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u N snyder. DRY RO0d& c6(mEit8 III. to1S ~
Tho following list OF losses is from our issue OF yes
terday:-
Lishifoos Saloon $500; Bon Tou nest.arani, $500
Capitol Saloon, $780, The Eagle naiooa- ~ faerceY
proprietor corner Of Ninth and Ras~-t streets. ss
tanned heavy loss While the proprietor - romovn
his goods thief extracted his pocket book from =.
coat thereby adding insult inlnry LEWIS flemingy
saloon, $500 Major Hobbs Railroad Saloon, OPPOSITE
the Cruchleld House, sustained lcss Of $500
A. Bishop, proprietor of the Crutchheld House, cs
form idea yet Of the losses sustained by hmselfj
The destruction to the fencing and board walks
pa hin y s vsr o Ky s %
stolen; the beautiful garden In front OF 1t totally
ruined and the furniture much injured All the STOCK
OF groceries nshe storeroom submerged The vege
table garden belonging to the house. the north side
the river, Is destroyed.
large barn was carried or by the current and depos
tied At place quarter OF mile distant from its orgt
nal location while the dwelling house carried from
one hill across valley and left the side of the oppo-
site hi on tho spot where log house formerly stood
the latter having departed for parts unknown,
wing OF the house occupied by Major Johnsosr
living at Chestnut and Sixth streets, doated oe
during the flood, and found stranded on the con-
mons at Eighth and Pine streeta Scarcely anythinG
vas LEFT Of it but the roof and floor At the time
vacated, when the waters rising CONTAINED
considerable household property, but nothing sfl
in 1t but trunk largo cooking stove among tha
Hook Wood, furniture dealers opposite tho Amers.
can Union ONCE, have suffered severely.
be yory heavy In the CITY the tracks are ali washed
very badly Platform foated OF tho trucks, went
sailing down stream or are piled up In all sorts OF ways
were covered as high the boilers. Numbers OF tn
cars loaded with freight-dry goods, grocerial
hardware, &c.-whch will prove total loss.
portion OF the house occupied by Major Johnson
at Sixth and Chestnut Streets hoated up Chestnut and
has lodged in the middle Of the street, opposite On.
Green's. at Seventh street.
The old bath house foated from Fifth and Chestnut
Streets and is lodged in the OF Lindemsn'l
house. ct Seventh and Railroad Streets and lies on "
side.
The greatest rcshes previous to this time were those
OF 1926 and 1847 There hardly ten inches difference
hof,r t.ac~ Tn taN nfopP
the top Of the lime kiln, about ten feet above ~
present height OF the bridge.
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The Battle Ground About
QuerefarO.
Views Of tho Herald Correspondents Taken
at Vera Cruz, flaiamOrOs and
San Luis POtesi.
kAX HAS LOST PRECIOUS TINE.
MASTERLY Y INACTIVITY OF ESc0BEDO.
&sn. &c. 60.
SPECIAL rrlreasn 10 THE HssALu.

Jnnrez still nj Snn Lais-The Liberal Army
Said 60 be Thirty-nve Thousand NIcn-Pes-
Quiera organizing Code OF Laws for So-
nora-Corona's CouAscuff0n Decrces &c.
San Francisco, March 20, 1867
Tho steamer Orifammc has arrived from Mexican
ports The HERALDs special correspondent sends the
following from Mnzatlan, under date Of March l3:-
President Juarez remains at Luis Potosi with
erai detaohments Of the liberal army.
It's known for a fact that Macmillan has taken per-
sonal command Of the imperialls army. He left the
city Of Mexico and marching towards Zacatecas to at
tack the liberal troops General Marquee in command
Of one division Of the imp erial troops.
General Porlro Diaz remained near Puebla,
tinualy harassing the mperalists whenever opportu
nifty ofcred.
Tho mperalsts have only possession Of the cities OF
Moxico, Puebla and Vera Cruz
The liberal army consists Of about So 900 men, divided
Enthusiastically 1900; Corona 900; Pornrio
Diaz, 900: Carvajal 5000
About 0ve hundred men remained at Mazatlan under
the orders Of General Martinez
All quiet in the State Of Sonora General Pes
Qucra Ures the capital Of that State busily
gagged in the organization Of state laws &c
General Corona Commander In Chief of the Western
army, has published Decree under date of February
Is levying contribution of per all property
whether landed, mineral mercantile industrial which
exceeds 81 600 in value-one half to be paid within f-
teen days This decree comprises the States OF Jasco
Hinaloa and Coma II was thought doubtful that Gen.
er Lozada would allow the decree to be put force
IN the State Of Jaisco The liberals here
ere still intending to march the city Of
Mexico Meanwhile Maxinlian is tired OF waiting for
their approach, and has gone with army
OF them The imperial army'i believed TO be In better
state Of discipline than that Of tho liberals 1t
prses large body Of French and Austrian soldiers who
have enlisted with MaxmIlian. There is doubt tina.
several months will elapse before the is over,
although there Ia to tho termination being in
Tav oft thA
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ssions were Issued By the city autktss ysstsrdav.
% the hundrsds Of poor white and NIX VINO swarm In
eur city, and whose penury has beAnoresssd By the
loss of heir hebilations and huta
Of che eily We mpposs they wsrssiber fired By some
Of Shs s5llism On duty u msn lr&line around In
oanoea who refused 70 come 70 ND ordered or elss
By some q the police - citizens At sg1cious characters
Buil6inUs have been carried Oh fubvery part Of the
city. Some Of them are lodged w.hh the Corporation
limits On high sposs Of ground, or NJ caught ou posts
and held til the water went doni whom they over.
turned and now lie IN every odd mar on the streota
In The Union Passenger Depot have been
raised by the current and stand o every direction
svsy few yards Of flooring formingAnnclned plane on
me platforms on both sides oi NTH street from
Railroad 70 Market have been toss "a thrown about
in the water - IL they were ndhlg but fcaihers
and now lie about higgls dy-piggb-f - tho French
say.
from the Chattanooga American Ubn. March 1l1
II 10 hardly possible yet 70 calchts correctly The
damagoe which our merchants havtugtained BY the
food. The estimates made during prevalence Of
the high water were In general somdhat exaggerated,
and 20 wc judge many Of those yesterday The
greatest losses 10 the business men will arise from the
cessation Of business We give below few Of the ss
mated damages ~ reported to us yesslay:--
W. Crutchfled 4 Co. set their losseS about 81, 500
\. Warner n 90. not less than 5000.
/. Murrin estimates his losses at S4D0
L. Divine Co. escaped with SOC
A. ID. Tsyor's warehouse aibst entirely sub
merged but fortunately he had shpp nearly all his
grain before the water had risen maneet and the coal
stored Ia y prevented u from going dln the stream
wight Peabody, druggists, sin block, estimate
their loss al about q, 900.
n r. Parrish Co, erocers, estihte their loss IN
stook ~ very small.
John L. pyuos losses on his farptin be very 0eayy,
from $4,000 70 $1,000
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Just such scenes Of appalling massacre as lately
al San Jacnto.
Escobedo viii not risk battle until the desired COM
binations made. He better afford 10 WALL tlah
his adversary
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DyA. J. Bieecksr, Son 20.
Greenwich o., lot SIDE No. 80 26xps .,....... oAoD
Greenwich St, lots adjoining Nos. e5l and 90.
csnscyc:ii e.. ioi II feet s dr:cnawi:i :i, No.
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them indications Of renewed Democratic SUI
premaoy-to be followed by the repeal Of all
the reconstruction acts, the withdrawal OF the
suffrage from the blacks and n restoration OF
absolute political power in the South to the
white classes who had It before the war. In
some parts of the South, it seems to be well
established, that they even anticipate repeal
of the Constitutional Amendment by which
slavery was abolished or at all events pay
ment to the owners for all the slaves that
have been set free.
How absurd and short-sighted all these ex.
pectations are, every candid and dispassionate
man knows full well. But they have had
most disastrous effect upon the political action
of the Southern States. They induced their
white citizens to refuse all participation in the
elections, and thus not only threw the whole
power of those States into the hands of the
blacks, but implanted the seeds of a bitter
hostility between the races which may lead to
the most deplorable results hereafter 1t is
precisely here that the worst effect of Demo
cratic successes is to be traced. Upon the
actual policy and action of the North they can
have little effect. They hold forth no pros
pect of the return of the Democrats to power
in the nation next year, nor can they bring
about any change in the party complexion of
Congress for two years to come. But they
betray the people of the South into most
lamentable mistakes of policy, and induce
them to take a course which will postpone
the actual work Of reconstruction for many
years to come, if it does not defeat it alto
gether.
1t is, therefore, of very great importance
that the influence of New York is not thrown
into the same scale. A Democratic victory in
this State would add greatly to the tenden-
cies already so powerful and so mischievous
in the South
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petition, with any sort Of schedules attached
to it, his discharge will date from that day,
II he gets II at all. IL would seem fully as
reasonable to hold that the filing of a petition
and schedules which are not according to the
statute should not be effective in this way, but
that the petition should not be deemed to be
filed until it at least appeared upon its face to
be according to the statute. However, that,
perhaps, is not very important point under
the law. The having uniform rule on th7
subject is, however, of very great Importance
Seymour vs.. PondIeton.
from the ". y Herald
The two most prominent Democratic favor
ties for the next Presidency are Horatio Sey.
mour, of New York and George II. Pendleton,
of Ohio. They are both distinguished as men
of ability and experience in political affairs,
and each is popular among the Democratic
masses as a faithful exponent Of Democratic
principles. seymour, in 1862, on his platform
of ga more vigorous prosecution Of the war, }"
carried the State of New York by ten thou
sand majority against popular Republican
General engaged at the time in the war, but
was defeated in 1864 on the peace platform OF
the Chicago Convention, which also carried
down Mr.. Pendleton, the associate of General
Mcclellan on the Democratic Presidential
1Cket, Inc war record Ol Dty LlOul, hsNOFOl3
is much better than that of PendletOn, who
can boast with Vallandigham only that he
never voted man or a dollar for war which
he believed to be unconstitutional.
But the war is now among the things OF the
past, and the great living questions of taxation
and the payment of the national debt are
coming into the foreground. Upon the i'm
portant question of the national debt Seymour
and Pendleton stand as widely separated as
Greeley and Ben. Butler. Seymour, like Gree
ley, holds to the redemption of the national
debt in coin; Pendleton, like Butler, goes for
paying off the bondholders in greenbacks.
Seymour represents the Belmonts and other
Democratic bondbolders of the East; PendletOn
represents the Democratic masses, If not the
masses of both parties, in the West. "Down
with the system which gives gold to the bond
holder and paper to the wOrkingman," is
war cry which will probably be as effective, if
tried, as was the cry in 1840 against Martin
Van Buren's Sub-treasury system, of "Down
with this system which gives gold to the Office
holders and bank rags to the people,"
At all events, in choosing between Seymour
and Pendleton as their Presidential candidate
next spring or summer, the Democracy will
have to choose between the plan of paying off
the national bondholders in gold and the plan
of paying them off in greenbacks. This is the
issue between Seymour and Pendleton, and
from the drift of the late election in Ohio, Pen
dleton has the inside track for the Democratic
nomination.
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SPIRIT. OF THE PRESS.
EDIToRIAL OPINIONS OF THB LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPICs-COMPILBD EVERY
DAY FOB THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
Moving Towards Specie Payments.


From 1e N. Y Tribune.
The bank statement, showing decrease Of
over three millions in the surplus and reserve,
the continued activity ON call loans to specu-
lators the increased difficulty in negotiating
commercial bills, together with the unsats-
factory condition of trade and manufactures
generally give new interest to the financial
action of Congress at its approaching meet
ing. As usual, spectators and traders upon
borrowed money declare that the salvation
Of the country depends upon further in
crease oflegal-tender money, and that Congress
should without delay take from Mr.. MoCulloch
the power of destroying the paltry sum of four
millions per month, As the currency can never
be brought to specie by increasing the volume
of paper, which causes gold dollars to sell at a
premium, and as this fact is now plain TO
every member OF Congress, spectators and
Over-traders ON borrowed capital must
prepare themselves to see little delay by
Congress, before it commits the fatal and stupid
blunder of stopping the moderate contraction
of the currency allowed to the Treasury. Con-
traction is now plainly seen to be not only the
first duty of Congress to the national creditors
and to the permanent interests of the country,
but the popular policy as well. The people
only tolerated irredeemabe paper money as a
desperate mode of meeting the expenses Of the
Rebellion, and will not long suffer its use,
when the credit of the nation is where long
five per cent. bonds can be sold at par. The
old plan of paper dollars redeemable in gold
at their place of issue, and the Democratic
idea of hard money for all purposes, are again
putting in their claims, and daily find new
advocates. All the signs of the times are
favorable to a steady return to specie
payments, and the solvent part of the
country does not expect Congress to
put any restriction upon the Secretary's
present power to retire the legal-tenders; but
at proper time does not expect to see Con-
gress enlarge it, and direct him to pay in gold
every dollar. Upon the question of currency
the annual message of the President and the
report of Secretary McCulloch will be in har-
mony, and specie payment be declared the
settled policy. These officials will probably
re-state their opinions so forcibly that, if Con-
gress should indiscreetly attempt Financial
reconstruction" in the direction of more ire
deemable paper, the movement will be delayed
at least by Executive interposition. All busi-
ness which will be harmed by retiring four
millions of legal-tenders per month out of the
present mass of 1851 200, 900, cannot be closed
up too soon, and all banks having more circu-
latiOn than they can manage with gold at par
should lose no time in getting it home.
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The Elections and the soutn

From tie ~. y. Times
There can be little doubt that the result of
the October elections contributed very largely
to the decision of the whites in the Southern
States to have nothing to do with the election
under the Reconstruction act. Up to that
time there seemed to be a general and increas-
ing disposition to make the best of the inevi-
table, and to do all in their power to secure for
their States as good Constitution as possible.
The wisest and best men Of the South were
united in regarding this as required by wise
and sincere regard for the public good.
But the Democratic gains of October in
ePired them with new hopes, They saw in
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Bankrupt sohurges--ImPortant De-
otsiOns
Ftom The N. Y. Times.

f1O1n The N Y. Tunes.
The decision in bankruptcy in the case Of
Patterson is one of the most important
which has been made under the Bankrupt
law. The question was one arising upon the
wording of the statute. 1t was a question
whether any property which bankrupt may
acquire after he has filed his petition for adju-
dicaton of bankruptcy, goes to his creditors,
or is taken by him free from any such liability.
1t is one of importance to great many bank
rupts and a great many creditors. 1t may
seem that it would be inequitable for a bank
rupt to be allowed to take to himself large
estate If he should inherit one the day after
his petition was fled But that apparent in
Justice is inherent in bankrupt laws. Such a
chance may happen TO him, at whatever period
the point of discharge may have been fixed.
1t is only Of importance that that point of dis
charge shall be everywhere the same.
The result of this decision, if it Is acquiesoed
in, will be TO fix the point of discharge at the
date of the fling Of the petition. II even ap-
pears that this must be the date, no matter
whether the petition is made oonformably to
the statute OF not, II he files any sort Of q
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

t9z} THE PRESBYTERIAN NATIONAL
UNION CONVENTION will CONNIE nee its
sessions on WEDNESDAY MORNING next. AZ ii
O'Clock, IN the FIRST REFORMED PRESBY Nc
klAN ChURCH (Rev. DIR. Wylie's). on BROA ID
street, between Spruce and Pine. The Indications
are that the Convention Will be large aud inuentaI
. \ s General Prayer Meeting, 20 invoke the blessing
0 HOu on It's deliberations, VIII he held in the same
Church, on TUESDAY EVENING, at ~ O'clock
aud be continued on WEDNESDAY MORNING. AL
~ O'Clock, TO these prayer meetings and the daV
9n1 evennb sessions Of the Convention all are cor
Delegates on reaching tho city will please renort
70 The Committee on Entertainment, whom they will
ON TUESDAY. -'
GEORGE II. STUART, Chairman.
w, Il. EVA Secretary. iI23i
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? HORTICULTURAL HALL, BROAD


FES lINAL AND WENDELL PHIITIPS
The friends OF Freedom Will hold their Annual Fes-
tval and Social Gathering, to promote the Interest OF
Equal Justice to the FL eedmen, on FRIDAY EVEN
ING, November 8, at HORTIOULTURAL HALL,
Ihe Festival VIII open at close at ii o'clock p
Nj The leading caterers of the city have kindly vol.
pnteered their services, which nsures satisfaction SO
Jar as the tables are concerned. Also Delmonco
Band have volunteered to furnish music Al O'CLOCK
precisely. WENDELL PHILLIPS Will nddress the
audience on the 'Perils of the Hour" Tickets adj
mittDg to the Festival and Phillips Lecture so cents:
for reserved seats to Lecture % cents extra sale OF
tick cts commences at Ashmeads Book store, No 72I
CHESNUT Street, and at the Office of the Hall, on
wednesday. November g. at 10 O'Clock, 1i2Gt
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The PRESIDENT AND THE. FINANCES.
The President is taking q deep inte-
rest in financial matters, and con-
siderable portion of the annual mes
sage will be devoted to this important
question. Mr.. johnson, it is well
understood, favors an early resump-
ton of specie payments, and steady
contraction of the currency to that
end. Washington Correspondence Ne,c
York World, October II.
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TRIBUTE TO SOUTHERN WOMEN =
Jefferson Davis pays the following
eloquent tribute to Southern women
eff asked for my sublimest idea of
what woman should be in time of
war. would point to the dear wo-
men of my people, as L have seen
them during the recent struggle. The
Spartan mother sent forth her boy,
bidding him return with honor
either carrying his sword, or on it.
The women Of the South sent forth
their sons, directing them to retnrn
with victory, to return with wounds
disabling them from further service,
or never return at all. All they had
was flung into the confict-beauty,
grace, passion, refinement, the ex-
quisite frivolities SO dear to the sex,
were cast aside; their songs, if they
had any heart to sing, were patriotic;
their trinkets were flung into the
public crucible; the carpets from their
floors were portioned out rs blankets
to the suffering soldiers of their coun-
try. Women bred to every refine
ment of luxury wore homespun made
by their own hands. AS nurses of
the sick, as angels of charity, as
patient and beautiful household del
ties, accepting every sacrifice with
unconcern, and tightening the burden
of war by their art and Establishment,
and labor proper to their sphere, the
dear women of the South deserve to
lake rank with the highest heroes of
the grandest days of the greatest
countries"
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH EXPLAINED
Coroner Whiting terminated, yester-
day, the inquest on the body of
Thomas Nugent, whose mysterious
death was mentioned in this paper
abouta week ago. The jury rendered
q verdict of death from apoplexy.
The reports in circulation, at the time
of the death of Nugent, that he was
possessed of 1,500, which could not
be found or accounted for, proved,
after strict examination, to be un-
founded. .-Chdrleston Mercury.
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The Washington Lincoln Monu-

The Washington Lincoln Monu-
ment Association has closed O con-
tract for o monument, to be built Of
white marble and to have o height of
thirty-six feet, including statue of
Lincoln eight feet high, of ITALIAN
marble. Over $1,000 has been col
lected for this purpose, almost en-
tirely in Washington. The monu-
ment will be placed in front of the
City Hall. At what time, however, is
at present unknown.
A Chicago paper states that Mr..
Lincoln had on deposit, in Washing
ton, at the time of his death, $75, 600,
in addition to $25, 900 voted his wi
dow by Congress, and that his
Springfield property was valued at
SIG, 900 in 1861.
GREENBACKs IN TENNESSEE. -Sena-
tor Rogers has offered resolutions in
the Senate of Tennessee in favor of
paying the bonds i'll greenbacks. He
is one Of the Oldest and ablest radi-
calls in that body.
European meteorologists are pre-
dieting an early and hard winter this
yycar, for The reason that that the birds of
passage have begun their migration
Southwark at least q month earlier
than usual.
A medical Congress, recently held
in Paris, has declared that tuberculer
phthisis is contagious, and that a
healthy and an infected person ought
not to sleep in the same bed.
The wives of thirty ''leading men,
of Kansas have published an address
calling upon the women of the State
to demand suffrage.
The Governor of Ohio has not the
veto power. So the new Legislature
is independent of him.
Petroleum is now used as fuel by
the steam fire engines of Boston. ).
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Il terrible occurrence has taken
place in Russia, at Kineschma, Go
vernment District of Kostrowna.
About a hundred persons of both
sexes and all ages were returning
ioyonsly from the ta:r 6. I'll 7iiiia6e 77iiiiiia6e
just named, and they entered ferry
boat to cross the Volga. The vessel
was unusually crowded, and when
nearing the opposite shore, the ferry
man demanded payment for the fares.
The crowd of passengers, was, in
consequence, thrown into a state of
motion, and the boat capsized. Not
fewer than sixty-three persons were
drowned.
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OFFICIAL VoTE OF PENNSYLVANIA

OFFICIAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA
1t appears by the full official returns
OF the late election in Pennsylvania
for Supreme Judge. the vote stands:
Sharswood, Democrat and Conserva-
tive, 26S, ,O32; Williams, Republican,
266,824. Majority for Sharswood,
l,2OS. AT the Governors election
last year, the vote was, &c ", Re-
publican, 3O7, ,274; Clymer, Democrat.
g20,0g6' Majority for Geary, II, 17S.
The Democratic vote is 22,O7O, and
that of the Republicans 9,O70 less
than last year.