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of ancis 8, Bacon.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,. _