best advantage—the domestic home circle. Observer. I : Sunday Travel. To the Editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin :—The apathy with which Phila delphians seem to regard this most impor tant question. is truly surprising. Can, or will, nothing be done to procure a modifica tion of the oppressive statute so well fitted to enable a bigoted, if not hypocritical, minority to override the rights of the majority? Are we particularly to endure the insults thus heaped upon ns by zealots who practically assume to have our con sciences, as well as their own in keeping? Something; should be done and that speedily, whether relief is to come in the shape of a moreliberal interpretation of the modification, agitation ?w ?h be mdostaously kept up in order that the much-needed retorm may be secured with the least possible delay. * 00 How would it be to insist on a more gen eral, application of the old law. Sunday carnages, Sunday milk wagons and Sun day trains to Germantown, Pittsburgh or New York, are not more’necessary than Sunday cars for city travel, perhaps Judge Strong would class them as mere facilities and conveniences. It would at all events, he worth while to, try the law on some of these institutions in order to dis cover whether they are as torpid as those who so quietly submit to a great deprivation . When, °ur bull gores our adversary’s ox,‘ yre shall obtain our rights, g PHILADELPHIA, MOND THE MEXICAN QUESTION. Reported Insanity of the Empress of Mexico. The ill-starred “Empire of Mexico” has sudden and unexpected blow, Which will in all probability accelerate its downfall. For the past fortnight rumors have been in circulation in Paris, whispered from mouth to mouth, but scarcely as suming any definite form, to the eflfect that the Empress Charlotte had become insane, it was not, however, till day before yester day that any journal had sufficient evidence I of the truth of these melancholy stories to embolden it to give them form and con sistency. The Avenir National, an evening journal, gave the first publicity to the ru mors. - The other Parisian journals, with the ex ception of the official Moniteur and the semi officiaiamsd with her a small mortar bout. This happened in the bombardment Curupaity. Nearly all the ™ml- the clad P ens b e d. There are conflicting stones of a heavy batttle on the imf S *w n i 1 i? PBrnP?. l^— one account say ing 'P at l h ® Brazilians captured a strong fort, but at the great sacrifice of more than inen; the other story discredits Ir *^ ltogeti \ er - Brazil “ preparing to send ten thousand more men to the Plate • aEda call has been made by President Mitre for three thousand more, in Provincial con ungents, {From the Buenos .Ayres Standard, Sept 1* ] On Saturday September Ist, the Brazilian fleet, carrying Baron Porte Alegre’s armv i TuL£- ? cen tong the Paraguay river, bent on I hiw f g .9 Qr ( - palty ' wb ® n about a league below that fortress, a masked battery opened a terrific fire on the foremost vessels. The AacionaFs correspondent says that this bat toiT. called Cnrnzn, was wholly unknown to the Allies, hut it seems some Paraguavan deserters had given notice regarding it a few days before. The accounts of the at *a, ~a ^e confused, but we glean as follows: At u A. M. six Brazilian iron-clads formed I m line to silence the battery, and the guns of Cnruzn replied with such vigor and pre cision that two shells entered a port hole of toe iron-clad Rio Janeiro, killing or wound mg ten seamen and an officer. The fight seems to have lasted all daywithequalob lEacyo,n,,boto sides, but we do not learn toat the Allied land forces made any move- °n Sunday morning the combat was re- Ea l v * d : The enemy’s battery had 7 (some At 7!?) " ) fFs D lv l^ uduJg . s ° me 6S-pounders. toey sent off a torpedo which burst harmlessly, but at 2 P. M. they tried another, which unfortunately struck the Rio Janeiro and instantly blew her up. There were over three hundred men on board, of whom eighty, by one version, and othera say only six, were saved. Octaviano and Tamandare witnessed the sad spectacle or the loss of their best iron-clad, but did not therefore desist. The gunboat Ibahv was also struck by a 32-pound shot in her boiler, killing or wounding four men. The bombardment was hot and heavy and General Mitre despatched some cavalry to make a diversion by land, while •Baron Port Alegre succeeded in throw ing his forces into the battery and remaining at night masteri of the position and of seven guns. He reports a loss of 1,000 men, or about one-sixth of his com mand; the Cosmos, Eponina and Brazil brought 700 wounded to Corrientes, besides more in the JSarcelo Bin:. On Sundav night, about midnight, an alarm was given in the Allied camp, owing to an encounter | with.some of the enemy’s scouts ciose to the Allied trenches, but it resulted in nothing except getting all the trooD3 under arms Latest dates from the scene of action are to ti.oO A. M. on Tuesday, the 4th. One cor respondent tells us that Fort Alegre re niamed at the conquered battery of Ouruzu on Monday, 3d inst.; another says that he proceeded up along, with the fleet to Curu- P a »y. opening a terrific fire on this fort, which lasted all day with great animation on both sides, while the land forces of Gen. Mitre prepared a grand attack by Tuesday morning. Port Alegre was confident of taking curupaity. The most unexampled cannonade was heard in Corrientes on Tues day ,and people speak highly of the conduct of Octaviano and Tamandare. We have at present no further details and can only add that the loss of the Rio Janeiro will proba- I blybemuch felt in the Brazilian-capital• she was formerly the Minerva, built in Lngland at a cost of £150,000, and was the best vessel the Brazilians possessed. i Still Another Account. The correspondent of the Standard, wri ting from Corrientes, Sept. 7, says: before we came in sight of the capital, the booming of heavy guns was heard from the north. It began on the 2d and continued the three following days, w hile the Brazilians were making an on ward movement to assail Curupaity by sea and land, an unforeseen obstacle presented shape of a new Paraguayan battery, yclept Curuzu, half a league below Curupaity. The first news the Brazilians had ot anything of the kind was a battery of 13 guns, 4 of which were heavy ones, open ing a murderous fire upon their advancing columns. To dispossess the enemy of this position was a bloody affair. It was done after a long and obstinate resistance. Seven hundred Paraguayans were killed ; nothing is said of their wounded or prisoners. The Brazilians allow a loss of 300 killed and 600 wounded; they were subsequently brought here. A new battery (till .now its name was unknown) has been stumbled upon; it is not far. from Curuzu, on the road to Curupaity; as yet it has not been interfered with. What you see in the local papers about the storming of Curupaity has not a word of truth in it. The iron clad Rio Janeiro was blown up, as also a bomb vessel. We do not tell you what became of their crews,for there are different versions. At noon, as the Guarani was un- mooring, cannonading was heard at the north; it proceeded probably from an attack upon the unknown fortification. What is sa id ofia flank attack upon Curnpaity. to be made by the allied army, is great nonsense. Any one conversant with thelocality knows such an enterprise to be impossible. Dur ing the week’s firing there was no move made at any time by the army.” The Internal Revenue receipts for the week ending yesterday foot up 54,651,80 S 28; and the total amount received from this source during the fiscal year amounts to $117,818,807 32. Amount of national bank notes issued during the week, $251,245; amount issued to date, $274,377,304. A mount of fractional currency received daring the SntfUft sent to the national banks, $2G2,600 20; fractional currency destroyed during the week, $239,800; • The employing printers of Washington have withdrawn their names from their Jate protest against the eigbt-liour system, SOUTH AMEBICAN HEWS. akbe ST «Pm bowbotnham, m. A Three Months' Pursuit-Desperate Be- Bistance of the Bnrgiftyg, [From to-day/a New York Tribanc 7 - The circumstances of the startling bank 111 Bowdoinham, Maine, on the 2od of June last, are doubtless fresh in the L°/^ nr re 2 de . rs - I* will be remern bered that the audataous operators in this ro ,^ el l vl ! ltedthe dwelling of the cashier of the bank, Mr, P. Butterfield, at mid night, and haying knocked him on the head with a slung-sbot as he arose in his bed, and gagged and pinioned him (serving •« wifeandlittleboy in the same manner.) rifled his pockets and obtained the keys of *? e , k ani * The thieves, however, found that the mere possession of the keys would the “combination” lockß of the bank vaults, and they returned for the cashier, and threatening him with instant death if he refused, compelled him to go with them and unlock the vaults. Therob bers having thus obtained about §75,000 in bills, coin and U. S, bonds, returned to the house, bound the helpless inmates to their beds and escaped. In the course of an hour Mr. Butterfield managed to free himself and gave the alarm. Mrs. Butterfield had, meanwhile, suffered such mental andnhvsi *? at B^e was completely pros her "bed^' 1 haS l ° llllB been confined to ascertained shortly after the rob bery that four men, answering the descrip- Portle^h^-T* 8 ’ hired a team at Portland, the night previous to the robbery and had returned it to the stable on the fol lowing morning. The horses were very “ a< *J ad « d * a “ made by the retiring, but by the incoming Commissioner, -