* TFrom thelfew Orleans Times.] - ~ the MEmbiuc showeb. Seine a Poetical Account of the Astound- Observations -made bp Mr. O’Byan. (Dedicated to his brilliant namesake. Orion) ,isTßODocxroK. " : ..v;; Ook! an’ sure I shall remimber, the twelfth night o’ Novimber, As long as ere the ember of life in me re mains! For what with hiv’nly bo dies,and—the mix ® thure very odd is, ‘Delicious whisky toddies—theexcoitement in my veins, Was somethin’ so therrific, that there’s not - a soporific, _ •• Which would be at all specific, sich emo tion to allay: If e'er again I had it —whioh I hope not, for : bedad it » v Nearly kill’d me, and I’m glad it’s all over anyway. FIRST GLASS. For the meteoric show’rs, I watched thro’ the midnight hours,: ■ r And by all the blessed Powers! ne’er a : wink of sleep had I! - I read the Times and Picayune, and heard the ould clock tiok a tune, Expeotin’ to see flicker soon, the Crescents in,thesky. Whilst from opposite directions, stars of different complexions, . With most reflections, should burst in awful glare ' ' Through the firmament enkindled, whilst / the consthellations dwindled— ’Till the thought that Td been swindled ; -made me feel inclined to swear. SECOND GLASS, Seein’ nothin more than common, or, the dirii a phenomena, I d-4d the *old asthrohomer,‘.np hill and down dale, Says I, “my foine Professor, yer a moighty party guesser, “My rispect for ye grows lesser, 6, Philo sopher of Yale! (Professor Loomis) “Wid yer ’ bogus calculation, yon’ve been hoaxing this great nation “Prom yer lofty situation, sir, ye ought to be brought low: “When l moight have bin -a sleepin, here a weary watch I’m keepin, ... “Myself in whisky steepin—Och! the diyil take yer Bhow!” THIRD GLASS. ’Twas past one by my dial, as agin I seized tne phial, And for fear the whisk’d spile—turn sour perhaps wi’ fright, Says 1, “I’m thinkin’m just take another • smile, “Myself to beguile, and the lonely hours to while, or this mimorable night.’’ And then I sateyein’—tho’Xfoundit rather tryin’—the figure of O’Ky’n, (Who’s a countryman of mine), as he up and down was a flyin’, in the firma ment divine, And says I, “ould consthellation, in my humble estimation, yer a credit to our nation, “I enjoyyourcontemplation,toyour health here’s a libation, and for iver may ye shoine!” S' FOURTH GLASS. “What, three o’clock? ’tis morain’! it’s no wonder I’ve been yawning, “Break o’ -day will soon be dawnin’. Where the devil are them showers? 'Confound them poor ould asthrologers, the ." spalpeens of chronologers, and bla guards of phrenologers! “They ought to get sockdologers; and, by ~T , T the bouly powers, If I only had my will on ’em, wid sore bones afther fillin’ ’em, “It’s moighty near , a killin’ ’em, the chances are, Fd be; “The nasty ould divils, who, wid tiliscopes on swivels, “Keep up their mystic rivils till the mom in’ air they snivels, in some high 1 observatree.” FIFTH GLASS. “There’s Olmstead and ould Newton, who’ve been this subject motin’,about thestars shootin’— “And around the earth pirootin’; and that German Professor, what the devil is his name? “Wid his planets and his mete’rs, he’s been promisin’ to treat us, “Meanin’all the while to cheat us,— by St. Pathrick it’s a shame! “Nivermoind,.™ fill my glass agin, and 1 ne’er be such an ass agin, “When wonders come to pass agin, to bother wid the trash. And if the brightest aerolite, shooting star, or queerer light,should anywhere near alight, “I wouldn’t now, for e’er a light, forsake my whisky smash.” _ . the vision. By the. Piper, it’s began! here’s the moon and the snn, and the planets every ' one, Just as hard as they can run,arushin’ Lord knows where! And the lovely consttaellations, vacate their • situations, perform wonderful gyra tions Whilst tremendous agitations convulse the starry sphare! Och| the fearful fizzing as the meteors go whizzing, . Like burning rockets hissing, bang across the milky line! . The sight was most therrifie, as with bodies magnific, and tails phospho - rific, ■ The things scientific kicked up their moighty shine. Talk abouty our celehrations,and your grand illuminations, Jubilations and orations—(the last are all my eye, And I’m not so very sartin, but I might add “Betty Martin,” Xour feelings without hartin’) on the Fourth o’ July! Why, all your feeble fire-works, Greek fire - and other dire works, * . Beside one of those higher works, would look exceedin mean, Not to say dull and dirty,fizzly and squirty. for since three and thirty. Nothing half so party has ever been seen, Sure I couldn’ t keep the run; the fixed stars became undone, and every mother’s son, As if shot from a gun, went darting through the skies! Bushin’, all ablazin’ in a manner most amazin’ And generally raisin’ the devil as they flew, The fiery monsters jist did, like say-sar pints twisted—they cooldn’t be re sisted, And ne’er before existed such a hulla-ha .lop! Meteoric .emanations! phosphorescent ra diations! most astounding combina tions! _ In* fact, the' Book of Riyelations stood' open to my view! cosctrsioir. Aad now r.ve ended, what I intended, % In ®P lendld * a fttU end true ao fljsthefiery shower’s arrival, the which I [adyiyhihk will drive all outrival, ould Pegasua to think I need a cocktail and a things indeed to keep jest’s pluck; t\, pen and ink!—fill a bumper 9 •’■ink, And no heel taps, for r drlak to'the read er’s good look— And my own; toothy the powersiso I may as well ssy ours; •, . May we blossom, lolke. the flowers, and enjoy the shining hours „ In affection's sunny bowers; may misfor tune never cow us, : And may Providence allow us, to witness a . return of the Meteoric Showers! New Orleans; Nisy. 1^:1866. ; Winter Amusements, Mr. John B. Young, of the Tribune, says; The world goes round and round, but neither man nor the seasons change their relations. We are not accustomed to,consider the Bomans ;asa sentimental people, or even.as particularly lovers of home; yet there is nothing in domestic poetry more beautiful than that ninth Ode of Horace, in which he sings of Mount Socrate, white with show, orders his servants to pile on the wood, and invites his friends to partake*>f a gene rous glass of four-year old wine. We see the little. man rubbing his hands at the hearth-blaze, and chuckling as he sends. off his note to Thaliatchus. It is a cabi net home picture, like: that yvhioh Mil ton painted ,in his Twentieth' Sonnet, from which we will not quote one word, bu t only advise the reading thereof as a dneerful resource upon the gloomiest December day. , Although the .winter is eminently favorable to study, perhaps as a people we need no incitement to intellectual exertion. We read at all times and everywhere, and it is barely possible that we read too much; but; the temp-, tation ofa good fire, a brilliant light, an easy chair and an entertaining book, is one which we by no means advise anybody to resist,' especially if it comes after a day of weary toil. >Ve will put the brains out of the question, :and say nothing ofsiudy; or our opinion is that there has beeh a great deal of nonsense written against reading for amusement; since, other things being equal; there is no amusement more thoroughly harm less than that which a harmless book affords. Of there is choice; and there are books which man or woman, boy or girl, had better not. read; but why should we avoid-books which only talk to ub and amuse us, because they do not pretend, to improve our minds, any more than we should avoid the cheeiy chat of our neighbors, which may not always be the wisest or the most improving when it is the most pre tentious? Best is as needful as labor; and it is better to read only for pleasure than not to read gt all, Because one has not strength to master Butler’s Analogy or Fearne on Contingent Ee mainders,is that a reason why we should forego Ivanhoe or The Old Curiosity Shop? Which is doing best—he who is reading the lightest gilt gingerbread of a fairy tale, or he who sits in blank ln% actfon, twirling his thumbs and think ing of nothing at all ? If we put reading into the category -of harmless amuse ments, we do not close the ragged field of substantial acquisition to tnose who please to enter it. The obliging book sellers and the gentlemanly librarians provide for many men and many minds; while the long hours:after the non inebriating cups may be dedicated to light and elegant culture, or to solid ac quisition, as taste may dictate or oppor tunity permit. \ But for a nation which has been in tellectually so hardly, strained as our own, it would be invidious and probably useless to prescribe the rules of winter enjoyments. Somethin? must be left to the good sense of all. We have no cen sures for the light fantastic toes, if they trip at proper hours and in proper com pany. We have only to regret that there not a Tenth Muse for skating. Some the woe of the waggery of the theatres will woo, and some the resounding walls of the opera.' The better part, whether of country sports or of city junkets, is the kindly social feeling which they create and encohrage. Some, though sufliciently gregarious, will find society enough in the family, while others are best ‘satisfied in a well-conducted and harmonious crowd. That must be indeed a strange gathering in which there are no benevolent and beautiful natures, to Inake us better for having met them and to add to our store of prized and grateful memories. Winter is the natural parent of charity—not alone of almsgiving, but of that giving of the heart and hand which, to the weary and desponding, is worth far more than material relief; and “all thoughts, all delights” are to be invited and warmly entertained, if amid the wintry desola tion they bring us a perpetual summer m the heart. An Unfortunate Stbanger.—“Can you tell me, "sir,’' said a stranger to a stranger to a gentleman in a ball room, who that lady is near the second window, that very,vain looking lady ?" “That is my sister, sir,” replied the person addressed,, with a formidable look. “No, no, I don’t mean her,” said the unfortunate interrogator. I ‘l mean that ugly woman leaning against the piano: there’B about as much expression in her face as a bowl of bonny clabber,’ ’ “That,sir, is my wife.”- “No, no,” gasped the miserable stranger, the perspiration starting from every pore. Good gracious! I wish I could make you understand me! I mean that blear-eyed object in the pink silk, the one so awfully homely. I should be afraid she would splinter a looking glass by looking into it. There, she is looking at us now.” “That, sir,” said the gentleman, with nerce calmness, ‘ ‘is my eldest daughter. ’ ’ * The stranger darted from the room and cleared the premises as though he had been struck with a presentiment, that a powder magazine was going to explode in that room in less than three seconds. Pablob, Game, —Among the parlor games occasionally used, is one called “squaring a word.” It consists in at -' ranging \yords in such a manner that a perfect square of known words shall be made which shall read vertically in the same order as horizontally. The prob lem of “squaring the circle,” which has mathematicians for ages, hai -been solved in this way. Thus: st CIRCLE ICARUS RAREST ’ CREATE L USTRE ESTEEM A Specimen. —The following adver tisement was found posted on the streets of Catasauqua: “PoplicSale on Sader Day thd 1 De cember 1866 at 1 o’clock in the after noon on the pase in Catasauqua House on lot three story frame house 20 By ‘ 30 the lot is 20, feet in front 225 feet Depe at Comner Shoo! ally front street.” BPECIAI - ir :^-^^ARTISjh.NTOFSORVBY1 !’. North by Allentslane r — : ~l' i South by Carpenter street, I • BytbrGe'n>nntownnvenne,f r toe now prepared, and deposited for public Inspection fe.' 11 ?® office of the surveyor ana*Regajator of the Nffilh Bnryey.Dlstiiot, Germantown, and at the office oftheDeoanment.of.City Bunding, Fifth ß treatfb£ |ow Walnut Street* and the Board of faotveyora have appointed MONDAY, the 17th lost., at IQJ£ o’clock to porsider anr objection lffSt*tiajrhe“tirged thereto by any citizen, interested therein. i ; : . STBIOMAND KNBAFS, ~ * aeo-8,15 3t €hiet Engineer and Surveyor. fWtjWo^^roimi! 68 - ; . ; The Asslgneeeof this Company’have this day de g"«d(tDfyiDEND (being No.*) OF THIRTY-FIVE PER CENT. (85) on the original amount of claims, properly adjnsted, excluaiva of Interest. Ffo'estaVßS . To avoid delay,’credltora_ wUI at once, present statement of their claims, in detail. , ' . When-parlies, who hold claims, “not th'elrown” an order, or Power Attorney bom the owner will he required before dividend can be paid. wm 08 WILLIAM H. BOYER, 1 . , i „ SAML.P. DARLINGTON,/ As3l S I >ees. * noils,&w,tdec2t){ ' ' - ■ - 1 fTS* NOTICE.-In compliance with the Act of As sembly, AprU Stb, 1855, providing agalnstA wrongful detention and appropriation ofharrela and other vessels, Bergdoll & Enbtta.-'Brewery of the Citv Philadelphia,.Pennsylvania, have died In the offlw S the Conn of Common Plena a description of ks by which their barrels and vessels are known. We ofalm as our property all barrels and vessels belong ng tons. Mark 1, LB.4C. P. branded on the head too nottomofeach vessel or barrel. j 2 -A r, l lvat Ss ßrk 9? an anchor, abont two lnche? In length,'branded on the head or bottom, or on beth .beads ofeattb barrel or vessel. ■ ti-srsia* ; BERGDOLL &P3QTTA. r*tnr, OF Tar, fkankfußD aSD PHILADELPHIA PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY, No. 2453 FRANHFURO Road, Paul dbpphia.December4,lB66. : „ All persons who are subscribers to or holders of the Capital stock or thla Company, and wno have notvet paid the second Installment of FIVE DOLLARS ner share thereon, are hereby notified that the said second installment has been called la, and that they are re ached to pay the same at the above Office on or before WEDNESDAY, tbe 2d day of January aext,U67. By Resolution of theßoard of Directors. desHt| JACOB BINDER, President. OFFICE off 'l'Htc pnir.A-nnr.pmt A*m iMy SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY KUSH SOUTH DELAWARE - - ‘ Notice Is hereby riven that by a resolution of the Board of Director* of the afiovenamed Company adopted Angnst29th, 1866, the FOURTH and last ffi ™l«?hta§ffi“ beencaUed ta ‘ andl * dae WILLIAM J. MALCOLM, . Treasurer. OFFICE OF “THE- RELIANCE INSUB *eir ANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA" No-MBWALNUTstreeb. P H n. l .Dki.viT T .,NoVßmb4r Sou) ,18Gb. i ' ~ ' _The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of “ Tint RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILA? DELFHIA” and the Annual Election ot UUrteMOs) . Directors, to serve for the ensuing year, will heJteld at their Office, on MONDAY. Dewmbellitt. iIS ° THOMAS a HILL, noffi tdelTj .. Senre f °T 31. SOUTH DELAWARE AVKNUR Pamsgb PHia. November Bth, 1868. 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Translated by Lady Wallace 2 vols.. ismo, biglow Papers, second Series ismo. melodies for cmruHoap. with highiy-do lored Illustrations Ttmn. - ' “ r . _THE STATE OP THE CHURCH AND THE WOELDaT THE FINAL OU TBKEAE OF EVIL. AND REVBLATION OF ANTICHRIST, his deotrnc with an Appendix by Mrs. A. P. Jollfle. For sale by JAMES S. GLAXTON, Successor to W. S. & A. Martian, ' 1218 Chestnut street. TT-fBPKR’S and other MAGAZINES BOUND Bindery, No. 29 North THlS iKjaTflgtreet, op stairs. • des»3t* UUWJEItUSS,, Fino Coffees DLA«dSSScA VA,Ftoe MC >CHA,EAST IN- FoxSaleby JAMESB. WEBBj WALNUT and EIGHTH Stree S^rec*** PolS-lm S. E. corner Wste < itiidS«toUh^i» FIX'S PABIKA CRACKERS. 1 ~ Fresh Cracker* of this onrlraied Brand alwanon nandandfbrßalelnbtfls.aiHlKbblA.br "won ALDBICH, YBBKBB &CABY, 18, 2 Q and a BeUtte street, i. Aptnoj, no6-am| 1 il nnn„ cans fkebh peaches, Tmow Xy.UyUpOTn, Freeh Tomntoee,Green Feta, Straw twariee. Htahrooma^Ac, In ators and for sale; whole- by 5T>. SFUIaTN. N. W. cornSrArX JURIED FRUIT.—Very handaome pared peaches, ujpared do. dried apples, in storeand*fbraale fa? M. fTbpiijjh. y. w. comer Arch and tuyere Buckwheat, buck wheat.- ihe. of th cclehraled silver Flint Bndcwheat, In store ano lot sale by 2L F. BPrT.T.TTf, Tea Bealerand Grocer, N W. corner Arch andßghtL BAISINS ANDFias—Superior new Layer TT Halalraßnd choice Elma Fig*, fbr sale by Ity, SPILLIN, N. W. comer Arch anti Eighth streets. aOEEN gallons rhntw. large Qneen Olives. In store and for side by raifnn oruaxrel. at IXi CTfcTY *8 East End Grocery, No. USSonth SEOONB street. , VEW BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT & WHITE Ls Oowr Honey, In store and tor sale at OOUSTY’6 EastEadGrocery. No. 118 South SECUNDstreet.: Nqbth* Carolina hominy obits, new B omlny, pared and uu pared Peaches. Just re reived and tor sale at East End Grocery, No. 118 South SECOND street. v«w»ry, g^^u c Sl^^ D c g^ Kastgn handympioyed In the manufacture of theCglafis Cas |IQO will be paid to any one who’will saytheyh&v* oot received any benefit or relief after using Gapewel & Oo,*s Patent Glass Castors. A sample set (4Y of the Wheels sent to any part of the United States, on re »lpt of 1160, J. B. CAPEWELL & QO , oo*-Bm| 1 No. 205 Race street. HiBMESS, SADDLESr*o^ JJORSE COVERS, BUFFALO KOBES, lap buqp. ANGOLA HATS. BELOW MARKET BATES, KNEaSS&OO.. r .,i , - , ' ' 631 MARKET Street. Life Blue boiaein thedoor. Come and see dswisif MASOSIC HAKES. LEANB, NO, «S CHESTNUT v PTaK HiT> -: ;■ & ! ' First Premium awarded lnst!* r tnteto MARTIN LKANS. Manntootnrsr of \ j MABONIO MAKES. • ' PINS, EMBLEMS, *O., *b. r New andoriglnal designs of Masonlo Marks, Tam- Dion’ Medals, ArmYMedala and Corps Badge* of wrvaaMginUnn ’ ,o noHw.tlLr.aSmr RRIAGES. CfiTlOL' SALE—A large aMortment ofnew *nd second-hand Carrlagea,.top and no top SCggles, RocEawoya and German towns, and Express Wagons. GEO. HOOD A SONS. No. 130 BADE street. Nos, E» and SSS ÜBOWN street. ocUsfca , FgNANCgAg, BANKING HOUSE . • • ' OF-f V'- ! JAY COOKI & GO. 11S and 114 S. Third St., Philadau Dealers in all Gwerainent Stworitiw. : ®l|> s:M’swpTpi:,:i;.v IN teflAieE fOR KEWna A LTBEKAL DIFFEBSITGg A T,T,Qyftp lntewst Notes Wanted, INTEREST ALLOWED OK DEPOSIT; , Collections made: Stoics Bought and Sold on Com miaaloD. ■ * ■.. ~ ■ • •* -- /1 •• -i .?■ iSBS?- business accommodations renerved ion fi>SO’s, .. - y 3iro»s» ■ .1 ' ASSIES,, 10-40*8, COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES; BOUGHT AIM) SOLO, DE HAYEN ■& BRO. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET. NATIONAL J EXCHANGE BANE CAPITAL $300,000, FULL PAID, Has Removed To Its New Banking House, Nos. 633 and 635 Cfiestniit Street A. BOYD, Pnsldiat W. GHiBOUQH, ntfftt STOCK BROKER. GEO. HENDERSON, JR, NO. 228 DOCK STREET. _Havingresnmed business, I am prepared to mate Gash or Time purchase* and aaloa of stock*, Bonds 3 at « per cent. Interest, without any Orders (aerated in New York, Boston and R»f«- more. • aMMa, A & SPECIALTY, S SMITH, RANDOLPH ft CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, 1® Sooth Third it** i S fiaaao Mivsfic PblladelpMa, j HffiTnk, STOCKS AND GOLD SOUGHT ABD BOItD OS OOKSCESBEC ALLOWKD OR DHPOSmt, S' LIQIIOBS. PLEASANT YALLEY WINE CO. Sparkling and Still Wines. G< W. MIDDLETON", Sole Agent, 109 Har&et Street, Pbiladelnhla. noamtj v" * Suecesaot to 6«o. W Gray. If B BE WE 84,86, 88 and SO Boatli Bsztti St, HER MAJESTY CHAMPAGNE, ■x. by BtrirTOiir, Vv ENBS.—The attention of the trade Is solicited to choice Wines, Ac., far sale to JOSEPH F DUNTON, No. 151 Sooth FRONT street, above Walnut: HADEIRAS—OId Island, S years old. BHI RULES—-Campbell & Oo„ single, doable and. triple Grape. E, Crusoe* Sons, Bndolph, Topas, Bleg, Spanish, Crown and F. Vallette. . PORI S—Valleite, Vlnho Velho Beal, Dan ton and Bebello Yalenta * Co., vintages 1836 to 1836. CLABETS—Cruse Fils Freres and St. Estephe Cha- Jonrdan, Brlve * 00. MUSCAT—deFrontlgnan. „„ .. CHAMPAGNES— Ernest Hrony, ‘‘Golden Star,’* de Venoge, Her MaJesfS' and Boyal Cabinet and other favoritebrands. , . . OLD WHISKIES. —600 Cases Pure Old Wheat, BTSI Bonrbon tostde by ~ ' . .s.North Front. etrtOj COPABTISEBSmPS. TtIBSOLUTION OF COPABTNEBSHIP.—The co- I f partnersblp Heretofore existing nnder the firm of Georgeß. Beese, Son * Co.. Is this day dissolved, by the death of Georte B. Beese. The business wiU be aettledby the surviving : - 1 MTOS 8 " Philadelphia, Dec; 1, 1886. _ ; CO-PABTNfeRBHIP NOTICE.—The . undersigned have associated themselves nnder the Firm name of GEOBGE B. BERSK'S SONS, and. will continue ItJSt. CommlsBlon business,; at No. Sffl M. MESIEB BEESE, W HENBV BEESE, • ■ i-.i. JACOB B. REUSE. -JBB