GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXI.—NO. 140.
I'HK EVENING BULLETIN
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. The BuiJkrriif hi eorved to aubacribcra In tho city at 18
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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 . „
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Selma. Hospital Steward- U. S. Army, aged in year* and o
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GEORGE KIMBALL, Secretary,
JEAN LOUIS, Musical Director.
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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.“