CffiSQN PEACOCK EflitOL VOLUME XX.—rNQ. 221 THE EVENING BULLETIN, PUBLISHED EVHBY EVENING, - (Sunday* excepted,) AT THE NEW BUIXETIS BIJnDISG, 607 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BT tub ... EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. orBSQKPBACQCK. ERNEST O. WALLACE. E. L. PETHERSTON. THOS. J. WILLIAMSON, «CABPBBBOUDEB, Jr. PBANCIS WELLS. - TJießoiißTifir le neryed to miMcribera In tne city at 18 cent* per week, payable to the camera, or $3 pet rFrom Belgravia.] TEN AND TWENTY. A. Drawing-Boom Beverle. ■Can ten long years have passed away Since wiffi Kate Fane. I used to play .. Andspoil her doll and toys?- < ■fihe was an awful little tease, Who tore her clothes and grazedher khees—’ And toyedto play with boys: - 'The merriest of rotoplng girls * "Was Kate, with tangled jsjuuiy curls, In those bright laughing days: Her skirtwaa&ien bouffie—e’ea ■She never wore.a crinoliner ’Neath which peeped trousers, frilled, I ween, .■ With droderie Anglaise, "Whole mornings then we used to pass In strolling through the nodding grass Or coaching ’mongst the fern; Whilst there, whenno one else was by, I need to kiss her on the sly— - And Kate was'neither coy nor shy, Bat kissed me in return 1 The livelong dsy we played and walked, Orin the orchard swung and .talked— .. -.. thus our-liking strengthened At last, one gloomy, tearful day, My playfellow was sent away To school, and there She had to stay ■Until her frocks were lengthened. In Eton’s classic groves I strayed, . ’JTfI pick up'learning—Pm afraid I “picked up’, more at cricket; My boyish love was left to fate,. , 'When pulling in the College Eight; I quite forgot my little mate, In dreams of double-wicket ! And nowl ehance to meet again, . •Not saucy Kate, but fair .Miss Fane, 'The loveliest of belles; Who rules the Reason—for I know, ’ At party, fete, or flower-show, In opera-box or in the Row, She gueens it o’er die swells. • Ah! since that rosy laughing child Would jump upomher pony wild, And ronnd the paddock canter, 'Or madly with'black Rector race, Or climbfor-neatsin Lyndith Chase— •For,which she got in sad disgrace— .::^,Otemporainutantuv!: For Kate will never know me now, Bfct with a studied, solemn bow, - She’ll gaze with manner blank. ISTot know me? How her eyes flash bright! •She shakes me hand, and grasps it tight, •And laughingly exclaims, “ I’m right— "’Kb my old playmate Frank!” J. ASHBY STERRT, Tbe Arrest of Surratt—Extraordinary (xudttec nf tke Eu-ilish AuthoriUes at Malta. The London Times haa the following from 'Staples, November 27: The receipt of a letter at the American Consulate, in this city, last evening, from the United States authorities, in Malta,com pels me to advert to a subject which may create some uneasiness. -Surratt, one of the conspirators against the late President Lin coln, has beenfor ten months or more in the service of the Pope in the regiment of Zou-' aves, hut quitting it and; flying from Borne, he arrived at Naples abont a fortnight since wearing the uniform of the ZoUaves. Ou Sunday, the 18tb, the American Con sul received a telegram from his colleague .in Borne to the effect that the soi-disant 'Walters was no other than Surratt, and or dering his. immediate arrest. Immediate application wets made to the police of Na ples, and every possible facility afforded, but it was found they, were too late, and that the -criminal bad started the night before by the Liverpool screw. Tripoli, for Malta and Alex andria. The telegraph was then put in com munication with Malta, and directions were igiven to the Gonsul-General of ‘the United Stateain thatisland to arrest Welters imme diately on his arrival. A* letter received at the American Con sulate only last evening, states that the Tripoli touched at Malta early on Monday morning, the 19th; that the Consul imtne - diately applied for powers to arrest Surratt; that no answer was returned till just before the hour of thedeparture of the Tripoli' for Alexandria; and that the answer was in the negative, on the ground of there being no authority for doing,,-so. Telegrams have therefore been, sent from the United .States Ttepresentatives in Borne, Naples and Malta to the Consol in Alexandra, arid as vessels from. .Liverpool undergoa quarantine iin; that city, it. is .fully expected' that Surratt Twill be captured. - On what gronhdsthe British authorities in Malta declined to act is not known, and : It would be premature, : therefore to express : any optnlon on the subject, bat the mere fact or their having declined has created the -worst possible feelings in the minds’ of ..American agents. The Consol at Malta ex- Sies the opinion that it was by “a mere quibble” the head and front of the - conspiracy was permitted to escape; and here I have heard the refusal of the British - authorities to act contrasted with the readi ness which was shown in Amerioa to give up Muller. : ■ . , ANNIVERSARY OF THB EMANCIPATION TPsobbAMATioir.—The anniversary of the • emahbipation- proclamation recurring Jan. 1, arrangements are being made in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Ya., for a proper observ ance ,pf the day. A meeting was recently :held m Norfolk for this purpose at a colored Baptist church. Theattenaance was large. Mayor Ludlow was present, by request of •of the committee. He expressed his views on-the proposed celebration, and said he' opnjd'not agree vrtth the meeting as to its propriety or expediency, but ir they re solved to observe the day by meetings and a procession, he would see that they were mot molested; he did not believe; m fact, that there was any disposition on the part of the citizens of Norfolk tohholest them as long as they were orderly.< Other speeches were made, and the necessary , arrange? ments were made. The 'programme con templates services in the charohes in the morning and at night, and a procession through the streets at night, v The Cabinet meeting was attended by all the members yesterday, Secretary Stanton having returned from his trip North. 5 €l)fiiiug Hiilktm “lame ducks.” * * * “The other railing is a semi circle twenty or thirty feet from the central sne. This outer rail fences off the ‘lame ducks’ and ‘dead beats’—men who have once been famous at the rat pit,’ but have since been ‘cleanedout.’ Being- unable to settle their ‘differ ences,’ they are not allowed to come inside. Solvency is the first essential of the Gold Room. Nothing bogus is allowed to interfere with the serious business in hand. Nevertheless these ‘lame ducks’ and 'dead beats’ cannot keep away from the place. Day -after day they come and range themselves along their iron grating and look over at the ralrpit with the strangest expres sion of intelligent vacancy and longing despair that can be found this side of purgatory. They seem to be a part of the furniture of the room. While I was there I did not see one of them move or speak, and when- they winked it was with much the same spirit that an owl at mid-day lowers the film over his eyes and hoists it again.” “The ‘lndicator,’ which is the third piece of furniture in the room (or the fourth; if we count the ‘dead beats,’) is apiece of .mechanism to show the changes in the market. It is some thing like an old fashioned New En gland clock, seven or eight feet high, with ah open space-at the top disclosing three figures and a fraction, as 141 J, at which the market stood when I entered. The figures being movable, a slight ma nipulation will manifest any change in the market. Connected with the indi cator is a plain desk, with a book on it, in which are recorded all the movements of the indicator, with the hour and min ute at which each movement takes place. The floor of the establishment is rather a pavement, with circular steps or terraces rising from the centre to the circumference. ; -‘.Neat but not gaudy,’ is the general aspect of the premises. Of course such. an institution could not exist without a telegraph office. Accord ingly we find one, communicating with the Gold Boom by a row of windows, through which despatchesarecoußtantly passing.” “Having given the external appear ance of the <concern, we now come to business. .-Three things seem to be in note-books, and pen-, oils. Wow-wow-wow-wow-wow, yah? yah-yah-yah-yah, from twenty or thirty throats, around the .pit, all at once, and kept going from morning till night,from Monday till Saturday; is what presents itself to the ear of tne beholder. The voices of the gentry aronnd : the circle are for the; most part tenori, with now and then & falsetto and a basso. I shall not soon forget a‘ basso prof urido in the ring, who drew his breath at regular intervals, and . announced his desires with a seriousness truly remarkable. He was a thick-set man,-with a capacious chest, shaggy, head,. keen eyes, and rusty whiskers, which curved upward from his inferior, maxillary bone In the most determined manner. He cocked his head on one side, thrust-his chin as far as possible over tne railing,and made himself heard every time. He put In his B flat in regular cadences like the trombone performer in a mill-pondof a summer evening, drowning for the mo ment all the fiddles In the frog commu nity—or like the double-bass crashes in the overture to Tannhauser, which, by the way, might pass for “Gold Boom Potpourri’ without the alteration of a single note.” ■ BUSINESS. ■ - “Among the faces constantly swing ing around the circle there is a marked .preponderance of Israelites. *■*.'* But they do.not, by any means, monopolize the business. There me young Yankees here, apparently. not more than twenty one years of age, with downy cheeks and shrewd eyes, wow-wowing and yah yahing with each otheraeross-the rail ing and whisking their pencils with phonographic velocity. You see no smiles ih this ring. Many of the ope rators are smoking,.but they -have no time for conundrums. Commencing betimes in the morning, they must buy and sell gold enough before night to pay for Chicago twice over. Putting the purchases and sales .together, they will notunfrequently amount to one hundred millions of dollars. In a few cases only is the gold actually delivered. Balances THE NEW YORK GOLD BOOH. ■ ’ A LIVELY PICTUBE. How tbe Operators Shout and Speculate, • The editor of the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Horace White, recently visited the Gold Room in New York city, and has written a description of it, which is the best and most interesting that we have seen. We copy thematoriai passages: THE GOLD BOOM A CUBIOSITY 1 . . “New York is the commercial focus of the. continent, and. tie Gold Room is the focus of Nhw-York. In a little court yard surrounded : by four walls, and closed in witha roof,.havinga circuitous passage-way from Broad, street, may be witnessed, at any hour of the day, and six days in the week, a scene which has not its likeness in' earth" or heaven. Whether its parallel,can be found in hell I will not undertake, to say. Perhaps it can, but this much I consider certain, that the New York Gold room is to-day the greatest cariosity in the world. “Imagine a rat-pit in fall blast, .with twenty or thirty men ranged around the rat tragedy, each with a canine under his arm, all yelling and howling at once, and yon have as good a compari son as can be found in tne outside world, of the aspect of the Gold Room, as it strikes the beholder on his first entrance, The furniture of the room is extremely simple. _ It consists of two iron railings and an ‘indicator.’ The first railing is a circle, about four feet high and ten feet in diameter, placed exactly in the centre of the.room. In the interior, which represents the space devoted to .rate killing in similar establishments, is a marble Cupid throwing up a jet of pur- Croton.” THE “INDICATOR.” THE . SHOUTING. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22,1866.—TR1PLE SHEET. are settled with gold certificates. The existing method of settling the business of the day is by giving checks—each •man drawing a -check for each purchase, •dr receiving one for each sale. But they are not satisfied with the slow coach method of doing business. They must • needs have a gold clearing-house! where, the whole business of the room can be thrown into a hopper, jujd-r the ‘differ ence’ ground out atone torn of the wheel. This project is now on foot; it will, of course, facilitate business very much. ■■'- t r: • ! “But what does it all amount to? I had almost said that the Gold -Roomre gulates all the prices in the United States. It does not regulate; butit records them. The Gold Room i->itself regulated by.the outside world. Each movement of the ‘indicator’ is the resultant of all the forces at work in America, Europe, Asia and Australia, which can possibly aflect the vaine of United States currency, and United States bonds. It follows that the operators in 1 the Gold Rohm should be, at the same time, the best informed and the most intelligent business men in the country. They most not only have the best and latest information, bat they must be able to determine instantly what is the effect of any given fact which may come to their knowledge. They must be able to resolve the most compli cated problems in mental arithmetic without a moment’s hesitation.” SPECULATION. “If the Secretary of the Treasury has decided upon a certain measure of finan cial policy, or the President upon a cer tain measure of foreign policy; if there is a short com crop, or a Fenian rebel lion, or a trouble in Europe, or a heavy immigration, or a great oil discovery, or a change in the tariff, or anything else which can. aflect the currency or the public credit, they must be able to melt down the mass and weigh the product instantly. This is the work of omnis cience, and of course no man can do it. Nor. can the whole Gold Room "do it accurately at all times. Now and then the price will run up wildly upon a given state of facts andrun down again as rapidly when it is discovered that the facts are not having the effect which was generally .expected by the operators. They are pretty cool and accurate in their calculations, bnt the atmosphere of the Gold Room almost inevitably Eerverts a man’s judgment; and brings im to grief in the long run. A few days ago word came that President Johnson had sent a despatch ef five thonsand words by the Atlantic cable to Paris. This was known in the Gold Room before the despatch had got ont of the Washington telegraph office—per haps, before it" hadleft the'State Depart ment. Great was the pow-wow in the Gold Room. Gold rose from 140 i to 14S}. A western -merchant, who happened to be there, turned the matter over in his mind and concluded that it did sot make much difference what kind ef a despatch Mr. Beward had sent .to Europe. He reasoned that the people were not well enough pleased with Andrew Johnson to follow him into a foreign war, even if that were the pur port of the despatch. He called a broker to his side and authorized him to operate for a decline within three days, and made four thonsand dollars by hav ing at the moment a grain more of cc-mmon sense, or a better acquaintance with the temper of the American peo than the average of the Gold Room,’’ CONFUSION. “I remarked at the beginning that the Gold Boom was a great cariosity, and that it furnished a remarkable illustra tion of the capabilities of the human mind. The pioceedings of the Board of Stock Brokers have been often described as a bedlam in which all shout-at once, and shout without ceasing, and yet transact business in the most expeditious and orderly manner. The Stock -Board is provided with a moderator and two reporters, thus having the semblance of parliamentary law for its government. The Gold Board has nothing of the kind. It is a ceaseless jangle, a whirlpool of voices, without order, without umpire, referee or stakeholder. Yet as it spins on, millionsupon millions are' bought and sold, the prices of all goods, wares, merchandise,. produce, bonds, stocks, and property generally throughout ? the country are marked up or down, obedi ently to the inexorable ‘indicator’ in the Gold Boom. “How these men can understand each, other, and avoid mistakes, is a mystery. In any large telegraph office in the country you will see twenty or thirty •Morse instruments clicking together, and perhaps a House printing machine, adding its hop-skip-an’d-jump to- the chorus. Each operator hears and under stands his own instrument, even though he be ten feet from it, ana he does not hear any other. I have often paused to admire the scene in a large telegraph offiee, as a - wonderful example of the of the humah’ear; but m the Gold Bopm.one must not only dis cern separate sounds in the miaat of dense confusion, and record them ac curately, but must have all his wits on the stretch at once, and yet preserve a perfect equilibrium of judgment. “Now and then the noise flags, and almost ceases. While I was r there, it ceased for a moment entirely. The smokers placidly puffed their blue wreaths upward, ana the murmur of the little fountain became audible. In ten seconds Bedlam bad broken loose again, wilder than ever. : ‘Market 1 ex-, cited,’said my friend, to whose polite ness I was indebted for an introduction to the room: and almost immediately the indicator rose from 141£ to 141$. The idea that these twenty or thirty men were ‘the market,’ and that when they exchanged yells a trifle more voci ferously than usual,’the market was ex cited,’ struck me as so droll that I laughed immoderately. It was never theless,true. These men were the mar ket, and the market was excited. 'Some ppark of information had just come from some quarter of the globe, which war ranted the operators in believing that United;States legal-tender notes -were OTntYmouE ooijmsx:, worth a fraction ; less , than "they 1 were ten seconds* before. The Gold Room is as sensitive to news as the ‘thermo electric pile 1 " to heat. CLASSES. OF ©PEKATOBSi .1. two classes of.operators in the Gold Room—commission men and speculators. The former buy and sell for others. With them it is ‘hekds I win. tuns you lose.’ Their commission is a certainty, and if they, can- resist the temptation todoa little ontheir private account they make money. s The specu lators make none f Rich to-day, poor to-- morrow, is the rule with them. Those who make money: , cannot- -.get away. When a man makes a miilibfi in the Gold Room, it is as if he had swallowed a gallon of salt water at one draught to quench his thirst., ■Me must have more: tio he stays and loses if, Bf he loses more than he has, and, cannot pay his difference? he must take his place at the outer railing. Even then he cannot drag himself away from the place. The. evil f haspossessiohof him. It holds him last. ‘ Y onder’ said my com panion,‘ls a young man whomigfrthav© gone away with two millions of dollars. He was worth it once. He is now among the ‘dead-beats,’' as poor as anyof them. They have all been rich in their time.’ I looked over to the dead beat apartment and saw a youth whose cast of countenance might have inspired Tennyson to write the Lotus Eaters. Suchmild and melancholy eyes,such an expretoion of fixed uncertainty and mo tionless unrest it would be hard to find save in tbe Gold Roomor at a faro-table. Of the ‘dead-beats’ generally it might be said: ** 'ln the aflernoos fch«7 came onto a-land* In which it seemed always afternoon. aU round the coast the languid air did swoon-/ Breathing like one that hath • weary dream. 1 “Applying to the Gold Room the rule of averages, it stands to reason that no body should make money in the long run*: Buying and selling gold prodaces no wealth.' The miner in California brings gold into the world. He adds to the stock of a useful commodity. Bat the broker in the Gold Room adds no thing to it. Out of nothing, nothing comes.. But these men are not really buying and selling gold. Gold is the only stable thing going. It is in equili bria, or to nearly thus, that its fluctua tions take place only through, periods of years. The men of the Gold Room are really buying and selling the United States currency. Is any thing to he made, in the aggregate, out of this? Certafnlynot. Paper mo ney, as Hawthorne somewhere "says, is but the ahadow,of a shade. They might as well trade to many tons ol moonshine —“seller three’’—as to stand there gam bling in the paper promisea of the government. I speak of the transactions as a whole; of course somebody makes and somebody loses in nearly every transaction. Sometimes an operator will have axon of extraordinary luck, which induces him to believe that he knows it all. "When he reaches this point he is gone! The idea of one’s infallibility is fatal in the Gold Room—or ont of. it, for that matter.” “To say that the Gold Boom is not useful would be altogether wrong. It is not only useful but necessary. I should not wish any friend of mine to do much business in it, but it must be recognized as a necessity of the times. Its method of doing business was never invented by anybody. Men slid into it, just as men slid into the practice of using gold and silver for money. It has been found that the work can be done more eco nomically and expeditiously by the rat pit .mode than any other. If it could be done any faster, or any cheaper, by the operators standing on their heads, they would do so. “If young America is to be found in the Gold Boom, younger America is to be found at .tne doorway. The Gold Room and the open Stock Board are in the same building. I noticed when I entered from Broad street, that a num ber of seedy individuals were buying and selling shares' of Mariposa and Northwestern on the sidewalk. As I came but, a ragged boy,' about eight years old, with a pencil and a scrap of paper in his hand, plucked me by the coat and exclaimed‘Mithter, how’th Quickthilver ? This precocious op erator thought 1 had come out of the StoekJßoard. Surely, I thought, here is the commercial focus of the continent. Fatal Lamp Explosion.— ln Freeport, Armstrong county, Fa., on the I4th inst,. a lamp explosion occurred at the House of Mr. Ephraim Hall, by whioh two yonng la dies, daughters of Mr. Hall, were burned to death, anahis wife so severely injured that she is not expected to survive. The ladies were seated by a table engaged in some feminine occupation, when suddenly with out a warning, the lamp exploded and its burning contents scattered all over them. The children’s clothing took fire immedi ately, and notwithstanding the. mother’s efforts to extinguish the flames, they were bnmed 'in snch a terrible manner that death > ensued. Mrs. Hall was also severely burned in her endeavorsto save her daughters. She is still living. Hr. Hall arrived home al most immediately after the accident, bnt too late tobeof service other than to hiß wife. Tissue-Paper as a Substitute fob Lint.— The surgeons of Vienna have , em ployed, according to the Journal of the So ciety of Ar&, witu nmch Buocess, the white unsized paper known as papier Joseph for dressing wounds. . It has .all the properties of lint, and in towns it may be obtained in large quantities at ' a very low price. In every way it has all the advantages of lint; it does not change in contact with water; it is a bad conductor of heat, and preserves, in consequence, the wounda from atmospherio influence. From its absorbent nature, it sneks hp the matter; maintains the wound in a stated! dryness favorable for- healing, and it may be used in certain circumstances more advantageously even than lint. Diamonb Transaction.— M. Kramer, a Paris jeweler; recently sent a parcel of dlamonds,of the value of £17,200, to Alexan dria, by the Messageries Imperiales.The box was stolen and' M, Kramer having .de clared the value of the contents at £lO,OOO only, the Hesßageries has been ordered to pay that amount, so that the jeweler haslost £7,200 by his misrepresentation. USES OF THE GOLD BOOM. '.FactsMid'Fancies.' _ Profesaor Blot is coining to Philadelphia. Punsters are warned that pretty much ®f®£stojng has; been done with bis , name tnat it is susceptible of, and we hope to. re ceive no communications on the subject If there is anything new to say, we will say it ourselves. \ ■■ ■ ■■■• • : What color gives the best finish to a tnre ? Dimcolor,; of course. ' The eagerness with .which Unde Sam is stirring npthe iilimt whisker stills remind one of the welPknown line? J : : i:J ‘ “Colombia Ewltb all tty feulta-. X love the still." The Mexican Question—Mex. Max. Mix _Th® display of diamonds at the fancy ball grren by the banker Barron in Mexieo waa prodigious.: i J Two ladies dreesedaa. 1 ‘ ‘Fire” dtorayy blazed withjewels. They were put on J» however,: by another lady who wore “itfwhinonflß.ih the character of “The hirst Water.”' . • j Boston .Basf Bays that Surratt is to be dramatized. This is true. He will be broßglitoutby ‘a gun-boat add pat oo the stsM by competent judges. It Is under stood, however,' that be will only maWo ® n e appearance in public; The knittingmills at Cohoes wffi probably all suspend, operations during the next few weeks. It is estimated that about twenty* five hundred persons will thus be thrown out ef empioyinent. That is the worst ©f the, ©e-hose business* Every additional stocking they knit makes it more certain that they will “put their foot into it”" CampbeU- anfi Sherman appear to-have gone to Mexico tb-see-what they went there for.— Lou, Hem, * John Smith, a second Quintus Curtins, a citizen ofMemphia, desirous of ameliorat ing the condition of the streets of his native city, is reported to have plunged headlong into the mnd, leaving only the soles of his boots exposed j wiUi the touching inscription in chalk, -Who will care for mother now.” Miss-Olive Logan has published a story called “John Morris’s Money.” People must not contufio Ibis with John Morrissdv’s money»' The-next thing, to a ragamuffin has- been discovered to be a flannel cake. A Cincinnati clergyman is said to kave preached twenty-seven barrels of sermons. We thought they calculated everything by hog’s-heads in Pufkopolia, A Brownsville paper tells an amusing story of a charge made by a cow upon the fortifications of Matamoras. Seme wags of Cortinaa’s command caught the cow, and, drSasingherup ih a fentasti© manner in raw hides, old tin plans and sheet iron, started her offatthetopof her speed towards the <aty.: Witfi a noise like thunder she rushed madly to the very ditoh of the works, when Satando’s brayee, thinking by the the clatter that a brigade of eavalry were charging the fort, fired a few shots, and de serting their guns, fled ingloriously to the town plain;: It was several hours before they could be' led back to the fort. The questien. arises—Can braves : running away from a cow, be spoken of as retreating oow wardsf-- - : -.----n--.-- A Troy collar mann&ctorer vras arrested the other day because he exactly answered the description of a notofions thief that the police were looking after. The man’s choier may be Imagined. An American teacher in Europe says the lump of butter an American girl puts on a plate wonld make a ParMehne stare wildly. The reason is obvious. An American girl is well worth staring at, and it is not re-' markable that a Parisienne should stare at nary but-her. Execution in Xortb Carolina. Wilmington, Dec. 21,—Lewis and Au gustus Williams, negroes, convicted some time since for highway robbery, were exe cuted to-day. White men would have been hanged, according to the laws of this State, for the same offence. The condemned were escorted to the gallows by a company of United States regulars. Both of them pro tested their innocence to the last. About two thousand persons witnessed the execution, three-fourths of whom yfere negroes, but no disturbance occurred. ~ It is the general impression that the Legis lature of the State will enact something in the shape of a stay law for the relief of the people, but any measure looking to repudia tion will be rejected by an overwhelming majority. Navigation of the Upper Mississippi, —The St. Paul Pre&s gives some interesting faots with regard to the navigation of the Upper Mississippi. The fast season began April 19, and closed November 23, lasting, therefore, two hundred gnd twenty-six days, about the average period. ' The season is retarded by Lake Pepin, which does not thsw out until a week or fortnight after the river, Above and below,, is open -and free from ice. Besides, the steamboat men gene rally withdraw their boats before it is really necessary. The number of steamboats en gaged in the river trade, registered at St. Paul and Duhnqne this season, eras sixty three; number of arrivals at St. Paul, 1,051; full tonnage, 10,921. Barges have come into general use only m the last fewyears. Yet there are now sixty-one barges and fiats registered at St. Paul,'with a tonnage of 6.04 S tons. A large: number also are regis tered at Galena, HI. , i Punishment bt Wholbsale.— The Cam bridge whipping case may as well be forgot ten. The children of Aurora, 111., enjoy the advantages of at least one public bcuool. The teachers of this school have established a kind of “dead line,” parallel with the front fence, over which the children are not allowed to pass. The object of this rule is, of course, to prevent intercourse with per sons in the street. On a recent occasion, a procession passed the school, and the little people forgot the rule and passed the line. The teachers were at the window and saw the infringement of their authority., The bell rang; the school assembled, the teachers madea few preliminary arrangements, and then proceeded to flog every boy and girl in the school. - ■ ■ ; - - “h. w.” Beautiful Snow.— A ■ crusty and dis gusted Southerner in Canada, writes the' following ode to the snow and frost of that country; “Oh! the frost, the freezing frost, bitingour nose as we go; all sense of feeling is utterly lost, and ourzestfor the beautiful show. The Northern king a tribute has wrung, in the shape of a pearly tear, which a moment ago like a dew drop hung, from the point : often 1 graced., with ■ a sneer. Oh! the frost, the delectable frost, that finds us wherever we_ go. wrapped in its fearsome shroud like a ghost, And conveying to our merldian blooa a thorough disgnstmr those sentimental donkeys i who hypocritically prate ofthe beautiful snow.” . • • • ■ Nashville Improvements.— The Nash ville Banner is, informed by awell-known builder of that, city, that more new houses have been erected there this year than in any previous year for half a century, and that, from the number of contracts already entered into, the number of houses ereoted next year will be still greater. IV L. EETHERSTON. Pribldifr. THREE CEMS. AMUSEMENTS. Houdat- Week.—The - theatres presents the finest hind of holiday bills, as wIU be seen by the advertisements in another part ' of to-day’s paper.: At the Walnut tornight I “Kaights of the Bound Table,” ‘'.General ' Grant at Cape May” and “The Merchant’S Clerks” -will be given, with Mr. 3. S. Clarke in each piec&On Christmas day, at a matinee, Clarke appears in “The Naiad■ i Queen” and in the evening he will give- the: •grandest kind of a Christman bilL At the Chestnut Mr, and Mrs. Barney Willfcuns begin an engagement on Christmas eve and <»ntnrtw it* throiKhpnt, the. week. - At:the- Arch Gaunt” will be played Christmas eye, with Mrs; John Dfew as K ?te Peyton. With: the cast—especially : witkMTs* Drew in the main part—and witb. . attention to detail which has been (riven ' the piece at the Arch, it cannot fek to be: a great success. At tbe Ainericanthe no veity for the week will be “Idttle -Bed ' SSP 11 ® Hdod;” 1 -At the. Academy of Musis' The Arabian Nights Entertainments’* At :Assembly BoiMihs Signor Blitz exerts, every possible allure-’ bis extra holiday soirees. boGi dally and nightly, attractive to-younje. andol 4v4 National Hall the OldFblka , present 1 their strongest attrantihng, Tbo Bomanee of a m* 7 • • • - »w BemandaKfi^T [Hresa the Wlnoc* (Mian ) Eepubltcan, Deo-S-J ’ 4 few days since a very, respectable lady-. UTOig not a hundred miles from WinohaL called upon one of our leading attorneys and desired his services in . procuring w di vorce from her husband, who had- left her eight or ten years ago, and daring all that, tong time she had heard nothing from hiny The lady was ' taking the step with reluc tance; bnt it was necessary to transfer soma land. The case- of: desertion seemed- so* strong that little difficulty was met in pro curing the divorce, and the lady made the transfer. On the eveninglof the same day the attorney was in Miles’s barber shop when the lady in question entered, accom panied by a gentleman. She uttered an ex clamation of surprise as she met the attor ney, and taking a seat by his aide, said to him, “Dp you know that gentleman who came in with me?” “No.” replied the at torney. “Well, it’s my husband. Became Bp to-aay on the boat, and w© shall b© ried again this evening.” The attorney suggested the propriety of his being present at the wedding, but while the lady was wil- Bhonld. witness the'ceremonyy yet thought that he had been a little too- in strumental in. separating them; ‘Why the husband was so silent during hitr long ab sence we.know not. Let that remain amoner the mysteries.- : ; t'blTalry Bobbing a Negro Scboolhonse. £&om the Missouri Messenger, i3th«J We understand that on last Tuesdaynight the “Chivalry” of Fnlton', Callaway county* becoming enraged at the presence of a negro school in their midst, resolved to rid them selvee of its presence. Accordingly a mob gathered, proceeded to the school house, and literally gutted it? destroying the benches, desk and stove,and breaking ont the windows and doors. . The same night the Governor’s proclama tion, calling tor volunteers to repress rebel mob violence in various parts of the State* was received, and caused quite a change to come over the spirit of their dreams, go, early next morning; the most prominent; and vindictive, rebels of the place, who. otherwise would have j ustified the act of the mob, circulated a subscription paper to raisemoney to replace the articles destroyed. The result was that the “Chivalry” were so alarmed at the prospect of having Fede ral soldiers quartered on them, that they subscribed liberally, and before night mo ney enough was raised to refurnish the school room and repair it in a much better manner than ever before. Hurrah for Fletcher’s proclamation! Tight Boots.— The Indianapolis Cfa sette tells the.following rich story: A few" evenings since a young gentleman of this city who had been indulging in that most expensive of all luxuries, a pair of tight boots, called on a couple of young; ladies. One of the boots ; pained him so much that he was compelled, at anehrly hour, to retire; the ladies, not wishing him to go so soon, inquired why he was in such a hurry. After hearing the reason, one of the ladies told him to take oft his boot, which was done, and he re* mained an hour or two longer. When it was time for him tb say good nighty he arose and looked aronnd for his boot, but was nowhere to be found. After making a great search, it was discovered that one of the young ladies in a playful mood had inserted her foot into the boot, and was unable to get it off. The other lady volunteered to assist heri but her efforts were equally unsuccessful, and the upshot of the matter was that the young man had to walk home a mile or more with one boot. A vert valuable pocket-knife was once dropped into a twenty feet well; half full of water. “How shall we get it out? Shall we have to draw the water from the well?” Tha writer proposed to nse a strong horse-shoe magnet, near by, suspended by a cord. ' ‘Bnt we can’t see where to lower the magnet so as to tench the knife:” “Throw the aun’a rays down on the bottom of the well by a looking-glass,” was the second answer. It was done, the knife rendered visible from the top of the well, - the magnet came into contact, and the knife brought up—all being accomplished in a minute of time. Microscopic Seaweeds,— The extensive collection of microscopic seaweeds, techni cally known as Diatomace«>, belonging to the late Dr. Greville, baa been recently ac quired' bv the Botanical Department of the British Museum. They contain all the type- ' specimens so exquisitelyfigured by him in the “Transactions of the Microscopical So ciety,” and in other journals, as well as of the more obscure speoies described and figured by the late Professor Gregory. - A Singular Case.— The Eastport (Maine) Sentinel, sajre that a pedler recently driving ' through the town of Cooper, was stopped by. a foot-pad who presented a pistol and demanded.his-money.' The pedler had a , little girl riding with him at the time, who seeing the state of affairs, crept hack on tha - top of the cart'and dragged his overcoat up within reach, from whioh he took his re volver and disabled his man. Cambridge University.— The present number of residents in the University of Cambridge (Eng.) is 2,039; of whom 1,228 are resident 1 in the aollesea and 813 in lodgings, or these Trinity hsia 571, St. Jrhn’a 322, Cainß 130, Corpus Chrlati, 123, Cbrjet’a 119, and three coUegea have be tween 90 ana 100; one has 74, six between sft and 60, and two 34 and S 3 respectively; 61T have been matriculated in thq present term*.
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