fflßSQir PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XX.—NO. 222 THE EVENING BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, ' . CBoniUy’s excepted.) SBW BJ7ULBTIS buiudhstg, 607 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BY THB “VEHING bulletin association. «£fflmiWoFiSf!rr. ™ANCIS V S^ ISUli '' TAeßtrtLKriir to served to subscribers In tne city at Mcegsper week.psysbleto theyrrta,. H A. 6CBIPTUBE IDYL. “Entreat me not to leave thee, or following after tbee.”-BoxH 1. le. Forbid me not from folio’ O Naomi! „ , deal Mahlon’s sake, tJnto Beth-lehem, where the oom-reeda My path shall be. •"Or took thou back, nor mourn The dead : 'Whose leaf is shed, 'Whose sheaf is bound ; Flowers of thy youth, on Moab’s ground, Whose bloom, so living-sweet, no summer shall return. _ . Orpah, depart!—Nay, go Sack to toy kindred, as our mother eayeth; And kiss toe sod for me, Where lip of mine no more with weeping prayeth; The dead have no more woe. ißut her, toe living, will I not forsake. . O Naomi! ifnotwithme, Where shall toy torn heartstiU its bleeding? Orpah departs—and, see! -Even now her steps, receding, 3£ead down toe grass in Moab. Let me be iThe one found faithful. Bid me comfort thee. Love hath no one sole land: La all lands love hath been At God’s right hand; Below, above. In every ciime is love, And still shall be, While mingles shore with sea, -and silvered upland slopes to golden lea. Where’er we go „ That sap must flow, Which feeds the tree of Life and keeps it green. Take comfort, then, of me, O Naomi! And God, whose will can make Newdwßß, new hopes, to break, Whose love alone glistening green, and with scarlet bernes amongst the prickly ■leaves; and there I stood looking in at the snug, bright, warm kitchen, with Polly making it look ten times more warm and bright, ** that it was a handsome .lilace, or well furnished,—for those sort of things don t always make a happy Plain, humble, and poor as it was, it seemed to me like a palace; and after * ass k>r a few minutes as she was busier than ever,—now frowning, now making a little face at her work,—now with ker 0 y 0 t as something PK 886 ker »—I all at once thought wkat ’ s more, I says to my- Darrell,” I says, “why, wiat a donkey you are, not to get what you want -and make haste back !” which when vnn consider that it was snowing hard, blowing irnder, and that where I stood the snow? my knees * while inside there a rea ®°nable workingman the truth. 6 * 1 for ’ yoa 11 8 »y was just about So I gives myself a pull together, hitches “ tom **« been together in the town that sight to bring home a good baaketfni nf 2“J“» cheer; for even if you do live in tbe black, country, amongst the coalmines makto?T™*V i and wolk M pit carpenter at “orfe wmM ( . and ae Cerent wood Sj?® l that’s no reason whv von happ/Sne^Bnt^wHf CbrlBtmas “d a anS'Kii B ‘ there was this tobacco K^ft..i I 1 ? 0118 to get; and from where we Uved, right across the heath ta the towl es > an d me being alone, I made baei??r3Si nd t° cu t off a corner, so as to get ba6k So ¥^ ned oat of the road m ?° 0 ? 881 was „ out of the colliery village ,9 f th e town lights, and then) mEKSS''' " ofr “* ■»»&' ."Kv-g lSma whft n t t fore 1 "was trudging sttMt th^ 1 t t^ tfcyr i sht - throu 8 h the town street, men thronged with Deoole wh«n t of 86 i a my iemors and tobacco, pays for’em, and starts offhome. py As Boon ae I was out of the town again I and nnw P T a lB ro ? d « tt *» toke that short cat; i )e s an to find out what sort of a Siv^lltiT^in 01 !!? 16 Wlnd was right dead in ? bile tt>e way in which the snow But l Zlt S waa southing terrible. afee g > warni fi’reSde It wai Si “'““Eg to noth??*’ W d gBt Pi ea ty of coM to nothing. We could afford a good fire t^®* e >such as wonld cheer the heart of some sobad?° ndon poor ’ while wages were not k,vv?S?° wan i 01611 to stop and , 1L ‘ k -tff e snow off my boot-soles, for ft col !j*a m hard balls, so as to make walking harder; then, not having the town lights to B Ul d*me, Ifound I’d fff out he track, so that the ground grew Dd rr r i? ngl ? er ’ and more iffan once I :£ mb,ed ' ™ 6 wind beat worse thanever 4he snow blinded so, that I could not look r and at last think that I’d donea foolish thing “ if yiD g to make a short cnt. But then one is always slow about owning to beingin the n 8.,50 I blunder and stumbfedon »as oMfSkw" WalkiDg for soTe Ume° i lostin toe snow, ° Wn 10 “ yBelf ‘Stuff and nonsense,” I savs the' oe2 ft i. minute, and then I has whire k T »»i* d r 40 and make out wnere j was, for I knew everv font nf it almost; but nothing could eee but me^ a^ g T alm ?5 t H * teina Bbe et all round wav xJhfil 1 /^ 11111 oniy T 9 a few feet each wa y, while the snow where I stood was H y » p4 ° sr kneea - i wS,™ th «e,.was nothing to be heard but the of the wind; I shouted,but the erv hoS? ded mnffled and close just as If I hacl been m a cupboard; then I walked a little £2 W fl ? y , a r/ hen *““*» “* went mte *? d Pi leaf, to my horror, X found that i e Sw 00n £ aS6 '?’ couldnotmsie * hit? ? direction lay town or village, on walking, X must come to some place or another which I knew, onlesT l walked right out on to the great waste, where I for miles and miles without find ng a house; but I was hardly likely to get there and the thing I most cared for was my poe shaft with a horrible un earthly tone that made me tremble. I cried agato and again till I was hoarse, but kne w ail the while that it was useless, for there was notajeottage for at least a mile, and then foi r t ro *h when something almost .•™® a seemed to come from my heart end then came weak, despairing tears: bat ™d U . S u d ?? BXI,I skouted again and again, and throwing my head back to tryand see the month of too pit, but, though imaglna ti°«- pe ° pled J l6 darkness with, horrors, no£ ui? g aroand but the intense blackness; while, to tny despair and' terror, I could feel that my hands ' wefe siowlyeHpping from their hold. Vpuld any man have heard me down there BCTH. return from ig aftes thee, ILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECE two hundred feet below the month, it must very u fe , a J f P 1 > for during the next ? ® I.was Bhiifikiog for aid. mvinp vont * yells, m^StaS' T«i™ s^f g T f s r if^S roy l and then » ho »ree and t °“i* ?£ U J “ust sink back, and f ijS* and struggling savaselv lor life, till the cold water gargled over “iSf 81 ud choked back mv J ? « eD ',*v for 8 few minutes? f^ ea t ing,^e water frantically, as a dog beats it when it cannot swim; bnt my nerve seemed to come once more, and even then in the midst of that horror and despair i m^ d ““A 1161 !* thinking of payself as P being *S® 88 lawamround by the side trying to find aplaoe to hold on by. I swam slowly along, striking my fight hand against the Bide at every strode, but, f B ® r „ few strokes, it did not tonch any thing; and then, striking out more boldly h^ 0 fc tan,ta J? tothe with a ray PP®. tu m y heart, for x knew that I the . leve / of one of the old veins, and though swimming farther into the bowels 1 sad5 ad not the horrible h w the , sha fi under me, while I knew myfee^ 016 IODg ’ 1 shoa)d bottom for . once my hand touched the stria one»Dp > 8113 could touoh the ft. en ’ Bft ? r 8 t OW “ore strokes, I om^tr 1 a J ow, ' y ‘ and fe«ud thebot torn, but, the water was to my lip- still wL»Tl?s£i! I,g ¥“1 wading, I soorf’stood ”? ere it was only to my middle; and now. pausing to rest for a while, I leaned ud SI 016 ? ide > cud, in the reaction tluvt came on again, cried weakly, and like the despairing wretch I was. By degrees, the heavy panting of mv heart grew less painful, while, heated with • the Idid notfeel s*n an over me as I stood there lis- VH? g 1° H l ® l° w echoing “drip, drip drin’’ °/ the water far away to my right' Racking ?£ pressed mci and, despair? 1 there was no chance or my being discovered, since, to keep alive. I mnst penetrate farther into toemiL though 'nfwtoT where I was then, it was doubt nl whether my voice could be heard. verv he t® I was, and that whL.ia by the old pit’s month; whtie the next day being Christmas made c^ ance ® lea - But would not my wife the alarm, and would not there be a search? Surely, I thought, there most bl W*i?d ntU in 8 disconnected, half wild way, I tried to offer np a prayer for sucoor. - Rot standing, not with mv hand bnt kneeling, with ■ ne. water nsmg to my neck: and I roan :aB A^^ ma better able to think ,,A 8d nowl began to look within, and to tb® dangers I had to enoounter. As to there being things swimming about, to attack oSm mon sense told me that there was no cause lu that direction; T BB 8 feeble one, and my breath came UiickOT and shorter as I seemed to feel ihe effect of it alresdv.—"Wm tharo om. fonl gas?” Bat Itound thatl rotol stiff . b ff* a Md by degrees this fear went wbil©, sufnmouiug up mv oonram. T waded on “snlaßh-spUsh” tothTtffiJ dMkness, fartoer and farther into the mine! a *" a ? B J? JLh the water growing shallower ®ballower as I receded from the shaft; audaUsst I stood upon the dry bottom bnt w jtb the water streaming off me. ’ 1 ™® Place did not feel cold, while as I sat down I could not but wish that my clothes were dry, for they clung to me mfl etrkS ped a part of them off and wrung out the water, when I felt on pntttog them on again comparatively warm. Bnt what a position' Tremblingthere to the midst of that thick with a wild imagination pipltog it with every imaginary horror, I lav de '■patiu'gitill, with tne thought strong anon me that ! was bnried alive, I k»gan to ?Sn i ecklesaly about, now dashing myself vio ently against the sides, now tripping over i he fragments that had fallen from ttaf roof -iff at last the splashing water beneath mv h «.w“?J ed me to go back, when, with Sy n itaS gatooßtoaflre ’ 1 bawled back o he panting amongst the coal and slate; All at once X recollected the tobaooo and put a wet piece in my mouth, and after a ame it seemed to calm me, so that I oould si t and think, though at times I would have worlds to have run away from my boughts. How time wentlconid not tel?; w af , ter 8 while that I must have slept, for I leapt .up all at onoe with the lancy strong upon me that I heard Pollv f ai /j 8g: but though I strained my ears to listen, there was nothing bnt the “drin < mL°r tl eWate ? while I feared tocaff ‘ , ut ; fe f *b®. sound went echoing along, so that R seemed to be reseated again wd agam, UU I felt to creep with dread. , Ma ny hours must have passed, for a heavy, dull, sleepy feeling oppressed me as I lay there, numbed bodffy and in Sindh b ™ «* feugth I Btwted D p S longhly awake, feeling certain that X had heard a cry whioh seemed io have whispered like in mT ear I sat up trembling, when again there cam 4 heard as it came along the top of the water, and then I gave a load de- SffS“I 1 When I came to again, it seemed like toßßd , f^iiT ma M r t. am i, and 1 felt that con! fused that I could hardly believe that I was not in my own room athome; but as I Rat up, the thought of where I was came uDon me again, while like a faint, buzzing? wEta“ pering noise, I could hear voices. To rouse a bwmendous shout was bnt toe work of a moment, when my heart rose for it wae answered, though bnt faintly, and I listening? 11 W&8 belng sought for, and Bat Bnt soon I grew impatient and began 5f d “ g 0,6 water . so as to be onoe more on hh g . creatures ! and 1 weded on and he^ Bt€r was up to my chin and I could hardly stand, when I shouted again pteUr 1 conld heax the Ste After a While I saw a feint light flash along toe wall, and knew that a piece of th^n Ding i had j been oas ‘ down ine pit, and then again and again I saw sim ffar flashes, white I stood there trembling and 1 be^drow^ed something far iore reyiring came, for. like a star Bhining along toe wa? ' er -1 could see the light of a lantern th?t bad been lowered down, as it swung slowlv about at the month of the passage- while at length ciose by it I saw somethingmove had haI e i oho H n l- as 1 that a man had been lowered down, and was swinging beside the lantern; while, when hi? voice Ml Blong the! passage wUha cneery ‘Where are you, mate?” Ibr a few SiswM. “ y head swam ’ and I could n’t “Can’t you get to me?” he says after I had answered? *■’ “Then T o 1 ? ar6 E ' fc tr y to swim «•” v 18681 must,” he says; and then he “ out "Slack out,’’ and an echoing is P k ?” he“ ayl° ng *“ y eflrB • " Bow fal “About eizty yards,” I gasped; aud then Otntt WHOLE COUNTRY, BER 24,1866.—TR1PLE SHEET. I 5? an Pe made &st round m« and then I | ron Bh sides of *r, while a I srHr %%%s; I S&wjSKS'wffl&gJStii» ! wo bed, withsome one sittingat the m she used toalX she coulff for - next I days;apd toldme shSjfld attest, Sr h? ♦i!i 0 P or 7 hen 1 did not come homeT and I exarch next day; bul-there were no footsteps on the waste on aooount of the I the«’ b o^l3^ llo ? ne wonld have searched I had nrt:a boy been seen with mv I nnft’ BUci ’ which he had found sticking I as T mw 8 b° W y ,s be old P u ’ 9 mouth, jpa® as I must have left it when I fell into the I fearful gulf which held me fortwolong days' «»varnl. From a modest house at the corner of the wiw? 10 Bpg ®. aud the Avenue de l’lm -8 lhtQ -waiated man, with a verv a y,® fa 9 e i wrapped in a black velvet gown f watch the crowds of happy SS?*?**?"* and riding to and fromthe s°*® £ e Bonlo S ne * H e had been among mfiS^n 7 , 8 year ’ and had shone in their ®btnowth'e fashionable man had withdrawn himself from the world. Hu nr a l gray ' “ a i 6 had a cough tKt ihf 6 nii? e grav e. He had been a gallant, who could turnn compliment exquisitely: a Wb ?* 6Sh^" ere keen and polished Not only with his peD, but also and had observed the “ e . nand women of his day, their passions and prejudices and meannesses; ana he had , tbem thßt he had earned for himself, albeit not of the Academy, nor con spicuous on the Line at the annuli exhibi i?w etha - 1 5 ust he embodied in the history of his period. Paul Chevßlier wm a working engineer met him m society, and must therefore have admired his tactandgrace and distinguished bearing, to hem that he was of the workine class, a man born to live by the use of his su-engtb; yet it was so. ButearlyXlight broke through his humble lot He began Ins ert-work by furnishing draw ings to the books of fashion. The working tade for the Megant and the begmtdng. After a while Paid Chevalier was emboldened to send two dl ?, win g3 to the SaloaJn PaxI *. ®he humble artist’s drawings were remitted from Gavamie. M. Germed nmif. took the name of the place for the name of the artist, and Paul Chevalier's drawings appeared as the work of M. Gavarai, The h » it; and Paul Chevalier! with a laugh, etuok to the name of GavarnL He in late years, when ’ he was a fine gentleman, made a fair joke Ton the subject. A lady. who was wont to labor under the demsion that she was a wit, one day asked him whether be was cousin to the cascade of Gavamie. Yes, madame,” the artist answered, “I am cousin usu de Germain, Many are the jokes P° sarcasms which travel stUI society as those of Galvarnl. At the height of his renown he was feted and bl r t » 1116 adu lation nor the lapid pace of the life spoiled him. Light and sparkling as he could be, he kept al ways a senous and sober background to nha^h.^i/ 11168 F lar6tie describes SrS phase of Wm by saying that he had the entrain ol the Frenchman with the phlegm of an Englishman; that it was a drop of gin in a glass of champagne. So that champagne and gm express the relative values of the French and the English characters a / 6 . obliged to M. Jules Claretle. _ Gavarai was m his prime and in hisglorv from about 1830 to 1848. He was a correct and graceful artist, a keen observer of cha racter,a pictorial wit and satirist. The vices the meannesses, of his time were illustrated and flagellated by hie practised penoiL It rk6 r ofb J m ’ 811,1 to hi 3 honor, that there are few, if any, personalities in his wMni?' thßt higher observation which, from a class, can embody an indi vidual type, and punieb a popular vice or weakness without making a scapegoat. Ga yarpi’.a “Masqueset hie “Lorettas wlfnV™ ” ter , rible Pwenta and children, will live not only as finely conoeived and executed works, but also as admirable and most authoritative .material for the histo rian. Some of them, Indeed many of them present the naked truths of a diisolute s£ olety so sharply that we shudder; andGa varai meant that we should shudder. This was the lesson the serious man who stood ever upright behind his cZio mask k hpon teaching. It has been said of Gavami that he was not a caricaturist, * 8 .moralist, _ It is nearer the tiQtli to say. that ho was both caricaturist and moralist. He did not as we have observed, caricature individuals, but he enforced the salient characteristics of the type he wished to prodace to the spec tator’s mind by exaggerating them. Ergo he was a caricaturist. It will be remembered’ to his honor, that his great qualities were always employed on the right side; that if he painted vice, it whs to show how hideous she was; that if he took learned observa tions in the byways and Blums of Paris and of London; his mission was not merelv to | amuse the badauds of|the Bonlevardß, ■ _ Gavami delighted in the new world Lon don opened upon him when he came among ns m 1849. His penoil reveled in the pic turesque miseries of St. Giles’s and White chapel, as wall as in the elegancies of the West End. He studied all the shifting phases of our social life with ardor. He made lus countrymen acquainted with the mulUtnde of onr low games, and the dismal habits and predicaments of our uninformed and underfed population. But he never caught thaßritish type. His Englishmen Me stage Englishmen. He got far beVond the stupidities of the old French caricatu rists, and even the majority of French ■caricaturists of our own time, whose bnlv idea of an Englishman is a man with a. hook nose and two fangs protruding from his upper lip. Even Gustave Dor! “L satisfied with copying the anoient 2 b^T dlty l . Ga varni, we repeat, studied hart to catch our English faces; but we have only to compare bis people of the London streets with those of Leech to see what little way he made. But at. home Gavami was, at least, the e ?. ual of Leech. Gavarai was the accom plished .artist. He had a grace which Leeoh never studied to reaoh. The exact position in the world of eaoh of his figures Is as plainly told bv the magic strokes of his pencil as it ootudpe in pages of description, (fayarai I S?f’i?* ore ° v *s. a facile and graceful writer S her tt a e nd o^h!' aa(3 ’ imuer ana thither, are said to be full of point and just observation. GHsvarni called the sombre house from ? shattered man. he watXd Z hfe 1 »^K COln 5 a ? y of Pass to the Bois i (hf 1 m tbia tomb he would lift Isi?\ Be ? ge ftom before his window nen cil'h n the g race over which his pencU had loved to linger. In this retreat I hhnPon^We 8011 ’ “i* 1 me sorrow hastened I ™ his own long journey. A little I fJmHw*’ 0 b? was perenaded to go to Auteuil I Auteuil In the 23d Tf this better air received htelast I CITI BlihLEIUi. PRESS CLCB OP' PHILADEtPHIi, Celebration of the Third Anniversary. of mawmuy of the Prew Club, or Philadelphia was celebrated on Saturday evening, J>y a banquet at the La Pierre House. The dining room was tastefully deoorated with flags, and the tables were well supplied with luxuries of the best ver 7fair attendance the Club. U 81111 ContnbatiD g Members or 9‘ Whiting, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, called th« assemblage to order, and introduced Xhomn rinh^M the President of the Westcott said that he regretted Uiat busifiere engagements prevented him rJivSrt ?w i w Dg 1116 occaa ion, and pro tba‘s,on. Morton McMichael, or the \^ iv l erican f act as Chairman, which W n? unanimously. * theexXnr^wM^aaW After the removal of thedeth the com pany was ealled to order by the Chairman Ch f 6l ’ said he was at first aftaid the task of presiding would be a dim, cult one, but he had believed that the as sembly was much more orderly than the Senate of .the United States, ofwbinh thf Clerk, Hon. John W. He stated that he found by the proJEme C»« d o7 n pw; re i >l , y^g first ip&at, ine Uity of Philadelphia: the birth ,-fmeri^ ln Freedom” —but being accidentally m the chair, he did notaeeho# he could call on himself, and instead of sav- SSSS?S!SI£ 0 " wonld oa W 8 s^he F mld W^Se^o^e7r&s e hipo d f Major McMichael; they were boys together andalwaysfastfriends. All hAesdredto say was that he was eniovlnn- hfmsnir hugely, and yonld have m£ny reminiscences of the present ond toast waK “■The American Press—The Guardian and Champion of our whicb Cm. John W.. homey replied. He said: “This was the brat opportunity he had enjoyed of mating hia fellow-craftsmen of the press. The Cot onel then proceeded .to eulogize the news paper fraternity. He thought it pecuSmlv appropriate that Mr. MoMilhael ShEo£ cnpy the chair, as he was one of our oldest aada 16110 Ml 6 were of “e P a 3t -_ Thirty-five years ago the soeakerfwt ibe first type. What vBJS have taken place since then! Hedeairecfto say that he hoped we wonld have manv E at ierings as the present. We may diflbr in opinions and politics, but let Mat ways preserve a personal good feelingtow mbfd on tw an °*® r ’ arid then bfar Tn mmd that we are gentleman nnlha Bpeaker stat ed that through ail the rancorous scenes be had passed and notwithstanding aU thevirulentartictohe nad written on public men and measured be had never yet either with his peiforhH tongue made a personal attack. ThesDeak .r thought that the membere oflhe P New \°rk press were rather disposed to blacken than brighten the reputation of their fellow bntw?ia Fhiladelphia are si ting them a praiseworthy example. The speaker then spoke on national affairs He stated that hereafter we wonld have one all the sects, factions, and dif- j ferwices of the present day would bedis pelled as pußt before the rismg sun. ““ T’Z? 10 , thtrd .feast was “ Pennsylvania— Though founded in peace, ever faithful War ” Colonel William B railed m the absence of Go vernor Curtin, who was expected, tobe present. Colonel Mann paid a glowing tribute to the State of Pennsyl vania, and thought that every Penmßriva nian should be proud of the title ofciftz- It waß in Pennsylvania that independence was first acknowledged, and in thatHtate that fiidependence was fought for.- it was au e, lnagreat measure, to that 4,000,000 human beings are freed from bondage. Pennsylvania, as a State, has in nm?a table v k taea « She has upon her es cutcheon no idle words; they are “Virtue Liberty and Independence ;”and each sen th^Stole 11016 m ° tto 18 dear t 0 oitizensof st T^ 8 ’ “ °“ r Gauntry—Her Genius ; her liberal institutions and her en ergy make her the Queen of stations.” To which Judge Kelley replied. The fifth regular toast was: American Press Clubs— May thev increase and multiply, until the entire Press Kr- P*'y, are finited in one common brother bo?d-wasreplied to by C6I.E. W.C.Greeae. Colonel Greene was received with maoh ap -61. a ? d , Baid be felt honored hi called on to respond to the toast just given; he felt great satisfaction in announc mg that our Press Club had proved a com piete success, Hefelt that the Philadel phia Press Club could iu uo event bo Hubiant to dissolution, the members being gether by the strongest fraternal ties, CoL Greene then proceeded to give a historvof the. club, and adverted to the endeavors made in other and distant cities to establish tim cl^ bB T? pon tbesame principle that k « e P s the Press Club of Fhiladelphia to gether. The club has, succeeded almost beyond the expectetionofits most sanguine members, and he hoped the example set by it would be beneficial to the press fraternity throughout the United States. “rrnty „ Philadelphia Bar, Famous during a Cpdury for its Eloquence, its Ability and ds Integrity —was the sixth regular toast Daniel Dougherty, Esq.,: He “ e marked it wasA saying that it was hard to P aPhiladelphla lawyer, but stul he felt himself in. a peculiarly perplexing pre dicament, and therefore, instead of making a speech he would tell a story. Mr. Dough erty proceeded ta relate a series of stories in admirablestyle, which “kept the table in k roar. He concluded his speech with a neat 00 J“ 1 P llna ® at to the Philadelphia press, and a brilliant eulogy of the profession of the' law. 41 Ovr departed Brothers—Wm. 8. Pierrie, George C. Bower and John Mason Grier'} was the next toast, and was drank ixC Si lence. “Owr Contributing Member?-* TfrePatrona F. L. FETHERSTON. Ml THREE CENTS Encourgers of Journalism, and the Fnends ol Universal Intelligence ” was replied to by Mr. Charles Buekwalter. H.I PMPOMdTfeel f> l »r knoW i edgetl,e toast > ast that, as the organ of that membership whom y&a have loan °Km 9° mpl f“entwi and hcSoml® TbKwmaK nwfS^u” 01 ‘Ee Press Club -of Philadal^ w 0 ? 01 ’ but *° have tb at connesttoa distinguished as yon. sir, have inst distin guished it, makes it doubly so.; I trust sic. hted l7 *w l ttl w7 not be ited, that while we may not allb® dntU^Zrth 8 * B *^* 11 . the "dnons labors and aSo^tod h *?fh feaßion > a “ t nevertheless to clmraote, ofthfe, ttat I L^!s nlarly of American ionmali.m. For nowhere in the wide world' ia th newspaper more assidnonsly awaited' ■or ■ more eagerly read than- where is it more liberal -in its spirit nowhere is its- influence e , WBpa P ers *W* country have added much to its greatness in stimulating intel rfS2? 1 # e *V t,O S? **“ d - “onlding thenatlonal character by the daily dropping of ft* phitoiSphy. 8 0f pr ? fitable study, culture and They have been, too, time and again' fta preservers of the people, and so longM theS cannot be subsidized by money orfaror by power, no polS vaK even with a whole workshop of his fellow** fr^^ forBe f^ 10 which can bind the of our people. Indeed, they seem Jpb® the great levers of American life, poli zati’on OCI Wn~ word ’ ofAmericancirili ~L° D- *r,e may cast about to find other bi§ b above them all ?i^ e Senms of the American press. Who theD,i °ares at all about his own well-being, or that of those abont him ’ who can bein different to its management or its character? Who is there but mSLI that a Club, such as the Press Club of this citv <»n do incalculable good—that in its objects COgnitloll ’? nd d^ervesin tho Ph d « dlpfvFf 6 ? ur approbation and support? tatPWfflCfnh pnH P f nd to add ■? b h and lam m °at happy to add that the influence of its example hi* Wdthrougb the land, zations of hke character are being formed elsewhere. Here it is as an lnstution an ornament and a power. pnrpoBe of uniting more firmly in kind fel hn™«lSdhe members of a nLSmKrf Profession, it has afforded oppor- for the mterchange of sentiment ®fd opinion, which has tended toSm all fte hanhet features of Journalism, to soften and soothe the bitter and acrimomons S^^ l^o^?BB ybich have sometimes marred its character and weakened power, and which, when exhuafted greatly detract from* the of newspaper as a conservator of art/Botencl S? d Bnt» gentlemen, this is a theme bo mteresting and so fall ol matter 8 ® I'S!S weary yon. You will permit me, therefore to again express to yon the gratification w® experience hud the honor we enjoy in being Pitted tpbe yourcontributiog memS General Joshua T. Owen refunded to t J^? Blt }° aat *' , - Pen >Mylvania’s Heroic De fenders; the men who oft in danger tried have never proved untrue.” He alluded to terms to John Fulton. Reynolds, and in the army knew if he had not been there ®5 e my at Gettysburg migbt have whin, ped the Union soldiers. He referred to the matter because Reynolds was a Pemrnvlt vanian. Pennsylvania’s heroic defenders never proved untrue. Therefore, be trions the name of Pennsylvania soldiers. The next toast was, “The Fathers ofPmn sylvania Journalism,” replied to by Emar- He spoke as follows/ The Fathers of Pennsylvania Jonr. nalism.” The words are few and simple * b Wn W £. at a Power there is in them to lift our Sowing present and bear I -1m back mto the silent and eventfol £f. st r oooe. as by the wand of i S-tl! 1 -? enchanter, bnr great prond city with its almost million of human beines ba ±° PS 0f its marts of ttade’ito of luxury, its walks of fashion, its ?°!® la of grandeur, its temples of art, Its halls of learning, its fanes of worship! its mered for the project? °f t b.®L a i t preservative of all arts, this mighty city, I say, is" made to vanish away “Like the bfuselesa fabric ol a vision ” ‘ rustic village, which, with careless ease and hn d i! P^a enC \ haS u nestled ltself among the hills and creeks that overlook the placid ita^^ ar0 ‘ I n tbafc bttle ' floret village, with .floamtly-dresaed inhabitants Un > J?J.S llla^ e i pb ' a tbe time—one hnndred and forty-seven years ago to-dav— this day we celebrate-mbrethan half a cen tnry before the thunders of the Revolution thatmadensaction°f freemen—Andrew Bradford sent forth,with fear and trembltog to eager, enrions eyes, the first printed jour? nal ever issued within the limit! of Pennavl vania, and the third within these then Bri tish colonies. It was a small, yellow dingy half-sheet of foolscap size and seemed to iiave a shrinking frightened I look, as if not well over the sSre of com toy - ftrough the rough hands of the pritSeril was not a loquacious sheet. It its o w^biriW o^ll^^ 6 b ®y° nd 016 fact of b . i th and existence, and appeared b ®. fl mt ® as mnoh astonished as any of the inhabitants, at finding itself thrust forward as pioneer. It was a seven, if not a nine days wonderland constituted its projeotor the great father, if not the gran£ father of Pennsylvania journalism. Intha pride of his heart, Andrew Bradford gave \ hia dingy little bantling the high-sounding title of The American Weekly Mercury, but it no more resembled its namesake, the bril viiant and winged messenger of the eods. than the empty pockets of Razaruf did the gold heaps of Croesus; and yet. mean and insignificant as It appeared, it was the beginnmg of a great result— »^- of power which has made itself felt to the uttermost ends of the earth* a power wh oh has made the throne oftyl power befor ® which that bf the fabled god was as a breath to a whiri wind. It waß the first glimmering spark of a glorious constellation? For years Bradford stood alone as the onlytownluLT withm the limits ofPennsylvania, and ,hbn he one day fonnd himself confron ts? w th a formidable , rival in that wondertoP man . W “-MuS-uS *«4 ■' Heaven and defied the thundera of Jove; that ’ -beloved 11 patriot "and- states-' - > man whom we all delight' to honor-i Benjamin Franklin..; The progress ofearly jouraaiifim. so slcnr In 1 ; that for many years Bradford and franklin stood aloha as and even atthe end of