The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-07
oiry Oorsous.-Tho arst regular meeting of

I CRY CoUNCtLs.-The FIRST regular meeting of
| City Councils will be held to-morrow-the sum.
mer vacation having expired. No public business
OF importance will be transacted. II Is expected
that five Of the members will present their resp-
nations. Three of these are In Select Council
| and two In the Common Branch. Tuose of Select
| Council are John Price Wethcrill of the Ninth
| ward, who has yet two years to serve; Henry
| Davis, Fifteenth Ward two years TO serve; T.
| Spencer Miller Tweniy-fourth Ward, two years
to serve. The designations Of Messrs. Wilson
Kerr, Eleventh Ward, and Owen McDnu I'D
Twenty-n fifth Ward, botlr Of whom have one year
set TO serve, will be presented In Comm On COuu-
ell. These vacancies will be filed at the fall
| election.
ALTERATIONS AT THE CrsroN HoUsB.-The
work Of altering the offices of the Custom House.
| for the purposes Of the Assistant Treasurer OF
the United States, Is progressing very fast. This
department will be on the south side Of the build
| ing, with an entrance from Library street. All
Of the premises, both up stairs aud down, aud
south OF the old banking room, including the
present rooms of the Collector and Surveyor,
and those OF the private clerks, will be appropri-
ated 10 the use Of the Assistant Treasurer. The
United States Offices will be in n narrow Circuit,
and all will be contained within the boundaries
Of a single square. The Custom House, Assistant
TrQasurers Ohicc, Post Office, Commissioners
and Attorneys Offices, and the United States
Courts will all be In immediate contiguity.
TIN CENTRAL FA1R.-The report of the gains
resulting from the late great Central Fair held in
this .city some time since will probably not be
ready before the lst Of December II is the in
tention of the Committee 10 dispose of as many
Of the goods lett on hand from the fair as pOss-
bic before returns are made for them. A number
of the Committees have yet b. report aud the ab-
senCe of number of the persons composing
them during the summer has delayed the return
OF the estimates Of sales. 10 is surmised that the
gross receipts Of the Fair will exceed, by
several thousands, one million of dollars
NAyAu,--rhe steamer Lillian has been ex-
amined by Prizc Commission, and appraised
with the coal on board of her at $4,000 The
Commission say that they found her to be of
| iron, nearly new, and OF 41j tons, American
measurement; that she was built in Glasgow, and
| has two superior oscilatiug engines, and water
| tight compartments. -
The prize sloops Cyclops aud Buffalo were con-
| demned yesterday. Both OF these vessels were in
| possession Of refugees FROM the South, who, as
they allege, had converted their effects into cot
| ton, put il on board the vessels, and ran ont of
| the blockaded port at the first opportunity pre-
sented. They have made claim for the cotton,
but it is believed the claim will not be sustained
for the reason that the cotton, being an article of
| commerce, is liable 20 contisCatiOn when captured
or taken possession OF, after having been run out
| of blockaded port.e .
DULL.-The refusal of the Government to en-
| force the draft announced for the fifth of this
| month, and tho fact that number Of the Wards
have flled their quotas by furnishing recruits, has
placed damper upon the substitute business
There was general holding OFT by brokers in an
| tiipation OF the draft. Some of them, we under
| stand, purchased q number of men s0mc time
! since at cost of from $3.50 10 Si00, fully ex-
| pecting that, when the time arrived when they
| were wanted, one thousand dollars could at the
| least calculation be obtained for them. But a
| change has como over the spirit of their dreams
| and the Ward Committees have no trouble in pro-
| curing recruits at very low figure. know
| ledge OF this fact should serve as an additional
inducemeut for the Wards to fill up their quotas
! as soon as possible, and thus relieve Philadel-
| phia from the operations of the draft when it is
| ordered
RECRuITING.-This morning warrants were
issued for the payment of the city bounty to
thirty-seyen men, four Of whom were substitutes.
Volunteering is becoming quite brisk, there being
any number ready to enter the army provided
the Wards pay reasonable bounty. The ons
year regiments are rapidly filling up. Birney's
Regiment Of SharpshOoters will soon be ready to
leave for the front. Large squads of recruits are
daily pouring in from the counties, and after
being mustered into the service are sent to Camp
| William Penn. ...H...
FIRST PENNSYLVANIA CAvALRY.-The follow
ing are the present field and staff officers of the
LIST Peunsy lvania Cavalry, four hundred of whom
returned from the front after throeyears' service,
on Monday evening -
Colonel J. r. Taylor, Assist Surg L. r, Atkinson
MaicT RI FANS, Chaplain j. IL Be1ic.
Major !. NJ. Castor. lQnartermaster G.. II. Baker,
Adiutant w. T.. Lloyd, T.. Sergeant III. A. Wood.
surgeon G.. b. notchkins,
BEFoRE THE UNITED STATES CoMlussIoNER.-
partial hearing in the case of John w. Dubree
was had before United States Commissioner
Sergeant yesterday. The accused, it will be re-
membered was arrested on tho charge of fals
measurement of leather at the Arsenal, with tho
alleged intention of ofdefrauding the Government.
A further hearing will take place on Friday.
CAvED IN.-Yesterday morning part of the
Reed street culvert at the intersection Of Moya-
mensing avenue, in the First Ward, caved in.
The inlet at the northwest corner of the streets
gave way. The track of the Second and Third
street railroad runs directly over the part that
cayed in, and travel south OF this point was en-
tirely suspended.
VOLUNTEER FUSD.-- During the past two
weeks the Commissioners having charge of the
fund for the benefit of the families of volunteers
paid ont S24, ,I5O. One hundred aud fifty thou
sand dollars was paid last week by the City Trea-
surer as bounties 10 enlisted men, credited to this
city.
RETuRNNG.-The LIST New Jersey Cavalry,
numbering ninety men, and the 10th Massachu-
setts Battery, of seven pieces and eighty men,
passed through this city on their way home from
The front.
ACCIDENT. This morning at 10 o'clock an old
man named Charles O'Brien was badly bruised
about the head and back by stone falling upon
him, in Fishers quarry, at Fiat Rock. He was
taken to his home in Manayunk
ID RowNBD.-One of the hands employed on
board vessel lying below South street wharf, fell
overheard, last night, and was drowned. The
body was not recovered
SALUTE AT BRmEsBURG.-One hundred guns
were fired by Colonel Barton II. jerks, at the
Bridesburg Armory, this morning, in honor Of
our victories at Mobile and Atlanta.
Old DIR. ABERsErHY much dlspleased by the long
description complaints brought TO him by his patients
woman knowing his love of the laconlc, went 10 him
with a burned hand. Holding out her hand she said,
burn" "POutce" replied the doctor. Next daY the
woman returned. Better" 'Morc pOultlee," replies
the doctor. Now there be similarity Of saving OF
time CHAs SrOKE8 & co.'s one price clothing store,
under the Continental. Try your garments satisfy
yOursef with heabrc look at the Ticket and you will
the price marked plainly on H. Don't waste time by
asking the salesman 70 take less had better try TO
borrow the money om him 70 Day Tor II your success
would be as great.
nVoTT & Co DpPor FOR ALL GENUINE POpU-