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ALLEN, Agent and ttorney, FORREST BUILDING. 117 South Fourth Street, Plallade yymthe who° INVITATIONS FOR WEDIIINGS, PARTIES. executed-Initarrperiortrrairrter t iur DREKA. 1f.133 CHESTNUT STREET. fe3o-Hi DIED. , BA LL.-Thla morning. at lila readence near Taeony, eldett eon of NVlltiam W. and Mary Ann BAIL in the :Cali year of hie age. Due notice of the funeral will ho given. • F.HRY. -this morning. Saturday, Augurt first, ISire. I lenrietta Cherry, In brr mixty-fiftli year. Ode, arc rt-opectfully invited to attend the funeral. from Mr late residen - cc. tO4 :North Broad street, on Tnee dny 'pith int.. at 3 P. M. ••• taltektlAM.-On Friday night. ::let ult.. Mry. Mary J. &alum. wife of David Bratain. 1 he triezda and ielativea of the family aro invited to attend the luneral from her late revidence, N. F. corner Sesenteer th and Arch stench:, on Tuesday afternoon. August 4th, at 4 o'cl^ek. coI"KTNEr —At Germantown. July 31Ft, Clarence, Intim , sou of JeIIICS A. and Mary W. Courtney, • GI lit/N.—During the early morning of Julyr Nth. after a painful and protracted ilineae, Mre. Mary Jane Whom wife of Dr John It. Gihon. 1 he funeral will pt oceed from the re,idence of her eon, ;John L._ Giboo, 1t24 Chestnut street, at four o'clock, on the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 24. her friends are Invited to attend. • . . . , L A NING.-4 41 the Met of July. Mire Margaret Lanlnz. daughter of JoboW. and Catharine Lanlag. aged 16 years' ce,nd 6 menthol Funeral trill take place at the realdence. 433 Magnolia street. at 2 o'clock P. M.. Sundny. Augur.. 2d. The :datives and friends of the family are invited to attend. H.—On Stxtb-day, July 3t,181., Ann Smith, widow of Davie Smith. in the elgth year of her age. Her relatives and ftiends are reepectfully invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of Samuel Leedom. afar eller d, Delaware county, on Second-day. August 8, at o'clock A. M. To proceed to Media Cemetery. Wll ITA KEIL—At Mount Clare. Pa., on the 30th nit, Dr. Samuel A. Whitaker. in hie Van year. Funeral on Monday, Auguet 3d, at 10.3 i o'clock A. M...at Norris Cemetery, Phmniaville. BLACK LLAMA LACE POINTS, $7 TO $lOO. WHITE LLAMA SHAWLS. WHITE SHETLAND DO. WHITE 11A.REGE WHITE CRAPE MARETZ. EIRE .!) LANDELL. Fourth and Arch sta. ier. - Ll - 64ous - Noirtuts. ObrFIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH. CORNEREI H teenth and Spring Garden streets. Service ev e er; Sunday in the year, m arnin and evening. Bible school every Sunday at 2 P. M. REV. ROBERT LOWRY, 40t Brooklyn, will preach tomorrow 105( A. M, 9 P. Si. All are invited. - ear THE GOSPEL FOR THE PEOPI4E.—PHILA deIphia Tract and Mission Society, organized Sep tember. LW- Chestnut-street—The two hun. Bred and thirteenth Union meeting will be held at Miles town Baptist Church on Sabbath Morning, at 103 d o'clock. Public invited: Out-door meeting at Crescentville. at 4 lt• Der REV. THEO. STEVENS WILL PREACH IN Trinity M. E. Church, Eighth street. above Race. So-morrow, at IQ% o'clock A. M. Communion at 5 o'clock P M. No services in the evening. Strangers particularly invited. It• SIT. ANDREW'S CIII2IIGIL EIGHTH STREET, Il l i r above Spruce.—Divine Service will be held in this Church as news! to-morrow (Sunday )AN, 2d instant, corn. mencing at 1030 o'clock A. A. Sermon by the Rev. G. W. Xnauff, of Trenton, N. J. NORTH BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN Church. cot, Broad and Green streets. Preaching to morrow at LOX A. M., and BP. 81.. by the Pastor, Rev. Peter Stryker, D. D. Strangers are welcome, it. ier THE SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. corner of Broad street and Penn Equaro, will be open to-morrow morning. Service to commence at 10.54 o'clock. TO NEW CHURCH PEOPLE AND OTHERS 1111166'. whose Churches are closed.. Services at the New Church, Cherry above .Twentieth, to-morrow, at half past ten A. H. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WASH 11161 r IM Ain ton g Square. Services during the month of Angue R. Id. SPECIAL NOTICES. Mar TO THE PUBLIC. 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NOTICE —At a meeting of the Board of T ru s t e es of the Philadelphia Gas Works. held this day, it was livolved, That the price of Gas comumcd on and after AUGDST 18f3„ he advanced to $2 55 per 1,000 cubic feet, subject to the United States tax of 15 cents per 1000, with an additional charge of 5 percent. it not paid within live daye. This increase in the price of gas Is . owing to the Trustees being compelled to advance the wages of the employGe of the Department to such a figure as to amount in the aggregate for one year to $110.183 'Xt. while the advance in the price of gas. based on the private consumption of the year 1E67, amounts to $103.130 85. aul.2t TER)SI.IB 11. BROWN, Engineer. THE UNIO TEEPUBLAN CITY EXECU /1135rTIVE COMMlhave established their Head. quarters at NO. 1105 CHESTNUT STREET. The officens of the Committee will be in attendance at their rooms daily between the hours of 10 Afi. fd. and 1 Y. M. In future all business relating to the coming campaign will be transacted at this tassel_ LEEDS, president Jowl L. Tint, A. N. WALKINBRAW, f Secretariats. j331-3trp NEWSPAPEPA BOOKS. PAM' • ,MJLF.INAI3TE gaper. Ito. bought by E. HUNTER. aohltirio No. 6111.7.an0e street. cru , 27-trO Hamilton and Charles Dickens. While in Boston Dickens heard of 'the repute. Lion of the American artist Hamilton, and parti cularly of his celebrated .painting called "What are the Wild - Wevetr Bayltig?" — Ottr readers irlll recollect this large and fascinating marine, so impressive for its monotony, in which the Wulf merable waves are painted as regularly lifting to the sunset light over the breadth of ocean, each bearing on Its lip some Inarticulate answer to the "old-fashioned," eternal questions of Little Patti. The accounts he heard of the singular genius of Mr. Hamilton made a marked impression on the author of Dombey, and he hastened, on arriving in Philadelphia, to put himself in communi catlon with the painter, who remembers thp...zlitterview with natural pleasure. Much dgoppointed on hearing that the picture was disposed of, Mr. Dick ens asked, with his own natural enthusiasm and insistency, if ther was no trace left by the picture in the artist' lumber-room or limbo of creative material. Woo there no study, no sketch, no daub, no outline, no wash, no photograph, no 'failure,' no fcetus, no suggestion of the thing? Hamilton took a good deal of this sort of teasing as if ho liked it; and presently called to mind a first-sketch of his marine, rather in the pallette-knife and trowel condition it is true, but sufficiently suggestive of his work; and ruterwards, .referring to it in the privacy of the studio, looked it over to - see what Its capacities were. Thinking of the fame of the picture, one of his most- successful ones; of the living presence and sympathy of Dickens. so recently before him; and of the romancer's tender conception of the wee, wise child, wasting his life; Away with the waves upon the cold Brighton shore; the painter dreamily touched the sketch here and there, with his brash, with hi e ' t knife, with his thumb. It was one of his Brea hours, though he did not know it; and the rude 'effect' presently brightened beneath his fingers Into something singular, weird, expressive and tilled with fascination. A little giant of a pic ture left his studio, neatly done up for the word painter's acceptance. The latter, touched and delighted, promised to send an answer to the compliment. On his arrival In England, one of Dickens's first 'cares was to express a complete set of his works, in the edition he calls his pet, to the care of his American representatives, Messrs. Ticknor and Fields, for the Philadelphia painter. To accompany them, he wrote the fol lowing billet: JI!ORAss DY 130 •LIESTSB, RE CT Monday Twenty Fifth may, 1563, Mr. James Hamilton This set of my books With tbanka and regard This autograph, which lies before us, is written in blue ink upon heavy bluish note-paper. The writing is cramped, without punctuation as above, perfectly legible, and, our printer tells us, very easy copy. The signature looks exactly like a tracing of that fac-simile'd by Ticknor & Fields for their "Charles Dickens" edition : it is amazing that one piece of penmanship should be so precisely similar, in proportion and scale, to another made at a distan% of time. Of course the souvenir will be kept by Hamilton among his pleasantest memorials. FLAxmAN's ScuLpruass.—The authorities of University College, London, have made arrange. ments for the opening, at an early period, of the noble collection of sculptures and designs by Flagman, which is in their possession; so that the public may gain access to the finest gathering of the works of the great Englisn sculptor. Saturday afternoons are appointed for this dis play. Dramatic Items• —Mrs. D. P. Bowers is playing Mary Stuart, Elizabeth, &c., to crowded houses in Virginia City. —Under the Gaslight has been successfully brought out at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, Australia. —The New York Herald says an accomplished and beautiful young lady of this city, quite well known in operatic circies,has recently sailed for Paris, with the intention of qualifying herself for a speedy debut in opera bouffe. —The "Saints" of Salt Lake City have been for some time past plunged into rapturous ecstacles over the acting of Madame Mettuut Seheller; but some of the saintly critics have been excessively annoyed and worried by : the crying of a largo number of babies in the circles of the theatre. It is now proposed to obviate this crying nuisance by giving the babies a box to prevent them from going into tiers. —The rumor for some time current that Napo leon has consented to the production of Buy Blas, which has so long been proscribed, is confirmed by the fact that a letter has been addresseil to M. Victor Hugo requesting his sanction to the fol lowing cast: Ruy Bias, M. Berton; Don Ca3sar, M.Paulin Menih; Don Salluste,Lacressoniere; the Queen, Mile. Adele Page. AmONGST ATLANTIC CABLES, steam navigation and those progressions of science and art that mark the nineteenth century, not the least useful, are Dr. Ayer's medicines. They take rank among the benefactions of mankind, from the rapidity and certainty with which they cure. Try AYER'S Cmmity PECTORAL on a cough and it is gone. What skin diseases or Impurities of the blood withstand Arun's fIuiSSPARILLA ? AYER'S PILLS are the perfection of a pargative—every family „should have them as almostrevezy-famf • - Not a trifle to be thankful for are good medicines and the knowledge how to use them for protec tion from disease. 'These Dr. Ayer's prepamtions and publications furnish, and we do not hesitate_ to commend them.—Se. .Couis-Leacier. ART ITR us. Gab's HILL PLACE, Clleatze DIOKENS PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, Ig6B. POLMCAL. FRANK BLAIR • His Personal and Political Record— ' Ills Appetite for' Army Contracts—* The Fremont quarrel—Why lie lett the Army—Six Backsliding to , De.. mocracy. ISt. Louis correspondence New York Evening Post.] It used to was very common saying here that Frank Blair the salvation of St. Louis in 1861, and saved it from the hands of the rebels. This is simply an error. Blair was 'a prominent actor in the events of that period, but the loyal men of the city saved it and Blair's help was only an incident in the history of it. Union men met in Turner's Hall the day that news arrived hero that Fort Sumpter had been attacked, and wanted to organize a. regiment on the spot. Blair was in Washington, however, and nothing could be done, it was said, until his return. A few dayslater he reached St. Louis, and brought au thority for Captain (afterwards General) Lyon, to issue arms to home guards and to quarter three regiments in the Arsenal grounds. Prior to that the Germans had organized in the lower wards and were drilling and they went Into the Arsenal with a rush. Blair assumed the colonelcy of the First regiment, though he sub• st quently stated in Congress that he never held the commission, though It is charged he drew a colonel's pay. He organized a Committee of - Safety; - consbting of -- hturee/f, Samuel - T. Meyer, 0. D. Miley, James 0. Broadhead (late delegate to New York Convention), 'John How and T. J. Witzle—but Blair was its heart, body and soul. Under their auspices Blair did pretty much as he desired. lie held in his possession for ten, days an order from the President to remove General Barney, and seemed to wish it understood that he (Blair) was the Great Mogul In everything. In fact it was so understood, and it was this arro gance of pride and power that fed to the subse quent quarrel with General Fred:tont. This Is ono of the most important events that fist-ever befallen - General Blatr - alfd rarely if ever been properly understood outside of St. Lonis. It is one of the most impudent thinge Blair eVer did,and has led to results little dreamed of all around. Fremont was broight to the —Western Department through the direct agency of Blair. There can be no doubt of this; Blair said so at the time, and President Lincoln so in formed a citizen of Missouri two • years after wards. When Fremont came here Blair dis covered that his power over him was, weaker than he supposed it would be. The California friends of Fremont came with him, and an un scrupulous set they were. Their chief merit at this day lies in the fact that they were too sharp for Frank Blair and his immediate associates. Aside from that they were as unprincipled a set as ever lived. Of course Blair was glad at first to KC Fremont., and theletter gave Blair a hearty reception. After awhile the remarkable favorit ism shown by Fremont to the Germans began to excite Blair's jealousy, and a coolness ensued. Then came the contracts with the Californians. They were in Blair's way. His friends wanted the contracts, and the California chaps became objects of vengeance. Blair protested In vain, and then wrote to his brother in the Cabinet to have the President order Fremont to reform his way of doing things. Fremont heard it, and sent his wife to Washington to ferret out the truth. When she returned Blair was ordered under arrest for writing letters disrespectful to his superior officers. It was a tilt between two men of the same style. Blair preferred counter charges against Fremont, but the removal of the latter squelched further proceedings. P.E.MARRABLE ZRAL FOR ARMY CONTRACTS. Prior to his arrest General Blair made the most of his assumed influence in the Department, on behalf of his friends. In a book entitled "Vindi cation of General McKinstry," will be found a few revelations on this subject, and among them the following interesting letters: •'MAY 20Ttr, 1861.—Major AfcKinstry—DEAß MAJOR: If you buy any more horses I wish you would give Jim Neal a chance. He is a personal iris nd of mine and a sound Union man. By em ploying him you will confer a great favor. "FRANK P. BLAIR., "Colonel Ist Regiment Missouri Volunteers." This man Neal was accused by the Congres sional Investigation Committee with various frauds and swindles, but he was Frank Blair's friend!] "ST. Louts AnsENAL May 21st, 1861.—Major 3lcKinstry: John H. Bowen is and has been all right,and .1 shall be glad if you can do him a favor consistently with the public interests. I mean ererphing I say in this short note! "Your friend, FRANK P. BLAIR, JR., "CoL Ist Reg. Mo. Vols."- A rumpus was raised subsequently, because Buwen got a contract for horses, though he was not a horse dealer. But who was most to blame; McKinstry or Blair ? ST. LOUIS, August 17th , 1861.—Major hfcKins try : I wish you would buy wagons from Espen eheld & Kearns, German wagonmakers. They are Union men, Murphy & Verdin are both se cessionists, and it is injurious to you and the cause. "Yours, FRANK P. BLAIR, JR." [The "Verdin" who is mentioned as a seces sionist in thenbove was the Copperhead candi date for Sheriff in 1866, against John McNeil, a Union soldier, and was supported by Blair and his friends. Consistency, thou art indeed a j ew el ! ST. Lours, September 6, 1861.—General MC- A' instry, A. Q. M.: GENRILAL : This will intro once Colonel Bogy, of St. Genevieve, a good Union man, who finds himself surrounded by un pleasant circumstances at home. The Colonel is desirous of obtaining a contract for the purchase of horses. * * * It would be laying a spe cial obligation upon me to give him a contract. "Respectfully, FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr.". I Can it be that the support given to Blair by the rebel sympathizer Lewis V. Bogy, in 1868, is the return for the above letter to his brother in 1861 ? The coincidence is worth noting. J • "SitriaramEß 11., 1861.—General McKinstry: GENERAL—Mr. B. Gishard is the party of whom I spoke to you, and of whom I sent you a mes sage by Charley Elleard. He wants to furnish some horses to the government. See that he is attended to. Yours, &e., "FRANK P. BLAIR, JR." [Observe the dictatorial tone of the closing sen tence of this letter. The " Charley Elleard " here mentioned is represented by .McKinstry as having been recommended to him by Blair. Elleard had a horse contract extending through two or more months.— Vide Vindication, page 33.] Helping a " busted " brother, one of the cream lest of all of Blair's recommendations; is in the form of an endorsement upon a pathetic letter, written to Blair by one of his nearest personal friends on behalf of his brother. The essential parts of the letter are as follows: "Sr. Louis, July 15th, 1861.—Dear Frank: I write you now in behalf of my brother John, to got you to help him in getting a contract for fur nishing the army with horses. He is about busted up financially, and is very much in need of some thing of the kind to help him through. Some of our friends here have had contracts [ referring, probably, to Neal, Elleard, Bowen, et al.] and done pretty well. A word or two from you in a way that you know how to put, will go far with McKinstry toward putting him in favor. * * * * Ido wish you would write a few lines to McKinstry to help John in that matter. If you know any other way to help him to contract, by order direct from the Department, er other wise, put him on it. * * "BEN . Fanneut." I Endorsement.] "To General Meig3:—'lf you want horses In Missouri I most cordially recommend Mr. Farrar ".o purchase them for you. "Fnarrs: P. BLArn, Jn." feign-referred-the---ktim lu Geueral McKinetry, Lfien.Farrar was made United States Snb-Trea surer by Blair, and when the latter was under ar rest, he repaired to Farrar'shonse, Urhere-he, re ceived his friends. ] OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY. TEX lIIGGEST FISH 01' .ALL. One of the names given of the Safety Com mittee is that of John How. an ex-mayor of St. Louis, then a good Republican, and now a good conservative friend of Gen. Blair. The intimacy between-them was and is of the strongest kind. Everything•that John How did received Bialr's approval, and vice versa. He was and is yet a leather dealer; but seems to have conceived that it was proper and legitimate to go' into army contracts quite extensively. So be joined Mr. Walter S. Garner, of Chicago, in a proposition to General Fremont, August 19, 1861, to furnish twenty thousand army coats; twenty thousand pants, twenty thousand drawers, forty thousand flannel shirts, seventy thousand pairs of socks, thirty-five thousand infantry shoes. and other articles in proportion. General Fremont referred the proposal to McKinstry, who declined it on the ground that it was too large an order to be given out without advertising for proposals,whereupon "the would-be contractors applied to General Fremont to order" McKinstry to comply with their wishes. General Fremont did not see fit to do so (ride Vindication, page 21). It will be noted that Blair's name does not directly enter into this contract controversy, but, to say the least, does not this strong friendship for. John How, and their notorious intimacy render it probable that his silent acquiesdence was intended to be more potent- than direct persqnal help? When the -would-be con tractors naked. Fremont to -order- McKinstry to give them the $750,000 contract, was Blair's name used as an inducement? The record does not in form us, but It must have been an extraordinary spectacle for Blair to write such letters for such small fry as Jim Neal and others, and refuse his assistance to his greater and more influential friend, John How. It is a striking fact that as soon as information of this rejected proposal was made public a large portion of the community thought that the failure was the real cause of the flare-up between Fremont and Blair. It was then. and is to this day believed by thousands in St..l.onist r that-if the How-Gurner - contract been men them, Blair and Fremont would have remained friends, for it was only a short time after this that the coolness before referred to commenced between Blair and Fremont—a breach not yet healed. TUE RUPTURE wt . = THE GERMANS. The result of the quarrel with Fremont was contrary-_ to Blair's expectations. It was followed by an estrangement of the Germans, and has probably altered the entire political course of General Blair. From that moment ho commenced drifting toward the opposite shore in politics till he has landed completely in the arms of his old enemies. The descent was easy but not rapid. Blair's first backward step on the slavery ques tion was his declaration upon Fremont 's cele brated emancipation proclamation. He declared that it had no force or vitality but such as it might receive from Congress. Herein Blair sub stantially, confessed that Congress had the sole and only power to dictate terms to the seceded States, and it shows what a demagogue he le now to declare that the Congressional acts of recon struction are acts of "usurpation." Blair's few political friends organized the Claybank Repub lican party in opposition to the Charcoals or Radicals. They had the effrontery to send a Republican delegation to the Baltimore Conven tion in 1864, but they were unceremoniously re jected by a vote of 444 to 4. Since then the Clay banks have become extinct. About half of them re now Radicals and the rest are Copperheads. _ BLAIR'S FREESOIL PROFESSIONS. Somebody may ask how it happens that a man with such strong free soil or anti-slavery opin ions running through his record, can now be in full syz.iNathywith the Wade Hampton party. To thh; query it is only necessary to say that the whole basis or substruction of Frank Blair's free soil doctrines was the consideration of expe diency, or what was best for the whites, and the material prosperity of the State. Ho always lacked the motive of assailing slavery as a moral wrong, he failed to grasp the underlying prin ciple that the evil is wrong in itself, but ap plied himself vigorously to proving that free labor is the cheapest, and that emancipation would enhance the taxable pro perty of the State. His proposition to colonize the blacks in Central America shows how little regard he had for the rights of the colored men of the country. No—has free eoilism was of that type which if it had prevailed would have changed the system only In name. The idea of elevating a black man by giving him the elective franchise was as abhorrent to him as to the old slaveholder. In his present position he is en tirtly consistent with himself, for his whole political platform consists of surface principles. HIS ARMY LIFE. It is scarcely necessary to refer to General Blair's army experience. It Is honorable to him so far as It goes. He was indebted in this and in many other things to the friendship of the Presi dent, by which he rose rapidly over the heads of more deserving men. He was eminently a politi cal general, whatever demerit there may be in that. He passed through the Vicksburg, Chat tanooga and Atlanta campaigns, and the march to the sea,without any special credit or discredit, and returned here after the war a better soldier than before he left. But his vindictive personal hostility to the radicals of st. Louis lost him the respect of many of his old comrades. He hap pened to be at home during Price's raid in 1864. When General Rosecrans made hip a staff of ficer, with a view of giving him command of the local force raised to take the place of volunteers sent to the front, this appointment created a ter rible indignation among the Germans, and Ro secrans was compelled to revoke it. 1 1 The Mobile Tribune has no doubts about the real issue of the impending contest. The prin ciples of the late Rebellion are again to be fought for, first at the ballot box, and if defeated there the discussion will be removed to the battle field. Ballots first, to keep up appearances, and then bullets. The Mobile Tribune puts the case plainly: "Friends—fellow-citizens of Mobile—comrades of the Queen City of the Gulf! let us make one [awe effort in behalf of our rights and our liber ties. If we are successful in the approaching contest we shall regain all that we lost in the Lost Cause.' We shall be freemen once more. We shall have a country. We shall be able to reverse the iron rule which has been imposed upon us, - and turning that iron into brands of fire, hurl them back on the heads of the flagi tious wretches who have inflicted so many foal and flagrant wrongs on our bleeding country. Once more to the broach then—yet once mote! and when the cloud shall have cleared away from the flaming field, our flag—the grand old Demo cratic flag—will be seen in all its glory stream ing like the thunder-cloud against the wind. Let us then rally once more around the dear old flag, which we have followed so often to glory and to victory. Let us plant our standard in the midst of the field, and let us once more raise the war cry—'he who doubts is damned ; • ho who dallies is a dastard." The Richmond Examiner declares that the South wants peace, and "it is now to be required to wade through a sea of blood to reach it, the sooner commenced the better." "Our white allies," it says, "In Maryland and Kentucky, not to mention Statesfurther North, may be relied on for assistance, if we need It, and Helper's hopes for the extermination of the negro race will be most speedily realized by such efforts as the Radical madmen are now :with% to hurl a mass of armed negroes upon the white men of the South. Under such a provocation they will de monstrate their superiority to the negro race In a manner that will make the naked savages of Ethiopia, for centuries to'come,howl with horror at the name of a Southern white man." An exchange says : "Raphael Sewn" 'swardly pirate who burned n^- cower, - . ate who burned - our unarmed mer chant vessels ` on every sea, has announced his satisfaction with the nomination of Seymour and Blair. So has Toombs, the traitor Senator of =1881; so btu; Cobb, Mr.=Bucha - an's faithleaa - Set= - 1 retary of the Treasury, who deserted his post and The Rebel Issue j perjured himself to take a position in the Rebel I government of Jeff. Davis; so has Albert Pike, whose Indians scalped our dead at Pea Ridge ; PO has Forrest, the Tennessee butcher; so has Beauregard, who urged the rebel government to put to death by, the garrote its prisoners of war; so has the Rebel Gen. Preston. who left his post as Milted ,t3tatts Minister to Spain, came home and drew hittpity, in gold from the Treasury that Cobb had hripoyerlshed, and then hastened to take a comnfariff in the rebel army ; so has Vance, late Rebel Governor of North Carolina, who declared a few days ago in a. speech delivered to the rebels of Richmond, that what the South lost by the overthrow of the rebellion, it would gain by the election of Seymour and Blair; so has Wade Hampton, who prophesies that the cause for which Jackson and Stuart died will yet be gained; so has Henry A. Wise, late a Rebel General, and so thoroughly devoted to the Rebellion, even in its death, that he scorns a pardon for his treason, and so has every Ku-Klux assassin in the South, who plies the trade of murder, and illuminates the darkness of midnight by the burning dwellings of Union men. Who shall say henceforth that the New York nominations have not been enthusiastiellly received ?" Presidential Paragraphs. , —"The authority of a mob is equal to that of a government."—Horatio Seymour, July 4, '63. . —lf you desire to with CBB the operation of a leech, let It be said to one of the Biafra that you have an office at your disposal. —The Chicago Pest says: "There Is a hiatus In Grant's history, say the Democrats. That may be, but it is nothing compared with the hiatus he made in the Democratic party at Vicksburg in 1863, and at Appomattox in 1865. —ln 1860, Blair, in a campaign speech, pro nounced the Democratic party "the most miser able and corrupt party that over existed." And now, after having got into it, he was never so much at home. Watleltampton - says - the Ivorkinerilui of TIM South must vote the Democratic ticket or starve. There's the crack of the old slave drivers' whip for you. Do you hear It, workingmen of the North —One of our Democratic exchanges, after no ticing a Seymour ratification tneeting, exultingly exclaims: "The goose hangs high!" Wise goose; he knows his danger when Seymour's •`friends" congregate. —Says the N.Y. Tribune: George Francis Bnsan Pillsbury Stanton Anthony is satisfied with her reception before the DemocraticOo6bntion. The Devolution will "go the whole g"—Wade Hampton, Doolittle, Forrest, Dixon, uantrell. Blair and all! —The Oneida (N. Y.) Dispatch sale s• "A De m ocratic exchange before ne says: , The 'public acts of Horatio Seymour are as puIC as heaven.' If the writer alludes to that porti n of heaven which incited the first rebellion, there le no doubt of it." —Major Evans, an Indiana officer, at a recent meeting in Indianapolis, in the course of a speech, said the only independent work he had ever known Blair to do as an army officer was his march down through lower Tennessee and Mississippi when Grant was besieging Richmond. When asked by Grant if he had taken any priso ners, he replied, "No, but I have burned a d—d sight of house's, and captured all the niggers." TilE Hon. George 11 Pendleton, in his recent speech* Cincinnati, brought' p again his pet project of paying off the $1,700,000,000 of Gov ernment bonds in legal tender notes. He said that paying them in gold would add 0700,000,000 to the debt. Very well, suppose we pay off the 81,700,000,000 in greenbacks, what would ho pay. the greenbacks If they are paid at all, they must be paid in gold; and if they are never to be paid, how much will they be worth? If, with $400,000,000 of greenbacks out, a barrel of flour costs three times as much as it did in the days of specie payments, how much will It cost when there are $2,100,000,000 of currency in circulation which is never to be paid? These are practical questions which the repudiationists must answer to the satisfaction of all our savings bank deposi tors, and other people who have money owing to them, before they can expect to succeed in their schemes. —N. 1. Sun. LETTEII MORI WASHING CON. The National Lincoln Monument—Se. lectlon of Eminent Olvllia.ns to form Statues—Philadelphlashould be Rep. resented by Gen. Meade—A Proposl. lion Should be made to the Illana germ. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Einlletini WASHINGTON, dilly 31, 1868.-1. made some ref erence In one of my letters this week, to the Lin coln monument. The officers of this association are laboring diligently, and there is reason to be lieve that before next winter upwards of $lOO,OOO will be subscribed, on the plan they have adopted of requesting the friends of the different parties to be placed as colossal statues on the moral ment,to contribute a sum sufficient to place them there. No money can buy a man a place on the monument, but when the Managers have once adopted a figure, there is manifest propriety in asking the friends of the individual to contribute In addition to Geo. H. Stuart, already named as having been selected, the Managers have selected Dr. Bellows, of New York, President of the U. S. Sanitary Commission; James E Yeatmau, of St. Louis, President of the Western Sanitary Comthission; Henry Ward Beecher and Bishop Simpson, as eminent civilians. Besides Generals Grant and Sherman, General James L. Wads worth, killed In the service, and Gen. 0. 0. How ard, have been selected.who will form two colossal equestrian statues. Gen. Wadsworth was selected as the representative of the volunteer service, at the suggestion of Gen. Grant, who desired that some volunteer officer should be chosen but left Howard's figure selection to the managers. Gen. figure will be placed on the monument through the contributions of the officers and employes of the Freedmen's Bureau. The Government has appropriated all the metal required for casting the statues, captured rebel cannon being used, which will lessen the expense One half, and make the effort a success be yond peradventure, and when completed, it will be the grandest monument in the world, without exception. Two military equestrian figures are yet to be selected, and it would seem to be proper that the friends of Gen. Meade in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania should move In the matter, and have his statue placed among the others. He is eminently deserving of the honor, and it would reflect credit both upon your city and State. Let it be started, and there will be no difficulty In raising the required funds, to do honor to Philadelphia's greatest soldier. 808Q17EHANNA THE COURTS. QuAnzan SESSIONS—Judge Peirce.—The mor ning was occupied with habeas corpus cases. Mary Stratton, whose arrest at New York, as she was taking passage to Aspinwall has been noticed, had a hearing. She Is charged with ob taining fruit by means of false pretences. The testimony was heard, and the judge refused to discharge her. A habeas co rpbus in the case of a boy commit ted to the House of Refuge was heard. The boy is 19 years of ago, and his father placed him in the institution to frighten him, believing that ho could take him out when he pleased. Ho discov ered his mistake after the young man had been in the institution ten weeki. The Judge ordered his discharge. —An envious editor has established_ per i to -bead-off-the ligaro v oUvvldelt-it _ almost an exact conntepart It is called the Gaullois, and is edited by M. Henri de. Pave. A novel by. Victor Hugo Is to be one of its features. Some assert that it is really a Government paper -- and wilfscrveltifixtasterblis - Weak — adiedicy of Liberalism. E Z, MlERSTpN.,lisler. 'PRICE THREE CENTS FACTS FANCI;EEL —Long Dranch.has produced ten engagements • up to date. --Street care in New Orleans are run by engine& driven by compressed air. —Tennesseeans are afraid of a conspiracy to overturn the State gOVernalent. • —owramoneff is now the popnlarpoet of Rus sia. Ile was once a Siberian exile. —John Brougham is writing a novel tobe pub lished serial , in a weekly paper. —The Rin of the Sandwich Islands receives *45,000 salary. —Mr." E. L. • Davenport is coining'nut again, di3gusted with the Pacific drama. —A base-ballet on Staten Island had his life accidentally batted cat of him the other day. —Victozien Satter. is writing. E. new comedy which he calls. "Premiere Amour,", (First Love). —B.lhneldez is Bald . lncredibly to drink ab sinthe. , —Joe Jefferson , first is to be the nt Star at Me. Vickez's Theatre,Chicago and is to, hring Out "A Midsummer Night's Dinam." —George Angastais Sala says (and we know of no better judge than he is) he thinks most of the" English are born fools. —Kossuth Is said to be engaged on a history of Rtingary in twelve volumes. And-Ive hope he may thid - feaderi. —James Russell Lowell is the handsomest of the American-poets. He is fifty, and does not look more than thirty. —Lake City, Minnesota, has raised the chain-, pion potato bug, three and a half inches long and nearly six ounces in weight. —"General" Sargeant, the marshal of the Pen dleton escort, has been fined ten dollars fof street row in Cincinnati. —Dr. Kirwan, the Dean of Limerick has died is a Turkish bath. The unfamiljatablation_waa - - too - severe - forldhi. —Switzerland. added 15,000 breech-loading rifles to its stock during the month of Jrnae.—Ez.. To one stock? —A Now "England firm claims to have made pens out of wire. We should think they be good to make ink wiry with. `--A now tragedy of- "Angust-us--Calsitt"-Wal-Te=' cently produced at Dublin, and hissed ' , manse it was thought to favor Fonlanism. —An exchange says thatit has cut from Demo cratic papers one hundred and thirty-three arti cles, each headed "The Real Issue," and each treating of a different subject. —A correspondent of a Hamburg paper in St. : clone writes that the apartments formerly men ded by Bonaparte on that island are being re paired and newly furnished. —John C. Breckbaridge has a little Place. twelve miles the other side of Niagara. His "own place" is several miles on the under side of Niagara. —There are a dozen claimants for a letter ad dressed "Miss Bessie T., Waterbury, Ct. I don't know her fall name, but she is the prettiest little girl in the city." —Talleyrand's Memoirs are said to be exceed ingly trashy and hardly worth publishing. They are replete with scandalous stories, most of which ; are already generally mown. - -The mental condition of the Empress Car lotta has lately become so serious that double guards have been placed around the palace of Lacken, Brussels, to prevent her escape. —Grapes are bought by the California wine maker, delivered at his press, clean, for 70 cents , per 100 pounds; and it is stated that in 1,000 pounds scarcely one pound of unripe or rotted berth s has to be cut out from the bunches. . —A regiment of French soldiers, who weitr bearskin hats, recentlypetitioned their colonel to have their hats shaved during the hot weather. They ought not to object to wearing their bare skins in this heat. —Between three and four hundred employes of the Treasury Department, mostly females, will be dismissed between August Ist and September Ist, on account of the reduction in the appropriation for their pay. —A writer in a Llartford paper says that Miss Kellogg is not to marry Blerstadt, alleging a mi merlons "reason that is rather amusing to the friends of the charming singer." It must be amusing to Mrs. Bierstadt also. —There aro 276 allopathic physicians in Boston, about one-fourth as many hommopathists,6o wo men physicians,and about 200 eciecticti,botannie, magnetic, &c., and the city is, consequently, un healthy. —An Austrian writer has done the adventuis r . , of Buiwer's hero "Devereux" into Germ substituting his own name, and paoli ed them under the title "With Maximili in Mexico." —There has been a great fire In the the Rocky Mountains. The heat w a mile and a half from the flaw tance of half a mile wb's so g t durable. —A Chicago merchant r sisted a policeman who undertook to arrest him without cause, rolled him Into a wagon and carried him to a police station. The judge justified the belligerent merchant. —ln Winchester, Va., stage horses during the hot weather were continually dying, one firm losing three in one day. • At Harpers' Ferry the thermometer stood at one hundred degrees, day and night, and many persons were prostrated from the effects of the heat. • --Students of euphony are arguing the ques tion whether the word "Mazza" is intrinsically Bbon table. One correspondent of the New York Evening Post, in which the discussion Is carried on,says that: "Hurra is American and idiomatic. H uzza is British and idiotic." —ln Michigan, recently, thirty-five men went intoa harvest field to cut grab. About ten A. M. no lees than sixteen of them had been sun stricken, the majority of whom died under the exposure. Such an instance of wholesale casual ty has hardly a parallel in the history of this country. t -Henri de Rochefort says that the ball given recently at the Paris Opera-House, for the relief of the wounded soldiers of the next war, was an abominable piece of brutality, and showed that the women who got it np nossessed neither souse nor delicacy. A hard hit at the Princess de DI t ternich, who got up the ball for the purpose of filling the pockets of some bankrupt mvcntor of artificial limbs. —" What sights I saw here !" writes a corres pondent of the Precurseur d'Anvers from the Toulon Bagne. "A very wretched-looking indi vidual whom one of the overseers pointed out to me, was no other than Count Schulenberg, the Prussian nobleman who swindled the Parisian jewelers with such amazing skill. fie is to pass twenty years in this hell on earth ! That it is a hell no one who has seen what I saw to-day will deny. One convict had concealed something-- a small paper filled with tobacco—ht his shoes. Immediately half a dozen keepers fell upon him, threw him down like a beef about to be slaugh tered and searched him in the most brutal man ner. The poor wretch turned white with rage, and ground his teeth as he rose and was told to move on. In the dormitories I shuddered on seeing the wooden benches to which the convicts were fastened in the night-time. After a day of hard labor; such a conch! Two hundred and fifty men chained like wild beasts to--the - hard, smooth planks, in each of the hall-1 Thee is an incessant clank of chains while they are asleep. Whenever one of the sleepers afire, the clank of bis chain betrays it. Early in the morning the convicts who have committed breaches of dint- - CaDllO iht tr criminals more mercilessly than these wretches are punished. Their screams and yells are heard for miles. No prison in the world can coritsin_kr_eater_horrors than this 13agne,_ ' atrocious.cruelties are a foul blot on French civ ilization and humanity." "oods on perceptible - - 4, and at a dis t as to be anon-
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