I PaUi) .ffttJM# !Ais«not < Mirrenderea on or before the Ut of Octo beT next will bo paid at maturity, to Mcordance with their tenor. my29-t octl S. BRADFORD. Treaanrer. OFFICE OF THE SPRING GARDEN INSUK ANCE COMPANY. N. W. CORNER SIXTH AND WOOD STREETB. Philadelphia. July 6,1868. The Board of Director! of the Spring Garden Uuuranco Company have thia day dtcl&re* a dividend of Six Per Cent out of the profit* of the Company for the last eix cnonths. payable to the Stockholder* or their legal repre flentativea, at the office of the Company, on and after the 16th tosh THEODORE M. RaQiSR. jjB>6trps • Secretary. OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF North America, No. 933 Walnut street. Fmt.ADEi.pROL, July 13, 1863. The Directors have this dav declared a semi-annual Dividend of six per cent, free of taxes, payable on , dC jyA°lfw CHARLES PLATT, Bacretary. M >. A PUBLIC TEMPERANCE MEETING WILL W b 8 held at the Hall of the Young Men’. Christian Association, on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, at eight o'clock. For particulars, seeTuwday.papcrß. iyll-2tro} PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, No. 1* South Ninth etxeet. Club-foot, hip and spi nal diseaae. and bodily deformitie. treated. Apply daily at 14 o’clock. apisamrpt mgof HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOS. 1618" AND 1520 »W Lombardstreet, DiipensaryDepartmenti-Medlcal treatmen and ipedieine. fumuhed gratuitously to the poor. WTpS^&l? PA “TiK£™ «r»tfrr Wo. 618 .Tayne rtreel Hcpudlation. The proposition to tax the 'interest upon cur national securities is supported in some •quarters, on the ground that Austria has just Tesolved upon the same thing. But the fact is, that Austria has already great damaged her foreign credit by the proposition. The London Standard says: “The next time Austria wants money it will have to raise it at home. After thia sig nal breach of faith, anfL after the arguments by which it has been excused, it will he vain to appeal to France or England. The greater the inducement offered in the high rate of in terest, the stronger will now be the warning against touching it. Baron von Beust's assu rance that the rate of interest is necessarily always in inverse proportion to the security ■of the capital will be taken to heart, and the fact that the national representative of both icountriea have shown themselves disposed to so further in the way of repudiation than the Uovernments will prevent ahy further intrust ment of capital to develop the ‘incalculable resources’ of States with whom every advance .in freedom is accompanied by a correspond ing development of ill faith. The warning has ■come in good time,” Speaking on the same subject, the London Advertiser, says: . “This last great national swindle ought once and for all to'teach the moneyed inte ,rest/a lesson which it ought to have learned long ago. There are certain sorts of public andnational investment, as there are, certain' sorts of private stocks and securities, upon which really sensible people; would never lay out one shilling. Austria ought not to have been trusted any more than Spain. Every man who knows anything of the history of Europe for the past ten years must know What Austria really is—she is the sick man of Ike West, and not so much entitled to be trusted as the sick man of the East, because •She latter has friends and backers, which the ©ther has not.” This strong language represents the voice of Europe, and our . American credit will be ; treated m exactly the same way if the knavish' rpropoeition now before Congress,: and sup-' ported, by the Democratic platform, should .become Times. BUBOFEAN AFFAIRS Intel esting Details by Mail The I.ml>or Celebration* A despatch dated Worms, Jane 25, says: The most important part of the Lather celebration, viz.: the unveiling and dedication of the me morial, took place to-day. The weather was very fine, and a great number of people were present. The prefiminanr celebration yesterday consisted in speeches ana sermons, which were. delivered in three churches, and a soiree in the evening, at which Dr. Elch, of Worms, in the name of the Celebration Committee, made a speech to the guests, which was followed ,by several others. To-day was nshered in with Joyous peals of bells ana choral music from the tower of the chief church. At 9 A M. Divine services in honor of the celebration were held, the Grand Duke of Heese and bis guests attending the Church of the Holy Trinity. The King of Wurtemberg arrived early, and soon alter 9 o’clock the Grand Duke of Hesse, the King, the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Grand Dnke of Saxe-Weimar, with their respec tive suites, came by special train, and they were received at the railway station by the authorities, and drove at once to the ehuren. Loud cheers greeted the, royal-party on their way to the ebureb, where an immense crowd was collected. The church itself Was very full, the people stand ing even outside the doors, while the heat was overpowering. Divine service being over, a procession was formed, which arrived at thebloce where the cel ebration was to be held at IP. ML. Immediately afterward the royal party arrived, and were again loudly cheered as they took their places in the pavilion which had been erected for their reception. The large open space where the memorial is erected is an elongated square surrounded by fine buildings. Oa the southern side of the equre a large covered saloon, capable of seating some 1,400 people, had been pu t np, while on the other three sides other stands hod also been erected. Opposite the memorial was the stage for the speakers, rather on one side of the royal pavilions and close to a balcony wbere were the royal suites and high officials. Tbe royal party comprised the King and the .Crown Prince of Prussia, the Grand Dukes of Hesse and Baxe-Weimar, Prince William of iia all in full uniform, and the Princess Karl of Hesse. The Grand Dnke of Baden, who hod been expected,yvos unable-to attend through indispo sition. The celebration commenced with a chorus for male voices, accompanied by wind instruments, and composed by B. Lachner, the words from the Ctith Psalm. nn37-tfl Dr. A. Oppermann of Zittau, the brother-in-, law and biographer of the late Herr Bietschel, the sculptor of the monument, then ascended the Elatform and made a stirring speech, in which e narrated the history of the origin of the me morial, which the artist himself had been unable to finish, but which bad been completed by his pupils and colaborateurs, Herren A. Doundorf and G. Kletz, assisted by Herr G. Schilling, after his designs and models. Dr. Oppermann then rnlarged on the monument and the historical events and persons it was Intended to commemo rate. This speech was-followed by the “Hallelu jah after which Dean Keim, who was one of the originators of the monument, spoke at some length. When he had finished, the statue was unveiled, and the whole assembly joined in the grand old chant “Eine feste Barg.” The, irnmpcts sounded, and at Intervals'salvos of ar tillery were discharged. After the hymn was finished, Herr Zimmer mann, from Darmstadt, made a speech, in which be explained the object of the memorial: and formally delivered it over to the authorities of ihe town of Worms. Another hymn was sung, and the Burgomaster of Worms then formally accepted the monument. At this point the royal party lelt their pavillion and ascended the plat form in order to better hear the speakers. This step was received with load cheers, and the speech was interrupted by the Prussian national hymn, “Hell dirim Slegeskrauz, ” which was sung by the whole assembly. The singing over, the Burgomaster finished his speech, with which the actual celebration conclnded. A grand ban quet will take place in the covered saloon to morrow. The town is decorated with fjagfiand gay stream ers, and immense numbers of visitors are in town. Queen Victoria sent the following telegram to the King of Prussia, at Worms: “Pray express to the Committee for the erec tion of the LutherMemorail my most hearty con gratulations upon the successful completion of tbeir task. Protestant England cordially sympa thizes upon an occasion which unites the Protes tant Princes and people of Germany.” THE PAPAL STATES. The following is a translation of the Papal al location delivered in the secret consistory, held on the 22d of June last: Venerable Brethren: We should never have im agined that after the convention agreed to nearly thirteen years ago between ub and the Emperor and Apostolic King of Austria, to the great joy of all well-minded men, we should be obliged to lament upon the miseries and serious misfortunes which, by the machinations of evil disposed men, now afflict and annov in a deplorable manner the Catholic Church In the empire of Austria. In fact, the enemies of our divine religion, have been unceasing in their efforts to destroy the said convention, and to do the greatest harm to the church, to us, and to this apostolic see. On the 21st of December last, the Austrian Government passed an odious law to be carried out and strictly observed in every district of the Empire, even in those districts where the Cathollc rellgion exclusively prevails. That law establishes free liberty for all opinions— liberty of the press, of all faith, and no matter what confession or doctrine; it grants to the mem bers of every confession the right of establishing pnbllc schools and colleges, and members of every confession are allowed to be admitted on the same footing with the sanction of the State. Although we felt great grief on being informed of the fact, and wished to raise our voice ogainßt it, we nevertheless gave proof of forbearance, »pd we deemed it advisable then to keep Bilent, chiefly supported by the hope that the Austrian Government, lending a docile ear to the just complaints of onr venerable brethren (the holy prelates-of‘Austria), would return to more wholesome ideas, and adopt a sounder de termination. But our hopes have been frustrated. In fact, the same Government, on the 25th of May of this present year, issued another law which compels all the subjeots, even the Catholic ones,of the Empire, deciding that sons born of a mixed■■ marriage must follow, ithe. religion of the father, and the daughters that of the mother; and that ’under seven years of age they must follow in the stray path of their parents from the true faith. More over, the same law suppresses entirely the vali dity of the promises which the Catholic church, with reason and with the greatest justice, exacts • and prescribes absolutely before the celebration of mixed marriages. It makes apoataey itself a civil law both as regards the Catholic religion and the Christian religion generally; it suppresses all authority of the church, over cemeteries, and Catholics are bound to allow the bodies of here tics to be buried in their churchyard If they have hot any of their own. Moreover, the same Go vernment on the said 2oth day, of May of the pre sent year did not hesitatate.to promulgate a law on marriage which entirely- cancels all the enact ments Agreed to In the convention alreadyaUuded to this law restores the former Austrain laws, whieh are • contrary ! fo the laws Of" the ohurch; it admits, and oven confirms, that form' of marriage absolutely co'ndomnable, The Allocution. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1868. called civil .marriage, when the authority of any confession whatever refused the celebration of the marriage on grounds which are not' admitted as valid or legal •by the civil authorities. By this law tbis same Government bas suppressed all the authority and jurisdiction of the church on matters relative to marriage, as also all competent ecclesiastical tribunals on the subject. It has also promulgated a law on edu cation which suppresses all the influence-of tbe ehurch over,education, decreeing that tbe whole superior supervision of education, literature and science, as also the / inspection of schools, appertains to the state, which finally de crees that religious teaching in the public schools must be placed in the banas of members ef each separate confession, that any religions society may open private or special schools for the youth of Itsfaith; that those scboolß shall also be sub ject to tbe supreme inspection of the State, and lhat the scbool books shall be-submitted to the approval of tbe civil authorities; with the excep tion, however, of sneh books os are meant for religions instruction,-books which mußt be sub mitted to the approval of the competent authori ties of each confession. Ton Bee, consequently, venerable brethren, how necessary it is to Btirjgly reprove and condemn those aboml- Da’bie laws sanctioned ■by the Aus trian -Government—laws which are in flagrant contradiction with the doctrines of the Catholic religion: with its venerable rights, Us authority and it 6 divine institutions; with our power and that of the Apostolic See, os also with our concordat already quoted, and with natural right itself. In virtue then of the’ care of all ,churches intrusted to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, we raise our voice in your most illustrious assem bly: we reprove and we condemn by our. Apos tolic authority the laws which we have enumer ated, and every thing,’general or special, in those same laws, or in matters which refer to ecclesias tical right which hag been decreed or attempted unjustly, in any manner whataeever, by the Aus trian government,or its subordinates, whomsoever they may be.ln virtue of this same authority which appertains to us, we declare those decrees null and powerless in themselves, and in their effect both as regards the present and the future. As regards the authors of those laws, especially those who congratulate themselves cfn being Catholics, and have not feared ter propose, estab lish, approve, and carry out the above laws ond acts, we conjure and entreat them not to forget the censures and spiritual punishments which tbe ecclesiastical institutions and the decrees of -he (Ecumenical councils inflict, as having been deserved in ipso Jaeto by the violators of the rights ©f the Church. Meantime we rejoice greatly in the Lord, and we give onr well-deserved pmise to our venerable brothers, the archbishops and bishops ol the Austrian Empire, who with truly episcopal energy, have not ceased to warn their flocks of their duties boldly to defend and protect, by speech as well as writing, the cause of the Church and the said concordat conclnded with us We also de sire from-our hearts that our venerable brothers ■be archbishops and bishops of Hungary, follow ing the sample of their colleagues,will show them selves disposed to display the same zeal and the same ardor to-protect the rights of the Church and defend the said concordat against the stacks which are directed against it. Nevertheless, under these calamities which in these sad times offlict the Church everywhere, we do not cease, venerable brothers, with the deepest fervor and humility of heart, to pray to Goo that He may upsot all tbe criminal designs of. His enemies and those of His holy church, suppress their im pious efforts, and in His mercy -lead them back into the paths of justice and salvation. General Council of tlieCUnrcli. A Ponfffitoi'Buil'smmnoning a General Council of the Roman Catholic • Church, to meet in the Basilica of the Vatican on the Bth of December, 1869, has been formally promulgated. All eccle siaatics'entitled to be present are enjoined to ap pear, or, if prevented, to .jjbo represented by proxy. - The Bull expresses hopes that Princes and other rulers will afford the ecclesi astics all possible facility for making the journey to Borne. The Bull also states that the object of the Council is to assure the in tegrity of the faith, respect for religion and the ecclesiastical laws, 'the improvement of public morals, the establishment of peace and concord, and the removal: of the ills afflicting civil.and re ligions society. The Bull finally adverts toj-the necessity for maintaining the temporal power, the sanctity of matrimony, and the religious education of youth, and deplores the efforts ot the enemies of the Church t© overthrow those principles. POUTICAJU, FvGovernor Seymour and the Bebcl Couimlssioners-Efforts to Array the State of n civ Y orh la Hostility lo the Government. [From the Columbui (Ohio) Journal, July 11.1 We publish to-day the affidavit of Capt. James Sidney Hill, to which allusion has heretofore been made by us. The publication of this important affidavit has been purposely delayed, with tile hope and expectation that Horatio Seymour would be nominated for tbe Presidency by the Convention at New York. It will be remembered that when reference was first made to the existence of this testimony, Gov. Seymour exhibited ungovernable rage, and not only took occasion to vouch for his own innocence, but to attack with savage empha sis all officers and agents of the Government whom he suspected of having been instrumental in making known to tbe State Department the na ture of hie relations with the rebel Commissioners in Canada. , The writer who; in 1864, was Consul of the United Btates in New Brunswick, having been appointed to that office by President Lincoln In September, 1861, had occasion to, transmit to the Secretary of State information concerning the movements of the rebel Commissioners, Clement C. Clay and James P. Holcombe,and it especially became his duty to mhke known to the govern ment whatever facts were known in the British Provinces concerning the nature of the “mis sion” of these notorious enemies of States. Application will be made to the State Department for copies of the full correspondence on this subject, which, when obtained, will be made public. The important.fact was then well-known that the prime purpose that the Davis Government bad in sending Commissioners to Canada, was to array the State of New York In hostility to the Federal Government. Captain Hill’s tes timony establishes beyond question the fact that such was the confidence reposed in Horatio Sey mour, then Governor of New York, that the rebel chiefs did not hesitate to address him on a subject which they knew was dear to his heart— the triumph of the Confederacy.and opened con fidential correspondence with him,as with a tried and trusted agent of their own. Clement C. Clay, who organized the raiding . and piratical expeditions from Canada into the United States, expressed his entire willingness to visit Ogdensburg, N. Y., knowing that Seymour would give him safe passport throughout his “sovereign State.” It will be proved hereafter that Clay sent despatches to and received des patches from Albany, while at Halifax, Quebec and Montreal; that messengers were passing be tween the rebel Commissioners and the rebel sympathising Governor, for a period of almost two months; and we believe also that the exact nature of these communications will, ere long, be fully made known. 86 much by way of ex planation to-day, We shall pursue,this subject until the treachery and, treason of Horatio Sey mour, the Urorst and vilest enemy of the Repub lic, are laid bare. We. propose to see the thing through, and shall fight it oat on thia line: The following lean exact copy of the orignal affidavit now on file in the'State,Department of tho United States Government,: ' ;- , AFFIDAVIT OF CATTAnT JAiIES SIDNEY HILL.: Consulate of the Unwed States, St. John, N. B.—On this 2d day of June, 1864, personally yappearefi before me, J. Q.'Howard, .United States Consul at- St.' John,' N. B,; James .Sidney Hill, who solemnly made oath to the following facts .- • lam now about 28 years ot age; I was born in Ihe parish of St. Bernard, La.; I am the son of Jerome Philip Hill, of New Orleans,. wh<> has always been a devoted Union man. I - was edu cated as a civil engineer at West Point, Vo. In the year 1861, in the month of April, I was carried away by the intense excitement that pre vailed, and entered the rebel service as captain of a company pf volunteers; I served in tbo rebel Army at the first battle of IJanassas, at the bat tles before Bichmond at tbe time of McClellan’s advance, and also took part In the battle of An tietam; ,was wounded in the seven days’ fight near Bichmond; was sent to Savannah as engi neer on tbe staff of Gen. Gnstavns W. Smi th, and obtained leave of absence to go to Wilmington; from Wilmington I ran the blockade on the steamer Banshee. to Nassau; my object; was to get out of tbe rebel service ond take ’the oath of allegiance; from Nassaul-went to_JFlavana, and_ there took the oath-of allegiance under Mr. Lin coln’s . amnesty proclamation; from Havana. I went to StThomas with o friend who was in a; dying condition; thence to St. Johns, Porto Bleb; I could not get a vessel at' Pert© Blco for New Orleanß, but obtained passage to Halifax,' Nova Scotia, where I expected more readily to get a vessel. ' f I bad been in Halifax about four days, when happening to be at the wharf when thp mail steamer Alpha arrived from Bermuda, I was ac costed at the landing,.by Hon. C. C. Clay, of Alabama, whom I accompanied to the Waverly Hotel. CoL Duncan, of Louisville, Ky., was in company with us. Mr. Clay said he was on a little business for the Government! and was on bis way to Canada; said that he had great confi dence in me. A day or two after this conversa tion I came to St. John, N. 8., hoping to get to New Orleans by the way of Portland; and on the first day of June I again met Mr. Clay at the steamboat landing. He said ho wanted me to come as soon os 1 could to the Waverly Hotel to see him; about 8 o'clock he sent a boy to tljo Lawrence Hotel for me, and I went up to the Waverly to Mr, Clay’s private room. He said, look here, Captain, I want yon to go to Canada; I shall very probably go to Ogdcns burg, and as lam not at all well'l need some companv: I would have gone to Portland,’but I am afraid some one would recognize me. He pro posed to tfike a walk, and after our return, he requested me to come up to the hotel early In .the morning (this mhrning.) He sent for me at half past seven, and I went directly up.' He tooji me to his private room and again urged me to go with Mm. - " He took from a pocket in the back of his in; Bide coat, a package containing four or five let ters or despatches; I had one of these documents in my hand; it was addressed to His Excellency, Horatio Boymour, Governor of the State of Now York: another was addressed to Hon. Fomando Wood, New York; on each of these envelopes was printed, Department of State, Bichmond, C. 8. A., and on the envelope was written a name which I do not remember, but have no doubt it was the name of the present Secretary of State. Said Mr. Clay, I was sent on a mission to deliver those letters to Gov. Seymour, but I wish, they had chosen-somebody else; said he, I shall stop in Montreal a few days and then shall proba bly go to Ogdensbnrg; he said I shall see Gov. Seymour; but did not say directly that he would see him at Ogdensbnrg. If my (affiant’s) letters (which I .was expecting from New Orleans) came, he would like very much to meet me at Quebec or Montreal. I inferred from Mr. Clay’s conversation that he wanted me to convey bis despatches to Gov. Beymour. My in timacy with Mr. Clay arose from the fact that his son, Robert Clay, was First Lieutenant in my companv, }'! Ji Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Col. York’s command, Gen. Pickett’s division, jumgstreet’s corps. I parted with him saying that I would meet Mm in Canada, if possible. I Signed] James Sidney Hill. Sworn before me by said James Sidney Hill, and subscribed in my presence this second day of Jure, 1864. [Signed] J. Q. Howabd, U. S. ConsuL A Missouri paper on Blair. [From the St. Louie Democrat.} A FALLEN STAR. The Democrats seem to have become disgusted with their nomination for President, and satis fied that the game was lost, for nobody wanted to be Vice President but General Blair, and the whole convention was willing to “ let the tail go with the hide." It must be confessed that they could not have done a better thing —for the Radicals. If we cannot beat Blair, the revolutionist, with his proposal to disperse State governments by armed force fresh in mind, we could not beat anybody. In this State, his nomination will add five thousand to onr majority. Perhaps It may help the ticket in Kentucky or Maryland, but we doubt It. General Blair was once an honored name in this State. Greater credit is given him else where, it is true, for the course of Missouri in the early years of the struggle, than he really deserves, and yet, in kindly recollection of his admitted services, the Radicals of this State have never cared to lessen the respect which others might feel lor him, and have regretted to see it lessened by his own conduct. Perhaps it Is enough to point to the record. How much in fluence General Blair ever exerted is perhaps suf ficiently shown by the fact that after he and his friends, the Blair faction or Claybonks, chose to desert the Radical party, that party, nevertheless, moved on with solid lroDl to more complete victories over the Demoprats and Blair than it' had ever won, with his aid, over the Democrats alone. What tho Radicals in this State have accomplished, they have done, with General Blair, backed by tbe whole power of the Federal administration, fighting them with all the desperation of a ruined political gamester. For he is a political gambler, as reckless, and now in his ruin as desperate, as can be found anywhere in the land. Sober men at the East have asked, with wonder, whether the revolutionary letter recently printed could possi bly have come from Frank Blair. But those who know him better have long ago ceased to be sur prised at the manifestations of a desperation which borders on political insanity. By his letter and his nomination, General Blair renders the only service now in' his power to tho party which he has so long tried to destroy. Long ago he learned that the proud boast, “I made it; I can crush it!” was not easy of fulfillment. To day, he has reached that point, that, in Missouri at least, he can help any party only by being a candidate against it. For that last service to the Radicals of Missouri, and for a letter whieh will tell the whole country what manner of man the Democrats have nominated for Vice-President, we heartily thank him. The Cabinet and tbe Presidency. Washington, July 12 There Is much specu lation regarding the attitude of the President and his Cabinet on. the New York Democratic nomi nations, find numerous reports are in circulation (none of them well founded, however,! that a serious disaffection exists among Mr. Johnson’s advisers '■■ toward the Democratic candidates. There is no doubt, however, of the position of Mr. Seward and Gen. Schofield. They both sup port Gen. Grant. Secretary Seward will probably take no .prominent part in, the campaign, but his sympathies ana countenance will be given to the Republican candidate. Tho same may bo said only in a more positive degree of Mr, Evarts, the probable Attorney-General. As to Mr. McCul loch’s position, nothing further Is positively known than that he utterly repudiates the finan cial part of the Democratic platform, and that he dislikes Beymour. Postmaster-General Randall is reported' to have declared for Grant and Colfax, but authorizes a denial of tho report, and adds that he has not made up his mind to support either ticket. He states further, yery significantly, that he cannot conscientiously support a repudiation platform, of any candidate with repudiation principles. Regarding the much-talked-oi third party movement, be says that it would fail, inas much as it would result in throwing the election of President into the House, where there Is no third party, and where Grant and Colfax are the overwhelming ehoice. Other members of the Cabinet are understood to entertain similar views.— N: Y. Times. Gen. Sherman oa theNominaMShi. 1 A St. Louis telegram in the Chicago Times says that os Gen. Sherman waS alighting from a sireet car at the comer of Fourth and Olive streets, in that cl*y on, Thursday evening, a crowd surrounded him, asking what he thought of the nomination of Seymour, and whether he ; would support him. He replied: “It is a bad nomination, and will be beaten all to pieces. Grant will he elected.” Voices in the crowd re plied: “We don't want the support yL honse bnrners.” “You-wanted the nomination your ' self.” “You want Grant elected, so as to get Ms place at the head of the army,” and such like. ~ CRIME. Tbe Express Bobbery in tbe West.. [From tbe Cincinnati Times of July 11.] Yesterday afternoon we gave a pretty full ac count of a doring attempt to rob an express oar at Bro wnstown, Indiana, We have since learned the following particulars: For some time past the conductors and other officers of trains nave noticed a lot of well-known scoundrels of Seymour lounging around thede , pot and entirely too inquisitive about the private affairs of the Adams Express Company. So well convinced were they that another guer rilla attempt would be mod*, that one of the en gineers, James Flanders, went to the Express Company and desired to be allowed to work the matter np, by remaining off for some time at Seymour, To this proposition- the company readily consented, as they knew Flanders to be one of the gaincst and most reliable men on the road. By an nnusnol amount of cunning, Flanders had not been in Seymour bnt a short time before ho became Intimate with Vol. Elliott, Frank Sparks, John Moore, Charles Koseberry and Henry Jcrrcll. It was not long before they im parted to him the important secret that they, would “Morgan” the train leaving St. Louis at 3 P. M. of Thursday. At once informing the Ex press officers of the knowledge gained, a strong guard was placed in the car,and Flanders, having left Seymour, took his place as Jhe engineer of the train, making an unusual stop at Browns town, the place designated for the robbeiy. As loon os the train stopped Flanders jumped down and commenced his usual examination of the machine, to see that it was all right, after which he got np, and was almost instantly confronted by three of the gang with cocked revolvers, which they had placed in close proximity to his head, one being jammed against the eye hard enough to make a severe contusion. He surrendered at discretion, bnt before jump ing off,- requested to be allowed to start the pumps, so that the engine would not be bnmt up, which was granted. When the locomotive and ebr started off, the thieves pushed the fire man overboard, ana then fired several pistol shots np into tbe air, as a signal of victory. After moving three or four miles, the enghm was stopped, and the villains started to examine the booty in tbe car, wMch they supposed to bo al ready theirs, when, to their amazement, they were confronted with the armed guard hereto fore secreted behind some baggage. This was the signal for a general battle, both'sides firing with great rapidity, and the battle seemed about even, until Vol.EUiott, the most daring, as well as the acknowledged leader - of.tho gang, was seen to fall, when the rest beat a hasty retreat, bnt not before two ©f them were seen to fall, sup posed to have been mortally wounded—but this Is not certain, as their companions managed to secrete them in the darkness, and the train left before tbe result of the search, at onee commen ced, was ascertained. George FlaDders, not William, as printed in the first notice, was brought to the city, and had Ms leg ampntated. Vol. Elliott received two shots— one in the breast, and the other in the back—and although it was at first intended to leave Mm in the Brownstown jail, it was finally conclnded to bring him on to this city, and puce Mm in onr County Jail, where there will not be any possi ble chance of his escaping through the connivance of his associates. Tho -whole affair was managed with the moat commendable energy, shrewdness and bravery, and reflects the greatest credit on the Express Company hoys—the wounding of poor Flinders being the only acddent-to be regretted. Parisian Luxury and its Cost. —Besides the bans de delegation, vie And ranking. against the ratepayers of the French capital bondß of the famous year 1852 for £2,000,000 sterling; from 1855 to 1860, £8,750,000 sterling; for 1865, for £l2 006,000 sterling; and the bonds of the “Fund of Public Works, Paris,” for £4,800,000. These form part of the £80,000,000 sterling which havo been raised and, as it is called, borrowed by the towns, departments and communes of France dujrlng the sixteen years' life of the Second Em pire. It is, therefore, not surprising to find that the annual charge of the delegation bonds presses somewhat uneasily on the good city,and that there lata proposition nowunder consideration to extend the time for the repayment of this considerable sum over a period of’sixty years. Instead of the ten years stipulated for in the existing and, as it should seem, Bomewhat irregular, treaties. The immediate Inducement for this alteration in the character of the responsibility is not slight,being no less than the saving of an annual sum of 20,000,000 francs, which has to be defrayed out of the heavy octroi duties of Paris. But the shape of the change proposed has been defined, in a line, thus: That the population of Paris, Instead of paying £20,000,000 sterling within ten years, shall pay nearly £52,000,000 sterling in extinction of the same debt within sixty years. This may be called paying for a long day with a ven geance. Mode op Freezing Decanters op Water.— Every Englishman who hod been in Paris brings away with him a recollection oi the carafes frap pes—decanters of frozen water—supplied in such profusion at the cafes and restaurants, and pro bably often wishes that London was as liberally supplied. A new establishment for supplying them to the cafes has recently been opened'ltr Paris, and the mode in whichttho water is frozen is said to be as follows:— I Tla decanters, two thirds filled with water , which has been ,twice filtered, are placed in shallow tanks, in which salt water is made to circulate. Each tank con tains a copper reservoir with a receiver con taining ether. Large air pumps, worked in this establishment by a 16-horse power engine, exhaust the air from the reservoirs, the other in the receiver boils and passes rapidly away in the state of vapor, and the temperature of tho salt water and the water in the decanters is soon re duced to 20 deg. below the freezing point. At this temperature, however, the water in tho bot tle remains liquid; but now a workman goes round, and with, a glass rod stirs-the water in each decanter, and in on instant, 1 as If by en chantment,” it is changed to a mass of ice.. At the establishment we notice 6,250 carafes are fro zen daily, at what exponse is not stated, but It need only be very 6mall.— Mechanics' Magazme. -Electric Ornaments. — Electro-magnetism, it is said, is now employed to make smiall butter flies flutter their wings on ball headdresses, in Paris. Within the chignon ore concealed a small battery and a minute Bhumkorff coil. On the bosom may bo a brooch, with a head upon it, the eyes of which turn in all directions. This, too, is accompanied by the use of a batteiy and coil so,minute as to be concealed within the brooch itself. ■ The practice of registering names - for- the privilege of speaking has been abolished ln_the North German Parliament,, and hereafter the member must “catch the “Speaker’s eye,” as in the House of Commons and universally ini Amer ican legislative bodies. t PRICE THREE OS STS. FACTS, ID raiTCIES. te'jveDlnglfullotin.r ly Orari Yard. [For tbo^lh Tli e Tanu EPITAPH ON SALMON P. CHASTE. In this dull dreaiy'plnce Slumbers Salmon P. Cuase, A Senator ojce from Ohio; The gooif-Abreham Lincoln, •Him trußtwoKhy thlnkin’, Declared him Chief Justice; O, why oh? How this Chief Justice Salmon Had. a quick eye for mammon, And unto the White House aspired;..' 80 his old party dammln’, And practising gammon, "Hlmsaif toTthe Copperheads hired. 1 : They used him and fooled him, And then, they out-ruled him, Out Voted him rather; Tor Salmon Had a mere vulgar fraction Of votes; the attraction Was wholly for Seymour—Oh, Gammon* Salmon once loved the blacks, , But he lately made tracks On the course for the rule of the white man But the people in Tammany Thought Salmon was gammony. And not for their service the right mam - Of this fact notified, . Poor Chase sickened and died, And lies here by the banks of Salt River; : And the Coroner’s ’quest, • .When they opened his breast, Found a very black heart and white liver. —Chicago has 9,000 Italians. —Andrew Johnson is not the Merry-Andrew that he was. —GoVomor Geary has very properly declined to call an extra session of the Legislature. —Omaha has dug up a gold coin bearing data 158G. —When should a song have most discord? When it Is set to music. —Most of the wealthy actors and actresses are at Long Branch. —The headquarters of the Pendleton HspOft- at Cincinnati are for renU --ii" —Pendleton badges are cheap atClnclnnqjtl. : —A wild-goose chase for the Balmon P. —CEaee having gone up Salt River, its Salmon’, hereafter will be salt Igt —lbe Earl of Zetland'is the great Masonicnott In England. —The Saltan wants Napoleon to pay him a visit. —Brazil opens a new vein of gold about throe times a week. —A miner in Utah fell 750 feet down a shaft before ho touched bottom. ’ --7 y.- —Australia Is trying hard to raise sugar* both, from cane and from beets. —Alboni Is still fat, while Grisi is Still lean. But what’s in a name? ' —A woman in Houston, Texas, has died of the disgusting habit of “dipping” snuff.‘ ? —An English pedestrian is reported as having run 40 miles in 4 hours 53 minutes, “without mnch fatigue.” —A great American- exposition s proposed for 1876, the centennial anniversary of the Declare- 1 tlon of Independence. . —M. Maretzek has sent to France for a score of Auber’s “Premier jonr do Bonheur,”and la having a libretto translated into Italian. —The city government of Evansville, Indiana, has been defining on offence which it spells “purgery.” —The Western Democrats comfort themaelved with the reflection that wntts Pendleton could, not be nominated, Seymonr cannot bo elected. —Some incredulonß writer in Richmond thinks the story that Chaug.and 'Eng are*bbont to dis solve partnership e®y o a sarlea “final farewell” entertainments by them.»L —Tom Hughes is/ to write the history di tha “Jamaica Committee,” appointed to procuta Judicial examination into the'bfficlal acts of Goyv Eyre. ' T ’ —The Washington correspondent -of the Cin cinnati Commercial calls Mrs. Ames’s bust of Lin coln “as pure a piece of sculpturo as has becu seen.” —Eight Arabs condemned to perpetual im prisonment for cannibalism during the famine in Algeria, have lately been seat to the Island of Marguerite. —ln one of the counties in Mississippi- tho democratic tradesmen have notified the white re publicans tbat they will not admit them to their stores. A dresdftd punishment Indeed. —English steamers that make Bhort trips from London to the watering-places are lettincrbectha for the season to ..persons who like tliat\tyli£of travel and amusement. y\ —A New Yorker writes to the papers that he can’t -go 'to cbnrch without being “awfully shocked” by tho tobacco juice of the boys.and the flirtations of the girls. —The Lanterne says that one francs is an awful big price for the people to pay for getting a gullible Austrian Archduke shot in Mexico. J . —The ceiling of the aome of the Senate Library' in Luxembourg paloee lately fell and destroyed the beautiful painting by Eugene Delacroix which, covered it. —lt was strikingly proper that at the Seymour and Blair meeting, on Saturday evening, the band Bhould have played the famous rebeiair of “Maryland I My Maryland I” —General Napier, the conqueror of Theodore, has been made a peer,with the title of “Lord Na pier of Mogdala.” A Scotch querist questions the propriety of making a peer of a man who is Na pier. After a tong season of “Black Crook,” tho Chicago papers rejoice that the legitimate drama .asli) return to the stage at McVlcker’a Theatre. Theonening play is Brougham’s “Lottery or Life ! ,f NQh, legitimacy! —On tire-day of adjournment the New Hamp shire legislatureYnet-at five o’clock in the.mora- - ing. Nothing like this ever happened In any other New England State. Reports from Itoly are to the effect that the revolution is making great strides, and that Mazzlni is determined to resume the direction of affairs, convinced that the “rotten administra tion of Victor Emmanuof’.cannot uniteltaly. A French paper announces .that Italy feels that it owes such a debt of gratitude to both France and 1 Prussia that in case of a- war be tween. Iko two countries it would remain neu tral. - .. ' ?• —The militia force Of Great .Britain and Ire land in the roaj>l«G7, according to the latest ofllcial TETtrr&er'wis composed of 4.638 officers, 5,027 non-commisßioued officers, and 124,622 pri vates. . .. —An adopted citizen' oi mailed a lotter.wlth this “ Foto An shot (Fort Ancient), to William Gole to come as quick as you can as it got to Fort Ansont; and to send it as quick as possible and his sister Frances wand (wants) to ace hit?.” —TKeScmth-GormanDemoeraMejoarnallsts aro bitterly denouncing Mr. Bancroft; They chnrgo him with being such & foolish admirer of.Couht giamaxck that tho latter cohldeet him to consent to everything he pleased. Tim feeling «w«jC the Gcrroan-Ameiten.* now m Germany is very strong ~ ON. Piffifisto