GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXm.-NO. i 75. •rtrEDDING CARDS, INVITATIONS VVj&r Portlet, &o. JSMLWjrtoa. MASON* CO' .. 9P7ohoatnntgtreot, WEDDING ■ INVITATIONS > EN nowett nn<l bout monnor; LOUIS A flUUoner rad Kwfraver, ,1032 CliMtimt *»«*• - farntf MARRIED. ■“ McCnUKK-PATTKItSON.-In Allcalieuy. October ffltb, by tbcltcT. a ; fijiOlarb. D J)„ luw&fcd by the Bor. 2r \ Al^|* I ,'; cl S ro ’ of Pittebnrgn, to Slits M. A goon I'.ttfreon.tir Allegheny. , DIED. ..AUTEMUH.—-Suddenly, qnjths 31st ult., Susannah, Hawley, daughter of Alfred C.and Mary W. Altcinns, aged 11 weeks.! ■ \ - , I)qo notice of the funeral will bo given. • CARHAK.--0n Saturday, aoth ult.; at the residence °f George Ord, No. 674 South Front street. Mar garet Cannon, aged 89 years. Her relatim and friends aro respectfully Invited to nttend her funeral, on TnehiLvy morning next, at 10 o’clock. 1 * JIAjJ DSONOn Saturday, October 30, Sarah, widow or Nathan Hnvfdsou, aged S 7 yean. The fiftierol will take place from her late residence H. V» v vorner of Girard and Corinthian avenues, o, Tnwtfty. November 2d. at 2 o’clock P.M. • *« w ilOYLlt.—lu Harrisburg, October 29th, 1809, Sarah JlnTcr HIItIhHAM.--Tblii Diorninr, William Kirkham, in tbe7(Uh vcarofliisage. « ; ~9 n ovenieg, October 29th, Mr. Wil* Ham Y. Leech. 0 The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully tnvitod to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 2012 Walnut street, on Tuesday afternbon, November 2d, -ot 2 o clock To iiroceed to Laurel Hill Cemetery. ** LLM>BA\;~“In Harrisburg, October 28th, at the resi dence of her sister, Mrs. William b, Hallock, Miss Agnes 31. LfmJsHy,of Charleston,B.C.riutoof Philadelphia), aged ftfjN-urs. fllAJOIt.—(Hi bunday, October 31st, Letitia, wife of Isaac Major, in the Aid year of her age. The relative* and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, op Wednesday next, at 2 o’clock, from the residence or her husband, 2103 Delaney Street. ■ rw NKAL.—On the 39th ult., Wm. Neal, Sr., aged7oyenrs. The relatives and friends of the family, also Harmony .Lodge, Ko.-fiS; Columbia - Hv"BrA-.i No.-air'A i’TvM; 2 Penn Lodge, N 0.25.1.0. of O. F., aud thesatlmakera of this ettv^are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from hu late residence. No. 812 North Fifth street, on Wodneaday afternoon, the 3dinat., at 2 o’clock; WILLIAMS.—On Saturday. Oct. 39th, Mary A., only daughter of James Williams,M. D., in her 18th year. * Funeral on ir»t., at u <vclock A.M..frotn the residence of her grandfather, ?. Gaul, Esq., No. 142 North Twentieth afreet.' To- proceed to Woodlands Cemetery.' ‘ •» • 1 ' - • rfWATER PROOFS FOR STXITB. W BLACK AND WHITE BKPELLANTB. , OOLH AND BLACK RBPELLANTB. BttOWNAND WHITE KKPELLANTB. a IBYBB * LANDKLL, * Fourth »ndAreb.~ SPECIAL NOTICES. OVERCOATS, . With Special Care and Regard tof H T YLE. We hare Manufactured our First Stock of OVERCOATS: In Castors and Chinchillas. In Mosoows, Whitneys and Beavers. In Plain and Fancy Cloths. In Tricots and Cheviots. |n Meltons and Fur Beavers. 1 " ~jjj - ALL TOE SEWEST COLORINGS AND MIXTURES WITH Silk Facings and Velvet Collars, AT ■ 1 JOHN WANAMAKER’S, SIS and 820 CHESTNUT Street. ACAD EM Y OF MUSIC. THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. -Hon. b. 8. COX, November 29. Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, December 1, Rev. BOBT. COLLYKB, December 3. MARK TWAIN, December 7. BE CORDOVA, Decembers. WENDELL PHILLIPS, December 10. Ticket* at GOULD'S,933CHESTNUT Street. nol tfs THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. PROF. JAMES McCEINTOCK, 91. D., Uommenr«« hi* PopahrLectureo. Illustruted.with THE OXYUYDBOGEN LIGHT, FRBNCH MANIKINS, Ac., in CONCERT HALL. MONDAY EVENING, Not. Lit., at Bo'clock,continuing every eveuing, closing TUESDAY EVENING, Npt. 9th. „ ' Two Private Lectures to Ladies, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY AFTBRNOONS, Nor. 3 and 6,at3 o'clock. Two Lectures to Gentlemen, SATURDAY and TUES DAY EVENINGS, Not. 6 and 9. _ Admission ..Course Six Lectures 91 00. To oadi Lecture..... - 25. To be had at the Hall; Trampler a,ft26 Chestnut street, and Dr. McCHDtock'sGflice, Ea 3 Race street. - >ocs76trp jp^^FcrsEYVirorrrECTO^ESi-WMr .ley L.- DENNIS, Esq., ban the pleasure to announce *» course of Four Lectures, entitled “THE PONEY VILLE LECTURES.” the first of which will be given on TUESDAY- EVENING, November 2d, 18S9, at the ASSEMBLY BUILDING (large Hall). Subject-“Dr.] * > lf > sliBDAYJ?iov!9’, “Our Church and Congregation.” WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17, "Social Fossils.” TUESDAY, Nov. 23, "Mrs. Wiggins and Hor Party.”, Tickets for the Course, with secured seats $2 00 ' Single Lecture, with secured scat 75 Admission 50 Lectureat 8 o’clock. ■ , , Tickets can be had at Tramoler’s Music Store. oc3o tf§ K SCIENTIFIC I-EOT GEES AT THE FBANKLIN INSTITUTE.-Thc> Winter Course eminence on TUESDAY EVENING, 2d inst., at 8 o’clock, and will include courses on Organic and Inor ganic Chemistry, Electricity and Heat, Light and Me chanic*. . nol 3t jv-S» GEORGE C. NEEDHAM (IRISH i*Sr Evaugelißt) wilt preach every evening this week attsßrlng Gurdcn Hall, northwest corner Spring Gar den and Thirteenth.streots, at quarter before 8 o cloi-k. All are invited, 1 ' ■ It* ir=a. HALE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ttSr ASSOCIATION, 1&0 CHESTNUT atreot. The classes for instructor! lor 18<iS-70 wiirbe , organ ized tho first week in November, in the following branches: Penmanship, by Prof. J. WJ Shoemaker; French, I’rof. Jean B. fine ; German,Prof. J. M. Haliel; Elocution, Prof. Bufna Adams, and Music, Prof. Jolm- Bower iv -i Terms to members online dollar for twenty lessons. Application for admitieion to-be made at tho Rooms. *___ __ oc27w fm3trps JTS» PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPAEDIC’ HOSPITAL, No. IB Sooth Ninth street.—For treatment of Oluh Foot, Spinal and all othor Bodily D OnSo every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, from 11 to 1 Services tnatuitouH to tho poor. ATTENDING SURGEONS Dr. TIIOS.G.MORTON, . Residence, 1121'Chestnut street. Dr. H.E. GOODMAN, , • 1127 Chestnut Btroet ITS* CHOICE PEAR TREES FOR SALE. —Several thousand Bartlett, Scckel, Duchcsae, Ac., standard and dwarf, all eizee anu varieties, from a private Fruit Gordon. J. 8. HOUGHTON, 01i\ey P. 0., Second street turnpike, Philadelphia. nol-rpot* Jrs» TEE PHILADELPHIA NA- U? tionai. bank. Philadelphia, Nov. Ist, 1869. .The Directors have tbie day declared a Dividend of toVon per Cent, for tho last six months, on the Capital 4tock, free of all taxes, and payable to tno Stockholders >r their legal representatives, on demand. nol-3t§ B. F. CHATHAM, Assistant Cashier, ■•TW GIEAJBD STREET. 1109 rKtEISH, JBDBSIAN, AND PEKFBHBD BATHS. Departofluts far Ladles, Baths opon from 6 A.M. to 8 P.M. Bg» HOWARD HOSPITAL/"NOS. 1618 7 and 1820 Lombard street.Dtoponsary Departments edlcal treatment andmedicino furnished sratni to ualy a the poor. ~ —Michel Chaslcs informs the world that ie has to prosecute a paltry forger tor making ilia beUove ;that Haunah Smith signed herself •Miss Anno Ascougli Newton.”' We cannot llow the anagram whicli we formerly gave o drop—“ Sign such a npmo, son! not we!”— UJicnayui n. .■ ' ■ - ", „ ,'y , ■. V : : ■I . 0 : . -l. ‘ ■ ‘ ,'y' ■V : '' ’ ' 1 .. •/ This great series of frescoes (like those of Fra Angelico on the ceiling and back wall of this chapel) have served as libraries of art to famous painters, whose names are more fa miliar to the general reader and observer than is that of Duca Signorelli. The pictures of Michael Angelo and Raphael—especially those of the former—seem hut as divisions of one great Symphony, of which these at Orvieto are not only the prelude, but the theme. The bold foreshortening of the grand forms in the Fvmiriati compartment; in the Antichrist, also in the Resurrection, and the terrible realities in the Inferno, show plainly where the great Florentine studied, —for in these are the very originals of some passages in the famous Sis tirie Chapel pictures. $ In Siguorelh’s “Paradiso” we can see Ra phael’s style. The angels are truly Raphael esque. One Sappho-like figure among the celes tial throng is tuning alnte in the mostcharming preoccupied manner. The beautiful face is over the instrument, which rests on her ’ lap; the fingers grasp it firmly and tune the chords—the action is so strong you almost hear . the twang of the strings. You see she is en gaged in getting the proper diapason,and en tirely detached from the sweet confusion of sounds which the happy multitude about her is making. The grouping in this picture is es q»ti\itcly natural and graceful. Lovely angels , float down with crowns and garlands for the blessed; others sit aloft with lutes and sing hymns of rejoicing, while the redeemed stand beneath inan-ccstasy of happiness as they en ter this- heaven of divine beauty and har mony. ) / ‘ r The .most Tcmaflkable, however, of these great Signorelli frescoes is the Instory of Anti christ. The inspired story of the Apocalypse and grand prophecies of Ezekiel take form and shape, and are expressed with wonderful strength and effect In the background is the court of that Temple/‘which is cast out and not measured.” I There are the two witnesses, Enoch and Elias, “whose bodies shall lie in the streets Of the great city.” One is be headed, the other just meeting death, by or der of Antichrist In the foreground is Anti christ again. This tfme he is preaching, and the Devil Is whispering In his ear. In the heavens, far up in the left-hand corner, is the fall of Antichrist and the rain-of blood. Whenever Antichrist is represented, the caricatured resemblance to Our Lord is painful. In one corner of this picture, to the " extreme left of the foreground, stand two men as spectators. One, dressed in a cloak and cap, looks out on you with a doubting, dis gusted, discouraged expression. The other, robed iita a priest’s dress, with cowl and ton sure, points with sad surprise to the gronps in the foreground. There avarice, violence,mur der and other mortal sins are represented as going on at the very feet—in the actual presence of Antichrist,. This sorrowful-look ing priest is a portrait of Beato Angelico. The uhbelieviDg, despairing face belongs to the artist who painted the fresco—it is the portrait of Signorelli'himself. The carved and Inlaid work of the Choir is liner even than that of the Sienese Cathedral, .but so decayed and time-worn that in many places they are replacing parts of it by .accu rate copies. The Sienese and Orvieto wood workers and carvbrs are famous in this .day as they were in past ages. The whole church is sadly out of repair, hut they are putting it in order, and intend, I believe, to restore it to its former grandeur. The place, however, has a look inside—as if devotion had left it—quite unlike tlie warm, cosy, com fortable Sienese Cathedral, which seems made nooks and cornets that are full of the ‘ very atmosphere of prayer and thanksgiving. We- clambered up a dizzy number of dark little steps which" led to the arcaded gallery that runs around the roof edge of the Choir. From its stone arches we looked down on the Choir frescoes. They wore painted by Vgolino di I’rete da Siena, a contemporary of Simono Memmi. They are said to be full of the expression peculiar to the early Sienese school—enthusiastic sentiment and lyric feel ing—but I had no time to study them. From tliis gallery we groped, on up to the roof and looked over the mountain town, the valleys of the Paglia and Tiber and the Umbrian Ap ponines. —The afternoon we drovo-away from Orvieto I looked wishfully back oh the grand old his torical city of the Middle Ages. I watched the sun sink behind t})j! hills. It was a glorious sight. The rod and amber-flood of autumn Italian sunlight bathed a landscape every point of which was like some gorgeously il luminated missal, throbbing with rich-hued memories of that, medial val past whose history is so dear to the art-student. I resolved then and there that Orvieto, like Siena, should be another “Yarrow Revisited.” Next spring; when the railway route from Rome to that point is completed, I shall go there again; I' trust, and study more closely and leisurely the Other frescoed chapters of Bible and gospel history which }ts great old Cathedral contains; the famous bas-reliefs on the facade,the many beautiful sculptures, and its other art posses siotm. oc3o-lmrps The acoustic question of the Counpil Hall is satisfactorily settled. The report sent in to ■> the Pope was by persons who wore ignorant of the facts. Count Vespignajii Jins commit ted no blunder. The north” transept of St givon to him to prepare in suoh a; manner that it would -accommodate a certain’ number of persons in a certain way. This ho has'dono most satisfactorily. The architect haarep resented to thePopethatifthishall in the body of the church will bo needed for oratory, the vaulted roof will of course have to be-covered with a ceiling.—But this seems : liindly necessary, as the hall of the Gena—the place over the Atrium in which the Pope cele brates at Raster the Apostles’ Supper—will be FOREIGN CORRESFOHDENCE IEITEB FBOM BOKE ' The Bellylons Frescoes of :Orvleto.~Tlie Connell Kail in St. Feter's—Yaylnc of lb© Corner Stone of the Commemora live Column—Novel and Impressive Ceremonies—The Copt Blsbop and other Itlffnltarles—UhkCs Domestic Trouble. , ’' [CerresjidhdeaM! of the Pbiladelpbia Ereniog Balletln J Rome, Oct. 14th, 1809.—The History of Anti christ, Resurrection, Holl and Paradise, are the four principal frescoes of Duca Signorelli in the Capclla Nuova of the Orvieto Cathe dral. Resides these frescoes there are also decorative pictures in chiaF osenro, by. the same artist, of the poete Hesiod, Dante and Virgil, with medallions that contain scenes from “ Works , and Days”, the ASneid and “Vivina Comm clia.”- ■ PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1869. employed for all meetings of deliberatioH and discussion. The north transept hall 1 wiUheHised for the grand public ceremonies of the Council. ■ The architectural work Of the transept is completed. I hope to have the pleasure of giving you a report of the appear?- once of the hall from personal. view shortly. The King of Belgium is to present the Fope ■with the carpet for this vast plied, it will be the largest carpet in the world. Superb velvets and gold decorations are to be sent from all the: great manufactories of Europe as donations; The vexed-question of Ambassadors is under stood now to be settled. The representatives of France, Austria, Fortugal, &c., and'a special plenipotentiary from Spain, are to be present/but take no pari; in the deliberations. Yesterday afternoon I saw the laying, of the corner-stone of the column which , is to be erected in commemoration of. the Vatican Council. The ceremony took' place where the column is to stand, onthe Janiculum Hill, in front of the Church St: Pietro in Mont’orio. Reserved scats were arranged on either side of the column, enclosure walled in, and car peted with.rich old tapestries, so beautiful I hated to tread on them. Through the. kind courtesy of Mr. Lanclani, the brother-ip-law of Yespignani, we bad excellent places' di rectly in front of the Cardinal and place of ceremony, and only a few chairs distant from r the Princesses of the- Neapolitan Bourbon family. My eljair was on the very’edge ofthe Janiculum summit. x ' "We started in good as to enjoy the drive up to the hill. It was tho sweetest of all October afternoons, and the streets hnd roads leading up were thronged with carriages and foot passengers, all hurrying to the sight. Oc tober is a gala, month in Rome—the month of the vintage and family feasts—of general holi day. When we reached the place and ,tobk our seats, we found we had a good half hour to enjoy the crowd, the preparations, and above all the superb landscape which lay be neath and around .us,, swimming in a sea of rich sunlight. The Janiculum Hill is the key of Rome. From its summit is the best point to look on this great city and its divine hori zons. —' But, beautiful as were the Alban hills and Sabine mountains; delightful as it was,to show how well I had conned .the dear lesson of localities, I soon left off pointing out the disj taut towns which lay on the mountain side and the great buildings ef the city which were spread out beneath our feet as on a map, for the assemblage around us took np all my atten tion. Before us, under a crimson and gold canepy, hung the fair white corner-stone, whose burial deep down in the earth we had come to witness. . The opening into which it was-to be lowered was covered with a sort of table, hung also with enmsoh and gold, on which the corner-stone seemed to rest. On another table was a superb silver seal; a large .silver inkstand; red sealing-wax; red ribbon; a handsome candlestick and wax candle; the leaden box which was to be placed in the stone; the contents of this box, and the stone lid which was to cover the aperture hollowed out in the corner-stene. There were all ranks of great clericals and learned men, royalties and handsome women assembled there in honor of the occasion. The parchment which contained the account of the ceroinony, and which was to be placed in the leaden box, was taken around to the tinguished persons present for their signar tores. The young Grand Dnchess of Parma, the Princess of Girgenti, Countess Trapani and Madame Quillinen, wife of the Portuguese Envoy, who were very near us, wrote their names upon it, and their signaturesilooked fair and bold. Then'the parchment was-handed to the various distinguished men. To our right sat a row of jolly French Monsignorcs, and beside them was the curious-looking Copt Bishop; whose handsome gipsy face and picturesque costume always' attracts my attention. His presence yesterday transported me hack to the Richard Cosorde Liondaiys, as described in Scott’s picturesque tale of the Talisman. He wears a flowing Mack ..mantle with large sleeves bordered with gold, and a high black velvet hat, round at the top, and hell-shaped, which has a black satin curtain or cape on the edge 1 of tho base'. This curtain gathers in the long jet black hair, covers the neck and is tucked into the mantle.. - His skin is swarthy; the long hair,a little waving, makes a dusky framework to his face, and out of this wierd human darkness, which is totally unlike the Indian or African, there gleam tlio most curious-eyes, wily and vihratiug as those of a snake. The parchment washanded to him to sign. Very naturally Jio began, in the Copt manner, to write from the right side of the paper. The gentleman who had charge of the business oxcmfeied: “Oh! no, not there, Monsignore. Here! here!” and he pointed to the left of the parch ment. Not a feature stirred in tire Copt's lace. He .looked quietly at the gentleman and w aited until the explanation was made by some one; then with languid dignity affixed his sign of witness of the ceremony. I stretched both eyes and neck to sco the hieroglyphics which I almost expected to find wriggling about on the paper in some weird"serpent-like I'ornlX hut I was not near enough to distinguish his writing. I noticed that his hands were deli cate as a wdiniin’s, well-shaped, hut oven the nails were dark, as we see in tho gipsy hand. This little episode caused a good deal of mer riment, and his companions, the French Mon-' signores, laughed heartily, while he lodttetTas imperturbable and indifferent as if he Bad no© even noticed the incident, much less been the principal actor. The leaden box which was to he placedm the corner-stojne, antlifa other contents, were also shown to the distinguished members of the audience. These contents were, besides tbb parchment,fifteen pieces of Roman money, five of gold, five of silver, and five of copper; a largo golden-looking medal of composition (the gilt bronze one was not ready), on which was the monument as it will look when erected, and an inscription of its intention, date, &c., and a silyer and bronze medal of St. Peter, which axe strnck every year. These last had on them Tonerani’a Montana monument. Whon everything was ready, Cardinal Be jardi and his suite came out of the church, in grand, high canonicals, and u the services be gan. The leaden box and its contents were blessed, the box soldered up, the red ribbon put around'it, and the imposing silver seal, stamped upon the red wax which fastened 1 the ribbon to-the box. Then the corner-stone was blessed, and the aperture sprinkled with ' holy water. I looked at the Copt when this part of the ceremony took place, as if I ex pected him to spread some unseen wings ah d OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY. , fly shrieking a way over the hills; but there he. -sat, and looked as.if lie was made Of some cu rious fluid that was not human, but had as sumed-mortal shape. - * The leaden box was lowered into the aper ture made for it ifa the combr-stone, the stone lid placed down upon it, and Cardinal Berardi , spread mortar over tin) edges with'a pretty little gold trowel,‘which every lady present, ! am sure, coveted. After tills thq corner-stone was lowered sixty feet down into the founda tion-pit of the monument, while tho Cardinal and his attendants chanted the suitable ser vice,—and tha ceremony was over. After we - left another heavy stone was lowered down on top of the. corner-stone, in order to guard against rogues, interfering with its contents.: borne of us went and looked down into the pit. The woodwork which has been made around the sides to keep the earth from caving-in is a beautiful piece of workinanshlijv Every detail of public labor is jldne very 1 thoroughly and conscientiotmiy ijrßome. - We stood forsome time before going to our carriage and gazed at the various notorieties . w ; lio passed before us, and! must confess the fine autumn toilettes gave us quite as much ; pleasure sis the sight of the famous men. I looked srij-h great interest on Father Secchi, wishing all the while that a certain ravishing rose-colored hat and pearl-gray ; robe and casaque, superbly trimmed with real blitek Chantilly lace, would, the stand. Father Secchi, however, carried the day. Shame to my womanhood, the great Jesuit as tronomer Was tho more attractive of the two.' Bose-colored hats and bewitching gowns are always in existence, I thought, but Father* Secchi might die before I could have another chance of seeing him. He is a small man; has a gOod-ehaped head, good skin, a huge: month, bold, firm jaw, and the most eyes that were ever set in a human face. This great astronomer has the reputation of being one of themostleamed men living; he is head, of the Jesuit Roman College, and at the same time commands the esteem and regard of;, the whole scientific world, Catholic, heretic and heatnen. Liszt was also present; He looks careworn. The late unfortunate domestic trouble with his daughter and her husband, Yon Bulow, the celebrated pianist, gives' Liszt much un happiness, and the manner in which his best friend, Wagner, the great composer, is entan gled in the unhappy matter, adds, of course, to Liszt’s distress. I should not allude to the afiair if I had ncit heard to-day that the Ger man journals are ringing with it. Of course, the whole trouble is greatly exaggerated, by the public, and when the truth is known, I have no doubt it wifi turn out to be much less of a scaifdal than is reported. THE MISSISSIPPI HORROR Particulars of the Burning oftlie Steamer Horrible Scenes on Board—»The River Full [From the St. Louis Papers of Friday Huniin" | THB DISABTEB. . The warning cry of “ fire” was given by one of the deck passengers, who. ran to the engine room and shouted to George W. Fulton, the first engineer, who was then on duty. Dark ness had sot in, and the alarm came with a terrible significance; Here the boat was at a point where the river is one and a half miles wide, with much that was combustible on board,_.and_with no means of escape except what'might bo obtained by running the ves sel against the bank. The alarm was given immediately upon the origin of the fire, and it was not unheeded. Fulton rushed out and saw a bale of hay in the afe portion of the boat burning. So small was the fire that it could' have been extinguished with one or two buckets bf water if they had been at hand,but these were not there. It beggars description: words fail—imagina tion is atfault. Two hundred and eighty souls ushered into eternity. A blazing lire behind them and a death amid icy waters before them. 1 1 was about 6.30 in the evening. In the cabin the supper-table was thronged. Some had left and werq, smoking their evening cigars— others chatting near the stove. Few were on deck, for the night was dark and the air chilly and piercing.. Down on the deck a motley crowd of a hundred and fifty'emi grants, and working people were gathered. Many had eaten their supper; others were taking their last mouthful, when asmall blaze not larger than your hand broke out on a pile of gay, and a solitary deck hand ran for ward and cried, "Fire! fire!” From mouth to mouth tho soul-stirring cry ran, and in a moment the deck-passengers were palsied with fright and, desperate with excitement. Hardly heard in the cabin, tlie ttrst.-yyy was regartlcd as a ruse—perhaps a row among the deck-passengers. Seine were a little full of liquor—then in a second twinkling came the second cry—a yell—a maddening, deafening yell of “Fire! fire! fire!” thatpierced the deck and rang through the ears of the supper eaters like a death knell. Now there could be no mistake. It was no foolishness now. That cry meant life or death, and every one felt it. To the upper deck, to the cabins fore and aft, people ran. Panic, fear and frenzy ruled the hour. There were seventy-five life-preservers in the staterooms, but only one man secured one. There was a yawl,but some of the deck passengers seized It, and, without oars, indis criminately piled in and paddled ashore with their hands.- From thesmall blazo on the hay near the boiler deck, the fire spread to the coal oil, and the wbelo ship was m a blaze. The boat was" loaded with bacon and other solidities, and the flames spreading with fear ful vapidity soon found the solid combustibles, and an intense heat was generated. the scene was most fearful. Ono hundred and fifty passengers, mostly foreigners—lrish, Italians, Dagos, Germans and Americans— some with their wives and families, all in con fusion grand; trying to save their lives. The boat grounded two hundred yards from the shore;- the ponderous' engines thumped afitH worked in vain. The passengers were ram pant and wiki. Efforts were mode to adjust tho hoffe to the donkey engine, but the crowd would not allow it. Some tried to throw out planks and stagings, hut the crowd rushed to the edge of the deck, and, in their eager ness to securo positions, prevented- the staging from , v -being put out. All Bhoutcd, “ Get off. the: staging!” and the man who cried the loudest was, the very man who was. in the middle of the staging. Tho poor deck-passengers know not what to ,d.o Peddlers with their packs, like themiser. at Herculaneum, clung to their last worldly remnants, and found a watery or won a fiery grave beside their fllthy pelfr TriShmen, with their picks and shovels, going to work South ern roads,-their, oldielay-pipes half filled with Tobacco, and their all. done up in a red ban danna,' were there; and. dark-haired Italians going tb the . sunny South ! tb expose their wares in amonpy-miudngmart; Dagos,Frenoh emigrants going whore their own-language was spoken, were there. These people were the first to see the fire—the first to catch he fright—th| most uncontrollable—tho most Anne Brewster. Stonewalls of Drowning People. the sound. ON DECK lacking in judgment, and consequently tlit most severely suffering. They rushed to tho edge of the vessel and seeing the flames that illuminated the heavens aha glistened on the dark waters—feeling the beat that scorched and burned—hearing'the explosion that thuu dered from the engine-room: and machinery department—and dumbfounded and frightened by the noise and confhsion,aswell as Winded 1 by'the smoke, they plunged pellmcll into the waters. Some. clang to Spars, and hits; of (wood,, but found uothing to hold; swam'or floated for a short time, and then,, benumbed by the icy chilliness of the waves, and blinded by the smoke, they sank to watery. f raves. Many mules and horses were on oard, and with; the deck-passengers’, and— poor dumb creatures, who could expect them to display moro reason than human beings ? they rushed with thepeople and jumped into ; the water viitli them, and on them and ovor .them. Some few started and swam ashore, : but most of them swam around the - boat in, circles, drowning men, women and' helpless children. One mule jumped into a crowd of people struggling in'-the water; and by liis .frantic movements drowned six people. IN THE CAJUN. : Before thehews reached the cabin, the deck passengers were wild with excitement. The; lirst cry was hardly realized, but the second' carried too much conviction in the wildness of its notes to bo.neglected or mistaken, and all rushed for safety, some to cabins and state rooms, and others an; and on deck. The cabin soon filled with smoke, a blinding, suflbeat 4H)g~smoke, a smoke that would not, he checked, hut was the forerunner of more deadly flashes. There wero only three lady pas ; -sengers in the cabin, one helpless old lady, a . mother with two young children, ;one a baby still in swaddling clothes, and the third lady , a wife, going, to meet her husband, from whom she had long been separated, in Lousiama.. Out on the boat's edge, what were the cabin passengers to do ? They were only about forty in number, hut their plight was one of peril. All around them the lurid flames; Deneath them the dark waters, welcoming them to anything but hospitable' . graves. Just under, the frantic deck passen gers, the. maddened animals rushing to and fro, uncontrolled, uncontrollable—all shriek ing, shouting, praying and imploring for .lifeand safety. To jump the distance was fearful, and the leap was certain to he to leap to- the grave; to remain was' death by burn >ing. Every one was ftantic;, offi 'cers tried in vain to keep the crowd quiet.but the danger was too imminent—the death too certain. The little children clung- in vain to the arms of their mothefsf 'tli'6'laaies shrieked and fainted too late; the men rushed to and - -fro r and selfish'in.stinct-prevailed, and 'every' one shifted for himself as best he or she could. Had.people kept Cooler,more would have been saved; but tke blind instinct or infatuation of a mob to follow leaders ruled,and tlie oxample of the deck passengers was .followed by the , cabin passengers abovC. The flames were ap proaching them,and whenso many were jump ing into thewater.why should not all V Alas, the water was chilly and cold, and the bar was only a slight one and a strong current ran on either side. Many jumped, struck bottom, and bad their feet earned from under them by the swift and treacherous undercurrents; others, blind with frenzy and excitement, rushed to where the crowd was thickest, and jumped in among-the mules struggling and kicking, and among the stout and hearty laboring men, whose presence of mind had left them, and whose only thought seemed to lie that safety was only secured by all jumping together in one vast grand heap, on top, in between, and among each other. Thus . a sure death was secured. With everybody the question wits “touch and go,” impulse got the better of judgment and reason, and com mon sense, that would have rushed for life preservers and taken doors off from hinges, took a back seat.. Men lost hope, and infatu ation seized every one. The Hire was by no . means a lingering or' a lazy one; the flames i neither tarried nor lingered, hut spread from j bale to bale, from hogshead to hogshead.from : huge piles of hay to slumbering sacks of oats, > from combustible and easily-excited coal oil i to solid and juicy bacon, from cold J and inanimate provisions to human | life, that a moment before was 1 buoyant with hope and brimful of expecta tion. The flames rolled and crept and licked their way along,TKro—stealthily.nowrush— ingly, now with smoke and snap "of spark and cinder, and anon bursting forth in lund fierce ness. Many were burned and scalded, and not a few never reached the deck to make even fruitless efforts for safety. Over the side of the boat the lambent flames ran, down near the engine, over the wheel, over the texa's, and away, up round the blackened smoke •stack. The intense heat hurst the pipe, and the explosion only added to the consternation. - . . ONLY ONE SKIFF. - There was only one skiff available to take passengers from the burning wreck. It made several trips from theboatto the land. Besides being the means of escape for those on the stage plank, it was used to take Fulton from his perilous position. He was the last brought away; after that no one escaped from the boat. It was feared that some, hemmed in by the flam&s, were burned to death, and rumor had it that some met with such a dreadful fate in the cabin.. How many will never be known. It; can only be hoped * that they till succeeded in j limp ing into the river and ' got to shore. The ’ coal oil—fortunately not a large quantity—and the bacon burned very iiereely. The Stonewall was burned to the water’s edge in about one hour aud a half after the lire was discovered. But long before this there washo living seul in it. The scene was a terrible one —one never to be forgotten by the survivors. The lamentations, groans aud shrieks of the dying men and women mingled with the noise of the craekingtimliers, and to intensify the horror of the moment, burning spars, fenders and beams felhpver into, the water where nearly 200 human beings were trying to save themselves ii‘om the jaws of tleatu. rdWKHLE&i TO HELP. There were numbers of people on the shore who had docked from the houses in the neigh borhood of the JLanding, but they Were unable to give any-assistance except what a few could" render with the skiff’ before mentioned. They saw many an tiiifortunate passenger taking iris last leap, and as some wlio liail managed to get hold of a.sparer piece of timber drifted from the wreck, they eagerly sought to give a helping hand to some poor fellow as he neared the shore. The people did all they possibly could to mitigate the horrors of the night, and at different points of the river for a mile be low assisted persons to get on shore. Tim number so saved, it f s regretted, was but small. THE OF THE STOXEWAKE/. A Harder Added to the Horror. The St. Louis Democrat, in its account, of the -burning of the Mississippi steamer Stonewall, gives the following:. A telograin from Cairo last oveniug an nounced a most revolting termination of a struggle for life, when one'victim stabbed and killed another, and was soon after drowned himself. A group of men in the water sought to save themselves by the aid of a floating bale of hay, Which was too small to float them all. A savage contest arose for its possession, all struggling to obtain a lodgment upon.lt, whon one more desperate than the rest was roused to demoniac passion, and drawing a knife .plunged it -intoia companion’s body, and the lifeless form rolled over into tho current, which was reddenod by his blood. The 1 act of fiendish impulse was speedily avenged, for tho whole party are believed to have'been drowned. - - • . .—The Shakespeare J/utmum is the title of a new journal, published .since October in Leipsfo/designed as an “organ for reciprocal 7 gromotion in the study and understanding of • hakespearo.” It is edited Sind published by Max Moltke, a well-known Blmkospeareau scholar and translator. . , F. 1. OTHER™. n PRICE THEBE CENTS. t From tho Orerl»n<l Monthly f9rN»lrw»li)r:J : Tlio Mountain > c By scattered rocks and turbid watenuJiiUlngy- , ' By furrowed glade and dcß, !*:! Tofevcrishmenthy calm, sweet face : u^Bffesj^ii ! ;• . ing, " > "'’lfiap; Tliou atayest them to tell The delicate thought, that cannot find exkrfes {, sion, ,• • , - Fbrrudor speech too fair, , ;, v ® /That, like thy petals, trembles .impossessiMt' 5 ; And scatters on the alrr— " ’ > - ■* . ■; The miner pauses in his rugged labor, •-$ y n , And; leaning.an his spade, Laughingly calls outer his comrade-neighbor’ *1 s To see thy charm displayed; i " . But in his eyes a mist imwonted rises, “V,; And for a moment clear, Borne sweet home, face his fooksU *thoitglii!'l4?; ft surprises > SMi And passes in a tear— 1 > ’ ■</ ~ ' , : 4 Some boyish vision of his Eastern village, , Of uneventful toil, Where golden harvests followed quiet' tiling* • Above a peaceful soil: * One moment only, for the pick; uplifting,. Through root mid'fibre, cleaves, "jSt v And on the muddy current slowly drifting “ > Are a weptrthybl'uised leaves. And yet; O poet, in thy homely fashion,- Tliy work thou dost fulfill, For eirtho turbid current of lus passion • Thy face is shining still! * —Wat Tyler is to be the subject of Mr. G-. A. Sola’s forthcoming burlesque. - i —Cmiksliank ’is one of the workers in tk*' ■' temperancecausein-England. ' —The favorite authors of Prince Napoieo* . are Shakespeare and Virgil. .. . ; • • —The Emperor will meet- the Empress at A Nic<> on her return from Egypt. ■'■it -A Detroit hunting .party killed 63 buffaloes ■ on the P. It. B. —Henry Ward Beecher hopes that his old.:, ago may be an October, probably because thafcV'-' ’ is the season for fine old ails. v ,'?t ■ —Bichard Wagner said lately that he would ' ' compose no newoperas. For which let ns f give thanks, . ’ • . —Why were the Duke of Wellington’s boote d - like Abraham’s female servants'/ Becausa' they were hand made ’uns.— Ex. i —-AEaptaim.Johnson,—of St. John, N.-8,, was' lucky enough to die with 3280,000 insu- /)' ranee on his life. ' ' —A young woman in New Haven lias killed herself for the sake of her complexion, taking , arsenic. ’ I—A 1 —A ‘•Hymn of Peace,” by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, has been: performed at the Brussels Festival. : • —lf Greeley is elected Comptroller of New Vork State the first signature upun his bond will" he that of Jeff. Davis. So says an ex- ’ change. ■■■•■ . "• ■ , —TheJParis photographs tho late Marquis de Boissy.(husband of Jba Guiccioli/. ; in one line: “A gamin of Parisin a Senator’s ‘ robes.” ' ’ —A shower of ants, lasting for about two! t • minutes, is reported from Lausanne, on Lake - Geneva. Millions of winged insects fell, co-' vering the streets so that it was impossible to walk without crushing a number. —-At Bologna there died, recently, Alice Cenei,-who claimed to be the last survivor of the unfortunate Cenci family, celebrated’in . the drama of Shelly, and the remarkable novel, of Guerrazzi. . —The chairman of a Dent meeting, at Jack son, Miss., introduced a colored Democrat, John F-. Harris, of Memphis, as an orator, “and a gentleman asTar -as-politics are con-'d cerned.” —The meanest man has been found ia Michigan. A laborer was buried by the caving in of a veil on his premises, and he objected to any attempt at rescue on account of the expense for a man who was dead. —A Quaker lady recently explained to her domestic that' washing-day came on’every Second Day. The girl left in high dudgeon. She didn't go to be washing every other day. Not she. —’Mr. Jones, of Hartford, thought he smelt gpiLtbe other nignt and lighted a match .to sea it. ’He next found himself in the street, all ablaze, when a friendly policeman put hint oiit by rolling him in the gutter. —There is a manoin-New Jersey who insists on having liis manage 'ceremony repeated every year, going through the Whole ceremony ~ of new dress for his wife, dinner to his frietillsj &c. ’ ■ —A. Republican Convention forßedwotxl county, Minnesota, passed, among others, the following resolution: Jiesolveil, That we brand as sore-headed bolt ers those Republicans who have this day met in convention at the blacksmith shop.' t ' —ln a forest tree latoly cut down, in "Wis consin was found an ludian arrow-head com pletely imbedded and grown over. It appears, from eounting. the-la.vera of wood over it, that ninety yoars have elapsed since the. arrow > which it tipped was shot at the tree! —A California correspondent, criticising, a. gory sunset painting, remarks that “ the sun is poetically described...as .lowering 7 tinted drapery around his evening, couch; Ue never pulls down a blood-red woolen blanket to hide himself.” ' ‘ 1 —Tlio Russian Emperor lias recently become 1 singularly averse to riding on horseback or ins carriages. It always costs his adjutants con siderable trouble to persuade him to do so , when His Majesty’s presence is required at -' military reviews or on other public occasions. —A Cincinnati religious paper is about to publish a lii'e of John Smith, and explains that it is not that man whose life jyaft' saved by Po cahontas, but that other man, eminent above V his compeers for wit and humor, as well as for his power as a preacher, popularly known as “ Raccoon” Smith. —Two Americans at Badeurßadcn the otliffls- 1 ' day were dining with—a~pair...of Paris ladi&..; when a Russian Prince who, perhaps, wished to pick a quarrel, purchased two gloridbs bouquets and sent them to the ladies withlhla.. compliments. The Americans merely'glanced. , over to his tablo, bowed cordially, and sens him back by-the waiter two-Nnpoleojbs.;; He was so much chagrined that he left the r00m... —Professor Biot is stirring.the. hashes,of Row Jersey’s kitchen fifes, and founding an , order..of stewdious fryers on thephilosophy of. Bakin’. His missionary efforts from the-cpli-. ; nary foastrum will be forwarded by the pray-.- - - ..era Of all Christian travelers; for no stranger, in Jersey over ate a meal without wishing it- i ameliorated, and mentally exclaiming, “Blow their cooking!”— Ex. • ‘. —Mr. Brvnnt, it is reported, and wo believe' , truthfully,' recently thus advised a young newspaper contributor; “My youngfirluud, l - . observe that you have used sevoral French, expressions in your article. I think if you,- wifi study tho English language, that you wili v find it capable of expressing all the ideas yon,.: ..may have. I have always found it so, add in all that I have written I do not secall an in- ■ stance wbero I was tempted to use a foreign ' word, but that, on searching, I founcLa batten ,v one in my-own language.” ..» ;„i‘V , —The Alta California describes tho discoveiy ' by a party of miners.of a raagnittcont cave, th»' entraneo so small that it barely admitted .Is® , , , passage of a man. ;Aftor getting 1 chamber with ceilings SO feet hi£b,Up4fifMßif ■ ■»: stalactites which reflected liglrt torches, was found. So vast was this natural . structure, that the explorers, atter,vtraift“W*’ ir y its marble floor for half a mile didnotflUtt. " tho end. Another party will leave In a.-faw-ii-’. ■ . days tb explore more thoroughly. th|3|i»at.J'/- wonder. " r V ' ,r i •- Vst PVf' ,
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