GIBSON' PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME X XIII.-NO. 291.
WEDDING INVITATIONS EN
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MARRIED.
DE MELI—DIIA PER. Dregdon, oft the let of
March, Ilsnry A. de Kell to Florence Morgan, daintier
of Theodore B. Mayor, Ego., all of New York.
.ALEXANDER.—On the 17th Instant, George son 'of
George end the late Fannie L. Alexander, in Le 28th
year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family aro respectfully,
invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of hlB
father, N. E ' corner of Third aud Coates streets, ett .
Monday afternoon, 21st inst., at 2 o'clock. Interment
at Monument Cetnetorr
BEN NETT.—On the 16th Instant, Mrs. Mary Monroe
Bennatt, in the 74th year of her age.
Tho relatives and friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend the tunersl, on Monday, March 214 t.
The remains will leave her late residence. N 0.248 South
Eleventh atreet, at 10 o'clock A. 7,1 „and the funeral ger-
Three will be conducted at the old Brick M. E. Ch - arch.
late Kensington, at 116 o'clock. Interment at Laurel
Mill Cemetery.
BONBALL —At the residence of his parents, Cinoin
natl. Ohio, on Wedneeday, March 16th,
1870, Charles
Perot Bonsai', eon of Char lee and Rachel It. Bonsall, In
the 35th year of his see.
.
CIDEE.—On thelsth Instant, Bybilla Cidee,iu the 82d
year of her age.
The remains will be removed to Reading on Monday
morning. Interment in the Ch ries Evans Cemetery.
CORNET.—On the lath itotant, after a abort Illness,
Mrs. Eliza Harvey, wife of Harry Corney.
Due notice of the funeral will be given. [Canada pa
pers please copy.)
KXLLER.-On the 18th instant, Adam, only child of
Luther P. and Sallie Knepley Keller, aged a mouths.
'Funeral on Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from his
parents' residence, No. 227 North Fourth street.
WILSON.—On the 16th instant, Theodore Wilson In
the Ughyear of hie age.
The relatives and friends of the [tunny, and also Em
piro Lodge. ,No. lOC 1.0. 0. F., are respectfully invited
to attend Lb funeral, from hie lute residence, No. 19V,
Arch street, this t Saturday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
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Subject—CHEMICAL FORCES IN NATURE.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
I
GEORGE W. SMILEY,D. D. WILL
preach at Trinity Union Minion Hall to morrow
at 10% A. rd. and 7,11( P. H.
u• CHILDREN'S CHURCH, AT 'THE
Ohurch of the Epiphany, Fifteenth and Chestnut
streets, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. it*
ARCH STREET M. E. CHURCH.—
ROY. James Neill to-morrow at 10% A. M.
}Strangers invited. lt"
lob FIRST MORAVIAN 'CHURCH,
corner Franklin and Wood strelle,t-Rer. Joseph
Kummint, Pastor.—Serrices at 105 and Trn o'clock.
mlni 19 19.}
.4ECIOND REFORMED CHITR()H,
IC9 . 'l3eveith street, above Brcrwa. Bev. Low
tl. Bartley, pester, wilt preach tomorge r n , (Sunday) at
and 7,41 P. N. lt*
lei A: • K.
SPRING GARDEI9FAXILIST
Ohtwoh, Thirteenth Prea c h y e Wallace, Rey •
L. P. Bernbergor. Paster.—ng to-morrow at 10. ti
A.lll. and 7).4 P. M. Sabbath school at 2P. M. It"
ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN
10 * Church, Nineteenth and Green streete.—Presoh
ing to-morrow at 10% o'clock A. M. and 7fri P, by
Key. Dr. Schenck.
C"?..CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN
tlhuroh, Looust street, above Fifteenth. Rot. Dr.
Burnphrey, Pastor.-Bervioes at 10K A. AI. awllt" 7%
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES
REV. C. WADBWORTFI, D. D.
Pastor, will preach tomorrow in the Third
Reformed Church, Tenth and Filbert streets. Service
at MI o'clock A. M. and 73G P. M.
.
101. NEW UNITARIAN CHETROII—
Sunday,lo36 A. H., in Ifall southeast
corner or Tenth and Spring Garden streets. Seats free.
Entrance on Spring .Garden street.
ins. Vr REFORM ED CHU m RO H,
comer of Seventh and Spring Gard.—lter.
T X. Orr will preach to•morrow, at 10)a A. M. and
7.1 i P.M. Strangers welcome. It'
TELE F.l UST PR I:3IIYTE RIA N
Church, lit'euibilutton Nitare.—Rey. Ilerrlck
Etoti, D. D., Pastor, will preach tom orrow at 7% P.
M.
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ozi. ST. CLEMENT'SCITURCH, TVi*EN'-
thath aad Cherry etreeta.—Service and If ormon
during the mignon of Lent every Wednesday and Sunday
evening. Choral vervice. So4ta free. Service to-morrow
evening at 13 4 o'clock. mhs a et*
1: C?. REV. A. A. WILLITS, D. D., WILL
pmach In the West Arch Ntre Presbyterian
Church tn-merrowat la% . . end Ad 7 3 P. H. The
Little Wanderers" will be present and sing. Strangers
invited. • • lt*
CUHOCKSINK M. E. CHURCH,
untown avenue, below Fifth. At EN
o'clock, Rev, Wm. B. Wood, Pastor ; Experience
Meeting; 7%, BST. krancis Beck.of the Erie Confer
ence.
azp. THE TRUE RULE OF SUedESS
In Life.—Rev. Dr. George F. Wiewell will prime)/
on fhb; subject to-morrow tnunday) evening, at (3
o'clock, in the Clinton Street Church, Tenth, below
Spruce. All persona cordially Invited. It*
iro• ST. MARK'S CHURCH, LOCUST,
above Sixteenth street.—Tho third of the Bodes
of Sunday Evening Lenten Sermons will be pieache I
to-morrow evening * by Rev. J. D. Newlin, Rector of the
Church of the Incarnation, at 7% o'clock. Service
choral. Seats free. It*
fl- CA ILDREN'S CHURCH REV
eath Presbyterian Church, Broad street and Penn
equare, tomorrow at 3 o'clock, P Rev. Henry C.
McCook, Pastor, will conduct the service and preach
the sermon. Singing b) the Sabbath School. Tho usual
service at 104 o'clock, A. M.
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IN TTIE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
.1 for the City and County of Philadelphfa.—Notice
le hereby given to all persona interested that
seat.#" The Greenwood 42 , ntetery Company of
Philadelphia " have tiled an application for
change of noire to " The Knights of Pythias
Greenwood Cemetery Company of Philadelphia," and
that the Honorable the Judges of our bald Court have
appointed SATURDAY, the ninth day of April, A. D.
I e, at 10 it 'clock, A. H., for bearing the said applica
tion. and finless exception, be filed thereto the same
will be allowed. RICHARD DONAGAN,
mb19.e.31§ Prothonotary.
HARDWARE, &C.
THE POCKET POLICEMAN " IS A
Fniall Padlock (opened without a key but capa
ble of thousands of 1, ariationsh with sufficient plated
chain attached to it to enable a traveler to fasten bun
dles, coats, umbrella!), &c., to railroad ~eats to secure
them, or in hotel rooms, that they may not he purloined.
sold by TRUMAN Ar SMAW. No: &5 (Rigid Thirty•
fire) Market street, below Ninth.
VOLE AND HAND PRVNING SHEARS
and Rose Shears, for Pale by TRU HAN I SHAW,
No. &lb @Eight Thirty-live) Market street, below Nioth.
MARINE BULLETIN.
POUT OF PHILADELPHIA—MARca 19
air sr. Marling Bullain on insido Page
ABI9WED THIB•DAY
Steamer PioneerTilakeley,ll)hoicrsfrom Wilmington,
NC with naval storm. &e. to Philadelphia asid Southern
Mall SS Co. ( not arrived yesterday, as inadvertently re
ported). Passed a large steam frigate at anchor at Four-.
teen Feet Bank. probably the Congress, bound out; an
unknown bark, deeply laden, at anchor at Morris Li ti.
ton's. bound
Steamer Arica. Wiley. 49 hours from Boston, with
mdse to 1.1 Winsor & Co. Passed at Brandywine a bark,
a barkentine and a full rigged brig, bound up.
bteamer Fanita. lertwman ,24 ,hours from New York,
with 1161160 to Jabs F Ohl.
Steamer blonder, Jones, bourn from New York,with
pulse to W Baird & Co
Steame George B Stout, lord, from Georgetown, DC.
witb nuts. to W P Clyde & Co.
Steamer Mayflower, Fultn, 24 hours from New York,
with mdee to \V P Clvde & Co.
Steamer R Willing, Cundiff,l3 hours from Baltimore,
with mdso to A Groves. Jr.
Steamer Celllineal). Fenton. from Norwicb, In ballast
to W S Hfllee.'
Schr Id V Cook, Falkenberg, Tockerton.
Behr Armenia, Cole. Little Egg Harbor
&lir Julia Nelson. Cavalier, Little Egg Harbor.
Tng Thos Jefferson. Allen, from Baltimore, with a tow
of bargee to W P Clyde A Co.
Tug Commodore, Wilson. from Baltimore, with a tow
of bargee to W P Clyde & Go.
BELOW.
Barks India, from London; Vision, from do; ecbr
Alice B Gardner, from Cardenas.
OLICA BED THIS DAN.
Steamer Whirlwind. Sherman, Providence, D S Stetson
A Co.
Steamer James S Green: Pace.. Richmond and Norfolk.
W P Clyde & Co.
Steamer New York, Jones, Georgetown and Alexandria.
W P Clyde & Co
Steamer Bristol. Wallace. New York. W P Clyde & Cs.
Steamer Chester. Jones, New York. W P .ClYde & Co.
Bark Abby N Franklin,Rolbrook, Gibraltar for orders.
Workman & Co. •- •
Brig Dominion t Br), White. HaDfax, C C Van Horn.
Schr Webster Bernard. Smith, Si Johns,Pß. Jno Mason
& Co.
Sold' Pales Sbackford. Cailtarien, N A Solider & Co.
.Schr M 0 C h adwick , dit. Barbados. do
Scnr A M Coma, Beaton, John Scott & Co.
Behr E M,Fox, Case, Boston, do
Schr Admiral, Steelman, Salem. do
Seim S F Fort. Fort. Salem, do
Schr Donnie Westbrook. Mariner, Portldnd,
Tng Thos Jefferson, Allen, Baltimore, with a tow of
barges, W P Clyde & Co.
Tug Commodore. Wilson, Baltimore, with a tow of
01 bargee, W P Clyde SCo. '
MEMORANDA.
Ship Zonave, Robinson, from San Francisco let Nov.
at New York yesterday,
Steamer Saxon. Soars. hence at Boston yesterday.
Steamer Deutschland (NG), Neynaber, from Bremen
March 5, and Southampton Bth, with 321 passengers. at
New York yesterday.
Steamer Pereira ( Fr), Duchesne. cleared at New York
yesterday for Havre.
Steamers City of Washington, Jones, and Denmark,
Forbes, cleared at New York yesterday fer Liverpool.
Steamer Tillie, Partridge, from Galveston sth inst. via
Roy West 11th, at New York yesterday.
Bark Marianna 111 ( Port), Palhaos.2 days from Bahia,
in ballast, at New York yesterday.
Schr ft A Rogers. Travis, hence at Fall River 17th
Inst. was the vessel which went ashore inside the beacon
at• Bristol Ferry morning of the 16th She came off at
high water same evening, apparently without material
injury.
Schr Almira Weoley, King, hence. for Boston, sailed
from Newport , 17th inst.
Seim Old Chad, McClintock, at Fall River 16th inst.
from Now Castle. Del. •
Scbr Bury Haroyne, ram:vire hence at Now Bedford
16th inst.
Schr Stephen Morrie, Seaman. cleared at lloston'l7th
lust. for Bath, to load for this port.
Seim Ireur Stators, Shearer, for this port, went to eea
from Charloeton 16th Mat.
Ricardo ,lora, Little, cleared at savannah Mb
lust. for Baltimore.
. . .
Schr .Nadub, Cheney, from New (ladle, Del. for New
bnry port, sailed from Newport ifl inst. ,
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 19 c 1.370.
OUR HARRISBURG UTTER.
THE GREAT RAILROAD PROJECT
The "Roosters"' Dissatisfied With It
THE STATE SAVED A DISGRACE
The Border Raid and Sewage Bills
MORE VETOES
Hi Considered,Crade and Hasty Legislation
THE FIGHT IN THE SENATE
The General 'Appropriation Bill
!Special Correspondence of the Phila. ZvelVir Bulletin.)
HARRISBURG, March 18, 1870.—Legislation
has accumulated so rapidly in the Senate and
House, particularly the latter, that it has heed
impossible for the State Printer to keep up
with the business. Already • the number of
bills presented for action has reached, within
a hundred or so, that of the entire-last ses
sion. Of this , mass less than one hundred
have been public bills, nearly every one of
which still remains on the calendar for con
sideration. There seems to have been a sort
of mania for special legislation, as in
nearly every case where a public
bill has been called u. it
- definitely postponed, or placed insuchaposi
tion that it can never be, reached.-And in
several instances, when special sessions have
been set apart for general laws,the orders have
been suspended, and the time which should
have been devoted to the interests of the Com
monwealth has been spent in disposing of
local bills. Now that the session is rapidly
coming to a close, and as several hundred pri
vate acts are on the calendar, a general law,
unless it be asked for by very powerful corpo
rations, has but little chance of even being
considered.
The Great ,Railroad Project. •
Wednesday and Thursday in the Senate,
and Thursday night and to-day in the House,
have been devoted to tbe consideration and
passage of the Dill providing for the appropri
ation of the bonds in the Sinking, Fund for
the purpose of constructing the railroad from
Jersey Shore and Port Allegheny, thus form
ing a direct line from Philadelphia to Buffalo,
the second largest grain depot in the United
States, and assisting in the completion of cer
tain other roads in the Northwestern and
Southwestern parts of the State. This
measure has received the endorsement
of the more prominent members of 'the
Legislature, all of whom have taken part in
its discussion; and all were of the opinion that
this was truly a grand scheme and one that
would benefit the State to the extent of mil
lions of dollars, in addition to developing the
vast mineral resources of Tioga, McKean and
Potter counties. Some severe comments have
been made by parties, both in and out of the
Legislature, with reference to the hasty
manner in which this measure has
been rushed through the Legislature.
True it is that the bill has
been introduced and passed in
side of seventy-two hours, but a
residence here during the present session has
served to convince many that the engineers
of this scheme did perfectly right in acting as
they have. Had it been allowed to have gone
through the ordinary channels, there would
have been corrupting influences at work that
m quid not have been of benefit to the morals
of the State. Why, even in the remarkably
short period that this bill was in the Legis
lative halls, there was enough witnessed to
bate disgusted any true citizen of Pennsyl
vania.
The Roosters Kaye a Calicos.
•
Hardly had it made its appearance when
a caucus of the " Rooster Ring," which is re
ported as being a well-organized institution,
and into membership of which, it is alleged,
but 25 have been admitted, was held, and it
was unanimously resolved to send a man to
Fisk, Jr., in New York city, and see whether
the bill suited him. Of course the object of the
visit can be understood. It was calculated that,
as this new road was intended to run away
with the grain trade from New York
city, and, consequently, reduce by a very
large figure the freightage over the
New York and Erie, Fisk, Jr., would de the
handsome - in the shape of a contribution for
the defeat of the bill. However, the courier
either didn't see the owner of railroads and
opera honses, or was informed that,there was
no legislation before the Pennsylvania Legis
lature which ho desired passed or defeated;
for he returned, and since then there has been
no perceptible commotion among the Ring.
Had his mission been successful, things would
have been made interesting on the Hill, and
the State would have been disgraced by a
body which bad been elected for its high
moral tone and for reformatory purposes.
'Mite Mate Saved Disgrace.
The State has been saved the disgrace by
the final passage of the measure to-day in the
House ; and that no further trouble might oc
cur, its friends have had a motion to recon
sider the final vote postponed indefinitely.
The bill will not be sent to the Governor be
fore Monday evening, but it is no secret that
he has been consulted with reference to the
proposition. There is scarcely any doubt that
he will approve it, as he is known to be in
favor of assisting in the building of railroads,
which he behaves to be the better
way of developing the immense re
sources of the State. Should he
sign it, it is the intention of those having it in
charge to start the work immediately, so that
it can,be completed within three years, at
which time the lease now held by the Northern
Central Railroad Company on the Canandai
gua and Elmira Railroad, which forms the
only connecting link Philadelphia has with
Buffalo, expires. The passage of this bill has
put at rest, for this session at least, the Beaver
and Erie Canal project and the Delaware
River Ship-yard scheme.
The Border Raid and Sewage Bilis.
The border raiders have been endeavoring
to "set up" the House forjhe purpose of con
sidering their plundering scheme, but the
time has been so monopolized with the rail
road bill and apecial legislation that they
have not succeeded. It may be ,reached on
Tuesday next, on the calendar, but it will
have to go over another week, unless its
friends succeed in having a special session set
apart for its consideration. The advocates of
the Sewage' bill have also been on hand in
strong force. They brought with them a new
bill, which the Benate Committee consented to
substitute for the one which passed the House.
These gentlemen have been since engaged in
interviewing the Senators and explaining the
matter, and from present indications it looks
as though the measure will receive the sanc
tion of a majority.
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
• GOvernor Geary returned to the House, to
day, two more bills without his , signatures
Cue was inco_rporating the Continental Safe
Deposit and Trust Company, which ho 'con
sidered defective in title, and as interfering
with an insurance company of the same name.
The other bill was for the incorporating of the
Philadelphia Slate Company, the grammatical
construction of which furnished sufficient evi
dence that the bill had never been read in
Committee, or in the House or Senate. It
consisted of a mass of sentences without
meaning; and it looks as though it was a "set
up" job against the member introducing it.
So bad was its construction that the Governor
pronounced it "an aggravated case of illy-con
sidered, crude and hasty legislation."
The Fight in the Senate.
The fracas this afternoon on the floor of the
Senate, between Senators Nagle and Limier
man, has been the chief topic of conversa
' ton, and no one regrets its occurrence more
than the combatants themselves. It was the
culmination of a bitter feeling which has,been
lingering since the days when the first Pblice
Bill was before the :Senate. .Nagle is from
Philadelphia, and had every reason to believe
that, had. not Linderman absented himself
from Harrisburg on the day of its passage, it .
would have been defeated, and has taken oc
casion to condemn Linderman in very strong
-language. The latter this morning, during
the session, intimated to the former that
be was a pickpocket and thief, and
a row . there and then, was only prevented. by
the interference of friends. Immediately on•
the adjournment Nagle proceeded to where
Linderman was standing, and demanded a
retraction, which was refused. Smarting
under the false accusation ' Nagle struck
Linderman several blows in the face, the lat
ter of which felled lum to the floor. The only
reply Linderman made was in the shape of
a blow across the nose of his adversary with
his walking-stick, which was shivered into
splinters, without, however, doing any fur
ther damage than a mere abrasure of the skin.
Senators parted them, andeaeh went his way.
The probability is that the matter will be the
auturac xax au a u ugacl ug GOIEILIMI•CC.
1 he General Appropriation Bill.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee will re-submit, at the earliest hour pos
sible, the General Appropriation bill, which
- NA - rui_re-committed for the purpose of being
out of - the way until the Railroad bill, and the
etropolitan Police act were disposed of.
The Governor wants a little time to look into
its provisions, and it is whispered that should
be receive it, as he did List year, on the last
day of the session, he will veto it. This
should be avoided, and the only way to do that
is for the Senate to go to work at once:
A Liberal View of it.-. Some Interesting-
Statements.
A Washington correspondent, writing to the
Tribune, says :
The excitement on the Piegan affair waxes
hot and hotter in political and social circles
here. There are Pie antes and anti-Piegan
ites—fery few of the latter, however, as phi
lanthrophy is just now the fashion. The
hobby of the hour is an Indian pony, which is
made to carry , double—a Democratic and a
Radical rider, both urging him on, with whip
and span --- The "noble savage" is in the
ascendant. Cooper's novels, and Campbell's
"Gertrude of Wyoming," "The Prairie
Bird" and " Hiawatha" are coming down
from dusty book-shelves. Some new Cooper
may even now be writing " The Last of the
Piegalis." • *There seems a fair chance forsuch
a romance, founded on fast.,
I respect pure philanthOpyfrom mysel',
all honest desire to deal justly'and humanely
by these unhappy wards of the nation ; but
this sudden excitement seems to me to partake
of the nature of what Mr. Butler calls " a
spasm of virtue," to be a sort of wildfire of
horror and enthusiasm. This whole dreadful
affair is but the logical result, the natural fruit
of long years of mistnanagement,bad faith,ras
cality and robbery, which: have been coolly
sanctioned or conuoned by some of the very
men who are loudest in condemnation of the
inhumanity of Baker and of Sheridan—
"glorious Phil. Sheridan, - as he used to be
called, when. he " hit" the Rebels '• hard" at
Winchester.
As for this massacre, if extermination be
the policy of the Government, I. do not see
that the fact of women and children being in
cluded in it, 'makes the matter much worse,
taking the stern practical view of the exter
minators, and crediting the declaration of the
Montana people, that the squa,ws of all the
Blackfoot bands are adepts in the infernal art
of torturing captives, and that their children
are instructed in it is early as white children
are put at the alphabet;.but if humeri beings of
whatever age or sex, with or without the
small-ppr, were hemmed in, without a
chance given them for tight or surrender, it
was a horrible butchery, only equaled by
some of the operations of our Puritan
fathers against the Pequods, and scarcely
surpassed by any record of exterminating
warfare out of the. Pentateuch. Still I believe
those officers and men meant to do their duty,
and think, as dreadful things as that.massacre
do happen, in the midst of civilization, are- a
nine days' liorror, and are then allowed to
pass away and ' he forgotten. Every great
railroad slaughter, every steamboat burning,
every wreck and collision, the result of moan
parsimony or 'drunken recklessness is worse.
The running dawn of the Oneida by the Bom
bay was an act as much surpassing it in atro
city, it seems to me, as the lives of our heroic
sailors who perished so grandly on that fatal
night exceeded in value the lives of as many
barbarians. It was " murder most foul."
Still this excitement,. though not without
cant and deimagogneism, though not wholly
just and consistent, has in it a soul of truth
and right teeling, and will dogood if it leads
to the inauguration of a new policy for the
treatment of the Indians, for the restraining
of white savages, and the abolition of the
abominable Agency system. Let the philan
thropic party have a fair trial. Let the hu
manitarians and the Quaker Commissioners
take the work-out of the bloody bands of men
of war,. and carry it on in their better
way, if it be not too late,• if distrust
and hatred of the entire white race
be not too deeply ingrained in the
Indian character to be eradicated. Let
Mr. Vincent Conger himself, if he will,
go as a friendly . envoy to the Apaches, taking,
as it were, his scalp in his band. They are
thought to be invincible; they may not be
in-Vincent-able. Send out to all the tribes
who will- receive them, a brave, sensible corps
of teachers, not, of spelling-books or cate
chisms, but et agriculture and the more simple
mechanic arts. - I would send out, also, not
beads and feathers, gaudy chintz shirts, or
" moral pocketehandkerchiefs," but tools,
pictures, small models of machinery, even in
genious toys—everything by which they
could be taughtby the system of Object Les
sons.
I may as well acknowledge that, personally,
lam not a very ardent Pieganite or ,
Black
footer—that I have a more lively sympathy
with, at least, the wife and children of the
white settlertlaan with the squaw and pap
poose of the noblest savage of them all. lam
bloody-minded enough to hold that the slaugh
ter of an entire'band of savage " braves" were
justifiable, as punishment for the beastly out
rages recorded bylGon. Sheridan, as inflicted
'on one poor white woman—a new Lucretia,
whose unspeakable wrongs were enough to
drive men to, not rouse them from, madness.
A few weeks ago, while on a visit to the
Land Office, I was shown, by Mr. Wilson, the
'accomplished.OoMmissioner, a singular relic
More Vetoes.
JUL PIEGAN MASSACRE.
of a late fight on the Plains. It was a garment
taken from an Indian chief after death. A
shirt of buckskin. made without the usual
ornamentation of beads and porcupine ijuilll.4,
yet graced with something .quite novel in the
decorative was'—a full, long fringe, formed of
the hair of white women and children. It was
a ghastly adornment—indeed, the .entire gar
ment was avery unpleasant thing to inspect.'
The only point in it on which the eye could
rest without horror or pity, was a small round
hole, beneath which the raging heart of a
human wild beast came one day to a full stop.
But if the sincere advocates of peace and
justice can gain access to these wretched
beings—it the precept of Christ can be brought
to bear on them—in heaven% name let the
great good work begin at once !
OBITUABY.
Gallen Cremelln Yerplanek.
•
The N. Y. Herald says :
This venerable philanthropist, author and
politician died at his residence, in Fourteenth
street, on yesterday morning, in the eighty
fourth year of his age. He was descended
from an old Dutch family of New York, and
was born in this city in August, 1786. While
a mere boy he entered Columbia Colloge,from
which he graduated in 1801, being then but 15
years old. He then engaged in the study of
law, and alter his admission to ' the
bar went to 'Europe, where he
spent several years, traveling in England
and on the Continent. Returning home In
1814 he entered into political life, becoming a
candidate for a seat in the State Legislature,
representing what was known as the " Mal
contents." Although defeated, lie made repu
tation by the pamphlets ho published, on sub
jects mainly political. Mr. Verplanck at the
same time took an active part in the proceed
ing-s of the Historical Society of New York,
and distinguished himself by an address which
he delivered before the Society in 1818 on.
"The Early European Friends of America,"
and•which was published in pamphlet form
durin• the same ear.
In 1819 Mr: Veitilanck entered with ardor
into the exciting political contest of that year.
In a pamphlet entitled the "State Triumvir
ate, a Political Tale," he satirized De Witt
Clinton and his supporters in a sharp and pun
gent style that attracted much attention. Its
effect was to bring the author more promi
nently before the public, and to aid mate
• rially in his election to the Legislature for the
year following. In the Assembly he served
on the Committee on Education, of which
he was appointed chairman. In 1821 he be
came Professor of the Evidences of Christi
anity in the Theological Seminary of
.the
Protestant Episcopal Church • of this city.
- While holding this position he published the
results rd his studies in a. book entitled " Es
says outhe_Nature and Uses of the Various
Evidences of - Revealed Religion" (1824). A
-few months later :appeared his Essay on the
Doctrine of ContractS;"-a, somewhat curious
production, being "an inqiiiry how contracts
are affected in law and morals,-by conceal
ment, error and inadequate prices. - -During
this time Mr. Verplanek was a contributor-to
Various magazines, and in connection with
C. Bryant and B.C. Sands published an annual
known as The Talisman, over half the contents I
of which be wrote. The annual appeared three
successive.years, when it was discontinued.
In 1825 Mr. Verplanek was elected to Con
gress, serving through four terms. As a repre
sentative he took an active part in obtaining
the passage of a law protecting the rights of
authors, and to his influence, in a great
measure, was due the amendment to the Copy
right. act in 1831 ; whereby the term of • copy
right was increased from twenty-eight to
forty•two years. As a recognition of his
services in this matter the literary men of
New York united in giving him a public
dinner at the close of the session. In 1833 he
retired from Congress; but not from political
life, being afterward elected to the State
Senate and serving several years in that body.
Soon after the termination of his Congres
sional career he published a volume of mis
cellaneous writings, entitled " Discourses
and Addresses on Subjects of American
History, Arts and Literature." In 1844 he
began the publication of a handsome edition
of Shakespeare, which he completed in 1846.
Mr. Verplanck was a Regent of the Univer
'sity of -New York from 1826 until his death,
and was also Vies Chancellor of the 'Univer
sity. He was also the first Prosid..nt of the
State Board of Commissioners of Education,
one of the governors of the New York Hos
pital and President of the Century Club, be
sides holding various offices of trust and
honor. In his death the country has loot an
accomplished scholar, an able writer and a
statesman of broad and liberal views. Although
lie had nearly reached the great age of eighty
four, Mr. Verplauck's mind retained its clear
ness and vigor to the last.
DISASTROUS FIRE IN JERSEY-CITY.
The Freight Depot of the Central Rail
road Destroyed—One Han Burned to
Death and Four Men Injured—Three
Horses Durned•-.Loss About ss,ooo.
The New York Herald says:
A few minutes after six o'clock last evening
a tire broke out in the lamp room of the New
Jersey Central Railroad at Jersey City, and
within the space of two hours the entire struc
ture, about five hundred feet in length, was
consumed. The fire companies of Bergen and
Jersey Cities turned out, the Metropolitan
Police boat was on hand, the company's tow
boats were also engaged, and yet nothing more
could be done than to protect the passenger
depot from destruction. Fortunately the wind
was blowing from the northwest, so that the
flames swept towards the. bay. Had the breeze
set in from the opposite point, all the efforts of
the firemen would have been ineffectual to
save the passenger depot and ferry buildings.
Three horses, which were about to be sent off
on a freight train, three empty freight cars,
aria one car laden with grain were all con
sumed in the shod. The entire loss to the rail
road company will not exceed $B,OOO. The
telegraph office, only twenty-rive feet distant
from the burning shed, was saved. The
flames raged so fiercely that
_people at a dis
tance supposed the entire depot was de
stroyed.
When the flames had subsided the watch
man, Michael Cuff, was missing. Detective
Kilcauley, having posted men at different
points to guard the passenger depot from• the
incursions of thieves, made a search and.
found the charred remains of a man, but
whether of the missing watchnian was uncer
tain: The unfortunate man who perished
was in the act of carrying out the b ooks from
the office when ho was overpowered by the
heat and fell just outside the door of the
office. • Mr. Stearn, who was in the office at
the same time, was obliged to force
the window and escape in that direction.
The foreman, John McCabe, who resides at
167 Cliff - street, New York, was badly burned
about the head and arms. He was conveyed
to Bellevue Hospital. A fireman, who was
running along the string-piece with a
hose in his handy, slipped, and - fell
into the water, and narrowly escaped drown
ing. He was rescued by two other fire
men. Another.raan had his head deeply out
while jumping throtigh a window. Edward
Elannery, a member of No. 3 Engine Com
pany, of Jersey City, was struck in the head
by the tiller of No. 1 Engine,, kuooked down
and seriously injured. He was taken to. the
Jersey City,Hospital. Justice Haybeek, who
was on hand with the firemen, empanelled a
jury, who viewed the remains of the unfortu
nate man alluded to, and the inquest was post
poned till tide evening.
E L FETIIERSTON. Publisber,
PRICE THREE CENPS
ANOTHER /MARINE DISASTER.
A Collision Between Two Steamers in the-
British Channel... One Sunk, Csarryinic
Down the Captain and 'Thirty Others.
• Despatches were received from London,
yesterday, containing the statement that a col
lision had occurred off the coast of Germany
between, the steamers Normandy and Mary,irt
high the Normandy was sunk and the Cap
tain and thirty others drowned. The
Normandy, which was sunk, is one
of the regular line of mail-boats running be
tween Southampton and the Cuannel
belonging to the London and Southwest
ern Railway Company. She was built at
Southampton, in MI, and was of two hun
dred tons register, with engines of 225 horse
power. It is an extremely fortunate thing
that the collision did not happen in the sum
mer tithe, or the loss of life would probably
have been much greater. These boats fre
quently carry two hundred 'passengers at a
trip during the summer months, it being the
favorite line for tourists visiting the Channel
Islands. The Normandy was very elegantly
fitted up, and has often,,, , been alluded to aw
more like a yacht than a passenger
steamer. The Maryis a much larger vessel,
being of 614 tons register, and about 900 car
rying capacity. She was built in Dundee, in
1867, and is owned by Mr. Thomas Morton, of
that town. Her engines are only about 200
horse power, but being a twin screw, she is
remarkably fast, having frequently rim from
London to Goilaelaborg, to Sweden,in thirty
six hours, beating every other boat on the
route, At the time: of ,the accident She was
bound from the Danube to 'London with a
cargo of grain ; and from the fact of the great
loss of lite on the Normandy, It is probable
that the Mary went right over her.
WOMAN ON THE BENCH..
I Women Judges. in Wyoming Territory..
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
writes from Wyoming territory
" Wyoming territory is . civerned by J. A.
Cam belljat; • ' . . . . • •• •, . • , .
tory t , at women suffrage reigns in all its glory.
There women sit on juries and adimnister
laws. The last grand jury drawn at Laramie
shows a clear majority of female names. A
short time since, the Governor appointed se
veral ladies justices of the peace, and they
have' entered upon the duties of their offices.
One of the new justices is for the mining re
gion at South Pass City. The single miners
seem to like their female judges, and pay great
respect to the Court. The South Pays News
gives this account of,a case .recently tried be-.
fore Mrs. Judge Morris :
" , Much interest is manifested in a trial
held in our city on Wednesday last, not so
much from the importance of the 'case as from
its novel character. It was a prosecution
against one of the officers of Carter county, to
recover a fine provided by the law making the
new oounty of Sweetwater, in case certain
officers should fail ro deliver over the records
of their offices to their successors. The pro.
, ceedingwas commenced before Mrs. E. Mor
ris' the newly-appointed and qualified justice
of the peace, and much interest was mani
fested to witness a judicial proceeding with
- a -woman for judge. The trial was held in
the presence of a crowded house, and it must
be admitted, that in the manner of holding
court our justice might well be taken for an
example in point of-dignity and propriety of
action and deportment. The case was dis
missed by Justice Morris, on -the ground that
she, being the successor of the accused kerself,
could not with propriety try the case -,as being
a party interested. This whether technically
correct or not, shows a delicacy of feeling in
regard to the rights of others very creditable
to the head and heart of our new official, and
which is eminently worthy of imitation.
"There is one of these Wyoming female
judges who administers the police affairs of
a certain yoUng city, and who is said to have
caused great commotion by the severity of
herjudgments on offenders. If you take a
drop too much of the "crather, ' up you go for
the full extent of the law, and no amount of -
pleading or promises will soften the judicial
heart. Then if a weak sister is . caught, there
is an end of her sinning : for she is locked up .
hard and fast and kept in durance vile until
she is ready to migrate to other lands, where .
no female judges are."
A MISSING OFFICIAL.
Collector Bailey. of_New York, Dltosp:.
pears.
The N. Y. Times says:
A startling rumor was circulated down
town, yesterday afternoon, concerning, the
whereabouts of Collector Bailey. The rumor
apparently had its origin in the Meriffiants'
Bank, in. which Mr. Bailey keeps the Govern
ment money intrusted to his care. It was
said that the bank, on receiving a check of
sl,2oo,drawn by hirri,from one of his deputies,
bad refused to cash it on the ground that fie
bad "buts:;oo to his credit in the bank at the
time. The rumor about him was to the effect
that he had not been seen nor heard . of. for
several days past. It was alleged that he had.
disappeared, and that such disappearance
was connected in some way with
the reported investigation now being made
by Mr. Banfield, Solietter tif the Treasury, in
reference to the seizure of books and accounts
of several merchants in his district, which was
recently made under his direction. N,o satin=
factory information as to his present where
abouts could be obtained either at his oithjee‘r
at the Merchants' Bank. It was. reported;,
however, that he had gone to Washington. on
official business. On inquiry at his house in
Twenty-second street, last evenirtg i • it. was
ascertained that he bad left on official buslnesa
two days previous. .Elis wife did not, know
where he bad gone, nor when he would re
turn. Ills friends in the city feel certain that
the rumor about his having abscended,is
eta
tirely false.
REBEL PORT.
Nassau and the Blockaule-Runaers.
A correspondent, writing from Nassau, N.
P., says :
I think that the majority of Americans first
beard of this place as a harbor of refuge for
the Southern blockade-runners, and, a, depot
for their trade. To show to what an extent
this trade was carried on, it may '.be well to
cite a few figures from (ov. Rawson's report?.
In the table of exports he mentions goods to •
the amount of between two and three nfilliolt
pounds sterling," cleared chiefly for St. Johns, New Brunswic k, but intended to be run,
through the blockade."
The cotton brought here during the blocknde,
from the ports of Charleston and Wilmine,Mn
alone, amounted in value to nearly four n 3114-
lion pounds sterling.
People from the North who were. hero
during the war assure me that it made thene.
perfectly indignant to see that the Southern
rebels wore aided and abetted in every :possi..
hie way ; while, if a Federal gunboat came in
for necessary coal or provisions, every
staele was thrown in its way. If It dirt till(1 7
ceed in obtaining a supply by paging doublet
price, it was detained , by the authorities an
unnecessary and inconvenient length of time.
Interest, rather than politics, seems to. have
dictated the course ofthis city. Nassau might
doubtless have expressed its regard for Jeff.
in the words of the poet, slightly altered—" I
loved thee not, dear, so much; loved. I not
cotton more."
—Vrain-Lneaa, the seller of false autographs:
who deceived M. Chaales, of the Institute, has
accepted the condemnation to two years' int-
Ptisoineut, and has not chosen to appeal.