rIBSOtf PEACOCK. Editor. T>HE -EVENING BULLETIN _ FDBUSIUSI) RVEST EVKHESQ r .,' " ;(8&d»y» excepted), . ATTHENEW BIJI.I.ETIN BDIIiDIHC, GOT Ctocatnut Ktreet, Pliliadclpbla, .DTTOT ■ /.■■■• EVENING BUELETIN ASSOCIATION. , /JIBSON PEACOCK, “•SSSfeiaoßDraLj*. L - i ' ETHERBT0 F i lN ci S T^^ Tho BciJLimK fa carved to anDaeiibera tn lbe city at 18 ' oßnta pcr week, payable to tho carrion. or 6a pgr manna I AmebicaU 3jife Insurance Company, Of Philadelphia, 35. E. Comet Fourth and-Walnut Sts. C&~This Institution has no superior in the United TNVITATIONB FOBWEDMNG3, PASTIES, AO., X executed In a superior . PBEKAt I<J33 CtIEaXWU’T STREET. fe2Mtt WABBTEP. BRIAN—GOODJER.—On tbc evening of the 2d lout., by -tbc Kev, George-F.Wiswell, P.D» Air. Jamci T. Brlui and Miss Rebecca A, Goodlex. all ox this city, * POToDAMEB—NATHANS.—On tho afternoon of the :3d iret., by tho Bor. B. Mortas.Mr.ltartln Potsdam sr to Mies Benreneda Valentina Nathans, daughter of Moses 3s ntbs ns. Esq., all of this city. OIEl>. CLEMENT.—June 3d,Harriet F,. daughter of tho late • Judge jolm Fi*hrr,ana widow.of Ur, £. >Y. Clement, of l/eiawarc. * » t /I be funeral will take place from the residence of. her >f. l«ter, Mr*. .Joseph Maxneld, GWJ North Ten'-h street, on Saturday afternoon,dtiiiast.,at3o’clock. To proceed to JLatirel BUI. MAGEE.—On the evening of the IctinsL, G;orge W. Mcgee. in the 37th year cfhfi nge. The* relatives andfriends of the family are respectfully invited, without further notice, to attend his funeral, from the. residence of ills father. No. 1418 Arch street, on the 4tMS2h. at 3 o'clock. * . BOSS.—On the 3d inrt,; Jano Boaa, relict of Bov. John ;-Ro*% of Zanesville. Ohio.'* - ; ~ uue notice cHic funeral will be given; ** E»YKF A LANDELL OPEN TO-DAY THE LIGHT *v shades of Spring Poplins for the Fashionable Walking •Dresses. fteel Colored-Poplins. . ■ ~ lode Colored Poplins.* ! Bismarck Exact bhade. POLITICAL! NOTICES. CONTROLLER. 1863. SAMUEL P. HANCOCK. - Subject to the ltalea of the Republican Party. jo4 Strip Wb» sfcoNlT PRECINCT, EIGHTH ward - a m-etin* of the-Union Republican citizens of the iSecenfl Pred&ot will beTheld at the B.' W. cor. Twelfth und Locuft strcets, on tIIIDAV EVENING. Jonefi. at 8 o’clock.- -It.HiCK«. { ofEr.Coir % «S3f»NATIOS SL UNION CLUB, 1105 CHKBTNUT STREET. PuU.iBEJ.PHIA. Jones, ISB. GRANT ATJU UoLI'AX. T)e member, of thoNatirual Union Club wlil m Get at ■ thp Club UOUM ; ON UMDAIr'EVFNIKONEIT, June s atgo’cloek. Al‘ in f empathy eyltb lie political opinions are cordially tinvited. - . 1 Jic meeMni-wiTI bdaddrewed by the , ■ Hon. BENJAMIN HA- BIS BREWSTER DENM3 W. O’BRIEN". Esq, JOHN E ABBICKB. President. A JE WatunuEliAvy. Bwretaiy. ■ je4-3tn>S TO THB UNION REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF ■*? THE CiTYOF PHILADELPHIA: Hannfit»erred twot«nn« mtheoJSco of City Controller v»Uh whch iny fello w-citizeua-have honored me« and •hat’inß declined beiscjitimed as a candidate for a farther term, yet orerpreesea to accept In caee 1 was nominated* and an opportunity now offering to enter Into hosinesa U& coming year, I moatTCapactfaily beg loaroto declingroe -1 ins considered a candidate for City Controller under any Wi*H heai tfclt thanks to my many firiemu lor thefr favors and kind expression offecuns toward me, it* I remain, truly joura, JO3. K. LVNDALL. *gg» TO,THE UNION REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF PHItADFLPI’IA.-Agreeably to tho RULES of the UNION REPUBLICAN PARTY, the citizens of Philadelphia Bill elect, la each Election Divliloo thioughoi t theeltr, on TUESDAY AFTERNOON, Jane 3 h, between the noara of i and 8 o'c-ock, ONE DELE GATE to each Of the Convention to nominate candi date! for the bffieoaof MA YOB. DISTUIOT ATTOR NEY. CITY CONTROLLER. RECEIVER OP TAXES. CITY BOLICITOB. PKOTHONOTARYOF THEOOOBT OF COMMON PLEAS. CITY COMMISSIONER, two Judgee of tbeDISTRICT COU RTMembera ofCONI IKEdS. Members of the STATE SENATE in the Second and fourth SENATORIAL DISTRIO rS. Members of STATE LEGISLATURE, and two DELEGATES from each Rise -tion Division to the WARD CONVENTIONS, and Tbreo Members from each Election Division to tho WARD EX ECUTIVE COMMITTEES, and In the TWENTY. EIGHTH WARE One Delegate from each Division toa SURVEYOR'S CONVENTION. The conventions shall meet as provided for m Rule sth of the rules for tho aovernment or the Union Republican , 1 arty and the CITY CONVENTIONS ahaU meet as fol lows: Convention to Nominate the MAYOR, at CONCERT HALL. CHESTNUT STREET. ABOVE TWELFTH. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. AMERICAN MECHANICS’ BALL, FOURTH AND GEORGE STREETS. Seeond ‘ S, eITY COMMISSIONER, NATIONAL- GUARDS’ HALL RACE STREET, ABOVE FIFTH. , PROTHONOTARY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WASHINGTON HALL, EIGHTH AND BPBINIi -GARDEN. . ■ ■ .■■■■■ RECEIVER OF TAXES, AT NATIONAL HALL, MARBLET STREET, ABOVE TWELFTH, second et C?TY SOLICITOR, ABSEMBLY BUILDINGS,TENTH and CHESTNUT Streets, second atory front. . JUDGES, at OLD QUARTER SESSIONS, SIXTH -Strscf, below CHESTNUT. :• CITV CONTROLLERS. ODD FELLOWS’ HALL, S. E. corner BROAD and BPEING GARDEN. . CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTIONS as foUows: First District—At! ISTIUCT COURT ROOM, S. E. cor ner SIXTH and CHESTNUT Streets.^ Second District-ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS, second JB T?lrd*District-AMERICAN MECHANICS’ HALL, :firptfloor. ‘ -Fourth Districfc.-SPfcrNG GARDENc HALL, THIR TEENTH nod SPRING GARDEN rtreeta. SURVEYOR'S CONVENTION, Twenty-Eighth Ward, ;La MB TAVERN. - ■' j. -- The above Contentions meet WEDNESDAY, Jane 10th, at 10 o’clock A. M. By order of Republican City Executive Committoe t . r \ WM. H, LEEDS, President. Isaac Moßnrng. 1 Secretaries. BFEOIAX. NOTICES, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM i FsiLiOEUPEUa UsylStbrlSOSb NOTICE TO STOCKIIOLDBUS.—In pursuance of reso jßntiona adopted hy the Board of Directors at a Stated (Meeting bold this day. notice Is hereby given to the Stock- Qholders of this Company that they will navo the privilege •of subscribing. either directly or by substitution, under •ouch rnles as may be prescribed therefor, for Twenty-five ■Per Cent, of additional Stock at Putin proportion to their •respective interests as they stand repsfered on the books ° f will be entitled to snb rocribefora full share, and those holding more Shares tshanamnltiplenf four Shares will beehtitled to an addi tional Share. ■ . -'i Subscriptions to the new Stock Win be received on and •nfterMay. 80th, 1868, and the privilege of subscribing wUi cease on the 80th day of July, 1868. „ . The instalments on account of the new Shares shall >Be paid in cash. as follows: . . . Ist Twenty-five Per Cent at the time of subscription, ■•on or before the 80th day of duly, 1868. - - 2d. Twenty-five Per Cent on or before the 16th day of (December. 1868. i : : 8d; Twenty-five Per Cent on orhefore the 16th day of . Jrrpn, 186 A - • <tti..l*wentyvfivo Per Cent-on or before the 16th day of 186% or if Stockholders should prefer.the whole amount may bo , paid-up at once, or any remaining instal< .'Cnenta may he paid up in full at the time of the payment *Of the second m f ftpfifnfltftlmnnt paifl - tip shall be entitled to a pro rata dividend that may be de clared on fall shares. ; : 'v THOMABT. FIRTH. . . myH-tjyBQsrp • ■ . -.Treasurer. READING RAILROAD OFFICE NO. 227 SOUTH (FOURTH wn-mm- . ... PratanEtmnA, May 27,1868. holders of ,bonds of the Philadelphia a » <s .l t e? d insßaUroad Company, due April 1, 1870:- , a vim ofl .? r to exchange aay’% there bonds of i?*!!!**/*?-** any time before the latoay'Oi October next, at par* for a new mortgage bond of.-euiial amount; bearing hOTlng 26y?uS hvrmS." 0 ' States and State taxes! '■their tenor. • my29-t ocU B. BRADFOKD?Tre^urer. ■SST 90 I i9 ER , T il °E THH “LITER ' AdveDHJburch. , aid oI «“ (Brotherhood of . Assembly Building, THURSDAY EVENING. .Tuns a Iraq • bo hoa ,itTnim sfeis ; ... 1 ’ t 1.... ' ; ■/. - ,: •. - r “ " • • |3 iiilij dunmg Iklktiti p. aCrimbT, > |. - BPJKUIAI.HOTICE*. - - f ; Of MUSIC THE \N AcadsmvnfVmJß?* 1 !?f-f < J c *yf <>l^ erA oi ,ho Araoriean »SVH%^ A t^O«n 0 /if^‘ ~tAc ‘ 1 ‘ ,n^ Chairman, and *1.4 i“oardofpireclora was presented by urci*/ H.iSri’ 'i. ICa 9 Hand, Bui, and, with the Treae -BlockhoSm 4 ’ wa * old ered to be printed and sent to the ,T'2L ! 5 n r,'l f J«ne» Mlllikcß, E»q, thanks were tend thof Arnsnn?» rcc^t r * tr oxcclTcnt mnnngemoatof wo Acaoemy and unremitting attention to Its Intel- th '“ th# ***’**?”»* ,£«■»« JameaTnwuair, Steiner, frerdluand J. uifer. Frederick UrafT, Spark*, James JU CUghom, r ** Camac, AL D., and llenry Imt l of Directors, held on the 2d iE M^M r is c, slS’S. chMen: Trcunrer—.JAMES TKAQDAIR, gccrotaiy-MIfIHAEL Nft BET/ Solicitor—AUßßEY H. SMITH, .: . jtj Iyp^yg^ETEUHAMPEniEATTHEEASTWICg , . JOn (To-morrow) FRIDAY, June B. irT„7i- Admliilnn can bo had throngh any of the iUninen, or at the ofilce of the Fork, No.« 8 WALNUf rocei. . • - . jts •®“rJShJI^2SLPB? FITAI ’ NOS. 1818 AND l£3o apSßtfni •• Mo.6lßJ»ynestreet tfiatfdoek.* 0^b ° aUy onalßostreated. Ap^i^agy IHEFIHEABTS. .. The Eianiimox at tub Academy.— Mr. WU- I Ham T. Richards, absorbed with bespoken work, and hardly at rest again after Ms long absence In Europe, had little that bo could spare for this spring’s exhibition. He has sent two of his small sea-coast studies, Nos. 228 and-245. Tho first is a view on the coast of Mount Desert Island, and | represents the breakers Wishing In andout.among ■the crags, the whole bathed with sunset and sug gesting the fresh exhalations of seaweed air. The difficult fines of .QpaSt currents, with the mutual influenceis of waves, that gatbef. ‘and’, overbear,’and pull- and tug at each other, and draw their neighbors Into new shapes and into rugged channels, still mantled with minor systems of ripples and feathered with suddenly-created foam, these are what Richards comprehends, having given many a patient hour to the , study of the New "Jersey abd New England shores. When applying him-, self to the composition of one of these coast* scenes, he first calculates, like a problem in en gineering, the character of the shore, its resist ance and Inclination, the channels and outlets it affords; and the strength of the eddy. Then, having determined the guiding lines, he works ont the waves Into, equations, and figures them over with little characters and dimples, the moat insignificant of which yon are persuaded to be the result of inevitable calculation—take out the least 'of its’warts or vcinings, and the whole" .wave would die. The whole impression is that of one of those ingenlons photographs which.represent a street crowd instantaneously petrifaction, .with theirgestnres, their grimaces, their momentary passions and titilla tlons suddenly struck into immortality. Rich* ards is cool enough to make a statue of the moan- No other-American possesses this calm—no other painter, of whatever coufl s try. with whom we, are acquainted, has reduced the Hooting characters of water to this kind of formula. An analyst by oil, his prepossessions and instincts, and the possessor of a mind of that sort of quietism whicli-is sensitive and observant .of the most evanescent trace, he can sit hour by . hour upomtho promontory cliff and hold an in quisition pyer the tortured sea. The hurl,-the recoil, the grinning of the rocks and the spitting of the foam, the dragged and dishevelled weed, the sharp roller, and the sullen weltering tumulus tha shudders separately over every ineh of its va3 body before it plunges into oblivion, these move ments and details go down seriatim into his min ntes,with a stupendous exhibition of memory, and a cairn se% possession from which nothing can es cape. In the“Fogey day atNantucket,”thc fainter pulsations of the ocean aro taken down second by second; it is like a notation of the failing vitality of a dying captive; the lapping of the long beach-waves is there, the difficult lifting and fright ened fall of V)o spray, the turning of exhausted waves upoWh flattened bed, the flutter and hurry ing ebb of myriads of little globules and petty cur rents, a perspective of fainter and fainter waves, until at a point impossible to deflne the whole ' breadth of the ocean has stolen off under cover of the fog and died into the infinite. In this pic ture there is no color, and the monotonous gray comports woll with the low key of the descrip tion. In the Mount Desert rock scene there is a, pretence of indicating the sunset hour; but it is more like a conscientious verification of the of day in a' log-book than like a breathing, sym pathetic live for the day’s swift, exquisite mo ment of translation.. Mr. Richards, with full knowledge of what has in the world has chosen his part and allied himself with the draughtsmen. None knows better than he that no painter has yet succeeded in the sort of detail he admires and the mastery of tone. We believe that human faculty is too limited for this 'rabge, and that to the . end of time Michael Angelo will proclaim that Titian cannot draw, and the colorists' insist tha the Sixtine frescoes are bas-reliefe. Our own impression, in regarding the, sunset on Mount Desert (which Is . really interesting as one of Richards's few essays at emotion) was of some thing mechanical, ii reproachable—and intolera ble. ,We cannot better express our sense of this effect Uwn in. saying that the suffusion of sunset was dragged up to tbs drawing like a matter of carpentry, notched in, and hammered on, and badly fitted in certain places—covering parts,and leaving other parts bare and cold- Now, to the eye of. a colorist, the visit of sunset is not a car penriy.but ah alchemy.' etretcbes with volup tuousness over the surface; but it drains into tho hollows; it lives even in the shadows, a rosy life: it Is no affair of painting this facet red and that facet purple; It Is a heat that sheets everything withfiamo. Political Disabilities In the South* The following ‘letter, without; date, addressed by Senator Stunner to a citizen of Columbia, S. C.,we find in the Charleston papers: : Senate Chamber, Washington City.—Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 19 th In reference to the removal of your political disabilities. I, am not buto that the time has yet come to moke ex ceptions to our general policy in Individual cases; to dotao would be to open the door to innumer able applications, andoncoopen.lt would be dif ficult to shut it. I hope to. meet such cases as yours by soino general, enact'mdnt*and,as soon as the condition of the country will perrntt, I shall be thei first to ndvocate.the removal of alt. disabilities updor which yon labor at present. -. V l'ours truly, . ■ . ”■ ' V Cuakues Bumsek. A WOMAN’S EXJPJBRIBNCJBS IK £D. ICOPJ2. ko^T“ [Corre«pondcnc»'of th# Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Paeis, May, IBGB—There Is no city in' the world where musical entertainments are so uni versally good as at Dresden... The Slnfonle .con certs by (he Stadt MvsikcJior, under the direction of Pufflioldt, are only surpassed by those of the Conservatoire of Paris, where every performer Is a professor composer, and in most coses, past middle age. There is one grand difference In the two Institutions. The Conservatoire hr exclusive, and out-alders like onr party have ah: Opportu nity to hear the wonderful execution of their music only when some great demand on the chari ty of the government calls for extra contributions. Hen the seats Of the Salle de Conservatoire sell at Blstori prices and are engaged a month in ad vance. Bor pleasure, I prefer the Slnfonle con certs at Dresden. At the- Conservatoire, so per fect Is the movement,'so precise the marking of time of each instrument, and so exquisitely clear and united tho nOtcs that are scarcely sonnded in that one great orchestra of a hundred masters,'that! almost sobbed with relief from the tension of nerve and mind, while one single power of genius seemed to impel every hand to call forth wails of passionate utterance, as a soul in agony might express, but I never heard imi tated so perfectly before; . That music was a study, and wearied us all; we were too tired to take refreshment after it, and all drove home to sleep like school girls after a. trying review day. Music is second nature to the Germans, and they perform it with so much ease, interpreting Beethoven, Handel, Cherubini, Mozart, Schubert and Lanner with equal felicity, awakening the sympathies of their audiences without exhausting them, and affording : perfect delight and satisfac tion without betraying th£ effort or intimating tho laborious practice by which they arrived at the point where music is all harmony and gives pleasure without satiety. On the days When the Binfonie concerts are held at the Grosser Gar ten fill Dresden seems to rise an hour earlier than usual, the delph and wooden ware scrubbed and scenred, dinner prepared by three Instead ol four | o’clock, and the tires all covered for the | night, the servants -dismissed to ! their homes, as but few ‘sleep | in .the apartments of their employers, and mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, 1 and all the children old enough to knit or drink! • Martyen-bler, put on their fur-lined-wrappings [ and wade through the snow-storm two and three miles to the Concert Hall. O, Wolfsohn, Sentz, and ail ye children ol a land of music, will you ever bring our American tastes up to this point, when the nation will require the Government to provide for it the music 6f the masters by orches tras trained for the credit as 'well * as the service of the Government, and when the applause or silence of the people will be to you encouragement or reproach justly merited? We are rapid in all’ our acquirements, and with the example br fore us of the refining- influence of music on the German character, no doubt time will do lor us wbat centuries have accomplished tor them.' Taking a droschkie, or cab, at half-past three, we arrived at the hall of the Grosser-garten at four, and found.the room, large enough to accommo date four hundred people, with chairs and tables, filled. The musicians, 'fifty in number, were placed on a platform raised feet above the floor, and a largo placard, suspended by a string to one of the columns at . the end of the stage, announced that the perform ance would begin with the “Ouverturo (Nr. 1) zn ‘ Leonore,’ vL. von Beethoven.” The bright cheery fire in the immense stoves, the little foot-stools under the tables to keep our feet from scraping on the sanded floors, the groups of happy families, with countenances so placid that one would never imagine grief hod ever afflicted them, all sewing, embroidering and knitting on the female side, and reading, icritiny and smoking on the male side, while great quart mugs, of glass with metal covers, filled with the foaming amber-colored beer,-stood on each fable to be noiselessly opened, raised to the lips, tasted only , replaced on s the /table, carefully closed to exclude the smoke and heat twenty times during an overture, was on experience so entirely foreign to American ideas of amusement, that we were absolutely charmed with the novelty of onr situation. Go toa smoker concert in Germany, sit opposite Meinherr von fiickendorf, with snuff-colored velveteen knee breeches, green stockings and green coat, wreaths i of smoke ascending in regular circles from hU long-Btcmmed pipe, his face complacing iteeff while Minnie or Hilda, on either in with the stitches of their/knitting, the intelligent glances from a group of students, and the King's guard, in their yellow uniforms, fair Saxptt complexions and golden hair, all imitateffby about two hundred Americans, who smqkts, take beer, potato salad, block-bread, midjcffron lemonade, knit, sew, read and write, anil tonally, adapt themselves so per feetly to the eocasion that their costumes alone betray them as foreigners. But guard even you r breathing—the sweet strains oi Bchumon’s Abend' lied are trembling'tff a close. What applause! Soldiers, students, Minnie, Hilda, grandfather and grandmother, beat their haqds on the tables till the Conductor consents to repeat the en chanting air, and in a moment more you are plunged deep in reveries, carried across the ocean to yonr own ,6nug Bjtting-room; yen are reading Sartor RcsartHß, and -Carlyle has be come tangible and not arhapsodlst only. You are about to shake hands with himand- tell him you I know where his inspiration came from, when the loud'and repeated applause brings you to the end of Ensxi:n Tueh., or part first of the ..concert finch a visiting from table; to table, laughter,' chatting. Introductions and recogni tions. Oit is delightful! The musicians return to their stands mid part second begins. The en tire Sinfonie (Nr. 2) G-toollj of Mozart, Allegro molto, Andante, Minnotto, Allegro assai, arc performed as wo. never can hope |o hear it at homo, and not a sound'in all that assembly breaks tho spell, though each one continues his occupation as steadily os if- no other creature were present. Another recess. Byen -tho house-dogs,' that hayo slept under the tables, come for their share of - refreshment, and tako. the lumps of sugar from grandmother, and Minnie, and-Hilda's lovers. "Tho sly rogues! -Pert third is composed of Schubert's serenade, Lanncr's waltzes, Mans feldt’s pclkasand other, light pieces, that Bond us all dancing home j?ith light hoarts, light—yes, light heads, lf-wo orb hot Germans, for we never ffrank beer by the quart before—and a blessing in our hearts for King John of Saxony. No w the moat „ marvelous part of all this adventure is OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. lo be (old. The expense! Oar carriage cost ns three “groS’ ornints cents apiece. Entrance fee two-and-a-half “new groachcn,” or obont eight cents apiece. The beer and eatables fifteen cents apiece. Total, thirty-two cents for classic music by this best performers, foar hoars of uninter rupted: social and literary delight, and an expe rience which money alone coaid not indaco as to forget So much for the smoker concerts of Dresden, , ; E. D. TV. •The Financial Budget-A Bnhleniamo XMtrA Canal on Uii) RUne-oeiirao. tloM «t Boniautic Scenery—J£nin of tbe WfnetirowlnK Interoac, ' {Conawoadcacß of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.) Way 16, 1868.—There are no roses without thorns! and even the Prussian govern ment bod on opportunity for realizing the truth of that proverb when the financial budget had to be submitted to Parliament, "together with the measures how to cover the system of taxation and the increased public expenses. Some si? months ago it occurred to tho Berlin Minister of Finance to increase the duty on tobacco. It was a risky undertaking to propose' the taxation of an article which, from a luxury, has become an actual necessity to ninety-nine-out of a hundred '•late Germans. Until now the total revenue of the ZoDvereih from that source has nferer risen to quite two.millions of dollars In gold, whereas the revenue, on the same article amounts to- thirty: millions and the income m Englana fer exceeds the .latter sum. It may be safely asserted that of all countries on the face of the earth Germany is tho one that mosti assiduously devotes itself to the worship of cigar and pipe; and has yet managed to defray the ex pense incidental to those vaporous rites at the lowest possible rate. A tax on that article could not therefore be expected to be looked at with favorable eyes On the part of the people and their representatives, especially those of the Southern States, where the home produce had been bur dened. with no excise" whatever, - while Prussia had levied a tax Of thalers per cent, In place of 2?£ thalers, as proposed by the Minis try. The duty -on imports Is in tended to , be raised-from 4 to 6 thalers percent., and it is anticipated that the Govern ment will cany their point in that particular, but me increase oi tne excise tax will certainly meet with vigorous opposition, and all the Ministry may obtain will be the Introduction of the excise in the Southern States on,-the. home, produce, equal in amount to that already in force iffPruisaia. This age of materialism, and commercial speculation pays .little attention to the beauties oFnature, and our Ministiy.of Finance and Commerce-have con ceived the barbarous idea of having the most ro mantic part of toe Khine. transformed into a canal. fcThe King has ordered the matter to be submitted to another thorough ex amination, and the work of destruction to be sus pended nnul iinal decision. In the vicinity i of Bingen, the river is said to be obstructed with so many rocks,-:-.that none but small vessels can navigate without danger, and it is, . therefore, proposed.that a canal be constructed along side of the dangerous spot. Such an im provement would, however,: not only demive thatregion of its principal charms, but convert the river, for many miles, into - a mire, Injurious to ihe health on account 01-iia exhalations, be sides driving away all those millionaires who have purchased conn try seats in that vicinity and who have largely contributed towards the wealth and prosperity of the inhabitants. The wine culture'would likewise be ruined for many miles along the river, and if it is taken m con sideration that the very finest grape which Ger many produces grows in the neighborhood of Bingen and Johannisberg, the loss will be under stood, accruing to the population of those dis tricts, and the just objections which tney raise against any such plan being executed. Prince Meiternich, Austrian embassador at Paris, has arrived at Coblentz, and will spend some time in hiacastle, the iambus Johannisberg. He would only be of the many who would suffer materially ffoip the construction of the above mentioned canal. Rlr. Disraeli’s furry DtfficnlUeo—vin. filc-Uandea Battle of tae Premier- Uneen Victoria’s Uctireincnt. / London, May 20,1868 —PoUUcally, wo nre all waiting for to-morrow night As you krfow by telegraph, Mr. Disraeli is again in difficulties. He has been beaten upon two cUvlsionsdn the Scotch Reform bUl—one being in regard-to the abolition of ten small and corrupt/Engliah boroughs and the other in regard-'to the abolition of rating in Scotland./ Both defeats were unnecessary, and .were caused bv'Mr. Dis raeli's unavoidable absence from" the House during the debate.- He committed the con duct of thehlll to the Attorney-General and this is the result. The truth is that Mr. Disraeli Is ' now fighting Parliament single-handed. He has nobody to help him and everybody against him Jn tho House. But he is sustained and encouraged by the personal sympathy of the Queen, and to please her ho continues the unequal struggle. Undoubtedly he'should have resigned or dis solved Parliament after his defeat on the Irish Church question, asd.he would have done so but for the Queen’s interference. Now this much misunderstood man has borne every sort of Par liamentary humiliation for her Majesty’s sake, and jon may be Eure that, when ne loses the Premiership he will have his reward, in another shape. But during, this grave ministerial crisis, when everybody -else is anxiously counting the mo ments before to-morrow evening, when Mr. Dis raeli will declare the intentions of the govern ment, the Queen has'gone quietly off to Balmo ral, as if no change oi ministers were possible, and the Prince of, Wales is inaugurating the Art Exhibition at Leeds, leaving loyalty unrepre sented in London. Ton are certain to notice (and I hope yon will republish) the severe but deserved attack upon her Majesty, which ap pears editorially in this -morning’s Times.' The article rebukes Mr; Disraeli for permitting the Queen to leave Louden at such a juncture; but that Is simply/the Parliamentary manner of re buking the Queen herself. That article was not written without due reason. For her own sako, as well as for the sake of the ministry, the Qneen .ought to have remained in London now at any sacrifice; but her obstlimte persistence in her own whims and wishes, has again involved Mr. Disraeli in a muddle from which he is at present unable toseecleariy any way of escap.e, Birth of tut Austrian Archduchess— Xmperlul Rejoicing. Vienna, Hay 12, 1868 — The birth of Francis Joseph’s daughter,' the infant Archduchess, has afforded occasion 1 for the renewal of an Old World folly, worthy only of the middle ages. The over flowing joy of the Emperor-King’s , heart has moved him to confer upon his subjects on both sides of tho Leltha the bless ing of letting loose a number of criminals upon: society, among whom by the way, is a hero named Sandor, sometimes called the HungarianJßobln Hood, and believed to be one oi the most finished highwayman and chivalrous cutthroats! living. Another and bet ter act of amnesty is that which restores their pensions to those of the ofiicersof the imperial army who lost their right to the same in conse quence of their having fought on the popnlnr or national Hungarian side inlS4B or 1819. ' In reply to the deputation ftoni the -Keiehsrath which waited on “ the . Emperor-King to present their congratulations on the hippy family event, the sovereign said: (, Letns maKQ forward,quickly eueopeam affairs X.ETTJ3U FBOn BEBLlitr. ESOtASD. ACSXBIA. and rcsqjutcly.on the road wchaveent'orcd upon, that we may the eoonor arrive at frultlal and fien txiclal results. IHBrEHUSS. P Sl!?TJ , i o,l *? , 's,* no !“ ,,,,o n Author. Ittes to Ktcelve Gen. O’Aclll’t Visit— °r *** e Volunteer*- I - TliclrVorgetf nines* of Hldfewap I . MosxßEAt, June 3.—The Canadians are waking. ! up and making-great preparations. Lieutenant- General Sir Charles Windham and Colonel Mac f dougal,.Adjutant-General of Volunteers, and oilier military officers have determined on the I tactics to be adopted and have ni&de all other pro- I parotions necessary In the event of a Fenian raid. | These are more complete than In 1866. New field | brigade-share been formed In several districts, commanded . by ; regular- officers, composed of regulars and armed with Snider and Enfield rifles, with troops of cavalry and batter t lea.of artllleiy attached. Each acts independ- I en “7-_Tenta and field stores are held ready for ! “If - The Commissariat Is managed by Imperial officers. Tho Adjutant-General has issued fall instructions to staff officers, suitable for all poaible emergencies. Gnnboats have been placed on the St. Lawrence, and the ■bakes, manned- t>y sailors of the Royal navy, to keep, up a vigilant patrol. All are prepared, to dive a warm reception to the invad ing army. The volunteers hero are eager for it CMBPoign, though,"i>f course, unless combined with the rcgnlors, they would make aneztroinely poor show. They have been demoralized bydls- . satisfaction at the new Military MIL The banks to Eastern townships have removed specie to Montreal—AT. Y. World. ' ■ -. '■ -. ■■ y..| TWO poWbkb HOUSES BLOWN VP. 1 I Bea man /Torn In Pieces—Trees rip. rooted—Spicks of.tTmber TUrownOne i I feet, luto tne Air—Tke / at a lllstancc of x'lilrty M nifcs, .*■ '■ ro-J Juno 3. 1868—A dull, lieavy report of an explosion ot some kind startled the I people of this city at e o’clock this morning from I* , r elnmberß. On my way down the river I learned that two-' powder houses belonging to Smith Rand, : located west of Newburg, had been blown up, and, of l course, at once concluded thattho explosion was the first report of their demolition. The houses spoken of were located In a sort of ravine, two or three hundred lcet apart. One was called the I graining mill and- the other the. glazing mill. In tho graining mill at the tlmo of the occurrence were five tons of powder in tho cake. In tho ■ I glazing mill there was about-one ton ot powder. . I. The buildings were separated from each other by a I stream, across which is it dam. On the south j side was a stbrehonse in which three hundred I kegs of powder ready for market were stored. Next to it also Was another building, - which was connected with the graining mill by an Iron shaft .fourinches in diameter and eighty, feet long. This,'then, was the situation. At six A. Ml the graining--mill exploded with a tremendous shock, being blown to atoms. In five seconds after the glazing mill also exploded with a terv rifle report. The building on. the south eidi" of the road did not explode, but tho doors were blown. pff, the. sides crashed in nnd the roof tom away. The Iron shaft spoken of above was I broken in twain and. fifteen feet of it carried over the tops ot trees a distance, of five hundred yards. Another piece twiee the length was bent, almost double. VVflfen tho explosion took place a column of smoko and dost shot far into the air and Was Visible ' many miles. Tonne trees I were uprooted and thrown a third of a mile,. while old trees able to stand-the shock were j stripped of branches and leaves ( entirely and every jinch of them I j blackened - and' charred. Laigq numbers .of birds were found dead and "dying in , Iho vlcic- I ity. The saddest part of the affair Is yet to be told. In the graining mill at the time of the ex plosion a German named Adam Schosslervvas at j work. He was a faithful man and hadlbeen in | tho employ of the company five years. I His body was. blown to pieces, head and a portion of his shoulderswereiotmd near a tree [ abouLklx hundred feet from the mill. Other |. pieces of his body, including limbs, pieces of charred flesh and part of one of his arms, were I found strewn atbng>on tho grohnd and hanging 10 branches of tpets. It wus a terribly sickening Bight. Onlvabout two-thirds ofJiis body wore found. Twcause.of tho explosion is not known. One theory is as follows:—For about two weeks I nastonen have been at work near tho mill blast ing; Some of the stone from lie blasts wero hurled /fiboni promiscuously, a few lodging in tne - roof of the graining mill. It is thought that this morning ono of the stones dropped through, and that tho friction caused by.its coming In contact with the powder caused the explosion. The report Was distinctly heard In an area of thirty miles. AtNewbnrg horses Were thrown violently to the ground, buildings were shaken and window glasses wejo broken. The earth was .greatly agitated. Had the explosion occurred one hour later .twenty persons would have been I .killed, as that number go to work every, mom- 1 tog ot seven o'clock in tho graining mill. I neglected to mention that sticks of timber .were thrown one thousand feet into the 1 air .V. f r . Herald. ' I Tornado in a emu- Terrible Destruc tion, fFrom tho San Antonio (Texas) Express of May 3L] yesterday the snn set as nsnol, with no ap pearance of a storm. At half-past seven 'O'clock P. M., the heavens darkened, the wind com menced to blow from the north, and the light ning became very brilliant;, it continued thusun tU half-past eight; when the wind freshened, the rain commenced to fall, and within fifteen min utes It had increased to a hurricane,accompanied with the moat fearful hall shower ever known. Chunks of ice foil as large os a good sized pitcher one weighing two and a half pounds by actual weight. Every exposed glass towards the north In the city was dashed to pieces in an instant. Fronts of stores were opened, merchandise destroyed, houses blown down, ‘and men cut to shreds. Among the details reaching ns, we ieam of two men On a dray: Mr.-Lonla, one of the party, was knocked oft of tho drav and returned badly battered, and bleeding pro- i fns’eiy.-fibfkpowing what had become of his companion khd dray. The old Presbyterian Church; opposite this office and next to the Kleopper Hotel, was nnroofed and nothin"'left but tho wreck of the side walls, the ends having blown dear down. Treertwo feet through were twisted off like pipe Atoms, and the hail dashed through tin roots, leaving holes as dean as can non balls would have done. A roof forty feet lone sailed off the Alamo and landed tWO hundred yards away, in thecentre of the Alamo Plaza. Blinds were dashed in: and hail lay a foot deep In places. The front of the Express office is among those “aeued to, drenching the sanctum and damaging the library. A number of houses were unroofed, and we hear painful rumors of persons perishing; but of- course details are impossible at this late honr.- The damage of this city alone cannot bo less than $lOO,OOO, besides the destruction of all the fruit and crops. We cannot give, the extent of tho storm; but from the time It lasted, it is judged to have ex tended over considerable territory; Accident on tlie JVewJerser RaHtoadi (From the New York Poet of last night.] A serious accident occurred between 12 and 1 o’clock yesterday morning to the mldnlghtPhUa delphia train. The Hackensack bridgeis under going.repaira, and all trains use one track in crossing. At the time the Philadelphia train an proached the awllcU was out of lilace. and a ato nal of danger was exhibited.- The signal was ■changed bnt.the switch remained wrong The engineer started his train, but fortunately had not gatnedjznuch headway when the engine, ten dor and baggage-car ran off the track., The engine aud tender were thrown down asteep embank’ meat ana brokcix topleccsr Tho baggage car ran off and was also damaged. The, other cars] remained on the 'track. The passengers were E. l. EETHERSTOH- FotMar. much frightened, and sercmf were bruised Thw engineer escaped with a ' few injuries. It wa» jonndneeesB»7yto take the engine apart to get itnp the embankment, and men arc now- at yiOTK on It* hiFw' 8 *>£oh running a t usual’ speed the Joßsof life would have bcetr terrible- The accident was the rcsplt of,carelessness, ' • .. FACT*. AfeO FA*CUES. 7, 118 neTOr made {or deep, work i l ?ff the finer sense ■ T„“K^S';3“TS,2Tai“ ie “““ Bnrely bm» flowers bwp ' hft ppy watch,-their Ts their fond memory of the joying ligtst roe tije how I - “F “bUfs too brief* only tweee woridi to Jhear theToice of lore, touch, the breath>of tenderness, AnfeUien to rest as from a spectacle. Bt *U ,ieaa of the nighfc ™,y T ®througd all my happy houra ogaln themquitensway . Th^„-i e vS la ?u d ’Ehen inlonciStcss The face that beat before me to the day to ™ ow n%hVm°revivM mm> ■ ,T i»i ■-■ ■ George Er.ror. -Half-bred horaeamako capital sandwiches. —Secession has divided the Sorbets inTlFa® t f l . o , Kortk*?' Monthly M rich Is oiUn- ; .gnished. It Is merged into Putnam*a-. l itTiF IF “ flh ?r°. t S’ T Ma P ara . he wHlbe more likely to bill himself than to Injure the Falls.— J£z; t • ?.'■ ~ i ; , S°o4rmany Connecticutcrs have burnt Peat speculation. Just aa we., all did in that other peat—petroleum. —General Meado is announced by an Atlanta paper to have come Out,for Grant and’ Colfax. “Come out” of what? „ wasthe penalty which-a • a?%“the a ofe«dS reC — d^ rtl7 “ S ‘° Bt ° P »p«“”|.rxfcr gzgzz troupca visited it during one week. >; ,•.■; - \,~Z HaU-Hamllton has quarreled with Tickuor A Fields, and.the Allantic_Monihhj will know "■ her no more. . • ••' • u ” . JZ^f^ entei SP physicians'have succumbed to the- ' SsS^f d fe. tyPhUSf ° yCr ’ ln , Jho prown Prtocessof Kussla hhs been de- Hart of a Prince, and his name is to bo Nicli -v.r Ten . th - o ?, sal,a swallows; find lodgings-in a. NewH^shi^ oB^;^ 8 at hotrSjil of JEngland, sent a bust of | her brother, made by herseli', to the Royal Aca- I , dem y> and the royal artists say with a wink that itis “a work of infinite talent.” , .^rZ h ?, Cl ?, tli ? ht, l itl K rod ,? nt PP ln this coun- ifl nowto bo seen mouth N house, No. 52 Daniel street, Ports- good example of what.passes for fine writing In that Stato when IJi 8^! akß °f “ a pea-eyed freedman, whose name I we dlsremembcr.” ? r0 P°tlt»nhpg.the autho- I ?H eB J thedrcidatlonln Germdny of “wspapere, printed in German, which I t ? cir B t°ries without authority. Better have an international copyright law. I a triumphant appeal of an Irishman Who was a lover of antiquity, who in arguing the I °f architecture oyer the now, ssridh Where will you find any modern building that lasted so long as the ancient?” s —There is a good deal of trathin the following advertisement: “A gentleman of middle age! wife a yearly Income of $3,000. wishes to fin? » who who has a small capital; his jovial character has been valued equal to $lO,OOO a year.” - - ~, < , — A “an in Albany, who had a gossiping wife- of “asa greatsemutf” that bis wife went out of the house every day- forty times to gossip with seme of her neighbors, aiS that she remained out two hours every time t : A Party of farmers in Greon Lake county; Wisconsin, numbering about thirty, chose aicSa last week and went on a gopher lunt, for a sup- ' per for the party.- The hunt lasted a week, and,- l wo thousand two 'hnndred and twenty-one gophers were slain. v —A venerable sage oncesaid, “Foungmau. let me give you a Piece of advice. Never mariy : a rich wife: behold In me one who, married rich. My wile had thirty-seven and ii half cents, while I had but a quarter, and she has been twitting mo ef tne oaa mce cents ever siAceJ* . : —Salome, Prince Achillo Murat’s bride, has been educated carefully and strictly, one point being that she was compelled to rise at 5 o’clock, auu£ mer and winter, and mend her own stockings. Humbug. -Why didn’t she mend them before going to bed ? . —Surgeons, lately advised Madeline Brohan, tne actress, that she had a cancer on her breast, and prepared to cut itont. One of them, how ever, looked at the case , a little differently; and altera short operation extracted a needle that had,caused the difficulty. It was a necdle-s ex citement —The Mobile Tribune claims 'that it has done more than any other paper in that vicinity to ‘•make radicalism odious.” It says that no de clared radical can carry orfS'buainess in Mobile, or associate with gentlemen, and proudly boasts ihatlt has brought about this state of things. —Here Ib' what Carlyle sayd of a great ihan who talks little: “He that works and does some poem, sot hetbat merely IsworfchyoF Uje aame of poet. Cromwell, emblem 6r the dumb English, Is in teres tingto me by the very inadequacy of his speech, heroic insight, valor and belief without words—how noble it Is in comparison to tho adroitest flow of words with out heroic insight.”- —“I Was,a' sugar-planter once, but I didn’t it.* said a Yankee hostler, toa company of Maine capitalists whom he over °n the hotel steps abdut going South to buy up plantations ana'workihe them v onalarge scale*- a You,a sugar-planterl” ex- . ono Sf- capitalists with greatsnrprise. ‘When was that ? Tdl us oil about it." “’Twaa when I buried my old sweet-heart.” an actor who is comparatively unknown & th&e benighted regions:—“Mr. Eairclough, the celo brated.Amcrican tragedian, will shortly arrive, with Mr. Quest, in thiß country, un his way to St. Petersburg. : Bisperfo&uances in the United States created such a sensation ’that a Russian. . gentleman offered him a salary equal to Mario and Griai’s united for fifty performances.” Sly fellow, to keep this immonso sensation out of our American newspapers. . ; . , —The story is told of a venerable theological Prdfessor that, while once addressing a Sunday . school, he happened to use the word “epitomo.” Suspecting thathe might be using toh big a word for, their comprehension, he thus translated it into childish vernacular; “But perhapth,'chil- you don’t know what epitome nieantb Epitome, epitome; why, it is thynonomouth. with thynopthith.” That wasa miracie of cloar ness compared with the' explanation of Christ's presence In the sacrament which Dr. Morgan Dlx gives to confirmation classes in his Manuair He tells these children that Christ's ‘fgiorifiedhuman ity” becomes present in tho communion“sucra locally, hyper-phyeically, and spiritually, in on^toGodf’ Qn by the hurc!l r but Uwnw.
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