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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
officiaiams<jfu«j(wmei,republishedthe-it;enir
statement; and one (the PaA,ri6) attempted
to give a sort of denial to it. Letters from
Rome, however, and a variety of attendant
circumstances, confirm the truth of the sad
story, and it is feared that the brilliant and
beautiful woman who staked all her hopes
upon the success of what has proved a
miserable failure has become hopelesslv ini
sane. . -
The Monde, the ultramontane clerical
journal of Paris, a strong partisan of the
Mexican empire, and in a position to be
considered good authority in such a matter,
confirms the tale.
[From the Avenir National of Paris.]
Two days ago we had received very sad
sews as to the mental state of the Empress
of Mexico, but although the source from
which we received it was trustworthy, we
were unwilling to credit it. At present
silence is ho longer permissible. At first
her state Of mind was attributed to simply
nervous excitement caused by anxiety and
disappointment, but accesses more and
more irequent leave no doubt as to the
terrible malady and give no hope of cure.
The Count de Flandre has been summoned
to Rome, where he is now witnessing this
lugubrious and dramatic episode of an en
terprise which has produced nothina but
disasters. °
[From the Faria Patrie. Oct. 8, Evening.]
.SomeridiculousrumorsrespectingMexico
have been in circulation for some days.
T J* e y , arG Sot up in emulation of those set
a gp at oy committees of New York. We can
a ® rm that these reports in ■which the au
thors have not hesitated to mix up the name
of a youthful female sovereign, now for the
moment in Europe, and whose name ought
to have been respected the more that less
-confidence's felt m the future prosperity of
the Mexican throne, are completely false.
Another rumor, to the effect that a young
rrench officer had been banged by order of
Juarez,- is equally unfounded.
[This last statements refers to young M. de
Montholon, son of the marquis of that name,
who is at present French diploma.'ic repre
sentative at Washington.]
[Paris'(Oct. 9) Cerrespondenca London Standard.]
X mentioned the statement ofl
the Avenir National that the Empress of
Mexico’s mind had become affected from
the disappointment which she had met with
m Europe in her various applications for
assistance. I also gave the denial of the
X'atric. It is with regret that at present I am
obliged to declare that the preponderance of
evidence seems to bear out the assertion of
the first-named journal.
A letter from Home of the 2d, in the Salxt
Ptiblic; of Lyons ;says: The Empress of
Mexico is the subject of much conversation
here. Yesterday morning at nine, without
having requested audience, she presented
herselt at;the Vatican to see the Holy Father.
She was immediately received,and it is said"
she presented a petition to the Pope praying
his Holiness to sanction everything that her
husband has done as Emperor with respect
to religious matters. The story goes that
the Pope positively refused, and that
the Empress , then declared she would
not leave the Vatican if her request
was not granted. I cannot guarantee the
authority of all this, but it is certain the
Empress did not quit the Vatican until six
in the evening. She retired to the private
study of the Pope, and his Holiness con
tinued his ordinary audiences. He after
wards dined alone, according to etiquette,
apd went out for his usual drive,leaving the
Empress with her lady jn waiting. She at
length left, and dined at the Hotel de Rome
where her Majesty is staying. Ih conse
quence of this incident, a rumor has got
abroad that her reason is impaired, and we
know beyond any doubt, that Professor
V isle, the Pope’s medical attendant, scarce
lyjeaves her.
The Monde, of Paris, a journal likely to
be well informed in such a case, observes:—
A day or two since we received a melancholy
statementrespectingthe Empress of Mexico,
to which we hesitated to give credence. Our
private letters from Rome unhappily leave
no doubt on the subject. The reason of her
Majesty has given way under the shock
pointed b7 80 many b °P es suddenly disap-
A Paris letter, in the Zndependance, of
Brussels, announces that Dr. Blanche, so
well known for his treatment of mental
diseases, has been sent for to Rome to attend
to the Empress; and the Nord, in mention
ing the rumor,-remarks that d the statement
made by the Journal de IMge, that the Em
press Charlotte will not be able to visit Brus
sels on the anniversary of the death of Queen
Louise, seems to confirm the reports in cir
culation,”
A BELGIAN REPORT.
Brussels, Oct. 9, 1866.—The Echo dc Par
hament, of this evening, writing on the
subject of the health of the Empress Char
lotte, says: /
: News received here from Rome state that
Uae mental crisis has greatly subsided. Her
Majesty has been enabled to undertake the
journey to Miramar, accompanied by the
Count of Flanders.
Another Shocking Tragedy.
Hartford, Oct. 21, 1866.—A shocking
murder was perpetrated in West Hartford
$? Saturday evening. The victim was a
Mr. Julius Thompson; a bachelor, 40 years
of age, wholived with his mother and sister,
on the road leading to Talcptt mountain.
Between seven and eight o'clock, a, young
man called at the house and requested Mr.
Thompson to assist him as his wagon had
broken down. Mr, Thompson wentout with
the stranger, and was found by his street
gate about an hour afterwards, under a tree
on the highway, brutally murdered. His
skull was broken open with some instru*
menfc'or club. No arrests have yet been
inade, but our sHartford police are on the
track of the supposed murderer. A suspi
cious character has been seen for several
days hanging about the village, and is sud-
Pi?fu, the murderer. Robbery was
the probable’cause, as Mr, Thompson had
some money and bonds in the house.
: In the base ball match between the Key
stone, of Philadelphia, and the Pastime, of
JJaltimore, at Baltimore, on Saturday, the
pcore-stood, Keystone a^Pastimel?,
OUIt "WBLOUE COUNTRY
.Y, OCTOBIB 22, 1866
Progress of the War Between Brazil and
Paraguay—-Hard lighting at the
Intrenchments near Cfirupaity
—A Brazilian Iron-Clad
Destroyed by a Tor- '
pedo—The Bra
zilians Capture
the Place.
h , av ® dat ® a from Rio Janeiro to the
nd n? Bne , noa Ayres to the 12th
Brazilian [fleet In the Para
guay had suffered a severe loss in the blow
up a ‘orpedo of :the fine iron-clad
Ja ““r°- “>d 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 “<i there was not much doubt
but that they were the robbers.
. M . r - Moses Sargent, the Boston bank de
tective, was notified of the occurrence, and
! VJ f»ted Bowdoinham. There he received
a thorough description of the thieves, and at
once came on to this city andcommunicatM
with Superintendent Kennedy. Capt Jour-
FirW f “ e Brecinct, and Detective
Elder, were detailed to work up the case.
The description given tallied exactly with
that of four of our well known Hew York
burglars, and a watch was kept upon their
movements. For three months the above
officers, or some of Capt. Jourdan’s men,
dogged them, with the hope of discovering
where the stolen property had been placed?
Some of the citizens of Bowdoinham were
sent for, and camaon here. Various thieves
were pointed out to them in such a manner,
as not to excite Che suspicions of those under'
surveillance, and eventually they succeeded
m discovering and identifying three of the
gang.
Returning to Bowdoinham, these wit
nesses went before the Grand Jury at that
place, and made- affidavit against the sus
pected thieves, and the latter were indicted.
Requisitions were procured from Governor
Cony by Officer Sargent, who at once came
on to this city with uiem.
On Friday morning Captain Jourdan and
Detectives Rider and Sargent, accompanied
by Officers TJunn, Dolan and Haggerty, of
the Sixth Precinct, started after the men.
Their bannts were well known to the‘offi
cers, and not much doubt was entertained
by the officers but that they would succeed
in capturing them, so closely had they been
watched, lu the Eighth avenue two of the
sought-for men were discovered, named
g a Y ld ® a * tlett and Edwin McGuire, alias
Eddy McGuire, alias “Fairy” McGuire.
They were followed by the officers down to
Abingdon square, where they were ar
rested. Both made a desperate resistance,
McGuire attempting to stab Officer Dolan
with a large dirk-knife which he had hur
riedly drawn from his pocket. He was in
stantly knocked down and secured.
The thieves were then forced into a coach,
wbich had been in waiting in the vicinitv
and driven to the Station House in Worth
street, where they were confined.
The utmost dispatch in securing the other
thieves was now necessary, for should they
hear of the arrest of their confederates, they
would at once make their escape from the
city. At 9 o’clock on Friday evening, the
party again sallied out, and at the comer of
” est Houston and Varick streets, met
another of the alleged thieves, named Owen,
silbs ‘‘Rory’ 1 Sims, H© was in company
with a number of notorious thieves and
cut-throats. Fearing to delay in arresting
mm, however, the officers resolved to take
him into custody in the presence of his
comrades. This was done when a desperate
bght took took place between the thieves
and the officers. Revolvers and knives
were drawn on both sides. A pistol was
presented at Capt. Jourdan, when he
drew his revolver and threatened 'to blow
the man’s brains out, if he did not droD his
weapon. Simswasseverely beaten about the
head. In the height of the melee a Sixth
avenue car came along, and the prisoner
was dragged into it, the crowd foUowing,
and continuing their attempts to take the
man away from the police. They would
probably have succeeded had it not hap
pened that two Twenty-eighth- Precinct
.officers, on post in the vicinity, heard the
raa to the spot, and their exertions
added to those of the other officers, sufficed
to clear the car of the roughs and thieves,
much to the relief of the passengers in the
car, the lady portion of whom were terribly
frightened. The car was then driven on,
ane the prisoner was in a short time lodged
with his confederate in the Station-house.
The fourth man is still at large, but will
probably be caught in a short time. The
prisoners were on the same evening taken
before Justice Dowling, who opened court
for the purpose, and by him committed
temporarily.
On Saturday the friends of the prisoners,
through counsel, sued out a writ of habeas
corpus, but no trace of the acoused could be
found. They had been handed over by our
police authorities to the Boston officer, and
he had left the city with them in his custody
—accomuanied by Captain Jordan and De
tective Elder. Ere this they have doubtless
reached the scene of the bank robbery,there
to answer the charge of robbery preferred
against them. Bartlett is about fifty years
of age and was boril in the United States;
He has served twenty-one years and six
months of his life in State Prison, on con
victions of burglary, as follows: Clinton
Prison, Hew York, six years; Charlestown,
Massachusetts, six years; and two terms—
one five and one four aid a half years—in
Sing Sing Prison. Two years ago he was
engaged m a burglary at the corner of Mc-
Dougall and Amity streets, when Franois
W. Cooper was robbed of thirteen thou
sand dollars worth of diamonds and silver
ware.
McGuire is about twenty-eight years of
age, and was bom in the United States. He
served four years and six months in Sing
Sing in company with Bartlett He was re
cently arrested on a charge-of having rob
bed Adams Express Company, and is now'
under bail for trial at Danbury, Conn.
; Sims is a native'of New York, and is
about thirty-two years of age. He has,
served three years and six months in Sing
Sing for burglary, la February, 1,865, he
■F. 1. FETHERSTON. Pabl^fegr.
DOUB
E SHEET, THREE CENTS
was convicted of having shot at Officer
Johnson, of the Thirteenth Precinct, while
trying to arrest him. Sims pleaded guilty
of assault with intent to do bccsily harm,
and was sentenced to the Penitentiary for
one year. He served two- months, when he
escaped. Sims is very respectably con-
relatives residing an the
Ninth Ward, who are well and highly re
spected. His father was at one time a mem
ber of the old police force.
CATHOLIC COUNCIL IS BALXI9E&BB
Close of the Proceedings— Impressive- Ce
remonies—President Johnson Present;
oct ‘ 21.—The yaafc concourse
assembled around the cathe
greater, if; possible, than
21*? ?V he °P eni ?S of the CohnciL Presi
r®? 4 Johnson and daughter, and Mr. Wal-
M ajor of Washington, were present,
h?,!i?|. arnved . :m Bal timore at an early
hour tine morning: v
«™m- hal^? ast J l H ne o’Mock Archbishop
w^oi” 8 mt oned the.“Veni, Creator,”which
EfP
=g^^«^Vef^
main entrance.; The sun shone brsUiantlv
on toe gorgeous robes of toe dignitaries,
producing a strikingly grand effect, which
was evidently felt by toe vast multitude of
people who watched the procession with al
most breathless attention.' The cathedral
was literally throDged.
The President and his daughter and. Mr.
Wallach occupied seats at' no great distance
from the altar, and watched toe proceedings
with great interest, each being supplifd
with a printed syllabus of the ceremonies,
to which they referred from time.to time.
, Archbishop Odin, of New Orleans, cele
brated mass, toe music selected for toe occa
sion being Hummel’s Mass No. 2.
It is not too much to say that probably no
composition of sacred music has ever been
rendered with such thrilling effect on this
continent, and by a choir, too, that numbers
no professionals, The President and party
seemed to be particularly struck with the
music,especially with the “alma virgo” solo,
m winch the fine soprano voice of the singer
displayed wonderful sweetness, power, and
flexibility- The musical department of the
Council has certainly been on a scale com
mensnrate "with the occasion.
After mass, Archbishop Kenrick, of St.;
Loom, delivered a telling discourse on the
Authority of the Church, taking for his text
toe seventeenth verse of toe tenth chapter of
bt. Panl to toe Homans. After the sermon,
the Archbishop of Cincinnati, as oldest by
consecration, addressed Archbishop Spalct
mg, expressing the high sense of his devo
tion to and qualifications for his position
entertained by. all prelates and clergy, and
eulogizing toe ability and devotectaess of
toe American priesthood as inferior to none
m the world, and worthy of toe noble people
and great republic in which they had toe
happiness to live; concluding by begging
God to bless. America and to make of us a
united people, blessed by God and exhibit
ing to the world an example of every virtue,
Archbishop Spalding replied in a beauti
tul address, thanking toe members of toe
Council for their assistance and forbearance
and expressing a hope that the Holy Father
would look favorably on their deliberations*
that the Council just ended might result ia
the commencement of a new order of things
President Johnson listened to the address
of the Archbishops of Cincinnati and Balti
more with evident interest, and seemed to
derive satisfaction from that' part of Arch
bl w op discourse that had any
political bearing. '
The ceremonies of the Council concluded
with the reading of the Decrees in Latin, and 1
toeir signature by the Archbishops and
Bishop?. This done, toe procession reformed;
and moved back to toe Archbishop’s resi
dence by the same route it had come.
The proceedings and decrees are now to
be sent to Rome for supervision by the
Pope. It is rumored that toe Council recom
mends the appointment-of twenty addi
tional bishops and one archbishop for each
six dioceses.
As the President left the Cathedral and
was endeavoring to make his way to a car
riage in waiting for him, he was surrounded
by a large crowd, and hundreds pressed'
forward to shake hands with him. He ap
peared taken by surprise, but was evidently -
flattered by this demonstration.
The President was sent for yesterday eve
nmg by Governor Swann, who anticipates
trouble at Annapolis to-morrow, but many
su i7s- lse that the visit to the Cathedral had
•a different object than the mere curiosity to
see theceremonies, and that the importance
of the Catholic and Irish votes in the coming
elections had something to do with it.
; The members of the Council dined to
gether to-day at the Music Hall, North
Howard street.
• The Bate Stokii. —Lieutenant Com
mander Wm, Gibson, commanding tha
United States steames Tahoma, reports to
the Navy Department,under date of Nassau*
New Providence, on the 9th inst, the fol
lowing:
“On the 3d and 4th inst, when on alina
between the Bermudas and Hatteras, was?
encountered a revolving storm of hurricane
violence. We are not in distress, but the
damages sustained are serious.
“As carefully computed from our observa
tions, the cyclone was moving E. N. E. at
the rate of thirteen miles per hour. Ita
centre, when nearest to us in latitude 33 deg.
£L 1 ° I, £ 1 a d £’ V 2 20 sec. weJ,
bore S.S. E. forty mils distant, and its
whole diameter was about two hundred and
sixty miles. It came upon, us so suddenly,
and with so little premonition,the barometer
registering rather than fortelling the changes
of wind and weather; the sea rose so rapidly
nnd grew so dangerously heavy and con
fused, that being satisfied we were in the
left-hand semi-circle of the storm, I deemed
it safe to abide the issue by heaving the Ta
homa to on the port tack.
: “The centre of the hurricane passed over
the’island of New Providence on the 11th
inst., and the scene of 'wreck and devasta
tion is marvelous and very sad to witness.
More than half of Nassau is in ruins. Moat -
of the houses are unroofed, and many blown
to’pieces. Some were moved bodily from,
their foundations into the streets. Churches
warehouses, and other buildings of solid
stone are shattered as by a bombardment.
The trees are destroyed, leaf and branch as
If by a conflagration. Nearly every vessel ’
or boat is sunk or swept high and dry.”^
r o»'tbetet instant the Commissioner of
Indian Affair invited proposals for a very
large supply of Indian goods, such a*
blankets, doth, dry goods and hardwares
were to have been opened to-day,
but at the suggestion of the new Commis-
A Sairs, who is to enter
upon Ins duties on the first or, November,
the advertisement has been, withdrawn, for
the reason that the contract should not be >
made by the retiring, but by the incoming
Commissioner, -