GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor
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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. •
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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
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4.arete, Reserved.teetiss. Unreserved. 22 cents.
"tioittia o U 1 bo.tor sale at GOCLWid NOW Piano
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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
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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
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