GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor
LEH IGH .IUNIVERSI
Cutters!ty Day and inauguration of
pat4er Mall at Bethlehem—Large
Concourse of People—Jutpresstve
I Correniontlencb of the rblia.Eveiunir liulifitind
BETtitaiiiE3l, June 24.—Packer Hall, the
imPosing Gothic structure built for the edu
cational -, and domiciliary purposes of the
Lehigh University ; and named after its muni
ficent : ,„ ~
founder, Han.' Asa Packer , - of Mauch
Chunk, was this day inaugurated amid the
customary exercises which constitute an an
nual 'University day.. Its-general appearance
is thus described in the published catalogue of
the institutiOW::"TheHall''stands lireVett hun
dred feet Wick'ofPiicker aVeinie,the front limit
of the University grounds, and presents au im
posing triode of handsel:tie stone. At the west
ern extremity is a belfry tower, containing the
- ].'resident's reorn. - and the archive department,
all fire- roof; at the eastern end a large `a,&'
vauced wing, four stories high, in which are
the lecture and reception rooms. - The central
portion, eighty feet long; contains the chapel,
library and cabinets. The entire length of
Packerliall Is two hundred and thirteen feet,
while to the right and efit;'descending the'
bill in echelon, arc erected the houses Of - the
President and Professomhandsome building's,
Which will comport architecturally„ with the
great lialP—Thus :far the Catalegue Through
the politeness of Chas. Mayer Wetherill, Ph-
D., M. D., I was this morning enabled to Make
a minute inspection,o,fthe entire building,inter
natty' and , externally,„ My Jnvestigations,
especially' in the immense -tnd admirably
equipped laboratory, being much facilitated
by the accomplished chemist who, chaperoned
me. The doctor has ingeniously instituted
many appliances of a highly scientific charac
ter for. the practical elucidation of his learned
lectures., One featureof the exterior of Packer
Hall produces a most disagreeable impression
upon. the eye ,of the visitor as he wends his
way up the slope from South Bethlehem to
the Univencitygraunds. Eight unsightly brick
eldnineys peer out above the tops of the forest
trees in the park; side by side - with the fine
old Gothic points, and cause the otherwise
noble structure to somewhat resemble an
anthracite furnace. Otherwise,thearchitecture
is very fine, and forcibly retain& me of an in
stitution on the railway between Liverpool'
and London. From the beautiful stained
glass : WindoWs of the chapel the
eye. . - takes :. in a most enchanting
view, inferior only to that from Prospect Rock
in thebea.uteous: valley of Wyomingi Far in
the distance may be descried the Blue Ridge,
winding along tar inilee in the direction of
the Lehigh Gap, a charming . margin'ta the
intermediate , redundant valley that sWeepS
downward to the Delaware, watered by the
placidLehigh,and comprising within its limits:
idinot,t illinntaiile,agrietiltntai and mineral re,:,
sources. Twenty-five years ago the students
of the Moravian Theological Semi nary-quorum
min ow l mommo jni— were wont to roam away
their holiday afternoon; upon the present site
of Packer Hall. The spot then went by the
name of 'BM "Old MaifiiPlace It was sacred
to rural eatntships, pienieS, etc., and Waistline
quaint old legends connected with it.
Te Constrieneetneat exercises were this day
att . * ti by 'ti Very largo' concourse of intent
gent' -
*
nrsons.,, Hundred* of peilestrians and
many handiarine equipages, a hot and dusty
procession. Wended their way along Packer
avenue ,aki.the hour-half-past.twodrew.aigh7
Pinetriallytethe minute the 'Faculty,headed
by the Itr. Bey. Wm. Bacon. Stevens, D. D.,
Bishop of Pennsylvania., entered the , crowded
chapel, and having arranged themselves' in a
semi-circular group. of arm-chairs, were fol
lowed by the--students, to whom places had
been.:assigued '
ou ,either: side. Sixteen or
eighteen musicians in the organ-loft,whorn the
programme styled Dodworth's Band, opened
the exercises with. seine made that would
have done discredit to any first-class beer-
caravanserai in Philadelphia. If the great,
over-shadowing -metropolis on an
hattan Island has nothing M
better
wherewith to interlard the classical orations
of a University Day, than the vitiated and
vitiating Ofiiihoots .of Offenbach's :perverted
genius, or a few flippant galops and waltzes,
it is to be hoped that the Faculty may apply in
provincial Philadelphia for next year's music.
A Be{'. gentleman, whose name is unknown
to me, read the fourth . chapter of Proverhs
Will (1 impressive silence;' and Bishop Stevens,
after delivering a beautifully-written prayer,
followed up the exercises With au exceedingly
able address, historical ,in its character in so
far as it traced the inception, gradual develop
ment and present status of the University.
Previously, the Rt. Rev.
.gentlemati , had
passed in review the various' systems - of
education ' as illustrated iii the , Dorian,
Roman, Hellenic and other schools.
With scholarly ability 'he threw much light
upon the monastic systems in the period from
the 3th to the 13th century, demonstrating how
in all of those early periods instructors rather
busied themselves with the elucidation of the
ories and hare rules, than their practical appli
cation to the furtherance of hunian interests.
He tit ed Bacon and the distinguished Mora
vian, john Amos Comenius, both of which
learned thinkers had contended that than
should be brought into contact-with- filets and
nature, and not simply with rules. Passing
,
onward to the earliest attempts for the appli
cation of science to the useful arts in our own
country, and citing Benj. Thoinpson, of 'Wo
burn, Mass., Stephen Van Rensselaer, of
Troy, with some others, as earnest coad
jutors in the work of developing more
practical education in our institutions ;
of learning, Bishop Stevens showed how thor
ough(
a system' of industrial
.pursuits—such as
engineering, civil, mechamcal and mining; 1
chemistry, metallurgy, architecture and con
struction—had been designed for the Lehigh
University. Who can question its efficacious
results in developing the mineral anti other re
sources of our richly-endowed country? The tOestion of Lay Delegation.
The Bishop wound up with a most eloquent In a few days more the question of lay repre
and just tribute to the Hon. Asa Packer, sentation in the General Conference of the
whose tall, dignified form inclined modestly Methodist Episcopal Church will be de
forward as lie heard the glowing words of the termined. So far as appears at present, a very
speaker near him. Of the munificent founder large majority--nearly 3 to I—is decidedly in
of this noble
,pile; added the distinguished favor of it.. It is a subject that has agitated
divine, it' might be said, in the words - of Sir the Church for the last ten *or twelve years, but
Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's, "Si when brought to the test of the ballot com
ma/nth/onin requiris, circunispice !" Immense paratively few church members have shoWn
applause testified the sympathy of the large interest enough in it to vote. In the total
audience with these remarks. membership of 1,230,000 there are at least
President' Coppee was likewise s wirer' of 9 ,1 i i i exes-entitled-tonhallot,-
Irliigfily complimen 'try eras, as aso were am yet less than • 30,000 have voted. Those
Professors Wetherill and others, including who are to vote during the remaining days of
Robert H. Sayre, Superintendent of the Le- the Month will not equal the number who
high Valley Railroad, and Charles Brodhead, have already voted. Those who are entitled
Esq., President of the Lehigh and Lacka- to vote, but fail to do so, will neutralize each
wanna Railroad, the former of whom has do- other in the final count. The women of the
nated an astronomical observatory, contain- Church were permitted to exercise their right
ing many scientific appliances of great use- of suffrage in the expectation that the melt
fulness, and the latter an additional , convey- sure would be defeated; bUt they have largely
:pima lam - Mr:the extension of:the_ Univer, increased the majority.-The-vote will not im
sity grounds. ' And finally, this masterly his- mediately affect the complexion of the Au
tomat address ended with a peroration of ' nual Conferences; but there is no doubt that
sound advice, enjoining the absolute import- eventually they will be' modified by it. At
ance of a moral as well as scientific education. present the General Conference only will fuel
At its conclusion followed the orations and its effect.
recitations by students in the following order: Upon the assembling - of the several Annual
Oration—" Civilizers," John M. Thome, Conferences next preceding the meeting of
Palmyra, Pa. the General Conference in 1872, the lay dole-
Address—" College Life," William D. Ron- gates previously elected by the Quarterly Con
aldson, Philadelphia. ferences, are expected to meet at the same
Disquisition—“ The Idola of Bacon," Frank i time and place, and elect two of their number'
L. Clerk, Philadelphia. to represent them in the General Conference.
Oration—" The Pollio of Virgil,".Henry 8 . , The united body will Vote conjointly upon all
Reed, Philadelphia. : :. ' , questions whereon a separate vote is; not de-:
ItecitationH,"Cpwper'S Grave''(Mrs.rownt,,,,„mentled :Mifiett of' the , delegates' 'are
iugY, Will; er:' o 4l.); Newburg, N B
.' Y:' - ' '• ! tirbeliOrne by their respectiVe Cenferences.
Some of these young . gentlemen evinced The Senior Bishop, Morris; and a majority of
considerable nervousness in the,delivery f the the Bishops of the M. - B. Church have ex
above effusions, but in the main the latter had: pressed their approval .of lay representation,
been written with care ; and in several install- both inthe Annual and General Conferences, .
ces displayed good evidendes of thought and and the vexed question may now be considered
research. It .1 - were disposed topartierdarize, - as definitely settled,-J-San.
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The Fire Dep artment. ' •
To the Editoi•s - of the Evening Bulletin: Our
I Fire Department might be so organized as toI
be as directly responsible to the - city
.authori
ties, =las flinch „under their control, as the
police, and at the same time be More effective
than at present, cost no More, if as - rauc , and
be far less the occasion of disorder, crime, and
'the progressive ruin of young men. This, I
suppose, is a statement that will be admitted
as self-evident by all thinking men. The ques—
tion naturally arises, at least to a stranger wit
nessing such a mob and hearing such a noise
as may be seen and heard at every alarm of
fire, why . is no change made? There is hardly
an occasion on which the engines are called
out in which some person is not injured or
killed by the reckless driving of the horses, to
say nothing of harm done in other ways bythe
presence of an excited mob in absolute control
of large portions of our streetsa, 4 „,„ ... ,
You have always, and almost singlehanded,
advocated a Paid "Fire Department—by which
is meant not a department which shall receive
money from the city, as opposed to one re
ceiving nothing; but one receiving its pay by
individuals, anti not by companies; where the
number of individuals is, therefore, regulated
by, and each is responsible to, the employer
and payer, anti each is paid - only in propor
tion to service rendered; or discharged if found
incompetent. That is what is ineantby aPaid
Department A.s.to thetnere fact of ntoney :
being paid, there is enough of that done now,
as tax-payers well know, with the present or
ganization.
You have the. thanks of the .community, I
am sure, for your position on this question;
and it is because your position is what it'is,
address these remarks to you. Why cannot
the change, that - everybody admits would be a
good thing, be commenced - . now? ..And,' as a
beginning, I would suggest that those favora
ble to a reorganization of our Fire Depart
ment ascertain from the candidates for Coun
cils to be voted for at the approaching election
their-views on this question, and where there
an! none willing to pledge themselves to vote
for such a change, let new candidates, well
known, reputable men of business, who have
an interest , in the good government Of the c4ty,
be nominated. I apprehend such men Would
do no harm in regard to other questions, and
that, there is no municipal question of more
importance than this. If, as may Heaven
grant, we are about to cast Offlting politicians,
let us take up men who are not politicians at
all and will act Without the fear of "a loss of
political influence," W. S. J.
Philadelphia, ,June 24, 1869.
.
I should point to the "Polito of. Virgil"- as the
'most successful effort, its diction : , general treat
ment and delivery all considered.. It was quite
a scholarly production, in -which the elOseral
liance.between the prophecies. of Isaiah and
the sublime oracles—the basis of Virgil'sfourth
Eclogue=was well and , eloquently set forth.
Mr. Miles Rock; . of Lancaster, Pa., pre
sented an address upon "Forest Trees,"'
wherein he intelligently classified the various
specimens and their uses, and closed 'with an
enumeration', inaccurate figures, of the :trees
that make up the University Park on the slope
of the Lehigh . Mountain.
Win. G. Clapp received the silver, and
\Kingston G: ,Whalen the golden -medal Of the
institution, both prcttented.lby Bishop Stevens;
while 'to- the former and- a fellow:student'
named Mr. G. T. Bland,
,Prof. Coppee re
funded $4O, in accor,dance with
.a,provision_
that reads'aafoliciws: . • r ' • '
, • "There are two 'corapOtitiOn seholarshipi'fof
each class, which entitle 'the: holders to room
rent, tuition, and board, free. These are con
ferred upon the two students in each class'
standing highest in.general merit atthe end of
the acadeinic year—the amount of . board and
tuition being refunded to them on 'University
Day." • -
I"rof.'Colipie presented each of the above
mentioned young gentlemen with a cheque for
the' amount, accompanied with one of the
neatest and soundest addresses of the kind it
has ever been my good fortune to hear.
Diplomas were handed to the following
three gentlemen, and their degrees.. aonferred
as herewith appended to their names: 'Haynes
11. Collin, Analytical Chemistry; Miles Rock,
Civil Engineer; Chas: E. Beck, Mechanical
Engineer; . again accompanied by some . timely
and be.autiful remarks from President Coppee.
ChrturWm. Boepper and Clarence A. Wolle,
of Bethlehem, received distinguished mention
for application and attainments in a partial
course of analytical chemistry.
Hereupon Judge Dana, of Wilkesbarre,
made a short but pertinent irnproniptu ad
dress, when the exercises closed with the
Benediction, and the band played the people
out, to use a term in vogue among church or
ganists. With its increased accommodations,
enlarged facilities and able corps of Profes
sors, headed by the learned Coppee, the Le
high University must, ere the lapse of many
years, become a great educational as well as: mural in the lam'. God tipeed it!
The Bethlehem hotels are fillin up _finely,
and Madame .Yohe, of the Eagle, still dis
penses Moravian sugar-cakes of delicate tex
ture. Among other Philadelphians now 80-
j(turning there, I met J. TIM Martin, Esq.,
now engaged upon an exhaustive and interest ,
ing series of sketches in the Legal Intelligarxr,
setting forth the rise and progress of the an-.
tient and progressive town of Bethlehem. I
W 41.4 very handsomely- entertained by- Chas.
Brodhead, Esq. now a wealthy capitalist.
and railway president—companions we, many.'
vears ago, when he was a militia
: major and
LIAr student, and I a toiling pedagogue:. fay
May
his shadow ue'er diminish! If I asueh a
man lie- an uncle, I should be kind to him an ,
cherish him.. PROP. V. GATES,
TILE IIETIIODIST
C it
Important Revelations---Gens.Tabnaseda,
Lesea,.and Letona Confess they
are Overpowered.
'H OR R IBE E BUTCHERIES
. ,
HAVANA, June 19,—0n the 16th, the - Acting
Captain-General received the following' de-
spatches byrdail and the wires, From Paige,.
Bier Lesca: "I am 'overpowered: Send me
:3,000 men." 'From' Vahnaseda: • "Send •me
2,000." Letona says he needs 8,000 , to 10,000
quickly to open his way through with some
chance of success, and if the Government de
lays :30days in re-enforcing him, 20,000 will •
not suffice. He has not disarmed the volun
teers as was rumored here, but be bolds them
and the' veterans on the defensive: with
only one cartridge each. He adds in his des
patch : "I positively 'decline , to pursue a war
of extermination as desired by thevolunteers,.
because it would end in the extermination, of
the Spaniards." His troops cannot travel half
a mile on the road to Nuevitis without being
shot by the patriots. The city of Puerto Prin
cipe is pretty much converted into hospitals,
and the suffering of the people is intense. A
captain of the Catalonian Volunteers is now
here, endeavoring to i. have a vessel char
tered by the Catalonians to go to Nue-
vitas and carry back to Spain 200—rem-
nants of their battalion—guarding the road:
He says that they have been humbugged, and
his comrades are dying for want of pro
visions, of fevers and cholera. An officer of
the Battalion de Madrileilos who had fallen
sick on his arrival here,. has also received a
letter from one of his friends advising him
that of the whole battalion only 27 are left.
Nothing has been heard from Buceta lately.
Lieutenant -Governor of Sagna, reports
the reappearance of a large body of insurgents
which has debouched at Jaguey Grand and
entered Pabnidas, sweeping all the veterans
and volunteers on their way. The most out
rageous lies are published , on the capture of
filibusters lately landed.
GLOOMY TIDINGS.
Tidings from all quarters have indeed been
so`gloomy for the Government thiS Week, - that
Espinar called for the' colonels of volunteers
to advise them of the necessityofsendingsome
of their men in the interior. ; They did. not
like it ruuch,but agteed to forma couple of
mobilized battalions with the men they in
tended to Aboniss out of the lstr&l, sth . ,and
Ligera.s. The article published the 17th min
closed biilletin of the Prensa tionipleted their
discouragement; birttheyexperieneedrenewed
hopes yesterday on receipt of the• following
telegrams, published in. bombastic style by the
press—"otticial:?'
"N.Y.Ona,lBtb.—The Cuban Junta, i. e.
rides Lenms, Reiser, Mora, Bassora,'Lamar,
Alvarez and ;others, have'lbeen imprisonerL
"Matrafcto Lorki RODEILTS.".
"The Grand -Jury has imprisoned Morales
Lemus and others forming the Cuban Junta
• Minister Roberts - has bagged the Revolution:,
• •r . "FEnttun DE CO.Nro"
The majority of them, thus informed,•and
ignorant of the United States laws, are stupid
enough to expect the arrival of the Cuban
unta per first steamer. They at the same
time, and in the same style, reported the COD
olid.fition of the Home Government with Ser
rano as It egent,and are endeaVoring thereby to
destroy the conspiracy, and rally again for the
last and supreme effort. It is, however, too
late. Confidence is entirely lost with the men
of wealth in their ranks, who have seen clearer
since the departure of Duke. They find the
island on the verge of bankruptcy. They fear
the United States will not interfere soon
enough to save them from ruin, and, not ex
pecting more lielp from the mother country,
they keep hurrying the remittance of all avail
able funds to Paris, London and New York.
THE OPPOSING FORCES.
An officer of the army here has just given
me this statement of the forces in the,. field.
The Government has 13,000 veterans, 2,700
volunteers, added to 16,800 volunteers garri
soning the principal cities, of which 9,200 are
in Havana. The forces of the Patriots to-day
are 36,000 whites and 19,000 negroes, of which.
about 26;000 are Well - mined. He says their
forces would undoubtedly increase to some
80,000 whites and negroes in a short time,
should they keep receiving arms and ammu
nition from the titates.— Tribune.
A HIDEOUS ASSASSINATION.
Report of a Great Battle Gained by the
Spanish Troops under the Command of
General Letona. •
Advices,received froth authoritative sources,
are the foundation for the statement that fol
lows : A large number of families, living in
Porto Principe, abandoned the city, and, ac
companied by a guard of insurgents, took up
their abode in the country in camps prepared
for that purpose. When Letona ascertained
that few men were about the camps, he
contrived to send thither a large force a
night, which without respect to age or the
laws of civilisation slew the old, the women
and the children. The report made to the
Captain-General shows that abottt 2,000 per
sons were butchered, and all, or nearly all of
them, were, as above stated, defenceless per-
SODS. The excuse for this unprecedented act
of barbarity given by General Letona was that
it was dark, and Ins soldiers could not see
what they were doing.
CIURANS AND SPANIARDS
Attempted Assassination of Llulla, the
Spanish Duelist, in New Orleans..-A
Spanish Account Of the_Affair.
- g
[From theew:Orli;ans Times, Juno 16.]
On Monday evening, between the hours of
three and four o'clock, while Mr. Pepe Llulla
and Mr. John T. Rouyer were sitting on the
steps of the former 's place of business, on:
Louisa street, opposite the cemeteries,
they noticed two men coming . toward
them from the direction of the river, and
when within half a square of them Mr. Llulla
remarked-ta—his—friendr-1,-.1-take-these'-two
men now approaching to be Cubans." One of
the parties now stepped up to Pepe and cor
dially shook hands with him, while the other
came within a foot of Llulla,with his hand
partly resting behind his hip, and. steadily
eyeing Llulla in the face. The movements of
both parties immediately aroused the suspi
cions of Llulla, who accordingly kept himself
on his guard, not yet knowing whether they
were friends or foes.' Thereupon the folloWing
conVersation (spoken in Spanish) toolt place :
Mr. Llulla—"Who are you; and what is your
mime?" "'
Answer—"l ain P. Sabio." (The party,it will
be remembered, who recently responded to
the statement made in the Now York Cranista,
by giving the lie to the writer of the statement
in the La Libertad of this city. The later denial
was in turn denounced by Captain Fremaux,
the second of Pepe, in the Times of yesterday.)
No sooner bad Sabio uttered these Words
than he was ordered to stand one side by Llulla
—knowing at once that after the three cards
that had been,published that mischief was in
tended OtAft(Ming:: Sabio thereupon backed
slowly the distance of ten paces. He was
then in the act of putting his hand behind his
back, and , drawing some - weapon. Whioh
_flan took to be a pistol: Before, boweveri
ho could get it out, Llulbv had drawn.. a 're-;
volver, which had been loaded for more than
a month, .'rapidly cocked it 'ancl, palled the
Ova,WHOLE COUNTRY.
trigger. The, caps, however, had been
in use toy long, and snapped.
This barrel failing, 'Anita pulled trigger the
second time. The fact that the pistol tailed to
gooff in all probability saved the life of Sabio.
Unita, at any rate t aimed in both instances for
the heart, and he is known' never to miss his
mark, Immediately upon this Sabio took to
his heels and ran as far as the corner, a dis
tance of no feet, Ivhen he again' attempted to
drifw his pistol. He was unable to do so, as
was supposed, because the hammer caught in
his pockets. Seeing the motion, Pepe shouted
to him, in Spanish, "Fire, you coward." See
ing that he made no attempt to, fire, but was
trying to get away, Llulla` .
started toward
him, telling him to hold his ground. As soon
as Sabi() saw that Llulla was approaching him
he fled, and was pursued by Llulla. It was
now a question of speed. Llulla says that he
could easily have 'brought him to, or killed him
outright, but lie did not care to have the repu
tation of woundingmen while running. Even
tually he fired one shot, which was pointed
in the air, and which was done to intimidate
Sabi°. After' he had run for more than ;a
square, and beyond "danger, Sabi6 waved
his hat at Llulla, and ' uttered the words
"Giracias, Pepe." (Thank you, Pepe.) Mean
wldle, the party who had appeared at the
cemetery with Sabi ,o disappeared in the di
rection of the woods, running toward 'Piety
street. Llulla, upon returning, started after
the, man, in order to ascertain what his object
had been in coming to see him. The man,
however, insisted upon keeping out of harm's
way, shouting all tlie time, 'Don't shoot,repe
—don't shoot, for God's sake." Finding it im
possible, to get near enough to the man to hold
any conversation with him, Llulla re
turned to his office. Sable ' accord
ing to the information given by Llulla
of him, is a dangercus character, who
has killed a man already in Havana, and
Llulla has been repeatedly warned by his
friends to be on his guard against Min. It
will be remembered that Martinez declined
expressly to light him, in answering' the chal
lenge to the Gronista and although Sabio's
name Ica:3 attached' to the letter, on the
ground that the "social position of. P. Sabio
made it unacceptable." No notice had been
taken of the matter by . the police, who, in all
probability, have received no information of
the facts
The Route and the Destination-.-A Station
In Rid Ocean.,
A glance at the map of the Atlantic Ocean
will-impress upon the minds of readers the
vaSt i uninterrupted- distance to be traversed
by the French cable before it reaches the
island of St. Pierre.
This island, let it be understOod, is the
smallest and southermost of a_group of three,
which lie immediately south of the main'
southern coast of the I% . revr Foundland penin
sula of 'Burin. The eastern coastof this penin
sulais the western shore of Placentia Bay.
The three islands are Great Miquelon'
Island, on the north; Little Miquelon Island,'
south of the Great Miquelon,• and the island
of St. Pierre, southeast of l A ittle Miquelon
Island. All these islands are ancient French
possemions, discovered by French mariners
about the time of the settlement of Canada.
The• area of the Miquelon islands is about
eighty-five , square miles, that . of' St..Plerre
about thirty-live square" miles. Great Mique
lon lies in - latitude forty-seven degrees four
minutes . north, longitude fifty-six degrees
twenty minutes west. In 1849 the Miquelon
islands had a population of 2,101. The popu
lation'Of St. Pierre was at the latest accounts
nearly the same.
St. Pierre, like its sisters of the group, is a
rocky, • thickly-wooded isle, whore tender
vegetation does not flourish. It has been
chiefly..yaluable to France, in connection with
the neighboring fisheries. Immense fishing
fleets are annually despatched from .French
ports to these islands and the coast of Labra
dor, encouraged by large bounties from
the Imperial government. Twelve thou
sand men are said to be employed in the fish
ing fleets which rendezvous at St. Pierre and
Miquelon islands; and most of the local popu
lation alsoifish for a living. The French cod
fisheries op the American coasts have yielded
five thousand quintals per annum; and the
herring fisheries seven thousand eight hun
dred quintals per annum. The whale fisheries
produced; as far back as 1850, over twenty
thousand quintals of oil and bone. • The pro
fits of such an industry are alone sufficient to
explain the retention of the distant islands of
St. Pierre and Miquelon by France.
Since the announcement of the new cable.
enterprise, a rumor has crept out that the
French Government ;has been engaged for
more than a year in accumulating large stores
of military and naval material on these
islands, especially at St: Pierre. Whether
that Government has merely adopted measures
of ordinary prudence to protect isolated pos
sesSions Which are now more important to its ,
interests since the culmination of the tele
graph enterprise, or whether it has seized the
opportunity to promote ulterior designs, is not
yet known.
Some eighteen days will be &Opted byThe
Great Eastern on the voyage from Brest to
St. Pierre. In the meantime the old steam
ship William Corry proceeded, early in the
present ruonth r to St. Pierre to lay the shore
end there, and await the Great Eastern's ar
rival.. When - the latter vessel reaches St.
Pierre, having laid the cable from Brest, she
will return to England forthwith. Sir Samuel
Manning, changing ships, will embark on the
Scanderia, which will lay 450 miles more of
cable on the way to Boston. The Chiltern and
her cargo will be called into• requisition next,
and another splice will be made. The 152
miles added will carry the cable direct into
Boston, and the line thus ho made complete
between that place and Brest.
The cable is divided into six sections, as fol
lows:
A—Shore End at Brest.•
B—Deep Sea Cable to coast of St. Pierre
C—Western Shore End at St. Pierre.
D—Eastern Shore End at St. Pierre:
E—Cable to Boston.
F—Shore End at Boston.
• The shore ends of the cable arc, of course,
much larger and stronger than those parts
which descend into deep soundings.
The cable will be spliced live times between
Brest and Boston,exclusive of the land splines_
• These varieties of cable, frequent splicings,
and changes of ships may seem to complicate
the pregramme. But after St. Pierre is reached
the real work will be over. The rest is shallow
water, the whole of which has been sounded,
and the greatest depth of Which is ascertained
to be 360 fathoms: Between Brest and St.
Pierre the depth Of the line in which the cable
is tolay_is nearly_as_accurately-known, though
there are variations between the soundings
taken at varioustitries.
We should not omit to state that the Great
Eastern is this trip under the command of
Captain Halpin, assistant to Sir James Ander
son, her late commander. •
OUR ROVING STATESMAN.
Ex..Seeretary Sewaid on the Acquisition
While hi Denver, , Colorado; •ek-Secrotary'
Seward made a short speech in response to a
serenade, and in the. course of his remarks
"It would be disloyal not to be grateful for;
your kind: manifestations of welcome; but if
you will go back with me -- butn - few years you
will reach , the, period__ when_,_a__battle_
was, fought in • the CongresS• 'of.,• the -
United States- and before the American
people. upon thed:.question '=whether new
S .
States should come in either from the original':'
THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE.
of California.
•
•
j ; States, from the original domain of the,United
f States or from foreign countriesr-should, be
admitted into'the' Union on eal qualification with
the original 'States,,without or
condition; subject to the Constitution of 'the
United States and the Higher. Law which
overns all men and all things. It required.
but, little sagacity on. my part to . see at that
.time that ifthe State of California should
:then be admitted in_ that manner, the.
•nation would immediately bound forward
in a new career of ;,• development, of
civilization surpassing any civilization, any
power, any force or greatness that any nation
had ever attained on the face of the earth.
The fruit of that policy and its practical works
,are now seen in California and Washington,
And Oregon, and .Nevada, and Montana, and
Colorado, and. Nebraskii, and Wyoming, and
New Mexico, and Alaska. Do you wonder.
that I desire to -see a priori how this progress
goes forward! .To study the practical working
of that, policy is the object of my journey, and
in .proseciiting it I ought not to stop on the
way to receive congratulations and -make
speeches."
THE IIESTIIETICS OF BAPTISM.
Some Fancy Work in the Chnrch»..The
• _ Very. Tiptop Of Ritualism..
The New York Times this morning has the
following :
Yesterday noon Christ Church witnessed au
unusual, it may be said, an extraordinary
scene. - For the first time within its annals an
infant was baptised. according to the most aP
proved forMs of the High Church - ritual, and .
what excited no less interest, the subject of
the ceremonies was the . child of the worthy
rector himself. No public announcement of
the event was made. The service Was con
ducted in the strictest privacy, only a , privil
eged few being Present.
The ceremony was to commence at noon.
At a little past twelve the entire audience had
assenibled, consisting of ten elegantly dressed
ladies and three gentlemen, who had passed
into the church through the. side entrance.
After a, brief delay the door of the vestry room
opened, and the baptismal procession moved
across the chancel and stood around the font
on the opposite side. The procession was
headed by the sexton, followed ,by a
handsome boy dressed in a gown
and bearing a single tall taper.
Immediately after these came the chil
dren of the rector, the rector himself, Rev.
Dr. F. C. Ewer, his assistant, Rev. T. 411 . :
Brown, two ladies of the family and the nurse
withthe infant. Rev. 3lr. Brown . was god
father of the child. At the font the rector put
on a purple stole and commenced the reading,
of the regular baptismal service,. the congrega-,
tion Having read about a third of the
service, the rector paused, exchanged the pur
ple stole for a . white one, and proceeded with
the service. Pausing soon afterward; he took
the taper from the acolyte, placed it in the
font, read Still further and then took it out
again. The service being. _now half through,
the rector took the infant, from its
muse s who had divested it of all clothing, and
carrying it to the font; immersed it: three
times, solemnly repeating the words, as he did
so : " Ferdinand .Charles, I baptise thee in
the name of the Father, of the son, and of the
Holy, Gliost.".. After this ceremony, and when
the infant had eeased his cries, the, god-father
placed the:white stole upon him, as represent 4
mg the purity of Heaven, while the rector,
held near him the candle, as a sign of the light,
of the Gospel. The precession next marched'
to the altar, where the services were concluded,
the rector carrying the child in his own arms.
The party then retired in the same order to
the vestry-room.
The ceremonies lasted about half an hour,
and Were unlike any other baptismal services
width even the upper stratum of Episcopacy
has witnessed in this city. The audience,while
quite devotional, seemed to watch the - me:-
tor's movements with unusual interest. Fasci
nated with this new feature and glory of
Ritualism, the ladies and gentlemen .closed
this remarkable scene with hearty congratula
tions for the rector '
a kiss for the bewildered
infant, and a smile for the prospects of High
Churchism.
A POOR JOKE.
Attempt to Scare the Negro 'Printer
Douglass.
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald says:
The negro printer Douglass is beginning to
be the recipient of a class of letters heretofore
addressed to,obnoxious carpet-baggers at the
South ariaTirgned with the mystic letters K.
K. K. He received such a one this morning.
It threatens him with death and all manner of
torture unless he leaves the office before a fixed
day. The letter was postmarked Elmira, N.
and was addressed to "Hon. Nigger Douglasa."
It is supposed that some wag among the print
ers, taking advantage 0: , the excitement
and feeling which prevails relative to Douglass,
has written the letter here 'and sent it to a
friend in Elmira to mail it. Douglass takes
this, as he has done everything else, rather
coolly. He does not propose to quit the Gov
ernment Oflice, even it the K. K. K. should
attempt to carry out his threat when . the day
specified in the letter arrives. in the mean
time the printers are to have another powow
over Douglass Saturday evening next, when it
is expected that the typos employed in the
Government Printing '.lice will withdraw
from the Union.
Profit and Loss.
The Paterson (N. J.) Guardian has a re,
porter who is in luck, besides being decidedly
cute, asi witness the follGwing exhibit of his
"resources:"
Our reporter being too late for the cars,
unable to hire a horse and carriage, and haV
ing,no friends rich enough to own one, came
to the conclusion to walk to Passaic Bridge
yesterday, in order to ascerain the particulars
of the railroad accident i*that place. He has
been figuringsonie on the subject, and con
cludes thatbe ; has completed a very profitable
transaction, basing arrived at the following
encouraging result:
Amount saved by not hiring a horse
and carriage
Amount saved by not riding doWn in
the cars
Amount saved by not having to treat
friend for taking_him_d own
Missed his dinner at home,which was
a total saving of
fliiiner - grubbed at Passaic, worth....
Value of exercise walking down....
217 mufti; of fresh air, at two cents a
sniff
Value of sights seen on the way...
Had he ridden down there might
have been an accident, whereb,y he
might have broken his neck which
he computes at 200,000 00
And bursted his collar, worth. 05
Total 200,012 42
"A penny saved is two-pence c1ear".400,024 84
Total gain
Expense of mending boots
Value of time spending dusting
clothes 10 00
Total 1055..;.....;_.,_ 11 25
Leaving a net gain of. • $400,023 61
•
N. Ph—Money to loan on bond and wort
gage!
_
.
. .
—janaes Russell Lowell lias written this
noble inseription-for-rho-"M - rig,na Maria" bell
of,Cornell 'er,sity ; _
‘ , .1.ea1l as tly; the irrevoca ours,:
Futile as air or strong as tato to make,
Your lives of sand or granite; awful powers,
Up:pi as wen. choose tb,ey either give nr take."
F. L. FETIIERSTON Pubksber.
—Fashionable amnasties----SaratogitOptingq.,
—When is a blow from a lady Weld:
When She strikes you agreeably.
—When is coffee real-estate ? , on.,:it'otr--
ground. .
—Sixty-one newspapers were started kit
United States during lifay.
—Voltaire's snutt-box has been sold for two
hundred and ninety francs.
--General Rosecrans prOliablY be tra: ,
Democratic candidate for Governor of
tt
- -Church bells . ere rung in honor 4if',Piti'
tender's winning the Derby, h
,
"—California expects to supply tbe people- ,ak
the Mississippi Valler&ates with grapes antb
Pears.
—Wilson, the , American ornitliologist,
to have a monument near Paisleyrinv
—The dispossessed Italaan princea prnpose.
to sue Victor Emmanuel for the restoration of„
their.confiscated estates: • • J . ;
—A cargo of oranges -from Tahiti' for the+
Chicago market has been 'reedited 'at'
Francisco. '
—The Viceroy of Egyptsays ctiffzit:eft
of ladies in the English - opera make ofancy
himself -in -
—They wash the elephant in NawX4yerl
Central Park daily - , by squirting a liose athina.'
from a fire plug, for the gratification cfr„the
rising generation.
—The New York World is laboring tb she* , •
that at one time Edwin M. Stanton sympn•-•'''
thized with the rebellion. It is onbefairte
that the rebellion does not sympathize ranch!
with Lim. • ' • '
,
° —Eating peanuts in court at Petersburg,J.
Virginia, has been prohibited by a judicial,
order, and the Index says that "the order
justified by the experience of the last criminal , '
term."
—n Austrian baron has been condemnedat;. ; ,
Venic A e to two months' imprisonment • and fil:10!:
francs fine for an article published in the .
gione, in which be attacked the sacraments orr,
the eucharist and baptism.
—Sir Thomas, Gladstone, elder brother of the
premier, was one of .a delegation who waited
upon the Earl. of Derby to urge the House .of."
Lot& to reject the Irish Church bill:: Her
represented the Scotch constitutionalists.
—Jeff. Davis, whose health is delicate; ins , —
tends to. visit Canada this summer, and spend --
next, winter in Mississippi. "The good
wishes," says an Alabama paper, "of every'..,
true Sontherner follow Mr. Davis wherever he
may go, and the prayers of thousands -dad,r - :
ascend for his welfare and happiness." ' -
—Brussels is also to have its festival., The •
first day is to be devoted to the classic authors;
the second to the works of contemporary-Bel--
gian composers, such as -Fetis, Gernert;
wander, Soubre, Samuel, - 1 - lanssens, Pierre - -
Benoit, &c.,while the third is set apart for the,
Belgian virtuosi. There are few countries f.rt
which national art is so much cared for as 'Wits
in Belgium.- .
—James Russell Lowell is deliverine , a course •
'
of leetnres at Cornell University. corre
spondent writes of him: "Mr. Lowell
in the - very' prime of life, full of strong; 'Vigor
ous health. He 'is entirely, free 'from:Abe::
learned austerities Of Homer ;Wilbur;'
and like all truly great Souls, genial and child- 7 :
like in his bearing. As we listen, day by
it is pleasant to think of him as one .of the '
world's best workers; both in the true and the •
beautiful."
—Referring to the recent Peace Jublieei the,:
Boston 7'rueeller says: "The expense entered
' , lto by the Executive Committee, with the
firm determination to carry outall the prothises
made to the public, WM something enormous:
—'upward of three hundred thousand dollars , ,hav-, :
ing been.lavishly but most judiciously ex
pended, mostly before the return of, as, many
cents. For their sake, although that , was a
secondary matter with them, we are happy
to announce the undertaking a. financial sue,:
cess."
—The Bulletin de Lois ,ivies the follbwing
statistics of the increase of the population of
France during the last twenty years, In 1816, •
the number of inhabitants amounted to 35,400,-
486; in 1856 to 36,03J,361; and in 1866 to 38,067,
091. , The increase in the first ten years was •
666,608, and in the second ten years, 2,027;730.
The large increase dining. the second period is '
due to the annexation of Savoy and Nice, in .
1860. In 1863 there were 036,967 births, 795,-
607 deaths, and 280,609 inarriagea In 18113
there were 1,006,258 births; 884,573 ddatEs and
802,186 marriages. . .
„ .
clergyman in Troy recently heard the
following conversation between a Troy ex - •
pressman and a West Troy receiver:of a good-
sized box : "What do them are letters Mea
pointing to the "C. 0. D." on .the, corner.:
"Theili means pay," exclaimed the emphatic .
expressman. " Tmm don't spell 'pay'," re
joined the other. "You go along; thi' ere box
is paid for, 1 . know." • "I tell you ,what" re
turned the expressman, the bright thought
most knocking him off the wagon seat, 'tlierik! '
are letters mean Come OnnuediatelY Down, , !
at which conclusive suggestion the happy Mau
paid for the box, and the expressman went
back over the riveriwith _a new .ideal in
head.
—M. Legouve, of the French Instittite,Who ;
after writing the "Moral History of oinen,"'
has taken to discussing "Fathers" and "Child
ren:" makes himself responsible fOr this story
of the alarming intelligence of a little girl. He
assures us that, when he once threatened the
little damsel that "if she didn't behave pro
perly he would tell everybody he knew,"the
child responded: ''Well, that den't trouble.
nie." "And pray why not?" he asked. "He
eauSe," replied • the
.precocious. little phi loso
pher, "there are a great many more people•
that von don't know, and they will never hear
anything about it!"
—A paper called The Aid to Progress, pub
lished somewhere in Ohio, opens a two-col.:,
' inn article, referring to an oppodtion sheet,
as follows: "The low, sneaking,and would-be•
cunning implements in the foul clutches of
. vulgarity-4he poor old dotard Fisher and:the.
chinless-visaged simpleton Way, of the fogsil
:sheet published here under the name Republi
---Cali—baVe—tilltlettakyl to ntisweithe---truth--
ful exposition we last week made of their dis
honorable-and absolutely mean. attempt•to in
jure us, &c" That paper mast be one• of the,
aids to progreA backwards we fear.
—The local paper of Rugby, Emland, pub,
lishes the followmganswers as written in good•
faith in a recent examination in history in "a
certain public school:"
. "1., Give an account •of IRMeigh.—He wm-• '
- passing throw the forest - When - Walter - Terral
seeing a dear pass by he puleit-- his hoe, and,
the arer stuck a tree and glance. oft mud hit
Walter Raleigh throw the head and Vir.altet,
Teruel seeing him dead at wonce•feld. Arid a
few years afterwards a, man was passing by.;
and found the body and at once called 60110
people and they took the' boddy and baryed,
him in Wincester Kerlideral." "2. The H
Policy of Queen Elizabeith.—Queen
Elizabeth was very fond of wriding
she did not live long but mind verysborb , '
time." "3. The Causes that led to DiSsatiStfae: :
ri&rwith Charles the Finit.—ltecanse they did
not like him-and be ran aboute when his head
was cut oft."-- "4.- The Principal.B:l,l;tletu-gf'the
Civil War. There was the crib:linear and the
war of the react roses and the:war of the wits
roses.' "5. - Life-of CharleStlie - FirstOliW
lin 1 N'S
400,034 80
1 28
—was-a-wry Ile -- came to•thiO• •
frome 1866andgriund LI years and he wiu3 hated
by every one and no one loved him and by
was executed and Ito ran abouto when Ithi
bead was cut QV . " - • •
FACTS AND FANCItIe/14
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