GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.-NO. 121 THE EVENING BULLETIN BENUMBED EVERT EVENING Malys excepted). AT TINE NEW BULLETIN BVILDINO, 601 Chestnut Street, Piallattelphlas, NT EVENING BULLETIN 1101391)11.1 • VON. , TACOMIXTOEIL 1111)38QN_MALICOM BEER 13=ER, Jn.. .F.E.NTON F ON. J. AN= WELLS . The Irmaxnat Is served to enbscrthers In the city at IN vats ver week. payable to the ca • or SEI •er annum. AILERICAN LIFE INSURANCE. COMPANY, Of Philadelphia, S. E. aornee Fourth and Walnut Sta. 1119rThit Institution luxr no superior in the United (States. INSURE AGAINST ACCIDENT 1 ItiaIT3IILERS' iIifIUILURCE CO., Or UARTWOXIM COT O/. Assets over • • $1,000,000 • Perseus_ lesvfor the eft, especially feel better esti& 'fled by betnX hauls& WWII/ We ULF, ' /gent and attorney, ,FO/11tEBT BUILDING. 117 South founk Street, Soutladelphla. ist3tothi2m WBIDAL_MTBEATBS. ic..BOUQUETS. &e. FO II WED dinsi:reethstere.sses. for Earterals. EL A. 3DREEkr.. glettit.7l chestant street. - e. 124 Im6 - 7 DOING CARDS. INVITATIONS FOR PAR t des, eze. New styles. MASON do CO.. 807 Chestnut :Street. TtiNTFATIONB FOR WEDDINGS. PAETiEB. AC executed. in or rammer b • r:. • 8 f..“ q• DIED. BCCE:6IAN.—On Friday. August 29, In Jersey City. Lewin Backman, aged 83 year. JONEB.—On Friday evening tut. of typhoid fever, Ellsworth Peck. youngest eon of Col. IL W. and Anus M. Jones. aged 8 yealr and 6 months. The funeral will t-*e place from the residence of his parents, No. 1513 North Thirteenth street. on Monday afternoon. August 31. at 2 P.M. The friends of the family aro invited to attain.. JOlititiON.—On she morning of the 27th Instant. at her late residence, No. 403 &tab Third street, Nancy. wife of Capt. Rowland Johnson, in the lerth year of tier age. lier friends are respectfully informed that her remains be removed to Dresden. !deism, for interment. • WARNEB.—dt Scarsdale. New York. on the Vth hut, William 8, Warner, in the 45th year of isle age.. Y.Lre male friends avid relatives are respiWally invited tend Ma funeral, from the residence of his fatheein. lea, B. E. Moore, No. OM Pine street. on Mendel, the aist Inst . at 10A. M. • New York papers please cope'. 12.00 D BLACK AND COLORED SILKS. , ' ‘ft 81 OUT BLK. CORDED SATIN VACEGRO GRAD/ PURPLE AND BLU E EDGE. • BED MINS AND GRO angar.i. MODE 00VD PLAIN NW& aul2tf • .EYRS Et LANDELL. Fourth and Arcb. *JEtZLIGICPI74 RO'XICES. CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CATHEDRAL ildr Cemetery. The New Cathedral Cemetery at Second street sad Nicetown lane, will be consecrated on SUN DAY. the 30th that., at 4 o'clock, P. 31., by the Rt. Rea. Dr. O'Hara, Bishop o _ ! Scranton : The Eighth street and Germantown Peaeenger P.ailway care will carry persons to the Riming Sun Hotel. a short &stance from Second street and Nicctown lane. It' mir SEVENTH AND WEST &HUH STREET PILES. triseetian Chnrcher.—Rev. James M. Cowell, 13. D., will preach In the Seventh Preebyeerian Church, Broad and Penn Square. to-morrows. at 10)44. M., and in the West Arab Street Church, corner of Eighteenth and Arch. -sat B P. 31 It• "rbREV. J. P. 'SIeILVANE, D. D., OF PRINCETON, will preach in the Central Presbyterian Mauch. corner of Eighth and Cherry streets. on Sabbath morning at 10,0 o'clock. and in the evening at the church, corner of Tenth and Filbert streets. at 8 o'clock. tt• zer. CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.— morro biw og,iP7Zbrthigilfeldfven- MA. The Peetor Rev. taVi p re a ch w h at 10X A. AL and VI F, M. SabbathShoolVt 9% A. serteling.Magnt9l;esViduEbPerVgadlt . ge service on SUNDAY evening. Angtutt 30, at eight o'clock. P. M. Sermon by the Rev. Phillip, Brooke. stir NORTH BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN Chord:. corner of Broad and Green see PreaChin Rev, Petor Staker.D.b. Stroasers ikie WelL3g. CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 41115r Locust street. above Fifteenth. will be open for di vine service to-morrow morning at 103 E Preach. g 1,1 1 . 4. . . REV. JACOB DICKERSON WILL PREACH IN Trinity M. E. Church. Eighth etreet, above Race, on Sunday next, 30th met ant, at 1020 A. M. No evening aerate& It' and Summer THE ATONEMENT. SEVEN. te ft e t ntauiur . uner atreete. Service tomorrow morning i te g It; serßF l gi i HENRY ein h D t iiBLING, D. D.. OF ALBANY byterian. Church. at Ab. ingtan. tomorrowat 10.34 ° A. M. It.• oritlretTevenElnDlev i cq , ,rl4kbitPETV ? ..l7 l THe, Pastor, wi ll preach to-morrow, at IOsgA.M. and ips r STe LEBrENz , s carte. TWENTIETH AND Cherry a will be for Divine oervice on gurday, 6th , of septemal.it. J*rFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,WARHING ton Square.—Rev. B. W. Crittenden will Preaoh .42ext Sabbath morning, at 1036 A. IL POLITICAL NoricES. A Grand German Republican Mass Meeting, :This Saturday Evening, August 201 h, AT 8 O'CLOCK, AT NATIONAL GUARDS' HALL, RACE STREET. ABOVE FIFTH STREET. ritIAJOR.GENFJRA_L CARL • SCHu az Will address the Meeting (orLIZINQUARTERB REPUBLICAN INVINCI ORDER No. 2, I.—The Clnb will assemble at 580 P;,)!..t 0 .510NDAY, to _=_attemithe_denumstrationat Eagle Statiom Pennsylvania Railroad. 11—Excursion tickets - to be had at Headquarters on : Monday. Price i 5 cents. - — By - order - ot . . . EziA LrIiENS,/, Azeiertant Blarahala HENRY' Torah 1 srEcatil. •NoVitneg. PHIIADELPHIA 'AND READING RAILROAD ti I IirCOMPANY. OFF/CE NO. 927 11011TII.FOORTH +MEET. Plarani 1day,27.1868. NOTICE to the holders of bonds of the Philadelphia .end Reading Railroad Company. due April 1. WO:— The Company offer to exchange any of these bonds of ..41030 each at any time before the 'tansy of October next, tat par, for a new mortgage bond of equal amount.bearing .1 per cent. Interest, clear of United States and State taxal. ••&living id ywas to run. - - - The bonds not anrrendend on or before the Ist of Octo. tier nexttwill be_ paid at mat - m.lAm in accordance with Char tenor. mM•f, oatl ff. BRADFORD. Treasurer. arms. NOTICE TO TAX.PA.PERJEL—A. PENALTY OF v••• One per Cent. will be added upon all City Taxes re. wining unpaid after the let of September. Two per Cent. October let„and Three per Cent. Decemberlst. In accordance with an Ordinance of Coundhl. approved October 4th.15 , 61. RICHARD FELTZ, au m ac up§ - - - Receiver of Taxes. Ger HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 11518 AND Lombard- street. Dispens=partmetik—M treatmen and medicinal; t gratuitously to Iha ,Door. asr NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, PAALEE E I: ap,Mil•dsc.. bought b. 7 l t i rp r , No. 613 J street. myl6H4 The London correspondent of the Boston Post furnishes the following additional information concerning Adah Isaacs Menken : " Nienken's epitaph, 'Thou knowest,' brings n..inf.tr thoughts than she ever prompted durifig,he r life except id. her intimate friends, who, to - do her justice, never had an ill word for her. It is a curious tircumstance that actors, and especially actresses, are hardly ever religious, hardly ever infidel, hardly ever have utterry bad consciences, and hardly ever lose an abiditig sense of the Infinite mercy of God. All these things - teasedin—voln—sr, - - -- ,,eppaE - 5 -- rivo - ivords for her tombstone, and they probably express very accurately the dill depths of her consciousness depths which no one would imagine a woman of her stamp to possess. But what was her stamp?f3ha ust going to publigh a volume of poems which by a coincidence she had named "In (dicta." This will probably tell us what there was in her. She had laid herself out from early life to be a female fascinator a role which there is great temptation in America for a woman to adopt; and it is quite certain that - though those who did not meet her, and some who did, laughed at her fascinations, many succumbed to them. There is no fiction in the accounts of her continual grand receptions at Paris. and though her peculiar public appearances might, no doubt, account for the private crowds, she could not have maintained it in. Paris without some con versational ioowers. She was also a vivacious and regular letter-writer. Her acquaintances in _England ranged over many grades of society. Swinburne was a most constant visitor. This may have been bravado, or an affectation of car nality, or an assertion of l'aganism. Swinburne, great as he is, is not above each weaknesses, but the intimacy is undoubted, and it did not wear off. Menken's verse is said to have been very rhapsodical, and some of it sensuous, to say the least. An American, well known in Liverpool, and everywhere respected, was agent for Miss Menken, and sitting one night in the Neptune, in Clayton square, he assisted at a discussion on the private characters of distinguished theatri cals. This was a , point on which he was very definite in his persuasions. lie listened in silence a good while, and then thus characteristically broke out. Striking the table emphatically, bat Without violence, he said. Well, my star's moral; and any one says my star'—meaning Menken—' isn't moral, I m in fora big fight. Who-says - the--age-of-chivalry-is-past? - -No one took up the enthusiastic agent's chal lenge. So Idenken's morality must be allowed to have stood the ordeal by battle. Her most inconvenient, if not her worst fault was a - habitof -,- wilit expense. She would buy carriages and diamonds at moments when she was actually in want of .£5, and , expect her poor man of business to find the money fo them. A felv• - • - rejlts ago she was playing her la; t engagement (at Sadler's Wells), she came to the theatre arrested, with the Sheriff's officer in her carriage, and an hour and a half passed with a crowd surrounding before an arrangement could be made enabling tier to play. Poor woman, she was soon to playher last hour en this scene; and in her death, and with her epitaph in - Uaind, her figure seems to take other than the, garish:vulgar hues in which we have all been accustomed to re gard her."' ' • - BENJ. L. TAYLOR, Chief Marshal. THE WALntrr:—Mr.Leffingwell will make a final appeatarice this evening.- On)denday Foal play will be produced. Tun CassTntrf.-:.The White' Faion will be re peated at the Chestnut this evening. Tut . alleznican.—A. miscellaneous performance will be given at the American tonight. —A Southern fim -.-- lisywhich bad lived for -nipe years in Berlin, had „a handsome quadroon girl whom they had always treated - a - e -- a slave. She had never received any wages - for her; services, and the head of the family had repeatedly bru tally maltreated her. :It was Only the other..day that she accidentally learned that slavery Was abolished in the United States. She immediately left thethourie, went to a lawyer, and sued her master for her wages for tsinuyeampast. • . -- • . • • :0) tionolWiLifoliu:l:4ll LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences on THURSDAY. September O. Candidates for admission may be examined the day before (September 0). or on TUESDAY. Jul/ 21. the asp before the ArmaslCommenoemtmt. For circulars, apply to President ONITELL, or to Professor B B. YOUNGMAN. Clerk of the Faculty; iyl4 tf Burrow. Pa » July. 1888. THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR THE 161" ProverltIon of entelti to An l 4abl. Nara ilaertaut street. acknowledges the receipt or the fo owing sums since Jenuned lgth : A Fri. ... . . . ..... SIO Geom. W. .... . ... ... 00 Mla Aertsen ... .. ..... 60 00 0 kfra. W. ....... 50 A. (I. wOOG;iii i irivi . York) so Donations in of the objects of the Society, and en scrlotlons. for - rnemberstdps (S 5 per Tell* are earroatr - - lt§ ROBERT a 001180 N. Tressuier. heir— MOONLIGHT EIfgURSION TO CAPE ISLAND, in the ees steamer ••John Sylvester,” from Chester. SepL Atb, le P. Al.' Benno following day.. Particulars next week. L . BIITSICAL INAFTRUCTION. Mr. James G. Osbottrn, who is well known as a professor of Music, has taken possession of his new rooms, for•. musical instruction, at No. 805 Race street. Mr. Osbourn gives lessons in tile piano, guitar, violin and flute. His system of teaching is thorough and the pupil' is not left to grope his *ay to results without first r under standing principles. He pro Poses to form an evening class for flute and violin instruction, and he has fixed his charges at such rates that young men of limited means can avail themselves of the opportunity of obtaining first class instruction upon those instrunienta. IBEW JEEVSET MATTERS. Wmaxo Ur.;—There is a general waking up fimovz the friends of Grant and Colfax and the Republican party generally throughout the First congressional District. Arrangements are being made for holding meetings everywhere; able speakers are being secured, and an unusual in terest is manifested. The Democrats, seeing the absolute folly of their attempts to carry their ticket, simply content themselves with keeping up appearances, holding an oceaalonal meeting, for the purpose of maintaining an organization. Accipmirr.—A man named John B.• Morgan, while passing Washington Hall on - Thursday evening, during the firing of a salute by the Democratic Association, was knocked down by the discharge of the cannon and was bidly in jured. His face was very badly burned. War rants have been issued for the apprehension of the persons firing it. Tim 811ERIPPALTY.—The contest between the different candidates for the nomination to the Sheriffalty waxes warmer and warmer, and the struggie to secure the delegates is amusing and interesting. Candidates all good humoredly say that the primary meetings are the places to make the issue, and then go heartily in to support who ever is the fortunate nominee. THE NEW FEP.Wr BOAT.—The new ferry boat for. the.Wcat Jersey Company is almost finished, and-the trial trip - Wilt be - arranged foria a couple of weeks. This is a splendid craft, the largest of any crossing the river between the two cities. GLoccasrzn Coo* srry,—The courts of Glouces ter county will commence their September term at Woodbury on Tuesday next. It is said that a number of interesting cases are to be tried. DEMOCRATIC Ccolvzsrrrox.—The Democratic Congressional Convention has been called at Salem, on the 16th of September, to nominate a candidate for Congress In the First District. The Nienken. TR.E3I3, E PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1868, LETTER FROM WASHINGTON• Seine of the 1110-statements of the New York Herald exposed—Denial of the Statement that a $5,000 Counterfeit mond had been redeemed at the Trey.. army. The facts about a certain $5OO 12 . per cent interest bill . Issued by Howell Cobb. A Scrap of the aulpub. fished History of his sidnundstbrattou —how Cabb agreed with. the' Conn tractors to supply ffiliteepskltt for Cam skin—Who pocketed the difference Morraseendence ot the Philadelphia Evadnetkatilt4o WABOINGTON, Aug. 28, 1868.—The New York Hera/dislyesterdey contained two outrageoludY Incorrect statements respecting the Treasury .Department. The first was that a $l,OOO co_ unter felt seven-thirty bond had been , re deemed by Gamut Spinner, 11. S. Treasure; and converted into a five-twenty. , The other story was that a, $5OO 12per cent. interest note,llaued by Rowell Cobb, which had been pronounced counterfeit when first presented 5t44.-Treasiary, and was subsequently redeemed and the full amount paid, with interest. Desirous of ascertaining What truth there might be in these statements!, I'waited on Gen. Spinner,•and in regard to the first story—the re •deniption of the alleged cotinterfelt seven-thirty bond—he declared it to be absolutely and unqual ifiedly false. He said not one of the alleged counterfeit bonds,- about which so much noise was made a year ago—had been preauted at the Treasury for several 'months past perhaps for six or dght months—and as for converting one Into five-twenties, the time had passed during which this could be done. •8o much for that As for the other story, he said there was some truth in it, but the main facts were incorrectly stated, in so far that he had pronounced the $5OO note genuine, which he denied, The discussion of these circumstances brought out some inter esting facts touching the manner in which How ell Cobb, of Georgia, managed the affairs of the Treasury Department dating the latter part of James Buchanan's administration, that I feel in clined to give the history of this note, so far as disclosed at this interview, to show what ideas of honor and honesty actuated the "chivalrous" Cobb, who, just now, is declaiming against the "profligacy and corruption" of the "Radical ad ministration"—meaning the Radical Congress— for Johnson, as an Executive officer, is the pink of perfection in the eyes of Cobb. It is well known that before the rebellion com menced, Cobb did all he could to destroy the credit of the Government, which he represented as bankrupt in money and credit, and one of , the means allowed him by Congresslo raise money was the Isaias. of intesest-hearing notes, which were sold to bankers, brokers and capitalists, at ruinous ratescCobb-himself fixing the rate of in terest from 5 to 12% per cent. per -.annum, and he issued these. notes in almost unlimited quantities. On one occasion, les went to New- York with a "carpet-bag" fall of these notes. which he sold to brokers and others, at their own rates, mostly at" twelve per cent. interest; w,hen the Government could reidily have obtained all the money it needed at ,aix per cent.' There is a strong suspicion that the unfaithful Cobb pocketed a very handsome sam by this operation, slob be either appropriated to his owns pr ivate purposes, or turned over as "assets" to the "rebel government at Richmond. These notes amounted in'the aggregate to a large sum, all of which has since been honorably rWeemed by our Govern ment, at the usurious rates contracted for. The note referred to in the Herald was pre sented several years ago forredemption, but pay ment was , refused, on the ground that, although it was printed from the genuine plate, it hiid been tampered with, by the number being al tered, which was proved by comparing it with the "stub" bearing the same number in the book showing the number of notes leaned; and, be sides, the piece remaining in the book had a small "nick" or irregular , edging, which was done when the note itself was removed from the book, and the note presente:d for payment did not fit the "stub' in• the book., which proved conclusively that it did not represent the number which it purported to do. Under these circumstances, General Spinner was opposed to redeeming it, and the matter remained unsettled for a year or more, when an opinion was given by the Comptroller of the Treasury that. us the engraving of the note was genuine, and it had evidently been issued from the Department, and been circulated, the government was in honor bound to pay i t. The Secretary of the Treasury acquiesced in this decision, and the full amount -of-the face of—the -- no .-, n: year s interest, $6O, was paid to the holders, a New York firm, against the opinion of the Treasurer, General Spinner, who held that the note was void, on account of the figures having been al tered. So this is the history of that transaction. Nobody pretends to deny that the holders did not pay the full value of the note. but the pre tlimption is strong that this and Many other evidences of Government indebtedness were ap propriated by Cobb to his own personal use, or taken with him to Richmond to assist the rebels in their revolutlonary movements. During the latter part of his administration, he scattered these notes around lavishly, as he never expected they would be paid, because the rebel lion watt then culininating, and he felt confident the - existing government would be overthrown. cowl KNOWS THE .DIFFEBENCE BETWEEN SHEEP SKM AND CALFSKIN. As an evidence of the reckless manner in which Cobb managed the affairs of the Treasury Depart ment, I might mention that on one occasion he and Gen. Spinner had a fierce dispute as to the difference between calfskin and sheepskin for the binding of the account books used in the-Trea sury. Cobb had let the contract to certain parties to bind these books with calfskin, which is more expensive than sheepskin, but after the lapse of some time Gen. Spinner discovered that the books were being bound with., sheep skin, which cost much less money. He called Cobb's attention to this, when the latter said, impudently, that Spinner did norkriow the difference between- the two, which "riled" the bluff old Spinner considerably, and he retorted in his honest, characteristic style. _ ThisTkowetlirThlid - dro no effectupon Cobb, who allowed-the-frand-togo oni-and - absolutely paid the contractors the contract price for their work, notwithstanding they had furnished an in ferior and cheaper material. The only inference is, that he divided the-spoils with his favorites, for no honest officer would be guilty of permit- tintir winking at, such a dishonest transaction. t-these - arerthermen o are .e.up .y the Democracy as pure, high-toned chivalric gentlemen ! ARRIVAL OF GMERAL 2TEADE. !General Meade arrived here to-day from his Southern command, and after calling on the Pre sident, Secretary Schofield and Gen. Rawlins, chief of staff to Gen. Grant, left this evening for Philadelphia. where he will spend - a - few days with his family. The loyal citizens of -Philadel phia should get up a demonstration, an ovation, or serenade, to testify their appreciation of the resolute and patriotic manner in which he dis charged the , duties ~of Military. Governor of the Third District.- He is one of 'your citizens of whom you should be *proud to do honor. Ar rangements shoulkalso be perfected . to place his colossal equestrian statue on the Lincoln monu ment, along with Gene. Griint and. Sherman. „ lOUSQUEILANNA. /lie (attic Disease in Cincinnati— , winged. Ticino. [From tloo chuthumti 'Gazette,. Aug.-273 Yesterday.at 3 o'c.b3ck; .the Health Officer, -in company with Messrs. Himpkhisen and Davis, of the Hoard of Health, and Mr. (ieorge Thompson, the-City Contractor, and4theka, set ont for the Tanglewaod Farm, the scene of the cattle plague. 111 r. McCracken% nremises Were first visite& They found that Out of a lot of thirty-one cona_Nr. Mcvrackentad - only - threaldt, Doe afihoao had OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. . • . . never been exposed in the pasture: The reargu ing two were in the pasture still, ene of them sicir, and the otber well, it having been sick and recovered. . A couple of victims of the disease lay beside a deep excavation made to bury them In. They were covered with flabby. ungainly, Fucenlent insects; called tleks, and imported by the Texas or Cherokee cattle, and morelikely the cantle than a concomitant of the, disease. Mi. McCracken said that yesterday i lteNbstrved several of these vermin supplied with wings and say them fly about. Those that had wings , were destitute of the crooked, sprawling sets of legs, that disfigure each side of • the binder bodice of • theae.withcrut wings. Mr.. McCracken had no doubt that the winged ones were metamorphosed from the original insect. If this be so, it is an alanning.phenomenon, as in this way the plague may be widely diffused. 'Hon, the Demoerniie Nominee Spent :smiany .lowa—He to melded ..;1101MIDrunk in His Bed. [From tge Dee Moines (Iowa) Register.] • If Frank Blair is "the eo man," Parton ,need never have asked if he will • :wine: If Frank was asked himself; he would no doubt : be benefit and . saY."No thank you,i'll take whisky;" and the answer would only shenirbis faithful de votion to Democratic principles. The leviers. of the, party which has hoisted him ea a candi . date deny,.howeverr, that. Frank imiulges in any thing .but assert he Is as temperate is - -Neal Dow himself. PerhaPS he . is, when at hcirdebat when abroad, away frOm his mammy, hiyten t, es we will show, • ' On Sunday; Angttat B—only a little over a fort night ago—Franklilair was at St.' Joseph, Mo., .on-his way to. the mountains, to . attend to his duties as one of the Commissioners of the Pacific Railroad. No train running from •St. Joseph to Connell Bluffs, he hired some railroad laborers to take him through on a hand car. With a fhll supply : of Frank's favorite beverages • aboard, they started, but on reaching Hamburg,. In Fre mont county, of this State, they .had become so "demoralized" that they laid up for repairs. Arriting there in the afternoon—and stopping at the railroad eating home kept by Mr. Sco ville—the distinguished genius of the new revolution bad his presence announced to the faithful, who soon came flock ing to pay due homage to their chief. Well, it so transpired that they "homaged" too much, and by 8 or 9 o'clock the . ..party were as drunk as even Democrats ever get,and the "head centre" was the booziest of them all. The noise of the convivialiets attracted quite a crowd, and it said that Blair gave them more antics, .cute _gage, and ground-and-lofty tumbling, than they had ever seen in the circus. So drunk did he finally become, that he was picked up from. ,the floor and carried bodily to bed by two men and put away out of sight of the tittering crowd.' These statements are true and indisputable. We have the testimony of several , rellable men who saw all we hive related, and more too: Mr. Scoville, the proprietor of the hotel, expres 7 ses his willingness to make affidavit to the state ment, and we defy any one to disprove the facia. British Estimate of a eneral Grant. The ' Saturday Retift, which -rarely-compli ments anything, particularly anytidng/unerleitn, thus refers to one Of our, own countrymen: "A biography of General Grant appe.arsoppor timely, and no doubt intentionally & just on the eve of the Presidential electioe. But at any time the record of the life of one really great General whom the North has produced, must be interest ing and valuable, not only to his countrymen, but to the world at large. :Grant's character ap pears to be that whiclr we habitually associate - with military berolstu—that of the simple, modest, unaffected, but somewhat silent and reserved soldier, apt to disdain civilian interference and ignorant criticism in matters professional, but paying to civil law and to-civil authority a true soldierly obedience." Democracy send the Blacks. , The Memphis Post says : The rebels of Helena, Arkansas, are so hard pushed to secure the com pany of colored people at their barbecues, that they have been compelled to offer them the choice of tables. That is pretty . good ! The rebels will soon learn to respect the rights of all men. Democratic Advice to Negroes. The following paragraph is from a long ad dress of the Democrats of Charleston, S. C., to the negro voters: --We-see-and--know-that you are httrrying on into great and immediate trouble and dang•er to yourselves and your race. You are proposing to bring on a conflict between yourselves and'ountelved. If it comes—if you bring on that conflict, It will be a conflict between your race and our race. There are indications that you already think yourselves prepared - for this conflict. Yon have for some time practised aggressive and hostile conduct toward us. You have assembled as a party or class, and you have deliberately inter rupted us in our meetings, insulted and assaulted individuals, among ne, pelted our houses with stones, insulted our families by vulgar and pro fane language, disturbed the night quiet by un earthly whoops and screams, threatening "death to the rebels"—meaning ourselves; assaulted and threatened the police and police stations of the city. You are arming and drilling In warlike practices, and this for aggres sion and' attack, not for defence; because you have no cause or pretence of cause for expecting aggression of attack from us. You have never been olisturbed, not even in your riot ous and disorderly conduct. We, of course, know that you are urged and enticed on toward this great danger and - trouble by wicked white men. We know them, who they are, and all about them; what they say, and 'what they are doing, and we also know, better than' they or yen can know, the sure and swift penalty'which will fall twee Particular men when the conflict begins; But this will not then save you. Yon will not then be excused because you have been deluded and cheated by these infamous men. General RoseeranS and the Rebels. The -- Washittgratrterti3liphirdeit — iiit the New York Tribune csays: Gen. Rosecrans is in constant communication with the President, and one of his Secretaries said to me, this evening, that he (the Secretary) had the whole'plan in confidence from General Rosecrans before he started for White Sulphur Springs. the General evidently stands on the -pewee-platfo.o indicated - in - 1M Blair letter, and has no hesitation in saying that the negroes_ should not vote in the Southerg States. From this resume of the General's 'sentiments it is easy to see that the document, if one should be put forth, will be a genuine anti-negro, Copperhead production, intended -to !Mister up Seymour and Blair, defeat Grant, and float the ex-Rebels of the North and-of the South into;power. •- •ohr —John H. Regan, of Texas, late Postmaster- General of the Rebel Confederacy, made h speech at Galveston, a few days SlllCA3, , Ltcwhichle gave the following advice e "The duty of the :South erners is to obey the.y "laws, accept the situation with regard to Suffragejes it now, stands, and like true and.honest men, to labor for the restoration of peace and harmony between the sections." ProjectecUlUmon or 140.1xes Huron and • • , • OntaXim. , [From the Clevelagd (0410) Leader. Allgruit .. It is stated the project of riniting , Lake Huron and Lake Ontario bids fair , to he a reality. ',.. Able engineers have decided that the -work Is feasible, and that it will not cast more "then . 41 , 10,000,000. It was proposed---to - raise - IDADOO,OOO of this t ill. in - the , United ' litates,and , 20 ; 0001000 in England. These loans were to secured by, a grant of 40,000,000 acres f land .by Me Canadian Goverment, - . Frederick I --Capreol f 4l---TOrretiOf haaltddartaVeirrtheliniiii= cal Mallltgeillltat Oc - --ille eaterpil*. &MC twin •P.O7]t'TYOAL. wicsirs. BI,AItB DEIIJSK, ago he succeeded in obtaining guarantees from American capitalists that they would lurnish $20,000,000 if the balance should be subscribed in Europe and the land grant secured. For several months he has been in England, and it Is said that his prospects of success in seeming the other $20,000,000 are very satisfactory. When that in secured it will only be necessary to obtain the land grant before work can be commenced. TISIOSIBLE FIRE IN ST. LOUIS. ••Loss over . giolY,Oorgt. ?Wrote the BE Louts Democrat - Aug 87.1 About 4 o'clock yesterday an alarm of Ere called all the available force , f the fire depart ment to Second and Olive streets, where lb was discovered that a terrible tire watrunder full head way in the eXtenehrB wholesale drug warehonfie of lirownOyeber dtaraluun, 1f0..2,10 , N0rth Sec ond street. The:firemen lost not a moment in commencing the battle,' butfrom the first it was apparent. - the drug hotumFwat "gone up," and they, there. fore, exerted .themseives to confine the games within as narrow bounds as possible. The Are , worked' its way southward into the second story of NO. 208, the lower part of which building was occupied by Hughes, Chance it Fletcher, wholesale dealers in wines, liquors and cigars, and the upper floors as a store.honee by Brown, Weber ct Graham, consuming everything - within its path and reach. The -flames, after fairly " - eating up" building No. 210 and contents and the upper stories of 208 and contents, at tacked the rear of 206, occupied by J. Merryman, wholesale dealer in sugars and syrups, and agent of Belcher it Co. They managed to- get a little headway here, but a flood of water quickly placed the ruthless destroyer hors du combat at this point.. The fire also hit the rear of No. 116 Pine street, occupied by Messrs. Stolle' it Benson. wholesale tobacco merchants, but their loss will be slight; by water alone. Losses - Awn emmuecz. Messrs. Brown, Weber, it Grahani estimate the valve of their stock at nearly' $lOO,OOO. They think they_ may be able to save from $5OOO to $lO,OOO worth from the wreck. The safe was covered by debris, but it is confidently believed that all the books and papers of the firm are in a good . state of preservation. Messrs. Brown, Weber Jr, Graham were insured for $80,500 in the following companies : North British and Mercantile, N. Y $15,000 Occidental, fit. Louis 2,500 , Underwriters', N, Y 10,000 zEtna, Hartford 10,000 Pticenix, Bt. Louis 2,500 Firemen's, Cincinnati 5,000 Western, Cincinnati 5,000 North American,rhiladelphia 5,000 Phoenix, Brooklyn, N. Y 5,000 Sangamon, Springfield, 111 ... 3,000 Lamar, New York 5,000 Hartford, Conn • 5,000 Buffalo City 2,500 City Fire, Hartford 2,500 Flirmers' and Merchants', Quincy 2,500 Total $80,500 Messrs. Hughes, Chance & Fletcher estimate the - value of their stock at about $12,000, and they were tinder the impression yesterday that one-half would be saved, leaving a loss of $6,000 on the stock on which they have an insurance of $5,800,. as follows: sccidentaUt, tock Mutual, Chicago Total $5,800 Mr. Merryman had a large stock of sugars, &c., in store, and it was difficult to estimate the damage by water yesterday. Itwill probably not exceed $l,OOO. He was Insured $30,000, as follows. North America, of Now York, Excelsior, do. do. Continental, do. do. Securirv. do. do -1 Firemen a, do. do.. Unknown Total $30,000 Messrs. Steifel & Benson were under the im pression that their damage by water would amount to between - $1;000 and $2,000, but this is Etrobably an overestimate. They were insured for $42,000, as follows : Manhattan, of New York, Lamar, of Now York. Jefferson Mutual Pbcenix, of Brooklyn Western Mutual. Home Mutual... North America.. Franklin of St. L o. utual. OBITUARY. ' TD L. t-C •% I aLa IngElliott. The body of Mr. Elliott, the distinguished ar tist, which arrived here from Albany on Thurs day was convoyed to the National Academy of Design, in Twenty-third street, where it lay until 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. During the day a very large number of persons availed themselves of the opportunity to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased. The coffin, a very handsome rosewood one, with ornaments of frosted silver, was placed in the last of the suite of rooms on the first floor of the building. At the foot of the coffin wits an anchor, formed of japonicas, the gift of Mrs. S. P. Avery. On the wall were placed . the palette, brushes and mall stick of the deceased, with his certificate as a member of the. Adademy of Design dated 1853. This palette was presented to Mr. Elliott about twenty years ago, by Mr. Cafferty, and on Elliott's decease his. family re turned it to Mr. Cafferty's keeping. Among the artists present yesterday we noticed Messrs. T. Addison Richards, Eastman Johnson, S. J. Guy, W. J. Hays, W. H. Powell, Latuit Thompson, David Johnson, J. F. Weir, and Messrs. Paige, Palmer, Baker , Cafferty, Boyle, James _Hart, Hicks, , Magrath Fiser, Blauvelt, Lang, Thayer, Fagniani and Calverly. At 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Birch, of whose congre gation the deceased was formerly a member, made a-brief address, in - which . he - arookirtortheT deceased's love of religious exercises, and of his of temper; and . simplicity of character. Notwithstanding the fact that he had attained so high a position in his profession he appeared to be unconscious of his own merits, and to the tyro in art he was ever a firm friend and kindly adviser. He died while at :mpting-te-give-u . :I et : :spree on relation to the profession he loved so well. The reverend'gentleman concluded with a brief prayer, - after, which the friends of the deceased gathered round the coffin Ao take a last look at the features of him they , had known so well. The countenance presented a rather emaciated appearance, indi cating thitt the deceased had suffered much dur ing his' last:illness. - At 2:80 P. M. the body was borne from the Academy and conveyed to Greenwood, where it 'Offish° deposited temporarily in the receiving ;vault. The following gentlemen acted as pall-bearers: ,Gray, rage, Baker. Eastman, Johnson Thayer, 'Gignonx,.Lang, James M. Hart, H. K. Palmer and Rostmer.—N. Y. Times to-day. —The cable announces the death of the wife of Victor Hugo. She had been the companion of Hugo from his earliest boyhood, being brought up with him in Paris in the former. Convent of the Feullatines. A mutual attachment sprang np between the playmates which lasted through life. As he We poor, permission to marry the f riend of his you th ivas for some time withheld," but the glory which.was acquired by the publication of the Odes et Ballades overcame all obsta9les. The married life of Victor Hugo was one of great happiness, his wife being, in all the many vielsid- Audes which awaited_ lho_woh,bii_mooLdomoted _ gwith him in ,exile she wrQla, in 180, a life of honnottoid. —The San Francisco Times, after expending $200,000; is said to be on a paying bads —The younger Dumas has already Made 000 francs by his writings. —lt is proposed to reduce postage In England one-half. . —And now they say that the Mettken's origiriaL name was Dolores Adios Friertoe. • ---St. 'Paul has had a ehower Of anto 4 alit*ir• Prised at such a weather antic. - —Patti will sing at Hamburg feu night; for $l,OOO a night. Anybody would. —Pierre Soule is said to have laberifed largo fortune. , saes parasols are making their: sprats! —The Mormons ; celebrated. the • tiwentrarst anniversary of their swanningirs Utah last mela —Thackeray always considered , Robert Brown.- ing a prince of ennoble. _ . --Wilkie Collins.spent three MOnitki over his Piet ef the " Moonstone , ", before' hl. l ftett to , —A Western editor, seeing t*o washerwomen qbell es. uarreling, quoted Tennyson;: "%ling mut wild - • —Edwin Yonest is at present riecuring several flret,clase actors to travel with hhnthe- owning —A recent visitor to Pnlauttn'efamtur wtolf den in Connecticut, says that it is really ',Very small hole. —Mrs. George Francis Train receives four let tors a day from her husband, at her villa, inNayv - —The rehearsals of the "Rebel'sDra. or the Fall of Richmond," are now going. on in Cleveland, Ohio. --At Liverpool, Eng., a public plunge bath has been built and thrown open, at a cost of $25,- 000, and a number of swimming prizes were of fered. Planchette is said to be not always ratable. A gentleman who was informed that it would answer anything, bought one to answer the:door bell,' but found it wouldn't work. —One of the books Abyssinian Theodore- had in his collection was "Chesterfield's Lettets.'' He doesn't seem to have profited ranch by Meat. But his morals were nearly as good. • —Two men in Kansas have paid $BOO !Menet, of court and lawyers' fees afore they could-get. judgment on the ownership of a calf worth seven dollars. —Thoy have thirsty beerists in Hannibal, Mo., a paper there says that there are two breweries In operation in that toWn, " h it. a third one is needed to supply the local demand for lager beer." —Porphyry pavements are to be, tried in Sti. Louie. The contract *as approved nearly, a year ago, and the workis now Caronde let avenue, from the Convent M ar ket to Life yette street, and a part of llroadMiyi have bateta, recently paved with porphyry rilalMegeleMK-'.- -Anton Rubinstein, the greatestANdrig F1e11194 who is about to rnake a trip to the United States, was born on' the 18th of November, 1829, ins small village near Jassy, on the Russian frontier. He married, two years ago, a Russian lady of noble birth. , -A little girl, on hearingt-her :mcither say that she intended to go to a ball, and have her. dress trimmed with bugles o. innocently, in ' If, tile bugles would blow w hile she dan "Oh, n" said the mother, "your father will do that when he discovers I have bought theca." —"Don Edgardo Colons," a Mexican, - hen- . dian,. who has been playing leading -Shake spearian parts very lately at the St. James Thee tre, London, turns out to be an Englishnian named Chalmers, lately an ordinary actor at Drury Lane. —Captain Gregor has discovered the remains of an enormous animal at Kooringa, South Aus tralis. Among the bones discovered is a part of the lower jaw in which . On lontli-are-inabedded - five inches. The teeth measure two and a , half inches across the surface each' way. The Captain does not know what tooth ink of such a dental apparatus as this. —" As father Adam first was fool'd, A case that's still too common, Here lies a man a woman -ruled,— The Devil ruled the woman."—Burns.; Or that on a schoolmaster,— " Here Ile INralletkiehie'a banes; 0 Satan whAn vet' Gie him the schoolin o' your Weems, For clever dells he'll mak' ein."--Burra. —Leon Gozlan used to say that a French' wo man will love her husband if:he is,either witty or chivalro a German yoman, if he,is constant and fait hful ; a Dutch woman, if he does not as— turb her ease , and' comfort - too , much la - Stiaiiish woman, if he wreaks vengeaner 'on those who incur his displeasure: an Italian woman, if he is dreamy and poetical; a Danish woman, if he thinks that her.native country's the brightest and happiest on earth; a Russian woman, it he de spises all Westerners as miserable barbarians; an English' woman, if he succeeds in ingratiating himself with the Court and the aristocracy; an American woman, if—he has plenty of money:: —A fashion authority gives the information that the engagement ring should be a solitaire diamond, of which the smallest size, that of a minute pea, can be bought for' one hundred and thirty dollars. This, we ere told, mute; rbe,fol lowed by the gift of a locket, one of stone prefer able. These are large square onyxes. amethysts, topazes or turquoises, forming 'the face of the locket, with: no apparent setting, the chain at tached to a ring at the back of. the stone. The last romantic thought is to have inscriptions set 'in brilliants on the stone, "Fidelita EsprWaticef," "Dieu roes garde i 7 or Charlea_theEirstialast ex- Clamation, ''Remember." The fond lover may purchase a sweet thing of this sort for only'one hundred and twenty-five dollars. —A gang of criminals had, recently set 'fire 'to several houses in Odessa. The police arrested e woman who was supposed to know all about the gang,-but who..persisted-in-asserting-herentke , - - ignorance of the persons who had committed the crime.—The police, however, resolved to detain her, and, before conveying her to a eel], took her to the gallery of the official- photographist, who photographs all persons detained by the pollee. The photographist arranged his camera-and told- ~, the woman not to stir. The woman followed all - his nonvPmentti—with-tlie-utmoet-auxietw-auct---- when finally the camera was turned upend:ter, she knelt down, begged piteously that b.ark life might be spared and promised to confess every thing. The disc losures which she made - led. to ' the apprehension of the whole gang. —"Manhattan" writes to the- Bogen. - Sundssit Times: "As if we had not been surfeited with the 'Black Crook," White Fawn' and 'Devil's Auction,* we are to have a new tone b , of ballet at, Pike's Opera House, under the management Whir. John De Pol. - We'= are promided eoriiethitig superb, and it really gives onen heelequid' sets sensation about the head - to read, the:, poetic description of, De coming treasures;" which the gay capitals of Europe have been robbed. I haven't the account before me, but ant under a half impression thatone of the De Pal beauties was torn from Constantimple,to thellOr row of the inhabitants, who gathereZ to the num ber of a minion or more on'the deck whence she sailed; and as she Potted on the little too of her left , foot ripen the ;point of• the mainmast and turned a graceful - vironette, they kissed their lands so earnettly , in token of farewell that the bores of the. - Bosphorus resounded a s from a cannonade, and on the next day the lobzsikOre men gathered' three of skin that the eh thuidastie Turks had an:tacked from theiriewia and lips. ' Another heauty,has a topaS, tullerald. diamond, or something of the sort, welellil i s liver --- over - a - poOntt - whieh - slie - 'wears - hf a, dance. lo the great dangero he; Mk . 544 %, .shoulders." ' 2,0b0 $5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 $5,000 5,000 6,000 7,500 2,000 2 000 $42,000 TETRIMON. PRICE THREE GENTS, FA.!MI AND FAN=C:Ir.;
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