GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXL—NO. 132. THE EVENING- BULLETIN PDBMBHED KVEKT EVKNIHO (Sundays excepted), AT THE NEW BULLETIIV BVILDIN6, 607 Chestnut street, Philadelphia* BY TUB EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. F&OF2UETORS. giBSON PEACOCK. ERNEST C. WALLACE. F.L FETHERBTON, THOB. J. WILLIAMSON, CASPER SOUDEK, Jb., FRANCIS WELLS. The BtrmmN is served to subscribers in the city at 18 •enta per week, payable to the carriers, or $6 per annum. BCnOMACKER ft CO.’S CELEBRATED ■W^^^PUnos,—Acknowledged superior in all respects Co any made In this country, and sold on most liberal firms. NEW AND SECOND-HAND PIANOS constantly On hand tor rent Tuning, moving and packing promptly attended to. Warerooms. 1108 Chestnut street. Jel&-3ms MABKIED. (KJWPERTHWAIT—HUHN.—On the evening of Sep tember sth, at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, by the; Rev. J. Houston Eccleatou, 11. Cowpr.rth wait, of Memphis, Trim., to Miss Critic, eldest daughter of the late Geo. Uubn, M.D. * DIEI>. lIANKS.-Ou Friday evening, September 6th, at Yonkers. New York, Edwin U. Hnuksv only eon of Edwin J. and Annie K. Hanks, aged six months. u Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' 1 It HEBKKTON.—tin the morning of the 10th Inst, at the residence cf P. Levis, Henry F. liebertou. His relatives and friends are invited to attend his funeral, from the residence of 'Vym. Levis, 1833 De Lnmey Place, on Friday, 13th inst, at 3 P. M. Eyre & landell, fourth and arch, *are opening for the Fall Trade of 1667 Margot Shawls, ordered good*, l'opilns. new colors, and Rich Plaids. Black Bilks, superior grades. . Plain BUks, of all qualities. Black all-wool heps, *1 a yard. black Velour Kepr. ull finalities, . black Poplin biarritz. black Empress Cloths. black Ottoman Poplins. .BESSON & HON, Mount Ins Store. m Che-taut etreet. K TtT -ri-JAia AT House Fnrui<«hin« I)«.*iH>t, No. 1011 Spring Garden street SPECIAL notices. M7T- VNIVKUSITV OF PESNB YLV AN lA, DEPART ■*» WENT OF ARTS, Siutkmiskb 4. Ihri7. The Trustee* of the rniveraity have authorized the I'a et:ltv of Art* m nmko certain changfi* in the course ol »tu* dir/reijuired for the decree of liachelor of Arts. Alii- will enable all, who d<‘*lre such a liberal education a* wiJliit tlu ni whether for prof<y**ioual orother pursuit*, 1 to iM-cure it under a plan of ttectitx. ntudtfA, which will offer to the student all the advantage* either of the sywletn winch formerly obtained, or of that generally regarded a* the the advantage* of a thorough scientific and classical course will be continued, a* heretofore, to th->**» who drsire it, tin* new plan provides that the student, at the beginning of the junior year, may elect, in the place of advanced Greek and Latin atuoica and the higher branches of Mathematics and Physical Science, a more extended course in the English language and its LUcnu ture, in History* Science a* applied to the useful arts, and In the french, German, Italian, and Spanish language*. The object of the Truatee* in making these chances in the College courw*. is to provide in the University ftijland comulete-opiKirtuniUc-afor acquiring an education that will either, on the one hand, satisfy those whose tastes lead them to the highest cultivation of the anctiiat lan (ruages and their literature, of physical science, and of pure mathematictLor, on the other, to meet the wishes Of those who desire to be fitted, by a thorough practical education, for an earlier entrance into active biwinese life Circular*. nbotrinr nU the detail* of the College eourwr, may ho obtained after amfember 9th, from the Janitor, at the Unlvcndty Building; and additional in formation or advice In regard to the election of etudiee will be givou by the Proyoef in hie room. 1 he tuition fee* are thirty-fire dollar* pCT term, payable CABWALADEP. BIDDLE. Bcc'y. ■ FALDEK SCIENTIFIC COUE3E IN LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. Th# iMixt term commences THURSDAY. September Dth. Candidate* for admlsalon may be examined the day before (September 11th j* or on TUESDAY. July 30th, the dey before the Annual Commencement Exorcbee. For drcolan, apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. E. B. YOUNGMAN, ' Clerk of the Faculty. Eastoh. Penn*,, July. 1867. ’ JySQ-tf} m&f* RECEPTION OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP •*** Wood.—Meeting* of the representative* of tlie va rious societies will t>cheld at the time and place named, for so election of Acebtant Marshals and the perfection of arrangements for the reception: On MONDAY, Sept 9th, the Conferences meet at 8 o’clock, at the Hall. Seventeenth and Cherry -street*. Ou TUESDAY, the Sodalities meet at H o’clock, at Philo patrian llalL No. 923 Hansom strict. On W'F.PNF.Bf)AY. the Beneficial Societies meet at 8 O’clock, at Pbllopatrian lialL, No, 923 Hansom street. On FRIDAY, the Literary Societies meet at 8 o’clock, at PMloiuitrian IfalL No. 923 Hansom street. w . , , FRANK MoLALGUUN, Chief Marshal. Wm. J. Powf.b, Secretary, It m&f* NOifTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD AND ***' GREEN LANE STATION.—W'e are delivering from this place the celebrated IIARLEIGII SPRING MOUN TAIN LEHIGH COAJL, the hardest and purest tnioed, at $7 per ton. BINES & SIIEAFF, arP-lnirpt Office, No. 16 South Seventh street FAMILIES ABOUT CHANGING THEIR RKSL donee or leaving the city, can receive the blgheU cardi price for old newspapers, hooka, pamphlets, rues. etc. Wrappers always on bandana for bale by E. HUNTER, €l3 Jayne street Order* will receive prompt attention, by mail or otherwbe. an 37 lmrpj HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 15£d Lombard Street .Dispensary Department—Medical treatment medicine* fnmbned gratuitously to the poor. • FROM NEW YORK* New Yoiik, Sept. 10.— While the examination of Dan Noble, the prisoner in the Royal Insur ance bond robbery case, was proceeding at the Tombs yesterday’before Judge Hogan, a scene occurred which for several minutes created )the greatest sensation. A Mrs. Gilchrist was on the witness-stand, and was undergoing a cross- with regard to her tormer . hus band, John Keane, who,” the witness testi fied, was dead. She * said hp was her second husband, and had just finished relating 'the circumstances of their marriage, and the subse quent death of her husband, when the counsel, glancing towards the door of an ante-room, called “John Keane!” and the man (or the ghost, if the witness told the truth) walked forth. The episode caused the witness to shrink bach and almost faint. As soon as the excitement was over, the examination went on, the Witness testi fying she had not seen her husband for twelve years, and supposed him to be dead. An informal meeting of the directors of the farmers’ and Citizens' Bank was~held at the buuklug-bouse,yesterday,but their action was not make public. The German Saving Bank of the Sixteenth Ward (Dutcbtown) has *15,000 on de posit in the Farmers’ and Citizens’; but the faith of the Germans in their institution is in no wise •shaken, and notwithstanding the excitement they have deposited $9,000 therein Bince the failure of the Williamsburg bank. The Dime Savings T.?,?,, Jmtl nothing deposited in the vaults of any W illiamsburg bank. The president of the Ger mania Saving Bank has published a card in forming the public that that institution had nO money on deposit with the Farmers’ and Citi zens Bank. The excitement has nearly sub sided. • i 1 5’J a r s b the father and brother of the girbCatherine J. Rohmer, who died of the cholera on Wednesday, at No. 225 West Thirty-ninth street, were attacked by the same-disease. The father, aged 45, died yesterday. The boy is im proving. A German residing In Avenue B, aged 47 years, was reported ns being in collapse yes terday. ' Orangemen — The Orangomei) of Belfast fol lowing the example of those of Londonderry have given an entertainment to the Canadian Grand Master, John Hiliyard Cameron. Mr .Stewart Blacker, the chairman, boasted 'that be tween Ireland and Canada four hundred thousand .Orangemen could be mustered, whilst In England .Scotland and Australia there were one hundred thousand more. ; --Among tho “stars” who are to shine on Washington boards this winter will be Jefferson, •Owens, Cbanfrau, Brougham, Murdoch, Julia Dean, Avonia Jones, Lucille Western, Lady Don, ■Clarke, and Forrest. ' L-. * The Chestnut.— Air. and Mrs. W. J. Florence made tlielr first appearance at the Chestnut last evening in the comedy of Caste. The house was comfortably filled with an exceedingly respectable audience, which gave a warm and hearty wel come to the players. The performance was a de cided and creditable success. Caste is a pleasant, even a brilliant, little comedy, which depends for its effectiveness upon no startling melodramatic events. It contains no clap-trap, no stage agony. There is no blue fire, nor rant, and none of that opportunity for “heavy” acting which too often serves to disguise the absence of merit in the text and of talent in the actor. The plot Is a simple and touching story of the pure love of a man and wife—a story that might happen at any time in real life—and the flow of Incident is smooth, and pleasing, and natural. It is full of fine points and effective situations, which follow each other without effort, and please from their very aptness and truth to nature. It is a play that fulfills, in a very large measure, the time but almost forgot ten mission of the drama. It touches, refines, elevates and instructs those who witness it. We venture to say that no man possessed of'finy genuine sensibility came away from the theatre without feeling better for having seen the play— without a firmer faith in humanity and in the purity and beauty of human affection. Caste is a true picture of life, with its sorrows, and hopes, and joys, and while it bitterly satirizes the pre- tensions of those who assume to be above fellow ship with their kind, it is equally forcible in its ridicule of the absurdity and folly of those in tense democrats who strive to drag the whole world down to wallow in their mire. Caste proves that it is possible in this day of sensational driima to produce a genuine comedy without resort to any of the expedients of the lower school. And the hearty reception Which it has met everywhere demonstrates also that popular taste is not altogether vitiated, and that it rests simply with the managers of the theatres to determine whether the stage shall degenerate into a mere vehicle for the display of ecenlo-ef fects and ballet masters skill,or shall be accounted a means of instructing the people and affording them rational amusement. ! With A Midsummer Night's Dream at one theatre, The Hunchback at another, and Caste at the third in one evening, we may congratulate ourselves upon the promise of a season which bus-opened so admirably. Letf' the managers theatres to the user of the legitimate drama, and they will not only reap a pecuniary success, but crowd their houses with a class of people who never visit either spectacular pieces or undressed ballets. Of the performance of last night we can speak only in words of warm commendation, and this without fear of being numbered with that too numerous class of -critics who puff indiscrimi nately without reason or j udggijgjjSljgThe per . formers, without exception, Sid admirably well. Beyond all comparison, Miss Josie Orton, as “Esther Eccles,'' gave us the finest -and- most artistic performance of the evening. Her concep tion of the character—that of a tender and loving woman—was the true one, and every man in the house felt it to be so. She acted it with rare gtace and spirit, and fully deserved the applause which greeted her at every point. She bore off the palm as the most eloquent actor in the piece. Next to her in point of merit we must place Mrs. Florence, as “Polly Eccles." This character is a trifle broad, but it is a fair picture of a generous and hearty girl, full of animal life ana spirits. Mrs. Florence played it excellently well, and would have won the first place in the esteem of the audience had she been supported by any other person than Miss Orton. Air.; 1 Jennings, as' “Eccles,” deserves, perhaps, the next mention. His acting was admirable. In some instances it' was rather'overdone—the desire to make a point and raise a laugh overcoming the judgment Of the artist. But as a whole the part was given with spirit and effect, and it will need but of admonition to correct, the only fault. Mr. Lennox, as "Sam. Gerridge," was excellent. A thoroughly humorous character, with wide op portunity to indulge in that' horrible grimacing and exaggerated action which form the staple of so many of our low comedians, Mr. Lennox gave it naturally, artistically and well, and he deserves praise therefor. Mr. - Florence, as “George D'Alroy,” played with feeling and animation, ex-' cep ting in the’ first scene, which needs more life. It was very dismal and heavy lest night. Mrs. Eberle, a new comer to Philadelphia, performed the part of the “Marquise” m a most acceptable manner. We welcome her to the city ’with the assurance that she will win the favor and the, endorsement of our play-goers if she acts with the dignity and grace which distinguished her per formance last evening. Mr. W. H. Leak, also a stranger, played “Captain Hawtrec.” The char . acter is that of a worthy and kind-hearted gen tleman, whose good qualities are disguised be neath an air of fashionable indifference. Mr. Leak, we think, made the character rather too much of a “Dundreary,” and hardly rose to a time conception of it. In the first scene, particu larly, he was very dull and Inanimate. In the, last two acts there was a sensible improvement, and doubtiess.when he.feels.more at home he will do better, for he evidently possesses the qualifica tions of 4 good actor;' £&«/<»-will be repeated thih ’ evening. The Walnut. —The Midsummer Night's Dream will be given again this evening. This piece is a great success, and every true lover of dramatic art should see it. Combining,' as it does, the grand text of Shakespeare with the finest and most exquisite scenic effects, it offers an .unpre cedented attraction to the public, an attraction that should outweigh the naked ballet'and the un couth, senseless ahd ridiculous melodramas that depend for their success upon half-clothed fe males and stage thunder. ■The Black Crook.—Mr. McDonough desires us to announce that he will produce the Black Crook on Thursday night next. Everything will be in readiness bv that time, and it is promised that the piece will work correctly and he given with all the mechanical and scenic effects. Per sons who were disappointed last night can enter tree on Thursday bight or on Saturday afternoon. The Arch.— Julia Dean made her first appear ance at the Arch in tho Hunchback. We will no tice her at length at another time. Ri.rkf.tt.— Mr. Alf. Burnett will give another •of his .performances »|. Assembly Buildings to night. Concert Hall.— Blind Tom will give a con cert this evening. Blitz Signor Blitz performs nightly at As sembly Buildings. On Saturday evening a stabbing affray took place at Bridgetown, a local name of a portion of the outskirts of Dover, which, it is presumed, re sulted in the death of Samuel Ellsbury, a colored person. He had mot with a man named William Johnson, also colored, and charged the latter with being improperly intimate with his wife, whereupon Johnson attacked him with a knife, and inflicted upon him a number of fearful wounds, in the abdomen and other portions, off his body. He was so badly injured that it was thought impossible for him to recover. ; Johnson escaped,and so far aslwe are informed, s still at large, . Ellßbury had the reputation of being a quiet, peaceable feHow,‘but Johnson was (known as a desperate and dangerous character. ' Ain esemeivts. murder at Dover, Del. [From the Wilmington Commercial] PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1867. boi m;h explosion in new yoke. Four Persons Killed and many Others In jured—Three Houses Demolished. [From terday’a N. Y. Tribune.] At 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the large upright boiler in tile rear of No. 258 West Twenty-eighth street, exploded with a terrible report, demolishing the building In which it was situated, and shattering the surrounding build ings. ,Tlie boiler was lifted high in the air, some accounts say from six hundred to one thousand feet, and/passing over Eighth avenue, fell on the roof of Mr. Sigmund Housemann’s dwelling, No. 308 West Twenty-eighth street, crashing through the roof to the basement, killing two children, and seriously Injuring two domestics, who were carried down with the rubblßh. At the time of the explosion the engineer, Jacob Mad den, and fireman, Edward Brady, were in the boiler-room, and arc supposed to have been in stantly killed. A number of the workmen in the adjoining buildings were seriously scalded and injured by the flying fragments. They were taken to Mount Binai Hospital. An alarm of fire was rung soon a'fter the ca tastrophe, and on the arrival of tho firemen,” Chief-Engineer.Kingsland set them at work clear ing away'the ruins of both buildings. The men. worked well, and in a short time had recovered the body of the fireman Brady, it having been blown towards the front of the building, thus es caping the most of the debris of the.fallen build ing. The fireman’s body was dreadfully scalded and mutilated. In the meantime the working party at No. 308 had been more successful. After clearing away a small portion of the rubbish, Airs. Alaria Wel bezahl, the wet purse, was found standing up right, and pinned up to.the chin in a mixed mass of plaster, lath, boards and brick., Strange as it may seem, although this woman with the others jiad been carried down from the third story, she was comparatively unharmed, having sustained but a few severe contusions. • A short time afterward Mary Dowling, a do mestic, was found. She was taken out Uncon scious and transferred to the Afount Sinai Hos pital. The bodies of the children were found be-- . side the boiler, both terribly mutilated. ’ They are Dora, aged 10 years, and Henry, aged four mouths. Air...and Mrs. Housemann were absent from borne at the time of the occurrence. The domestics mentioned above and the child ren were in the nursery, in the rear of the third floor,.directly in the path of the boiler. The remaining domestics were In the front base ment,and as soon as they conld recover from the fright occasioned by the advent of the strange visitor, raH into the street. It was some time af terward before they would venture into the house. The portion crushed by the boiler is in the rear, about 12 feet in length, and is nearly the entire width of the building. The immense weight and velocity of the boiler are shown by the fact that beams were snapped short off, while the brick work in the interior is completely flattened. The boiler' now rests upon a pile of rubbish, nearly on a level with the first floor. The following is a list 'of the killed: Jacob Aladden; he resided at No. 319 West street, where he leaves a wife and children. Edward Brady, aged 20 years; he was the only son of his widowed mother, and she was entirely dependent on him for support. Dora Housemann, aged 10 years* Henry Housemann, aged four months. In addition to these, some 20 or 30 persons were wounded terribly. The boiler was situated in a two-story brick building, about 20 feet in length. This, of course, was utterly demolished. This, together with the front building, was owned by Abraham R. Welch, turner In wood. The rear of the front bnilding was badly shattered. The boiler was of the upright kind, manufactured by- Byron Densmore of No. 388 West Forty-third street, and was put np in June last, at a cost of $3,000. It was considered perfectly safe at a higher pressure than was usually carried. Ex actly how the explosion occurred will probably never be ascertained, as the only persons who could impart any in formation on the subject ale buried beneath ihe ruins. The bottom of the boiler was the part that 'gave way, and the sudden rush of steam naturally forced it upward. The story of seve ral intelligent persons Is that the boiler attained a height Of at least 600 feet, appearing for a moment about the size of a man’s hat, and then descending with the velocity almost of lightning. The distance from where the boiler started to the house of Mr., Housemann is fully 500 feet. It is almost incredible, that a mass of iron weighing nearly three tons should have been hurled such a distance. The affair created intense excitement m tHC'neighborhood, aud large .multitudes gathered around both buildings. Sergeants James and Russell, with a platoon of policemen, remained on the ground until a late hour last night to enforce order. Not until nearly midnight did the-throng entirely disperse. The search for the body of the engineer .was .kept up by gangs of firemen, working under the orders of Chief-Engineer Kingsland,-but up to an early hour this morning it had not been found. Air. and Airs. Housemann were completely-pros trated with grief last evening at their sudden be reavement. Airs. Brady also 6eemed overwhelmed at the loss of hereon. It is but a short time' since her husband died, and the loss is thus ren dered doubly severe. It is understood that Airs. Aladden is visiting some friends in the country, and is, therefore, as yet not aware of the death of her husband. The Washington Situation. tWailiington'Corrcspondenco of the N. Y. Herald.] Washington, Sept. 9.—Secretary Mj&nUoch hod a protracted interview with the President to night,lasting over.two hours. The .result-is a, number of sensation rumors as to the coming changes in the inabagemenrof the”TreaBury, &c. , It is ascertained, from official data, that since April 15, 1865,about eight thousand pardons have been granted by the President. These include some of the.rebel foreign Ministers and agents, members of tho Confederate Cabinet t Governors of Southern States, and upwards of ninety briga dier-generals, with a due proportion of rebel ma jor-generals. Major Stitt, Chief .of the Pardon Bureau at the Attorney-General's office, has 'had on file for the past two years about tour hun dred applications for pardon from persons who were engaged in tho rebellion and not pardoned by the proclamation of May 29, 1865. By the proclamation of Saturday about one hundred of these persons are pardoned, but the other three hundred come within the exceptions, and of course ttfelrcases, like others similarly situated,/ must be separately considered. Dr. Blackburn, who was sa anxious, during tho progress of the rebellion to receive official sanc tion from the head of the pretended confederacy to his scheme of Introducing yellow fever into the loyal States by sales” of infected clothing in the principal cities, seems,, Rasselas like, to be gazing longingly over the wall which divides us lrora the Canadian happy valley, and is yearning to return to a home beneath the old flog. Black burn has written a letter to General Grant offering his professional services in the Southern districts where the yellow fever exists, but wishes a stipulation to.be entered into on the part of the government authorities that he shall not be molested by tho military commanders, nor bo brought to an account before tho civil courts for past offences. Gen. Grant, however, would enter into no such agreement, and replied, it is said,that it was not in his power to give any such assur ance as he required. FALL OVER A PRECIPICE. Eight Persons, in a Wagon, Backed over an Embankment, near Cincin nati. Cincinnati, Sept. 9, I^67.—This afternoon, at four o’clock, an express wagon, containing eight Germans, was backed down a forty-five feet em bankment, at the bridge near this city, making horrible wreck of the whole cargo. LenaWht gand, a girl, aged thirteen, End Frederick Occhsle, aged forty, were killed. Adam Giater-; maun, aged thirty-five, was mortally wounded, • and all tnc rest were badly hurt. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Al. Alagua, the Prussian Minister to Afexico, keeps in eeeiusion at San Luis. He is supposea to be insane, and is heedless of the ordejjS from Prussia to leave the country. AdmiraPTegethoff arrived at Vera. Cruz on the 26th ult., and was to leave for the capital the next day. Alinister Otterbourg telegraphed toWashington after receiving his appointment that his determi nation to leave in September was irrevocable. An elegant gold repeater watch was presented to Air. Cripp, the United States Consul by the Go vernment. The stone statue San Antonia Babo zan was demolished by the populace, and broken into a thousand pieces. La Iberia publishes the order from the Bpanish Government to Its Alinister, dated March 4, 1867, prohibiting the exposure of the Spanish flag by Spanish residents on any occasion whatever without special permission of the Legation. Santa Anna continues a prisoner in San Juan d’Ulloa. It was believed he would not be shot. Not.a word is said about Alarquez. Hav axa, Sept 8, by wav of Key West, Sept. 9, 1867.—The Captain-General has dissolved Nhe volunteer cavaliy of Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Principe, Villa Clara, Saneti apiritu, Trinidad and Kemcdios. This is a significant fact. Cien fuegos, it is reported, resists the collection of the new tax. It is rumored that a polite intimation has been given that it would be enforced at the point of the bayonet. Satnrnino -Martinez, a cigar twister, and editor of the Havana Artisans’ Sunday Aurora, is reported to be inclose confine ment. The number of cigar twisters is assumed to be fourteen thousand. A few have also been imprisoned, and&mahy are fleeing to the United States. The supposed scheme for filibustering in Mexico is a swindle. Destruction of Celebrated j Works of Art. [Florence (Aug. 23) Correspondence of the London Dally - .Newa. A great misfortune has fallen upon Venice and the artistic world of Italy. The famons chapel of the Madonna del Rosario, adjacent to the church of San Giovanni e Paolo, has bedn de stroyed by fire. Titian’s celebrated picture of the “Martyrdom of St. Peter,” with, perhaps, the finest landscape in the world lor a back-' ground, the Madonna of Giambellino, and other works of veiy considerable note, were consumed by the flames. These cele brated pictures were temporarily placed in the chapel while the church was undergoing repairs. There were, beside, the celebrated wood carvings by Brustclone and his pupils, unrivaled for taste and delicacy. A senes of beautiful bas-reliefs, bronze statues and statuettes of exquisite work manship, of incalculable value, have also been destroyed. Not a few malicious reports are in circulation ns to the origin of tho fire. All that is really known, however, is the simple fact, that about five in the morning of the 16th inst. the fire was casually discovered by a person passing, who promptly gafb notice to the parish priest and churchwardens; but when the chapel door was at length opened, it was too late to stay the woik of destruction. • Assistance, however, arrived in time to prevent the flames from extending to the church and the’ adjacent wards of the Hospital di San Giovannie Paolo, where small-pox patients are usually kept. It has been conjectured that the accident was owing to the wax Tapers used on the after noon of the 15th ot August; the Festival of tho Virgin, being left burning after the church was closed. The following Is a catalogue of the prin cipal objects destroyed within the Chapel del Rosario during the fire: 1. The'celebrated pic ture of “St. Peter the Martyr,” by Titian; 2. “The Virgin ‘Enthroned’ amidst a Glory of Salute and Augels," by Giovanni. Beiljno; S. Pictures by Tintoretta representing severally the Battle ;of . :“Lepanto,”.. .“The-/ Crucifixion," “The Virgin of the Rosary,” and “The Sacred ' (Princely) League." There were, besides,several water-color paintings by an unknown master. The Bmall compart ments of thp ceiling represented the Doge and Senate. Two pictures of “The Annunciation,” and the “Nativity of the Virgin.” by Leonardo Vinccnze del Corona. Facing the Nativity was another picture by Sante Peranda, commonly called Bassano.y\Anothcr above the doorway re presented Jesus Before Pilate, by Leandro Bassano; ten bas-reliefs, representing the Life of our Lord, by the hand of the Bonazza, father and son, of Torclll, Taliapietra and Mer laito. The municipal authorities in Venice had oply a day previously decided on 1 carrying out the resolution passed In 1858 by the municipal council of the city for removing all pictures of yalue and artistic objects scattered among the various churches: &c., in the city, to the Acad emy of the Fine Arts, so that they might be moro carefully looked after. ■* Plundering' Raids In Western Sew York. [From to-day’s N, Y. Herald.] Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1867.— During the past two weeks has bcon committed in Westfield, Chautauque county, a number of robbories. •Every effort of the police of Rochester, New York and Buffalo to capture the guilty parties has failed. The first of these robberies was committed two weeks since by three persons who entered the house of one of tho citizens of Westfield while the family were at tea and presented pistols to the heads of the inmates, demanding what money and valuables wore in the honse. and threatening to fire if any alarm was given, while one of the ■ruffians searched the house. Tho burglars only received a little over $lO9 in tills attompt. On the same evening they visitod the house of the town constable and received from him $200.. Since then the robbers have visited nearly every house in Chautauque county. M)n Saturday ..the trio of burglars at the Ripley crossing, four miles from Westfield, entered the honse orMr. Biggins, a wealthy oil merchant, while the family were at tea, and topk from, the safe, in the presence of Mr. Biggins and his- family, slxteon hundred dol lars (n 7-30's, with which they escaped. On Sun day, Mr. Harrington, tho village constable, at tho head ot, one hundred” atm fifty volunteers, MEXICO. Anatrinn and French Officers Return- Home—Minister Otterboorxr Pro* sen ted to Juarez—Arrival of Tegethoff at Vera Cruz, T r _ Uly the. Cuba Cable.] , , oV-'V"'’. ® C P I ' 8 (by way of Key West, Sept. ,i, JoOi.)—Among the one.hundrcd and fifty-eight troops per the steamer Alersey. mostly Austrian and ireneb, are five officers. Gangs of highway robbers, mostly foreigners and imperial pri soners set at liberty, have made their appear ance in Mexico. Air. Otterbourg presented his credentials to President Juarez as Alinister Pleni potentiary of the United States on the 20th ult. Mr. Plumb, who has just arrived by the steamer Liberty from New Orleans, will take passage In the British steamer for Vera Cruz on the 22a lust. Scnor Alaßseras arrived per steamer Mersey, charged with despatches from Jttarez for AVasb- in „ thesteam® Liberty early on Tuesday morning. Several ar rests in the Convocatoria oi Juarez continue to keep the Mexicans at boiling heat, being un constitutional, and the executive not being em npwered so to aet unless Congress approves them. Juan Bas is appointed Governor of the Mexican district. The Governor and military commandant of San Luts is accused of infringing the circulars of October 6,1859, and articles 21 and 24 of the general constitution. Af. Ashiorz has been named chief official on foreign relations. General M. Taro has been mode Major-GencraLpf the Second division. Francis Francose, a citizen of New Orleans, died on the 14th, and received Masonic honors. A con voy with 81,800,000 from Mexico arrived at Vera Cruz on the 31st ult. The Alersey brought $l,- 500,000. The intercessions of Air. Ottenbourg, Porfirio Diaz and five other generals, and a host of influ ential persons in behalf of O'Horan were made in vain/ Cuba. ITALY. went in selrfch of the burglars, aud managed to capture one of them near the village. He their stationed pickets on each side of a small woods, in which Jt is supposed the other two burglars • are concealed, rendering escape impossible. Up 4° tbe present there have been no further arrests, although the- volunteers are still on duty. The people of Westfield threatened to lynch the pri soner in their Bands. CITY JBUIiIJETLN. Larcenies.— Chas. Chambers was arrested yes terday for the larceny of three empty whisky barrels from Delaware avenue and Lombard Btreet. He was caught in the act of rolling the barrels away. He was committed by Alderman Morrow. A colored man named Andrew Garrison, resid ing in Afayland street, was arrested vesterday fur the larceny of a box containing' a dozen spools of silk, valued at $6, which he was trying to sell in Shippen street, for one-foarlh, value. Alderman Morrow held Garrison to answer. George Connor was committed yesterday by Alderman Alorrow, to answer tho charge of the larceny of sixty yards of muslim from the wharf of the Boston Steamship Company, at the foot of Pine street. He told where the muslin was and it was recovered. Two boys named John Hoy and Jpseph Young were arrested this morning for stealing vegetables from the market at Sec ond and South streets. They were taken before Alderman Alorrow, and were committed to an swer. William H. Chandler was canght in the act of driving two cattle away from the Avenue drove yard. He was committed by Alderman ManlL The New American Theatric.— -This estab- ishment, which was destroyed by fire in June last, has been rebuilt in a substantial manner,and will be opened on Saturday evening next. The new structure is much superior to tho old one. The front wall originally was thirteen inches at the firEt story and nine inches above. As rebuilt, it is now eighteen inches at the first floor and thirteen above. The new theatre contains all the latest improvements for such establishments. There is a spacious lobby arranged with special reference to the easy ingress and egress of the au • dience.an auditorium 100 feet by 80,and arranged with private boxes, parquet, first and second ffiers. Twenty-two private boxes, on each side of the stage, are provided. The boxes are placed ■ with reference to a go'od view of the performance; five on feach side are on a line with the parquet, and six on each side are on a line with the second tier. The second tier or gallery forms a half circle oi beautiful proportions, while the light iron columns supporting it add still lurthcr to the architect’s design in furnishing a theatre, the interior of which is equal to any in its adapta tion to the purposes ol a stage representation. At a meeting of the Trustees of the Riverside Institute, held at 144 South Third street, at 1.30 o’clock, P. AL, Monday, September 9th, 1867, Hon. William B. Mann was elected President, Hon. James Al. Scovcl, Secretary. An election for Treasurer of the Riverside Institute was held, when Hon. William B. Mann was unanimously elected. Upon motion of J. E. Coe, Esq., it was resolved to purchase the grounds and bnilding at Riverside, New Jorsey, lor the purposes of the Institute. A committee, consisting of Alessrs. Afaun, Bcovel, Ware and Coe, was appointed to visit the bnilding at Riverside, New Jersey, on Thursday, September 12th, 1867, and take measures to pnt the some into immediate operation. Wm. B. Alann, President James M. Scovkl, Secretary. A communication was received from the Wash ington Library Company, inclosing the first pay ment on account of the purchase of the property at Riverside,,which is hereby acknowledged by the Treasurer. Offering a Forged Check.— Lewis Broth erton, aged twenty-two years, was arrested yes terday, and taken before Alderman Toland, upon the charge of offering a forged check for $270 at the National Bank of -the Northern Liberties. On Saturday last a young man called at the store of John Al. Evans. No. 317 North Second street, and purchased some carpet, for which he was to pay $25. He did not pay for the carpet, but told Mr.' Evans that he had some money which he desired to leave until he sent for the carpet, and then he might take his pay out of the money. He then gave Mr. Evans $BO. Yesterday Brothertou called for the carpet, and at his request was given a check for the balance of the money. After wards the check for $270, with the name of Mr. Evans signed to it, was presented at the Bank. The paying teller discovered that it was a tor gcry, and arrested Brotherton and handed him over to Sergeant Murray. The accused was committed, in default of $2,000 bail, for a further, hearing. Alurderous Assault.— Thomas Snively was before Alderman Shoemaker this morning, upon the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. He resides on Leitbgow street, above Girard avenue. Yesterday a woman living In the next house threw some water out of the window, and a few drops fell on Snively. He be came very angry and threatened to shoot somebody. He got a hatchet from his own house, went into the next house, assaulted the woman who had accidentally offended him, and attempted to strike her upon the head with the hatchet. She threw up har hand and received the blow upon it. Her hand was severely cut. Snively was committed. Thk Oil Portrait of Rt. Rev.'BisbopWood' has been completed, and. by all: who have seen' it as a most excellent likeness. It was painted by Air. Queen, artist, under di rection of Aiessrs. John F. King and D. T. Lanahan, at considerable expense. A limited, number of engravings have been taken from the portrait, and are in extensive demand by the friends of the distinguished prelate. The Mercantile Register.— The fourteenth number of this admirable advertising medium has been ifesued by the publisher, Mr. 0 B. Steck. It is devoted to the interests of Philadelphia mer chants and manufacturers, and as It is distributed gratuitously upon the'Various railroads, it offers inducements to advertisers that cannot be sur passedN, Malicious Mischief.— John Walker was before Alderman Mink yesterday on the charge of mali cious mischief, in breaking the windows and otherwise damaging a car on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Ho was sent to prison. - The Liquor Law.—James Nelson, proprietor of the Nelson House, at Broad and Callowhlll streets, was before Alderman Hutchinson, yes terday, upon the charge of selling liquor on Sun day. He was held In *5OO ball for trial. Professor 1 1 . Thunper.— -This well-known teachor of music has resumed tho giving of les sons at -230 South fourth streof. Classes in sing ing are now forming. Mr. Thunder stands de seivedlv high, us u teacher of iDStrumoDtal and vocal music. „ ! An Ancient Forest.— ln the course of excava tions at Hull, England, the navvies have come upon a stratum of dark soil, in which a number of trees hi horizontal position were mot with. They aro oak, in excellent condition, and re markably hard. Besides these intcrestfhg remains of a long past age, a large number of acorns and hazel nuts were found, and some oyster and mus sel shells. Tho discovery is more interesting'to geologists, as tho trees were found 1 at a depth of about nineteen feet below the water line of the river. ■ ’ Marriaoe Count Henry Esterhazy has lust married the Countess Rowr, daughtor ot tlie late Madame Bontag. 3?. li. EWilisber, PRICE THREE CENTS. FACTS ACT FANCI —The prairie ch|ckenfi are dying of cholera. —JUng Kaqiehameba has the leprosy. —There is a c»lf in lowa with four nostril®, —A man in New Hampshire had his eyes blowm out while blasting rocks. —Why is a fire paradoxical? —Because the more it» ooaled the hotter it gets.—(Punch.) , —Three bands of music welcomed McCoole-baclt to at. Louis. nl) out 97,000 for his story now publishing’io a London magazine. —Artcmus Ward's bnofr soils ft>F a suiriia iw London. tuition of Shakespeare advertised in the New Yorkpaperui de is the name of a livery, stable in New York. ;/’•■-• ~v ; ■•w* - ( °P era Cbmpany will begin its Washington season on the I6th. n^i It n 1 L EU . gg .u 8 * ed, ttot 01,5 re!wl militia of Mary- • dopt tte Barae “Jerry Black Horse <&.- Tr.oyfell &ftyfeet and inr paled himself on a-picket fence. Hie will not climb so high agalnj v Vic. wifi contribute to the heeds Art buUohs 100 ' She 18 ÜBnally not given, to eontri -Xt is in contemplation to Introduce the Itnllan system of racine-horses without riders on > Borne of the New Yorkparks. Qers °? —Some one in Dublin, has been, making a chemical analysis of street mud. He found there was a great deal of moisture in it. —lt takes'two hours to wind up the English Parliament dock. The dials are twentv-two feet in diameter and the bmirhelt weighs fifteen tons. —There is abayfield in New Gloucester. Maine, owned by the Shakers, of between two-and three thousand acres. —ln order to keep np with- the progress of the age Time has abandoned the scy the and hour glass and purchased a mowing machine and a waich. —The Peruvian Government would give, a for tune to the man who would invent a process for solidifying guano, in order for exportation. A good many have tried it, but without Success.' —A railway accident has occurred in England by which between forty and fifty persons, of both sexes, lost cither their topknots, teeth or chig nons. No other damage. . —A Jerseyman has invented; o machine to tell the number of people that enter a street car or a public hall. That knocks “knocking down” in the head. —A young girl of incendiary tendencies waa caught in Cincinnati, and according to the papers she confessed in an “artless manner" to having set some dozen houses on fire. —A man In Arkansas will not tet -his children iearn .torcad and write because he has lost money by his own literary attainments, in fhdoreing a. note. —Gerrit Smith thinks John Brown had better not have a monument yet, but wait until South erners and all get ready to honor tho “grandest man of the age/’ What a wait that will be 1 —There is now residing in Spencer township, Alien county, Ohio, a revolutionary soldier who is one hundred and seven years old. His name is William Taylor. —Bishop Williams, of Middletown,. COnneo ticut, lately received a valuable set Of . canonical robes from his Episcopal friends, on his fiftieth birthday. —Among the victims of the yellow fever at Fort Morgan, near Mobile, la Lieut. Breckinridge, sod of the Rev. BobL J. Breckinridge, and -cousin of Gen. Breckinridge. —A disabled soldier with a hand-organ took in over ninety dollars on Washington street,Boston, in one day. Government charity can’t compete with hand-organs at that rate. —Dickens says that when on one or two occsr sions an American pnbllshcr of his works pent him sums of money, he put it to the account of. conscience money. —Gentleman (to Boatman): You must often, I should think, got wet,do you not?. A riles.: Boat man: Yes, yer honof, we docs, weiy wet, wery wet indeed; but I’m werydry just now yer honor, and no mistake. —The Church of Rome has forbidden the mar riage, by the Catholic clergy in England, of Protestant and Cajjiolics, except on condition that no subsequcnFceremony snail take place in a Protestant church. —“Personals” in the newspapers is an old sub ject for Bport, but here is a “Wanted" and an an swer worthy of .being copied; Personal. —Wanted, a hand to hold mine own, as down life’s vale I glide; wanted,an arm tolean upon, forever by my 6ide. Address Miss Emma M. Handlin, Chicago, P. O. Personal. —l have a hand for Emma H.; ’tia hanging by my side; but willingly with her will hitch, and down life’s vale will glide.' Address Tlppoo Saib, Chicago P. O. —Somebody writes plaintively to the Pall Mail Gazette about the “misery of buttons." He says: “Sartorial ingenuity has not yet attained to the manufacture of masculine garments unlucum beted with the dire nuisance of buttons. It is not too much to say that a man's whole comfort du ring the day Is dependent on the state of his but tons. The sudden defection of a button, when the sufferer is beyond the reach of all remedial assistance, puts him to misery and perhaps', to shame.” —I know a bank—not one that nature decks: Clothed—not in greenery—oh, no, In checks! ' O’er it no perfume balmy zephyr :' its scents are fivo per cents., Its airs are drafts!. ' No wild thyme wanders this bank freely o'er— • I is hours are regular—from ten till four, : Fairer than slopes with pallid- primrose set,-. Or rich with clumps of noddShg violet, Richer than mossy banks or shady bowers,. Or sunny gardens bright with myriad flowers,. Or beauteous glade, or green and level lawn—- Stay! my account must not be overdrawn!' 1 —Fun. —Allusions are often made in the public press to a Bonaparte Prince who Is a priest, and' occu pies a high position in the Papal court The person thus referred to is Prince Lucien Bona parte, who represents tbo elder, branch of the family; for it fs well known that the First Napo leon, in defining the succession to the Imperial. crown, passed over his two oldest brothers, Jo seph and Lucien, and declared that the line of Louis, his third brother, should Inherit' the title. The present Prince Lucien is tho grandson, of both Joseph and Lucien, his mother, being tbo daughter of the former and his father the son ot the latter. He was.bom on the 15th of Novem-. her, 1828, and Is consequently In his thirty-ninth year. He resides at Rome, where he holds tho position of an apostolical prothonptary. —WhenL. N. was in Augsburg, he wenfrta. see the school where he was educated. The mtt is thU6 described by the Augsburg Gazette:. Tho Emperor was received ot the entrance by the di-. rector of the establishment, Dr. Metzyer,.wUh whom he cordially Bhook hands, informing. Mat! at the same time, in the German language, that he had long wished to revisit with the Empress the scene of his early scholastic-studies- A' tablet of honor was then presented*, with a Latin inscription. commemorating tho fact that it was at this establishment bis Majesty was educated, and the tablet. ww dedi cated to him by the College of St. Anod. On Ift spcctlng the building he pointed out the rooms. a» which lie had carried on hls studlos* and the seam he had occupied when a pupil In the school. He also, with evident amusement, drew the attoUßOtt of thoso around to the name of “Louis napo leon,” which he had himself carved on a window sill, and which is still very legible. The Empress took much pleasure la showing this inscription to her suite. The Imperial party felt much onto- , tlon on taking their leave of an establishments* \ dear to their recollection. 1
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