GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME/ XXL-NO. 121. 'THE -EVENI,NG BULLETIN PUBLISH ED EVERY. EVENING ' (kinntlais excepted), eI.T MEE NEW HULLETXN 1611.1ILDING, 607 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, ISY TII EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. )1P OPILIETORIL eIBEION PEAQ)CE, ERNEST C. WALLACE, FETHEHSTON, Trios. J. wurAAA.msoN, CASPER SOUDER, JR., FRANCIS WELLS. The But.racrts it served to oubecribere in the city at IS cents per week, payable to the carriere. or $9 per annum. 111"_BCHOMACKER & CO.'S CELEBRATED Bloom—Acknowledged nuperior in all respects say made in this country, and mold on moat liberal rms. N HEW AND SECOND.AND PIANOS constantly On bond tor rent Tuning, moving and packing promptly <kneaded to. Warerooms. 1103 Chentnut street. lel9-3mo =in VANDYNE—MARSEI , IB. At Bt. Peter's Church on the ink., by the Itev. Robert F. ch ase , th e k ey. Chariot H. Vandyne, lll of Brooklyn. N. Y., to Helen N. daughter of lame N. araella, M. D., of fills city. DIED. BIRELY.---On the morning of the 2.3 , 1 Mat., John 41irely, in the 7r.th year of hi 3 age. 111* relative' , and friends of the family aloe the Penn Beneficial Rocietv, are reaped.' ullyinvited to attend hie funeraLfrom file late roddence N 0.313 Richmond erector.' Wednerday,the 28th inet.at 3 o'clock P. M. • CHAPMA S.—The - relative,' and frienda of the Emits* are reepectfully invited to attend the funeral of Joaialt L. Chapman, en Thuraday. Ina, at 8 o'clock P. M., at Ida latty b reridence, No. 1 Portico Row, Miner atreet, Wet Cheater. Cheater county, in. • EIXINTON.--On Monday morning, Augli4t 2dth, J o h n Fikintan, OM of the late Dr. Joaepit P. Minton, in the 424 year, of hie figv. Ilia relative* and male friend,' are invited to attend hie funeral, from the reeidenc. of Ili, brother-M.lBw, A. L. irherier, No. ilfe, N. Eleventh atreet, an Thuraday, !natant, at 11 A. M. To proceed to Monument Ceme. tery. • II AY.—On the 2 , th Mat, Robert H. Hay, In hie 47th year. The male friend* arc invited to attend hie funeral,from "hie late n aidenrc. lb 7 North Fifteenth rtreet, on Thunb day afternoon t w it, at 3Vo'clock. PA XTO!':.-- At liourton, A tigt't 20th. Captain .Iniutilt;f - :,1 ton, late of U. S. A., era ot the late Colonel .1. Paxton. of Urin e thirt e‘oluty. BLACK PARISIENNES. A DESIRABLE for &up mourning. I:N (Al6ll DWI PA N FRENCIL 130.MIIAZINE§, 1IEN1:1 ricTLOTTI9. Jupt received by 8E:460N 4: SOX.. Mr)lirning Store. 91, ChlAnittetreet. .14 1 RE : tz lANDELL.,_ I:CIL - It'll ANL) Axed , -Ea opening for Ow Full Trade of Margot ordered goodie. Poplin , . new color,, and Pich PLAI(L , . Illaelt 6111 A, superi or grade,. Plain Fn ... of all qualities. SPECIAL NOTICES. Pd} WEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE LAFAYETIE COLLEGE, The next term commences THURSDAY, September i9th. Cates for admitsion mIS be examined the day before ( lumber 11th). or on TUESDAY, July 30th, the bet 4ay the Annual Commencement Exercises. For circulars, apply to President CATFELL, or to Prof. R. D. YOLNGMAN. Clerk of the Faculty. .13rgi-tft Eurrovr. Penns.. July. 1867 DEPALTMENT FOR SVPPLYING TILE CITY Jk r WITH WATER. CHIEF ENGINEER'S OFFICE, N 0.104 sot nt FIFTH STREET. -•-. • Plllll.AlMl.l . lllA.Augnd %th, WT. The ordinance regulating the Department of Water r;, tiulreatizatall premise upon wldeit the renter and chstrgen remain unpaid an the lit day of September, will be de rd of the water. and th, 111110U/a Plied for, "And added for the expettee of cutting ofL all prerafre s arraere will Aft deprived of tn., water until . the same If paid. GEO. F. K Y 8 Ell, Itegit,t,r OFFit 1: OF THE ILA ItIII.SBERO s 10.10 t 2101721 T JOY AND LANCASTER ItAILROAD t.SO3IPAN Y. PIIILAPEI.I . IIII. An s. ZIA, The Annual 314. i-tins of the Stockholders of this Com pany will la held on • IRMA Y,• Septetnber at 12 o'clock 31.. at the corner of Third street and Wil l/LW,' Unti, at which time an clection for Directors will l held torerve for the enotting) . rtr. (15)1:11E TABER, • deeretnry. aulA W&fli!.t• stir NCYIICE TO TAX-PAYER/3.—A PENALTY OF One per cent.. will be added upon all City Taxes for the year PK remaining unpaid after the find day of - September next:Two per cent. after prat day of October. and Three percept. after first day of December. RD.:HARD PF.LTZ, Am =166 1 (alai 6t 1141 Receiver of Taxes. Z FAMILIES ABOUT CHANGING THEIR REM 6 deuce or leaving the city. can receive the highest cash price for old newspapere, hooky. patnphlete. rags. etc. Wrappers always en hand ash for pale by E. HUNTER, .dl3Jayneetrrrl. Ordere will rceetve prompt attentlou, by mail or othern an 27 HOWARD .: mar r .IIOaL, r'n ITA NOS. 1518 AND 1559 Lombard St r eet a r rtment—Medical tr3atmtnt and Inedlchule r e iu-lVie l)eP dga tuitowily to tho Poor. AM USE 31 ENT& OpLviNt. I,F THE CIII-:STNI"T.----ThiS 1161.15 C, after having been repainted., reearpeted and redeco rated, will open for the fall and winter season on the sth or Ali of September. The following are -among the persons :engaged in the company: Josle Orton, Virginia Buchanan, Leonie Arling ton, Mrs. Eberle, Jennie Cleaver, Clara Reed, Leonie Cavender, Mrs. M. E. Burroughs, Miss -Mahon, W. H. Sedley Smith, W. H. Leak, C. A. 3faManus. Walter Lennox, J. W. Jennings, • Frank Murdoch, Thomas McKeon, Michael Woolf, Messrs,. Charles Frye, Edward Mackay, John V. Daily, E. F. Nagle, P. A. Fitzgerald, T. 3lcSorley. B. E. Woolf will remain at the head of the orchestra, and the scenic department will be well attended to by R. S. Smith, one of the .most talented members of the profession iu the country. The season will be initiated by the pro duction of T. W. Robinson's spirited comedy of Crmte,•whieli is now being played with immense success In New York. lii this piece Mrs. and Mr. W. J. Florence will sustain the leading charac ters. The other parts will be in the hands of the different members of the company. All the scenery, dresses and decorations for this comedy will be new, and with the can: bestowed upon its production, the public have a right to expect something fresh and entertaining. After the withdrawal of Caste, the following stars will ap pear at this house : James E. Murdoch, John E. Owens, Marie Zoe, Lucille Western, and the Ger- Juan Opera Company. ASBE3IIII.I' AUILDING.-Mr. Alf. Burnett, the renowned humorist, will commence a series of Lis comic portraitures on Monday evening next. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN VIRGINIA. Call for a Convention of Ex.offieethi of the Chilled'States Army and Navy —Governor Peirpoint Stamping the State. WASHINGTON, August V.—lntelligence just re ceived from Richmond, Va.,states that at a meet ing of ex-United States offcers and soldiers held in Richmond, Va., to-night, the following call for a convention was unanimously adopted: To the ex-Qpieers of the United States Army and Nary 91011• rexiding in Virginia: We, the Execu tive: Committee of the ex-Officers', Soldiers' and Saitors' Union of Ricluncnd, in aced - rdance with instructions f rom the Union hereby call upon all ex-officers, soldiers and sailors of the United States Army and Navy now residing in Vir ginia, to assemble in convention in the 'United States Court-room, in the city of' Rich mond, at 12 o'clock, M., on the 25th of Septem ber next, for the purpose of defining our political position. and to take such other steps as the exi gency of the times may seem to ,demand. It is e'rnestiy desired by the-Union that every officer, soldier and sailor attend this convention, as a united action on our part is made necessary by the Important events now transpiring. Major L. L. AMIABLE, Chairman. Captain D. P. PARKER, Captain D. W. BOIIANON, , Committee.• Captain J. J. UNDERHILL, • LICUL JIM. N. BATTERMAN. • Governor Peirpoint is now making a stumping tour In the valley of Virginia. He tins been well received thus far. .if. tiatir l k ' kV. s " WANIIINGTON, D. C.. Tuesday, Aug. 27th.—The President gave out to his private journals last night the full text of his order transferring Gen. Hancock to the Fifth Military District. The order itself has not yet been promulgated by General Grant, and has, therefore, not taken effect. There are numerous reports afloat to-night to the effect that General Grant has refused t 6 pro mulgate it, but these are incorrect. There are, however, both grave and important reasons why the order is held in abeyance, as I stated yesterday. On receipt of the order Gen. Grant wrote another letter to the President. This letter not being ready for transmission until to-day, did not reach the President until after the Cabinet meeting this afternoon, and he has not yet replied. Gen. Grant regards the last order of the President as entirely superseding General Order No.. 77, including his instructions to General Thomas; and there Is little doubt that a serious difference—not to say conflict of views—has oc curred between the President and Gen. Grant. regarding the powers of the latter under the Re construction Acts, and the purpose of his letter to the President to-day is believed to have been to present to him certain further suggestions and points for his consideration, not touching the propriety of Sheridan's removal, on which ar gument has ceased, but the more important ques tion as to whether the order. of the President is not so framed as to, conflict directly with the powers granted to the General-, in-Chief • by the acts of Congress.; There is also • good ground for the belief that the order, when issued, which may possibly .be • to-morrow, will be accompanied by WAIL . The New TI Anne to-day • crimes out fair and square in antagoniani to President Johnson. There . Is a . ring Of hearty loYalty in the following that will please the Republican heart. H. G. has on• his war paint now, and we may expect some stout fighting: THE I'ItESIDENT The President must stand and fight. We have been advancing and retreating long enough. Too many white flags have been exchanged. The President means war. War •be it, then, and God speed the right! Nearly five-mouths since, the regular session of Congress was adjonnied. The winter had witnessed an angry contest with the President. There were three parties: 1. The Democratic fragment, which gave the President. undivided allegiance. 2. The moderate Republicans, who, trusting in his honor, endeavored to make his duty so plain, and his responsibilities so exact and limited, that he could not escape them. They hoped, that the nation mht be recon structed without violent appeals to the law. 3. The earnest and extreme Republicans who felt that we could not reconstruct the country with out the Impeachment of the President. The counsels of the moderate Republicans prevailed. They carried the Reconstruction bill. With the aid of one of these parties they prevented impeachment: This was accomplished by the assurance.that the President, having protested against the action of Congress, would content himself to have the law quietly carried into execution. He appointed generals in command of the military districts who were most accept able to the country. In the case of General Sheridan, at least, we know that some of these appoi' tments were made against his own •jw. .ment. and in deference to the Wishes of Con_ • , SS. The Senate and House ad journed. It',' s felt that the virtual acquiescence of.the Presidee t would make au extra session un necessary. Slimmer would see the States recon structed. Universal Suffrage would be tested. The . States would gradually drift back into the Union. When Mr. McPherson called the roll of the House in December, all the States would answer, and once_more a full_American_Congress would sit in an American Canitol. Then came the first crime. This' law of Re construction, duly considered and well-approved, was assailed by Mr. Stanbery. We give Mr. Stanbery the credit of being an able lawyer and upright man. But the President wanted an opinion that was not upright, and in an evil hour his Attorney-General- wrote it. Ingenious and subtle, the country did not fail to see that it was a fraud, and that the President, in inviting its publication, was dishonest. It cut the heart out of the Military hill. Reconstruction was brought to a dead lock. The opinion, to use the figure of General Sheridan, was a broad, macads I . .ed road to fraud and perjury, and the Southern States were thrown into chaos. Congress was hurriedly assembled. A bill was passed which even the subtlety of Mr. Stanbery could not misconstrue. The extreme Republicans con tended that even this would not do, and that to have reconstruction, the President should be impeached. The counsels of such , men as Mr. Fessenden and Mr.-Wilson, Mr. Colfax and Mr. Sherman, prevailed. It was held that with a law thus plainly written the President would walk directly, and the South would be restored. This assurance, indeed. was given by Men who claimed to speak for the President. Congress be lieved it, and again h adjourned over until winter. Now comes the Mcond crime. Stanbery can not explain the law. Bine is so palpably blue that there is no making even the President be lieve it tots: gray. The President has the beat part of a year before him. Since he cannot nullify the law, be persecutes its ministers.. Stanton is stricken down. The War See retary, " who • has been retained two years for Lis disagreeable qualities, is removed for his virtues. Because of the only quality which the Republican party honors in Stanton, he is disgraced. Then comes Sheridan. This glorious soldier simply performs a soldier's duty. He executes the law in its true spirit. He does the work which the country expects him to do, and is •dismissed. A few days pass, and Sickles is removed for loyal devotion to Congress and the country. A Tammany .De mocrat is placed in New &ems, while a soldier without a record goes to Charleston. In a few days Pope will be ordered back to the Indian coutttry, to assist Sheridan in guarding sutlers' posts and baggage trains. Grant has served the President's turn in removing Stanton,and his Ex cellency is impatient already, calling the General of our armies "A Radical spy and traitor." He will no doubt speedily be asked to retire in favor of Steedmau or Black. That Christian gentle man and soldier, Howard, who has shown in his high place the philanthropy and piety of the great name he bears, is written upon the slate of degradation. Holt will follow—and - with these men every soldier or,eivillan who will not aid the President in his treason: Where will this end ? The President means war. The country must stand and light, or be defeated. We believe anything possible of Mr. Johnson. His Administration is a record of de ception, cunning, disloyalty—antagonism to the best Interests of the country. He has made the Administration of Buchanan respectable by show ing a degradation to which even Mr. Buchanan could not sink. He has betrayed his party; he has betrayed his friends; he has betrayed his country. Nothing is left of his Administration but a few miserable jobbers like those who hang around him, and a' few wretched political adven turers like Black. The men whu accepted cou tumelT for' his cause, like Seward, and Randall and Nif , elles, he is. Impatient to drive out of his Cabinet. The savage of Sahara is not insensible to the obligations of friendship; but even this no longer retrinins with Mr. Johnson. We admonish the people to prepare for a stern and high responsibility. It is nearly a hundred days until Congress meets. Till then we are powerless. We can only; bow to this dreadful tyranny. The President appealed to the country in his last message. We Join him in the appeal. Let our friends organize everywhere. Let us make the canvass upon the infamy of Mr. John son's AdMinistration, and having defeated him at the ballotgiox, we can prepare, through our re presentatives, to consider. the best course to be taken to punish him .for.his crimes against the sovereign will of the American people. ro.• 41. Me Cabinet Quarrels. [From the N. Y. Timm] PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1867. . instructions similay to those which accompanied the first order. .The situation of matters be tween the ExeCutive Mansion and the War Department to-night is exceedingly delicate, and speculation is rife as to the result. Predictions arc made that General Grant will refuse to issue the order unless modified tnr accompanied by Instructions of his own, and that as a consequence he will be relieved from duty in the War Depart ment by the President. Should this occur, and the latter undertake to transmit orders through any new Secretary of War, the issue is then direct and unavoidable, for Gen. Grant is acting under the following timely law of Congress. Section 2 of the Army ...Appropriation Act, ap prow d March 2, 1807. under pcatcst,is as follows : SEc. 2. And be it . ..further enacted; That the head quarters of the General of the Army of the United States shall be at the City of Washington, and all orders and instructions relating to mili tary operations, issued by the President or Secre tary of War, shall be issued through the General of the Army, and , in case of his Inability, through the next in rank. The General of the Army shall not be removed, suspended or relieved from command or assigned to duty elsewhere than at said headquarters ) except at his own request, without the previous approval of the Senate: and any orders or instructions relating to military op erations issued contrary to the requirements of this section shall be null and void.and any officer who shall issue orders or instructions cqiatrary to the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and any officer of the army who shall transmit, convey or obey any orders or instructions so issued. contrary to the provisions of this section, knowing that such orders were so issued, shall be liable to imprison= ment for not less than o,two nor more twenty years, upon conviction thereof in any Court of competent jurisdiction. (Special Correspondence of the Itomton Adverthserj WAsill.M•u oti, Aug. 2G. 1817.—This has been a day of great excitement in Washington, baused by the circumstances attending the giving out by the President of a part of the suppressed Grant correspondence, and by its contents. Careful inquiry concerning the same leaves scarcely any doubt but that the President furn i:hed it for publication while in a condition - similrir — to - that in which - he was when he took the oath of office. He gave it out early in theday, sending for the correspondent of a Boston paper, and subsequently refusing it to the agent of the Associated Press, who has been his personal and intimate friend for twenty years, and also re fusing a correspondent who is a member of his household. Both .of . these latter gentlemen have constantly furnished him with every facility for newspaper defence. . • . 1 At 11 o'clock last night .he declared to thesn gentlemen in 'the presence of two ,other news paper men that he would not let the correspond ence go, and conveyed the positive impression that it bad not been given out to another person. • In military circles his course in suppressing Gen. Grant's letter protesting sgainst the suspen sion of Mr. Stanton, is considered a gross out rage, as the publication f the letter referring to it made its publleatio ecessary. Army officers e l) have denounced the 'dent intention to suppress General Grant's views in the most anmeasured terms. All of General Sheridan's friends are rejoiced at the President's publication of the correspondence implicating both himself and General Rousseau in the charges brought against the latter b y General Sheridan. It was feared that Gen. Sheridan had made accusations against Gen. Rousseau without having possession of the necessary evidence in the case. This correspondence, though entirely of a private n ature, the President authorized to be made public in the shape of telegriphic despatches which passed between himself and Gen. Rousseau while the latter was in New Orleans. It is claimed in official circles here that General, Rousseau and probably the President have brought themselves within reach of the provision attaching a penalty to the act of Interfering with the reconstruction law. All army officers speak of it as a disgust ing exhibition of the violation of military eti quette on the President's part. This nnmcpected publication by him confirms all in the view given above of Mr. Johnson's condition during the greater part of yesterday. The President has clused the bureau for the c•llection and arrangement of rebel archives, which, since the termination of the late war, has been under the efficient charge of Dr. Francis Lieber. The records in the 'bureau have been of great value in various investigations, and the President having removed Dr. Lieber, whose un comPromising loyalty has long been a stumbling block to Mr. Johnson, the latter can now dispose of the rebel records as he desires. It is understood that the order prohibiting as sistant secretaries from sitting iu Cabinet meet ings was issued to exclude Mr. Binckley, who has been so elated by having a seat among the - President's advisers, as to make himself most ob noxious to the rest of the Cabinet by his officious r ness; besides, it was believed that he betrayed the doings of the Cabinet to a little clique which is trying to secure changes in the Cabinet, and also that he went directly from meetings of the Cabinet to the office of a Johnson paper and concocted editorials to suit the views of the same clique. The fact has come to light that the President has in his own employ a regularly employed corps of de tectives, paid out of the secret service fund. ,These men have been working for the President in all directions, attempting to get at evidence that will weigh against all officials who favor his impeachment; besides, they have been active in their operations upon members of Congress and upon all of known loyalty in official circles here. The energetic measures taken by Gov. Swann, of Maryland, to organize the rebel troops in that State, have brought out the information that the presence of Gen. Grant in Baltimore, and his pro test at the time of the Metropolitan' Police trou bles, alone prevented Gov. Swami from obtaining the use•of the six hundred- United States soldiers then at Fort McHenry, to force the ejection of the loyal board of police commissioners. The present rebel military organization in Maryland is regarded at Gen. Grant's headquarters as a body in armed hostility to the Union. FROM NEW YORK. NEW Yonii, Aug: 28.—George Hammer, with on Monday shot and dangerously wounded Catharine Lyons, while in the bookbindery at No. 161 Washington street, was 'yesterday, by Coroner Gower, committed to the Tombs to await the result. Thegirl lies in a very , critical condition at the New York Hospital. Hammer still insists that the shooting was accidental. He says that one barrel of the pistol was acci dentally discharged while ho was cleaning the pistol. •• A lire occurred last night at No. 108 Broad street, occupied by Thomas & Benham, resulting in a loss of $40.000. Miles L. Sowerby, a fire man, was instantly killed by a hill from the roof. While the Yonkers express train of the Hudson River Railroad was passing Fifty-seventh street, yesterday, an unknown man, apparently about 70 years of age, was struck by the locomotive and instantly 'killed. The body was taken to the Morgue for Identification. The Commissioners of Immigration are erecting at Castle Garden a capacious frame building to be used as an intelligence office, where farm la borers and domestics, recently arrived from the old country, may be obtained. The rural de mand for help of this kind has rendered this ad dition absolutely necessary. A Jersey City Alderman named Ellis, keeper of a grocery store, and a policeman named Burke, had a terrible fight on Monday evening, the po liceman being sent for to arrest Ellis, who was drunk. The.small bone of Ellis's arm was broken, and his face battered out of shape: A GENTLE WHISPER TO MOT/MRS.-If unfor tunately you have lost your own teeth by neglect or mismanagement, take care that your daughters do not suffer the same penalty from the same cause. Bee to it that they Jhrush their teeth, regularly and thoroughly with Sozonomr, and thereby you will insure them souuil• and service able sets as long as they ibee. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. [From tL ALii. Itebster, Ttigust 15.] At the moment when the Prussian press is becoming calmer the Russian journals seem dis posed to increase in violence, not only towards Turkey, but alo towards the nations of Western Europe. While the greater part of those organs continue to draw a most frightful picture of the crimes which they attribute to the Turkish troops in the island of Crete. the Moscow Gazelle, representing the extreme Russian party, declares all Europe to be menaced with a terrible confla gration; here France is about to. rush upon Prussia to endeavor to destroy the consequences of the campaign of Bohemia; there twenty-four millions of Italians • are preparing to fall upon Rome; in Germany the States annexed to Prussia last year are about to take up arms to reconquer their independence. Instead of pointing out to us the means or es caping from those perils, the terrible Gazette calmly says : "If the shock is inevitable, why delay it ? The friends of peace themselves may prefer an immediate catastrophe to so lamenta ble a state of things." No doubt it depends on Russia alone to avoid all those disasters; but we are not worthy of her intervention • in our favor. Already in the spring she kindly saved France from a war which was on the point of breaking out, and we did not show our gratitude to her. "No one has understood the greatness of the sacrifice 'Russia made in pacify ing Europe, when a war on the subject of Lux emburg gave her such - a godd•opportunity of delivering, without difficulty, her co-religionists in. the East whose destinies are so intimately bound . %) with her own." To that sacrifice Eu rope Only replied by giving an enthusiastic recep tion to the Sultan. Therefore Europe deserves no Pitittittlirthe Moscow Gazelle consequently abandons nee to her sad fate. French Reply . to Prussian Accusations. [From the Paris Temps, August 16.1 In an article which has been extensively copied the Prussian print (North German Gazette) raises the scarecrow of the old parties, and affects to represent war as being demanded and desired by the opponents of the Imperial dynasty. These are they who, if the Berlin journal is to be be lieVed, are favoring a resort to hostilities, while the Emperor's government has assuredly no idea of combating the principle of nationali ties, after haring been the first to pro claim it. The insinuation is doubly adroit, involving as it does at once a menace and a flattery. But at the same time it would be difficult to represent with less fidelity the position of the question and the state of pub lic opinion in France. If the Prussian writer knew our country, he - would be aware that former parties exist now only in the electioneering circu lars of the administration; he would understand especially that war is not desired here by any one, and that the apprehension entertained by enlight ened men is precisely that of seeing the country eng,aged, without its own knowledge, in enter prises for which it could not be responsible, inas much as it could not prevent them. Would the North Germim Gazette pretend by any chance to place the Mexican expedition to the account of public opinion in France? Does it think it can insinuate that the opposition drove the Gov ernment into that undertaking? Its language now, respecting the disposition of France toward Germany, is not a whit more sensible than either of these suppositions would be. The Prussian journal shows in still another manner •its ignorance concerning us. It does not admit that the internal condition of France can have any share in the causes of the war which people anticipate. Nothing, however,is more certain. At the present point which matters have turived, nfter the reawakening of public opinion, atteri the Mexican disaster, after the struggles of last session, after the hopes to which the letter of the 19th of January gave life, and which at present scarcely remain hopes—after all this, there is no exaggeration in saying that 'our government finds itself between the horns of this dilemma-:-either to satisfy the legitimate demands of liberal opinion, or to impose silence upon it by the loud brutal roar of the cannon. The Imperial Conference at Salzburg. (From the Independence Beige, August 17.] The journey to Salzburg, with respect to which the Court of France was prompt to enlighten that of Prussia, especially through the interme diation of the Count de Goltz, isnot of a nature to offend Count de Bismarck or his sovereign. We should even be tempted to belleve,with our Berlin correspondent, that, taken together with the in opportune proceeding of M. de Moustier in favor of Denmark, the Prussian Cabinet, on the con trary, congratulates itself upon the visit from the point of view of successes it is calculated to promote in the approaching elections for the Federal Parliament. An article published yester-, day in the 'ournal des Debats, and which assumes the form of a diplomatic communication, will not modify these appreciations of the Prussian government. A perusal of it will lead to this conviction. According to the French print the two Em perors in their approaching conversations Will speak of every question at present agitating the Old and New Worlds; the settlement of the Mexi can war, the constitution of Germanic unity un der the supremacy :of Prussia, and, finally, to crown all, the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Napoleon I. and Alex ander I. dividing , Europe between them at Erfurt had not so extensive a pro gramme as that of which the Debuts desires to give the settlement to Napoleon 111. and Francis Joseph. Thus, notwithstanding the authority 'which ordinarily attaches to what appears in that journal, we persist in believing that the interview at Salzburg will have no other character than that of a demonstration, somewhat marked, per haps, of affectionate sympathy mingled with regret. . . , The Journal de Paris gives the following Juror mitten of the actual condition of the armaments of the South German;States: Baden posacaeos e t preesqiat 24,000 acodlo gnu EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. PIA OL FON FETE DAY.. A nrilliant Celebration..rearb4 grnustu.. ally Crowded and Gay. Napoleon's fete day was observed with the greatest enthusiasm and much splendor, in Paris, on the Wth of August.. • The crowds in the streets and suburbs were ex traordinary,as in addition to the usual population of the capital the Universal Exhibition furnished a very considerable quota. while the arri vals by the railways Bunn the week were estimated at upwards o" four hundred thousand persons. As the vi is of so• many sovereigns and princes had radually supplied Paris with the hags of a ost every European nation, the pr o incipsil thorn ghlares presented an elegant and variegated appearance. Scarcely had the cannon of the Invalides- an nounced, at six in, the morning, that the day fete had commenced, when a distribntion of alms and provisions was made In all the arrondisse ments to such of the inhabitants, aged and ne cessitous, as required assistance. All this was done from the Emperor's privy purse. The old soldiers of the First Empire, in their curious uniforms, walked round the column 111 the Place VendOme. After the mass the theatres were opened to the public. The people crowded the gardens. There were amusements ont-door—amusement of every sort military displays and fireworks in the evening. As the thee approached for the fireworks, the Empress appeared for a moment, with several other ladies, at the balcony of the central win dow- of the Palace, overlooiting the garden, and was londly cheered. After the display, repeated cries of "Vive l'lmpratrice!" again induced her Majesty to come forward and salate the vast crowd below. THE 'l4 , Alt ASPECT. Russian Anticipations of a Gigantic European imenamt, X. Armaments of the Sauthern States. • and 2,000,000 cartridges, supplied by Prussia,aud which have not cost the Badenese Government less than ;40,000 florins. . IVtirtembilrg possesses 30,000 necdleguits, and a million and a half of cartridges, Bismarck has not yet dared to send Prussian officers into Wurtemburg for the purpose of instructing the Wurtemburgian army.. Had lie clone so they would have met with an Indifferent reception from the civil population. Therefore, the in atruetion of the Wurtemburg troops is pro visionally intrusted to twenty Badenese officers. Bavaria has as yet no needle-guns, but all re pugnance to the Prussian military systein has been vanquished, and orders have been given to assimilate the military system of Bavaria to that of Prussia as soon as possible: By next spring, in fact, the Southern States will be able to addto— the force of the Prussian King„ the militarychief of the Northern Confederation, 12,000 armed men equipped and disciplined in the Prussian manner. THE SULTAN AT HOME. Arrival and Reception of Ilis Majesty in Constantinople. IColudantinople (fragust 7) Correapoudence of Galiguani's Meoeenger.) At nine ,o'clock this morning the prolonged roar of guns from the men-of-war in the harbor and the land batteries, and the Sharp roll of musketry from the troops who lined both shores of the Bosphorus, announced the Sultan's return to Constantinople, after his memorable six weeks' journey in Western Europe. Ills Majesty left itustehuk at nine o'clock yes terday morning, by the Rtisteliuk and Varna Railway for Varna, which he reached at a quarter past four in tile afternoon. The Grand Vizier and the Sera-kier hnd both left for Varna and Bustchnk since Wednesday last to meet their sovereign. Ali Pasha having expressed a wish to co by an Austrian steamer, the Austrian Lloyds agency placed one of the finest vessels of its line, the. Neptune, at his Highness's disposal. On arriving at Varna, at fifteen minutes past four yesterday afternoon, the Sultan must have gone straight on board the Sultanieh, and started at once, for it was quick work for the imperial flotilla to cross the Black Sea and make the Bosphorus this morning after a run of only six teen hours. Notice was ..issued from the Grand Vizier's office last night, and this morning the heads of the varicus religious communities of the capital, the Turkish civil,military and ecclesiastical func tionaries in vessels provided by the government, and members of the diplomatic corps in the despatch boats of the embassies, went out to the entrance of the Bosphorus to welcome the Sultan home. The news of his approaching arrival gave a fresh stimulus to the preparations making here for. his reception, and the finishing touches are now being given in all directions to arrange ments of hags and festive devices, garlands- and triumphal arches. In all directions, in fact, the coming - fete in honor of the Sultan's return from Europe pro mises to be the finest ever witnessed in the,Turk ish capital. The festivities will continue for three days, during which the Custom House and all the public oilices.will be closed, and there Will be three nights' illuminations. The whole. city is gay with lags and decorations, and alive with animation. The release of small debtors, and of persons convicted of. minor offences has been ordered, large sums are 'given in charity, and a general amnesty for all political and press offences is spoken of. The Sultan's Plan of Reform. A telegram from Constantinople, dated the liith 'of August, says:—The Sultan on his return de clared to the Grand Vizier that the reception he had met with from foreign peoples and govern ments had strengthened in him the desire to as sure impartial protection to, all his subjects. "This sentiment," said his Majesty, "Is that of a sacred debt. My solicitude Will remain as con stantly awake in favor of the progress of public instruction, extension of means of communica tion, a good orennization of our national forces, and the development of our credit." An Original Epistle. The following is a verbatim copy of a letter re ceived by Preshient Johnson. The writer believes in "My Policy" and in - Mr. Johnson's ability to "mak som plan :" FEDUA.RY 11th 1867—lion Mr Johnsan Brumlent (yr the U. S. Stu Please notice a Soldiers letter. 1 wood in form yotir Exalency that my Self &, three others was Drafted in 18630Septembr Ist Ic my Senn was Discharged on toe 16 Day of May 1865 -at the close of War and I Never got my Hundred Dollars Bounty what Abraham Licon Made iu His Proclamation at that tin: c all Drafted men that sireved for three years or Doaring War was to Have one Hundred - Dollars Bounty those three that ware Drafted with me thair names is as follows c- 8- & N— E— those three Got thair one Hundred Dollars noun; ty, my Self° Never Got the first Dollar of it Wich my Discharge will Show for its Selfe I wood Be very thank full to you Mr President if you wood strik on som way so I wood Get my Just Doos out of the Goverment I tell you Sir I am in Need of it I Have a family of 3 Children & wif my Selfe & Rent to Pay &Everything is so innormus High & I Have Lost my Health while in the army & I cant work seairseley Eny tt must Live I Sirved three mouth in the Eight 111-110i6 110i6 Regement in three mouth sirvis 21 mouth in the three years Draft lam intiteled to 100.00 Bounty & the Equilization if your Exa lency Pleasers try & Mak Soul Plan or other So I can Get my Just Doos for I Stand very much in Need of it Conggress Has not Delt fair at tall wit the Soldiers k, It is Not fair at tall glut thut all the Rest of the Drafted Gott thair Bounty & the Will Get thair Equilication Bounty too. & I Need it so very Bad & Dont Get Eny thing Please Notice a Soldiers Letter & one that has all w«yes Bin tru to Bollix!' 4. to the old Dencoe, racy D.. 7' Answr Soon I am your obediaut Sirvent Address -- N B it' you Pleuse you may Send me a Draft on the Nathanal Bank. Letter front Seeretaty Stanton. The following letter from Secretary Stanton was read by the Mayor at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen of Boston on Monday: COTUIT PORT, August 23d, 1867.—Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of yester day's date, enclosing a copy of resolutions passed by the Aldermen and Common Council of Boston, referring to my public services and ten dering to me the hospitalities of that city. Such a testimonial could not fall to be gratifying to any public servant, and by me will be highly appreci ated. In respect to the public services referred to, I claim no more merit than justly belongs to all patriotic men and women, .who wore ready to bear all, do all, and sutler all,, that their Govern ment might Be saved, and Its foundation estab lished upon the principles of universal freedom, guaranteed by universal suffrage and universal education. My purpose lu visiting this 'State was truly stated lu the preamble of your resolu tions, viz., for the reestablishment of my health. I hope, therefore, to be excused from any public ceremony or attention, and that this will be re ceived as an appropriate acknowledgment of the hospitalities tendered me by the municipal aur thorities of Boston. With much respect, I am, truly yours, Enwix M. STANTON. To Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston. The Cuba Cable. •PUNTA Rosa, via Lake City, Fla., August .;26. The entire day has been consumed in taking oil the seven miles of shore and by the steamer Emily, which, early to-morrow morning, will pay it out to the steamer Narva. To-morrow night the Narva will commence paying out the cable at Key West. A storm to-night over took ns, anti all the. Cable hands are OtuaVed. shore. F. I. FETHERSTON. Publisbr. PRICE TIMES OENTW FACTS AND FARM ES. —Derby Is said to own half of Liverpool. —Bratil Is going to try a few. breech-loaders. , —Barnum make& sloo,ooo' a year oist of I►ls Museum. —Edwin Adains, tte• actor, is doing' well in San Francifto. —The Penne°la Ob.aert-er urges Grant and FOs seuden for 18P8. —Dr. Mary Walker, 'Kilo' has loin been ari;"road, returned to berzaved Atrterica•yeKtrdtiy. —Two giraffea are on their Way'to this eetn try. Tbey will ptoltably (De beforellhey'geeliere, as many others balk, done. --The Suez canaTlvill soon'be opened'ttr. com merce. Both Russia and Auf,tria wril be gai4ets by the new route to•lndia. —A convention oP • engirreertr•bas allgembled' at: St. Louis, some of them famous In the - conntrA4 to consult on the grearbridge. —ln Chicago the keno •banka•no closzd.tr UR" . authorities, but the players hirtra vtsser•and go out on the lake to gamble. The claim of the Louisville, New Albany and;. Chicago Railroad to be adjustedlry the Horgan. Raid COMILII3BIO7I amounts to $23,A2 07... • —,A Florida editor predicts that that State will be the Italy of America: There 'Oa; strong tidy of emigration In that direction. —Bismarck talks of coming to ' , America next year. In a privateletter ho expresses great end osity to see General Grant. —ln the little town of Winn; Me., Tflo,ooo hides are annually tanned into sole leather-at one tan nery—said to be the largest in .the world. -,-Florence Nightingale's health is said to be so delicate that her physicians are alarmed abont her condition. —An eclipse of the sun will' take place on the twenty-ninth of this month—next Thursday—in, Chile. died at Cairo, 111., one • day last week, from the effects of holding aarge piece of ice In. his hand while he was overheated. —Edwin Booth opens at Faltitnore early in September: He is to play a 'Series of engage;- mentS in the West during the coming season.. —The Imperial physicians .fear the young prince Napoleon will not live to his majority on account of some organic disease. —The young colored artist, Edmonia Lewis has a Hiawatha wooing group •on Its way to America. —The Albany Knickerbocker places Addison an imprimis among writers of ''pare dietibn:' Horace Greeley next, and Dickens-nest. —The New Orleans Crescent says that Weedis so fond of Grant because Grant 15.80 fond +of the' Weed. But T. is not the Weed Grant is fond of. —There will be a camp meeting.; a theatre, a• second advent gathering and a circus, all at once, in Belfast, Me., this week. —Constant Mayer has begun ft picture MM. tracing scene in Whittler's "Maud Muller." "And the young girl mused bead& the Toll, Till the rain- on the 'tusked eldver fell.'.' —The naval cadets of the American. school— ship left quite a favorable impreeabbnlnearis i ea "stout, tall, well-built lade—quiet and' gentle— manly." —A town meeting In Wisconsin has re-nomi--, dated Gen. McClellan for President . Why didn't. they nominate Noah or some other deadman at once ? —A-writer in the New York Exxon predicts that the next winter will be a steady cold season, and not an open winter, because the bees- have stored but a small amount of honey. —The potato bugs are destroling whole crops of potatoes, eating up the vines, and walk ing across the streets of some of the farmitigtowna. of Illinois. • —Mrs. Lander,theactress, is not very wealthy, as has been stated. She has merely a comfortable competency now, having contributeddiberally to the Union cause during the war.. ' —The loss by the rot of the lOhio. grapes- this year will not be so great as was. expected. .Only the Catawbas have suffered at all, and. the Ism— benne and Delawares are fully se goodi as usual. —Scene: A crowded horse-ear. First Passen— ger—(To a sturdy laborer standing in tl - ont of him.) "I say, there ! I've got toes !"' Second Passenger—" - -e-5." (A gleam of intelligence lightens his face.) "I felt 'cm.' —Chicago papers report that•Long•JOhn.Wenh worth is suffering from a -fracture of: the.surgi cal neck of "femur, and stellated fracture or acetabulum," havivg fallen out of a carriage re cently. —An insane. man .in Hickory. Pa.; the other day, attempted to make a lad plhy the scriptural Part of Isaac, and to offer h i up as a sacrifice. Timely interference saved a.it, unwkvirtira. from a bloody death. - , -Some of the rules of the Boston police are rather disagreeable. One rule compels•then to keep their coats buttommi up to. the•thiloat" In summer, and another forbids officers speaking with citizens. —A London exchange states. that "a little boy in New York has been making kites of his father's seven-thirties." We can assure out , Eng lish cotempomry that boys in this country often make, not only kites, but ducks anti drakes of their father's securities. —Jenkins, describing the ladies at a Saratoga ball, says "the beautiful Miss. C. wore her chignon high with a single ringlet over her left shoulder, ala Undine." That Undine wore her hair in the shape of a waterfall seemslikely enough, but how the deuce did Jenkins learn about the ringlet. over her left shoulder? -The Pawnees are the finest lookim and most intellectual tribe of Indians on the .ne. They can be depended upon, his said—a marked ex ception to the rule in Indian character. Thin tribe has always been friendly to the whites since the original treaty many years ago. They are bold and skillful in the use of arms. Other tribes dread them. —A chocolate-packing machine is , among the curiosities at the Paris Exposition, By means of apparatus 24 cakes of chocolate are, in less than a second 0') wrapped up, first With silver Paper. then enveloped with a sheet of white paper, and instantly sealed with a drop of melted wax, upon which a hammer falls down and impresses the stamp of the manufacturer. —The Japanese Jenkins says the new Tycoon, Stats Bashi (of the well-known Bashi, family, of Yokohama) is amiable, and wears while silk. robes with sleeves of white satb3. His intelllgonets is remarkable, and his crest is worked in Iliac, all over his clothes. Ho sports a paper cap. tied with ribbons, and has great talents for governnaenti. His age is 31, and his trowsers are emboidered in gold. —lt is proposed to erect a monument in Berlin to the -. man who first Introduced the.potato Into. Europe. At the present time the extent. of; land under potato cultivation in France is 2.0441,364, acres; in Austria it is 1;308,148 acres; *lreland, 1,050,419 acres; in Bavaria, 649,73$ aeres; inrreat, Britain, 498,843 acres; in Belgiurn, 3014850 acres; in Sweden, 334,000 acres; lu holland; 265,887 acres; in Wurtemburg, 167,948 acres, and in Den mark, 69,176 acres. —At the Paris Exitibitiop, /o , : lkiipirig of Mae, all in diamonds, that waves nit trembles, every flower bending on its stalk.us.ln 'nature. Its price is ..t1,720. The ladle's wad uninitiatedgeutleaten who look at it, and ddight in its sparkle. saYs correspondent, have no idea of the dinicultlw which had to be stuanounted before this perfect , ornament could be finished ibr a lady's hair. In order to give tbe stalks which hold the diamond flowers the necessary pliablilty,—or rather the exact.pliability deaired,--the jeweler found it Ist dispensable to have rt flat gold wire, drawn. end twisted into a spring. By this Plan reaistrengs4i is combined with seeming fragility. The *prig cau be taken to nieces by the turn of a little nu ton, tuld worn mseparato sprli. , ,a in the haiX.
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