GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor yoLUME XXL—NO. 105. EVENING' BULLETIN ptTBLISIIED nVERY EVENINO (Sundays excepted), AT TIM NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, 607 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, DV TIM - EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. rum of MORS. GIBSON PEACOCK.ERNEST C. WALLACE ErfrumsToN, THOS. .1. WI 1,1,1AM80.1, CASPER SOUDEH, Jr.., FRANCIS WELLS. The But.Licrit: hi served to imbecribers in the city at 18 tenth , :r week, payable to the carricra, or $8 per annum. DIED. LEA.--41n the 7th instant, Edward Tatntdl Lea, eon of 'William and Jane 14. Lea, In the Nth year of his age. lite relatives and male friends are rcepectfully invited to attend the funeral. without ierth.rr tatlce, from the ireeldenee of his parents, Brandywine village, en Saturday afternoon, the 10th Bret,. at 4 o clock. •• MA YEIL-01) the 6th Instant. Caroline Augusta, eldeet eJaughter of-the late Philip B. Mayer, 11, Ml'l:llA.Y.—At Trinidad de Cuba. July :14th, hurray, of J4loomfield, N. J.. chief officer of hark Ella Adele, aged .= veare and 4 menthe. PECK.—On the 7th init., In Wad:legion, Celonei,jr,,,ld, Peek. in the !Atli year of hie age. SC,IIEVTZ.—LIct te morning of A alma dth, at the reel deuce of mother, h 11 arry A. :7-;rhe • The friends of the family are invited tu attend hie funeral, at BLlPeter'n Church, Third and Pico Fltrectm on Saturday - afternoon. at 5 Welodc, psi ciw:•l TAW :ART.—On the Rh inetant, John W. 'Taggart, aged riu yvorP. Ills IC Wend?' ore invited to attend ide Inn( rat. from hie late residence. 147 North Tenth ett, , ,t, on M o nday morning next. 12th Meta ut. at 10 o'clock. ' TA YLOIL—At Gelvo•ton. Tevae. on Monday. Aug. 11. 7 , 1 WHIM" fever. Brevet Lieut. Col. George Taylor, Surgeon • Unitt•d Statue Army. SCLIOMACKER CO.'S CELE It RAT ED Planos.—Acknowledged superior urilli rcopects •any Inside in this country, and gold on most liberal tams. NEW AM) SECONIMIAND PlAla./S constantly on band for rent. Tuning, taming and packing promptly -attended to. Wareroomr. 11Ctielleotnuti , tr.: 0 A. . . I'M ditANDELL HAVE TI E F:ST A ETICLE or Pi Mack Iron Hartfte, two yards wide; also..tbe ordinary qualities • LYRE LANDELL VI nave reduced all the Bummer 3ilkr, arylSrrinr, Drees 13oodrit A T LEE & (X)NNARD, Paper Manufacturern, 44 N. fltth etreet, idtautdactatt to order the tinett. Hh.o, stoma quality Dock and Newepa.vtae, at ,I.e.rt de4. SPECILAA. tll OW 1 IVES. air PARDEE sclENTiric CUURSE LAFAYETIE C9LLE;; The next teen commeneen 12th. Cariiiiditee for adrilifelon in ay be ClallijlirAth.! day "before (September 11th), or on TUESDAY, .1,115 , :ntle, the -day before the Anneal For circulars, aptly to Pre.ident CATT Li, 6: to Prof. i:. It. YoI:NGMAN. cl,ric of the lituilty. • RABTOI4. rellll/1.. 11417 sir• NOTICE. -Till: MEDICAL. AND SURGICAL Wards of the 13L Mary`c cor. Yracilciord road and Palmer atree, aro now Ewell to: tier reception of yuiticnta. All calm% of accident roceired creait..ioly. if pr.:tented within 2 Boone after the rec,ption or the In. ury. The Sirtert of St. Francis ~ d Te their perconal at. iendasce ro the aick. Aroy for adiutauen oithor at the Itoepital. or blather Aertive, Con-rent el tit. Frond.. Reed Arcot, above Filth. a'.12.172t. rol mir HOWARD HOSPITAL, NO3. 1518 AND I.;i:N Lombard Street .DinAnisare Derartracnt—Medical treatment and medicine* inculdbed gratuitounly to the tom• "MO" Dutch in Africa—Exchange of Ter _._rliorragetlorecn_,Engliand laud. •Irma the Manchester (laarataa Jab* 17.1 between Her Majesty - and the - King of the Netherlands for an interchange of territore on the West Coast of • Africa was signed at London on the sth of March, and the ratifies- - tions were exchanged on the itch inst. The con vention recites that the interehange would Con duce to the mutual advantage of the two Powers, :mil would promote the interests of the inhabi tantsot the territory. Her Ma)jesty cedes to the Kiug of the Nether hinds all British forts, possessions and rights of sovereignty or jurisdiction which sheipossesse 3 on the Gold coast to the westward of the Mouth of Sweet river,where their respective territories arc conterminous: and the King of the Netherlands makes a like cession to her Majesty of Nether land forts, possessions and rights of "sovereignty or jurisdiction to the eastward of the mouth of the Sweet river: The tariff to be enforced after the lst of January, ltelB, in the possessions of the two Powers upon the Gold yeast imposes a three per cent. ad valorem duty ou' the invoke price of xil goods except beer, wine, spirits, tobacco, gun powder and fire-arms, for which specific duties are provided. If the customs officers consider the value of goods declared by the masters of ves -els insufficient they are to be at liberty to take the goods on public account, paying to the Ira- . porter the amount of his valuation, with.the ad dition of ten per cent. \thereon. _ , Sleep Allllollkg the Asiatics. - I:ev. Mr. Dail, - the Unitarian Missionary in Calcutta, in describing the way of life in 'Summer, Aeith the thermometer 100, degrees In the day-time, and 85 degrees to s 8 degrees in the night, says that wakefulness is the exception, and drowsiness the rule. The poor, old or young, who brings you a note from his "master" (a word in which Asiatic xevetence delights), no sooner delivers it than .he flings himself on his back, at full length, and is sound asleep in three-quarters of a minute; so that it is hard to arouse him if you are five minutes penning your reply. ThiS .Indian faculty of literally dropping asleep used to make me smile; but Lye got tiseu to it. I now expect to see Bengali "gentlemen" asleep in their carriages, on their wav to office; and She lese wealthy, as a matter of qourse, asleep in their palankeens, which, by the way, are never galled natankeens here, but palkeys. "When the rajahs, &c., see English people dancing at Government House, they ask in wonder, "Why not make your servants do this?" Eternal sleep is the bliss of God, and "never be born again." is Hindooism,is Budd hism,is Asianism,is the Oriental as contrasted with our idea of religion. You see it in all .normal Asiatic life. The Women ota Scottish Island. . A correspondent of the Glaw.ow llorcrld who recently visited the island of Lewi,,, in .the Hebrides, says "the women do all the heavy work. They dig, delve and hoe; they .marry heavy loads of manure to the fields, and .in the peat season you may sec them all day carrying creelfuls of peat from the bog. 'You ••will often see a man trudging along the road beside a woman, but the creel is always on .the woman's back. If they come to a river or ford, the,woman crosses first, deposits her creel on the other side, and then returns to •carry the man across. I only saw this once, but the farmers tell me it is a thing of every-• day•occurrence. When the creel is empty, the. man sometimes slings it over his own shoul ders, and then mounts upon the back of the woman, who carries them both across to gether. This, lam told is the only occasion on which, by any chance, you see a creel upon the back of a man, The woman in the rural districts here is, in fact, a beast of bur den, and men, in looking out for wives, look largely to muscular development. A story is ' , current among the English-speaking farmers that illustrates .this conception of woman's mission. In the middle of one peat season, when labor was much in demand, a man who was supposed to be a confirmed old bachelor,. suddenly married. A friend met him . some , • days after. 'What for did you take a woman like that?' said the friend. 'Did you no hear,' replied the man, 'that my horse was deed ?' !' i1...•.1..•_.:_.4itti ‘ .•.: . ....__::.(tz:)J .. :t..i't,':,i'.•....i•.,.,. - . : :.5•1..*:.',_..• Execution of the Illiirderer O'Brien To dal --Interview Between the. Priso ner and His Relations...lW Deluca.. nor as the End Approaches. The preparations for the execution of O'Brien Were commenced yesterday at the Tombs. In the afternoon the carpenters began the work of, erecting the gallows, and before evening the en tire structure was completed. It consists of two strong beams firmly braced to the' stone Boor of the yard, distant from each other about fifteen feet, and joined at the top by a heavy cross piece extending from one upright beam to the other. In the middle of the cross piece a rope passes through a hole made for its, easy passage, and above the beam over a : small pulley, one of the ends is connected with a heavy weight, which is concealed behind a board partition, the weight being held about foUr feet above the surface of the ground by a guy rope, which is fastened firmly to a beam on a line with the base of one of the upright beams, and which, when cut in twain by the executioner, who is to he stationed behind the partition, will cause the weight to fall and the body of the wretched con demned, when attached by the, noose around his neck to the exposed end of the rope, to be jerked from the ground a distance of four or more feet. 'The horrid structure has been erected on the same spot in the yard that has been made unhal lowed ground by all the executions that have taken plata: in the jail yard for the past seven years, just opposite the women's prison, and almost beside the cell of the condemned criminal. It is the same gallows from which Friery, Ferris 'and Wagner paid the penalty of their crimes, the deep incision of the executioner's axe made at each execution in the ground beam being plainly During the entire afternoon Sheriff Kelly wa4 beseigedhy persons whose morbid curiosity did no credit to their manhood, who were desirous of seeing the prisoner before the hour fixed for his execution, or of being appointed special dep uty sheriffs. according to law, to witness the ex ecution itself. In no one instance were the de sires of the sight-stars granted, and the Sheriff has so far decided not to allow any one to enter the jail yard pending the execution except olli cink and othors who, by reosbn of their public pos lion or official duties, are under the necessity of being present. Among the apblieants was a man named James Dugan. lie ap peared before Justice Dowling iii the afternoon, and begged the JUStiee to commit him for ten days as a drunkard, as he was desirous of being placed in a cell wimp.: he could witness the execu tion. He had come fully prepared for the occa sion, and had concealed under his coat a large piece of looking-glass. with which' he intended to reflect the gallows from the window of the cell in which he desired to be placed. The Justice com plied with the man's request. hut much to his disgust and disappointment, as soon as he was taken Into the Tombs yard, he was placed in the "Black Maria." and sent to Blackwell's Island to Serve out his term of ten days. O'Brien was visited during the day by his mother and sisters. and although their visits of lute have lien very frequent, the nearness of the final hour when the unfortunate young man is to be deprived of his life had the effect of rendering their Interview one of the most painful and touching character. The glitif of the _bereaved_ mother IsnearmsbotnidsorndJt required all the fortitude of her equally suffering daughters to in duce her txr'lvrvetheeeil of-thecondentnedirefore night came on. The prisoiaer bore up manfully siring the Interview,and did much bv Ids actions and modest advice to strengthen his heart-broken relatives in this hour of their supreme grief. De cidedlv'the most painful feature of their visit was that the sorrowing women in going to and from the cell were compelled to pass almost beneath - the gallows. A shudder seemed to creep over theM as they turned their faces to avoid the horrid sight in hurrying.by. Although while the gallows was being erected the echoes of the sounding ham mers of the carpenters at work reverberated throughout the building and fell painfully on the car of those in the cell adjoinit" , that in which the condemned is Imprisoned, he himself showed. no signs of trepidation. Ills spiritual 'advisers and the Sisters of Mercy were in constant attend ance upon him during the day, and. were untiring in their exertions to prepare him fully for the terrible ordeal through which-he Is to pass. The suit in which he Is to be attired at the exe cution, which was sent in to him yesterday, con sists of a pair of white pouts. a white vest and a black frock coat. The execution will take place promptly at nine o'clock. Suicide.in Thames street--A Dealer in Birds and Dogs Cuts His Throat—He Lies Dead Among Them for Hours. .t.944gin Tittles.] For s'eVerariieitts vastilmau named Lawrence Dalton has resided with his wife in the basement rooms of the premises No. 18 Thames street, • where he has been engaged in business as a dealer , in fancy birds • and dogs. of the, purest breeds. Although known to be a man of considerable wealth, he resided as well as carried on his business in this basement. using the front room as his storehouse and salesroom, and the rear room, which was the only remaining apartment. was used for family purposes. The street itself is one of the most crowded and least inviting in the city, and the house is a tenement building in no way superior to its class. and in its two most inferior rooms Dalton lived_with Lis wife, carry ingon a thriving trade, constantly increasing his riches, but never bettering his surroundings. . Aside, however, from the fact that he was con- • sidered penurious, there was nothing to be found to his prejudice: he was attentive to business, kindly in •his deportment to his wife and neigh bors, and never a drinking man. • A week ago the wife died quite suddenly, and the event seems to have worked a radical change in Dalton. He grew moody and irritable, and to thereat astonishment of his neighbors took to drinking to excess, which soon told upon a con stitution unused to stimulants. Several friends remonstrated with him upon his' ourse, but he replied that he must drink to drown his troubles, and continued to grow worse. On Wednesday afternoon, however, it was remarked that he was entirely sober, and it was hoped the paroxysm was over, and he would settle down into his old time habits again. theyesterday morning it was remarked that he did not open his place, but it was supposed that he had gone away on some business, and the circumstance, although re marked,'did not lead immediately to any investi gation. Later in the day the place continuing closed, and the animals beginning to be heard as If clamoring for attention, the neigh bors began making inquiries as to what had become of him. He was a very me thodical man in all his habits, and it had been his custom for years every day to go to a bank in the vicinity where he kept his deposits, and, on., in quiry, finding he had not been there, suspicion was awakened that something was wrong. About ti o'clock in the evening the uproar in the closed room had become so groat that it had attracted a considerable crowd upon the street in front of the house. r The dogs were howling and barking, the parrots squalling, and the other birds, wen in its -peculiar way, adding to the din. At this time the police were notified, and Roundsman Mullen, of the Twenty-seventh Precinct, de spatched to the scene. On his arrival, the officer at once broke open the street-door and entered the room. The atmosphere wasintolerably close and hot, the odor almost suffocating, and the dogs and birds breaking out into a chortle of re doubled vigor upon his appearanee, the officer for a moment was scarcely conscious. . After a moment, however, he saw before him, stretched out upon the floor, the feet under a stove, and the head tinder a table t the dead body of Dalton. The'throat was cut from ear to ear, every vein and artery severed, and beside him lay the bloody razor, which he had , used with such force that . death must have been instan-' taneous. The , bodr.was dressed in, the uses'' Clothing worn by the decesSed; 'and was' stiff and rigid, showing that he had not gone to bed on CHIME. To-day'il N. Y. Ilerald.l PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1867. Wednesday - night, and that he had been dead fOr , hours. The condition of the birds and dogs, however, attested this latter fact still more litrongly than the body; they were' all evidently suffering , intensely for food and water. Shortly after the discovery was made. one of the doge. a ,black and tan terrier of not more than five pounds' weig - ht,which in common with its fellows was tied up to the wall, managed to get loose. una before it was noticed- it had buried its head in the yawning chasm in the dead man's throat, and bad began to feast upon the flesh. It was instantly discovered, however, and taken away by the officers, and ultimately re moved to the Thenty-seventh Precinct Stition house. Officers Hays and McDonnell, of the Twenty seventh Precinct, were placed in charge of the premises, and everything left as it was found, to await the arrival of the Coroner, except that water and food were supplied to the birds-and dogs. Dalton was a man about 45 yearn of age, was an American by birth, and is said to have two brothers residing on Staten Island; but further than this nothing appears' to be known even by those among whom he has lived for years. An inquest will be held to-day. TIDE INDIAN WAR. General Augur After Spotted Tail h antes of the Killed at Plum Creek— ho Indians Consolidating More Murders,. OMAHA, Aug. B.—Gen. Augur has despatched two companies of infantry to the scene of the Plum Creek massacre. Spotted Tail's baud has split into two parties, and they arc endeavoring to form a junction with the Cheyennes. Since then they have murdered two: settlers, and yesterday evening they killed a flagman on the Union Pacific Railroad, west of Plum Creek. A grand confederation of the hostile tribes is meditated. Three hundred Indians are now going west from Columbus; the Cheyennes are coming down in strong force from the north. and the Sioux are advancing - in equally strong bodies from the west. Among the killed on the freiNght train burned west of Plum Cree'k. on duesday morning, were Brooks Powers. engi neer, of Toledo, Ohio; George fiecshaw, fireman; T. L. Brookes, of Joliet, Ilk, and Frederick Lewis. of St. Louis. The names of the brakemen and telegraph repairers murdered dt the same time arid place are 1.1111:IJOWL`. A I Harr IN NEW 31Exrco-71:LEvi:N INDIANS EIMEM2 LEAyENWO.I:III, Aug. B.—ln the - recent battle between the wLites and Indians near Pinos Altos, New Alesieo, eleven savages were killed and eight prisoners taken. A large amount of prop erty was recaptured. and a. white girl released. Prior to the light the Indians burned a rauche. The soldiers returned to Fort Bayard in high glee.' • W.ORK3IY_N KILLED—RANCHES BURNED—A TERRI oI Wi.31,1:i KILLED, ONE CHILD WOUNIWD, TWO YoI:NG rEmAi.its 'IWO LITTLE I:DY.E. CAPTURED BY SIDCX-4;LOOMY DI"rnING.s. Four KEAI:NY:Y. Nebraska.:July 30th, 1847.-1 was really under the impression that lodian dep redations were growing less in number, but they still stand 'as before. They are committed at points heretofore thought safe, and theretore, un prepared,. Not one . point rom Blue River to _Denver City escapes their observation; One - day a murder Is reported at Living Springs, the next at Fort Kearney, two.hundren. miles diatant,,pAd the next between - 13nrideffitnd"Lartiffileirafs; - ' equally as far. From Rush may easily,be per ctived.that :here are more. squads than one; in fact, that Pawnee Killer, Tall Bull and White Horse have scattered their bands, and are thus keeping up a general consternation through the country. At one time they hover like vultures in the rear of Custar's army: at another time at tacking insignificant stations.weak pests and iso lated ranches. No prey is deemed too ignoble for them; but now to factl Last Monday a party of workmen were attacked by a band of Indians: two men were killed, and one wounded. • Tuesday—One white man killed on Elm Creek, 20 miles west of this post. Sunday. the 28th, more sad news reached the Fort. rf - tio men, Mr. Berger and Mr. Masterson, arrived here from Junctionville to ask aid of the commander, and to inform him of outrages com mitted in the vicinity of their homes. Their re port is as follows: "On Thursday, July 25th, a party of Indians. exact number not known, and „who were supposed to have crossed from the north side of the Platte, attacked the ranches of Mr. Jolla Campbell. and also of his son Peter Campbell. vrhicu were about 300 yards from each other. They first came to the house of Mr. Peter Campbell. and took the young woman, Miss Campbell, 17 years old, off with them as a prisoner. After rifling trunks and bureaus - of all valuables, they ° then prte ceedeci to John .Campbell's house, in whielj was another daughter of Peter. 19 yearti old, a little girl 12 years old; and two boys aged respectively :Ird i; years. All • :hese children they took pr - boners, and took from the house $lOO in cur rency and 42 English sovereigns. The, youngest girl mana g ed to get away and sought refuge in - the house ofa 31r. Warren, about half a tulle distant. Mrs. Warren immediately sent one of her little girls with Miss Campbell to arouse the neighbors below aud bring the men from where they were working. While they were gone several Indians made their appearance before the door, but before they could make good their entrance Mrs. Warren, with great presence of mind, barred the door. The Indians effected an entrance by the chimney, and as they set foot inside the un-, fortunate woman rushed out with one of her' youngest children in her arms for tile purpose of escaping, but an Indian who had been stationed at the door shot her in the breast, killing her in stantlY. The babe was suckling at the moment, and the blood that gushed out of the mother's breast dyed the babe with its crimson hue. As the woman fell au arrow was sent through the infant. wounding it very severely. There were four children in the house. but as they remained quiet they were not disturbed. From this house,after completely gutting it, they made their way toward other ranches, but seeing the settlers coming from the harvest field, they disappeared over the bluffs with their prisoners. One woman was , Wed. one child wounded, and two young girls and two boys taken prisoners." The settlers in the vicinity of these ranches have all agreed to live in one house for general safety, - No aid could be given from the fort, as there are only let men, and one-half of those sick. A feel ing of disquietude and a sense of impending desolation reign over this once happy settlement. —N. I'. nilmiee. . Nentocky—Speech of Jesse D.lllright. On the Sd inst. Jesse D. Bright, formerly a United States Senator from Indiana, but now a member of the Kentucky Legislature, made a speech at Carrollton, which a correspondkit summarizes as follows : "He started off by 6:1 ying he had always been a State Rights Democrat. He denounced Lin coln. Douglas and Andy Johnson in, the most bitter terms; said that the. Democratic Senators from the South did wrong in vacating their seats at the beginning of the war; said Mr. Lincoln had no power under the Constitution to call out any troops: was opposed to paying the debt; that Kentucky ought not to pay another dollar until her Representatives wore admitted, and that if the South ever regainU her rights it would be by the sword; and said if that was treason the GOVerummit might make the most of it; . was in favor of returning every slave to his original master; was in . favor of a law 'in 'Ken tucky that every one who. ost anything in Ken tucky during the war or by the war,Shotdd be paid, and that the General GoVernment should refund it to• Kentucky; waelulavor of Gien. W. 0. Buda. (who was present)for the:nest President; said that the national laws were not ; to 'conflict with the *ate , !awe, but were Duly errilikr to them. The whole tenor bf his i3peecli was 'of the seine' sort of stuff." OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. The Stanton aginpleasantnees.” The Tribune's %shin&On correspondence this morning has the following in relation to the Stanton and Johnson quarrel: It i 5 now generally believed here that the threateffed order of the President removing Sheridan has been delayed, not eo much on ac count of the troubles in the Cabinet, as because of the opposition of Gen. Grant. It: has been heretofore stated in these despatches that Grant bad expressed the opinion that there was no one in whom he placed' greater confidence than Sharidan, and it is not only on this ground alone, but also because it would, in his judgment, be a serious detriment to the interests of the nation, to bring Hancock, the most probable suc cessor of Sher/clan, if removed, on here. That (After is in a position where, in Grant's estima tion, be should remain. Then Thomas's aver;,,, eion to take the place is well known, and It is' believed Gen. Meade is also of the same mind. TIIE PRENII)ENT AND SECRETARY STANTON The Washington correspondent of the Boston A d verti: , er says : Since the fight has become an open one, the fact may be stated that a few weeks previous to the adjOurnment of Congress, facts came to the knowledge of the War Department and General Grant's office that t onvineed Mr. Stanton and General Grant that difficulties of a most serious, character would surely follow an adjournment to December. The earnest importunities of the officers alone induced Senators to hold the power of meeting in their own Minds. From that time the President has waged a bitter war on Mr. Stanton, who had thwarted his deep schemes from the first hour of this trouble to the present. Gen. Grant has been in full accord with Mr. Stanton, nd their consultations have been 'constant. 'They had a long interview last night. The present ac tion of the President is openly proclaimed by his supporters to be-but the inauguration of a policy which will remove all the official obstacles in his way. The attack through the press and through the counsel for the defence in the Surratt case upon Mr. Stanton and Judge Holt is part of the same attack, and by the same measures it is hoped to force Judge Holt edit of his position. There is also the best authority for saying that the administration is acting in accor dance with the expressed wishes of the rebels at Annapolis. Delegates to the Rebel Con vention there are contemplating the removal of Vice-Admiral Porter because he has rendered him self obnoxious by his radical views. As to Gen. Sheridan. the Presidfut has broken down for the time; eing.. under the influence of g,en. Grant, and appeals from his own friends, itho contend that the responses from_the country show plainly the great danger of •his removal only SerViLl,, ,, to make Gen. Sheridan more prominent for.the Pre sidency. These urged a•transfer of the point of attack"fei Mr. Stanton. and no movement on Gen. Sheridan is now looked for till Mr. Stanton's case is disposed of. Carpenter, the artist, in his book "Six Months at the White House," tells the following story: "A fete• days before President Lincoln's death * Secretary Stanton tendered his resignation of the Wae,Department. He accompanied the act with a heartfelt tribute to Mr. Lideoln's constant friendship . and faithfnl devotion to the coun try, saying also, .that he, as Secretary, bad acpepted the , position to hold it only until the war - should end, and that now 'he felt,that his work was done, and his 41111C30k-realgia - ..1 0 r T.lueoln -was greatly movtal by the Secretary's words, and tearing in 'pieces the paper containing the resignation and throwing his arms about the Secretary, he said: 'Stanton, you have been a good friend and a faithful public servant, and it is not for yon to say when you will no longer be needed here.' Several friends of both parties were present, and there was not a dry eye that witnessed the scene.' Loss of the Bark Oak Ridge. The following are the particulars of the loss at sea of this 'vessel: She sailed from Philadelphia for Boston, July 27. and from Cape Henlopen on • the 30th: Everything went * well until August 2, which commenced with a fine steady breeze with fine weather. At A. M. the sky became over cast with squalls of wind. About this time, and while taking in sail, a seaman belonging to Haver- hill, Mass., fell from aloft to the deck, and died in an hour. At noon the vessel was scudding, be, fore a perfect hurricane from' E. S. E., with a . very heavy cross-sea. At 2.30 P. M. the cargo shifted, and wind falling calm and changing sud denly- to the westward, the vessel became un manageable iu a fearfully heavy cross-sea, and `hipping heavy bodies of water on deck, the cabin was badly stove, and vast quantities of water went below. At 4P.M. it became evident the ves:el was sinking, when attention was turned to the lota. boat which. Eas stowed bottom up on ' !.,;‘s she had been got . reedy to 64:4:-E r .ista stove the forward house and theboat fell into the water bottom itp. The top planking of the forward house then presented the only refuge left, and accordingly all hands made a plunge to secure a' place upon it, and abaut half of - the crew had succeeded, in . reaching it, and the others were close at hand. when at, this moment the vessel went down and this place 'of refuge became entangled by the braces and was taken down also, but afterwards freeing itself,came up again. As soon as the cap-. fain came to the surface. he swain for the raft,and succeeded in reaching-it, but was so completely e:..hausted as to be unable to get on it fur some moments, when on looking about him could see but two men's heads above water among the ,lthris of the sunken - vessels, and was too far away to distinguish them. The crew consisted of nine persons, all . told. James R. flinu was mate. and Albert H. Giun one of the seamen. The others had been recently shipped, min their names were not known. Captain Ginn says. August 3—On the raft foggy, except at &lite intervals all day; have seen tour_ vessels, and heard the fog horn of another. August 4 inm e or less foggy and rainy throughout the day and night; have seen two ocean steamers, three sailing vessels, and r a New. York pilot boat. August 5-=have now been three days without food or water, with but very little sleep and find it beginning to tell on my strength. 'the weather calm and foggy, and but a small prospect of being taken off to-day. Still'. cannot think lam doomed to perish upon these planks. If I can man age to hold out for a couple of days longer, there Will be a change for the better, no doubt. I euffer much from cold at nights in consequence of my-scanty clothing being constantly eattirated with water. To=day the sea being calm and smooth I have been able to 110 down tolerably comfortable upon a small platform I have eon ' structed out of a few pieces of boards that I rescued from the wreck. Daring this afternoon I caught a small turtle, and drank its blood and ate sonic cf,the flesh. August s—Has been calm and foggy all day; had a glimpse of one veSsel during a short lift ing of the fog; except a feeling of faintness, felt as well as I did yesterday. August 6, sunrise— Huang last night the sea has been very calm and ' smooth, and I.slept well, and the night passed off 9 uickly; except an increased faintness, I am feel ing no worse. There are three vessels in sight, one of Which appears to be steering this way. Later in the day the vessel steering toward me proved to be the Bremen bark Marco Polo, from Bremen for New York, with emigrants, on board of which I am taken and treated with all possible kindness. The St. Louis Bridge —A Wonderful Struve - Wm. • Work on the great St. Louis bridge is to begin iu a few days. It Will be one of the most notable structures of the kind in the world. Its length, the size of the longer spans, and its expense, en-, title it to rank among the really, great bridges. The:vast and increasing importance of fhe conti nental ,traffle it is,to accompitlatO, addsAo the,; interest its more size would itsysket; while the, serious practical difficulties to be overcome in its , erection, will cause the work' t 4• be , regarded with' more than ordinary attention. • • • ' • It Is to be a pier bridge, rest4ng on solid stone fotindations, on which will •reist arches of steel sustaining the spans. These arches will surpass anything of the kind ever erected. The twesside spans will be four hundred and ninety-seven feet each in length, and the central span five hundred and fifteen feet in the clear, between the abut ments. Ordinarily there will be from sixty to, seventy feet distance between the lower side of the central span' and the water, and fifty feet its time of high water. , It may be said here that the boats from below St. Louie rarely go above, and! rice versa, so that there need be little passage un der the bridge.. There will be tracks forboth , carriages and rail way cars. The railway track on the St. Louis side will pass over the first street, and then go under ground for about threesquarters of a mite under the central part of the city, when it will emerge at the grounds selected for a great union passenger depot. The stone arches on each side of the bridge are expected to add much to its architectural effect. It is said that In general style and character it will resemble- the celebrated bridge over the Rhine at Coblentz. The most difficult part of the problem of build ing this bridge will be the putting clown of the piers, which will be very massive. They are to be one hundred by fifty feet at the bottom, and about seventy by thirty feet at the top. The river bottom is composes of shifting sands, below which is found the solid' rock bed on which the piers must rest. The sand to be gone through varies from fifty to eighty feet in thickness, so that one of the central piers descends through water and sand for over seventy feet, and the other for nearly one hundred feet. To add to the difficulties of construction this work must be clone between the periods of floods and ice, so that the piers may be raised far enough above 'water to. avoid injury while unfinished. This will be accomplished by an ingenious method which we have not space to describe to-day. The cost of the bridge and tunnel is estimated nt $5.000,000. The.land used will probably cost ...750,000 more. It is thought that the bridge will be completed in three years, just about the time when the AU:lrate and the Pacific will be joined forever by the iron rails. This Is a wonderful country. We believe we have heard this remark before, but, in view of the fact that in 1880 one can ride in the same "silver-palace sleeping car" from New York to San Francisco, we venture to reiterate Y. Post. FllOll NEW YORK. NEw Yo Aug,. 9.—The Legislature of New Jersey, at its last session, passed an act author izing the construction of a railroad from Atsion, on the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad, to the Delaware river. The road will pass through Hammonton-, Winslow and Vineland, and within a few miles of the cities of Milivillc,Bridgetoit and Salem. There is no doubt that the road will do a profitable business when completed,as the freight and passenger business between South Jersey and New York will he very large, and will con stantly increase. The road s when completed, will form connections that will enable passengers from New York and New England to reach Washington, Norfolk and all points South much sooner than by any other route. A company to prosecute the work has been organized by the election of a board of directors, of which Charles K. Landis, Esq., of Vineland, Is President. Four additional cases of cholera were re perted to the Health Board,ye.sterday.' One_case_ was that of a glrl, aged three years, who has since died; - :"Plle actr,ok 'met - tictirfed itt ington street, the third in East Forty-seventh street, which has proved fatal, and the fourth In the upper part of Ninth avenue. No Importance Is attached to their appearance by the Health Board, who deem them sporadic cases. . In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, Judge Barnard announced that he had not had time to'thoroughly examine the law in the case of Wallack vs. Williams and Florence, for an injunction / to restrain the performance of the comedy of "Caste," at the Broadway theatre, and that the deeision would therefore have to be de ferred till to -day. -The base-ball match between picked nines of New York and Brooklyn. for the benefit of the. Masonic fund, came off yesterday, the New Yorkers winning by a score of 13 to 7. Heavy Forgeries on Army Paymasters.. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, Aug 7.—A few days since soldiers' discharge papers were presented to the Paymaster at this city, by two men named Benedict and Howard.. Upon examination they were found to be forgeries. The two men are now under arrest. From evidence obtained it is believed that they are connected with• an orga nized band, having their headquarters at Wash ington, which have already swindled the govern ment out of nearly half a million dollars. Movements of Ad infrn.l 'lregethoff, attd Party. LOUISVILLE:, KY., Aug. Tegethotr and party arrived here this morning, and left this fternoou fur New Orleans. THE COURTS. •QuAurlitt Sitssioxs-Judge Brewster.—This morning the Grand Jury came into court with a bill of indictment. While they were in court Mr. Killgore (for the Hope Engine Co.) requested the Judge to instruct the jurors that in the ease of the Comouwealth vs. McMullin and others, it was their dpty to act.on the bills upon the testi mony presented by the commonwealth, and without waiting for the defendants to be heard by witnesses. - 111 r. 0133 rue inquired how Mr. Killgore had acquired information of what was transpiring in the Grand Jury room. He wished to know if the gentleman had placed himself in communication with the jurors? `The foreman of the jury inquired of Mr. Kill gore if he meant to say that the Grand Jury had examined Witnesses other than those produced by the Commonwealth. Judge Brewster said he understood Mr. Kill gore to assert that lie believed the jurors were waiting to hear the other side before returning the bills. Mr. O'Byrne said it was due to the ends of jus tice that the Court should know how Mr. Killgore receiyod his information of what transpired - In a body whose deliberations were secret. This should be stated before the Grand Jury was lec tured. Mr. Killgore replied that he had no Intention of asking the Court to, lecture - the ,Grand Jury, but infOrniatieu was' derived frouv rumors cinailug-throiigh the defendants. - If the Grand Jury could hold back bills in order to hear the defendants,then the sooner the body was,abolished the better. Judge Brewster here explained to the jurors that it was their duty to inquire if there was probable cause for the complaint set forth in . the bills of indictment, it being left to the petit jurors to hear the defence. If the witnesses for the Commonwealth make out a case of probable cause the bill should be returned "true." If bills were withheld for the purpose of examining witnesses for the defence, It would bo wrong ex cept•where there were "cross bills," and then both sides might bo heard betbre returning the bllls. The foreman of the Grand Jury said he believed the jurors had thus far done all that their oaths required them to do. He kum%nothing of cross bills, but there was one bill not yet acted upon, it having been laid aside in order to enable the jurors to dispose of other eases. The Grand Jurors then retired to their room. TimileroltT COURTHOUS.—"You're a dull-look ing set," as SOZODONT said to the neglected teeth. "We shall soon improve under your auspices," as the neglected teeth said to the Sozooowr. —An hate Gerinan'ente IWii ----- AtuMng office on 'Third street; wl:kip ' a few to redress an im aginarylgrievant* Repotted out a torrent of ellede;%.°o4l6lYl4k- RTO.tliolulatlitty that the' . ei was comp et ed to o 'request him to "swear, elower." Eie explalW,to the enraged visitor that. l`tiley swear:much slower in 'Philadelphia," .tut 4 stereo him; that' at his rate '."he'couldn't wider stand a word he was swearing." F. L FETHERSTON. Pablish '. PRIOE THREE CENTS. FACTS AND FANCIM —Beauregard's income is $5,47T. • —Milwaukee wishes a ,ktke tunnel , . —Grant and Feasenden is the Nrobile rime ticket. --Bishop Hopkins. will DUB for Europe next week. —Boueleault's plays average him two thousand dollars a week. —Cleveland is to haw a newspaper on. the co operative plan. —Henry A. Wise ialtracticing: laivrirs Henri's* county, Va. —There ar,e fifteen hundred• orpliatuk by tire famine in Orissa. —Mr. Webb makes about $700;000. profit on , tbe Dunderberg. —Jupiter, with his sateilites• can seen any time with he naked. eye. —Horace Greeley is sot ghtaePresident of the New York anti-gambling society. —lra Aldridge, the negro comedian, will play in New York newt month. —Browning has gone to a quiet Intreat France, to finish his new poem. " —Louis Blanc williwrite the biography of the late Archduke Maximilian. . , —The Rhode Island Spragues are.worth.twenW— five millions of dollars, and are really "capita" fellows. —New York pickpockets- are experiencing. 'a change—of currency, not of heart—at the Sim' Sing camp-meeting. —A New York paper says Jules•Favre's-daugh ter has married a young pointer;. but perhaps she's a setter. —Mrs. Lauder commences an onmomentrin. New York on tlie42th inst., in the ride of Mica— beth. . —James Dunn, f:)ketroit brewer, fell' into. a vat. of boiling beer the ot er day, and came•very near being done for. —London has a n v club, "The Decemviri," the number of whose members is limited, to ten. Switiburne belongs to it. —"Nobody's Daughter" is said to be quite•a successful damsel on thr„.boards of a Now York theatre. —Lancaster, Pa., has a natui'lla.bridge,witich.it matches against that in Virginia.. They both claim to be without a pier. , —The herald styles the writers for the Nord& American Reriew "Bohemian contributors,Whose quarterly tirades are redolent of itior beer and , tobacco." —General R. E. Lee, it is• said; is to be• ap— pointed President of the Covington and.'Ohlo• Railroad, of Virginia, and his-son, Cast* is to•bo Chief Engineer. • —The lager beer gardens in New Yorl‘on.Eiun— day evenings substitute soda water and eider for lager and wets beer. It is said the cider and.soda. are both brewed, however. —Hindman is one of the forereoSt meu.of the. South in reconstruction, and Early Is one of the latest. It is written " the first shall be leuMmAd. the last first." —A man in Brooklyn pretended , toiltang him self for the purpose of !tightening hl4 friends into supporting him in idleness. He certainly supported himself : fors while. - - —An old. latly.stopped haste's:me. the - other -day on Washington street, Boston, .toin quiie of the driver if he had seen anything i .of her boy John on his road. ' • —A Pittsburgh paper frankly confesses-that "dis possession of a nose is a misiortune" in that city. "The abominable odors are numerous, pro nounced, emphatic, intrinsic and all-pervading. There is uo escape from them." --"Why do men drink and smoke, Ma'am.? To render their company and conversation• en— durable to each other. How it to that women, ;trier manage to stand each, other's society, 'I cannot imagine."—Pu nch. , .—An anti-ritual member of Parliament re cently introduced a resolution forbidding clergy men to wear "any garment, covering or orna ment" except a surplice and hood. A few surplus garments would be no more than decent. —"lf Kentucky has a voice," says Prentice, "let her utter it now orbe silent forever. Let her speak on Monday, or let her lungs. perish in her bosom. But she will speak, and that' too as if in each lung she had ten thousand trumpets." She spoke and the sound shows what material the -twenty thousand trumpets" were made of. —General Beauregard has organized at New Orleans the AfElectrical Brake Company of America.," of which ho is President, and Colonel Blanton Duncan. of Delaware, Superintendent. It is claimed that a railway train running 44 miles an hour can be stopped by electricity be-„ tween 50 and 100 yards. —The list of Lotto synonyms and pet lILIIILeI3 is shortly to be published. Itis said that this little 'witch has been called everything that is sweet, even by the sourest of critics. The latest defini tion of her abilities and charms Is put forward by a renowned wit of the stage, who appetizingly describes her as "the dramatic cocktail." —The New York Tribune "has its back up." It says:—"lt is said that Judge Whiting spends his leisure hours on the glorious bluffs of Spuyten Duyvil praying for rain. Every rainy day ht money in his pocket. The heaverdy, scavenger is a saving to him. Tile rain has been a blessing Indeed—but the weather seems to have settled, and we look for a festering sun. Let Whiting cease praying and take up his broom." • —Dr. Rogers in his new book concerning Scot land tells a story of Robert Burns never before published "Burns, at a public entertainment, was seated opposite a young foppish nobleman, who, _to evince his contempt for one whim he regarded as a literary upstart, fillipped seine of his wino in the direction of the poet. 'We do much better in our country,' said the bard, as he raised his glass, and threw the entire contents in the face of the aggressor." —The author of the French work on subma rine cables, M. de Saint Meserim, gossiping pleasantly concerning the usefulness of the transatlantic telegraph, cites the following anec dotes "In.ltidli'when nearing the Isle of Ouba, the AMeriean vesseiSan Jacinto captured an English mail-boat. Tho British government demanded satisfaction, and, in view of a possibility of war with the United States, made immense prepara tions. Twenty-five days were required for the exchange of diplomatic notes. During that night quite a panic arose, and England expended in making ready for war about twenty-five million sterling. At length President Lineolu'e reply to the diplomatic note was received, and set forth that the United States were desirous of avoiding_ strife. A despatch by the Atlantic cable would have averted the panic and prevented an outlay of a quarter of a million pounds." f —Frederick Cozzens tells the .folloWlng 'anec dote of a-sermon by an. Irish priest. ,The,priest was a learned and eloqUent irlehmap, with a. strong „ brogue and the national 'Proclivity to "bulls. The sermon was from the text: "Upon this rock will I build r. my church.",. a After;-por traying the vicissitudes of , his ,church, the gOod fattier closed with a peroration as 101 10 W 5 "And now, .me lowers; the Choorch is like - a stately ship retoOnfing .from a perikais 'voyage. All the waves and the billows have tundirell against her solid sides. The storms have beat upon her, lightning_s have flashed and tenders rolled above her. Her sails have been lint brthe gale, yet now she comes again to poorken,aven kale, with ivery Bald of Wog 8101 , stretched to a prosperous breeze, and all her flaga and Pennons Haunting, out upon the air. Ahd why, me harers;why r is it that our noble abliiitwrobctorch, cornett' thus 'safely sailor into poeVV?“ :It la 'becatise;.,nte 'borers,. • "she limndehred , isimt:a. rock !"
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