THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH TRIPLE SHEET PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1870.
AMUSEMENTS.
jgy ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
TIIE 8TAU COURSE OF LECTURES.
HON. CHARLES SUMNER,
On MONDAY EVENING, Oct 81.
Subject "Lafayette, the Faithful One."
rETKOLKT'M V. NA8BY, Nov. 8.
MT8S ISABELLA OLYN, Nov. 8.
UEOROE WM. CURTIS, Nov. 4.
Admission to each Lecture BO cents.
Kewrve (I teats 90 cents extra.
Tickets to ANY of the Lectures for dale At (Jould
A Fischer's Piano Rooms, No. a OUE8NUT Street,
Doors open at IX. ; lecture at 8. 10 89 St
SPECIAL.
, SENATOR 8UMNKK will deliver his ?reat Oratinn
n Lafaybttk, in place of "The Duel between
France and Germany," as heretofore announced.
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T T W W VT T r T mm rwnTtTi - rr
WW Jll J.
EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
FANNY JANAUSOUEK,
In English partx, nndnr the management of
Af'GU'STIN DALY.
MONDAY, October 81,
FOR SIX NIGHTS AND ONE MATINEE.
MLLK. JANAUSCUEK
Will appear an
MARY STUART,
DEBORATT,
FAZIO,
LADY MACBETH, and
THE DSBUTANTE,
Supported by a superior Company of Dramatio
Artists from the New York Academy ol Music.
PRICES:
Orchestra Beats, 1 j Orchestra Chairs, l-28 ; Or
chestra Circle, 7 cents; Hecured Seats in Orchestra
Circle, f 1 ; Dress Circle, 60 cents ; Family Circle, 25
ents; Private Boxes, IS. 10 21 8t
C
IIESNUT STREET THEATRE
E. L. DAVENPORT, Lessee and Manager.
LAST NIGHT OP TIIE
LISA WEBER BURLESQUE OPEttA TROUPE,
EHNANI and LA SOMNAMBULA.
LISA WEBER, the unapproachable hnrlexane ac
tress; ADA GRAY. BELLE HO WITT, CASSIE
TROY, OEO. ATKINS (the inimitable Comedian,
Tragedian, Gymnast, Vocalist), and
ROCi ICO, Artist.
MATINEE, SATURDAY, at o'clock.
MRS. JOHN DREW'S ARCH STREET
THEATRE Begins V to 8 o'clock.
GREAT TRIPLE BILL.
THIS (Saturday) EVENING, Oct 20,
Positively last night of
"tS.V.,n
BY MRS. JOHN DREW AND COMPANY,
Followed by the musical farce.
NO: OR, THE GLORIOUS MINORITY.
Concluding with the nautical drama,
BEN BOLT.
ON MONDAY THE 1WO ROSES.
WALNUT STREET THEATRE. BEOINS AT TV.
THIS (Saturday) EVENING. Oct 29,
ENORMOUS ATT K ACTION,
MR. CLARKE IN THREE CHARACTERS,
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN,
TURNING THE TABLES,
LONELY MAN OF THE OCEAN.
GREAT SATURDAY MATINEE.
MR. CLARKE IN TWO PARTS.
MONDAY FOX AND GOOSE.
MR. JOHN 8. CLARKE as YoUNG GOSLING.
Chairs secured six days in advance.
FOX'S AMERICAN THEATRE.
NEW ATTRACTIONS NIGHTLY.
For one week only
TnE WONDERFUL FRENCH ATHLETES,
Three in nun,ber.
SPLENDID BALLET TROUPE.
GREAT MINSTREL COMPANY.
COMIC PANTOMIME CORPS.
GRAND OLIO ENTEKTAINMENT.
1 Burlesques, Local Sketches, Voralism, Etc
ADAM FORE
MAMMOTH
P A u o ns
MENAGERIE AND CIRCU8.
THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD.
THIRTY DENS OF LIVING ANlMALS.
CORNER BROAD AND WALLACE,
XVERY AFTERNOON and NIGUT THIS WEEK,
IN TWO SEPARATE TENTS.
Admission to both Shows only 50 cents.
Children under 10 years, 20 cents,
A. FOREPAUGH,
10 24 6t j Proprietor and Manager.
TVTEW ELEVENTH STREET OPERA HOUSE
i TUB! 1HMII.V WKSOHT.
CJOtNCROSS A DIXEY'S
MINSTRELS,
The Star Troupe of the World,
Every Evening in their Ethiopian Soirees.
Box ofllce open dally from 10 to 1 o'clock. After 1
o'clock at CarncroBS fc Co.'s Mnslo Store. No. 6 N.
Eighth street R. F. SIMPSON, Treasurer.
J. L. CARNCROBS, Manager. 8 88tf
ARCH STREET OPERA HOUSE,
ARCH Street above Tenth.
THE PALACE OF MINSTRELSY.
SIMMONS & BLOCUM'S
MINSTRELS,
THE CHAMPION TROUPE OF AMERICA.
OPEN FOR THE SEASON,
With the best Minstrel Organization In the world.
Box ofllce open from 9 A. M. until 4 P. M. for the
ale of reserved seats. 9 B tf
DTJPREZ A BENEDICT'S OPERA HOUSE,
SEVENTH Street, below Arch.
THIS (Saturday) EVENING,
THE LADY OF LYONS
AND
JOSEPH'S COAT.
GRAND MATINEE THIS AFTERNOON.
ACADEMY OF MUSI C nASSLER'S
H AK SLUR'S TniHD MATINEE,
SATURLAY AFTERNOON, Oct 29.
10 27 at MARK HaSSLER, Conductor.
MUSICAL FUND n A L L.
GERM ANIA ORCHESTRA.
PUBLIC REHEARSALS,
EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. at8)tf o'clock,
Commencing November 6th, 1810.
Tickets, 60 cents. Package of four for f 1. To be
had at North's Store, 10-44 Cheannt street 10 29 It
RIANOS.
ssPN GEORGE STECK & CO.'S
PIANOS,
Grand, Square and Upright
4X80,
HAINES BROS.' PIANOS.
Only place In Philadelphia for sale of
Haion & Hamlin's World-Renowned
Cabinet Organs.
Tor tale or rent, or to rent with vieu to purchase, and
part 0 rental apply.
iiiOIILU At FISCHER.
J. E. GOULD, No. 023 CHESNUT 8t.
WM. G. FISCHER, No. 1018 ARCH St
Km STEINWAY & SQHS' tf
Grand Square and Upright Pianos.
Special attention la called to their new
Patent Upright Pianos,
With Double Iron Frame, Patent Resouator, Tabular
Metal Frame Action, etc , which are ui.uchlesa In
Tone ana loucn, ana unrivauea in auraoiuiy.
CHAULE8 lII.AHIUsJ,
WAltEROOMS,
No. 1006 CHESNUT BTREET,
1 13 tfrp PHILADELPHIA.
CHICKERING A
WORLD-RENOWN ED
SONS'
GRAND, SQUARa, AND UPRI3HT PIANOS,
Attention is lnvuea 10 me ceieoraieu
PATENT GRAND UPRIGHT
AND TUB
NEW SCALE GRAND bOUARE PIANOS.
Great Reductions. Plied Prices.
DITTTON'tf PIANO ROOMtt.
Nob. 1124 and 1128 CHESNUT btreet
10 21 lmp W. H. DUTTON.
COPARTNERSHIPS.
THE COPARTNERSHIP HEKETOFORE EX
luting between ADOLPH WINKLER and COR
NELIUS C. HOPPER, as WINKLER A HOPPKH,
tethls day dissolved bv mutual content, and Corne
lius C. Hopper, No. 240 S Second street, Philadelphia,
la alone authorized to act as liquidating- partner, to
whom all debts due said ttrm wlU be paid, and all
claims strainst them le presented.
AlXil.HH WINKLER.
COP.;EJUi C. HOPPED.
COOPER &
DRESS GOODS.
Our third opening of FRENCn, ENGLISH, and GER
MAN DRESS FABRICS is now arranged for sale. Many
buyers not suited the past few days by reason of oar
running short of stock can now be well supplied. The
prices of the English po ods are about one-third less than
they were three weeks ago.
37Jo. for Wide Da den Suit Cloths.
OOc for Wide Imperial Bops.
50c. for Wide Glossy English Serges.
5 ic. for All-wool Paris Satin Cloths.
62 ic for Oood Wool Empress Cloths.
Tive cases of these Extra Cheap Ooods.
$100 SATIW CLOT 113.
$100 BEST QUIA QXIS.
'00 PARI 3 rVTDRinOES.
$100 SXliXX POPLINS.
Wide Double Corded Silk Poplins, $125.
Best Trench Silk Epingiines.
Passavant Best Boiled 1470ns Silk Poplins.
One case Extra Glossy Silk Poplin, $123.
Ready-made Suits, or made to order.
Diess XfcXakingr at short notice for first
class custom.
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
Fresh arrivals of all the New Materials.
All the Btandard description Mourning Fabrics.
Some special attractions in this stock.
The Alpacas and Wool Poplins show great inducements.
Conrtauld's English Crepes, bought before the advance.
Black Kid Gloves, Crape Collars, Veils, Etc Etc.
000PEE & GONABD
S. E. CORNER NINTH AND MARKET STREETS.
G1ECULAE TO
FRENCH DRESS FABRICS.
Although both Great Britain and Gesmany f urnish this
country with a very large amount of Dress Textures,
nearly all the finest and most fashionable are of French
manufacture, and hence a great scarcity of French
goods, owing to the war, was anticipated early in the
season. All the French goods that can possibly reach
us this season are now here, and after a careful exami
nation of the market we find that although the BTTXiTC
is not quite so small as we expected, yet, to a consider
able extent, it is made up of large II7DISCMIXZVTI
XfATB purchases 'of UNRELIABLE
XVZA11XSS, which would not have found a market
here had it not been for the anticipated deficiency. This
is more particularly the case in the article of B LACS
SiLUS- We, therefore, advise particular care to pur
chasers in the selection of these goods. In Fine Worsted
and Woollen Dress Goods there will be a DECIDED
SCARCIT3T, and we would invite an early exami
nation of our stock while it is replete in the most re
cherche textures we have ever imported, and CAN
NOT 3E DUPLICATED.
Our BLACK SI LIT BTOCXX contains nothing
but the most CELEBRATED and RELIA
BLE of Lyons makes.
HOMER, C0LLADAY & CO.,
1412 AND 1414
m BULBOUS ROOTS
A large assortment of Hyacinths, Tulips,
Crocus, Iris, Narcivscs, Crown Imperials, eta, Im
ported and lor sale by
D. LANDRETH A SON,
Nos. 81 and S3 South SIXTH 8treet,
It Between Market and Cheannt streets.
S RUSTIC FLOWER STANDS AND HANO
INQ BASKETS, Terra Cotta Vases, Flower
Pots, Crocus Pots, and Hyacinth Glasses.
For sale by D. LANDRETH A SON,
Seed and Implement Warehouse,
Nos. 11 and S3 South SIXTH Street,
C02TABD
THE LADIES.
CHESNUT STREET.
I U O N D A Y, OCTOBER 81, 181
' . . i i - ...no i r i TjfVs T t7..ii
jtciuuuiDir unsold xi 1.017, vunu.i tvuey
vil e), iDilfS from Philadelphia, on the Wrst Chea
ter (Media) Railroad, at auction on MONDAY, Octo
ber si, at o'clock, on tne rttKJHistuj.
Terms ol sale, $io CAS U on each lot when sold,
ana
110 MONTHLY
until pfld : or one-half cash, balance In one year; or
tdlcat-li. Interest on all deferred payments, Deedj
lr-e ol expense to purchasers.
A FI t EXCURSION Train will leave the West
Chest, i lx-not at 8 o'clock, precisely on the day of
fa'e, a d convey grown persons (ladies and gentle-
u.eu) to ana rr' m tue saie rree. none out grown
persons. HO tickets n-qmreu.
T, WR:1I A HON. Auctioneers,
HS, 1110 CUS4.NUX Street.
bWINQ MAOMINE9.
f II Is
WHEELER & WILSON
For Bale on ay Term.
KO. 914 CHESNUT 8T11KET.
4 aiwai PHILADELPHIA.
JEWELRY AND SIL.VERWARJE.
1124
CHESNUT STREET.
1124
NOW OPENING,
Bridal Silver.
Tea Services,
Table Ware.
Fancy Pieces for General Presentation.
(Special designs and monograms fnrniBhed.)
NEW IMPORTATIONS
A Very 8elect Assortment of
Paris Clocks. Bronzes,
Vases. Tables.
Centre Pieces, Etc.
ALSO, A MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF
GOLJ) EARRINGS,
Entirely new styles.
ROBBINS, CLARK & BIDDIE.
It
No. 1124 CHESNUT Street
JACOII IIAItLKV.
O-X No. 13) U IIESNUT Street, Phlla.
Watches, Jewelry, Silver and Plated-
ware, a good assortment at
MODERATE PRICES.
Watches and Jewelry
carefully repaired. IS thstn3mrp
CLOVES.
'BARTL EY'
99
K
I
1
41
O
V
12
Black,
White,
Colors,
Opera,
Green,
Blue,
Wlue.
Fourchette,
Manchette,
S Button,
LADIES'
AND
GENTS'
600 DOZEN
Now in stock, selling a'. per pair, TWENTY
ran sjhb i lesstnan oiner parties seu
a first-t,iass glove.
Alsc every pair guaranteed ;if they rip or tear another
pair wm oe giveu in exenange.
We also offer SW) down Genuine "Bajou" Kid Gloves
at lu-uopt-r pair.
Also, our unparalleled "La Belle" Glove at f 1-25.
Btst l -86 Ok ve In America, at the
GREAT KID GLOVE EMPORIUM
OP
A. & J. B. BARTHOLOMEW,
No. 23 NORTH EIGHTH STREET,
10 28 iBtu PHILADELPHIA.
FINANCIAL..
DREXEL & CO.,
No. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
American and Foreign Hankers,
DRAWS EXCHANGE ON LONDON AND PRIN
CIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE.
DEAL3R8 I N
Government and Railroad Securities,
Drexel, Winthrop & Co., .Drexel, Earjet fc Co.,
No. 18 Wail Street, No. Hue Bcrlbe,
New York. I Paris.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
QOOK8II BOOK 8!!!
ONLY SIXTY DAYS MORE OF THE
CLOSING OUT SALE
At No. 724 CHESNUT Street.
On and after January 1, 1871, the Store will be oc
cupied by another business. Now la the time to
furnish your Libraries.
I. ASIIltllSAU, Act.,
10 1 6 stutb4p tf No. 724 CHESNUT St., Phllada,
FOR SALfc.
FOR SALE. OR EXCHANGE FOR
23
City Property, one of the finest FARMS
the country.
8 18 thstu tf
R. J. DOBBINS,
Ledger Building.
FOK BALE OR TO LET Nos. S10, ,108. 110,
::: m and iVi'i WALNUT Street. Prices ranrlnk
Toui 122,000 to t&S.OOO, or will be rented. Address,
ny now, . u. buj nu, jr.,
t 30 24t No. 818 Walnut street.
FOR 8ALBE TIIK nANDSOME RESI.
"1 dence. No. 804 FRANKLIN Street, oonoalte the
iuuare. Aouiy u WM. UUS-IL,1. ALLt, no. S3
WAUifl ' btreek luxist
ft. FOR SALE DWELLING HOUSE NO. 1S19
ti' KKI ANUY rLAtK. Apply to C 11. A 11. P,
MUIRUE1D, No. 80ft SOUTH SIXTH St. 10 8a 6t
TO RENT.
rpo RENT THE STORE NU T29 CHESNUT
A
Street. Apply on the premises between 10 and 11
o'clock A. M.
8 IT tf
NEW 8TORE.
M1
UN. F. 41. Y. tlUMDGUS,
Fancy and Mtaple XrlinuilBgrai,
ZEPUVR linODl, ETCt
No. 224 South ELEVENTH Btiwet.
f omadi s, Koapa Powders, Perfumn-ie, Ho-icry
gioyes, tuUUJita, Jto. 10 Uudmrp
Cardinal In Conclave
The bell ot the Oapitol had sounded. Pope
Innocent the Tenth was dead. He had died
quite alone in about his eightieth year. His
Bister-in-law Donna Olimpia, and her nieoe,
the Princess of Romano, for whom the weak
old man bad made Bale of everything daring
his pontificate, from the red hat of the cardi
nal down to the office of spy of the police,
and even to the sentences of the courts of
justice, left him to his fate as soon as they
found that no soups or essences, none of the
cunningly devised liquids on which he had
existed since he had been nnable to take solid
food, would oontinne to keep him alive.
Donna Olimpia, indeed, took to her bed as
mearjs of avoiding further trouble about a
moribund pope, and gave out that she was
too ill to nurse him any longer. Both ladies,
however, took care to have his palaoe sacked
before tre breath was out of his bodv. and
Donna Olimpia surrounded her own house in
tne Piazza Navona with six hundred soldiers.
to preserve all old and reoent spoils safe dar
ing the critical period of papal interregnum,
wnen tne populace were more riotous than
ut-u&J, and until a new pope should be elected
in conclave.
If, however, the populace did not besiege
her palace and relieve her of her ill-gotten
cains, it was not the fault of Paaquin.
Each morning the headless little marble
figure was covered with pasquinades of bitter
and terrible force, directed against Olimpia
and the wealth she had amassed by her extor
tionate abuse of her influence on the late
Pope. Olimpia, however, replied that public
report did her injustice; that she was in re
ality poor, frightfully poor, so poor that she
was nnable to pay for the funeral expenses of
the dead Innocent. Who would have buried
the old man nobody can tell, had not a friend
of early days, a poor canon whom Innocent
had ill-treated on his advent to power, taken
on him the charge of the funeral, which was
of the me'aneRt. Mo torches or wax tapers,
only two tallow candles, lit np the wrinkled
and painted face of the papal corpse as
it lay in mockery of state beneath the dome
of St. Peter's.
Ihe day after the Pope's interment, Janua
ry 18, 1(355, the cardinals met according to
custom in conclave in tne Vatican. There
were sixty-nine of them. Unhappy men!
their fate created much commiseration among
some of tne ambassadors and envoys of the
European princes, who, according to rale,
visited their cells on the day on which
they were to be shut np, to Bee that all was
arranged in due order, and the conclave
established according to rule. Sixty-nine
cardinals, accustomed, most of them,
to fare sumptuously, and to live
in vast palaces adorned with the
finest productions of ancient and modern art,
to what a wretched sojourn had they to sub
mit till it should please Divine Inspiration to
be merciful to them, and enable their saored
college to combine in the election of a new
pope ! Two cells, one for himself and one
for his two attendants, were allotted to each
cardinal; and there they must live, and sleep,
and eat tneir meals, wnicn nave to be Bent
through the little wicket at the gate, till the
close of the conclave. The present conclave.
however, was a fortunate one for the poor
cardinals in one respect. It had among
its members many excellent players at pioquet,
and two or tare ecclesiastics of a very
humorous spirit, who aided considerably to
enliven the monotony of its confinement,
which proved in this instance a long one. The
maddest wag of them all was Maidalchini,
-wlio, howvr, labored tinder thla disad
vantage, that he was obliged to shut himself
np every day for a considerable time to paint
his face and make his toilette, in order to hide
the ravages which disease and debauchery
had made in his appearance. Maidalchini,
one night during the conclave, lost fifty dou
bloons at play to a kindred spirit. Cardinal
Medio!, when Medici said he would let his
Eminenoe off if he would dress himself np
and go and announce, as by vision, to poor
old lame Cardinal Caraffa, that he should be
pope. The joke seemed too good a one not
to be put in practice, so Maidalchini wrapped
himself np in a white sheet, put on a false
beard and wig, pinned two sheets of paper on
to his shoulders for wings, borrowed a pair
of green spectacles from Cardinal Trialzi, and
made for himself a golden aureole, by the aid
of some gilt paper and a saucepan, which he
pnt upon his head. After having oompleted
this disguise, he took two wax candles, one in
each hand, and got in by a secret passage to
the side of Carafl'a's bed. Poor old Caraffa
had the gout, nd was not asleep when he
saw the phantom arrive; he understood the
pleasantry immediately perhaps, indeed, he
had been forewarned so he seized his
crutch silently, and as soon as the spectre
was near enough, laid on lustily, crying
out: "Incorrigible joker, it is thou, is it ?
lake that, and that, and laugh again
Maidalchini did not wait longer than he
oonld help by Carafl'a's bedside, but blew
out his candles and ran off, leavinar the
door open, from which latter circumstance
the joke had a more serious ending than
was anticipated; for poor Caraffa was too
much troubled with gout to get up and
shut the door, and the draught gave the
gouty old man such a cold that he died shortly
afterw arris.
Maidalchini, indeed, seems, acoording to
faithful report, to have provided the gaeatest
part of what fun there was going in three or
four conclaves. During this oonclave, be,
with some others, gummed together the pages
of the breviary of Cardinal Lmgo, who, how
ever, was not sorry for an excuse to get rid
of the trouble or reading it. lie put, too, some
powder made from the euphorbium plant ia
the missal of Cardinal Filomarini, just befose
he bad to Bay high mass for the conclave; and
Filomarini was seized with such a fit of
rineezing that he had to stop short in the
middle of service, and could not go on.
It was not in this, but in another con
clave that Maidalchini had a furious dis
pute with Cardinal Colonna, in which they
nearly came to blows. Colonna went to
visit Maidalchini in his cell. Maidalchini,
who thought Colonna a bore, had told his
servant always to Bay he was asleep, that
is. "not at home for uoionna. xt nap
pened at this time, when Colonn called, that
Maidalchini was in his inner cell, tamog
with another cardidaL Colonna beard him,
and cried out in a rage to the servant, "Toll
your master be is a blockhead and ill-bred."
Maidalchini heard him, rushed out in a pis
sion, and said, "It is you who are a block,
head and ill-bred; for my part, I have never
bad in my family any relatives who have dio I
by the rope, feet m tne air, like the uolou
nas."
They were about to come to blows, when
Cardinal Albizzi and others caoie up an 1
separated them, and Albizzi cried out.
"Maidalchini is right. Why Bhould Colon m
try to ride the high horse, and apply hit
'blockheads and ill-breds' to fellows who are
merely rascals and knaves ?"
TLelsst popo before Clement the Nitt'i
(Koenicliosi) was Alexander tne hevent i
(Cbigi), who came pope out of the con
clave which met, as we have said, afwr
Jrmncmt th Tnth bad, bnen K'd rnt i'i
j Bute wim the help ui two uuow candles, and
of whom Alexander Pasquin said the gum
total of his pontificate consisted in doing
"very great things for himself, great things
for his family, bad things for the sovereigns
of Europe, very bad things for the cardinals,
and nothing for God." Albizzi. in fact, was
bnt Pasquin inside the conolave.
In the oonclave whioh met to eleot this
Alexander the Seventh, Albizzi was more
man usually brilliant. One of his mots
deserves reoord: when Cardinal Spada said
that be must vote in suoh and such a way,
since he had a debt of gratitude to pay, "I
presume it is a gambling debt, then, said
Albizzi. Spada had the reputation of paying
oniy gamDung aerjia, ana not always tbese.
There were a good many cardinals to
whom this election was no laughing matter,
and it was none certainly to Donna Olimpia,
who was busy working the conclave to tha
best of her power from without, and making
secret promises of all Borts, and giving secret
bribes in ready money, to get a pope elected
to her choice; but with little effect, for the
cardinal she strained all her resources te
keep out was Cbigi, and Chigi was elected. In
tnis conolave of Bixty-mne cardinals there
were, indeed, twenty-six who were recognized
as passable, that is, possible popes ; but not
one oi tnem but was, for some reason or
other, considered by some great authority as
impossible. France and Spain fought des
perately in this conclave against each other,
by the aid of bribes and promises, in order to
get a Pope to their liking; and neither would
accept as Pope a cardinal known to be de
voted to its rival. The Urand Duke had his
agents in tke conclave, the Emperor of Ger
many had his, and each was determined on
keeping out a different set of candidates; Mode-
sa pulled oneway, Parma another; one cardinal
could not be elected because ho had a sister
in-law of whom all were afraid; and all the
cardinals had had enough of Donna Olimpia
in the way of sisters-in-law. This man was
too poor, that man was too ill; this man was
too well, that man was too dissolute, and that
man was too devout, troppo santone. too
much of a saint. Barberini would not hear
of one, and Medici would not hear of an
other.
The delay and difficulties of the con
clave excited the humorous fancies of some
peasants at Arquato, near Asooli. They
dressed themselves np as cardinals, and
held a mock oonclave, in which they chose
an unfortunate shepherd for pope, who
began his mock pontificate by abolishing the
tax on grinding corn at the mill, and fixed
tne price ol Bait at a giulio for ten pounds.
Taxes had, indeed, been laid very heavily on
tne uoman poor of late- and bread and salt
had been foroed np to starvation prioes to
enable the popes to lavish away millions on
insatiable nephews and nieoes, and sisters-in-law,
and parasites of all descriptions; so the
poor snepnerd was not a bad legislator ac
cording to his lights of politioal eoonomy.
though his amateur legislation oost him dear,
for the Inquisition laid bands upon him
and put nun in prison, where he died in
less than three days of a very speedy natu
ral death.
However, after nearly four months of
one of tha most entangled and confused
of all papal elections, the conolave did, like
all human things, come to an end at last.
The game of conclave is on saoh occasions a
game of patienoe; the parties try to tire each
other out, for whioh purpose, doubtless, one
of the best lines of conduot you can adopt is,
to try and prove to your adversaries that you
rather like conolave life than otherwise, and
ate ready to wait any time for them to coma
round. On this occasion the Frenoh car
dinals, at last seeing that Medici had made
terms with Chigi, out of sheer weariness, and
in despair, withdrew their opposition to
Chigi, and Chigi was elected unanimously.
Up to that time his opponents had always
managed to secure one-third of the votes of
the conclave, the necessary number to force
exclusion against him. Chigi, aooording to
strict precedent, shed abundance of tears on
his election the lachrymatory glands
of the cardinals were always in good
condition for this purpose and
a'ked the cardinals to be bo kind as not to
press the tiara upon him. He knew, he was
so modest as to say, that he was not fit for it;
however, they were inhuman enough to insist,
and proceeded to adoration, as the rite is
called, falling on the knees, kissing of the
feet, hands, etc, while the chief of the cellege
went to- the loggia of St. Peter's, and an
nounced in the regular Latin .phrase,
a "mighty joy," "gaudium magnum, to the
people, the election of a new Pope, Alexander
the Seventh. He was not any worse,
nor much better, than the popes
immediately before and after
him; they were nearly all deorepit, worn-out
old men, in the hands of relatives who preyed
upon them. Clement the Tenth (Altieri)
was eighty when he beoame Pope, and his
faculties were so feeble that the poor old
dotard promised the same offices over and
over again to different persons in the con
clave in order to beoome Pope. The gene
ral motto of all the Popes about this period
was "Tutto per la casa e nient per laohiesa."
"All for the house, and nought for the
church."
Alexander the Seventh was only pope for
about two years, when Maidalchini, Albizzi,
and the rest, went into conolave again to elect
another pope, and their practioai and other
jokes were as lively in that as in the pre
ceding conclave; however, this time the car
dinals bad less need of amusement than
before, for they only remained shut up to
gether about a month, llospigliosi (Clement
the Ninth) was elected, but he, poor man,
only enjoyed his papacy about two years.
The tiara jumped from bead to head very
quickly in those days. AU the Year Hound.
Anecdote of Bilr, the Composeb. The
following anecdote is told of Balfe, the com
poser, who died a few days ago in London:
At the first rehearsal, which took place at
Pavia, of Rossini's Afose in Egitto, Signer
Holla, brother of the celebrated Alessandro
Rolls, leader of the orchestra of La Scala at
Milan, was leader of the orchestra at Pavia,
and having perceived that Balfe was taking
upon himself to give directions, not only to
the chorus, but to the musicians, became an
noyed and disconcerted at his interference.
At a passage for the violin, whioh oocurs
in the first act, Rolla said: "It was not
written for the instrument," and being
bo difficult was impossible to play;
at which Balfe ex claimed, "Rossini was
a violin-player, and knew what he wrote. The
Eassage is easy enough. Shift your hand
igher up and you will do it !" On hearing
this poor Rolla could contain himself no
longer, but bursting into a torrent of passion
looked np at Balfe and exclaimed: "Signor
Dottore, venite qua suonate per me, ed io
audero cantame per voi.M (Learned air, come
and play for me and I will sing for yon.) The
challenge was at once aooepted; dorn Balfe
jumped into the orchestra, took up a violin,
and played the disputed passage in snob.
masterly manner that he was applauded by
every one present. So deep waa the impres
sion made on Rolla'a miud by ttU discom
fiture ib be took o Lis bri as J in a few
I weeks died.