GIBSOtt PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.—NO. 85. HE KVENiNG BULLETIN PUBLISHED KVEKT KVKNINQ (Sunday, exoepted), AT THE NEW BUTI.EMN BI71E.BIN«, 607 Cbeitnut Street, PUllodclpbio, EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. .rBOFBIKTOBS. GIBSON PEACOCK. JASPER SOUDEB. Jb_ * L. WILLIMh. The Bullmtoi i* served to subscribers in the city at 18 cents per week, payable to the carriers, or 38 per annum. Amebic aN Life Insurance Company, Of Philadelphia, S. £. Corner Fourth and Walnut Sts. f3rThu Institution hat no superior in the United Btates. INVITATIONS FOB WEDDINGS. PASTIES. AO, /A executed In a superior manner, by _ DBF.KA. 1U33 CHESTNUT STREET. feg)-tft I) LEIX ALLEN.—Suddenly, on the morning of tbo 16th in»L. at the residence of Dr. Kitchen in Berks county. Pa., Jo seph James, only eon of George P.asd Fannie M. Allenjn the 6tb > ear oi his *ge. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend his funeral, from the residence of hie parents. No. -Ml North Eleventh street, on Sunday morning, 19th lost., at 7 o'clock. 1 ovrocecd to Ablngtoo. • G ;i£GOaY.—This m< ruing, afta a short illness Joseph L Gregory, Jr, youngest eon of Joseph L. and LUzie-C. r..egorv, aged ll months. “*» 1 * liANBEUL—On the 16th insL, Morris Ilanseli, aged 29 vr»ru Tb( relatives and ft lends of the family, Plu mix Lodge No. 130; Gi ard Mark L>»dge No. 214; llarmony Chapter No 52, A Y. M ; Bt. John's Coxninandcry, No. 4 K f.; Adam Lodge No. bl 1 O. of O. K., and the officers and ru* in hers of the Board of Controllen of the Public Schools, are respectfully invited to attend tne funeral, ) root the residence of John L, Youns. 22W1 Market street, •o Hnnday afternoon, the 19th, at 3 o’clock. To proceed to Woodlands Cemetery. * HLKN —At Lancaster, Penwylvanla, oa July I7th, s Bcv. U. F. Ilurn, of the Philadelphia Conference, in the 42d year of bis age Duo notice oi the funeral, will be given. 2t LIT 1 ELL—At her residence, in Germantowo, on the evening of Wednesday, Jul* 15th. Busan Sophia Morris, wif of Jobu B. LittslL Funeral at BLLoke’s Cburch.Germanto<vn. (this) Satur day afternoon, July 16th, punctually, at 5 o’clock. ® SIAh.TIN-.On the morning of July 17. MariannaM. Martin, wife of Sanderson It Martin, and daughter of Charles M. Morris. • McLAT < 11LIN.—t'n the 17th insb, Michael McLaugh lin. in the 73d year of his age. / I be relatives a« d friends of the family are respectfully Im itt-aMa-attend the •funeral, on Monday morning, at 8 • o’dockMrotn the residence of his son, No. 3507 Chestnut street. High Mass at St James Church. It MuLALGHLIN.-On the 17th iontant. Agnes, infant r dauahte- of Frank and Sallie McLaughlin aged 8 mouths. 1 unerai from the residence of her parents, 33CT7 Chestnut pti eei, on Mond v morning, at Bo’clock. It M i LLEIL-- Suddenly, at Pottetown, Pa., on the evening of the 17Jj i«et, Geo. Miller, in the 79ta year of his age. Dub notice will be given of the funeral. * A Y LQB.—On the 17th instaoL Percy, eon of J. J. and Annie 1 aylor. aged 2years and 11 days. The relative* «nd friends arc invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of h { s parent*, 3111 Cherry erreyt, on fiuudej afternoon, 19th inst, at 3 P. M, • WALLACE.—On the 17ta inet, Mary Wallace, aged 62 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respe-t -fully invited to attend the funeral, on Monday afternoon, the 20th Instant, at 2 o’clock from her late residence, 423 North Seventh street. To proceed to Koxhorougb Ceme tery. tzr- NOTICE.-*}[HARD MARK LODGE. NO, 2H. A k . M.-Tbc Officers add Members of Girard Mark L-xize No. 214, A. V M„ Are. requested to meet at the Hill, Chertout street, on Sunday Afternoon, at 3 o’clock, to ucftevrltb pbu-nix Bodg* No 130 in attending the funeral of rur late Brother and Worshipful Master. MORRIS UANSRIsK « J. A.TLEE WHITE. Sec’ry. NOTICE.—THE OFFICERS AND SIR KNIGHTS of St. John's Commanders No. 4, are requested to assemble at the Asylum, Chestnut street, on Stioday .Afternoon, at 3 o'clock, to attend the funeral of Sir Knfght MORRIS BANSELL. The Officers *nd Sir Knights of Nos. 3and 29 arc cour teoutly Invited to participate. • J. ATLEE WHITE, Recorder. tW“T HE MEMBER* OF THE FRENCH BEXEVQ. JLENT SOCIETY are invited to attend the funeral of J. R POIZAL DE LOCALE uE VErtONNE, fro n hb late residence, 638 Spruce street, on Bunday, July lith', at 4P. iL, precisely. By order of the President • IL TIREL, Secretary. ttjgs* MASONIC NOTICE. - THE MEMBERS OF PUCKNIX LODGETNo. lfi), A Y.M, the merabere of the Grand Lodge of Pennaylvanla, and the Order in general a- * fraternally invited to meet at the Masonic HalL Chestnut street, on SUNDAV, the 19th fnst.,at 234 o’clock, P. M., to attend the funeral of our late Brother tfccnTWarden), MORRIB HAN BELL. By order of the \V. M. Jyl7 2tr ‘DLACK LLAMA LACE POINTS, 87 TO 8100. Jj WHITE LLAMA SHAWLS, WHIi‘ESHETLAND DO. t WHITE BAREGE DO. WHITE CRAPE MARETZ. EYRE A LanDELL» Fourth and Arch eta. RELIGIOUS NOTICES. REV. MR. ALLEN. OF “OLD PINE STREET mmm/ Church.'* trill {breach at Presbyterian Church, At lantic City, 19tb inst. It* •go* THE BECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will worship in the Hail at the S. W. corner of Broad and Walnut streets. Services at 10% A M.. by Rev. Alfred Nevin, D. D. It* W&f* REV C. H. PAYNE WILL PREACH IN THE Arch Street ME, Church to-morrow, at 10 % A. .\L Sunday evening services will be discontinued for July and August. It* ££Sr NORTH BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN Church, comer Broad and Green streets. Preachiag to-morrow at IOJf,A. M., andB P. M., bv the Pastor, Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D. Subject in the evening, "Zion Above." Strangers are welcome. It* HSf ST. PHILIP'S CHAPEL, NINTH, BELOW BUT tonwood— F.ev. C. D. Cooper, late pastor of 8t PhiupV I burch. will bold divine service at tbe Chapel, on Sunday next. Morning service at o’clock; eveo ing, 8 o'clock. it* SPECIAL; NOTICES. &&■ Office Philadelphia Gas Woiks No. 20 South Seventh St., July 18, 1888 To the Public: Being unable to make any compro mise with the men demanding an in crease of wages, and fearing the evil cos sequences likely to ensue if the city should be in darkness for any considerable length of time, tbe Trust have concluded to accede to thiir demand. Consumers will please use the gas this evening as economically as they can, and I have no doubt that within 48 hours we shall have a sufficient quantity to meet all the demands. THOMAS R. BROWN, Engineer. its Jtegf* GRANT, COLFAX AND VICTORY. Tho Citizens of the Thirteenth Ward favorable to the election of GRANT, COLFAX, and the Republican Ticket, ore Invited to attend a meeting, for the purpose of forming a t lub forthe enening Campaign, on MONDAY, July SOth, at 8 o'clock in tho evening, at the northeast corner of Ninth and Spring Garden! streets, Eminent speakers wiU address the meeting, Its ID ail)) dEftmug IkMut my27-tf{ E. P. LEBCURE, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. BEADQUARTEHB REPUBLICAN CITV EXE BTfiEtT TIVB COMMIT ' rEE ' N - 008 CHESTNUT m.. Philadelphia, July 17,1668. The yoton Republican Cotir tv Convention to nominate Attorney will roassembte on THUESDAY MORNING next, July 21 at Concert Hall, Chestnut street, above ’J wrlftb, at 11 o'clock AM_ to ail the vacancy earned bv the declination of Colonel william ii. Mann. WILLIAM R LEEDS, President. A. M. \VALKi.vfigaw, f Secretaries. jylB-8t rps ■«*» NOTICE TO THE EMPLOYES ***' of the PHILADELPHIA GAS WORKS. The WORKMEN aie hereby notified that the , BOARD OP TRUSTEES bave compiled, with their request for the advanced work'immediatefy * TB hereb Y requested to resume By order of the yfiy TO THE BOARD OP TRUSTEES CHIEF ENGINES BOFTHE GAS WORKB On behalf of tho workmen employed In tho Phlledel. phi. Gas Work., wo return to yon onr sincere thank, for 3 our kindness in acceding to onr request for an ad ranee of wages. By order of the ■ It COMMITTEE. ffgf BABDEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences on THUJRSDAY, September 10. Candidate* f6r admission may be examined the day before (September 9), or on TUESDAY. July 28, the dSy before the Annual Commencement. For circular*, applyto president CATTELL, er to Professor E. B. YOUNGMAN, Clerk of the Faculty. jy!4tf E.bton, Pa., July, ISSB. •£?» OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM w PANY. PniuotZiFßU. Mar 13th. 1868. NOxiCE TO STOCKHOLDERS.—In pursuance of rcso* mtions adopted by the Board of Directors at a' Stated Meeting held this day. notice Is hereby sires to the Stock* boldere of this Company that they will nave the privilege if subscribing, either directly or by substitution, under inch rales ns may be prescribed therefor, for Twenty-five Per Cent, of additional Stock at Paf.ifi proportJon to their respective interests as they stand registered on the books jf tht Company, May 20th. 1868. Holders ox less than four Sharer will be entitled to sub •cnbo for a full share, and those holding more Shares ih*n a multiple of four Bhares will be entitled to an addi tional Share. Subscriptions to the new Stock will bersj slvedonand ifter May fOth, 1868, and the privilege subscribing will cease on the 30th day of July, 1868. The instalments on account of the new Shares shall 09 paid in cash, as follows: Ist. Twenty-five Per Cent, at the time of subscription, >n or before the 3fltb day of July, 1668. & 2d. Twenty-five Per Cent on or before thf 15th day of December, 1868 \ Sd. Twenty-five Per Cent. on or before the 15th day of June, IbcSL , 4th. Twenty-five Per Cent, on or before the Utb day of December, 18&, or if Stockholder* should prefer,the whole amount may be paid uj> at once, or any remaining inatal» mfcnte may be paid up m fall at the time of the payment }f the second 01 third instalmeat,and each instalment paid jv shall be entitled to a pro rata dividend that may be de> oared on full share*. mylltjyaKrp PHILADELPHIA AND HEADING RAILROAD OFFICE NO. 237 SOUTH FOURTH STREET* ' Phuudelwiia, May 27,186 a. NOTICE to the holder* of bond* of the Philadelphia end Reading Railroad Company, due April U 1870: The Company oiler to exchange any of these bonds of 61,000 each at any time before the Ist day of October next, tt par, for a new mortgage bond of equal amount, bearing 7 per cent, interest, cleat of United States and State taxes, having 25 yean to ran. The bonds not surrendered on or before the Ist of Octo ber next'will be paid at maturity, in accordance with their tenor. my2frt octl S. BRADFORD, Treasurer. 10- NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS,WASTE Ac* bought by E. HUNTER, n> No. 613 Jaynastregf. PKOV’UCIU COMITY AID CODB- TES r. Aihrcst of an American CiUzen in Hali fax for Celebrating me Fourth. of July. [From the Halifax Citizen. July 9.] The American citizens resident in Halilax cele brated the anniversary of their nation’s indepen dence on the 4th inst. by dining together at the International Hotel. One of these gentlemen, we understand, not content wltn eating his din ner and attending the Consul’s levee', and not having the fear of British Institutions or a pro per respect for British feelings before his eyes, made a further demonstration in honor of the occasion, and hod the audacity to let off some fireworks in the evening 'from his hotel window. We have \ not learned of what those fireworks consisted, whether squibs, crackers or ro'bketsj but What ever they were, they seem to have given mortal offence to some terribly loyal British subject, who gratified his anti-republican prejudices by havlDg the aforesaid ‘-citizen,’’ np before the Po lice Court on Tuesday. We are astonished that any man conla be fonnd in the province of Nova Scotia to make complaint about such an offence —if It was an any law, munici pal or provincial. It was only two years since the citudel and the ships of the fleet in port acknowledged the inde pendence anniversary by salatlng the American flag on that day, and when those represent ing the authorities of Great Britain here can re cognize the day in so marked a manner it seems hardly becoming for any British subject, how ever loud his sense of “loyalty” may be, to ob ject to any such trifling demonstration as that complained It surely is no crime for an American citizen to rejoice in his country’s inde pendence and to assert his nationality even in a British city by burning a few crackers on the Fourth of July or by any of those demonstrations of gladness usually resorted to on such occasions. The majority of rational minded people will pronounce the action of the in former in this case an exceedingly paltry and contemptible business. The conrt, however, seemed to view the matter differently, for it im £osed a fine of $8 and costs, or fonrteen days’ nprisonment on the offender for daring to do as on American citizen on the 4th of July, in this city ef Halifax, what hundreds of juvenile British subjects in this same Halifax do nnder the nose of-this Mr. Justice Shallow, every day of his life. We cannot help feeling that our city has been disgraced by this prosecution and verdict; and we believe that both the prosecutor and the magistrate will yet feel heartily ashamed of what they have done. Changes at West Point. By direction of the Secretary of War the fol lowing officers have keen relieved from duty at the Military Academy at West Point, and ordered to their proper stations on the Ist of September next:4—Brevet Lieutenant Colonel E. R. Warren, Captain Third artillery; Brevet Lieutenant Colo nel L. N. Beniamin, Captain Second artillery; Brevet Major E. G. Rush, Captain Tenth infan try; Captain F. B. Hamilton, Fourteenth infantry; Fust Lieutenant M. B. Adams, corps engineers; First Lieutenant H. B. Leygam, Fonrth artillery. Brevet Major, General A. S. Webb, Lientenant Colonel Fourteenth infantry, has been relieved from dnty at the Military Academy on the 15th of September next, or os soon thereafter as Captain Robert Gatlin, Forty-third infantry, shall raieve him, when General Webb will join his regiment. The following officers have been ordered to report for duty at West Point on the 28th ot August next, to relieve the officers above named: Brevet Lientenant Colonel C. C. Parsons, Captain 4th artillery; First Lientenant C. E. L. Davies, corps engineers; First Lientenant George 8. Greenough, 21st infantry; Second Lieutenant Charles Shaler, Ordnance Department; Second Lieutenant Louis Loraia, sth artillery. Brevet Major W. F. Watson, Captain sth artil lery, has been ordered before the retiring board' at New York. —Theodore used to drink like the proverbial fish, and his peculiar vanity waß “raki,” a-plea liquid in a hot climate. After one of Tils big drinks,” he heard some prisoners loudly complaining that others had been set free, while they weke detained. 2 “You wretches", to make a noise and disturb me," said the King,and ordered them all-for inßtant executlonr A few hours" was praying that these mnrders might not be counted np against him, as ,he had per petrated them undor the influence of evil spirits. Practical Rcconntr^ction—Appearance of Uie Louisiana and Nonb;carolina Senators— if hat an Old Southerner Think afof Ttoclr Bctnrn—A Pennsyl* vanla “Carpet Kepresent m«r Louisiana in tbe House -a. Crop Spring's ap from tbe Old Battle fields of Virginia, d:c. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.) Washingtos, July 17,18C8—Reconstruction Is rapidly becoming a fixed faet. To-day, fonr new Senators were admitted, John Poole and John C. Abbott, of North Carolina, and John S- Harris and Wm. P. Kellogg, of Louisiana. There were only a 'few'strangers present in the galleries when they were sworn In, but I can assure yon thore were some whose warned at the sight Sitting near me was an old gentleman from Florida, who has been here some time on private business and who was In the South during the whole of the rebellion. The stories of oppression, cruelty ’ and suffering which the peopleof that section en dured, told In the plain, trnthffil manner of that old, honest man, excite the emotion in every listener. I have listened to him for hours at a He was a strong Union man when “e slrjJggle commenced, but was compelled to the dde against his better Judgment, 'Hbd give a tffclt snpport to the rebellion, although he was long past the age to bear arms. <To my knowledge, he begged president Johnson to sign the last Kecon-trnction bill, as he said ‘the people of his State' wanted to get back into the Union anyhow. If they had to climb in tbrongh the window, tbey didn’t care how they got in, so thiy got in.” This was his earnest appeal to John sod, but In vain: Johnson vetoed the bill. Bat Congress passed it over his veto, and to day the old gentleman sat In the gallery, with his heart full and his tyes moistened with tears. Grasp ing my hand, he said: “My dear sir, I was in this chamber on the very day that the Representatives from those two States took their leave, and withdrew in very pompons speeches. . I cried that day when I saw it, for I felt they were doing wrong. Bat God knows how I rejoice to-day to see them re turning like the Prodigal Son, and I can assure you that we are too glad to get in ever to think of goinevont again. Louisiana and North Caro lina ! God be praised that tbey are once more in tbe family of States, on equal terms.” It was really an interesting sight, and although I joked the old gentleman about the new Sena tors being “Carpet-baggers,” he replied, earn estly, ‘Carpetrbaggers or not, I am rejoiced to see them here." a PENNSYLVANIAN AMONG THE“cABpET-BAGGERS." Among.the representatives elect to Congress Irom Louisiana is J. Hole Sypher, formerly of Lancaster county, Pa., who was a 6ergeantin the early part of the war in a Pennsylvania regiment, then a student at the Free Military Bchool for officers of colored troops in Philadelphia, in charge of CoLJohnH, Taggart. From this school Bypher passed General Casey’s Board as a Colonel, aßd was appointed to command a regiment of heavy artillery on the Gnlf Coast, in which position he remained till the close of the war. He settled in Louisiana, bought or rented a cotton plantation, and made some excellent crops, by Pennsylvania industry and thrift, took an active part In politics on the Republican side, was elected to Congress, and is now here to claim his seat. There’s a his - tory for yon! He Is intelligent, energetic, indus trious, and as true as steel, and, lastly, a Radical of the Thaddeus Stevens’ style, whom he regards as his guide and preceptor. A hearty welcome to tbe “member from Louisiana”—the “carpet bag ger” from Pennsylvania! 1 hoe’s patent fob “last past" presses. Mr. R. M. Hoe, of New 'fork, was here this week, urging the passage of his bill to extend his patent for the “last fast” presses. But the pros pects of its passage thiß session do not seem good ‘ COMMITTEE. THOMAS T. FIRTH, Treasurer. A SEW AKD PBOFTTAKLE CROP IN VIRGINIA. Captain E. B. Gates,-formerly of the 4th Penn sylvania Reserves, who lost a leg at the battle of New Market Cross Roads, in the seven days’ fight, and who hasjhfien engaged in the Internal Revenue service in Virginlafor some time past— but is now out of it—has bnilt-a large factory at Manassas Junction, to grind sumac, large quan tities of which have grown np in that vicinity within the last two years, and which now afford remunerative employment to a large class of poor white and colored people, who make from one to three dollars per day, gathering the leaves of the plant, which are purchased by the owners of the sumac mills, and ground np. There are two mills in operation in Alexandria for grinding snraac besides that of Capt. Gates. I mention this to illnstrate a enrions fact, which is now demonstrated on the poor soil of Virginia. In every place where pnrs or the rebel army en camped for any length of time, cleared away the brushwood ana cut down the woods, there has since sprung np spontaneously a most abundant crop of sumac, which is so thick as to be com pletely matted in some places, and conld be ent down with a scythe, only that it would not be free from weeds. It affords employment for poor men, women and children to gather the leaves, and is really the only crop they can de pend upon for immediate cash sales; for every pound they gather, there is a sale for it. The article, ground and free from stems, is worth $BO to $lOO per ton. Suspbkhanna. Scenes In the New York Morgue. . . [From the New York World.] “Bring in your dead.” This has been the terrible, dismal cry for five daysohtsideof the charnel house 111 Twenty-sixth street, known as theMorgne. “Bring in your dead.” All day long. In the night too, with- the shadows gathering on the hot, seething river, with bodies washing in and out against the docks which have fallen from the death-boat'on its way to Ward’s Island. Slapping to and fro against slippery piles, and filling the mid-air with a hor rid blue-bottle stench which makes the nerves fidgetty and the system weak. Ah! these ter rible five days will long be remembered in New York.. The bloody sunset’s embers are falling in the water which rolls' resistlesaly and washes the lower abntment of the Morgue. Since morning and for five days, the loiter end of Twenty-sixth street which juts out into the East River, and looks, with its stables, low-roofed manufactories and sheds, deserted enough, has been darkened by a stream of hearses and hacks to take away the bodies of the stricken onea who have fonnd their last shelter above earth in the stone-flagged yard and on the marble slabs of the Morgae. The Moigue is a two-story brick building, with crennelated windows, and a lonely aspect blink ing from the hot bricks in its walls. Even the bricks look withered and seem to fester in their mortar encasements with the violent heat. Fronting the building is an iron railing, and the windows, which look in on the dead bodies, are aIBO barred stoutly. At the end of the build ing is a yard with a wooden fence, high np, fronting on the river, and a wooden door which opens into the prison-like yard. Below this again is a wharf covered in with a wooden shed, from which the bodies are damped into the Dead boat. To the right of the Dead-wharf is another wharf, where prisoners destined for Blackwell's Island are confined in a square wooden edifice, with bad, reeking smell, not at all controlled' with the plentiful whitewash which adorns its walls. There is a crowd ,of cqriosityjeekers, of both sexes and of all ages, standing and loncglng and gaping in the hot son, around the wharfs, in the street, at the doors of the Morgue, and before • the opening ia the Death-yard. A few , are distressed and agonized, seeking to recognize friends among the festering coroses; but the majority an low browed. scantily-dressed, apd hord-lcoklng specimens. The prisoners on the dock, drunken PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1868. xbtteb fboiu WAsjaiso row. THE HOT TERR. OUR WHOIE COUNTRY. men and women, with dirty. soiled garments and hideous faces, are en gaged in violent contention among themselves, on “ ODe a nd wretched hag continually bawls out, regardless of the close vicinity of death and terror: a a " h—h ° h hoh—nyo—£> hob n-y- We enter the yard of the Morgue through tho cut in the fence, and before crossing the threshold, a burly form of a man In tho prime of . bare-headed and stout-bodied, blocks up the aperture, and asks what “we want.” “To take a look at the Morgue, and Its adjuncts and appur tenances. “All right; come In.” This- Is tho assistant who remove* and boxes bodies up for transportation. He* Is a man of hues build, hard, horny-handed man, with an eye to We are In the yard, which Is £? 7 * d " Ith fl, a g. about fifty feet by twenty. Piles of coffins, all around ns, with a nar ■ row passage to walk in. Rough boxes of pine, palnled red, marked “3-6.” “4-6,” “6-6.” “G-G ” and so on, to ekow what size body may be ac commodated within their wooden walls. There are two or three stacks of these boxes empty and waiting for bodies. The rest are fnlhreeklng and horrible to look at, bnt far more horrible to smell. The flags of the yard are covered with a moving mass of maggots—white, disgusting maggots— the refuse ofwhat was once the tenement of life •and light, joy, hope and despair. The shells of human souls, stricken to nothing by the scorch ing blasts of the burning July sun. Streams of water from short lengths of hose are plaving on these coffins. Some of these pine boxes have their lids partly ajar, and heads cov ered with grensy wet hair protruding from them Bn “ sickening, blasted faces, some the color of verdigris, some like boiled meat, and some like nntanned leather, look op at the sun, and the dead still glassy eyes frighten one with their steadfast gaze. From the seams of these coffins pour columns, platoons, brigades and divisions . 1 U P 7 whitc ma Keots. The coffins are filled with Ice, but the blood In the bodies turned to fire by long boiling in the sun before death came as a relief, has placed the rotten flesh beyond the contiol of a million icebergs. “Augh, this has been an awful week for ns,” says John O’Brien, the boxer-up of bodies, “ohnrc I’d rather have cholery or yalla favir than sunstroke to dale wid. Ah, man, ye ought to seen the herses these four days.” ‘•You must have had a busy week.Mr.O’Bnen,” say-we. “Yis, and I have plenty more bodies. I keep tbim here under the jurisdiction of Mr. Brennan. But the great difficulty is that when the coroners Binds for the frindeof the bodies they won’t come. And the stink is awful. You can’t recognize a body at all, at all, after two days.” "Have you had many bodies here, Mr. O’Brien, this week ?" “Well, I guess I bad seventy-five or more. There’s a great many of them unknown. I put ice on them, but thev won’t keep, and then there’s a great many of them that are kept in cellars and places a long while before they're brought here. Here is some of them.” And we stepped into a small room out of the pile of hot, reeling coffins where there was a cold, deathly air pervading the low chamber. The assistant lifted a coarse, wet blanket off a recumbent figure, oad showed us the worm-eaten face of a dead man of the laboring class, with the legs bare with small lnmps of ice strewed on them “ Yon see that’s quite hard,” said John, dig ging bis fingers and thumbs into the breast of the man. The ice had sayed oil bnt his face, which was ot the color of a copper-bottomed - heel that had IniH long in salt water. Then we went through the yard again, passing between rows of hot, slimy pine boxes, and in nnder the shed of the wharf where the bodies are embarked for the island for bnrial. The wharf is qnite dark, ' the ’ sides being open on the river, and it is some time before we can sec objects distinctly, bnt the odor is awful. The water plashes and plays with the nnder timbers of the wharf, and steamboats pass np and down in the distance. There is a breeze on the river to-day, and the sun is tame in com parison with its efforts of the previous days of the week. “We have lots of thlm here,” says the attend ant. . Looking along the narrow wharf, we eau dis cern a number of dark objects covered with can vas baggiDg. These are the rotting bodies. A number of coffins, also, with small cards nailed upon them, giving the name and canse of de cease of each victim. As we look at these, we think of the words of the poet: A rampant breach is every Day, Which many mortals are etorming; Fail in the gap who may, Of the aiain no heap re forming. “This is the rouiler on which we roull them out into the boat,” says O’Brien, pointing to a rode platform with rollers attached, on which the bodies are damped in (he boat. Very few of tho bodies can be carried, so they are placed upon the roller and- so rolled into the flat boat. The board is covered like a batchers block with blood, slime, fatty grease and putrefied matter from the numerons bodies which have been rolled over its surface into the floating tomb The big toes on either foot of each body are tied together, and- from under the canvas coverings of many of these loathsome, bulky objects, these ghastly, bleached toes stick out, lor, strange to say, the extremities are the last to putreiy. One object before ns, within two feet of us, seems to move, and we look inquiringly at O’Brien, who lifts the canvas. Great God f what is this ? It is a human body, or was once, but now it is a sponge or a fungus. Looking down, we behold the shape and oatline of a corpse, bat sneha corpse l There is the faint outline of a body, the slight swell of the breasts of manhood, the swelling curve of the hips, a crayon of a head, neck and arms. Bnt there is no flesh or integuments. Bat the ontline Bwarms and is moving. There is nothing of mortality left. The body 6 all white maggots! and seems to have power of locomotion. It is all maggots. Millions of them, and nothing else, a perfect grayish-whitti sponge of maggots. No face, no eyes, no flesh, not even Corrupted flesh, the maggots have supped heartily, ana have left nothing, so they are now tearing out each other’s entrails with terrible ferocity. A cast-iron stomach could not stand this any longer, and we leave the dark-rotting wharf with the idea in our mind that the maggots will, if left to themselves, soon eat np the timbers down to the water. Now we are in the ante-chamber to the Morgue proper. The bodies for identification are pre •eerved in a glass mnsenm. Fifty or sixty idlers, many of them half-grown children, are crowding np to the panes of glass, which are defended by iron railings and bars, and those who are tali and strong press forward as if they would break in to get near the naked bodies. The strongest and tallest get tho best chances, and the short and weak ones, with heated faces, frowzy hair and soiled garments, have to be content with a look between the legs of the tall onea. The boxer of bodies, with an air of authority, takes ontahuge key, opens the door, admitting us into the Chamber of Death, and the crowd press forward hungry and athirst to get a look, and glaring with envions eye that they are not ad mitted. We ore in a chamber about fifty feet loDgby twenty-five feet wide, with a strong odor of carbolic acid pervading everything. There were seven marble-slabbed tables in the room, and on eveiy ope of the seven tables a naked body, that to, naked as far as the'arm Sits. Streams of water pour down from pipes i the ceiling on the faces of the dead men. The ' clothing of each of the dead men -is hung np opposite each table and ticketed with the name of the deceased, if any-nameis known, and when the body was found. They are all men of middle age, staring in a ghastly manner, their months ■wide open, the eyes glassy, and the longues" sticking out,-whitened with a - white fur. ’ Their arms hang down in a still, silent position, like stiff pieces of gutta percha. The feces are bloated. and swollen, bnt identification Is possible to those who knew them in life. The bodies are In good condition, and the flesh and skin, firm and natu- Tv ’ e J ce P t ' E s where the red streaks show, from tho effects of the .arbolic acid used to keep them from corruption. O'Brien takes up a hugo glass jar fall of liquid, which, when shaken, looks, like coffee grounds, and ponrs it on-tho faces of the dead men, saving: j ’hat 6 the fine stnff. It keeps them beau tifw, share. One of the dead men has a clear, white skin and a fine body. Ho shot himself through the left breast, while In tho Central Park two days before, and be lays there now, poor fellow, very quiet. All the rest have-died of sun stroke, and look horrible In this q«stet chamber, with the plash of the stream of water, and the intense, sickening odor of carbolic add. Some or them have been lying here on these- slabs for forty-eight hours awaiting identification, Which will never come perhapß for them—poor wretches, in this world. There are lots of flies humming around—great, big, Juicy fellows, with round, jolly bodies. They have had a royal week of it, these fat, lazy fellows; and-when the bodies are exhausted, they will of a certainty eat one another up. Well, we have got enough-of the horrors of this place and pass out from the dread results of this week of the fire of Sodom and Go “Offoh. Going out Mr. O’Brien said cheerfully, 111 always be glad to see you, and show you around, sir, whin you come.’’ POLITICAL. Mr.Hazleburst’s Letter ot Withdrawal ~P w l L^l >ll L rHrA' Joly 1808. —To William McMichael, J. Edward Carpenter, Mayer Stole berger, Peter Fazel, John Q. Adams, John V. B. Hahn, Committee of the “ Union Republican County Convention." — Gentlemen: Deeply impressed with the importance of perfect harmony in the ranks of the Republican party at this time, and unwilling that my name, as a candidate, should in any way interrupt that harmony, I beg you, without delay, to withdraw my nanie from the public canvass. As my nomination by your convention was entirely unexpected and unsought for, and as the triumph of Repnblican principles is dearer to me than any possible personal consideration, I have no hesitation in coming to this conclusion and in making this request. I am faithfully yours, Isaac Hazleuurst. Address (o tho Pennsylvania Demo< cracy. Democratic Btate Committee Rooms, Clearfield, Pa., July 14, 18G8 To the People of Pennsylvania —The political contest just en tered Into Is laden with grave results to your bu slness and to yourselves. • The Radical party asks'a renewal of Its power end a continuance of its misrule. Defeated In every recent election,-it now dis guises its principles and trusts for success to the militaiy prestige of an available candidate. It offers to Grant the shadow of power, as a price for securing the reality to Congress. Its success will bring you continued mis-goy erament by a Radical Congress, the control of every department of the government by Radical domination, and the perpetuation of its iniquities, its extravagance, its elevation of the negro, and its prostration of your business interests.' It came into existence to benefit the negro; Its devotion to his interests gave us four years of war, grinding taxation and three thousand mil lions oi debt, its determination to place the negro over the white man has fpr more than three years .kept society shattered, commerce paralyzed, In dustry prostrated, the national credit below par aDd the Union divided. It has governed ns for near eight years; the hisjtory of its first administration Is written In four years of blood and recorded in an enormous national debt; the histori of its second adminis tration is near four years of peace, with absolute power, and a Union not restored, a government of the sword, business destroyed, taxation crushing the energies of the people, and the negro vestc d with the balance of power. Its end and aim is the preservation of Radical power through the votes of negroes, and to this ' will be sacrificed your material interests, and, if necessary, your personal rights and your form of government. Militaiy rule oppresses the nation and eats out the substance of the people. It Is fit that Grant should lead the party that maintains that rule, for his laurels were gathered bv themword alone. The Democratic party, placing Itself upon the Constitution, pledges itself to strict obedience thereto, to the maintenance of the--government created thereby, to the supremacy Of law, to a reform of abuses, to economy in administration, to equal taxation, and to justice to all. It antagonizes and denounces that infamous policy which, during more than three years of peace, has overtaxed the people, has governed by the sword, and has destroyed the credit of the nation. Its policy Is one of thoughtful foresight, of cautions statesmanship; It seeks no new path;but by the line of the written law, in the light o ex perience, it will guide the Republic back to the highway of progress and prosperity and will re store to it national credit and fame. It presents to yon with price its candidate for the Presidency: Horatio Seymour, of New York, a statesman and an honest man. Capable and pure, possessed of large experience and gifted with the rarest qualities of the head and of the heart, strong in intellect, sound in judgment and prompt in aecioD, none more competent to lead us back to the haven of law and oraer. Pennsylvania owes him a debt of gratitude for his prompt aid when her border was at tacked. The issues are before you, they ore : The statesman against the soldier; intellect against force; the law against the sword. It is for you to determine which of these will best suit our Present unhappy condition. By order of the Democratic State Committee. Wsr. A. Wallace, Chairman. The Burnt Railroad Bridge. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, over the Susquehanna, at Rockville, five miles west of this place, caught fire within a few feet of the western abutment, from the engine of the Balti more Express passenger train, about 2.30 this morning, and five spans were burned before it could be put out. Fortunately there was no wind at the time, or the greater part of the bridge would have been burned. Great credit la awarded to the citizens of Rockville and vicinity, for their prompt help to put out the fire—they did good service. The railroad authorities were promptly on the spot, with a good force of men, and the Friendship Steam Fire Engine, of this place, to whom praise is also due for their prompt action. There v/ill be no delay to passenger or freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad—the track of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna road and Northern Central (Dauphin; bridge are being used to pass all trains, we understand a largo and effective bridge force is being organized, and it is expected the bridge will be passable on tres tles In four or five days Harrisburg Telegraph, July 17. A Reform.— Tho New York Independent says: “John Allen, ‘the wickedest man in New York,’ has recently pledged his word—indeed he has' signed a bond—that he ,will forthwith abandon his dance-house business, fie has been, led to take this course because his little son, Chester, came homo from school Crying as though his heart would break, because Ida schoolmates said his father was the wickedest man inNew York. Afterseeing himself: photographed la 'Pactardls Monthly, he called upon Mr. T. C. Acton for ad vice; and our police President advised him. In the most emphatic manner, to get oat of tho Wa ter street den and to get Into, more reputable business. We are happy to learn that Auen has proved, by his apparent penitence,-that he is not the ‘ Wickedest• Man in New York,’ and wo hope that Edhas already fulfilled his promise.” K L FETHEBSm Mliste OTOE THREE CENTS. Maas Ain* fakoies. —Dance for milkmen—the can-caffs —How was th« ark propelled? By a Ntsoh. —Argumeat'lii favor of Seymour Icto beealledf Horatlocinafioir. The Sorooia wiD attempt! a monthly journal -The Cincinnati Gazette caSs Mr.Chastra “slip-■ pery Salmon.” —Wisconsin has potato bug* half an loth long and very veraefonh. , —Beecher’s summer suit Is a* “heavy ttshorn’ hat and a serene, hbpsylook.” _ —Allegheny county proposes SB> give <srant and Colfax 10,000'majorlly. —Shakespeare to the-TJhMteea—“More Ughtvo knavfes!” ,ir —Let there be S.—There is gas light. —Philadelphia! wadi/jfisejfihg fer gas last eve ning; also, for coqJ>w6atbfex. —The Bard of Avon tv the Point Breeze sto-- kers: “I’ll cuff youjif'yont strike again.” —Would not gastronomes!) make good Gas ■ Trustees ? • —Last night was good’ far foot-puck), thieves and burglars. There was hcamoon, rand even a policeman’s star wovJd hftve been Invisfbi’e. —Query by the Divine Williams: “Who did strike out the light?” An swan. The stoikers at Point Breeze. —Things have changed—ln old Hoes people used to strike lights. fTow, discontented stokers strike them out. —General Grant, offer ■ twenty-two yewra of army life, is said to have never uttered a ncofane word, nor had a.personal fynonreli. —The Menken’s last husband is- a gambTssr. It is suggested that as she had been married a good deal she wanted to marry, a good dealer. - —lt la said that salivation will ouaro hydrppho-__ bla, and a cabßagolbafin the crown of the hat will prevent sun-stroke. How ladfies will wear the cabbage leaf-we are not told. —The wife of Hole-in-ihc-D.iy,. an ex-Walter girl. Inherits one-half of her husband's property estimated at about $2,000,006.- She-will be worth looking after. —A New York paper says- that Jho. Gnd waa ordered fifteen days imprisonment; by the Re corder of Jersey City, for -having struck his mother. Another case of eon-stroks; —Even sleepy Lisbon, In Portugal) has a news paper devoted to “Woman’s Rights:” The editor is the Portuguese wife of on Ehglish gen tleman. ~, . —Theodoras loved his first-wife, TTzonbedjle, and his last mistress, Itamanva. His second wife, Toronech, whacked Theodoras daily with a. —At the Democratic ratification. In. Richmond. Vance, declared that “ What the Confederacy fought for would bo won by th 6 election of Sev monr and Blair.” Of course. —“ No man knoweth his sepulchre.” A sexton fell dead on Wednesday In the grave he was dig ging. He was found lying in it several hoars afterward. He was digging It foi* another—Pro vidence mode it his own.. —Of all the Popes since St. Peter,, only three have ruled so longus Pius IX. I£he lives one year longer, only Pius VL wW.h?,ve had>a longer reign. In two years he will have outdone-all but St. Peter, and In three years Bt, Peter himself. —An English classical scholar suggests as motto for the campaign the old Latin t>rovertvV< Melhtum venenum, blanda Oratitfy—yjhteYi maw - be translated, “Smooth Horatio is-a honored poison.” —ln the Benate of Sonth Carolina.there are 25 whites, 4 mulattoes, and 3 negroes. It therefore appears that they have still a “white man’s gov ernment” in that State, in spite of tho great ma jority of negro voters. —They have a musical prodigy In Norfolk, Va., a little blind boy only 31 months oH. He aston- Isnes people by his correct accompaniments to songs, upon the piano, which ho plays bv ear. His name is Willie Kanfman. —The Galaxy finds somebody wha-haa accused SwiDburne of stealing his lines— “ I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred”— from the old poet's monkey, which. “Married the baboon’s sister, Smacked his lips, and then he kissed) her— Kissed so hard he raised a blister; She set up a yelL” —lt is said that one hundred and thirty-eight Mexican Generals consider themselves entitled to the Presidency of that Republic, Of, course there must be many revolutions disin terested patriotism of all of them can be honored by that high service to their country. It is said that a Mexican goes to sleep in the midst of a ‘scare” that would kill a Canadian iie the neigh borhood of Niagara. —Testament—an act which proves-the value of a bußband; Theatre—a place of exhibition where tho only serious comedy is played-ln from of the house; Time—woman’s rival, for no tight lacing can compare with the waißt of time; Tobacco— a pleasant weed before marriage, a foul habit after: Tombstone—the stamp on death’s little bill- Treasure—tbe husband who has left you a widow! — Tomakatck's Woman's iford-SooL. —Two hundred years ago a Scotch cmia-rant carried to Canada a thistle. Seaout in hisTgar den, its seeds took root in his neighborVsoil, and now it is a pest, decreasing the annual produe- ■ tions from twenty-five to fifty per cent. The white daisy, from a rare plant thirty years ago, has now become almost omnipresent,-and Is a positive injury to any soil and any location. —The Cape Cod Gazette says, during the tem peßtof last Thursday, Waquoib Bay received two severe thunder bolts, which so affected the eels that they came to the top oft the water, their headßontlike sea serpents,- and swam to the shore. On being taken up aad thrown back into the water, they immediately camb whore again. The following morning some fifteen barrels of eels were picked up, hav.'tigcome ashore. . —Mr. XBase Rich, of Boston, has-increased his liberal donation to the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn.,to $lOO,OOO, aad Mr. Daniel Drew, of New York, has- zaade a dona tion to the Institution of a like amount. These donations- add SaaOtOOO to the college fnnds above Mr. Rich’s previous gift The facts were made known by President Cum miDgs, at the dedication of Rich Hall, on Wed nesday. —Among the tricks of the Paris glovemakere is one that has Seriously impaired the value of French gloves. A master glover, gives oat to a workman kid enough to make three pairs pf nice gloves; but if the workman can net four pairs ont of the skin, usage authorizes hlia to keep one pair as his own. But the Correctional Police Court of Paris has lately got hold cf this matter, and has sent some workmen to fifteen months’ imprisonment for. this-dishonesty, and some re ceivere of these stolen gtoves to a year’s im prisonment. —-kt the last State ball at Buckingham Palace, the Princess of Wales wore a white tulle dress over white silk, with a tunic of white satin, ' trimmed with fionitoa lace and bouquets of lilies of the valley.' Head-dress—a tiara of dia : monds. Ornaments—pearls and diamonds, with a corsage of diamonds. Princess Louis of Hesse wore a Brussels lace tunic over a blue crape pettl coat. trimmed with silver. Head-dress—a dia dem of diamonds. Ornaments—diamonds, with a diamond stomacher. Princess Christian worea - tulle dress over white silk, trimmed with bands of rose-colored satin and fionlton laeo. Head dress—a coronet of dlamond3and opals, the back oi tig) head ornathented with rows of diamonds and Christine geraniums;. pearl necklace and ' Other ornaments to match.- Princess Louisa wore a dress of silver tulle over a rich glace petti- - coal trimmed with chatelaines of pink rosea and 'green leaves. Head-dress—roses and diamonds; diamond ornaments.
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