Eljt Vitess.!
FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1859
FIRST P.taa —Russia and Prance; Dr. J. W.
Fran is on Benjamin ru.nklin ; (Lateral News;
Later from Mount grirgs. Fort urn PAGE.
—The Coffaitu and Meßlibbir. DlELlulty Free
Mack lanistaLlon ; Marine Idielligene e.
The NeWS.
A private despatch has been received at B3S
ton, from Halifax, announcing the death of Rufus
Choate, of Boston. Mr. Choate was one of the
ablest lawyers and most eloquent orators of the
country, and his death is a national calamity.
The Washington Constitution of yesterday con
tains a long extract Iron] a despatch from the De
partment of e tate to the United States minister at
_Berlin, in regard to the liability cf naturalized
°Weems to be impressed into the military service
of their native countries on their return to therm
The despatch is evidently somewhat of a conces
sion to the indignant public sentiment created by
the LeClere and llrfer Jotters, but, to eeme extent,
the pretensions of monarchic 11 Governments are
still reeoguised. Th t most important portion of
this eespatch is as follows :
"It won d lie quite absurd to contend that a
btou.ot to this country from a foreign coun
tty with his father's family when but twelve
years of age . and naturalized here, who should of
terwards visit the country or his birth when ho
had ne.1,114 a man, eni4ht then be seized and com
pelled to perform military service, because, if he
had remained there throughout the intervening
years, and his the had been spared ; be would
have been b-nod to pertorm salutary service. T ,
submit to such a principle would be to make an
odious distinction between our naturalized and
native cam gee Fo' this rear- in, in my till:patch
to you of i4lty 12 1559 and again it: my letter
to oir. Hofer, of the 14th ultimo, I cotfeee the
foreign jurisdiction in regard to cur naturalized
situ tea
to such of them as twere in the army.
or actually called into it' at the time they left
Prussia. That is, to !Le case of actual desertion
or a refusal to enter the army after having been
regularly drafted and called into it by the Govern
ment to which at the time they owed allegiance
It is presumed that neither of these eases presents
navy di rutty in paint of principle."
New rerrt , continue to be received from Pike's
Peak, eon - fern in the richness el the Rocky Moun
tain goad mines. A correspondent of the St. Lents
Eve& ran says that the company on the Gregory
lead are taking out $l,OOO daily. He predicts
that millions of dollars will 11 'w into St. Louis
from the vines, and that they will exceed in rich
ness the California mines.
, fearful insurrec ion of the nearoca of the vil
lages surrounding Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela.
broke out on the 15:h of June. They assassinated
Goiquaza, a judge cf the vicinity, and murdered
four other peaceable eitizees. Afterwards they
advanced with a force of two hundred and fifty
men to attack Puerto Cabello, but were repulsed
by the troops stationed in that place. Since that
time they have committed a number of outrages in
the vicinity, and at last accounts it was feared
they would yet return in sufficient numbers to sue
cersfally attack Puerto Cabello. The rising is said
to be not a political movement, but a question of
hint ks and whites
The National Administration has decided that
further legislation by Congress is necessary before
the building of the new post (fries and court house
in Philadelphia can be proceeded with, anti the
order for the sale of the Pank of Pennsylvania
property has been withdrawn. It is singular that
our astute rulers did not discern these dillioulties
at an earlier day.
We publish, in ano'her column, the emphatic
resolutions of Tammany 11111 in regard to the
Tights of naturalized citizens. They have doubt
less exercised considerable it flueree in prompting
the Administration to its recent attempt so modify
and explain away the odious doctrine e.rser zed in
the LeClere letter.
The wheat. end rye orops in the Southern, Mid
dle and Western S ates have by this time been cu.
and gathered, and our information from different
parts of the country leads us to believe that in
these cereals the yield is an unusually heavy one,
notwithstanding the fears expresssed a short time
since that the cold weather had injured the crops,
and that in all probabdtty they would be light
In a visit to Lancaster eour, Or, (which has well
been called the garden spot" of the world,) a few
days Once, we had an oppirtunity to witness the
log athering of the crops, and to converse w;th se
veral of the oldest farmers in the county ; and they
all concurred in the opinion that in that connty
the crops are the is goat they have ever hid. The
wheat crop is very large. A larger number Or
acres had been sawn, the grain is heavier to the
bushel, and the yield to the acre is greater, than
they have ever known it to be. To the MEISSCF--
the laboring men of this eou_ntry—this is gratify
ing intelligence. The corn, oats, and potato crop. ,
are very promising, and should no'hiog occur to
injure them, will turn out equally as well es the
wheat and rye
The steam boiler in H. Wells ,nt Co 's machine
works, at Florence, near Northatnyon, Mass., ex
plon..d at ten minutes before seven o'clock, on the
morning the ilth inst , killing the engineer
Franklin S , pear ; Haring Mr. Hiram Tel% the
principal proprietor, so that he lived but twenty.
lair hours; and badly scalding and bruising Mr
C B. Rose, the superintendent of the foundry and
pattern shop, and John Franzen, a German em
pinyee Speer was in front of the boiler when
the explosion ovurred, and Franzen was near
him ; Messrs. Wells and Rose were in the work
shop. nearly opposite the rear end of the boiler
Mr. Rose's son, a lad of about eleven ,yesrs, was
With him at the time, but escaped uninjured, No
other persons worn near the boiler.
Dv way of the Rio Grande we have advises frcm
Northern Mexico to the 21. h nit. Tbe Browns
ville ..F/aer of that date gives the following venial,
of the ill:acuity between the two L , beral generals.
Zuezust, the commander-in-chief, and Guadalupe
Garcia, commander of the Tamaulipas I . OTrAS, the
unfortunate result of which has been tr, suspend
for the lime being all effective operatiaas :
"General Z iszna ordered a platoon ri soldiers
to enter the Mint at Goanejuato, take and reccipr
for the money therein contained ; which amounted
to the snug sum of $179 000 -with which Zuszna',.
troops were promptly paid whilst thoie under
General Garcia (the Tamaulipas f gees) were paid
virtually nothing ThAr i of cmrse. is the stare•
went r f General G Itchy, and altogether more ree,
so-cable than the counter statement of Z !Rana ant'
his friends Whion is to the effect that 0 4rc ip, re :
fused to tahe. as ordered, the advance position 'in
the army. Of the amount obtained at the mitre,
Ti6o 000, =e are aestired,are in the hands of Ignacio
Galindo, Vidaurri's secretary, at pre:ent in this
City, en route for the States to make purchase, of
arms and monitions of war "
The seizure was, of course—like all similar
seizures in Megirc, - igery unjust, and the Juarez
Government at `:era. Cruz has promptly reptuli
ated. it. Much to its credit also, it bas, by fat mal
decree, set apart one-tenth of the duties upon all
vessels entering that nort till the wil . ole loss is
made,good. The money itself is, of course, gone
forever, ttnlese, as stated, some portion of it has
already been forwarded for the purchase of arms
A dreadful accident occurred in the Waahington
navy-yard yesterday morning, of which the fel_
lowing particulars are given in the sear of last
evening:
A DREADFUL ACCIDENT —lbis forenoon, be
tween ten and eleven o'clock, while the gunner's
crew, at the Washington navy yard, were eno,agod
in their usual battery practice, a sixty-four
pounder—an army gun—which had been - Brea
once only here (though it had evidently been
often fired before) burst, killing James Wilson and
Willinm Nokes. The former was a seafaring-mon,
married, with one child The latter wt a mar
ried man, and was preparing to become a. gunner
in the service. He leaves no children.
The accident also wounded ten me::--eighi Se
verely and two slightly—is follows: Richard
G wmley, (ent about the head.) Charles Stuart,
(bad y cut about the head) Rorierick
(collar bone broken,) P. Ludwig. (splinter in the
fide.) Andrew Wilson, (cut about the feet) and
head) J. Roach,Elijah Beacham. (badly
hurt,) Dennis Leary, Je,aoonner, and John Hol
land, (slightly hurt )
Mr Wilson was hilted instantly, half his head
being blown off ; wt Mr Nukes lived but five or
ten minute-1 alter the aceeident the lower part
of hie fAett and head was blown off. The force of
the aaoident threw Mr Wilson's body a distance of
thirty feet, and Mr Yokes and Mr Beacham ten
or twelve feat. A I who were injored were on the
gu n platform, which is, elevated ten feet from the
ground Some of the fr.gm!mts of the utile were
cast more than two hundred yards, to the great
danger of the workmen around.
At I P. M. the presence of the coroner to hold
an inquest over the remains of Messrs Wilson and
liokes, (who were most estimable and valuable
men in all the relations in life,) was momentarily
expected. Indeed, all the gunner's crew are
necessarily picked men.
Hopes of the recovery of all the wounded ern
entertained by Dr A. W.. Miller and the medic al
officers of au 3 and in attendance.
Everything poss , Nle, to relieve the condition cf
the wounded, has been done by the oTioers of the
yard.
Gov. Blank, of Nebraska, has taken the field
against the Pawnee Indians, who hava recently
committed great depredations upon the citizens
of the Territory.
The forty-second semi annual Commencement of
the Central High School took place at the Acacia.
my of Music yesterday morning. The attendance
of spectators was very large, the room being
crowded from pit to dome. A full repose, a the
proceedings will be found in our oolaoria this
morning.
The jury in the ease of Withiegit Murphy,
charged with the murder of G.eorgi3 Neal, ren
dered a verdict of not guilty 7o,sterday morning.
Sak.eoN To-monitor.— Oitzusual :Pulpit sketch
on 15sturday will be of a sermon preached last
Sunday morning at the Advent (Episcopal) Church,
York avenue sad Buttonwood et•eet, by Rev.
Palnips Brooks, r young gentleman who, on that
°Cimino, entered upon his ministry Mr. Brooke
ie q rite youthful in his appearance, but evinces
taboos that are likely to render his services
Ideal acceptabla to the people of his prospective
charge,
EN' We have again to express our thanks to Mr.
Henry A. Dreer, the enterprising Headsman and
Florist, at No 327 chestnut sheet, below Fourth,
fain aoceptable, seasonable, and beautiful boquet.
Mr. preer's establisbmhzit le highly popular with
our oftiseng, and we ate Vail . to bear that it is sue
peedin so well.
Death or Rufus Citevate
The telegraphic announcement of the death
of Reyes CHOATE will be read with intense
grief throughout the wholo country. As
an orator, and a statesman, he has
left behind him scarcely an eqeal in the na
tion. Be was horn at Essex, a small town in
Essex county, Mass.. octoher 1 1799. Ho en
tered Dartmouth College in 1815, and being
remarliahle in boyhood tor the studious
habits which distinguished his later years,
ho graduated with the highest honors
of his class, in 1819, and with a
brilliant reputation as a scholar. Hu
acted as a tutor in the college for a year after
his graduation, and then entered the law
school at Cambridge, where he remained but
a few months. Be afterwards spent about a
year in the office of WM. WIRT, at Washing
ton, and completed his professional studies
in the office of Mr. A NDREWS, of Ipswich,
and in that of' Judge Cusistras, of Salem. Ile
was admitted to the bar in 1824, and com
meneed the practice of the law in Danvers,
from which place be soon removed to Salem
Ills professional rise was remarkably rapid,
for at the outset he possessed a large share
of the legal ability for which he after
wards became eminently distinguished.
Previous to 18'32 he had been a member of
each branch of the Massachusetts Lezislatnre,
and in that year he was elected to Congress.
where, after serving one term, he declined a
re-election. He removed to Boston in 1834,
for the purpose of enlarging his practice as a
lawyer, and during the succeeding eight years
devoted himself assiduously to his profession,
winning many remarkable triumphs, and an
extended reputation. In February, 1841, he
was elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr.
WEBSTER, as United States Senator, and he
remained in the Senate till March, 1645. Du
ring his Senatorial career he delivered several
very able speeches, which attracted much at
tention. Bat he gladly returned to the prac
tice of his profession, and since 1845 has held
nn important office. Be acted, however, for
three or four years, as one of the regents of
the Smithsonian Institute. During the last
ten years his addresses on public questiOns
and on public occasions have, perhaps, com
manded more general attention than those of
any other citizen of the Republic. Mr. CDOATE
was always politically associated with organi
zitions hostile to the Democratic party until
1856. His great speech in that year in support
of Mr. BeCIIINAN exercised'a powerful influ
ence upon the canvass, and was one of the
most effective political addresses ever deliv
ered. As a lawyer he was pre-eminent, excell
ing in ail the duties of his profession, and be
ing alike superior in his method of examining
witnesses, his discussion of law questions, his
addresses to jurors and judges, and in the
general management of the cases entrusted to
him. He habitually enlisted all his energies
whenever ho assumed the position of counsel.
without reference to the importance of the
issue involved, and by his industry, unwearied
application, and extraordinary talents, ac
quired a grater renown as an advocate than
any lawyer, now living, in America.
A short time since he left Boston with the
intention of making a voyage to Europe for
the benefit of his health ; but when he reached
Halifax be concluded to. spend some time
there before proceeding further. A private
despatch from his son, RUFUS CLWA.T.E. Jr., to
his son-in-law, Mr. E. E. PRATT, of Boston,
dated July 13, says :
" All is over Last evening, about six o'clock,
.Ler an unusually cheerful day, father was seized
4ith a heart attack, end breathed his last at a qua r.
ter of two o'clock this (Wednesday) mornimr, He
was insensible through the whole, and suffered
none at all. Ruvus CHOATE, JR."
Palmeraon's Pintform.
The British Ministry have made a declara
tion of principle, or, as we would say in this
country, have established and exhibited their
platform. It is of the smallest extent and of
the simplest construction. It consists of only
a couple of planks.
The two points upon which Lord GRAN
VILLE the Lords, and Lord PALMERSTON in
the Commons, were at all explicit, were the
Italian War and the new Reform Bill. On the
War, the new Ministry promise the most de
cided neutrality—a do-nothing policy, in fact,
which is sometimes ment , oned, in ridicule, as
" masterly inactivity." They will try to keep
England out of war, and endeavor to re
store peace. 5 hey will place the defences 01
the country upon a proper footing—not so
alueh for protection as to be able, at the pro
per moment, to interfere ellectually to effect
pacification.
England has no apprehension, we think, of
. being invaded by France. That is the most
a§snrd bugbear ever started by newspaper
writers to comment upon. The other day,
that wretched Morning ddvertiser (as Imre
liable a journal in London as BENNEtTT'S Her
, al.,' is in New 'Yolk) sagaciously manufac
tared a paragraph to the vffaet that NAPaLEON
mail going to invade Ireland. As if, having
sue h a notion, that reticent ruler would have
hr• ken through his habitual silence, and be
corao communicative to any English journal—
least of - all, to a mere public-house organ.
without character. ability, or influence. The
_Veto York, Herald has taken up the Advertiser .
(probably because "birds of a feather flock
together,") and actually argues, on its invent
ed statement, that probably NAPOLEON may
invade Ireland one of these fine days. The de
fences of England, chiefly naval, will be at
tended to, not from any fear of a French in
vasion, but because the naval force of Eng
land is much lower than it ought to be. The
Derby Ministry commenced the increase of
the navy. PatatERSTOWS will proceed with it.
Parliamentary Reform, as might have been
expected. is to be again postponed. Perhaps
it may be taken up at an extra session next
November. Probably it will be over until
next February. Whenever it does pass, the
measure will be a compromise. Lord GRAN
avowed that "There existed a dispo
sition on all aides to make concession."
Lord PALMERSTON does not admit so much,
but merely promises, for himself and col
leagues, that he will prepare and produce a
new Reform Bill, " at the earliest moment of
the next Session of Parliament." Bnt Lord
PALMERSTON'S promise and pledge, in a poli
tical matter, are of no value. In June, 1857,
when Lord Jowl RUSSELL threatened to out
bid him for popularity, by promising to
introduce a Reform Bill, this self-same
PALMERSTON, rather than be, thus jockied,
gave a rash promise that, he would himself
bring forward a Reform Bill, early in 1858.
That Parliamentary Session commenced—pro
ceeded—and was over one-third through when
the Palmerston Ministry resigned. Not only
had Patataasron brought forward no Reform
Bill, but when he was subsequently requested
to place before the House of Commons the
measure which he had solemnly pledged him
self to "prepare and produce," he was com
pelled to confess that he bad not prepared
even the first line of It. Therefore, we place
no faith whatever in any political promise of
PALWERSTON'S. It surely is very strange,
showing a degraded morale among British
Statesmen of the present day, that a Prime
Minister who would fight a duel with any one
who questioned his veracity in private life,
can. thus unblushingly tell falsehoods in
public, before the nation. We cannot under
stand it.
Whit, then, has England gained by ex
changing the Derby for the Palmerston Cabi
net ? The postponement of Parliamentary
Reform, and a Stria adherence to DERRY'S
foreign policy. ,6 `I he course which we in
tend to pursue, with regard to our foreign re
lations is the one chalked out for us by our
pret4ecensors—tbat is, a course of strict neu•
frailty." Why, then, if the new Ministry are
to do precisely what their predecessors
chalked out for them,—why, then, was there
any change of Ministry? Or did the PALMER
STON patriots move Parliament against the
Darby Cabinet, merely to get the loaves and
fishes of patronage and place ?
M.CRB COURTERPEITS !—Between the first and
the thirteenth of this month, as we learn from
Peterson's Philadelphia Counterfeit Detector,
this day published, fifty-nine new counterfeit
bank-notes have been put into circulation. Of
these, not one is upon any bank in Pennsylvania.
As usual, New York and New England take ig
nominious precedence in these wholesale forgeries.
Iu ibis list thine are seventeen forgeries on New
Yosk banks; eleven Massachusetts, and eight
Now Jerov- ithodo ratan(' and Connecticut two
each.
PUBLIC SALES OF REAL ESTATE, 18th, 19th, and
231 July, and h August.—See Thomas & Sons'
advertisements under auction head. Their sale
at the Exchange, on Tuesday next, will comprise
several very desirable country seats and city pro
perty—including that part unavoidably post
poned from Ipst week.
The Enforced Service of Anterdran
zees in European Armies
The concession made by the Administration
of the right of foreign Governments to impress
their native-born subjects into military ser
vice, notwithstanding their naturalization in
this country, if they return to their original
homes, is particularly unfortunate at the pre
sent time, when all the nations of Europe aro
making great eyertions to strengthen their
armies, and naturally claim the aid of every
available individual over whom they can exer
cise a show of authority.
European potentates have been virtually in
vited to seek recruits among the naturalized
&merlon citizens who are now sojourn
ing in or who may visit their countries,
and they have been informed in ad
vance, that our Government acknowledges
the justice of their claim to perpetual alle
giance At least one practical case of this
kind is known to have occurred arready, and
there are probably hundreds of others. The
Newark Mercury states that a young man
named Orro livirc, who was born in Prussia,
but who had resided for some time at Patter.
son, N. J., recently returned to his native
country to obtain possession of an Inheri
tance. and while there was compelled to enter
the Prussian army. Not only can there be
no reasonable prospect of his release since
the late declarations of the Administration
Out it is to be feared that precedent after pre
cedent will be established, against which it
will not even feebly remonstrate, and tires
that the eventual settlement of the question
on its true basis of a full acknowledgment of
the nationality of all American citizens, whe
ther adopted or native-born, will be much em
barrassed. e 4
Heretofore . , in a number of cases which
have arisen, our representatives in Europe
have earnestly protested against the enforced
military service of naturalized American citi
iens, and have effected their release. The
highest tribunals of France decided against
the legality of the doctrine of the Adminis
tration, and decreed that naturalization in
this country absolved native Frenchmen from
enforced military duty in French armies, not
withstanding the assertion to the contrary in
the LeClerc letter. But while liir.BUCHANAN re.
mains in power, it cannot be expected (if Con
gress fails to rebuke him on this question) that
our representatives abroad will again interfere,
when they cannot expect to be efficiently sup
port( cl by—their home Government.
It is urged by some that it is not worth
while for this nation to go to war to protect
naturalized citizens whe revisit their native
countries. But if they are entitled to pro
tection, it is for Congress, not for the Execn—
tive, to decide to what extent exertions and
sacrifices should be made in their behalf. If
the principle is to be acquiesced in, that whee
ever the executive branch of our Government
considers that an enforcement of American
laws which conflict with those of forbiga na
tions would possibly involve us in a war, Ame
rican interests must tamely be surrendered,
without consulting Congress, weak or venal
kdministrations will have the power to inflict
irremediable injury upon our country. It is not
at all probable, however, that any serious danger
of war would arise from a firm American atti
tude on this question. The probabilities are
that not a single European Power would con
sider a fe,w recruits as beneficial to them as the
enmity of this country would prove injurious.
At all events, the whole world should be made
clearly to understand that none of our natu
ralized citizens could be impressed into a
foreign army with our acquiescence. Every
such case should be promptly met by a firm
and energetic protest; and if the efforts to re
lease our citizens failed, and the shield of na
tionality which surrounds them should be die.
regarded, Congress, not the President or his
Cabinet, should decide upon the propriety of a
resort to arms.
hiow Will the War End?
It is not unlikely, we think, that after
another great battle between the Allies and
the Austrians, which we earnestly hope will
terminate in another great victory for the
former, something will be done, perhaps by
Prussia and England, to bring the Italian war
to a conclusion. Austria may be looked upon
as having already lost Lombardy. NAroccoN
pledged himself, in the most emphatic man
ner, to liberate Lombardy from the Austrian
yoke. He cannot permit the contest to ter
minate in a compromise. France has not
lavishly poured out her blood and treasure
for such a conclusion as this. No, the war
can end only in one way—by the utter expul
sion of the bated Austrians from the fine
country they have so long misgoverned.
Austria is avowedly deficient in the pecuni
ary means of carrying on this war. Her cre
dit is exhausted, and her suhjacta are over
taxed. There is a limit to fiscal exaction, and
Austria dare not draw the cord too tightly.
Sy this tirsCs we dare say, the Emperor
FRANCS JOSEPH is fully persuaded that his
game is played in Italy. The difficn)ty, under
the circumstances, is to withdraw upon some
decent pretext.
A general European war is what Europe is
unprepared for. It also appears to be what
NAPOLEON is endeavoring to avoid, for he
scrupulously confines the conflict to Italian
soil, having commenced it to procure a reali
zation of Italian freedom. Hitherto, he
seems to have acted in good faith towards the
Italians and "VICTOR FMBIA.If tTEL. He went in
to perform certain good offices to Italy, and
assuredly be has kept his word. He has
added the prestige of able generalship, un
daunted valor, and undeviating victory to his
previous reputation as a sagacious statesman,
and, with all his faults, a great ruler.
The expectation in Europe is that the War
will terminate SOOM Prussia, England, and
perhaps Russia, may properly interfere to pre
vent further effusion of blood. Why Prussia
should seriously contemplate giving material
aid to Austria puzzles many politicians. For,
in Germany, Prussia and Austria are in full
antagonism on religious subjects. Prussia is
the champion of political as well as religious
Protestantism, while Austria is identified, on
the other side, with Catholicity It is not
the interest of Prussia to maintain Austrian
ascendency in Germany. Therefore, we have
been chary in accepting the rumors that Prus
sia meant to aid Austria with soldiers and
money.
The declarations of Lord (3184.Nvtrax and
Lord PALMERBTON, in the British Parliament,
that England must be placed in a position to
negotiate for peace evidently show that such
an intention is entertained.
The Democracy of St. Louis unequivo
cally in favor of Popular Sovereignor.
hile the champions of the Administration
in this State are drawing their swords upon
all Democrats who will not worship its trea
cheries and absurdities, and who will not
acknowledge that slavery in the Territories is
under the protection of a 's higher law,"
which places it entirely beyond the control
of the people who inhabit them, the Demo
cracy of St. Louis, Missouri, at their recent
Convention to nominate county officers,
adopted the following very sensible resolu
tions :
"Resolved, That the Democratic doctrine em
bodied in the Cincinnati platform, of non•inter
/'erenrehy Congress w;th slavery in State and
Territory, or in the District of Cotrimbia, is
the only safe and sound solution of the slavery
question.
"Resolved That we recognise the right of the
people of any Territory of the United States to
form a Constitution and be admitted into the
Union as a State, with or without domestic
el •very. and affirm that the Constitution of the
United States writh.er establishes nnr proltilits
slavery in, the. Territories, beyond the power of
the people legal/ y to control it "
While the Democracy of a slaveholding
State are thus just and wise enough to take
the true position on the great Territorial ques
tion, the Democracy of Pennsylvania, under
the leadership of Mr. TYLER, are expected to
stultify themselves, and to invoke upon their
organization an endless succession of defeats
by abandoning the true principles of self-go
vernment and of the Democratic party, and
by adopting the repulsive and anti—republican
theory that slavery must be fastened upon all
the Territories of this Union, even against
the wishes and interests of their citizens.
" THE GUIDE " is the title of a newspaper which
promises to be a valuable advertising medium to
our merchants, particularly to those who are anx
ious to extend their trade in the Western, North
western, and Southwestern States. 10 000 copies
are gratuitously distributed each month by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. on its own road and
the principal railways with which it connects.
The Guide it published by C. Potnery Button,
Esq., formerly of Chicago, who is now stopping in
this oity, at the Union Hotel, where he will be hap
py to receive advertisements from our merchants.
AUCTION NOTLCE.—Large sale of household fur
niture this morning, at ten o'olook, at Birch &
eon's a on rooms, No. 914 Chestnut (street.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA; FRIDAY; JULY 15, 1859.
B Y iiiDiVIWIT MAIL
Letter Crum "
Plorrespondoon. or ne PPAMI.I
WASHINGTON, July 14, 1b59
All doubts have been removed by the article in
the New York TimeN of lest evening, as to the
reconciliation of Mr. and Mrs. Sickles. You
will exense MO, I am aura, if, in common with
others. I venture to (mores- - ; my owe epint In in re
gord to this oceorrerce, and I ask the privilege of
doing eo, Ines nueh as your readers will remember
that I have omitted no opnoreurrity to do jeetiee
to Mr_ Sickles himself in MI TIMM greet !ramble.
He had a perfect right to take his wife back t
his bosom. It was his own act, and lam told he
just;fies it by the declaration that he ought
not to he called to acoount for it. But there who
stood by him have ads) a right to relieve
themselves from the responsibility of his action.
In this community the lamented Key had many
worm and devoted friends. Knowing hint, as I
did, intimately and well. it WAR to me a source of
deep regret that hie life should have been snort
fined. An aCcomplished gentleman, a fine lawyer,
a genial, social, and sincere friend, it was an ex
traordinery evidence of the popular feeling in
favor of Mr. Sickles, that in the very city where
Mr. Key had resided all the: active years of his
life, and where his supporters were most enthusi
antic, the blow that. struck him to the earth sbeuld
have been forgiven by a jury and applauded
by the peeple. Hence, in everything that has
appeared in my eorrespondence (and I am hemp;
to gay in everything that hos appeared in The
Prs.c), peine were taken to avoid the eileee feet
remark that could be regarded ae a reflection
upon Philip B erten Key. It did net become me
during the trial to discuss the point whether or
not Mrs. Sickles induced and accepted Mr. Key's
attentions—whether she was more his victim than
he wee hers—and however much a diff!rent feel
ing may ho inspired by the recomiliation between
herself and her husband on the pert of others, at
the present time I am not disposed to discuss this
consideration under the new :septet of the queetion
The motive which controlled much of the fe ling
in favor of Mr. Sickles, grew out of the feet
that Mr. Key had .accepted the hospitalities
of Mr. Sickles, and that while erj , ying these
hospitalities, together with the confidence of
Mr. Sickles, had betrayed his honor, and this
was regarded by all gentlemen as a crime
never to be expiated or forgiven. But it is
impoeeibie to deny that the ease bee Resumed new
importance on acceunt of this reconciliation. It
was made a public matter by the political position
of the parties and their local connections, and you
may he well assured that it will continue in be
made a public matter, especially in this comma
nity. All the feeling for poor Key has been re
vived ; all the grief suppreseed by the verdict in
favor of Mr. Sickles has been celled forth anew by
the forgiveness extended by Mr. Sickles to his wife,
and heaven knows where it will end. H Mrs
Sickles was herself guilty before the death of Key
she is guilty still, and if she can be forgiven now
Rey ought to have been forgiven in February It
will be a long time before another such acquittal
will take place as that awarded by the late jury
in this case. It will he a long time before an Ame
rican court and American citizens will again allow
themeelvee to be controlled by a one-sided etatement
to applaud the blow that sends a fellow. creature
Into eternity with all his sins upon his bead. Be
lieve use that I our, not complaining that air
Sickles should have taken his wife back to his
bosom. In the opirit of Christian charity this
wee probably well enough, slid, -however mush
the taste of the thing may be questioned,
I can only regret, for the sake of Mr. Key,
that he bad not months ago agreed to forgive
his wife, and to spare a human life, which
under the circumstances, as now developed, ought
to have been epered. Theee who stood by. Mr.
Sickles in Washington (and they number
some of our first citizens) were in no single
instance the enemies of Mr. Key, and never al
lowed themselves to indulge in assaults upon the
character of the deceased. They have been placed
in a most peculiar position by the reeonciliation.
and feel extremely seeeitive in regard to it, and I
think I express pretty nearly their feelings in the
remarks I have mode. Of coarse, they are con
stantly reminded, by those who totes tin other
side of the controversy, that they did weing in
taking their stand ; and in a community like this,
where the tragedy and the trial both took place,
you may conceive what Sort of disputes this , condi
den of public opinion gives rise to. All I men say
in conclusion is, that I hope no farther trouble will
grow out of this affair.
see that the politicians of Tennessee of both
parties repudiate General Cass's doctrine in re
gard to naturalized citizens. ion. Ishans G. Har
ris., the Democratic candidate for governor, ti.s
written a letter, In which, while at'Ampting to
screen the Administrution, he is compoilid to re
pudiate the Cass doctrine. Or:Q.IEI4J w
r - f.vE LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPEL
THE LATEST FOREIGN AD VICES
Per the Steamer. Canada.
NEW YORK. Jnly 14 —The mnils by the ntentn•
shin Canada. which arrived at Boston last night,
have been received hare.
The Following latc4 intelligence is furnished :
The Lmdon Tim.s' City Article of Saturday
morning reoorts canaiderable activity in the die
count market ri bettothschitd.3 had taken the
five-par-cent HMSO D trmradt loan of :3 600..000
gni icltv B Wen was about to issue 2 006 . 000
go Het's' worth of railway bonds at 94t.
The Morning Port saga that Milner tlibson wit
become President of the Board of Trade, lu piece
of Cobd-n.
The Paris correspondent of the Londca Post
says the King of Sardinia h's refused all dictator
sh,p or protectorate is the Pa pal States
The steamer Canada reports that she struck - on
iceberg on Joty 9, at 7 45 P. M , in lat 48 deg. 45
min., long. 47 deg. 47 min.. carrying away her
bowsprit, cutwater, and part of the main stem.
All the damages were four feet above w iter-mark,
and the ship did not leak. Slto will be ready to
sail at the appointed day.
Doath of Inn_ Rufus Chrtlte-
HAtipsx, July 14.--Hon. Rufus Choate died in
W. , oily on yesterday morning ;
His health had continued to Improve during hie
stay here, until half-past six o'clock on Tuesday
evening when the attack commenoed which closed
his oateer. He was unconsoinui from Fir o'clock
till two o'clock on Wednesday morning, when he
died. His remains will le taken to Boston for in
terment.
A meeting of the bench and bar of this Pity Luis
been called to prepare an address of condolenc 3 to
his family.
Mr• Choate was sixty years of age, hoeing beau
barn at Icewiob, Masi., in October, 1799. He
was preparing far a travel through Europe, for the
benefit ofhis health.
From the Pii.:e 7 s Peak Mines
LMAVENWORTIT 7 July 14 —By the arrival a' the
express from Denver Wry, last evening, the fol.
' , ming details of mining intelligence are fur.
nished
The prospecting: as been carried to a consider
able distance south of the present dipgiogs, re
soling iu indications of equal richness to those
already discovered.
G”od leads have been Aisne& seven miles below
Jackson's lead, on Clear creek.
It is also reported that rich discoveries have
been made near Boulder City.
Building operations are being vigorously pushed
forward at Denver City. The population there is
rapidly augmenting, increasing the demand fur
previsions.
All indioations point to the re-establishment of
confidence, and the permanent and steady devel
opment of the Kansas lines.
The shipments of quartz machinery lately made
from here, when put in operation. will more fully
test the value of the gold-bearing guar's disco
veries.
The Philadelphia Post-Office Building.
Weantscivom, July 14 —The Secretary of. the
Treasury, Postmaster General, and Attortey
General have decided that, in consequence of the
invalidity of the *title, or the imposetbility of the
American Philosonhical Society to fully convey In
fee-simple to the United States their Hall in Phila
delphia, it will require farther legislation by Con
grosi before the building for the poet office and
court house purposes can be proceeded with. The
order for the sale of the Bank of Pennsylvania
property will, therefore. for the present, be with
drawn ; the commission, consisting of the above
named Cabinet oftl tars, preferring to refer the
whole matter to t , :tp judgment and conaideration
of the next Congress
Arrest of Charles John Gardiner.
Wasnianrow. July 14 —Charles Jo ,o Gird iner,
brother of De. Gardiner, of the Mexican claim no
toriety, and who was indicted for false swearing
in his brother's case and forfeited his .bail by
abso mding, having recently returned to Wash
ington, wee to-day arrested by the marshal, and
is now in custody.
Survey of the Kittltittil Central Railroad.
ST. Lours, July 14 —A party of engineers left
Wyandotte this morn ng. to survey ttto Kansas
Central Railroad to Fort Filey—ea di3tanoe of 150
miles. This Will be the first railroad survey
we-t of the Mis3ouri river, and will form smothei
link towards the Pao . fio road.
WASHINGTON, July 14 —lt is reported that 0.
Jennings Wise and P A. Aylett fought a duel
yesterday 1,0.ke Drummond, which is twenty
miles from Norfolk.
Appointment. by the President.
Wasurcroreir, July 14.—The following appoint
ments are officially announced to day :
J. J. Sprenger, of Pennsylvania, consul of the
United et'l,to , et, Dresden.
3f1111109 P l'irerron, attorney of the (lofted S gittOd
for the western district of Texas.
ST. Lama, .Tuly 13.--Tha Omaha Nehru3k can,
giving an account of the depredations reeently
committed by the Pawnee Indiata, says that
$l5 000 worth of property was stolen by them from
aettlera.
Governor Black was in the field at the head of
250 men and 70 dragoons, The Indian force num
bered 3,500.
The iiiimtiian Steam. 7 General Admiral,
Naffs Yuan, July 141—Privates 1V100$ r ofort the
arrival of that Russian steamer General Admiral
at ,Cherbourg, from this port. The date of her
envoi is not given.
' ' Explosion of a Powder Mill.
PaTLAND, Me., July 14 —Eighty kegs of pow
der, in one of the new mills at Gorham, Maine,
exploded yesterday, blowing the building to
atoms. One man was severely injured.
Indian DPpredations
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HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
APPREF,S OF GEORGE INMAN RICHE, E2H
CONFERRING OP DEGREES.
THE MERITORIOUS AND DISTINGUISHED
ADDRESSES OF THE, f;RADIJATES, Sc
The semi-annual Commencement of the forty
mond term of the Central High bohool took Flaw
- F este day morning. in the American Academy of
- **9lo . The recurrence of the comma' cement
dnys of this noble institution of public learning
are always occasions of great public interest, but
yet we have never witnessed such a sight at any
of them as that presented yesterday morning at,
thl Academy. From the sky-circle to the stage
1,4 one vast sea of crinoline, silks, ribbons,
flounces, fang, and handsome faces. A stray gen.
tleman might be seen, fox and far between, serv•
ing only to note the contrast. The day was warm
enough to render a fan desirable, but the thunder
of the evening previous had taken all tho heat out
of the atmosphere. On the stage about five hun
dred Kentlemen, consisting of proressors, sclpdars.
and invited guests. wore assembled. An excel
lent orchestra, under the lead of Dr Cunning.
ton, enlivened the day with exquisite selections
of operatic and other music!
A few ininnree after ten the exercises were earl
naeneed by a vary fervent prayer, which was de
livered by Rev Thomas Winer.
The RiPPNIII National Hymn by the orohesi rt.
_ .
Groree Inman Rieke. E q , on '.7eing introduced
by professor Maguire, was received with loud ap
plause, and said
It is ark occaaion of no ordinary import. Ladle.' and
Gentlemen, that assembles us tore this norninu
Thirty five novitiates, impotent to receive the henedic.
Von of choir Alma Water. are abort to exchange a
Rtafe of pupilage for the severer aspirations and reopen
aibili.ios of mn , .bood. 0 mmeneementx it is trne, are
event) of remi animal recurrence, rut we are familiar
ennuph. pe•haps. with their sermatomed r rain)) ; but
it is not to he rrrgotieu that for these young, lioatta
thin In an a , sar , ing exp.rinnew tenting with inflLlFOree
upon their future and that to Jul they lank at such a
time for a auetaioingsvropathy We are eal)ed upon, it
•Pezn9 to me. to individual Z 9 the event or the day_ and
frrerlooking its commo• -elaces. its trivialihea and its
defi lencies. to consider it from the stand-point of the
graduatm themselves, f-r whom it is soutredly the
nnenin¢ - up of an eventful cares-, hut fee, fully Borer-
'ain in it. issue fltarding h' the aide of these young
raa 3 dates for "Frrtanaori buffos and rewsrde an they
1..1et-1.. on 'heir armor and breathe themselves for the
qtr -, e phone end none shall foresee, let us for the
hope, few• doubt, and agonize with them, in
lho tl..oen Of 'heir transition from *hat chrysalis state
11.1 Which their tff Wahiawa barn hi , :nerto conaned
re are olootAtow, nanny who bane Anticipaod me
en;rg-stion, and whose hearts are already bounding wife
exoltani or throbbing with sng . oushope for the poneible
fumre of come upon thin platforrn--hrothers, p.r.haes,
-or sons, mann whose fate their own leans trembling for
upp -, rt Prom the veer bench heelde us. a parent may
he watching I,th 131,1 - P012.1 pol-citode an only t-talg.. in ‘h..
g•eat game ef life, and for such parent these hours are
forever SherFd.
But the moat of us, idle epectstors of a scene not os
tensibly appea.ing to our II dividuil interests. need to
hp reminded that it in no affectation. but a genuine, pal
pitating phase of that we are wltuestirg Throe
yount men. esgsr for initiation Into a higher sphere of
toll, are doubtless laden with ambitions, ouasolso, and
capubilit lea. which may to-day receive an impulse or a
cheek of enduring influence noon their character
hitherto inexperienced in sorrow, thee are bidding a
farewell pr goon'. with future, if not with present re.
zret. to that cloister - life of 'study where to uth is courted
for truth's Rabe, and the shame, the mortlfications and
th. reverses of practical life have to legitimate place.
Consider, then. the solemnity of their position. and
as they go oat from under the protecting care of that
another, to whom they owe their intellectual nurture.
lot your hearts ?swooed to mine, as I bad them in your
as , aneed !
lint w. are here to inquire of larger iRRUeII than are
rivnived in the destiny o thee° t °dog students Ques
tions in whose enintion not only this vast assembiage.
but humanity at large is profoundly concerned. inevi
tably p-esent themselves for our consideration Thin
commencement marks the termination of au educe
tioanl campa'gn Another (Alert has Imou weds. tp in
vent the strongholds of ignorance and vice, and to mine
upon their ramparts the standard of intelligence and
virtue. While bulletins from the seat of European
war are lead with avidity, telling of content!' for the
balance o' physical power among nations. whose hone.
daries and sovereignties ere the perishing accidents of
time, shall we listen with apathetic indifference to a
bulletin fresh from the neat of that conflict between
truth and error, which. noteeleaa and bloodlees +hough
it be. involve , in its varying chancel/ the eterral
interests of onr nether,[Applause ] It is cer
tainly our duty to survey the field of that strife from
time to time to muster Put. faeces, to recur nmtre
position and nee if the (dda are with us or sgairet us
It in ne•u-edly our hope with salt; renewed aseault, that
" wounded error" shall he beaten back writhing in
ra i n » hem the vantage ground en long suenesalully
maintained. and that Truth shell nut' will hiali=ti her
mapstio front and loom up c'e.rer from Lice obscurity
that veils her glori' UR proporci , ,,a. Not am d r,tu
have and the war of cannon are the mightiest rev - do
tio..v in the condition of the race effected, hut under
the mast of Werra] (phloem and in the seemingly
monotonous walks' of peaceful avocations'. Principle*
are for the it oat part of slow and silent growth. They
are not to be np - o led by violence nor crushed out by
premature and Hostile legislation. Man is &milt:ate in
his oninionn end It is only by c , utieua approaches, and
in the spirit of love sod truth that the cited.' ot hie
Ftellect can he won and his nature pormanent:y con
ytried in the mind or youth must the struggle be
cmtimeneed and the foundatUre of the Ultimate tri
umph laid, and it may no truly acid that alt the corn
pilt.x interest* that vex Nir transitory liven are bound
uo in the viial question of Public Iducation. • Ti
nian.. ]
In at'empting lbldincussion of ro stopendou• a pro
-6403, prpanarrt an it le with this eccitoles of the ',ea,
my only apology for the superficial nature of the re
- ilts which follow mutt be their unavoidable brevity.
mst, Igt cnoßlder for a rnareant what we mean by
.ces"on : life, in an notutored state. beincs a tb it.
an education of scoop Fort—for ed vacation in its
widept uPs if. but the deye , opmettwb , ch the mind re
aciicc host the atoMeition of external Inowlethre whe
ther syAteinat c er irr. gular. But the edunitinn to
nhieh we hers refer is t ,, at avat^malized course of sea
&win a,l collegiate instruction, which by its ingiral
roe ri,ctian disciplioea the mind to steady and vv.,r.
0114 ,x+rtion ; and by its comr,thEnsi-e scope, placss
Iv+ paF•sannnn., o% in Vne., f the details but of the
fg , neral outlines and prominset fed'ursa of the aerrei.
thins already made in the field of knowledie Curti ID
eduot inn deselrlis the faculties in the easy course - of a
natu,al and regular prorressioo and has a tworo'd
advantare. It eennnmises time by enabling the
student of maturer y , a , a to commence his career o'
In
ver igat'on at the very point where it had been ab
doned by hi+ predecessors ; and what is more iru sort.
ant. it pr rents the tournins . or the mind. which t , -e
devotion of hie after life to Ap.e . alifies is elleuloorl to
produce, liffirg him to a .Land paint hem which to
now Ibe entire oir-le of the seinen - a, and atTtr , rt . : , .n
thnes relVions efßuities, and interdependencies wb.ch
urite the 1 - r ir nut &marmots or labor and of thought
into ro9p.3.:ti u hartropi , F, whole
.
Aa ( 0 due is heaven's seat law) , that. , moat an
edly be a natural .sequ , nce in t i me arrobiitino of
ideas ret only important but •bsointely Ind ispenmMe
tu the full comprehenaion of tett''', and such a se qUelleß
it in e.celue.eei, , the pencinee of edueatiocal yhileeephy
Mme than thin there in, an eerie nly
the breadth of culture roust be preserved in each adsto
eing maze of Moe .tional development which nay fIP.-
tain the natural balance of the farul. len. The mural
and Optical have claims an well as the purele reason
leg end pe•c-pt.ye powers, and unlere the Increened
vitality which education in.pir. a be distributed in
due preportionn to all the functionn of both
mind and b, dye the r , sult is too often diseased 11Vb
stropitifa Instead of healthful men. It is not well,
therefore, that the -mind pf °aid be I-ft to wander
ehartlars and compassion in the pmpul, of truth. Al
though mingled it may be with fooliebness and error.
there !Enough upon the record to vindicate the largent
faith in the
. peculiar efficacy of 0-110ghate discipl;ne.
In the work of ages to establi-h a tho.
roughly rational and cu'mpiete syalem of icstroction,
but the semmplphment of such an end must contuse
IS it hes ever been. the loftiest aim of intellectual
for' and the hints bequeathed to us by the nucaesMve
canto- ,• of the past are not to be lightly disregarded
t. art Dir." and while g neratione enrcemively
ran, h. ti , life of thought is impart:liable. and the
Wed= accututtl.ated of age's registers 'toot' through
the iOterry of education in indestruet,b'e and sea per.
petntifta retulte Far as it is in advance of the
par, the knowledge of to-day in but a dim foci.-
shadowing of that which is to come. MACI'S mind
itself, perhaps. in but a prophecy, and th.t a faint
one, of the mentality that. M all hereafter sway the
earth. Toe reysteriowdy !significant problems o' mauls
fn ore lock uodoub!edly, for their solution to that
edu-atieu which is sooner o • later to open hit eyes
that he may see, and hie earn that he may bear,
the wondrous riahte and snoods that are at the very
portals of pie stmeo Lt. nerceived. Without eduta
too he is a helpless bef , g pre fitless alike to hing
ed' and to his fellows " Like a child crying in the
might.'' he knows not hie own wants Wird to 'be
o untl.l , B enurcee of en,i lyment that are weriog at his
feet ant in the very atmosphere about him, and deaf
to the angel yokes that the epheces with 11114 , 10
and everywhme ieternret the wonderful revelation. of
Nature be brutalize' himself in a ceaseless tetrad of
morbid and unsatisfyins excitement's ;
L A pr . niroee. by a river's brim,
A yelinw primrose is to him,
And it is nothing more— [applause
but to the educated see HP the earth and air yield it t.
site delights, which neither poverty nor solitude ten
force it to surrender. [Applause ]
The coming olvdiz Mon Hee, in truth, in the womb
of ednettion- and the position of the teacher is one of
a ivereige digul'g and power. With respon ibslitis nas
v ist as his influences s-re far-reaching, be holds the
future generations in his grasp, and none aan say the
Itonldieg itnpreee of hie band snail disappear.
Having thus briefly glanced at the nature and im
porrarno of edncetion. the queetion arises as to whether
the mantes are properly girlllll.d and entitled to re
ceive and appreciate its priceless benefits.
And here, lot me ask, where shall the dividing line
be drawn on one side of which the light of truth shall
bs diffeted while the other shall remain in "outer
derko-s , l' , T . , as we believe, no man le itnip.ble of all
deve'opoent, that develop -ent is not to he denied or
which in is suseeptiVe, Vbie'• is dearer tq him th , tn
life, andishiclr is itself indeed. tisa se entlal eig , n
eines 50 very soul of We Man brings with Hilll
into the bre,th:ng world" the germs of wiefulrese la
some sphere lie that sphere ha inb e orexsit,A it is
urely mit, well that three Terms should perish for the
want of srmer culture and until such culture is bestowed
in his ,
bthalf none ea prom:nitre a human being hut o•
tent for good Though cradled in obscurity, and the
offspringof poverty tin! lgn , ranee, the dittos institute
of geisha may slucuter in hie. brain. and qualify him,
puny ant helpless as he Flamini. tt sway the rod of in tel
lectuni empire arcang hie fell-wi. fAr.pl , use J The
Butt ily of educational development it the distin
gulth n,.1 glory of our common humanity, and to Ignore
its ex'slence in any cans is unj .st, as it robs a fellow
creature of his due, and impolitic, as it tom' the com
munity 1! untold treasure
But itie confidently pretended that Public Education
be' a Well tg tendency, which ominteracte nature and
les& t , intelleolual wont.. The endlees repiniege end
dir c .nteints which are. i hear, the inevit h'e owerowth
Inc reminder of cur frail mortality, ere elprged upon
that very rducati n which in in truth, the only pewee
of th'ira!levietion. But thin phantom of an objection
vaninhei an we epternaeh it The grand worst of a
e and eiticat'onnt iefleence in that it no wine fare -e
but merely d , yelope what it rode in Witte and at
every suge of i.s develocirg preteen the relative r ia
Unction!' which originally prevailed la,tween different
ininda are of necem'ily preserved. At every 'top in Its
ei,...trd cour:e, those maids 'neap • ble by their peculiar
c r .ita,..tion of farther progreee tail away from the ad
v,:iciugl &acme, and rind their epropriate 'There of
labar,.ith the iucourtetible advantage, hoverer, of
' belug bitter quell d for unefulness within that very
'photo. Thus. while marshalling the wisest to the ut
most limits of an all but infinite nano, Educa•ton, at
the came t rte. possesses the humbleet with a larger
potency for gond All claosee of sec ety are bettered
by its thieree, while no whit of intellectual material
in unemployed or unimproved
The e , tarn c. parity of the tocitv ,, kl.l., thee of
itself,Oellelen the ntly efeenete of mineoldlty,
but exinyceuent alone to the impartial teat of that ca
pally. Ellocutun add•ensee itself to all, but gretin•
area and qualifies He menage to the capacity of tech ;
and in an site when even the idiots:and feeble-minded are
inetrnaled—and with good summon—it ebould be free to
every ace. The only q mitten, therefore, left for our
none deletion, in an to where the responsibility of its
diffenioa properly rr eta,
The messes themselveg have certainly the right to
towel& for their own weds. intellectual as well as
physical; lid iu a country such as th s, where the Go
veromeat dents its authority and p wer from the con
seat or the people. and in the conditot. d exponent of
theirrill, whs• eve- demands for its eft Muss adminis•
tretion,con4rutracion of money, aril 'miry of &err',
boo,eive khe .4'1.0.Ve end 4 mpurntive duty of teat
Government to undertake. That education demands
fnr ltn,llmrocr both concentration of means and unity
of design re evident. The educational forces that tona
l:ue ram private arum's are uneertain ar.d feeble is
their diaction and influence, fr. quently conflict with
and c-rtinteract each other ; and, at the beet invigorate
but forspeemodie and irregular effort; but united and
controlled by Governmental power into a harmoni
ous ant g system, they meet eventually
Oliver* Fetters that enchain the prostrate mind of
- no ant rarer It to the COIIIIOIOUnneFEI and
onreirtraicted er 4t: mint of its gigantie stature aid di
sea c o pe,; ;11 , 11'1•11 W;th a school evident
liYe our.; in retie, ; and rincticent operation, it might
germ r. wort of iiipe•e- , calien to ar,ritle the prop - 10 ty of
mak orr eiln.me;6o PO nvv t, r, tut there NT , .
;hoe,. WWI. g ne who et-olinetely deny both then. c?onion
nrel the right, Put wee.elth . 7 tar.payere complain the.
their per heir are drpletPll LO fill the rlntan or nit MR •
late with nothing and ai,pirationir far becnot. their
fp-
Leilectuel falitre , and unfittti g then. fur the mechani
cal employmen's to which they are no well adept
ed. Nona of no in truth, have Chet elid , tr
cantidsuca In the principles tying at the tails of
our educational system, which they ought roope.ly
t, ;empire We are arrant to follow them to
tie's full but legitimate extent Dnu'otinge nod
fea.a beset OR at each e..p. and with every experimen
tal advance ee feel as if we imperilird anew the
achievemenla of the rant not is in time to recognise
the truth ant we Nilsen it, without tear of intelligent
contradietlun, that fi overnment. to very gelf-t , efer.ce. re
hound to di.penre. at any coot and at a'l he verde, that
education which can alone qualify the peeve to wield
the sceptre which they held [Applanee , talk an we
will of our written conatitutlona and charters. it
aft, r all, the virtue nod intelligence of the 1118119er
atone that constitute the vivifying , and Informirg soul
of the body politic. [Applause Ignnraneee, with its
attendant trance cf abhorrent vice, will openly set at
defiance the sacred provi•iong of the law, or, what is
rather to he feared. will undermine their e'rength by
sub - le perverninne of their Rigninanee and purring
(loving tite neldime appeal or retrict Henry a novel
hot nercible application. it may he truly ee If we
wish to be free; if we mean not basely to abandon the
noble etrogtee in which we have been co long engaged,
and *Welt we have pledged oureetlvem raver to abandon
until the elation/4 ohj.ct of our contegt •h all have been
attained, we must" educate —in that aingte duty in In-
To yed the national eriAlenee of republics. (hp
plane°. J
Let DR rejoice, then. ladlee and gentlemen, that we
of Penuayltania have been true to the inntiects of nor
humanity, Ana are thin day enliated in the work We
may look with pride both to our part and to our to
titre end chellenge far our Reboot h,SLaM tlinien•inz,
in that inetilution whose conoceneement We are cede
b-atirg, the artmiratinn of the world. Already hag
every demo tn.ent or labor felt its energ'zing and ele
vating it licence.
As Aim pertaining centres, our public, eithuolg impel
along the Arteries of anniety electric currenta of i e te..
lectnal vitality. The High SThcol Is steadily raining
rip an edecatinneel brotherhood in cur millet whose In
fluence in eventually to be eve•ywhe-e acknow edged
and rerp , cted, Already, young an abe in, are her Akin
ni Inning claim to positions of respectability and one.
fulneen.
Woman. Inn, bag at last received a fairer reeorni
'ion of her Inestimable value in the ern - Inn:fly of life
Charred both an mother and reacher wi'h reeponeibili
ties, in view of which a W - inter heart might r-aannably
Peal, she is now, by the eatahlialtrannto , a &coned
-7 c11 , 01. t."l be allowed a fell-r preoaratioo for the
ctruggle , n which her stake is no important. Tier in
fluence him ever been pure and refining and with the
increased scope lied thowniehr me of her training,
which in now reriounly to be expcc'el he , id 'national
mission will hereafter aresrt I a true claims to the confi
dence end gratitude of mankind.
that rant an the work already ecenrapliehed undoubt
r dly ie, it tenet not he over estimated or regarded an
complete. It in only the earn-Pt of what the nture t.
In realize. Thin fligh School, with all I'M perrormarce,
and w'th all its promise, filling appropriately fine gin-
Howdy its niche in the educational temple that we of
thin Mate are slowly and patiently rearing, is net hod
might not to be, the climax of that arcortietural de•
nip. There in a higher ani malurer clase of mind in
need of intellectual onurishmeet, which looka in vain
here for an alma mater. It in not right tong}, to theta , .
who hunger and thiret after the highest knowledge ill
our witted. that th-y ran go no farther in search for
truth. It in not right that the Mare ehould Ignore its
eiabeet nuental treaeures. and leave the development of
'eta intellectual r , courmot to the uncertain cbaeces of
individual energy and bounty Discrimination is e a
fairer b-tween the diff-iring grades of our mentality
than between the TarioUß external ranks and conditions
of life, and it ie only br diepeneing freely to each nue
the loatruction, hule.ver costly tbs. he require. and
can improve, that the mental tomes of the a lmninn ty
are vial cad into that activity without which the ar
or the State is paralyzed. nod the ball hod sceptre, the
gambols of her power, fall irretrievably from her im
potent gran)
Buc t look forward with a confidence which I hope
doe. not derive all ite foece from youthful entburision,
toe time warn such higher education shalt be derived
from public sources An civilizalion IldranCPs free in
;ditty ince shall spring up in its wake. That wiil chine
like cumin the intellectual horizon dispensing in all
directions a benign radiances, and attrantirg, even from
foreign shores, philosophers and students.
I have faith that. In the corning yea's, education
shall gradually attain the full maleety and nrop , rt on
of Its beauty The capacity of all man shall be filet.
and the symmetry of nature preserved. The morel and
physteat roceiving their propartinnal share r e f dFrfaop-
M 6 nt, with the more purely intellectual, the reeott will
be that healthylenipoise of ostltililatlon, whieh, en
larging rue perception and apnrec'atirin of truth, noun
aqu.lly extend our capacity for happiness. [Ap
plause
livery day. an the distribution of knowledge pro
g-ceees the member,' of our community ere knit 'lege
then more and more c'esely in the bowie of an icillsso•
lucle fraternity, and every day the e-ejaiices and no
perntitionr that have belittled end deformed the pan
and cast their dispiriting shadows occasionally. even
ever the hrekent, are vaulehing hcfore the swek ening
rays r f scientific light. The world is st-adily emergin.
from its intellectual as from its physical chaos Thought
in asserting its supremacy over animal inetimete in the
ininieration of its affairs. The pi, ape:A la resplendent
with promiee, and all that is ask d of ua is an misers-1 , -
log fidelity to the grout movement of the ceorury—Th e
(locernmental education
of the masses [Great ap
p,au-e -
"Libiamo," from it Tra7iata, was next re-
formed in an esquisite manner.
The salutatory address was delivered by D.
Wehe ter firefly. His topic wag '' Memory," which
he treated in a very neat and spirited manner. : '
The overture from ‘• Z tnetta " was performed.
when G. W. Pauly was announced to deliver an
address on " Tne Moral Sublime " 'Man, thottalit
the speaker, in endowed with faculties suuttptible
of every emotion, he'll in a savage and educated
condition of life._ Yet- there are depths in the
heart which the heentiea of Natural cannot reach
Music may soothe, Nature enrapture. yet deco un
the tool there exists the love of the moral This
is not the predominating emotion, yet at each ad
vance tyward refinement, the moral nature eanu
hits the gross passions whieh once hell away
The implacable fon of the Christian hmomes the
follower of the humble N ixarens. The cry of
man's nature was onward ; and onward we you'd
go until we hare attained the type of human ex
celteocm
Protenor Maguire gated that Geors , ell i aOing
ton Mindil was excu.ed from deliverino his ad
dresi on Recount of indisposition. His place we
supplied by W H letrnbert, who delivered a brie
and elcq sent address on Charles Dickens.
ADDRESS
Bern se the dream of Ant'Tilly were bei ng real - .^. , 4
- in nation, the gro'u. of Cher en Diekena Yeee'ved its uln
press from on intleXible mould, and to•dfy.ths great - st
of the world's brine lifesati. he in no mere remstkahle
on the gifted novelist than Rath. type - of the utilitati al
soi ,- it of the Iron Age His life hns been a strange
mod II %Von of the general rule, ; Great tuso ring
from the ranks of the pasple '; Hie w , rks are as var.ance
with all- p•eennceivrd notion. of ficlon Making. his
app Mande in the veneer letter , hera'ded hy nelth , r
Na.mith nor pedigree. the ir Annalist oF tie Poor ‘' tee
os-rerthelese woo for himself a name whom. lrotte
eclipses that of the ccu - t y &Own. Lytton. and pales
not by that of Walter do tt. In whatever else he in iv
heye been etisrll.d. ttinrs have been no infidel - 1i author,'
who. is Pith.? the truth nt the p•thce .4 their t- rro,-.l
pairviug have equalh•d Charles Dirk 'EA
ju‘nilll4l.4 thine's. the mo't trivial, which others
would have disregarded, are bv him innefile v. Ith pe
culiar interest: and stand f •rth iivin 4 me !ors up-m
mimic stage goenes the ru-st sublime, w•-•icti others
hive rend-red irksome, under his pen are re .created.
end In full spin. dnr imrress themselves upon the min
and heart The description of inshimale nature, how -
ever difficult. iN easy compared to the portrayal of tuft
more intricate nstore which sets and resets within th
human hreset. To few has been given the power of
dessriWng human rharacter and those few are nos ,
r stred as the greate't anthers the world ever reduced.
it is the pre'essioo of this rare rower which co erni
n._.tis Aietinguinhts Dicknos from the other noy , lhite
of the century.
Scott's novels sbrund with character■ breathirg the
longing! of wolfs. whose 'go hag long eines &netted :
Iluok's are flied with belles whose true feellnee are
hid beneath the cloak r•f social hypneri , y; linlwer'e and
Thackerat's are peopled with members of the upper
Circles. who.e nriginaf ehlraeters hove heel obliterated
by enwtom. These nnvolista have fn•med their players
of refined material.. clad them in Tilsit or in the garb
of ! tiff gentility. and started them over the bosrds to
ant their 'alien. roles The.lrih ronsiats in keeping
the wires by which the automatons ate moved hidden
Prom the eye of the spectator; but Dickens niou'd. hie
actors from eommoe elan. +Aka the hand of a Pr1436t01...,
hretth , into them the Pl'oll3Ythooo flame, pieces them
upon the stage. and they play their own eerie in the
world , s smut drama.
Had Charles Tlirkens gent forth hie variHms works
dee•itute of the high moral rurpom which row oh me
tering" them, he might still be called the great novel'er—
never the great moralist. The world demanded , f
him an aim higher than amusement, a wo k
mivl•t stand the etern teat of utility, which might
h•nefit mankind. Ile acceded, and the gnat heart of
the Iron Age, he sallied forth pen in hood. to di.arra
the hideone soc'al vices. H• might have clung to the
%entre of aristocracy, and still b. welcomed in literary
pi roles. but the writer gate weer, the msn was betrer—
he devoted his talents end hie f.elings to the eervia. of
humanity. The hearty welcome, which walla up Frain
rule but tender hea*ts, allows the world appreciates
hie labors. The novelist ham fully crown, that the
great dramatist never wrote a truer line than this :
" One touch of natum makes the whole world kin."
The speaker's address was one of the beet de
livered during (he day, and was loudly applauded
" Sounds from Rome,' by the nrebestra
" History " was the next address, by Mayer
Sulzberger. The great fault of historians was,
that they very often wrote their own impressions
rather than the faa's of the narrative—striving to
give effect to their fertile fancy. It had its faults,
and in many instances they were grievous one-.
Yet with all its faults, ithad bestowed incalculable
benefits on mankind. A Meshing allusion was
made to the lamented Prescott who, after having
made a name as the first -f modern historians,
passed away. The popularity of Washington
Irving was attributed to the feet that he never
eaorifised truth to fiction, hut regarded the plain
feats of his narrative as above the whims of his
fancy. Historians oftentimes forgot th it the re
cord made by themselves was more for the benefit
of posterity than contemporary fame_
Happiness and Mews .Relations" was the next
address, by Robert H. Ilinekley, Jr. It was hee
dful and brief. The possession of power made
man very often reckless. Nothing could b 3 more
painful than to see man neglecting the duties he
owed to himself his country, and his (fat The
true happiness of mortising/ was to be derived from
their firm adherence to the laws which God had
given us for bodily and spiritual welfare. Man
having been oreated by an infallible being, it ill
became him to attempt to raise himself above his
Maker. Bodily exereiee was dwelt on as a source
of bodily happiness The obedience of laws was
regarded as an embodiment of true philanthropy.
This was an excellent address, well delivered, and
was rewarded with a bou,ieet.
The overture from " Martha," by the trehes
tra, and an address on' &theism." by William P.
Hartley. The worship or the sun, moon, and
stars, with their attendant intl een up° n the emit,
was he suhket of the speaker's essay The heart
is gladdened by them, and without them all its
finer feelings would lie dormant This worship of
the soul characterize I all the ancient nations of
northern Europe But Bahaism has faded before
the ecru'inizing gaze of Christianity. The debt
of Revelation now illumines the soul. The wor
shippers cf the sun were °hided by mot tl &irk
ne-s. They worshipped the most puissant of the
Maker's works. The fountain of truth WAS
eagerly sought by them, but without revelation.
They worshipped god through His works alone.
Although this address was very indistinctly de
livered, and had not for its theme a popular sub
ject, yet it was loudly applauded, and the speaker
rewarded with five or eix boutratite.
Oswald J Mertin was the next, speaker, hie
theme being "Human Glory " He did not be
lieve the often-repeated assertion that Death loves
a shining mark. It is only when hie object is con
spimeua that his arrows gleam in the eyes of all.
Fame was very often dishonorable, and, In many
instanoes, oblivion would be mare desirable than
renown The same page that told us of the good
King Alfred was black with the crimes of the
bloody Gloster. The same coetest that give im
mortal glory to the nettle of William Tell damned
to ir.finiy that of Gesider. And, while the war of
the ltev-lution had given us on illusiri• us Wash
loglon, it had giver, us an atroeious Arnold.
The extvaieite trio from " Luorezia Borgia" was
sex' performed.
" The Spirit of Discovery," according to Robert
M. Luther, exerted an unbounded control over the
life of man. Roe sledge was his constant cry. To
know the mysteries of Nature, of the earth, the
heavens, and the sea, was his constant elm.
Guided by the deep, penetrating mind of dis
covery, man had done a great work for hareem pre.
gram and civilization. Mr. Luther's address was
loudly anulauded.
The For Ar's," by D. Park, J: ,alas
the next ad Iress. They exhibited, he thoushr,
greet field r fame. The efr•.ct of art fell like
gentle fie. , it ; , 0 2 1 the sword It bid necompliob-.1
a wonderful reVll'Utintl in gu ro p ean tape and
inz The names of flogneth, Raphael. Rembrandt.
on '.ally, were arsnciated with a!! that woe
tiful Art bad refined Europe. and he.iutined the
arid plains of E4y pt. The p , wer of art pproache
as near min could approach the sit - tiling y
of Doity. The FD?aker raceivrd four h mounts.
Mmiie —overture from " Wtllinm Tail."
" Conse and Finer." John Tycd Ile. The pro.
:mat great system of civilization was easily tra •e.
able to the vast improvement in science and ills
covery. Nothing hod tendril more to the promo.
tian of kno- , lsdige thou strain and elevrioity.
The changes of art were transitory while those of
nature were looting The same being that created
the inrect made the elephant—one was Re perfect
ns the other. The same caum that hrought forth
fruit. brought forth deadly poison. To attain the
ca u s e , man searches the heavens, sails on the sea,
and surveys the land. This speech was a very
neat production and was well received.
"The Spirit of Chivalry." by Augustus Water
man, was a very witty and sprightly production.
The spirit ol chivalry, he thought, had gene The
corn erlaanze and stook market, hail taken the
place of "Agincourt and the Field of the Cloth
of Gdld " The world was no better to day than
in the good old times of chivalry. when the field
of honor was a court of equity. In place of belted
knights and mailed warriors we had militia, colo
nels and aids to the governor Achilles was gone,
and no one else was left to draw his bow. This
speaker received the largest share of applause
That musical novelty, the Anvil Chorus,"
woe Tatta'ormeil by the oirchestre. heeutifutly
The Honorary Address was delivered by I. 0.
Y-ung T. 3 topic was " Our State," which vas
ahly end originally trontsil. The speaker was
frequently interrupted oviih anplanso.
After the overture from 'I Masan lello." the de
gree of Baahelor o' Arts was conferred on the
graduates by Professor Maguire, who made a few
excellent remarks
The following are the distinctions and twat& o.t .
meat:
Mug or ARTS — . Lid of those Nd , r 'tied to the de
grafi of Weatar of Sea. Meg graduates of the four
years' coneao. a not leee than five years standing:
Raa R. 911 , thug Jahn 11 unwed Samna' K R-ynn'tl4,
J he T. Dilintt ;Do m F o , 9lrinsn. Binary Navas,.
irtharta l i W Hreena, Willi -m ' eyering, local/ 'II
Ithromal. John Oha IT' er, eharlen 11 Tneu—Tetel, 11
BacusLon on ARTI3 those admitted to the
degree of Bachelor 1,1 Arts. haying completed the four
:ye-re catroe. with thu'r rank. and their gradnatiag
averazoe : No. 1 I Gilbert, ynnrg grmluating eyersgei
Ai; 85 ; 2. 71 Webster Gratly 94 91: a (4. Washington
Panty, 94 75 ; 4 Frank M (1 , xa. 91 2 ; 5 William A.
' , talons P 35; 6. Tbnmaa '.5. Drown 13.5; 7 Charles
Vinmmi Mellfanna. 93 .; 8 George Washington NI in
dill. 92.74; 9. 51 aver Hutt-en,. 12 53; 10 Danl.' RI ;
wall 9231; 1I Itehert. 11. Hinckley. fr9l3; l2
William F. Hartley. 91 24: 13. C'al'l J Martin. /11.1;
14 lasmnel H 0 Felten. PO 9); 1 5 Itn , ert 4, 1 -
ther 84 97: 19. lionj eenew , l4. 85 97 ; I 7 Daniel
1r %mt., 859^; 13 Vsmoni L. Friel-on-h. 94 al la.
J Penrose Oollina A 3 9 ; to a ni.ttes W a tr an . 8343;
21. Willirtm 1) Park. Jr. 82 63; 22 EdarinF Limi•av,
Al 25; 23 Rufus W 61nrpha. tit 23; 24' Thomas
(Mulateu, 61 13: 95 John Tyndale, 81 1 , '2ll.
'bun H. Jones. 79 93 ; 27 will;eno P Curtis, 71:1 3 ;
45 r . D.i ng i aa Waterman, 75 3; 29, William f
4imr-ra 76 "e; 30. William Harr( nan Lambs , t,
74 95 ; 21. Constantino I' A Off:kn.:l,n ft tii; 32 John
usury Davidson 73 87; 3:3 William A John'. 72 a 2;
34 Henry 11 Vaughan. 72 4 ; 36 A nvnitua Waterman.
71.93; U. George W. Turner, 69 23; 37 J e lin Grail',
99 27 —Total, 37
List or thous roceiving Cortifiemtaft of h4ainte completed
Par , l , l Orel -Rex, with their Terra veragen
THRitli AND A Hats YEARS.—Fhilip Knorr, Jr., term
ave-aast 87 9
Titans YVAAS —WM iATTI IL Paxson, 85 7.
Two .AND A HALF YEIRS —Eugene A Smith, 98.9 ;
tnseh-W - H BnWh. 92 1 • Charl-s A. Barker. 542;
Srinuel G ili, 78 4 ; James H. Ridings, 71 3 ; Augustus
W. 1) cr , BlPon. 614
Two TEA.9.—William J. Bonnet 98 0: Albert Itltz
geruld J- 97 4; Charles T., Fussell, 97 1 ; Robert K.
Lovett 96 5 : Walter R Way, 95 7; Richard T Si.ock•
.11,, 91 3; William T Bswers 92 7 ; J "Iwo. Adams,
92 6 ; ha Lave. 4 '9 9; Jes 39 Thomas, F 9 7 • Asrair
P, Greenwood 89 2; Charles T shtnn. 88 4 ;
B. M..rocr. 08 0: Jobe S. Asa,. 8 4 .9 Edmund N. Boy
Pr 86 7; Edwin. H CalinP. 86 6; William L Jobnino
94 8; Edward J call. 83 2 ; William. M. Santa. 82 9 ;
J•ruze B. p.,10 822:James A Dannelly. 8. 8; Daniel
WC. Stie:r. 81 3; Thamaa W, fflOardon, 75.5; Witt
T Tu - rer. 00 Le-TOtal. 31.
sitnnossero --List of thore distinguished, with
their corm Prerimea:
CoviStaN A.—l. ailbert Young, term avernre. 98 9;
Mayer Stilzh , rzor 96 7; D Webster Grafly 94 5;
lei Elwell, 94 0; Poser , . VI Flin-blay. Jr , 07 7 ; G
W.shing•ou Pauly, 97 4 ; George Washington Mir dil.
96 9; Tinsman NI. Dv'.. , . 96 6 William A 51%15E8
96 4 ; Hohe-t Maurice Luther, 96 4 ; oba-lee ViDC.LIt
VtO , :al us 95 0 ; 14 ,, r , in. 30 0 ; C
Pa tan 95 3; Finnic M C:..24. 95 JUlltidA Wahine.
93 0; Benjamin P Gcsenesrald.r4.9 ; Daniel 8 Lomb,
91 5; PdirintuiL I`..i•hmuth 94 4; J Penroso Crane,
93.7; Thomas D Coniston. 93 D Park. Jr.,
92 9; William P Curtis. 91 4; Jam Henry Davidson,
91 1: Ti.vric P. T indaay. 90
Division 11 —O.( rJ. A, Wilt, 964; rg M
Fltie., 94.7; Soyder 11 Simes. 91 5 • William A.. Allen.
93 8; jobn 11 Fanelrawe, 03 2; John H. Kuril 90 9 ;
Gems, A. Bullock, PO 0.
Dtstston 0 -Gaa,ke 11 Nerheys. 91 8; Albert It
Leeds. 0; Jrmee p. ynnog, 97 8; (4. Ilan
ma. 96 8 ; John 18 fru. 0' 8 ; George W,
liruunar
-90 2; Harty F. Baxter 95 /i; 09911.9 Ii C. SOhons.
man. ; Tiv•mta (I - ~Beret ter.. 93 3: sdain S Os
good. 03 1: William T G norrev. 93 1 ; It Mert J. Park,
Jr . 91.9; 'John S Perkins 91 6- -
Dicistnv P Smith. 939; Eugene A
+n-0171 98 0; chatl.in C. Lister 97.4; Preok MT Wins
low 955; Jacob .u'z'esger, 03 9; Hart E Berg, 93 7;
R Iwo L. AhbrAt. 034; Josrph W. H. Pmith, 922;
11..hprt P Dsobe , t. 90 O.
DI vision E --.313 , 5-0.1 L. McFar l and, 95 6 ; Ilyerly
Hart. 93 I ; J. Beon-tt, 09 ; Albert Pi z•
gerald. Jr . 97 4 : Charles L. Fussell 97 1 ; Robert K
Lovett 08 5; Walter R Way 95 7; Howar' Hoodtel•
low 95 2 ; Tsm ri Vakirs, 91.6; James MeCle
94 5; FtMbard T. Sto-aman. 94 3; Theodore A.
so, 03 4; Wi Dem 9 , B5:•41, 02 7; J. Howe Mares
92 6; William H. Prl, 92 6; Maximigan 13-12mItt
92 0 ; David EV4719 91 2 ; 'Henry Doerr, 90 7 ; William
Crewe'l fio I;'Jobs Lane. 80 ; Jcloph 11. Thomas ;
AO: Tr. 1 1 ,. DFlV.r , ux. 90
DIVISION P —Julius B:ern. 96.6; J-imph ('handler
Niu , phy. 91 6 : Wiese 91. COnk lin. 08 1 ; William N,
Melacd, 94 8; Albert P Plackstadtr r 93 2: Penn. W.
(4 - privy. 92 5; William H James 92 4; dnho Stewart,
92.1 ; William 11 Markley. 91 6: Briwari Perry Ire
land. 91 5; Henry 0 Flubacher, 91 4; Alfred 080.9.fe1•
Ir,w, 91 3; Abrer Charles Tl•orn , ;a 90 9; Charles C
13202.1 9 1 : Frederik 11 Hubbell 90
r mstns G.—Charles W Reid 97 0 : Joseph Mer
vin. 97 7; Francis 0 Mmit.a, 95 7 ; Joseph 14 4,1 111
94 3 ; Joieph R. T 047; 09orgis A Reit 926;
Fleury Francis. 91.4; Day.d W Hunt, AO 3 • Peter La
v.ll.
DIVISION &mu.; 0. finnay. 958; Funnel H
jegipm 91 9 Cie.,' Hunt 94; T Leiner Carson. 92 2;
James T. Bates 91 8 ; Francis F Br i ghtly, 91 8:
l'rren Reatirt 90 --Total Distinguished 106.
NIPRITORIOLM —Litt cr those Meritorious, with their
term avoriree.:
Divrem • A.—William P Hartley. 89 2;
Jot es 88 . 6; Tl-rri•on Lair bert, 895; Wm.
1 - Forum 98 4; Purim W Murphy. 56 4; George W
Turner. 85 9 ; John ' yc, ale , 83 8; Will an. A .I,oins,
92 2i C. posxlhe NY - at-mom ; 91 2; John droll 51.0 ;
holey It Yermbee. RD I
Tiet.TON II —lobe 0 Hiller, 88 7 • Franklin :3,,:vnel.
S 5 5 ; James Crilbest son 04 5; Charles 11 Biles. 31 4 ;
alf . Pii 0 Forma, 82 B' Edward Wolff 81 0; William
Seelhaker. 80.
DirvrsroN C —Percy Lauderdal., 57 7 ; D tit' It
Rcans 57 5; Richard A. W..t 85 4 ; John -.5 lion"nra
F 5 a ; William A. Pavinn, 85 7 ; George Ho Feld f-5 5 ;
Rdward W. Hub.li. 85; 'Hobert Tannahill 94 J
Bldg Wan !dome 83 8; Honey C. Spacknl4n, 83 1 ; Ed
win •• b, SO 9
Bailers Bancroft. 89.1 ; William
Charley &Iraq,. 88 7; tienr‘re BradtlAd RS 4; Jane!.
T. Wolf. 8R 2; Troinie Clark 87 4 ; Adtm Kel er.
F 4, 9; Biwa d T. Bartlett 55 3; F,deriek s;:nober.
/ 5 ; Chqrl.t. A. ItA..ker, li.hed Kiely, 81,.;
Itainhfacr. 80
Di r t.ios E.—Aaron E Gre oilfired. S 9 2;-Benjunio
F. n phase, SS 5; James 11 B. Wee•er, 88 5;
_Charles
T. ilshroo, 88 4 ; Jsm•p. Edwards. Morey. 88; John
•eav, se 9 ; Edmund N Ti-ver, 86 7 ; Edwin H. Crane,
56 6 ; WilliNro Sartun, 56 4 ; 'Chien] L Joh a n, 81 8;
Rtw.rd J 83 2 ; Edw . wd H Worrell. 83 '2; Wet
51 Soott, 82 9 ; Thome M. J4cknon, sa.s ; George W
Shields. 82 8; Edwin H Barton, 81 4 ; James B Ap
ple, 82 2 ; Jernea A. Donrelly, 81 8 Daniel we,.
Sherri. 81 3 ; George W. Williamson, 80 ; James F
hicE hone. 80.
1)1 N F —Julius Bernbeirm 89 3; George N
Watson, 86 7 ; Charles J- 0_ Taylor. 84 6: Thome., W
Jones 88,4; John Parton Mu.tin 87 7 ; 'Shuns P"
ar.ll, 87 6; Robert O'Reilly. 87 3 ; David F How. 86 7
Harry F Helot Eli 7; Dimas Dodson 88 7 Richard. Y
Cons, 88 6 ; Eugene . Henry Footr, t 6; Edwin Ingram
85 9 ; Sams B Coovarmn. 85 8 ; Thomas t, Mu.t.n.
85 8; Allen, 85 1 ; M (l-$m 84.1:
Willem Henry Kir lz .1. 84; John 0. Dintysig, F 3 7;
.1. Rhein A Smith S. 7 ; Ramnel Itamare, 82 5 ; aII
li m O'N. ill. 82 4 ; William II Wal 43.. Jr., 82 2;
Amne W. Raton 81 9 ; William Stelp 81 8; Harr'
evn Kripm, 81 2; Franklin H Purrab 81 2; James V
MCDOnnti{th, 81 • Charles E Young, 81 ; Andrew Sheri
darn. 80 9; Wi lism W Strong 80 8; Jo.eph Nalian
Custer. 80 6 ; Edward P. Calderhead 80 1 ; Joseph B
Beale. 50 ; Patrick Edward Car all, 60
Division G —Henry W. Harcock, 89 1 : Washington
F P.-daring. 89 1; EldrOge T. Yardley 89 I ; Cherie, -
A. Graver, 88 7 ; fin stein DA Haven. 88 5 ;
Henry N
%toes 88 2 ; Peter A Worrell, 88 ; James Taylor, 88;
Joseph W. Wilson. 88; William L Burlonk. 87 6; Al
bert I. Horn 87 6 ; Walter G. Wilson. 86 5 ; Aud ew
LHi 1 88 . 1; Solomon Presheimer. 84; Abert W
D Ike 83 9' • John Henry Regan. 83 9 ; John Lang,
83 8; Joseph W Qoein. 82.7; W Diem H. Armstrong.
82 6; John H niel King, 81 8 ; William J Boss, 81 8;
'armlet Douglas Adams, 81 4 ; Thaddrue K Satyr
81'4; Albert C. Thomas, 81.4; Peary C Lipp, 81 3
Wiliam D. Borden, St 2; John 0.- Love, 80 3; Hugh
C L‘geo• - , 80
Division —George Stevenson, 89.4; ldward J
Dougherty. 85 B;"Henry Jefferson McCarthy, 88 8;
James H. Graham. Ein 5;.11.-ary 0 Titus. 68 3 ; Cla
rence B. Young. 85 5. Joseph R. English, 85 1 ;
Fenwick Lauderdale, 85 ; Charles P. Keveer, 84 2 ;
Frannie M Mcßride. 83.8; John Graham 831 ; p
Sylvester. 83 2 ; Edwin S. Wartman, 82 3 ; William
Penn laohleoht, 81 8 : learn Reed, 81.7 ; John Ogden.
813 ; WrlNAm H. Morgan. 80-8 ; William Grange, 80 8 ;
Henry Wiener, SO ; John W. If ht's, 80.
Total Meriterir u+, 144
" Auld Lang Syne " was next performed, after
whisk toe Vat,diottry Address WWI delivered by
Wrii R. Lambert. It was rather above the udual
Ntyle, of vAlodiatoritA, haying blur., originality vria
force.
At the oonalusinn of Mr. Lqmbert's address,
there were the usual leave•takinge between the
Bohol tts and te , +ch-ro, the in:mance audience in
the meantime slowly separating.
FOUND VEAL).— Yesterday morning a man
named Samuel Gay was found dead in his stable.
in Silver street, bstween Market and Filbert, and
Twelfth and fttirteenth streets. The man has
been addicted to intemperance for acme time back,
and deprived himself of proper nourishment. On
Weinesday evening about eight o'clock, Gray was
conducted to the stable in a state of unconscious
inebriation, and yesterday morning he was foun
dead under his horse's body, where it appears he
had lain himself. lie received no injuries from
the animal. The coroner held an itquest and
rendered a verdict of " death from a want of pro
per attention and necessary nourishment "
ACCIDENT —An accid.-nt occurred in the
rear office of the Girard Estate t Mae, yesterday
morning, by w Mph several men were severely in
jured Some workmen had undermined an (+ld
wall for the purpose of clearing the ground for
the Eastern market house. It was intended that
the wall should fall into the cellar, but the top un
expectedly fell the other way, and Mr. Harper
the boss digger, and two laborers,
were caught be.
t veep the falling mass and the Girard buildin
Mr. Harper was considerably bruised, and Patrick g.
McVey, one of the laborers, was also badly hurt.
They all narrowly escaped b eing: crushed to death.
HANDED OVER TO THE ADTUORITIES OF
Dr,r,al)-4Fm.-411.r.h0m lignter, eberged with the
murder el Dennis Bann, by ihrOwinis him into the
Delaware from the sloop Anna B ,on Monday
evening, has been sent to Wilmington to await his
trial. The witnesses of the occurrence aecompa-
Lied him. During Tuesday night a party went
on board the sloop, lying et Skull atr hex's wharf,
and beat Captain and one or two of the
crow ins severe manner. It was attributed to
the fact of their testifying against hunter.
SAD ACCIDENT.---A crazy woman, named
Mary Aura Smith, yesterday morning threw herself
arid two children tinder the wheels of a parsing
wagon, driven by William Dore in Race street,
above gigh wee th The wheels of course. passed
over the bodies of her two ohildren, producing
severe internal injuries... The mother being thus
s'iielded escaped injury. They were all taken to
tie station house and kindly oared for.
A MEETING of citizens oppose I to the run
ning of oars on the passenger railways on the Sab
bath wilt be held this evening, at the Spring
Garden Ball, corner Spring Garden and Thirteenth ;
WWI I at eight o'oloclit.
THE Rger,erT Freon L, oil'
stated in
_yesterday's P;. , :sa the feat of L t 1 trdLur•
.
c s Model at toe re.mianee of Mrs. Wingate,
in F =tweet ward, co
evening, rv.tich re-utted In th e de. , t h e nv c re w ,
and the Fevere injury of two n'her.i 0 ante in
the anartfofint at rho tunic It ant o Ina that that
portion c.f the city Is ed w ith flo'd lnnlhr, and
about nine n'ele.-Ir in the evening a lx.y lottk tna
of the street lamps inta the beton to light i• Tho
lamp haul three tubes an! hot two wick. M r 3
took it from the lad, and, UgNir,.: it. tit ,
free% her lamp ocanme,icoted tbrmczb tbs
pied tube, caaming an inVnediale ex p'roion. Eric
tog the blCI: the Lump out. and burning \lr;
Wingate dreadfully from the tap of her hea I to
the waist, scarring her breast, arms, and neck
Two Indies were in the room net the time. One
(Mire Catharine Ward) was co Madly injured that
sho expired at five e'el•ck yesterthy morning
The other, Miss Bit:line II ty wood, n , nefeen
or nee, war shockingly burnt nit u' the artu4 and
slightly upon the breast. Mrs Win tote is fete
likely to recover from the c fl.ets of her injit
ries, The body of ,Miss Ward was t teinved to
her lather's residence in Qemtn street, at.,v,i
Second, after the coroner held his irqueit. Toe
verdict was in ace.minnee with the rth , ive
Caosuring the lamp lighter. who has nit vet horn
arrested. The oemrrence 0/1.1190,1 th e uu..t. inlenre
exeitentent• and attracted it large crowd of people
to the scene of the exrdosion. Tait adds another
to the many thousand victims of the me of tit's in
flammable m Varlet, and, after thin sad w
we hops nmeeeres will i-r r nidi holy he takes to
have gas mains extended to not leniity
NAZROW FtinAPß. Yesh:nliy evening to
w tech dark a gentleman was driving u i M tr
ket street in a bogey When -h, vehicle g
to the sito of the old market Flied', nearly op
posite the Western Market House. the tio s I got
frightened at a nassenger•railrnad car that was
coming down Market street, and ran acres= the
street, going . over the rnbtititi that his acnumol u-
red on the site of the Owls In eretsinrr. the hnrYo
mumtded, throwing the driver out. Tnn dtivarls
foot was caught in the relnr, nod for ahont fn-ty
feet he WAR dragged with his hood along the
ground. The horse came to a stand Against an
awning -post, and the man was rearmed from his
perilous position. He was severely hru , F. , d, hut
not, we are glad to say tinngerously injored.
MF.FTINO OF VTR FnIENDS OF GOVERNOR
--An adj inn ad meetie Er of the tuprerter.4
of ciovetaer Wt-e for the Prem , dency war held at
the We.herill If ,we. hart evening, The meeting
was rather thinly attended, en va - tent or the ex
treme beat of the weather. Richard V Brener)
Esq pres'rled, John Campboll, Furl , toting as se
oretory. The pr specie of the Governor for fie
n-miration, and the pope'. at ity of the movement,
were freely canvassed. A number of prorsitinr
in relati , n to a evstenin'i , : plan if opernitins in
the coming. campaign, were fliteus , e), hut, with
out arriving at any defini:c conclusions. 'he meet
ing adjourned, to meet on the second Tuesday of
September.
SMUEL' AT LIE lITNINO.---ThA r. , sirfiArlete
Mai tr F or.eirelt, in Coherine street. Once Se
cond, win etruelc by lightning WI Wedne tity
nigh'. ft. I,w-en's to have e•rock the tin en t
on the rolf of the bolding, and thrn 1119? ed do in
I'e water.pinea. twisting there into nil Forte t•i'
fantastic 11 dts ees, and then ron , ni into the
croons. The inmates of the heu4e 1-1 , the cheek,
hut none of them received any a , rinhs
OvErtelmß BY THE ) • HEAT —Á 111 - 111 111 1 11W.1
Wild'atn Wallace. aged years, received a n-coke,
of the sun y.tatertley of , e-nlon, about two o'o'n,di,
while 11 , 14)34113E iron from a veusel at frnher.l
- wharf ff 9 was taken to the Nnnsy:vaniq
Hot itll, and died a short time after being sc . '
mitred there,
FLTCTION AT GIRARD COLLFGF:.—TiIe Mt-
DUO election foe officers of Girard College 10 , 1,
place at the iastitution on Weritiezday. All Pia
old officers ever , re-elected with the sir Or rx7ep.
tion of the Streeter& To this position Mr. S.nen.il
Overn f'TEIC P 4 in the piece of Mr. William
Field. Mr. 0 held the ro=t come time past.
CHESTNUT AND WAINT'T-3111.LRTA h,t MHO.% T..
—We learn that the diflimltieB between the tit.
rectors of this road have all been amicably mile ,
ed, end that the work of corstructing the tame .
will h" commenced in a few days A -!ontroct, at
4 GXeli trine, bas teen agreed upon, nrd the h 3
- taws of the company love been n melded In a W 61 ,7
to Prevent a recurrence of disputes.
SUN STRUCK.—The coroner held an In
quest, yoirerdav morning, nn V.', body of a man
pameu George Gallagher, round dead on Wader.;
day afternoon, in a boat-yard near the wire
bridoe, un stroke." The d
W4g .32 yearn of age a ILFn of femi'y. and reside
in Beach, between Race and Vino etreo4.
DISCTI kAI3 ED -f 'n Wetti:erlity Evening nti ,, r
twn hundr , r 1 workmen emp'o3ed at the t a f rant
a , meehanles and laborera wore disebar,o I, leas
itg about seven hundred tames on th 6 rll
SIVDDEN DEAT73.- 1 .'111111:t MerCt•T Wa.. 16 , 1 i
, 1•911 veaterday afternoon in an outitou." at N.
15.23 Ste'e street, in the N;ndi ward. 'rite
weg sent for to bola an Inqu •st
A LA ROE ENT UR noi
exeurain , , of St. J.seph's Church trek p'1"0 T. ter
day to Everett'? (irons. at Media. Thera -..Tert
over two thousand pertons present,
The Ts; aturalizfilion gneNtifin,
TAMMANY HALL AOAINIT GEN. LASS—TMP •R T orr
RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
At mooting of the Tammany lltlt (+mar d
C. mmittee, on Tuesday night, the following re
port and resolutions were adopted:
Your committee. to wh , m3 Wag referrer - 1 the mi.).
ject of the protection due to natur dized
returomg , o the country of their birth, re'pect
fully Inert +hat they hare ferioualy ennsidurnd
the question, and have arrived at the following
conclusions:
First. That (he right of expltriation hos been
aererted and maintained from the found ith.ri
the government of the United States by the Am,-
dean people
Second. That the right of expatriation 'nvr !sea
the right to teut.unce the natural allrg'anae which
persons owe to the Government under which they
are horn, and to choose the Government under
whose 'av. they shall live
Third. That every person of foreign birth who,
not being a ariaenal under the laws of his native
imuntry at the time of hie arrival in thin country,
or who has not fled here to escape p'nal'iee or ob.
ligatione incurred previou , to hie escape, is enti
tled, upon taking the oath of allegiance to the
Constitution and laws of this Republic. to a full
and as emphatic protoffl , n, wherever he ma] be,
as if he war , a native•botn
fourth. That it bas always been •he creed or
the Democratic party t.) a &come too :r shores fo
reigner: intending to become citizea., or flyinc
from the oppressive rul rof foreign des, otietn and
to extenA to them all lila riglre anti buil - Waal=
enj',Y 4 d by alms bot.rn bit out arid,
Fifth. That the enemies of the American Demo
cracy have :damp bean the jealous and une , dn
promisirg elic inter of the righ to ofnntura I iznd otti
z3ns to an elria Sty in politoal and social privi
ieges in the ionfederacy,and that no anti•Deur ,, a
VC Administration has ever ataerted or mainta-nrd
the doctrine that naturalized cit zene fhOld , /
protected abroad, in all respects like native-bon,
o!"cane.
You , . commit'ae, therelore, regard Ilie preset:;
pretensions and professions of portions of the Op
:yvition as not only insincere but basely hypo
.:(titkal and delusive; at contrary to all their pa,'
hhoory. and as unworthy the belief or en( &let:-
et those whom they Feek to deceive. But, to ti
lance nil cavil, and to detnonstrate that the De
itineracy are true to their time honored principle. ,
they submit for adoption the following res3lu
dons:
Resolved, That under the Conn Mullen Or the Unite .z
States, and the !awe and Onuetittitii - ns of the e,•verii
atates, eitiz.me by birth or adeplon are au , stantlatty
invest .d with similar rights and rr:vileges, ant, w , t,
or. reference to creed or origin e•A equally entitled to
eceive the protection of the Pederel Offeernio.ef,t, or t
lily within the lertituy of the licher! St. tee. hit in
err y civilized nation of the world to which such cJti.
tint, may raeort for bonines, or pleeoure
11,1Poived, That thoutb efts •ne of forelen birth are
orirteelonahlv res7onsible !or crimes, or civil oblige
twos committed cr ineurrui in th•ir r Mil, coui.try
rorrrhus to th•ir emicration, H ey cannot, in rooro -
lance with pound policy, refonf miters.' o loterutt ono!
low, or the spirit of ou• institutions, be ci - topelled on
revisitirg thome count , les. to enter into the military
-service or its rulers allegiane, to whom then Foie ron iy
and utter:y ahj ire when forested with the Irv] ptivi
eile of +merman oit z4oghip. end whirl) service, from,
ite nature, the exerolie of roitvo.. sothurfil
•to themes: arb trace end Missive toile.
Resolved That this doctrale not only corlticti with
, inport4nt personal rlithte a•d o inroerchil interests,
but, if insisted upon 44 adopta I by European Govern.
trients and unresiated by our cwo, 18 calculated to
impair our character as a free nitior—thouch Kane&
we believe, by every consideration of patriotism . IICI
polio/ to protect the persons and property of its citi
zens, whether at toms or ab,oad
Resolved, That if the rip his c f adopted pita ma ELM
di,rege•ded by foreign v &lions, and rxietingtreatiesare.
dnemnd te.adequete to their protection or redress, we,
sail epon the Cl,iVerement of the Ui lied titeten to lake
immediate •tepe to (fact the tlitOOMa v amendments,
p-nerding that no adapted citi2ea shall bs held Full rot
en his return to hiandive o-uotry tv military or cvil
dates; and we entertain the fullest confidence that
the prevent Admicistr•t on w disiha•ae this duty
with protnotneve. intelligence. and MICO,1•El
Resolved, That we denounce the lalse and hypocriti
cal attempts now being made by the notorious and in
terate enemies of a op•el CW3OEIB to alienate tbr to
from the national Raceme:se+ ; though conntitatina
the only political party clone the pavaagieuf the Virriiiirh
eviso'utiore he Thomas Jefrirron and the enactmen t of
the alien and sedition lawn under the elder Atlanta, that
h is has the her eel,. justine. and etteng h to nib,' d
the yolitlcal end rills oce righte of the loreign-hprn
z n 640. claim ana •otor.vi on hit behalf all the
immunities and privileges accorded to citia:ne of native,
birth.
The Opposition State Committee,
The gentleman below named hare been selected
to constitute the State Committee of the R epubl
can party of Pennsylvania.:
Cnairmaa—Hon. LEVI ELIN Letmlon.
DISTRICTS
Ist.. Robert C. Ptnith Philadelphia.
Hflary I. Wallace Philedstphia
George W. Pomeroy „Philadelphia
William R. 'Phonies Pliladelphia.
2d. Jain.it J Lewis Alorganhr Corner
ild .. Robert 'racial Norm ititown.
41 , h..J. Wilson Cowell Doylestown
bile. John R Olives Allentown.
41th "John M. Riaharda Reeding.
7th.. Robert M. Palmer ....Pottsville.
8 . h.. It 11 Rauch _Ada Acta Chunk
inti ~8 R. Chose Mon , rns...
WV, ..5. 0 L !ngstreet.... Willreooarre,
11 , 11..Willlain A Williams B.lltitic ore.
12th..5 Rush Petriken ..rick FleVen
llLb..lsr.el 0 otelin. ~. Se.karovo.
141b..1..nur.1 T. d I a ,Carli.4l
1 t t ..., o flat Casey., Harrisburg.
16th.. II .tliertl A :Al. ftar Lancaster.
S irrsel Shook rh lurobla.
17th.. Wil.ism bi.' , onkey Wrightsville.
19•11i../Etase C ainqtin ....... ....M'Conn.labur
h
19.h..J. Sewell stews t Huntingdon.
2A h.:Lewis W. Hall Altoona
7.1.1 t.. Titian J C. (fey Indiana
224..11 W. Bhyrock Greensburg
23d—John Hall Washington.
21th..J Heron Potter Pitt' , bu rg
Russel: Errett Pillt.ber.t.
2.sth—Thomart J. Power Rochester,
76th .. J , hn 5, P0mer0y.......... Saw Castle.
27tb..J Newton Petlie.... Neeelytlle,
I , AV R-id rD P. ZICART,
nth.. Henry Souther
President of the Conventiox.
The Da nth of Cap'. Robert Cunningham,
[From the Charleston abreury, July It
We announce with sorrow, to-day, the death of
ore for a long time eminent and respected in South
Carolina. Captain Cunningham breached his Inkt
on the afternoon of Touraday, the 7th inst , nt his
Rosamond plantation, in Laurens district. A few
years ago, notwithstanding his advanced age, his
form was erect, his step elastio, and his eye still
bright. nut /utterly his health had rapidly
tailad, and, ALPO' ft, lingering Mims of severs/
months, ha expired in his seventy-third year.
Captain Cunningham was the uncle and guard
ian of the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey and Benjamin
Yancey. Re leaves a son, Colonel John Cunning
ham, of Charleston, and a daughter, Miss Ann
Pamela Cunningham, the honored President of t he
Mount Vernon Association. His death, though at
mature age, will be universally lamented by Cho:
t.tate.