CxIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.--.NO. 6. ECHE EVENING 13 IC I - 4 I.ETIN PUBLISHED EVERT EVEN Uttk • (Sunday' excepted). OLT TIME NEW BULLETIN 807 Chestnut. htreet, Ph lad el phia l PT TOM EVENING . BULLETIN ASSOC' AT/ON. aOP EalaToua. GIBSON PEACUM ERN EsT a W CL. FETHERSTON, THOS. J. WI LL,IANISON. ARPE SOIJDER. Js.. FRANCIS WELIa The Iltmi,xlm is nerved to euhecribere in the city at it *Pinta week; .avable to the camera. or 4te per annum. INVITATIONS FOR WEDDINGS, PARTIES. 'dte. executed in a ruporior rammer byp DREKA. 1053GIILSTNCT STitEET. fe24.14.4 MARBLED. 'HAY—DONNER.—On Wednesday. Aril Bth. by the *we. Henryry N. Pohlman, of Albany, James Hay, of thle cit , daughter of Andrew Bonner, Esq., of Albany. „ • • GASEILL—WHITEMAN.—On the morning of theldth inst., by the Rev. Deese I.'..Aleop. Hector of ;hrlst Church, klye. N. Y.. H. Maurice Usokili to Manua H. 'Whiteman, froth of thin city. • • zoTEStr.NnON—GL:FiIt.NdEY,,Ort the. evening - of the 11th inst., at the Frankford Presbyterian d' tur. by ERN'. ThomasV. Murphy. Mr. John D.. ritevelpon. Jr . to Miss - Mary Eisatman Guernsey, daughter of Dr. William F. uerniey, all of 0118 city. DIED. uitowNE.-OD the 16th instant, Jane Tunic, wife of tare eel Browne. The relative* and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, from tar resilience of her hueband. No. 1117 Callowhill street, on Monday afternoon. the :nth hut.. at 3 o'clock. To proceed to Mount Veion Cemetery. FLOMERFELT.—On the 11th Inst., Mr. A. L Flomerf,lt need 51 seam The' relatives and friends of the family, also Lodge 187 WE Y.ll. Wectacoe and Franklin Fire Compardet, are invited to attend the funtraL from his late residence, No. tl2 Catharine street, this (Thursday) afternoon, at three o'clock, LAFFERTY.—On the 15th inetant, Mary A. Lafferty, slaughter of T. and Elizabeth Lafferty, in her :cif" year. M.( CALLUM.—Suddenly, on the 15th Inst., Alexander. tom of liugh and Mahal& 31cCalltun, in the oth year of Lis age. Thu relatives , and friends of the family am invited to Tttend his funeral. from the residence' of hie parents, Nein street. Germantown. on Bairn - day rate:nonn.lBth , at 1 Wake); . 31cG1L1..-On the Itith Wet.. Henrietta Harrison. wife. L. McGlle, and rooug...t daughter of George W. j.lrlgott. in the 28thyear of her age. D.l.l36tice will be riven of the tuner:it McKENNA.—On the 14th intt.. Mr. Patrick McKenna. -need W yearn. The relatives and friends of the family are rears Of Air invited to attend his funeral. from his late residence. :T1 01.111 Inwth rtreet. on irriday morning, pro .lAfdy at tt . n • c l oc k.. Di g ), Mop? a t Church. Interment at Cemeterr. LANDELL OPEN TO-DAY . Tiff: LIGH lipring Poplin for (.14e Fashionable Wel k br,g 11.4"1" iiteel Colored Poplin& Mode Colored l'opllto. Ilizmarc Ex Act z,hnde. PECIA .NOT ClEft. .. way- LICTURE AND ( . 9 NcEirr, ta v. A. A. WILLI ra, D. U, will deliver hi. new tleethre. "I'l c... Model Horne." at Concert Ilan, on TUES. DAY. April :lot, at a o'clock. - lo connection with the abo: c a Grand Concert will he rill en by the follswir.e artteto , . Madame It enrietto lichrena ' . , Elopri no blri. - Anuir E. Simplon ~ Contraite Alt. Win. A. 'Crimea. .... ........, re ISO tI: Ni, 0. W. Miller—. ............ -....... Duro DI r.'o. A. Elden.-- .... ... ••-• • .. .., .... .. ; ...... 11111, i 2 t ileicrved ecate.idceira. ............. .to Do had at .1. E.Gould'e r yv piano Nom., ECE Cheetnut, or at the do: :r on thr leveri ng ot the Lecture. apic3-th.a.tu.rp3t* . nTO(/I.IIOLDEEfo' NOTICE.—A MEETING Of U P "' thr hitoekholdere of the Germantown Par/emitter :Railway COmPan:r wilthe held at andr office on WED. NI;nDA April z413,1e6i, st I P.M., to take into conaide• ration the pal/del of inerearing the, v.nrnber of the ii , ard r f Diantgere in purausace or n - anoplement to an act of Asembly. approved the Al ty of April. Patt. By ordrr of the Board of 31anaaarL aplo the tact* JOSEPIi SINGEP.LY, Secretary . °OrA COURSE OF LECTURI S ON BOTANY. TO Ladire and Gentlctmen, will be delivered in the Bet entitle and cLiosiCiii inatliutp, 3. E. corner of ,rolhr and •TE,ltteetit % leant Ridge avenue. Introdue -2,1y duitftrpe) wARDAT. Arrira, at 5 0'406. iti.l J. R. ENNie. /Principal tploltittp Bar A- - SPECIAL NIFETIN4t OF THE STOCKHOLD• ens of the Mercantile Library Company wilt be ItrAd TCESIDAY EVENIING. the IZtti luatant, at c o'clock. for the purpore of taking turtltcr &atm oa the vending astetidmente to the charter. JOHN LARDNEH, apls-12try: Recording decreary. Nrie. ISLFORTAIi'f TO TRAVELERS. Examine yutir =lateen whon you enter a eleopine our If made of EIAIiTIC SPONGE. you can ernother the Ciro with it in CI Ma of at chltuit, as it ie Innfectly inc‘nn buctibic. riphi3trp% Nt)TICE.—IN CONSEQUENCE OF' HE UNF.a• gavorable state of the weather, the opening of tiANIUEL R. PRHALIPS'S Saddlery &ant,linhinent. No. T.C.O Chestnut atreet,will be continued to-ruarrow, Friday, all day.. abirrlteTl ywrir P.CD IC HO SP ITA kitltt i aid dlaeshes and bo dily defo=tlen at 12 o'clock. • apls 3olrp: • wir to LIOWAR I D iti EIOSEITAL, 1 , ;09. 1519 AND lfal eat tna=t a ttztd ule:4ll,l:allarY Department—Sleds "Qr. NENS - SP&PERS. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE rahs rper, &c... bought by , HUNTER, No. Ng Jayne mtn,et. 'lite Chesapeake Bay Piracy—Arrest of two of the Murderero. (From the Somerset (Jid.) Herald.) t'wo'neggrroca calling themselves William Wilson and Wlllfam Wells, were arrested, nun Is, and the other near Drummondtown. Accent no county. Va., on the gill and 7th inst., by constable David T. Topping. for the murder of <Captain Benjamin Johnson and Henry . Cannon. Diet Frotchett. as published last week,) of the schooner Brave. They ia ere brought to this town and Lodged in jail on the 10th Irk.. by Constable Topping and Jelin Larmore. Esq. 'They ronfees that the captain and Cannon were both XDlledand.thrownoverboard. ' • The other two parties now at large are named George atalley and Frank Bounds. We learn that one of these parties has been seen in Amnesic county, Virginia and it is supposed that both of them are still larking in that county. ILL , is the moat horrible affair that has ever been perpetrated withinthe Malts of thisnountyand it is to be ;toped that all the guilty once may be speedily brought to Justice. ' There wail a negro brought to this place yesterday and -committed to jail, on suspicion of being oso of the above .gart les ; but it is generally thought that he (a not. MUSICAL. JEAN Locifee Coriegwr, in the Academy of MIMIC, will ibeno ordinary occasion. 'The production of such works zia MendeLisoltn's "Wa!put& Night" and Beethoven's "Choral Fantasia" in tndtcative of a high purpose on the part connection exllent Society. Ti ere is a coincidence In lids worth noting: When Mendelssohn pro duced the cantata of tlia "First Walpargis Night" to the words of a ballad by Goethe (entirely distinct from the name subjeet in Fanat).it wan at &concert at the Gewand. sums in Leipzig, on the 2d of February, 1143 when the Beethoven "Choral Fantasia" was played by Mad. Schu mann. biendelssohn began its composition in Rome, and, .at is thought, at the express instance of Goethe. This - work in worth examining, for both in music and poetry 'there is an aiming at oomething more noble and elevated Than mere music. The "Lurline,' by liilleir, is also an in. .Zerresting romantic subject, and the admirers of Mr. Ha. ibelra an will be glad to hear him, for the first time in this -tcountry, in a style aid part which gained him some repo ,tation in Germany._ Mendelseelm is represented by Inv other fine composition for the piano, a "Rondo Brilliante.," which hodedicated to his master. Igruditte Moecheles, the • oldest of living pianists. • CONCEItIr.—A concert in aid of the Mechanics' Benevo ,gent and RelletAssociation will be given at Athletic Hall, hirteenth and Jefferson, by the Philadelphia Aoliaus, •on Friday evening, 17th instant. The following pro gramme has been arranged: Grand March, Liberty MM. tory Band, No. latile of the 95th regiment P. V. Colonel 'Gonne. 1. Chorus, Haymakers; Duett, Flotow ; Male Quartett, Arlon; 4. Comic Refrain, Freeborn. Baud. • 5. Solo, - ',Tempest," Barker fit Duett,Aht; 7.Male Quartett, Cox; 8. Solo.Orßfith. Overture Liberty Military Band. 1. Chorus. Haymakers,. 2. Male (,‘Tartett. Arlon; 3. Duett, clitibert: 4. Comique,P. Berger. and. 5. Cliorus.Baini ;6. • teMuicitefralp,Free born ,-7. Duett,Russell; 8.51.a1e Quartet', ''Home, Sweet !tome," or "Sherman's March to ith Sea," Liberty Military Band. • (ONCRRT.—At Concert Hall this evening a grand con tort will be given in aid of the Catholic Philepatrian ;Society. A large number of eminent artists will appear, aind agneet attractive programme will be presented. 11A11.11.1'S OONeEßT.—Signor A. Burin's. grand concert will be given on Friday evening at the Musical Fund Hall. lie will .bte assisted by accomplished instrumental and vocal lutists. THEATRtS, Eto. Tut Tuna:rags. —llir. Edwin Booth. Trill appear at the alrmt tonight in hie great poreonation of " Hamlet." 'The Black Crook will be in wonted at thq. Cheetuut. Play go announced at the Arch. The American dram a varied yorfonnance. ELF.VENTII BTIIPALT OPI:U6 - 11011131L—The entertainment offered at this popular place of amusement tonight will loci of the highest character. A number of now pieces are 'announced, among them the axtravaganza. "Life on a Alississippi Cotton Boat. ' The lama • entitled Trix on 1.14 , :Travelers will also be given, w ine wind m i eco m nom , performance, including tries(' V0. ,- negro Comical'. 'Mee, ballad singing by .3. L.. roes. and a multi• Curie of other good. dump, - --,,,. 1, ~,,,, , ~., • Ittoncnote Omuta Taornen.—On the 20th inet:the favorite Alebinge , Opera Troupolvill begin ( a brief eeaeon at the Academy of music; with the opera of Martha., The Note of tickets will begin on NV edneeda.y, the lath: at 'Frumpier's lisle ( Store. No, i 26 Chestnut street, . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . , . . . , . . , . . . . , . .. ..: . , . . „.),. , . ... ~..., ...„... 0 . ... .• , , , . . % \.l.'• ~ . .... . . . ..„,„ .... ,• . .., .. .. . : .. ~. . . , .. , .. .. .. .. ~ .. • ..r• ' .. - . 4 t. 1., ••.'' . . . , .. . .. . .. ... .. .., . , t, . . :1 . .) . C . I. .' -• '•' ' I • ' ''''',' ' i t . # . . . . ~. „ . ''''' • .i„., . ' . . ,i• 1 . •Zi . , . •-lit . ... . . . . . . . ~. . , . . . . • • . . On Monday next will be exhibited, at Wende roth, Taylor & Brown's, No. 914 Chestnut street, Wenderoth's large and accurate oil-painting of the Battle of Gettysburg, representing the action of the second day In the afternoon, that is to say of Menday, Judy 2d, 1863. The centre of interest at this time was Culp's Hill, an eminence a little to the southeast of Gettysburg, disembarrassed of foliage upon the Summit, bat wooded along Its most abrupt slope in the direction of the farm of Henry Culp. On this point Meade—imagining, from the deploy ment, early in the day, of Ewell's left around the base of the crest, that this would be'the centre of attack—reserved some forcea of the Fifth and Sixth Corps, and used the bill as an observatory, commanding a view of the city and of Cemetery Ridge, from which Sickles was unadvisedly push ing towards the Peach Orchard and the Etnmets burg road. The rebel forces, almost surrounding our army, were constantly endeavoring to break our lines and push In to the cluster of elevations which culminates In Little Round Top; and it was not until night, after a hand-to-hand conflict with Hood's troops which recalls the Homeric ages, 'that the key of the battle-ground wris secured In our hands, and the sorely-thinned brigadbs' of , Vincent and Fisher could breathe again. The time of the picture is in the afternoon. Meade, viewed in profile, and sitting firmly upon a magnificent horse, As centrally planted upon the bill as upon a pedestal, his bronze face re lieved against the volumes of dense white smoke which hang around the circle of artillery defend ing the height. Ile is surrounded by his staff, General Dickinson, 3lajor Cadwallader, Colonels Starr and Biddle and Captain Carpenter. General Barstow, having ridden up the acclivity, is re porting to Meade, his right hand pointing to Cemetery Hill. whose gentle slope swells upward into, the lett of the picture, crowned with its peaceful tombs, and covered with the wounded and dead whom the Louisiana troops are leaving behind in their hot retreat. Near the middle of the scene the roofs and spires of Get tysburg show through the interval between Cule's and Cemetery Hills. A detachment of our forces In the left foreground winds down into the valley, meeting a group of confixierate prisoners and colors (from the famous "Louisi ana Tigers"), who are being biOnght up as a trophy, to General Meade. The lower right-hand ~ :orner is occupied with a more consolatory scene, indicaking the accompaniment of beneficence that I ,traveled along with our actions so closely and so nobly.* A wagon of Sanitary Commission stores is unloading. Surgeons are busily selecting their ,emedles; an assistant disposes of a Ca.ie of sup plies; the wounded, both loyal and confederate, are receiving attention, and a swooning federal. ,_aptaln is being revived in the arms of a male flume. Pictures like these are a complement to history. Though wanting in artistic breadth, Mr. Wen deroth's painting is so reliable,, so exact, so con scientiously copied from nature to - the farthest crest of the landscape and the minutest detail of a soldier's accoutrements, that it will help to tell the fortunate history of the Pennsylvania raid to generations yet unborn with more than the pic turesqueness of the romancer and more than the definition of the historian. It is, too, a painting that will keep constantly improving as time rolls forward. A few years will tone its contrasts, and moderate its rude opacity of white and its cold breadths of blue: while the very commendable study in its particulars will be perpetually in structive to whoever shall wish to study out the gallant achievement of Meade in reversing the tamous invasion.of the North. Such pictures, indeed, made soon after the fact, with the actual actors for models, the clothes they wore and the weapons they used for accessories, and their living memory for criti cism—are the truest history. The posses9lon of a gallery of such illustrative paintings would be the very nutriment of the hobby of the antiqua rian. Every man who studies, with the Perpe tually-annoying Insraciency of material around him, knows what It is to cry out for "more light," with the avid4Af the shepherd-lads re called by Taine the dritttur. he stands among the pictures of local history iittheNaples Museum. I'he little herdsmen, relates Taine, agreed to a 3vishing-match. One, breaking off a mouthful of his black bread, cried, "If I was king I would eat nothing but fat ;" the other, who was out of breath chasing hogs, chimed in, "If I was king, I would watch my beasts on horseback." If I was king," confesses the ardent student, capping wishes with his humble rivals, "I would transport all these portraits and historical subjects to my cabinet, and learn from them the realities of history." There are few historians, accustomed to the annoyance of gleaning their stores in one library or museum after another, who would not like to find the same kind of royalty; and move on in the same road to perfection. It lath be hoped that this most creditable pic ture will be secured to decorate the National Orphans' Homestead, on Cemetery Hill, at Get tysburg, for the benefit of which institution the exhibition will be held. James Thomas Brndenell, seventh Earl of Car digan; who led the celebrated charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava, and whose name has been prominently before the public in more or less nonorable connections throughout most of his career, died at his seat, in Northamptonshire, England, on the 28th of March, in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was born in 1797, and entered the army at the somewhat ma ture age of twenty-seven, purchasing a cornet in the Eighth Hussars. The influence of wealth and family position in the military career in England was strikingly exemplified in his case, for in four years, without haying seen a day's service in the field, he had risen to be a Lieu tenant-Colonel, which, by the usages of the Brit ish army, made him the actual commander of the regiment. He was the bean ideal of a ca valry officer of the "Guy Livingstone". school, handsome in person, one of the best horsemen of his time, daring, impetuous; ambitious, haughty and passionate in his dealings with men, unscru pulous and successful in his intimacies with women. The scandals of his private conduct became the reproach of the peerage, and his violent and over bearing temper made his regiment the most noto rious in the service. For his treatment of a Maj. Wathen he was court-martialed, censured and placed on half-pay. An officer with less interest would probably have remained on half-pay to the end of his days; but in less than two years he manage d to have himself restored - and gazetted to the Eleventh Hussars, then serving in India. His short term of service abroad seems to have been as uncomfortable as • his mili tary career at home. The officers hated him cordially, and when he brought his command back to England a series o quarrels and biekerings broke out which caused the, whole country to ring with his name. lie THE FINE ARTS. WenderotWs Battle of Gettysburg. Death, of Lord Cardigan• PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1868. insulted one captain by reprimanding him for in troducing Rhine wine in a "black bottle" at a mess banquet; ho provoked another into a breach of discipline which ended in the expulsion of the Mjured man from the cervice; 'and he fought a duel upon Wimbledon Common with Captain Harvey Tuckett, wko bad served under him in India, and had resigned his commission, so it is said, for the purpose of ,challenging the noble lord. Lord Tnckett was wounded in the duel,,and Lord Cardigan was Indicted for felony. He availed himself of his privilege as a peer, and lected to be tried by the House of Lords. The trial, which took place in Westminster Hall be fore one of the most brilliant and aristrocratie assemblages which had ever witnessed a prose onion In England since the impeachment of Warren Hastings, was a cruel mockery ofjuebee. There was but the faintest show of pressing the charge, and the accused was hastily acquitted on the ground that .there was no certainty that the Harvey , Tnckett named in the indictment was identical with the Harvey Tuckett proved to have been shot! Lord Cardigan went back to his regiment with hie temper more savage and insolent than ever, and so little affected by public opinion that one of his first actions was to flog a man at Hounslow Bar racks, 'after parade, on Sunday afternoon. The Adjutant-General publicly admonished him that his subordinates were gentlemen, and that he was in authority not only to exercise military command, but "to give an example of modera tion, temper and discretion." The difficulties of the Eleventh Hussars were brought before Parlia ment, and a, member , stated in the House of Commons that "in two years, the regiment being 5U strong, the Earl of Cardigan had held' one hundred and five courts-martial. In the same two years he punished in the defaulters' list upwards of seven hundred men. Daring the same period sixty men were placod In Canterbury jail. The punishments exceeded those inflated in India ever a period of twenty years, although the regiment was seven hundred strong. Nevertheless, Lord Cardigan was a good soldier and an efficient disciplinarian, and possi bly it was this circumstance quite as much as favoritism which enabled him to retain his rank, and on the outbreak of the Crimean war to be appointed to the command cf the Light Brigade. Eils personal courage was superb. Yet on the held of Balaklava he seems' to have let slip two splendid opportunities. The first was when he had a chance to sweep down upon the rear and flank of the BUEbiall horse, then engaged with the Eng lish cavalry, but i relbsed because his brother-in law and superior officer. Lord Lucan, with whom he did riot agree, had posted him where he stood. The second was when, on his fatuous "chestnut horse with the white heels," he rode. with the gallant six hundred into the Valley of Death, and .cut them to get out again as best they could. Despite the admiration aroused by the exploit, the Earl's conduct was severely critteised, and soon afterward he returned home. Good fortune, however, followed.him to the end of his llfe. He w Kappointoti Inspector-General of Cavalry (an employment for which he was probably well fitted), and became a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1855 and Lieutenant-General in 1861. IiVire.:4II.IIUPODOI Itterrous CloNpucr.—Last night, between tan and eleven o'clock, a row occurred at Harmer's Cornucopia, at the southeast corner of Broad and Chestnut streets. It seems that several parties who had gone to the house for supper got into a quarrel about some women. From words they went to blows, and one man was struck with a pitcher. A regular fist fight then ensued. BloOdy cosec, black eyes and scratched faces were the result. During the wrangle, chairs were over turned and broken, dishes and glasses were smashed, and considerable damage was done to everything in the room. The belligerents got out upon the staircase, and the fighting - was kept up until the bar-room was reached, and there an other smashing of things occurred. The noise eau6ed by the disturbance was heard for some distance, and the attaches of the stablishment sprang a rattle from the window. Policeman On came up and arrested John P. Ahern, alleged to have been one of the partici pants in the affray. The attention of the watch man at the Union League House, David Robin ,on, was attracted by-the noise, and he went to the assistance of Officer Orr. Policemen Pulp and Garvin also arrived on the spot, and John Raymond, Lawrence O'Brien and Matthew Snow den were taken into custody. The prisoners were taken to the Fifth District Police Station, but were soon released upon security being entered by Alderman William McMullen for their appear auce this morning. After the hearing this morn ing, before Alderman Swift, the defendants were !Inca for drunkenness, and were held to bail to keep the peace. FIRE AT MANAMIli.—This morning, about half-past five o'clockt a fire broke out in the dry ing-house attached to the cotton mills of Gen. Robert Patterson, located at Manayunk. The structure was a two-storied brick. The whole interior Was destroyed, and a considerable quantity of material in process of drying was owned. The main mills were not injured. The flames originated from the heating apparatus. DisonnEntx.—Thomas Evans and Jelin Devine ,vere arrested yesterday at Fifth and Library itreets, by Day Sergeants Jeffries and Albright. They were behaving in a very disorderly manner, ind were annoying passers-by. Devine was heard by one of the officers to exclaim, "Here's health to John Wilkes Booth, who shot the nigger Lincoln." The prisoners were arraigned he two Alderman Beitler, last evening, and were placed under $l,OOO bail. T HUNDER STORM.—At an early hour thin morn lug there were several showers of .rain, accom panied by sharp dashes of lightning and heavy claps of thunder. About ten o'clock the rain commenced to fall steadily, and since that time is has been pouring down in torrents. The light ning has continued at intervals. The clouds aro very heavy and in many places the gas had to be lighted. Boon Tiirxr.—A man named John Hayes, while passing Market and Water streets yesterday afternoon, took a fancy to a lot of stockings which were hanging up in front of a store. He helped himself to two dozen pairs and continued his walk. A Fourth Distrietpolicernan followed and captured the thief and his plunder. Hayes was taken before Alderman Hurley, and was held in $BOO ball to answer at court. ARRITSTEM—Eugenie McKinney, who is charged with having been concerned:in an assault upon Michael Morgan, was arrested yesterday. IL will be remembered that Morgan went to the house of the McKinney's to see hie wife, who is a daughter of Mrs. McKinney, and he was attacked and badly beaten. The accused had a hearing before Aid. Heins and was held in S2O ball for trial. LARCENY Or A„ WATCH.---Margaret Wiggins, residing on Race street,, near Seventh, was ar rested yesterday and taken before Alderman God bou, upon the charge of the larceny of w watch from a man who had been in her company a few nights since. She was held in $BOO bail for trial. —Lord Byron's ,correspondence has been dis covered in, a curious' way.. A pet ape of the monks of the Armenian convent of Machitarists on San Lagro Island, in the`lagoons of Vonlee, so pleasantly sketched by Mr. Howell in his "Venetian Life, " was the agent Of the discovery: This ape, escaping from his hooter, took refuge on the top of a, bookcase, and being pursued threw` the head of the biother a roll of yellow and desty letters, which jiroved to be , Lord Byron's. .It. is supposed-that therwill be pub- fished, but no hint is given as to the nature of them. " ' —Offenbach 15 engaged in writing new opera buffo, which will first be performed In, America. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. THE ERIE RAILROAD DISASTER. Further Details—How the Accident Occurred—What the Directors say—Bringing the Dead Bodies to the City of New York. Front the New York Papers or to-day. Can's Rock is sixteen miles from Port J 01146 and overhangs a tributary of the Delaware, the scenery of which in this neighborhood is almost Alps like in abruptness of outline. The cliff Itself is from two to three hundred feet in height, belted about midway with a narrow ledge or lengthened table, upon which the track is laid— the table being girlie too narrow for any sort of possible" safety In. case of accident. The rock is of the craggy order which trap ridges usually assumes being, moreover, exceeding sleep and precipi tous, an idiosyncracy so peculiar to the valley of the Delaware in this region that it has developed Into a sort of proverb that one may live in the valley of the Delaware and only see the sun at noon. The bluff in question overhangs the river so juttingly that only.n very narrow bottom in tervenes at its base, the railroad track winding around the mountain about one hundred feet from Its base, or possibly a little lees. Of the accident the herald says: The whole was a work of possibly ten seconds —not more—and as speedily as possible the engine was brought to a stand and an examina tion of the extent of the accident was made. Down the bluff, having given the alarm, rushed conductor and assistants, While, in the meantime, the rear ear of the four had taken fire from the embers scattered from the stove, and was blazing like a great will-o'-the-wisp in the foes below. In the meantime, also, a messenger was sent to the nearest telt graph station, and word was sent to Port Jervis and assistance requested. The de mand was responded to as soon as convenient, in an extra train, which proceeded with all necessary • implements, armed and quipped, to the scene of the disaster. With the feeble help on hand the conductor and assistants did what they could before further assistance came to the rescue, their first attention being given to those who exhibited signs of lifer With a groan one dragged himself out from beneath the mass of rublestapart of which was human and part of which was human workmanship; another begged piteously for help; another shrieked with the pain of contusions just beginning to be real ized, the poor bruised individual having beeu half stunned with halt a hundred concussions, each more violent than the preceding. Few are spared disfigurement or deformity,and !Lineal lives are beaten out instantly. The air is Irelghted with groans, sobs and sighs of the quick and the djing; and the smooth. Delaware flows quietly along, while it receives as tributaries the oozing, trickling rivulets of blood and liquified brains. One poor fellow, a Frenchman, named' Sauss,has his nostrils scraped out as if done by an oyster-knife. A man named Pruinton, as he bounces from reek to rock,has his eyes beaten in, his upper forehead torn off, and a hole is dug oat of his skull with as much facility as If it were a spring turnip. A woman named snow,with her husband and seven young children, are jammed, when they strike the plateau, under a heavy car. Depth is merciful in his care and docd frot mutilate the features; a smash on the crown of her head, and the lamp is put out forever. The husband and seven children live to tell the pitiful tale, but all arc injured more or less. One man has his jaw torn out, and it hangs limp by- a chin whisker dangling from the chin. His fingers are twitted, torn, and burnt by the embers in the rear car. His eyes are glassy and have a reproachful look. There is a little lad of ten years, unknown, with a cultivated face, rosy cheeks.. Death struck him gently, and be lays by the surging Delaware's bank, with a placid smile on his features, after buinping his childish head from rock to rock downward. There lie together, grasped in their last embrace, man and with, Ephraim and Mary Hoyt, torn and mutilated, their foreheads riven and furrowed with the traces of the jagged rock points. The quiet emcee of Chenango, 100 miles away, buried in the shades of lofty hills, shall never see them again. Alone, stiffened, and fast getting cold, with his calm, resolute face, is C. K. Loomis, of Buffalo, his hair dripping with the washing, sedgy waters, and a dark streak under the eyes to tell how he was swept into the il limitable space of night. Nothing but a con fuses mass of torn timber, broken bones and bleeding bodies; and, to add to the horrors of it, one of the, cars takes fire from the scattered coals of the stove, and six persons jammed in the seats—four women and two men—are slowly re duced to ashes and calcined bones. Oh, the pity of it! One man named Oliver, residing at the Fifth Avenue Motel in N. Y. city, has both legs broken. He is jammed under a car flat on his back, and while thus undergoing unspeakable tortures, his eyes aye fastened on - —man aloe side of kim, , who is also taste] whose head is broken to feagnra old man hears her last expiring being free,he makes a vain attemp For two long hours, this old man and sickly, lies on the cold di morass before he can be extricates.. To say - that the scene baffled descriptioliNuld be speaking paradoxically; for, as one of the facetious wounded remarks, there was plenty of sensation but no scene. It was altogether too dark for the latter. Seven of the dead were burned to death amid the debris of the wrecked ears, and the remainder. known to have been six, were killed in the descent by the action of the rough boulders, which smashed in the ribs of the huge vehicles as they descended, leaving nothing but rubbish and skeletons •to fled the bottom. Yesterday morning the marks of the catastrolme were visible on many "a jutting boul der between the ledge and the bottom of the nar row ravine where the cars lay—a few fragments, blistered bodies and a few handfuls of ashes. Five mortal hours without, surgeon or opiate—five mortal hours,, each of .which had an age of pain in it to the poor, stunned, bruised and bewildered sufferers; and the wounded had all been gathered up and were on their 'Way to Port Jervis. A ghastly regiment they were—ghastlier was never conceived or penciled oven by the fantastic Dore. Fifty-tour mutilations of something human, with three hun dred wounds and bruises and broken bones rather unequally distiibuted among them. At 9 o'clock, the relief train having made Port Jervis. a motley car full of broken bones and broken heads was landed—all the work of a simple defective rail, and all the fault of some, contractor who had undertaken to make a defective rail answer the purpose just as well as one not defective. In the meantime the fifty or sixty persons who have escaped in the five foremost cars are out and endeavoring, to assist •those burled in the ruin and wreck of matter, The engine is reversed, and the people on the cars do their best to clear away the broken and burning timbers. The gray mist of the morning breaks slowly on the river, and after a time the woueuded, .. the dying and the deadi with the elceptidh " of • those burned to death, are put on the earff,which reach Port Jer-' vie at - eight o'clock In the morning. The entire town, men, women and children turn out to assist the 'suffering ones. The Delaware, Minnesink and American hotels are "converted into temporary hOspitals, twenty-four rooms in the first named house 'being meade to servo as 'hospital i Warde. 7 4 , Telegrams pour n - and Ottt'Qf the town as the news spreads, all over the' brnaditatd, ainfeVery. incoming tralwb*ge the terrified friends and Mathew Of tha Weeanded'and dying. • ARE rvAL late' WairbEDAT JERSEY car. • , The trairenWhi., arrived in Jersey City at noon and at seven Milintatpagotie - O'clecie yesterday,, conveyed seVerel bf eke. Mistral piteseagenhrtuteteel of whom, lent slightly hart, walked*. the!ferly6 boat and crossed to New York. The follow ng who were severely injured, were placed on a steam tug and conveyed to the piers of New York and Brooklyn nearest their residence: A. S. Gillett, wife and child, and Mies Stewart, who were conveyed on matresses from the pier at the foot of Charles street to the residence of a friend at 16 Vannest place; Camden C. Dike and Bigelow, his nephew, were afterwards taken to Brooklyn. Mr. Charles Mclntosh, ferry super intendent, was unremitting in his exertions to alleviate the condition of the sufferers. When the boat was made fast to the pier at Now York a large crowd collected and thronged the passage to West street as the melancholy . pro cession wended its way. A compact bed borne on the shoulders of four men con tained the writhing, gasping form of Mrs. Gillett, who appeared to be on the point of sending forth the last vital spark. The spectators Jostled and gaped, and in half whispers inquired who the victims were—whether there were any further casualties, and with a pitying glance at thepro cessionists and their burden, muttered an audible prayer for the relief of the sufferers. The first victim Is borne along, unconscious of the staring throng, the excitement and the bustle, and unconscious even of the proximity of those she holds dearest on earth. The husband comes next, wrapped up on his little pallet and smarting under the scars and burns, which become irritated from the mo tion of the carriers. who tread cautiously through the slushy street. A third group follows close, and there is no motion perceptible in the form which lies stretched on the pallet, and a whisper is heard on every side—" She is dead." This Is Miss Stewart, who has become quite prostrate. Then comes The poor child of two years, who seems al ready an orphan, sits boldly upright in the arms of a stranger, and the procession ends. Every body gazes at the little fellow, and a murmur of pity breaks from the crowd as he caste his eyes upward to meet the glance of father and mother, but in vain. No cry, no moan from the young sufferer, who, though he must have accompa nied his parents in their fearful descent over the rocky precipice, presents few marks beyond a swelling on one side of his head. And yet calm and quiet was the expression of the countenance, for his perception, fortunately, had not yet been matured to realize horror in the awful calamity. How the mother must have clung to that child in the moment of peril; and how Providence watched over it and rescued it from the jaws of the grave! The Eric Directors charge that in consequence of the granting of an injunction preventing them from issuing 610,000,000 worth of bonds ' the Vanderbilt party are indirectly the cause of the deplorable accident which occurred on the Erie railroad. At a meeting of the Directors, held last January, reports were received from the va rious officers of the road in reference to the condition of its affairs. The following placard has been extensively circulated in the West by the Vanderbilt party; containing an extract from the report of Superintendent Riddle, submitted at that meeting: "Ban CONDITION OF THE EOIE RAILWAY. "We 'extract the following from Superinten dent's report of the condition of the New York and Erie Railway, published in the Cincinnati Gazette of the 12th inst. The remarks of the Superintendent show the superiority of the steel over the ordinary iron rail. The Superintendent further says : 'We have passed through three months of .un usually severe winter weather, and moved more than au average winter tunnage,i with the road-bed frozen solid as a rock, the rails in cased in snow and ice, eo that it has been im possible to do much in the way of repairs; the iron rails have broken, laminated and worn out beyond all precedent, until there is scarce a mile of your road, except that laid with steel rails, between Jersey City and Salamanca or Buffalo, where it is safe to run a train at the or dinary passenger train speed, and many portions of the road can only be traversed safely by reducing the speed of all trains to 12 or 15 miles an hour, solely on account of the worn out and rotten. condition of the rails. Broken wheels, axles. engines and trains off the track have been of daily, almost hourly occurrence for the last two months, caused mostly by defective rails. Fully I,oeo broken rails were taken from the track iu the month of January, while the number removed on account of lamination crushing, or wearing out was much greater. February will show a still worse record than January. 'The condition of the iron at the present'date_ is such as to give me much anxiety and appre hension for the safety of trains. We cannot and do not attempt to make the schedule time with our trains; nearly all lose from two to five hours in passing over the road, and it has been only by the exercise of extreme caution we have been able thus far to escape serious accident.' " It was found from the report of the Treasurer that the Company was in debt. $1,100,000. The Directors say that it was at this meeting that they resolved to issue $10,000,000 worth of bonds to repair the road and purchase steel rails. They - ^iediately contracted for the purchase , of 20,000 A' of steel rails, to replace the broken rails had been snapped during the severe cold ter. That immediately after the granting injunction, the firm with whom they con al refused to furnish the rails unless the tnt should be depoSited with Baring •fe; .ters. In consequence of the injunction the. Treasurer refused to disburse any of the funds, of the„ Company until the present dif ticultiCs could be adjusted. The directors say that for the past three months the speed of the express trains has been reduced to the accommo dation-train schedule,. and that until the track is relaid with steel rails in insecure places. It will be deemed unsafe to run at a higher rate of speed. Bdranger's god of grisettes aud,.drunkards, that God in whom you can believe without purity of We t : elevation of mind, seems to us the myth of tupidity, substituted to that of the antique sen tient. We are tempted to make ourselves atheists to escape from his deism, and dovots, not to be the accomplices of his platitude; so much so that the orthodox song-writer of 1828 appears to us at the same tithe impious and a • Philistine. True religion, in'fact, is the fruit of silence and recollection. It is synonymous with distinction, with elevation, with refinement; it is born with moral delicacy, at the moment when the virtuous man, re-entering within himself, listens to the voices that call there. In that silence, all senses being appeased, all noises from outside being hushed, a murmur, penetrating and gentle,comes to the soul, and recalls, like the sounds of a re mote village bell, the mystery of the infinite. Like, then, to some lost child who vainly seeks to unravel the secret of his birth, the meditating man feels himself homeless. A. thousand sighs from, tris 'country provoke within him melan choly returns. Ho rises above the slimy soil of reality towards fields in sun light; he, smells those perfumes of the antique days which the seas of the south still retained when the vessels of Alexander traversed them for the first time. Death in the clothes of a Pilgrim coming back from the Holy Land knocks at the gate of the soul, which begins to feel what it did not perceive in the troubles of life, that it will be sweet to it to dig. It Is assured then that its works shall follow it; truth appears to it AS . the, reward of good actions; it sees the insufficiency of all fleeting forms to express the ideal; the words "to be," or blankness, lose their contra dictory' sense; it contemplates-with.divinity; under the relations of a son .mrith'hiO fathor; and prays with this Manz'. "OutFither who art in kl eaveni"--From new urork,' 4 ,Qupstions Contemporains." , , One of the English religiotisinVerS Is making ' A riddllaided-07 - ftivoe'ef correspondents on the wearing of moustaches hi , Methodist ministers. Certainly 'Or} iMpertirieut to do such a, thing, under the yerk news of the udaisten3. A MELANCHOLY SPECTACL3r: WHAT THE umEeTons 5.1.1 Renan on Bora.ngoi. F. L. FETHERSTON. PubUm PRICE THREE CENTS. FACTS AMID ,Fillyipai* , ° ;:,,; —France is going to try - raising opluM. ?., „,„ Dumas, fie, has been haying old tapeatryfir' G,OOO francs, and refusing 40,000 francs for dt. —The peach crop in New Jersey is said to bur hurt by the late frosts. - —Why might carpenters believe there fa no such thing as stone? Because they neVetsaW —What did the spider do when he etsmc'oatot the ark? Be- took a fly, and went hoinc."' —Andther successful breeder of short Whisky tar. • . —An English traveler has discoveredilata&fos. ail oysters m the vicinity of the pyramid&of Egypt. - . —Prince Murat wants to sell his chateatt. Beeenval near Paris. But that makes nopar ticular difference to any orris. • ", - —There is a sign in Harrison county, Indians: 4 bearing the following inscription: "Hearn & Wife Saw and Grist Mill.'r —The Earl of Cardigan, who died in England a few days ago, was the leader or, the•Light,Bri- A gad at Balakiava. —Eug6nie discards trails, and all female Paris is cuStLng off the extra length of its diCsses in. despair at the mutability of human affairti. —An inventor at Washingtcin Claims the Entice • very of a process •of setting or 'distributing'tppts by machinery operated by electridlty. —The streets in Detroit were recentlyfictOixe because of the obstruction of the sewers. kiy, off hoop skirts. "Why are old plaids so devoted to their eate?"; asked a young fellow of an elderly lady.:, "Because, haring no husbands, they take to the rnext most treacherous animals," :yr ata tha reply. —A western editor 13Ay$ that', his connection with the press has thawed and, resolved itself int. adieu. Just as well, too, we have no doubt, for his readers. —A California editor says helately met a'gratn marian who had just made a tour through the mines, cogitating thus: "PoSitive, mine; cost parative, miner; superlative, minus!" • • —The executioner of Madrid had assassinated a' woman. The European opponents of the death penalty claim that this event is the most atTiking proof of the fact that executions will not deter murderers from shedding human blood. • • I, ' " —On the street cars of a Nashville company te new feature has been introduced, which' luta thy" merit of originality. They have •all'lthe papers placed In convenient positions for thEi n etiJ . tertaintuent of its patrons. We should. ()Wet tso the insertion of some daily papers into our cars. —Fanny Janauschek has sent forty theasand dollars' worth of American bonds, the' net profits of her trip to the United States, 'to her •relatlvets' in Prague. Dawlson made fifty thouilaud dollars, but his expenses were trlfli.u,g• colnpared witit those of Mlle Janatu3chek. • ' —Punch. says:"Women arc said to have stionget attachments than men. It is evinced in little things. A.man is often attached to an old'hat; but did, yon ever know of a woman having' an attachment for an old bonnet?" , Echo ansWers-- "Never." --A French writer says of the Highland troops: "In the eyes of the Turks the Scotch had, one: enormous fault, that of showing their legs. X 4 our eyes they have but one defect; a slight one, but still excessively annoying —their ,deprarid. taste for the screaming of the bagpipes."' —An offer has been made by a Cincinnati ciU- zen to the city government to pay - fifteen hun dred dollars a year for the use of the four htta-,.. Bred street lamp-posts. He wishes, o cover each_ post with metallic advertising cards. A Cour mittee of Councils has reported favorably on the matter. —The long-talked-of bridge' between 'England ' and France, across the Straits of Dover, seems to be making some progress toward realization-, The works of the model of the international bridge are being carried on Withgreat ,rapidlty,. and in two months it is hoped that they will be forward enough to permit df some practical ex-: periments being made. —An important discovery has ,recently been.- made among the papers left by the late lamented , Alexis de Tocqueville. It is the manuscript of an entirely new edition of his celebrated work on' "Democracy in America." M. Ratiabonni, *krt . ' read the manuscript, says that It is certain tot , create a sensation; the author having rewritten a number of chapters, and changed his views in- regard to many important points. •„ ,• —Several prominent German and French jour nalists are on their way to the United States to be present at the closing scenes of President . Johnson's trial, and to write reports of what will, • take place on that occasion for the newspapers, • they represent. A Dusseldorf painter;will also be in Washington- at the time, and sketch the scene at the close of the trial for a great historical, painting. • , 1 —Thiers is preparing an article on Andrew. • Johnson's impeachment for the Rerun. deal j• - )elite" • Mom/es.. Ho was recently asked by some Of,hia • . colleagues what he thought about the affair,,and he said, in his usual blunt way :•,"Pclizlieu,,l.ittree, , no sympathies for a man who is elected President. under one of the most elastic Consdintious in the', world, and cannot,even Muter such favorable cir cumstances, keep up a good understanding with ' the Legislature.' —At a public school exhibition in a Michigan village, one of the visitors made a brief address to the pupils, on the necessity of obeying their teachers and rowing up . loyal and. useful eitit zena. To give emphasis to his remarks,- he pointed to a large national flag, spread on one side pt the room, and inquired: "Boys, what is that flax for?" A little urchin, who understood "the , situation" of the house oetter than the speaker, promptly answered: cover up'the dirt, sir." —An exchange says : A. neighbor who had re peatedly been urged by some female acquaint ances' to accompany them to a skating , pond, ,at last yielded, no longer able to resist the blandish ments of his bewitching tormentors. Ho went. He said he put,on a pair of. skates, and struck boldly out, and thfi next thing ho kne,w he was himself in bed, the minister sitting beside him singing a psalm, the doctor courting his wife, and the undertaker measuring him for a walnut coffin. Important Knott!Rory Seizure( trtlAtto' • cage—Prominent. Ottizenis' lmpH cased. ' [From the Chicago Republican, April 14th] One of the most imoortant seizures that has been made. for some time by the Revenue officers of this District teak llace between two and three o'clock last Monday morn. ug. Implicating, as it does, some of our most prominent citizens in a gigantic attempt to swindle the Government. the facts, as published below, will prove of interest to our readers. , , From information obtained in a maoner best kiloton to themselves, the nuspiclomi of certain officers connected, . ', : with the internal revenue department were aroused en the doings of an establishment at 619 South State "trete, ostensibly iu the manufacture of vinegar and p1ciea.1(.1118,.,. place, owned by a Joint stork company. amongwttont are such members as George Fuller,son of the we .known, - Judge of that name, W. U. Ovington, Secretary of they ~ West Division Railway Company. and Milford D. Su, •!-.. chanan, Cashier of the Commercial National Bank. haw,„ been watched for some time, and was, n‘J. long since, eg,,...: ,. , ; ', aimined by detectives; but so well arranged were, the pre- ' " mimes that nothing suspicious could bo discovered by tjant.• ~: °Moore. . . , Finallv s howevor, an abundance of proof had beet:tool, + , lected, and they felt satisfied that a sudden descent %Mon. the place would result in much good to the dePartnient. accordingly the premises were visited at an 61 07% ki p pli l ' ' yesterday morning, entrance being eirectonf,,, , •by ,s;' ' door through the boiler-room. .- • .:,". • .I , .'' f + '., ' t c; ,, - Two men wore found in charge busily"rlie ~l ik, ' running the works , and when surprised by - .0 Mo. one of them instantly ran to a door leading torlatnera.,ipc! • which was located ono of the stills, mind taste ; it, 'tt was, however, finally forced .opeta;,,:waok ~tas.,ix.: g .claimed that he had done all he cOn4.4",iloi t y'tho .we tup he was not to blame... •. , +. ~,,, ,t; , r A, ,1, , . 4•. f 'y 'A z . i rapid examinatiOn o,f tb.e p roo t ' 'Whott it was found tbstt a stlikettin te pei l l ia *, ,i ftli t.,,., operation and prods at , Is " " *um: ,i , ~ wines running between and teigt:' , MitalltuflOW'+ tory was so wel.t. t 1 4;411.4.011 0, o• II it cdrild De , o•o3Mtliety , Igoe , a' It 4 ; ~ a tit , k. . nalookettler Wll4 , thi l effigt.' le a, g110 )1140 ? . 0 04, • workmen OtlkPrilllNk anaugn t et e AWN,. thing. taconcestl.thelent SILO " ' vet plaustvB , oll,_ ; /darned kr tho WineAnnettleeln t they hairo,',‘lllßlPg Dane OR the eetaliolUbllleutt, . ,
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