THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY," JANUARY 3, 1870. 3 rit Affair. The great feature of the otiwrvnnre of Now Year's on Saturday, wn the distribution of gift by the .German Society from the hall, Seventh utreet, above I'hcsuut. The iclicme was one of the bent de7lcd for years, and in its execution the mender of the society so acted as to jralu for themselves the warm jrratltudo of the nu merous recipients of the bounty of the society. The distribution took place at 4 and 7 o'clock. The hall was beautifully decorated with ever greens and Hags, and at tho end of the room three mammoth Christmas trees were erected, and laden with fancy goods and lighted with candles. The lare supply of presents were sys tematically arranged lu boxes, while articlss like shoes and coats were kept In an adjolnlnz room where the little ones could be taken and fitted. At 4 o'clock, when tho distribution com menced, Mr. Wm. J. llorctmann and Mr. Bclden sticker made addresses In Orman, and tho pleasant work commenced. Tho recipients w ere admitted to tho hnll and served according to the demands of tho tickets. Where there was a family of children each child had rt ticket, and the Rifts were made with special reference to the ce and sex of the party. Before United States Commissioner Henry Phillips, Jr., on Saturday, II. C Kurnell, a clerk on a postal-car between Philadelphia and Pitts burg, had a hearing on the charge of opening letters. The accused was held la f500J for a Xurther benrlnp. Mary Black, aged thlrty-flvo years, died suddenly in her rooms la St. Mary street, above Seventh, yesterday. Tho Coroner will hold an inquett t-day. A meeting of carpet manufacturers vf as held n Saturday afternoon, at the hull. Frankford road and Thompson street. James Pollock was appointed chairman, and John M. Bromley sec retary. On motion, Messrs. Tunison, Mclntlre, Magce, Bromley, Shegogg, McDade, and Boggs were appointed a committee to confer with the committee of weavers respecting tho bill of prices just adopted. After some business of no public interest the meeting adjourned. A large meeting of ingrain carpet weavers was also held at the hall. Front and Master streets, when action was taken In reference to the proposed, conference of tho weavers with tho manufacturers. It was argued that If an ami cable adjustment of the present dllUcultlcs could be made, a new impetus would be given to tho carpet business. Arthur McKernon, fifty-eight years of age, residing in Hermitage street, Manayunk, wh was Injured about the head by being struck by a train of cars on the Philadelphia, (iermantown and Norrietowa Railroad, died on Friday morn ing last. About one o'clock yesterday morning, Long's cotton mill, at the southeast corner of Second and Oxford streets, was slightly damaged by fire, originating from the furnace. At a quarter past six o'clock yesterday after noon, tho counting-house of McDonald it String, at Almond street wharf, was damaged to the amount of "JOO by fire, which originated from the stove. Jane Lynch, aged five years, residing at No. S22 Reed street, by falling down stairs on Satur day last, fractured a . leg. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital. The residence of Mr. Burton, No. 900 North Broad street, was burglariously entered on Friday night, and robbed of money, clothing, and jewelry, valued at $1000. Catharine Lowe, aged 40 years, fell on the pavement at Fifth and South streets, and frac tured her leg. Taken to her home, No. Oiil South Fourth street. Thomas Carnan, wKo was captain of Co. II. Colonel Small's regiment, during the war, died yesterday in the cellar of the Third District Station, where he had gono for lodgings. The cause of his death was intemperance. The following is a table of the number of fires and alarms durlncr 18tfU that occurred in the city: Million Stat No. of Falm Belli Hount UanlhK. Firm. Alarm. Uuna. RrU Hung. January 48 2 20 U February 30 15 11 March 37 14 7 April 42 1 13 7 May 88 .. 15 7 June 53 .. 23 8 July 01 1 28 U August 5(5 8 27 11 September 45 .. 18 11 October 48 2 20 1.1 November 40 . 5 20 9 December 3'J 2 11 4 Total 583 18 230 108 A general alarm was rung twice for the flro at the Patterson bonded warehouse, August 4. The losses and insurances could not bo ascer tained. On Saturday last, about 2 o'clock in the af ternoou, a partv of men were drinking together In a tavern at Front and Morris streets: A ditU ulty arose between John Force and George Stinson, and after some angry words had passed Letwccn them, Stinson drew a knife from his pocket and cut Force so severely in the abdomen that 1) Is entrails in a short time protruded. Force was removed to his house, No. 1031 South Front street, when physicians being called in, they pronounced htm to be in a dangerous condition. After inflicting the wound, Stinson left, but was subsequently arrested by Lieutenant Errlckson and locked up in the Second Police District Station House, whore he is held to await the result of Force's Injuries, who now lies in a critical condition. In August last, a. strange dog ran into tho stable of Mr. Henry Bickley, on Barker street, above Tenth, and bit ono of the stable dogs, which soon went mad and bit another stable dog, which also went mad. Two go.ita that wero In the stable were afterwards attacked with hydrophobia, as were a mule and two horses, one of the latter dying on Wednesday last. In attending to the mule and tho horses, Michael Ryan and Alexander Montgomery were both bitten, but as yet have exhibited no symptoms of the disease. Last evening about half-past 8 o'clock a barn owned by Mr. Weatherly, at Point lane and Trenten Railroad, occupied by William Smith, was destroyad by Are. There wero In the baru three horses, eight cows, and a large quantity of bay and grain, all of which perished in the Humes. The loss on the contents of the barn Is estimated at $5000: insured for 1200. The loss on the barn could not be ascertained. Mrs. Ann McQulrin was run over by a wagon on Saturday last at tenth street and Washing' ton avenuo, and was severely cut about the breast. . ' Charles Essil, 13 years of age, residing at Seventh and Shlppcn streets, was run ever on Saturday night last by a railway car at Ninth and Race streets, and had one of his legs terribly mushed. He was taken to the Pennsylvania ilospital. - Pouirstlc Affair. There was a flood In Baltimore yesterday, by which, it Is feared, much damage has been done. Kink and Gould, it is said, will contest Judgo Smith's decision lu the Susquehanna Railroad case. I Tho aid of the English bondholders in the Atlantic ana ureal Western liaiiroua is to be in voked to secure tho downfall of FUk and Gouli, so rumor says. Advices from Havana are to the effect that tho Cubans have abandoned the revolution and are surrendering in largo numbers. The des patch clones with tho remark: "Full confirma tion of this Is wanllnir- A man named V. V. Buckhout shot his wife and two gentlemen, at Sleepy Hollow, on Satur day afternoou, killing his wife and one of the men msianuy, wuue me oiuer is in a very pre carious condition. The Austrian Commissioner by whom the treaties between Austria, Japan, and China were concluded, sails Irom an irancisco to-d-tv. for the purpose of arranging treaties with lAn 'Mil I'riliriinV And Hllp.niift Avroi On Friday evenlug tho Congressional Postal Committee arrived in Boston. While in that citv tliev will Investigate the feasibility of hav iDg the ocean mall contracts taken by American steamers from Bobton m well as from New York. Kew Year's Day was very generally ob served as a holiday throughout the country. Everywhere there appears to have been quite a revival of the good old-fashioned custom of rsylng congratulatory vlilts. In New York and Baltimore, especially, its observance was more general than for some years past. . f Farrlga Affairs. A Teabody memorial hospital is to be erected in London. On New Year's day Napoleon received the felicitations of the Diplomatic Corps. All telegrams forwarded over the French cable, it is asserted by the Paris correspondent oi iuo L,onaon uiooe, aro reviewed oy the Minis ter of tho Interior. A rumor circulating In Madrid that the United States had forwarded a note threatening a recognition of the Cuban revolutionists has been ofllcially denied. TROTES. A Neglected French Tavra anal lu lllntorjr -ineiianeeoi inumpnie( From the London Saturday Itevifw. We can hardly wonder that the bulk of English travellers, rushing through Rome of the tamest scenery in the world on their way to some of the grandest, pause only for the half-hour of its buffet at the capital of Cham pagne. The dullness of the great northern plain of France is a little hard to bear with tne glories ot tne Alps in lull prospect, but the Alps will wait patiently for a day or two, and for travellers of the gentler order, t whom hurry and night-e-xpremes are an abomination, we can hardly suggest a town which will better repay the expenditure of a little time and trouble than the good town of Troves. To Englishmen indeed it has a double historical interest first, as the capi tal of a house which once promised to set sovereigns ot its blood on the throne of England: and again as the scene of the treaty which roilowed Agincourt, and whose result, had not the course of events torn it to shreds, must have been to render England a mere dopendenoy of France. But simply as a town it is full of interest. Its cathedral fairly holds its own even in the neighborhood of Beauvais and Itheims. In the Church of St. Urbain it possesses a building in which the deoorative art of the thirteenth century has reaohed its highest point of perfection. Busy and thriving, too, as the place is, its streets retain much of that older nicturesqueness which everywhere through France is vanishing be fore Trefet and Maire. In an electoral ad dress which he has lately issued, the Maire of Troyes appeals pathetically to his fellow-citizens not to show, by their rejection of him, a wish to nndo all that thirty years of oivio administration have done. We fear that not even the rejection of so important a func tionary would restore to Troyes all that those thirty years have swept away the Church of the Jacobins, or the ancient Butchery, or the palace of the Counts, or the lordly circuit of its walls. But losses like these have taken less from the interest of Troyes than they would have taken from that of most towns. Its charm lies not so much in feudal or eccle siastical remains as in the tall pargeted houses, the steep gables with the deeply-re cessed arch, in their front, the large court yards with the galleries round them, the rusted pulleys or the projecting dormers which reveal tne real life of the Nuremburgof .trance, 'lne character of the town is indi cated bv its very site. It lies in a centle diD of the monotonous level, the lower city hud dled round its cathedral on an almost imper ceptible slope to the east, the upper grouped round the Hotel de Ville on the higher rise to the west. The two are still as distinct as ever, and the canal which runs in the hollow between them serves, as the comitial palace which it swept away did of old, to sever the town of the merchant from the town of the bit-hop and the count. Of the last of these, as it is tne older part of the whole, we will speak first. It is a little amusng to recall the steep hill-side of Lincoln in these flats of Champagne, but the way in which the castle and cathedral of our English city are set side by side may enable the reader to understand the arrangements of the lower town of Troyes. Over its southern half towers the mass of the Minister of St. Peter, with the Bishop's borough sloping gently by the narrow, tangled streets of the old Butchery to the island and mills which mask the head waters of Seine. To the north of it is the site of the military fortres, which time and Henri Quatre have united to destroy. To the cathedral itself guide books, and even Mr. Fergusson's notice in his "History of Architecture," give scant justice. No doubt much of the detail has been tampered with by modern restoration, and though the charge of insufficient height which the last writer brings is unfair enough, the nave, in spite of the double aisle on either side, is perhaps a little tame and ineffective. But, within and with out, in the perfect proportions of each bay, and in the noble grouping of its other chapels, the choir is hardly to be surpassed. Tie episcopal history of the town, however, is uneventful, nor does the list of its prelates present any name of remarkable eminence. They were, in fact, overshadowed by the Counts. It is strange, as one stands on the grassy site of their donjon, or beside the canal which has obliterated their palace, to think how utterly all trace of the House of Champagne has vanished from its capital. None of the great houses of France were destined to so strange a fate. Inheritors by marriage of the Carolingian blood, by geographical position alike depen dent and independent of France and of the Empire, velding gradually together the belt of provinces from Chartres and Touraine by Blois to Troyes which held as in a prison house the infant realm of Hugh Capet, the descendants of Thibaut the Trickster seemed, through the ninth and tenth centuries, to hold the fortunes of France in their bands. The earlier kings were but their puppets, the earlier Counts of Anjou were their feudatories; it was they who led the hosts of France against the hated Normans. Thrice a crown Beemed within their grasp, and yet, of all the feudal princes of the North, they were the one house to which fate refused a throne, lne most daring ana powerful ot their line fell in seizing the realm of Aries. The Norman dukes, so long the object of thoir hate, succeeded not only in baluing their ue signs on the throne of France, but in tLem selves becoming lords of England. Their feu datories of Anjou, after plundering thorn of their fairest province, ballled thoir attempt to found a royal line in Stephen, and set an Angevin count on the throne of William and of Alfred. The truth is that tne counts, brilliant, ambitious as they were, wanted the patienoe, the foro the restless energy, which in their different wava luted their three rivals to greatness. At home, however, thoir rule seems to have been very mild and beneficent. Like the neighboring rulers of Flanders, their policy bent itself especially to the encouragement of industry, and now that tne statelier me moriuls of their rule have disappeared, its memory is touchingly preserved by a gift which for seven centuries has proved the life of their capital. By canalizing the head waters of Seine and distributing them through the town, the Counts gave its mills a force which is estimated in our own days as more than a thousand horse-power. In this gift lay the secret of the stubborn vitality which has carried Troyes over a series of catastro phes which woald have been fatal to most towns, and, above all, over the cessation of the great commercial exchange with which its name is most familiarly connected. It is not often that we refer our readers to Mrs. Mngnall's catechism, but there is one answer in that remarkable compilation of useful knowledge which unfolds succinctly enough the main interest of Troyes. The ingenious questioner who asks why a certain table in called Troy Weight, is told that it re ceived its name from its use at the fair of Troyes. Through the eleventh and twelfth centuries its fairs stood first among the great commercial gatherings in which the reviving spirit of trade and industry was undoing the isolation of the darker ages which had passed away. But even in destroying these they illustrated in a vivid Jway the local jealousies, the industrial hostility of the world which they wore transforming. Just as in the one great fair which still preserves the tradition of the pant, the Russian fair of Novgorod, the jealousy of guilds and peoples showed itself at 1 roves in the sepa rate stations occupied by the various trades and languages as they stood marshalled on the hill slope that led down to the abbey of NoUre Dame. Below the drapers of Flandors stood the merchants of the Levant; the traders of Arras were faoe to faco with the money-changers of Cahors; be neath, tho buttresses of St. Johns sate the Lucca bankers: the narrow side streets were full of the stalls of Montauban and Douai, or of traffickers who thronged thither from the rose gardens of Trovins. Hay market and leather market clustered round the abbey walls, and in the midst of the hungry, disor derly crowd, the provident care of the oounts had established an oven and a pillory. All the local names which preserved those curious details have been swept away by the spirit of modern improvement, but the street now called the Rue Notre Dame, whioh leads down the slope of the upper town to the Prefecture, has, in fact, grown out of the long line of movable stalls which formed tho Fair. In the midst of it stands the Church of St. John, originally the chapel of the traders, but linked ly one memorable event with our own history. The Treaty of Troyes, in which the succession of France passed with the hand of Katherine to Henry of Lan caster, was signed before the high altar of the cathedral; the wooing, so oddly told by Shakespeare, must have taken place in the palace of the counts. The marriage itself was celebrated in the Church of bt. John. Strange as its general effect is, the Church is worthy of its historio renown. Its great length gives it the air of being a far grander building than it really is. The nine bays of its nave look even longer through the flatness of the low vaulting, while a weird surprise is flung over the whole by the sudden rise of the choir to almost double the height of the western por tion of the church. W e can hardly doubt that Henry's choice of the church for his marriage was part of that policy of conciliation towards the merchant class which showed itself at home in his commercial legislation, and in the elaborate accounts of his victories which he forwarded to his citizens of London. The Fair had, indeed, long lost its earlier import ance in the fifteenth century, but the fine houses of the merchant princes of that date, with their huge recessed gables and pic turesque oriels projecting over the street, show that even then it remained one of the great industrial centres of France. It is this stiiotly indus trial character which distinguishes its history so sharply from that of most towns of its class. It is often as interesting to notice what is not in a town as what is in it, and what the eye at once misses in Troyes is any monument of purely municipal life. The fine Hotel de Ville is of comparatively modern date; there is no town tower, no beffroi, as at Amiens or St. Biquior, to tell of struggles for liberty, or for the political independence of the commune. Perhaps it was a tittle difnoult to quarrel even for independence with such sovereigns as the Count of Champagne. But this utter absence of all elements strange to our modern ideas gives us, as we stand in its streets, a sense of continuous life such as we seldom find elsewhere. From its first origin till to-day the life of the town moves without a break. . Its very site indicated the peaceful, busy tompor which it has preserved throughout; Celtic as is ite origin, the gentle dip of the oity of the Tricassini forms a startling contrast to the height crowned with the towers of Celtic Chartres. It is a busy thriving place still, and is evidently sharing in the fresh commer cial impulse which recent legislation has give to the towns of Northern France. But its charm lies in the fact that trade and com merce are no new comers in it; the frequent wains, the whirl of the stoeking-loem, the cotton bales piled in its courtyards, are only the continuation of an industrial enorgy which reaches back for eight hundred years. The most exquisite monument of architec tural art within its walls is, in fact, the con secration of this industrial spirit. Son of a poor cobbler of Troyes, Jacques Pantaloon rose from the post of choir-boy in its cathe dral to the highest office in the mediieval Church. As a Pope he in famous for the cruel extinction of the House of Hohenstauf fen, and for the handing over of Southern Italy to Charles of Anjou. As a citizen of Troyes he has left a noble memorial in the church which he erected on the site of his father's shop. Mere fragment as it is, for of the nave only a single story was ever com pleted, St. Urbain's ranks among the finest examples of the art of tho thirteenth century. It is idle to compare it, as is sometimes done, with the Sainte Chapelle; its characteristio feature is rather to be found in the union of the perfect grace . and purity of such a rival with a freedom nnd variety of decora tive treatment which is especially its own. Within, there is something German iu the detached repetition of the lower window tracery, and in the window like treatment of the transeptal doors, but the chief decoration of the building is lavished on its exterior. Here ornament it carried to its furthest limit without ever be coming feeble or f alue; the quatrefoils of the windows encased in detached tabernacle work which points up to the graceful line of the balustrade; the delicate flying buttresses rest ing on piers, every one of whioh ie treated as a separate work of art. The church, con tinued after the Pope's death by his nephew, remains unfinished as he left" it, with the original wooden pent-houses which served as a temporary western porch. M. 'Viol lot le Duo is said to have in his portfolio a plan for its restoration, and, judging by our experience of French restoration, we should advise all students of architecture. who wish to see the work of Pope Urbain and not of M. Viollet lo Duo, to set about seeing St. Urbain's at once. For such students there is a great dsal more that is worth seeing at Troyes. Not a trace of Romanesque work, indeed, remains; but, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, tho series of architectural illustra tions is complete. The cathedral iteelf advances bay by bay from the pure first- fointed of its choir-chapels to the profuse lamboyant of its western front. St. John's represents the transition from the lost style to that of the Renaissance, and the style of the Renaissance is characteristically expressed in the Church of St. Pantaleon. Small as it is, the last church in its extravagance of orna ment offers the most instructive of contrasts to the Church of St. Urbain. Nowhere does the eye seize more clearly the difference be tween the decorative detail which flows natu rolly, as it were, from the character of the fabric, and ornament stuck in to hide con structional deficiencies. Exquisite as, in its own way, it undoubtedly in, the famous jube of the Church of the Madeleine contrasts in the same unfavorable way with the severe beauty of the transept In which it is placed. The town is, in fact, full of objects of the highest interest, and deserves far greater notice than it has as yet obtained. It is at any rate well worth a visit by any who are looking for a resting-place on their way to Basle. MARINE TELEGRAPH. For additional Marine tfewt tee First Paqe. A I'M AN AO FOB PHILADELPHIA THIS DAT. BrmRtnts 7-2(5 1 Moor nets 40 Bum Bits. 446 I Hiua Wateb 8 61 PHILADELPHIA BOARD Off TRADE. K. A. Botrrra, ) Gmmin L. Bi'ZPT, COM GlOHUB N. TathaM, ) MITTTE Or THE MOVIH. MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMSUIPi. FOR AM FRIO A. Leipzig Southampton. ...Baltimore. Dm. 18 V.rBonnv London New York Dan. 1R O. ot Raltimore.Liverpool New York, via Hal.. Deo. 18 O. of New York. Liverpool ....New York Deo. 18 Aleppo uverpooi.,...piew or jJeo. 21 Minnesota Liverpool... -New York Iteo. S3 France Liverpool... ..New York Deo. 2-2 Columbia Glasgow. . . ...New York. Deo. 21 Silesia Havre New York Deo. 2-i Java. Liverpool.. ..New York Deo. 8a run nunuru. ITammonls New York. ...Hamburg Jan. 4 Nemesis New York. ...Liverpool Jan. 6 Manhattan New York. Liverpool Jan. 6 Tarifa New York.... Liverpool. Jan. 6 America new oik. ...Bremen Jan. 6 City of N. York. .New York. ...Liverpool Jan. 8 Caledonia New York.... Glasgow Jan. 8 England new forr.... Liverpool .Jan. 8 O.of BaltimorO..NewYork....IJverpool, viaHal....iao. H Idaho New York.. ..Liverpool Jan. la Main New York.. ..Bremen n Jan. IB Oity of Boston . .New York. ...Liverpool Jan. 15 Columbia New York. ...Glaiwow Jan. 15 O. of Brooklyn. .New York. ...Liverpool Jan. 82 Arizona New York.... AHpinwall Jan. 6 Prometheus.. .. .Philada Charleston Jan. 6 Morro Castle... .New York.. ..Havana Jan. M Wvoming- Philada Savannah Jan. 8 Geo. WaahingtonNew York.. ..New Orleans.... lan. S Mariposa, New York.. ..New Orleans Jan. 15 Mails are forwarded by every steamer In the regular lines. The steamers for or from Liverpool oall at Queenstown, er. oept the Canadian line, which eall at Londonderry. The teamen for or from the Continent call at Southampton. ARRIVED SATURDAY. Rarnue Omaha. Ballard. 29 days Irom LlvemnoK with mdsa. to Penrose. Manney A Co. iHtb nit., 1st. 37 40, long. 47 30, during a heavy gale from NW., the barque was kept nearly on her beam ends lor two hours and Hooded the decks. Barque Alfred, Burt, from Liverpool Sept. 24 vis Tier mudaDec 23, with mdw. to Peter Wright A Sons. Nov. 1, lat. 36 06 N., long. 16 til W., during a heavy KW. sale, lout maintopgallantmaet; Nov. 15, lat. 36 02, long. 18 lH, had a heavy gale from WNW., whiob stove bulwarks and swept decks of everything movable. Dan. baraue Peddler, Troonsogaard, 40 days from Glou cester, Ens., with iron, etc., to L. WeuterKsurd A Oo. BKLOW. Ship Progress, Simons,' from London 12th Nov. MEMORANDA. Shin Abyssinia. Christian, from Livproonl lrith Nov. for Philadelphia, wsi spoken .'id ult., 1st. 40, long. 21. Steamship Pioneer, Barrett, for Philadelphia, sailed from Wilmington, N. C, 1st Inst, Steamship James 8. Green, Paoe, for Philadelphia, sailed irom Richmond 31st nit. bt earner Hattlesnoke. Mersbon. nonce, at fort land 89th nit. Marque James lvee, roster, nenoe, at urouwersnavon 18th ult., and nailed for Helvoet. lturque Washington, Kuuecheldt, benoe, at Hamburg SOth ult. Harine Lepanto, Ben. nenoe, at Antwerp ixr.n nit. Brig Thomas Walter, Hobinson, hence, at St. Johns, P. R;, ltitb ult. Rriii Nellie Mowe. Mermnan whence, remilnel at St. Thomas 14tn ult. for Savannah. Schr Oriole, Thompson, sailed from Demarara llth ult., for Delaware Breakwater. - Schr W. 8. Hilles, Burgess, from London for Dcinarara, anchored at Deal 2uto nit. Hi-hr RalDh Souder. Crosby, hence, at St. Mary's. Ga.. 2S!d ult. . .. . . ... nobra A. iTneoen, ness; uonn mroup, isara; usmee Satterthwaite, Kinney; Sarah Watson, Smith; George Nevenger, Hickman: and Mary K. Kemerick, Daisy, from Boeton for Philadelphia; J. W. Vanneman, Sharp, from do. for Baltimore ; and H. W. Godfrey, Soars, do. tor Mot. rln river, at Holmes' Hole P. M. 80th nlt. Scbr A. M. Flanagan, Collins, from St. Mary's, Ga.. for Philadelphia, was seen ashore reoently at South Breaker, 8t. Mary e Bar, Ga., with signal of distrees, by steamer Dictator, from Savannah fr HoriJa, which went to her assistance and towed her off, supposed without damage. Schr H. SpoDord, Tanner, henoe, at Savannah Sth nlt. Bohrs J. M. Richards, and K.li.a Pike, Larkin, lor Phila delphia, were loading at Charleston Bllth ult. Schr Emily and Jennie, Hewitt, benoe, at Mobile 27th BcfirlK Talbot, Amsbury. at Satilla Mills. Ga., 25th alt. from Savannah was reported cleared for Philadelphia. Sobr Sarah, Cobb, henoe, at New Bedford Both ult. r NOTICE TOM ARINERS. Notice Is given that the tint class Iron Nan Buoy, hioken adrift from Boon Island Ledge, Maine, on the 17th Nov., has been replaced. OOOD8 FOR THE LADIES. JRIDAL, BIRTHDAY, AND HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Vn 13 on iYIsxi'clio. The One Dollar Department contains a large assortment 0 FINE tUENCH GOODS, embracing DESKS, 'WORK. GLOVE, HANDKERCHIEF, AND DRESSING BOXES, la great variety. DOLLS, MECHANICAL TOYS, and TREK TRIM MINGS. SILK FANS, LEATHER BAGS, POCKET BOOKS CHINA VASES and ORNAMENTS, JEWELRY, ET0 From gl'OO to ftSO'OO. CaU and examine onr Paris Goods. Part and Evening Dresses mad and trimmed from French and English fashion plates. r'ancy Costumes for Masquerades, Balls, etc., made to order in forty-eight hours' notice, at MRS. M. A. DINDER'8 LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS. PAPER PATTERS DRESS and CLOAK MAKING ESTABLISHMENT. N. W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnnt, S6stuth PHILADELPHIA. CLOTHS, OASSIMERES. ETC., .TAMES & LEE, NO 11 NORTH BECON0 STREET, ; IQ2f OF THE QOLDES LAMB, Are now receiving a lnrge assortment uf all the New , . . Btylesef FANCY CASSXZVZSRB3 And Standard Hakes of Doeskins and Beaver Cloths, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 8 88m POTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, V of all numoers ana oranus. hdi, awumi, iron, and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufacturer.' Drier 1'eltn, from thirty to seveatysii invbes, with JuHN W. EVERVAN,1 No. 103 CHUB OH Strtet (Oity Stores), WILLIAM ANDERSON A CO., DEALERS 1 in Eiiia Whiskies, , . so, HI BOtU BUUtin u ninth Philadelpu) ETOOD8. NEWEST STYLES. DIXON '8, 1 tie. 21 H. KiliUTa Mnwt ui in sw JIRARD E STATE. IN COMPLIANCE with the twenty fourth section of the will of Stephen Glrard, the Foprrintendent of the Glrard Ktate baa pre pared the following condensed B'aU meat of the affairs ef the Ettate: I. Stock and Loans, appropriated for the Im provement of the eastern frobt of tbt city and Delaware avenue Pitr t'afa. United States Tea forty Five per cent. Loan... $4,Oi0on City of Philadelphia Five per omit. Loan T.SWOO City of Philadelphia Six per cent. Loan, free of tax JIM, 6(0 City of Philadelphia Six. per cent. Loan, taxable K100 City Gas Six per cent. loan 10,00010 22 sharet of stock in the Insurance Company of tb State of Pennsylvania 4,4U0'00 43 shares of preferred stock Union Canal Com pany ; S.tOO-OO Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania Six per cent Loan l,0O0-00 Sctnylkill Navigation Company Loan, 170, Six per cent SM3,l R4 Schuylkill Navigation Company Loan, IBM, Six per cent 3,3o0'00 City of Philadelphia Six per cent.-Loan, freeot tax, temporary investment 79,500 -00 IL Stocks ansVLoans, comprising the Residuary Fnnd : United States live-twenty Six per oent. Loan.. $'i,5o0'00 United States Tea-forty Five per cent. Loan. .. 10,700-00 City of Philadelphia Five per cent. Loan 4,300-00 City ot Philadelphia Six per cent. Loan, free of tax $11.500 City of Philadelphia Bix per cent. Loan, taxable . . 83,300 16J.WO-00 Schuylkill Navigation Company Lean, 1870, 6 percent w 1,933 M Loan to Franklin Institute 1,000 1)0 100 shares of stock Philadelphia Exchange Company 10,00000 2300 shares of stock Schuylkill Navigation Company 110,000 00 408 shares of stock Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 20.40000 102 shares of stock Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, received as dividend 8,100 00 liS snares of stock Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, received as dividend 766'00 1 Certificate Schuylkill Navigation Company Boat Loan 7 per cent., received as divi. dend , e.etM-00 I shares stock Germantown and Perkiomen . Turnpike Company 200 '00 I share of stock Susquehanna and Lehigh Turnpike Company 100 00 1 bond for Loan to Ridge Road Turnpike Company 10,00000 1 Bond for interest on loan to do. do WO'OO Schuylkill Navigation Company Loan, 1882, 6 per cent., received for interest 34168 Snpposed to be of no value: 4CO0 shares of stock Danville and Pottsville Railroad Com. pany. 1 share of stock Centre Rrldge Company. 1 share of stock Philadelphia Domestio Society. 10 shares of stock Bustleton and SmithQuld Turnpike Road. 1 share of stock Downingtown, Kphrata, and Harris burg Turnpike Road. 1 share of stock nownpaper called "La Courrier des EUtrlTnis.' 2 Certificates of City 8 per cent. Loan, free from tax, temporary investment $100,000 00 III. Loans appropriated to purchase fuel for "Poor white housekeepers and roomkeepers" in the city of Phila delphia. 1 Certificate of Loan Schuylkill Navigation Company, 1870, 6 per cent. Loan. $9,089'37 1 Certificate of Loan Schnilkill Navigation Company, 1882, 8 per cent., received for in terest 43,68 IV. Loans 'and rath comprising the logacy received from estate of Lawrence Todd, deceased, of Illinois: United States Loan, 1881, 8 per cent $7,OC0'OO City of Philadelphia, 6 per cent. Loon free of tax 10,100 00 Cash received in full for legacy $l,9ti6'72 Cash received for Interest on loans. . . . 4,040 00 $6,0O7'32 Deduct appropriation to erect a monument tn Girard College Grounds $6,040 00 7-83 Balance in loans and cash '. $17,107 33 Loans comprising reserve Coal Rents, invested and held subject to the Judicial decision of title to lands loosed to S. E. Griscom A Co., and Thomas Coal Company. City of Philadelphia, 6 per cent, loan, free of tax $11,400 00 Cash to bo invested 2,218 84-$13,18 M The following account current exhibits a oondensed statement of the cash account, embracing the amount of interest, dividends, rentof real estate, and payments mads to various objects for the year 1869: Ualanoein thaTrtSKury January, 1869 $112,41783 Oath received for rent of real estate, city and farms $277,978 96 Cash received for rent of collieries, Schuylkill and Columbia counties.. 102,558'W Css'j receivtd for rent of real estate, I chujlkili and Columbia counties. . 888 60 Cath .received for cutting timber, Saba) 11 ill and Columbia counties. . 7,47009 Cach received from city loans for inte rest 23,60210 Cash received from United Btates Five-twenty 6 per cent, loan, inte rest 90233 Cash received from United States Ten-forty t per oent. loan, interest. 1.03153 Cash received from United States 1881 6 per cent, loan, interest 667 78 Cash received from Schuylkill Naviga tion Co. loan, interest 14,08344 Cash received . from City Gas 8 per cent, loan, interest 670-00 C'sah received, Insurance Company Mate of Pennsylvania, dividend 26400 Cash received, Chesapeake and Dela ware Canal Company stock, divi dend . 1,630-00 Cash received, Philadelphia Exchange Company stock, dividend 2o0'00 Cash received, Germantown and Per kiomen Tnrnpike Company, divi dend 1000 Cash received, Laurence Todd legacy, balance 1,96672 Cash received for sale of fireproof doors, water rent refunded, pre mium of insurance repaid, sale of stone in Schuylkill county, cost of Court refunded, etc., interest on ttiuporary loan, credited to total in come account 8,86848 43,S0802 $547,70687 Cash paid under appropriations by C -joils: EHTATK, For water rent $1,903 50 For taxes 55.0W68 For salaries 8,7(0 00 For lands cut of the county.. 37.454 16 For permanent improvements 1,8K2'50 For general repairs to real a state 14,K7'45 For inside painting 1,484-92 For outside painting and glazing 2,060 41 For paper and hanging 2,704 16 For annuities 600 00 For miscellaneous expenses 16,060 00 For altering No. 1111 Che.nut street. . 81460 For altering Nos. 1116, 1117 Chesaut street 65000 For altering Nos. 1125, 1127 Cbesnut strset For dredging dock north wharves. tirtVOO For purchase of fuel tVJii'62 Fur nionuaent on Girard College grounds 6,0u)'00 For temporary investment in City Loans for Delaware avenue fund 79,M6'87 For temporary Loan to City 100,000 00 For culvert in North O lleg avenue.. 712 50 tXj,jl0 50 COLLEGE. For Committee on House bold $135,019-51 For Committee on Inatruo- ' - tion 95,058 7 For Committee on Ac counts 8,oasK For Committee on Li brary 88 , For Committee on Discip line aud Discharge.,.,,,, 27135 For Ooniiulttee ota Manual Ubor 45'44 lo8,8IH7B $490,430 28 Dect ruber 31, 1869- Balance In the Treasury $5726'M Balance by City Treasurer's, ac count tU.M4'm Warrants not taken l 7;t879 $57,82518 umce or the Girard Estate, Philadelphia, December 31, HW9. CHARLES 8. SMITH, ' Superintendent Girard Katata. AMUSEMENTS. r 11 E M-SNNEROUOR'S GRAND BAL MASQUE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1870. At Ton ACADEMY OF MU8IO. Tbe Brice of snbserintlnna. admitting a atitUn one lady, will be $5. Additional ladies' tickets, each Vl. Reserved aeata in the Huloon I'ircl. at. Rfl Mni.M,u can be secured at C.W. A- Trumplnr'e Muslo Store.No. PJ4 Lhesnut street, commencing Montlay, January A. The fnllmrinir ffnnltmjtf1 va!I mm nmnmmm a . .1,-. O ciely, will receive subscriptions: Wit-Mam J. HnnftTMANW, corner Fifth and Cherry ttf. L. Hkiikkiit, corner nt Fourth and Kace streets. M . K. M ucx I.B, "Public Ledger" office. Gkorof. F. Bknkkrt, No. 7it Cheenut street. Ik Walkeh, No. 722 Chosnut street. Newt htand. Continental Motel. ( '. W. A. 1 RU Mi' I Kit, No. 9J6 Chmmut street. Boner A Co., muslo store. No. 1102 1 he-nut street. Ku Hitinl. Schmidt, music store, No. 610 Arch strett O. A. Schwartz, No. I0P6 thsnut street, Frf.d'k Bai.tz, eo. 118 Walnut street. I otuis TotiRN y, No. 227 N. Second street. Loi ih Meyer's music store, Mo. 141:1 Cbnsnnt street. Bcbaei in A Koiudi, Fourth and Wood streets. . 1, V... ..... .... . M 1 ... r iiii.i w iiu u.w Hut ir, i m;tii .tin uieir snniuu msin ber's "Card," will apply to t he (-eemtary, or the Collector, at the rooms of tbe society, on any evening. 1 1 at AMERICAN ACADEMY OP MUSIC GRAND ITALIAN OPERA. . OF UN I NO NIGHT. MONDAY, JAN. 8.1870, IL TKOVATOKK. First appearance In Philadelphia of MADAM K CAKOI.INA BhlOL, MADAMK KI.TKA LUMLFT, S1GNORU. LF.KRANO, HIuNOR G. RKYNA TTTF8PAY, JAN. 4. CRISPINO K LA COM ARK. GIORGIO RONCONI in his great part of UOKKIKH. "WKDNKSOAY, JAN. 6, Grand Revival of Rossini's Masterwork, WILLIAM TELL, With Increased Chorus and Orchestra. GRAND BAl.LKT. New Presses. New Appointments Etc Risnor LK.KKANfi in his wnrld-ronowned characti Of ABNOLDO, in whioh part he has created the greatel enlbnsisem in all the principal Capitals iu Europe, an also in New York. POPULAR PRICKS OF ADMISSION. General Admission ONK DOLLAR Secured Seats 60 Cents Kxtra i anuly Circle CO I lent Ampitheatre 26 Cent (Seate foranv Performance now for Sale at the Acadcnri of Music and Trnmpler's. No, 926 Chosnnt street. 12 81 LAURA KEEN E'8 OHKSNUT STRRRT THIATRR, A New Flay for the New Y ear. SIX NIGHTS ONLY. MATILDA HERON and LAURA KKKNF.'S new Play in nve acts (every scene new;, entiuea CHAMPAGNE: MISS LAURA KKKNB as HILLY Matinee every aaturday at 2 o clock. Evening open at 7 ; commenoe at a quarter to 8. - WALNUT STREET THEATRE. N. E. COR. NINTH and WALNUT StreetsBegins at M to 8. THIS (Monday) KVKN1NU, Jan. 3, First Night of the Production of a new ROMANTIC MILITARY DRAMA. T . . I it.,.. , I k-: 1 1 . ir... ...th ... N1k. xn luur sun, uy tt ana ruuiifn, cati., .uiuw v. u. Dead Heart," "Ixwt in Ixindon," etc, entitled HOT GUILTY. The Muslo composed, selected, and arranged by Simon U"''HE YOUNG VOLTNTEF.R CORPS and HKIIK'H PHILADELPHIA B 4.ND. No. 1. Are specially engaged to give the effects incidental ta the Drama, Chairs secured six daysin advance. M R8. JOHN DREW 8 ARCH STREET THE ATRK. Bearins 71,.'. LAST THRKK NIGHTS OF UTTLK DORRIT. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, LITTLE DtiRRIT With new Scenery and Great Oast. By Mrs. JOHN DKKW and Company. Thursday and Friday, THE LOVK CHASK and DON J TAN. S.tunlajr BUN KFIT OF MR. OATHOART, BHYLOCK and THE WILLOW COPSK. MONDAY NEXT LITTLE EM'LY. FOX'8 AMERICAN THEATRE, OPKN THE YEAR ROUND. FVERY EVENING. MR. LARRY TOOI.KY, Kthiopian Comedian, Mr. FRANK A. GIBBONS, MISS K,VA BRKN T, Mr. SAM DEVHRE, Mr. THOMAS WINN FT T, Eta. AVKNTCKKS DES GKISFTTKH, Etc ' Matinee on SATURDAY AF1KKNOON at 2 o'clock. N EW ELEVENTH STREET OPER HOUSE, FLFVKNTH Street, above Chasnat. i nr. rimiii.Y nr.ruit i. CARNCHOSS A DIXEY'B MINbTRELB, the great Star Tronpe of the world, in their nnaqnalh FTHIOP1AN SOIRF.KS, BEAUTIFUL BALLADS, SONGS, OPERATIC SELECTIONS, and LAUGHABLE BURLESQUE EVERY EVENING. , J. L. OARNOROS8, Manager. R. F. BIMPSON, Treasurer. 166m DUPREZ & BENEDICTS OPERA TlOUSlt SEVENTH St., below Arch (LatelheatraComique THIS EVENING. DUl'KKZ A BENEDICT'S Gigantio Minstrel and Burlesque Opera Tronpf Bcoond Weck-Homanceentitlod FOUND ALIVE; OA THE TALE OF THE NEW YEAR, In addition to a B nil Programme. Admission, 60o. Parquet, 75o. Gallery, 25o. II TEMPLE OF WONDERS, ASSEMBLY BUILD INGS. BIGNOR BLITZ, ASSISTED BY THEOI OUR BLITZ. Every Afternoon and Evening at 8 and All the new Mysteries from Kumpe. 1 3 6fc YALER'S (LATE MILLER'S). WINTEb GAKDFN, Nos. 720, 7i2, 724. and 726 VINE Street. THE GUANO OBCHES'i RION, formerly the proper1 of tlieGUA.D DI KE OF UADFN, purebased at grer eipcnhe by JACOB VA LF.R, of this ciiy, in oombinatit with tl.AMK'8 ORCHESTRA aud Miss NF.LLU A NDKBSON, will perform EVERY AFTERNOON am EVENING at the shove-mentioned place. Admission free. 1 l3tf CENTZ AND IIAS8LER'8 MATINEES O MI'flCAL FUND HALL. 186 70. over SATUR DAY AFTERNOON at 8 o'clock. FOR SALE. p O R 8 A L B ' ON ACCOMMODATING TERMS, THE LEASE AND PERMANENT FIJ TUHE8 OF THE FLOUlt STOKE, IVo. ISSO MAKKirr MT1K1212 Apply on the premises to 1210 4p J. EDWARD ADDICKJ HANDSOME NEW DWELLING, WEI I'ii Suruce Street. No. 2107. four-story (French rot tr tell built, for owner's sm). Ibis is lust the kind of a residence many want, DeiC roomy and not eitra large. 1 eiuia will be made accommodating to purchaser. JOHN WANAMAKER, 19 11 SIXTH and MARKET, TO RENT. FOR RE N T - ', , In Splendid Order, Centrally Locati SOUTH 6IDE OF CHESNUT STKEE Address "L. 8. H " Inquirer Office. 1290 I, j TO LET THE STORE PROPERTY Nlj 122 Cnosnut street, twenty five feet front, one bus drod nd forty fivo feet deep to Bennett street. Bac! buildings fiva stories high. Possession Miyl, 1870.- Ad dfii THOMAS 8. FLETCHER. 121otf ' Delanao. N. J. ra TO RENT A PART OV A LAKft" Elgtoro, on the south side of CHF.8NU1' rtuol ituTe Keveutb, suitable for a Jewelry or Piauo Store.! other similar business, Address "bWro.Bua P,VJ dslpuia Poat Ottice." 12 an Ui