GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
voLUME XXL—NO. 99.
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FA RR- -IfENDRIC K SON.- 012 Wi:dll(9dltY evening,
July 31, by t h e Rev. J 311101,11. liennert , ,y, lit the residence
.of the bride. Mr. L. A. Farr, of New 1 ork, to 31bm Michel
L. Iteudrick , uu, of Trenton, N. J.
• DANFOIiIt.--4./n the Ist instant, Louisa, Aoughter of
14ohert aid Cattle:hie Hanford, rged 4 Years.
'I he relatives and friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her
Parents. No. 204:9 Ridge on to-morrow afternoon, at
3 o'clock. Interment at Odd Fellows' Cemetery. - • •
FAHNESTi WK. - At tit. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday
July '2sth, Grace H. Eprey - , wife of George W.
Falincstock.
• fler funeral will take place from her late residence, No.-
.1:14 itace street, on :Saturday afternoon, 3d instant, at 3
o'clock.
•
JEBll4:l'.—At Newport, IL 1., on the 13th lilt,. Tillie N.
wide of Alfred D. Jeoonp.
The relative.. And (rondo of the family are invited
to attend the funeral, front the reeldence of 'her huotind,
No. 1426 Walnut meet, on Fridav, the 2d inotant, at 4
o'clock, P. M. - It
MATIIIIA S.—On the 3let ult., Mr. Win. M. Matthiam,
in the t:th year of hi, age.
The relativeo and triendo of the,fainilv are reopect
fully invited to attend him funeral, front bin late reg
d.-nee. No. 1073 'North Sixth otreet, above Montgomery,
t lde 1 Friday
'ln proceed to Mount Prehee Ccm,wry. .
I'UAZY.--.1”ly :t h, at her Co idence In Cecil county,
Mro. Mary \V. % 4.:,zy, relict on the late Govei nor Thwrian
Yen zy, in the 7gh year of lier age,
YEE LANDELL HAVE THE BEST ARTICLE OF
XI Black Iron Barege, two yards wide; at.), the ordinary
nalltles
VICHY. dr LANIrELL
.U. 4 Hwe reduced , 111 the Summer Silks and Spring Dreez
'Goodall
ATLEE CONN,11:1),
Pnpor .Mannfactor(ra, 44 N. Fifth iStrea l
MentalWlLT to order the liutrt graded of Book; flb4o,
*scowl quality Book and Newepapert, at thort no
ace
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atirP.ENNSYLVANIA MILITARY
ACADEMY.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
lion. Jair.es Pollock, I.E. I)., Pres.; Cept. Wm. Apple,
'Vice Pres., IV. F. Barber, Es' .1., See'y, Jar. IL Orne. Esq.,
"Preas., Rt. Rev. Matthew Simpson, D. D.. Rev. Richard
liewtim, D. Rev. William P. Breed, D. D.. lion. Chan.
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VI w. Bell liVaddelL Major AN'arne McVeagh, T. B.
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The nextiti.rm cominencee THURSDAY, September
Candidat , for adniiceion 111113 , bo exruninod the day
before Dieptember llth). or onTURSDAY, July Wth, the
day before the Annual Commencement Exerci,e,„
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TO - 'IIIE EDITOR EVENING IiI . LLE 11N
sir; -Among the candidates for Sheriff - 1 notice
:the name of 61:N. CHAO:LYS M. Pecrosr, and having
known him for 'Tars Previom. to the late war, and har
ing served for a long time under hL comtnand4 1 warsily
recommend him to the smpport of all the mem here of the
I:epublienn party Jr well as to our citizen.. and soldier , at
As Assistant Adjutant General on the malt of (:enteral
Frank Patterson, he was at Y‘atto mu; with General
Hooker's division at the tattle of NV iiltamo , burg
divisibn bore the brunt of the battle, and General C.
Pre, ant wan lum&oniely .ineutione'd in this various re
ports): he taro war at Sell ! v ines Ve Peach Orchard, Glen
ale and Malvern 11111.
Ile commanded the "fl 'urn Exchange Regiment” at An.
tletotn, Shepherdstown and Chancellorrville, mid being'
unable to re 11121112 in active a erviee,on thesev,ce
wound received ut Shepl: , •rdsto an (from which sur
geon infonne me he is still a very great sufferer), he won
transferred to the Videranl:eserve 1 'ormand wa: , in com
mand of the Depot Camp at IlatriAlurg; after, of the
camp of rebel proem)) , nt Yhnirt, and, atter that, of' the
Depot Camp at Springtse~uoir. For gallant conduct
on the thdd, he was bn•vetted Brigadier-Oencral. A tho
rough moldier. courteeur gentleman, with rare Mieluers
qualities,g with his name at the Laid of our ticket the
irtory insure.
OLD SOLDIER.
EABTON, PCIIDA., July. LW
TO 'I'IIE REPUBLICAN CITIZENS OF ?MLA
deltoids. Agreeably to the Supplementary Rules
recently adopted by the City Executive Committee of the
Republican party, for thegovernment of thospelegate
Election to be held on the 27th of August, the Ropirblicau
Election Officers and the Diyision Executive Committee
of the various Election.Divinens throughout the City will
sit at the regular Olives of holding elections (or at each
places as may be designated by the It( 4istering officers),
on the . evenings of the 6th, 7th, Bth and 9th of August, be.
tween the hours of 4 and 8 o'clock, to prepare a Registry
of the ltel üblican voters of each Election Division.
No person shall be allowed to vote at the ensuing Debi,
auto Election unless appears duly registered in
the enrollment book of said
By order of the Republican City Exeentive Committee.
WILLIAM 11. LEEDS. President.
'roux L. II I 13.. I
JOHEPLI B.
A a r Is:OTICE. —THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
Wards of the St. Mary's Hospital, car. Frankford
road Old Palmer Weer, arc now open for the reception of
patients: MI caeca of accident received gratuitously if
preeented within hours after the reception of thein
jury. The Sisters of St. Francis give their personal at
tendance to the rick. Apple' for admission either at the
Hospital, or Mother Agnese, Convent of lit. Francis, Reed
street, above Fitth. uu2,l2t rp;
I'N!ON REPUBLICAN ASSO-
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luny s ILLt.
By order of-Wro. 13..qitrnem, President.
JOHN 1..1, BUTLER; Secretary.
Or ALL PERSON. ARE HEREBY CAUTIONED
aguiun uegotiat ug Mortgage Banda of 1877, Nod.
810.811, 812, 818, for Five Hundred Milani each, ou the
Suequeltaufin Steam L uubor uud Lath Mina and Drying
Company, the came hi ving been etulen. It.
stir HOWARD tOSI'ITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 1520
Lombard Str et ,Dispensary Department—Medical
treatment and m. lanes furnished gratuitously to the
jpoor.
ESTATE OF ANNA G. MERREFTELD. DECEASED.—
Letters Testamentary under the will of ANNA G.,
widow of JOHN 0. MERREFIELD, deceased. late of No.
550 North Fifth street, have been granted to the under
signed, by the Register of Wills for the city of Philadel
phia. An persons indebted to the Estate will please make
payment, nud those having claims against her,present
them to ISRAEL U. JOHNSON, Sole Executor, - No. 119
Market street, second story. jyllo-s,at.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION HAVING BEEN
granted to the subscriber upon the E.tato of .JOHN
WINTERBOTTOM, deceased, all persons indebted to the
Fame wilt make liayment. and those havinK claims
present them to W.M. 11, AVINTERBOTTOM,
h2-tu,6t. 607 Cherry street
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY. UPON THE ESTATE
• of MARTHA BROWN, dee'd, having been granted to
the undersigned, all persons indebted to the said estate
will make payment, and those having claims will pre.
sent them to' LEWIS T. BROWN, l?.xecutor. •
IY2kw6t. . No. 526 Marshall street.
ESTATE OF JOHN L. GODDARD, DECEASED.—
Letters testamentary upon the estate of JOHN L.
GODDARD, deceased, havingliceu granted to tho under.
Maned, all persons indebted to said estate are requosted to
make payment, and those having dahlia against tho same
to present them without delay to
HENRY H. DECHERT, Executor,
1.Y24-w,Gto No. 809 South Filth gtroot,
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DIED.
Prof. It B. YOUNGMAN,
Clerk. of the Pocalty
'IASI' STEP&
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evenith: Bulletin.!
After Florence, which seemed to me so very
stony and terrific an old burgh, Piss came like a
breath of balm. Some suffusion from a gay and,
pleasant past, something aromatic, and• old, and
tend& and sweet, crept out from its delicate mar
ble towers and sanctuaries, as spices steal out
from the lid of an alabaster box. The traditions
of Florence are of a mordant tooth-and-nail strug
gle for supremacy. Pisa, though it had plenty of
fighting,, was liberalized by its commerce, and
even in the prosecution of its eastern wars
,imported an oriental luxury, a perfume of Bysant,
which throve well by the swelling Arno. Pisa,
almos't a sea-port, was cosmopolizing, and toss
ing its life up into airy flowers, while Florence,
back among the hills, was crystallizing into
cubes. In 1063, as a complinient to the Virgin for
a Saracen conquest, the Pisans began their
Duomo; and then comucuced that era of glory
and success which has left us the little group of
ecclesiastical mocuments which are the effective
portion of the town. "The inhabitants," says
SfiVari, speaking of the twelfth century,
."being
at the height of their grandeur and theii advance
ment, master's of Sardinia, of Corsica and of the
islet of Elba, and their town being full of high
and powerful citizens, carried home from the
most distal t countries infinite trophies and
spoils."
The quail: s•st sort of medieval luxury, the
brightest sic of the dark ages, is implied in the
didactic pail dugs which enrich the walls of the
- Campo Santo. These pictures, which in an un—
lettered age took the place of a missionary
literature, 'represent the acme of mundahe
refinement of the period—with, of course, a very
pitiless ascetic moral alongside. Knights and
ladles are idling in a bower of fruit-tree . s. the
dames caress their lap-dogs. the long-gowned
dandies fondle their hawks: the women's robes
arc masses of embroidery. the fren tlemen's are of
lustrous white, with borders or fringes. lt is au
hour of poetry and exaltation; beating time with
their bands, unconsciously inclining their heads,
they 61/ Jana. to the enchantment of tee music,
for two of their number are . performing a duet.
He, sedate, and carslal, draws out a long note
that sinks his how to the very end; she, leaning
enervated over her harp, is so lost In the passion
of the strain that she can hardly finger the cords.
Mean thins Death—a her&dean woman-figure with
a cloud of white hair and a storm of wings—
rushes across the scene, passing unnoticed the
group of beggars who invoke her from the depth
of their weary hearts, to mow down these happy
worldlings like the summer flowers among which
they sit. Or, in a fresco close by, a melancholy
queen, hunting in . the, forest with the king and
court, leans her pale cheek on her hand and for
gets the hunt: for ,he loss come upon three dead
monarchs. royally rotting in the solitude; while
an invidicias (Art hermit has sprung up, all pre--
pared, and unrolls a sermon as long as his body.
Such were the comments of the religious painter,
°magas. in the fourteenth century, on the orien
tal voluptuousness which Pisa nurtured in her
I I high day.
To place yourself in contact, hOwever, with all
slits charming antiquity you have the whole
modern city to traverse. You trundle along the
Strada del Borgo, the highway of a vulgar mod
ern Italian town, with a petty and sordid com-•
merge transacting in the shadow of the awnings
er arcades. All this disposed of, you alight In a
little sacred corner at the northwest,wherts in the
marble of its four chief monuments, the true Pisa
rests like a queen in a superb sarcophagus. You
are alone with the Campo Santo, the Baptistery,
the Duomo, and the Leaning Campanile.
I have not met, in Italy, so sharp a contrast of
taste neighboring cities. In Florence the
architecture is all fiat, and the ornament consists
of a marquetry of colored stones ; the resulting
wall thus stands on its guard, collected, even,
grudging. chilly, without a spray of Gothic leaf
age anywhere to , curl out and strike the light.
Giotto seems almost afraid of the wiry-twisted
pillars which bind the stages of his Campanile
,together. and relies for the bulk of his effect upon
the contrast of his tinted marbles, which lie jeal
ously edge to edge, and flatten themselves from
he scythe of time. .But the Pisan architect, cm;
ploying the white Carrara marble, loved to tease
it and play with it, to curl it and toss it and arch
it into the sun, to see how it would shine, and
then to plunge iu his hand and scoop out niches
for the shadow to live in. The oriental spirit,
which loves a bauble, seems to have • struck
right across Italy from Venice to Pisa. The
shining domes of the Venetian Cathedral, bubbling
put of the sea one over the other, arc imaged again
in the • deep semi-circles which clamber to the
sky, arch over arch, in the Pisa Duomo. In
both cases, when the artist could light upon a
rich bit of old' marble, he utilized, it, whatever it
was. In Venice, the church-builder was glad
enough of the Alexandrian horses, and tbe, relief
of Ceres and Proserpine to decorate' his• façade;
and the masons of the Pisa Baptistery set up with
equal glee their antique Corinthian capitals, and
the pretty pagan tablet of Meleager among his
comrades and dogs. Both displayed the pleasant
Byzantine childishness that will purchase beauty
at any indebtedness—the spirit of the infant that.
sticks his little shrine all over with gewgaws, of
the magpie who cradles her young in a couch
bright with stolen silver and glass. When a
civilization begins in this way, the gentle taste
for lovelineSi3 is a secure possession, and it only
remains for artists to study and refine. That was
the mission of Nicole, the Pisan, the father of mo
dern sculpture. His pulpit in this Baptistery, 'of so,
old a date as 12G0, and one of the most important
monuments of medieval art, amazed me by. its
finish and modern spirit. This artist used to pon
der away long days'among the sculptured Roman
tombs of which Italy is so full; and out of the
decadence of Greek art he evolved the renaissance
which was to include Ghibetti and Michel Angelo:,
He forms the point where the antique and me
die6l meet. One or two of the figures relieved
on this pulpit might have come at once from a
Greek monument. ,The happiest spiritl'Of the.
East is preserved in these sacred haunts. The
Campo Santo is a lovely and bright inclosure,
surrounded with rich foliated areadessdecorated
with all sorts. of antique and eastern spoils, Where
the knights who battled with the Saracen sleep
peacefully nudes the Syrian earth, and
wild flowers and slender ~ cypresses grow
from their breasts. Only the frescoes
are morbid—the architect was hopeful
and gay. -On the metal doors of the Duomo
John of Bohigna has strewn every weed he could
findsin the woods, every flower of the garden, till
the portalslOoklike a screen of bloom, in which
the birds of Heaven might come to nestle Waldo
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1867;
the birds of bronze. When they were lifting up
the bell-toWer the earth on one side sank, and
the shaft began to lean like an over-fruitful tree.
Was the architect frightened? Not a whit.
Nature is adopting my work, he said. I will
work on harmoniously with nature. And he
threw up his aerial arches again,range over range,
preserving the leaning grace that nature had sug
gested to him, and only shortening or heighten
ing the pillars to get the courses level ; and ar
rived at the most exquisite thing in its way in
Europe.
tBo Pisa is pathetic, touching with . the tranquil
pensiveness that bOongs to our unreturning past,
but not sad. ENFANT PERDU.
LETTER EROIIII. PAM&
['Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bitlietln.l
PARIS, Friday, July 19th, 1867.—The Universal
Exhibition has never looked so well as it does at
the present moment, when the elimax of its fame
may be said to be already past. Certainly, none
of our late royal and imperial visitors will have
seen the Champ de Mars and all that stands upon
it to such an advantage as the crowd of humbler
travelers who are now pouring in upon us. This
might be predicted as likely to be the case from
the first: for it was evident that a long time
must elapse before the finishing touches
could be given which would impart a
look of order and elegance to the management
both inside and outside; while in the. Park itself
it was in vain to hope for any great developments
in the stunted and backward foliage of the trans
planted trees and shrubs before the season was
well advanced. Now, however, the evidences at
once of finish and of growth are apparent all
around. and many portions of the grounds are
Scarcely recognizable. compared with what they
were even a month ago. The summer has so far
been cool and showery, and favorable' to the
growth of vegetation, and the change has: in con
sequence been very rapid. Many of the groups and
buildings which only the other day still stood bare
and bleaL-lookiu,g, now look quite coquettish, -
embowered in their little groves of trees and
shrubs. or-surrounded by bright green grass and
flowers. I remarked lately upon the neat and
inviting appearance of the American Farm and
School-house, and their adjuncts. The same ret
mark applies even more strongly to the adjacen
group of Turkish and Egyptian buildings, which ,
stood in what might only recently have been
called a labyrinth of muddy and nibbishy lanes.
Now the gardener has been abroad to some
purpose, and everything is changed. Neat
grass borders have been laid down, from
which such pretty erections as the Mosque
and the Pavilion of- the Viceroy rise with Very
pleasing effect. Quite a mass of flowers
now surround the latter building, which is now
open to the public, and ,is extremely rich and
beautiful inside. It is a sort of Greek Cross in
form, with a lofty dome in the centre, one arm of
which forms the entrance and vestibule, while to
the right _and left are large_divans, richly fur
nished, with circular terminations, the fourth
arm being occupied with beautiful specimens of
carved wood-work. The whole conveys a very
good idea of a rich Eastern interior or royal
A comparison with the Fitneh,lmpe
rial Pavilion shows strikingly the contrast between
the tastes and civilization of the East and West.
But the fastidious neatness of the French garden
er. and the banishment of all slovenliness, are
quite a novel feature in connection with the last,
and may afford a wholesome lesson perhaps to the
Viceroy's subjects. Amidst such pleasant paths,
one is now tempted to stroll on very agreeably,
and I shall therefore continue to do so for the in
formation of your readers. Close by the above,
you light upon the prettiest little Italian garden ,
in the world, quite a secluded nook, blossom
ing with flowers, and provided, at one
end, with a charming Venetian summer house,
and at the other with a cafd, where you find the
most delicious Neapolitan ices. A baSin
and bubbling fountain in the centre complete the
picture. In the distance the eye catches massive
blocks of white Carrara marble, upe,b which have
been appropriately; placed some exquisite statu
ettes-jit terracotta. The fine gate-way of the
same material; lit ' Andrd Boni of Milan, deserves
well our attention. The panels represdnt such
subjects as Victor Emmanuel,- , in the thick of
the fight, as , usual; Italy; fulreff hope; Roine„,full
of ninurning; Cavour, reading the ,prbelamittion
of "King of Italy;" Napoleon, 2planning the
Italian campaign. The Idea Is evidently taken
from the celebrated gates of Ghiberti, at Florence,
and the work is a truly national orie,and beautiful
-I,Y executed. Just facing this pretty Italian section
of the Park is, the long machine gallery of the
United States. But we will merely look in fcir
one moment ets pamant, just to see the magnifi
cent locomotive from Grant's works, Paterson,
N. J., blazing, like gold, and now wearing la'
new decoration of. the . . Gold Medal in its button
hole. As usual, there was a crowd- of male ad
mirers around , it, just as.fethale - curiosity was
equally numerous and busy INzie' adjoining de-
pariment of the sewing so;:.
yolit ! Close by is the shed in which Russia dis
plays her carriages, and a very creditable dia. ,
play it is. In . this, us • well as- .in her
horses, , MAWR, 'has 'astonished • the
world: There is a traveling.carriage, marked at
the incredible sum of 1,900 , francs (?), and which,
at such a price, Is the greatest wonder at the
Exposition. It consists of a,berlini centre,: with
rumble and head behiridi and driving seat for two
in front, and , is fitteid`up with every possible.con
venience-for it whole family eI/ typiage. Of course,
railroads have rendered such a vehicle useless in
Most countries. But it is admirable of its kind,
and well deserves the silver , ,medal which. has
been accorded to. t. It is .built with immense.
strength, 'yet does riot look 'heavy .or .umber
some,. and would •-travekil- should think, .with
three horses. Vonsidering the fabulous price, one
does not wonder to See it marked as ''sold",,even
in theSe railway times,
PACIFIC Ritt.W.6.':—The Union Pacific Rail
way, Eastern Division. has reached the end oldie
two hundred and thirty-fourth Mild of the track,
from which point the Men were driven by the In
dians some wciiks since,, Them is now a farge
force at Work. Thort.: has been "some delay by
cholera among the men, but they are now in bet
ter health and working well. •
Wiwi% Wri.NEssEs.,--The mouth of the man
who purifies his teeth with.SozooonT is a witness
box, and every time he opens it two. rows of
gleaming witnesses testify to its beautifying
properties.
CorrEn ono is eiud to have been found in
Salisbury township, Lycoming countY, The
vein is reported to be two'and a hat feet thick.,
U. P. Suvomia, a native Chinese student in
the Kenyon (Ohio) College, has carried off the
prize for. the greatest, proficiency, among the
de
nrors in the Gred)c, Tckamont.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
feorrevondenee of the New York Iferald.]-
NAHIMILLE, Tenn., August 1, 1867, 7 o'clock,
P.X.—The polls have closed upon one of the
most, pette.eable elections ever held in this city,
and no. repetts have been received as yet which
indicate trouble elsewhere, though it is difficult to
conceivelhat the election has passed off in the in
terior wholly without disturbance. In Nashville
thentwas a general suspension of business, and
people kept their houses; so that the streets, ex
cept fp the immediate vicinity of the polls,
were
almost as deserted and quiet as on Sunday. There
was no intoxication and no disorder. A few arrests
were made for violation of the ordinance as to car
rAyinconeealed weaponS, - and a eouple of colored
men were apprehended for attempting the demo
cratic strategy of voting more than once. Even
the disfranchised were as a general thing, in good
humor, and seemed to make a Jest of the greater
privileges of the negro. Nor was this good order
due to martial effect, for General Duncan had
disposed the military most unobtrusively. Afew
cavalrymen were picketed in the rear of the City.
Hall, a detachment of infantry had stacked arms
at the Capitol, and a horseman quietly watched
each poll froth!, a distance; otherwise the military
were out of sight.
'The great feature of the election was, of course,
the exercise of the franchise for the first time in
any place by the African race of the South. It
would have been- a curious scene anywhere to
have witnessed streams of black voters at the
polls. It was remarkably stkin Tennessee. It
'seemed like a closing tableau to the great drama
just enacted by the nation—its apotheosis of the
terrible struggle which set free a whole people;
p 67 was curionsly contrasted with 1860. White
and black, master and save, freeman and freed-.
man, side by side, to-day in Tennessee exercised
the privileges of a common citizenship.
The newly made voters were up bright and
early this morning. They thronged the streets in
quest Of the polls long before "they were opened.
When the balloting commenced they formed in ,
long lines, and in an - incessant stream poured in
their tickets until their whole vote 'was received.
"The- , were so prompt and steady at this work
that nearly: the whole negro vote was polled by
two o'clock. The whites generally deferring
voting until the afternoon ; —the Colored
citizens had the polls . almost en
tirely to themselves during - the fore
noon. A few Caucasians forced themselves into
the rigid. Ethiopian tide, and. were borne along
bal_ot-a
to the I I
ox; brit their numbers were few
and far between. Singularly enough, many of
the negroes were electioneeringfor the Conserve- .
tive candidates; and 'perhaps from One-tenth to
one-eighth of the whole colored vote was cast
against the Radical ticket. Some-of the partisans - .
of the Conservative side were roguishly palming
off
.2nd-radical
_btdlots sm their unsuslT,k4itigt
m i me d ; i l igerhrfax,..w . - enjOY the advan-,
tages of a common school education, and who,
.consequently, voted contrary to their real inten
tion. But few . were deceived in this .manner,
however..
It is still a fact that an, important clement of
the Conservative vote was contributed by the
newly enfranchised colored citizens. Their Radi
cal brethren were not intolerant of this freedom
of opinion. .They merely expressed their esti
mate of their degraded fellow-Ethiopians, who
could vote any other than a "Red" ticket, by a
look' of supreme contempt, but offered no vio
lence. No child was more pleased with a toy
than the negro 1,3t1i the ballot. Stoically patient,
he broiled for hours in the hot sun, awaiting his
turn, each face radiant with delight, and each
hand nervously/ clutching the ballot of the freed
man. The rule was represented by ad the ages
of manhood, from the sprucest city boy to the
venerable white-haired field hand, who was barely
hobble to to hobble to the polls. and who seemed as if
about to depo it his ballot for the first and last
time of his ife; and all shades were present,
from the unmitigated blackness of the Congo to
the fair whiteness of the Octoroon,' who might,
lay claim to he wholly Caucasian.
The challengers of the Conservatives acted im
partially in their duties. They did not seem to
manifest any improper desire to impede the
voting. Where they knew the voter to be quali
fied they even assisted him to a prompt deposit of
hle , ballot. When it Was' necessary to question
the voter, the well known ignorance of the
African as to dates and time was illustrated—all
were over twenty-one years of age,'according to
what they were told by their parents and rela
tives; but• not one in a dozen could name his
birthday.
The registration list of colored voters is also
.I:emarkable for the lens; array of distinguished
names. The best families of Tennessee, the most
renowned statesmen and soldiers of the Union
since its incipiency, and even the glorious cogno
mens of the Roman history, bid fair to be, per- ,
petuated, in name at least, among the future eit
tzeias of Tennessee.
In its remarkable quiet under the circumstances,
and in the circnmstances themselves the elec
tion to-day-dates an enoch in the political history
or the country.
!NAsnyii.t.n, Tenn: August Ist, am in
receipt °a information from all the principal
' - towns of Middle - ,Tennessee.,. Mere was not • the
slightest disturbance during 4 tlie.day: All was as
quiet as in Nashville. ,
The returns from the diffierent sections of the
State come in slowly: Every county in Middle
and East Tennessee, so far as heard from, has
gone Radidal. Brownlow probably carries every
county in the State, except two in West Tennes
see, and they are doubtful. Middle Tennessee
gives hint a majority of at least 15.000, Nashville
city gives him 13,300 and Davidson county over
4,000. •
The - Radical Congressmen are elected beyond a
doubt. Mason, who ran in the Nashville district
as an independent Radical on the confiscation
platform, received only a few votes..
The Radical candidates for Congress lead
Brownlow in nearly every district.
Of the Legislature twenty out of twenty-three
Radicals are elected for the Upper HOUse,.ancic'all
but ten of the eighty-three representatives in the
Lower House. •
The returns in thus far (midnight), indicate a
majority in the State for .Brownlow of 25,000,
which will probably be Increased to 30,000.
Alz)triiis, Tenn., August 1, 1897, 12 o'clock,
Islidnight.—The State, municipal and federal ar
rangements to ,prevent auy riotous proceedings,
were so well poilected, anti the disposition of in
fluential people for fair-Play so well pronounced,
that the election to-day passed oil. amid a quiet
unusual for this city. Not the least disturbance
was manifested, not even the faintest of cheers at
any of the polls disturbed the intensity of effort
that frinn 0 o'clock until 4 characterized both
parties. The challenging was• close, and party
expedient ,was ,much resorted to by Radicals
and Conservatives to increase their strength. The
victory is with, the - former. The colored men
have given Brownlow a new lease of office,if not
of life. .The Radicals are triumphant in this city,
"and' suburbs. There;were polled 6,:138 votes, of
which BrownloW received 4,838, making his ma
jority more than two, thousand.;' In the county
precincts the Conservatives have a, majority pf
113. The official returns will;reduce Brownlow's
majority in this county to, fifteen hundred. ;
From other eounties in:West Tennessee,returns:
are very meagre, Haywood goes .
BrOwnsville, thb county seat, giving BroWnlqW ,
653.44/ajoritY% Madison county gives 360„aon8crty
THE TENNESSEE ELECTION.
COMPLETE SUCCESS OF THE
RADICALS. •
BROWNLOW CARRIES EVERY
COUNTY.
All the Cong-ressmen
Radicals.
vative majority; Jackson, the enmity seat, gives
Etheridge a majority of 124. Minimum also
has gone Conservative; Bolivar, the county scat,
gives Etheridge 152 majority. Fayette„ county Is
strongly Conservative; no returns have been re
ceived.-llenry county gives a small Conservative
majority. The polls were open in but .one pre,
cinet. . 7
• Abel and Coleman, Conservative candidates'in
this city for the Legislature, are defeated by Ry
der and Hamilton, Radicals. Leftwich, the Con
servative 'candidate for Congress, is probably
-elected by 'a very small majority.
Gen. Thomas supervised thedistribution in this
city of eleven companies of
.-C troops, under the Im
mediate command of Lieutol. Townsend, 25th
Infantry. The • General has been well received,
and was to-day tendered a public dinner by lead
ing citizens. Three hundred special policemen
were sworn in for duty, and, with one hundred
and fifty metionolitans, were placed in squads of
twenty In the vicinity of the polls. But few•arresta
were made, and these were negrocs for carrying
concealed weapons.
The negroes from the suburbs were marched in
columns, supplied with Brownlow tickets, and
under command of yellow experts, who controlled
them until their votes were deposited.
The election in all the towns of West TenneSsee
passed off quietly.
KNoxvii.i.E, Tennessee, - August Ist, 1867, 10
o'clock P. M.—The election for Governor, Con
greSsmen and members of the Legislature was
held to-day. Mutual conciliations had been pre
viously agreed to by each party to prevent the
ring bringing about a partisan collision or politi
cal difficulty. The result is that to-days election
has been one of the qdletest and most orderly
ever. held in this city.
The colored vote was cast almost entirely in
what is known in this city as East Knoxville. -
From ten o'clock until the polls closed at four
the voting place assigned to the colored voters
. was crowded. It is said that many colored fe
males clad theniselves in male attire and deposited
their franchise for the Radical candidates. Of
tours,;, - this is scurrilous, so far as your corre
spoudent, who was a strarffer to the faces voting,
can testify.. It is also said by the sorehead cop
perheads that minor colored youths and other
colored persons, totally ineligible to vote under
the late franchise law and the constitution of the
State, cast their votes for the Radical candidates.
This is also regarded as scurrilous by Governor
Brownlow's friends
The following - is ,the result as far as heard
from: East Knoxville, b 67 for Brownlow; Ethe
ridge, none. Brovvplow"s majority in the city is
615. In the county Brownlow carries every pre
cinct heard from. The Radical -ticket in this
county is conceded elected by a large majority.
CLAnusvii.LE, Tenn., August 1, 1867, 11.30
o'clock P. M.—The election passed off quietly
here to-day. At this precinct 856 votes were
given for the Radical and 128 for the Conservative
ticket.. Four adjoining precincts give . 400 votes
fbr the Radical and 100 for the Conservative
ticket. • The remaining precincts will, give 900
votes, which will, perhaps, be equally divided.
The colored vote has been cast at fouror live
out of twenty precincts, and- almost entirely for
Brownlow, whose colored vote In the county
will be .1 - ,NIO and white vote 500.
Brownlow's militia are here. They kept away
from the polls. and, the disfranchised whites also.
The usual white, vote of the county is 3,000.
'Why the Cholera Iltages lit Kaman.
A correspondent of fi are eltitf* V3f.a
li liVedirilrtiWind - signs • mune
to his communication, writes'Yery t Ty and
piquantly about the causes of the chill a now
raging-in Kansas. He says:
"Take the people of Kansas, om the
centre to her eastern• border, from- e Kan
sas river to the Indian territories, the e is but
one in ten who knowS anything about - pure
air, exercise, or—more yet—clean cool water
applied externally or internally.
"The prairies are thronged• with cattle, the
ravines and bluffs with 'varmints' that die
and die and die, and whose only sepulchre is
the buzzard's maw. Last August, in a grow
ing and industrious 'city,' some creature, hid
den from ,view by rank grasses, died in a
`college park,' where students passed several
times each day front ' the college to their
boarding-house, and theagly noticeJaken of
the foul presence was tow turn the head and
hold the breath when passing through the
strata of stench emanating from the carcass.
Mired cattle die on the bottoms within sight
and smell of human beings, who close the.
house-doors on that side and leave the creature
to make a feast for the buzzards. Several
hens were killed by some 'varmint' and left in
the back-yard, where they decayetl,-emitting
such an,elHuvia that I could' nottgo into the
kitchen, and nine men passed by them every
day and every hour, waiting for some bird of
prey to clear away the offal. Everywhere in
your walks or drives you come across bleached
bones or half-decayed carcasses, whose torn
flesh shows that clawed or toothed scavengers
have been work. Such things breeds
cholera.
"What does the Kansan eat? Beef done to
a crisp, tough and tasteless as sole leather;
half-cooked mutton, rolled in a heavy, sweet
paste; corned meats, fried and buried in fat;
soggy wheat biscuits, neither warm nor cold,
at every meal, or indigestible corn-pone, which
is half g:rease; pie crust made with tallow and
filled with unseasoned pork; no fruit nor
vegetables—the first because not easily got,
the last because these people do not like them.
Beans are abominable to them; potatoes are
pestiferous. They will eat nothing that can
not be compound - ET - with poorly-made sor
ghtim molasses. They deluge themselves
with black, bitter coffee, or a reddish fluid
which looks like a weak dye, and tastes like
nothing else under the sufi,and which is called
tea. The food of these prairie men is mon
strous,as Victor Hugo would say, `impossible.'
Now this breeds cholera.
"They take enough of such exercise as
can be got racing horses ' but, as far as pe
destrianism is concerned, he who 'travels' a
mile or two is thought to be very strong in
the legs or very weak in the head. They
neither play base-ball or croquet,_ dance nor
skate; they do not hoe their corn; they reap
and mow with a machine; they sow wheat
and pick blackberries on horseback; they go
hunting and fishing in 'buggies;' they sit on
logs and crack hickory . nuts.
"The reason for their neglect of water is
not that there is none in the State, but that
there is none hi the family. So long as there
is a spring or 'crick' within a quarter of a
mile, these men who go to a day's 'work at
ten o'clock see no use in digging a well. The
women who have a dozen men to clothe and
feed, and all the cow, and pigs to look after,
have no time to go' often for a pail of Water,
and if they had, it would still be easier to Stif
fer thirst than to 'pack' water over the shade
less prairie beneath a fiery . July sun or upon
a floor of glare December ice. As
for the men, they won't do '‘women's work,'
and usually find the means of allaying their
thirst nearer home. Thus it comes that people
:wash neither themselves nor• their clothes
very often, and for the same reason clothes
often leave the wash-tub browner than when
' they went in, from contact. With their dirtier
garments soaking in, a little' mess of water.'
It is nornyitery 'that the cholera is in Kansas.
~Mompeoplfj die. 'there of, Wlioes #l,rFienulk
F. 1. Ft:THURSTON. Po. Nigher.
PRICE THREE CENTS
complainte than all Other diseases put
together: E. E. Bettivkiraa.
FA CTS AND FANCIES.
—A hard drinker objcett to putting vi.iter in
his whisky, because it dampens hisspirits.
The Menken has put Dumas pere • up to writing
an American novel.. Interestingp!re! •
—lt is said that A. J. Is going to Tennessee to
return the "Moses" gold' watch to the colored
people of Nashville.
—The question of the
whatsr. Is All Right dead
or alive? If he is dead, have become of his
funcr-all.rites?
—There is a good deal of flirtation at all the
summer resorts, but the Sulphur Springs are the
best for matches. 'Tiger says that..
—A wholesale house in Bston advertises:
"Wanted—women to sell on co o mmission2T And
this in Boston Cool, if not slightly. Coolie.
—Captain Simpson, of the British navy, has
had to pay £lOO and costs for flogging a delicate
•boy who was found on board his she
—Therechap of our acquaintanCe 'who! al
ways serenades his lady-love in Come are - meet
her. (C. M.)
—The dog trade in New York hal become-so
livel that the price has fallen to twenty-five
cents per dog. They are sold by the pound.
(Overlooked by the Boston Post.)
—Some rascal tried to blow up a Theatre in
Exeter, England, by turning on all the 'gas and!
lighting one burner. He then became an ladt-er
himser. (Missed by the Post.) .
—People will have to stop talking about the
"teaming West" when the Pacific W._ R. is- fin
ished. - The teams will be superaeded by the•
trains. •
—The Boston papers are showing the wear and.
tear on their wits. There is not a quotable joke
or pun now, in a hundred of their most violent
efforts. Post and • Tiger take notice.
' —Dr. Bellows thinks that all Louis Napoleon's
portraits flatter him. Dr. Bellows is blowing.
After reading Abbott's pen-portraits of Nap., we
can imagine none flatter.
—The Queen has nominated the Prince of
Wales to be a Knight of the Order of the Thistle.
He has been making a donkey of himselrfor
some time past.
—Among the advertised letters at Fall River .
one to the "proprietor of, the best hotel in-the
city," and the Postmaster is boarding round a
week with each to decide to whom it belongs:
—A despatch went over the cable yesterday,ex,
tending a "call" to Rev. Dr. Hall, of Dublin, to.
the charge of the First Presbyterian Church,
New York. The elate has thus been subjected to
a very strong haul.
—The Ironton Register says Cornwall's glory
has departed. The United States are no longer
dependent upon the old world for their sauce
pans ; for, in Southern Missouri .there is - tin
enough to supply her kitchen fora million.years.
—What a man writes of his life is his autobio
raphy. What he should write is his ought-to--
biography.. (That's a !Therjoke. Whycouldn't
ha have said that what he should not write Biala
naughty-biography. ?) , • .
—George Alfred Townsend writes a letter to the.-
Boston Post, front' the•White_ Mountains, on• the
24th of Jely and manner Dom the,. Antietam
battle-ground '•to* dig--.A.- Di5it0610....0.13...th42444-..lut
-their 0 - . ' - TNlii OsVays an epterprbaing corm
mdent.
ifeheth 848 of
poem's that "a careful perusal of
_Mean
tions has convinced - us that the vague impreielon
we have now and then encounteri3d, that Walt
Whitman is a kind of learned pig, is far &era
correct."
—General McClellan has finally made up his
mind to come home in November;' and also to •
support General Grant for PreSident. So says a
correspondent. One of the statements Is as pro
bable as the other. When will people understand.
that the General must not be Ingried?
—A Virginia son ,, stress, under the title of "Sic
17
Sernper Tyrunna Luus culminates in a Into
southern paper:
`•They humble Virginia! Just as well may they try-
To sully the stars of Heaven's battlements high!
When they crumble to nothing VIRGINIA !hall shine
Eternal, immutable. glorious, GIORGI"
The idea of "Heaven's battlements crumblinr
to nothing" before the eternal indestructibility ol
the "Old Dominion," is the most powerfur appeci
men of "Old Viiginny neber tire" the world has
yet seen.
—ln a recent debate in Parliament Mr. Disraeli,
had said that Mr. Lowe wanted by his plan to In
troduce "crochety men." "What is • a crochety
man ?" said Mr. Lowe. "I suppose It is a mat ,
who holds the same opinions this year as he dldr •
last." The House felt the home-thrust, and whigr.
and tory joined in one loud and long burst.of
uproarious cheering., '
—The Runic inscriptions lately discovered at
Great Falls on. the Potomac, are likely to revolti-•
tionize our histories, if people will only believe
them. Thus, America was discovered in 875 A.
D. by the Irish, which people certainly should
not be called foreigners any more. Nantucket
was discovered in 991 and called Vineland. The
first Yankee was born at Martha's Vineyard in.
1007. Ills name was Snorri Thorfinnson.
—A Cork paper has the following, in a letter
concerning the Cork workhouse: " One of.the
doctors of the Cork workhouse told me, in very
many cases t they are ()bilged to put twolu a bad
in the hospitals, and many of those infected with
the itch and other contedious diseases, are placed
in the same bed with those not infected with
these contedious maladies." This is as good as the
spelling of Captain Costigan's brogue byThackr
eray in "Pendent:ls."
correspondent of the San Frei/moo .73utle- -
tin states that near Monterey there are. Apo.
weighing twenty-five pounds, and their croaking,
can be heard six miles. The same veraelous
thorlty avers that they are used In place of,fog
bells, and cost nothing to keep In repair.. The
story is not very remarkable. 4ny frogs . win
weigh twenty-flue pounds if you get enough,of
them, and they may be heard sixsuilles- easily If
pin will drive that far on a hot,night..
_ 4, 3l..Ltiopold de Mover, the pianist, wasealled.
upon to play before Abdul Aziz: In order that
no injury might be done to the beautiful mosaic ,
floor, the piano was -placed on the backs.of. five
Turks; then when M. de Meyer desired to. sit
down, Le was told that no one was permitted to.
be seated in the presence of the Sultan. Finally
this difficulty was got over, and. the professor
was accommodated with a chair. The Sultamex-
pressed himself as highly delighted with. the per
formance, and then asked the pianist.to,donce."
The • story is told from Paris, . but it ieeTer eo
much older than the Exposition..
—The French wits are still rilitkingfun of the
profusion of decorations whiTh the royalsvisltore
lett behind them. In Charirari Chain, had. a pic
ture of a stout uvitr.on, who lumap.Lwoprhited.
half her husband's orders on: the plea that' ;sa' ha
had rather a weak chest, the doctor was. afraid It
would do him ham to carry all the .I,4o*els. I)hu
self. Another sketch BiIQW4.II mail swung b ac k
in astonishment as he suddenlyeotties on a friend
in the street, with his breast glitteting -with deco
rations. "Ah, you see,' expiable, the frierol, "I
live just opposite the Elysee".7the 'palace where
the Czar and We Sultan'had (heir quiakeis.
—A museum, vshicht will be of great interest, hi
forming ut the Siwinglield.arsepal. It will ,con-
Min an almost endless variety of gains, American
and foreign, federal and rebeliMuside and breech
loading. A. valuable feature will be specimens of
the scores of breech-loaders which were,presetited
to the commission fOr examining sugh. . arms,
Which met in Springfield some. time igo; (Liao
photographs otevery, part of eack , f Of-course,
war relics will comprise a prombitdd „part ot the
collection. Illood,.stained guns and Jove** from
many, a battle-field 'will be found them With a
lare .number of specimens of rebel gUnl3, sword*
and:pike manufacture.