'IRSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME. XXI.-NO. 238. EVENING BULLETIN A. rtrpLISIIED EVERT EVENING (Sundays excepted). ALT THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, 607 Chestnut 'Street / Philadelphia., DT TUN • EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. raorisTolui. !NIKON PEACOCK, " ERNEST C. WALLACF;„ P. L. FETIIRItSTON, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON. CASPER SOUDER, JR.. FILA,NCIS WELLS. ' The Ilumarrrir is served to subscribers in the city at 18 setts per week, payable to the carriers, or $8 per annum. WEDDING INVITATIONS AND VISITIN. Y ARDS SY Engraved cis Written. Newest styles of Wedding Stationary. (Wilma look at samples. W. U. PERRY, Stationer. 728 Arch /Street. JRAMU:ED. MILLS—HAYS.—By Rev. N. B. Baldwin. December 26, 1807. a4Lineexington, Pa., Mr. Edward Mills to Miss Lydia Hays, loth of Philadelp_hia. la *r ULES-1/110hdfdEDIEU —At Christ Church, Cin cinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday tinning, Jun. 8. hyjtigkt lter. Bishop bleCookrey of Idichigan, assisted by' Bey. Mr. kinixely, Brevet Brig... Don. George D. Ruggles, As sistant Adjutant General U. 8. Army. to Alma IL, daughter of 8, Vilommi.dieu, Esq., of Cincinnati, 0, DIED, (jORLIFB.—On the morning of the 18th inst., Florence, infant daughter of ti. Fisher an d Caroline A. Got . lies. The relatives and friends of the famil are invited to attend her funeral. from the residence other parents. tio. 1711 Arch street- on Fourth-day, the 15th instant, at 2 o'clock. without further notice. • KIHIEPATRICK.—On Monday morning, John Kirk patrick, in the 23d year of his ',go. The miativcs and friends of the family are respect- Fully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his mother. Hamilton street, above Thlrty.fourth. on Thursday morning, 16th inst., at ten o'clock. To proceed So Laurel Bill. Ml-NDENIIALL---07 the 13th inst., B. ft Men denhall aged 63. - riends and those of the family are ittilt“/ to attend — His raid& and those of the ly . _ funeral, from his late residence. No. Coates stVt, nu Thnrsday. Inlh lost. at I P. M. PA itK it —This morning, Annie Hallett, only daughter of Eduard L. and Mary A. Parker, in the DM] year of her age. Hue notice will be given of the funeral. '¢ RA NDALL.—On the Hth inst., Miss Ann Randall, Her friend, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, No. 7*',5 South Tenth street. on Thursday morning, at ID o'clock. To proceed to Laurel MIL 4, . ;1341111,—A t Spuyten Huyvil, on , the. Hodson river, N. lr'i,Unriiiclo;.:Tari 10. Annn relict of Colonel Wlllfaui fortnetiy of Philadelphia, in the ath year of her age. tislllll.—Suddenly, on the afternoon of the Ilth WA. •. litf id Sniith, in the t7.4th year of hit gum, BURIAL CASKET. PATENT Yon DLAIGIII GIAISTED JULY 9,M, E. N. ZSIILKY, UNI , T.KTAK.ZII, B. T. tIOUNETI or TIGHTLI Alto ottr_Kx arum," I claim that my now improved and only patented d3URIAI. CASKET is tar more beautiful in tong and finish than the old unsightly and repulsive coffin, and that lta construction adds to its strength and dus t &Sty. We, the undendan.d. having had occasion to 1150 in our familial E. S. EARLEY'S PATEN 'r uititlAL CASKET, would not in the future 1111.13 any other if they could be ob. tabled. Bishop M. Simpson, Rev. J. W. Jackson. J. LIL Schenck, M. D., K J.Criopen. Core..l. hiarstoa, U. S. N.. Jacob S. iturdsail. Bev. D. W. Dane, D. D., Geo. W. Evans. Dent. Orne. Wm. nicks. J. W. Claghorne. . D. N. dins ,CIARD—IAN DART I. IF.X—EYEEkLANDELL, eourt , and Arch. are prep - tired to wit (a=llied with. lit 011SEHOLD D 2 Utit.)Ds, GOOD VLANNEL 4 AM) MU:SIANS. )1> TABLE LINENS AND NAPKINS, :00D BLACK AM/00,011ED SILKS. ariffes AIL Noire CES. ..jpg - WATER RENT NOTICE. DEPARTMENT For Supplying the City with Water. Oftioe No. 104 Smith Fifth Street. Tho Water Retie for It will 'be received at ihhi Off re on and after MONDAleolanuary 13th, and until May l ' et, without petudt.Y. jalllkitrp GEO. F. KEYsER, Itegioter. - TIM ENTr.1:191:41:: INSI.I . .ANCI", COM PAN ",""" OF PIIILA1)E1,11.11A, OF'F'ICE, NO. 400 W ALNI: r JA'iCAVY 14. 1.004 At , the Annual t i rig of the Stockholders of this Com pany held on the 13th day of J matory, the following gen :Woo:a were elected L./Vectors for the ,nsulng year: F. Ratchford Starr, .1. L. Effinger. Nalbro Frazier. Geo. W, Foltnestock, .I‘,l,lllll.,Atnood, Jos. L. Cloghorn. Benj. 'l'. Tredick, Win. G. Moulton, ticorge 11. Stuart, char , . Wheeler, John 11. Brown, Thos. H. :ktontrif:l6•v. At a meeting of 'the Board of Dlreetorolichl this day. P. KATiliftliti) STAill: was re.elccted l'recident. and TIIO3IAS U. 31ONT(0.MEIlli re-elected Vice Bre4dent. ALEX. W. wisTErt. Sect etary.,- Rte.. OFFICE OF Pio Y, NO. 406 Ch:4 At an Election held on t named gentlemen were elee , year; F. N. Ruck, Itichardaon Lowly, a „. IL Pearce, P. B. Jurtice.- - E. 1). NVoixltutf. At a meeting of the newly V. N. DUCE. ar 1111111.1i1110118 1t.101.1Aki1.)69N Vice Errtne . NV. 1. atir FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. TUE :AWN eiILY meeting of the lust ituto will be hell on NY kiDN DsI . EVEISiNtI, 15 . 1 lust. at 8. o'clock. Meantime and °Ultra having new inventiOns or apurimens of manatee. tines to exhibit will please send them to the hall, NG. lip South Seventh Street, b.( , re 7 o'clock P W.M J. McAt..PINE, Esf.. Civil Engineer, of Now York. will read n Falls on the application of Priegmatio Pam., The election for (Slicers and Managers will lie held the tame day. Polls open from to 8 o'clock P. M. WILAJA 4 11.011.111:0N, Actuary - I'itILAI.ELPITEI;:aIitu-14. hid& ww UNION uAit AND', 1 1 / 4 1..i.spFACTI 'RING cog, PAN Y, COIL 1111 n. le s r ANL/ Ltit' t. ST tiTS LI A1E1,1.11114, January 11,1865. At a epecfahmceticlt of ttio Idrectcro of thin Company held thin day at thy' (Alice, No. 4.0 'Walnut greet. ROI; P. -0.-THOMAS waa_elected Secretary in plata of Jam es \V. Barrett, mewed. _ B. B. TiloNl AS, jal4 2t4 t'reaideut. seir OFFICE or Tip: OLD DOMINION MINING COMPANY OF NEVADA, No. .f.o WALNUT St., Roma No. l 4 and ha; (Post r otlica fox 17i2). Philadelphia, January VAS. The Hoard of Directors hai r this day declared a second Dividend of Fifty C. zits Per Share. parable on and after the first day of February next. The former - dividend was paid on the trot ultimo. STEPHEN MILLER., it. Secretary. i gn i z o t . N 2 ,2 l l- - i,v (nir 13 . 1;:.) t, F Nolan AM g. rnmanr.I.PRIA,'JACIUry 13, 1%8. Tho Directors have this day declared a semi-annual Di vidend of Six- Per Cont., free of taxes, payable on de. wand. CHARLES PLATT, ja14.12t5 Secretary. Mlif FUND. : --THE ANNUAL MEET "ring of thin AI uoclation will be hold at the 1:ocous of t i le Board of Trade, on TUESDAY EVENING. Met hut, 736 o'clock, to receive the Annual Hobrt e, and elect Munagerepr the enuuing yea WM. 11. BACON. ' : J 1 Secretary.- IitrWOMAN'S HOSPITAL. The wimps' meeting et the Contributors to the We inan'a nominal of Philadelphia will be bent at the TlOApital Building. North -College avenue and Twenty. ritcond litroot, Tilt itS.DAY, Jelin ary loth, at 3 o'clock P. M. , E. P. HALLowAY, inwttre Secretary. Aar YENNOILNANIA MILITARY ACADEMY REOPENS TIIURSDAY, January 24,1.863. For Clr&dorn apply to COL. THEO. HYATT, delnlurP4 Chester, Delaware eetinty.p.,_ - R0E1.1518 AND 1520 1111r attard street, Dispensary Department.— Medi. , tal treatment and inedicluou fundshedgratuttonetv to the ;poor. stir NrNSPAPERS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE Paper, &c. Bought by E. HUNTER, de , 7 1 Im6 No. 613 Jayne street. Onowrir ON Mumiocane.—Twenty years ago Melbaurne, , the capital of Victoria, lied a popu lation of 8,000. Its population is new 128,000. In 1848 the province of Otago, one of the nine provinces into which New Zealand is divlded,had a population of 620, and in 1864 its population was 61,000. Twenty-three years ago the popu 'Litton of South. Australia was 19,000, and in 1866 it was 170,000. r ORGANIZED 1 1 0$TAL ROBBllll,l7.—Public atten tion in Russia has been occupied by the trial of upwards of fifty post-office officials for stealing money from letters. It appears that a complete organization existed for this purpose in the de partment, and that it has boon carrying on its operations since ]862. An elaborate code of regulations, by which this society was _bound, has been discovered, in which the capital of the 1 •if' society, the mode of division of the profits, and the sums to be given as rewards to those of the ;members who were most skillful in their thefts, are minutely described. oelB.3mxp FA MI: INS , 'l'NU'r sTRI OJALPUIA.Ji the nth in... ....., f onowint• sted DireotOre for the entsting ...-" „.-Cleo. A. Alie,t. J. W. Everrunti. U. Stokes, .L Reeler, Jr. R. B. Porstr,, M. Vuzby. r ' elected Board, held this day, sly eh-ctes! Pressldont. Cll Ad. slut, and ttLANt !HARI), Flerrettay. CHARLIE'S DICIAENIS. Mr. Charles Dickens gave the first of his series of readings in this city, at Concert Hail, last evening. The room was, of course, well filled. Every seat upon the floor and in the gallery was occupied, and enough persons were admitted afterward to fill comfortably the standing room directly behind the rows of benches. The mate- flat of the audience was of an unusual character Very rarely. in•lPetl, have the same number of persons, representing every department of litera ture, art, science and business,' and the better class of Society, been assembled at a place of amusement in this city. The arrangement of the stage was simple, but admirable. At the back stood a large screen, covered with dark red ma terial. In front, beneath a row of gas lamps, was a small table, hung with red velvet, and sup ' tirtlag a desk upon , which a book • rested, and a water bottle and glass. This was all. A few minutes after eight, Mr. Dickens walked quickly over the platform to the desk, and was received with very slight applause. Everybody expected that he would receives very hearty wel come. Instead, there was much leas enthusiasm than is often bestowed upon a popular member of the stock company of one of the theatres. De spite the minute descriptions of Mr. Dickens, al ready _given in the_ journals of this country, everybody wabdisappointed in his appearance. Persona al v4Vg" conceive an idea of the gen eral outline of a man with whose fame and name, they are familiar, and they have an odd &aped tion always to imagine a tall and elegant figure. Mr. Dickens did not entirely fill the shadowy outline that existed in the mind of each of the audience. He is a small man, certainly not more than five feet seven inches high, with shoulders proportions.. ately broad, with short, thin legs, spread apart as be stood; with a large, wide head, moderately high forehead, grey-black hair, combed carefully over The barren space on top of his head, and ar ranged in tufts at the sides, and a grey moustache and beard. He has a fresh, ruddy complexion, not too red, as some have declared; a face strongly marked, but with fewer hard lines than appear In his pictures,whiett are generally tolera bly correct likenesses. He was dressed in a plain black snit, with ring on his fingers, a long ripple of watch-chain spread over his black vest, a IN Lite cravat, and a triangle of shirt bosom. He bowed slightly in response to the mild applause, and bad the general air of a man at peace with himself, assured that he could complete his task sati-faetorily, and certain of the sympathy, re spect and admiration of his hearers. • Ile glanced over the audience, rather than at them, and announced that be would first read, the "Christmas Carol." Ilia left hand rested on the book, but be scarcely referred to it during the entire evening, excepting to illustrate some half dozen passages where the characters that he personated read, as in the speech of Sergeant Buzfuz, when he gave with emphasia to the jury, the word and line of Mrs. Bardells "Notice to Single Gentlemen." "Marley was dead, to 'begin with," were the familiar words with which Mr. Dickens began his entertainment. Estrybody knew all about iarloy and his ghost, and the effect produced • by that melan choly, financially enthralled spectre uponthe hard-fisted Scrooge. But it seemed almostlike a new story, with the interest intemßilef by the reflection that right there beforew( on the plat form, stood the great first can4of Scrooge, and the troubled spirit, and the rest of those shad_ owy but nearly pOptible beings whom we knew as our old familiar friends. }Sr. Dicise6s has not a really good voice. When began, it seemed husky; the effect was 9ightly disagreeable. and the people in the front 'seats felt acutely miserable with a fear that those in the buck part of the room could not hear. But as the reader proceeded, his voice seemed to improve, and to gain in power. Mr. Dickens speaks with the faintest suggestion of a lisp, that is not unpleasant. Ills utterance is clear, and his enunciation bold, distinct and ad mirable. In the narrative portions he spoke rapidly, and was not as effective as In the cha racter parts. In most of these latter, he was very fine. Other readers rather outline and describe the characters they interpret; Mr. Dickens personates them. Ile is wholly and altogether an actor. What the gentlemen next door do with the accessories of scenery and costume, Mr. Dickens accomplishes with the modulations of his voice, the wave of his hand, the contraction of the muscles of his face. One instant be was gruff old Serooge,.the next he was Bob Cratchit with his timid treble; or he was the Mailing, bowing, good hu.utored solicitor of charity, or that hearty nephew of Scrooge's. When he was Scrooge, and saw-Marley's face on the knocker, _ all of us felt our blood run cold; uniT when he looked right through Marley's waistcoat and saw those spectral buttons on the ghostly coat tail,the buttons grow palpable and self-evident. Mr. Dickens happily snits his action to his text. When he described the country dance, his hands shifted about as if he were swinging cor ners with all the energy of one of Pezziwig's clerks; and when he spoke . of Fezzirig's very calves winking, he snapped his eyelids together as if faintly to illustrate the effect produced by the old gentleman's stout legs; for they certainly must have .been stout. He snaffled when the little Cratchits declared that the plum pudding at a certain stage of preparation smelt like wash ing day, and when Master Peter mashed the potatoes, and Miss Belinda stirred sugar in the apple sauce, and Martha dusted the plates, Mr. Dickens executed all the motions, and got into as great a blistle of excitement as if he had been there and taken the deepest intercat in the proceedings. ` Some of the characters wore not personated as well as others. Indeed, it is doubtful whether most of Mr. Dickens's hearers did not fool some what disappointed with many of them, as they did with the author. If he were an artist, and I could place upon canvass a representation of the '•; scenes described by him, it is a fact that these would not agree at all Ith the pictures which have been formed in the minds of his readers, as they are in the minds of all,readers, when they absorbed the material furnished by him. So It is with his characters; he drovi them from his own conceptions, but every individual conceives them differently, and when Mr. Dickens gave Ida ver sion, we feel assured that in many instances everybody felt a certain vague dissatisfaction, as if that • was .not precisely the party with, whom they were acquainted, although it was enough like him to be his twin brother. Espedally was this the ease with Mr. Samuel. Wel ler, who was received with several rounds of applause, as he obeyed the summons , to come into Court, The deficiency of Mr. Dickens's rep resentation of this character was more marked than in the case either l of Tiny Tim, Scrooge'S niece by marriage, the boy who went for the \ prize turkey, Mrs. °Wait or Bob Cratehitil him. self. We all knew Sam an well that anything r ut the authentic young Weller himself, precisely PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1868. as we have admired him, and been entertained by him, would not have been satisfactory. Mr. Dickens did not do justice to the subject. It may have been the coneequence of disappotnterd great expectation, bat the personation really seemed the weakest of them all. The best, beyond question; were, first, Judge Stareleigh, who was -the very embodiment of solemn stupidity. He was given with such rare fidelity, that we almost felt the gloominess of his unpleasant presence. Then the interview between Scrooge and his for- oaken love was very touching, both characters' being sharply and distinctly drawn. The youth ful Cratchits opened their oyes and shouted, or sniffed their spoons into their watering mouths, as natural as life itself. Old Mr. Weller enunci ated his opinions and directedthe court to "spell it with a We," with his familiar gravity. Ser geant Buzfus hardly equaled himself, although the trick of giving the rising infleetion to his sentences was very laughable. Mr. Dickens doss this himself in a less exaggerated and more pleas ing manner. There was one peculiarity about this reading that is worth remarking. Although thespeaker has learned to reach his climaxes skilfully, and to make his points well, it was observable that the humorous passages were much more effective than those of a pathetic character the former Mr. Dickens read as if he heartily enjoyed the fan himself, and as his face lighted up in sym pathy with the laughter of the audience; the keen sense of humor in the man was evident in every line of his coun tenance, and in those oyes. Over which he has a Napoleonic trick of drooping the eyelids, whenever he feels that he has said a good thing. This was fresh'and natural and sympa thetic, but there was artifice in his tenderness and sadness. Beb. Cratchit's grief for Tiny Tim did not evoke pearly as much sympathy as it always has done when read from the book. The story of the child's beautiful sentiment. in the church did not go home to every heart with its usual force ; and Scrooge's agony of remorse as he prayed for time to repair' the evil he had done,was not as intense and tragic as we know it to be. All these were given with grace and skill, but either the speaker's heart was not in it, or he lacked the fine tact to place himself in perfect sympathy with his hearers. The sum of all this is, that Mr. Dickens is not the greatest reader or the greatest actor of the day. If he were unknown to fame as a writer, he would never become familiar with it as a reader. There are men and women who can read his own works batter than he &n. But if he were the very poorest reader that ever lived, we should all go to bear him. It is a laudable and natural cariosity to desire to see great men, and, it is a shabby affectation to pretendt6 care nothing to look upon the fedi of the person who has created more clear, distinct, individual` characters that any writer since Shakespeare; the man who has contributed to the intense enjoymente{millions of his fel hirws : who has done a greater and nobler'work than this, in maki6; his art the instrument of re form, and whtthrough the medium of fiction, has bat fled against prejudice, and ignorance, and vlO =kid all the old foes of progress and humanitys 2iVho has been the hero, the valiant champion, the earnest and eloquent advocate of the poor: who has descended from the courts and palaces and nobles, and all the splendor of older fiction, to tell the story of the outcast, the wretched and the oppressed, and to alleviate their suffering and supply their wants: who has brought men in contact with their fel low-men, and done more to teach that grand old doctrine of the universal brotherhood of the race than all the statesmen and writers of this or any other time. This is the person whom we all wont to see last night, and he must accept the presence of that magnificent audience, and of the others he will have, as a tribute, not only to his sur passing genius, but as a token that he has drawn the hearts of all people to his own by his noble services in behalf of humanity. LETTER. FROM. FLORIDA. (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Balletic.] JACKSONVILLS, Florida, Jan. t, 1868.—The fifth anniversary of the. Emancipation Proclama tion was celebrated here with great spirit by the colored people.' Men, women and children pa raded the streets, dressed in holiday attire, and keeping step to the animating music of half a dozen fifes and drums. Their banners were gay and gaudy, and had such inscriptions as: "The Sear of jubilee is come!"—"1868, For President, John C. Fremont; for Vice President, Frederick Douglass." After a day's faithful tramp In the sand,lthey drew up in a grovt in'the centre of the city, where, from a stand erected for the purpose they were addressed by several speakers, to wnoso sentiments they responded with indubitable evi dences otapprobation. _Among others,Solon Rob inson, Esq.,of the New York fribuse,who is now here for a season for the benefit of the climate, gave them some sound advice, telling them that the day they celebrated was more to them than the Fourth of. July was to the white populatihn of our country, and urging them to the' cultivation of habits of subordination, honesty and industry; The "citizens of African descent' are quite ma merons here, and, as far as my observation goes, conduct themselves with about as much propriety and promise as'could be expected from persons who, having long worn the yoke of a degrading b. ndage,have suddenly emerged into the new and untried element of freedom. • We must not ex pect too much, all at once, from those whom the immortal second Pater-patrice has invested with liberty. Our judgment of them in the new sphere which they occupy should always be qualified by the recollection of the depressing and demoralizing influence of the systemsfrom whose clutches they have been ransomed, and by the too common tendency on the part of those whose interests were damaged by their liberation, to make it appear, as far as possible; the unwise re sult of a morbid philanthropy. It is gratifying to see how rapidly Northern energy and tact are showing themselves in the regions of the South. And it is no less so to fled bow the two types of population, notwith standing the sad war so recently terminated, ad just themselves to each other. In this city .a re union of Northern people was called for in the public halls at few weeks since, and some two - hundred were in attendance. The ladies of the several churches have, within a few weeks, been holding fairs and festivals for congregational purposes, and they have been patronized gener ally without reference to political bias. It is amusing sometimes as the band, occasionally and kindly supplied at such gatherings from the headqOrters of the Federal forces here, pray, our good old National airs, to see how they evoke an expression of antagonistic feelings. Such expression, however, is always very mode rate and limited, indicating that the violence of the storm, which so fearfully raged, hasTassed, and that now only the wandering waves remain to briaik in murmurs on the shore, May the day won dawn when, under a true civilization and. pervading Christianity, there shall be "a great calm," and the tempest be remembered, not by the wrecks along the shore, but only by the brighter sky overhead, and the balmier and purer atmosphere around. The fruit business In this. State Is growing more and move into Importance. The quickness and eheapnee of access to the Philadelphia and New York 'm rkets are atiMulatlog Aids depart ment of enterprise. A.restind us here, phintstions are being bought for the cultivation of oranges. peaches and strawberries. Poaches can be fur- OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, niched from this section etymr wharves in June, and thus, anticipating your northern orop, must monopolize the trade, and prove largely. remu nerative. The only danger in pursuing this business is exposure to frost, but as this occurs so very seldom, scarcely once in twenty years, ihe apprehension of it is overbalanced by the certainty of large profits. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has purchased a plantation near Hibernia, in this State, and her son, I understand, is giving the fruit trade very marked attention. Our oranges are very fine, large, sweet and luscious. We have among ns about hundred Invalids, chiefly front the North. Many of them are greatly improved, some entirely restored, but, alas! some try this briht and genial ellniate after disease has made too much ravage upon their constitutions. The weather is quite uni form, and very mad. Only occasionally do we need a pine knot on the hearth, and the ther mometer generally ranges from 70 to 78. The afr is remarkably pure. In one of our cemeteries lie the remains of fifty of our brave boys, who, when set at liberty from the cruelties of Andersonville prison, came hero, with three thousand others, on their way to their homes. The „see.ount given of them is heart rending, Not one of the vast crowd had a hat or coat many of them had even no pants, but their wasted limbs were covered only by torn and tattered drawers, and their feet. shoeless and sore, were blistered by their long journey over the rocks and sands. When they came here, not having bathed for years, they rushed to the St. John's river, which skirts our city, with re sistless eagerness, and washed their pale, re duced • and filthy bodies.. Some -of them, when food was furnished, ate so vo-; raciously tkat they died the next day. One man actually devoured four loaves of bread, and in twenty-four hours died. As already stated, fifty of them could not, with all the inspiring influence of the hope of soon meeting their loved ones at borne, bear up any longer, and, smiling in death, whets sad precursors they had so lon and so nobly stiffened, they were buried beneath the sod of the banks of the St. John's. All honor to their memory! They have a monument more enduring thin brass, in the hearts of their grateful countrymen. How precious are our privileges, bought at such a price ! )r; . Loi t4I it) i 4 THE I►IASSACHUSETTS BOND 808 AMERY. Particulars of the Arrest. (From the Boaton Herald. Jan. 131 The pursuit of Robert Preston, the abscond ing insurance clerk, who had aipropflatecl be tween $B,OOO and $9,000 deposite -in the office in which he was employed, has be u attended with a result - entirely successful/The circumstances of his flight in companredth "Nellie," the young woman of whom liyAa'ad become enamored, and of his subsequent arrest in Charleston, 8. C., have been published and aro familiar to our readers. State-Constable Eldridge, of Dorchester, who mad‘nursuit a special object, arrived home this Morning with the two parties in custody. He immediately took them to Dorchester where they were committed for examination on Monday next. Since bis arrest, Preston has made a full con fession of bis crime. It is the old story of wine and women. He says that his desire for dissipa tion treated a necessity for more funds than his salary offered, as long ago as last August, when he began his pilfering. Adis first robbery was of a $l,OOO bond, taken from one of the packages on deposit, his Idea being that he should obtain possession of some property due him in sea son to make good the theft; before it was dis covered. ,'He states that be gave the bond to John Tem ple—reeently arrested on charge of complicity in the robbery—and that Temple negotiated the same, disposing of it at a premium, and that the proceeds wore divided between these. When this was gone be again visited the fountain of supply, and as his dissipation, and consequently his expenses, have steadily increased, has con tinued to do so, until the pile which he first de 'Acted grew so email that he despaired of ever making it good, and then, finding that exposure was imminent, resolved upon taking all that was left and upon flight. lie says that for a long time he had divided with Temple, but that on this last occasion it suddenly occurred to him that, as - Temple in curred no risk, he was entitled to no share, and that he would himself take all the responsibility, and go It alone. This he did, and of the act ho has thus early been permitted to see the folly, while the probabilities are that In the long years of the future he will find time for repentance, in company with those, who, like himself, have de fied law and now feel the rigor of its grasp. The young woman who has pi oniinently figured in this case, now claims the name of "Ida • Prtston." She is still young and of pleasing ap pearance. She will be charged as ono of the prircipals In the robbery, as there seems to he plenty of evidence to substantiate the charge. Temple seems to be the most inexcusable of fender of the three for nothing but vicious tastes could ever have led him into his present un enviable condition. He is the son of wealthy parents, residing In Maine, and rather than he- Have in a decorous manner and remain to enjoy the comforts and luxuries of a happy home, ho preferred to come to the city and associate with the immoral element as 'aeveloped In both sexes. And like many before him, ho suffers the consequences of his folly. It ap pears that•relying upon his understanding with Preston, that neither party should, under any circumstandee, reveal the complicity of the other in the robbery, he, having heard whisperings of suspicion against him,. went boldly into the insurance office and demanded the cause of the accusations, at the same time defying them to prove aught against him. While he was yet talking officer Gove happened in, and seeing in Temple the man for whom he had been search inn once arrested him. When Preston was arrested he had on his per eon ab0ut.415,000 in bonds and cash, also a nice gold watch and chain and = a considerable quan tity of jewelry, all of which were recovered. BEATY RANK DEFALCATION I N NEW YORK. Teller Absconds with Nearly Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Belong. lug to the City Dank. No little excitement was occasioned yesterday in Wall street and business circles generally, at the discovery of a defalcation on a large scale, committed by James H. dAwerich, second teller of the Clty Bank. The amount embezzled Is variously estimated, some persons placing it as high as $lOO,OOO, and others be lieving that it will be covered by half i , that sum. • the exact amount has not been arrived , doubt is expressed that the funds abstrac ( will reach a high figure. From the information ' ained, it would appear that the system of defrauding the bank had been practiced for along time by the absconding teller. ills method of proceedink was to receive depo tits, credit the depositors with the right amount on their pass-books, and make short credits on the books of the bank. From day to day he would transfer the balance from one set of de positors to another, and in this way make it ap pear that his account with the bank was correct. Mr. Moses Taylor, President of the bank.stated to our reporter yesterday, that Leverielt has been employed in the institution fat the past seven years.. Be was twenty-five years of ugh and married. He was attentive and industrious in his business and was looked upon as a remarkably capable young man. By his strictly good con (met hp won the unlimited confidence of the el an of the bank, and none of them suspected for amornent that Leverich would be guilty of such a grave offence. Leverich is the son of Mr. Charles Leverich, President of the Bank of New York, with whom Mr. Taylor has' been on the most intimate terms for twenty years. The first intimation given to. Mr. Taylor that possibly young Leveriett might be livipg beyond his means, watrin information he received concerning some real estate transac tions which the latter had indulged in. It had been reported to Mr. Taylor that Levorieb had purchased a house up -town, and on Mr. Taylotta speaking to him on the subject, and cautioning him not to involve himself in debt, the teller said he,purclumed the house on mortgage, but that he would immediately dispose of it If so advised to do by him (Mr. Taylor) Soon aftertittea he told the officer he had cleared himself of the incum brance. Again, information reached Mr. Taylor that Leverich was building a house at Englewood, N. J. Mr, Taylor spoke to him the second time on the subject of his extravagance, saying to him it was impossible for Actm to build heroes on the strength of his income, and that if he wanted a house he r the Presidest,Wonid furnish him with the menus to procure One from hie own private purse, but be was afraid that a house procured under any other cir cumstances had a Auspicious appearance. In this instance,•too, Leverich assured Mr. Taylor that he would be governed by his advice and relin quish the house project. On the other occasion when Mr. Taylor remonstrated with Leverich for paying so high as $3OO per month for the rent of a house in the city, the latter said his mother and sister were going to live with him., and, under those circumstances; he thought the amount was not extravagant. A few days after the last couversattoo,Leverich left the bank as usual, in the afternoon, taking with him his cash-box. Whether the box con tained any of the funds of the• bank is unknown by the officers. On Saturday, the 4th inst., he wrote a note to the Cashier, to• the effect th%t he bad been taken suddenly ill, and was not able to leave his bed. In the early part of the 'week two of the bank clerks galled at his house, No. 80 West Twentpaixth etreeti-but..were unable to see him. Learning of this fact, the officers of the bank made some further inqurries, and suspect ing that something was wrong, examined his ac counts and became aware of the defalcation. Mr. Taylor has since been informed that Love; . rich, accompanied by his wife, loft his, house in Twenty-sixth street, at about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the Gth. He carried in his jinni a valise, and on his arm a shawl. TheyArroceeded In the direction of the Seventh tv,true. He left word with his servant that histtunks would be called for by an expressman' on the following morning. Yesterday affernoon Mr. Taylor learned that the trunks had been discovered at Newtown. L. I.Nothing, however, has been heard of the whereabouts of the teller, and it is supposed by-Some of the bank officers that he went tosnada. Le' enrich is 5 feet . inches in height, delicate !noting, and has a light complexion. Ile wears small mustache, but no whiskers. Ills wife is very short. Leverich was a clerk In the General Clearing House for a long time. Mr. Taylor claims that, allowing the defalca tion to be at the highest amount reported, the bank then will have a. surplus of $800;000. In explanation of Leverich's conduct he says he be lieves that the young man entered largely into stock speculations, and having lost heavily, re sorted to the funds of the bank to extricate him self from his financial entanglements. Mr. Tay lor looks upon the act as a result of the unsettled and perilous condition of the country, and the national finances particularly.—N. F. ilror/d. THE RESTORATION STANTON. , Opinions of the New York Press. The World has nothing to say. (From the Herald.] In the Senate there was a concurrent decision in the matter of• Stanton's suspension as Secre tary of War. By the decisive vote of thirty-five to six, the Senate, in executive session, after a debate of five hours, declared that the reasons given by the President for Stanton's suspension are not sufficient, and that the Senate, therefore, do not concur to this suspension of Secretary Stanton. By this vote, according to the Tenure of Office law, ho is reinstated in the War Depart ment, and we await with some interest the next move in this matter. It depends upon Stanton; but he will probably not attempt to enforce his claim until covered by the shield of the bill re lating to the Supremo Court. From these movements in Congress and others foreshadowed, and from till the signs of the times, we may, we think, safely hazard the opinion that we are on the threshold of the most tnoinen tons events in the history of the United States. [From the N. Y. Timm] Restoration of Secretary Stanton. - It will be seen from yesterday's proceedings lu Congress that the Senate, by a majority of :15 to 6, passed the resolution reported last week by Senator Howard, restoring Mr. Stanton to ins position as Secretary of War. The precise words of the resolution as adopted are that. the Senate "do not concur" in the suspension by the Presi dent. It will now, we suppose, be the part •of Secretary Stanton to present himself at the War Department to President Johnson and General Grant as the lexal occupant of the place, under :the Tenure of • Office'bill and the decision of the Senate. The further steps in this'remarkable and nunprecedented case will be watched with the deepest interest. P. S.—Secretary Stanton, upon being officially , notified at a late hour last night of the action of the Senate, announced that he would resume. his office immediately. Gen. Grant was also formally t , notilled of the passage of the resolution. The speculations from . Washington arc of a lively nature. (From the Tribune.) The Senate, by a vote of yeas to d nays, overruled the action of Mr. Johnson in removing Secretary Stanton, and ordered his restoration to the War Office. Our Washington correspond rent thinks that Mr. Stanton will proem' tothe War Department today "and demand the keys from Gen. Grant. if Gen.. Grant retires, and ac knowledges the action of the Senate, a new com plication will attend the President. If not, then Mr. Stanton will - be - nnder the necessity of seek ing relief through a mandamus of the Supreme Court. We think that there will be no trouble in the matter. —We approve of the action of the Senate.., If law is law it must be respected, and ir the Senate did 'not have reasons sufficient from the Presi dent, it was proper to return Mr. Stanton. EDTICATION.—A new 'educational movement has begun at Birmingham. It is .estimated' that there arc twenty thousand children In the town entirely without education, and to, meet this want it is proposed to raise a fund to be called "King Edward the Sixth's Memorial School Fund." Schools are to be erected in the most destitute districts of the town, audit is urged that fifty new schools will not be `too many to. meet present educational requirements. As regards the religious constitution of `the schoOls, it is pro posed to place them in connection with the Church of England, but to carry out the same system of toleration and perfect equality which has been adopted in King Edward's schools, where children of all religious .denominations aro admitted without distinction, and without any sacrifice of religious principle. M r ri""Tir TA V 19 1 • : PORT ON PIIELADELPIIIA-JA-Nuxriir 14. ARRIVED THIS PAY. Brig jhomatt \\Totten!, Bierrvan, 1U days from Turks lelondi with malt to Norco Phi m llipu. Correspondence of the .PhiladelPhla Exchange. EB, Dmr... Jan.l2. Sdir Star, from Chlototeagno for Philadelphia. before reported ashore, woo hove off yesterday, without db. clintpiug'ney of her otirgaviond hue proceeded up the bay. Bark filomidon and revenue cutter Miami - are the - ordy vessels at the Brent:water. Wore, .te. JOBEEII LAWETRA. • MEMOILANDA. • • Steamer Mercedita, timith, cleared at New Orleami 7th inst. for New York. Steamer tit Thomas (Br), Cowell, ,cleared at New (Jr. leans 7th inrt. f r Liverpool, with 1491 bales cotton, be is °Brake, Irountuve.n and sundries. Bark John Good. Crowell, hence at, Bremerhaven:2a ult. Bark Mira. Dlx hence at Bremerhaven 27th ult. Bark Unlit. Iu sam, from bonder' for this. port, at Dont 911th ult. am proceeded. BP,/ Mai [meths, Thesing, hence at Altona 27th tilt. Brig Harsh Jane (80. Masters, clouted at. lialthuore .7 e sc ru i r r lle d E nyf n or 1 1;e o l i n t r te lh ect. Gelding, hence for minter°, No. via Newborn, NC, nt iatterawhalet Ptit instant, waiting tide. , Fehr ,T Itni ley, Williams. windis port, was at Hatteras luht ilth furl waiting fair to go to Bea, • Bchr Lathe, Taylor, at Boston 12th inst. from Wilming. tou. Del. Bolus Ft Simmons, Gandy; Paige Rich, and Ralph F. on the, Crosby, hence at Boston 12. th inst. J 'Hand. aud Ptiftil. hence for Richmond, were at Drury's Blud dotstmil etit 4.VA:LL'.IIII of the yam; currzut. 1 3) 4 . FEIVPIISTON. Pubtislierkv, PRICE T.EIRES CENTS. FACTS ANIIrIFANCIES. • —Denver sends lip a cry . for a literary societt. , —Trenton, N. J., 'elamoaB:for Sunday ears. —The widow of Iturbide i ire ratios. • —Deferred tea—T-Oolong. —Gold Rill, Nevada, is enjerying a . contest faf" the billiard ehampionship of that.seetion. —A stabbing case is a daily necessity , with Una citizens of Memphis now. • . G ramie Puchee3e de Ger,Wieier is doing alt she cave-can to amuse the HubbitVis. —A man in Norwich droppetrtk 11vre004 into a bomb-sliell "to bear it fizz." He heal!' it. • —Seldlier's poems can be bought for ilitt ceut4 ' in Germany, now that the copyrigitit baiveittoired. —Chicago abated 37,000 nuicances lAeltyear, and yet some remain. —A Connecticut joker was recently tined! .1S for playing ghost. —The Florentines' are to give Jules Pismire* • medal. • It Is said that - the Archblehop-ofiFaillt , lvili soon be elevated to the rank of CarYstaL —Eaters of borsetlesh In PUTIS are said to anltiM from nightmare: . —Grant is called the . Great Dry Pomp ts)r Nasirrille paper. —Junction - city, • Kaunas, twants 10 he ilia capital of the nation. —When a journal has a ourpints of stustographi& reporters, can It be said tb, be short headed in I* force?--Con,. AA; —Fitz Greene lialleck , left t3criie niaoriscriptn poems, one of which is do appear in Hahrs a4' Home next month: - 7 -Telegraphic operatorn'are beg,irmingr to calf, lbempeives "Ttlegramers," amid.vary htievgrata mars OKI sometimes arc. —The new volume of poems by Adah ?ambit, Just Issued in Paris, is dedicated to "uny friend, Charles Dickens." —lt is no novelty for ladies , to play Hamlet. Mrs. Blddons,played it for hers husband 'a benefit! at Bristol, England, on the 27th , of June, 1711.. —Charles Dickens is %WO) , halter off than he was when he arrived In dila, country last‘ her. —When Dr. Hayes lectures in the West on .bl 5 t,,."' Arctic explorations, the loeal papers aninourcet that the hall will be comfortably warmed! —Gen. John Meredith Read, ;r4. of Albs tnrijar • the author of the "Old filate-roof Honseis pineott's Magazine. —Lueca has sung the part. o?' Narguerii 'e Gonnod's "Faust" at the Berlin , Opera IL onset forty-live times,. —lt is rumored that Bishop fitcvens Is. al tout to purchase a residence. at fountain South Bethlehem. —Teresa 'Carreno, the pianist - Jo -studying vocal music In Paris, and intends to be witrima dontlit. - It is said she has a very superior voice. —The Wisconsin editors are to make an excui pion to thegrave of John Brown,.on. the. next Fourth of July. —lt got awful • late at Greenfield, Thursday. The town clock struck 7:10.L-3prirayjietil licatt. —Lancaster was agitated a day or.two since by the appearance in its streets of a bear that had , lost its bearings, and appeared auziree.s to sup oti some stray Laneastrian or other.. • —A family of chicken thieves were recently.' arrested in Hartford. One of the , sons was touched on the shoulder while ntityilag "cats cradle" with the adored of his heart. —Work has been suspended for falllt-eenturiett on the tower of the Cologne Cathedral, but in the spring it will be begun again after the brief. hiatus. —Goethe, whom hardly any one 12newe except as a ,poet and novelist, eans - Idered himself best as a man of science, and hoped his..reputatiort would rest on that specialty. —The new Vienna opera honseove are gravely. informed.. is. to be lighted "on the. Rampen beleuchning .system." The name, will cast in heavy shadow. —lt is gratifying to learn that themetublire . eit 7 the "Mnatschappij tot llcvordoring Toonkunst,", recently gave a performance • of- Hapheis "seasons" at - ..krnheim. : „ —A musical tourist on the Nile complains ther. the waiver. have no car for music, but.only lovosa.. noise, and play on shrill pipes or on, j e sharp mitt stringed fiddle. • - cr - - —Haydn's tomb-stone in the HundathurMer churchyard having been nearly won away ) one Reutercr, the sexton of the church has replaced. it at his own expense. • •• —Julia Ward Howe, seeing in Boston the sign "Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary,"'espressed her surprise and skepticism, saying: she. did. net believe there was a charitable eye or ear In thit whole city. —New 'York has for newspapers a. World,* Bun, Star, a Globe, and periodically a Galaxy, but no Moon. The deficiency should be supplied.- and the aetronowical collection completed 14 a. , Comet. • Cullen. Bryant's chircgraphy, as re spects illegibility, is second only to , that of.fl: G. Bryant's signature, when executed iu hot haste, reminds one of a scorpion suffering from Bt. Vitus. . - —lt is ascertained by experiment that the ordi nary rifle ball of the Springfield musketyrith the. regulation quantity_ot powder, passes over one:- hundred feet directly from the muzzle of the In about the fifteenth part of a second, —Jules Fevre, the distinguished advocate or Periods said never to have drunk a glass of wine and may therefore be — Oiled - um -advocate- o- temperance. There is an argument for the total, l ; abstinence people. —A Pails landlady requested a Christmaspartr • on the third floor to cease dancing,; as a man be- • low them was dying. The guests acquiesce& Returning: an hour later, "My. dear enlldren," she exclaimed, with the most benevolent smile, •Vou may begin again, he is doad:" --Her Majesty's Theatre, lately burned, is to be rebuilt in a atyle of great magnificence. ' Ate English paper laments that the present genera, tion can furnish no Horace and James, Smith write "Aiun., , d Aildndso s." (t.,propas of .the open,; - lug of the new building. —A New Bedford paper . ays : "City ; Marshal Lehighton seized a couple of ten g a llon. kegs at one of the express offices this morning, - mated 'Fish—keep cool.' They were encased in'a box and packed In sawdust, and ono contained few, gallons of whisky, and the other ten galkur-4.4, - gin." —The celebrated Russian prima donna, Ma dame Switchrzykoff, of,the Moscow opera, Willie at her country seat was lately pursued, by an in furiated bull, and, only escaped by flinging . . her cloak and bonnet at the animal, thus dist:AO:OW • his attention till sho'bed time to gain a.piace of - safety. —A. Frenchman named Louis Renard, phiblishw, this impromptu on our favorite American prim*. • , donna: Kellogg, ma foi, quci nom titrad t le ' . Cele faitnewer a oriel cochon., ,-.. • •v• Jo conseille idlepleson, • ' De le changer it eft till v , 401 . Oa —The now operas to be prodtteedAtt,. „ winter are: At Milan, "Glovarilltwelt* L•-• Tells; "Pottphar,"Cagnoult "Liikdade Cltardfor, (butte), De Argine; "La Tombola!, (tutffs Dont; "Un Coup d'Etar cbutruNi,Laaraf,•4o.4,,, Nantes, 4 131 i Aventarlerl,'. Bt a; "11tiglk prodigy," Serrao; -"Maxine t Aliandeas.. • • ",; , P *4 wraith "L'Exposialono Alltrersaln"- „kb. •'• " Filippic "Meth tot*" (grand, fairy, opegt) —The midnight train freed Albany,* feik, • since, left a load of passengers at 'o4.` western towns:`'Among the...number w*Cik-1404 fi aboe,tidgetWold , man_, , wholras it,grefiCOS".4l* about hi l t biliggitge. .11)311•Baot , 441talw.tatchte the piet i tmcm loan its the beggacE master for 4110 . N17'., alter fielt) repeatedly diolltedM beSoqpit ad Uwe to get it r (Ton the hbigepile the beggage•W" Man Windt:Ma addressed* that YOU Wl t t bent an 00,1 i 4 pekOSEt, and en fired 1401 „nder yonr . -.` • dfii,4? • 'xt!. 14 , , i i il ~ir. ,
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