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BLAKIIECK—IJARDWICIL—Oa nit Inst., by Rev. F.
'R. liarbb ugh, • Joseph Blarcheelt to gay A. Hardwick,
all of this city. • •
COLES BERRY—BENN ETT.--On Tueaday. Jatanary 21,
Pa, at the Unitarian launch, by the hey. NYtti, U. Fut
./INN lieut.,. W. Colerberry to Patty F., daughter of Jacob
Bennett. Lee • allot thla city.
lIOLCOMK—DR. VEH.—Uu the 21st lag., at Immanuel
Church, at New Cantle, Delaware. by the Rev, Chr,lea
Spence: flankeon, llolcomb, to Edith M. Driver', ell of
New-Cantle. •
ULIAN--CARIC.—On the 22d instant. in Calvary
Choral. Brandywine Hundred. Delaware, by the Rev. 13.
T. Dotehirin, Mr. Geo. 0. McMullin, of San Francisco,
4.:141., to Mire Margaret A. Corr. of Clover Bill, DeL It
DIED.
EYERSB.—Suddenly, on tho evening of the Wth fruit.
Joseph 'Wain Byers, in the 66th year of hie age.
The relatives and friends of the faintly are partici.
tarty invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence,
No tt2 ♦Walnut street. on ktlday morning, at II o'clock.
.proceed to Laurel IfilL
EIAILD—JA N CA L I...93.—EYREtz.LANDELL. Fourth
4,./ and Arch. are prepared to Bolt (tunnies with,
110 CSEHOLD DRY GOODS ?
GOOD FLANNELS AND MUSLIN'S,
GOOD TABLE LINENS AND NAPKINS,
•
GOOD BLACK AND COLORED SILKS.
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Putt. kUP.I.PLI lA, Jan, 21st, lea3a.
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th:t day dyel:wyd n tend-nnnent dividynd of Five l'er
Cytd upon the amount of the pryfetrod etack, payable on
d after 'ILE:AMY, the foal th day of February next,
at thy yflt y of the Con4lllY. at .lerney Coy, or to
mtedindlitz• reeirtent in alai clear Philadelphia, at the
olikent t.a..a.ttli & iu that city.
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l'ybruary ilh irclurive
e uy- 0 rntx°TUE. TRE MoST COAL COM-
Pan.Y.:No. 1a Philadelphia Exchange.
I'mT,4DELPIII.A. Jan:sh Pem.
The Aar: eel Sleeting of the litoekholdere of the 'fre
(;on.pavy Will he held at No. 1t l'hiltdelphi
I %chaaae. in the city of 'II:ESDA I", the
Yeerfh day of February, at 12 o'clock, M.. at whleh time
:+1),1 loco the Annual F..leetion (or Prerldent and Dirue
v)rs to verve the evening year will be held.
11. C. eoexer,
Secretary.
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c031,41 , 1tC1A1, ENCIIANiie; UM I'HIL.AI)E
Pill . —The Annual .Nftetintz of the Commercial
Each: mar, is ill be held on TuEsuAY Jan. V.. it&
1. he Annual Iteport of the Board of' Martagera will be
read at 11i6 o'clock, A. M.
The pollP IA ill be open from 9 A. M. untirn P. M. for the
election of °flirty, to
~e for flang
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au the:2d, 14t11,115f1t and kith Inst., from 10A. 31. until U
31„. and procure tickets for the normal entertainment.
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see Omer, OF THE CiItEENWOOD COAL COM-
P NY. No.=4 WALNUT STREEP.
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ariv . will be held at' tbe Office of the Company. on
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AVEDN ES DAY. the 29th Last— 1: 12 o'clock, ' , l.
W. C: OSERTEUFFER,
Secretary.
j;.`~S,th,r,tu.Et
lerrlJE ANNUAL MEETING Or THE STOOK
holders of the "Burning Spring and Goose Creek
Oil Company" will be held at their °Mee. 311 Walnut
street, On TUESDAY. January 33th. at Ii o'clock A.. 1.,
when an election will be held for Directors to serve the
ensuing year.
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—A monthly dividend of Two Per Cent. (being
twenty c tap per sbare) has been declared payable on and
after February Ist, clear of taxes. Books close January
27th, at 3 P. open February 2d.
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Treunrcr.
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• A nard Case.
PIIILADEMPIIIA, Jan. 2 - 2, 1868.—T0 the Editor
of the Evening Bulletin:—l have been very
frequently, troubled and vexed by the brutal man
ner In which the poor are treated at the office of
the Guardians of the Poor, Seventh street, by the
men there employed; also, by many of the vial
.
tors connected with - the office. But this - after
noon's doings are so shameful, in my opinion,
that I write to know if there is no redress. A
poor man, reduced by reverses and sickness, died
on Monday night last, and at the office they actu
ally refuse a coffin—we offering to provide
burial. Now this appears to me an outrage. Is a
man to remain unburied, in a civilized
land, because his poor wife has not money to
inter him? And more, is it not disgraceful that
in a city like oars an office should exist ostensi
bly to hear of these wants, and yet be under the
.control of men who insult whoever enters asking
aid ?
It is bad enough to be reduced to extreme pov
erty,without receiving insult froin those who are
yuld with our money to relieve Just such cases as
this. A similar case occurred to me during the
cholera season two years ago, when three per
sons actually lay dead for tiro days, at the corner
Of Fifth and Lombard, and these same men re
fased.me personally to bury them, averring it was
not their business, and as the Board of Health said
it was not their business, they, too, were in . 'a fair
way of remaining above ground. , A,teolleetlon
was made, however, for them.
JANNom.—One of the spbakers at a meeting in
Oldham, En land, recently said of Mr. Gladstone
that, "as a Lancashire man, he was jannock to
the backbone." The Saturday_ Review Is face
tious about -, havlikillecovered that "Jan
pocks' are oaten bread made into hard and coarse
large loaves. The blunder of the Saturday. Review
(says another English paper) is more amusing
than its facetiousness. "Jane ock" is, commonly
used in the rural districts of the North In the
sense of fair, honest and genuine. If a boy at
tempt's to cheat at marbleshels..require.d-"to play
jannock."
A WICKED Mozunt.---At the Salford (Eng
land) Town Hall au Irishwoman was recently`
charged with theft, and it, appeared that she had
trained her daughter, only Il.ve_years of age, to
accompany her to shops and pilfer articles from
the counters whilst alto engaged the attention of
the shopkeepers,
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LETTER FRODI PARIS.
leofreapondenee of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
PARIS, Tuesday, January ith, 1868.—1 venture
to • flirm that every letter mailed this day from
Paris, or from any other part of France, to the
United Sipes, will have for Its chief, if not its
sole topic, the state of the weather. And, in
deed, it is difficult for any of us hero not to be
come more or - less - engrossed with a subject
which appeals so directly and so "sharply" to
one's personal feelings as does the one in ques
tion at this moment. There has been, to be
sure, a slight modification in the state
of the temperature for the last day or
so, and we have ascended from the rigors of
ten, twelve and thirteen degrees below the freezing
point, to the more endurable temperature e of
live and six. But still "Jack Frost" holds us
fast In his iron grip; 'and so long as he does not
yield, it may always be said of him that crescit
macro, and that he makes every thing "harder"
and less "bearable" (except the ice) the longer be
lasts. The chief consolation to our Paris resi
dents, and especially to our own people, is, not
having "gone down South," but having been lucky
enough to stay here, where coals and feel are at
least to be had by paying for them (although the
former are 60 francs per ton, and even at that
price about a third cheaper than wood)--where
dews and windows have some pretensions to
shut, and apartments profess at least to keep out
the cold. Down South, things seem to be in a
desperate way, and the "sunny shores of the
Mediterranean" have this year quite lost their
character and disgraced themselves.• Mountains
of scow have fallen all along the coast line from
Torsion to Montpellier and Toulouse, and thence
again to Bordeaux and Pau. Montpellier, once
so celebrated for its mid-winter climate,
has been very . roughly treated, the
cold maintaining itself steadily at 7 and S degrees
of intensity. with a leaden sky. and not a gleam
of sunshine. All the smaller etreams have been
Meg sit ce completely arrested; and such giants
for what are thought giants here) as the Loire,
ei , e. Garonne, the Scene, the rapid Phone itself.
are d„:'''' bccenning lee-bound. Lyons, al ways
cold place le winter, is suffering very severely,
especially among jts laboring and manufacturing
te irritation, so many of whom :11'43 at this moment
071.:,* half-apple:led. The centre and northeast
parts of France seem to be the points where
the cold- has proved most intense. Thus,
at Nevers. among the forests of the
Nivt rnais, the central point of all, the ther
mometer has marked 13 degrees of Centigrade
below zero, - or 9 degrees of Fahrenheit. And the
same thing, or nearly, has occurred at Nancy,
Strasbourgb, Lille, and other northeastern cities.
According to the chroniclers of past times, - we
must go buck nigh a quarter of a century to
find a parallel season.
And now a word or two of the state of things
In Paris under this Siberian aspect. We have
had, as yet, only Just snow enough to whiten the
house-tops, although, within a tew miles round,
the country is deeply covered. Paris enjoys
commonly a singular immunity in this .respect,
owing , some persons think, to the chalky basin
in which it lies. But if we have almost escaped
snow, we have had our full share of frost, ac
companied by high winds and clouds of dust,
which, swept along our now wide and open Bou
levards and avenues with terrific effect, remind
ing one of the accounts we have been reading of
late from the British camp in Abyssinia, with
wily the slight difference of some 80 or 100 de
grees of temperature! Every bit of water has, of
course, been long frozen over, so that when the
ice, or at least the ice-house, took fire the other
day in the Bois do Boulogne, our whole summer
provision of the luxury was like to have been
melted for want of water to put out this singular
conflagration. At last, however, some one
thought of the Artesian well, and the necessary
supply was procured from thence. The Seine is
now completely frozen over, and the fashionable
amusement for some days was to drive down to
one bank and send your carriage to meet you on
the other side, after you had crossed on foot.
But one or two stupid or awkward
individuals having managed to fall in,and one even
having the bad taste to drown himself(in such ,
weather!), the authorities, of course, under this
paternal government, stepped in and spoilt the
fun by prohibiting all further traffic. The gene
ral rendezvous for all the world just now is
around the lakes of the Bois de Boulogne, where
may. be Ken grouped, drising; skating or sledg
ing, the entire beau monde of Paris, froth the Em
peror anffErppreesdownwards. It need seare,ely
be said that the American Colony, male and fe
male, forms a large element in this fashionable
gathering, nor that the latter portion of it at
least is pre-eminently 'distinguished by its grace,
its agility, and—its toilette !
The climax, however, of these scenes of wintry
festivity took place, not by day, but by night. On
Saturday last, just as the cold was at its height,
the skating club announced its intention of giv
ing a fete' de nutit on the ice in the Bois de Bou
logne. Some little courage, no doubt, was re.
quired to encounter so keen a blast as then blew
on one's way to the rendezvous, past the Trium.
pita]. Arch of the Champs Elysees. But, b once
within the Bois itself, some shelter was afibrded
even by the leafless trees;tho air was comparative
ly calm and the scene around the lakes certainly
very beautiful and fairy-like. Hundreds of va
riegated lamps encircled the margin of the frozen
waters and hung suspended on the arid branches
around. A countless host of carriagesefilled with
all the most brilliant native and foreign, private
and official, society of Paris, clad in every variety
of fanciful costume—Russian, Follett, Swedish—
wended its way in long lines of light, and set
down its be-cloaked and be-furred occupants op
posite the beautiful marquee of the Club, itself
dazzlingly illuminated. Some ladies fastened on
their skates (the new American pattern without
straps being the favorite); some embarked on
sledges, to be impelled by male Wolters, the latter
carrying lanterns in the hand or on their heads,
and the sledges themselves being decked with the
same. All, however, were bound for the ice in
some fashion or other, and the lake was soon
crowded with gay groups. Suddenly, on a sig
nal being- given, oiect rie lights from the marquee
and other spots burst upon the scene, and lighted
up all its fantastic imagery with the broad glare
of an artificial sunshine. And then you could
recognize many a Vell-known face and figure.
There glides Mme. Metternich; there the Princess
Bacelochi, there many' a, fair American' whom
delicacy forbids me to name; though I need
not adhere to the' same reserve in one so
constantly before the public as, the Sy= of the
Italians, 'Mlle. Patti, who set winter and sore
throats at defiance, and carolled gaily 'as she
glided on under the guidance or a dozen assidtt
ostreaVallein. The file was right brilliant and
P LIMA DELPHIA, P Uli SpAY, JANUARY 23, 1868.
beautiful, and concluded only et midnight,. am'ade
a bouquet of fireworks.
You will see by the above that we are', com
pletely absorbed By the "compliments of the
season," and in truth there is but little else to
speak of. The Italian crisis is over in Italy, but
the Italian question is just where is was. Mexi
can Bonds are going "up" rapidly, which signi
fies that that the government intends coming
"down" with the Wherewithal to pay - theta. The
army bill has passed„ and begins to be forgotten,
except by those "able-bodied" youth who will,
ere long, be dragged from their homes and occu
pations to swell its ranks.
LaiXMI.'jW. L ,,AM . IL
MEXICO.
A Supreme tJudgeebip Offered to Ho.
mere Renewal "by Congress of
AntlreL , 9 Extraordinary t•owerer—
Proceedingee of Cosurreke—Attempt to
Elonap General Carvajal.
HAVANA, Jan. 22, 1868.—We have further de
tails of the news from Mexico. A seat on the
bench of the Supreme Court had been offered to
Senor Matins Romero, who was still undecided
us to whether he should return to Washington
as Minister or remain in Mexico. Congress
seemed inclined to `force Minister S.
Lerdo de Tejada to., give up either his portfolio
as head of the State Department or his seat In
Congress. The extraordinary powers which
President Juarez had surrendered to Congress on
his inauguration have again been authorized by
Congress for a limited time in view of the Rica
tun insurrection. A secret session was held, in
which the publication of a manifesto declaring the
policy of the majority in Congress was approved.
'fhere were rumors of an appropriation 01 140,000
to erect a monument in honor of the heroes.
of Mexican Independence. How this is to be
Lone out of an empty treasury forms a difficulty.
Congress haft lately been stirring up the English
Company holding the concession to finish the
railway between Mexico and Vera Cruz. A
smelling committee had been appointed to find
out whdt means were used to secure the conces
sion. A grand review of the military forces form
ing the division of Ile centre t Alien place at
!be capital. An . ittenupt had bi.:?,n wade to kid
r General ear ja I, but be eseaped after
killing the Icater of the kidnappers. The
111/Inifer Republican') publishes an extraor
ffieary alphabetical memorandum hook found in
Maximilian's private cabinet by the police. It
abuses and exposes every ineuential and famous
man in Mexico. The reports from the Real del Monte
mines am unfavorable. The Americans working
them are too poor for the outlays necessary to
uccessfully carry on such operations. The re
ceipts of the Vera Cruz Custom House are satis
iactory. The expense of transporting the foreign
mails is still paid by the customs authorities. I
forward you a docutnent proving the complicity..
6i ex-Consul Otterbourg, with the late empire. •
infovernentsof General Iliaz—ite Es.
tablishes Schools for His Soldiers—
. —The Guerrero Diftieulties riot Yet
Settled—Conutnercial Mews—Civil Re.
gisters—neinolitton of the Fatuous
Witch Fort at Monterey.
HAVANA, Jan. 22, 18G8.—The French steamer
Guyana has arrived from Vera Cruz. Her dates
are no later than those of the' steamer Marselle,
but I have additional details. General Portirio
Diaz gave a grand banquet to the functionaries
and prominent citizens of Vera Craz. Gen
eral Zuloaga had been reinstated in his
civil rights by the Legalatnres of Chihuahua and
Vera Cruz. The contract of Messrs. Zangrouis y
Compania for the construction of the railroad to
the capital by way of Jalapa has been ratified.
The settlement of the troubles between Generals
Jimenez and Alvarez, in the State of Guerrero, is
still pending be'ore the national government. All
degrading punishments have been prohibited in
the army. On the 30th ult. slight shocks of
earthquakes were felt in Mexico. The oseilla-
Cons were froni east to west. General Por
firio Diaz has established schools in his mili
tary department for the soldiers of his com
mand. Ex-Minister Macias Romero, who is a
fellow-collegian of General Diaz, contemplated
making a visit to Tehuacan, the headquarters of
General Diaz. A conducta of specie had arrived
at Colima, from Guadalajara. The amount was
J.:6300.000 in hard silver dollars. The anniversary
of the departure of the French troops from Zaca
tecas was to be celebrated with great pomp.
Tho yield of the mines in that State was
excellent. The amount earned weekly by
the laborers was $60,000. At Colima the receipts
of cotton from the interior showed that its culti
vation was progressing successfully. The price
of the raw article at Coahuayutia was twenty
colts per pound. Senor Orozco had been made
Inspector of Roads for the State of Jalisco. At
Manzanillo an American named John Crick had
been naturalized as a Mexican citizen. General
['Meld° Vega had been chosen Governor of the
State of Sinaloa. lUeneral Vega must have pro
claimed himself, as we have had the au
thentic Iva of Senor Domingo Rubi having
been chosen-by the Legislature of Sinaloa.] The
Legislature of the State of - San Louis Potosi had
ordered the Mayors of all cities to keep a strict
civil register. The Legislature of the . State of
Nueva Leon had ordered the deinolition of the
famous Black Fort, near Monterey.
Attivlty of the Government at Vera
Cruz to rut Down she Yucatan Re
volt—Probable Cost of the Ezpedi.
tion—Concession to a Now York
Mouse.
HAVANA, Jan. 22, 1868.—The steamer Georgia
was ordered away from Sisal. She had to land
all her cargo at Vera Cruz. The steamer Senora
sailed from Tampico for New Orleans on the 15th
inst. The orders to General Alatorre are to re-
Place Governor Cepeda in the gubernatorial
chair at Merida. A force of 2,300 men,
belonging to General Porfirio Diaa's division,
is to be held in readiness under that officer's per
sonal command. General Diaz has made the
charter of ten vessels to convey troops, artillery.
mules, women, 45ze., to Yucatan. The rate of
charter varied from $2 000 to $5,000 for the trip of
five days duration. The expedition has already
cost over three hundred thousand dollars, and
probably will coat a million before it sails. The
national forces will soon concentrate on Merida
if Campeche co-operate. The people of this
latter State are anxious to see the rebellion
put down. Commodore Forstt is in
command of the squadron off Sisal. His flag
ship is the steamer TabaEco. The rebels, on the
other hand, are anxiously awaiting the arrival of
the steamer Mosquito,from Havana.
Messrs. Alexandre & Son, of New York, have
obtained a concession for a bl-monthly line of
steamers between Now York, Havana and Sisal,
at $2,100 per round trip. The trips are to coral
mence in February.
CENTRAIL
A Central American Union Again Agi
tated-..lmportant Negotiations lie
tween Nicaragua and the Central
American Transit Company...erne
Bay of Lunen Opened to-Commerce.
PANAMA, Jan. 12, 1868.—The project of the
union of the five Central American States upon a
plan somewhat resembling that of the United
States, long agitated, is again a subject 'of dis
cussion. President. Guzman, Of Nicaragua, has
commenced a movement toward. the accomplish
ment of this design in , an. ~Intelligent and
moderate manner, by appointing a Commissioner
to San Salvador for the purpose of securing the
adoption of some uniform system of weights,
measures and money. Besides these innovations,
the proposed plan considers • the abolishment of
duties between the> Stales, the systemization of
post-ofices,,a united sopport of steamship lines
trading with their ports, repreaptagork of the
ova WHOLE COUNTRY.
By a recent decree of Don Jose Maria Castro;
President of Costa Rica, the Bay of LIMO& is
henceforth open as a port for all nations "free of
all duties or imposts for tonnage, anchorage or
crew list, as well as for all documents or certifi
cates which may be Issued."—N. Y. Tii6une.
The Original Version of Marshal Ita..
=due's Confidential Circular, Hi.
reeling Murder.
[CONFIDENTIAL CIRCULAR.
[No. 7,749. J 311Exico Oct 11, 1R65
..
“Theassassinations comailited
by the dissidents,
and the part taken by the rebel chiefs in these
savage acts, placing themselves at the head of
bonus that respect nothing, give to the struggle
at present existing between the Imperial power
and the Juarez party the true character under
which it should be considered, that is, a war of
barbarism against civilization.
"On the 18th of June, 1865, Arteaga attacked
Urnapan. Ile took this place after a 30-boars'
struggle, and far from honoring the valor of the
defenders, he ordered the commander, Lemus, tc,
be shot without compassion, the sub-prefect,
Isidro Paz, and one of the notables of the town,
who had taken up arms in the cause of order.
"On the 7th of July Antonio Perez assassinated
Capt. liinsrech with his own hand.
"On the Ist of September Ugalde surprised a
detachment of the Municipal Guard near San
Felipe del Abraje, and ordered six of Its officers
to be shot.
"Lastly, on the 7th of October the united
bands that arc about Tierra Caliente of Vera
Cruz, attacked the railroad train at Arroyocie
Piedra, and captured a lieutenant of the Colonial
Engineers, Friguet, the guard of artillery, Lou
bet, end set en private soldiers. On the follow
ing day the nine bodies were found horribly mu
tilated.
"In presence of these savage acts retaliation
becomes a necessity and a duty . . All these ban
dits, including their commanders, are placed
without the pale of the law by the Imperial de
cree 01 Oct. 3,1865.
"I urge you to make known to the troops
under your command that I admit of the taking
of no prisoners. Every individual, whoever he
may be, taken with arms In his hands shall be
executed. -In-future there will be no exchange
of prisoners. It is necessary for our troops to
know that they should not give up their arms to
such adversaries.
" It is a war to the death—a terrible struggle
between barbarity and civilization. On either
side it is necessary either to kill or be killed.
" The Marshal Commander-in-Chief, •
" BAZAINE.
"NoTE.—This circular will not be copied in
the order-books, but will only be made known to
the oft'icers."
A New Phase of Ritualism—Curious
Testimony in Court.
A leather-dealer In London has been arrested
and fined for creating a disturbance in the ritu
alist church of St. Ethelbiarga, Bishopsgate. The
rector of the church, Mr. Rodwell, described the
scene in a very funny way, in his evidence before
the Police Court_:
"The first - witness called was the Rev. John
Meadow Rodwell, who said: I am a clerk In holy
orders, and the rector of St. Ethelburga, in the
city of London. The seats in that church are all
free. Previous to Sunday, the . 29th December, I
bad never to my knowledge seen the defendant.
On the morning of that day I performed divine
service, aided by .a curate. The defendant came
up the middle aisle and seated himself on the
third or fourth seat from the pulpit. I observed
him sitting while the others were standing.
When I came up the Middle aisle towards the
altar he made a sort of noise like a tur
key cock. I The reverend gentleman here gave
imitations of the sound.] Daring the first part
of the service he had his legs stuck out before
bun, and was waying his hat in so extraordinary
a manner that he frightened the fourth com
mandment out of my head. (Laughter.] The
next thing heard was during the singing of the Ni
cene Creed. While the solo, 'And was made man,'
was being performed, I heard a voice., which was
the defendant's . , I think, singing Very loudly. It
was obviously intended to disturb the congrega
tion. When I got into the pulpit, and was
giving out a notice of the saint's day, the de
fendant interrupted me with a shouting and de
risive noise, and my voice was so completely
drowned that I bad to read the notice a second
time. I then proceeded to preach my sermon,.
and upon -uttering .worda,,, 'I trust, that in.
Issa there will be more of the Church's truth and
the Church's ways' the defendant again - made the
noise in his throat.. Going on with my sermon I
came to it point where I said, 'the principle that
Would lead any man or woman to demolish a
prison, to liberate prisoners, to destroy
property, and, I may add, to vio
late churches, to profane, the sanctuaries of
God and disturb the devotions of congregations
—all these proceeded from the same source, all
are symptoms of the same disease, and must
all be resolutely resisted by all 'who wish well
to the cause of law and order and religion.'
Here the noise was repeated by the defendant
six or seven times,and so badly that I was Obliged
to stop and say to him, 'You are making that
noise to interrupt me if you do so again I shall
be obliged to put you into the hands of a police
man, who is at' the door.' This effected an. in
stantaneous cure— laughter]—and his guffawing
suddenly ceased. I then continued my sermon,
and when my face was turned to him his conduct
was most indecent and irreverent. Sometimes
he folded his arms, and at other times threw them
about. At the close of the sermon the defendant
came up with others and knelt down at the rails
to receive the sacrament; but I did not admin
ister it to him. Re came subsequently
into the vestry and wanted to know why I
had so grossly insulted him from the pulpit,
and that l. had been laying a trap'for him. Re
also used words to the effect that Iknow he could
not answer me as I was in the pulpit. I asked
him his name. At first he refused to give It, but
ultimately said it was Pembridge Langston. Re
cognizing It, said: 'That is the door; leave the
room.' Hollowed him down the church, and
told the beadle to let thepoliceman observe him,
so that he might know him if he came again.
"The Lord Mayor ordered the defendant to be
imprisoned for a period of one month. Mr.
Sleigh said he was instructed by Mr. Rodwell, in
a feeling of Christian spirit, having regard to the
serious consequences of a committal to prison, to
request that a fine might be substituted.
The Lord Mayor said he would yield to the ap
plication on reeelyirig the solemn promise of the
defendant never - teerepeat the offence; HObh°lllll
fine him £5 and costs. , s
!!The defendant gave the required promise, and
the fine and, costs, £lO sg. in all, wore thou paid."
SUNDAY ON THE CONTINEN7.---Tho director of
the police at Cassel has Just reminded the inhabl
*
tants the existence of the laws which order
the st observance of the Sabbath, and which
prose i all 'work, either in shops or iu the
fields, sale or pnrchase, remaining in ogles, C.
The:warehouses are to remain closed, and wh6re
the windows , are indispensable to the lighting of
the hastier, no merchandise must be exhibited.
%
—ThePapat Zeuavesgenerallycall,thomselves
"Tame." They wear Wreoetuntes
I live States in foreign courts by one minister, the
adoption df uniform extradition laws,
A new arrangement has been entered into by
the Nicaraguan Government and the Centrist
Amcrican Transit Company, the terms of which
are understood to be these: The Government
grants to the Company the exclusive right of
transit for ninety years, and reduces greatly, if it
does net altogether rescind, the annual payments
which the Company has heretofore been re
(Pired to make.. In. return, the. Company guar
antees the restoration of the harbor of the San
Juan del Norte (at Greytown),, and the improve
ment of the river itself. This arrangement has
yet to secure the ratification of the Nicaraguan
Congress, which meets at Nicaragua on the
20th inst.
A HISTORICAL DOC VIRESIT.
Shaling—Overdoing
Such a deal has been said and written
Late years about the necessity , of bodily ex
ercise, and so great heed given to the subject
by cptain people, who have more zml than
discretion, that they are obviously taking
"too much of a good thing," which, ac
cording to the old proverb, "ie worse than
nothing."
It is quite a mistake, says Harper's
Weeklll, that physical exercise can ba•
dulged in without limit as to kind and de
, gree. The muscles', it is true, may, under a
proper system of training, be Tendered
capable' of great force and endurances Men
have bees known to , strengthen and• harden ,
their arms. and flat& into sledge haoamer„
and using their abdomeas for anvils to beat
out iron horse shoes with. therm It is hardly
necessary to insist that the human frame
wasnever intended by nature fora locomo
tive smithy; for such a misconception of the
purposes of the human body is not likely to I ,
become popular. Rot there le & good .deal
of similar error in regard to-the proper use
of the muscular system , so general and dan
gerous as to detsand an effort for its removal.
The muscles are so• closely connected with.
the many delicate blood-vessels„ nerves;
and internal organs of the body that It is
impossible to move the former without com
municating their motion to the latter. Whets•
this is moderate the influence is favorable to ,
the generation of nervous power, the circula
tion of the blood, the process- of digestion,.
and all the other bodily funcAlons. If ex—
cessive, however, it unduly stimulates '
the action of these, and produces congestion,
inflammation and rupture of the delicate
structure of the internal organs and their i
vessels.
One of the most eminent of English sur
geons has lately made an emphatic protest
against the excessive physical effort engen
dered by the University boat races. He de
clares it as his own experience and that of
many others of his profession, that the voring.
men engaged in these ardent struggles, wlmre
the competition stimulates the muscles to
their highest pitch of strain, often become af
fected with diseases in consequence, such as :
aneurism and other fatal affections of tile •
heart and blood-vessels.
It is to be feared that we may also in this
country, with the usual tendency to excess,
overdo the matter of boat-racing, which is
becoming an established institution in our
colleges. As an exercise nothing can be bet
ter than rowing,and an occasional competitive
spirt for a short stretch might do no harm,
but a long struggle, stimulated so excessive
effort by anxious expectation and eager strife,
cannot be safe.
Our young girls too aro overdoing it, we
suspect, in their skating parties. We should;
be sorry to say anything against art amuse
ment productive of so much innocent plea
sure, and an exercise so favorable to health
when properly regulated. It is essential,
however, that the temptation to excess
should be guarded against. The competition
of a skating race often leads to a prolonged
and excessive strain of the muscles, fall of
risk to the peculiar organization of woman,
and we know of many fatal results in conse
quence.
It is seldom that our young girls are prop
erly attired for the strong physical exercise
of skating. Nothing can be more pictur
esque than the fur-trimmed jackets, the
looped-up skirts, and the Mil revelation of
brilliantly colored petticoats. We have
nothing to say against the taste of the cos
tume, but we have a warning to utter in
regard to its make. Don't let it be so tight
about the waist, and don't wear that corset
or bodice which binds the upper part of
your frame into an immovable shell.
If a woman will thus constrict herself,
she had better take no exorcise at all, for the
least violent effort under such circumstances
is dangerous. In skating there is necessarily
a strong action of the muscles of the lower
part of the body, which will be concentrated
there in undue intensity if the chest , and
waist, deadened by corset or bodice, is unable
to share it. The whole movement and effort
thus intensified and. confined to the lower
portion of the frame are sure to give rise to
those diseases to which the peculiar organi
zation of women render them particularly
liable.
A -Rapper Detected. r
[From the New Haven JournaLl
A. sinular case of mysterious manifestation
occurredin Meadow street, a few weeks since.
Thu facts, as we give them, come to us through
most reliable sources. An aged lady who lives
in Meadow street, and whose name, on fter ac
count, we refrain from publishing, employed a
&avant who had a niece, a girl about twelve
years of age, who she desired should live with
her. The lady consented, and she came to
reside in the house. Soon after the mysterious
manifestations occurred. A .chair one elTen
ing jumped up' and down when no
,pne
was near it. ()n one occasion a mahogany
table fell over upon the. floor without having
received any visible human assistance. 'At
another time a cushion flew across the room and
struck the lady in the back. Who sent it on its
flying trip could not be seen. Other things hap
pened of a still more incredible character. The
lady became very much frightened at the way in
which furniture and other things became ani
mated, and she sent for her sons in New York.
They came and sent for a priest. Upon his ar
rival, the girl evinced considerable terror, and
finally confessed to him that she had previously
lived where she had seen some of the so-called
spiritual manifestations, and had learned enough
to practice table moving and other tricks with
considerable dexterity.
PRUSSIAN TOYS.— Caasell'a Magazine
says: "It is no mean proof of the manner in
which the Prussians are educated that those
very elegant little toys are all made by prison
ers under penal servitude. We wonder what
sort of a figure our felons would make at the
like occupation. Some of the details aro capi
tally modelled. There, for instance, is a
butcher's shop, with all the joints hanging on
their hooks. They are made in paper, and
show that the modellers must have copied
them from the originals. The governing
powers in Germany do not think it beneath
them to give an art education to the children
engaged in the manufacture of toys. The
Duke of Sase-hleiningen has established
_schools_ for tbia PurPase, and the result is that
the most beautifid models of animals, mide
in papier-mac/ail, come from his kingdoni.
They are too good, however, for playthings,
And are more likely to find their way to the
mantel-piece as ornaments. - -
Tim BANK ON' ENGLANII.—The Bank of Eng
land willingly gives "good money" for all silver
which has been worn smooth by fair wear and
tear. If, however, the coins bear the slightest
sign of 11Pusage, such as a dent or a'scratch, it
of course defines to change #tael.
- 1 -Xiisit Anna E. Dickinson recently rain near
Perishing with cold, in UhinetuAtt. She took a
semiteeellaeigh , rtddop tte Ittg. •
P. L ATITERSTON. rablglcer.
PRIM?. THREE CE'N'TS.
rAors AND irilmorEs.
The following r which was written OM years
ago, has peculiar significance at the pres time:
"How rapid Is . the march ofirandi
To-day leaves yesterday behind,
And star-eyed Science to the Arts
A magieeweep and , poiverimparts.
But Art nowhere such inereasergains
As im the mode of drawing train%
First horses drew, then steam was Used;
Calorie has some minds amused,
But now al) these we cart surpass,. .
For here's r Train that goes by Gay!"
—Theodore of Abyseinia eat hasheesh.
—The Popotarproicribed , shovt dresses.'
—Offenbach made sso,oootlist'scruron,'•
—Napoleon and Eugenic go•skating tsigether:P
—Denver has a horse railroad.
—Mrs. Yelvvrtortio in Charlocitcar, reading.
—Bayard Taylor bas quite recovirred from his
I are fever,
—Brick Pomeroy is , better, of his fever. Bute ;
worse of bis blacitguardhm.
—Many Euglizbrnen are discharglingtheir
vante simply because they are Irish:.
— . lle London Coors , Journal announces thaS..
Tenny.son is going.to "commune with , Nature.'
—St. Louis wages marelonting war against faro
banks, but licenses cock•lighis.
--In Canada the average taxation is throe dollars •
and a half for each persons
—Class- is Anna Dkkinoon4 choke for Pres&
dents..
—Shads dahing has communised on tbAsSavartis
nab.
—Diukcao puts his tlekelt , toss to three dollars
in Washington.
—"Two ants of Buzaar'risstble way Stewart e e
new workhouse is described.
—The new lunatic asylum for Ohio is to cost
e 300,600.
—W,Gilmore Simms is affestier.ately called by
a-southern paper "the kind-hearted old Boater
of , Southern Song."
—There Is now a Rue Jules lia'vro In Puha. It
Is a Ilaussmann satire. Hauesmann and his
master, may both have to rue Ades Favre yet.
—A gold brick weigbingr_over eighty pounds,
having a coin value. of nearly twenty thousand
dollars, has been cal.t. at Hciena. Montana.
woman in Clerniont. Prance, determtned
to commit suicide, recentit - . , saturated her dread,
with keresebe and then set lire to• It.
—Mary Barris, who shot Burroughs n Waeh
ington, and was acquitted on the wound of in
sanity, has recovered her reason andtgone home.
—Colal3 oysters wel* on the average three
quarters of a pound each, and sell for elm dollars
a thousand in Paris.
—Smyrna is shaky. The fopartiri, of Dec.
14, announces thirty distinct cartimualite in m
many hours.
—Trenhohn,_poor r was madmrlett- by- the re
bellion; and Aiken, from being..the-woaithieet,
Lecamo the poorest man in South. Carollmt..
—GeOrge Law, who once figured•very promi
nently In the newspapers, hNs of late years en
tirely disappeared from public life.
-.4 Chattanooga athlete has carried two , barrels
of flour, one under each arm, upwards of two
hundred feet.
—The library of John C. Calhouttia•advectined
to bo Bold at auction in South Carollna t .as form
ing pan of the eltate of the late Andrew P. Cal,
--Italians delightedly observe that all kinds of
crops have been overwhelmingly abundant. The
clergy predicted famine in consewenao of the
sales of church property.
—An English clergyman has published the
"Private Let tere of St. Pant and dit. '.fohn.l'vt By
and-by we shall have a volnme of "Reflections
by Job,"
—The St. Louis gamblers don't play. ro "square
game." Out of the fourteen faro boxes recently
captured by the police, but three were honestly
made.
—London is about to have the trial, of a cler
gyman for having relieved the poor of a parish
not his own. It would seem that/ the offence is
not .a 11011.1131100 ODO.
—Justice Grier, of the United Statee-•Supreme
Court, was so feeble that, the other day, he was
taken into the court-room on the attouiders of a.
negro.
—The houses of the English. Cabinet ,Ministers
arc now watched day and night by detectives, on
account of the many threats of assassination
which they have received.
—ln the environs of Rosenberg, Bohemia, a.
large bed of garnets has been diseovered. The
precious stones are of considerable sme,of several
shades in eolor, and of great value.-
—The list of j witty periodicals in London will
be increased shortly by the, appearance of The,
Rcizor. It is expected to be very sharp and cut
ting.
—Mr. Dickens is to read in Baltimore on the
27th and 28th instant, and on Lira 10th and 11th of
February. A hall in Detroit has boon engaged
for the 19th and 20th of March.
is aregular fire-cam. .11a was taken
out of his bed to fight a duel with Garza, and
shot his wan, sitting 1a a chair ) at twenty-paces.
Then he wars put to bed again,. happy. Garza
died. •
—Having met with Maternal] .traccees in their
'own country, twelve Italian brigands Lstely went
to France and began operations there in a moat
daring manner. They were all captured and sent
Ito the Toulon galleys for life.
-A letter has been safely; delivered to the per
-8011 to whom it was addressed in lowa, which
had, besides the usual superscription, these
words: "There is a ten-dollar bill folded in this
letter, and if you want ittworse than my, mother
does, take it."
—An avalanche of anew came down at Unter
schachen, in the canton.of Uri; Switzerland, and,
carried away a home and• its barn. A. woman
and child, and all the animals were swept WI. One
man, the brother of the proprietor, and a female
servant, escaped. •
—Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, tilled Admiral
Semmes and, a choice party the otbor,day. The
toast of Gov. Magoilin was lond,y applauded: _
"The fame of American sailors and soldiers,
whether rebel or Federal; is the common heritage
of our people; and hero is the health of my din,
tinguished guest, Admiral Semmes."
—Baron R., who has entertained, the frequent
ers of Paris colitis with his sharp sayings for
several years. is. Jima married. On returning
from church he began to weep, and the tears
streamed down his cheeks. " What is the mat-.
ter?" anxiously asked his young bride. "I am ft
believer in prediction " he rep Lied, sobbing
" Well ?" " Well! a gipsy has foretold that
shall marry twice , and the idea of losing you HILL
my breast with sorrow !"
—.Take Taylor, of Champaigu, Missouri, waat
instantly killed on Thursday, of last week, by his
wife Julia pole/eh:lg his heart with w pale of
scissors. He had ordered her to put crape upon,
the door, as there would be a corpse to the lumnist
before he got through with her. He, them bore
down upon her with -a chair, and wwl-Abugele_
reditecd to it Corpse - as stated. — - duds v was - "
rested, but acquitted on the ground. , Ot self-de
fence. , ,
—Much scandal baa been oceasioned la a cora '
mune near Paris, by two young fellows entering
the confessional of a church. Otte of them played
the part of priest and the other pretended *coo.
fess. Arend-by a lady cies* veiled approached.
the young man on his knees hurried away,and she
took Ma place. it proved to be the lady to whom
he was engaged, and hearing some disagreeable
disclosures, he rushed from the box in is rage and
repudiated her. The sham priest la now nudes*
trial for causing a scandal. in a chitrep t end, outi'
raging the practice of religion,