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.
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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. •
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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
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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.
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Muv. tou, U. S.
goy. aW. Bartine, D.. '
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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.
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of P.EAPI‘(IS PEONt
Eli AI:LES 1)1C
Arid Ow meat tr.tubto
PASSAGES U.- 'l'll. POETS
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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
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clect)l ss Pretidttat o' the
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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."
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.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.
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