CHI N' PEACOCK. Elieir.
VOLUME XXII.-NO. 7,
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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. •
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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*, •
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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
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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.
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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
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ip the aptrear af 0-the 13lailla tither wear
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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
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body of wi
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