'GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXII -NO. TO.
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letter raon Trieste.
Xlke A iistriaQ Concordat — Italy’s Fi«
nuncloJ Enibanrasmncmo— Outlawry
in tile Coun try 'l tic Nysicm of Bug*
andage-Opportunities for Relorm.
/ Correa pondcrco of tbo Phllada. Sally Evening Bulletin. 1
Trieste, June 13,18C8.—The troubles and trials
of Italy do not appear to bo ended yet, If we are
to believe the accounts which reach ns from all
parts of the peninsula. The Pope, in the first
place, .la-in a high state of tribulation on account
of the civil-marriage law, as well as of the law
being" enforced In Austria which Introduces
public schools all over the country and transfers
the control over the system of education from the
clergy to the civil authorities. The protest
which Pins IX. has .forwarded to the Emperor of
Austria through the Papal Nuncio at Vienna
will of course be of no avail whatever, and the
Pope is compelled to see his spiritual influence
over a Catholic country par excellence
fnde away gradually, without hope of
ever recovering the lost ground.
In the northern part of Ilalv the cabinet of
Victor Emmanuel is trying hard to struggle
against serious financial embarrassments, bnt it
will take a long time before that kingdom can be
restored to comparative order and regularity in
the different branches of its administration.
Austrian Empire,althoughtihoroughly exhausted,
and requiring many years’rest before its interior
organization will be completed and established
on a sound basis, is far ahead of Italy at the
present moment, in regard to its financial as well
social Institutions. Brigandage, for Instance, is
still at home in Calabria, the same as
Romagna is still the theatre of mid
day assassination. It is only in Piedmont
and Lombardy, and to some extent in Tuscany,
that public society exists upon the overage loot
ing of other civilized communities. Previously
to 1848, Austrian and Sardinian despotism, if it
did no other good, disciplined that Northern
population into something like a wholesome
drtad of gaols and gallows; bnt a frantic cry
soon arOEe against Piedmonlization, and the
energetic and sturdy Western community was
swamped by the flood of Southern and Eastern
corruption against which it vainly attempted to
make head! The Camorra crept into, every
branch of the oivil and military service; and
Italy, which so violently rebelled against Pied
montizo ascendancy, soon found herself under
Neapolitan preponderance. Strenuous efforts
have been made ever since the establishment of
the Italian Kingdom to break up the Camorra,
that vilest of all systems of murder and robbery,
■which have ever disgraced Italy. The Govern
ment has been partly successful in discovering
some of the principal leaders of that secret asso
ciation, established with the express purpose of
controlling the actions of men nigh in office, and
of swindling them ont of their property, and of
doing away with all those who would not sub
mit to its influences and secret authority. Still,
there is considerable more work in Btore
on that, field, especially in. Southern
Italy, where the military authorities
have lately commenced to wage a regular war
against the bands of brigands which infest that
Tart of the country. Great activity is displayed,
and the probability is that, after continued ef
forts, the country will be cleared of that evil.
The next stop would be to accußtom the popula
tion to industry and to regular systematic work,
■which Is one of the most essential conditions for
a community to insure freedom and happiness to
its Inhabitants. This shows that a good deal has
to be performed before the Italian kingdom can
take a high rank among the nationalities of Eu
rope; but the present generation should be able
to witness the execution of all these reforms and
to see Italy united Into one kingdom, undivided
and independent from foreign influence. Not
bcfore Frchch bayonets are removed from Italian
soil can the people of that klDgdom hope to en
joy genuine liberty and, command the reßpect of
other nations. , . , j
Longfellow at Carlisle, England.
The Carlisle Express Bays : “On Friday after
noon Mr. Longfellow paid a visit to Corby and
Wetheral. The party who accompanied the poet
to these picturesque plates drove out with him m
two carnages. They included Mr. Longfellow’s
three daughters, Mr. Appleton, the poet's bro
ther-in-law, Mr. Robert Ferguson, Morton;
Mr. Chance, Urother-in-law of Mr. Fergu
son, and Miss Ferguson. Tho party wire re
ceived at the castle by Mr. P. Hj Howard and se
veral of his friends. '-Luncheon was prepared at
the castle for tho distinguished visitor and
his fellow travelers, and then thelar-famed walks
surrounding the mansion were visited. The poet
-was taken from place to place and shown the
many views in the grounds by the hospitable
owner of Corby; and it is needless to say that the
•day was heartily enjoyed by all present. The
woods having been seen, tbe party' crossed the
liver by the ferry boat for the purpose of visiting
Wetheral Church and graveyard, and viewing tho
magnificent monuments in the Howard mauso
leum. Carriages wqre in waiting at Wetheral to
convey the party back toMorton.”
IDaiiti (SDfiEitjj jklletfli
LETTER FBOlff WASHING fO.V.
Boraonatrance from the coal Trade of
f*btladelphla. Near VorU, Baltimore
and ritMbnrgb, araimt a Kedaction
of the Dnty on Foreign Cout t'ne
Besson* Wli y 1 hey object to a Itcduc
tion-«>en. Grant’s Western tour—ho
goes ont to see his Form, but l« op*
posed to'all Popular Demonstra
tions—Southerners In Washington,
dec#
Corrcrpondenco of tha Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Washington, Juno 29, 1868.—A formidable
petition from parlies interested in the mining
of coal has been presented in the House by Hon-
John Covode, remonstrating againßt the proposed
redaction in the duly on foreign cool. Thig
petition was signed by 45 of the heaviest dealers
in coal in New York city, and parties engaged in
cool transportation; among them the officers of
the Borden Mining Company. American Coal
Company, Central Coal Company, Consolidation
Coal Company, New Boston Coal Company,
Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, Delaware, Lacka
wana and Western Bailroad Company, Pennsyl
vania Coal Company, Tannerdalo Coal Compa
ny, Morris and Essex Bailroad Company, Cam
eron Coal Company, Norwood Coal Company
and Dover Company, oil 1 having offices in that
city. The signers to the petition embrace the
following firms and companies interested in the
coal trade:
Penn Gas Coal Company; Westmoreland
Coal Company, Edward C. Biddle, President;
Kemble Coal and Iron Company, John Dere
raux; Ilcnkirt Brothers & Company ; Powelton
Coal and Iron Co.,C. F. Berwind, Vice President;
Gald well,Gordon & Co.; KittaningCoalCo ; H.H.
Shitlingford, Treasurer; George Mcars; Clearfield
Coal Company, William Wallace, President; B.
B. Wigton; Northwestern Coal and Iron Com
pany, A. B. Baker," Treasurer; Decatur Coal
Company, Samuel W. L6vis, Treasurer;; Mo
t-hannon Coal Company,Frank Knight,Secretary;
Connelaville Gas Cool Company, Norton John
son, Treasurer: Joalah M Bacon; Shafton Coal
Company, G. 0. Morris, Secretary; Philadelphia
& Beading B~ B-, Charles E. Smith, President;
.1. Edgar Thomson; Herman J. I.oaibaert; Israel
W Morris. Jr.
The parties in Baltimore joining in the petition
are tho Baltimore aDd Ohio Bailroad Co.; Mary
land and Cincinnati Railroad Co.; George’s Creek
Coal and Iron Co.; Newburg Coal Co.: Bcranton
Mints; Despard Coal Co.; Atlantic and George’s
Creek Coal Co.; Franklin and George’s Creek
Mining Co.; Piedmont Coal and Iron Co.; Wm.
Prescott Smith, Esq , and some of the heaviest
coal dealers in that city. ,
The signers in Pittsburgh compriso the follow
ing firms, which represent the main body of the
trade in that city :
Yougbio&beny C. Hollow Coal Co., F. B. Hub
bell, Secretary ; Coleman, Babm & Co.; Martin
Brechle & Co., L. D. Smith & Brother, 8. Ro
berts & Co., A. McCartney, George T. Miller, M.
Briggs, William Stone, Jas. A. Stqne, W. N. Ro
bins, James Lynn, Thomas Faircole, John Gil
more. J. H. Gamble, Jas. T. Simpson, B. J. D.
Johnston, John C, Rieher, David: Rlsher, H. B.
Hays & Bro., Pollard & Lanekee, William Oliver,
Jacob Painter.
The petitioners set fortk their case briefly in
ihe following:,
"To the llomorabU (he Senate and House oj Rep
resentative! af the United Stales of America: Tire
undersigned being interested in the mining of
coal In ibe United States, would most earnestly
protest against any action of your honorable
■ body which would tend towards the redaction of
the present duty upon coal, as such action would
he disastrous to a large number of citizens of
the United Stales, and would benefit none, be
sides which the Cnited States treasury would
mHer a lose of revenue to the extent of any re
duction that was made.
“The Hon. Edward Thorn ton,in his letter to the
Secretary of State, May 15, 1868, states that his
attention is called to the fact that, ‘whilst large
quantities of American cool ore imported into
Canada duty free, the Nova Scotia coal is now
only admitted into the United Btates upon pay
ment of one and one-fonrth dollars per ton In
gold.’ In answer, we call your attention to the
tact that a large portion of the coal sent from the
United States to Canada la destined to points
almost inaccessible from Nova Scotia, and is an
thracite, an article which they Jo not possess In
the British Provinces, and which' their citizens
would continue to import in nndiminished quan
tity even if their government were to place a
duly upon it. The following statement will show
the comparative imports and exports of coal
from and to the British Provinces for the fiscal
year ending June 30,1867 : 338,492 tons imported
trom British Provinces; 139,406 tons exported to
British Provinces.
“We would farther call your attention to the
fact that the present duty of 81 25 per ton, while
it has brought into the United States treasury a
considerable revenue, has been no disadvantage
to the consumers of cool in the United States.
In November. 1854, the reciprocity treaty being
in full force, Nova Scotia coal sold in Boston at
813 per ton, and on March Ist, 1866 (the treaty
still being in force), it sold for 89 per ton, while
on March 20, the treaty having expired, tho same
coal brought only $8 per ton, duty paid; and the
price has continued to tail iD the same ratio as
coal from onr own mines, until it is now deliv
ered In Boston at 86 75 per ton; and should Con
gress reduce the dnty we predict with certainty
(from previous experience) that the consumers
in the United States will reap no advantage from
it, and that while the United States treasury will
be deprived of revenue from the dnty, the reduc
tion will go wholly to enhance tho profits of the
Nova Scotia mines and not to benefit onr own
consumers one iota. Further, the effect will be
to throw ont of employment a large amount of
capital and a number of laborers m the United
Btates, and certainly result disastrously to the
growing bituminous coal Interests of onr own
country.
“ The production and transportation of each
ton of coal in the United States represents one
day's labor of two men; therefore, If the import
ation ol foreign coal (521,30a,t0n5) could be en
tirely prevented, the production of the same
amount at home would give employment for one
day to 1,042,610 men (without taking machinery
into consideration), or steady employment du
ring the shipping season, 9 months, to 4,633
men, who, with their families; would consume a
large amount of provisions and clothing, thus
materially benefiting tho manufacturer of New
England and produce growers of the, west, and
at the same time It would be found that home
competition in production of coal will always
keep the price of! that article at a reasonable
rate. „ , ,
“We have made onf statement of facts as
short as practicable, and would most earnestly
pray that yon will give it careful consideration,
as in our opinion the argument is strong infavor
of continuing at least the dntv of 81 25 per ton.”
; IMPORTANT TO BREWERS.
In tho new tax bill, passed by the House, which
has gone to tho Senate, the definition of “distilled
spirits and alcohol,” is so arbitrary, that, if not
corrected, it will impose a tax of fifty cents on
every gallon of lager beer mash, or mash for ale.
The substance of the paragraph is that “any sub
stance containing alcohol, whether tho alcohol
is subsequently separated or not, if the substance
is used in the production of another article,”
is taxable at fifty cents per gallon. This lan
guage admits of no question, and if enacted into
a law it will shut np all breweries. It was in
tended to prevent fraud in vinegar manufacto
ries, but it goes too far entirely. Those Interested
in breweries should call the attention of the
Senate Finance Committee immediately to the
practical operation of this clause of the bilk
SOUTHERN DELEGATES TO THE NE>V YORK, CON
VENTION.
The hotels are filled with Southern Delegates
to the New York Convention, and their friends,
many of whom have not been North . since, the
war, for two reasons, one thatthe loyal sentiment
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1868.
of ihe Northwas not agreeable to them, and tbo
other on account of the impecunioslty of their
bank acconnls. -They travel together In groupß,
and the President's reception at the White House
to-day was honored with the presence of a large
number of these itinerants. Borne of them place
on the hotel registers the , rank they
held in tho Confederate service, each as
generals and Colonels, and they evidently feel
proud of airing their distinction in this way.
among the number is Jesse D. Bright, delegate
at large from the Kentucky Convention, who is.
favorable to the nomination' of Pendleton, or
“any other conservative man.” and Is opposed to
such conservatism as Chase is just no w disposed
to indulge in. Borne of these people express
great admiration at the improvements in Wash
ington,(Which have advanced wonderfully since
they were here some Bor 10 years ago,and freely
admit the unconquerable, enterprise and “go
aheadativeness” of the Yankees.
GKNEBAL GBANT’s WESTERN TOUR.
General Grant will leave to-morrow (Tuesday)
morning, at 8 o’clock, by the Baltlmoreand Ohio
Railroad, accompanied by his wife and three
children and General Dent, hi* brother-in-law.
They travel very privately, no reporters being
allowed, and indeed the General has declined
etatmg in advance the route he intends to take.
He is not certain whether he will take the Par
kersburg route down the* Ohio/or .go.-Jhrough
Wheeling to Pittsburgh.Ho will go direct toSt.
Louis, and”will spend a week or ten days at his
farm, about eight miles outside of St. Louis,
after which he will go to Leavenworth, thence to
Omaha, and probably Cheyenne, and then
home again. He has received numerous
offers of public receptions on his route, but has
uniformly declined all popular demonstrations.
On Saturday he received a telegram from Mr.
Patrick, Chairman of tho Republican Executive
, Committee of Bt. Louis, offering him a public re
ception oh his arrivnl there, which he declined.
To-day he sat for a ehort time in a room at the
Capitcl, to enable Mrs.' Ames, of Boston, to mo
del a marble bust of him, which she has jdst
commenced. This lady has executed a splendid
marble bust of Lincoln, which is now on exhibi
tion at the Rotunda of the Capitol, and is much
admired for its life-like accuracy.
PHI LAUEI.PIIIAN GONE SOUTH.
Ex-Senator C. M. Donovan, of your city, who
has been appointed a special customs egent for
Texas, left last night tor his destination. His
headquarters will be at Brownsville, but he will
extend his' operations to Galveston, Indlanola
and all points where it iB supposed violations of
the customs Jaws are perpetrated. Donovan is a
straight-out Democrat, and was appointed upon
ihe .recommendation of Senators Bauisbury,
Garrett Davis, and nearly all the Democratic
members of tho Honso from Pennsylvania. . His
commission is for 60 dayß, but the practice is to
renew the authority, tram time to time, and
sometimes these agents are retained for six
months or longer.
EXPERDIENTS IN CHEAP GAS.
On Saturday, Wm.. Elliott and Wm. R. Leeds,
of the Gas Trust of your city, accompanied by
James N. Kerns and Wm. H. Kemble, arrived
nere to examine a new invention for supplying
cheaper gas than that now furnished to your citi
zens. They Witnessed some experiments this
morning, which were regarded as satisfactory,
and left this afternoon for home.
Susquehanna,
WEALTH OF EX-EBKBID ENT
BUCHANAN.
Inventory and Valuation of Bis
Effects,
The following is a copy of the appraisement of
the properly of the late James Buchanan, as
filed in the-Rcgistcr’s office of Lancaster, Pa.:
Estimated value.
Books, plate and furniture. ..?. 82,080
Gold watch and chain 75
Horses and carriages 650
Forming utensils.
Cow -
Wines and liquors 800
30 second moitgage bonds Pennsylvania
Railroad 29,100
10 first mortgage bODds Pennsylvania RR. 10,200
6 Hamilton county, Ohio, bonds 5,400
8 bonds Little Miami Railroad 6.800
4 Pennsylvania State bonds 3,520
5 New York Central Railroad bonds 5,200
3 Delaware and Raritan Canal bonds 2,640
4 Camden and Amboy Railroad bonds 3,520
2 New York Canal certificates 20,000
130 shares Planters’ Bank, Tenn
2 certificates Schuylkill Navigation Com
pany 4,200
Loan to Schuylkill Navigation Company.. 5,000
10 Hudson River Railroad bonds 9,800
156 shares Lehigh Vfclley Railroad Com
pany 8,424
5 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad bonds 4,550
100 shares New York Central Railroad 12,800
80 shares Quicksilver Mining Company... 2,000
$6,000 Pennsylvania State loan 6,360
20' Pennsylvania Railroad 19,400
10 New Jersey State bonds 9,500
7 North Missouri Railroad honds... 4,550
10 Tennessee State bonds 7,000
$ll,OOO bond State of Virginia 6,050
1 bond State of Virginia 1,815
1 bond State of Virginia 330
1 certificate State of Virginia 33
1 cily of Lancaster bond 3,000
2 city of Lancaster bonds 2,000
1 New York city bond 4,500
1 bond and mortgage 6,000
1 bond and mortgage “,500
1 bond and mortgage 2,000
1 bond.apd mortgage 3,500
1 bond and mortgage 3,000
1 bond and mortgage 4,500
1 bond and mortgage 1,500
1 bond and mortgage >... 3,000
1 bond andjmortgage 600
1 judgment bona 1,000
1 judgment bond 4,480
1 judgment bond 1,100
1 judgment bond 3,000
1 judgment bond 300
1 bond 500
1 bond 3,000
1 bond 14,650
1 due bill 307
1 due bill —-
1 judgment 1.300
1 note 600
1 draft 500
Perpetual Insurance policy 142
Deposit with Barings, London 8,307
In Chemical Bank, New York 4,873
In Farmers’ Bank, Lancaster 2,021
1 draft , 228
Real estate 50,000
Total wealth of tho ex-Presidont $330,582
According to an act of Assembly five per ceDt.
of Mr. Buchanan’s estate goes to tho State as col
lateral inheritance tax. It is estimated that Mr.
Buchanan, during the last few years Of hla life,
gave away from $50,000 to $90,000 to his brother,
Rov.E. r. Buchanan, and his niece, Airs. Harriot
L. Johnson, a portion of that presented to Mrs.
Johnson being in Southern securities. A striking
feature in the inventory is the absence ot United
States securities.
A Letter from C. W. fielding*
The following letter from Mr. Bolding, the Lon
don banker, who lately committed suicide in tho
Ludlow street jail, was written a few days before
his death, to his brother, D. S. Beldlng, of Keene,
N. H.: . .. ,
No. 70, Ludlow street. Now York. —My Dear
Brother-. I learn from Mr., Churchill that you have
written him as to my affairs. lam truly glad,
that yon are in a position to ask—l would to
God I had been In a position to keep them in
trim, when I was In my right mind, or that thoy
had been so I could,, but they were not,
and then and there commenced a course
of dealing, which was ? owing to Mr.
Keith’s failures, and has ended in my ruin.
OUR WHOIiB COUNTRY.
Now the creditors'cry for blood, and I expect
nothing' but damnation. Mr. Keith’s friends,
who never did anything for him, are now loud
mouthed in bjs praise and my execration. God
alone knows wbat awaits me, but I see nothing
as the present crowning stone to all my efforts to
do ana effect good, but fora time perhaps oven
the felon’s cell. I am resigned, Because I have
done for (or at least aswelf as l know howl the
best : Ileit there last year because nearly dead,
and after raising funds, and, os I hoped, enough
to go on, I went back to find more had
been lost in one stroke than I had raised, but
there I was nailed, and Mr.' Keith jeame
here to raise funds, but sent me not a penny. I
went on in such a way that I was quite beside
myself, and literally unab’e to do anything; and
at last knowing as little what orhow.l was doing
as a child, I did as advised and 1 left. When!
come to myself, so I could, I wrote to my cred
itors' ah explanation of matters os well as I.
could, and said I was coming to Now York,
where I should do the same, and then all I asked
was atf opportunity to go to work and pay off
the debts. To this end, and to let them know I
was not running away myself, I telegraphed
irom Havana to our principal creditor in Boston
that I was coming, and he uses my information,
not to give me a chance to explain,but to come on
there and arrest me," which enabled others to fol
low; and here I am, and hove no Idea as to .when-
I can get ont, or how or what I may do. It is
not the slightest rise for you or any of my friends
to come here. The amount is so largo that only
, very heavy men can swing my bail. I hope I
may hove such a one, but may not have, in a
friend In Boston; but do net place much hope
upon it. If not, there is no hope, only to stay
for some time in limbo. For you, for uncle
and aunt, for all, I would to. God I had
been able to avert Buch sad, sad intelligence.
In trying to serve and savo others I
have lost, thus far, myself. What more is in
store for mo He alone knows. Act well your
part, my dear brother, and may you ffnow more
than compensate for my loss to father, mother,
uncle and onnt, to all you can, which I trust you
can do for all. Save my poor, poor wife and
children, whom I trust God in his mercy will not
allow to suffer, it will be of no use for you to
come here, but write, and with love to uncle and
aunt. Believe me, greatly deceived, but not in
tentionally deceiving or dishonest, your affec
tionate brother, G. W. Beeping.
Ulsgnitnde of tbe Osage Swindle.
The lands obtained irom the Osage Indians for
the benefit of the' Leavenworth, Lawrence and
Galveston Railroad Company,comprise eight rail-'
lions of ocres-of the best agricultural lands of the
State, running from east to west 250 miles, and
from north to south 60 miles. They include a ter
ritory nearly twice ss large as Massachusetts, and
almoßt as large as Massachusetts,Connecticut and
Delaware combined. If distributed under the
Homestead laws,they would furnish 50,000 home
steads of 160 acres each, and would therefore
sustain a population of 250,000 persons by agricul
ture alone. If sold under the Pre-emption laws
they would, beside the above result, bring into
the Treasury, at the regular ’price (91 25 por
acre) twelve millions of dollars. For this. Im
mense region of country Sturgis’s Galveston
Railroad Company agreed to pay only 91,000,000,
while another company offered 92,000,000. Of
this price they pay 8100,000 in cash and the bal
ance in annual instalments extending over
fifteen years. As the lands will sell far more
rapidly than these instalments come due, the
railroad company really pays 8100,000 for a
monopoly of landß worth 912,000,000. No pro
vision is made for protecting settlers,
for protecting the State of Kansas in tho
right, guaranteed to her by the act admitting
her into the Union, to every sixteenth and tblrty
sixlh section of the public lands ot the State for
the benefit of common schools.. The State of
Kansas thus loses from its school funds the value
ot 694 sections, or 445,160 acres of land. By
similar previons treaties the State had been
robbed of 76,160 acres of its school lands, so that,
should this nefarious and unconscionable swindle
pass tbe Senate, the Slate of Kansas would have
been despoiled of 521,320 acres of school lands,
which would, with ordinary manage
ment, have yielded $3 an acre, being
a total of 81,661,960. The bids
of rival companies offered to secure the school
lands to the State, protect half-breeds and actual
settlers, and pay 50 uer cent, more,but they were
rejected. Why? The State officers of Kansas
have denounced and protested against this sub
• lime land steal, and her representative, Sidney
Clarke, is making a gallant stand for the people
against the monopolists and corruptionists. But
as yet the Kansas Senators have been Bilent, and
we therefore fear that they have falltn into
the toils of this prodigious snare. If so, their
fate at the hands of the people of Kansas may be
predicted without the gift of prophecy. The
grant is rendered specially absurd from the fact
that the Railroad Company propose to build in
the State of Kansas only 150 miles of road, the
cost of which at 825,000 per mile (the actual cost
should not exceed 816,000 por.sinlLe) .would
amount to only 83,750,000, or about)!?third of the
value of tho Osago landß. Toward defraying this
cost they bavo already received from the
General Government 500,000 acres of lands,
lying on the line of the road, and worth
8750,000; from the Stato, 125,000 acres, worth 83
un acre, or 8375,000, and from the counties
through which it passes they receive bonds to
the value of 8900,000, making an aggregate of
aid amounting to $2,025,000, or about two-thirds
the cost of the road in Kansas. But shoued the
Osage grant add, in addition to their present
franchises, lands worth $12,000,000 more, they
will have achieved a net profit over the entire
cost of their road of $10,275,000, before lay
ing a single rail." Letters, petitions, protests,
and resolutions of indignation meet
ings, are pouring in upon us from the people of
Kansas denouncing this gigantic swindle. Every
consideration of humanity to tho Indians and to
the Eettlers, as well as of regard for the rights of
the State Government, especially in its educa
tional lands, and that prudent forecast which
would oppose the monopoly of our public lands
by great corporations, all combine to point ont
ihe clear duty of tbo Senate to defeat this mea
sureless wickedness. It is full of future oppres
sion and disaster to the people of a young and
heroic State ,V. Y. Tribune of to-day.
The strawberry season, which is just over, has
been one of the most productive ever known in
certain localities of that State. The shipments
from Hammonton alone, to New York and points
beyond, from June 9th to June 23d, inclusive,
were 250,321 quarts, and to Philadelphia 145,130
quarts; the total shipments for the season being
about 420,457 quarts. This is the largest season’s
shipment ever sent from Hammonton, and much
larger than any eversent from any other locality.
On the whole, the prices have been fair. Some
have loßt, undoubtedly, but it is estimated that
the profits of tho crop In Hammontoa alone will
reach $30,000.
In Monmouth county the crops look well. The
farmers think tho yield of wheat, corn, potatoes,
and olher staples, will bo unusually large. There
will be no apples and no cherries, and but few
peaches and pears. Tho blackberry crop pro
mises to be a good one. Last week was the neight
of the strawberry season in Monmontb, and great
quantities were shipped to Now York.
Tbe Crops In New Jersey*
“Kind Words,” Very*
The Petersburg Express addresses “Somo Plain
and Kind Words to the Negro Voters,” which
rather outdo In kindness anything wo have yet
seen. Wo quote some of the kind words:
“ Wo are opposed to your Laving the right to
vote, because we do not believe that you yet have
know ledge enough to exercise the right judi
ciously or understandlngly.None of your lace,
os yet, anywhere on the faco of the earth, ha 3 had
sense enough to establish a self-governing people.*
You have mways failed, when without tho guid
ing influence and control of the white race. Don’t
go to the elections. Stay away from tho polls, if
you wish to remain among us in your old haunts.
and homes.. Your only rights are to be treated as
human beings, bnt of an inferior order. If the
God of Nature intends your equality with the
white man, He exhibited (with reverence be it
said) very little wisdom in your structure of mind
or body, and has reserved the development of
that equality to be displayed in eternity. If yon
aspire to that equality on fho earth, be assayed It
isnot attainable by you.- If you madly attempt
to clutch it by force,you will bo swept, as stubble
by Are, from this region, which you will do best,
we kindly admonish yon, to enjoy in subordina
tion and peace.” > '
We don’t think there is very much danger of
the oldwblte politicians and slaveholders of the
South controlling tho negro vote, if this repre
sents their idea ot kind language.
Tbe JXailroaa In Kent County, Mary
land*
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Kent County Railroad, held at Chestertown, on
Tuesday last, the 23d instant, a resolution, laid
over at a previons meeting, authorizing the con
struction of the road from Massey's to Townsend,
was rejected by a vote of sto 6. A resolution
was then passed unanimously to appolnta com
mittee of threo to wait upon the Queen Anne’s
Connty Railroad Company, and conßnlt with
them on tho probable prospect of continuing tbe
road from Massey’s to Middletown. The com
mittee consist of Messrs. T. W. Eliason,
Abel J. Rees, and Thomas F. Shallcross.
A resolution was subsequently offered, and
adopted; by a vote of 10 to 1, that T. W. Eliason,
Wm. Janvier, Thos. F. Shallcross, and Samuel
W. Spencer, bo a committee to contract with
Messrs. Sears, Backus & Bandford, to construct
a Railroad from Middletown to Mossoy’s Cross
Roads, upon tho best terms that can be mode,
and also.to get the right of way through the land
along the proposed ronto of said road, this con
tract not to invalidate or in any way obstruct a
former contract from Masßey’s to Chestertown,
and to begin at Middletown and Chestertown,
and continue till finished, the portion of the
road below Chestertown not to bo commenced
till tho above contract is completed. Tho Board
adjourned to meet again on the 3d of July.—.
Middlttoun Transcript.
BKA.UATIC.
Tbo Mclo-Drunm at tbo Arcli*
Ie this pleasure season of the year, we can af
ford to rollick a little in our art, just os we In
dulge in physical recreation. Ristori has gone,
anti taken with her, in her person, moro great
people than are recorded in the passenger lists;
Mrs. Kemble has robbed ns of all but the text of
Shakspeare; Booth is playing the quiet gen tie
map at home; Jefferson has left nothing of Rip
Van Winkle but the memory; Craig has folded
Cbarles Oiokbns snugly away in his trank, and
all the singing-birds have gone to dip their beaks
in the fountain of pleasure, and to give watering
place landlords opportunity to lengthen their
bills. The weather is too warm for violont
emotion, or for cairn enjoyment of high art.
These are tho halcyon days'of negro minstrelsy
and of the sanguinary drama. Burnt cork and
blood are the two essentials of the *Btage in this
weather. The people will go to see brains beaten
out, or a tambourine beaten upon, or they will
listen to the rattle of bones in an end 'man’s lin
gers, or in a skeleton that ascends through a
trap, when they would affront ' Ristori with
empty benches. The melodramatic gentlemen
ana ladies now performing with such energy and
Intensity at tho Arch Street Theatre,felt that they
Would supply a want when they announced the
production of The Sons of Liberty ; or, the True
'Hearts of Old Ireland. It is a piece that must
not be seen by excitable people unless a fow days’
recreation in the country-can be procured imme
diately afterward. Histrionic Blimulahts of this
kind produce a certain intellectual delirium in
sensitive natnres, nnd rural lepose is the Valerian
which alono can compel calmness.
There are some people, however, who can on
joy this kind of play, because it recalls memories
of what the American stage once was. It is scJme
times pleasant to Watch with certain foreknowl
edge the development of the intricate but wholly
apparent plot, and recollect that this grotesquely
absurd exaggeration was at one time thought to
be art, and that very many people think so yet.
Perhaps they may be partially right, too. It is
not nature, and uit is cot art, what is it? It is
thought to be a good thing ta have art approach
to nature, but it may bo that it would bo hotter
for us all if nature could bo made to assimilate to
thiß thing, whatever it may be. Here tho fright-
Inl problems of life are solved with delicious fa
cility, and the blackest cloud is always rent by the
iadiant sunshine. In melodrama, no true lover
ever failed to find fruition, though his trials may
have been severo; no stony-hearted father
ever remained unrelenting .without
dying a deservedly timely death; no
Australian uncle in the green-room ever v neg
lected to walk in with an ombarrassing amount
of wealth, precisely when he was most wanted
Forged wills aro always detected, beotle-browed
villains with heavy treads arealwaysdiacomflted,
broKcn-hearted maidens do not fail to convalesce,
and the heroes, after all their trials, never neg
lect to clasp them to their aching bosoms amid a
blaze of red fire as the curtain comes down, and
we hope never will. Alas! nature docs not do
these things so well. If life were only a melo
drama, the virtuous might bo happy even with
love illuminated by a crimson side-light, and en
encouraged by cat-calls .in the world’s gallery.
Every man would want to be a hero then, and
languishing maidens, instead of abandoning
themselves to despair, could even jump headlong
from frightful precipices with sweot implicit con
lioence that their lovers, though supposed to be
thousands of miles away, would certainly catch
them in their manly arms.
To be sure, there would bo some objectionable
features in a melo-dramatle existence. It would
be unpleasant in real lifo to havo every lover and
every villain among the population stamp heav
ily and stride three feet at every step. Nor 1
would it be endurablo to have, such expressions
as “’8 death!” “By our Halldame!" or “Hist!”
in constant use, or to have human beings called
“Caitiffs,” “Ser-laves!” or “Tr-r-r-aitors!” or to
have men in their daily intercourse elaborate the
English language in this fashion: “Thou d-d-d
da-a-a-stard-ah vil-l-l-lain-ah! I will, ah, have,
ah, thy hear-r-r-r-rts bl-bl-blood, ah!" We
wonld rather all unhappy maidens died spinsters
than this, and that villainy should never come to
grief. Men cannot always be assisting distressed
females. Sometimes they have to marry thorn,and
litis kind of converse loses its thrilling intensity
when it is introduced into domestic and every
day life. - It would bo folly to gasp or roll our r s
when we desired to buy or sell dry-goods or
marketing.
But tho melodrama appeals forcibly to one
noble instinct at least—that of patriotism. When
ono of the “Sons of Liberty” dared to fling the
heroic deeds of tho immortal George Washington
into the vory teeth of the dastardly Briton, even
the galleries held their breath. Tho boot-black
in the front row checked his descending jaw and
left the peanut half munched until the sentihieht
was concluded. Then he removed it to whistle
bettor upon his unwholesome flngors. He did
not believe with us, that the supernumerary who
kept quiet In tho background acquitted himself
more naturally than the ranting, bellowing hero
by tho footlights; nor could ho perceive anything
but tho absolute sequence of effect to cause, when
the hireling British soldiory were defeated half
a dozen times by the unarmed peasantry, who
emote the oppressors down into a series of most
effective tableaux. If the mercenary hordes had
triumphed, ho would not have had a quarter dol
lar’s worth, and if there had not been a great
deal of patriotic sentiment, and oralluslon to
tho-wrongs of old Ireland, he would have gone
homo oppressed with a sense of injury.
But the most enthusiastic lover of molo-drama,
tho most scrupulous gallery god had no,reason to
be dissatisfied last night; .The Sons of Liberty
fulfils all the required, conditions, and we can
heartily recommend it to thoso more intelligent
people, who have never had a glimpse of the
Bowery, and of a meio-dramatic hero of the most
exalted type. -
F. I. FETH2KSTON: Mister.
PRICE THREE .GENTS.
FACTS AM> FANCIES.
—Lotto soys she won’t marry. But waft/
—The best seats of some of our theatres—tiro
re-eeipts.
—Rheumatic gout H tho knee is Napoleon's
trouble just now.
—Mr. Longfellow was the guest of Mr. Dickens
in London.
—Jay Cooke is making his way overland from.
Lake Superior to St. Paul.
—Fanny Ellsler is now fifty-seven years
and fat. f
—Tho new novel, “One Foot In the Grave,"
will be followed by one called “Six Feet in * .
Tomb.”
—By a recent marriage In Maine, a young wo
man of twenty Is givon a grandmother Of nine
teen. I
—Prince Napoleon lost a package of important
letters when In Vienna, and was considerably ■
frightened until he fonnd it at a police office. |
—Mr. Stanberyhas returned to tho shingle of -
Cincinnati, and practices law therein, where no K
manager can molest him or make him afraid. -m
■ —WilkieCollins’s story, “The Moonstone," is V*
nearly complete, and will be published in book ‘to
form in London early next month. m
—A young main advertises in a Boston paper '■
for a bookkeeper’s position, and adds thatne “is N
willing to black boots.” He’s-shoes to anything, I
if such a deplorable pun may be permitted. d
— l Th-re Is a rumor that the Pope will hold art - ■
mcumcnic council in December, 1869, and that fl
even Anglican bishops are to be summoned to>
attend. fl
—A speaking machine, imitating the human '
voice precisely, with tho exception of the sibi--
lants, 1b on exhibition in Pesth. A lady works it a
with keys. jl
—lt has been calculated that out of seventy- ■
nine new serial publications which have-appeared o ■
In London since the beginning of the present
year only seven are now In existence. - M
—Mr. Otto Goldschmidt’s oratorio Ruth will bo 'm
again produced in London during the ensuing re
autumn. It has been revised and in soma ]
measure rewritten by the composer. J
—Sherbrooke, Canada, claims to have a hem. 1
which manufactures needles and lays one with
every egg. Now all we wont is a hen to lay $,
spool cotton. i
—Napoleon is reported to have recently satdi.:-;-* j|
“I have nothing to fear from assassins asjong as . . I
the miision assigned tome by Providence is un- J
fulfilled,” which may ,bo true without meaning as Jl
much as ho could wish it might.
—A new opera, save the Gazette Jfusicale, Rwj v|
Bias, by Herr Zangtr. has been produced at
Mannheim; another, on the same authority,- . ■ ..-
Dalibor, by M. Smetana, at the Neusiadter Thea
tre, Prague.
—lt is said that a young heiress is working in- ..
cognita in one of the Meriden manufactories in
Connecticut, in order to escape from fortune
bunters, and bo wooed and won for herself alone.
Now there will be a rush to Connecticut.
—Northern Ohio editors went on an excursion
to Straitsville the other day and took their ban- .
quet in a coal mine, shut out from tho pleasant
light of day. They all made a joke about coal !
victuals when they got home.
—Two men had a duef. about a lady at Parma
the other day. It was to be “to the death,” and
so they began with pistols and continued with,
sabres, concluding when neither could-stand op
any longer; bn t there was nb killing, -
—Union papers in Canada afo rejoicing much ..
over the action of a Masonic Royal Arch Chapter
in New Brnnswick; which surrenders its old char
ter, obtained from' the mother country, and’
takes a new one from the Canadian Grand Chap-,
tor,
—Hero is a Eton eh paragraph: “The Empress , 1
has erased Irom her visiting list tho American,, 1 *
families B and A , who had been intro- ' ‘
dueed during the absence of the Duke do BasSnno.'
Her Mojesty, it is Bald, thought the yohn'g ladies • ,
too eccentric.” 1
—The Petit Journal vouches for tho fact that x, y
trnln from Paris to Yendomo was brought to a :
standstill a few days ago by an army of cater- 1 n
pillars. It is said that the crushed caterpillars "
made the railß/So slippery that the train could
not get on. Toe same thing is said to have hap-*
pened in Tennessee tho other day.
—A correspondent of the Scotsman calls atten
tion to an uct of vandalism. He says that tho
shaft of a cross, which for centuries marked tho.
point whence Robert Bruce and his followers loft 1
Arran, has lately been removed and used in the
construction, in the neighborhood, of a dry stono
dyke. . J
—A Southern poot, tho Rev. Father Ryan, gets' %
this off: |
Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, - .„‘g
Flashed tho sword of Lee! J
Far in the front of tho deadly fight. ... fM
High o'er the brave, in the cause of Right, ‘•viß
Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light, J
Led us to victory.
, It is all right, perhaps, except the victory. We
really must object to that sentiment. a
—The last adaptation lrom tho French by Mr.
T. W. Robertson is sevoroly criticised by the J
London papers. Tho piece, which Is called Ln
"Change,” is said to contain all the grossness of "M
the comedy of Molicre and Beaumarchais, with- y
out the least literary characteristics of the con- ,
temporary French school, nnd even without con- I
taining any quality to justify the assertion that
anything beyond the narration of the plot was ...-*
intended. , I
—The under-librarian of the Toulouse Semi- . <
nary, M. Lambert, has just discovered at Lalande, i V;
France, a Gallo-Roman cemetery. It is situated
on the right bank Of tho Garonne, about one hun
dred and fifty yards from the river, and the .
ground is cultivated as a market garden. Twenty ;,.
tombs have been found, all formed in bricks, .u ; J
bearing a monogram. In each was a body,which 'J
fell into dust on exposure to tho air. There are Jl
others in tho neighborhood, which will be care- om
fully examined when the vault has been
opened.-
—Richard Grant White, connected at one time
with the Courier nnd Enquirer, an occasional
contributor to the Galaxy; Chas. F. Briggs, of the
staff of Putnam's Monthly, Richard H. Stoddard,
whose poems and reviews appear at times in tho'-'' j|
papers; Coffin (Barry Gray), whose productions M
were generally published in the Home Journal, yjfl
and Herman Melville, the author of “l’ypeo," J
• Omoo,” "Pierre,” and the "Confidence Man,”'
have each a desk in the Custom-House, in Now-* ®
York. , . A
J —An English paper makes the following.caibgflH
did admission: -When the Parisians are slclfot
a theatrical entertainment, a mode of dress, or a- ,
popular dance, we import it and disport our- : ’
selves in it with all the simplicity and satisfaction
of a lady's maid who has succeeded to the cast-off
wardrobe of her mistress. We have just mado. V:j
the discovory of that famous dance which was
invented by the young legitimist malcontent
dandies in 1832, by way of a satire, on'the now . ■
regime of liberty, and as a distraction from tho V.-h
horrors of the cholera. The superior morality J
of the British public consists in acclimatizing at J
our respectable theatres the modest graces of the'- -fl
cun-cun six and twenty years after its first ap- . 1
pearanco one summer night in a public garden 1
at Paris.” V ■ L - <1
—By tho close ofthisyoar London expects to. ’1
have a second tunnel beneath the Thames open >
for passenger trafliif Mr. Peter Barlow, .Jr.,
has. drawn a plan for a new cutting near, the
Tower; a bill has been carried through Parlia
ment; and a contract has been all but completed -
for executing this important work. Tho- plau Is - --
to sink a vertical shaft on each side- of the river |
to a depth of fifty feet,furnished with a hydraulic M
lift to raise and lower a carriage and ten passon- 9
gere; to drive a tunnel in tho clay under the
river, not exceeding eight feet in diameter, be
tween these shafts, and to line it as driven,
with Staffordshire blue bricks, and partly
east-iron.by.whlch meahs.lt can bo
tight, and all danger lrom