GIBBON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXILL-NO. 275. MTEDDING CARDS, INVITATIONS VT for Partion, &e. New styles. MASON & 00..._907 Obsstatit street. de3Ofttror tli lIVEDDING IN VITATIOI4B •' • Eli: _paired ft, the newest and beet manner. LOUIE) ILA Statfonee and liwtrayer. 30ds Ohestnnt NNW , , BULLITT.—On Vriday, February 2.5 th; innt,, Maurice Ler tatorne, son of John C. and' Therese L. Bullitt a iii the Ihh year of ble see. C01t1,0111.--On !Sunday, the 27th inst., at Ilichrumid, Va.t Livid() 0,, u ifo of Henn; It. Coulomb. • . :Tho relatives and Motels Of the family are respectfully :invited to attend {lto funeral, from the Yesittenco, of her husband, 731 Smith ,Tonth street, above Fitzwater. to morrow afternoon, at ft o'clock.. Viti N.—On the 26th inet, In his third. year, Robert .E. M., eon of J. H, and Emma Id. Dunn. Relatives and friende aro invited to attend the femoral, fromi lets perents• resldente, at Mount Airy, Wedues. 'day next, at 11 o'clock. • Interment Woodlands. ' • lIANS.I4LL..-On the 26th instant, Emma P., wife of -George Lthitutoll, in the 24th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully 'Milted to attend her Inner:a:front the residence of tier PAM. Mrs- 11. Jamison, Norristown, on Tuesday, March Ist. et i o'clock P. M. 1101111.11111.—0 n the MI, Ina„ 11. O. Hubbard. sized '73 years. Ills rrlattres anal friends are Invited to attend his fu• floral, on Wednesday, March 21, at 2 o'clock P. M., from hie late re;•ldence. No. 1901 Vine rarest. • . tke 27111 Bud., Stephen Hicaball, lu the trld year of lila age. Ilia relatives and male ft lenda are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from big late. maidence. No. 1921 Spruce street, on Thureday morning. Nardi at . tat o clock. (New York and Boston papers please copr• 1, EltDb.—Of pneumonia, on the morning of the 26th lost., Nathan Leeds, tigisild Years. Ills relativea awl friends art in,ited to attend his fu• neva), from his late residence. Cinnaminson. New bird •a, ird ot Ist t ' J.er Ca onT s wildmeeThthe M 2 o' h lockt a a 2 n oc om W P ln M t street wharf. at Riverton. • 'RAISON —4.)n the morning of Bier/tit instant, Peter !liaison, in the alth year of hie age. • Due /intim of the funerat will be given.. - * KABBNKSON.—CIn the 21tb inst., Thomas Mender bon. In the 61st year of his age. The relatives and teak, friends are respectfully invited to attend his funeral. from his late residence, No. 1709 Bprtive Street, on Tuesday morning, March Ist, at 10 o clock, ,* , 11.1111 DY.—On the Alth Inet., Joseph Itimby, in the Cth year of his ag, The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from hie late residence, No. 1033 Rare stria t, on Tneeday afternoon, the Ist mama, at 0'e10i4.." WILMA 310.—tin the 1 7th inst. • , near rairton, N .., Harsh. wife of Daniel William, in the 7 0th year or her aye. Tlio interment will take Wore at the 014 Slone Church,' FAlstleln, NT. J. on Wedneedar, Dtamh tt. Irriends of the family can take the 8 15 A. 31. train of the WratJerseyßailroadfor Bridgeton ,where earriarer will tie In waning to convoy them to and from the interment, and return the same day. Q 1 PLAID g 'l! 3 A j egt, PIT! RTIL and ARCH xtrenta.: Arrsolling owns SILKS AT ONE DOLLAR TWO w -atiffify Ow Bargain SPECIAL NOTICES. 111 F+ u.asy tlimbro for thla wenth r, WAI4AMAKEWS, SW amid into Cheetnut Street. (~ loth tug of all WAAL' saws,* ou fowl co. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES.. SCIENTIFIC LECTURE xx 11E1911tY 3t081'014. ON MONDAY EVENING, Februarf 25. Subject—Solar Ecl tomes. BAYARD TAYLOR. March 2.. Subject—Reform and Art. JOHN G. SAXE, March 21. 8 nbiect--Trench Folks at lime. Prot. ROBERT E. ROGERS. March 24. littbject—Cheretnat foram In Nature and the Arts. ANNA H. DICKINSON, Subject—Down Breaks. W Admission to each Lecture, 54 cents. Referred Bents,l6 cent.. Tickets to any of the Lectures forma. at Genld'e Plano Rooms, PM Cheetunt street. trots f A. M. to 5 P. M. Moors open at 7. Lecture ate o'clock. JAMES E. MURDOCH, Esq WILL lIEAD • At Horticultaral Hall, 011 leeilleg Evening. Marsh Ist, 1870. Ttekete for 'tritest Leo A Walker's t formerly 'frump ler's ) Untie Store. 92 Chestnut rtrtet. fe7.14-2trn.> rt,e = " evenings since, while my family were all out. the stopper of a gas-burner in the cellar of my residence, on Weeteltestrint streetnceldentally dropped out of the pipe ; consequently a farrge flow of gas escaped into the cellar. There was great danger of an explosion, as the leak was between two hot furnaces. Two gentlemen, at the request • of my servants, entered the cellar and stopped the leak, thereby Prnventing. On 0 of those mysto rious see which so frequently, 4,ccar in large cities. Nut knowing who they are, I take this opportunity of thsoklng them. DV') . H. OFFIVE PENNSYLVANIA - RALL; ROAD CUMPA2I . PIIII.6DELPIIIA. ehruary 16, 1070. NOTICY: TO STOCKHO LDERS; The annual election for Directors will be held on MONDAY, the 7th day of . March, 1870, at the Office of , the Company, No. 238 South Third street. The polls will he open from 10 o'clock A. M. until 6 o'clock P. M. No share or shares transferred'within sixty days preceding the election will entitle the bolder or holders thereof to vote. JOSEPH LESLEY, felßlzuldirp§ Secretary. 17. SALEM RAILROAD, NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERS. The Coupons or Interest Warrants of the bonde of the :Salem Railroad, falling due March lit, WO, will be paid ou presentation ton awl after that date) at the (Alice of the Treasurer of the West Jersey Railroad Company, In 4iamdent N. GEORGE J. BOBBINS. It§ Treasurer W. J. R. R. • .117 WEST JERSEY RAILROAD COM PANY. Trewsernisn's Orsten. CAMDEN ..Feb.24, ISM BONDHOLDERS. The coupons or interest- warrants of the loan of 4400,001/, falling due March 1, 1870, will be paid on Presentation at this office, or by Messrs. Gaw, 'Bacon Go., N 0.313 Walnut street, Philadelphia, on and after Tnesday, March 1,1370. GGO. J. ROBBINS. lt§ Treasurer Vest Jersey R. R. Go. OFxIOE OF THE UNITED FIR& te,D , 311:II'S INSURANCE COMPANY, 723 ARCH STREET. . PIELLADELFIIIA, Feb. 16. IS7O • • . . . . The annual election for President and Directory will 'Lo held at the otn.:e of the Company on WEDNESDAY. 'Starch 141, 1870, between the hours of 12 o'clock M. and 2 o'clock P. M. ' WIC H. PADEN. felStuth3ro Secretary. 6 THEUG PETERSBR RAILROAD UOompany have declared a dividend of Three Per Cent payable to Philadelphia Stockholders on and . After 25th tuft., at the cflice of THOS. A. BIDDLE & 0 00,326 Walnut street. fe26:strr NOTICE.—THE ' KEYSTONE„ COLIN %Iva. cll. No.l, Stationary Eni,Tineers, still meet at the northwest of Pi'ehth and spring Garden streets Ali TT/ 1;81)AY evennig.». fe iltrp* 10! THE ANNUAL MEETING- 'UP the rAnnit America Cricket Club ' AvUl be held TUESDAY, March Dtt. at 8 o'clock, A?, IC, at laugetroth'e Gertnautown. fe23 2tfrp M A LEUED MELLOR, Seer. tiello9 13TR 1109 uKiotl SIIBBIAN AND IPEUVErMiIi BATHS, DeoArtmonto for Ladies Baths orlon from 8 A: M. tog P. M HOWARD:' HOSPITAL, NUS. 15L8 —Medtantels2o Lombard street, Dispenans7 Dpartment. treatment and meAltelnetnrnhihed gra t Ito mar o the poor. MITA rine livery Overcoats , liitablo for this weather, Cluthius of all kind' alwara vu hand ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, 102 r; CHESTNUT Street. GREAT NATIONAL WORN OP AIM T. Buchanan Read's Life-size Painting SI - lERIDAN'S TO BE sea A. tUtirnr.) PERIOD, Commencing' Wednesday, March 2. T. D. 11.300 heaths honor to antunineethet he has made u , rangernents for exhibiting. fur the benefit of the artist, , the atiove.namod celebrated paintitigt at the ACALMAT 01 FINE ADTS. The Directors of that institution base generously permitted their' entire col lection of Painting.. and Statuary to he added to the at traction of the 'Exhibition. • , ' • The famous ride of . GENERAL BIIERLRAN • from WincheEter to Cedar Creek on the roorolna of Oc tolJer 19,1464, was UM of the moot tilt/ling incidents of our civil war. The Pon Artist, T. BIIOIIANAN RiC4l). . seized tha subject, and' one of . the most stirring of American Lyrics, and afterward upon canvas, imperigh aLly illnatrated the incident. The picture was painted at the request of members of the UNION LEAGUE OF PEULADELPIIIA, and the following testimonials will Show the estimation placed upon it in Homo, where it was completed: • TESTIMONIAL LETTERS. Rome. Deeeinbcr. Ll6B. • FRIEND BEAD f I hare Hem the picture ot “Sheridan'a Ride." You here managed the black horse as well ea Sheridan dfd I What If your brush should steal the laurels won by your pen Y SinCerely. F. E. CHURCH. ROME, December TOW. Dcan Ram): Your picture of "Sheridan 1% Ride" is full of Go, and worthy of the Poem. Rave it paib lished, by all recurs. It will And a place IQ every royal Anoricat, household. Yours, very truly, RANDOLPH ROGERS. o, arch 6, M 69. My Pia In this connect ß ion ux allow me to ex• Frommy great estiefaction with this picture . Aside from its artistic moth. I consider it a most excellent likeness of my late Chief, and u faithful representation of his faveritrhorse.• Yon have expressed on canvas all the life and lire he displayed. upon the day he took the elebrated when ha turned defeat Into victory, and closed the tsar In Western' Virginia. Lremain yours. very truly. LAWRENCE KIP, 011ie( of Sherid sn's Staff. Together with the ',minting will be exhibited &pent, men, of cnllol4o LITHOGRAPH in t.ize 20.126 inches, ntountod on stretchers • price, 810, imitating facetmlle of T. Buchanan Read's poem. This Chrotino ie a spirited copy of the original. and is the 'work of one of the first entablitlinents of Europe. Thee oil lithographs are sold for the benefit of Mr. Bead. APICOPION • ' CENTS (Ipto trim 9 A. 3i. to .6 P. 14„ and from 73j to 10 P. hi sir Copies of the Chrolllo and fat-binaile sent by mail en receipt of el°. fen 34 RELIGIOUS NOTICES. ju. WEST SPRUCE STREET CH.CRCEI, Si , yeuteenth and Spruce ittreeta —The Special Set- Nem/tipped on Monday, Tneiiday ,aad Wed likadaretenlnc4. praye r , weoting at 754 thus prealac. Promilaing a{ tl o'clock by Rec. 4201E8 V. DALE. Elkin OP STE VT2iB WILL PREACH tt,D , and adreinhaer the rite of Cintirmatiou at the Char.d of the Linty Couintier, y,a - ty-flikl,th and Darer ferd arennh un the inernlngnt 'Ash 14 equesdar, March l j K. STONE, 'Elector. •fr• - _• -- T ET'WI.fERIS' %Lei," Al eoting,for the sentherh part or the aity,iwill be held on TUKtiDAY March Ist, at quarter of 8 o'clock. at the First Presbyterian Church, Wash ington Square ind Seventhetreet. Christians el all ds nomination.' invited to attend. It' MISCELLAIVEOUS. 11EADQIIAB.TEP48kuli, EXTRACTING TEETH WITH FEINT NITROUS .OXIDE GAS. ' "ABSOLUTELY NO PAIN. Dr. P. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the Clalton Dentaltto<u , devoteehienotiriopractier.toti.apti We Is extraction oi tot.th. 0111( . 0,911 walnut et. tunn,lyro§ ____ • 'LI 1S If KETTLES, AND A GENERAL attortruent of other Cooking Ye•teetii and (lard• wore. at TRUMAN dit tillAW. No. 836 (Eight Thirty. Ave) itiark.d *treed, below Ninth. HOITSE-FURNISHING HARDWARE, Cutlery lira Tools way be found at TRCHAN SHAW S„ 1555 (Elea Thirty-five ) Market street, be low Ninth. 111 E THE "JOHNNY JUMP-UP" OF ourlll boyhood,tho Patent Oiler always comes" right side up," and thus prevents the oil from wasting when it is carelessly laid down. Per sale by TRUMAN Sr 811 A W'S. No. Ari ( Eight Thirty-five) Market street, be low Ninth. 1870 -VAT,BZ:Lun't • - HAIR °HT AT Bair and . W Idek re dyed. iVe r" d a9B ChVi g d i re r g ut " . cat. Itazori set inorder. Opon s Edua an day in O n a H. ig Exchanste Place. 1101 - G.%. it iip. CIAVAGE'S URSINA, JUST RECEIVED 0 GENUINE FARINA COLOGNEAt reducod.prices. Bast patterns of English Tooth Brushes. For sale by JAMES T. BB INN ,A poth ecary, Broad and Spruce sts. fell-tfrrb 520.000 IN TWO AMOUNTS OF olo,000; $14,000 and 0,900 to Ivan on Mortgage AT PAR. Apply to . LEWIS H. BRAYER, 731 Walnut IS treet. fri-mw - lfi SAVING FUND, rp.HE WESTERN SAVING FUND SOCI: ET—e Incorporated. earner WALNUT and TENTH Streets. February 2. 147. Open for De posits and Payments Daily, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 2 V. M., and en Monday and Thursday afternoons from ito 7 o clock. Interent. 5 per cent. per annum from January I, MO. President—JOHN WIEGAN.D. . . MiNAGEBS. Charles' Humphreys, John C. Cresson, Samuel V. Merrick, John C. Dario, William W. Keen, Joseph B. Townsend, Peter Williamson, E. J. Lewis, 11. D., H. Bundle Smith, . Jacob P. Jones, A. J: Lewis, Wm. M. Tilghman; . Hobert Toland, Charles Wheeler, lease F. Baker, Saunders Lewis, John .Ashhorst, John E. Cope, Freely Fraley, Henry L. Gaw, D. B. Cummins, Henry Winsor i Joe. D. Lewis, John Welsh. , WM. B. ROGNES.J , Illiir SPECIAL DEPOSITS BECKIVED.R.ToS-Trac."lllln.traerru. A BRAVE DEED Herat. Action of a Brakeman. We take the following from the Erie Dis pat,rh of the 24th : Yesterday morning, at two o'clock A. M., Conductor Strunk's train, first section of the express freight, 'west, when one mile east of Emporium, ran over a broken rail, a piece fully six feet long of the track flying out, the momentum carrying the train past, fortu nately, without accident ; but there was the other section of the freight following, and Conductor Strunk's flagman (sorry we couldn't get the nainel, without orders, and in the face of mortal peril, ' grasped his lamps and sprang . from the train while under full - headway, right in a narrow cnt, the velocity rolling Lim heels over head, and the shock extinguishing both his lamps, as the train sped on. He picked himself up, re-lit his lamps, fOund the brake, and hur ried back to warn the approaching train as fast as his severe shaking would permit of. was further behind than he anticipated, and he was nearly frozen to death in the mountain gorge, while waiting about half an hour for its appearance. Closely following the second section of the freight was the passenger train, the oe'cupauts of which grumbled at a delay, knowing nothing of the fearful dis-. aster probably avoided by.the intrepid con duct et the „flagman. lint for his prompt ac tion, there Would doubtless have been a meek of the freight train, and probably of the iflts sen'ger train behind. .'As we befOre said, we are sorry not to learn his name, tor it should, be known to tbe'aut.' the' Philadel-, phia and Erie Hailroad‘Conipany ahnuld,pre-' sent him with a gold medal, or some equally: substantial acknowledgment, it would, be no more than he truly deserves. • OTWES. THPrEAUTHQEAILIBINNANFINANCINCO Many Persons Wrlghtenedi but Nobody Hurt. [From the Ban Francisco Bulletin, Fey. sd There wail a very •lively and disagreeably suggestive shock of earthquake yesterday, which, according to the observation of Thomas Tumult, occurred at: 10 minutes and 22' seconds past 12 M., with .a duration of seven • seconds,_ a direction of southeast and north west, ll was - sufficient to. - cense a general panic, but no damage was done farto buildiugs, either public or private, so as we could ascertain at the time of going to press. The excitement in the City Hall, which was thronged with people, was. Hamm, . and gen eral stampede was made for the doors, as public confidence in the stability of that structure is net very strong. In the Police Court the examination of a gambling case was about commencing. Lawyers, officers and prisoners started for the dcii;r, ' but Judge Sawyer called out, "It is over; step these men !" The Bailiff obeyed, and shut the door. In a few minutes there were not many people remaining in the Hall, and its vicinity was thronged. 'The prisoners in the basement were in a tight place, and felt more than ever the.value of liberty. At the hotels in the city the constornatiOn was reat. There was a universal' stampede for the outside, Ladles and children screamed, and many of the former fainted, through fear and terror. Every street was black with peo ple before the shock had fairly ceased. At the Washington street Baptist Church there was a large congregation in attendance on funeral ceremonies. There was thasilence of the tomb, and the choir had just struck up "The Rock of Ages," when the earth lifted and trembled. All knew instantly what was at band. The pastor and congregation were seized with the impulse to" run, and a rash was made for the door. Four or five ladies fainted and fell down in the aisles; others screamed and called for help. Several teams in front of the church ran away. Some of the ladies were put in carriages and conveyed home in an unconscious state. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. Immediately after earth's trembling had subsided, the streets presented an interesting panorama. The man who was not frightened —hut who still trembled from fear—could be seen talking and making gestures. Then there was the man who was sure great damage had been done, almost dislocating his neck to look at the upper stories of bill buildings and Straining his eyes to find a shattered pane of glass. To him every little crevice appeared double its real size, and every other building seemed out of plumb. A buxom matron of about forty-five summers was wending her way along Battery street, near Washington,when the shock commenced, and she was perfectlydemoralized for the time being. Contrary to the general estimate of maternal affection,she deposited her cherub on the" Curbstone and started off on a keen run. She subsequently remembered that she had left something behind, and returned for the babe. It was fortunate that the shock occurred atsmt - the time for. recess; so that many of the school Children were playing in the yards. In the schools which were in session at the time, the teaehers . generally were cool and self-pos sessed, keeping the children tinder control. At the Girls' High Scbool, on. Bush street, near Stookton; the -chock *sat 'Sensibly fat, and a little plastering fell f from the walls, but theyoung litliesi did not appeaz much dis-, concerted.'' This school 'teas dismissed after the vibrations ceased. At the branch of the. High School and, he Training School in the Jewnfti Synago,iPie, on .finfter Street; quite a panic occurred, and the shock is said to have been Very vigiaj•ous. Several ,of the misses fainted, but ho one was injured.. In the Den man Grammar School building, the shock was quite severe,' but no panic occurred. The teaebers quietly took their • stations' at the doors, and after a few minutes the scholars were ditunisied for the dAY.: There are 600 young ladies attending the Rincon Girls' Grammar and we learn from Mr. Knowlton, Principal, that not one left her seat until the school was dismissed. The waters of the Bay showed no unusual commotion. The people around the wharves seemed , little frightened, and evidently felt comparatively secure in their location. The Custom House was not damaged, so far as could be ascertained from a brief examination, but the occupants of the building made uo delay in getting into the street. The old Mer chants' Exchange had some of the Old crevices widened a little, but not enough to accom plish any harm. The United States District Court was in session at the time of the shock, and Judge Hothrian did not offer to adjourn it. Some of the spectators, however, suddenly had business on -the-street, which' required their immediate attention. In the entry of the Bank of British North America, a woman leant against a wall perfectly paralyzed with fear, and byway of shutting out the danger, ostrich-like, she drew her shawl over her head and awaited the coming of the enemy THE BRITISH COAL SUPPLY. The Capaeity of the Firth of Forth. An English newspaper has the following : At the Midland Counties Institute of Mining Engineers at Dudley, Mr. Walter Ness, a mining engineer, read a report last week, from which it appears that thirty-four so uare miles of the Firth of Forth, which he blocks out, would yield an amount of coal, if pro perly dredged, equal to the whole produce of the collieries of Great Britain during the last fifty years; or, taking the coal-bearing area of the Firth, he anticipates that 12,012,- 000,000 tons might be raised; and, taking other parts of the British coast as jointly ca table of yielding a similar quantity, we should then have coal to the value of A: 9 50,000,000, a sum, Mr..s ess remarks, 'more than sufficient to cover the national debt. Let us hope no delay will take place in commencing the ex periment suggested by Mr. Ness. At present we are busy with the Serpentine, which is un likely to add to the national wealth; but when we have finished this work (if, indeed, we ever do finish it), the sooner we begin to dredge the Forth the better. All Organization Bekaa Perfected to Mi. terminate the Chinese in Nan Fran chteo. The San Francisco Bit //min has the follow ing remarks upon a subject mentioned a few days ago in our telegraphic columns: Vague rumors have been current for some time, which seem recently to have assumed more definite shape, that an extensive organi zation is going on in the eity for the purpose of mobbing, murdering, and exterminating the Chinese in our midst. It is reported that one association alone, having this object in view, numbers 2,000 members ; that there are several such associations in the city ; and that at a given signal, on or before St. Patrick's Day, a concerted movement is to be made to exterminate the Chinese. It is to he hoped, for the sake of hu manity and civilization, that these . rumors are entirely groundless,. but the subject is one which may well claim the attention of our authorities and our citizens beforett is too late. Although a mob of this character would cora- Menu operations against the Chinese, it would, of course, like that of N ea - York during, the war, sack the city so far as it could acquire the newer, making robbery and rapine its ulterior and principal object. That a, few designing demagogues are engaged in urging : .wicked and ignorant men to deeds'oevioteuce, . seems highlyprobable. How fur they will be able .to succeed in 'their criminal course,, `the next few weeks will determine. • PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1870. JOHN CHINAMAN OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. A Perilous Journey on Snow Shoes... illarvatiome Amens/ the Indians. frt.( Ls theft. Pan! (➢linn.) Prete, rob. 24.1 Yesterday Captain Brown Walls, late of the British airily, and Mr. Ranald McDonnell, ar rived from Fort Williams on the vray for To ronto, Canada. We learn 'Seine facts froni Captain Wallis concerning the condition of the Indians in that region, and incidents of the journey. Before these gentlemen left the Fort reports came in from various parts of the interior, to, the effect that the Indians were starVing to death. One Indian died of starvation on the northwestern shore of Dog Lake, distant about 100 miles from Fort William, in the latter part of January, and many others were reported in such a tarnishing condition that they would probably perish be fore relief could reach them. The in formation of this destitution wax brought to the Fort by a messenger sent in by the agent of the H. B. Co. at Dog Lake to the Chief Factor of the H. B. Co. at the Fort, Mn John Mclntyre. He at once loaded more than a dozen trains with provisions and dis patched them for the relief of the Indians, but from all accounts other Indians doubtless died of starvation before the food could pos sibly reach its destination. Mr. White, the agent of the H. B. Co. at Wabalan, or Bass wood Lake, 200 miles in the interior, reports similar distress in that vicinity. On their way down these gentlemen con versed with a trader from Vermilion, and he reports great destitution among the Indians there. Indeed, reports of starvation reached them at all the trading posts on the way down and these gentlemen think that many deaths from absolute starvation will bo heard of soon. The causes of this destitution are a scarcity of fish and game. The fish seem to have deserted the shallow waters hi the in terior from slime unknown cause, and the partridges, reindeer and hares are not to be • found at all. The long and severe rains of last season seem to have almost extinguished the part ridges and hares, and where they_were to be found by hundreds during previous winters, there are none to be had this winter at'all. The reindeer, from some cause, have departed to some other section, and on the whole journey our informant only heard of five being killed. What makes the matter worse, is the fact that nearly all the traders are out of pro visions. Mr. Parker, the trader at Pigeon River, has no provisions, his vessel having been wrecked last Fall at Ontonagan. All the other traders are in abort the same condition. The party left Fort William on the 7th of February, on snow shoes, with two faithful and very expert Chippewa Indian gindes. The distance to Superior City is about 212 miles, but owing to the many deviations they were compelled to make, owing to ice moun tains, they traveled a much greater dis tance. The first day, Feb. 7, they marched eight miles, and then encamped for the night. The followieg are the distances made on the successive days of their journey : Tuesday, Feb. 8, 32 miles ; Wednesday, 16 miles; Thursday, LI miles. Friday 11 miles; Saturday, 7 miles; Suriay, 7 miles : Monday, 16 miles; Tuesday, 17 =lles • Wednesday, 14 miles. On Wednesday there was a terrible storm and snow tell to the depth of about one foot, rri addition to. that- previdusly on ,the ground, making in all about five feet of snow upon the ground. Ott Thursday the party rested at Beaver Bay Station, and sent the Indian guides back "about live miles for the trains, Which had been left behind the day be fore. Friday, Feb. is, 18 miles; Saturday, Feb. 19, 23 miles ;'Sunday,, Feb.:lo, 16 trii:ett. This brought them to Superior City, from whence they wine by stage and rail. , They state that the whole country front Fort William to Superior is covore.l with snow to the depth of four to five feet. At Fort Wil liam on the night of January 17, It was 31 de grees Fahrenheit below zero, and on the night of February 2it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit below. At 9A. M. of the 3d of February it was 39 degrees Fahrenheit belew zero. THE PRESIDENT ON TUE GOLD PANIC Letter to Secretory Boutwell. WASHINGTON, Feb. W. During the revela tions which followed the September gold panic, ranch reference was made to a letter addressed by the President to Secretary Boni well and left with General Butterfield to be delivered to the Secretary on his return from Massachusetts to Washington, about the middle of September. Thatletter was alleged to have been an endorsement of the Gould- Corbin theory of high gold. The letter itself is the best proof of its character, and ls•as fol lows: . Nxw YOBK CITY, Sept. 12, 1869.—Lion. George 8. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury--: DEAR.Sin t I leave here to-morrow morning for Western Pennsylvania, and will not reach Washington before the middle or last of next week. -Had I known before making my ar rangements for starting that you would be in this Cityearly this week, I would have re mained to meet you. lam satisfied that on your arrival you will be met, by the bulls and bears of Wall-street, and probably by incr. thants,tod o to induce you to sell gold or paY the November interest in advance on the one side, and to hold fast on the other. The fact is, a desperate struggle is now making, and each party want the Government to help them out. .1. write this letter to advise you of what I think you may expect, to put you on your. \ guard. I. think, from. the light ` s before me, I would move on without change until the pre sent struggle is over. If you Wal Ito write me this week, my address will be Washington, Penn. I would like 'to hear your experience from the factions, at all events, if they give you time to write. No doubt you will have a better chance to judge than I, for I have avoided general discussion of tile subject. Yours truly, U. S. Cr/lANT. —Tortes, THE DARIEN SHIP CANAL. A paper of Dr. Cullen's, among the Society of Engineers' transactions, gives a very clear conception of the line of the proposed t)arieu Ship Canal. The whole line is 42 miles in length, 2 11 of which run along the bed of Sucubti. Twelve miles of the stream may be canalized and 3 miles deducted for its sound ings, which would be cut across, leasing only 27 miles as the length of the canal. The entire transit route from sea to sea would then be : Canal, 21 miles : canalized river; 13; naviga tion of the Bavaria, lt;'• ' navigation of the Tuyra, 3—making in all .58 miles ; and the time required for the passage would be about 24 hours. The country is everywhere thickly wooded ;. but there appears to be nothing like insurmountable oNtaeles to _the undertaking. A CHURCH QUARREL IN ASIA. Refusal to Submit to Rome. An English journal says: It is, not in Europe only that the Roman Coun cil has excited • controversies, but in Asia too. A Sunday or two since some tumultuous scenes took place at the Armenian Church at Pera, consequent on the reading,of the Papal Bull appointing a new vicar in lieu of the • patriarch Liassoan, now sitting in the Coun cil. The Armeniansare not willing to submit themselves in ecclesiastical matters to the Court of Rome, anti refuse to recognize the vicar. The.thsturbances were so serious that the Turkiat authorities were appealed to, but the Porto MisWered that it did not wish to in. terfere with the internal atlai rs of any religious communitk, antt Merely advised .then 'not ;to bring their quarrels into the outer world. COLD IN THE DOIRTIIWFDE ammeter of the Route. A BIIIIIqOAIREIVA DASH; Fon Lir.E. He Blake* ',Strike ter Freedom—Bel - Over et Fame. Ugh',Feet H/t;h•..sevel vertu Emptied In to ,Witke-41114 Recap lure. (Prom the ColitmhuN (Ohjo)'stlteinlana. • The neighborheod of% the 'County Court HULIFO was thrown into quite a stew of exeitti:i meat yesterday morning; by the' events of the. 'hour. William Carroll •-a. .1i fe prisoner in :the penitentiary, who some me ntlis ago Murdered Isis fellow-convict, Prank Rauth, in the 0 1 1ie' Penitentiary, was taken yesterday- ,Mortiing; between 10 and II o'clock; to'tbeCtitirt House in charge of Col. Burr, Warden of the' Pent.; tentiary, and arraigned on a charge, of mur der in the first degree. Carroll went into. .Court handcuffed, and while standing as the Prosecuting Attorney read the indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, the attention of' the Court was directed to the fact that he was in irons, whereupon the Court ordered their removal. The right band of Carroll was freed from the iron, and both hands were dropped by his side. The indictment was read, and Carroll en tered a plea of " not guilty." The Cpurt re manded him back' to the custody- of the Warden of the penitentiary, and the right band of • the prisoner was again enclosed within the irons, and accompanied by the Warden :and officer 'of the penitentiary, Carroll was started for his old quarters at that institution. The march from the Court-room down, the stairway of the Court House was probably the most thrilling event in tbe history of the des perate convict. He reasoned the case In all its bearings ; already a life-time prisoner, ona• charge of robbing a fellow-being of his life, new charges were up against him, more blood 'from another victim gurgled before him s and the fatal noose dangled threatinengly av if impatient to do the work of death for him. The march through the Court-room was a rapid one, but not too rapid for Carroll's first step in preparing for his determined dash for freedom. Bis small hand was drawn through the enveloping iron on the right wrist, and when he stepped out to the front yard of the Court House it was with both hands free. This, however, was not known by the War den. He was conducted to the • carriage.. of the penitentiary, in waiting, and directed to enter it.' This'he did, but did not long stay there. With a wild scream of mingled hope and de fiance, he spraug from the carriage and bounded away with the agility of a deer. The few. yards to the corner of Mound street were quickly passed, and he turned into MOUIId street, followed closely by Col. Burr, who fired at him from a revolver at the distance of about twenty-five tett, but tailed to hit him. The racecontinned from High to Pearl street, and three more shots were fired by the . warden, none of which, however, reached the mark:, The firing attracted the attention of several of the attaches of the court house and jail, and quite a large number of citizens, accompanied by Police Officers Lang and Hibbs, joined in the chase for Carroll, and pressed him so closely as he ran northward on Pearl street, that he found necessary to leave the street and en deavor to find.a hiding.nlace in the rear yard of a citizen. A board fence. eight feet .in height, offered no ottstruction to the flying convi c t, and, grasping its top with One hand, he vattlted over it with ease, and darted through the lot. He was overtaken, how= ever, by Officer 'Lange and brought to bay. Resistance so determined was offered by Car roll to his re-arrest by Officer Lang, that he would probably bare succeeded in getting another . run; hut that' the officer was rein forced by the 'Warden, and a number of others, who overpowered him, and crossing his hands behind him, again applied the irons. He was then conducted to the carriage, placed within it, and removed to the Penitentiary, whence he will be taken, on Wednesday next to the Common Pleas Court. for trial for his life. A GOOD ADMINISTRATION. What President equa's Has Done Finals. I=2 We make the following extract from a speech made by Mr. Dawes in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Saturday: TRY QUYSTION Or PVIBLIC ISCONOmy Is it, fellow cid zens,because the Democratic party will be more economical in the adininis tration of the public affairs than the Re publican party has been or is likely to bb,that they put forth this claim for power Nothing is so essential to public affairs as honesty and economy,and unless the Republican party can answer the question that it has been economi cal and that it will be economical, it has no right to ask further confidence at the hands of the people. And unless the Democratic party has either in its past record or in something that it holds out in the future,some encourage ment to a people burdened with taxes and groaning under a debt which has been be queathed to them by this Democratic party through the war, then whatever may be the answer as to the Republican party,the Demo cratic party could not be trusted. When did the Democratic party have any reputation for economy in the administration of public affairs? Take its history. Go.back to Mr. Pierce's administration, iu the time of pro found peace, with no occasion for any extra , expenditures of public money, and how did he leave it?_ With an addition of some twelve millions to the debt of the nation. And what did Mr. Buchanan do? He added seventy mil lions more of debt. In time of profound peace, with prosperity in the land and revenues in creasing and overflowing, he added seventy millions to the twelve millions of debt that ex isted at the end of Mr. Pierce's administration. Take this last administration and the very last year of it, with all the resources of the coun try, based upon the war basis, to meet and liquidate the public debt, with every ob ligation upon the Administration, instead of paying a dollar of the debt Johnson added six millions to it. Is there anything, then, in the history of the past of the Democratic party, that encourages the people to think that if the power were bestowed to their hands to day they would be economical in the expenditure of the public moneyy . How is it with the Re publican party ? Have they any claim to honesty and economy in public affairs? They make short, work of the account un to this day. I took it from the'Treasurer's ' book .ym terday as I state it to you. PREPIOENT GRANT'S ECONOMY. Mr. Johnson received in the last year of his ' administration $368,000,000, and he incurred a debt in addition to this of $6,000,000, so that he expended in his last year $:374,000,000. In the first year of General Grant's administra tion, with no higher rate of taxes, hut, on the other hand, with reduced taxation in some particulars, he has gathered into the Treasury out of his officials' hands $394,000,000 instead of $168,000,000 from the same taxes, and in stead of expending all of that in the current expenses of this year he has paid eighty mil lion dollars of. the public debt oikt of it. So that ho bas bad to expend only three hun dred and fourteen million dollars, against three hundred and seventy-four million dol lars spent In the last year of Andrew John son's administration, making, just the thine ence of sixty million dollars in one year. This is from the books. He has collected twenty six million dollars more iu this preSent year than . Andrew Johnson did in the last year, and twenty Million of dollars of that is from the internal ' tries! .:of the land, not a mill higher andAdtsieme articles nitwit lower than, it CM laSt year) Why has he colleotOd twenty millions more? Itemise there has boon loss of it stolen. number Of skilled workmen out of emplonitent in England 18 said to be between. 70,000 and 80,000. • Er=lll F. L. lITHI4IB7ON. PRIOJ TREE MiNTt ,IPAC'TN AND WANCIIIM flirorty tho Overland Menially for Matoh.i tUltigatita. Beautiful! Sir, you tnay,eay, iirrA her mulch in tho coutify, fs.thar;ol(l. ga}? Chitruita; ray darling, At* • beauty!, • • ' Feel of that iteak, sir--thar's velvet!' • Whilivf. toady-I , alt, willryort, you miaten , l •Wloa1',1• Hay, Jack - , trot bor. out ;, tiriv „ gentlemati'look at her pees • . • Morgan 1.--She sing. nothin' elso, and' ..got. the Pan erB to. Prove it. Sired by ebippewatUltief, and twelve hundred, dollars won't buy her. • "- Briggs of Tuolumne owned her. Did you. know Briggs of Tuolutnne?--- Busted bisself in White Pine, and , blevrontitis brains down in•lPii.sect?, Hedn't no , savey—hed'.l3tiggs. Marc- Musk f tio--quit that foolin' I Nothin' to what she kinds, when she's got her ' work. cut out before her. Hessen is bosses, you know, and likewisertool jockeys is Jockeys ;' And 'tain't ev'ry man as, can• ride as kuow4 what's boss has got in Know the old ford on the Fork; that nearl'.. got Flanigan's leaders? Nasty in daylight, you bet, and a•ntightytvigir! , ford in low,water ! it ain't stic.weeks ago that me and. they Jedge, and his nevey, . Struck for that lard is the nigbt, in. the rain, and the waterall round us; • Up to our Hanks in the gulch, andliattlemak.. Creekkist•a Not a plank left in the dam, andmary abridges on the river. I bad the gray, and the Jedge had Ins roano. and his never, Chiquita; And after us trundled the rocks jest loomed.i from the top of the raison. Lickity, lickity, switch, we came to , the ford; and (Minolta Buckled right down to her work, awl , afore I. could yell to her rider, Took water jest at the ford, and there we Jedgo and me standing, • . . And twelve hundred dollars of hors-tlesh afloat and' a driftin' to thunder ! , Would ye 'Alava it, that night, that hogs that ar' filly—Chiquita, Walked herself into her stall, and stood there, all quiet and dripping! Clean as a beaver or rat, w th nary a , buckle of harness, Just as she swam the Fork—that hose, that ail filly, Chiquita. • That's what I call a boss and—what did.7oll say ?--0, the novey Drownded, I reckon—leastways, he never kat; back to deny. it. Ye see the dented fool had no seat-:.ye have made him a rider ; • ' And then, ye know,,.boys will be an . • • hoses—welb•hosses is bosses! . • —" Should auld acquaintance be forgot?", Notif they have money. , . —Why iS a mosquito like a railroad? cause it fastensmosquito upon tho sleepers, and takes heavy dranghts over them. —A schoolhey's jest : One swallow does not make a summer; but a crooked pin often• makes a spring. —Ofrenbach has promised three new (Mertes to three Paris theatres next season, ; .Ert trawl of default he will have to pay $lO,OOO inthd sr: grugate. —The White Mountain Medical•Socioty•Of New Hampshire has adopted a bylaw,-that any member who, advertises himself " , by re, porting bis operations in newspapers" shall first be reprima.nded, and, for, the second. offence, expelled: ' —Hickman, Ky., is in danger of *lug washed into the Mississippi ; and thecitizens. who have been asleep for many ysars,, axe just waking up and moving out.. —A Western editor who foundlecase• of homosepathic medicine, has set up as a doctor, and offers to physic or bleed at the mud rates, ten cents a line, tint insertion. —A wealthy fanner of St. Paris, Ohio, com mitted suicide on the 15th inst. Na reason for the rash act is given ; but a paper containing one of Mr. Greeley's confessions of "What I Know About Farming" was found tightly clasped in his right hatud.—Ez. —One of the Wesleyan Academy students, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, rushed up to a sleigh-load of tippeted and muffled riders, gave. an earnest and friendly tweak to the nose of a person whom he supposed to be a chum—hut who proved to be a woman, and the wife of a irolessor. —A Nashville reporter raptiretudy asks, "What heart has not thrilled to the silvery silence which succeeds sweet music, when the delicate harmonies that had ceased to vibrate on the ear were repeated, and each share of melodious meaning translated to the inner sense?" A hand-organ was the provocatiott. —A Chicago Hervaut-girl by mistake swallowed a round gold sleeve-button belong, ing to her master, supposing it was a pill, but it didn't have the desired elfect. She Oilers to, pay him in greenbacks, for the button, but he demands the gold. The matter may come hal : tore the courts for decision. —A woman at Lynn, Maas., got up a brevet nitro-glycerine explosion, - Which proved' a great success, by putting a bottle• tilled with ice in an oven. It was particularly at borne, the explosion was, on window-glass and crockery. The woman wants to sell the stove as soon as she can collect the pieces from the neighborhood. —A young man at Paterson, N.J., wharead. that a young lady's pulse always beat stranger in the palm of the hand than anywherd else, tried to lind out for himself the other night, while sparking his intended, and she bursted. an iron skillet - over his head. Se has eon,- eluded that their pulses heat asstrong over the head as anywhere. But he is not of an itiquir ing turn of mind anymore. —An Eastern clergyman, who called upon, a lady to condole with her upon the supposed toes of her husband while out in his boat 'at sea, was told by her that " Benjamin dearly loved bis Bible; and if he was'called upon, to leave, be was prepared to go, for he vgas a good man." Here a long silence emerald. Finally, drying her tears, the wife said in, a low and earnest tone: " Well, if he did go,it must have been that same gust that Mewed, the barn." The missing man subsequently re- turned. —Boston aplomb sometimes faits. Whent Harriet Martineau visited this country ,a num her of the wise men and women of : the East were assembled to welcome her. Ond ethos+, Magi. on approaching this star, was , so :be wildered by the unlooked-for presentagon of her ear-trumpet as the only mode of access, that he horrified himself by tha utterance of a most mal-apropos speech. M.atirsm,' said he, "have you observed how charmingly- our birds sing?" . . —The gyivies in the'liop Garden in Pasth have a curious way of looking after tho honesty of their money-collector. The person intrusted with the : mission of tslking tbot bat around among the 'crowd haa a llr ing fly Pot into'his left hand, while he holds the hat witki hi. 4 right: When 'hi returns with the funds lie mutt bring the ,fly back alive,'as s sign that he •bas tint taken any- money from ttei common property .• but if .the fly be wanting. ox oYea.ftead, ho does not get hia.alAare of the money ;t rfr ti.
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