tassair peacock. Editor. VOLUME XX.—Jfo. 226 the evening bulletin - published every evening, ’ (BanOay’a excepted,) e&X THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, 607 Chestnut Street, PhUnrtelphia. BY THE ' EVKHING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. ISOYBEHOBB. ■GIBSONPEAOOeg. ERNEST O WAT.T.A [’■R F. L. FETBIERSTON. THOSJ -CABFRBSOUDEB, Jr. PBANCIS WELM^ The Bulletin lo served Wsnbscribera la the city at IS centa per week, payable to the carrier!, or |s per qnnnm, BA&H STEFS. Paris!—l suppose Paris begins with the Louvre. But even the Louvre, with its fifteen com ponent mnseumß. partakes of the infinity •and bustle of Paris, and is fax from easy tp describe. I can do nothing unless I get into some cool, quiet place, and into the .presence ef some elevating and calming in fluence. Perhaps Polymnia will be willing to help me this once more. > The Polymnia of the Louvre dwells among the antique sculptures in the long jgallery, which fronts the Seine, and which ■Louis XIV built from the designs of the ..physician Claude Perranlt. I Bhall find her among her associates, the severe and peace iful marbles of anoient Greece. As I enter the grand old hall my eye com mands without interruption the whole length of it. There are the kind marble Muses, and amongthemthelyrist Polymnia, muffled to the chin in veils of stone. She - looks as if she knew everything, and was turning the universe tp music in her brain. Around her hair are bound twd circles of wild roses, whose petals have not shriveled in a thousand years. Her breast and her arms are leaned upon a savage pedestal of rocks which ought to burst into flowers without delay. Her head and her hands and feet emerge like soft birds from the complications of the drapery, which is ’ strained around her in manifoldflutings, in • tended possibly to express in their sharp ■ ness and unison the cords of the harp. Her very robes seem capable of music, while the Muse escapes from them in her soft divine extremities, like Isis from the comer of the 'Veil. ••None knows, none understands "Wliat flowers are like her hands; Though you should search all lands Wh ereln time growß, What snows are like her feet— Though his eyes burn with heat With gazing on my Sweet. Yet no man knows.” 'I have fancied that this high creature, for ■whom all things are lyrical, has taken me 'somewhat under her protection. I should like to sit long at her white feet and learn to set the world to music. Near by, with still more of ineffable di vinity about her, stands the Empress ol Los e, the queen of all sculpture forever, the unspeakable Venus of Milo. It is the most 'Christian of all pagan imaginings: its ges ; tore, at once winning and imperious, com > mands the world to come and taste of enno bled love. The Venus of Milo was the patroness of poor Heine, in those sad latter days of his at Paris. He used to call her Onr Blessed Lady of Milo. Our more blessed lady of Nazareth, with that holy thing that was bora of her, was unknown or unheeded by him, and he reposed for succor upon the most recherche and exqui site paganism he could find. Just before he died he dragged himself from his “matress grave” hither to the Louvre, a palsied skeleton, to visit his Lady in her shrine. He says he threw him self at her feet in a rapture of >tears. And the goddess beamed and melted for him upon her pedestal and seemed to 'understand him. “But I cannot help thee; seest thou not I have no arms?” And so Seine went home and died in his sad- stony, beautiful paganism, haying long ago smiled away the offer of the one arm that i :is not shortened and that could have helped 1 him. Polymnia, an immortal melody, leans her -chin on one soft band and contemplates .all things. She'stands among others of the nine. At the extremity of her hall, from a floor of costly mosaic, springs the gigantic figure of M elpomene, as if she would lift the roof with her lofty head. This head the sun never touches; it is dim, in its cold, all comprehending smile, under the eternal shadow of twilight and' of tragedy. It is - dim because it lies high. But the breast, •when I saw it this evening, was warm with a fluttering light of gold, which streamed - over it from the great window and covered - it with a luminous shield. In one hand lay the mask, the antique features fixed in hor ror, and the moulh set to bray of panic and . disaster. All around were assembled the vast ideas of antiquity, stamped upon the rock, and gathered hither from many places. Here ' were the Germanicus and the Jason, the superb combatant we know as the Fighting Gladiator, the Venus of Arles, a relic of Homan Gaul, the Silenus who dandles the infant Dionysius, with scores of others whose fame has rung>round the earth. The glo rious halls are quiet and studious. Jason and Germanicus are the master spirits now of . the room where Moliere used to play be fore the court, and where Henry IV. wedded Margaret’of Valvos. Those shining scenes are replaced by a society of pale students, • trying to catch for their pencils the secret of the Muses and divinities around. And the lady-artists come also among them. Lady-artists were bom to be distraotions and bewilderments. By Borne influence that shakes from their earrings or pervades their back hair, they make the male students er ratic and good for nothing. There is one, half-way up a ladder, on a level with the girdle of the Melpomene, whose proportions she is copying and slandering. The artists look, not upon their proper models, but on her, and most of them have reproduced her in some of her least resistible poses, around their margins; She works away, boldly ' f ; • Jx H ■ - ■ ■ ■ ■ - H ■’V . f '" ■■. - r^Bß-. - ■;.•'»■. v"b( ft. r ’ Hl' Hi Draperies! What a sex it is, that has not even invented a costume that serves the chief end of a costume! Lift a lady a foot or two above the ground she habitually her clothing becomes an indeli cacy. The lady of the Louvre has been forced to apply for covering to the wardrobe or-her step ladder; > This apparatus has a Bind of canvas lining, and politely shelters the daughter of Eve with its shirt. In other situations I see ladies relying upon the pet ticoats belonging to balustrades, staircases and galleries, their own having quite failed them. And I have even Been—bntyou will never believe me—ladies borrowing their horses’ pocket handkerohie&!—opening the feithfol creatures’ saddle pockets, serenely dressing their noses, and returning the laes to the toilet it properly came from. In the upper rooms, whieh imprison the . glowing sun of Venice and the heavens of Borne upon the canvases of Titian and Baphael, you see more of these lady painters on their ladder pedestals; many of them are womanly, faithful crea tures, working on panels or on vases or on. tiles from the priceless examples around them. Hilda lives there day by day, among the raptures and beatitudes of the old Roman saints, until thfcir parity has passed into her pale and noble face. But it takes a large variety to make the world we call Paris, and you will see Purity and Pleasure side by aide. In the Rubens por tion of the Louvre you may be struck with a dark, rich face, whioh you are certain yon have seen before, Where? Where, but in Gtsrdme’s Almeh—the picture they call the ventre, on aeoount of the settled gravitation of the troasers and the morbid short-waist ednesß of the jacket there represented. The likeness is expressed with GferSme’s infalli pencil—and you have oaught the Almeh painting away like Jezebel among the flam boyant Rubenses of the Long Gallery. ?Je following letter, by its address, is evidently designed for this department of the paper. As it so effectually demolishes our arguments against the “Fatal Five Hundred,” the magnanimity implied bv its publication will be admitted by the most benighted stockholder: , “foILLEFLEURE PLACE, Dec. 28 1866 To ‘Facts and Fancies’, My servant just cleared the breakfast table, and I, having naught to claim me until the dinner hour, mean to bestow a little while upon you. Ton are, I doabt not, quite a clever fellow, but have unfortunately cho sen the wrong track. Let me set you right. if paper pellets were as weighty as bullets, your ungenerous attacks upon the gallant “five hundred” would as effectually serve out the holders of Academv stock, aB did Russian fire the English “six hundred” at Balaklava, but your onset on onr set is not the thing. “Injureus you cannot; but, believing that a fair statement of certain facts, perhaps un known toyon, may mollify the vindictive ness of your misdirected attacks, I hasten to lay them before you. Yon should, in the first place, not forget that eaoh individ ual in tu© stockholders’ pen t (as yon are pleased to term it,) represents at least five shares, (par value $lOO each,) of the afore mentioned stock. Call in arithmetic to your aid and find out how much capital is thus represented. As you are no fool and are therefore, not devoid of the respect due to wealth, you can readily infer my meaning You may answer me that capital repre sents itself and that even if the stockholders were out of existence, the capital they now possess would still exert its power over humanity. Perhaps this is so. But you should not forget that in our stockholders - you must also respect the wisdom, the intel ligence and the virtue which are, in this country, 2 almost invariably the concomi taßts of wealth. “ You had better, by far, remember that we constitute a sort of; art-senate, whose dicta form the judgment of our audiences. Look down upon us, from your compli mentary seat, and behold how many have actually grown bald in the service of art and pause before you again fling your witti cisms at men whose active brains have ac tually worked the hair off their heads “You suggested that the stockholders/ seats should be differently, distributed; I freely agree with. At present, our seats are the worst in the house. Just imagine my suffering when I inform you that lean never find a vacant place exoept in the Vicinity of the trombone. Reflect on this, and endeavor to realise how.poor a return this is for the service I rendered the Divine art when I became the owner of five shares of Academy stock, and cease your abuse of the five hundred. If you will comply with my request, I will eend you a few good jokes which are. as yet, unknown out of our set: “Yours, an injured but forgiving, “Stockholdhr.” A singular scene lately occurred in a par ish church in the west of England. It ap pears that the rector is very mnch opposed to persons coming into church after the commencement of the service, and when °° me in he always stops his reading until they are comfortably seated, and then proceeds. It happened on a recent Sunday that his own servants—two sisters—came in late, when the clergyman paused as usual, but when he ascended the pulpit, and before giving out the text, he said, “I herebv give you, Elizabeth S and Kate S- ■ a month’s notice to leave my service, in con sequence of your coming late to church.” The young women blushed crimson, and the congregation audibly tittered. The Galaxy says: “It has been doubted whether negro attendants were known in England before the seventeenth century. Perhaps the following passage from ‘Para dise Lost,’ may settle the question: With goddess-Hire demeanor forth she went Not unatterded; for on her, as a qneen, A i*oxnp of winning graces waited stilL” Thad. Stevens proposes to destroy the State of Maryland, whioh never did secede. The Radicals only hold Pennsylvania by a hair, and when that breaks he will probablv desire to dissolve the Keystone.— [Albany Argus.] The Argus should understand that if the Radicals hold Pennsylvania by the hair, they are not likely to let go. This is not a mere old Whig State. A well-informed Frenchman recently sold his young and beautiful wife for five francs. Apretfygood trade, as he had in place of one wife five hundred sent him.—(soo cen times.) , v enough, and yon would not suppose she dreamt of the males; bnt I suppose her draperies and effeots are prinoipallV for them. Facts and Fancies. A Berks county cattle-dealer paid a boy ten cents for two weeks’ service. He would have earned more if his labor had not been too-weak. People are still discussing the speech of General Butler, when he ate the apple ibrown at him. Some prefer his apple and some—his-speech. If you want to gall a person to the quick, put ink under his nails. The gall of the ink will go directly to the quick. Enfant Perdu, The Theaters.— Mr. J.S.Clarke appears to-night in “The Rough Diamond” and ‘‘Knighte of the Round Table;” and “The Naiad Queen” will also be given at the Walnut. In each piece the cast is superb. At the Chestnut Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil liams appear in three splendid pieces, as “ine characters. At the Arch “Griffith Gaunt” will be repeated. We have given this noble version of the novel the highest possible praise, and can only repeat that the acting of Mrs. Drew, Mr.Mordaunt, Miss Price, Miss Annie .Ward, and in fact every one in the cast is trulv magnificent. 1 he scenery and appointments (particularly of the fair scene) have never been surpassed even at Mrs. Drew’s theatre, and they met with the most unqualified admiration. At the Academy of Musio the Christmas en tertainments close on New Year’s night those who have not seen “The Arabian Nights” and the Old Folks should not neglect the opportunities remaining. At the American holiday bills are still given. Signor Blitz flourishes at Assembly Building nightly and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. (V. I.) telegram of December 19th, says that the British brig Ann arrived in Royal Roads that day, from Mauritius, bringing one hundred miles of telegraph cable from the ship Egemont, which put into that colony in distress. The Egemont was discharging the remaining four hun dred miles of cable, having to pay five thou sand dollars for a coffer dam to contain it. The Telegraph has a leading article in which the prosperity of Montana is con trasted with the retrogression of British Co lumbia. It inquires: “Must we come to the melancholy conclusion that in American territory the race is maintaining its manli ness, while in the British colony it is rapidlv degenerating.” , - The barque Candace, from Rio de Janeiro, with the other part of the cargo of the ship Carlyle, condemned at that port, arrived here yesterdav. San Francisco, Dec. 28.— The memorial to Congress, asking a division of territory, will probably pass the Legislature. It is proposed to name the new territory Co lumbia. J The private grain circular states that our wheat receipts and exports for the past six months, are larger: than fir any entire year heretofore, and the surplus still re maining for exports is not far from one hun dred and twenty-five thousand tonß. Gold deposits in the Branch Mint, Deo. Ist to Dee. 22d, inclusive, at which time the Mint closed for the annual statement, 46,300 ounces, and the gold coinage about $20,000. Mining stocks show a continued and generai aechne. Yellow Jacket, $1,200; iron 11 ?? > ? > ? toBl i 208; Im perial, $130; Ophir, $130; Belcher, $134; Legal tenders,76. St. Paul’s, Minn., Dec. 28.—A terrible tragedy occurred at New Him, on Christ mas Day. Two men, named Campbell and Liscomb, had come in from a trapping ex pedition. . During an altercation m a saloon one of them stabbed a resident of Yew Ulm named Mr. Spinner, severing the main ar tery and causing death. The Sheriff ar rested Liscomb and Campbell, and while on iheir way to jail, handcuffed, they were set upon by a mob, beaten with stones and sticks of cordwood, and then rescued from the Sheriff and hung. , E ; e s Ranging the-mob cut and hacked their bodies in a shocking manner. T beir bodies were still hanging and frozen stiff the next morning. Campbell and Lis comb served in Company F,2d Maine Regi ment, and were of good character and res pectably connected. The [Congressional Excursionists. . New Orleans, Deo. 28.—The Congres sional excursion party arrived last night at a late hour. They have been entertained by the city officials and the citizens to-day. The baa weather, however, has somewhat marred the pleasures of the day.- This evening there is a grand dinner given by the city in honor of the notables. To-morrow be a public reception, and then they will take their departure. They regret tbattbeir short stay will prevent them from receivingthe many courtesies which the cit izens wished to offer. _ The lass- of life by' the burning of the steamer Fashion, in the'Mississippi river, will probably reach sixty. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBBB 2D,1866.-TIIIPLE SHRt.T -Shall ladles have votes?” asked a stomp speafcm-. “Certainly,” replied a strong minded woman in the audience. “Is wo man made only to sew on buttons? And, it she la, it is against the ' law of nature to turn away the needle from* the poll.”— Ex. Lentz* has just commenced « stody, in water color, for h.large picture entitled “The Emancipators,” which he intends to paint during the present winter. It will contain the portrait*, as far as practicable, of the chief emancipators of the world, from the days of Moses to those of Abraham Lincoln. If he had made his period from Lincoln .to shorter " won ld have been a good deal o th® animal-painter, has just begun a painting illustrative of the saying, “It rains cate and dogs.” The pietnre Is not yet enough advanced to be described, as a con fused mass of cats and dogs is the only part sketched in. It Is, of course, kit-cat size. There is one advantages being a block head, you are never attacked with low spirnsor apoplexy*. The moment a man can worry, he ceases to.be a fool. A workman in ehop in Chicago whistled, which was against the rales, and had his head split open by a large cleaver in the hands of the boss. Served him right! He had probably split the ears ofhißtoss. until patience ceased to be a virtue. i V John, did you ever bet cm a horse race ?” -No; but I ve seen my sister Bet oa an old mare!” The London Times of a recent date, safelv remarks (that “The decision of a Court fa nothing if it is not decisive.” Bnnsbv will please make a note. . J Why is the human windpipe like the Pope’s anathema? Because it is a neck's communication. . The other day. in Dubuque a grateful C< th » United States will h<^Hi^- mBelveB ' a - hberty to regard those bostiUiea as constituting a state of war by Austna against the Republic of MexicZ regard t» such war, waged at this e^ ] ? tuig circumstances, the united States could not engage to remain as silent or neutral spectators. remain T^?J^ e , c L vil Sights bill over veto— 33, nays 35. 9. House passed Civil Rights bill over the i7h« t ™ yeaB a 12 ?‘ n F 3 ' 4l * Opeaker f e^ npoD declared ihat the bUi had become I j | “W.- lioan bill passed by the TJ. S. | Senate as is came from the Hocie ■Porther instrnotions given toour Aus trian Minister by Swretary Seward, pro -1116 of Austrian troops to Mexico as an unwarrantable in- I L B ±? t nCe “ Mexican affairs, andiiat 1° west there a European military I t9WIUCh States^ 17. In reply to a despatch of Gen. Unison, commanding United States tWi to Georgia.AflaritantAdj utant-General Town- H Phe s ordeK “®be President's pro clamation does not remove martial' law. or way - Dpon Freedmen’s ; atueaum the exercise of-its legitimate iu risdiction. It la not expedient, however to resort to military tribunals in any case where justice can be obtained through the medium of civil authority.” , 18. C. C. Clay, of Alabama, arrested for treason, - among the several States accord- J£ “ eir respective numbers, counting of P OlBOOB in each State; Indians not tased; but whenever' S»°l" 5 «S gSaaaaa; Of Jbf gears'of age, and citizen of thOUniteaStates, or ln any wav abridged? SStffrW**** r4»llihnoro& »bin .°f representaUon thereto nn^wlf 3uC ? i m tbeproporHon which tho w u 0111 ? ale citizens shallbear to the whole nuraberof male citizens twentv-onw ycaw.ofage in that State; ” . Section 21 No person shall be a Senatm* - ® n Congress, elector of President and President, or hold any office, civil.or military, under the United States,, or under any State,. who having nre an oath as a member ofXhn- or as an -officer of thedZTnllted States °f 0f “? Btate Legislature^ Bcutive or judicial officer of any : fr?ltefl i Ktaf UpP^ fc i, t^ e Constitation of the United States,, shall have engaged in insur rebeffion againft given asd or comfort to the enemies'thereof; lo^ a^ ress ‘ nlay ’' by a TOte °f two-thirds of each Honse, remove such disability. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law?in cludmg debte incurred for the pensions and bounties for services in sup pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not nor q «^ t sS? d ’^ n » neUher f* l6 United Stated Btate shall assume or pay any.debt “ 3bb Ba? on incurred in aid of insurrection belh ° n against the United-States, or any claim for timloss or emancipation of any sieve, bat all such debts, obligations andelaims shall be held Illegal and void.” - —Constitutional amendments ratified by Connecticut Legislature. y JVJb% 1. Another order issued by Gen. Grant g ' tat , o ® c « 8 . agents, ■ oitizeas W 1110 United States, irrospec °feolor Protected by districtand wherever civil authori -80 4 ,0r fad or are unable to bring to pnmj-nnent offenders against them, 4. The usual celebration-of the dav-took g 1 ®?® m .fii ioya. l and in some parts of rebel Statesjut was signalized- by a terriblo-fire at Portland, Me., and by an address issued by the Democratic members of Gon gress, approving of the “Wigwam’-’ Giro yentmato beheld at Philadelphia, August ChiK? y a “ Joimsoa ” clQb^ if-Welles, Secretary of the Nav^to bL ®