THE DAILY EVENING, TELEGKAPII PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JMSBKUAKY 9, 1871. 3 i Itv Affntra. Dr. S. Nanerede, killed by the late acci dent on Ibe Hudson River Railroad, was formerly of, this city. The remains of the deceased have been bronght to this city, and will be buried to-day from the residence of Mrs. Drayton, AVest Delanny place. John Harris, alias Curley Harris, was arrested on Tuesday at Pittsburg, on the charge of assault aud battery with intent to kill Hugh Dougherty and rob him of his watch, at a house in Ninth street, below Market, in December last. He will be brought to this city, when he will have a hearing on the alleged charges. At the meeting of the Board of Trusts beld yesterday, a communication was received from property owners on South Delaware avenue, asking that the street should be thoroughly repaired. The Solicitor was or dered to prepare a petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions for a jury to assess damages for the contemplated widening of Water btreet, between Market and Arch streets, in accordance with the will of Mr. GirarJ. Last evening, about 7 o'clock, Officer George Gilchrist, of the Eighth Police dis ttict, arrested a colored roan at Eleventh and Green streets, having in his possession a bundle containing a quantity of wearing ap parel. lie was taken to the station, where he gave the name of John Howard, and said that he resided in Tearl street, above Ele venth, lie was held to await a hearing to day at the Central. The convention to revise the rules of the Republican party met yesterday afternoon. The committee appointed to draft a series of rules for the consideration of the convention presented a report, the substance of which we published yesterday. Some of the rules were slightly amended, and adopted, and the convention adjourned until Monday after noon next. Lieutenant James Smith and B. Martin, Sergeant of the Seventeenth district police, were summoned to appear before Alderman Beitler yesterday, on complaint of Charles Scbneidewind, who had made afnlavit "that he bad been eighteen years and two months in the United States regular army; was ap pointed on the police force October 23, 18G!, and was an officer eleven manths; seven months at $45, and four months at $75 per month; at the time the Metropolitan Police bill came up Lieutenant Smith told me that all the men had to pay $.'!." to defeat it; I drew my pay and banded it to him; he said it was on account of the Police bill; that was in March, 1870; the next !$:." paid was in April; he told us at roll-call that he must have the money; the other stations had paid up, and be was behind-hand, and it must be paid over to the Mayor at once; I paid the second instal ment to him or the sergeant; was discharged in November, 1870." In the absence of de fendants, the case was continued until the 15th inst. John Welsh, Esq., retiring President of the Americus Club, was last evening pre sented by the club with a heavy silver tea set. Doineatle Affairs. The New Jersey Legislature has passed a resolution endorsing Philadelphia as the proper place for the celebration of the cen tennial anniversary of Amerioan indepen dence. Foreign Affair. The French provincial press generally nrge'peace. The German army will enter Paris on the l'Jth instant. An insurrection has broken out in the province of Constantino, Algeria. Among the better classes of Parisians there is a longing for an immediate peace. The Emperor of Austria has granted fall amnesty to all political and press offenders. The July issue of the Prussian war loan baa been increased from eighty millions to one hnndredand five millions of tbalers. The British representative at Versailles bas been instructed to sustain the demand made by France for an extension of the ar mistice. Cardinal Cullen avers that the Catholics claim, and expect to obtain, their own uni versity and sohools at the present session of Parliament. An extensive thread mill at Manchester, England', bos juBt been destroyed by fire, and nine hundred hands are thereby thrown out of employment. General Cremer, with one division of the FreBch Army of the East, effected a retreat from Pontarlier to Gex, but was obliged to ppike and abandon forty guns to the Pros-bians. THE RECENT HORROR. The Iluda.n River Kallraad Aecldeat Official Javeatiaatlon by the Coraner I'eattmaar mf t'.Bduriora and Poa.enaera Tvantj-ae Victims Already Discovered. Potjghkeetsie, Feb. 8. The Cjroner'a in quest in the case of the recent railroad acci dent was commenced here to-day, before Coroner Andrus, upon the body of James Stafford. CHAELE8 COSSUM, conductor of the express train, sworn, said: We left New York at six minutes past 8, on Monday evening; we should have left at 8 P. M. I was Bitting in the rear end of the seoond sleeping car with Mr. Soott, conductor; he beard the first whistle that was blown; passed Fishkill fifteen minutes past ten; whistle was probably blown at twenty-six minutes past ten; was seventeen minutes behind at Fish kill; our time there is fifty-eight minutes past nine; I beard the second whistle, and went out en the platform and commenced putting on he brakes; Scott followed me out and put on the brake on the other car; as I got my brake on and turned to take hold of the other, I felt the engineer reverse his engine; in a short time, two or three seoonds, I felt a shock, aud the car then went on fifteen or twenty feet and then came to a dead stand; there were but tw sensations; I saw a glare of light, and looking out saw a mass of flames; I was on the river Bide; the instant the train stopped the light flashed like gunpowder; there was no fire till the engine struck; oil from the oil car then entered the fire-box of the engine and became ignited; the fire sprang up like a wall of flame; the fore part of my car was then in the fire; I beard no explosion; you could see nothing because of the fire; Soott and myself then got all the passengers out of the car; the car was then all on fire; it was the second Sleeping-car; there was only one in front of it; the train consisted of the locomotive, expresa-car, baggage-car, five bleepin gears, and. one coach; when we went out of the second car I thT, nht the flames would follow baok: mu - f ii va nnRHancera were then out of tha third car, and that part of the train was uncoupled and enovea dsck; pan 01 ine on train bad broken loose and gone south and tk. h nari via farther back: 'when I cot to tL trir c.r tfce f r.v.rd p! itfuci w n i lie; tb&t "as the oar Soott bad pat the brake on: I then found we had saved all we could Ibat three sleeping cars had gone; I then went forward to Fee what was the matter; I could pee nothing all the wvy up to the bridge for the flames, which seemed to rise solidly twenty-five or thirty feet; I know nothing more about the accident, except that I did the ne cessary telegraphing; I have no absolute knowledge as to the first car going off the track, only conjecture; the first and seoond sleepers were on the bridge, and the flames were burning under the bridge on the ioa; I beard no sound of anything but the roar of the flames; Peter Vos burg was conductor of the first sleeping car; I do not know whether piteut brakes were used; I am certain no lines were behind the first sleeping-car; if the ropes hvl been pulled my brake would not have been affected after I put it on; the engine was re versed after we bad run about ten rods; we were not trjing to make up time; in cold weather our orders are not to make up time; the engineer was considered a good man; there is a flagman at the draw; the engineer said he told him to put out axed light as he passed; the first signal we got was forty yard from the bridge; the engineer of the oil tiain bad jumped off to give the signal; I think the cars in the oil train which ran off were rather back of the centre of the train; as a inle we are on time; if we had not been ba hind time the accident would not bave occurred; the night was perfectly clear; the curve south of the bridge would prevent the engineer from seeing a car off the track on the bridge; I bad taken up all the tickets in the sleeping car; you could put thirty passengers in a sleeping-car, but twelve could occupy the whole; tteie were two state-rooms in the first sleeping-car, but only one was occupied; I should judge there were sixteen or seventeen in the lirst bleeping-car; I made a statement, which appeared in the Toughkeepsie Eagle, relative to having sixty-five sleeping-car tickets; I found one or two more persons, who said they were in the first sleeper, but when I came to sift them down, they could not tell; I had in my car forty-seven passengers, who told me they were in the sleeper; there were 3 persons who went tobed at New Hamburg, that made thirteen missing; there was one child somewhere in the sleep ing car that I got a half ticket from; I got no tickets from two small children; found no one to respond to a half tioket; there were three brakes on the train. Here the witness described the patent brakes, but could not say whether they were applied; they might bave been and he not know it; trains run at full speed over all bridges. THE CONDUCTOB OF THE BLEEriNO CAR, James D. Scott, testified to his positive know ledge of the fact that the passengers of all the cars except the first sleeping car were saved, and that the train was running about thirty miles an hour. Hammond V. Grout, conductor of sleeping car, testified that directly after the first shock he saw the first sleeping car lying on its side inclining to the east and parallel with the track. It was in flames, and no help could be given those inside. 'ine inquest then adjourned till Thursday at 2 P. M. OKAPrMNO FOR BODIES. Up to this time no more bodies have been recovered, but grappling still continues. All the bodies found, thus far, have been iden tified. There are l'J of them, as follows: George S. Benedict, of Cleveland; A. A. Gillett, of Buffalo; Arthur W. Pease and wife, of Buffalo; Lucius A. Root, of Buffalo; R. Germann; Rev. Morrell Fowler and wife and three children; Dr. Samuel J. G. Nan crede; Robert Vosburg, porter of the Wagner car; James Stafford, of New York; W. N. FurbuBh, of Buffalo; George R. Thompson, of New York; Peter Vosburg, sleeping-car conductor; wuuam u. uurry. or Erie, Pa.; and R. II. Lovett, of New York. Two more bodies are yet to be recovered, that of Sim mons, engineer, and Lawrence Mooney, brukeman, which makes twenty-one victims in all. I am told that a child's underskirt was found on the ice, marked "Ella Shields." Edgar Underwood, conductor of the oil train, says the acoident was caused by a broken axle on an oil car. It broke on the switch at New Hamburg station, and as the caboose passed some one at the station hal looed. Everything was done that was possi ble to 6top the train. He saw the oil car run on the bridge, and saw it about to cross on the up track. 'Ibe train was then nearly stopped, when be got off on the top track and his brother on the down track, both looking for the up train. Ilia brother immediately shouted. "There comes the train." Every effort was made to stop it, but it looked as if no power on earth could do it. He saw the looouiotlve strike the car, when flames burst out in every direction. HON. JOIIN COVODE. memorial Addreaa af Han. William D. Keller la ine tiauseei n.epreaeaiaiivea On the official announcement of the death of Hon. John Covode in the House of Repre sentatives to-day, Mr. Kelley spoke as fol lows: Mr. Speaker: We bave again been pain fully reminded that there is an appointed time to man on earth, and that he is con sumed and vaniaheth away as the cloud. nen on Inday, tne oth ot January, ne left Washington for a brief visit to Philadelphia and Uarribburg, few of us appeared to have a firmer bold on life or the more assured pro mise of a green and comfortable old age than my late colleague, Hon. John Covode. De scending from ancestors on either side whose lives bad been prolonged beyond the allotted period, endowed with a robust and musoular frame, and having enjoyed singular immu nity from disease, be was happy in the thought that at the expiration of this Con gress be was to return to private life and de vote bis energies to the promotion of several enterprises in wbioh bis interests and feelings were engaged. But it was not so appointed. He was not to retnrn to his place in this hall, and the execution of bis cherished purposes was to be confided to other bands. From Philadelphia be went with his younger sons to West Chester, Pennsylvania, to replace them in the excellent academy in which tbey bad been receiving those educa tional advantages of which untoward cirou in stances bad deprived their father. Accompa nied by bis wife, be proceed to Harrisburg on the 10th of January. He was in the en jojment of his usual vigorous health, aud passed the evening in cheerful intercourse with friends assembled at its capital from the several quarters of bis native bute. Expeot ing to take the early morning train, he re tired earlv and slept, free from apprehension of the dread eummoner. About 3 o'clock he was awaked by a severe pain about the heart WLat wife and friends and rnedio.il skill conld do for his relief was done; but in loss .,! Ini V..!.f I .nrc 1 f -!'. ' f! !M f "'. J fcasped the diaad word, "X am dying," aiU pasrxd beyond the sphere of temporal trials or triun phs. A distinguished citizen of Massachusetts, in the course of an elaborate article entitled "The Government and the Railroad Corpora tions," in the last number of the JVorth Ame itcan Ji'erietr, in characterizing the people of Pennsylvania, says: "1 hey are not marked by intelligence. They are. In fact, rtu 1. nniutcrestti.g, very alow, and very per severing. J het-e are qualities, however, which they bold In i-on.nion Hh Die ancient Roman. Ami they poFHffs also.. in a marked decree, one other churao leriMleot that 1hh.Ic raw, the power of organiza tion, and thii ugh It nl command. They have always (Ik Irit (1 our Fn aldeiit IhI elections : the have .1 viia. In tlietr dull, heavy fashion, regulated our econom ical oliev : 1 tit 1 r lroii-naim have, In truth, proved Iron-masters Indeed, when viewed brother loctll- tl a tlip.uph tne medium of the protective system by them Imposed. Not open to argument, not receptive it ideas, n t given in flashes of brl'llant execution, tills Male none tlio Rss knows well what it wants, and Vnnwg equally well how to organize to se cure It." The author of this paragraph would proba bly have found little to commend in the cha racter and career of Mr. Covode. who was born in the mountainous wilds of Western Pennsylvania many years before that State bed provided common schools for its children, and his childhood and youth were paased in toil on a farm and in a woollen mill. He had not studied the writings of Kant, Fiehte, or Hegel, or even' made himself familiar with thoe of Carlyle or Emerson. lint, ignorant as he may bave been of the doctrine of intuitive perceptions and the body of transcendental philosophy, he had, without these aids, attained such a knowledge of the uses of material, nature aud tne Fprincs that animate, impel, or restrain men, as made him the welcome and trusted counsellor when maturing their grandest pro jects of men far more learned, brilliant, and distinguished than himself. His letters con tain no quotations from classio authors, but are replete with evidence of his sagacity, insight into the motives of men, and mascu line and matured judgment. Mr. Covode was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of March, m)S. I cat Lis parentage was humble will be inferred from the fact that his grandfather, Oarrett Uovoue, a native of Holland, was when a child kidnapped in the streets of Am sterdam by a sea captain, who brought mm to Philadelphia, and, under then existing laws, sold him into bondage as a "redemp- tjL'urij iu nun. wuuiiiuu uo nan uuiu i ur tome years after coming to manhood. He was subsequently employed as a domestic ser vants in the household of General Washing ton. He died in 1820 at the advanced age of ninety-four years. The mother of Mr. Covode was a Quaker, and it is among the traditions of her family that two of her ancestors, to gether with a person named Wood, prepared ana puoiisnea a protest against the decision of William Penn recognizing the legality of African slavery. This protest is said to have been the first anti-slavery manifesto pub lished in this country. Ihe first publio office filled by Mr. Covode was that of justice of the peace "for Ligonier and Fairfield townships," to which he was appointed by Governor Wolf before he was twenty-four years of age. Then, aud in this humble office, it was that his neighbors be stowed ut on him the sobriquet of honest John Covode. His office, to which angry litigants were summoned, was in truth a court of con ciliation, in which, regardless of the emolu ments of office, the judge found his duty and pleasuie in adjusting by compromise disputed olaims between his neighbors and soothing their ex ssperation. In 184o he was nominated by the Whig con ferees of the counties of Somerset and West moreland as the candidate of that party for State Senator. The district was largely De mocratic and he was defeated, although he received several hundred more votes than any other candidate on the State or local ticket. At the next senatorial election he wan again nominated, and such was his personal popu larity that though both counties gave large Uemooratio majorities for the general ticket, he came within fifty votes of election. In 1854 be was nominated for Congress by the Whigs. of the Nineteenth district, consisting of Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong counties. His competitor had been returned at the preceding election by a large majority, but Air. fJovode led nim 2757 votes; and was returned. This was the Thirty-fourth Con gress, and be was re-elected to the Thirty- fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh. On the 5tb of March, 1800, Mr. Covode in troduced a resolution providing for a com mittee of five members of the House "for the pnrpot-e of investigating whether the Presi dent of the United States or any other offiaer of the Uovernment has, by money, patro nage, or other improper means, sought to in fluence the action ox Congres s, or any com mittee thereof, for or against the passage of any law appertaining to the rights of any State or Territory," etc Few who were engaged in the political struggles of those days will forget the in dustry, energy, and ability with which Mr. Covode conducted the investigation ordered by this resolution, or the influence his elabo rate report bad upon the publio mind. The report was a thorough exposure of the cor rupt appliances by which the Kansas-Nebraska legislation had been secured, and was soon in the hands of every Republioan speaker or writer in the country. Mr. Covode was twice married, and had three Hons by bis first marriage, all of whom be gave to the country upon the breaking out of the war. George, the eldest, rose by gradual and well-won promotion to the rank of colonel, and was killed while leading his regiment at the battle of St. Mary's Church, in 18C4. The youngest, Jacob, pined for more than eighteen months in the loathsome and pebtilential pen provided for Union prisoners at Andersonville. He still lives, a broken and prematurely old man. Mr. Covode's industry and enterprise had mean while secured him an ample competence, ana with bis sons he was ready to devote this, too, to bis country; and while bankers and capi talists were doubting the propriety of invest ing in the war loan about to be issued, the telegraph informed the people that John Covode had apprised the Secretary of the Treasury of Lin purpose to take $50,000 of the forthcoming bonds. He was a member of the joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. To the labors of this committee he devoted himself with untir ing zeal until the 4th of March, 18ii:S, when; having declined a nomination, he retired from Congress. Availing himself of the knowledge Mr. Covode had thus aoquired, and of his quick perception of the motives of men, President Johsson requested him to make a tour of observation through the unrecon structed States, and report his conclusions and the general facts upon which they were based. But observing the change that had taken place in the views and purposes of the President, be soon returned and submitted a report, wLicb was never made publio, though the House called upon the President for a copy thereof. Mr. Covode having refused to be a candi date, the district was represented by a Denio (i i f.-. 1 . r, !. :Vi i'k I h J T'':i'v. i eighth tad Thirty-ninth Consres"e3' YwU Ing to the demands of bis party he, however, accepted a nomination for the Fortieth, and was returned by a handsome majority, and was, after a contest by Hon. nenry D. Fos ter, also awarded a seat in the Forty-firs' Congress. His influence was not confined to bis county or Congressional district. It was felt throughout the State, not only in politics, but in all measures projected for the development of its boundless material re sources. Having conducted the campaign that resulted in the re-election of General Geary, he was at the time of his death Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. In comparatively early manhood he became the owner of the woollen mill in which he had been employed when a boy. He watched with interest our progress in the manufacture of textiles and labored to promote their di versification and perfection. But his mill did not offer an adequate field for his activity. He took a zealous part in promoting the con struction of internal improvements by which the seaboard should be connected with the then opening West, and on the completion of the Pennsylvania Canal engaged largely in the business of transportation. He was also a liberal and energetic promoter of the con struction of the Pennsylvania Central Rail road. On the completion of this ro9d to Lockport, where he lived and snperin intended his mill, he concentrated Lis Btock upon the western sections of the canal and engaged in forwarding to and from Pittsburg the rapidly increasing freight moved by the railroad. About this time he also organized the Westmoreland Coal Com pany, which has developed the immense de posits of gas coal that underlie in such aftbt ence his native bills. By this operation he sdded to the wealth of every farmer in the county, for the army of stalwart men now earning liberal wages by mining and hand ling this coal is so numerous that it gives them a steady home market not only for the cereal?, but the minor productions of the farm which will not bear extended transpor tation. Mr. Speaker, what I have said is sufficient to show that Mr. Covode was a man of power and a useful citizen. He had long been a member ef the Methodist Episcopal Church, was faithful to all the relations of life, and his story may be read with profit by the youth of the country. Born subject to those "twin jailers of the daring heart, low birth and iron fortune," and receiving the benefits of but the smallest opportunities for early culture, he mastered fortune, commanded the confidence of his neighbors and fellow-citizens, aud se cured for his name an honorable place in his country's history, and, by originating and promoting beneficent enterprises, wrote it endnringly on the hills and in the homes of bis native county. He left a wife and seven children to mourn bis sudden death. The results of his provident eare surround them, and their sorrow is alleviated by the confi dent assurance that ho wh? waso fondly de voted to them has entered upon the rewards that are earned by a well-spent life. Dramatizing the Pope. At the Teatro delle Muse, in Ancona, a Piedmontese com pany, the Comioa Compagnia Piedmontese, bave been giving in the Piedmontese dialect "La Caduta del Foter Temporal, Allusione Politica Contemporanea," by Luigi Pie tracqua. Among the dramatis persona: are: Don Temporal, Madame Esperia and her daughters, Tota Romanina, Tota Emilia, Tota Fiorina, Tota Adriana, Partenope, Lom bard, Madama Diplomassia, Moesn Berlingh, Mon6u Danubian, and Monsn Malaga. It is seldom that a great historical event, such as the fall of the temporal power of the Pope at Rome, is so quickly brought upon the stage, but the liberation of Rome seems to have roused the Italians to unusual activity in every phase of life. Quest ? Some workmen lately excavating outside the walls of Cadiz suddenly came upon a large slab of marble, bearing some at pre sent undeciphered characters. Raising the Blab, tbey fonnd it covered the entrance to a fimall vault. Provided with lights, they de scended seven steps, and found it to be forty metres square by four high. In a small recess they discovered seven large amphortn, and in the centre two smaller ones secured by a chain. 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JEWELRY, AND CO., 8. i. ootiier feEVENTH said cUEoNc'T tiueeta. AMOIEMENl AMERIOAN A HAD W MY OP MUSIC. V. thin (ThiirBfiRT) EVRNI VO, Feb. 9. GALA OFKRA NiGUT. Only time, positively, of IL TROVATOWW, 1LTROVATOHE, 1LTKOVATORK, i.k.k ILTROVATORE, with the Great Cast. Flrt Appearance of BMMA UOWSONasLEOVORA, in which otie has achieved a slanal trlnrnph. i l,,S Z,,;LIA SKUMN as AZUCKNA, in wnich he li conffHReiliy unrivalled. MR. WM. CASTLKaa MaJnRICO, his most popular Impersonation. MR. IUNKI DRAYTON as COUNT Dt LUNA, hts orlgliml lole and most famous impersonation. URAND ENTR'ACTE C'OV'.'RRT. First apptaranceof JOSEPH HKRRMAN8. Jlrst a pen ranee of MISS ALMA KRAI 8 E, Last appearance but one of 'IRK WONDhHPUb CHILD AMERICUS. 1 he performance of 11 Trovatore by this company has Invariably attracted the most immense houses. This cast Is unexoeptionably great, and presents the beauties of the Optra with a uniform excellence, re ceiVlnjrthe highest degree of applause and com mendation. TO-MORROW (Friday), Benefit of the popn ar tenor, ....,, , MR. W. CASTLE, rim time in Fngiish of Beethoven's immortal opera. FIDELIO. SATURDAY (JALA FAREWELL MATIN BE, IMMENSE PROUKAMMB. All the preat Doutile Company appeir. MOZART, VON WEUER, VON FLOTOW. The glorious second act of Marriage of Figaro. Second act of Kcfr Frelschutz. Nteond actof Martha. 1 his Immense programme, the greatest ever pre enttd by this compauy, 1b selected as present.nir in favorite cumbers all of the members or tho Great Conpanv. SATURDAY NIGHT-FA REWBLL NK3HT. FaUoT IN OEttMN. IIF.RRMAN'8, the great Basso, In his ramons !m persouatlon or Mephlutopheles, uulversilly believed to rank with tha greatest lyric and dramatic triumphs of the stage. Miss ALMA KRAl'SE, the distinguished vonng Prima Donna. Her first appearanje lu Pnilailolntiia a Margurrtte Miss JENNY VON BfPK as Slebel. Mr. wiiUELM. LOTTI, the popular German Tenor, as Fanot. GRAND M II.1TARY PAGEANT in the Fonrth Act. AN IMMENSE BRASS AND RKED MILITARY BAND. AdilltlonaW Chorus. Extra Graud Orohea tra. A thoroughly delightful performance of this verv popular Opera. SECURE YOUR SEATS. A"-MERIO AN ACADEMY OF MUSIC TWO WORE GRAND CONCERTS BY THEOKORE THOMAS' UNEQUALLED GONoEKT ORGANIZATION WKDWKSDAY EVENING, Feb. 15. TMRSDAY EVENING, Feb. 16. The public Is respectfully Informed that arrange men i s bave been completed to give two addi tional GRAND CONCERTS. On WEDNESJ1AY EVENING. Feb. 16, and THURSDAY EVENING. Feb. 1J, Mr. Thomas will be assisted by the celebrated Pianist, MISS ANNA MEHLIG, and bis UNRIVALLED ORCHESTRA, many of whom are EMINENT SOLOISTS. The programmes will be eutlrely new. On Wed nesday evening. In compliance with numerous re quests, will be performed theeutlre SYMPHONY No. 6, PASTORALE Beethoven Admission Tickets one Dollar Reserved Seats Fifty Cents Extra Family Circle. Fifty Cents Gallery Twentv-dve Cents SIECIAL NOTICE. Subscription Tickets for Two Concerts, lnciudiDg Reserved Seats, Two Dol lar. Can be obtained on Thursday aud Frldav, February 9 and 10, at F. A. North fc Ca's, MuMc Store only, No. M?a Chesnut street. The regular sale of Reserved Seats and Tickets will comraeuce on Saturday, the llth, at F. A. North fc Co.'s Music Store, No. Hi'26 Chesnuc Btreet, and at the Box I) ftlce, of the Academy. Full pregrainmes can be obtained at the Ticket Cilice and principal Music Stores. s tf WALNT7T STREET THEATRE. . THREE FAREWELL, NIGHTS of ' MR. JOHN S.CHRKK (Prior to his departure for Kurope). THIS (Ihurcdij) EVENING, Feb. . Tom Taylor's lieaut'iui comedy in three acts of THE BAKrS IN THE WOOD. JEREMIAH BKETLE Mr. JOHN S.CLARKE To conclude with Buckstone'a admirable comedy in three acts ot ' LEAP YEA'?. MR. DIMPLE Mr. JOHN 8. CLARKE E T T WPXTTIM.Tta -111 aiTVTm STREET E. L. DAVENPORT : Legsoe and Manager THIS EVENING, 8 JOBeph C. Foster's gra ml spectacular drama of the OLD MAN Ob' THE MOUNTAIN, replete with gorgeous eilects lu every department, and the characters tilled by DAVENPORTS LOU ISLE STAR COMPANY. Tickets secured u advance at Abel's Dramatic Repository, No. 1211 Chesnut street, from 9 until 5 o'clock. MRS. JOHN DREW'S ARCH STREET THEATRE Begins V to 8 o'clock. HOUSES PACKED 'IO THK ROOF. 6KCOND WEEK GRLAT srtccKbS. LYDIA THOMPSON AND TROUPE. MONDAJ, H IJEmjAY, WEkNE'DAY. AND IHURJSDY EVENINGS, LURLINB. Sir Rupert the Reck!ea . .M!ss LYDIA THOM PSON FRIDAY BENEFIT OF LYIMA THOMPSON. SIN HAD THE SAILOR. SATURDAY LYIH A THOMPSON MATINEE. QRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMBINATION. SPECIAL NOTICE. All matters concerning the business of the present week ef opera, except upon the benefit nights an nounced, are respectfully referred to the Manage ment of the German Companv, represented here b? Mr. LEONARD GROVEK, who has purchased all our interest li the receipts or the week, except as above stated. O. D. HESS & CO, Proprietors and Managers Grand England Opera Combination, S 4 tf .ENNEKCIIOIR BA L MASQUE. AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, TUESDAY, February 14. . One-half of the proceeds will be appropriated to the assistance of the sufferers in the French aud German war. Cards of Admission t admitting a gentleman and one lady. Extra lady's ticket 11 each, to be had at L. Meyer's, No. Hio CUesnut street, Lte& Walker's, No. 92a ChesDut street, Continen tal Hotel, R. T. Schmidt's, No. 61(1 Arch street, J. A. Payne, No. 19 S. Broad street, Andre fc Co., No. 1104 Chesnut street, snd at F. A. North fc CVs, No. Riga Chesnut at reft, 1 IS tFU 8SEMBLY BUILDINGS LA8T WEEK OF TUB WONDERFUL TWO-HEADED GIRL COMBINATION. ASK ANY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS Whfl have attended the receptions within the pas': two weeks, and they will iuform yon that it Is the most NOVEL. PLEASING, AND 1NTEKESTING EN TERTAINMENT EVER OIVES IN THIS CITY. Receptions from 2 till 5 and from T till 10 P. M. Ad mission, 86 cents ; Children, is cents. 87 8t O I O E it T H A L II CHESNUT Street, above Twelfth. A GRAM) BILLIARD CONTEST Between E. J. FLUNKETT, Champton of Pennsyl vania, and E. U. NELMS, for aoo, will be played on THURSDAY EVENING, Feb. 9, 18T1. The game to be the American 4 ball, looo points, push and crotch barred. Tinkets w cents. To be bad at the Hall and principal Billiard Rooms. 8 T 3t ITOX'BNEW AMERICAN THEATRE, CHESNUT J; Street, above Tenth, AMUSEMENTS OF ALL NATIONS. EVERY EVENING And SATURDAY MATINEE. GREAT CONGRESS OF STARS. Comprising the bent artists in tUe;coutitry, who appear la Grand Ballets, Dutch Comedy, Local (Sketches, Minstrelsy, EthloplanJAcU, Farce, ComiO Vocallsm, Pantomime, eto. MERICAN MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE Northwest corBer of NINTH and ARCH Streets. Open dally from A. M. to 10 P. M. 100,000 CURIOSITIES From all parts of the World. THIRTY CAGES OF WILD ANIMALS. The Splendid Dramatic Company appearing in tha Lecture Room every Evening at 8 o'clock, and Wed nesday and Saturday afternoons at o'clock. A dm igBiun to all the Attractions, 80 cent. 18 H tX aj M Mwum TMV1TUH! T OTHER MEL'S l. or TBI PICTURE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, Now on Exhibition at No. loos l)HE8NUT Street, I. ,.. hi i v.. to io r. v. I Admits 23 conta. J wstuu
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