GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI.--NO. 133. THtE evening bulletin PUBLISHED EVERY ' EVENING (Sundays excepted), AT THE NEW BULLETIN BIiILOINO, 607 CbcstUHt Street, I'ltiludclpliiu, BY TUB EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. . phophietoiuj. QEBSON PEACOCK, ERNEST C. WALLACE. 2^l£ THE,cfjT( >N f TIIOS. J. WILLIAMSON, GASPER SOIiDER, Jc., FRANCIS WELLS. The Bulletin in served to eubacribers in the city at 18 donta per week, payable to the carrier*, or $8 per annum. BC’nOMACKKR to CO.’S CELEBRATED ■^^♦■wPianos.—Acknowledged superior In all rennet* to any made In this country, and Mold on most lilreral torxni. N*EW AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS constantly on band for ront Tuning, moving and packing promptly ' attended to. WorerooinH. llCttChestnut street j*;l£-3m5 . . MAttHIKIX ESGARO-UREFA'ES.-On tliu lOtlilmt., by Rey. Tlieo. Stork, D. l)„ Mr. Albert C. Engard, l\ ft. N., to Mb-n Emily M., youngest daughter of Alexander Oreoves; Emj., of this city. * REED—AUSTIN.—On Tue/dav, Sept, loth, at St. Ann’* Church. N. V., by the Rev. Thomas Gullaudet. Edmund B. Ihu’d, of Fhihtdelphiu, to Anna Amelin Austin, of New York city. CANNING,-—On Sunday, tin* Stli iii*t, at Washington, J>. C., Mis* Einimi Cecilia Canning, daughter of the late •('apt. Win. 11. Canning, of Philadelphia, hi the 18th year of her age. GRAY.- On the 10th imtant, Alary It. Gray, in the 77th year of her age. Her relative* and friend* are Invited to attend her funeral, - from her lato residence, No. 1.412-Jsociud street, on Friday morning, tin* 13th in/t.. at P o’clock, without further notice. Funeral M-rvire* at St. John’* C'tiurch, ut 1U o’clock. Jntenia ut at Cathedral Cemetery. ** KEENE.—On the 10th of September, 1867, Elh'n M.. yoiimjr-t daughter of .fame- it. Keene, deociuo <l, and rho'be Kecue, aged niheteeit fUu year* and twenty-one (all daj*. The relatives and friends of tin* family ase respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, from her mother'* re.ddence, lutsoSanborn rtreet, on Saturday morning, the 1-itfi. at iu o’clock. Intelluent at tin* Woodland-. •** OlilTL'A JIV I'Yußamh.. Departed thh life. ut hi" r«*idence, on < h»tnut .<tr« et. .lac<*h L. Honince, in the •*ixty-cft>i year of hi/' age. .... The nuiiject of this notice l»i-rs>rii<: an inhabit inf of Fhihoh jpbin h number of >*ar* ago. Fora lung time pji-t .'Jr. MoraucehaH been a confirmed invalid ami gu-nt .■min-ter, .-n murk so that the ** of death wa- to Mm a welcome icle»*e. and hi* tram ition tv a* perfectly pi aecfui and ealm. To hi* l own family lie wa/ mod kind iiud g« Heroic, giving them every advantage, tcirmunding them r. ith ai! comfort, and mnt; ihoting Mo-'t hher,illy to their plea/hre and enjoyinent. In teligion and i ohtir- in- wie tolerant of tin* opinion/ of tho«euho HifTerr-d with him. In iuten -mr-e with hi/ friend* he wa* ever social, voidinl and unbounded in hi im.*pi!aiity. In bu/iner* he wa/ exart and pre <*j«c ; |i*:l in charity in- wa/- iwpd-lve. «ym,-athetjr and liberal, giving aid' freely, willuudv and uno/tenlatiou/ly ; for what' he thn* did, in- duliked prai-e or excez-ir-e Thanks. lie bore iong-continm-J and g-eat Miff/riuc.* with r* jurtkahle tirmuef r, psthne.- nd fortitude; of ten time *,vh* u inr acute rain i.enouid *-trive to b" cheerful mi<s j h-a-jiiit to all w iio \ i-ited him. and even in moment* of severe pli>riral agony he \ui* thoughtful of tlm/e around him. ll*- lenve- a devoted wife mid *.n»n?iberof children, al.-o grand-children. « ho jou.-a r. • r recall agreeable memories ■if him. and can but .■itiecrely moun. lor, and deplore tlie lot-*- of <-ne who wo* t*o rerardft.l and coneideratepf tlu-ir welfare and grwtif'n-ntioiL » ' • TOYRE to LANDELL. FUIRMI AND ARCH, ARE Xu opening for the Fall Trade of 1*57-- Margot SnawLs. ordered goods. Fopurn, new colors, and Rich Flaidr. iilock Silka, t-uperior grade*. Flam Silks, of all qualities. I/ni lT JAK3 AND CANS. IN OKI-AT VAKIKTV, AT J? 11. A- W'iLOMAN’S, FurniWitaz No. lull Spring Oarden-Etreet- NPIiCIAL iwricnil. Bar I N lON LEAGUE HOUSE, BltOAl) STHEET. PHILADELPHIA. Bcpt. 10. 1*57. A Sheclal Meeting of the - UNION LEAGUE vf rhiladeipltia will be held at Oil- LEAGUE HOUSE, o.\ SEPIEMBER IS, AT S O'CLOCK, P. 3L, fi,r the purpose of takirgauch measure- a* may be deemed advi-able In relation to the present condition of the coun try. By order of the Board of Directors. Mell-tlbrji GEORGE 11. BOKER, Secretary. ijS^TT N I Vf>itslTY OF PENNSYLVASIA.-DEFAKT MENT OF ARTS. Rev. DAMKL K. GOOIAVIS, I>. D„ Provost, and Pro Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. JOHN F. FRAZEIC, LI- JL.Vice Provost, and Profcaaor . f Natural PMloi-ophy'arid Chemistry.. GEORGE ALLEN, A; SL, Professor of the Greek Lan xuacc and literatim*. FRANCIS A. JACKSON.fX M.. of the Latin Language and Literature. E. OTIB KENDALL, A. 51.. Pn>fi> j or of Mathematics. 4 11AKLES J. STILLE, A. M., ProP'aor ot the English Language and I itcratlire. m NJiV MORTON. Ph. 0. Philosophy und Chemistry. OSWALD HLIDENSI fCKLR. Ph. I>., Profvevorol the German Language and Liter,»tme. JOHN f». R. M’ELUOV. A. 51., ,V.--i.»Unt Professor of tlo* Ku«li-h Language and Literature. WILLIAM A.LAMLERTuN, A. ih. ot Mathematin*. JEAN H. SEE. Instructor in I'rt-mh. LEON HE LA COVA. Instructor in Spanish GU SEPPEMAZZA, Instructor in Italian. Tin.* f:*t ti-nu of the Acndemie year will open oil Ml >N -1»A Y. .Seplemlier Itith, lit ten o’rloek A. M. I'amlidutiv' lor admirriou will present for eralnination at half.part ten. Fee.“, thirty-live dollar* h term, pavahle in advanee. .FUA.M'IS A.. .IAI'KsON. rell-ttrp .S- cretary of the Fuenlfv. FARDEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE Wr IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences THIJItSDAY* September 42th. Cifuididatca for admission may be examined the day before (September 11th), or on TUESDAY. July 30th. the day before the Annual Commencement Exercises. For circulars, apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. H. B. YOUNGMAN, Clerk of the Faculty. #_,■ Jy2o-tfS Ejlotom, IVnna.. July. Ira 7. OITKT. OF THE IU'VnNOIXjN AND BKOAD TOl* MOUNTAIN KAILBOAD COMPANY. , l*Hi!.Ai>«n.rmA, Sept. 11,1H67. NOTICE.—The holdcra of the Ixindd and nciip *>f the Huntingdon and Broad Top .Mountain Itirilrond and Coal Compauy are requested to meet at Koom No. 30, Mer chants’ Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, Seiitoihber 18,1857, at 11 o'clock A. M„ when a statement of tfic affairs of the Company will be made, and a proposition submitted to them for their consideration By ot dor of the Board, well-6ts J. I'. AERTSEN, Secretary Firm I’ivEciNcT. ninth wakd, kepuh **** LIOAN ASSOCIATION.—-At an adjourned meeting of the AMHOci&tion, hold oiPThmvday, Sept. sth, 18t>7, the loHowiug officers were duly elected: President— FHANClS HLACKIUTiNK. Vice J+exident-WILLJAM M. HI LT. .SVerctary-AVILUAM PIJESTON. 'Tmr«u,er-DAVID IIKITLHK. On motion, it was ftesolvsil, That tbi* Association meet on e v *ery 1 luiraday, at 8 I*. Si,, at the Hall, corner of Mer xlck and Market Btreet*, until further notice. Holl-2trp* t&VSSIS’V. AND C. KEEN LANE STATION. vi im ri’i’ 1 i pluco the celebrated I Li ,l KIN V MOI’XTAIN LEHIGH COAL, Jit hardut and purest mined, at *7 nor tou. . A . BINES & SIIRAFF, No. 15 South Seventh street. reifliurp; CHAXGWG THEIIfKKSI "' m s S,yßE£sSf|£|™‘S S Alira S to CAUKI.KSSNESs._Xf al , j ■that have been ruined by noglecUcould be strung 'together, they would reach thrice round the rworld. There may have beeu some excuse for .this havoc m days gone by, when there was no absolute safeguard against deutal decay iu exist ■dice, but there is no axiology for it now Fn\ <ii!ANT Sozodoxt, the world-renowned antiseptic dentifrice, as certainly xiroteets the teeth against decay, as oil prevents steel from rustiiig or water arrests the progress of fire. An Ownkk Wanted.— Eight pigs of iron, nine wrought iron beams and three feet of a steam-boiler, captured on Saturday last by the Harbor Police, are awaiting an owner at the Station-house,Front and Noble streets. Acting ITofer-or of Natural A.-“i-taiit I’roferror WEIV IMPLICATIONS. “Under Two Flag*.” By Ouidn. J. B. Lip pincott & Co.. Philadelphia. The name of “puida’s” new novel is not well chosen. The two flags under which her hero serves have little or nothing to do with his part of the story. Cecil, in the Homo Guards, is an elegant London idler, and Louis Victor, in the Chasseurs d'Afriipie, is an exiled adventurer who seeks refuge in the army of Algiers, not for the sake of France, but for his own purposes. We wish that “ Ouidn ” had cifiled her book after her heroine, Cigarette. Like “Chandos,” “Strathmore” and “ Idalia,” “ Under the Flap” is marked by eertain.ehnrnc teristic faults, the “ small vices” ofTomance writing. The aristocratic, sleepy, handsome, reckless and more or leseTmmoral giant appears in all her books, and in “ Under the Flag” she has two of them. Her hero, all through the book,- never opens his mouth, unless he says something “wearily.” It would be worth while to count the repeti tions of this weary adverb. Then he is never alluded to without a reference to his “white hands,” even after he has been tanning them for a dozen years under the African suu,- wbich has burnt his face to a bronze. Ouida's giant -Guardsmen never turn round. They “awing themselves round” invariably, and if one of them is suddenly’ roused, he is sure, to shake himself like a big Newfoundland dog, until hit accoutrements rattle from spur to chin-strap. But, passing by these “small vices,” which are inseparable from a style like “Ouida's,” -Under the Flag'’ must be recognized as a novel of extra ordinary power. With a plot, the key to which the take no particular pains to conceal,the story i- sustaini d with a soil of fiery vigor that never Hags, a vividness of description which'in vesta her most sensational passages with a present reality: an extraordinary range of knowledge as to all the lnateiiul that enters into the composition. The ■‘horse-talk” Of the story is eoual to Lever's bchtcfforts.and tiie„minutc familiarity with the camp-slang, habits, organization'and general lone of the French army , in Algeria' makes it ditheult to believe that the author lias not spent years of her life in that country. There are a dozen pictures of Arab and Zouave life that are worthy of the pencil of Gerome. and we remem ber nothing finer of its kind in romance than the scene of Cecil carrying his dead comrade across the desert to save his body from being desecrated by the birds of prey. The interest of the reader will be equally di vided between Cecil, the hero of the book, and Cigaiettv, the child-soldier, the pet ricanditre of the army of Algeria. The character is one of “Ouida’s'.' most brilliant creation, and is drawn with a true artist hand. It is the one thoroughly intense character of the book. There is the same infusion of fast men and women which marks nearly all of Ouida’a books, but they play subordinate and unimpor tant parts in the story. The author is perhaps over fond of bright colors and needs strong back grounds for them. .“Under the Flag” is Immea surably superior to “Idalia,” and while many readers will find fault witti it as extravagant and sensatioiial, no one will be able to resist its fascl nation who once begins its perusal m m * _____ 1 HE ALABAMA CLAIMS, Tbc Correspondence Between tbc Go " vernnient of tbe United States’ and Great Britain. A late number of the Manchester Exprr.<* con tains a considerable portion of the correspon dence lietwecu Mr. Seward and Lord Stanley on the subject of the Alabama claims, particulurlv with reference to the matter of arbitration. In August, IFiifi, .Mi. Seward sent a long letter to Lord Stanley, and In his letter of instruction to Mr. Adams requested him to inform Lord Stanley that, in thejudguient of the President, a settle ment ot these claims “had become urgently ne cessary to a re-cstablishment of entirely friendlv ielutions between the United States and Great Britain." The following is a sample of the Seward letters: Dwahtmext or State, Wamiinotox, Aug. .l2. —Sir: I have now to recur to Lord Stanley's despatch to Sit Frederick Bruee of the -21 th of May, concerning the so-called Alabama claims, a coi'.v of which' paper he placed in my hands during our recent visit at Auburn. You are authorized to inform his Lordship that 1 did not understand his previous oiler of arbitration to apply alone to the- claims arising out of tire depredations of the Alabama, to the exclusion of those arising out of the depreda tions of the Florida, the Shenandoah, the Georgia, and other vessels of that description: and that, on the contrary. Lord Stanley's otter of limited arbitration 'whs'understood to apply equally to those claims arising out of the depre dations of the several vessels' last named as" to those arising out of the depredations of the Alabama. His Lordship now observes that the British government is ready to go to arbitration upon the question whether, iu the matter connected witli ail those vessels out of whose depredations the claims of American citizensriiave arisen, the course pursued by the British government,' and those w'ho acted upon its authority, was such as would involve n moral'responsibility on the part of the British government to make'good either .in whole or in part, the losses of the American citizens. The President considers these terms to he at once comprehensive and sufficiently precise to include all the claims of American citizens for depredations upon their commerce during the late rebellion, which have beeu the subject ol' complaint upon the part of this government. But the United States, government, in this view', would deem itself at liberty to insist before the ■arbiter that the actual proceedings and relations of the British government, its officers, agents and subjects, towards the United States in regard to the rebellion and the rebels, as they occurred during, the rebellion, are amoug the matters which are connected with the vessels whose depredations arc conixilaiued of, just as iu the case of general claims alluded to by Lord Stan ley, the actual proceedings and relations of her Majesty’s government, its officers, agents and subjects, in regard to the United States, and in regard to the rebellion and the rebels, arc neces sarily connected with the transactions out of which those genera} claims arose. Lord Stanley’s pdal; seems to he to constitute two descriptions of tribunals—one an arbiter to determine the questioh of the moral responsibility of the British government in respect to tbe Ala bama, Florida, Georgia, and other vessels of that class; aud the other, mixed commissions to adju dicate tlie Eo-cnlled general claims of both sides: aud a contingent reference to the same or other mixed commission to entertain and determine' the amount of damages, for indemnity, to be awarded in the cases examined by the first tribu nal in\tlie event of a decision, upon The question of moral responsibility, in favor of the United States. ’ No distinction, as to principle, between the tribunals seems to the United States to he ne cessary; aud in every case the United States agree only to unrestricted arbitration. Conve nience maj- require that -the claims should lie dis tributed between two tribunals, both of which, liowover, in the opinion of the United States, should proceed upon the same principles and Be clnjncd with the same powers. The President wiU he gratified if this expluua- PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1867. tion shall conduce to remove any of the difficult ties which have heretofore prevented the two governments from coming, to the amicable and friendly understanding and arrangement which is so sincerely desired by both. I am, sir, your obedient servant, William H. Skwai-.d. Charles Francis Adnuiß, Esq., ifcc., Are.. <&c. THE I*OI,ITICAI, SITUATION. Tfi« AntneMy Proclamation—lts True Intcnt and meaning—l'liturc Course of tlic president* [From the N. V. Time*.) Washington', Tuesday, SepU .10.—Curiosity is now thoroughly awakened to sec the modm cnt&andi by which the President will apply the doctrine of hh> Amnesty Proclamation to’ the present status of reconstruction affairs—whether he will call upon the. erudite Hinckley for another prolix opinion; or whether he will assume the doctrine as completely established, and issue an order accordingly direct to the District Comman ders. Though the law prohibits this, yet be claims the right to do it undfer the con stitutional provision which binds him to execute the laws. This order would not have to pass through Gen. Grant as General in-Chief, ana even if it did, he has no power un der the law to refuse to transmit it. If, as Secre tary of War, he should refuse,it would be equally void of effect, for by a stroke of his pen the Pre sident would remove him for.liis contumacy, and the country would be no better off than before— would, in fact, be the worse for that, because Grant in the War Department is just as much ofa clog upon the reactionary tendencies of the Pre sident as Mr. Stanton ever was. Such an order reaching the military commanders, the question will arise with them, are they bound to obey it? The law vests in them the exclusive responsibility of its execution. Subject in certain respects to the revision oi the General-in-Chief. In deciding the question of obedience, undoubtedly the adrtre of Grant would be a very potent aid to a conclu sion, though under the law he is powerless to give instructions. The Commander then must Decide between the command as expressed in the law, and the command of the President. If he, olieys the latter, be is responsible to Congress, and may even render himself liable to fine and Imprisonment under the penal section of the, act itself: if he olieys the express command of Congress, and thus disobevs the -President, he will be promptly relieved,’even if he be not court-martialed lor the military offence of in subordination—for the President does not hesi tate to assert that he is invested-with a double power over these oflieers— the power to direct them as civil agentsffn the execution of the law's, and the military power inheringJn him as Com inander-in-Cbief. * There are many people, doubtless, who do not believe that the President will dare to go to this extreme. I have been of that number. But my observations of late have convinced me that Mr. Johnson, in the words of his friend Mr. Nasby, is ‘-determined to be President or nothin’.” He is now fulminating proclamations and orders with a shrewd care to' keep the words “Constitution” and “lawfully constituted authority” well before the people as a cloak for the mischief behind. All that Mr. Johnson does will be emblazoned with the word “Constitution’! from head to foot, and I am certain that if he can force General Grant into even an apparent position of resisting what Mr. Johnson pleases to interpret and style “lawfully constituted authority,” he will not hesitate to put him under arrest, and place another in command. This mode of getting General Grant out of the way, despite the provisions of the second section of the Army Appropriation Act, which declares that he shall neither, be removed, suspended .nor transferred, has been freely talked, of in White House circles, and it is held that there is no prohi bitioDj even in that act,which would prevent Gen. Grant s arrest by superior military authority for insubordination. This course is just as clearly foreshadowed, and just as confidently predicted'by the President's most intimate advisers here, as the events which have, already occurred have been. If jt is not followed, ascribe it to.a lack of courage on the part of the president, and Dot to any faltering in the purposes of his political bedfellows. FRANCE. Tlie Paris Journals on the Emperor’s Speeches. [From the Journal dr Pnris.] The speech at Arras in 1807 is as peaceful as the speech at Auxcrre in 1806 was warlike. After the warlike speech of last year we. had pfiace; after the peaceful speech of this year, what is likely to follow ? The speech of Arras agrees with all'the semi-ollicial constructions of tlie Salzburg inter view. viz.: that the two sovereigns' have come to an understanding only in the interests of peace. If, as we are assured, they have "agreed to try and form a Confederation of Southern Germany, we . have no doubt that it was with a iiucific object; hut as it is requisite that to render sncli a confederation practicable Baden. VVurtcinburg, Bavaria and Hesse should annul the military treaties which hind them to the King of Prussia as President of the North German Confederation, it is to be feared that war will be the result of all the pacific efforts which the two Cabinets of Paris and Vienna are likely to make, with a good intention of course beyond question, to main tain the line ot the Maine. Supposing a mere defensive alliance only to exist between France and Austria, those Powers ipse facto would form a league in Europe. Now one league begets another. The Prussian, and even tlie Austrian papers, which are less inclined than the French journals are to take words for-facts, and view tilings in their real light, have come to that con clusion. The former claim an immediate alli ance between Russia and Prussia as a means of balancing the Franco-Austrian alliance; the latter, angry as they are at Prussian encroach ments. have all along deprecated a French al liance, as it must in their opinion immediately bring forth a corresponding alliance between Prussia aud Russia. Neither the Arras speech, nor the childish dispatches sent irom Salzburg a few days since t»’clear the horizon, can affect m anyway the powerful reasoning of the most serious and influential papers of North and’ South Germany, nor modify the state of things which has given rise to it. Either nothing what ever was done at Salzburg, or something was done there which must loud to war. [From the Temps.] , What to us seems particularly obscure in the speech at Arras is its allusion to unseasonable hut patriotic impulses, which, the Emperor declares, must not lead us away. The Empe ror could not have been thinking of the feelings of the people whose districts he had just passed through; since the functionary to whom he was replying had expressed the most pacific views. The words, moreover, could scarcely have been applied to tlie other regions of France, for we have not, yet learned that bellicose tendencies linvo been manifested any where. In one word, it seems to us that up to the present moment our patriotism has beeu botli firm and real, but at the same timo very little given to the impulses against which we are told twbeonour guard. But, in spite of all draw backs, we acknowledge that the speech is pacific. One thing alone prevents us from placing entire confidence in that impression, namely, the very position which France and Austria see-ip to have taken up at Salzburg. If we are to believe iu , all that is said and ill what Is probable, the two Emperors ■ have made them selves the defenders of treaties, partisans of the statu rjuo, and declared* guardians oi the peace. They desire only the maintenance of the stipula tions of the Paris and Prague treaties; they neither intend to attack Prussia, nor even ask her to reconsider les foils accomplis. Ail . they want is that Prussia remains where she is, and discontinues the work of German unity. Now, whether right or wrong, Prussia, or rather Germany; could not accopt sueli a cona tion. It would be simply abdication—suicide for OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Tlie oracle has spoken, but in enigmas. -We know w hat to expect: “it is only weak govern ments which seek in foreign complications a di version from embarassments at home,” which means, if we admit it—which of course is impos sible—that if the Imperial government experience interior troubles, it feels itself strong enough to overcome them without having recourse to foreign complications. This will re assure boll: those who are above all partisans ofttrong governments,and those who always fear that, whether strong or weak, certain governments may interfere too mnch in their neighbor’s affairs. But there are others, and a great number, too, who will not be so reassured, who may perhaps find the words too indirect to be satisfactory; and who may ask themselves, not wi thou t anxiety, what is the meaning which events, more or less near, give to tiffs declaration? There rnay, in fact, be various opinions respecting the speech. One may see iff” it a rainbow, of pence, though very feebly colored; but we may also see the advertisement that “the permanent interests of the country” demand -that sooner or inter the national colors must be hoisted at the cannon s boom. We hope that tiffs last interpre tation may prove incorrect, but we fear that it is the only one which will he given to the Arras speech, especially outside of Frauee. Confidence in the future ! These four words sum up the whole of the Imuerial speech.; We can only recall the homely proverb, /,<i ctm fiance s'htsjti/ e ft ne *<■ enmniunde. pas (confidence'must be spontaneously felt; it cannot be assumed at will). The strike ot capital, the forty millions sterling hoarded in the bank cellars, is a practi cal proof that the proverb is true. ABiOTHEK SPICY POI.ITICAI, LET. Col. Hillyer replies to Thurlow Weed’s last letter in this style: New Yonu, September 10th, IMT.—T/iur/mc Weed, Jisrj.— Sn:: I have hesitated about re plying to your communication of the 7th. I did not wish to bring myself within the pro visions of the statute so rigidly enforced by Mr. Berg, . I assure you that I pity the sorrows of a poor old man. 1 have chanty enough to believe that the infirmities of age have so affected vonr mem ory as to make your imagination responsible for your facts. Suppose, Mr. Weed, that a commission of' lunacy should sit on your case. Suppose the •evidence should show you that you really imagined yourself the champion of official purity, the guardian of the public treasure, the dis interested adviser of other men’s friends. What would be the result ? You would have to send to the Tycoon of Japan and show by him that your wits were so thoroughly ironclad that they could not desert yon, even if an additional appropria tion of $200,000 for the contingencies of the State Department was required, to cover any evidence ■ that avarice had failed for once to have a lucid moment. I did not know you in your prime, Mr. We6® lam told that you were a great man. I do not re member when or where we first met. I know that when I came to New York-I had Hie popular curiosity to see the Central Park, High Bridge, the Five-Points, the Tombs and Thuriow Weed. I had been told that the Central Park had many devious paths, that High Bridge was used for a very different purpose than what it seemed to be, that the Five Points wore a villainous aspect, that-the 'Combs contained many unwritten histo ries of great crimes, and that Thurlow Weed had points of resemblance to each. I may therefore, as yon say, have introduced myself to you. I may have waited at vour door exercising mvself with reading that placard placed there by the friendly proprietor, “Beware of Pickpockets.”. I known that you claim to own the Secretary of Suite; to be the guardian of the Secretary of the-Treasury and the next friend of the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue; to keep the President in perpetual awe, “lest the last link which binds you to him should be broken:” to be the father of the Metropolitan Board and the attorney through whom to negotiate for its invors. How much of this is real and how much pre truce I leave lor those to determine who pay their money aud take their choice. I have read and reread your communication with the vain attempt to find one single Statement which was true. The first time I ever talked to you of politics or office was when I was chairman of the Central Committee of the United Service societies, and represented si& thousand votes of veterans of the .war. Mutuat.l'riends brought us together to con sult and combine. I was not a candidate for anv office, hut designated soldiers who .1 desired should be. The combination was temporarily successful, hut, as was predicted by those who knew you better than I did, that the young or ganization could not survive its association with you, the child felt your touch, sickened and died. Some time after a committee'of soldiers of New Y'ork went to Washington and claimed of the President that they were entitled to at least one of tlie lending appointments here—they desig nated tlie Surveyorsliip as the ofliee and mo as their candidate. At the Request of that com mittee General Grant accompanied them to the President and gave his personal endorsement as to my fitness for the office. This move was initiated without my knowledge. A few days afterwards you sent for me and begged me to withdraw from the contest; you pleaded that Mr. Wakcmun was the special friend of you and Mr. Seward; that you had put him in the place; that you and Seward were my friends, and would support mo for any -other position. You said you were authorized by Mr. Soward to offer me the mission to Portugal. This I de clined. You then told mo that there would bo a vacancy iu the Naval Office; that you had made specif inquiries, and had ascertained that its in cumbent was dying ; tliat if I would withdraw from the ruce for Surveyorship that you and Mr. Seward would give youriniluence with my friends and I could have that office as soon as it was vacant. I complied with vour request, and Mr. Wake man kept liis office. As you predicted, there was a vacancy in the Naval Office. I never asked a favor of you in my life. I did expect you would keep your agree ment. I did not know you then. After the vacancy occurred I met you in Wash ington. You told mo that I knew that I was your first choice for the Naval Office, but that the subordinates all your friends. That they said tbtit if I was appointed I would turn them out to temkc places for soldiers. I replied that I was simply a representative of the soldiers of New York; that otherwise I was not entitled to the office. That, therefore, I would be the basest ol men did I take tlie office and do other wise tlmn make place for all the soldiers I could. From that moment you opposed me. I did not suppose that while you were watch ing with such intense iiiterest the weakening pulsations of yonr dying friend, receiving a daily ■bulletin of liis sinking condition, that you were plotting to cheat the soldiers of New York out of the patronage of his office. You deceived me once, Mr. Weed. That was your fault. You never deceived mo again. I was a stranger In New York. You sav I “squatted" here. If I did it was when I got down to your level. 1 had not then discovered that you were a political Pariah who. had been driven from the Republican ranks by honest men upon whoso fair name your jobs iu the lobby had brought disgrace. -■ It (lid not take, me loug, however, to discover M. de Bismarck to give up his cherished ideas. Jhe sovereigns of France and Austria know ail ibis ns well as we, do; hut they have been forced io hold their tongues in order not to lose the ad vantage ol lipacific altitude, and to leave to Prussian ambition the choice of putting up with a provocation or war. This is the reason why we are not reassured by the protestations either at Arras or at Salzburg. [from the (laiettede Frnnce.i /From the I.ilirrte.] TJiuriow Weed Impaled. that in nnv race for office -my chances would tie better if f were not weighed by vour emlorse- ; lu ; nt - When von professedly supported me I failed. • When you openly opposed me I suc ceeded. J must answer one other of. your false state ments. Neither you, nor nnv other men can truly say that I have ever paraded General Grant as my endorser, or that I hare ever asserted that mv political elevation was any favor to that greatsoklicr. He litis always been my friend; and wonld be unworthy of hfs great fame did he not stand by bis friends through good Or evil re port. Your motive in writing privately to Grant about me, and in charging me publicly with claiming something for myself on account of ills great merits, is obviously intended to breed dif ferences between the General and me. It will not succeed. You cannot comprehend the no bility of his nature or you never would have at tcmntcfi'it. I nave but a few words more to- say. You toll me that if I wonld protect more and consume less whisky it would be better for me. Mr. Weed, if voit would protect less and consume more, it would be better for the public morals and treasury. Yon say that I sent men to you for yogr endorsement. Men have beleagured my door, saying they were sent by you for appoint ments. ,In one case, one of your oldest and most confidential of friends, who had served you Jong and weii, enme with such a message. His nnme was Bevins. I told him to go and get your and Mr. Shook’s endorsement in writing,aud I would send his name to Washington. He came back cursing you, and charging ingratitude such as io me was unequalled. I did not know the debt lowed you, Mr. W r eed. I was aware that my appointment did not'-re quire confirmation by the Senate. I have, won dered at it; I understand it now. Congress knew that it requited “the acquiescence’ of Uiurlpw Weed. Thank you for that “acqui escence.” Draw on me, sir* and I will pajl the debt. 1 1 will not pursue you further. I have every as surance that the official life of 'Win. 11. Sewprd is drawing.to' a-plqse. That cvcpt will take away ii'om you all further power for good or evil.\ I do, not wish to disturb the waning hours of your' existence. I pity /he poor man to whom not’liiug is lelt hut avarice, malice aud impotency. WJiqii Seward is goue you can no longer injure your enemies or deceive your friends. I trust that you'will have at least time for repentance.- ' William 8. Hii.i.vei:. The Holler Explosion in New York.. [From to tlay’t* N. V. Tribune.] Coroner VVildey . and a jurv j’csterday afternoon visiting the ruins at Twenty-eighth street and Eighth avenue, and viewing the bodies ■oi the victims. The inquest was postponed until nest Tuesday, at 11 o'clock A. M. The.boiler is .funnel-shaped at the bottom, and of double thick ness. The space between the outer and inner . sides in the upper part of the boiler is where the water was heated. The fire was made below in the bottom. Tubes ran np through the centre from the fire-chamber, oat of which the smoke passed. Oneot the side flues gave away at the bottom of the boiler. The steam- and water rushing into die red-hot furnace, and not being ablo to escape, sent the boiler up-like a bomb shell. A high building stood within a few feet, and in a dfrcM line of the boiler’s course. Now, as the building wa'B not touched, it is evident that It went almost -perpendicular to an immense height, as it fell Vertically on the top of a large house five hundred feet away. Both buildings, where the boiler, was and where it -struck, front on Twenty-eighth street. The boiler went up top first from the rear of .one building, and came down top first on'the rear ofthe : ot£ior, turning in the air, and coming down top first, because the bottom is flanged like a Minie ball and the top is heaviest. Two men, who saw the boiler when it was over Eighth avenne, say that it represented a piece of stove-pipe sailing . through the air. The house which it entered is a large brick building. At the time of the accident . the two children killed, and some of the servants, were in the nursery, which is directly over the back parlor, and ou the third floor. One of the servants was combing her hair at a glass, the wet-nurse was attendiug to the baby. The bov had just liuished dressing. Six or seven of the children were in front, down stairs, waiting for them to come down to take a walk. Without a moment’s notice the awful summons came; in an instaht the rear of the house was a mass of. ruins, with the boiler standing upright in the midst, on the basement floor. The haek-vai-d and the trees in it look as though a thousand bushels of plaster had rained down. It is a cu rious spectacle. All through the house plas ter dust is everywhere. The piano, Brussels carpels, marble-topped tables, pictures and mirrors,, are covered with it. The fres coed wall and inlaid panels are cracked and SDiit in all directions. Around the boiler, in the rub bish. are costly chandeliers, broken lamps, pieces of chairs, gilt door-knobs, carpets, water-pipes, perfumery, large beams, rafters, with the endless brick and mortar lying in heaps. Up stairs, in a magnificent chamber, are the dead children lying side by side in their coflius. Mother, father! brothers, sisters, and strangers, all walk noise lessly around the dead.. They arc sadly bruised, yet their countenances have a sweet smile. One might almost fancy that thev were only sleeping. The babe was clovon mouths old, the girl ten years. The nurse is recovering, and the others who are in the hospital expect to he well within a week. The body of the engineer is at the West Thirty-fifth Street Police Station. The mother of the fireman will not be consoled. Yesterday afternoon Twenty-eighth street, from Seventh to Ninth avenue, was thronged. THE ¥£I,LO W FIJVEK.- Tile Fever at Key W«st amoiiK tine Cable Hands. Ki'.v AVkst, Flu., Sept. 10. — The fever is pretty bad here. Third Engineer Conover, of the United States steamer Lenapce, died this morn ing, and his body was refused burial ashore. The Lenapee was compelled to bpry him at'sea. Two more of the hands employed on the Gulf Cable expedition have died in the hospitals. No further intelligence has been received from, the Dry Tortugas. California. We have several letters from California sug gesting corrections of our statement of the causes of the recent disaster there. One of these, from a friend of the defeated ticket, sum# up as follows: “I said the case could be stated briefly. Hero it is in brief : “The workingmon defeated The Bulletin and Alta of San Francisco, and Unimi of Sacramento in malting the nominations. Those papers bolted the nominations, and set up another ticket. The General Committee sought to purchase the sup port of The Alta with patronage, and the work ingmen, suspicious, deserted their ticket, fearing that if it was elected their enemies would control tho ollieials. “It would have been a gallant fight, and would „have been, won by tho Union party had the bolt ers stood out distinctively, and not tampered with thu General Committee. Hut they were too shrewd for that—too dishonorable, 1 may say', and accomplished their work by mere political chi canery.'’—A r . I'. Tribune. IVeiv Orleans. The Tribune’s Washington letter contains the following: ' ' ‘ “Advices received here from New Orleans state that Governor Flanders, of Louisiana, talks of resignin'’-. It is stated that the difficulties arising from General Sheridan’s removal are the cause of Flanders’s contemplated resignation. As soon as the nows reached here, prominent Republicans wrote to Flanders to hold on by all unjaua, that his leavinglhe position now would bring great calamity to the Union men of tho. State.’ 1 , —lt takes nineteen mou besides the clergymen to marry a French army officer. The red tape in which he is cnlunglcu if, enough to make any man blue. F. I. FETHMFDN. PnMislter. PRIGE THREE CENTS. FACTS ASB FAKCIKS, —Paper water-pails are manufactured at GrcCtt Point, L. I. —The Appletons are riding- into popularity on a Miihlback Ax. * —An eighth book of Mendelssohn Y “Songs without Words” has been published in Gcrmauy. —lt is said that General McClellan has rented his house in Dresden tor another year. —Jones, tlie defeated pugilist, was in the'rebei" army. Be now has two lost causes to motim. —There will he a small tobacco crop in Con necticut. —Elihußarrilt, the learned biitokraaith, intend* to settle in Connecticut. , The “bones” of Christy’s minstrels in Lon don has been'litigating,, and got skinnfid. - ‘ htT?. *i 9se ' Jal ' clu b in Wisconsin is callecP “Lightning atrikers." . —gloria—not the Queen, but apportion oft her colonies—orles loudly for men. ■ ''['“'kfagßm Star reports that-Wpri vote* lettcr has been received from SecnatorFessenden,, in which he favore impeachment. *nr,‘T G^ r SI Rousseau is thehandsomest man in ‘n e „ U i ,ltßd^ tat f 8 ’ , 3ft y» a Detroit-, paper,-. Net if Imndsoiud is that handsome docs,. hv'fin,ii I i 0t ? Il i k aE - h?d a’ gold sensation, caused zard d ? a lump ot the metal in a. chicken's giz 'r„^ ou ?S- Wolnau 'blew out her g,as in a room CI : K ' , ’f; < ?. ll0 , lcI . went to sleep, and her funeral took place the day after. —The Duke of Hamilton, of whose “fasf life so much lias been writ-ten, is only nin etocn years ot ago. J Princess Alice, of England, is said to have rather a hard time with Louis of Hesse . The old brnte abuses her incessantly, A .nm* religious sect has Bprtfiig n p iu Ger innny. Its peculiarities consist in wot shinning: m a dark room and in silence. * —lt has been demonstrated in Chieaa o that a comfortable house can be built for 1 Icpendtf ou the size. . , ~~A Delaware man, who some years ago cut up and roasted a negro; taking the right bant 1 home with him as a trophy, recently committed s uieide.. —A brute in Ohio who beat his wife all th rough the s.ummer night, was arrested in the m«>rnlng lor—disturbing his neighbors’ sleep! —Fifteen quarts of ale per day sufficed to, moil-- ton an Jsufrlißh workman who recently dro wued him&cU' in a fit of delirium tremens. —lt is suggested that the President chose i dun- - day for the issue of his amnesty proclamatio a int order to create an impression that he is “pio us.” - A Frenchman has been- fined for illeg ally practicing medicine. His system was simnl yL. command to' bp well. 1 J ■ —A band followed the speech of Mr. Pillslmry f Demourutio candidate for Governor of Maine! wtth the very appropriate tune of the “Mocking- —There is an engraved topaz in the Paris fee position, upon which twenty years of labor were expended. Entirely too much time to-paz over such a trifle. 1 \ —The Saltan’s first railway journey in his own dominions was made a great occasion Hia suite numbered seven hundred, and the cars were elaborately decorated. .. —An lndian bark canoe, attracts much. atten tion m England; The owner is on a crulao from Liverpool to -Glasgow, sleeping in the canoe at night, .- . v . —Amohg tho ltems of expenditure for the city government of New York are feather-dusters for which the sum of .$539 was paid. How much they were.worth is another question. * —The authenticity of the recently discovered letter of Pascal to Sir Isaac Newton, foreshadow ing the theory of gravitation, is denied by Sir David Brewster. —A man is under arrest in Washington for the larceny of a house. The thief took it to pieces and carted it'away to set up In another part of the city. . . . . —A newspaper, correspondent wants railway newsboys to offer “ Plutarch’s Lives ” for sale—- we suppose to the end that travelers losing their own may have something to fall back upon. —A ship recently sailed from, Liverpool with, ti fty “anxious and aimless" females for Melbourne " and a market. Another cargo is to lie trans ported in October. —The Bishop of Oxford recently made a speech on Sunday schools, in which he condemned the present method of teaching, though he thought there ought to be a “coloring of the system.. . , —A Chicago bachelor, who lives in a hoarding house, wants to know “how kissing and hugriug at the table may be prevented” among receutly married people. Give them time and thev will get entirely over it. . . . ' —Goneral Beauregard, while in New York, was the. guest of a gentleman whoso wealth was amassed in Southern trade, and now out of grati tude entertains the “distinguished sons” of that section. —Major Gee, former keeper of the Salisbury rebel prison, is said to belying at the point of death. A soldier remarks/that if he should pre sent himself at the gate,of Heaven, St. Peter, would say " Gee.” —Robert Christie,, a veteran of Copenhagen, Trafalgar and Algiers, died recently in England at the age of ninety-eight. Though exposed in more than forty battles and skirmishes, he never > re-- ccivtd a scratch. —The - Professor of-Astronomy-in the nejr Chinese college is a German who denies the. theory of gravitation, pooh-poohs the calculus., and says the stars are living creatures. I&ia eminently qualified for his place. ' —lt Eeems probable that a now system of tele* graph construction will soon be adopted gene rally in England. The wires are to be laidnSide. by side in tube* buried under the bed of a .rail way, each being separately* insulated in a.-,-very simple manner. —A young man has been appointed bv. Presi de)! t Johnson a cadot at West Point, in accord ance with a promise made by him while Gover nor of Tennessee, that he would bestow this,', favor upon the youngest soldier in the armv. At the time this youth was but eleven vcar& of —The New York CommsveUrf thinks "that if Lord Dundreary were asked his. .opinion, of the result ot the election justhcldJn CoUfor.'uu, whose there were two Republican tickets in the field and ono Democratic, he would probably say “A-li, it’s a sure thing for the Retuibs, you know. Two against erne, you sesa- Of course the Repubs will win.” —A correspondent of the Louisville. Jamnat says, speaking of the “Black Crack,:” “Tiie de-: eliniug di>ys of Greece and Home saw such plays, ns this, and to them philosophers attribute 1 tiie. decline. Are we in danger srom the ‘Black Crook ?’ Some politician once said that America can stand a great deal of going; to the, devil, auct iu this is our hope from the Crook.” ’ —Lord St. Vincent, an English admiral, was very exacting upon points of etiquette. On* day A lieutenant went on board his shi», forjonlers, but the admiral would not give them because lie was without his silver buckles. The vouag lieu-, tenant remedied tho defect,in liis dress, and thou refused to receive, orders from the admiral, who woro a simple undress,; until lie had clothed him self In lull admiral’s uniform. —lt is said that Miss Kate Bateman (now Mrs. Crow) has been induced to return temporarily to the stage, her health, having been firmly re-estab lished during the year of'repose which she haa lately enjoyed. Sjao has responded affirmatively .. . to a most liberal offer to appear in the leading theatres of Great Britain and tho European con tinent, and will soon ehilTor Liverpool to enter upon the fulfillment of ihc contract, which is for ‘geo nights. - ,r
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