GBISON PEACOCK. Editor. VOIXME XXH.-NO. 228. TIE EVENING BULLETIN: PUBLISHED EVERY ENTERING; (Buildups excepted). &N . THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING. 607 Chomituut Street, Philadelphia , . • , r BY YOB._' IMMO BULLETIN ASIOUGLTION. PECOPILIETOPA RISSON PEACOCK. CARPER SOUDEP,Ja.,_ V. PETRESSTON. id TRU BJ. LLS. WILL.Leati. FR W E ?be Buzzer= Ls served to subscribers In the city at 18 to per week. payable to the carriers. or 88 per annum. JtitlN C. TABER, General Agent Orrin AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE- COMPANY OF PHILIDELPHII, S. E oo ner Fourth end Walnut Streets. At faze daily from 12 to 2 o'clock. 04NVA88E.R8 WANTED. Put 10t5 WEDDING CARDS. INVITATIONS?It PAR VT ties. ace new stYles. MASON di <X 4 I , segkil Se 7 Chestnut street . . I'AI t ' . • :11 ti• - Newest and beat trimmer. LtIUIS I) ;t t • Star timer sad En/Mall:C. 11.23 Chestnut efzeet. feb SO.ll DIMUCED. 11.FrIPLIER—M M ILLUOLLA.NDOn the 30th ult.. at the tcoldenee of tee bride's father, in Reading. George nets Repyller, Merchant , of thts city. to Fannie C.olaufb • tor of James hillihollend. wouixALL-4 ouNo.- -on Tutoday evening, Veneto bor 29th, I£o. by the Roo It W. Henry, D. V., Peter B. Worrell to Mary C., delimiter of Nathan Young, Esq., all of tali city. DIED. - - - BROWN.- -At the reildesee of Ma grandmother. Mrs. Frederick. Brown, on Sunday altarneon. January ?A. f rid' rick :at. only child of Frederick and J. E. W. Breen. aced 21 months and 6 days. • OIL DEllaLlgra—ln Baltimore, on Straday. $d Witham Iteynolds, oily son of Jane B. and George Gl d. Mese. Intimate:it at Lancaster to morrow (Tneedly.) • N COVERS AND MAGNIFICENT PIANO A 11241" REDUCFD IN PRICE FOR THE 1.1.01,1 DAY PEEtSENTS. EYREzz LANDELLEI SPECIAL NOTICES. oar QUARTERLY tri'ATENENT OF THE CON' zucawo llo ) National ii.ak of Philadelphia . Jan , 1.1. 1 7 4.1Re1. lteeo q Bondi with treasurer. Due t.y Osaka and Hallam/ nrnfiure. Ilx t If ell 4 &C. arr. sit expecues Tartu paid.......... Pit paid..... Cash . Eso bans eg to Cleating Bointo National Bank Notes. .1? *edema! Currency ..Lrgal 'render Notes.... knee by approved Redeeming A gents 124.580 61 S.: per rents .. •. • WACO W ZA.476 63 LIABILITIES 4 Pl'al ock-.;.... Di,count account, 'petered ac count and trout And Lc g 0... Circbtation.... ... . ......... "kcal . , Duo Banks and tiankere,. leaier. PHILADELPHIA. J. 4. leni. The Commisrieners appointed coder the authority of an Ordinate* approved Lae Etat of December. leg& en. titled "An - Ordkuusce to provide for the erection of Pan. lio Buildings "fare requelt•A to meet. for the purpose of cram nizatlon, In the Council Chamber, on THURS DAY EVENING NEXT. 7th fwd.. t at 756 Oct* K . a. Wi B. eTOLEY. JOOEPLI F. MARIE% IL a OILIKIN SON, R. P. OILLI , OHAII. JOSHUA SPERING. Comonialloners. Jai m tb•Stroi .TAEE NOTICE. To Owni re of Property. That application will be made to the Chief Commie. idolater ..t t,LUpliteaya, at the Department Fifth below (otanut, on BION Dila. Joinery 18th last- at 11 o'clock. A. u . for the contract for the, paying of Reed street two bundred fret east of Otteao.to Wharf street ts.) the Contractor. JOSEPH M PAYNTER. er g OFFICE: OF 711 E HOSPITAL OF - THE P. E ULIUE H , Lei PHILADELPHIA. 708 WALNUT sTRY-ta PHILADELPHIA. •]canary 3 186 g. The Annual Meeting of the contributors to the 'Hospital of the P. E. Church. la Philadelphia, will be held st the oTlce •faeeday. Jettnal7 6. at II &clock 61.. at which ~no and place eight Managers will be :slotted to eeryetor lb. ensuing tines. years. JOHN A. eltll.lld, Secretary. SOUTHERN DISPENSARY. —VIE ANNUAL lO r meeting of the contributor. will be held on TUE 3. DAY, the sth day of January, 18.313 at the Dispensar.r, stklypen street, between the hours of 4 and 6 P. M. December 31st. Ptl3 jai 3trp• lEigned.l PETER WILL A i.SISON, Soc. "TIIE SOCIETY FOR SUPPLYING TILE POOR with Soup," No. MS Griscom street, have di .- tributed to the poor of their Di.trict during the pa.t mason, 110,010 pints of soup; LIAM pounds of bread. and 16,481 founds of ern meal. to families 4-mutating of 1.218 adults and 1,669 children. A visitor Inspects the con dition of all applicants before tickets are granted. Trace IP no paid collector employed by the Society, but all the members are duly authorized to receive donations to its fonds. JOS. S. LEWIS, Presider,t, 111 Walnut street WILLIAM EVANS. Treasurer, 613 Market street GEO. J. SCATTERG lOU. Secretary, de31.121114 413 Spruce aloe. air FRANKYORD AND HOLMEBBORG RAIL. road Coleman% .—The annual election for erceideot and Directors of thts company wtil be bold at their of fice, 817 Hannon, street, on MONDAY, January 11th. at 12 o'clock M. 13. F. CIUBPL.N. Secretary. PIIILADA., Dec. 26th, lea. Tin?. PEMBERTON AND RIGUTSTOW :4 H. K. nerCo. The Coupons of the Pint Mc' of This Company, due January 1,180, will tir da paid ,on alter that date, at the office of BOWEN As FOX, La Merchant's Exchange. dc 814t1T4 see .CELTIO ASSOCIATION OF ANIZEIOA. Chartered Dec. 7,1 W —Lecture by Bon. W. E. .110BINBON, , M. U., of Brooklyn, at Concert Ball, THURS DAY EVENING, January 7„ 1569, at 8 o'clock. for the benefit of the CELTIC LIBRARY FOND. Subject —"Aro Americana Celle or Barone” Tickers 50 cents. For ealo at the principal Book and Music storm Uholco coats re. served (or ladies and gentlemen accompanying them without exit a charge. R. fiLIELTON MACKENZIE, President. Jas. O'Dostricr.t, Act. Secretors. dc7oLtrp PEW IN BT. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. For Sale a pew, in a deeirablo locution. Price zooderei e. App ly to Ja2-2t rp • PHILADELPHIA ORT1101')EDIC HOSPITAL. No. 16 South Ninth tract—Club foot. Hip and Xpintt/. Diseases, and. /3oday Dcformitied treated APPLY daily at 12 o'clock. n02.2m.rn6 stir HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOB.D epar 1518 AND - 15m Lomba, Dispensary tment. —ttedi. eal treatment rd and street medicine furnished gratuitously to Che peer. DIVIDEND NOTICES. NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK, Jatstranv 4th. 1868. I t Board of Directors have declared a Divldond of Three Per Cent., Pa 3 able on demand, clear of taxes ja4BE J. W. GILBOUGH, Cadhlor. 1911rTHE OTRARD LIFE INSURANCE. .N'UITY ANR TRUST COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Dse cm 111:11 31st, 186 . Thilloard of Managers have this day declared a Diet .der -of'Four Per Cent on the Capital Stock for the last aix mewl's.payable to the Btockholdere, clear of the Ztate and United States taxes on demand. JOILI F. JAME 3. Actuary. Ber TPE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, NO. 00 %VAL kIUT ETREET. The Director', have this day declared a dividend of FOUR PEx. CENT. on the capital stock of the Company 'for the last six menthe, payable oat demand, free of nit taxa. . ALEX. W. WRYER, ja4 - 12t.4. tiecretary. mair DANK OF NORTH AMERICA. • • • BA TOi." OF NORTH A AIIERICIA, Jan. 4th ,1869. DIVIDEND—The Directors hove declared a lien ?: All lanai Dividend of Bevan and a half par cent.. and an extra Dividend of Five Per Cent., together Twelve and half per cent, payable on Bth instant. Jail ni iv f 30 J. HOE EDE P, Cashier. iser OFFICE OF TOE FAME. INSI,RANUE COIL FANY, NO.4ee tat littlN UT aIItEET. Pitit.Aufro,totto.,Jauuary 4th,lBlit At a tneetlng of the Gourd of Dlrectoro of ato Foote hourance Company, held thio day, a dividend of Thiee For Cent. wail declared, payable cot demand, oloor of all taxes. W. I. BLANUIIARO, ja442tl SucretarY. 1131.0512 56 2n5 011 00 66,232 91 17.46 d 3014 32 1E1438 19 7.54411 17 . e25".,000 00 biLOOCI 40. 11M1.1:03 00 15.06 1 tti 213.& 00 EZZZE 25.2 t: N 1.Q.15.930 49 81.54L221 17 EL C. YOUNG. Cathter. H. L LEAP. 320 Cheat ant street. JANUARY 4. 1939 EUROPEAN AFFAIRS 'ITALIAN UNITY. Address from Mar:Mole The London Star prints nearly two columns of extract from a letter dictated by Joseph Mazzint during his recent illness.. It was published tn , all the Italian lAberal papers, and immediately sequestrated by , the Italian Governtnent; but it is scarcely neceesary to add that it has boon only more eagerly sought for and widely read in con sequence: "I am better," says the writer. in commencing the appeal to his countrymen, "and I verily believe that the gauntlet of defiance newly thrown to us 'by the Popo and his foreign protector with the corpses of Monti and Toguetti, a sense of Italian rage and the dread of descending into the tomb with the image of my country dishonored stamped upon my eoul, have acted as a tonic upon my weak ened frame. Ifeel.as if I could not die until I had done my own email part to efface the mark of cowardice with whichofftershave stained and stain our Italian flag. To that brutal defiance there is but one fit atutwer. Wo must win Rome at any cost and with ail speed." This is tho text of a great deal of declamation in the style with which Europe Is familiar: Row Rome is to be won is characterized as the only question really worth solving, though it is the one most generally forgotten. /*mini answers it negatively thus:—"Rome can only be - wou by the will of the people enforced by arms. To pretend that any moral apostolate or persua sion will convert the Pope to an understanding of the right and of the times, and induce him to open the gates of Rome to Italy, Is an idiotic dream. Nor can those gates now be opened by a Roman insurrection. The Romans might and ought to have arisen when the last French sol dier quitted Rome. They failed to do so, re strained by monarchical busybodies. Even now they ought to rise; but, except in the case of such a miracle of united will and daring as we annot look for it la impossible. The beet of them are dead, imprisoned or in exile. The re mainder are closely watched by an army of police agents and spies—rendered all-powerial and all seeing by their concentration in a dingle city; they are unarmed, and to arm them - secretly is next to impossible. To attempt an insurrection may be the duty of the oppressed : bat we have no right to exact the fulfilment of that duty in the face of obstacles so numerous and so grave The Roman territory la ours, and the duty of freeng it weighs upon us all; most heavily upon those to whom its execution is easiest who possess forces such as ours. To dream that the Monttrchy will risk a war with France and had the army against the Pope is, at the present day, au insanity to be pitied, not refuted: It is equally vain to Fnat tiny trust in Parliament. Here. however, is Raz sinFs own answer to "the only Important ques tion to be solved:" "We must win Rome with out delay. There is but one sure way --the arms nd the will of the whale country. Rome belongs to Italy; Italy must regain her. The sanctuary of the nation must be set free, not • by a party, but by a national crusade. The work of a party requires time, and will always find a foreigner e-rucamped in Rome, and a war with the foreigner inevitable. The nation will win Rome at railroad speed, and In the face of a universally applauded fair accompli, Louis Napoleon will navtr—believe it—dare to make war on Italy. The attempt would be ruin. The nation her own mistress; the administrative and financial forces she possesses, given, until a constituent As .embly be elected, into the bands of a few active, capable and devoted men, chosen by the people and responsible to the people—this Is the answer to the question I spoke of above as the only im portant witestion to be solved. Every other SG. ntion of the problem is Inefficient" A Spanish Republic. The London Saturday Rerieu, cannot under stand why so any people shorild think It neces sary for Spat • remain a monarchy. There Is no under-ea ate of the value of monarchical institutio Implied In the confession that Spain see merto be as little likely as any country in Est r:Oo to gise them* room is which to grow and develop. Where there are none of the natural surroundings of kingship, little can be gained by calling the sovereign King instead of Presi dent; indeed, it may be questioned whether the impatience of auttiority,whlch is always to be feared on the part of a suddenly emancipated peo ple, is ant intensified by the assumption of the former title. There may perhaps ba more chance under Republican forms of obtaining that strong eat cutive which Is so necessary to a country Ake Spain than there will Le if every power entrustrd to the elected King Is closely watched by a nation jealous of its new freedom, and deeply tinged with Republican preferences. French Prosecutions of the Press. A French paper says: Tie correctional tribunal of Lisle was engaged on Tuesday with the trial of Mdme. Eaptidaie Franke, aged forty-six, for introducing into trance too Lanterneg and twenty-tour copies of Victor Hugo's Chotiments. At the moment of uer arrest in the railway station of Tourcoing, ber husband, a tailor, residing at Ixelles, hap- pened to be with her. and he Immediately took to Hight. At his residence a bag was found full of Lanternea. The Court condemned the woman to forty days imprisonment and 100 fr. tine. The Eastern Question. The Paris and Berlin vipers express confident ticipations that diplomacy will settle the dis pute, and that the peace of Europe will not be broken. A Copenhagen telegram contradicts a re port that the Prince of Wales had joined the King of Denmark in advising the King of the Hellenes to yields the demands of the Porte. IBREPUESSI BE E TRAIN. His Speech alter Liberation The London correspondent of the New York World Lays : I am so apprehensive that the well-known and nvincible modesty of George Francis Train will prevent him from giving you an account of the scenes which attended his departure, that I ven ture to undertake that duty myself, at the risk of repeating news which may have reached you from 'other sources. There is no little mystification concerning the circumstances under which he regained his liberty. The Court of Exchequer sat specially on Monday last to hear a motion instituted by Mr. Train, to ret aside the flat, judgment and capigs ad sati.9- fticiendum obtained ;against him by Ebbow Vale Company. The motion was being argued when it was announced that on the previous Saturday Mr. Train bad been liberated, and was then on his way to America. The argument, however, was proceeded with, and the motion was unanimously refused. The story hero is that on his release Mr. Train stated that he had not paid the money for which be was imprisoned—but the solicitor for the detaining creditors states that the debt was discharged. I hope both parties are satisfied. On arriving at Queenstown, Mr. Train mounted a railway truck, and delivered the following very remarkable speech to a largo crowd, whose ex clamations in response are not less remarkable than the speech itself: Irishmen, Irish-Americans, citizens of the fu ture Irish Republic—l am op my way to Amer lea—l loud cries of "Thank God!" [—and I will dive you an Irish flag and Irish independence. tly wife is very ill,and I must get back to Amed ea immediately. Had I been able to stay in Dub lin, I would have addresse42s,ooo people at the Monument in the Phomix Vark to-day. I would there more fully explain the political dodging which consigned me to imprison ment under a detainer for a sham debt. I am going to America, and will stump America. You want no disestablishment, no land bill; you want nothing from England but an Irish flag and Irish independence. We kicked the EugliFli out of our country. with any three; we could lay hold of in I'6. I iiheers. I don't want, }cur cheers. - I -don't want your shouts. I want you to fight. I say there is a gigantic revolution coming over Etirope. It has commenced inlipain. They- cannot play mon. tiredly on the people of Spain. As soup us a re public is declared in Spain a republic will - be stabliebed in France, and there is a- secret treaty between America and RuSsitt. When wet PHILADELEVA, MONDAY, JANUARY, 4, 180. bought Alaska we made a treatiP to pay for it in (old - or iroumlada, which ever they wished. The 'urkish Ambassador has been withdrawn from Greece; and when Prussia; Russia, Italy and America are joined, England cannot keep out of the fight when France and-40814a go in. When that fight comes be men. 'You trays been 100 rears here In Ireland killing 100 men. All those In favor of en Irish Republic say "Ay."' (Tre mendous shouts of "Ay." J Don't rely on the Fenian Brotherhood in America ;,Have self-reliance. My cell' was the revolutionary headquarfens—ref the Irish Republic. When they sent down , from,. the Gaelic a message to 'take doivn the placards on the 'walls, "Down with England, up with Ire and," I said, "Take them off, if you dare," and for the last ninety days no inspector came into my cell, and the placards are there on the walls tt-day. Why amt now released? How does it happen that after the elections are over ha /tate ries end Ireland—after the Ministry has changed —after I have started the cry throughout -Ame rica to have Reeerdy Johnsen recalled—after the English people had kid - down in the rend to debase themselves before the American people by toadying to ReverdyJohnson, who has dragged our flag through the mire at every ban quet ever since—after he had allowed Roebuck to. call us the scum of the earth, and represent us as overrun with a torrent of Irishism—we paid Roebuck off by organizing the Irish vote, by ph cards, to kick him out of Sheffield—how does it happen that my ' Bastille " door now is open, and I am allowed to go abroad? The last thing I did before I left Dublin was to order my solicitor to bring an action against the EbbowVale Company for £2o6oo,arid against James McHenry for £lO,OOO, Before I left we held a meeting and reinstated as chieftain of Ireland James Stephens. All those in favor of reinstating James Stephens as C. 0. L R. of Ire land manifest it by saying "Ay." [Shouts of "Ay." I Then Fenian are organized all through Ireland, but the fighting men are in the south of Ireland. All you have got to do is to bide your time. Yon need not wait long. Mien I was arrested in Cork I was on my way to France. I was no Fenian then, but lam a good Fenian now. I ask you to uncover .1 our beads and take an oath—"So help me God. we swear to devote oar lives to the Irish flag." Cries of "We swear le] I demand in the name of the American people that Warren and Costello to sent borne in an English man-of-war, or I will ate that war is declared in 90 days. We will stand more nonsense. He-did not wish to be under stood that he was going away through fear of England, who bullied the weak and cowered to to the strong. After a few other observations, Mr. Train concluded by bidding the people adieu, and then went on board the steam-tender, which moved off amid great cheering, Mr. Train calling for three groans for. England and three cheers for the Irish Republic—demands which were heartily complied with. DE3ASTEJEC3. DESTRUCTIVE U R VIE IS BANOOII I MNE. Block of Ten Buildings Destroyed 91lie Loss Estimated at 83001000—Tno I 11311UltanCell• ( Bangor (Jan. 2) correspondence( of Boston Transcript.] This city was visited last night with the most destructive conflagration ever known in this part of the State. It commenced at about eight o'clock and raged furiously for four hours, when It was checker', assistance having arrived from several of the adjoining towns. A block of ten brick buildings was entirely coninmed. Loss estimated at upwards of three hundred thousand dollars, upon which there is said to have been insurance of one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars. The principal losers are given below: E P. Baldwin, boots and shoes, stock mostly sand; loss emall; fully insured. Emery. Wmg Co., grocers; loss from $15,000 to $20,000; in sured for $B,OOO. insured for $5,000. Connor & Fuller, grocers; loss, $lB,OOO to e2O,CGO; insured for $12,000. Charles Hayward & Co., grocers; stock valued at $65,000; a total loss; insured for $42 000; store S. F. Farriogton, hardware; loss, $/2,000: in sured for $7.000. "Fogg & Bridges, hardware; stock valued at $30.000; partly saved; insured for $16,000. W. C. Yiekering, grocer; stock valued at $7,000; ;Gtal lose ; insured for $4,000. Gtorge W. Ladd, grocer; stock valued at $lO.- 000; partly saved; insured for $20,000. C. R. Demmtng, agricultural implements; block valued at j$12,000; partly saved; insured for $4.000. o. H. Dale & Co., ship chandlers and grocers, bad an immense stock of goods, which were mostly removed in a badly damaged condition; !ally msnred. Wheelwright & Clark,whose elegant block was sand with the greatest difficulty, are damaged In weir store and stock to the amount of• $lO,OOO. No insurance. The other losses are small. The owners of the buildings destroyed, except Charktu Hayward and 8. H. Dale,who owned the rtores they occupied, are : Heirs of Abner Tay ,or, two stores; Mrs. tiophie Brown, H. A. Butler, heirs of Robert Treat, George W. Pickering, J. B. Foster and Billing's' heirs one store each, and r. J. Stewart, a storehouse in the rear of Connor Lt Fuller's. The value of the buildings destroyed is 875,000; amount of insurAnce uncertain. While this lire was in progress fire was dis covered in the tittle of the dry goods store of A. & W. H. H. Kirkpatrick, on Main street, occa ,tontd by cinders from the other fire. This was xlinguished with small damage. The fire created the greatest consternation, as it was !eared the entire business portion of the city on the west side would be consumed. AL three o'clock this morning fire was discov et ed in the Drew House, on Harlon street, occu pied by three families; and that was entirely con rumed; contents saved; caused by a defective fine. Our fire department was aided by one engine from Brewer and one from Orine, eight miles distant, which was brought in by a special train on the European and North American Railroad in just eight minutes, or a mile a minute, and rendered valuable service. The night was very cold, and much trouble was experienced from want of water (it being low tide) and from the hose being frozen. Several stocks of goods, other than those men tioned above, were damaged mote or less by re moval to places of safety. The valuables of the Second National Bank, in Wheelwright dr, Clarke's block, were removed to the Savings Bank. The origin of the fire is uncertain,bat it is sup posed to have been from ,a stove in Connor it Fuller's oil room. The general feeling is ono of thankfulness that its progress was stopped with id greater lose. Terrible Railroad Accident in ilar. rioloura. The Harrisburg Telegraph, of Saturday, says— Yesterday afternoon Robt. D. Neidig, a brakes man employed in shifting trains between Harris burg end Marysville, fell from a car of the Ear pire. Line, and in some unexplainable manner be came entangled in some portion of the gearing of the car, and was dragged, head downwards, from a point this side of Updegrove's lane to the canal bridge, about one mile east of Rockville, a distance of two miles, before he was dicovered. When found he was dead. His head and face were so shockingly mangled as to render him past recognition, except by those who were acqaainted with his general personal appearance. The eyes were torn from their sockets, and the whole face 'presented an appearance most, shocking to behold. The right arm was broken and cut considerably, as was alto one of the Jugs. A deep wound was also isible on the break All the clothing except a boot and stocking was torn from the body. 'The various articles of clothing were found scattered along the road over which .the unfortunate man had been dragged. The remains of the deceased were brought to this city lust evening, and upon. their arrival at the depot, an inquest was held by Coroner Porter. _ . The deceased resided in Susquehanna town ship, about two. ;Mine north or Ma city. Ho ituves a wife and one child tu mourn his ma:zloty death. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. The Fire at Grand Haven, Michigan-- gibe Business Fart or the city burned. The Milwaukee Wisconsin gives details of the calamity at. Grand Haven on Wednesday. A fire broke out in or near the Rice House, destroying that building, Thompson's hardware store, Avery's building, occupied as a jewelry store and saloon, Dr. Mouroe's house and office, a saloon, J. H. Sanford's clothing store, the Union Express office, Griffin's drum' store, Sheldon it Slayton's dry goods store, Cutler's office, Masonic Hall building, belonging to S. Schofield, and occu pied on the ground floor by Hubbard's hardware store and above by public and Masonic Custom House, also occupied by attorneys and others for offices; Rutty & Penoyer's restaurant; Barnes's furniture store: Vanderveer's drugstore, jewelry store, saloon dry goods and g rocery store; the Union printing office and a barn. Also on the west side of Washington street, Fait° dt F 08 8 .13 dry goods store; the Congregational church; Angel 't Semidry's store; the post office and a meat market. It is rumored that several buildings were burned; but we - have no - further particulars of the account of losses, which must be immense for a place the size of Grand Haven, nor what proportion, if any, of the goods were saved.: There was no fire department, not even a hand engine, to assist in stopping the flames. Some days ego the town sent a gentleman to Buffalo to find one If be could, and he did find one. The price was Lot satisfactory, and it was not taken. Had it been purchased it might have paid for it self a good many times over. A rough estimate of the losses b3 , abont 050,000. Horrible murder to Cecil County, md• [From the Elkton Whig.l Joseph Thomas, aged about thirty years,an un married colored man, lived in a little shanty near Aloftitt's Mill, about two miles aoove North East. He kept, on a small scale, a confectionery, and slept in the same room at nights. Last Tuesday, the 29th ultimo., about three o'clock P. AL, he was discovered lying in his bunk in a dying con dition, weltering in blood that had flowed from the frightful wounds about his head and throat, which bad evidently been Inflicted with an axe that was lying in the room covered with gore. Thomas was nnable,from exhaustion, when found, to give any clue to the perpetrator of the awful deed, ar to the causes leading thereto. It is thought, however, that, the act was committed in order to rob 'Mimes of money which he was supposed to have in his possession. He died about 4 o'clock on the following Wednesday morning. Strong . circumstantial evidence pointed to a mulatto by the name of Philip Nolan as sue murderer, and he was accordingly arrested and committed to await further investigation. heavy Defalcation in Richmond. Va. —A Revenue Collector in Trouble. The Richmond Examiner of Saturday says : It has been suspected for several mouths past that Rawly W. Hobson, late deputy collector of in ernal revenue in the Danville district, was a de taulter to the government for a large amount of money, but these suspicions had not assumed a definite form until a tew days since. On Thurs day last, District-Attorney Beach was pat in possession of sufficient facts to enable him to make application to United States Commissioner , _baboon for a warrant for Hobson 's arrest. The sarrant charges that, whilst, deputy collector of the Danville district, he converted to his own ate, and railed to pay over to the government, ,he sum of $26,000 in currency. Be was brought to this city on the Danville train and taken before Commissioner Chahoon on Saturday night. The circumstances of the case were heard, sad the Commissioner decided o release him on bail in the sum of $lO,OOO for his appearance before him this morning at eleven o'clock, for examination. Hobson is a native of Virginia, and served as deputy collector from the time of his appoint ment until the month orJune, leo, wheals° was removed, and James• Waterman appointed it' his place. He is very respectably connected, and SIM/ well in the community at the time of his arrest. It was rumored on Saturday night that there bad been a series of heavy frauds on the Govern mentin that district, and that this arrest was but the beginning of the developments by which they would be brought to light, The Policy of the sew President— be Indian Question—The Boum— the Tenure.ol-Office Act. (Correspondence of the Boston Advertiter.l WASHINGTON, llte. 31.—1 f this next President has any policy it urn be such that you can slim it up in three words—honesty, economy, man- Antal. I heard him speak one day of a public man to this effect: "Res speech was a falsehood; ihtre was nothing on which you could put your anger and say, 'nes is a out the whole thing was a falsehood for all that; I've despised him Liar einLe I heard him make that speech." There is no mistaking the spirit from which Jinn words came. Gen. Grant can respect an open enemy; he wants nothing to do with a wan who shuffles or prevaricates, or Is given to a 'Able-dealing. lie will show us an adminiatra don in which honesty and manhood are re petted. He does not go to members of Congress stud tell them that he wants this and that; he does not even say to them that he thinks such and -uch laws ought to be passed. If they undertake to pump him ho le silent and non-communica live. But he is studying the position; he Is think ug his way down through the situation, and nom time to time he shows the result of his :Ludy and his thought. the Indian quesuon is one on which he has bought a,-eat deal. Our present system, he s, lull of fraud—frond on the Indians and timid on the government. It ought to be ro w:med. The gigantic ring must be broken up; Lot more in the interests of the Indiana than in the interests of civilization and public order. our dealings with the Indians properly lay us open to charges of cruelty and swindling. Be believes a transfer of the Bureau to the War De partment will enable us to stop this national dis grace ot cheating and dishonesty. If the Indians will not behave when they are fairly dealt with, then we must force them to behave. In Bach a course lies their well-being and the well-being of the government. Tue Southern problem is one he has been obliged to study for some years. We do not want any reduction of the army at present, he ,a,3 a. Be Lopes the Southern people will see that tie Means to deal fairly with tnem—hopes they w ill, of their own accord, deal fairly with one another, and with the Government. Bat we wust have peace down there, he adds; the right of all classes must be observed; (very man who Is a peaceable citizen must feel sate in his work and his home; if that safety cannot be had in one a ay, the Government will have to find it another; them murders and Ku-Klux outrages wont be stopped. 1 think he will have to settle the Alabama claims. I a any one so supple as to suppose that he wlllkeep iieverdy Johuron in Englaud2 You may safely say that lie will not. Mr. Johnson is not doing uc any credit, he said to one friend, and lithe Ad ministration were in proper sympathy with the pi epic it would recall him. Mr. Johnson, you b hew, tried to cover the sin of his hobnobbing with Laird, Roebuok and Wharnehife by the mantle of Grunt's course toward Longstreet and oilier rebel officers. I leave you to imagine what Grant sail when he saw that letter. He wilt conduct the Government with coon,- owy. If he uses the veto power,it Is likely to be in killing schemes for taking money out of the Tieusury. lie is against jobs and jobnera, and I. think we sheen find he has a good eye for detect lug jobs, be they ever so carefully covered in phraseology. We should have the strictest hon esty in collecting out revenues, and the strictest economy hi their expenditure, he says. This will be ono of tho cardinal doctrines of hit aduilitistra hon. Ho is no enemy of Paqille railroads. He favors iLicrual Improvements of all kinds, lie wants to tee induttry thrive commerce prosper, and capital multiply. But!, unless I am greatly mis imottutd, he mould not, oven if wo h•ad no. public debt, fah in with' the idea that Government must lead the way in those local Improvements. As it Bp he believes wo would sods to pay what debt CREWE. GENERAL GRAN r. we now have rather than look for' ways of, in creasing it.' Hence hundreds of these river and harbor jobs must wait till a mere eon s enient season. „ Renee we must get:along for a few 3 ears with , the P4eitie railways already sob idized. The time will wine when we eau have other lines across the country; the time way tome when Government can afford to aid other lie es; just now he is strongly opposed to any fur t err edvanets of our credit. talk witu U en on this pots tis decided and refreshingly a igorous. Persons who profess to believe that the future of the Union rests on this, or that, or the other great, improvement, will not got much sympathy or comfort from interviews with him. Be cares less for party qualifications in an offi cer than for personal qualifications. Ile has said that we Suffer from a too liberal interpretatiou of the maxim that the spoils-belong to the victor. Offices should be for the good of the country, not for the benefit particularly of any party. This I believe to be his view. I think, from what I have heard, that no man in office Is to be removed merely because he is a Democrat. If he was firm for the country during her straggle, and ib a faithful, an honest, and a capable official, he stands a fair ehabee ofkeeping the place. Copperheads, poli tical time-servers, blatant Democratic politicuans, may as well send in their resignations, to take effect on the 4th. of next March-. Existing vaean- Mee and vacancies hereafter made will, I am dare, be filled from the Republican ranks. Yet the aim, first and last, will to to get upright and efficient men, rather than to reward party ser vices. If we proffer such men for appointment we shall get the offices, but the show for old party hacks is not a very good one Just at this time. DUAVIATIO AND OSICAL. —The Orange Girl is continued at the Walnut Eit. Theatre, and will be preciunted every night this week. —At the Arch, this evening, A Flash of Lzght ning will be performed. —The American will offer an olio entertain ment to-night. —The Galion Opera Troupe will appear at the Theatre Comique, this evening, in A Marriage by Lanterns and a Pair of Pigeons. On Wednesday evening next, in the Foyer of the Academy, the Misses Duane will give a vocal concert. Mr. George F. Bishop, Mr. Gil christ and Mr. William Dietrich will participate. —The fifth matinee this season of the Coneer vatory of Music, writ be given in the Aeldeaty of Mueie on Wedneiday afternoon next. —The Chestnut Street Theatre is closed for the present. sir. J. B. Roberts has established a first-rate, theatre at Wilmington Del. —The orchestra matinee on Saturday afternoon was one of the most acceptable of the season, and it was enjoyed more, perhaps, on account of tbe storm out doors. The Children's Symphony, a pleasing trifle, adapted to the holidays, caused great merriment among the juveniles, but the performance was marred, as a worthy music di rettor suggested, by the rattle being out of tune. rive la bagatelle! Mr. Benkert, of Washington, played his own Mazourka In admirable style, and was recalled. Mr.Gilehrist sang a beautiful song. "Nazareth," by Gounod, in a manner to satisfy az d deirglit everybody. He was also encored,and most justly too. On Saturday Schubert's delightful Unfinished Fyn horsy, the overture to Olpheus.and the Begone lint( Care waltz will be given. Rinse has a piano solo. tie the 16th, the revival of the Reformation S?mrkony, the long-promised Feat Overture. by ilohnstoek,end the Mad Cap Galop, by Hopkins, will be given. Mr. Jerome Hopkins, who was prevented last year by the great storm of the winter from appearing, will perform for the first time several piano solos. A great desire is felt to hear him, as he possesses remarkable origi nality and verruntility. LAWILIMB Al EtilliOLS. The Outrages on the Ogeeettee Miler Plantation*. [From the Savannah (Ga.) Republican. Pee 3LI We pnnted yesterday morniog an account of Bbeiiii Dooner's trip to the Ogeechee River plan tations to arrest a party of negroes.against whom warrants bad been issued for larceny and assault with intent to murder. Theliiheriff and his olll cers barely escaped with their lives, and the scenes which occurred while they were down in that country among the negrOes, they state t..) be indtscrwatae. they appear‘u to tie tuvroug,hly organized, armed with new muskets, with bayo nets. and to have regular leaders, or captains, who directed all their movements. It appears that after the negroes rescued the prlsouers and robbed the Sheriff and his officers, atom fifty of them went to the Southfisld plan tation,and after beating and driving away & Sax ley, an overseer, Richard C. Winn, a carpenter, uud James O'Douald, a watchman, and driving the women and children into a negro hut, they proceeded to rob the hones of everything they could conveniently carry, and to haul away a large quantity of rice. After dark Messrs. Winn and Baxley made their way through the woods in the direction of ,the city. They found the road from the Sontidield plantation to the railroad et' °ugly picketed, and could plainly hear the word passed along the line at short intervals. They walked in the woods during the whole night, fearing to travel on the road, and arrived in the city yesterday morning. ARRAN CEMENTS FOR ENFORCING THE LAWS-WO.. MEN AND CHILDREN FLEEING TO THE CITY a ram the Savannah Newe, Dec. 31.3 The trouble un the Ogetchee plantations has, created more excitement in the city than we have had since the election times. Feeling that some action was necessary to teach the blacks that they must respect the law and its officers, and that the lives and property of citizens should be preserved from their unlawful acts,dtteriff Dooner and Henry S. Wetmore,Esm,Ordinary,called upon his Honor, Mayot•Anderson, yesterday morning, for consultation. It was decided that the parties gu ilty of the flagrant outrages committed on Tuesday night, must be rimmed. Mayor Ander son went iu person to Gen. Williams, to nett the aid of the military, but the instructlons•recetved from Gen. Meade prevented the granting of the request. The instructions set forth, that the military mightbe withdrawn at any memento:end the civil authorities must rely upon themselves, and not upon the tailitary;that only after all men and means at the disposal of the civil authorities had been exhausted, could the military act. Un der This decision nothing was left but for the Sheriff to summon his pane comitatus. One hundred and fifty warrants- against Ogeechee negroes wets issued by Justice F. M. Russell, Jr., for robbery by toren upon the public highways, robbery by intimidation, assault with intent to murder, and larceuy. Teeth wore placed in the bands of Sheriff Dooner. A warrant against Solomon. Farley and others was also issued by Jnstice Marsh. O'Donald, one of. Mr. Middleton's watchmen, who was supposed to have been killed, arrived in this city yesterday evening. Hu states that the negroce came and took tom opt of the bones, struck him in the head with the butt of a. musket, beat and kicked him. They marched him up and down the yard, stopping every few minutes to give him. a beating, and finally turned him loose, telling. him that he had better leave quick, and not come back there any more or they would Mania. him. O'Donald went off about a, mile, and took refuge in the house of a cOlored man, whore he remained until morning, and theta started for this city. 011imuld stated that the colored man Fortune wets not killed; that when he was chased he made for the river and dived in, just as a bayonet lunge was made at hint. He then s Nam away from tier place. Before starting to the city, Mr. O'Donald went back to Southfield plantation to bunt for hisfittle boy, who bud been left there the night before. Ile found the child- all ristht,and the party of law less vagabonds gone. They had spout the night at Mr. Middleton's house, and had completely cleaned it and the other housea of their contents. He saw no mercies ou the plitee except the regu lar bands, who had come up to go to work, but there was no one to assign them their tasks, and hey wore lounging abqut the prowises. F. FEMERSTON. PRICE THREE CENTS, . . DC Di, , The Gulf Railroad train brought up from a 1, last evering,a number of women abd chilittaii4: W ho Bald that tbeylad byert drlvon froth off . plan-t I ation ß by the negroes, and had to flee for their lives.. also summons of the Sheriff's posse consitagus created a considerable stir about town last even-'. lag, and those who were toga were busy in mak-. irg preparations for the trip; The Sheriff will . go down this morning with torte sufficient to en-' force the laws and arrest the bad- negates; au& before our paper reaches many of , our read ers the party will probably have left. AttV far ther partlcalars with reference to it vie withholds for prudential reasons. FACTS AND tosfiromir:- —Some of the police are in doubt whether the:, new Mayor belongs to the Foxes or-thee:mks. —Dacotah Territory gives its women the elec.; tire franchise and eligibility to hold °Ms& —Rosa Bonheur is painting a group of degsfor the Czar. Bhninakes 80,000 franca a year.- - - —lt takes thirty thousand men to run the Bulk. day railroad trains in, this country. —Along some parts of the Grand Truk, Rag road the snow is two feet deep. —lt costs $5 and court expenses to wink, at a dy in Oshkosh', Wis. —The Democratic menagerie has been increased: by the addition of a Kerr to the Foxes and! Wolves. —The bad weather on New Year's Dan' It ii now aseortaine.d, was caused by the Inauguratlost of a Reynard. See it? —Two eminent French political economists are at work on a treatise upon the financial affairs of the United States. —Joe Jefferson and Mlle. Jananschek are still. delighting Cincinnati, and both are very successi ful in a pecuniary point of view. —Mktlgen has an elopement and 'marriage ease where the bride was fourteen and the bride groom seventeen years of age. —Lord-Derby Is said to have giVen $lOO,OOO (.o. help the To& party pay their expenses in the re cent election. —The farmers of California are very uneasy because the rainy season has not set in. We - could easily spare them some of ours. —lt Is discoverea that Dumas's novel Count Morel is almost a literal translation from an ob-- scare Neapolitan novelist. —The Military Academy at Woolwich, Eeng land, has been dosed on account of scarlatina having seriously broken out among the cadets. —The Italian Parliament has voted the sum of 62,000,000 for improvements in the Port of Venice, which will take eight gents to execute. —The following compensations have beew awarded by the British goVenment to the Abys. aloha captives: Mr. Rasa= $25,000 apd $10,000 • each to Dr. Blanc and Lieutenant Prideatlx. --The Girard College Passenger Railway lost t some salt yesterday. It was found by one of our, reporters, and can be had by application at this office. —An attempt is being made In Massachusetts to manufacture paper out of sugar-cane, fibres. Bweeteer ought to buy that paper forms new New York Journal. —Queen Olga, of Greece, is credited with be ing the leader of the war party in Athens. She Is very popular, and uses all her Influence to stimulate hatred.against the Turks. —Miss Topp has sent borne to her aged mother in the Gtand Duchy of Mecklenburg, five thou sand dollars and kvery pretty letter—the former a part of the profits of her concertizing tour. charity with Topp of course begins "to hum." —We are informed by, the Ledger-that "Mayor Fox attended divine service, yesterday, as Usual.' This le gratifying, bat several other persons till ibe same thing yesterday, and don't care to have anything said about IL —The Bucyrus (Ohio) Forum argumentatively remarks: "Senator Morton is what we have heretofore named nim, a Roomer , stubbncsegat-. lion, and he will yet be rated as such everwkere and by everybody." —Liszt is supposed to be suffering fro r dropsy. Be bas declared that he will henceforth compose only sacred music, and has promised to leave one-half of his property,about ono hundred thou sand scud', to the church. —A few days ago three Arabians applied at the " police station In Halifax for subsistence. They hod left home several years ago, and had been , lollowing their nomadic nature by wandering over the sea and over many lands. They have experienced want in Demerara and in Jamaica. —As nearly at can be ascertained, there are a million and a quarter Free Masons on the globe. About one-quarter are in the United States, as many more in the British Isles, and most of the remainder on the continent of Europe, it being estimated that there are only 50,000 elsewhere. The Order is increasing everywhere. —lt is only twelve years since the Chicago His torical Society was organized, but it has in that time erected a building that cost $60,000, and.has collected upwards of one hundred thousand ard clee—books, pamphlets, files of newspapers, maps, manuscripts and cabinet specimens. It Is- Low asking far more, and will undoubtedly get them. —Somebody, in one of the Chicago papers, lately thoughtit worth while to make a seedling: attack on Boston; whereupon somebody in an other Chicago paper took up the cudgels in de fence, writing of Boston in this style: 'Assured and many-sided, her feet bathed in the ocean her spires pointing to the aanro , she wears with sing char grace and modesty the character she has achieved. —A new one-penny serial story is being pub lished in London, entitled "Crimes of the Aristo cracy." It professes to be "a series of strange events, undiscovered murders, and other crimes, compiled from important documents stolen from, amovg the private papers of his Royal Memo the Prince Consort on the night of the 14th of December, 1861,\by a. footman in Her Majesty's service!" —Norwegian felted boxes, for cookim i are at— tracting great attention in London. Th e food is. placed upon the regular Bram a short time, and the dish is then removed and enclosed in the fel ted box for three or four - hours, by which time it is asserted, the confined heat completes the pm.. cess of cooking. The apparatus- is coming into use in England for shooting parties and pie-nice, and is recommended as admirably adapted to the. wants of the poor. —The Yankees o! old must have been a sad lot. Edward Ward, who wrote a book about News England, 'which was printed In 111.99, says of the Bostonians of that period " The inhabitants. seem very religious, showing many outward] and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. But, though they wear in their faces the inno cence of doves, you will find them in their deal ings as subtle eas serpents. Interest is their faith, money their god, and large possessions, the only. heaven they covet." • • —Some of the Bnglish papers are dlecussinr Mr. Bright's probable course in ease a war should, break out while he was a minister. r. h' stated: that be consulted a brother Qualcer on the ques tion whether, if ho should accept the Secretary' el ip for India. and war should break out in timers. possessions, be would be looked upon as Sane-. tioning war, and it is hinted that his appirehea,. slob et such an event was a leading cause • of his, refusal of that position. But it la likely that if war in any quarter sbould be resolved upon while. _ he is in the cabinet, he would deem it his daty.ent L, I resign. • —A theatrical audience in Virginia City, Nbyliliw da, is more Interesting than entertaining to , ptfiluu fersional actors. The elegant patrons off latad,l " opera house" have a habit of tbeowinglmor darts neon the stage during a performance, ,tirs i v I dangering the eyes of both male and female itsrr, f t tiers. They - often make "good Ms," toil. .. 1 , 41 are rewarder' with heat ty applause. A yourig '; trying to slog a ballad is obliged to dodgirader ).' cite missiles every -now and then._ __"Wative.f4sW it boys," says a local critic, "throwing brickbats alt' r the heads Of Chinamen, and used to thinitAt i cristitc fun to see them duck their heads- abaur,plwtbls p fun at the opera house is,better, becausil..the i tiat v men .have finer feallogs 'than a 0111ov:hi„tf i til tr they dodgeand paw about so owkiiirdlt; - ludo. and look so intvreßUngly dietteatia”
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