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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
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FREEIDIEX S JI’BILSE AT CHARLES*
. TON.
The grand celebration by the Frecdmen
and Freedvvomen of Charleston, in honor of
their recent liberation from bondage, took
place yesterday afternoon. The arrange
ments for a procession were made and suc
cessfully carried out by the colored leaders
and ministers of Zion and Bethel Churches,
both of which have very large colored con
gregations. Major General Saxton, Colonel
Woodford, Colonel A. G. Bennett, 21st IT. S.
C, TANARUS, llev. Mr. French, Mr. James Bedpath,
Superintendanl ot Schools, and a%rge num
ber of other officers and gentlemen, gave
their hearty co-operation to the proposed
celebration and were expected to deliver ad
dresses on the occasion.
About twelve o’clock the crowd began to
assemble around the Citadel Square, and by
two P. M., it is estimated upwards ot four
thousand were present. TnedJlst U. S. C.
'l'., preceded by the band, was drawn up in
line by Colonel Bennett, and the various
trades, associations and colored school chil
dren arranged in order of procession by the
Colored Marshals, who deserve much credit
for their excellent management.
THE PROCESSION.
The procession started' under the lead of
two colored marshals, on horseback, wearing
red. white and blue rosettes aud blue sashes.
The butchers about fifty in number, fol
lowed with their knives and a banner repre
senting a fat porker.
After these came the 21st Regiment U. S.
C. TANARUS., Col. Bennett, preceded by their splen
did band, which discoursed very excellent
music. The regiment was out in full force
and made its usual flue appearance.
Next came a company of school boys,
with the device : “We know no masters but
ourselves.”
The Car of Liberty followed, beariug thir
teen young girls dressed in white, with
white head wreaths. The car was decorated
with United States flags. After the car came
the Preachers, Elders and Sunday School
Teachers of the several colored congrega
tions of Charleston, each bearing a Bible
and Hymn Book. After them was the Zion
Billie Society of Zion Church.
The colored school children, with their
white officers and teachers, were the next in
procession. There were about eighteen hun
dred of these, happy little boys aud girls,
nearly all neatly attired, a large number
with handsome bequets, and all singing and
cheering and giving vent to the joyousness
of their hearts. They carried with them
seveial devices, a few of which only we
were able to obtain. The following were
among the number: “We know no castor
color.’’ “The Heroes of the War: Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Dahlgren,
Terry, Porter, the Private ”
The tailors next appeared in strong force,
with the shears as the emblem of their trade.
They were followed by the coopers with the
adze, and “Zion Travel” Society.
THE FIREMEN.
The colored firemen, Nos. 2,3, 6,7, 8, !)
10, followed; preceded by their baud. They
wero out in strong force" and made one of
the best features in the procession. They
were greeted with hearty cheers as they
passed along.
Anew organization was in the procession,
having on their banner “Antelope Fire
Company. Organized 1865. Rectus in Curia"
Carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths,
painters, barbers, masons, coach, carriage,
wagon and dray' drivers and farmers follow
ed, all beariug some implement of their call
ing.
After these came the auctioneer, mounted
on a spring cart, accompanied by his driver
with the auction bell and a number of “ne
groes for sale. ’ Two colored women with
their children were seated on the cart while
the rest ot “the gang to be sold” followed,
their hands tied with ropes. As the proces
sion moved along, the auctioneer was calling
out vigorously—“ How much am I offered
for this good cook.” “She is an excellent
cook, can make three kinds of mock turtle
soup, from beef, fowls, or fish.” “Two hun
dred, three hundred and fifty, four hundred,”
and so ou until he had reached from twelve
to fifteen hundred in “Confederate money-”
For good prime field bauds or mechanics 'no
lower bid would be entertained than from ten
to twelve thousand dollars. The represen
tative auctioouer acted his part well, aud
caused much merriment
Behind the auctioneer carno a hearse, with
the body of slavery, followed by the mourn
ed all dressed in black. On the hearse were
the following inscriptions: “Slavery is
Dead.” “Who Owns Him.” “No One.”
“SumtarjDug his Grave on the 12th of April,
1861.” This attracted a great deal of atten
tion. Th countenance of the mourners on
this occasion exhibited much more joy than
Badness.
Next came a number of other societies and
trades, the latter closing with the wood saw
yers, and the procession with about fifty
colored sailors with their officers from the
fleet.
One conspicuous feature in the procession
was the paper carriers, headed by George
Smith, a colored pressman, and each beuiiug
a 10 “Charleston Courier. ”
Tue “Moral Friendship Club'’ also made a
good appearance. On their banner was the
inscription, “Moral Friendship Club,” “Vir
tue, Purity, Love and Fraternity. Estab
lished 1851). ”
Ihe length of the procession is estimated
g«>od judgi-s about two miles aud. a half.
Ine route taken was through Calhoun to
King-street, clown King to tie Battery,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1866.
around the Pattery to East Bay, up East
Bay to Broad and Meeting streets, aud from
thence back to Citadel Square.
Major General Saxton, who was in a car
riage at the corner of King aud Queen
streets, was greeted with continuous cheers
all along the line as the procession passed
by. Rev. Mr. French, who was seated in a
carriage at the foot of King street, was also
lustily cheered.
Col. Woodford’s carriage was also halted
in Meeting street, opposite the Mills House,
by the procession on its return, and cheer af
ter cheer went up from the crowd for the oc
cupant and for Gen. Hatch.
Another marked feature of the procession
was the orderly conduct of the school chil
dren. This is due in a great measure to the
laborious efforts of Mr* Redpalh, the able
and efficient Superintendant, who also de
serves great credit for the skillful manner in
which he marshaled so large a body, Wher
ever he made his appearance along the lines,
he was received with vociferous cheers of
both children and teachers
Stands for speakers have been arranged on
Citadel Square, but owing to the rain this
part of the programme was dispensed with,
the assemblage being dismissed with a few
words of expostulation and a prayer by the
Rev. Mr. French. The whole affair was
very successful, and reflects much credit ou
all concerned.— Charleston Courier.
The Extrinsic Policy. —The London
Times of Feb - 27, says :
“By this time the public will have been
enabled to digest the intelligence communi
cated by Mr. Seward, of a proposition for
terminating the American war by a combined
attack of the belligerents on some foreign
Power. In the speculation itself there was
little novelty. We now learn on official au
thority, that this characteristic idea has been
not only entertained, but deliberately dis
cussed and considered by the representatives
of the belligerent Governments in confer
ence assembled. With the Confederate en
voys it was the solution which they seemed
chiefly to favor.” They suggested that the
question of union or separation should be
left in suspense, that in the meantime there
should boa “mutual direction of the efforts
of the Government, as well as those of the
insurgents, to some extrinsic policy or a
scheme for a season,” and that negotiations
on the great point at issue should be resumed
after this diversion had produced its pallia
tive effects. It is stated that Mr. Lincoln
and Mr. Seward did, in the course of the in
teiview, recognize the prospect of foreign
complications, and the probability that Eng
land rather than France would be the coun
try involved. We must admit, too, that the
“scheme” if it was thus recommended by
the South had been conceived with consider
able ingenuity in the interests of the seced
ers. By the time the “extrinsic policy” had
been carried into execution and brought to
au end, the Federals would have become ac
customed to live without the • Confederates,
and to see in the Southern Republic only a
kindred State and natural ally. We hope
the public will not lose sight of the fact that
the adoption of an “extrinsic policy,” at the
expense of innocent neutrals, has actually
been entertained and debated by the chief
authorities of the two American Govern
ments. If the ‘‘scheme” was hatched by
President Davis and his dblleagues, it was at
any rate taken into dispassionate considera
tion by President Lincoln and his Secretary
of State, while Mr. Seward himself is ad the
pains to inform us that it was not objected to
lor an instant on its own merits or from any
consideration which a turn in the events of
the civil war might not immediately remove.
This lesson we shall do well to remember.
Mr. Seward has most considerately fore
warned us; it will be our own • fault if we
are not found to be forearmed.”
The Lords on American Affairs. —The
late discussion in the House of Lords shows
one thing very plainly, and that is that the
bold stand taken by the United States in
relation to our affairs in Canada has taken
effect.
There is no language which can express
the hatred felt by Lords Derby and Lyvoden
towards the United States, and nothing would
please them more than to declare war at
ouce, and let loose the whole British army
anti navy on our coasts. They do not un
derstand that our intentions are entirely paci
fic ; that we mean to do nothing but to in
sist upon our rights and only accept war with
England as a last dire necessity. They ac
cuse us of boundless ambition, and of bound
less dishonesty, and assume that our bold
tone grows merely out of the recklessness
which whr begets. But Earl Russell sees
clearer. He understands the United States;
he sees we mean no dishonesty to England,
and would gladly avoid a war, but that we
feel so strong that we will not be insulted in
our time of struggle and weakness. In him,
and in his attitude yon can see the whole
some fear which England has now of us; a
fear which I venture to say, "is the most po
tent prevention of war tliat could possibly
exist.
Never had we less to fear from England
than at this moment. The bluster of our
small politicians only irritates her and does
no good ; the rancorous und bloody talk of
too many newspapers only awakens alienat
ed feeling ; but the decisive actions of such
men as Charles Sumner at Washington,
startles England and makes her feel that we
are far better as an ally than as an enemy.
England, now most unpopular with every
country in Europe, knows that she cannot
afford to cast away her great trans-atlantic
sister.
A gentleman of Hartford, who was some
years ago engaged in quarrying the upper
Delaware river, remembered that while drill
ing a rock a disagreeable fluid flowed from
the hole, and they had to plug it up. He is
now of the opinion that he then “struck ile,”
and he is going out with a party to “pull out
the plug,”
Rebels Hard up for Tea.— The Talla
hassee Floridian contains the following ad
vertisement :
From a wagon, between Chattahoochee
and Quincy, on or about 30th iast month, a
package containing two pounds green tea,
for which a reward of fifty dollars will be
paid and no questions asked.
j THE AVIL.ii OP STEPHEN OIK A HD.
A few days since, we printed an account,
! Jrorn James Parton’s magnificent history of
the early life of Stephen Girard, of the
youthful years of that gentleman, and of
'some of his interesting personal character
istics. From the same article we extract the
following most curious story of the opening
of the old man's will, and of the shameless
conduct on that occasion, of those who
claimed to Ire his relations. These persons
were so greedy to grasp the coveted money
of the dead man that they could uot so far
conceal their feelings under the guise of
common decency, as to tvait till after the
funeral. It will hardly be believed that these
unfeeling people absolutely insisted on the
reading of the will, before they could permit
the mortal remains of the poor old merchant
to be placed in the grave.
But the word of Mr. James Parton, who
has won a deserved reputation as the most
accurate, as well as the most brilliant of mod
[ orn biographers, is not to be disputed. No
man is more careful of facts, and more anx
ious to asertain the perfect trus 1 worthiness of
every statement before he puts it into print.
a dkamatic scene.
Death having dissolved the powerful spell
of a presence which lew men had beeu able
to resist, it was to be seen how far his will
was obeyed, now that he was no longer able
personally to enforce it. The old man lay
dead in his house in Water street. While
the public out of doors were curious enough
to learn what he had done with his money,
there was a small number within the house,
the kindred of the deceased, in whom this
curiosity raged like a mania. They in
vaded the cellars of the "house, and,
bringing up bottles of the old man’s choice
wine, kept up a continual carouse- Sur
rounding Mr. Duane, who had been present
at Mr. Girard’s death and remained to direct
his funeral, they demanded to know if there
was a will. To silence their indecent clam
or, he told them there was, aud that he was
one ot the executors. Ou hearing this their
desire to leam its contents rose in fury. In
vain the executors reminded “them that de
cency required that the will should not be
opened till after the funeral. They oven
threatened legal proceedings if the wiU were
not immediately produced ; and at length,
to prevent public scandal, the executors
oonsented to have it read. These affection
ate relatives being assembled in a parlor of
the house in which the body of the benefac
tor lay, the will was taken from the iron
safe by one of the executors
When he had opened it, and was about to
begin to read, he chanced to look over the
top of the documenLat the company seated
before him. Nor artist that ever held a brush
could depict the passion of curiosity, the
frenzy ot expectation, expressed in that
group of pallid faces. Every individual
among them expected to leave the apartment
the conscious possessor of millions, for no
oue had dreamed of the probability of his
leaving the bulk ol his estate to the public.
If they bad ever heard of his saying that no
one should be gentleman upon his money,
they had forgotten or disbelieved it. Tne
opening paragraphs of the will all tended to
confirm their hopes, since the bequests to
existing institutions were ot small amount.
But the reader soon reached the part of the
will which assigned to ladies and gentlemen
present such trifling sums as five thousand
dollars, ten thousand, twenty thousand; and
he arrived ere long at the section which dis
posed of millions for the benefit of great
cities and poor children. Some of them
made not the least attempt to conceal their
disappointment and disgust. Men were
there who had married with a view to share
the wealth of Girard, aud had been waiting
years for his death. Women were there
who had looked to that event as the begin
ning of their enjoyment of life. The imagina
tion of the reader must supply the details of
a scene which we might think dishonored
human nature, if we could believe that human
nature was meant to be subject to such a
strain. It had been better, perhaps, if the
rich man, in his own lifetime, had made nis
kindred partakers of his superabundance, es
pecially as he had nothing he could
share with them. They attempted,ou grounds
that seem utterly frivolous, to break the will,
and employed the most eminent counsel to
conduct their cause, but without effect. They
did, however, succeed in getting the property
acquired after the execution of the wifi:
which Girard, disregarding the opinion of
Mr Duane, attempted, by a postscript, to
include in the will. “It will not stand,” said
the lawyer. “Yes it will,” said Girard. Mr.
Duane, knowing h i9 man was silent; and
the courts have since decided, his opinion
was correct.
THE GIRARD COLLEOE.
Thirty-three years have passed since the
city of Philadelphia entered upon the pos
session of the enormous aud growing estate
with which Mr. Girard intrusted it. It is a
question of general interest how the trust
has been administered. No citizen of Phila
delphia needs to be informed that, in some
particulars, the government has s town little
more regard to the manifest will ot Girard
than his nephews and nieces did. If ho
were to revisit the banks of the Schuylkill,
would-be recognize, in the splendid Grecian
temple that stands in the centre of the Col
lege grounds, the home for poor orphans,
devoid of needless ornament, which he di
rected should be built there ? It is singular
that the very ornaments which Girard par
ticularly disliked are those which have been
employed in the erection of this temple;
namely, pillars. He bad such an aversion to
pillars that he had at one time meditated
taking down thoscTwhich supported the por
tico of his hank. Behold his College sur
rounded w'itlithirty-four,Coriutl|ian colujnns,
six feet in diameter and fifty-nine th height,
of marble, with capitals -efaboifetely carved,
each piilar having colt SI3,OCKIiP and the
whole colonnadteSiLtO.()()*! And this is the
abode of poor lime boys who will leave the
gorgeous scene to laborJg shops, and to live
in such apartments as are usually assigned to
apprentices! Jaukf Parto.v. |
The Eruption of Mount Etna.— The Scots
man publishes a vetyinteresting letter, dated
from Catania on the 7th inst., describing the
eruption of Mount, Etna. It is almost dark
before we reach the steep zig-zags leading
up from the main road to Taormina, where
we intend to sleep. On reaching a sudden
turn, we see in the clouds a long undulating
line of red light—the edge of a thundercloud
touched with go®jhy the rays ot the setting
sun. But, no, tWR cannot be ; the mass of
clouds is irapenenßble, and the sun has long
gone down. It *ir the lava stream. Etna
outlined with a pencil of living fire. And now
the low rumbling of the still distant volcano
breaks on the ear, mixed up with the peals
of thunder, which continue to reverberate
among the mountains. As the night deepens,
the clouds begin to clear away, the stream
ot lava becomes brighter, and the light emit
ted frorrf the crater, which was at first bat
faintlyreftected from the clouds above, be
comes i 'more and more brilliant, until the
whole sky over the mountain glows with a
lurid light. Here and there at different
points bright jets of flame appear for a few
minutes and then vanish. .These, we sup
pose, arise fr<jm the burning of trees set ou
lire byjfce lava or the falling scoriae.
Theffi appear to be-six craters quite dis
tinct, hut aitfaated near each other. From
all these, in irregular succession, sometimes
from Several at a time, there are incessant
diseharges-**hugu masses of red hot stones
an 1 seoriw thrown to an immense height,
with volumes ot steam and smoke whicu
reff ct the fires from the red-hot cauldron
below. The glowing smoke flickers in the
breeze as if it wera flame aud through it and
far-*bove it, yvith the naked eye, we can see
the red-hot stones mount and then fall slow
back in the abyss. Comparing the height to
which they seemed to rise with the appear
ance which such a building as St. Paul’s when
so far removed might present, it could not
be less thail 1,000 feet. From the windows
of the hotel we watch the volcano till long
past midnight, and retire to bed, having re-
Bolved to ascend to-morrow to the lava
stream. At the untimely hour of four we are
again roused, that before starting on our
journey we may visit the Greek Theatre, and
from iis ruined arches see the summit of Et
na, “tipped with gold” by the first rays of
the morning sun as he rises from behind the
Calabrian mountains. Leaving Taormina at
nine, we drove to Mascall. The weather is
a completo contrast to that of yesterday—
bright, clear and calm. As ,we pass along
the almond trees in full blossom, through
orange aud lemon groves glowing with their
goldi n fruit, the ground carpeted with young
flax of the brightest greeu, and see the labor
ers following their peaceful occupations in
the fields, it is diffiult to realize the idea that
within a few miles a volcano is breakiug up
the crust of the earth and spreading a deluge
of liquid fire over its surface.
As we ascend, we meet a peasant march
ing off with his household goods, and make
a small subscription for his relief. He tells
us the lava will carry off his cottage to-mor
row. Strings of mules are descending, load
ed with the produce of the vim-yards, which
are being carried to a place of safety A walk
of three hours over a used but not'a difficult
rogd brings us to the lava. As we approach
the rumbling sound from the eruption be
comes louder aud louder; but as the sun
gains power aud brilliancy, the volcano be
comes invisible to the eye. A faint line of
smoke along the current of lava, and a dark
cloud hanging over the crater, are the only
visibie signs which he gives of his existence
signs which, if met with on a Scotch moun
tain, might be passed by as arising lrom
moor burning. The stream of lava which we
visited is said to have flowed from six to
eight miles, between the crater and the point
which it has now reached. It has met with
an obstruction in Monti Arsi, an elevation
rising on a comparatively flat part of the
mountain, which has rivided the cu.rent
into two portions. One of these ii flowing
in a northerly direction towards Piedmonte,
the other to an old lava bed eastward toward
Mascali. The lava, under the influence of
the bright sunshine, appears to consist of
blackened scoria* or cinders. It is only
through the chinks or where the surface is
displaced by a rolling block, that the fire is
visible. The current where confined in a
narrow gorge, flows -rapidly—that is to say
at the rate of two to eight feet the minute,
according to the steepness of the descent.
The average rate of advance np to this time,
taken from the seven streams which are
known to be flowing, is abobt one Frencn
metre in the minute. On the flatter ground,
wuere there is more obstruction, and where
the stream spreads out lo a great depth, the
progress is invisible to the eye. As in a
glacier, there is a more rapid flow in the
middle than at the sides, for these sometimes
seemed to be quite fast, while the motion in
the centre is distinctly perceptible. The por
tion of the current wkich is flowing towards
Mascali has a breath of some twp or three
hundred yards, and a depth on its sloping
front lrom twenty to twenty-five feet. Itmaj
be approached without much inconvenience,
and with perfect safety; for although large
masses are constantly rolling down, there is
always time enough to escape before thej
reach the bottom. The point which fee lava
has reached I calculate to be about 2,40 C
feet above the icvel of the sea, and the cra
tur some 1.500 feet higher, or one third oi
the way up the mountain. We followed the
stream toward* Jta source, until we‘ were
driven off by the heat, the blinding dust, and
sulphureous smoke. *
The Grievances op Ireland. —lt will be
seen by the European news that the British
Premier has at last discovered what is the
prime grievance of the people of Ireland, the
cause of 4er industrial decline, and the source
of her g*cial misery. It is not an dbnoxious
State Cwrch,' the want of a local Parliament,
the absenteeism of landlords, the uncertain
tenure* s *!* tenants, the potato rot, nor the
wholesale emigration from large pastoral
districts of the Country. It is simply the
want of capital. This, Eord Palmerstoa
thinks, the Government of the United King
dom ' cannot undertake to supply; but lm
would- have been willing that a fearliameni
tary Committee should sit for another year to
ondaftVor to disepvef where the capital neces
sary *o redeem Ireland c<rold be found. And
that is tfie latest phase of the Irish question
in tlife British Parliament.
PRICE. 5 CENTS
[From the Brooklyn Eagle.]
CORRY O'LANI’S AT THE Oil. RE
GIONS.
Oil Regions, Pa.
Dear Eagle I have reached the land of
oil, having taken a safer rounj than the Erie.
Pennsylvania is a good-sizld State and it
takes some time to get there.
When you do get here you wish you hadn’t
come.
There is plenty of oil—and that is all, ex
cept lots of people.
I made for “Snaky Run,” the most likely
place for oil.
They call these places Runs, because every
body who is after oil runs here.
Every man yon meet is the President, Di
rector or Engineer of a petroleum comnsny.
The natives, who are white people, and re
semble country folks, live by selling land
and greenhorns.
They have a system in both transactions.
They double the price of land every mom
morning. *
If you know of anybody who has got a
few vacant lots that he wants to sell, tell him
to bring them out here.
The folks are so busy looking for oil they
havn’t time to build houses, and everybody is
afraid to put up a house for fear that he
might cover an oil well. "
Consequently the hotels are a little crowd
ed.
The Muggins Hotel, where I put up, is
much so.
Muggins, the proprietor, is the most accom
modating man you ever saw. A city railroad
conductor isn t a circumstance to him.
He has only got six beds in the house, but
he is always ready to take in everybody.
He took me in.
Also two hundred more petroleum pil
grims.
The sleeping accommodations are various.
We go to bed in platoons.
When the first platoon get asleep they are
carefully taken out of bed aud hung over a
clothes line. The second platoon go through
the same process until everybody is provided
for.
Preferring to sleep alone, I slept on the
mautel-pieee, with the coal scuttle for a pil
low.
As I observed, land is precious out here.
I bought a lot, ten inches by four, for three
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced
operations.
The next thing is to commence boring.
You want a sharp bore. A public lecturer
won’t do. Neither will a skating gimlet.
I took a brace and bit and w r ent in.
Got down about seven hundred thousand
feet into the bowels of the land, when I came
to an impediment.
Found thatff had struck the pre-Adamite
rock of the ossified stratum of the Silurian
formation.
This is geology, and you perhaps won’t
understand it, but I will explain it all in the
paper to the Historical Society lam about
writing.
Got a candle and went down to see about
it.
I found a big Megatherium about six bun
dred feet long, and nine hundred wide, in a
capital state of preservation.
I got him out aud shall send him along by
express.
Went on boring through forty thousand
feet of sand-stone. Here ene mntered a
strange smell of sulphur, which alarmed the
native who sold me the land, and to ease hia
conscience he gave me half the money back,
aud wanted me to stop boring.
Told him I was bound to keep on until I
struck ile, or came out on the other side of
creation.
Bored on. Went through about sixty thou
sand feet more, when suddenly the brace and
bit went in, and there was a grand report like
that made by Butler’s powder-boat which
didn’t blow up Fort Fisher.
Things were slightly confused for a time.
A section of Pennsylvania went up, and I
went np with it. I guess J must have come
down again, at the next idea I had was find
ing myself comfortably hung over a clothes
line at the Muggins Hotel.
An investigating into the matter showed
that I had struck through into a gas factory
in China, which had exploded at both ends
of the bore killing half a million Chinese.
The casualties ou our side were confined to
one native and a small dog.
I haven’t given up yet. The folks here
are very encouragiug ; they will stick to a
man as long as he has a cent left, and I never 1
knew Muggins to turn a man out of
his hotel who had the means to pav
his bill. J
A kind hearted chap offered me a another
piece ot land, theMzc of a stove plate, within
a mile and a half of a seven hundred barrel
well. fog the reasonable figure of half
a million, and two thirds of the oil.
I Jiad concluded that boring for oil is not
so profitable as bleeding the public. I shall
stall an oil company on more liberal terms
than any one yet offered.
I shall be prepared to guarantee anything.
The capital will be a million of dollars, di
vided into two million shares at fifty cento
each. . .
Dividends of two per cept. will
be paid weekly, in addition to which each
subscriber will be intitled to a segpon ticket
for Lanigan’s Ball, anew hat, a farm
in -Minnessota, and a ton of coal at
market prices.
The “Seally Run Petroleum Company”,
will be be the biggest thißg in oil in the mar
ket.
I am coming on te arran@j2*ic business as
soon as my Iriends remit me fCuvStUpough to
pay my way back.
Y ours oleaginoasly,
CCRRY O’LaNCB.
[JAt the inauguration ball Vice Admiral Far
ragut,.Gen. Banks, Congressman Arnold of
Chicago, and an attache of one of the foreign
legations, dauced the Lancers together. Mrs.
George Francis Train made the best display
of dry goods. Among the distinguished ab
sentees were Secretary Stanton, Chief Justice.
Chase, and Mr. aud Mrs. Senator Sprague.
A young lady named Fayne, recently ar
rested for her Southern proclivities in St.
Lopis, was released through the intercession
of a bugler in the Federal army, to whom
she was engaged to be marriea. He said
that fact showed that she was in favor of the
