~ HIBSON PEACOCK. Mtor. VOLUME XXII.—NO. 251. THE EVENING jBTJ/'L.L.KTIN; PVBLIfIHKD EVERT EVENING, (Sundays exceptodb AT IHIi HEW BVLEETIIf EmBIKA *OT Chestnut Street, I’Lllutlclplilti, -v mm EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION, rcopurerons. fICBSON PEAOOCK.- CASPER 80BDEB. Jfc. {?. L TUOa^WILL^Mt^ Tfcd Buixma Is served to subscribers Is tho dty at 18 ients per week, payable to the carriers or %8 i>or imnam. AGENTS AND SOLICITORS FOR LIFE INSURANCE Ind *ll persons contemplating Uunrance, ; WILL DO WELL TO’SEE ME. H. G-. WILSON, AT TUB OffltT OF THE Pena, Mntnal Life Insurance Co., 021 CHEBTBTJT STEBET. I*l6atuthtf tpft ao26tf3 907 Chestnut street. WEDDING invitations engraved in the t» Nesreet and beet manner. LOUIS PREKA, Bta* Honor and Engraver, 1(33 Chestnut street. fob 20,-tf MAKBIED. EOAN—MUEPHY.—On the Ist Inst, by Rev. F. J. Bar. belir, B.A. damee W. Ecan. of uesrgeiewo, Colorado, to Mary K, v 4.« daughter et the Ute Dennis Murphy. * DIJ2D. BKOWN--Uo the ereaincof the lotinsL, after a short Junta* at his residence in this city, David Paul Brown, <i; 7 in Lae 4 lit year of his age. 2t the 9lit oltimo, Annie, widow of the late Win. G. MuUln. •tier relatives and Irieods aro respectfully invited to at tend the ftifceral. from her late residence No. 40 North Broad street on Wednesday, the 3d instant, at 10 o'clock A. 11. To ptoeeed lo WoodJanda Cemetery. It _ FUSE Y\—On the Ut inst.at Baltsburg, Indiana county, LeaFn*cj. Punerz-ton Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from the residtDtr* of Lis brother, James C- Pu»ey. at Downing town. Chester countv Carriages will bo In waiting on the arrival of the Fast Line west. learing West PhiladsL rhia *» li &o A. * tSCP MiUT-—On Ibe fGibof January, after a chert ill sea*. Annie H. t wife ut H. T. Schmidt The relatives and friends ara respectfully invited to at tend th* "moral, from tbo residence ol ber husband. No. 214 t orth Ninth strevt»on Wednesday morning. Feb. Sd. at 10 o'clock- Interment *t Odd Fcllo tv** Cemetery* * SMITH - Or tho 29th of Januar>'« JfT. is sac Smith, aywiCl »ea>». - • ;v Tbe relatives and malt friends of tho family are Invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence. No. 107 Pine ittrcef, on this (Tuesday) afternoon, at ft o’clock. Imer raeotf at'Woodland* Cemetery.. • TIC AGNIFICENT BLACK DRESS SILKS. M satin faced orograins. HEAVIEST CORDED SILKS, u WIDOWS' SILKS. NEW LOT. . ,f ; BLACK SILKS WHOLESALE. /'• - EYRE is LANDELC. Fourth and Arch Streets. *»* American Academy of Music. JAMES E MURDOCH WIJ-.Lt BIiAU, LEPER THE AUSPICE « OF The Mercantile Library Company, Monday Evening, Feb 8, 1869 At 9 o'clock. Saloof Seat* will commence at TRL’MPLER'S Music sure* m CHESTNUT Street, WEDNESDAY MuRN ING. February a, at 9 o'clock. Parquet Referred beat# Parquet Circle Reserved Seats Balcony be served Seat* Family Circle Reserved Seat*. -Kt tsr fame insurance company, 406 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 18. IS®. This Company, Incorporated in 1856, and doing a Fire Insurance basiness exclusively, to enable it to accept a (arse amount of buaincer constant)? declined for want of adequate capital, will, in accordance with a supplement to ita charter. Increase Its CAPITAL STOCK FROM $lOO,OOO, ITS PRESLVf AHOUST, To $200,000, M BBABES OF FiFIY BOLLABS EICB, and for which Subscription Books are now open at this office, Bjr order of the Board of Directors. .COABLGS BICHABDSON, , PRESIDENT. WILLUn XI. BHAWS, VICE PEESIDENT. WIU.MIIS I. BLANCIIABD, SECRETARY. . jaaotfrpt RAILROAD CONTRACTORS Proposals will be received at rMAUCH CHUNK, Pat, ontil February the 17th. 1868, for the GRADUATION and MASONRY of the NEBQUEHONING VALLEY BAIL ROAD, including the approaches of NESQUEHONING TUNNEL. ' Speciflcations and Information as to the work in dotail may be obtained on application at the Engineer's Offlco, MaUch Chunk. J. B. nOOBBEAD, Pietldent. 5*14 tfolTrp jy CONCERT HALL MISS JONEB’S WEDDING-No Cards, ON THURSDAY EVENING. February 4. ««. DE CORDOVA, The popular and humorous Lecturer, will (rive Three of hie most attractive Lectures in this olty at CONCERT HALL, as follows: - V ' ON THURSDAY EVENING. Feb. 4. ON THURSDAYE J raN&G^F?h V nP DIN<J - N0Carda - ON THURSDAY EVENING, Fob. 18. MEB- GKUNDY THE BFRATT3 AT SARATOGA. Admission (with Reserved Scat) 60 cents. Tickets for the course (Reserved) $1 60. To bo obtained at GOULD’S, 92S CHESTNUT Street Also at thodeor on the evenings of the Lectures. Doors open at 7. Lecture at 8. foltfrp masr* HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY CORPS LG. GION, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sir; A special meeting of the Legion will bo held at the District Court Room. No. 2, 9. B. corner Sixth and Choatnut-strectßc-on-TUESDAY EVENING, February 2d, 1869. Punctual attendance H earnestly requested, ai impor tant changes to the Constitution will be submitted by the Committee on Permanent Organization, and arrange roenta made to attend, by committee or otherwise, the re-unten of the Army of the Potomac, to bo hold in New JYoik.City, on February 22d next. By order of J, \V. LATTA, President 6th ACL. CHAS. A. GREENE, I D. W C, UANLIMK. ) Hecretauea attiSSf* ELECTRICAL INSTITUTE, w *' 1220 WALNUT BTREET. Philadelphia, February 2d, 1869. „ A class of Ladies and Gentlemen is now forming at Dr. S. W. BEOKWIIH'S, 1220 Walnut street. Philadelphia, for instruction In the use of Electricity for the treatment of Chronic Diseases,to which all desiring to becoming stu dents, both of the medical colleges and othors.aro invited. All students joining the Claps for February Bth, wIU bo samitted to tho Operating Rooms for practical instruc tion. Terms arranged on application. Dr. 8. W. BECKWITH, 1220 W ainut street feßCtept. *ggr .VESSEL OWNERS' AND CAPTAINS' ABBO TT elation, olUce No. 80S Walnut utreot, Philadelphia. A convention of tho Veaael Owners and Captains ox the aeveral States under the ausplcos of tho "Vessel Owners' Solid Captains' Association of the Statos of Penm ylvooia, f»7»mS sr oß^S e i'V?’,?I e V will ho hold at the I'IIILA. KhPHIA CORN EXCHANGE ROOMS on Fob. 3.1863. -Atl3 Ep o oloelc. Ail persons Interested in vessels are iu vited to bo present. By order of the Board of Directors. „ ’ JNp. W. EVEUMAN. President. ■ GHAS. H. STEELMAN, Secretary. jaL".Mt,ri~J —..■,1 ■ , ' ” NOTICES, .75 cent*. .76 centa. .75 cent*. .50 cents. Proceedings of Council.— Last evening the Council of Camden held its regular stated meet ing in the Council Chamber, President J. C. Knight in tho chair. Various petitions wore presented and referred to the appropriate committees. The Finance Committee presented their month ly report, which was accepted. By this report it appears that James C. Sloan, Constable of North Ward, bad collected on the tax warrant of 18G7, for school purposes, $206 40; city and ward par poses, $499 21—total, $705 61; balance nncol 1< ctcd, $8,067 02. The same constable had col lected on tax warrant of 1868 for school pur poses. $59110; city and ward, $3,006 82—total, $3 598 92; balance uneollccted, $17,856 93. William H. Hawkins, for Middle Ward, had collected on account of tax warrant for 1868, for school purposes, $5l; for citv and ward,s2oo 23; total, $251 22. Joan VV. Campbell, for South Ward, had col-, lected on account of tax warrant of 1668, for school purposes, $l3O 28; city and ward, $582 4.6; total, $712 74. Balance uncollected, $5,927 53. Joseph C.'Nichols, Clerk of Councils, had col lected for tavern licenses, $202. The ordinance vacating Bridge avenue, from Becond street westward to the Delaware, was cal'td up and passed without, discussion— This Hives to the Camden and Amboy Railroad Com pany all that portion of the avenue on the north side, between the points named, now used by tho public ns a footway, for the purpose of erecting tuch conveniences as mav be necessary for the transaction of their business. It will also in crease the safety of travel, and prevent people from crossing the tracks at tho dangerous points near the ferry. An ordinance was also passed providing for the paving of Second street, from Bridge avenue southward. This work will be dono by the rail road eompany, in consideration of the vacating of the north side of Bridge Avepuk and will be a _flne improvement. Council then took up the new city charter and proceeded to read and nmeDd it until- it reached the seventeenth section; whon by tho retirement of members, it was found that there was' not a quorum present, and the body adjourned. Sons of Malta:— This organization has ever been noted for its philanthropic deeds, and Is in a prosperous condition. The Carndon Lodgo, in fall regalia, accompanied by a band of music, will visit the fair now bolng hold at the new hall of Wildoy Lodgo No. 91, Odd Fellows, at Fifth and Fine streets, South .Camden, on Thursday evening next, the 4th iust. , SFECIAI, ROTICES, jfty- ONE GOVERNMENT FOB THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINBNT. a MMOtra* oh toh Anon auaixcrr will ba delivered by the . HON. GEORGE CONNELL, AT CONCERT lIALL. Ob FRIDAY EVENING. Feb.6,atBt'cl»:V. Attention i, rwpeetfully called to tin followi tg COR sESPONDE VCE. Hon. Gmk, C'otfwEr.n. State Ben»L>r—Otar Sir - The undesigned have heard that you hare recently delivered at Erie and other Western cittrea lecture on -•ONE S O v>?iK? MEN . Tro i t ¥»™ AMERICAN COtL UNENT," and drairo to liavdtoo pleasure of listen ina to it In Philadelphia. Jl you have no objections, pleaao name the time it will »ult you; public duliee to' repeat this lecturo to the dtl res, of this city < - Very respectfully yours, C. H Clark, William WeLb, Daniel M. Fox. William B. Cimma.. •Tsv Cockn. ftlr.hsrl Vaux, William W. Hardinr, Eli K. Prise, «Phillip?, James d. Clagborn. N. B TBrowno, Theo. Cuvier, A. J. Drexelj John P. Wetherill. Morton McMiehaol. John Fallon, CbviesE. Vyarinuton, D. B Cummins. Celeb Lope, Lewis Wain Smith, Robert Ml Foust, Alfred R. Porter. B Helper Jeffiioa. Henry Bumm. P.B. Mingle. . Vincent L. Bradford. Hexstk Cuaunra. Bskeihucteo. Feb. 3. 1869 ■ OentU- Thanking you for the opportunity of calling the af trniion of my leHow-citizena of Philadelphia to a subject ivbich I regard a, tho next great que.lien ef the day, I fo comply with your request on FBIDAY EhENING NeXT,Fcd. D, at Concer’.HalL Very respect l"Uy Jjurs. GEORGE CONNELL To Messrs. C. H. Clark. Jay Cooke, Mayor Fox. and others. TICKETO TO THE LEOTUBE CAN BE HAD WITH. OUT CHARGE, AT ‘l'llE HALL. fetitop IpSy BV USING THE MAGIC COMB YOU CAN .Color your Hair or Beard at a trifling expense. If £?S^ < Ji 1, ’.ll t v 0O ? ,e and 11 at th ® magic comb co.*s STORE, 623 Arch street, free of charge. Hour for color- Ins 10 to 13 A. M,, and 2 tod P, M. ja2B^trp* MS* THE ANNUAL MEETING FOR ELECTION , . .°. f Managers lor the Franetsville Infant School will be held at the School Room. Eighteenth street, above Guard avenue, second-story, on FRIuAY MORNING, 1 etruarT 6. at 13 o'clock. n- gat- PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL BOGIE •r E “*y °n Plant Culture on TUESDAY - EVE MNP, February 2d. it- «T. PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL , No. 16 South Ninth street. — CiukfooL Hip and SrdnalDfs«M«s.aud Bodily DyromilUa treated Apply laiiy at 13 o'clock. no»3nuM ■SV HOWARD HOSPITAL. NQg. feIB ANlTTfiai Lombard street, Dispeosary Denertment.—Medi al treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to tho poor. 01 r. Hateltlne’, Sale. The most intelligent connoisseurs of the city wtre found last evening in . the large irnthering tbot met at the sale of the Gonpil collection. The Comple Calix, No. 64, brought $675. Htunon’s ‘ Passion Flowers" was pocketed by Mr. Clag horn, at $l7O. Antigua's “Industry" brought t.'!lo. The large Carl Habner, No. 51, was sold to Mr. C. H. Clarke for $6OO. The same gentle man obtained Bridgman's “Children's Favorite” forslso. “The Lunch,” by Paul Soyer, brought ?BU, a bargain. The French pictures nndoubt dly went off cheaper than they could have been bought in Paris. . The ninety-five pictures to be sold to-night | ole much higher in quality than those now dis persed. They include the finest Hamon, “Twi light," the Merle, Willems, Lejeune, the carious Lkegoffe, the Hamman, Lasalle, Selgnac, Chap lin, Kuwasseg pere (.Dover CUffs), Escosara, Fiebel and Bodner, besides several American and German pictures of exceptional merit. The number ol Mr. Haseltines gallery, where the sales are held, is 1125: the bids are elicited with great tact and ability by oar old aod favor i 'c friends Thomas <i Boas. WHAT IT COSIS TO BE A SHERIFF IN 6EOBGU. Killing of the Slierifl of Plckcos County —Deputy Staerift mortally \> outidrd—Escape of a Dcspeiaclo. (From the Atlanta Intelligencer of Jan. ill] Oo tbo 17th instant a desperado from Ten nessee. calling himself Stillboy, but whose real name is Joel Bitchie, came to Jasper, Pickens county, purßned by two or ihree men from Murray connty, who represented to the Sheriff of Pickens lhat Bitchie had stolen some horses in Murray and was making bis escape, and desired the Sheriff of Pickens to accompany them in the pursniL Ho prepared himself, and taking alongwitb him Mr. Warren Brown as a deputy, proceeded in the direction Slillboy.aliaß Ritchie,had gone,until they had gone about six miles from Jasper. On the road from Jasper to Dawsonville they came upon him at the house of a Mr. Padgel and rushed Iff on him and arrested, him, bat not supposing he had an> concealed weapons about his person, did not search him, when,contrary to all expectations,be drew a pislo.l and deliberately shot the Bheriff through the body and killed him, he only surviv ing a few hours. The deputy sheriff thon at tacked Ritchie and was himself dangeionsly, if not mortally wonnded in the arm. Ritchie then went oat and took the best horse they had, mounted him oDd went en in the direction of Elijay, in Gilmer connty, making his way, it is supposed, to East Tennessee. NEW JEBSBT MATTEBS. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1869, a.ETTEHt rßon VAaBinaTON, iDTMtltalieo by she HToaee of Kepre aeniaUifcii into the ftecont Oiacbcu-gew ffrona tlie Pbllaildlpliia Cattoni House by Order of Secretary meCul- Iscb-Tlie rorrckpondence Culled for -Tbo "Inauguration Ball PI addle- Will There be a. BUI or Not?—The Question Doubtful, f Carrwpoodeoco of the Philos. Evening H..n«Hn V WAanmaroir, Feb. I.—ln the House of Repre senjUtlvea to-day, Mr.Glennl W. Scofield, of Penn, sylvania, offered tbe subjoined preamble and joint resolution, relative to a recent transaction at the Philadelphia Custom House, which were adopted by a large majority, without a division. When the reeolntion was offered, objection was made by several members on the Democratic aide, but upon Mr. Samuel J. Randall, representative from the First District, stating that he did not object to th6_resolutipp,_aDd ihitit-would result in austaffifne the position taken by Secretary Mc- Culloch in tho matter,the resolution was adopted. Mr. Leonard Myers, from the Third District,took issue with Mr. Randall upon his statement, and declared that the Information sought would, when given, show that the Secretaiy had no law for w hat he had done. This was all the debate there was upon the tnbject- Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of members of this House that, acting upon an or der issued to him by the Secretary of the Trea sury, the Collector of the Port of Philadelphia dismissed twelve men employed in the Ctistom bonßC of that city, and lhat the Secretary of the Treasury, acting Upon the suggestion of certain official personages residing in Philadelphia, re fused to confirm the diemUsal of the men dis missed by the Collector of said port, and named twelve other men for dismissal, which action on the part of the Secretary of tho Treasury is be lieved to be without precedent or warrant of law. And lhat it is in contemplation on the partof the Secretary of the Treasury to order payment to be made to the said men dismissed by the Col lector of the Port of Philadelphia; therefore, Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury re directed to furnish to the House of Represen tatives the correspondence'upon this subject be tween the Treasury Department and the Collector »Dd Surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia, and ibat he be requested to suspend payment to the i Ulcers dismissed by the Collector until further a ciion of Congress. When the correspondence is submitted to the House it will be found that the transactions are not set forth correctly in the preamble. The first letter addressed by the Secretary to the Collector directed the latter to discharge certain Inspectors, who were named; bnt the Collector declined to obey the order, and selected the same nnmber of other Inspectors, whom be discharged, and re ported his action to the Secretary, who disap proved or his course. This, of course, left the parties whom the Collector had discharged still m their positions, and they have been continued un the rolls here as if the Collector had never discharged them. Tbe report of the Secretary will show that his action in the matter is sos lained by the opinions of the Hon. William M Meredith, or penceylvatila, by William Wirt, and ' precedents established by five of the former Sec retaries of the Treasury, among them the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, now Chief Justice of the United States. The following preamble and resolution, also ' bend by . -Mr--Scofield, were adopted, without a division: Whereas, It bos been stated in the public papers ibat the Secretary of the Treasury is about to order that twelve late employes of the General i.overnment in the Custom House in Philadel phia who were dismissed the service by the Col lector of tbe Port, in consequence oi instructions 'rom the Treasury Department to reduce the force, be paid for the time which has elapsed bince their dismissal, or a part ot it, therefore, Resolved, By the Benate and House of Repre sentatives, lhat the Secretary of the Treasury cause said payment to be withheld until the matter can be examined by Congress. THE ESACGTJRATIOS BALI, JftJDDLE. The inauguration ball matter has become almost as much muddled as the celebrated Alabama claims question. The action of the reDute on Saturday in refusing to allow the hali ul the Rotnnda to be need even for an Inaugura tion reception it was supposed would have resulted in putting an end to all ideas of a bail utooDg the Republicans. It did not, however, ior the National Inauguration Ball Committee if ter wards met and appointed a sub-committeo io wait upon Secretary McCulloch and requested Mm to grant them the U6e of the Cashier’s room n the Treasury Building, in which to hold the noli. This room, it was positively last week, had been granted by Mr, McCulldbh, to ihe ‘•Citizens’ Inauguration Ball Committee,” to cold their inauguration ball In, which arrange ment, it was understood, was a Conservative manoeuvre. Tbe Bnb-Committee from the National Com mittee,consisting of Sergeants-at-Arms Brown,of ihe Senate, and Ordway, of the Honse, and Mr. ' lark, the Supervising Architect of the Capitol, waited upon Mr. McCulloch this morning, at the Treasury Department, and made the request, but ihe Secretary did not give them a decided an swer. He rather favored a compromise bet weon the two parties favorable to getting up a ball,bnt this suggestion will not probably bo adopted, in •smuch as It wonld be like mixing oil and water ogetber, for each side is apparently determined ■o maintain its distinctive characteristics. Iu the meantime, many of Ihe Republicans think it dis courteous to Gen. Grant to get up a ball when be bus so emphatically expressed i lmself sis not desiring any -uch demonstration. Others, however, as rert that Mrs. Gram is favorable to a boll, and hey think ehe may persnade the President-elect to change his mind and be present, and they are determined to get up one, if possible. Then, again, there are" other Republicans who declare that if Secretary McCulloch baß given permission to the Conservatives to use the Treasury build ing for this purpose, they will press the passage ot a joint resolntion through both Houses, pro hibiting the use of any of the public buildings lor any such purpose, and feel confident that they can carry such a measure through. They are opposed to any hull being given. This is the condition of the case at this writing, and it is im possible to predict what new developments may take place within a (lay or two. Tfcc Delaware IVSlipping Post. The Wilmington Com merciid of yesterday say 6: The debate on tbe Whipping Poet,at the Amer ican Mechanics' Lyceum, on Saturday night, was quite lengthy and earnest, but ended without any decision of the question. Several outsiders look part in the discussion, among them Mr. H. H. J. NafT and a member of our city Board ol' Public Education, who warmly defended the pil lory and tbe lash. In tho course of the debate, Mr. Joseph L. Kil gore, one of tbe disputants in the affirmative, stated that he had examined the cases m which lelonv was charged on the Mayor’s docket from January 2, 1868, to Jan. 80, 1889, with the fol lowing result;— Cases in which whipping is not the penalty; Assault and battery with intent to kill 2 Inciting to riot.. . 1 Disturbing religious meeting. Purchasing stolen goods. Passing counterfeit monoy Attempt to break into houses ' Cases Ui which whipping is the ponalty: Highway robbery Burglary Larceny ' 7 ‘ l This statement seemed to (ell strongly with tho audioace. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. AHOTHBB XK Tbree Jffen B tiled and sersn otborm infnred— Tta« accident tbe Ueiuli of CiuelemoNt, StFrom the Troy Times, of Fob, L] On Saturday morning at ten o'clock a loud ex- Plorion fudcier.lv alarmed the inhabitants of the quiet village of Sooth Petersburg, in this county, and for a. few momenta tbeutmost consternation was depicted on every countenauc e. This soon -gave.place to the intensest feeling of horror, as the new! spread from month to: month that the rhocb which had been experienced throughout the. village proceeded from a rock catting .along the track of Parks' Lebanon Springe Railroad, and resulted from the prema ture explosion of a - ean of nitro -glycerine, and that numbers of the workmen engaged upon the road bad been killed and injured. The reality was bad enough, for three men had In an instant been burled into eternity, whUeseven others were little better than mangled, quivering masses of humanity; bnt as it was known that 30 men were at work in the cutting, and as the terrible effect of glycerine was comprehended in a moment, the fears, of the populace magnified the horrors of the accident teniold, and rumors of even greater destruction of life prevailed until the sad reality wasbinown. A shocking sight burst upon the view of those who, hastening to the relief of the unfortunate workmen, were the first to arrive upon the scene. Those who had escaped fled in terror from the place—their cries of horror and alarm mingling with the shrieks of the wounded as they, lay helpless in an agony ut terly beyond the power of pen to describe or tbis mind to realize. Three men—Ephraim R. Webster, the foreman of the works,- John Connors and William Clayton—were blown into masses of almost unrecognizable humanity, while seven others, some of them with arms and legs wrenched from their bodies,lay in all directions— perhaps the most pitiable victims of the horrible calamity. The names of the wounded are John O Neal, injured beyond all possibility of recov ery; Bryan Higgins, Michael Maloney, Patrick Riley, James Conners, Henry Breen and John Rush—two of the last nqmed beinty severely** Iheplace at which the accident occurred lies upon the outskirts of the village. A rocky ledge, some two or three hundred feet long, was in pro cess; of excavation to reduce the grade of the road bed at that point. Mr. Webster was in ehargeof the work, and for the purpose of facili tating the blasting used nitro-glycerine, an ex piosiveAgeni seme twenty times more powerful chap gunpowder. Ho was in the habit of placing the cartridges containing the glycerine in the blasting boles drilled in the rock, and on this oc casion seems to have acted with a carelessness which cost him bis life. The cartridge consisted of a tin In be abont an inch and a half in diame ter and abont three orfour inches long. In this tube tbeglyeeilne was inserted, and. in an inner tube a email quantity of powder, to which the fuse was attached, served as the means of explod ing the fluid when placed in position in the rock. Ou Saturday evening preparations had been'mode to discharge a blast. Mr. Webster had prepared a cartridge, bnt upon examination' found that it . was defective in some way. He picked np a small hammer that lay upon the ground near him and btgon to. tap the cartridge gently upon one ot the ends. In an instant it exploded. One of the men who were killed was standing in the im mediate presence of Mr. Webster, holding in his band a can of the glycerine. The can was ex ploded by the force of the explosion of the cart ridge, and thus the calamity btcamt general. Mr. Webster was blown into a hundred pieces almost, bis b«Ud and trunk being much mangled, while bis limbs were literally torn into shreds. Both Connors and Clayton were also mangled in a horrible manner, and it was with much difficulty that the several parts could be collected and identified. O’Neil, who was still alive this morning, was injured internally and cannot re cover. The citizens of the village and vicinity, many coming a great distance,did all within their power to relieve the sufferings of the wounded. Br. Moeeaand other physicians of the town were promptly at the scefe of the accident, and ren dered all necessary medical and Burgical attend ance. Messrs. Andrew L. Stillwell and Charles Crandall came into the city and notified Coroner Brennan of the accident, and that officer went out and held inqnests npon the bodies ot the victims yesterday. At first the town authorities were averse to any investigation by the Coroner, and when he arrived in Petersburg bad already gathered together the fragments of the body of-Mir. Webster and caused them to be inlerred7~TCoroner Brennan, however, showed them the necessity for an inquest, and soon gained them over to his viows. B. B. Hewitt was foreman of the jury, (vho, after hearing the testi mony in the case, rendered the following verdict: That John Connors, Ephraim R. Webster and William Clayton came to their death on the 30th day of January, 1860, from the explosion of nitro-glycerine used for Wasting purposes, on the Lebanon Springs Railroad, near that portion of the village! of South Petersburg known as Rock Cut; and that said explosion, in the opinion of the jury, might not have happened bnt for the carelessness of one of ihe deceased, Ephraim R. Webster. Mr. Webster is the only one of the killed or in jured whose, residence is known or who leaves a family. He' resided, in Syracuse, where his wife and family also live. The others were workmen who had come there from varlons sections, and some of them bad been bnt a short time in the country. Connors ahd Clayton were buried yes terday in the Catholic buiying-gronnd at Hoosic Falls, a large concourse of citizens being present on the sad occasion Trouble Between tbe Government and Uie nench—Ttae French Admiral Ue lUNlug to Recognize the Blockade. By tbe arrival at New York, yesterday, of. the 1 brig Oliver Cutts, direct from Port-au-Prince; in 14 days, we have Haytlan advices to the 17th January. The news is important. There was a prospect of serious trouble be tween the French and the Haytian Governments. The demand of the French Admiral that Vic torina (Jhovalier, the Governor of the town of Gonaives, should make an ample apology for insults to French subjects at that place, had not been satisfactorily responded to.--Matters had become further complicated chrengh the attitude ussumed by toe Admiral relative to the bloekade of tbe rebel Haytian forts. It appears that re cently that functionary paid a visit in his flag ship to Bt. Marc, which is held by tho insurgents under Niesoge Sagei, and is tho scat of the Rebel Government. While his ship was lying there two French merchant vessols at tempted to enter the port, but were prevented doing so by the presence off the port of the Hay lian war steamer Balnave. Upon Doinginformod of ibis the Admiral immediately got up stream, left Si. Marc late in tho ovening, and the next morning relnrned to St. Marc having tho two vessels in tow. He had positively refused to re cognize tho blockade, contending that it was not effective, and, therefore -according to the terms of tho treaty of Paris, not binding. It was be lieved at Port-au-Prince that tho French wore aetiDg in concert with tho insurgents. While he was at St. Marc a 7'e Demit was cele brated on board his ship, at which Soget and all his Ministers were present, as well •as the officers of tbe British man-of-war Niobo, then in that port. Ih fact, it was reported at Port-au-Prince that the Admiral had recognized the rebelsas bolligorohfii, and that it was his intention to insist upon French merchant vessels being allowed free in gress and egress at all the ports held by the in surgents. It was further reported that too rebel authorities had pledged to the Admiral a portion of all their coffee shipped in French vessels to ward tho liquidation of tho debt owing. to Fiance Susquehanna DI9ASTEBB. HAXTI. »y Hay ti. Meantime Salnave had published In the Monsieur the despatch of See rotary So ward refusing it.e prop clion of the American Government to any American veatoi which should attempt to enter Hayttan ports in violation of the blockade, the MonUeur eulogizes Mr. Seward’s despitch oa conformable with right apd justice, and main tains that the Bay Usd navdl'forees, conveniently distributed along the wboleoxtent of the coast, “5“ constantly, in movement, arc keeping up an * ncctiyo blockade. The French Admiral, accom popudby the Nlobe, had returned to Port-au- Princo from St. Mare, and the oflicers of both vessels had expressed themselves as delighted with the reception' they met with at the ! latter place; Secretary Seward bad written to the United States Minister at Port-au-Prince, asking expla nations of the nncontradicted statement that on tw o occasions Hay tian war-vessels had gone into action flying the American flag—the first being that of the attack upon the rebel war vessels at Petit Goanr, which was destroyed bv the Petiou, and tbe second, the bombardment ot theTown of Jeretnie, by the Solnave, the American Minister being, in the latter case, on board at the time. President Salnave was still in the South direct ing military operations. The American Minister a * Port-au-Prince had received despatches from (lie President,but nothing was known at Port-au- Prince further that the Government forces were operating successfully againßt the rebels. From Jacmel, Cape Hayti ana Gonaives dates to the 9th ot January had been received, bat matters re? mained unchanged at those places. , The affair of the American schooner De Hart was amicably settled through the intervention of the captain of the United States war steamer Nipsic, which subsequently left for Aspinwall. The De Hart was at Port-au-Prince for charter. A deoree had been issued by the Government, requiring all foreigners in Hayti to register their names and their occupations at offices designated by the Government for that purpose. The meas ure, says the decree, is simply precautionary, and not intended to operate In any way against for eigners in Hayti engaged in legitimate pursuits. 4 AiUIISIS [BENTS. —lf the success of the Galtons upon the first of their engagement at the Chestnut is of the future, thgyjyill-bavtreauee to congratulate themselves that thev ventured upon the • enterprise. The house was crowded, and tbe greatest enthusiasm was manifested by every body. Th 6 operetta “SG” was the attraction upon the bills, and it was even more of an attraction than of old. for it was given entire, and the pleasant little airs con&ined in it wore sungverv charmingly. Miss Snsan Gallon of course carr ried oif most of the honore. She played with her accustomed animation agd verve, and her Bingin'* was characterized by, as much igrace and sweeP nesß aB usual. This young ladv fairly deserve! jho remarkable popularity ' that she has won. Her voice is a clear, flexible soprano, of tolerable compass, and her method is excellent. Evidently she has had careful training and a good musical education much better than any ether member of her com pany. Ae an actress she is even bettor than as a singer. She is pretty, and there Is a certain vi vacity and a graceful abandon about her move ments that does not fail to please; She is head and shoulders, and several ribs besides, above any of the comic opera singers who have ap peared here as members of foreign companies. She deserves especial credit moreover for the fas tidious delicacy of her performance. There is not a look, a gesture, or a word throughout, that can give offence. Whether this will recommend her to the people who frenzied over the gross and unpleasant Tostec, we do pot know, but it is quite certain that it will win for Miss Gallon the favor of refined and decent people. Mr. Wbiffln’a performance last evening was ex cellent. He is a little careless sometimes with his singing, slurring his notes and missing the time; but he has a fine voice, andhe is one of the beat comic actors upon the stage. With Miss Gallon he deserves high praise' for his propriety. The chorus last night was large, containing nearly if not quite as many singers as the chords ot the Riehings’ troupe—with many of the per rons who appear with that company. They sang with precision and good effect. The orchestra is large, and it was ably conducted by Mr. Wm. G. Dietrich. Altogether the entertainment was of l be most satisfactory character, and we sincerely hope Mlbb Gallon may always be able to present so good a performance to such a large andienee, while she remains at the Chestnut. —A large audience attended the Theatre Comi que last night, to witness the debut of Mr. J. Holmes Grover, the comedian. This gentleman wa6 announced to appear in a drama entitled, The Way of the Wicked , but unfortunately, tbe pro gramme bad to be changed at the last moment. It seems that some of the machinery necessary unmake The Wayof the Wicked smooth and easy, had been delayed by an aggravating railroad company—themselves owning a railway of the wicked—and the piece could not be produced. One of the missing effects is a sawmill with a sharp and deadly array of gang-saws, which threaten to slash into the anatomy of Mr. J. Holmes Grovor, who is fastened to a log, and would inevitably be cut to pieces if it were not for the opportune arrival and intervention of the heroine. The Press this morning describes this scene accurately, and in forms its readers that it and the play were pre sented last evening, ft was a very poor guess. The machinery is expected to arrive in tifffe for to-night, and everybody who loves a sensation will find an opportunity to gratify their tastes with one of the most exciting evor presented upon a stage. If we can judge by the perform ance last evening, Mr. Grover is a player of good abilities. His specialty is Irish comedy, and he is quite as good in parts of this kind as any of bis rivals. —Mr. De Cordova, the well-known comic lec turer, will appear In Concert Hall on Thursday evening, and discourse on ‘‘Miss Jones’s Wed ding.” —Mozart’s Twelfth Mass will be sung in the Academy of Music on Thursday evening by the Handel and Haydn Society, —On Monday evening next,at the Academy of Muslc,Mr. James E. Murdoch, the tragedian,will read under the auspices of the Mercantile Li brary. —At the Walnut, this evening, the drama After barb will be presented, with the farce The Swiss Swains. The manager, we perceive, announces for next Saturday afternoon an anomalous “daylight performance After Dark," —Twelfth Night continues to attract large au diences at the Arch. It will be repeated this evening. - The American announces a miscellaneous entertainment tor this evening. —To-morrow (Wednesday) night Madame Jo sephine Schimpf will give a concert at Conacrt Hall. It promises to bo a first-class entertain ment. Tichots can bo procured at Trnmpler’s, Boner's and Gould’s. —The “wonderful musical rocks," and tho wonderful musical instruments with wonderfully bard names, will bo performed upon at Assembly Buildings this evening by Mr. Madisou Obrey. Great Railroad Coukbinatioit— Further Particular*. IFrom the Cincinnati Commercial, j The stockholders of the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway Company, at their meeting to-night, refused to loose their road to the Atlantic and Great Western and Erie Railroad Companies, and ratified a lease of their road and property, in perpetuity, to tho.Pittaburgh, Cin cinnati and St. Louis and the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies. The vote was large, com prising nearly all the stock of the Company. The lease takes effect on the Ist of February. When Judge Jewett,, representing the Pan- Handlo and Pennsylvania Railroads, offered tho counter-proposition, it was unanimously ratified. Tho contract offered by tho Now. York and Erie was to, pay the interest on the debt of the Co- F. la. EETHERSTON. MKsher. PRICE THREE OEjfe. and Indiana Contraband 'to sto «fc§oltlcr» an average-amatol gg^srfjs-agatassSßS. slOM!>°owi k waa votod - The capital atoelc 1 far PACTS AND WANeIES, watermelons are plenty in Florida. i —Salm-Salm's book displeases French critlei* l an Indiana jail the female convicts mt. number the males three to one. ■ B Wr Minn^°ta f has a new journal di Uio Swedish hmmiage called the S«Jia£ Jfi£ ne-tota Bladet. The Roman type is used. ' , —Miss Lucille Western has been playing In H«a IlSen. 800 6inCe the Tccenf «eatlnjf her slater ih7v™£ii r !? l ' la ’\ ce Belffe (B.russeh) states that the Emperor napoleon means to summon to the Senate a Protestant Pasteur and a Jewish RabbL‘ —The Navy Department has changed the color of vessels from the dingy lead to a sort of*. —Wisconsin paid last year ten dollars bonatr for each ol 1,231 wild cats, 190 Ivnzes. and 241 wolves. • ■ * • —Enamelled bricks for store fronts have been introduced in are made of any —lt is estimated that $200,000 in gold are daflr *° Bt . an S. won a * car< ls st private clubs in Pans. The cards alone coßtabont $l,BOO every nigbt. w —The New Lisbon (Ohio) Patriot grieves to learn that some of onr school girls carry toilet* glasses to school, and paint and powder when they shonld be engaged in their studies." —Another indication of peace. The French Minister of Marine is about to nominate five-. A dmirals, forty-six Captains aud forty-two Liett tenants. - —The Emperor of Austria has sent a magnih cent missal, enriched with exquisite miniature*, as a preeent to the Pope. This cfitf dWuvre ot' its kind has employed nineteen artists lor ten days. —“Vaccinate yonr children and kill y onr dogs,” is the advice of a country paper in Ohio, which State has small-pox and hydrophobia in nuplea sant quantities. : ~y —A man In Greensboro, Vt., nearly broke bis wifes neck, recently, by playfully shaking her. Hemcck cracked, she became partially paralyzed and was confined to her bed several days. ■ —An exchange says: “It coßts ten dollars to knock down one’s sister in Mobile.” It is not long since it cost a thousand dollars in JllbbUd to “ knock down ” one’s sister on 'thtf atietion' block. . ,■ , ; . ; —Mr. Dierborger, of St Louis* married a.wife on Tuesday complained of chills bn, Wednesday, mode his will on Thursday, went mad bn Friday and. died on the following ■ f ’ —Orders hove been received at the Arsanal of Bonrges, France, to despatch a large quantity of muskets to Marseilles, and 4,000,000 rounds of ball cartridge have been packed for transport br by rail. •• —One of the Minnesota papers speak of-a neighbor as “the nondescript newspaper con cern” which is published by the “senile slinger of unsavory English and crazy crotchets." " ' —Rev. Mr. Trask’s antidote for tobacco; is - “Resolution, gentian and tho grace of God.” The gentian root, coarsely ground, is to be chewed in stead of tobacco until the appetito fof the'latter die* out, and can be purchased at the apothe cary’s. —King John of Saxony has just published * popular edition of his verse translation of “Dante.” Contrary to the rale in the caseftif royal authors, his Majesty, it is said, has pro duced a work which is considered excellent, and deserves the esteem in which it is held in. Ger many. , ... t ., -The Madrid correspondent of the' London Daily News writes that the Spanish ctergy are greatly alaimed by the sale of Protestant books, and an association has been formed for tho pur pose of reinstating Catholicism as the sole re ligion of the State on a firmer basis than ever,and to the exclusion of all others. , —Tho palindrome is a line that reads alike backward and forward. One of the beat is Adam's f first observation to Eve— “ Madam, I'm Adam!” Another is the story that Napoleon, when at St Heiena, being asked by an. Englishman if he could have sacked London, replied: “Ablo was I ere I saw Elba.” The best palindrome, probably,’’fix the language. The following, the third and lastj reads precisely the same backward as-u forward: “Snog it raw was I ere I saw war & gunß." —A celebrated cliff in Denmark, the “Queen’s Seat. ” recently fell bodily into the Baltic, from a shock of earthqnake. The rook, about 400Tce.t high, was an object of great interest to tourists from the magnificent view to be had from it. Everything has disappeared except some masses of chalk, which form a sort of Island near the shore. No life has been lost, but the inhabitants and neighboring villages were terrified at the noise produced, which lasted several seconds. —The Georgia Statismun says that Harriet Beecher Stowe “has now the effrontery to solicit patronage for a new paper, of which she is editress. Is it possible to stigmatize too severely so malignant a foe to hnmanity—ono who. though a woman, has so far nnsexed herself that she can watch, with the satisfaction of a Mo hawk, the writhings of a prostrate and suffering people, and seek to *tab them as they writhe?” The editor of the Savannah Afors adds:. “Not content with the‘blood money’ which she ha* already received for her Hecate’s share in the in fernal incantations of hypocrisy, falsehood and envy which first conjured up the demon of . dis cord, arid then let loose the furies of sectional haired and fraternal strife, she Is now seeking to invade our Southern hearths and homes with her false morality, her pernicious, demoralizing and debasing fanaticism.” —Filz Greene Halieck and Joseph Rodman Drake were fast friends, and wrote much to gether. The American Flag, written by Drake between the 20th and 25th day of May, 1819, originally couclndcd with the following lines: “As fixed as yonder orb divine, That saw thy bannered blaze unfurled, Shall thy proud stars resplendent shine, The guard and glory of the world.” These not satisfying the author, ho said, “Fits, can’t you suggest a better stanza ?” Whoreupoa Halieck sat down and wrote, on the spur of the moment, the liDes, which Drake Immediately ac cepted and incorporated In his, perhaps, moat popular poem: • ■ L • “Forever float that standard sheet! i <x>.. Where breathes tho foe but fall before US ? With freedom’s soil beneath our feet, And freedom’s banner streaming o’er us ?'* • ' —The Medico-Chirurgical Academy at Bt.Pc tersburg conferred, at its recent annual confer ence tbo degreo of M. D. upon Mme. Kaechewv arow. tbo first female candidate for. this honor who hod presented herself before them. When her name was mentioned by the dean it was re ceived with an immense storm of applause, which lasted fof several minutes. The coremonyofta vesting her with the insignia of her dignity being over, her follow-student 3 and new colleagues lifiedher upon a chair and carried hor with tri umphant shouts through the halL At this mo ment Mme. Lucca, the prima donna, was espied among tho audience, and such was the students’ fickleness that tbo indy doctor had to yield her elevated seat to the popular singer. The tatter not only remained in undisputed possession of On extemporized throne, but was carried open ii to her carriage, while the new doctor hail to Sad what comlort she could in her diploma. • : ■■ ■
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