The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-14

audlence nanlleSIed tnelr appreciation by ire
quent demonstrations of applause. At the
close of his address he congratulated the Board
of Trustees and Managers of the Institution
on their good fortune in securing the services
OF such gentlemen as Professors Haas and
Dalp6, who, under God, could make the Insti-
tute whatever they pleased. And then, turn
ing to the audience, he congratulated the citi-
zens of Hightstown on having among them so
many young ladies and gentleman who had
proved themselves competent to appreciate
such instruction.
Curious CLAIM FOR WHARFAGE.-A matter
of considerable interest to shipmasters and
wharf-owners has been argued before Judge
Cadwaader for the past two days, while sit
ting in Court of Admiralty. 1t was a libel to
compel the payment of wharfage to Charles
NJ. Weidner, by the master of the ship Jane
ID. sSouthard, of Maine. The circumstances
under which the claim was made are these:-
Many years ago the United States caused to be
built two piers at Chester, for the protection
of the shipping ice-bound in the Delaware.
About four years ago Mr.. Weidner built an
intermediate pier and during the past winter
the ship Jane D. Southard being for month
ice-bOund, made use of one of the Government
piers, and to better secure the vessel, line
was fastened to the wharf of Mr.. Weidner.
For this he claimed wharfage, and it was in
sisted that he had legal right to it, though
during the period the ship was detained at
Chester it was impossible, the other side
alleged, by reason of the river being filed with
ice, for the pier to have been used by the
libellant.
Judge Cadwalader was of the opinion that
the hbellant was entitled to wharfage, but
upon a suggestion that the land between the
two Government piers belongs to the Govern
ment, and that a Port Warden's certificate
could not give the power to build a wharf
there, he recommended Assistant District At
tomey Valentine to apply for an injunction to
restrain Weidner from collecting wharfage.
PENNsYLNAN1A's QUorA.-The United States
Military Asylum at Augusta, Maine, is rapidly
filling. Jay Cooke, manager for the Middle
States, yesterday sent to the asylum forty-siX
Pennsylvania soldiers. They were all dis
abled veterans. At their new home, sanitary
care and comfortable apartments will be fur
nished, and they will be taught some light
business, suited to their manned condition
The men left under the guidance of Chaplain
John Long. He cleaned them from the Aims
house, from the Soldiers Home at Sixteenth
and Filbert streets, and from the hedges and
byways of the city. About the first Of April
he will return for a second company.
AID FOR THE SoUTH.-A meeting of our citi-
zens has been called in aid of the suffering
people of the South, to relieve the wants OF
the destitute there in the present impending
tomorrow. The call is indOrsed by Mayor
McMichael, and has the signatures of many
of the most prominent business men in this
community.
HAND MUTILATED.-A lad named George
Pinker, sixteen years of age, living at. No. 2Oll
Virginia street, below Coates, met with seri-
ous accident yesterday afternoon at factory
in Cherry street, between Sixth and Seventh,
by which three of his fingers were cut off
He was removed to the Pennsylvania Hospital
ANOTHER SAFE RoBBERY.-The safe in the
counting-house of Messrs. Watson. Malone 4
Co., Noble street wharf, was broken open
about noon yesterday, during the absence o.
those in charge, and several checks stolen
which, with due bills ETC., carried of, amount
to twenty-fOur hundred dollars.
CRUSHED BETWEEN TWO CARs.-About
O'Clock yesterday afternoon lad named Viii
liam Jones was seriously injured by being
caught between two cars at Ninth and Parrisl
streets.
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.--
Thomas Adams forty years old, who resided
in Wood street, below Twenty third, deC
last evening, from an overdose of laudanum
FEN1AN MASS MEErIxG.-A mass meeting o
the Fenians will be held at National Hall thi
evening.
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN australia
Mr., Grubb an optcian of Dublin, has com
pleted an enormous rejecting telescope whic
was ordered by the Victoria Legislature, for tn
sum of f5OOO, for Melbourne. The tube
the instrument is four feet and half /
diameter The sides are made OF taperin
steel ribs, and the entire instrument Is nc
only sinr Mar on account of its dimensions
but ale o because of its completeness, accuracy
and "fnish."