THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 20, s 1806. LITERATURE Chawdos. A Novel. By "Oulda." J. D. Lip pmcott A Co. "Ouida" has (riven us three novels, each of Which attracted attention on Its first appearance, tut none of which poseesg tlio elements of per manent popularity. The literary world was Ptartled by the appearance of " Granville ie Vieiie," f ome vonrs ao; it was pleasantly scandalized by tho avidity with which "Strath juore" was sought alter In the early part of the winter, and we predict lor "Chandos" a popu larity as great and a transient as.llB predecessors. The story is written In s style which we may aptly term literary champagne. It is light, frothy, brilliant, and sparkling. It seems as though such characters as are do ecrtbed would "naturally talk In )ust the very manner which "Ouida" portrays. We are at a loss to judge of the iexof tho author or authoress from the work, and have hardly any more clue Ihan that found In the nom de plume. If It is a 3ady, she must have mixed freely with the faitest eort of Continental life, and evidently knows anore of the world than the rest of her fair sisters; and we are inclined to think it Is woman, as there ure eertatn strokes In the plot which would hardly have been introduced by a jnan. It la a deliciously spicy, racy, wicked sort of production, and lust such a one as every one will abuse and every on will read. Wo Jiave spoken of its conversational style, amusing and piquant; we will quote a few paragraphs, merely as a sample: ".Did you see Chatos' trap in the ring to-day f Tour in-hand erot set ol outridors, cream-aini-liver (ivories prottiest thing evor seen in tho park," i-aid Wntors of the First Guards. "i handos has (riven six thousand for Wild Gera niumbout bltoi blood out ot ilaneshury; sale to Mm at the Ducal," said tlio Marquis of llnwood. "CBsnaos has bourbt the litians at tho Duo de "Vallere's sale; tho nation ouiht to have bidden for them," said the Earl of BouKomont. "..Nation's much bottor ofl; bo's eiven them to the country," (aid Stentor, a very preat art-critic. "You don't mean it?" said the Duke 01 Argentine. "That man would give his head away." "And it the Cabinet b'd for it they might keon in Office," said Geome Lorn, who was a cynical dtimlv. Hoi a lias been taitbtul three months: Chandos ii sorcerer I" yawned Sir I'hipps Lacy, talking of a beautiful roverolgn of the equivocal world. "i banoos has a bot-oraiess purse my dear Sir I'hlpuB; there's tho key to Flora's new constancy," ea'd John Trcvcnna. "You have read Lucrece,' of course? There is no writer in KuroDe like Chaudos sue"! wit, suo i pathos, such power. I had the early shoets botore it -was publichcil," said the Duchess 01 lielainour, proud of her pilvilcve. " 'Lucrece' is the most maivellous thing sinco Tolham.'" "Tho most pottle 6inco Byron!" 'Oh, it is a poem in prose !" "And yet such exquisite sat re;" "Alfred do Aiusset never iirotcd human nature so dceny!" ".Shelley never attained moro porfoct art." "Certainly sot I you know it is in the sixth edition I ready T" "Ol course 1 every one is reading it." So the talk ran round at a xarden-party near Richmond, among the Kuosts of a Bourbon pnuco, and for once the provero was wrong, and tho absent was found bv Ins friends in the right, with a uni versal vote of adoration. When the sun is at his noon, and they aie basking in bis light, the whole floral world turn after him in idolatry; if ho ever set, perhaps they hang their beads, and buz the night damn, and iiod together in condemnation ot tho rpois that dimmed their fallen god's beauty; they Jiave never spoken of thorn before, but ihcv have ail aeon them; and then the judicious flower will sigh a vote ot censure. "How late are yon!" cried the Countes de la Tivarol, making room ior him besido her in a sum mer concert-room, as the idol ot tho hour appeared t last ior half an hour in the pnnoe's grounds. Itladame de la Vivarol was tho most bewitching of 'ari9iennes, and the loveliest ot court beauties, with form as exquisite as Pauline Bonaparte's, and iinzel eves ot tne divinest mischief and lauvuor. A fairer thing than this (airestol ta-hionublc empresses -was never seen at Longchamps on a great race-day, or in the Salle des Murechaux at a reception; vet, such is tho ingratumlo or inconstancy of nature, Chandos looked less at her than at a stiange laoo sumo distance from him, although he had for ttia Jast two j ears been no more rivalled near the charming countess than if she bad worn a silvor label or a siivei collar round her neok to denote his proprietorship, like his retriever Beau Sire, or his pet deer down at Clarenckux. Madame noted the fete-no jeitet she was not a woman to forgive ii, and ptill less a woman to complain of it. "They are talking about 'Lucrece,' Ernest. They worship it," she said, dropping her lovely, mollow, uucting, starlike eyes on him. They bad lullon on him with eflect, twenty mouths beloio, in the soft moonlight on a certain balcony at Compiegne. He laughed. He cared little what the world said ol Mm; ho had ruled it too long to be its slave. 'Iidecdl And do the, read it f" "es l'hoy do read you," laughed Madamo, too, "though they would iwtar to you on hearsay just so warmly. All the world idolize the book." "Ah! I would preier half a dozen who would criti cize it " " Tait-toi. How ungratoml you are!" "Bixaue my bead does not get turned? That was Sulla's worse crime tomank-nd. Thev say 'Lucroct is a masterpiece became it is in its fifth edition, and Ihey expect me to be intoxicated with such discern ing applause," said Chaudos. with hU molodious, amused lauph, c ear and gay as a woman's. Fame Jiad come to him so young, he had gained the world's incense with so little effort, that he held ootn in a cermin nonchalant mockery. "To be surel when men go mad if they get one jrraiu ot applause, it is very uiscourteous in you to keep cool when yon have a hundred. What a reflection it is npon them! Where are you look ing, Kinest?" 'Where can I be looking?" he said, with a smile, as he turned his eyes full upon her. It would not liave done to corners to the conutesj that he was ucaicoiy heeding her words bocauseia face rarer to him bad caught his gaze in the labioial e crowd. ibe countess gave a little skeptical meaning arch ot her delicate eyebrows. "She is ver beautiful, won ami, but her beauty will not do ior you." "vvhvr" There was a iitt'e ragemoss in tho tone, and an unconscious soll-bcirayal that she had peuetratud his tlioiiruts. "B, cause the raseape to it will be terhblo." saitk .B'.adanie tie la Vivarol, with a shiver ot her per Itimcd laces. Her teeth were set in rago u ider the sott. langhiug, roso-bued lips; but she could play her pretty, care ess vaudeville without a sign vi jealousy. "iirripiei you pique mv curiosity. I have no loneliest), thouch, lor tempests in my love attain En i'amoar si rlcn n'ett amcr. Ou'on ni art d ne pas alm. r! 81 tout l'eil au deirre supreme, Quand cm sot aiurs que 1'oa alms ! Torn ble, too ? In what way ?" " ' ar la porte du mariayt," said La Vivarol, with Ik silvery laugh. Chaudos laughed, too, at be leaned ovor hor char. "Terrible Indeed, then. It were too much to pay lor a Ue'enl You have rlisencbau'ed me at oucei bo ten me now Who she is." ' Rot II I am not a master ot the eoremon'e.'." 3 here was a certain dark, anery flash under the curl ol her silk v lashes that ho kuew verr well. "1 am a litt e out of your lavor to day, Helolse?" paia cnandos, accused it the passing storm 01 mistress's jealousy was the darkest passage his cloudless and insouciant life had encouuteied. know my crime: 1 was not at your reception last Sight." "Weren't you?" aiked La Vivarol. with the most Tpenect air ot Indifferent Burprir e. "I could n t tell who was aud who was not. Howldewst jourKn Jish crushes!" "Nevertheless, that was my sin," laughed Chan oos. "What excuse can 1 make? If 1 tell vou I was writing a sonnet in your name, you would tell uutoe ourselves more materially aud unlaith 4UIIT. ji i uii i learea my thousand rivals, you would not be likely m believe that any more, ftiore u uoiuiujr ior it but the truin." "Well, tell it. then "Ma be'le. the truth wilt Vu that T !! Tina't debut Jo Rigoltito, and suppel afterwards with her and Bahel " "Alvarina! that paunt. brawn tnml nl nn call vourself iaaudious, rust?" cried Maaaiae la WU1UIWO. "A gaunt, brown Koman Alvarinal The hand. Homes t singr that ever crossed the Alpi! Ho moon lor feminine prejudice " thought Chaudos; but he ubw iue kiw wen too uuer nut tuouvhu aloud or ne wouiu uui nave noen lorgiven so bewitohinal s ne wan. wniuha hnirered to listen In ..,-. exchauaed word with a hundred diB-rent people! -wuu v-u wiui woq oiuer io eaten a synasie irom the leader and darling of the hour, disentangled btmsell from Madame de la Vivarol, the Dnohesv ot Argentine, and a oon of titled bi-auflea. whi cared tor no other at their side as the? cared for him, and made his way at last to whore his drag stood at the gates iii the bright light of a May evening at seven o'e ock. So much for the frothy style ol the work which is just now the rage In our fashionable circles. Its easy morality can be readily distinguished, and as It deals in no character who has less than 10,000 a year, our readers may rest assured that any of the aln It deplota are written In French, which we all know takes away all the bairn. . A few words as to the plot. Thote are two heroes. The principal, one Ernest Chandos, is a rich, feted, petted favorite, of whom the extract we give above apeaks. The other, John Tre Venna, is an apparently jovial, but really scheming, wlly,"treachcrom villain, who worms himself Into the confidence of Chandos and ruins him. The reason for his extraordinary hatred Is darkly shadowed forth, in the prologtio, but Is never openly declared until the end ot the work, when it is pointed out. Trevenna Is ChanJosf bastard brother. The great body of the work is given up to tho slow process by which the false friend wrecks the financial prospects of his too trusting patron. The. venemous treachery of the one and tho confidence of the other are alike delineated, but we must protest against such a character as 'Trevenna,' and are sure that the readers of the work will agree with us Id our opinion that there never could have existed such a roan. We can understand how a mac can murder a family of e'ght fellow creatures; we can understand any moderate amount of deceit; but that ono who is taken by another out of a jail, fostered, enriched, placjed n Parliament, and made a great man of, can for a f pace of twenty years bend all bis ener.' gies to ruin his benefactor 1t Is impossible. Finally, however, the hero, who in spite of his allegations and nonsense has our sympathy, conies into possession of his wealth atrain. lie discovers that his evil genius, then a Prime Minister, made his, fortune by fraud and usury, and threatens to expose him to the world. Ex posure meant death with 'Travenua,' and a he is about to end his Hie with his own bands, 'Chandos'. forgives his wrongs and promises Eccresy. To deny to the work deep interest, considera ble dramatic power, and a creative laculty of no mean order, would be unjust. When you read tho work, it is with absorbing attention; it can pass away hours moft pleasantly, but when you lay it by you can recall no good which has been inculcated by its pages. It has no moral, as it has no morality; it is the butterfly creature of a day, but is admirable while it lasts. It is unne cessary for us to recommend, it as all will read it an j how. The appearance of "Chandus" recalls to mind the previous production of '-Ouida's" pen, 'Strnthmoic." It is a novel like "Chandos" in all its peculiarities, and will probably be re-read" by many alter the perusal of its successor which we have noticed above. Josh Billings His Book. G. W. Carleton. New York. Philadelphia Agents: Auhmead & Evans, No. 724 Chosnut stroet. When Artemus Ward first published his humor ous work, it made a sensation, not because of any great merit, but because the hideous form of orthography bein a novelty, attracted at tention. His second book was flat, stale, and unprofitable, and with its failure we bad hoped that the laet of this style bad appeared. We muBt confess, therefore, that we opened "Josh Billings Ills Book," with a sinking of spirit. Bil lings labors under a great disad vantage. The idea ol the work is not original, the illustrations are not funny, the paper is bad, and the topogra phy might be easily improved. But aH extra ncous obstacles melt into perfect insignificance when we consider that the draw back to success caused by the author himself. First of all, what possible wit is there in mis' pellirg? What loim or shape of hamor is there in spelling "use" "uz," "dog" "dorg," and horse" "boss?" What constitutes the fun in to murdering the laws of Lindley Murray that it is a matter for a translator, rather than a reader, to understand a work ? . We cannot see the point in thus seeking to make a stroke of wit by covering up the insipidity by vile spelling. If there is anything like humor in what is being written, then the quicker it reaches .the reader's mind, the more powerful and pungent will be the eflect. Shakespeare hath It that "brevity is the I sotu ot wit;" anu wnat would tne Duru mink were he compelled to wade through a barbarous argon in order to distil a spoonful of mirth? Ii x writer had that rare power of so putting things as to make them appear ridiculous, then it 1s worse than useless, it is positively injurious to bis powers to wei&h down his jokes with hideous phraseology. If nothing elso, therefore, tended to ruin the pages of "Josh Billings, nis Book," this one peculiarity would bs quite sufli cient to disgust all ordinarily intelligent readers. Laying aside this disadvantage, we must state that, having heard Billings as a locturer, we were wof'ully disappointed in the subject-matter ot the book. The main point ot his wit lay in the rapidity with which he changed his sub jeet. Oneot his best points was his continual reference to "Answers to Correspondents," which, although not humorous in themselves, were made so by the sudden change of thought. But when we eo the answer set down in a dis tinct chapter they lose much of their excellence. Yet, with all its defects, the book shows more merit than any which we have seen of the same kind. It has more true vim than Artemus Ward's, but wc deprecate the whole system of misspelling. Orpheus C. Kerr scorned to use it, and made a far greater hit than any of those who sought to manufacture wit outot misspelt words. As a candid opinion, we cannot recom mend Billings, except as an antidote for rush of blood to the head. Matthew Arnold has lately published three papers on "The study of Celtic Literature," which are among the best thing that he has written, being excellent specimens of Intelligent and judicial criticism, and containing, in small epace, a deal of curious and interesting matter. As regards Celtic literature, he occupies a middle ground, avoiding the mistaken enthusiasm of those who find all the traditions of past ages therein, chief anion? whom must be reckoned the Rev, Edward Davies, the author of "The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids." and the over-critical skepticism ot those who find it little but a mass of Imaginative rubbish ot com paratively recent date. . Speaking bf one depart ment of Celtic literature, that of the Welsh, he states, on ths -authority of one who Is no friend to" Its high pretensions, that "the Mvvyrlan manuscripts alone, now deposited In the British Museum, amount to forty-seven volumes of poetry, of various sizes containing about 4700 pieces of poetry, in 16,000 pages, besides about 2000 englynlon or epigrammatic stanzas. There are also in the same collection fifty -three volumes of prose, or about 15,300 pages, .containing a great many curious clocumonts on various sub jects. Bfsldes these, which were purchased of the widow of the celebrated Owen Jones, the editor of the 'Myvjrlan Archaeology,' there are a vast number of collections of Welsh manu scripts in London and In Cue libraries of the gentry of tbe principalities." Mr. Dixon, editor of the London Athenceum, will visit this country in August.' A monument is about to be erected at Nice to tbe memory of Ernst, the violinist. Mr. Dickens receives two thousand pounds sterling for tbo series of thirty readings he Is giving in London. Mr. 8. C. Hall is now In Tarls, making arrangements for the publication of an illus trated catalogue of the great Paris Exhibition. Mr. E. P. Ilollister, who has been to France for the purpose ot obtaining materiel for his "Life of Lafayette," returned to New York by a late steamer. Hon. A. W. Thayer, United States Consul at Trieste, is about to publish, in Berlin, the fint volume of bis "Life of Beethoven." Mr. Tlmyer has been engaged on the work lor fifteen years. "George Elliot," the author of "Adam Bcde," has juot finished a new novel, which will shoitly be published by the Messrs. Blackwood. Tbe title is, "Felix Holt, the Radical," and the time the stormy period of the first Reform bill. The Bishop of Exeter entered his eighty- ninth year on the sixth ol May. having been born at Bridgewater on the sixth day ot May, 1778. He is the oldest graduate of Oxford now living, having taken his B. A. degree in June, 17U5, w hen he was only seventeen years of age A new paper called The American Journal of Numismatics has been issued in New Y'ork by Mr. Frank II. Norton, Librarian of the Brook lyn Mercantile Library. It proposes to become the exponent 4 the opinions and defender of the interests cf all who make archieology and nu misniatics their study. The Catholio World for June, full of various interesting papers, is out; the second number of the Crescent Monthly, a first-f las literary maga zine, published in New Orleans, is also out. The Land we Love is the name of another excellent Southern magazine, devoted to literature and politics, the first numboi of which has just been i'sued. It is published at Charlotte, N. C, and is edited by General D. 11. Hill, late of the Con federate army. Among the latest announcements of English publishers Is a tort ol bpurgeon Jen Book, with tbe title: "Anecdotes and Stories of the Rev. C. II. Spurgcon, now tiist collected and arranged." The London Review says of it "This must not take to itsell the credit of being the earliest cleri cal budget of wit. There was a 'Sterne's Con vivial Jester, or That's Your Sort.'" Mes-srs. D. fc J. Sadlier & Co. have prepared new editions of the following excellent works: Lives of the Early Martyrs;" "Life of St. Vin cent de Paul;" and "The Controversy between Pope and Muguire." They have alo Issued "A Popular Life of St. Patrick,1 from the pen of a talented and worthy priest. This work is. as its title indicates, Intended for general circulation among tbe people, and will prove a very useful and valuable addition to Irish literature. It is believed that Napoleon's "Life of ' Ca-sar" will extend to four volumes, as the second only goes as lar as the passing of tho Rubicon. The latest criticism upon "Ecce Homo" is that of Lord Shaftesbury, who expressed his opinion oi that work in the following terms: "See how men are deluded, how they are misled by those who should be better guides. I con lees I was perfectly aghast the other day when speaking to a clergyman, and asking him his opinion ot that most pestilential book ever vomited, I think, from the Jaws of hell; I mean 'Ecce Homo.' When I asked him what was his opinion of that book ho deliberately told me te being a great professor of Evangelical reli gionthat that book had excited his deepest admiration, and that he did not hesitate to say that it bad conferred great benefit upon his own f-oul. Why, if we are to save this miserable and uncertain teaching, if the guides to whom we look for light and help can approve such works as that, how can we expect that the mass of the people, the mass even of the educated middle classes, who are suppced to think lor themselves, will not be led to wander out of the right, w ay ?" The booksellers do not copy this notice in the advertisements. In a book Just published in London, called "Charles Lamb, His Friends, His Haunts, and His Books," Lamb's personal appearance Is thus described: "There was a large but tine head on the small, spare body, and the two 'Immaterial' legs, as Thomas Hood called them, catching 'lia's' own tone. About his face, apart from its expression, was an ancient quaintnetis beine lull of wiry lines, with a ieep earnestness about the brows, a rather hooked nose, and decided mouth. We all knew these old-fashioned laces, full of character but we do not meet so often that touching, ball-melancholy smile under which bis more observant friends saw lingering a tense of old troubles nor those wonderful eyes, the lamps of the whole face glittering, turning, yeux percans looking, as Mr. Proc tor said, us it 'they would pick up plus and needles." M. Feuillet de Conches has addressed a note to the editor ol tbe Athenaeum in reference to the letters of Marie Antoinette, which were pub lished last year by M. d'HunoUteiu, to whom he was said to have sold the forged manuscripts, and .the charges brought ageinst him by the AUyemeine Zeitung In connection therewith, and with some forged letters of Racine, the sub stance ol which we gave a week or two since. M. Feuillet contradicts the statement of the Uer man paper; from the first paragraph to the last there is not one woi of truth in It. As regards the letters of Marie Antoinette, he knew nothing of them until they were published. Tbe bis-' -tory of the Racine letters is a pure invention the story of the blank leaves suid to be missing from autographs of the last century, In the Imperial Library, the abstraction of which is laid to his door, he declares to be another inven tion; he not only", never consulted any docu menu of tht period, his researches extending1 only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; bnt the documents in question were never muti lated. Nor? was there ever anything like a recla mation made either against himself or anybody else, as is proved by th official communication of the Minister of the Interior. What his anonymous German accuser will say to all this remains to be seen. For tho letters of Marie Antoinette, which lie at the bottom of this con troversy, M. Louts Blanc, who ought to be a good indge of the mnttej, affirms that he is not sur prised that thott authenticity is questioned, and that he feels bound to say that, alter having paid due attention to the controversy to which they hate given rise, he Is most decidedly under the Impression that they are not genuine. Colonel Thomas Fltzgeiald has enlarged and Rreatly improved bis paper, the City Hem. The iftm has been established for nearly twenty jears, and is at present an ably-conducted and extremely readable literary journal. ' A ne wpaper, entitled The Hub of the Univ T, is to be issued at the "Hub," about tho 18th or June. THE NEW YORK PRESS. EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF LEADING JOILNALS VFON CURRENT TOPIC'S. COMPILED EVERT DAT FOR EVKN1NO TKLEOBaPU. New Move on the European Chess-Board. from the Iribune. It Louis Napoleon, by his speech at Auxcrre (or by the interpolated account of it in tb.3 Monitcur), did not mean to pledge himself to the support ol Italy and Prussia, he undoubtedly wh-hed to be understood so at Vienna. The speech contained the significant hint to the Austrian Government that it Fiance, "detest ing the treaties ot 1815," and alwavs sympathiz ing with the "national aspirations of oppressed peoples," especially with those ot Italy, which a few years ago, by the cession of 8avoy, ena bled Fiance to "rectify" a part of her frontier, should once more unito all her lorces with those of Italy and Prussia, the aggregate strength of the two belligerent parties would be very materially changed. Should Franco remain neutral, the strength of tbe two parties would bo about as follows: Prussia and Italy together have a population ot 40,000,000 souls, and their a tniies, put on a war looting, will together number about 1,000,000 men. On the other hand, we have Austria, with S6,000,00j, and the minor Gernmn States, with 17,000,000, together 42,000,000 of Inhabitants, and also mustering an army of about 1,000,000 nicn. The Federal Diet pledged itself, on the 0th ol May, against Prussia, with the exception, however, of Mecklenburg and the XVth and XVIIth curiae (which means a majority of the following Stutest Oldenburg, Anhalt, Schwarz burg, and the four Iree cUies). Ot these States, Mecklenburg; would be prevented, by her geo giaphical position, from furnishing a contingent to a l'cdeiul urniy directed aeaiust Prussia, and some ot the others mieht endeavor to remain neutral ; but, on the whole, the contiueent of the minor States to the Federal array may, since May , be set down as the certain ally of Aus tria. This would nearly balance the strength ot the two parties. Ihe alliance ot France with the ontionents of Aiis Iria would insure the success of the latter. tor Austria, with its many discontented pro vinces, to resist the onset ot three powers as consolidated and homogeneous as Prussia, Italy, ana ranee, is out ot tne question. Toe Court ot Vienna is, of course, fully conscious of this fact. Louis Napoleon, moreover, has taken special pans to nree it up-n the immediate attention of Austria, and to tnat end has despatched a special envoy to Vienna. The Austrian miners maintain that this messenger was to request the Austrian uovernment to make certain concisions with regard to the Venetian question, and they claim to have trustworthy author. tv lor statins that the result of the negotiations entered into be tween Austria and France is calculated to effect a total change in the present cmirse of political evoiut., as ii wouki relieve Austria ot tne ooubia burden of carrvin? on war Bimultnnnnnnlv In the North and the South. Tbe puroort of all this is clear. - Tbe Austrian papers spei.k ot an arrangement which would provide for the cession of a part or the whole of Venetia, if in return France and Italy would pledge themselves rot to assist Prussia, which. wimits i9,ooo,ooit ot inhabitants, would thus be leit alone, at war with opponents commanding more than 60,000,000 The next European mail is likely to bring more detailed accounts of these new negotiations. It is, in the meantime, clear that such an arrange ment must have presented itself to the minds ot Austrian statesmen as the most advantageous that, in view of the threatening attitude of France, could be obtained. They all know, and openly adroit that Venetia, year for year, is for Austria source a ot greater expenditure than income; that this burden is growing heavier every year; and that, in any European compli cation,, venetia is tne most vulnerable point of tne empire, uy selling venetia, Austria would get rid ol its greatest daneer. with a fair Tiro. pect of now solving the Gordian knot ol Ger man unity at the expense ot Prussia. "Illas in Nuce. From tht Trihune. The telegraph sent us the Cabinet speeches so late on Wednesday evening that we could not comment upon them. Perhaps our readers would like to know lust what the Cabinet did say, therelore we reproduce each speech in a nuisneu: 1. The President. No speech. Much obliged bupport "particularly gratitjiug under exist ing circumstances." Go to the Secretaries. 11. U he Secretary of State. Tbe old nnn not at home. Off to Auburn. You have seen his three columns, perhaps. If he wer here . III. The Secretary o) ' the Navy. Thanks. Mid nltfht talk should be discouraged in tieceut families. Will stand by tlrc Administration and policy, ana -rights ot tne states." tio home, anil don't keep people out of their beds! IV. The Secretary of War. Speech written. Didn't speak before because Lincoln had been killed. Public duties executive. Has "avoided trenching" toe amiable man 1 When Johnson became President, the Rebellion was considera bly FmastM el. I first thought that there should be negro suffrage. After "calm and full dis cussion," my mind yielded to "adverse argu ments" and "practical dilhculties." The Presi dent has recognized the right of Congress to admit its members 1 I advised approval of Freedmen's Bureau bill don't say whether I like Civil Right I ill or not. Do not like Re construction plan third section especially. Neither "wisdom, necessity, nor justice" in disfranchising Rebels mark that. "Practical difliculties" against enfranchising loyalists? Oh, Mr. Stanionl is this your devotion toprlnci- file? Recognize "constitutional rights of legis utive, judicial, and executive" departments, en'ertain!n)X "respect" and much other eu phytic talk! Ob, Mr. Stauton! V. The Secrdary of the lrtasury. go ths whole figure, and "my deliberate judgment" sustains the President, Bullot-uox will sustain him also. I believe in the people of the United States, The President hold no doubtful atti tude I His policy is a good policy; where's there a better policy? Give us abetter policy, and we go for li ; but, if you do not. we will sink or swim with this one. (Hearty cheers.) Con gress has been six months tinkering and cannot make a policy, so it can't. Not wise enough to amend the Constitution, for every third Con gressman is a Constitutional tinker. (Tut I Tut) Good words, good words ! Mr. Secretary.) Why don't the Congressional Jupiter Tonans so amend the Constitution as to change represen tation f .. Yes; why? . If Johnson didn t do. us he ought to do, why was he n"t taken to task dur ing tbe recess, and if the Union party does not do something better, its days are numbered. (Oh I h ! 1 Why not have spoken about finances, Mr. Secretary? Ne eutor ultra crepidam, Mr. Secretary, lor you made a very unwise speech. ' VI. Ihe PoUnaaUr:OeneraL-i,w(tivLh.iag -it iSvelv. The President is all right, Congress la all right, tue country is all right, the Rebels are coming all right. Sorry that Congress and I'lfsldent cannot agree, lor I need not tell you that tho I'nlon party saved the nation from a ryii n H vnKAllinti If no , ,1 or, f anrl PnnirniBI urn coming nil tight not so tar apart nu was when Congress met We will all be lovely once more but it is very late, and more speech has been good night, and niBde than was intended, so oome agntn. - -VII. The Attorney -General. Very sorry; couldn't t-peas; excuse me. VIII. J he secretary of the Interior. As to the Tresldent's policy, the least said by me the better. But I won't distrust the Union party, nor betray It nor make speeches to Copper head v so slay awav with your fiddles, for I'll not talk to you to-night. Tbe President and Ills Cabinet The Ad ministration Policy. From tht Timet. The public will bo gratified by the evidence afforded on Wednesday last of the attitude held by the President's Cabinet towards the policy ot his Administration. It Is always well to have the views of men holding potts of so niuc Influ ence and responsibility, upon the leading; politi cal questions ot tbe day, distinctly understood. During a very critical period of Mr. Lincoln's Administration a caucus oi union senators ap- pointed a committee of nine to wait upon tho l'resident and demand the dismissal of Mr. 8ew n t. 1 TliA .tn mil i pa u'n. pnnrlaniialv Mf,aivn,1 1 and Judge Col lamer, who was its chairman, read a written address urging tne importance of MnitVd Cslinet council, in order to a vigorous administration of public affairs. Each mem ber ot the committee, being called upon in turn by the President lor his opinions. concurred in this view of the case, and lnsist'd upon the absolute necessity ot a concurn nee. on the part of every member ot his Cabinet, with the President in the prinei pies and policy ot bis Administration. Mr. Lin coin withheld anv expression of his own senti ments, but said there was one question he wished each Senator to consider carefully and to answer to his own conscience and that was this: "xoti urge," said he. "the importance of having each member of my Cabinet agree wittt me; but are you not really the most anxious that I should have a Cabinet, every member of which will agree with you." When they were prepared to auswer this question be bctjsed them to come back, and he woold give them another inter view. It agreement with him was what they really wanted, that was already secured. The Committee did not return. The prefent senate has not evinced any spe cial anxiety that the President should have the united support of his Cabinet. But it is jut as important now as ever before ana the Senate probably will offer no opposition to any measure wntcn may oe necessaty to secure it. rne de monstratiou of Wednesday shows that, with the exception of Mr. Speed, the Attorney-General, and Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, the President's Cabinet is united m support of tho general principles by which his administration is guided and governed. Mr. Speed timply evaded any expression ot opinion whatever, while Mr. Harlan, wi'h equal lrankuess and greater ingenuity, soticrht to convey the impres sion that the President's policy was "iu betrayal of the confidence reposed in him by tho Union party," aud that no one could expect him, Mr. Harlan, to be "guilty of ingratitude so daringly dishonorable." This is slightly Pecksniilian, aua quite cnarnctensiic; it indicates nnmismxa bly tnat Mr. Harlan, as well as Mr. Speed, con templates an early retirement.5 : Mr. Seward, In his calm and comprehensive speech at Auburn, merely reaffirmed. In clear and statesmanlike terms, the principles he has always held as to the menus by which the Stales lately in rebellion can. with greatest safety and wisdom, be restored to their relations with tho Federal Government. They are precisely tho same which he held under President Lincoln. and w hich President Johnson is simply striving to carry into practical effect. He believes them to be the only principles which the Government, acting under tne autnority ana witnin tne Urui' tations imposed upon its power by the Constitu tion, has a right to make the basis or its action; and he sustains this belief by arguments which acmreea nemeives witn great lorce to tne judgment and candor of the country. - Secretary Stanton's position ou the subject has been open to more doubt aud misrepresen tation, perhaps, than that ot any other member of the Cabinet. - As we said a few days since, hi s time and energies have been so fully devoted to the practical details of his own department, that he has had but slight connection with the political uction of the Government But in bis address on Wednesday he pays a marked tribute to the patriotism and devotion with which the President has sought to secure the peace and tranquillity of the country on Just and sure foundations, and declares his own cordial con currence, from the beginning, with the mea sures by which he has sought tc accomplish that object. Nor does be hesitate' to express, In dis tinct and emphatic terms, his dissent from the plan of restoration reported by the loint Committee of Congress, especially the third sec tion ot the amendment to the Constitution disfranchising the great mats of the Southern people until 1870. He ssys that in his judg ment "every proper incitement toJnion in the South should be tostered and cherished, and for Congress to limit its own power by constitu tional amendment tor the period of four yeurs might be deplorable in its results." While he accords to those who differ equal .honesty with himself, he says that "as the proposed plan now ctands, he is unable to perceive the necessity, justice, or whdom of the measure." Secretary McCulloeh was most emphatic and distinct iu declaring his adhesion to the Presi dent's plan.thougb he said that.lt a better one can be devised, one better calculated to restore peace and harmony to the Union, there is no man who will embrace it with more alacrity than the President himself. But the best evidence of its wisdom, he thinks, is found in the fact that after six months of effort Congress has not been able to agree upon anything it is willing to offer in its place. The only amendment to the Oonstltu tion which he thinks important is the one changing the basis ot rcpresei tatijn, and it was' not the President's fault that this was not adopted long ago. In concluding he said: "I have desired and hoped for the continuaoo of ibis great Union party, with whioh' 1 have ever been identified ; but if its leadets can presout nothing better than the nrograrauie of tbe Coin- inn tee, I am rreatly apprehensive that in da-s will ' . . , ,.A T .v., a. In ln n Jrln . . 1, n . . I 1 1 f, uuuiuwow, A u ua b, lu.lln -XJ l.l.run , wiHb U1I9 Will not be the case ; that it will dlicard its hostility and its attempts to continue alienation bet ven tho two Ktcuoin ol the country, and that it will embrace thote principles which look to harmony, to rettora tioi.i and to peace. If it f bonld do ties It will S'.ill continue to be the great and controlling partr of tbe country, and cover itself with iinpensuable glory. If it doos not, its days are numbered, and tse epitaph that will be written on it will be: It knew how to piosecute the war with vigor, bnt it lacked the wisdom to avail itself ot the benefits of victory." i i , t .'., i 'These are wie and Judicious counsels, and wt truet will not be without tbeir just influence with Congress and the conntry. i Mr. Dennison,' the Postmaster-General, spoke substantially in the same vel. He thought the differences betwoen the President and Congress had been exaggerated, i They relate solely to the time and mauuer in which the Southern States shall be readmitted to representation in Con gress; and he 6avs very freely that he does not believe them to be irreconcilable. Indeed, he linos in the fact that Congress has already re etded irom the extreme positions which it held at the opening of the session, room ior con fidence that time and discussion are rapidly bringing the two departments or the Govern mert upon a common platform. I We trust these bopelul predictions may be realised. We concur in the opinion that, so far as differences of principle and of opinion ro, tbey are not insurmountable. The most formid able obstuole to harmony of action We in the temper and tone of feeling which have been aroused by tbe debates and dissensions of the srssion ot Congress. When we see sians of abatement in the hostility and ' denunciation which have thus been so lavlshlv bestowed upon the )reideut by. leading member oi icawresa and tin ir a 'heren's, we shall have stronger hci oi harmony in the Union party. I Tho Dnrk Hours ol Austria. From tht Daily .AVw. jus now, upon tne eve oi a grano European war, in which Austria appears to be menaced from all sides, and Its utter dismemberment threatened, it. may not be unproOtaole to call back moments in Austrian history when for a time its fall seemed certain and unavoidable, and jet wheu, by Its own recuperative force, it succeeded In overcoming all danger snd tislng superior to all hostile combinations. We shall refer to these historical instances not iu the splilt of a panegyrist, but merely as indications ot the great power of' resistance Austria pos sesses, aud has always possessed, and further to show that those who predict, irom the present combinations against the House of Uapsburg. Its downfall as one o the gTeat ruling powers of the earth, have not thoroughly measured the rcsouicc3 nor tbe elasticity of a Government compeded to fight lor the maintenance of its dignity, ay, for its very existence. The present situation bears a remarkable analcgy to the condition of continental Europ upon the death of Charles the Sixth. Emperor of Germany and Archduke ol Austria, in 1740. Against his daughter, Mat la Theresa, who claimed to succeed him, by virtue ot the "prag matic sanction," in the hereditary dominions of Austria, almost the whole of Europe combined in maintaining her succession inadmissible under tbo Salic law, tor ceuturies past the great law of kingly descent on tbe continent. It was then that Frederick the Srcond of Prussia, young and ambitious, won his first spurs in battle. Be sides him, trance, Bavaria, Baxony, Han over, and even Spain and Savoy, and some other minor powers ot Italy and Germany, preferred claims to the several portions of tho Austrian dominions, and for a time It ap pealed as it the days of tne Austrian Hapsburgs, as a ruling family in Kurope, were soon to end. But Austria outlived the dauger, and cam out of the struggle with very little loss. Frederick guined a portion ot Siltcia, aud France obtained Lorraine and Alsace. But, on the other hand, Austria's influence rose greatly, and Maria Theresa succeeded in having her husband, Duke Francis of Lorraine, elected German Em peror, notwithstanding the opposition of Russia, Prussia, England, France, and Spain. Austria was thbs almost miraculously saved from utter ruin by the fervid patriotism aud martial vi;or of the Hungarian, to whom Maria Theresa presented herself, her infant son in her arms, pleading w.th tearful eyes tor instant succor.- i Again, in almost our own time, the Napoleonic wars have often brought Ausiria to the verge of complete desti uction. All its dominions overrun by a victorious enemy, its capital m the posses sion of a hostile army, its own organized force ot resistance nearly destroyed in numberless battles, and the weak remnants of a once proud aimy aud brave spirited population demoralized by constant defeat, and added to all this (in 1811) national bankruptcy working the most disastious results umong all classes all this did w eaken lor a time, it is true, tbe power of Austria; but in 1811, as if wifh a sudden bound, to the astonishment of all Europe, snd to the amazement of no one more than Napoleon him self, Austiia stood fully armed, dauntless, and in nil the strength and vigor of unexhausted manhood on the plains of Leipsic, bidding de fiance to the conqueror oi the continent. . It was here again that, in the darkest hour of Austria's fortunes, it drew new life and redoubled strength from Hungary, that preat preserver of Austrian power in Europe. As, in 1848-D, the whole ot the rest of Austria was unable to cope with Hun gary alone uuaided, so with Hungary firmly on its side and ready fcr every sacrifice in its sup port, Austria rose twice superior to the armed combination of the principal powers of Europe. True, the reluions between the Viennese Government and the Hungarian people are not the most cordial just a, present. Hungary lias been a constitutional monarchy from its first advent among tbe family of European nations a thousand years ago, and tbe Hungarians are great sticklers for their time-honored constitu tional rights and privileges. But we have no doubt that they will again rally to the support of their sovereign aad the integrity of the Aus trian Empire with all tho impulsiveness and ardor of lormer times, as an equivalent for the tirm re-establishment of their ola form ol govern ment and their local autonomy. It this be panted, and granted lu a manner to win the faith of the Hungarians, and dissipate their innate suspicions ot the value of the promises of kings in need, even the present powerful coali tion against Austria will encjjyithout imperilling her position. But then the principles of reform, so loudly proclaimed bv tho youthful Emperor Francis Joseph at the Congress of Princes at Frankfort, must become his rule of action at home and abroad, or else feiix Austria will b felix no loneer. COAL. J A M E S O ' li R I E N, DEALER IN LEHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL COAL. , BY TUB CAHOO OB SINGLE TOM. Yard, Broad Mrett, below Fitrwater. Has constantly ou Lands competent supply of tbe above superior Coal, sui able ior family use, to which he calls the attention of his friends and the public generally. Orders K it at ho. 205 South Fifth titreet, No. 82 South beventeenth street, or through Despatch or Post Office, promptly attended to. A SUPERIOR QUALITY OF BLACKSMITHS' COAL. ' ' 1 7 6 . 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