GIBSON PEACOGKr«or. VOLUME XXL—NO. 277. •THE lEVENING BULLETIN FC]>MfiUEl> EVERT EVENING (-Sundays excepted). AT THE NEW BULtETIN BtrilsDlNG, «OTCbe<tmit Street, miadolphla, ■■ bt tub; ■ ■ ■ ■ EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. j • ?xonunoß|i . ta tho city at la e«nt» pur week, payable to the carnerz. or 88 per annum. TNVITATIONB FOR WEDDINGS, PARTIES, dto.. 1 , executed u a superior manner by DREKA. ItBaOHKBTNC'roTRtiBT. feaO-tfj SUBiUBU. GATfS—SOVEREIGN.—On Thursday, February 27tb. In Germantown. Pa,, by the Rer. T. Sovereign, -Jahcz Gates, Ex),, and Hlae leabel M„ daughter of tbe othclatlng C hEEaKY—PEACOCK.—On Thursday evening I'ob. 27th, by the Kov. Eobt. 0. Matl&ck» Jobn’F. Hillary to J&tnrr K. I'encock. daughter of tbe late D. B. Peacock, i>q.,allof Pollaaelphha, [Burlington and Mount Holly P ±M£smk-Oo the Mth fost.. by the. Rev. Wm. B. Wood, Mr. Ben done* and Mice Rachel Leeber, both of this city. \ DIED. ABBOTT.-On Thursday, the 27th instaat, Samuel W. Abbott, In the 61>t year or bie age. Due notice will be given of tbe funeral * DF.BINGFiK.-On the 26th of February, im, at bki resi dence, No. «18 North Front street. Henry Deringer, aged 82year». - The friend* of the family are Invited to attend bis morrow (BaturdayX at 10 A. M. To proceed FULTQfS-dn Friday, 27th lint, Mr*. Sarah Fulton, widtVr of Mark Fulton, aged 86. It MECONKKY.—On Thursday evening, 27 th InaU David Meconkcy. la the sixty-ninth (©til) year of bla age. . The friend* ef the family are Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, in Went Cheater, on Mon day afternoon, March aeeond (2d), at two (2) o’clock.. • , MOBlifB.-On the morning or the 36th Instant, Levi Blorris, in tlie 61st roar of hla age. . . The funeral wlu meet at his late residence. In Lower Merion-on Seventh-day, the 29th Instant, at 2P. M. * _ WHWFIBI.D.—At Orange, New Jitter, February 26. dsn-nee Bird, son of Edwin A. and Susie B. Whltheld, a, sd two yearn, two month* and twenty-ax dart. » Ta'VRE * LANDELL OPEN TO DAY THE LIGHI’ Xu shades ofSprinc Poplins for the Fashionable Walking DfCMtfL Steel Colored PopHna, Mode Colored Poplinm BUtbitrck Exact Sb&de. sFeoial mmcEs. war To the Select and Common Councils CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. ’J'l<e undersigned Citizens and Tax-pas/en reipcet/uily represent: That the system of freight transportation through the sticct* of our city, with Its attendant Immoralities, Is, In the opinion of your Petitioners, disgraceful and revolting to the feelings of our eltlzene. That on Market and Broad street* this tide of iniquity has rolled on for yean, un checked and unabated by tbe Corporations whose freight i* transported ovir these streets. Instances of cruelty and profanity, perpetrated by men to all appearances recom mended to their positions by their being rho most hardened, and most unfeeling of their species, are of daDy, almost honriy occurrence. —* Your petitioners arc of opinion the time has arrived ’s-hea tide disgracelul state of things should be stopped at all costs. And we ask. In the name of humanity, in the Bathe of a Christian community, thstthefrolght rails be sltogether removed from otT Market sued Broad streets, and we ofltr the following in support ef our petition: We look In vain for dny parallel to this state of affairs in UM large Cities of Europe and. this country. Other ciiiee have fag morn inland trade, butin no ehe Instance, to onr Knowledge; fcVwrtfcVy auwssAstwd Mtetr ftwestand noblest aveouw, and the heart of their eitiesi to obtaia.it. Philadelphia possesses five railroad dspois. terminating at tide water, abundantly adequate to accommodate all tlwforeUm f rads of these road*, and them seems no valid reason why our local city trade should net terminate with the termination of the steam pewer. The lo»ff of Iniquity, which now lie* like an incubus on the tnerfica of Market and Broad streets; ouee removed, improvements would rapidly follow, and a full return be realized by tbe City Treasurer in an enhanced valuation of taxable property. Tbattbecontemplated location at the intersection of Broad and Haricot streets of tome of oermort flooriahing institutions of science, literature dnd art. wifi be next to futile, to long aa the present ituroundincs exist. Access to them except from the rear, would be at times impos sible, and! that repose and quiet which should always characterize tbe abodes of literature and science, will be difficult of attainment, where the inceeeant crack oi the whip. I lie clattering «1 hoofs, and oath* of the mulodri \ cm, invade the abcMea of learning. All of which la respectfully submitted. i'an-iDxu-uiA, February, 1688. r. S-—Copies of this memorial are at the Philadelphia EichasgeTug the Athemeam for signatures, t lt{ oar SELECT ENTERTAINMENT. HEADINGS AMD IMPERSONATIONS »* If, V# fllcCIIUiVf From the Works of Bhakeipeara. Dieltem, Ac.. At (he Clmreh. BROAD and B KANDY WINE Street*. Above Spring Garden street. . FEIDAY EVEMb 0. Feb. Stth. 1568. It* LECTERR BY D 0 CHAILLU.-PAUL DU ww CHAILLU will leeture at Concert Hall, onTUES DAY EVESING NEXT, March 3. Subject-Journey to the Cannibal Country; the Gorllla,iw h.bits,and atHufties tv Man. illustrated by numerous diagrams. Tickets so C< Noextracharge for roasrvedscats. To be bad M Triimplsi**, No. Mo Chestnut street; Boner, No. 1102 Lhcstnutetreet, ■• feSS-ftrp* ' • ' andattheHalL men* THE TWENTIETH ANNEAL COMMENOE- Mtar OY THE HOMffiOPATHIO MEDICAL • COLLEGE OF FENNBYLVANIA will be held ’ OMFRIDAY EVENING. FEBHU-aEV 28th, 1868, At So'clodnat HORTICULIDR AL HALL, Broad street, by Prefejsor A R-Morgan. A-fineßand of Mtule will be in attendance. • - . The public le Invited to be present.' ' fe3b-3trp* ■wap* ST. • MARY'S HOSPITAL. CARNEftr OF '»**' FRANKFORD ROAD, and PALMER STREET /oppodte New York Kemdneton Depot), In charge of the Ardent eAeesnweived If brought Immediately after ncepUott of injury. i : ‘ . . . Lv[ii«.ln*aaMreeelveaatamoderatenteo{baarA. . . Freemedteal and eurklcai advlce given on Wednesday .andSafiirdar Alternoonabetweenland«o'clk. feia-tfrp OF THE LEHIGH COAL < AND <*•» NAtfOA%ON , . . PBnjtnntwaia, Jannary 30,1668. Tht> Company 1* prepared to purchase It* Loan due 4nvm,atpar. gOIIOMON^ BHEPHERD, Treasurer. JaflO-tfrp - No. Ha Soutirßoeond Street THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF THE •"' Penwylvanla Collegeof Dental StiWery Will, be held at the Musical Fund Hilton Saturday evenlntFcb. 39tb. 1968, at 7 34 o’clock. Valedictonr far Prof. 0. T. Barker/The public are pam] g(g f* HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOB. IjM AND^UTp cd treatment and xnedichieytuTniehedsriituitouriY to the «oor. . . , .• 1 ■ ■ ■- v MOP* SECOND LECTOR® ON VENTILATION.—BY Mr. t W. Leeda at the Franklin Institute, THIS -<Friday) EVENING;at eight o’clock. W ■» NEWSPAPERS. BOOKS.- PAMPHLETS; WASTE N,.yg,Li POUIICAL NOTICES. K»* AT.THS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF the SlktnLegUlaUye Dletrlot, hold Feb., 39tbr 1868, lorthenurpoieot electing a Delegate from i&ld Convon y ventlon.the following roeolutlon wae _ RePuhUoaa State, Convention from the Sixth Legislative hereby Inetrueted to vote In said Con- National Convention who Ahdanxay boußd to vote la ratdeConvon- GEN. U. B. GRANT, FOR PRESIDENT, T lOB FREBIDENT, . Of the United States* as the noininoee of the JRepubiican JartF. . _ WALTER ALLISON. W, H. HOLMES, am**# I *"*. 0f —London la to have s paper to be called the Strangled Journal of theßrawlers. Strangula tion may stand in the way of Its attaining a great circulation. ' . —The Emperor Napoleon has presented to the Queen of Prussia two valuable porcelain Sevres - vases, which her Majesty admired at the Exhi bition. . J 3 atli (EbMig fittllcf in SLATE. NO. IV. TJbc l arge Quarry-llolstuorks-Miii. iaturc Hailroadu—Nlatcrsi and iiicir loolH—Nature Conoiaernte-Delicacy ot Slate—tMcalping”—Church Steps— I.caves from nfattire’s Bootas-Drcss- Ing Slate—memoranda about soft Slate Quarries—Cautions rbe Old Slate Roof House”—Quests of Quies 'tor. ' . (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening BuUotln.l Chapsian Quarries, Pa., Feb. 20,18G8 Tlio traveler approaching the great quarry at this place observes first in the valley ahead of him a village of about fifty houses, there being an off shootof it npon the hill on the west. He next sees great piles of slate rubbish, mueß'of which would be used for flagging if it was near a city. Tbe immediate works consist of an irregular outer circle of slaters’ shanties—some of which (the best in summer) are made by raising walk of the rectangular rubbish, and throwing a board roof across—and an inner circle of engine-houses and derricks, the latter on the edge of the excavation. For the first operations in uncovering, "boom derricks,” upright masts steadied by long guys from the top, and supporting booms, are used. These derricks are warked by horse-power. For tbe advanced stages of the work a hoisting ap paratus is used that is not seen, I think, in any other trade. The main feature of these hoist works is a two-legged affair, such as is used in cities to raise stone fronts for houses. But in this case, instead of standing nearly per pendicular, it is nearly horizontal—one end pro jecting over the quarry and elevated about twenty live degrees by a strong framework. A fixed chain extends from the outermost part of the structure to the bottom ot the opening at the further side. A second chain passing over rollers near the end of the frame, and (hence to the engine,ls fastened to an iron pnllev that plays np and down on the other chain with the stones and rubbish boxes booked to it. Every timers load is hoisted, a little car a yard square, on asection of railroad spiked to a movable platform, is shoved out under it. This ten feet square plat form is on wheels, is worked out and In by a crank and an endless chain. These little ears run on iron (racks made of flat rails set on edge, out to the slate shanties and rubbish damps. The hoist works are dangerous affairs Last summer a stone being set unevenly, on the car tipped up, and sent a man whirling into the abyss with the ear on top of him. OX course the fall alone (130 feel) killed him. These arc the largest slate works in the United States, employing 150 men. As many as 70 of these are slaters, the rest quarrymen and la borers. On entering one of the largest shanties you see the railroad running through the middle of it. On each side are piled large blocks of slate, some of them weighing three or four tons. Soma are three-feet cubes—others will be twelve or fifteen feet long and not more than six inches thick. When not cutting these stones,the slaters sit back of them in pairs. Each pair is called a block. Usually Ibe two have a space about 8 1C feet partitioned off for themselves. Theifr tools are few and simple and their work 'is truly simple. Mature seems in deed to have undertaken to furnish this material so nearly ready for use, that only enough work -would remain for men to do to keep those engaged at it from getting too wretch edly lazy. The visitor fairly laughs with pleased surprise as he sees a slater sometimes, after Open ing the end of a twelve-foot block with his chisel, take hold of the" end of the quarter-inch thick sheet of stone with bis hand and peel it off from the block as easily as if it was birch bark. Per haps some readers would not have been surprised if I had told them that roofing-slate was made by pouring liquid clay on a flat surface and leaving it to dry like paper-pulp. Yet tho truth fa eDanger than that fiction would have been. But I should show the whole operation. Slate, like corai (ride Topper), is very susceptible of at mospheric influence when first hoisted out. Heat dries it so that it will not split readily. This is one reason why such pain is taken to hoist large blocks and to keep them covered. It must be moist until it is “dressed;" then, if it is what it should be, it meets only friendly helpers in the air. I have seen some soft slate quarries that were of so delicate a nature that it was necessary to keep streams of water running over the cx- Sosed surfaces. Frost also affects the cleavage. no freezing rather helps it to split; but let it be frozen and then thawed before splitting and it is useless—cleaves as raggedly as if it was rotten. At Slatington they have to have stoves in their shanties in winter, and have to put their small blocks in holes in the ground and cover them until they are needed. When a slater takes hold of a large block he studies it a moment to see how he can make the most of it He always wants it to be at least six inches lhick, so that it will “sculp" easily: He usually aims to make as many largo slates as possible—those from twenty to twenty-four inches long. In “sculping”—probably a corrup tion of “scolloping"—he takes his hammer and “gouge,” and gouges out a groove, about an inch deep, in the end of the .block, at right-angles with the plane of cleavage, and at least a foot from one side. He then takes his sculping chiscl—octagonal inch steel, with an edge -of about two Inches—chisels this groove quite straight, that he may be able to exert a uniform force when he “comes to blows.". When he is ready for the finishing strokes he holds his chisel Tightly, so that It will ’rebound from the stone, and thus give a more perfect shock. By a few skillful blows he will send a straight crack through the great stone, that is perhaps twelve feet long and a foot thick, and it falls asunder, as if by magic.' ? One singular proof of the delicate organization of the material is found in the fact that the slater can influence the direction of this crack by de flecting his chisel. After giving a smart blow or two, he wipes. the locality wltn a wet rag, to see if there is any sign of the crack, and also (me) to give direction to it. IT then he sees that it la run ning too much one way he deflects his chisel in the next blow, so as to urge the future course of the crack toward tho otherslde. This second phase of the work often produces blocks resembling in size and evenness the great steps of a marble church. The moment the mass lies cloven before him, the wiser Paladin; he seizes a stick having a rag on the end from a keg of water, and slaps the water all along the “fresh sides,—apparently, to exclude the air, and income other mysterious way aid the cleavage. Then, with chisel and wedge, by a few ringmg blowa (good slate ringsnnder the hammer like bellmetal) he splits his secondary into tertiary blocks, a couple of inches thick, carries, them to his seat, and 1b ready for the final wonder of cleavdge already described. When he has cut a leaf In this book of nature that is more than two feet long, he breaks It into such lengths by a series* of Mows with the butt of hlA“splitting chisel” before handing - his work to fee “dresser.” The splitting chisels are: broad and thin—a cross between an apothecary’s spatula and a “caulking iron.” Some are two feet long. The dresser sits on a “dressing bench-a railroad tie sawed in twain makes two of them. A two-poln ted straight edge of lrop, Tjihoitf. two- feet down into it at one end. .It Is like a mammoth two-bladed pocket-knife sticking there, or. the two-pointed iron used In Urn docks'to hold two floating logs together. His dressing-knife lfi like an exaggerated thick- backod bntcher-knife. He . has no other tool except a “marking-istick,”. two feet and a half long, notched at the inches, and a nail In the end to scratch with. He lavs the piece of slate on tho straight-edged iron of the bench : before him, inarkß it off as largo as possible, and slashes into it with the knife in a Way that one would suppose would smash the frail stone leaf to atoms; hut it usually receives . the Mows as. meekly and gives way to the cleaving edge’ as exactly as if it was fresh leather, • PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1868. There are dressing machines which Will dress as much ae twomori; but they waste a good deal of stuff, rind being much opposed by the men. have not yet come into general use. Two men will sometimes split and dress ten "squares” of slate in a day—a eqnare being enough to cover one liimdred square feet or ten feet square on a roof, inoluding the three-inch tip. I have now given the whole process of manu facturing roofing slate. I will conclude with some m< moranda I made last year for a friend, who was about to investigate the Virginia quar ries. Those, mostly in the shape of questions to to be asked, comprise all I have to say about the soft slate quarries, from which both roofing and cyphering slate, as well as all the other articles (numerated, arc obtained. Wbat other quarries near It on same vein? 16 the adjacent formation bastard slate or what ? Is there any adjacent stream likely to inundate it? Any abandoned quarries near? Is there frost enough in winter to afl'ect the slate se riously? What is the pitch of the plane of cleavage ? Has it cyphering beds or mantel beds ? If so, how wide ? Hit has school beds, are there factories near, and what price do they pay? Is tbe slate straight? In what direction do the ribbons run ? (In these quarries tbe ribbons are found mostly rotten—thev thus servo aa “joints” to facilitate removal.) Are the slate split from the end or side of block, or both? How thick a space lies between the "water splits” at various depths? Is there abundant dumping ground? Are the colors likely to fade ? Are there any vains of quartz Id or near the place? Has it been worked in winter ? Can any dressed slates be shown that have been a year on the ground ? If so does, the color hold ? How many “ blocks ” were ever worked? How many squares to a block does it average? What price does roofing slate bring? What is freight? What money has been made here ? What force could be used next year? What has been principal market? Have slaters been easily obtained, and at what rate? What would they corn tract for ? What is the price of laboi ?’ Tbe following injunctions were added : Examine the rubbish heap to see if it holds its color. Examine'tho slate by fusion m a forge to detect sulphur, and by'soaking in water to teat irnperviousness to moisture. (This necessitates w cighing before and after the soaking.) Look out for veins the further development of which would necessitate tunneling. Trust onlv such specimens as you see dug and split. Observe w lietber specimens are taken from a point easily worked, and whether the best slate leads to or is near another property. Examine the roots of the neighborhood to see if the slate on them Is rotten or dingy. Nearly all these questions and cautions apply equally well to pnr own forma tion. ' And now, as I can think of nothing more that would be germane to the subject, and fear that much of this is Dutch to my readers, I will have done. I might indeed make copious extracts from the new story called "The Old Biate Iloof House,” now in course of publication in “Ijppin coU's Magazine.” But as that periodical is doubt less as much esteemed already by Philadelphians as "our market houses!” I spare you, and con tinue in silence my various quests. Quaestor. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS ENGLAND. Cabinet Changes and .the Lord Chan cellorship— Democratic Reform meet ing American bympathizers in « ooncil—The Alabama Claims—Pop ularX*lan of settlement-ami Peace. Queen’s HothL, Loudon, February 26,1868 Lord Chelmsford, Lord Chancellor of England, has resigned his seat on the woolsack in conse quence of Cabinet and official changes contem plated by Mr. Disraeli. Lord Chelmsford sup ports the new premier. Bir Hngh Cairns, one of. the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeals, succeeds to the Chancsllor ship. An influential democratic reform meeting was held at 8t- James Hall this evening. Many sym pathizers with the cause of republican govern ment in the United States attended and the Hall was crowded. John Brluht, with many other members of Par liament, the Kev. Newman Hall and other well known personages were present. Mr. Urieht occupied tbe chair. He spoke strongly in favor of the United States and the government policy and power of the American people and of England’s duty aud necessity of cultivating and maintaining friendly relations with them. If, he said, the British government and English press had acted rightly and pru dently during the time of the late war in America no power bh earth conld have alienated the two nations in feeling or separated them in interest. Mr. Bright, in conclusion, expressed his firm be lief that ail prominent questions of apparent difficulty now pending between the two countries uonjd be amicably settled. The ltev. Newman Hail followed. He stated ,he nature and probable extent of the Alabama claims carefully aud in explicit terms to the as semblage, showing that England was completely ill the wrong. He said although the people of the United States waited and appeared to post pone the matter, the Alabama claims subject would lead to war in some short time unless the bill was paid, fie would advise a settlcmcnfoT the matter by arbitration in the manner proposed by, or;agreed to, by the United States. The reverend gentleman wound up his address with a powerful appeal to the people of England and America to affirm and maintain a perpetual peace in the interest of universal civilization. Mr. Hall resumed his seat amid loud cheering. The following resolution was then proposed : Resolved, That this meetiDg expresses the most hearty good will towards A \ erica, and pledges itself to snmiort any government at home in Its efforts to effect a prompt, rightebUß and pacific settlement of all international differences, and especially of those connected with the Alabama claims question. The resolution was adopted unanimously amid loud cheers and with every person in the hall standing. Bone. The FcastollUePurification. [From the N. Y. World. 1 Rome, Feb. s.—On Sunday, 2d,Candlemas Day and the Feaßt of the Purification, the customary ceremonies took place in St. Peter’s. The cele bration by the Church of this festival in honor of the Virgin, dates in the Eastern .Church from a period eariierthan492, whou tho Popo St.Golaslua instituted its observance in the Church of Rome. This pontiff especially ordained a solemn proces sion, for the pnrpose of expiating and displacing the prevalent superstition of the linpercaff* con secrated by the Arcadian Evandcr to the worship of the god Pan. : Gelasius wrote a letter on the subject to the Senator Andrsmachue, who bad expressed extreme disgust,atthe suppression of the antique rites. The Lupercalla fell annu ally on the 16th of February, and was a ceremo nial: symbolical of a. purification of land and when the young men were wont to ran about with thongs > made of goaiskin,- Striking those whom they met, much as nowadays, without any idea: except impudence, the common mas queraders--in the carnival hit right and left with inflatedibiaddetfs; But the'skin W the ga®t gaVe“ February its name, and-it‘ls singular to observe another of the many Instances where tho early Church absorbed cmaeanetifiod by a widely dif ferent spirit those pophiar feasts and even sym bols which would have heem .difficult.to have up rooted-altogether in those first days of the new religion. The cemmencemen tof the Purification of the Virgin, forty days aftetf thfe birth of the Saviour, oUtbxactly at the; pbrbd of, the proces sion.'that Tutted from the dwa .before Eneas reach# the Italian shores, and tira& a procession 1 w#T3t#ifih#hy the Church, was fol loßMjSiSwrthffthe. Christomjjwj^cphit^njof ttePaitaa ntee. ?Mtey.bore in twjrhandsllghKd OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. divinity of Christ, the wax being typical Of the purity and mortality of the first, the liglif of ibe latter. The Popes had been in the habit of ulebratirg the fits of the Purification and the procession in the chapel of their palace. In 183!? Gregory XVI. decided thenceforward on trans icrriiig the ceremonial to the Basilica itself, giving thereby great satisfaction to the laith lul, who could never find places sufficient in the Sixtine sbapel. The cardinals assist at the mass with all the signs and tokens of tbeir several dignities. The patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops coming-in their violet copes and white mitres. Ths Bovereign Pontiff ascends bis throne in the tribune, surrounded by his whole court, and immediately after receiving the homage of the • Bacred College of Cardinals, com mences the blessing, of the vandtea. Three of these are dedicated to the Pope himself, two enormous tapers of twenty pounds each, and one of two pounds only,, most richly orna mented, to be carried in his hand by his Holiness during the snbsequent procession and! the Mass. The Cardinals receive each their candle of three pouads weight, and kiBS first this and then tbe bem of the Papal cope. The bishops kiss- their ta pers of two poundseach and kiss the Pope's knee. Tbe other recipients of a little amount of wax, to wit,ambassadors,prelates,and lay persons of dis tinction, kiss the loot only. After the distribution, tbe Pope washes his hands in a basin presented to him by the prince in attendance near tbe throne, and the procession takes- places The cortege leaves the choir on the right side of tbe altar, makes the tour of the nave, and returns by the left or gospel side. His Holiness- thorn de scends from the elevated chair in which, he has been borfie through tlie church, and takes his former seat. The violet robes ef the cardinals are laid aside, and the ecailet assumed, and’ mass is sung by one of their number, to whom, special powera have been accorded by a Papal bulL as otherwise mass at the high altar of anv basilica is reserved for the Pontiff. On this occasion the German Cardinal, Keisach.sung mass, at the con clusion of which his Holiness intoned the Ambro sian hymn, with which it has been customary to conclude this day’s ceremonial since‘the preservation of the city of Home in 1703 from threatened destruction by . earth quake. After bestowing general bene diction, the Pope returned to his'own'apartment in the Vatican, there to receive as usual the of ferings of wax from the patriarchal and minor basilicas, from the different parish churches, the religious orders, the Knights of Malta, and the holy house of Lorctto. These he in turn bestows on poor convents and charitable institutions for pilgrims and incurables. He sends them like wise to persons whom he wishes to distin guish, to members of his own family, personal attendants, and the various artists employed about the apostolical palaces. When the Feast of the Purification does not, as this year, fall on a Stlnday, it is still kept as a day of obligation, and . is one of the fifteen holidays' left to be observed strictly by Pius VI. when, in 1798,' he suppressed tbe obligation on tbe remainder of the thirty-four which up to that date had been maintained by the Church. MEXICO. Tbe American Jfaegion In Mexico—Scan- Galons Treatment. [Garreapondence of the N. Y. Hereld.l According to the decree of Benito Juarez, made in Monterey ton the 11th of August, 1864, such Americans as would enter the liberal service were to have in addition to their full pay of one' rank higher than that which-ibey held in the United Slates army, fifteen bupnred acres of land, on ah average nessmitoe'. to their rank. It is reported to hsve been discovered! that there jp-e scrioua difficulties : in the way of carrying onfcjbia decree in the cases of the Legion of Hfmor, the body of Americans who BtUl .await their pay; and it is even declared that the general government possesses no lands, they being the property of the separate State 3. Under all of the circumstances it has been proposed to the Legion to accept a sum of mone; in hen of the land—not $1,500, but $3OO. %imo, perhaps the majority, have agreed to accept it; having, at the same time,but little confidence that the repre sentation concerning the land, so gloriously and picturesquely promised in the decree, would be honorably carried out by the subordinate officials’ who might have the particulars under their charge. As a natural consequence the feeling is not cordial towards the Government J>y the Le gion, which has also been subjected to asrattempt at disgrace within a ffcw weeks by the civil or military commander (it is impossible to say which, as both are inclined to shirk the respon sibility), who declared in a written document to the Secretary of War in substance that-thc-Ame rican Legion was a nuisance and recommended that they be ordered. out of the country—of course saying nothing about paying them. Every American in Mexico who knows.anything about the Legion and the behavior of its members on many a battle-field in the late civil war at home, aud also of their deeds and sufferings at Zacatecas and at Querotaro are strnck dumb at the-treat ment which they are receiving. , It is now about two weeks since the arrange ment was made and accepted by., a portion of them to receive $3OO in full, and ae yet less than a dozen have been paid, although the implied if not definite nndcrslfinding was that the payment should be made immediately, and before they would be compelled to hypothecate ihat amount tor necessary living expenses. Many of the most respectable families of the States, dnd especially of New York, are represented in the Legion —the Proudfoots, the Catlins, Blaisdeils, die. Their friends and relatives .in : the states, however, need hardly expect to welcome "nuisances” on their arrival home,as the entire Legion, with possibly a few exceptions (which occnr in military bodies in all countries), have won the esteem oi foreigners here, inclu ding Americans, and elsewhere the everlasting gratitude of liberal Mexico, This may be unpala table to be re-read in Mexico, but it is hardly pos sible to suffer the Legion. to leave Mexico aDd expect that a correspondent, who.has an Ameri can heart burning within him, could allow at least as much as the above to remain, unsaid, es pecially when among them are very many- of his late companions in arms in Virginia ana the southwest. . * Address of JUexlctui £xiles Co tbe Pope. The Diario.de la Marina of Havana contains the’ following address sent to his Holiness the Pope, and signed by General Santa Anna and most of the leading ex-imperialists now in Ha vana: Daly Father: The,undersigned Mexicans, eml- f rants and residents in Havana, have the high onor to address your Holiness and mosthumbly to present yon with our most sincere congratu lations on the success with which the Holy See has passed through the dangers , created bv the revolution of ■ the Italian populace. This terrible tempest having bien overcome, and France having again goat ] anteed the temporal power ot your Holiness, the members of the - Catholic Church, hope for tran quil days to its visible head,-, and ; also tor the prosperity of the Christian religion. Undersuch pleasing circumstances the undersigned, as Catholics and friends of good principles, raise to your Holiness the vows which they coatipually direct to Heaven for the peace and prosperity of the Church. Being desirous that your Holindes be persuaded’ of the sentiments which animate' ''■ns, and‘<oyst^'tlia^.'islSf<Stt(l^%Bte'ri'- : fS3£IIER»D@r-"- : 'icwreA” sented, we hayenamed.GeneralMsuuelßaanrpz do Arrelano, ex-Dlrector of ArtiUery of the Im perial army at. the defence ofrQuoretoro, to; haVe the high honor of transmitting them, to -your Holiness. > t ! The undersigned beseech yonr. Holiness to deign to send them your apostoUe i Messing, as unto yonr most falththl sons. - , s ■ > Antonio Lopez de Bantk Anna, former Presl dent bf Mexico, .The GweraU of Brigade—Felix Zulosga, AntomOTaj»#a,.BemtoZenea,Mandel R. de* Arrelaaoi'>F«lentsff'7Tart(j!^^.:‘‘^Rt»Ml6. tallon—MapueiH, CameSHitwiMw-; D. Galindo, Juan J. Jaurc,»fii, Lorenzo Garcia do Bebvilo. LieutenaDt Generaf-of Artillerv, Lorenzo Rojl; Captain of Infantry, Juan. N. Garav; Di rector of tbe Military Tcleg-jpwot Vera 'Cruz, Francisco de P- Travesi. ’ CRIME. INCENDIARISM IN Ht/mi.ff. Throe Attempts in Twenty-four Hours, [Prom tße Buffalo CqmmCTcinl. February 26 ] Notwithstanding the precautions taken by the authorities, tie incendiaries are still at their devilish work. Since the detailed account! of fires . given by ns on Monday three more incendiary attempis harp been made, one of.which wiv» luliy successes],' end resulted in the destruction of ths old Melodcon. About' 4 o'clock this morning a fire was' discovered' in the building formerly known atrCarr’a Melodeon,No. 280 Washington street, in rear of St. James’s Hall. There are different stories in relation to' tbe exact locality where the fire commenced, bnt from all tine facts we can gather, after diligent inquiry, itto altogether likely that the incendiary torch was applied to the scenery on the stage. The bundl ing was completely burned' out; with the excep tion of the basement floor, and- nothing but the walls are left. The scenery, properties, &c. r which were formerly used at the ACefcdeon, were owned" ity ‘ Thomas Carr, and' were Valued at $l,OOO. These were destroyed, and there was no insurance. The basement was- occupied on one side by T. Keenan, as a gas fitting’and plumbing shop, and on the other'byForrester dk Eritline, ornamental plasters. The first-named!gentleman estimates bis loss at about $250; ana the two latter at about $3OO. There was no- insurance on any of the property in the basement The budding, a four-story brick, had'buen altered in the interio(,and the second and third 1 floors taken ont previous to Mr. Carr’s occupation of it as a place of amusement. It was the property of George and Albert Brisbane, and> was valoed at from $7,000 to $9,000. There was no insurance on the building, which was unoccupied. The adjoining bnildiDg, No. 278' Washington street, was damaged considerably by fire arid! water. The third and fourth floors were pretty thor oughly drenched. Frederick Graham oeeaplcd the basement and first and second fibers-. The basement waß used as a kitchen, and there was nearly two feet of water in it this morning. The first and second floors fonr or five tenants occuplcMroomsoVthe third and fourth floors, and hatreiheir efffects more or less damaged by water. Philip- Thomas, one of the tenants, states'that some one stole several articles of valuable jewelry from his rooms during the progress of the fi re. Mr. Gra ham’s loss will amount to sloo,whicW is- covered by insurance for $l,OOO in the Albany Xhaurancc Company. No. 278 i 6 owned by Riley Saunders, Esq., and is valued at $7,000. Mr. Saun ders has insurance on the building to the extent of $3,000, which will fully cover the dam age done. St. James’s Hall' escaped without any damage, as did also the baUd-. ing in the rear! of the burned one. The'West ern Transportation Company keep a day* and night watch over their property in and about tbe Erie Basin. They have a night force of four men, and besides there are the N. F. Police and the. Special Police recently appointed .to keep-watch and gua'd over the citof.. Notwithstanding these precautions, however,we learn that two attempts were made on Monday night to fire the Western Transportation Company’s Warehouse.. There were combustible materials -pi iced in- tbe privy, and. fired. The discovery was made bf the, night- watchfrom thesmell of smoke in time to prevent much damage. Had the incen diaries succeeded In their plans, there would un doubtedly have been a large destruction of pro perty, including the warehouse of the W. T. Co., as well as thtir fleet of propellers moored- along side of tbe building. Not only these, but the wa ter-line warehouse of Cnmmings & Clark would have been endangered, as well as a lumber-yard near it. The discovery of the diabolical attempt was most opportune and fortunate. Between 2 and 3 o’clock this morning, Frank , a night-watchman in the employ of Marsh & Sternberg, discovered a fire in the engine-room of tbe Empire Elevator, on the south side of tbe creek, opposite tbe Sternberg and Wadsworth Elevators. He immediately c died to bis aid! one of the N. F. Police, and they took buckets of water over the creek, polled off tbe cl ip-boards on the lower pari of the engine-room, and threw water on the roof of the room and put out the lire.' Kerosene bad been thrown on the clap boards of the engine-room, which is only one story high, and on the outside of tbe elevator, and that being done, the fire was kindled. The timely discovery of the fire, and the prompt ac tion of the two men before mentioned, saved both the Empire and the Marine Elevator, on the op posite side of the slip. A man was arrested by order of Superintendent Reynolds this morning, on suspicion of attempt ing tho dcstrnction of the warehonse of the Western Transportation Company yesterday morning. The circumstances strongly point to the man in custody, and he js detained for inves tigation. There was a rumor this morning that a man had been arrested on suspicion- of firing tbe oldMelodeon building, bnt this is a mis take. A person was arrested for disorderly con duct, but nothing more serious was urged-against him. V ''' : Tire Idaho Tragedy—The Kate oi Scr» gcant Dennollle and WHO, flew Iforbt We h'ave received the following letter, dated Fort Boise, Idaho Territory, February lhth: 1 To the Editor of the JVew YorkEtoeninfr Post With a view to relieve from further,suspense the inquiring friends of the ill-fated Sergeant Den noille and wife, I respectfully ask room in your ; columns'for the following: About the 24th of October, 1867, as Sergeant Peter Dtnnoille, of Company C, Twenty-third Infantry, accompanied by bis wife and First Sergeant Samuel Nichols, of. thcsame company, wias traveUng in an ambu lance on his way- to Fort Boise from Camp Lyon, Southwestemldaho,they were attacked by a party of Indians about ten miles from the latter camp. On the first round fired by the Indians, Forgeant Dennollle exclaimed, “I am shot,” and fell dead from the ambulance. His wlfe became almost frantic. Sergeant Nichols drove rapidly a short distance, when one of the hones stumbled, and both then alighted. Sergeant Nichols was armed with a sixteen shooter, and endeavoied-toper suade Mrs. Dennoille to take refuge with him in the rocks, hut she returned to the lifeless form of her husband, and was immediately captured by thb savages; Sergeant Niehota escaped. Unhurt, and, arriving athta post, made In substance the foregoing statement. , Brevet Colonel J. B. Sinclair, Captain Twenty third Infantry, commanding Fort Boise; Brevet Major J. C. Hunt. First Cavalry, commanding Camp •Lyon, and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. Coppinger, Captaln 'TwSnty-thlrd Infantry, commanding the camp of “Three Forks of the Owyhee,” sent detachments from their respective commands to ascertain the fate of or rescue the unfortunate woman, bat without success. ' The body of Sergeant Dennoille was found per fectly nnde,' scarred and slabbed all over. It was convoyed to Camp Lyon and interred. —According to a correspondent of the New .ForkXri&ime,.thf>-ladles of .Chile, ats, .very. ,ac-. complished in ,music and nothing,else. It is said that performers who would, pass Tor accomplished pianists,ln this countiy would therebe Wgarded as hardly 1 above mediocrity. The character of tbe muslo Selected and enjoyed is of the-highest classical order,"but It ls no unuaual thlpgffor ttios.who are tooroughlyfatnUlar witojaschf Beethoven and Mendelssohn to be wholly IgUo raht lh theefrnplerdepartmentaof edapation. i —An Arkansas negro,.expounding the Scrip tures, had occasion to tpnch ujfew antediluvian longevity, and In the courtbof* hi* remarks said that inthoeodays men: didn’t many before they were SOO, and, in fact, weretwcaty-dve years ala before they were bom. F. I. PRICE THREE CENTS. facts astd —The Toitahawh glve&the following table of ■WAITS AHD MEASURES W ABYStHtftA. : Mifss Measure. 50 moles make 1 mnfeteerto look after"them. - mnleteere to look sifter them make 1 good 'thing of it. 100 good things of it malto 1 penny'en ttf tho income tax. 1 penny on to the income-tax makealD.OOO-,' , - 000 Englishmen swear. British' Wcri(3. . ' ‘ 2 visits' to the HorsB Guards make T? six months’delay. . 2 six months' delays make 1 hit of Botibar management 12 bits oFßombSy management make 1 Aa nesley Bay. 100 Annesfey Bays make 1' Abysobaian- Expedf* - tion. - The bare Idea of two AbySßiniaa Expedition# - • makesoneMad. —The- tobacco dealers of Ba&viße, Va.. an about to form a board Of tfaefe'. ' . —A Mr. Wright, of claims to have discovered perpetaaliporien.: —Senrfys’s latest lecturings enr tire Alabama were at Atlanta last week. i ■ -*■ —The- Pope's Canadian troopo wear’wdwte o*l - to match. ' : < —Barton'Hill is to Bupport Mr.JOrrcs t in a two weeks' engagement at Louisville. —Jefferson Davie and family are soon-expected on a visit to-Louisville. —A direct descendant of Martin lather, ia the eighth generation, lives at Hagerstown, MBb —A Michigani youth tried to cub iff hin bead with a hatchet. *» W . —An in obviated Sewthem cri O'c epealft- off Mr. Winkle’s Blp'Van'JeSferson. * —A Frenchman has invented a. kcttloln which water is boiled: in six minutes by friction-/, without any fire. . —A bidder at a horse auction isi Nashville last week mounted a mare to try her .speed, and wax so. Well satisfied! that he has not yet returns®; —Boss ncsoiaation as JHiniater to China 1b strongly indorsed by ■ the CaUfomus press. —Opera House Crosby has had * silver' tea set given him in testimonlalefksa being OpererHthisx Crosby. 'I —Mr. William Young’s new evening paper in> New York, from which great things are ezdebted;, will ba called Krorg.A'ftermm. —MS. Arthur Helps,the Queen’s literary ‘‘help*”' owes hen favor to a former friendship: between' himself and the Prince Consort. , —Governor Dnrkee of Utah did not alludo to- Mormoniem In his annual message, and- thereby displeased both parties. —Hon. John Merrissey is, it is said, soam-to give a sparring exhibition in New York in aid of the po6r. —Alexander Smith left some unpublished preae papers, aeon to be published under the tUirf of ‘•Last Leaves,” with a memoir of the author. —Many wells and 1 springs In New York State and Canada, which have never failed before are now completely, dry. This is attributed to'vol canic action. —Mr; Bandmann was announced' to appearha< London in hlf> favorite play of Narcissi. It hae been adapted for the English stage by Mr. Tom. Taylor.'. ' . .-I# —An enterprising Chinaman in California- is making money s taivina all the rale- ctnudtt , alive, undiAttchiug ihcflfflSr' Kg eat. -•!> ■ ■ ; ■ :j ... —The whole of the Egyptian cavalry have been. supplied with Colt’s revolvers. Thus we. pro gress. Think of Pharaoh chasing, Moses throagh the Bed Sea with a revolver and a bowlc knitetf —Accounts come to ns In the technological journals of the application of electricity to -the purification offcast iron by passing a current; through the metal while melted. ' —Genera) Burnside has contracted for the con struction of the Cairo and Vincennes Bailroad-ia Illinois, to finish the whole line within twd yeans from November 25, 1887. —Longfellow’s translation of Dante Is quoted) by tho Italian editor of the new edition pub lished at Milan, for the explanation of obscure - passages. r ' —Colombia College ie to publish autohlogi»t ; phk/aof the graduating class in its next catalogue, und which the students are requested to fargishi them; they are also cautioned to “use a becom ing modesty.” T —A Russian princess has beensued byadairy man of Porta to recover 500 franca for milfc for nishcd by him for the princess’s bath. The qyea lion turns on the purity of the milk. Tho prior ctss evidently believes in in-cream-ation. —“My dear, what makes yon always yawtk?” The wife exclaimed, her tempergone, ■! • “Is home so dnll and dreary ?’.’ “Not so,” he said, “my love, not so; Bnt man and wife are one.yon know; . And when alone , I’m weary." —Mrs. Warren Clark, of Athol,- New Hamp sbire, died almost instantly last - week an ner-, way to a class meeting. The Editor ofthoAthoi Chronicle say s : “The autopsy revealed' exten sive cardiac disease, hypertrophy complicated: with aneurism ofthe aorta just befow its bifurca tion.” What the poor man means to say is,' that tho woman died of heart disease: ’ —A writer In the Edinburgh Review has thls to. say about oysters “on the half shell:“ ‘Oysters," says old Fuller, ‘are the only moat which mem eat alive and yet acconnt it no cruelty.’ ‘ The idea of .eating any creature whilst etilialwe does, it must be confessed, savor a little eft fetodUy, and, as King James Was wont to say, ‘he wAa ft very valiant man who first CifwUS of oysters;’ or, as the poet Gay 6ung-of the’final raw-oyater cater in the wpll-knuwn lines:; ■ ‘The man,h«d sureapalatecavfered?e’er , First broke the oozy oyster's pearly coal, , And risked the living morsel down his The popular idea with regard ;'tb> eating* raw oysters Isthatthe animal is killed.as soonas ‘The damsel’s knife the gaping sbelbcoMtiaande, And the Salt liquor streams between be abends. But this is a mistake; if the oyster is not dead before It la opened, it Is undoubtedly swallowed. 'allve.” :1 "':. —General Grant’s father la writing a biography of hiß eon in the New York ludger. 1 Hue 1 is aa episode in the General's life:. “ When Dlysaea was a boy, if a draw or any show came along, in which there. was. % call for eomehody to come forward and! ride a pony, ha was always the one to present hlmaelfi and what ever he undertook to me he rode. This practice be keDt up until he got to be so large that he was ashamed to ride a pony. • WDce, when he was a boy, a show came (dong in which there was a mischievous pony; trained to go round the ring like ligbtaJng I “and he was expected to throw any bay that a ttempted to ride him. . ' ' ‘“Will any boy come forward and ride,this, pony ?" shouted the ring-master. \ , “piysses stepped forward, and mounted the pony. The performance began., Routld ;oud round and round the ring went the, and faster, maklng tbe Kreateat e®nmo ( d«japttnt the rider. Bat Ulysses sat as steadyas tf.JfiS had grown to the pony’s hack, rreecuflyodidame a ... large monkey ana sprang up beluufpTlly sses.' The people set up a grtat Shout of.ftugjjtey.-and \ oh the pony ran; built all produced no effect on the rider. Then the riug-mastor :• made"the monkey-jump up on ing with bis feet on his shoulders, and with his hands holding on. to his teal?* *t this'there was another and a etulloudoretioal, but not a muscle of Ulysses’ face moved. Therewiuinot a tremor of his nerves. A,few more rounds and thdrioK* master gave l tup; he hadteome aeiosa a wh: that the ponjrand thb moator tnttt cwdd not dls , mount.
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