2 THE NEW YORK PRESS. EDITORIAL OPTHIOWS OF THE LKAIHWO JOtTRHAUS BPOH CCKB"T TOPICS COMPILED XTBBT PAT FOB TBS BVBMMO TBT.KflBAPH. JBelshaziar la Pari. Vxm Tie IVfoun If we may trust the glowing account that has been brought us by the Cable of the cere mony at the distribution of prizes at the Paris Exposition by tLe French Kmperor, few . more splendid pageants can have been wit nessed by the present generation. Seventy-one thousand people assembled in the great cen tral hall of the building, crowded every pas sage of. approach) and loaded every balcony, and' the surge of an (Ocean of outsiders beat for long hour3 against the walls of the Im perial gasometer. When the magnM cent procession, with its high-stepping horses, its cUded carriages, its mounted soldiery, its penerals in uniform, its ladies arrayed like the lilies of the field, and Solomon to boot, its princes and potentates, had reached the Hall of Ceremony, it would seem that everything this earth has of luxury and grandeur was centred in that single spot. High on a throne of royal state, which far outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, the Emperor exalted sat. On one side was the Empress in white satin and silver laoe, with pearls and diamonds about her throat, and one great gem that told her beats of heart in flashes of an imperial ray. On the other sat Haroun al Raschid, or what is Id ft of him, and about the skirts of these three lights of empire there gathered a crowd of princes, princelings, nobles, dignitaries, statesmen, officials, lackeys, and so on, till, at a vast remove, one began to feel the existence of the swarming people of Paris and the world. And while the eye tdok in this mani fold spectacle, there burst into sound the hitherto dumb, expectant instruments of the band of twelve hundred musicians a wonder ful embroidery of flute and violin and harp and trumpet on a background of rolling organ harmony, fringed with the jangling musio of joy-bells. Then, when silence fell again, the Emperor stood up in his high place, and made a speech, so pure and good and wise that one marvels as he reads it whether the old legends may not be true that tell us how a man's own spirit was Bometimes rapt out of his body, for a season, while an angel or a demon took the vacant place, and blessed or cursed out of the unaccustomed lips. One curious incident that occurred just at this moment the Cable, doubtless for fear of injuring the harmony of the narrative, omits to mention. When Mr. Hughes, the inventor of the printing telegraph, was called up to receive his prize, the Emperor took his hand, making him an exception to all the other re cipients of medals. Mr. Hughes, as he touched the Imperial finger, slipped into the august palm of his Serene Highness a little bit of paper containing the last message received by the Cable and printed by the machine for which he was just being decorated. It con tained these words: "Maximilian is shot. Bis last words were, 'Poor Carlottal'" His Royal Serenity read the telegram, and imme diately gave evidence of a fearful agitation. His cheek blanched, his hands trembled, and the diamonds on the Imperial garter quivered Bo in the sunlight that a shout arose from the admiring multitude. What the Emperor thought is, of course, not to be exactly known. But we may conjecture that he heard over all the shouts and music, above the booming of guns and the salvos of artillery, the single shot that was death to his insane ambition as to his deluded dupe, the single cry as of a woman -young, beautiful, and good answer ing to the last cry of her young husband 'Poor Carlotta 1 " ' 'Poor Maximili an 1 " Where, in all this tumult of rejoicing, this whirl of splendor, this pomp of luxury, were the victims of Lis crafty and wicked lust of power t For the reBt of his life he drags the bodies of these dead about with him. Wher ever he goes that pale face shall look at him as from out the cell where, in madness and ntterest desolation, she ia to drag out the rem nant of life. When he looks into the faoe, still comely, of that wife of his, he shall see, not her eyes, but another's, full of reproach too bitter and too silent to bear. He shall live; but, hard heart, dull conscience, low mind that he has the heart shall feel, and the conscience shall prick, and the mind shall know that these victims are with him to the end. That shot he shall forever hear, and that cry. His judgment day is come, and all the pomp and splendor that he can gather about him shall not avail to hide him from himself. . The; Fate of Maximilian. From the Independent. Maximilian has been shot by order of the Mexican Government. . What shall we say of the justice or injustice of this act f Ever and everywhere we are opposed to capital punishment, whether for high crimes or low, whether upon small offenders or great. We hold with Jeremy Bentham that "the worst use you can put a man to is to hang him." We desire the universal abolition of the scaffold the universal interdiction of the death penalty. In some of the States of the American Union a better system of public punishment prevails; we hope to see it prevail in all. The hangman's rope is not an instru ment of civilization; it is a relic of barbarism. Twelve soldiers shooting at a man's bare breast in a prison-yard is not a spectacle agreeable to Christianity. Let States and nations, as soon as possible, have done with all these ghastly acts of death. But, meanwhile, it is a solemn faot that the death penalty, either by hanging or by shoot ing, is the common mode, practised by the civilied world, of punishing the perpetrators of capital crimes, The death penalty is the prevailing law in the United States and in Mexioo. This being the case, on what criminals shall this law be executed f Shall obscure culprits taste the bitterness of a bitter fate, and illustrious offenders go free ? Shall a great nation, in uHnir out the punishment of death, say to all the world, "The murderer of a man shall be hung, but tne assassin oi a uuuu auau uo The two greatest criminals of the nineteenth century have been Jefferson Davis and Maxi milian. The one was euilty of treason against his own country; the other, of usurpation over an alien people. If it ia ever Justiflable to puuliih any criminal with death, the American 7i.ariimnt miE-ht to have executed Jefferson Pavis, as the Mexican Government has executed if.vi.niiiiin. Th onlv vindication possible to the American Government for its release of Jefferson Davis is a consistent yu-uc v vj mo i .n.ant in futnre. of non-punhthment of any and all criminals by death. The escape of Jefferson Davis ought, ipso facto, to abolish the death penalty for ever irom wis iw-puimu. gince the greatest of American criminals has cone free, then hereafter, while time shall last, let no other and lefisar wretch ever suffer death. We deprecate in Mexioo, as in America, the taking of life by the State. We believe that, morally considered, no Government on earth has a right to stretch a man's neck from a cross-beam, or to shoot at his heart in a pub lio square. But such being the law of Mexioo, if any man under it has ever proved liimaelf entitled to feel its edge, that man was Maxi milian. If tho Mexicans were ever justified in hanging or shooting any criminal, they are Justified in the execution of Maximilian, JNot a villain lying in any dungeon in Vera Cruz, for whom the law's halter is now waiting, could ever be justly hung in Mexioo if Maxi milian had been pardoned. This ambitious foreigner was, no doubt, an accomplished and amiable gentleman, but he was not shot for being a gentleman; he was shot for being "a brigand, a filibuster, a pirate, a usurper, a despot. He was an alien who entered Mexico with an Invading army, and sought therewith to overturn the Mexican republic, and on its ruins to erect an empire. The crime which he committed against Mexioo was just as heinous as if he had attempted it against the United States or Canada. We admit that if his villany had been perpetrated against our own Government, he would pro bably have been bailed; but if it had been against Canada, he would probably have been blown, like a Sepoy, from the mouth of a gun. If General Washington had any right to hang Major Andre, the Mexican Government had ten thousand times more right to shoot Maximilian. The crack of the twelve rifles which uttered this Austrian's death-warrant, and which we hope has forever put an end to "the divine right of kings" on this continent, is a needful E reclamation to the Old World that crowned eads are intruders on North American soil; and that foreign bayonets, pointed against a North American people, shall be thrust back into the bosoms of those who bear them hither. The army of Maximilian deserved defeat, and its leader deserved death. "Sic semper tyrannis I" Paris, Pesth, and Rome, From the Timet. The varied drama of European affairs has of late borrowed an element of excitement in a brilliant succession of ceremonials which recall the pomp and splendor of those distant days when monarchs and rulers attempted to win the hearts of their subjects by gorgeous shows and processions. Last year, at this very time, kingdoms and principalities were being oblite rated from the map, the roar of cannon was echoing through the Continent, the life-blood was being drained from the House of Haps burg, and men's minds were everywhere filled Vith disquietude and misgiving. Even within a few weeks past war seemed almost inevi table. The dispute over an insignificant for tress revived the long-standing feud between Prussia and France, and the exasperation on both sides was so great that a reconciliation appeared the most improbable event that could happen. But the pacifio exhortations of England were successful, and the Luxem bourg difficulty passed away for the time. And now the King of Prussia, the believer in that doctrine of the divine right of kings which brought one monarch to the scaffold, has been etea in tne capital ot the ruler whose armies he had all but called into the field. The Minis ter who defied Napoleon, and has succeeded in bringing his country to a pitch of glory and power undreampt of before, has been an hon ored guest at the Tuilerles and Fontainebleau. The Czar of Russia, whose father died of a broken heart on aocount of his reverses, and whose vast empire was temporarily exhausted to provide the means of coping with the forces of England and France, has still the acclama tions of the French people, almost the tradi tional enemies of his country, ringing in his ears. Moscow and Sebastopol have alike been hidden behind the draperies of a huge fair. According to Buckle, the proper understanding of the regularity of nature destroys the doc trine of chance, and replaces it by that of 'necessary connection." But it would have baffled the philosoper to reveal to us the action of this law in the strange mutations which have linked the houses of Romanoff and Napo leon in friendship, and brought the descen dant of Selim III under the roof of the nephew of the ambitious ruler who endeavored to make Egypt a provinoe of France, and who put to rout its adherents under the very shadow of the pyramids. Napoleon the Third understands better than any other living man the effect of these dis-. plays upon the minds of the French people, lie, the shrewdest monarch of modern times, imitates the devices of the most astute Prince of the Carlovingian dynasty. If he puts a gag upon the mouth of his people, he graciously permits them to open their eyes, and amuses them with gratuitous exhibitions of living Emperors and Princes, all bent upon paying "homage" to France. Thought and speech are interdicted, but the Parisian mind is assumed to find a recompense in the kind of entertainment which is usually effective with children. All Napoleon's ingenuity, however, in arranging shows, fails in rivalling the august and Imposing ceremonials which the Papacy still, on rare occasions, presents to the world. The temporal majesty of the Pontiff may have been diminished, but in his spiritual kingdom he still exercises a sway which is great beyond all conception and calculation, and which extends year after year, not withstanding the ceaseless assaults of ene mies. In that illustrious and stately assem blage which has met in the capital of the CVsars, there must have been lew whose hearts did not beat high with pride at the thought that the Papacy alone of earthly sys tems brings down to the present day an un changed record a record which has known no substantial variation, and an authority which is acknowledged and venerated over the four quarters of the world. "She saw," said Lord Macaulay of the Papacy, "the commencement oi all the Governments and of all the ecclesi astical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all." To this country Pius IX must turn his eyes with exultation and gratitude. Contributions bo profuse that they might have satisfied the wants of the most frivolous of his predeces sors in the Pontifical Chair, Paul II, have been poured into his exchequer, unasked, by a bolics of America. In the love aud fidelity of his children in the New World he may forget the ingratitude of his "eldest son, and nnd consolation for the coldness of i ?. Uly 11 is impossible that the attached followers 0f the Church who recently gathered round the Sovereign Pontiff should not respect his many noble qualities. In the troubles which have 1 him from 1848 until now, he has always demeand himself with invincible courage and exalted piety. He has done nothing to bring the Chair of Bt Peter into contempt as one of his predecessors did when he gave a Cardinal', hat to the keeper of his monkey. The Pope will not onlv de rive fresh encouragement from the marks of enoourogement which he has received but he will be stimulated to make renewed efforts to restore harmony to the Church. The display at Rome is thus likely to leave more lasting coiiHeqtiences behind than that of Paris, which dons little more than amuse the idlers of the universe, and fill the pockets of the shopkeepers. In the midst of these events a mingled tissue of good and evil fortune has fallen to the lot of Austria. One year ago she stood before the world a broken It would not h.-tve seemed too much to say a ruined Power. Hie had borne up strenuously against blow after blow, but the last stroke of Prussia was almost fatal. The disasler of Sadowa appeared to be the death-kntll of the Empire. But when the p park of vitality is at its lowest in nations or in individuals, it often suddenly revives and burns into a brighter glare than ever. Month after month the internal condition of Austria has flourished more and more under the Judi cious hand of a Minister as wise, if not so ambitious as Bismark. The better days of promise are dawning over tho land. The costly strife with Hungary is at an end, and the ancient crown of the kingdom has been placed upon the head of Francis' Joseph at Pesth, not merely with the approval, but with the joy and delight of the people. The Em peror is liberally disposed, and he will be warned by the past to remember that oppres sion recoils ultimately upon the oppressor himself. All might be hopeful at Vienna but for that sad series of domestio calamities which have brought affliction and desolation to the Palace of the Kaisers. The Princess Matilda died, under the most frightful and heartrending circumstances, a few weeks ago. The Prince Maximilian, f Tours and Taxis, a near connection of the Empress, soon followed her to the grave. The dark shade of madness rests over the castle at Miramar, and now, like the messengers of woe who presented them selves before Job, comes the tidings of the crime at Querutaro, which shocks the whole civilized world. . To the hands of the Emperor of the French Francis Joseph owes his most irreparable losses, but it would be impossible for us to realize the indignation and horror whlcn to-day prevail- throughout Austria and throughout Europe at the barbarism whioh has consigned Maximilian to an unknown grave. The people believed, as Maximilian himself did, that the Mexicans themselves wished him to become their ruler, and twice they sent eager deputations to him at Mira mar, where his wife, the unfortunate Em- press Carlotta, now lies insane, urging him to come and rule over them. We need not retrace the melancholy history. The American people are averse to the establish ment of a monarchy on this continent, but it is impossible that they should sanction one of the foulest and roost inexcusable murders which stains the annals of even savage nations. "Poor Carlotta !' From the Herald. 'Toor Carlotta 1" Maximilian was shot faced to the front. His last words were "Poor Carlottal" How tender and touching is this convincing illustration of the manly and gene rous nature of the fallen Emperor I Abandoned by France, betrayed by a Moxioan follower, tried by a military tribunal of his implaoable enemies, condemned to death, and brought out for execution, all interpositions in his behalf from the representatives of foreign powers having failed, this distinguished victim of Napoleon's "grand idea" would have been justified had he devoted his last moments in denouncing the contrivers of his destruction, and the barbarians thirsting for his blood, and in deploring his untimely lall, in the strength of his manhood and his hopes. But Maximilian was a man of larger breadth of mind and heroism than this. He had deliberately cast his life into the scales 'in defense of his em- Eire, he had pledged his word in the name of is imperial house at Hapsburg to fight it out with his enemies, and, like a true soldier, he was prepared for this last disaster. He recog nized his fate as resulting from the fortunes of war, and had neither denunciations nor regrets on his own account to make. . Like the dying gladiator at Rome: "He reck'd not of his life, nor of the prize, His heart was home, and that was faraway." Face to face with his remorseless execu tioners, awaiting but the word to "fire!" all thoughts of his lost empire and his low estate gave way to those endearing memories and sweet affections which had linked his life, his happiness, his fate, and his ambition with "poor Carlotta 1" As to a drowning man numerous events of his past life, running through many years of time, are vividly re produced in a tew fleeting seconds, so to this victim of Mexican vengeance were, no doubt, recalled in the last moments of his earthly ex istence those charming recollections of his young, beautiful, gifted, accomplished and devoted wife, whereby he . had become so fascinated with his Mexican empire, and his hopes of the Mexican people, that he could only relinquish them with his life. "Poor Carlotta 1" Her triumphal journeys, her floral receptions, her welcome charities, her gracious ways, her catholic piety, and her resistless, womanly gentleness among the sus ceptible Mexicans, were all so faithfully de voted to his cause as to develop in him the heroism of the feudal ages. He was her gal lant knight, equipped by her own fair hands for a glorious crusade; she was his queen of love and beauty, to whom his word as a sol dier and his faith as a devotee were pledged. All these thoughts in the presence of the grave, doubtless, recurred to him as the memories of a golden dream, and from these and that other thought, that she. had hope fully braved the dangers of the sea and the doubtful generosity of France in his behalf, only to be repelled in despair, and to be doomed to a living death, came the inspira tion to Maximilian which was expressed in his last expressive words "Poor Carlotta 1" Nor is there in the records of history, as the last words of a dying saint or hero, anything given which appeals so tenderly to our better nature, to all that beautifies and softens the human character, as these dying words of Maxi milian "Poor Carlotta !" Tliey will crown in history this fallen man. However mis guided he was in his ambition or in his acts as a ruler, those two words, with all their impres sive and redeeming associations, will crown him with the flowers of affection and the laurels of the hero. Had he recited and elo quently vindicated every step and every act in his imperial career, he would have failed to reach the eloquent defense embodied in his dying exclamation of " Poor Carlotta 1" To htr they will be the words of restoration or dissolution ; for him they are the wreath of immortality. "Poor Carlottal" i The Gospel of Peace, Illustrated. From the World. "The Empire," said the third Napoleon, after the coup d'etat of December, 1851, "is peace." "France," says the third Napoleon at the great Exposition of 1807, "is laborious and calm." . These are soothing and silvery kinds of things to say. Therefore the French Emperor says thim. . For the bosom of the French Em peror is a fountain of balm. The mouth of the trench Emperor is a valve, whose open sesame is an inherent Impulse of good-will towards all mankind. The third Napoleon is one of the many im perial and royal apostles of peace. William of Prussia is liko unto him iu a "sincere de elre that war i may be continually averted from, the brotherhood of nations." The reli gion of "forbearance and clemency towards all governments and peoples who may chance in the tumult of the times to inadvertently offend the Empire," numbers the Czar of all the Rnsslas among its loftiest priests. We may believe that not a worm ig crushed under the feet of Victoria which is not after wards accorded a Christian burial; and the unnecessary execution ef a single malcon tent in the Empire ot Austria is said to be invariably repented of in an extra bottle ot Hochenheimer by the Kaiser. : The appropriate celebration of such a peace ful and affectionate disposition amoug nations and rulers was inevitable. Ornamental fireworks are very well in their way. But they have not the ring and the vim of musketry. The latter has been chosen to signalize the birth of a new and charmed epoch. A generous rivalry prevails. Each nation, it will be observed, is endeavoring to piocure a kind of musket that will shoot fattest, and thus make the most jubilant noise. Breech-loaders have been discovered to be altogether the superior article for this kind of firing; and more than three hundred descrip tions of these holiday toys have been presented to commissions in France, Austria, and tne United States for inspection. Prussia sticks to the needle- eun. Having employed it in battle, she nobly resolves that it shall signalize her inoffensive calm. England, with an off hand motherly good nature, has taken a Yankee inventor into her confidence, and arranged with him to work over her old En field rifles into sharp, auick shooters. whtoh he has done, and the new weapons are chris tened Snider-Enflelds. France selects the Chassepot rifle as a celebrator, capable of making a glorious racket. The meek Napo leon was delighted with this piece. After a recent trial, in which its qualities were dis played by a battalion of intantry, he is said to have clapped his hands in his childlike and innocent joy. The Remington rifle is high in favor. It has a chance of adoption in Austria and Russia, in view of the approaching jubi lee; and even France, after her decision in favor of the Chassepot, has taken such a liking for the Remington that some few hundreds of the latter are ordered for trial. Then there are the Laidley, the Wesson, the Spencer, the Hammond, and a long list of other inventions K in the way or guns. . - M An.-i... in ri r : .1. ; r it. latest inventions. Commissions from France, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, and Russia have arrived to examine, admire, and select from among them. Ten millions of breech-loaders are required by the emulous European peace-makers! For a long time these will have to be made here or in f-ng land. There are only three places in Eng land where arms are manufactured by ma chinery Birmingham, Enfield, and London In the United States there are from ten to twenty manufactories, involving a capital of twenty millions of dollars. Uur manufactu rers have a splendid opportunity. A saintly mission is prepared for us. To be the medium ot distributing throughout the civilized world millions of instruments, to be placed in the hands of millions of automatons in uniform. and which shall be capable of the several feats of "firing accurately," "firing rapidly," "withstanding rust, dirt, and damp,", "bear ing a heavy charge," "firing for a great period without heating," and enduring generally through all the long, roaring, and fraternal jubilee at hand, is what the late Artemas Ward would appropriately call a sweet boon. Besides, ours is also the happy privilege of joining in the great festival. And it is cheer ing to perceive that the United States Govern ment, and even some of the States on their own account, are encouraging native ingenuity to contrive not only the best original arm, but the best system of altering the Springfield musket, lately used, to this festive end. The Allin, Berdan, and Roberts systems are notice able responses to the latter call. Let us, on the whole, rejoice. We of the Republic have not, it i3 true, yet done with oppression, nor have we yet come into the en joyment of perfect peace. But, consoling our consciences with the sweet assurance that the rest of mankind are simply awaiting the com pletion of several millions of firearms to salute us and all the nations as loving brothers, we may go on chastising our kindred at home and dallying with the hyenas along our Western and Southern borders, until the coming of that day when the reckoning shall be made, when the forging shall be finished, and when the world-wide tumult in which we will be called upon to join, shall be begun. INSTRUCTION. BUSINESS COLLEGE, V. K. CORKER FIFTH AND CHE NUT KTS Established Nov. 1. 1861, Chartered March 14, Uti&j BOOK-KEEPINe. Course of Instruction unequalled, consisting of prac tical methods actually employed In leading houses t this and other elites, as Illustrated In Fairbanks' Hook-keeping, which is the text-book ot this lunula tlon.. OTIIFR RRANCTIES. Telegraphing, Cammerclal Calculations, Business and Ornamental Writing, the Higher Mathematics. 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The proprietors of the North Amerloaa Cilit Concert, advertised to lake place at lb VV tbunli avenue Kink, Chicago, III., and poHiponed, have the pleasure to announce that It will lake place at Cooper luhtiiute, Hew York, by the earuest request ot tueu snnOs ol subscribers in the Middle and .Eastern States, where a large snare of our tickets have beeu sold, and mat a series ol Concerts will be given, to be lollowed In mpld succession. 1 he delay in Its completion has been unavoidable, nolwItLBiaudlna- the sale ol tickets has been Im mense and without a parallel on tlilsuoniinent. Under auy circumstances tne tjoucert win now ue given as above stated. 600.010 VALUABLE GIFTS, VALUED AT FIVK UXMKJtlJ -lllOUMAJNJJ HUL,LAU.-, WiLIj UK l"lllj.bKM fc.D iO TICKKT-HOLJUKItd. USCLUi 1JSO tloU.OiM) JN ORKKNUACK6. or fifteen years we have beeu engaged In business, and we point with pride to the reputation we have won for honesty aud Impg-rlty. 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'I Ickets sold for Concert to take place at Wa bash Avenue Kluk, Chicago, Illinois, are good (or this Concert al cooper institute, xew xoriciiiy. a urexent elven with every concert ticket. 1 Gift in Ureeu backs...!..... ..430,r00 1 do do - .- 10,000 1 do do o.oof 1 dO dO 4,001 1 do do 8,oo( 1 do do 2,ooi 20 do do f low) each...... .. 20,001 fcO do do (jo each ...... lo.oo ItHO Gifts in Greenbacks, amounting to 16,001 1 Gift Hesldence In Chicago .. 5,0 H O Gold Watches, amounting to So.ool 400 Sliver Watches, amouniiug to m.oot And tbe balance, comprising iianoa, Melodeons, and other Gifts, amounting to U....M...321,001 Making Sou.OOu Gilts. A committee to be chosen by ticket holders at the first Concert will promptly distribute tbe presents, one to every concert liuket holder, and fnelr report will be published iu "Keliey'a Weekly," with portrait and biographical sketch of tbe persons receiving thi thirty largest Kilts, and be sent to ail ticket holders al once. Hie tickets from our numerous agents navlnf beeu gathered lu, persims disappointed lu ;belng una ble al our principal oillce to obtain tickets, can now be iuppiied, as long as they last, by addressing us al Mo. ti Broadway, Mew York. Tickets will ne seul promptly by mall, on receipt of price and stamp loi reiuiu postage. We will send 8 tickets for 1450; 10 for 49-00; and 20 forfl7'n. bend the name of each subscriber, ana their to-.l Office address, and town aud tilaie. Money by lra'l, Post UUlce Order, ix press, or In Kegistered Letters, may be sent at our risk. Address all com municatlousto A. A. K ELLIS Y A CO., 0 2tll4t No. 691 BKOADWAY. New York. H OKTICDLTUEA.L HALL, BROAD STREET, neiow jAicust. MONDAY EVENING, July 8, 1867, GBANU CONCailT for the BENEFIT oi the ' J.AMILJKS OF THE FIREMEN Who Perished at tne Late Cuullagrallon. Tendered by the members ui the ATHLKTIC GLKE ASSOCIATION, Assisted by tne Alembersof the HAKDFL & HA YDN bOCI ETY. MENUKLKSOHN (SOCIETY, YOUNG MENNEKCHORBOCIETY, KUIKKPK GLEE ASSOCIATION, LIBERTY' BILVEll CORNET BAND, No. 1. The following Artists have also kindly volunteered then valuable services, and will positively appear ou this occasion: Mrs. J. BCHIMPF, Miss G. BLACKHURNE. Miss II. ALEXANLElt, Mr. CARL bENTZ, Mr. JEAN LOUIS, Mr. J. CMHTEAO, Prolessor McCLURQ, Mr. It. M. BOLES, Mr. X. IBANK. PARIS. CONDUCTOR, MR, H. H. KOSKWIO. l-IANIHT. MR. THOMAS A'BECKET. TICKETS OP ADMISSION, 60 CENTS. No Reserved beats. Tickets can be bad at Trumpler's, 8, E. corner Seventh and Cbesnut streets; Smith's Music store, Eighth street, above Cherry; aud at the Hall on the night ol the Concert. 7 t MKS. JOHN DREW'S ARCH STREET THEATRE. Begins at 8 o'clock. LAST DAY ANI NIGHT OK SEASON. Saturday, July II, 1&I17. 71st aud 72d Appearance of G. L. FOX and TROUPE, This Allernoon al 2 o'clock. 50th TIM EOF JACK AND GILL, 4th TIME OF GOING TO THE RACES, By G. L. FOX and TROUPE. TO NIGHT. SATURDAY, AT 8 O'CLOCK, GOING TO THE RACES, and (1st aud LAST TIME of jack and gill. 72d AND LAST APPEA KATfCK OF G. L. FOX AND TROUPE. BIERSTADT'8 LAST GREAT PAINTING, THE DOMES OF THE GREAT YO-bEMITE, now ou exhibition, DAY AND EVENING, In the Southeast Gallery of the ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. 5lf HOI FOR SMITH'S ISLAND! FRESH AIR -BEAUTIFUL SCENERY HEALTHFUL EX ERClsE THE BATH ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BEbT KIND. MRS. MARY LAKEMKYEB respectfully Informs her irlends aud thepubllo gene rally, that she will opeu the beautiful Inland Pleasure Ground known as BMITH'8 ISLAND, on SUNDAY next, Mays. She invites all to come and enjoy with her the delights of this favorite sum mer resort. 4 oU BILLIARD ROOMS. BIRD. BIRD. BIRD. Alter several months' preparation, Mr. C. BIRD bus opened his new aud spacious establishment for the entertainment of his irlends, aud the public ha general, at Nos. 605 and B"7 ARCH Street. The Urn I and second Honrs are fitted up as Billiard Rooms, aud furnished with twelve first-class tables, while the appurtenances aud adoruu.euls comprise everything which can yenduoe to the comfort and convenience of tbe players. In the basement are luiir new and splendid Bowling Alleys, for those who wish to develoj e their muscle lq anticipation of the base-ball season. A Restaurant la attached, where everything lu tbe edible line can be had oi Hie bust quality, and at the shuriesl notice. The following well-kiiowu gentlemen have been secured as Assist ants, and will preside over the various doparuueula; PRFs. O. WOODNUTT. SAMUEL DOUGLASS, JOHN HOOD, , WILLIAM E. GII.LMORE, HENRY W. DUNCAN, VTi l 1 1-i : li T M n u i, i 1 1 i rt Autanrateur. While Mr. BIRD will hold a narelul aupervlslo j over all. He ventures to say thai, taken all lu all, there has nothing ever beeu started lu Philadelphia approaching this establishment In oomplwiene-.. of arrangement aud alien tlou to the coiulorl ut the public. . ' emim c. BIRD, Proprietor. BOND, comprises all the favorite bras)) months of 1S08O0, and ef this year, up te) arrive at Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, may elect. FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES FJOrtE ABOUT LILLIE'S CHILLED-IRON SAFES IMPORTANT FACTS WHICH TUB PEOPLE SIIOtTU "make a NOTE OF." Tact I.-L1LLIK-8 CITILLKD-IRON 8AFKS It De'n ,rel? Introduced for the last twelve I araVud "bhl to hose flavins the largest amount of valuables, as the best and most thoroughly Burglar Proof Sale; and, up to thelaat three years, ft has one ?M.ra 'Ei"?' ! on Millie's Sales having been robbed hy burglars, as to see or hear ot a white blackbird or a while elephant. ,7 uiM' FACTII.-It ls notorious that the profession of the burglar has advanced at a ranld pace within the last eight years, and what was thoroughly burglar-proof then la not so now. whloh accounts for the fact ihat within the last three years very few of LlllUVe Bales have been robbed, and tbe secret anonymous circulars distributed by other safe-makers lat terly, showing every few cases onlv, Is the strongest evidence that but a very small number have been robbed to this time, notwithstanding tbe large num ber In use, and the amount at stake Fl succeasfuj. Tact III. There are two, and only two. general and leading prlucldles upon which all burglar-proof sales are constructed. The one is pouring liquid iron between and around bars of wrought iren, hard- ened streel, or any proper combination of metals. This principle Is adpied by Llille, in tbe Chilled Iron Safe, and covered and controlled by his letter patent. , .... lhe other 'Is made op ot layers of plates, of different metals, held logetiier by bolls or rivets, or both! To this principle there are various objections- The cost Is double. The wrought Iron plates, which are the strength of the sale, are outside, and are operated upou by the whole catalogue ot burglars' tools. The bolls or rivets are easily forced by suitable tools, with or without powder, aud cannot be sustained! 2he former principle, adopted by Little, avoids all these object ions, can be made any thickness, and withstand any amount of resistance required; avoids the rivets, bolls, etc: has no wrought Iron outside to be operated npon by burglars' implements. Fact IV. Mr. LI Die, the Patentee, so soon as he learued that li Was possible with the modern Im- firoved tools tor burglars to grind through ohllled rou or hardened steel, began experimenting to avoid the dlihculiy, aud alter much labor and expense he has perlected a system tor chilling Iron aud combin ing metals that is entirely proof against the burglar's drill, or any other oi his tools, even the wedge, war ranted to stand the hardest test practicable for any burglar to make. As a proof of Lis success, the fol lowing cerilncate is now ollered from tne Novelty Works, New York; . OiTICK NOVKLTV IBOW WORKS, , ' Nkw Yojik, lath December, loSS. Mritrt. LewU LilUe & Hon.- Gkntlkmkis; We have subjected the sample of Chilled Iron you furnished us to the most severe tests (as regards drilling through It) thai we could bring to bear upou It. and without success. It Is our opinion thai 11 cauonly be penetrated by tbe use of a large number of drills, and the expendi ture of much power, with days of lime. And we think it Impossible for a burglar, with bis time and power, to penetrate It at all. Yours truly, Isaac V. Hoi.mks, Superintendent. Lyman U. Hall, Foreman. And the following ei tensive Iron manufacturers In Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, after the moet thorough tests, find the result to be substantially the same. Aud their principal Iron Workers so certify; Messrs. Merrick Ji Sou, boulhwork Foundry, Phila delphia, j J -me lna-iey w unams works, Boston, Mass, Tbe Union Foundry aud the Northwestern Fo roan- ury, uiuagu, jlu. Fact V. The proposition made the public hereto fore is now renewed: I will furnish Sales or Vault Doors, of same size and capacity ot other best makers and at one-tblrd less price; aud the same may be tested when finished, and I will furnish the man to test the work of auy other maker, aud he shall fur nish the man 10 test my work ; and the party so order ing may accept the work which stands the most re sistauce.In any j or mauner practicable for a burglar j Fact VI. I would now say to any of the owners of : inline s caies, tuat, iu view 01 tne preceding facts, if they feel the neeu of additional aecurltv. I win cbauge with them, ou lair terms, giving ibeui all the I late Improvements, and the luci eased security, whlcu ( Is claimed to be beyoud the reaou of Burglars, until some new system shall be developed iu tbe working . 01 Iron, which would now seem hardly possible. V A r-T Vlt. Tt IS LrilA that thO fihM)l.lmn n- ... Baie, as now made, under ordinary circumstances (aud w hen not crushed by the lall ot walls or timbers) usually saves the written mailer, but If tne fire is se vere 11 bas to be copied, tor ibe luk will soon fade out ' besides, the sale is twisted up aud useless, ' Ills equally true that tbe Chllled-lron Safe saves the written matter lu a perfect state, that it does not fade out or require copying, aud that the safe itself Is ready for further use. Auy number ol trials In tires, certified to, prove these facts, aud If any of the sale venders who are distributing secret, anonymous circulars to injure the reputation of LILLIE'S SAFE, are not satisfied with these statements, they can have the opportunity of testing by tire one of their own Safes with LILLIE'S, ou equal terms, whenever they so decide, k act V1IL In answer to the story circulated by Interested parties, thai Lillie's Sale had goue up, aud the lasl two years could LIlneAbon half supply (He demand tor Sales, aud were under the necessity f forming a large slock company, wltn a very large ' capital, to meet the demand; aud Mr, Lewis Llille. Sr on the Delaware, lu Peuusylvaulu, aear Easlou, aud Is tbe largest Sate Works probably In existeuce, aud ' will be able to supply all demauds tor Sulea, Locks ' vuuieu-xrou vaults, etc. In conclusion, 1 beg to call the attention of 'my ' patrons aud tiienus, and the public, to the facts here presenteu, and to say thai I am very thankful for iiast lavors, and that I am prepared to furnlnh LIL. ' .lE'S BUROLAR AND f J RE AND BUKULAR. " ' PROOF SA EES, VAULT D1H.1KS, CHILLEO IKOtf VAULTS and COMB1NAT1NN LOCKS, all at snort notice, warranted to be the best aud cheapest In market. I also keep constantly a large assortment ot second-hand Fire I'rools, lukeu lu exchange for 1, lllle's Burglar Proofs, of the besl-knowu makers all put in good order, and ollered at below usual auol tion prices. ACENT FOR LILLIE'S SAFE AND IRON COMPANY No. 030 ARCH Street, tuths2m ' PHILADELPHIA. C. L. MAISER, . MAKUVACTVBia or ' F1BE AA Bl'RGLABTBOOlf tiAFEb. LOt'HftlrllTJII, IlllllrllASIfiEB, AND ' ' MLtLLUIM UUll-UlBtU lUUUWAUe, 6t K4. 4 MACE SJTBlfcBr. t tft. A LARGE ASSORTMENT Of FIRE tJj and Burglar-proofSAFEs ou hand, with Inside doors Dwelliug-huuse Sates, free from dainuuena. Prices low. C HAEM HMtIai. " v frZjZr' fle OVERNMENT 4rR0PtRTYAr PRIVATE SALE ifePlTKIIY&CO. AWNINUS, WAtiOST COYERftJ, BAO, ETC. If you want an extra Awning Yry cheap, let our awnlua makers (ak tha nu-,T.. - j 1 a lot of ltxiu hospital tenia, luu iy purchased by ua, , many ill which are entirely new, and of the Death! .-. uuueeduck. Also. Government Sad, iiesaud Kara tax Dios. 837 and 83 North ) A.01ST fcilrvet, , ; 1
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