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,.
. •
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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."-
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