GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXH.-NO. 73.
S HE ; EVENING BULLETIN
PUBLISHED EVERT KVCSEKJ '
(Buhdsya excepted),
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f wn* per week* payable to the carrier!, or &Bpgraaagni«
A ME 810 aN
Life Insurance Company,
Of Philadelphia*
S. E. Oomei Fourth, and Walnut Sts»
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tfSmit Institution has no superior in the United
& aM ‘ mriP-tn
INVITATIONS FOB WEDDINGS, PAltliES,
MMg
MABUIEV. .
BTANDBUIDGE—WILDER.-—On Hie-84 lnelttnt. br
4hc Rev .7 K. Murphy. Geo. O. Btandbridge to 8. Evelyn,
daughter of 1 hoe. D. Wilder. Mo Cards.
HIED.
BAKER —On iho morning .of the Sd Inrtent, General
<T.sf Ci Biker. In the 41(u of his Kfie, •
His funeral will take place on Monday afternoon* at
four o'clock, from the residence of his brother-in law, Jno.
I- M W^it?r<»Mj‘d > rerpectfally Invlted^to
3 Adam McCoy, Kin of
to attend the funeral, from tha residenwinf bw
No ™ Booth’rScmteth rtrect, (thtt) Frid»y. 34
ISitiiu at SXo'itoc* I>. M. To proceed tOMacphclah
C Germantown, on- tho 2d instant, 9 illi e
StoKw «S£?l£SStoM*of J, w. LowU,E«t,W»h-
tk w!f«of
141-ni-l "IVt«reoo, and daughter of tho Into Dr. N. Bho©-
frlciid. -of ibe flimily are Incited to V*m n ir,!h
c W!» j£l;K P L the 41, t
y The-Uu’JvS etA friend, of tho family.l&bo TOladcl-
the liiheraL irom hl«Ute residence. No. 3803
i'of-idate street. AVtat Philadelphia, this (eriday) after-
E V«. at 4 o’clock, without lorUier notice. To
Woodland Cemetery. - .. -
(IOI.LATK Ac CO.’S
.Aromatic VeKctaftle
in, (;|)(%riiie, In rccomMcnrtcq
•I ndies find lnfanu*
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' 'SPECIAL SOTICES.
@2r Philadelphia end Reading Railroad*
Fourth July Excursion Tickpt^
•Will ho told at SEDUCED BATES Stations
on .ui* Beadineßailroad and brancnta. goon from y
Wrtdnx, July 3, lo Saturday, July 11, 1868.
jr?7.TtrpS • •’
OFFICE PENNSVLVAIOA KAiXiROAD COM
• Pim.HMT.TinI.MMr 13th.twa.
Rrj.° -SSf:hf*tTMfllnnfl Stock at Par.tn proportion to.toeir
mS»3tai>totoSto STttw ; Md regisfcod on toe book.
S3SS i £&£&£& wra ber entitle* to[»£
** sLteerStiMU to toa new Block wTO bo recelvcdra co*-
ofter iSrlOto. MB. f th ,nlf °*
Sha^toall
“(SL^toctone of caption.
° a 2 S. Uto day of
Per Cant, on or before too ISto day ol
StS n ««& t ol«i3S^Se2 h if
cured on full toare*. .THOMAS T. FIRTH,
myH-t)y3Wrp 1 Troaaur^.—
trOS- PHILADELPHIA. JTJLYIet, 1863. ■ . .
Bv order of the Court of Common Pleaa, a itock
-Vote of tho Mercantile Librar; Company wIU be taken on
Charter, or with the Constitution and ,iawß of this State
< "Th o U Ku. o l t ta opened in the Library.on MOKDAY,
.July 6th, and closed on SATUftD* \YJuly
Bftr voting will be on Monday. 'S£ dn ? ada wtH^J l ifi I ?SS
imch elKrb of stock being entiUcd to one .vote, which
murt be presented In pet**- JOHS lardner,,
Jj2 Btrp Beoordlng Secretary.
aser
PmmvnELraiA. July 3d, lßffl.
A Soecial Meeting of the stockholder* of the.Moßhan-
Coal Company, will be held at the office of the Com
pany, on
MOND4.Y, July6th, 1868, at U o’clock A. M-,
■for the puroore of cowidering and acting “P™ » resolaHon
nuthoririnstlio Board of Directors to grantthe riKhtof
•way through the Companv'B landa, to construct railroads
ilor further development of the property.
; By order'4/the Board of kgetog
lt > ... i Secretary.
ggy. NATATORIUM AND PHYSICAL INSTITUTE
. BROAD SrKEET. BELOW WALNUT.
SWIMMING DEPARTMENT.
-SPEC T AL PROGRAMME FOR THE FOURTH OF
. 1 JULY;
' The Bath will open at 6 o’clock in the morning.
Uo Lessons given on that day. , ,
. 0 he hours for Ladies will be suspended.
Gents and Juniors will have admission all day. :•-
The Institution ytfU dose at nine o’clock In the eve*
.giing. : > • jyl-Strp§
mgy. PTTTT, ATTPT.PHI A AND HBAPmB»R£ILROAD
OFFICE MO, SOUTH FOURTH
STREET. PnnjjiELPniA. May 27.1888.
NOTICE to the holders of bonds of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company, due April 1, iSK U-r y ■
The Company offer to exchange any of these bonds of
@l7OOO each at any time before the Ist day of October next,
T^e^imilßnot < BurTOTdered onor,before the Ist ifiOoto.
S>er next'will bejpaid at iMtartjvtoacoortmicetwlth
llhelr tenor. my2»toctl a. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
Jms> T"”. DAIRY UNION,PRATER MEETING,
do auspices of the Younjr Men’s'Christian
Assodatf \ win beheld on Saturday:theJ.ourlh of July,
5n the Chapel of the Arch street Methodist Church, B-kj.
•comer of Broad and Arch streets* at 11 o clock A. M.
;°2aSS^and Tolmadgo,
Sl The public are invited. . - . 3y22trpS
«fiSp. HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOS. .1818 AND 1830
SEsrsss- affiSSi'iS&s
poor. j . - .v
i PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
"No. 16 South Ninth street. Club-foot, hip and BPi
nal fltummfin ftxiri tyifUiy deferral tisi treated*. Apply dauj
At 12o’clock. , api&amrpg
notin ' 0 No. 08 Jayne street.
p ailu (tarag lalktiu
SPECIAL NOTICES.
&TRY. GREY
BEHERVEB. .
In accordance with Regimental Orders, tho corps will
assemble for porado at the Armoryv Brood ana Race
ttron#, on the morning of the FOUETHOF JUiA, at 7
o'clock, sharp* Full dress, white stores.
By order jA&C KEYBE
i Captain.
C. H.Dvnsnro. ■
First Sergeant. :
Company dnll this evening at 8 o’clock.
mb* BEADQCARTEBS FIRST , REGIMENT; -IN-
FANTKY R.B.
Paiumnoi. Jane 28 tb, 1868.
; -r,.» QENERALORDBItgrHft A - -
In accordance with orders of this Bate from Division
B* , , Ist Lieutenant iuad Acting Adjutant.
«6t v S;!a offxce ’ FmLADELpm^ P FT B gTO
Saturday, jifar4tb, this office’ wfil open at T. 30 A. M«
and close at to.® A. k. - Momln* deiivery and night col.
Ucdon. wUI be Postmaster,
*BT
The Troop will ossemhlo at tho armory on tJ A rUK*
BAYAjuly 4th, A* M, seven o'clock (sharp). In fall dress,
mounted order (mounted) for parade. mt
By order of ileut. M. •
It*'. :-k \ £■: ••-r ; ActingOrdqriiyjEtorgakPt. ;
OFfTCr OF THE MOUNT CARBON RAILROAD
COMPAN Y. PurLißiLrma. July 2d, 1863.
Tho Board of Managers have ibis day declared a Dm
rer oent -.- n .?r?. lcar
jjS-gt* - ' - 'Treasurer.
near- HEBT NATIONAL BANK.
*® Puii.adei.puia, July 3,1853.
The Boa-d of Directors have this day declared a Divi
dend of Six Per Cmt., dear of all taxea-payable on de-
MORTON tIcMICUAEL. Jn.. Cashle*. ■
Pjy. GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB.
M< mbcm of the Clab are Invited to take part in a Club
Match, to be played on the grounds, July 4tb. Gome to
By Order of the Directors.
ALEXANDER PRESBYTERLAN CHURCH,
corner Nineteenth and. Green streets.— Key. T. 6L
<;uzmlDgbaiiL D. D., Pastor. Public worship every Sah
both at lo o'clock A* )L and 8 o'clock.-,F. M. Sunday
School at 9 o’clock A. M.-~ j i; .' <
tfSf* CLINTCN STREET CHURCH, TENTH BELOW
I® Spruce, Rev Dr. March, will be open for divine
service during the month of July, on Sunday mornings at
)»?$ o'clock All persons invited. jL
SCMMEB SONG IN THE CITY.
This le ’ho time of fresh winds blowing,
And cncboo-calis and heather bells;
This is the time when streams ore flowing
lJown the green mist of dreamy delis:
Poesy, O Poesy,
Stay in London ianes with me!
Ire the deep valLy spjcing-winda hover, --
Shaking the dew trom their wild hair;
Bevond the cool shade of the lover,
'the mower sweats With sleepy Blare:
Color and sweet melody •,, ; -
Pill ihe forest greenery. ; -
The mavis sings, “Yonng lover, lover, .
3e quick, be quick.—kiss sweet, kiss sweet!
The ytoime love breathes ha sweet as clover; «
The’cld lore hangs like. ripened ,wheat,—
1 f Misery,\o-Mlsery !.-' “ - Ui
Dost thoa listen ? canst thou Eee :
The Eecht of summer, floateth hither,
Into the dull streets: whitHaidgS blaze;'»
Ihe white clouds part, and eyes look thither
From thirsty lanes and weary ways:
Charity, O Charity!
• c Scatter thy, bright seed fearlessly. :-;v :
Nor shady bonghs nor summer gold
Pleasure the souls who lie so deep; „
Only the beggar is less cold, : ’-i f <
, And feels a calmer,thirst lor sleep: y
Poesy, O Poesy!
Whisper sweet to such as he! v_.
When with the grain all England quivers.
When nuts grow milky, wbeatrears burst;
When clearly sparkle all the rivers,
Ah, to be hungry and athirst!
. Water and bread, O Charity,
4 Bring to poof humanity!
Dark is the poor one’s health and lonely.
He would not learn, he won.d not know;
He craves the blessed wneat-ear only.
Not the sweet light that makes it grow.
Fruit ol the forbidden tree
Were but sour to misery.
Now all the days are rich with beauty
And other angels roam elsewhere;
O Poesy! here lies thy duty,
In darker days and fouler air.—
Poesy, O Poesy!
Fold tby wings and do not dee!
While all the plains are heavy laden,
And heavier grows the ripening ear,
Pause in thy place, .0 heavenly maiden!
Gather thy harvest with no fear;
Let other angels wander free,
Bay thou Amen to Charity!
Robert Buchanan.
Surgical separation of tbe Siamese
. twins, Cbong and. Ent;.
The scientific world, and especially that por
tion of It who have maddfthe study of medicine
and surgery their profession, cannot fail to be in
tensely Interested inthe fact/which has recently
come to our knowledge, of the determination of
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, to submit to
a surgical operatXbn for the purpose of dissever
ing the wonderfuHink that has so long bound
them together. Some forty years ago these
twins were introduced to the civilized
world, having ' been brought to' England
from Siam In the year 1827 or 1828 by Captain
Bunker, at present living in New York, and for a
series of years they were exhibited to the public
at all the ’great centres of civilization." Having
visited America, they determined to make this
land their home,, : They bought a valuable tract
of land in- 1 Ndrth Carolina; married two sisters,
and settled down in the ordinary dally routine of
a farmer’s dally life. ■ Each of them :1s ,now the
father of nine children. The reason for their do
termlnation. at this late day, to call in the art of
surgery to ’ produce an entire physical separa
tion, is, that having reached such an advanced
age .(59 years) they are fearful that -one may
become the subject of disease, which
fatal to both. The interesting question j arises,
What are the probabilities of,a successful opera
tion being performed ? It-will be remembered
in pursuing-these inquiries that the twins are
held together by quite a massive link; of thorough
ly normal and perfectly vitalized' integument,
some 10 or 12 inches in circumference,! situated
near the vital organs, and in "close proximity to
the heart and lungs; and the connection
Is so Intimate that each seems to be
thoroughly ah organized portion of the other, as
much so as any of the ordinary members of a
naturally constituted human body. Sensation,
norvons impression, mental phenomina, morbid,
physical,-and neryo-menttil conditions, all show
a must perfect psychical unity in this wonderful
dual physical existence. The question In .regard
to the result of an operation is no new one, but
soon after their first appearance in Lon
don and Faria it excited the minds of the fore
most Intellects in the surgical world. If we
remember rightly the “Twins” were exhibited
before the Academy of Physicians and .Surgeons
In Pans at that time for the purpose of ascertain
ing their opinion jn regard to the probabilities of
a successful operation. The .disagreement in re
gard thereto, we believe, led.to; the abandonment
of the project. Has the science of sufgery 60 rap
idly advanced that to-day successful results can
bo promised when there was so. much dbubt'a
score or ■ two of. years - ago ? Wo under
stand they contemplate visiting Paris for the pur-
Jpoße of having the operation • performed.—AT. T.
Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1868.
TBE SOUTH STREET BRIDGE.
INJUNCTION REFUSED
Decision of the Supreme Uourt#
The following Is the opinion delivered in tho
Supreme Conrt by Justice Bead, In the case of
the City vs. Field and others, Involving tho con-
structlon of the Bouth Street Bridge:
The'wholo law making' power of the Stdto is
committed to the Legislature with certain re
strictions andilmitatlons Imposed on that body
by the Constitution. Independent of these limi
tations the legislative power is supreme within
power the Legislature
have dog canals, built bridges and railroads, and
paid for'them by. money ratsed by loans and tax
ation. This power is Indisputable, and upon its
constitutionality depends our large debt.
The Legislature could undoubtedly build , tins
bridge,', over .a navigable river; at South, street,
and pay for It by moneys proceeding, trom loans
or taxes, and in doing ft they might employ com
missioners to erect it..; This most be.conceded,
and it is bnt one step further, to impose the
cost of erection on the city and county: through
which the river passes and empties itself into the
Delaware, and across which the bridge is thrown,
connecting the east and west banks or Ore Schuyl
kilL'upoh which Philadelphia is built. ' .
It becomes In facia bridge .of necessity, con
necting two growing.portions of the city, and
forming a part of a continuous highway from the
Delaware to the remotest parts of West Philadel
phia. The city has an area of 130 square miles,
and eight hundred thousand souls, and the ques
tion is, cannot the State place the cost of this
great public Improvement upon a locality and a
population directly’ behefltted by it? This does
hot appear to admit of argument, for the mere
statement of It Is sufficient. •
But we are not wanting in direct authority
upon this, point In Thomas vs. Leland, 24
Wendell 65, It was held that an act of the Legis
lature imposing a tax upon a local district of the
State, In reference to a public Improvement, such
as a canal, is valid and constitutional, notwith
standing that previous to the passage of such
act, a number of individuals of such district had
entered into a bond to the State, by which they
bound tbtmeelvcs to pay the whole expense of
the Improvement. In answer to some objections,
Mr. Justice, Cowen says: “But the argument
proves quite too much. It would go to' cut off
entirely many .acknowledged powers of taxation;
such its that which raises money to relieve the
poor, or establish and- keep on foot common
schools, to build bridges, or work the highway.
It confounds two distinct legislative powers: a
simple power of taxation with the power of
taking private property for pnblic use. The for
mer acts upon communities,and may be exerted in
favor of any object which the Legislature shall
deem for; the pnbllc benefit A tax to build a
lunatic asylum may be mentioned as one instance.
If tho power to Impose such a tax were to be
, rested on the ground of individual pecuniary
benefits t« each one who should he called on to
contribute, it is quite obvious that it would not
bo maintained for a moment. Yet who, would
donbt that such might be Imposed on a local
. community, a connty or even a town? I admit
that this power of taxation may bo abused; bnt
its exercise cannot be judicially restrained bo
long as it is referrable to the taxing power.”
The same doctrine is laid down in Norwich vs
Connty Commissioners of Hampshire, 13 Picker
ing CO.aud HMgham & Quincy Bridge aud -Tum
pike Corporation ve; county of Norfolk, 6 Allen
353. “It has been the practice," soys C. Jt Shaw,
•‘from the earliest times to charge the cost of
certain large expenWtjh'bridges; in whole or in
part, upon counties;'and it Is impossible to deny
the equity of these provisions.” “One of the.main
purposes,”, says C.. J. Bigelow, "of this general
grant of power was to rest in the Legislature a
superintending and controlling authority, under
apa by virtue of which they might enact all laws,
not repugnant to the Constitution, of a police
and municipal nature, and necessary fo the dne
regulation of the Internal affairs of the Common
wenlth. It is obvious that the exercise of such
a power is absolutely indispensable in a wisely
governed and well ordered community; and
among the purposes for which it is to be exerted,
none is more essential than a wise and careful
distribution of certain public burdens or duties;
of these a leading one Is the construction,support
and maintenance of roads and bridges." Mr.
Sedgwick, in his treatise on statutory and con
stitutional law, sdys; p. 551 “As a general rule the
taxing power has been treated by the judiciary as
vested fit the absolute discretion of the Legisla
tive bodies. This doctrine has been repeatedly
declared both by the Btate and Federal tribunals.
So the Supreme Court of the United States have
said that there is no limitation whatever upon
the legislative power of the States, as to the
amounts or objects of taxation.” .
The act before us imposes the cost of erecting
this bridge upon (he county of Philadelphia, and
the money is to be raised by a loan created by the
Commissioners, and to do deposited with the
Treasurer of the City of Philadelphia, to be
cheeked ont by the officers of the Commission,
and expended on the construction of the bridge.
By the fourth section the Councils are to provide
lor the: principal and interest of this debt, which
tbns will become a port of the city debt In
King <& Ross vs. The city of Brooklyn, 42 Bar
ton's 627, we find a similar statute in New York
for widening Fonrth avenue, in Brooklyn, by a
Board of Commissioners, the difference being that
the city, and not the Commissioners, were to
issue the bonds.
The object of this act is to build a free bridge
over the Schuylkill at the cost of the connty. Ail
the-present bridges over that river, from the
Girard avenue bridge to its month, are free, and
they have been mode so wholly or partially at the
cost of the connty. :
There were four principal ferries over the river
Schuylkill, one at High or Market street, vested
by the colonial act of 1723 in the then corpora
tion of the city. The Upper or Roach’s ferry, as
it was then called, at Fairinount' The Lower,
then Blnnston’s, ferry, since Gray’s forry, and
Penrose’s ferry, near the mouth of the river. The
first three named ferries were succeeded by float
ing bridges, which opened to admit vessels. The
bridge at High street was superseded bv the Per
manent bridge, erected under ah act of the 16th
of March, 1798, and opened for passengers and
transportation,on the. Ist day of January, 1805,
and cost $300,000. The first bridge of a perma
nent character, near where the floating bridge of
Abraham Sheridan was, known by the name of
the Upper ferry, was erected, under an act of
the 28tn of March,. 1811,. and cost $126,000. • This
bridge, which had only a slnglo arch of wood of
240 teet span, was burned down, and the present
wire bridge built at the expense of the connty by
Charles Ellet, civil engineer, for $50,000, the
abutments of: the former bridge having been pur
chased by the . district of Spring Garden for
$15,000. - ; :
tinder two acts of Assembly of the 24th of Feb
ruary and 7th' of March;TB37, the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company
•purchased the Gray’s Ferry floating bridge and
estate, and erected the present bridge for railroad
and other, traveling and transportation, with a
draw in it. By an act to authorize the erection
of free bridges over the river Schuylkill at or near
Philadelphia, passed thel6th of March, 1839,
the Wire bridge at Fairinount was erected by
the County Commissioners, with the consent of
the Connty Board,one third of the expenses being
provided by volantary subscription, -and the
Permanent bridge at Market street was freed
by the County Commissioners. paying the com
pany $BO,OOO, ‘ one-thirdof which? .was' provided'
by private subscriptions. The .bridgo and site
were conveyed to the city. . This: purchase [ren
dered the provision for a free bridge at Mulberry
or Arch street nngatoty. By the last section
tho County Commissioners, with the consent of
the County Board; wero authorized to, and did,
OUR WHOIiE COUNTRY.
contract with the railroad company • for a free.
passage forever of. the Gray’s FeriryHrwgo-lor.
855,000, hy an agreement dated thfflDm Hortepjr.
her, 1847, the company to maintain the structure
injzood ordor. ■ . ■ ' .
file bridge at Market street was rebuilt by the
city to sndt .the uses of the City Railroad. „ .
Under the act or 27th March, 1852, to authorize
the erection of free bridges over the river Schuyl
kill, the Glrord Avenue Bridge was buflt by the
County, Commissioners, and purchased by the
dty at a cost of $93,560. - ’ .
Under the same act and the Bth eection of the
act of 21st April, 1855, and the 3d section of the
act of 16 th May, 185 7, the Chestnut Btreet Bridge
was erected by tho clty.at.acost of $500,477 #9,of
which Bum the Philadelphia City Passenger BMl
way Company provided’sloo,ooo in their bonds.
It was commenced on the 19th September, 1861,
and completed July 4th, 1866. There will bo
fonnd an Interesting discussion in relation to this
bridge in The Board of Wardens vs. The City of
Philadelphia, 6 Wright, 209. • . '
The Hope Perry, near the month of the Schuyl
kill. was superseded by the Penrose Ferry Bridge,
erected by the Penrose Ferry Bridge _ Company,
under act of April 9,1853; and 13th April, 1854,
as a toll bridge, and was purchased by the city
under the ordinance of December 7, 1862, for the
sum of $30,000, and was made a free bridge.
Since that period it has cost the city In repairs
slp,ooo, and in an entire rebuilding,, @66,261 11.
'' file Peters’ Island Bridge was built by the State
for the Columbia Railroad, and was . purchased
and is owned by the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company, and one sido of it Is used as
a toll bridge tor passengers and carriages and
other vehicles. . ,
The Bchnylkill Falls Bridge was built by a
company as a toll-bridge, ana was purchased by
the city and made a free bridge, under the acts of
sth of April, 1855, and 15th of March, 1859, and
the ordinance of March sth, 1860. The amount
paidtwas @15,000, and it was afterwards rebuilt by
the city at a eosf of @17,500, in 1861.
All tbo bridges, therefore, from the Falls to the
mouth of the Schuylkill, are free, excepting the
Peter’s Island and the railroad bridges of the Con
necting Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad, and
' have been mode so at a very heavy expense to the
county of Philadelphia, whether called by that
name, or its present name of the city of Philadel
phia. .
By an act to authorize the erection of a.free
bridge over the river Schuylkill at South street, in
the citv of Philadelphia,passed May 16th,1861, the
Councils of the city were authorized and required
to erect a good and substantial bridge over the
river Bchuylkill, at or opposite to South street, at
a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, provided for by a loan to he raised
as therein directed, sajd bridge to be free, and to
be kept in. repair, lighted, watched, altered, re
modeled or renewd, if necessary, at the proper
costs and charges of the city of Philadelphia.
The city having taken no action nhder.this law,
a supplement to it was passed the sth of April,
1866, appointing commissioners to build' the
bridge, with authority to’ create a loan not ex
ceeding six hundred thousand dollars, payable by
the city of Philadelphia. After fnrfher opposi
tion by Councils, ihe Legislature, on the 6th of
April, 1867, passed a further supplement making
it the duty of the Chief Engineer and Surveyor of
the city to direct the building of the bridge under
the supervision and control of the commissioners.
Tho bridge was to have a sufficient and conve
nient draw for masted vessels, and to defray this
additional expense, the commissionersare autho
rized to create an additional loan of two hundred
thousand dollars—these loans to be at six per
cent.','aid payablo by the city in forty.years, and
the proceeds paid to the City Treasurer- - The
Councils are to provido for the payment of the
interest, and a sinking fond to. extinguish tho
principal in forty years. The Mayor, the Presi
dents of Councils, and other gentlemen, are cre
ated additional commissioners.
The Councils contest the constitutionality of
these acts, and,under a resolution of those bodies,
the City Solicitor has filed this bill to test that
qu< stion, and has made a very learned and elabo
rate argument, to show that these laws are viola
tions of the Constitution, and that this Conrt is
bound to enjoin the erection of the bridge as di
rected by those acts.
“It will not be denied," said .Judge Woodward,
“that the Legislature may rale over the Schuylkill
by whatever agency is most satisfactory. Nor
can it be doubted that q subsequently appointed
special agent supersedes and displaces aprevi
onely appointed general agent, and this without
cxprCSß words, declaratory of the intention to
substitute. Counsel invoke those principles of
strict construction which apply to grants to pri
vate corporations, os if the city of Philadelphia
were a bridge company claiming a valuable fran
chise in derogation of the pnblie rights; but It
mnst be manifest that this is not a] case for tho
application of those principles. The city is not
a private but a municipal corporation, and is to
derive no profits whatever from the bridge, for it
is to be a free and not a toll-bridge. The city,
liko the county, commissioners are a selected
agency for carrying ont the purpose of the Legis
lature to bridge the Schuylkill lor the benefit of
all the people of the Common wealth.’’ (6 Wright’s,
212.)
This is strictly applicable to the present case:
the city declined the agency, and a special agent
is appointed to do what she has refused to per
form. The Legislature, in the legitimate exer
cise of her power, has imposed the cest of bridg
ing the river, as she has done before, on the
county—the- present city. “The only interest
involved is the pnblie interest, and no othor is
concerned in their (municipal corporations) crea
tion, contimiance, alteration or renewal. The
nature and operation of these corporations repu
diate the idea of vested rights." “We know.of no
vested rights of political power in any citizen or
body of citizens, except those conferred by the
Constitution,” (13 Wendell, 337.) The corpora
tion of the city can be changed, altered or re
pealed by the Legislature, and it would be a sin
gular anomaly if that body coold not, by its own
officers, erect a bridge over a navigable river,
which is certainly not a duty of a city, unless re
quired by the sovereign power of the State, ‘.and
put rite cost on the city.
Our opinion, therefore, is, that those aeffiare
constitutional and must be obeyed.
' The decree is affirmed, and appeal dismissed,at
the cost of the appellants.
Quarter Sessions— Judge Ludlow,—This
morning a hearing, on habeas corpus was heard in
the case of Thomas and Joseph Graveland and
Thomas Holland, charged with being concerned
in the death of Michael Gallen. After hearing
the testimony which involved the accused in the
disturbance in which Gallen lost his life, the
Conrt refused to admit to bail.
A hearing on habeas corpus was had in the case
of Leopold Ratanzl, charged with cruelty to ani-
Inals, in exhibiting a headless chicken. The
. Court refused to discharge the accused.
Daniel G. Hollor, convicted of an indecent as
sault, was sentenced to pay a fine of @lO, and to
undergo sixty days’ imprisonment.
James EUmger, convicted of assault and bat
tery upon Conductor Stiles, was sentenced to
three months in the Country Prison.
■. A Postal Quarrel.
[From the Harrieburg State Guard, of the 2tD
We noticed a few days since In the Guard the
fact that the Cumberland Valley Railroad Com
pany would refuse to carry the molls after June
30th. In accordance with the determination so
to refuse, all mail matter.was yesterday declined
: by that corporation, and consequently until there
is some understanding in the premises with the
government, and a new contract made, the peo
ple of the Valley,of portions of Maryland and of
the Shenandoah Valley, • ' and . other
parts of Virginia, must go without
--tlffilr~'4etters and papers. Yesterday Post
master acting . under Instructions
ffrom Washington; offered theonall bags- to the
r employes ofthe company. but they-were refused
; ana taken back'to the Post-office. The dlffl
• cnlty, it Is' alleged, is that the Government do
; cllnes to pay the company within twenty-five per
cent, of tiie amonnt heretofore allowed, and the
company on the other hand refuses to take less
than has been! heretofore paid. The result of the
dlspiitclslbiu the people are the sufferers. Dif
ferent. plans were tried yesterday to send the
mail from joints on the lino of the road, but the
only succeesfnl ones wero where an Individual
carried It In his valise or where it was sent by
express. The same trouble, we learn, existed
yesterday on the Reading Railroad. SBEO
AS INDIAN TBAREDV.
Ena of a. Famsni Chippewa Warrior
cmef-Hoie-ln-ibcday. AMUilnawd
by Pillager Indian*—History, Ur
pfolta and Character of the Murdered
thief.
[From the 8t Pinl Pron of Juno 8M
We received yesterday, a telegram from St
Cloud announcing the tact that Hole-ln-the-Day,
the famous head chief of the Ulsslsslppl Chippe
wad; as he assumed to be,' and their bravest war
rior, had been assassinated by three of the Pilla
ger band of Chippewas. We have since received
the following particulars of the of his
death: • „
On Saturday last, between two and three
o’clock in tho afternoon, three Chippewas, called
Leech Lake or Pillager Indians, called at his
honse, and asked where he* was—nis woman re
plied that he had gone to Crow Wing. The In
dians appropriated three ot his gone and went to
Gull river, a Short distance above Crow Wing.
They saw him and another Indian coming, riding
in a buggy, and hid in the bushes on the knoll by
lhe>oaasiae. . . .
Ab the buggy passed them and went down the
slope, they fired at tho back of the foe they
feared to lace, all their charges taking effect in
their victim. The other Indian sprang ont of
the buggy aud fled, when these Indians dragged
Hole-ln-the-Day to the ground, and to make
snre work, stabbed him in several places. They
then took the horse and buggy and made their
escape.
The dead body of the murdered chief waß first
discovered by Mr. Cbas. A. Buffee,. who is now
at the Chippewa Agency.
We are not apprised of the motives which In
duced this assassination of Bolc-in-the-Day; but
it may, perhaps, be attributed to an old jealousy
of Holc-in-the-Day which the Pillagers have es
pecially entertained towards him on account of
hlB assumption of being the head chief of the
Mississippi bands of Chippewas—a pretension
which they by no means tolerated for the reason
that they regarded the honors of that mythical
royalty as belonging more legitimately to their
own chief. Holc-in-the-Day was regarded by
them as a parvenn—a kind of usurper—but his
pretensions have al ways been supported with so
innch boldness, and he has won such pre-emi
nence as a wamoi; that they have not heretofore
dared openly to contest his position. Holo-ln
thc-dsy was in some respects one of the most ex
traordinary characters in Indian history.
There was something almost romantic in his
reckless daring on the war path. He was the
Chippewa Cid, or Cceur do Lion, from the gleam
of whose battle axe whole armies of Saracen
Sioux fled as before an irresistible fete. His ex
ploits would fill a book. His father, of the same
name,'was a great warrior, who had conquered
the cbiefship of his tribe by his bravery In comr
bat and his wisdom In ccpnciL The old chief
Hole-ln-the-Day was killed in the spring of
1847, while crossing Flat river in a Bod Blver
cart.
Young Bole-in-the-Day, then known as “The
Boy”—he was abont nineteen yearaof age—was
not slow In-assuming the position his father had
held. By his bravery in war he soon gained all
and more than all his father’s Influence over his
tribe, and sustained all his pretensions to leader
ship.
His firet appearance In public council was at
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in July, 1847. At that
time the upper country of the Mississippi, ex
tending to Lake Superior, was oWncd by the
Chippowas of Lake Superior and the Chippewas
of the Mississippi. The Chippewas of Like Su
perior were represented in force. The Chippewas
of the Mississippi, headed by Hole-in-tne-Day,
owing to the great distance they had to travel,
had but a small delegation in attendant. Bole
in-the-Day was late in reaching the council
ground.
Prior to his coming, several talks were held
with the Indians, in which thev admitted that
they had allowed Hole-in-the-Day’sfather to take
the load in their councils, but said that were he
then alive, they would make him take q back
seat; that his eon Was a uICTS ~3y, and Were he
there he would have nothing to say, consequent
.iy it was useless to wait for him. The commis
sioners, however,thonght.differently,and waited.
After the arrival of Hole-in-the-Diy, the couaclt
was formally opened. The commissioners st ited
their business, and requested a reply from the
Indians. Holc-in-the-Day was led up to the stand
by two oi his braves, and said:
'“Father? —The country our great Father sent
von to purchase, belongs to mo. It was once my
father's. He took it from the Sioux. He, by his
bravery, made himself the head chief of the Chip
pewa nation. I am a greater man than my
father was; for I am as brave as he was and on
my mother’s side I am the hereditary head chief
of the nation. The land yon want belongs to
me. If I say sell our great father will have it. If
I say not sen he will do withont It. These In
dians that yon nee behind me hgve nothing to say
about it.”
To this speech all the Indians present gave
hearty and audible assent. The change in tho
face of things at tho appearance of Hole-in-the-
Day, showed his braveTy and commanding influ
ence, but wnß also somewhat amusing. Here
were powerful chiefs of all the Chippewa tribes,
some of them seventy or eighty years old, who
before his coming Bpoke sneeringly of him as a
boy, who could have no voice In the council,
saying there was no nse in waiting for him, bnt
when before him'~becanie...hiB most submissive
and obedient subjects; and this in a treaty in
which a million of acreß of land was ceded.
The terms of the treaty were concluded be
tween the Commissioners and young Hole-ln
the-Day alone. Tho latter, after this was done,
withdrew, and sent word to the chiefs of the
Mississippi and Lake Superior bands to go and
sign it. After it had been duly signed by the
Commissioners, the chief head men and war
riors, and witnessed by the Interpreters and other
persons present, Hole-in-the-Day, who had not
been present at “these little formalities,” called
upon the Commissioners, with two of his at
tendant chiefs, and had appended to the treaty
the following words:
“I approve of this treaty and consent to the
same. Aug. 3d, 1847. Fond-du-Lac.
Po-go-sb-Bhik, or
Hole-in-the-Dat, his M mark.
Hole-in-the-Day was abont 40 years of age.
He was like all his tribe who can afford the ex
pensive luxury—a polygamist—and in tho course
of his life has had several Indian wives succes
sively and at the same time. His last wife, for
whose sake he abandoned his seraglio, Is a white
woman, whom he encountered and married a
year or two ago on one of his frequent trips to
Washington. One of his daughters was educated
at tho Catholic school In this city. He was ir> the
city a few weeks ago, and left with a friend a
statement of the manner in which the Indians
had been treated by the Government agents—a
sure sign that Hole-ln-the-Day’s treasury needed
replenishing. We might fill columns with nar
ratives of tne exploits in which Hole-ln-the-Day
has figured as the hero, but we postpone this to.
another time.
—An irreverent French writer speaks of« Napo
leon's deceased dog Nero as the founder of a new
canine dynasty, the Nerovlncbiens.
—An Italian Babbl;bas written a Jewish drama,
with a moral. He calls it “Micholky,"’ and very
likely it Uchollcky enough.
—Prof. Davis* of West Point,has, an Income of
$20,000 fropi and hethinkstheao
the pleasantest figures of all.
i —Yictorien Sardou is ■ thinking of writing #
i comedy on American society, about which he
knows nothing.
—Barnum la helping Mr. Samuel Colville get
up a new Museum.
r. I. EETHERSTON. Pohlishfiß^
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
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WasHxsoTON, July 3.—The Senate devoted tb3 J
afternoon to the consideration of bills relating to,
the District of Colombia.. •
The House finished with the Senate amend
ments to the Civil Appropriation MIL
General Butler's report on the
Investigation was made, and ordered to bo printMlf*
It contains little which has not already been V'.,
made' pnbllc. It is of the same general, styla
with the preliminary report In Woolley’s case. ■ ; >/J
and Is highly characteristic of its anthor. It ' . ;
leaves the snbject of the corruption of Senators « (
pretty much where It already stood. ? %>,
The House, at quarter after two, adjourned. -
Xlith Congress—second Session, JL
[Hocsn— Continued from Fourth Edition.) ,'sS
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) moved on amendment to a
pay the civil'employes ef the government at : Jft
Washington additional compensation for the
year ending Juno 30th, 1868, at tho following - Ij!
rates,viz: To those whose annual compensation jt"v
does not exceed $1,400,15 per cent, each on the vjkj
amonnt of compensation. - fia
To those whose annual compensation does not mR
exceed $1,600, bnt does exceed $1,400, 12% per
cent. To tboss whose annual compensation does " M
not exceed $l,BOO, but does exceed $1,600, 10 11
percent. • ’M
Referring to Mr. Greeley’s effort to defeat the Pi
20 per cent, proposition some Weeks ago, Mr-’ (M
Stevens said that a; scarecrow from New $8
York had come to Washington, crossed over f®
the city one night, and tho next day there waa *1
a scattering of tho friends of the measure v-V
like the antelopes of the ' mountain, and the - *
scarecrow went .homo triumphant. This *
proposition, he saidj would appropriate less than ‘ 4
a third of what had been proposed In the other- ■ f
measure.: Hehodputltso small so that there.,' •jL
could be no objection to allowing that ptttancetj/gf/
to poor clerks. He bad.cxamined a list of.themJnSad
and found that three-fourths of the unfortunate)PjM
men were married. ' .
Mr. Poland (Vt ) moved to include the flljl
of the Metropolitan Police. j ViJ'l'j
Messrs. Blaine and Ingersoll claimed that that <\
was right ' ,1
The amendment was rejected. ' ■ ■ ■
Mr. Mulllus (Tenn.) proposed that there, should:' <lj
bo paid back to every tax-payer twenty per cent. ■ is
of what they had paid during the year. He ar* ,i
gned against Mr- Stevens’s proposition, saying •:[.<
that those offices could be all -filled by persons ;'y
: who wonld be content with the present rate of ||
compensation. .
Mr. Spaulding (Ohio) suggested toMr. Mnllins , J
, that he should restore the $2,000 added to hie
salary as a member. , r ■ , . ‘-.w'ffi
Mr. Mnllins declined, on the ground that the v /Vi
salary of the members waa fixed by law. 1 -.
Mr.' Slovens aßked Mr. Mullins how .he recon-,,,
oiled to himself drawing pay for months before , if.
ho was elected. ’ • 7,
Mr.-Muffins said he did it by-virtue of a laW-
He never asked anything more than the law gave-, raj
Mr. Stevenß remarked that the gentleman .from, m
Tennessee profited by an August' law, but ba- . 1
grudged a fair al’owance to poor helpless peoplei. $
with large families. f
Mr. Ela (N. H.) moved to amend by extending . J
the additional pay to persons whose salaries are*.
below $1,200. He spoke particularly in favor of.' 1 ,
extending it to the employes at the pnbllc print- -' j
ingoffice. t J
Longfellow* ■ • Jpf?
The London Spectator feels that the poems by® I'
which Mr. Longfellow Ib, chiefly known In Eng-' T '.‘-
Jand are tho{.» “are full of stock,metaphors
that mark unripeness of character rather than of >1
inteUect, metaphors whose whole drift ds ex- ■
boosted In the first superficial glance,
and which grow falser and i falser t»
the mind' ever afterwards." It hopoa,-
however, that his visit to England and the cor- ; g
diality of hiß welcome iitay tarn the attention of j
Englishmen to his later poems, especially to.. ]
“Hiawatha,” of it which says: , ~'l:3
“For playful and tender interpretation of the l "
wav in which child-like tribes, living in the *«
midst of natnre’s mightiest life and marvels, ak f
leeorize the transformationa they, see, and me as- t
nre themselves .against the powers and the crea- ;f
tures by which tboy are-surrounded, there is not,
nor, as tar aB we know,.has there ever been, any- :
thing like it in any language. Indeed, it is on! y -
possible to a man of fine modem culture." ,
JFACTS UVD FANCIES. -
—Hot. f-- ***-,v^
—Some one says that Offenbach’s popularity
in Paris is declining. .it declined here long ago. ,
—Gignoux, the artist, has lost by death an in- ,f :
teresting little daughter. - *
—New York will have twelve theatres next sea -:
son.
—Chicago sends fifteen million letters a year
more than she receives. -'
—Texas has discovered copper mines.. She baelliP
copperheads already. : -a
—The Appletona are to publish a periodical en-jMM
titled “ Spare Honrs.” \ .p/s
—Con the grief of amnlatto be considered yel-;l
low pine? . -
—Capitol punishment has been abolished in the;';#
Kingdom bf Saxony.
—Pedestrians in Colorado are called “waUdir: J^‘| ? -,
ere.” - : ;
—The principal staple-of to-morrow’s oc»v
tion will be ’eat and drink. £Vs? ,< V?J
-The oath of the Pendleton , Ye
George!
—When a Congressman logeti the
ej es is he obliged to vote wMfi the nqesf ffTjmggWfe
—Matilda Heron has diem a
“Camille.” She may hove died a J
times fov all we core. g -'n"'
—To lose your watch mterferes with your plea-
sure. At least, it prerents yon from haring a f
godd time. S ' ■ -?*- -.
—lt Is Bald that thelDemocrats have adopted _ .
the apple blossom as a campaign badge. It -will
be worn on the nose.
—Unscrupulous swindlers ore scalping locusts,
in lowa ana claiming bounty for gopher scalps.-
They desired to go-for their cash. - s
—Mr. Kay had his pocket picked In the Council .
chamber yesterday, by a mend who wanted to
make a ray-se. r •"*'
—A few, policemen received the Pendleton es- \
cort in New York, and that Is what most of them '
were accustomed to. ' —’
—An ex-c'.ty official In Troy corrected his We
: with on axe-handle fbro breach of etlquettom
helping herself to butter at the tea table with her
own knile; \
—"Pendleton or h—11” is the cry of some of
the fire-eaters. The Dry Tortugas would bo a.
more cheerful alternative. Some of them have .
tried it. •" -.- ,
—Cnpid hasdrawn a tardy bow against old
Tom Pluclde, the veteran actor, who-was already. t
old when most of ns were young, who was
pride of the Park Theatre, that only those of us -j
whose locks are beginning to grizzle can call
mind. He renews nis youth by taking to wire «tK
fair widow of New York The god of love deserve* jM
renown for this victory over ago. , ; ffi
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