GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXII.-NO. 34.
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INVITATIONS FOR WEDDINGS. PARTIES. &C..
J. executed In s auperior manner,by
IDREKA.I9O3 WIESTNIa STREET. faltfb
DIED.
CRAVEN.--Suddenly, on the 18th inst., Joshua Cousty
Craven. In the 81st year of his ago.
The relatives and friends of tho family, Girard Mirk
Lodge Pio, 214. Solomon's Lodge No. 114, A. I'. M., and the
order in general, are Invited to attend the funeral, from
his late residence. No. 1809 Girard avenue, on Thursday.
alb
May 91st, at 13 o'clock.
hict:LABKE_Y.—On the mon)ing of the 'lBth instant.
Elizabeth a. Mcflukey, In her 49th year.
Her friends are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral, et sit.. George's 31. E. Churci., Fourth street. above
Race, on Wednesday afternoon. Services to commence
at 2,4 o'clock. •
311LLEIL—On the morning of the 18th instant, William
'll. Miller, in the forty•fourth year of his ago.
Ills friends and those of the family are Invited to
attend his funeral. from his late residence, Green street,
Germantown. on Ilftb.day (Thursday) mf A rning.2lst
at 1014 o'clock. Interment at Woodland '...reetery. Car
exiling will bo in attendance at the Depot, n Germantown,
to meet the train leaving Philadelphia at 10 A.M. ••
110I3ARDET.—At Burlington, N. J.. on the 19th instant,
lire. S. C. Bobardet. •
8111PPEN.—On the 18th Inst., Richard Shipper". in the
74th year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the fondly are invited to
attend the funeral. at St. Mary's Church, Burlington. N.
1.. on Tbureday, the 21st .net ., at 11,"4 o'clock Y. M. ••
WILLIaMBON.—On Second-day, the 18th Piet at her
residence. No. 224 German street. Sarah, widow of Awe
"11. , llliainvon, in the 92d year of her age. .11111.
WYSE L, LANDEL OPEN TO-DAY THE LIGHT
I2J el - lades of Spring Poplins for the Fashionable Walking
Ureex.e.
Steel Colored Poplins.
Mode Colored Perpllro.
Binnorelt Exact Shade.
RELIGIOUS NOVICES•
tier BE TIIIIITY.S.IXTIi ANNIVERSARY OF TILE
nit h 1.11.1 Lfbeatlre Bible Society will be held on
'l'll (Tuctday) 3f ay 19;11, in dt. John's
I'. E. Church. corner of St. John and Brown streete.
nervices will tkentnionce at quarter to 8 o'clock. The
!lector. Rev. I 'IIILTIPM Logan,will oreehle. The Annual Re
rt iclll to fiend. and the following !'*stunt have kindly
s .otel.ted to alit teas then - teeing; RevoLlioward tuydam,
'LP Reformed Church; f ee. Jos E. Smith, of th
Tis tifth Street M. E. Church ; Bev. A. J. nsec. of the
Fronth It aptiEt Church, A colli,ttfon, will no taken, it, in
oid of the lends of the Society. he public is affection
ately invited to he present. 1t•
diiir THE FOL;RTII CON FERE:WC OF UNITARIAN
and other tin - Winn Clinrchoa meet at Berman.
t..fia 1.1 on NVEDNN.I4I)Av and THURSDAY of tilti week.
n WERSILSDAY / o'clock P. M.
Sermon in the evening, at 8 o'clock, by Rev. Oscar
!Aloe ot 'Vineland.
Devotional zot eting at 9 o'clock on Thursday Morning.
Se.dou at la o'clock.
Int tallestlon of the Rev. S. Farrington at 3 o'clock?. M.
Alt ate incited. nIYI9-2.trp.
ragik-. FORTY-FOURTH AIsiNIVEItSAItY OF
the American eunday School Union will he held at
the A crlculy of Music, Broad street, on TIIURSDAY
E h.": 15G. ld ay Ass. at *o'clock.
Add resat e may be expected from Rev, John ball.
I:vv. D. C. Edda. D.D.. and Rev. Stephen H. Tient, Jr...
A choir Of 41b erindsy School children, under dirediCal
of D. W. C. Moore. Fry will ring.
Tickets of admission (to cover erpeafes). Renerved
seats in the rar i llet, Parquet Circl end Balcony, St
4racb fothgr parts of the boners f ree ). M ay bo had at the
erety's Building. No. Il'3 Chestnut et. .mJg 13 10 19 20$11
gric:iv i ee THE NINTH ANNIVI RSARY OP 'THE.I3AI3
bath richoola et the North Broad: Street Preanytfr
:inn Chinch (terrier Bread am green De
' A , id TCErSPAY 1 VENINO, 19111 inetantoemmenetnn at
bulf.paet rev* n o'clock A ddretten will be made by Rev.
RICHARD NRWTUN. 1). PHITER,
Eeq, and the Patter.' Rev. PETER STRYKIitt, D.
D. No Vailia have been epared to make the exercises 1111-
ritually interesting. The friends 01 Sabbath Schools arc
inyldx.ta ries
SIiECIAL ft (YrICES.
atir HENRY VINCENT
WILL LECTU RE
This (Tuesday) Evening
AT
MUSICAL FUND HALL,
Nome Life ; Its Duties and Pleasures
Tickets for sale at J. E. GOULD'd Piano Warerostris.
tV.3l;bretnut street. and at the Hall this evening.
Doors open at 7 o'clock. Lettuce at 8. its
,-asgese. , OFFICE PE. Y VANIA,
PANY.
PHILADELPHIA. May 18th.
NOTICE TO STOMIIOLDEIO3.—In pursuance of reso
lutions adopted by the Board of Directors at a Stated
Meeting held this day, notice is hereby given to the Stock
holders oLthis Cote any that they will have the privilege
of subscribing, either directly or by substitution, under
such rules as may be prescribed therefor, for Twenty4lve
Per Cent. of additional Stock at Par,in proportion to their
respective interests es they stand registered on the books
of Ott Company. May 'Altfi. 1868.
Holders of less than lour Shares will be entitled to sub
scribe for a full share, and those holding more Shares
than a multiple of four Shares will be entitled to an addl.
:Must Share.
Subscriptions to the new Stock will be received on and
after May 10th, PM, and the privilege of subscribing
will cease on the 30th day of JOY. 104 0 .' '
The instalments on account of the new Shares shall
be paid in cash. as follows:
Ist. Tiventpflve Per Cent. at the time of subscription.
on or before the 80th day of July, 1860.
Twenty-five Per Cent. on or before the 15th day of
December. MA
Twentytlve Per Cent. on or before the 15th day of
June, ital.
4th. Twenty-five Per Cent. on or before the 15th day of.
December, 1W1 3 ., or If Stockholders should prefer,the whole
amount may be paid up at once. or any remaining instal.
ments may be paid up in fall at the time of the payment
of the second or third matalment,and eachinstalment paid
op shell be entitled to a pro rata dividend that may be de•
clared on full shares.
TIJOMAS T.
Treasurer.'
seir UNION LEAGUE HOUSE. ,
14-tl3BrP
PLIILAPYLTIIIA. May 13th 1 lf&Q.
A Special Meeting of the UNION LEAGUE OF
PHILADELPHIA will bo held at the League liouae on
TbURSDAY EVENING. May 91st, at 8 o'clock, to consi
der the propriety of taking measures to secure the nomi
nation an 4 election of good men to the local offices in the
city of Philadelphia, and to take inch action in regard to
national affairs as in the judgment of the meeting may
be necessary.
.myl9 St GEORGE R. BORE& Secretary.
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE.—LECTURE AT THE
Par Academy of Music, on Sunlight. with Brilliant Ex.
pcdments, by. l'rofessor Henry Morton, SATURDAY.
EYE:BING, May 23d, at 8 o'clock. Tickets 60 cants, to all
parts of the House, for sale at the Franklin Institute, No.
15 South Seventh street. Seats roserved ithout extra
alutrge. Nembers' tickets admit to the Lecture, but do not
secure reservedgests. - • Inylti 7t6
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA--DEFART.
MENT OF ARTB.—The public examinations of the
Senior Cum for Degrees will be held from May WA to ftlla
mi. beginning each day at A' o'clock, F. M.; and alaa,Ogi
Tuesdays. at 1I o'clock. A. _
FRANCIS A. JACKSON; •
myB.l2b) Secretary of the Faculty.
PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL,
Mir No. lb South Ninth street. Club-foot, hip and sot
.ual &misses and bodily deformities treated. Apply daily
at o'clock. aPIS amrPO
HOWARD B?,,Ppeff L ;'Lombard etrcot, ,
treatment and medicine f amished gratuitously to the
poor. .
ler NEWSPAPERS, 1100103, PAMPHLETS t WASTE
Paper. bought by E. HUNTER,
aploltt rp No. 618 Jayne street
'A'bo Abolition tot Capital ,Punishment.
Capital punishment has just been abolished In
Saxony. It is noted as a remarkable fact that
the principal defender of the bill in the Chamber
of Deputies was the Frocnreur-General, who in
the course of the discussion gave the following
details of the result of similar measures in other
countries :
"In the Duchies of Qldenburg, Anhalt and Nas
sau the penalty of death was suppressed In 1849,
and there has never been felt any necessity for
re-establishing it. The first named of these States
in afterwards adopting the Prussian code penal,
did away with that punishment. In Tuscany it
was revived in 1849, but no capital execution has
taken place in that country 8111C0 1881; in Austria,
also, it was restored, but at the same time the ad
mission was made that during Its abrogation the
number of capital cases had not increased. • In
Wurtemborg, on the other band, where the pun
ishment of death had been abolished from 1851 to
1853, crimes were said to have increased during
that period; but the assertion Is open to contesta
tion."
—The newspapers have been asking why the
new style of prayer-books have looking-glassos
on the inside of the cover. The Toronto Leaden•
says they are aids to reflection.
. THE COURTS.
THE GIRARD COLLEGE CASE.
Important Decision by Justice Bead
THE CASE OF TiIAjOR•SMITEt
The Board of Trustees Cenaured.
This mornlng,Justice John M. Read, sitting. at
Nisi Prius, made his decision in the case of John
A. Blackly, et. al., vs. The City of Philadelphia.
The suit,it will be remetubered,grew out of the re
moval of President Smith from Girard College,
and other instances of alleged mismanagement
or the Girard Trust by the city.
Stephen Girard died in December, 1831 and hls will ham
furnished aubjects of controversy lor the courts of thla
State and of the United States. The after.acquired real
estate was the subject of two decisions in 4 Rawl° 323, and
I Wharton 490. Jo 1841, In
United
ve. Girard 'a executors,
the Supreme Court of the United States held the devise to
the city upon the trusts declared In the will was valid,
and that the trusts are of an eleemosynary nature, and
charitable uses in a judicial sense. In 1863, in The City of
Philadelp nn hia vs. Girard'n Heirs, 9 Wirt 9, the Supreilie
Court shied the validity of the w and held that the
heirs of Stephen Girard are conclude by the decree of
the Supreme Court of the United States in Vidal vs. 01•
raid, in which the validity of the trusts created
_by the
will was established. In these suite, the heirs of W. GI.
were the claire ante and actors.
hi pursuance of two ordinances of councils passed in
1847, providing for the organization and management and
for the opening of the Girard Col ego for Orphans, a hoard
of directors of the College was elected by the Select and
Common Councils, who proceeded to organize the blab
tuition end to open the same and to elect the Hoe. Joel
Jones ea the President of the College.
by an act of the 4th of February, 1834, entitled a
"Furlimi euppleinept to an act entitled" an act to incur.
3 erne the City of Philadelphia. the corporate name wits
changed to e'lle City of Philadelphia" and its boundaries
were xttnded Co as to embrace the - whole of the bird
tory of the county of Philadelphia. In 16.52, in Soolian vs.
lb.-City of Philadelphia, Carey 9. It was held that a
halal la child naa en orphan. within - the meaning of
the will and that a preference was to be given to or
beads torn within the original corporate limits of Phila
delphia tie laid out by William Penn, nud existing at the
death of the testator.
. - .
In thf , HtfWard of the Coneg., tune removed by a
rerol Litton of the Board or the_
and En Field v. Di.
restore of Girard College. 4. P. F. dmith the Supreme
Cowl orthiued theft action. •
. . .
Atter quoting the language of the Will. the Court say.
"If the persons ez.uken of in this clause may not be re
moved ftt the plranure of the 'f rustee-,,. I do not ace why
cr ry uliplosv, a janitor, a cook, or a chambermaid. has
nut 0 permanent tenure. for .they are aseistants or
floras. 0, tally as is a Steward all are mero minn,terical
employment., and the tenure of such agents is generally
at ph 1..4. re."
ten thee ilth September, 1547, a bare tr.alonty of the
whcie Board of Dircetol s removed the President of the
Coliese, and at the same meeting nominated and elected
another gentleman to till the vacancy occasioned by his
removal. Pio notice of any ruck intruded action had
been given to any Director, except to the ten gentlemen
who participated in it and carried it through. No charges
had Leen presented against the President; no committee
had been appointed to investigate his conduct; no notice
of any kind bad been riven to that gentleman. who was
the chief executive officer of the institution, and invested
, er ith very large powers by the rules for the govermneut of
the College-, that his conduct was in any way disapproved
of ; but without trial, without hearing.he was condemned
and removed, and another appointed In his place, all in
one breath, to as to prevent the possibility of his rein•
stir tt nit art, except by the removal of the Ten Judges, the
Deetine ire of the College.
'l Ire President. a man of varied acquirements,belonging
to an honorable profession. which he had left to accept
!his responsible position, is placed upon the same footing
with a janitor. a cook cr a chambermaid. upon the naked
ground that he bold, his (Mice driving the pleasure of the
Directors. It is evident that the action of the majority
both in the retrieval and in the election was decided and
determined upon before the meeting of,the Board,
whether in caucus or not is entirely immateraL
Ihe natural result of this extraordinary mode of pro
ceeding In changing the head of the College was the at ,
pointinent by (;ouncila of a Joint Special Committee of
inquiry relative to the management of Girard . College,
and Ilave read the printed testimony taken by that
Committee, a copy of which wits furnished me by the
plaintiffs. From a careful perusal of it. lam couvinced if
this in', etigation had pleceded the hasty and impudent
action of the Board, allajor Smith would not have been
removed from the office of Pr, ?ident but would, at this
moment, have been the head of the institution. . .
. . .
'the action et the Board of Directors and the official in.
yestigatien by the Committee of COUlEldill have no doubt
f sexed the tiling of the Bill in Equity in the preeent ease,
and if bicb 1 shall now proceed to consider.
1 bill is filed by the surf - Meg Executor of the will of
Ste{ hen Girard, and eight citizens residing within the
limits of the old city, and by three orphans expelled from
the Girard College, as plaintin against the city of Phila.
delphia, the members of the Select and Common Coun
cils. and the Direetorn of the College.
The bill alleges that under the act of the `2cl February.
ISM, extending the boundaries of the city of Philadelphia,
the Councils have usurped and lammed the management
and control of the persons of the onthans, their mainte
nance and education at the Girard College. and their
fights of property under the will et the testators', and all
and singular the tights of the fellow-citizens of the said
testator, composing the community of the old city, in all
respects as if eald community hAd no special rights, into
rents or duties in the premises, other or greater than all the
citizens of the present city.
The foundation, therefore, on which the preeent bill
stands, is that the present city and its Councils, elected
ty its citizens, cannot act as the Trustees of Mr. Girards
will, and that all acta,particularly in regard to the Girard
College, its maintenance, and the admission and educe-
G e e of the orphans within its walls, have been simply
acts of uxurpation, and in direct violation of the will of
the teetatnr.
This thee y demande that there shall he a sort of inner
Select and Common Councils, with a Mayor within the
old corporate limits. Proceeding upon this assumption,
the Bill charges, duce 1E54, gross mismanagement and
abuse of the trusts, under the Will, in regard to the ad
mission of orphans born within the limits of the old city,
the appointment of instructora, teachers, aseistante and
other necessary agents, and in the election of Directors
through political influence, in the discipline of the institu
tion, and in the want of a proper eyetom of moral trebl
ing. It also charges that with proper management a the
estate a larger number of orphans could be maintained
and educated.
EMMI
A municipal corporation is a creature of the State, aid
may be altered, eularped, limited or abolished. a± the Le
gielature may deem expedient, and 'tato wee known to
the. testator when he made his will and devised his es
tate to the Corporation in trust for the erection of a great •
public charity. When therefore the corporate limits and
powers 01 his devisee were extended, the trustee was not
dhplaced, but remained and was expressly recognized as
such in the act of 1154. The same form of tiovernmen
wits preserved both in the legislative and executi • • -
I
branches. and can perceive uo ground for the die • of
usurpation, by either the municipal authoritie: di.
voters or agents appointed by them.
I believe the sum of five hundred thous:in. • .. oilers
mentioned in the Sid clause of the will, both as .
vestment of principal and application of income.has been
f althfully appropriated to the designated oojscts within
the limits of the old city, and no complaint has been
made of usurpation against the authorities of the enlarged
city.
In the same manner the various estates and incomes
devoted to charitable purposes, vested. in the old city and
district and ether corporations, have, by the act of 1864,
passedinto the hands of the present corporation. known
as the City off Philadelphia, and are managed by their
authorities for the benefit of the Matti gtee trusts in the
same manner as by the original Trustee. This is the
case with all the wills and trusts now administered by
the present city, from the legacy of Benjamin Franklin
in 1790 to the then corporation, to the bequest
of Thomas D. Grover unto the Commie
stoners and inhabitant)] of the District of Southwark. of
his real and personal estate for certain charitable our.
poses, the benefits of which are strictly confined t o per.
eons within the then defined boundaries of the District of
Southwark. The trusts are all preserved and faithfully
executed, according to the expressed wishes of the origi.
nal founders of the charities, by the Cityof Philadelphia,
representing !the civil municipal corporations now no
longer in existence.
The Girard College is a great public charity,oextending
its bounty not only to poor white male orphans, . born
within the limits of the old city but also to those born
within the whole State, and within the cities of New
York and New Orleans.
The Trustee is a civil municipal corporation, and the
trusts are of an eleemosynary nature, but I am not aware
that any usurpation of power or any violation of the
trusts by the corporation of the city can be made the sub
ject of judicial action on the application of private citi
zens, however high their standing is in the community of
which they are moat valuable members. Any other
eight citizens have the same right, and none of them can
allege they have orphans who are tne objects of Mr.
Girard's bounty, nor can I perceive any peculiar merit in
the three expelled orphans who are named as co-plalntffs.
The 'surviving Executor of Mr. Girard is a moat estimable
and honorable gentleman, but / do not perceive that the
lieth clause of the Will vested him and his co•Executora
with the power and authority of Visitors of this charity,
a power 'never claimed or exercised by them, and which
the present bill in fact negatives.
A visitor is, in fact, are, and acting as such within
his jurisdiction, his de ion is final No such power is al
leged to be vested in e present plaintiffs, whilst the
Couleils„ by an ordinance of the 9th of November, 1818,
as amended by the ordinance of the lid of July, 1854, con.
stituted their members a standing' ommittee of visitation
of the Girard College for orphans. •
I am therefore of:opinion that the plaintiffs have not
shown such a title, to ask forth° relief prayed -for them,
as should induce this Court to supply them with funds
out of the trust estate to early on the present litigation.
"If the Trusts," says Judge Story, "wore /in themselves
valid in point of law, it is plain that neither-the heirs of
the Testator, nor any other private persons, 'could have
"any right 'to Inquire into or content the .right of the cor
potation to take the property, or to execute the trusts, but
this right would exclusively . belong to the State and it s
sovereign capacity. and in its sole discretion to inquire
into and contest the same by a Quo,. II arranto s or other
Judidal proceeding ."
These remarks are strictly applicable to all 'the allege-
Gone in this bill. and to the case before the Court, and t
am therefore obliged to refuse the application ou the part
of the plaintiffs.
Conceding that the , ctirecteM 1144 the petit to remove
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1868.
tic Pretiitnt of the College, he holding hfa oCice during
their rieasure. the mode and manner of doing it, with the
reasons towigned for the act, cannot fall to auggegt that
there should be come radical change in the selection of
persona to control the operations of this great and
magnificent dimity.
1 here are eighteen Directors, and It is provided by ordi
-11:1013CO, "That no member of Cro.noll shall boa member of
cold Board of 1. lrectora," and "That no member of the
Board of Lirectom, nor any member of the select and
Con mon Councils, shall be directly or Indirectly con
certed in say contract., engagement, or arrangement for
I in nfshing any supplies, whereby any profit or advantage
nia accrue to bhp in the management of said College."
Both t here I robibltlona should be extended to — all the
officers and departments of the City Governments. and
to all lemons employed in any manner or form under the
Legislative or Executive branches a the City Corpora
tion.
•The constitution of IWO exhibited a strong jealousy of
the appointing power in the Mat now the lath section of
the filet artich.which re-appears in the fitlaaection of the
6th article of the amended constitution of 1638. in this
direct language: "No member of the senate or of the
Douce of ftepreeentatives shall be appointed by the Gov
ernor to any office during the term for which ho shall
have bean elected."
In the act of 1854. which is the city charter. the 44th sec
tion provides that no person shall be a member of more
than one of the bodies enumerated in it, and in the 4th
section is aproviso, "That no member of the State Leiria
laturt, nor any one holding office or employment under
the State at the time of said election, shall be eligible as a
member of said Councils; nor shall any member or said
Councils, during the term for which ho shalt be elected
hold any office or employment herein created or provided
for of a municipal character...
The first clause of this proviso has been extended by
the act of Rah March. 1863, and the second clause clearly
excludes any member of Councils from the offices of City
Treasurer. Receiver of Taxes, City Controller, City Com
missioner, Alderman or Mayor during tho term for which
he is elected, being a copy front the prohibition in the
Constitution.
By adopting the spirit of these enactments, the Di
rectors ot the (shard College would be made a body
of independent citizens, treed, as far as possible.
from political influences. That there should he an
Infusion of practical business men among them is
evident/ from the College details, bat there certainly
should ho a large proportion of prominent citizens who
take a deep interest in education, and in the management
of this noble charity. le it not possible out of a popula.
ticn of SAM souls, to find eighteen biroctore of the
College, amply qualified to discharge, to the entire satis
faction of the commenity, all the duties imposed upon
them as the managers of this great institution
I believe the College has been generally well managed,
as the testimony proves, and that one of the errors coin
'fatted wan the endeavor to maintain and educate too
many orphans within its walls. Biz hundred way clearly
tee many, and 1 tnink five hundred is more than its funds
can surpnrt, for it in evident that many repairs and im
provernents have not been made. oriiig entirely to the
want of the necessary means. I take a deep interest in
this charit), and have therefore perhaps made a more ex•
tends d examination of the subject than wan called for
by the queetien before the Court. The rule is refused
.I)IhTRICT COl'LT—Judge Stroud—lsaac Wilson vs. John
Flood A n action on a book account Verdict for plain
till for fIeJC2
Bolt & iforkhead ye. Milton Fredericks. An action on
a book account. Verdict for plaintiff for 25
homas D. Prentiss VP. Seibert & Co. An action on a
prGlilistory note. Verdict for plaintiff for 8441 25.
Bayer ;Detsctie VP. Henry Leusch. An action on a
promissory note. Verdict for plaintiff for $524.75.
DisTr.my Cot - in - -Judge Liam—Stephen Fanagan ye.
Daniel Maguire. An action of ejectment. On trial.
SSIONS.--Judge Yeirce.—Francis Adams
use put on trial, charged with committing an assault and
battery, with intent to kill, on Julius Jacoby. Michael
isulli‘ an was Indicted in the came bill but hen forfeited
his bail and disappeared. It appears that on the :9th of
April last Sullivan and Adams and a third man went to
the store of Mr. Jacoby. on Spruce street near Fifth, and
whilefAdama teld the door to prevent Jacoby'a escape,
and while the third man held Jacoby, Sullivan beat
Jacoby over the head with a blact-jsek,
inflicting serious, and at one time considered fatal
ounds. Mr. Jacoby was placed under the treatment -of
Dr. liatchins,and great care and ekill were required to in
sure his recovery. The explanation for,the attack was not
given, but it is understood that it was a political feud in
the Democratic ranks in the Fifth Ward. Adams called
a number of witnesses to prove his good character for
peace and quiet Verdict, guilty of assault and battery,
but not guilty on the second count
Peter Cartwright—The Adventures of
a Pioneer Methodist Preacher.
The Chicago Tribune says.
"The Rev. Peter Cartviright delivered a lecture
on Tuesday evening in the Park Avenue Metho
east Episcopal Church. He spoke as follows: •
" 'I have but poor command of my voice, and.
SIAM coming to your city I have taken a very
deep-seated cold. I would rather preach three
dines than lecture once. The state of the country
and of the church in my early days are neces
aarily connected with myself, therefore you will
teKcuse any egotism which may appear. •I am a
Virginian by birth, and the son of a revolutionary
,oldier. In my sixth year my parents emigrated
to Kentucky, and I spent the greater part of my
life in that State when it was a wilderness. Young
America has outstripped me; I cannot possibly
identify myself with the present generation; the
young people of to-day seem to pass me with an
air that Ido not undertake. I have been a citizen
of the Weet seventy-seven years. I did not see
a newspaper, religious or secular, for twelve
years of my life. We never heard of a steamboat
or a rail-car, and if I had seen a locomotive on
the prairie I wenld have thought the devil was
after me. Our little cabin, about fourteen by
sixteen, was in the wilderness. Bishop Asbury,
hearing that my mother was a professor, called
and preached there, and it was from that time
that I date my conversion.
"'Just about that time a gentleman from
Georgia called at our cabin who possessed a deck
of cards, a fiddle and a racehorse. I was an apt
scholar, and soon won the cards, the fiddle and
the racehorse. There was a good deal of whisky
about the country at that time, and one evening
took too much, and that was the first and last
time I was drunk. We had an 014 Scotch doctor
in the settlement . who was an-fit! el. He heard
ore my friends that I was ranch troubled In
mind, so hoplied, examined my tongue, felt my
pulse, etc. aid finally determined that I had a
rush of oti to the head, and advised that my
head bey: 1 aved and a blister applied.
"'8 ',ray after this, I became so impressed
with t e truth of religion that I used to go from
[louse' o house, exhorting all to tarn from the
s of their way and embrace the Gospel. One
evening I invited the old doctor to attend. That
evening a young lady swooned away. She hap
pened to sit near the old doctor, who attempted•
to revive her by the usual means, when she, cohl
ing to, threw her arms about his neck and cried:
'Glory to God," which very much discomposed
the old doctor.'
. " 'lt is a question to me to this day how I
managed with my first sermon, but at the close of
it there came an old gentleman to me and handed
me six dollars—quarterage. There was a young
scapegrace in thevillage whom I frequently en
deed into the.woods to pray; I usually pray with
my eyes shut, and when I opened my eyes he was
generally absent, which mode of procedure was
very annoying to my religions flesh. My experi
ence at this time was very varied. and I soon
found the avocation I had selected no sinecure.
I have rode eleven or twelve circuits, and I pre
sume I am the oldest traveling preacher in the
United States. If there is an older preacher I
should like to see and know who he is. When
I joined the Methodist Church, sixty-seven years
ago, there was only one conference west of the
Alleghenies; there were only twenty-five minis
ters to cover the whole Northwest and South
west, and I am the only survivor of them. I
have no father, mother, sister or brother, and
sometimes I feel lonely. But though I have
traveled thousands of miles, and brought hun
dreds into the Methodist Church, and suffered
many hardships, yet I eay to you, that if I had
my life to live over again, I should choose to be
a Methodist traveling preacher.
* * * "'As a politician lam a Jackson man,
and not ashamed of it. Once when preaching at
Nashville, General Jackson came in and there
was no room for him. Some one pulled my coat
and said, "General Jackson has come." "General
Jackson," said I, "who is Gen. Jackson? If he is
not converted God will damn him as soon as he
would a nailer." Next morning I walked down
the street and met Gen. Jackson. He shook hands
with me, and did not seem to be in the least
angry with my freedom of the da before. He
said that McMahon had called y on him and
apologized for me, and that ho had never felt so
inclined to kick anybody in his life. "Why,"
said the general, "if I had a thousand men such
as you, with so much moral courage, I could
easily conquer all England." When I told Mc-
Mahon the result of this conversation, he was the
most shamed man I ever saw.'
—Victor Hugo's only , grandchild, aged twelve
months, is just dead, and the poet Is said to be
Intensely grieyed.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
If the vote to-day should be for acquittal, he
(Fessenden) could not escape the burden of re
sponsibility it would place upon him. It Is un
necessary now to repeat opinions on the topics
wherein he differs from his associates, and it is
too late for argument. We may regret the ten
dency of his mind to construe the law so rigidly
as to appear to exclude the consideration of its
intent and purpose. But with his view of the
law and of his obligation, he could not do other
wise. We are bound to concede his right to
judge for himself, and to respect his exercise of
the tight,
Mr. Henderson added to the suspicions cir
cumstancea of his position by voting with the
minority, though he had permitted IL to be un
derstood that he considered the article proven,
and Mr. Ross of Kansas—the intimate friend of
Vinnie Ream—went over to the anti-impeachers,
giving them the vote necessary to save the per
jured President from removal. To-day's work
opens a new chapter in the history of the Re
public. And when it is written up, the recusant
Senators will have no reason to feel proud of
their attitude. The loyal men of Kansas and
Tennessee will know how to deal with their ser
vants; who have violated the confidence reposed
in them—who shall say under what influences?
[From the New Bedford Standard.)
It is pitiable to see a man of Mr. Feasenden's
r4ntation paying himself with such paltry ex
cuses for voting against impeachment as are con
tained in his speech In secret session. We shall
not dispute the honesty of his motives, but we
believe that he is deeply influenced by the preju
dices of which perhaps he is not himself aware,
and he has at any rate shown a narrowness of
vision, and has viewed this wkole subject through
such a colored medium as greatly to diminish the
opinion of his ability and candor which we had
previously entertained.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette.)
The Senators need not shake their trial-oaths
at us, and pretend that they alone act upon this
matter under any solemn responsibility, and that
this makes their act sacred and infallible, and
disables all public opinion to the contrary. These
Senators cannot dodge this responsibilty by set
ting up the cover of a special oath, and the pre
tence of special sanctity and infallibility which
bas been taken on for the occasion. His acquit
tal will be their condemnation.
(From the Cleveland Leader.]
Already have three Senators set an indelible
stigma upon their names and fame for all future
time in the annals of the American Republic, by
declaring that they stand ready to acquit Andrew
Johnson of the crimes charged againet him, and
to continue him in the power and prerogatives of
the Presidential office. Mr. Fessenden has
fallen, like tho angels who followed
Lucifer, from the temptation of sap
pointed ambition. James W. Grimes is
another name which will go into history in
soniething the same standing as that of the To
ries of the Revolution. Lyman Trumbull of Il
linois is the third man who has betrayed his
State, his constituents, his party, and the whole
country, by declaring for the acquittal of An
drew Johnson. In this vote he contradicts his
whole past record, and gives the' lie to all his
past - utterances and, votes. God forgive him !
The country cannot.
IFrom the Toledo Blade.]
The meanest or these men are not those who
accepted so many of the whisky-ring dollars for
their votes. Meaner and more despicable than
these are the cold-blooded, calculating men who,
before committing themselves calculated whether
or not, under Wade, they could keep as many of
their brothers, cousins, and nephews in place as
under Johnson; their calculations extending into
the future as far as the Chicago Convention..
[From the Detroit Post.]
The "conscientious" men, the men with "judi
cial .minds," the men whose souls are elevated
above personal and partisan considerations, can
not find anything in the impeachment articles
shish forbid Mr. Wade from being President.
Andrew Johnson is innocent because Benjamin
Wade Is guilty of being his successor.
[From the Illinois Stoats Zeitung.]
If a judicial conscience may stamp the con
science of the statesman and the popular repre
sentative as a lie, and the Senatorial- oath of
°Bice a perjury; if that same conscience may
counsel 3lr. Trumbull to go back upon the vote
which he, on the 21st of February, cast, under
his oath as a Senator—then it is a most shabby
and despicable conscience, which would rather
call for expression of contempt than of admi
ration.
[From the Belvidere (Ill.) Northwestern.]
The course of Senator Trumbull of this State
upon impeachment has produced a feeling of in
dignation that has assumed proportions of such
magnitude as to overwhelm with shame any man
who respects the wishes and sentiments of his
constituents. lie has sounded his own death
knell in Illinois, and must abide the consequences
of his bad faith.
Banquet to Mr. Burlingame In San
A grand banquet was given to Mr. Burlingame,
the ambassador from China, in San Francleco,on
the 28th of last month, upon the occasion of his
departure, with his Asiatic suite, for the Atlantic
States and Europe. The guests numbered two
hundred and twenty-five, and included all the
leading public men of the country, and the rep
resentatives of the various governments residing
there.
Speeches were made by General Halleck, Gov.
'Might, Mr. Burlingame, Chili Tejon, the
Chinese minister, Admiral Thatcher, and others.
Mr. Burlingame's speech was too long to be
quoted in full here, but some of his remarks are
worthy of special notice. For instance, after re
ferring to the novel situation in which he stood,
between the two great empires, he said : •
"This mission is not the result of any acci
dent, or of any special design; it is the result, the
legitimate consequence, of events which have re
cently occurred at Pekin, the capital of China.
it was not until recently that the West was
brought into proper relations with that Empire.
Previously, affairs went on upon a system of
misunderstandings. resulting in mutual - misfor
tune. Xt was not until the year 1860 that the re
presentatives of the Treaty Powers met the great
men who carry on the affairs of the Chinese Em
pire, and coming into personal relations with
them, they had occasion to modify their views
as to the capacity and as to the intentions of
those men. And they were led straightway to con
sider how they Should substitute for the old false
system of force one of lair diplomatic action.
They addressed themselves resolutely to the dis
cussion of that question, and that discussion re
sulted in the adoption of what is called the co
operative policy, which is briefly this : An agree
meat on the part of the Treaty Powers to act to
gether upon all material questions; to stand to
gether in defence of their treaty rights; and the
determination, at the same time, to give to these
treaties a generous construction; a determina
tion to maintain the foreign system of customs,
and to support it by a pure administration, and
upon a cosmopolitan basis; an agreement to take
no concessions of territory to the Treaty Powers,
and never to menace the territorial integrity of
China. I Applause.l These agreements are at
the foundation of the co-operative policy.
* * * "This mission means that Ckina de
sires to come into warmer and more intimate re
lations with the West. It means that she desires
to come under the obligations of that interna
tional law of which yon, sir (General Hallock),
are one of the ablestexponents, to the end that
she may enjoy the advantages of that law, It
means t atr China, conscious of her own integ
rity wishes to have 'her questions stated-that
shei
s willing to submit her questions to the gene
ral judgment of mankind. It means that she in
tends to come into the brotherhood of nations.
It means commerce; it means peace; Lit means a
POLITICAL.
ME IMPEACHMENT FAILURE•
Opinions of the Loyal Press.
(Prom the Boston Advertbser
[Front the Albany Journal
Fra.ncitico.
unlllefition In its 'own interest of the whole human
roe."
.51r. Burlingame was frequently and enthusias-
tically appianded, and at the conclusion of his
speech the hall fairly trembled with the prolonged
cheers of his hearers.
The banquet was in every sense a remarkable
one, and will long be remembered as an epoch in
the Golden City.
DISASTERS.
Prlgtitini Accident in Pittsburgh—Al
Young Girl. in an Epileptic pit, pans
Over a Precipice Nearly Twee liern
dred nigh.
• [From do Pittsburgh Post, May 18.1
• At about half-past five o'clock last evening, an
accident of a most frightful character occurred at
Gazzam's Hill, in the Eighth Ward, which re
sulted in the death of. a young girl under sin
gularly sad and painful circumstances. It seems
that Miss Maggio ItleGinniss, aged about sixteen,
who resided with her parents In the locality men
tioned, was sitting at the brink of the precipice
overlooking Everson, Preston & Co.'s Iron
Mills, in company with two other girls,
both of whom were several year. younger'
than herself. The hill at this point rises to an
altitude of nearly two hundred feet, andifor folly
half the distance to the bottom it is almost per
pendicular; then a narrow shelf or table inter
venes, passing over which the descent is again
perpendicular to the railroad track below. While,
Miss MeGinniss was chattering gayly with her'
companions, she was suddenly seized with epi
lepsy, and in her first struggles fell over the pre
cipice. A few feet from the summit her clothing.
caught on a projecting rock, and for a minute
the unfortunate girl hung suspended between
heaven and earth. It was only a. minute, how
ever, for her little companions had scarcely ut
tered their first piercing screams for assistance,
when the clothing became detached from the
rock and the body made its fearful, fatal descent.
Full one hundred feet did it fall, striking as it
went, rocks and bushes, leaving here and there
fragments of clothing and tresses of hair, until
it reached, with a crash, the shelf or table men
tioned, whence, with a bound, the now lifeless,
mangled corpse was precipitated to the side of
railroad track at the bottom of the hill.
In a few minutes a large crowd had collected
about-the dead remains, which were removed to a
shed close at hand. The Coroner was hastily
summoned, and upon his arrival at the scene he
caused the body to conveyed to a dwelling in the
vicinity.
MUSIC IN NEW YORK.
file Festival at Steinway Hall—Han.
delis 44,11e55ia6„99
The second of the annual musical festivals at
Steinway Hall Opened last night with "The Mes
siah." The solo parts in the oratorio were taken,
by Madame Rosa, Mrs. Kempton, Mr. Simpson,
and Mr. J. R. Thomas. The New-York Har
monic Society mustered a chorus of about 200,
the orchestra numbered 35 or 40, and Mr. F: L.
Ritter was the conductor. The best thing of the
evening, beyond all comparison, was Maclaine
Rosa's "Come unto Him." It was sung with un
usual feeling, and the most exquisite neatness,
and we are confident could not have been sur
passed by any artist in the world. Next in
excellence we must place the delicious air "How
beautiful are the Feet," and "I know that my Re
deemer Liveth," by the same lady. Her famous
recitatives, "There were Shepherds," "And the
Angel said unto them," and the rest of. that mar
velous series of narratives, were superbly de
claimed; indeed, to say all that she did well, we
should have to quote everything that fell to her
share, for in oratorio she never disappoints us,
never fails to interpret the composer's finest
beauties. We would gladly praise Mrs. Kempton
it we could; but she has very little conception of
the spirit of Handel, and did much violence to the
three famous alto solos, "0 Thou that Tallest,"
"He shall feed Ills Flock," and "He was Des-;
pised," especially to the first. Mr. Simpson sang
"Comfort ye my People" well; and was generally
acceptable. Mr. Thomas was not in voice, and
his part was freely cut. The choruses were not
good as usual, though several of them deserved
rd warm commendation. "Behold the Lamb of
God" opened in excellent time and was
throughout solid, spirited and correct.
"All we like Sheep" was likewise a careful
and accurate performance, though colorless.
"Lift up your Heads" was execllent,and the "Hal
lelujah too, was entirely satisfactory; but most
of the other choruses were tame; several of them
dragged unaccountably; and one, "And Ho shall
vurity," was a perfect chaos. Mr. Ritter, as
isual, followed the orchestra and singers, instead
of leading them. Upon the whole the perform
ance was decidedly inferior to the last repre
sentation of the same work on Christmas night.
_ .
To-night there will be an especially interest
ing concert. Mendelssohn's recently recovered
"Reformation Symphony," which has created
such a lively sensation in England, and was pro
duced at the Boston Festival a few days ago for
the first time in America, will be played, together
with Bache's Suite No. 3 in D, the "Romeo and
Juliet" Symphony by Berlioz, and Beethoven's
- Leonora" Overture (we believe the third). The
orchestra will be under the direction of Theodore
Thomas, who is a decided improvement upon
Mr. Ritter.—.Y. Y. Tribune of to-day.
Candid Confession.
The Pall Mull Gazette tells some dreadful sto
ries about the cruelty of the British to their
Turkish and Egyptian mule-drivers in Abyssinia.
For example.:
"One day about ono hundred and fifty of these
poor devils came upjabbering to an officer, who
could not understand them, and reported it as a
case of mutiny. Forthwith two companies of
Infantry were sent down, and sixty of the Turks
were tied up to the triangles and got fifty lashes
each. It then leaked out that the poor wretches
bad been three days without rations, and were
only complaining."
Whereupon Mr. Punch says of the tale:
"Comment on its monstrous combination of
stupidity and brutality would only weaken the
force of the facts, if facts they be. If they are
not facts, the sooner they are denied the better
for our reputation.
,"The truth is, that for all the pluck and 'prac
tical' good sense over which he is so ready to hug
himself, John Bull is too often the most offensive
of snobs—brutal, pig-headed and blundering—as
odious a creature, altogether, as any that lives: a
being to blush over, and to repent in sackcloth
and ashes for.
"Here—assuming this story to be true—the
`nigger-driving' element, which is ono of the odi
ous ingredients in John Bull's character, is in the
ascendant; and the worst of the thing is, that no
body hesitates about believing such a story. It
is in fact only a reproduction, on a largo scale, of
the blunderincruelty and overbearing stupidity
which mark the dealing of your English snob
with `niggers,' wherever ho has authority over,
them. Only ofyour English snob, however.
Happily, there is your Engllsh ;gentleman to
trim the scales. But then your 'snob' Is so
frightfully frequent in this blessed country. Is
there any other country under the sun so over
run with snobs—any other where the snob is to
be found, rampant, in all ranks, classes, callings,
and in such force that he often determines their
tone and establishes their laws? We doubt it. The
snob is the British Philistine, and not a corner in
our island but boasts its Goliath. Punch once
tried his hand at a "Book of SnObs." Alas! the
subject is too big for a book! It affords matter
for a library."
—Samuel McNiece t tn Ray county, Missouri,
the other day, wantect to know whether his gun
was loaded or not. He placed the breech of the
gun on the ground, the muzzle of the barrel to
his mouth, and, at the same time, put his foot
upon the hammer and pushed it back, with the
intention of blowing In the barrel. His foot slipped
from the hammer and ft fell. Ho fell also—with a
bullet through his head.
F. 1.. FETHERSTON. Pubilsber,
PRICE THREE CENTS.
FACTS AND raNvirs.
—Victor Hugo has illustrated a book of flannels.
—Strauss, of dance music fame, is paralyzed.
—Fits that are not fatal to actors—benetlts.
—Swinburne and Dumas have Jointly produced
a now play for the Menkon.
—The original •'Old Sexton" of the ballad had
just died in New York. •
—The despoiled ex-king of Hanover haelyet
00,000,000 to starve on.
—Beecher has given Anna Dickinson a letter or
Introduction to John Bright
—The actual sum that Mr. Peabody gave the
Pope was 00,000.
—Chinese edible bird's nests are a net► fatties
In Paris restaurants.
—Largo flights of wild pigeons are arriving ins
Canada. Acres. of ground are bine with thorn.
—Trees 50 feet high are called saplings Its
Australia.
—Brignori has rented hl5 cottage at •Long
Branch. -
—The widow of John Leech died recently at
Kensington.
—Heller is in London with a now trick,in which
he throws a young woman, aged sixteen, out of
a bat.
—The father of Robert Bonner was , an inn
keeper at Raymelton, Ireland. He Wen had a ,
edger.
—A tipsy Connecticut man tried to "lick" so
locomotive. Ho won't try it again, for he-watl
switched off into eternity.
—The approach of the Queen's birthday ex
cites some attention in Canada, and a number of
publie eelebrations are proposed.
—Speaker Colfax has another lecture, which
he calls "Fourteen Years in Congress." His
" Across the Continent" has netted him $10;000.
—The New Orleans Times says "Pig-headed
men are always bores." Can the editor hive been
indulging in self-examination ?
—Clara Louisa Kellogg is-at Nice, France; and
lately refused an offer of $4OO a night to sing at
Madrid. Even we would have sung for that
money.
-It IEI proposed to take down the signboards
"Look tout for the Engine," on the Erie Railroad,.
and substitute for them, "Prepare to meet your•
God!"
—A man in Lebanon, Indiana, was killed. by
lightning on the 9th instant. He was chopping
wood, and the lightning struck his axe and passed'
into his side.
—At a recent memorial dinner In England, the
health of the memorialized deceased was drank
in ale 101 years old. Queer notion, to drink Ott%
health of a dead man!
—The Brooklyn City Railway Company dis-•
charges on an average 1,000 conductors per
annum. If it keeps on it will soon be a non
conductor.
—The daughter of an English toll-gate keeper'
has got herself into trouble for "dead-heading''
her lover through the gate. She never tolled her
love.
—The City Council of Bangor has passed as
order for the Mayor to take measures to prevent
the train from passing through Front street at a
speed faster than a walk—which is not very defi
nite as applied to a railroad train.
—"Row many feet long was the snake?" asked
a person of a traveler who had Just related a
story of his enconnter with a boa killed by him.
"192 inches," was the reply; "snakes have no
feet."
—The town of Isabad, Honduras, has been de
stroyed by a conflagration. The fire was the
work of Incendiaries. Only three houses MIXEILIS
standing. Evidently It is-a-bad place to build
houses.
—Just as an offshoot of the Queen of, Sheba"
blows out his brains at Magdala, a descendant of
Medea is led to the altar in P'arls. The Wended
bride of Prince Achille Murat traces back her'
lineage to that stormy female.
—A correspondent of the Louden Athenceunr
has heard a party of brothers whistle music in
parts, and was so pleased with the effect that he.
closes his letter by saying, "Surely the seraphim
must have whistled, not sung."
—A recently married couple belonging in St.
Joseph, Missouri, being too poor tq make a long
wedging tour, have started on a flat boat for
Idaho. They intend to return.—Ex. Are we to
understand from this that they are going tq
scow-er the country.
—There is a stratum full of carburotted hydro
gen .gas below New Orleans, about forty feet ,
from the surface. It is thought there is enough•
to light the city for years. It comes frozi the,
decomposition• of vegetable matter, formerly, de
posited there by the Mississippi.
—Rossini has received the Grand Cordon of the
new Order of the Crown of Italy. Chevalier
Nigra waited upon the maestro at his house to
present him with the insignia. Verdi and Mer
cadante have been made commanders of the new
order.
—Conductor Parker,of fipringfleld,has recently
gained possession of a pair of lasts nylon which
the boots of John Hancock wore made for twenty
years preceding his death. Upon the bottom of
each is the original signature of Mr. Hancock.
We have all seen the last of that great patriot.
—A London letter says : "The name of Samuel"
Carter Hall, or 'B. C. Hall,' as he is chiefly known,
appeared very prominently In the proceedings
against Mr. Home, and certainly not to his cre—
dit. Mr. Hall,lB said to have been the original ok,
Peckeniff."
—Mrs. Gage, one of tho writers on Mrs. Stan
ton's Revolution, insists that the wife of General
Greene, of Rhode Island, and not Eli Whitney,
of New Haven, invented the cotton gin. Mr.
Whitney, she says, was only the mechanic who
worked out Mrs. Greene's kideas. Rather a green ,
Gage, we should say.
—Providence, R. 1., cannot understand why
the whisky recently seized for violation of the
i °venue laws should be released on orders from
Washington. The procif of guilt is said to bo
unquestionable, but the case is surrendered with
out even a trial—Ex. The money expended to
acquit A. J. accounts for it.
—The following rather hard story is told by a
Troy paper: "The other morning a gentleman
found in a trap ho had set a complete rat skin
and—nothing more! The snap had caught the
animal by the nose, and in struggling to escape .
be walked entirely out his skin. Attached to the
skin wore portions of the bones of the head, the
hind feet, and the whole tail. Leading from
the trap to a hole near by were tracks of blood."
—"One of the female attachOs of Yankee Robin
son's circus," says the Quincey Herald, "who
now appears hi 'Undine' on the gilded throne, is
the daughter of a Philadelphia banker, and a
graduate of a first-class fashionable hoarding
echool. She lately visited Decatur to see some
relatiVes, and made the acquaintance of a roving,
rakish young man, with whom she eloped for
Clinton, lowa. She now wears as short dresses,
as neat tights, and displays her ankles as liberally.
as her more experienced sisters. A company of
ladles tried to reform her, but she said she Nadi
an invincible hankering after sawdust ant
spangles."
—Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor of
Every Saturday, receives a salary of $2,500 per
annum. When the magazine was staxted,kle sal
ary was $1, 500 ; it was soon raised to $2,000 and
a suggestion of his, in pursuance of which Tick
nor & Fields obtained and published, lie s4vance
of all competition,Diekens's last chrlstmaii story.
"No Thoroughfare," was rewarded''by , the -addi
tion of $5OO to the last named figures. Aldrich'a
lucky idea came to him after he had retired, and
with very creditable enterprise, he arose, re
sumed his day-garb, and made a midnight call
on a member of the firm. The result of the bi
terview was the despatch of letter to England,
by the next morning's mail, and, more remote
ly, the profitable publication of "Ne TikturOtigtkt
fare."