evening bulletin. TUESDAY, DECEMBER i 8» 1866. vo ABVEaWsSSa. In order to secure tira insertion of ad vertisements in our Wigulnr edition, it is Absolutely necesaaqfthat they be sent to the office before 52 o’clock, noon. The paper must be put to press at a particular moment, so that supplies to agents in the country may beaent offby the earliest trains in the afternoon, and with our present large edition, we cannot delay for advertisements or anythingelse. Our friends will therefore please send their Advertisements at as early an hour in the day ®s possible. Those sent after 12 o'clock «re likely to be omitted. PrIiJiSn,VANIA COAL. King Cotton having for some time been dethroned, the people of Pennsyl vania bare a good right to throw up their bats and hurrah for “Old King Coal.’” That "jolly oldsoiil” is gaining power and respect everywhere, and in th>« State especially Is he looked upon as a mighty benefactor. The statistics of the business of the year 1866,in Pennsyl- • vania anthracite coal, are sufficiently ad vanced to make it an ascertained fact that the production has been nearly thir teen millfonsof tons. This is nearly two millions «ght hundred thousand tons more than the production of £865. But for a depression in all kinds .of businessi during the last few months, and a con sequent faffing off in the demand for coal, the production of the year 1865 -would have been larger than it is. But thirteen [Millions is such an • enormous quantity to be-minedand sent to market in about half a dozen counties of one single State, that our people may truly throw up their hats in honor of King Coal. Think-of the good this huge quantity of coal has done and is doing. It has given bread to hundreds of thousands of people. It has fed furnaces, forges and rolling mills with their food of crude or partially wrought iron. It has supplied vitality to thousands of steam engines, that work thousands of mills, factories and other industrial establishments. It has driven locomotives and steamboats, millions •of miles. It has warmed mil lions-of homes in various parts of the United States. -Its beneficent effect is felt in-scores of ways of which the un thinking take no heed; and every year its area of usefulness is expanding; fora progressive, aggressive and inventive people, -like theAmerieans, are sure to find new uses for all the products with which Providence blesses them. In 1820 the first anthracite coal of Pennsylvania was mined and sent to market. It -amounted to the modest quantity of three hundred and sixty-five tons a year, or an average of about one ton a day. The hard,black stone was a marvel, and people were incredulous about its ever being combustible enough or abundant enough to become valu able -as a luel or an article of commerce. But in the very next year, over twenty-three thousand tons were sent to market, and the increase has been-steady-ever since, until now, forty six years after the first ton was sent to market, we hove 'thirteen millions of tons-mined in one year. Thousands of millions of dollars have been invested in the business during that time; hun dreds-of miles of railroad have been laid and xelaid, all in the service of King Coal. Fortunes have been made and fortunes have been lost in the same service. Many-of the pioneers, who ven tured most in the development of the an thracite-treasures of the State, died in poverty. But now King Coal is estab lished as a .great power, and those who have -served-him faithfully and intelli gently are now rich and prosperous. If the Congress of the United States should act wisely, and adapt its laws to the fostering of this business of coal-mining and coal dealing, on whieh so many others de pend, the growth of the power, the im portance and the beneficence of Old King Coal will go on beyond allestU mate. THE VIRGINIA. GENTLEMAN. Some of the Virginia newspapers are greatly concerned at the threatened de cadence of one of their pet institutions) “The Fine Old Virginia Gentleman." They stand aghast at the threatened ir ruption of the Yankee. They dread the set tingupofthe kingdom of New England thrift and progress. Theyare, to use the language of a Richmond paper, “over* whelmed, confounded and demoralized t>y an invasion of washing machines, cooking stoves, codfish, cold meats, pickled pork, poor cheese and Yankee notions generally,” and they regard as a calamity worse than the war itself, the annihilation of the “rites of old-fash ioned Virginia hospitality." The one millennium to which, they look forward, when they shall emerge from their pre eent depressed condition, is that they -“shall see re-sketched,in all the glory of its former splendor, the old picture of Virginia life and hospitality.” They base their hopes of the future of their prqud State upon the “hospitality, gen tility and refinement" of their people; and if these can be preserved, all is to be well. In the perpetuity of ■thesegreat qualities of the“true Virginia gentleman,” they have an abiding faith, and the paper already quoted winds up an article devoted to comforting those who mourn over “the good old times," with the following great blase of verbal pyrotechnics; A thousand years of war may roll over us: earthquakes may shake down eur mountains and swallow up our dry land-floods may dash their wild waves over the places of our abode, but as long as there floats a true son of thei Old Do minion upon a plank of the wreck, he will be a Virginian still!” JJow,without entering into the mooted THE DAILY EVENING BgLXSTIN.-FHILAPELPHIA. TUESDAY. PECEMFKK 18-13«6 —TRIPLE SHEET question of how much soundness there 1 was in the refinement, and how much'! prudence and honesty there was in the I hospitality, and how much foundation I there was for the claim of a superior 1 gentility in the “fine old Virginia gen tleman,” it might be worth while to eon- j aider whether Virginia would-be greatly benefitted by a return to her “Golden I Age,” and whether the dreaded influx of Northern immigration Will work any very serious disaster to her social or material interests-. Few will deny that! the recuperative powers of Virginia are | bo enfeebled that it would require a cen- i tury of unaided effort to restore her to any like material prosperity. Slavery has done its full work in enervating her .population and disqualifying her people for enterprise or labor. Her lands are impoverished and exhausted. Her great mineral resources are scarcely de veloped at all. The war has left its au thors stripped and poor,as it should have done. The training for secession has raised up a generation hating the North and all that belongs to or comes from it. Virginia has no power to save herself. Her salvation mast come from abroad. Northern people, Northern capital, Northern enterprise, Northern educa tion, Northern inventions, Northern in stitutions must leaven the whole lump, if it is ever to be good for anything. All the influencesof the “Northern invasion” of Virginia, upon its siihply material interests, are admitted to promise well for the future good and prosperity of the State. But the people still cry out “ah, but will you leave us our fine old Virginia gentleman? Shall we see once more our ancient hospitality, gentility and refine ment?” Possibly not. But there will be something far better in its place. Leaving out that dubious quality,which according to its root, gentilitas, some times means good breeding and some times heathenism, there is a better growth of hospitality and refinement to be found North of the Potomac than South of it. No one has traveled much in Virginia and other Southern States without being struck with the primitive and almost barbaric character of the lavish hospitalities about which bo much has been said. Without going into needless details of the almost uni versal neglect or absence of many of those appliances of a refined hospitality which are everywhere met with at the North, it is risking nothing to assert that thetrue type ofthe Northern gentle man or Northern lady has a truer, clearer, better educated sense of the rites and duties of a refined hospitality, than that which has so long been vaunted by, and foolishly conceded to the “fine old Virginia gentleman.” Virginia will suffer no more from an infusion of Northern society than she will by the infusion of Northern capital and en terprise. SOUTHERN TAB POETRY. When it is remembered how power ful was the influence exerted at the North by some of the Btirring songs and poems of the war, it is not remarkable that the South, too, should have been deluged with floods of poetry of all sort* and qualities, intended to “fire the Southern heart” and promote the general cause of the rebellion. Much of this poetry, abstractly considered, was very good, and much more of it was ex ecrably trashy and bad. Every little while some reconstructed rebel, male or female, is seized with the noble project of embalming this mass of re bel poetry in imperishable print, and numerous volumes have al ready been published, or announced for publication, having this purpose in view. The last claimant for public fa vor in this direction is Miss Emily V. Mason, residence unknown, who has , ust given to the world an elegantly printed and bound volume of nearly five hundred pages of this precious poetry. The collector of these poems informs the public that her object in publishing them is to procure funds “to fit a certain number of teachers that Southern ladies may take to their homes and spread among them the knowledge of those accomplishments which else may be denied them.” No one, accepting the rebellion as a fact, can find any special fault with po etically-inclined young men and women for having given vent to their feelings during the war,in verse of greater or less merit; but the collection,publicationand consequent perpetuation of this pestilent stuff - , now that the South professes to be seeking its way back into the Union, is utterly mischievous and bad. So long as the Southern people are fed upon this highly seasoned and unwholesome dieti it is impossible for any good, healthy, loyal sentiment to get an honest growth. This volume of Miss Mason’s has scarcely any of the lowest and worst trash that was circulated at the South, during the rebellion; but it breathes in smoother verse and more decent lan guage ' the same false notions that brought all the evils of civil war upon the country. All its influence is to fos ter the pride of traitors and to encourage a renewal of their treason. Copious ex tracts might be made in support of this assertion, but one must suffice: “But a day may yet be coming, boys, In future rolling years, Which may bring revenge and triumph— may wipe away our tears— When the azure cross shall float again, no more to pass away, And the token of our victory be—the wear ing of the grey,” There can be no true reconstruction while this sort of sentiment is kept pro minent before the Southern mind. Ob livion of the treason and all that was born of it would be a boon worth striving" after. But the re production of this mixture ofmawkish sentiment, treason, abuse and falsehood, which form the staple of this Southern war poetry; is “only evil and that eoa .tinually.’? ...... I' ‘ - SOUTHERN LOSSES DURING THE It would be interesting to know, ap proximately, the loss suffered by the rebel States during the war, though it is scarcely to be supposed that anything like a' fair estimate will ever be arrived at, The New York Post, in speaking of the matter says: “The loss of Texas by the War, as shown by the property re turns by the assessors in 1866, as com pared with the value in 1861,is reported to be about $250,000,000. We do hot believe in the accuracy of this return. Texas suffered scarcely at all from the direct ravages of the war, and made money du ring the war by furnishing supplies to the Confederacy, and by the contraband traffic across the Mexican border. She also gained greatly by immigration,both in money and in laborers.” There is no doubt that this Texas re turn exaggerates the devastation and de struction since 1861; but in the States in which military operations were car ried on, the loss mast have been fearful. Sherman’s march to the sea was accompanied by the most fright ful destruction of property, and the fields of Virginia, many of which lie barren to-aay, give terrible evidence of the dire evils of war. In these days War is not carried on after the manner of “Attila, the scourge of God;” but even in its mildest aspect its visage is grim. As an example of the destruction from 1861 to 1864, itis stated that by the casu alties of war alone, three hundred and twenty-seven steamboats were lost on the Mississippi river, one hundred and fifty-three of which were valued at about four millions of dollars! The value of the rest has not been estimated. The South has received back from the government, since the close of the re bellion, railroad property valued at from $160,000,000 to $200,000,000. The loss on this description of property must have been immense. CLEAR THE SIDEWALKS. There is a city ordinance which re quires thatsnow shall be cleared from the sidewalks within a stipulated time after it has ceased to fall. Citizens who have a regard for private cleanliness and some consideration for the comfort and safety of the public generally, need no compul sory ordinance to induce them to clear their side-walks; while others, who do need such a municipal hint,should have the penalty of the law imposed upon them wheu they fail to comply with its provisions. The ordinance seems to have become a dead letter, judging from the uumber of pavements that remained covered with snow yesterday, to be con verted into ice, to the peril of the limbs of wayfarers. There is no excuse | for this neglect, for the work of shovel ing off snow is eagerly sought for by hundreds of men and boys who are willing to perform the job for a mere trifle. Those who are too careless or too stingy to perform their small portion of an important public duty, should have the stimulus of a fine to remind them of what will be expected of them on the occasion of future snow storms. If his honor the Mayor would instruct his officers to report all cases of neglect on their respective beats, the evil com plained of would be greatly lessened, if not entirely remedied. There is another branch of this sub ject which demands attention, particu larly at this season of the year. There are numerous instances where careless persons suffer the waste water from their kitchens and bath tub 3 to run down the alleyways of their houses, to spread over the side-walks in such a way as to make them almost' impassable in freezing weather. The cure for this would be the construction of drains to carry the waste water direct into the Be wers, Many citi zens have such drains, and they are com pelled to pay an annual tax for the privilege of consulting public comfort and decency; those who have no such consideration for the public, go scot free. An ordinance was proposed in City Councils some months since, requiring property owners to construct such drains wherever they might be necessary. What has become of this wholesome regulation? A CITY NUISANCE. In nearly every season of the year,but especially in the holiday season, house keepers in Philadelphia are flooded with circulars and advertisements, sometimes sent through the post office, and some times quietly under the door. But more frequently the front door bell is rung, and a servant has to quit work to go and answer it, finding the circular at the door, but the depositor gone. Hard-working women have sometimes to run twenty times a day, to answer such rings at the bell. It is becoming an intolerable evil, and there are many per sons who have made a resolve to avoid all establishments that thus attempt to advertise their business. An advertise ment in a respectable newspaper would cost probably not one-fiftieth of the sum required to print and distribute these door-sill circulars, and all such would certainly reach, and be read by,more persons, while, at the same time there would be no annoyance to house keepers arising from them. Good busi ness men would see at once that there is a waste of money in the circular distri bution business. It annoys, offends and repels more people than it can attract as customers. These door-bell ringing distributors of circulars are among the greatest nuisances of housekeeping in Philadelphia. Extensive Bale of Beal Estate To-morrow. . This Sale, on Wednesday, at 12 o clock noon, includes a number of desirable properties, to be sold by order of tbe Orphans; .Court executors and others, among which are store, Tnlrd above Vine; Besldencee, Twen tieth and Wallace,'Ac., Ac , . ■ ■ . . AST Pamphlet Calaloeuet no w ready. PiiadtJphia 8t am -Uhoee|ale| ; . Ann ;. -/ | COCOA WORKS. Tbe subscriber has recently erected tbe most exten sive Asd complete works in tbe Btale for the maao fsctureoi allklndapf , I CHOCOLATE, Of tie Finest Variety. CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONS FOB CHBIBTHAB HOLIDAYS. As fbllOWB: Chocolate Hichol&a.Amerlcanoa,Almond*, Jellies, Ptetacbe, Pralines, Cordials, Drops, Jim Crows,Bolls, Portuguese, Figures, Medallions,.Paste and Chocolate Caramels. THE VABIETTIES OF TABLE CBOCGLATE ABB Breakfast, Commercial and Double Ex’ ra Chocolate. STEPHEN F. WHITMAN, Ho. 1210 Maiket Street deistfrp -- —■ CHRISTMAS. LIHFORD LUKENS, N. W. Corner Sixth and jhestnut, HaTeJoattpenedlfreah Invoices of FANCY GOODS fob g: Comprising: RICH CASHMERE SCARFS. WINDSOR NECKTIES. GLOVES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. FUR GAUNTLETS. DRIVING GLOVES. RORE DE CHAMBRES. SMOKING JACKETS. TOILET ARTICLES, Etc. To which he desire* to call attenUon of those por. dialing Holiday Gifts. LINFORD ILDKENS, S. W. Cor. Sixtb and Chestnut. GOLD EYE GLASSES GOLD SPECTACLES.' SILVER SPECTACLES. BLUED STEEL SPECTACLES. OPERA GLASSES Of : BABDOTJ’B hake. THERMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, Ac. Suitable for Holiday Presents. "I.BORHEK& SON, OPTXCIA2SB, ’ 402 Chestnut Street. : delB-«t» JUST RECEIVED FROM GENOA, SILVER. FILIGREE JKWELBY, ALSO, Now Opening An Invoice of JET GOODS, Sets.Sßuchlee, etc. KITCHEN & CO., JEWELERS, S. E. cor. Tenth and Chestnut streets. delS-tuthsSU HAINES BBOS.’ PIANOS-Moderate In IsSSprlce, and (Old wllO five lears' enarantee, SEVENTH antMJHfBSTN'crT. noio-mpj A. D’HUYVETTER’S Third Special Sale HIGH CLASS IMPORTED OIL PAINTINGS, TO BE SOX DAT SCOTT'S ABT GALLSBY, 1030 ChestnntStreets Wednesday, Thnisday and Friday Erenings, Dec. 19.90 and 21st, at 71-2 o’clock. NOW QPIU FOB KKAHTNATIOIS, SCOTT, Jr.t JAMES S. CLAXTON, Successor to W. 8.4 A. iiartlen, 1214 Ohestuut Street, Haa now Arranged on Immense counters and ready for Impection One of the finest Collectionfl of Illustrated Bosks, Juveniles and Toy Books, Standard Poets, Bibles, Prayers and Hymn Books AND r MISCELLANEOUS LITE EM USE Ever offered for sale in this City, AT VEBY LOW PBICES. A Holiday Catalogue now ready, gratis. del?-6t rp In order that the pnbllc may hare a longer opportu nity to examine the fine works In the new Galleries of the sale which was to have taken place this evening. The precise dav will shortly be announced. The picture® will continue upon free Exhibition, at the Booms of theeociety, from 9 A. V. till 7 P. HC. nntll farther notloe. By order of the Society. Beantifal Japanese Articles, JUST OPENED, AT CUTHBERT’S INDIA STOKE, 28 South Bighth Street, ab. Chestnut Celi-tu ih s6t( HARDING’S EDITIONS OP THE HOLY BIBLE Family, Puip't and Photograph Bibles YOB CHRISTMAS, WEDDING, and BIKTHDAY PRESENTS. Also Presentation Bibles, for CHURCHES, CLERGYMEN, SOCIETIES. TEACHERS, «e. Newand Superb assortment bound In Rich Levant Turkey; Fancied anc ornamental Designs, equal to >be London and Oxiord editions, at less than half • heir prices. WM. W. HARDING, No 326 Chestnut Btuet ATJCXIONBBB. ARTISTS’ FUND SOCIETY. THE ARTISTS’ FUND SOCIETY, has been POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY, 1867. 1334 Chestnut Street, W. H. WILCOX. Chairman of Committee. PERFECTION ATTAINED. Strength! Beauty! Cheapness! HARDING'S PATENT CHAIN-BACK PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. The Trade and dealers supplied at the lowest rates. Purchasers should ask for ilardlng’s Patent Chain- Back Albums, as they are far superior to any others. WE W. HAKDTNQ, S2S Chestnut street. dels-Bt* A KB AT 2)06 OOLLAB with his name engraved on it would be an acceptable gift to a friend who owns a dog. A variety to choose from at TBCTMAN & SHAW'S, No. 835 (Eight Thirty-five) Market street, below Ninth. IF YOU DESEBE THE LATEST AND HO 1T IM proved style Locking Glass and Picture Frames, resort te BED HKR'S Emporium, Arch street east of Seventh. ■ CmCKKRINQ SQUARE P LANGS, ffHpnocstftt* A. D’HTJYYETTER'B Third Special Sale HIGH CLASS IMPOETED OIL PAINTINGS, TO BB BOLD AT SGOTI’S AST GALLERY, 1030 Chestnut street, Wednes? ay, Thursday and Friday Evenings, Deo, 19,20 and 21st, et 71-2 o’olook. TOW CHBSt I OB HXAMIHATIOH. BiSCOTTj Jr.j OF BRONZES AND**OTHER OBJECTS OF ART WILL COM- MENCE TO-MORROW MORN- ING, DEC, 19TH, AT 11 O’CLOCK PRECISELY, AT NO. 1219 OEHSTNUT STREET,: CONCERT HALL BUILDING. THE ORIGINAL. SKATE STORE. We would respectfully call yoor attention to onr tensive stock 01 We are determined now, as heretofore, to keep largest and nest assortment of Skates In the city, t*kaus by the Thousand, call asd see them® skate Straps, Bk*ue Reels, Skate Plates. BE ales Ground an* k epaired. Call at the Old Original Skate Store, WRITING DESKS AND PORTFOLIOS, FOB HOLIDAY PRESENTS AT MOSS & CO.’S, deISIJH ip 432 CHESTNUT STHBBT RICH LACE CURTAINS For a Holiday Gift. LARGE PURCHASES AT AUCTION ENABLE UJ&- TO OFFKK BARGAINS IN LACE CURTAINS. CURWEN STODDART & BROTHER, Hoi. 450, 452 and 454 Horth Second St,. ABOVE WILLOW. delB-3t{ W. H. BUTTON. ATJCVXOKBSB y ITI BROS,’ GREAT SALE B. SCOTT, JR., AUCTIONEER. SKATES. The essortmeut comprises every variety of Ladies’, Gents’, Kisses’ and Boys’ SKATES. Steel Skates, Wood-upper Skates, Shoe Skates. 611 MARKET STREET. j.peedebick: smith, (Late Smith & Blchardsoc> delB-6t OPEN EVENINGS. FINE GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SMYTH & DBEER, B. B. corner ABCH and TENTH ate, Have now cn hand a well-selected stock of WATCBXS, lEVEIBT, SILVER, A3TO- SILVEIi-PUTED WARE. Suitable for the CHRISTMAS HOLIRAYS. A call Is respectfully bo 11 cited. THZOBOBK BMYTH. A. D’HUYVITTJBR’S Third Special Sale HIGH CLASS IMPOBTBD* OIL PAINTINGS, TO BB BOLD AT SCOTT’S ART GALLERY, 1030 Chestnut street* Wednesday, Thnisday and Friday Evenings, Dec. 19, 20 and 21st, at 71-2 o’clook* BOW OPBB TOE EX A MTKATION. Jtt« SCOTT, Jr, 51 rREDEHICK J. DBIES, J 3.- ABOTIONBBB,
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