CHI N' PEACOCK. Elieir. VOLUME XXII.-NO. 7, . . TUE BULLETIN PLIBLISILED EVERT EVEXISG • (Bundsyst excepted). Air *OB,NEW ItUILLETIN 811111,101ING, WI" Chestnut Street, EVENING nuurrni ASSOCIATION. nanurroes. rriAmiocc. , ERNEST O. WAIAAACA tros THOS. 'ILLIAMSON. GASPER GOOD lA. FRANCIS WELLS. - Thitfitmaynt It tarred to tubtaibers in the eltY at IS to week. parable to the carriers. or 48 •or annum. INVTpalgitiB WED DINGS, PARTIES. aw., DREW?, ozatiants'anTrideF' raw. MARRIED. BILGES PIE -PEABODY.— Os the morning of the 16th of Lodi. , (trace (ibureh, by the Bev. Dr. tioddarda. tibartraffl. Wilestde to Mario L Peabody. • KEBN—ghtEBL.E.--On the nth inst. by Rev. Wm. M. Boom, D.,11, of York, ..sfr.Aterander . Kern. of Salem, N, T. add Wm Virglrds Sboble, of Philadelphie. •• ROSZNOMTEN—ENORR.—On WrAneoday. April teth, by the Bloc ! Phillips Brooks. H. B. Itoemmarten to (;Tara,..l daughter of 0. Frederick Knurl'. • DIED. ititOWNE.—On the 16th inetant:Jane Tunis, wife of Samuel Browne. I be relativee and friends of the family are reencoennY invited to attend bet funeral, from the roddence of her huebsact. No. Ill7Callowhill street. on .Monday afternoon. the stninot, at 1 o'clock. To mooted to Mount Vernon Cemetery).BßUßl4l6.—On the morning of the 14th instant. in att. more, Elizabeth, Wife of Fi an,: le Horns, In the TOth year of her e st ITIPP —4)to the evening of the loch Met., Napoleon A. lupin the 88th year of hie age. Due notlee will be given of the t &mere,. • DioCALLBIit.--Buddenly, on the 15th hut. Alexander, son of liimM end hfabala McCalbm, in the Bth year of hie age. - The wilatives and friends of the family are invited to attend Ida fluterel from the reeidence` of his parent., Main street. Germantown, on Saturday afternoon. 18th that. at 1 o'elecli. MeGtLia.—tin the lbth inst. lien.rie.tta Harrison. wife of George B. g 10.4111, and youna , .et daughter of George W. Melton. M the ft3th year of her age. funeral from the reddence of her hoehand, No. I. Pik Hit rt;oet, above Brown. on St•sirday afternoon, 18th lust, at 2 o'clock. To yroeced to Woodlands. ViLLOt/N.—On Tuesday. April 14. in New Yoric,htra. Lodes A. Wilson. widow ct o.v:ridge Vvliaon, In the 6'th year of her age. LIYRE LAIsDELL 'OPEN TO.HAY THE LIGE' ICI shades of Spring Poplins fc,r the Fashionable Wa 11)ressos. Weal Colored Po - Ohm Mode Colored POPilDf. Biamsreli Closet 4h* e. SPECIAL :VOTICEm. negro MESSRS. EDITOIte . —IT lifee BEEN YOUR euetom to notice editorially many elegant improve. -.heats. 4 vtiggle d not only to orr.ament the city, but to give pieseare and greater seemzutuodatien to ire inhabitant.; to apprise the o:immunity of any change in the manner of eondectfac btAnteee by 9,111'6 any class of the people n °Lid be benefl t ted ; to draw attention to and encourage ell new ertferPriees este-eared to increeee the comfort , of the citizen; to commend an; bovines which will . tend to enlarge tie yroductiont of our fertile 'country that the ,neceseariee of life may be el:talented In the larce Knowing thie to be year commendable custom. 1 have keen looking for at les.t a neer of encouragement for the new enterprieti of tannehing the ettizeus with per, 3111 k at lesn expense titan they now pay for au inferier aetlele—hut, ne the press, has been co silent with teegard to the interests oe Philadelphians in a lacteal way, an "Amateur Farmer" t (alive upon to draw your Attention, sr well as all the tarrelies in Philatielphie. to throe of the facts connected with the matter: Among al' the changee and impresementv which have taken place within a recent pried In Philadelphia. to benefit the entire, population. there had not been one more worthy the swam and spgrebstioe of the newepa. pere thanthe object id that Cidemalyethrough which the istieflufidens living near the lines of railroad% and within tor to *lee of thiladelphis, will be Induced to increase, very leireel3, the production or milk. It has doubtless tie (-erred to you that the sale of what ie called ie at least one-third greater than the quantity yielded by all Mk cows kept to .eetly that article. You can readily imagine how the deficit le made uPe sat. trhy do not the I enr.eni produce more milk e The meson is very plain. They cannot afford to produce that Costly article, and be rubject to a yearly lone of from lie to 'Alper cent, of the vote amount of salmi. The manner in which the, buelneet has been carried on in Philadelphia has driven threeforarthe cf the farmers from producing milk. Me price has teen berelyeerifiicient to pay the expenam eppertainisig to the dairy. The low Price, however. Is not the only cause of disgust to the fanner. It is the great lees they. have been compelled to submit to by the -milk dealers. Theta is scarcely a farmer on the line of the railroads. who tends milk by rail, who has not to lament a lets of from d5O to $4OO in many instances, anetudly. It is no rare occurrence for one milk trader to defraud belt a dozen farmer in one season out of a month's milk delivery, amounting to from 8100 to 8.1)0, acconlieg teethe quantity of milk tarnished in a month. Tiffs dishemeat practice kw eo dieccaraged the farmer that he cannot live by raising milk—the inadequate price,' in connection with the uncertain payments, has bad the of act to lessen the supply of Pure Milk, thUs inducing the dishonest trader to make up the, deficiency with a lest expensive article than that produced by the cow. The Pennsylvania Railroad bringe only 3,000 quart. daib into the city,from ono of the richest and best adapted valleys in the world for dairy purposes. Should the henk Compete , succeed, and I have no doubt it will, the pro election of milk in the great valley of Chester County alone, will be, in eighteen tnonthe, five times as great as it is now. Will not every nun, woman, and child in Phila delphia be the gainer in wealth, as well as health, by the hie/eased production? The consumption of the "staff of lite" Is very large. In every part of the city there are large and responsible betimes employing vast capital in furnishing the people -with flour. The consumer is protected. as the law covers every barrel of flour with its mentle. Everybody sees the immense consumption of dour In Philadelphis, and is not eurprieest that a trade of such proportions is con ducted by many Of the drat and matt distinguished bud. ness men. Consequently, consumers of ti our can obtain what they want from responsible homes. It is not so With milk. altnost as necessary an article of diet And vet, the coat of milk le as great, if not greater, than that of flour. Let families count the cost of milk per month and compare it with.the amount they pay for floor, and they wilt be astonished Mike result. Many families use two quarts of milk and out-fourth quart of cream daily— costing about $llO a year. The pasue families. most likely, will' not use lover five or de barrels of flour a year. which, at He per barrel, would coot $6O to $7O, or at We per barrel, from $9O to sloo—considerably lees than tire milk. There is no danger of the flour business becoming •monopoly, and there is lees likelihood of the mlllebusinees being moilopolized-ethe field is so great a one, there will be room for all. This communication is already too lengthy, but I can. not close without a tow words as to the present manner of serving families with milk. The number of milk dealers is legion, and it would puzzle a High School scholar to calculate the number of milk wagons requisite to servo one square or block of houses. There are doubtless many squares in the city hi which uo two families are served by the same milkman; hence the milk retailer has to drive 16 to 30 miles to and fro about the city, to serve from ro to ,100 quarto in a morning; by this absurd and expensive system several hundred milk wagons .orush identically through the city, c,hurzdag the milk, which the coinumerte-don't want chnrned, but have to • pay a round sum for the • churning, nevertheless. The number of Milk.wagona may be computed at five hun dred, at e daily cost of $lO each, or sl,teo,ooo annually; by . concentration one hundred wagons could do the same business more promptly andoatisfactorily, and save the consumers $1,000,000 a year, and at the same time release four hundred homes for some other useful omployment The average quantity of milk retailed by one man, with horse and wagon, does not exceed Sine hundred quarts. The same man and wagon should.retall live hundred quarts in ono.fourth of the - time, if the customers lived montiguous to each other. CHURCH DEDICATION.— • THE NEW BUILDING OF THE ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Cornet of Nineteenth and Oreenstxrets. Will be dedicated to the worship of. Hod, on next Sib. bath, April 19th, 1868. At 10,1 e o'clock A. M., a. history of the Church will be given by the Pastor, ROY. Thomas M. Cunningham, D. D. At 0 o'clock. P. M.. Union Services will be held, witn :addressee bY R. D. D'Oadle.HentY. D. A. Cun. minghata aud thers. At WSW& P' Rev. Alexander MO anBIL D..D., •will preach the Dedication Sermon. T. • , ti Strp rte. BILLIARD SOIREE AT WITHER S'S 80.01kB TIGE EVENING. N. E.ifornerOliElghth aud C f Pet, Nelms, Palmer. Hewes, Godley ICavaximai, sI and others will have friendly Orden*, • , . . . -,. • . .. . , . . , , . , ~ " • , . - , ,•,‘ . . . -. . , , • ..., , . . , ~. ~,,, ; Ili,' , I •,'.!. ,-,: ' .. ''' ...:' ' ' ' .' ' ' 4 0* ". ' ' e • < i , . OAMATEUt l'Anunc." SPECIAL NOTICES. 116r7 PENNSYLVANIA SEAMEN'S FRIEND 130- LIETY. , • SAILOR'S HOME NO. 42 SOUTH FRONT STREET. —The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania. Seamen's Friend Societymill be held this afterctoon,the 17th inst.,at 4 o'clock. By order of ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President. Philadelphia, April 17t11,1863. Ito OFFICE OFBHAMOKIN AND BEAK VALLEY l er COAL COMPANY, NO. 214 CHESTNUT ST. PIIII.ADELPLIIA. April hi,1889. The Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Eloction for Officers of the Shamokin and Bear Valley Coal Company will be held at the Office of the Company, on MONDAY, May 4tb, at 12 o'clock. M. W. r. ATKANSON, apl7 18 20222427 2lmylBt4 Secretary. NOPC ' —AN EXAMINATION OF COLORED 'Appiteantn for the position of Teachers in the Colored Schools of this District will be hel FRIDAY hool Douse, Sixth etreet. above Lombard. on and SATURDAY 17th and 18th lust, commencing at 2 o'clock P. M. on Frl day. Dy order of Committee on Qualification of Teachers. 1 1 0 13 Ifi 174 /11. W. BALL/WELL. Secretor?. Or A COURSE OF LECTOR'S 'ON BOTANY. TO „Ladles and Gentlemen, will be delivered in the Sci. entitle and Classical metituts, B. E. corner of Polar and Seventeenth greet*. adjoining_Rldge avenue. Introduc tory Lecture (free) WEDNE SDAY, April 22, at 5 o'clock. by .1. E. ENNIn, rrincival. aple.etrp wir A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE STOCK HOLD ere of the litlerceaktile Librery at e r pauy will be held on TUESDAY EVENIr.G, the Indent, at b o'clock. for the purpoto of taking f action on the pending amendments to the charte JO r. HN LARDNER. apL-12trp5 Recording Secretary. war IMPORTANT TOTRAVELEREC— . Examine your matreea when you enter a eleeping car• If made of ELASTIC SPONGE, you can mother the rue with it in cme of accident, as it is perfectly incom • buetible. apl6lltrp. slsr PHILADELPHIA ORTHENEDIC HOSPITAL, No. 15 South Ninth ptreet. Club-foot, hip and spi nal &peace* and bodily deformities treated. Apply daily at 11 o'clock. aplb I- g bfft e j°ifilE AND 1680 Lombard street, Dispeneargapi entMedt m 1 treatment and medicines furnhthed grattitintely to the 000 r. gr. NEWS!' a.PERS. BOOKS. PAMPHLETS.WaSTE toLLVl&c.,bought by E. HUNTER., T;i, No. 612 Jayne street. A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES ELT- KO PE. II S,11111( ), AND reEsIDENcEs OF A 11E1'. !, • I.N AND I:l2lTlsif IY:MISis 11011 MEM (' , ,fte.pood‘.nf . e of the Pleladelphia livening Balletb3.2 Psms. March 25, 186&—Miss Emma Stebbins, whom I intended to introduce in my last. Through the crowd of white-powdered men and boys, who are industriously following out our lair artist's instructions, traces of which are dis cernable on each shapeless pieee_of marble, that will soon develop the grace of sylphs, cherubs': and heroines of history, and the kingly propor tions of gods and heroes of the past 'and.present —we reach a room where the artist herself stands in her neat brown linen coat dress, every part of her toilette finished with womanly care, and her gentle, delicate face. expressing a satisfaction indescribable,as she looks around on ker finished works. an array of lovely images that call forth an involantary exclamation from us as we enter: "How beautiful:" The largest piece is "The Angel of the 'Fountain," intended for the New York Central Park. In describing this wonder ful creation I will incorporate as much of the artist's own explanation of It as I can remember. Every one is familiar with the beautiful Scrip ture story of the Pool of Bethesda, mentioned in the fifth chapter of St. John's gospel—a certain pool near Jerusalem, where once a year an angel descended to trouble " or agitate the waters of healing, into which those who bad friends to help them were immersed and healed of their infirmities or diseases. What could be more appropriate for the design of a fountain in a city park, where those who linger longest to inhale the very spray that cools their fevered brows are the care-worn. hard-working people, who look for no help, no rest in their weary lives, and come to the fountain for refreshment, and a glimpse—a promite from the All Healing one? The design is new, and the boldness with which it is carried out strikingly exemplifies the daring of woman's genius. The Angel is eight feet high. poised on its outspread wings, while it hovers over a mass of rock from which the water gushes, falling Into an upper basin. The breeze of the foun tain causes her light drapery to float in graceful folds behind her, leaving her feet exposed as they easily glide over, 'without touch.. lug, the rocks. Her hair, the flowing sleeves of her garment, seem wafted along on the same ligh breeze, and the haruiony of these flowing outlines is lovely and perfect. The basin is constructed like - that in the square of St. Peter's, with an edge that breaks the water into a fine spray or mist as it passes into the larger basin below. Between the two basins are four smaller figures, attend ants on the angel, and representing Parity, Tem perance, Health and Peace. They stand amid a mass of rock and, water-plants, from which the water pours in cascades into the large , basin, and is again sent forth in broad jets from its edge into an immense ground basin below. Happy Gotham! When this ornament graces and ennobles still more the pride of your city— Central Park,do not forget that a woolen's inspira tion planned and a woman's delicate hand fashioned tiie 'mould from which that heavy work in bronze is made, and will stand a monument of. her strength for ages. Another work of a sacred character is her "Angel of Prayer." While she hovers near the penitent and supplicating ones, her face expressing rapt attention, she gathers their petitions, which turn to flowers as she bears them up to God. The "Lotus Dreamer" is exquisitely beautiful, a wreath of lotus flowers and leaves crowning her drooping head, while hor bright countenance betrays the visions that float through hor happy fancies. ,Kobunbus" the night before he dis covered America is splendidly designed and exe cuted. As it has already reached our shores, no doubt most of your readers are familiar with it. Miss Stebbins seldom copies a work unless she has express orders. This plan does not benefit her purse, but it enables her to * work more for that lasting fame and confidence that each now study establishes more and more, as it shows progress and improvement in her art that all, but herself, think perfection. March 26.—1 t was - provoking, but how could I help it, if just as I finished the above line a car= riage-full of gay Americans dashed into my room, scattered paper and pens, tied on mv bonnet, and dragged me down to drivfk. with them on the Pincio ? The Pinchue Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome, is now the favorite drive and prome nade of all classes. And well it may. be. From its commanding heights we see Rome, the COll seam,Pcb3r's, the Pantheon, the Capitol the F oram, temples, pilaces, churches,andintins; villas of the cardinals, the Quirt*, or, summer Pilaw of the Pope, the Tiber; Fort 81.Aoinge10,ittO the six hills, forming, with the one, on w l 4 We stand, a complete chain botmdary, 'the Copt-. Palatine, Aventine, Cmlian, Silvana and *(bilrinal. Stopping in the midst of hundreds of carriages and crowds of Romans, strampts PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1868. priests and peasants, all listening to the music from the band stationed in an .oak grove, Like those that formed the ancient Druid temples, and breathing in the fragrance of flowers that bloomed as in June at home, the strange mingling of peo ple and costumes, sounds and scenes, decay in the dead city. at our feet, life all around us, I al most smiled at the mourning garments of 'those , who nursed their individual griefs—"whose agonies were evila of a day," when "a world was at our feet, as fragile as our clay." Until five o'clock we drove round that glorious mount, then, as the sun went down,twe quickly drove to our hotels, for there is fever and pesti knee in the air that blows across the Campagna and teems with the elements of death when the life-giving power of the sun la withdrawn. Our American physicians in Rome have employment enough in exhorting and advising their country men to be prudent, expose themselves less to the evening air, and do less sight-seeing in a glien time, but their advice is never heeded, for there is so much in this most wonderful of all cities to ace, that in six weeks, though we have not lost a day, we have not seen each place of most interest more than once or twice, and more than half of the three hundred and sixty-eight churches, each containing at least one -great work of art or relic of ancient Christendom, are yet to be seen by na. Bt. Peter's, of course,'is an excep tion. We have been there a dozen times, and yet are tot really acquainted with more than one third of its richness, magnificence and bewilder ing immensity. Remembering friends who ex pect to sec those sights through my eyes, I look very hard at all, and pell-mell, without a note, I pack remembrances in my confused brains, so that if they can be produced with shape enough only to make them readable, I shall, like "Blind Tom," applaud myself, on the slightest pro vocation. E. D. W. GOSSIP WHOM GOTHAM. Ilse gireid Railways—The Latest asbions—The Dickens Dinner—Jell. Jerson Brick—The Midnight Mission —The Gambling Houses, ace. Yone. April 16, 1868.—We have had drtadful weather of late, snow after snow sifted down upon us, and then the rains began. It rains now, and verily it seems, as the poet says. •l'he rains are never weary." The weather dulls nearly everything. The Third Avenue Railroad Company began ibis week the wholesale discharge of their con ductors. About thirty have been sent adrift since Monday, and it is reported that twenty more will follow in the footstetis of their predecessors be fore Sunday next. No cause is assigned. Some of the railroad e4mpanies hereabout often get into these sudden flurries, and discharge every body within their reach. The fashion oracles every now and then whisper that tight-lacing is again to be " faallionable," ' and that' ' speedily; and there are visions of tight-lacing, rib crushing machines, and tiny,wasplike waists, and tenger lists of women dying with the dreaded consumption, etc. Why will they butt their dear beads against the immovable ramparts of Nature's laws? the old batchelors continue to ask. But whew! these questions will have such an Insig nificant effect that ridicule will rather be heaped upon the heads of the aforesaid bachelors; for, if t ashion has really ordained small waists, and we tear she bee, the ladies will simply have them, no matter how large they are when the order for a change comes. Even In our staid sister city, Brooklyn, a married lady is reported to be entirely helpless from paralysis caused by 'light -lacing. To be killed in this way is, indeed, ust pitiful. Mr. A. T. Stewart, as everybody knows, is building a magnificent two-million-dollar palace un Fifth avenue. It gets reported every once in while that he does not care to live there, beauti ful as the place is, or will be, and so he has any quantity or advice as to the disposal of it. The coolest of all suggestions is that recently made by an evening paper kere, that Mr. Stewart pre sent the costly pile to the Century Club. We do firmly believe, at this writing, that if our opin ions ead been sought on this subject, we should , have said, however odd it may have sounded, that the disposal of the building is very much a mat ter of Mr. Stewart's own private business. Mr. George W. Morgan, si long the efficient organist of Grace Church, has relinquished that -position. It is needless to say that he will be greatly missed, not only by the members, but by his many other friends who so often visited the church to hear his wonderful playing. The fearful railroad slaughter on the Erie Rail road yesterday caused much excitement here, as among the killed and wounded are a number from this city and Brooklyn. General Garret H. Stryker died in this city yes terday. He was born in 1790; was commissioned as Lieutenant in 1810, and served as captain throughout the war of 1812, and was commis sioned 'Major-General in 1837. He commanded for a long time the Twenty-eighth Division of State Militia. He represented this city in the Legislature for two terms. Mr. Dickens gives his views of David Copper field and Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party to the public to-night at Steinway Hall. He only gives four readings more in this city. Great prepara tions are making for the press dinner to be given to Mr. Dickens at Delmonico's. Invita tions to be present have been sent to the proprie tors or editors of nearly every principal journal East or West. The proprietors of the New York Herald, for very obvious reasons, have forbidden their employes attendance at this dinner. "Jef ferson Brick," it seems, never forgets. Mr. Horace Greeley will preside. Mr. Dickens and Mr. Gree ley will, of course, make speeches, and probably fir. Bryant, Mr. Edmund C. Stedman, Mr. Swin ton, Mr. Raymond, Mr. Parke Godwin, and many others. The first annual report of the Managers of the "311dnight Mission"—for the reform of abandoned women--has been published. The contributions for the year amount to nearly nine thousand dol lars. The balance now in the Treasury is a little over four hundred dollars. The task to which the good people of the Midnight Mission have devoted their energies has been most disheart ening, so disheartening that they have heard on ill sides prophecies of utter failure, and yet this report of the first year's work shows an en couraging progress. It is now probable that the police officers who were so recently greeted with a perfect storm of indignation for having locked up a woman with the dead beep of her child will be exonerated from all blame. The police justices give audience to all sorts of people. A brigadier-general and a colonel in the regular army were among the prisoners brought before Justice Dowling the other day. Awhile ago a society wab formed hero called ~"The Anti-Gambling Society." It has not been the most vigorous association ever organized, but manages to maintain a respectable kind of existence. With the utmost .coolness some of the "black-legs" of the city now assume the guise of agents of this steeloty, and solicit "con tributions." The "Anil-Gambling Society" are perfectly "dumb-founded" by this piece of atm ' legy. So weak arc ail our anti-gambling use iolalloOs that . the number of - . gaming -houses has i I rirldlYliereaßed of late, _tiptit. now some people eitignost to be; one tho u san d. The bate ', at, the National Academy. of ign InOstiav7 isynning, was . :,n very' crowd d *brilliant *that:Aim:By .of the ladies* . costumes WeronoteWorthlettad elegant.: A large I ntimbCr of our Shtkptit t `arts to aoll - litorffir7 fow l ,* present.. "The'lginitter'of pletarea op exhibition is unusuallylarge. The stock market luia lately' been very much OUR 'WHOLE COWir.i.aßY. excited, and a decline is shown in nearly all speculative shares. Some people wiillomtend that the signs arc such as to warrant a prophecy of a g eneral break•down in etocks. The Erie Railroad - Accident—Later Particulars. (From to-dare New York Tribune.) • Mr. Louis B. -Collins, of South 'Byron, New York,iia knownlo have been on the ill-fated train, but has Rot been heard from since his departure from home. With him was Miss Susan Idquiers, of Stafford, New York, some of whose friends are here waiting very anxiously to hear from her. , Mr. A. W. Gardner, of Batavia, is alio midsing. There is no doubt that the Occident was the re sult of a broken rail. The leading wheel of the forward track of the, fourth car from the rear end of the train left the track at the point where the mil was broken.' The resistance of the one wheel waireo slight as to make it impossible for the engineer, to notice it. The train ran about 900 feet in this way, when the wheel evidently struck a " chair," which' stewed the truck toward the inner part of the curve, whereupon it and the three following cars colostral and rolled down. an embankment of full 150 feet. The railroad employds are almost ex hausted with- overwork. The wives of the engi neers and conductors of the town are acting as nurses at the Delaware House and elsewhere. The wounded lack for nothing. All the ladies deserve great praise. Many of the wounded have been taken to private residenca. The town has turned out en ?acme to relieve the wants of the sufferers. An additional number of surgeons from the New York Hospital has arrived. The rooms of the 'Delaware House arc filled with the dead and dying. Two more sufferers will soon be out of pain. This town is the resi dence of agreat number of conductors, engineers and railroad men. Those off duty, together with their wives, are doing noble service in caring for the wounded. The Delaware House is opposite the depot, and to it the majority of the wounded were conveyed. When death relieves them from their sufferings. the bodies are given to Mr. Goodall, the undertaker,who,after placing them in their narrow homes, conveys their lifeless forms to a room in the depot, where they await the order of friends or relatives. All day long the house has been crowded with anxious and weeping ones. Everything is quiet within its walls, the stillness of sorrow and of death. The force of nurses is equal to the occasion, and ministering angels are in every room. Mr. Conklin has charge of the wounded of the House. Mr. Horton lays unconscious in room No. SG; as yet his residence is not ascertained. Mr. Ran dle, despatcher of the Eastern Division, received a despatch from Chicago to-night, saying that Mr. Horton was Wm. ,31otint-fialem, Wiscon sin. At the Minuisink House there are upward of thirteen wounded; among the bsdly injured is Mr. B. P. Snow y of Davenport, whose wife and child are sleeping their last sleep in the dead room at the depot. Henry Green, the engineer , of the fatal train, is in genera l of the wounded, and all the employds of the road are untiring in their efforts. At the point of the disaster the wreck has been cleared away. Four dead bodies were sent to relatives yester day, and nine to-day. The busy instruments of the telegraph have been working night and day, sending words of cheer to some, words of eorrow to many. The crowd at the Delaware House has disappeared. Lights move to and fro itutherwindovni of the rooms here wounded are laid. Ere mortiLuifsome of the sutrerere have "crossed the dark river." It is a misty, darkened night, corresponding with the dark hour and scene. sIiLL ANOTHER ACCIDENT—MORE BROKEN 8A11.4 PORT JERVIS, April 16.—A freight train ran oft' the track at 8.30 this morning, one mile east of the point where the accident to the express train occurred; thirteen of the cars were thrown down an embankment, a distance of thirty feet, and were very badly broken up. The accident was caused by a broken rail. Western bound trains will be detained four or five hours. The track for a distance of eighty feet is torn up. The wrecking train left Port Jervis at 10.80. No one injured. The Late Sea Bird Disaster—The Bodies Lowing Ashore—They are Robbed and stripped. [From the Milwaukee Wisconsin, of April 14th.) Yesterday the first body from the 111-fated Sea Bird came on shore, and proved to be that of Robert E. Scott, of the firm of Wood .& Co., of this city Despatches were received in this city at 4.30 last evening announcing the fact, and also announcing that the body had been, robbed of all valuables. Mr. Scott, it was known, had between $5OO and 8800 on his person, besides a valuable watch and chain. He has many friends in Chicago, and they, learning of his loss, had been bunting the beach for his body. Yesterday iorenoon they found it at Glencoe Sta tion, between Winetlet and Highland Park. The body lay face downwarde with anus extended. Mr. Scott's pocket-book, rifled of its contents and open, lay a few feet from the body, and a life-preserver, which had been cut, lay near. It Is evident that the de ceased did not sink, but buoyed up by the Life preserver perished from the .cold—a frightful death. The pockets of the deceased were turned inside out,showing that the body had been found and robbed by those heartless wretches who hover about the dead for so guilty a purpose, be fore being found. Officer Mecarty, of this city, as soon as he heard of the finding of the body, went to the ..,pot. He found the body not bruised, but the features perfect, with the face red. The body was taken in a wagon to Highland Park Station. While assisting in getting the body into the wagon a. man came down from the hill above. He said he found the body in the morning, and admitted that being very poor he had looked in the pocket-book to find a little money. He de clared he found none. The officer went to the cabin where the man, with another lived alone, in a desolate place. Search was made, but noth ing that came from the body was found, and the men were allowed to go their way. They fell upon their knees and protested emphatically that they had taken nothing from the body. The officer found the pockets of the deceased filled with sand, all except the watch-pocket, which showed that the watch had been taken from it after it'reached the shore. Last eveeing and this morning a number of persons who had relatives and friends on the Sea Bird went to Highland Park, expecting that more bodies would soon come ashore. 9. despate.h from our regular correspondent at Waukegan informs us that Leonard, the• third Survivor from the Sea Bird, la there and is not a humbug. We are glad to be able to state this, and regret that injustice has been done a man who suffered so much, and escaped so miracu lously, Officer McCarty met Mr. Leonard at Waukegan yesterday. He found him suffering severely frominjdries and exposure , and very low. His general appearance showed that he had encountered hardships which few men could overcome, and -that his strong constitution was suffering severely after the excitement of,the ter rible scene was over. > The people of Waukegan had the fullsst confidence in the man and his A number of Chicago policemen are patroling the beach near that city; It la reported day to that four bodice have washed ashore there.' A lady's hoop-akirt, with particles of deep adhering to the ribs, was VAS o.# oothe,hoitoltyesterday afternoon -et *,Sint and a Salt distant from Waukegetw . . • , • DISASTERS. 'lit New 'C01111914 414., dre tth *to Irr°111:100st, t Icresarthoi OW** d—sthaelif " s' il lna tuplao of Wading tho sten: p to tit° New - CiAatie, &On which Pi" e mpatch bMd been received announcing a fire be)orathe con trol of the people. Two steam fire engines, tht Washington and the Fame, were immediately detailed, and sent to the freight depot, - where a special train was in waiting to carry them to New Castle, but before they were loaded another despatch was received announcing that the fire bad been suppressed. The house on fire =waa a large brick dwelling near the Stockton House, and it is probable that the heavy rain falling, together with the fact' that the tin roof prevented the flames from making their Way through it, are ell that saved' the house from total deotruction, as it would , have been impassible to get the firemen there in time.to do more than save the surrounding pro- N port owy. Castle should have a steam fire apparatua, for though the fire department of this city will always doubtless respond promptly to any call from there for assistance, yet, it is not possible for us to turnieh aid as promptly as it should he ren dered to prevent serious loss. The fire was caused by the house being Struck by lightning. The probable loss is from $l,OOO to $1,500, The Cabe of John C. Brahae. Much public sympathy has been aroused in be half of Mr. John C. Braine, extracts'of whose let ters to the Southern journals have been published in the Tribune and other • papers here. After a careful investigation the following facts have been ascertained : The prisoner himself him caused the postponement of the trial from term ter term until the last, when. according to his ac count, ho was ready for trial, and It was then' postponed at the request of. the District Attor ney. He can scarcely complain of hardehipe in the deferring of the trial one term after having himself deferred it five or six. That he is suffering from some bodily ailment is true, but not to the extent implied in his letters, nor in any degree detrimental to his appetite, and The disease, of whatever nature it may. be, is not the result of imprisonment. The governor of the prison who is, by reputation, a very humane man, supplies the prisoner with food from his own private table. It is also true that he has no news, but the exclusion of papers is one of the prison, rules enforced for the safety of both con victs and keepers. Not long ago a number .of prisoners escaped by means which could have been furnished in no way save by persons outside communicating with prisoners having the freedom of the building; and he being the only one haVing such freedom at that time, was suspected of complicity in the matter, and his walks were limited thenceforth to the halls of the wing in which he is confined. He has four hours of such freedom each day. In reply to the ques tion as to the suffering of his family he said they lacked many things which they would have were he free. He is an Englishman by birth, is a widower, and has two children in the Half-Orphan Asylum at Savannah. Ile is very far from being the sufferer one would expect to find after reading his appeals. He prides himself on the crime of which he is , accused, denying no part of it, but claims as his defence that the action was legalized by a commission from the Southern Congress. He seems to esteem himself a martyr for the South. looking for assistance and release through them only, quietly ignoring the United States Government, and by his man ners and 'conversation forces the conviction of, ulterior motives in his course; and that notoriety is nearly if not quite as desirable as release. He pleads pecuniary disability to obtain the proper witnesses, but there is a sum devoted by the Government for just such cases, and an appeal to the prosecuting counsel, with the necessary prool' to sustain it, would be resporided to promptly.—N. Y. Tribune. Central Pacific Railroad. The Grand Continental Pacific Railroad is fast hastening toward completion, and in 1870 we are promised, a through line from New York to San ,Fmneisco—time, six days. From present indi cations a double track will soon be necessary, and . thenceforward the business of the road will fully tax its capacity. The Central Pacific Railroad Company, in or der to make all possible progress, arc offering their First Mortgage Bonds at par and back in-, terest. These Bonds are the first lien upon this 'valuable property, and are backed by an equal amount of Government money invested in the enterprise, and are becoming more prominent among standard Investments. The advertise ment in another column explains the foundation and merits of these securities. MUSIOAL. "3 uumetlaccen.cus."—The Handel and Haydn Society present a great attraction. thhi evening, in fiandera great oratorio of Judas Maccabceus. The Academy should ho crowded on the occasion of this performance of one of the finest of Handel's immortal works. The Society has bestowed mach time and labor in its preparation. and both the solos and choruses are in hands able to do full justice to this grand composition. Mrs Mozart, now an established favorite in Philedel. phis, suotains the soprano solos, the other solo passairee being taken by Messrs. Graf, Glle.hrist and Barnhurst The orcbootra, under Mr. Sentz, will be full and silt= dent and the whole vocal force of the Society will tip per the choruses. The' "Handel and Haydn" le doing a nobble work in developing the beet mus.cal taste in this community, and well deserves the heartiest support and approval of our music.loviog people. The performance commences this evening at eight o'clock. and we trust that there will not only be a crowded but an appreciative audience who will come in good time, and "come to stay," and not inflict upon us the old nuisance wb ichZeo often costs us the enjoyment of thejfinale of these flue entertainments. Plume Scuoot CoscritT.—The pupils of the Twentieth section of the and Boys' Gramma , schoolsgave a ver, intereating concert at the Academy of %uric. on Wednesday evening. The building was literally packed with th e friends of the 'pupils, and ths performance, which remitted principally of popular choruses r spereed with recitations. pawed off very e:oditablv About five hundred bos and girls partiapated in the emahag. under the lea dership of their lastructor. John Bower. and displayed much improvement he this now popular branch of our common school education. CiESSIAtiLL REHEA.ISAL. The last rehearsal of the Season will be -given by the Germania Orchestra ter morrow afternoon at the Musical Fund Hall. The fel lowing programme has been Prepared. 1.. Overture, " A Night at G ranada " —Krentzer. 2. Wanderlied Prech. 3. Spring Jubilee—(fungi 4. Second Part of Sinfonie. "Coneecration of Tones "—Mpohr. 5. Overture. "Four Ages of Man"—Lackner. G. Lust, 'Merry Wives of indeorP , —Nicolai., 7. Carnival of Venice Burlesque— Gungl. Jens Lowe CONCIERT. The complimentary concert tendered to Mr. Jeau Louis at the Academy of Music on Saturday evening, promises to be s magnificent seneeey The Mendelssohn bociety will sing selections of choice music. CONCEET.-At Concert Ball this evening a grand con• cert will be given in aid of the Catholic Philopatrian Society. A large number of eminent artists will appear. and a most attractive programme will be presented. iIkHILL'S CONOEIZT.—Signor A. Barilisc Arsnd concert will ho given thin evening at the Musical Fund flail. Be will be addicted by accomplished instrumental and vocal artists. RIOIIIN G at Omura Thou PIL—On the Dllth inst. the favorite Ricbings' Opera Troupe will been a brief season at the Academy of Music, with the opera of Martha. The sale of tickets will begin on Wednesday, the I,Sth, at Trumpler's Music Store, No. 9% Oltetnut street THEATRES. Eto Tar. THICLTEVII.—At the Chesteut Street Theatre the spectacle of the Black Crook conduces to draw immense bootee. The management have suctrceded—after a multitude of emberrasting but unavoidabl , disappoint. mental, in eecruing the cervices of accomplished saltatory artists, who appear each evening in attractive dances. he scenic effects produced at the Chestnut are of the most gorgeous description. At the Arch this evening the comedy of Play will be given for the lest time an the occasion of the benefit of Mm. Drew Mr. Edwin Booth will have • benefit at the Walnut to.nfght is Much Ado About Nothing. At the American a voided performance will be given. ELEVENTH . 1571t21T ()PRIM 1101,b1C.—The entertainment offered at this popular place of amusement tonight will be of the highest character. A number of new pieces are announced, among them the extravaganza "Lif4 on a Mississippi Cotton Boat+ , The 'farce entitled Tri• out 7.Vavelow will also be given, with the usual miscellaneou s performance, including burlesque. farce, negro comical. ties, bailed singing by Mr. J. L. Cameros,. and p multi tude of other good. things, —An extraordinary performance was recently, announced at the Parts (Argue; family of we've!' were to appear in the arena; la, company with a little child ng , three years whom the public wereatiforftmtti the !WSW* beats take .PleeeurelßlPSlttic,4ho,ooo9/I„twet matt to Oar ip the aptrear af 0-the 13lailla tither wear slog a aaoklaeo 0 , 00, 4000 Ait 01 1 : t repa 41, 'tick b,rthe,flattaabv . ;rho ptkigigrip4 at N dutomartly ennelched" by su or do rtna the Prefect of Police: FETHERSTOM,Asir. PRICE THREE OENTS, FIFTH EDITION BY TELEGRAPB.. LATEST CABLE NEWS.: Liberal Mee tings Held all OverNlipii: LATER FROM WASHINGTON. IMPORTANT CABINET MEENNot THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.; STANBERY STILE ILL.- By the AtlantLe Babble Lols - norr, April 17th.—Enthu8lastie Meding* if 4 the Liberaparty are being held all overlCiegitrit The grieianees of the Irish people in gen t W I particularly, Me dlsendowment of all • sects in Ireland,are the objects of , these m The speakers embrace most of the well-knows' . Liberal !cadent in Parliament. The Fenian trials will commence on Monday next, at the Old Bailey, inifhe Court of Queen'w Benh, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. The latest despatches from Japan state that the Mikado has declared waiagainst• the Tycoon tatsbashi. Important Cabinet• Dieetling. WASHINGTON, April 17th.—The Cabinet met at 10 A. M., two hours earlier than usual,.aud was in conference until 12 o'clock. The counsel for the President, excepting Mr. Stanbery, were also. present, and it is understood that matters in connection with the impeachment trial were under consideration.' The counsel were at the Executive Mansion at an early hoar, some time: in advance of the Cabinet meeting, and remained , until nearly time for the opening of the Court. The Impeachment (Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Belletin.l , ' WASHINGTON, April 17.—1 t is understood Mit Mr. Stanbery's condition is much worse to-day. His disease is pleurisy, and it is likely to bosoms. , time before he can appear in Court or be able to.. take any further part in the case. The defence have summoned General Grant sa' a witness. Gen. Sherman appeared in Court after the re cess. as did also Postmaster-General Randall. • All the Cabinet except Secretary Stanton are now in the Senate Chamber. Sir E. S. Thornton is in the Diplomatic Gal lery, which la nearly tilled In continuing the examination of Mr. Wellesi the counsel for the defence ofered•to prove what the President said to him in relation to the ro— movaL of Mr. Stanton and appointment of Gen- , eral Thomas, and also that Mr. Stanton said tiot he would acqhleace in the mnovtd, and only ; want4time to remove leis personal effects from the War Office. Mr. Butler argued against the admiisiott of this. testimony; that it was the same of the erder of declarations. heretofore voted to be inadmissible. From Trentotile TRENTON, April 17.—The kgislatttro Amine* sine die at noon, to-day, ' after passing 813' The Governor vetoed, the inelflental bill on ac count of the statione r y item .of some $13000: This item last year was $22,000, and, the Go vernor thinks it a growing evil, and •uncon stitutional.‘ Both Houses passed the bill, over Ms veto. From Rowlett. BOSTON, April 17.—A switch tender on' the , Eastern railroad, named Waterman, was killed today in North Chelsea, by being run over Vs train. From Albany.. ALBAN y, April I.7.—The Governor to-day mina the Brown underground railroad bill for a tutu* railroad, from the City Hall Park to Westchester county. "47 11-11 1 .1 Offi 1 —Titcomb's income is $7,815. —The Fenian Father McMahon is very ill in a Canadian jail. —Human bones are ground up for fertilizing**, a Naeleville concern. —Edwin Forrest played In Pittsburgh on Mon day night for the first time la twenty years. —The New York printers contributed 411,000t0 the Artemis Ward monument. —Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon have but two claim —twin sons, eleven years old. Both are being reared for the ministry. —Victor Emmanuel has had several fits of apoplexy lately. The state of his health cameo n. nal uneasiness. —One hundred and fifty thousand Englishmen, In India, govern and fleece two hundred million Hindooe. —Brigham Young's English converts can't get. money enough to pay their passage to, Zlonosud they content themselves with sighin' for Zino. —Chicago has to build six large school-houses per annum, to keep pace with the increetee of population. --The Alaska Herald is published in San Fran cisco in Russian and English, and its editor ss Aeapius Honcharenko. —Baltimore merchants are overrun with appli— cations from young men from the South seebng clerkships. —Boston regards Jtuottschek to the superior of Ristori. Which speaks badly for the taste of Boston. —Kossuth has been solemnly deelered - a traitor by a meeting of members of the former alma of lionveds. —Free passes, both waye, are to be given to those who attend the Chicago Convention;as de- legates. —A few days ago a young man, employed in a saw mill in Maine, got, caught in the machinem and before it could be stopped was carried be tween two and three hundred times around an iron shaft, passing with each revolution through a space about ten inches in width between the shaft and a partition. Strange to say he escaped : : with comparatively slight injury. . , —This curious story is told by the . Martibalk , - (Mo.) Progress: " Mr. Leverets Leonard *ho improving some land he owns, twelve mi les west -e ' of this place, has had to go to the ,deppcsr, ninety-five feet for water. r4nl the amouut'oL water he ninety-five en a level • body of wi the ocean. hours out appearing —The N. Vanderbilt !. vibes the por44 are to beldr" acting, win tribute for I soy bliniim.„ own, or Me liwr4 , tba Ude ell power over th. purees Oftht-gragoirelititi:" 4:00
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