GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME x.m.-ya. 211. TIE EVENING 131TLLETIN rustasurn EVEItT F3 - I",NLfal (Sundays W:CST:CM, AT THE NEW nue,LlTre N IBUILDING, GOT Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, ny 111 n EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. GIBSON PEACOCK, PlijPa T r i . t ) : l ' ltST C. WALLACE, V. L. FETIIFIttiTON, NVILLI A SItiON. CAtoPER.SOUDER , .11L. FRANCId WELLS. Tho BULI.LTIN in served to suliscribcr.4 in the city at /8 ,er week. paysble to the crllers. or per annum. _ WET/DING INVITATIONS Ni)A Engraved or Written. Nee.-tki t.ty led of Wedding Stationery. Call and look ut aunpi. e. VT. 4. PERRY, Stationr.r, 7255 Arch ern , ' t. 131Alt1t I ED. IitiEK—cLARK.-013 WedueFdaY. 1r,t13 inptant. by tho Hey. Mr. Nerrim, at tho reddetlee of tho bride's father, Th e , F. B ac k, o f tbbi city, to May it. Clark, daughter of D e . I ;lark. et Woodburi, 5..1. • . . 1111•I'1.L--LEVIti.- On the morning of the kith at the W'e'st Stance Btrert tit !relt. by the Rev. Dr. Wrn. I'. Breed. Frank K 1111.041 to Elizabeth Gray,thing;iter of Wm. Levis, all of this city. I LOPE- liretintAinv evrnin:, ,ftithiary nt the reridenee of the brirle•• et:rents, by Ow 'ter. Dasiii A Cunningham. Idr...lathce F. flops to !lily Emma Pennell, all of thle eits. .S.N.! WIDEN Thu r.olar frrenine,,fan. lfSth, IV A at the , r,*1(1,0,e et thr bride,', Hl . ..ht.:by the T. M. t'untaingittn, D. D., Mr. f. ISG moron Mitchell to 31toi P. tfn W(1412, linuria ter of Eon. Jtt1114,3 Eof•S tino‘c din, nll of Philudelphin. • -On :In, lftit Ph.t:tnt, at tho deuce of tho park:Die, .12.h:PR (ohoon, Jr., of i'hilmtkinbia., Po.. to Mary P third daughter of G. NV. l'stul, of 11 attford county, Md. DIED. ALBUI:f;IIt.--fin the loth in .L. Mr. Jaeoh T. Alhurgor, in the hit) 04 , 0ud year of he, Ilin 'relative , and frietnia of the family, and Mont gOninry Loge No. A M.. are reapectfally in; it' d to attend h;n funeral from hi+ late reNidenoe. sonth : 4 1x.tis etr«.t. on Monday, 'Situ , at one o'eloek, proceed to Laurel Ifill. .• 1-.IAYALIhi.---On the Pith Ines., Mary Y.. daughter of Mary Ann and the late ill qri, (:. Ed wu:d., in di': I`. , th yoer hfir age. Ihe relatilt% end hi , ntiq Af the famlly are invited to attend her ffineraL L.,rn OP' ro.idone.) of nor gcfl,l. father, No. tat; ,frd merning, the WO; in. t.. at eleven o'eloet.. tiAl tin ti:.. nwruincoi Vol rth in-tapt, -John ,Siao.dore.dr.„ fin of lito hie Ma , plit-1, on 6.vinderr, in yefir of his fivo 1 fie rfiltr.ivvi and trktido ror.r. , effidlY invitn‘d to attend his tonere!. from hi-. lot. re , id , ii^e, No. 1.:4 . .ortli Thittfierth ..trn et (L. IPA -n;, -71 orond-dnv mornit7, th.t.oh t leek, 1.1-1.]'._. 4, 11 NV , 11it , 14"... 0 , in-t..nt tiara F.. 4,1 tht, late Gintairi lfi in f Farris yertr col 141 Tht. nit friend+ .f tho f-loila• are p.irt! , ..:ktly invited t.fi nit , orl her tour t.v.t'tt , tp,y, rt 1,t4 w 1 , I'. M , Her I.fitl I. q' • r B utiALcAt::: r, r. ri:r:,n.rorr.a,:unnBA:7 . 4 - 1 , rr.r 9,1:257 EA I.:L Kra. P. T... On Or TE A I i ,TPoor•rs. I CLA(II.. that T3eY n • - wc , at,l 13.U1tIA T. C.MASEI k t,r 11 la 1 ,- ,7,0 and than tho old up,.l. , litly r. , td rep-L co. and they itr c , Juttructiou add.i to it 3 etrcagtli Rad dura. tv. Wt, the. t:nd , ro.med, hr. , .nr. 4 , 1 ccen , ion to a ., / , in e:ar lrtnih,•:l_l:A h1,5;1.'S lit ( kik; would thee f utt...7b exe ,th:„.: it ttiey L(..14.41 le,f (,1). ttkined. )llthop M. lint r 1 Schenck, h . Muv. tou, U. S. goy. aW. Bartine, D.. ' I.le tune, . • J. V, . 1A1:11- JANUARY 1.1 , H,—E1 LA ti MAJ., ec.;atit Li and Arcli are mepared to ~,it !A:UW..4 i: it, I lOUSLI 1{1.1) rittl (.4 a )In4, (;t101) FLAN NET A• !) .tIrtiLINS. 0,01)1 ABLE LI SP .I't 1) st Ph: I NS, 60(11) BLACK A N D (,)I; 'SPECIAL ;NOTICES. Ate` A); L:li I:. 511. 111)' Al , ll-11110.lN 11114 1"1 . 1( ) NliT, 131" A evE( ItALL TLLEDAY EVENT \ LARY 21, of P.EAPI‘(IS PEONt Eli AI:LES 1)1C Arid Ow meat tr.tubto PASSAGES U.- 'l'll. POETS ot Ancliiiit arid Miiders vfs. IttnEKVEI) EATS, di. M ST' ?:.1; CI iEnT \ 831:1;6T. jall'Atrp skirlNSUltA,sc;r. CO'dl'ANY irl' Till: Sl'.% I E lie , I'ENN , ,YLVANIA. JAN I - A ;sr 1. - 3,1 , ,,'‘.:-,. The following guntletnen hal - , lwen duly elected I)lree tor' of thb; Coznyany for the year 1. , 1;:i: Benry V. Sho..;Terd. ; ; hlrna.a B. IWat . h , on, .Charles 1113calt.ter, ,I It nry i; Freen.Cau. \Villiarn S. Smith, (.;harre. S. Lev.i., AVilliam It White, ~e er lie C. Garrott, George Id.Strart,Ed vv.srd C. heileht„ Sawn, I (trent. Jr.. John B. iluAiii, Tot itta Wagner, At A TA ULM{ of till 3 fingsrd 1111:N111: 1). oitE11121 , ,It1). clect)l ss Pretidttat o' the jll7 :ttrpS e.L Are- ItiII.LLIANT irt• LlA;'l'L•rtE.i Al !MIA ICULT(TRAL Rev. E. II (A.APIN, of New York. TUESDAY. Jau. -"Buildinic and ll.!iur." Prof. LOC IS AGAminli., of Harvard UlafrerEity, shun. ary 28th. Prol. ROBERT E. ROGYItS, Univerritv of Penwvl - •two Lecturer. brilliantly illurt atedt, Feb..ith and Feb It , ll. Reaerved re.ata for sale at Trt.urpler'r, Chestnut atreet. j •17.2trpt mar DEPARTMENT' or PETILIC tqll'A" AVS DEPARTMENT (111EF COMM killoNEß. El rll .STREET, WEIiT SIDE, BELOW Cif ESTN LT. Pin r. SDI-LP!) tA, Jan. 11, DUX. Notice is hereby given that the Annual Sower Itcut..4, now duo the city. are payable at thi. Office ii.ev Ilve per cent. until Ault . let, 166 , 12. °like Ituurg from 9A. i. until 3l'. M. TllO6. M. TRIO), jal3.w,r. - .1.%t,rp Lle.tne Clerk. MERCANTILE LIBRARY.- 'NW ANN()At, .of ntockholders- - the LIBRARY C4.iM PAN Y. will be logid in the Library room ..on Tuesday evening. the 21. t intt.i.J*7l.s o'clock. Te annual toxea are now due and Payable at the Libra rt an'a depk. Ji)ii:ti jag rn w f Ittpl Recording Secroc.rv. st ir THE CLAIMS OF THE Ifl5.3lONArtY ctety cf the M. E. Church will be prueeuted lu Union M. E. Church, Fourth etreet, below Arcs. on Sa bath next, 19th hie., by Bishop Sonoran, at o'clock in the morning. By Rev. If eury Baker,at 2. ~'cl ek and Rev. (Medea IL Vt tilteear at 7% o'clock in the even ing. jal,32trci, p ar OWING TO Trig GREAT DE.It %NU k'Oit reserved seats, the gentleinen lie.viug charge of ar. ranging for Mr. JAMES E. MUIt OCkt S Rh7.IUISGd, of January M. have placed the whole of the lower floor of -Concert Hall Into reeerv, d seats. Persons not hoviur, been able to secure tickets eon do •co by applying this morning, at 'rRUMPLER'S Millie Store, No. 92t3Cheetuut Street- jnlsro 3tl tor PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY Atuixllisx x REOPENS THURSDAY. January 24, MS For ClrcultuNt apply to d;lo.lmrri Chester, Delaware county, Pa N or OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER, PIIILIPEr.rnin, January, NQTICF..—AII City Loans manning during the year will be paid on presentation at this office, by order of the Commiseionera of the Sinking Fund. J. N. PEIRSOL, City Trefu•nrer. Jals-6trpl Mgr. HOWARD NOSTITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 15::0 Lombard otreet, I)loTel:wary Departmeat.—Modi mai treatment and medleinoe turniehed gratuttO Indy to the poor. mgr. NEWSPAPERS, BOOM, PAMPHLETS, WASTE ••""'" Paper, az. Bought by E. HUNTER, doll lnal No. 6111 Jayne street. A Femora IttoN-MAsrmt.--A letter from Hun vary announces the death of the Iron-master Ganz, whose name as a manufacturer of railway wagon wheels is known all over the continent. He was one of the few instances of a self-made industrial man in Hungary. He began life as a common workman in brass and iron, and in com pany with a fellow-workman, who is said to have been the real inventor of the process of harden leg east iron so that it resists wear and tear butter than any other metallic Composition. Gana went to Pesth, set up for himself, and by degrees. enlarged his factory so as to give em ployment to several hundred workmen, and was scarcely able to supply the orders for his solid railway wagon wheels. In November last ho gave alete to his workmen in commemoration of the hundred thousandth wheel which came oat of his works. CHANGING AN ArcrnicH.--111 a concert at St. Austell, Marland, last month, in singink, the "National. Anthem," the line "Confound their knavish tricks" was altered to "Confound their IfeWan tricks." . . . . r . . . . .',-.:- , . .-. • . -4 , ~ , ..,, _ '''' ... ei .ei q ... P . 0 .2, z . I 4 `l ‘• 1 .ri' f !' *.• . 6 . • • • . . . . . ilev. J. W. FL J. ( (;. , r, W. Evap.x. D. N. diun. o^l.rxtrp Director ,, . held then dmy, Er 1., v. - . 4 iturmlirt.reily re 'Orny:tuy. IA I II A Urn:. $1,11•01,1nr, COL. THEO. HYATT, RASH sirr.i•ts. (Cort , ..%poodenro of the Philiviolphial'.vesing BullethLl .111.117 ItII,I,—AND A CO3I3IICIST UM= The discussions upon the bill for increasing in the army,•in which the Legislative Body are now with so much acrimony engaging, arc prolonged hi every class of society. You arc aware that the bill recently prepared by Government purports to interpret the general idea expressed by the Emperor in his speech at the opening of the Chambers In November, namely, that the army should be diminished or eased from service in time of peace, and be made capable of expansion during war. A humane theory; but people re fuse to see, In the bill submitted, the great ad vantages accorded in years of peace, while they aro keenly awake to the renewed demands made upon them in case of hostilities. The Emperor, in fact, wishes to increase the regular draft by more than a hundred thousand men; he wishes to display to the immense standing forces of Prussia and Russia a permanent army of eight hundred thousand men, divided in equal ratio between the active service and the reserve. Adding these numbers to the four hundred and fifty thousand which compose the Garde Nationale Mobile, he will be able to flaunt in the face Of ambitions Autocrats and ogreish Ministers a figure of over a million loaded Chaisepota. These big numbers are being bandied about in the semicircular Hall of the Luxembourg. But It is not with them that the average individual Frenchman, upon whom or upon whose family the bugbear of conscription presses constantly and imminently, concerns himself. To the par ticular Jacques or :Idea it does not appear that a decimal Mereca.e hi the annual quota will affect his chance appreciably. When the critical era of his twentieth year comes round, iris not to , this Mei ease that he will pay the tribute of an extra shisf r. But anothar faatare of the bill does comae with are VdiAinctneas. to enhance the natural dlcadfulmas of the conscription. Formerly he aaa a al Jo] ward to Seven years of service; now they als.h to marl: him with nine years, or nine years and a half, counting from the black day when his natr.•.; is drawn: this change is very ap priaiaale and very disagreeable. Tao days since I was standing. with a worthy man of n. avqnaintance, before the s asf <f t , tg ere of Pode, S , which embosses a fate of the glorious Arch of Triumph of the star. It was a flue frisk winter day. and Georges and I bad been improving our circulation by a good raca in the Trriler:ea Garden, starting respect iaely from the statues of Atalanta and Hippo-, 'rimes which :implanted In front - ol"theTheats set up by Robespierre for the Old Men to watch his Floral Games. After our Olympics, we had pas , 4al through the thick studded wonders Of the Garden, and out of the broad gates into the Place de la Concorde; and there was the Luxor Obelisk, dismally veneered with hoarfrost, and impotently remembering the time when the white ibis used to stand upon it under the rainless blue aud under the perpendicular sun, and let the shadow of Its win; or of its bill stream all the way down one glowing facet from peak to base. And beyond the Obelisk the Arch rose, a gray colossal loop, upon a distant bill; and from where we stood the Needle just pierced or threaded the far-away loop ; so might Cleopatra have run her smooth arm through the,ring of her warrior's shield. Where the Obelisk was, a proud queen lost her head. Where the Arch was, a princess, another Aus trian, entered Paris from the west, and met Napo leon to be his bride. We walked up the broad Avenue, and stood in the gigantic shadow of the Arch. Georges is a young sculptor of talent, from Toulo , tse. lam always persuading him to go to America. In America, I tell him, a French sculptor of talent can easily make himself the rage, and in a few years find himself the ecnaeteries with his allegories, and the parlors of the citizens with hatchet faces and lank locks. But a French sculptor of talent is another crea ture while at home. Georg - es' abilities are burled in the atelier of a successful saint-carver of about a tenth of his own force, and Georges is at this moment very much Eet up with a commission to execute a couple of griffins, or sphynxes, or sera phim (he bas not decided which), for the lunettes over an actress's doorway at Passy. "But let us not forget the bas-relief of Rude," I said; "that is one of the things one cannot read in running. I always give it sixty or ninety seconds. It is one of the few successful, efforts of statuary to present motion." "It is not precisely a statue, you know," re joined Georges ; "It is a relief—and a relief in certain cases may occupy the privileges of flat art, and repro , ent action even as a painting." The Chant (111 Dbpari is a group, of heroic size, of warriors arming and mustering for combat. A superb chief waves his helmet. A boy, the embodied image of young ambition, clings to the hero's side and devours his face with his eyes. An old man counsels the leader. Another snatches his sword and mantle. One strings his bow. One ,blows the war-horn. One bridles a horse. All are impetuous, all Mad for Troy; the lips of each are parted, and you seem to hear some ardent chorus, some Greek Scots talus Then, unseen by the group, from the marble fir mament above them bursts out Martial Song in person, a flgttre all thrilling with beauty and rage, open-mouthed, and seeming ready to pass from Stone into Sound. Such a face of passion, such a rush of wings, such a draught of drapery, such a throat, throbbing like the ivhito eagle's when it screams ! "I will tell you what she Is, I will name her for you," cried I. "She is La .Mareeillaide—Rouget do Lisle's hymn in marble!" "Thy thought is nal kpropos,"answered Georges, suddenly free:zing up. "The Mareeillaise was a tine girl in her time, but at the present she Is passes; she is more than passee, she has lost her reputation, and is now in prison. It is no longer la Marseillaise who incites trench youth to war. No. I will tell thee who is the goddess that trains us to-day to arms. That statue, I will name her for thee. • Mon ehee, she is mile(' La Coneeriplion." - "Happy American," continued Georges, in his guttural southern - Fiend'', asho'hung his rough had upon my shoulder in the pretty native fashion. "You have never known of a draft in time of peace, and when war is over your vast army dissolves away like a cloud. You know nothing of the incubus that weighs upon the poor European boy in the most critical years of his life. I . assure you, my friend, it is frightful, it is withering. Until tho misorablo anniversary has a pp roaehed, a huge apprehension, a kind of blight, stops the youth's heart, and takes away all purpose from his Ufa. Why should I distinguish wyselfat school, why should PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1868, master my trade, why should I listen to a girt, when a black number may change everything, and unman me for nearly a decade? What is a man who has once been a soldier? He is a ridic ulous edifice of useless drlll,which has no longer ova ppileation,el enlarged tastes which have no longer a gratilication,of fa/se habits that unfit him for the usual industries. Too often his moral sense Is completely gone; you make a man a wheel In a machine, and you must not expect individual motion from the wheel after you take it OuL "The conscript, for his seven years service and they are making it nine years—must not marry. These years, my friend, from twenty to twenty-seven, are the years of a boy's dreams. They are not the years best spent in a dissolute barrack. But the soldier cannot marry. Those who marry are the weaklings and the diseased ones, who escape conscription. The children of these perpetuate the parental weakness, and in that way comes the deterioration of the race." "Wherever I have been in the country parts of France," I observed, "I have been struck by an anomaly: enormous women and little men." "Can you argue nothing from that?" said Georges. "But to continue with the soldier. You would speak, perhaps, of his vices, as in, a certain sense feeding and inriching the nation. Have you studied the. figures . ? Julds Favre Made in the Legislative setsion the other day a statement that I think terrific. It•represented the mortality of the innocent Infants who are born out of wedlock. In one Departcment, that of Loirc-inferkure, the average mortality of these unfortunates Is ninety in the hundred. In another, Eure-et-Loire, .it is ninety-five; Five per cent. remain to supply the future drafts." "To change the subject," said I. "tell me about yourself. You are still a boy—are you past danger on your own account r" "I have just been through the turnstile," answered Georges, "and it is natural that I should . think a good deal about the subject. Only one year ago I reported myself at a Malec iu ToulouLe. as being twenty years of age. The draft occurred directly after, at the close of Feb ruary.. I drew the number of my own years upon earth—twenty !" " And twenty ?" "That figure of twenty, wog chci, entitled me to tie a quantity of ribbons round my hat,ltnd report myheli among the defenders of • my COlll3 try." "But—my brave little cabbage" (I was startled by my sympathy into a rather foreign turn of el - presion), find you. here : at Paris, tranquilly working in an atelier!" "Listen ! You are a foreigner, and I don't mind telling_ you; but yort_mustn't.breatheit to any one. During the week before the sitting of the Connell of Revision at Toulouse, I bait the resolution to lire upon a little roll a day, and a drink of water, with vinegar in it. I slept three hours, making my brothers waken me at four. The night before my examination I walked about in the rain, and crossed the mill-sluice a hundred times. When I placed myself in the scales in the presence of the doctor I was lean and gam like a drowned body, and I could hardly open my eye!& I bad another Advantage. My hear': beat a hundred and forty a minute." "I can believe that." • "The phyt,lelan grunted at me with contempt, and pronounced me absolutely unfit for service. I walked home leaning on my brother. My mother had killed and cooked a fowl. I ate it, and told her to kill another. They wakened me to eat the secoid one. I slept twenty lout's,—another coincidence upon my age." "And then you ran off here:—" "Wait, I am telling yon. There was a girl. a demoiselle I should say, the daughter of a notary, our neighbor. We were friendly but not In timate, and she was to be married in a month to a commis-voyageur. My mother was so vain of me that the had gone and told everything in the house of the notary. That evening the young lady contrived to meet me; and I said, 'Whit I, the reason you aro going to marry that camel ?' And the said, You, Georges, you are the reason! you have never said a word !' and she burst into a torrent of tears—and meantime she scratched me, if' you will believe it. I thought myself in paradise ! rubbed a little powder into the wound before it healed, and here it is upon my wrist, and every time I kiss It in this way I kiss the graceful Alphonsine in Toulouse!" So all marches well, my good fellow, and von are a man achieved ! Why, then, may' ask, are you so sensitive about the conscription?" "I am the eldest _Georges. "I send a few francs down every month to help the others on at school. The second is Felix. - He is nine-' teen, with a genius for thip-architecture. I tremble for Felix. Ship-architecture is not pursued —in the army. The cadet. Is itenri. You should see him draw caricatures of us all upon the slate! I am going to make him an artist like myself—if etesar will let me ! I have come out of the maiiletrom—l have the roar yet in my ears. I assure yon I was excessively frightened. And now, before I have done shuddering at myself, Felix and the little Henri make me shudder. If F6llx is drawn as I was, I must scrape up itventy-Ei*e hundred trawl; to buy his substitute. And those twenty-tire hundred francs—l seriously desire them for the graceful Alphon sine." FROM& ATLANTIC CITY. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin ArhAwric err; January 16th, 1868 —Notwith• Standing the unfavorable condition of the weather, alternating between eevere cold,enow-storms nod high winds and rain, a commendable degree of activity is exhibited in the progress of Improve ment and erection of now and substantial build ings. The commodious school-lionsnln this city is now completed, and it is one of the very finest iu the State. It contains four departments, all of which are full of pupils, whose progress in the ordinary . and preliminary Engli3h branches of education is remarkably gratifying. Mr. Morse, the Principal, manifests untiring zeal in their advancement, and has provided the dif ferent departments with able and competent teachers, Mrs. Morse, Miss Harker and Miss Big T . whose earnestness in the success of their respective classes is no less zealous than his own. Every citizen is proud of this school, and takes a deep interest in its welfare. From a point of the beach, fronting the United States Hotel, a bar has been forming for about two years past, running In a south-southivest di rection, and terminating •opposite the Surf House. This bar on its southern-curve is about one•fourth of a mile from the shore, and at low tide is "high and dry," so that it can be reached on dry land by pedestrians. Thousands and thou sands of bushels of clams can be gathered there at any low tilde, and many of the citizens dad them an ezeclk•nt article of food. In fact, to the dead-, tote, they conatltute - their principal food. This bar encloses quite a large body of water, Which OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. during the coming slimmer, will make it 000 of the most beautiful bathing places along the coast. Ile shore sloping off in a gentle declivity, in a mooth, safe and unobstructed manner. ' On North Carolina avenue a gentleman from ( heater county, named Joshua Roberts, is now imildire a very fine and commodious boarding house, designed to be completed by the opening of the season. Its access to the surf will give it a peculiar anti fascinating attraction to those ho wish accommodations in close proximity to ihe bathing grounds. The dimensions are 12 feet front on North Carolina avenue, I 2 feet on Oriental avenue, three stories in height. with back buildings for dining room., kitchens, itc., 100 feet. These back build will be two and a half stories, high. There will be sufficient room to accommodate about five hundred persons. The building is to be fin jibed in plain but attractive style; with every pos sible convenience, and surmounted with a large cupola,from which an uninterrupted observation of the ocean and surrounding scenery can be had. The entire cost,' including lot, which embraces a whole square, is estimated at *lO,OOO. This improvement will be one of the very best in the city, and will stimulate the erection of others of a similar character in the neighborhood. On the same avenue, opposite the Girard House, Mr. Hoenniss, of Philadelphia, leputtlng up a taste ful private cottage for his own summer residence, on a style of architecture peculiar to Germany. At the Inlet wharf. Mr. Glenn contemplates erecting a large and superior hotel, for the ac commodation of parties who frequent that part of the city, on sailing, gunning and fishing ex peditions, as well as those who go over to Brigan tine beach. Such accommodations arc very much needed there. Mr. Glenn, it is said, will com mence the work In a few weeks, and prosecute it vigorously to completion. The Railroad Company are making - preparations to relay their track along atlantic avenue. and are depositing cross-tics at various points on the route. 'This company design at no distant day to build a new depot here, which is much needed, for in the present one there i. 4 no' room for passengers, especially ladies. who, if the weather is cold, are obliged to go into a 7 by room. almost always filled with tobacco smoke. The City Council has taken commendable steps towards securing measures and means for build ing some kind of delerice along, the inlet front to prevent the washing away of the shore. Peti tions are to he circulated for signatures, • and measures adopted to implore ongre.s.s to make an anpropt Cation for constructing - such defences as the exigency of. the case demands. A public meeting is to be held at the :Mayor's office, on Tuesday evening next, for that - purpose, and another at Absecorn, on Thursday afternoon. This is a matter of vital importance to the Gov crime*.as well as to the city, for the sea is fast encroaching on the Light-House property. A series of highly interesting meetings have been in progress in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which were attended with beneficial re sults, Preparations are being made for giving an exhibition in the Church on the sth of February, the proceeds of which are to be appropriated towards the purchase of new books for the Sun-. day School Library. Various alterations and improvements are be ing made to private property. Altogether, the active preparation:, now going forward indicate a busy season. D: W. B. NEWS BY THE CUBA CABLE. The Popular Vote Almost Unanimous In *a.vor of Annexation to the United HAVANA, Jan. 16, 1868.—The Danish steam corvette Dagmar has arrived at Santiago de Cuba frum St. Thomas and Santa Cruz. I received a despatch at noon to-day from Santiago, with the following item of her news : The popular vote on the question of annexa tion to the United States teas taken on January 11, with the following result; In favor of annexation 1214 Against amicsatioD 22 Total vote east 1,266 I eau awaitlnr , t' further details, which I shall for ward immediately. The steam corvette Dagmar is a screw vessel and was built in Inl. She carries a battery of sixteen cannon and her engines are three hundred horse power. Official Continunicatiens front the Atnerlcttn Consuls to Secretary Seward in Relation to the Vote. • HAVANA, Jan. 16, 186d.—The American Consu at Havana, Mr. La Reintrie, has received an °III. cial despatch from Consul itialker,at St. Thomas, which confirms the news about the favorable vote on annexation in that island. Mr. La Rcintrie at once telegraphed to Secretary Seward that the vote was most enthusiastic, and that the people are anxiously awaiting the official acknowledg ment of Secretary Seward. The corvette Dag mar is to remain at Santiago tie Cuba until Sec retary Seward's acknowledgment of the receipt of this news is forwaroed to that port. Despatch Forwarded to the Danish Minister at Washington. HAVANA, Jal3. IG, .1868.—The Danish Consul at this port has forwarded a despatch to Major- General W. R. De Haaslof, Minister of Denmark at Washington, confirming the announcement of the vote in favor of annexation at St. Thomas. The Baeziets Very Troublesome ha Arun—The Place Captured After a Bloody Eight—Puerto Planta Taken by the liebels—Boyentents of Both Palmately. BANANA, Jan. 16, 1868.—We have farther de tails of the news from St. Domingo. Generals Timoteo Ogando and Andres Ogando had made an attack on Azna with a force of twelve hundred men recruited in the neighbor ing districts of Neyba and San Juan. The place which had been occupied by Baezist rebels and plunderers was taken after a bloody combat. General Timoteo Ogando established a provi sional military government to prevent the recur rence of raids on Azna which have been so fre quent these last few months. Thus far these attacks on the capital of the province have all been organized at Barahona, on the west side of Neyba Bay; and they have all along relied on foreign aid, especially Ilaytien. Puerto Plata, after a sanguinary conflict, ca pitulated to the besieging rebels. Generals Lu peron and rhumba' were reported as having emptied the treasury at that place, leaving noth ing for the rebels. General Troncoso was , m com mand of the town for the Baezb3t faction. Gen. Hungria was pressing recruits at Santiago to march against the capital. He was to co-operate with a flotilla. It was expected that after the ar rival of Gen. Baez he would endeavor to take the capital, even if he had to use fire and the sword for his purpose. ED:11'4157 YH It IJI rarthquakes —An Agricultural School—Au k.zhibitiou to 'lake Place iu 1870. HAVANA, Jan. 16, 1868.—We have Martinique dates to the let lest. There is nothing hi the news from that island indicating that the shocks of earthquakes had re commenced. The arrivals at the island wore few. A nem) bad been promulgated establishing, an agricultural school and a laboratory. It also pro vides for a grand fair or exhibition of the produc tions of the island in 1870. Clean Mills of Ifileolth soon to be Keg tomed—lhmallikelogiVillE OD dulldny, Jan. Usury 119. Havarmaan. 16, 1868.—Tho Municipal COW], ell held an extr.ordlnary assalon to-day. The return received in relation to cholera . were ST. THOMAS. Statc.o. sr. DOMINGO. MARI INIQVE. MUILL, voreble, and It is rumored that clean of health will soon be Issued to vessels touching at Havana. A 're Dritai will be sung in all the churches on Sunday, January 19, In thanksgiving for delive r:Anal from convulsions that disturbed the West Judas during the last four months. Eltolll NEW I(&UK. ,Ninv Your:, Jan. 17.--Wm. A. Hartehorn.aged It; NOUS, returning from the Ninth National Banh with $24.0 belonging to his employers, was nearly blinded by Erna thrown in hle eyes, evi dently by a thief, with the intention of robbing him. Bis shouts brought asAstauce and the would-be robbers made oir. rift( en thousand dollars in bonds were stolen from off the dhicount clerk's desk in the Bank of the It( public yesterday afternoon. No eine what ever to the thief is known. It Newfoundland fog hnug over therlvers yes terday, and enormous fields of ice. seriously im peded navigation. Coroner Rollins concluded the Investigation yesterday, concerning the death of Peter Lind, who, It is alleged, was beaten on New Year's morning with a pistol in the bands of George Hammel, who has since made his escape. The witnesses for the defence testified that their party had been sno wballtd on the street, and that the snowballing created a dispute, whereupon the others, when but a short distance off, cried out, "Come on, you sons of b—hs." Henry Miller and George Hammel attacked them, and after a few blows Ham mel "dropped" his man by striking him with a pistol. He then went to Miller's aid and, with a few blows, felled the other man.. Hammel the next day confessed that if he had been sober he would have used only his fists. The jury rendered a verdict that Peter Liud "came to his death by a fracture of the skull from a pistol in the hands of George Hammel, on tho morning of January 1, ' They also found Henry Miller guilty as au acce,sory to the deed. THE U 0 EIRTS. Sumx.xli CounT—Chief Thompson and Jus tices Read, Agnew and Sharswood.—Sivlsshelm's appeal. From the Western District. ' Argued and suhmitttd. Disinter CounT—Judge Thayer.'—llamilion ys. The Green and Coates Streets Passenger Rail way Company. This morning the jury was charged, and up to, the hour that cur report closed, no.yerdict had been rendered. QUATITE . R. tiEsstoNs—Judge V Allison.—lfary Taylor, who was once before convicted'of pick ing pockets, but who obtained a new trial, was put on trial charged with larceny. On the second trial she Wl/9 convicted. Charleg MUlary and Alfred Labroar, were charged with burglary. The accused had en tered the premises of Mr. 11. G. Lelseuriug and look - a number of goods. The case is still on trial. DI lISIC AI. .—T . ITALIAN OPEBAhe 'reappear mnce of Madame f3azziniga in La Tratiata, last evening, caused an overflowing house. There could hardly have been more people packed into the Academy. Her reception, too, was magnificent, and could not fail to delight her. Although suffering from a terrible cold and sore throat, she would not dis appoint her much-loved Philadelphia public. With all her suffering, she sang well and her acting was superb. The triumphs of ten and eleven years ago were renewed, and :the enthu siasm Of her hearers was not - diminished by the lapse of years. Signor Pancani was the finest "Alfredo" ever beard here. He restored some of the music that lazy Brignoli always omitted, and he sang and acted thronVhout extremely well. Bellini and the other artists also acquitted themselves most satisfactorrly. The evening was altogether the most brilliant of the season. This evening Ernani is to be produced, for the debut of Madame Kapp-Young, a lady of whose talent we have most favorable reports, and for whom we bespeak a generous reception. The opera will be strongly cast, and as it is, after all, unsurpassed by any of Verdi's later works, a tlq-. lightful performance may be expected. To-morrow itfterhOoll either 11 TroPcaore or La Trarioto 'will be played. ID the evening Faust,. which we had heard wasiabandoned, will be given in German, with Miss Hauck, Habel mann and Hermanns in the principal parts. Ha belmann has never sung in this opera, but it can readily be believed that his "Ifaust" will be great. Ilermanns we know to be the best "Mephistopheles" heard in this country, and Miss Hauck would seem to be in every way qualified for the role of "Marguerite." THE GERMANIA ORCHESTRA will give their naval public rehearsal at the Musical Fund Hall to-morrow, at 3;...;" P, M., with the following pro gramme: _ 1. Overture—Don Giovanni 2. Song—The Hunter of the Alps ;. itoEensteiner Wahl 4. Adagio, from first Sinfonie.... 5. Overture—The Naiades &Timor du Duel-Hugnenota Gerzet and Fiud—Luere,zia.. AMUSEMENTS. TUN TMNATREB.—This evening, at the Chest nut, the attache's and ushers will have a benefit. The Ticket of Leave /fan will be performed. The Press and its Victims will be given at the rultiu6e to-morrow afternoon. In the evening Mr. W. 11. S. Smith will have a benefit in a fine bill. On Monday Mr. John C. Owens. At the Arch, Lady Don will have a benefit this evening. The Ladies Club •and a burlesque of Ii Trovatore will be given. At the Walnut Mr. Barney Williams has a benefit to-night in The Fairy Circle, The Rough Diamond and The Irish Tiger. A miscellaneous performance will be given at the American. PANORAMA OF BFIDFORD STRRET.;—At Concert Hall, this, and to-morrow evening, will be ex hibited a series of paintings Illustrative of life in the purlieus of Bedford and Spafford streets. These sketches are the work of an eminent artist, and are said to depict ,the terrible and shocking scenes common in the above localities with rare fidelity. We advise every ono to be present at the exhibition. The proceeds are to bo devoted to" The Bethesda Home for Friendless Children," at Chestnut Hill. 8L1T7..--81g - nOr Blitz announces his early re tirement from the stage, and those who desire to pay the venerable magician a farewell visit must do so immediately. Ile vrill give a performance at Assembly Buildings to-night. PHILADELPIIIA OPERA Hoesr.—Several novel and good things aro announced at this establish ment for this evening. There will be eccentricities and negTo delineations. Singing and dancing, by accomplished members of the troupe, are an nounced. Messrs. Tunis= ,t Co., offer a first class entertainment, and they have a remarkably good troupe. Munnocit's RnAonsos.—Tho tickets for these readings are selling very rapidly at Trampler's, and those who desire to secure seats must dm so immediately. Jowl E. Owns : rm.—This well-known actor will commence an- engagement at the Chestnut next week. He-will open in Dot and The Live insficui on Monday evening. • ELEVEN= STREET OPERA HQUE4E.—Tho won derful pantomime, the Magic Pearl, will bo re peated this evening, with all the handsome ac cessories. Mr. J. L. Can:wrests will sing several favorite ballade, and there will, be a number of new burlesques, farces, and a plentiful supply of Eiblopean comicalities. The entertainment at this opera house le an excellent one, and the public show their appreciation of It by crowding the building every night. --The Butffele 1 4Pnlin Pale We dwellers in Chlosso Cialcagoeee. . L. FKIIIERSTOK Publister. —A French philologist thinks Victor litenolt dramatic hero,. Buy Bias, ought to have heron called Pout"! Mee. —"Mack," the Washington correspondent of the CincinnatiCom7norcial,is Joseph B.MeCullagh,, formerly a war correspondent of that jaunt LI. —A Western editor has discovered that Dan. Bryant, the Irish comedian, is the son of Was. Cullen Bryant. —Prince Albert Edward is said to have bought 50,00 francs worth of diamonds the last time he: was in Paris. —A funeral in Brooklyn was delayed on Fri day until the driver of the hearse had settled a, little dispute with the driver of a milk cart. —lndia is to open a great canal to. Irrigate im mense coffee plantations. It will still be neces sary for landladies to weaken thecoffee,howeirer. —San Francisco does not like Dolby and Diet ers becanse they turn a deaf ear to its golden. blandishments. —George Francis Train, when he returns from., Europe, intends to get out a volume of his owe.. speeches and other vagaries of his egotism. —A Bertha scholar claims to have discovered the first copy of Faust's Bible, two years older than any other, with the printer's autograph in it . —ln a recent invention of steam carriages for. common roads the tires of the wheels are made.- of india rubber, which is said to work very nicely —John Bright is called a collapsed bagpipe in , Fzgland. But only by people who can't play on, Mr. Sicdhof Is giving Gorman readings In Boston, but he is nowhere by the side-hof our Charles. —The agent of a theatrical company at Nor wich, Conn., ran off with all their money, and stv they had to get up a benefit to procure fund& with which to get away. —A "hark peeler," right out of the wood?, lied New York, the other day, and was astonished to learn that President Lincoln Was dead. —lreland can't beat the following from the Hohnesville (III.) indepeudent,which, iu notichig• the establkhutent of a steam brewery at Magno lia, says: "We are alwayS glad to see imported articles manufactured at home, at greatly reduced: pricts." —A prominent merchant of New York the. other day had his pocket picked of a portemon :Die, in which, howeiver, there was nothing of value. The graceless thief sent it back to hint the next tiny with an impudent letter, upbraiding him for having so little money about his person. —Kotzebue is said to have thought his Stranger the worst of hiS numerous dramas. We par tially agree with him; and yet that maudlin, sentimental production is the only one of his works that has kept possession ,of the English stage. —A recent letter from Nevada countS!, Califor nia, reports additional discoveries of gold in . de -posits of cement grav9l, and says there-are new features in mining which will swell the gold harvest of the coast larger in the next five years than it has everyet been. —Father . Dabaz, a French savant, has been studying the habits of spiders, and asserts that they can fly and swim in the air. He says they perform this feat by turning their backs to the ground and keeping their legs closely folded up on their bodies, and that in this posture they sad about with perfect ease. —The late George W. Kendall, of the New Or leans Picayune, in his last letter to ono of his old' associates, says: "Do you know, Blatt, that in all my life I never wont to Reboot ten months?" —adding, "the little I ever learned was from run ning againA people who had enjoyed more ad vantages." —Two little Sabbath S. ehool boys in Boston, got very heated over a vexed question in their lesson, and startled the teacher. whose back was turned for a moment, with "I tell ye its Mary Maga.:ine and not Magdalena" and thrusting his hands deep and desperately into his trousers pocket, sung out, "Now, yott bet?" It has been noticed in Paris that there 1 ^ l ominous rhyme between the ds hug,. reignote - tme tinmo Applied to the Empress _Eugenie). and "Canaria, ole," the terrible song so popular during the French Revolution, and containing. the most scathing invectiveet against "L'Autrichienne" (Marie Antoinette). ' —An English paper states that Mr. Stephen Britt, for many years Harbor • Master of the Port of Rye, was drowned recently by the up setting of 'a boat in that harbor. He was Lite lust survivor of a family of six sons, every one of whom had died by drowning—throe nt 603 k one in Rotterdam harbor, and one, eight years old, in a well. —The New Orleans Creuynt assails Edwin Booth's conception of the character of Hamlet as radically false. It says that Mr. Booth's Hamlet is based on (i6the's famous criticism of the char acter in 31eister," and that this is ; en tirely opposed to a true reading. of .the text. Goan, and Booth have, however, the vast ma jority of critics on their side. —The London Zoological Garden walrus ate too many oysters,was troubled with en,tozoa, epizea, trichina, e., which formed a compiles., _ non of diseases4ltich . • , ballied" the :skill of Her. Majt sty's Court physician, and so he died on Christmas week because, the Court Jo.trnal says, "he was not worked enough." —ln reply to a request for a testimonial as to the merits of a clothes wringer, the following AM sent :—"I bought your clothes wringer and lam immensely pleased with it. I bought a jag of wood which proved to be green and unfit to burn. - I run the whole load through your clothes wringer, and , I have used the wood for kindling ever since." Mozart. .Protlt Lanner .Ka liwodn. W. T. Bennet. ...31eyerbeer. Donlzotti —A tradesman of Konigsberg must be credited with a sharp trick in the way of advertising. Ile sent a case of cheese to the Second Fri:testae Chamber, with a petition that the House will subject his cheese to an examination, and thee dec are its opinion whether his cheese is not able to compete with all other cheeses in the world. As the petition must be referred and reported on, all the newspapers which publish reports of the proceedings will advertise this cheese gratui tously. —Count Znr-Lippe, the dismissed Prussian Minister of Justice, will, now that he is out of oftice, at length marry a poor girl to whom he has been engaged for over so long. Her ulnae is 31Ies Templln. The Minister, while in °Mee, al ways put oil the wedding under the queer pro text that ho find so much business to attend to; but the real reason probably was, that ho was afraid of incurring the displeasure of the King. who, in many respects, Is a prejudiced old fooi, by marrying a lady not of noble bitth. —Playgoers with good memories have often marveled that thorn ie but one NW Bateman. though thernwere two Bateman children; of al- most equal promise. A Ono to too mystery is given In the rumor that a Miss Virginia Francis. who supports Miss Kato Bateman in her present engagement in England, marvelously resembles the•latter.in personal appearance—so much so aa to occasion a theatrical critic to make the re- mark: "If wo :ire any judge of voice, face, or manners, _we unhtFliatingly eay the lady in question Is a Oster of Mimi Batcman."--/tieto York ommercial Adveradre. -=One who lately saw Liszt says that ho wore a suit of black, the coat being very long and oat aft( r the nsual fashion for a Roman Abbe, and at. broad-brimmed silk hat, which lookod rough enough to have been through a doaen campaign& The only bit of color vielblo about his dreaa wee a beautiful little- rosebud. which waa insetted le a buttonhole of his coat. In person ise Is tall owl commanding, wild° hie large eyes, petwhet. , out frOm under great overarching oyobrows.ald, his long, light-colored hair, combine to giro him' that lion- air which has 40 Ofteitt boon r}t marked. PRICE THREE CEIiTS,, retries A. •• D F
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