GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. YOLUMEIXXL-NO. 198. THE EVENING BULLETIN FM:MOGEN EVERY EVENING (Spridays excepted). • ALT THE NEW BELLETINBUILDINO, 609'' ChetWitit Street, Philadelptilla4 BY TICII EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCUTIOIL• • PBOPIUNTOII.6. • GIBSON PEAT ERNEST ()AVM TAM , • E.L. FETBERS N, THOS. ANC CASPER NOM Jll.. FRANCIS WELLS. The iftnaJons Is served to srfterlbers In the ci ty ge rents • .r week. Payable to the carriers. or OA • .r ahrstrol. TAIARIEO FOR 1869 —rtem READY AT 198 4.110111 street, contalningi blank apace for each daria fhO year, rates of postage, table of stamp duties ., ate.. Dub -fished and for sale by W. G. PERRY. 728 Arch street. PtE.—On the morning of the 24th, H. A. Pue, to the tiff sixth year of his age. The relatives and friend); of the family are respect fully Invited to attend his [Micro!. from his late real. dence.l2o6 Coates street, on lhureday afternoon, at one o'clock. s• 8111:RidAlt—On the 25th of November. Conger Sherman. The relatives and male friends are respectfully Invited to attend his funeral. from his late residence, 211 South Tenth street, on Thursday mowing. the 28114 inst., at nine o'clock. To proceed to idountAremen Cemetery. g• Bt.; L CASKET. PATRIC? IrOSIMIG34 ONAIMM JULY 9, 1897. e. EAHLET, IT.OIPFATAKEO, S. Z. COW= or =ITU AND WIZEN STEP:WM I claim that my new improved and only patented BURIAL CASKET Is far more beautiful in form and finish than the old unsightly and repulsive coffin. and that its construction adds to its strength and dare ibilltv. We the undersigned, having had occasion to nee In our families E. 8. EARLEY'S PATENT BURIAL CASKET. would not In Cho future use any other If they could be ob. twined Bishop M. Simpson, Rev. J. W. Jackson. J. li. Schenck, M. D., E. J. Crippen, Core. J. Marston, E. S. N., Jacob S. Burden% Rev ID W. Martine, D. D.. Cleo. W. Evans, Men Orne, Wm. flicks. J. W. Olashome, _7" D. It. Sinn... V): RE /a LANDELL HAVE THE FIRST QUILLII Lyons Velvets for . Cloaks. Lyon Velvets., tZineb. for Backs. PYRE .& LANDELL. VOURT U AND ARM KEEP A Xi On oesoltrovnt of Canalmeree for Bova' Clothes. Cu 'amerc e e f Rtudness 110C8E-FE. ILIIIB SON 11,INCO. G GOODIS. io and =Dock street, below Walnut. corner Peannow otter, very low for cash, their large' and varied stock of ZioneeTurulehlng Hardware. Cutlery, Tea Trays, Silver Plated And Britannia Ware, Bright and Japanned Tin Ware, Both Clieemilefriceratorictliothea Wringene,Caspet Sweepers, Wood and Willow Ware. Broome, Mate etc.. etc. Call and get an illustrated estabgue. toung lioueekeepers will find it a great help. oce.tn,t ,B 0 tiFkiiTaki, weirHENRY VINCENT, The EnsIIFII Reformer and Mil)!ant Orator. will dellier TWO LECTURES AT CONCERT HALL Under the atteniees of the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. • TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 2684 Buidect—JOHN MILTON, The Scholar. tho Poet. the Patriot—the prodigy of hie alra age, end the glory of all time. TIILIIBDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 28th.. - Subject—GARIBALDL Tickets for sale M ASIIMEAIrB. 724 Lehestatut street, and at the door of the Ball on the Evening of the Lee. Lure. Doors open, at 7.15: Lecture herb:mat 8 (Mock. A dmindon,26 eta. Reserved Beata. 50 eta. 111 De. A 111ABD.-111GELROY'S PHILADELPHIA ' CITY AND BUSINESS DIRECIVEY. The Pubactiber takes lease to inform the public gene rally that front TATS DAY. NOVEMBER *thy, he ceases in be connected with the publication of the PlirLA. CITY AND Iit,SINESS DIR.ECTORY, haring *old out his interest to Mr. GoptilL A. McELI tOY. GOPSILL'S DIRECTORY OFFICE is at CA WALNUT, corner of Fifth, which will be opened for burineae sl OF atligfllEF.. w" .negge. TA OFFIC ION CE OP THEANY. LEIIIOII COAL-AND NAY!. Pnno" COMP DELTInk, November 18 1 1867. Subscription Books for the new Five Million God Loan of this Company, interest Six Per Cent per annum in Gold, free of United States and State taxes, will remain oven until the Ka last., to Stockholders, to allow of them an opportunity to participate. BS per wit. Four millions bare already been subscribed for. The Company has reserved the right to pro-rate the subscrip. Mom if the amount should exceed five millions. ' 130i4OMON 81LEPIIERD. nollll2orp3 Treasurer. see THE CONSOLIDATION NATIONAL HANK. PIPIIIADELPII.IA, Nov.llll, 1167. The IWeekholdere are hereby notified that the Bank trill pay the Three HIM State Tax now due, waged on their eharee in till' Bank. n026.3tt JOSEPH N. PEIRSOL, Cashier. WOMEN'S NATIONAL ART ASSOCIATION Igir will hold their Second Annual Exhibition at fal Chestnut street. footwear-Ina December 9th. AU women engaged in art pursuits, and persons having works ca1:0144.1)y women, are invited to contribute or exhibition. n025-tartY gerl o l ii i2LAT N 0 61 ., A t r m l e tr i W treatment and medelnee funned crituiadr — to eh; poor MEW PUBLICATIONS. G. PITCHER, 808 Chestnut Street, ATITIOUI2OOO as Ready This Day: "OPPORTUNITY," a Novel, by the Author of Emily Chester, "JOSEPHINE," 11th volume of the Muhlbach Novels. "011ItISTDIA8 isTORIESIath volume of the Diamond Dickens, published at $1 80, closing.out price $L "OLIVER TWIST." one volume, Illustrated. "TALE CAF TWO OITLES," one volume, illustrated. "fiILETCIIES," by Boz, one volume, illustrated, AMERICAN NOTEd AND ITALY." one volume , illustrated. being the concluding volume of the Illustrated Library Dickens, now complete in 88 elegant volumes. with over 500 illus trations, and pronounced by Mr. Dickens "as the Wit °di. lion of my storks." The same just ready in half calf binding. Setling at Closing-Out Prices. Of new Publications and new Stereoscopic Views,. we have been in receipt of so many within the hatters days that it is impossible to advertise their titles, but it is 1104)d -less to say that they are suitable for all algae and tastes, and one visit will show those in quest of Books orPicturos. that the best assortment and the lowest prices are at cs PITCHER'S • Closing-Csut , Sale, :SOS CHESTNUT ST. 808 .5 the., "avery Maturday,” for Nov. 80, 6 ate. 'lomat • MRS. 8• U tIWORTIPS NE" BOOK WIDOW'S SON! THE WIDOWS BON ! MRS. SOUTHWORTIVS NEW AND BEST BOOK. Will be published on Saturday. December 7th, and ibe , for sale by all booksellers, complete in one large duodeci mo volume.bound in cloth, for $9 00, or in paper cover for •St 50, and will beamblished and for sale by T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS t n 026-21 No. 800 Chestnut street, PhlladelPtliu Mll& BOUTHWO T ILTITS NE_W B BOOK N I ' WiaDAMBO WIDOW'S BONI MRS BOUTHWORTI I I3 NE w AND BEST BOOS' Will he published on Suture ay. December 7th. emd be for sale by all booksellers; complete in one large duode• aimo volume. bound in cloth. for $2 00, or in paper cover Tor $1 50. and will be published and for sale T. B. YETERSON & BED REI. • no2B 9t No. 1300 Chednut street. add Oils.. ARK UNERIENTS. Bee Sixth Page for Additional Amueentente. T. JOSEPH'S, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, - TO-MOR. . 40. 10 row evening, at 734 o'clock. Sacred Drama and oon.• cert. by the Philomenian Society of St. Joee hoe Collo. e. Minisigta 'IIACIBRIE "WING , MIA! Dftra and aolaro will. end a tall amortuwat of ck,~ll ptext_valesnizaa ROW Batts& /Fulani ]lose. ba., at the miatutamaroaadoutrtatl.• Wollentaut• • ' oU dde. N. 11,—Wa Mrs ;it New Lad Cheap ..ORT4elt sna Panrilt =ear/ cheap. to W Malian AittbaPti oti v • UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, Running West from Omaha ACROSS THE CONTINENT, ABE NOW COMPLETED. Thin brings the lhad to the eastern base of the Rocky mountains, and it in expected that the track will be laid thirty milts further, to Evans rail. the highest point on the road, by January. The maximum grade frost the foot of the mountains to tire summit is but eighty feet to the mile, while that of many eastern roads is over one hundred. Work in the rock•cuttings on the western slope will continue through the winter, and there in now no reason to doubt that the entire grand line to the Pa cific will be open for business in 1870. ' The means provided for the constructioa of this Great National Work are ample. The United States grants its Six Per Cent. Ronde at the rate of from 1116.000 to $48.000 per mile, for which it takes a second lien as security, and receives payment to a large if not to the frill extent of its claim in services. These Bonds are issued an each twenty.ndle to.ction in finished, and after It has been cx. omitted by United States COMMIAE/0111e61 and pronounced to be in all reepecla a firstclasn road, thoroughly supplied With depots, repatr•ehopr, station?, and all the necessary rotting clock and other equipments. oclfl3mrp The l'nited States also makes a donation of 12.801 acres of land to the mile, which will-be a eouree of large re enue to the Company. Much of this land In the Platte Valley is among the most fertilmjn the world, and other lade portions are covered with heavy pine foredo and abound in coal of the beat quality. The Company 12 also authorized to tseue Its oven First Mortgage Sonde to an amount equal to the issue of the Government and no more. lion. E. D. Morgan and Hon. Oakes Amea are Trtuaeen for the liondholdere,anti deliver the Donde to the Company only as the *ork pro gre,ses, Po that they always represent an actual and pro. ductive. value. „ The authorized rapital of the Company hi One Hundred Million Dollar!, of which over live mallow have been paid in upon the %orb already done. EARNINGS OF THE COMPANY. At present, the profits of the Company are desired only from its local trallie, but this Is already much more than sufficient to pay the interest on all the Ronda the Company ran Irene. if not another mile were built. It is ant doubted that when the road is completed the through traffic of the only line connecting the Atlantic and Paci fic lltates will be large beyond preeedantAnd as there will be n• competition. it can always be done at profitable rater. It will be noticed that the Union Pacific Railroad is, in fact, a Government Work, built under the supervielon of Govenucent officers. and to a large extent with Go• vernment money, and that at. band. aro bunted uoaer Government diiection. ft is believed 'host no alcohols security is ao carefully guarded, and certainly no oth•T is based upon a larger or more valuable property. As the Company's FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS are offered for the prent at flp CENTS ON THE DOL LAR, they ore the cheapest aeenrity in the market, being more than lb per cent. lower than United States Stock. They pay SIX PER CENT. IN GOLD, or over NINE PER CENT. upon the inveetnient. Sub scriptione mill be received in PHILADELPHIA BT DE HAVEN di BROTHER. No. 40 S. Third street WM. PAINTER di 00.. No. 96 B. Third street J. E. LEWARS di 00 S. Third street. THE TRADEEMENtS NATIONAL BANK, In Wilmington, Del., by It. B. ROBINbON & CO. And in New York at the Company's Moe, No. BO Naatill Street. end by the CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK. No. 7 NIUSSU et CLARK, DODGE & CO., Bankers, No. 51 Wall it. JOHN J. CISCO & BON, Bankers, No. 33 Wallet And by tho Company's advertised Agents throughout the United States. Remittances should he made* drafts or other funds par in New York, and the bonds will be sent free of charge by return express. A NEW PAMPITLPT AND MAP, showing the pro. gess of the work, and resources for construction and Value of Bonds, . may be obtained at the Company's Office or of its advertised Agents, or..will be sent free on application. JOHN J. CLSCO, Treasurer, November W. 1867. NEW YORK n 026. to th x 6tl I Coriespondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.) ANOTHER "ENFANT TEEM I" I have been sitting a good while, chin on fist, thinking how I could best introduce the subject I intended for this day's letter. It was to have been a rather'solemn and weighty kind of a let ter,devoted to politics and the rise in breadstuffs; there was to have been in it a shade of philosophy, a gleam of prophecy, a dash of scandal, a remi niscence of history, a glimmer of fun, a brimmer of conviviality, a shimmer of feeling, a simmer— in fact, a simmer of all the elements in general which go to the composition and modeling of a nice letter, properly so called. But I could no more order my thoughts than harness the zebras in the Garden of Acchnuttation. The moment I tried to fancy, "How will the Emperor men tion these menacing questions from the throne at the ap2roaching opening .of the Chambers? How will his poor creature and tool, Minister Rouher, compelled to do battle for him 'away down in the thick of the arena, against twenty opponents stronger lhan he is, 'and with his in spiration away off in his palace, listening by tele graph, and ready to chastise any failure with terrible severity, acquit himself?" No sooner did I try to fancy and weigh, the difficulties of the political situation; than I found myself engrossed with a very different figure. I was lifting a tiny creature from the floor, playing ,with ; its flaxen curls, riding it on my shoulder, prattling. to it, and studying with a kind of amused pity the false ease of its manners, and the old linesin its face. If you ask me why I perndt myself to in terrupt any serious studios with thei apparition of a childish image like this, .I should answer, I I have recently made the acquaintance of the should tell you— fain'ons little Camille. , . , • This babY has played (I forget how many b l ip.. dreds of times ) the •gi character of Faufan. Victonen fiardou's comedy of the "Benoiton Family, at the Vaudeville theatre. Last winter 'she was the city talk. Her, pre cocity, 44:aalf-Emesessioo,, hor, mature , Way of han!iling.ithti , e audience, her perfec(ropreqatO ' tWer :;thejiart ,, caused a mania. • The xiublity ,ilo 4ll s AO with her raei nOrded - *VIO, I IIY aetrese,se a hieelilieit of nineteentlk mixt* tOtOtt. 525 MILES OF THEII RASH STEPS. PHILADELPHIA, TIJESDAY, N'OVEMBER 26, 1867. work, just as the author of the drama intended her prototype to be considered. The little thing di vided the town with lite 'diva Patti. She was the joke. The wits,deelared her to be the object of a grand passion with the child who plays the little "Joash," in Athalie, at the .Th6atre Fran cais; but added that the ,young lover was in de spair on account of the Censorship, which for bade any alliance between classic and Modern drama. The small mimic even earned the dis tinction of being ridiculed. , Andre Gill, the best caricaturist in Paris, gave her the honor of a se -lec ti on. This artist is 'a young soldier, with a ready knack at a likeness who 'amuses the tedium of the barrack by sending a,. weeklygro tesque to a sheet called La Lune. Now it is Victor Hugo "contemplating the ocean," the line of which comes Julia above , his nostrils, a La The Toilers of the Sea. Now it ill Houdon's statue of Vol Wire, the great sneerer's head being replaced by that of Edmond About. Now it is Louis Vouillot, in scavenger's boots, wings, and a halo, collect ing the "Smells of Paris." On a late occasion this artistic Juvenal bethought him of the "fast" tendencies of the time, and displayed the minia ture Camille preserved in a bottle labelled "Es prit de l'homme"—grinning horribly a ghastly artificial smile, and developing a whole theory of phrenology in the swollen forehead. This was a perfect conquest for the childish aspirant. A travesty herself, she had been travestied. The value of such an advertisement is as well under derstocd here as in a certain country where the press is a still more prolific engine. The humun ouie was now in the eye of all the - world—only all the world hail already been to see it, ' As I think of this microscopic object, with her unnatural manners, and her uneasy self-im portance—talking to the company with a con scious mixture of shame and forwardness; now sweeping back her pretty child.locks „from her unnatural forehead; now examining her fashion able little robe as if less familiar with It than with the jacket and knickerbockers she was to wear in the evening, trying hard to get from the society the 'same notice and applause she was accustomed to from the parquet—lfeel a carious, and not quite cheerful, sympathyfor her. While her little fellow-creatures of private life are softly asleep with their arms around the kitten, this poor public slave is reeling to the footlights in mimic drunkenness, and hiccupping: "It's Fenian coming, 'fan coming, 'fan coming, Its little Fanfan,—l'm tight, papa!" at the same moment estimating the steady paid applause of the claque against the voluntary laughter of the boxes, and retaining an uneasy sense of the manager, who is watching her over his newspaper from a balsnoir. She will dine at midnight, she wili not take off her small night gown till noon. If you love children—and I care nothing for yin if you do not—give a moment's thought to this poor little 'monstrosity, who sees Ices of heaven's blessed sunshine than the Marchioness herself in Brass's cellar—all, that Fn. and I may derive a pointed conviction from a parable of modern folly comille was as white, the other day, as an asparagus-stalk. Ah, satires are all very 'well, and La Famille henoiton May be a - very Spectator paper act upon the stage—but the poor child satirist! A cele brated.essaylst of the day points out how often, In our overshooting for some reform, we allow the promoters of the movement to go too far, lose their balance, strain themselves and leave their own characters as wrecks and victims to the measure. "Fortune-making, industrialism!" he says, "the future may benefit by it, only the pass ing generation of industrialists are sacrificed to it. In the same way, from our modern rage for eymnastics the future may get a Sounder physi cal type to work with, but the passing genera tions of boxing boys and men are sacrificed." I looked upon the uneasy little phenomenon as an additional example of this truth: modern home education may receive a vivid le.sson from this picture of a spoiled child—but who drinks of the effect upon the poor living pictures ? Are we to pass the children of our generation through the fire to Progress ? - - - You recollect, in Kingsley's tragedy, what poignant anguish strikes the saintly Princess Elizabeth, when she thinks, from the midst of her anguish and abnegation, that perhaps this suffering is oply meant as an improving example for the study of "some angels far away;" herself the experiment, the subject, the centre of some cold, unsympathetic, spiritual clinic. The childish Camille does not, I hope, go quite so deep into the consideration of the subject. With all her precocity, I saw no signs of Meta physics. Like Reginald Bazalgette, she is only terrible, not horrible. But none the less is she " a sacrifice." It is nothing that she is a phe nomenon. The minute animals who play chil dren on the stage always are phenomena,. and We constantly wonder how it is that they always manage to drain into their small selvtgt the wit, the tact, the vivacity and life of the piece. Who is the hero of the " Benoiton Family ?" Faitfan. None of the other characters were pointed enough to be caricatured in La Lune. So much the better for Fanfan. So much the worse for Camille ! Camille teased and attitudinized before the callers, alternately a pet and a bore, like all such children. Her mother—one of those individuals of nameless descent who float beat In Paris— talked, in alternate French and English—of the stinginess of managets, of a more liberal offer Camille had received from a rival theatre, and of the mere pittance she received after all for her rematkable talents. Carvallo understood it all perfectly as she played with the gentlemen's watch chains. I think she was meditating put ting up herself for an Amclican bid: she speaks our language without accent, , ,and could play as, well in a translation as the oiginal. You may yet hear her from the boar of the Arch, weeping in her thin treble— 'ale matter is, pa, that you lade me' play my p tags-stamps, e tFrr bull and I've lost my all! All the blues, the greens, the redo! It as you! yo u said, buy for a rise! I bought, I but look! All the boarding-school fellows Co to town for vacation—with their letters, and stamps on them! There was a great ugly. Mexical,boy. He had a hundred and sixty and more, of my very Cuttemalas! He has broken the mart! I'm sold out, myself, below—and I haven't gads to pay the diffe-iere-rence!" After all, do you think this brilliant coaedy, severe as it is,has any great claims to be r ed as a work of morality! What effect has it on the thousands of young ladies who have de thgvmost consclentloitagindy of the chic and - tugvagant costumes ig:ribxa k the Benoiton ,first Immo upon thistage-4nt have never 100 twice" at the reformed toilettes .in which they a Made to leave it, the "white muslin and a rose To be sure, the characters: hive become tyr, cal. If your paps shows - any sense of undue` attentlon•te the etoentlephOUSei:if he does not ote6iet) as actively air& theta *hod you crud ltehlradvance "the :hepaer. of ° the family," you -hieY call him Benolton, and sii eomethlug about the ixon-he trade. OUR WkOLE COUNTRY. And the pretty Princess Metternich, who aims to be a leader in Paris society, has Just brought a libel suit against a Journal which alluded to her as "Madame Benetton." Well, it is too late now—l can never get back to polities and M. Rouher—my important intelli gence is lost to you for the present. 'Fanfan hal distracted me. I will try and do better an other time, when that terrible child is out of the way! ENFANT PERDU. Death of Conger Sherman, Esc'. Conger Sherman, one of the oldest and wealthiest, printers in the United States, died at his residence in this city, yesterday, at the ad vaned& age of 74 years. He was born in New Scotland, near Albany, New York, August 7th, 1.7913. His father, Job Sherman, d native of Massachusetts, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Saratoga, though ,he continxed in the arsay until the end of the war. After his release from military service, he married Miss Anne Conger, of New Rochelle, New York, a lady of Huguenot descent, took up land near Albany, and commenced farming, in which pursuit he con tinned until his decease, in j 832. It will thus be perceived that the subject df this sketch combines in his blood the French Protest ant and.primitive English Puritan, than which there is no better ancestral stock. Before he was thirteen years of age, young Sherman left his country home and entered the printing establishment of Barber & Southwick, then publishers of the Albany Register, and State printers. In this office all the Department and Legislative printing for the State was done, and during the session of the Legislature it was part of his duty in his new vocation to carry from the printing-office to the State House the printed bills and journals of the previous day's proceedings, and consequently he had access to all parts of the Legislative halls, the Committee rooms, the Governor's mansion, in all of which he was a welcome visitor. The following condensed account of his professional life, and some memoranda of his recollections of a few of the eminent men of that day, are quite interesting. They were furnished by Mr. Sher man for a. forthcoming work, and we cannot do better than give them in his own words: "kt was at this time," be says, "that I bad frequent op portunities of seeing some of the public men of that day, among others Daniel D. Tompkins and lie Witt Clinton. In person, manners and mind, Clinton was a apiendid man. Sedate and reserved, he yet appeared tome always cheerful sad kind. He had- just been appointed by the Senate of New York one of the Board of Canal Commissioners. and was engaged in perfecting the plan of the Erie Canal, of which he was the originator. I was seat to him one morning .at his room for copy. Wheal entered I dolled my cap, made my bow. and said, 'Please, eir, I was sent for some copy.' 'Sit down, my eon,' was the kind and eacouraging rep He took up from the table before bun *neatly prepared manuscript. fastened at the top of the leaves like a lawyer's paperbook, and asked me If I could read that. flocked at at; it was written in a clear round hand as plain as Print. 'yes, sir, I can read it.' was my reply. He said. 'I have here a .duplicate copy which I wished to verify before I giro you the original; stand . up before me and read.' his was the first Report of the Commissioners appointed to survey the route of the great ,Eric Canal. rend my beat at reading. I was seer/sternest ta aAinis Lavy--bad manuscript generally:dd. was good. dead on in a clear, firm tone, and 'rich emphatic , . prononucing every word I came to llie.estEmated coot of the work— fire millions tiollarr. I drew - a long breath, more, perhaps, from some natural cause, than a cont. prehenden of the enormous sum of money in those days. The grays statesman looked at me as if I did understand it financially. 'Large figures, sonny,' said he; 'I may not live to tee the work nniahed; bat you will, and paid for, too, I hope: , I then read onto the end of the document, puttho copy into my pocket, felt highly honored, - and returned to the printing-office with it, where I came very near getting a good thrashing for loitering about the State House, which I sometimes did, for it was very agreeable place for me to upend my time. a ".1 leek back with pleasure to - my boyhood. What I learnedll en made a good and permanent impression on my mind. Borne one las said 'the boy makes the man" I have always felt that it was for me groat good fortune that my lot was east among exemplary /BM and in profession where study and mental improvement were my daily business. Big figures 1 never expected to make. but for a respectable agure I have always had an abiding ambition. In tlasummer of 1811, I left my employers in Albany, to whoifial was neverindentured, and went to New York, where I staid about two months. Business of all kinds wa a then very cull inNew York, and the printing bust. nee.. especially so, Sherman d Co., on Philadelphia, now in I*B7, are using more paper for hook printing in one day than was then required to supply all the book presses in New York for the sane period of time. "In September, 1811, 1 arrived in Philadelphia, and here began another epoch of my lite. Fifty. six years are nearly gone since my advent in this city. Limo files fast. I cannot realize it. It seems but a few years. But when 11. call all the eventful changes in the past years, memory revives maul incidents personally impressive— the War of 1812, •he subsequent depression of business, the year* of toil and tuition as a journeyman printer front 1811 to PM ••Infancy very w ell expresses the state of the printing and publishing trades& half cent ury ago. Yet there were. at that thus, both prteters and publishers who were solid men and men of enterprise. The pioneeni were Johnson & Warner. Mathew Carey, and Philip H. Nicklin. heir successors were the Carey& John Wigs, Carey & Hart, Blanchard & Len, T. & .1. W. Johnson, most of whom have amassed fortunes and retired from business. The improvements in the art of bookmaking, such as stereo typing and steampower presses, camejust in time to in. sure prosperity to many engaged in the publishing bust. ness from 1235 to 180; certain it is these were prosperous years for those engaged in printing, publishing, and the kindred professions. -I say improvements came just in Hine ; I should say that these improvements had their origin in the rapidly increasing requirements of the day for books and news papers. • ffeceseity is the 'mother of invention—the old hand press would no longer suffice. The Adams press was invented, and is still the approved machine for book printing. Hoe's great invention, the eight end ton cylin der press for newspapers, Is now indispensable in Ame rica and in Europe. Stereotyping was done here long before 1835, the date I have given as a marked period of prosri a ty. "in pe My, 1830, I urchased the printing establishment of :Messrs. Towar d Bogen, booksellers of Philadelphia, and began business with four or five hand-presses, print ing for that firm the Bible and Henry's Commentary. I have said above that my probationary years as a jouesey man were years of tuition; those years of toil prepared me for the future years of business, which required skill in my profession, constant industry and economy in all things: for I may as well here tell it—l began business on borrowed capital.' "For the first four or five years after my commonce meet, in 1830. rey'Progress was very slow. In 1883, the country generally began to feel the reviving influence of trade. In 11407, I pot up my first steam press—the second press of the kind for book printing in Philadelphia. From that period to the breaking out of the Rebellion, in 1881, there was a gradual increase of business, attended with moderate success, which I shared in common with my professional contemporaries. • "Many of the latter years of my professional life have been agreeably passed. I loved my business, and I was happy and contented. Frequent social evenings at home with some of our typographical friends—Johnson, Clark, Fagan, James Kay, and others—were in every Ivey bene ficial, happy, and agreeable. Time is a great leveler. Johnson, the youngest of the party, was the first to fall." In 1864, Mr. Sheiman sold his printing busi ness to his only son, Roger Sherman, who has associated with him as co-partners Messrs. M. F. Bencrman and Andrew Overend, under the firm style of Sherman & Co., whose establishment, which has been recently refitted, is' now one . of the largest: and 'most complete in Philadelphia. In his advanced age, Mr. Sherman retained, in a remarkable degree, the native vigor of his fac ulties, and possessing largely the elements of so 7 elability, with a fund of anecdote, which at tached to him a large circle of devoted and ad miring friends, he enjoyed in competence the re collections of a well-spent Life. His death Will be sincerely regretted by all who enjoyed the pleasure of acquaintance and friendship. He may wellbe ranked among the masters in one of the most important branches of the mechanic arts. AMEUSEDIENTIS• THE WALtivr.—liir. !John Brougham's new sensa tional drams,•.Tha-lwiterg of Life, was produced last evening at the Walnut Street Theatre to a crowded hones. As fatqta an immense audience and unbounded enthusiasm constitute a success, this play was one. Every dramatic point was received with a.hearty ap. plause whith proved that the opectstonscathPlotelY -predated theuvandwere to perfect sympathy with the' spirit of rho piece. list we are free to confess that the Anima is not quitesh'great a success in other' particu lars. Tlw first feeling experienced , by the, more re lined among the audience was one of regret. that Mr. ,johnjirouglatnt, ebbaiTChave written, produced and .peate4 imam% 11 Vey , • Ile le the• author of •tieveral • the *lost pleasant ecunedies upon the • stage, and of ries .aes that &refilled- with the* finest and ithest ;nor The public' :hue been, accustenred, to 'look u as the .4\amirol4 Orietitiiiref the profession, co Id bo.voet, rausinioJ44.ramatiat, hunioristors tofit keter bylurna, arta acquit himself Whit credit in either capacity. Nobody doubted his ability to elks ceed as author of, or actor in, the low Sensational school of the drama, which is. now so popular .hut hie admirers were disposed to believe that his tine Instincts would prevent such indulgence. That such is not the case, the'production of The Lottery of Life last night, with Mr. Brougham in the leading character, proves. Mr. Brougham himself, seemed somewhat ashanied of the part he was playing, and deemed it necessary, in, one of those pleasant speeches which he Is in the habit of making when coiled before the curtain, to apologize for his downward step. Ile based his defence upon the plea of necessity. The public demand the agonizing drama; he is a caterer to the public; ambition without cash may be a good thing, but his aspiration is to cul tivate the kind of ambition which alma at cash, hence this drama. The plea is,in some. respects, a geed one, and would be likely to find favor with the Maas of hu manity' under similar circumstances. Bnt Mr. Brough am forgets that there is such a thing as appreciation of high art, in this, and other communities, and thatsne cese attends Upoll, its presentation, if it Is the genuine article, as well as upon than of the wild, half mad, ri diculous drama, which now serves the double purpose of pleasing the momentary fancy of the multitude,while it depraves their taste, and degrades the, stage to the level which its enemies declare it has already reached. Mr. Brougham's friends expected something better of him than this Lottery of Life, and it ie his own fault if he has disappointed them, and sacrificed his art to ids pecuniary aspirations. The latter are creditable ' and natural enough, but Mr. Brougham's career has not been such an absolute failure, as to render it at all evident that they could not have been satisfied in a le gitimate manner. . Of the play but a few words are required. It is hardly necessary to premise that it contains many good things. Mr. Brougham could hardly drag his Muse down to such a depth that she would fail to yield something of that exuberaut wit, rollicking humor and keen satire which charactertee all his productions. The drama has many tine points in it, and plenty , of en joyable flings at the follies, crimes and absurdities of the day. But it is not only in the highest degree im probable, and in many cases in the lowest degree vul gar, hot the plot is palpable from the beginning, the dialogue is stilted and unnatural, and the dramatic points of such terrible intensity as would be permitted nowhere outside of the agonized and sanguinary drama. It is filed with crime, and depicts phases of "life among the lowly" (mid rascally), which are more disgusting than interesting. Mr. "Terry O'Halloran" is an impossible combination of chivalrous gentleman and confidence man. Ile talks sometimes like Dr. Johnson, and a: others like Jack Sheppard. Ile robs unsuspecting men whileMe is trying to be honest, and refuses a present of live hundred pounds when he ad mits that he is a rascal. Ile combines the lofty un selfishness of Cincinnatus with' the gentlemanly ras cality of Dick Turpin and the sagacity of Machiavelli. He sells his wife's honor for filthy lucre, while, out of pure disinterestedness, he rescues a young man from the career of a felon. Most of the characters are as beautifulty consistent. The heavy villain is a rich mer chant, when he isn't a Hebrew monstrosity with a false rmse, managing a thieves' den. The hero is a magniflcentyoung fellow, who has no friends, and yet —O, absolutely impossible circumstance I—has been pardoned front the State prison by the Governor. The efern parent is an honest baronet, who ran away with what he mistook for another man's wife, went mad, became sane, took sparring lessons, behaved generally like a superior grade of idiot, and after twenty years of absence meets his long lost son precisely at the mo ment be had begun to hunt for him. The scene in the concert saloon was unique and original, and, as far as possible, faithful. But it was not pleasant, and does no credit to either Mr. Broughlim's ingenuity or taste. The scene between "Alicroft" and "Polly" is indelicate and objectionable in the worst sense, and merely dis gusted the audience below the gallery. Mr. Brougham owes it to himself and to the public to alter the phra seology of the drama in this episode. The unity and consecutiveness of the plot can be easily preserved by "Aileron" giving another object for MS mission. It would be unjust not to assert that the play is put upon the stage in splendid style. The first scene is an excellent one. The view of Broadway and the Loew bridge Is also faithful and good, and the ferry scene with the burning vessel is a very creditable effort in ecelde art. And this is about al) that it is necessary to say about the production. It is not worthy of elabo rate criticism, and it is highly probable that is just what Mr. l'srougham does not desire. Tie simply wishes to fill his pockets. The nroprletors of the police jour nals desire the same entsummation. Both use the same means to attain their end; both pander to a taste which certainly exists; but which is creditable neither to those who possess it or those who gratify it. TIM ClintaTNuT.—The firstrepresentation of Charles Beetle's dramatization of Tennyson's poem of Dore at this theatre last evening was a decided success, and the audience testified to their approbation by frequent and hearty applause. The plot of the original story has - been followed closely, and the complications ne cessary in order to convert a short poem into a three act play are for the most part judicious and In good taste. Charles Reads is not only one of the drat novelists of the day, bate is also an experienced playwright, alid the pubhave a right to expect from him something that wilot only be a goad acting drams, in which stage cts will be duly considered, but which will have literary merit to commend ft as well. Dora is an excellent play, one of the best of Its particular kind that has been produced for a long time, and we have no doubt that it will Icing continue to be a permanent attraction on the stage. It is interesting and affords opportunities for some tine acting, and it might to draw better than any novelty that has lately been brought before the public..' The audience at the Chestnut last evening was not large, but the applause was genuine, and when the real merits of Mr. Reade's Dora become generally known, we think that it will prove as successful in a pecuniary as it certainly has been in an artistic point of view. The story is one that appeals strongly to the sympa thies, and the performance is of a character that de serves the support of the more intelligent class of play-goers. There is so much trash before the public now-a-days, that when a really good thing is brought out it ought to receive liberal patronage. Dora is a good play, and it is iminitely more entertaining than most of the so-called sensation dramas which appeal only to the lower order of tastes. We are pleased to see that Mrs. Bowers has taken our advice and dropped the historical drama for somethin , better suited to her abilities and style of acting. 'lf Dora had been brought out at the commencement of her engagement, instead of the attempt at high art which preceded it, crowded houses would have been the result. The principal characters of the play are the same as those of the poem, except that an addition has beeu made in the shape of "Luke Bloomfield,9 a constant lover of "Dora," who finally succeeds in winning her hand. This is a variation from Tennyson, who in forms us that "Mary took another mate, b `. But Dora lived unmarried till her death." . . And the alteration can scarcely be considered an hn., provement. The character of "Dora" is finely performed by Mrs. Bowers, who has a nice appreciation of its require ments, and gives a delineation that is at once earnest, ' quiet and natural. "Marie Antoinette" was beyond her powers, and we frankly gave our opinion it; re gard to the merits of that personation, although we re., gretted the receesity for censuring the efforts of such a really excellent artist as Mrs. }lowers. We therefore take a genuine pleasure in heartily commending, her on this occasion. Miss Josie Orton watt good les'"Mary Morrison," and Mr. Sedley Smith was very fine as "Farmer Allen." Indeed, Mr. Smith gave a remarha ble piece effecting, which is well worthy of special no tice on its own account, independent' f any merits of the play itself. It was a complete idealization of Ten nyson's stubborn, self-willed Termer, and tie a truly ar tistic effort it is entitled to the warmest praise. Mr. Leak did well as "William Allen," but wo cannot speak with equal approVal of the performance' of Mr. McManus in the part of "Luke Bloomfield." Mr. Mc- Manus is au actor of very decided talent, and nearly everything he attempts he does well. But in the present instance he drawls too much, and he makes ''Luke" quite a silly fellow, which we .think was not the in tention of the dramatist. •As this is the lust week of Mrs. Bowers's engage ment, we hope that those of our play-goers who can appreciate a play and a performance of more than usual excellence will make the most of the opportunity, and give the actress the encouragement offal houses. Ltieuxu,—We are glad to be able to announce that Mrs. Lander hag arranged to appear on Monday evening next at the Academy of Music in her ado bratedimpersonation of "Elizabeth." Below we give Mrs. Lander's toilet as "Elizabeth:" First Costume-,Scarlet ;dohs Antique and Genoese -Velvet Train Dress, superbly e mbroidered in Kold ; Callus of Emerals and Diamonds; with Stomacher a the Name; Robe of Royal Purple Velvet. richly trimmed with Gold; Blue Ribbon and Order of the Garter and St George. On her head will be worn ikWig-inade from correct authori ties by Mons. Dible, the celebrated "Coiffeur de Datues , , bf New 'York, a mall Regal Crown of Diamonds, with. ornaments of Diamonds, Emeralds and Opals; Farrow, Necklace and Bracelets to match; Elizabethan Fan Run of Gold and Minor Baia real Lace. second Conturue-sou Green Antique Silk, with Deep Ennine embroideredesged with large Petah:, Sleeve:: and Corsage with large Pearls: Mee Miefedged with Silver; Marie Stuart Jewelled Head Dress and Pearl Pendants. Third Costume-Cloth of Gold Drees brocaded with "gems of Rubies Pearls, Emeraida and Sapphires bordered with hea bullion fringe: Stomacher of Emeralds, with Diamond Pendants; Earrings of the same and Necklace 'of large Pearls; Lace Hutt . ; Robe of Scarlet Velvet, glyrge. ously embroidered with Golden Elva, lined with White Lyons Satin and edged with Royal ?Ermine ; Head Drees , of Diamond Sprays and Crescents of Pearls surmounted with the Royal loon% lined with Scarlet; Coronet - of small Diamonds ; Earrings of Diamonds and Sapphiree; Bracelets of superb Dismonda,2 , limeralda and Topaz r Silk Gloves; Sceptre of Gold and, D4moudo, encrusted with, Precious 'Genie and, eurmounted with a Jewelled Orb; • p u nt Ribs of Dian . and Via:uncles. vas magraficent Toilgt e was made expressly* for lens, LAINPFA and .. exportft by Mona Grayer-lioulevaeg }doge:its, Paris. Fourth Costume-Rein+ Colored Terry Velvet-Mehra. deredin Stripes of Sliver, with Lace Palings and Corsage tine Ruff a la Elizsbeth. Fifth Costtlintl-Uader liObe Qf Aitt Whitff 8411140 it T. I. FETHERSTQN. PRICE THREE CENTS: Weir B a u r ,. o v er of White Watered ilk' Elp~ttcci it envrreathed with Gold and Scarlet—Rutile of Spao Blond, with Point de Venice Cup—Larae Creme of Stem —Royal Robe of Dine Velvet lined with Ennio°, Tun TILEATITEB.-Mm D. P. Bowers will appear again this evening in her charming imperaosation of • Dora." Mr. Bronglogno Lotter', oy Life will be given to-night at, thO :Walnut:., At the Arch surf Its announced. The American will give a miaceihneoutt• performance this evening. . FAUNS AND NFAXMM —Abyssinia has so far cost Englails2o,ooo,ooo.., —A New York blacksmith pat a phitot liftoffs forgo and was shot dead. • —Weston kissed seventeen babies in land. —A Bourbon county (Hy.) rsinhiter is.Preacit— ing on the sinfulness of agricultural fairs. —A correspondent Says Venice look's like burgh partly under water. Graphlc,but , —Aleppo, Syria,' has had a first•elass liret,;• which made xO,OOO people homeless. —Mre. Letitia Bullock, sister of General John, C. Breckinridge, has just died In Kentuoky: —Victor Hugo has pocketed $9,000 from •hitr , • " Hemant." —Jeff Davies bail bond has been Ilth°graphed and is for sale in Richmond. • —Hen-hawks hunt the sparrows in the , New York parks. —Workers in tar in New Orleans escaped the yellow fever. —A Washington news-boy was found to be a likely young girl in breeches. —Newman Hall's sermons are to be published in the Methodist. It is in a method-dbst-ressed for sensational matter: —Adelaide !lister' is delaying her departure for Havana until the last traces or cholera and. yellow fever shall have disappeared from there. , —A. LL. D. recently told a graduating dais— . - "Remember that the eyes of the vac populi are upon you." ' —The post morten on Governor Andrew re- , vealed an apoplectic effusion more extensive then the doctors had ever seen before. —Carlotta wears a red neck-tie, blue bonnet and yellow gloves. There is an Insane costume for you. —An inhuman editor in the West quotes Top per's "A babe in a house is a well-spring ofjoy,' and begins "well" with ant. • —Dr. Carl Mendelssohn .13arthoiody, son of the, famous composer, is publishing the second ogles' of his father's potithamous works., • , —The title of the neW.Chrlitnias Story Written' by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins la "Isio Thoroughfare." —Kansas City, Missouri, pipers have quota,- dons of the horse market. The latest prices„ wore $2O to $45. —Rotterdam has dedicated a; monument to • Count Hogendtop, the statesman who offend the crown Of HOllan4 to :William of Orange. A wag, says he isn't afraid of ballet" girl so long as , he is sure that sawduat won't -ex— —An editor in Illinois wee obliged to shoot: a man dead for disturbing him in Ids 'sanethin. Keep away from Its; these crime are 'epidemic.' ' 1 —lt c" cites considerable surprise in ,Europe . that the K;:nr,•of Belgium has appointed three , the most determined opponents of Napoleon 111. guardians of the Empress Carlotta. —When the Pops blessedhis army in b the Pontifical benediction descended upon the among . .nthere of tailnr , opera anger whom he,.'. - had excommunicated &few years before. , —"A solemn Murmur in the soul .. fells of the world to be, As travelers hear the.billows r9ll • Before they reach the BOIL" . —Governor Peirpoint has pardoned Aire. Kir= 13. y lately convicted in.itichmond of murder. The an who wanted to bewaked - up-kaMert Kirby died can have his nap out now, —An Illinois editor, all of whose memories are associated with the - war, says , he doles 'not know what Fitz Greene Halleck could dis"as a poet, but that he was a very bad general. • —Ulysses Grant Walling, of tender age, chat-, lenges the world on geography.' Cheerful. infant,. answer ono question: .Where is ' the leiSnd or Tortola?--..Bosion Post. —"Bull-dog" is'a hard wo,..tEi, traiudeA„.WW French, and the joun4l,‘WMch llat, of species of dogs at the late show M'Pariti,lravcs It up and used the English name. —A Freuch writer, M. Leo, says it is an 'Semi- t testable fact that in the ,New World, woman ht. superior to man. We won't accuse Leo of We agree with him. • - . —As Henry Ward Beecher's "Norwood" was , , longer than he had intended, Robert Bonner gave him $6,000 additional to the 4125,000 prevlowdy4 paid. , —Three small boys In EnglaUd baysbect, , * sentenced to, be well Whipped and ;Inaprb3Oneay for' fourteen days, for obstructing ta' train. —Anna E. Dicidnson .having kbeen • applied to by a committee from the Went; for a political lecture, offered "BreakersAhedd." - 'Bile received answer by telegraph: "All right; give us Break his Head.' • —One of , the Boatel, Puke, recently paid $2OG' to a man who accidentally threw into the ins , two $lOO notes' fthirteen years ago. We will throw the mane amount in the Are if any bank , will pay ;as. . —A Bcoteh paper publishes an advertisement to this eifee.ti "A gentleman, aged 88, of sound, , Christi= principles, wishes to correspond with a pions lady, with a view to matrimony. Gen- nine." , —The day before the Paris Exposition closed„ • 4 ' two pleasant, affable, and very taking individ* tudi managed to secrete and , carry off a , , mond aigrette, worth $B,OOO, from one : of , the , -, show-cases. •—Boston people are the least bit critical ofiltfri "" `Dickens's agent because he puts on his bllla arbitrary and earnest "request thst the audience— will be seated , ten minutes before the reading*, , commence." Memphis paper says : "We under..l t that the celebrated J. N.,? the2philosopherZhis joined Costello's Circus, and will deliver one of his characteristic speeches at each representa tion." —A man at Lindsay, in Canada, has been fined `, five dollars for cursing Queen Victoria. Suppose every man in the "United. States who cursed An drew Johnson, suftbred.the same penalty., What a fund there would be!, —A youth, appropriately named Franklin, end • aged thirteen years, is said by the Mechanical'. , Magazine to bawl diacovered a mode of causing vacuum without Condensation, which wilisavei• half the fuel, hitherto used in working Meant en.' glues. —At a county fair in New Jersey, a littlo'hok who was wildly running ab9o and loudly, was asked why', ho 714. Therfolldußo ing reply touched all hearts : my; that's what's the matter; I told • ?Our, Asrsusi,,.., things he'd lose me." ,Ka• —Fra Pantaleo, ea monk and o with Garibaldi in the late" flurry:, Jde'Anon a paper in Naples, and tl e TtroW,a,clutilens y , „ the son of Signor Gall igl i lmEguott only on the conditleigAilk the combat 314-1410 1 “., continue till one, of, tho.tWo was ,wcsandett vorely, and it was Q9;411404, till that result was •, , , „ . The chiefprbatt donna in Vienna is achorta, , , ing singer, but she'catinot undertake the port of .;,:,, Juliet in Gountod'enew opera, ourisitto titO, ...-1P 1 11"ts' : " 4 , Illy g fact that ' ,aholre*hs over Itta htutitlitalkl 4t , pound& The production of the opera is, tterrewt i 4 tore, p,ostpOned fora year; during w hich , PO, ! •• she *ill Prokbabledci Blatingt-71 •,' ' ' '% l ' 4 " 1 , ii ...The Londba4atier4.,l4elA thinks • ' •+,, i Let : peer woutd4iiiike the on; of •• ..,,..„, . ~,,.. t*thtscosattytters„ltsw,tould•be • : :) : ., , ,e,' ' f , l ,,',:i gbie precedencel eVeir^ welters - 4q.;,,.,..,...,,, , ' . A . $.l 66 ettliped OW 6' b1041417e every 1 Y: i• ' ' •,•••• lA ,- ,' ''' ' t resentatire.ft . But it a:ineiders that . 1 ;Al l , , lob would be none too raittidkous tor, i Sport 0t • ti'+, f• 4 r ` gi p ~ . 6 . • BEBE MEE
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