.1" . _ • \\\llil/// h . ~ Vli•-.1 - .--.: f... xv• , .. .../i 7- • 4 .. . ____....„,__. ......„.„. or ct , '- 3-- ~ - f tX 1 -:----- ' • ' .:L T's -- i l-'--- _ - x 4 r_ --7- :- i2 - - - - - 1 ..,.. , 111111.- In 7 .0_ iz r sue •, , .., l._,,_„_ . z DENCE N ~. r • V - -'..-., ' '• 4 • ' Varkitirearilp, - -. ,___„. > . '' N ---- -4 •-," • • _ ---..--.7:::-.--;-..;--------r -_ . -- - mon-T. VOLUME XXIV.--NO. 96. FEDDING CARDS, INVITATIONS for Parties, ike, Now styles, MASON k 00 .,907 letnut etroot. de3Ofmw I'IXED EARTH CLOSETS ON ANY Door,in or out of doors, and PORTABLE EARTH CONIMOBEB, for use in bed chambersand elsowhero. Are absolutely free from offence. Earth Otosot COM- Dany'o office and salesroom at WM. G. 11110ADIV, No. Ll2l Market street. r 11029-til DIED. DOBBINE.—On the morning of the 30th ult., Ann Dobbins. relict of the late Caleb Dobbins, aged lit years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully -invited to-atterulthelmieral;frem-the - resniente-of-W C. Mullen, No. 629 North Tenth street, on Tuesday morning. at 9 o'clock. without further notice. • EDW A RDS.—Suddenly, on July 29th, of cholera la, fatitamr Agnes. infant Iluughfrr of George and Loniee 'Edwards. of New Cattle, Delaware. • ► GILLINGIIAM.—At Limerick, .1 efferson coanty, N. Y., on the Zith ult., Lizzie, daughter of Wm. J. and the late Maria Gillingham, aged Pi 'ears. Her friends and relatives are Invited to attend her fu- neral, from the residence of her father, No. 929 Ran dolph street, on Tl, ipi-day afternoon, 24 instant; _ut 3 o'clock. Interment at. Fair 11111. WOODWARD.—On 'Saturday, July 31Ith. at the resi dence of John Shivers. near Mnotentown, N. J., Clara M. Woodward , daughter of John P. and the late l'rls cilia T. Woodward. The •relatives and friends of the family nro invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her father, SO9 tranklin strect,on Wednesday .trmriling, &I instant. at . . • , . . WOOD,—On the .30th nit., &barks 3. Wood, in the 77th y ear of his age. II le frlendo and these of the family are Invited to at. tend 'hit; ' funeral,' on Ttteadav a fterte,en ,et 3 o'clock, from hie late realdence.lio. 90.5 Uheetnnt street. 1%," MASONIC) NOTICE.—THE OFFICEIBz AND I'indiers of Lodge No. .3 A. Y. 31., and Frateralty in general. arc respectfully invited to asacfahle at t l a , m a . sonk 'flail, Chestnut street. on TUESDAY A 4rt; NOON, August 2d, at 4 o'clock. to attend the funeral of our late Brother, WILLIAM S. SIMPSON. By order .of the W. 31. - NELSON lIA TTEN,Secretat ARCH STREET EYRE elr LANDRLL. _ _ WO. MEPARTMPINT L. MEN'S YEAR. - ISPJ. CANVAS DRILLS. PADDED DRILLS: SCOTCH. CHEVIOTS. CASSIMERE FOIL SUITS. CORDLI -110178-AND TOWELS. . - _ - TIIIIITHE COD LIVEh of CITuATE IL Patttr,ossia.—JOAN 0: HA HER kCo ..71 4 3 Marks; et. SPECIAL NOTICE; Chestnut Street. 1 tu ki ll e uri st er CLOTHING s' 4 JOHN. WANAMAKER, 0 GRAND CARNIVAL BAL MASQUE, TO BE GIVEN. I' SEA VIEW EXCURSION HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, - 0 tiWedneiday Evening, Aitgifit - 3, 1810; THE GRAND BALL ROOM On Olt, occtv.ion AC in b ocgn(Fit.ll*l' Floral Adornments, Is n ILE Pictorial Designs and Ornate Novelties will rnhenoe the splendor of the setDe and gratify the lewd eiitirding Ludt.. Coril4 of Admission (including Th - fileowl lure to am, from Atiantic City) Forsale at VINE STREET FERRY TICE ET OFFICE D. 30 itrp.L . • -TAE MOST POPULAR BOOli. OF tile day "TILE INNUCEN rs Altllo AD," by- Mark Twain. It in sold crony by eul.cription. AS11311 , ;AI.), Agent, Ns,. 724 Clie,tnut ham it. jy2B-tb s m w-it rpi tob HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 and MO Lombard street, Dispensary Department. —Medical treatment lad medicine furnished gratuitously o the poor DIVIDEND NOTICES. THE INSURANCE CONIPANY uF THE ETATS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Putr.eurr August WO. 110 - Virectors have'thi. day declared a dividend of Six Per .Cent., or ?well, Dollars per share, (dear of Cailed Mates and State ra7CeS. payable .to the ,btock hOldent or their logal repregentati , es on dernuoll. J. 11.11OLLI tiSgEAD, aul,lot§ fs.,relary • ---- EXCURSIONS. ARRANGEMENTS FO It Lu N BRANCH. 'YU CAMDEN AND BURLINGTON Co. AND NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAILROADS. , . _ On and after MONDAY, Allglnt. 1.1570, NlSHOliger B Philadelphia for Lone Branch will leave Walnut etreet wharf at 7 A. M. and 3 P. M. Return trains will leave Long Branch for Philadelphia at 5.45 A. Id. and f1.20-P Fare Philadelphia to Long Branch, e. 2 50. OW" After Saturday, July 3), the a A. M. and 2 P. m. trains will be discontinued as Long Branch trains from • , 1 , 131.11GATZ311:B, Agent. I.T .2: 0 , • . : jy..11) dt; V MEETI.;NQ AT OGEAN GROVE, NEAR LONG Trains leave Philadelphia, Walnut Street Wharf, via - Camden and Darlington Co., and Now Jersey Railroads, At 7.00 A. 111:. and 3.3dr. 111 . . :F,XCUESION TICEETS, including Stage from Long Branch to Ocean Grove and return, tz,s 25 for ROUND .Tickets can bo procured at Unice, 828 Chestnut street, :Or at Walnut street II hart before departure of trit . ins. W. 11. GATZItEIt, Agent. PHILADELPHIA, July 234870. jy29-I.t § 'T/RE YFItSECETION OF GENERAL IIOWARD. Don Platt'n,Optnion. In a letter to the Cincinnati ( upon the subject-ofthe persecution of General Howard, Don Piatt says : Tlie men Who got up this prosecution and have carried it on with so much zeal and venom are fortunately well known to the pub lic. A statement of their names is in itself sufficient vindication. • NO man probably over Went through so severe a trial as this given General Howard. As. I have said before of the sixty-two days, sixty were given to• the prosecution, and during that entire time, re porters, venomous as the prosecutor:4, were busy as the devil transmitting, by . telegraph .. .garbled stateinents- of-evidence Surreptitiously • obtained, for the committee sat with closed doors under a pledge of secrecy. The • men who supplied Fernando Wood with slanderous 'accusations, were in turn fed by , him with -. colored statementsof - the - evidence. It makes one sick at heart to see in this day. - -of corruption the few honest 'and honorable men left the republic driven from places of trust, while the great horde of hungry scoun drels that crowd about the public treasury like rats around a rotten granary,are left to admin ister the Government. I doubt, •however,. - whether - one so high in - the - esteem - of the pub-- lio and deep in the affections of the religious , community can in this way be either crotrdett -down or crowded out. THE MURDER OF .MR. NATHAN; --- WHO COMMITTED THE CHIME ? The Pollee OtelMusty Silent—Working. lip the Case—Theorles of the People About the Murder—hotense Pnbile reel 111 N. tFrom the N. T. Standard of to-du! . The murder of Mr. Benjamin Nathan seems to till this city witlfa general feeling of horror. The deep mystery that envelops this terrible crime causes men of wealth, no matter how free from the vengeance ofAll men, virtuous and charitable, to experience a sense of inse curity that would make life itself w'barisome and painful. That the cold-blooded assassin will be hunted. down, every oue hopes, but even some of our most keen awl far-sighted detectives gravely doubt; The only facts in connection with this murder upon which we may place firm reliance, are the appalling .wounds; the bided that 'bespattered ' the'VVtilLs' of his bedroom, which is an evidence that the deceased struggled hard to save his life, and, the'iron implement, called a "dog," found by his son, and the diamond studs taken from his shirt, and the rifling of the sate, which seems to indicate that n burglary had been--oten witted. At midnight on, Friday„the,doora.of. Mr. Nathan's house in 'Twenty-third street , were carefully fastened. It is believed that the murderer did not enter up to that hour, .and marks have been left to show that lie ever lett it' The prints of the son's feet while run tfing. ipp stairs to give,the alarm after he tlis; Covered the murder ant the Only Of the track of anyone trona the bedroom of Mr. Na than. On a marble slab in the hall, innuedi utely below the last step of the staircase, there is another footprint. but that also is the son's. The door of the hallway was a little ajar, and this fact may confirm The suspicions of many Issas was_welLaccp.ain th-the-- Ilieu e. for, in Washington Nathan's deposi tion, be sass that on I...turning home on the morning of the murder, he locked, chained _ andbarred" the doorsnitcrr entertrigi The nature et--the- implement with which the murderer killed 31r. Natinut_.suggcts__to _ many that:the burglar, assassin or assassins, 1•41.:1:At. tyrUf , in the crimes they perpetrated, for the instniment bas never been known to bo used as an implement by accomplished burglars. 4 4 1i the night of the murder a car ting., was seen by a man having charge of ii house at the rear of Nathan'S residence. During the terrifie thunderstorin of Friday . night this carriage r, niqin , 4l there: mid the charge of the:hen - se, neat :- , l7hiet , the-: - caniage stood, carefully Watched it, as his' curiceaty was aroused by the fact of no driver - lig on the box through an hour. At length, o wive that something was wrong, he went out on the street, approached the carriage-a leolied-in the window. There was one man imide,apparently asleep. on the kerper-if The house recalling that he Lad k- ft the door wide open, he returned kick, and on his way overheard whispering in the - cafriagei-whieh increased his cffritistity. After ockihg his door ho went tfp- stairs and con firmed to look from his window through the elm trees that shaded it, and watched the tnovrmeats of the riderless carriage. Shortly after the thundeiAthin be saw a man mount , the box hastily and drive toward Brtiadway. No more of this circumstance has yet reached us. Superintendent Jourdan, though he is thelatrand I , ritigtn ss to bear upon it, appears to lay no pare_ ticular,stre upon the matter - -- Pollee Were Ominously Silent. and looked as if they anticipated a reporter's questions before he ~p oke to them. Every police officer had the same answer. The cap tains knew nothing more of the murder than w hat was already published, yet the detectives in civilian's dress were communing with the police all night around the dwelling opposite Fifth Avenue Hotel, in such a manner as to assure us that there was a tangible end in their movements. Another strange feature of the crinn is the quiet manner in which it wa.s perpetrated. Not one in the house heard any cry, voice, or - noise of any nature. This fact is rendered less suspicious by a well-conceived plan of one of the detectives. The doors of the rooms were placed in the same way in which they were upon the night of the mur der. A police officer occupied Mr. Nathan's bedroom, and otler officers those of the sons and domestics. The otticer\in Mr. Nathan's bedroom yelled loudly and none of those in the other rooms heard him. \ the theory raised by the reporter of a Sun day paper that Mr. Nathan's son Washington committed the murder has created intense ex citement. The police allude to this interpre tation as a cool and unmitigated lie; still' there are persons who have the same theory. As for us we only note what, is going on. Ono iiolice officer answered our reporter on being . asked what was thought of this fearful suspi cion raised by the writer of the Sunday pa per, that " he ought to be lynched right away" —meaning the reporter. This was the only remark offered last night outside of persist ently denying that they knew anything of the murderer's track. It is strongly doubted that one man commit ted the act, for there are wounds on the skull, which have not been made by the "dog:" Punctures have been discovered—cats which have the appearance of Dagger Wounds, and others said to have been made by the Made of a sword-cane- 4 It is.iilso.doubtett that the : object of the murderer was robbery alone, as the iron dog could not have been intended as an instrument with which alone to ellect the burglary. It is, however, probable that. the murderer brought the dog " with him as a means of protection if discovered iu his rob bery. Yet again; - the fearful bruises and wounds indicted by the murderer are suffi ciently powertul as an evidence to establish a belief that there was spleen, revenge, and every vindictive feeling urging the arm of the - murderer as he dealt the numerous blows, any one of which would have causeddeath. The mangled state of the murdered man's skull might prove that even after death the mur derer continued his foul work. As to the sup position that the assassin was familiar With' the habits of Mr. Nathan, we can find no ground for suspecting, for iu the cold-blooded act there was no pomt known wherein Mr. Nathan's tendencies were exhibited any more than he defended himself with many violent efforts to save his life, as his clenched teeth and tightly clasped hands indicated. In line, the object of this theory is to cast suspicion on the son of Mr. Nathan as the murderer of his father, These words are startling and fall of mystery while they may be cruelly unjustand uncharitably made the subject of a new sensa tion. In such a fathomless mystery it may bo unfair to condemn the public-press for- utter- - lag statement: which are meant to sift the surrotitidings_.ot aLdecti....WhiehtSeeturi_tO_:o-.L. proach all humanity, and cast a heavy gloom over, our social sphere. The police are reticent on every sabjectbut this one - Of yoneg Nathan's complicity, of which they do not hesitate to , say •• he nOt guilty. , A . vivid; imagination would naturally, be inclined to picture some of the hideous parricidal- scenes which the reporter of the Sunday paper paints With ,such quaint positivism and detail. It is Mittne, as tar as we are concerned, that Mr; Washington Nathan was unwilling to admit the representatives of the, prOss - to the scene of the - tragedy; --- TYclung — Mr:" - Natlian personally, ushered our reporter into his father's bedrotn, and seemed particularly anxious that all the newspaper men should attend and reeetiro every facility for making their profemional in vestigation. Mr. Nathan, the murdered man, was affectionately attached to his family, and Lad placed his sons In a high position, wherein they have the means of attaining the wealth .which their late father had amassed HI his commercial career, be sides being the heirs to his extensive pro perty.'and valuables. These circumstances are seemingly conclusive enough to disavow the sink founts which are now freely discussed in reference to the suspicion attached to vont) , •as tingion alian. The members of the Stock Exchange met on Saturday, and unani mously passed a vote of sympathy with the aggrieved family of the deceased, whose cha racter they eulogized in the highest terms. They ordered the flag or the Stoek. Exchange to be placed athalf-mast. They resolved that a copy of the resolutions drawn up at their meeting should hatransmitted to the_ family,_ ith Assurance of their sincere condolence and Meep heartfelt sympathy in this sudden and awful dispensation. It was also resolved that the Exchange remain closed until 1 P. M. tt,dav, and that the officers and members of. the Board meet at Fifth Avenue Hotel at 0.15. this Morning. Mr. Nathan's life has been in chequered by a single ignoble or questionable' act...To .h 0 numerous. friends he has. been- -at all iiines a courteous and an open-hearted gentleman, which makes his loss so deeply !ett by all holding any commercial or social relations with him._ On account of Saturday being the Jewish Sabbath, the funeral of Mr. Nathan was post- . _ ponednntil when he Will be buried with all due honors.- At ten o'clock on Satur day morning a large congregation assembled in the tipple of the Shearith Lsrael, a syna gogue in Nineteenth street, near Fifth avenue. Jhe Rev. Mr. Lyons, the celebrant, spoke -with deep pathos of thegloomy deed that had occurred in theirtriidst. He-spokeof the great liberality of the deceased, and the unq - ualifie* charity for which lie bad been remarked by all who knew him, and which he had practiced generously since he gnu became pecuniarily._ competent to exercise his 11111Ilitillellee. The speaker was so overcome in' relating his con nection with the aeceased that ho had to for- Isiariand - ciaim - thei - ndulgence — o themecongre gation, as he could not proceed Tor-some time. It is stated that a suspicious character was arrsted sesterday i bet the police denv_thefao With the same ominous persistency with which hey dieclaint any knofrledge whatever of any - -eines-to-the-detection-of the- assassin:--Super--- intendant'Jourdan is assiduously engaged in unraveling the fearful mystery,. He has . en tered into a most strict; exacuinatieb Of. - all the inmates of the house, and has an ample staff of his craftsmen distributed through every no table quarter. The daring and heartless - mur-, derer still Carries - his leaden secret within him, - and it will fte a grave'lbss to .society if he bear it With him to-the tomb. • uperinVendent - Jordan's -- Oppigii -S n: - - Police'Superintendept Jordan, in a conver-' cation witk, our reporter, last evening, ex pressed his Opinion in decided terms of - the sensation story printed in a 'Sunday paper, yesterday,in relation to-the Nathan murder. Nr. Jourdan pronounced the insinuation agan it-Washington Nathan as the.. un- • there being not the slightest Sus picion itgailisitrinin as far as the police have yet received informant:in. :Sot hing-has yet been developed to change the theory entertained by - the police respect ing the manner ef the crime. • The -arrest •of the notorious Tom Costello was not for the supposed participation iri the - ifibrifer. as reported in one of the papers yes terday. ALIMSALIttN - ItMWIC - - TranSporied Felon Recognized after liieni3-seven Years in an Episcopal Bishop. About thirty-five years ago, one William Bailey entered the Universit,y of Dublin, and close attention to business soon became a full-fledged Doctor of Laws. He vas a good looking man, an eloquent preacher, and a ereat favorite with the ladies. He Was essen tial to the success of tea-parties, absolutely necessary to the well-being of pici.rdcs, and a brilliant light In those heterogeneous meetings called eontersaziones. Unfortunately. for Dr. William Bailey, Aie wa.,4 one of the many divines who had•-•toTasseirich on .C 4 a year, and his. daily • and ni,,ahtly attendance on the fashionable world speedily involved him in debt past all hope of re do:option. William has a sister rolling in wealth, and although she listened to his ser mons and prided herself on their close rela tionship, she steadfastly refused to send him one sixpence or become responsible in any way for his liabilities. At length,in Istt3, Wil liam Bailey, LL. D., took the liberty of sign ing his close-fisted sister's name to a check for t. 2,700, and she at once gave him in custody. The trial came off, and the seal-stirring preacher, the fashionable divine, the erudite illiam,was banished for ten years to Botany Bay. The ladies wept for Ins fate, and the gentlenao) talked a few days about " that un thrtunato man Bailey," but he soon dropped out of mind, and became nothing more . than an ordinary convict. All this happened in 1643, and now a rumor has reached the ears of the wiseacres of Dublin UniverSity, that one William Francis Xavier Bailey, au Australian Protestant Bishop. is the identical , William Batley, LL.D., who once moved ,in the best Irish circles, and once met judge Ball under very painful circumstances. ~ A disappointed candidate for the Bishopric had raked up his antecedents from the Newgate calendar, and staggered his flock by the assertion that the Episcopal See was filled by an accomplished forger. The §enate of the tniversity.of Dub lin have therefore, resolved.to :strip Dr. Wil-, liam (Francis Xavier) Bailey of • his degrees, and hold him forth to the religiOuS world as a wolf in sheep's clothing. DEL WARE PEACHES. Shipments, Routes, Varieties, Etc. The Wrlmington Continacbt? of Saturday says : The peach shipments by railroad yes terday were seventeen carloads, against a shipment of thirty carloads.on the correspond ing day last year. We copied recently from the Smyrna Tii,u'. a statement that " a great portion of the Sus sex—erop is going by way.of the Lewes steam ers." We learn that the shipments thus far have been quite small,and are likely to remain so unless there is some improvement in the management of the steamers. Ou the after noon of the Nth aboid two carloads of peaches and marketing, and several passengers from various points on the Junction and Break water Railroads were at Lewes ready for the steamer Granite. State; "announced to sail that afternoon. The' steamer did not make her ap pearance, and the' fruit was shipped north ward next day, by the All Rail route, since which time the freight agent of the Dela Ware Railroad has .receivect inquiriesifor rates from the Junction and Breakwater 'Railroad. The balk Of •the_.p_eaches-, from.,,,StisseX., - Will Aimee - fFO - fn'alO - ng 7 the'ifia - e - a the DelaTware Railroad, in the western part of the county, and they Will be shiPfied'bY the All Rail route. Gentlemen with whom we have conversed, from the lower part of the State; speak in very disparaging Orilla of the Hales Early peach, and deal are it utterly .worthless, it being sure to rot in the orates if picked before it is ripe, and equally sure to rot 011 the trees if left to ripen. We are told, however, that it has done better in.the upper part 6f the peach growing district; "Brief communiCations from the various , growers to this paper would do more; evengian an association :towards; diflu sing inforuiation aS to. the best and poorestva.; rieties MONDAY, AUGUST 1,1870. TUE GOLD REGIONS., Discovery of ts /Sew Gold Mine In Cal!- formats. [From the San Bernardin9 Guardian.! We have always contended that our coun try, if thoroughly prospected, would be into to contain a greater variety and richer minerals than any other in the State, and that it: only needed the advent of the. hardy prospector to verify the fact.. Since the publi cation of our article in April last, many rich discoVeries have been made, both in gold and - silver; and tin, but willinfilEti past two weeks nines have been discovered that eclipse anything in point of richness that has been found since the discoveries near San Diego last spring. About forty miles in a southerly direction from San Bernar dino, some gold quartz veins have been dis covered that show free gold in great abund ance. Mr. Stamps. an old 4f.t± miner, and a •small party left the San Diego mines some two or three months ago and commenced pros pecting this way, taking the mountain ranges that had toward "Old Witty," or San Bernan dino base line, with but little success,however, until, arriving at the mountain of San Jacinto, they' discovered. a entail quartz vein outcrop-. ping; containing free gold. The vein was only about three inches . wide, but. extremely.rich., They at untie ,commenced sinking a shatt,and, as they sunk down, the vein widened. and at a depth of about twelve feet it was twelve inches and widening, showing a- good wall with clay casing. An arastra was at once erectod, and from :500 to 600 ppunds of rock' upward of S:100 worth of gord_Was . ektraeted.: Since-that-time other.Vein:4 -have- beenfi -- iUnd in the vicinity. The news of the discovery, flied like wildfire through the town, and men in wagons, men on horseback, and men on foot have. daring this week . , flocked to the: El Dorado. None of them' have .returned tette time of going=tO presS, but we Will give our readers further particular, when we re ceive them. Gold quartz veins have also been found within the pasttwo weeks in other parts, o the county, and in the "Squaw" they are sinking a shaft to develop it, as also in the Claim adjoining. . For rnanyyears past there, has been a le gend-or tiattition - am - mug - the - CI-difornianwand , miners that a silver Mine existed in the sur retuning mountains. from which the old pa dres, in times past ; had extracted fabulous "Sint; dof r Onto ;" hts locality of the Mi tie was forgotten, and although, from vague in-; loimation, -many - adventurous- -ininent- had spent their time and money in trying to trace it- out, it was in Vain. A short time since some Californians found a - very rich - silver rock, but cnnld not - find the lead - or vein whence it cause. They inforMed Dr.- Barton and Win. McCoy of the fact, and on Sunday last they, in company with -Charles Clusker and Mr. Lisle, proceeded to the spot where the float rock was foundfOrty mile.; in an easterly-direction frciin-San Bernardino. • Arriving, at the spot; they proceeded in a systematic manner to prospect the mountains.: Their,etiorts wer - e_after a time rewarded•Withl success. Charlie Clusker struck upon a! well _defined trail leading into the mountains,which he followed, and soon *came—upon_a_tonil Well • graded and built; of large stone, evitientlY with .care, which, following; brought .him to the old Jesnitrnme. • -Here at last was the mystery solved—the truth established that in the Old time, years ago, men had :been engaged in mining. _ The_ rtmains of an -old shaft were. found, partly tilled in, but showing marks of the pick and gad— The party at once proceeded to clear away some of the rubbish, and soon obtained quite a lot of the ore, whiehls.rich_encurgh-to atisfc thiLbeart of the most rapacious miner— assaying from 5600 to Sl.ooii nor ton. • The Mine has been called tlie Jesuit, and an other close by the old Padre. Steps were at once taken to reap the reward of their perse .veranceand this week a company was formed, the district named the San Jacinto Mining Distriet, a mining code of laws framed, and preliminary steps taken energetically to work the lodes. This is good news for the miners e hie w h ere ,a nd should encourage them to come here if they wish to " make_ their piles," and they will not only enjoy the best climate on earth, and obtain supplies at a reasonable sum, but can afterward lind a suitable homestead upon land that will compare favorably with any in tbe-State. DRAMATIC. The Walnut Street Theatre Company. The following list contains the names of the personswho will form the stock company at the Walnut Street Theatre during the cowing season : Thomas J. Heniphill Business Manager. W. A. Chapman, Stagg Manager and Low Comedy. • Charles Walcott Leading Business. Lewis Morrison First Heavy. W. EL,Bailey First Okl Man. James Taylor . Juvenile. E. A. Ehiersori....First Walking Gentleman. Charles Bradshaw Lon Comedy. , D. E. Reilly ' General Business. W. H. 4 (me's., (3 ei:wral Business. .1. C. Johnikin...— , General Business. Frank, Stull Prompter. W. L00mi5........ General Business. W. Williams' General Business. BM= Miss Annie Graham Leading Business M rs. Chas.' Walcot First Chambermaid NI rs. W A. Chapman First Old Woman. Miss Rose Wood First Walking Lady Miss Mary Barr Second Walking Lady NI iss Susie Price Miss Fanny Henry General Business .General Business Miss Laura Reed .Geueral Business Miss Jenny 'Tracey General BnsineSs Miss Mary Cranston General BusineSs MISCEL ANEOU S Mr Geo: ze; . . . . . ... Artist M r. J,Moran Assistant Artist. M r. Arthur :Wright Carpenter. Mr. John Jolly Assistant Carpenter. Mr. Alex. Wilson Assistant Carpenter. r. Simon Hassler Musical Director. M r. Chas'. Burns Ticket Agent. r. Edward Woods. Property Man. M v. Chas. Hoffner ..... ....Ass't Property Mau. MI'S. M. Richer Wardrobe-Keeper. The season will open August 20th with The Se:ud, illustrated by a panorama, hand ,ollM scenery ,and numerous ingenious ap pliances. On Sept. sth Mr. Edwin Forrest will appear. Thou will come in regular suc cession Lucille Western, John S. Clarke and Edwin Booth. A BURNING MINE. An Illinois Coal 'line in Eruption. (From the St. Louis Thuee of July 27th.] We learn from a gentleman who passed through °Wallet' station; on the Ohio and M ississippi railroad, at about midnight on Saturday of last week; that the coal mine at that place bad caught lire and iwas burning up. It seems that there is only one :shaft iu tile mine, and it was necessary to keep a fur nace in the pit, to consume the foul air. It is supposed that the tire caught froth the fur nace. Vortunately there were no workmen iu the mine at that .late hour.. _The scene is described as grand. The great lumps Of burn . lug coal were; thrown high in.:the air and presentedWe I , appearance of a volcano in eruption. The sky *asfairly illuminated by the streath Of fire leaping from the vortex of the mine. Workmen were endeavoring to smother the — conflagration - by throwing earth and manure in .the oritieeleading-tO the pit. The - dames were. subdued .on Sunday, but at last accounts 'the coal in the pit. was still burn ing.r,and liable to break forth again in a greater volume. This coal mine is said to - be one of the most extensive in-this section, and its destruction would failltetivy on the owners, who are rest dents of this: city. Bad the lire occurred at a less unseasonable hour a great . loss of life would doubtless have re§ultod. TBE NEEDLE. GUN. itarAlertts. , Sepretairx Stanton's Opinion of Fancy firearnio. Donn Piatt writes as follows to the Cinch' nazi Cononercial : . TIM needle -giin is to Europe what the masked batteries were to us in the late war,, It arful mystery and a humong. ft wss th man back of the needle gun who won for Prussia her great victoties, and they were won in spite of the needle gun. — Tfic -- cool - prWiSion - isf - a - Well:WaTned man IT wet tit more in the hour of peril to a Govern ment than all the Inventions of Yankeedoin. The deadliest instrument known to the world is the bayonet, that will not- repeat, nor carry beyond the arm that uses it. If infantry can be so trained as to use' the bayonet, that in fantry is irresistible.' This was our trouble_ during the late- war.- Our . men threw away their ammunition. So soma as ordered into action they began tiring at random, rapidly as they could under intense exeitement, - but to little or no purpose. Let meillustrate. At the bloody little - battle of Cross Keys, General Fremont, one ef.the coolest and clearest-headed officers in our Service, sent me to Colonel Bohlen, then conireatirlinv, a brigade, to , orderforward two e;r thtee regiments to occupy a wood. that. 'crowned a knoll the General thought import ant for us to hold.' It.had been shelled to no purpose apparently. I delivered the order and tile line moved forward. The men began •firing as soon as the 'order was 'giv.m. ltiNy were not within range. I remarked this to Colonel Bohlen, arid be said :--"-Certainly-not, but what 'the devil can one do ; the coinurand to cease firing is of no use while we march toward the enemy." And so the wild abuse of ammunition Continued. The enemy made no response.. The wood.being approached . by Our troopS wasiilent Os a 'bemeterY. When, at last, our poor - fellows wore- within fifty yards of the fatal spot, the Confederates seemed to rise out of the earth, and, with a wild yell, delivered one well-directed fire. Some nineteen or twenty of our men and offi cers were killed On the spot, three times the tonnher wounded, and the entire - line re h rea teetrn reason - given - rand -- a true one, was "out of ammunition." There is not an ()nicer in our service who saw actual-fighting who will not sus . tain me, in thilyirreininiscente4 - of like sort. '' . BA that line been madeUp of well-trained men. no braver than the poor fellows• who fought and suffered,. anti- had they advanced on the wood with fixed bayonets, the twenty Id have been frilled and aft tripiwouuded, hut we could have cleared the Wood and taught the foe a lesson' not easlly . forgotteti. 1 do: notbelieve that we had a real bayonet,. chargc.during - the entire War.. • Many tell me that this implies a superiority in the Southern troops. I beg pardon, I mean .nothing of the • sort. The -Southern soldier was no better- trained than our own: But there did exist-a military_Spirit at the South -we do not and never. l / 4 11d possess,. or attempt to eultivate.- We make a few precious oilicers at West Point. who; like.General•Baurn; have immense spirit and-no - army. • : 4 1 happened - to be present ono day when an ingenions_gentleman.itudertook.to_ explain to td r. Stanton a cunningly designed repeater. “The beSt invention for killing," said Mr. Stantoii, "was made by God - Alniighty;'whett H e created a man. T would rather have one liod Soldier with a single - charge in his gun, determin6d to kill somebody,• than a new re cruit armed with a repeater, and followed.,by a wagoriload-el..amiunnition." The ;gileStiUn . of transportation is a grave one in war; and a man can have in battle as notch ammunition as he can conveniently marry: — It is therefore an error to suppose that in a repeater we double or quadruple the Lumber of mext, if in so doing we weigh down the -soldier, or have to follow him with a wagon-load of ammunition. The true art of oar lies in the imaginary order of old Putnam, f "reserve your fire, buys, until you can see the whites of their eyes.' But we went crazy with the rest, an' had our tine Springfield rifles turned into repeaters at a cost that would have bought us new ones, some infernal scoundrel pocketing the profit. THE MITRAILLEIIR. The .Most .Destructive Military Weapon linommi6 The mitrailleur, which is as yet untried in practical warfare, is considered by the Freneh as the most destructive military weapon known. Recently, 300 wretched horses, al ready condemned to the,. poleaxe, were pur chased at the rate of four or live franca each, and ranged at a considerable diStance. Two mitrailleures were brought to play on them. and in:three minutes after two discharges not one of the animals remained standing. -On a second occasion, 560 horses were brought down at a single trial. This formidable weapon is constructed as follows: It is a light 37-barrelled gun, arranged , that its barrels may be dischargedsimultaneously, or consecutively. The 37 cartridges 'intended for one charge are contained in a small box. A steel plate with corresponding holes is placed on the open box,. which is then re versed and the cartridges fall points foremost into their respective holes. They ,are pre vented froto falling through by the rims at their bases. The loaded plate is then intro duced into 'the breech-shit, and when the breech is closed by-a lever a number of steel pins ' pressed by spiral springs, are only pre vented by strilanithe percussionet arranement in tile cartridges • y a plate in front of them. When this case is moved slowly by a 'handle, the cartridges arc fired one by one If the plate be withdrawn rapidly they., follow each other so qui . 6lthat their discharge is all-but site ultaneotts. The invention seems very' well adapted for use in forts or other permanent places of defence or offence, but its carriage and management in the field would present many and insuperable obstacles to its general use. The Weather for July. 8..1 L. SHlfifi UM the following table of the weather at Germantown for the month just passed; JULY, 1870. ~ -.... I .0 • .4 g ..:C t 11 .V. ." t; Wend and Weallecr. C c ~,..-. • t ..., ':,..." ~.. C ea • ~...: 0 0 0, E'. .....1 '' 2 it 0.1 414 l ' al . 41 ig ..4 , ._._ 1 76 52'85/ 29.9 75 N. E. CloudY. ShowerY • 3162.1 66 65 301 CA N.E.' Cloudy. Rain. 35861 62 30 1 63 5-10 E. Cloudy. Rain. 10,31 6 . 173 30.1 73 E. Cloudy, 5161 63 78 30.1 S 0 S. W. Clear. . 61146 72180 30.1 781 - 8. W. Clear. 7 131,63 80 30, 8111 7.10 'S. Cloudy. Showery. 8107169 1 79 30. 80 „ S. W. Cloudy. 9161171 77 30.2 79 ' S. W. Clear. 10(3 74181 30.3 52 S. W. Clear. 11166 7883 10.2 82 ' S. NV, Cifiltl... Showery. 12173 80185 30.1 81 1.10 S. W. Clear. Shower. T. L. 1368 79 81 30,1 62 8.. Clear. i -11 67,80183 -311-:- 88 . 'S. IV'. Clear. 15 70E77186 30,1 97 h . . S. % Vir . . • . 16171 Ml3 l l 30.2 89 ... . . S.. -Clear. 7.4791-136-11 -W-1-12 -- 1-10781701eal ..Stiowei,). 1`71.. 18177 MB9 30-1 90 S. W. Clear. -19 74 79 88 30.1 90N. E. Clear, 20 7175 81 '50'.2. 83 'llO - . WE. Clear.: Shower. 21 70 78 85 80.1 85 N. IV. Clear. 22 61 75 86 30.2 86 N. E. Clear. 23 61177 88 '302 -- 90 S. 'Clear. 24 72,81 88 30,2 99 El. Clear. . . 25 73182 90 30 2 90 H. Clear. 26 75182 87 30.2 89 ' S. Clear. 27 73 81 87 30.1 10 S. W. Clear. 28 70 73 821 . 30.1 85 5-10 N. E. Clear. Showery. T.L., 29.75 79 82 30 - 81 . S. W.. Clear. 30165 731771 30.2 78 N. W. Clear. 31162 711811 30.3 80 N. W. Clear. ONTIILY AVERAGES oln ocl %lock. 14111, est Pc it o'clt Ito o', a 0',..1( IA of , PRICE TIIREBOVT-PS. A :WALK TO ACCEINGTON ,ON THE 1 7 ,01Tffir - MVP • (Written for-4 Friend's '! The dayli.of our life ore threescore sears Bud tewir, A Birthday :—and now'a day that rose Within - 11th of hope, with meaning rifb-- A thoughtful day from dawn to close — The middle day of human life., In sloping fields on narrow plains,. The sheep were feeding on their knees, As.W6 went thiough.the . winding Strew'd with red buds of alder trees.- So warm the day—its influence lent ' 'lO nagging thought a stronger wing; So utterly was Winter spent So sudden was the birth of spring.. Wild crocus flowers in copse and hedge,— In sunlight, clustering thick below, firewood Sighed tor the's shaded ledge, Where sparkled yet a lino of snoW. • . And crowded, snowdrops faintly. hung Their fair heads lower for the heat, 1V hile in still air all branches flung Their shadowy doubles at our feet. And throtigh the hedge the sunbeatns.creipti- Dropped through the nipple and the birth.; And - los - tin airy distance slept On the-broad-tower of Tamworth.Churalt:="- Then, lingering on the downward way, A little space we resting stood, To watch the golden haze that lay Adown that river by_the wood. A distance vague, the bloqm of sleep The constant sun had lent the. scene A veiling chaim on diugles deep Lay soft those pastoral nills,between There are some days that die not ont, I.siur alter by reflection's power, husorconverso - ealmTwliose - words - de.VM77 For ever rest, the spiriVs.dowar. , And they are days when drops , a veil, A nest upon the distance past; "And while we say to . peacp—" All Mill !" We hope that always it shall last. Times when the tronhiesof.the heart 'Are bushed—as winds were. hushed. that. day— . . And beading hopes begin to start, - Like those green hedgerows on, our_way. .. , • . "When all within and all , arpuutl, Like hues oil that sweet.lautisc4ellileud, Anil - nit - tire's band - has tnade - te - gotnici - 'lite attend: that her touch atte. , When there are rays within, like those That streamed through iniiple - aud'ihrduklit ..__ birth, And rested in such calni repose On the broad tower of Tam north Church. • —rive-sixths of the Ainelican railroads have the fear feet eight inch gauge. . e . t stated that a uniform plan :wilishortly be i omulgated-for--the uniform spelling of proper naives of place.l in India.. —Tlre - Sportsmen's Club of Denver City last springlruported several hundred. dozen of ti nails, and turned theta loose. They are re ported to be doing well. —A young girl convieted of _child,murder.,____ AtiAria,•and sentenced to death,cetnrnitted snicum in her cell.aftershe had been informed-- that the Emperor had changed her sentence to imprisonment for life. —" 1 never shot a bird iu my life," said-a friend to an lrishinan, who replied: "Inver shot anything in the shape of a bird "except a. squirrel, which 1 killed with a stone, when it fell into the river and was drowned. 7 :—Potter Palmer,the richest man in. Chicago, is in hard luck. Last week he had a. base ball club named after him, and now it is an nounced that he is going to marry a Chicago woman. Misfortunesnever come singly. —A school girl, in writing to. her mother, says : " 1 get along nicely with all •rny teachers, except Miss --, but I don't blame her; be cause she accidentally shot the young,man she was engaged to, and •it naturally , makes. her feel cross, especially on cloudy days.", • • . '—An Indianapolis German had occasion,re centiy, to bury a largewile,and squabbled With. the sexton about the fee. Datish not a: big grave," said the disconsolate husband. , " Not a big grave '."' indignantly responded the sell-. ton ; " why. bang it, that's a cellar." —A Western paper thus reeords the demise of a favorite dog, killed by a lightning stroke.: " The bolt it tiew and the' pulp lie yowled; ' As the lightning pierced his hide ; It Yapped his vital energies, ' ' 'So he tlummixed, kicked; Mid died." Woodstock, Ohio,. the lion-tafoer of Netni Amburgh's menagerie was tight,whqu,tAo lions concluded not to associate with biw,. so the,y put him out, after tearing off thC i scat,q.l Ins pants, contairiing,..aho_u_t flesh. fie his swore off drinlcing,.tis woll sitting down, until he accumulates some ntO'Ke meat. • • - • —The prompt and rapid production ,',of war maps has alwayS astonished a tdmplo:bearted public. An exchange tells hoWit is done: n A pistol is first charged with powder, then a 241 - Jail bottle of ink is placed ou this charge anti fired amdust a piece of box-wood; the box is then handed ,to the artist, who chips: away all the surface not covered *al t ink; producing a first-class newspaner.Wamnap." —A thief went into the depot at lowa City last - week with revolver in baud, and, in tho presence of five or six emplovi,s of the com pany broke open a trunk, took' from it a quan tity of valuable clothing, which ho packed in a valise of his own, sat own, waited till day light.; and then went his way. The witnesses were afraid of his revolver. —A Nevada mother, thankful for the rester talon ora daughter from the " augur," pub lishes the fact, and gives the credit hitter. She says : " - 11 , 1 y daughter Sarah:Ann, who, if Ido say it, is the handsomest girl . ire Hole county, has been troubled with chills and! fever for going on six months, and the docteru couldn't do any good." A bottle of the bittem eras not half gone when the " chtl4 quit Oh her."' —A Bostonian's report from California is a. follows : " We have seen the Yosemite Valley, and done that elephant. It would sound, too much like a Munehauseu story if I were to attempt any description of it. imagine the biggest valley you can, filled with marvelous rocks, rivers, waterfalls and foliage, with shanty hotels and. Indian wigwams ; then scratch your head and multiply by fourteen; then scratch again and double your first pro duct, and :then go roundto Barton's, or else where, until :you can see double all you had, wfore;:andill-lutitt-tb---get-air-ideU-of —A'poor actor• of the theatre of Soydelan suffered the other day from an attack which, happily, is - notlikelyto - become epidemic.. , -At the, theatre- in question, says the Paris Fig (11:0 they are playing a pantomime, in the second act of which a personage, looking one ef 'window, is decapitated by a largo razor of ;weed ,huttipg with a spring. The, comedian. in ,qui stion, while taking part in the dialogue and fitting his .pasteboard head, Was cant by the, spring. 'Tho unfortunate man'a was lirolsen by the shock and one of his ogov foreed frmn its.. seeker.: Tho 'actorsi tle despaired of. ..'CM 3-10 .. 76 4-10 .., 82 3. 10 82 640 FAcys AND FANcills. (From Goo.l NVords for knoiqtl Poem by. Jeam imrelow. MERE
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