GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME X . XI.-NO. 231. THE EVENIN 9- 1 3 1.. J EVERY EVENING (Bundaye excepted), AT TINE NEW 11111111,11.EVIEN 4307401sestnut Atrect, BY 'TIM • EVENING EULLEIIN ASSOCIATION. M=! GIBBON PEACOCK, ERNEST E. WALLACE, F. L. VETE F E XSTO TiIUEL.I. %VELUM NitiON 1:A811:11. bOUDEIt, .FRANCIS WELLS, The le served to subseribera in the city at 18 Tents per week, payable to the carrion., or $8 per annum. ijEW YEAR PRESENTS.—THE STOCK OF FAN(X .I` l l Good's. Juvenile Coal!, Album*, Diaries and Writing Veekn, closing out at very low prices. W. G. PF.RRY,. 728 Arch street: MARRIED. MURPHY,IIOWARD.—On the 2.ti hint., in Baltimore, by the Rev. D. %V. Hchuretnan J. 11. Murphy, of Haiti. more. to Mira Mart.La Howard. of Montgomery county. Maryland. DIED. • A N DERSON.—On flunday evening. the sth inst., Anne Anderoon, aged righty.four years. Her friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of her oonin.law. John IL 11 arkness.tio.243 Nurih seventeenth street,On Wednesday nest, the tth loot., at P. M. •• FITHIAN,. Suddenly. on the 3d instant, in Balthnore, Epbratro Fithian. agedil years. LAUCHLEN.—On the 6th Instant. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Lauchlen, wife cf Jo, n .M. Lauchlen, and daughter of Margaret nod the late John Cope. The rot et IV(.1. and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her hrother's residence, Ells' G. Coto., Thor:day. the lith Inst., at 10 o'clock. Carriages will be waltisg at the Wayne kitatiov to convey t rlends to the residence. PATTERSON.--Suddenly, on the 241 inst. Jonathan Patterson Jr. lilt relatives and male friends are respect-4 fully Invited to attend hi. funeral from his late resi dence. Met Cir..rd avenue, on I efeday morning next. at 10 o'clock. without further notice. "." SHARPE -- titidd•uly on the evening of the Ph inst., Matilda. wife of Jacob L. /troupe, in the 67th year of her gi & L ie notice will b 0 given of the funeral. lNow fork • papers heats copy.) • -'Phis morning, at 6 o'clock, Thomas IL Tents. of this city. Due notice 401 be riven of the funeral, BEELAL 1.:A611E7. PATENT YOU !MOON 41CANTEI , J171.T 9,1515/. E. IL EAELEY, VIII)YETAKEE.• B. Z. MEN EE OY TENTH A.N LO GEEYIJ STIVELTIL I claim that in t, v. notaueed and +July patented 191.1t1AL CASKET' is tar tuore beautiful in lona and finish then the old on.ightly end rearliive coffin, and that its construction adds to its strength and dare. W e. e, the undersigned, haring had occasion to use In our tamilies E. B. I:ARLEN'S I'ATP.NT BURIAL CASKET, would not in the future use any other if they could be ob. Ki~hu ed. p N. Einirwon, ker..), W. Jackson. , J. IL Schenck. 114. Crippen. Corn. J. Marston. U. a. N., Jacob S. bluebell. Rev. 1). W. Etartine. Goo, W, EVADE, 0n11.,, Win. Hicks. J. NS. ClarhOrnei U. N. Sinn. '"'" oclo.inup 1A1:6- 7 ,14..1.4 EY 1, A: LAN DELL, fourth XJ and A •ch. nre Prepared !amide. , t - % ' ill Il'i4ElloLi , e.,"1 GOI)D3, GiA)D 00: EL 4 AND N 1 t'SLINS, '4110411 , TMILF LINP.N!.4 A NI) PKTNS, Goi)DI3LACK AND Col.ntlED SPECIAL. NOTICES. Imo" QUAKER CITY EXCURSION CONCERT I-I ALE. CAPTAIN DUNCAN. ..Nfantieer bf the Great 13sear• will nether a Lecture in Concert Hall on Monday Evening, January 6, at tt o'clock. under the &unites .of the YOLNG ‘IEI'C'S At , B4II:IATION. 14 ti t.je c t— E Title: JS IMITEIiIIANEAN TO L'/ KEY, THE ClablEdi A NO &JULY !AND." The Lecture will clubmen all the important i nc id e ntf the voyage. and will he illustrated by a LAttlik: 314.1.• Lit ISY BANN - ARP. Four hundred crate only will be reserved. eale of tickets will begin at Concert Half, Thursday morning, at 11 o'clock. Admission. '23 cents. lieserved veal", cebte. , 4t ierGOPSILL'S PHILADELPHIA CITY DIRECTORY mu 164, Th bf.criber takea fhb method of informing the In kabiltinta or Philadelphia that be is about closing the corm Dation of the City Directory, and would thank all Danko who hain or are about making change. in their firma place of bualnele, or residence, to notify him im rnediattly, awful to enarle him to make the neeeacrry alteration!. he canvas for the BtteineivA Directory will comme•nc on Tneeday, the :th inet., when all 1/11,411t.,1 men. are re ,;meted to Ripe the canraftvr 2L1,11 lutermatiou aA he may eelc. _ . ISAAC COSTA. Compiler, °nice 201 South Fifth etreet, third fluor ap. OFFICE OF THE SPRING GARDEN ANCE COMPANY, N. W. CUR. dIXPIt AND WOOD REETS. NLILADEi.i'tn A, January! Clh, last The Anneal Meeting of the Sotek.holdera of the Spring Gal Mm lieou slice Company: will be held at the othee of the Company. ou MONDAY. January 13th. at hi A. M. After whlelt an election for Seventeen Director , . to serve for the ensiling yenr.will be held at the saynk• laqween the hottre of le o'clock A. M., nod THLO. M. It rill. P., elecret,ry. stir Tltllk/SilltEltm fi tr f iitit E. t In In. January 8, NOTICE.--School Teacher& wart:mu will to, paid on .I.nuaty aud Pik and in tue ord : lietun kind to Eighth on Tureday; Sectlouti Ninth to Eigh , cent h SN'edoer day ;Sectionm :Nineteenth to wen t. tetenth on 'f hureday. JOiEPH N rFirtsi)L. u t ys TUE nTh.t tlUmt, s , iint.s been removed to N 0.616 Sown Bend street, below South etreet. Poor girls over twelve yeara of age, who are orpimus or are neglected by their parents. are re. ceived and lertructed in flousewitery, and dually bound out in families . Lonation 3 in fruit and provisions will be: thankfully received at the Ho e. and in moues by the Treasurer. JAM Ed T. hitiltiN, B. W. corner Broad and lipruce etreets. Jgtrn; atir intiiiT NATION»L BANK, i'IIII.APkI.YIII.I., J 011110.77 3, lsati. The Board of Directoni, considering it &Arabia to change the DivideLd txriod of this baok from May and Nuveruber to January and July, have this day declared a Dividend of Two Per Cent. for the past two muuths, pay able on demaud, clear of tax. MORTON MoMICJiAEL, Jc.„ Cashier. or TUE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CUMPAN 0F.F.8.2.E', 400 WALNUT STREET, -PinLAtomentn, January It, 1860. The Dierctore 1111V11 this day dedared a dividend of Three Per Cent. on the Capital Stock of the Company for the last nix months, payable on demand, free of all taxes. jatitit . ALEX. W. W ISTER. Secretary. PEA 0.131.1., VAN LI MILITARY WO ADEM Y REOPEN TUURSDAY, January 2d,1868. For Circulars apply to Chester, Delaware county, Pa. dcl9.lmrpo SPLENDIDLY I I,L,II: , uItATCH I.EO llatEd MANIKt NS and 111t9DELt3 costing over tg2a,oo. Dr. GLEASoN sill rominiiire Ida celebrated coarse or lectures on' .:Physical Culturevr . How to Acquiro ;Health, Strength, Grace, lleautrand Long Lifu," at ASSOILIIN 1; ILDINt :8, MONDAY c VENI NG, January gth, First Lecture, Beata Free. la24tro BENEVuLEN liENEV olent Aaeociution for Thirteenth, Four teenth. Fifteenth and Twentieth Wards, will hold a Mated meeting on TO3IOI.OZOW EVENISG, 7th Janu ary. 1803 at 7,!sj o'clock, at S.. W. corner Girard avenue anda.leventh greets ithlrdstory) when the inhahitanta of acid wards nre requested to attend.. It 11 FRC INT.ILF L IBRAI —l - 11F ANNUAL 3151 r Meeting :_o‘f btoe j kholders of t 'the LIBRARY 1.41*1 VAN Y, will bo bald iu the Library room •on Tuerdav eVoning, the Irt inst., at 'Lltl o'clock. The MIL taxca are now due. and payable at the Libra rian's deak. LAM/NE% jut; of w f 7trp Recording Secretary. *Av. -BANK 01 r..ORTII AMERICA, orw . JAtirkilY 6th, 1863. The Directors have thin deny declared a Dividend of the profits tor the lent eta meutha of Seveg and a half Tor Cent.,,and an Extra Dividend of Ten For Cent., clear of United States Tax, payable on demand. lit/UHLEY: Cashier. TEM ANNUAL, MEETING OF "TDB B' I E:MTV 0 " 41 " FOR THE PSTABI.ISHHENT. AND SIMPORT OF CHA turn( 84,111001.8" will he hold Ju loom No. 11 '"Ludwick Buildings," Walnut streut,above Sixth, on ht um. WI, 11168, nt 7,1 t, ja62ts woe HOWARD HOSPITAL,-NOS. 1618 AND 1.5 W Louiburd street Dlsponnitry Dtwartinent.—Medi cal treatment and mediciuud funainhed gratuitously to the igglitr 6 NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, """`"•Paper, the. Bought by dell Ire* THE Bruoarrrs.-Ihe arrangements for, a stu dents' magazine , are now complete', and the London Student will enroll itself among next periodicals. lien # , e 0 - • \ civl , • liz r _ I ,, tryl:t 00 , a 1 I +' , , % I 4COL. THEO. HYAtT, ' SI PIILE'CS, WASTE UUNTER, No 613 Jayne street. LETTER FROM .4111.1118. (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin:l PARIS, Tuesday, December 17th, 1867.—We are at last beginning to turn our attention from mat ters abroad to things at home. Parties in the I Pants, Christmas Eve, 1867.—We are on the Chamber, having had their fill of talking and i eve of a great holiday, and, as usual, everything abusing each other, arc manifesting an intention j around speaks of the influence of the season. Se- of transacting the business for which the Leg's- I dela; business's allowed to slacken fora moment, lature was specially - called together at this early and festive occupation's to reign paramount season. The three bills on the reorganization off during a brief interval. The whole city Is en fele. the army, and on the extension of the libertiett The Boulevards are turned into a gigantic Fair, of the press, and the right of public meeting are and suddenly lined with hundreds of tiny green mow before the House, and the first-named booths, or stalls, all of the same pattern, and of these is set down for discussion on Thursday which sure ly recall something with which we are next. The report of the Commission on the already familiar. Yes, certainly, we have seen Government bill has just, been printed and distri before these miniature stores which now stand in buted. It is a document of great length, and no long,cloie ranks from the Church of the Madeleine doubt of much interest to the French impala- j to the Place della Bastille, running thus through lion, whose social and &redly relations the dues- the entire length of the busiest thoroughfare f Lions of the conscription and recruiting of the the city—the " Broadway " of the Imperial me army so nearly concern. • But a slight notice o tropothe And now we recollect that they are the its contents and of the few changes it proposes same material which occupied the new Place in the government measure will be snlli- of the Troestdoro, res-elosie Champ . de Mars dent for your readers. The original and the Exhibition, on the last celebration bill had itself fixed the effective force of the of the national Fete of the 15th August; and army at 800,000 men. But it was represented that which our shrewd Prefect of Paris, with that this manner of proceeding was an intrusion upon natural turn for earning a dollar which Is peen the prerogative of the Chamber, whose right liar to him in all city operations, has how it was to fix yearly, by vote, the amount of the brought out a second time and rented to a few contingent upon which the actual numbers of I thousand itinerant merchants at the rate of a the army must depend. The paragraph in goes- franc per day during the ensuing fortnight. tion was therefore struck out. The next point Pray heaven these small speculators may to be decided was the period of service. This was have the 'chance of fair, or at least mild fixed by the proposed bill at nine years, five in weather in their favor; for on that the active army l and four in the reserve. here depeeds mainly for them the alternative between were two novelties upon the old system, under success and almost starvation. The money for which the term of enlistment was; them, which meet be paid in advance, goner eight years, and no formal mention made Nally borrowed; and the great aim and end in of a reserve, though, as a matter of fact, men view by the.adventurers is to gain enough to were sent home on limited or unlimited leave. cover the last quarter's rent of their ordinary Now, at the end of five yeare, the soldier is sent habitations. This last has doubled and trebled Lome and cannot be called out, again for active itself of late years for the petit emechand of Paris; service, except in case of war. There was great and It is on this account that he is only too ready division of opinion in the Commission with re- j to fling himself recklessly into any specnlation card to the time of service, a strong minority which holds out to him the hope of covering wishing to reduce it to eight years, viz., five in F. the amount. His best customers arc of course active service, and three only in the reserve. The the rising generation, who just now rule the hour longer' period, however, was eventually main- i in Paris, and are the great object of demand in wined, chiefly cn the ground that it was a lighter all circles. I have said above that there was no burden on the laboring population to require serious business" doing at this moment. But from it a year's more service in the ranks of the i I must make an exception. There is a very reserve. where the Interruption to its domestic serious business doing in one branch of affairs, occupation is trilling, than to be obliged occa- and a most serious and active competition going sionally to add an additiorial call of 10,000 men j on in it. The demand for " live children" is un to the yearly contingent, in order to maintain the precedentedly great; and as the supply of the real of force at the 'requisite elevation. Five genuine Christmas article, in the shape,that Ls, of years as an active eonsetipt, therefore, and four "American children," is, of course, by no years as a veteran in the reserve, is henceforth to means so unlimited in Paris as would be the case be the training of the French soldier. i at home in New York, or any other large city of The most delicate question of all, the Union, all sorts of devices are had recourse however, was that relating to mar- to by a man ceuyring mamma to attract a large as riage. In a general way the French semblage of youngsters around her Christmas population is by no meats given to early mar- tree, for the special amusement of her own day riagie. in any rank of life. The young journey- rings. When the "genuine article," as I have said, man loves dearly to yagabcrndise and roam about cannot be secured in sufficient quantities, it can, for some years after he is out of his time; and of course, be replaced to a the young gentleman, the j6unPssecior4. insists certain extent by the' "mock production" upon a period of liberty, pour s'amwer, and in the shape of "French children." almost unlversally incurs debts,which he expects But then these, though remarkably well dressed his future wife's ch;t to pay. before he goes into I and tris-geoils. are greatly deficient in the rel matsimonial harness. But there is hardly any licking qualities of the true Yankee breed, and in point on which the French peasant is more that predisposition for "noise" which constitutes tenacious than that" of being at liberty i half the fun of a Christmas tree for all who to marry when he likes, though he are engaged in it, whether old or young. And may very probably be in no hurry tie avail him- even French children are at a premium justnow, self of the license. Now the government army for who has not a tree this year, from the Em bill grants permission to the engaged soldier to press downwards? Never was there known marry only two ytars before the expiration of such a bewilderment of attraction. The Em his entire term of nine year,' service. This bring: press has "commanded" the attendance of I Lim, the Commission calculates, to the age of I know not how many diminutive guests at the twenty-seven without being able to take a wife, Tuileries, to dance with the heir apparent of the a condition, which, in many circumstances of • throne, under the branches of a tree too high to life, will render his two previous years in the stand under any roof save that which covers the reserve almost useless to himself. to say nothing Salle des Afarechaux. Mine. Dronyn de L'hnys at the injury in a social point of view. There "entices" an army of little ones into the splendid exists already a general indisposition amongst saloons of her hotel in the Rue Francois Premier. the poptdation, says the Commission, to marry. There is scarcely a minister or foreign ambassa- This is not the right moment therefore to throw dor who, through the influence of my e lady, is more difficulties in the way of so doing. Other not at this moment thinking more also*, Christ countries, says again the Commission, double i was trees than about his despatches. How can their population in fifty-five years (?); in France I I, then, avoid scribbling on the subject with such it re guiles one hundred and fifty years to effect examples before my eyes? More especially when the same result. It is highly desirable to pre- I lam myself due at this moment at a similar en sent this law to the population as exacting less e tertainment, where our own worthy representa from them than the existing one; whereas you j Live and his lady will be the honored guests of present it with a year's increase of service and a the occasion, anti where "Young America" will year's longer impediment to marriage. The scream with delight in a louder tone, with more Commission, therefore, proposed to allow young intense enjoyment and in largeenumbers than, men In the reserve to marry three years before perhaps, in any other house in Paris, on the the expiration of their service. This amendment christmas Eve of 1867'. the Council of State flatly refused to accede to. I wish my letter could reach the eyes of your lint the Government proposed, of its own ac- readers as soon as it is written, for then it would cord, two years and a half. The CommiEsion, drop in upon you engaged, probably, in the same however, stand out for the full three years, and "serious" thoughts and occupations as ourselves, the Chamber is therefore called , upon to ,decide and would require neither excuse nor apology. the difference. I But now the thought comes across mo that it will The Emperor has ordered $OO,OOO copies of M. arrive only after Christmas, 1867, and even Now Ronher's speech, containing the celebrated decla- Year's Day, 1868, are gone by and well nigh ration of "ntver,neverenever,"to be prMted at his forgotten, with the merriment which doubtless expense and distributed all over the country, accompanied them. So I must add a postscript thereby completely identifying himself with the of graver matter. by way of ballast, to snit the action of the Chamber and his minister. different mood of a fortnight later in the lapse A magnificent suite of apartments are being of time. newly Jetted up and decorated' sumptuously, Ise The Chamber is deeply immesed in the (Ha nle Tuileries,for the Princelmperial, whose sepa- cussion of the'unseasonable subject of the New rate "household" and officers are now to be Army bill. It is one which is evidently wake arranged for him. The imperialists re- table to the Chambers, to the constituencies, to mind you that before another Chamber the whole country. After all, it is pleasanter to shall have run its course, their, heir ap- provide Cliassepots and rifle guns than the parent will be of age; after which they I chair h canon—the human "food for powder," seem to think that the fourth dynasty will be which is thelenatural but horrible aliment. One fairly set on its legs. Well, it may be so; and I honorable member, himself &militarist:nen, shows one would be far from wishing ill to the poor that Franco has sacrificed four or live millions on boy, who has so perilous a course set befoio him, the battle-field since the beginning of the even under the most favorable point of view. But, century. M. Jules Simon reprobates the methinks, the life of a delicate child, not yet in immoral consequences inevitable from a law his teens, is but a poor sheet anchor of safety,not which allows a multitude of young men of six merely for a ureat nation, but even for a family, and twenty years of age to return home to their to depend on. villeges, their families, perhaps, their sweet- We hear' good accounts from Brussels of the . hearts, yet compels them to remain unmarried health of the hapless consort of Maximilian. The? for a couple of years. Is it to be wondered, he Empress Charlotte, as she is still absurdly called, cries, if a paucity of general population, and an as though to keep tip the remembrance of that , exaggerated proportion of illegitimate offspring "mad-cap "' enterprise, as M. Thiers• called it, is are the result of such a military regime as this I now able to walk or drive every . day. She pays Still, I presume, the bill must pass pretty much constant visits to the lung, her brother, and is in its present shape;U "blood-tax," much attached to .his wife, her sister-In-law, as some one called it tte other day , ihom she sees daily. She can now also occupy must be paid, &ono way or anon:Mr, by the peo herself constantly with music, painting and other ple. „Indeed,' Marshal Nell, the Minister of War, recreations, which divert her mind from painful, told 'the Chamber yesterday that he must either thoughts, and seem gradually,to.soothe and trait- have the, present measure or a yearly 'contingent quilize her. It appears, however, doubtful still of 130,000 instead of 100,000 carscriptee Sonie whether she is Wily aware of all that alarming words were given utterance to by M. has befallen her, and especially of the Greasier, the reporter on the bill, who add that death of her husband and the manner of it. the present disquietude of Europe would never Thu severe weather we lately, experienced in' pass away er be settled without war. There are France, and almost all over Europe, has vanished still many others who think the same. The news as suddenly as it came, and given plaeo to quite a from Italy Is not reassuring,' The Menabrea spring-like and most unseasonable temperature. Cabinet has been beaten, though only by twee There has ensued a difference of at least twenty- votes, and has resigned. France goes on arming five degrees within the last two or three days, to the teeth, fled so ' it is said; does Italy, The and if this ,continue,.the Jour dall'Ati likely to Prussian Minister had, yesterilaY, a long confer put on a most brilliant aspect. The_ ,Conrt is now epee at the French foreign officer. .Preparations daily expected- to take up its residence "at the are,said to be renewing at Toulon, and a fresh Tuileries, in preparation for the usual °Mimi:mice advance upon Rome to be contemplated. These of the opening year, and the commencement of are not pleasant subJeete for Christmas nor do they theminter season. There are hosts of Americans 'afford a promising prospect for the opening year. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 1868. now In Paris, the report of the severe cold and snow storms in the south having prevented many, who intended so doing, from turning their faces in that direction. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. 1 1 0: 1 40CIPSNkUkiii:01;OAltild101 r CHARLES DICKENS, .11;'Is.:1011 [Written Exprevily for the Evening Bulletin, the only authorized publisher of C. 11. Jo.] CILAP. I, It was Dolby began it. Don't undertake to tell me that Ticket began it, for I was there all the time watching it, and it was nobody but Dolby. • Why,,bless me! Dolby was there months and months before Ticket was born—Dolby was; and of course he began it. But perhaps you don't know Dolby? more's the pity. I'll tell you all about it, only don't go to tell me that Ticket be gan it. The firm was Dickens, Dolby & Ticket, and the fatalness was Shows.. Dickens was the old fellow in -the firm who had traveled to all the places 'where queer things are to be found, and collected the curiosities. A. little wiry fellow, grizzled about the head and chin, always looking as if ;he saw something ahead, which was his part of thc business. No use of giving you a list of his curiosities. My own belief' is that he didn't travel ,for them at all, for he had a great huge Dust Heap in his back yard and he dug the things up, often late at night when other people were fast asleep. But he didn't begin it, you know. • As for Dolby, of course, if he began it, you want to know how it came to pass. It was this way. Dolby was a jolly fellow. Frivolouspeople would say he was a right good John Bull all over, partly because he was, and partly because everybody thought so, and when the Show WAS to come to America, I say Dolby began - it. For the whole Show was to come, and who but Dolby, portly and jovial to behold? Not Codlius and not Short. but Dolby, the managing partner In the great firm of Dickens, Dolby itz Ticket. Now about Ticket. Ticket was the junior, a fussy, square-built young fellow, affecting as many colors as Jo f-eph's coat. Ticket always managed to come-in just when the excitement was up—when Dolby had been going it like forty. Ticket always kept the door, and everybody made friends with him, and the way he used to get himself talked about before-hand!. He was in everybody's month, in the street, in the banks, in the cars, in the shops, at the opera, in the church porch, on 'Change, at tea-parties, in bar-rooms,: in court, at breakfast, at dinner, at tea, everywhere. He got to be a sort of Household Word, and made himself so at . 'home at the fireside, that he got to be called THE TICKET ON THE HEARTH. Nevertheless, Dolby began it CHAP. 11. There is no time to tell about all the Hearths where Ticket walked in and made himself at home. It was mostly where thee senior of the firm, old Dickens, had called during his travels— if he ever did travel. It was at the Hearth that they had all learned about the Great Show, the young folks and the middle-aged folks, and the old folks. They knew every one of the curiosities by heart, just from reading about them, and now the Show was coming, and Ticket was the boy for your money.. Everybody wanted to see Ticket. for he was a love of a fellow, being that he always stood at the door, you •know, and was a person to be cultivated for all his coat of many colors. Every- body meant Everybody this time, and no mistake. Stately old papas, who had grown rich, out of army-blankets, were beset by nnstately young daughters, who had fallen in love with the Great Show. Quiet little school-rearms, not with sharp noses, and not a bit more prim than was becoming, nodded their determined little faces, and vowed they would see the Show, or perish in thi at tempt. Sam. Chirk had promised Katy Darling tha; she should - go to the Show, and he went for young Ticket with a vengeance. In fact, Every boiy :was looking up young Ticket, sink or swim, survive or perish, and all that sort of thing. Even old Roarman came on. Old Roarman was Hawker General for All Places of Public Amusement In New Gomorrah. Old Roarman knew well enough that there was a pretty penny to be turned out of young Ticket, and he came on to Little Pennville—that was where the show was to be—in the very same train with Dolby, my boy. Roarman meant to buy up the whole Show, Dickens, Dolby Ticket, and all the curiosi ties. but Dolby had begun it and he meant to put it all the way through. Ticket, cunning young dog! Ticket kept him self out of the way. He came down to Little Pernville by an accommodation train, and Old Roarman and his staff looked round for him with out any very eminent success. It was all on ac cotnt of Dolby, you see, who didn't want to be outwitted by old Roarman, If, he could help it. 'en the time came for Ticket. Of course, he didn't begin it, but he kicked up all sorts of a dust when he did begin. Says Ticket—"l shall be happy to sec me key.nd friends at Conchrt Halt (that's where the Show was to be) on Monday morning, at nine o'clock precisely." Slys Roarman—"Boys," says he. "the dear pnllle don't understand these 'ere Shows. Just yot drop in at Concert Hall bright and early, and well clean Ticket out before Mr. Public- is quite awdze. Only be early:' n d they were early. I. was half-past eleven o'clock, on Sunday nigit. when old Dolby took fi).little walk down Ch:pmunk street with a friend or two. It was coil a bit, but the pavements were dry, and there stoic' a string of fellows—what you might call Th Roarman Brigade, if you wanted to be mill tan'. They didn't loon positively warm. If you winded to be absolutely accurate, you'd say they liidied chilly. But there stood fifty of them, all in a line, and mostly with pipes. ' It was only tet hours to wait, and if it was January, it wasn't as cold as some Januaries. Old Dolby and fri ads walked down the line, surveying his per soial effects. He knew about how fast that queue w,uld grow in ten hours, and he calculated that se•cral of Old Roannan's merry men would have cods in their heads before morning. fhen Dolby, of Dickens, Dolby & Ticket, went hone and` went to bed. Old. Roarman'a , men ditn't. - - - ialf-past eight in the morning when, TiCket mikes his bow to the Pennville public. The pub lilWas ready for him, a long snake of a public, locking torpid in the frosty morning and twist, in; away down one street and up onother, blow in; its nose frequently, and stamping its toes, but hp good hutnor le usual, Dolby began it. pi c aguad o•the t liitnlva ed the roaeli.'' f , to • the ieVresenceStars guardyoung 14jAythellilkwas teouly, the door quietly opined and the businesn began: • • • (I4Soarinaliktitawairitsiet there. Ot course he Oaltit i t:' 'But there- was it party or two near thettead'of the' snake who hadn't quite the in.. eptettuti look Of the rot lar Pickens, Dolby and Ticket audiences. But Every body walked' in, made his bow, and Ticket exchanged cards with him. Only, now and then old Dolby; Who smoked his cigar all the time, without lotting a bit of the smoke get in his own eyes, lighted suddenly on some naughty boys who • hod run away from Hubtown to do a little speculation on their own account, and invited them tq step out. That particular part of the snake wriggled a bit, but it was no use., For Dolby had begun It and out they went, and never saw Ticket any more, at least, not that time. About this time the snake begam tes.chan. his skin. It must have beemthe sun-rise that did it for instead of looking rough and• unebaved and ugly, his joints began to drop out, one after another, and other joints to take their place, and by the time be bad been wriggling along- for an hour, he was quite another snake. He was brushed, and smooth, and wore a howyovercoat and looked as if he had had his breakfast. And so he wriggled and wriggled along toward•the little square window where young Ticket wneholding his levee. As he came up, it was good fan to• hear the little speeches he made to Ticket.. He always wanted Ticket to db his very best for him in' particular. He represented+ a+ lady who was deaf, or a lady who. was near sighted, or a lady who was blind, or the R6v. Ohtasuble•Cope who must have a seat looking to the East,. or au old party who mustn't be in a draft, or a party who Must be near a door, or who mustn't. The whole snake wanted the front scat, and of course he partly didn't get it. People generally kept cool. It was so easy. Some parts of the snake only wanted to get a single Interview with the gay young. Ticket,. bat mostly six or else two. Ticket is a young aristi.- crat, and he eat up on a mahogany table, while his r0. , 1-checked boy Gillett did the Introductions for him. And he did them as if ho knew how. • "Six Tickets." says snake; "Rattle! Rattle! Rattle! Rattle! Rattle! Rattle! Slap Bang!'' goes Gillett. Twenty-four dollars tumble into a box, like heads into a guillotine basket; and. on comes snake again. It was a nice, quiet, decent reception for young Ticket, and he liked it. Dolby liked it too. So did the old man, the senior, Dickens, you know. He had the Show just then in Hubtown, and Dolby saunters down to the telegraph (Old Roarman cut him dead, as he went down Chipmunk street, bat that was because he bad some dodge of extraordinary magnitude on foot j, and says he to the chief in Hubtown, "Hot cakeafer breakfast this ,morn ing—Dolby," Dickens knew what that. meant. So did Fields. So did Osgood. It took the snake hours and hours to craw along Chipmunk street and get at Ticket. And the other public that was not snake made a crowd and chaffed the snake a good deal. But he didn't mind it a bit, for he was bound to see the Great Show, anyhow. At last Ticket got tired, and said he was played out, used up, exhausted, gone, done, finished, positively dead. Rosy-checked. Gillett couldn't deny it. Smoky Old Dolby ,couldn't deny it. Snake himself had to acknowledge that there must be a limit to hnman endurance. So Ticket said "BANG !" That was the signal for going home, and Gil lett disappeared, like a Jack in the Box. When be did that, Old Roarman> came out and showed his hand. It wasn't much of a band, after all. But: he had a few Tickets to sell, and he means to get each whopping prices. Only he won't. This is the way Dickens, Dolby and Ticket came to Little Pennville. The Ticket on the Hearth was a new thing. Dickens had been 611 - Tartre Hearths. Dolby had been storing up the snake for months. But 'Melia! Hurrah for Ticket, my boy ! And when we get him won't we all go to see the Great Show ? Rather. MOM Can Cousunapuon be Cured? Is a question which is daily asked by , thou sands, all over the land. I answer, it can. How? is the next interrogation. But before answering this question, let us ask, What is Consumption ? It is a general wasting of the whole body. Pa tients having diseased and ulcerating lungs, hectic fever, heavy coughs, especially In the morning, night sweats. constipated bowels, sometimes diarrhea, a furred tongue, deficient appetite, low spirits, and some others, which need not now be referred to. Now, what causes these various symptoms of disease? A detective state of blood, which was induced by the fact that the food which was taken into the stomach was not there pre pared so as to fit it for making good, healthy, blood. The inner coat of the stomach secretes a fluid—the gastric juice, which } when properly mixed in quantity and quality with food, prevents its undergoing decomposition 'in the stomach. Everyone knows when indigestible food is taken into the stomach, - that gases pass upwards into the mouth, accompanied with acid fluids. Now, the explanation of this is simple--it is be cause the food has decomposed just as it would do out of the stomach, if exposed to a heat of nearly 100 deg. Fahn. for several. hours. De composed food acts also upon the inner lining of tbe stomach, and irritates and inflames it so that the person has pains anffuncomtorta.. ble sensations in that region. In consequence of this irritation of the stomach and the absence of properly prepared food from which to make blood, there arises sympathetic irritation and In ilaumiation of other parts of the body, and hence we see the lungs affected, the bowels torpid, or excessively moved, bronchial tubes inflamed, night sweats, &c. Now we have shown that these diseases of the parts and organs just named aro sympathetic—in a word, that consump tion is caused by badly prepared blood, the effect of imperfect nutrition. This impoverished blood will not nourish and " - lye a "supply" to the body which will balance the "waste" which is constantly going omirence, to treat Consumption, we must not doctor the symptoms, we must not stop the night sweats, arrest the cough,or stop the cliarrii,ea, for they are the avenues by which nature is trying to gut rid of diseased matter. These symptoms may be alleviated or arrested temporarily, but not with safety, for they return Boozier or later with re doubled energy. But to treat Coremmption sueeessfull,y the great first cam-e must be ma cited— Oige;diel3 Must be im proved, the blood 2111!rit be mode 7 - zeh , r. Ti) accom plish this the appetite must be improved, while the diseased thrul 2 , in the different organs must be removed by some gentle influences. -The liver must be induced to net niece and secrete, a greater amount of bile.. Matt medicine, with good, rich food, will produce this result? 1- answer that years of experience- on thousands of eases has demonstrated that Consumption eau.be eured.by the ; judicious use of the three, medicines prepared by me, viz.: Selienek's , Pulmonle. Syrup,. Seaweed Tonle' and Idandrake Pills. Their action on , the system diseased with cousumptionis as follows: The ,Mandrakek Pills, will uniov4k the duet of the gall, bladder, will, in crease the action of theliver,andinduce a healthy secretion of bile; the diseased poem secretions which. lined the mucus coate.of the stomach and - intestines, the, whole, length;,Of 'Ow alimentary canal, will be thrown. ff by-, their stimulating ae tion,and as a couiequeno the trAcus, , coat ()Vie stomach is lit , a bettefi'. , condition to secrete gastricjuice;; e4flt e 7inQ w :lmcuc h ; e ex pect or ation, botnc increased, while thecptdmts, l i bowleovideneoo disease. The Pulmenie r 4 tyrcip and Seaweed Tonle, 9tlr4ValaQ tio 4 coating Of the stoetacl,4 Y. L FETHERSTON. PAHA* PRICE TIIR,EE:CENTS. r•• "A. sod at the same time u I t ot nite with I, prevent! decomposition before the completion of the dl a 1 tive process, thus favoring and hastening & dixestion, enabling food to be so thoroughly , filcienily prepared That gitod 0. blood !material .... t i fie extracted from it. The claim is not that these medickres cure consumption exce f j so far as they aid nature, first, to rid herse t poisonous proper - Simi' in the system; second, . Plat her hi 11/P preparation °Proud, so that it ' hourltih, and not pass out of the bowels, as he tofore, without having its blood material tracted: One of the most common methods of treat'. cOnsurfiptiatt ih to send'patient.ton a sea v. and in some eases i& la successful. But W. • eausys tblir ;mull? A.u. equal temlxraturei general stioinlation induced upon. the stenstadt by change of food, upon Ike mind; through V!' medium of sight anal hearing by constant :1: changn'of Wenn.' In a • future letter I will give'', - e, further • instrtictions in my method , of treatine4 coital:tit:option. FACITti A%D FANCIES. —Diatom! , declined church-going at the Hub. —Russia Is bard at work-on brooch loaders. —Florencols overrun with American& —Menken dedicates to Stvinburne. —Tho remains of eight hundred Unionisoldists.;,, are nOw being interred at Ltrlington Cemetery. —Max's brother; Austrian- Archduke Lovu lt , Victor, is & in Ville.. —Fleavetes Jounsal Ito the name of a new Paris ; paper. —Two seals were seen can evoke of ice lirNew-... port (Rhode Island) barb er, (*.day or two-since:4; —Mrs. Stanton wafitert fart y-three miles • eleven hours the other day . : —Kennedy, the Scotcletnocalst; -has just , beejli banqueted in Wastaktent —Vigilant internal reveraue officers are abi to prosecute Longfellow fro r neglceting. tots out a poetic license.—BosPas Payer- '1 11 —lt is fashionable in Milwasakee to smoke, wear a„ the hat, and sit with the fi et higher than thet' 49 head, at the theatre. —A lunatic let loose on. a Boston-paper, saya.ji that the music of "Bach"."ls.,g ood r and it is good=.J to bear it "Offen." , if '44 —Two • Degrees recently be oke into. a lottelryitgoi office in Savannah and stole . = ; immentlo n rca tuabaN of tickets, supposing thelo b e money.` , —Prairie chickens are •so numerous in 'lowa: • this winter that they are knoci .ed down by the .+ hunters with sticks, and bagged, by the hundred. —For four months the Great Eastern steams-`;t ship has been lying wholly idle in the Mersey,*s though ineurring expense and lx coming less val-itt sable. all the time. . „ yr —The Pope'has conferred on t, ten. Nanzler, eel a reward for his services daring tho• late eam.orM palms, the cross ofg the Orderof fins TX. and ags2 4 " l annuity .of 2,000 francs. —The American flag was raise d on- old Fore : Cobb on the 20th 'ult., by Major ,Shanklens, for, the first time since it was torn down by the' rebels under Gen: Price, in 18lit —Lockport, N. Y., is so destir'te of water that , the Chief Engineer of the FireiDe.parUttent quests the citizens who attend fires to notfailiti , •;ti bringing bncirets - with them. —The new bridge over the Basaltic haima river at Nineveh is nearly finished. It is very light;.• •t. although strongly built, and will only cost same . eight thousand dollars. —Dr. 31endelssohn, son of the composer. and.,• himself a professor of history at Heidelberg, lac'oi t about to publish the posthumous works of. father. —The Kennebec (Me.) .Tournal says the - storna of Sunday last week prevented, several 'ladled p from . going to church, and several of theme _werr, seen on the ice engaged in the healthybecupa., lion of catching tomcod. —A literary, beine• in Boston made profaile paralions to dine Dickens, and made readY gor geons viands and many guests, but bad his nose disnrticulated by a regret received at the last mo mat —Some recent heavy damages-for breach t promise of marriage, remind Jones of Spread— weasel's precaution. "When I courted herb" he said, '1 took lawyer's advice, and eigned every letter to my love, 'yours, without preytdice." *—General Sherman says the accounts of-the Indian war have been greatly . examatated. The war was principally fought in the newspapers and in Congress, and the cost of the real war in the West was very much less thanthaa been• rep resented. —A curious accident happened the ottier-day to, a buteharin Cleveland, Ohio. ritYwas getting - ready to kill a sheep, and held the knife it* his month. The sheep gave a *crow kick and knocked, the knife upward, edge foremost, slicing off the end of the man's nose. —Two men walking along in .Arkansnew last week, within twenty-five miles of Memphis, wale followed for three miles by a catamount. This' beast sprung' upon one of the men, named Neely, and mangled him shockingly, before . big • companion succeeded in despatching the dope rate varmint. —lt 1,3 reported from Paris that theEmporor 10, ", of late, extremely petulant. None of the minis-- „ tors is exempt from receiving tokens of hie ill temper, and affairs have come to- that pass - that thev go on with the public business independ—.,- ently safarras possible, and submit to the Ettt peror only so much as is absolutely necesaary. , —A rich old, lady, ninety yearn of age,..whce,„ has just died at Clifton, In Somersetahlre, Eng-- land, for a long time past belie red that shauever 'conld sleep except, in her carriage. She ,used, therefore, to ride outiu her carriage every after— noon with the blinds drawn to take her daily. rest. The carriage was seen dailytravolitsg at 0, k: snail's-pace over Clifton Downs. —A..Belgian newspaper published thtftwo fat— ['owing advertisements on strecessive days:- ,",.; "A -lady who said W.an Ametrican gentleman; that he resembled a dead gentlresitttn, twlshetk.tte. see him again." "The American gentleman, to whom a Isar said that be resembled a. deal 'gentleman, wishes,. 4 , t to have the addrc4s of the lady." —The Countess Martini dolls Torre Informs •Utak ' Florence newspape rs that ehe went to-Rome withsioiP lint and bandages to nurse the wounded Garb.. )4 baldians, but was refased permission to do itios,,, , , and was 'turned out of Rome by the Papal au— , ir. \ theritles as though she wore the most degraded ,-, r creature, a gen 3 ci'mnmes being place& by ter side ti . - , in the cars until she ruached the Italionfron- o ) tier. —Tnere is great excitement in - 1/lenna owing 4, ' to the Emperer'ohaying.:ndleated his intention 1 , ;,1 attend a merchants' baltin citizen's clothes. Thio . t.' ( important event is hailed by dome- sillypeople aa„r' l %! :.proof that his imperial Majesty , taus degnitelp, , broken with his absolutist past, no other Atts- 4 „)" trian Emperor baying made his. appearance la - - 4 ' Public in auy but military dress. ' e —The latest French idea is to print; neweps _hers in thecolate ink on pie-;eruct After AN news is rend, it is then eater:. It is easy to 14, agine ti,e- letters that will be receirtxt by the est itors o,f this novel periodical: - I 'Divr Sir: Your news is fresh,, your p, are sound, your stories aro interesting; woni,d prefer that the pie-crust were botte In facts faro -now suilbrirq from an a ind'e2;estion caused by your last numl 4 . sla,ck baked." 'Dear Eir: I renew my subgerli4lo I .lr(onthe. I think your gazette would b I f iy a Ilahl Iwo thought and annisese ihe mind and stomack.":—X.Y. Aft 4 i 'There—r was, a bloodless duel . I , cuunty, Fames, a few daya ag.6,. 1 much autuacuteut to Ma nail:klub). that a Frenchman offered an ineult k ~ unit resldeut,ofPlelluwift.;„ . Thekitt i promptly cladKt leedi:W!..rfette prowl) ly, accepted thell*e. overt were Jostledby', Use Beeou ridges, TA F,resehi9an'falb a, , 4040, 0030 sit, iutPd: Fag FT arATOStkiletride term. :al- - 1411theettetettldeht thati'‘`` h r . his antagonist , . to taill ... y 144 ;A Inootto,ll 'AIN\ . 1•• 41'
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