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The practical result of all that has been said and done,as far as France Is concerned, Gan remains briefly and sternly summed up in the fatal and decisive "never, never, never," of Messrs. Thiers and Rouher—in those "indelible," words as M. Berryer called them, by which the French Chamber put an end to all hope of compromise between itself and the Italian people. How completely the inevitable consequence of such language has been realized, I .need only ask you to turn your eyes to the re sponsive utterances of the Florentine Perlis.- ment,in order to feel fully convinced. There the sentiment, at least. if not yet the vote, of "no safe existence or Security for Itatly without •Rome," has been re-enunciated in every form, and by every party. The Italians have shown themselves already to be a patient,firm and long esduring people; and if they do but continue to maintain their character in these respects, they can hardly fail in the end to obtain their object. For what is thcposition In which they are now placed, or rather that in which they have placed their opponent l• For themselves they have nothing to do but to observe a strictly negative attitude, tacitly regard the ,Convention as a piece of waste paper,„ enter into no new and expensive engagements to defend the Papal territory, and make that task as bui densome and unpleasant as possible to those who have undertaken it. The efforts of the Italian government should be wholly confined to getting their finances into order, and making the army efficacious in point of discipline and equipment, rather than in mere numbers. Italy nerd neither ruin herself nor fall to pieces while to erne:eyed, and her only real want is that of efficient statesmen to carry out this peacefu and expectant policy. Never was the want of a thoroughly leading mind to a country more strikingly displayed than at this moment in Italy. I mean, the want at -one of those higher intelligences, which, like Cavour'a.. should subject all . parties to is a) by the development of a great national policy. However, there is still a large amount of fair ability amongst the existing public men of Italy; and that unanimity of support which no our of the is perhaps capable of commanding for . hiee.cles will be in a great measure brought about by the unanimity of tbe national antagonism to France, end of the national • aspirations toward the gnat object of contention. Italy has only to Oh.? up her position on this national basis and to bide her time. France, on the contrary, has t9ken up a position which is radically wrong. Bherecommenced an occupation . which )1. - 1- owe clioFen ruler not long since pronounced to be insupportable in its local circumstances, " and in flagrant contradiction with all her own principLs of piiblic right. And if the position of France Waf; insupportable at 'tom^ when she could threaten any moment to retire, what le it likely to be when the reply to any such threats and to all such remon stnincer sE, the was formerly in the habit of adds csr.iug to the Roman Curia against any of its roc fl9gitions preccedings will now probably be that else had better hold her tongue, and confine buself to that "protection" which she has now pirdged hei'self should "never" be wanting,! It i impmr:lile to say, under such circumstances, 'N'thtit may or ma - s , or may not he done at Rome, nor %that FrenAi bayonets may not ,he called upon to "protect. - In short, the 'Emperor will Line.elf indefinitely bound to a situation, vniede much w, , 1 e than it was before, from which Inc had just r„olicited all Europe to come forward and rchcve him. But there can be no hope from that euarter now. The evening indent, tells us that "tire negotiations for the Confen ace are still followed up;" but every one it aware that such language is only 'held for appearance sake, - and to prevent the Opposition from saying that the policy pursued is one upon which all Europe has turned its back. - It is only fiir, howeyer, to add that the policy cack no . longer be 'charged' personally upon the Rape:tor. It has ben distinctly assumed by the imperialist majority and by the legitimist and Clerical parties•comblned; and combatted only by • the email and ins:gmileant minority by which really democratic France is ;now represented in gib Assembly. • A. Otirlous Incident. connected with local dr . • cumetammsA took place In the French Chamber dtitizi the late debates. A Vicomte de Kervtiguer, rat4tAslt legitimist and upholder of the divine mightOf kings+, chute to Make alnrious onslaught w h i st the - liberty of the press in general and against the French press hi particular. To sup kort, tda views and doctrines; he began to,read , and, to one's amazement, was encouraged by the Chamber and suffered by the President— to read a long letter from Ber lin, published iu a trumpery clerical journal called TA /7nonee (under which commer cial title it cloaks its reactionary character), and which attributed the most monstrous venality to the entire French press. According to this pre cious authority nearly all the secret service money of Prussia came into the pockets of the "live great Liberal journals of Paris." Not only did M. de Kerveguer declare, on • such grounds, that a million and a half of Prussian money had been thus accepted; but he specified,in a way not to be mistaken, the particular' journals and \ the precise sum paid for corruption to each journal. Thus. the Sihde got 600,000 francs, the Jour nal des Dawes 000,000 francs, and the Opinion Nationale 150,000 franes,frorn M. do Bismarck,for supporting his policy against France. Messrs. Ilavin and Gueroult, of the Sick, were both sit ting in the Chamber, of which they are members, and many writers in the Mbats were also pre • sent, so that nothing could well be more insult ing than such statements, made in their faces on such authority. A tremendous scene of confu sion occurred; and even M. Berryer rose to pro test against the utterance of calumnies so totally unsupported. The next day a letter appeared from the two editors of the Si; , ele, challenging M. de Kervflguer (not to fight)but to appear before a tribunal of honor, composed of the President of the Chamber, and two members to be named by . either party,.to enter upon the minutest investigAion into the above charges. This appeal has been accepted, and Messrs. • Jules Favre and Marin have been named by the Sleek. Some time ago the Paris correspondent of the London Daily New imprudently allowed himself to repeat this story about the Dibats. But the accusation was Immediately taken tip, and the Dail News summoned before the law courts of England, where the defamation (con trary to what is the case iu France), might have' been proved, if proof existed. But none such • being forthcoming,the Daily Neo• was compelled to. apologizefor the imprudence of its corres pondent, and admit the inaccuracy of his state ment. But it is really too bad that journals of the very highest character and standing should be thus calumniated on really untenable grounds. Skating JackAt &Wino JacketB, 'kating Jaekete. Skating JacketB; Boys' Suits, 800 , Suits, Boo' Suits, 800 , Suits, [From tho New York Journal of Commerott.l nane's Open Polar Sea. Further evidence has been received through./ Captain R. Wells, of the steam-whaler Arctic, corroborating the in telligence„d rat given by Kane, of the existence of an open 'polar sea. Morton, who accompanied Kane's expedition, reached ,the extreme northern part of Humboldt's Glacier, on the eastern side of Smith Sound; and reported that he saw open water, ruined by "white caps." Subsequently, it will be remembered, Hayes, from the opposite side of Smith Sound, saw large fields of •`rotten ice," and found an abundance of deer and other animals, the ship being sup plied with fresh provisions from this source Miring his sojourn in that hyperborean region. We copy from a private letter, received by fleUry Grinnell, Esq., of this city, as follows : nEroar or CAPTAIN RICHARD WC1.1.,z 7 Or STEAM- Ancnc, nuNDEE. del6.26t§ "Passed Conical Island June 18th, 1867, there being so much ice, .and made fast, for a short time, to the land-ice off Petower Oacier, where we rode out a gals of wind from S. S. W. by corn- Pass; then we steamed close along the land, there being no land floe. Passing Cape Atholl within two ship's lengths; two natives came on board. Then got into open water, passing between rocks Dalrymple ' anti Arrabella ; then steamed to the westward, • but found the ice impenetrable: - -,Carey Island in sight. Took the ice edge, which led us once more back to, land. Went ashore at Cape Parry and saw open water to the north off Halkreyt Island. Made fast to land ice in Whale Sound, and had seven natives on board from Netelik. Next day steamed past Halkreyt .Island... Within a quarter of a mile of it got into open water and steered west (true. No ice to he seen from the masthead to the north. Oft Smith Sound and Talbot and Codogan inlets found very heavy! ice, the pack jammed tight upon it and impenetrable. To the southward made fast to this west land floe,_ and saw numerous white whales, bears, seals, unicorns and witlFus, then sailed north in search offish,the land in writ high and bold on both sides. Continued north until we opened out Smith Sound, Humboldt glacier being in sight through the glass from the mast-head. When we backed to come to the southward there was no indication of ice to the southward. Sky clear and watery, and only a, few small streams of light ice to be seen. We were Then, to the best of my belief (no observation having been taken), about 79 degrees north. Stood tothe southward to attempt a passdge, to Pond's Bay, and was for several days dodging about in this north water. A heavy breeze occurred from the north, which raised a consider able sea, so hertyy that we were compelled to twist our boats close 'Up, and I believe. that, had we not been upon a whaling voyage, we should have met with no difficulty in attaining to almost any extreme northern latitude. This report has been declared by me, and to it I append my signature this twenty-fifth day of November,lB67. "At the time we were moored off Peotowak glacier the crew went on shore to a rookery of roaelieS and saw several deer, white hares and foxes: were within twenty yards of some deer, they were so tame. In passing Cape Atholl with the ship I saw eight reindeer from the masthead, and a cluster of white hares and numerous foxes were seen daily upon the ice. There was a land doe north of Peetowak glacier, it having decayed away. North Star Bay was clear of ice. The ice between Cape Athod and Wolstenholm. Island rotten and very much de cayed, the ship. steaming easily through rotten lines. The ice upon the cast side, excepting, in Whale Sound, appeared to have decayed away and parted from the land as far as the lass would carry, and would oiler no impedimeialo the progress of any steam whaler. "IllettAtto "On board steamship Arctic, Dundee."' Prince Salm-Saint on the Treason of Lopez. I Vienna.( Dec. le) Correspondence London Telegrnith.) It will'be remembered that the archtraitor Mi chael Lopez published, shortly after the execu tion of Maximilian, an address "To my fel low-citizeifs and the world," in which he defended his conduct during the capture of Queretaro, and exculpated himself from the charge of treason brought against him. Prince Salm- Balm, Maximilian's trusted friend and faithful comrade, has replied to the address in question; and, as it is highly desirable that the public mind should be Made up for good and all relative to the villainy of Lopez, I hasten to transmit you a translation of the most important paragraphs of the gallant Prince's declaration, which would pro bably prove Lopez's death warrant did that infa mous ruffian live in any other country than de graded Mexico. "October 22—In Prison.—ln the documents which you have addressed to your countrymen, to France. and to the entire world, you appeal to me as your chief witness that Queretaro did not fall through treachery, and Slassert that your de claration will be characterized by absolute truth fulness. • Although, as you well know, I have been for more than five Months in captivity, my scare of right does not permit me to be silent any longer, and, responding to your appeal. I will prove to you that your declaration Is character ized by absolute mendacity. "Firstly. I invoke the reply of my brethren in arms tin Morella), entitled 'Refutation of Mich. Lopez's published pamphlet upon the capture of Queretaro, 15th May. 1867, by the imprisoned staff officers of the Imperial army in Morelia,' and declare that the same Is entirely faithful to truth, and represents exactly my opinions. Before the world at " large you as sert that Queretaro was captured by force of arms: that the Emperor had ordered you dtritig WO fatal night (14th-15th May) to treat w ith the enemy; aim the army was utterly de moralized. no sally was further possible, and that you can, challenge, before your fellow-citi zens and the whole world, any man who will aver that Queretaro fell through treason, or who" will dare to contradict Your assertions. "1 declare to you before the whole world, that Queretaro fell through treachery, and through treachery alone: and that you are the traitor,and that your hands are stained with the blood of your former sovereign and benefactor! "It is false that the Emperor ordered you,to treat with the enemy. • "Why, if you had been ordered on that fatal night to the enemy's lines, did you rettirn'thence at two o'clock, with au officer of :high rani; (whom you know well), and conduct that officer o f the czettty'li forces into the,Cruz ltsell;—into THE DAILY EVENING 13IILLETIN.--THILADELPHIA, SATURDA V, DECEMBER 28, 1867.-TRIPLE THE LATE ffl A.X I 1111 IL lAN. or's headqunrters—into our strong- the Empe hold? "Why did you, in absolute contradiction of the Emperor's orders, and, without my . knowledge, command the Body\Guard and the Hungarian squadron to unsaddle when r had myself con veyed to them the Emperor's commands that they should keep saddled up all night? "Why was every place in the Cruz, even to the most outerwards "Imola, entirely stripped of troops by your orders? "Why were the eight cannon planted on the Plaza de la Cruz turned round ,with their muz zles towards the town? "Why, when the enemy approached, was the rii-pounder-. which Stood in the battery, left of the Cruz, deprived of its gunners andupset? "Why did you, at two o'clock, lead the• enemy's general, who was dressed in mufti, and carried a small revolver in his pocket., round ow' works for his information and gui 7 dance? "Why did you, at four o'clock, againleave our lines in the company of the same general, and return in a quarter of an hour at the head of two battalions of the enemy, leading them in person into the innermost court of the Cruz, where you were received by your accomplice, Lieutenant- Colonel Tablouski, and greeted by that worthy? "How shall it be explained that you, a priso ner. then went yourself to the Emperor, in order to eomitunieitte this circumstance to him, and that thereupon you came alone into my room, without a guard of the enemy, and exclaimed, 'Quick, save the Emneror's . life; the enemy is already in the Cruz ?" "How shall it be explained that you, at the head of the enemy's battaliOn Nuevo Leon; . or dered the Hussars under Captain Pawlowski and Lieutenant Kalig to be disarmed and dis mounted. "How can you justify the fact that you, the 'prieoner Lopez, took prisoners officers of our army; and.denotineed many other officers next day? "Why, after your capture, did the superior Liberal officers stigmatise you as "The Traitor ?" "Why were you, the prisoner Lopez, always free ?" Prince Salm-Salm goes on to interrogate Lopez why he betrayed his Emperor and.benefactor, anti replies to his own question by stating that the primary cause was revenge, because the Em peror had retained Lopez's already filled-out bre vet as . General, for the reason that a "bravo" had laid before his majesty a document proving that Lopez had been, under Santa Anna's presi dency, disgraced and turned out ofithe army by a general order as atraitor. More details on this subject, already known to the public, follow, and the Prince's declaration closes with these words: "You challenge to meet you, before the world at large, those who accuse you of treason. I accuse you of that crime, and, before the world at large. I accept your challenge. I have thorough confidence m the government, and hope that it will place no impediments in our way. 'qu a very few days I ledve this with several of my captive comrades for Oaxaca,our new destina tion. There you will find me, after the publica tion of this letter, ready for you, weapons in hand, prepared to answer to yow for what I have asserted. declare to you, however, that I will wage no palter War with you. FEms, Prince Salin-Salm. - " In Prison, KU:Coter do las Capuchinas, Quere taro, October 08137." I need scarcely add that the cowardly ruffian to whom this conclusive statement was addressed did not comply with the Prince.'sinvitation. . The above document settles, I think, at once and forever, the subject of Lopez's treason or non-treason. May he meet with his reward! EtM WIFE 111 U! DEE IN 11ALT Arreseand ColliebEd.oll of the Assassin. Maltimore American, Dec. Tali.] An atrocious murder occurred about 11 o'clock on Wedumlay morning, near the Baltimore Rail way Depot. A man mimed John 31eNamara,aged about forty years, and a laborer, went to his house apparently under the effects of liquor,and turned his three children, who •were scantily dressed. into the street. He then secured the principal entrance and commenced a terrible on s.laught upon his wife, who was of a delicate ConstitutiOM and aged about thirty five years. He pulled her violently out of bed and dealt her many severe blows about the head with his lists. He then s 'iced a -boot jack" and gave her a violent blow on the head. Haying accomplished his purpose, he opened the door and let the children in, at the same time telling the eldest, an intelligent • little one of about nine years, that he had given their mother a ten dollar note for the purpose of going to market and buying some provisions, and that she got drunk, fell down and cut her head. This the child stoutly denied, at least such was her evidence given before the jury of inquest. The woman sur vived about three hours, when death terminated lier sufferings. In the meantime the man left the house and proceeded as far as the Washing ton factory, about three miles distant. Ito was sagaciously tracked by policeman Mclntosh, who took him to the Western Police Station. After au examination by Justice Bride the ac cused was Committed to jail to await the action of the authorities of Baltimore county, where the tragedy was enacted. He acknowledged to the Justice that he had beat his wife to death, that his object in doing so was to stop her from drinking whisky, and that he was fully aware of and willing to abide the consequence. He has three children, a boy and two girls. During yes terday. Dr. Greentree, Coroner, held an inquest on the body, when the following verdict was rendered: "We, the jury, find that nrs. McNa mara came to her death from blows inflicted by the hands of John McNamara, her husband." Murder in Wstskiataton. 0. C. [From the National Intelllgencer, Dec. 27.1 On Wednesday night, about 9 o'clock, as three men, named John Tongman, S. McHenry and David Elwood. were passing around the corner of L street north and Connecticut avenue, they met a colored man . and woman; and it is stated that Tongman unintentionally jostled the colored man, who instantly dreW a revolver- and tired at him -tlw -ball entering the-left-breast below the nipple. and, passing in the region of the heart. penetrated through the body. The wounded man fell, and in the contusion the assassin made his escape, the col ored man running in one direction and the wo man in another. Officers Rossiter and Taylor were neer at hand, and gained all the facts they could, and went in search of the perpetrator of the deed. Tongman was taken into the house of Mr. William Luney, near by, and Dr. W. J. Craiggen was summoned. He found the ball had passed out of his body, and, and as there was no signs of its having perforated the clothing, on searching them, it was discovered between his under-gar ments. The ball was evidently fired from a navy revolver, being both large and in its conical shape somewhat changed, having shattered a rib. Everything was done to relieve his sufferings, and yesterday morning he was removed to the Providence hospital, where he died at one o'clock. Tongman was about thirty-five years of age, a stonecutter by trade, and unmarried, and is said to have always been a quiet man. lie boarded at the house of Mrs. Davis, corner of Twelfth and F streets. The efforts of the police to discover the murderer had been unsuccessful up to a late hour last night: There are conflicting statements as to the cause of the attack, and the fact that the colored man wits armed with a weapon conveys the idea that he must he a desperate character. Fire in rittsbnrg.•Lody .00,000. [Pittmhurgli Commercial, `S7th.] On Wednesday morning, shortly after four o'clock, a lire broke out 'in the establishment of Mr. W. W: Wallace, corner of Plumand Cherry alleys, near Seventh street. The alarm was promptly conveyed to the Neptune En gine House, and a general alarm sounded. The steamers responded at once,- and although efforts were made to save the building, they proved unsuccessful. The building was ROCKRILL &WILSON, WINTER CLOTHING. MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING, PRICES THE LOWEST. VERY, VERY CHEAP. LpI4I.L «f-1 l; 2.1e1 of brick and frame,iron clad,and was very exten sive, being used as a machine shop, a foundry and a marble works. The department occupied as a foundry contained Patterns valued at $26.000, which were lost. She marble depart ment contained a large assortment of finished work, cemprising marble mantels, bureau and table tops. none of which were saved. In the machine shop the valuable machinery was com pletely ruined. The total loss will probably amount to fifty _thousand [Aollars, upon which there is an insurance of seven thousand five hundred dollars. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an in cendiary, and the police are in search of the sus pected party. Officer Buchanan, of•tho Mayor's police, was early on the ground, and succeeded in saving the' books and papers of the establish ment, and carried them to his residence for safe keeping. The fire spread so rapidly that it was found impossible to save any of • the other value bless. Col. Parker's Ancestry. A writer in-the Buffalo Comniercial says that the family of Col. Ely Parker, whose recent mar riage in Washington is the theme of gossip, had its, origin in the connection of a French officer who was stationed at Fort Du Quesne (now Erie) when that post was occupied by the French.with a Seneca woman. The offspring of this conne,cton was a daughter. On the withdrawal of the officer from that post he wanted to take the child with him; of course this was strenuously objected to by the Mother, and by the advice and through the assistance of her friends and family, she started with her child for the home of her parents, which was then on the Ohio river. The officer becoming aware of the flight of the mother with her child, sent a squad oT soldiers in pursuit. They followed with such vigor that the fear of being overtaken prompted the mother to com mit the child to an Indian runner, who, with the child bound to his back, took the direction through the unbroken forest to the principal town of the Senecas, then at Chen-is-se-o (Gene see River). .He arrived in safety with the child, where, in due time, it was joined by the mother. The child grew to be a very beautiful girl. dile was either the grandmother or great grand= mother of Col. Parker. The immediate ancestors of Col. Parker. his father and hither's brother, have long reAded on the Tonawanda Reserva tion. and the family is remarkable for their good looks, intelligence and superior acquire nts. In relation to the position of Col. Parker in respect to his own nation, it is proper to re mark that he is not related by blood to the Seneca Chief Red Jacket, but belonged to the same clan. Red Jacket (lid not belong h to the class of here ditary Chiefs. On his death his successor was appointed from his clan, in the person of Jimmy J - ohnson. On hi, decease Col. Parker was ap pointed or elected to fill his place, which office he now holds. The statements rather recklessly made in regard to Col. Parker's social relations are entirely erroneous and unjust,as the following extract of a letter from the Rev. Ashur Wright, long a missionary among the Senecas, dated December 2:1. 18a, will show: "I have been ac quainted with Col Parker from his boyhood, and, the singular persistency with which he had avoided every implication of matrimony among his own people, has won my unqualified admi ration. I have never heard so much as the slight est rumor among the Indians that any Indian woman had a claim upon him. His, fainily'.is a pure invention. We, atleast, among the Indians, know nothing of any other pater nity for it." From Washington. IWaMington Correepondenco N. Y. Ilerald nummts OF CABINET rICANCES. tumors of. Cabinet changes are sxain going the rounds. One reported this evening seems to come from a reliable source, though statements concerning the retirement of Cabinet officers and their probable successors have been so numerous, and most of them have had so little foundation in truth, that everything, said in regard to such movements is received Cowl !Kann The ruMor in question is that Secretary Mc- Culloch will send in his resignation in/a few days, and that the President will nominate as his suc cessor Charles Francis Adams, our present Min ister in Great Britain. and that McCulloch will then be nominated to fill the vacancy at the Court of St. James, caused by the elevation of Mr. Adams to the dignity of a constitutional ad visor of the President. e MARKET ct: ri 0 4s NINTH. 106. 411&CO BOYS' CLOTHING. Stock is large, fresh, well' fitting, good style, eractlY adapted to the medium and firet.clase wants of buyers. We have about Five Hundred SUITS, Which we-will close out at a great REDUCTION From pricce early in the season. 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OF HARDWARE.—TABLE CUTLERY, lT with ivrwy, rubber, and other handles arid plated blades;-Children's Knives and Forks, Pocket Krrivee, Wortenholm'e Scissors, in Fete, and Razors; Boxes and Cheete of Toole, from $1 to *3O ; Boyer Work Benches; Patent Tool Ilandles (30 miniature tools in thorn); Boys,' Ladies' and Gents' Ice and Parlor Skates; Clothes Wringers (they'll save their cost in clothing and time); Carpet Sweepers; belt-tacking Carpet Stretchers; Plated Spoons, Forks, and Nut Picks; Miniature Garden Tools; Spice and Cake Boxes: Tea Bolls and. Spring Call Bells; Nut Crackers; Tea Trays and Waiters; Patent Ash Sifters (pay for themselvesin the coal saved) •, Carved Walnut Brackets; Gentlemen's Blacking Stools, extra errong: Boys , Sleds; Retell Seeding Machined: Apple Parer, and Cherry Stoning Machines, and a general variety of useful Housekeeping Hardware, Cutlery Tools, at TRUMAN & SHAW, No. 835 (Eight Thirty-five) Market street, below Ninth. ESTATE OF CHARLES KEYSER, DECEASED.— Letters of Administration, d. J. n. C. t. on the Estate of CHARLES KEYSER, late Of . Gemantown, de. ceased, having been granted to the undersigned, all per. NOM indebted to said-estate will make payment, and theee haviug claims agamst the same will present the same to ENOCH TAYLOR, 297 N. Sixth street. de23-mebt ROCKHILL &WILSON, PRICES REDUCED. CLOTHING MADE TO ORDER. A GENERAL REDUCTION ON ILL OF OUR GOODS. 603 AN) 605 CHESTNUT STREET' TREASURY DEPARTMENT PENNSYLVANIA. HARRISBURG, Dee.lB, 1867. NOTICE. TO THE HOLDERS OF THE LOA NS. OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL VANIA, DUE JULY Ist 1868- THE F,OLLOWING LOANS, Due July Ist, 1808, WILL BE REDERNEF,D WITH INTEREST TO DATE OF PAYMENT ON PRESENTATION AT THE FARMERS' AND MECHANICS NATIONAL BANK PHILADELPHIA, Loan of March 27, 1839, duO July 1, 1868. Loan of July 19, 1839, due July 1, 1868... INTEREST ON THE ABOVE LOANS WILL CENSE ON THE lsr OF JULY, 1868. FRANCLS JORDAN, Sec' y of State. JOHN F. HA.RTRANFT, And. Gen. w. H. KEDLBLE, State Taco. Commissioners oX Sihking Fund• del9.3tdcm w f 4m 332 1 111,GrAINS IN LACE CURTAINS. CURTAIN MATERIALS. FURNITURE COVERINGS. WINDOW SHADES, AND UPHOLSTERY GOO Of tho Newest Fabrics. Designs. and Qualities. PIANO - AND TABLE COVER% And a full line of IHOUBE•FURNISHINO LINENS, QUILTS. ilso.; At tho Lowest Prices. C. M. STOUT & CO., 1.100 Chestnut Street. mvl•wfm lyru 628 HOOP SKIRTS, NO ea FALL STYLES. Plain and Trail Hoop Skirts, 2, 23,1, 34, 2%3( and S yards round, of every length and shape, for ladies, and a corm photo assortment of Misses' and Children's Skirts, from d to 46 springs, from 10 to 82 inches long. all of "OUR OWN MAKE," superior in style, finish and durability, and really *to cheapest and most satisfactory Hoop Skirts in the Americanmarket. Warranted in every respect. Skirts made to order, altered and repaired. CAUTION.—Owing to the unprecedented reputation Which "Our Own Make" of Skirts have attained, some dealers aro endeavoring to put a very inferior skirt upon their customers by representing them to be "Elopkins4 Own Make." Be not deceived. "Our Make" are stamped on each tab W. F. Hopkins, Manufacturer, No, 62$ street, hiladelphia," and also have the letter H woven in the tapes between each spring. Also, dealer in New York made Skirts, at very low prices, wholesale and retail. Send for catalogue of styles and prices, at No. 628 Arch street, Philada,, WM. T. HOPKINS. ROCKHILL &WILSON, READY-MLDE CLOTHING, To be closed out before the Holiday& Bargahis! Bargains! Bargains 603 AND 606 CHESTNUT STREETR In Endless Variety QPECALTIgtiI FJ LADIES' FINE FURS. NOW OPEN, - 5 The choicest selection we have over offered. confiding FINE RUSSIAN SABLE, MUBSON BAY SABLE, EASTERN AMERICAN SABLE; ROYAL ERMINE AND CHINCITILLA,^ FINE SIBERIAN hQUIREEL. ASTRACAN. GRAY. CRIMEAN; Besides many other varieties. REAL ASTRACAN CLOAKS, • ARCTIC SEAL CLOAKS, FINE SABLE CLOAKS. And other large Fur Garmemta. I. W. PROCTOR & CO., SPECIALTIES IN Ladies' Fine Cloaks, NOW OPEN. mg HANDSOMEST STOCK WE HAVE EVER EX. HIBITED, COMPRISING GARMENTS IN THE MOST DESMABLE MATEJIIALS, AND OF THE MOST FASHIONABLE COLORS, IN GREAT vAiurra AND WHICH WE WILL SELL AT POPULAR P]iloEl3. J. W. Proctor & Co., SPECIALTIES I.\ IN Rich Black Dress Silks. We have ice received a Care of FINE LYONS SILKS, Pnrchaeed under advantageous circumatancog, of trial ties varying from IR 10115 50, To which we respectfully ask the attention of Ladles. These goods will be sold for lees Una/ they would cost be import. J. W. Proctor & Co., go CITESTNUT Street. D RESS -MAKING DEPARTMENT. All the Favorite Colon in PLAIN CORDED POPLINS. REPS. And other Rich Fabrics for WALKING SUITS. Which we will tell by the yard, or make to order. LA DIES DRESSES, MADE IN TWENTY-FOLK HOLES. A large variety of LADIES' WALKING SLITS, At alltimea ready-made to put on. J. W. PROCTOR & CO., 920 Chestnut Street. oe2iLtn th ftri rp.s 41) • ,„ 0 AINTI3 , o HOLM LEHIGH COAL BEST QUALITIES SCHITYLKILL COAL, WM. COAL DEPOT, NINTH STREET BELOW GIELMD AVENUE. Branch °Medea'', Sixth & Spring Garden., del-fitu th tfrp ~~HYTE ALMERIA GRAPES 3 FINEST. QUALITY, 40 Cents per Pound. SIMON COLTON & CLARKE, S. W. cor. Broad and Walnut. n0`..,/tt rp§, G OLD'S IMPROVED PATENT LOW STEAM A 'D HOT WATER APPARATUS, • FOR WARMING AND VENTILATING WITH. PURM EXTERNAL AIR. UNION STEW AND WATER HEATING an JAMES P. WOOD CO., No. 41 S. FOURTH SOW. B. M. FELTWT.LL. Sup% naiad rp§ ELDER FLOWER SOAP, 11. 16. 85 C. R. TAYLOR; No. 641 North Ninth strcet ROCK ILL &WI4SON, BOYS' OVERCOATS. BOYS' CLOTHING of all kinder Selling Very Low. SOS ANC) 005 CHESTNUT STIVIEL OD CiTESTNUT Street. CHESTNUT Street. EPLNGLINES, VELOURS RUBBI ALTER'S Selling - Very Low:,, A NPANISH ANECDOTE. The following beautiful lines on Wilkie's eon ► 1/creation with a Geronomito friar in some Spanish convent on the picture of the Last Sup- Jier arc fro'n M oxon's Selections from Lord oughton's Poems: It was a holy usage to record, Upon each Refectory's side or end This last mysterious Supper of our Lord, That meanest appetites might upward tend. Within the Convent Palace of old Spain Rich with the gifts and monuments:of kings, Hung such a picture, said by some to reign, The sovereign glory of these wondrois things. A painter of far-fame in deep delight Dwelt On each beauty he so well discerned, While, in low tones,' a gray Geronomite This answer to his cestacy returned: "Stranger! I have received my daily meal In this good company now three score years, And thou, who'er thou art, can et hardly feel How time these lifeless images endears. `'Lifeless—ah, no! both Faith and Art have given That passing hour a life of endless rest, And every soul who loves the food of Heaven ' May to that table come a welcome guest. "Lifeless—ah, no! while in my heart are stored Sad memories of my brethren dead and gone, Familiar places vacant round our board, And still that silent Supper lasting on. "While I review my youth—what I was then— What I am now, and ye, beloved ones all: It seems as if these were the living men, And we the colored shadows on the wall" THE PHILADELPHIA . CONVENTION. Letter from Mfr. H.J. liaynaond. in Rea gas.' to the Iliatives:anoltActlon of the Philadelphia Convention. The Albany Evening Journal stated a few days since that the mistake of Mi. Henry J. Ray mond's life as a politician was in acting with the Philadelphia Convention. "That movement" says the Journal, "was'originated by enemies of Republican principles. It had Its inception after the controversy between the President and Con gress took definite form. It wan confessedly in tended to support Mr. Johnson In his veto mes sage and other acts. Its chairman declared that the mission of the Republican party was ended, and another organization must take its place. Its address—drawn, if we mistake not, by Mr. Raymond—asserted teat the South would be un worthy an American heritage if it consented to the requirements propee-ca by Congress. And its effects were immediately apparent in a coali tion with the Democracy in ttils State and else where, to defeat the Republiesn tickets." To this Mr. Raymond replied in the following very interesting letter. MR. RAYMOND'S REPLY. NEW YORK, Thusday, December 12, 1867.—T0 the Editor of the Albany Eceniny Journal:—So you want light on the "motives and objects" of the Philadelphia convention? I appreciate the friendly tone of your article on this subject toward myself, and would very gladly do any thing in my power to answer your inqatriea— though I think you overrate the importance of explanation of my action in the premises. In deed I have no explanation to give that would be at al! likely to change the settled opinion of the Republican Party in regard to the character and objects of that Convention; and I certainly have no apologies to offer to anybody for the part I took in its deliberations. But I am per fectly willing to tell you and the public what were my "motives" in the matter—what good I hoped might be accomplished. and what evil prevented, by participation in its proceedings. I had nothing to do with calling the Conven tion. I had heard the project of a Union Con vention, in which all the States should be repre sented, canvassed in high quarters,and I thought favorably of such a meeting. It seemed to me desirable that the Union Party as it was then organized should be extended into the Southern States, and should thus become a national party inflict as well as in name—instead of remaining, what the rebellion had compelled it to be, tem porarily,, a sectional party. And I had advocated in the 7 inies the meeting of such a convention, in which the Union men from every State—men who had never favored secession nor voluntarily sus tained the rebellion-s s should assemble and agree upon a basis for a Nalional Union Party. The original call for the Philadelphia Conven tion was drawn by Senator Doolitte. I deolined to sign it because it opened the door for all persons then in favor of the Union, even for ori ginal Secessionists, to join in the Convention— drawing no distinction between them and original Union men. When the Democratic members of Congress as such issued a card indorsing the call, my view of the case was confirmed; and when the joint call of the Democratic National Com mittee and a body calling itself the Johnson Central Committee was issued, inviting each Congressional district in the United States to send four delegates—two of the men who had voted for Mr. Lincoln and two who had voted against him in 1861—it seemed certain that the control of the Convention would rest in the hands of men opposed to the Union Party. I declined, therefore, to be a candidate for the convention—and consented finally to go into it only at the urgent personal solicitation, and on the very strong political representations, of the President and Secretary of State. I gave them, as my reason for not wishing to go,the certainty that under the call the convention would be in the hands of men who in the South had been in the rebellion, and who in the North had opposed the war that it would be hostile in temper and in principle to the Union party, of which I was , not only a - member, but in which I held an official position, and that I could not consent to act against its interests. To this they replied that if the members of the Union Party refused to take part in the Conven t tion, it would necessarily fall into hostile hands and ho need.hy the Democratic Party to indorse ite principles and aid its fortunes—but they were confident that if Republican friends of the Ad ministration would qo into the Conynntion, they could guide its action and secure its adoption of national, Union and Republican principles, as they had been affirmed by the Baltimore Con vention of 1861 and carried out by President Lincoln. President Johnson said he was very anxious that the Convention should not be left to enure to the benefit of the Democratic Party. He knew that party thoroughly—it had been Ws loyalto the country while engaged in war, and did not enjoy - or deserve the confidence of the people. The Union Party, which had carried the country through the war, was the party to restore the Union now that the war was over. He thought its leaders in Congress were going to extremes and wore entering upon a policy which would prevent the effective extension of the party to the Southern States, and that a Convention of this sort, which would demonstrate the readiness of Southern men to accept the principles of the Union Party, would have a good effect on the party itself, and lead to the adoption of more moderate counsels and put an end to the sectional character of political parties. Ho said he wanted the Conven tion to take i , preciseiy the ground which I had taken in a speech made a few days before in Con gress on Restoration and, the UMOS, Party, every word of which mot his approval; and ho felt quite sure that if I would go into the Convention, and write an address embracing those views, it would be promptly and heartily indorsed by the Convention. These views were strongly pressed by both the President and Mr. Seward in a conversation which .lasted for an hour. I asked them if it was designed or desired tolay the foundation of a new political party. The President said, certainly not; the Union Party, purified of the extreme doctrines of its extreme men, and ad hering to the conservative Constitutional ground it had always held, was the party which ought to rule the country and restore the Union; and if it would act wisely in this matter, it could re tain power, and administer the Governmebt for twenty-five years to come. I asked if it was, desired that the Convention should sup port or aid in any way the success of the Demo cratic party in the coining elections. The Presi dent said, certainly not, as a party. Alt ho desired was that the Convention should exert a strong moral influence upon, the Union party, and induce the nomination and election to Con gress of moderate mon—who were for restoring the Union on Constitutional principles, and who would admit Southern men to Congress, pro vided they could take the oath, required by law. It was only in eases where tho Republicans should nominate extreme Radicals, that he should desire the election of Democrats in their Stead. _ I told the President that I could not refuse to do anything in my power to aid an object which, as he had presented it, seemed so just and de - airable; and that I would go Into the Convention, if eleeted,,and prepare an address for Its consid eration—with this understanding—that If the Convention .11 no • 0 • • I._ L Tyr DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.--PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28,1867.-TRIPLE SUET. but fell under the control of rebels and Copper hoes, I Should bole. "Certainly," he replied, "and so I hope will every friend I have in it." I think you may very easily infer from this what I at all events, "had in view," In going into the Philadelphia. Convention. It had been called and was certain to be held. It was likely to be imposing and Influential, and was certain to aid either the Democratic Party, by taking the ground it had.hold, or the Chicon Party, by advo cating its principles and acquiescing in its policy. I thought I should be rendering the Union Party a service by trying to bring about the latter re sult. I thought that the Convention would be a powerful agent in nationalizing the Union Party, —in securing for its essential and vital princi ples a strong support in the Southern States, and, in thus restoring the time when political parties were not divide id by lines of latitude, but when both parties bad strong support in every State. These were my "motives," and I presumed they were the motives of my "friends. I can not think they were in any sense discreditable or unfaithful either to the Union party or to the cause, that party was intended to serve. That they were not perAonal or interested may, I think, be fairly inferred from the fact that I had something to lose, and nothing whatever to gain, by the result. That it was, as you style it, the "mistake of my life, as a politician;" may be true, though this dends on what you under stand by success. I may have lost office and po sition and infitfence in the party by it, but that is a. matter of very little consequence either to me or to anybody else. I have certainly nothing whatever to regret in regard to the motives on which I acted. As to the action of the Convention, and its re sults I need say little. I have never seen a con vention made up of better men, or animated by a better sentiment, than that 0.4 e. Its purposes seemed to me to be patriotic, its bearing was dignified, and, from what was then my point o view, its action",was wise. I did write both the Address and the Declaration of Principles—and I believe both were in accordance with the posi tion and sentiment and real interest of the Union Party. Both documents were adopted as I had prepared them, except that two para graphs in the former were, omitted—one re luting to the effect of , Slavery upon Southern sentiment, and the other commending the pro- - posed Constitutional Amendment to the caudid consideration of the Southern States. as possibly demanded by the changed condition of public affairs. The Southern delegates assented, with prompt and hearty approval, to all the senti ments embodied in the Declaration,—to the as sertion of the absolute supremacy of the Na tional authority, the extinction and permanent prohibition of slavery, the equality of all men, without distinction of race or color, before the law, the repudiation of the rebel debt, and the in violability of the debt of the nation, the justice of the claims of the national soldiers on the National Government, and the absolute and permanent integrity of the' National Union. It seemed to me then—and it seems to me now—s that these principles furnish a basis broad enough for the Union Party. The doctrine of universal negro suffrage, you must remember, as the corner stone of the Union Party, had not then been in vented; nor had the project of nationalizing the party .by committing its fortunes to the negro vote, then been broached. The Declaration and Address both asserted, as a matter of fact, and of Constitutional law, that no State had gone out of the Union, but that all were in the Union and under the Constitution,— and that all were bound alike, as a matter of right and of duty, to be represented in Congress, subject always to the right and duty of each House to be the judge of the "elections, returns and rpadificativns of its own members.' It It was one great object of the Philadelphia Convention to secure the recognition of- this Constitutional principle, as 'essential to the restoration and permanence of the Union. If It had recognized by Congress, the Union would now have been restored, in form and in fact, even if not a single member elected from any district in any Southern State had yet been found "quali fied' for admission to a seat in either House of Congress—though this would by no means have been the case. The principle itself has com manded the assent of a good many., Republicans who have refused to act upon - it; and some of them, General Banks for example, have gone so far as to hold that it. Is the imperative duty of each House to admit members found to be duly "qualified," even in defiance of a late expressly forbidding it. You are mistaken,—though you only repeat a very common misapprehension—in saying that the Address asserted that "the South would. be unworthy an American heritage if it consented to the requirements imposed by Congress." It said nothing of the sort. It would have been grossly inconsistent for me to say this, inas much as I voted for the Constitutional Amend ment in Congress (which was all. that Congress then required), and urged its acceptance by the Southern States. What the Address did say was that the Southern people would have shown themselves degenerate sons of an heroic ancestry "If they could accept with uncomplain ing submissiveness." their threatened degradation "from the rank of free and equal members of a Republic of States, with rights and dignities un impaired, to the condition of conquered pro vinces,. and a conquered people, in all things suborinate and subject to the will of their con querors—free only to obey the laws, in making which they are not allowed to share." And this was said, as the context shows, with reference to what had been threatened in Congress—not to anything Congress had done. And I think so yet. At the same time I think they may, very wisely and without discredit, accept, under protest, tho terms prescribed by Congress for their readmission to practical con trol of their own affairs, for they will thus re gain, in the only way open to them, the right df self-government; and that, wisely and justly exercised, will put it in their power to remedy any evils incident to their present condition. I. do not think those terms either just or wise—but I have learned to accept a great many things I cannot approve, especially when they are found to be inevitable. I would not exclude any man from voting simply because be is black; but neither would I admit men to vote merely be cause they are black. Unless all we have been saying aid hearing for the last fifty years about intelligence and integrity being the only safe guard of a Republican government is nonsense, it cannot be wise to admit four millions of peo ple—one seventh of our entire population—so ig norant and thriftless as the blacks of the Southern States must necessarily be—at once to an active potential share in the makints of our laws and the shaping of our national policy. BuLthis has been decreed by Congress; and. I would sooner acquiesce in it than make it a ground of further division and renewed sectional strife. When the Southern States regain the power, as they' have • the right, to frame constitutions and lawa for themselves, this evil, if it prove an evil, can be redressed. But this has nothing to do with the Philadel phia Convention. That Convention proved to be, so far as results Were concerned, a failure. Of the causes of its failure I have nothing to say. Tho President's Western tour had very much to do with it; the evident purpose of the Deinocratie Party to turn it wholly to its own advantage, and to repudiate it except so far as they could use it, perhapa had more. I doubt also whether the Union Party was sufficiently convinced at that time that the war s wati over and that _the Union might safely be restored, to induce Worn to ac cept the action of the Convention as no asisary or wise—and the time for its acceptanc has, now gone by.. They may possibly have leas cd some thing on these points and some other from the late elections. But this is traveling beyond the line if your in quiries. I have, I believe, aus crud them frankly and frilly. Ido not know w at good,or .harm,. the explanation I have giv u may do. The view hitherto taken of my fustian on that subject has had one result which I 'o not regret: It has given me an independence (of judgment and of criticism much more agreeabl,e, to myself, and I think more useful to the pubpe, than any mere subserviency to the dictates of party con .ventions or party leaders. I propane to continue the enjoyment and exercise 01 'that indepen dence. When I "give advice" at lull, it will be such as I deem wise and judicious , . Whether it is acceptable or not, ,la the businer of other peo ple—not mine. IYours truly, H. J. RAYMOND. • , --------...0er------j -. —.T.sop might have made a fa i ide with a moral out of an incident which happe ed in. California not long since. A rat hungering; for animal food squeezingethrough the bars of 4, cage In which was a canary, seized and devonqed him. But he ate so greedily, and gorged hi' , •ilf to such an extent, that he could not get onto ' the cage be fore the master of the house emit% .al and pun ished the intruder with death. , —An Indianian lights his house • Ith gas from a hole In the ground in his back ya —Our'ex-wayward sisters are enjo ing the first run of shad. —A Frenek curate la out with •• . a Ater advo of !; MAIM TWAIN 'S ACCOIUNT OF Tim FACTS CONCERNING RIS RE CENT RESIGNATION: [Correspondence N. Y. Tribune.] WASHINGTON, Dec: 2, 1867.—1 have resigned. The Government appears to go on much the same, but there is a spoke out of its wheel, nev theless. I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology, and I have thrown up the position. Lcould see the plainest disposition on the part of the other members of the Government to debar me from having any voice in the counsels of the nation, and so I could no longer hold office and retain my > self-respect: - If I Were to detail all the outrages that were heaped upon me during the six days that' I , was connected with the Government in an official capacity, the narrative would fill a volume. They appointed me clerk of that Committee on Conchology, and then allowed me no amanu ensis to play billiards with. I would have borne that, lonesome as it was, if I had met with that courtesy from the other members of the Cabinet which was my due. Bat I did not. Whenever I observed that the head of a department was pursuing a wrong course, I laid down everything and went and tried to set him right, as it was my duty to do; and I never was thanked for it in a single instance. I went, with the best In tention in the world, to the Secretary of the Navy, and said: "Sir, I cannot see that Admiral Farragut is doing anything but skirmishing around there irp, Europe, having a sort of picnic. Now, that may be all very well, but it does not exhibit it self to me in in that light. If there is no fighting for him to do let him come home. There is no use in a man haVing a whole fleet for a pleasure excursion. It Is too expensive.. Mind, Ido not object to pleasure excursions for the nava officers—pleasure excursions that are in reason —pleasure- excursions that are economical. Now, they might go down the. Mississippi on a raft—" You ought to have heatil him storm! One would have 'supposed I had committed a crime of some kind. But I didn't mind. I said it wa cheap, and full of republican simplicity, and per fectly safe. I said that, for a tranquil pleasure excursion, there was nothing equal toa raft. Then the Secretary of the Navy asked me who I was; and when I told him I was connected with the Government, he wanted to know in what ca pacity. I said that, without remarking upon the singularity of such a question, coming as it did from a member of that same Government, I would inform him that I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. Then there was a fine storm! He finished by ordering me to leave the premises and give my attention strictly to my own business in future. My first impulse was to get him removed. However, that would harm ethers beside himself and do me no real good, and so I let bins stay. I went next to the Secrery of War, who was nut isiclind to see me at alluntil he learned that I was connected with the Government. If I bad not been on • important business, I suppose I could not have got in. I asked him for a light (he was smokin at the time), and then I told him I bad no fadit to find with his defending the public stipulations of Gen. Lee and his comrades in arms, but that I could not approve of his method of fighting the Indians on the Plains. I said he fought too scattering. He ought to get the Indians more together--- , get them together in, some convenient place, where he could have provisions enough for both par ties, and then have a general massacre. I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian asa general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and ednca- tion are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half massacred Indian may recover, but if you edu cate him and wash him, It is bound to finish him some time or other. It undermines hie constitu tion: it strikes at the foundations of his being. " Sir," Z said, " the time has come when blood curdling cruelty has become necessary. Inflict soap and a spelling-book on every Indian that ravages the Plains, and let him die!" The Secretary of War asked me if I was a mem ber of the Cabinet, and I said I was—and I was not one of these ad interiople, either. (Se vere, but merited.) He inquired what position I held, and I said I was clerk of the Senate Com mittee on Couchology. I was then ordered under arrest for contempt of court, and restrained of my liberty for the best part of a day. I almost resolved to be silent thenceforward, and Jet the Government get along the best way it could. But duty called, and I obeyed. called on the Secretary of the Treasury. He said: "What will you have?" The question threw me off my guard. I said, "Rum punch." He said, "If you have got any business here, sir, state it—and in as few words as possible." I then said that I was sorry he had seen fit to change the subject so abruptly, because such con duct was very offensive to me; but under the cir cumstances I would overlook the matter and cone to the point. I now went into au earnest expostulation with him upon the extravagant length of his report. I said it was expensive, unnecessary, and awkwardly constructed; there were no descriptive passages in it, no poetry, no sentiinent—no heroes, no plot, no picturet—not even wood-cuts. Nobody would read it, that was a clear case. I urged him not to ruin his reputation by getting out a thing like that. If he ever hoped to succeed In litera ture, lie must throw more variety into his writings. He must beware of dry detail. I' said that the main popularity of the almanac was derived from its poetry and conun drums; and that a few conundrums distributed around through his Treasury repOrt would help the sale of it more than all the internal revenue he could put' into it. I said these things in the kindest spirit, and yet the Secretary of the Trea sury fell into a violent passion. He even said I was an ass. ' He abused me in the most vindic tive mannur, and said that if I came there again meddling with his business be would throw me out of the window. I said I would take my hat and go, If I could not be treated with the respect due to my office; and I did go. It was jest like a new author. They always think they know more than anybody else when they are getting out their first book. Nobody can tell them ' anything. During the whole time that I was connected with the Government it seemed as if I could not do anything in an official capacity without get ting myself into trouble.. And yet I did nothing, attempted nothing, but what I conceived to be for the good of my country. The sting of my wrongs mayhave driven me to unjust and harm ful conclusions, but it surely seemed to me that the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others of my confreres, had conspired from thevery beginning to drive me from the Administraticin. I never attended but one Cabinet meeting while I was connected with the Government. That was suf ficient for me. The servant at the White House door did not seem disposed to make way for me until I asked if the other members of the Cabinet had arrived. He said they had, and I entered. They were all there;' but nobody offered me a seat. They stared at me as if I had been an in truder. The President said : "Well, sir, who are 110/41" I handed him my card, and he read: "The IloN. NARK TWAIN, Clerk of the Senate Commit• tee on Conchology." Then he looked at me from bead to foot, as if h e had never heard of ins be fore. The Secretary , of the Treasury said: "This is the meddlesome ass that came to re commend me to put poetry and conundrums In my report, as if it were an almanac." The Secretary of War said: "It is the same visionary that came to me yesterday with a, scheme to educate a portion of the Indians to death and massacre the balance." - The Secretary of the Navy said : "I recognize this youth as the person who has been iuterteriug with nay business time and again during . the week. He is distressed about Admiral Parra gut's using a whole fleet fora pleasure excur sion, as'he terms it. His proposition about some insane pleasure excursion on a raft, is too absurd to repeat." I said : "Gentlemen, I perceive here a disposi tion to throw discredit upon every act of my official career; I perceive, also, a disposition to debar me from all voice in the counsels of the na tion. No notice whatever was sent to me to-day. It was only by the merest Chance that I learned that there was going to boa Cabinet meeting. But let these things pass. All I wish to know, is, is this a Cabinet meeting, or is it not? The President said it was. . "Then," I said, "let us proceed to business at once, and not fritter away , valuable time in un becoming fault-finding with each other's official conduct.' The Secretary of State now spoke up, in his benignant way, and said: "Young man, you aro laboling under a mistake. The clerks of the tougressional committees aro not rnembere of the Cabinet Neither aro the doorkeepers of the. Capitol, strange as it may seem. Therefore, much as we could desire your more than human vviedom.in our deliberations; we emnot laWfully avail ourselvea of it. The 001010116 of the nation as follow full well it may, be it balm to your sor rowing spirit, that by deed and voice you did what in you lay s to avert it. You have my bless ing. Farewell.' , These gen tle words soothed my troubled breast, and I went away. But the servants of a nation can know no peace. I had hardly reached my den in the Capitol, and disposed of my feet on , the table like a Representative, when one of the Senators on the Conchological Committee came in in a passion and said : "Where have you been all day ?" I observed that, if that was anybody's affair but my own, I had been to a Cabinet meeting. "To a cabinetmeeting I I would like to know what business you had at a Cabinet meeting ?" I said I went there to consult—allowing, for the sake of argument, that ho was in anywise concerned in the matter. He ..grew insolent then, and ended by saying he wanted me for three days past to copy a report on bombshells, egg-shells, clam-shells, and I don't , know what all, connected with conehology, and nobody had been able to find me. This was too much. This was the feather that broke the clerical camel's back. I said: "Sir, do you suppose that I am going to work for six dol lars a day? If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else. I am the slave of no faction ! Take back your degrading commission. Give me liberty, or give me death!" From that hour I was no longer connected with the Government. Snubbed by the Depart ment, snubbed by the Cabinet, snubbed at last by the chairman of a committee I was endeavor ing to adorn, I yielded to persecution, cast far from . me the perils and seductions of my great office, and forsook my bleeding country in the hour of her peril. But I bad done the State some service, and sent in my bill: The 'United States <America in account with the Hon. Clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology, Dr. To consultation with Secretary of War.... $5O To consultation with Secretary of Navy... 50 To eonf3ultation with Secretary of the Treasury a 50 Cabinet consultation No charge. *To Mileage to and from Jerusalem, via Egypt, Algiers, Gibraltar and Cadiz, 14,000 miles, at 20e. a mile 2,800 To salary as Clerk of Senate Committee on Conchology, six days, at 66 per day.... _36 Not an item of this bill has been paid, except that trifle of e 36 for clerkship salary. The Secre tary of the Treasury, pursuing me to the last, drew his pen through all the other items, and simply remarked in the margin, "Not allowed.' So, the dread alternative is embraced at last. Repudiation has begun ! The nation is lost. True, the President promised that he would mention my claim in his Message, and recom mend that it be paid out of the first moneys received on account of the Alabama Claims; but will he recollect to do it? And may not Ibe forgotten when the Alabama claims are paid? Younger claimants than I am may be forgotten when the Alabama claims are paid. lam done with official life for the present. Let these clerks who are willing to be imposed on remain. I know numbers of them, in the Departments, who are never informed when there is to be a cabinet meeting, whose advice Is never asked about war, or finance, or commerce, by the heads of • the nation, any more than if they were not connected with the Government, and who actually stay in their offices day after day and work! They know their importance to the nation, and they unconsciously show it in their bearing, and the way they order their sustenance at the restaurant—but they work. I know one who has to paste all sorts of little scraps from the newspapers into a scrap-book—something as many as eight or ten scraps a day. He doesn't do it well, but he does it as well as he can. It is very fatiguing. It is exhausting to the fntellect. Yet he only gets $l,BOO a year. With a brain like his. that young man could amass thousands and thousands of dollars In some other pursuit, if he chose to do it. But no—his heart is with his country, and he will serve her as long as she has got a scrap-book left. And I know clerks that don't know how to write very well, but such knowledge as they possess they nobly lay at the feet of their country, and toil on and suffer for $2,500 a year. What they write has to be written over again by other clerks, sometimes; but when a man has done his best for his country, should his country, complain ? Then there are clerks that have no clerkships, and are waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for a vacancy—waiting patiently for a chance to help their country out —and while they arc 'waiting, they only get barely $2,000 a year for it. It is sad—it is very, very sad. When a member of Congress has a friend who is gifted, but has no employment wherein his great powers may be brought to bear, he confers him upon his coun try, and gives him a clerkship in a Department. And there that man has to slave his life out fighting docUments for the benefit of a nation that never thinks of him, never sympa thizes with him,--and all for $2,000 or $3,000 a year. When I shall have completed my list of all the clerks in the several departments, with my statement of what they have to do, and what they get for it, you will see that there are not hall enough clerks, and that what there arc do not get half enough pay. MARK TWAIN. •Territorial delegates charge mileage both ways, al though they never go back when they get here once. W by my mileage Is denied mei is more than Lean under eland. Descendents of Louis Philippe Rev. J. C. Fletcher writes to the Boston Journal: "In the interesting article on the children, grandchildren, &c., of Louis Philippe, pub lished in the Journal a few days ago, I notice that no mention was made of the female branch of the familY, and the de scendants thereof, thus leaving out altogether some of the most important persons who bear in their veins the blood of Louis Philippe. In the first place Leopold IL, the present King of the. Belgians, and the un fortunate Carlotta (the so-called Ex-Empress of Mexico, in whose sad fate all the civilized world sympathizes) are grandchildren of Louis Philippe. They are the children of the late Queen Louise, the eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, who was perhaps the most gifted child of ,the Ex-King of Fiance. In one of the grand galleries of Versailles, devoted to sculpture, I have often stopped to gaze on the full-size armed statue of the famous Joan of Arc, statuettes of which I have seen in thousands of copies in the United States, Brazil, Spain, Italy and England, as well as in France. This, the most popular statue of the Maid of Orleans, was the work of the Queen of the Belgians when she was the Princess Louise d'Orleans. She was married to the late well beloved King of the Belgians, LeopAd by. whom she ,had three children, two of whom I have already mentioned. The Count Flanders is the third member of her family. Her eldest son, Leopold 11., has three children. "The second daughter and fourth child of Louis Philippe is the Princess Clementine d'Orleans, wife,of the Duke Auguste of Saxe Coburg Gotha (of the Koharri T -or Roman Catholic—branch of that fecund and exten sive family). While the Count d'Eu, son of the Duke of Nemours, married the imperial Princess Isabella, heir to the throne of Bra zil, his cousin, the Prince Auguste, Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, son of Clementine d'Orleans, married the Princess Leopoldina, second daughter of the Emperor of Brazil. Last year the Princess Leopoldina gave birth to a son, Prince Pedro, who is thus the only grandson of Dom Pedro 11. and the youngest great-grandson of Louis Philippe. Clemen tine d'Orleans has also another son, who is commander of a reginVent ofChasseurs in the Austrian army. His brother, the husband of the second Princetti of Brazil, is admiral in the Brazilian navy, and has taken - an active part in the present struggle, on the river Plate. "Thus there are ten living children, grand children and great-gran&children of Louis- Philippe added' to your former' list of his descendants. One of them is reigning king, Leopold II; another is the heir to the throne of his father; while the third, the little Bra zilian Pedro, has bqt twp. persons between him and the- headship , of the empire of Brazil." , lturn c4rruait- BoAP.-100 BOXES 41111.4191 NE White Osellly floos.loall fttin brix—rOrmitra. fro Gaul , and let, • ix, JOIS; ghrsuadionak. wiriblmmAu 525 MILES ) OF 14iir, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, Running West from Omaha ACROSS THE CONTINENT, ARE NOW COMPLETER. This brings the lino to the eastern base of the Eocky mountains, and it is expected.that the track will be laid thirty miles further, to Evans Pass, the highest point on the road, by . January. The maximum grade from the foot of the mountains to the summit is but eighty feet to the mile, while that of many eastern roads is over one hundred. Work in the rock-cuttings on the, western elope will 'continue through the winter, and there is now no reason to doubt that the entire grand line to the Pa' eine will bo open for business in 1870. The means provided for the construction of this Great National Wcrrk are ample. The United States grants its Six Per Cent. Bonds at the rate of from $16,000 to 548,00 0 per mile, for which it takes a second tiers. OA security, and receives payment to a large if n t the full extent of its claim in services. These Bond e lamed as each twenty-mile section is finished, an after it has been ex emitted by United States . Commissioners and pronounced to be in all respects a firstelass road, thoroughly supplied with depots, repair-shops, stations, and lathe necessary rolling stock and other equipments. The United States also makes a donation of 12,800 acres of land to the mile, which will be a source of large re venue to the Company. Much of this land In the Platte Valley is among the most fertile in the world, and other large portions are covered with heavy pine forests and abound in coal of the best quality. ' The Company is also authorized to issue its own First Mortgage Bonds to an amount equal to' the issue of the Government and no snore._ lion. E. D. Morgan and Hon., Oakes Ames are Trustees for the Bondholders,and deliver the Bonds to the Company only . as the work pr gresses, so that they always represent ano actual and pro ductive value. The authorized capital of the Company is One Hundred Million Dollars, of which over five millions have been paid in upon the work already done. EARNINGS OF THE COMPANY. At present, the profits of the Company are derived only from its local traffic, but this is already much'more than sufficient to pay the interest on all the Bonds the Company can issue, if not another mile wereibuilt. It is not doubted that when the road is completed the through traffic of, the only lino connecting the Atlantic and Paci fic States will be large beyond precedent,and as there will be no competition, it can always be done at profitable rates. alt will be noticed that the Union Pacific Railroad is, in fact, a Government Work, Walt under the supervision of Government officers, and to a large extent with Go vernment money, and that its bonds are issued under Government direction. It is believed that no similar security is so carefully guarded, and certainly no other la based upon a larger or more valuable property. As the Company's FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS are offered for the present at 90 CENTS ON THE DOH. LAR, they are the cheapest security in the market, being more than 15 per cent. lower than United States Stook. They Pay SIX PER GENT. IN GOLD, or over NINE PER CENT. upon the e investment. Sub. ecriptione will be received in PHILADELPHIA 'BY WM. PAINTER & CO.. No. 36 B. Third street. DR HAVEN & BROTHER, No. 408. Third street. J. E. LEWARB & CO . B. Third street. THE TRADESMEN'S NATIONAL BANK. In Wilmington, DeL. by R. B. ROBINSON & CO. JOHN MU EAR & SON And in Now York at the Company's Office. No. Xi Nassau 13treet and by CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK, No. 7 Nassau it CLARK, DODGE dt CO., Bankers, No. 61 Wall at JOHN J. CISCO A; BON, Bankers, No. 33 Wall et. And by the Company's advertised Agents throughout the United States. Remittances should be made in drafte or other funds par in New York, and the bonds will be sea free of charge by return express. A NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP, showing the grese of the work, and reeourcee for construction and Value of Bonds, may be obtained at the Company's Office or of rte advertised Agents, or will be sent free on application. JOHN J. CD3CO, Treasurer, November 23.1867. del2 - tb a tu•tjal4 CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, Principal and Interest Payable in Gold; • Thle road receives all the Government [bounties. TbA Bonds are lamed tinder the wad contract laws of Call forma and Nevada. and the easement to nay Gold bind tug In law. We offer them for sale at M. and accrued intenit fr July let, in carrencY. • Governments taken in ExClunige at from Id to II cent. difference. according to the fame. BOWEN 8/ FOX, 13 MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, SPECIAL AGENTS FOR THE LOAN IN PHEW DELPHIA. oolnmrVl 7-30'S Converted into 5-20'S1 GOLD And Compound Interest Rotes Wanted. DREXEL & co.* BANKERS, 84 South Third Street. 7-30'S Converted into 5-20'S. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES OF ALL SINDB BOCGIIT. SOLI) AND EXCLIANGED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. E. W. CLARK & CO., RANKERS AND' BROKERS, o. 3r South Third Street. W LLIAIII H. BACON, STOCK. BROKER, 420 Walnut St. (Eaut Penn Building). STOONS,ANDIOANS bought and ootd on Conuntation i ,. IN TEREffiajtbakillVnti oolleotod and &burned for EBTAI3 OR lEDIVIDUALEt, - • AttentiosTATE a even _titeEVl yamer4TWN , ILLI4OIIAND SALE OF BEAL Ei; ut gl Attl) ITO VI. IEITF. • • • deldtbArojr• • AUSTIN & OBERGE, 818 WALNUT STREET* . COMMISSION STOCK BROKERS. miropin, nownovint• LOAN% willmno NOVO= AND NOM ON UONAUDateNi UNION PACIFIC B. R. CO. THE COUPONS OF ME FIRST MORTGAGE RONDO OP Tux UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY DUE JAN. 1E41868. WILL BE PAID ON AND AFTER THATPATE. IN GOLD COIN, FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX. At the Company's Office. No. 20 NASSAU St. N tiew Yore dell U jal 514 JOHN J. CISCO. Maurer. COUPONS OF UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD, FIVE-TWENTIES Due January lst,' BOUGHT. 13e Haven & 13ro ? , 40 South Third Street -7 Pemberton and Hightetown IL R. 00. The' Coupons of the PEMBERTON AND HIGHT& TOWN RAILROAD COMPANY, due January 1, 180mM ho paid, leas United States tax, on and after that date,. at the office of _ , ile2l t7a24 BANKING HOUSE of /WC° OKE accls: 112 and 114 So. THIRD ST. PHILAD'A.- Dealers in all Government Smitten. rociliMaire PARTRIDGE'S NEW STYLE. ICE CREAM FORMS, SPECIAL ATTENTION PITTES O WEDDLIGS AND OTHER . No. 15 North - Eighth Street. de.27 4trll PARTRIDGE'S ICE CREAM, CONFECTIONERY AND DINING ROOMS, For Ladies and Gentlemen, No. 15 N. Eighth Street, Philadelphia. de27.4 .• CHOICE FINE OONFEOTIONS D Pit UP IN MILT BO 0: MARE FOE PRIM HAINES Sc LEEDS, MANUFACTURERS of CHOICE FINE CONFECTIONS, 906 Market Street. s ec d p, a splendid assortment of Frenej t a r r i sgr tojfirrga. .oct.T. o ‘,#k a IMITH,ItANDOLPH & CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS 16 Booth Third it, aMw. MOO& law Terk, STOOKS AND GOLD SOUGHT AND SOLD ON OOMNISSION. INTIM= ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. NEW YORK. THE SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY. The Fidelity Insurance, Trust And Safe Deposit Company, FOR THE SAFE KEEPING OF BONDS, STOGIES AND OTHER VALUABLES. 4500,000 N. B. BROWNE. , CIIARLES.MACALESTER; CLARENCE H. CLARK, EDWARD W. CLARK. JOHN WELSH, ALEXANDER HENRY, J. GILLINGHAM FELL. 8. A. CALDWELL, HENRY. GIBSON. Office in the lire proof building of the Philadelphia. National Bank, 421 Chestnut street. This Comparey . receives on deposit and GUARANTEES THE SAFEKEEPING OP VALUABLES upon the fol lowing rates e. year, viz.: Coupon Bends... . . ... . ........ .$1 per 1000.. Registered Bonds ..... 50ets. per 7,000. Gold Coin or Bullion $1 25 ver LINO. Silver Coin or Bullion .. , .... ... ......... ..... $2 per 1,000. Gold or Silver Plate ... . . .... —sl per 100. CASH BOXES or small thiboxes of * Bankers, Brokers. Capitalists, &c., contents unknown to the Company, en liability Limited, $25 a year. The Company offers for RENT SAFES INSIDE ITS VAULTS at $201220, $4O, $5O and $76 a year, according to size and location. Coupons and Interest collected for ono per cent. Interest allowed on Honey Deposits. . Trusts of every kind accepted. N. B. BROWNE, President. CAPITAL ROBF.ILT PATTERSON, Secret and Treasurer. The Insurance Conipany of the State of Pennsylvania. Office, Nom. 1 and 5 Exchange naming, North aide of Walnut, east of Third street. Incorporated April 18th, 1994. CHARTER PERPETUAL. HAS PAID OVER $10,000,000 IN LOSSES. Properties of the Company, V3OO l OOO. • .Harine Fire, and I NSURANC.B.... hi nj Traneportatio Direct ors : f HENRY D. SHEERER% THOMAS B. WATTSON. + CHARLES IdA.CA LAM.% gENRY G. FREEMAN. W)LIJAM 8. 8j)11TIL It ARLES GARSDB, WILLIAM in.,wll EORGE 00N,.. BEORDE H. 8111 ART, EDWARD CkEVAHHF. sikmUEL. GRANTLJE., JOHN D. AIBiTI TOBIAS WAGNER. HENRY ZElrrEßuvim, WILIJAH HARPER, elecjce*Sag, TT OOP Sic.l RA'S AND-.COR .11 JIAVI,EY4 No. 81k VlDeAtiflt, bag au the varlet.* ot 1100 P Sigi A Slog the Real klenotkVarilets utffir altered and reps .d. . •• •.• qv' BENT..: - 1 •TetiortY FURNIBEIZO( and lutotra, for I las ram for Oroilora b roS4 Ek."444'44,0%0444 ITAdatorit 119 V A, frc - 4 Id F%NALNOLAILL• NOTICE. BOWEN &a FOX; STOCK BROKERS, No. 13 Merchants , Patch%lige. CONFECTIONERY". IFBOBANCE• INSURANCE 11100* SKIMMING. jalo th,e.tu.rol3r 17 : Mita. aataufactur ' Bab had+) tiTsta, .Mr#L, cfrO •
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