12 PUBLISHED RVRRV A PTRRNOON frDTtXCFPTRD), A1 TBI KVrMWG 1 ELI.GHAFII BCILDISQ, Ho. 108 8. Third Street. rrlce. Three I"r ropy (Double Fhect), or flkbttrn t'enu Per Week , pajaolo to the Carrier and nailed to Buhrcrlben eut of the city at Kino Dollan rer Annum t One Collar and Fifty renta for Two MoD'.ha, Inrarlablj In adrance for the period ordered SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1806. SUPPLEMENT. Wont ol Decency Is Want of Sense." Most of our readers have probably seen Mr. Charles Reade'? letter to the world In general, in reply to a criticism on his "Griffith Gaunt" which appeared In the New York Bound Table. In that wonderful epistle we hare exhibited how a man of talent, education, and literary culture can so far lose his tem per as to descend into the lowest pit of scur rility, and revel in epithets which might have done honor to a fishmonger of Bil lingsgate. We have seldom read a letter more calculated to depress us in our estimation of literature and literary men than the one before us. It can have but one good eflect to show how supremely silly a man looks when he commits his ebullitions of passion to paper. A man who has lost his temper Is always at a disadvantage. Ilia op ponent, if he keeps cool, can always defeat him. But in a personal rencontre there is a possibility of passion preventing passion, or of violence cowering the adversary. When he 0ies a letter, these chances in his favor are no longer good. lie confronts a number of cool critics, each of whom has no cause to be indignant, and on whom no influence of fear can operate. His passion seethes and boils, and almost turns his mind, while his audi ora are all cool and collected. Under just such a disadvantage has Mr. Reade unfortunately placed himself. We do not pretend to consider here what are the merits or demerits of "Griffith Gaunt." We opine that the criticism of the Round Table, al though rather too severe, was in the main just; that the book is Immoral, and a con demnation of it is merited . But even were the attack most just, would that excuse a writer of Mr. Reade's fame in so far demean ng himself and his profession as to call the editor of a weekly magazine " a beast t" Yet his is what Mr. Reade does in distinct hrasea. He demands, " What can this benst mean V Now this is really too bad. In addition to the disgusting language ined by Mr. Reade, his whole letter is the most illy exhibition of vanity that we have ever been called upon to read. We make no ex ceptions. A school girl just from a diet of elate pencils could not be more vain of her curls and her poetry thaa is this man of forty ol his reputation. To properly appreciate one's own influence is alj very well, and it is only right that a man should have a due esti mate of his own powers. But an exhibition so thoroughly childish as that ma le by Mr. Reade makes us blush tor our profession and sex. He originates a name which, he says, "will supply a defect in our language," and which, "iu a few weeks, will run around the Union." He calls "Griffith Gaunt? bis "mas terpiece," and states that "it has for months floated the Argosy," and "been eagerly read by .thousands in the Atlantic." Now, this may all be true, but for the author to say so is positively disgusting. Mr. Reade tells us that he intends to "col lar" the editor of the Bound Table and try him before a jury of hi-i countrymen. That the editor ot the Bound Table richly de serves collaring, we have no doubt ; but lor the article tor which the punishment is to be inflicted, he deserves anything but chastise ment lie only expressed the views of thou sands of moral people, and he only expressed our vie vs. If we remember correctly, we stated several weeks before the Bound Table that "Griffith Gaunt" was not fit for house hold reading. Possibly we may be collared also. Mr. Reade will find by sad experience that to fling dirt at an enemy is no way to excite sympathy. Had he come in a manly, modest letter, and appealed to the right-thinking portion of our community Against any supposed grievance, he would have received attention, and, if injustice was done, reparation. As it Is, he has only estranged All the decent portion of the reading Ameri can world from him, and made them think that he is personally a man well fitted to write "Griffith Gaunt." When the case is brought for trial we will see some rich deve lopments; but Mr. Reade will find that "want of decency is want of sense," and that the American people demand from all who ad dress them both sense and decency. The Bound Table concludes its reply this week as follows : "And so, in the course of our labors, it has become our duty, in honesty and sincerity, to warn tbe reading public against a wicked, im pure, and pernicious novel. The author has finally and fully witnessed tbe truth of our as sertions by an inexpressibly disgusting letter. Many I eel now that which they may have been in doubt about before, that, as a novelist, Mr. Iteade has richly deserved all that has been spoken of him in these columns. Hereafter he will be watched most closely, while those who esteemed him for many things rannot but (eel the gieatest regret that any Englishman of his repute should prove himself a rowdy and a bully. It is to be hoped that his suit at law m ill bring to light tome redeeming feature on its behalf." . A country correspondent of the Pa l Mall Oazt 9 tells about a groom in his neighbor hood who always stipulated with his em ployer that he should be allowed a fortnight a year to stay drunk in a week at Christmas and a week at Whitsuntide. Every third year he got himself dUmlsied by getting drunk at a unauthorized time. E ..DjiygjyGJgEtfl Woman n a CongreaMonnl Cnndidnte. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady bTAvrow, a lady not unknown to the public, has announced herself ts an Independent candidate for Con gress in the Eighth New York District, In opposition to James Brooks. The Ucrald grows merry over the fact, and says : "Mr. James Brooks ts to be opposed, in the Lieht District, by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and is sure to be beaten. Besides the fact that an intelligent, handsome, and educated laly like Mis. Stanton is a far better representative ol this metropolis than an old woman like Mr Brooks, we have yet to see an American wb would be tinga'laut cnoueh to vote against th fair sex; and we consequently consider tbe Hon Mrs. Elizabeth Gnd.y SiantoD, M. C, a futur certainty. If sbe cannot teach our other mem hers of Congrcus to ttlk less, she can at least chow them how to talk better." Another thing In Mrs. Stanton's favor with the Democracy, is that she announces herself as a free trader, politically, while Brooks used to be a Whig, and may, therefore, be liable to a suspicion of unsoundness on the tariff question. Cold Comfoit. The Democrats aie vainly endeavoring to extract some corsolation from the recent returns. They are welcome to all they can get. Our majorities are large enough In every State for all practical purposes, while on the vital question of Congress ' our triumph is overwhelming. The November elections ill all be one way. The Democracy cannot make as hard a fight anywhere else as they did here. The leal contest was settled last Tuesday. Mr. Septimus Tennyson, a brother of the Laureate, died on tbe 7tb of September at Chel tenham. Like other members of his family, he wrote poetry, or verse. "We know," says the Header, "he had written much, but, with the exception of two or three sonnets contributed by him to the clever 'revived, Literary Qazettv, which perished after eight or nine number, and two or three pieces in amateur publications, we are not acquainted with anything he has printed. lie was a gentle, trusting, lovable man, and all who knew him knew his great woith, and will lament his loss." Dr. Ilo'mcs, who wrote a poem or. more strictly speaking, a copy of verses which As sistant Secretary Fox, if that be the official title of the gentleman, lead or presented to the Emperor of Russia, is making a sensation in 8t. Petersburg, where his verses were published as by Oliver Vendel (Jolroi ! Mr. Edmund Yates, at the last accounts, was at Braero.Hr, the seat of the Earl of Fife. His new novel, "Black Sheep," promises to bo widely read in this country, the New York Albion and Every Saturday reprinting it in inbtalnients. Mr. William Gilmore Simms, of South Caro lina, U in this city, correcting the proofs of his collectionof "Southern War Poems," which will soon be published by Mr. C. B. Richardson. Mr. John R. Thompson, formerly the editor of 2he Southern Literary Messenger, and more recently a man of letters in London, is about to return to this country, after an absence of several year3. Mr. Bayard Taylor contemplates lecturing again, we hear, during a portion ot the fall and winter. The Emperor Napoleon will, it is said, com mence the "Life of Charlemagne" on the com pletion of his "Life of Caesar." Mr. Wilkie Collin-", who is reported to be threatened with consumption, is travelling iu the South of Europe tor his health. Mr. Thomas Carlyle is running the gaunt let of the press in England and this country, on account of h!s recent letter in which he defends Governor Eyre, of Jamaica. M. Dentu is paid to have paid one hundred thousand dollars for the privilege of publishing the ' Exhibition Catalogue." Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., who has just returned from a visit to Europe, has resigned hi oflicefof United Stales District Attorney for Massachusetts. The health of Dr. John Brown is said to be so much improved that he is about to resume his professional duties. Major W. T. Thompson, author of "Major Jones' Courtship," has become one of the editors of Ihe Savannah News and Herald. Mr. Charles Maclaren, formerly editor and proprietor of the Scotsman, died recently at his residence, Moreland Cottage, Grange. M. Jules Jnuin, the feuilletonist, has recently published a new novel, entitled "Le Talis man." M. de Came, member of the French Aca d? my, is writing a history of Brittany. M. Prevost Paradol 1b about to publish a treatise on "Democracy and Liberty." It is poli tical, of course. M. Vietorien Sardou has written a new play, entitled JSos Bon Vl'lageois, which is soon to be produced at the Gymnase. The Faculty of Yale College have begun the year by establishing some new rules of a very commendable character. Students are for bidden to sit on the lence on the corner of College and Chapel streets, under penalty of receiving a certain number of marks, and they are also forbidden to collect on the same corner in a crowd of three or more. The custom of initiation is, it seems, also to be done away. Two women of the town attempted suicide in Boston on Monday by drowning. Maria Cavanaugh and nannah McLaughlin were were their names. After jumping iuto the water together, the spirit of the woman Cava naugh tailed her, and bho screamed for help. Some sailors put off from a vessel lying near, and rescued Cavanaugh, but the other stub bornly kept her nead under the water until she was too far gone to be resuscitated. A letter from Sante Fe in the Monieur states that General Mosquera, President of the republic of Colombia, has made that state a present of a magnificent statue of Christopher Columbus, which the Congress has decided shall be placed in tbe principal square of the port of Colon. The following verses of Seneca will appear on one face of tbe pedestal: "Yenlent annis secula serls, Quicus Oceanus vincular eram Latet, et Ingens pateat tellus, Tetbysque novos deteuat orbes Nec sit terrls ultima Thule." A man in Louisville whoj found out last week that he had been cuckolded, instead of making an unpleasant row, took his two chil dren and furniture and changed his boarding place. PRETTY ACTRE3SES. The classic taste for bHrlesque which has been so sedulously cultivated, has given rise to a set of performers who can lay claim to being original and primitive upon more ground than one. That the species always existed we have Mifficlent evidence, but it developments take so strong and decided a part In the modern shape, that, except in wide lines, we cannot assume that the parent is altogether represented by the offspring. There are, ot couro, points of icsemblance, but they are few, and not at all of a character to be particularized. Some of them we may touch upon, but others do not admit of disquisition. Without recalling the "palmy days of the drama" to give an authority to the opinion, we are Inclined io believe that tlere never was a time in the history of the stage w hen our actresses exposed themselves so much bejond the degree required for the honest purposes of their art as, the present. Tbe female gentlemen of our burlesques dla play themselves in a tashlon which Indicates the level to which the profession has fallen, and the manner in which their saucy altitudes are ap plauded serves to bhow that they have indeed succeeded in making the taate by whloh they are enjoyed. When a famous French novelist. habitually dressed in a coat and trousers, it was said of her that the disguise would havo been complete if 6he had only been a little more modest; and when a young lady now struts her plantation dr.nce, wriggles the jockey step, or flings the sailor's hornpipe, one Is tempted to indulge in the reflection that the representa tions would be the more perfect for abiut as much reserve as would render them decent. It is not much for us to boant that our dialogues are free from the brutalities of Wycherlyor V'anbriigh, if we supplement street music with gestures systematically unchaste, and encourage women as undraped as acrobats to illustrate by their deportment quite as much immodesty as would season a comedy of the old school. The costumes worn by actresses in our bur lesques are evidently designed without the least affectation even of coquetry. The singing chambermaid, with her apron and front pockets, moves in a legitimate circle of influence; her nods and walk are fair business; she uses a woman's grace to enlist our sympathies in her part, and perhaps slightly in her own prettlness; but it is quite another matter when the wears ber pockets differently, whn there is nothing for tbe sex to lelire Into, and when with an im" pudent daring she upsets at a strut every notion we might have had of that feminine sense which ought to distinguish a lady. It Is a bad feature in the pretty actrcPs, too, that in mauy cases, not only does she look to the gallery for ap plause, but she may oceasbnally bo detected ogling a side box in which the occupant is carefully retired. We are not tbe least concernel for the special repute of actresses; they have quite enough of advocates in the pns. Thi critics hve ex hausted the epithets of praise upon them. Funny writers are funnily complimentary; writers the reverse of comic are solemnly tender with them lugubriously affectionate. What the amount ot virtue amongst them mny be we have no way of determining, and a great deal of private virtue is quite compatible wiih the degraded vici jusness of a branch of art; still the actresses are, beyond a doubt, spoiled into a style of exhibition which places them on the very confines which divide the pure from the Impure; and if ihey cheese to play tliere, it can do them no har ax to learn the exact posi tion they have been induced to assume. It is possible we may be reminded of the "Garter" motto, but there is little faith nowa days In the guilelessuess of White Quakers, or in the flimsy reasons behind which any other form of Imprudence disrobes. Stage Dianas may regard their Greek and natural integu menta as quite consistent with the accepted reputation of the goddess, aud m doing so may loop up a single garment until It as nearly as possible defeats the object of a garment faltogether; but they must be prepared to have a second interpretation placed upon the mode in which the cold divinity is personiUed. We have seen a feminine Apollo within a few inches of being Belvidere, and a female Jupiter who could, with a Blight change, have appeared as Menken. In fact, heathendom histrionically sets its face and legs against the innovation of cloth ing to within a tunic such as Mrs. Leo Hunter proposed to adopt, and such as Mr. Leo Hunter incontinently objected to. Even this tunic is being curtailed, and is following the wake of the bonnet of ordinary life. When the nor demands a long gown, the Invariable rule now followed in such a distressing case of ob structed talent, is to have the gown tucked to the knee at one side at least, and the strate geras by which that side is kept to wards the audience proves how genius, even when tram melled, is able to take advantage of any little change for the employment of its choicest ac complishment?. But it is not on the staee alone that our pretty actresses figure so attractively. Oolley Cibber regretted the exigency of the dramatic calling by which the instant graces of the player were lost to the world; but he knew nothing of photography, or of the camera sort of graces which the lady performers of our time are secure of Transmitting to posterity. You may buy thelrportraits exactly as you have seen them perfoim. If there is a slight differ ence, tbe difference gives you the benent of more than you noticed behiud the footlights. The pretty actresses are fast driving the pets' of the bullet to a desperate rivalry of atti tudes. In truth, they havo already done as much for the carte shops as English dancers and it is only the Frenchwomen who can boat them on their own ground, and, we must admit, give them odds. Nor are you left in the dark, having paid your shilling, as to the Identity ot the lady whose picture you may purchase. Not only do you get her name, bat you are presented with the familiar diminutive by which she chooses to be set down in the bills. Our pretty actresses desire to linger in the memory ot the swell, the cad, the snob, nd tbe gent by those mincing names which denote cordiality and acquaintance. Once or twice a year an opportunity is taken 01 rendering this cordiality almost intimate; for the swell, the cad, the enob, and the gent are invited to a bazaar, and at a small outlay can speakwith the deities. and 8tare at tJm t0 their eyes content. 8o that there isnoretl cence whatever on the part of the pretty ao treses. Easy on the stage, free and easy l the SATURDAY", OCTOBER 13, cartes, literal In their fascinations at special fetes, we cannot determine whore this gene rosity will ceao. We shall not Imitate Matthew Prynne, and hint that the rinderpest or the cholera are judgments for the airiness and viva city ot those theatrical ladies, nor do we think any worse will come of their vulgarlzfn a noble prolesslon than the fact itself of their debasing It; but the public will discover this in time, and the genuine artists will get to the fiont. Women are by their nature fitted for thestagc; but they are best fitted for it as women, not as improbable boys, or other questionable nonde scriptsv Female beauty, archness, and mobility can all be diverted into decorous and amusing channels, without being pressod Into competi tion with that Impudence whose professional fiponents had once a gallory get apart In our playhouses. We perhaps owe all this to the In troduction of spectacle; but there is a sort of crave for It now which mut be regarded from every point of view as deplorab.e. The prac tice is imitated in a clumsier style at certain music halls, and no enleitainment in Loudon appears to be complete without whole troopsor young glr?s who cannot be Intended for any thing but exhibition, Inasmuch as they have no idea whatever of dancing. Tbe Idiotic gambols In which they keep time to the music are pain ful to witness. A thlck-ankled Tagllonl flouncing heavily twice, and then, with immense and evident cxeition, sustaining herself on one leg; or a would-be Cerito coming out with a flip-flap and a course of hops, and then running away with the grace of a Cochin-China fowl such is the etyle of a modern ballet as encouraged at the singing taverns. The partners who engage in figures with these brilliant performers are got up like our pretty aciressas, aud never venture a jacket longer than that of a coastguard man. However, they are unable, in consequence of the law, to become quite as Olympian as the latter. Their diversions are limited to dumb show, but they make the most of the opportuni ties within their reach. It is really a pity to prevent them from emphasizing their sportlve ness with tbe slang choruses and dialogues of the burlesque. As far as Intellect, refinement, or decency is concerned, there is no distinction between what they do and what the pretty actresses do. 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