GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI.—NO. 140. I'HK EVENING BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING (Sundays excepted), AT THE NEW HOEtETIN HTIfEDINO, 801 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, BY THE EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. pEdriUKToas. GIBSON PEACOCK, EKNKST C. WALLACE. B,l* FETHKKBTON. THOB. J. WILLIAMSON, ABPEU SOUDER, Jr., FRANCIS WELLS. . The BuiJkrriif hi eorved to aubacribcra In tho city at 18 eentj par week, payable to the carrlere, or $8 per annum. MAItItIEU. RROCKIE—HOWELL.—On the 18th lint., by the Rev. Alexander Rood, D. D.. Widlain BrockJe to Anna P, daughter of Joseph K. Howell.- DOUGLASS—»T A NBEKRY.—In Newark. N. J., Sept. I»th, by ReV. J. K. Burr, Mr. Wm. U. Doughuw to Ml.ih il. Elma Btanbcrry, daughterof .It. Sjanberry, K« k . : DIKD. ARitOTT.—Oh Wednesday, the 18th instant, Lizzie, youngeat daughter o the late James Arrott of this city. Funeral frbm her late residence, 16P7 Poplar street on .Saturday, tiraaiatlußt.. at 10 o’clock. ** BEECHER.—On the 18th instant, Paul (»., infant son of Saniucl V. and Elizabeth Beecher. aged 15 months Funeral on Saturday morning, 2Ut iuat., at 10 o’clock, from 41*9 Gw>rgo atreet. * jILUMNEK.—On the 17th lnnt, William Clyde, aon of John C, and the late'Helens, Blumner, aged 2 voars. Funeral on Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, from hi* grandfather’* residence, No. 540 North Fifth atreet. • BL*LKLKY.—On the evening of tin; 16th in-t., Lizzie F„ daughter of J. Henry and Adeline A. Bulkley. -The relative* and friend* arc affectionately Invited to attend the funeral service*, at the residence of her .parent*. No. 1204 Race (street, this (Thursday; three o’clock. „ „ . *. GLKIM.--At Tipton, Mouiterm county. Mo., Sept. IJth, IW$7. Fntilev M. Gh-.itn, aged 51 year*, second sou of the late (kdom-1 C. Gleitn. , .... . IRVING.--Near (Chester, on W ednesday. the 18th in*u, J. Washington living, kii of James and Christiana Irving, in tne 24th jearof his age. . • , .. . . Hi* n lath e* and friend* are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of hi* p ,rcnU, near Cheater, Delaware county, Pa., on Saturday, the 2‘at Irwt, at 2 o'clock, P. M. To proceed to Chester Rural Leme- the 18th inst. Ellen M'Calla, daughter of the late Andrew and Ellen M’Calla. . The relative* «ud friend* are rr*pect/ull> Invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 5i4 i me ntreex, on Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. J4r . „ ‘ SOLMS.-In Washington, D. C., Sept. LtU. Joseph I . Selma. Hospital Steward- U. S. Army, aged in year* and o im-utli**. •• v. - : M'uL-KNING MOI.'riSKLINLH. U ALL AVOOJ Vnru j-nxiu-d m»r:k and Whit<- !)«• Lmoc. jxl only t£>{ ceut- BESSON k SON. Monruiup Store, Wa Chestnut Ctreet. EVRK & LANDKLU FOURTH AND AKUII, AUb opentu* for Ifu* Full Trade of Irrft— M&nrot Sn4wb«. ordered eood. u . Popiiuf. HfW color*, and Rich 1 laid - . 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Suntce A; Co 10J •Jacob Higuel k Co liA> Weatcott A' ThompfOl) 25 ■f', H. Grant Id CuJi i 1? M K. T... & ’ WILLIAM L. JAMES.’ G.-ncra! Aft'ent I*. A: S. M. S. S. ('<>. NATATOWt’M AND PHYSICAL INSTITUTE, BROAD, below WALNUT streets. The SWIMMING DEPARTMENT will close SATUR* DA>>', the 21ft in«t. The last Ladies Claaa will meet at 10 A. M. on < hat day. THE INSTITUTION WILL RE-OPEN For. THK WINTER SEASON, OCTOBER 14th. The find etas;* of Young Ladies for Light Gymnastics at 3 I'. M. MONDAY, October 14th. „ jt The first chute for Boys for General Gymnastics at 4 I\ML TUESDAY, October 15th. , 7 For clae.-ee in Parlor Skating, Dancing, Arc., Ac., eo<f circular*. • ecUotrp m£ip. THE MENDELSSOHN MUSICAL SOCIETY 9W will commence it* regular Rehearsal* on MONDAY EYENINO.Sept.3O. 18d7. At their Halt, N. fc. corner of Eighteenth and Chestnut streets, and will give during the hiuimxi THREE SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS. Particular* at tlic biwiucw olliee of the Society, No. 1230 Chestnut street (Louie Meyer’a Music Store). Ofiicere for the corning year: ROBERT MORRIS, President. A. 11. DERIUCKSON. Vice President. JOHN E. MoC UJLLAY, Vice President. GEORGE KIMBALL, Secretary, JEAN LOUIS, Musical Director. 11. G. T HUNDER, Pianist A. It VANHUUNj Treasurer. JOHN THORNLFA. Chairman of Committee. HARRY I. STEWART, Librarian. sclB 2trj) mgr* PARDEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences THURSDAY, September Candidates for admission may be examined the day tiefore (September 11th), or on TUESDAY, July 30th, the <day before the Annual Commencement Exorcises. For drcnlara, apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. R. B. YOUNGMAN, Clerk of the Faculty. jySO-ttt Easton, Penn*., July. 1867. PHILADELPHIA. AND SDHTHEUN MAIL • m w Steamship Company, Office No. iil4 South Delaware ®vt*nuo, Philadelphia, Sept. 18,1867. * V 10 THS. 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Orders will receive prompt atteDtioa by mall or otherwise. auwirarps ’ am- t howabd hospital, nos. mm" AND 1630 Lombard Street Department— ‘Mudirai treatment and medlcinea furnished gratuitously to the I —Hotfbs, the old rascal, says an American girl loves with her eyes, an English girl with her arms, a French girl with her lips, and Italian and Spanish with all jthree. A Boston woman capitu lates in three months, a New York woman ih, two, and a New Orleans woman In" one; Oanshs partly climacteric and constitutional, and part® a few words from the old fofks in the back room, RASH STEPS. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] I have juflt learned Uio particulars of the burn ing of Titian's great picture,the “ l’eter Martyr.” It was on the nigh tof the 15th of August. The hour when a leader loses a victory, when a light-houeo is blotted from the chart, when a sun darkens in the heavens, is hut a blank hour for history, for navigation or astronomy. On that unlucky night' a patch of blackness took its place in the empy rean.among the highest stars. The blot is per manent. These sons of lightsome no u kn0w,..,. ... ■. The future Venice haS abeam gone, a color off the palette, a plume froth the Lion. Future Sir Joshuas have one text fewer for their discourses. Future Huskies one criterion less to steady them. Future Turners one graduation lost from the chromatic vernier. The young American of the future, stealing to the western shores with his silent reverence, his beautiful belief in tbe past bowing from shrine to shrine with bis eyes credu lous of miracle, tils heart like wax to the seal, and bis little fardel of commentaries and annota tions and authorities all ready to help him to remember, goes henceforth to one idol broken. In the lost century, when all wub precedence and goldstick, this was classed as the third pic ture.in existence, ranking after the “Ti ansflgura tion" and the “Communion of ,St. (Jerome.” They used to like that kind of enumeration. We of to-day have lost the propensity to call up the musters one behind the other t. he medalled. To be a masterpiece is always to be first. “Leur solennite, e’est leurensemble." My last, but not iny first, study of the “Peter Martyr," on the 11th May, I now recall with a 1:1ml of. awe. 1 remember the gondola. I re member tbe bald beggar who held, it to the step with a hook when we disembarked. I remember the old black bronze of the Con'/nUitre Colleoni frowning down from his horse in the Place be fore Santi Giovanni e Paolo. This church, oftener called by its nickname Xani-I'olo, is of Italian Gothic, severe for Venice, but still bright, and I recollect the sheets of,sunshine poured from its unstained .windows upon the crowd of doges, the Mort jjoti'iit, pruve and reverend ffiguon-V 1 ruling from their tombs all around its walls. The temple is a sort of Venetian PantheoD, a museum tilled with the principal ducal mausoleums. It is fortunate that the flames spared those venerable .sepulchres, which the Dukes went through so much agitation to win. The fir* was confined to a particular chapel,that of the Rosary; but unfor tunately the principal art-treasures of the Church were gathered temporarily into this alcove during the restoration of the interior. I recall the scaf folds hiding the walls, and the clamor ef the workmen molesting the' pSace of the dead com pany of mighty ones. And I remember gladly ! pushing through it all to a little asylum of peace and repose,~ln which I knew I should find the great master-work I had so often pored over at home by means ofwhatcver could be had iu the way of copy, engraving or photograph. Here was dropped the spark that conquered our great est Titian. The loth August is the great festival of the As sumption, when the Romanist world everywhere honors the apotheosis of the Mother of God. At Rome, in her own special cathedral, the Libe rian Basilica, or Great Saint Mary’s, the Pope attends to hear high-mass performed by the arch priest, who afterwards blesses the people from the balcony. In Paris, the Imperial FCh- coin ciding with the day, a celebration takes place unequalled throughout the year; the theatres all perform gratis, fireworks are shown, the Avenue of ilie Elvsees is a chain of lights which touch each other, every shop is closed, and the beggars are allowed to beg from dawn to midnight. On this high day, the masses were sung at F.uni /Wa, in Venice, notwithstanding its encumbered state, and the vespers were concluded, most im prudently, without any attention to extinguish ing Ihe lights. Oil lamps, and even the large tapers, were left burning at the altar at the closing of the church for the night. At five next morning a passer observed smoke i.-suitig from the chapel of the Rosary, and gave notice to the parish priest and wardens. Assis tance was only In time to prevent the firs from spreading to the interior of the church. From the chapel door-way the mortified Venetians could at first see their glory, their paragon, their unequaled Titiuu unharmed, shining aud beam ing as it had never shone before, and wrapping the color of the conflagration around its own shaft of heavenly and tffa'gel-pcbpled" splendor.'' But it was impossible to penetrate the flames,and directly after the canvas curled, blistering to a cinder. The famous “Peter'Martyr” from that" moment was a tradition, a legend, a fancy feed ing upon engravings and copies. Such was the bad work of this festival night. But was it simply the dumb agency of the festival fires that did it? These are grave and reasonable doubts, suggesting a degree of shameful Vandal-, ism that would contradict all our age, and which waß never believed to Unger even in Italy. Why did the fire, instead of spreading from the high altar, take place iu a side chapel? Why did it fasten here, sparing the combustible scatfolding in the aisles? Why was the alarm given when it was just possible to spare the church, but not the chapel? Why did the accident occur the day after the - meeting of the City CouncU? On the 14th, an assembly of the MunicipaUty had decided that the art-treasures of the church in question should be removed to the Fine Art Aca demy; this resolution was in connec tion with a plan ■ln operation ever since 1858, of removing from time to time the famous works of art from the custody of the churches, where they were deteriorating from smoke and gloom, to the exceUont light and pro tection of the Academy. The angry church has seen taken from her grasp, one by one, the old traditional ornaments that had been her pride and boast from the dark ages and renaissance. Everybody suffered, from the archbishop who lifted the wafer in front of the famous altar-piece, to the last progeny of the custode who got a half lira for drawing the curtain. In Venice, the con fiscation of church proporty implied in her annexation to the Italian crown has been fol lowed up by this additional Wow. An'infidel and excommunicated King having laid his hand on the monasteries, here was a proud, meddling city .stripping the cathedrals of the jewels. No doubt, whether guilty or not, the priest swung his' in cense In Zani-Polo on that Assumption-day with a raging heart, while they sung hosannas , to Saint Mary. How then |g*ame the fire ? ' Did a rat carry a light candle-end to some oily, priceless canvas? Did some ineffably sabred and Holiness PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1867. linger in bis robes till all were' gone, and then tire the superb carvings, weeping and cursing as he did so? Did one of those thoroughly worth less, cnrly young men who exhibited the Chapol for me in three or four dislocated languages, and wanted each of them money for telling what I knew before, strike some Infernal match across tbe pale face of the Martyr? No doubt there nil] be the amplest investigations to settle these ugly questions. The day has gone by, let us hope, when the oracular favors and confidences of the muse are to be spent ns weapons and pledges between state and state, or state and Church. If this deed has been voluntarily done, vengeance should be quick to follow and find. Xet the bravo.who stabbed a. picture in the. night, come up and suffer. But tlufltt will never bring ub our Titian again! i There is the end of the story. I may, how ever, fill my sheet with a notice of the objectß thus lost forever to the world of Ideas. The Titian was a largo, upright picture, con taining three principal figures of natural size, and a landscape unique in early art. It repre sented the death of Peter, a Dominican Saint of Verona. The martyr is seen overthrown in the foreground, a dark, herculean assassin stooping over him about to strike, and a second Domini can flying precipitately out of the picture, as it were, as he rushed forward. The painting was pre-eminently in the grand style, the very terror of the coward monk being epical,like the anguish of a demi-god. The grove in which the scene transpired partook of this lofty character, seem ing to be the gigantic growth of primeval forests, from the largeness and majesty of the trec-fonns; yet these trees, completely represented of natural dimensions within the limits of the picture, could not have been more than ten or twelve feel high. They iorm the most distinguished instance, at the dale, of landscape dramatically rendered living of\the greatest assistance in developing ihc terror of the story. They seemed to bend and toss with horror, like natural objects sud denly stricken with sense and detained as shud dering witnesses on thcsccne of an awful deed. Through their parted branches, in a storm of supernatural light, angels came down to receive the dying saint, meeting tbe last enraptured gaze of bis eyes. Such was the theme of this great work of art, which stood apart from the mass of Titian's sacred subjects, and showed how Shakes pearian he could be in the handling of an imagi native and legendary theme. His other large pictures have usually a more splendid array of colors, and my companion, whose art-judgment is far beyond my own, was at first inclined to be disappointed in the dark and monotonous tone of the world-ftunons canvas. To Titian, how ever, who revelled in the rainbow, this monotone was undoubtedly no weakness, but self-repres sion, analogous to that of Shakespeare In the Lucrcce.. This painting was hung, like an enormous shutter, to the wall faciDg the light. Behind it,of corresponding dimensions, was one of the largest works of bis master, Giovanni Bellini, a virgin enthroned, of almost equal dignity in the history of art, but not available for a popular description. Around the walls were ten marble reliefs of great delicacy, by Bonazzaand others,of the eighteenth century. Among the smaller pictures destroyed were Tintoretto’s “Virgin of the Rosary” and one of his most powerful crucifixions, together with (he “Sacred (Princely) League of 1570,” by his son, Domlnico., The best of these is thus des cribed by Henri Taine: “Still more vehement is a Crucifixion of Tin toret. Here everything stirs and turns over; the poetry of fight and shade fills the air with -Inning and sombre contrasts. A jet of yellowish lustre is thrown crosswise over the naked Christ, who seems a glorified corpse. Above him the heads of the holy women float in a river of re splendent air, and the form of the repentant ihief, savage and contorted, embraces the sky with its reddened muscles. In this tempest of troubled, intense day, it seems that the crosses waver, that the victims are about to throw them .-elves down : to complete the keen emotion and' grandiose turmoil, you see fin the foreground, across a luminous fume of vapor, a mass of corpses thrown up and reviving.” Wendell flumps and tlic United States Supreme Court, [From tbe Anti-Slavery Standard of this week.] Of all the instruments used by the South iu old times the Supreme Court was the mostevli-iuteu tioned and the most eflicient. The people have been bred in such servile reverence for its deci sions that whichever party got possession of that w eapon was almost sure to conquer. Its Judges, appointed for life and.ltngcring "on. the.bencti to extreme old age—as Sidney Smith said of bishops, “with Episcopal pertinacity”—have always repre sented the opinions of a former generation. This department of the government has always been the last to come into line with the nation as new eras have opened. The South never appealed to arms until it found that this usually "formidable weapon had, in 18(50, lout its power. The nation swung away from treason like Taney’s, and the ship of Stiite moved on “with upright keel.” Stung to madness, the South appealed to the bullet—unsuccessfully. The signs at Washington Indicate that Mr. Johnson means to try to find refuge under the old shelter. He plans evidently to strengthen him self by putting the army into the hands of his friends ns far ns possible, but only as a reserve force. The checkmate he intends to call on Con gress is to be, it would seem, some action of the judiciary declaring all the reconstruction legis lation unconstitutional. How dangerous and embarrassing a check thnt would be to the na tion’s progress every one familiar with the history of the anti-slavery movement will’fully appreci ate. Whether Mr. Johnson will succeed in ob taining such a decision no one knows. His coun sellors evidently count upon it; we fear with too good grounds for their trust. Every thoughtful man has anxiously watched that tribunal ever siuce-ISGI. Mr. Stevens early saw the danger in that quarter and was only de terred from a vigorous attempt to avert tho dan ger by the fact that the appointing power resting with Mr. Lincoln, it seemed impossible to secure any sufficient change, in the character of the bench. The action of most of the judges Who owo their appointment to Mr. Lincoln is evidence enough how unwise and dangerous it would have been to put It into his power to saddle us with any moro enemies, empowered to balk us as long as their lives lasted. Mr. Johnson’s main object is to confuse public opinion and divide the ranks of the Republican party. No more effectual means could be desired than a decision of the Supreme Court adverse to Congress. Round such a decision would rally all the timid, tired, weak-kneed, half-way, compro mising and dishonest elements which victory has lured into the • Republican ranks. Landlocked and hampered by such opposition, the recon struction movement would movo very slowly and fitfully forward—the youngest of us, in such circumstances, may reach old ago before it will be ended—in any trim senso of the word. What measures the Radical clement in Congress will adopt to meet such a contingency time will show. We entreat them to remember how much hangs on their action, The nation will support them in going, as Franklin Baidi"“to the extreme OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. TlicTlicoretical unci tbe Practical Pro. Ifruiiiniv-Tbe President Insulin tbe northern Governors-Tbe Diplo niatic Corps anti Everybody Dis gusted with tbe CercnionicM.'- The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald , a Copperhead sheet, thus details the insulting behavior of Mir. Johnson at the Antietam celebration: Washington, Bcpt. 18 The dedication of the National Cemetery at Antietam took place yes . terday. The invitations were V*'*' ' "‘V.— more, and.a limited number were .diao Xj tbe most distinguished persons at the Capital, j the President and his Cabinet and the Diplomatic Corpß. The special train from Washington started at half-past six A. M., reached the Relay House at eight o’clock, and met the tram from Baltimore, which contained those who had been invited from that city. After a considerable detention a large train was made up and proceeded onward. Keedysville was reached at twelve o'clock, where there was a large crowd awaiting our arrival. The party, perhaps two hundred in number, left the cars; but just at this moment a heavy shower came up. The carriages provided for the occasion were ali crowded together, and there seemed to bo no commander, no general director or manager. Some little time elapsed before order could be brought out of chaos, and then it was found that tbe carriages had all been filled by the crowd with out reference to cords of invitation. It was found necessary to turn ont some of the occupants to make room for the Diplomatic Corps, who had in tbe meantime, in common with the rest, become thoroughly drenched. It was arranged on tbe programme, which was very prettily gotten up, that everything was to be carried out in good order: but the truth is, the theoretical programme was one thing, the practical one another. Every one appeared to think that his existence depended on bis reaching the cemetery in the Miortest pos sible time. So badly arranged had everything been that.l noticed six invited guests in one back, one of them a foreign minister to the United States. ” • We reached the cemetery at two o’clock P. M. Here there had been erected a staging with suffi cient seats to accommodate two hundred people. The rain had ceased and the sun broke ont, send ing up from the ground a vapor which gave every one a steam bath. The seats were covered with wet white cloth, and Mm cloth \veli:‘pasted with yellow mud. The design was evidently to steam and bake ail who had dared, to accept a card of invitation. The snn pqpred into the three sides of the hollow sqtare, and the speaker was the only person whose head was covered. He only had an American flag over him, propped up by four sticks. The Masonic ceremonies of laying’ the corner-stone of the monument took place at a little distance from the speaker’s stand, and were witnessed by the President and Mr. McCulloch. Here, too, all appeared to be confusion; the programme was not carried out. The Grand Master was a half hour behind time, and kept everybody waiting. The ceremony was rudely hurried, and the few people who witnessed it returned to the stand to near the speeches. Ex-Governor Bradford was here introduced to deliver the oration. This was very long, very tedious,andfell rather heavy upon the assembly. The wish almost generally ex pressed had been that no oneshonld in any way allude to political affairs. It Was considered that the hour waa.too sacred, and that the partisan blood, already aroused to over-action, shonld not show itself in the centre of a cemetery wherein were to be seen in long rows the little mounds of earth which, louder than words, exclaimed “Here sleep our dead heroes.” The close of the ovation was, however, unmistakably political.. It was adroitly made to hinge upon the occasion, and closed.in a long appeal to the assembly to sup port the Constitution. The crowd in front of the stand now shouted loudly for Governor Geary. An attempt was made to continue the programme,but they would not listen to it—“ Geary. Geary, Geary,” was the cry, interspersed with a few faint calls for Presi dent Johnson. An attempt was made to read the poem which had been prepared for the occasion, but with the Ehontiug for Geary it was impos sible. Governor Geary was here obliged to take the stand. He quieted the cries by promising the assembly that so soon as the programme had been carried out “not only myself but several of the Governors here present will be glad to address you.” The poem was then read—a dull piece of composition. The author, very wisely, was not present. The poem finished, Mr. Johuson stepped immediately upon the stand. When he spoke of the “brave men on both sides who fell in the fierce struggle of battle” there was a low, deep murmur ran'through the crowd. —His speech closed by a strongly acctnted exclamation: “You shall have my last efforts in vindication of the flag of the republic and of the constitution of your fathers.” Scarcely had Sir. Johnson stepped aside when a benediction was pronounced in a liash, while the crowd were again shouting for Governor Geary. Geary took the stand and commenced speaking. The President, followed by his Cabinet, Immedi ately descended from- the platform and walked* out of the cemetery, leaving Governors Geary, Fenton aiid others behind. The hot blood rose* to- - Geary’sfaee-as—he warmly-opened his speech: “When yon come to Penn sylvania we let everybody speak. We want to hear thanks to Almighty God for his preserva tion and care of the country. ,We have no gag! We have no programmes for this purpose! We have no gag on our programmes!” The crowd was loud in its applause of this opening. It was evident that Governor Geary had taken the hur ried method of the closing of the ceremonies as a deep insult. From the manner in which it took place it was evidently intended as such; for it was already tacitly understood that several of the Governors would make a few remarks after the President had concluded his speech. Governor Fenton then followed in a few words, and the af fairclosed. Such has been the great Antietam celebration. Not a man there hut was heartily disgusted with the arrangements. The Diplomatic Corps, which were in very full attendance, were throughout the ceremony evidently wishing themselves at home. I have no doubt that any one of them would resign rather than go through the same ordeal again. None of our principal military men who fought at Antietam were on the ground. None of the great names which have conferred glory on the nation were there to do honor to the troops whoso courage and intelli gence gave them victory. Grant was at Wash ington, Sherman on the Plains, Burnside, whose tardy movements on the left gave us such hot work on the right at Antietam, was also absent. Never mind! the soldier who fell at Antietam had glory on the day that he fell. Enfant Pebuu. The following particulars in relation to the ad ditional bounty, of which so much has been said lately,are taken from official sources, and may be relied upon as being correct: From January Ist, 1867, up to the 16th of tho present month, thore have been received and recorded at the Pay master-Gonerars office 361,639 applications for additional bounty, of which 53,101 remain unre corded; but these, it Is said, will be recorded by tho middle of next month. AU applications received by the Pay master-General prior to April 1, 1867, will bavo been. referred and waiting evidence from the Second Auditor’s office by the Ist of Oc tober. Apjfficatlons for the additional bounty, in obedience to the requirements of the law, after having been examined and recorded In the Pay Department, have to be referred to. the Second Auqltor for tho -military history of the claiin anttij as It appears on the-muster rolls in that, office. The Second Auditor has furnished to the Pay Department such returns at the rate ,«f< from twelve thousand to fifteen 'thousand per verge of their constitutional power" for means to meet bucli an emergency. Sains populi suprema ltx - Wendell Piiiu.irs. THE ANTIETAM CELEBRATION. Tito Additional Bounty, [Washington Correspondence of tho N. Y. Timoe.l month; but seventy-six thousand applications are still in the Second Auditor’s office awaiting the proper evidence to secure their settlement by the Fay Department. The division of referred claims of the Pay Department, which is intrusted with the settlement of claims for this bounty, has paid (hem as rapidly as returns have been received from the Second Auditor's office. This division has since the Ist of January, 1867, rejected 7,846 applications, and settled the claims of 87,862 ap plicants. Its disbursements from the same date In the payment of these claims amount to $8,635,- 8(1-1. This labor has been accomplished at the cost to the Government, including expenses of every character, the pay of officers and clerks, rent of buildings, &c., of eighty-two. cents for each claim. ! THE YELLOW FEVER. Frightful Ravnucs of the Disease In Galveston—Tlie City Becoming Deci mated—Over Nine Hundred heaths— Deserted Streets—Closed Stores and General Gloom. Galveston, Sept. 9, 1807.—The yellow lever, which has been raging here since July 1. 1867 (viz.: to 24th July sporadically and epidemi cally), is decimating our city. Its victims are mostly tho unacclimnted, the intemperate, and the abandoned. The city resembles one vast hospital. The number of deaths to date since*"Commencement (24th Julv) reaches nine hundred, mostly Northern and West ern people, foreigners, and oliicers and employe's, civil and military, of the United States, bookkeepers and clerks, brought here to die by the hundred from the larger Northern, Western and- Eastern cities; members of Northern, Western and foreign iirmß, and business houses, one-third of which, some with large stocks oi goods, are now closed on ac count ot employers and employe's having been summoned by “Yellow Jack” to their long and narrow houses iu tbe graveyard. The Jews have suiiered most in proportion to their number, many of them succumbing to their noted dread oi death after taking tbe disease. This month, on .account of its sudden weather changes and equinoctial storms, wifi prove the most fatal, from the end of which, it will begin to abate until the first black frost in November and De cember kills the miasma aud rids us of our fear ful visitor. The type of disease is very malignant. , Several of our best physicians, among them Drs. Rowe, Taylor, Ac., of the United States army; Drs. Hanna and Gantt, of the Galveston Medical Col lege faculty, iell victims, and are in their graves. Others of the profession are now down with it The streets arc nearly deserted: business is at a ■ stand;* the city wears the aspect of a continuous Sabbath: gloom has settled upon the counte nances of many you meet: the churches are deserted; the firing of the United States armv and navy signal guns, the ringing of all bells and other noises have been stopped authoritatively during the epidemic.not to disturb the fever-sick, whom we count by thousands and in every house. Nurses and physicians are worn out and scarce. The suffering is very great, and much of it re mains untold—only known to Him who scourges us In His wrath. First Stages of Hie Fever in New Or leans—more Casestlian in 1853-Great Nortnern Population in Need of Suc cor—Tlte Howard Association. New Orleans, Sept. 10, 1867 We have the yellow fever among us.' As yet it is of a mild type; a few days Bince it was proclaimed epi demic; since then it has increased rapidly, until the mortality is over fifty dally. Those capable of judging estimate the number of cases In the city at more than we ever had during the fearful epidemic of 1853, yet its miidlorm makes our mortality list, so far, com paratively low. But with the great mass of unacclimated material in onr midst, we are threatened in thV.next six days with a fearful scourge. Good nursing is the only thing that successfully combats the disease, and, with our city full of strangers, both, Northerners and foreigners, they have only the good Samaritans to look to in case of sickness. The Howard Association devote their whole time to nursing the unfriended, and in giving Christian burial to the stranger. This association depends on those so disposed for means to carry out their mission. They have commenced with out a cent, and although the New Orleans mer chants have donated liberally, the magnitude of their field of labor must soon exhaust their re sources here; and unless assistance comes from abroad we may have “the dead to bury the dead,” The residents of New Orleans are not the omes who need this help. It is the large Northern population recently settled here, and strangers who have drifted within our midst. These have only the Howard Association and sister charita ble organizations to look to r aud they do what none others can do so well—the experienced nursiug'night and day so essential in this fever. It is to be hoped that early and prompt action wifi be taken by the charitably disposed to strengthen the hands of the Howards and other friendly associations here with the money that is requisite for medicines, ice and other necessaries for the sick. They make no discrimination in giving their succor. Let our friends in the North do likewise in this terrible emergency. , FROM NEW FORK. New York, Sept. 19.— Miehaol Kearney, a boiler-maker by occupation, wus yesterday ar rested by Constable Lyman, and arraigned on a chiifgt! Of having a guilty knowledge ot the recent attempt to murder Thomas Lawler. The evi dence against the prisoner was not of a positive character, but the Justice deemed it sufficient to hold him. He was therefore committed to the cells, at Astoria, last evening, iu default of $l,OOO bail. It is believed that a conspiracy had-been entered into to assassinate Lawler, hi conse quence of an old feud which existed between him aud some of his neighbors in regard to the pos session of some real estate. ' f Mr. Wall, the dramatic agent who was held in $6OO bail on Monday last, denies that he evor “induced any artist to leave Nlblo’s Garden; or elsewhere.” Of course ho has aud claims the right to treat with an artist whose engagement has ■ expired. The complaiut upon which the arrest waß effected was made by Jacob A. Zim merman, the treasurer of Niblo’s Garden, no dif ficulty whatever having occurred between the deponent and Mr. Palmer. The distillery of Samuel Bohem, of Hunter's Point, one of the largest establishments In the United Stateß, and the rectifying establishment of John Devlin, in Concord street, wero seized yesterday by Internal Revenue officers on charges of violating the law. The examination in the case of Cornelius Van Syse, Postmuster at Syoesct, L. L, charged with embezzling letters from the mail, was commenced yesterduy and adjourned to Oct. 1. The Now York Academy of Medicine met Inst evening, adopted resolutions in favor of extend ing speedy relief to the sufferers at the South, and complimenting the United States army sur geons on their devotion to duty at the places where tho epidemic is rudng, aud appointed a committee to take uctiv£.nicuf uree for sending aid to the nlllicted. r „ At a meeting of the lire Commissioners yes terday, Mr. Wilson ofiered a resolution, which was a’dopted, that the Committee on Discipline be directed to furnish libraries for the. use of the members of this Department, and to take ail means practicable to improve the moral toue and increase tlie intelligence of the Department. The attendance at the Hoboken races yester day showed this meeting to be in an evident state of collapso, as there were not throe hundred persons present. As on the previous day, Col. McDaniels won both events to-day. The hurdle raco did not fill. Black Slave won the selling stakes, beatlDg Susie M. second, St. Patrick third, and Oakland, in 2.44 V. The two-mfie heat race was won wlth easo by Red Dick, beating his only opponent, Tycoon, in 3.49)4, 3-P0&- ■ “I am afraid, sir, you are in a settled melan choly.” !‘No, madam, my melaucholy won't settle; Ithas too much grounds." f f. I. EETHERSTON. Palilishw, PRICE THREE CENTS. FACTS AlVn fitVciEg, —Murdoch is playing in Cincinnati. —Harps arc used in London churches. ,„.~? anta A “ na > lt “ Roughs,will csoapswitbbl* life, but lose his property. —"Bewarc-of divers, and strange doctrines” was the test of an anti-immcrsionlst preacher. ' -Fifty-five government employe's have die* ol yellow fever in New Orleans. . —Lord and Lady FitzwiUiam please their Irish tenants by visiting - their estates oirce*a year. -% he Quakers in England number 13,78 ff. ihe Quakeresses have 838 majority. . ; —Mrs. Lander ia drawing great houses ix& boston. "4 Mr - Stearns, committed suicide in MlnnW sota because he was afraid of being mwrdbred. —There are fifty-ebs Irish officers in tiloAmerf can navy. —The English Reformers will demand! vote by ballot next season. * —The London mint coined over thirty-five tail lion pieces last year. * —Juarez wants to model the Mexican Govern ment upon that of the United States. -A child in Fall River fell into a kettle of to matoes, spoiled the dish, and scalded itself to ceath. —The name of the representative of the Penob scot Indians in the next Maine Legislature ia Sockabesm Swassian. He will give the cleric some trouble if the yeas and nays are called often. —When Mr. Bancroft was presented to the Prussian King, he alluded to the fact that it was Goethe's birthday, which the King had forgot ten. ° —A grave friend of ours tells ns that he and his wife always go to bed quarrelling. “And yet,” said be, “with all our differences, we never fall out.” —There is an island in Niagara river where peaches are a certain crop, because the cold is neveflntense. The rapid flow of the river keops it from freezing, and the atmosphere is tempered. —The; Prince of Wales, who is with his wife at Wiesbaden, is lounging, chatting, gossiping and gambling, like other fast young Benedicts. He is well and enjoys himself. —M. Sore), a Frenchman, has Invented an elas tic building stone which he also mokes into- bil liard balls. If it is so elastic we suppose a build ing composed of this material would “settle” under a heavy snow-storm. —“Arthur Sketchloy" is a nmnde plume. The gentleman-who employs it is really named Rose. Ho is a rose by another name, and ids humor is of the fifteen pounds to the square-inch order. It is heavy. t —Miss Sewell, author of “Amy Herbert,” has just translated a collection of French. 6toriea and reviews, which contains four papers by M. Henri Taine on Pob«. Tennyson, Thackeray, and upon England and France. —A tender-hearted father, swearing the peace against his three sons thus concluded: “The only one of my children who shows me any real Altai affection is my youngest son lehabod, for he never strikes me when I'm down." —A statistician estimates that every married couple miiy calculate upon 4,101,301 descendants in about five hundred years. Let young people pause and reflect upon the dreadful consequences of matrimony. —An individual writes to the Independent: “If Andrew Johnson makes an attempt at war against the Republic, let him be tried by a court martial, and shot by twelve soldiers, in a hoffow sijnare.” Rough treatment of a “penniless boy.” —Mrs. Boetig, of Cincinnati, has hadacraving for some'months to visit the Paris Exposition. She disappeared with her son, a child, last months I and has just been heard from on the way across the Ocean. —Mr. Moses Beach of the Sun has loft the Don-' can-Mcditerrunean party and is on hla way home independent of it. The excursionists were greatly disgusted that Miss Maggie Mitchell did not go with them as she expected to do. 1 —Mr. J. A. Fronde, the historian, has returned to England from Spain, bringing with him a large amount of material for the future volumes of ms History of England, the result of his researches among the Spanish Inquisition and Government. —What have the women to say to this: “Women were born, so fate declares, To smooth our linen and our cares; And ’tis but just, for by my troth. They’re very apt to rutile both.” —An ÜBher flt an English school, seeing one of the boys with a thick lump in one of ids cheekS,' asked “Quid est hoc?” To which the lad, spat tering out a largo piece of chewing tobacco, re plied, “Hoc est quid," for which repartee the master forgave him. —lnquisitive little Miss—“Ma, where do poor people go when they die ?” Aristocratic Ma— “To heaven, I hope, my dear, the greater por tion of them.” Inquisitive little Miss—“To heaven, ma! Why where do they get their money froth to pay for the pews ?” —To learn to read the following so as to make good sense is the mystery: 1 thee rend see that me, Love is up will I’ll have But that and you have you’ll One and down and you if -Ex-Admiral Semmes has been going back ward so long that his ideas of things generally are getting rather mixed. He says In a late number of ills paper: “We regard the impeachment as highly probable, unless the Fall elections put ahi iute on the unruly rump." Bit perhaps it is too much alter ail to expect a soi faiingmun to know much about the use of a bridle.—A r . Y. Tribune. The Milwaukee Keics tells of a “drummer” in La Crosse, who was trying to sell goods. The merchant with whom he was laboring not ap proving of his prices, suggested that he could do better m another city, which he named. The trav eling man, becoming offended, replied: “I won’t say you lie, but I think voudo.” In. one second the astonished drummer found himself outside the store, with the excited merchant yelling at him, “I won’t say I have glvon you a black eye, but I think I have.” —A candidate for deacon’s orders in England, having been found scarcely qualified, was re quested by the bishop to familiarizo himsolf with Butler's Analogy. Ho promised to do so. As ho was departing, the bishop, wishing to call th#f Analogy to his mind, called out:—“Good by, Sir. ; don’t forget the Butler!” “Oh, yes, my lord,” replied Mr. , “I’ve just given him five shillings!” and, before the astonisßod prolate could offer any explanation, the omnibus had driven off. —England has a Daniel Pratt who colls hlmselC “Poet Close.” Ho has recently published a second volume, the characterof whichinay bo judged by the following excerpt: ** ‘Move on! niovo on!’ tho policeman cries, ‘Such as you must not sit down here:’ ‘Aye I’ll move on,’ quoth the poet, with a frown; •And I’ll move you, too, never fear! I’ll mako England ring with-this shameful thing, Un'il you’re a bye-word for all, No one insults poet Close and escapes scot free, He’ll make you sing very'small!’ His tcetb the poet eranchcd and in passion fairly danced." —A letter written to his mother by a little boy who Is spending his vacation on the Penobscot buy: “ Dear Mother —l am having a splendid time. Laßt Friday we went out after, hone mackerel. We got near to one, when Joe threw the harpoon at him. I struck him near the -tail, and off no started, dragging the boat after him. Man never in vented anything that could go as fast as we went them We sodn got him near the bow of the boat. We then killbd him with a lance. He was nine feet long and five round. , I had sny panta washed for six cents when I got read my Bible every night before l gqws%dpM& every morning when I gel np. , . ' , -dP,• ‘‘Your affectionate eon, u, p, w.“
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