THE DAILY EVENING, TELEGKAPII PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JMSBKUAKY 9, 1871.
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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. In these were found two tablets appa
rently covered with inscriptions In wax, and
supposed to be in early Latin, as well as
several gold and bronze coins. The Madrid
Ccrrespondeneia says, "Is this a fact or an
Andalubian shave?"
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Also, a large assortment of PHOTOGRAPH
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Ladles' and Gents' Watches
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DIAMONDS in the newest styles or Settings.
LADIES' and GENTS' CHAINS, seta of JBVVELRY
of tne latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN
BRACELETS, Etc. Eto.
Cur stock has been largely Increased for the ap
proich n holidays, and new goods received dally.
Silver Ware of the latest designs In great variety,
for wedding presents.
Repairing done In the best manner and guaran
teed. siifmwi
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both Remontolr fc Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hoar
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. 86
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ro. 520 AllCU Street,
ARE SELLING AT COST, PREVIOUS TO HE
MOVING TO NO. m CHESNUT STREET,
FINE WATCHES,
OPERA AND LEONTINE CHAINS,
DIAMOND RINGS,
JEWELRT,
8 8 Winirp t FANCY SILVERWARE,
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Wholesale Dealers in
WATCHES. 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
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PICTURE
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
Now on Exhibition at
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