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Motions to quash the Petsttonr—Argo•
ment Fixed for Friday Next.
COMMON Ptras—Judges Allison and Brewster.—To-daY
was fixed for the hearing of the contested election emu,
and this morning. when lite counsel appeared, Moasrs.
kat. Biddle. Phi!llya. Cuddy and Gerhard, for the re.
rpondente, made a motion to quash the petitions, to strike
oil the petitions and to strike out certain specifications
In the me of the Mayor it is averred. let. That the
affidavit accompanying the petition is fatally,dcfective
because the afilauta do not swear that the facts stated in
said complaint are true, as required by law, but only that
the facts stated in a aid petition are "true to the best of
their knowledge rind belief."
2. Teat as the Court cannot take Jurisdiction of the
complaint tinleal presented with such an affidavit as la re
quired by law, being sworn or affirmed before a compe
tent officer. this respondent suggests that the Court can
not proceed in the cause.
in the same ease there is a motion to strike out the
3d, 9th, 6th, 6th, Ith. Bth. Stn, 10tb. 11th. 12th and 13th
speciff catfena because they assume that the Court is au
thorized to deprive the qualified electors in the said divi
sions of their rights to Lave their votes counted in the
gene said
divisionese of the misconduct of the officers
in said which said misconduct in not alleged to
have been procured or promoted by said eleeMrs ; be
cause said specifications are vogue and indefinite in this,
that it cannot be ascertained therefrom what number (if
any) of illegal votes were cast In said divisional, and for
whom.
In the ca.e, of the, Receiver of Taxes, the maims are
rubsts.ntially the rue as the above. with the addition
that Pat Affidavit accompauying the petition was made
before James tlivie, Recorder, who was not authorized
by law to adininirter the oath.
The City Commiarioner. tbo City Controlic , r. the Pro.
thonytat, of the Common Pleas and tue City Solicitor
tellow the same course.
In the Merritt Attorney cue it omits the pamphlet in
reaard to the worded(' the oath taker' by the atlisets, but
in other respects 14 similar to the others.
The court fixed Friday next for Meliorating of the mo
tions to quash and alike oft
$1,000,000
flow Ear Thep Can Exercise Irk.eir DLit.
eretion.
OPINION BY JUDGE LUDLOW.
QUAYTEI: ilesethee-Jteige Ludlow.e-This morning in
the Quarter Sessions the case of Alderman Riddle,
ctestatd with misdemeanor in office, was disposed of,
Judge Ludlow delivering the following opinion :
the relator. an Alderman of the city of Philadelphia.
her been held to bail for a misdemeanor in office, and this
tent has been sued out for the purpose of determining the
legality of this commitment. it is not to be denied that a
magistrate may, in the discharge of his official duties; so
act as to reader hie:treat the subject of a criminal prance-
Stn.
justice of the peace may in general terms render
the elf indictable tor misconduct in office, a hen he acts
earthier, oppreatively or from malicious or corrupt mo
tives. People ve. Coon, 15 Wend. 2i7, So when he dis
charges an offender without taking teutficient sureties.
nth latent to prevent the coulee of jest ee id. IL
Wilson ye. Goon ,10 S. S. R. It wee distinctly ruled where
ever a public duty is imposed upon a Mille" and be fails
to preform it. he is indictable; the came principle had
previously been established in Pennsylvania in R. ye,
Montgomery. 1 Yates. 4111, in a case in which a antlice of
the peace had not actively endeavored to suppress a riot,
the law requiring him so to do.
It is evident from an examination of the law, that if
any evidence has been submitted to the court, from
which it could be legitimately inferred [that this relator
bad failed to discharge a public duty, or had neglected so
to do with an intent to pervert the comae of justice, or
Gee acted partially, oppressively, or from malicious or
corrupt motives, he must be remanded. We must, there
lona turn to the evidence produced in this case, and, by a
careful examination of it. settle the gee:salon now Ore
eenten
it was established before me at the hearing of this
writ that the Alderman had issued a war. ant for the
arrest of a citizen charged with a criminal offence. Tee
tartY.hraing,been arrfttedwas brought before the ramie
trate. and he, in the exercise of his legitimate authority.
stew tit to hold him to bail in the sum of 81,ffir ; it further
atpeared that bail was offered, and-that. thereupon the
Alaermen demanded of the person presented as bail,
the product:on of his deeds; these not being produced, tbo
magistrate demanded to know what sum was given for
the erotica tee and if the person could produce a tax receipt
to prate that he had by paying taxes exercised acts of
tarnenship over the epreperty which he eald he o meted
These credences of title not being produced the person
going ban not being able to answer sididactorily the gees-
Hone, nor produce the title Papers, the magistrate Wade
cut a commitment and handed it to the officer.
Subsequently, et a later hour of the day, the friends of
the pittance produced at the Alderman's office a number
of perverts ready to enter the required amount of bait
It was setter coven o'clock in the evening; the Alderman
was not in his office, one permit' eayieg that he had gone
to take a depoeition, and another that he might poesibly
found in the neighboring saloon. It is enough to sae
that the Alderman could not be found. Ana the result
was that the prisoner was taken into cuntody, and was
not releseed until en early hour In the
teeming, and then by tome method
which did not distinctly appear in proof; but
thwas understerod that come other officer had taken ball
and discharged the prisoner. It is to be remarked that
no evidence was produced tending to prove that the re
lator In this care had said and done imytuing mere than
that which has been above stated; In a word, the maga
trate, if guilty of an offence, meet be held eo to be by
reason of hie acts alone.
In reviewing this evidence it is impossible to under
stand how a jury could convict the relater. and if they
did. how the aourt could sin tain and enter judgment on
the verdict.
The Alderman did right when he issued a warrant, be
cause, an oath was made charging a criminal offence: he
was in his office and did hear the case upon the return of
the warrant, and he demanded bail in a reasonable
amount
It was the duty of the magistrate to satisfy himself of
the sufficiency of the bail; had he done otherectee he uoutei
hate rendered himself liable to a prosecution, and it was
the duty of the prisoner to bare then and there such
bail as would satiety the reasonable and lawful demands
of the magietrate.
he Alderman might have been satisfied with the bail,
by an examinationavithout the production of deeds title
Parets..te. but he had a foal right to demand their lena
nuction, and in default thereof, it wan his legal duty
forthwith to commit the prisoner. We have time and
again called the attention of the Aldermen of this city to
this very subject, and we have warned them of the dan
ger of &criminal prosecution, to which they would sub
ject themselves if they disregarded our advice. It is true
that a magistrate may act in a rough and even diatom'.
teous manneravhich la not only objectionable but wrong;
but we cannot say that if the legal duty is thus die
charged, it renders them liable to a preeecution.
This relator having then, up to this time, done that
which by law he had a right to do, without doing or sau
nas an ythineafrom. which Liar re would hare the rioht to
infer partiality, oppreseion, malice or corruption, what
more is there in this came ?
It is asserted and proved that at a late hour in the even
ing bail was on hand, and in a large amount, together
with proper evidence of title, Igc, am., and that nee Al.
derman was not in hie office and. could not be found
From these facts.andtheee alone, can a'jury infer malice,
oppression and the like? It is impossible to learn what
may be the secret motive which induces a man to act in
a given way, and especially are we unaole to infer an im
propht to do.er o ne,Tshen an officer does that which ho has a legal
rig
The Alderman had been in his office during the dayhe
had heard the case, eentuthee, and rejected the bail, and
at a Late hour departed from Lis office. In all this slid be
do that which was lawful?
To this question there can be but one answer. No law
cf this Commonwealth requires a magistrate to remain a.
certain length of time in ins office alt is trite that should
he absent himself dame the ordinary business hours.
that factmight be count evidence to go to the jury upon
the question of motive. but to be absent at night, after 7
o'clock, is no evidence,whatever of an intention
- tcr - rio - wrongr-lor the refixes that he--was-not
bound to remain, and bad the righteee depart It is ar
gued that this conduct resulted in od - imprisonment of a
citizen. That may be so; but the citizen arrested it.
bound to be ready to enter bail and cannot complain if a
, magistrate le not satisfied with the bail offered, when the
citizen is not prepaaed to produce that evidence of his
eufficiency whictithe tstrate may by law.demand.
Betides all tbia, Jt eof this Court would at once
in a proper case direr ail to be entered in the Clerk's.
office, so that the citizen is in no danger of improper Inc.
prieonment It is usekees to convenience officer of juetice
must necessarily consult the of the_prisoner
a kind-hearted and indulgent magistrate may do so, and
in many instances he ought so to do; but to declare that
because ho omits that which genalemanly propriety, bene
volence and Christian kindnew . sometimes demands. he
therefore subjects himself to an indictment for a criminal
offence, is to say that which is not the law of the land.
A review of all the evidence produced has satisfied us
that in all the acts of Alderman Riddle we cannot dis
cover that he exceeded the limits of his lawful authority,
and as the legal presumption is (in the absence of all evi
dence of motive other than that to be derived from the
performance of legal duty) that lawful acts done by a
ineffiletrete in the discharge of his duty are so performed
from a proper motive, there is absolutely nothing to a;:13
intt to a jury, and therefore the relator must be dis
charged.
Tn the cage of Wells and othereiconvicted of burglary,
a new trial was refused.
—Dramatic artists in Europe occasionally de
sert the stage for the seclusion of the convent.
Last year two were added to the list. Mlle.
Mouravieff, the Russian dancer, of the Grand
Opera, became a Carmelite nun, and the outer
world hears no more of her. After her, Mlle.
Thnillier, the pretty and clever actress of the
Oddon, overwhelmed by a tender domestic afflic
tion, withdrew from the stage, preparatory to
entering the Carmelite convent at Blois. But
the young lady has changed her mind, and has
returned to the stage.
—A Southern paper remarks that "the country
has most decidedly but most unaccountably de
clined Democratic services, though they were
tendered upon cheaper and better terms than by
Radical rivals." The easy explanation is that
the Democrats offered an inferior article.
—A philanthropic gentienian is asking aid to
assist the Indians in making their own blankets,
by furnishing them with hand looms and teaching
them to weave. As a general thing the "noble
'red" is more inclined to raise hair on white men's
scalps than cultivate wool on sheep's backs.
—A letter from pan Francisco says the people
there feel that an earthquake now and then is not
so bad as the eastern specialties of sun strokes,
tornadoes, thunder storms and the like, and con
clude to accept California even -with this draw
back as preferable to the older side lof the coati
eat.
TILE COURTS.
CONDUCT OF DIAGISTECATES.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 'lB6B.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Discovery of 'Jeff DavisNl Female Tog.
gory In' the Treasury Department
Why they are kept there, and how
they came to be discovered—A Histo
rical Fact settled beyond dispute
(V hat Wm. tf. Ricca thought about
it—Letter from Minister Dix Written
before the Election—He Draws a His
torical Parallel tietsveen the Old Fed
erallits of 1812 and the. Peace 001100-
ora.ts of 1888.
(Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bulletin.)
WASIIINGTON, Nov. 13, 1868.—1 t has already
been stated in some of the papers that a few days
ago Gen. F. E. Spinner, United States Treasurer,
in examining some boxes which had been ,placed
in his custody by Mr. Stanton when Secretary of
War, discovered the female garments in which
Jeff Davis had attempted to escape, which cir
cumstance excited considerable discussion, and
many persons wondered how it was that these
articles should have been found in the Treasury
Department. The explanation Is, that the War
Department building contains no vaults or places
where articles of 'value—or rawly as this pack
age might be styled—can be keft safely, and the
practice has been to transfer all such to the vaults
of the Treasury Department, where they
are sealed with the seal of the
War Department, and not opened
unless by authority of the Secretary of War. It
happened that Gen. Hardie, one of the Adjutant-
Generals of the War Department,' was sent to
the Treasury Department a few days since, to,
look up some papers which had been deposited
in charge of General Spinner,. and during the
search they opened a large box,which was found
to contain female clothing. The nice sense of
propriety of Gen. - Hardie caused him to start at
such an unexpected development, and he asked
immediately that the box be closed, as it did not
contain what be wanted. The bluff old Spinner,
who bas stood watch and ward over the Treasury
vaults for years. had his curiosity excited, and he
insisted upon an examination being made, to as
certain what really was in the box. This was
decided upon, and the box was found to contain
the female, ganrients of Jeff., with a letter from
Col. Pritchard, his captor, certifying that such
was the fact, and other written proofs, showing
that there was no mistake about it. After an In
spection of the contents, they were returned to
the box, and it was sealed again.
But the most amusing part of the affair is that
the publication of the discovery elicited a writ
ten request from Mts. Bishop Simpson to Gen.
Spinner, asking him, as a special favor. to loan
her the gannents to be exhibited at a fair which
Is being held in Philadelphia to raise funds to
place u colossal statue of her husband, the Bishop,
On the National Lincoln Monnment,to be erected
in Washington.
Gen. Spinner has replied to the lady, setting
forth that he is only the custodian of the articles,
and is not authorized to allow them to go out of
his possession, otherwise he would have been
pleased to grant her request.
The discovery of these garments sets at rest
one historical fact, which, from the lapse of time,
bad bean to be disputed; and it is asserted here
that William B. Reed. E , q., of your city, whose
~ympathies with Jeff. led him to volunteer as
one of his counsel, has declared that there was
no truth in the story that Davis had attempted
to escape in fenfale clothing, which he (Reed)
alleged had been invented for the purpose of
throwing ridicule upon the "unfortunate head"
of the • defunct comederacy. Hereafter no one
freed doubt the story, for the "documents," in
the shape of the petticoats, et al., can be pro
duced as proof, uptm. an hour's notice.
LETTER FROM atisis - ren DIX.
Gan. Dix has written a letter to a distinguished
Republican official of this city, in which he (ex
pressed surprise that his first letter, repudiating
the nominees of the New York Democratic Con
vention. should have attracted so much attention
in the United States. In this last letter he reit
erated the opinion that the Democratic party was
destined to be defeated and broken up, on ac
count of the sympathy of its leaders with the
rebellion. He compares it to the old Federal
party of 1812, which ceased to exist because of
its opposition to the war in which the nation was
engaged with England. He says that the sound
patriotic Democrats had no other course left but
to ally themselves with the Republican party
in the support of General Grant. The letter
throughout breathes the strongest spirit of pa
triotism, and expresses the hope that Grant
would be elected. There will be a very earnest
effort made here in high quarters to have Gen.
Dix retained in his present position, which ho
fills so admirably, and to the great credit of the
country. Gen. Dix is one of the best French
scholars in America, and his friends say he can
read off-hand a French book,and translate it into
English as rapidly as if he were : reading from an
English book. Besides, he speaks the French
language with great fluency and accuracy.
ORDERED TO JOIN lILS COMPANY.
By direction of the Secretary of War, Captain
Cnambers McKibblia, of the 35th U. S. Infantry,
is ordered to proceed without delay to join his
company in the Fifth Military District.
SUSQUEHANNA.
The Cuba. Filibustering Expedition.
The N. Y. Herald of this morning says :
Col. Gibbon and his coadjutors, Gen. Henning-
Ben and Col. Kerrigan, of the Walker and Lopez
expeditions, have been industriously but un
ostentatiously at work for the past two weeks at
their headquarters in Broome street, near Broad
way, enlisting braves,evory one of whom has
smelt powder for the grand army of invasion of
the ever faithful island of Cuba.
The work laid out for these gentlemen by
the generalissimo of the expedition—a mys
terious but all-powerful Havanese, who followed
the fortunes in Europe of Don Carlos and on this
ConUnent 3faluilltan—to doTwas - Ilre - enlis -
ment of 5,000 men, a moiety of the "fumy of lib
eration," the other half being - recruited in - Mobile
and Now Orleans;
,und yesterday, on figuring up
the names on the rosters, upwards of 6,501) hom
bres, all anxious to do valorous deeds of arms,
were found as theirgrand total. From this sum
1,600 are to be wedded, as the unknolin Cuban,
who thus far has furnished the sinews of war and
who is to honor this city with his presence in the
course of a day or two, declares that 10,000 men
are sufficient to make nincemeat of all who ad
here to Bourbonism on the island.
Who this illustrious Havanese is is with out
siders a question of guien sabe. Colonel Gibbon
says he knows him well; that, in fact, every,ad
mirer of military genius,mllitary energy and mil
itary tact in the Caribbean Bea or ou the coast of
Mexico knows him and will continue to know
'dim as not only brave, but generous and wealthy
and republican and ambitious, and all that.
"Colonel," remarked the inquirer, when he
had an opportunity to put in a word edgewise,
"this unknown must really be very wonderful."
"Oh, very," was the dry reply. "And that is
not all; the wealthiest merchants in New York,
firms that have made their millions in Cuba, are
with us heart and soul. Their purses are open
to us. All we have to do is to draw upon them,
and our drafts aro unhesitatingly honored."
"They must take an extraordinary interest in
the ekpedition."
"A very grearinterest, - sir," here remarked the
Colonel's brother, to the interrogator. "One
firm has offered us fifty thousand muskets—no,
blankets; no, no, I mean haversacks, Lit At's it.
But we have everything, everything, men, more
than we want; money, as much as we can ex
pend; food, clothing, war material, everything,
everything, sir, we have,--except transportation,
and that we shall have."
"Abnut the neutrality laws ?"
"Ah, there's the rub. We have depots at Mo
bile and New Orleans, and General Forrest and
other Southern gentlemen are anxious to join us,
and, say they will, provided—ahem !--provided
the neutrality laws are not violated, which
means, of course, that they won't go; for o
course the neutrality laws will, must be violated.
How is it possible , to
, get along without doing
g'
that sort of thin, 'eh?'
"It is understood that a committee from your
organization was shout to visit Wasljdngton and
'fix' thing's?" • -
"Ha! ha! Oh, yes, to be sure!" and Mr. Gib
bon laughed, while his brother,the Culorkel,busle
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
bin:veil at another desk answering the questions
of would-be filibusteros. "Ton see, sir, we don't
like to let out our plans; but this com
mittee will go to Washington as soon as
the gentleman from Cuba arrives, and make ar
rangements for planting a colony on the extreme
southern point of Florida—yea, sir, that's it; we
are going to colonize Florida! What dayou think
of that?"
"A capital idea,certainly. When do yon propose
leaving New York with this expedition? Arad are
yon not afraid of governmental interference in
this city?"
"We shall leave in a week or two weeks, or
within a month—it may be sixty days—to-mor
row mayhap, just as the gentleman from Cuba
shall determine; and as for interference, we don't
propose that government shall be officially in
formed of our day of sailing or of the port from
which we set out. Ohl we know what we are
about."
"Yon have done a 'big thing' enlisting so many
In so short a time and so quietly, too. Are all
your recruits accustomed to arms?"
"Yes; they are drawn from our own armies,
North, West and South. There'll be 5,000 South
erners in the expedition. We are going to
hold a meeting at the Cooper Institute to feel the
public puke, and eloquent men will address it.
"What are you going i to do with Cuba when you
get it, Colonel ?" asked the visitor, turning to
that individual.
"Annex it to the Union.. It is to be our thirty
eli!CliaSttilmtaeYsniro tbe the plan settled. " huan gen
tleman."
"We don't know what his plans are, and we
don't care. When the island is ours, pro bona
public°, it shall ho part and parcel of Uncle Sam
uel's dominion."
"Are you not afraid of the garrote? Don't for
get the fate of Lopez."
"Ob,l'm not afraid, This is a big : Job, sir. A
man's life is not to be counted against it. If we
win, we make. If we lose, there's an end of it.
But we'll win, and what is more, sir. Cuba will
be but a base !or future operations, sir," and the
Colonel put his hands in his pocket, 'leaned back
in his chair, and, looking valiantly at us, added,
with emphasis, "Cuba ours, and the conquest of
all the Islands in the Caribbean sea will be bat a
question of time only."
And hero the interview was abruptly brought
to a close by'art Irruption of Goths and Vandals
who were anfions to be garroted. In the spirit
of mercy the Colonel refused to enroll them, de
clark.g be had more heroes now than he kneW
how to dispose of.
Calbarien as a Port—The B.evo•
lutionary Reports—Co Freedom of
ISpeerh—Volunteers Refused by Ler.
sundl—An.d.merlerittys Views.
CAtesni EN, Nov. 3, 1868.—Calbarien is a small
place, but has the air of doing a large basiness
during crop time. It has a large bay, but vessels
cannot load or discharge full cargoes on account
of its shallowness; but everything has to be light
ered from Coy° Frances, or French Key, some
fit teen miles off. So you see there are some dial
culties here in doing the business.
It takes two days fora letter to go between
Matanzas and tins place. I suppose you would
like to hear how the revolution affects, us, so I
will write what rumors and stories and what
truths I have heard since my arrival. The very
day after our arrival at Matanzas Jim wrote us
that teere wasp great deal of excitement in Ha
vana, and everybody went armed,which means, I
suppose, that many of the young Cubans got
frightened and begun to carry arms, letting every
one of their friends know it; but Jim said that a
demonstration was expected. " Tuesday,the 27th,
I heard that e friend of mine In Havana, known
as a liberal / had been arrested. He bad gone
io the theatre, and when he came home found
that his lodgings had been searched, and upon
complaining the next day was advised to keep
his mouth shut. He asked what sort of a coun
try it was where a man couldn't speak his mind.
He was told he might say what he pleased, but
that they should choose the place, so the Gover
nor sent him to the Moro. Sunday or Monday
night fifteen men went to the house of a frieod
of ours in Matanzas at midnight and searched
the house for a doctor named Morales, who, six
teen years ago, was concerned in one of
the Lopez expeditions and banished for
five years, but he had luckily gone to Havana
the day before. Nevertheless, the ladies of
the family had all to rise and dress themselves to
allow the soldiers to search under the beds and
everywhere else. Quite a number of people have
been arrested on suspicion. We have also heard
of trouble at Manzanillo, which was pat down,
and of a ridiculous demonstration made at Ceiba
Mocha, about six miles from Matanzas, by a sub
lieutenant, the parish cure and hall a dozen gus
jiros, or country people; but whether revolution
ary or in favor of Isabella, I can't tell. Of course
it was put down. Monday a deputation of the
merchants of Havana waited upon Lersundi,
and asked him to give them some in
formation, what they might expect, &c.; but
Lersundi just about the same as showed them the
door, and they left with fleas in their ears. The
fact is, there Is a general unsettled feeling every
where. Planters are afraid of their negroes rising,
and have petitioned to send arms to their estates
to arm their men—you know it is against the
law here to possess a weapon without a license.
Merchants are afraid because they can't tell how
these troubles.will affect their business, and those
in power, the authorities throughout, are afraid
of losing their places under a new order of things.
The Cubans are always revolutionary, excitable,
and I believe take pleasure in the general
scare, and so it goes. Yesterday I heard
of a scare at Remedios, distant six miles. Four
poor devils of freed negroes were put In prison,
charged with creating dissatisfaction on an es
tate by informing the negroes that they had been
free since the first of last month, andmany of the
inhabitants now go armed. My informant car
ried a knife as long as his arm, nearly. I am told
that the people- of Havantroffered - teivb ltlhl
force of 7,000 men for the protection
of the city, which was refused; that Ler
sundi had received a despatch, which has been
published, to the effect that all the decrees and
orders for the island of Cuba under the new state
of things had been sent to the mail steamer of the
30th, and calling upon the Cubans to be patient
and quiet until they arrived,and that they would
be found much to their satisfaction,and so on and
so on. We hear a great deal we can't believe; but
you have more reliable cable news from Spain
than we do, and nothing sure or positive can be
said regarding the many stories about affairs
in this island. I hope it will come oat all right,
however.
Pits Arrival in New Torit—Reception tat
the Metropolitan Motel—Prominent
V isitors:— Future Movements The
General Will Go to West Point to-day.
The New York Herald of this morning says:
Without any previous announcement General
Grant and Mrs. Grant arrived in this city at nine
o'clock yesterday morning, on their way to West
Point, a WhiAl-tha Ron of the President_electitta
cadet. —The General i with his staff—General
Adam Badeau and General F. T. Dent—at once
repaired to the Metropolitan Hotel and took pos
session of room No. 114, and Mrs. Grant went up
town to the residence of Mr. A. T; Stewart. After
partaking of a quiet breakfast the General,
with General Dent, took a carriage and
drove to the residence of General John
Hamilton, where he paid his respects to the
family of that officer. Mr. John Jay, the Presi
dent of the Loyal League Club; Professor Lieber,
Judge Dick Dasteed, Colonel Crofton. United
States Army,
,and Miss Heade called at the Me
tropolitan during the absence of the General, and
sent up their csAs. General Grant returned from
his visit at ten o'clock, and remained undis
turbed and la:labored for some time. The fact that
General Badeau Is generally understood to be the
breastwork to Grant's defences deters aspiring
candidates for plaee from being intrusive, and
protects the General from annoyance.
A continuous stream of visitors poured in and
out of the hotel all the fOkviaoon, And it was in
teresting to. notice that, among aspiring politi
cians of good or bad character, generals of great
reputation or no reputation, the President cleat
was the most modest and unpretending. The
colored Waiters Beamed to bo greatly tickled.
CUBA.
GRANT
As the day wore on the excitement in the
nt Ighborhood Of the Metropolitan increased and
there was a perfect rush'of visitors to the hotel.
The General received all very kindly and gave.
the briefest possible answers to the inevitable
questions put to him by the Inevitable bores. The
General received, up to four o'clock. over 600
visitors, among whom were Judge Plerrepont.
with his brothers Hilton and Davis; ex-Governor
Fish, Generals Butterfield. Philip Bt. George
Cooke, and a host of subordinateofficers:
In answer to a question put by one of the visi
tors, General Dent, spanking for General Grant,
said that the President-elect would not receive
any public demonstration, and when he would
return horn West Point would also decline any
popular ovation. General Grant. said General
Dent, does • not believe in popular demonstra
tions and consequently will not accept them. If
any person asked him to a good dinner he did not
Wink .Itiut Erie G••neral was the nutetO refuse, but
nothing of a public character.
General Grant rode out with Mr. Robert Bon
ner in the afternoon, and expressed anew his ad
miration of the horse Pocahontas. whom he pro
nounced a paragon of speed. He assumed the
reins in Harlem lane and made the mettlesome
animal "push things" in excellent style. On the
rr turn trip the General had an • opportunity of
viewing the beauties of out incomparable Park.
In the evening the General, accompanied by
the members of his staff, visited the Olympic to
see Fox. Mrs, Grant accompanied Mr. A. T.
Stewart to Niblo's to witness Matilda Heron's re-
presentation of Camille. Daring the absence of
the General and family Major-Generals Rufus In
galls, McDowell, Daniel E. Sickles, Reintzelman
and• Doubleday called and left their cards.
The General and Mrs. Grant will leave the Me
tropolitan this morning for West Point about
eleven o'clock, and will remain at the Academy
until Wednesday next, when the party will return
to this city on their way to Washington.
The ItTeteors as 'seen near iGerman.
town.
To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin--Sin. :
About half-past ten o'clock last night I observed
a single meteor in the northeast. At midnight I
commenced to count them, confining my ob
servations to the northern and eastern heavens.
By one o'clock A. M. at least one hundred and
forty bad been seen, nearly all of
which traversed the sky from east to
northwest, where they would disappear—leaving
a trail which continued visible in some instances
about one minute. At 23( 1 A. M. I had counted
at least three hundred. At this time, turning my
back to the window at which I was stationed, I
could distinctly discern them by reflections in
the room at the rate of about four Der minute.
After observing probably twenty-five, and feel
ing sleepy, I retired, missing the more brilliant
rit• r a no which probably, occarred later in the
morning. •
nito Liagest, which I observed at about eight
minutes past one o'clock, commenced' near the
constellation Great Lion, then near the eastern
borizon,passing near the zenith, disappearing in
the Milky Way between Cassiopeia and Cepheus,
then in the northwest, about forty degrees above
the horizon, having caused a light, for some flve
seconds almost a& bright as the full moon, leav
ing a trail marking its course In a direct line,
which trail, by curling up at one end and
down at the other, formed first an 8, then the fig
ure B,requiring about twenty minutes to dissolve
Itself into a nebulous cloud - about four degrees
long and two degrees wide, about the density of
the Mllky Way near which It remained fixed until
it disappeared.
Many assumed the appearance and brilliancy
of a rocket, and the direction of nearly every one
was from the east to the northwest. C. R. R.
Germantown, Nov. 14. 1868.
DRAMA:tic AND MlitliSlCUL.
—The Lancashire Liss will be produced at the
rheonnt and Arch Street Theatro this
evening.
—Mr. E. L. ~Pavenport will conclude his en
gagement at the Walnut this evening with A New
Way to Pay Old Debts and The Carpenter of
Rouen. Next week Mr. Edwin Booth in Rich
elieu, Virginias, Othello, Jacl Cade and Richard
Third.
—At the Atherican this evening a,miscellaneons
performance will be given.
—Blind Tom will beein a series of concerts at
Concert Hall on Monday evening.
—The Theatre Comßine, on Eleventh street below
Arch, will be opened this evening with a brilliant
entertainment.
—Max Strakosch will give two concerts at Con
cert Hall on the 25th and 26th lasts. Miss Kellogg
will appear on both occasions.
—Mr. Jobson, "formerly Consulting Surgeon
and Dentist to the Royal Family of England,"
ill lecture at Assembly Buildings on -Monday
evening next, upon "the Physiology and Har
mony of Female Drees."
• —A new organ will be opened in the Olivet
Presbyterian Church, Twenty-second and
Mount Vernon strecte,on Thursday evening,Nov.
—We have alluded already to the fact that a
movement Was on foot to establish a Philhar
monic Society in this city, and we are glad to
announce that the efforts of our best musicians
in this direction have been crowned with success.
The Philharmonic Society has been inaugurated
m accordance with the oft-expressed wishes of
leading connoisseurs and professors, for the es
tablishment of a Musical Association similar to
that of the same name in New York and London,
Its primary object will be the dissemination of
pure taste, through stated performances of the
very highest order of composition, vocal and in
strumental; nor will its efforts for the elevation
of Philadelphia's sical prestige ever be relaxed.
It is proposed o furnish the public with four
tr ine
concerts at e Academy of Music, and three re
hearsals before each concert at Horticultural Hall,
with a highly drilled and well-appointed orches
tra of not less than fifty each season, on the terms
elsewhere set forth; and to intersperse the con
certed music with .brilliant solos By first-class
artists, both vocal and instrumental.
The first concert will be given on the evening
of Saturday. January 16, 1869, with tne following
programme:
bylrliall ny in A. Op. 67, Four movements
Bsethoren
011011ESTUA.
Overture—"Lerline.".... .......... V. Wallace
Concerto—Violin . Op. 64. E minor. (Three move
ments. Orchestral Accompaniment)....Mendelesohn
MLLE CAMILLA JEBO
Concerto—Piano. Op. 31. F minor. Larghetto and al
legro vivace. (Orchestral Accompaniment)..Chopin
Overture—"Jutillee,"
Conductor, mt. w. G. DIRTRICII.
_
The rehearsals and concerts of the present season
will take place as follows:
January Ist, Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
Hall.
Afternoon Rehearsal. Horticultural
January Bth
Hall.
January Ibth. Afternoon Rehearsal. Horticultural
Hall
January 16th. First Concert. Academy of Music.
January 29th. Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
HalL
—Fehr-oar-y-6th, Afternoon-Rehearsftl, Ffortit_
Hall. - •
February 12th. Afternoon Rehearsal, Hortica.
ral Hall.
February 13th. Second Concert, Academy of Mo
sta.-
February 26th. Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
Hall.
March sth.
March 12th. Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
Hall. '
March 13th. Third Concert, Academy ofusic.
" 26th. Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
Hall.
April 2d. Afternoon Rehcarsal,Horticultural Hall.
9th. "
10th. Fourth concer!, Academy of Music.
Afternoon Rehearsal, Horticultural
The first Public Rehearsal will take place on Fri
day,January 1841630,at o'clecl4.P.M.at Horticultural
Hall.
The following gentlemen are officers of the society:
Chas. 11.-Dodworth, President; V.Von Arrisberg, Vice-
President; Ludwig A. ,Tschirner, Tree& ; C. A. Braun,
Librarian. Directors—Clidules Jarvis,. M. H.
Greet:, H. L. Albrecht, Carl Woltohn, G. Mueller,/
C. Plageman,
—The darkness of a cloudy night caused a dia•'' ;
agreeable mistake in a Georgia town. A fellow'
killed two of his friends instead of another cott
pie he was after.
F. L. MU3RSTON. PubliNt
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LATEST CABLE NEWS.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON
FULLERTON-COURTNEY QUARREL,
President Will Not ;,upend
.obuttner
Recruiting for Filibusters inSt. Maio
Lonoorr, Nov..l4.—Exten9iVe arrangement . :
were made at the observatories an 4 elsewhere fen.'
scientifically noting the expected" meteoric - dlsj,_
play last evening, but the skybeing clouded . ; no,
meteors were seen. • • •
MAnaxn, Nov. 14.—The Pravirional Govern.l
ment has declared all the Spanish colonial port&
free, and all anchorage duties are abolished. • '
Bsrmix, Nov. I.4.—Count Von Der Gotz, the
Prussian Ambassador at Paris, has resigned, and.
Von Werther, the present Minister , to Austria,
has beet appointed to fill the vacancy:
District• Attorney Courtney.
t opecito uerpatch to the Philadelphia Evening Thatettn.T
Wasenwrow, Nov. 14.—The revenne,imbro
gllo has been settled for a time at, least by the
rreeldent informing Fullerton, kit, night, that
he did not deem the charges. against Courtney
and other officers sufilelest to justify him in•
suspending them. • .
Fullerton at once left forNiste York, for the
purpose, it is understood. of, obtaining new evt-:
donee, when he will return here , to renew ther
fight. While in the city Fullerton showed pri
vate letters written by,Secrotary McCulloch sev
eral days age, advising himmot to get mixed iii:
in these matters, or he would surely _get
worsted, as has proved to be the '
This letter was shown to the President,
who manifested great surprise that 'll.h.
loch would give such advice. Fullerton else
told a friend last evening before leaving that the
President bad said privately that he did not care
So much about making , out a case against Mr.
Courtney, us in obtaining some evidencein these
investigations which would, tend to
im
plicate Mr. Rollins, in order that he could. sus
pend him. '
Fullerton's friends here art very sanguine that
he will yet make outs good case.
More IFlllbusters—Dead.BodlesFornid:
&r. Loma, Nov. 14.—The Times of ; this morn
ing says : About thirty young men, under the
leadership of two or three old filibusters, held a
meeting here last night, and an organization was
effected, with a view, to raising recruits for air
expedition to Cuba.
The Bunker Bill (Illinois) Gazette states in
substance that in a barn attached to a• place
where a tavern has been kept for years in the VI.:
deity of that town, ,the remains of three human
beings have been found beneath the barn floors;
and that the skeletons of five other men, sup . *
posed to have been murdered, have been disco"-
ered in the neighborhood of the same premises..
The Inn-keeper is, suspected of having been
in robbery and murder for years. ',The
Gazette says he has been arrested; and is now
imprisoned, awaiting trial,gball having been re
fused.
The Ferry . Boat Collision.
NEW YORE, Nov. 14.—Five persona were
killed or mortally; injured by the ferry accident.
and twenty others are badly hurt.
From Albany. •
ALBANY, Nov. 14.—The tenth Juror in. the Cole
case was obtained to-day.
Marine Intelligeneei-
New Yona, Nov. 14.—Arrived steamship
Siberia, from Liverpool, via Boston.
Boma, Nov. 14.--The Mayor of Philadelphia;
and suite arrived here this morning, and are en
joying the hospitalities extended by Mayor
Shurtleff and the members of the city government
Markets by frelekraph.
,
J3ALTIMORE, ,Nov. lA.—Cotton dull and nu
changed. , Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat
steady and unchanged. Corn firmer; for new
white, 85@:10; yellow, $l. Oats dull ,at 60@)65..
Rye unchanged. Pork firm at $29@29.50. Bar
con firm; rib sides, 17%,; clear sides, 18; shoal
dors, 13%@14; hams, 1.9@20. Lard dull at 18. .
INDIAN MISSIONB.—On to-morrow (Sunday)
evening a meeting of much interest on behalf of
Missions to the Indians in Nebraska and Dakota - ,
will be held in St. Luke's _Church, Thirteenth
street, below: Spruce. The Right Rev. Bishops
Clarkson, Rev. Dr. Howe, Rev. Mr. Hinman, the
Missionary - to the Dakotas, and Mr. Williauz
Welsh will make addresses, and the Rev. Paul
Masakuti, an Indian Deacon, will speak in the
Sioux language.
Cruelty in the New Jersey State rrisoni.
The Newark Daily Advertiser says:
'Governor Ward on Wednesday appointed Mr.
George A. Walker Keeper of the State Prison, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother.
Mr. Walker has resided with his' brother, within
the prison during the past year, and is thoroughly
acquainted with the duties of the position. The
widow of the late keeper will have the general
supervision of the female oonvicts t as heretofore.
supervision
recent visit to this institution this
Governor found six prisoners of both sexes under.
punishment for breaking the rules. They were
confined in dungeons night and day, with their
wrists bound together and. fastened close to. the
;polling a painful phsition of the
had been under tins, discipline
!IL and — this office - rev - confessml --------
r Instance this hOrrible pallid:v= 7
ment bad been continued for over
two weeks. Tho offences which brought' this
terrible retribution were_inde.cent±conrersation
swearing and attempt to escape. The-Governor
ordered the immediate release of the prisoners
from their torture, and gave strict orders that.
nothing of the kind ahould Occur again under his
gubernatorial administration, requiring, the new
keeper, before his appointment, to sign • a piper.
solemnly promising to prevent all such luta:pan.
treatment of prisoners. '
It is understood that similar: eneltles have) '
been perpetrated in our State, prison ft* years.
They are not so much the fault of the individual
officers,under who's° d irection they beim occurred,
as of . the miserable systwor, or lack of one, which
our legislatures. have allowed._ .The- people'now
demand an Immediate change for the better—the
adoption of an enlightened, and Giulia=
discipline, a total renovation and purification cpt
the prison system of - the State. Tautest legiele—
turn appointed a commission of able and enent
men to report such e plan, and, it romans tor the
next session to act upon it in wise, humane
and unpartisan spirit. Other States are far in,
advance of New Jersey in this matter."
Von Wober
4:00 O'Clook.
By Atlantic cable.
Froni Boston.
CITY BMLUfflint,