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PARTIES. 6GO. executt:tnii a supeitot uiaontiOry DREKA. ti LT STREET. te3o-til MARRIED. RAXTEIt—ECKY.—On the s'll Irektant. by the Rev. It 11... er civic!), Dr. LL F. Banter to Mary 11. Lcky. No v arde. • DIED. Df NCA . - t Um in gto n. — Daa ware on WCd Effq , dAY al ternoon. the sth Instant...folio A. Duncan. aced G 3 yeare. The friend. o'. the family are reeoe - tfully invited to attend the funeral. from him late rceldence No titO French ' , trent, on haturd ay al ternoon nest, the Bth laetant, at 4 o'eock, without further notice. AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF TILE CLASS of Department of Arts. University of Penn psis-sr:ls, held august 5, ittu, the following resolutions I, ere It d opted: Itowired, That it is with the deepest regret that the Class' records the death of their late companion. Jolt SI M. RICE M. h . while in the discharge of his profeesional duty In the service of he country. Ins affectionate die Position. his genial tnazinent. and his unwearied diligence in the prosecution of his studies, endeared him to his cias.mates. and gave promise of high attainments and side usefulness in his chosen walk tr life. We cherish his memory with pleasing emotions, and as one upright iu his chars. ter, and exemplary in his devotion t 3 the al leviation of the sufferings of his fellow-man. Bohol red, That we offer to his afflicted relatives our sin cerest condolence, and pray that God, on whom our brother's faith reposed. may minister to them abundant consolatiomfin this their time of need. Reoolred. Tbat a committee. composed of the officer' of the meeting and Mr. L. Ueemano. be appointed to com municate to the relatives of Mr. Rice these resolutions. sad to publish the came in the daily papera. R. CLEEM A NS, President, ED W. P. CAPP. L. CLEEMANN. BLIICIC L WH M I AL LLAMA I F WA WPS7 L Ts,Osloo. WHITE SHETLAND DO. WHITE BAIIErnt DO. WHITE CRAPE MARETZ. EY RE & LANDELL. 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Lizzie Burns was acquitted of a charge of iarceny, the prosectitrix failing to identify tho - money which was the subject of the larceny. Hannah Ruff was charged with keeping a dis -orderly house at Manayunk. It was alleged that the house has for weeks been a nuisance to the neighbors, parties getting dunk on the premises, and making a disturbance day and night. The defence denied that there had ever been more than one "spreekat the house. The case was not ecaded. AN EDITORIAL EXCURSION. We halted, perched on the summit of the Lara mie Mountains, or Black Hills, as they seem to be indiscriminately called. A breathing spell, and then we go launching,down the opposite elope, reaching soon the more sterile region, which will become wilder and•more barren until we again cross the Platte at Benton. At 2P. M. we are at Laramie. Laramie consists of a huge railroad hotel, not yet finished, and several streets of frame and canvas houses. Population, 1,500. Here the Union Pacific is building more fino shops. to take care of the construction and repair of the roll ing stock of the Mountain Division. There are some stores and a post-office; many places of equivocal refreshment and amusement; and one of the oldest inhabitants assured us that there bad not been a fight in the town, for more than half an hour ! A man had been killed the day , before, and there was some talk of hang ing his murderer that night, if we would like to stay end see it, but, upon the whole, La ramie was considered rather dull. There are about six men in town who haVe wives artchil dren., The few women that we see in the streets are not Inviting in apPeartinde, or extreme In the modesty of theft. demeanor. The quietness of the place was explained by the feet that the gamblers, thieves, and their female associates, had just "swarmed," and gone off to the new terminus of the road, at Benton. This makes It pleasanter for those who remain, and also safer. When there is a free fight in Laramie everybody shoots, and the wrong person is Invariably hit. Just outside of the town, lay a Mormon train. Seven hundred .poor smile, who had come on_ ahead of us from Omaha. looking very travel worn, and generally used up. * Men. women and children, all ages, from the cradle to the grave. They were getting ready for their long wagon ride across the plains to Salt Like, for Laramie is, as pet — the"end — o - f — their — rallroa - d - lourney. souls! They looked as If la laaladie de pays was already spreading among them. How many of them will find their hopes realized, under the do minion of Brigham Young ? We taker upper on our train at Laramie, and after dark some of the more adventurous of the party explore the elegant evening amusements of this frontier town. Some of them don't. Then at ten o'clock, while the sounds of revelry are dust becoming fast and furious, our iron horse toots us out of town, and we are off for another night ride to the end of the road. Laramie does not make much of a picture on paper, and yet Laramie is going to settle down into a sedate and thriving railroad town, and that at no very distant day. Whatever the West does, it does quickly. We are again riding away through the night, and have about 130 miles before us to reach the North Platte where it winds around, to the road, four hundred ranee from where we first crossed It. We are all tolerably quiet at night. In our car but one man snored, and he was a Democrat! The scene in the morning was always picturesque. There was always plenty of water, but only one wash-stand at each end of the car. Half a dozen Eastern editors, in various stages of dishabille, waiting their turn. Nobody was expected to be long about it. Five minutes betokened effemi nacy. Eight minutes was a reckless disregard for fellow-belnus that sometimes threatened diffi culties. It was rather remarkable how clean the party managed to keep. Page's shirt bosom was the admiration and envy of the party for days. Not that we were ri , rcr dirty. That would be putting altogether ho fine a point on it. There were periods of the journey when our mothers would have sternly refused to recognize as, but that was only occasionally. On Thursday morning, early, we crossed the Platte again, 691 miles from Omaha. Close on the bank is a pretty camp, a new military post, named Fort Steele. Just beyond is Benton. Ben ton was two or three weeks old, and had nearly a thousand inhabitants. It was—it may be quite different now—a canvas town, the tents decorated with signboards, which had already done duty in Cheyenne, Julesburg and Laramie. Most of them indicated that the business was Saloon. The Ben tont te s,—l t was an hour after sunrise—came lounging down to take a stare at our train, and a few inquiries were made for Gen. Grant, who was floating round the country some where. As a general rule, the Bentonian is dis tinguished by, an elongated protuberance over the right hip which indicates fire-arms. No ono was killed while we lay at Benton, nor had been. since the day before, when a sub-contractor had Playfully murdered one of the railroad hands, for asking him for some money. Personally we explored Benton very slightly. It was net attractive. But it was not without its interest to some of the excursionists. Clarke found a shoemaker there, with whom he had "a most interesting conversation," and who offered to make him a pair of boots for $2O 00. And Bliss bought five lead pencils there for fifty cents, receiving a counterfeit note in change for his dol lar. Being a modest man and distant from home, he did not like to tell the shop-keeper that he had cheated him, so he mildly remarked that he be lieved he would take five more pencils while he was about it, and so got rid of the dubious cur rency. There is no particular reason why Ben ton should last over a month or so, and we doub if it gets down on the next maps. We were soon off from Benton to the end of the track. it was a beautiful morning, and pres ently we all doffed our hats respectfully to the Seven Hundred Mile post on the U. P. R. R. Ten miles further, and we are brought to a halt by the construction and boarding trains at the end of the road. We are there ! It is a lively and deeply interesting scene. The country is wild and barren, the surface of the ground covered with a stunted attempt at grase,and small stones, among which everybody. after awhile, went hunting for agates, with va rious degrees of success. Just there the track ran on an embankment twenty feet high. The advanced limit of the rail is occupied by a train of long box cars, with hammocks swung under them, beds spread on top of them, bunks built within them, in which the sturdy, broad shouldered pioneers of the great iron highway sleep at night, and take their meals. Close behind this train come loads of ties and rails and spikes, &c., which are being thundered off upon the roadside to be ready for the track-layers. The road is graded a hundred miles in advance. The ties are laid roughly in place, then adjusted, gauged and levelled. Then the track is laid. Track-laying on the Union Pacific is a science, and we, pundits of the Far East, stood on that embankment, only about a thousind miles this PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1868. side of sunset, and backed westward .before that hurrying corps of sturdy operatives with a min gled feeling of amusement, curiosity and pro found respect., On they came. A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail 'and start forward, the rest of the 'gang taking' hold by twos, until it is clear of the car. They come forward at a run. At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car. Less than thirty seconds to a rail for each gang,and so four mils go down to the minute ! Quick work, you say, but the fellows on the U. P. are tremendously in earritst. The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the side of the track 'to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again, and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Clove behind the first gang come the gaugers, spikers and bolters, and a lively time they make of it. It is a grand Anvil Chorus that those sturdy sledges are playing across the plains. It is in triple time, three strokes to a spike. There are ten -:spikes to a rail, four - hundred rails; to a mile, eighteen hundred - miles 'to San - Francisco. That's the sum, what is the quotient? Twenty-one million times are those sledges to be swung—twenty-one, million times are they to come down with their sharp punctuation, before the great work of modern America is complete! On they go. Fifteen minutes from the moment that the rail is dropped upon the track, it is ad 'justed, spiked, bolted to its predecessor with the "fish-plate," (there are no "chairs" used,) and ready for the advancing_trsin. __lt wasworth She_ dust, the heat, the cinders, the hurrying ride, day and night, the • fatigue and the expo sure, to see with one'd own eyes this second grand liarch to the Sea." Sher man, withAwyletotionl; legions, sweeping from Atlantstd Savamarti - was — & - peetaffieless glorl 41:41-t 1 . c.r= cf =, mm - ctir, - g - • from Omaha to Sacramento, subduing unknown wildernesses, scaling unknown mountains, sur mounting untried obstacles, and binding across the broad breast of America the iron emblem of modern progress and civilization. All honor, not only to the brains that have conceived, but to the indomitable wills, the brave hearts and the brawny muscles that are actually achieving the great work! We spend two or three hours at the end of the track, during which nearly a mile of road is, built, and then turn our faces Eastward once more. Returning to the fascinating town of Benton, we lie there for several hours, awaiting a special train which comes up in due time, bringing Vice President Durant, heart, brain and life of this great enterprise, and divers other officials, on a trip over the road. A bottle' of lifedoe is pun ished by the new arrivals, and at about 6 P. K— it is Thursday, July 23d—we are fairly off on our homeward trip. Our train has the right of way, and we are to go through the whole 700 miles, kiting. And we did. Friday morning finds us breakfasting at Cheyenne, Rollins House. The thoughtful Frost has telegraphed for a first-rate breakfast, and we feast• sumptuously on all the delicacies of the Cheyenne season, including broiled antelope, which is delicious. Cheyenne is pronounced, Shy-Ann. We are an hour in Cheyenne, and then off again, making big time all the while. An early tea at North Platte, and a hasty survey of the Company's fine shops; a half-hour halt across the long bridge of the Platte River, and a bath for those disposed to tempt the shallow but rushing current; and off again for Omaha. That night, Wadsworth, conductor, spread himself. He determined to show that the Union Pacific was a road that could be traveled over, and he traveled. Running by telegraph, dodging construction and freight trains, replacing melted brasses in his boxes, he went it, all night. kick ing up a dust that reduced the train to a condi tion not easily described, and putting us into Omaha on Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock, hav ing broken down three engines, run 56 miles one bour, 48 miles another, and 84 miles every hour for seven hundred miles! Anybody who wants a better proof of a well-built road must inquire at some other office. Wadsworth is an immense conductor, and deserves well of his country. We make but a brief halt at Omaha. We break fast and then recross that delightful mud•solu tion, the Missouri, and resume the Chicago and North Western. At Council Bluffs we bid good bye to Frost. Frost, so full of information, so attentive, so obliging, so wide-awake to the inte rests of the Union Pacific and the comforts of Eastern editors. We all hope to see Frost again. We are a day ahead of our time, and have stolen a march on Pullman, but he meets us with the " Omaha" and fler Great Organ, at Boone, toward evening. We are now running for Chicago as hard as we can pelt, but only kill a single cow. Probably if it had not been Sunday morning, we might have killed more. The Pullman Organ comes in play, and a wonderful variety of talent for sacred music is de veloped in the company, until, soon after noon, we reach Chicago, and are glad enough for the hospitable welcome that awaits ne at the Tre mont. We have run 2,000 miles since Tuesday morning, almost without stopping, and we are more than ready for a rest. A Novel Invention. The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Times gives the following account of a new invention : Yon recollect Edgar Poe's catalepsy coffin, with inside cushions for comfort, and springs for the moment of waking. The idea was very ele mentary and perhaps practical. Bat a French man has beaten it all to pieces. He calls his in vention a "Respiratory-Advertising Apparatus for precipitate inhumations." Yon can see the mechanism of the thing from where you are. -Yon can breathe while notifying the outside world that you are resurrected." What naivete! By this invention the buried individual puts him eelt in communication with the living by means of a tube fixed over the mouth with a funnel f.haped mouth-piece, the other end projecting from the ()Intl or stone above. "If the indi vidual," to quote the prospectus, "finds himself uneasy in his position (!) be has only to demand the attention of the guardians of the cemetery, which he cm easily do, and his case Will be at tended to at once." So that if this ingenious invention comes into general nee, the people who select the cemeteries as a place of resort, must not be surprised here after at hearing queer sounds from time to time proceeding from the earth around them. We can imagine the surprised promenader exclaim= mg to a guardian: "What! you allow people to play the trombone here?" and the guardian re plying; "That's no treimbOne. It's the old fellow of yesterday—down there—the seventh, to the left—who demands a kange of base!" The inventor thinks no family ought to be without one of his tubes. The charming man! Pretty soon he will pretend that children cry for them._ DI V JIVAI. tO In DiLifj All 4111,1 A I* OMAN 9 / 4 EX PE MIEN CES IN EUROPE. A Day on the Doman Catnpagna— The Seven Dills of the Eternal City— Brigands and their Deeds—The Su burban 110MallS—Beggars—A Sal- phureous Lake. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Losinon,Jialy 10,1868.—A beautiful,clear morn fling in Rome Is something to be enjoyed more than one can tell, particularly if an excursion is to be made to any of the villas outside the city, where the palm trees, waving on the Seven Hills, seem to beckon invitingly to the ready traveler. On one of those mornings in February, when the air was odorous with violets and camellias of every hue, and the sweet lilies of the valley were bending their tiny cups filled with sparkling dew drops, I rose at 7 o'clock, an hour considered barbarous in Rome, for none bat servants either rise or breakfast before nine o'clock. But I had an engagement. Dressing hastily and swallowing a cup of cafe-au-laic my ears were Immediately after charmed with the sound of hundreds of tiny bells, and looking from the window;l saw a . rktura or barodche with a paid of horses covered with bells, feathers, gay rib ands and flowers, the . vetturino or driver With a pointed hat and Roman livery. Two friends in the carriage, a pair of spirits who thoroughly enjoyed the novelty and charm of their situation, and to whose companionship I consigned myself without the least dread of vexatious complainings or ill-temper should any unioreseen occurrence disarrange our plans for the day's excursion. We were bound _tor Tivoli, eighteen milcsfrom --Rome, across-the Campagna, into the very haunts of brigands, against whom we refused to take warning. I believe ours was the only single carriage that had gone over the same ground for months, After listeninto frightful stories of murder rob bery, and of prisonena having their ears cut off 3li • • I 4 - their rmp:urtmrnrxtrat their heads would soon follow if a ransom was not immediately sent them, and after repeated una vailing attempts to make several parties who had agreed to go together decide upon a day, we determined to venture alone; and by the time we set out we rather wished for an encounter with Fra Diavolo's grandson, if only to see if he really resembled flabelmann. "Murray," the inevitable compagnon-de-vo:yage, says "a hurried excursion to Tivoli will scarcely be satisfactory." Our experience, the traveler's best guide after all, tells to the contrary. Those who have crossed the Campagna can readily recall its appearance on an early morning when the cypress and acacia trees are in full foliage. The old ruins of ancient grandeur and architectural perfection are covered with dark poisonous vines that bear beautiful but treacherous white blossoms; the sterile wastes where herdsmen burrow into cells and caves for protection from the damp, fatal airs at night and the blistering sun by day; the immense plain of verdure over which great herds of sheep, goats, oxen and black hogs roam and teed, followed by shepherds in- the veritable picturesque costume our statuettes and paintings represent— pointed hat, graceful mantle, Roman sandals— complete but alas, so soiled. and often ragged, that the charm is only half realized. Their pos turings, however, are always the same. Whether "under a hay-stack fast asleep," on the brow of a hill. leaning against a rock or lazily resting on the back of a donkey, a Roman shepherd is always a picture, his pose graceful and easy, a natural model that no nation can mistake. The usual occupation of these shepherds is knitting! With two and four steel needles they knit ' all sorts of useful articles for home use, almost al ways walk ng, pausing only to gaze at the Amer ican who dashes by, waking up old Rome to the fact that while she slumbers new nations are rising in the West, growing daily in strength and confidence. As we flew along the hard Ro man highway, the bells ringing merrily on our spirited horses, calling out from huts, ruins and old repaired towers, hosts of fleet-footed beggars, who kept pace with our carriage wheels till our dread of accident to themlforeed us to throw the me::o baioccho they would run two miles to secure; low hills on either side crowned with castles and vineyards, that peculiar shade of purple mist hovering around the distant Apen nines, blending with the rosy morning light as the sun climbed up in the heavens; blue, oh ! such blue sky over oar heads !—we laid back on the easy springy seats and traced in the changing arch of heaven groupings of spirits with faces as bright and lovely as the glorious inimitable painting on the ceiling of the Rospigliosi Palace, Guido's "Aurora!" A strong smell of sulphur sud denly changed my visions,and reminded ma more of Milton's "Paradise Lost," or Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment"in the Sistine chapel at the Vati can.We stood on a bridge under which ran a stream of milky, foaming water, nine feet long and two miles long, the outlet of the lakes of La Solfa tarn, emptying the sulphurous waters into the Tiverono. Drawing the vettura on the side of the road,we climded the fences and ran over the stony ground to the curious lake or logo di Tartari, where a strange spectacle presented itself. Every object around its white crusted banks was petri fied ; branches of trees, vegetables, acorns, little baskets that children had deposited to have turned to stone, hoping " to call in a few days and get them;" and we turned away with a grim recollection of Lot's wife, almost afraid to look back as we hurried to our carriage, lest we should make an addition to the interesting'petrifications for hitnre travelers to regard as "rather curious"! Remembering that we had much to see, and eigh teen miles to drive back, and that the gates of Rome would be closed at nine o'clock punctually, we hurried over the ground to the ancient Tiber, once a powerful rival of Rome, where we were to see temples that 'were founded and dedicated to heathen gods before the Son of God came into the world to bring light and hfe—where darkness and Death had reigned for centuries. Up the hills, through miles of continuous olive groves, with Albani, a town nestling in the A.pvenines on the right, the castles and villas of the Sabine' perched on the top of conical mountains on the left, with steep sides that must have proved a protection in themselves from the attacks of neighboring bar barous tribes; past the villa Hadriana, which we visited afterwards; on to the villa d'Este, built in 1549, for the son of the Duke of Ferrara. It be longs to the present Duke of Modena, successor of that family. Entering by the gate that leads to the Cardinal's residence, wo had our usaa good fortune of seeing him leave the Jesuit College - and receive seve ral messengers, who delivered their com munications on bonded knees, afterrevereatlY , kissing-his liaud.---110-received-our- foreign- pro-- testant inclination of the head with a gracious acknowledgment, raising his cap from hie head after our own fashion. Descending flight after flight of stone steps cut in the natural rock, and enclosed in a square tower,we at last reached the lower terrace, and could hardly believe our senses as the full effect of this ancient Roman villa burst upon our view. Seven terraces there in back ground, two on each side, laid out in flower beds and groves, with clipped hedges on the labyrin thine walks, statuary of ancient designs, Roman temples, arbors, cascades, leaping from basin to basin, forming a lovely vista a quarter of lupe in length, grottos, oracles, where cypresses wet% trained as sentinels to keep out all sacrileigone sounds and intrusive glances,whUe miniature lake and islands with fleets of iron and wooden ships, preserved wonderfully well, though rusted and worm-eaten *with ago, still showed how Roman children were trained for war in their very sports and recreation. Standing on a solia rock, formed into an ornamental balcony for ladies, we looked over the Campagna, and there, eighteen miles away, we distinctly saw the dome of St. Peter's glistening in the sunshine, while a bine line in the horizon behind it marked the borders of ,the sea, eight hundrdd'and thirty feet below us. So much for the c'ear atmosphere "of Italy. Visiting the Casino, we admired the beautiful and carious frescoes on its stone walls, and then hastened to mount the donkeys, that impatiently wagged their long ears, at the gate leading through the narrow streets of the town. Ale bonne neon, !on the ono appropriated to my use was the crimson velvet saddle used by the princesses and other royal visitors to Tivoli from all putts of the world. As we mounted._ eur_ don keys' bends and our own hats wore decorated with mountain flowers by black-eyed, barefooted, haloes boys, who received our coppers with the air of "merchant princes," making their locks of hair serve as hat rims for the occasion. One who ran beside, me a 8 wflitkrally WiOed - throngh — mnd filtiv of-cc:s, speak English. As ho had given me a clear story in French of his education at the French college, enabling him to speak French as well as Italian, his native language, I replied in English to his boast, "Oh, do let me hear you talk in English! What can you say?" He stared blankly for a moment, then said, "Ver fine view, nice donkey!" I laughed to myself at the "very fine view" of dirty, ragged women and children crowded against the walls of dingy houses, as we passed, so narrow were the streets, and tried to induce the boy to talk more English, but he said"he could not remember any more." Soon we entered the yard of the hotel, where, on a cliff overhanging the caves of Neptune, stood the Temple of Vesta, where Horace and Virgil, Augustus and Mecenas rested, and sung their soul music to the gods, while the cataract of living waters leaped into the grottos of the syrens over three hundred feet below them. We will finish this trip In our neat. E.D. W. ART ITEM'S. There are many reasons why hanging commit tees should not be models of efficiency. Oars in Philadelphia have not always been composed of Solomona. Men of prominence shrink from serving on them because they involve a great deal of bard work, a great deal of delicate personal arbitration among rival artists, and a never-fail ing avalanche of blame when the work is done and the public see it. A more thankless umpire ship among a more genitive class cannot be found. The British Academicians have their own national way, however, of riding rough-shod over a delicate question, placing their own in teresta well, and devil take tbo hindmost. The French committee is a pattern of organization and justice. After choosing something like four thousand from the chaos of works of art sub mitted, they arrange this selected gallery as well as they can, and then prepare themselves to con sider communications and complaints. A recess of a week takes place in the middle of the exhi bition, during which the Salon is re-hung, Mad vertencies rectified, works of merit for which room had not been found brought into promi nence, complaints attended to, and objects that had had their share of incense displaced. The recent exhibition of the Royal Academy in London has been examined. by a Frenchman. the latter accustomed to the almost faultless impartiality of his own niachinery at the Palate do I' Industrie. No wonder he finds it the most deplorable thing in the world as regard s organization and arrangement. If French artist s could visit it, the sight of those pictures, heaped together without logic or taste, from floor to ceiling, in a series of small, ill-lighted rooms, would cure them forever of ineffective criticism respecting the Palais do l'lndustrie f which is a perfect museum in comparison with the hole in Trafalgar square. He will say nothing of the arrogance of the English Academicians. Accord ing to the precept that charity begins at home, their first care is to secure for themselves the best places—" after them the deluge." As to foreign artists, they are banished to the background, pushed into dark corners, where the eye of a visitor scarcely ever falls upon their works. The London Herald agrees with the French critic, as to the malpractice, and says : "Academies, no doubt, ought to be favorable to the prosperity of art. It was certainly the in tention. But practice has been against the theory, and human nature has stood opposed to the in tention. Do what you will, an academy will al ways degenerate into 4, more or loss respectable form of trades union, lb which the administra tive rulers have a much stronger interest against giving fair play to their mechanics than the me chanics are supposed to have in giving fair play to the public. Under this desire of upholding professional respectability liberties are surren dered on ono side and rights confiscated on the other. As the humble artists are to unite in a system of high prices as against the public, the Royal Academicians naturally unite to uphold a regime of exclusive eminence for themselves; and could we reach the penetralia of any governing council of these close corporations, we should find that the analogies of every vicious resource used at Sheffield or Manchester have been at one time or another in full play against the uprise of all the class of promising but insubordinate can didates for academical honors," But, friend Herald, the admirable French sys tem proceeds front an Academy ! —Among the gifts to e. newly-married pair at a town in New Jersey the other evening, was a broom sent to the lady, accompanied with the following sentiment!. "This trifling gift accept from me, Its use I would commend; • . In sunshine use the brushy part, In storms the other end." —General Blair tried hard to get a college edu cation, but the fates were against him. He was expelled from Tale. and Princeton, and left the University of North Carolina to escape a similar, judgment. - F. L FETHESSTON. Publisim FRIO THREE OE NTS. FIFTH EDITION BY TELEGRAPH. LATEST CABLE NEWS. Arrival of Jeff; Davis at Liverpool. Spain in a State of Disquiet. LATER FROM WASHINGTON• Gen. Meade in his New Department. The Indian Peace Commission. Preparations for a General Conceit. LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA. THE PANAMA REBELLION. Prospeots of an Amicable Solution: By the Atlantic Cable. • Livunpooi., Aug. 6.—Jeff Davis arrived here by steamer last - ffight. PARIS, Aug. 6.—Despatches received from various parts of Spain represent the whole coun— try in a state of disquiet, and the utmost efforts of the Government are required to prevent out— breaks. reuus - visin [Special Despatch to the Phila. Evening Bullotin.l WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Gen. Meade was at Charleston yesterday, and assumed command of the North and South Carolina Department, which was formally turned over by General Canby. He will at once proceed to complete the discharge of all persons employed in civil duties,- and to concentrate the troops at a few principal points. The Indian Poate Commission. (*eclat Despatch to the ?tills. Evening Bulletin.) WASHINGTON, Aug. G.—lnformation has beeit • received hero that General Sherman will at once convene the Indian Peace Commission anthorizet t .',. by the recent act of Congress, and confer wif the various tribes, with a view to the preventiort• of further disturbances. From Contral and South America. , NEW YORK, Aug 6th.—Panama advices of the 28th ult. state that no collision had yet occurred between the Government troops and idle revolu tionists. Preparations wore active on both sides, though there was a prospect of an amica ble arrangement of difficulties. An accident on the Panama railroad had de-. Mined the passengers from New York by the Ocean Queen a day and a half. The American brig,M. Muller sunk in Caleta, Yanes, on June 14th. The Captain and crew were saved by the pilot boat Theodore and takes to Coquimbo. The United States frigate Kear sarge has been heard from In Magellan's Straits, on her way to Coquimbo. General Grant's Movements. LPpecial Despatch' to . tho PhiladolPhia Evening llttlletial WASHINGTON, August 6.—A. telegram was re ceived here from General Grant to-day. lie Is at SL Louis, and does not indicate when•he will re turn. The New York Quarantine. NEW YORK, August 6.—There are one or two cases of yellow fever on the Ocean Queen, at quarantine. The brig Haviland, from Havana, had one death from yellow fever on the voyage. IMIEMIG George Houseman Thomas, an artist who was formerly known in this country, died at Boul ogne on the 21st of July. He was born in Lon don on the 7th of December, 1824, studied engra ving in Paris, and in 1845 accepted an engage ment to come to Now York and illustrate a news paper. While - there he made designs for the bank notes of several States. Remaining la New York two years he went to Italy, and was in Rome during the siege of that city by the French. Many of his sketches of the siege ap peared in the Illustrated London News at the time, and on his return to England In 1819 he painted a picture of "Garibaldi at the Siege of Rome." which was exhibited at the Royal Academy. His drawings in the Illustrated News attracted the attention of Queen Victoria, and. be received a commission from Her Majesty to paint "The Queen giving the Medals to the Crimean Heroes," exhibited at the Academy. Until very recently much of his time had beets taken up by designs for books, and ill health (from which he suffered for many years) pre vented him from giving his time entirely to painting. THEATRES, Etc: The WAIXOT.—The Black Crook will be given. at the Walnut this evening in superb style. THE A3IICRICAN.—A miscellaneous performance will he given at the American this evening, with dancing by a first rate ballet troupe. THE WIIITE FAWN.—Messrs. Sinn & Co. have determined to continue their proprietorship of the Chestnut, and on Monday, the 17th of Au— gust, Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer will produce, tin— der their auspices, the celebrated spectacular ballet The White Fawn. This piece, upon its: first production at Niblo's, In New York,actually cost $lOO,OOO, and the 'proprietors have brought it here entire. We are to have the same magnificent scenery, the same marvellously beautiful transformations, the same ballet troupe, and the same cast. The famous ball-room scene will be given nightly, with all the marching and dancing incident to the first representations of the piece. The ballet will be led by the celebrated Bonfanti, acrompanied by Solhke, and Westmayle, and the whole Viennese and Parisian ballet troupe. Miss Fanny Stock— ton, Mies Josie Orton and Miss Lily Eldridge are in the cast,and will interpret the beautiful music. Incident to the piece. Mr. Dolly Davenport will .. assume the leading character. Of co. :e the' piece will have immense popularity here, , nd a long run. —Mr. Bergh, the friend and protector of dumb animals in New York, thinks the slaughter or animals and the devouring of their' flesh account for the largest share of the moral and physical diseases which affect mankind. —"Joe, my dear," 6aid a fond wife to her hus band,- who was a railroad engineer, "do fix: up a little, you look EO 610Vellly. Only think, whit an awful memory It would be for me if you. should get blowed up looking so." -- Save, the Boston - Poe with fine sarcasm: The anonym ons writer who informs us where one of. our feet is tan-aseertaln-the-posititurof othot fooby - Preseating his person before ua O'Olook.
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