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. ' . .
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