®BSQN PEACOCK. Mtar. VOLUME XX.—NO. 171 EVENING' BULLETIN. ytJEUHHED EVERY EVENING (Bnnflay’g excepted,) ’ _** ™ SEW BCUETDi BUILDING, 067 ObMtnut Street, Philadelphia _ BY THE t leaning Bulletin Association,” PBOPBIBTOBfii OIB««r MAOODK, IESNEST O. WALLACE. JTiStJKiBIS BIO "- THOS. J. WILLIAMSON PAIPSB BOUBEB, Jr„ IfEANOIS WELLS Tha Buuaxnv la served to subscribers la trie cl ty »t 1* oraH per week, payable to the carriers, or is oo per Bawnwi. MARRIED. ABNOUX—BBOWNB.—At Brownsville, N. Y,, 16th of October, by tbeßav. Ur. Tyler, Wm. Henry Arno ox, of the city of New York, to Pauline A, daughter of Wm, 3. Browne, Esq., of Brownsville. BAILE r—OSGOOD,—On Oct. 18th, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Bev. JS. W. Bellows, D X)., a lien B. Bailey to Lncretia G , daughter of Nath. H. Osgood, all of New Yoxk, CBESSEY*~BAI MOND,~On the 22d Inst, by tbe Bev. Dr. bnddards, Cbas. Creesey, Eaq., to Amelia D daughter of the late A. L. Raymond, of thin cicv * -.KING—LTON.—On Oct. 17 th, by tbe Rev. J. Kramer, W. fcoa“I 1 , l o o?^^^o o r\ n^. danBhtet ofthe -,®TRONG-KEARNy-On 18th of October, at New Brunswick, N. J., by the Rev Dr. Stnbbs, E.Newton Strong to Evelina Warren, danghter of the late PhlliD J. Kearny, of New Tort. p DIED. HACKER.—At noon, on the 21st Inst., Jeremiah Hacker, In the 67thyearof Usage. jeremian j-„?i ß .f ela L i y ea Wends are Invited to attend the .funeral without further notice, from his late resl o’ciockP <^ Imantown ' on Fifth day. 25th inst“at ik HOMEB.-A)n Toesday evening, the 23d Inst., Henry Homer, in the 55th year of his age. y -,,Ti!i e .- elat . lv6a J ?i ale friends are respectfully in- Th'™™^?.f Un^ ral, bis 1816 residence, -f 1 .Thompson street,on Friday afternoon, the 26th J° ,N I M§KuIg?K?LL:D. t N6W Y ° tk ' ° Ctober22 ' Jamea McLEOp.-<)n the 24th inst., in Phila.. Mr. Robert u' o^u^ od V°iJ-' he -!?' te , lirm 01 w ain wright & McLeod! bankers, of New York, Bon of Mrs. Isabella and the late Thomas C. McLeod, aged 2fi years. The revives and friends of the fan Uy are respect- invited to attend the funeral, from the residence thio^ o ‘'ft? r, , I ? 0 \ 322 Christian street, on Saturday, the 27th, at 2 o’clock. * On tbe 18th inst.. near New Bruns wick, c.. j„ Mrs. Eliza Conover Rappleyea, wife of J°®cph Rappleyea, in the 66th year of her age. * SIBLEY .—On the 19th instant, at N. York. Mary G . wife of John C.Sibley, and daughter of thelate Heiry u. Gibs' n. J ■ STRU\ E.—ln Brooklyn, on the 22d Inst., Maria Aonto, wife of the iate ueorge F. Struve. TUCKER—At Cincinnati, Ohio, on 20th inst., on his s'ny liome from the army in Texas, Captain Henry Sfxth;U. S. Cavalry, aged 24 years, son of John ana Louisa M. Tucker. male friends of the family are invited to attend '4s®; mineral i from the residence of his father, No. 1014 Vvalnntstreet, on Thursday next, at 2 o’clock, P.M. {J I,a:NI)EIJj IMPORTED FOR - FALL • St. Bernard Woolen Cloakings. WgnmrWooien Shawls, Mosaic Woolen Shawls. Splendid Plain Silks. Magnificent Plaid Poplins. SUPERIOR BLACK SILKS. •SO A fiillafceorunent of \& ons Gros Grains, Taffetas .DrapdßjPranee, Poults de Sole Mourning Silts, &c. of the best makes and at reasonable prices. BESSON & SON, Mourning Store, No. 918 Chestnut street. SffcfIJAAJL. JSOTfiCESL 'PAEDEE SCIE.V lII’IC COUKSE. LAFAIEItE COLLEGE. In addition to the general Course of Instruction In this Department, designed to lay a substantial basis of knowledge and scholarly culture, students can pursue those branches _which are essentially practical and technical, viz.: ENGINEERING, Civil, Topograpical <md Mechanical; MINING and METALLURGY: ARCHTTFOTURE, and the application of Chemistry AGRICULTURE and the ARTS. There is also ai- OLOGY; and of the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS of ottr own country. For Circulars appiy to President . CATTELL, or to Prof. B. B. VOUNGMAN. Easton, Pa. April 4,1866, Clerk of the Faculty. my3-6moj tQ-'S* PHUiA DELPHIA — BREWEB6’ ASSOCIATION, Office, No 30South SIXTH Btreet, Your attention is called to the Philadelphia Brewers’ which is now in operation, and brewing, since July 16th, ALE, PORTER AND BROWN STOUT, The quality of which is not excelled by that of any •other Brewery in the Uruted Slates; the best materials ■only are used, and best attention given to meet the wants <of the consumer. The Association is incorporated by Act of the Legis lature, and being upon the mutual benefit plan, each •Stockholder becomes part owner of the Brewery Fix* tures, etc.. and so secured from any risk of loss, while the price of shares being almost nominal, and not sub* Sect toany additional assessment, the benefit derived is immense. The stockholders receive their Ale, etc., at cost, so that they save nearly one-third of the price now being paid, and besides this saving, the profit upon sales -mede to others, who are not stockholders, and to whom full price is charged, will be divided among the Stockholders semi-annually; this dividend alone, De fend doubt, will make it a desirable and profitable in vestment. To secure these advantages the trade should Bub scribe at once, as the amount of Stock is limited and •will be sold to none but dealers. A3T Full particulars given and samples shown at the Office of the Brewery, 30 Sonth SIXTH Street. THOMAS J. MARTIN, President DEyyiß F. DjbaliY, Secretary. ocl7-w,s-tfrpg CONTRACTORS TAKE NOTICE" \h=y THE PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE -OjuNTRaL RAILROAD COMPANY have extended the time to SATURDAY, November loth, 1866, for re ceiving proposals for the construction of the grading, masonry and bridge superstructure, and furnishing the cross ties and layiDg the track upon six miles of the said Company’s road extending from near the Rising Sun village, Cecil county, Md., to the Susque hanna river. Plans and specifications of the work can be exam ined at the office of the Engineer John M. Hood, at Port Deposit, Cecil county, Md., and a guide will be furnished to show the work to those desiring to look at the same. The EDgiueer purposes to be at the Rising Sun vil lage, on Tuesday .October 30th instant, Friday,Novem ber 2d, next; ruesday, November 6th, and Friday, November 9ih. JOSEPH HTJDDELI,, , • Secretary and Treasurer. Philadelphia, Oct. 22d,186<>. 0c33-tnolo MERCANTILE LIB RARY.—Every reading •UtSy citizen should possess a share of stock in t.ht» Company. The cost, at to e Library, is but iio 00, with -an annual tax of)3 00. This small sum secures the use of about 40,00 t) volumes, over 300 newspapers and periodicals from all parts of the world, numerous chess tables, <fec. Subscribers are taken atfo 00 a year, me Mercantile now purchases and Imports more valuable books than all the other -libraries in the city -combined, over 7,600 volumes were added last s£ar - • OCI7-W,3,6t "p IT'S* UNITED STATES TREASURY. Phila- DBLPHIA, Oct. 23d. 1868. ’ NOTlOE.—Holders of Thirty Coupons and ud wards in Bomber, of United States, Loan due November P re^ent the same at this office for examination and count. Checks will be z?&e s zstJ£sr' somtßi on the 0c25-3trpB Asaistant ’ Xhe residents of Germantown can have simerinr LEHIGH COAL superior delivered to them from the above place at*B 00 per ton. Prompt attention given to orders addressed to Box 62 ' Germantown Postoffice. Office,ls Sooth Seventh street’ Philadelphia, or to yard at Green Lane Station. - QC2lmrp BINES&BHEAFF. OFFICE o» the ocean oil company. M 7 bonth FOURTH street.-The annnai meeting of the Stockholders of the Ocean Oil Oompa- Vi. ho held at the office of the Company, on • TUESDAY, November isth, nest, at 12 o'clock, M. Trnnsler boohs will close on the eth November and . ie opened on the 14th. ■nitn a „ , „ W. M. CARTER, Secretary. Phliada.Oct. 28, 1866, 0C24-6tj fTl?VjF£ !D ; 4 '' sr SCHOOIi ANNIVERSARY.-The ADnlver3ar 3’ of the Sunday School of Sf O Si B ST„ B f PT , IS ,' 1 J CH ' L,ac,I >„ BROAD and ABOH fctreets,-will be held on THURSDAY EVENING. October2s,at7i^o’clock. The exercises will consist of Singing, Recitals, Presentation of Offerings: Ad dresses, &c. The friends of Sunday Schools are in ylted ‘ _____ 0c24-2t be HALF OF THE FREED hVIr MEN of GEORGIA will be held in the Cloy Mis- THrmsr> l A'Y PWNrriv?! 16 ?, I ’. & bove Twelfth, on Mi V HilS JIn(J, OctflhflT.SSth Artrirnvaaa will be made by Hey. Philips Brooks Bev Mr Un dMdue, Mr,.JfcCaaly,and others. The pnbUo awe In yxtea. • 0C24 2t* S3* HOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1218 and 1520 f Lombard sbfeet, DEpensary Department. Medl- and medlemes furnished grotuitSSd^ sALT.—2,SOO «acRB LIVERPOOL gkoitnd~Salt S 3 also 200 sacks Fine Salt, afloat,and for e»]«h» WORKMAN A 00., 128 Wftlnnh * w j® ailj dfijeitira Ihilktm The Italia*- Opera.— The performance of Lucrezia Borgia, last evening, at the Aca demy of Music, was very heartily enjoyed. Sefiora Poch acted with great power, and sang the music extremely well, though oc casionally her intonation was imperfect. Mme. Natale-Testa made a capital ‘‘Orsini ” and was encored in the drinking song. Sig nor Antonncci was magnificent as the Duke, and Mazzoleni’s “Gennaro” was a splendid personation, musically as well as dramati cally. The subordinate jparts were well sustained, and the orchestra and chorus were excellent. This evening The Star of the North, by Meyerbeer, will be repeated. This is alto gether the finest operatic production wit nessed in Philadelphia for years. The mu sio is strikingly original and beautiful, and the opera is well sung and splendidly put upon the stage. To-morrow evening Donizetti’s charming comic opera, I'Elisir d’Amore, will be pro duced, for the debut of MUe. Ronponi, the yonng and gifted daughter of the great buffo, who will appear as “Dr. Dulcamara,” a part in which he has no eqnal in the world. Signor Baragli will appear as “Nemorino,”’ which he will sing and act better than any one we have had in it for years. Emani is announced for Priday evening. The Second Bateman Concert.— There was a very fair attendance at the.sscond concert of this series given last evening. In point of character, the audience was one of the most intelligent and fashionable that we have ever seen publicly assembled in this city. It reminded one of the days when good concerts, such as the entertain ment of last evening, were not the rarity that they are now in Philadelphia. The programme presented was an exceUent one, and the different items of it were very satis factorily rendered by the artists to whom their performance was . respectively in trusted. Madame Parepa was in excellent voice, and in her first selection, the Linda Cava tina, her magnificent voice and superb method were displayed in their fullest power and perfection. In this artiste, her glorious organ and finished execution unite to render her by far the greatest cantatrice that has visited ns since the time of Sontag. Her rendition of the English ballads, as evidenced particularly in her singing of the pretty “Five o’clock in the Morning” affair, is something entirely different from, and, certainly, superior to the.very treatment they almost universally receive from the majority of concert singers. Signor Brignoli, whose beautiful voice is fresher than ever, and whose singing is better than ever, was received with delight by the audience, and was warmly ap plauded. Signor Fortuna and Signor Fer ranti also delighted by their fine voices and admirable method. It would only be repeating the terms of unreserved commendation employed in our extended article of yesterday, to refer far ther in any detail to last evening’s concert. Mr. Mills, who stands first as a composer on his instrument, among native artists, per formed his Second Tarantella, a superior composition,and which, with its companion work, has been very favorably received in the musical centres of the continent. To-night the third concert will be given, with an attractive programme, which we publish in full elsewhere. Madam Parepa will sing among other things the great Der Fi'eyschiitz scena. It will be worth going a great distance to hear this alone. We un derstand that a large number of the seats have already been enga^4d. With General Sheridan in Lee's Last Cam paign. By a Staff Officer. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866; pp.'235, with Portrait of General Sheridan and Map.— This capital little book tells ita story well, and it is a story that will always be fall of interest. It is not too soon to be mindful of the necessity of putting upon record the true tale of the closing scenes of the rebellion, and it is never too’late to give the public a good account of what was done to bring that rebellion to an end. Apart from the closer circle of army men who will find in this volume word-pictures of the war that they helped to make successful, it will serve a good purpese in showing to the outside world how an army grows, and fights, and thinks and feels. There never was a public in fuller sympathy with the aotors on the war-stage than our’s, and there are few an. thors who Know better how to make good use of the past. than the author of this book. Puli of fire and spirit, redolent of the camp and the bivouac, not afraid to speak plain idiomatic English or to use a little slang when it is pat and to the purpose, written because there was something to say and because he was in earnest in saying it, the work that was to be don& has got itself done in a way that is in the highest degree creditable. Of course it is easy to see that the main business in hand was to meet the charges brought against General Sheridan by General War ren in his Pamphlet on the Battle of Five Forks, and incidentally, too, to repel the suggestions of selfishness made by General Wrightin his report of the operations around Appomattox Court House. Fortunately, however, instead of confining itself to these narrow limits, which have long since been lost in the growing waves of popular obliv ion, the book has taken to itself shape, form and Consistency, and gives a better idea of Sheridan than any mere vague praise could do, for it gives an account of what ha did then to heighten the interest of the subject) it shows, in a variety of ways, what the ma terial was with which he had to do, and thus it furnishes a capital account of . the cavalry, forces. Free from any detail of the shop, and care fully avoiding any figures or labored array WHSICAI,, SBW PUBLICATIONS. PHILADELPHIA, WE of facts, there is such recital ofthe succes sive achievements of this arm of the service as beat serves to show how it gradually be came useful, then indispensable, then fa mous, and finally victorious. Almost none ofonr histories, of the war, great or little, in any of the innumerable shapes of biogra phies, letters, sketches or what not, have been written by men who were really army men, and fewer still of those who were in the service and have written, were near enough to headquarters to know the real history of what was going on about them. This good fortune the author of this book possessed; and he used it to good purpose;— if he had not made the veil nnder which he hides his name a very thin one, it wouhi still have been possible to guess it, by reason ef the fact that there is jnst one name whioh was always prominent, in the days when Sheridan’s Cavalry and their achievements were in men’s months, that nowhere appears. The great merit of .Op book, however, lies in ; the wholesome absence of fine writing. Not afraid to do in print just what the cavalry did in the field, scorning niceties and not hesitating to mix metaphors, to slur over a phrase or to bolt a good fat illus tration, he rides right into his subject and from first to last carries his story on at a good pace always, steadily bent on the bu siness of showing that Sheridan was a great soldier and that the battles that he won were hard and decisive. There is an art, almost the highest, in this absence of art, and the earnest purpose of . telling the story of a great General and of his famous achieve ments, achieves its end all the better be cause he who recites these deeds had his part in them. The memory of the comrades who shared in them is renewed in homely, manly phrases, that will sound better in their ears and with the men of their old commands, than measured phrases. The hook, we say again, is a capital one, in short, and while Sheridan is fortunate in having such a biographer, the public may well be glad to have such a story so well told.- Dores,Bible.—Hr. C. J. Price, 31 South Sixth street, sends ns Part VIII. ofthe Bi ble illustrated by Gustave Dore. It is the English edition of Cassel, Petter & Galpin, is in folio form, and the illustrations and text are as good as those of the French ori ginal. This number contains four magnifi cent designs: one the “Giving the Law upon Mt. Sinai;” the second, “Moses Coming Down from Mt. Sinai;” the third, “Mosea 'Breaking the Tables of the Law.” and the fourth, “The Egyptians Drowned in the Red Sea.” The last, which is engraved by Pan nemaker, is equal to some of the best in Dore’s master-work, the Inferno of Dante.jfj Felix Holt, the Badicat, has been repub-’ lished by Harder <fc Brothers in an elegant duodecimo volume, handsomely bound and fit for a place in any library. It is uni form with their library edition of the other novels of “George Eliot.” T. B. Peterson A Brothers have it for sale. DEMAND FOR INDEMNITY FOR BRITISH PIRACIES. No Arbitration to be Submitted to by Our Government—The British Leaders Ashing the World’s Opinion— The United Slates Demand Full and Prompt Separa tion—Settling-Day Com ing for the Pirate Builders, Ac.,Ac. Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 23.—1 u re gard to our affairs with England, growing out of the depredations during the late war of the privateers Alabama and Shenandoah, Mr. Adams, our Minister to the Court of St. James, was some time' since instructed to make a peremptory demand for indemnity for the losses sustained by our commercial interests. To this demand Mr. Adams re ceived an evasive reply. He was imme diately instructed to repeat the demand. He did so, but no definite response has yet been received, but the tone of the English newspapers recently re ceived indicates that these renewed and per sistent demands have not been without ef fect. The British Government is now put ting out feelers in their various organs, showing their disposition in the matter. From these it appears that they are willing to submit the claims to arbitration or to a Board of National Commissioners. Our Government will accept no arrangement of this sort, but will ihsist on a prompt and full payment of the claims* This is our ultiinatum as contained in the instructions under which Mr. Adams is now acting. • Another Report. Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 23.— 1 t has been stated in newspapers recently that at the last Cabinet meeting it was resolved to demand payment at the hands of the British Government infall for all theoutrages com nutted by rebel privateers fitted out in Eng land; bnt this cannot be considered a new discovery, for the reason that the official correspondence long ago published, shows that Minister Adams has been earnestly pressing upon the British Government the jnstiM of indemnity for losses thus sus tained by citizens of the United States. Certainly no instructions to carry out any recent decision on the subject were sent to Mr. Adams last Thursday. That is not the dayon which the State Department commu nicates by steamer. After aihgent inquiry it cannot be ascer tained that there is any truth in ether re above-named subject, and, therefore, those who have been led to expect manifestoes concerning them will be disappointed,' Famine in India,— The famine of India having raged with fury : in the districts, is now doing its .work of death in Calcutta, •liie people or the interior us© every means to get to the capital to obtain food, even crawling on their hands and knees from the more afflicted districts to get the benefits of charity m Calcutta. As many ,as 250 of these ; poor hungry wretches daily reach the cit\ to quarter themselves upon-the feeding houses. At twenty-two places 17,475 poor are daily fed. All classes of the more opu lent citizens are contributing liberally for the relief of those suffering starvelings. In four days $375,000 were; received, and as misery™ 0 ™ ueeded to grapple with the Quit Whole country, ■NESDAY, OCTOBEJB 24,1866. Letter of Secretary Attempted Defence of the F?esideit» -*«uC6 Oi ! .'nrr—| —. Denunciation of thi Constitutional ; Amendment, &c, _ Hon. O. H. Browning, -Secretary o£ the Interior, has written a plausible sort of a defence of the “policy” of President John son, taking the ground that the Constitution should not be changed, dsc. The arguments bnt . we copy and condense enough of the epistle to give our readers an idea of it. Mr. Browning opens by discussing the dangers of centralization, and the' dangers resulting.from too great absorption of power by, the legislative branch of the Govern ment Hq says ; “And without at all impugning the mo &?t^ * to“ay that if the present Oongress were not re strained by positive and emphatic provi sions of the Constitution they would greatly ? H b » dge ’ lf th ®y not altogether annihi- f P ° we « of “PPointment to and re moval from office now confided to the Ei and t , hesi ? lutar y restraint which he holds over legislation through the veto 18 a danger always present when the Executive and the legislative departments are in antagonism, and it is of big!l P art y excitement to manifest itself, no matter what party mav be in power. Safety is to be found only in holding each department firmly and closely within its orbit. If the proposed amend ments of the Constitution be adopted, hew and enormous power will be claimed ahd exercised by Congress, as warranted by such amendments, and the whole structure of our Government will perhaps gradually su rely. be revolutionized? And so J U j lclar y• U the proposed amend be adopted, they may and certainly wUI be used substantially to annihilate the State judiciaries.” ™ He proceeds to argue that if the amend ment is adopted the citizens of States will be Heffoes'oiy 8 agaiaat federal judiciary. As already remarked, free governments P reserv ® < l °uly by keeping the power near the people, to be exercised through age ? cas ®' Under, this new system State and local authority would not at once disappear. For some time they would con- J , Ul^ d . ic .l lon *•» Federal Govern ment; but the inevitable and constant!v- tendency would be for the control oi domestic affairs, to steal away frop the people, the States and local m.pieipal bodies, and centralize and concentrate in the hands of the Federal Goiemment, and as party conflicts iaten- and party victories alternated, the power would be more and mere inexorably used by the dominant party to punish its enemies, reward its friends and strengthen and perpetuate its hold upon the power and patronage of the Government. Be as sured, if this new provision be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our Govem ™e“r' 8^ 6e J > away all the guarantees ofsafety devised and provided by our oa triotio sues of the revolution. It is impos sible to maintain our wise and happy form or Government without preserving the in* dependence and sovereignty of the States within their appropriate and constitutional spheres. They are of primary and vital im portant. The States may exist and per formall their functions without the Union or the federal Government. The Union and . Federal Government cannot exist with out the States, and they must be States of equality—equal in dignity, equal in rights equal m power, equal in the control, abso lute and unconditional of all things pertain • ing to their internal and local policy and interests. Another blow which the proposed Amendment aims at the Government which our fathers founded is in the change of the basis of representation. This would be of very pernicious effect aggregate population is the true basis of re presentation. No matter how the elective iranchise be disposed of, whether exercised bv few or many, all classes of the communi ty are represented. The interests of all classes of people in the same community are so interwoven and commingled that they cannot bejseparated, and whoever wields the representative power must do it for the good or ill of all, perhaps not precisely in the same degree, buf fie cannot use it so as largely to benefit one class withuot to some extent benefiting all, or to iniure and op press one olass without to a greater or less extent injuring and oppressing all.” - fawning goes on to show why it is right that minors, females and unnatural ized foreigners should not vote, although they are counted in the ratio of representa tion. He says: “ The present ratio' of representation is adjusted by the census of 1860, and nannot be cfoanged until after the census'of IS7O, ■tyUroat time therefore, the relative strength of the several States. of our country must remain precisely as it was under the census of IS6O. After the census of 1870, the posi tive and relative strength of the Southern States in Congress and thp Electoral College will i both be diminished, even if the non-voting black population be in _in the basis. In 1860 three fifths of all the black population of the Southern States was counted. The census of 1870 will show the whole of the non voting population to be less than the three fifths of 1860. Nor Is it true that a vote in the South will outweigh a vote in the North, , roe non-voting negro population be in cluded -in the basis of representation. If the proposed Amendment be adopted all the non-voting black population of the South will be excluded, while all the non voting unnaturalized foreign population of the North will be counted. Tne great pre ponderance of unnaturalized, and conse quently non-voting foreigners, is in North ern ahd Northwestern States.” The writer denounces the provision in the amendment ' which disfranchises the educated Southern rebels, and says that un der its operations the South would have to be coerced by military force. He then de clares: I can see no good to result from the pro posed amendment. I see much evil. We bad better adhere to the form of government which our fathers gave us. It is in my judg mentjthemost perfect political production of human wisdom and patriotism. For three quarters of a century it secured us unex ampled prosperity, and at tbs end of that THE POLITICAL SITUATION. Browaing, m™f» eil » a kk d -, BS to nieetanffovercometha rebellion in the bistory of nations. Why change it? For seventy- five years to have hardly known that we had a Government. When we did knofr it we bnpw it only by its beneficence, and it has shown itself as strong as beneficent eanahln oi successful resistance of the fiercest ana most desperate assanlts that it is possible s make upon a Government. Why chance it vindicated its lifted us to an eminence among the na -5?“ s ® f tie ®. a^, we “ever tillnow'attained? old Constitution and know its capabilities. We have not; tried “ but can readily see >TiL COa £l SI ? E ? I ? (i dlsas ‘» r which it would bring. We had better let well enough-aitme; but if we should change it at all, w<bgshould not change it now. The public temper was never less auspicious to calm,conscientious, wise conaideratiopj of great questions of state. Passion and prejudice should never lay rude hands upon fundamental and or ganic laws. In & day theWsaay do mischief which years of repentant Skriotic laborwiil not repair. In a day theyWy open a Pka aora s box which the patriotism and states manship of a century may not be able to I oo not regard the recent and perxhng elections as indicative of the iuda “®nt tae people of the fiiorth- States upon ' the Constitutional' sSt?d‘2. e « t nrt are-really not tie issues pre-* sented to and considered bv- chepeople. They h RVB reflected < S,S r alarmSLilm! w, The I>eo l >le have Had their fears their passions and pre>ndiees aroused aad perhaps neverformed under more delusive ldeaai Th t e°n^? h S rac:e ; ofthe issuesKetisroS ?on a b nd « assured that Preside ntJoh£- solemn sanctions of the Federal Constitution ?lm?e‘!|, C s 1 S2“l^ ep , nbllcanl a^ '“mSS D wS glwe is censtitu-nt°LiSb£s V o?toe UniSn fee SMS duly, his Imperative duty as-Commander-ia-Chlef to a ??, h l ?' hB wou! d have beenSSst empahte f“r,“ ot d oing. prevented anarchy by appointing '™go’ ar y Provisional Governors uudir wbosi ad\ fees the people ' brought their regular Governments again Into operation- under thJr^Com nnihilfe rn l te hl Tt Waa a with which Congress had lt was a matter Dtufitv of mtiitaru cognizance. The public enemyhadtestbeen er-r»nsd , ? I %? y r f ? rce ' and “ w™the“ty“f afninV Cblef “ se S t ? 11 that anarchy and toSSSi not ensue, and that the machinery of thelSlu- Government was again pat In operation for the preservation ot ortler,and the protection of lire libertv S?K PI SSLW from lawless it thelatv H« Lbe ♦;P^eadel}^.£ >o,43 executive head of the n? that the national lawsweroexteated and that tbe relations between the" States and the Federal Government were restored. President liin erdnand taken precisely this action in resneoto Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas, for which he was applauded and indorsed by Coner^a V^Vr e eSo U n^. Pre3ldebl P- Speaking of Senator Stewart’s,of Nevada, proposition for universal suffrage, and bv its endorsement by the leading radical senators, Mr. Browning says: “I do notsav they were not thoroughly honest con w their WctiOM iS. were. But I mention it only Wffrosuißrage 13 the real and only sut> t Q !^^- c f i?° ner *y between the Sxecative alive branches of the Government, to -5 8 .05t solemn terms, and Implore my fellow most earnest and dispassionate ! v.?.?v^^ era whether ppon such an we are to ! ?n? Into another fratricidal warandls£eril all there is of our country aacred in the past, iMd^and and hopeful rvS.JSS 16 *? Had the President consented to join in forcing negro suffrage on thp lLT OQ L d have Deen and smooth, and £? i* 10 * denounced as a fiend he would nowbq worshiped as as idol by ihose who soi bitterly and him j Those who are stacereiyde sfroua of aeelhg a pacification of the country aid a I« t^ l l°, n ,S ft f e,I ; W5rl^ 0f ths Union oughttoteel assured of the purely patriotic and sincere intention- O'ihe Preeklert, whe£ they that hef afu ?f rrl , n S forward the pollcymangnratMlol President Lincoln, and that the only two men who wi ntinto the adminlsi ration with Sir Lincoln a tne J r?hi n -i?i :^ > / b 3 *,"S tlert ?- the Secretaries of State and of the Havy, and the only two who were trusted and confided in by him through his entire and to the end of his life, stood by .encouraged and sustained him when the storm and tempest of were beating fiercely upon hi n and the ship of State was tossing upon the waves of a i“^ n^ 8, ,. 6ea ' l^ h broken masts and SltSSsMis and who knew his most secret thoughts as to the beat measures to be adopted to bring her into Dort! m Bianding by President Johnson with a cobrasre And heroism equally sublime, and cheering hRfnS heroic efforts toacbleve the samTen&7 They wSi yj 3 euoxmcecl tben » bv thesame men are ahd denounced now They did not quail be ic-iethestcrmtbatbeat upon them then, they do not xrtempest that rages around them now beroic tben * *** Johnscm is he roic now lam sure no man can be sincerer in his purposes to the Conatitmion and save the comnry than he is. Ao man ctAiy be actuated bv a purer patriotism, or be morel averse to usurpation of power. He has not rioiatid the Constitution in the past. Hq intends no SS°, fitl ; the future, Du the deS intend a drm Bud ihithfi-l performance of all the trusts which that sacred instrnmens has devolved upon him. With Sm- ,y d “Poa‘4<>n to be charitable toward thise whs difierwith mein opinion, it ii dlfflcolt tobeUeve them President with Intention 6 ?! violenUy forcing rebels into Congress and i-ivinz- them daeS°.? t ? > i of,b ,t Go .I ernmeßt - what act has heevS done thatglves the shghtestsanction to such a chante-“ Hot one can bn specified He has neither transcended his own powers nor Invaded those of the nominate departments and the only pretext forth! charge IS not wha. he has done, but what h! has said, m declaring again and aaain his conviction that it n the dutvnf Congrass to obey a plain constitutional provision and each Honse for itself tojudge of the elections rettwns .and qualifications ofeach individual pressntinlhfnv sell as a member. Onr country is in peril. In very PJ 111 - act from a public enemy, bnt rrom the via ?u^P wn passions. Safety is to be found only n a strict adherence to the Constitution and laws A% tengasthej areob-yed. no evil can code upon if' geronly When we attempt someSiS they donotsancilon. I trust it will be theprideaaS glory ot the iTiends of the Administration in the threaten ng contest through which we are pass ag to keep their passions in subjection to reason; and tl’d! P® “t not fnUy warranted by the ConsUtutionand laws. Ours is-a Republican Government, where the majority has a right to rnte cannot, without subverting the Govenmient,Kri wh(m according to the forma prescribed, the vrtu ofthemS 'impressed te the Constiuulon or the law P i° submit to It, until it can be fairly and !?, n S o y Gauged. Such I know to be the Prep sident a intentions, and snch I know he wishes to be c °nd’.ici for his friends and supporters. No SIS hS s ?ifS? ander reference for thetonstitutten ; f, ! zo, be .’ flnd , ll s Purpose as the Ksecutive hoad of the nation to maintdn it as it is, until it be changed in the ftrm prescribed byit, is firm andimmntable. Heisnot preyeenongh wmfhliy to violate it: he is hraVSenongh 1 to uphold and defend it in all that his duty leoyiirts to .ontfinslon, let me beseech yon. sionately, but earnestly and nrmly, to do-your duty to your country inthia.trying hour and stand by our Sjorlous Ctonstitution as it is. There is no safety for us but in this. Do your duty faithfully and trust to Goa for results, and reverently implore Him to save us from the madness and infatuaUon wfcich threaten ns with eelf-deatructlon and with the Seas of the last hope for the perpetuity of free governments. Yeur friend and fellow-citizen. COUKTS. . OYEHiSD Tebieesjse- Judges Allison-and Pairs®— After the Commonwealth’s testimony hno closed In Mrs. Oddy’s case, reported yesterday, the District At. torney abandoned the prosecution, and a verdict of not guilty was rendered. Tins morning Thomas McVey was pet on trial charged with.causing the death of Thomas Judee on the 25th or Augusts last The accused, deceastxl and a number ot friends were in a tavern in the neighbor hood of Twenty-secend and Market streets, at ten o’clock at njght,and while there a quarrel was com roenced. Judge and McVey went Into the street and there continued the flght.andbothfeU npau the street and parties present separated them, and Judge waa taken into the tavern,where it was discovered tkaihe had been stabbed between the sixth and seventh ribs Hei Was removed to his home, where he died on She •Ith of September. The case Is still on trial “ “ Distbict Coobt— Judge Sbarswood— nnnrim. to Thompson vs. J. Atlee White. Am acUonto un alleged difference resulting ironi a aale ofstock District Court— Judge Hare.— Bonham namlnls. trator, <Stc„ va, Lowenthall. Before rerartettOndS? to the indisposition of Judge Hare thtecise went wef toßtrnctioor 0^6 “ tlie3ury will receive theJadge’s Life-Saving.— The Paris'ifcm'teiir pub lishes the frames, of one hunclrtki and fifteen persons upon whom medals have been con ferred by Napoleon, on th* recommenda tion of the-Minister of.tha Interior, fbr acts of deyotedness in savi rjg lives during the month of July last, . F. 1. FETHMSTQN. MU: DOUBLE SHEET, TEHEE CEN rs. ° ATH 1n Auabawa.—The Mo-- b “® Tribune is anxious that the South should be represented in Congress, but it bouiks at the test oath.. It sayst ■ ■ “We observe In one of the interior papera thatno one conld be found at Camdento swear enough to put himself in connection with the mails. A loyal negro has taken the oath. and now he is in charge of the mail, is this not assurance enough that, if Congress insistron that oath as a condition precedent torthe performance of the United :States service,, the white man win be excluded from it, and that, contrariwise of the Radical' papers, there are few “loyal” white men to -take the oath anywhere about Alabama ? Why before the war there were -men who would is superior to any other part of the world, if that were made a recom mendation to office. To-day an office goes a-begging for months and mnntTy. to the great detriment of an influential and intel hgent community, and, after all, can only be filled by a loyal negro. It is likely that he did not take the eath, and was accepted, on the presumption that he would have taken it, if it had been offered to Mm vye applaud this Sambo, and trust that he will relieve the people of Wilcox county of a trouble which has,-no doubt, been extremely vexatious and inconvenient to them. UVE Bulletin. jviijWijEHJh—Schr Wfe Doughten. Tateta— 6o cnrriM jumper wood 43,0e0 feet lumber Lathbury,Wickersh*ni SrF’SSJSSPn' N £-#<= hr David CoUins,Townsen<r 6COO juniper bolts D S Stetson cfc Co; 100 bbla ultrh Cochran, Bnsaell <£ Co: 34,500 shingles D BTarmr A- IXOII Merchant * COT 102 MfeStaabm- CH AKLESTOX—Schr Wm F Cushing, Cook— bades cotton H Sloan & Sons; 52 ale bbls Massey, Hus ton £ Co; 9 blf empty do Engel & Wolf; 2 box 63 tyro L Johnson; 1 cask 1 empty bt>lL FMyer: 2 bate cotta* Merchant & Co; 8 bbls Iron 2 crates John Eater; 16half' H 11 ”^l empty G Bergner: 60 feet lumber 1 rrygfr -on C B Baker; 250 tons iron Perkins Livingston^ - ARRIVED THIS DAY, ,vJtK?,?*. Goodwin, from Liverpool Aug2Sd-, to VP mßumm<fc Son—vessel to P Wright <fc- Merchant, 5 days from Dumfries, Va*. with cedar posts to Bacon, Collins & Co. -vtrSin??* Co«*Pton,.4 days from Portsmouth, va. with lumber to Bacon. Collins & Co. Taiem.fi days from Newbem. mdse to Lathbnry. Wickbrsbam <3k Co. * „.S5 r * °S 611 Be , arse - Parker, from'Boston, with log wood to Browning Bros. Townsend, 5 days from Wilmington, NC. with mdse to D S Stetson & Co. «**■*«*« i S«tr Frank Herbert, Crowell. 7 days from Gardiner, with ice to Knickerbocker Ice Co. Schr Olivia, Fox, 1 day from Odessa, Del. with: grain to Jas L Bewley <fc Co. fichr George J Weaver, Smith, 2 days from Milford'. < Del. with bark to Jas Barratt. « Schr Ariadne, Thomas, 2 days from Smyrna^DeL with oata to Jas Barratt. • Schr Boston, Smith, from Providence. Schr Kate V Edwards, Allen, from Bair haven. Schr Sydney Price, Stevens, from Boston. „ • „ ■ „ CLEARED THIS DAY. S^ar. LewisMulfbrd,Moslander, Havana, DSStetson. & Co. Schr Boston, Smith, Fort -Monroe. Huntziuee.- & Co SC QTiSg t &Co £iwar^s * Bedford, Biaklston^ I 0 ? 1 E««le. Kelly, New Bedford, captain. Walker, Bast Cambridge, Audenrled v - Schr Sydney Price, Stevens, Boston, Tyler * Co. .. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange. ' . ~, , LEWES. Del., Oct. 22-10 AM. The following vessels are at the Breakwater: -'elira/ Mary B Hickman, for Philadelphia: Marla Hall. from. New York for Charleston; Caroline O Smith, do fbr- WashlngtomcDwight Davidson, do for do; George H whistler. W E Leggett, Casper Lawson, Edwin J? Allen and Triumph, all bound south . Yours, <fcc. JOSEPH LAFETRA. ‘ O H. Beowking." MEMORANDA Ship J G Richardson, Kendall, cleared at LiverpaoP loth inSt. for thia-pora ~ - Steamer Hunter, Rogers, hence at Providence 224 iDßtant. . Steamer Georgia, Dewer, from Galveston Oct 6, via, Beaufort, NC. 20th (where she put In for coal), at New York yesterday. steamer Ladona, Hovey. frora Galveston Oct e, via, Key West, aad Charleston 80 hours (where she put in. forcoal). at New York yesterday. Brig Wm Gordon (Br), Campbell, cleared at' Boston 22d Inst, for Cork via this port -77?*"*’ • Brin Ella, Foote, hence at St John. R8.22d Inst. Brig Harriet. Hammond, hence for Portland, befbra ' reported ashore at Holmes* Hole, came eff morning ’ or22d Inst, after discharging about 75 tons coal. Schrs W G Bartlett. Hewett; Bowdoin, Baldwin- T H Walnwrlght, Morris; Jacob Jenzie, Lake: Daniel Pierson. Pearson; John S Moulton, Crowley: David a : ■ • ldinst ay ' and 1 OJDonollu «* “ce. Hence atß<*soi t ;Schr Restless, Baxter, cleared at Boston22d tost, fte i - tnlß pOZC* • • - ■*- pon o it K HoiX^U2 B ist f iS?t. N6wbai7port ** M. ’ BaUed **“ St Tha “‘» “ d “ ary EUa * hen^ sSISf o?e? r “ B “**V - .. A STEAMER BURKED. Hosaot the Steamer Thmeore S-Wagner —All tbe Passengers Save-2~-i' Scenes oa Beard £34® Bant ing Vessel, Acv,*c. [Frais tcMiay-a-New York World. 7 ,TUe Charleston steamer Theodore S.Wae-- Th« a « ® the weaiherw as-imtformlyplealaiilL hm S 7 er , thenightscooL• but not unpleasantly sbs The' vessel tr& smooth* a smootn. About 51 o’cleek on Satnrrlnv evenmg there arose an.alarm of fire. The 1 fire was discovered to have f Srcceeded from around the smoke stack-nil hands - ‘ wereunmediatelyemployeS to®; the flames. They made rapidlirMress however, and all efforts to subdue The engine roomwaaen- ' veloped in flames. The pumps ■ were' hut ~ mto requisition, and all possible things were done to put out the fire The captlinafe i length reluctantly announced that shio • , must be abandoned. snip The efforts of the* crew > were nnKTir S JJ e P? who worked %l th pjght and main. The men did ; well. The ladies however, particularly dis tinguished themselves. The title of Weaker : t >olie< *: 1° some, the flesh was - weak, but in all,the spirit was strong. They : emulated the men in working for the com mon safety. • The flames were advancing, threatening destruction everywhere. Discouragement was taking possession of all, when two ves enS t ?S PB ? Je<3 111 Big h t—the brig Velocity and theschooner Enock Pratt. The engines of the Wagner weresiiU moving, so theen-- ameer managed to get near the vessels before they stopped. The lady passengers were then passed on board the brig. One more effort was made at the pumps of the doomed vessel, but about 2 o’clock on Snn-- day morning, the task was given up. The then went on board the schooner, and 1110 Vaguer sank beneath the waves. Oa Monday morning Captain Bahson and Engineer Wyman of the lost ship arrived in this city. gABME BtTgJLETIIB, PORT OF PHTLADKLPH T A-nf-rrvftTiß 24, See Marine Bulletin on Seventh Faye, r *****sxiaaaaß!>
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