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of the city of New York, to Pauline A, daughter of
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HACKER.—At noon, on the 21st Inst., Jeremiah
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McLEOp.-<)n the 24th inst., in Phila.. Mr. Robert
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bankers, of New York, Bon of Mrs. Isabella and the
late Thomas C. McLeod, aged 2fi years.
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s'ny liome from the army in Texas, Captain Henry
Sfxth;U. S. Cavalry, aged 24 years, son of John
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ceiving proposals for the construction of the grading,
masonry and bridge superstructure, and furnishing
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the said Company’s road extending from near the
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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,
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