GIBSON PEACOCK. EditoT. VOLIJME XXII.-NO. 208. INSURE AGAINST ACCIDENT IN TEM TRAVELERS' INSURANCE CO., OF AWAirtilan, cortor. A nim i:ou l over - $4000,000 Peewee (toeing the city eepoeiOn will feel bettor astir tied by being insured. WILLUIII W. ALLEN. Agent an d Attorney. FOBRta BUILDING. 111 South FourthStreet.Phladetphia. ve29ta the tf , - INCA . 11. ' ATION 5 e• . Yeti; ties, &c. New style's. MASON dt nn2stt4 907 Chestnut street. "WEDDING INVITdTIONEI ENGR&VED IN THE vr Newest end bent tnanner.. LOUNS DREICA. Sta. Items and Eh:waver. 1t33 Chestnut erect. tab 20,11 MARRIED. Al.);38f8-8TREET.-4Cle the Sth inst.. by tlis Rev. J. D. Withrow, Edwin, M. Adams to Emmte Y., daughter of John htreet. Eeq ., of this city. No cards. • DUNWOOtiIt—PATI'EN.--On the Bth Instant, by the Rev. J. B. Kennard, William ti, Dunwoody to Kato L.. da_ughttr of Jobe W. Patteo. Esq. both of tbla city. W ALTS—Y AttNALL.—Ort the Sd last . at the reeldettoe of the brlde's.parents. by Rev, J. W. Yoder. Mr. Charles' C. Wafts. of Norristown. to, Mfrs Annie J. Yaruall.of Plurolxvilla. cardo. DIED. (IRA VES.—On the 6th Inst.. Elizabeth Frances, infant daughter of We az U. and Elizabeth ft. Graves. aged five mootba and nine days. • KUNG.—On the 6th last., at Laporte. Sullivan county. , Ps.: in Ihe3arbyear of his age. tthsules Murray-Khrg, a member of Milton Lodge. No. 23d. Pa.. A. Y. M.. eldest son of the late Robert P. King She I's Wives and . Mends of the Dimity. also Franklin Ledo, N 0.134 A. Y. 21..a0d his Masonic brethren ingest , ral, aro invited to attend his funeral, from bits mother*. reeldence4 No. 912 Spruce street, en Saturday afternoon. 12,th hut . at I o'clock, MOSS.—On the evenlisg of the 9111 inst., Mrs. e Mom relict of (be late Jacob Moss, Esti , in the 76th year 'ofOege. The male relatives and friends of the family are re. spectfully invited to attend the fnneral, from her late residence. 1016 Olive street. at 10 o'clock tomorrow (Fri day) morning. tiNDF.HihrIVK.--tin the eveningof December Bth. Elizabeth, widow of the late Right Reverend Maury U. nderdonlc,D.D., tbe 81st year of her age. Me relative* and blend* of the family are respectfollY invited to ate isti the Amend. from her late residence. Ne. 1214 Fine street. on Friday. the 11th inst. at 10 o'clock A. M. without further notice. The funeral services will he held et the Church of $t James the Less. hlAbO %it; NOME—THE MEMBERS OF Franklin Lodge. No. KA 1. Y. X. are 'equated to most at the Masonic Temple: Cheateut attest, on - Be't'- U. DAY. she 12th inst. at 1 o'clock. F. Si.. for the peroo o of attending the funeral of Brother 4.31A8.11d. TONG. of Milton Lodge. Pa.os eldest son of oar ,comer Past Master, the late Robert P. King. The Brethren *1 the fraternity are respeWoll7 invited to_per. titivate. .101.124 11A1lTnall. • • THE FRENCH ALPACAS."—BESSON 1k 80N here juAttrceetred now Aunt enpetior nuke of Mack Alpena". et Tfo.. 6730. and 81 ayard. These goods aro known is the Ronan inarkPt sa -rue French AiPacs." snd hove-girt-a entlreanthfaction, "- GNAW :A/ t1itt.11 , ..(1 STORE, 618 CHESTNUT ST.4I BLACK. ALL-WCOL OTTOMAN POPLINS. ALL-WOOL OTTOMAN POPLINS. SI WA. . ALL-WOOl, OTTOMAN POPLINS. $Bl, ALL-WOOL OTTOMAN POPLINS. 81 sa. ALL-WOOL PoPLIAS. 7b cent. to a 00. MESSON & BON. Motanlas Store, No. 918 Cheltaut street DOD BLACK AND COLORED SILKS. G STOUT AN BLK. CORDED BATIN EWE. FACE 080 GRAM PURPLE D OU..fr BROWNS &ND BLUE Quo mum MODE txna) Kai et 1110410. _ antlet EYRis & LANDELL. Fourth and Areb. SPECIAL NOTICES* Mir JOHN B. GOUGH Will deliver bis now Lecture. "CIRCUMSTANCES," At she Academy of Miele, MONDAY EVENING. Dec. 14 . Admission to all prof the batman:MY CENTS. NO EXTRA GRANGE FOE gict3E,RVED SEATO. Tickets for sale at Gould's. ErD-Ohestent street, and at the doer on Monday cream delo4trpi 'OTHE FAIR NOW ttEINO 1310.131MT011f. r Opting Garden institute. Broad asul Sodas Garden. for the benefit of 6t. Matthew's 1. E. Sonday School building, will remain open THIS and TO.MURNOW EVENINO. IN • HALL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN Add 1 CIATION. IMO CHESTNUT STREET. Bible Study thhq Evening at 8 o'clock. to be conducted by CHAR. LEX. Egg. Subject—"Chrirra Miracles in Rafting from the deed Lanarue. Jaime's daughter. and the bOll of the Widow of Union Prayer Meeting every Saturday evening. Young Men eapecially invited. It 4 war REPUBLICAN INVIACLBLES. A Meeting of the Club will be held at the National Union dub nOlll6. No. 1105 Ctestnut street, ON FRIDAY EVEN ck. ING, DEC. U. At 8 o'clo Enslave of importance- W 1 1 3.1 AM MoidIVRARL President. dolo-2t4 W. L. Fox. Secretary. AT AN ANNEAL MEETING OF THE CON 116 rtributors of the fdoyamens ng Soup Society, held at the Bons% Northwest comer of Eighth and Marriott sta. October 15. IE6I, the annual report trim read as follows: "The Sod, y comm-nced dhhibtittng soup, bread. &u, to the destitute poor on the 6th day of January. and cum d its operations on the Slat of March 1868, supply lug 500 adults and 8 , 50 children with eon% dic. 'nom were distributed 6,0u0 pounds of corn nuia1.5.398 pounds of bread, 5 000 pounds of beef. besides the nece.sary quantity of yes , tables required to , making the coop." The folios., lug gentlemen were el , cted to serve as Matta. gore and Officers for the ensuing _year: Robert Graffiti, Pros dent. 537 Pine street. Hugh Sttvenson. Vice President 13.10 Lombardstrect. John Pierce.' re Azure e, 947 South Sixth street. it. M Graffiti, Secretary, 537 Pine street. F. E. liftmen, 608 South NI sth street. R. li. Stewart, Southeast corner Eighth and Chestnut. James M. Cooper. 830 South Ninth street. Bei). Bickerton, 6311 Catharine street, Hugh Met.onbell 766 South Ninth street. - J. 1. Wilson. 518 South Ninth etreeL Alex. Sloan. 536 iternee street`. Collins West. 302 South Seem:444mA. Augustus J. Baton. was appointed to solicit contribu tions in aid 01 the Institution for the ensuing year. Subscriptions or donations in money Or provisions. sent 10 any of the above, will be thankfully received. delft 90 AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE Soy CH IOrAMEHICAN GOLD AND BiLVAR MINING COM. I'ANY, OF NEVADA. held on Nonday.Decembar Meet. Cm foaming named Board of Directors was duly elected: John - C. Cresson. Samuel B. Perkins. Clement N. Has. bands. Robert Patterson John Barnard._ William J. Jr.Philips. James Morrell. Joseph G. Mitchell, Pater Farnum. And at a meeting of the Directors. hold the game day. the organization of the Company, under its charter and by taws, was otterted b• fleeting JOEIN C. CRESSON. President; BAMUE6 cERKINS, Treasurer. and 'WILLIAM J. PIIILIFB.Secretae. dere 31' W. J. PHILIPS. Secretary. Ittir CITY NATIONAL DANK.. . PLII LADE - L.IIIIA. Dec. 9th, lika The annual election for.Di• ectore will be held at the DeWitt g Donee, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th day of Janu ary, 1969. between the home of 10 o'cloca A M. and o'clock I'. M. O. ALDEIiT „ dole w&el Cashier. oar WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19th, at HORTICULTURAL HALIk (BROALP, BELOW LOCUST). A GRAND METHODIST FAIR. IN:AID OF THE MIME M. WAG IL ED AND INFIRM OF THE .E. CHUM: A grand display of useful and fancy articles,giving a good opportunity to choose from' the almost endless vs. eery on exhibition of things suitable for Holiday Gifts, And to aid a good work. _ Como, and bring on yoar friends with von. Sines tickets, Weenie.; • A splendid Gaiter, of Paintings. beautifoi Fountain. fine Music, capital Refreshments. Como an and aid the good mime. UNION LEAGUE. HOUSE, BROAD STREET. • • - PintAnztrina, Dos, 7, ISM. The annual meeting of the' Union League of Ballade'. -tibia will be held at the Lea gue House on 610NDAY EVENING. Deo_ 14th. at 7 o 'clock, at which mooting there will be an election for Orligers an Directors ror the ericohis sear. • - OEU. H. BORER. d07.7t Tri ' Secretary. IMFPENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. % reasurees Dsuat tmenf, 238 South Third street PUILADELMA, Penna.. Dec. a,1388. NOTICE TO S VOCKHOWER3. Tho Second Instalment' en the new Stock subscribed for under resolution of the Board of Directors of May, 1868, is now duo. Unless paid on or before the 15th idetaut the instalment will not draw its proportion of Dividend duo May, 1868. and those paying up all the remaining Instalments will receive full Dividends on May next. • THOS. T. FIRTH. Treas.trer. stir IMPORTANT NOTICE.. I Mreby eve notice that I am no longer connected with the Colton Dental Association of this city as their opera-. tor. Parsons wishing teeth extracted absolutely without f i ts o inda nitrous oxide will find me in my now oilice. ne23l6trp DP.. P. R. TLIONIAS. oar. PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPIEDR) HOSPITAL. ow No. 16 south Ninth street—Club AO Hip and HP4aai Means. and Bodily Defortnitiol treated Apply daily at 19 o , clook. no9Bm,rol UOWARD HOSPITAL. NOS. 1518 AND 1529 Vombard street, Dlapcneary Dopartateut.-7 , 401- eel treatnieut and medicine famished 'gralultonals , _to She poor. • . ..-.., ._ ... .. . ..._.. :,_............._..„ .... . • . • . . . . . . . .. _ ..•• • _ . . _ . ._ _ _ . _, ......:. . .. : ..:......„ ... ... . .. .. , . . „ . . . .... . . ... _ . .. . . ... . _ . . . ... . . , . .. ... . ... , _ . . ... , ._. . _ . . •.. . . .., . , .. ... .. .•... . . . . . • .:. . 4*..'.-'.•'•.'. ....:-:•.. ' '...' ~.., . . 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Parquet. circle glut balcony. *2: faintly circle, be conts ; upper tier.% coats: stsaiding tickets. di. . . it, GOPSILL'a PitifokOELPHiA DIRECTORY for Itse9.—The subscriber takes this melded of to. forming the ichabitente of Philadelphia that he is about closing the above work for the pidnient, and carnestlY re • quests all persons whose names have net been taken by the canvassers, or those who have made changes In their firms, placea of badness or residence. to notify him at the Directory Oillre. fel south Fifth sueet,coruer Walnut. dclSktrp6 ItIAAO cosra. com liar. LIETTEIt, EtiOttiIIVASIIIZIrgrON• The President's Spiteful [Message. and -how It -was acceived -in Congress- Proposed Investigation to ascertain how Brick Pomeroy became* Pos sessed of an Advanced Copy-The Pa chic flatiroads-Bore Government Aid Solleited—Who will Probably , be Nominated to Succeed Commissioner Pollins--Mloveineuts of Local,Poilti. eisuis t Corresmadeuee of the Phflodeleble. Evades Bullette.) Wasumarox. Dec. 9, 1868 —A most extincor dirittry scene occurred in this Senate to-day when that body, after-ten minutes impatient silence,- refused to listen to the farther reading of the President's message, on account of itif hectoring, dictatorial tone. Senator Commas, of California, was the flret to express his indignation at the discourteous tone of the message, in which be was supported by several Republican Senators. Others, however.lhought it beat to hear all the message read,but,upon Senator Cameron's insist ing that it was the duty of the President to com municate information, not to lecture Congress an adjournment was carried. The Senators re mained some time in the chamber, conversing in groups upon the indecent language et this ex traordinary document, and considerable indigna tion was expressed at the insulting attitude as sumed by the President. It soon became known that the message was printed in foil this morning in Brick Pomeroy's New Pork Democrat, long before the President sent it officially to Cithigiesii, and a desire wits expressed by several Senators to investigate the manner In which this scandalous transaction was con summated—whether with the sanction and ap proval of the President or not: and the probabil ity is-that &searching Investigation will belosti- - tuted concerning the whole affair. The Prcal dentra friends assert that copies - of - the‘ message were given to an agent of Brick Pomeroy last night,with instructions that it should not be pub-- listed till laid before Congress, and that this pledge was violated. Others assert that the mes sage was sent to "Brick" by the President, with out any restrictions, and that "Brick" made the most of it by publishing. It in advance. • In the House the reading Of .the. message was listened to with respectful attention for some time and the members followed the Clerk in reading it, from printed copies laid on thelidesks. At the close o-4Pre reading the feelogs of 9,e Re pain:fans found ventrand-sm--Broomall,4oXenn sylvanla. and Gen. Schenck, of Ohio, denounced its repudiation doctrine, as the moat shameless -and infamous proposition , that ever emanated from any high official of the Government. E. B. Washburn, of Illinois, was also outspoken in denunciation of the financial measures advocated in tbe message. From the fePlings expressed, it Is probable that en investigation will be made into the manner In which Brick Pomeroy -obtained his copy of the ,nreclons do cument. Nothing could be done today, as neither House had any positive evidence to base a resolutiorreringuiry npon, as the reports of its publication in New York were only hear -say, and by to-morrow, copies of "Brick's" pa _per will be here, when further action will be taken: Boum of the members.., to-day, talked strongly of impeachment, but the more dbiereet thought it welfes to resort to atif. gie moue no w,as Johnson's term is so nearly ended, and they counselled that the best course to pursue was to "let him alone severely," and it seems likely that line of policy will be pursued, but this will not save the offender from many hearty anathemas upon his treac,herons and defiant conduct. THE trortor PACIFIC BAILROAD The payment to the Union Pacific Railroad Company of ,the bonds withheld upon the reeom mendation of Secretary Browning, gives very general satisfaction here, as it proves that the charges against this great national work were utterly without foundation. The convincing ex planation of the affairs oft the road made by Vice Prealdtnt Durant to President Johnson, which sets forth so clearly the condition and prospects of the Company, has fully restored the confi dence which had been hitherto placed in the abil ity, lions sty and wonderful energy exhibited by the managing oflicers,and has effectually silenced the grumblers. THE PACIFIC RAILROADHANSAS BRANCH. Col. Thomas-A. Scott, and a party of friends, came down to-day to - urge upon Congress the pro priety, and, indeed, the necessity of extending government aid to the Kansas branch of the Pact tic road, of which be is the great managing genius. It is said he has letters from Gen. Sher man, cordially endorsing the application for aid, and stating that it would save money teethe gov einment if it were to build the road only for its own use, which would pay for itself in the saving to the cost of transportation of army supplies. Besides all these advantages, General Sherman regards the construc tion of these railroads as the quickest solution of oar Indian difficulties, for wherever the iron horse travels, that region soon becomes no longer the habitation of the red man. Gen eral Sheridan, too, ft is stated, strongly recom mends the construction of this road, and advises Congress-to extend to it all needful assistance. The feeling here is strong in favor of Government lending its aid to these magnificent enterprises, and, although in' the first inotance it loans the road its credit, the benefits to be derived from their construction will be returned more than tenfold in a few years. Congress seems disposed to look with favor upon these roads, and having established the precedent in, aiding the Union Pacific and Central Pacific, there is 'no good reason why it should not a c - ncitre the same liber ality towards others. • BSIONE : • • • It seems settled that' , mmissioner Rollins will insist upon making...... reslgantion absolute, alter a certain date, perhaps the last of this month. Considerable speculation is indulged in as to who will, beceominated to the Senate a a his successor. Thetas in - position to know the Presi dent's feelings upon the subject, think he will again nominate Collector Alexander Cummings, of 3ourFourth District, as his name was before the Senate, and under consideration, when the hour of adjournment arrived. PIIILADRLPIIIA NAVY YARD AFFAIRS . Judge Kelley, Chairman of _the. Naval Com mittee of the Rouse, is busily engaged upon his report relative to alleged corruption in the• pur chase of tools for the Department of Steam Engi neering at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the report, when comoleted, will probably cause considerable "stir" to the parties concerned. PERSONAL Wm. H. Kemble, Esq.,' Major Joseph Moore. Thomas ,J. Barger, Esq., and other prominent Philadelphians, are here, on private and public business.. lion. John Covodo will unquestionably get his seat in the Forty•first Congress, as he already has detected more fraudulent votes than are etif fident to overcome the majority claimed for his opponent. Eton. Leonard Myers is also Industriously en gaged in investigating the outrageous frauds per petrated in his district, particularly in the Seven teenth Ward, and there is no doubt entertained of his ability to prove that he was fairly elected by a email majority. Although he is here, the work is 'actively going on in Philadelphia. Neither Mr. Myers nor Ur. Covode dealt.° to be admitted to seats because of the' sympathy or partiality of their friends, bat-Ahoy fire! a pride in establishing their claims upon the principles of fairness and justice which will be admitted even by their political opponents. - Before many days, from -vomit appearances, PHTLATALPHIA„ THURSDAY. DEOFIVIBER 10, 1868. , the name of dames N. Marks wM be oat to the Senate as Collector of the Port, vice Cake, to be remoireAL' BUSQUaLIAIINA., EUROPEAN AFFAIRS SPAIN. -rho --Insurrection - In - Moneld—lturrt- - enttee thrown up in the estreets—For. deign Consuls take Attettuge In the Cus tom House. MADRID, Dec. 9 1868.—News from Cadiz np to a late hour last night has reached hero. The in surgents in that city still occupied the Hotel de Ville and thdeurronndieg honees,and had erected barricades. The government, troops occupied .the Custom House and buildings in the neighbor hood up to the city gate. All•the•foreign consuls have taken refuge in the Custom House.... The Civil Governor of. Cadiz Sled to - SitiFernittido; • The insurgents haie - foreed into their ranks all sble-bodled men. The prison convicts and the former rnralgnard have joined, the insurgents. Telegrams from San Fernando say the move-. ment is reactiouary, carried on in the name and with the elements of republicanism. The insur gents seem to be well supplied with money. • k. The civil Governor of fiaragmuta, telegraphs that the Republicans there intended to attempt to release and arm the convicts; but precautions were taken which prevented, the plot from being carried out. A tCrierlske ter Sprain-ffseadtitite - And Operations. The new Spanish government has much trouble with Don Areable..ffscalante, the young lieuten ant-colonel of the Spanish army, who was lib erated on the 29th of September from the prison into which he had , been thrown by Marshal Con cha twenty-four hours before. He was promoted on the spot by his deliverers to the rank of a gtneral, ana at their head took possession of the Palacio de la Gobernacion at the Pnerto del. Sol; thence issuing orders by which the Royal Arsenal was rifled of about 50,000 stand of arms,and a citi zen forte bearing the name of Voluntaries de ia Libert ad, was let loose upon the terrified cap- ItaL It is said that when Prim, on landing at . Barcelona, heard the news of the formation of this wild militia, ho was unable to control his vexation, and exclaimed that Escalante had put back the realization of his scheme for than a month. Mr. Russell writes to the London Times from Madrid : "This Escalante is a character. He is not more than thirty years of age; a small man, of a very gentle outward appearance; he talks calmly and - quietly, has a courteous, affable, cordial address; - never indulges in a bragging, boisterous, mena cing tone. He Is the Tribune par excellence, a haunter of cards and other popular resorts. He knows the chords of the popular heart on which be can best play; he breathes into his hearers' hearts a courage which he is said not to have; a resolution of which, those who pretend to know him best deem him incapable. He drinks deep, I am told; `.ll ne &smile jamais,' Is the charge of his enemies.-- He lives on rum, they add, eats little, and sleeps almost not at au. Very late in the night, at two or three after mid night, he drops in at the Casino del Principe,the whist club In the Carrera Geronimo. There ac --easionally his long pent-Up feelings gush forth; a crowd of old fogies, drowsily standing up from their last rubber, shuffle up to him. That club is a resort of a variety of.persons, half-pay offi cers, political quidnunc), predentientes end casea tes, ins and outs without number, nobles, Men of the middling classes, bankers, second-rate diplo matists, Journalists, with a sprinkling of for eig-ners,and a variety of other nondescript idlers. "There, in the midst of a circle of persona known or unknown to him, upon little or no provocation, out of his fall heart, the great agi tator holds forth, The words fall glibly from his mouth—the biggest words in the smoothest and blandest tone. He talks of flinging a man out of a window as he would of tossing off a thimbleful of his favorite pim. Some of' the listeners take his words to the letter and shake in their shoes. others laugh in their sleeves. They look upon all his threats as mere vaporing, and protest that Escalante is a 'much better boy than he paints binaseLf.' Some of the most 111-natured aver that be could and ought -to be bribed into better be havior, and these censure the government which has not yet found out 'his price." "There seems to be no doubt that Esealante has hitherto shown less obstinacy than was laid to his change. No doubt that at one time and for more •ban a week he was the master of the situation bete, and that he has yielded up hls positions one ty one without a struggle, though not, perhaps, with the beat grace. Ido not think he ever had, or ever can have, settled plan in his mind. He is by nature a frondeur, a fault-finder. The day will never come, perhaps, in which things may proceed to his own satisfaction; but neither will, the day ever come in which he seriously attempts to mend them, or even suggests the principle on which they should be mended by , others." . SYOILY. Eruption of Mlount Evian—Devastation of atm Surrounding Country. VALETTA, Dec. 9, 1868.—Despatches from Sicily report a fresh eruption of Mount Etna on Tues day, night. The volcano broke out with increased violence, ejecting flame and lava until live o'clock .his morning. The torrents of lava devastated the surrounding country. The ashes from the crater fell on the town of Acl Reale and were even blown into the streets of Messina. At last accounts the mountain was enveloped in smoke and labored with deafening detonations. Great crowds have gathered on the northern otbialta to-witness the magnificent spec tacle, widet, though 120 miles distant, is die tlnctly Affairs in Greece. The following is an extract from a private let ter, dated Athens, Nov. 9: "When it became known hero by telegraph that General Grant was elected. President of the United States, the people manifested much setts :action. The career of the General is well known through the Athenian journals, and he is re garded as a very b:.‘ive, just and kindly man,and, therefore, naturally associated, by the Greeks, with the grateful memories they , cherish of the beneficence of the Americans in aiding the Cretan refugees. Accordingly, with the ardor of their race,,they consider his election as a guaranty (.5 the continued sympathy of the American people with the struggling Christians of the East. The benefactions of twb years ago are well-nigh exhaneted. Now is the time for our benevolent countrymen and countrywomen to come once more to the rescue, not only for great practical good in the way of relieving physical want, but for incalculable moral influence. However the great Rowers may from selfish policy, hold aloof from interference in the eastern question, their representatives respect the benevolent efforts of our people, and indeed have to some extent con tributed to the relief of the Cretan sufferers. The election of Grant was made by.them the occasion of a cengratulatory vleit to the American Min ister." CUBA. Progresi of the Instarrection—lievoin tionaltr Wlews and llopes—Prospeets of a itepubile—a Provisional Govern• snout Organized—Fruits of the Up. 'rising. HAVANA, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1868.—Owing to the magnitude of the recent operations at Cobre, and in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba, the most intense desire prevails in Havanato become pots seesed of• the details of the various momentous events occurring in the Eastern Department of Cuba. Everybody,la on the qui ewe, and the evening editions of the daily press are looked for with an eagerness and anxiety nearly approach ing that dleplayed in the early stages of the late Spanish revolution. Without lingering upon the officiahitatementa in regard to• the insurrection, I will proceed at once to lay before you the views of the insurrec tionists. According to their own declarations, the assertions of the Diario and the Press.% in re gard to the hopelessness of their cause, are abso lately • false. • They .claim that they have organised a Provis ional Government,:with Aquilerera as President and Ceapedea aa Oldaf 'Exmouth') 91:11cor; that OUR WHOLE, COUNTRY. they are possessed of ample fonds for the vigcw oils prosecution of the war of independence, and that they have transmitted over $600,000 to New York for the purchase of arms and munitions of war. They also contradict the reports, furnished by the government, of the action of Cobre, and assert tbat the losses sustained by the Spanish forces amount to over 250 killed and wounded. __They . 'finally, declare that- organizations. throughout -the length and breadth of the island. are ready to rash to arms on the receipt of the first favorable news from the East ern Department. They admit, however, that a great want of arms and war material is seriously felt, but flatter themselves that , this want will be speedily supplied, as they have established a de, pot at Nassau. Their actual force in campaign time is estimated at between 12,000' and 13,000 men, and this force would be increased to 20,000 on the news of the first , victory achieved by, them'. So here 'you haver a - slew - of ther actual state of affairs, pro and con, and can draw year own conclusions as to the chances of success pos sessed by the revolutionists. The situation'of affairs in the Eastern Depart latent is pitiable in the extreme, and presents a picture of the most frightful misery. Through out the whole Department the pangs of hunger are being experienced by all the inhabitants, who, to relieve themselves from utter starvation, are flocking to the different military posts, after hav ing exhausted all their means of subsistence In Cuba the military commandant has ordered a daily distribution of soap. to bake .p.kacp, and hundreds of people are in - this way Bayed from actual starvation.. The revolu tionary bands have swept over the insurrection ary districts as if with a besom of destruction; the cattle. have been sacrificed to supply their wants, as also the corn and vegetable produc tions, and from being a producing they have be come a consuming population. The able-bodied young men are either in the ranks of the revoin tionary army or are refugees in the different military posts held by the Government forces. Such are the results of the insurrection, which, up to the present writing, is certainly not at an end.—N. Y. Times. The correspondent of the New York World • writes: The people of Cuba are to have no "conces sions" as per response to General Lersundi. His course, approved and ordered to continue in the style absolute. Threats! I think not with the approval of the Captain-General. The Bourbon institution of the "Gasote nil," to be called into requisition in this bland to check the impudence of human beings in daring to think or breathe words of freedom . The institution of slagery to be the chain to curb the white man— native-born—to break his spirit, and for the benefit of a few. Spanish dealers, whose vast wealth, derived from the slave trade. they.. lavish in providing volunteers for the absolute authority now reigning in Cuba r protectixi by the Govern ment of the United States. This is true! Look' to it—you who claim freedom for yourselves— you who have recognized it for the people of Spain. See that "young Cuba" Is not sacrificed for utterange and defence of - their aspirations for a pure liberty, free of venality and licentious- Less. 'See the offers of Julian — Zulneta, Marquis Du Quesne, and some hundreds of others, who draw from their illicit gains, which they fear to lose, to supply the funds necessary to sustain army corps in the field, to crush the efforts made for freedom. The government journal says that there are "40,000" of thew enemies of freedoni in - the field—ene mies, according to the definition as drawn by the words and action of the free people of Spain, who are unfaithfully represented by a national council of nobles at Madrid. The Cubans have no arms—fight With knives or hatchets—and they must be conquered—per haps. The Spaniards say they "make no pris oners," and so far it seems their intention to de stroy. when there is really.. no necessity for R— after the batik has been won. Is this the civilized warfare which the United States stands pledged to protect these exceptional authorities in? God and freedom forbid! The civilized world will point at the national honor-escutcheon of Spain with scorn and contempt. and the "Great Republic" with all her military and naval power will be unable to clean it in the estimation of the other powers of the earth. After the battle, if prisoners axe made, it is scud, that in cold blood, by sentence of a military tribunal "e%aseription," they are to be sent as messengers to Heaven, by "Garote tit" and the Jacob's-ladder screw-negro. They will answer for every drop of blood which is shed without the stern neces sities of civil government may jnstify it. v 4:4 i41:1 14 .V.X$lO t 4 vazif l eg r[litj The St. Louis Democrat of the Bth says: A fatal accident occurred yesterday in the ex tensive pork-house of Francis Whittaker & Bons, fronting on Carr street, and occupying the square from Sixth to Seventh streets. As in all establishments of a similar character, the pork-house has a large elevator, which , rune from the cellar to the topmost ory, making tout stories from cellar to roof. Almost under the roof stands the big iron reel from which the wire rope unwinds when the tlevator descends, and around which it winds when it ascends. The elevator was worked-and regulated in its downward and upward move ments by means of a lever, and cogs were placed at short interval in the sides of the groved up rights—a piece of iron on two sides of the plat form tilting into these grooves and running in a sort of track—with the view of catching the ele vator if the machinery above gave way, and pre venting any accident of a character similar to ,hat which occurred. Adam Hamilton, a man of more than ordinary intelligence, had special charge of the operations of the elevator, and bad worked it last winter. William Whipping, the man killed, was engaged in 'wheeling trucks on the platform loaded with offal, or 'refuse stuff. Two trucks were placed on it, and Whipping got on with Hamilton. The latter pulled the lever which caused the wheel to start, the rope to.pay out and the platform to de scend. It bad started and got about a foot, when all gavo way „above, and the platform fell with a terrible crash clear down to the cellar floor. Hamilton,accordirg to his testimony, stooped, or "squatted," a little. On striking the floor he was on one foot, the ankle or instep of which was sprained, and he received no other injury save a terrible jarring of his wholesystem. W hipping was standing np,but further than that Hamilton could not testify—the giving way of the machinery, the lightning-like rapidity of the descent, fairly took away his senses. - As the elevator struck the cellar floor,Whipping fell forward, and only madeArtsetion or two ore he was a corpse. His forehead was mashed in, and in the descent he must have struck the edge of one of the floors, killing him before the ma chine stopped. THE OHIO RIVER STEAMBOAT MS. - AS In addition to some important particulars upon our ins de page, we give the following: A correspondent of the Boston A drertiser do scribes the.heats and the manner of storing freight on them. He says: "These two steamers --the 'United States and the America—belonged to the Louisville Mall Company, who are said to have conducted their business for 35 years with great care, and, with the single exception of a boiler explosion on a tug boat belonging to them, have never before met with an accident by which the life of a paesenger has been lost; at least this is the stetertent to me of an old and prominent citizen, who is lot an interested party. It is stated, however, that the United States car ried, as part of her cargo. a quantity of petrele nm in barrels, which, were so stowed that in the collikion they were thrust upon the furnaces, and beim:e broken open at the same moment, there was instantaneous combnetion, and in thirty eeconds the boat was wrapped In flames. These boats are constructed with a shallow hull ,and with seareely.apy hold. ,The huge furusgea and boilers;are placed ; unconcealed, upon their lower deck, a lAA atom ttu water Hue. At ANOTHER .ACCOITNT. DISASTERS. Fall of an Rlevators Additional rilitlClllftrlß. about , and often elm to the furnaces, fed with Mumble= coal, is piled the freight, and the wonder to the traveler alwave is, not that so many are lost by.flre bat that any of these steamers made a safe voyage. Slit there is a crowd of firemen and deck hands always near and a river of water at arm's length, and so they trust to shill and luck to outride the danger. Oa the. United &Stets there was a deck crew-of 22,but. to instantaneous was the flash of combustion that all bur four were lost. Immediately over this lower deck is the grand saloon, on both sides of which are staterooms, side by side or end to end, nearly the *hole length of the boat. The United ' States_ had - two tiers of staterooms, one above the other, and it is easy to Imagine the fearful peril of her passenuers—an awlnl fire raging below, thrusting ita fiery tongues through every crevice and avenue to the saloan and staterooms above, and outside the river all aflame with burning - petrolcum -- The America, after striking the United States amidshipp, Sm mediately backed down the stream,but, the State 4 followed, and in this second encounter she wee tired fore and aft and , burned to the water's edge. By the dauntless courage and energy of her pilot she was' ran near the 'shore, and thus were her officers enabled to .ave roost of their own passengers and those who bad jumped onboard from the United States. The pilot barely escaped a fiery. death. Mr. Charles Nichols, a pilot belonging. to another boat, was ascending the river in the America as a passenger, and was in her pilot-house at this time of the _col lision. "" - lie says the Signal of the two boats were blown about the same time, and that the pilot of the America was deceived in the distance, and that this was the cause of the disaster. It is also said the United States was on the wrong aide of the stream." As to the cause of the collision there are many conflicting repbrts. The "Steering and Sailing Rules" adopted by Congress and approved April '29, 1864, provided that "If two shins under steam are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass to the port side of the other," and "every steamship when approaching another ship so as - to involve risk of f 01111510 D, shall slacken her speed, or, if necessary. stop and reverse.' The law also provides that Steam vase's, on meeting, -hail sound their whistles when 600 feet apart, lints indicating which • course each proposes to take.. It is generally agreed that the America blew her whistle twice, and that the States re plied with one blast of heed - , and that this was repeated, and one gentleman whose statement IA published says that the whistles were first sounded when the boats were two hundred feet from each other. Proposed Railroads in Chester COlingre The Republican suggests that if the West Ches ter Railroad Company would alter its route by opping off the further - end, run their line by way of the Steamboat. Station, making connection with the Chester Valley. Road, at or near the White Horse station, they would more than double their present business. They would reach • the Valley Road in two miles leas distance than they-are now running. The two miles of rail • bat would thus be saved, would realize them al most sufficient means to grade the new track. Besides this, we want a road from West Chester to Plicenixville, and if the point above indicated on the Valley Railroad was once reached, we do not think much difficulty would be encountered in securing sufficient- stock to warrant its exten sion. Our great Valley of Chester teems with iron ore that at present finds a Market at Phcenix eine and , Fottstown and which would necessarily pass over the road. Add to this the immense amount of coal that o would likewise find a market over it, and we have a grand total that could ncit :ail to make it a successful and profitable im provement. We may likewise safely calculate that a road from rhcenixviße along the French creek to the valuable iron ore 'mines in Warwick township will be built at no very distant day. All the inhabitants living in the Northern section of the county would then find their way to the county seat over these two roads.—Wert Chester Irillage li'ecord. DBAJILIITtu ARO MUSICAL. —Wolves at Bay will be repeated at the Arch Street Theatre this evening. —Mrs. D. P. Bowers will appear at the Walnut Street Theatre this evening as "Diana" in the tine old comedy Love's Masquerade, after which the drama The Writing of the Witt. —The circus at the Chestnut Street Theatre has been very successful thus far, and with excellent performances and a constant change of bill, it will probably continue to attract large audiences. This evening there will be a first-eltuss entertain meat. —The American Theatre announces a variec tntertainment for this evening. At the Theatre Coatique, Seventh street, clow Arch, there will be a miscellaneous per formance of the best character. A matinee will be given on Saturday afternoon, when the pie() of admission will be reduced to twenty tive cents. —Norma was produced at the Academy of Music last evening, with Madame De La Grange m the nits of "Norma." This evening Verdi's grand opera Ballo in Afaschera will be given, with a cast including Miss States, Miss McCul loch, Mdmle. Celini, Signor Boetti and Signor Orlandini. To-morrow night Lucrezia Borgia will be given, with Madame La Grange in the east. The performance will conclude with the last act of Frac Diavola. On Saturday afternoon 11 Trovatore will be given, and Der Freischutz on Saturday night will conclude the very successful engagement of the troupe, • • - - —The very attractive fair now in progress at Broad and Spring Garden streets, under the ens plcfs of St. Matthew's P. E. Churcb, has been so very successful that the managers have deter mined to continue it until Sa•urday. Persons who wish to supply themselves with' articles for the holiday season, to see a fine collection of pic tures, and an amusing collection of burlesque works of art, bad better visit tide hall. The lair is one of the prettiest, jolliest, completest and best that we have ever had in the city. —.The Kellog r ,tr Concert, at the Academy, on the 18th inst., is likely to be a very successful affair. In addition to the whole Kellogg troupe, the Amphion Band, under Mr. Sentz's leadership, has volunteered its service, and will add greatly to the attraction of the evening. General Grant, who has always taken a lively interest in the Lincoln Institution, has been invited to be pre sent, and Governor Geary and other distin guished officials are also expected. A very in teresting feature of the evening will be a drill on the stage by the boys of the Institution, whose appearance produced such a sensation at Mrs. Kerablo's reading, last June. The sale of tickets is progressing briskly at Trampler's, and there will undoubtedly bo a very brilliant and fashion able audience. —Mr. Kennedy, the famous Scotch vocalist, will give one of his charming entertainments at - Concert Hall, to-morrow evening. Tao pro gramme is excellent, embracing a collection of choice Scotch songs, and a humorous recita ton. Mr. Kennedy is unsurpassed in his peen - liar line, and he is very popular. The Death of elev. Hobert J. Pairvin. [For the Philadeinbia Evening Bulletin ] To the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, 40. --Deeply impressed with the tearful calamity that has suddenly taken from us the Rev. Robert J. Parvin, one of the most de voted,godly and faithful men of our ministry., and feeling that I but echo the general desire of his brethren to give them an opportunity to express in common with myself our grief at this sudden bereavement, I respectfully invite the clergy of the Protestant' Episcopal Church in the city and vicinfty to meet at the Church or the Eplpbanyi on Monday next, at.l o'clock s to take such action - as they may deem best is reference to the death of this beloved Brother. rs , DAcom idTEVIINd. Bethlehem, Dec. 9. . • ' —Arditi has written fOr Mlle. Sluice a new For g, with the title, "A Kies locOur Thoughts." It is ssid to, be as melodious and tilting as, the farthar "Bodo. OseulatotT words seem to • he peetfilarly SOO° =led kr-Arditl BC ts ,it buss-ter, 4 9,0 41 4/Ye, . • E 16-TETIiERSTO.. PIMA= PRICE THREE OENTS. FIFTH EDITION BY TE.L.KGRAPEL LATER . FROM WASHINGTOS THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT Public Debt Statentelitb; _ , WASHINGTON Dee . 10 —Thlfouciwtagt Stamm ment of the public " debt of tole United Ettsteil-ptlt! the lst of oecember has just been7leslledi-- -2 ---'------. Debt bearing dotn in. . tereet. - • - 5 per cent. bonds-.. $221,588 4100 OCF 4 ' 6 per cent. bonds, 1261..- 285,677,800 00 s ; 6 Do. 5.*) bonds 1,002,670,400 00 $2,107,015,1001W Debt bearing calumet • I::: interest.. 3 per cent certificates 58 140 000 00 Navy Pension Fund 'at $14.000,000' - 00'' attired Debt not pro. vented for pwymenti 2 year 7-20 °tee,' due August 15, 1867, June ano July 15. 1868, 2,478,450 00 Compound Int'st Notes, -matured. Junulo.-JulY -15. Aug. 15.0 ct. 15. and Dec. 15, 1867 end May. 15. Aug. 1. and "Sept 15. October 1 and Otto. T _ bar 1 Indem 1869 nity Banda 18, ,000 654,224.1120 00 exas 266 Treasury Notes, acts of . July 17th, 1861, and prior thereto Bonds, april 15. 1842, January at, 1847, and March 31, 1848 435,600'00 'llea. notes. March 3.'63 445,492.00.• Temporary loan ' 513.160 00 CerUt of indebtedness— 13,000 00 8.2e.11 iVit Debt bearing no leered. United Slates notes $1156.021.013 00 reactional carrertcy.. 33,875,26317 Gold certif. of dePoolt• • •.. • 12 = 01 0 00 4115.151 E,601.374.163 W Total . 6 r cent lawful Money bonds Issued to the Pa cific Railroad Comp- Total debt Amount in the Tremor.'l7. Coin— ..... 88,45,874 '54 ilkurency . • 18,2extus 10.1,679,00 ' 76 Debi len cub in Treneru7. • $2439.03134_1114 The foregoing is a correct statement of the public debt as appears from the books' and Treasurer's returns inthe Department on. Dec. 1et,1868. kfcCormocu, Beeretarr of the Treasurg. =HD= IN WASHINGTOiIi comnrip A StepAratiber Attempts the Life of bin Step-bon, and -le -shot- and -Family wounded by the Lattor—the Step• m ijoit still at liberty. • - (Special Corresoondence of the Xlttebtulth Commercial:l • WASIXLISTOTON, Pa., Dee. 7,1868.-A , bloodyirer gedy was enacted about nine miles north . of this place, near the village of Hitkory, bn FridaY,latit the circumstances of which are as follows: - Dr. Fennimore and - c two stepsons, mimed At- - cbison, were working in the cornfield.' For some real or fancied: injury to - a tub they bad with them, Fenimore threat- - ened to punish the youngest boy' r - - aged about eighteen. The older brother Interfered. Angry words passed between them then; bud afterward, in the evening at the house, ort-aa count of which the oldest boy said he would not stay at home, and went up stairs to pack no and leave. On his way down stairs, his stepfather met him with an axe, and struck. at him twice.. The boy then drew a revolver and shot him twice, . from the effecte of which he died yesterday, even ing. Before he died he requested-that the boy should not be arrested. Young Atchison Is ready - to give himself up at any time. He has notbeen arrested yet. FACTS AND FANCIES. —The 808 of Schamyl, the. famous Catteaelatt chief, la a captain of the Russian Czar's guard.,: Bierstadt Is in. Paris, painting more Ito Semite. —Williamsport Is sleighing over two feet of snow. —The Reformation Symphony has been - ire. vived in Manchester and acceptably receive& —Carl Formes is making a concert tour of England. —Brigham Young is anxious to get rid Of , tlihs year's crop of 36 marriageable:darighters. --Janauseliek took in $2,203 for antes in Milwaukee. —A. J. probably considers "swinginground the circle" that retracing of one's steps which mitts the "wise and magnanimous ruler."' -. —Why Is an elephant forcibly running against a tree like a traveler on a railroad?. Because he. aets his trunk checked. • 1 —Miss Evans, the novelist , has married the President of the Mobile and Montgomery Rail road. —Bing Victor will spend the first week of 1869 in Naples, but nobody about here cares whether he will or not. —Mr. Ruskin declares somewhere in , hie writ ings that 'Don Giovanni" le a piece of demorali zation and sin from beginning to end. —Two operas unknown here, the "Mankato" by Romani and "Margberita" by. Feront, have been revived at Man. . —The story about the importation into Texas. and sale, of coolies, was a joke. Thu coolies in question were eimply,castriron deslpedx tor cigar, tea,lobacco and 'grocery Stores. —The Empress of Russia, beforeleavlng. Italy.. left 8,000 francs m Como for the poor of that place,. Her largess created a como-lion among the people. —Congress yesterday removed • the political disabilities of the South - Carolina Moses The. disabilities of the Tennessee Moses were re-af firmed. —A prominent citizen of Detroit is now cams-. leg to be made a thorough examination of. the • Detroit river, for the purpose of aseertaining..the • feasibility of tunnelling it. —Verdi proposes that the Italian composms. shall unite in preparing a requiem to Rossini, to be performed by Italian artists in Bologna, on, the first, anniversary of Rosairti'S death. —A man being asked, as ho laysunning himself/ in the grass, what was the height of his ambition,. replied: "To marry a rich widow with a bad cough." —A, recent revival of Huguenots in Paris,. with, Sass and Faure, has not proved very successful.. Perhaps there was not enough "Sass" totnalte _ palatable. —As early as 1810 there was a musical society in Florence called "The Landesi,"' the member& singing in the sacred admits that were, given itt the churches. The society stiil exhsted,az.late,aet 1770. —Heinrich Helga Said: "Now forttnate - th% Romsns were that they had 50t to, lcarntLatin. grammar! Because, it they had done eo, they could never have found time to manor: the. world." —A Chattanooga paper states that a Fronch... gentleman, named Bryant, has p nrebased. !raid; on, Missionary Ridge, with the intention, otestabiiigh- ; lag there a colony of French whio•growers. The* site is eiffil to be adatirahlY tula„pted. to the par.* pose.. —The London Chard, New suggista that oil the -new. Archbishop of Canterbury's Arst overt act of etimmunkm with "the blade' CalenSo.'. the duty of all true churchmen, at whatever Omit * will be to treat their Arehbishop as also exeMm matileatelL —A newspaper at Salem, Oregon, says It le Called upon' to deny "the rumor that the eteare boat owners had employed a street sprio4ler to lay the dust in. the bed of the 'Willamette river. One of the company had , dampened hie , feet. lty allitug (too ehoro Co 41,wre 140f(90147144 RO4l k 41,:00 0101044 g.. mimme 1,494141 GA - $44.1Z4003 Od $3,615.731.161-81. our perfom—
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