GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor VOLUME XXI.-110. 295. NNTrATIONII te FOR a s uper WEDDINGmannS, ' PART/ES. dte.; execud In ior er by . DREKA. lOW ODEETNUT STREET. feEttfg FrmTrml ANDERSO:—PLETOMER.- F it Chicago. March 17th, by the Rev. pr . Walker, Wm. t . Anderpon, of Philadel. phis, Pa., a bibs Hattie etcher, of West Sonora, Ohio. • PLATT , —MCRPIIY.—On the 18th inst.. at the residence of the bride's parents, by. the Rev. Itobt. C. Aiatlack, II P latt Co Fannie Donnelly, daughter of Jos. D. Mum , Req.. all of this city. L•BGEGO.n the Pith inst., by the Rev. C. D. CooPenat the residence of the bride's parents,Malcomb A. Shipley to Josephine Gregg. • • I/ARC:LAT.—On Wednessay evening, Andrew C. Bar clay. in the 11341 year of his age. lila male frienthi are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence. No 1135 Arch street, on Monday, March2td, at 10 o'clock A. M. The funeral services will he held at the house. • CID/UM —On Thursday morning, the lath Mat, JOhn Ap J. Childs, eldest son at the Rev. John A. Chll,la, of this citi. The funeral will take place at the Woodlands tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, at 5 o'clock. •• CLAM—On the lath inst. Dr. Robert C. Clark. BM ma/e relatives and frienda are respectfully invited _to his funeral. from -the residence' of his brother ln lax . eas Hirst, No. e 29 Walnut street. on Saturday, 21st inst., at '2 P.M. Interment at Laurel NIX • OUMMERE.--on the 17th inst. Samuel J., eon of John Theebecca V. Gunnnere, aged 9 months, friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of his grandfather, Henry Volkmar, No. =9 Spring Garden street, on Saturday, at 3 MA clock. CNIIMIOL—On the mornini of the 19th instant. Charles Anna Maenichot la the 10t year of her age. The hien& and re l ativee of t e fanally are invited to attend her funeral. from the realdence of her parents. Dr. J. and Cetharice Macoichol, 1312 Parrish street, on Saturday afternoon. al4 o'clock. BLACK BILK PARASOLS.—BLACK BILK PARA, sots and don Umbrellas. • BLACK BILK PARASOLS. Of the beet makes and most approved mournhht otYles, just opened by BEdBOhi L hON, Mourning Store No. Plb Chestnut street. T UPIN'S BLACK TARISIENNES, TAMISES, 130. M. 14 twines, Monatelines And Ulutillea. Spring stock Jut opened by LiEbt ON & Mourning Store, tr, hint No. 91.8 Vheztuut street, PYRE dt i..ANDELL OPEN TODAY TIIE LIGHT shades of Opting Poplins for the Fashionable Walking Dresses. Steel Colored Poplins. Mode Colored Poplins. Distriarck Exact Shade. SPECIAL Kir JOHN B. GOUGH AT THE ACADEMIA' OF Monday Evening. March 30th, Nis Neel —ELOQUENCE AND Oft ALTOELS. Tuesday hveningt, March :31st, Subject-2 ED PERLA tICEs rownly, BENEFIT OF THE 1011 G NEWS CEIMISINAN ANSOCIITION. ddlnia,ion to Parquet, Parana Circle and Balcony. 93 - eclat*. No • 'dm e4erne ter Eteserved Seats. Nstedy 4.arete, Reserved.teetiss. Unreserved. 22 cents. "tioittia o U 1 bo.tor sale at GOCLWid NOW Piano :Mere. Yrs Chestnut sheet, TUIPODAY. March 24th. seblightp4 _ _ ser v r: lat.sr_ 0 02 i c COAL AND IMPROVEMENT COM. X. ss -Zohl V. ALN LT street. PITILAbIII-PIIIA, March SI, I!6& v At_ossmeletits at th e Stockholders of the Pierson Cost 1 ;:i t , ri%vettasl4kDP st d ariZke folio:nobs i vta. leer ts t v -ranea r 446, Was year : ....________ B . T ..--------'----- •Clisr. . Forrest. Na: York. boa. . yr , Watson. Atikairheaseselid 14 • ' 41 1.144 ; 4401,011 the following serstietstss sisereAted 01., • A i . .e'' Tress, tierk __, Jew IL Winerttros:Pecrolary earl Tress, ruldo 2t; air NoncL-frit.,LartgirdZillVlNG work end ~ or dent.. or K=ara lateriali ttuntabed t i l i te ". o.4irts= of City Property, prior to lea, are hereby requested to pre sent them to the Epistle! Committee of Councils ap. heed to consider the same, on MONDAY AFTER NOON, March 238.5. if °Work, in Select Commit <Amber- By orde r the ammoniate. BENJ. 11. HAINES, Clerk of Select CouneiL Inkl7 bt 04 !FOUNDLINGS' HOME AND CHILDREN'S " " Iloapital, fa connection with "The Home for Little Wanderers," Tenth mad Shippen street& Dispensary De. ,Partment. for the treatment of diseases of women, child. r-en and infanta. Modloal and sorgical aid free to the 41,001". mhl4-6trp" war. NOTICE.- TB E SUBSCRIBERS TO TUE CAPI. •••••• tad Stock of the Pennsylvania Wood Hanging Com pany, are notified that the Company will oresnim at the Continental HoteL on tbe 20th inst. An additional subscri_,ptfona must be entered previous to the above date , at the Mbibition Rooms, No. 917 Walnut treat anhilltt rp4 BerNORTH BROAD STREET PPESBIt N Church.—Rey. reter Stryker, D. D. of New E York, Pastor dot will have charge of the meeting this (Frids,) evening. Members of the dinrch and congregation cor. diafly invited to be present Noble's picture• John Brown, a pinioned, white•bearded, pa thetic figure of the size of life, stands in the cen tre of the picture, in the gesture of, benediction. The young slave-mother, throwing herself at his feet with her child, lifts the infant to receive that last, supreme caress. There is the story, .of which the other incidents seem but poor and mean accessories. An old black nurse has brought two fair children to stand in the old man's pathway; one of the mili tary guard, a noble-faced youth with something of the fire of antique Virginia chivalry still burn ing in his eyes, extends his sword to keep back a foul-mouthed harridan who pushes forward to in sult the last moments of the tortured hero. But he, with his filmy eyes lowered and fastened on the slave. repeats once more his life-Innw litany for liberty, and leaves the throng and - ill the world behind him. If John Brown's judgment had been as pure -as his heart, his career would never have come to this scene. If Noble's art were equal to Ma purpose, 'we should have had a liner picture. 'Them is nothing to criticise in the conception, the grouping, and the effect. Brown's pallid figure etande out well, the palpable leading idea of the scene. Ittit, the modeling b grog,' want lag in the precision exacted by a painting of the scale Mr. Noble has chosen. His principal guard, the chivalric young soldier, him short legs, big head, and hair like a theatrical wig. The heroine •of the group, the negro child, is per fectly insipid. We do not see how Mr- Noble has manag t erlook such rare chance of introducing one of the piquant bits of character, in which our negro life in so wealthy. Brown's face itself is wanting in Meg.' ration. The soldiery and spectators to the left recall too plainly a somewhat similar group in Delaroche's "Marie Antoinette." The whole composition, in color and eldaroscuro, reminds us of those large canvases which our American Mr. May, in his decadence, is turning out from his beautiful, crowded, gossipy Paris studio.' Let Mr. Noble, if he happens to admire Mr. May, 'contemplate for en hour the masterpiece of that artist, the "Brigand" in the Pennsylvania Acw demy; and in returning to first principles, and in a scholarly attention to the living model, he will dind his safety. • As At Mends', the...picture., le—what . -didaetie qiictuie-should - tie, a 'pram:dation of one of the more elevited facts of history hi a manner to bring its lesson into plain relief. For this moral purpose the painting is quite good enough. The shy philanthropist who hail toiled 'through many . a year of obloquy and discouragement to bring up the bright hour which Brown so foolishly •attempted to precipitate, shouldiee It The po litical tavern-oracle who , nine years ago opined that Brown was "disposed of," should see it. And - the slave's free child, honorably toiling !to-day for place and fortune in , the free land, should go and muse before it sometimes in the inbrvala of his labor. On exhibition at Farle's Galleries . . . . . , . . . . . r• . . ... . . . . . . • . .. I r . ~. . . . ~.„ , , . . , . . , • !, * . , • . ..• • , . . , . \ . . . . . . ' , ;"!...! ''.!...,.' . • " . . , . ,• . . . . . ' ~ ' . . ,•• s. . . • : : „_..'.. . ~.-•:;••,. . 2 . '•'• ' ••:: --• . '. • . _ , . • . ', . , t ilie . ' ••.', ',..• .2,.; • .... , ' - . Itt ' . , . ... . . ...•—, , . • ' ' , .. , . , 4 .... . , , . . . . . • .. • . . . . . . . . . . . . .., DIED. RAIIIISTEPB The Mtn, Gins and Conclusion of Car. nlval. itiorreepondence of the Phnadatohia Eventla mallettal "Are you very gay over theßcouf Gras in your country ?" asked Dumont, the sculptor, of his pupil, my friend 11.--L. "At home we don't have any Bwuf Gras at all, Monsieur." " Ah, sapristi, what a wonderful nation the Americana!" The above dialogue, when It— inpeated it to me, gave us, a little laugh over the picture it pre sented,, of profound and tranquil ignorance in foreign matters. Carnival and Bceuf Gras in the United States! This was almost as naive as the sagacity of that delicious steamboat-captain dis covered- by Rowena in the Mediterranean; who said ,that " the Jesuits" were assuredly at the bottom of the Southern Rebellion. Evidently the forms of a civilization starting from protestant lam had never engaged the curiosity of the worthy artist. Probably he has not heard very much of the protestants. And yet those were the remarks of no Ignoramus. Although the renown of a sculptor naturally does not travel round the earth like a painter's, and you have maybe never heard his name in your life, Dumont is notwithstanding a personage in the grand world, and a man of dignity, repute and cultivation. The statues surmounting the two principal columns in Paris, the Column Vendome and that of the Plaoe Bas tille, are his. Hie establishment and studio are installed in the exact centre, I suppose,of French intelligence—l mean the Institute, of which he has long been member, and from whose portals he can come out whenever he likes, in the scholastic uniform of olive-leaves, to air his honors and sun his orders at the. Court recep tions. Yet he is so little au courant as to ask about our Bei& Grae; and, when relieved of his error, is so little enlightened as to relegate us, after a slight Stang, of etnpefaction, to the mournful nations." Allhouglethe French have never been classed artorig the mournful nations, it seems to be admitted that their apparatus of enjoyment in l'ands al is a failure. You are expected to mark your recognition of that privileged season by one or two ruinous suppers after an Opera Masked 1'i,l1; and at the close of it, if not laid up with your indigestiens, you may stand half contempt uously on the curbstone and look over your shoulder at the pageant of the Bumf Gras. The Opera Balls are gaudy and riotous; but are no longer, they stiy, really funny. They are held on the successive Sunday mornings of the Ca nalvalttgbaxavg_a_midnight.of_ the_ fiatur :toy.' May I' confess, without loss =of caste, 'that I never attended one of theM? +ln 'this re gard I au) ouch be4indhand with - nearly all the espiddlA4 14 ?air American' . friends; whom I have met in Palls; for it la noticeable that the most scrupulous of foreign ladies are impelled by a singular relaxation of custom to attend and scrutinize through their juteelles a debauch which is simply the proper expression of the Instincts of young butchers and lorettes emancipated from censure. My own reminiscences are of a less intimate nature; but, like any Parisian, I cherish my impressions .of the masquerade after a fashion. To what resi dent of the capital has it not arrived to meet, in prowling, about the Bennett very late at night, troops of the Paris butcher-boy all fresh from the abattoirs of La Villette, and soberly trudging in outrageous costume towards the Ball? A cheap and favorite disguise is that of the Auvergnienne, and bravely the strapping butcher carries it. The mask, in this instance, has receded to the very narrowest degree, being nothing more than a scarlet nose, the shape of the letter J, embossed with pimples, embroidered with bristlei; and ending in a little spinning wiridmill ; beneath it, of course, is a flourishing moustache—but it is not Bo very much more burly than that of many a huge dame o the Balks ; the cap is a bloated fungus of mu llet, stretched with wire,and springing from a very cauliflower of ruffles; it towers to heaven, and atones by Its grandeur for the ungenerotispropor tions of the petticoat, beneath which the ponder ous butcher knees and calves are almost bursting the red-barred stockings ; the mighty crimson arms are bare and terrible, with no lack of brace lets. To encounter a band of figures like this at some prodigious distance from the opera-house, economically footing it thitherward through the black still streets, with the decorum of 'sextons— (the French rioter has a church-going manner up which line our matronly Auvergnienne will begin to kick out the cigars from the .countenances of her neighbors)—will make any foreigner, and never aPrenchman,stare. Or, imbibing at midnight the demi-tasse which cheers and tot inebriates in some bright Boule vard cafe sufficiently near the Rue Lepelletier, you see a little swaggering figure of a Page enter and sit down without the least fear among the great men.- He has very red cheeks and very big eyes,ear-drops as large as horse-shoeaand a masa of white hair made of plaited cotton-wool, in which nestles a hat consisting almost exclusively of feather. Being a person of honor, he defends himself with a delicate siword, the gilded Scab bent of 'which crosses his plump thigh in a war like manner as he sits down to throw the contents :of a petit-verve Into his rosy mouth:Las pants kKens, I am obliged to say. are little more than a row . ' of fringe and a large biiW-ithot, but his cambric shirtsleeves and bosom Are liberal and bulgy , enough. After &ramming awhile on his little table and studying with much acu men the faces of his fellow-men there present,' he is joined by a gentleman who has just entered. The new comer is quite old, but sprightly still, accurately dressed in evening magpie, and he appears to relish the glass of something yellow, which they share between them. At perhaps half-past twelve the Page rises arid 'Switches on a little velvet mantle coveredelvith busies, which is fastened with some assistance from his elderly relative or caretaker, .who 'protects - the young seapegrat* withloitehtng attentierri.`and:cirries him oil in`hisTfitfieily arm, humming meanwhile in his cracked old 'Voice 'that, eternal air out of Rigoletto: , , Twin2e la pinine au Tent 'ream° est yolag, ' • Et bleu pett sage Qui s'y fle_un instant In , Thetcare - the manners , and these are the tigures,of the Night. Not the Night of out-of door nature, the profound, pathetic and solitary Night, with her revelations of Spew and her gift of rest and dreams; but the night of revels,the Night of Paris, with its chains and triinglea ot darning gas, its futne and drip of mutlights, its steam of PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH '2O, 1868 boiling wine, and its stealthy, multitudinous bias of riot. But the procession of :the Bawl Gras pertains to the Day. All is open, sunny and above board; and here, for many a long • year past, and until very lately, the merry and kindly humor of the French populace has found one of its pleasantest and most genuine. expositions. But the populace of the second Empire have lost the trick of merriment; they are like Poe's rapid ghastly throng who "laugh, but smile no more." And they themselves complain of the want of spirit in the modern Band Gras. It is every year richer and costlier than the year before—but instead of it being a hearty civic af fair, it is now exploited, modernized, or, as the French say, Americanized, by the great Dnval, the ornamental and enterprising butcher of the Rue Tronchet. The Prefecture luta again conceded to him, as it did in 1886, the privilege of catering for the.great public stare, every year more and more difficult to attract. Duval accepts the grea responsibility like a French Barnum, contriving to make the whole festival figure as an advertise went of his numerous butcheries and restaurants Intent on making a gallant show, he is no afraid of expense; item, the number of actors em ployed by him this year to figure in the parade, and dress or strip in character, is five hundred, besides a g: eat quantity of excellent horses. Let us have a glance. if you will, at this vene rable rite and festival, dating from antique pagan times, perfumed with the musty aroma of the middle ages, but at present sulkily harnessed to the enterprise of the nineteenth century like a bacchants compelled to march with a sarsaparilla • place rd. Purporting to commemorate the Shrove Tues day or Mardi Gras, the last day of flesh-eating, the show commences by old license a couple of days beforehand. We will therefore take our stand as far back as Sunday, twenty-third of Feb ruary, in some conspicuous situation like the Rue do Rivoli, opposite the palace. The morn .rg being a holiday,. the erowd of artisans is elated with a gala feeling of liberty and privi lege. The white blouses of the masons are candid as the jacket of a Plerrot, and the blue ones of the carters are new and glossy, with the embroidery profuse and brilliant upon the shoulder-straps; and these brave garcons are trying to be as good as gold, to forget the price of bread and the army law, and to coquet like nice little garcons with the bonnesin their imma culate caps. They likewise toot away upon ear excoriating horns,with that deep faith in discord which is a melancholy trait in our own mob at home. It is not many Sundays in the year that the shops are closed; but they are shut to-day, and the mercantile spirit only resides in the breasts of the needy-young-men - who - thrust - luto your face at every ten steps the programme of the route. This route is Itself the most transparent and blatant of t i cards," being so arrang4 tit:4 every end a the swarming Duval Bouclieries and .1:- . 1.ablissments de Bouillon shall figure along it, ,eandwiched. beetreen the principal City monu ments. And in good time the superb Apicius Duval in person rolls along in his elegant chariot at the head of his own procession, his knees locked among the knees of two or three people of importance; fatly smiling he rides along upon the tide of success, preceded by tumbling billows of street-boys,and followed in a long wake by his animals and allegories. As the Jour Grad Is nom inally one and done into three, so the Bs uf Gras Is nominally one and done into four. "La Niircre," "Mignon," "Paul Forestier," and "Le Luttenr Masque" are the names of the beasts for this year's sacrifice. Each of the enormous crea tures is preceded by the butcher who has pur- chased him, royally mounted, and tricked out in fancy costume. There is a touch that is so French! Do you fancy that we shall eves catch the manly and enterprising merchant who has purchased one of our own prize beeves going before It in procession disguised like a circus rider, with rouge on his cheeks, flowers in his hair, and his robust arms powdered and Tailed in tulle? How do yon think the suggestion to act in that fashion. would be taken by the honest gentleman who affords you the punctual Satur day sirloin? Behind Aploins, and the butcher, and the proper amount of equestrian allegory, a low flowery platform.rolls forward upon small and solid wheels. Thereon, with his great horns richly gilded, his hide of snowy satin shimmer- ing in the sun, his beautiful eyes filled with mild wonder, rides La Nii. , vre, the noblest bul leek in France. As be moves to his death among the flowers and applause, his full moist muzzle is eeen tranquilly movin placid rumination; for to thelot of your stalled ox belongs this rare privilege, that he chews the cud, not plows the future. At either golden horn stands a human being, robed and coiffed in a manner that I take to be intended for the fashion of the old priests of Apis. Allegory, on a whole pampa of horses, prances and caracoles around, and pretends to ride down' the spectators. Now she takes the form of a ranchero in his tags and tassels and broad bat ; now she expresses herself in a Greek racer off the friezes ; now she is a band of nymphs, clothed very much in advance, of the season, and regarded with sympathy by the spec tators in blouses. Allegory, in fact, is rampant, ankonpleasantly conscious that the day is hers for the exercise of that unmatched tyranny which she has exercised on a helpless public ever since Armida and the Peery Queen were sung and the ceilings of Venice painted. We will not fellow her I think, In all her painful metamorphoses. I can see that allele now Cleopatra under a feather fan, and now a relative of Montezuma; now she is Bring, summer Autumn and Winter, blossoming, plowing, reaping together in a flower-pot ten feet across; now she is America, Europe, Asia and Africa, with an elephant in papier mache the size of nature; new she is all the horsemen of Pharaoh in their burly plaited cheveinre; now she is a troop of mounted peas antry in the costumes of the different French de, partment— among whom I recognize my old friend the Breton, in his trunk hose and purple hitt e_ lumbrought -his natural stu -pidity-to••townWith hint,' or. else a cargo - - of the cider of Breet, for begets entirely out of line, and his neighbor is obliged to switch off the great ribboned hat and, all the cataract of streaming hair from ilia head- before he • can get 'the idea into it. •My Breton, momentarily exposing a .velvet poll suspiciously like the cropped bullet 'heeds you see in the Halles ,Centrales, swears in an argot I had thought exclusively Parisian, re places his hair, and makes it wave Oka a furious warlike banter as he 'spare on, hie 'pawing horse. Meanwhile, judiciously plaeed in the more lucid intervals of allegory, come the other bullocks on their rolling floors; magniticent creatures the whole of them, without ribbons Or nonsense; 'bat OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Details el the Terrible Disaster. [From the Cincinnati Commercial, March 19.1 The Maysville packet Magnolia, Captain J. H. Prather, while bound from Cincinnati for Mays ville, yesterday, having left Cincinnati at her usual hour, 12.30 P. M„ with a heavy freight and full of people, when near California, Ohio, nine miles above Cincinnati, exploded her boilers and was Loudly burned, the wreck lodging on Craw= fish Bur, opposite Sportsman's Hail. The tow boat Panther, bound for Pittaburgh,being a short distance below, immediately landed her tow of barges, rendered all possible assistance, and brought a number of the survivors, ,rescued from the wreck, to Cincinnati. It was really a terrible disaster, and it is diflicult to obtain full and cor rect details. A number of passengers were blown overboard and lost. It is reported that severallwere burned with the boat. When she left this city she had over one bun difid•cabin passengers, a large number being la dies, and all the freight she could carry. The scene at the time of the explosion was terrible. Some were blown into the air, others,were thrown into the river where they struggled to keep from drowning, and many lay scattered here and there on the wreck horribly mangled,seakled and burn ing to death. After she had floated about a mile and a half down the river, a large lot of loose hay caught fire, which reached the magazine, blowing up three kegs of powder, and causing a second explosion to take place. The boat imme diately caught fire, and sunk in three minutes af- j ter the last explosion. The Magnolia's yawl, under the management of William Lewis, was constantly making trips between the wreck and the shore, and picked up all she could carry. There were also skiffs from California sent out, which ,seasis' ted_ixt_rescuing many from a watery grave. Several, after being taken in the sklffa, being so badly burned and scalded, could not endure the pain and jumped into the river aod virtue _ . • Te tint engineer states that lie tried' the boilers a few minutes before. the explosion ,took place, and found them to be' full of -- water. He walked around to the firemen and was standing talking with them when he was carried from otf his feet. The tow-boat Panther was busily en gaged at the Wreck in attending to the wants of the sufferers, a great many of whom she brought to this eity,and then immediately returned to the scene of the disaster. Mr. OR& F. Shaw, the chief clerk of the Mag nolia, was not aboard of the boat. Part of the wheel-house floated past this city yesterday afternoon. The following incident occurred at the time of the explosion: A lady from this city, named Mrs. Thiele the daughter of a batter residing on Vine, opposite Green street, took passage on the Mag nolia for Ripley, together with her son. aged about six years. When the boat caught fire the little fellow was so frightened that he jumped overboard. His mother, in order to save her child, jumped in after him, and clinging to him, endeavored to carry him to the shore, but her strength failed her, and mother and child were about to perish, en a colored deck hand, who was badly scalded, plunged in the river after them, and succeeded in getting them ;Lahore safely. We were unable to hear the name of this noble fellow. A gentleman named 31. Ochs, a cattle dealer, living on the corner of Fifteenth and Ram streets, was one of the unfortunate passengers on the ill-fated Magnolia. He suffered severely from a broken leg. fractured skull and several internal injuries. He was brought here by the Panther and died last evening at half past 6 o'clock Singular Railway Accident—A Train Blown From the Traci'. [From the Cincinnati IConunercial, March 16,) The express train of the Indianapolis and Cin cinnati Railroad, due here at 2.30 A.M., yesterday morning, had a most startling experience of the power of the storm. It was approaching the city at the usual rate when, at the Cleves bridge over the Whitewater. it was suddenly brought to atnn AA it cc , . a a bnut.o43l l 4 ol ,4l,, e _b r ie rz; _ an e r just as the engine had reached it, the wind grap pled with the train.-and clutching the passenger care, lifted them off their trucks, and hurled them down the embankment, turning them completely over and right side up again, with their freight of men, women and children. One of the cars was completely wrecked bythe fall. Of course the most terrible alarm was felt by all the passengers until they recovered from the confusion of the shock and knew that the worst had come. They knew nothing, expected nothing until they felt themselves lifted and i thrown n• the wrong direction, turned heels over head, jammed, pounded and hammered, and then Quiet, in all kinds of uncomfortable positions. When they commenced to extricate themselves, many of them were found to be bleeding pro fusely, and as they emerged into the darkness and rain, from the slight shelter of the wreck, it was feared that many were terribly injured and some, perhaps, killed. Very fortunately, how ever, this was not the result. Many were badly bruised, several severely cut about the head and face, but none were dankerously injured. The shock they experienced must have been very severe indeed, for many of them were jerked about from floor to roof, and from seat to seat. * * One of the ladies, Mrs. Murray, of Indian apolis, *roe somewhat injured internally, to what extent is not yet known. Several others were slightly Injured, but no bones were broken. The company did everything possible to make the passengers comfortable. se of h Accident on ibe Penneylvania road—A Man Killed. (From the Pittsburgh Poet of the 19th.) On Tuesday night as the. Now York stock freight cast on the Pennsylvania Railroad was approrehing the bridge , over the ,'Xurtle Creek, immediately east of,firrotorem Station, Et..man.vvas seen waiking on the track on the hasige. The engineer sent:idea the alarm whistle, but the man evidently did not hear the signal, as he made no attempt to leave the track. Before the engine could be checked, it had, struck the unfortunate man and knocked him into the creek. • lie imme diately disappeared beneath the surface, and did not re-aPPear. A party of men at once set to work searching for the body. Yesterday it was found and i dentified as that of John Mott, a coal miner, residing .at Port Perry. He was found some distance below the bridge. His arm was broke* and he had sustained other injuries by being struck by the locomotive, bat it, is probable that deagt was centred :by droWaillg* Coroner Clausen was notified and went Celt to hold an ingneet. After empaunelling a jury the inquest adjourned till this afternona,_owing to naked in their aristocratic sleekness, with ad. horns and Juno eyes. That was on Sunday last, you see,, and for once in a way It was well enough. But they enacted it again yesterday, with that hopeless insensibility to ennui Which is so rootedly French. And at this present writing, being the authentic Mardi and the day before Lent, they have shut up every shop in Paris and , thrown themselves into the thrice•told tale with threefold vociferousness. Pensive fancy asks If this disposition to Allegory and hoarse trumpets has become epidemic apd perpetual; if those Mexicans and Blackfoot will ride on always, those Greeks grow to their saddles and become centaurs, and the whole interminable folly continue forever to weave meshes through the streets and Intercept honest citizens who wish to go about their business. I fear if the sculptor Dumont had seen me to-day in the shadow of his principal statue, and longing to cross the Rue de is Pal.: to my dinner, he would have had some thing still more cutting to say about the mourn fulness of the Americans. ENFANT PERDII. DISASTERS. THE MAGNOLIA EXPLOSION. the absence of the engineer on the train which caused the accident. Destructive. lire in New York. [From the N. Y. Timm toder.l Shortly before midnight of Wednesday a fire occurred in the largo rolling mill at Spuyten Duyvel, in Westchester county, owned and occu pied by Messrs. Lawrence & Barry, the flames spreading so rapidly that before they were checked the entire building and machinery were destroyed, ?musing an estimated loss of about 565,000, fußy covered by insurance in city and suburban companies. While Metropolitan En gine Company No. 38, located at the corner of Tenth avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, was preparing to start for the fire, and be fore the driver could mount to his seakone of the members threw open the doors, when the horses • started forward. Michael Snyder, foreman of the Company,was standing in front of the, engine, and was knocked down and ran . over the wheels breaking a leg mid his left arm, besides crushing several ribs. He was removed to St Luke's Hospital, where he remains in'a precarious con dition. Mr. Snyder was formerly a Police-Ser geant and a member of the Board of Council men. He was made foreman of Company N 0.33 on the organization of the Metropolitan Depart ment, and 'acted as Superintendent of the Harlem District. On gaining the street the horses ran up Tenth avenue at a headlong pace, dernellehing several lamp-posts before they were checked. The engine was seriously damaged. CRIME. Attempted Murder in Pittsburgh—An insane Man Tries to Kill a Co m pa n I on. (From the Pitteburgh Chronicle, March IA) A desperate and well nigh successful attempt at murder was made last night by an insane man named James Pitcairn, the victim of the assault being John McConnell, a fellow boarder of the assailant. The two boarded at the house of Mr. John O'Connor on Hand street, a short distance from Penn. Pitcairn has boarded at the house mentioned for some weeks past, and is employed as a machinist at the outer depot. For two weeks he has said, from time to time, that two or three men in the house had Insulted him, and he would kill them before he had done with them. He seemed not to have any particular enmity to wards McConnell, and for some time they becu pied the same room. Last evening Pitcairn re turned from his work and nothing unusual was noted in his demeanor, except Mr. O'Connor ob served, as he says, that his eyes blazed like tire. After supper he sat with the other boarders for some time, and a little before nine he went up stairs to his room. His sleeping room is at the head of the back stairs in the third story. Mc- Connell rooms •in the third story and passes through Pitcairn's rooms to reach the stairs that lead to his chamber. About fifteen minutes after Pitcairn had gone up stairs, McConnell passed up, cain a candle. • Pitcairn was lying on his bed with a single bar reled pistol in his hand, and as the other came up into the room he got up and fol lowed-him testhe third-floors- - 3PConnellstopped at the door of his room and turned around to Pit cairn, who stood at the head' of the stairs. The` latter said ItsPConnells bad itumited him at the table, Anti' ilia,. *hi, did'ltat must die. Thereupon he levehxl the pistol at M'Connell's head and fired. The ball missed, and passing' through the top or the door struck the wall At this stage of the affair Pitcairn attacked the other, striking him two or three blows over the head with the butt of the pistol, after which he seized him, - dragged - him down the stairs, and holding him down on the floor, proceeded to gouge the prostrate man in the eyes. The household, alarmed by the noise, bad all rushed up stairs, and as soon as possible tcre the assailant off his victim. Before they could do so, however, he had pushed one of the unfortunate man's eyes out with hie thumb, so that it lay upon his cheek. All the while the fu rious assassin kept crying out that he must have this man's life, and would tear his eyes out. He was eventually taken offend secured, and his vic tim received such attention as he needed. Al though badly bruised, he received no se rious injury except in the eye. That organ is back in its place and may be saved. Shortly after thetassault McConnell went to Capt. Reed's office, stated the case. and requested that Pitcairn might be arrested. Lieut. Wilmot, with one or two efficers. accompanied McConnell to the house, where they arrested Pitcairn and conveyed him to the lock-up. McConnell stated that he had no quarrel or words with the prisoner, and had no idea what led to the assault. The prisoner, after his arrest, gave strong in dications of partial insanity. He stated that he had been insulted by the other ,man, whose name be did not know,or fancied that he had, and that he bought the pistol to murder him. He lay on the bed a long time waiting for him to come up; he meant to kill him, and was sorry he did not, and there were two or three others in the house whom he has to kill yet. His whole demeanor was that of insanity Suppoood Suicide—Lotter' of Explana tion. (From the Cincirnati Commercial of March 100 On the middle pier of bridge No. 2 of the Ma rietta (Railroad, above Loveland, over the O'Banion fnrk ofthe_Miarniitpair-ef - -plats-and- 1 a vest were found, last Saturday, and with them the following note: "MARCH 14,18G8.—T0 all whom it may concern: I, J. W. Brunswick, put an end to my llfe by drowning myself, for the sake of one Susan Powell, a resident of Cincinnati, No. 177 Fifth street. .-I request the finder to forward this like ness to Susan. Good-bve, Susan; good-bye! As we cannot be together in this world, I hope we will meet in the nest. • Good-bye to all, as 'I throw myself into eternity."" Accompanying this note was the Maness spoken of, which was taken charge of by those who found the articles. They made quite a search of the creek, in the hope of finding the body, if any body was there; but they failed in their effort to corroborate the story of the letter, which after all, may be nothing but a hoax. I'llOM MEXICO. Morrespondeloco of the rhiladelphis Evening Bulletin.] ILAVAN.A, March 11.—The new@ received from Mexico reaches to the 28th of February from the Capital and the 3d inst. from Vera Cnui. The Mexican newspapers have their columns fa of accounts of robberies, kidnapping and assassins tions,committed by gangs of from 20 to 300 men. In several States a national guard has been or ganized in order to pursue and chastise the ban ditti. Many of them have fallen into the hands of the armed force and been executed without a fair trial being extended to them. In the Capital a conspiracy on a large scale has been discovered, and many prisoners have been made. The chief of the conspirators Is said to be a former Colonel in the Imperial army called Adalid. He was to I assassinate the President in his box at the 'tar ' bide Theatre, while the chief of the 7th , was to take poesession of the palace wed seiserothe- pet- - °sous- of -the Ministers. Lieutenant-Colonel - Esteves, and the rest of , the military men eon corned in the conspiracy, were delivered to:head • quarters to be judged according to Orel* and the JudicialproceM.nge liveaiready comaiimced. As for the foreigninti wile are mired' up with the plot, it appears that they Will be exiled as being dangerous characters. Gen. P. Diaz arrived at Oaxaca on the 23d of February, where he; made his triumphant en trance under the acelamalion4of the people. The Jnarez,Goverziment has given the correisponding exequatur to Mr. Carlos Mayo, who has been nominated American Consul in Chilattainta. In the Capital of the Republic a charitable society has formed itself,utider the auspices of Mr. Plum, Chared d'Affaires of the United dtates, for the 1 311 M 0 00 giVinguesieteteeto American citizens who may arrive without =sue or :moony& - F. I. PRIOE THREE WANTS FIFTH EDITION BY TELEGRAPHA LATEST CABLE NEWS: LATEST FROM WASEEINGTOI. Removals In the Treasury Departmeit. Robbery of Benda New Hum By the Atlantic Cable. Lea-DON, March 20.—The news from the Abys; sinian Expedition is of an encouraging descrip tion. Advices from Annesly Bay state that Gen. Napier and his force were twenty miles north of Antalo on Feb. 25th. The General had an inter• view and entirely satisfactory conversation With Email, the Chief of the Tribes of the Tigre district. A Shansante telegram, In anticipation of the overland mail, says that all foreigners have , 'Moire and Osaca, Japan. It was reported that a vessel of war, said to be either French or /mod can, bad been tired upon by the Japanese. LONDON, March 20, Evening.--Consols, 9fIX Five-twenties, `,?3 , ,;. Illinois Central, 89X. Ex*. 473 i. lertarmroar, March 20.—Five-twentica strong at 75%@754. LIVERPOOL, March 20, Evening.—Cotton easier, though not quotably changed. Sales to-day, 10,000 bales. The 'Manchester advices are un favorable. Naval stores and Petroleum are dulL . Heavy Robbery ot Ronda, Special Dispatch to tRo Plinadelphis *vpdag bs the FrantiiiitaiiFsifi:l Naw Havam, March 20.---The key. DiVid Root, formerly of Cheshire, Conn., but more recently of this city, has just been rubbed by .his wife of $lO,OOO in bonds, all the money he Os sessEd. Mr. Root had been recently residing In rise land, N. J., at which place the robbery occurred.. Mrs. Root has not been seen since her•abstrac tion of the money. ltermurrals from the Treasury Depart.. sueuto (Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening BrXetitt.l WASHINGTON, 3fillth"2o.—A *solution watin troduced by Mr. Williams, asking the Secretary of the Treasttryifor information air - to - how many clerks and employds have been removed &oat that Departmeak - Uftftirtn oftbevirculars or let ters addressed bithelteada of bureaus to such removals; also, how many-have, been appobited,, and how ninny- re-appointed, and, upon whoa., recommendation. lillse , Tax on Suip-unitstbers Materielto. Deepatch to the Philmialohia Eirentagjittlietha WAsii I:mum:ll4l2th Fessenden intro duced into the Senate a bill to allow a drawback of the thi ,ty, paid on the various' raw materials' used in dal:). balding. The provisions of the bill are substantially similar to those of an amend ment which the Senate yesterday refused to at• tech to the Manufactures' Tax bill. The International Copyright Act. 143pecial Despatch to the PhiladelphiaDinnting Bulletin] WASHINGTON, March 20.—A petition was before the Senate from William Cullen Bryant, George Wrn. Curtis, Henry T. Tuckerman Gee_ P. Putnam, Wm. M. Everts, Wm. L. Bl odgett and other citizens of New York, asking for the passage of an international copyright act. From Boston. BOSTON, March 20.—The House has passed the bill abolishing the State Constabulary over the Governor's veto, by a vote of 152 to 63. Th 6 Senate will sustain the veto. Marine Intelligence. NEW Yoax, March 20 .— Arrived — Steamer Gler• Ger mania, from Southampton. PORTLAND, Me., March 20 .—Arrived--Btesam- Bhip Ilihernia, from Liverpool. XLth Cotigresti—second SessiOtL, Illousn—Coutinued from Fourth Mr. Donnelly (uinn.) introduced a bill amending an act giving lauds to aid the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget''. Sound, ou the Pacific coast, by the northern route. neferred,to the Committee on the Puede Railroad. Mr. Phelps (Md.) Introduced a bill to allow a certain, drawback on copper in pigs, hare or ingots exported from the United States. Referred to the Committee on. Ways and Means. Mr. Rigby (Cal.) presented a concurrent resolution of . ..7.llr...slatusn,- - asksag-L-orvreagto-goacerine, First Battalion of Califomialnfantry olmteers the enure footing as other volunteer soldiere. Referred to the Committee ou Military Affairs. .31r. Wilson (Iowa) introduced a bill to provide a remedy for the lose or dean uction of Judgment records or eecrees appertaining to Proceedings in the tallied &ate , rkonrts. eferred to the Judiciary Committee. . Mr. Ingersoll (I'LL - rising to a personal explanation, re. (erred to a remark made by his colleague (Mr. Weal burin) on the 28th tilt., insinuating that the oblec4 of an amendment off. red by bine (Ingersell) in reference to the Mlle Fells bridge over the Potomac; was, that w big job might be opened. up in building another. bridge that would cost several milltona Mr. Washburem--1 did say that that was the object ot my colleague. Of coarse I did not mean him t'l only said that that was the intention.. Mr. • , • Mr. Ingersoll—That Is a very shortexplanathin. I wish to enter noy protest against this use of smooth.bore guns shooting at randoiri;whlch seas members' are in the Wag. of using, without regard to their effect on the personal characters of others. It is net right sad should not be in. didged In. • Mr. Phelps (hid) presented the petition of the nnuartfac.. turas of morocco for the free importsticui of mina° sal goat skins. and fir en inoneued duty on impottqd mo rocco equal to the average Premium en PM. ' stirred is the Committee of Wale and Maxus. . pins Mouse proceeded, as the budgies, of the, morning hour, to. Reports of Committees on Private &Otos& The bill reported last Friday by Mr. Lawrence ((Pat. from the Post Office committee, for the relief of vows. than Jeseum, postinsater at York.Pm, being Scat taken up. The bill authorizes the settlement of Mr. Jemutils as comb, with an allowance of SIMS, the amount of loos of 'amps. tic., by burglary and robblel. Accident and LOOS OW Mlle. Rrrnixr, Vt.. March sll—Threit tu i r. gamed Sullivan. McCann and Dudley, were billud at eft °ankh" Yee. wont State Marble Quarry, MU SlD.orning, by the Isnot ID of a lane, qualititar of rock. • llsatskets. Nan 'You, March W.—Cotton dull at 22 amts. Mir dull; sales , of 7400 barren; State, $8 90(41110 8 0 i OWN 90@514 Western. $8 110€1$11 10; Southern, 29 SO $l4 do- _California,lf $l2 40(451/. Wheat dull. eon quiet; 118.000 ushel(' soldi Wanes', 20081 W. o *t B dull at 82(00 amts . Beef ant. Pork mat 8341 7& Lard Sant at 15k(i418Xe. Whisky quiet. Coal Statement. Ante -felkrwinr 18 the emotraoteasitretOret Ike Mile&lplua au t_ Reading Rigrold, .011.11Uttile week ending TharadaY. Maw 19 : I . A*l4ll,oert: Olt de .11111 011 From Sc. " Port Car1t0n...... '• P01t5vi11e......... " Schuylkill Haven 111 " Auburn... " Port Clinton 04 • B luT iaborg an aphis... • .... •.•• • •V 1.091 04 Total Anthracite Cost for week 1H,441 Ditumittotis --- Coal from. Harrisburg and Dauphin for r. Vet al Total of all kinds for week. . 'i 69,110 Previous!: th, ll ii To, sem time levyyear • ***** 4I4M .„- • • Increase Oi **** *** • • - Wl* 14 ON. rublifilitfr 4400 OPOloola
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