GIBSON MOCK. Mw. vommt xxi.—No. 253., THE EVENING BULLETIN • 0. PUBLIBILED MSS EVENING (Sundays excepted), AT TillE NEW nuLitereirm NEVILDING, IRK Cheetuat Street, Philadelphia, BY TLIS EVENING BULLETIN o ASSOCIATION. r patr non& GIBBON PEAL OSIC t 4 _ ERNEST O. WALLACE A P. L. FETIIERSTON, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON. CASPER SOUDER, ..INANGLS WELLS. The Battsrmla served to subscribers in the city at 18 cents per week. payable to the carrier& or *8 per annum. WIteiC4OI7I44TIONURB7VISITING — UK I I I3 iI litathonorr il telri r and =in altn ew slrel 8141" W eddfig W. G. rzarty, Stationer, 71119 Arch street Fn IjarUl BMANS—MOBIIER.—On the P.. 34 inst., in Baltimore, by the ileytainttel Borneo, Mr. Howard Beans, of Indiana, to Mies abide A., eldest daughter of J. Alex. idolater, of Baltimore. BEAR—IIIIITIL—In Allegheny city. Jan. 3th, by Rev. John G. Gootmon„ B. C. Bear. of Lancaster, Pa., and Mary E. k tr -- ighter of Col. L, W. Smith. of Allegheny city, l's. BNBREYHARRIBON.--tho Thursday. January 301 , at Church of the Holy 'Trinity, by the fv. Phillips Brooks. W. Harrison Ilisenbrey and Alice IL, daughter of Jos. Harrison. Jr. • IIUBBABO—FAIINESTOCK .--In the First Presbyte. Han Church of Harrisburg. on Tuesday evening. January 28th, by iter.T. H. Robinson, Thomas H. Hubbard. Esq.. of New York. to M Ira BybilA.Fsftestock., of Harrisburg. KIROY—CONII.OW. On Wednesday evening, January 15th, at Trenton. by Friends' ceremony, Mr. Henry B. _Kirby, of Ocean county. N. J., to Mies Mary IL, daughter of Jos B. Conrow, of Philadelphia. 'X OUN G—PRIUKE.On the 30th ittat... at Si. Clement'e Church. by the hector, the Rev. Treadwell Walden. James P. Young. of St. Louis, Mo., to Inn Lucy A. Fricke, of Philadelphia. No Cards. (Boston, et. Louie and hew ()ricotta paper. ',Leone eoOY.I • • DIJ D. BIRNEY"..-Agetha McDowell, in her 20th Year. eldest daughter of the late Major-General D. B. Barney, died on the O Ye.th instant, at her mother's residence. ibio Defamer Due notice will be given of the funeral. • DODD.—On the Moth inst., Mary Ann, wife of John E. Doidd, and daughter of the late Thomas and Margaret Reilly, in the 43d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respect oily Invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of her husband, No. 1622 Spring street. above Race, tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, at g o'clock. Funeral service at cathedral Chapel inteftnent at Cathedral Cemetery.' DUTTON.—At hie residence, at Wilton, Westchester county, N. Ir.. on Tuesday. January 2.P., Theodore Dutton. aged 46 year. KENN Li:W.—Svc' the hist instant. Laura Eva, only and beloved daughter of flush H. and Hannah A. Kennedy, aged 2 years, 2 months and days. Funeral from the reaidence of her parents, 246 North Second street on Monday afternoon. Feb. :4, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Monument Cemetery. MoMAIN.—On the lloth inst. Wra. B. McMain. Due notice will be yen of the funeral. • WMITE ITE O MiiiiiIR—FCLOOD RETENINif DRESSES. 1 WHPERA BCARLET OPERA CLOTH. WHITE MERINO AND I/ELAINE. EYRE & LANDELL., Fourth and Arch streeto. 241"igel - Ki:NtYrICES. al s r American Academy of 'Music. S 0 IBBE GYMNASTIQUE. BY THE PUPILS OF LEWIS'S GY3LNASIUNL -Theidav-Ectalogr feb. l t .st 1.14 o'cleekk A rich prosramir.e of Gymnastics by the pupils of both .sexes. Acrobatic exercises. nrarring. etc. Chorus by the Tourist iinnerchor, etc. Reserved tteats. 50 cents. Can be secured at the corner of bintb and Arch, or at H. Boner& Go *a. Me Chestnut etreet. - two days before the Exhibition. Ja31.44 Star PROF. LOUIS AGASSIZ WILL LECTURE AT 11011TICULTERAL HALL, Wedneetlay Fr.-erring, February 5 TICKETSFISTY CENTS, For sale at TkUMPIIii ; S: 936 CIIF STNL"T Street. ja3l-1 6 to 'MERCHANTS' FiTND.—THE FOiniTF.T[NYII tor Anniversary of the Merchants' Fund will be cele brated at the ACADEMY OF MUSIC Cit THURSDAY EVENING. February 6th, at 7M o'clock. Orchestra will be und.r the direction of Mark Wader. Addresses atilt be den 'wed by HON. MORTOU MoMICHAEL, REV. A. A. WILLITS. D. D.. J. GILLINGHAM FELL. and other MAW !robbedakeni. Cards o stef admission pay be had gratuitously by early ai ne it e. n L t EDWlG, 'No. 26 North Third street. JAMES C. HAND No. 614 Market greet. J. jean tD. MoFARLAND, No. bl South Fourth street. Third ard W DELAWARE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPAN ,:Y, alnut sts. eem ' MR. CHARLES DICKENS WILL. READ, AT sorT111: GDNCERT HALL, PIIILADELPHI.A. Od THURSDAY. JAN.BO. 13 " 111 DOCTOR MARIGOLD." • Art, MIL 808 S WAY KWICK)ER'S PARTY. (F. ON FRIDAY. JAN. 31, 1118 "DAVID COPP ERFTELD," ANT" BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. VIE READINGS WILL COMMENCE EACII EVE NINO AT 8 O'CLOCK, AND BE COMPRISED WITHIN TWO HOURS. THE AUDIENCE IS EARNESTLY REQUESTED TO DE SEATED TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE C MENCEMENT OF Tug READDIGs. ja2b. - ttrp: mar PROF. L01:18 AGASSIZy. Will lecture before the Teachere Institute, at HORTICULTURAL HALL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, Febtuary 5 (The date of this feelers wing changed from January. 3, as at brat announce/ , to .February- 5, by Prof. Agassii'a request.) Iseservad-Soats-for the remainder, of _tbi sour_so_tcon-- sating_ of _Prof. dgaasies lecture, and two illustrated lectures by Prof. It E. Rogers, of Philadelphia), may be had. U applied for soon. for $1 P) oath. Evening Tickets (not reserved), fifty cents each. For sale at TRUDIPLEIL'e. 5% CUESTNET Street. m 3trv§ mgr. REV. DR. WILLITS WILL gIVE HIS NEW AND ••••••• popular lecture on "The Model Home; or, a Plea for Marriage and Domestic Joys." on MOND Y ntght, at eight o'clock, for the benefit or his old church, at the corner of Seventh and Spring Garden streets. The pro ceeds of this lecture will be appropriated to clear this beautiful church from its last dollar of indebtedness. Tickets. tiftteents ;to be had at the drag store of eL BOWER. Northeut corner of Sixth and Green, aud at the .do• the night of the lecture. ja3l-Strp Or OFFICE OF THE WARREN AND FRANKLI N RAILWAY COMPANY. NO. 30634 WALNUT ST. PRILKDELYIITA, January 31. l&Zi. The Centeno of Tint Mortgage Bpnds of the Warren .and Franklin Railway Company. dna February Ist. will he paid on presentation at the office of Jay Cooke & Co.. Philadelphia. IL P. RUTTER. jell 3tl Treasurer. OrNOTIO,E.—THE ANNUAL METING OF _ Stockholdent. and the election for officers of THE MADIMVPII. held at COAL COM PANY will ho held at the office of the Compeny,tn the city of Philadelphia on WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12th, 186 s. at 2 o'clock, LAM. JOLIN W. DRAPER. , ia3l.llV „Preeident. appir- OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY. Putt.annLruta, January 510,1868. This Company is prepared to purchase its Loan duo in MO, at par. SOLOMON SHEPHERD, Treasurer. anaHrp No: 123 South Second Street. THE ADJOURNED MEETING OF STOCK. li e r holders of the Mercantile Library Company, to consider the proposed amendment to the Charter, will bo teld on TUESDAY EVENLNGFebIi 4th, at 'Z.% o'clock. JOHN DNER, is2s,thArp,o Reser Secretary. O. 8. FOWLER WILL COMMENCE A COURSE of lectures on Phrenology and f' nyslology,as op. lilted to human and self Improvement, at Assembly 'mild. ang;FRIDAY EVENING, at 7.80, Feb. 7. k REE. la29tfrp* kr HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 518 AND 1580 Lombard street, Dispensary Department —Medi. cal treatment and medicines famlehed gratuitously to the POW, aIorNEWSPAPESS BOOKS . PAMPHLETS WASTE aiivi rjr.lbc-Monet — tro vne etroet. 628 HOOP MORT • FALL STYL : NO. Plain and Trail Boon Skirts. Si. Sit 2301 and 8 yards round, of evert length and shape, or ea, and a corn. gete assortment of Mies& and Uhildren.s Skirts. &woke • &wings, from 10 to ' inches lon g, all of "OUR (MI superior in st yle, finish 'and durability, and really the cheapeet and most eatisfactorY Hoop Onthi the a Inerlcau 'market. Warranted in every respect. made to order altered-and rep I'AUTION.—Owing to the unprecedented reputation *which "Our Own Make" of Skirta have attained. some . dealers are endeavoring to put a very inferior skirt upon their customers by representing them to be "EloOkintee Own Make." Be not deceived. "Our Make" are stamped on each tab., "W. F. Hopkins. Manufaturer, Ma ell Arch street, Philadelphia." and also have the letter Li woven in the tepee between each minx. Also. dealer in New York made Biaxial, at very low prices, wholesale and retail .Serot for catalogue of styled audil n rz. at No. 68i hat r mi ptda t tottilati.vf.lYr A. WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE i 111 E 1110 Pat NO. VIII. Visit to the Great. Porcelain Factory at Meissen—The Town. and Castles Correspondence of Philadelphia Evening Bui DRESDEN, Jan. 4, 1868.—A more interesting subject for the opening of a letter to the Bemire me could not be found than our trip to Meissen to-day, where we visited the manufactorY in which the celebrated Dresden china is made. After a cold ride of ten miles along the Elbe, passing a succession of charming winter scenes, vine hills, old towers, groves, mbasters, and wind mills that might have borne an encounter with Don Quixote, and held their own, we. reached Meissen, a town built in terraces, the oldest por tion occupying the heights, and the newer run ning along the banks of the Elbe, containing a population of eight thousand inhabitants. Our party consisted of two ladies, another one and myself. Employing a (Herdsman, or guide, to conductos by the shortest route to the factory, we soon entered an immense building, formed in a hollow square, and five stories high. On the first floor the porcelain ware, completed and ready for sale, wan exhibited. Chandeliers, cantielabras, ormanented with a profusion of fine flowers, and painted exquisitely, made en tirely of porcelain, elegant vases, with richest de signs of the - season, or copies from most cele brated paintings of saints and heroes, with the expression wonderfully true--oval medallions Of Raphael's, Mnrillo's and Corregio's, Madonn as, fin ished with porcelain gilt-frames, that defied de tection—card-tables, with the loveliest Venetian scenes, their coloring so rich and soft, that it seemed impossible they had ever been baked in an oven ! But I must not anticipate. Entering cur names in the registering-book, and paying seven groechens; or about fifteen cents Nplcce, we were furnished with a guide, who con ducted us through the factory, beginning In the composition-room, where the clay and ' water mixed are left for some days to form paste, the consistence, of course, being according to the articles for which it is required. After it 1 8 moulded into dinner-plates, or vessels of service of any description, it is so chalky or crumbly that the slightest touch will powder or I mar the article. Bowls, basins, and all round, deep dishes are placed upside down cn a stand like those milliners use for bon net-shows, that revolve when moved by is crank under the moulder's feet. The rotary mo tion inakea .the inside perfectly smooth and round, while a knife and pointed stick, used with marvelous accuracy, shape and elaborate the outside - as the operator fancies. One fact we no ticed was that the finer the work the older the workman, with but one exceptisit. That was a pale-faced boy, with a spinal affection, who was so absorbed in the copying of Raphael's Ma donna, that before he noticed our presence, we caught the rapt expression reflected on his coun tenance by his subject, and which gave place td one of patient suffering when our guide interrupted him for our benefit. The work was eo beautiful that I could not resist purchasing a copy—a porcelain medallion, oval, resembling the finest oil painting when framed, about four inches by three in size. In the factory these cost nine dollars; imported to America, they would be twenty dollars. In some rooms women are em ployed moulding the arms, limbs, robes, veils fine as lace-work, flowers, leaves, and edging with fine steel Instruments the fringed dresses of figures, or cutting out the traced patterns on the edges of plates and card-receivers, with as much case as a lady cuts away the ground-work of a transferred collar'. It is impossible to appreciate this porcelain work till one has seen the labor of manufactur ing it. After the moulding is finished,the articles are placed in clay , vessels or crucibles, and ar ranged in great ovens that hold as much as four crates of china each. The door way is built up and sealed with only an iron tubing with glass in the end like a telescope inserted, to that the superin tendent can see when the fire hut burnt out, which happens in two or three days. After this first baking, the tracing or designing of the pat tern or picture is done; then the coloring and gilding, and then back to the ovens for a second baking. In the composition of highly glazed china, feldspar and mica aro used with the clay. After the second b r urning, gilded and highly col- -wed articles-are-polished-with agates on wooden bandies, the agate in every shape; like, a dentist's instruments, to snit the flower, border or surface, that must be polished. The manufacture of porcelain requires artists, not puildlers and daubers. The desks of these artists are arranged in line, the rooms inn beauti ful order, decorated with flowers growing lux uriantly in the warm and even temperature re quired for the work; birds in fancy cages; works of art, from which copies are chosen; and each workmart or ,woman sits beside a window that' commands a view of the valley of the Elbe, where gems of natural scenery abound. At the door of the factory we found our dients man, with a sleigh—a small green basket .on runners—with a Polish-looking individual, en veloped in Inn, astride the dasher, to drivs us, and the dientrman kneeling on [a leather step behind the sleigh. The horse was yoked to a pole that was fastened on one side of the sleigh, and a single trace on the other. Of course we ran sideways. Even in Dresden they harness in the same awkward way, and going round the corners is a performance as perilous as it is ludicrous to behold. Away we went, up a spiral road that, led to the old castle on the helEhts above the town, through tunneled houses, over old battle ments, and, at last, into the castle Yard, whore the ancient tower, sixty feet high, and the gothic castle and cathedral, excited our wonder and ad miration. They were built in the thirteenth century, by. Otto 1., Emperor, and Edith, the founders of the Saxon lines. An altar-piece by Cranach, of our Saviour with the Virgin and St. John, in oil; also,a paint ing on glass in one of the windows, by the same artist,.were very-remarkable : . ter -their -Retract finish and fresh appearance after so many years. A sarcophagus in bronze of Frederick the War like, and a number of brasses laid in , the aisles, engraved with the effigies of the early Saxon princes, besides hun,dreds of figures and group ings In stone and marble of the Apostles and Mirth Fathers,were specimens of the laborious, elaborate and beautiful workmanship of the early Saxon artisans. The castle formerly occupied by the Saxon princes is now undergoing repairs,and will at any time form a stronghold for future refugees I Time presaes, and a party about atart, ing on another excursion, urges the conelrision of this letter; so good-bye till my next. E. D. W: PHILADELPIILA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1868. rnornr NEW [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening frolledn.l tiENV YORK, Jan. 30, 1868.—Our little village is always In a state of excitement. First comes-a murder, then a suicide, then another murder, then a prize-fight, then a horrible accident, still an other prize-fight, still another murder, a great fire and one more suicide and prize-fight—all of *hick are glowingly chnanieled by the daily:press, - to the intense delight of the newemongers, the Intense disgust of sober-sided citizens who dread theAlnarcrash which shall place this pomorrah aMittig the cursed things tbat were and are not. Sometimes, to vary the horrible monotony of prizefight, and murders,we have the record . of a bold robbery . In open day, the swindling of a shrewd firm, the bursting of a boiler, the escape ?, of a Blackwell's Island convict, or the wholesale arrest of those ranch-pitied Iteartiesis pests of Metropolitan society, "fashioned so slenderly," who live by tainging...about. the...moral death of others as well as of - themselves, and who die by poison. by the knife, the pistol, or of diseases worse than death, and are at last cut up for the benefit of science and stowed away in Potter's Field, "unwept, unhonored and unsung." A few days ago (Friday) we bad a new sensa tion. A poor little baby died at No. 147 West Seventeenth street: So many poor little babies bad died at the same place that suspicion was excited. The Coroner went to the house, held an inquest, and decided that the child had been starved to death. One of the witneeses testified; and many others corroborated her statements, that the house has long been known as a sort of lying-in hospital Tiog prospectlie mothers who have never married ; and also, as an asylum (God save the mark!) for their Ilk gitimate offspring. "The dead child," said the witness, "was taken there three week+ ago, and she agreed to pay $3O for its care, until it could be adopted out, or ,hould die." The $3O did not last long. The child could not be adopted out, and, of course, it died. The Mrs. Putnam, alias Madame Parade, who keeps this place, was bailed out, and her case set down for trial at the next term of the court. The case will never be tried. This is not the only "boarding hotise" of its kind in New York. There are one hundred known to the police. Whether babes are starved to death in all of them, as a regular thing, Is very probable. The existence of these houses awakens 'serious reflec tion as is what should be done to repress the ter rible social evil of which they are at once the outgrowth and the promoters. The class of wo men who patronize them are not lawful. wives. They are unfortunates who have fallen from their (state of womanly purity, and in shathe and an guish seek the first hiding-place to conceal their dishonor. How many such care for the children they bear? When the time comes for an honest investigation , . into the social evil and its results, it will be found, - that not (tie child out of ten thus born ltves to the age of sir months. It is asserted, on good medical an tbdrity, that in a populous quarter of a certain - -Western - city; not-it-single Anglo-Americarsehild has been born alive for the last three years. Child murder, even by the mothers of the victims, has become too common to pass unnoticed. Even the clergy are denouncing it. It cannot be worl d( red at, then, that in a city like New York there should be found slaughter pens in which the business of infant murder is carried on by mon sters in human form, whose object is not to save a reputation—not to hide the one shame, which above all others crushes the guilty woman to cearth—but to coin money from the blood'of the, innocents. Tha gift enterprise swindlers are at the present writing, in an uncomfortable state of suspense. It is rumored that a United States law is about to be passed requiring the immediate arrest of every man engaged in such schemes as promises to pay the subscriber grand prizes for his one dollar. There are now at least twenty firms en gsged in this illegitimate business, and it pays, for the fools are not all dead yet. On Saturday the "Merchants' and ,Bankers' Grand Presenta tion Scheme," the fraud advertised by Clark, Webster ,S:, Co. was again before Justice Dow ling, Mr .- De Forest, of Brooklyn, had purchased tickets. He received a note from the swindlers informing him that he had drawn a watch worth $3OO, and inviting him to call and receive it. • He called and was requested to de posit $lO. Mr. De F. wanted to see the watch. It was handed to him. He pocketed it and walked away but was arrested for theft and taken be fore Justice Dowling, who advised him to enter a formal complaint against Clark, Webster & Co. for swindling. This he did, and the Justice is sued a warrant for the arrest of the firm. On this warrant Henry Elias, the head of the con cern. and several clerks were taken into custody and held for examination. Kelley's concern at No. ;808 Broadway is an other trap into which the unwary fall because they will not read the papers. Another called • Co-operative Gold and Silver Lead Mining Association," located at 234 Broadway, promises for $lOO to give you transportation (to which point not stated), a year's maintenance, $lOO dollars in wages, 160 acres of. land (location not stated), and your share of the profits of the en terprise. Let your readers, if there be any silly enough to listen to these magnificent thieves, be _ware of investing.' The theatres are doing a lively bueiness. The White Fawn at Niblo's, the :laps at the Academy, Barnum's Son at Nobody's Museum (as the bills have it), Lotta at the Broadway, and Lester Wal lack at Wallack's, are the main attractions. The circus draws as usual, and many people go to Bunyan Hall to see the Pilgrihis, or as - Isham Tonle says, "tramp sorcfooted through the snow to see more Bunyans up at Pilgrim's"- 81;04 lki I The Canaan Child Marder—Farther . Explanations of the Case. [Correspondence of the N. Y. Timm! ALBANY, Wednesday, Jan. 29 1868.—Detective Kelley, of this city, to-day received a letter from a gentleman in Dayton, Ohio, who is connected with the insurance companies, who says: I have visited Dayton, and learned the facts connected with the taking of the little girl, Angle Stewart: Joseph and Josephine Barney, alias Brown, intented to take a neighbor's child, seven 3 ears of age and adopt it. The little girl had a bad headache the morning Barney left Dayton ; consequently, the mother did not wish the child to go then, fearing that she would be sick. Barney and wife then made ,propositions to Mrs. Stewart (the mother of the murdered child), the result of which was that At left with them at noon. Barney was to stp in Cleveland some weeks and then return to Dayton. It was agreed, if Angie became home sick, she was to return with Barney; if not, was to accompany Mrs. Barney to Hartford, Conn., and stay with them three months or more. Angie NM to be very finely, clothed at Cleveland, and each day Mrs. Barney was to write a letter. to Mrs. Stewart. The party went direct to Cleveland, and registered at the New Eng land House as H. P. Matthews, lady, and daughter. They went to the office of Mr. A. Fuller, agent for an accidental Insurance com pany, and procured policies for the woman nod givirg_their.names as losephineand_Augle. Brown. Barney did not take a policy for him self, as be said be was to remain in Cleveland for some time, and that his family intended traveling a long time.. Detective. Muncie, of the latter place, saw the parties in the and thought that they were suspicious persons, and watched them for some time. He learned from a person who conversed with the little girl that the -pretended = parents' .- bad - .I.‘sevalltd , upon the mother in Dayton to let her accom pany them. On bearing this. information, Mr. Muncie immediately wont to Fuller's agency to learn their business there. He stated plainly his suspicions that something was wrong, and left, Mr. Fuller aleo fell, after they bad, gone, that these people meant to make money out of the girl in some way, Mr. Muncie wrote to several persons to asceitaln who these people were, but OUR WHOLE COMVI2LY. received no answers, and is of opinion that if others bad acted upon . the informa liewgiven, little Angie would have been alive to day. Mrs. Barney bought a sewing-machine in Dayton from a merchant there, promising to pay by monthly installments, and giving $2O down. While in Dayton, they had a machine belonging to-s poor woman who could neither read nor write. This woman they caused to sign a paper which they said would thew she had loaned it, ,but proving to be a bill_of sale. A t law suit grew out of this, and the poor woman recovered the machine. Mrs. Stewart and family are not such people as Barney and wife have represented. They are poor but honest. When I visited them I found the house in good order, and looking as if it had been well attended to. Mrs. Stewart is a morn bet, and has been for thirty years, of the Baptist Church, and her daughters are said to be good and >respectable girls. It grieves Mrs. Stewart every deeply to learn that after her pet child has been brutally murdered, the, murderers attempt to charge dishonor upon herself and her other daughters. Mrs. Stewart never heard from Angie until the sad news of her death came. The Pollard Sheeting , Altair—Later Particulars. (From The Baltimore Son of the Both.] Mrs. Nattine Pollard, the wife of E. A. Pol lard, who was committed to jail on Tuesday eve ning, on the charge of shooting at and wound ing in the wrist Dr. G. A. Moore, still remains in, that institution, and will probably continue there for-some-time, as she positively refuses to allow any one to go her ball. Mrs. Pollatd appeared quite cheerful yesterday, -and conversed freely with all who approached her, but when spoken to concerning her husband, who hoe been absent from her for some time, she invariably declined continuing the conversation. She has a wound in the thick part of her right hand, which she avers having re ceived during the scuffle at Dr. Moore's store. Mrs. Pollard told friends who visited her yester day that having had her trunks and effects seized by the proprietor of the hotel where she had been left by Mr. Pollard, she on Tuesday wandered out half frantic to endeavor to hear of or find her hus band; that knowing that he had been intimate with Dr. Moore, she went to the establishment of the latter, where the affair took place, which will likely lead to a judicial investigation. She, how ever, disclaims any recollection of having fired the pistol. In the jail, Mrs. Pollard occupies one of the large rooms usually set apart for United States witnesses, and, of course, will not be allowed to want for anything in reason whilst under the care of Warden Haney. Mrs. Pollard yesterday heard from her husband, who is in New York, through a despatch received by her counseL Another Baltimore AI/tray..-An • •promptu Duel. [From the Baltimore American of Jan. 203 On Wednesday night a ball was hold at the nubile house of Frank Steever, on North Point. rpad,_near the Philadelphia turnpike.._ present a number of persons from this city, male and female. During the progress of the ball an altercation took place between George Gambrill, otherwise known as Patsy Gamble, of West Baltimore, and Gabriel D. Clark, Jr., which resulted in the former being shot three Mays, seriously wounding him. Young Clark was arrested In this city at an early hour of the morning by Sergeant Cheno with and Policemen E. Woods and Bond, and lodged in the Middle District Station to await further proceedings. It is stated that yoang Clark was about leaving the place to return to the city in a sleigh, when he returned to the bar room to get his whip and buffalo robe. He was accosted by Gambrill and a party of men whom he bad treated two or three times, and who insisted on his treating them again. He declined to do so, and was im mediately set on and beaten considers ably about the face, the bridge of his nose being fractured. Pistols were discharged, resulting in Gambrill being shot—one ball entered the lower part of the breast, another the back, while the third struck his left arm. Young Clark was pro tected by Mr. Steever from his assailants as well as he could, and by him was secreted in a barn near by until an opportunity was afforded of bringing him to this city. Dr. Janney, of the county, and Dr. Bailey, of this city, were sum moned to render their services to Gambrill, who, at last accounts, was alive, with a prospect of re covery. Suicide in New York. [From the New York Times of to-day-.] Last evening a melancholy case of attempted suicide occurred at the boarding-house No. 245 Bridge street,Brooklyn. It appears that for some time past Mr. Benjamin F. Bache, a young man about 20 years of age, son of the Resident Physi cian of the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, had been prlymg his addresses to a young lady' residing at No. 245 Bridge • street. Bache's health bad been bad for some time, and his conduct somewhat strange and capri cious. On Wednesday night he called at the house about six o'clock, and.was apparently In good spirits. After talking some time with the y oung lady, he looked very fixedly at her, and shortly afterward left the house in an angry oodovithout - anfeause -- hatine been-given_ to put him out of temper. About nine o'clock he returned and sent th% servant into the parlor for the young •llidy, saying that he desired to speak with her in private. The lady went out to see him, and found him standing in the hall, near the basement door. After talking for some time with him Bache sud denly produced a pistol and discharged the con tents at hishead, the ball entering the right side of his forehead and lodging in the back of the brain. A gentleman boarding in the house ran down from his room on hearing the pistol-shot and cries , of alarm, and found Bache lying on his back in a pool of brood, with the brains oozing from the wound in the forehead. Dr. Regans was•at once sent for, who rendered all the as sistance in his power, but was unable to find the bullet. Bache, who was quite insensible, was conveyed to the hospital. The pistol shot had entered the 'forehead on the right side, two inches and a half abavo the eye, and lodged in the brain. The young lady was in an almost frenzied condition from the sho - ck she had sustained. Young Bache is at tended by his father and mother, and has a pri vate room in the hospital, but has very little chance of recovery. A Nan Convicted and Sentenced to be *fanged on the Testimony el an Idiot. (From the at Paul (Minn.) Press, Jan. 26.1 Yesterday Governor Marshall issued the death warrant of Andreos Roesch, who was convicted of murder in the first degree at the November term of the District Court of Nicollet county, and sentenced by Judge Austin to bo bung on. Friday, the 17th day of February next. Roesch was convicted of killing a neighbor's boy, 15 years of age, Joseph Lan rer, by name, by taking the boy's gun and beat ing him over the head with it. The boy's body was found two days after in a slough, where Roesch had tried to conceal it. The provocation for-the murder was injury done by Lauer to ono Of Itoeseb'A cattle The 150 y -cut Mt - animal with-- an ax. The principal - witness was a boy of Roeseb's, who testified that he saw his father kill the Laurer boy. The witness was. proved to be al most idiotic. De did not know his own age; did not know the days el the week. Thought there were eight days in a week, and ten hotel* La a day. He confessed to having killed a neighbor's horse _by _ :. At one tune htketklit . that he killed, 'the boy. It seems hard to "Inariesi.7 Ina - eon - totr testimony of suvit a brute and idiot. Judge Austin ' we understand, wants as little respon sibilityas possible for hanging the man on such evidence. Gov. Marshall, we believe, assumes that the jury, composed of twelve gqod men, wore the beet judges of the man's guilt. They pronounced him guilty. If guilty, he ought to euffer the penalty of the law. AMUSEMENTS. Cunt:l.ms DICKF.N3.—Thore was a universal ex pression, last evening, of the opinion that Mr. Dickens's performance of "Doctor Marigold" and "Bob Sawyer's Party" was the finest yet given. Concert flail was crowded as usual, and Mr. Dickens appeared to be in more than usual force. "Doctor Marigold" is one of hie favorite "read legs," 11 not the favorite, and bad the charm of entire novelty to a large portion of the audience., hundreds .of whom had never read the storf: Cheap Jack (Doctor Marigold) tells his own story to us with nroat artistic effect. 'True to showman-nature he blends pathos and volubility, satire and fun, tears and laughter, with a rapidity and truthfulness that brings himself, his wife "with a temper" the cart, the curly-headed child, the gaping rustics, the giant, "otherwise Pickle son," the adopted deaf and dumb girl, the hoarse voiced Mita, "who swore fe-rocious," all most vividly before his hearers. The children are Mr. Dickens's pets, and there is no better proof of the reality of his pathos than this. "Doctor Marigold' gives him full sway for this pleasant partiality, and he telleof the turiOns wite's bru tality to his pet, of Door little Sophy dying, with her head upon his shoulders, while he chaffers with Ms stupid customers, of his other Sophy, and the loye that grows up between them, of his contrivances for her pleasure and improvement, of her marriage, and of 'her return to the old cart on Christmas Eve, with a spirit that shows that he is fully in sympathy with his charac ters and with his audience. On the languid young giant, "otherwise Pickleson," Mr. Dickens gets ofl a great deal of fan, and in Cheap Jack's dissertation on the disadvant?ges of having a wife with a temper, especially in a cart, there is a grotesque and grim comicality that is irre sistible. "Bob Sawyer's Party" was done last night with far more spirit than on its first representation, and was exceedingly funny. Mrs. Ruddle seems to us rather too studiously deliberate and polite in her wrath, foil" her grade of lodging-keepers, but "Bob" himself, and still more "Jack Hop kine,ere both wonderful. "Jack Hopkins" is, in tome ways, the moat effective of Mr. Dick ens's characters in these "Readings." He is more thoroughly individualized,—more abso lutely unlike Dickens himself—than anything else that he does. He told the "necklace story, last night, in a. way that "brought down the house" repeatedly. To-night. Mr. Dickens gives "David Copper field" and "Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn," which will close the present course. The sale for the two extra nights (February 13th and 14th) takes place to-morrow morning, at Concert Hall. There is no indication of any abatement in the enjoyment of these entertainments, and there will undoubtedly be as eager a demand' for the next readings as there has been heretofore. THE THEATRES.—At the Chestnnt,this evening, Mr. John E. Owens will have a benefit in three pieces. The Happiest Day of My Life, So lan Shingle and the Live Indian. On Monday the Mikado Japanese Troupe will begin an engage _ment of_eix nights.__ At the. Walnut . Mr. Barney Williams will have a benefit this evening in ii - fine bill. Born to Good Luck; A n Hour in Seville, and the The happy Man will be performed. At the Arch Under the Gaslight will, be performed this evening, and at the matinee to-morrow afternoon. A varied bill is offered at the American. OLD FOLKS.—At Concert ,Hall, on Monday Evening next, "Father Baldwin's Old Folks" will begin a brief season. This troupe numbers among its members several very accomplished male and female singers, the most marvelous of them all being a boy soprano, of wonderful power. The programme offered for the first evening is very attractive. GRAND 'DUCHESS OF GEROLSTEIN.—Books of this opera can be obtained at the Academy of Music. The French Company will appear here shortly, and persons will find it desirable to ac quaint themselves with the libretto before seeing the performance. THE GERMANIA ORCHESTRA will give their usual public rehearsal at the Musical Fund Hall to-morrow, at 336 P. M., with the following pro gramme 1. Concert Overture, Op: 55 Kalllwoda 2. Gems from Memory, (Ist time)......lindolph 3. Die Alpler Waltz Lanner 4. Larghetto from Fifth Siufonle ....Beethoven 5. 0 verture—Dinorah Meyerbeer 6. Aria from Rigoletto Verdi - 7. Third Finall) from Der Freischiit7 Weber ELEVENTH STREET OPERA HOUSE.—This even ing a very attractive entertainment will be given at Messrs. Carncross. & Dixey's opera house. The pantomime of The Magic Pear/ will be per formed, with all the accessories of handsome scenery, costumes, wonderful transformations and ludicrous Situations. A burlesque entitled The Arrival of Dickens will be given, with Lew Simmons as "Charles Dickens." Mr. Carnerosi will sing several favorite ballads, and there will be a miscellaneous performance by the troupe. Myr. JAS. E. MURDOCIL—On Saturday, Feb ruary Bth, this popular elocutionist will read at Concert Hall. PHILADELPHIA OPERA HOUSE.—The famous burlesque, The Black Book, will be repeated at this theatre to-night. The Black Book Is a first rate burlesque of the Black Crook style of per- , formance. It is full of good hits funny situa svii 1 tionnd-amusing-ineldents.==hraadition-to-th a there will be singing, dancing, Ethiopian eccen tricities by Frank Moran and other first-rate per formers, end a plentiful sprinkling of wit and humor. The entertainment at this house is al ways excellent. 7 Pine Street. bor a titi, 1867. DR. J. IL SCHENCK : Dear Sir—l came to your office last February in a very bad condition of health. I had that awful complaint, dyspepsia, in its worst form; could not eat, had sour stomach, nervous, bad pain in the head, and, in fact, Iwas really miserable. You told me it was all caused by a deranged state of the liver and stomach creating such an inactive state of the system lbe stomach could not act, consequently everyth ng soured that I eat. You recommended your (Schenck's) Mandrake Pills and Seaweed Tonic. I took them, and called twice to see you a short time since, and can say now I am well and in better health , than I have been for ten years. I cannot speak too highly of your medicines. Use this letter as you see fit. Yours, truly, R. M. JoNus, Gan. Broker, .7 Pine street, New York. We would recommend those complaining with Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, constipated bowels, sallow complexion, and having tried everything without benefit, to call on Mr. Jones, for such ones are generally In low spirits and need a little buoying up or encouragement; to try Dr. Schenck's Medicines in sufficient quanti ties to unlock the ducts of the gall bladder, and get the liver to secrete healthy bile.. General Ilardee's Opinion of Reneral Meade. General Hardee (C. S. A.) attended a bar meet ing at Selma, Ala., a few days ago, and made a short speech, in which he referred to the soldierly magnanimity of Grant ana Sherman, end of his old classmate, General Meade, he said: I know _him _well._ _Re Is_ emphatically a slidier and a -gentle-mar.—it - mail of - abilityi — horror - and -- integrity. He has come among us, under - orders, to execute the laws of Congress, which I know ho will do; without fear, favor or affection. But I venture to say that in the exe cution of these laws, there will, be as much of kindness and generosity extended to the people of the district as the nature of his duties will per feelsrsaero4l4ot he Is•lree front partisaa-.. ship, and from personal and sectional prejudice, , and that tp the discharge of his'high office he will, uninfluenced by other than professional and pa triotic. ruotives, look' to the good of the entire country." —lt Is said that the articles In the National Is telligencer, directed agains,t General Grant, were dictated by Montgomery Blair, New York, No-rook F. L. FEMMSrON. Dallisbe. PRIOE THREE CENTS. zurrs A. El IP ryczza. —General Gilmore is in Charleston'. —Victor Hugo helps to make d living by settl ing his autograph at ten franca pet:one, —Marietta Ravel is demoralizirg Rochester,. with `•The French Spy." —The eldest slater of the late Lewin Casa has died in California, at the age of 86. -Clarke's next venture in Londosr will' be Salem Scudder.. , - 311rarnon's widotv is in Vienna, a permanent pensionary of the Austrian Government:, —Cliampsgne Is made from petrolennu Carte D'oll It should be called. _ —The Governor of Colorado won't sign tdlls of divorce,and there is much misery in consequence. —Joke by Judy's watchmaker at Clerkenwelk. An escape movement--the fats explosion. —Madame Celeste retired from the dustsriash stage at Melbourne on the 16th of November( —There are four men hi the House named+ fe* spectively—Buder, Baker, Cook and Cake. n-Ide tans red is now tbe fasidonable colorful. --Schenck and Plants, of Ohio, are said to bet the two ugliest men in the House. \ —Prussia thinks of establishing a penal colony Oil the west coast of Africa. `,—The widow of the late Commander Drayton% has been married, in Paris, to a member of the British Legation at Berlin. —Private Bntons have subscribed. enough to. maintain the widow of the murdered policeman Brett for a reasonably long life. —Napoleon has twelve editors in jail There are more than that number in this country who should be there. —J. Madhon Morton, author of "Poor Pilli coddy" and a host of 'other successful farces, it giving public readings in England. —Prince Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales and future king of England, hasjust,cole brated his fourth birthday. —The London Orchestra .says that "a very warm friendship once existed" between Dickens and the late Mr. Wallack. —There are three "Romeo and Juliet" operas running against each other in the theatres of Milan; one is by M. Gounod. —Mr. Charles Reade is fifty-four years old, but it is said announces that the best part of his literary life is before him. —lnstead of the often quoted , "whirligig of time," Fun suggests "flip-f-lapse of time' as more appropriate for the pantomimic season. —Don Pattoa, the one•legged dancer who his made a sensation in England, - recently tried to cut his throat in the dehruun tremens. —A New York servant girl spread rat poison. on bread for her mistress's children, and spanked them because they wouldn't eat it. . —lt is so cold at Pittsfield, Mass., that the water pipes are frozen in one street, together withthe ftveleetof earth _over ALM. —Niagara Falls presents a beautiful sight at this time, with its large icicles, its mountWna of ice, and the rude bridge of the same material be• low the fail. —Omaha expects Congress to remove the seat of government there shortly. Petitions to that end are in circulation among the inhabitants, who are not used to falling in their enterprises. —Gurney, the New York photographer, and the only one who has "taken" Dickens, has already cleared over ten thousand dollars by the enterprise. —A careless nurse in an English work-house put a pauper baby into a tub of boiling water, and then nicely skinned it by rubbing it with a coarse towel. —The dancers at the Queen's Theatre, in Lou don, are required to wear dresses which have been saturated with tungstate of manganese, which renders them fire-proof. —Ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria who re sides at Prague, has been attacked with inflam mation of the chest, and is unable to leave his room. —Two young women, who were watching the body of • Eupposed dead child in Aberdeen, Miss., were somewhat startled when the young ster sat up and requested something to eat. —No young man in the Cyclades, where the principal business Is diving for sponges, is al lowed to marry until he can descend easily to a. depth of twenty fathoms. —Tennyson is compelled to announce bis re gret that it is no longer possible for him to an swer the innumerablettletters, or to acknowledge the MS. verses which he is in the habit of receiv ing horn strangers. —A patrolman found the doors of the Yonkers Savings Bank standing wide open the other night. He summoned ono of the directors, pro cured a key, and locked the doors. Nothing was missed. —A medal cast in 1789 from the lead used to rivet the chains of prisoners conaned in the Bea nie is soon to be sold at Paris. It bears on one side a rude representation of the taking of the Bastile, and on the obverse an inscription stating the former use of the metal of which it is"coup- posed. —lt haviug been stated in a Detroit paper that large numbers of young men in that city were out, of employment, a gentleman just across the Canada line writes that he will employ one hun dred of them in cutting wood at five shillings, a cord in gold, and others will do as much.. But the young men do not want to cut wood. —Some thir boys were suspended from the Springville, N.Y., Academy, week before last, for walking home with the girls after school hours. We suppose that the principal of this institution Is so thoroughly a Dilulthuslan as to separate male and female flowers when found growing together in his garden. —When Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, the Queen wrote a letter of sympathy to his widow, and the Rev. Newman Ball had a conversation with Bob Lincoln on the topic, and "asked him about the Queen's letter." 'Tee," said Dob, "we have been often asked about that letter; we have been asked to publish it. But it is a long letter of three passes, the outgashing of a generous woman's heart, and my mother and myself thought it would not be right to publish a letter written in the effusion of a woman's heart." —"lt is not generally known,. we believe, that the story or history on which Shakespeare founded Macbeth, mentions Lady Macbeth as the wife of Duncan. The Thane of Cawdor was a frequent visitor to the castle of Duncan; and, as he was a brave soldier and a gallant and interest ing gentleman for that time, she fell in love with him.. After a long intrigue she planned the murder of her lord, whom she had grown to hate; inspired Macbeth with her idea by appeal ing to his ambition and passion, and so urged him to the bloody deed, in which she assisted. Such a plot, however, would have been too much like Hamlet, already written and produced. on the stage; and Shakespeare, therefore, who was more an artist than has ever been shown, altered the original story for the sake of variety and to snit hie own purpose." -=---Soniesilly-and Impudent - person - _11:0 - I)sU)tt attempted to make Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis the butt of a practical Joke last week. They forged cards of invitation for a reception at her house, sent fictitious orders to tradesmen and dealers of all sorts tor goods to be deliveted at the same house, and finally advertised in the Boston herald for a number of eats, also for Mrs. Otis. • Mrs. Otis was not at all disturbed by the matter, but quietly re,ceiveZ -- -,;;;..Afttexpected with the aid of two policemen, ddtalled for the purpose, turned away the various victimised tradespeople as fast as they arrived;, themby turning the tables on the Jokers. Moreover, the affair has been put into the hands of deteatiyey , „ so that there is a great probability qf thejoke turning out no joke at ell to the•tditite whogu fallow brains conceived it.