GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXL-NO. 101.
THE EVENING BULLETIN
PUBLISHED EVEItY EVENING
(Sundays excepted),
„AT. TILE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING,
601A3heiiituut. Streetv-Bt7"ladellp hist,
111( THE
EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION.
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MOM MOM.
4111180 N PEACOCK. ERNEST C. WALLACE.
FETHERSTON, TllOB. WILLIAM ON,
ALIASPER SOUDER, Jr.., FRANCIS WELLS.
The BULLY.TIN is served to aubacrlbera in the city at 18
centi. 4ex week, pa able to the carrier!, or per annum.
OCILIOMACKER dc CO.'S CELEBRATED
?Ilium—Acknowledged superior in all respects
any made In this country, and sold on most liberal
terms. NEW AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS constantly
on hand for rent. Tuning, moving and packing promptly
attended to. Wftrerooms. Ilen Chmtnut street. jelikaml
DIED.
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BARTLINC , —On the 7th Instant, Mary Justice, widow
.f the late William Mailing, in the Both year of her age.
The relativea and friends of the family are respecthWy
invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her
nomia.law, Edward Robbins. No. 145 Main street, Borden.
town, N. J., on Sixth-day. Eighth month, the 9th, without
further notice.
BEAUVEAC.—On Tuesday, dth inst., Marla L. Beal:-
Wall,
Funeral from her late residence, No. 1313 Locust street,
on Friday, the 9th inst., at o'clock. Services at tit.
Marv",, Church, Fourth street above Spruce, M. 10 o'clock
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BO YD.—On the 7th init., Robert Boyd, in the 324 year
of hit, age.
The relatives and friends of the family are r4,,spect
tully invited to attend the funeral. from his late resi
dence, Twenty.first, 111,6V11 Spruce street, on Friday. the
in.t.. at 3 o'clock, I'. To proceed to Woodland
Cemetery. •
LOPER.--In Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, Palmer
Loper. the 270 year of his ago.
MA YElt.--On the till instant. Caroline Augusta. eldest
.dauhter of the late Philip F. Mayer, 1).
TBOMI'SON.—At Cape Island. Aug. 7, Pin, William
Scott infant son of Wm. 11. and Emma It. Thompson.'
WOltßELL.—Suddenly, on the night of ,July Elth, j in
Live Oak county,Texas, Albert and Edward W., sole , of
the late Albert Worrell, of this city, aged respectively .1
and 15 years. •
LOME dr. LANDELL HAVE TILE BEFIT ARTICLE OF
VJ Black Iron Barege,tw•o yards wide: :deo, the ordinary
analities
iiYggA LANDF:LI,
Have reduced ull Dre - Suinnier Silks and Spring Dresr
Goods' •
.A.714E & CONNARD,
Paper Manufacturers, 44 N. Fifth Etrect.
Manufacture to order the timid grades of Book ; alzo,
mooed quality hook and Newspap,re, at rii , ,rt nrr
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SPECIAL NO'll3 It.: Els.
PARDEE SUIENIIFIC COURSE
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
The next term conneencee THURSDAY. September
flat. Candidates for admbelon may be examined the day
before (September 11th). or on TUESDAY, July 3oth, the
day before the Annual Cominencmnent Exerripee.
For circular!, apply to Pre!ident CATITI.L, or to
Prof. IL B. YULNGMAN,
HAITON. Penna.. July. i%'7•
NOTICE. —TIIE MEDICAL AND dt.7IIGICAL .
Wards of the tit. Mary's liospitat, cor. Franklord
road and Palmer street, ar' now open tor the reception of
- patients. All chokes of accident received firatuitteo.ty, if
vreeented within 24 hours after the receptnni of tqa
jury. The Slaters of St. Francis give their perronal at
•tendaLee to the sick. Apple ^ for admismou either at tho
Hospital. or Mother Agnwse, Convent of tit. Franei, , . P.••ed
.street. above Fittb. atatJt
HOWARD IiosPITAL. NOS. 151i5 AND 1520
Lombard Street .Db , persiary Department—Medical
treatment and unAlcinom Inrnirbed itratuttourly to tho
poor.
Comepondenee of the l'hiledelphia Evening Dulletio..l
From .Atiantic City.
ATLANTIC CITY, august th.ls67.—The weather
•bua been delightful' for several days past, and,
wltli the exceptlen of now - and - then a - slight --- 1
shower, well calculated to enhance the comforts ,
:02d enjoyments of the thousands who are now
here. The bathing is superb. the temperature of
the atmosphere as well as that of the water being
at the right point to benefit not only the healthy,
but also those who are feeble and week. The
bottom of the bathing grounds is smooth, and de
-seends into the ocean with such a gradual slope,
that all danger to bathing is removed. fn fact,
- the only danger arises from the carelessness of
bathers themselves, who imprudently venture too
- far out and become exhausted before they can
again reach the shore. Some of these reckless
adventurers swim out from a quarter to half a
tulle, thus jeopardizing their lives, and from this:
cause alone two men haVe been drowned the'
-present summer. Three or four other cases have
-occurred where partici have narrowly escaped,
but who-have been heroically saved by pi:Nous
who went to their assistance. .
To-day over two thousand persons arrived her
on the St. Patrick's excursion. The train con
sisted of forty cars, drawn by two locon ,
This is the largest excursion that ever et
the road at• one time, and the excursion,
jo ed themselves to their hearts' content , :
ray parties at private cottages every
night, and ititeresting hops at'the public houses.
On Saturday
, evening the grand' hop of the
•-season will en. • - :- : - `'; .j b&. /States .Hotel,
and every arranietrierit is Making to give it a
brilliant effect. The entire front of the louse
will be beautifully and to fully decorated duder
the supervision of Wm. Rolin, of Philadel
phia. To-morrow evening a splendid display of
fireworks, by Prof: Jackson, will also he given,
which will be magnificent and imposing. Messrs.
Brown & Woelpper are sparing neither pains nor
expense to make everything attractive and inter
esting about their premises to their patrons and
the public generally.
At the Surf Pause, Congress.Tiall and the Man
sion House these hops are given every night, and
are attendedly very choice company. To-night
a fine display of fireworks is to be given at; Con
gress HAL, and in the evening a grand hop.
The season is now at its height, and lite in At
lantic City is very gay. The hotels, and board
ing-hOuses are all well-filled, and the proprietors
are,doing a much better busineSs than they an
ticipated at the commencement of the summer,
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, THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD-OPEN 125
Mli.ks:—A fewweeks since we noticed the open
.in of the Union Pacific Railroad to Julesburg,
iles west of Omaha., and sometime this week
we expect to report its completion to Crow Creek,
.a point 48 miles further west, making a total of
425 miles. Fifty miles of track in addition arc
graded ready for the iron, and there is no doubt
of the completion of the road to the base of the
Rocky Mountains curly in the fall. The Company
are confident that the whole line to the Pacific
will be open for business in 1870. The Indians
have annoyed the surveying parties and tie-cut
. tern, who are many hundred miles in advance of
the work; but they have a wholesome fear of the
population that a railroad carries with it, and all
trains run without interruption.
The business of the Company has' been most
flattering. The earnings for the quarter ending
. August Ist, were about W 00,000; but as the report
. for the last week in July has not been received,
the exact fraction cannot be given. These earn
ings accrued from operating an average of not
more than 350 miles of road, and alter deducting
• operating expenses,,the balance is far in excess of
the interest obligations of the Company on the
amount of bonds they can issue on that distance.
It should be remembered that this result is from
a way business alone, through a new country, and
is not to be corn with the vast. th rot, yh busit
tcf pred
ness that mus ow ' , ll. opening of the whole
.:line to the Paci e. The necess.of the enterprise
seems to be thoroughly assured, and we can see
no reason why the first mortgage bonds are not
••entitled to rank among thep est securities. The
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• daily sales are now so I e, that the Company
• already entertain the-idea o ,advancing the price.
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—A man in Cleveland tried to murder his father,
was.arrested and bailed out by the old gentle Man,
'who preferred to have hit grey hairs brought in
sorrow to the grave by/ is own son rather than
by the hangman. ,
—A returned Californian wants *84,000 which
he lost at poker to g a Wall street operator , about a
'month ago, and the anti-gambling society says he
_shall have It back again.
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” e - Xeply: IS - a - n6irsisk,"Alr:'/Statitori" not
merely refuses to rcsigniby informing the Presi
dent that he shall hold hilt office until Congress
meets, he virtually asserts that the President can
not in the meanwhile remove him. He intends
to-intimate that when Congress assembles the
President may try his chances of getting the
Senate to consent to his-removal.
If we were 'satisfied that the President is in,
earnest, we should have no difficulty in conjec
turing what further steps he will take to . vindi
cafe his dignity. But it looks too much as if this
fracas with Stanton were a make-shift to divert
public attention while the President backed out
of his threat to remove General Sheridan. We
regard that change of purpose as wise and com
mendable. The course General Sheridan has pur
sued since the threat was made public, shows that,
he desires and courts a removal as putting him-in
the foremost rank as a Radical candidate
for President. Instead of a degradation
and a punishment, it world be a covet
ed step to promotion, and President John
son would realize - the truth of Poor Richard's
not over-cleanly proverb,, "he that spits against
the wind spits in his own face." We did not be
lieve the President would remove Sheridan when
the announcement was so positively made, and
said so rather bluntly at the titne. He has never
vet removed anybolly whom it concerned the
dignity and success of his administration that he
should put out; and it is rather late to begin when
Congress has in most respects tied his hands, and
his political fortunes are past redemption. - His
spasmodic outbursts, unsupported by action,
betoken weakness. lie ougkt to have removed
Stanton more than a year ago; with the same
resolute decision a Military commander would
use against a spy and traitor serving on his staff
and having access to his secrets.
We do not complain that President Johnson
inclines to retreat from his threat to remove
Sheridan: and if he would pitch out Stanton,ncck
and heels, it would be a. most grateful and accept
able substitute. But if he intends to go no fur
ther than his request of a resignation froth a man
whom he might have known would never resign
by request, the thing is altogether too farcical for
so serious .a business. It is like putting a kindled
match to a ton of wet tow. It raises a blinding
smoke to cover a naked retreat from a hasty
purpose. It looks as it' the President. shaken
by the remonstrances and importunities of Gene
ral Grant and others against the removal of
Sheridan. suddenly bethought him of un
popularity of Stanton - as affording a ne\v and
sate vent for his.wrath. But if It all exhales in a
mere request, and produces no further effect. his
dignity would have suffered less by keeping ids
anger pent up. It may be asked, "What further
can he do?" That is a question it behooved him
to consider before he took the first step. His in
sight into character should have taught hint that
Stanton would not comply;and if he did not wish
to stand before the country as a President batlkst
and defied by a contumacious, subordinate, he
should havelbad some ulterior resort, or else, Qs a
man of prudence, have refrained. from under
taking what be could not accomplish.
Ckrk of the Fac vity.
The "irrepressible conflict" between the Presi
dent and Congress has suddenly broken out in
a fresh place and in a-new form, which promises
to be something More than a nine days' wonder.
The "grave public considerations" which have
constrained Mr. Johnson to request the resigna
tion of the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and
the "grave public considerations" which have
constrained - the latter to hold on to his office un
til the next meeting of Congress, make up a
broad issue, which simply puis the President to
the duty of fighting it out or the alternative
of a base retreat in humiliation and disgrace.
The reply of Mr. Stanton to the President's
request involves an offence . from a subordinate
to the Chief Executive officer of the govern
ment Without a parallel in the history of
the country. But with the knowledge that the
Civil Tenure of Office bill was passed by . Con,
tress expressly for his protection, Mr: Stanton
has been encouraged to this unprecedented act of
contemptuous defiance. Yet, still the question
recurs, is the superior or the subordinate officer
by this act to become the master of the situation?
Itsir es us that if the law will not admit of the
rem . 01 of the contumacious Secretary in the ab
sen .e of Congress, the President can and must
snspend him. To recognize him in his - office
.after this unsatisfactory passage at arms with him
is to consent on the part of the President to his
own degradation.
But why this request upon Secretary Stanton
to resign ? Unquestionably it is because, as the
head of the War Office, be stands in the way of
the President'a ideas ns to the execution of tke
reconstruction laws• of Congress. Mr. JohnslTh
desires to apply these laws with a margin of
liberality to those classes of the Southern
people most directly- affected by them. It is
.on..thisurpund,..rnainlY, we, presume, that he
oesi , ..'• , g+ - titl .-. of . ileneral Sheridan .cOni s T
mander of the Fifth Military district. .But, with
a little reflection upon the matter, Mr,Johnson
has discovered that the removal of • Sheridan
and the substitution of even General.Roussean in
his place would practically amount to nothing,
so long as Rousseau remained subject to instruc
tions coming through Secretary Stanton under
the laws, rules • and regulations of the army.
Hence this request for Stanton's resignation. He
declines point blank to withdraw, and falls back
upon Congress. We hold, then; that the only
course left to the President, if he would main
tain the dignity of his ::office and his own self
respect, is to suspend the refractory Secretary of
War, and appoint or recognize some other per
son in the discharge of his official duties for the
time being. •
[From to-day's Times.]
Whether it is decorous in Mr. Stanton to refuse
compliance with the President's request, and to
retain the Secretaryship us long as possible in
spite of him, is a question that depends very
much upon the relations of Mr. Stanton to the
Congress which enacted the Tenure of Office law.
In ordinary circumstances, a hint from the Presi
dent to a Secretary would be followed by resig
nation. Were there,po contingent considerations,
the instincts of a gentleman would prompt im
mediate withdrawal. We are sure that Mr. Stan
ton would not be an exception to the rule if
only his personal feelings were concerned. The
man who has opposed the President's sui
cidal policy in regard to Sheridan and the
law can scarcely be suspected of mere fondness
for 'office. He is impressed, however, by his re
sponsibility to the majority in Congress, whose
confidence he enjoys and whose will he would
enforce. His duty, as he sees it, is to stand by
his post in behalf of the Republican party and its
measures of reconstruction—not because he can
hope to accomplish anything, with the whole
weight of the Executive against him, but because
he cannot honorably abandon the trust which
Congress intended in a certain degree to render
independent of Mr. Johnson. Upon the latter,
Mr. Stanton proposes to fasten the undivided re
sponsibility of the nullification of the law.
This controversy between the President and
Mr. Stanton, arising as it does out of a systema
tic attempt to arrest the operation of the recon
struction scheme iu the spirit designed by Con
gress, invests the political position with a very
grave aspect. With Sheridan and Stanton re
moved, no amount of protestation on the part of
Mr. Johnson will persuade the people of his
fidelity to the law and hie duty in relation to it.
We apprehend, indeed, that to this extent the
mischief to be deprecated has been already
wrought. After what has transpired, it is im
possible for any candid member of the Union
Party to repose confidence in Mr. Johnson's
fealty, "• or to place the slightest depen
dence on his discretion. The re
newel of his conflict with Congress
when that body is not in session, proves him as
unmindful of the obligations resting upon him as
he is indifferent to the requirements of the South
and the.real interests of the country. The peace
THE STANTON lITIESHOGLIO.
Opinions of the.Nevr York Press.
[From today's Heral&J
PHILAD i ELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1867.
which General Grant predicted as a conse
quence of reconstruction disturbed by Mr.
Johnson eauselessly, wantonly, because with no
chance of lasting advantage. To the country his
course brings tryuble, confusion, u nee rt4itf ty.at
a time when these conditions operate most disas
trously. upon himself it will entail the loss of
the forbearance hitherto shown toward him, and
a depth of disaster and disgrace from which very
ordinary sagacity shoUld have saved him.
PRE% ICO.
Letter From Gen. Derriozabal-are De
clares Escobedots Letter on Foreign
ers to be a Forgery.
The following letter from the Mexican General
Berriozabal was received by mail on the 6th inst.,
at the Mexican Consulate in New York:
MATA:stouns.,. July 25, 1867.—T0 Don John N.
Navarro: By the present von are fully author
ized to deny as perfectly false the report of the
Ranarro newspaper that the authorities and
people of this city made public rejoicings on re
ceiving the news of Maximilian's execution.
Those rejoicings took place indeed; but they
were intended to celebrate the important event
of the capture of Mexico city, officially known
here by the mail.
You can deny, and pronounce counbnibited
too, the stupid and savage letter on foreigners at
tributed to Gen. Escobedo by the same Ranchero.
1 will write to the general by the next mail, end
be will send to you the power to contradict those
calumnies.
"Sii wonder the Ranchero is so eager in repre
senting our country in such a disgraceful light,
and make the world believe that we are opposed
to foreigners and wish to kill them, as that news
paper was published under the auspices of Mejia,
and is edited by notorious rebels, and receives ,a
subvention from the Mexican traitors residin,gin
Brownsville. It is in such discredit among the
Americans themselves that they asked me to stop
its circulation in this city. This proves the credi
bility of its•news. remain, etc..
F. B. BERItIOZATIAL.
Juarez Commit - les the Capital Pun.
ishment and nets Some imperialists
at lAberty.
CIMPULTVI.EC, July 14th, 1867.—Citizen Gtm
erat-in-Chitt of the ~, I ntet Corps of the Eu.lt :
The Citizen President of the republic. in the use
of his ample powers. has deigned to allow that of
all those persons who are now captives in this
city for the crime of treason against their country
those included in the followinglist may be allowed
the limits of this city for residence until such
time as the supreme government decide on their
eases : Those, who belonged to the military ser
vice and gave active military support, although
they might be prosecuted in the same way as the
rest who committed treason against their coun
try. and condemned with nil the severity of the
law to capital punishment, the Citizen Presi
dent of the republic, in virtue of his
ample powers, has de:gned to commute
said . punishment in the following
manner: Generals of division to seven years
imprisonment, brigadiers to six years, colonels
to five years, majors three years, captains one
year, lieutenants and sub-lieutenants shall be
subject to the surveillance of the chief civil au
thority during one year; but they shall be allowed
to choose their place of • residence, Where they
may live 134 full freedom while their conduct does
not make them liable to be rearrested during . said
time; and_ they may change said place of resi
dence at will, provided they give notice before
hand to the civil authority, so that notice can be
forwarded to the civil authority of such new
place of residence, who shall keep the same sur
teillance over them as originally.
As to the commanders and officers on the . re
tiredlist wholent passive aid to the empire,- they
ball be permitted to remain in this capital until
such time as the supreme - government decide upon
their cast*.
Independence and liberty. MEJLA.
Porfirio Diaz and the Mexican Trca-
bury—Where Dhd Hu Get So Much
Money'?
Mix Ito, July 13, 1867.—Citizen: Minister of the
Treasury and Public Credit, Chapultepec: On ac
cepting again the command-in-chief of the army
and the Department of the East, together with
the amplepowers with which the supreme gov
ernment has investedme, I lave the honor to
wake known to you that there remain, at your
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disposal. i the hands of the Commissary General
of the ar y. the sum of $140 , 000: in the general
comptr, let's hands , of this federal district,
S3JI7 Ipi 1 and in the tax receiver's, $B,lBl 19,
without Mentioning the postal revenues, the
revenue from stamps and nationalized property,
because the receipts from the former two have
been so far small, and none from the last,
Independence and,reform,
CANA.D 4.
Free Speech _ Denied
_by Mobs in the
• Ste - 11) - o - t - ninion.
"M. iNTREAL, Aug. 5, 1867.—Free speech does not
..preeisely flourish Montreal iLt.prp„scrit svritin,u,
:'several * ig the most
been just refifsed a hearing, by tlitF timsCpublic._
lion. Darcy McGee, candidate to represent this
city, attempted to hold a stump meeting on
Saturday at Point St. Charles, in the neighbor
hood; but, although two hundred and fifty police
men were present, he was incessantly hooted by
the Irish, who oppose him because they say he
expressed a desire to hang all the Fenians at the
epoch of their ever memorable invasion. His op
ponent, Mr. Devlin, was counsel for the Units.
States Government in the prosecution of the
raiders. Hence there prevails a general expecta
tion of a big row here at the election on the 20th
inst.; and if I should' believe half whit I hear on
all sides, it would be appropriate to style the New
Dominion a shaky concern—a midsuminer night's
dream.
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False fleiports About fell. Dayls—Sym
pathy for Surratt—Jake Thompson
an Office Becker in the Blew Do
iminion.
Moyrunti., Aug. 5, 1867.—Jeff. Davis went to
Compton last week, and visited there and beyond
the border some of his friends. I am informed
by the best authority that it is untrue that the
Ireimonters asked him where his petticoats were
or that he was booted through the village of
litarnstead, as reported in the local press. He was
entirely unmolested on the trip, and has returned
to this city much pleased with the tour. In this
connection I may mention that the numerous
stories about Davis Co., put in circulation by
country newspapers, at their wit's end to draw a
very small-sized crowd, atc+ regarded here, in the
circles of the parties prattled about, as su
premely silly.
There is sympathy for Surratt expressed here
in certain Catholic quarters. where the course of
Father La Pierre in concealing the conspirator is
zealously, aye, vehemently endorsed. Having
visited the locality of Surratt's confinement, I in
quired, among other things, of the people found
in the house, why he did not attend the trial of
his mother. I got the same reply that Mr. Brad
ley gives at Washington. Thu priest, La Pierre,
does not desire to be mixed up in the matter at
all; his part, as contended, having been ended in
giving refuge to "an innocent man" and helping
him in his night to Europe.
Juke Thompson left for Halifax some time
since. He went there to tiring his family here,
where he intends to reside in future, and to re
sume businessof some kind, entirely opposed to
raiding. It is said he stands a good chance of
being appointed Secretary of the Interior under
the new dominion. He might go further and
fare worse; indeed he is convinced of this in,r,a
most lively manner, as I hear, being still under
indictment. It seems Jake was the great money
bagman during St. Albans' time; and especially
on that account fears that Stanton and others
would put him through a course of sprouts, a la
Clay, if he were to go back home, an indefinite
residence in Fortress Monroe not being regarded
the most pleasant or profitable way of passing
away ones life, especially in the case of a money
ehanger. However, having traveled all over
Europe since the collapse, he announced his
OCR WH OLE COUNTRY.
POI:1.112TO DIAZ
opinion that there is no place like home. He
possessed a princely revenue before the war, and
Ia line plantation in Mississippi. a fortune esti
mated at $500.000. He has managed .to retain a
,his _estate &dm the P. B. which,
InVorbed by MS - young sOn,. yields him still enough.
to lire on.
CItINE.
Jerry O'Brien—Preparation* for Tits
Execution Tomorrow—interview
Between the Culprit and Ht Mother
and Sisters—Orninotto Vail front
Sheriff lielly.
IFrom the S. V. World , of to•dny.]
To-morrow the youthful murderer, Jeremiah
O'Brien, is to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, in the court-vard of the city prison. The
details of the homicide of which he was found
guilty are, doubtless, too fresh in , the recollection ,
of our readers to need any extended reference.
It may be stated In brief, however; that he stabbed
his unfortunate mistress to death under eirctun
staneee of the most revolting • atrocity. The
weapon with which he accomplished the terrible
deed, blood-stained and forbidding as it is, now
forms one of the " deodands" of the criminal
museum, in the office of our popular DAtriet-
At t orney, A. Oakey
The demeanor of O'Brien has materially
changed since he was sentenced to. death. He
has lost the reckless air. which 'distinguished him
betbre and after his trial.
.His friends—and they
are numerous—have brought potent influence to
bear on Governor Fenton to secure his pardon,
or a change of his dread fate to imprisonment for
life, but the Governor has turned a doa ear to all
their entreaties. An ex-judge of this city has
I . made many, trips to Albany with this object, but
he came back on each occasion impressed with
the hopelessness of his :task. and yesterday the
indications were that a reprieve would be almost
beyond tlie range of possibility.
Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Kelly paid: an
ominous visit to the unfortunate man. On en
tering the cell of the condemned he informed him
that it was his painful duty to counsel him to
prepare for is awful fate, as the Governor
had not yet interfered in his behalf. It is also
stated that Mr. Kelly communicated' to O'Brien
the fact that e'tlespateh had been received from
Albany, declaring that the law should take its
course in his case. TM prisoner is reported to have
received the news calmly, as he was prepared for
the announcement, which was merely a repeti
tion of what he hasPheard before from. some of
his friends.
In the forenoon, about half-past 11 o'clock, the
mother and the two sisters of O'Brien called at
the prison, and were conducted to his cell—which
is .1%. o. .5 on "Murderer's Row," on the lower
door. They had a lengthy and affectionate inter
view with the, unfortunate man for several hours.
after which they left.. They will call again' to:
day, and, perhaps, to-morrow; to bid him a last
farewell.
After his relatives left the cell two of the Sisters
of Charity, who have attended him since his con
finement, were received by him with evident sat
isfaction. Under their training and instruction,
as wellas-that-of_the Rev. Mr. - Duranquet, he has
become kind and occasionally thoughtful. A mo
mentary glance at him through the bars of his
cell door yesterday showed that he had been
seized by the awful calm which is the natural pre
cursor cif death. He heard the cOntrael•Whith had
been given him patiently, and he now seems re
signed to his doom.
The Sheriff is now making preparations for the
execution. The gallows—which is the same as
that on which Wagner and other murderers died
—will be erected this afternoon in the northeast
corner of the prison yard. About two hundred
•passes have been itsued - to - witness the' traguly, -
which will take place between the hours of nine
and twelve o'clock. The .admissions have been
confined to the officers of law, those who took
partin the trial of O'Brien, and the members of
the trees.
At the urgent request of the prisoner,.no one
was permitted to see him except his spiritual ad
visers last evening.
Suicide of a Young Widow by Poison
. --.A. Druggist Censured.
[From the New York World of to-day:l
. Yesterday. afternoon, Coroner Gover held an
inquest at the brding-house of Edward Jenkins,
No. 133 West Seventeenth street, over the re
mains of Mrs.- Frances Fischer. a widow but
twenty years of age, who committed suicide by.
swallowing a quantity of laudanum. It appears
that Mrs. Fischer, although so young, has been a
widow for nearly five years.. For some time past
she has been boarding at the above premises, and
supported by her sewing. Ella Warren, a
friend of deceased, who boards at the
same place, stated that for several days past
she has been despondent, and several
limes threatened to destroy herself,saying
that she was tired of life. On Tuesday deceased
told Miss Warren that she had found a bottle of
laudanum on the stairs, and the latter seeing the
:Mile' --in, her hand took possessicm,„of,it s .' , ynd .
ced I in'her boom to prevent deceased.'get,'
:ting its about o'clock on Tuesday . evening,
Miss Warren placed the bottle containing the
poison in the top drawer of her bureau, and at
half-past 7 deceased came into the room crying,
saying that she wished she was home and out
of this life. While Miss Warren was en
gaged in conversation with a young man
in the rcom at the time deceased went to the
bureau, took the bottle and was discovered
drinking the poison. Miss Warren sprang for
ward and eeized the bottle, but deceased had
swallowed nearly all the contents, about an
ounce and a half. Miss Warren then remarked
to deceased that it would kill her, when she re- •
plied : "It will only quiet my nerves." She was
asked what she took it for, and she gave an
I evasive reply. Medical aid was summoned, but
Mrs. Fischer soon became, insensible and died at
2 O'clock yesterday morning.
George Chamberlain, the young man referred
to above as having been in the room when de
ceased swallowed the poison, corroborated Miss
Warren's statement.
Mrs. Mary Haskins, also a boarder in the
house, testified that she purchased a bottle of
laudanum at the drug store of John Stringer, -
cornel . of Twenty-fifth street and Fourth avenue,
on Wednesday lust; it contained two ounces; I
asked for it for the toothache,. from which I
was suffering at the time; I used the laudanum
several times, and on Friday morning left the
bottle in my washstand drawer; I did not miss
the bottle until after I beard deceased had taken
the poison, when I found the bottle had been
removed; the bottle deceased drank out of was
mine: I had no prescription for the laudanum;
merely asked for some for the toothache, and the
bottle was given me with a label on; deceased
told me on Tuesday morning that she would
rather be dead, and said she had her reasons for
it.
Mrs. Mary George, sister of the deceased, testi
fied that she knew of no trouble that deceased
was in; and was, not aware of any motive-for the
suicidal act."
No testimony could be obtained, touching the
motives which prompted the woman to commit
suicide. and the jury rendered the following ver
dict : ."That Frances Fischer, the deceased,came'
to her death byisuicide by taking laudanum on the
6th day of August, 1817, and we further censure
John Stringer, druggist doing business corner of
Twenty-fifth street and 'Fourth avenue, for selling
said poison contrary to law." .
The War Department Trouble.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York herald has the following in relation to the
case of Stanton versus Johnson: •
"There is a story told here in connection with
the Johnson-Stanton imbroglio, which ought to
be mentioned though I by no means vouch for
i
its truth. It s said that a prominent Republican
official here, in the interest of the radical element,
and of course opposed to General Grant, waited
upon the President not long ago and had an in
teresting conversation relative to the Presidential
succession. It is alleged that the radical politician
then and there revealed a plan for the de
struction of Gen.. Grant's chances for
the nomination, and proposed to the
President to join in the. plot-- Thehints
thrown - out that Grant will tie ~.:....j2-14-4.:the. W ar,
011icein case of Stanton's removal are supposed
to be a part of the plot. Should Grant accept, it
is hoped that he will! thus be committed to the
Johnsonian alley, awl that the public confidence
iu him will fade away. Whether this story be
be true or not, it is certain that the Wade-Phillips
extremists are desperate, seeing that the conser
vative strength of the Republican party and the
better branch of the democracy arc certain, ac
cording to the present aspect of affairs, to be in
favor of Grant's. nomination: It would not be
wonderful, therefore, should this story be verified,
for the radicals are ready to jump at the most
desperate chance of destroying Grant's popular
ity.
LOUISIANA.
The Levees... Letter from Gen. Sheri.
The Jou>nal of Madison parish has the follow
ing:
tIEADQVAIiTERS FIFTIi MILITARY DISTRICT,
NEW ORLEANS, La. July 3, 1867.—J/dile R. C.
Iloarnes, Richmond, La.—DEAR Sin:—l have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
communicating the resolution passed at Rich
mond, in Madison parish, La., suggesting a go
vernmental system of leveeing in this State, to
protect the rich lands from overflow, and re
questing me to use any , Influence I may have to
support this project. I will most cordially co
operate with the citizens of this State in obtaining
this Congressional assistance; but my influence
would be of no avail until the State is admitted
to representation. To push the matter now, when
nearly every newspaper in the State, and a con
siderable portion of the people, are abusive of
Congress, would be, I fear, without results, and I
feel a delicacy In taking any steps at the present
time. It is much like abusing a man bitterly and
at the same time asking him to loan you money:
I will, however, forward the proceedings to the
headquarters of the army. with the endorsement
that Congressional action is, in my opinion, ne
cessary to save a large portion of the inhabitants
of this State from ruin.
I am. Sir, very respectfully, your obcd't serv't,
P. IL SHERIDAN, Major-General, U. S. A.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Increased Facilities for the Trans
mission of the News—The Accident
to the Wire or MO
The steamship Chiltern, employed in the ser
vice. of the Anglo-American Cable Telegraph
Company, was to have left. London yesterday
(Willnesday), having on board *a coil of new sub
marine cable wire which is to be laid from Placen
tia, Newfou ndla nd, to Sydney,Capeßreton, in order
to facilitate the transmission of the cable news
through the British North American Territory
to the land telegraph lines in the United States,
and vies renza from the United States for trans
mission to Europe.
It is expected also that the party employed on
the Chiltern will repair the Atlantic cable of 1866,
which, it has been ascertained, was broken In
shallow water on the 20th of July. The success
of both operations is anxiously looked for by the
public and the agents of the company.
Sheridan Meeting in New Orleans.
Ni w ORLEANS, August 7,1867.—A mass meet
ing of white and colored citizens was held in La
fayette Square last night, for the purpose of ex
pressing approval of the administration of Gen.
Sheridan. The attendance was large. Several
speeches were made, fully emlorelng all•-Generali-
Sheridan'c acts
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, August B.—in response to a call
issued by the General O'Neil. Circle Fenian Bro
therhooil, about five hundred persons assembled
last evening at Milliman's Hall,Seventh avenue,
and were addressed by Genera Spear antlMe,ssrs.
Joyce, Rafferty and Carey. It was anticipated
that the meeting was called with a view to. cer
tain movements on Canada;._ but nothing of a
positive nature having this aspect developed
itself. In the course of his remarks Gen. Spear
stated that no orders had been issued pointing
out or indicating such a movement, although,
•as Secretary of War of the Brotherhood,
he believed it to be the duty of every
man to strike Canada, or whatever
other point was directed. Alluding. to the pre
sence of President W. R. Roberts in Paris, he
•stated that the visit of that gentleman' to the
French capital had for its object the furtherance
of the cause only and partook in no sense of the
character of a pleasure trip. Mr. Carey stated
that he had received documents by the last
steamer showing that Roberts had perfected the
most complete consolidation of the friends of the
cause throughout England, Ireland and Scotland.
During the proceedings the General O'Neil
Gu.v-st ; usmo-d_. awl, uniformed in green, entered
i.nt,
.'.l,r. ~, ; r i inteti; arms to the audience.
Several new Members were enrolled in the mili
tary company and sworn in, and a number , also
joined the civil circle. The greatest enthusiasm
prevailed throughout the proceedings.
The schooner Niger, with a heavy cargo on
board, freighted for Weymouth, Mass., left this
port early on Tuesday morning, towed by the
steamboat George Fairleigh. She was com
manded by her owner, Captain Thompson, of
Cape Cod, who imagined, as he says, when leav,
ing this port that he would be towed by the pilot
boat he engaged; but when nearing the Hook he
saw the pilot leave, and also. found out previ
ously that there were six other boats in tow
along with his own, two at each side of the
boat and three behind, the middle one of which
was his own. When approaching the sunken
marsh off Ward's. Island, his boat struck on a
rock, and might probably have got off, had it not
been for the strain on the towboat of .the other
six vessels. She was, consequently, driven on
the rock, and • a leak was immediately visible.
Seeing that the towboat was or'no further use,
the captain cut the hawser and let her drift to the
Westchester shore, where she now lies, midway
between Morris's dock and the point of Ward's
Island.
The vessel and cargo, valued in all at nearly
810,000. are both uninsured. The corn lying in
the hold of the schooner, saturated with the
water, will swell to such an extent as to allow no
hopes of saving the Niger, unless she be taken to
the berth immediately. Her decks are already
lifted from her beams, and unless assistance is at
once afforded, nothing but her scattered timbers
will - remain to mark the dangerous passage
through Hell Gate.
Yesterday morning, at one o'clock, Captain
Hedden, with a squad of the police of his pre
cinct, arrested fifteen men, as they were about
to,embark on the steamer George 'Washington,
from the pier foot of Thirty-fourth,street, North
River, for the purpose of going tb' witness a
prize fight between Patsy Evans and Thomas Mc
(4urrann, at Weehawken. The parties arrested
were brought before Justice Bull, acting magis
tratei at the Jefferson Market Police Court, es
terday, and were discharged, the Justice hol ng
that no breach of the peace had been commit ed.
The regatta of the Atalanta Boat Club took
place yesterday. The champion belt was won by
Mr. Withers. The course was three miles. Time,
25 min. 30 sec. -
—The cholera has been touching up New York
a little. Six cases have been recently reported,
one of which Is genuine, but the doctors tte,
dis
puting over the others. That is enough, how
ever, to stir up the inspectors and to lead to the
usual warnings against green fruit.
—They have bored twenty-seven feet to find a
foundation for a pier of the new East river bridge
at Brooklyn, and have come to nothing. 'more
stable limp sand.
—Eighty-three and seventy-five were the respec
tive ages of a blooming couple whose young loves
were crowned with matrimonial bliss in Indiana
ast week.
E_L FETA:RENTON. Publis
PRICE THREE CENTS.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Mrs. Gen. Lee Is in very bad health.
—The Earl of Caithness has Invented a com
pass.
—Gen. Pillow got a corn 'crop of 206,000
bushels.
itzil is still attracting exiles from the
Southern igonareldes. •
—A Maine minister has a hen that Is brood
ing a litter ,of kittens in the most feelin' manner.
—A blockhead in Maine compassed his death
by driving a nail into his own skull. ,
—Cholera is a steerage passenger on board the
Mississippi boats.
—Horned snakes enliven the beauties of the
pastoral landscape about Wardinsville, Va. •
—Traveling over the Pacific Railroad is only
following a t-rail.—Boston Advertiser.
—The Vicero) of E • gypt puve the, Drama e
Society in London $3,000 as a little souvenir.
—The census shows that the greatest number
of British subjects are dpagans.
—"Marrying for life" is a riltrade whielris
coming into use in the West. It does not need
explanation.
—Some of the, Jamaicans want annexation : to
the United States because of the high taxes on
that island. - • •
—A young man in Nashville dreamed that llla
father had been robbed and mtirdeted: :The mail
confirmed the dream. ' ' '
—Mlle. Tietjens is engag;ed to sing at Bt. Peteis
burg next winter, at a salary df thirty thousand
francs a month.
—A new opera by Offenbach—"La Permit:felon
de Dix Houres"—has been produced at Ems with
entire success. • •
Finette, who can kick your hat off
six times running, is writing her memoirs for
Paris.
—The Sultan's sailors refuse fees for showing
visitors over their craft, at which the Britishere
are naturally astonished.
—A Western correspondent has been dining
with the chief Spotted-Tail, and says dog meat is
delicious.
—They have "traitors" up in the Dominion.
At least, such a St. Johns paper calls those who
go for confederation.
—"Give the devil his dew" said our devil, the
other night, as he lay under the trees in the
park, with the mist falling.—Savannah Repub.
—Jones has had an attack of cholera morhus,
superinduced by indulgence in green fruit. He
says his health is very muchim-peared.
—When Haddox's wife kicked him out of bed,
said he, "Look here now! you had better not do
that again; if you do it will cause a coldnom is
this family."
—William Cullen Bryant is still in Scotland,
but is coming home soon. He has been callin'
poetic flowers in Italy and Spain daring the, past
six months.
—A New Jersey minister has become Insane in
consequence of intense study of the doctrine of
Christian perfection. He won't have many fel
low sufferers.
—Four horses were roasted to death at the re--
cent fire in Saratoga. A correspondent darkly
declares that he subsequently found : a horse-shoe
nail in his hash.
—A judgment for $1,053 has been rendered
against Dan Bryant for breakingbki engagement
at the Albany Academy of Music,in April last. So
says the Troy , Whig.
—The latest story is that Wilkes Booth is now
the captain of a pirate vessel and the terror of
tbe. China_seas... _Rowatiout_ths back-I:pone_
the Washington Museum?
—The lines entitled "My Spirit . Droops,"
declined. Let the poet try some spirit drops,
and if that don't help him, he will have to let her
"droop."—Lou. Coudor._
little tioy was last week smotitered to death
in a barrel of soap hi West Randolph, Mass. Hu
man nature IS usually proof against any amount
of soap, if it be "soft."
—Punch reports the speech of an Irish 11 P.,
who thought Ireland was overtaxed: "Take a.
tenth of our. Income, sir. Ay, that they do, and
they'd take a twentieth if they dared." .
—Mr. Smith went home drunk, went to bed;
and lest his breath should betray him, turned his
face from his wife, when she said, "Yon need not
turn over,
for you're drunk clear through."
—The Superintendent of Colt's factory in
Hartford has presented Mrs. Ingalls, a Baptist
missionary to India with a navy.revolver. It
is apostolic tend 'pieties Lathe church abroad.
—The PriMiss Louisa of Sweden, the only
daughter of Charles XY.,. and the Crown Prince
of Denmark, have been betwarthel by their pa
rents, and will be married if ft is mutually agree
able.
—Base ball clubs as: well' as Indian tomahawks
are flourishing on the plains. The Omaha' and
Denser clubs have a bout on the 22d Inst. There
have been very many white-men .."out on q m fiy'•
over the prairies lately, ,
—An honest dame hithe town of Rome, stand
ing beside the corpse of her deceased husband,
bewailing in piteous. tones his untimely depar
ture, observed : "It's a pity he's dead, for his
teeth are as good as they ever were."
—That was a sad case of the Neapolitan noble
man, who fought fourteen duels to prove that.
Dante was a greater poet than Arlosto. and who,
on his death bed, admitted to his confessor that
he had never read the works of either.
—The New Orleans brokers made a successful
"corner" In the small notes of the municipal is
sue, much to the disgust of the Treasurer and the
rest of the people,who have to pay seven or eight
per cent. premium for their change.
—The Sydney Herald, of May 21.1, says in certain
districts of Australia Ohople are dying of thirst.
It is said that in the Lachlin back-country bodies
and skeletons of persons who have perished from
want of water are being continually found. It is
also related that ono man offered a pound note
for half a pint of water, and having got it and
swallowed it, offered £2O for a full pint, so great.
was his thirst.
—Jules Janin enthusiastically 'says of Ristori:
"Such as she was twelve years ago, such we Bec
her now, attentive to her task, eager to d 6 well,
annoyed or satisfied, with attitudes worthy of
Pompeii, of the Louvre, of the Vatican, or of the
Pitts Palace. Nothing is difficult to her. She Is
insolent, she is violent, she is calm—she is—
evetrileg; omnipotent, she puts into everything
a le of her soul, a little of her heart, a little of
the eternal particle."
—The Rev. Peter Chamberlain lately sum
moned ono Daniel' Pullen before the Petworth,
England, magistrates for behaving in an indecent
and improper manner in the pariah church of
NorthehaPel during divine service. The charge
against the 'accused was that ho had remained
seated at a time when the rubric directs that the ,
congregation shall stand, and that when told to
stand up he asked whether he was obliged to do
so. A conversation then took place_ between
Pullen and the officiating clergyman. This was
held by the bench to constitute an indecent "and
improper disturbance, and Fallen was fined 10a.
and costs.
—A year or so ago a ruffian in' New York, in a
playful moment cut his mlstreas'sthroat from ear
to ear, azd she died in great agony. Ile: was ar
rested, tried, condemned, and will soon be hung.
The beautiful condition of his mind appeals le
the announcement that he will "meet his 'fate In
the, spirit of a true Christian. The Sisters of
Mercy are welcome visitors to his cell; and, under
the gentle influence of their teachings, his sorrows
are made joys, his heart-griefs burdens that pain
not, but strengthen for the coming struggle, and
all things that dark forebodings Ute suggest
thoughts of better things to come, In . a better
world beyond the grave. The poor glrpturrled
into eternity, dumped into a • ,natpuWsa g'rave,
forgotten, unwept, is, of course,..not*e of those
"heart-grlefs," ctc., Ac.