GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI-NO. 138. the evening bulletin PDZILIBiiKD EVERY EVENING • (Sundays cxcopted), AT THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, Wl Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, IJT Till EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION,, _• PKOi»anrrofte. OJBBON PEACOCK, EKN EST'-C. WALLACE, tf.L. FETHKKBTON, TliOH. .1, WILLIAMSON, CASPER BOUDKR, Jr., FRANCIS WELL'S. The Rullktim to served to Bubacribeuß in tho city at 18 jQaot* por week, payable to the carriers, or $8 per annum. BCHOMACKER & CO.’S CELEBRATED V^^^PPlaik*.—Acknowledged superior in all rouped* <o . any made in thin country, and sold on most liberal terms. N>EW AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS constantly <M> band for rent Tuning, moving and packing promptly Attended to. Wareroome.llo3Chestnut street- Jel9-3m6 JLIIEIf. lU-LKLEV.—On the evening of the 18th Inst., Lizzie F., (.daughter of. J. Htnry end Adeline A. Bulkier, 'lherelative# and friends are affectionately invited to uttcnjl the fntieraL service*, at the residence of her I2W Rncertreet, on Thursday afternoon, at 3 o’clock. *** DKBTOGET.—On the nioniinc of the 15th Instant, 8. De&touct, (native of Bordeaux, I ranee;, in the 75th year of hfa age. 1 he relatives and male friends of tha family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, from hi* lata residence. No.lUOPWnlnut rtreet. on Wednesday mornfng,l4th inri., at 10 o'clock. without further notice. Interment at Laurel iiill Cemetery. 5 FISHFJt- On the morning of 17th Instant. Mn*. Mary Jane, w ife of William W. Khmer and eldest daughter of Thcmruaud Elizabeth Graham, in her32d year. Due notice of tho funeral will lx* given. * HAWKINS.-On Sunday morning, the 16th in*ttnt, Gertrude P.. wife of George JlaukinK, and daughter of the late Right Rev. Richard Channing Moore, of \ irginia, in the 70th year of her age. •The funeral will take place from the residence of her husband, No. ‘Ah Cliuton t-trret, on Wednesday, tlw IHlb iust., at S o’clocg, P.M. Interment at St Peter’* Church.* MLSBEK.—On Saturday morning. Sept. 14th, after a fhort iJlnew. Sttonn E.. wife ot Win. Mu-<*er. • . The relative* and friend* of the family are invited <o attend the funeral, from the residence of tier hu«ba».i, No. Arch street, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. To proceed to Mount Vernon Cemetery. * nr.fcOCIETK FRANCAISi: DF. BtKVPANCF'.- ;!>•* inembre* de la Bodele ront pri*-<* d'ac-iisteraux fun , r:uli<-f tie TlOtre defuilt COll-.gUe 8. DedOUet, Precideut d«r la bociete. , . .. . . On *e renniza a la mnhon mortuairc mercredi prochain. W.courant alO heurce prvebea. 0 . . . » { H, TIREI*. Secretaire, Black ikish popi.in».-nw:kivbd from pim Brother* A: Co., Dublin, one rue ol Blnrk Jn*h lins, all quaUti'.M. BESSON k SON. Monrmn»f Store, oi* Chestnut street. 11V hk A LANDKLU FOURTH AND AKCII, ARE J opeoln* for the Fall Trade of 1W7 — Manrot ouavvl*. ordered koo,<L*. Fopllna. new colon!, aud Rich I'Dildi*. BUck Buka, *ur«*rior prade-; Plain BUka, of all gualiilfi* __ T) ATEVrEir’PA^NTS .‘•COIKKJ i AM> ST KETCH Kl> 1 iron Ito ft JncbcH. at .MOTTh r» French rtteum !)..■- ins and Booth Ninth ftn-'-t and T.» Race «t rtv»h | h-15-liii* SPECIAL NOTICES. WSr UNION LEAGUE HOUSE, BIiOAD STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 10,1W7. A B;xrci*l Meeting of ths UNION LEAGUE. f of Philadelphia wiU be bold at the LEAGUE HOUSE, to IS, if 8 O’CLOCK, P. H-, for tha purpoac of Uktexsuch m#a*arw aa may be doomed *dvteabw in relation to the present condition of tha coon- order of the Board of Director*. mIMI* rp GEORGE U. BOKER, Secretary. VER*"'£>T TilE oooia. **** I'jiiUAum.i'UiA. September 14th. ]«>7. Tothe BtercfinnUand Citizen* of Vhiladtiphia:— The following letter from G«lvc*ton. Texa*, endive*, hibitu the extent of suffering, from > ellow Fever. In that €1, 'We are in themidxt of one of the roost terrible epidem ic*. that oa* ever visited this cl tv. It commenced ea- Iv In •July, in a mild form, with hot fourteen caw in that month, and baa now become as violent m ! evt-r saw it in New Orleans. Some cases have net lived over twelve hours after the tint symptoms appeared. In the IWond and Third Wards almost every other house has one or wore caeca. At has spread all over the prairie north and west of us. I visited over forty cases in that direction yeHterday, sonic of them a tulle northwest of the ceuie l **Vhe hospitals are fall and crowded, and somo win have to bo improvised if we can get the means. Entire blocks of store* are closed, and but little else is done* be sides attending to the sick and providiugfor the destitute, audit is estimated we have yet ten thousand uuuccli iuhted persons htre for it to feed upon. Most of the ca*cs c:tu he »aved with prompt aud proper treatment. “Our people who have the mean* are using them and the gentlemen of the ‘Howard Association' are doing all that experience and human effort can accomplish ; but with all the economy-that cau be practiced, it U my opinion, hatr-d on former experience, that we must have aid tfom tlu* charitable abroad, to the* extent of at lea-t jMu.iuu or ,*ls,i*A to supply the «u*«rt u-yent cases with blanket*, medicim-, nmves. food, Ac.. and thou the ener gies of the pi“. era! committee* will he seriously taxed to ad:« inister to each the minimum quantity to save or pre serve lif** only.” , , , rrom adWcefc dated New Orleans. Sept. 11th, we learn that G 7 d* athH oe.- uirrd from YTPow Fever ou that day, and on the wnim* day 32 died in Galveston, Texas, whilst the fever is extending along the Gulf Const, and in home Of the interior towus. All earnest appeal is made to.the , citir.cn* of, Philadelphia to forward relief to this atllicted section of the country. Coni: i’mtiona of money or material, such as medicine, •blank* G, nurse-, food. etc., may be sent t" WILLIAM L. .JAMES, General Agent of tin* Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company, or to WILi.IAM C. HARRIS «t CO-, No. 125 South Third street, ami when received will bo duly acknowledged and promptly forwarded, free of all charges, through the Southern Agents of the Phila delphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company. James (J. Hand A Co. Morton Me. Michael. ’.Hood, Bonbnght A Co. S. A W. Welsh. James. Kent, buutec a C-O. ‘ -lay Cooke A Co. Allen A brother. .Jacob Riegel A Co. Wni. 11. Thomas. Edmund A. bonder A Co. i.Miuwy, lfu-tou it Co. >Vi pon. Chiule 6: Co. Mnlour <C Co. .himet* St<rl it Co. Howard Hiiudnnnu. Aud many others. It} ViED EE S CIE NTIFI C COL KS E Ami. «T Catlimvood. Chritftniu & ('o. drove A: Brother. Lambert Thomn* i (Jo. li. H. Menr» A; Hon. IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences 'THURSDAY, September Candidates for admission may be examined the day before (September 11th), or on TUESDAY, July 30th, the /day before the Annual Commencement Exercises. For circular*, apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. R. B. YOLW'GMAN, Clerk of the Faculty. jy2o-tfs Eastoh, Penna., July, 1367. Jt®*» OFFICE UESuLUTE MINING COMPANY, NO. 324 WALNUT STREET, Fuu.adki.pui a, September 16, 1867. Notice* la hereby given that all stock of the Resolute Minin/; Company, on which instalments are due and un paid. is hereby declared forfeited, and will be cold at public auction on TUUHBDAY, October 17th, 1857, at. 12 o clock, noon, at the office of the Secretary of the Corpora tion, according to the charter and by-laws, unless pievi* By ordorof the Directors, sol 6 to ocl6§ a, A. IIOOPES, Treasurer. TENTH WARD ASSO CIATION.— The Republican residents u,. t,, are requested to meet at tho .Prcciuct Houpo. Kleventli nnd Kaceptrcotp, Byoldir o 1 ! 1 ' SUAY) Evenin B> at 8 o’clock. Tuob, E.Mo,. R ,;LiS WETUEUILL ' ‘^OREENLANEST'iYK^ N ' IA HAILI!OAD AND MaZIF&W ithe hardest and purcat mined, nt 8* porton ll *’ l * . iw. v' . BINES it SIIEAFF. V Seventh street. aeP-lmrpi lg>> A SPECIAL MEETING OP Tire —hwicu- holders of tlio PENNSYLVANIA A von i JtJAS Jr' •COfdPAN Y- will be held on MondHy"se, I tmnhl.,^M lO f < il l ' Oflico, 32 North. Fifth street, at 12 Si, t 0 .‘o «iH, nt tho •diene.y of selling certain of the Coinpanr'a nronerVv 1 pc ' eeln-lltrp* R-a l Eti > LEriel.r : !,t„ r '- -iway .'ra.mii,if,a about changing '■'■rrii' •> donee or leaving the city, can receive'the «aßh price for old noivepajpora,books, pamphlet*, rail? ot? Wrappers always on haud aim for sale by E iiiTflfy&n 418 Jayne street. Orders will receive prompt attimfw fcy,maU or othorwlao. 0111171™,“°°' HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. IBM'andTS S^ ffib^d d s t oi'S&^ D dTl;teU I ?o d,^ poor, —Perhaps the expedition just fitted out in England may find Dr. Livingstone alive. A British ship brings letters from the Zanzibar ■coast, which seem to confirm the story. The Sheik of Kielwa informed the officers of the ship £hat he was alive. SUito €t)rmiin tklkfin i [Correapondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] A stealthy-looking Italian, followed by a pretty dog, opened a gate for us, and introduced us to a natural cellar In the hill-side. The gat* was like an alley-gate tit home, and the cellar was like some thrlltlcss potato-cellar williout any potu- I toes. It was all poor enough, and unpromising ; in the extreme. But the man was twisting up i the half of a badly printed grny-looklng newspa- I per. Striking a match ugainst the side 6f the cavern, he kindled the paper, which llapped - downwards, flaming and steaming, as far as the level of our knees. Then it went out, and settled on the ground without a spark. The extinction -was sudden-and- surprising. The inhospitable cellar was the Grotto del Cane. " “ What puper was that, my friend?" “Eminence, it was the Unita CuUoliea , from Koine,” answered the custode, with a. sinister smile, “It is the very breath of Ills Holiness. How easily It choked!—hut I will show you a prettier thing,”—and he left us alone in the cave. “What an admirable o.irn,lire,” exclaimed' my companion, who was Breton-French, “to con serve the cinders of chosen nwllionneies ! I will burn that brigand of an hotel-bill at Gaeta." And igniting the paper he let it waver down to the floor, where it showed nothing hut the amount and receipt. Taking the hint, I began to burn the accumulation of my pockets. The confined air was soon bright with a cloud of floating papers on fire, which went out accu rately and finally at a certain point, aud strewed the ground with ashes. “Here is the annoying old boot-maker. Here dozen and a half that would not button round the neck. Here is Nanon, who wants a present, because landlords are so brutal during the Exposition. Ah me! here are two locks of hair, one black and the other red—dyed, I am c ertain. Here is a Minister Kouhcr, on the Lux embourg affair." Not to be behindhand, I devoted a few letters, a cigarette-hook that tasted of glue, some mor sels of sketching charooi! that never would mark, a paper collar, and the design for my fu ture historical picture. A copy of a New York sheet containing a lengthy Veto being in my pocket, I held a match to it; it caught fire eagerly, and burned, to my astonishment, almost to the very bottom of the cave, perhaps because the printer's ink was rancid; then it went out, leaving a V'fry had perfume. Meanwhile the guide and the spaniel were per forming a little drama outside. The man waß tempting the dbg, and the dog was finessing to ,'p evade the summons without offending the man. It was on both sides a delicate Italian Intrigue. His master smiled, flattered, sung, promised sweetmeats, and addressed his follower in diminu tives. The poor slave ran in circles over the fields of flax, affected to drink at the mephitic waters of and crouched from time to Ume at a safe distance, his tall wagging from cowardice and his fine eyes bright with anxiety. Finally the man approached as near as possible, lay down in the flax, snored, and then sprang on the creature like a panther. He brought the little panting animal in his arms, intending to dip him after the usual fashion in the noxious bath. Satisfied at this point, we delivered the peor trembling victim, and rejoined the carriage, leaving the custode in the last degree astonished at oyj'wapt of spirit. What a 'delicious ride to Babe ! Everywhere grapes,umbrella-pines,borders of cactus,and peas ants easily lounging at their work In short, white, Chinese-1, oking suits. A certaiu tendency to • nudity without harm, an easy way of walking, as if they wer&jjot ashamed of their tine legs, dis tinguish the Neapolitan peasants, whether on land or sea. I fancy that after living awhile among them one would cede to the natural influ •ence of the climate—allow the soft Mediterranean breeze to beat at the open bosom,undj'eel the sweet tun melting luxuriously over the calf as one pot tered among one s vines. We rattled merrily along, talking and singing. The horse was a fanatic, the driver a fcrusader, my friend an energetic little Breton who had devoted himself to being agreeable from the moment he found I-knew his native city, Quim perle in Finis.tere. In this flippant modern way we scurried ou, laughing and disputing, through ihe regions heavy with a weight of Komaii memories. We pointed out profiles among the ruins. We confounded with easy wit the little urchin who "offered us native sulphur at Solfatara. We pronounced tremendous oracles in the old subterraneous baths called by the guides the grotto of Virgil’s Sibyl. 'We scratched matches against the limestoue incrustation of the enor mous reservoir which, eighteen centuries ago, supplied the fleet in the Portus Julius, and could easily supply to-day, from its still perfect cham ber, double the present Italiau navy. It is a region of lava, of nostrils that open out of the earth and fume with suffocation, of lakes bubbling with carbonic acid, of hot springs, of passages that lose themßelves within the hills. But all is garlanded and festal. 'This land, like a heated, panting bacchanal, crowns herself with flowers and vineleaves. The beautiful bean-plants wander over the horrible spittle of the volcano! Dedicated from the oldest times to orgie and debauch, the shore has many limes arisen as if in horror and shaken its miserable tenants into the sea. It has shuddered with earthquake throes liko a troubled bosom; It has stooped to bury its hot beaches in the sea. Nowhere can we find a soil in such palpable and guilty sympathy with its in habitants,so stricken with their crime and ashamed of their shame. There remain, outside of Puteoli, three upright columns of the ancient Serapcon of the town, which tell the wildest history of bowing and lifting, of heavingg such as Samson's pillars never felt. Like three mighty and mutually testing calendars they stand marked with the data of supremo convulsions which have laid their companions around them’ in the dust. First, for twelve feet they are smooth, then, for nine feet, deeply bored, at ad vancing water-marks, by the marble-drilling lilhodomas. They have therefore beon, at an Un known era, sunken twenty-one feet beneath thk water, their bases meanwhile protected by some 1 ** volcanic drift of a still earlier period, some tide of i ashes or of boiling mire which had swept into the court after the abandonment of its uncouth African rites. Now, risen into the blazing air again, they hold to the light their trophies of the ' deep, the shells and fretworks of thoir sea-change. Strange enough testimony , of the tidal impulses that have swept the world since the days of old Rome! First came 1 the benign billow of Christianity, and extinguished the needless altar-fires and washed out tho lustral urns. Then the confusing ifva, descending and Scattering with it the Vandal irruptions, then, HASH STEPS. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1867. in the dark ages, the Mediterranean, whose busy worm notched in secret the twenty-first foot/the maturity of the great didactic plan. By the be ginning of oiir century the whole had risen again, and tiie mosaic floor lay glittering in the sun, clean of the least truce of idolatrous footprints. But now the tale is blazoned, and the three pale shafts are lowering once more, slowly, noiselessly and metrically, like grim phantoms sinking from a tragic stage. .1 saw their feet muffled in the sea, and beside them the lustral baths that fill again with the storm-tide. Hard by is the New Volcano, a tow deforce of modern date, A day and a night sufficed the slavcof some strong and sulphurous lamp, to throw up this amphitheatre, lour hundred and forty-feet high and a mile and a half around. One September day in 158 k the grave Viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo had the privilege of nod ding his feathers over the new and enormous crater, wherein, as In some infernal circus, his master's village of Tripergola, a palace of the ADjou monarchs, and the Roman columns of Agrippina’s Villa, were mutually jumping each other and galloping round and round in a strange, bewitched revel. Many too-eager observers, assisting at this roaring melange of Latin, French and Spanish anachronisms, approached and were drawn into the arena, exchanging their rule in the most unpremeditated "way from, that of audience to that spectacle. “Custode, whai is this hateful hole?" “Eminence, we call this the Stoves of Nero.” “And can you assure me,” said my friend, “that Nero is toasting there ?" ••Signore, you shall go iu and see for your self.”' It looked black enough and purgatorial enough. A little twisted gnome, da.tly.irnd malicious as a Culibariy emerged from the jaws of the earth, and rolled up his breeches so assiduously and radically that there was nothing left of them. At the same time a child started into being from the darkness and deew oft’ his shirt, exposing first a swarthy torsi-cotti body and then a head lighted with a pair of intelligent sidelong eyes. "They are fiends," said the Gaul, in serio comic alarm. “I have fear of them. They frizzle my hair." The-nivsterious child took an egg—what was the signification of an egg in the Scrapie rites! The gnome took my lrknd. “Youlirst," he said succinctly. “Ah,” said the Frenchman, straggling on the back of his bearer, “I tell you I have tear. He is lifting me! He is crushing my spine! It is growing dark to me! I am grinding against the rock ! I am sinking into the entrails of the earth!” “I do not comprehend French," said the gnome, shortly. “I tell you Ido not go; ‘e n'y 'vatspas! lam curdling with horror. Ah, I cannot see daylight anymore! The mountain is failing! No, ills my hat going over my eyes. Sinister presage! Oh, my friend, we shall meet no more on earth!” Such were the words that reached me from the interior of the hill, while I was stolidly eating the egg which the child brought up frpm the natural boiler. The passage to the Stufe is very narrow, very dark, and very long. From time to time I heard a fainter and fainter cry. Then ail was still. The Frenchman had disappeared from existence, snatched like a new Proserpine. Lincoln at Gettysburg. On tho 19th of November. 1863, Abraham Lin coln delivered his dedicatory address on the occasion of consecrating the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The immortal words which he then uttered cauuot be too often impressed upon the American people, aud their republication to-day will associate them with the similar ceremony enacted over the dust of the brave men who fell upon the equally glorious field of Antictum: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the propo sition that'all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and 60 dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who here gave their lives that that na tion might live. It is altogether fitting aud proper that we should do this. "But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little uote, nor long remember what we say ltere, hut it can never lorget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so noblv curried on. It is rather for us to be here dedi cated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased de votion to the cause for which they here gave the last full mensure.of devotion—that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have dic'd in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, -by the people, aud for the .people, shall not perish from the earth." ' NEWS BY THE CUBA CABLE ST. THOMAS. The Steamer Bed Gauntlet’s Passen gers Transferred to the South Ame rica. St. Thomas, Sept. 2, by way of Havana, Sept. 14, 1887.—The Patmos is preparing to sail. The authorities have advised Porto Rico. The steamer Red Gauntlet, vainly seeking bot tomry, her passengers went per the South America. POKTu It ICO. Arrival of Troops—Detention of War Vessels. Poiito Rico, Sept. 3, by way of Ha vans, Sept. 14, 1867.—Seven hundred troops have arrived here. Two war vessels ordered for St. Thomas have been detained. HAYTI. The Press and President Sulnuvc, Hayti, August 16. 1867 — The press protests against President Salnave disbursing £5,000,000 without the approval of Congress. “ The import duties have been increased fifty per cent. ST. DOMINGO. The Government Credits to l>c lie-ex amined—ThcTobucco Crop. * St. Domincio, Sept. 1, 1867.—The government credits lacking vouchers are to he re-examined. The tobacco crops are as large as in 1866. Prices arc sustained. VENEZUELA. The French minister aud the Steamer „ Curibcc. Venezuela, August 21, by way of Havana, September 14, 1867.—The, French Minister has received a satisfactory reply about the steamer Caribee. CUBA. Financial and Commercial. llavana, Sept. 14,1867—The sugar markot is paralyzed. Exchange reunion unvaried. OUR WHOJLE COUNTRY. A London correspondent of the Manchester Examiner says:— It is understood that 'the Queen will, shortly lose the personal services of her faithful highland gillie, John Brown, who has been her Majesty's chosen attendant in her rides and drives ever since the death of the Prince Consort—who had a special iikiDg for and trust iu him—transferred him to her service, ne was included, as it may be remembered, in the striking picture, by Sir Ed win Landseer, of the “Queen at Osborne.” in this year’s Academy Exhibition, and no photograph could have given a more perfect fae s/c il’ of his personal appearance and respectful bearing. It ajppcars that, despite the confidential post as signed him iu the royal household, he is desirous to redeem the troth long ago plighted to a young Scotch woman of hi 6 own grade, and it is under stood that a residence in one of the lodges at Balmoral, uith the supervision of a certain part of the domain, will prove a gratifying testimonial to him of the value entertained of his services by his royal mistress. Mr. Seward’* Endless Diplomatic Di- version. [From the London Timer, Sept. A] * * * To„Mr. Seward it was probably a re lief to have a new Foreign Secretary to wrestle with. He delights in going over the whole his tory of the Alabama claims from beginning to end, and dwells with manifest pleasure on all the points which a practised ingenuity enables him to urge to the disadvantage of England. The conduct of Great Britain, down to the smallest detail, is made to appear in the worst light. This is only what/ might l>e expected: but, unfortunately, it de cides nothing. Nor has the endless historical abstract, which is a diversion to the American Foreign Secretary, always the merit of accuracy to recommend it. In speaking of the Sumter as a ship bnilt and fitted out in the ports of Great Britain, Mr. Seward can easily be proved to be wrong, and there are other particulars in which he has suffered himself to be misled. But it is useless to follow Mr. Seward’s steps in ordeyto correct his errors, aud so Lord Stanley seems to have felt. The whole series -of questions arising out of these claims is therefore left by the present correspondence precisely where it was when Lord Rnssefl had to deal with it. * * At present Mr. Seward resembles a lawyer who desires to prolong litigation rather than obtain judgment. We are convinced, how ever, that he will eventually feel it his duty as a statesman to dispose of this fruitful source of discord in his own time, rather than bequeath it to a successor. His public life proves that,liis opinions undergo no change as years pass by. The calmness with which, in his recent despatches, he characterizes the war as a “local disturbance” is at least con sistent with his memorable prediction that all would be over in ninety days. In 1881 the Foreign Secretary made light of what the Federal Supreme Court called “the greatest of civil wars,” and it is only natural that he should describe it by a trifling epithet in 1887. In like manner, since he once believed it the best course to refer the Con federate privateer claims to arbitration, he doubt less holds that opinion still, and will assist iu put ing it into effect before the Foreign Department passes out of his bauds. It is not in the interests of any of the parties concerned to let these vexa tious claims remain forever a mere means of pro voking national differences, and there is appa rently no fairer method of bringing them to a conclusion than that formerly approved by Mr. Seward and now recommended" by Lord Stauley. Exi ant Pei:he f uture Action of the Enurlisli Popular Leaders—Alliance With the Irish People. [From tin: London Star, Sept. L] We are not without indications thus early in the day, of the probable policy of the liberal party in the future. The Reform act, however tortuously begotten, lias beyond question, increased the motive power of liberalism, and given force to its impact: the newly enfranchised masses are read}' to follow the leaders of the party to the goal which thinkers and practical men have alike designated as the only rational issue of past and imminent conflicts. Already the details of the “Reform question" are considered to be settled through the ballot, and a satisfactory re distribution of seats remains yet to.be attended to. But there are besides certain great problems which the apathy of unreformed Parliaments has smothered, but which profoundly agitate the mind of the nation. The political tide Is begin ning to run in an altogether new channel; it shakes institutions—evils consecrated by age, against which logic and morality have heretofore been powerless—and changes the aspect of our ptblie policy in points the most fundamentally significant. The agitation which in England has been successful in wresting the rights of the people from the unwilling hands ot Mr. Disraeli, has extended itself to Ireland. Tie reform league has begun a campaign in D«blin which Ib likely to have as fortunate an kme as the struggle for an extension of the suffrage has obtained in. this country. If the Irish peopleihave not as yet fully comprehended the advantages which are to be gained by a cor ditl alliance with the advanced wing of the Liberal party, we can hardly blame them, though wt may deplore their errors.' But wo cannot bdievethat they can long remain unconscious of tig great revolution in English politics which the Rtform Act of 1867 has wrought. It would be ridiculous to visit on the nation—on tho radicals wlo, we trust, will represent the nation in the new Parliament—the vices either of whig or of toiv government. I’he liberal programme in tho revivified Legis lature will embrace, as wo have said, ulany pro blems relagated to the limbo of Utopian’theories by the class government of the past. Probably imong the foremost of tho enterprises which tho pa(ty will be likely to undertake will bo found a general sound and unsectarian education of the people, tho abolition of church rates, and a rtdress .of grievances, both in regard to the re latons of landlord and tenant, and of tho maintc najico of the Church of the minority, of which the Irish as a nation justly complain. These,if we are no; greatly mistaken, tho leaders of the Liberal paity will be found reudy to support as measures absolutely essential for the future welfare and pe;ce of the United Kingdom; and in the en deffvor to secure these-we-arc-certain the great nuns of the pcoplo will cheerfully join. * * * Wi look forward te many hard’struggles, many, bit er and fierce contests, before tho obstructive paity can be disarmed, before tho will of the ua tioa can be carried into effect, and tho liboral programme enacted as part of our constitution. After this shall have been accomplished, other problems present themselves at which it would now bo premature to glance, but for which tho attiinmont of the reforms referred to will form more propet oud useful preparation. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. ENGLAND. A Shocking Murder. A shocking murder was committed September 3d, in the Kent rood. London. In a house there a currier named Bourdier cohabited with a woman named Emma Snow. . A little before six o’clock in the morning he got out of bed, and, taking up a sharp knife, cut the woman’s throat. Sho was able to stagger up stairs to her aunt arid- lell her what had happened, and then died. Bourdier, when he had cut the woman’s throat, went into an other room,where his little daughter was sleeping! and seizing her by the throat looked intently m her face and then bade her lie down-again. Be yond dohbt he had meditated murdering her algo. He was soon afterwards taken into custody. He admitted that he had killed Emma Snow, and Bnid he tvbb obliged to do it. Letters found on him show that lie had intended to kill himseir and the children also. He was brought up at the Lambeth police court and'remanded. Tlie Queen’s Servant. the alaiiaha claims. \ THE ItEFOHN UEVOI.I ITO.V. ITALIT. Rumored Alliance with Pl-cwsia. The Paris Presse says that M. do Bismarck,who has already supplied Italy with 100,000 needle guns.- giving a very long date for the payment, now proffers large advances in money, and full liberty of action in regard to Borne, promising even to make a casus brlli of any fresh inter vention by France for the maintenance of the Pope at the Vatican. The “Left” is altogether for accepting this offer. M. Ratazzi, terribly em barrassed, struggles as well ns he can against the tendencies of hfe friends, and refuses, at least in appearance, to allow himself to- be chained and bound by Prussian influence. These statements are contradicted.with emphasis by other papers. _ KarHmldl an* Ratazzi, The alliance ‘ between Ratazzi and Garibaldi, which for some time past has been suspected to exist; wns lately manifested in a very remark able manner at Orvieto, on the pontifical frontier, • On August 28th a considerable number of Gari baldi's followers, joined by a part of the garrison, assembled in the streets, crying, “Rome for capital! Let us march on Rome! Down with priestly government !” For the first time for a long while Garibaldi spoke with moderation. He said repeatedly that Italy would shortly go to Rome, cither with or without him. As to the fact of the coming occupation, there could be no doubt, and lor his port he had no desire to in sist obstinately on his own peculiar views of the means to be taken, provided only the end was obtained. The Presse (Paris) emphatically affirms the truth of these details, and thinks the mompnt at hand when the French Government will have to. take a most serious notice of the new nttitude of the Italian Government, which is altogether at variance with the spirit and the letter of the Convention of Sept. 15. CRETE. Mortality in the Turkish Army—Atro cities Committed by the Multan’N Troops—Naval Succor for the Cretans. [From the N. Y. Tribune.] Caxka. Aug. 27, 3807.—1 seize the opportunity of the sailing of the Swatarn for Piraeus to senil the latest dates from the incomprehensible, or, at any rate, miscomprehended Cretan insurrection. The mortality in the ranks of the Turkish army continues, and is almost unexampled. Of 23,000 Egyptians who came here a year ago, there only rcmnin, according to some accounts, 5,000 to 0,000, and to others 3,000 to 4,000, the lnttcr estimate being given me by. an Egyptian Colonel. . All accounts represent the Same’state of things to exist, more or less, with the Turkish troops. They show signs of exhaustion and demoraliza tion which can hardly be mistaken. The remnants of tiie divisions of Mehemet Pasha and All Bere Pasha, rendered infamous by his atro cities in Kissamos, are entering into the city or the camps around, and seem to have abandoned hostilities. The conn try from Retimo to the western Bca is full of insurgents, and free of troops. The eastern districts alone show any chance of a fight, since some Turkish,divisons are still outside the retrenchments there. It is proba ble, however, that the GoverhmentWill assert, with its old impudence, that all is over, since there is no fighting, they taking good care that there shall be no chance for a fight. The evidences of the atrocities which have been committed in the island are.multiplied and con firmed by a curious discovery—pf which more, when circumstances permit—of ajoumalkept by a personage with the army of Omar Pasha, which details (the most brutal acts history can record) I have no space, and yuur reader* will probably have less disposition to read. One will show how false the pretences of restraints held over the troops are. Two officers, of whom one was a Colonel, quarreled which should have first possession of a beautiful girl, and, not com ing to a compromise, threw her living into the flames of a burning house, where she perished. Some of Omar’s body-guard, having taken pos session of a Christian boy, who persisted in refus ing their embraces,tortured him by slow stabbing, until he died resisting. The journal Is in good hands, and may one day be published entire, when I venture to say that one reform will become ob ligatory on the Porte, viz.; that of its method of conducting war. CRIME. THE WESTFIELD (ST. J.) MURDER. Trial of Sylvester Qniller lor tlic Mur der of John Firman—The Prisoner Convicted ol Murder in the First Dc- Ei.izaiiktii, N. J., Sept. Hi. ISfiT At half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning the trial of Syl vester Qniller for the murder of John Firman was resumed. The court-room was densely crowded, it being known that the trial was to be concluded. The prisoner maintained the same enlm and collected manner which had marked his demeanor during the preceding days of his trial. Mr. Dutcher, counsel for the prisoner, then summed up on behalf of the defence, arguing ably for the prisoner. His remarks continued for about an hour, when Attorney-General Robeson, bn behalf of the State, replied. >■ Judge I)epue then proceeded to deliver his charge to the jury, explaining various points at law, and at hall-past twelve o'clock the jury re tired to deliberate upon their verdict. For two hours and a half they remained out, coming in shortly after three o’clock. The words of the Judge, “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdict ?” echoed through the court room, and in an instant all noise and confusion ceased, and a whisper might have been heard in any part of the large court-room. After the usual response, the foreman of the jury repeated in firm accents the finding of the jury. “Guilty of murder in the first degree.” The prisoner, os hearing the awful decree which is tlio forerunner of the highest penalty of the law, did not entirely give way, but became quite melancholy. He was conveyed from tho court-room to his cell,to await the passing of sentence. THE COURTS. Ql'aktkk Sessions —Judge Peirco Yesterday the case of John Bassler, charged with assault aud battery with Intent to kill Mrs. Gamble, was commenced, and continued this morning. Mrs. Gamble resides at 121!) Fitzwater street, and she testified that, on the 4th of July last, she was in her store, seven or eight feet insido the door, when she was shot. The first intimation sho had of her injury was feeling the pain in hor loft leg, and, upon looking around, she saw the accused standing on the opposite side of tho street, With a gun pointing at her door. The injury was! so severe, that Mrs. Gamble had to sufl'er the ampu tation of her left leg. Dr. Neil testified that he was called in to Mrs. Gamble. He found the bone of the leit leg Tho leg was amputated at the knee joint the next morning. The officer who arrested the accused testified . that ho refused to produce his gun, but the gun was subsequently fonnd in the basement ofhis house, opposite to Mr. Gamble's. Tho accused re sisted tho officer when arrested. Mr. Gamble, the husband of Mrs. Gamble, tes tified that on the morning of the 4th of July, a youug man in Mr. fiassler's employ was dis charging a gun from Mr. Basslor’a cellur, and frightening the females in the neighborhood. Mr Gamble went to him and remonstrated ■with him upon the impropriety of his conduct; Mr. Basßler was not there then, but Mr. Gamble saw him when ho did come home, and thought that ho looked at him angrily; in a fow minutes after ward his wife was snot. The defence denied any intention of injuring Mrs. Gamble. There was a dog in the neighbor hood which was constantly annoying Mr.Bassler, and on this morning had made an attack upon him, and then he determined to kill him. dbg was in the street, and without noticing that tho dogwas on a lino with Mrs. Gamble's jloor, ho shot. T'he workman in Mr. Basslor’s employ tes tified that he did not tell Mr. Bossier anything in regaixl to Mr. (iambic’s visit. The case is still on trial. F. L. EETHERSTON. mMsr. PRICE THREE CENTS. rACTS Atvn FANCIES. —Exclamatory. At church I sat within her pew—• On, pna’lil But thore I heard No pious woru— And saw alone her eyes of blue. I saw her bow her head so gracious — Ob, gracious! The choir sang, The organ rang, And seemeu to mi me building spacious. I conld not hear the gospel law. Oh, la! My future bride: . Was t|r my side, And of all else X thought—“Oh, Pshaw!” And so when pealed the organ thunder. . . T -Oh, thunder! I fixed my eyes In mute surprise on her whose beauty was a wonder. To me the maiden was most dear— Oh, dear! And she was mine Joy too divine For human words to picture here. Her love it seem’d a prayer to bless me— Oh, bless me! Before sho came My life was tame— My rarest joys could but oppress me. The service o'er we sought the shore- Oh, Pshaw! And there wc walked And sadly talked— . More sadly talked than e’er before. We strolled behind the tidc-mUl’s dam— oh, —r She jilted me, And now I see That woman’s love is all a sham. —Morphy is in Paris, out plays no chess. -Western New York has had Its first snow. aDdCr bCga “ bCr EHzahc,h Boston management in excnl P ation of of~the umt ry "p apers. reportCd ,nBane in 80me -ion no Henr^C’ow^r? minp t 0 th ° Unitcd Btatea A little boy in Bolton, England, was lately drowned man unbaked “batclAf bread. 7 „- i J ill > n K cattle on a railroad shows the etmi neer to be governed by a 1 ow-cow-motive w -Mr. Dolby’s report to Dickens will be’favora- .™2nJfiSk™ ““ b '"W“»e i» »«- —Mr. Cormlck broke his fist on the noseof Mr. Kauffman, in Chicago, last Thursday. —A Chicago policeman shot himself because his supper disagreed with him. oecause lowa GraßflhOPPCra Btopped a wßro'ad train in .? has the manage- Kansas f opera HouBe at . -It {a rumored that Mr. Greeley is about U» halr CUt ’ 111 ° rder t 0 protect Amnrl>Nm TT We deny, on authority, the report that HomoeGreeley haSbcen offered the Bedford Street -There is a man In Donega, Pa., without arms or legs. He writes, sows, and performs other labor with his mouth. £ gentleman from Kun6as undertook to eat a small clam without the shell off. He is now troubled with dyspepsia.' —Mr. Ferguson had his arm tom off by «nm» machinery in a Danville miff. It was a wooden arm, however. • —A farmer in Connecticut has sold his mowing machine because it cuts more hav than he can take care of. ’ —The Louisville Journal says that the “strains” of some singers are more perceptible to the sight than to the liearing. —Dr. Tyng’s new church in New York Is de ; scribed as resembling h river steamboat in gilding and gaudy ornamentation. —A kink in the coil of the stem line of an ex cursion steamer at Saudusky took off one leg from each of two young women. . —Mr. Beecher did not preach on Sunday,as was expected. He is still in the country twanging his slight catarrh.—iV. World. ” —General Mower; who has been down with yellow fever in New Orleans, is up again. Death couldn’t outmow that Mower. —Brigham Young’s agent in England urges his congregation to “leave that land of ignorance and superstition.” —Saxe gets one thousand dollars a year for his poems in the Now York Lethjer, and i 3 ex pected to contribute oae a week.' —“Want of remunerative patronage,” the dis ease of which the Bangor Times died, was super induced by over-exertion in the cause of Andrew Johnson. —Ferguson' has been heard to express tho opinion that if the Spanish insurrection should extend to Seville there will probably be a Seville war. —lt is confidently reported in diplomatic circles that Victor Hugo when asked if he could teU the origin of the Bonaparte family, replied, “of Cors-i-ean.” —Professor Faraday belonged to a sect colled Glassites, who profess very high Calvinism, and during the latter part of his life frequently preached in a Glassite ohajiel. - A woman in Indiana shot Herself from grief at disappointed love, and o man hung himself from distress about a law suit. The suits of neither were suitable to happiness. —When Jubal Early heard that] Lee had sur rendered he collapsed into a corner of his ambu lanco and meekly remarked, “Well, Gabriel, blow your horn.” *—A Wisconsin husband, after knocking his wife down and stamping upon her, picked her up tenderly und asked her forgiveness. We arc pleased to learn that he then proceeded to banf; himself. —Tho spirit of Wilkes Booth has in'brined a Brooklyn spiritualist thut he is having a good time in the other world with St. Paul and St. Peter, tho former of whom he knows very well. He complains that Mlchaol keeps him pretty closo in heaven—or whorovor ho is. —Thoro is a church in Madison, Maine, which it is said once caught fire high up on the wooden spire by a spark from another building. A by stander threw a snow-ball and hit the exact spot, thereby extinguishing tho Homes -Ex. That’S • what wo call stcep-le-ying. —Formerly when a man got drunk in James town, N. Y., he was compelled to dig out a stump from the town lot, and thus In a short time a beautiful common was made. It iB common here to make drunken men stir their stumps, but much success is on-common. " /-A fair young damsel in Lvcomiug county Pa., arranged to eiopo with’an enterprising youth. When she got to the bottom of the rope -ladder she fell into tho arms of her stern parent, who, meanwhile, had moved Alphonso to the station-house. _ —The following, from a paper published near the setting sun, is vory severe on tho East: “Johnny,"said a little three-year-old Bister, to an elder brother of six, “Johnny, why can’t we Me tho sun go back where it rises?” “Why, sis, you little goosey, because it would be ashamed to bo aeon going dawuewt."
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