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THE COURTS.
QUARTER SEssroNs--Judge Brewster.—ln the
43ase of Rafnor and Richle, charged with assault
and battery, the former was convicted and
sentenced to pay a fine of $2O and costs.
Wm. H. Moore and Thomas Hubert were
.charged with stealing a mule. Moore pleaded
guilty, and Hubert was convicted.
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.
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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.