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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.
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and those progressions of science and art that
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are Dr. Ayer's medicines. They take rank among
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ART ITR us.
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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."
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