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Charles bpencerahomas Macomb and Bessie IL Barney.
daughter of Nicholson J. Barney. of Virginia. and grand.
daughter of the late Bon. James Rogers, of Delaware. "
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ILA North Fifteenth street, on Thursday. the 19th mst.,
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tAttthst AN.--On the 16th inst.. Miss Maggie cochran,
daughter of the lath Lewis Cochran. in the 19th year of
her age.
Ihe relatives and friends of the family are respeetfultY
invited to attend the funeral. from her residence, No. 705
Locust tweet, on Friday morning next at SIX o'clock.
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°alma aged 1 Years
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Had Dlr. ileverdy Johnson Private
Instructions?
The New York Evening Post of yesterday says
a curious story agues to us from Washington in
reference to the course of „Mr. ReverdyJohnsori.
It is related that Mr. Johnson received, when he
left this country for England, besides his general
instructions from the Secretary of State, special
and private instructions from the President It
is asserted that these private orders prescribed
to the Minister the extraordinary course he has
pursued in England; that ho was told by the
President to pay his court to the Tories, and to
turn away from the Liberals; to be most attentive
to those persons who, like Roebuck,Lord Wham.
cliffe, and Laird, had been the most conspicuous
friends of the rebels from 1861 to 1865; and to
have as little as possible to do with the Liberals,
who were the friends of the Union cause during
our late war.
Rumor in Washington asserts that when the
President gave his private orders to Mr. Reverdy
Johnson, he was under the belief that the Demo
cratic party would elect its candidates, and
would rule the country for the next four years;
and that his object was to assist in the restora
tion of the rebel leaders to predorffinance in the
country, by giving to their English allies the
countenonce and moral support of this govern
ment through its Minister. Rumor supposes
the President to have reasoned that under a
Aiemocratie - administration men - who were—prom
inent in the rebellion would govern in Washing
ton, and represent the United States abroad; and
that there would be something awkward in a
person like Alexander H. Stephens, for instance,
going to England as United States Minister. and
meeting there suddenly those English leaders
who have thought him and his cause inexcusably
bad. It was, therefore, made the office of Mr
Reverdy Johnson to prepare, by his own cring
ing adulation of men like Roebuck and Laird,
smooth entrance forsomaperson like Stephens,
Mason or Pendleton.
It is asserted in Washington that Mr. Reverdy
.Johnspphas kept up a special correspondence
with the President upon this part of his duties;
that the President supports him in those acts
which have mortified the whole countr • aid
that, Eff@ly, tho Idecretary ot tiVafolifept in ig
norance of the progress of certain of Mr. John
son's negotiations, and was recently obliged to
confess this lack of information to the British
Minister.
—A little tragedy in real life was enacted re
cently at the Swansea Theatre, in England. A
colored actor, named Mr. Morgan Smith, had
been engaged for a short time to take the princi
pal characters in -sensational—dramas and tragic
plays. During a desperate encounter in one of
the pieces he had been, furnished with a loaded
pistol which had been too heavily charged.
When he had to fire at the ihroine in the plot,
the loud report startled the andience,and the un
fortunate actress staggered bsek, desperately
wounded in real earnest. The ivadding struck
her on the arm, causing a severe wound, which
zensiered it necessary to remove her to the ire !
firmary, where she will remain for some time.
—The Peoria (W.) Transcript says that . some
workmen' engaged on the Hamilton street 'sower
unearthed a skeleton last Saturday. It was in a
sitting posture, facing the south. It Is prob
ably the remains of a huge Indira. The jaws,
which remain in a nearly perfect state, u 1 very
large, and the teeth are in a good state of pree
ervation.
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IMPORT OE GEN. GEO. 11. THOMAS.
Operations of the Ku-Klux-Klan.
General Thomas's report to Gen. Grant says:
It is mortifying to acknowledge that the
State and local laws, and the more powerful
force of public opinion .do not protect citizens
of the Department from violence. Indeed.crinie
is committed 'lncense public opinion favoV it.
A criminal who is popular, with, the mob cart set
law at defiance; but If a man Is only suspected of
crime who is inimical to the' cenatnanity, he Is
likely to be banged to the nearest tree or &hot
down at his own door. The report closes as fol-.
lows.
"The Causes of .this lawlessness aro different in
different States, and apply more particularly to
Kentucky and Tennessee than to West Virginia.
Prom the latter State there have been no com
plaints received other then that of the Governor
in his application for troops before mentioned,
the sending of which accomplished the object for
which they were needed. In Tenneisee, where a
majority of the late rebels are diefranehised, they
and the sympathizers with them have a hatred of
the State authorities which is unconcealed and
aggressive. In localities where the disfranchised.
dement la strong, a spirit of persecution toward
those In sympathy with the authorities, those
who recognize the political rights of the enfran
chised ncgroes, and the negroes themselves, espe
cially' shows itself, In utter contempt of all law.
Violence is openly talked of. The editorial arti
cles of the public , press are such as to create the
most intense hatred in the breasts of tho ex-rebels
and their sympathizers. The effect of this is to
cause disturbance throughout the State by inciting
the ruffianly uortlon of this class of citizens to
murder, riot, and maltreat the white Unionists
and colored people in localities where there are
no United States troops stationed. The local
math ori tier, have not the will, and, moreover, often
have not the power to suppress or prevent/these
outrages. In Kentucky disfranchisement can
not be alleged as a reason for—the dis
turbance. Here the Mass of the people
are in sympathy with the State authorities,
and those politically opposed maki• no attempt to
resist them. The colored people aro quiet and
peaceable. They have no political rights, not be
ing enfranchised; yet ruffians are permitted to
tyrannize over them without fear of punishment.
The testimony of negroes is rejeCted in the State
Courts. and United States Courts are difficult of
access to an ignorant people without friends or
influence. In some districts some ex-Union sol
diers are persecuted by their more numerous
rebel neighbors, until they are forced into a re
sistance which sometimes ends with loss of their
IiVEB, or they are compelled in self-defence to
emigrate. An appeal to the courts affords bat
little hope for redress, as the magistrates and
juries too often -decide in accordance with thelr
prejudices withciut regard' to justice. The con
trolling cause of the unsettled condition of affairs
in the Department is, that the greatest efforts
made by the defeated Insurgents since the close
t.f the war have been to promulgate the Idea that
the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, equality,
and all the calendar of virtues of freemen suf
fered violence and wrong when the effort for
Southern independence failed. This is of course
intended as a speciett of political cant, whereby
the crime of treason might be covered with a
counterfeit varnish of patriotism,
so that the
precipators of Rebellion might go down in
history, hand in hand with the de
fenders of the Government, thus wiping out
with their own hands their own status. Tills spe
cies of self-forgiveness is amazing in its efficiency,
when it is considered that life anti property were
justly forfeited by the laws of the country, of
war, and of nations. Under this inspiration the
education of a eat many people, moral, and re
ligious, and political has been turned into chan
nels wherein all might unite in common. The
impoverishment of the South, resulting from war
and its concomitants, the emancipation of the
slaves, and consequent loss of substance, the am
biguityy and uncertainty of political rights, and
financial values., as well as personal rivalries, have
all combined to strengthen the efforts' of the per
nicious teachers. The evil done has been great,
and it is not discernable, that an immediate im
provement may be expected.
THE CUBAN riunusrEas.
Deputy Marsbalg Look After the Col.
onel—Alleged Breach of the Non.
manly Lanrs—The Expedition and
its Prospects.
The N. Y. Herald thus jocundly tells how the
United states Marshal in that city is stirring up
the bold buccaneers:
•"Arouse ye then, my merrie, merrie men.'
Mustaches of - darkened hue, frowns and Fra
Diavolo hats, fat men, tall men, lean and lanky,
faces bright and daring, others with no expres
sion, square shouldered fellows and boys of gin
gerbread, heroes of war with scars and heavy
tread, now greet the eye in that great rialto of
expectation—the park of the City Hall. No
longer do people lounge and swing on
chains. Notice the bold and steady step—
now mark the chiefs in council. a smile pet - -
wales the whole assembly, for the golden
fields of Cuba pass in panoramic view before
their delighted vision. - There is' a simultaneous
rubbing of hands, a "hail fellow" slapping of the
back and a prevailing sentiment of unalloyed
enjoyment. Ho for Cuba ! Anon comes the
doctor,._who scrutinizes _the robust and valiant
warriors with satisfied gaze. He evidently had
not dined. but the tprospect of a banquet in
Cuba made him the merriest of the group. Apart
from the crowd stands Captain Sweetman, look
ing at the sky, intently watching the fast fleeting
clouds. Sweetman is not a coward, for it will be
remembered that ho carried the Fenian heroes
a cross the ocean in thefrailest shell,that there were
stowed away in the hold of the jacmel many thou
sand stands of arms, and that the expedition was
commanded by Colonel Kerrigan, who, by the
way, mildly joined in the debate. But Colonel
Gibbons, the head and centre of the patriots, was
ill at ease. There had been trouble in the camp
that morning. .Keen-eyed deputy marshals had
been in quest of him; had been to his war office
where they found clerks writing at 2.10 in vain
endeavors to answer the scores of applicants for
information—those seeking commissions and
others asking for a fair distribution of the rich
plantations. Among the many communications
were some which eagerly inquired as to whether
Cuba should not be - made a separiito
kingdoins. At all events, the marshals were in
earnest, and acting up to, it is said, official au
thority, wished to beinformed on certain mili
tary matters. The Colonel was not at home, but
a mandate was left for him to appear at Marshal
Murray's bureau, either for instructions or ar
rest. Down came the Colonel with another
colonel to the trysting place and presented them
selves with due pomp, demanding what breach of
the neutrality laws had as yet been made. There
-was no response, but-subsequently- encountering
the deputies, they were informed that in
accordance with certain instructions in
quiries were being instituted as to the
proposed expedition, and that if certain
information were correct the principals would be
plauedin_durance vile. A merry_langhoLsna.
of the finger and a joke were returned and_so the
matter dropped. "When Greek meets Greek
then comes the tug of war," and before the fili
busters leave for Cuba the Penitentiary will per
haps require a large stock of provisions., Be that
as it may, "it's an . ill wind blows nobody good."
That an army is being organized there is every
reason to believe, and if current statements are
to be credited the coffers are fall. So far secrecy
has characterised the movement, but too
many are ready to join anything that
promises good pay, ' and who knows what
may come of it? There are fat pickings, in
Cuba, and the hope of being enriched may drive
the veriest filibusterer who ever lived to attempt
an expedition. The independence of Cuba and
Ra - subsequent annexation' to the United States
are said to be the motives that prompt this un
dertaking.' -Suck disinterested> patriotism de:
serves substantial recognition, and when the
raid shall have been successfully completed the
government cannot do less than distribute thd
spoils -fairly- among all hands. - The:generals;
colonels and principal officers having =laid down
,their arms _like ,;.the.., great heroes of Rome, will
devote themselves to agricultural pursuits, the
slaves will be free and planters will whine In. dis
pair. Great times to come.- Who would not be
a soldier? ,
PHILADELPHIA, 'WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1868.
THE EVARTS DINNER iN NEW YORK.
Speeches by Admiral Farragut, Secre
tary schoirield. Mayor liolanaa and
liresyster
From the New York fferald'a-account of the
Everts dinner, last night, we extract the follow
. Inn :
The toast of "The Army and Navy," was giYen
and drank,with all the honors.
GENERAL SCHOFIELD . :4 SPEECH.
General Schofield, on rising to respond to the
toast, said :—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, in ,
the monarchies of the Old World it Is said that
the army is the safety of the nation. With equal
truth it may be said in this country the army is
the safety of _ the republic. Cheers.[- While
equally true, yet how different the meaning of
these words in their application to the two cases.
The army on which this republic relies
tor its safety Is no vast body of idle, ignorant
Men, drilled and disciplined to execute
the will of a despot; nor yet is
it the little nucleus of regular troops in which is
preaerved tho knowledge of the art of war ready
to bedleseminated to an unlimited extent in time
of need. The army of the republic is composed
,of the great body of the young men of the nation
—men who are habitually employed in the arts
of peace,hut who spring to arms when their
country calls, and rally around the little body, of
trained officers and men who stand ready to lead
them to victory. ['Great cheers.] How per
fectly, though perhaps unconsciously, the coun
try feels the fact that in its army is its main re
liance for protection—[Applause]—the men
whose patriotism, courage, ability and fidelity
have been tried on the field of battle.
[Cheered Whether it be in the world of com
merce, Or trade, or science—whether it be in the
the legislative halls of the State or of the nation,
or on the judicial bench,or in the executive chair,
these are the men the nation trust. [Applause.]
They on their part ask no reward for services
— p - effonnedsave a fair recognition for what they
do. They ask no place of trust or profit, but with
true, bumble, honest fidelity endeavor to do their
whole duty in any sphere to which their country
men may assign them. Let us hope tnat the
army of the republic may ever retain the high
and honorable character for bravery, modesty,
and patriotic devotion to duty. [Applause. J
SPEECH OF ADMIRAL FAMLAOCT.
On the Admiral rising to respond to the toast
of the Navy, he was greeted with great applause.
He said—Mr. Chairmen and gentlemen, in re
sponse to the sentiment you have so kindly re
ceived I will acknowledge it and thank you for
it. The President of this meeting announced me
as the repreeentative of the navy. The navy, I
believe, has always done its duty. It is a nucleus
around which, I hope, our young men will al
ways be found to rally. I have been lately abroad
as the war is now over, and I was sent away per
haps to give me recreation—[ laughter]—and now
it affords me great pleasure to say that in all my
intercourse with foreign-nations I found always
extended to me the-hand of fellowship and good
will everywhere. I Applause. I I do not think
we....shall be called upon, to do much more service
-in the way of war. Applause. In the midst
of which the Admiral took his seat.
The next toast was
"The Veterans of the Bar."
The toast was very happily responded to by
Mr. James W. Gerard, who kept the younger
members of the company in fits of laughter at his
witty and epigrammatic points and re
marks in his review of the history of the bar
tome forty years back.
The sixth regular toast—"TheJudiciary"—was
responded to by Judge Daly, who treated the
subject with his usual ability, and who in the
course of his remarks was frequently applauded.
The next toast was—" The City and State of
New York."
SPEECH OF MAYOR HOFFMAN, GOVERNOR ELECT.
The toast next on the list, as above, having
been duly honored, the Governor elect responded
to it as follows : As Governor he felt some deli
cacy in responding to one portion of the toast—
the city—he having tendered his resignation of
Mayor he doubted the propriety of saying any
thing about it, and on the other hand, so far as
the State was concerned, as it was proposed or
talked of very seriously to contest his election,
he doubted the propriety of saying anything
about it. [Cheers.] One act of his life he was
sure ho could refer to without the slightest re
ference to political affairs or to political
differences. He referred to the honored
guest of the evening, when he stepped
aside, not from his professional duty, but in the
way of it, to give his (Mr. Evarts's) services in
defence of the Chief Magistrate of the country,
incurring thereby perhaps the enmity of some
and making no new friends. But recognizing
the fact that professional duty called him where
he went, with ability unsurpassed—with boldness
and firmness—l cheersi—he went to the discharge
of it (Referring to Mr. Evarts's brilliant, criti
cism of Mr. Boutwell's impeachment speech, and
of his flight of fancy ad antra, he made
a happy allusion between that and the
present occasion ad Astor, which elicited
general laughter. I Mr. Hoffman, con
tinuing, said he had noticed that some of oar dis
tinguished countrymen in the interior had pro
posed to divide the State. He would not, how
ever, divide the toast, "The Empire: City and the
Empire State." The cite had always better be
long to the State and the State had better belong
to-the city. [Cheers. They do' very well .to
gether; they might not do very well apart I Ap
plause and laughter. I They very well unite as
Empire City and Empire state. The Empire
City makes the Empire State and the Empire
State makes the Empire city. I Applause. But
I he heard men of prominence and distinc
tion within our borders talking about division
because some perhaps in some localities public
sentiment went for division. But this spirit of
secession in the State or in the Union had better
be quenched here. [Great applause. I He knew
no better place for it or time than the present,
when the President elect [great cheersl, who, in
hie sphere and in the line of his duty, did so much
to prevent division in the country, and, if he
was permitted to say it, he knew of
no better time and no better man to denounce
the idea of dividing a State or country than the
present—when he was elected at this time to pre
side over the destinies of the whole country.
[ Applause. The Governor elect closed with the
sentiment : I now give you, gentlemen, "The
city arid - State of NCI York, that have grown
and prospered together—may the folly or fanati
cism of man never be able to divide them."
Attorney-General Brewster, of Pennsylvania,
was introduced by Mr. O'Conor, and said:
Mr. President and Gentlemen: To-day by some
accident not well understood by me, I was caught
within your jurisdiction and summoned into
3 our presence. It is a happy accident to me
thus to be brought before you, for I have enjoyed
your personal acquaintance and friendship for
many long years.- - I-wish,- however, that I had
not been selected to address you. A short no
tice was given me a few minutes ago,
and as the time approached when I was
expected to address you, each moment seemed a
terrible one to me; for so much had been said,
t os e_ we n said, those who preceded me, and
those topics suitable to be alluded to have been
so well treated that I feel that all I could say
would be barren and profitless. One thing, how
ever, happened here to-night which sent a pulsa
tion and thrill of joy and exultation through my
heart, and no man would listen to it, who is
a loyal and respectable layman, and an educated
man, but would feel a sense of exultation such as
I felt. I allude to the sublime response from
the Bar which followed Mr. Evarts's ma
jestic and splendid denunciation of the un
just judge Leheers], showing the virtue which
regulates and controls the very life and soul of
our noble- and beloved profession. [Cheers.
Gentlemen, i let •us 'remember with a sense or
glory, how , llustriOns the history of our profes-
Won has been. The bar of America has held the
same relative position to civil liberty and political
civilization that, the clergy bore to religious
civilization in Ehrope when She rose from a con
dition of barbarism.: We 'are. sir, the lineal de
' ecendanta of the clergy—our judges are the lineal
descendants of the archbishops, 'the bishops, and
the mitred abhota, who enee ruled not
reonly the courts but the 'intellectual minds
of Europe. And wei too, - are bottad by the same
exulteCand holy obligation, and' when I heard
the reverend and 'learned clergyman to-night
touch that bond of sympathy, entitle to Um
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
golden link which binds-us in common to one
holy cause—the cause of civilization and Christi
anity—l felt that we were now as lAJtte begin
ning, Brethren. Let us always retheriaber to bo
brethren, let us cultivate and keep alive that asso
ciation between the clergy and the bar, and let
na above all things never forget to be gentlemen
of tho Bar. Cheers.l
FTIWgT7MWM77I'"I'4nI7"'W'n
This morning's New York Herald says:
The day has been another remarkable one in
the history of Wall street. The fluctuations in
the stock market have not been so violent nor the
volume of business so large as on yesterday, bat
the feeling was one of continued excitement, es
pecially daring the afternoon, what the news
reached the street of a renewal of the Erie Rail
way war in the courts. Erie and gold were again
the features of business. The former dropped
from 54, the opening price, to 47, but rallied late
in the afternoon to 49 a 50. Gold opened at 1363 p
and , settled to 3.343 i before the adjournmed•of
the board.
The rival speculators in Erie ate again litigants.
The tine party, after suffering great lose at the
hands of the other, have had recourse to the aid
of=the law. It appears that Mr. Daniel Drew, an
ex-Director of the road, was "Cornered" in a
short speculation, as well as a number of bank
ing houses doing business on foreign account,
who, on what they believed to be 'anticipatory
news of the value of Erie, as emoted at the Lon
don Stock Exchange, were tempted to sell
"short." Such is one of the many versions on
the street. Indeed, the whole atmosphere
of Wall street was rife to-day with
all sorts of rumors concerning the
movements and operations of the various parties
to the transactions in this famous stock. The
situation is so confused and the smoke of the
contest yet so dense upon the battle-field that it
is very difficult to get a satisfactory view of the
real condition of affairs in the truce which the
courts have suddenly declared. Enough is seen,
however, to show that the speculations of the
last month have been on a gigantic scale, suchns
never were equalled before in Wall street., while
it is doubtful if they have been surpassed else
where. Millions of dollars have seen handled as
if they were thousands,and the capital employed
has been such as to make the outside public gape
with astonishment at the daring and Oldness
of the operators. During the, day an injunction
was sued out in the Supreme Court, before Judge
Sutherland. restraining the directors of the Erin
Railway from doing anything further toward the
issue of new stock and enjoining them from dis-I
Curbing any of the papers, accounts or moneys of
the corporation. It was granted upon the appli•
cation of Mr. August Belmont, who is the pos
sessor of four thousand shares, the value of
which he alleges is likely to be depreciated by
reckless management on, the part of the aforesaid
directors. The application is supported by the
affidavits of Mr. Francis Work and Mr. Daniel
Drew. The latter makes a clean breast of his
connection with the movement last winter, in
which be got out of the "corner" prepared for
him by Mr. Vanderbilt,and acknowledges that he
joined the great Broad street clique, formed for
the purpose of "locking up greenbacks," and
contributed a million dollars for that object,
which he subsequently withdrew. Ilia a curious
turn of fortune that he should find himself now
in the very predicament he was in last
winter, but with his former allies for his
bitterest enemies. Mr. Behriont appears in
the litigation, it is said, as the
representative of the foreign houses who
suffered from the risein Erie engineered on Sat
urday night and Monday. Such is the aspect of
affairs on the losing side of the battle, for a bat
tle it is between financial giants. Of the strategy
on the other side nothing is positively known
outside of their own camp. It is rumored, how
ever, that in anticipation of such a step on the
part of Mr. Belmont and Mr. Drew the directors
themselves, or so many of them as are privy to
the alleged speculative use of the funds and stock
of the corporation, secretly applied for
and obtained four days ago the appoint
ment of a receiver from their own ranks, the
person selected being, the report farther says, Mr.
Jay Wield. It is alets said that to put as much
money as possible beyond the clutches of the law
in case an injunction should issue seven millions
of gold have been transferred across the Hudson
to Jersey City, thus placing it beyond the juris
diction of the New York courts. On the other
band it is asserted that the losing party intended
to sue out an injunction, if they did not actually
try to do so, in the United States courts, so as to
reach the funds if they are so removed.
The effect of these proceedings was to distract
the whole stock market and prices were wilily
irregular for a time, but without the wide fluctu
ations of yesterday. Erie opened on the street in
the early morning at 53 and 54, but declined to 52
before the first board. At the open board it was
quoted between St and 52, and thence steadily
ac dined until the first Hush of the news of legal
proceedings. when it dropped to 47, with offers
at 43, seller thirty. It went up and down during
the afternoon between 47 and 49 until It assumed
something like steadiness in the vicinity of the
latter figure at four o'clock. The rest of the list,
sympathizing -with Erie f weakened with it
proportionately and recovered in the saute
t.egree. Erie became - firm towards the close
at 49,0 n the strength of suspicions that the clique
contemplated, before they were served with the
injunction, cancelling bonds or stock, and thus
to give cause for another "bull" movement,
When the injunction had been served this firm
ness continued, under the impression that there
would be a scarcity of cash stock, owing to the
large quantity locked up by the legal proceed
ings, and hence there was a difference of one or
two per cent. between regular and seller—three
transactions. Late In the evening an operator on
the street, suspected of being in the Drew inte
rest, was freely offering to buy Erie at 1 50; with
the privilege, however, of selling it back at 48
within three days.
A Pittsburgh paper of Tuesday says:
A terrible and fatal accident occurred yesterday
morning,near Johnstown,resulting in the instant
death og two men, named respectively Joseph
Noble and David Bee. The two men mentioned
were employees of the Johnstown Iron Com
pany, and were employes yesterday morning,
between seven and eight o'clock. in blasting ore
in the ore bank belonging to the
Company. They had arranged the fuse
for a blast, and were just about leav
ing it after setting fire to it, when
in some manner, the blast exploded prematurely.
The explosion occurred while the unfortunate
men were quite near tLe fuse, and they were both,
as we have said, instantly killed. Mr. Bee was
struck by a fragment of the ore, which crushed
his head and nearly severed it from his body.
Mr. Noble was also struck by fragments, and his
head broken and lacerated fearfully. By the force
of the explosion the bodies of both men were
mangled terribly. ,The deceased were both mar
ried men and leave families. They were, we aro
informed, brothers-in-law.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The following is Bishop
Potter's proclamation relative to the meeting of
the Primary Convention,' to be held to-day :
Whereas, The necessary preliminary meas
ures have been taken by the Convention ofAhe
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Now York, and by the General Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States of America, for the formation, on the 15th
day of November next, of a new diocese 'within
the bounds of the said Diocese of New York, the
said new: diocese to comprise the counties tat
Kings.. Queens and Suffolk, commonly known as
Lour . •
li hsreas, It is reade.My duty,,by_ canon of the
General Conventlen, to- call tke Primary Con
vention of the said new diocese,,and tix the time
and. place of , holding the same; tlictrefoio, notice
is hereby gbh:Ertl:tit the Primary Convention of
the said new diocese to be formed within the limits
of the Diocese of New York will be held on Wed..
n eeday, the 18th day of Novorohor twat, in the
MEW YORK.
Matters in IlVallStriet Yesterday.
1 , :nif.1.11 4 14 t44:111
Accident at Johnstown, Pa.
FROM NEW YORK.
Church of the Holy Trinity (corner of Clinton
and Montague streets), in the city of Brooklyn
and county of Kings, at 10.30 o'clock in tee
morning.
HORATIO POTTER, Bishop of New York.
New York, Oct. 28, 1868.
The National Christian Convention met in this
city yesterday morning and permanently or
ganized. Rey. Howard Crosby, D. D., was
timed President and Rev. J. R. Tyler,Secretary.
The attendance was good and the services deeply
interesting. The sessions of the Convention are
to be continued day and evening and through
Friday, and will addressed by numerous dis
tinguished cler L men and laymen.
Madame Olympe Andonard held her second
"conference at the Union League Club theatre
last evening. The audience was not so •name
rons as on her first appearance, which
,was
ascribed to the rain. Her theme was the" History
of Comedy and Tragedy," and the criticisms
pronounced on the works of authors, ancient and
modern, were received with general approbation.
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Attempted 111nrder by Miners
The Reading Dispatch says : On Saturday fore
coon,Mr. J. Claude White, Superintendent of
&mili Colliery, located near Llewellyn, Bchnyl
kill county, accompanied by two other gentle
men and, one of Heissler's Police, while on their
way to the colliery for the purpose of paying off,
were waylaid by five Irishmen. The policeman,
named Kioneer, preVented the robbery by his
daring bravery. He made'a bold charge on them,
capturing one of them after firing two shots into
him and driving the' others away. Tne pay
master bad 915,000 with him. The man shot by
the officer gave his name as Finley, and stated
that be was from New York. Re was committed
to the Schuylkill county jail, where he now re
mains. May the strictest penalty of the law be
visited upon him.
NEW JERSEY RIATTJERS.
HOME FOR FRIENDLESS CHILDREN.—Now that
winter is upon us, the demands Upon the philan
thropic and humane will be much greater than
during the summer months. All kinds of chari
ties will be needed. The Camden Rome for
Friendless Children appeals urgently to the lib
erality of the people of Camden. The good work
it has accomplished and Is now accomplishing is
sufficient guaranty that any appropriation given
to it will be expended judiciously. The home
is now filled with children. In fact ills not able
to accommodate more than one half the applick
Lions that are made. The managers are strug
gling to obtain means to build a more suitable
structure, and ought to receive liberal encouTge-
Went.
LANDS UNDER WATER.—Efforts are to be made
during the coming session of the New Jersey
lAgistature to secure the passage of an act ap
pointing a commission to fis the boundaries of
land under water along the Delaware river, be
longing to the State. A law of this kind would
be of importance to many sections of Now Jer
sey,and also a number of land-owners in Camden
and Gloucester counties. 4 soon as a decision
is made, a number of valuable wharf improve•
mente will be commenced in Camden.
THE SOLDIERS' MONITTIENT.—The monume ,L
erected at the junction of Federal and Plum
streets, Camden, in commemoration of the fallen
heroes from Camden city and county, contains
not a syllable of any kind upon it to indicate what
it is put there for. The Board of Chosen Free
holders <nicht to have engraved upon it some in-
E cription to tell for what it was erected.
SEVERELX HERT.—Yesterday a workman at
the lumber yard of McKeen & Bingham had one
of his legs very badly hurt by a lot of boards fall
ing upon it. The flesh was literally torn from
the bones. His name is Afton Fowler. The In
jured man was taken to his hoarding-house, on
Federal street, where he received prompt medi
cal attendance.
GATHERING ThEM IN.—The Grant and Colfax
Central Campaign and other Republican Clubs of
Camden have notified members and others having
torches, capes, caps or other equipments, to bring
them in, so that they may be kept for another
campaign.
THE STORM.—The storm that set in from the
northeast yesterday afternoon was quite severe
along the coast of New Jersey. The streams
were swollen, overflowing their banks; but no
damage of any importance has been reported
thus far.
Dino IS L'IMMTLY.-a young lady, aged about
seventeen years, daughter of Mr. Erdman, on
Market street, died very suddenly yesterday
morning, at her father's residence. She had been
sick but a few hours.
The New Archbishop of Canterbury.
A Scotchman by birth, Primate Tait came of a
good Clackmannan family. His grandfather, SI
Isl 4 Campbell was Lord President of the Court
of Session. He himself Studied at Ballot Col
lege, Oxford,where he enjoyed the Ballot scholar
ship. Ho was first-class in classics in 1833. He
was fellow and tutor of his college from 1835 to
1842. He graduated M. A. in 1836 and D. C. L
in 1842. In 1841 ho was appointed Public Ex
aminer. In 1842 he had the honor of presiding
over the school of Rugby as its head master.
This position he held for seven years. Thence
he was promoted to the decimate of Carlisle,
which he held for seven years also. In 1850-52
he was a member of the commission to inquire
into the state of the University of Oxford. Dr.
Blomfleld having resigned the See of London in
1856, Dr. Tait, then Dean of Carlisle, was pro
moted to it, and on the death of Dr. Blomdeld in
1867, .ho was made Dean of
the Chapels Royal. His published works
are "sermons Preached as Head Master
of Rugby." and "Suggestions to Theological Stu
dents." Dr. Tait was ex officio a member of the
Privy Council and Visitor to several colleges. Ho
presented to one hundred livings and enjoyed an
annual income 'of £lO,OOO. He was the one hun
dred and sixth bishop of London. He will be
the ninety-second archbishop of Canterbury. As
such his emoluments will be increased to £15,000.
He will preside over twenty suffragan bishops
and present to 183 livings. His precedence is be
fore that of all peers not princes of the blood.
DRARIA 110. ELAM DIUSICAL.
—Mr. Edwin Forrest will appear at the Walnut
this evening as "Jack Cade. '
• —The Chestnut is filled every nSfht with audi
ences who find much patisfactlon in witnessing
and applauding The Ancashire Lass. The play
Is certainly worthy of success as far as the man
agement Is concerned. it is placed upon the
stage handsomely, and it is well performed.
—At the Arch The Lancashire Lasscontinnes to
be played to full houses. •
—The American announces a miscellaneous en
tertalinnentior this evening.
—Mr. Carl Wolfsolin's first classical matinee
will be given in the Foyer of the Academy on
Friday afternoon.
—The sale of seats for the Kellogg concerts at
Concert Hall on the 25th and 2tith inst. will be
gin at Trampler's on Saturday morning next.
The house will certainly be crowded upon both
_Occasions. Miss Kellogg herself would suffice
for this, but the presence of Miss Ailde Topp,
the pianist, of whose wonderful powers we
have heard so much, will prove an additional
attraction.
—Tbe concert of the Young M.ennerchor, fit
Musical Fund Hall to-morrow evening, will, no
doubt, be a very fine affair, and the high reputa
tion of the society will be fully maintained. Two
favorite overtures will be performed by a power
ful orchestra, and several new choruses. will be
sung by members of the Society. The entertain
ment will be under the direction of Mr. William
Hartman, formerly'of the German Onera Com
pany, now.the.Musical Director of-the Y. al.
—The new Cathedral organ, built by Mr. John
C. B. Standbridgo.,wlll .be* opened to-night, and
Messrs. Cross, Thunder, Clarke, Newland and
Wood will perform ripon it. The music will con
sist of selections from Mereadante, Meserbeer,
Handel, Rossini; Both; Kreutzer, Mozart and.
Zenner.'.
—There will be a variety performacce at the
Theatre Condone, Seventhstreet, below, Arch,
this evening. The managers have began a series
of improvements which promises to make this a
very excellcnt estsblislintent of Its class,
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PRICE THREE OEN VS.
FACTS AND EANCatilSr
—Liszt Is to pass the winter in V:Zimar.
—Reverdy Johnson is now called , . the-wgreat,
champion American dinner-ont."
—Gutta percha houses are suggested for earth
quake countries.
--Prussia is to fortify' her chief railway sta—
tions.
-J. S. Clarke will return to thla country In the
early opring. • -
—Mrs. Yelverton Is comLgnorth to read in the
holidays. • ' - •
—A skating club proposes a ckamplon medal.
to John Allen for backsliding. i
—Beneath one's notiee--Advertisoments on tlie
pavement.—punch.
—Charles Dickens, Jr., Lae on of the novelist"
'is to contribute to the Gentleman's Magazine.
—The ex-Queen of Spain's "plunder" bears
"Isabella Regan" on the trunks containing it.
She is not as much "Rena" now as she was.
—Lamoreatis, a "Black Crook" dansense,look'
opium and died .in New Orleans. Professional
disappointment led to this her last "step."
—Brigham Young is issuing currency in ;
Utah, generally resembling the national 'green
backs.
—A budding youth says that. cars, omnibuses,
and steamboats enjoy a perpetual spring, for they
:cave every day, and sometimesftener.
--Mrs. Mary Booth Goodrich, widdw of "Peter
Parley," died In Woodbury, Conn., last week,
aged sixty-two.
—An exchange says the - raid OA Cuba is nothing
to the Thanksgiving raid about to be made on.
turkey.
--Five`ekildren, two boys and three girls, carry
on their deceased father's newspaper in Liberty,
BUM" and ode of the girls is editor-in-chief.
—Balt Lake City has only two barrooms. The
saints prefer spirit wives to spirits in other
shapes.
--Miramon's wife, who lives in Brussels, is ts
tall, slender, black-eyed lady of thirty, who takes
all she can get from European courts, and then
charges them with being stingy.
—A train weighing 1,000,000 pounds recently
crossed the new railroad bridge over the Misaiii
alppi at Quincy, with eersce,ly a perceptible
tremor.
—A Chinese idol was discovered in a chest of
tea which was opened by a Woodstock (Canada)
grocer, the other day. It was a young idol, and.
it was a tea+thing.
—Mrs. Tucker, of Georgia, who has written a
life of Brick Pomeroy, makes this singular state
ment: "His ears are large,and indicate the Demo•
cratic element of character."
&—An Iriehman recently solllognIzed: "What
'waste o' money to be buying mans when you
know the half of it le bone; while yon cans ia
it f• ".'rum that ham% a bone in IL"' '
—Ono of • Sylvanus Cobb's mysterious taverns
has been found,in Illinois, with eight skeletons
under the cellar-floor, and bloody corpses in the
barn.
—George Eliot sneaks, In one of her novels, of"
at highly respectable type of the zipper -class
flush society "who get their science •dons for t
.em by Faraday and their religion by the dizni- ,
fled clergy." •
—La Presse - Musicale announces that Mile. -
Nilsson has concluded an engagement for a four
months' tour in the United Kingdom after the
next opera season. She is to receiveloo,oooir. as
remuneration. • •
—The Paris police recently confiscated the
whole stock of the engravings of the new opera
house at a picture store, because the artist had
left out the letters N. E. (Napoleon—Eugenie),
which are so profusely scattered all over the front
of the building.
—This is the way a Colored gentleman In New
York State announces his Intended marriage,
combining business with pleasure: "Ncyricg
Cezar Carter will be married at Miller's hall, Nov.
25, 186 8 , at 7 o'c P. M. Admittance to the hall,
50 eta. A good time expected. Come one, come
ail. SEAZAR CARTER:" '
Senator Pomeroy, in his bare-headed walk
through the streets of Leavenworth, was amain- ,
panted by a large transparency on wheels, with
the words. "No danger of catching cold: Senator
Pomeroy Is using Brown's Tar Troches." "Use
Brown's Family Medicines." "Blackberry and.
Ginger Liver Pills."
—Many of the - churches in England are restor
ing the orchestra to the musical - portion of the
service. The Bishop of London having lately
heard a country band perform the service to
church, expressed his great pleasure thereat„
and it is hinted that the Queen wishes to have the
same feature introduced Into her chapel.
—The Galveston News gables the statement of
a New York journal that "a town in Texas ac
tually uses gold and silver currency," and adds
the following: •• What will it say when it learns
there is not a town In Texas, except Galveston,
which uses anything else? Hard dollars—actual
ly mint drops—are very nearly all the fashion in,
this State."
—General Deligny has informed the Connell
General of Oran that the mortality among the
Arabs in Algeria from famine may be estimate&
at one-fifth of the native population. The popu—
lation is equivalent to 500,000 souls, as was calm-.
lated by General Laeretelle in his recent account
of the situation. Tunis is also said to have lost ine
a year half a million of her inhabitants from the,
same cause.
—Cardinal Bonaparte has made a present to
tho Dominican Fatiteffof the Rue de Latran, Pa—
rte, for their chapel, of a stained glass window,
representing the donation of the convent to the
Most Holy Virgin by St. DOminick, St. James,
St. John, Ste. Catherine, and Ste. Magdalena.
At tho foot are the arms of the illustrious donor
aloe side of those of Cardinal de Dormant
foam er of the chapel. '
—At the Court of Criminal Correction, at St.
Louis, lately, a learned lawyer, dissatisfied at his
success with an Irish witness, complained to the
court. The Hibernian said: "I'm no lawyer, yer
honor, and he wants to puzzle me." • Counsel—
" Come, now, do you swear you are no lawyer?"
Witness--" Faith, and I do, an' you might swear
the same about yourself, without danger of pet , .
jury."
—The Jews of Warsaw have built a theatre at
their own expense. The company is composed
of thirty-six actors and the orchestra of twenty
musicians. As a Jewish law forbids the appear
ance of females upon the stage the roles of the,
enchanting sex will be filled by young boys.
These plays, written in Hebrew, will be taken
from the new testament, coneequently the trage
dies, dramas, comedies, , will be exclusively
composed of Biblical subjects.
'llao ex-rebel genera), H. F. Reed, was not GUl
man who planted the United States flag on the
heights of Chepultepec. Lieut. Mayne Reid, the
novelist (now captaki), who was at the head of ix
company of Now York TO unteers and one- of
marines, led the final charge in the assault on the
fortress, was severely wounded, and fell into the
ditch, when Dent Dardonville "planted" the
fiag, 4.t C. This appears to be the ' , truth of the
matter, according to Gen. Seott's despatch.
—An English paper notes the fact that Mr.
Mark Lemon's prevent performance of radatikria
not his first appearance in the character. Twenty
years ago, at a performance at the, Haymarket
Theatre, in "aid of the fund for r , the endowment
of a perpetual curatorship of . Shakespeare's
house," be appeared in the character of
the fat knight in "The MerryWivefs 'of
Windsor." This comedy was performed on.
the 14th of May, 1848, and the cast' con
tains so many famous names that,• as - a fatitter
of curiosity, it is worth reproducing. It
was as follows: "Sir John Falstaff," Mr.. Mark.
Lemon; "Fenton," Mr. Charles Romer; "Shallow,"
Mr. Charles Dickens; , "Slender," Mr. John Leech;
"Master Ford," Mr. John Forster; "Master Page,"
Mr. Frank Stone; "Sir Hugh Evans," Mr. G. H.
Lewis; "Dr. Calm," Mr. Dudley Costello; "Host.
of the Garter," Mr. Fred Dickens; "Baniolph.".
Mr.. Cole: : "Pistol," Kr: George Crulkshanlx;,
"Nym" Mr. 'A, 'Dickens; "RObill," Mies Robinrs;
'`Simple," Mr.. Augustus Egg; "Rugby," Mrg.
Eaten; "Mistress. Ford," Miss Fortesene; "Mig.
tress Page,"lilletf Kenworthy; "Anne Page,'' Mies
Anne Romer, and "Mistress Quickly,"Mrs. ge.w.
den, Clarke. A great "east.",