GIBSON PFACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI.-NO. 2.33. THE EVENING BULLETIN rUHLISIIVA) 1 4 .,VJLY (Sundayr excepted). AT THE-NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, GOT Chctstuut Poireet, Philadelphia, LY TEE EVENING BELLE/ IN ASSOCIATTOIY. PROP.E.MTOM GIBBON PEACOCK, ERN EST C. WALLACE, P. L. FETH Flt BTON 'l' HOS. WILLIA St tiON, CAnPEII, eOULME, Jr, Fit tNtild WELLS. The Itut.lwriN Is served to Pit beet ibera in the city at 19 cents per week, pays?* to the carrion. or per annum. WEDDING INVITATIONS AND VISITING C Engraved or Written. NervePt style:4 of Wedding Stationery. Call and look at sampled. W. ti. PERRY. Stationer. ja7 748 Arch etre,,k MAItIUEL. BROWN—O'DANJEL —On 'ruemdny. , lenuery Rh, by the. Rev. Dr. Bret d, Mr. Thomas Brown to ,Mis. 4 Fanny (Mantel, all of this city. 11Allf. ttlt 41(.—At CarllPle, , on the 2d mat., by Rev. J. A. Murray. UM•rlee F. Thrace, Ph. D., Profetser of Natural defence, Dirkineon College, to Mies Mary P.. Mnrra), only daughter of the officiating clergyman. DIED. ASII BY.—ln Charleston, a. C., January ntb, 'tourist, widow of Major James A. Ai bby, U. S. A.. aged Csi Yeats , and 7 months. ELARKe.—(In January 6th, in Baltimore, Photbe A. Clarke daughter of the late Dr. L. It. Clarke, of Trenton, New Jersey. IIEYA...—On thr morning of Monday. the Bth Instant, Anna F., daughter of William M. and'Anna M. trey]. The relativix, and friends of the faintly are reepectfully invited to tend the funeral. from her fathers residence, No. 62 is Wood street. on Wednesday the ittli instant, at ti o'clock, P. M. Nervier* , at fit. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rare street, aboVe Fifth. MYTING I larrintoirg, on Monday eviming,Jtut 1803, of heart disease, lieo. Levels Mytluger. abed years. 811Altri:.—Stiddenly. on the 4th kW., Matilda, wife of Jacob L. Hourve, in the fah year of her age. 'I he relatives and friends of the family are rine:et fully invited to attend Mx funeral , from the residence of her himband. No. =7 Arch street, on Friday, the 10th inst., at 10 o'clock. . sMITH.-- ('n the morning of the We. init., Mary D , wife of Ambrose Width, nnu clan) Liter of tho Into ttharice Downing. rho relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of her husband. \ corer of Brond.and Chi rtnot Are. to, on Seventh day morning, the 11th fist. at lu o'clock. Interment at rrosenangtowu.• To proceed there by the lio'cluel: train front V, Hata a. It h(a. •.• the raw/tine of the sth !Lnst., Ilenry Stok., intent eon of John 11. and Alver la 8. I). Stoke,. . • . • • . - _ Funerul from the reeicfrere of fAther, t-t•; Thir• tenth Wert, on Fifth day ( I hatwt:iy., at I Wolm.k.. It 1"001.4'. 4on the 7th nisi a n 31.1rDiret Brine, wife of the late John 1.. Woolf. in the 72t1 year of her 44ge. IN MI310i:IMI fly the ewtden and unexpected demise of JoNarii&ti I•eril:mm...ln., who departed this life on the evening of the tld inatent, Philadelphia lien but one r,t her best citi zens.ln all the private of lite, an an ndectionate hunbat d, &fond and dev nil lathe-, nud an active friend. lie ass highly eateeint d and hnve.L fiat the ,Ittaelitnenta tie fo m. d were not narrowed within the limits of the family circle.; they extended to all thoo with whom he came in contact. ike a Ml.:Aura tnao IV, was noted for unbending integrity in all big tram:A(ll,am whil, at the mance thuo ha was ever kin", co ,, rteoie , and euave in hie intercouree 'with tile interior. and equal , . The vaennt chair, and the .dent hoagie, will Ion.; remain asa clitily re mem bra uce to the berea‘cd ono , . and we would eympl. Hate a ith them, as , ar n. n n ranger may. in the grief they feel. We ore bidden by Holy Writ not only " re joke with thm , o who do mance," nut, like Wife CO " weep with thoee nho weep," It "IRLTELIAL CASKET. TATYNT TOIL DESIOTI GRANTED MA 9, Iffn 8. r extra. InvrmirrAKra, O. L ooltNr.ic mr Tr:NTH AND c7L•EE.T: brarSTS. I claim that my new improved end only patented BURIAL CASKET Ls far more beautifu in form and finish than the old unsightly and repo.i:ive coffin, and that its construction adds to its strength and dura. Witty. We the andersigned,.. havina lied occasion to rise in onr families E. S. EARLEY'S PA rh.N"I" BURIAL CASKET, would not in the future We any other if they could be ob. tabled. . . libritop M. Simpson, Rev. J. W. Jackson, J. IL Schenck, M. D. E. J. Crippen, Cota..l. Marston. U. 3. N., Jacob S. Burdlall, Res. D. W. Bartine, D. I)., Geo. W. Evans, • Ben j. Orley Wm. Ilia: L., J. W. Clarhorne, IL N. dine.. 'Si oclSSuirp jrAARI.I-,IA 7N CA ItY I, UM.— EN LE A: LA\UBLI., tVirth ill and Arch. me PI e_psrol to rust fitrnilice with, 110VAL1101,1i Di Goo am, GOOD I L t N.N.LL A NI) MCSLINS, GOOI)I'ARLF I.IN 1. A.:S MINS, ()OD HLA,4 'K AND CO I) SILKS. SPECIAL tvorsiuse.s. Stir STATE CONVENTION r=7MZII "BOYS IN BLUE, January 8, 1865, at 10 o'clock A M., HORTICULTURAL HALL. In the EVENING, at e A GRAND MASS MEETING SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF TUE STATE, Will be held at th same Alnjor Generale. If 0 WARD SICKLES. •Vd SIIEBIDAN, nd Governors GEARY *al CU! TIN, Are expected to b, prerent y order of the Executive Comtnitkv JOSHUA T. 0 WEN, starGOPSILL'S PHILADELPHIA CITY DIRECTORY FOR 186. Tho aulatcriber takes this method of inforining the In habitant. of Philadelphia tnat lie la about clotting the com , •ilation of the City Directory, and would thank all partite who have or aro about making changes to their firma, place of badness, or realdoere, to notify him im mediately. Ito aa to enable him to make the necessary alteration*. Tho canvass for tho Buaineaa Directory will commence on Tuesday, the Mt Mat., when all business men are re. (located to give the canvasser such information au he may reek. ISAAC COSTA, Compilor, jue..6t4 Office 201 South Fifth street, third floor. amp on.PicE Or THE PHILADELPHIA AND Gray's Ferry nowenaer Railway I;orupany,Tweuty• •second etreet, below iapruce. PLIILADIELPII TA, Jan. 61 ISt% 'rho Board of . Directors have this day declared a dlvi. dend ti Ono Dollar Per Bbare, payable ou demand, clear of taxes. , The kitoejthelderie annual meeting and eteetion will be bele at thin Miley, on .TUEdlld ciannary tdOl3, at 1:1 o'clock td. jni3: McF'ADDEN, Ju., It beeeetary. THE INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GIRLS HAS been removed to N 0.616 South Broad street. below ;south street. Poor girls over twelve years of age. who aro mphans 01 are neglected by theirparents. are re. carved end it ittlucted in Housewifery, and dually bound out in families. Pollutions In fuel and provisions will he thankfully t oceived at the Ho •es. and in money by the Trrasuter. JAMES T. SHINN, S. W. corner Broad and mpruce streets. ' jag 6tres SOir(MIA LDREN't3 IIOSPITAI,—'IIII A NNUAL meeting ot the Cmtrilotture will be held at , he Boatel, 'rweety.neeend street,' below Walnut, on FRI DAY, the lOth Inst., at 4 I'. M. )48.2trp , ' Ihritg.. HOWARD nom_ rAL, Lombard street, PRpensary cal treatment and wed /dues tunuthc poor. pEWSPAPERB t BOOM, p dor rar. Boagnt by OFF/CF: 1117 lIE hPlaNti tiAttlJE v ANOL., ANCE CONIPANY, Northwest corner 'Sixth and Wood streets. Puirdthlmenti, denary fl, I 8& The Board of Directorn of the Spring Garden Inneranee Company have thin Miy.declareil a Dividend of Six Per Cent. opt Of the profits of the Company for the last eix muntli, payable to the ntocitholdera or their legal repro. nentritiven, at the office of the Company, on inad after the ltith instant. clear of all taxes. jinlov,f,m,4lC Tlirl/DOIZE M. REflEfi, Serratarv. 1111.TIIE UNIVERSALIST .?SUNDAY SCHOOL 1- nlon will hold (VI n xt quarterly weir:Hog la MC Church of the Messiah, Locust, :thrive Thirteenth street, 7111tt (Wednesday) EVENING, January Bth, at O'clock. Addrcra by Don. lIENRY D. MOORE. iSubject—' day Scheid/ and the Moral Education of the Young." Our Orthodox friends are cordially invited to be lt• pre ... ecnt. mgr. HALL YOI .NG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSUCLI -77' tion, No. 1210 Che4nut street. SCIENTIFIC LECTURES. • Thursday, January P, at 8 o'clock. P. AL,' "China and th- Chimer," by liev. J. L. NF.V INt3, for ten years a reri• dent of China. Illnatrated with =toy coattimee. 'I bureday, January 16, Rev. DANIEL MARCH * D. D. "Switzerland and the tile.eierc" frlftST NATION dlr. DANK. P/lILADELPIII JAl:Wary 3,18. The Board of Directors, considering it desirable to chance the Dividetd period of this ha.. from May and November to January und July, have this day declared a Dividend of Two Per Cent for the past two months, pay. able on demand, clear of tax. MURTON MOIICIMEL, Jr.., jatiitt Cashier. ser PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY, ACADEMY For Circulate apply to iiPIMITITP/ elector, Delaware county, Pa. LIBRARX.--THE ANNUAL '''"" Wetlug of htockholdera of -the MERCANTILE LIRRAItY CI.I3IPANY, will ho held in the Library room on 'feuds.) , evening, the let inst., at 71 o'clock. The ant nal totem are now duo and payable at the Libra rian's deck. JUtIN LARI>NIAL jab 1/1 w f 7trpi ' Recording Secretary. stir A PUBLIC NI EF.TiNi.: to :rine num; Fc)L Aged Colord P,ople will be hold at 1.1131:1; HALL, I.ou.lun d Arcot, brow - Eighth, on day (FRI I)A' 1(14.13114. the 10th at 8 o'clock. Fcseral Intt nreting ppettkilii will be prea,nt, Tn., poblk are Inv ited If 14 , 4 (ntroN's BEse.rer —On Friday evening neat. Mies Josie Orton will haVe a benefit at the UaestnutStreet•Theatre. We take this opportu nity to pay an unsolicited tribute to the talents of a lady who is recognized by all play-goers as by far the most accomplished actress upon the Philadelphia stage. Indeed there are plenty of so-called "sten" playing engagements through the country, who have not half of her ability. It is with greater pleasure therefore that we com mend her judgment and good taste in remaining quietly here, as a member of a company. She is surer of generous and thorough appreciation, and of Cl3lurtngipopularity, than she could be if Ate wandered about from place to place seeking unsatisfaetory and Unsubstantial laurels. Since her first appearance some years ago with the "Warren Combination" she has steadily gained upon the goodwill add admiration of, the better class of play-goere. Miss Ortup ' s versatility is wonderful. he ran perform ~ 71 rice, Saucy S.ykr , , or the ehabblest character in the weakest melodrama with equal facility, and she plays them all with an earnestness and sincerity of purpose which show that she loves her art and strives to adorn it. We think Miss Orton ap pears to greatest advantage in high comedy. • It was In this department of the drama that she made her first appearance in this city, and she has never done better since that time. When supporting. Mr. Murdoch in his late engagement, her talent for comedy parts was displayed in a most acceptable manner. We deem it due to her to make these remade:, and we think the public owe. It to her, as a conscientious and gifted artist, 'to show their appri elation of her, by attending her benefit. The drama Tkosiugkorre hardly affords heran opportnnity •to display her fine powers, I,int she does ample justice to the ' , We of "Marguerite, - comparatively unimportant as it is. , tr.t brio: Enn.—The Academy wits crowded laq evening upon the occasiotrAirf the perfor mance of the opera Don Gio , uani. The cast was a remarkable one, Including Mine. Pampa-Rosa, Miss Hauck and other first-rate artistes. Of the execution of the various parts, it is only neces sary to say that it was in every way unexcep tionable. Mrne. Parepa, particularly, distin guished herself by the grace and fluency with which she gave the whole of the music of the dif ficult re/e of "Donna Anna." 'this evening Doni zettre grand opera La litri , rita will be produced with Mme. Gazzaniga, la Ittr"rita of our musical public in years gone by, in the part of "Leonora." She will be supported by Miss Ronconi and other members of the company. THE. THEATI:E.S.—At the Chestnut, A", , Tiro rowilyitr( will be reprodneed, with all the flei.e?, soma of handsome seer. cry and a good cast. Miss Lucille Western will appear at the Waluut to-night as. "Nancy Sykes,' in Wen e Twist. Light at 1,(r.:1 still lingers on the boards at the Arch. At the American a varied performance Will be given. OncriliSTßA MATINEES.—CarI Sentz is fortunate in attracting first-class audiences to his concerts. The programmes arc varied and interesting to all classes of amateurs, who will be glad to wel come several novelties on Thursday afternoon. The Bear Dance Symphony, by Haydn, will be performed, and Pro Peccatii front Ilossini's &a but Maier will he sung by the celebrated German baritone, Mr. Win. Hartmann, who makes his first appearance here. • ELEVENTH. bjerus:Er Orr mt Horsa—The pan /1311Am° 01 the Magic Poirl will be performed this evening, with a cast including all the most popu lar members of the company. In addition to this there will be several new burlesques, and a number of popular ballads sung by Mr. Carta cross; singing, dancing, and Ethiopian eccentri cities generally. SP.VENTII STREET OPERA TIM:SR.—This even ing a most attractive entertainment will be given at this popular house. A large number of per formcrs have been addetl to the company, and it now embraces some of the most accomplished members of the profession in the country. The programme Embraces dancing. vocal and instru mental music, burlesque, farce, and the multi tude of good things which,go to make up a first class performance. BuTz.-- Signor Blitz will give one of his pleat sant entertainments at Assembly Buildings this evening. The Signor will remain upon the plat form but a short time longer, and his old friends owe it to themselves and him to see him once more before his final withdrawal. His magical To?pertorie Is larger and more attractive than over. FRANK MORAN AND DICKENS. —On Friday night, at the Seventh Street Opera House, Frank Moran bus his first benefit, when ho will read from Dickens's "Boots at the Swan" and "Dick Swiveiler's Experience." As Moran does every thing well, a rich treat may be expected. In addition, the company has been augmented by several new faces, while Moran will present five new acts for the first time. To enjoy this groat bill seats should be secured in advance. CHAIR. MAN QUARTER Sussroxs—judge da, colored, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing an overcoat. John Kern pleaded guilty to a charge of steal leg a saddle. • A number of assault and battery cases Were dis posed of. vDtsyntirr COURT—Judge Stroud.-LWm. Smith vs. Isaac Jesus Jr, Co. • A.n action to recover for breach of contract. The plaintiff purchased a number of boxes of oranges from defendant's auc tioneers, but when demanded they were not de livered.- The defence allege that the defendant did not comply with the rules of the side, and did not demand the oranges at the hour named. On trial. Disnacr Comm-- Judge Thayer. Gotlieb Dible vs. Freeman Scott and John N. H enc il An action of replevin. On trial. A NEW PARE.--lbrough the liberality of Queen Victoria, fifty acres of meadow land, dotted with line elm trees,, at Portsmouth, is to be given over to the people, who will now have a Victoria Park, "op payment," as the treasury missive has it, "of a rout eonsistout with prece dent in similar eases. s, 1518 ANI3 151 M )0 partnaunt.—Meds. gratuitously to Oho LET'S WAS is uut4Tval. ,3 Jayne ntrect. SPECIAL NOTILCEIS. I:EOPENS THURSDAY, January 2d, COL. THEO. HYATT. A 3.IIUNIGMI ft:natio THE COURTS. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 'B, 1868. RASH STEPS. IConvepondence of tho Philadelphia Evening frullettni NOT_VER Y. WELL IN PARIS. Why em I up at three in the morning. sitting before an 'unnaturally adolescent flresin a bright, fresh and complete toilet that has been the work of an hour and a half, —a toilet more difficult than I ever made in my life, and punctuated every twenty minutes by the queerest prostra tions and pantings on the bed ! As for the toilet, it is a caprice. lam up because I cannot keep down. cannot keep down because it, is so hot in bed—so hot, and at the same time so cold, and the sheets have got snaky and irresolvable. So I have concluded to invite myself to a party, with "full dress, indiapensable" on the card. And I have arranged the saloon, and refreshed the fire. And I have already passed round among the entering company, a beverage that smells of laudanum. And I have beckoned myself, to give a strictly literary air to the festival, to a side table where there are pens, paper, and a little bronze negro with his bead fullof ink. And here lam going to write whatever occurs to me, without the least effort or arrangement, because I am not very well. But I cannot make literary capital out of my malady. I have had no Coleridge or De Quincey dreams. I have bad visions of no Abyssinian maid playing on Mount Abora—an elevation now doubtless intrenched and circumvallated by King Theodoros. I have not been floating with Francesca da Rimini, as Keatddid when he was feverish. I have not composed a comic story, as Cowper did in 1118 h3pochondria. No, my little attack has been of a sadly prosy. mundamsweek day order. It has not even left me with a face pale, awful, hot-eyed. On the contrary, it has left use a face for which I have as little respect—hang it!--as I should have fora peek of tomatoes which somebody had tied sip in a bandana and left on a fireplug. ' Now the fire is going to give out. Paris fire is a self-impeding energy, continually moving in the direction to stultify itself. The better it burns, the snore fatally it cements its material together. chokes its passages. plants, as it were, tubercles in Its own lungs, and constricts all its tracks( a: and bronehhe with a species of bitumi nous diphtheria, At the present moment it has arched itself over the whole breadth of the iron basket wnieh supports it, presenting the attitude of a patient in strong convulsions, or like the bottom of the crater of Vesuvius the moment be fore the eruption. If I leave it alone, it will choke and expire. If I send a boot at it, it will punish the boot. If I drive at it with the poker, it will come scattering forward all over the room, which will instantly be filled with a strong odor of burnt carpet—like the odor of branding negroes on the Gold Coast. If Baptiste were only here now! Baptiste, be fore a fire, is a magician. He would touch it in two or three places, tenderly, exactly, conside ' rately, as if he were picking its teeth. And from the spots where he bad tickled it, so many glad rivers would arise, rivers of orange. flickering flame that would run babbling up the chimney. Then, with a sound from the scuttle as if it were coughing, the fire vreuldle fed for an hour, and with an airy whisk or so of the brush he would render the heart;. Immaculate. Shall I summon Baptiste? But what a tyrant, I should be ! And then, I know from experience that Baptiste, the most attentive of porters by daylight, has a panoply of deafness at night behind which he is secure. ie can snore louder than I could ring. Poor fellow, he is such a cheerful and energetic force by day—eternally singing and brushing, or per haps dancing like an Arcadian faun upon a sandal made of wax, by which exercise he polishes the floors. I have not the heart to molest him at three in the. morning. How cleverly he served my dinner, "at seven, very precisely." How neatly ho got himself within the door, balancirg in one hand an im mense waiter, from which swung enough dra pery to form an infant's pall. He had assumed for the feat a livery which he deemed apprep ',slate, and appeared to be all one apron of snowy white, around which his various extremi ties peeped at intervals and played, with a little embarrassment, their natural functions. In a moment the waiter, covering a small table, formed a service already arranged. Tlyitt i he un corked my St. Julien with great quickness and ability. Then the little soup-tureen, firmly grasped by ono silver car with a stout thumb and finger, was reversed over the soup plate without scattering a drop. Mean while the pair of chops, in white ruffles, curled across each other over a dish of hot water; and a pear 'on a vinelcaf attended in the distance, suggesting gardens and summer. But Baptiste, all the time, amused me. .His wise, professional glance, with which the set-out was reviewed and found faultless. His inquiry after my health. equally professional, but not necessarily heart lei& his summary of the news of the day, con fined to a dead horse and a passage of the Court from St. Cloud—being his vista from the por ter's office. Hie cheerfulness, almost his grati tude, when I sent him, over quite a Jacob's ladder of stairways, for something I had forgotten; and his anxiety. as he came gasping back, to know if he bad got it right. Then, when I was cross and unreasonable, his neat way of seeing a joke in what I said, and carrying it off so. His fidelity shone, too, in what was reprehensible as well as in what was orthodox; how brightly and intelligently he turned smuggler for me, and brought me nar cotics, against the law, without the needful doc tor's order. By what bribery or persuasions I do not know—l only know that he produced the drugs without saying anything. Then he was perpetually jocular, contriving to evince a merry and even ingenious fancy, without over over stepping the bounds which his education had prescribed as the ideal porter's domain. Peace be to thee, Baptiste, and Vigor to thy snores! Thou hest nursed me with the strength of a man and the nicety of a woman. Then halt estakensmyeaprieditalf it wore reasin, and laughed at my wit until I am convinced that it was of a hotter quality than many persons think. For all that thou hest done, thou wilt be overjoyed if I give thee to-morrow a little chip ofgold that will not cover thy broad nail. If I recover, thou shalt have more. If I pass—then I purpose to recom mend thee to my editor as my successor, and a far merrier and pleasanter gossip than I. It is deadly quiet inside' and out: Within. I hear the mantel-clock, the little alarm-clock, and even My watch beating against my heart. With out, I have just beard the hour Four, first from the stiff and rusty old church` of St. Rocque, and afterwards, with more state' and melody, front the dusky mass of the Tulleriesi. An hour from the great palace timepiece is a bit of music, almost a ballad. First, for the, 4our quarters, come four separate chimes, forruiug a sort of tune; then, with a different and much louder and deeper note, begins the tale of the hour, which travels on, through its appropriate, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. It is thought that those Philadelphians who have contributed towards building the colored church and school at Petersburg, Va., through the Pennsylvania Branch of the Freedmen's Com mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church, will be interested in reading the following extract from a Petersburg paper. and the letters re ceived from the colored vestry of St. Stephen's Church. The Society for the Promotion of Religion, connected with St. Andrew's Church, in this city, sent the silver-plated communion service alluded • to, and the Pennsylvania Bible Society, through the application of Arthur G. Coffin, Esq., gave the bible. These associations will see from the sub joined letter how well their donations were appre s elated. The President of the Pennsylvania Branch pledged herself to collect $l,OOO towards the building of this church; as yet she has only received e.;00, but trusts that the immainder may soon be made up. Contributions to this object can be directed to Mrs. Thomas P. James,Episco pal Rooms, 708 Walnut street. T o th e Pei,,e . pfirrtnia Branch 0/ lie Freedmen's Comnae..i.‘ , ll qf the P. E. C.: pr:Ti.c.cem., December . 27th, 1807.--It is with great pleasure that I write you ladies these lines, alter being authorized by a portion of our ves try; therefore, in behalf of the Church, we return to you our sincere thanks for the beautiful bible and communion service sent to us. We desire, and do heartily thank you for these gifts, so sa cred and appropriate at this particular junction. Surely the Lord will repay your sympathy for our poverty. We appreciate this blessing as a little band which you have been the instruments of raising up, though we feel it is the Lord's doings, zttd it is wonderful to our sight. Were we angelic, we then might express the, full senti ments of our hearts, hut not so; these feeble lips fail, and can but fail. You will please accept thousands of thanks, as a slight expression of our gratitude, and I am sure that our Heavenly Father will do the rest. When we consider your many acts of kindness towards us, not only as freedmen and Suffering humanity, but as Christians and brethren in the Lord, lam almost forced to say: Lord, hasten on the happy time when Thy will shall be done on earth as it is in Heaven. We find you in the whole of this good work, in helping to clothe and make us comfortable; in encouraging industry and honesty, with their ninny virtues; in educating ourselves and our children in morals and religion, and building school houses; and more and dearer than all, the building On a large proportion) of our own church and school, which is now rapidly hasten ing .to completion-, for these, with mauy other acts of kindness, then, how cm we but thank our earthly friends through our Heavenly Father? 'Your humble servan ts. With this letter of gratitude to the Pennsylva nia Branch, came one to the President, thanking her !or tte exertions she had personally made in their t el all. Both letters were written by a colored man who bad Inver had "a days Feb ooling," and cer tainly prove that the Inglo-African is neither lacking in imam or intellect. Pim:Minn:a Dec. 27. 1867. Mns. JAMES : You wilt accept our sincere thinks for your many acts of kindness towards us as a little band of brethren, though an almost entire stranger, one, too, on whom we have no claim whatever, save that of common Christian ity. When we think of the interest and energy you have exhibited in our behalf, besides being at a loss in my humble capacity to furnish you with a suitable number or quality of thanks, we arc rersnadol that the Lord hath not dealt so with scarcely any people. We cannot express the delight of our little band on receipt of that blcsed and best of all gifts, the Bible and Church Service: for these, and not these alone, believe me, you have fixed for yourself in our hearts the ties of gratitude which only death can sever, and only then to be renewed on yonder bright shores, where death and sin will be felt no more. May yow efforts always be followed with success. Your humble servant, D. W. CAIN, and die portion of the vestry whose names ap pear above. Tie Petersburg correspondent of the Rich monl Dispatch, ynder date of December :;0, thus writs in relation to the colored schools in Pe- terelurg: Vr•re are, in fact, now but two colored schools in tie, city, though one of them has two or three branches. The first and most Important is con cucud under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Minh of the Protestant Episcopal Freedmen's Conmission; for, insides enjoying the active sup portof the Rev, Mr. Gibson and other Influen tial members of the Protestant Episco pal Church in this city, its organization end management has specially devolved on a devoted and highly cultivated yonig lady from Pennsylvania, who has thiton her own soul into the work. The name of Ws lady deserves special mention. Miss Coonhe has of course encountered much preju diecand numerous obstacles to the success of her indertalting. A year ago the school-house wasburnt down. Since then, and mainly through her utlitence, the means have been raised to buy a lo of ground, and to build a church and school- horterconibliacil. - .Th - e — a - s - t - cifitifliiile is several thoisand dollars. The building is nearly corn pletd, and as soon as the school is transferred thitler her labors will cease and the will return hone. It was from no interested motive that she _ . e ngaged in the work, but in the - spirit of a ails siororY; and though it may not meet with the 83flaathy of all classes, but few can withhold it ' d. respect. Tie number of pupils attending this inslitti tier is 800, and, including the principal, there arc six tachers. The school Is daily opened with m• ligitas services according to the religious form of ophip• and once a week the children are ex the catechism. The object is to lay the ouudation of a religions education at an es age, in the belief that it may be more. en durn. 10INELICItthli.-I.hp London A theturum. nava a apnea of publlc-splrited engineers In Manches ter live aubscribed a large stun of money (one firm Messrs Beyer, Peacock & Co., gave no lea tha Clt.(+00), for the endowment of a chair o eim net, in connection with Owen's College. Thelind sso far advanced towards completion a tOistify the early appointment of a professor. numbers, with an insistanco and profundity alto gether Imperial. So it tells the story of sixty min utes of hill in a palace. Eugenie hears it in her (Is am. And it is heard, too, regretfully, by the 'wakeful and taciturn invalid who wishes to ad lust the time' ,- ykee of all Europe, but who finds sometimes to his . dismay that the sun and stars are rolling independently, and outside of his cal culations. I fancy I can almost hear these great clocks tick, outside the window. At anyrate, my ambl-' tious little chronometers within here are clucking as If every second they passed were an egg of gold. We do not call this noise—it is ever the criterion and gauge of silence; when we wish to point out how still it is, we say, "what a noise the clock makes !" The silent, bunchy, muddy sweeping women are already describing great yellow geometric problems in the miry street. I watch one for a quarter of an hour. Her regular motion fasci nates me—perhaps I can go to sleep—wherewith I cluck under. ENFANT pr. 111,11. The Work Among the Freedmen. D. W. CAIN, JOHN CAIN, CrsontiliC HOWARD, Wm. M. Wurry, Ost:Am M. JomrisoN, Groe(itr. F. BIZAt it:, PF.TISIZ W. 131:AGG, ELIJAH ELIA', Portion of the Vestry. CRIME. FORGERY Ili CHARLESTOWN. A Man Uses a. Friend's Name for $20,. There is considerable excitement in Charles town at the present time, over the details of a for. fiery, - which the local papers hinted had taken place. The name of the alleged forger has not been given, and there is considerable curiosity manifested with regard W the name of the indi vidual who perpetrated the forgery. Very few people possess the knowledge, and they have made. so united an effort to keep It quiet, that it seems a pity that-they should - be eisappointed. Particular pains were taken to keep the facts m the case from the Boston report ers, and this was successfully accomplished until this morning, when the facts were obtained from authentic sources: It appears that Mr. Nathaniel Leman, who resides in Charlestown, who was formerly en gaged in business with Hon. Eugene L. Norton, of Charlestown, and who has, of lato, been pro prietor of a bone factory in Brighton, and of a glue factory in Woburn, being short of funds (as is supposed) forged a cheek purporting to have been signed by Eugene L. Norton, for the sum of *20.000 on the Bunker Hill National Bank of Charlestown. He presented the cheek at the bank about one week ago, and obtained the money readily. It is sup; oscd that during his partnership with Mr. Norton he gained an acquaintance with his busi ness and his manner of writing, which enabled .him to easily forge a check which the bank offi cers would consider all right. The forgery was soon discovered, however, by the parth.z, most interested, and a warrant was made for the arrest of Leman, who was soon found and taken Into custody. As Judgd Warren is in some way connected with the bank, the case was not brought before him, and Trial *Justice Pettengill was brought into requisition. Leman was arraigned before him sometime last week, and required to furnish ball in 1.t8,000 for appearance for trial before the Superior Criminal Court in Combridge in Febru ary. We understand that bail was promptly fur nished, and Leruan regained hisliberty. lie has always borne a good character among business men in Charlestown and elsewhere, and the jiresent alleged illegal action on his part is supposed to have been perpetrated because his affairs were in a desperate condition, and money must be got from some source. Great credit is due his frends and the police authorities for the energy they displayed in trying to keep the mat ter quiet, and they have probably learned a les son which may prove useful in the future, as it is utterly impossible to shield alleged criminals in the way they proposed. When the forgery was first discovered keepers were placed in the bone factory at Brighton, and the glue factory at Woburn. Since that time the. stock in the former place has been removed to Woburn, where a keeper Is still in charge. Leman was engaged in other business, we understand, in other localities, and the amount obtained by the forgery, if not re covered, will be made good by the property seized..--Boston Tmreler. The St. Albans Tragedy. TROY, Jan. 7, 1868.—The telegraph has already advised you, in a three line despatch, of the ter rible and fatal domestic tragedy that took place at the village .of St. Albans, Vt., on Saturday last. I herewith supply the details of the fright ful affair. At about half-past twelve o'clock. P. M. on Sat utday. the 4th inst., — John Bishop, - It young mar ried P.nglishman, went home from the works of the St. Albans Fein:airy Company, indulging in a high-wrought fit of frenzied jealousy against his young and really beautiful wife, which, it seems, had not the slightest possible foundation in fact, but was conceived while in a state of intoxica tion. Entering the house, the upper part of which he occupied, in a state of maddened intoxication, Bishop immediately commenced a dispute, very violent in its character, with his wife, who at the moment was reclining upon a bed, also occupied in part by her invalid sister. Bishop charged his wife in the most opprobious terms with an unhallowed intimacy with Mr. Peter Ward, the owner of the house in which Bishop resided, and the occupant with his (Ward's) family of the lower part thereof. The unworthy assailment was denied in the spirit and terms In which a faithful wife would naturally deny such wicked and baseless assertions, which womanly denial seemed all the more to heighten the obdurate and unrighteous frenzy of Bishop. At this point Mrs. Ward, wife of Peter Ward rererre d to; appeared suddenly on the scene from down stairs, whereupon Bishop became more de mented, and at once most violently directed his groundless suspicions to Mrs. Ward and her husband in connection with his wife. While Mrs. Ward was denying the impeachment her hus band, attracted by the noise and vociferatiout made by the maniac Bishop, ascended the stairs and confronted • the embittered parties. This appearance of Ward, against whom Bishop's suspicions and charges were the strongest, served apparently to irritate the lunatic beyond all measure and forbearance. He instantly turned for his pistol, Mrs. Ward, at the same time, fleeing from the room, and, fully re cognizing the terrible situation, forced her hus band back with her, down the stairs, telling him that Bishop would surely kill him. At this fear ful moment of irresponsible frenzy three pistol shots were heard in rapid succession, whereupon the terror-wounded Wards gave a public alarm, as they saw Bishop's wife, fearftilly wounded, co vered with blood,and agonized with fright, rushing past them to a friendly neighboring residence for assistance, where she sank down overcome by the ghostly tragedy and its bloody surroundings. Bishop, upon securing his pistol, and in the Sudden absence of the Wards,had turned instantly upon his wife, seeking in his lunacy an immedi ate victim, and fired two shots into her person as she still reclined upon the bed. The first btil passed through her wrist and the side so to speak, of her breast, finally lodging in the folds of her dress. The bail from the second shot entered her right jaw, just as she was fleeing from the room for assistance. Seeing that She liad fled and successfully eluded Mir murderous intentions, Bishop instatitly turned the pistol to his own head, and discharging the third shot sank imme diately to the floor, and after an hour of utter insensibility died without a struggle. Mrs. Bishop has rallied somewhat front her wounds, but at this writing it is not "believed she can possibly survive. 'fbe Coroner's inquest upon the body of the dead man confirms the _statements of this des patch,—N. Y. Herald.' MR. J. S. CLARK; the American comedian, has been performing for the past three months at the St. James's Theatre, London, where ho has ap peared in the strongly contrasted/characters of "Tyke and "Major de Boots." The London Pally A dpeltiair say/ of him: "The'appearance of Mr. John B. Clarke in a character (Tyke) which has already found dis tinguiShed representatives on the English stage, invited to criticism of somewhat different charac ter from that usually accorded to our transatlan tic •cousins. • "It is no small merit to award to Mr. Clarke that be has, with ability and success, sustained a pharacter, the Yorkshire yeoman,` 4 Robert Tyke," which has not unfrequently bet a performed: by the most gifted part actors of the present day. Need we particularize Mr. Webster, or Mention the Adelpht? Had not Mr. Clarke selected tee role of '•Wellington de Boots, "-• a timid mil itary 'major, 89 his introduction to an °En glish audience, his acting in. a port which Mr. John Emery had rendered famous, would have at once secured hls warm and hearty recep tion. There was, in ninny points of his acting, great intensity of feeling, and the embodiment was characterized ,b 7) varying,powers of genius. His agony of remorse on discovering that he bud robbed his own father, whom he had brought to ruin, was very powinfully delineated, and in those scenes where lafgives evidence of repent ance' for past misdeeds, he , acted with consum mate • A DAVOICR.-A working party ,at Castlehlll, 8( otland, 'lately found a dagger of antique work -12)118111p, and badly oaten by rust. ft Is thought to he a mho of the border ware, The Wade watt ulcren inchea long. F. L. FETHERSTON. Publisheii PRICE THREE GENTS. FACTS AND PANCLt9. .''' —The Dickens-Collins Christmas story,' "NV? t 1, , ?f , Thoroughfare," has been dramatized by - ii , j ',•:V. oi' , Author-, and played by Mr. Feehter, at till.ALL`.4 6 ''., Adelphi—with what success wo aro not told: j,;'••••:,If f ., —A medal of honor is to be given to Xti1.1.17 , 13` , 1/.. i , Favre by the Florentines, in recognltioa • ~,1 , 1.. ~t, . his services to the Italian cause in the Fie V: ;,' legislature. , 'l' 3 ; '',l '',.; ' , ~ 3 k' 'T, —Mr. Gallup of Noank has the largest violin IC ' 4 16 - , ,, - 4 1 the world. It is eight feet high. He gets insider.,, ; , , of it to play it.--Ex. Who is Gallup, and whereq,4ll4. 4 is Noank? • ~ ,V 4, 4 —A boy, sixteenyiaro old, who had run away ;:•pV, r l-,- 1 . from lus home at. Lake City, Minn., to Boston,' ,•:;,10A, was recently expressed from that city, with a ;,+,...;,,: I,; label to his back, and was in every way treated. k . 'LI) as a piece of baggage. —A few days ago a ear loaded with barrels of ' ~ cider was thrown from the track at West Corn- "'" - , ':ti. wall, Ct. The weather was so cold that the cider ,tt .L - '-1 , • became frozen, and was taken away in paper ~,• - -, bugs by the people. , , a. —Frederic the Great's famous flute has come '',, r , I , r into the . possession of the French Conservatory i , t,, of Music. It is not only a valuable historical ,'.- ~ti'i relic, but is remarkable for the richness of its or- nementation and the excellence of its tone. • J- ~7 +,.;', —A young man In Hamburg fell in, love :with . ..,--- ••AL - the fair widow of a physician, and-endeavored tollt , 4 14' : , -f; smooth the coursesof true love by poisoning her ' ~ - fi,,, daughter. Unfortunately the widow - took the „ , ,f, ~, 1 his dose, and her blundering suitor will probably lose'} .(,: ,- head. —We had a call this morning- from , one of our z • subscribers near Dayton, in this county--a youlig • mother, thirteen years of age on the 12th of tuns month. Her babe is five weeks old. The hue.., .v band, who accompanied her, is in his twenty- r'f second year.—Lajewette Courier. —Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe is actually to he made a khow, twenty-live cents admission, .sk. very moderate price indeed, as Mr. Brady au- ;, nounecs. It is nominally'to be "offered f0r17., sale, - .and Providence is the plat* of the er.l4-'`,C` Wien. • —Having no cinerary urn of the classical fens, a country manager, producing the play of t'ir9inius, caused an actor to carry upon the . 4*` stage the snuposed ashes of Virginia it a coffee-, pot. The c Met of the tragedy upon the audiertoe was very perceptible. ,p , spy —An English paper says that Fitz-Greene lird4:„ t " leek "was one of those .P . 7'.7rican poets of the'',''. • higher class who confer with writing ono or two small, but supremely good pieces. 'Marco Bozarrls' is one of the finest warlyrles is J . any language, and for purposes of deciamatios it probably has no equal." —Large numbers of pugilists of various grades of excellence, from Mace downwards are re-; , ported to be coming to this 'country. ' t he Now,, York Herald thinks that the people "cannot re sist the temptation of sending them either to • (I , Congress or to the State prison." New York ,be- . , stows these honors alternately upon such persons. , • • —The Queen of the Skaters this year, in Paris, :; , :7 1 , 4 1" will be a certain Madame B-----, who purchased, , 'at the Exposition Universelle, a magnificent Polish costume, which cost two thousand francs, and is matte of black velvet, lined with violet': , ' satln,and trimmed with chinchilla; the pantaloon. descending to the 'ankle is also. trimmed with —Valero, the Spanish actor who has been creating . such a furore in Cuba, was recently • robbed in Matanzas of a box containing. six thousand dollars in gold.' The thief entered Va lero's sleeping aparunent while the latter was slumbering, secured the box containing the shi ners, but left a cigar box alongside which con- Mined fit teen thousand dollars in bills. —Ex-Governor Magollln gave a Christmas dinner, at Harrodsburg; to "Admiral" Semmes. Among the guests was a daughter of ex-Governor Anderson, of Ohio. One of the ladies recited a. poem entitled "Admiral Semmes' Sword;" but we are not informed what part the sword played In the Admiral's arduous work of collecting chro nometers. —Garibaldi, It has lately been ascertained, is of German descent. ills grandmother was a bean-' tiful Westphalian lady, M'lle Von Nenhof, who accompanied her brother, a distinguished physi cian, L. Corsica, and married the grandfather of tee old patriot. After' the grandfather's death, the grandmother moved with her children to Nice, where Garibaldi, fifteen years afterward, was born. —That is a sure though slow modO of suicide which places a man, otherwue capable, •in say Government position. Read what that thrall dom forced the patient pen of Hawthorne to re cord : "I bray that in one year more [ may find some way of escaping from the noblest Custom house, for it is a very grievous thralldom. I de ti all offices—ell, at least, that are held on a po litical tenure." —A countryman living some miles back of Evansville, Intl., entered the city on Christmas day in a frantic state of mind, and, 'on meeting: the first man with whom he was acquainted. Eln ted that some one bad told him "Andy John eon had got mad and vetoed all the banks In the United States," and as he had four hundred dol lars in one of them, ho thought it about time• to look after it. —The Circleville (Ohio) Union says a woman sold the clerk of a store in that place a roll of butter, the weight of which was, materially in creased by having 'a stone in its centre. The clerk found out the trick but said nothing. The woman took some coffee in exchange for her bat ter, and the clerk slipped the stone into the Belle. The woman, of course, made no complaint, bat has left oil trading at that store. —The majesty of justice was fearfully sus tained by Lord Eekgrove, the English Judge. who, it Is related, once sentenced a tailor for murdering a soldier in these words—" And hot only did you murder him, whereby ho was be-. reaved of his life, but you did thrnsLor push. or pierce, or propel the lethal weapon through' the belly-band of hiS regimental breeches, which were his majesty's." —The following advertisement Is from aci.on don newspaper: "Wanted, a general servant, he a small family, where a man is kept. The house- ~ work and cooking all done by members of the family. The gentleman of theouse rises early, bpi, prepares the breakfast him , if. All the was ing is put out, and the kitche provided whit . - 14 emery comfort and luxury. Cold meat and basis r 5.,, studiously avoided. Wages no objection to a competent party. References and photographs exchanged. —A family liviugin flonaton county, Minn., have had a curious experience. "At about tea o'clock on the evening of December 10th. the house began to tremble, from some inexplicable cause, until the clock was made to strike and other articles of furniture were displaced. ' Vila • singular manifestation was kept up for are nights in succession, and was witnessed by a - r ntin , ber of people. The house in question is a . .' large frame building, and stands on a solid. , t E f 4 foundation." —Rochester, N. Y., has an Enoch Arden case.k ' - Tvro - voung - 121CnT - one - of - whom - wan marrieo6 ------ *„ woe intimate friends. The married one went is w, , f the war, exacting a promise from the other ttiat„)'l., , ', 1 1 hi ease he should fall, his friend should *tarry ~ 1 the widow. The report came that he was kin* '* e , and, after a due period of mourning, the pp5,,,,,',„ . .: ,t,',', tt wised marriage took place and a child was born. ~,,` ~I,'; Minot the first husband returned and claimed ir ids {l,lfe. His successor objected, and the, mat 1,. ti 4 went into Court. The decision has, just been ri nciered hi fat or of the first husband. ; . ':i,;,, --A writer on duelling says: • " Colonel Monts gowery was 01(4 in a duel about a dog, If:blondl. Ramsey hi one about a servant, Mr. Peatbor- , fi '''" stone al ono about a recruit, Sterno'a father in,' env about a goole, and another gentleman in ono' about an ' acre of anchovies:; one °Meer wa chollerged for merel asking his opponenit t enjoy the second gobl et, anti another was Coo, Tailed to fight about is pinet of sena:: 6eneid Bally was challenged by a Captain, theith: dt eluting wino at a dinner on a Wane' althi•up,h, the Oeneral had pleaded as an ,ej that winoinvariably made him sick 1 truant Cowther lost , his life in a dttelp , Ivan „refined admittance to attar."" Otootors."- v .',"r
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