Daily evening bulletin., October 30, 1866, Image 1

&23SQN PEACOCK. Editor.
.VOLUME XX. —NO. 176.
EVENING BULLETIN.
FUBIJBKEB EVERT EVENING,
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DA3FEB lODDER, Jr„ I FRANCIS WELLS
ThS BSU3RDC Is nerved to subscribers in tne city •*
ll cants paz week, parable to the curlers, or IS .00 per
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HARRIED.
BRADFORD—DEXTER.—A t Albany, by the Rev.
Wm. Tatlook, October 25, William H. Bradford, of
Hew York, and Anna D. Noyes, daughter of George
I exter. Esa„ of Albany. ■ ■■• ■ _ ,
GARRET i—HORNER —On Wednesday, October
24 h, Inst., at tbe ,re>idence of the bride’s lather, by
Rev. Alfred Cookman, Mr. Hicks P.' Garrett to Miss
’Sarah Louise Horner, aU of tbls city. _ **
vUJDWIG—TAJ.COTT.—In Cub&,N. Y.. on tbe 17th
nit., by Bev W. Titus, Edwin F. Ludwig, of Augusta.
Ga.. Oormerly of Northumberland county. Fa.,) and
Mi3sXanraE. Talcstt of tbe former place.
ROGBBB—WADBWOBTH.—On 25m of Ootober, at
Geneseo, N. T.. by the Rev. Dr Ingersoll, M. Edward
Rogers,’ of Philadelphia, and Nannie C„ daughter of
the late General J. S. Wadsworth.
DIED.
BISHOP.—In, New Haven, Ct., on the27th Instant,
Stephen Bishop, (of tbe house of Bishop Brothers, of
that city.) aged 30 years.
COOKE.—At Kent, Ct. October 2Etb, Wm. T. Cooke,
of Bridgeport Ct. aged 66 years and 8 months.
CULVER.—On the 29th Inst. Andrew Culver, Junior,
son of Rev. Andrew and Bailie W. Culver, In theSlst
yeu of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully Invited to attend bis funeral, from the residence
of his parents, 189 Green Lane, Manayunk, on Thurs
day afternoon, November 1, at 1 o’clock. Funeral
services in the Presbyterian Church, Manayunk. *
CURBY.—On the 30 th instant,alter a Bbort but severe
Illness, Mr Johns Curby, eon of Michael Curby, In
the 46th yeu of his age. Due notice of the funeral will
be given. **
NEEDLES.—On the 29th Inßt, in the Mth year of her
Age, Cornelia J„ wife of Edwd. M. Needles, and
daughter of Hnnn aad Eliza Jenkins, of Camden. Del.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect
fully invited to attend ipe funeral, from the residence
of her husband. 1123 Mount Vernon street, on Fourth
day. 31st lust., at 2 o clock. Interment atFair Hill.*
REIFF.—On the 29th Inst., John B. Beiff, in the 64th
yeu of his age. Due notice of the funeral will be
given. *
SMlTH.—Suddenly, on the2Sth Inst., George Smith.
In the 74th yeu of his age. Due notice of the funeral
will he given. ■ _ *
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Dagznu Woolen Shawls, Mosaic Woolen Shawls,
Splendid Plain Silks.
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“ ALIr'WOuL REPS and EMPRESS CLOTHS.
11 FRENCH METBINOES, |1 anC |1 25.
41 JOUYIN A CO. KID GLOVES, ALL SIZES,
and GREY STBIPis D SKIRTING. 2 yds wide.
MOURNING STORE,
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
JOHN B. GOUGH,
Monday Evening, Nov. sth,
Under the auspice* of the Yoons Hen’a Christian As
sociation,
HIS WORLD BENOWNED LECTURE,
“LONDON BY NIGHT.”
Mr. GOUGH has been persuaded ta entirely revise
this popular lecture, which is so often called for in all
parts of the country, and will deliver it for the FIRST
TIMS in its new form, on MONDAY EVENING
nest On TUESDAY EVENING, November 6th, he
will deliver one of his great Lectures on
“T-EMPKKANC-E.”
The sale of Tickets will begin on FRIDAY MORN*
ING, Nov. 2d at ASHMKAD’S, (late Ashmaad &
Ryans) Bookstore, 724 chestnnt street,
Admissions 25 cents and 50 cents.
Deserved seats in Parquet, Parquet Circle and Bal.
cony, 75 cents
Private Boxes iu Balcony, |4 00,
2^“OUR NEW HOUSE;
Pleasures of House Hunting.”
A humorous the above subject, will
delivered by Rev T. DES WTIT TALMaUE, at MU
SICAL FUND HALL, THURSDAY EVENING.
November st» at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the
‘•Phiialethean Literary ABSOCiattoa.”
Reserved Beats. 50 cents; single tickets, 25 cents, for
sale at TEUMPLKB’S HUBiC STORE, corner ;Sev»
enth and Chestnut streets. oc3o*2t rp ; - ~
SCIENXIFIC COUBSB.
UIFAYEIIE college.
.Ia addition to the general Course of. Instruction in
/ui, Department, designed to lay a substantial basis of
Knowledge and scholarly cnltnrei students can pursue
those branches wblcb are essentially practical and
.technical, viz.: ENGLNKKRIN G, Civil, Topograpical
and Mechanical: MINING and MET AM, URG Y:
ARCHTTBCrURE, and the application of Chemistry
,to AGRICULTURE and the ABTB. There la also aJ
fbrdedan opportunity for special study of TRADE and
COMMERCE, of MODERN LANGUAGESandPHIL
OLOGTtandof the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS
.-of onr own country, For Circulars appiy to President
CATTELL. or to Prof. B. B. Y OUNGMAN,
Easton, Pa. April 4,18 W. Clerk of the Faculty,
myMmoS
the ’WOMEN’S. NATIONAL ART AS3O
-
WILL HOLD ITS
JISBT ANNUAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADEL
PHIA, No. 921 CHESTNUT street, opening
November 19, 1866. ; i
Ladles throughouti He country engaged In Art pur
suits are cordially Invited to contribute to the exhibi
tion. The works received to consist and Paintings,ori
ginal or copied, in oil, water colors and pastel; Designs,
(sketches, studies and Drawings, of all descriptions,
included in Art; Sculpture, Models in planer, Wood
and. Steel Engravings, and Lithographs.
Persons having such Works or Art in their posses
. slon, executed by women, are also requested to aid
the cause by loaning them for the exhibition,
The name of the piece the owner’s Or artist’s name
And residence, and, if for sale, the price, must accom
pany each article sent,
oc3o ; tn ths-3t2
jv-=s> YOUNG MEN Prepared far the COUNTING
HOUSE and BUSINESS LIFT at
CRITTENDEN’S COMMEBECIAL COLLEGE,
637 CHESTNUT STREET, cor. of SEVENTH.
Students Instructed separately, and received at any
time. Day and Evening Instruction.
BOOKKEEPING, as. practiced by the best bnslness
.men. *
PENMANSHIP,
COMMERCIAL CALCULATIONS, *c„ Ac.
Catalogues furnished gratis on application, oc29,2trp
NORTH; PENNSYLVANIA BAXLBOAD
DvjyAND GREEN LANE STA'i lON.
The residents of Germantown can have superior
LEHIGH COAL
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Prompt attention given to orders addressed to Box 62,
Germantown Post-office. Office,lsSooth Seventh street,
Philadelphia, or to yardat Green Laneßtatlon.
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A TMOBE'S MTOCED MKA.T.—The undersigned
the Sbove celebrated
Minced Heat, put op In Hrklns ofBB aSt 68 lbs., also in
Barrels and Glass dan, and are prepared to famish It
Twenty-Five Barrels Prime Cranberries landing
wato Avenue, 7 * B - BCfisIEB * «>•■ WkSns?
119 South TENTH Street.
OC3O-3t!*,
MBS. E C. HOYT,
President.
HAIR TONIC,
ECEOPEAH AFFAIRS.
[Correspondence of the Eve. Bulletin.]
Pabis, Tuesday, Oct. 16, ,1866.—Every
thing is extremely flat in Paris. We are
still awaiting the return of the Emperor
and the Court from Biarritz (now spoken of
for the 21st inst.), before we can expect to
see a little life, and bustle begin again
in politics and society. At the present mo
ment the principal “movement party” to be
observed in our streets are the numberless
locataires who are changing residence at
this the great epoque of the year for such
domestic revolutions. On every side you
see in motion the enormous vans of
the different companies who undertake
to transport the goods and chattels
of those hapless families who are undergo
ing that process of “moving” whioh, three
times repeated, is said popularly to be as
bad as having your house burned over your
head. The incidents which you hear re
peated all around you as to the hardships
attending these locomotions are really quite
affecting. What between the exactions of
the landlord whose premises you are leav
ing, and of him whose house you are about
to be allowed to enter, it becomes evident
that “life in Paris” is no longer the pleasant,
easy-going affair ''it once was. The
proprietor whom you quit insists
that the rooms which you have been paying
an enormous rental for during the last six
or seven, or nine or ten years, and whioh
you therefore meekly suppose you had a
right to leave a little the worse for wear—
he insists that you should leave them in
such a state as though yon and your wife
and children and servants and friends bad
never entered them. On the other hand the
new landlord, who has been obliging enough
to rent you a house and allow you to pay
him for it, takes the obligation with con
ditions which limit the privilege of occcu
pation to its very narrowest boundaries.
As to cats, dogs, . parrots, flower
pots, and such old-fashioned and innocent
luxuries as. tenants once thought them
selves entitled to indulge in—these have
been long since prohibited accessories in
all French houses which come under the
designation of being bien tenues , or, in
other words, made as untenantable as pos
sible. Children, if numerous, are either
objected to or made the excuse for de
manding a higher rental; and it is not
long since a Parisian householder sig
nalized hiinself by making a general ob
jection to wives! Garmons, he thought,
were the only available occupants, and
so he actually made the terms of location
a premium upon celibacy! In sober
truth and earnestness, the expense and ex
actions attending a residence in Paris are
Beginning seriously to counterbalance the
advantages and agr&ments which undoubt
edly are to be found here. What is to be
come of ns next year, is a reflection which
already derogates largely from the splendor
and amusement which are in preparation
for us. Neither is the prospect encourag
ing for the advent of our expected visitors.
I was requested the other day tomakesome
inquiries as to the terms likely to be de
manded for apartments during the period
of the Exhibition, I was amused at the
reception I met with in the course
of mjr investigations. Many holders
of furnished apartments had evidently not
yet made up their minds as*to how much
they might venture to ask, or at least could
not muster courage to make known'the
enormity of their demands. They higgled
and beat about the bush, in the evident de
sire only to And out what figure you were
disposed to listen to. The few who had
come to a decision on the subject for them
selves had taken care not to err on the side
of moderation; and I found that middle
sized suits of rooms, which I had known to
be hitherto rented for seven or eight hun
dred francs per month, were likely to be
raised to twice that amount, or even to two
thousand francs. Considering that the rate of
living in Paris is certain,under the combined
influence of an unfavorable season and the'
influx of Btrangers, to be increased in s still
greater proportion, it becomes evident that
the festivities of the Champs de Mars will
not be,as .the French say, o laportee de tout
le monde. Tho recent inundations have just
sent the price of wood for fuel in Paris np to
60r. the two thousand pounds, at -Which rate
it is considered a great economy to burn
coal at 55f. for the same quantity, or more
than double the sum paid for the same arti
cle in London.
1 Subscriptions for the sufferers from the
inundations continue to flow in and will
soon probably amount to a million of
francs. But the disaster has been great
and will cost many millions before it is rec
tified.
The Emperor has just conferred the title
of Count upon General Elenry, one of the
most prominent and least-popular and re
spected of his co- conspirators in the coup
d'ttut. ' \
The Moniteur has hastened to contradict a
statement put forth, by a religious paper
strongly in favor of the temporal power of
the Pope, to the effect that the soldiers of the
Roman Legion wore the French tricolor
cookade. The official journal announces
that the men wear no cookade and carry no
flag bnt that of the Pope. The distinction
thus drawn ,is important at this moment,
when the papal party in’B’ranoe are making
every effort to represent the new Legion as
only a continuation of the old army of occu
pation. It is this inference which the
Government seem anxious to repudiate in
the'eyes of the country.
The Indian War.
Leavenworth, Oot. 29, The Denver
paper publish atrocities committed by the
Utahs, among'them a Mr.Cotts, whom they
killed, severing his head from his body,
and carrying it with them- tied to a saddle.
No estimate is yet made of the number of
head of cattle, horses and mules shot down
and driven off &not yet recovered, bnt the
number is very great.
From New Mexico we learn that the In
dians are carrying on with a high hand.
They attacked the herd at Fort Mcßae, and
ran off after killing two of the guards. A
party of negro troops, sent in pursuit, did
hot succeed m recapturing the stook. These
Indians Jhave driven off herds from Gamp
Memlres and Fort Cummings, and com
plete their work by doing the same at Fort
Mcßae. At the Membres and Fort Cum
mißgs they not only ran off the sheep and
beef herds, bnt also the horses of the cavalry
companies stationed there. In not one sin
gle instance were they overtaken, although
pursuit was invariable, at Fort Mcßae as
well as at other places. The herd was
stolen within Bight of the post.— N. Y. Trib,
Death of Henry A. Wise’s Bbother
—John J. Wise, of Norfolk, Va., a brother
of Henry At Wise, died last week. He sent
several sons into the rebel army. One of
them was wounded at Petersburg,
PHILADELPHIA, TUES^A
The Italian Opera.
Notwithstanding a pelting rain, last even
ing, there was a large audience at the Aca
demy of Mnsic. Faust was played-better
than it has ever been, done here by the Ital
ians. Miss Kellogg’s “Margarita” is a
careful, well-studied personation, and she
sings.the music extremely well, acting, too,
with intelligence, and with more feeling
than usual. The “Faust” ofMazzoleni is
one of his best efforts. Bpllini makes a good
“ Valentin,” and Mile. Stella Bonheur was
an agreeable “Siebel.” That fine artist,
Antonucci, sings the music of “ Mephisto
pheles” splendidly; but his acting, although
good, is unsatisfactory to those who remem
ber the extraordinary performance of Herr
manns in the same part. As a whole, how
ever, Faust was well given, and it was re
ceived with very hearty applause.
- This evening L’Etoile du Ford is to he re
peated for the last time, and so great is the
desire to see it, that a great part of the seats
were engaged yesterday. To-morrow even
ing The Huguenots Will be given, with the
whole strength of the company.
IMPOBTANT TO THE LOVBBS OP AbT.— The
public are greeted with a rare display of
Paintings at 1110 Chestnut street, Messrs.
Thomas Birch & Sons’ Art Gallery, consist
ing of oil and water colors, productions
undoubtedly of a class seldom offered to
public competition. We foreshadow some
lively bidding upon the high-class English
pictures; the water colors, which are ex
quisite, should certainly make their mark,
being almost new to us. In the collection
are some works produced nearer home.
Among them are a few by our favorite
artist and fellow-townsman, G. W. Niohol
son. Our readers can view these valuable
and attractive Paintings each day and
evening till the nights of sale, Thursday
and Friday next.
Facts and Fancies.
The English papers are making a great
fuss over the fact,.that the Princess of
Wales gave a poor little girl a silver nose to
replace her lostone. We can’t see any great
thing in the Princess giving a poor girl a
silver cent or two. (a sliver scenter, too.)
The Wantastiqnet company are abont to
build a first-class hotel in Brattleborough.
it is to be hoped they will not call It the
Wantastiqnet House. And yet how few
hotels there are that do not want-to-Bttck-it
on their boarders.
There Is a dog hospital in Paris. The
amount of quinine bark used is enormous.
Why are dogs like Joe Miller. Because
they furnish wags with their tales.
We see it stated that the city of Elizabeth
has just celebratedher two hundredth birth
day. The Jersey folks have made a great
mistake; Elizabeth waß born 1533.
The copperheads in Delaware are run
ning Gove Saulsbnry for Governor, against
James Biddle. Although Saulsbnry is half
a Gove-rnor already, we hope so good a
Riddle won’t be Gove up.
Jarrett proposes to exhibit a tribe of wild
Indians in Paris. Don’t know what tribe
these Injnns belong to, bnt Jarrett evi
dently means to make Sioux out of them.
On Fernando Wood’s election as Mayor
of New'S ork, John Van Boren remarked to
him: “Mr. Wood, allow me to observe to
yon that Mr. Tieman went into the Mayor’s
office an honest man, and is coming out a
scoundrel; permit me to hope that in your
case it will be the reverse.”
ABCSEHms.
At the Arch last evening a horribly stupid
play was brought out,which was only saved
from utter failure by the wonderful genius
of Mrs. John Drew. It is called “Women
Will Talk.” Mrs. Drew, as the heroine,
made really a capital thing out of the char
acter, but nobody else in the-cast did any
thing with their parts. It will be repeated
this evening, together with that capital bur
lesque “Mazeppa,” whioh was enthusiasti
cally received last night. At the Walnut
Mr. Booth appears in “Ruyßlas” and “ Dou
Osar de Bazan.” At the Chestnut Miss
Leo Hudson appears in “The French Spy.”
The afterpiece is “Nursey Chickweed.” At
ihe City Museum and the American lively
bills are presented. At Assembly Building
Signor Blitz iB the star. At the Eleventh
Street Opera House the Minstrels give a
capital programme.
[For the Phlla. Evening Bulletin.]
A Suggestion.
In answer to the query, “Why Andrew
Johnson persists in pardoning so many
counterfeiters, and what will deter him
from continuing so to do?” I suggest the
most effectual check to such an abase of the
pardoning power, will be, to compel him to
receive his salary in counterfeit money,
which will also be an equivalent for tup
services.
As the community at large have suf
fered by a spurious currency, no difficulty
need be apprehended in raising the requi
site amount. Should there be a stringency,
Mr. Johnson has already pardoned a suffi
cient number to make the business quite
lively again. V. B.
National Medals.
To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin:—
It may be interesting to know that one of
the gold medals presented by Congress to
Col. De Fleury, after his attack on Stony
Point, July 10.1779, mentioned in the Bul
letin on Saturday last, is now in. the pos
session of our townsman, Samuel B. Fales,
Esq. This medal Is mentioned bv Loßsing
in his History of the Revolution as having
been struck in silver, whioh is an error. It
is a handsome gold medal, corresponding,
with Lossing’s desorimion,except as regards
the material. , " w.
Philadelphia, Oot. 29,1866.
Byron’s Tomb. —A Mr. Doran writes to
the Ball Mall Gazette to describe the lament
able condition of Hnoknall Toakard church,
in which lie buried the bodies of Lord
Byron, his mother, and “Ada, sole daughter
of my house and heart.” ' The chnroh was
used Tby Cromwell’s troopms as a stable.but
no farmer with any regardr for his horses
would think of placing them there -now.
Should a shower of rail?come on daring the
service, a-portion of the scanty congregation
has to migrate from one part of the chnroh
to another. The building must shortly fall'
down if not restored. Mr. Doran asks if
Englishmen will not restore the resting
place of their great poet from suoh shame
ful negleot. If they will not, he proposes to
appeal to the Greeks—rather a hopeless idea,
we fear, though Byron did die on their bo
iielf at Missplonghi.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY,
Colonel Camobeil Sent as Minister to
the Juarez Government—His Official
; Instructions—Napoleon will With-'."
■ draw His Troops this Winter—
The United States will Support
a Mexican Republic—They
• will Furnish Force if Ne
cessary—A Leading Ar
: my Officer to Accom
pany Mr. Campbell
—Mexico Cedes a
Large Territory
to the United
States, &c.
i Washington, Monday, Ooti 29. Col.
Lewis D. Campbell, the United States
Minister to Mexico, left this city last even
ing, with credentials addressed to the
Juarez Government, and with full instruc
tions, conforming in every respect with the
tripartite arrangement previously commu
nicated to you, between the United States,
France, and the Republic of Mexico.
Mr. Campbell will probably visit' his
home in Ohio, on his way to Mexico.
Under the arrangement nowxperfected,
Napoleon is to commence the withdrawal of
the French army from Mexico next month,
and although he has a year from that time
to complete the evacuation of Mexico, It is
more than probable that the whole army
will be withdrawn by, or before the Ist of
January next.
Of course, with the withdrawal of the
French Army, Maximilian takes his de-
So, and the farce of an empire on the
American Continent is ended.
Jt is proper to state that this determina
tion of the political Government of Mexico
has been attained through amicable nego
tiations with all parties interested.
In view of the great political changes an
ticipated in Mexico under the adjustment of
her governmental affairs brought abont
under this management, and the weakness
of the Juarez Government, after the pro
tracted wars that have been forced npon it,
to maintain its existence, it has become
imperative—in the interests of all
nations concerned—that a stable Go
vernment should be guaranteed to her by
some responsible power. It is possible that
the term “guaranteed” is rather strong to
express the relations assumed toward the
Republic by the Government of the United
States; bnt the Administration undertakes
to extend to the Juarez Government in
Mexico a protectorate, which is to be opera
tive, however, only in case of an emergency.
In plainer terms, our army on the Rio
Grande, and our fleet in the Gulf, are to be
held in readiness to assist Juarez, should
such assistance become necessary to him in
eelablisbing his authority as Presidentof the
Republic, and in bringing to work in full
vigor the machinery of a Republican Gov
ernment.
In order to an intelligent exercise of this
possible armed intervention, the Adminis
tration haa determined tosend with Minister
Campbell a military! officer of high rank,
eminent abilities and sound judgment,
clothtd with power to act in the emergency
referred to. Lieut. Gen. W. T Sherman is
now spoken of in this connection, and also
Major General W. S. Hancock. The re
sponsible mission, it is strongly indicated,
has been tendered to Gen. Sherman, and
there is reason to believe that he will accept
it, bnt shonld he decline,Gen. Hancock will
undoubtedly be sent.
It is no part of the plan to move any
United States force into Mexico, until an oc
casion Bhall arise to render such a resort
necessary. Bnt it is hoped that the attitude
assumed by the United States thus publicly
in sending an officer to Mexico clothed with
this power, will be sufficient to overawe the
various political leaders of that couutry,and
the numerous rival factions that beset the
land and lead to a unanimous submission to
and support of the only government that has
any pretensions to regularity and constitu
tionality, or any ability to establish and
maintain itself.
•In consideration of the friendly offices
thus assumed by the Government of this
country toward Mexico, the Government of
that country, which is thns recognized and
established, agree to cede to the United
States the Territory as heretofore commu
nicated to yon. The precise boundary of
the Territory thus to be ceded, it is not pos
sible at this time to give. But the future
southwestern boundary line of the United
States will probably leave the Rio
Grande at or near the point where
it now does; bnt taking a
more southerly course, will run in a straight
line to the Gulf of California, striking that
gulf at a point sonth of Guayamas, so as to
include that important seaport within the
limits of the United States. We then gain
the whole of the peninsula of Lower Cali
fornia, with the more valuable portions of
the States of Sonora and Chihuahua, with'
all their immensely rich deposits of pre
cions metals, the undisturbed navigation of
the Golf of California, and a much shorter
and more practicable route to the Faciflo
coast
Tour correspondent has been made a tar
get for the attacks of some newspaper
writers because of his exclusive foreshadow
ing of this very important adjustment of
the relations of the three countries inter
ested; hut it will soon be seen that his state
ments have been correct, and those who
have attempted to contradict or throw
'doubt upon them have merely shown that
they knew nothing about the matter.
A Communication from Gen. Ortega to
Gen. Sheridan.
New Orleans, Monday, Oot. 29.—Gen
eral : On my arrival in this city I read
in the newspapers an official communica
tion, signed by you and" addressed to 'the
commander of the sub-district of the Bio
Grande, Brownsville, Texas. Said com
munication touches and deoides in a mili
tary manner, international questions of a
grave import concerning the neutrality
laws, which are violated from the moment
you priSmise the heartiest support to
the adherents of Senor Juarez, and
denominate a faction the upholders of
the legitimate (Government of. Mexico.
This, Sir, although indirectly, is an attempt
to impose on that nation a Government
against its will and against its constitu
tional laws,- It is also an attempt to inter
fere in the internal questions of the Republic
of Mexico, which sue alene has the right to
decide, The Government of the United
JCTOBEK 30,1866.
MEXICO.
fConosrondence of the N. T. Times.]
States has not heretofore taken any part in
Uiem, lat first could not understand your
communication; bnt mature reflection con
vinced me at last that it didnot concern me.
Such was my impressionjand the day before
yesterday I called atyonr residence to have
the honor of paying yon my respects, in
testimony of the good relations existing'
between the United States and the
Republic, which I heartily desire to pre
serve. Yesterday, however, two officials of
your staff handed me a copy of the above
mentioned document, without ante-commu
nication, for me, and only with my name
written on the envelope, as a sign that it
.was addressed to me, I once more read its
contents and could not be persuaded that it
concerned me at all, or what yon meant by
transmitting it to me in snch a manner, fbr
reasons to which it is at present not neces
sary to refer, but which are well known to
your Government and to a great por
tion of the inhabitants of the United
States. I have been, residing in New
York, and left that' city on the 25th
inst. on the way to my native country,
traversing the territory of this illustrious
nation, under the safe guide and protection
of its laws. It is not Ignored in tne United
States that I am the Constitutional Presi
dent of the Mexican Republic; thatsnch po
sition requires of me the performance of
great and painful duties, from which no
one, unless violating the laws, can divert
me but the same supreme national will that
granted me their votes. That it is not the
de facto Government of Juarez, the only
one friendly to the United States, bnt that
the great Liberal Party of my coun
try is also friendly, and Jnarez
ceased to represent it from the
day he violated the Constitution of the
Republic. For the above reasons I deny
that I have created or represented a faction.
I am the true and only representative of
the constitutional law of Mexico, to which
nation, I repeat, belongs the right to decide
its internal questions. For the same reason
Jfaat I represent the constitutional principles
of Mexico, I have acted, during my resi
dence in the United States, with the propri
ety and discretion which my mission de
mands. The superior authorities of the
United States have more than one proof of
•he truth of my assertion. I am determined
to act always’ with the same
propriety and discretion, and yon
may rest assured that I will not violate the
neutrality spoken of in your communica
tion. Those who Bupport my claims have
Dof even taken part in the conspiracies
which have been formed on the Rio Grande
to subvert the present order of things on the
Mexican side. In conclusion, I most state
that the reason that Jnarez has heretofore
been considered as the head of the Liberal
Government of Mexico, is owing to the fact
of my necessary absence from that country,
the evidence of which can be established
by official documents that I have already
published. Ido not admit that your com
munication applies to me. Reasons of pub
lic policy, which Ido not desire to men
tion, and are readily understood, affirm me
in this belief; otherwise I would be more ex
plicit and protest against said communica
tion in the name or Republic,
and of the laws of nations, appealing for
justice, if Decesaary, to the wise and liberal
laws of the United States,
I have the honor to be your humble ser
vant, [Signed] J. G. Obtbqa.
Toe Bio Grande.
Galveston, Monday, Oct. 29.—Browns
ville papers are received. A new revolution
from Ortega is anticipated. Skirmishing
was going on between Cortina and Canales.
Cortina has postponed the attack on Mata
moras, at the request ot Tapia, Jnarez had
sent Commissioners to Canales who put
them into the calaboose.
Boiler Explosion.— Shortly 'before
twelve o’clock, soon, yesterday an explo
sion occurred at the large rolling min of
James Wood <£ Co„ Temperancevlile,which
fortunately, however, was not serious in its
results. Wood’s rolling mill stands upon
made ground on the bank of the Ohio, jnst
below the mouth of Saw Mill Run. The
boiler which exploded was the middle one
of a nest of those which stood nearest the
river. They are forty-twoinch boilers, and,
we were ;told by one of the employes, have
been frequently repaired. Boring the
morning of yesterday a leak was discovered
at the side of the exploded boiler, near the
front, where a new piece had been riveted
in below but a week ago. The engineer or
dered that but a small amount of steam be
kept up, for fear that the ‘’split” would
spread. Notwithstanding this precaution, it
burst at the time stated —one whole piece
being thrown out, and, in addition, part of
the pieces on each side. The piece tom out
was at the top, and not below where the
fire touches it. The boilers stand facing
west, and the iron gave way at the river
side, the explosion tearing through the iron
towards Coal hill, and flapping itas itwere,
upon the inside boiler. It was fortunate
that the break was upon the fiver side, as
the force of the steam and water went that
way, throwing the timbers of the building,
the sheet iron roof and thesmokepipe river
wards into the bank. Had it been other
wise a number of lives would nodoubthave
been lost. At the time of the explosion a
laborer named Patrick Biscon was upon
the top of the boilers, cleaning away
rubbish which had been left upon them.
He was scalded upon the right arm and leg
by the water being dashed back after strik
ing the timbers. Another man, named
SimonHissel, was standing near the boiiers,
and was struck on one of his legs by a piece
of falling timber. —Pittsburgh Despatch.
Abrupt Termination to a Honey
moon.—A few miles distant from the Har
tlepools is a picturesque little village called
Cswpen Bewley, and during the past few
days an unusual amount of gossip has been
created by an abrupt termination to a wed
ding party. A fair damsel, the daughter of
an official on the railway, who resides at
Cowpen Bewley, was wooed and won byjan
ardent lover. On Saturday week the wed
ding came off, and the bridal party ad
journed ta the bride’s father’s house, and
the. marriage festivities were being enjoyed,
when a change came o’er the scene. A lady
made her appearance in the midst of the
joyful group and olaimed thebridegroom as
her lawfully wedded lord, and despite the
remonstrances.and tears of the bride elect,
convinced the marriage guests of her pri
ority of claim, and marched the fellow off
to his horn*. It is more than probable that
legal proceedings will result.— Newcastle
Express.
Emigration to Texas. The Chatta
nooga (Tenn.) Union of the 23d inat. says:
“Still another train of emigrants from this
State to Texas, passed through here oaMon
day. It was composed of twelve wagons
and about twenty-five men, women and
children. We hear of three or four families
in this town who propose leaving for . the
same State in a few days. If Texas is re
ceiving as many emigrants from- other por
tions of the country as she is from East Ten
nessee, her vast prairies wiU soon be filled
up.” - ‘
F. L. FETHERSTON. PaiMer.
DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS.
A Stsasgee’s Pocket Picked of $1,309.
—Some time since,: Mr. Jonathan Town
send, a drover and frnit dealer, residing at
Haynesville, New Jersey, left home to go
west-after stock. He reached Zanesville
and made some purchases, after .which he
left the Stacy House, wherehe stopped in
Zanesville, for this city, arriving here at
half-past ten o’clock on Saturday mom
igg. and stopping at the Red .Lion
Hotel. _ On leaving Zanesville he • had
54,850 m greenbacks. This sum he di
vided, placing $4,300, closely wrapped
in a piece of newspaper,, in his left
trousers pocket, and the re
mainder, $550, in the breast pocket of his
7®®* * ' Saturday evening Mr. Townsend
left the Red Lion for the Union Depot, to
take thetram east. When at the comer of
St. Clair and Penn streets he examined his
money and found both packages all right.
He took a street car for tne depot, ahdstodd
upon the rear platform with wit- or sever!
others. At the depot he bought his ticket
with money from his vest pocket, and pro
ceeded to his berth' in the sleeping-car.
After taking his seat he nut his hand in his
trousers pocket and found that the pocket
had been cut open and the money taken
out. He cried out immediately that he
was cut and instant search was made
through the train for ]the thief and
money, though without any - re
sult. Hr. Townsend remembers - now, ««■*
as soon as the alarm was given two men
came to him and evinced thej deepest inte
rest, advising him at once to offer a reward
of at least $2,000, as by that means he might
possibly recover his money. The victim of
this heavy robbery got off the tram- at- La
trobe, having concluded that he most have
lost his money before entering the cars, and
returned to this city where he immediately
made his loss known to the authorities; The
police are making every effort to trace out
the thief, though so far unsuccessfully. Mr.
Townsend offers a reward of $l,OOO for the
recovery of his money, and $5OO for the ap
prehension of the thiefi $2,000 of the stolen
money was in $lOO bills, $1,300 in $5O, and
the remainder in $5 and $lO hills.—Pitts
burgh Gazette.
A Show Not oh the Bh.es.— Dan Rice,
the celebrated showman, gave - an enters
tainment in our town last Friday. He had
previously purchased of Mr. Huffhagle, of
New Hope, a cow and bull calf of thehnmp
back India kind, imported by Mr. Hoff
nagle, from Calcutta, and the only ones of
the species in private hands in this country.-
Early on Friday morning, Daniel, full of
faith and judgment, went to Mr. Hnffha
gle’s to get his stock, accoiqpanied by seve
ral of the leading men of the Menagerie.
The cow was running loose in a large sta
ble where she had been confined for about
five months. Suffering under her ill treat
ment, her disposition was; anything hut
amiable. After many acrobatic feats—
worthy the troupe—the co w was haltered.
A promiscuous crowd of menagerie, circns
men and spectators were in the yard,
waiting to see the sacred bovine led forth.'
No sooner were the doors opened than tbo
cow made a rush upon the crowd. Daniel,
with his cottoU umbrella, landed about
three feet in' a puddle of sacred liquid, while
Mr. Forpaugh went under with a foul blow
in the rear, patting a pile of sacred manure,,
and sundry individuals gave novel exhibi-.
lions of feats of ground and lofty tumbling,
not on the bills. The cow had cleared the
yard, and the astonished showmen, as-they
stood on fences, and gazed from tress, con
cluded the cow was most too sacred to be
touched. Recovering their self
they succeeded in capturing the sacred ani
mal [with a lasso,and have her safely in hand
on the way to Dan’s farm, in Erie county.—
Doylestown Democrat.
Suicide of an Eccentric Schoolmas
ter.—Mr. J. Carlyon, one of the connty
coroners of Cornwall, held an inquest, a
few days ago on the body of Henry Nicholla,
a well-educated man, who had for some
years followed the occupation of a school
master, but who for the last four years had
excluded himself from the world in a most
eccentric fashion. He purchased a
ship’st launch, which he decked over
and converted _ into a sailing boat,
in which he lived alone, having no
communication with the onter world except
when compelled to go on shore for necessa
ries. During the summer months he cruiseci:
about the coast, and in winter he laid up in
some creek. The boat was badly injured
by the gales of last winter,-and since that
time he has remained in Mylor Greek, near
Falmouth. Not having been seen on deck
for several days the boat was boarded by a
cousin of Nicholla,-who lives at Mylor; On
entering the cabin he found the deceased-on
the bed with bis bead banging down on the
floor. He was quite dead, and held a re
volver pistol in his hand. He had shot
himself in the mouth.- He had been dead
several days. The coroner’s jury returned
a verdict of “Temporary insanity.” -
The Evening Star Disaster,— On Fri
day last the official investigation into the
circumstances attending the loss of the
Evening Star was concluded and the report
was forwarded to Washington. From the
report it appears that the wreck was-caused
by an insufficiency of crew. Her entire
crew numbered only 10 men, four of whom
were detailed as quartermasters, leaving the
effective force only six. The evidence shows
that she laid in the trough of the sea from
10 o’clock at night until 6 the next morn
ing, and that no effort was made to get her
head to the wind, though her rudder was
intact for most of this time, and jury masts
could have been rigged. The wafer was
often breast high on her decks, and passed
into the hold through the hatchways and
other apertures ob the deck and sides.
There was no carpenter on board to repair
damages. Tiie hull of the ship was staunch
and tight, the engines were in perfect order,
and .properly manned, the vessel could have
lived through the cyclone and carried her
passengers into port in safety.—.N. Y. Tri-
: Buried Aliys—' The Basle journals ref
late the following strange incident; “At
the funeral a few days since of a man named
Pierre WyBS, at Taurelu, near this place, the
grave-digger, while throwing in the earth,
thought he heard a sound as if two blows
had been struck in the coffin. He accord
ingly informed the clergyman, bat the latter
believing that the man was under an illu
sion, wonld not allow the- coffin to be
opened. The matter having come to the
knowledge of the authorities the. next-day*
they ordered the exhumation of the body,
when the man was found to be'still alive*
but expired forty-eight hoars afterwards.”
An Immense Fish.— The otherjday, ao
cording to a Boston paper, a horse-mackerel
was found struggling in shallow water in
side the sea wall at -the foot of Bremen
street, East Boston. It was towed ashore
near the Atlantic Works, and theri mea
sured, it being ten feet in length, seven fa
circumference, and weighs between eight
hundred and one thousand pounds. It is
supposed it got inside of the wall through
one of the gaps, and was unable target out.
again, owing to sqtara ofthetids,