GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XM.—NO. 256. THE EVENING BULLETIN I'UIILISHKD EVERY EVENING (■Sunday* oxccptod), AT TI(K NEW itllMUl’lN BUIIiDING, 607 CUestnut Street, Philadelphia, IIY TUB EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. riiomiKTouß _ GIBSON PEACOCK, EHNEST C. WALLACE, . E. L, F'ETHEItSTCJIi, THOB. J. WILLIAMSON, CABI'EIt SOUDKIi, .In.. FKANCIS WELLS. * Tho Uollktin I* Birred to subscriber* In tho city at 18 lent* PM- week, payable to the carrier*, or 88 por annum. WEDbTNGTRViTATiONS AND'VISITING CAIIDS Engraved or Written. Newest stylo* ol Wedding Stationery. Call and look at Knmple*. W. O. PEBRV, Stationer, la 7 728 Arch street. DlEl>. I IOLLINf iSWORTH.—On Mmmry &1. Hiimmh ■Wharton, eldest daughter of the lato Thomas Q. Hoi liDgßWorth. TiH* fnendft of tho .family are invited to attend tbe futicrnl, on Wednesday morula*, sth in<*t., at 10 o’clock, from her late renidencc, 1301 Loctrat Htreet • « KATKB.—On the 2d inaUnt, Air. Will. Kates, in the 71st year of bin age. The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, from hi* Jatc rush donee, No. 1600 Arch utreet, on 'Wednesday afternoon, tho Dth Jnat.. at 2 o’clock, without further invitation. ' KNKillT.—Suddenly, on the 3d instant, at Westtown Hoarding School, Chester county, l*a., of which Institu tion he was Superintendent, Dubre Knight, in the year of hi# age. His relatives and friends are invited to attend hi* funeral on Sixth-day, the 7th inst., ;il 10 o'clock. Interment at West Chester. Carriages will meet the 7.45 train from Philadelphia at Street Bead Station. LYONS.—At Went Havertoid, on Sunday morning, Feb. 2d. 1868, the Reverend .JamOs Gilnorne Lyons, LL. D. Fureral BcrvJce on Wednesday, at 4 I\ M., at the Church of the Pcdermer, Lower Merlon. Cara leave Pennsylvania Central Depot at 2.20 P. M., for Uaverford Station. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to at tend, without further notice. * BCRA VLNDYKK.—On tho morning of the 2d of Feb ruary, John Bcravendyke, Sr, in the 58th year of lil* age. His male friends are respectfully invited to attend hi* funeral, from his late * evidence N 0.523 South Moth fltreet, on Wednesday morning, at half-past 8 o’clock. Funeral service* at St. Mary’* Church, South Fourth atreet. • SNKLL.—On the 4th inst., Mnrv Minerva Morgan, wife of Win. )L Snell. {Pittsburgh and' Washington county pnpvm phase copy.) _ * OBITUARY. Truly, a great and goed man hath fallen in Israel. Our revered and rerpeeu.d T> aoher, Isaac Leesee, hath been gathered unto hi* Fafhtr* ! Mourn,'sons'and daughter* -of l-.>rutl. f r the place that knew him shall laiow.ltiih no pioro! 'I he tliaiupi mof his people has de parted.. Slrictly orthodox in hi# views, he waa ever ready when lii* n-Uglon wa#-«•..ailed to defend it. A devoted. Ood fluting IsraelPe rendered up hi* tool to Him who gave it uti tho Holy Sabbath of rett. Peace to his memory! * ■ A. WHITK PURE .MOHAIR FOR EVENING DRESSES, V> white opera cloth. SCARLET OPERA CLOTH. WHITE MERINO AND DELAINE. F.YRE& LANDEuL, Fourth and Arch streets. XFECIAL SOTICES. *6r MR. CHARLES DICKENS’S FAREWEI.L IIEAI>tNGS. ( O NOEKT 11 ALL. An Cilice for the nale of RESERVED-SEATS ha* teen opened at CHABLES E. SMITH’S, GENERAL STATIONER, Ifo. 109 South Third Street, near Cheitnnt, where Sc.l. can be procured tor tithe-- of the two FARE WELL HEADINGS at TWO DOLLARS each. <.gtnrp AmeHokn Academy of Muac. SO FREE QYMNASTIQUE. BY THE PUPILS OF LEWIS’S GYMNASIUM, Tuesday Evening, Feb. 4, at 7 1-2 o’clock. A rich programme of Gymnastic* by the pupils of both iM-xct, Acrobatic exercise*. Sparring, etc. Chorus by the Young Mannerchor, etc. Reserved Seat*. 50 cent*. Can 3x-secured at the corner of Ninth and Arch, orafW. 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MoFAKLAND, No. 51 South Fourth street. • DELAWARE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Third and Walnnt ata. jfCHtfe6,rp; OFFICE OF THE G ***** PANY, No. 323 Walnni At tho annual meeting of th pany, held tho 29th ultimo, thi elected Director* to serve lor t .J. U. FeU, I A. Pardee, E. W. Clark, ■ I PAnd Ata oubFonurnt mectin GEORGE F, TYLER was el OBEKTEDEFER Secretary •»» OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND mKU NAVIGATION COMPANY. Philadelphia, January 30,1868. Thia Company is prepared to purchase ite Loan duo in 1870, at jtar, SOLOMON BIIEPHERD, Treasurer. No. 122 South Second Street jaSO-tfrp MB* PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 3D, 18S8.-AN adjourned meeting of the Stockholder* of the Con nellsville Gas-Coil Company wilt he held at the Office of the Company, No. 314 L Walnut street, on MONDAY, lYbltiary 17th, 18S8, at It o’clock. A. M. fed tuSt; NORTON JOHNSON, Secretary, •6SF~ HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 1520 m 1 Lombard street. Dispensary Department.—Medi cal treatment and medicines fumishedgratuitously to the poor, mga- 0. 8, FOWLER WILL COMMENCE A COURSE of lectures on Phrenology and Physiology,as an plied to human and self improvement, at Assembly tiuild -sng,'FRIDAY EVENING, at 7.30, Feb. 7. Fkee. ja29tfrp{ htfSg** NEWSPAPERS. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE ** Paper, Ac, Bought by ■ E. HUNTER, de!7 2m6 No. 613 Jayne Btreet Vipkr Bites.— Dr. Ansclmier, in a recent letter to the French Academy of Science, gave an ac •count of the treatment of an Algerian mounte bank, who had been bitten by a viper during one of his exhibitions In Paris. The seat of the wound was the tongue, but fortunately medical aid had been procured within ten minutes. The effects of the bite, as in four similar easos pre viously treated by Dr. Anselmier, consisted in a numbness porvading the nervous system, and a blood-stained sorous swelling extending from the bite as a centre. Tho treatment employed con aisted chiefly in preventing the venom from spreading; this was done by means of a ligature, then by sucking the wound, cutting it open and cautorizlng. The prostration and torpor of tho SyirS., Waa . counteracted by cordials, hot teas, ninnstple stimulants and aromatic' essences; the lain ted blood was eliminated by capping, leeches and purges; • This treatment was successful. Vi > , Ll> n> IN IlANCE ' —Several deaths from the «r^ir?,,?™?-2 e ,, aro ,^P orte< *’ Tho rural postman named Francois, was ®®SP«££ fr ? zen In “ Add which he was in the habit of crossing. Ho had all his letters and money with him untouched. On the road From Suresnes to Nantorro a' soldier belonging to uwH Y a^ ori i? wua found dead; lefiadgOt drunk and laid down, and the cold billed him. A young man has also boon dis covered frozen to death in a third-class carrWn at Ohoisy-le-Roi. the train going to Orleans Is be could not be identified the body was taken to the Morgue at Paris. iKEGNWOOD COAL COM it struct. j Pmi.Ai»KT>FHiA, Feb. he Stockholder* of this Cora. ib following.gentlemen were th* ensuingyearr I Edvrardltobcrta, George F. Tyler. tig of tho Board of Director*, lected President, and W. C. aud Treasurer. fe4-2t§ EUROPEAN AFFAIRS LETTER IKOMt PARIS. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Paki3, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1868 Few people can remember Fariff ever having been 60 dull and ncw6lees, In the very middle of what is called the “say" season, as is the case at this moment. There is literally not a leaf stirring in the politi cal foliage, and society itself seems almost to have gone to sleep. The Chamber is taking an holiday, and even M. Roubcr himself is rcposliftg at his country seat after the effort of his famous “jamais,” just as though we were iny vacation time again.. To-day even the usual ministerial receptions are all suspended, because itis the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI. of which Napoleon 111. is ns exact an obser ver as though he were himself a legitimist and overeign by right divine. But there is a very curious feeling about this state of calm. No one mistakes it for the calm ness of security. Rather is it the effect of un easiness. Every one seems afraid to move. The old saying is reversed, and “after a calm comes a storm” is the presentiment which is upper most. No one pretends to say where the out break will come from, and yet it is expected and dreaded on, all hands. The silent armaments which are known to be going on with noiseless expedi tion on every side, are no doubt the chief pre vailing cause of this benumbing anxiety, and its prostrating effect upon commerce and activity of all kinds. Here in Paris business has rarely been known to be so flat .at this period of the year, and all financial transactions aie at a stand-still in expectation of the Budget and of the loan which is thought to be inevita ble. The statement of the Revenue which has just appeared shows a diminution of two mil. lions in the product of indirect taxation, instead of the augmentation of forty millions which was pre fumed and counted upon in the estimates. Decreasing re venues and increasing expenditures »«j_tberefore no overdrawn picture of the state of the imperial financef. The Emperorgrowsfat and lazy, and no longer able to cope with and make head against the numberless perils ,which seem to rise in his path; and there is now no M. Fould at hand to step in and grapple with the greatest perils of all—those which arise from financial difficulties. It is these and other reflections, I am convinced, which are weighing on men’s niinds and producing the uneasy calm in which wc are reposing. No one, as I have said, knows exactly what evil to expect, or where it may -come from, yet every one is looking out for it Even the American mind in Paris is not free from apprehensions, and snuffs trouble in the breeze from Ireland. The telegraph has only just brought us nows of the arrest of Train, and I find not a few Americans inclined to see in this act the germ of serious difficulties with England- Being myself a peaceable character, and always fondly hoping that England and the United States would stand forth as illustrious contrasts to the folly of continental armaments, I can only sincerely trust that the threatened complications miry not arise: - The Due dc Persigny has written a very long dull and prosy letter to a Liberal journal, the I,elate, to prove that ail the evils and want of public sympathy sustained by tho press in this country arise from its fatal propensity to defama tion and private scandal, and proposes, as a remedy, that the public prosecutor, or law-officer of the Crown, should be empowered to prosecute in such cases', because the parties themselves won't! Thus this paternal Government is to assume the charge not only of the lives and bodily safety, but of the characters and reputations of all its subjects! The idea is purely French and imperialist; but the press thinks itself subject to quite enough “prosecution" as it is without in venting more. At this very moment eleven of the principal journals of Paris are defending them selves before the correctional police, with an al most certainty of being condemned as a matter of course. The Empress went in great haste the other day to Rennes, to attend npon her cousin, tho Princess Bacciochi, who had broken her leg in stepping into her carriage in that city. The Empress returned yesterday, at five o’clock, and was present at a large dinner party at the Tuile rics, the same evening, after her long journey; a-sure proof that Her Majesty’s health, at all events, is of the best. Indeed, the people do say that the “grey marc is now the better horse,” in more senses than_one, ih tlio imperial circle. J mentioned last weekthatM.de Lesseps had not tifiedthe practical opening of the Suez Canal for commercial traffic by small tug steamers. I see now a furtbor illustration'of this fact, in a letter written by the Director of the works of the En glish Hospital at Suez, and which the Mmiiteur itself publishes with evident satisfaction. Accord ing to this communication, the Blonde arrived off Port Said, with 19,000 packages on board of her, for the establishment in question. All these, were, delivered 1 into’the custody of the Suez Canal Company, and by them trans ported in perfect Bafety to their destination along the canal. The first discharge into barges and the re-discharge on arriving at Suez, says the letter, were carefully, promptly and efficiently executed, and the goods arrived in the best con dition. A la bonne heure! cries the Moniteur. Did we not always say that the English wonld be among the first to discover the advantages and conveniences of the route they so long opposed ? In twenty months, says the same authority, first class vessels will navigate the Isthmus without discharging their eargoes. In December last the Company had removed 1,392,921 cubic metres of material. Only forty millions remain to be dis placed, at two millions per month, which is the present rate of the works. Tho Duchess de Moray, widow of the late Duke, was the daughter of a Russian Princess, and a member of tho Orthodox Greek or Russian Church. It is said that her Grace has just been converted to the Church of Rome. Gossip or scandal asserts that she is privately married to the celebrated English accoucheur, Dr. C , of this city, himself a Roman Catholic. The Duchess, who has three children, but is still triijoli&m&'tres mignonne, has just begun to make her appearance more frequently in society again, and was one of the merriest among the sleighing parties on the Lakes during the frost. . I regret .to say that the King of Prussia has prolonged the gaining tables at Wiesbaden for five years. The establishment is to pay a sum of near fonr millions of francs for having its lease renowed. All I can say Is, that It is money very, dirtily come by, as any one may be convinced of who has seen the multitudes of small tradesmen, servants and coniiors, who come up to Wiesbaden from Frankfort, every Sunday afternoon, to lose the learnings of the past week, , and go hack PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1868. again to make up tbeir losses by cheating their customers and robbing their masters. It would seem that King Frederic William’s morality is no better than that of the Duke of Nassau, where money is concerned. The Arrest of ITCr. Train—Further Par ti culnra—tieorße Refuse* to do in a Necond-Cluss hallway Carriage. !Dublin (Jan. 20.) Cor. London Time*.] Mr. G. P, Train's arrest -was-in-this wise; About half-past 10 o’clock the Jackal tender of fi the Cuiiard Company retnrned to Queenstown With the mails and such pas’sengers as desired to lland from the Scotia, which had arrived off the harbor on her homeward voyage. When the tender touched the Admiralty pier tho police, who were in large force awaiting its arrival, went on, board and apprehended! Mr. Train and two other passengers, Mr. Gee, an Englishman, and Mr. Durant, an American railway contractor. They were brought to the house of Mr. Beamish, J. P , and the attendance of another local magistrate, Mr. Tarrant, J. P., having been procured, the matter was investigated. Mr. Train protested indignantly against his arrest. He proclaimed himself an American citizen, stated tnat he hod committed no offence against British laws npon British territory, and denounced tho interference with his liberty as unwarranta ble and an insult to the United States, whose protection he claimed. The magistrate re solved to release the prisoners, being of opinion that there were no grounds for detaining llicm. Mr. Train and his companions were ac cordingly liberated, and proceeded to the Queen’s Hotel to’ pass the night. About 12 o'clock, how ever. two detectives returned, and having been shown to his apartment, proceeded to search it. Mr. Train, while they were so doing, expressed the utmost indignation, and his determination to apply for satisfaction to the American Minister. Nothing was found except a bundle of papers, the contents of which have not been com municated to the public, and a number of newspapers containing reports of Mr. Train's American speeches. Mr. Train was not then removed, but despite his vehement pro test; the police remained m the room all night, stating that they had orders so to do. His com panions were not again arrested. Mr. Train was in the morning brought'before Mr. 1 Hamilton, R. M., who held a private inquiry, and remanded him for a week. He was brought at one o’clock to Cork, in charge of two policemen with loaded arms, rris&hers. are usually conveyed in third class carriages, but a second-class carriage was provided for him. He did not regard the exception as sufficiently complimentary, but forgetting for the time his Republican notions, and unconsciously adopting the British principle of class distinction, he objected to be placed in a second-class compartment, and offered to pay the difference of fare in order to be permitted to travel iff a first-class carriage. The police eonld not vary their instructions, ana Mr. Hamilton, who was appealed to, declined to interfere. At Cork a large force _ rrf■ - police —tvas-hr attendance-~at~ the - • station - avrafting his arrival, and he was removed in aeab to the county jail. After his arrest he addressed the following telegram to the Cork Examiner; “I am under arrest for words spoken in America and on the high seas. This reminds me of Free America and Fort Lafayette.” It is due to him to say that he did not attempt' to assume any dis guise. His name was entered on the passenger list of the Scotia and on his luggage. When ap prehended he offered no resistance, but protested against the proceeding. It is stated that he was accompanied in the steamer by a detective, who bad telegraphed his departure and probable arrival in England,. Comments of the Fnglish Press—The Cork Police Catch an irrepressible 1 Tartar. i From tho London Star, January 20.1 There may, for anght we can tell, be evidence in store calculated to prove that Mr. Train’s ceming to Ireland wob Dot a visit but an invasion. He may turn out to be an American Hoehe for anything we can positively say to the contrary. But it really does look a little as if some zealous person had been making a fool of himself. We remember his tramways, his orations, the ban quets he used to get up in London under the name of ’‘turtle luncheons,” his speech-making,his improvising, his modest confi dence in his own ability, his books of travels, his pamphlets, his controversies, his endless pro jects,- bis astonishing mixture of cleverness and folly, epigram and “bosh.” Is he, indeed, a Fenian ? We heard of him as a shipping agent in Melbourne, as a projector in St. Peters burg, as a distinguished gue3t at Government House, Calcutta; as the inventor of something or other which ho labored to impress on the mind of the Emperor Napoleon in Paris, as a political orator stumping the United States, as the promoter of a tramway scheme in Westminster, as a supporter of Mr. Douitoh, in Lambeth, as an anti-negro controversialist in Liverpool. The latest thing we heard of him previous to. his cap ture in Queenstown, was that he was addressing an enormous meeting in Tremont Temple, Bos ton, in language alternately prose and verse, and then and there pledging himself “to stump the country from Maine to Oregon, from St. Paul to St. Augustine, as the independent candidate for' the Presidency.” . It certainly seems an odd and roundabout way of promoting one's claims to the Presidential chair of the United States to take steamer at once and come ofl' to' Queenstown; but Mr. Train is nothing if not eccentric, and his daring gehlns has habitually disdained all the ordinary ways of doing things. Still, we must sav that we shall be much surprised, indeed, if even his eccentricity has led him quite so far as even the outer circle of Fenianism; and if we have even' made a mistake in this case—oh! what orations and denunciations we are destined to hear! Never, never shall we hear the end of it if we have outraged the rights of a free American citi zen in the person of George Franeis Train! We much doubt whether an offer of-the heads of the oflending policemen would save us or America one paragraph of protest, one hour of eloquence. The police m Cork are doubtless not very well read in international law. Bnt it surely cannot be possible that they have made this arrest on the sup position that we can punish Mr. Train for having threatened England with war in the course of his recent orations in Boston ? Wo read, indeed, that in the latest of these harangues Mr. Train, “made a terrible attach on England,” and urged that the United States should go to war for the rescue of Meany, who is now in prison as a Fenian convict, bnt was previously a captive among us on quite a different conviction. But even in this tenible and tempestuous outburst of eloquence—it lasted for hours—we do not find that Mr. Train proclaimed himself a Fenian. Indeed, what he recommended was that “Seward should buy .Ireland,” and, in fact, he suggested that Ireland should be accepted in liquidation of the Alabama claims. But this proposal hardly converts an American citizen into a British rebel; and, indeed, wo find it diffi cult to understand how anything said or written, or projectcd by Mr. Train in America can render him liablo to arrest as a Fenian the moment he touches the shore of Great Britain. Of coarse an : American citizen actually carrying on in our own country a conspiracy against us is liable to be punished by onr laws, just the. same as anybody else; but how he can commit treason in his own country against a government to which he owes no allegiance utterly passes onr comprehension. While the habeas corpus act Is suspended in Ireland all manner of peoplo are, of course, liable to be arrested on suspicion; nor could any foreigner fairly complain if, on his arriving in the country, he were thus arrested, provided that he was promptly and properly set free the moment the mistake was explained. But what puzzles ns in this case is that Mr. Train was arrested as’ Mr. Train, and because of his being recognized as; Mr. Train. One newspaper, , indeed, describes the arrest as that of“ George Francis Train,one of the great leaders of the Fenians in America.'' OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Tho Alabama Claims. . * [From the London Standard, Jan. 21.] * * * Our liability or non-liability for tlie deeds of the Alabama is a simple question of right, depending on plain matters of law and fact; we cannot have questions of policy alto gether extraneous imported into it. If there was no neglect- of duty in permitting her egress we are not responsible, and no con sideration of onr previous conduct can make us so. The consequence of intruding any other matter into the discussion would be to vitiate the arbitrator’s judgment and deprive it of all value as a decision of the critical point—wliat are tbe obligations of neutrals in respect df ships purchased in their ports. If the prior question— was Englandlawfnlly neutral?—bo mixed up with this, the arbitrator’s verdict against us would settle nothing as to the liabilities of admitted neutrality. And if Mr. Seward really wishes to in troduce it it must be because he feels that his easels a weak one/ He might as well—in deed the terms of his proposition do—include as a part of. the reference the complaints of our ex port of arms to tho South which figure iu the “correspondence of the two governments.” Will Lord Hobart say that we should submit to arbi tration the right of our merchants to carry on contraband trade at their own risk? With Lord Hobart’s principal argument—that if we do not yield we shall run the risk of a war with America —we may deo] very shortly. It does not become England to concede anvthing to' threats v filch .she would not yield to reason. And it would be especially unworthy to yield to sneh menaces as those held out by American orators and by American sympathizers here, that America will attack ns. not now, when the alleged offence is fresh, but at some future time, when we may find ourselves in difficulties; or that she will let the Fenians loose upon Can ada. An American poet has given his judgment upon the former species of bluster as Ana we can hardly think so ill of America as to believe.the threats so mean and so cowardly re present the feeling of a kindred nation. As tor the Fenians, we may be very sure that a renewal of their Canadian- piracies -will-be treated very - differently from the former attempt, and that a lenity so ill requited will never be repeated. With them, as with any enemy, foreign or domestic, open or secret, that. may.assail her, directly or indirectly aid and abet her assailants, England will know how to deal, and assuredly will not modify her policy or lower her tone in deference to threats which reflect infamy on those who utter them. [From the London Time* of Jan. 21.] The Alabama correspondence was ostensibly closed by a despatch from Mr. Seward, dated No vember 29, formally declining Lord Stanley’s proposals. The United States government will offiy gnUoiv'te) arbitration on condition that our concession dftielßgemrt rights shall form-port of | the case for the aibitrator’s decision. Her Majesty’s government insist,on the contrary,that an actual state of war shall be assumed to have existed,and that, on this assumption, the arbitrator shall pro ceed to consider the claims of the United States to compensation. Such being tbe respective atti tude of the two governments, Lord Hobart, in a letter which appeared in our columns on Satur day, has undertaken to advocate the American view,while “Historicus," in a reply we published yesterday, defends the position taken by Lord Stanley. She question is one of such vast im portance, not only in its special bearing on onr present relations with the United States, but also in the general bearing on the . princi ples of international morality, that m calls lor a i deliberate and decided expression of public opinion. * * * Let us. now dis miss all considerations of this kind, and ask our selves whether, reasonable or unreasonable, an unconditional resort to arbitration should be ac cepted by Great Britain. There are two classes of motives which must be resolutely put aside be fore we can arrive at any sound conclusion on a question of national responsibility. On the one hand, we must rise above the blind instincts of pride and jealousy. Because the sentiment of large classes in this country was enlisted on the side of the South, because the claims of the United States'have been preferred in too peremptory a tone, or Because they have not been preferred, on like grounds, against France also, it does not follow that we should turn a deaf ear to com plaints—even to unreasonable complaints—of our conduct in -recognizing the Confederate States. .On the other hand, we must banish with no less firmness,' not unmixed with indignation, those motives to which Lord Hobart appeals when he reminds ns that it is plainly intimated in the Alabama correspondence that the United States Government “ may now be obliged to conform its principles and policy to those which it considers to have been the princi ples and policy of this country during the Ame rican civil War." The answer of “Historicus” is here absolutely conclusive, supposing the de mand of Mr. Seward to be palpably groundless: “If thaGovernment of the United States quarrel with us on the question of the recognition of belligerent rights, it can only bo because they are determined •in any event to quarrel with us.” Happily this conclusion is doubly hypothetical, and we are by no means prepared to adopt one of the hypotheses which can alone render it in evitable. We do regard Mr. Seward’s demand as palpably groundless, but are unwilling to believe that the Government and unable to believe that the people of the United States are so far committed to it as to .harbor the designs which Lord Hobart imputes to them. It is natural that Mr. Seward, having onco taken his staud bn ail untenable position, should adhere to itwilh more tenacity than Lord Stanley did to that of hispredeeeßsor. We can make allowances, too, for the presence of political exigencies, es pecially at the present crisis of American politics. Considering these circumstances, we venture to counsel th’e utmost patience and forbearance on the part of our government, but we are not pre pared to counsel submission where submission, Instead of promoting reconciliation, could only lower us in the eyes of the American nation. King Tlieodore’s Position and. Power Among the Natives. [Sranfo Correspondence of the London Post. I Two days ago I was talking to an Abyssinian chief who has been .educated at Bombay, and speaks English well, and; he had beon very inti mate with King Theodore. Hwiropresented him' as very passionate and vindictive, with on enor mous Influence over the minds, not only of his own subjects, but of all with whom he comes in contact: “In fact,” said he, “were Theodore to lay himself on the ground and say ‘No one can 'pass over' my- v body,” - all hir people would implicitly believe it as a fact." . This al most beats Canute and the waves. “You will never catch him," continued the chief, “h'o may light—it is not probable; but he will be sure to escape, even if ho has to sacrifice the prisoners and his whole army; he hevor-sleeps for moro ; ttan half ah hour without rising from his conch, >apd personally; inspecting- his guards, and!; he always, carries two pistols, one' for his' enemy, and the other for hlmsolf."' No We must only wait in breathless interest for the next scene in this new sensation drama, the next item in this new volume of claims to he added to Ihe Alabama budget.- One thing is cer tain, it .any mau liviug would like to make a “question,” and a “ccmplica uon, and an international difficulty and gen ual nuisance out of a policeman s mistake. .Mr. Train is that individual. We should think he must be quite delighted, positively cock-a-hoop over his arrest, and that he will demand to be conducted’ ter his dungeon with an exulting scorn worthy of aiiy twenly Roman citizens. One thing is certain, however the matter may turn out, somebody has made a fool of himself in this business. Perhaps it may prove to bo Mr. Train; hut that certainly is not our present impression. We rather fancy that tl-.e captors will prove, to have caught a most unmanageable and irrepres sible tartar. —- Most commonly the kind of talk Of crittera can’t be kicked to toe the chalk. ABYSSINIA. doubt my iriond was a little infected'with prevailing dread of (lie fierce Theodorus,although to far out of bis reach; but I fear’he is right in enying lhat searching for the king in his native fastnesses wiii.be like looking for a black cat in o coal-cellar. I inquired what were the proba bilities of conspiracy against him, or assassina tion, and was told nil. He is too superstitlously looked up to. It is, of course, impossible at tho present moment to assume what the actual plan of Ihe campaign will be, but, in the event of our having to penetrate all the way to Magdala and Debra Tabor, I believe the advance will bo con ducted with unparalleled care and caution. The two principal posts on tho line of march arc An talo and Sokota, and at each of thcße places as well as at Senate ample provisions and supplies of ail kinds will be laid in before wo proceed one step in nd vance from each depot in succession. In this case it must prove a lengthy business, and as tbo heavy rains set in about May, it will probably be September next before we reach Theodore’s capital. Steel ItailN tor Itailronds. To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin: —Your re marks on "Railroad Travel" in your issue of the Ist inst. will, I trust, be only tho beginning of a series of similar views, expressed from time to time, untij railway companies shall see the ne cessity of employing every means at their com-? mand in the effort to make the transit of travel ers both pleasant and safe. That the use of etrel rail.! will be one of the greatest preventives against accident is generally admitted amongst railway men; for, beside haring a tensile strength of more than double that of iron, It has also a transverse strength equally great when properly adapted for railway uses; and as it is a homogeneous metal it is not liable, like iron, to be affected by of temperature, A good quality of steel mils mill readily bend at.a right an gle, or will even double up cold without fracture, in frosty weather; although it requires a far greater pressure than iron in bending. The enduring qualities of the steel rail have already been shown in England to he over twenty-fold greater than iron. - The first cost of the steel, however, being double that of iron, prevents many rail wav companies from laying it on the main line of their track, and it is yet deemed good policy by many roads to continue the use of iron rails with all their risks, and at an average life of only five years, rather than go to the expense of a first cost of double the iron in putting down steel, which, as I state, has already been proved to out wear twenty iron. Copld stockholders be con tented to build their roads for posterity, there is no doubt steel would quickly come into very general use, as an interest account at G per cent., added to the first cost of iron rails at to-day’s prices, with a rerolling every five years for a hun di ed,miles of track,-would in a centnrv make the gross cost of the iron ' track SdO.OOCfiOOO, whilst the steel would be but 810,500,000. provided it endured twenty times as long as iron. How ’mnefi’wonld be’saved By the use of steel in the rolling Btock account, and in freedom from acci dents and comfort of passengers, it would be dif ficult to estiflaatet . Not Only, however, must we employ steel rails, but Eolid steel Irogs, steel axles, steel wheels, steel boiler-plates and steel tires have also becomo a necessity. The steel tire question is one already definitely settled,' and although only a few years have elapsed since their introduction, iron tires are almost a forgotten thing in railway nses. After broken rails! perhaps no more fruitful cause of accident exists on our express trains than broken wheel-flanges. It Is too much to expect of cast-iron that it’sball stand the increased strain tions of temperature. Oalf'cast-steel wheels or wrought-iron wheels, with cast-steel tires, can be expected to bear the continued strain which the rapid motion of the ears too often places upon the wheels. Scarcely les6 important is the use of cast-steel axles, which are, I am glad to say, now ’ becoming so generally in demand with lirst-clas3 railways. Solid cast-steel frogs or crossings are also generally being brought into use iu this country, although very largely used in Europe for some years. As no part of tho permanent way receives harder use than the frogs; switches and crossings, the advantage of making these Of one piece of solid, toughened enst-steel will be easily perceived. Now, if to these improvements onr railway managers will add better ventilation, and secure us from being burnt with coals and coal oils, we may confidently hope that Accidental Insurance Companies will continue to pay good dividends and a traveler not feel the necessity of making his will each time he travels a thousand miles by rail. Perhaps few of yonr readers are awarehow entirely alive some of onr railway managers are to the various improvements which are offering themselves daily to their notice; and it perhaps could hardly have been believed, were it not known as a fact, that not less than 15,000 to 20,000 tons of steel rails are now laid in the United States, and that the solid steel frogs, steel axles, steel tires and 6teel wheels, are being put into use as rapidly as they have yet been made in this country, besides the targe importation of foreign materials of steel of the same description which are constantly being, sent here on orders : for onr different roads. Let ns hope the day is not far distant when we shall have no necessity to scud outside of onr own Statefor these articles, ns already two millions of dollars are invested in Pennsylvania, as we are informed, in the pro duction of the materials we have just above enumerated. Penn. C cncrnl qrant and tlie President. [Washington Uorreependenco of the New York Time*.] It has been current here for a week or two past that the President has gone so far in his determination uot to recognize Secretary Stan ton that he had actually issued an order to Gene ral Grant forbidding him to obey any orders- re ceived from the Secretary of War. Thiß turns out to be true, and it is aIBO true that Gen. Grant declined to obey it, whereupon a spicy corres pondence ensued, which has lasted for a couple of weeks, and covers not only the matter named, but also the charges made by the President against General Grant of duplicity in his action on the War Office question. The truth of all thig is undoubtedly contained in this corres pondence, which is in official form and should see the light, which it undoubtedly, will, at an Biirlyday. Gen. Dodge,of lowa, through Mr. Hubbard, of West Virginia, yesterday offered a resolution in the House, which was agreed to, directing the Secretary of War to communicate copies of all correspondence between him and the President in relation to Bis limitation of powers as Secre tary of War, and also all correspondence with Gen. Grant upon the same subject. This will probably bring out the facts above alluded to. Destructive Fire at Knoxville, Teuu. [Special Despatch to the New York Timea,} Rno-xvii.M'- Tenn., Monday, Feb. 3 —This city ■was visited with a destructive conflagration last night. The block on the southwest comer of Main and Gny streets was burned irom the cor ner to the Franklin House on Main street, and back to the old Paxton property on Gay streot. The loss is very heavy, ana the insurance only follows: Home', of New Haven, $B,- .000; Phoenix, $3,000; Hartford,! $l,OOO, both of Hartford, and Southern of Nashville, $2,000. A Najmow Escai-k.— A story is told of a lady very nearly buried alive at Passy last month. She was seized with n lcthurgy, which terminated in apparent death. She was laid out in a coilln, and a hearse was at the door waiting to convey her to the cemetery, whon her husband said he was not satisfied that she was really dead. In consequence of his determined opposition to the interment, three medical men were called in. They found that her heart was beating; and in their presence a child was born, bat dead. The.- coffin and heurso were sent away. The lady, however, never recovered consciousness. F L. EETHERST®.. PRICE THREE CENTS, FACTS ARD FAIVCIS3) —Newark, N. J., la to have a public park. —Marshal Foroy is hopelessly paralysed! —Gold is at fifteen per cent, premium l inriialy. —Stealing gates is one of the fashionable amusements in Now Haven among youngs noon. —A French engineer wants to build a bridge across the Channel for $80,000,000.' • —Hon. John Bell is much better in health,* but still poorly in polities. ~ -—7-- ■-- —Weston is about to inflict himself upom the public of BniTalo. —One hundred Germans have settled near 06-s lumbla, 8. C., and are doing well. —lt is understood that on the re-asscmblingauf Parliament Sir Morton Poto will resign his seat? —The Bt. Albans (Vt.) Fire Department cobs'- sists of one engine and five wells. —The famous Strasbourg clock is getting out* of order, and part of it is to be romoved. —There Is danger just now of the leaning tower of Pisa falling to pieces. —Spectral fingers of a white clad ghost clutch the throats of startled sleepers in Dubuque. —-Mr. Samuel Lover, the Irish song writer, will soon publish a complete edition 01 his poetical works. —The Pope has this year sent to the Queen Of Spain the golden rose, which he blessed, as usual, at the mass, on Twelfth Day. —The country papers aro horrified at the con-' duct of Sir Culling Eardley, the bigamous British baronet, and heap indignity on him by spelling him Sir Culling Fondley. ' : —Ben Perley Poore is going to write a history of Washington correspondents, which will be a good addendum to the “Dictionary of Com merce.” —lt is proposed to raise a testimonial to Mr. Disraeli, to consist of “penny contributions co extensive with the reanimated sullrage,” and a subscription has already begun. —A clerk In a St. Thomas (Canada) dry goods store has been put in jail to prevent him from killing a young lady who has the bad taste not to love him. . « —Mr. Bryant has been requested the New York Historical Society to prepare a memorial paper on the life and genius of Fits Greene Halleek. ' . . , —The carriers of Susan Anthony’s paper, the) I!e,rolu(ion,ai(t chiefly little girls, wearing a pretty uniform, short red dress. They attract much at tention in New York. —Mr. Tennyson has in contemplation a ‘standard” edition of his poems in lour volumes. The edition will be careiuily corrected, and will contain some notable additions to his writings. —George Francis Train remarks, in a letter written at sea: “Shipboard is the place to read character; all therp is in a man pops out when he is seasick.” . —Mr. Thornton, the new British Minister, is a married man with three ohlWnm.. Mrff, T, -will ■ arrive in the United States in May next. Mr. Thornton's two immediate predecessors, Lord Lyons and Sir Frederick Bruce, were bachelors. —A speaker at a public meeting in England recently applied the term “jannock ,E to Mr. Glad stone, and the papers are now having an ani mated discussion as to whether it means honest, or a kind of bread. —The Vermont Spiritualists are about to start a paper at Montpelier.to be supplied with “com munications” telegraphed from the seven Its-phercd the public will not fed as much in terestln the information as they' ought. —A sale of a private library in New York in cludes in its catalogue the author’s copy of Ber anger’s with the suppressed pieces script of Dickens’s “Hunted Down”—a short" story which first appeared in the Ledger. —Perhaps the societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals will adopt the plan now in operation in London. A fair has been opened to raise money for the starving dogs of that metro polis, we are’ seriously informed by one of the papers of the city. —Detroit is the largest fur market in tho country, and the number q£ skins sold in that city is immense. They Sire obtained by trappers in northern Michigan, ■ Indiana and Ohio. Many of them are shipped direct to London. —Paris street railways have flat rails and the car wheels have no flanges,! bnt there is a small rail in the centre on which an extra grooved wheel runs. This wheel can be raised by the driver,.when the car easily runs off the track to turn out for a car coming from an opposite di rection. r —Forsyth, Q. C., will preside at a grand din ner of horse, in London, next Thursday. Mr." Bicknell, who gave the tentative pouy lately pri vately prepared and eaten, is the Secretary in whose name invitations, to the number of 150, are issued. The dinner is to be served at the new Langham Hotel. —The Melbourne (Australia)..! speakaof a plague of sand-flies with which many parts of the country have been afflicted. The atmosphere has in largo districts been loaded with these in sects, which have attacked the cattle, horses and goatsfn such myriads as to drive the poor ani mals almost distracted. —lt appears from statistics kept in France that during the last thirty years more than ton thou sand people were struck by lightning, of whom two thousand two hundred and thirty-Swo were killed outright. Eight hundred and eighty were killed during the last ten years, and of these only two hundred and forty-three were females. Who wouldn’t be a female? —The Tribune said the other day: “They have been hanging of Into years prettv vigorously in Pennsylvania. We do not know a Stats in which the halter has had a fairer, swing.”’ The Boston: Pest replied: “That is the reason the Democrats have gained a majority in Pennsylvania, we suj>7 pose.” Which, despite Us copperhoadism, is a fair hit at the Tribum’s folly. —"An old compositor” writes n letter to the New York Tribune to say that the poem “Rock, mo to sleep, Mother,” was written by Edward. Young, of Lexington, Georgia, in 1859; that. Mv» Young was an eccentric blacksmith, or. way ward carriage maker; and he doca not think,that Mr. Young could possibly have plagiuNzed the poem. —Four hundred and ten novels are said to have been published in England during the-, past y.oar,' nearly one and a hall novels a day; politics, and religion rank higher than Action among the.hooks of the day, since of the works belonging ta these two classes of literature there' ware published during the same time soma eight hundred: and fifty. Truly, the English are a reading people! —At the commencement of 1868, there were 449 persons entitled to seatsjin the British, House of Peers, viz.:—Ono prince, 2 royal dukes, 3 archbishops, 26 dukes, 33, marquises, 160 earls, 33 viscounts, 27 bishops, and 164 barons.. There are 107 peers of Scotland and Ireland, who are not members of the House of Lords. The privy council numbers 224. There are ai3o in the United Kingdom BGS baronets aud 174 civil and military knights. —. - - —A correspondent Of the Chicago Tribune re lates this story of Mac-ready, when he was play ing in Mobile: “His manner at rehearsal dis pleased one of the actors, and this person, who wasGast for the part of Claudius, In ‘Hamlet,* resolved to pay oil: the star. When In the lasti ' scene Hamlet stabbed the .usurper, he reeled for ward, and after a. most, spasmodic finish, ha stretched hlmsolf out precisely in the place Ham let required for his own death. Macready, much annoyed, whispered fiercely, ‘Die farther up the stage, sir.’“The monarch lay insensible,. Gum which in a still londer voice, the Hamlet.groined, ‘Dio further up the-stage, sir.’ Hereupon the Claudius, etttlng up, observed, 'I b’Vieve Pm king here, nnd I’ll die where I please l’ The tragedy concluded shortly after,”
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