=ME NENE GIBBON MOCK FAlibm OLUME XXITIO, 114 E ATEANIED ron arr. TIMBEIL, Mrs. giowe Asigeor," lifewitif it» It ih a thinsiand that Harriet should Lave doiie juSt'wluitsbe bashas. She 10: 1 4 - told 24ltitY, tale, IF9llght q'sra. from EN141241 t he bas udt 4f, well of ;ixißkward with the Rio , Ate'has,,dritped it, mssiduously and ,theatrically,Around the foullms‘e which forms•'fith. diseovery. Miss .Braddon henfelfponi# not hive glOated,inore over the thing. Theseandal is made out with . _ /Gasiceirs Sad story of brother Branwell, ni `tile' Life of 31 -ho VrOarg,win made out ; that story, - er at e , ; .37 . eas ug • I torn • e uxury It bad cuu#ed to ite narratrem, Area diePros;ed, and xs, Gatikell had to wade ; through veey t 9 get fairly. out of it; we hope, for the credit of American lettera, that no ; lituniliatingXeetintation Is Itkid 41 tliefitnte 'for Mu. Stowe; zol ',:„ , _ . thistiTdillOus matron had taken, better advice, or had•been naturally gifted with poor Jo dame** tam native '.'ttense :or ,!'..what's floc)," hoW wOuld alie have droplied ',her:Wi den?, Would she have.melded?:'Would she have gulped t-."' into %, shining„, seAsation article, worth a goOd price to the proprietors of the principst literary magazine? Would the sad secret haVe appeared as the principal eardz o in , the • month's , issue,' ' ; advertised, developed, crowding out one; of the standard - features, of the periodiCal (the Book-llevievr)?, . Would it haVe appeared precursively in this and that Western news paper, frinn advance ..'proofs privately , fur nished ?—(ir, would it have been uttered plain, sad and stark? Would the signatures of our gravest and wisest, men of letters have attested theirassistance,coadintors'hip,examinarionaiid convincement? 'Would every date Iwo been Verified, to take the place of this mass ,of inac curacies Would every proof have been pub lished, instead of this vague Unsupported rmator from the grave? And then - would -the testimony have appeared, in unadorned dece= rum, over the name of the; . witties.s, in some retired but not toilsome place among the'public tiewo;:agetteies? Twcaty lines, over a .migna tare, in the ,Set - th fa more ex clusive organ of the same publishers who are entrusted with the ,affair), or a note to the Ara mintrOaseti, would have told all there, %vas' to„ - mid Harriet's tier:sena] dignity would ~ h ave oretrained unbteathed upon. That is the in Whielt a better': advised or more punctilious newtt-bearer may be supposed ta.basfe acted, The ,public are not going to let their great, mad singer sink undefended into greater-polo y I,l"inieS had' beeit indeed ' fastened wort his charact,er i too ; securely, for popular opinion (always given to a kindly, instinct of deiticatlim) to pass them: over ; ; th‘e had been admitted, and had- entered , Into the popular eonception of the man. lie was not toyed be eanse he was a teacher : "He tatVht us'little ; but °arson) • - Had felt hintriike the thuuder's roll." The pa.ssion, the tragedy, of theßyionle verse, and not its theories, were what kept it alive till now, in the clatnor of hew voices and the perspectivb of distances And even that ener getic influente, based as it was upon the deep est agitation of the heart, was becoming dull, by Byron's own fault,thanks to the obstinately factitious, stilted, fustian character of the ideal he meant to force upon literature—his Manfred, his Harold, 'bis Lara. The last half of the century cannot be called By ronic: 4 ' What boots it now, that Byron bore, With haughty pain that marked the smart, ' From England to the Xtolian shore, pageantet his bleeding heart, That tlisiusands Cortnted every groan — Atid - EurOpt - mule:his woe her - own?" lirkw far was Byron- knitted to the popular afti tin in 18L8,—then P.Byrint, ;dug "e geared" ',The half -amused stnile •-With which that book was greetettifiCs Fy yet expired. The GMcbiolEntslied raw: n. 211 to:the-footlights with a well-preserved intensity.-of.-Byronic feeling, assuming that her audience stillturned, down its eollars and 'declaimed in private to imaginary eagles among imaginary Alps. The sympathy expected by the Countess, or Mar thiones.s, MILS not forthcoming. Men won dered, as they contemplated her delineation of the irresistible creature, if they had ever in'their lives "gushed" about.Byronasshe was snishingi - And 31m. Stowe', might weillave been content to leave the - Cule.cioli's allusions to Lady Byron unchallenged. A slight, a 1,-eri slight concession made to . the jealousy of the successful woman(and the jealousy of success is keener than the jealousy of disappointment) and' Lady Byron remained in people's thoughts precisely where she had been. She remained the faultles.s, -virtuous, cool, incom ,patible umullied by a , shadow of blame, who had missed, thrOugh" iiattire's'faidt and not her o‘vni;theTgoniefitotts ehande of tracting andreclainaing the *fist iincoinmon man of the time. When , accusations, but not the right stausitions; Wore flyibg thick as hail in English society upon his Lordship's de parture, Lady Byron missed a hundred chances of saying: 'east, is not true":" - The silence historical, admitted equally by Guiecioli and-Mrs. Stowe; the latter has no wa , y-of, e?r-plaining down cantanker -sins z Why did Lady Byron ever speak? Mrs 13towe explains that it‘,was, On aCeount, of a .cheap popular edition of Byron in 1858; under these circumstances some of Lady Byron's ltit"nde at. 0: tineltilOn tvhether she had not a raipmtsibiiity to societV for .the truth; her^meens of ffilfilling,tbis' 'obit lion, then, was surelithenOst extraordinary ever taken -by a-sane-person—She. 1 ts4tha cheap edition;with ^ influences, Speem;i; but she goes and' Whispers,ber: Sedret,,as'it were, to the ieeds, leaving.it to. the' discretion of, circumstances whether for not at some • dla• taut day, the' seeret; 111;4 0409 she 604d;vot. then control ) sbOuld • reaoly the world. That womanly confab, the 4onfidence of the'dreamer ! to the reeds; Was Unacciptnpanied tiyanYthing so vulgar, as proof. • . t . , , , And Mrs. Stowe waits awhile, and .ihen, w b e r t .shoth4dcs she has a chance otreturning to the Guiecioli as good as she g!ves, she tells it all, vituperatively,. Inxuripislyi with all the luxury of a saint gettingilio.efiance to liaste'a good fat sinner. The reNvlntion,not to put ,too fine amoint of ft, ciinirirotnises Byron with half-sistek; the' • .•••- •,' `7,•,• •;- ' ' t _ • E •••, ' • —'t r'ra. ••• .7 • - 4'?' • • ' • _ • " : 7 4.1(1 se • 1. S ails 11 r*' , r • ,rr ;,1 r' • 1111' ;' ' ' • ••. I MP d • , • wife of Col Leigh And all that lktri. , *ewe can Say that, this 'crime -- 4*eovered,':"/2141' Byron was not bound to itnyspeelei of coy iiio- sion, 7 neither to Jive - with, her. lord; iarf, to speak out when people told lies sheet hiin,upr any sort of 'friendlinesS. But this, it I sleiniie US, i 8 Vekildit - tte question,o.3icEl'Xittli34o7ion iiiii choose to live with ; her husbandpaud see .what she could 4o with him ;"she'livect a. Year :with hint—two years; says , the torgetfnl - Mrs. Stowe. She Jived with hini,her eyes 'qien,anti (tiled 40 reclaim' him; his' si.a, declares 'the -4 14 14 5*00'.....ver 6 _ - tar3 l loiet- - I*Wijit'7vite huttiaj./tyrott settles Oat', kind of 'Criticism 'bY'At'e6/4.lng him, as he is, living, trittl-disPDA with ,him the 14a.ss,e ,an •• en envying:., dog that remains basking at his door., The Proldem'is is, the sad, old a little. coin plicebed; u noble, tuneful, uniquely 'glorious nature gone all astray;. religion , essaying; the splendid task of reclaiming it; religion Utterly . ;routed.; "Anybody,' sari Fletcher, the : imlet, "could d'o anything With Any. Lord; except my Lady!' This"hiperfect adaptive power; since She smile heradaptive Power, is What placei Lady 121Yron's itery among thes:West in the painful categer7 . of heatren's taskii, spoiled through the imper fection of the instrument. • The statement, of Hrs. Stowe * , es now ap pears, thanks to the happy memory of the Tribune, is not even new; thinly disguised; it was communicated in Temple \ Bar for last June. in the following comments surrounded by ntuubera of hints about husbands' or wives' duty to incestuous partnen;) upon Lady Byron'f4 excuse -for refusing reConciliation: "The wife could not, without guilt, return to hint. * When. Dr. Lushmgton (Lady B.'s advisery declares reameillation to be impossi ble, and that if attempted he could take no part in the attempt profasionally or otherwise, he must be understood to mean that Vuty both to God and mon' forbade - Lady Byron to , return to' her hus band." • , 3lns. 'Stowe's gift to literary, history is destined to a terrible scrutiny from .ByrOn's countrymen when they know of it; in ;vhich season; with little.sympathy from her own countrymen to support her, we shall riot envy Mrs Stowe. Her manifest *ant of the critical spirit, her inattention to easy facts—the New York papers have been mercilessly expesing her inaccUrachth-Lhave the effect of under mining even the popular '4.rier in her Story.; hoivw ill it stand,: when, it has to take up the isidignant.challenge of a proud and powerful farrilly, interested by every motive in clearing its• skirts irk= shame'? If truth is true, it ought ,to look seemly -and strong, and not show a surface eaten into holes hy all sorts of minor but irritating falsities. • The Byron scandal lies like a cuckoo in the magazine,, and it is hard to see anything else. But the mnriVer shows variety- and powerful editorship; Mr. Parton is up again 'with his W4pshington exposures;there is'a rather pretty Pastoral novelette talipd Jacob jour ney, a sort of taoon-hoax,"• not. very de ceptive, called " Was. Reichentiach Bight?" and an able criticism of Confucius. The best poem is a delicate chirp from Mr. 'W. D. Howells in answer to the cricket, which, after the. dirt through. which Madame Sto;ire has dragged us; we shall treat ourselves by repeat : THE FIRST cnzorET , Ab me! is it then true that the year has waxed unto waning, ..., lind An that so noon mtin remain nothing, but lame and decay— . • , Earliest cricket, that out of the midsummer complaining, . ---- All the -faint-summer-in- me,takest -with subtle , Allsurtay? Though thou blingest no dream,of frost to the flowers that slumber, Though no tree for its leaves, doomed or thy voice, maketh moan; - IVitli the nueonsc.ions earth's boded evil-MY - - !;acid theta dust ctunber, y And itt tlie 1. -- ar's lostyouth inakst .me still lose my own. - . iswerest,ithowtha.twhen nights of Decem ber are blackest and bleakest,-- --And when tho fervid grate-feignsme a-May - in nay room, - A - n - d - b - y - iilyheriithSfonegay, as now sad in pay garden, thou creak — esi,— Thou wilt again give me all,—dew and fragrance and bloom ? Nay, little poet! full many a cricket I have that itOwilling, If 1 but take him down out of his place on niY shelf, - Mc blither lays to sing than the blithest known to thy Full of the rapture of life, 319 morn, hope, and—himself: , Leaving me only tilt. sadder;' for never one of my singers Lures back the bee to his feast, calls' back the bird to his tree. Hast thou no, art can make , me believe, while the surthuer yet ling,ers, , Better than bloom that has been red leaf and sere that must be? Berne additional magazine -notices will he found on the second page of this paper. THAT BOAT BALE. " English Abuse ocAmericins. The London correspondent of the Boston Post writes.; ' ' Our papers continue their reports and criti cisms of„the doings of your Harvard men to the extent of from a ‘; quarter to half a column or more daily. • I can add xery little to their, details, so minutely is everything chronicled; except that there is an old impression abroad that they are''playing: possum'? in their nrac lice—by no means doing their best, and allow ing it to be supposed that they will be beaten easily,-.and, intend : to astonish us bye-aud bye. All kinds of 'faulta are alleged against,. them, know not with what truth; and A menli;jealims letter' r two; about. their order ing an English' boat for the race haS or have appeared in the newspapers.' They, have, it seems,. altered-Aheir 'style of , rowing from Tyne ,:to .:Thataes - fashion. ,‘Their new 'boat , ;very handsome and • shapeable , craft, 44 - ;:',.feer,„6 `inches , long, or - just .4. feet. 6 inchek:lesa_ltlien. their own ' , canoe -like; American built Cedar, and ;,2 ' feet'; loner there 'the/ London boat, 'in wbich; , during the" week they have 'practising. Ap;' pareetlyrshe is a lighter and handier boat than either of the two they. have been using onlhe Thames' but ; they,have another building; . by, Elliott ,the American, -who ,carrie over i with them, it is nePieStion ae 'Yet which they will Ultimately adopt." The Oxford men 'intend coming down the riVer towards the end nf neat week; ()rifle beginning oftlae week after. Then' • we shall probably get the day fixed; at pres ent it is conjectured ;for' the '26th tor. ;earlier Boueicault has availed himself <of t the interest ex ot e 4 lwthe impending contest,_to bring out a new sensation drama, entitled ,row/pur l :the plot of which hinges on an' 'Oxford and 0tt047, bridge beat race, and the • cipporttitie Wining ub of the u strolreade'in , 'n..Me''?t,'o 'liteeizrolhe ' victory to "dark' blue:". The'ltabe titr"repre»‘ sented, and I heat' great: things!)of it; ttbut I.; have not, as yet, been to see it., , irj. , r ,f;.;.' ; PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21,;1869. . , FloagisnrScholionita California. San Francisco is having a first-class sensor. tion in the treatment of the school children. The Chronicle newspaper having made certain charges of cruelty against the teachers ' and 'the charges-having been-denied; prepesed - an investigation, and the proposal was accepted. The Chairman ofthe School Committee, the, Chairman of the Board of Education, the re porter and the t teachers '' had the scholars, before' them,. • and elicited' facts parallel only at Andersonville. Litt • girls ei _ld years old . were gag ed wit, at; • • r.,-peil uponthe limit, gagged for wh 'tering,t., , agged ler playing, in fact gagged for any and all of .. • • , and. the gag-was a--large--rileee-'of-so leather Whichrprevimted 'breathing through the mouth„ left the marks, of,ita hard strings on the tender little., heads, -Made the little bodies ;;,sick, and, ,as if it' were not alone sufficiently distressing, - the cul prit? bands were tied behind them, they wore placed in a corner, whipped if they moved or cried, or even refused to breatha 'when breathing Was out of the question. ' It was a lady- teacher who subjected dhildren eight, nine and eleven years of age to this in human disciplinemnd during the iirrestigation she is 'represented .as quite caha and un attashed. The stories seem incredible:---In -credible, also, one would think that a womaifil heart could find it possible to approve such treatment. But perhaps She had lier worries, poor, woman, her nerves' or blues or ROMe t.hing. It wouldn't haveheen a bad idea,how ever, to have gagged her for a quarter of an hour • she could afterward apply the penalty more discriminatingly DISM3TER. A Crowded tsiirms Teat Prostrated by Wind--Intense Mardi Among the Spec- • [From the Parton (Ohio) Ledger w Ang.l7j , Yesterilayfifternoon, about 3 o'clock, :while Bryant's Menagerie and Circus was tufa blast, _'at: the . corner of First and Webster streets, there came very ; iiuddenly:,n, furious gale of wind, followed try a heavy 'shower of rain, Which-for a short time seemed asthough it would scatter' everything -before. it. The _performance was about, half over, when -all at once they-poles inside were lifted from the 'ground; gu and considera,ble . creaking was heard' , through: the . entire'can ; vas,•which spreadgreat -consternation among the :vast number of pedple gathered under the pavilion. -It was -evident that the pavilion would instantly fall unless s great force was applied outside to hold on to the ropes.. Some fifty men took hold of the ropes on, the -south side, and attempted to bold:it from 'blowing over,' but it was utterly impossible. In another instant theropes snapped,the centre pole came unfastened, and-With a terrible crash the large pavilion was dashed .to the ground, upsetting at the same time two of thewagons :Containing' 'wild animals. At this point several voiceiteried out "the animals are loose?' This terrific .ilann, added to the intense excitement caused by the f.llling of the canvas and breaking of the scant and screatiiing of women and dill= drea, made- confusion more confounded, and the scene one of the wildest disorder and the greatest danger weever had occasion to wit ness. The people w ere now . terri fi ed, and fled everywhere :in . the wildest confusion. Amid the screams ofat lea:st a thdusand women and• children who weretrying to .extricate themselves from beneath the broken.benches, and crawling out from under the' canvas, mothers and fathers seized their children and frantically rushedtheir way out as best 'they could.. 'Many of the children were pressed down in the excitement and trampled in the dirt; some were vttry ranch bruised. Many men and women fled to„ndiWnt houses and closed th e doorS behind to escape from being overtaken by-the wild animals, which they imagined were in pursuit of them. But two pi : Troup were , seriously injured—W. H. - 31itcliellr,•who was Pang across a bench while 'attempting to support a guy, and a little girl, WhoSe name we did not ascertain, had her anti broken and received a severe: wound on the head WENT POILNT. The. -Cadets In the Nlonntains4—The New Enesinpznent. _ - The Poughkeepsie :Eagle say s : - "West-Point. proper,- that is, the Parade G round; eadet's - barracks;=thehrOatl - esplanade and the trophies of three wars, have no more charms for the beantles-who -- andboarding houses, near that military post; - and all be -cause- the -- eadets - have - iTabiklfell=gon - e — tu -- their _mountain-- encampment— -:-The order ' to vacate the old camp - ground_eitnmated from -the Departmerat, - and - - -- was_carried-into - effect on „,the morning of Tuesday. The---ca dets were in line in a drizzling rain - storm, in heav-y, marching order, with the. baud posted on the right, when the order was given to march. The band struck up "The girl I left behind me," and a battalion, consisting of the first, third and fourth classes, numbering one hundred and eighty-three;-passed out of the grounds. "The location of the new encampment is one thousand feet above the river, and is flanked on each side by ponds , of the purest water, one of which, Round Pond, is used for • cooking and drinking, while, the other, Long Pond, two hundred feet directly beneath is used for bathing. • "The. camping ground was reached about. eleven o'clock, when' there began the usual bustle and confusion incidental • to pitching tents. Th'e ground is very rough and covered with stones - and stubble,, the clearing of which considerably taxed the patience of the cadets, the majority of whom were • receiving " their first lesson. 4 in,the rougher ,7 duties of the soldier's life. Those pessessing inventive genius .found ,splendid field for.the display thereof, and it required no small amount to economize space iii six'square feet of ground so as to accommo `date four human beings, who, when they. re ,polieihavelo lie as close as the Siame.se Twins. 'Space had to be found in the 'tents for mus- ' kets, knapsacks, belts, and other articles, and there was a • considerable scratching of heads while looking around for a place. for every •,thing,they knowing very wellthat everytlung •% -duld' have to have a - place Vthen, the Inspec timi oflents' should be in order. The mess ,, tent tva.sJarniaSS of tinware, cauldrons, boxes & ion cooking Utensils, besides a number of wooden horses, which were to simport some 'planks from, which the' meals • here to be served: Spme old campaigners got to :work, anti,aoonliroughkorder out of claos, and by *nbon,the Soup was boiling, its fragrant odors pervading the entire. camp. "Dining the encampment the regular rou tine of -camp dtities.will be ob.served and the 'only instruction given will be practical engi neering, • The telegraph corps are engaged in erecting a wire from the institute to tine camp ground, which, will be finished to-morrow.. istages",will also prohably,, commence running if the weather is pleasant. The 'distance from the `rivek ,miles. The army officers on (duty at the , encampment -are .Colonel Black, 'coramandaht;),: and Colonel ' ,Colonel Kent, Captain Clarke,. Lieutenant, Rockwell, 'Lieutenant Sears, and ,- Assistant Surgeon IWiggan. Any.one wishing to view mountain scenery, and see Camp life in . all its demils, can'be fully satisfied by, visiting Camp: Look ;our." ' • —:Anstria is becoming a very ; tolerant coun try, At Franzdorf, in that country, a Protos taut married the other day a Catholic girl. A ..Tew 'was 'the principal' witness of the °ere mbny; which was, performed by Catholic OUR WIWLE COUNTRY, niR NATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS Athalf-Past eight o'clock the (uuvention was,'called to order, with ' President C. H. Liicker iti the chair. • • The first' business in order Was, the consid2r-, ation or the resolution on the Cherokee lands. Moved that it lay over until after the election, ' ,Wri ."Gazz of am,Pennsylvania. — b - y — P - e - tit - a4- shill" made a few remarki ,in regard, to the ...storithrnen_of tilt.Southern-Sta . C. Svivis offered the 'following: 4700/red; 'that when' this Convention ad journs; it be to'convene in the city of 'Louis ville,..Kentacky, on the rith day of Augu.st, 181 Q ,, at 10 o'clock, A. 31.., After several amendments, it was laid on the table. of New York„ offered the fol lowii - Risolred, That R. 31. Adger, Peter B. Brown, John H. Thomas, James - Realm and Robert butler; he appointed a spebial'conunittee to organize"the colored werkintmieir :of-.Penn *tsylvania into Labor Unions, with instructions tto report progress to the President of the In - ternational Labor Congress, at the next; ses sion thereof. Agreed to. mr. Greene, of NOW York, offered the fol lowing Resofred, That the Proident , of the Labor Congress be directed to faille a circular to all labor organizations here represented, asking for a contribution of live cents per member; the money thus collected to be used for the pnrpose.of paving the President's salary and defraying such' expenses as may be connected with said-office. An amendment was offered that it be re-' (erred-to the Committf---z , .on Ways and Means, and they to determine the amount of salary, and how it shall be raised, The amendment was voted down. and the resolution agreed.to. Mr. Myers, of Philadelphia, Chairman of thee Committee on Co-operation, read the laming report of that Committee: To the 'President aial Mentbevs . of the National Labor Congress: • • - ..Your Committee on Co-operation, having attended to their duty, beg leave to, report the following preamble and resolutiAns: . Whereas, We are of opinionat of all the Plans devised for the amelioration of the con dition of the working classes none has proVed so effective to solve the : problem of human happiness to so great an extent as that of co operation. .„ 'whereas,- Weare happy to learn that great progress has • been: made in tho co-operative movement,- . during the .last; year,as has been demonstrated not. only by the success' of those which were in existence- pre-: vion.s to the last session, but also by the 'fact that several other . ; have been established' in , different branches, since the- adjournment of this.body in New York, among which may be mentioned that of the Tailors' Co-operative Union of the city of.NeW York,.and the Jour: zieymen Printers' Co-operative Establishment of Philadelphia ; therefore, be it • Resolved, That we recommend to the work- • ingmen And women of the country the impera,- tive necessity of immediately entering into co-- operation in the different branches of industry, and thereby secure to themselves. the legiti mate fruits oftheir labor. , Resolved, That we recommend the appoint -- merit of a Comtnittee on CO-Operation. whose duty itsliall be to'exiimine the different sys-terns now practised, and report" the most feasible plan at the next session of the Labor Congress.' Resolved, That We enjoin it as a duty upon every.erganization, State and local, holding a connection With the National Labor Union, tonssist and entourage the organization of co operative companies in every branch of. in dustry;anti to make-use of every opportunity to educate - the workingmen to the importance of this subject (Signed.). , F. J. 31vEns, - R. BLISSERT, - - M. R. WALSH, ._ W31..T. 31cLAtromAN. After some slight opposition the report was accepted. Mr. Cameron, of Illinois, offered the fol lowing resolution en Coolie labor : , Resolved, Thal we are unalterably opposed to the importation of - a - servile race, for the sole and only purpose of tampering with the labor of the American workingmen. _ Resolved, That we demand the abolishment `of - the - system of contraetialkir nrour - prisons penitentiaries,-.and - --that-=labor--pe F formed by convicts shall be . that which will least conflict with honest-industry--outside-of - .the prisom, and that the - wareslnamtfactured -bY the convicts shall not be put-np-on-the.-mar ket at less than the current market rates. Resolved, That this Labor Congress would most respectfully recommend to the working men of the country that, in case they are pressed for want of employment, they proceed . to the public lands and become actual settlers, believing that if the industry of the country can be coupled with its natural advantages it, will result both in 'individual relief and na tional advantage. Resolved, That where a workingman is found capable and available for any office, the prefer ence should invariably be given to such person. *Resolved, That we would • urgently call the attention of the industrial classes to the sub ject of tenement houses and improved dwell ings; believing it to be essential to the Welfare o 1 the whole community that a reform should be effected in this respect, as -the 'experience of the past has proven that vice, pauperism and crime are the invariable attendants of the over-crowded and illyv-entilated dwellings of the poor, and urge upon capitalists of the coup try attention to, the .blessings to be derived from investing their means in erecting such dwellings. The foregoing was adopted. A. T. Cavis presented the following resolu tion, which was adopted: . • ," Resolved., That it shall he the duty of the Committee on Labor Department, with the co-operation of 'the' President, to cause to - be a, series •of questions designed' to gather statistics during the taking- of the census of 'lB7O, sparing the cost of production in all departments 01 industry, the cost of transportation , thereon- to market, classifica tion •of the nodes of conveyance, the:cost when put ,upon . the, market, and- the prices paid by the consumers or at the point of pr.- port, and press . tlieit adoption upon the Con-_ ress of the United States through the Census; Tess '•• - • Mr. Pratt, of Massachusetts, offered the fol lowing amendment to the constitution : 'l'llat each local organization _numbering less . than one hundred members pay an annual tax of I. Laid over until.next . yeary Mr, Duck, of Pelinsylvama, offered the fol lowing: • • Resolved, That the l'resident be antliorized to appoint,•between this and the next meeting • of the Congress, men to deliver addresses upon , the,prineiples enunciated, in our platform ; such as co-operation, : • public lands, • trades unions, the apprentice laursi,anci other-vwerk of this Congress AdoPted. • • ; Mr:Kuhr) of NCW'York; Offered and read the follOwin_g :• • • • - , • ' • Resolved,- That the PreSidefit in conjunction • with. the Executive Committee,bo•required draft an exact And 01).3MA:ed. : plan t - according to which all trades' ; unions off a Stato.,have to, act unitedly j for the purpose. of availing theta-, selves-of 'all :,praper means for the enforce-'• nieut Of; au. evl4-11620 'To of . their State, .Which shall be binding lei any craft and 'in 'which . ' law. the punislurient for its violation. shall CITY BULLETIN. AIXTIII DAirs 11110CEEDING3: stipulated, the following features of the plan being proposed: • 1. All trades oniony to endeavor to abolish piece -work, and to introduce dayes work: 2. The trados' unions of every State ta,cen tralize themselves. The State in which the centralization- -• of the trades' unions has rnade'the greatest pro 7 gross will take the lead by practical actions, and should be supported materially by the other States. • r , 4. As soon as the proper time ha; arrived labor shall be stopped at, the same time and simultaneously in all trades of a State,,in order . 4nf9cr e 11irtrztff'ffErld'EtflIA40144Mtrenrals— "piece-work;" and anal ing it read "that we abOlish iece work whenever ft _isnractii hour:This matter, was under, discussion when the of ten arrived, which had beenappointed for the electi,on of the officers for the ensuing year. Messrs. PowerS, of 31assackusetts; of Illinois; Walls, of Pennsylvania; Myers, of New York, and Walker,of - Adabatna, were'appointed tellers, to' conduct the election. An informal ballot was' taken for President, and resulted as follows:Ii. Trevellick. • . . .... 49. ... H. F. Jessup... . . . .;.. ... Mr. Cameron.... ... . .. ....... H. H. ; C. H. Locker: .: Total - 8l A motion, to take a formal ballot was agreed to. All the candidates were withdrawn .except Mr. Trevellick and Mr. Jessups, and 'the Con vention proceeded at once to an election for, President. The following is the result.: ' Trevellicki ........50. - Trevellick having received the :largest number of cotes was declared the President or; the National Labor Union, fOr :the ensuing 0. D. Daily, of Ohio, moved that Mr. Trevel lick be declared-the President unanimously.' Agreed to. A ballot for last Vice President resulted in the choice of Mr. A. T. earls.. Mr. Sylvis, candidate for the. second Vice- Presidency, withdrew his .name in 'favor of. MissiValibridge. • The Convention went into an electipn of second-Vice-President. ' • ' ' _ . Mr. Kuhn, of NeNV York., , received the ma jority of the votes :.and was declared second. Vice-. President. The Convention then went into a ballot for Seeretarv. Mr. vas declared to 'be t 4. Secretary It was, moved that .'the chairman cast the' ballot for the present Treasurer, A.W.Plielps, Agreed to. - • _ Mr. Phelps was dulY elected as Treasurer br acclamation. . It was moved that'Miss . Lewis, member .of the Typographical Union -NOW YOrk, recommended for As.siatant Secretary. . ' ' The objection to it wa.s that .Hiss Leivis was' not a delegate to the Convention. • Mr..ltostanan read the report of the Audit: ing Committee, which was received- and accepted.. . • : V m. J: McCarty, of ,Pennsylvania, offered. the following Reliolrtd, That a committee of one froth each. State be appointed to wait upon- the tures of the several States to recommend the repeal of all laws injurious to: the working classes of the respective States, and each •com mittee report to the next General Congress of l'C the atiornd Labor Union 'what are the most. obnoxious laws in their respective States:, Agreed to: . it was moved that theConvention, i cgo into an installation of officers, and a co imittee of three be appointed to cOnduct the newly- . elected officers to their• respective ~ stations.' Agreed to. • . Mr. Walsh, 31 r. Sylvis and Mr. Cummings were appointed as the committe to conduct the officers to their stations: Mr. West offered a vote of thanks to the International Union Congress. — Agreed to unanimously. The Committee then conducted the newly, elected officers to their seats. Mr. Trevellick then made a speech: ' Mr. Colds also- made some- brief . renuirks upon the future w0rk113&,...4 2gational- C. H. Lucker moved to appoint it delegate to represent the 'Union - at the Inti3rriatiOnal Congrts,..which is to meet. n- -S witzerland,-i n- September. This called out some: discussion, upon which Mr. Hytton, one of , the delegates, took occasion to make an appealto_the_Con., ventiou to stand- by the Democracy of' Ame rica, as they were • the - friends of the Labor Union The motion to appoint a delegate was agreed to. Mr. Sylvis, of Pennsylvania, moved that A. C. Cameron be appointed the delegate to the International Union. Agreed to. • It was moved that an associate delegate be sent in company with. A. C. Cameron. Agreed to.. • C. H. Lucker was the one chosen: It 'was then moved a place 'be'. selected for the next meeting of the Congress. The leg places were named: St. Louis, Mo,. ' Cleveland, O.; Louisville,; liy.; Richmond, Va.; Cincinnati, 0.; Boston, Mass.; Memphis, Tenn.; Baltimore, Md.; Omaha, Nebraska; and Detroit, Mich. After a very lengthy debate the previous question was called, and finally Cincinnati was the place fixed upon. It was moved that the thanks of this Con vention lie tendered to the proprietor of this ball, and to the representatives .of the - press on this floor. Agreed to. - • • •:After spine unimportautbusiness bad been transacted the Convention adjourned. THE DEATH or' Mn. d (nor A. STOItEY,Or as ManaNnuk, who h held a position in the c ity Post-Office for 801110 time past, and been quite, prominent in the politics of his section,..was tlie occasion of a meeting of the employes of the PoSt-officej this morning, at. Which the resolutions' given \ below were unanimously' adopted. Mr. A. d: Fredericks presided; and Mr. J. W. Gibson acted as Secretary. , The resolutions, which were reported by a com mittee consisting of Messrs. ilamesitees, Silas S. Steele, and George W. (Megan, were as. W/u The Omnipotent, iu His Divine will ? has called from our midst aibeloVed com panion; Mr. John A. Storey; ' . . ' .Andivhemas, 'His sudden . demise, tagether with his many rare and genial qualitieS'otheart and mind,invest his departure withsentiraents of peculiar grief; Remised, That wbile we:Aament-the loss of a colleague, endeared to us by many social virtues, and while the departnient loses one of its most efnployes, we are consoled by the reflection that he has found a home where, afilietions cannot Come. - - - liesolced,Thar, we deeply sympathize with thetriad:ray! orphans of our deeenaea Cont 7 raffle in this great calamity: *: Resolved, That a copy of tiles& resolutions be sent-tolhe7fitrally"olthe-de-e-eased. TUE POLICE DEPARTMENT.—High Con stable Ii G. Clark is. now acting Chief:. of the Policeyand Lieutenant .John of the District, is acting Chief of the Detee tives,', Chiefs Mulholland and Brurein are v r jing into Ca NVitil the Philadelpiga, City nnrds Chl. - Couvoit.4.—The Chainlieis of, Seled and Coinmon Connell are, noWinniergoing're pairs and alterations, and the special meeting F. L. IMMIRRON.Tabitsbo, eaUed by the Mavot for Monday, fotethe con slileration of the water question, wilt* hal& in the Suprerne 1 oiirt roourc, • , , cyst' ; 3101 :TALerY.---IJAe number of , .itliter,- irients in the city for the week eriding'aZiloon . to-day was ;342v-agafOst 2 ';395 - the:l4amc , -, Tan'ted . last3-ear. Of the ' whoic , niantber IZ3 :were adults and :219 childre.u--113"being tlnderane Year,of age; 165 were males; 171 , feluales;11# boys and 109 girLs. , th s e ) number of 'deaths in, tacit , ArardWilil;* , First , • MI SIN te,nith.-.,,,,,....,,..,...C......01,9r,;, IT' Sevent< 4 nnth • '' ,Att Third ~.... 7 1 Ehtitteenth.4. .- -:"1:.:...,.:3 .Vit It .Fiftit i iTiceta11ai . ... . ........ . :,..ivA sixth ' ...... 2:Twonts , fir4 ~%,, i Seventh • ...... ......16 Twentr-sedetni - • ' "L'...V ''', Eighth Twenty-tiff:li ... -,,......... ~... dr: - liintE .. .... .. ....... ... ....,.:.-...- 7 Twenty -fouttlY '-'• IP Tenth II TwentYlifelt---.1......-) Eleventh' ' .: .... . ...12 Twenty - flatle-:-.;‘'....",- -.."--.4f 'Twelfth —... 11 Tvventy-gtir01tb....,....4, A. Thlittionth . : ... . . .............. .. . . 6 'Trrenty-etu1a6..... Fourteenth ' ' 91Unhti0nnu.«..,.„...:4...:411.4..15 Fifteenth „,. 16 - .. The principal ""causes " Of Cibathl: weri.=‘ , congestion pf•,thebraill,B; ; cholera , inefauttrari, 55; cholera, znorbus; 8; 'consumption 13Ncon vulsions, 16; diarrhcea 8; heart' disease, - 8;.: scarlet fever, 13;,,intianimation ofithe .brazn, 9; infia:mtnation of the -hings, 11; niarasintaii '46; typhoid fever, 8. and old age, 45 . )1, it ., ; ~- V4:*; Jntf'Enxr,TO ANIALAI,EI.7—JOiLIILeargr, carter and contractor, Thirty-sixtb, and, 3F6 brat streets, was arrested this min or agent 'of the-Socinty for the "'revel:akin of Oftrelty - tci Animals, for, working two horses, wlxischluut sores on the back and Shoulders, .and , weret otherwise'unilt for work. 'lle •Was , trued" $lO and costs by Alderman Johnson. • " ..... 2 DON'T RING 'IIIE actink:Clilet of Police asks ns to request the tirernewne' ttlk` ring their bells to-morrow morning at 4 ofclocir.. when the fire-alarm bores are to , be rfingaud,:. the Fire Department is to be caned out for tae benefit of Captain Shaw, of the Lennie]] FirfY Departnient. The ringing of tike - lirebells, is thought, would alarm citizens ittineeemarily., Hester, ,bang 11b: '„ AuGusT, 21, 1 . 869.--3 fr. Editor In yOur; article of i August I.2th, "Sticking.to are, 'several points wish to notice.' First--T have no „ wish to stick to anything' that will not hear the light of - day:, Second—You insinuate that the father or Hester Vaughn's child is a colored coachtrain . and still living in the family where ,he was employed at the time of heicliiid's birth. I can answer` this bY a few artractsdrinirmy 4 notes in Hester Vang.lin'S case. • o You speak of Hester, Vanghn as my friend. You, sir, 'could not have paid ine a. higher compliment. as the servant is not above the master, our Redeenier counted. among His: I friends, the oppressea and despisal. t 4 Court news as reported by the Philadelphia Press, trial of He.ster Vaughn: • : The following witnesses were r'calledt-for the prisoner: testified that .Rester was aservant-,- girl in his farnil3r, and left him. last Illovember;‘• her character was good in every respect, tile was very amiable; .she seerned , natich•,deH , pressed two weeks before she left.. Mr: testified that the prisoner.livedr? with him about one year; he never kneiv any thipg against, ber character; she WAS perfeeUy honest and good in every respect. Jinx Ilth,lB6B.—Mr. and M.rs. •where% Hester. Vaughn lived about, one year, Calledr at my house and made the followingstatementa tit my sister, I toeing away at tine time : had every reason to . believe that the flither. of Hester's With' WWI their colon*. coachman. Ilia: wife said that she': thought., lie was the last man any woman would hays. taken to, and that she never had Seen thing wrong, about., Hester. Silo was al-treys.' kind to every one, and particularly the youpg and anything that was injured_ Jul...r 16th, liktS —Visited the Coron: •• • - geon. Mentioned to him that a stateinentliadc been made that tite father of Hester Vaueban's. ebild was a eolored coachman. I put the question to the Doctor 'if it - twig. possible for a man - of - his experience tWlai-de ceived in regard - to the color of the= 'AIM Ile said No, it would, have been impossiblefbr" him to overlook it had it been colored. • - Octobor 5, 1868.—NVas in thh . 'eell. of Hester Vaughn to-day. She gave me the following, written and signed by herself “The father of my child is • "limSTER VAIMIIN;" . Sir, as you have given to your readers one side of this unportant affair, I-appeal to your sense oustice to give.them another leaf - -Hester Vaughn's history. I will here say, thatHeyter is not the only sufferer by these - grreat wrongs that have been heaped upon. She has- paren;grandparents,-arid-yotwg-17, sisters and brothers. —An idol tale—a missionary sennon. —A die-wreeked route—The Erie Railway --Naturally this is the best season for hotels. Froin F iirm mint. • What's , the use of hOr-- -. ing a turbite when you hayen't got a head? -Even the corporations find it dilliehlt "water" their stock ih this dry dine.' —Watered silks and waterfalls ought to sell',;: well now. —Bow ought Chief Engineer Graff to j put' water in the basin? With adl his might—and, i` main.:' • • —The milkmen are , in anguish the drouth. A dry hydrant , is their, greatest --Lashetscheriskoff, the Russian, mavelLst caught his own name 'between his 'teeth ax 4 died of lockjaw. - , • -It, is said that Porimnouth i N. 11., is to be the western terminus 'of theprvposed German- American Atlantic cable. —Anothpr book bY Evaus, the author. of "St. Elmo," is readyi'mul this, too; while thd mercury ia at OU degrees. —A'' man in New Hampshire narrowly escaped death by a snow-slide last week.: Pleasant death surely, in this weather. , —"Fire Fly," the play which Lotto bas been so popular, was' lately produced at Glzw-. • —The return of the 3.lexican expedition introduced a new bug into France, which has: now , becdme thoroughly domesticated.: . . -- , Elise Ho'tiles made a very decided failure; ,• in California. Her diaperian costume would/ be comfertable,during this weather. • , —Con for the season—lf you calculated the , - capacity - of - li'airmount - reservoir; why-wank' it be like a wood nymph? Because it.Tenulki be a Dry-ad. , • . —Con for the st , ason—When get into a hone, why is it like 'this ,wcathin":,. -Because it's well-ter-ring. The author of the',: aboveis slowly recovering. • , • • --The Ledger contains this: •-, • A GIRL WANTS COOKING OK HODSE 7 . — ...C1 - crorkeity - or country. . As the state of tiro weather is favorable to the first of the wants it,would ha interesting to ,^ know if the girl is yet cooked —Two:ions:of:grill Wereday er ; two -ago A gazing with open mtmths a d eyes at the new-. Masonic Hall The; :writer overhearki. , the thllowing: ~ • , rirst Lwimat is thaat bilding? , ; 4 1 second ! ,end thaat's whir. ),r than Oddfollem are biking a cimingterr (coucter,y)! • ,j'a• '4t"lkt t PRIORT#RES,CENTiI &lux A. SMITH, M. D.,, 104 South Fortieth street; Philadelphia FACTS. AND FANCIES =lll6llll
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