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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-23
SPECIAL NOTICES.
w UNION LEAGUE HOUSE
MAY 10, 1867,

MAY 10. 1867
At a meeting OF the Board of Directors of the
UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA held
March IL, 1867, the following Preamble and Resou
tions adopted
Whereas, In republican form OF government 1t is
of the highest Importance that the delegates OF the
people, to whom the sovereign power Is entrusted,
should be so selected to truly represent the body
polite, nd there being provision OF law whereby
the people may be organized for the purpose such
selection and all parties having recognized the
sty ofsuch organization by the formation of volun-
tary associations for this purpose, and
Whereas, There grave defects existing under
the present system of voluntary organization which
1t believed may be corrected by suitable provisions
oflaw; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Board of Directors of the UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Secretary
be and is hereby directed TO offer eleven hundred dol
lars in prizes for essays the legal organization of
the people select candidates for office prizes to
be as follows, VIII
The sum of five hundred dollars for that essay
which, In the judgment Of the Board, shall be first in
the order of merit;
Three hundred dollars for the second
Two hundred for the third, and
One hundred for the fourth.
The conditions upon which these prizes are offered
are follows VIII
First. All essays competing for these prizes be
addressed TO GEORGE II. BOXER Secretary Of the
Union League of Philadelphia, and must be received
by him before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1865,
and no communication having the authors name at
tached, or with any other indication Of origin will be
considered.
Second. Accompanying every competing essay, the
author must enclose his name and address within a
sealed envelope addressed to the Secretary of the
Union League. Amer the awards have been made the
envelopes accompanying the successful essays shall
be opened and the authors notified ofthe result
Third. All competing essays shall become the pro-
perty Of the Union League; but no publication Of
rejected essays the OF their authors shall
be made without consent of the authors in writing.
By order of the Board OF Directors,
GEORGE III. ROKER,
510lm sIECRETARYs
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Sinking the Responsibility OF the Jeff.
Davis Case-NObOdy TO Blame.


From The Herald.
Popular indignation at the connivance Of
officials and politicians in the case of jeff
Davis, has excited already some squirning on
the part OF men who desire above all other
things to stand well in the opinion of the
people. The men justly chargeable with an
act whose tendency is to make the American
people ashamed of the war-whose assertion
is that the war had no great basis of princi-
ple-these men are now startled through that
natural sensitiveness that fills candidates with
alarm whenever public opinion assumes forms
threatening to their ambition. Chief Justice
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k995@ THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
sloekholdeEs Of the GbAAIoN IN, RIVER 4 4HD ~
No. "a North FRONT Street, on WBDNEsDAH'
May 20, at " O'Clock M. 10 hI~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24

THE SITUATION IN EURoPE-A London
dispatch to New York paper states that
notwithstanding the satisfactory solution OF
the Luxemburg question by. the treaty ar
rangement, fears are entertained, and gen.
orally expressed, that war has been merely
postponed by the work of. diplomatists.
Warlke preparations are still actively car
ried on in France, Germany, Russia and
Greece. 1t is said that before the close of
the Peace Congress, proposal will be ad-
dressed by England to all the powers in
clined to bellgerent action, in which Queen
Victoria will recommend and urge general
disarmament Should this be entertained,
another Congress will probably assemble in
London to secure its formal adoption and
uniform execution by all thegreat powers,
but it is thought even this proposition viii
be unsuccessful IL securing The mainten ance
Of peace.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
The Shin of Death.

Since the time when the Ancient Mariner
told the terrible tale of the curse-laden
ship with her crew of CHASTITY corpses, no
more thrilling story of the sea has been re-
lated than that of the whale ship Diana,
that recently drifted into one of the Shet-
land Islands 9F -sso
A year ago she left the Shetlands on
whaling voyage to the Arctic regions, hav
ing on board fifty men. From that time
nothing more was heard of her The
friends of those on board became alarmed
Money was raised and premiums offered to
the first vessel that would bring tidings of
the missing ship, but all to no avail
Hope was almost abandoned t
On the I'd of April the people near Ro-
mas Voc, in one of the Shetland Isles,
were startled at seeing ghostly wreck of
a ship sailing into the harbor. Battered
and crushed, sails and cordage cut away,
boats and spars cut up for fuel in the ter
rible Arctic winter, her decks covered with
dead and dying, the lost Diana sailed in
like ship from the Deadman' Land.
Fifty men sailed out of Berwick in her on
a bright May morning last year. All of
the fifty came back on her the second of
April, this year; the same, yet how differ
ent
Ten men, of whom the captain was one,
lay stiffened corpses on the deck; thirty
five lay helplesslv sick, and some dying /;
two retained sufficient strength to creep
aloft, and the other three crawleG feebly
about the deck. The ship was boarded by
the islanders, and, as they climbed over the
bulwarks, the man at the wheel fell fainting
from excitement; one of the sick died as
he lay, his death being announced by the
fellow occupant of his berth feehly moan
ing, Take away this dead man" On the
bridge of the vessel lay the body Of the
captain, as it had lain for months, with
niue of his dead shipmates by his side, all
decently laid out by those who expected to
share their fate. T.zsA IA yHagf
The Survivors could not bear to sink the
bodies of their comrades into the sea, but
kept them so that when the last man died
the fatal ship that had been their common
home should be their common tomb. The
surgeon of the ship worked faithfully to the
last, but cold hunger, scurvv and dysen-
try were too much for him, The brave old
Captain was the first victim, and died
blessing his men, Then, others fell, one
by one, until the ship was tenanted only by
the dead and dying. One night more at
sea would have left the ship floating coffin.
Not one of the fifty would have lived to tell
,the CHASTITY tale.
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Very Serious Consequencespf Feminin
] IL !Snite. Il i
From the st. Louis Times, Nay 10,

From the St Louis Times, May 10,
8 The Howard house, corner Of Olive "a.
Twelfth streets, has been THE SCENE of
littie piece Of fneiosdfama siaseiy, which u
is not only possible, bat probable, may tursl
out to be tragedy. How serious the al
fair may become is yet to be learned w
can only hope that it will not result fatally
although We have no great Justification To-
such ahope. On Tuesday, while one Of tn
lady boarders was absent from her room
some candy was, laid upon her he'd. a
servant girl coming along before the occu
pant returned, saw it, ate some of il, an
invited two of the other girls to partake o
i, which they did. All three are now con,
lined to their beds, yet not so seriously IL
as to lead to doubts of their. tiaal recovery
The. lady whose room was thus invade
coming in soon after and finding portion
Of the candy left, ate quite freely of it, an,
Is now dangerously sick. What was lef
was fortunately put one, side, and is now 81
the hands of chemist for analysis. HI
gives his opinion, aponsa eursory examipa
ton, that it has been saturated with croto,
oil, and that if the. lady who ,partook If Il
most freely has eaten any considerable ouan
tlty, y will be attended with fatal copse.
| quences. = - 19e = " u I.
| The Howard house has changed hand.
lately, Mr.. Pitts, the former proprietor
selling out on Tuesday and returning to hi
farm in Howard county, Missouri, 0,
Wednesday. He had ia his employ blacl
servant girl, and it is now recoilected tha
she was seen lowering earound the room
wheresthe candy was deposited. just preri
Gus to the time it was discovered by the ser
want girls. It is very hard to account 70
the motive for such an act, but the genera
opinion among the boarders at the .Howari
house is that it was dictated by Jealousy o.
the part of some of the late occupants 0
the, house. The young lady. who is. SER
ously affected, is connected with the fifs
families III the city, and is highly esteeme
by all who know her. We are not at libert
to give names nor even to state precisel
toward whom suspicion is directed, unit
further investigation is had, but enough
known to warrant US in saying that the &C
undoubtedly proceeded from the cause "
have named. g.+,. .,tos az =
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24

RADICAL VS.. RADICAL.-Col. UTLEY, of
the Racine Journal, radical, thus gives vent
to his feelings on receiving the news that
JEFF, DAVIS had been allowed bail, and
that HORACE GREELEY was one of his
sureties: .
Z" We stop the press to announce that the
Jefferson Davis farce is ended. He has
been liberated on a ten thousand dollar bail
That contemplate, cowardly old cur, Horace
Greeley, has been gratiied with the lecg
sought for opportunity to become one Of his
sureties. Old Greedy hardly needed this
last to finish bis already Infamous career. ;"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24

A VERY DANGEROUS DOCTRINE. The
position of the Radical party is really re-
markable one. They assume that the popu-
lar ciH rs the hw of the land. That all
laws are based upon public opinion, and if
public opinion sustains an act, no matter
how criminal it may be in the eyes of the
written law, it is no crime They claim
that congress is the representative power Of
the popular will of the nation, and no mat
ter whether its acts are in accordance with the
organic law or not they are demanded and
sustained by public opinion, and are, there
fore, right. rs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
Democratic Triumph in Kentucky.

The latest returns from the election in
Kentucky indicate glorious Democratic
triumph-our party having every member
af Congress in the S,ate-nine, which. with
the three elected from Connecticut, will give
Us twelve more votes in the present Con-
gress than we had in the previous one. The
Democratic majority of the entire State over
both the other parties comLined, is about
1900, as follows: First district 5000;
second district 4 594 third district 5000;
ionrth district 5,4l4; fifth district 1852;
sixth district 5,64l seventh district 6,724;
eighth district 500; ninth district 1900.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
A Remarkable Wedding.
From the Dayton, (0.) Journal.

Tuesday morning a couple appeared in
the probate court and demanded a marriage
license. When sthe moment arrived for
paying the fee, the man backed out, but the
woman said he shouldn t do that, :" not by
any means :" and-s paid for the license.
The couple sooH appeared at Justice Tusn
ners Office, and the woman made known
their Intentions. The unusual appearance
of the happy couple attracted unusual at
tention, and soon a large crowd was gath
ered4there to see the SOLEMN ceremonies.
When the couple were asked to stand up
and face the music, the groom again tried
to back out, and the bride seeing that there
was no other way about it, remarked that
he had got to stand it, and there was no use
taking about it. She got hold of the
doubling Thomas and squared him up be-
fore the Justice, with the order for him to
sail in y just then the query arose as
to where the fee for tying the of hymenial
knot was to come from. The man said he
couldn't stand the expense. The woman
asserted that she had paid for the license,
and the man should pay for the marrying.
He protested that he wouldn't and that he
would go to Cincinnati to work. The
woman caught him as he was slipping away
from the matrimonial moose, and threw him
him down on the floor, and, taking some
money from his pockets, she deliberately
paid the Justice the fees and then, holding
on to her feler, the knot was tiedin due
form. All the while the bride was MUNICH
ing pea nuts, and when the ceremony was
concluded the floor was Uttered with shells.
The bride saluted her husband with Tom,
you re a liar!'' Congratulations to the
happy couple we're fairly showered down,
and were characterized. more for their ro-
busticity than for their deiicacy. and the
bride and groom left :, the presence " in a
condition of jollity which foretold bolster
Gus honeymoon. When last seen the
amiable spouse showed her lord into the
gutter at the corner Of Second and Jeffer-
son streets. -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
JEFF DAVIS AND HIS NEGRoEs.-A di

JEFF DAVIS AND HIS NEGROES dis
patch from Fortress Monroe, dated the 11th
inst, recorded that
Con Tuesday evening, the 7th instant,
Frederick McGinness and Ellen Barnes,
both colored AMI devoted servants to Jeffer-
son Davis and his family, was married by
the Rev. o. S. Barton, Of Christ church,
Norfolk. The incident was a very pleasant
one to Mr.. and Mrs. Davis, as they had
been faithful servants of the family for
many years. They remained with Mr.
Davis when Richmond was evacuated, were
present at his capture, and continued to the
last with him and his family, cheerfully
sharing with them all the trials and sorrows
and misfortuDes to which they have been
subject" -. " Oh
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
All Nations but One.

The day before the Cunard steamers ar
rive in port, being the last of the voyage, is
one the passengers generally improve as an
occasion for a sort Of farewell and grand /
dinner, at which songs are sung, jokes
cracked, and speeches made, every one at
the table being expected to contributed
something to the entertainment. Upon al
recent occasion it CHANGED that quite a large
party Of gentlemen, representing great |
many natlonalites Of proposers, tiil att
length an American, rising in turn, propes
ed :z7sri iii agigliz ul.r, a.ss'
Here to all nations but one" Il
This as may be supposed, created sonss
sensation, each suspecting that his nation
might be the one referred to, and prepared
to resent an indignity thus publicly offered.
Monsieur does not mean la belle
France2' said Frenchman, first breaking
the silence that followed. 1860 9n:3G.s
Not at all vive la France" said tho
Yankee, raising his goblet. '.'.
"Senor's remarks do not apply to-
Spain?'' said dark mustached individual.
interrogativey. o; sra .-as q, 5Ui
Certainly not 1.-The health of Queen Iss-
bella. "
Germany vas always goot trent Of
America, observed a pilgrim from ~ at
erland --s.-,
t''The best. I do not refer to her nor
Russia, whom we honor A bumper to-
Russia said he, as the blue eyes of d
Muscovite lighted UP with pleasure,
''Nor Austria continued he, as q
young man of that country fidgeted upon
his seat. iei .di ~ aga
"Wcll sir" said sturdy John Bull,
! rising to his seat, lit is pretty obvious to-
me in what direstion your sentiment is lew
eled and as an Englishman, if it is intended
to be an insult to England, | demand a
a proper apology, for I'll not sit here in
sight of my native country and hear her
insulted-least Of all by Yankee. g1.
The Britton grew red in the face, and
grasped a decanter, matters looked Omni-
Gus, for the American rose promptly to his
feet. -. ......
Spoken like man." said he to the
Englshman, "but England was not the ma
ton alluded to. " 5lec Tc .G3 SGT
"Name-name give us the pame,""
cried the company, now thoroughly excited
Certainly, said the American, with
this proviso that the first one that meets
the representative of that nation shall in
form him of the slight" 3ai.t
Il gave to all nations but one the ma
ton that [ excepted was--ddnsnationl' /.
John Bull sat down. amid the universal
shout of laughter that followed the an.
nouncement, with the not very charitable
wish that the author Of this sentiment
might be well toasted by the Representative
OF the nation he. had sighted. 30 1Uesst
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
Fierce Encounte, with a Whale.

Capt Maloy, of the bark 0sceola, of
New Bedford, in &rlettcr to Jacob B. Had
ley, Esq, agent, givesA graphic account of
aH encoupterwith siialc on the 10th of
Decembef last. We quote ss.follows:
About 500 miles northwest from st.
Nicholas wessaw whales close to the ship,
lowered thesb Boats as soon as possible. and
soon the second mate struck large whale:
In few minutes, the third mate struck and
got stoye. The whale then went to the
second mate and knocked the bottom out of
his boat. The first mate then brought the
third mate ard his crew to the ship. | then
sent him off to bring the. second. mate
and his crew to the ship as soon as possible,
as saw the whale was intending mischief.
in the meantime, the whale was at work on
the starboard boat, and he soonmade a bad
boat of her.
n.Aftcr getting all hands on board, the
| first and second mates, being anxious totry
him again, went off, but didn't get a chance
to kill him. In fact, they had as much as
| they could do to keep clear Of him. and see
| ing that he was a dangerous customer, L
| called the boats oe board. COOP s Il soa
| 6 No, liking the idea of being doneahy a
whale, concluded to at him with the-ship !;
| got ready and made for him. Getting near,
! be turned and came for us, striking the ship
on her port bow with his jaw, his head
coming in contact with the cutwater.
knocking it off and tearing off eonsid srable
copper and sheathing The shock he gave
the ship was heavy, taking some Of the men
off their feet, and giving them considerable
OF, a fright. Had the whale struck the ship
fair he would have gone through her, as
easily as cat you'd through wet paper. :
about the time he struck, gave him a
bomb, but did not kill him. So went at
him again. This time he did mt seem to
like the taste of the ship, and so got out Of
the way as fast as he could. AS he passed,
| gave him another bomb and two lances,
but he kept clear of u.s. 1t being late.
sent boat off to max c1the wreck Of the
starboard boat secure 20 the line, to act as a
drag, and went after the waist boat, now
five miles to the leeward After getting
her on board lit being then dark worked
to the windward all night, and the next
morning saw him again with the wreck of
the boat still fast to him. At $50 a. M We
lowered two boats well manned, and went at
him: After hard tussle, we got him I'M
der the care Of friends, and took him along
side.
He was very large whale the largest, /
think, ever saw. But he was very poor.
| got Is barrels out of him !; had he bean
tat, he would have made l56 barrels easy.
Ills length was 68 feet, spread Of hukes l6
feet and 2 inches; and length of Jaws Is
feet and inches. [ found on cutting him
4 In, that his jaw was badly shattered by his
| raid on our bow. | lost in the fight one
/ boat entire with all her traps"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24
Sharp Lessons.

Under the reign of the first caliphs
there was a merchant at Bagdad equally
rich and avaricious.
One day he bargaincd with a porter to
carry home for him a large basket of por-
celain vases for ten paras. AS they went
lalong, he said to the man:
"My friend you are young, and I am
old; you can still earn plenty. Strike off
[ entreat you. a para from your hire" 3
Willingly, +" replied the porter.
This request was repeated again and
again, until, when they reached the house,
the porter had only one para to receive
As they went up the stairs, the merchant
said r ...
eff you will resign the last para, I will
give you three pieces of advice.
BE it so,' said the porter. Lelf 1--E'
"Well, then, - said the merchant, if
any one tells you it is better to be fasting
than feasting, do not believe him ]; if any
one tells you it is better to walk than to
ride, do not believe him if any one tells
you it is better to be poor than rich, do not
believe him.
my good SIR replied the astonished
porter, Il knew these things before; but,
if you will listen to me, will give you ad-
vice such as you never heard -
The merchant turned round, and the
porter throwing the basket down the stair
case, said to him .l....
eff any one tells you that one of your
vases remain unbroken, do not believe him.
Before the miser could reply the porter
made his escape. s.5-
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Cultivation of Forest Trees,

The Wisconsin State Horticultural Suci-
ETY., at its annual meeting, offered two pre-
miums on cultivated fores. trees-one of a
hundred dollars for the best ten acres, and
another of fifty dollars fol. fhchfst FIVE acres
to be planted the coming season, and the =
awards to be made at thtee years old, or in
1870. A grove raised from seeds by the
planter will have the preference. The
seeds of the elm ,ipen in the spring, just
before the leaves fully expand, the blooms
coming first. They must be gathered from
the trees about the time of planting corn,
and lplantsd Immediately. Care must be
had in choosing the variety desired, as
they always produce their like. The seeds
Of the silver leafed and rred maple ripen
soon after the elm. and must be planted
Immediately, or they will die. These
come up the same year, ana if we'll kept
attain several inches, sometimes two feet,
Ike fist year. They do best when protec-
ted from the direct action Of the. sun at
midday No trees are more readily trans
planted than the naples and elms, and
few are of more rapid growth, or of more
value when grown. One tree grown in the
nursery is worth three stinted and starved
in the woods. The seeds should not be COW
cred more than half an inch deep, and
should be removed from the seed bed the
next spring. either to the nursery or to their
future home. One of the cheapest, though
not the best, seed beds is made by digging
up the gound under the parent tree, on
which the seeds fall, and then rake them
il. about week.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24

WHY He LEFT TIE RADICAL PARTY.
THURLow WEED, one of the fathers of the
Republican party in the State of New York,
has left that party, ard gives the following
reasons fer SO doing:
eve were weary of and disguised with
the men who had risen in discordant and
disturbed times. to the management Of pub
lie affairs. 1t was day Of small, cheap
men-the saplings and hoop poles of party
thrown to the surface in a storm. Our
State conventions were controlled By secret
leagues, whose manipulators lay around
Albany during the winter, dispensing Offices
and debauching the Legislature
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-24

PRAcT1cAL RECEIPTS. Fly time is APP
preaching, and with il will doubtless come
the usual myriads 81 insects, etc., to poster
and annoy US. We have selected a few re.
ceipts, which We can recommend. Try
them 9s-e .N ga 8<i'i =
To kill roaehes-Put your reaches in 4
bartel and put onsa pair Of heavy boots and
get 10 aud dance 49,, - "a Il
To render mosquitoes harmless Pull out
their bills with pair OF tongs. sIa
!. For feasible them to the bedpost with
log chains, and let therdogs finish them.
10 kill mice-Flatten their heads With .
lemon squeezcr. ST 81 GOT
To killlrats-This receipt is cheap, and
never fails. When you retire for the night,
place small bit Of cheese in your mouth.
Care should be taken to keep the mouth
well open, and when the rats whiskers
tickle your throat, bite. e.-r 9dt s,r.s