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VOLW/EIX..-LNO. 188.
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T. L. TRTNERSTON f THOS. I.WILLIAMSOIe
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MARRIED.
ELLLS—CORNEA n the Sth 'inst., by Friends' .
-ceremony Nathan W. RWs and Rebecca H, Corner,
••both of this city.
ZULAWBEY—NORTON.—In Brooklyn, Nov. 7 by
Kiev. A.:P. Putnam, Ladialans L. Zulawsky to Emma
C.. eldest daughter of John Norton. Jr., Of Brooklyn.
DIED.
BEALE.-4t Washington, on the 10th inst., Robert
Beale, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.
BURRS.—On the 12th Instant, Emily, youngest
daughter of Edward and J. V. Burke.
The friendit of the family are respectfully invited to
attend the Dotterel, from the residence of her parents,
No. 26 North Ninth street, at 2 o'clock, on Wednesday.
Interment at Woodland Cemetery.
BIIRLING.—At Milton, N. Y., on the 11th instant,
Elizabeth, widoW of the late Thos. H. Burling, in the
• 71th year of her age.
FOGG.—In Washington,on the 11th inst., Lieut.
Leander W. Fogg, 12th 11. S. Infantry. '.
REIM.—At Bristol, Bucks county, Pa., Nov. 9th,
'Thos. Shewell Helm, son of Daniel M., and Mary L.
Beim, in the Xid year of his age.
The funeral will take place from the house of Mrs.
Harriet D. B. Reim, 625 Marshall street, on Thursday
looming, next(lsth inst.) at 10 o'clock. To proceed to
the family burial ground.
LACEY.-111 Mount Holly, N S., on Sunday evening,
the 11th inst., Susan N. Lacy, widow of the late Taos.
R. Lacey.
The relatives and friends of the family are invited
to attend the,funeral, from the resicence of William
N. Shinn, Mount Holly, on Wednesday, at 2 o'c:ock,
P. M.
PELL.—At New York, Nov. 11th very suddenly,
Maria Louisa, wife of Robert L. Pell, Esq., and daugh
ter of the late James L. Brinekerhoff.
FELTON —At New York, Nov. 11, Mary Childs
Franklin, wife of Guy R. Pelton, and only daughter of
mfr. Homer Franklin, aged 2.9 ears.
REDIN.—In Georgetown, D. 0., Nov. 10th, William
itedin, to the 75th year of his age.
SCA TES.—At New Orleans, Nov. sth, Alexander W.
Scatea, Esq.. aged 62, a native of Frankford, Pa.
SLITHES.L.AND.—In Washington, D. C , on the 12th
inst., Rate 8., wife of Dr Charles Sutherland, U. S.
Army, and daughter of toe late Judge Brewer, of An
napolis,
AUSTRALIAN CRAPES, at 90 cts. and $1:
_U Black Baratheaa, 50 cents; Black Victoria Cords,
87,11 to si; Black Poplin Alpacas, 87.,‘.: and $1; Black Al.
,pacas and Glossy Mohairs,l4 cents to $1 50, 4,:c.
BESSON dt SON, Mourning Store.
No. 918 Chestnut street.
"LNYRE & LANDELL ARE PREPARED TO SUIT
_EA FAmii.rp'S WITH '
HEAVY CANTON FLANNELS.
STOUT WELSH FLANNELS.
IINSHRINKLNG FLANNELS.
LINEN AND COTTON bILEETINGS.
SPECLAM NOTICES.
THE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY
1::=I
'Young Men's Chrislan Association.
OF PHILADELPHIA,
WM be held In the
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
ON
'Thursday Evening,Nov.ls.
AddreEses by
- Rev.-Er-CLAES. .of Albany.
BISHOP SIDIPSON, of Plated&
D. 1.. MOODY, Esq., of Chicago.
Oen. HOWAIID and many distinguished strangers
will be present .
Tleketa (a portion for reserved seats) will be ready
tiorgrataitona distribution on Monday next, at the
HALL OF THE ASSOCIATION.
No. 1210 CHESTNUT Street, and
B, 724 CHESTNUT Street.
By Order of the Committee.
WIDPAIIDEE SCIENTIFIC COIJESE.
p4v-IV.4"4:•i**:irtil). l Fre.rl:4
In addition to the general Course of Instruction in
Shia Department, designed to lay a substantial basis of
druowledge and scholarly culture, students can pursue
those branches which are essentially practical and
technimloria.: ENGINEERING, Civil, Topograpical
and MINING and IiETALLURGY;
ARIZOFITTEMTURE, and the application of Chemistry
to AtaI3MILTURE and the ARTS. There Is also
forded an opportunity for spwlal study of TRADE and
COMMERCE, of MODERN L ANGUAGES and PHIL
OLOGY; and ca the MISTOBY and INSTITUTIONS
of our Own country. For Circulars apply to President
OA.TTRLL,Or to Prof. 8.. R. 1 OUNGUAN,
Narrow, PA. Apr 114,1886. Clerk of the FacnitY.
myB4intoi
10b SEAMEN,—A series of meetings will be held
in the following Churches this week, the object
-of which is to awaken a deeper interest In this city in
behalf of the men of the sea:
Tuesday Evening. the Baptist Church, Spruce street,
near iftn,—Bev. Mr. Smith's.
Wednesday Evening, Calvary Church, corner Fif
teenth and Locnst,—Pretbyterlan.
Thursday Evening, corner of Eleventh and 'Wood,-
-Congregational—D. D. Stockton.
' Friday Evening, Union Methodist Church, Fourth
:street above Market.
• Saturday Evening,Beth el Church, corner of Shippen
and Tenn streets. nol3-strp
IV — UNIV3INSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.—
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH AN-
N ERSANY.—The stated aannal meeting of the
Society of the Alumni will be held in the College Ilan
-on TUESDAY, November Igtb, 1866, at 4 o'clock P. M.
CHARLES E. LEX, President.
JOIEN M. ComaNs, Rec. bec'ry. nos-4tlp2
BBTROIMnr'S
HAIR TONIC.
MOST EFFROTGA.L, BE AITTEFUL, AND
HIGHLY PERFUMED PREPARATION
"TANT. jr23.e.tai,th-tired
PisHOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. ~.1518 and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department, Medi.
trastment and medicmea tarnished gratuitously
to the poor.
SAD BEREAVEMENT. On Sunday last,
'the remains of three little children of Wm.
Henry and Patience Thompson, who reside
• in Christiana Hundred,near the Rising Sun
Tavern, were interred in the cemetery of
:Mt. Salem M. E. Church, at one time. On
Thursday morning, Anna, aged about four
years was in her usual health and ate her
-breakfast. During the day she was taken
ill with diptheria,and expired at ten o'clock
the same night. - John, between two and
- three years of age; was next seized with the
• disease and died on Friday morning. A
third, Fanny, between six and seven years
old, fell a victim to the terrible malady, and
during Friday , night death paten end to her
• sufferings. - His only remaining child was
- taken down ,with the disease, but we are
- pleased to learn that hopes are entertained
•of its recovery. Thus have these parents
'been bereaved of all their little ones with
one exception. It was 'a sad sight to see
three little coffins in one funeral procession.
.--Wilmington (Del.) Journal.
•^WRY MAx•im," said the "gentlemanly
- proprietor" of a well-known Sewing Ma
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chine establishment, of this city, to an un
_prejuteed customer —" The, Willcox dr.
-Gibbs machine, compared with ours, is like
.a one armed man compared to a man 'every
whit whole.'" "Yes," • replied the lady,
!'"but [then a. Masoa-Gasmter. HOWARD is
far superior in every good work, to an HoN.
Jonr' MORRISSEY."
THE Barnes - ERN Pauss.--:-Bir. J. E. Britton
has discontinued the Columbia Patriot and
reatuned the publication of his old paper,,
the North Carolina Guardian, Charlotte, N:
C. The Charleston Mercury is also soon to
2reappear, under the charge of its well-known
editor, Mx. Rhett.
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A Scene on Chestnut Street.
[For the Philadelphia Evening bulletin:l
Since reading those delightful descrip
tions of the gamins of Paris by Victor
Hugo in Les Miserable,s, the earnest inqui
rer has endeavored to find in the streets of
her own city a fac-simile in the shape of a
news-boy, boot-black, errand boy or office
runner: The search was fruitless. If I ap
proached a group of boot-blacks seated on
their boxes, in angry or serious conshita
tion on some violated ornewly-adopted rale
of their business, a pause was sure to occur
and in every eager upturned face I read,
"Madam, if you want an errand done,l'm
your man!" Then I walked away isap
pointed. If some saucy rascal had quietly
labelled his box GAP Snxn, I should have
been delighted; but no, I was an American
woman, and they were—who knows what?
Perhaps a nursery of congressmenand gen
erals. How I longed to be a boy just for an
hour, on the Custom House steps. I would
be sure to come in contact with a Gav
roche and very likely be informed
that "Uncle Sam happened to be
the owner of these steps," and I
would please to be informed that the speaker
was a nephew of his, and as the boys were
about beginning a game of I spy' I'd just
have the goodness to • vamoose.' Bat I
need not call on my imagination, for Gay
roche has appeared. A few days ago, I was
standing at a window of one of the numer
ous boarding houses on Chestnut street, just
in the act of lowering the blinds when I
caught sight of a gamin! Yes, there he was,
seated on a step so narrow that his little rag
ged companion had to squeeze in between
him and the cold stone jamb of the door.
The Colton Association never launched a
trembling victim of tooth-ache into crystal
palaces and floating gardens with more
magic quickness than that boy carried me
to the Chestnut Street Theatre, placed me
beside him on the front seat of the third tier
and rolled up the curtain! There was Jef
ferson, as Rip Van Winkle;' he drank my
good health, and my family'S and wished
they might all prosper !, His eyes twinkled,
his loose knee joints caused him to spraddle
about with a sad recklessness of manner,
and his tones andgestures betrayed him for
a good-for-nothing, idle scamp. He scolded
his dog Schneider, laughed at the children,
quarrelled with the miserable wretches who
urged him - to drink, and then came an an
gry scene between him and his indignant
frau, Gretchen.
The scene changed. Dame Gretchen was
walking impatiently about her cottage; lit
tle Meenie, her child, was sitting on a stool
by the fire. An awful crash ! Schneider
was in the pantry. The dame beat him out
with a broom-stick, and Meenie cried sorely
for him. Presently in came Rip. Oh, how
his hair was pulled! Then his bottle taken
from him; then followed a more quiet
scene; Rip,cajoling ; Gretchen melting un
der the kindly genial influence. Now came
a soul-stirring part. Temptation stronger
than Honor ! Rip stole his bottle, and was
discovered breaking his promise of total
abstinence before the dame's very eyes!
Presto ! I was at my window again, watch
ing the gamin. He took from his pocket a
card, and utterly ignoring the interesting
printing at the top, "Electric Soap; try it!"
he pointed lower down with his dirty fingers
to the photographic scene, the Expulsion.
Back to the theatre went the two gamins,
and in a trice. Rip, at first, paralysed by
the fearful words, " this is my cottage, and
out of it you go," staggered to the door, but
this time under the weight of grief, and
while the thunder pealed among the rocks,
and the lightning • blinded his eyes, he
blessed his weeping little Meenie and rushed
from the cottage. On through the storm we
followed him, the gamins and I, and beheld
a fearful sight.
A hump-backed dwarf, who had evidently
been dead hundreds of years, induced Rip
to carry a keg of the genuine liquid sulphur
from a certain furnace that the most curious
never wish to see, and making him believe
it was Schnapps, beguiled him to the highest
peak of the Catskill's, where Hendrick
Hudson and his whole spirit-crew were
rolling ten-pins. Though awed at first
by the terrible pallor of their
faces and the awful silence of theie men
powerless to speak, that seemed Intensified
after each roll of thunder in the distant
mountains, Rip soon made his glib tongue
serve for all, and learned by their answer
ing gestures that they were having a- good
time and wished him to drink with them !
He did so, and, while the fumes were tor
turing his poor brains, the spirit-men point
ing their bony fingers at him sunk into the
ground and Rip slept alone! There's time
for a long breath now, reader, for I am at
my window again, a group of curious peo
ple has gathered near the gamins, attracted
oy Gavroche's gestures and loud tones, (that
meant the thunder,) and though the group
pretend to be , examining the goods in store
windows,they are evidently eaves-droppers,
and Gavroche knows it. Rising from the
step he deliberately placed his hands on his
hips, jumped up and down, scuttling his feet
and with an additional gesture of the head,
he produced a fac simile of the "What is
it ?" I shall never get the roar of laughter
that rose from that group out of my ears.
They all 'moved on' good naturedly and
with the childish forgetfulness of everything
but the one absorbing fancy, down sat the
two children ; and Rip's waking up ; his
surprise at his altered appearance; the ap
peal to a villager of Falling Water, to tell
him where his home was; the recognition
by Gretchen; young Heinrick's retnrn, and
the reconciliation were • all desdribed, when
a bell sounded! not the prompter's bell,
but the State House clock struck ONE !
Away flew Gavroche and the little ragged
urchin after him. The curtain had fallen
for me and I was still wishing I had the
power to prove my appreciation of
his performance when a voice rose
above the din and bustle of
the business hour on Chestnut street,
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13.1866.
"Evening _Bulletin, second edition!" ' Twas
Gavroehe. Snatching my bonnet I has
tened into the street, determining to buy all
the-papers he bad, and beguile him into a
conversation, and tell him about the NeWs
boy's Home that is about to be' opened by
the Young Men's Christian Association,and
promise my assistance to place him there,
but he was goner I saw and heard nothing
more of him. That boy, properly trained,
can be anything great. I have seen John B.
Gough transform the stage of the Academy
of Music into lecture-rooms, banqueting
halls, . bridges, steamboats, stages, menager6
ies, and every imaginable thing, without the
shifting of a single scene. I have seen
Henry Ward Beecher, on a large platform,
exercise the same power of description, but
My little gamin, produced a theatre, audi
enceond orchestra, seated on half, a cold
stone step ten inches by twelve, and in - that
space he assumed a hundred different posi
tions. If he never meets. with Mrs. Drew,
Mr. Sinn or Mr. Hemphill,. the world may
be cheated out of a capital actor. If he
stumbles into the News Boys'Home we may
see a Whitefield on our streets again. If
Thaddeus Stevens spies him, our future
Andrew Johnsons will be ready to cry out
'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown !"
Shade of Gray ! assist us and bring this
"village Hampden" to the honors that his
genius well deserves.
Who is he ? E. D. W.
An Interesting Cane.
The following petition has been sent in to
the directors of the Chestnut and Walnut
Streets Passenger Railway Company:
Gentlemen: In view of the fact that Mr.
Joseph T. Attwell, from the Island of Bar
badoes, West Indies, who has acted as a
Missionary among the Freedmen, at pre
sent a member of our institution, preparing
for further work in Liberia, is compelled,
simply because of color, to walk in incle
ment weather, or ride upon the exposed
front platform of a ear, from a remote sec
tion of the city to Thirty- ninth and Chestnut
streets,
We, the undersigned, the Professors and
Students of the Divinity School of the Pro
testant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Pennsylvania, do earnestly and respectfully
petition the Board of Directors of the Chest
nut and Walnut Street City Passenger
Railway Company, to grant the above
mentioned Mr. Joseph T. Attwell a permit,
by which, on paying the usual fare, he may
be allowed a seat in the car to and frorathe
Divinity School once a day. And year pe
titioners will seer pray, Sc.
Professors—D. R. Goodwin, C. M. Butler,
P. Van Pelt. John A Childs, R. Bethel
Claxton, J. Emlen Hare.
Students—Justin P. Kellogg, William G.
Stewart, Charles E. Griffith, J. G. Colton,
G. A. Redles, W. 3. Boone,D. G. Anderson,
G. E. Patroni, B. H. Latrobe, John B. Mor
gan, Amos Keele, Rufus W. Clark, Jr.,
Joseph *M. Turner , W. W. Sylvester, J.
Karcher, Henry J. Roland, J. P. Franks,
T. P. Hutchinson, William Morsell,
Wilberforce Newton, Richard N. Thomas,
George W. Hodge, Cortlandt Whitehead, J.
Hutchings Brown, C. W. Powell, Peter A.
Jay, Charles H. Mead, J. Thompson Car
penter, Charles de la Rochette, Henry K.
Brotise, Aaron Bernstien. -
- The undersigned,eiti7ens of Philadelphia,
respectfully concur in the foregoing request,
and especially in view of the fact that we
are informed that persona of respectable ap
pearance are not excluded from the cars on
Fifth and Sixth streets, on account of color.
Thomas S. Malcom, Robert Graffen, R.
Francis Colton, Charles E. Lex,W. G.Neil
son, S. Austin Allibone, Richard Newton,
M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Phillips Brooks,
Charles D. Cooper, Jay Cooke, John W.
Sexton,George C. Thomas,J. Paul Diver,
Alexander Ervin, Jr., Jay ooke,Jr., Lewis
R. Ashhurst, John. Ashhurst, Edward
Hartshorne, C. A, Kingsbury, Zebulon
Locke, Robert B. Sierling, Snyder B.Simes,
Charles E. Fischer, W. W. Spear, Francis
E. Arnold, Wm. H. Hare, D.S.Miller,Louis
E. Newman, Robert C. Matlack, Alexander
Sidras, Jas. R. Moore, D. 0. Kellogg, Jr.,
Thos. Latimer, R. Heber Newton, Francis
Wells, Henry K. Dillard, Wm. G. Boalton,
Samuel Ashhurst.
PO.LITMOAL.
The Colorado Eleetion—Card from Sena
tor Clusffee.
, To the Editor of the New York Tribune:—
SIR: My attention has been called to a
statement from Colorado in regard to
Governor Cummings which you will doubt
less receive.
I most emphatically deny that a company
of volunteers, formed of rebel prisoners en
listed at Chicago, voted for Mr. Chilcott at
the recent election in Colorado. Men of
that class generally vote for those who sym
pathize with them. The legal vote of the
Terrttory-showed the election of Mr. Chil
cott, as certified by the Board of Canvassers.
Gov. Cummings declared - himself that Mr.
Hunt was elected, and gave him a certificate
to that effect before the vote was canvassed.
J. B. 011.6-FFEE.
The Chicago Times of yesterday morning,
in a double-leaded leader, repudiates Presi
dent Johnson, and advocates negro suffrage.
It argues that if the negro controversy can
be settled, there will be some hope for the
Democracy, and, for this reason, advises
that all claimed for the negro be conceded by
the Copperheads at the North and the rebels
at the South. It says that negro suffrages is
inevitable, and that whether it is 'universal
or qualified depends altogether upon the
promptness, or otherwise, with which the
Democratic party will move with refer
ence to it.
DELAWARE.—The following are the offi
cial returns of the vote for Governor at the
recent Delaware election:
Bew Castle. Kent. Sussex.
Saulsbury, D. 424 S ' 2725 2837
Riddle, 11. 4428 1796 2374
Saulsbury's majority, 1212.
CABE OF REV. MR. WILLIA3I9.—In the
case of Rev. Mr. Williams, charged with
picking a lady's pocket in aßroadway om
nibus, Justice Dodge has felt obliged, in the
strict line of duty, to hold the accused for
trial. The evidence is hardly of a character
to lead to conviction. The pocket of the
lady alluded to had been cut by some ex
pert thief before he picked up the pocket
book, so that it could not have been in the
pocket when he found it. It is hoped that
the reverend gentleman will be able to vin
dicate himself thoroughly before a jury.--
/V. Y. Times..
FOB Smtrmorrx and mechanical accuracy
of construction, I have seen no Sewing Ma
chine equal to the Willcox it Gibbs."
ENOCH Linns,
Superintendent of Pennsylvania Ventral
Railroad.
ovSIVIIOLE 00ITNTRY.
AFFAIRS ON TEE RIO GRANDE.
Arrest of General Ortega---His Protest
Against the Action of General
Sheridan--Escobedo Moving
on. Matamoras to De
pose Canales.
[Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Nov. 6, via Nnw
OBLEAris, Nov. 12, 1866.—The steamship St.
Mary, from New Orleans, arrived at Brazos
Santiago, on the afternoon of the 3d instant,
having[ou board Gen. J.C. Ortega and suite,
consisting of the following: General Ortega,
Governor of Puebla, General E Baena,
Governor of Morelia, Colonel J. Sogas, Co
lonel Joaqnin 3. Ortega, Major Carlos Or
tega and Captain F. Gneligar.
Immediately on their arrival they were
arrested by the commanding officer atßra
zos, but will be permitted to return to New
Orleans should they so desire. Upon being
informed of his arrest, General Ortega sim
ply demanded a copy of the order, and sub
mitted with dignity. The affaix created no
marked sensation here, as General Sheri
dan's letter of October 23 had prepared the
public mind for it.
A courier from some party in Mexico
found in consultation with Ortega after the
boat landed has also been arrested.
Botow - Navuxx, Nov. 8, 1866.—A protest
from General Ortega and the members of
his suite appears in the Rio Grande Courier
of this morning. The General Erst refers
to the guarantees under which he came—
guarantees which he claims in their scope
tacitly admit his proper political character
as the constitutional President of the Mexi-.
can republic. He then recites the acts ac
companying, and including his arrest, and
protests, first, against the violation of the
individual guarantees given by the law of
this country to foreigners traveling therein;
second, in the name of and as President of
the Mexican republic, as constituting an in
direct interference by armed force of the
United States in the solution of local Mexi
can questions; and, third, against any act,
direct or indirect, which, by force attempts
to impose upon the people of Mexico
.the
factional government of Don Benito Juarez.
I am satisfied that the policy here will be
hereafter much more active in support of
Juarez, and that at least a strong moral in
fluence will be exerted to settle the troubles
over the river.
Massmonas, Nov. 6th, IS66.—Canales still
holds the city. On the afternoon of the 2d a
courier arrived here from Juarez, bearing a
peremptory order for the surrender of the
city to Tapia. After holding a council of his
officers, Canales conse - ted to surrender to
Tapia on the following conditions, viz The
troops to pass beyond the State of Tamauli
pas; all the acts of Canalea's administration
to be declared valid; no one to be persecuted
for political acts , since the 12th of August;
Canales to remain in command of the troops.
These conditions Tapia styled unworthy of
notice, and stated that he should attack the
town at an early day.
Canales continues to exact money from
the people. His father, General Canales,
Sr., arrived here yesterday, and has been in
consultation with Tapia to-day.
A stage from 3lonterey reached here yes
terday. From a private letter of Escobedo
I learn that be has returned from an expe
dition to the State of San Luis Potosi. The
Frenah, under Douai, with the force of
traitors on Squirioga have retired from
Mathuela towards San Luis. Nothing is
said of Mejla. The situation is con
sidered eminently satisfactory. Gene
ral Escobedo had received orders from
Jattrez to proceed to Matamoras in
person and settle affairs on the Rio Grande.
In accordance therewith he states that he
will start on the 6th with fifteen hundred
men and six pieces'of artillery. It is not
probable, therefore, that any attack will be
made by Tapia before his arrival,, which
will be about the 10th or 12th.
Per contra, it is reported and believed by
Canales that Erenino and Navajo have bsen
defeated in the vicinity of Matapanli. Gen.
Ortega and staff have determined not to re
'turn to New Orleans, but will remain at
Brazos for the present waiting the action of
the military authorities.
France has declared war against Corea.
Hit a boy of yer size, Nap!
'Mrs. McGentry, of Smithville, R. L,
killed herself rather than go to the poor
house. She very properly considered that
the poor-house was no place for the gentry.
Dr. J. C. Ayer has invented a process for
reducing ores. The doctor is a public, bene
factor. His celebrated "Peru Chectoral"
LS in every one's month. His reduced ores
will be in every boat-club's hands, and who
does not know what a blessing C.' Ayer is
to' every one who crosses the Atlantic?
The Mississippi Legislature has passed a
bill to furnish every married soldier with
an artificial leg. A most needless extrava
gance, as a great .many,of them have two
legs of their own already. It would be
much more sensible to tarnish each un
married soldier•virith an artificial "rib."
"Hanging by the neck until they are
dead" is the penalty in Mississippi for
horse stealing. A complete premium on
the offence. A horse thief very often fails
for want of a halter.
London sends oat no mail and has no
postal delivery on Sunday. But perhaps
they have no Sunday cars in that beautiful
village.
They are doing up the meteors in Boston
in style. The Post says: "Tickets for ad
mission to the Common during the meteoric
display will be for sale by the proprietor
and at the usual places. The audience is re
spectfully requested not to encore the
'showers, as time will not, admit of their
repetition. Refreshments furnished by Mr.
Smith, in the saloon of the big tree, at mo
derate rates. Admission to the frog-pond,
half-price." -
A collection of over three hundred petri
fied animals, made in Dakota Territory,has
justbeen added to the Smithsonian Institute.
They are to be arranged in a sort of wig
wam.
A spy accustomed to peep through key
holes to watch movements of Fenians in
England Ids become blind of the right eye.
This terrible warning shows what a bad
peep'll Come to soinetimes. If thewtetched
man had limited himself to taking Peep-a
day, boYs, it wouldn't have hurt his eyes.
The Mayor of Quebec has received anum
ber of cable despatches from Europe em
powering him to draw money for the relief
of the sufferers by the fire. Now, Mr. Field,'
you must not'allow Your-rope to be draw
ing things across the ocean. Better stick to
its legitimate use and let St. George furnish
his own Draggin'.
Facts and Fancies.
RIB. BRIGHT IN IRELAND.
Speebt of the English Reformer on the.
Rights and Wrong-s of the Irish.
[Dnibra (Oct n 3) correspondence of London Times.]
/Mr. Bright having accepted the invitation
of a number of his political friends and ad
mirers to visit the sister kingdom, was- en
tertained this evening at a grand banquet
in the Rotunda, The O'Donoghue presided,
supporteti n by Sir John Gray, M. P. There
were also resent several dignitaries and a
considerable =Tiber of the clergy of the
Rounan catholic Church. Covers were laid
for fme hundred persons,
"The health of John Bright" was duly
toasittl.
Mr. Bright, who was received with loud
and continued cheers., responded:,_ He said;
I feel myself more embarrassed than I can
well deaeribe at'the difficult but still the
honorable position in which I find myself
te-night. r The Parliament of Kil
kenny, which is .a Parliament thM-.set a
very long time ago, and which waa scarcely
a Parliament at s 1 [laughter]—it was a Par
liament which sat about WO years ago, and
which, I believe, proposed to inflict a very
heavy penalty on any Irishman's horse
found grazing on any Englishman's land—
[laughter]—the Parliament of Kilkenny, I
say,. was a Parliament which left on, record
a question which it may be-worth our while
to consider to-night. It asked the- King
this question, "How comes it to pass- that
the King is never the richer for Ireland ?"
We, 590 years after, venture to ask the same
question, Why is it that the Queen, os the
Crown, or the United Kingdom, or the
empire is never the richer for Ireland?' And
if you will permit me I will try to give, as
shortly as I can, something like an answer
to that very old question. What it may be
followed by is this—How is it that we or
Parliament can act so as to bring about in
Ireland contentment and tranquillity and a
solid union between Ireland and the rest of
Great Britain? And that means further,
how can we improve the condition and
change the minds of the people of Ireland?
Some say—l have heard many a man say
in England, and I am afraid there are Irish
men also who say it—that there is some
radical defect in the Irish character which
prevents the condition of Ireland being
so satisfactory as is that of England or
Scotland. Now, I am inclined to believe
that whatever there is that is difficult in
any portion of the Irish- people comes not
from their race, but from• their history and
the conditions to which they have been sub
jected. [Loud and prolonged cheers.] I
am told by those in authority that in Ireland
there is a remarkable absence of crime.
[Hear, hear.] I have heard it since I came
to Dublin from those well acquainted with
the facts that there is probably no great city
in the world—in the civilized and Christian
world—of equal population with the city in
which we are now assembled, where
there is so little serious crime com
mitted [hear, hear]; and I find that
portion of the Irish people which has found
a home in the United States, has in sixteen
years—between the years 1848 and 1864.
remitted about £13,000,000 sterling to their
friends and relatives left here. [Hear,
hear.] Well, I am bound to place these
facts in opposition to any statements which
refer us to any personal difficulty in the
Irish people. I say it would be much more
probable the difficulty lies in the govern
ment and the Irish laws; but there are some
others who say.the great misfortune of Ire
land is the existence of the obnoxious race
of political agitators. Well, the most dis
tinguished political agitators who have ap
peared during the last one hundred years
in Ireland are Grattan and O'Connell,
[loud cheers]; and I should say that he
must be either a very stupid or a very
base Irishman who would wish to erase the
achievements of Grattan andO'Connell from
his country. [Loud cheers.] Bat some say
—and that is an uncommon thing in Eng
land---some say that the interests of the
popular church in Ireland have been the
muse of much discontent. [Cries of "No,
no."] I believe there is no class of men in
Ireland who have a deeper interest in a
prcsperous and numerous community than
the priests of the Catholic Church, Further,
1 believe no men have suffered more, I
mean in mind and in feeling, from witness
ing the miseries and desolation which, dar
ing the last century, to go no further back,
have stricken and afflicted the Irish people.
[Cheers.] But some others say that mere is
no ground for complaint, because the laws
at d inatitu dons o f Ireland are in the main the
same as the laws and institutions of England
and Scotland. They say, for example,that
it' therebe an established Church in Ireland
there is one in England and one in Scotland,
and that nonconformists are very namer
btth in England and Scotland; but they
seem to forget this fact, that the Church in
Englandor the Church in Scotland, is not
In any sense a foreigh Church [hear, hear],
that it has not been imposed in past times
and is not maintained now by force, that
it is not in any degree the symbol of con
quest, that it is not the Church of a small
minority absorbing the ecclesiastical re
venues and endowments of a whole king
dom, and/ they omit to remember or dis
cover that if any government attempted to
plant by force the Episcopal Church in
Scotland, or the Catholic Church in Eng
gland, the disorder and discontent which
have prevailed in Ireland would be wit
nessed with tenfold intensity and violence
in Great Britain.
Ireland has been a land of evictions
[hear] a 'term, I suspect, which is scarcely
known in any other civilized country,but it
is a country from which thousands of fami
lies have been driven by the force of land
owners and the power of the law. It is a
country where have existed to a great ex
tent those dread tribunals known by the
common name of secret societies, and where
in the pursuit of what some men thought to
be justice there have been committed of
ences of appalling guilt in the eyes of the
whole world; it is a country too, in which,
and it is the only Christian country of
which it may be said for some centuries
past, it is a country in which a famine of the
most desolating character has prevailed
even during our own times. Now in Ire
land there has been a field in which all
the principles of the tory party have been
completely experimented upon and
developed. [Cheers.] You have had
the country gentleman in all
his power. You have had any number of
acts of Parliament.which the ancient Parlia
ment of Ireland and the Parliament of the
United Kingdom gave them. You have
had an established Church, supported by
the law, and not many years ago driven to
the necessity of collecting its revenues by a
portion of the army of the country. In point
of fact, I believe it would be difficult to im
agine a state of things In which the princi
ples of the tory party have not had a more
entire and complete opportunity than they
have within the limits ofthia island[oheers];
and yet what has happened? Why, that the
kingdom has - been continually weakened,
that harmons , has been disturbed, and that
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the mischief has not been confined to , the
United Kingdom, but has spread to ,the
most remote colonies of the Empire, and
at this moment, as you know, from ,every
arrival from the United States the colony
of Canada is exposed to the 'hanger of inva
sion—that it is compelled to keep on foot
soldiers which it otherwise would not want,
and to involve itself in expenses which
threaten to be ruinous to its financial, con
dition, and all this to defend itself from Ir
ishmen hostile to England, who are settled
in the United States; in fact the govern
ment of Lord Derby is at this moment do
ing exactly what the government of Lord
North did nearly one hundred years ago—
it is sending troops across the Atlantic' to
fight Irishmen who are bitter enemies of
England on the American continent.
[Cheers.], Nov, I believe every gentleman
in this room will admit that all I have said
is literally true, and if it be true, what con
clusion are we to come to? Is it that the
law hrbad and the people good, or that the
law is good and thepeople bad ? [Cries of
"Oh, no." ] Let us for a moment, if we can,
stand on one side for a little bit,
let us get rid for a moment of
Episcopalianism,. Presbyterianism, Pro
testantism and Orangeisat on the one hand,
and of Catholicism Romanians, Ultramon
taaism, and anything else that friendly or
unfriendly tongues may paint out on the
other; let us for a moment get above all
these "isms" and try,if we can, to discover
what is the matter with your country. I
shall ask you only to turn your eyes to two
points—thefirst is the Established Church,
and the second is the land. The Church
may be said to affect the soul andeaeritiment
of the country, and the land the means of
living and the comfort of the- people.
[Cheers.] I shall not blame the bishops and
clergy of the Established Church; there may
be, I doubt not, many among them pious
and devoted men, who labor to the utmost
of their power to do good in the districts
which are cbmmitted to their charge; but
venture to say that if all were good and all
were pions it would not in a national point
of view, compensate for the one fatal-error
of their existence as ministers of an estab
lished Protestant Church in Ireland.
Now I leave the church and come to the
question'of the land. I have said that the
-ownership of the land originally came from
conquest and confiscation, As a matter of
course, there was created a great gulf be
tween the owners and the occupiers, and it
has come to this, that there has been want
ing that sympathy which existed to a great
extent in Great Britain, and ought to exist
in every country, between them. I amtold,
and you can answer if I am wrong, that it •
is not common in Ireland to give leases to
tenants, especially to Roman Catholic Matz
ants. [Cheers.] If this be so, then the se
curity of the property of the tenant rests
on the good feeling or fairness of the owner
of the land. The law, as we know, has been
made by the land-owners for their own be
hoof, while the tenants have unfortunately
been too little considered. by Parliament,
and the result is that you have bad farming.
bad,feeling, bad temper, and everything
that is bad,instead of cultivation of the land,
Y have also a result the most appalling oi
all—a population who are fleeing from their
country and seeking a refuge in distant.
lands. [At thispoint considerable interrup
tion was created by some person, who was
promptly removed.] Mr. Bright, onresam
ingssaidt I am very sorry that this gentle
man, who, I am told, is an Orangeman, was
not contented to listen to the end of my
speech, because, probably, I might have
told him something that would be useful to
him to know, but, returning to the point,.
and to the fact that a large ortion of' the
population are fleeing to another country, I
wish to refer to a letter which I received a
few days ago from a most intelligent citi
zen of Dublin. He told me that he believed
that a very large portion of what he called
all the poor people among the Irishmen
sympathized with any scheme or any prop
usition which was adverse to the • imperial
government [cheers], and he said further
that the people here are rather in the coun
try than of it, - and that they are looking
snore to America than they are looking to
England. [Cheers.] Well. I think there
is a good deal in that. [Hear, hear.] When
we consider how many Irishmen haws
found a refuge in America, I do not know
how we can wonder at that statement. You
will recollect that the ancient Hebrew in his
captlyity, had his windows open towards Je
rusalem when he prayed. You know that'
the follower of Mohammed when he prays
turns his face towards Mecca, and the Irish
peasant, when he asked for Mod, and free
dom, and blessings, his eye follows the set
ting sun. [Loud and continued cheering.]
The aspiration of his heart reaches beyond
the wide Atlantic, and in spirit he grasps
hands with the great Republic of the West.
[Loud cheers.] I.l' that be so, I say then that
the disease is not only serious, but that it is
even desperate—[cheers] ; but, desperate as
it is, I believe there is a certain remedy for it
if the people and the Parliament of the
United Kingdom are willing to apply it Now,
if it were possible, would it not be worth while
th change the sentiment and to improve the,
condition of the Irish cultivator of the soil?
[Hear, hear.] 'a a z. I have said that the
disease is desperate, and that the remedy
must be searching. I asert that the
present system of government with, t reaard
to the Church and with regard to the land
has failed disastrously in Ireland. Under
it Ireland has become an object of com
miseration to the whole world, and a dis
eredit to the United Kingdom, of which it
forms a part. It is a land of many sorrows.
Men fight for supremacy and call. it Pro
testantism. They fight for evil and bad
laws, and they call it acting for the defence
of property. Now, are there no good men
in Ireland? of those who are opposed to us
in politics, are there none who can rise above
the level of party ? If there be such, I wish
my voice might reach to them. I have often
asked myself whether patriotism is dead in
Ireland. Cannot all the people of Ireland see
that the calamities of their country are the
creations of the law; and, if that be so, just
'laws only can remove those calamities. If
the Irish were united ; if your one hundred
and five members were for the mostpart
a ,greed, you might do almost anything you
liked, even in the present Parliament. La
the effort now making in England to create
a true representation of the people you have
the deepest interest. [Hear, .hear.] , The peas
ple never wish to suffer, and never wish to
inflict injustice. They have no sympathy
with the wrong-doer, whether, in Great,
Britain or Ireland, and when they are, fairly
represented in the Imperial Parliamena--aa
I -hope they will be one day—they will
speedily, effectively and finally answer that
old question ofjhe Parliament of Kilkenny,
"How comes it to pass that 'the King has
never been the richer for Ireland?" The
honorable gentlemgaresumed his seat amid
loud and proloaged-abeers.
BELIEVE THE representation of those
Irshig tbe Willcox '4: Gibbs celebrated
Family Sewing Machines, rather than the
mi,srepresentation of those engaged in the
gale of others. •