GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII-NO. 192. CARDS, INVITATIONS ■lZwfif pßrtl °"’ * o> New ntyle,. MABOHAOO - BO7 Ohartnpt«trS»t. TIIEDDING INVITATIONS BIG nOTr ®<? ®s«* b«rt Hsmar. JbOVIB 255* A Stationer and Engraver, 1038 Chestnut •**<*>*> feaotr MARRIED. wthe I7th ind., by tho Rcv.J, * «V ,ft A lo ?t®ttho Church of the Advent, William Cox U> Ida W.Allmrgor, both of this city. ? * DIED. . On Thursday morning, 18th Inst., John H. A. Allen, ,lr., agitl 29 years. The relatives and frlendii are Invited to attend tbe-fu wl,*f,2rc3EJl|£ residence of hie mother-in-law, Mrn. J. '»« 9*r«l?W Summer street,this (Monday) afternoon, at 2 o’clock, • * CLEVELAND.—-At Boston, on the 21st Inst., Mrs. i !i C i y Cleveland, wife of Rev. C'liarlca Cleve land, of that city. ** CotVmtfn^^*"^ 11 wonting, I9th lust., William " V s / n 5* ve * of-the family are invited to attend his fum-ral,frotii his late rrsidonco, Jenkintown, MontßonuTf c rtuiitir, l»a., on Tuesday morning, the 23d inst., at JOr o ch>ck. lo proceed to Hartsville Preebyte jian Lb u i'h. Carriages vrillbcat Jenkintown Station, to meet the Wends of the family on the arrival of the 8.4«*» tram trom Philadelphia. * JtiUUAK.-qii the Iftth Inst,. at Greenbaok, Burling ton, N, J.. disease of the heart, Sophronln W wife of Enoch Durar, Funeral to leave Burlington,?*, J., by care, on Tues day morn ini?, the 23d Lm.,at K) o’clock. The friondji wdlmeet at the office of Wm. H. Mwrfi, 60S Arch street. To proceed to Wrwxllands Cemetery. ' J.vANb.—At Fort Wayne, Indiana. onthe2lst Inst., Kate, youngest daughter of Nathan and Lydia M. Evans. . .iPU jr ®' ,, d at Lancaster, Pa., on Tueupiy,23dimit.. at I ..DP. M. * Laura V., wifeof John C .Granger, in the?dtbyear of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, 903 Cliutqn street, ou Tuesday morning, the 23-1 inst.. at 10 o’clock. To proceed to Laurel Hfll. f Baltimore papers please copy J * . HOPKlNS.—Suddenly, on November Ist,at Tartna* kolly, Ireland, Rev. David Hopkins, Pastor of the Pres byterian Church of Ne* Rochelle, N. I*., in the 30th year of hi* age. JKNKB,—On Sixth-day evening, the 19th inst., Josofh Jvnk#, aged 77 year*. » *• The relatives and fronds of the family arerespoctHjHy , Invited to attend his funeral, from hie rostd«ic*?,in Bri*- t«l* Bucks county, Pa., on Third-day, 23d Inst., at 1 o’clock P. M. * , MASON.—On Friday evening, the 19th mst:, Birth Anna,wife of Edward Maeon, in thoiSrtihyear ofh*T age; The relative and friend* arc respectfully, invited to attend her -funeral, from the residence of her mother, Ilfs. T. A,. Stroud, No. 112 Sonth Seventeenth street, on Tuesday, the 23d inst. at 12 o’clock. * Mourning dry goods. UKSXOX A f>ON have Jn«t received SWM Mack all-wool Poplins, 62i», 7f#,#7^r. t fill. Ac. 3 ” “ Ottoman Poplins. fil 25, 82, Ac. 2 *• “ Poplin UiarrUr,aJl iioalitfc-*. 3 case* black double-warp alpaca*, and 75c, A**' ■^ ro ' l , KruJn Silk*, fil'#✓*, fi2, $2 25, 2c»*e* black Thibet Long Shawls, foil aud extra 1 taw-black “ 4> h'-mmod borders. 1 caw* Mack Kn;rll«h Itoml&zin* l i> t all <jualitie*. ViIOtXSALK AND BUT AIL MOURNING DBY GOODS lIOGBK4 yiS Ohestimt street. WATER PROOFS FOR SPITS. ' BLACK AND WHITE BE PELL ANTS. GOLD AND BLACK REPELLANTH. ÜBOWN AND WHITE REPELLANTH. EVBE & LANDKLL, Fourth and Arch SPECIAL NOTICES. A CAPITAL INVESTMENT GO OD SEC U RITY AGAINST MISFITS Mar now !>t- made in WINTER SUITS Of Melton,Silk Mixture ami Cheviots. WINTER SUITS or Plaid, Stripe and Diagonal CaAsimere. WINTER SUITS With Double Breasted Walkiug Jacket. WINTER SUITS K**»- Evening Dre**<, ready for Immediate Use. JOHN WANAMAKER'S. Chestnut Street Clothing Establishment, B2O CHESTNUT STREET. GREENWOOD CEMETERY. Corner of Asylum Turnpike & Fisher Lane, NEAR FRANKFORB A chum a is now offered to ntcur® Loin, at tk* tow price of $l3, arable in instalment!!) in what is admitted to be the rtl adapted grounds for Cemetery purposes near Fhila,- clphla,being romantically located, perfectly dry and dutifully rolling snrface. Apply to I’R KSIUEM— ■WILBUR 11. MYERS, IWNorth Fifteenth street. Via Pbk.ident— llAßßY M. GEARY,. S. K. corner of Ridge avenue and Wallace street. Si:citKraßT-GEO.CHANDLER PAUL, Office of the Company, 1783 North Touthstreet. TnKAsrncß—W'M. S. BNEYD, 522 East York street, SLPKmNTKXDENX—SAMUEL F. MEADE, uo!3 liurpS ■ . On the Qrounds. LECTURE ■ . BV HOS. WIIXIAX D. KELI.EY. CONCKKT llALLttChvfitnutf abovo Twelfth}. TI'KSDAY EVENING, Nov. 23<1,18ii9. Commencing at Eight o'clock. Subject—‘Tub Pacific Coast. * ? Tickets, SO cents. Reserved Beats, 76 cents, . . > 11033 4t* fl-s* is OTIC IS.— APPLICATION WILL i: bi> made by tho undersigned to the Depart- I inent of Highways, No. 104 South Fifth street, on MON -1 DAV, 29th nipt.. at 12 o'clock M.> for acontruct for cav ing Cherry street from Twenty-third street to the Biver Schu)lkiU, in the Tooth Ward. All persons interested muy attend at the time and place if they think proper; the following-named persons having signed a contract for said paving, vix.: H.W. Gray, Dr. L.B. Filbert, Wni. G. Boulton, Towmaud A Hubbard. . DANIEL McNICHOL, no2o 3tips , s Contractor, ITS* NOTICE.—APPLICATION WILL ttS' be rnado by the undersigned to tho Department of Highways, No. 1M South Filth street, on MONDAY, Ithc29tli hurt., nt 12o’clock, M., for a contract for paving Thirty-fourth Btreot, from Market street to Chestnut, in the Twenty-seventh Ward. Allporsona interested in said paving may attend, uttho time and place, if they think propor. as the following,named poisons havo signed a contract for said paving, viz.: Martin Books, John Lynch, J, W. Vunhoutcn, Thomas Clegg, Henry 8. Gabriel. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, DANIEL.^sNHJHOLv no2o 31 rp _____ Contractors. «v-s» ABOLITION OP CAPITAL PUN^ ISHMKNT! lien. MA KVIN H. BOVEE, of Wisconsin. HABMONIAL HALL, Eleventh and Wood, Nov. Md, 23d and 2ith, at 7>i P. M. KachLocture2s^en^,_or6^VorCom'so PKNNSYLVANIA PEACE SOCIETY. Third Anni versary. Same Ha11.23d and 34th inst. Senator BOVEE, IiUCBETIA MOTT, O. C. BUItLEIUH, -and other speakers. Free._ ■ . no2o 3trp* n-g* HOMtKOFATHIC HOSPITALFAIR IS NOW OPEN AT IIOKTICULTCRAL HALL. Articles in every department of Fashion, wUother for uso or ornament, will bo found in great variety upou the tallies, at simply remunerative prices. Tiie Restaurant is fully organized for supplying sub stantiate ns well as delicacies. _ Music every evening, nndor Carl Scntz'a direction. It is hoped the public will appreciate the efforts made to furnish an ngreeablo outertainment through which to obtain the means for the great object in view: 1. o.: the erection of an Hospital open to all classes. Fair will be open on Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. ' . nolf-st* atlji ©w wag tSullctin. SPECIAL NOTICES. academy of music. THU STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. ' FIFTH LECTURE On Monday Evening, November 29. «... .. W0N. 8. 8; 6»X. r 1 Ronnr.M IN SI'AI.N.” (FrvpaiU'l oapreiily for thin occasion.) On Wednesday Evening, December 1. i „ ' liON. CHARLES SUMNER. „ T , Subject—“ Tiik OUKstion op Caktk." On Friday Evening. Decembers, REV. ROBERT COLL TER. I), t). • „ . bnbicct—“Oi.iiAßOidT." December7-MABK TWAIN. December 9—DE CORDOVA. Dccembor W-WENDELL PHILLIPS. Admission,fOc. Reserved Keats.7s. _lJjf.9.'. B . for aal o a t COULD’S Piano W*rcooms, No. «') CHESTNUT Street,and at the Academy on the evening of'Lectures. j Orchestra Prelude at 7H o’clock. _ fs*, tais. TONBvmSlTJiieiroirM wieSr The hist of the Conran will be delivered hr „ WILLIAM L. DENNIS, KBQ., ON TUESDAY EVENING, NOv. Ztd. 1369, AT THE ABBEMBLY BUILDINGS. Hriliw£l>*MßH wTg'iVxnh and ukk PART Y." Admif»Mon,£Ocent*. Secured Soatn, 75 cents, Beale at Trmnplcre, Lecture atB o'clock. nr>222t§ its* i>iBsxok building and Loan A i°u. —Tlif” annual meeting will bo held on TLESD.Vi EV ENING, November23d. atB o’clock, for the election of officer®, The annum report will be ready for distribution. CHARLES M. LTTKKNB, _jno222t rp* ■ Secretary. ft-S* PHILADELPHIA, NOV? ~2O, ' lSfflT" »**£r An election for Manager* of the Plymouth Bail road Company will he held at the office of the Company, northeast corner of Ninth and Green etreeta, in the city of Philadelphia, on MONDAY, the 13th day of Decem ber, J3G9, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. * A. S. DOUGHERTY, _no22-lfii§ / . Secretary. iy*’3» AGERMAN CLASS WILL FORM this oveniug,at o'clock,at 1224 Chestnut at. Latin at 4 o’clock. (lrj C. 0. BCIIAKFFKK. E HOLDING L4Mgli Valle/JfciUn.wd Company receipts for full paid.stock—froth Nos. 1 to 1.241, inclusive— c^nreceive cortlflcatPH of stock in exchange therefor, by applying at the office of the Company, No. ZWft Walnut street, nolfrfitrp <IIAH. 0, LOXCHTBETH. Treasurer. IXO9 . GIBABD BTBKKT. UO9 TURKISH, BUSHIAN, AND PERFUMED BATHS. Department, for Ladtos. . EatbuopcnfromSA.M.toaP.M. pltfrp nrs» CHTLAIjELPHIA OBTHOPAIDIC HOSPITAL, No. 15 South Ninth street.—For treatment of Club Foot, Spinal ami all other Bodily Deformities. Uinic every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, from 11 to 1. Services gratuitous to the poor. ATTENDING SURGEONS: Dr. THOS. G. MOKTON. 'Residence, H2l Chestnut street. Dr. H. E. GOODMAN, 1127 Chestnut street. oc3o-Imrps fTS* " MAGIC LANTERN' FOB SAIjE” “vSr at half cost, complete i« every particular; boxed. By 1-xLildtluiiß. a person ej'il'i nuke a living, being suf liclent, for Circe distinct lectures. 115 Scriptural, 17 Patriotic. 19 Fancy, !/) Fish and Animal Scenes. Also, a*Thief.Proof IKON CHEST, Iron-lined 1 THUNK, twelve-foot TABLE, six DRAWERS, SCALES for weighing gold or silver, in alas* case. \V. IIAItPEB. 115 South Fourth, street, Plilladelphia, no2o 2trpS ITS* NORTH FEN HOAD AND GREEN LANE STATION. TheMlnors having resumed work we are again re civingafcllaupply of UAULKIGH COAL, which wo are selling without advance in price. ■ . , BINES A BIIEAFF, uoS-IntrpS Office 13 South Seventh street, Phila. ■■ K o TIC E.~*PARTIES HOLDING Lehigh \ alley Raflroft/l Company receipts for full paid stock—from No*». 1 to 633, inclusive—can re ceive certificates of fctock in exchange therefor, by ap plymgat the office of ihe (.’onjpauv.3o3 Walnut street. noL'>-titrp CHAB. C. Treasurer. IT'S* STEREOPTICON AND MAGIC Jn=2r Lantern Exhibitions given to Sunday Schools, School*, Colleges, and for private entertainment*. W. MITCHELL McALLISTER, 728 Chestnut, street, second story. . no22mrp§ S3* HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. IMB r and ISO Lombard street,Dfspen*ary Department, edical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to the poor- crime; M.YGILAR TRAGEDY. Suicide of n Student In Bocbester I’ai. versify. [From tiie Rochesltr Expresn of Nor. 13.) This morning our citizens were startled by the report that a young man named Taylor Lewis Morgan.astudent in the Freshman Class of the University, and a brother of Ker.Thos. J. Morgan, of the Theological Seminary, had committed suicide. The bodv was found about 7.."Hi.o’clock this morning. He was foundlying with his head against a pillow, and a revolver, with two chambers empty, lying oil the floor a short distance otf. It seems that he had pre pared his pillow so that he would naturally fall against it ; before tiring. The blood had oozed from his mouth, and it was at first sup-, posed that he h*d placed the pistol to Ills mouth before firing, but a further examina tion showed that the hall had entered the loft nipple, and passed crosswise through his body, coming.out under the right shoulder blade, where it was found lodged under the skin. The back of young Morgan’s head was warm where it lay against the pillow; but his body was rigid, and there was no means of ascertaining when the fatal shot was tired. It was evident from the nature of the wound that death was almost instantaneous. The hall passed through the lungs, and to this is doubtless due thedotted blood around the mouth. Mr. Morgan came.to Rochester with his brother from Franklin, Indiana, and was highly esteemed by all who kuoty, him. He .studied in Sattcrlee’s Collegiate Institute, and graduated last summer with honor. Many tvill remember his oration on “John Bright” as being the,best of any delivered by the class, fie entered the University as a Freshman last September. For some past he had been feel ing melancholy and discouraged, and wanted to leave his studies and go into business. DOUIXIOY IROIBLESf Opposition to Confederation In Neur- foandiatul. ' [ Kri.in the Toronto Leader, Nov. 20. | The opinion of our eastern contemporaries is that the Anti-Confederates will liavo a ma jority of from live to seven in the new House of Assembly- of Newfoundland. The city of St. Johns returnedlti Anti-Confederates,Ferry iand 2, Placentia.Bay 3, Fortune Bay 1, and Conception Bay 3, while the last named con stituency- also returned 4 Confederates, and Burgos and La Poile I—making 20 members altogether elected as far as heard from. There was a very large majority against Mr. Am brose Shea, the Confederate leader. . THE COURTS. The Chestnut street Bridge Homicide. Oyer and Terminer— Judges Peirce and Paxson.—This morning tho case of Edward Smith, charged with the murder of William Hughes, on the Chestnut Street Bridge,on the night of Oct. 22d last, was called for trial. Geo. T. Bispham, George Biddle and J. Davis Page appeared for the defence: A jury had not been obtained when our report closed. —An Italian officer is reported to have made a discovery, bv means of which any private soldier is enabled to measure the dis tance of any object within range, instantly, and at tho same time to aim a gun or cannon with unerring accuracy. This would make all lirearms such murderous weapons,that two detachments of troops within range would bo enabled jo utterly destroy one another. —The compositors and printers of Bordeaux have refused to work on Sundays. The pub lishers of newspapers have compiled with their, demands, ana announce that no papers printed on Sunday will be issued hereafter. —Some ingenious- Parisian daddy has dis covered the sword of Joan of Arc, and he is said to have abundant proof in his possession to prove its authenticity. He has been offered an immense sum lor tins relic.- 1 —Florida presents a nineteen-ounce orange for competition. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, ,1g69. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Tbe Cabinet Crisis-General ('oantMcna* brea and the Klnv~-A New Ministry. Fi.onuNoi!, Nov. 21, Evening—[By French Atlantic Cable.) —His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel, before his acceptance of the resig nation of the Ministry, resolved to hold apor fronal conference with Signor Lanza, who, in obedience to the royal command, proceeded irom tho capital to Kossonu this afternoon. The’ Ministerial resignation was tendered in consequence of the election of the Deputy to the Presidency of the lower Legislative chamber. » , General Mcuehrca, President of the Cabt net, also went to Kossoiie to-day, and re turned this evening, when a Cabinet council was held. n 022 7t rpS The House of Deputies completed the or ganization and constitution of the bureaus. All the members appointed to the bureaus belong to the opposition. The Hake of Genoa and the Throne. M Aunio, hov. 21, Evening—[By the French Atlantic Cable.)—The Ministerial journal, /ni ptirctal, reiterates its belief that the Italian government and King have agreed to accept the throne ot Spain for the Duke of Genoa, and says that the fact is now well known. Event* Preceding the Opening or tbe Canal—thousand* of Arab*, IMnken, and Camels at Work—Scenes at Port Said. (Fort Said <Oct. 28) Corresnuntteneo London Herald.J The appearance of the canal is greatly changed by the immense amount of labor which has,been bestowed upon It during.the last two years. Except,- indeed, in the great cutting of El Guisr, close to Lake Timsah,' there is now no work whatever going on, that is to say no manual lallor. Here and there, indeed, the great dredgers poUr a stream of sand and water into the steam barges alongside of them, or empty it into the long trouglis, from the farther end of which it fails in a little cascade beyond the hank of the canal. Here and there the elevators seize-the great tanks from the bargds and run them up bodily, tipping them over the side of, the hank where the height was too great for the mud to run through the troughs. Hut all these were in point of number as nothing to those at work two years since, or indeed to those at work between Ismaiiia and Suez, where the work is most behind-band. Only in the great cutting of El Guisr was there much sign, of life and hustle ; then, for a distance of two miles or so the scene was most aip using. Thousands of Arabs were ladling the sand with long shovels into boxes slung upon either side ol' kneeling camels or into baskets upon don keys. There were many hundreds of camels and thousands of donkeys, the latter strug gling patiently up the deep sand of the cut ting, the former, as usualj grambling and pro testing vehemently against the whole a/nair. Here and there, isolated in the midst of the throng of workers, were little groups of men who,their shovels thrown down, were gravely going through their prayers and genuflections. Ordinarily a Mussulman who says his prayers once a day only is considered to be of "lax morality; he who prostrates himself twice has a fair claim to respect; but the maximum quantity ol' piety is shown by live repetitions. As the workmen are al lowed to stop Iroin work to perform their de votions, the piety of the men engaged on the canal is, as might be imagined, greatly above the average. “ upon the whole, the voyage up the canal is extremely monotonous. The banks of the canal are too high- to be overlooked from the deck of the little steamer, and the passage hour after hour along tbe seemingly interminable straight reach, with the sun blazing fiercely down overhead, was wearying in the extreme. Port Said, like Ismaiiia, is hut little changed since my last visit. The streets are as sandy and the houses us mean and flimsy as ever. Thenew lighthouse is,how ever, making great progress, and will be a con spicuous object for many leagues out at sea. Neither here nor at Ismaiiia are there any preparations whatever visible for the recep tion Of the guests at the ceremony. At Jsmailia, indeed, a strong party of Arabs are engaged in levelling some uneven ground near the lake, where the encampment will be placed. The inaugural ceremony is only three [ weeks distant, and, although one knows what ; wonders can be worked with an unlimited j supply of labor, it is a marvel to reilect | that many hundreds of persons, including i crowned heads, with their suites,, wifi j he . accommodated iiere, that ball and ban i.qneting places will he raised, and every-' : thing ready for their reception, where now is nothing but bare sand. The Peninsular and Oriental steam-tug came in here yesterday afternoon , having taken soundings throughout the whole length of the canal. I hear that the sinister rumors were well founded, and that the Khedive’s yacht, which draws, when light, 18 feet, and which is to start from Port .Said for Suez tor a trial trip on the Bth of next month, will have great, difficulty in get ting through, and will indeed not be able to go through at all without some of the shallow parts being deepened previously. Under these circumstances it seen* to be a pity that a few more months have not been allowed to elapse before the opening for traffic. Six months would have sufficed to deepen it to tbe promised depth of twenty-six feet,whereas when traffic commences it will be most diffi cult for the dredgers to work. We can under stand that there may be reasons which may overrule the importance of this point, but no reasons can exist which can justify the engi neers for CQiitinuing to declare to the world that the canal was completed to its full depth. It is possible, indeed, that the canal may have been dredged to twenty-Bix feet, but,.if so, the fact that there are now scarcely eighteen feet, points to a serious danger for the canal. The change in depth can only arise from one of two causes—either the surface drift is far greater than was calculated upon, or the sand at the bottom has that tendency, w r ell known to all children who have dug holes in tbo sand gt Kamsgate, to fill up by itself—that is, to find its level, as a fluid would do, upon be coming saturated with water. Ilia Reception In Memphis. [From tho Memphis Appeal, Nov. 17.] Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived in the city last night on the Great Remiblic, from Vicksburg, and is a guest of our townsman, AV. R. Hnut, Esq. In accordance with his own wish, he has no public reception. But be is not the loss wel come to our homes and hearts. He is triedapd true. If he has stood against tho Union, it was because he loved liberty more than “tho Union.” Whattruo man does not? When he fell, liberty, for the South at least, fell with him. It remains to be seen whethor that of the North also, and of the whole Union of States, is to follow it If to he true to consti tutional liberty, .is lobe:,true to tW country,- then nertraitor. He never stood against “the Union,” except as that was abused, and stood against the true liberty and right of the South. He; never asked more; and these given, there was not a more deter mined Union man,in the land. In this ho was tho trne impersonation of the Southern people. Tried as a patriot, he has their en thusiastic and devoted love. Not all the mis representation and abuse be has suffered can mar tlio pages of history. His fame will be vindicated by the friends who have shared his, misfortunes and suffered in sympathy with him. Such a man can never fall, and heroic virtue can not he blackened by calumny. When prejudice and virulence have passed away and tho nation takes its sober second OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. ITALY. SPAIN. THE SCE* CANAL. JEFF. BATIN. thought, Davis unS his compeers will he owned mid honored as among the heroes of the North American continent, less fortunate than .its Washingtons, but not less truly a friend of liberty and the country than they. NEW SLAVE TRADE IN THE PACIFIC. TbeHaumore on (ho IKarmret Brandon ■“B°* the Captain wm/ Killed—-He aerfptton or the South Sea Island*. [From the Han Francisco Alt* California of Nov. 18.1 A gentleman who lias just arrived in this city irom the South Sea Islands furnishes u< with the following particulars of this strange nflair: The Margaret Brandon, Daniel Blacket, master, siuied from Atimaono, Tahiti, in AlaTch last, bound direct for Auckland, with a cargo of cotton. Captain Blacket had re ceived orders to the effect that he should, on his return trip, call at the same group of islands or island (and he was to use liis own judgment i n that matter) fortlio purpoHO of obtaining a cargo of Kanaka immigrants to labor on the Atimaono plantation, Mr. btow art was forced to this from the fact that the contract of the Chinamen who now labor for him has about expired, and they will leave him, to a man, unless illegally held to further labor, which is quite an easy aet for him to do in Tahiti, judging from the past. I After having performed his voyage to Now Captain Blacket took his departure for the Gilbert Archipelago, or bettor known to the world as the Kingsiriili Group. His avowedpurpose was to obtain native laborers for Mr. Stewart, of Atimaono. He was to get them through treachery and deceit—he knew very well that ho coulit not get thorn in any other way—therefore he decoyed them on board under the pretext of trading for cocoa nuts. He did riot want their cocoauuts; ho only wanted, tueir bodies—bones, sinews, muscles—their human flesh, to sell and feed the hungry man of Atimaono; therefore, when they came on. board, biscuits, shirts ami trinkets were thrown down between decks, where they must descend to get thorn, aud •when ouce down below their fate was sealed; for they could never get up again without be ing assisted with a ladder. in this mean, detestable iriauner Captain Blacket aud his mate, who call themselves Christian men, who have been reared in schools and rocked in tin? cradle of religion, in this low, false way obtained from Byron and Hope islands upward of one hundred and fifty human bodies for sale. How bis more than human heart must have leaped with joy at the thought that lie could thus add a lew more paltry dollars to his purse, and bind one hun dred aud fifty human hearts in years of misery and toil! For Mr. Blacket must have known, as well as any man at Ati maono, that the 'natives of these out of the way islands received only the name of two dollars per month for their labor. At the end of every month they get a ticket, , which is presented to the clerk of the store, who gives them a hickory shirt or miserable pair of blue cotton pants, as the case may be, and they are paid. But Captain Blacket meets the bark Annie, of Melbourne, hovering, like him self, about the islands, and which has on board ICO men, human bodies, aud all for sale. Captain Blacket buys them for Mr. Stewart, under the pretext' that the Annie has no : water for them; therefore he has the humanity to = transfer them to Tahiti, instead of to their own native island, which is plainly in sight but a few miles distant. They have been long enough on board to dis cover tbe treachery of the white man, and they determine to regain their liberty by the death of the palefaces at the first opportunity. Jt is not long in presenting itself. Captain Blacket, being drunk and blind with his suc cessin getting natives, invites them all, 000 in number,to come up to the spardeeb to accept a few iuoie iisents to decorate their bodies and soften their minds towards their white captors and their own sore destiny. But it was only the signal for the white man’s death. They were no sooner on deck than the slaughter commenced. The captain, Mr. Baltin, and several others were killed, and the natives for a while were masters of the ship; but the mate retook her again by blowing up the upper deck forward of the main hatch, which opera tion frightened the natives overboard. Some, perhaps, reached the shore, others were drowned, and many were murdered in the attempt to get on board again. The Margaret Brandon arrived safely at Tahiti. She how lies at Atimaono, fittiug'out with the avowed intention of returning to those islands for natives and other purposes of revenge. Her present captain (the mate) de clared to ns on hoard his vessel at Atimaono that his intentions were to return to Hope and Bryon islands for native workmen, and tp take as prisoner, dead or alive, a white man who resides npon one of them. The ve&sel has a barricade across the deck, just abaft the main hatch, which has an iron grating on either of its four sides, rpaching from the lower to the spar deck. The hatch way itself is covered with an iron grating, with a strong lock on either side. She Is to be armed, and to carry, a crew of forty men, all told. The present mate and second mate In formed us that they were going to tight; that they had signed an agreement to that effect, ami that they know perfectly well where they were going.' They are Englishmen. The captain is to take with him his old in terpreter, who, he says, knows how to redd and write English and native, aud can there fore piit or sign all the Kanaka’s names to a contract, and then he does not care a d—n for the English or American men-of-war. Aud thus it is that the inhabitants of Southern Polynesia are to be pursued and captured by a vessel flying the French pro teetorate flag, and Sailing direct from Aiimaono,Tahiti. SPECIE PAYMENTS. The Question of Resumption of Specie Payment [From the Cincinnati Gazette..) * ' Humors are continually flying that the Sec retary of the Treasury is going to force specie payment in a short time ; anil these are rein forced by rumors that General Grant will, iu bis message, reeommeud immediate action to that end. And to this is added that the way he smashed the gold bubble has shown Gen eral Grant the way to reduce the coin to par with greenbacks, and that it is to ho done by throwing the treasury gold upon tho market, and breaking it down; and then, when the, market is surfeited with coin,tho Treasury will resume, ana thereby force the banks to. Utterly foolish as these rumors suppose the adminis tration to ho, they have currency ; and these, nddedto the disturbances created by the lie-- cline in gold, have created general alarm, which has a paralyzing effect on trade, and which dries up ail new enterprises. This ef fect will probably continuo till ‘ Congress meets, anil the administrative and legislative utterances give some decided indications of. the policy, As to resuming specie payment, there is one thing prerequisite to this, and that thing neither the administration nor „ '.ny party; dare'*: vkr—namC-iy, to . cob- 1 ’ ■tract the greenbacks. For the adminis tration to talk of resuming, specie payment without previous contraction, would show that it was demented. - * * * As to specie 'resumption of- tbo'greenbacks, there'irao call fOr that. '"When the government shall redeem them it will he its duty to cancel them, and they would come in last enough by way of taxes. The government has no business issu ing notes for currency. The only pretence on which it was excused was as a military neces sity. The government has no business to re deem the notes in specie, save for the pur pose of cancelling them. It can retiro them' last enough by way of receipts for taxes, to break the banks by l taking away their redemption rnedimn, and; forcing them to re deem in specie.; An ■ attempt at: specie pay-, ment, by juggling the golcf market, means a monster speculation in gold and a crash in all -other business. Contraction would make specie payment.practicable, but would flrst bankrupt trade and break the banks. The only practicable way of introdueingspeciepny meirt, without a revolution that would prostrate public credit in the general ruin, is to intro duce it iu new transactions, made on the specie basis. In these there can he no hiird ship in paying specie, for it would he the original contract, and the values would be ac cording. if tho government honestly wants to tiring in specie payment, iet it remove tho outlawry from specie contracts. And then let it open the hanking law to all who will give .the required security to redeem their notes in coin on demand. This would create a specie currency lor specie trans act,ions, and would solve the whole strife about the' apportionment or insufficiency of bank currency, by allowing anybody to isstio all ho pleased, wilh specie payment. Specie payment for specie contracts and values is the only honest or practicable- way to specie redemption. The depreciated currency can be left to settle currency coutraclw, till the whole business has transferred itself to the coi n basis. Then it can he retired without changing its value. a THE PRESIDENT'S SI E-SNAKE. Rumors of His Intended financial Sug gestions. [Washington Correspondence of the Rearer (PaJßadi enl.l The chief featuVe of the message, as the Executive has up foxthis time revolved it over in his own mind, is tlfk financial question. In regard to this, in conversation last Saturday night in the presence of ex-Attorney-Gene ral B. 11. Brewster, of Pennsylvania, who was seated with the President in conversation in the late red parlor, where your corres pondent was also admitted, the President stated that he liad, several important recom mendations to make to Congress on financial matters: one was to give more extended powers to the Secretary of the Treasury in the liqui dation of the debt, and hot to confine it to a certain amount, or, at least, not to so small an amount per annum. Another was to allow the tax bills to remain unchanged for another year, so as to be certain of a large revenue, which will work great results In that time, taken in connection with the progress already attained. A third proposition, he mentioned, was in relation to tundiugtho debt at a lower rate of interest. This the President considered extremely necessary, and ghould he carried out at the earliest moment, as tile government was paying entirely too much interest. The last point mentioned was the speedy resumption of specie payment. He thought this would put an end to the infamous opera tions of gold speculators, and by putting a stop to fluctuations would strengthen the industries of tho country' and restore greater confidence and unparalleled, prosperity. AMUSEMENTS. —At the Academy of Music, this evening, the German Opera Company will appear in La Dame Blanche. Mr. Habelman win sustain the rule of “George Brown,” and Will sing “ Kobin Adair.” Mines. Rotter and Dziuba, and Messrs. Formes and Weiniicli will also participate: Mr. Grau has instituted a reform in his orchestra, which will givegreatsatisfac tion to his audiences. A portion of the 'Ger mania orchestra has been engaged, and Mr. Dietrich has been appointed musical director. On Saturday night in the Faust performance .there was a marked improvement in the orchestration, and we have every reason for believing that there will be no cause for com plaint iu this direction during the present week. To-morrow night Stradella wiU be given; on Wednesday, La'Juice; on Thursday, Don Giovanni; on Friday, llobert Le Diable. —Miss Keene announces for this evening, at tho Chestnut, the reproduction of Robert son’s charming little drama, School, which was given in such a very satisfactory manner on the afternoon of Thanksgiving day. The comedy will be placed upon the stage hand somely, and we need hardly say, will be acted in the best manner. Miss Keene’s company is so good that she would bejustifibdin promising one of the best performances ever given in this city. On Saturday afternoon next Miss Keene will give the first of a series of novel enter tainments for children. A burlesque eutitled Nao Bed Biding Hood will be produced in tine style. —Lost at Sea continues to attract large audi ences to the Arch .Street Theatre; It will be presented upon the first four evenings of this week. On Friday Mrs. Drew will appear iu The School Jor Scandal; on Saturday Bonci cault’s comedy llow She Loves Him will be produced. On Monday night Colley Cibber’s comedy She Would and She Would Not. —Mr. Edwin Forrest will appear at the "Walnut this evening in Jack Cade. The pro gramme for the rest of the week is as follows : On Tuesday, King Lear ; on Wednesday, Jleta rnora; on Thnrsday, Richelieu ;on Friday (the last bight of Mr. Forrest’s engagement), The Gladiator. On Saturday afternoon and eve ning Enoch Arden will he produced in superb style. —Manager Fox, alive to the truth of the saying about the proper tylit with which to catch ancient birds, and remembering that that knowing bird—the public—requires ex cellent bait, has, with his usual enterprise, se cured a number of brilliant stars for the stage of the Great American. —At the Eleventh Street Opera House the amusing burlesque of Bogus will lie repeated this week. Several amusing burlesques and Ethiopian sensations will be given. —The bill for this week at Duprez & Bene dict’s Opera House is entirely novel, the pro grammeincluding a burlesque of "Lost at "Sea, which promises to have a great run. All the other items of the performance are new ami excellent. —Ar. tlie Assembly .Buildings every after noon this .week anti upon Thursday, Friday and Saturday evonings, the “-Living Human Curiosties rescued from Itanium's Museum? will he exhibited. The collection embraces the Fat Woman (who is too big to he em braced in any other way), the Miniature'Man, the laving Skeleton, wlioft-joi nts creak when ever he moves, the ‘•African Fan Child,” and numerous queer people besides. Perhaps the most alarming curiosity is Col. Itush Goshen, who is described in the advertisement as “the largest man in existence, being tf lcet 2 inches high; weighs iJSti pounds. This colossal gen tleman was born in the city of Jerusalem, was educated at Oxford, and took thesublime de gree of Master Mason on Mount Ararat.” Certainly this remarkable pprgon alone is worth ten times the price of admission. —The mysterious Signor Blitz continues his entertainments at the Assembly Buildings,and still puzzles the public ’jyith his great feats of magic and ventriloquism. His sleight-of-hand tricks are incomprehensible to ordinary mor tals. During the present season three oratorios will be produced by the Handel & Haydn So ciety. The first of these, Mendelssohn’s Hymn of jgraise, will bo presented in the Acg f upon the night of Decem ber 14, with full chorus and orchestra. The .subscription list for the season is now open at Trumpfer’s music store. —Mr. W. L. Dennis will deliver tho fourth lind: last lecture of the preseirrcourso air the Assembly Buildings to-morrow evening, the subject being “Mrs. Wiggins and her Party.” This is said to be a very amusing lecture; the best one of tho course. —A materialist surgeon of Paris lately showed to, one of, hia friends one of liisinstru ments, tho handle of which was carved in bone. “ Do' you know, be asked, “of what this handle ismadeV’- “Of ivory, I suppose.” “No,” said the doctor, whilo tears almost choked his voice,, “it is the thigh-bone of my poor aunt”. . • —A Kentnoky editor lias bad his hair pulled out by a dry goods clerk for publishing an ar ticle bn good manners. It is but just, to say that the clerk lost his shirt in the affray. F. L. FETHERSI'ON. mmssr. PRICE THRp OENT& (From I.ippincott’irlfagazins for bsoMt’H'.l-- . ; FACTS AHD FAHCIKS. ' The Indian Hammer. BT CEOIb DARK. The-glant sun shines through golden air, ’ From Southern shies his radiance sendbag O er sober fields an 4 tree-tops bare—• A-glory with a shadow blending. 'Tis not the fierce and ardent blaze That poured from August shies its spKoailWi. But, mellowed by an opal haue r ' A brightness dearer and more tender- '■ Thus on some gray walls , A flood of mystic glorv, streaming- Through topaz-tinted window, ftthT With half-subdued and tremulousgleiuWing, Departing Autumn, lingering, throws A silver veil o'er lake and meadow, And ea'cli enchanted distance shows ■ A fairy seene, half hid in shadow. The lake lies still beneath the mist? Beneath whito clouds that o’er benfroiv'er-* A sleeping beauty yet unkissed By the west wind, her loitering lover. V A fragrance horn of falling leaves Floats on the calm and unstirred ethers The last faint sigh that Autumn heaves-—- Farewell aud benison together. A long the marge of lake or stream, ’ Each homely cot, each leafless willow?. Borne on the mist’s palo bosom, seem < TJpliftcd on some airy billow. Soft languor in the atmosphere, A dim, mysterious drearnv essence, b ills this sweet twilight of the year, And lulls us by its magic presence. Sweet memories offorgotten hours, , Besponsive longings, crowd the bosomy. So in the scent of iong-phieked flowors . Lives yet the Summer's wealth of blossoms- Oh when departs life’s summer day, When graver years shall gather o’er me?; Mine be tbe soft and mollow-ray That fills these golilendays with glory. —Tlie Sultan gave Eugenio a nice littl» sabre, set with jewels, for her son. —A pot ot' Capt. Kidd’s money baa been dost, up on tin 1 Hudson-. —A Providence iconoclast is trying to prove tliat .Roger Williams was not a Baptist. —One of the dishes of the Sultan’s dinner to Eugenio was named on tlui bill of faro■ a»> “Eyelids a la rdiie.” /. —Among the charges before the San Fran- .- cisco police court last month were live hun— J dred and ten “uncommonly drunk.” !: i —The King of Hannah is building at hi* • - own expense, in Mandalay, a Protestant church. —Canying umbrellas with a flagger in the handle is one of the pleasures of life in Home, ■which the police try to suppress. —The last caricature in the Eclipse repre- - sente Daddy Gagne (pero Gagne) mounted; on the Obelisk of the I’laeo de la Concorde and addressing a horizon of umbrellas. —lt is estimated that the total production of grain in the United States for the current year will amount to fourteen hundred .million bushels. —The London Atheiueum announces, as by authority, that Mr. Dickens is writing another story, to bo published m the old serial. form. —The Chicago Times says it is the only pa per to, which Grant subscribes, and that'be is goiDg to send it a printed copy of his message as a special favor. —lt is proposed to build a magnificent Union Presbyterian Church in New-York, to commemorate and signalize the recent union of the two schools of that great denomination^' —A Newport hotel clerk tells of a rich New Yorker who kept his two children, away from . the dinner-table one day so as to balance tlu> cost of dining a friend. —The Germantown Tcleyraph, says that “ cheap ladies’ restaurants are increasing, in the city.” Does Major Freas refer to ourlow priced teachers in the public schools ?. ■ —A citizen of Warsaw, N. Y., was fined two hundred dollars • lor keeping a billiard , table in bis .saloon. The Board of Trustees of that village are bent, on a total extermination . of billiartls. —The liberals have had a saying : “M. Ol iivier passes his life in refusing the portfolios which nobody is offering him.” Now that Ol livier is getting the portfolio there is a , de mand for some now proverb equally sar castic. —That pleasant story of a Brazilian doctor fitting One dead convict’s head on another, dead convict’s body is spoiled by J. C. Kod riques, who writes from Lowell that they don't cut off murderers’ heads in Brazil,.but, bang them in tho most decorous manner, —A very interesting document has just home to light, ft is a letter written by Lueien Bona parte to bis mother Letitia, about the divorce anil.the marriage into which ids brother Na poleon attempted to drive him, and which brought about their quarrel. —Communism has found a home in lowa. Near Marengo, there is a colony of one thou sand three hundred inhabitants, owning, over twenty thousand acres of land, anil having all. things in common. They are a religious sect, and Germans. The colony was organized in 18tio. —The educational examiners of. Alcvon, Oiiio, recently asked a female applicant, to teach, “What would you do to a pupil who whispered?” “ I would first'use moral suasion,"shesaid, “and if that, failed, would resort to eapital punishment.” She was excused. . —An officer started from Utica for the-in-- sane asylum at Binghampton, with, a. ease of delirium tremens iu charge. At Syracuse tliov-' I hotli got nicely drunk, the patient slipped I away and the officer, arriving at the asylum, presented bis papers ami was locked,up as a [ regular inmate. i —A Sheriff's officer in Canada, a. short time | ago served asiunmons on a man in a ratheiv I peculiar manlier. The officer bad. been look ' mg for the debtor for some time, and 1 finally; | came across him oh one of the mountain, j roads, and offered him the “hit of paper,” | which ho refused to accept. Finally he was. | collared ami tho summons served by being ! thrust down tho bank if fibs n eck. The oftiieex' I drove off in triumph, much, elated at bis sue ! cessful stratagem. • . j —Samuel Wesley visited one of his parish ' ioners its he was upon liis dying bed—a, man ! who bail never missed going to churcli in I forty years. “Thomas, where do you, think ! your soul will go'.”’ “.Soul! soulf”' said , Thomas. “Yes, sir,” said Mr. Wesley; “do I yon not know what - your soul is ?'*' “Ay, j surely,”, said Thomas; “why, it is a little bone ! in the back that lives longer than the- body.”' j —When Thackeray died it was supposed, r from his generous sympathies apd hia free i mode of living, that bis daughters were left ! without a support, and Messrs. Smith & Elder, I the London publishers, to their honor be.it i sjiid, sent them a check-book with every cheek ■ signed, to be lilied up as their wants should ; require; but fortunately tho father had left ; behind a competency for their support. , - I —The meeting oi the sovereigns at Sua* will j probably be tho occasion of a good deal of . I match-making. Foremost among'these’pro- . posed marriage projects is mentioned the plan - i of Eugenie to sue tor the hand of the Arch j duchess Gisela, the daughter of Emperor • Francis Joseph, for her son. Whether the I proud Hapsburg will condescend to engage , Ids child to the sou of the parveuu ceuxaias to e seen. ' . . ••• —* .v - ■■ K
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