GIBSON PEACOCK., Editor. VOLUME XXI.-NO. 113. THE EVENING BULLETIN • PURLISIIIth EVERY EVENING (Sundays excepted), • AT THE NEW BULLETIN IFICILDING, 60T Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, BY TnE EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. GIBSON PEAC MOIMIETO OCK. ERNEST C. WALLACE, F.L. FETHERSTON, - THOS. WILLIAMSON. GASPER SOMME, Jn., FRANCIS WELLS. The Iltnzirrrn is served to subqcribera in the city at 18 cent' , Per week. payable to the carriers, or $8 per annum. BCHOMACKER & OO.'S CELEBRATED Planos.—Acknowledged superior in all respects r il ect ! l ade in this country, and PIANOS ost liberal Itarank. NEW AND SECOND-llANDconstantly On hand for rent. Tuning; moving and packing promptly attended to. Warerooms.llo3 Chestnut street. lel9-Bmo DIED. BACON.--Dn Friday, 16th lust., at Media, Annie, wife of ancis 8, Bacon. The relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral from No. 806 Walnut street, on Tuesday - afternoon, at 4 o'clock,without further entice • BEdiC.---On the 18th inst., Annie E., wife of T. C. Beck, and daughter of Catharine and the late John McCormick. Duo notice will be given of the funeral. It BELL.—On the 16th inst.. Annie Bell, drowned at Cam. den, in the 24th year of her age: lier friends ore invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of Thomas Potter No. 1610 green street. on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Proceed to Woodland • • . Cemetery. ist:TLEIL—On the 16th Inst., at Butler Island. Georgia, Pierre Butler, of Philadelphia, in the Glithyear of his age.3t EDWARDS.—At New Castle. Delaware.on Friday teaming. August 16th. James Lewin Edwars, eldest son of Elizabeth C. and Doctor Lewis 'A. Edwards, United hts tem Army, in the Bth year of his age, His funeral will take ,Lars from the residence of bin tinele. W. Coulter, Neu - Castle, on Tuesday morning next, tedli lest at 11 o'clock. The friends of the family are invited to attend. • JOKES.—On Bccond•day, the loth Bast, RowlandJollo, in the tifdl, year of his age. The relatives and friends arc invited to attend his funeral. from his late residence. in Wood street. Burling ton. N.J., on Fifth.day, the 234 Inst., at 3 o'clock, P. M., without further notice. •• NYWKLI...—At Pottsville, on Sunday mornin* the 18th, Joseph Galloway Iffilppen sou of IN and ' Anna S. Newell. In the 7th year of his age. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, A ug. :nth, from the l'nllroad Depot, Broad and Cello...hill streets, upon the arrival of the interning train at noon. Interment at Laud Bill.' . • • POTTEII.—On the 16th inst., Jaynes Bower Potter ;:r•owticd at Camden. In the WI ' , care( his age. The relatives and friends of the gamily are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his parents., No. 1610 Grimm street. on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Proceed to Woodland Cemetery. • • SINGERLY.---Thla Morning, Parnell.. A.. wife of- Win. 1%!. Singe-ay - , and daughter of Thomas C. Jones, in the Sad year of her age. Hue notice of the funeral will be given. •• TIIOMPBON.-4n the 16th inst.. Mary K.. wife of , Geo. W. Thompson. and daughter of Dr. John K. and ("Mika. rine Ktorr, In the 26th year of her age. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the 'Mineral ..from the residence of her husband, 430 North Eleventh street, on Tuesday, 30th Inst., at 3 o'clock P. M. To proceed to Laurel MIL • LEssoN doBON HAVE COMMENCED RECEIVING their Fall importations. and will open to-day throe eases of - BLACK ALPACA POPLINS, at MX, T 6. 88.1 - 1134,_90, *1 and *1 10 per yard. aulfe6o MOUHISING 13 (OHL, No. 9I Chestnut et. EIVEZ & LANDELL HAVE THE BEST ARTICLE OF MI Black Iron Barege, two yards wide; also, the ordinary qualities LITRE & LANDELL NA Haire reduced all the Bummer Silks and Spring Drees Goode A TLBE At BONNARD. Paper Man& actarent, 44 N. Fifth street. Maanfaetar• to order the tined grades of Book; also. seeond doatiti Book and Newspapers, at short ria ltos. . . my7rsm; SPECIAL". NOTICES. tor . PARDEE 801MiTIPID COURSE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. Tbe next term commences THURSDAY. September Clth. Candidates for admission m 69 be examined the diy before (September 11th), or on TUESDAY, July 30th. the gay before the seminal Commentetnent Exercises. For circulars, apply to I'relldent UATTELL, or to Prof. R. B. YOUNGMAN, Ocrk of the Faculty EAstort. Paeruaa.. July. 1867 TWELFTH WARD UNION RE:puiEitAS; 1146 r Amociatlon.—A 'meeting will be held to-marrow, TUESDAY EVENING, at 8 o'clock at Mechanics Hall, Third erect. below Green; a full attendance is requested. Election of officer's, and nomination of delegates. 1111 ARLES M. WADNER., President. TIMMAS A GRACE, Sec. It' aIIarHOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. ,1519 AND I 5 Lombard Street .Dirpentary Department—Medical treatment and medicine Inrniebed gratuitelody to the poor. THE INDIAN WAS. he !Massacre at Plum Creek...A ling urrative. A correspondent of The- Missouri Democrat, writing from Omaha on the Bth lust., says that tar remains of Engineer Brookes, BoWers and Fireman George Ilenshaw, , have just arrived. .tm,the same train was a man, named- William Thompson., a native of England. who turned out to be one of the telegraph repairers reported killed. He attracted a great deal of attention (ruin the very extraordinary fact' that the covering for the head which nature had 60 kindly endowed him- with was absent. People flocked from all parts to view the gory. ghastly baldness, which had come upon him so suddenly, without any premonitory symptoms. The poor fellow suffered horribly, if we might judge by his facial contortions. He seemed weak from loss of blood. He had received a gap ing wound In the neck, and a bullet in the muscle of his right arm. He was taken to the Hamilton House, and a physician was sent for, who atten ded to his wounds. In a pail of water was his scalp, about nine inches in length and four in somewhat resembling a drowned rat, as It floated, curled up, on the water. Ills statement, - which we have been at some pains to get accu ire tely, is as follows: . •"About 9 o'clock Tuesday night, myself and five others left Plum Creek station, and started up the track on.a hand-car to hunt up where the break in the telegraph was.- When we came to where the break proved to be, we saw a lot of ties piled upon the track, but at the same Mo ment Indians jumped up 'from the grass all' around, and fired on us. We fired two or three shots iffreturn, and then, as the ludiiinsAiressed on us, we ran away. An Indian on a pony singled me out, and galloped up to me. After coming to within ten feet of me he fired, the bul let entering my right arm; seeing me still run, he 'clubbed his rifle', and knocked me dowp. He then took out his knife, stabbed me 14, the neck. and then making a twirl round'his lingers with my hair, he commenced sawing and hacking away at my scalp. Though the pain was awful, and I felt dizzy and ,sick, I Irnew enough to keep quiet. After what seemed to be half an hour, he gave the last finishing cut e scalp on my left temple, and as it still . lung a little, he gave it a jerk. I just thought -then that I could have screamed my 'life out. I •can't describe it to you. It just felt as if the whole head was taken right off. The Indian then mounted and galloped away,but as he went die dropped my scalp within a few feet 'of me, which I managed to get and hide. The Indians were thick in the vicinity or I then might have made my escape. While lying down I could hear the Indians moving around whispering to each other, and then shortly after placing ob iStructions on the track. After lying down about an hour and a half, I heard the low rambling of the train as it carne tearing along, and I might .have been able to flag it off had I dared." Drs. Peeke and Moore of this city will endeavor to reset the scalp on his head; and they are confi dent they can do it Well. As he is a strong man, it is expected that he will recover health and atrength. From ,Charles Ratcliffe, a supernumerary brakesman, who was in the caboose of the freight train when the attack took place,we have thelol loiving: When the train ran off the track,, he was asleep on the bench in the caboose, and was suddenly thrown to the floor by the concussion. At the same time he heard the yells of the Indians. and . then a volley was _fired upon the people, in the caboose.' In the cart . ) with him were William Kinney, conductor; Fred. Le.wis,.hrakeman, and a man who hid been a fireman. The locomotive was thrown off the track by ties placed on it, and ran off about ten feet, when it fell into a hollow about four feet; the tender and the first five cars were piled on top of one another, as they had been running at the rate of 25 miles an hour. Looking out of the window of our car, they could see the Indians in strong 'force on the south side of the track, shouting and yelling at something at the foremost end—proba bly the engineer and fireman. They closed the door, but In a few moments came out, and the conductor told the brakeman to go and flag off the train, which was coming about three miles behind. The brakeman replied "I dare not—the Indians are all around here." TO which the con ductor replied, "D—n the Indians; gm. and flag off that train, or by G—d she'll be into us." Still the man hesitated, and the con ductor rushed down the track himself, and the brakeman, Lewis, and the fireman went alter him: Ratcliffe hid himself on the track under the car. He had laid there for five min utes, when he saw an Indian cautiously ap proaching, drawn thither by the light that hung in the caboose. Ratcliffe got down from his biding place and struck for the sand bluffs with the speed of a startled deer. He heard some one rustling after him, the dry stalks of prairie grass crackling beneath his feet. Fear added wings, and he almost flew, but still he could hear the footstepw of the pursuer. He was still a mile off from the train, so he started directly toward It; and never did Persian gaze upon the sun with a more loving look than Ratcliffe, the pursued, looked upon the welcome face of the reflector.' It was:to him an omen of safety, the pledge of guidaoee, the face of a deliverer. Onward he fled; faster came the pursuer. Quicker throbbed the heart of the white man, as looking back he saw two forms bounding after him, and high impetus was given to his. limbs. Nearer came the engine; he could see the engineer; heard the' whistle of "down brakes;" saw the forms of three men hurrying up to the locomotive.; a few more hounds and lie can hear their voices. He now shouts on t with all his power—a welcome shout is returned. One, two, three, and he is saved— saved from perils nameless and fearful, and from a death of agony. He was nearly wild with excitement, and as the engine slowly started away, and then increased its speed till the tele graph poles were flying past and the distance between the wreck and them was increasing, he laughed and_eried by turns, shouted, daneed, an committed all sorts of extravagances. THE DOMINION OF CANADA. The Election Issue. Conft(deration or Annexation—Position of the French CansullansLA Biography of Jeff. II vivito—TlN e Transatlantic Cwsar. [From tadare N. Y. Herald.] MoNmEAL, Aug. 16, Il3ll7.—Local politics here still furnish exciting matter' of debate, and the decal= agitation still goes bravely on. The op posing candidates being divided off into two rival factions op the issue of confederation or annex ation, there is just now no lack of eivilitiei ex changed between all parties concerned, in the guise of recriminations, hoptings and stones cast in the streets, broken noses, buncombe, &e. - An anonymous document, addressed to the French Canadians, Is now being circulated here, accusing the partisans of the Dominion of . asking the English government to suppress._the French lan Ange. andlas proving a powrul Instru ment in the hands of the opposition. Of Goyim: the Dowspapero take the lion's share in. the various discussions. One of them is a rare specimen called La Minerre, the chief organ of the Catholic Church In Canada. It battles for the enpremacy of the Church in taro, and its religion endorses the holy inqui sition and contends that priests should keep the world under lock and key. It daily 'shins out a mass of verbiage—intended to. be crushing— spinet its more enlightened and liberal confreres. Having a definite object alwaystp,view, its per severance tells, as also its smatteffing erudition. On perusing its ardent clericalism and Parting tonian utterance) against common sense,l am for eiblv reminded of an Italian paper I once was in the habit of reading. The sheet alluded to was entitled L'A manila. and was published in the city of Turin and inspired from the Vati can. One Don Margotta was its nominal editor, but no less a liersonage than Cardinal Anto nelli wrote for it at limes, for it was during the terrible war waged by' Count tavour against Pius IX. Whenever the Count struck a telling blow, making an indentation or loosening a rivet he mediaeval armor, L'Arutonia would open its batteries and hurling forth its batch of most pointed winds, attempt to overwhelm him with `ridicule and erudite quotations of rounded sen tences from the. Latin. All in vain: the Count Would not be knocked down, and had the satisfac taM before death to see his bitterest of enemies, L'Ahnonia perish from inanition, and moreover to behold the dark - veil of ignorance woven. by It, alders and abettors pierced with rays of light. And here there are signs that La Mineree and the religious fanaticism it strives to uphold in Can ada are On the wane, " thanks to the irresistible agencies of civilization. Not low ago one of the lite!rateurs from Rich niond—by the way, a great place for /iti:rirteusB of all sizes—y. on here to see Jeff Davis in re gard to writh his life, and I 'learn that the p;ro yet was sanctioned. An oracle cannot have too many worshippers at its shrine. Other parties, it is rumored, contemplate a similar scheme, the surgeon Craven having so profitably opened the ball. Really there appears to be no need of writing the life of a man whose career has been already so indelibly laid before the world; but there is nevertheless; a book that could be written on the subject which would not fail to have a sale and raise a sensation. "The Confessions of Jefferson Davis," if truthfully made, would cer tainly eclipse those of Rousseau.Or the book might be entitled " A History of Me and-My Govern nient." Napoleon's "Life of Caesar" would not be 'a circumstance to it. Imagine the piquancy With which one would look upon the picture of Mr. Jefferson Davis painted by himself—coloring unsui passed. Then there would be, besides, the portraits of such celebrated personages as Judah P. Benjamin, Memmlnger A: Co., drawn with a master's hand. Assuredly the best thing the great Fallen Power could do would be to write such a book as indicated. Canada is poor, and still It is ordained that man shall gain bread by the sweat of his broWilet him then take up the pen and be doing. Lee's soldiers resorted to the plough some time since. DlArey N'Gee and she Wenions. MONTREAL, Aug. 18.—The first installment of the lion. D'ArcyGee's account of the attempts to establish Fenianism in Montreal, appears in Saturday mornimes papers, and occupies six columns. The second portion of the memoirs Is promised on Tuesday next. He states that ho only uses information in his own poss6sion, and not documents obtained from the Government. .• The steamer Gaspe was found hard on the rocks,.Friday, at Piston Island, by the steamer Ludy Head, She was towed off and will be car ried to Quebec. She is understood to be only slightly injured. EMIGRATION TO ELORIDA.—IIRIUCCEGeIItB are offered by the New England Emigrant Com pany to stimulate emigration to Florida,whose mild, uniform and delightful climate presents of itself a strong temptation to dissatisfied in habitants of New England . ' 11. t is proposed to establish a colony on' the St. John's river, the company providing a building for a church and schoolhouse. Land is cheap there, and the soil produces both, the tropical crops awn* northern cereals. A colony of tt thousand or so hardy and industrious settlers from the northern States would undoubtedly prosper greatly,. and would be strong enough for self-protection against social or other an noyances. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY,. AUGUST 19, 1867 EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. GERMAN CONSOLIDATION. King William of P2lllSfila Proclaims His Side over the Blew Confedera tion. The first number of the Qffleiol Gazette .ibr the North German Confederation, published in Berlin, August 3, contains the following proclamation, dated July 26: We, William, by God's grace King of Prussia, announce and make known hereby in name of the North German Confederation : 'Now that the constitution of the North German Confederation has been agreed upon by us (here follow the names of the territories as in the introductory paragraph of the constitution up to the word Hamburg) with the Parliament as sembled for that puose, the same has been proclaimed as follows (the r text of the constitution is appended) throughout the entire extent° of the North German federal territory upon the 25th of June last, and acquired the force of law upon the let of July. While we herewith bring this to public know ledge we undertake for ourselves and our succes sors in the Crown of Prussia all the rights, privileges and duties conferred upon us by the aforesaid constitution. We order that this proclamation shall be made known by the Official Gazette for the North Ger 7 mum amliderati<m. Given under our royal hand and seal this 26th day of July, 1867, at Ems. WILLIAM. BISMARCK-SI:MON/LUNEN TIIE CONGRESS Or SOVEREIGNS. What Louis Napoleon Thought of Such Assemblages in 1543—•• Kings Day be Deceived and Peoples Be trayed. 9, The Courrier Francais., writing on the recent assemblage of sovereigns and princes in Paris, reproduces a very suggestive passage on such meetings in the records of Napoleon the Third. Thev formed part of an article contributed by His 'Majesty to the Courrier du PCM de Calais. in 1+.413, and run Must—The meeting of two sover eigns has always been a political event of the highest importance. We contend that these meetings have almost always ended in sad con sequences, which, in fact; open the way to sev eral dangers. First—ln the very rare event of sovereigns forming a close friendship, their mutual sympa thies induce them to defend, with less energy than they ought, the great interests. they represent, and they neglect to value the rights of their na tions and the wrongs of their governments, be cause they do not like to hurt the feelings of the crowned head who on the previous evening had been their hest, and who has become the object of their solicitude. Second—Another danger Is to be found in the politeness of courts, which imitates so well all the virtues and hides so cleverly all jealousy and rancor that the sovereigns allow themselves to be deceived by the smooth and gracious exterior. They mistake politeness for a real feeling, and place their confidence without reserve, in an al liance which has only support some flatter ing assurances and some friendly toasts drunk du - ring the excitement of a fete. Third—However frivolous the appearance of these monarchical meetings may be_ it is imP— Aible Ojai. ammg testes -some aemand -should not be made some'promise made, or 'some con- - cession obtained. Fourth—Finally. there is a danger which, how ever small in appearance, has sometimes ended in serious consequences. Although etiquette be established to avoid rustling amour propre, often an involuntary.forgetfulness Irritates a prince to such a degree that he vows eternal hatred. The present King of Bavaria has become the irrecon cilable enemy of France ever since the day when, at Fontanebleau,he thought that,by the orders of the Emperor, proper respect had not been paid to his rank. • Thus, then, interviews like those which are about to take place offer inconve niences and dangers for kings as well as peoples —for kings, because they may be deceived; for peoples, because they may be betrayed. Kossirrws ELECTION; Scene at the Hungarian Voting for the Ex-President. Perth (Aug. 1) Corrempondence of the London Herald.] Letters received• here from Waitzett give the following account of Kossnth's election to the Hung:Man Diet;-as member for that district: At - 5.A. 31., some sixty electoremssembled oiat- Ode the town, and brought themselves by wine and firing guns into the requisite state of mind for the important act. At six o'clock two bands of music and 'a small body of horsemen_traversed the town, and were everywhere received with much enthusiasm by the few persons at that hour in the streets. The shots and increasing noise at last roused the tardy sleepers, and at nine o'clock the electors met in front of the Town Hall. There might have been from three 'hundred to four hundred persons present, but among them were certainly many lads of tender age, and ragged, ill-dressed men, who undoubtedly were not privileged to vote. Very few tOvin electors of any sort made their appearance. When the crowd seemed tolerably complete, loud cries of "Eljeu Kossuth" made themselves heard, and, as no other candidate was' put up, the president of -.the committee asked whether the electors would give in their votes or elect Kossuth by acclamation. The latter course being chosen, Ludwig Kossuth was unanimously pre elaimed member for the district of Waitzen. Several voters then proposed that the new mem ber should be specially requested to accept the choice that had fallen upon him. The letter agreed upon foi,this )purpose ran : agreed and Great Patriot: With universal en thusiasm, warm gratitude, and in the hope or a more brilliant figure, the District of Waitzen has chosen the first andgreatest citizen of our Father land as Deputy, and - begs him to accept his seat in the interest of the sacred cause and the welfare of the country. We trust that by the fulfillment - of this request our poor Fatherland may'regain one of whose great heart and magnanimous mind it has so long been deprived. With thankful rever ence, we ever remain, &e. All the electors assembled signed, some 180 sig natures, filling the sheets. It was proposed to forward this letter by . a deputation to Kossuth,. but the electoral officials doubt whether the re quisite expenses of the journey to Turin could be collected. The President declared, with a sigh, that there was little prospect of so doing in Waitzen, and the letter will therefore probably go the ordinary way of the post. To see how large a proportion of the voters bad taken part in the election, inspection of the list for the 'Waitzen district showed that it coin- )rises 8,800 electors, 2,3-10 of whom belonged .to he surrounding country. Of these 96 came to he polls, and scarcely 100 of the town electors; ipon the average, therefore, about live per cent. THE ABYSSINIAN QUESTION. England Rejoicin at her Escape front War-. How the R ing's ng's Captives Were Saved, and how Maximilian Might Have Been Freed. (From tho Londou Aug. 7th.) The Intelligence from Abyssinia, which we pub lished in our second edition yesterday, was con veyed in very few words, yet we hardly remember an instance in which telegraphic lauguagg was more explicit; or. so far as it goes, more corneln sive. Our English captives are out of the hands of King Theodore. The storm which has so long been gathering over the head of that barbarous chieftain has at last burst forth. The factions which were so lately described as in open revolt against him have now appnrently - overpowered him. The King has been separated from his Eu ropean prisoners, , who are now pronounced safe from any danger of falling into - his power again. Our captives, howevetvaro not yet free. They are, probably, In.the custody of some of 'rite°- . OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. * * * It is donbtful, we think - , whether all the appliances of steam and other scientific con trivances have indeed increased the means of mode n rn nations for very distant expeditions. The vast masses which alone arc efficient in our days are both extremely unwieldy and enor mously expensive. Sustained action and pro longed hardships have become more unfrequent. A campaign can hardly go through two seasons, and the arts of civilization have spread so far among the most backward races that it has be come as difficult to subdue them as it is easy to overrun them. Had our real object in Abys sinia been only attainable by war we might not have been deterred by the esst. But it is one thing toliberate, another to avenge our prisoners. The French are certainly as jealous of their honor as we can be; but even they naturally shrink from the task of avenging Maxamilian. Nay, were even Juarez mad enough to retain the French Envoy, M. Dano, as a hostage, a second cam paign in Mexico for his liberation is an exploit from which even then the most chivalrous of nations might well shrink. The reported movement in Aliyminia, we hope, brings us happily out of a most awkward dilemma. Should not our captives land an op portunity to effect their escape out of the tolls of their present captors, it may, perhaps, not be difficult for us to lend them a helping band. Already, for the last twelvemonth and more, bold and generous men have applied to Lord Stanley for permission to attempt the release of, the prisoners by a variety of devices, some of which gave good promise of success. What only a few days ago might seem a desperate venture has now become a more feasible enterprise. Whatever may be thought of the immovable obstinacy of the Ring, his lieutenants are hardly likely to prove equally inexorable. Nothing more easily opens to a golden key than the heart of a semi-barbarian. Had a French or Austrian agent been in time at Queretaro, the blood of the Em peror Maximilian need, perhaps, never have stained Mexican soil. In a country where a Lopez could sell his sovereign for £l,OOO, a man could easily have been found to save him for £3O,W. What we. would frankly have recom mended to our neighbors we would not hesitate to apply in our own case. Nio do we, for all this, suggest any base compromise with national honor. What we propose is simply a ready and sure expedient to effect tee 'deliverance of our countrymen. Es-Governor Brown of Georgia, is engaged in demolishing Mr. B. H. 11111, the es-rebel Senator referred to in General Pope's late letter to Gene ral Grant. In his last article on the subject he discusses the situation in the following sensible ' terms: Mr. Hill advises the people 1. If need be, before God and the country, to renew the fight and die for their lost rights. - 2. To sue, or Indict General Pope, and all act ing under the authority of Congress, in ease they or any of them arrest any citizen or seize his pro- PerlY• 3. To maintain the exist , -+s 4IMw government I .43.perideutly of- t.l act of Congress, and in defiano. n ot., power of General Pope, who is sustained/by the act of Congress and the army of the United States. People of Georgia, this is the remedy, the whole remedy and every part of the remedy, that can be round in, or extracted from, the fourteen. numbers of "Notes on the Situation by B. IL Hill," and in his Atlanta speech. It is the only grain of supposed wheat to be found in the entire bushel of chaff and when examined is found to be a defective grain of chef,. . As the champion of words in Georgia can sug gest no practical relief against "these Military Bills,"and as your rejection of the terms proposed by them will again bring down the power of the conqueror upon you, and entail upon you the same disfranchisement and disability under which Mr. Hill chafes, with confiscation of your pro perty to py the war debt added, what is best for you to o? Will you resew the fight with a certainty of being 'whipped, and defy the government which has the control over you, and thereby provoke it to make your burdens still more grievous? If you do this in the hope of maintaining the right of Mr. Hill and others who are disfranchised to hold office, you will find it a vain hope. You may cause yourself to be disfranchised when Congress again meets, but you, can relieve none who are now disfranchised till it is the pleasure of Congress to grant the relief. Those who accept the terms prescribed by Congress, and support them in good faith, if they have not held high political position in connection with rebellion, will, I have no doubt, be relieved very soon after the recon stniction is completed: Those who do not, can not expect relief. You who have never-held office have doubtless observed that the former office-holders are, as a general e rule, the most bitter, of all others against the present plan i of reconstruction. As all men are more or less ambitious foi power this is not ; unnatural. They have had. the benefits in the past, and as the fortunes . of war have been against:them, they - Must now stand aside, for the time at least, and live ari'you have always lived— without office. And while they are excluded such of you us may be selected from your own number, must come forward and fill the positions of 1145'ner and trust in theft' places. ' As society would still have existed, and Pros perity and happiness might still have been hoped for, if all of us whet are now disfranchised had died when these acts of Congress were passed, we may still expect the country to exist,. and the offices to be filled after we arc disfranchised. ludging from the past, it is to conclude That if Congress had required a further sacrifice of the people's property, without interfering with the' rights of the leaders to hold office, as the `terms of settlement, it would have been as "promptly and,cheerfullyyielded as they yielded slavery. But when Congress required the leaders to yield this right, to settle the question, and save to the people the balance left them. how few have been willing to make this sacrifice for the public gelid. Those who have been accustomed to occupy the positions of honor and profit, seem to think the country is ruined beyond redemp tion if they are deprived of this right. Doubtless other men will rise up in the places of many of them as honest and as capable as they were, and the country will still prosper after they aro for gotten. It is much to be regretted that many of our former leaders seem to employ all their powers in widening the breach, and stirring lip our_ Jiro indices against the people of the North. When the war raged this was natural. But when hos tilities ceased it became unnatural. Enemies - in war should in peace be friends, is the precept of high authority. Suppose the leaders of the North had all been as active in arousing the bit ter prejudices of the masses against us, what would have been the result?? Before this time our whole property would have been confisca ted to pay the war debt, and all who Voluntarily aided in the rebellion would have been forever disfranchised. If we had 'been .the conquerors, and the people of, the North the conquered, do you not believe the same Southern leaders who now labor so faithfully to keep alive our passions and our prejudices against the people of the North Would have favored the dictation of as hard, nay, balder terms to them than they now prescribe to us? Mr. Hill, in 'his Savannah speech, above referred to, before the war began, laid down the terms upon which .Vt'it were to allow them to conic into our Union or Confederacy: after we had 4 .‘burued their cities and deVastated their country," if they "came humbly enough As hewers of wood and drawers tf.water they might ccitne." These aro the lama upon which he and Others, as Radical, Southern leaders, proposed to allow them to,. come hack dorc's lieutenants. But, at all events, the posi tion of affairs in AbyAsinia is changed. The pri soners me relieved from Imminent danger, an being placed beyond the control of the only mall whose covetousness or vindictiveness they had reason to dreadove have better hopes of their de liverance. Sense In the South. : into our Union after we conquered them. 'And ; many of the same. men, who then 'entertained this revengeful spirit, are now the men who. de nounce th governing men of the North as the perjured talters for proposing milder terms to as, and al our people as perjured traitors who i accept milder terms. Again, the masses of the Northern people have shown none of this relentless spirit toward us since the war. Our cities were burned and our country devastated by the war. , This was' fol lowed by drought and a very short crop. Thou sands of our people were on the very verge of starvation. We bad not the means of relief among ourselves. We appealed to the humanity of the people of the North, and they responded with noble and generous sympathy. Our agents who went among them to represent our destitu tion, distress and auffering, were not turned empty away. The people of the North lent a listening ear and they opened their heade r their houses, their granaries and their purses, and con tributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in value to the relief ,of our poor—to feed the hungry and clothe the naked—who, bur a short time previous, were enemies in arms against them. Even the Congress—that "frag mentary conclave of perjured traitors," as Mr. Hill calls them—anproprinted a large sum' to the relief of the suffering poor of the South,. as well those who had been rebels as those who were Union men. In view of these considera tions, I most respectfully submit that all these mischievouS, malignant efforts of such leaders as Mr. Hill, and others actuated by like motives, to arouse passion and influence. prejudice against the people who have acted in this spirit towards us since the war, is in bad taste, unjust, unrea sonable and ungrateful. It is true the people, of the North claim to dictate the terms of peace, and it is equally tine that if we had been the con querors we should have maintained the same po sition. The question has been submitted to the arbitrament of the sword, The deeision is against us In this high court of our own selection, and we are bound by the judgment and compelled to submit. Then, why all this fustaiu, and rant, and non sense, after we are whipped and are at the feet of the conqueror, perfectly powerless? Why whim per and. whine and snarl continually about, what we have lost ? Why not yield to our fate, hard as it is, like men, and go to work and try to build again? Why continue to irritate those who have absolute power over us, and provoke them to be come more exacting? Why should Lleaders so obstinately resist their own disfranchisement, when their success in the defeat of the Conven tion will not, in the end, relieve a single one of them, but will terminate in the general disfran chisement of the people who are their deluded followers ?" FROM NEW YORK. Nzw Yonx, Aug. 19.—A meeting of the Board of : Directors of the Tradesmen's National Bank will be held this afternoon with reference to the recentdefaleation of $95,000 by the two tellers, 3ir. G. E. Baker and llar. John Arnold. The al leged defaulters have not been arrested, nor is . it likely that they will be. They have made no at tempt to escape, but visited the bank on Satur day' and are trying with the help of friends, to brfnKahout an and - cable adjustment. Since the de fio.l ion was discoyeami, additional faots,tt la said, have been rev. aed by tho'confessions of the im plicated •parties. The loss of the hank will t.. 0 bably not be over $60,0011 or $70,000, being re duced to that amount by the bonds of the alleged defaulters. Mr. Arnold, the'receiving teller, says that the lots to the bank through his operations will not exceed $5,000, and that he will pay this as soon as possible. He says he was in duced by friends to operate largely in stocks, and the brokers with whom he dealt subsequently failed, and that he in curred great loss. Mr. Baker's alleged embezzle ment was from a similar cause, and it appears is a much heavier one than that of Arnold. The latter says that there was no collusion between them as has been charged; but that when the de ficieLcy was (*covered he knew nothing of the reported errors Mr. Baker's account. The bank is fully able to stand theloss, its surplus being $450,000, with an additional $90,000 from pre miums on United States bonds. A patch on the boiler of the Fort Lee steamer Palisade blew out yesterday morning, as the boat was leaving her dock at the foot of Spring street. An alarm octire soon spread, and a scene of in tense excilinent occurred when the five hundred persons on board struggled to escape from the steamer. Two men plunged overboard, and were subsequently picked un. No one else sustained any injury beyond the fright. The damage to the steamer was very slight. A convention of delegates of the German mu sical and vocal societies of this city and vicinity was held on Saturday evening at the 'Germania Assembly Rooms, for the purpose of electing five delegates to a congress of singers to be held at Philadelphia in October, with a view of form ing a union of the German musical organiza tions of New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The proceedings were of a very animated character, as there appeared to be different in terests at stake; but the convention resulted har moniously. 13r. Louis Erbe occupied the chair, and some thirty-seven societies were represented, each by two delegates. The convention was held In pursuance of a resolution passed at the last meeting of delegates during the Philadelphia Siiengerfest, providing for the formation of an Eastern Singers' Union. The Fenians of the o'3lahony party are about to make another move. They have made ar rangements to hold a Congress in this city on Wednesday next, composed of representatives from all their circles in the country. They will meet at No. 814 Broadway, and discuss questions of vital importance to the Fenian cause. If pos sible they mean to fuse the various discordant elements in the great movement and investigate and remove all causes of separation. Some of the delegates are now in town and a large num ber-arc expected to arrive to-day-and to-morrow. Captain John Leinan, of the steamtug C. P. Smith, reports that at ten o'clock yesterday . morning, off Coney Island Point, while coming up to the city from 13andy Hook, he picked up the top of a pilot house and two lamp boxes, with one lamp; also one of the pilot house sashes -of the steam tug Adelia, and as • nothing has been seen or heard of any of the crew, it is supposed that all hands have been lost. The reason for supposing that she has been blown up is that the sash picked up has not a particle of glass In it, and ,has every appearance of having been caused'by an explosion. The French monitor Onondaga, which was sold to the French Government, but compelled to put back after starting for Cherbourg, is now await ing repairs at the Navy-Yard dock. Her pilot house, weighing over thirty tone, is to be re- Moved, and her weight is to be reduced iu every practicable manner so as to allow the shipment of a larger quantity of coal and add to her sea worthiness. The French frigate Themes, which set out with her for France, lies near the quaran-, tine station. Her movements for the future aro unknown. A fire occurred last night at No. 140, Broad street, the flames extending to three or tour ad joining buildings, and resulting in a damage of $lB,OOO on buildings and contents. Nearly all of the burned structures arc frame buildings. GOINC1! GOING !! GONE !—Faster than the auctioneer's hammer knocks down merchandise, neglect disposes of the teeth. Bid, therefore, for that prize of life, a perfect set, by brushing.thein regularly with Sozoooxr. -The Washington correspondent of the Bos ton Post relates the following: "I once heard an ex-Confederate Major-General remark if the 'lost cause' had had our Secretary of War Instead of the poor apology that offlelated in that capa city, that the result might have been' altferen t— and this remark was based upon Stanton's fear less, positive qualities.'• , they have served him up to this lime, and kepthim in a place that ho other man could or would pave retained under like.eireurastanees," F. Z. FETHERSTUN. tablisher. PRICE THREE . CENTS, FACTS '' 'AND FANtIiES. —Tom Hood, the younger, Is writing a, novel. —France pays her marshals $44,000 4 per anttuun —Jena, Lind's husband has writtereau oratorio for her. —A St. Louis painter die.' from laudanum and hopeless love. —The Sultan promised in London to Letup on the Christians in Twitey. —The Cubans spent ten millions of dollanrlast -year in lottery tickets. —Victor Hugo is doing a drama "Torclutew made," wherein ho shows up the Inquisition. —They have a "boy sculptor" at Columbus,, Ohio. Ile cute- wonderful statues with his jack-. knife- —An adventurous oun Briton recently crowed the chanreal from y Dover to Audresselleiro a small canoe. —A wealthy and expert pickpocket reside* with hie family in a flue house of his own at Els mira, N. Y. —The Queen of Prussia and Eugenie are very.' much smitten with each other, and corresponds regularly.. Bismarck winks at it. —There was a great fall In milk In Maine re cently. Six tons of it broke the floor of the con densing company's factory. —A lady appeared at a Long Branciffancy ball as Amiability. There were ill-naturel people who said the disguise was perfect. —An American safe-maker has wagered an English ditto. 15,000 francs that the latter cannot pick the lock of a sale in the Exhibition. —Boots are blacked by machinery in Paris. , This invention, however, unfortunately not only blackens the shoes, but the stocking and trousers of the wearer. —A dark story goes that kegs of old nails are thrown into the Saratoga Springs at night to se cure the flavor. Glue and mackerel skins are also hinted' at. —"Symmetrical Goods" is the dainty euph onism with which a New York firm advertises certain wares. It means pads for knock-krnxi tragedians, falt.e calves, etc. —Thurlow Weed says ho has looked unsuccess fully all his life "for men of integrity." His knowledge of the article is so limited that of coarse he would not recognize it. —The African tragedian, Aldridge, who died in. Poland, was apprenticed ton. ship carpenter, near lialtlinore. This accounts for his success on "the boards."—N. 13. Mercury. Possibly his numer ous deck-orations came from the same cause. —A New York youth hung himself the other day, but as he felt the halter draw, repented, seized it with both hands to prevent strangulation and called lustily for help. His mother cut Wei; dart:sand gave him a flogging.. —The Gentiles of Utah look to the Pacific Rail road as a means of blotting ...out Mormonism. We don't like Mormonism, but the idea of the • railroad blotting out More-men is rather dies' greeable. —M. Victor Hugo is said to be at work up= two dramas, "Torquemada" and "La Grandes* mere," and to be rewriting a third, "Les Deux Juraeaux," which woe offered by him to the CPIMc edie Francais° tweritirstive . WP* aZWP. wards withdrawn. • Aftnr th esinaerl War, a young officer in the Rouse of Commons, wore tremendous moustaches, on which one of the members eadd,. "My dear fellow, now that tbe war is' over, why don't you put your moustaches on the peace, establishment?"• "Had you not better put your tongue on the civil list?' was the prompt retort.— London Star. • —A' correspondent of the Boston IVatchman says : "The day that I arrived in Liverpool I was saluted, while taking a stroll through the city, byta newsboy, who shouted out to me, "Paper, sir—latest news from America sir—suicide of Andy Johnson, sir." Had it not been that I could sot conscientiously reward dishonesty, I should have liked to give- the youngster something for making so good a guess at my politics. —A gentlemen from Yale College lately ascended East Rock, taking a barometer to ascertain its height. Accidently dropping the barometer, it was broken, and the mercury flowed down among the rocks. A day or two after, a farmer discovered the deposit, scooped up some in a vial, and started' for New Haven in great excitement over his discovery of a quick liver mine. ' —At a menagerie exhibiting "at Tunbridge Wells, England, a box containing seven rattle snakeiswas carelessly left open. One of these cheerful reptiles escaped and wandered up and down the tentito the consternation of everybody. Finally he bit the bonassus, a sort of, buffalo, weighing - two tons, and afterwards a valuable; horse belonging to the"manager. The horse stung to madness pranced about and trampled the reps tile under his feet. The quadrupeds as well as the snake subsequently died. —To view the Paris Exhibition, according to • an English writer's.calculation, it is necessary to devote on an average tive minutes to the glass case of each exhibitor. These number, It is stated, 45,000; it would, therefore, take 225,000 minutes, making 3,750 hours. or 150 days 6 hours; that is, 5 months, 6 days and 6 hours; reckoning 24 hours • for each day. ° But as the interior of the place can only be visited from ten o'clock in the morning till six in the evening, there are only eight hours at the visitor's disposal instead of twenty-four. One would, therefore, be occupied In the inapee , don 15 months, 20 days, 2 hours, —The Ottumwa Mercury tells the following : "A few days ago in Keokuk county a. babe , six months old, was crying lustily, and theusual a plication seemed to have no effect. It still cried ( and the mother was perplexed to know what the trouble was. At last, after it seemed almost es-. hausted, it spoke with startling distinctness these words : "Give me a drink of water !" Of course , the mother was frightened, but gaVe the water,. when it immediatery • went to sleep : The infant , has never spoken before nor has it since. We can vouch for the truth of the above, as we are per sonally acquainted with the parents of the child.'• —Rumor credits the President with the inten tion of resigning,"because the radicals have made him a mere figure-head of the ship of State." We fear it does him too much credit in making this.. statement. Still, if it should prove true, we be lieve (to use the language of a high functionary), that "grave considerations of public policy would prompt" the people to "accept his resignation If tendered." As an adopted fellow-citizen. from. Holland once remarked to the gout which took up a local habitation In his foot, as he fiercely kicked that offending member against the walk we believe that the nation also would say to the President—"We can stand It as long as you can.", ' —Becton Advertiser. Death of a Gallant Offteor. FIRADQTJAII,THRS 01.5111 UNrruu STATES INFANTRY, SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 17th, 1867.--Generat Orders, .No. 21.—1 t is with feelings of deep regret that the Brevet Major Commanding an uountes to the regiment the death. of First Lieut. Augustus B. Bonafon, 05th United States Infan try, who died of yellow fever ut Indianola, Texas, ut 10 o'clock, M. on the 12th inst. By the death of Lieut. Bounafon, his regiment loses a gallant and distinguished soldier, and the service one who, from his many fine qualities and poet record, bade fair to be one of its brightest ornament°. Lie u t.Bou union served with distinction through out the rebellion, attaining,., solely by his own merit, the position of Colonel of the 78th renusyl, vania Volunteers and Brevet Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers. He was:a warm friend and a faithful dud moat exeelicut officer. , •i• The officers of the regiment will w*sittetlSTlll budge of mourning for thirty (i 0) /lays afttli; Ale receipt of this order. By order of Brevet Major E. W. Whittemore. • CHAS. P. SMITH. First Lieut. and Anjutant 35th infantry,. _
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