Cffisor PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME KXII -NO. 74. aHE EVENING BULLETIN PUBLISHED KVKKY EVESHMO (Sunday, excepted). . ATTBB NEW BULLEriN BITILMNO, . 1 607 Cbctlnnt Street, Philadelphia, . BTXHB - . EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. rsopsurroKa. ' gIBSOW PEACOCK, ' ■ • GASPER SOUDEB, Jb ,L. FETIIEBfITON, • THOU. J. WIIJiIAMSON, FRANCIS WELLS. The BmLLETiH is served to subscribers to the city at 18 oecu pef week, payable to the carriers, or 68 per annnm. AmebicaN Life Insurance Company, Of Philadelphia, ~ \Comer Fourth and Walnut Sts. has 'i. ' .—_ ' perimentb . thought, ’ Atm has no superior in the United By means of the noematachogKj Tn 7 v : tn .- meter, he proin&Ba vNos. parties. For the prearatuh® (earns idea requires the Jinan toV. -——.d? -one thonsaniStiiß’of B Mcbnib, liaßifc?®)nWleßB thBtliae |BVB. Eodgera. same for all brains, and these instruments we. mayvciock, without diealions relative in*t»nt. Michael trusfc & co.’s chants’ln waht.Jie soap, combined all laying a^ l “. rccommc,1 ‘ lcd for jnnke! * , For tttp£ ACE POINTS, S 7 TO 8100, atureß BTE LLAMA SHAWLS, , Ln, r.II'EBHP.TLAtiD DO. / Eeco^- mTK bareoe do. f SoV WHITE CRAPE MARETZ. EYRE & Fourth and Arch sts. SfEOIAL. notices* Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Fourth July Excursion Tioketa Sv rn he Mid at REDUCED RATES between all Stations on the Reading Railroad and branches, good from Fr'dan inl? 3. to laiurday, July 11, 1868. 1*37 7s ; ' ItffF- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM pany. * PmiAPiLnnA, May 13th, IBga. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDKRS.~In pursuance of reeo. tutlooa adopted by the Board of Directors at a Stated Jtteeting held this day, notice is hereby given to the Stock* boldtTß of this Company that they will hare the privilege Of subscribing, either directly or by substitution, under each ntlee as may be prescribed therefor, for Twenty-five Per Cent of additional Stock at Par,in proportion to their respective interests as they etand registered on the books of tii. Company, May Sttth. 1868. Holders ox lees than four Shares wQI be entitled to sub* actibe for a full share, and those bolding more Share* than a multiple of four Shares will be entitled to an addl* fiional Share. Subscriptions to the uewBtock will be received on and after May JDlh, 1668, and the privilege o! subscribing will cease on the SCith day of July, 1868. 'Hie instalments on account of the new Shares eh all fee paid in cash, as follows: lei *iw«nty»five Per Cent. at the time of subscription, on or before the 30th day of July; 1868. 2d Twenty>five Per Cent, on or before the 15th day .of December, 1668. ad. Twenty-five Per Cent on or before the 15th day of clune, ifetfil 4th. lwenty-five Per Cent, on or before the 15th day of December, 16©, or If Stockholders should prefer,tho whole emountmay be paid up at once, or any remaining instal* enenta may be paid up in full at the time of the payment of the second » THE STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI OF PENNSYLVANIA. At the Anoaal Meeting of this Society, on the 4th icet, ihe following officer* were elected to imve lor the en cuing year: P ei fdent—THOMAS McEUEN. Vice President—HAßßlS L. SPROUT. Secretary—GEO. W. HARRIS. : Assistant Secretary—PELEG HALL. *3 rt&fcurer—WM. G. CALDWELL. Assistant Treasurer—WlLLl AH WAYNE. STANDING COMMITTEE. •JAMES SCHOTT, IWM, A. IRVINE, JbOtfEHTPATTERSON, RICHARD DALE, GUAS. J. PUGH, JTHOH. C. HUMPHREY, y/. POYNTEIiL JOHNSON. GEORGE W. HARRIS. Secretary. Jy6*2trp» Philadelphia, July 6th, 1868, IMgp* PHILADELPHIA AND HEADING RAILROAD G**? COMPANY, OFFICE NO. 227 SOUTH FOURTH •STREET. PnTT.ATrtn.pmA. May 27, 1868. •NOTICE to the holder* of bond* of the Philadelphia And Reading Railroad Company, due April U 1870 The Company oner to exchange any of these bonds of 131,000 each at any time before the Ist day of October next, at par, for a new mortgage bond of equal amount, bearing 9 per cent interest, clear of United States and State taxes, Jhaving 25 years to rup. t * The bonds not surrendered on or before the Ist of Octo t>er nexttwill be paid at maturity, in accordance with Cheir tenor. mySErt octl 3. BRADFORD, Treasurer. THE BANE OF NORTH AMERICA. .■Tzf .♦ ' Philadelphia!, July 6,1868. Tbi Directors have this day declared a semi-annual 3Dlvideod_of 7# percent* and 2M per cent extra, making ken per cent, payable on demand, ALo a Dividend of a>er cent, being, the State tax for 1868, of three miUroir speeesed value of $250 per shore, which will be paid to £he State Treasurer, for account of the stockholders, the gax being alien upon the stock until paid. J, HOCKLEY, Cashier. rtf* OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND GRAY’S, FERRY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO., aventy-second street, below Spruce, , , * . Philadelphia, July 2d, 1868. The Board of Directors have this day declared a divi dend of THREE PER CENT, on the capital stack paid tin, clear of Taxes, payable on and after the 18th instant, gintil which time the Transfer Books will bo closed. jy6m wf t!4j JAB. MoFADDEN, Jb,,Treasurer. »>?M!t DIIANCE *JuM - The Board of Doctors Secretary, the enterpribe insurance company PHICADELPmA, OFFICE, NO. 400 WALNUT Tho Directors hove this day Four Per cent, on the capital stock of the Company for £hG.!&Bt six months, payable on demand, free of all jyii-m tv f 6t{ ALEX W. WISHER. Secretary BMgP- FIRST NATIONAL BANK ~ The Board of Directors fiend of Six Per Cent, clear of aU on dj jn&nd. jy3-6f: ; /;MORTON MoMIOHAEL, Jn.. Cashle . HOW/&P HOSPITAL, N 08.1618 AND 162 u .PHILADELPHIA ORTBOP-IEDtO HOSPITaTT Np. IS Bontt Ninth street Club-foot hip' and spt tual disease* and bodily determine, treated. Apply daily at 12 o’clock. , apis Srnrp} 11«“ NEWSPAPERS. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE • bought by E. HUNTER, ap_BB-tfrp - i : No. 618 Jayne street. —Colonel Grogan, .who- bought the Mammoth Cave, explains toiffißelf thus: -‘I bought it for 3-1,000, and it has been a grand purchase. I have Been baying caves now this twenty years. Tho first one i owned jvas in Illinois, and I now own fifteen,. reoplefound I was fond of cavos, and they brought them to mo, and I bought them. Ahoy are curious things. I alwavs was fond of caves.” Crogan is, we should think, a jackass j 0 aUa %ulktin The report on the budget, which has been pub lished, denies that there was any guaranty, either moral or otherwise, on the part of the govern ment to the Mexican bondholders. The subscri bers, it said, were to receive something like 12 per cent, with the chance of magnificent prizes in the lottery; and therefore it is absurd to suppose that they could require any further advantages. Never theless, the report adds, “under the circumstan ces” (it does not say what circumstances) it advises that a rente, or yearly revenue eff 400,000 francs should be appropriated for the payment of the Mexican bondholders. Thus in addition to all that has been spent before, the country is 'to be saddled permanently with 400,000 francs per an num, to satisfy the speculators and gamblers whom the Government instigated to lend their money to Maximilian at 12 per cent., and the chance of a prize in the lottery. • Authentic accounts of some interest have been lately received in Paris respecting the (health of that unhappy lady who is still called the “Empress Charlotte.’’. Would it be believed that there is a party-here who have spread reports that she had been invi ted to return to Mexico by “a powerful party in that country!” It is in reply to these statements that an account of her real condition has been sent here. It amounts In fact to this: that some times she appears to have quite recovered her in tellect, and talks, reads, writes and acts as though she were completely herself. The next moment her malady breaks out again as bad as ever. 'ln her lucid intervals she Is perfectly aware of the : death of her husband, and of all too circumstan- i ces under which it took place. Very recently she subscribed, of her own ac- : cord, to his monument at Trieste; and for the ; day of the anniversary of his death, worked with; her own hands and sent off an immortel, to be bus pended on his torn!) in the -01101011 of the Capu- i chins at Vienna, having long wept over the memorial before it went to Its destination. Then > her mind, breaks down again and her recovery remains aq far off and doubtful as" ever. She forms; in her own person, the most melancholy and touching memorial of that ill-fated and in- : fatuated expedition. The extreme heat in Paris, has been agreeably ; relieved by thunder showers, which have cooled the air and sensibly reduced the temperature. But tho town begins to look deserted sooner than EUBOPEAH AFFAIRS LETTKR FROM PARIS. TJ>e JBnibolluiinicnt of t*aris—Baron Uamiman't Glorlfl caijon of napoleon—Xbe fflexican -Bond Business—financial Burdens of (be JPcopfe—Podr C'arlotta-fler present Condition—An Absurd Report —A Great Wine Estate Sold. tCorrapondeoco of the Pbilada. B»Uy Errata* Bulletin.) Pabis, Tuesday, June 23d, 1868 The embel lishment of Paris and the sums spent upon If are, of conrse,' topics of never failing interest for Parisians, and even for most strangers resident In the imperial capital- All who are here are either helping to pay for the magnificence which Borronnds them ont of their own pockets by direct taxes and cltv does, or at least have what Is gelngon socoqtlnually before their eyes that they cannot well avoid thinking and talbing about It. The subject la everlasting; and even if one were Inclined,to forget It, there are too many reminders to allow of the oblivion being of long duration. Tho whole question has Just been again freshly brought before the public by a new Bcport, which the Emperor has required Baron.Haussmann.thc Prefect, to give him on the city finances. The details are.far too long for me to go into, but a few items are worth mention ing. We leam from it that since these changes began in 1853, a sum of very nearly nine hundred millions (of francs) has been expended in opening , new lines of thoroughfare - through different parts of the city, and that an other sum of very nearly one thousand millions has been expended oh other “extraordinary” operations oi every kind. Thus, the improve! meets ol Paris, which are astonishing all the world, have cost, so far, little shore of two thou sand millions. On religious -edifices, sixty mil lions have been expended; on hospitals, fifty-five millions;- on markets, thirty-eight millions; on supply ol water nnd drainage, one hundred and fifty-seven millions; on nurseries, barracks and other municipal edifices, one hundred and thirty millions, Ac. Of course all this is very magnifi cent, and the only question is, where Is the money to come from ? Thfi Prefect declares that he has accomplished all these wonders without increas ing the burdens of the inhabitants. Bat I doubt Baron-llanssmann Is not exactly borne ont In that statement For instance, to mention two winter articles, coal is now taxed rather more than 7 francs per ton entry, instead of only a little more than and candles pay 19 francs, when before they only paid 11. And to speak of an article very much in season just now, lee, which was formerly exempt from all duty, , now produces the city a revenue of 400,000 francs a year. I have seen a list of recent augmentations to city taxes amounting to some six millions per annum, and thereto per head on the inhabitants, which in 1856 was only 37 francsj has risen now to 53. There is Ho doubt that Pa risians are made to pay for their and it is useless to disguise the fact. But there is as little doubt that they reap also great advan tages from It, both In health and comfort and en joyment ; and also in the vast inflax of strangers and visitors from every part of the world, and the money which is spent by them. The Prefect says that “posterity will glorify the Emperor for the transformation of Paris,’’ and that “those who come after us will bless the Emperor for having conceived and executed this grand Idea.” Indeed, all through his Report, he speaks of the “plans of the Emperor,” and Is in directly bent upon sheltering himself under the skirts of the imperial mantle from the storm of criticism which is just now raging aronnd him- The polling down of that comer of the Rue de la Paix is the act which thas brought public feeling to a climax. The Prefect says there has been tor too much “emotion” about the “demo lition of a few houses,” and that "no one can appreciate yet how magnificent will be the effect of the new Place de 1’ Opera, and all the grand streets branching from it” Very likely; but then every one was so well satisfied before with the same quarter of the town, and every one thought that comer where the Rne de la Paix meets the Boulevards so gay and brilliant, that it really needed no improving. On the part of our loungers and loafers, indeed, of all nations, there is a sort of feeling of personal injury at having this their favorite prome nade and rendezvous ruthlessly swept away from I them PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1868. nmal this year, Jn consequence of the early summer. There was to have been a bull fight added to the attractions of the Havre exposition last Sunday. But it was put off; the chief actors, the bulls that is, to say, were announced to be “in disposed." The celebrated estate of Chateau Lafitte, be longing to Messrs. Scott, bankers, London, and which produces the well-known Bordeaux wine, of tho same name, was put up for sale in Paris on Saturday.* The upset price was four and a half million francs, but there was no bidder be yond that sum, and the proceedings, therefore, produced no result. The vintage this year prom ises to be magnificent. . . EHGIiAND. *he trial) Omrch-A Great Liberal meeting in London Broken Up br tbe Tones. ’ The Guildhall of the City of London was crowded to suffocation on tho 22d of June, in consequence of a call having been issued for a public meeting on tbe Irish Church question. The Lord Mayor is a Tory and a partisan of the Cburch-and-Btate party, but, os in duty bound, be had called tho meeting at the request of Influ ential citizens who were opposed to the State Church. The 6equel proved that the friends of the Lord Mayor and the Irish Church had packed the hall with Tory partisans; who would listen to no argument. They shouted “No Popery!” “Church and Queen!” voted down tho only reso lution which was nut, and succeeded in having tho meeting broken up in a state of disgraceful disorder. The following resolution and petitions were to be proposed: “That the ‘Established Church (Ireland) BUI, * as a message of peace and good-will from the British to the Irish people, is at once a healing measure and an act of justice and sound pollcyT which may remove a rock of offence, in the way ot the promotion of religious truth. That, there fore, the following petitions to Parliament be adopted by this meeting; that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be respeetlully requested to sign the same, In the name and on behalf of the citizens of London; that the members for the city be re quested to present and support the petition to the House of Commons, and that the petition to the House of Lords be intrusted to Eari Russell for presentation. “Unto the Honorable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. 1 The humble petition of the .citizens of London In public meeting at their Guildhall convened! “Sbeweth, That your petitioners are of opinion tho disestablishment of the Irish State Church is calculated to remove a long-existing cause of dis-' content and disaffection from the Irish nation; to promote the loyalty and mutual good will of the people of the three kingdoms, and to conso lidate the power by cementing the cordial union and common fellowship of the subjects of the realm. That your petitioners, therefore, learn with satisfaction tho Established Chnrch (Ire land) bill has passed your honorable House, and they venture to express the hope it may please your honorable House to adopt such further steps as may be calculated to give full practical effect •t> the principle inaugurated by that salutary measure. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. ; “Unto the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. The petition of citizens of London, in public meeting at their Guildhall convened: “Humbly sheweth, That your petitioners learn with satisfaction a bill has been sent up from the BoDorable the Commons to your right honorable House, entitled the ‘Established Church (Ireland) bill.’ That your petitioners respectfully trust it may please yonr right honorable House to pass the said bill into a law. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.” CBIMB. MBS. VICTOR SENTENCED. To be Hanged August 28m— Her Ap. pearance in me court UAom. [From the Cleveland Leader, July ith 1 At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon Judge Foote directed two of the deputy sheriffs to bring Mrs. Victor into court room No. 1 for sentence Ac cordingly they went to the jail and soon after returned, bringing her ,in their arms. But few persons were present, as it was not generally known that the sentence was to be pronounced: and, indeed, it was desired to keep toe matter as private as possible, in order to avoid a crowd. Mr. Jones was there for toe prosecution, and Mr Castle, of toe defence, was sent for. Mrs. Victor was carried to toe table at the left oi the Judges bench and stood upon the floor preparatory to giving her a chair. She immedi »tely took from the table a pamphlet and reached for a legal document lying there, but dropped it as soon as she was put in a chair. She had in her hands a fan and an orange, with a string around it. She stared vacantly at the pamphlet, orange and fan, and commenced to play with them in a childish manner. She soon tired of toe pamphlet and laid it on the table. Then she put the handle of the fan through the loop of the string and amused herself by rolling toe orange from one side of the fan to the other. After playing with that for a tone she hung toe orange on her chin by the string and opened her mouth like an idiot Occasionally she would mutter to herself, and once said, “I don’t wapt to hear Mr. Jones talk so hard against me any more.” Shortly after Mr. Jones entered the court-room he rose and said: “If your Honor please, I move that toe judgment of the court be now pro nounced in the case of toe State of Ohio against Sarah Maria Victor.” “ While Mr. Jones was speaking, Mrs. Victor sang in a low tone: “In tho Christian’s home in glory There remains a land of rest.” In a few moments Mr. Castle came in, seated himself by Mrs. Victor’s side, and addressed her, but she paid no heed to his remarks and con tinued to mutter. _ THE SENTENCE. Judge Foote then slowly pionounced toe'fol lowing sentence:. “Sarah Maria Victor: Tho jury having returned a verdict finding you guilty of murder in the first degree, and no exceptions having been taken to the finding, or any suggestions made to the court of any exceptions which could be taken, it becomes the duty of the court to pronounce your sentence. Tfyou have any words'to say, either yonreelf or through your counsel, you now have the opportunity to say them.” Mr. Castle responded that it was evident that Mrs. Victor, in her condition, could not speak for herself, and that the counsel had nothing to say. & • ‘The judge continued; The law has fixed toe judgment in such a case, and I have nothing more to do than pronounce the sentence in accordance with that judgmont Sarah M. Victor, you are tqbo taken to the jail! to be kept in close confinement until your execu tion, and on tho twenty-eighth - day of August, 1868, between the hours of ten o’clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon,you are to be hung by tho neck until dead; and may God have mercy on your. soul. The sheriff will seo that the sentence is executed. t During the pronouncing of the sentence, Mrs. Victor maintained her stppid actions and ap pearance, except when the judge-said “To bo hung;”Then"sße seemed to bo somewhat startled, but quickly regained her former condition. .For a short lime nothing was dono. Thon Mre. Victor sang another strain from too tune “There ip Best for tho Weary,” and continued to hum while being carried back to the jail. - ) It may seem to some a little hard that a woman in such a condition should be thus sentenced, but OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. the court and prosecution had medical advice to the effect that all her insanity is assumed. TJ® Morning Star Dleaster~-more Bodies Recovered— Two cmitlren Found. The Cleveland Herald of Wednesday says: “Two men, Pease and Ward, who were fishing at Euclid Creek. Sunday, found the body Of a child between ope and two years old, floating in the lake. It was probably one of the sufferers from the Morning Star. The men brought the body to the city and delivered It to the police. It was put in the Michigan Central warehouse when it arrived at midnight, and the undertaker, Mr. Howland, notified. The body was clothed in a bipe and white checked merino cloak, with hood, and bine ribbons on the hood. “Still another body of a child was recovered on Bunday, some distance down the lake, off Eu clid, It was apparently a child abont three of four years old. The body was so far decayed that no one could recognize the features. It was rent to this city and placed lit charge of Mr. Howland, the undertaker. It was necessary to pnt limeon it, so offensive was the smeU. There was little or no clothing by which the body could be identified. “The eafe and American Express trank were raised by divers from the wreck of tho Morning Star and taken to Detroit by the tug Relief. “The proprietors of the Detroit apd Cleveland Steamboat Company are In negotiation with the owner of the splendid Pew steamer Northwest, and it Is now probable that shp will be purchased and put on the line in the place of the Morning Star. ... “Last Sunday, some boys out In the lake, In a small boat; found a memorandum book float ing. It contained some scrip, a due bill for $lO, and five orders, lithographed, each for $1 on the Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Iron Company. One of the boys was a son of Mr. William Morgan. The came in tho book, If any, is not known.” pbesisentisl paragraphs. Wilkes’ Spirit says: Where, then, shall the Democracy turn tor a leader ? What man have they In whose support they can unite all factions —the friends of Pendleton in tho West, the fol lowers of Seymour in the East, the clans who clamor for repudiation, the bankers led by Mr. Belmont, the negro-haters, and the more en lightened . Democrats who, instead of opposing Fate, would try to lead her by the nose f In our bonest and matured opinion, there is but one man who can solve the problem of the Convention, and whom the whole party would sustain with confidence and enthusiasm. That man is Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, President of the United States, conqueror of the Republican party on its own chosen field, and the only man in the United Slates who had the power to save the Democratic party from destruction in the last four years— the only man who has the power to keep it from ignoble defeat in the Presidential campaign Before the Republicans had ceased to monni for the death of Lincoln, he taught them a better ;reasnn for grief, and astounded the country bv golfig over, to too Democracy with his whole army, by using the entire Influence of his office to rebuild that shattered party, and to crash the ambition of the men who, in electing him sup posed they could control him. Theßepublican party expected to govern the country for the next twenty years. “The Democracy Is dead” was their favorite boast. It was Andrew John son who bade tbe corpse arise, and it arose) he put arms in its hands, clothed It with the patron age of his office; he brought It into his Cabinet, and placed the revenue of the Repnblic at its dis posal; he allowed the whlflky rlDg to exist for the leutfit of the Democratic party, and turned the Post-office Department into a barracks for Dem ocratic adventurers. ****** ***«. We should be glad to see Andrew Johnson tha Democratic .candidate, bccanse his nomination wonld mate a full and logical Issue npon Recon struction and the questions involved in impeach ment The campaign would be of principles as well as men. —The San Francisco Times says: “Grant has the highest of all qualities—that equanimity— that self-poise, that marks the complete man. Cautious and wide-looking in his deliberations cool |in his judgments, he cannot easily be swerved from the path which he has onceentered. He will not become the tool of any clique or com bination, which may seek to use him for its own advantage and the pnblic detriment; he will not be misled by a short-sighted and lying ambition which will promise him a momentary advantage at the price of his consciousness of rectitude. That he has strength of mind and tenacity of purpose, that he is a good judge of men, and pos sesses administrative ability, we know by what he did during the war. That he is destitute of unhallowed ambition, and is a regarder of law esteeming himself not the ruler, but the servant of the people, we know by his course since the conclusion of the war.” —The San Francisco correspondent lof the Chicago Tribune writes: “The Union masses of the Pacific shores have everywhere cordially en dorsed the nomination of Grant and Colfax and I am satisfied that it is toe best ticket which could possibly bo made for this side of the con tinent. Collax is remembered kindly by all Pacific coasters, and will get many a vote from men who would not have voted for Wade or any other man who could have been nominated. As for Grant, he was tho first and only choice of the Union men of the Pacific shores. There has been but one ratification meeting in San Fran cisco as yet, but it was a rouser, and had an un mistakable effect. Oregon has just gone against us, from local causes only." Nullification Democracy, in the partisan sense, has under gone many transmutations. It has been by turns anti and pro-Slavery—for and against Protecuon, Internal Improvement—for War and anti War; bnt no man ever heard of a Democrat —at leaßt, we never did—who was earnestly hos tile to Fraudulent Voting and anxious that mea suresi beidevised and adopted for its suppression. On that point Democracy haß ever been consist ent and straightforward. A Kegistiy law it loathes and. abhors; for a Registry law makes the polling of Illegal Votes difficult at all events, till its manipulators have be come familiar with ita machinery. Bv fraudulent voting in this city and Plaquemines, Louisiana, Democracy cheated Henry Clay out of the Presidency in 1844; it cheated before, and has been cheating ever since. The black-lege who organize and direct the machinery whereby Illegal votes are polled with Impunity, are au Democrats; the alien roughs and outlaws through whoso fingmrs they stuff ballot-boxes are gene rally inclined to that party, and readily lend themselves to its service for a consideration. The former had toe wires so adjusted In Ban Francisco twelve years' ago that they would contract to elect to a municipal office any man who would pay them their price, no mat ter whether ho did or did not receive one single legal vote. The villainy became at last so bare faced that toe defrauded citizens conld stand it no longer: so they organized a Vigilance Com mittee, which smashed the, machine, hung'some of the most notorious operators; ana drove away tho rest; bo that, for quite a number offlubsenuoQt years, hopeety was the rule, rascality the excop tion, In tho elections of toas city. v The IntoJLegiSlatnro of. Penhsyivanla-inTview' of me glaring frauds perpetrated at^her polls last fall by means of forged and coffee-colored nntu • ralizationpapers and kindred devices—passed an act requlrmg.a registration of Legal voters of that State. HorSpfireme Conrt; by a vote of 3 to 2 has just nullified that act, pronouncing it uncon stitntlon. The only two. Judges ever ' elected to Us bench by Republicans upheld too ~r- DISASTERS. POIiITICAIi. of (lie Pennsylvania. Registry Act. law; Judge Sharswood elected last fall by- the very frauds which this act is intended henceforth to preclude—gave the casting voto for nullification. The coffeo colored naturalization papers having-given him his office, he evidently holds himself bonnd to do his utmost in -their behalf. Judge. Henry K. Strong—who has been regarded as a sort of War Democrat, and who sided with the Republicans in upholding the validity of conscription in the war for the Union—went with the party of fraud, and helped them through. So Luzerne county naturalization certificates, skillfully coffee* stained, will be ata premium this fall, with no obstacles to their general currency. _ The Republicans of Pennsylvania are thus abundantly notified that they are to be swindled by wholesale next October. Those districts of Philadelphia where'vice celebrates her most loath some orgies will be out in double strength. Lu zerne will roll np her bogus majorities beyond all precedent: while the dark holes of Berks, Co lumbia, Northampton and Monroe will be made to redouble the worst frauds of the past. But the notice is seasonable; and we trust the prepa rations to meet and defeat the ballot-box staffers will be ample and effeetive.-A r ew Yorh Tribune of to-day. Tlic Democratic Programme. The Chicago Tribune says of the Democratic protest against tho admission of the recon structed States: “ The most significant part of the protest is the threat that the Democratic party, on obtaining possession of the govern ment, will at once proceed to undo all that has been done to reconstruct the conquered States. All the enactments of Congress to that end will be treated os unconstitutional legislation. The readmitted States will bo restored to the old status. Negro suffrage win be abolished, the negiocs remitted to a subordinate posi tion, and authority be lodged exclusively in the hands of the whites. The amendments to the Constitution will be prononneed null and void, and thus we shall got back to the old standpoint at which the original compromises of the organic Jaw will become operative, including that clause which declares that “no person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, es caping Into another, shall, in consequence of any law or 'regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered np on claim of the party to whom snch service or labor may bo due.” With all amendments of the Constitution since the war thus eliminated by a partv in authority— with tho old instrument restored ‘in all of its pro visions and efficacy, slavery wonld of coarse re main as not abolished. It requires little imagina tion to bodeforth the consequences of snch an en* tangling condition. No one supposes that the hot heads who wonld accomplish such ends can obtain ascendancy in. national affairs, but it is well to remember, amid the sophistries which will be the stock in trade of Democratic stump speakefs and journals, daring the pending campaign, what are the real views and aims of the party they represent, and what wonld bo the sequel of its acquisition of power. Chief Justice chase’s Platform* In answer to a series of inquires addressed to him by an Ohio politician, Mr, Chase thus de fines his position: JulyI —Please say to your friend that he is entirely right as to my views- of Suffrage- and States Rights. , What 1 desire for the Southern States is peace and -prosperity, with all dis franchisements and disabilities removed and all rights restored to all citizens, and it is my opinion that these ends will be best-secured by according suffrage to all citizens. But the prac tical disposition of the question of suffrage, as well as- all' other domestic questions, is for the people of the States themselves, not for out siders. On this question I adhere to my old State rights doctrines. In the event of nomina tion and success, I trust I should so act that nei ther the great party which makes the nomination nor the great body of patriotic citizens whoso co operation would insure success, would have any cause to regret their action. It is an intense de sire with me to sec the Democratic party meeting thfr questions of the day in the spirit of the day, and assuring to itself a long duration of ascen dancy. It can do so if it will. Tiie Return of JHiss Cusbman. The Boston Journal says: “Miss Charlotte Cushman arrived in New York after an absence cl over four years and a half. During her previ ous visit Bhe contributed by her services to the Sanitary Commission, realizing in the large cities a very handsome sum. Her last appearance was on the occasion oi the dedication oi the new or gan at the Music Hall, when she delivered the ode Miss Cushman while abroad has been a firm friend of her native land, and by her many acta of kindness and attention to her countrymen, and her generosity to the unfortunate, has been a worthy representative of our people. Daring her recent absence she has not forgotten her na tive city. Her gift to the Music Hall of the splen did brackets, which have been somuch admired will identify her namo with this building. We hear that it is Miss Cushman’s intention to give a senes of readings in this city, to create a fund that Bhall be devoted to procuring marble conies of the three brackets. “While we cordially commend the effort, we have a suggestion to make, which we believe will be cordially approved by the public. We under stand that it is Miss Cushman’s intention to dis pose other theatrical wardrobe during her pres ent sojourn in this countiy. Before she does so we believe that her reappearance on the stage would afford gratification to thousands, who notwithstanding the appearance of Ristori and Janauschek, have not yet obliterated from their memory many of her masterly and wonderful personations. Though she has taken a leave of the stage, there would be a marked propriety in reappearing for the purpose of creating a fund to be devoted ts so n oble an object. A new race of patrons of the drama have come on the stage since Miss Cush man last appeared, andduring the past five years great progress has been made in the presentation of plays. We trust Miss Cushman will adopt a suggestion which has been made by many since it was announced that she would probably re turn, and give us a week or two of the legitimate drama before her final withdrawal from the stage.” Laying Bail Tracks by machinery. £ IFrom the ® an Francisco Alta California.] Iho railroad track-layer Is an indubitable and decided success. It is now working along regu larly at the rate of a mile a day, and it will do better when several small defects aro remedied. Some of its work has been done at tbo rate of two miles in twelve hoars, but one mile is considered its present working capacity. The contractor and Directors ot the Vallejo and Sacra mento Railroad, although most of them were skeptical, and some quite dissatisfied about the delays in getting it into operation, give it the highest praise, and ! have made their arrangements in reliance upon it. The machine is a car sixty feet long and ten I feet wide. It has a small engine, on board for handling the ties and rails. The ties are carried on a common freight car behind, and conveyed by an endless chain over the top of the machine laid down in their places on the track, and when enough are laid a rail is putdown on each side in a proper . position, and- spiked down. The track-layer thenadvances, and keeps on its work. until , the load ~ —When Is the Bdeusun reporter like a horse? -V Why, when he is takin’-oats, of coarse. , "I —Tho last rows of summer. The final roeat ,* v tas of the season on the Schuylkill. onßaturday 616 more mlUera 011111 miUertary out ' ” —There is one great criminal whom Johnson cannot pardon. Himself. ■ —“Old Man” Vans and Wm. Blerley, Esoa., ; S Sown Chestnut arm In arm on Friday! & They didn’t stop to cheer the Bulletin office • § —“ L’Abime,” at the Vaudeville, Paris, is reck- '*l oned to be one of the most successful pieces ever ’ produced in that city. ; —Bayard Taylor, when last at Rome, opened a studio, employed models, and went through a regular course of art instruction. . , . —New York has got in operation' an “In formers’ Bureau,” for tho benefit of jealous hus bands and such. — iT^ o mysterious and fatal epidemic amoncr poultry, known as the “chicken cholera, ” is dls coTered to be caused by the presence of trichin* ■ p the intestines. %/The Irrepressible statistician of Chicago elves - tne aggregate number of glasses of beer told in • that city during the Sangerfest at a little less than a million and three quarters. —lt took two men four hours to break into a eft safe in Bryan, Ohio, when their labor was ro- fcr warded with thirty cents cash,which had beende* *'>££3 posited for security within, . * ysj|3 —A French gentleman Is irate at being refused admission to the opera in London while wearing nankeen pantaloons. Were they breeches or x -V.l decorum? J ■ g; ■M -The Bulletin devil suggests that Messrs: Procter & Co. placed the Goddess Of Justice In 'WWIi their wjndow on Saturday, because the DomOc-’ racy having left the city, she had nothing to do ttSIM bnt take a holiday. . , .. tj rM —An enterprising music seller in this city ft®, Ml having been written to for.- ‘.’Martini’s Eeole 1 A ; M DOrgue” replied thathe didn’t know “Martin Wr Eeols, and wasn’t going to bother himself about any man a “dorg.’ p ' rat jif —Cereal crops in Spain and southern : France A? Yfi wili be two-th&ds below the average, owing to 110 /«] the long continued drought. The Danish people T? are signing petitions to the government fora supply of waterl .1' - —lt is remarked that Mr. Albert Pike is rapidly J,'- acqulrlngthe art of condensation In his editorial - ® \ labcrs. He has lately had several articles in tho 1 I Memphis Appeal that filled only two and a half * 1 S columns.' . ... g —Erince Napoleon is said to have remained . '"’l ift I three- quarters of an hour oa his knees before tho I PS f, tomb of the late Emperor Maximilian, “which . - $& l. vas pretty well for a free thinker,” says the cor- MKfl respondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. ' 't, $ fjjfl —Two celebrated Parisian dangeuses are hors tig ae combat at the present moment Mile. Gran zow has crushed her foot and Mile. Pioretti has ■ tumbled down stairs. They are both recovering however, and hopo in a fow days to make their ' Cmiifl re-appearance.. - -fiMtWli —lceland belles Its name. “For many years ” -^ll®] says a correspondent writing from that island on ' f " ill! June 3 d, “wo have notseen so favorable a spring .’ c iai oil as this. From the beginningof May to this day ■ W we have had a regular summer heat, the conse- J quence of which is that the pastures are better 0 yvaj now in the beginning of June than they have ‘ v, f' - 1 been In the beginning of July for many years.”;, l- r J —The asphalte pavements in Paris are soft -V -■ ‘r? and, sticky this month. With a walking stick yon “’ V t 1 can make a deep hole. “One of those little la dies was walking over the Boulevards, when the pavements were in this state, in a most raTish- At M ing costume, with little boots whose heels were as high as an instep and as pointed as an et>i gram shonid bo. She literally stuck on the pave- - ‘ ment, which gave way under and held her as in a' ; " S vice. She tried to put her best foot foremost— ’“* t ' first her left, then her right—but could not move, - - *■ U and finally, was cut out with a couteau de chaise ’ %-'& by an enterprising yamin who-was passing by. , £s*>{ —The London Star ascribes to Longfellow are- '£.tl i markable popularity among the English people. , r who are much more familiar with the productions J of tho American poet than with the noblest pas- • ' t r-I sages of Wordsworth or Southey. “If we come 1 Mi l to living poets,” the Star says, “we doubt very f « much whether Tqjinyson, with all his popularity, -it A J can count as many English readers as Longfellow I T 3 can; and to bring Browning into the comparison I ' , 3 would be idle, for the ordinary English public I f knows simply nothing of Robert Browning; per- / 'll haps so great a poet was never since the introauc- I -5 'JI tion of printing bo little known among , his own • / countrymen. Poll the whole population of Eng- '\ I ■ -'US land to-morrow on the question, and it wonld Li, :o iy M probably-bo found that Longfefiow’6 name; in mere popularity, leads all the rest.” m The gigantic saurian discovered not long ■#■ nnce in the west, and committed to the T - &* Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, is at this moment the subject of a restoration ' by a naturalist of eminence. Mr. Waterhouse 3K' Hawkins, who prepared the admirable models of primeval monsters in the Syden- . ham Palace grounds, near London, is the" TvlSZei gentleman intrusted with this task, which i he has a unique combination of faculties, as artist and paleontologist, for executing. Species to which this curious specimehbelongs has been named Elasmosauri. We-hope to ’ publish in a few days a scientific account ef sfteS the creature. Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins is a recognized authority in this matter of restoration; and is perhaps almost the only living man of science who has cultivated the artistic faculty suffi ciently to succeed in this important method of popularizing .knowledge. 1 Mr; Hawkins’s presence in America is partly due to his em ployment, by the ■ New York Central. Park Committee, to prepare for that Park a group of restorations similar to those at Sydenham, only representing the American instead of European forms. For the studies essential .to this task he could get no material else where than in the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. The data collected with matchless care, intelligence, and at great expense, by the savahs of onr city, will thus recsive their - I only! popular exposition In another metro- Eolis. It appears to us that the least our own urgomasters couldgracefully do would- ‘be I; to provide us with a set of replicas of these - groups', to be installed either in our own fine Park, to which they would lend a new inter- ? eat and intelligence, or in the proposed net? ■" -hall of the Academy.” ’t; —"" 1 F. L. EETHERSTQN.. PaWislier. j PRICE THREE (JESTS. FACTS Ann FANCIES. >|| fv '—a; 4HCB), .Vi ••"’.lentil ■» aiut ■ity. “