The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 29, 1868, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, —— WALLACK'S—Fire Fly. Leading charaeter by Lotta. BIBLO'S GANDEN—Offenvach's Opera Bouffe, Barbe Mere. BEW YORK THRATRE—Foul May. New Company, new ecenory, &c. Matines on Saturday at? P.M. BROADWAY THEATRE—Boncicault and Reade's Ro- manee, Fon! Play. WOOD'S MUSEUSi—Aug. -Fnelish Opera Bouffe Troupe, Sianete Twins, Baby Wome, de. (RVING HALL—Ang. 8i—Grand Moving Diorama, 100,000 Moving Meehantea) Figure The Sun. Tt Blitnes for ATL SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1863, Terms of the Run, DArry, per year to mail rubseribery ‘Exmr-Weexry, per year... . Ten copies to ove widens. Twenty copies to one ndare: Fifty copios to one address set forth ins pamphlet on the sulject, now It ie not creditable to the United States thet being extensively circulated throughout the | such cecentrie beings should be sent abroad country, are as follows: The Prayer Book indirectly gives an thoritative character to the Apocryphal Books (such as the Book of Wisdom, and Bel and the Dragon), the Homilies of the Chureh of England, the ancient Fathers, and the an clent canons. This it does by speaking of them with reapect, quoting from them, and recommending them for perusal and study. The Prayer Book teaches that the minietry is an exclusive priesthood with superne tural powe It applies to ministers the designation of “ priest.” It ascribes to them the power of pronouncing absolution ; of re- generating by the rite of baptiam; of conse- erating the elements used in the Holy Sap and of the bestowal of the benediction. 18 for them, in the office of ordination, pecaliar privileges, by virtue of the apostolic Wort ty, per year oe 10) | Buccemm.on, Tweniy enpler to one ware The baptismal sorvice in tho Prayer Book Abamone cones, WA Ons pouaaiin ws vise makes of baptiam an ofdinanco by which Feyment mveriably in advance, ADYRRTINNG RATES, Itepeaks of him as being salvation is assured to the person baptized. wanetified,” “de nerated.” | Porren Pane, Pet te: livered,” “born again,” and 4 roy \ pa dace pedal ‘Thin Ia asserted to contain the germ of the ¥, per tems, per Ut Catholic doctrine that by th of baptism, — when administered by the pricat or his dep. Is WeaKiy—per line » uty in due form, the grace of the Holy ‘THE SUN w served toe Spirit is conferred, the heart of the baptized throughout tie Mi What of itt Mr. hi OvuLD, Coutederate agent for the sia of prisoners, has jacely peel which tend to convey the impression t bl a letter by which designe to fix upon | Clements used are the real body and blood of | Mr. Ltxcoux’s Administration the responsi. | te Lord, and ie bein nan Gy bd Ulity for the horrible torturce which our | Slittic views of tho sacrament, which resem eaptured soldiers had to endure in the prison pens of the South. According to Mr. Ould, the Confederate nu. thorities were always ready to exchange prisoners, and in every manner mitijrate their | « « sufferings, but Mr. Lincony and Mr, Srax- TON defeated tir Benevolence! That we may not by ace: of misrepresenting Mr. Ould’s stiteme! cungnery Gah, journal then a: terest :@ I. That ao Jong as ths execes of prisoners i inde OF the Confed:rate eu lt rties th ju 1M, whereby al! prisoners u were Ube dhclarced, aithin ten diya upon parc cheese falling W Btated this ‘Was sirietly observes the part of 1 Orrangement warso far rende) ory that on the 10th of August, 164, the Couf-derate aithorition offered to deliver than for man and ameer for oflecr, ¢ longest in coninement to bo deilvered fret, jo answer having been ithe munication, a second of like tonor forwarded tweive therea'ter. No answer was ever re: we subjoin the following , prepared by the World, a now in the Confederate in in 1 ide capture but upon the was i e m m fit of the Saviour’s death of divine orig of authority 0 born ayrain psured, # regrenorated The communion rervie ‘hurch of Rome. dod How it is proposed to ret about ond one of the great ch, it gecma to a importan puintained that and item t enjoyed by pintry posse thone panly cont and the bene » in ke manner, contains many expressions aad sont vite bie those entertained by the members of the ded to the nee to the | ute at the expense of the Worl of re. forming these points we are not advised. Th whi | fought and won bef. upen the battle must be the rest ean be at. tacked with any hope of success, ia that of the authority of the priests of the Anglican | Churh, and of its offshoot, the Episcopal | Chureh in this country. So long os it is ther of these institutions i# eased any hu ed organization, it is useless | to contend for verbal changes ia the paseages beived to either of the of re beyond # Ine from by which this authority ia only recog: Soe eee ive putt of tee United State suthorites | nized. ‘The Ritualists and the High Church- to cominunicate, on asecrt boldly preaching “HL Tuat on the Mtb of January, 1964, a propost. | MUM RR rt boldly that the preaching of any tion Was mate on the part of Hie Confederae author: | but epise ordained priests in irreeular, men, with fo recive nnd distribute any. i ny claitn fo: . te nen, with | itistribute any cup | they claim for the miuistry of the Anglican, | Borvsuch wee. fornis coummusiedtion nd { Reman, and Greek communions all the | Fepiy of any kind w aerate | Powers and privileges of the apostles, the {liek possession wit ot amtil Noweun therefor was seis it ed as | 4) were added, ea gra/ia. Phot in the su of IsG4 the Contederate | authorisies ofered to purchase then eon- aban of war by cetlon oft f the all the ek and \ are no more than consistent, weir Chureh Dat ite beutiful liturgy roviding t The Evang eal for Low Chureh party, on the other hand, feom inclined to defend nothing peculiar to d, ny may retain that, to be willing | to go to the length of denying to Episco- | Mv demi ipeedt waid wath tobe | pal ministers any gifts and graces not sharcd asked, t by the ministers of all denominations. selusively a) the tod of tual servic. ‘Tu this mo reply Was ever received.” ‘To thes allegations a reply has been made by Gen. 8. A. Menenrri, who was for much « tho time covered by Mr. Ould's statement Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners on the part of the United States Government, Gen. Meredith's letter, which we publish in anuther colunm, shows that, 6o far from the blame resting on the shoulders of our of ‘Tho real ground of dissension in the Epis f its priesthood; and it is any to Bee Catholics, das not ovly schismatical but he copal Church is then, efter all, the author ty that among our Protestant population, the Low Church or Evangelical party will have the most sympathiz hand, while they regard the Church of Eng. lan on the other ical, sido with the party which maintains | views more nearly in accordance with their authorities, it was exclusively the work | OB, and which, they have good reason to of Jefferson Davis asd bis officors that | 0k, is propagating eentiments of the exchinyes were not constantly made | Utmort value to the cause they themselves of the prisoners token on both aides, | {vor The tetimony of Gen, Menuprrin we Baal can, of or own knowledge, fully confirm, aud extend frm the tine that he was relieved by Gen, Burien down to the very end of th war, Wh was trae while Gen, Mennorrit was Commisioner was t throughout, Tho fact i that the United States Govern mont was at Al tines willing and anxious to exchange prisgers, All that it asked was that the term#pf the exchange should be just, fair, and Tnostly observed. ‘The Con federate Governtynt, on the other hand, was dishonest, tricky, ad erucl in from the beginningto the en We make this gepral contradiction of Mr. Ould’s assertions Wh a full knowledge of the facta, We know ie history of the ease. The papers are in the Var Department, and, if there be any neces), wo presume that copies can be procurd\y any respectable person, ‘They will provin detail what we have stated thus generally ‘Tey will show that Mr, Ould has not told ty complete trath; that by concealinge ® partof the facts, he Gives to the whole an aspee altogether dif ferent from the reality Why the subject is thus brognt np now, we do not distincily perceive. Neither Mr. Lincoun nor Mr. STANTON, Whahad the ex tlusive control of exchanges on yur part, is now a candidate for office. Perlyy jt ix in tondod to inure the chances of Ge Grant, who had nothing todo with exe! 4, OX: tept when he may have been orderedy, pe form gome occasional duty in regard\g the begotiations. It is a remarkable fact that all the Ces, erates who were most malignant ayaingy) United States during the war, are most ». ignant against Gen, Guant now, — The Dissensions in the Episcopal Chur In add.tion to the question raised by the Tyng case, whether a parish shall be garded as a certain geographical division of lerritory, or as only a convenient name for the congregation attending upon the minis. try of a given pastor, the General Conven- tion of the Episeopal Church, which meets in this city next October, will have to con- sider another subject of dissension quite as important, and threateuing quite as seriously to produce @ division of the Church. The same class of persons who object to limiting the exercise of # pastor's right to preach the Gospel to the particular locality in which he may happen vo be settled, also demand that the Prayer Book shall be expurguted, #0 us to free it from a number of passag y i the business aul expressions which, as they allege, eovtain errors taught by the Church of Romp, and which, by a mistaken lenity, were “pot pruned away when the Church of Eng: fend reformed its ritual, ‘hose errors, as ple's busit Let Webb Come Nome! Gon, James Watson Wenn has a genius ‘otes his talents to their cultivation, # denied the blessing: which iu for quarrels, If fortune favors him, by send. ing quarrels thet he has not provoked, he de | If he chiefly loves, has little difieulty in makinge good the de- sary by the application of his own natural | grit Gen, Webb has been the diplomatic repre- for se nyoars, He was sent to that A more un sentative of the United States at Kio Janeiro | post simply beeause he is a friend of Mr. Seward’s, man to intrust with other peo , public or private, could not bo | found; but Mr, Seward never forgets hi friends, especially if they aro tolerably worth- lows, one was that of the Hon, Horace Gi and it has been supposed that the reaso: The only cake where ho ever forgot was that, instead of beiag worthless, Mr, Greeley was the most upright, powerful, and influen- tial polities | writer in the country, ever that may be, Mr, Seward has the beat | We dare say that if it all could be gone over reason to be sorry for forgetting him, again, Mr. Greeley would be amply remem: bered, Experience teaches, Well, Mr. Seward sent his quarrelsome, noiky, absurd friend to the Court of Benz. How many quarrels he has body can tell, in the papers orthree, He has one of gr now on hand, Of cours lous. Mr, Washburue, wanted to get to his post, ua, was in the way. that he could not let him p Skention, Vthis occurrence Gen, Webb saw his op- Hie opened a quarrel at once, His agonist and his point of honor were He might have chal- ¢ Marquis to fight a duel, and ended by an exchange of shots or a pas i ewords, but that would rather He chose to attack the Govermiont instead, His demand was that Caxias shuld be officially censured for Mr, Washburne instantly through his lint Very properly his demand ‘arquis had done nothing wrong, Hereupotyon, Webb threatened to ind quit the country, it, Let him come Ct own countrymen, Ponty, shrew gelected. sage witl havo belitt) the affix Lis refusal to \yy was refused, Th) ask for his passpo We hope ho will home aud vractin: on ‘ low- njoyed there no- ‘They have not been reported We have only heard of two «1 proportions it is perfectly ridieu- our Minister to Para- guy (a country where we need a Minister about a8 much asa man needs three hands), The Brazilian army, busy in hostilities against the Para- Its commander, the Marquis of Caxias, told Mr, Washburne | pass the lines with- Tel oat special orders from Kio Janeiro, These pnlers were furnished a8 s00n as asked for, ud Washburne went through after a brief | of interest. toinfliet their absurditics on foreigners and foreign governments, under the cover of the national authority. The Shooting by Sheriff's Officers. Attorney-General Evanre, in his letter of instructions to a United States Morshal in Georgia, lays down the law for sheriffs and marehals in almost the same terme which wo employed in «peaking of the rights of the Sheriff's officers who did the shooting at the Broadway Theatre on Monday evening. ‘This power of the Marshal,” writes Mr. FEvanrs, “ is equivalent to that of a Sheriff, and with cither embraces, a8 @ resort in ne- cowsity, the whole power in the procinet, county, or district over which the offic authority extends. It is only “asa resort in necessity” that the Sheriff can call to his aid extraordinary power. Does the arrest of a quiet gentleman —a peaceful actor—furnish the necessity for thirty.eix bell cartridges, in the honds of six men? This actor was not a desperate and dangerous character; not aman whose hands were imbued with blood ; not a man e much as accused of crine, The whole « troversy was of a pecuniary charneter, wos merely a quarrel, a misunderstanding, @ difference lout a contract, between two partners, Tt afforded no exeuse or apel for the bloody work of the deputics and tl aporinl deputien, The Vetter of Sheriff O'Brien, pompously prepowing to assume all the respons.b lity, shivite a lamentatle want of legal know ledge on the part of that officer, Prineipals may oxime the acts of their agenia; but principals who assume the acts of their agents in the commission of erime, do not thoroby, in any degree, relieve the agents of their own personal liability to punishinent We have no offiecr in ths Stute orin the country whose orlers would gallows agents who in obeying such orders should walk into a public theatre and go to shooting down unoflending: citizens. Deputy Shera® Hiekey seems to ba upon himself to decide upon the merits of a case in which his only lawful port was that of purely ministerial oMecr, He had no: thing: to do with the merits of the eontrover: gy oneither side, In hie published statement he manifests much prejudice, a etrong bias, He contemptuously speaks of iarkiuw as “Gio Marko Officers have enough to attend to in the faithful performance of th: oficial dates They had better leave litigation to the por- tiesand their lawyers. Above ell, they should Dear in mind that a public theatre is an un propitious place for a shooting mateh. Foul Play in fiction has attracted a rood deal ‘This foul play in reality will at- tract much 1 If a company of offic may at any moment walk upon the stage during a performance, aud commence fing at people misecllancously, it seems hantly \ fair to confine the shooting: to one wide ; the audience ought also to be armed and to be permitted to return the fire, ‘Tho miniature War misrht be more bloody, but it would be more fair. Would it not be well for Hfo Insurance companies to add to their usual queries the following questi to be propounded to | every applicant for a policy, as properly af fecting the rate of insurances Ave youwa resident within the jurisdiction of Sheri! O'Brien % Do you frequent the theatrot — Tho Republicans seem to be unfortnnate in their political organizations in this ¢ Vor some time past they have had two rival Genergt | Committees, and as yet it hus been impossible to reconcile them, The result of this feud is seen in | the decreasing vote of the party at cach suceved. | ing election for the last fuur years, ‘This example of cissension has been imitated | by anew campaign organization called the Hoys Blue, They had a meeting the other night to form a central club of this body, and eame pretty near turning it into a riot, As it was, two sets of officers were elected, and there wre two rival head centres who assume to direct the operations of the campaign, Lt is unfortunate for the Republ cause in this city, but with the present depravity of human nature, we don't see how it can be | | | | | | | are not Inerative oflices enough to give one or more to every patriotic citizen! oe ‘The Commissioner of Patents ix subjecting: the Examiners to the tortu not of inventions, but of ¢ | not be weil for the Commirsiv sume torture before a Examiner in turn? Tickle me and I'll tickle you! Seriously, this: business of competitive exuinination before ineaperts is worte than absurd—it ix a supreme folly, a ‘The efforts of Great Britain to consolidate into one confederation ail h provinces have not, ax yet, been crowned with plete suc The people of Nova Scotia resulute in their opposition to the scheme, ice of the Home Government in ibly lead to an open re- bellion’ on their part, The grievance they par ticularly complain of is the absence of a reeipro- city treaty between the Dominion of Canada, as the new organization ix called, and this country, To remove it, the British Minister is now busy in negotinting a new treaty of the nature desired with our Secretary of State, We can suggest a more effectual and at the same tine a permanent remedy for all such complaints, Let Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and all the other British vinees of this continent, come in and be invo porated into our glorious Union, ‘Then they would get rid of all questions of treaties, and trade, and foreign governors, The thing is bound to happen sooner or later, Why delay it wt all? y of an examination — W. uselves, er (0 un North American are aud the persist carrying it out may p ——_—_—- A Corrects To the Buditor of The Sun. Sin: In your paper of August 26 1 find the following words: “Dr, Fr. Sebuets prophesies that & majority of the German vote in this city will be thrown for Grant and Colfax,” Who authorized your paper to make that state- ment? Certainly neither myself nor any report Tever made, If you will be #o kind as to read again the articlo published in the Zyidune of August 2, writien according to the statements T made, you will find that I sald; " Notonly the full German Repubii- can vote will be polled, but I found tn many places prominent German Democrats determined to cast thelr yotes fur Grant, Colfax, and Griswol ‘This isno prophocy, but a plain fact, You certainly will oblige me by publishing this reetifieation, ‘Truly yours, New Youx, Aug, 97, 1868, — —At one of the gaming tables in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus there sat, a few Sundays ago, two gentlo- men of rather distinguished appearance aide by aldo. ‘They were evidently not acqualnted with one ant it treate other with great pol ONG he two gentionen was the ‘Orieunist Prince de ‘ile, andthe other Gen, Fleury, Napoleou’s AiJe-de-Cump apd movi intimate personal friend, FR, SCHUETZ, THE SUN, SATURDAY, AUGUST from the | taken | ferent to any political ospiration but his own, jealous of any one who aspires above him, and a malicious hater of any old fricnd who happens to stand in the way of his designe; aman who, thas exposed and | thuy known, f cninendy unworthy of your suf frages and re POLITICAL, —— —The rival candidates for Congress in the Nineteenth District of Ohio are Gen. Garfield, Re- Publican, and Dr, M. C. Woodworth, Demoerat =There’s a eplit in the Democracy of tho Ninth Oblo Dis'riet, The nomination of Mr. War- ren P. Noble was distastefal to a part of his party, ‘who bolted and putin nomination Judge Robert ® Lee, of Crawford, The Republican candidate is Gen, Gibeon, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Preea saya that “the State of Vermont ean poll twelve thousand more votes for John B. Page this yenr than It did last, and ought to dott, Even if the Democrats get out thelr vote to a man, we ean add eight or nine thousand to the Ropubliean majority of the Biate."” Brave words these, —The lresident of the New York Hebrew Grant and Colfax Club writes to Waabington: We bave now over one hundred members, # don Sanday numbers cated on uve to have thelr n curolied. The work goes bravely on. Lam the impression that we shall accomplish mach good, Twontto get a eopy of the famous order of Gen. Grant im regard to the Jews, to expioin its true mean: ing, Aw we have ny afinity with tralvors and emugelers, ond, with the help of the God of Hilo} owF conutrymen kuow it ln a tan: —The dissensions in the Democratic camp are giving the rbyimesters lots uf pluy for their wit, A Washington wag warbles eton Hebhart many erp ecard the viet dl Blair, nd soy ovr Greeubuess bo! 1 Another joker jingles the folowing additional Tat And there; sebe ewore treat no Wor tumping f Batt i iin If sey Hy her "tise the led and Mair Wil have shares. Whe , Al Than e's ot half enough for the Maire Denwerney of the Third District of | i} Obto seem not disposed to give Mr. Vattand!stam a | united and hearty support. Some of the disuitected Coes buve put (orth a quniiesto in whieh they charge | Mr. Velbon ith w long lst of | among them, with duplicity in proten friend of Mr, Pendleton and in attend many Convention with a secret purpose of ; ing his ne {with laboring to brie | Cinse w that Convention to defeat Pendleton; | | with Loving urged his Giends to become candidates J for the Ce onal nomination, he disclaiming any purpow h ew himself, aud then nyatitng Mn fect hin own “ew If of tue contest 50 created to ef {With having declared that nated, and then prompt Jy accepting wi nated; aud nunerons other | sine of Hike finport, ‘Te manifests wiads ap with An appeal to Democrats not to support so treccher: one and unrelia ‘The record given, they | tlent, or Foirfield CG. 29, 1868 lace, jewelry, and lovelimess; but Jemking was not among the invited gucets, and Rence the wortd is de- Prived of this literary feast, Iti soMclent to say that moric and dancing held andisputed ¢way avtil the email hours of the moraing, interrupted only for an hour at midnight to parteke of the very bountiful and elegant supper provided by the host, ‘This Wotel is delichtiwly vocated on the banks of the Passale, about ton miles from New York by the Erie road. Its appointments are second to no sub- urban house, while the situation, for convenience, henith, and enjoyment, fs wnequolled. Pleasant groves, beantiful drives, with bathing, fishing, row- ing, end other equatie plearures, are abundant, As ftuted above, the honse has beer open but afew weeks, and fs alrendy fiited with a very desirable company, fo inviting and convenient te it, that many of the guests have expressed a desire to re main all winter, and we are informed that the pro- Piletors have determined upon kocping the honee open Mninterrnptedly. Itis the property of an associa tion of canitaltets owning real eotate In that locality, many of whom roride at the hotel, thus giv furance that fe will continue to be kept in every re- of the Inventor of the Melaceon. Next to the Chickerinos and Stelnways, there Dei fneirninent maker tn thie Fe wileiy o¢ lone kn the Inveuter of the merodeon, wivo die! ayemnce, Ax en stivetion of the at of th: Nidy ting the vbettor when (he wine wae y When It wae expelled fa how seal ~hreutiug I Mr. Carhart may have been Inetramental in thug the melo Gout if We was it tor, ‘Tho writer's grantather, tease England, of Wiltshire, Englan 1, male pe mel tainly as carly an 190, and we belleve eariicr, veuteman wasa woollen manufucturer, wi efor mnsie, and some wkill in mechanics, ed to bay old pianos for their eases and key act and, removing tie wives, he replaced them wii talle Wind chest, and bellows, cutting his Plater and tony of sheot Dries and sett them to the proper pitch bumself, This manufuett to which he was entirely Witrained, was the plea ovenpation of hi ave hour nt rondily wold to bis reat the teriaik, We are ander the fu Lis f tie in ani! we know Ghat th ing Instead of fore he never heard of M %. 4 ont “s bis iastrame ir throws th Carhart or isn are quite confident, 1 — | Reunion of the Seveut eoth Conucetiout Vols hoern ut Norwithe of The Sun, Aux, Aug. 2 ~The Seventeenth Connee ty Regiment, whieh saved the fy, net forth the ful conduet of the man «bo has bad #0 tnany favors at the hands of the Democra- ey. hey develop the hearttess ambiti a snd {reveherous nature of ne sto hws long been known to those Who, by closer contuet and ensier facilities of judgment, fairly and fully appreciated bis ele- ments of character, ae 4 pervon consumed with wm bition, dlegustingly selfish tw all bie eoclal and pers ronal relations, sordidly mean and meauly sordid in all bis pocket interests and influence utterly indie. a The Brooktiia t @ Disen The mortality wnwong the horses of the Brook. | lyn City Ratirond Conpany, of whieh brief mention | © youterday » bam the will of the | terinar, ‘That it is an epidemic ad- | doubt, Tht it is contagtons or infectious | authorities dispuie, It developed {self among ores Of one stable only, and has not, as yet, wpiend to any others; but the horses of that stable, though promptly removed to other localities on the first appearance of tie disease, seem all to be predis- Poned to it, and though apparently perfeetly well When removed, they one alter the other are attacked. Yesterday up tod o'clock flve new cases were re- ported, ‘The disease te pro: Veterinary ningitia, while 0) paneed by Dr. Liantard, of the of this city, cerebro ap me it wil be remembered, prevalled awiaong the Human population of northern New York some years ‘ Among the Prooklyn railroad horses it mant- fests Itself firstin the brain, epreading thence to the ‘out and down the #pinal column, causing total in tho parts afveted. ‘The first indication of | attack 1s @ Cisponition of the aniwal to throw his head | up and back, as if be would rest tton his back, ‘This is soon followed by paralysis of the throat, causing on inubility to swallow, ‘The borse seems tree from | polo and wi.ling and anxious to est and drink, but | lacks the ability. He puts his mouth into a pall of | water in a periectly ral manner, and apparently | docs drink ; but it Is noticed that the water does not divsppear, From the throat the paralysis extends to the spinal column, and the anima! soon dies, The disease is raging among the horas kept in the stable of the Powers street line of cars, which is | located on Fulton sireel, near the corner of Colura- Via, In this stable were kept not only the Lorses weed on the Powers strect cars, but afew extra ant. mals for reliefy on other bnes, One of the horses wan hauling & Greenwood ear on Sunday evening, when he gave out on the road, fell down, and dled in afow hours, At very nearly the same time, another animal was attacked fn the ruable, and died witht four bore, On Monday the cases were so frequent that the horses were ali removed from the stable, and put in pasture outside the city. Up to yester- day, twelve deaths bad oecurred among them, and a Yery large proportion of the rest of the lot—thirty- three in all—were sick. The veterinarians have sue- ceeded thas far only in prolonging the sickness of the avimals, Instead of dying in a few hours, as the first cases did, the animal now lingers, under treat- ment, several day The Brooklyn City Railroad Company have ten routes of street ears, to run which requires fonrteen hundred horses, ‘Those are kept In nine stables, en of Which are in ths outskirts Of the elty at the ends of the routes, and two in the neighborhood of uulton ferry, No disease has appeared in any of the | stables but the one mentioned near the ferry, The | other stable, almost adjoining this one, in which the “towe” homes are kept, is a8 Lealthy as ever, ‘The stable in which the disease broke out was k livery stable for twenty years before it came int seorion of the railroad comp considered unhealthy, The company owns a steam | will at which they grind thelr fved for all thelr horses, and all are provided alike, ‘Thus nothing is discoverable in the location of the stable, the care of tho animals, or their dict, that can account for this malady, Probably the veterinarians will be able to kive us some lucht explanation of the mystery at some futare time, when the information will be loss valuable than at present, We have recently been aMicted with soveral ant- mal epidemice, Among these are the pleuro-pneumo- nia of cattle in Eugland and New England, which carried off great numbers of cattle; the hog cholera, whica killed @ multitude of hogs; and the chicks cholera, which Keema to have recently begun, and which is very fatal where it prevails. We have also what some call the Spanish fever among eaitie, and which proceeds very like other epiiemies, It is to be hoped that this disease among horses will not spread beyond {ts present Limits, It has caused th withdrawal of the Powers street line of ears already. Whit inconvenience woald be caused should horses generally become affected with It, ean readily be im- agined, me Opening Mop at the Rutherford Park tel. ‘The fashionable summer resorts in the vicinity of New York have none of them furnfehed a more Bleventh Corps from utter rout and dis rice wt Chat celloraville, Letd {ts secoad anniversury tar etlog hore weday. The ciicers of Norwaik,” without a Inctlon of party, teude Naghting boys In bine? W atitrens’ te public ovation, and diner, ur hundred of the old ment and ther wives friends n several trains, A Mie wea formed at ¢ 1k depot, under the exrort oF the bur ‘apt, Crosenuen, oW weer s. The prot Ate Upper Norwalk, the strects teing lined with eithy «rad houses gaily decked with banners und thy.” ‘The Laue halved alto ui of the town, at Locks d's Hall, where ad of weleome we interspersed with vocal sud instrument ‘The hail wae snost gorgeously deoureted by the ladle With flags and Lowers, Aline of pond lilies were closely placed along t tte frout of Use wtiy Phe od battle flag of Company Ay whi turod at Chancellorevilie, recendy Pleced against the wail ‘wt the rewr ot Where the notuece of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, ry, Ferry, anit ot wnonod in li leat” he feuture wow jograpos of thelr Lieut, Colonel elloreville; Fow », at Fernandina, These were tysburg; und Wil \ Mea, athed ia tre in Hegant ww taddresscs were mad ny and regretting t at the above bail, the I dito Lyno's Hh na, Dy Hine luad Veen prepared Surreis, of the Norwalk Hotel, The tibles wer furely decorated with towers, and the eo mide fwetidious could Ww: two Lirge flage were fe atre the Word * Welcome” arvested the # iI, Here the boys in blue, with their wi ate and drank their ti) 0 © enjoyal not becn experienced at the reunion 6 cut regiment. The ecitizes all larger cities, that nore been unfurled town or a? since the outore: A Hleury. Ali composed of wiany of the mt wealthy and tofluential wen in this county. Bhi wan aciivite, and used to pay otf the regiment when the ent wax short of funds, May the } fo Commercial Advertiser, Aug. %. We are fortunately uble to interpose a proinpt and absoluie deutal of all Mr, Ould's material state- meits of feta, comming disin- terexted wud unqueationbie, Brig, Gen, 8, A. Mere- ith, Whose wihtary record during the wor vtands dest'rvevly Nigh, aid who is now sojourning in cur hiwny mOnthe on duty near fehmond, commissioner for the exchange of He wns in constant cofntiunieation. with in reward to y business. The oft fully by ed ed before it Gen, Meredith Up to the time when he was relieved by Gen ler, and ordered to another feld of scrvi Meredith speaks of his owa personal ki Since tin tural 1e lie has had a ver the sutycet, and has kept hiinse He voiuntardy furmshes us ment, Which, to our mind, very eth wally a und conviets vin of pwolute tulseation , GEN, MEREDITH'S ST\TRMENT, attention bus been called to a ation story py Yin the New York Wordd, entitled * A Tor. nhl Revelation,” purporting to be a stiteneut of Hobert Guld concermng the exchange of pri Were the anatter not #0. a rious, the rea this noble patriot tor publ be considered the Dest jo et the many mis micderate authorities In relation to prisoner, iM that le feels tt due to the Guth of his tory to being the facts set forth to the attention of tie country." Whey an anrepentant trattor like Robert Ould hae the urbloshing Impusdence to attempt to impose on Northe n his vindication oF the truth of ’ Yea With the late rebellion, or the jonally » y fel it im my the curtel was he rebel Congre : dis determination deliver nited Dtates captured wie that date to the State authorities, to cording to the laws of those Stules providing to lament of criunin un Sueiting. ner officers captured Ver to the State nutlori ved and wabent on Jusurree: ¥ battle were to be handed o' to be hanged. ‘The seer and tho officers commanding t! rel reat int ner, but without taking the Houde to delive to the State authorities, Tn many instances n> ter was granted to Chat class of troops or to the « commanding them, Bome were executed wit trial, though that mere form would not have bu. Ated them fa tue silghvest degree When, in Aug 1308, demanded that necro trooy prisaere ‘of wor, " iin vy th of the trath” pemptorly declined, with ¢ mark " We ie rebels) wid die in the be beore glving wp the right to send mutes uc! byore, Another canse of the suspension of the carte! nd their officers vhonld he treated as o ver and exchansed, this yin lint» Tes enjoyable and brilliant evening's entertainment this season than the opening hop at the Rutherford Park Hotel on Tharsday night, ‘This elegant house, bullt in almost incredible time, was tn condition to receive guests some wecks since, sid was flied at tho beginning of the present mon! Nevertheless the formal “opening” dif not occur until night before last, when a very #clect party, comprising the oréma de la crime of Now York ety and New Jersey voclety, mot to Honor the oceaston, ‘The ladies were present in large numbers and in their rlaheet toilete, Jenkins would haye found ample opportantty fur the isplay of bis gonlus in describing the intricacies and wysterics of these gorveous combinations of wir ita constont vlotation by the rebels, in m.\irg Mend dcclarations of exebange for the 'parpo: sor py ting n into the field ; and there ik io Guu! Wha F that all prisoners paroled by the Uaitod Boke aus thorities Were immediately retucued to ae ive auiy in the rebel army, Many ts and 4 tured at, Vicksbarg were in tie batle of Cilckue manga, ‘Thos the rebels Wire mAkivK Mee oF oUF Well-couducted prisons us reermiting depois ivr t army, ‘Axother insuperable obsty le changes was in the mattey mi pure exe bad some eigliteen or twenty thorh. nd ‘an valid, lost, If not all of the © pory by guerrillas, boshwhackers, and «: raven ct in the West,’ No possession was e Jy no deliv- ery was ever made, and no roll was ever hirntstiod. On the eapture.o eummimand reuiatied Jong fe Siren aes the ‘paral Derolos ta" Bighme ‘had te robele hed 0 an ¢ | giving leans, eemed te wits | in their effor's to secure for the soldiers a genuine good time,” and that they had f of thei all, "Ti is aftirme snrinee to require the United States Government te GEchange prisoncre legitimately eaptured in batile +nch paroles ax these, On the Wh of November, 198, I offered to send Kamodtately to City Hoint 12/900 of more Confederate ers exchanged for Unien soldiers con- a in the Soath. This proposition was distinetly d unequivocally refused by Mr. Ould. And why? Because the damnable plans of the rebel Government In relation to owe pour cyptared roidiers Aad mot than been fully corried wut. Let Mr, Ould leave the trath of history to e care of itself, and licate, if he can, the intentional, elilated, and barvarous treatment ty the authorities of our ‘soldiers in the rebel prison pens. When, i> 1504. the belliah plan Was almost eonsummated, and they held as pri- soners thousends of loathsome skelecone, let hin confers that than his ewuasculated Governinent was Jet the Untied States authorities bury ite clude, Mcsars, Editors, these and these alone were the catises which prevented the exchange risoner#, and there eaueos were in operation Who clone of the war. ‘The difientt ex in th ere. in a) way antalle, and were #o looked upon by ates anthoritien, Gen. Grant het no wer to overcome them than any offieer who preceded him, He took the only means tn lia power fo «fleet the release of our prisoners, and In 165 succeeced In accomplishing bis purpose, much ty the . dis no doubt, of such | tie wind.catore of the “trath of history” as MP ilove Ould. ‘Yours, very truly, B.A. MEREDITH, Late Brigad’ Feneral and United States Commie- ot Exehange of Piieoners, Aug. 25, 1368, ooo IN SEARCH OF A PLD, = ede A Kural Geatleman in the Wrong By From the Clnetanatt Times, Aug. 19. The guests of the Henrie House wo startled this morning about ® shrie « ding irom the roon cine mi girls of that inst and ae th cate Which created Uns wousual disiarbence wor ot +o jaughoblo@ mature, we, like a fatatul seribe, wy coe teat punet cas meas |. Thaprears that ove of our guests, who hailed from the rural districts, ond woe oe a suddenly Jock by frightful oceupied by Un i Paving his devetions to oft carneeinors in the evel, while Wandoring around | the city buvting up ihe blephant, doultiens, that Woen he saried for his hotel i was far Pust the mide WF, aul be War as hoppy as corn Juice or ke one Without piacng Wi iM a ”, {the hotel afler divers uetions from hie encoun! but the fing= he had entered «of that Eton, & mort serio howi had been driven one; but one thing in there stubbormly, wid * that he occupied No, find it, After nuwer floor, which wa then begin his re vid Whe | Via This proce woke j and most wnenrtoly ek, Which roused t | otuer “Ohl murder! murder! | yous «man in tie rooms, and Le says, } 1 aun 96, When Tau just turned of | ‘Phere were just t girls in the room, but they were soon jolaed by clhcrs whe occupied adjol until the foree numbered at least tw ee the warm had sub ore wUroMe eM do ihe gas ave put the in- trader oat, bof light from. the gas-buiver re vealed the itmatlc ‘There stood the drunken reveller eyes like sauce sti by the aide of th Le hack first tow fazed at the sight that burst upow his vision f “iL birtysene | thirty-mx I" wold de, not lorgetang Libe number. Dad i there ain't thirty-siay Le eon: tinued, as he took in the number of the whiterobea | iris who stood gazing wt hina, th Hand and fe girin cousuiied, and concluded to bind him 1) Man ne he was, and at onee the fir dapon him, and soon pisced him Aure de combet, bound ax secure as ever Naxeppa wes lo ¥ ubiamed sued, oe done, the porters were called in, and their sven wanted over, Wio Was at onew tiken by No. re he Was severely reprimuoded, Tie say# he, in explanation, * und do you suppore lurmion because T iell among Uartyeix gale toad of number toirtysist Tell tee iandiord to Ke cll damage to No, iy and have me checked for the 6:90 trwi morning, A 1) wot stop wit any one kee ah ‘is bn a wi le Fowm, | Aid yo ended the lauguable alate of No."s, Ucurie ivuse, Taw a i Ww ———— Female Saffeage at Sturgin, Mich, Prom the Sturyts Star, Aug. 2. f Sturgis went to the polls ene. hu i twenty in number, and de- | tionatrated the propriety of the movcmen! cur votes did not count, for they coald only b ne separete box, and tie movement was only good in moral ellect, AL the vehi Lost sp ever qual lutist porsem (0 exercise privileges in that meetin, GAY Woman possersing Uke quadicutiows cau exci cire hike privileges there, To substantiate this, it ts only necessary to read the School law, Section 115 of the Primary School law reads: “Phe words *qualitied voters’ shall be taken and construed to mean gad include all faxabe persons residing in the district of the aze of 21 years, and wie lave resided therein three montis weat preceding the time of voting Ex-Btate Superintendent John M. Gregory's opinion all persons Viable to be of that is as fodows: * Cad this seetion (140) taxed in the district, and 8f years of age, and baving resided three mouths in the district, without distine- | tion of ser, color, of batiouality, may vote in the dix- | trict meetings.” In districts where they elect only a Dircetor, As: sxor, and Moderator, the Luties can vote on ail | questibns exeepe the election of officers. graded cistrlets they can vote on all questions, { the cleetion of Trustees included, Here we might state that mon having no taxable Property, Cut Who Vole Al town meetings and gen ral elect only vote for ‘Erusteos at a sehoul miceting. Auy Woman, then, having a watch, cow, baggy, oF personal property of any kind subject to tux, or Who wns res! eetate In her own nauwe, or jointly with husband, ean vote, Jere, thei that school lawful right for women to vote at ie, and un there ean be no Impro- priety in ft, we adv it, We believe that it will work good. Onr Union Selivol is something that wil ould wel and have adeep active Interest in. We then, those ladies entitied to vote will 1 and exercise the rights that the law graute ope, i ve these suggestions a practical effect, we Hy pubis ke tolte wing: noTicR ‘The understened respectfully request thore oAw OF Mrtiiet SO. Fires (8) of the eownatilp Who are evutled to ved at ate aunaal + sie tk ALS. wlOK's paLio’y Ae the bachange % Friday » Aust Maths o'cing Jing the privildge wash meth Mrs. BI ul TAL Bawell, 1G. W f W, Vondleton, Brave AG ‘Tobey, Artin, i ti How # Matue Girt Goes in Swimming Core ef the Cinclunatt Commerciat, Kuwsenunn, Me 22.—There is a trio of ladies bron Beh wing Vibage who tre. drive their own °F 40 Lie beaches to wim, ‘They beong to the natural aristocracy 1 * conden untry inteligeot, and above lushions bee: oO ther aud who are supert thinking hard work to be vulg iM Upon Us ut th we other day, tugging thelr own Dig baske ail of ice-water (everybody bu ‘the “bueket of lev water) and sat down (aller putting their horse to fed), among tho great stones to > {enjoy themsciver, — Preseutly, “they were up Od” apringing Gout the rocks, ellmbing the hugkedest Clits \\\ advance of the ‘most adventur- rentleman 3s WeLywh! aa” yu und OF he company (for. they knew the ‘c), sad apparently as Incapable of fa Gok upon their native mountains, loo three sisters Wus a Vuxom and vate swag lady Of 99 60 9), why hag the on ef ive the most accomplished, at all k of the country gentry of the neighborhood, Ave is Souk and strong, aud can turn of more va: Hit Worl Ina day thas! most city ladies could man- wife ta Week. One fine morning she drove aver to tic Leich to take sor y fiends up to her futher wo poy, & Viel. Buvilug them, wot quite ready, « suld, © Well, I guess I'll tale a bath while wasth and” th teh ininutes she was in the re swimming and curvetlog through the. waves ike a dolphin floating on Wer back," treads ing water,” and perloFting all the ‘antles of the moot pructived uid able-bodied swiminer, She then drove them to the ¥; ¢, Our miles distant, got upa fine dinner, satdowm aud made a cushion i Witngaed bat, aud then {neited them to take row on the river, She rowed the boat hereelf in u most expert sailor fishlon, and took a long pull alonj the winding shores, romtng Close under tie shadowe Of trees, anc faet by the banks fringed with flow er: fo that the party plucked them withvut boat, Of course, the reader is not to infer that the Maine ladies’ are as handsome, wholesome, a accomplisued as this one, for thers are ‘muttitud that are Pee ond pinto an their Massach sisters ; but assuredly sueh graces of mind vr son, and much varied Capacity, could ot long remain a single Dlossedaew in any Country outside of New uglan raving SUNREAMS. —o—— —There is an establishment for canning peaches At Atlanta, Ga,, which employs 500 hands, Awful’ Gardiner is settled on a farm im western New York, Vhief Justice Chase and Miss Chase are at Lyon, Mase, —The total paymen’s from the British treasury to the Royal family amoun' to $2,500,000 in gold. —The British cruisers on the coast of Africn eaptared in 1:07 eighteen slavers with negroes on board. —An ancient Indian mill has been found in one of the mounds in Utah. It is of conglomerate store, and very rude of structure, =It takes 100,000 ounces of silver a day to supply the demand for that metal in manafactures and the art, —The Fenian organization whieh was expected to revolutionize Ireland consisted of 200,08) mer not counting the Feninns of Ameri¢a, —In Ohio there are 173 woollen mills; in Michi- in Indiana, 196; in Diinots, #0; In Wikeone in Towa, 63; In Minnerota, 1 7. —M. Duruy, the French Minister of Public In has ont M. Hippenu to the United states & thorough examination of our system of to Wak tdueation, —Honvaire, the tiv: of Leotard on the flying 4, In consequence of a fall from a creat @ theatre at Madrid. He was rich, and followed iis pro‘ salon from love of it, =Th nal property of the lao Sir Benjae of Doolin, is more than a milion ster tamp duty on the obate of the will ¢ Kondowt Freeman says; “Graduates of Mege are to receive the degree of * Queen 0 that the first knave that comes aleng them J. Hankheed M on the 1 mon! mn, It is suid that the three highest mountains on | the rlobe are Ganrisankar, of the Himataya rang: Dapsang, In western ‘Cuibet, 24,790 fee And Ranebinjinra, in eastern Thibet, 24,000 1 —Kirby Smith, best known aa commander of the trint-Misiseippl Department under the rebel ernment, 14 going to open a military aeademy for at Newoustic, Ky., on the 15th proximo, Mille | tary schools are multiplying in the South, Half the appheants for admission to the London University this your have been rejected as ungnalt Among those who were admitted were nine young Quakers from the Frieads’ school at Tot- tealam, —Porphyry pavements are to be tried in St, s@ servant, after the down/ail of Louts, The ‘the work is now In progres#, Caronlelet aves ruc, fromthe Convent Market to Lafayette street, and tot Broadway, have been recently paved with porphyry macadamizing, —What strange creatures girls are! Offer one of them good waxes to work for you, and ten chances to one If the old woman can spare any of her gir) but just propose matrimony, and sve if they don Jump at the chance of working » whole lifetime for their victuals and elother, —The late Queen of Madagascar was buried in | vor coffin worth $39,000, and a box of coin, wikeh it ook fiiteen men to carry, was buried with her, ‘Tie mourning requires all her sutjects to shave their heads and go barefoot fur ninety da; They must Aino sleep on the ground and do no Work for Wat tiy —The second son of the celebrated Marshal Bu- goaud, Duke d'Isly, kecpe a store in Mtettin, Hie fatlier leit very little property, and his sons left the country In order to make moncy, The son who emi grated to Stettin has accumulated « handsome fore ; tune. He dropped his ducal title ax soon as he sets ' tlod tn that ity. —An aneedote is related of the Inst wor. of the colebrated Hohemian, Guichardel, On his death bed he continually cried out Abt! Abs! ‘The sister of merey naturally thought he required “absoiae and went to seek for a holy trther, bat it turned out that the dying mun was asking for abstuthe. | —William EF, Marsh, of Holyoke, Mass,, disap. peared in 196%, most unaccountably, and the other day reappeared without warning, In the meantime, his father died some three years since, and his broth er Albert, divorced from his former wife, married, a year or more ago, the supposed widow of Willlam, Who shall «ay that Enoch Arden is a fiction? —The editor of a journal in a small Western town bought fve pounds of powdered sugar, Ho found that it was mixed with plaster, and asnounced in his paper the mext day that It the grocer who had #0 shamefully cheated him did not make amends he would publish his name, Before 9 o'clock in the morning he had received five packages of five pounde each, There were just five grocers in town, —The produce of the chase in the province of Archangel, Roseia, has recently been published in the aris Montieur, From this account it appears that the number of animals annually shot amounts to about 400,000 squirrels, 22,000 erimines, 40,000 hares, 8,000 white or sky bluc foxes, 200 large wolves, 17% sinall wolves, 900 bears, 70,000 brace of woodeock#, 10,(0) wild geese and ducks, and 12,000 ewaus, —Liurns wrote this epitaph on # schoolwaster Here Me Willie ‘0 Satan ! wil —The artesian well at St, Louis is of no use, It ylelds salt water,and it fn thonght that if they bore deeper it will not yleld flesh, However, they are trying. It is now 8,885 feet deep, and gaining two feet aday. -—Mr. H. Robinson, of South Hero, Vt., poss tossed an albino robin, a pink-eyed Iittle fellow, wha Would sing with remarkable sweetness, He was a great pet, and bad the run of the house and yard; Dut the othor day, on going into the latter place, he attracted the attention of some enricus swallows, Who expressed their feelings by making # general attack on the unfortunate atbiao, Naturally enough he flew away, and har not since been hard of, —The sale of Chinese toys is very large in Boston just now, Some of the dealers have afixed “Chinese” to about every article in thelr #tor “Mr, Warem, have you any real Chinese sewing silk? asked Mra, Jones, at the maroou-front store, yesterday, “Fine lot, mi fine lot; just from Canton, Cun vell it at avery low figure, too."* Shows her package Just in from Canton, Mes., adds ® hundred per eent, to the price, and sells a gross of skeins, Mrs, Jones regards her fortune a vory felicitous in goiting hold of a genuine article all the way from the Flowery Kingtom, —Cupt H. B, Nones, one of the oldest offleers in the United states revenue serviee, died at Wil: mington, Del, on Tuesday, He was in the 45th year of bis age, The deceased was a native of Philadel phiv, His father was Benjamin Nones, a well-known notary padiic and interpreter, who flourished in the varly part of the present century, and who was a very active politician tn the old Walnut and Chestnut Wards. Cupt, Nonow, after «pending some time at sea in the merchant service, was appointed by Gua, Jnekson, in 18%, a Lieutenant in the revenue ser vice, ant he continued in active duty until the period of hin death, —A man in London got drunk, slept on the gronnd, and had his boots stolon, He complained t¢ the police, ‘The offender was arrested with the boots fon and committed. The prosecutor asked for hit boots, “They will be given up to you after the trin},” was the answer, "But," sald he, “I aw harefooted, Thave no other boots, and Tean't go ta | my work aud walk about withoat anything on my feet.” The magistrate tried in vain to get hima pair of old policeman's boots, and then wad: “Tis comes of the prosecutor getting drunk and tytn down in the street, Let him have his boots, Stang them so that they ean be Identified at the semsions.” —A fricnd at Medway, Greene Co, N. ¥,, writes: “A Sunbeam tn Tae Sun of Aug. 21 makes Eld. Moses Howe 97 years old, Eid, Mowe ts are markable man, but not so reinarkable for the name ber of his years as the number of his sermons, Eld, Howe may he TT; ho certalnty t8 wot 91 years old, He has preached fifty-four yenrs, and has aro cord of 8,000 sermons; kas married 1,778 couples, and has attended 9167 funerals, © Sunbeam" re ports him hale and heerty. His form is erect, his step quick and elusiie, and his voice load and cleus ‘a8 that of a bell, Bid, Howe is vory Nightly exteomed by the fraternity of Christian ministers, and by ult who know hrm He isa member of the Chrivtun