GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor VOLUME XXL-NO. 231. THE EVENING BULLETIN • 11.1BL,Iiiiilar EVERY EVICNING (Sundays excepted), 11.T.T116 NEW istiLLETIN BUILDING, 607 chestutit street, Philadelphia" IIY VIS EVENING 131 LLEI IN ASSOCIATION. PEOPRIETOP.R. 011380$ PEACOCK, ERN MST C. WALLACE, F. L., EETILFESTON. THOS. J. WILLIAMSON. CArtPFLi tiOUDEK JP., FRANCIS WELLS. The Ilar.Lkrm is served to subscribers in the . elty at 18 eenta per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 per annum. INVITATIONS AND VISITING CARDS TT Engraved or Written. Newest styles 0f Wedding Stationery: Call and look I W. 681 0.VE L airt. stationer, 7153 Atch street.• MARRIED. DALE—WILLIAMSON:4M January iith loot, at the Church of I he, noly Trinity, by 11ev . Brooke, Write rd Dale to Anna . daughter of Mahlon Williammon.• NEW HA USER—WATEBS.—In Brooklyn, N.Y., on the 7th of January, 1891. by the itev. William A. Bartlett, N. J. Neu hamor to Helen R., only daughter of the late namL Water*, both of Philadelphia. •• rio 1 ED. • - - 1311A1)DITRY.—In Montclair. N.J., on the 7th instant. Prof. Wm. 11. Bradbury, in the fed year of We age, IJURKOWES.- In Lancaster. Pa., January 7tu, Robert Viands, eon of Thor. B. and dalome J. BUITOWOE, aged 16 years and 4 months. CALCINE:ILL —On Wednesday afternoon, Bth instant. Alfred 11. Caldwell. The relativet bud Mende of the family are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his father, John A. Caldwell, No 2= Locust street, on daturday next. et 11 O t ClOtit. 1. 0 proceed to Woodlands. BMITIL—On the morning of the Bth mat, Mary D. wile of Ambroao Smith, and daughter of the late Charles Downing. • The relativeo and Mende , are invited to attend the aneral. from the residence cif her husband. N. E. corner t Broad and Cbt smut stree is, beventh•day morning. the Ilth lest, at le o'clock. Interment at nownlngto Wit To proceed there by the 12 o'clock train from West Vhila. delphia. Funeral from the residence of his father. 1406 N. Thir teenth street. h day ( l'huraday), at 1 o'clock. It WOOLY.—O the?th Instant. Margaret Ewing,•wile of the lute John L Woolf, to the 7. 4 . ti year of her age. • BURIAL CASKET. PATENT POl DICBION 011tAirM"D JINX a, M 67 E. S. CARLEY, UNTIZETAILEB, I. >< tint ca or , TEZITII AND 0 R.ZEN STEICZTS. I claim that my tws , Improved and only patented BURIAL CASK V.T is far more beautiful in form and finish than the old unsightly and repulsive coilln. and that he construction adds to its strength and Mira- We the underaigned, having had oecasion to nae in our families E. S. PIAItLEV'S t'A chN f ISCRIAL• CASKET, would not in the future use any other if they could be ob tained. liishop M. Simpson, Itev..Y. W. Jackeon, J. 11. Schenc M. 1)., J ac. crippen, Cow. Mar k, don H. N., cob S. BurdsalL Rev. D. W. !Udine, D. D.. Geo. W. Evans. Beni. orne. Wm. J. W. Claghorne. D. N.iitnn. ocMcnre 4'IAI:II—JANUARY I. 1801-I , ,YRE kLANDELL., L ALA A -ch. Are - pre parcd *nit f wi 1101S1-.1101.1 1 Dttl G(N)D3, GOOD VI. N Nk.1.4 AND NASNI 1:1 N L INS GOOD SLMCKLNDCOOKEi PKK N 11.5. si - E - 61 - ia n arICES. ser GOPSILL'S PHILADELPHIA CITY DIRECTORY FOR le€A. The subscriber takes this method of informing the in tabitants sd. Philadelphia tnat be is about clming the come Nation of the City Directory, and would thank all pert:lee who have or are about making changes in their firms, place of business, or residence, to notify him im mediately. so as to enable him to make the necessary alterations. , . The canvass forth. Business Directory will commence op Tuceday, the 7th. dust, When all business mem are re quested to give the canvasser such information as he may ISAAC COSTA. Canirikr. ja6Btl Office 201 Seinth Hifth area, third floor. OFFICE: OF Tli bAFETY I\ tlliAh At an eh ction for directors, PAY, the 6th Inst., the foqovi gime , n to serve the eustung Thomas U. Hand JosephH. Seal. Ildu aid Deo lington, duluno A. Sunder. Theopniltut Paulding Hugh Craig. John U. Davis. • ' Jame, U. Hand. John 11 Perwo.e. li. Jones 11.-ooke. .Spencer Mc Ilvaln. Geo se ... Lciper. Henry SWen. Samuel F. Stokes ard at • tneet•ng of the Bow TH. MAS U. HAND, Esq., President. .ItHIN C. DAVIS. VicefPreehbnt, li HY 1.1" Lb LT It.N, &en tary. and HENRI - II ILL, • a .I.tant Secretary. la!) MI t LYLBURN, Seen' tary. _ - Seiya HALL I'OrNG 311..C' 4 CHRISTIAN ASdinilA• tion, No. 1210 chestnut street. titat ISt irto LEXTEILES. Tbur - oday, January et o'clock P. M.. "China and tb. thire.e." by 164 , .J. 1.. N \•lUd, for ten yearn a ruer dent of China. 11' turn, ted with ma oe, costume.. ,tc. howeday. January 16. Hey. DANIEL, MAI:C . I, D. D. 'tFa ilzer.and and the •.14cient." • Jan 2tr0.l t WIT NATION 11, BANK l'u L ADEL VIIIA, January 3, ISfi. The Board of Director'', cou-idering It de•irablo to <house the Dividet d period of this b k from May 'sod November to inuoary and July, have this day d o de,r,3l a Dividend t f Two Per Cent. for the past two montbe, pay. able on demand, clear of tax. MO it ros MoMIC IMAM, t i er.C g er PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY ACADEMY REOPENS TUURBDAr, January 5:1, For Ch culara applY to COL TIIEO. lIYATT, Chester. Delaware county% PA dol9.lmrpS marbullieEr.. HE ColoradolSTOUK -0 , :_;;(, 3111111 m Cowpony a ho held at Ott office Itnitg:(:..(ll,ocilutchk'llir Y. A /Free , on TUESDAY, January n9-th,f,4F. GF:O. NICIIIOLS, Sec'ry: CHILDREN'S DOS PITA L.—T HE ANNUAL meeting or the Umnributano will be held al ilia llost Ital. TweLtpeueand etreet below Walnut, on Fltb. DAV, 01; lUth hat. et 4 P. M. i4.xstrp• por HOW ARD HOSNI PAL. NOS. 1518 AND 1530 Lombard .• etreet, Dirperulary Department.—Medt cal treatment and med icines furniehedsrataitounly to the mglir NEWSPAPERS, BOWLS, PAMPHLETS WASTE Paper, &e, Bought by HUATER, del7ln4 No. 6 E. 1.3 Jayno street.' AMEINEMEN THE THEATRES. —At the Chestnut No Tho roughfare a ill be R 1.% en this evening for the last time. To-morrow night Miss Josie Orton will have a benefit, • when • a new ;Asp, by John Brougham, entitled The Public I'ress and its Vic tims, will be produced. Lucille Western wilt ap peal at ihe 4 1 / l ilnut this evening in the drama The Child Stealer. Light at Last will be repeated at the Arch this evening. A varied performance will be given at the American. ELEVENTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. —The pan- Anadrue,of the Magic Pearl will be performed this evening, with a curt 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. Own cross; singing, dancing, , and Ethiopian eccentri cities gt nor ally. SENENTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.—Thie even ing a most attractive entertainment will be given at this popular house. A large number of per formers have been added to the company, and it now embraces some of the most accomplished members of the profeesion in the country. The programme, embraces dancing, vocal and instru mental music, burlesque, farce, and the multi tude ot good things a hie.h go to make up a first class performance. Bi.riz.—Signor Blitz will give one of his plea sant entertielennenta at Assembly Buildings this evenieg. The Signor will remain upon the pi it form but a short tune Lou ger, , and his old friends oae it to themselves and' him to see him once more txtore his final withdrawal. His m Lin cal repel torte is larger and more attractive than ever. FRANK MORANAND DICKENS. ---On Friday night, at the eleventh &rest Opera Reuse, 'Frank 'oran hue his first benefit, when he will read from Dickens's "'knits at the Swan" and "Dick Balveller's Experience." —Lott' Palmeraton'a atatne Is to be placed In the corner of , the new encloeure In Palace Yard, oppce4ltt the Peel monument. It la to be made by Mr. Thomsa Woidner, ft London Ficul?tor,and la to he tlght fett high. hu atte h said to be one of the Afloat in•Londun. • . DELAWARE MUTUAL I.;4)IIPA.NY. ./1111.ADELI . 111A. Jan. a. BM. held at thls office on ;HON ring named gentlemen were car: James Try/mfr. James B.Earland. Willi ern I.: Ludwig. Jamb P. tones. JOliilll , l I". Ey re. W Biro:a G. Boulton. Hoary Dallett, Jr. Jobn D. Tayl Jr. Edward LafoUrCad... Jacob Kieget. • (co W. .rnadou. D. T. Morgan, Pittsburgh. John B. demple, A. B. Berger rd of Directors held this day. , leas nuanknously re-elected DISASTERS. TERRIBLE FIRE IN CHICAGO. Destruction of the Vim, Mani Christian Association Building. Loss Nearly Half a Million Dollars. ' {From the Chicago Journal of Jan. 7th.l The greater portion of that Immense structure known as the Young Mon's Christian Association building is in ruins, and the whole south end is now only a heap of blackened, reeking brick mortar and rubbish. All that is loft standing o the Farwell portion of the structure, which coin prised more than five stories,is a part of the wee wall, even that. swaying to and fro, undecided whether to crumble and fall into the mass lying all around it, or not.. The conflagration is one of the largest that has visited Chicago for years past. Tho first alarm of fire sounded Ehortly after nine o'clock last night. No sooner had the alarm been sounded than flames broke out, apparently simultaneously, in every part of the hall, and in less time than it can be writteu, the whole body of Farwell Hall was one clear , vividly bright, seething, roaring mass of angry flame. Before the firemen could possibly get to • work to advantage the flames bad gained com plete possession of that part of the 'building 'where they had originated, and were eating and gnawing their way into adjoining apartments, and upwards through the ceiling. In fifteen minutes from the sounding of the alarm, flames and smoke appeared on the roof,and about the same time the fire had spread throughout the length and breadth of the roar upper stories of the south part of the building, and showed itself at every window. About half-past 9 o'clock the roof fell in with a deafening crash, causing elliegles of fire to shoot upwards and fie be fore the high west wind then prevailing, afterwards alighting upon the roofs of houses and stores east of the burning pile. For a moment, but only momentarily, the flames appeared to have been smothered beneath the material of the roof. Fuel, however, was only added to the fire, for, with a mighty roar, great sheets of lurid flames reared their heads a hundred feet above the highest wall, and by their heavy flap almost drowned the hoarse roar of the engines. It now became apparent, in fact. certain, that all endeavors to save that part of the strtiet.re would be wasted, and the fire men directed their attention to the salvation of the surrounding piles and the front portion of the Young Men's Christian Association building. The flames still advanced, and it was feared tnat the fire could not be quenched until both the east and west wings of the building shou:d have fallen a prey to its rapacity. Airealy A ortion of the south wall had fallen and the nest of f frame houses, separated only from it by a narrow alley, were in danger of 'being overwhelmed. Sud denly, and with a shock which . made the earth tremble all around, the remainder of the wall crumbled and fell. Shortly afterwards the east wall collapsed and fell upon the rear of the build rig, occupied by Jevne & Almini, and upon an old brick structure adjoining, crushing in the wall of the former, and completely wrecking the latter. In the excitement and confusion prevail ing, the names of ocimpants of this building could not be learned. Fire and smoke rasheAl through the aperture in Jevne & Almini's build ing, and the valuable stock of paintings which was in the picture gallery. situated in that part of the building on which the wall fell, was seri ously damaged. Nothing was left now for the firemen to do but to persevere in their efforts at saving the Madi son street front, and they did it right well, for as we write no further danger whatever Is antici pated, and the south part of the great structure, although still in possession of dense volumes of smoke and flame, will be the limit of destruction. Ae• may be surmised, the losses attending such 1 a conflagration are extremely heavy, but at pre sent it is impossible to furnish complete esti mates. FIRE IN CINCINNATI. 5100,000 Wortitpt Property Destroyed. (Cincinnati Commercial, Bthl About five o'clock yesterday evening a fire broke out in V. Marqua's hobby horse inanufac to y,v.hich occupies a portion of the second , story of it e t xtensive building on the southwest corner of Join and Augusta streets. It is not known how it started, nor has any ono thus far been fortunate enough to feint an undis?uted by ...pothesi- as to its origin. Those employed In the establishment had. a short time before the oc currence, passed through the building without oast tying any"evldeuce of fire. and to the belief of the proprietors, the furnaces used In the vari ous departments had ceased their labor some time betore the employes took their leave. Foster,oue of the owners and occupants of the building, from the opposite side of the street, saw a blaze progressing in the second story of the home. Ile immediately entered the building, :accused to the burping room, and endeavored to extinguish the blaze, but finding it more pow erful than he at that supposed, half suffocated with stuoire, abandoned his purpose, descended, and gave two alarms. The dep truneutquickly responded. bnt 'before the engines arrived and commenced work, the flames bad burst from nearly all the rear windows of the buildir g. The rooms being filled with wooden wares and inflammable material of all sorts, very little time elapsed before the flames - extended over the greater portion of the building. The walls wore unusually substantial, and nobly stood up under the tearful attack for a space of two hours, and then only one sdetion of them toppled over and' fell to the ground. The building was divided by only three partitions of. heavy masonry, and the fire had, therefore, an excellent opportunity to spread rapidly, but the firemen fought itsteadlly, tied for two hours prevented it from extending to the front. It finally crept up to the fourth and top story, facing John street, but before it had acquired much headway in that direction, a side wall fell, and the opening gave the firemen a chance to throw several heavy streams of water in amongst the burning debris. After this action on the part of the walls, the water was judi ciously directed; it had a better effect, and the coast gut ace was, the fire was shortly after sub dued, after having burned for almost three hours. AVVFIIL bIS %STEIL. The!Towboat Horner itrxeeged on the Vella et the Ohio ..... siukro Dien Drowned and the Weethei hunk. tProza the LOOIDVIIIC Journal.Jan.3.l In going over the bulls about daylight _yester day morning the well-known towboat T. D. Hor ner met with a dreadful accident, Dy which two ; men lust their lives, and the boat was 'wrecked ! iu rut% a manner as to be almoot worthleaa to to her owners. The partieul irs, as we learu from those in charge of the boat, are as herein stated Ou Wednesday night Captain Pink Varble was bringing the steamer Belle:Vernon up over the Falls, and had tc-.cendt d as fir as the Elm Tree Garden, where ho found she could not stein the swift current between the bridge piers. , Leeving her about 11 o'clock tied up to the built, he' came to the city toget the tow-boat T. D. [Lu ther to Rai•ist the BelleTernon. Just about day , light the Berner left her berth and started to. descend the middle chute. Captains . Pink and Richard Varble were .•- at the w heel, than whom no more ex.- . perieuced and Skillful fulls pilots can be found. When Corn Is th laeyd r e t a h c e h e s d m t ok e e s r w orf t f w og e u r dadenhey h. ea t d l e o d f down so as to hide ell the surface of "the river, They immediately stopped the engine and Ile dud. rhe Bret warning of the proximity of the piers watt the roaring of the water, that rit4hea and, butte turlciurly around theta.. The iingluaa wore biotid at once but to vain, Its she truck the, right hand, or Kentucky pier so violently-teat two men on deck, John filitelair, and T somas Baltbaum, wore throwa Over . . PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1868. board and drowned. The" blow crashed in V e aide of the Horner to the kelson, letting the boilers into the hold, and overthrew the pilot house, ball and cook-stoves, the latter scalding the cook with the bulling coffee. The tires were soon put out by the officers and crew. Captain Pipit Varble and a few of the crew escaped from the wreck in the yawl; the remainder were t tken off by skiffs, some from the workmen of tb.• bridge, and a portion by a young man who came from the Kentucky shore. The two men who were drowned lived in this city. One of them, John Sinclair, leaves a wife and several children to mourn his untimely fate. The other, Thomas Baltbaum, was unm 'Med, and had no relatives here, as far as we could learn. The Horner was owned by Captain Pink Varble and Col. J. W. May. She was instared for $O,OOO, which will not cover the loss, to say nothing about the loss to our harbor of such a useful boat. She lies with her head to the Ken tucky shore, careened to starboard, In six feet water. We think her machinery, cabin, and, tackle will be saved, if the river does not rise suddenly. One of the officers who had been on the river for years, says the scene a moment after the boat struck was one of the most exciting and fearful he ever saw. The stoves overturned were sottiug fire to the boat, the steam roaring and hissing, the timbers cracking and splintering, and the rushing, roaring, irrealstiole waters driving the doomed boat higher and higher upon the pier. which just showed abovelts surface, until it seemed as if she must inevitably turn over. Malt ing the beet of hiii way to the rock-ribbed pier, he watched the wreck, expecting every moment to see it capsize, but the same tremendous cur rent that drove her to destruction 6till,holds her up. OBITUARY. Death of Wm. B. Bradbury. [Newark Ad verti.er, eth.l Last evening, at a quarter ca•toru nine o'clock, Mr. Bradbury passed peacefully away. Ile died at his residence, in Montclair, Burro tided by hi, who have for several days xp-cted his ceceliee. He had passed a quarter into his fifty secued year. Few men have tilled so large a place iv the affections of so many. He has put songs into the months of millions of children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who will sing his "Whitt Rubes" while be wears them in heaven. He was the privileged man who was permitted to make the religious''lnellads of a nation„' and he wisely 115 t d his power. Mr. Bradbury was born in York county, Maine, in 1816. His young life was one of strugg'e. He early developed musical taste, and cultivated the talent out of business hours. At the age of 17 he decided to devote him-elf . wholly to music. Ho experienced all the trials, perplexities and labors common to the profs ssion, till at length he be came a recognized teacher, composer, organist, publisher and manufacturer. He has left consid erable wealth, the result of years of toil and care. This is, however, little in comparison with the consciousness that he has served his generation with fidelity, and left a new genera. don "who will rise up and call him blessed." He has been an invalid for about two years. A year go he was obliged to relinquish his busi ness—he-was an extensive piano manufacturer_ and since that time he has been endeavoring, by travel and care, to ward off the disease which eventually proved fatal. He has, during this period, added another to the long list of musical publications which have appeared at longer or shorter intervals daring a_ quarter of a century. He had greatly endeared himself to his neigh bors at Montclair, who have watched his declina tion with painful interest. He presided at the melodeon in the church a few weeks ago, aid was present at the last Communion. In com mon with all of na, he expected it to be his last on earth. The children of the Sabbath-school recently contributed each an autumn leaf, which were woven into an elegant wreath and elaborately framed. This present proved timely, in view of his early departufe. Be had been for several days very happy. He desired his family not to weep for him, or to mourn hie departure. He thought white more appropriate than black as indicative of the feel leg which they ought to exhibit. All his last pro partitions were calmly made, and be welcomedath as a deiivt rer "from a world of autreritm and was quite ready to step into the stream whiel be has safely CTOEEt d. He bas left four daughters, two of whom are married—one about two weeks ago—and also a little son. J. H. C. Death of Samuel Nicholson• (Fri 111 the itobton Herald of Jan.B.i Mr. Samuel Nicholson, whose genius has given to the world many valuable inventions, amoth_ tbt m a steering apparatus for vessels, and the "Nieto:lst:at pavement," died at the Hutted States Hotel, yesterday, at the age of seventy-six pairs. He was once Superintendent of the Milldam Cor poration, and Secretary of the Boston Witter Power Company for several years. He was in the Common Council in 185'2-3, and was a us , ful public of ice as well as a highly esteemed citvz.ca. LOVE ON vas BALL. singular iliwiory off a Fernaie Fireman en she nubtiviiie and Chattanooga, Railroad. - [1 rum the Nsehville Banner, 3d kohl *We hate come across an inierestittg scrap of , h'story in the lile of a WEB Maria Matilda Kibby, ho rt cently died at t leveland, Ohio. She was Hying in New Yolk in 1860, where she formed the acquaintance of a man named C. H. Niles, living in Erie county, Ohio. The, girl's parents were wealthy, but she resolved to leave them and go with Niles. They left the State separately, he a few hours in advance. Niles went to Toledo, then returned to Fremont, where the girl met Lim, and both went to Toledo. Niles secured woilt in a manufacturing establishment at Toledo, and the girl peddled oranges* and cigars. She was so fearful of pursuit by her father that at Fremont the assumed male attire, and this she wore constantly tor two years. As the couple were walking In Toledo one- evening, a police man overheard their conversation, discovered the sex of the.disguisedgirl, and she was arrested. Seenrieg her release by donning her proper appa rel, the two came to. MIS city, the girl 'again 'tak ing men's clothing for her wear. Nilea got a position as engineer on the Nashville and Chat tanooga Railroad, and Miss Kibby was his fire man. During their term of service the sex of the latter was never suspected, Or was the singular chapter in her history which we have related above known here until a day or two ago. After st me time spent on the Nashville and Chattanoo.' ga Road__ in the position mentioned, they re turned North, went to the Medoc gold mines, tte.d thence to Cleveland. There the girl died, alone among strangers, Niles having gone to Chicago at the time of her fatal sickness. During all the time cf their travel and working together they were lawfully married. 1 , 1,E013.0 WEDIANG IN BRAZIL—The other day, in the neighborhood of Rio, 1 had an op portunity of seeing a marriage between two ue grecs, %hose owner made the religious, or, as it at peered to me on this occasion, irreligious ceieuiony obligatory. The bride, who was as black as jet, was diesse,d in white muslin, with a veil of coarse v‘ bite lace, such as, the negro wo men make themselves, and the husband was in a while linen snit. She looked, as' I think she really kit, diffident, for there were'a'good ManY strangers present. and her position !was embar rassing. The Portuguese oldest, a bold, insokut looking man,called them up and rattled over the marriage service with most, irreverent eed, stopping uow and then. to scold' them beta, but csl eclally the woman, because she did not speak loud hue:ugh and did not, take the whole thing in the saute coarse, rough 'ay th,tt he did. When he endured them to come up and towel at the altar, his toile was Mom suggestive of burs 'lug. a/ism praying, and having. attend his bless, ing bullet an amen at thein,slatinned the prayer beak down on the altar, whiffed out the cAudies, and turned the bride and bridegroom out of the chapel with as little ceremtley as one would have kicked out a dog: :As , tbe bride c,tme out, LON:6111g, ! : halt mono* her mother; met her and showered her with tose-leavie. and so this 'act of consecration, in• which the mother's b sliction etithe.t,the Only grace, waqoirO ! ..--Prir. diyassig. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY'. CItINE. IS W DLI N G BOSTON. AI Young Blau 4. of k a Quantity of Sew. bllk on termed Chocks, nod aalko bete. Arrtitetl. We have the following particulars of a bold -put thaeucceasful attempt to swindle several of our merchants yesterday. A man, genteely dressed, and of gentlemanly address, visited several of the dry goods stores, and representing himself to he connected with the firm of Heyer Brothers Nos. 76 and 78 Federal street, purchased a quantity of sewing silk on their account for "George Palmer, of Chicago." Having made se lection of the-quality and quantity of silk to suit him, he would order it done up and say he would send for it. In this way he visited a number of stores and purchased silk of the value in all of $2,773 75. To each of these he made the same represen tations, and, having left his order, departed. His next step was to write on sheets of note paper nearing the printed head line "Heyer Brothers, Importers, &c.," the following : Gentlemen—Enclosed we hand you our check for s—, the amount banded ns by Mr. George Palmer. of Chicago, for goods purchased from 3 on. Please deliver goods to bearer. Yours; HEYISn, Baos. & Co. A note of this description was sent to each of the parties' aboVe mentioned, and each con tained what purported to be. a check on the Second National Bank, of Boston, signed by Beyer dz. Bros., for the payment or the proper .sum. The notes and checks being properly en closed in ciavvelones were dispatched to their re s9ective destinations by a negro, since arrested, who gives the name of Oscar Payne, and who was ertiplo3ed by the operator for the purpose. . At one place where a check was presented the book-keeper did'ut like the looks of the paper. and scut it down to Heyer & Brother, who at once .pronounced it a forgery. About this time, the operator, who was hovering around, wus spotted by the book-keeper, and a lad was put upon his trail by whom he was traced to the Campbell House, in Wilson Lane, where he was soon afterwards arrested by officers Shelton and Marsh of the Second Police. who had been summoned: The party was taken to the Station-house, where he gave the name of Alfred Watson, and said he hair from St. Louis. He is. 33 years of age, of good . size, and. as lit•fore btated, of highly respectable appearance. His colored messenger received tie 4 goods at most of the places where he had nego tiated for them, and had taken them to the Campbell House, where they were recovered. Watson was committed for trial.—Buston Children Lost in the Bush. An Australian paper says : Those painful episodes of Australian country life in par tially settled districts, the loss of children in the bush, have of late been more than ordi narily frequent. Last summer the remains of three unfortunate children lost 'from Dayles ford were found, and in October no less than three cases of single children becoming thus lost have been reported. On Sunday, Octo ber 18th, a little girl, daughter of a laborer named Mclntosh, living close to Buoinyong, strayed from her home and was lost. Tile fact being discovered in the afternoon, all the township turned out, but, after searching through the bush till midnight, no trace of .he little wanderer had been found. The search was maintained for days, and a few days ago the remains of the poor child were found in the bush about four miles away from the town from which she had strayed. On the same day, at a different part of the country—Amphitheatre, near Avoca—a boy of eight years, son of a German selecter earned Schmidt, wandered from his home, and a widely-extended and long-maintained search for him made by the neighbors was unavailing. The third case was that of a child of three years of age, named Hensley, living at Mout Macedon, who was miss-Al on 6unttay last, the 20th instant. The whole mighbothood turned out on foot and on hoiseback to search for the child, but for some days the exertions made failed to obtain any traces of the wanderer." • A Romance and an Elopement. An elopement of a singular character. as just taken place in a village a few miles from Wolverhampton, England, the circumstances VI which are told as fellows: There lived in thc, village a young man, a carpenter by trade, v.bo was possessed of good looks, and by some means or other be contrived to attract ate attention of the daughter of the clergy u an. An attachment sprang up, ant an ilopement took place. The runaways re sand to a village on the borders of Shrop- Abe, and preparations were made fir the man lege. Tire friends of the young lady, ulu,, by the way, is extremely good yoking Use pobsessed of consilerable means, discov- I rid their retreat, and by dint of much argu ment persuaded her to forsake her lover. in stead of, taking the matter,to heart, the lover returned tolls native village, the inhabitants of which believed him to be cured of his ro mantic ideas. This notion, however, proved le be erroneous, for he has once more qaittA tbe - place; and with him has disappeared a young lady, the daughter of a wealthy. widow lady residing in the same place. Inquiries were set on foot, but unfortunately too -lale to prevent the. match, intelligence., having been received that the pair have been man led at Derby.. It seems that they became acquaitted by the practice of singing together in the 'village church; : where the would-be Ihnedict seized the opportunity of telling of uis love. The ; bride is possessed of some thousands, and the happy bridegroom follows the occupation of a carpenter. Sir Robert Napier 7 B PrOClDAllaliolll to the Alb) bed The filli)wing is the proclamation (trans !RlO from the Amharic) which Gen. Napier it•sued: "From. Sir Robert Napier, Head (of) Army of- England, from country _(of) India, to the Governors and Chiefs,and to the Convents and Houses Christian, Cl72Ci to all people of Ethiopia: ' Marl Tedros, King of Anybsinia, by bind ing Cameron, the Consul of En4lAnd, and Bosom, the Envoy of England, with many ht.r men, has violated the law of every country where the, people abide by lame. Now, all friendly, measures tried bee them having proved useless, I ant coin ing, c•truntanded by the Queen, with an fumy to liberate them. Whoever is the friend of these misoners, and will help to deliver dam, shall he rewarded, but Ohoever ill ueata them shall receive severe punishment.. Fenner, reflect in your heart, 0 peopld of Ethiopia, in•the time of LW. corning of the army into your country, that the Queen of England has not a thought of ting.ei,akainst, you, your country, your liberty and existence. All your persons and pro perty,'-all your convents and churchea in your country, shall he protected withmuch care. All who may, bring provisions tot sale will ru.clvi ;:tin it prio;, The inbabitautt 'Whp remain quiet wilt pot,f,Ctroubtod by any horse-egro./4***P" , Pel"na to :liew,York/ptrari BLEW YEAR'S DAY 111111EW YORK. George Augusta Sala has s paper in VI( January Broadway upon "New Year's D sin New York." We quote portion. of ,tee article: I think I lived air cinquitme at the Bra voort, and that I commenced my visit- paying campaign at about 11,A. M.; but from as early as 9 in the morning my attic story was invaded by successive groups of gentlemen dressed in their Sunday best, who, coming some singly, some in pairs, some in threes, grasped my hand, said it was a fine day, but rather cold, smiled amicably, grasped my band again, and hurried down stairs, proba bly to repeat the same ceremony with my friends they possess on the fourth, third, second, or first floors. As I was on somewhat a familiar footing with the last batch, o smiling band-graspers, I went down with them; and prepared myself for the labors of , - the day by partaking, at the bar of the Bre voort, of some warm stimulant, in the com position of which, so fler as recollection serves me, there entered nutmeg, sugar, eggs, milk and a liquor they called rum, The hour was young; but there was a "cold snap" about, and I bad a hard time before me. As my visiting list included some very aristocratic families—as aristocracy is under stood under a republican dispensation—l had taken care to array myself in full evening cos tume, patent-leather boots and lemon kid gloves. It, in thus sacrificing to the Graces, b I erred against American etiquette, I humbly beg pardon of the shades of Gen. Jacksen, John C. Calhoun, Rufus Choate and other Fathers of their country. Under the circum stances 1 felt as though I was going out to a funeral at which there was to be a champagne lunch—a kind of genteel wake, in fact. Tben ensconced in the corner of a hackney couch, and wrapped up in a fur cloak (for the cold was intense, and my ears would have been truly grateful fur the discarded seal skin cap), I proceeded to pay my visits. I think my first call was in Washington Square—not many yards from the Brevuort; and from my coach windows I could see that the sidewalks were crowded by gentlemen, beneath whose great coats peeped symptoms of evening dress—at the which I felt reas sured. I observed that while in the street these gentlemen preserved a solemn and al most rueful mien, as though bent on some awfully momentousi mission; but as they emerged from houses where they had made a call, it was with e placid and joyous expres sion of countenance, and that they chuckled as they walked, until they recollected that they were near another door at which a call was due, and so began to look solstnn again. I ran over the gamut of political conversa tion ere I pulled at the first bell. I was never a morning caller; and before the candles are lighted am generally nervous in the society of ladies. What would be the best thing to say ? I asked cnyself. Should I observe that this was a great country, or that my name was Note's!? Should I make any reference to the manner in which the ancient Romans were accustomed to keep the New Year? Should I merely ejaculate, "Rail Columbia," or say ecutething neat and appropriate about the "Star Spangled Banner ?" On reflection, I determined to confine myself to innocent remarks about the weather, and subsequently to get out of the scrape as best I could. 1 found, on experience, that I had much exaggerated the difficulties before me. Be yond the utterance of a few incoherent com pliments—usually ending with "I'm sure"—l was required to say nothing at all; and I dis covered that the less I said the better p eased the ladies seemed to be. I found, however, that the best way to get on was to grin amazingly, and, having served a long ap prenticeship to the horse-collar, I grinned accordingly. Grinning, in-fact, on an Ame rican New Year's Day is contagious. The tensor who "barbed" me in the morning grinned like a Cheshire cat; the Irish waiter ho brought ate my breakfast griuned like the late Mr. Grimaldi; tue ordinarily saturnine di iver of the hackney coach grinned like a c awe mask as I entered his vehicle; and the du, bee —splendidly got up in a striped jacket, a white ii«lellith with a bow as big as a bomerang, and Berlin gloves—who admitted me to No. —Washington Square, grinned— as only a nigger can grin. At one dthee wanes. One call was very much like another. 1 was ushered into one gilt and splendid parlor after another, there to find a chat ming group of ladies in full dress, and blazieg N ith jewelry. I made my best bows, piloted my best grins, and was then asked it I would take some refreshment, was nothing lnath. I think that I began to refresh myself about noon, and that convivi slity continued until half past five P. M., when, as you may imagine, I had no very great appetite for the seven o'clock dinner to which I. was bidden at Delmonico's. But as. I subsequently attended a "stag party"—an entertainment tended only. by gentlemen— where a conjuror pertinmed some astounding feats of hankey-paukey, and finished the evening with a carpet-dance in West Four teenth street,l don't think I took any verygreat barni by the indulgence in the "refresh ments" of New Year's day. They were on the moat gorgeous scale, and never tailed to comprise oysters. It is said that when the late amiable Earl of Carlisle was in the States, his attention, was one even ing attracted to an inscription on the dour-jambs of an underground saloon iu Broadway, "Oysters in every style." The Earl—then Lord Morpeth—entered the shelly cavern, "Give me oysters in every style," he, said to the attendant servitor; and the night was well-nigh spent ere the British noble man was "through" wish the successive relays brought him of oysters stewed and ()peers fried, of oysters roasted uud oysters steittnet, ot crysters pickled 'and oysters ecAloped. We bad "oysters in'every a yle" on Ne-v Year's day, and in 'addition pates de foie was,' turtle, venison, canvese beck deck, terraiun, chicken shied, "dispatch" and "bashawed" lobster, jambon en surprise, and other good' thiugs, too numerous to mention. When to these you add "topaz" sherry and Madeira of the "Smoked," and "Sunny-side," and "Gov ernor Fish" varieties, with peruaps an occa sional "smile" of very curious old B turboa whisky, you may imagine that lunching out on New Yeat's day, in New Yorkle areea. I jeement not unfraught with peril to 'the dyspeptic. 'l`ni Porn.,--Aniong the subscriptions for , the Pepe published by the Paris Univers some are • ptcullur. An uncle and a pephew (it° rays the parstini ph) united at the Wt. of thetope —6oofr. Then a p it) ".11itderuis Montiii 'lieneilect. to iit• truct the protection of the lithitischlato Virgin tit.d tic Wet die ton of the • gloilouc Pontiff ou 4 1 1 1 40 1 KM felollY," iffr. • SeVottl with; et Alt •ki . ff with Pi 'IS 14f "T i; , , who suer , tie,, ~ r, ne til t , thoiht r cif,* 'child who leis ,es to , be a ou.sve , laciitilleal,' Illtr, 'Mettle - r,inauistresses,e4ch 1 int *limn rt•Sicts titieplY eg:nn dile to supply 1 itbelloiy *haler with it Zudiv,e," Wit.* It is re- i Itlieiikivi thatAttiese calient .be' Tarlac to , golttn. , Attivefir; as they (like carezkto! keep thelr Zouvive!t. to givPai l litol: ^ f i', `i, I, , ^ ^-; , ~,' - :,. .„, . ~,,i.!:•,,,, • 4 How Sala Slade F. L. FETHEISTOttI. Publisher PRICE TIMES ()SNITS; FACTS AND FINNAN& —General Sheridan is a Fenian. —Carlotta goes to bed at ten o'clock. —The Pope has tiny handsome feet. —Bryant's sight Is growing - dint. —A. darts' man—Mandarin Nuilingame, ter from China to Europe. —When Mandarin Burlingame goes to Pi wont he nuke game alter capital?" —Burlingame's reward—service of C. Why not also a service of plate? —All hope of Lamartine'etrectairej fret present prostration seems to be give& p. —The buildings of the Paris Expordhliron are fast . passing away. —Murat bas been admitted tcythe naval Wu' 101,' at Brest. OM Infant Upbeat the Brest,. —An exchange queries whether tlurrasan wh writes a tale is necessarily a wag. ; —Gladston speech made seventeen colt:mina El lu the London paperer. —The Webb , sisters are to play no hrundroct nights on the Paellic coast. for 1126,0001mi:old. —Cholera has , earried off , 50,000 A.rahs. b Al geria, and famine now threatens to Who the feet.' —A wonderful. torpedo hosjnet bet in Invented at Brest, Fr,ance. —The New York World cells• Mr. Stant= Sec retary of the Exterior. —Brazil anticipatca this year the Is rgeate har vest of coffee ever gathered. —Nitro-glycerine was discovered in 1 847 byre, Indian chemist named Sombrero, —Bierstadt has been showing. bid• pit.turea• to Victoria. —Henry J. Murray, British consul at rortand,- is to read Dickens•to the Portlandera. —lrish butter Is said to be now the w oral ar— ticle on sale in any market throutzbout th, s globe., —Lester Wallack reappears sm the boat xis week, after a year's•abstince. —The Church of England means to eatsOlish Southern University in this country. —Kate Fisher received Now Year's calls i n Braft-.- falo on her trained hont3, Wonder. —Tivo mutes were married at Hawtfori 1, lastrq week. —The New Year's Address of the New , '"forr`t letter carriers was written by &lice Gary. —George Francis Train sailed in the Si loll& yesterday. Susan stays and wears the willo w. ' —The Pope has just lost, by ,denthi a fityQriter•-• servant who had been, with him nearly. E arty— yea; s. , —F.Paale, an Englishman, has paddled his elate() twenty thousand miles. In this age„ steamboats, be is a ca-noodle for doing so. ej —Yeast is for sale in London. ten ponndo or ( which will convert I,7oosacks of flortrinto7,3l4;- • 000 penny buns. —Gen. Phil Sheridan le paying attention to a young lady in Albany, said to be one of ther Governor's-near relations. —Napoleon has $7,500,000 a year forspendintr: money; Francis Joseph half as much; Icing Wil liam $3,000,000, and. Vietona even less, —The first newspaper was issued in. Californian•_' iu 1848, anti nowthere are two lmndredand lour- - teen in the State. —An infant was dangerously poisoned. in Troy, N. Y., a few days ago, by being allowed• to suck, a green card. —Why cannot Philadelphia have an' earth* -* quake? Everywhere else is enjoying one. Whore are our enterpriel-ng earth-Quakers.? —The reason the Fenian funeral took placw yesterday was that the undertaker feared the bodies would not keep. —St. Louis supports almost twice as , many 11-‘ , ^ quer shops as schoci-teachers, and six, times as many as the clergymen of the city. —A Baptist minister at Muscatine, lowa, has; just paid 624 for whipping his kitchen girl with.. a rope. English complain that Victoris•is stingy. NODECt El e has only been "laying _np• for reiguy da "—N. I'. Nays. —A marriage license, issued by a magistrate (a the city of Washing ton, has been returned es.- dorst d" . She wouldn't have me " —During the day the inhabitants , near Fort Bridger, Colorado, skim- the waters of the• creek and obtain kerosene for the midnightlanira. —A mad cow in San Francisco' the other day tossed a police officer, gored another man,.pitched. ti boy over a fence, and set the whole citric, com motion. —An exchange has-this marriage notleet—On., the saute day, by the same, Mr. Joslat. CLAI- M fight, of South Whitehall, to Miss Amanda K. Lbt rhard, of North . Whitehall. No cake& —A photographiat in Houston took advantage of the CA lebration of Christmas whluftre-arins to . shoot at the owner of a rival establishmentaeress the way from the elevation. of his skylight. —Miss Damon, the pretty Universalist preacbt3r, bus bt en called to Cavendish, Vt, If • to 1 tr lot some IstAresit s may full, look-on-her &n -and 3 001 forget them —Air. George Washington Moon will shortly publish a series of criticisms upon improprieties, x press ion, under the general 'tide of "Had English." —PA Nova Scotia paper noticing the fact that the reporters' gallery at Ottawa is called "the ,bird house," severely remarks that , by mental,- capacity it would rank higher. —Meissonien wrote an autograph , letter, of, thatiu to the °wpm, of his paintlem, _who 01-. lowed tht m to-be shown in the Great'EXhibltlon, and inclosed in it a valuable drawing by himself. —Mr. Mahan Parish, of Kalamazoo, Mich., applied for a patent for a new. "Mu-blower w t twenty-five years ago. He obtained it -last month. .. _ . . —lt-is related that at a recentconeerir in Lan.:: don t the audience hissed the "Kyrie" from, Mo--, zart s twellth.ldase, bat a song. called the "%Lus e - Tulledlriz , " was tumultuously encored.. -.. • • •-• 5 ..- -The Empress is deilrous.of. glilug the Duke Monehy an important position in the court. One Is to be created expressly for him, She, wishes to have - the Duchess constantly near h er.'. . . .. . . ....: —A KaTIF . BB toper put in his pocket a - btittle O f whisky and another of varnish, By mistake bk. drank the vernieb and became so drunk that he.;, blew his bruins out with a shot-gun..,,,,, —lt is stated that Dr. W. 11. R ussell has aceeptied i the position of Paris correspondent of the Lou-. '. don Times. The salary is $20,000 in gold, "ant( • found" in house, carriages, servants and secreta— lit s to do all the work. •—French art has just sustained a severe low in. the person of .Theodore Reusstatu, ono of its most: . Justly cell brated landscape painters Rousseau Fainted nature for nature's sake, with no otheir master than an obseurs.portrait painter. —Victor Hugo, on learning. that his play•Oe Ruy bias was interdict. d in Paris, revenged aim- , self by addreatling a note to M. Louis Bournparte," acknowledging the receipt of the intellie- gt. 1103. . '" " .?,; —A little girl was lately reproved for plisatitqc .;•, ( , lit do( N with tici, a, and informed that, helot, ••, seven years old, she was too .big tor . that' now: "'Wbv, grandma, the bigger we grow.thm bbttne • we like 'ern." • ik,•`'' .;•,'..,.; —A Dr: Kernot, of London, has inveitala• Imo, preserver that keeps whole pleeta fett,otoal,, 118 a roast of beef, a legof mutten;:ittkontire. ;Auk( y, etc., for eighteen months, so that"WikaisA cooked it is perfectly sweet and wholesome.. ' —One of the most.Origitial of juvenile.. intett-42: , tiove was that of the child, who,,lastesai;rOf 11, ivg, her prayers at eight, spread out hiig. Opiti . -. . g , on the be d, and raleing• er eyes to Heav ed, Attlit.;l ”0,.1.0rt1i here are thnletters— . .arrangtf;tkegn •• ~,, cnit youtoulf." : r ' ',,- '';: r. , " ' '' I . .. '.. % ' ..:: ....., ... - The North A Met fed» lb] a mornlatotitteii; "u floralbaeket of •. . was promoted:: Ni.w. 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