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CARPENTER—On the morning of' the 28th inst.,
Wm. S. Carpenter, Tr., on of bfartha and the late Win.
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DICKEY—On the morning of the-27th instant, Eli
zabeth, relict of the late John Dickey.
Her friends and those of the family are invited, to
attend the funeral from her late residence, No. 51
lgorth Thirteenth street. on Saturday morning, at ten
O'clock. _
BOBEBTE—On the morning of the 27th Instant
William Cole Fife, son of Wm. H. H. and Martha F.
Roberts, aged 5 months and 2 days.
SATINDBRS— Macpherson Saunde carriage.)e nth
instant, (having been thrown from a in the
49th year of his age.
His friends and those of the family are invited to at
tend his funeral from his late residence, No. 543 York
avenue, on bixth day. 29th instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M,
Interment at South Laurel Hill.
SHOW - F.VG—on the 15th instant, at St. Martin's,
Worcester county, Md., William Showell, Sr., aged 76
years. It
VAN BElL—Suddenly. on the 26th instant, FLAX
man Van Bell, Esq., in the 67th year of his age.
The relatives and male friends of the family. East
-ern Star Lodge, No; 186, A. Y. M., and the Order in
fgeneral, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral
rom his late residence. 521 Franklin street, on Friday
morning, the 29th instant, at lo o'clock,
ATELDDEDN, Piano and Table Cloths, richly etn
broldered a new lot just received for Christmas
Presents. EYRE & LANDELL, Fourth and Arch sta
MEBRuktAc FAST COLORED PRINTS.—FuII as
sortment of these justly celebrated Prints, corn
prising all the new patterns. EYRE d LANDED L.
tsPECI,IL NOTICE.
iro' THE SKETCH CLUB,
PRIZE EXHIBITION.
OPEN DALLY
At the Academy of Fine Arts,
With 350 new Works by all the great American Artists
SCULPTURE, PAINTING & DE3IGN
Admission, 25 cents
ImYHOWARD HOSPITAL, Nos. MS and 1520
Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med
treatment and medicines furnished gratuitously
to the poor. se.S
IU4. NOTICE.—HOME FOR AGED AND IN
FIRM COLORED' PEOPLE.—The Annual
Meeting will be held on fifth day,_(TEURSDAY) first
month, Ilth, 1866, at the Home, No. 340 South Front
street, M. BALDERSTON,
lt* Secretary.
17 KENSINGTON SOUP SOCIETT.—& meeting
of the Contributors to this Institution will be
on THAR.SDAY EVENING, December 2S, at 7ii•
o'clock, at the Soup House,247 Allen street below Marl
borough, to elect Officers and Managers for the ensu
ing year. cmART:FiS M. LUKENS.
de27-2t rp* Secretary,
UOFFICE OF THE NORTH PENNSYL
VANIA RAILROAD L;OMPANY, Philadel
phia, No. 407 Walnut street, Dec. 26, 1865.
The coupons due January 1 1866, by this Company,
will be paid upon presentation on and after TUES
DAY. January% WILLIAM WISTER.
de2B-tjal Treasurer.
PHILADELPHIA AND GRAY'S FERRY
PAbSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY, PHILA
DELPHIA, December, 28, 1865.
The Annual Meeting of Stockholders and an election
far President, Treasurer and six Directors will be held
at the Office of the Company, Twenty second .street,
below Spruce, on TUESDAY. January 16, 1866 at 18
o'clock A. M. 'JAS. McPADDEN, Jr.,
de2B.ths to t jal6 Secretary.
THE FORTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF
eTHE "INDIGENT WIDOWS' AND SINGLE
WOMEN'S SOCIETY, OF PHILADELPHIA," will
be held at the Widows' Asylmn, Cherry street, above
Seventeenth, on THURSDAY, January llth, 1866, at
12 o'clock, at which time the annual report will be
read, and an address delivered by Rev. Dr. Boardman.
The subscribers and other friends or the Institution,
are invited to attend. de2Etjas.lo.st
THE NORTHERN SOUP SOCIETY will
open their House situated at the corner of Peter's
sTilTb ' y and Fourth street, above Brown, for the gratui
tous distribution of soup to the poor, on THURSDAY,
December 28th. During the past year, 54,381 quarts of
soup were distributed to 3,288 persons, besides which
9,090 baths were given to respectable poor women and
children. Donations in money or material will be
thankfully received at the house or - by either of the
undersigned:
CHARLES J. SUTTER, President, 304 Callowhill
street.
SAMUEL T. CHILD, Secretary, 824• North Second
street.
T.Arormis PEROT, Treasurer, 621 Market street.
BIGHARD W. BACON, 428 North Fifth street.
JOHN 0. JAMB.i. 239 North Third street. d2B-6t*
Or by any of the other managers of the society.
OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH CuAL AND
'i r k:NAVIGATION COMPANY, PHILADEL.PHIA,
December 21et,1865.
LOAN FOR SALE.
IN SUMS TO SUIT PURCHASERS.
The Loan of this Company, due April Ist, la2l, inte
rest payable quarterly, at the rate of six per cent. per
-annum.
This Loan Is secured by a mortgage on all the COl3l
- Coal Lands, Canals, and Slackwater Navigation
an the Lehigh river,and all their Railroads,constructed
and to be constructed, between Mauch Chunk and
Wilkesbarre, and branch roads connected therewith,
and the franchise of the Company relating thereto.
Apply to SOLOMON SHEPHERD, Treasurer,
de2l-rptf/ 122 South Second street.
A SOUP SOCIETY, B
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bPRIZIG GARD__
TONWOOD, S. E. cor.
At the annual meeting of
the following gentlemen wc
ensuing year:
Jas. Peters, Pres't. Eli Kroupp,
John M. Ogden, V. Pres't. nos. March,
• Thos. Mather, Trees. A. V. Murphy,
F. B. Atmore, Sec! Hiram Miller,
-C. P, Bower, Israel Peterson,
Jas. Chambers, Richard Peterson,
Jos. H. Collins, IGilbert S. Parker,
P.. Etdman, Franklin Shoemaker,
.John Edgar, Wm. Vandevere,
John @- GinnodO; David Vandevere,
Jos W. Gaakil, Henry Warner,
John Godbou, Amos Walker,
Aaron W. Gaskill,
Te Managers are grateful for the liberality hereto.
fore extended to them in behalf of the poor of the
district, and respectfully ask a continuance of the same
-during the coming sea Son.
Samuel W. Black has been reappointed collector and
.all contributions made to him or to any of the above
.Managers, will be gratefully received. The House will
- be opened for the distribution of soup to the deserving
?poor on TUESDAY next, Jan. 2d, 1866.
F: B. ATMORE, Secretary,
Tenth and Buttonwood streets.
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the patent office a new machine for manu
facturing the coffee berry out of flour, so
that the old plan "buy your coffee and
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The Exhibition of the Academy of Fine
Arts.
SOUTHWEST GALLERY
Three departments :contending for sepa
rate prizes are condensed in this one room:
namely, Water Colors, Drawings, and
Sculpture. We will simply emphasize a
few in each department which seem most
worthy.
No. 244. "Ding Henry 1V.," by S. J.
Ferris. This fine head secured the second
prize of $5O for Drawings. It is a noble
visage, in intense light and shade, with a
dark head. dress, relieved by one glittering
jewel. The expression is singularly rapt,
intellectual, and piercing. It is minutely
shaded with pen-and-ink, over a low key' of
color. Although one of the smallest; itj is
to our fancy second to none of the cartoons
displayed, in power and depth.
No. 250. "Attack on Rebel Raiders," by
Edmund B. Bensell, a tumultuous, Darley
ish subject, full of alertness and invention.
No. 251. "The Blind Knitter," by M. L.
Wagner. A good study of a black-haired
young girl, with a listening air, engaged in
knitting, her eyes fast shut. The effect is
spoiled by too great a height of blank back
ground over the head of the subject.
No. 261. "Illumination,"—(unfinished)—
by C. F. Haseltine. This is one of the
largest illuminations we have seen, and be
ing tilled with the Emost intricate detail,
must be the result of almost incredible
labor. A shield bearing a bull's head, and
supported by figures in armor, is surrounded
by elaborate arabesques through which
play the wildest fancies of birds, fish and
reptiles.
N 0.261. "Power of Death," and "Sketches,"
by W. H. Beard. The principal study re
presents an enormous tiger setting his terri
ble strength against the supernatural force
of death, represented as a sheeted skeleton.
No. 266. " Illuminated Cross," by Charles
M. Jencltes. A good example of taste, and
a neat, firm hand.
No. 268. " Haunt of the Panther," by E.
B. BenselL A remarkably rich and artistic
pen-and-ink study.
No. 273. " Wood Nymph," by George F.
Bensell. A large crayon figure, not unlike
the " Undine" of the same artist, in the
East Room. This obtained a first prize.
The leaves and objects surrounding the
figure grow faint and dim as they approach
its outlines, giving a poetical sense of super
nature to the Nymph. The touch is beauti
hilly firm and free.
No. 275. "Eve," by Fish; big, crooked
and vulgar.
No. 280. "Elijah fed by the Ravens," by
R. Wylie. A crayon drawing of remark
able power. The figure has majesty, the
drapery and anatomy show considerable
scholarship, and the chiaroscuro is grave
and impressive.
No. 288. "After the Storm," by D. R.
Knight. A crayon picture of woods de
vastated by a hurricane, with a figure lying
dead at the roots of a blasted tree.
No. 298 and 306. "The Old Forester" and
"The Farm Yard," rustic vignettes by
Darley, in india-ink; they are of course
replete with expression and life.
No. 300. "Birds and Fruit" by Gilbert
Burling. A water-color study of still lice
not less excellent for drawing and texture
than for the light and lovely effect of color
yielded by the variegated plumage and bril
liant accessories. This picture bore the
palm in the opinion of the committee on
prizes, rand though quite small, gained the
neat little premium of $75.
No. 308. "Autumn Winds" by J. John .
the remaining prize picture. It is a land
scape in water-color, representing a sky
sheeted with slaty clouds, and dishevelled
corn-shucks racing before the blast. Some
body asked Jane Eyre how it was possible
to paint wind; and this picture is a very
good answer to the question. The whole
scene seems to be in motion with the powers
of the air, and the figure catching his hat is
hardly needed to define the title.
The display of sculpture includes some
very interesting works. In the centre
stands the magnificent bronze by Ward,
executed from the model which has been
exhibited at the Academy for a year or two.
It gains immensely by the transfer to a
more adequate material. The subject is an
Herculean young negro, with the conflict of
a hundred dawning impressions marked in
his face,in the act of lifting himself from a
crouching attitude indicative of slavery,
while the chains fall from his arms.. It is
very fine, both in expression and anatomy.
Lannt Thompson exhibits a dignified head
of Bryant, half lost in a marble cloud of
hair and beard.
Several of the contributions are from our
'own city, Bailly has his "Model for a
Lincoln monument," his very striking bust
of Gen. Patterson, and his beautiful head of
"Surprise," one of the most bewitching
efforts of modern sculpture; besides the
full length marble figure of the Child drop
ping a Bird's nest, just from the chißel, and
scarcely finished to his usual point of per
fection. '
Howard Roberts displays his pleasant
childish figure in plaster, called "Shan't
have it,'l a spirited and very pretty con
ception.
Mr. Hoppin contributes some ingenious
sculpture in cork, executed, we believe,
with a common penknife. This slight
material and humble tool have sufficed
him for very interesting models of the
Coliseum, rTemple of Theseus and West
indnisterAbbey, which show a taste and
sense of proportion which we hope to see
expanding some day into more legitimate
art.
Kuntze's effigies of Goethe and Schiller
are careful portrait models, apt.to be,Oer
looked among the larger works.
.Tohn Rogers, whose plaster sketches are
by this time the delight of every other house
hold, was so obliging as to send his latest
work to the exhibition before exposing it
elsewhere. It has since found its way to the
shop windows, and attraots wiiversal atten•
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1865
Lion. It is one of the most interesting stories
which have arisen in even his inventive
brain. A rebel mother, incited by starva
tion and pity for her child, Is 'about to take
the oath of loyalty tendered to her on paper
by a polite young officer. Hunger and a
sense of false honor are contending in her
mind, and the group represents the acme of
the contest. The little story is told with all
that point and picturesqueness familiar to
the admirers of Mr. Rogers.
THE OLD 'NV 0 rt. ]LID
AMERICAN AND MEXICAN TOPICS
ABROAD.
Interesting Extracts from Foreign
Journals.
On the third page of our double sheet will
be found an interesting summary of foreign
news. We make the subjoined extracts
from our files, in addition :
(Prom the London Times, Dec. 12.1
We accept, without reserve, every assu
rance of the continued friendship between
France and the United States which found
utterance at the dinner,but we do so because
the course of past events made their truth
antecedently probable, or rather certain.
We are left just where we were,but, it must
be added, our former position was perfectly
satisfactory. Had we nothing mole to rely
upon than the enthusiasm of the guests at
the Grand Hotel, we should not, however,
be so confident. It would, in fact, be a mis
take to accept the brilliant assembly which
met together at the top of the Rue de la Pain
as the spokesmen of the American people.
The strength of the nation lies in a orris of
energetic, industrions and self-reliant men,
who have nothing in common with traveled
lovers of art. To confound together
Americans at home and Americans abroad
is as great a blinder as it would be to sup
pose that a Russian nobleman on his travels
is a representative of a Russian peasant
barely emancipated from serfdom. The
mistake iu the latter case would be imma
terial, because the Russian peasant has no
political power, but whenever the mistake
is made with respect to America the result
is a certain misapprehension of American
politics. Men take the inflated nonsense
which some orator or journalist chooses to
utter as a retlectioia of the sense of the peo
ple, and are astonished to find that the line
of action adopted by the Executive Power
is apparently at variance with the opinions
of the masses governed. In fact. how
ever, the rough common sense and un
gainly shrewdness of a plain farmer of
New England or Illinois often' afford a
better test of public opinion than the
speeches of professed p,oliucians, and it was
not the least of Mr. Lincoln's excellences
that he was the embodiment of a class which
is the depositary of political power in the
Union, but which before his time almost
wanted a reprssentative. Gen. Grant seems
to have inherited in some degree this charac
teristic of the late'president. It would seem
that there never has been a more inarticu
late hero.—The words he utters are few
and rugged, but when they come they ex
press the dogged resolution; the ardor
slowlykindled, but when once alight steadily
maintained, the unflinching pertinacity, and
the power of adapting means to ends which,
acting together, crushed the Southern Con
federation, and which we are bound to
recognize the more readily because they are
among the best characteristics we covet for
ourselves.
No protestations are needed to convince
the world of the peaceful designs of the
American people. The republic had armies
in the field numbering their hundreds of
thousands, which, after encountering a pro
tracted and stubborn resistance, found
themselves suddenly in the possession of
complete victory. In the moment of their
success, flushed with the triumph they had
achieved and intoxicated with glory, they
have not demanded to be led against any
new enemies; they have not murmured at
a sudden dismissal. Armies have been
quietly disbanded, and hundreds of thou
sands of volunteers have gone homeward
as men turn to their accustomed work.
These are facts more eloquent than any
speeches which can be delivered. This last
triumph of the American nation is its
greatest, for it is a triumph in which rulers
can claim no share, and for which generals
can ask no credit. It is a triumph of the
citizens themselves, who went to the rescue
of their country when its unity appeared in
danger, and now beWILe themselves to their
fields and homest when the danger is
past.
The Mexican Question.
Under the title of "The beginning of the
end in Mdxico," the London Observer pub
lishes a communicated paragraph, the text
of which is the departure of the Empress
Charlotte for Europe. According to the Ob
server's authOrity, " the French Emperor
is apprehensive lest Maximilian should
shortly follow his 'consort, and has prevailed
'on Sefior Hidalgo,: the Mexican Minister at
Paris, to proceed to Mexico and endeavor to
dissuade Maximilian from abdicating.
Senor Hidalgo will go out in the French
packet, which is to sail from St. Nazaire f op
the 15th inst. It is very doubtful whether
he will arrive in Mexico ibefore Maximilian
has taken his departure, the probability
being that both Emperor and Empress will
reach Europe before the ensuing New Year.
Some journals treat the statements as far
fetched speculations on the part of the Ob
server.
The Mexican Mission.
[From the Memorial Diplomatioue, Dec. 9.]
We learn from Washington that President
Johnson has spontaneously given to the
Minister of. France the Most reassuring ex
planations as to the character and bearing
of the recent measure by which Uen. Logan
was accredited as representative of :the
United States to the ex-President Juarez.
According to' our correspondents, General
Logan is a friend of President Johnson, and
the functionahe has undertaken will ba re
munerated; tout that he will exercise them
at' ashington and not :near the person of
Juarez. In the second place, this measure
is said to have been 'adopted for some pur
poses, with a view to facilitate and
strengthen the position of President John
son and his Cabinet in presence of the Con-'
gross, and as an apparent satisfaction given
to the radical party, which is making great
efforts to force on the United States a policy
hostile) to the Mexican Government. Leuitly,
our correspondents add 'that the step taken
by Mr. Johnson is not without precedents
in Europe, and that these precedents will
contribute show its real character. Thus
Spain, Bavaria and Saxony have all very
lately maintained their respective represen
tatives about the person of the Sing of
OUR WHOLE couivirrtv
Naples, Francis 11., and yet neither de
clarednor made war against Italy. Each
State may therefore show certain personal
attentions, and keep them in the limits of
independence, without at all affecting its
foreign policy.
The Temper of the South.
The American correspondent of the Lon
don Times writes as follows from Columbia,
S. C. under date of Nov. 20:
The Southern people are, I repeat, con
vinced that the National Government and
the Northern States are determined to keep
them, in the words of one of their number,as
"Austria keeps Hungary, and Russia Po
land." This feeling is no doubt erroneous.
Some of the causes of it I haVe endeavored
to explain. There are others which have
also been touched upon in previous letters.
The presence of negro soldiers in towns is
looked upon as an intolerable insult offered
to the Southern people. A physician com
plained to me the other day,in a town I was
paSsing through, that he was compelled to
visit the prisoners sometimes, and that
to get into the prison be was compelled to
show a pass to a negro sergeant who had
been a slave in the same town. The negroes
all looked upon this as a degradation of
their former masters, and if they looked
upon it as such, how much more keenly
would the masters feel it! Then the con
stant holding of military commissions to try
peons who ought to be summoned before
civil courts greatly irritates the people.
When I was in Wilmington two men were
being tried for their lives before one of these
military courts. Such circumstances make
the people feel all the bitterness of conquest.
Occasional strange acts of the government
further help to keep them in a state of fret
ting and uneasiness. For instance, an
order has just been issued by the ad
mininistration demanding the restoration
to it of all the horses and castle taken
by the Confederates during the war.
Now, seeing that Sherman scarcely left a
horse or an ox alive wherever he went, and
tbat other "raiders" carried off everything
wherever Sherman did not go, this order
lo , ks like a bad joke at the expense ~f the
South. It is sometimes worse than that,
however. An infortoer has only to go to
th.? Provost Marshal find declare that a cer
tain inhabitant has aliorse longing t , the
Utited States. He gets $2" , for his pains,
and a guard is sent to take away the horse.
There are not a few wretches iu every South
err town who will drive a profitable trade by
inens ofthis new order. Theu arrests are still
ton:frequently made for offences commited
darn,. or immediately after, the war. I
knew of one case in which a gentleman has
Lees arrested five or six several times since
last April, because one day, just after Lee's
surrender, he happened to cross frm a rela
tives house in Maryland into Virginia with
a Confederate uniform on his back. If the
government allows its hot-headed officials
to continue these practices, it must not be
surprised if it renders undying that feeling
which has been so often expressed to me in
these words: "We are a different people
from the North, and can never be united.
Our bloods do not run at the same temper
ature, and we never can be friends with
thenc.''
• There is a profound belief in the
South that the North intends to humiliate
the people to the lowest point. It was in
the South that the pride of being descended
from English stock, and of preserving the
characteristics of gentlemen, was most
generally felt. Assuredly, such tastes find
little sympathy in the more mined and
vagrant populations of the North, and when
the boundaries of Virginia are passed the
breaking up of the Southern "aristocracy"
would cause regret to but very few. "It is
this end," say Southern men, "that Eng
land ought to have desired to prevent. All
our sympathies and predilections turned to
ward England rather than toward the North,
and, whatever might have happened, Eng
land would have found thousands in the
South to love and honor her. The North
regards her with jealousy and hatred; the
South with feelings of kindred and friends.
The world will eventually rind that it was
not good for it that the North should have
conquered in this war, for it has become an
arrogant and dangerous nation, and if the
two sections ever reunite, no Power could
stand before it." Such are the opinions
held in the South; their value can be more
justly weighed and judged abroad than
here amid the turbid passions of conflicting
parties.
The Jamaica Troubles
Gov. Eyre had been suspended from his
functions tn Jamaica, and Sir Henry Storks
temporarily appointed in his place.
The draft commission for the above ap
pointment is published in the London
Gazate. It recites that great dissatisfaction
is alleged to have prevailed in Jamaica, that
grievous disturbances had broken out, and
that excessive and unlawful severity had
been used:in their suppression; and whereas,
itibeing urgent that full and impartial in
quiry should be madeinto the origin, nature
and circumstances of the said disturbances,
and the measures adopted for their sup
pression, the powers now vested in Gov.
-Eyre are revoked, on the ground that it
may be advisable that he should be present
during the inquiry; but for the sufficiency
of said inquiry the powers of Governor
should be vested in some other person, and
Sir H.3Storks is accordingly temporarily
appointed Governor of Jamaica.
FRANCE.
General Schofield's Visit.
[Paris (Dec, lo) Correspondence of the London News:]
M. Boniface, in the Constitutionnel, has
twice informed the French public that Gen.
Schofield only came to Paris as a private
individual. The Times, if I may credit the
telegraph, has said the same thing. Against
such authorities, which will command the
belief of the multitudes who believe impli
citly what they are told, it is important to
set the following paragraph in this even
ing's Pays, a journal as governmental as
the Constitutionne/, and belonging to the
same proprietors, and which paragraph, un
der the circumstances, cannot havebeen
written without full deliberation:
The Abject of Gen. Schofield's visit here is,
as we have already said, altogether concilia
tory, and has - in view only certain explana
tions of a passage which will be found in
President Johnson's Message. The presence
of Gen. Schofield amongst us is, therefore,
only an additional proof of the excellent
disposition of . his government towards
France:,
• After this complacent explanation,utterly
inconsistent with the asseverations of Boni
face,•that the General has no mission at all,
the Pa ys goes on to adopt the stale and ab
surd story that Gen. Logan is merely ac
credited to Juarez because President John
son,having the patronage of a salary already
voted, wished to give it to a personal friend.
The Clenstitutionne/ takes no notice what
ever of, the highly important speech of the
- American Minister at the Grand' Hotel, in
which' be said, among other remarks; that
the 200,000 veteran troops which the United
States kept armed were sufficient to show
that its future policy could not be influ
enced by a sense of weakness, and that "the
United States would do precisely what the
aggregate wisdom and conscience of the na
tion should prescribe—nothing more,
nothing less." That this passage pointed tO
Mexico and the assertion of the Monroe,
doctrine in the Pitsident's message, now on
its way to Europe, was at any rate the
• opinion of the meeting; for the full report,
which will not be published in any French
journal, states that Mr. Jay, the Chairman,
alluded to Mr. Bigelow's speech as "inter
esting, diplomatic, yet vastly significant!"
The French press may shut its eyes to the
truth that it is all up with Maximilian in
Mexico, but the rest of the world sees it.
The Extradition Treaty with England.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Globe says the French Government has
given six months' notice to terminate the
extradition treaty with England, oh the
ground of the strict formalities required
before French offenders are given up.
The Emperor and the Efaehmen.
The Paris hackney coachmen, who struck
for higher wages last Jnne, have addressed
the following petition to the Emperor:
&ye: We, the undersigned coachmen of
the Imperial Company of Paris Carriages,
havethe honor to lay at your Majesty's feet
the respectful and truthful expression of our
wretched condition, the consequence of low
fares, which being in your capital inferior
to those of London, and even of second-rate
towns in France, do not allow of our em
ployers paying us sufficient wages to satisfy
the indispensable requirements of our fami
lies. Induced by bad advice and chimerical
expectations,we committed the fault in Tune
last of striking work. To repair that fault,
which was so injurious to everybody, we
now respectfully take the liberty of doing
what common sense should have suggested
sooner—namely, to address our Emperor,
who loves to know the truth, to do justice,
and to relieve distress. No one knows better
than yourself that a remunerative salary
makes the operative moral by the comfort
it affords, and enables him co put by for
sickness or old age, which cannot be done
while employers and servants are struggling
with a disastrous position. Full of confi
dence in the august goodness of our Empe
ror. we are, - etc.
The Emperor sent the following reply to
M. Ducoux, Director of the Coach Company:
COMPIEONE. Dec. 3.--S'ir; I have recaived
the petition of the coachmen of the Paris
Imperial Carriage Company. The senti
ments expressed in it bare deeply touched
me, and my earnest wish is to aid them in
their sufferings. I expect that measures of
general interest with which my government
is occupied will have the effect of improving
their position without infringing on any
right or sacrificing any principle. Please
to communicate this fact to the petitioners,
and assure them of my constant solicitude
for the welfare and improvement of the
laboring classes, NAPOLEON.
France and the Chi Hans.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times writes as follows to that journal
under date of Dec. 9th:
"I believe that no satisfactory intelli
gence—at least we know of none--has as
yet been obtained as to the expected inter
position of France and England in therhili
affair. A note drawn up by the English
Government, proposing negotiation, or
mediation, between the adverse parties was
some days since sent to Paris. It was kept
for some days by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who, I presume, submitted it to
the Emperor. Several modifications and
corrections were made in it—probably at
His Majesty's suggestion, and with them
the note was returned to London, with
what effect remains to be seen.
A Paris paper affirms that the French
Government will persist in observing the
strictest neutrality in this affair, as the
interests of France in Chili are infinitely
less than those of England. Certainly the
reply of M. Dronyn de Lhuya to the memo
rial of the the syndicate of the export mer
chants does not lead one to expect any
active co-operation, and this seems to be the
conviction here. Perhaps the real cause of
this lukewarmness may be ascriqed to the
feeling, which is not entirely effaced, caused
by the refusal of England to take part in the
famous European Congress.
Belgium—Last Moments of King - Leopold.
[From the Independance Belge Dec. 10.]
For two days the King was in such a state
of febleness that the fatal termination was
expected in some degree from hour to hour.
His robust constitution alone retarded the
final crisis. During the last night it seemed
to be imminent. Toward midnight, minis
ters proceeded to the Palace of Laeken, but
on their arrival the august sufferer had just
fallen asleep. Some hours were thus gained,
but there was no possibility of deceiving
oneself—it was,
it could be, only a short re
spite. For several days before their Royal
Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of
Brabant, and their children, and the
Count of Flanders had been staying
at the palace. The King, who often saw
them, sent for them this morning,
and entreated them not to leave him any
more. His Majesty, who retained to the
last moment all the faculties of his vast and
noble mind, was perfectly serene and calm;
his loud and oppressive breathing alone
indicated the approach of the last moment.
The Kin,% , was, moreover, under no illusion
as regarded the serious nature of his condi
tion. Toward 11 o'clock the President of
the Senate, the President of the Chamber of
Representatives, and the ministers, again
arrived at Laeken. M. Jules Van Proet,
Minister of the Household of thejKing, his
oldest friend in Belgium, his most inti
mate confidant, his most devoted ser
vant, was also there. When these
high functionaries were admitted into
the chamber of the august sufferer, the
grandest and at the same time most touch
ing spectacle met their eyes. The King
was still in possession of his faculties. He
was surrounded by his children and his
grandchildren, in tears, and had one of his
hands between those of the Duchess of Bra
bant, who was kneeling at the foot of his.
bed. Rev. Dr. Becker, his Majesty's chap
lin, who had been for some days at the
Palace of Laeken, was also present. Per
ceiving his old friend, M. Jules Van Proet,
the King took his hand pressed it affection
ately. He then placed his own hand again
in that of the Duchess. After some minutes,
he expired calmly, without a groan, with
out a struggle,without even the persons pre
sent perceiving that he had breathed his
last sigh.
[From the Paris Moniteur Dec. 11.]
The death of the King of the Belgians has
produced a deep and melancholy impres
sion. The loss, of a sovereign who by his
4 wisdom, had, acquired so high a position in
the councils of Europe, has excited univer,
sal regret. The French Court wishing to
manifest its participation in this feelmg,,
the fetes. at. Coomplegne have been inter
rupted, and the dramatic representation;
arranged for this evening at Compiegne has,
been countermanded.
Political Bearing of the Event.
[From the Paris nebatarnec.lo.]
The King of the Belgians died this morn
ing. This prince justly popular in Belgiam,
enjoyed throughout all Europe a well
merited reputation for political sagaoity. It
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may be said, without any exaggeration, that
few sovereigns understood, as he under
stood, the true conditions of constitutional
government. or texeroised power with so
much integrity. It was by that integrity,
and rare good sense, that Belgium was en
abled to pass through without domestie
commotion, the crisis of 1848, the rebound
of which was felt at Brussels. The
death of King Leopold, especially at the
present moment, is an event of the ut
most gravity for belgium. This death
has long been foreseen, and the consequences
that it might have with regard to the Euro
pean equilibrium, have been described at
length, and discussed by the press. Re
arrangements of teritory have even been
announced, and other projects of a similar
nature have been brought forward, the
execution of which was to be adjourned
until the death of the King of the Belgians.
We belie ve these hypotheses and conjectures
to be without solid foundation, and we have
no desire, at least just now,to touch upon the
subject. We only express a wish, both in
the interest of European peace, and in that
of Belgium, that the young Duke of Bra
bant, who is about to succeed his father,
may be as well able as his predecessor to
hold the balance equal between the two
parties who now dispute for power, and
avoid, like him, all internal disturbance.
The New Sfap of Europe.
I From the Paria Steele,
It is said that in virtue or an Dec ar r angementrg
already concluded, and with the consent of
England, Antwerp and the sea coast are to
be given to Holland, Flanders and Brabant
to France, and Luxembourg, with a part of
Limburg, to Prussia. We have not seen
the treaty, and we , are not responsible for
the mistakes of the propagators of those re
ports. Moreover,is the annexation possible
without very, very liberal modifications in
the domestic policy of France?
Facts and Fancier.
Gen. Grant, it is stated, had as his Christ
mils gift, the centre mansion of the three
known at Washington as "Douglas Row,"
built for Senator Rice, of Minnesota; the
other two having been built for Douglas
and Breckinridae. We shall now know
General Grant's precise position in the row
between Douglas and Breckinridge. .
A miser recently died in- Ohio from grief
at his heavy income tax, He was probably
subject to attacks of that sort.
The Boston Advertisersays that the popu
lar tune for this season is the festoon. Apro
pos of that, one might remark that a loco
motive whistle is like Raphael, because it
executes cartoons.
The Biddeford Journal describes a league
of the young men of Saco, who call them
selves "Dashaways," and pledge themselves
to abstain from intoxicating liquor for one
year. A better name would have been the
"Forsakoes."
Bishop Potter,of New York,has delivered
a sermon denouncing "operatic singing" in
the Episcopal. churches of that city. Will
the churches submit when he re-choirs
them?
The Alta California says that cinnamon
colored bears are frequently trapped on the
Sierras during the fall. A "cuir"color for
bears.
The "father of the fishmongers," in Lon
don, has just died at the age of a hundred.
Might be called the "wale of years."
A man in New York hung himself because
unable to pay his board bill. Nothing new
for a man to suspend when he can't pay his
debts.
A French newspaper says only three of its
subscribers are bald, and they are in arrears
for subscription. A lady friend remarks
that the American papers are bawled every
day, and in her-ears too.
Brigands in Servia lately flayed one of
their captives alive, as a hint to the others
to hurry up their ransoms. Serve you right.
Why did'nt you hide yourselves before the
.brigands caught you?
Miss Rushton's new theatre in New York
opened successfully. She forgot the words
of the opening address, but her beauty saved
her. Rushed on without a dress, eh? Well,
we must say that New York ideas of pro
priety are getting frightfully French.
Cain has found an apologist in Dr. Cum
mings, of London, who, in his "Lives of the
Patriarchs," says that as Cain can never
have seen a dead human being, or learned
anythingabout death,or known that a heavy
blow would destroy the vitality, of which,
again, he can have perceived nothing, his
guilt was at the outside only manslaughter.
Dr. Cummings should immediately go up
head. But why is a man who can "smile,and
smile and be a villain" like Cain ? Because
his guilt on the outside is only manslaugh
ter.
At the Providence depot in Boston, last
evening, three drunken men attempted to
prevent a colored man from getting upon
the train, when he, after due caution, shot
one of his assailants. We wonder how many
barrels he emptied into him.
Burglars operated slightly in Attleboro',
Mass., Friday .last. Amos Fuller lost 815
from is vestpocket. They probably dis
covergd that Amos was one of the lesser
prophets.
Joseph Howard was recently sent to the
Reform School in :Michigan, as a boy, and
discharged as a girl. She had worn boy's
clothes for seven years without suspicion.
Her habits were totally changed at the Re
form School.
A little five year old boy who was missed
from a town in Missouri last October, it now
appears, was carried off by an eagle. His
bones have been found on an island in Gas
conade river. Just the river for such a story.
PRESENCE OF MIND.—On Saturday even
ing the wife of Prank A. Conner of Brewer,
smelt smoke, and proceeding quickly to the
kitchen, the smoke rushed out so as to near
ly suffocate her, and the admittance of air
caused the fire to blaze up so that all the
doors in the room, and also one in the ad
ioining room, bear the marks of the tire.
She immediately stepped in, shut the door,
caught hold of a pail of water and dashed
it on the fire ; she then hurried to the cellar
to obtain water from a cistern, but by acci
dent lost the bucket, and was obliged to go
back and get a small tin pail, and carry
water to extinguish the fire, which she did
unaided and without giving an alarm—thus
by her remarkable coolness, saving the
thickly-settled neighborhood from, an ex
tensive conilagration.—Bangor Whig.
A BOORSELLEF. IN A QUAICDARY. —A.
Paris letter says that M. E. Harnel is about
to sue M. Lacroix for refusing to bring out
his History of Robespierre, despite their
contract. M. Lacroix has been sentenced
to prison for the former's "Life of Mint,"
and lad the whole edition 'seized by tho
police and thrown in the paper -mill vat; he
is, therefore, afraid to bring out the volume
in question. • -I t i•
StricinE.—Josiah George, 'of' West` Lebo •
non, N. H., committed suicide on Monday,
18th inst., by shooting himself. He used
common shot gun, placing his head near
sootthe muzzle and pulling the trigger with his
,