GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 9. SDHK lEVENING BtriiXiETlNj , PUBLIBHKD BVKBY EVKNIHO, c ' ' ” (Bnndaya excepted), U TBE BBW BULLETIN BUILDING. OOT Ciiotnut Street, Fbitautelpliia, evening ttTnujmN association. PBOPBICXOBS. ffss, r FRANCIS WELI 8. Tbe Bou-rrm Is served to sabscrlbers In the city et 18 »«nt» per weefc.p»T»l>lc to tho carriers, or 89 per ennnm. WEDDINQ CAKDB. INVITATIONS FOB FAB ¥V Use, Ac. New styles. MABON *CO.. «n2SUB 607 Chestant street. WEDDINQ INVITATIONS ENORAVED IN THE W Newest end best manner, LOUIS DBEKA, BU tloner and Enxraver, 1033 Chostnnt street. feb3A-tf MARRIED. BORDEN—RBEVE. -On Saturday, April 17tb, at St. Lake's Cbutcb, Germantown, b» the Rot. John Rodney, Francis 8. Borden to.Eagenla, daughter ol the lateißarouel Reeve, of Washington, D. C. ' DIED. BONSALL.-On Second-day morning, April 19th, Hannah, widow of the late John BoneaU.agea 81 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respect fully Invited to attend hor faneral, from her late resi dence, No. 1120 Girard street, on Fourth-day after noon, at 8 o'clock. , .. EDWARDS.—FeII aaleep, on the evening of the 18th insLi Helen Edwards, aued 23 years, wile of the late Kicbaid h’. Edwards, U. S. N—and daughter of Ed ward C. Darling. , . , IAWLOB.—On BuDday .evening, 13th Inst-, after a painful Illness, Mr. John Lawlor, aged 52 years and 5 months. Due notice will be given of tbe faneral. STEWART —On tbe I7tb Inst., Mary J. Stewart, in tbe 27th ye ir of her age. The relatives and friends are respectfully tnvttcd to attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother. John B, Stewart, 1703 Latimer s'reet, onToesdav af ternoon, 20th Inst., at 2 o'clock. Interment at Mount Moriah. * SMITH.—April I»tb, Mary E. Smith, daughtcr.of tbe talc Edward Sml'b. " SWANN.—Suddenly, on tbe 18tb Inst, Charles Swann, formerly ol Worcestershire, England. Faneral from his late residence. Burlington, Due notice wilt be given. E*“ * landlEl, — 4iro ARCH ; OPEN THIB MORNING. NEWFABUICB FtiUJUPBB. HU KCHAIN AUSTKIEN. ES. SERGES, FONCEEB, tic. Ac. BFEVIAL NOTICES. fiSTRev.T. DEWITT TALMAGB WILL LECTURE TO-MORROW (TucatUy) EVENING, AT CONU&iiT HALL. For tlie Benefit of Bund-ynlcbocl Library o i theFleventb Bapl’et Church. talj-xt—"Oar Sea Home; or, the Pleaate* of Hons* Huafnff." No dbappolntm-nt. Mr. Talmue has telegraphed that he will certainly fulfill bis •DSMemtnt. Tickeje S 3 eta. hrseivcd Btats. M cents. Forssle at Gould's. 623 Chest nut street, and fioulhwret corner Seventh and Brown streets. 11 B@r GRAND STEREOPTICON TBIB (MONDAY) EVENING XT NOitTH ItBOAD STHEET PI’.EJBYTERI AN CHUECIL Corner BROAD and GEEF.N Streets. Admission -Twenty- five Cents. It FOK CITY TREASURER, JOSEPH R. PEIBBOL, S übleot to Democratic Bates. yy. NOT.CB TO BTOCKHOLLERB. OFFICE OF THE NESQUEIIONINQ VALLEY RAIL ROAD COMPANY, Na 123 8. SECOND STREET ruiLADSLPUJA. April 19th, 1869- Tb 6 ftccod lcrtfthneDtcf IEN FEK CENT., or FIVE DOLLARS ter »b»*e, on the Caplinl Stock of this Oom ptnr.U In by order ©f the Hoard of Director*, p*y able at tb© Office of tho Company on the lot day of May n stocfcfaoMCT*b*vetheprlTfle*eof payin*tn fall and receiving certificate* for their tfock. which bean interest at the rate of TEN FEE CENT, from March Ut..payable eemiaanaally. aplP-ftt W. a WHITNEY. Treasurer. UP ORIGINATION BF.RVIUE, AND FAREWELL B* 3 'MISSIONARV MLJTIING. „ . . Mr Edward P. Capo, Iwho depart* no*t Wednerdty for China,aa aMlMlvnary of the Board of foreign Mi»- eionsof the ProebjteriinChareh.) will be ordiinedby Ibo Central Preabytery of Philadelphia, in the Central Preabytcrian Church. Eighth and Cherry etreeie, on Monday Evening. April 19 at quarter to 8 o’clock. Rev. Dra. Speer, Margrave and Bead, and Meean. D. A. Con ningbam and J. A. Henry rriiltake part lo the eervlce* All lntereated in Foreign Mluions are cordially Invited to attend. apli -JPrp tuf CAMFU 1R REDUCED!CAMPHOR REDUCED: lOCOOpoanda pure Camphor (the odit eure tbing for zso 4 bs) for eaie in pound smaller ptckagoa, at ®l Ear pound* at HIMES & tJOVd Drug and Faint Ware oate, Mo. UQ3 Market street ap!7-2trps TO ARCHITECTS OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FORTHE ERECTION OFPUBUC BWLD*NGS. , April 6, 1869. “ Design* for Devr Public Buildings, to be erected on In dependence Square, to tbe cityW Philadelphia, with toeciileatioafl. and estimates foi\ the samo, will be re celyidat the OFFICE OP THE YdEPABTMBNT OF NoS24 Bontb FIFTH ftrceUmtilthe FIRST DAY OF SEPTEM BER next, at 12W. Architects intending to submit maos wilt receive cir culars containing full in'ormetion ria to the General ehir acterof the proposed bulls togs, the amount of accom modation to be provided. Ac., fa; applylog, either per. tonally or by letter, to tho undersigned, secretary of the Board of Commissionere, at tho eoutnwest corner of >Vatout and Fifth etreeta . , Apreißlam of A 2.000 will be paid for tho design possess ing toe mOit merit. 81 &ai for tbe second best. 81,015!i for Hie I bird, and $6OO for the fourth. Tbe decision upon the merito of the plana to be made, and the premiums to be awarded, by <u® Board ol on or before the Brat da; of Octob* r next, at 13 M. All rejected plans will he returned. By order of the Board of Commissioners. H. (j. nulrlx, Secretary. ap7 lBtsrp GOME TO BETHANY ! SUNDAY SCHOOL IN »*w etitute.—lhe PernflylTauia Sabbath School Aaso elation a © now holding » vOTiotgreßtlng Institute, at the BETHANY MIBbIoN, TWENTY-s ECuND aod SiHHPEN atreeta. to which the public are invited. These meetings are greatly iDcreased'lti interest by the presence of the most ropular Sunday School men in the country. Kev. Meaen. Titt'MBBLL, of Mas-aachoseits; J. H. VXN CENT* of New Yotk; and EGGLESTON, of Chicago. THIS (Monday) EVENING, atB o’clock Rev. G. A Pelfe will deliver an Address on on to Our Scholars*»' Rev. J. H. Vincent, on “Work in the SeniorDepiruuent;*’and Rene Guillou, Esq, on * rne Teachers* Meeting for Study. n Let ns have a good r»lly of Sunday School workers, and the Christian puMic generally. The Meetings will be continued every day and evening until Thursday. lts jt&r NOTICE.—APPLICATION WILL BE MADE bv the underßigned to the Department of iiiehw ays. No. 104 South Fifth etr< et* on SATCRDA V. the 24th Imt.. at IS o'clock M.,for a Contract for Paving Harrison street, from Main street to Willow street In tne Twenty-third Ward, the following named persons having signed a con tract therefor* via.: H. XL Al en. Lynford Rowland. <J. H. Geire* Byron Woodward* Charles F. Holmes. Anthony WenzoU, Lewis Blit Alice Cooney, Emma (J. Woodward, Robert Brow n, John Sballcroßs* James A, Knorr. .Joseph B. Ketnp, Bsmuel H. Perkins. All persons interested may at »p°2 faarp tim ° an<i pl>c,ilt yCp-TURKISH BATHB. UOS GIRARD BTRBETj FROM The' Ladies' department strictly private. Opon day and evening. apt ttrpj SAVE AND IMPROVE YOUR PROPERTY ! By Painting »t once. 20,000 pounds durable Paints, ready mixed, all coloia Pots and brushes loaned. At BIMES A SON’S Steam Paint (Vorka, 1102 Market Street. apl7-2triiB CHZ3F- PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL. BOCJ. etv—Stated Meeting and Monthly Display. TUES DAY EVENING. April 20th. »• HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS- 1618 and 1620 LOiA ' bard street. Dispensary Department—Medical treatment and medicine lnrnlshed gratuitously to the poor. —Tlio fol'owlng explanation of the strange conduct of Qonnod, the French composer, at Borne, which recently gave rlße to the rumor that he Intended to become an austere and ortho dox Catholic, and to write no moro oporatlc music, is furnished by hlslntimato friends. When Gounod has worked a long time at a new opera or oratorio, he Is liable to fits of hypochondria, ■which In bis .esse generally assume the character of religious exaltation. : After a week’s duratloD, however, these fits, during which he always uses the language that leads others to believe that ho will leave operatic music henceforth alone, disap pear, and Gounod resumes his operatio composi tion with as much nonchalance as If ho had never talked about writing In future nothing but ora torios. “ EUROPEAJST ATT'AIKS The London Press on tbe Appointment of Blr. motley to be tan Englliill Allals ter. Tbo Timet of April 6 Bays: “Tho recall of Mr. Reverdy Johnson baa long been looked npon us certain, not oDly becapee incoming Presidents generally use freely tbeir power of making new appointments, bnt because be le, justly or other wife, ont of favor with tbe Republican party, and bis chief work—the Convention with Great Britain on tbe Alabama Claims—ls looked npon as definitely set aside. Mr. Motley will como to a country which be> knows, and where ho Is well known. Mr. Motley's reputation as a distinguished man of letters, no less than bis diplomatic position, will lnsarc him a hearty welcome in this country; nor la there any type of Minister whom we woald receive more gladly than tbe historian and the scholar. Mr. Motley, however, would be tbe first to admit that Id him we must recognize one who has decided opinions on the matters in dispute between us and tbe Americana. Whatever may bo bis social or hlB historical prepossessions, ho is, as far as actual politics are concerned, a thorough repre sentative of the Northern Republicans. We may expect to find In Mr. Motley an oarnest and nncoic promising supporter of the opin ions which are said to be dominant among his countrymen. In tbe matter of tho Ala bama claims bis principles and conduct are not likely to be alloyed by any weakness for ns. Wo have nothing to complain of In this, and are, in deed, disposed to prefer dealing with a nation through a Minister who represents Its prevailing impulses. Bach a man may be more harsh and < xacllDg in a negotiation, but when tbe business is concluded there is at least tbe satisfsettan that It Is likely to prove a real settlement. In other respects Mr. Motley will probably prove a minis ter oi an order very nnllke Mr.Reverdy Johnson. We shall lose a genial and indefatigable speeeh maker, but shall gain In exchange a geottemaa who will be understood on both sides of the ocean lo say only what the great mass of his country ice c really means. Tbo I ondon Press on Itlr. motley's Probable course In tlse Alabama question. The Timet of April 6 says: “It is a great thing, however, to feel ourselves demonstrably iu the right. This conntry has gone to the extreme ot concession in the matter of the Alabama claims. It has agreed to refer everything except 1,8 owu boDor to arbitration, and to tbe judg ment ef a mlitd Commission. It has agreed to give Americans who profess to have been wronged, every opportunity to assort tbeir claims by providing that the Com mission shall hold its sittings at Washington. Except absolute submission to every demand the Americans may choose to make, there Is nothing further that could have been conceded. It is likely that, assuming tbe present Convention to be set aside. Mr. Motley will be instructed to ouen negotiations for another, differing somewhat in machinery, bat embodying similar principles. Should this be the case, oar Government will be ready to give tbo proposals a fair consideration. Should ii, on the other hand, be tbo desire of the Americans to keep the question still unsettled, the British nation, having folly manifested Us good disposition, will not feel bound, however, to Initiate fresh negotiations.” IRELAND. Suicide of Lord Cloncurry. The English papers of the Gth lust, mention Lhat Lord Cloncurry committed enicide on Satur day. at his residence, Lyons castle, county Kil dare, Ireland. His lordship had been nnder restraint for some time, having recently twice attempted self-destruction by the most extraor ‘Unary means, but on Saturday be eluded the vigilance of his medical attendant and threw him self from bis bedroom window, the result of the injuries be received being that be survived but an hour. The deceased peer (Edward Lawless) was the third baroc; was born September 13,1816,and succeeded bis lather In 1853. He leaves a widow, Elizabeth,only daughter of John Kirwan,of Castle Hackett, and eight children,' of whom four are sons and fonr daughters. Cardinal Cullen on the Irish Church The following are Cardinal Cullen's words in relerence to the Irish Church bill In his recent pastoral: Most important measures are now pending be fore the Legislature. If the great and wise states man now at the head of affairs carries them successfully through both houses of Parliament we may hopo that a new era of peace and pros perity will dawn upon Ireland, and that our past sorrows and afflictions will soon bo forgotten. However, we Bhonld Dot pat too much trust in human power or wisdom ; the best considered undertakings of man are fre quently defeated, and Id the present case private interests undoubtedly will be preferred by meo of Influence to the public welfare. Indeed, the vota ries of ascendancy are threatening everything vio lent if their monopoly be interfered with, and they are so foolish and fanatical as to declare that they, In their own defence, will oppose the Impe rial government or kick the Queen’s crown into the Boyne. AS EXPEDITION FOB CUBA. Preparations in New Orleans—'The Colstltuuil Declined by Harry tTays- Gencrul Steedman Che Probaole Leudcr—Altitude of she Government. Niiw Obleans. April 18, 1869 Preparations are actively on loot in this vicinity for "a formi dable and well organized expedition to aid the insurgent Cabans, and it will no donbt be of a serious character. Men are being ongaged rapidly and sworn to secrecy, and a number of brass howitzers have recently been purchased here and sent to some unknown destination. There seemß to bo no lack of money, bat there Is so much blowlDg at street corners, and so much publicity and gasconade, that the matter nmy drop through from pare mismanagement The government officers either cannot or will □ot take any effective steps to stop the move ment, and no defluito instructions can be ob tained ftom Washington regarding it. It is stated that the command was tendered to Horry Hays, an ex-Confedoralo Major-General, who, through bis personal popularity among hia oid soldiers and bis knowledge of Spanish war fare, could collect around him at a day's notice two or three thousand veterans. Notwithstand ing that very considerable pecuniary induce ments have been held ont to him, he declines on the ground that be is too old and has too good a law practice to give it np. General Steedman remains tho probable lcador. He is brave, bat wanting in prudence, discretion and self-command, and if he gets off will make either a etriking success or a moßt complete and disastrous fai'ure. Collector Casey, who is a brother-in-law of the President, says openly that ho does not want to bear or know anything abont expeditions of any kind, and District Attornoy Morgan states that bis appeals to Washington lor definite Instruc tions are answered only with vaguo generalities. Marshal Herron, who has recently returned from Washington, hints that ho shall keep up appear ances, bat do little— Herald. —A Son Francisco thief recently levied black mail npon a mourner by stealing the bones of a deceased Chinaman and demanding so much money for their restoration. As a Chinaman never gets to heaven unless his remains rest in the soil of the Flowery Kingdom, tho demand was complied with. —Half a dozen girls in an English boarding school thought it a good joke to send a valentine to the Pope,and they did so, also enclosing a let ter with tho pretty taleehood that .thoy had dis carded chignons and trains, In accordance with his suggestions. Thoy rooeived a nice lottor from Antonolli and tho autograph blessing of tho Pope. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1869.* DISASTERS. THE OIL FI BE IN PITTSBURGH. Later Particulars* Tho Pittsburgh Commercial of SaturJaysaya: Tbe great oil fire at Messrs. Forsythe Bros, continued unabated during Thursday night, ahhongb it did not spread any, and yesterday morning was burning as strong as ever, that Is, ibe tank of dlstilate and crude and tbo tank of benzine. An explosion occurred at the crude tank yesterday morning, and in a few moments thereafter a dense column of smoke rose high In the alt Shortly after tbe explosion tbe report became current In town that tbe twenty tboesand barrel tank, at tbe extreme cast, had caught fire and bare ted. A visit to the premises, however, proved this to be a mistake. The large tank mentioned is still in tncl, and the prospect is that it will be saved, tbongb there can be no certainty of its security nntil tbe fire has burned out. It is one hundred and thirty-five feet from tho burning tanks, but should any of the latter collapse again, as Is ex pi ctcd, it may take fire, and there is no telling where tbe fire would then end. At half-past II o’clock last night tho six thou sand barrel tank of refined oil, which took fire i be first day,and which it was hoped coaid be ex ringuished, overflowed in consequence of the water which was in the tank becoming heated, and the oil mounted up in fiery columns at least »te hundred feet, the light being plainly visible from tbe suspension bridge. Tbe flames soon after communicated to tbe frame boose owned and occupied by Nicholas Snyder, one side of which had been torn off,and ibis building was entirely destroyed. While the fire was in progress last evening the scene was indescribably grand. The immense columns of seemingly liquid fire were rolling up io the bight of fully one hundred feet, making tbe surrounding places as light as Doon-day. Tne mllside was covered with families and their honse nold furniture, all the spectators watching the ti re with the utmost interest. At two o'clock the lire was decreasing, and it Is prpbable that no lurtber damage will be done. Two general alarms were sounded after twelve o’clock, and the entire fire department responded promptly. Tbe total loss will be about $250,000, insurance $69,000. hbE in tbe pi ttsburgh house OF REFUGE WorKwliopo Destroyed Loss About $7,000. Tbe Pittsburgh Ditpatch of Saturday says: About six o’clock last eveniDg an alarm of Are was given on the Allegheny telegraph from Box l, Manchester. The department responded promptly, and arrivibg ot the point indicated by he telegraph, the firemen learned that the fire was near Woods run. They proceeded and it was •con discovered that it was the House of Refagc. It turned ont, however, that the fire was in the workshops of tbe lnstitu icn. Tbe officers of the institution were labor pg hard to stay tbe flames, but to no purpose. There being no pings within reach, the firemen were compelled to take the engines to the river, and a long delay occnrred before they could do any good with tbe steamers. The building which was burning was a two-story brick of .consider .bie capacity, it was used as the cooper shop and whip manufactory, the latter in the upper story. It stood within the enclosure .of the grounds, but separate from the Refuge buildings. Notwithstanding every effort the bnllding was al most entirely destroyed, while a large amount of n orb was also lost. At one lime there were fears for the Refuge building, and the inmates of the institution were areally alarmed. Fortunately, however, the dan ger wsb averted, and there was no necessity for a .emovaL The loss of the fire is pnt at 87,000, but it may overreach that. Accident In a coal mine—A Ulan Billed. The Upper Dauphin (Pa.) Register says A frightful accident occurred on Wednesday morning, abont 8 o’clock, in the Lykens Valley East Colliery, in the following manner:—Two > mpty wagons were being taken ont of the slope, •ccompanied by a man for the purpose of caution ing the man al the head ot the slope, whose duty it is to detach the wagons as they pass over the Knuckle, not to unhook the chain until tbe second wagon was up ; not hearing 'he warnlDg, the cable was detached as the first one came over the knuckle, and the weight of the other carried the former back over the plane, and both went to the bottom. Mr. John Shively, passing the gangway at the foot of the plane, was instantly killed, being crashed in a frightful manner. He was at once taken out and conveyed to his home ut Coal Dale. Mr. Bbive!y was forty years old, aD oid resident, and leaves a widow and a large family of children, by whom his loss will be keenly felt. The man who accompanied the wagon*, noti cing the danger in time,jumped off, escaping un ■ injured. The wagons were demolished. fill; PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. A Voluntarv Tribute. (.From tho Now York Independent] Happening to be in Harrisbarg a Oay or two igo, we mode a visit to the Pennsylvania Lcgis uture. Oar curiosity to gaze upon that san nedrim was not prompted by the fine rever • nee which inspires one to make a pilgrimage to come historic shrine. We wejj) not as powerfully drawn toward that conclave as if it had been a convention of tbe signers of the Declaration of Independence, or of the Turners of the Federal Constitution. Neverthe less, finding ourselves within an easy walk of ibe legislative presence, and the weather being iuir, and the train not dne for two hours, we -auntered toward the capitol grounds, swung open tbe oiiy-hinged gate, roamed awhile up and -town tho gravel paths, listened to the singing of tbe spring birds, and then entered the ungainly brick edifice, and sat down to compare the inno cent tree-top notes out-ofvdoore with the human jargon inside. More than a com mon bedlam saluted our ears. Tbe Keystone Legislature was on that day a doable eboir of discords. In both houses there was wrangling enough for ten taverns; but the Tower house in particular was in on open riot of nnruly tongues. The Speaker's gavel gave passionate raps for quiet, but only udded to the hubbnb of noise. A certain member's personal character had been wautonly ussailed in a public priDt, and ho waß tremen dously repelling the just aspersions. In onr travels we" have visited many legislatures, and never saw much decorum in any; but we have never heard such an incessant bnzz of Babel In any other so-called deliberative body as in tbe Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Bat the chief disagreeableness of tne spectacle was the noticeable look of inferiority which, a large" majority of the members wore on their faces. Never before havo we seen so squalid an array of low-brows gronped together In any one legisla tive edamber, not even in Albany. Solid Pennsylvanians say freely (and with many - intersprlnklcd damnations) that the present Legislature 1b the most corrupt that ever preyed upon that bleeding Commonwealth. Wo take no part in this accusation—not merely because wo cannot substantiate tbe authenticated tacts, but because men may have bad-looking faces without having ill-meaning hearts. Far be it from us to lntinuate that tho Pennsylvania Le gislature is corrupt; we simply mean to charac terize It as the most suspiciouß-looking public body we ever saw. After’sttting an hour among the sorrow-stricken spectators, we returned joy fully to the fresh air, the blue sky, tho singing birds, and tbe common people. And wo solilo quized ns follows: “What a country is ours I (Tod’s bounty is lavished upon It, Nature's emllo daily glorifies it, and oven man’s misgovornmont is not able to ruin it." OUR WHOIiE COUNTRY. The N. Y. Herald contains a dofcnce of Secret lary Borlo from tbe assaults made upon him by enemies of reform. We extract tbe following : In every step that Secretary Borie has taken he bos bad the best legal advisers and has been go verned by tbe lawß of Congress. The whole conntry has been crying ont against the malad ministration of Daval affairs for tho last fonr years. Fonr bnndred and eighty millions of dol lars were spent by the Welles administration withbnt producing a single ship of which the conntry conld feel prond. It Is a well-known I act that If we were to be threatened with a blockade of the port of New York at this mo ment by tho Spanish authorities, Inconsequence of any misunderstanding with them, wo have not the means to prevent them from bottling ns up completely. It Is well known that onr navy was lull of abuses of all kinds; that tbe department jvas squandering money In every direction in the civil branches of tbe service, and that there had i>een no attempt made to check It. The moment, however, that an honest Secretary of the Navy attempts to reiorm these abuses ho is attacked, not only by copperhead papers, but by those who claim fraternity with the Republican party. Some 1 Democratic editor remarked that if that was called good Republicanism be would rather not have such papers os bis friends. : **. * * * It is asserted, without fear of contradiction, tDat Mr, Welles knew as much of the duties of the > dice when be first took charge as when ho left it. It may be remarked by the uninitiated that Secretary Borie had the bureau officers to fall back on. That woHld have been a very hard cushion to lean against. Secretary Welles fell back on them for eight years, and the result was $180,000,000 added to our national debt, without even a sound tug to show for it. President Grant (lid not .want any such fall ing back as that, and he took the proper way to prevent It. The result will prove his wisdom. It is a well-known fact that all the bnreaus of tbe Navy Department,with one exception, wero filled with Johnson men—men who were opposed to Grant and his administration, and they, are as nostilo now to all his measures as men can well oe who bold their positions by a very slippery tenure. They are not the men on whom Secre tary Borie could rely to aid him in the Herculean task of correcting errors, and the question Is asked by more than one person interested In the welfare of the navy, “Why is U not demanded of them that they resign?” ****** * . No sooner was Secretary Borie installed in office than it was bronght to his notice by the Chief of Bnreaus that he was violating a law of Congress by paying ten hours’ pay at the navy yards for eight hours’ labor. It very naturally occurred to the Secretary that three pecks do Dot make a bushel, and that even a law of Congress could not bring about so un desirable a result. He, therefore, consults the law and finds lhat it readß as follows : “The hours of labor and the rate of wages of the employes In the navy yards shall conform,as nearly bb is consistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the im mediate vicinity of the respective yards, to be de termined by the commandants of the navy yards, subject to the approval and revision of the Secre tary of the Navy.” Under..such ruling the Secretary conld not eon sistently'ellow ten hours pay for eight honra labor, ana so he ordered that the law should be reEpeeted, and at the same time granted ten honre pay to all those who weald do ten hours work. There was no Buffering brought abont among the employes in the navy yards. They were only obliged to spend two boars longer in their work shops, earning honest wages, instead of passing a portion of that time In a lager beer saloon or at a political meeting, where money was going oat of, instead of into, their pockets. It is aU very fine for Congress to pass laws by which a portion of its constituents con give three pecks of corn for the price of a bushel; but it should recollect that it is paying with the money of the people, who are bowed down bv heavy taxes, and who do not care to see a small portion of the mechanical force of the country receiving ten hours pay for eight hours work, while mil lions are laporlng fourteen hours for six hours pay. Congress has no more right to make such a ueo of the public money than it has to play faro with it. One thing is quite certain, the Senate did not confirm their resolution, and Secretary Borie stands approved in the course suggested by his chief of bnreans. 1 lard from tho Hon. John P. Hale. Tv the Editor of the Xetr York Tribune— SiK: A charge that “Mr. Hale has no sympathy with tbe 'evolution, and is openly hostile to the Republi can movement,” having been made by the Lon don correspondent of tho New York Tribune , teems to demand from me a personal reply. Ido not know that I act wisely in taking any public notice of thiß attack so artfully and maliciously made upon mo by this writer. I am not Igno rant of the real author of this calumny. The statement as to whom the real work of the Le gation is done by leaves ne doubt on that head. I shall cot detain myself with the many assertions and innuendoes derogatory to my character with which this article is filled, but come directly to the main charge, which is, “that Mr. Halo has no sympathy with the revolution," Ac. All tho other allegations seem to be subsi diary and auxiliary to this main charge of the article. Perhaps I ought to feel gratified that the mgeniouß malignity of the author of this false and outrageous charge has nothing to allege against my integrity, or, indeed, any part of my official Conduct, save that my faculties ire much impaired, and I am openly hostile to the Republican movement If it be evidence of impaired faculties that I did not detect in an In dividual whom I admitted as a guest In my family and at my table, a disguised foe, who lis tened to the unrestrained conversation of the family circle to which he was admitted for tho time as a member, to be retailed afterward in the public press, for the purpose of injuring him of whose hospitality he was partaking, l plead guilt gto the charge. Without further commont, 1 leave to the judgment of the public the conduct of tnch a man. I come now to the allegation made against me by this correspondent, which Is that 1 am openly hostile to the Republican movement. A brief notice of the events occurring about tho time of the commencement of the revolution, the latter part of September and first of October last, shall be my only answer to that. On the fourth of October last, fully believing that, notwithstand ing the many abortive attempts at revolution which had hitherto been made in Spain, a new and important era had commenced la Spanish history, I sent a telegram to Mr. Seward, asking tor instructions to recognize the now Govern ment. On the following day he sent me a cau tious reply, authorizing, me, on certain condi tions therein set forth, to give tho new Govern ment a qualified recognition. I, acting upon the authority thus given me, at my suggestion and request, uncqaivocally.ln the name of the United Stales, gave to the;provisional Government a (all and entire recognition, and while the other Governments in tbe world were looking with as tonishment at events of such Biartilog moment so rapidly occurring in Spain, the United States was for a time me only power that reoog nized tbe existing Government of tho nation,and one which had an acknowledged representative here. The Spanish Government and people, I know, were highly gratified by this early move ment of tho United States, and sensible of tho Immense advantage this prompt and decisive re cognition on their part bad given them. 1 have Id my possession facts fully answering all the al legations of this article, which may horeaiter bo msde public. Respectfully yours, Madrid, March 81,1809. John 1\ Hale. —Wbat is the difference betwoon an overcoat and a baby? An .overcoat is what you wear (were), and a baby Is What you was Demoralised Exchange. —Mis. Lander is going to Europe profession ally ibis summer. Secretary Boric* IUOCBLES OF A »*W YOBKEB Itl PHILADBLPBIAs To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin: Philadelphia, April 18, 1869 —I don't know whether these straggling thoughts of mine will ever see the light,.neither do I care; but the cir cumstances connected with my present visit to this “City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love'' are so comical that 1 am going briefly to relate them. I-had an idea that some one wanted to see mo —or rather, that my presence would afford a cer tain amount of pleasure to a young man whom had known some years previously, and who, I was given to understand, was located in Phila delphia. ' 1 hate leaving New York. lam one of those foollrh fellows who think there is no place like New York, and that such villages as Boituu, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Portland, Oregon. California, Minnesota and Pail adelphia are well enough to readiot—but never to go to. Still, I went. Took the 4 o'clock evening train from Jersey City, bought all the evening papers, and some upples and very bad sandwiches, and reached CamdeD, somewhere near Philadelphia, about 8. Here 1 took a car, asking the conductor to put me out at tho corner of Seventh and Arch; he said he couldn’t, but would get a brother ol his, who was a conductor on another train, to pnt mu through. He did, and 1 touod myselfin a comfortably appointed hotel, with very oblig ing and attentive clerks. 1 wanted to see my young friend. I heard that he lived in one of the squares—which one I had forgotten, f looked in the Directory and found It at once. The Philadelphia Directories go ahead of the New York ones. I went there. Found him out. Landlady said he had gone to see his cousin (an American one) in the country. I aekid: "Whereaboutsis luucountry la Pljdladol phio?” Said she didn't know, but tnougbt it was • somewhere over the Wire Bridge." Thanked her and went in pursuit of the “Wire Bridge.” Cave it up ia despair. Went to the hotel—thence to a "Chemist and Druggist” (my frleud was an apprentice to one once), who in forint d me that my young friend was on a visit to some distant relation in Ciico street, near the Schooikill Waterworks. I then went to bed, and didn't go to the Bchool klll Waterworks, but woke up in the morning, look some water-cresses, and “pnt" for “Clica." No cars were running—time 9 o'clock—this could never occur in New Yoik. I asked a disap pointed hack-driver what he wonld charge to take ine to “Ciico.” Four doliars.says he. No yon don't, says 1, and on 1 walked. 1 have walked a good deal in my life, bnt of all the walks I ever took, this “Ciico" walk beats aIL To give my New York reader an Ulnstration: Commence at the Battery and go in one con tinuous line to Yonkers, and ihen you will get about hulf way'. Well. 1 reached “Clico"—rang tho bell. “Is Mr. Sherry in ?” A tall, thin, spare, Quaker looklng lady said: “No, sir; no man of that name lives here.” The reader can Imagine my kelings. Here was I, in a city that I could not tell one from t’other,or t'other from which;a city where all the streets looked like one another; a city that if you over lost yourself in it, you'd have to find yourself in another world; a city, that if you happened to have a favorite cat that yon very mneb prized, and lost It to i£, would never, by any chance, fled its way home, the homes looking all alike / A city where the distances are so mag nificent ibat yon could put 2.500 Washingtons and Grants in and never know the (Utleret.ce. Here was I—alone—and nad it not been for the kind and ginerous assistance oi n stranger (how I love him for it!), I, in all human prooabiiity, would have come out at tne other end of the world—or never more have been heard from. This stranger was good enough to take me to the corner of 1,780,0(0 North 378th street, right opposite the Methodist Church, on the road to Angußta, Maine. I got there in about ten minutes, and found he wasn't there. I then lock my friend’s advice, and went to the southwest corner of 18,708 street and Pickled Walnut, and fonnd him still out. Went to the Lapierre House; lo.d us he had left 10 minutes betore. Taken then, in the kindest manner, by a hale fellow well mot, to the bouse of a relative of a friend of mine in California (W.P.) We were on the winy again tor my friend “Sherry"—but “He hue gone from my gaze Like a beautiful dream,” and I have come to the conclusion that trying lo lind oat persons' residences in Philadelphia in a pretty mean business. A Knkw V ork.su. Aboriginal Fops. The Gold Hill (Nevada) Vera contains the fol lowing : Mart. Reese and Captain Charley, both Pinto Chiefs, are celebrating the "liTh of Ireland” on their own peculiar book. Mart, was np to Vir ginia at an early hoar Ibis morning, and got his I moustache and himtoil rejuvenated, his boots blacked, and a new bob-tailed coat. He will cut a stunning appearanco at Andy's I bull to-night. Captain Charley is also ■gorgeously arrayed in a time-honored plug hat, covered with a dazzling Armament of little scrapß of looking-glass, a fine pair of ' blue dungaree overalls, a brown liDen sack, a big red sasb, and his luxuriant raven tresses hung with swinging jewelry made ouk of cuuuks of brass and beef boneß. He went up to Virginia tills forenoon, attended by somo of his staff, In order to review the Emmet Guard—after which he will probably parade the balance of the day in Gold Hill. The Opera Bouffe company at the Academy of Music bud but a small audience on Batarday after noon, and only a moderate one on Saturday overling, when Fleur de Thl wu- produced. It is both stupla and vn'gor. and the music Is even loss worthy of crtli rism than Offenbach's. This evening and to-morrow iho Vie Parisicnne of the latter worthy Is to be pre sented, For Wednesday evening the really clever, amaslng and decent opera by Herve, called L'Qiil Cmr, is to be repeated, und it is deserving of a fall bouse. —Lotto begins an engagement at the Arch Street Theatre this evenlog in The Old Curiosity shop. Sho will appear os "Little Nell" and ob "The Mar i hiohess.” in this dramatization Mr. Crulg plays "Hick Swiveller” superbly, and Mr. Muckuy gives great imoersonatlou in “Giundfaiher Trent.” —The Misses Jennie and Lizzie Willmore and Mr Felix Rogers will appear at the Wn'uut this 'vening in Tha Forty Thieve s. and in a drama entit.ed The Or phans; or Alphonse the Nondescript. —At the Chestnut, this evontng. The Field of the Cloth of Hold will he given lu a reconstructed and im proved manner, with new attraettona. ' —The Breban Swiss 801 l lUngers will give a fare well performance at the Theatro Comique th's even ing, for the benefit of Mr. Jacob C. Schuler, the door tteeper. To-morrow night Mies Susan Gabon will ap pear with her company In two operettas, "60" and Litschen and Fritzehen . —A miscellaneous entertainment will be given at the American Theatre this evoning. —On Wednesday night next, at the Assembly Buildings, Wyman, the magician, will give an exhi bition. —A performance will bo given in the Amatours’ Drawing Room, on Seventeenth street, on Wednesday evening next, by the Philadelphia Opera Company. Tho very charming comic opera. The Doctor of A lean tara, will be presented, with a cad including Mlssos E'ene, Fredonia and Naomi Dnrang, and Mr. Qeorge Blehop. There will be afall orchestra, nador the direc tion of Mr. W. G. Diotrlch. —At Musical Food Hall, »,n Thursday ovenlng next, a testimonial concert will bo given to Mr. A. uaca mnnn, the well-Unowu professor of music, by nis irtends ar.d pupils. The programme is vory attractive. Among those announced to appear aro a number or popular artiats, —A storcoptic exhibition, under the direction of Mr. O, H. Willrnd, consisting of Scripture pieces, Natural History, Sceues In Bible Lands. &c-, accimpaalod by an exulQDßtorv lecture, and luterrpoi>od wltti etuffiog, for the born fit of the Sabbath Schools, w»l bo given tlda everdugTat the North Broad Streot Presbyterian Church. F. I. FETHERSTON. PaWislffiK PRICE THREE CENTS. FACTS AND FANCIES. QUA CURSUM VENTUa. AB t£ li P B ' bhctdtned at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side,' Two towers of sail at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried? When fell the night, upsprung the breettSL t And all the darkling hoars they plied. Nor dreamt but each the self-same soao- ■■ By each was cleaving side byAide: E’en so—but why the taie reveal Of those whom, year by year u a changed. Brief absence joined anew to feel, Astounded, aonl from sonl eslrangodf' At dead of night their sails wore fllled, And onward each rejoicing steered: Ah, neither blame, for neither willed Or wist, what flrst with dawn appeared! To veer, how vain! On, onward strain. Brave barks! In light, in darkness tod, t; Through winds and tides one compass gaUtafl' To that, andyonr own selves, bo true., , But O blithe breeze, and O great seas, Though ne’er, that earliest parting past On yonr wide plain they join again, Together lead them homo at load Odb port, metbought, alike they sought One purpose hold where’er thoy fare,— O bounding breeze, O rushing Beas, At last, aPlast, unite them chert! —Arthur Hugh Clough. —Cranberries grow wild in Alaska. —The oldest man In the world has just died to Poland, aged 139. —Tho Richmond Examiner says there is no fiaor exereise tor a young woman's lungs than Chari** lug. ■ • —A telegraphic velocipede, is mentioned, that' shall ran on a wire from New Orleans to New York in an hour and a half. —Law libraries in Kentucky do not last long.. In one county it is frequently found necessary t» : replace volumes worn oat by tho attorneys who use them in pounding each other’s heads. —“Prof." Swett, ot Providence, is to make hit’ 3,000 miles velocipede trip on a throe- wheeled machine which Is worked by the hands. Swett will sweat,we think. —Emily Flygare Carlen, the very popular Swedish novelist, is old, stoat and dlsagrooablo lookiug, but she has written seventy-nino volumes of novels in thirty years. —A life insurance agent applied to a Texan to take ont a policy. The Texan replied: “A fel low’s life is so confoundedly uncertain in this country that it isn't worth Insuring.” —Post' routes in lowa need re-organization. Letters between two places six miles apart now travel over a hundred miles in reaching their destination. —Rev. Mr. Rqss is a clergyman of Indiana who has been tried before an ecclesiastical court and sentenced to be admonished by the Bishop fax having gone to see the “Black Crook.” —Texas has begun to gramble loudly over tho crop proppeoto. The grasshoppers aro already destroying the corn by wholesale, and there u little hope that cotton can be successfully planted. ■The last thing talked about in Paris is Gus tave Dord’s picture ef “Titanla.” It is only • fquare foot of canvßs, bat is filled with minute farles, in such a way as to be a subject of long study. —M. Desforgues, a French critic, thinks Ab bott’s “Life of Napoleon the Third" one of the fnnniest books j et written, but ho gives a perusal of this “merry” biography the preference ovor ail other specifics for driving away the bines. —Meyerbeer always feared that his family would come to want, and he left a number of compositions which hi 6 executors are iustruotodt not to open nntess their publication is necessary to the support of bis heirs. —There is a belief in the minds of many that a party of rebel soldierß buried $4,600in gold near' Lexington, Missouri, in 1862, and parties are continually going thereto find it, bat OS in ail' such cases, they invariably foU. —Mr. Menard, the colored gentleman whoed claim to a seat in Congress was rejected, has re-' moved his newspaper from Carrollton to New Orleans, and offerß to each subscriber a photo graph of himself. —Madame Parepa-Rosa has entirely recovered her health and strength, and U announced to sins', two evenings of this week In New York city.' jit is reported that her voice has been mnch tin-' proved by the long rest it has had. —Juarez, the Mexican President, has a family of six daughters and oneson. His wife Is very white anaTair, and looks yonnger than some ot her daughters. Juarez, who Is a well-formed In dian, and sixty-three years old, does not look over forty. „ —A fend of some months duration, -jhleh has destroyed the happiness of the Romani Catholic Church of (he Holy Family in Anbnrn, and ' which arose In a dispute between the pastor and ihe blshopvhas been settled by the suppression of tho recusant Father O'Flaherty. —Hans Christian Andersen is said to be then best linguist lu Denmark. He speaks four lan guages fluently, and reads four more. Thirty years ago he was employed by several Copen hagen publishing firms to translate French and Italian novels and plays Into Danish, and al though his translations were capital, he never got mnch for them. ‘He had, at the beginnings of his literary career, a great deal of dllßenlty Id finding publishers for his writings. Even the first volume ol bis Inimitable fairy tales was re jected by every Copenhagen pabllsher, and An dersen had finally lo iaeue it at his own oxpense, \ a venture which fortunately proved more profit able than the hundred rix dollars which ho woutd have, at best, received from the publishers. Hlb “Improvlsatore," now considered the best novel in Danish literature, lay for a year in bis dosk before he could find a publisher willing to Issue it. He got more money from his German pub lishers than from the Danish booksellers. MORUOMSiTI. Brigham Young ou the War Path. The Salt Lake Reporter of tho 10th, printing an ‘ outrageous speech made at tho Mormon Confer ence, says: For one whole year the Brighamites have de ceived the country and mystified their dupes, by a pretended allegiance to tho Unitod States. When the late Conference began, many thought they would still keep up tho littlo game of loy alty: they even talked of putting tip a house for the entertainment of Grant and hisOablnet when on their summer visit. But Brigham had held in as lung as he could: the poison was In him and it had to come. On Thursday aftornopn,,: the last session of Conference, he took occasion, to air his inveterate hatred of the Union and tho country, and to show .(lie bitter disloyalty that rankles in his black 'heart. And, ye Gods, didn’t he belch it forth? For _ ono. solid hour every epithet that a vile fancy*- could suggest, sharpened by forty years of prac tice was burled at the heads of thfe natloui Preel dt n’t, Vice President, Congress, Array and Federal officials In Utah, were In turn visited with'tor rents of the vilest billingsgate that over foaled the mouth of an outcast from the slants of the Five Points. The strongest terms of the English' laDgungo utterly fill to convey any Idea of this sermon-harangno, to which (Incredible salt mav- FC< ml).five thousand women find children wore listeners!. .Woowean apology to onr readers oven tor printing any portion of this atnfif, but ihero are some things that ought to be published, that the world may know Brlghamlsra pore and simple; and aftor ending It'let onr patrons con sider this Issue disgraced by each quotations from that filthy eource, and lay it out of sight forover. ; r
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