Daily evening bulletin. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1856-1870, September 10, 1869, Image 1
cmsorimuom. ,o.tiMp: . XM40::i5t:......,::::: TII.S: . ::...'VOAL.';'.t3IINE' - ' 4 Ii4)RItOR; Affecting Scene at the Cemetery Interegting Details-Of the *baster and ficuA.N - frox, Sept: 9th, .180,—The ,funeral of forty-three ruiners t0:414 at .one o'clock waa. an event of unusual Impressiveness. A . sol-• emn requiem was tolled by the,eity,!bells;tlags: were hung. at half-mast, stores were closed, .. . .... • • • . I r. - I 11 ; 1 II: ' locomotirea draped in mourning and all the working population of Scranton appeared to have betaken:them:Selves to Avondale;, one tif . ;_thirty-seVen - platforni, eats. carryi ng .3,soo passengers to the scene of the, lateiU a..s-, ter. So great was - the crush that two men %sere knocked off the ears amt cut to pieces. The throng at .A.vondale wawirrimense and extended down the railroad track formiles. A vast majority of those present ea:fie-purely from motives of curiosity. - ' .. -- •' • There were littlidreds,of womene, dressed In costume More befitting a picnic thane:funeral, and among many of themen there wasa levity. and rudeness of manner better ,adapted to the - neighborhood, of a prize ring than a,solernie. Beene of such great grief. • • ' • : The coffins, iirgrim arrayi'Vvere' piled upon a construction earriage. (in tdaehiiirr - Berelf- - ton they,were deposited, one•• by one, in ten hearses and a nuinber of .wagons. The crowd that folloedlids 'dismally formidable' funeral;vr to the Welsh cemetery at Hyde _Park, num bered over three thousand, all on .foot, of 'a deeerit and well-behaved class of people. " When the third eoilin was about being low ered into one of the long and regular row .of exeavations;a woman rushed- forward- and with desperate energy threw herself upon the • COitill.. erving, "Yon shan't bury my William I You shan't! you shan't! Give him back, to /tie ! 'Or if you won't, bhry me • with him!" Filially, the poor creature, betraying in her distracted face all the strongest einotious of a passionote sorrow, was prevailed upon • to let the coffin be lowered in its place. But as the men began to shovel the earth in on top of it she threw . her , eyes up. towares heaven, clasped her treintilows hands, and, with an expression of the wildest despairing angubsh in her face - , whiels those who sww will never .be • likely to forget, eieliumed, " Oh. Almighty God! take me—take me to where - my William is!" - And with frequent repetitions of this strong ImPlo" : - ration she passed with weary steps out of the cemetery gates; ', - ' ' ;.;f ,. - - , The rest ;.of the" interment ceremony was marked by no especial incident, and the largo: assentloge present dispersed quietly when all %, bad be el eonsigned to the grave. .Dr...Boherta. 11.1 preach the funeral sermon. ,:- ,7 , :, , A great deal of controversy Ls going on in town to-night on. the Onestion. tif wile iS to blame for the present inetficient way ; of venti.. lasing .mines and. giving protection; to' the nii Hera:, , One side insists it is the Miners are . to blame, for if they:choase to - saY,' st We Will • not work in. any mine which -.ifs . , unprovided , with a'means of escape, in ca,steof - accident to the shaft," the owners of mines would quickly , see it was their interest to adopt the proper precautions against the dangers that aria now so apparent. - 3.liners, they say' will take the risk of Working anywhere_ provided they 'are paid, and areas utterlyindifferent to palpable' danger ; as the sailor who goes to seuin a leaky ship The ratti* jite and Its Appeaessnee. AvoweALE Bept: BW- 1 7 8tanding on the track of Mo.:Lackawanna, and ~ Bloomsburg Railroad today at noon, and looking up the steep hill-side at the ruins of the once flourish ing coal mine-ofAVondile.--the shattered en gine-house built of stone, the torn, twisted, and scattered machinery, the sloping ridge of fiercely fired embers falling the motionless air with a strong and shimmering heat, the black ened wreck of coal shute and breaker, the ^ eharred--eak --and —hickory— -trees —upon-- the bill above and tbe utter wreck and ravage of the Beebe all over, itopzessecl the spectator with awe and seriousness. But much more awful and serious must become the color of biethoughis when told that from beneath that fearful ruin the bodies of 200 human beings, ft, few days Siuce full of strong and palpitating life, were being brought out,oue by one, black and bloodfcorpses and. bearing many marks of a brief but desperate struggle with the doom of suffocation in the horrible gloom of the pit below. Knowing the character of the -occurrence and the purpose for which these croWds of saddened women and solemn men have gath ered, lining the dismantled walls in compact and sorrowful numbers, it had a strangely dis mal effect upon the mind to see issuing from the mouth of a low, dark tunnel at intervals of every fifteen minutes„through the 'day and . idglir - four — wirary, worn men, bearing on a stretcher the blackened form of a human- across-the- Alist9.oe4- a Coarse,, White , 'cloth: was thrown ; and as the-tnelautholY-eorteger-moved-np—betwe • the ranks at either side of mourning miners the awful presence of death made itself as serted. Voices 'were hushed, and hi the Wo men's eyes grief and fear alternately found expression., lt AVM' also a strange' effect ,to• watch, as , each miner's name was called in stentorian tones that echoed alongthe hill,how all the men turned:their, eyes upon the women in painful suspense_hat some wild startling_ shriek 'flight reed the air and sonic poor heart broken ereaturereveal the dreadful grief of her bereavement. The day is over now. Sixty 'dead bodies' have been rescued from' the fatal pit,and three score widowed wives sit, by desolate hearths • this evening. - • • There ism() doubt that the • Avonliale mimic was one of the best and worst the valley. The masonry work, running down the shaft some twehtyfeet, was as strong as stone-and, cement could make it. The 'engine-house was firmly built, the machinery of the finest - kind iu the colliery business; the. breaker, that covered the engine-home, and ; through which the broken coal was despatehed through 'a long 'shut° to the railroad track below, was built in tile most, substantial man ner, and alte,gether the works to the casual'Ob server seems a to' eitve -no roota'reiliftpteve-, anent. The shaft was sunk to: a depth of 237. feet, with a space twenty-six cfeet - bytwelve; divided in the centre by a Wooden partition,. on one'side of which the pure air deseended to the mine, and on the other the impure. vapors ascended to the top, rind' were dissi pated abroad. l After going ina sheer -descent to the bottom of this shaft, the explorer of the; on either hand - ,',two long galleries, .or ~avenries, one. branching east .1,200 feet, and , the • other:.•Avest 890- 'feet. Movingstrtright onward' at right angles'. to the shaft, and distanc6 from it ef.,=.4 feet, the furnace for creating a draught of air through the galleries' and chambers of; the mine might' be found • blazing away in danger ous proximity to the - woodwork lining , of the fassage : Way reserved for the admission of the ' resh air currents. It was .a spark frona this furnace falling on--the'dry sCantling adjacent - that caused . the accident. • 'lt 'blazed uP rapidly,; the flames made •a' =lining leap to the bottom of the shaft;•, caught 'the wooden partition. already, mentioned, arid clamber ing up the 237 feet, seized on the heavywooden breaker overliead, which never should have been there, and -piercing ;with a fierge , ,, end steady tongue of fire through the , supports, brought down the ponderous luearus t the debris'., of the-breaker and, the coal' within it into: the,; shaft, choking up its space to a depth of., forty feet, ,sluitting out, the fresh air:from above, , (),,,..,:t ss p 0 , .,-1 , _. i ., Cf fii444.4:41...4. 4 .4,..- ~,t' se ~2 ~,.,,.:. ,4 , T 5 ! ... g 1., , ,,, , , , ;,, , i —r.,. - ~..7 .--, : , ....1.:1::_.: i.r.:l ...-•‘, .!,,, ~ .4 1 , I i.,, 4 .t. t ...;E r.- . i. -- __ - --. .._._ --- _ .__ ___ _ . --------- --- F R: r fi w . , ... 1 ,-i .... ,04 1 44'1 Z ',' 41 .1,,"1, ' ,4 4 - r ,' , , .., '. ~ ~ ,'• „ „ . 4 . 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There is •no doubt • but that the miners at ,nee divined the cident that • had. occurred ; and ,toctk prof:opt measures •tO save, • • themselves.. , • ...In, the long - galleries • running, 'deviously e• 't - 'lllll---11ba - :es tered at work, seine in the. gangways, others in the chambers; following the usaal routine .of daily toil., ,I,aborers mere filling the cars from the broken coal , brought -down. - by the miner's pick ; bbys were driving forward! the :mules to the mouth of the shaft with car-loads of coal tebe.hoistot to the world above ; all was proceeding in the customary why, when the rush back of the sulphurous gas• from the furnace told' theminers too well the' nature of the disaster that had occurred,. . • In the light of what' the brave men dis.; • covered on going down early this Morning to - rescue their fallen • comrades, we can easily trace what followt4 when the discovery be came known:through the - mine that; the sha ft was stopped and the fresh 'air of heaven ex eluded. All , those in the vicinity of the fur _ naceretreated by winding ways sous-to-avoid all contact with the poisonous gases, to the ut most limits of the mine, to a gangway 1,200 feet from the bottom of the shaft. No dotffit there was a _fearful hurrying backwards, .for 'the fatal carbon rushed with hot and rustling breath along the galleries and overtook many a poor fellow who vainly strove to reach some place of delusive .safety. At the entrance to the last gallery of the 'mine UT appallee but yet collected minors met, and with the true instinct of self-preser vation proceeded at once to barricade them selves in between a space extending in a semi circular sweep some 330 feet. At either end of this limitwere two doors which were instantly closed, and on some crevices being discovered the men pulled their shirts eft and stopped the interstices, Ind not before the fearful de mon in the air had penetrated their last re treat—not in force, however, but, in sufficient strength to do the work of deal, with unerring certainty. In this terrible; clamber their lamps extinguished, and the blacknemofeternal night closed around them. It is carefully estimated that the strongest of the men succumbed in eight hotuu after their self-immureinent.. , The supply of fresh air which they locked in was quickly exhausted • by: the breathing of sixty.seveu pair of power ful lungs; while all tile- time the coal above, - below and around them was ~ e mitting the deadly carbon. Mr. Thinna.s, one. of the first of-the._heroic fellows who penetrated to this point in • search of the missing men, re ports that after breaking 1n the barrier and gaining entrance to the &mummy where all those human livessurremiered to'the King of Terrors, the sight that met his gaze; coin- Pletely unmanned him, and wept like - A little ebild.TO him there was something terrible in the spectacle : the men were once his' • cora reties ; their begrimed ,facts were f. tether 10,his eye; and from the danger of which they is. , ore the victims Ins himself bad many narrow •eseApes. It was the touching friendship. for 'each other which these rude sons of toil showed in the last moments of their struggle for life that melted • the soul' of the brave, stern man who deficended the perilous shaft to save them If lie could. Men were found "locked in each etber,'s embraces; others with hands clasped laid themselves down to die. 'One was dis covered calmly sitting by a prostrate com panion, as though listening to his dying re enest. A father fell into his eternal sleep holding his son to his bosom. Nothing harsh or ainFy was observed in the features of the poor fellows. :Within a space of forty feet they had all • yielded up their lives, evidently with a heroic resignation and a ealm resolve to die like men' Outside the entrance to this gangway two men were found lying prostrate, as though in desperation they had burst out the inclosure where,the others lay, resolved on one final effort to get free, but meeting full in the teeth the fatal currant now coursed through al the alleries they fell suddehlyforward and ex tared. Mr. Hughes, "boss" of the inside mining'op erations, was found sitting on a heap of coal his face resting on his hands, as though medi tating on his awful situation, and while thitS occupied was silently released, from ex istence. A great many were caught in the re treat to the rear of the cave,andxvere found in all• kinds of attitudes through the galleries and chambers. , Not all the women who 'Came to see the -deatlbodies-taketi-out-had-relativeir-inpit. Many were. moved to:• travel long distances to see this sickening spectacle from motives of mere - morbid - Cdriosityr Thetereaveriand sir D^^widows-wi>rn Ansy to tr.ll Ns s s s that w Id, nemonstrativo. grief that many of the reports speak of could be seen on any day . since the catastrophe happened; There was 1.16 loud; long wail; and all • the sorrow that gave itself vocal utterance was confined to a few: Wet eyes and looks of intense desola tiott too deep for expression might be seen.on. every_ -side. =---=There : .-was , -. one .beauti ful younc ,, Welsh girl who . ex cited-a-grear - dealo 1 - symp - atlik. - 8 ho - lrad - only been in this country three weeks ; knew not a Word of , English; and .kiiew no one but the tine_ :young fellow to whom she: was married ,in Wales,,and who went down in the vigor of life:through the fatal shaft on Monday morn ing last to be brought. ••ont to-day at noon a black and, swollen corpse.Ele had _evidently struggled hard, for life and Surrendered with a look of .deflance. on , .the. face. Two :Id.ndly ',Women' bore away. the poor young widow, who through the flooding, tears cried - aloud in ..liei,native Welsh in a, toue,of voice so tench lug as to melt a heart of stone.. Thf*.was the saddest sorrow in the wholnscene; :,To-morrow ,the. funeral of forty of the miners takeslace, and will no doubt be very largely attended:—Herald.. . . . Among the Families or the .Victims. ['Prom the Scranton Republican, Sept. 9[11,1 • • it is utterly ,impossible , ,adequately to de: Scribe the' terrible scenes, of bitter anguish, among tlie women and children outside the. lines during•the time 'of the, hoisting and bringing out: the dead. Such terrific and heart rendinn, cries ef agony and distress,. , such . weeping and wailing, it falls'•tolhe kit of lint few., to witness. All night . 'long the cries of women'and children were heard upon the ex tensive walls 01 colliery, and Up and clown the toad that shirts the hillside. It is iinpossi ,ble to convey, Any .corrept idea of the dreari mess of this ,night-Scerte, broken by the sob s binds and moanings of these distressed Widows and orphans ;the'whole,stiftieient to appal the senses and chill the= blooll. ‘llany of the dis . tressed women, acknowledging' and realizing to its hill extent, the awful 'situation of their husbands- and sons, were sitting and walking in front of their houses all nightlong, uttering low, plaintive, and pitiful sounds. It was ahnost impos,sible.• to.. get, their attention even for a . moment in order to exp ress a•hope for better things to come, - out of - the uncer tainty. They realized theworst. ~/:lope..,was gone—the last ray 'extinguished. "Pity my poor little ones" Avas constant,expression, 'which will be appreciated with double and treble force whom • we; Aiionsideri,the dffititute condition pcbaSiofell.`by, the: . strike -which has but just endecl:,:,All: these, ,bpmea are iu ft mostaluisetiebltl Oondittpu.' These beck t'~-..< OTHER SCEN-E8 THE GRIEF OF THE WOMEN; PHILADELPHIA 'PRIDAY SEPTEmBER 10, 1.860.-' . r, Ce pie needinunediate help. During the day,F. while the bodies were being taken out, the, expressions of countenance of these poor creatures in waiting along the line were awful. As ontybOdylafter another was taken out attdA , uncovered for - recognition, the pent up agony :would seem to burst 'fortlf" . fibew =iu MO most distressing manner: 'When it was announced tbOt the body of , 14...Uvans,was,:found, with a son embracedin•each anti, the anguish of Wit' Wife and mother was mostnfllietingyttsithe ran the road distracted with grief. - , Other anxious faces are here—there are' Wive-A look ing for husbands And wins' ratitlient‘ looking for dead boys, and sistersidoking 'for fathers, and brothers. peifaing one house one poor frantic woman was groaning 'under tlic'biarden . • . .d:runt-sons,.-ittdittering-rft ~• pitiful cry of "Who will care for- my poor children now?" That beseeching,,hcarterend ing ijetition often 'heard upon every hand r 4011; (rodd t be merciful V.4.-"Have.pity j". is"- siifficient to chill theldodd in the Vennitd hold such scenes and hear such cries. Otte wo- Man was , ,seenfstanding with a little - , One. - her arnts and three or; tout.? tugging -away att. her Skirts, lisping "Papa," " Papa ;" she in the depths of her despair seemed intently, Adzing with turiturried countenance upon dome bright object of a cherished faith. There were nd tears at Avondale yesterday--thadeptint , df= agdny were too great for such an expression, for the wild and impassioned grief seems; as it, it would rend the very soul ,and- distract the mind. ,It cannot run away in team._, The hardest heart must be moved to oirsr tindsiall7 tial--pity -to-these- poOVAinfortimajt*-J:froMS-- forward iluiCklY. "A. gcrodWork is yet before vs. The wires will soon complete the list of sufferers. PABAD:E 'OF THE' AMERICA:IT PIiO , IE:STA AssoczniloN.---The parade of the American Protestant association, for - which — preparaz lions. haveybeeninprogremfor several - weeks, tame off to-day. The weather was very faver-' able,*and there was A large turn-out of the inembe.rs of the Order. Theparticipants in the parade'were dressed in black suits, and each one wore a regalia. Each lodge earned :a handsome banner, an American flag, and an .open Bible. The line wasihnned on Broadstreetabotit o'clock, and everything being in- readiness by half--past ten o'clock, the procession moyed in the following order: :Mounted Policemen: - - - Chief-Marshal—John G. Connelly. - Ahls—Daniel McCurdy, 'Henry ‘Kilpattfelc. and Adam Hill. • ' • • First'Divikle424Taillei3 . . . Liberty BaAid,"No: . - Liberty Lodge, NTo, 9 Wltx.,4erhersop,,3,larr. Independent Band. indeOendence Lodrre, No. 13, - Jelin 31lnidel, Edwin Forrest Cornet Band. josbui 'Lodge, George Kee,'•3larsbal. National Cornet. Band of Canaden.. Constitution Lodge; No.-15, llarailton Balen ,. tine, 3Larsbal. " Second Divisie - n—Jobn McCracken, 31O:r4hal: , • ' • Pennsylvania, Band. , 3tontgoinery .Lode, Ales. -Pullgc k, . •• '' The baiinei`of tins Lodge was-draWn by ten borses. ' - ' Gideon Lodge, :.N.70,.18; James k Guthrie, Mar . • NationarCOrnet Band, of FrankfOrd. Harm ony Lodge, No. 20,' 'Andrew L. Blair, Marshal. Four horses dreiv" . the banner of , • , this Lodge.- - s. • :.`. , ~ •a Martial music. Manayunk Lodge. No; .2;3; JaMes , Dugan, 'arshal. • Third Division—James ready:. Marshal. Philadelphia City ,GUard Band. Star of Bethlehem EvOuge, Na..*.:Matthew Peterson, 3larshaL. , "West Philadelphia "Rand: Israelite Lodge, No. 28, Wut..Wright, ,•Mar sbal. This Lodge's banner was,draA)-n. by.four White liorseS. . - , _Germantown Cornet Band • -• . 'William Penn Lodge. lk,to. Isatte.Lyster, This Lodge bad a banner - drawn by, six horses. There were also _a representation of Win. Peini,, numerous Indians, and lot "of sailors carv ing - a sea-chart. • / • The Junior Order A. P. , A. followed ; with James .Bigger, as Chief Marshal. Hope Lodge, No. 1.. 3lartial Music: 'Union Lodge, No. 2. ' • • Drum Corps._ - • • •-• 7 •Liberty Lodge; Ito 3, • Vrardrini. Comet. Band. • fV Penn• Lode, No."e. This Lodge had several Indians in line. Lodge N0..7..0f Reading. T • - FifiliDivision—Thomas Smyth, 3.far.shal: Philadelphia Lodge, .N0.,30, Henry . .3lcFar - - ' laud; 31.arsh.all Ashland Lodge; o 12 Pobert Huighius - Henry Clay Loth , e- . No:: 34 • Henry Polloulc - • • -Ccirnet;liand: • , Anieriean Star 7 4OdgeNo. 37, David Bennett, ' ‘•' . ... I Sixth Division-- - --datn eaHutchinson,: Marabal. • Cheltenham (,eruct 'Band. ' Good Saivariten:Lodo'er-No. David I.otlge, No. It., - A9`illiain•';'7oltris'on, Marshal. ; : - .Merioit•Brass Band.; °.'. ' • •", ''., ' Ctinsindiocken Lcalge; No. 41, Robert - Wilson, - • . 3farshal.,... .', • I ..:.•. Martial - ,NI - uSic:••,'•-, t • - • ' . . • Hand-in-Hama Lodge, .15T0 ; 4;.3.," ;,, • • SeVeziih - Divisioli. • Jelin :McCain, •Marshai. ' " Drum Corps. t • ;•• ' ' • •• • ••- Za.dhary Taylor Lotlge. No. '45; ilblin 'Boyd,' 1 , . •• ..Marshal. -••••,--• •-,•-; '•' • ' ''''' ''`'-'' ^'' t - • •I • keystone Cornet- 13atid. - • A' l ' A - " A . ' Prentice 13cty's Lodge,No. 47 , , latneslImicock, Marshal. ••• •• •.:k - • ' Drum Corps: - • • ••••• I ~:, - Pennsylvania, Lode, No., 48, t/relui • :Gaitons, ; , t', , • ' • , Ma.rsind. , .l . .• ~ , •;:. ~ _ Dehnonico (colored), Band. •-•lrk of SafetyLodgc,No:6B; Stewart .IfollOon ., ••.,. I . • ' aht,,Miu•shal.' : • Banner 'Drawn by Two Holiest t Eighth Divlaion-:-Alexander J'etyers, . `Mar • . Mebhanics , Drass'Band, - ofHoltnesburg. - Me.s os Lodge,' No.' 011,' Samnel, celok,.. Mar steal ; , : ifanner drawn by six horses. • - • ; ' Martial Music: Waldense Lodge; N0,,47, Thomas Robb, Mar , Rainier drawn by two herses. '• ' ' ' • , ' , , Drtint Corps. :. • . 1.. • • - 1 'Efokendaugua Lodge, No. 68. • Cavalcade of forty-three teen: ` • Carriages containi,ng;Grand Lodge ofticers, Past Oilicers of the Grand Lodge,*and' repre sentatives of Nationdland State Grand Lodges. The of leers of the G.rand Lodge,qf.Pennsyl vania i are: . Jiit0.13,9 Alcor, Grand ''.• Master; George Matthews,' Vice Grand M.aster ;:Robt. Ji Black; - Grand`Secretary; ; James 'Craig '• Grand' Treasurer;'and `Jane% ISTaCabe',' Grand Conductor. • - '..." ~•• ; i-•;•'4.••.‘',"i• There were also in line d.elegations of mem bent 'of the• Order from Neer I Ircalt•-,•• city, and Wilthingten, -Delaware. *•• ,; • ±.t. t : ,t; ',; A i •• ..- ; • The procession • waS•quitet.lengthy,"oecupy- ' inga half hour in 'passilig, and ~w,i0.1,1t,6 baud, ,some banners and Hags, presented n ilne appearance,' The was. a leng tnie '' and WAS well lilted : with sitectaters. - • . . OUR. WHOLE cOluN'Tity. ====l Haverford 1-ctamtL' I—,.•DtP(O,IITANT ARBEST.`*.kc MAO Christopher Wooster was - 'arrested :in brew York on Wednesday, and brought. to this city, on, the charge of robbing Messrs: Whelan K 100.; bankers, On Third street, Of 'bund&to the amOunt of V),000. 74 robbers Ivas,conk mitted aboUt a year ago,; -and ,waa.very adroitly done: As the saute method 'Might I possibly be attempted " agaiii 2 we think • it proper to particularly explain it, , that pub:: 11c may be placed on guard:' Witioster:' , 'Lq One of the most daring as well as one of the • meanest , thieves that - ever 4 operated` in this of any other city, He hasserved out OM terms of irnprisonmentiA the ~.tastern fens ; tertiary. Above a year ago lie, opened an of.: Bee on; Gold street, above oe,eetid, 'ostensibly . ' 4-for of selling patented cork so to be used in shoeing horses.' •-The' ()Mee ' , was fitted up With great taste;.the' , furniture. was: haildsorite, There was a row of pigeoti-hole.q -Amick ',of the counter, rwhich contained numer ous papers. One of these apartments could .be uPeuelPrxioirk the other side•by "moving of - n :slide the partition collie(' into two parts:' • • ' ' During husiness , hours t on' one morning) 'Wooiter called at the thanking house of Whelan. 4..8r05. and. ptirchased, - Wii,ooo,wOrth of bonds, which he ordered ,to be fienttobis otitis, where they would be paid for in gold, wil ll e e n i tViethhoa nfndes°arridreerii.deiriwertaddikn'treni9t'flio:nced after examination, placed than in the pigeon-) bolo already descrited;remarking, "All tight." Stepping to a desk; he 'wrote aomething on , a paper-blank„ - purporting-tir be - .tati &der -for. gold. This he gave to his, confederate to pre sent somewhere or other, with instructionstto make as much haste as possible, as he had other important business to transact. Unu.su.al ' time elapsed,and Wooster became very iMpja tierlt and wondered what,' caused the' delay. The, gentleman from the banking-house' thought, everything was all right, ' for .the bonds which be had _.given toz.Wooster_were_ still in sight in the , aforesaid pigeon...hole. 'Filially, Woester asked the gentleman to take , eleftge of the Mil ce, while he ( ccrooster)` would . go to ascertain the MILS(' of the delay: Tbis was of course readily assented to, and 'Wooster started from the office, but did not return. His confederate, instead of going after gold, as 'indicated, simply, got into the apartment in the rear of the pigeon -holes, and dextercuisly removed the bonds by sliding back the panel,while Wooster engaged the at tention of the repse.sentative of the., Third street banking-house. In order to ward off any suspicion, the bonds were replaced with other papers, similar hi appearance. Filming, the:gentleman, becoming impatient,- thought he' wOuld take the bonds back to the banking house, as he could wait no longer. He took the detriments from the ;Pigeon-hole, , and, it was not long before he realized the astound ing tact that he had. been duped by a . very. in genious arrangement: •It wai.). a lesson on the uncertainty of ,business transactions )which may be read about at the `present ante • with. • 'profit. „, , .. • Wooster, since that period,- has ope.rated ntmiber of places. He obtained by the;same, method,' from Alfred Wilkins, of Detroit,' , Xiehittan $.6,000; from - a banking-houSe, liainsas City, .5'5,000; froin`a house in' Boston, = $2,500, find similar sums from several pasties , in Canada. • • - -About ten vear ago; he consorted with a , remarkably slirptva,and very pretty,,lady-like .; Joking woman,,itist Atoll creature as Solo-. mon:describes` in the seventh chapter' ,of Proverbs, They liv,ed:together in Green's court, now called • Griseont street. > Attracted. by , her-siren •song, she led an tmsuspecting man who had lots of money . in his,pockets to her house, and by what, Is known', as, the• `panel game" he was robbed. This woman Was arrested--so 'was Wooster=both were convicted and sentenced to prison,'he for a term of five -years and she ibr three years. Both servesi their time , out, but since that period the woman has, died.' Her appearamcel in the Crurdmd Cotat caused a great. Sensa, Previou.s•to this time. Wooster had , served three years in prison for robbing a hardware store in the Arcade, - on Chestnut street. He was also arrested on °lie occasion for•stealing a pair of horses from a livery stable, but this matter was eompromised, and he never was tried for this otterice. During a part, of his nefarious career he - was the "pal" of Eph. , Pharci, a celebrated "hotel sneak' This fel low died a few years ago in the prisbn at Hart ford, Connecticut. Wooster assumed a great variety of names.' He had a diffe,rent one in every city. In his • truasaction with Whelan.. & Bro. he repre= seated the business title of Bernard & Co. ' After he came out of prison for the second ~ time, he found the country convulsed with the` rebellion. He went to. New Xork,, assumed the title of Colonel, and started the substitute" . business, which he advertised - liberally; and it is said that he made pileS.of Woney at ;the ex- pease of the: substitutes..,- , . Since ; the war he has traveled allover the north and west parts -- of -- Antericaland - wherevey'an - opriorttontrOf= feleel he apPlied'hiS pigeon -hole lhieving.ar .lrangement with success as above stated:_ r B islifte - st Vitig'oSfreetPd thaftidaieiiir ---tectivey-Etlward-Sehlemmi-whoss-plans-were suomitted to , 11lickle & Co., old. detectives, and'when the proper: time arrived the arrest was made. The accused.hae been .committed. As a general thing; thieves , such as Wooster is are liberally inclined; and scorn to rob' the poor. WOoster is= an exception. - He bearded' with a widow, whekad fohr children to sup • port, in-the northern section-of Philadelphia and, to use a current. sayinn-.- - " eat her-outof -house Aen,Telk - lteri in want and misery.. In- order to pay her het - Ng-rent she was compelled to sell her sewing -machine; and since that time she has-labored with her needle in the old-fashioned Way to keep star vation from the door. Teb Houitaciatriini. • .E'xiiinfpioN.-1.16 approaching exhibition. of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society promises to be one.of the most b,eautifidallbirs. of the kind ever, seen in this .. country. The season is peculiarly 'favorable , to '• a' splendid display of ,; a,,.,great variety of.fruits, and. the arrangements Of the -Society have been-made on a-scale. commensit rafewith the'richness and variety ,of the re,, sources which. an unusual fruit ,season afford S.. The leading &biologists and , finitogrowers , of all parts of the country will be assembled •in this city on Wednesday next, and /Os -ex pected that::every.Statee in . the , Union,. With' choice specimens •of its frults;Will be.repre malted. • The following telegram was received this morning, announcing the . shipment'ef',pali ; '-, „fornia fruit for tho , exhibition : PSA'CRANENTO, :31itchell,,3101Yorkfvergo„Philadelplua-4-Fifteeri,' boxes of fruit sent per, expresSlOr the ; ,Horti cultural Exhibition and Banquet " "Cor,: WARREN, Editor Califorilla .- FLO'nzer." This Fruit and Vestiihikwlll•EßXEend: over three days, commencing on Wednesday, the 15th, with the public exhibition at Horti cultural Hall of inagmlicent. collection of fruits, flowers al* yegetables,....andlitouchiding . on Friday, the 17th l with an elegant. Eyentug .Reception - ,*heittipeeebes;ralisie some collation will constitute .the programme., The admissions),ta. the Eyining;Receptibir will necessarity. ;limited., ;Eight ,huudre,ff tickets will xisii4l,' , diStribbted as : Delegates , to the Natiezial'poiiVeatiou; . esti mated at throVilitindred;ilistingiiiithed•guests;.: contributors,to thejliiceptifku, Entity *editors and ladies cit'' tickets' reserved tor , st4 - let.!.menctberii of the Hor ticultural Society, and _hiclies: t :,...three handred„ The Sale*Of `these _ticketsis new. going oirdaitilat stoic•UP-11 1 ; }-A 1 . 3 ‘ Dreeri Chestua MtreetV,Rnitmill 'ne'utldyikfter ; nci4p:k3Atir 4,:,0 , 411Ak,vi,iwi1, this - .part of the sale Will Close, the .:110' MEE roainder of the ticirets*fil be ollbred for gen eral :aw at Horticultural Hall, on Tuesday inorilingi 14th instant, at 10, o'clock. ,No per skin iic permitted to purchaee .more than tvrci liekets, as the number is limitcd, and it is de; sired:to distribute.them Ls. widelya.s possible. The price of tickets for the , Reception isfive. ;dollars for each person. ' • q 1.1,13 INEASON FOR RAILBTRD SHOO'finiG.— I : The season commenced on the first instant, hut. so far, very -few railhird-• 'have' been ' The reason is' attributed to the long - contimied dry Weather. The "'run 'of tides" •in the: Delaware were never known to be so =low asAhey,have been for the past 'month, ,and, usequently, boats were unable ,to,gct 6 • • by-p/aces where-t-luse T deliels. birdiabtairld:', A f'enr have been "put up" by.. irietnis'of degs, but thisi is not, the way to "gun' for Any 'sortsnran would . discard it with.indignation. '`These birds are singuiarin their habits. They aro amphibious, but . in •clittem ore to,the water than the land. Though not Web-footed,'yet they, can swim.with sur prisingsWiftness ;, they are, considered • equal, to ducks in thiS peculiar Characteristic. When started on the, tying: they Seldom fly mote' than frOni 'fifty to seventy flue yardS. They, reach the marshes i in- the night-time •by the thousands, bat where they come from •has never been satibfactorily ascertained, and per h.aps never will be.' • - • • The marshes along the Delaware river are alive with theta, - and, when the high tides'. come the sporting 'fraternity may anticipate and enjoy the rare:andpleasurableexcite.ment of two or three days' sport. Ti. regard to rail-Shooting there is alwa3rs more or less disappointment. We have known as high as one hundred boats out on the title, from .Brown's Island down as far as Martin's Ear and 7111i6U111 Island, bringing in large ;bunches of birds, ranging from fifty up to one hundred. We have known as high as two thousand five hundred birds brought in at the, lioPe Perry, by:less than - twenty boats out on a single tide. Chi such occasions it, is not an. Unusual thing for a gunner to have at long a' dozen Birds down before the pusher' attempts to pick one up. In this ease he mast carefully - "mark" the spots where the birds fall, or lose his character as a professional' pusher. it requires a quick eye and large experience to aecomplish thig much. The southeasterly 'rains and the .equinoctial storm of Septeinber generally - produce extraordinary high, tides,. ,when large munhers'of births' may be 'taken. This never fails to cause much excitement in sporting circles, and many persons who have gone on the following day to the same "gun ning ground have been disappointed in not starting a single bird. Their ruigKattiry haeits ; are as uneertain as 'they are singular and sudden. Railbirds remain in the- , marshes for some tittle after the frost has, , nipped. all kinds- of vegetation, but they lintilly'disappear in a sin ghinight, and are heard of no more until the next season, which commences earlyiia An - gust,,,at which time they , are exceedingly thin. and transparent.. They are simply, shin ' boric. and:feathers. Their condition has been taken as . -a comparison when jiersons t wishing to, de scribe anything that, is poor, and,thin, iay. it is as “thin -as a rail" or "as the as a' rail." , They seldom get fat until the, reed if' pens, mud - . a. week then is only i retittireil to , in akc then:ea:very dellcitink tab elitxtn7: 13*roES"'Cliniteil.-Ttie "Gloria 'Del"' Church; in SiWillson s treetcheldiv: Ch ristiatr street, has been completely retitted,and it, now presents au appearance very; pleasing to the I eye ; and speaks well for theldieralityof.the. congregation. New earpets. and upholstering have been introduCed, the' pews haVe been• newly cushioned,;and the painter has applied the brush wherever it was needed, so that the 1 old building is , once more as good as new. This church is regarded with great reverence by` the descendants of the old sires. mho es-;; tablished it in the time the Sivedes settled in that There , are the remains of quite a number of. diatinguished, men buried in the ground attached to•the church, among them, being those of Wilson,:the ornithologist. • Ai__Riv_Eirros,.:N..J.—At __a, __late hour last night or earlY.this morning the ticket-; office of the Camden and Amboy Railroad' Company, at Riverton, New Jersey, 'Was broken into and robbed of a number of arti 'cles.of little value. The clerk's papers . and , tickets were strewn about the floor, and money-box relieved of about Sl' 50 in small : change. BOY RuN OVE4.—Abogt six o'clock last, evening John Bears, a lad of 14, was ran c,7er by a light wagon returning rom the races at Point Breeze Park, and hadhis head badly • cut. The injured ;boy was - removed to his borne at 1220 Temple .street..... ' 7 ,-Balfe's popular'opera; The . was 'produced at the Academy of Music last ereigiTg7bythe Itielungse ra7Company; in .first rate style. Mrs. Bernard sang the music • of- ! ( ,, Arlinc - v- [LS 811011 ii4ilg:1 - t'.1"iillY"'etii#0',' ::.-114407 , 41-40111--prO,CiSiOni*Atlgallee—alltt,graqe... Mr. Haigh played '!Thaddeus" with. more spirit and animation than helms yet displayed, Mid he sang the music delightfully. He gains rapidly'in excellence; as his illness wears •off, • that, popular fayor which will be his :greOtest encouragement to 'exertion. prasteti - gasas " " had not. fail: . - opportunity - to'' — iliSplay, l- histnoblehiStrionio' powers, butlic didWhathe had to do, as well • and ho also sang, the music admirably.. Mr:Peakeis"perSonation of ‘! Devilshoof" was, capital. ''Frei Inavote will.be given this eve-, Mug With a good cast. To-morrow afternoon, • Maritthia will be produced. . The announce ments for next week are as follows .Boltenticiik Trovatore, .31iii•tha and Traviata; L4To-morrow night Mrs: Caroline RiChitig3 Bernard will give an operatic concert at the 'Academy of Music; in which the Whole eota, 'paay will appear, for the b.enetit of the.suffer ers by the Avondale, colliery disaster: Tickets can. be proeured at usual prices at \lusio Store : We appeal to the publia.to. concert,'Se that Mrs. . B `so benevolence foay 'find fulleSt,ortiOat,,getferaus gratifiCation. - • : +s p.i.V.,Bowera,: an: , actress for whom: we have norm.' had any wor4s,but .of warmest praise; despite the, ill,iiatured . - tioryersion : , -of our langtaigq'bY:iti eohtemperfiry;will b we i - benefit the „Wiihiitt':fitreet Theatre this evening • in '''Lady , AtulleWs: Seci-W The Pr 0 .... rwnrr~e will conelndif With 'the' eonedy,-7'he .Peoplere Lawyer, , We hope Mrsr Bowers will litive a crowded house. ---At the 'Arch to-night Lydia Thompson will have tvbenotit in two scenes from the bur: lesque leiuitand iu the Nailor. There will be a niatixi3e . at two o'clock to-morrow al-. ternoon. Qir,Xoliday, 2'lle . l',orty es Thiev -be proiliteed. • ---At the, New Eleventh Street House,tho fine ccimpany will appear this evening ill, a. firsVplatisininstrel entertainment. ' , —3tanitger VOX has secured' the wonderful treupo' of (lancers for the Aanerlean Theatre, au& beekles these other novelties'Wlll ho presented, the Whole fowling in exeellent thisee/lAttepus.eetertitithnent. , :. .1, Fio• i 6 the lost livotas 01i tillilartllloloteroll , oll his death lied, Tbd versioo is, ,tbot Olepot 'a few 'iittiOlS.Otdpreiloits to his death; said: `'"Depot Arstittb mor • • i• A.3III;SE.II[EIIiTS. ENGLISH OPEEA . AT: TIIE ACADEMY.' 7:7 . ! - •s •.:_tg;sf IDAI=A=MiI MORMON - . rabi* her If I . ";• v• - `'. . PRIOR 4 1 11141 E CENT, : CM§ AM) PALNCIES,:y , : • .- , Jalithe G. Whiftier b 4 become At: Pte. trutitee6 of Brown tlni~ereit —Min:Colfax ix 141Qk at. I'c.:Tptti4te, Colfaxii3 itetainOd in'ettlEfOrra,pl„ •;', - cOntiritie§2:kilecEurP iii California on "ljnivergolfintErngo." " ~ • "--4 . Tobil Ti. l Sherwood is about to iiiiltated l ll-2,4' Vert a Beckett and write a comic' . histtiry .A.merlea:' , Whith , we'hope•never to read: „••,-Orsiivefify•sioniert who !Weuf from Massachusetts two 'years ago,- sixty-innii"'%,-,4 m are,atried. = • ' • • goutlenian ex . ptiStulated With' - a - frierid, - the - other - - 4 1ityrby-bittng'off'ili&-mio Und one ear., • - •, 4-Jenny Lind looks now like an obi wornau.' ofteutty. ..11er husband looks, twenty years younger than She. . . -Already a young man inCleveland haS an not-weed-that it is his mission to wed the Pwid der' Vanderbilt ." • ~ • .--Marrkt E..Dealey, of Tuftonboro, Maine, ss paed the best examination for the fresuncut . class in - DateS College. • , boy,` While "raising" a kite in , • .o.itY, stepped balltWard into the 'shaft ,of a irtine onelitindred and fifty Peet. -ralrelOinaha Ripublkan has a "Nrar De- partment" under which prizefights are`citron- • —Ranting, the fat reformer, has been Called blessed by two - thunsand - correspondents, who thank him for their emancipation from obesity • --Sir Charles, Kingsley succeeds the new Bishop . of; Salisbury. as canon of Chester ' --The illustririe Clarottik calls 73enr3- Wads-- • n Drib Lovgfellow "the„ .111us,trious poet of. ,„ Chicago:” • , - -The London 'corivspondent ,of t4.Sals Francisco Chroldeie is .4.nna Cora .31ovratt —There is a ten-year old, newsboy iq On chinati tvho supports both parents and twO brother& =Cuthbert Bede's "Adventttres of `erdant ' Creen" have bold to 'the extent of 100,000 cop. A young,"spark" of twelve has lately been' • tried at St.-Petersburg for incendiari'sm. Efe ''; set tire to his 'mister's house became her • "Wanted to see what a tire ,was like." —lt is , just discovered that although a reso- • lution against the: _Fifteenth Ainendment eras _ ilitkuducedin tne INlMClefiatie. , oonven- Hon, it Was 'quietly smothered in committee, • —Mrs. Park' ba.s,lately celebrated her. one.. hundred and fifth birthday in cleveland. She, attributes her longevity to a, caneer, in. her, stomach of ilfty years' standing. • " —lt is noticed; be the' Tlerlin paperS that the • Prince of Welei , this . Year has not been invited to ;take part in the annual fall hunts of the royal court. 4 , ' , , , • • efgli Himt's memorial in 'Kendal Green '• • Cemptery•will be inaugurated October the eighty-fifth ,anniversary of the ,essayist'sbirth. 'Maiisey'N:•llemr. ',produotiou, •••`.41., T•• ale of,Eternity.7,ls pupposed to,: {.l,llrafikta ...don of the popularthenry•thiit *.rnity,fias no ,• ' em it• - •• ` ! • , - ! :-.Tealousy prompts eine', Sin Francisco pa-• per, to Aity that Anna•bora Ritchie is given tb• • ektra - vagant Melts or findy in the Lor}tion ' , letters -811 C, Writes to another San ,'; • Franciscepaper..- • • • . . • • , ; n Fra.ncfsco - reporter hid in i closet a -;• get the ,proceedings' of a• secret •Republiean • • meeting, and the - janitor locked the door. 'He kicked until he got out, and .was then, kicked,.:; in return. Mks Ailefia.Gritlin demands. 5-50,006 ,from. Mr.:William Van Storek, of Pittston, Pennsyl- , , • vania, for bteach of promise..' Van Storck is • • old, and a widower, but he is represented to be Adelia's last chance, and hence his value. —Vincenzeßorretti, a composer and player hewn - London, Parisrand Madrid, • lately. He has left to the Milan Conservatoire • -' sufficient capital, to give each.year a prize of five hundred francs to the young 'composer! • who shall write the best opera. •• • • , [For the Philadelphia Evening 13 ulletin.l Legislation for the lines. Editor of the , Evening Bulletii : In betalf of thinking and feeling humanity everrathere; i ` thank you from the core of my 'heart fol.' Your enitprial 'rennulits in yesterday's i 'Burth,tarr as to "tie duty, of the 'Legislattire" in relation to, accidents our coal naines: ' ' This is a 'subjeet, that shoidd have been acri- • • mtedby our ientlal • inth papers and stump orators • And by' everyone. who pre- • tended to havethe least interest in the. State „ . . and its Prosperity, or in common justice -L thergeneral - rights-of-hmia 'lraportant as this subject was to life, to the he alth,_Wrealthi and. happkii ess„ of- oimpeople,----. - tine:Tao the fair our State, it has been negleetedliereteforel--Newspapers-found - me - --7- 4- charm in it. -Politicians deemed it a dangerons tool to handle, and even the delving sufferer himself raised not a voice for legislation for the »qiwrs. 'l,t is . true that there was a time in this • glorious old State of ours when it was danger- , . ens to p_rothu r gAte,such doctrines. In subject Was agitated by' a young. man, in ; -Schuylkill- county; Who editeda - paper truth - interests of the working classes • .The pelltieaL, ie - thobs -andthTimoliocraey. of the county \ • joined Issue with the coal operators, and cried - down the ,just j_ humane. :demand of ' the'. Young agitator. He .was proclaimed :a • .'demagogue and a caterer to the vulgar 'tastes` of disaffected workmen,. An aspirant_for the Vice Presidency, a prejudieeisjudge, _and an ignorant jury—againstthe faced letter of the : law=had ltim consigned to _a _prison- _ cell because be tiSked. for '!proper legislattoir for the urines” ,‘.‘This man,", exclaimed the-Demo cratic Grand 'Mogul of Pottsville, "who smells .• of,the bilge-Witter,las the impudence, to tell • fee-born Americans,lliat our mines are, • • not properly conduatedi and that we should adopt British. customs • and legislate in accord ance,with British plens." The jury not being ~e 7; ,A3,verburdene,dwith hrain or learning, and be- ••••., rug sightly disposed to what was called Know '2...,loflungism in thoSe daYs, ware worked upon ... • as if 'by charm' when rhetorical alluslOm were 'Made to- the aroma of bilge-water, and'to the,' 'folio - Wing of the precedences of "'bloody , ./Dad the suggestions advanced by the editor.: ,of the Workman's Advocate in !07 and'. ,beeu acted upon,• it is not -too . much to say that linndreds"of.li-Ves that have been , eacriticed • , tliteugh the . bad Management in our tnines 'would have . been saved, and that our COI operators would have been richer bY;I - Knae . '; :millions of dollars • ancl;more than all,that - 'would not be agonized to-day with -the ther-: , Nors of Avondale, B . But to the :point important. There:is no danger now in agitating, ~ / egis(qtion fo): milacj.' The country is ripe for it Thy. Axon,- dale tragedy has reached the heart-strino of the Amen can people. They are itowlulky prepared ler the reformation,' no matter far its origin; 'flies° who clatunedt it eleven and ,twelve years ago as. the , product of a thrall] over-fermented 4y fanatiehon,will admit of its expediency to:day, Then let, the people de niand immediate lc,gialationgb,r,thntnines. in the coining camptugn tllem demand of the candidates foe Legislative Vonore` And of Governor Geary and Ron. Mr. Packer, a de termined advocacy of a law that will ; as far tut care andmining service can, prevent another disaster such as , that which siukens ourtearts ,1 t° - day OUILUI.i.Ytkp ruilaDELictite,' 10, 186(3, `°' --t°l. BEE 44';