GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XX. EVENING BULLETIN. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Sundays excepted) at No. 329 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia I=l "Evening Bulletin Association." PROPRIETOR& • GIBSON PEACOCK, 'ERNEST C. WALLACE. F. L. FPTIKERSTON Taos. s. WILLIAMSON ©SP SOUDER , 4r., FRANCIS WELLS. The BULLETIN is served to subscribers in the city at Es cents per week, payable to the carriers, or $S 00 per aumurn. I A NOTHER AUCTION LOT of CURTAINS at One Dollar. ap2O7t PATTEN'S, 1408 Chestnut street. MARRIED. - - . CAMPBELL—HAM:MTS.—On the moriing of the 4 25th inst., by the Rev E. R. Beadle, D D.. C. CuJier Campbell, to Annie E., 3 oungest daughter of William $1 Et n kins. Eeq.. all of this city. COOPER— KNIGHT.—A t Charleston. R. C., April 4 2.15 t, by tbe Rev. Mr. Yates, Mx. Charles Cooper. of Prussia, to Miss Alice Azzerrenzer Brongur Knight the only daughter of the late Henry Knight, and step daughter of Capt. 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LINEN sHEETINGS, MARSEILLES QUILTS, TABLE LINENS, DAMASK TOWELS, HOUSEHOLD GOODS. - U[7.INDOW SHADES One Dollar. More of them a V V PATTEN'S, 1408 Chestnut street. 'ttrl.f. HEACOCK, GENERAL FURNISHING Vl' UNDERTAKER, No. 18 North Ninth Street. above market. ap2l-Im* SPECIAL NOTICES. AT 2118 GREEN STREET, A PARLOR FAIR is betas held for the benefit of the 4 '1,1031E FOR LITTLE WANDERERS." The tables .are tilled with a great variety of useful articles. ap2l2t* 13.0 %YARD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and Asia Lombard street, Dispensary Department. Med• iiTZtreatment and medicines DarniAlted gratuitously se the poor. se2B Lq, MUSICAL FUND SOCIETY.—The Annual Meeting of the Musical Fund Society will be 'held at their mall, on rUn3DAY, the let of May, at 8 .0 clock, P. M. The Annual Report will be read, and an election for .Tilrectora held. WILLIAM L. DIINGLISON, Secretary sp2s.w,f,m,stil OFFICE OF THE MAPLE SHADE OIL ICOMPANY:624 WALNUT Street, PECILADEI, 2mlA. April 27 ` 1 - 866 The Annualeetirg of the Stockholders of this Com pany will be held at their office on THURSDAY, May 17th. at 12 o'clock M. The Transfer Books will close on the 10th at 3 P. M. and open on the 18th. ap27-f,m,w,tmyl7s THOS. R. SEARLE, Sec'y. IU. OFEICE OF SHAW KIN AND BEAR VAL 'LE't COAL COMPANY, No. 214 CHESTNUT Street.—PHILADELPRIA, Api 11 24th, 1866. The annual meeting of atockholdera, and election of Officers of the Shamokin and Bear Valley Coal Com pany will be held at the office of the Company on 2IONDAY, May 7th, 1866, at 12 o'clock, M. WM. P. ATKINSON, Secretary. ap25,27,80,my2,4,5i IUbRHILADELPHIA. AND SOUTHERN MAIL IisTEAMsHIP COMPANY, PHILADELPH/A, Arun 25th, 1866. A meeting ot the Stockholders of this Company will be held at the Board of Trade Rooms, No. 505 CHEST NUT street. on WEDNESDAY, May 2d, 1866. at 12 M., for the Election of seven Directors, to serve for the en auing year. WILLIAM C, HARRIS, ap27-4t/ Secretary pro tem, FL?' OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN FIRE INSU R.ANCE C../MPANY, No. 810 WALNUT Street, ,April 27th, 1866. a general meeting of the stockholders in the Amert tan Fire Insurance Company, will be held, agreeably In Charter, on MONDAY, the 7th day of May next, at 12 o'clock, M. The annual election for Directors will take place :Immediately thereafter. ap27-f,m,w&mysrpf A. C. L. CRAWFORD, Sec. TurA TH OFFICE. PartArnrr.rnie, April 24th, 1866. _ PROCLAMATION Whereas, The appearance of the Cholera on board of 'vessels coming from Europe to the port of New York 1169 occasione r much anxiety and alarm among our .4chizens; and, whereas, it becomes our duty, as the guardians of the public health, to observe all proper nneasures,in order to prevent the arrival of this disease In our city; therefore Resolved. That on and after May Ist, prom., all vt s- Oats arriving from foreign or American ports, as direetea in the second section of the Health law of 1818, shall stop at the Lazaretto for a visit, and that all pas senger shall be detained at the pleasure of the /board for purification and ventilation. By order of the Board o f Health. HORATIO G. BICKEL, Hearth Office. ap2s-7try 1 cararsAwrovar I GERMANTOWN ! GERMANTOWN 1 ! ! Trme undersigned are delivering to the residents of (Germantown and vicinity the best quality of Lehigh coal, prepared with care for family use at the follow 6lng reduced prices, viz.: !Stove or range Coal 47 75 Eroken and E,gg for furnace, 7 50 25 It is believed coal cannot decline further this season, therefore the present time seems the best for purcha, ging the winter's supply. Adhering to one price, orders by letter will procure coal as low as a visit in person. Address Office. Franklin Institute Building, 15 South (Seventh street, Philadelphia. Box 62 Germantown Post office, or at the yard. I Green Lane Station, on North Pennsylvania rallroad ap2-Z6trri ROLFE?, & SHEA_FF. KU.. A COMMITTEE OF THREE LADIES HAS been appointed by the Pennsylvania Freed men's Relief Association to visit the Schools supported iloy this branch of of the Commission, at Charleston, the Sea Islands, and various pOints In the Nouth. It is intended as a visit of inspection. but above all of iencouragement to the excellent women teaching there, :who lead most self-denying and isolated lives. It Is the desire of the Committee not to go empty lianded. Any donations will be most gratefuby re ceived, of children's pictorial books, card pictures.' hymn books, toys. glass heads, bandanna handker -Chiefs, Lincoln photographs and tobacco. Or as offer ings to the teePhers, a few pounds of good tea,cnffee or chocolate, canned fruits, or any easily portable gro ceries. Any person whose liberality may dispose them to re hpond to the above appeal. will please send their offer. Inge addressed to Miss ELize. TELL, Chairman of "Educational Committee, at the Pennsylvania Freed men's Relief Association, 424 Walnut street,untal Wed ytesday, May 22d. HENRY C. SPACEMAN" ap27-2t 137 South Fifth street. MEASURES are shortly to be inaugurated by the government to effect the removal from Roanoke Island of a large portion of its Inegro population, and scatter them over the districts of North Carolina, from whence they originally came. A large steamer left Newbern, N. C. last week, to carry away eight hundred negroes from the camp formed there, and a similar procedure to ,distribute the negroes over the country, 'where employment may be found, will shortly take place at the camp near New- • 114 Clh#e Il e c 14.11 Treleirel)( * 04 • A,t, ttlit NO. 16. "THE GOLD BRICK" is the latest effort of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens's as - a romance writer, and it has been very handsomely issued by Messrs. T. B. Peterson tt Brothers. It is one of the most elaborate works this popular authoress has yet essayed, and it is imbued in some degree with the dark spirit which is so sternly characteristic a feature of the- writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the gloomiest delineator of New England life who has ever depicted Puritan times and the characteristics of Puritan men and women. The "Gold Brick" is the treasure of a family living at Port au Prince, their possessions having been thus consolidated at the time of the fearful massacre there, of which we read in history. A scion of that family is saved from the horrors of the in surrection, together with a faithful slave and reaches New England, after many trials and tribulations, in a Yankee ship. The captain of the said vessel, a noble hearted man, is supposed to be killed by a rascally mate, who covets the gold, but the captain subsequently "turns up" and confounds the guilty man. The scenes in New England are intricate, and the plot is, very much involved. The mate luins a girl, and in a fit of phrenzy she kills her child and is condemned to sit upon a gallows with a halter round her neck, and then to be imprisoned at Simsbury Mines. In writing of this part of the narrative to a cotemporary, the authoress says, "some time between the years of 1815 and 1820 a very young woman residing in New Haven ounty, was tried for child-murder in the criminal court at New Haven, found guilty ) f murder in the second degree, and was sa ntenced to a term of imprisonment and to sit upon a gallows to be erected on the public green or square of that city, with a halter about her neck during one hour. This sen tence was in every particular carried into effect, in the presence of a multitude of wit nesses, many of whom must be now living. I have heard this scene described fifty times by persons who witnessed it, and have my self seen the woman, who may be alive now. She certainly was, about seven years ago. Her name I would give, but that I haie neither the wish nor the right to bring the shame and perhaps injustice of her outh into her harmless old age." Qf the Simsbury Mine prison, Mrs. Stephens affirms that her account given in the novel is correct; that con victs like the mate Thrasher were confined there, and that they were, for certain offences, placed in a "sweating oven," as detailed in the book; She says: "With re gard to a State's prison built over the Sims bury copper mines, permit me to say that the history of this prison is so closely con nected with that of the State of Connecticut, that lam surprised that a question can arise of its existence. Why, as late as 1823 any own father visited these mines, and spent an entire day in examining the pri son, of which they were a part. The descrip tion given in my book, where the prisoners descend, one by one, through a narrow trap to their sleeping places in the black depths of the mine, are word for word as he de scribed the scene to me many atimein after years. These mines were used as a State's prison until about the year 1830, when the present structure of Weathersfield was com pleted. The prison at Simsbury mines is now, thank God! a ruin, but that ruin, as it stands to-day, bears ample proof that the descriptions of it given in my book are sim ple and faithful truths." Of course the story turns out right in the end. Thrasher is thoroughly:punished; the "Gold Brick" comes into possession of the rightful owner, and there is marrying and giving in mar riage, in a style which cannot fail to please the reader. We have no doubt that the work will increase Mrs. Stepherur's reputa tion, and that it will be very widely circu lated and read. "Asphodel" is the title of a new novelette just published, in a very pretty form, by Ticknor t Fields. We imagine it to be the first public effort of aspiring feminine ge nius. Of mild force, gentle inlagination and many-worded flights of flowery fancy, the story flows along in , a pleasant prattling way, the plot, so to speak, easily distin guishable throughout, until, a very unplea sant smash-up of everything at the close, which seems out of place in such a prettily written story as "Asphodel." The language of the authoress, always romantid and sen- Limental, rises at times, to the " high falutin." Here is a single fragment as a specimen :—"Soon the solemn morning pur pled and broadened into Heaven-wide cir cles, until at length it bloomed upon the sky, a vast rose-garden of Divinity. As in our narrow household world, a lady watches through the lucent doors," ("lucent doors" is particularly good,) of her hoMe garden the purpling and widening, and at length the rosy unfolding- of the broad 'Azalia splendens,' so, for all Nature and the world of humanity, blossomed the slow morning, and widened into the beauty of broad day." All of which is very purple and very widen ing, but does not give us any very new idea on the subject of thesomewhat familiar phe nomenon of sun-rise. We imagine that the fair authoress will do better, as she gains experience. If she were a man we should be tempted to prescribe a brief sojourn at Jericho, until the incipient hirsute indica lions of maturity should warrant an en counter:with "the world of humanity' For sale by G. W. Pitcher. Ticknor & Fields have published "The South Since the War," by Sidney Andrews, a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser and the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Andrews made a tour through North and South Carolina and Georgia, in the Fall of 1865, and the present volume consists mainly of his letters written during his trip to the above-mentioned papers. The author was present at the Conventions of the three States which he visited and his report of NEW PUBLICATIONS. PHILADELPHIA,. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1866. their proceedings is interesting and valu able. He took great pains to inform himself of the existing state of affairs in the region through which he traveled. He mingled freely with all classes of the Southern people, and as the result of his explorations be takes strong ground in favor - of the policy of making haste slowly with the work of reconstruction. His report is a direct endorsement of Carl Schurz's over whelming testimony as to the, cbaraeter of most of the Southern loyalty of the present day. The book is a very readable one, and will be valuable source of information for our future historians. For sale by G. W. Pitcher. In a recent notice of Bulwer's "Lost Tales of Miletus" we mentioned the fact tha when Bulwer . published his translation o Schiller's Ballads, his knowledge of German was so imperfect that he found it necessary to have them translated into English for him, by a person better acquainted with the language. This fact is based upon knowledge which cannot be controverted We have received a tremendously indignan note from an anonymous correspondent, who callshimself very modestly, "A Young Man who has Traveled," and who under takes to deny our reflection upon Bulwer, and who asserts with much gusto, "from personal contact" that he speaks "the best German, known in Europe, or rather in Austria and Prussia as Berliner Deutsche." This "traveled young man" threatens to publish his letter as an advertisement if we uo not notice it and before such a threat we }geld incontinently, particularly as we are afraid that we might not come in for our • , hare of the advertising. The fact is tnat the "traveled young man" has traveled entirely too far and got quite out of the record. The period of Bulwer's life to which we referred was probably before the "young man" was bcrn, and the fact which we asserted we believe to be strictly and literally true. We have no doubt that Bulwer has, since that time, acquired an excellent knowledge of German, though, en passant. the best scholars are by no means agreed that the "Berliner Deutsche" is, in all respects, the purest German dialect. We should not have made this long reference to an anonymous young man, even if he has traveled, had we not been overawed by his threat to publish his letter as an advertisement. "Bug-Jargal" is ithe very un-euphonious title of Victor Hugo's first work, written nearly fifty years ago, by the now veteran leader of French romance. Carleton, New York, has just published a translation of this earliest effort of the author, by Charles E. Wilbour, one of the translators of "Les Aliserables." The story is based upon the horrible scenes of the St. Domingo Massa cre, in 1791, and is highly dramatic and sensational. The hero of the tale is Bug- Jergal, one of the leaders of the revolt, who is depicted as possessing intellectual and moral qualities of an order that would fill Dr. Nott, who believes that nothing good can come out of Ethiopia, with disgust. The book is interesting, both in its historic refer ences and as marking the beginning of the literary career that has made its youthful author so famous in his latter days. For sale by Peterson dr. Brothers. Carleton, New York, has just published "Baked Meats of the Funeral," by Colonel Charles G. Halpine ("Miles O'Reilly"). Why CoL Halpine selected such a lugu brious title for such a lively book we can not imagine. It may be intended for a part of his assumed Hibernicism, but if not, it is a complete misnomer. The volume eon tains a great variety of Miles O'Reilly's contributions in prose and poetry to the New York papers. Everything in it is spirited and readable, and many of the arti cles, such as the "Recollections of Mr. Lin coln," have much historic value. For sale by T. B. Peterson & Brothers. We have seldom been more interested in any work of fiction than in "Cerise," a new novel by G. J. Whyte Mellville, an English writer of much ability. The scene is laid, first at the court of Louis XIV, and after wards in the West Indies; and the descrip tions of life in both places are graphic in the extreme. The plot is good and the the style admirable, and the story shows a degree of originality very commendable in these days of trashy novels. Published by J. B. Lippincott it Co. LECTURES ON BOTANY.—The returning season of flowers is again accompanied with Professor ElThiS'S lectures on botany. It Is no small advantage to a city to be favored with such practical instructions to ladies and gentlemen, and this is now his eleventh annual course among us. According to an advertisement in another column, about nine of the lectures of the course are to be delivered among the flowers in the groves near our city. The Academy of Fine Arts. From the deep interest with which we have (in a former article) advocated the protection of art interests, it may possibly have been inftrred that the domestic condi tion of its followers bordered on destitution. Now, we are well aware that•the.popular idea of an artist is made up principally of a young man in a most emaciated condition, working with idiotic persistence on im possible-to-dispose-of productions of the imagination, in a dingy back garret, of di mensions so small that the aforesaid youth would find it indispensable to open both window and door, in order to array himself in the shabby, torn coat that hangs over the panes of glass. All this is decidedly erro neous; for, as a general thing, there are but few classes of professional men who earn more money, or who are more thoroughly independent than painters. Speaking thus, we have, reference more Especially to the older artists, their interests not being affected in an appreciable degree by the influx. of foreign works. With the younger men, however, the case is very different. The latter class are usually earnest and indefatigable workers. When OITR. WHOLE COUNTRY. any one of them, having studied perhaps a month on a picture, desires to exhibit it, we ask, what is he to do? The Academy, so often giving preference of place to foreign works, is certainly not desirable for that purpose. Then there but remain the windows of the sealers, and it is indeed a hard trial for one who, having made his best efforts, is forced to place the result of his labors in the hands iT another who may find it to his own in terest to put it quietly behind a large mirror Or portfolio, the moment the expectant ar tist retires, and sell some fancy French prints to the next customer, who may enter ,n quest of pictorial decorations. It is for just such cases that the• Academy should t-nergetically act—to provide a place where these newly finished works may be seen at once by the public, whose avidity to pur chase is always shown by the eagerness with which they contest the possession of any meritorious work that may be properly brought before them. Let it be the endea vor of the directors in succeeding exhibi tions to give the young men their powerful support, and in every way assist to bring torward the latent talent that may be found among them. And if these duties should he considered toosevere and ex haustin g,w hy let them retire in faVor of others, whose en thusiasm would make the task a labor of love. French artists, when pursuing their stn dies, are protected by a paternal govern ment in every possible manner.. As an in stance, we will cite the painter of No. 538, Bouguerean, in the present exhibition. He is. if we mistake not, what is called a •'First prize of Rome," which simply means that his success was so great in the school of Fine Ante, that he was sent to study for five 3 ears in the Eternal City, at the nation's ex pense. Not a disagreable mode of expatria tion, according to our ideas. But the Ameri can, who goes to Europe for the same pur pose, unless he may have conside rable money to draw upon, soon has sad experience. Thackeray alludes in ills novel of "The Newcomes" to the fact of two American students in Rome ma king great sacrifices in order to pursue an art they loved, sad we ourselves have per sonal cognizance of some incidents concern ing the struggles of young artists in distant lands, that would seem incredible if we were not perfectly assured of their correctness. No. 657. "View among the Adirondacks." W. T. Richards.—This production will be very much admired. The extreme delicacy if its manipulation certainly entitles the ar tist to a liberal meed of praise for his earn est and patient labor. Bnt is this art—to produce works that may cause a . gaping as tonishment at the finesse of their execution? No. In a landscape of this character, give us something manly and energetic, some grand rendering of natural effects. In repre senting a group of nodding ferns, or a few sprays of crimson tipped sumach, Mr. Rich ards is unsurpassed. The successful rendi tion of mountain scenery is a task beyond his capabilities. No. 658. "How the Field was Won." C. Schussele.—An o ..nteresting work, and one that will attract the sympathies of all. The grouping is extremely kcttd and strongly expresses the subject. The marked individuality of the heads deserves commendation. No. 691. "Andrew Jackson before Judge Hall at New Orleans,lBl6," by the same ar tist, is painted as well as the order of sub ject will permit. Works of this class, how ever, strike us as exceedingly uninterest ing, having no particular fancy for study ing the boots of belted warriors, however well blacked they may be. The principal figures are boldly and effectively painted, wulle the general arrangement of light and shadow has been cleverly managed. The Hill of the _Alhambra ("Elhambra," vide catalogue), by Coltuan, gives us great pleasure to contemplate—beautiful in feel ing and conceived in the true spirit of poetry, a conception to dream over and lan guidly recall the departed glories of Spain. We feel much that we would like to give expression to in regard to this picture, but we must move on, which we reretfully do. Fichel's small cabinet gem deserves no tice. This artist is an avowed follower in . the footsteps of Meissonier,but-that does not prevent his works being eagerly sought alter and large prices paid when found. This specimen is accurately drawn and of adroit manipulation, and yet we are far fiom believing that the true pleasure given by the study of artistic production is to be found in this class of pictures. They are exceedingly carious, displaying great patience and technical ability, but en tirely wantin of the sentiment which is the basis of true art. S. J. Guy's "Inspiration" is worthy of all praise. ' the winning artlessness of childhood is most admirably delineated. It is a perfect success.' No. 556, "The Cornfield," by Van Ingen, is well painted. It is so vigorous in execu tion that it should have been placed higher. This would have made room for several delicately executed works whose merits are entirely lost sight of by being too elevated to admit of close examination. The "Lost Child" and "Preparing for School" are two genre subjects, contributed by C. F. Blauvelt. They are strongly painted. The last-mentioned we like best. The texture of the dresses is particularly well rendered. Nos. 633 and 667 are the works of Leon Julliard, a careful and conscientious artist. In his peculiar department he stands alone. No. 620. "Peeping through the Leaves," J. G. Brown. The accessories in this little bijou are very beautiful, evidently painted with the most extreme care. The little figure of the girl is likewise a success, but the face is—notwithstanding a pretty dispo sition of light and shade—a failure. The smile that the artist intended to represent is not there. Apart from this, it is a desirable acquision to any collection. The modeling of the hands is exquisitely rendered. Mr. George C. Lambdin has several pic tures in the exhibition, all of which have the advantage of being well hung. The best is probably No. 674 "Peeping Oat," a bright young face peeping from a vine-covered casement. "Over the Sea." No. 613, and "Consecrated-1861," No. 662, are also very pretty. But Mr. Lambdin is capable of higher efforts than these, and we wish he had an ambition above the sentimental and the pretty. "Meditation" is the title of a little con ception by E. B. Bensell; a most pleasing subject, and' the best production of the artist. The face of the young girl is tenderly beautiful in expression. Mr. Max Somerville gives evidence or progress in 675, "The Traun-Stein" (Austria), a most creditable work. The correctness and fidelity with which the scene is ren dered are deserving of great praise. We miss from the collection the picture numbered7o9 in the catalogue: "The Old Story," by J. E. Galt; an, which had al ready been privately shown to many of on citizens. It is an exquisite thing in compo sition, color and tone, but it was so very badly hung, that the artist, who had spent months of conscientious labor upon it, wa unwilling to have if judged in such a mai , tion, and withdrew it . from the exhibition,- We learn that it has already found a tut* , chaser. We cannot help expressing the very great pleasure we have derived from the fruit pic tures of J. H. Dolph. No. 604; "Straw berries, Grapes &c.," is an artistic rendi tion of natural objects freely nainted yet without labor, and having an effect of finish that is most satisfactory to the amateur. We have neyer seen glass painted by any artist with equal success. The hemorrhages of the sun that for years past have graced the wall of the Academy arenot to be found this season; in other words, the conven tional "Sunset at Sea," by J. Hamilton. is missing. How is this? we ask ourselves. Has the price of vermilion increased until it has become unattainable by J. H.? We sincerely hope not, for in our hearts we cherish a secret liking for them that we are totally unable to account for. No. 670, by this artist, is very quiet in tone; the waves are excellently portrayed. "The Portrait of a Gentleman" is still to be seen in the exhibition. Will he ever be missing? His eye still transfixes us by the overpowering calmness of his , gaze; the cold dignity of his demeanor chills us to sadness. We do not, however, experience these disr mal sensations in looking at No. 804, painted by Mr. L. Fagan, for we know that we are gazing on the lineaments of one of nature's noblemen faithfully transferred to canvass. It is a most excellent likeness, and reflects credit on the artist, whose con tribution of No. 515 is likewise deserving of mention. The flesh tones are unusually good in the last named portrait. Facts and Fancies. The citizens of Wilmington. N. C., are exceedingly indignant at the effrontery:of a n)an who followed Sherman's army as a ••hummer," and now •ventures to advertise lonisell as a drayman in that city. How ahuut the effrontery of rebels and copper heads who now advertise their wares to at tract lOyal greenbacks? The Boston Post says: "In the island of New Britain there are 37,520 places of Nvorlhip." New Britain is an Archipelago in the Pacific ocean, but we had no idea that it contained so many aisles. A young lady in California broke her neck while resisting the attempt of a young mint to kiss her. A fearful warning. Query. Warning to young men or young women, A farmer near Bay City, Mich., lost his wife early one morning, recently; hitched up his team and drove to the city with his servant girl to buy the garments for the dead; and while there, married the girl, being a widower less than twelve hours. The new wife attended the funeral next day attired in deep black, and was one of the principal mourners for her predecessor. Her bridal wail is not described. The New York Daily News has an exag gerated idea of the prison accommodations at the disposal of the Government. It calls (In President Johnson to nut in close con finement "Congress, and all who oppose his policy." Ben. evidently contemplates a most prodigious selL A young American swell, signing himself Edwd. Lee Childe,wrote recently to the Lon (ion Times, demolishing Mr. Bancroft He informs John Bull that he writes "As one . of a class almost wholly unrepresented among those who govern my country, as an Amerin gentleman, a native of New Eng land, and also as a nephew of General Lee." We are thankful to say that we are not very much governed just now by the class repre sented by that Childe. The steamer-load of "aimless" women from New England, bound for Washington Territory, under the guardianship of Mr. Mercer, arrived at San Francisco on Tues day. Notwithstanding their want of aim, the whole lot went off briskly. Off the steamer, we mean. A widow lady of Danville, Ky., took an orphan boy to raise, quite small, and when arrived at the age of eighteen she married him, being then forty-nine. They lived many years together, happy as any couple. Ten years ago they took an orphan girl to raise. Last fall the old lady died, being ninety-six years of age, and in seven weeks after the old man married the girl they had raised, he being sixty-eight years old and she eighteen. The New York Evening Post tells that story. It goes to prove that men live much faster than women, for the old lady was 31 years older than her husband when she married him, and only 28 years older than him when she died. Near Lake Worth, Florida, whisky is manufactured from sea grapes and pal metto berries. The beverage thus produced is said to possess remarkable intoxicating qualities, and is much cheaper than Bour bon or rye. Only think of the privilege of getting worse intoxicated for less money than can be done on Bourbon or rye. The superintendents of the insane asylums of the country are holding a con ference in Washington. Yesterday they called upon the President. N. Y. Post gets that off. AMUSEMENTS. BENEFITS THIS EVENING.-At the Chest. nut "The Pearl of Savoy" will be given for the benefit of Miss Maggie Mitchell, the en tire company appearing, including J. W. Collier and Miss Orton. At the Academy of Music, for Antoine Ravel's benefit, "Simon's Mishaps," the pantomime of "Raoul," the ballet of "La Sylphide," will be given. At the Walnut Mr. Booth presents his claims, appearing in "The Merchant of Venice" and. "Taming of the Shrew." At the Arch Madame Celeste has a benefit, she presenting her world-re nowned personation of the French Spy, in the play of that name, with which she is so intimately associated in the minds of all play-goers. AT THE AMERICAN a pleasing and popular bill will be given to-night. ASSEMBLY BIIILDING.--Signor, Blitz and the Sphynx hold their court at Assembly Building. Their levees are given nightly and on Wednesday and Saturday after noons. THE GmarsANTA ORoTirzsriti will give their usual publicrehearsal to-morrow after noon, with the following programme: I—Overture-6tradella Flotow 2—Spring Jubilee Gung'l 3—Aurora Waltz Laurier 4—D minor Concerto for Plano MendeLss ,, hrt Performed by C. H. Jarvis and Germania Orchestra. a. Allegro appassionato. b. adagio. e. Presto scherzando. s—First Finale from Lucia .Do n izett CHOLERA AT NEW YORK.—There are at present on board of the hospital ship ninety seven cases of cholera, being an increase of twenty-eight sincethe last published report. But two deaths bad occurred on. board the Falcon, and we bave the pleasing assurance that the disease is at last taking a milder form. All was 'progressing finely on board of the England; no sickness among the passengers, and all of them in the best of spiritS. F. I. FETHKRSTON Publisher. DOUBLE SHEET, THREE CENTS, ) *441: WEST PHITADELPIuA.—The last two days were productive of no small degree of dis comfort in the western part of the city, where there is nothing to break theforce of the wind that fairly shrieks along its wide thoroughfares. And the coldness of that wind, and the piercing character thereof, biting into ones very bones. No one cared to move about. Why should they, with the thermometer, in the warmest situations at 35 degrees. But it was even still lower, for 32 is the freezing point, and on the north sides of the Almshouse building, even in the enclosure, there was skim ice every where. But it must have been worse else where. A passenger, in the Market street cars, this morning, said that on Wednesday last, a hail storm swept over New Jersey in be neighborhood of Mount Holly, extend ing thence to the Delaware river in a broad belt. of miles, cutting downeverything in the way of vege tation, stripping the trees of leave; and rutting off small limbs to a painful extent. Some of the hail stones were nearly as large as pigeon's eggs, and none were smaller than a marble. "For miles," said our in formant, "the country looke as if saltpetre bags had been emptied over it. It was of all shapes and forms." Whether to this unusual visitation, or to the presence of the "Yearly Meeting," . we owe this last cold snap, your reporter can not say. Our remarks on the repairs of sidewalks, are producing some good. This morning we sew workmen employed in replacing the footway from Locust and Thirty-seventh westward. Staley, Caldcleugh and Stoat, are the property owners. Along Market street, here and there, the West Philadelphia Railroad Company are also engaged in repairs on their tracks. They needed it. BADLY BEATEN.—Henry Copeland, resi— ding at Pepper and Memphis streets, was attacked by three men last night, on the Reading Railroad, in the Nineteenth Ward,. a lid was badly beaten. He was seriously injured about the head and face, and had three teeth knocked out. His assailants es— caped. PAYING SALARIES.—The warrants for the salaries of the Teachers of Seventeenth. Section, laid over at the last stated meeting of the Board of Controllers, will be issued by the Secretary to-morrow morning, and will be promptly paid by the City Treasurer, Mr. Bumm. New Jersey Matters. CAMDEN Comiry Comers. The May term of the Courts for Camden county com mences next Tuesday,Judge Woodhttll,who was appointed during the session of the late Legislature, will preside. It is thought that this will be a considerably protracted ter as there is a full bat of cases to dispose o in addition to those which will be present by the Grand Jury. The following named gentlemen compose the jury: Albert W. Markley, William P. Tatem, George W. Carpenter, Cooper P. Browning, Jesse Townsend, Chalkley Albertson, John F. Bodine, Stephen Parsons, Thomas Loring, Samuel Tatem, Thomas A. Wilson, Joel Rirkbride, Joseph M. Cooper, John S. Wood, Edward S. Ireland, Isaiah Woolston, John W. Downs, Samuel Rufty, Joseph M. Raighn, Richard Shivers, Francis Pogga, Edward J. Osier, John Sickler, John Shreve. Mr. Jenkins, the Prosecutor of the Pleas, is actively engaged in arranging matters, so that not a moment's delay will be expe rienced in disposing of the cases. THE NEW APPOLN'TMENTS.—thiOrMatiOII from Washington announces that in "Jim Seovel's recommendations, the new ap pointments for Postmaster and Collector for Camden will be made to-day. If a change is at all made upon the influence of such ttre commendation, ere is not much proba bility that the tea will confirm it, for personal hostility against Mr. Scovel's treachery has risen to such a degree in Camden that members of Council refuse to vt•te licenses to hotel keepers on whose pe tition Scovel's name is found, Such is the power of his recommendations in the city of Camden, and his influence is completely ignored, except with the Democratic party, with whom he is now acting. Alas, poor Yorick ! Saiirrsny.—The Sanitary Committee has instructed Marshal Campbell to see that the ordinance respecting the removal of ctc., from yards, alleys and lanes, and the cleaning and purification of premises, shall be rigidly enforced. If householders do not attend to the instructions of the com mittee by the first of May, the work will be done by the city at the owner's expense. The New York Evening Post of 27th inst. save: A correspondent having asked, through our columns, for "an English rhyme to liquid," the following answers have been re ceived: To the Editor of the Evening Post — What is the sum that you will bid For an English rhyme, sir, for liquid: Tom and I went out to squid. We caught no fish—but much Liquid, To the .Editor of the Evening .Post— Of tobacco from Virginia a sailor chews a thick quid }le then from time to time ejects the brownish liOnld. doctor had a patient who, when sick, hid What he should have swallowed, a health-reetering liqui B. A. RHYME. To the Editor of the Evening Post: Alter imbibing liquid, A man in the South Duly proceeds to stick quid (Very likely a thick quid) Into ble mouth. CARL BENSON. P. S.—Please ask some one to find a rhyme for Spirit. "A's" effort is a total failure, and "B's' couplet is no better. Carl Benson of corer • gets it right. So did "Shakespeare or some other man" when he said: "Then from his mouth he took his thick quid, And filled its place with steaming liquitL" And "Byron or somebody else" when he sang in the dialect of the Finnegan: "Nary more diop uv this Mine liquid! Ye's had enough to make ye sick widL" Concerning a rhyme to "Spirit" we sug gest to "Carl" that even that can ba done. Was it not Mrs. Browning who says as sweetly: "If there's a thing that's sure to irrit- Ate a man's soul its Wilkes'stSpirlt?" If it was not Mrs. Browning it was some one else. GEN. GRANT IN RICHMOND. - A mond despatch of Saturday says: Lieut. General Grant and, wife, accompained by Colonel Bade= and A. H. Dent, Mrs. Grant's father, arrived here this afternoon. - on a brief visit to Postmaster Sharp and his family, Mrs. Grant's relatives. The pro prietors of the Spottswood Hotel will to morrow give a complimentary dinner to the distinguished guests, • '• New York Poets.
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