GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXI-NO. 255.
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Ellsworth to Julia Read AlcLane, daughter of the late
lion. George Read McLnne, of Wilmington, Delaware.
YOUNG—FItJuKE.-On the 2fith tilt., at Sf.Clemcut’s
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LYoSS.- At West llavcrtord, on Sunday, Feb. 2d, l-.dS,
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\ PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL ' HD
let*. Essay on ‘'Selection .of-Rural Homixa" hV
bn Wilkinson, of Baltimoio, THIB EVENINfL it
del7 Bmd No. 018 Jayne street.
ICoire-uondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
A GLIMPSE or COUTURE.
My affair took me straight from the studio of
Gdriune to that of Thomas Couture. I fancied
1 myself passing from the halls of Plato to the tub
of Diogenes. .
What American Is not familiar, whether from
examination or , report, with the “ Uomun Deca
dence,” the tremendous picture of pagan enerva
tion and shame which has had in France the
rare fortune to pass from the domain of flue arts
and become a proverb? When a satirist has to
inveigh against modem Paris and Ca.'6ariBm, he
is not obliged to cito from Tacitus or declaim
from Juvenal; he indicates the “Decadence'’ of
Couture, anddris point is made.
The painting hangs in that long hall of the
Luxembourg Palace, whose sides once glowed
with the sumptuous ilattcries lavished by liubens
upon his patroness Marie de Mcdicis. Ido not
know what modem artist can so worthily replace
liubenson those walls; and Ido not know,if I were
privileged to walk between thatmnstorand Vero
nese, as a sort of cicerone of contemporary art.
where I should so confidently panseas in front of
these Berniers Domains, ‘
They arc lying upon silken couches in a great
palace portico of the baser days of Itoman archi
tecture. Between the blossomy Corinthian capi
tals a day-break sky appears, and throws a silvery
Veronese gray upon the rumpled draperies and
pule garlands. The sated revelers are bleeping or
atplav. One is being carried out by his slaves
like a dead body. One has girded his waist with
a leopard skin, and lifts himself from a heap of
overturned uin/./uoveand broken wreaths to pour
one last libation to Dionysius. All around the
orgie stand the marble men cf old Borne,
watching from Uic-ir pedestals in attitudes
of grid or anger. Iu the centre of the
composition, lifted high against the morning
" light, the statue of Cermanieus stands poised iu
its eternal altitude of reflection, as the states-■
man hesitates to drop hie ballot. Cndcr this
pale figure, contra,- ted in all the energy of ruddy
arid heated flesh, lolls a crowned poet of the late
Flavian time:-; stretching his cap htdf-unconsci
oueiy to a durnsel faint as he, while the venerable
fables of mythology turn Into elegant erotics in
his brain. The girl replenishes bis gpblet, while
a more beautiful and captivating woman lie»
undulating across his limbs like a chain, or a
| snake, or a Fate. It is the spirit of debauch, if
you will, the inspiration and explanation of
tl.e pi< ture, _thrown by the artist conspicuously
in the centre, where her silky lawns catch and
radiate the purest light on the scene. She has
been named the Dying Rome, this apparition,
but the Ecems to me some moribund Muse,
stifling heavily among the fumes oLevine, and
darkly conscious of her fall; she makes me think
of Goldsmith’s despairing invocation to “Sweet
’Poetry," made by the simple Irishman at a time'
when his Auburn was playing its own little part
in the same dark career that liad been the snkide
- of Rome, and when his gentle eye saw the re
treat of -facing, as she winged away among the
pastoral Virtues. At any rate, there lies the
painter’s sullen ideal, dreaming of Capua
under the vote of old Ger
manicus. Her limbs ahs~Teaturcs are said
to be those of the artist's beautiful
w ite: her draperies are thoso woven by the chisel
of Phidias for his youngest and on
the lympan of the Parthenon; her influence and
intoxication are her own. Ido not believe such
a figure has been conceived since the Venetian
masters used to vie with each other In idealizing
Venice upon the ceilings of the Doge. She is
calm and sated and stupid, while, round about
her. Lu the' fresher air of the colonnades, career
the wilder spirits of the debauch. They embrace,
they quarrel for a gafland. One enervated boy
hat clambered to the statue of Pompcy, leaus his
bead against its marble knees, and weeps or
dreams as the warrior's broken sword poi3cs over
his own slothful toga. Another leaf-crowned
, yopth, at the opposite extremity of the picture,
holds a cup to the image of Brutus—under whom
tno, sane, sad men, Christian it may he. enter
upon the scene with shame and scorn in their
facet, and gather up the moral of the feast.
That is the renowned ‘ i J)c<adtnce" of Couture.
What manner of man, among the parallel in
fluences of Paris, could separate himself from his
age and embody such a satire? Is it some des
perate prodigal, ruined with dissipation, re
venging himself thus upon the pleasure he can
no longer enjoy ? Is it some belated purist from
Port Royal, iutruding upon the metropolis and
the century when his hair is silver and his pas
sions decayed, and ready to look at life and
manners with the angry eyes of his own pair of
painted phjlfisophers ? Is it some pure, scho
lastic Augustine, turning from the hexameters of
the /Encid to scan his own contemporary Alex
andrians ?
The “Decadence” was painted by a young, un
educated man of the people, who could not pay
for the colors necessary for so large a canvas,
and who was thereforo forced to adopt a thin,
spreading manfieivthat has influenced completely
his subsequent style. He confesses to having
been a short time at school, whore he learned to
write beautifully, but never to spell. When suc
cess came suddenly upon him at the exhibition
of his masterpieco, he turned gourmand, miser
and misanthrope, and began to live his present
Timon life, apart from the mob of Paris artists.
But he is a Timon who laughs where the Athe
nian would have, raged. He inveighs against
Academies as lustily as ever poor Haydn
did, and with a good deal more authority, but ho
turns them to hfbghter. When he tosses about
- the great names of the day, and Is rebuked for it,
jhe smiles, and says he has inherited the doubting
spirit of/fils patron saint, St. Thomas. He pre
tfndj.to complain of this railing propensity, but
says he cannot possibly get rid of it; and mocks
you by relating how, when puinting the Virgin'B
Chapel in St. Eustache, he was perpetually
visited and solaced by the vision of a harlequin,
who used .to flash all about the church and play
in the incense-smoke. This keen lago is nothing
if not critical. In person, however, ho has bc-
comfortable and bmihomma, th'hugh
nothing^cStlld .tejlffi him to brush his hair or put
ou his coat rightly. The most telling likeness I
know of him represents him as a kind of human
pig. ■ But you shall see.
“Good morning, Monsieur;" and a round.body;
-Biithout an. approach tp a neck, and gyrating
upon a pair of inadequate legs, rolled towards
me from an adjoining room. There was a fat
face upon it, dotted with little piercing eyes, and
heaped with disordered black hair. Tho man
ner, this time, was perfectly fraiik and kind,
in a moment that I was only an
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1868.
American stranger, acquainted with a number of
- bis pupils, and desirous to obtain a' copy of his
book: “Arid so, ns it was Impossible to learn the
name, Monsieur, of your publisher, I was forced
to take the liberty.—"
“Ah, my bool:: certainly!" and he quickly dis
appeared into the chamber from which he had Is
sued. One of his little girls—a lively, and,
■ must ecjy , flattering likeness of her father—seized
the oppfcrlunity of tire open door and came out
to look me over. She had i Ncw Tear’s eift, a
doll, and was intensely desirous that I should ap
preciate it: but the dignity of ten years old
wonld not permit a hasty approach, and we com
municated like citizens in time of plague, or sav
age tribeson the Gold Coast. Wcwcre speedily
coalescing,however, and my dumb-show of ardent
admiration for the doll had almost corrupted her,
when the second ’nasty appearance of the father
caused her to recollect herself, and vanish m an
excess of modesty. I got no nearer to a family
reception than that, and the magnificent wife o
whom so much is said remains to me a kind o
fable or Isis.
Well, what is there to say of a 6hort morning
call, interspersed with talk about mutual ac
quaintance, talk about art, talk about artists ?
Though easy and unrestrained, it.was a first
meeting, and I had not even taken the trouble to
get an introduction. My respect caused me to
make it very short.
But I happened to mention that I had just left
Gerome. \
“Ah! a young workman of very decided quali
ties," said Diogenes, with a 1 world of airy malice
in his glance.
Tin’s bit of polite contempt amused me infi
nitely, and served to define vividly tho immense
distance between the ambitious'and successful
academician and the wild painter, laughing !&
court favor in his den. . f
“And, the price of the work. Monsieur?’’ \
“Six francs.’’ And he chinked the silver like
any sbofiman.
“if I had the author's aptograph, Monsieur,
although I could not pay for it, my hook would
be immensely more valuable!”
He smiled, and drew out a crayon, and the
uinqqlol hand that used to gain its owner school
l>rizes”lor copperplate penmanship that could
not be spelled, now added beneath the title a
plain, uncomely, French sign-manual.
It is a work represented to contain the experi
ence of his artistic life condensed. The oover
shows, in the place of a publisher’s address, that
of the artist author. iS'here is no agency for-it..
The writer wishes to see and judge the clieutal
who respect him enough to go and’buy it. In
. this instance, then, Couture, who is reported
'avaricious, has not used the' ordinary arts of
authorship.
On dipping into it Binc-e the purchase, I find it
the strangest of medleys. The frankest and most
obvious contradictions of opinion repeat them
i-elvcs from end to end, interwoven with per
sonalities, anecdotes and reflections, apropos of
•nothing. The title of any chapter is the surest
indication that that subject, of all others, will be
'.excluded from consideration. The art-student
opening pages ■will find,-indeed, how to set
his paJlette—bnt immediately after, will lose him
self among reminiscences, politics, the artist’s
father, an'excursion to the Jardin dcs Plantes,
and what not It requires that you know how
to read it. \ V
I wonder if Girdme has seen the remarks upon
the “episodic treatment ’’ of history.
The room in whiah I was received contained,
among other things, two life-size crayon heads of
George Sand and Beranger. How large they
were, M>w simple, how elevated, how poetically
right! Mme. Dndevant looked like a Pallas.
Eeranger like a lino Anarijreon. Or rather, they
each looked like their best selves.
If I space I would tell in Couture's rapid
words, and with Couture’s easy vanity, the story
of the manufacture of this portrait of the great
song-writer. How Beranger at first resented
the painter's visit, and growled his amepities
to him from behind a gradually closing door-
How. on learning that he had to do with the
paipter of the Decadence, he took a completely
different tono, dragged him in, and exclaimed to
Lisette, “Another moment, and I should have
turned Couture out of doors!” How he subse
quently waited upon the artist, and having
walked all the way from the Street of Hell to the
White Barrier, instantly fell asleep in the sitter’s
chair: and how the narrator was obliged to
nrouEe him, like Lear, with music, breaking out
into ids own song of the Old Corporal.
SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS.
Henry C. Lea has jnst issued the January num
ber of the veteran medical''quarterly, “The
American Journal of the Medical Sciences,”
which has long been published under the able
management of Dr. Isaac Hays. It is filled, tis
usual, with a great variety of original matter,
proceedings of medical societies, reviews and
bibliographic notices.
The same publisher has issued the “Half Yearly
Abstract of the Medical Sciences,” edited in Lon
don by Dr. Ranking. It consists of articles from
the British, Continental and American medical
journals upon all subjects connected with medi
cine and surgery, and is an invaluable book of re
ference for the physician and student.
In addition to these journals, a new one has
just been started in Philadelphia, under the
editorial direction ofDrs. 8. W. Butler and D. G.
Brinton, called the “ Half-Yearly Compendium of
Medical Science.” It includes tho departments of
Comparative Anatomy, History of Medicine,
Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, etc., none of
them touched upon in any similar work in our
tongue, and embraces nearly four hundred sepa
rate articles drawn from all sources, both Amer
ican and Foreign. The “Compendium" starts'in
its career with much spirit, and will doubtlessjae
well received.
The “American Journal of Horticulture” for
February, Tilton & Co., Boston, contains a great
variety of usefal articles on fruit and flower
culture, new specimens of vegetables and other
topics connected with the pursuit of horticul
ture. Wo notice, a lively communication from
Mr. George Husmann, 'of Hermann, Mo., on
the subject of native wines. The vine-growers
of that placo have become famous for thesuporior
quality of their wines, and Mr. Hasmann handles
his pen handsomely in defence of the products
of his vineyards. ■- - -’ -
The “American Law Review,” for January
published by Little', Brown,* Co., Boston, has a
number of contributions upon import
ant legal topics. Tho rriarriago laws, Sunday
Taws, intornal revonue system, copartnership
liabilities, ,tho taw of bailments, are among the
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
Enfant Perdu.
Eleventh Street Opera House. —Messrs.
Carncross & Dixey announce for tills evening an
entirely new burlesque, entitled Ours; or Maxi
milian s Avengers. The,piece has real merit. It
is filled with comical sitnations, sharp local hits,
funny incidents and,keen satire. • In addition to
this, Mr. J. L. Carncross will sing several favorite
ballads, and there will be local and instrumental
music, Ethiopean dancing, &c., by
the members of the company.
Philadelphia Opera House.— The laugh
able burlesque, The Black Book, will be given at
this popular establishment to-night, with ail the
accessories of handsome scenery, eccentric cos
tumeß and a. first- rate cast. This drama is well
worth seeing. Besides this there will be a miscel
laneous entertainment, in which the mouthers
of the very excellent company w'ill participate.
Mr. Frank Moran will give some of his most
amusing negro personations, there will bo sing
ing, dancing, instrumental music, and a pleasant
variety of farce, extravaganza and burlesque.
The entertainment at this house is a good one
in every respect.
Concert Hall.— “ Father Baldwin’s Old FoUcb”
will give a performance at Concert Hail this even
ing. This troupe consists of twenty-four artists
who attire themselves in ancient costume and
sing old tlmo music, consisting chiefly of
selections of sacred music. Several of the per
formers possess great ability, the boy soprano
especially having a voice of great power and
compass.
Parlor Concert and Readings To-morrow
evening there will be a select entertainment at
the Hall of the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion. A number of well known and popular ar
tists wlllislng, and Mr. Rufus Adams, the elocu
tionist will read several selections from popular
authors.
Soiree Gymnastique.— The pupils of Lewis’s
Gymnasium will give an exhibition to-morrow
evening, at the Academy of Music.
Blitz..—Blgnor Blitz will give an exhibition in
Athletic Hall, Thirteenth and Jefferson
this evening.
—Ben Perley Poorri, the “ Parley " of Thei Bofr
ton Journal, is named as possibly to succeed Bon.
Butler in Congress—and a poor successor will
mako, ■■■.■ . . * . . : ; ■ '■
topics discussed. There is also a large Bpace de
voted to digests of English law reports, United
States Supreme Court reports,and various State re
ports. The legal profession must find this neri
odieal of., much value as a compendium of legal
information. ,
The “Journal of the Franklin Institute" for
January, contains a number of useful and inte
resting original articles. An account of the
elevated street-railway, now being constructed,
as ah experiment, in New York; a paper oh the
cultivation and manufacture of beet-root sugar,
an article on Civil and Mechanical Engineering:
another on Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry,
arc among the most interesting contributions.
FBoinr south aherica.
tCortesponflence of the Philadelphia Evemlng Bnllctln.]
Callao, Peru, January 14th, 18G8 The revo
lution is at an end. The Prado administration is
a thing oj the past, and none bnt the office-holders
of the late .government appear to regret the
change. Colonel Prado may not be wanting in
courage and personal bravery, bnt, with large
forces under his command to remain outside of
Arequipa for about four months, and at length,
at the first repulse, to beat a hasty retreat, is con
clusive evidence of military blundering
‘and incapacity. He returned to Callao in
the war-ship Union, late on the evening
onAthe 9th \inst., bringing with him the
greater part jof what remained of his army, the
qlhVL.portiojV arriving by the Pacific Steam Na
vigatioirCouipany’n Bteamer Panama the follow
ing-morning. . On Sunday there was great excite
ment is this port and in the capital; at midnight
Callao was in possession of tho so-called rebels,
and on the following Monday it was feared an
attempt might be made to retake the city: but
in Lima the feeling was so strong against the
Government that no attack was even meditated.
There was some sharp and severe
skirmishing in the streets of the
capital, and many were killed and wounded,
and in the disordered state pillaging and plunder
ran riot for a day. Fortunately tor Callao,a very
differed state of affairs'existed here. Fearing a
repetition of the sacking of two years ago, the
foreign residents were determined that so far as
itrlay with them, no such wholesale robbery and
thy ft would be allowed. They formed into corps
or 60 and 60, horse as well as foot, numbering
about 400. arid stationed themselves at different
parts dF the city, and patrolled the streets, well
armed, day and night The well-disposed citi
zens felt secure, and the roughs were so rituch
afraid that for once in tho history of the district
they were forced to remain quietly at home.
Knowing what Callao is, the varied and in
flamniable materials of which the population is
composed, and civil war being au Institution
of tins country, the town may be left at any time
without any government, it . becomes imperative
on all those anxious for the safety and prosperity
of.the city to see-to it-that a-civic guard-becomes
a permanent and leading organization.
Colonel Batta successfully repulsed every at
tack made at Chielayo, and he is spoken of ao the
leading man in the corning administration. In
the meantime the Constitnuon of 1860 has been
proclaimed, with General Canseco as second Vice'
President.
Prado offitiaUy resigned on the 7th instant, and
has gone to Valparaiso in the United States stea
merjiyaok.
GfcsCso and Balta at® expected to arrive daily.
It is'generally believed that a good strong gov
ommenVivUl shortly be farmed” and with fetnrn
ii?g peace we anticipate a busy and prosperous
year in all commercial circles,which we fervently
hope will make itself felt along the entire coast.
AMUSEMENTS.
Guano Duchess of Geeot.stein. —Mr. Bate
man’ French Opera Company will appear at the
Academy of Musid, on Tuesday, the 11th inst.,
in Offenbach’s comic opera The Grand Duchess of
Gerobtein. The extraordinary sensation created
by this performance throughout the country will
insure crowded houses here. Of the opera and
the company we will speak at length at another
time. In the meanwhile we recommend every
one to secure tickets immediately at Gould's
store.
Cap.i. Bentz.’s Orchestra Matinees,— A good
result has attended this spirited effort to intro
duce symphonies to our public, which, up to the
present time, has. not known the exceeding
beauty of this elevated and interesting class of
compositions, which in Germany are more popu
lar man anything performed. The symphony,
No. 3 in E flat, by Mozart, will be performed on
Thursday for the first time, arid, as its beautiful
andante and popular minetto are so well known
already, it is likely to-become a special favorite,
for it ranks with the best of the great master’s
works. Mr. Louis, the well known vocalist, will
introduce a new song. The Voyage of Life, com
posed expressly .for him by Mr. Thunder, one of
onr most accomplished musicians.
-‘TffK'TiiEATREs.—At the Chestnut this evening
thfe Mikado Japanese troupe will make their first
appearance. The feats performed by these acro
bats and jugglers are said to be very marvellous,
and as they will remain here during this week
only, it is fair to suppose that the house will bo
crowded every night. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil
liams at the Walnut Street Theatre this evening
will produce an Irish drama entitled TKe. Sham
rock: or a Flower of Erin. Aftor which a com
medietta, Latest from New York. At the Arch the
sensational play Under the Gaslight will bo given.
The American announces a varied performance.
~ DISASTERS,
THE I*r: IV N SI'I ,v A I’ll A OGJi'SKAI,
SAIUtOAD ACCIDENT.
Additional Funicular*.
From the Pittsburgh Commercial of Saturday,
wc obtain the following additional details of the
recent accident on The Pennsylvania Railroad!.
H«>tV SIRS. DUGGAN IVAS» KILLED.
Mr. Patrick Duggan, a resident of this eitv,
aDd a blacksmith' by trade, has been recently
married to Miss, Annie Hughes, a young lady
who was for tome time engaged in the milii-
Dery business. A few days ago they completed
tbetr arrangements for going to California, where
they hoped to better their 1 situation in life.
They were accompanied by Patrick Hughes, a
brother of the deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Duggan
were in the front car from the rear, immediately
in front of the first sleeping car, and occupied
he second seat from the forward stove. When
seen, a few minutes before the accident, Mr.
Duggan was reclining with his head on her lap,
apparently sleeping.
After the accident (tho ear having gone over
the embankment) she was seen lying against the
stove. • Both limbs seemed to have been severed
from the body, and as she sat immediately over
the trucks it is supposed that she was kitted al
most instantly, and it was impossible to get her
bffly until after the ilamesssubslded. The trunk
only remained—the limbs and head • having been
consumed. Her bußband was burned by being
driven against the stove, and was so badly injured
that he could render her no assistance.
The deceased is, highly spoken of, and her
shocking death has cast a deep gloom over a.
large circle of friends Amd acquaintances. Bhu
was about twenty-three years of age. Her body
will be brought back to this city’for interment.
THE WRECK
Tlic train was stopped withiu one huudred and
fifty yards of the broken rail, showing that the
engineer was running at a slow rate of speed at
the time of the accident. The car in chargo of
Mr. Doerr was the only Palace car attached to
ihe train. Thu other two sleeping cars were No.
SO. in charge of Conductor Matthews, and No.
—. Conductor Kennedy. No. 71 was badlv
wrcckc-d before it left the track .entirely, and the
roof was oil' when it turned over on its sido and
slid down the embankment. It was crashed to
pieces iu the descent, caught fire aud was de
stroyed.
No 30 went down tho embankment end fore
most, fell over on one side and went eu lively to
pieces, resembling (in the language of Mr. Doerr)
“a huge pile of oven wood.” It was remote
from the other ears and did not take fire. No.
‘2!May diagonally across the track, aud took lire
from one of the ttfd passenger cars which went
over the bank. When conductor Doerr got ont
his car, in less than five minutes.after' the casu
alty, he found that the two passenger cars were
then in flames, and the fire was running up to
ward 22, striking it about the centre, In half an
hour the four cars were a heap of ashes.
why the casualties .were so i.ioiit
Passenger travel is very light at this time, and
There were only fifty-nine - passengers aboard
when the tram left: A few mere perhaps udded
at Altoona. In the four cars which were burnt,
tlier,e were only twenty-eight passengers, dis
tributed thus—live, six, seven, and ten. Had the
train been fuller the casualties would -doubtless
have been correspondingly incTeaswfe- With, the
exception of Mrs. Duggan, none were so badly
injured as to be unable to help themselves from
the ruins. Thoso who were injured were soon
removed to the other cars, and madeaacomfarta
blo as possible.
; Medical attendance was at once procured, and
the,injured received such treatment as the nature
of their injuries required. The physician in the
employ .of the company at that point reports
! that all of the injured are doing well, and that
all will, recover.
THE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT
Mr. Doerr states (hat the rail, the breaking of
which caused this accident, was broken into se
veral pieces, wnieht leaves little doubt of this
being the actual jynsc. The night was intensely
cold, and this firel also strengthens the supposi
-tion. The passengers, who examined the matter,
were satisfied on this point, and had no word of
ctipsnro to cast upon the company.- The acci
dent is one of the most serious which has hap
pened on the road, for a long time, and the loss
in ears will be very considerable. It is a matter
of considerable surprise, however, that such a
terrible smash-up and burning could occur, nnd
yet no greater loss of life be sustained. Of all
mysteries, these railroad accidents appear the
most mysterious as regards the large number
who escaped compared with the fearful rigks
which are necessarily ran. '
Tnr.EE Roads Merced in the Oil Region—
The Oil Creek and Allegheny River Rail
way CosirANY.— ln this city, on Thursday lust,
articles of consolidation were signed by repre
sentatives of the Warren and Franklin, the
Fanners’, and the Oil Creek railioad companies,
whereby the three coroorotions are merged into
one, named “The Oil Creek and Allegheny Rivor
Railway Company,” with a share capital of
5 4,259,000.
The length of the roads consolidated is:
Warren and Fjankiiu R. R.—lrvinc
ton to Oil City 51 miles.
Oil Creek R. H.—Corry to Petroleum
Centre...... .••■ ■ • • •...... • -.... 38 “
Farmers’ .Railroad—Oil _City_ti>.Petro-
leum Centre .8
Farmers’ R. R.—Cherry Run Branch
—Rorisville to Plummer 3-11 “
The consolidated company huvo purchased the
Reno Railroad, and intend, it is said, to take up
its track and use the rails to lay down the wide
gauge from Petroleum Centre to OU City, and
the narrow gauge from Oil City to Franklin,
thus making both gauges continuous and un
broken. between Corry and Franklin.
The merger stipulates that one common charge
shall be imposed on oil irrespective of distance
carried over the consolidated line; minimum
specified fifjy cents per barrel. Hence, according
to our information, the charge will be the same
on a barrel of oil whether it no enrried from Pe
troleum Centre to Oil City, 8 miles, destined
down the Allegheny valley, or from Petroleum
Centre to Corry, 38 miles, destined for the Erie
or Lake Shore roads,orfrom PetroleumCentrc.by
wav of Oil City, to Irvlneton, 59 miles, destined
for*the Philadelphia and Erie railroad.
The avowed intention of the parties iu tho mer
ger is, to make and maintain the OU Creek and
Allegheny River Railway a public highway, open
to the cars of railroad and transportation com
panies, on payment of a horizontal charge per
barrel of oil, no matter what the leugth of mile
age traversed between the termini of the conso
lidated road.
It 16 said, moreover, that the articles of agree
ment are so drawn that curtain vital provisions
cannot be altered without tho unanimous con
sent of the parties in interest, and that this fixed
and stationary clause was inserted so that, in tho
event of the transfer of a majority, of capital,
shares, new ownors cannot repeal, revoke or
modify the Intent and object of tho act of the
merger.
Tho officers of the Oil City & AUegheuy Rivor
R. W. Co. ore:
President— Edward I’. Gay, Esq. (Pres’t PbUa.
& Erie R. R.).
Directors —William G. Moorhead, C. B. Wright,.
H. S. Alden, W. G. Fargo: A. 8. Dlven (Erie
RaUwoy), Chits. H. Leo (Lake Shore BaUway).—
U. S. It. It. and Mining ltegister.
—A letter from Halifax, published in a Mon
treal paper, says—“ The distress among the poor
fishermen of this.Provincois truly heart-rending,
and unless immediate aid is procarsd- foi thorn
many will'dio from absolute want."
—Tho Marysvillo (Missouri) Enterprise says:
“They are taking any quantity of fish out of the
pond jnst south of town, by catting square blocks
of .ice and turning them over. The fish are frozen
fast,to the,lower side." -/
F, L FimmifflON.
PRICE THREE CENTS,
Adara a gorilla, ia a recent: question.
—Thurlow Weed is a tbree-millioCAire.
—Salt Lake has started a weekly l magazine.
—Greeley is fifty-seven tO‘<4ay. '
—Queen Victoria says that every third!' woman’
In Cork is a beauty.
—Tbe English are distributing tracts hi 'Abys
sinia, but the natives are intractable. ■<•■
—Green Bay, Wls. v is the largest shingfcrtaar-;
Uctin the world. , •
—The inhabitants of Prince EtSwardT) rsldiifl'
refused to be annexed to tho'Domislon.' "
—New London will fit out five vessels for the*
Greenland whale fishery the coming spring. '
—A firm of brewers in Newark, N. J., U4s Wir- •
chased eight million dollars worth ofsalt.—Efe
—Offenbach's extravaganza, “Genevieve US'
Brabant,” is a greater success than his ■ “KobU-‘
son Crusoe.” ■■■■■•,
—A Swiss inventor thinks he has found s bet
ter motive power than steam, and wants to'sell
the secret for $10,000,000.
' —There arc now in Ireland about 25,000>’ 'regu- ■
lar troops, comprisitig infantry, artillery, engi
neers and cavalry. • .
—The infant of a poor flower woman dibit on'
its mother’s arm, starved, while she was pcddUa£
her bouquets on the streets of London: ' “
—A pantomime at one of the London theahred*
was interrupted by the explosion of a Bine light:
which blew up the property man and a flfUorT
—Eladsit Tisdale recently died at Rldgcflold,
Ct. His name spelled backwards or forwards wai ■'
the same. He always spelled it backwards..
, —A “reformed drunkard" who had relapsed *
rather surprised the people at Willard’s, in
Washington, by walking into the breakfast'room *
in bis bight-shirt.
—LaTgo numbers of bones of an extinct race of
human beings have been exhumed in digging for
the foundation of a cathedral in San Antonia,
Texas. '
—The most complete passenger elevator ever '
constructed has just been nut into the American
House, Boston, by Otis Tufts, the inventor of - .
this modem hotel luxury. - .
—At Tyner’s Station, Tenn., a mother left her ;
child on the floor of her cabin for a few mo
psents, and upon her return found It
vouredby a hog.
—Mr! Thornton, the new British Minister at 1
Washington, has the title of Count in Portugal,
where he has been ennobled. He should, .there- .
fore, be called Count Thornton.
—At a recdnt) banquet in England, a farmer was
introduced,'whose lamily had held the identical
homestead and lands which he now • tilled, for •
more thnn eight hundred years.
—Mr. and Mrs. Ristori and the two youthful
Ristoris take a leeßon in English every day. The '
childrenget on very well, but’with the old folks '
the work is a little tough. • ■ •
' —A movement i 6 on foot in the Ohio Legisla
ture to rcetore the old law recognizing ten per
cent, interest as not- illegal when a matter .-of”"
special contract.
—Nasby writes concerninghis capabilities as a
lecturer: “There is . a good deal of oratory in ,
me, but I don’t do as well as I can in any. one
place, out of respect to the memory of Patrick.
Henry.” ,
—The Mexican. banker, Jecker, is said by this •
Indejiemhmce mlt/e to be now in Paris, having ar- .
rived in the capital for the pnrpqse of bringing ;
en action against the French Government for the
paj ment of thirteen millions of francs.
- —Four. British genembr.aU -OMac 80 yeatit- 'dUfc •
have jnst been promoted to the rank of. fleld
marEhal. One of them is General Burgoyno.Mo.
was chief engineer of Pakenlmm’s unlucky expe- f
dition to New Orleans, in 1814. Old Hickory \
beat Ills engineering out of sight with cotton
bags. ' J
—An unfortunate named Trent, confined in jailr
at Evnnsviiie, for stealing, converted himself into
a cold corpse by hanging, but left behind an epi
taph, informing his friends that
“I shuttled off this mortal coll
Without the use of laid or oil."
—The giant specimen of the Dracaena Draco,
or Dragon Tree, growing at Orotava, in the
island of Teneriffe, was destroyed during, the
autumn of 1867 by a gale of wind. It was first
I rought into general notice by Humboldt, some
sixty years ago, and it was computed by him to
be 6,000 years old.
—lt was not Home, the Spiritualist, but
Holmes, the violinist who married the sparkling
Madame Moet, of Champagne celebrity. Madame
bae four “pledges” from the departed Moet, each
older than her new husband; but she is pretty,-
possesscs infinite tact, and is well known in Paris
for her literary cleverness.
—Garibaldi has taken to the painless dissect
ing of animals,using chloroform as an anaesthetic.
He is getting over his wounds. He rises' at six,
takcß his cap of hot coffee, and then to the bath.
At nine he breakfasts on wine, meat, and bread
and cheese; lunches at noon, dines at six,' and
goes to bed at nine.
—Assassinations of Union men in Arkansas
are about us numerous now as they were during
the war. No less than live white men have beeu
murdered by rebels within a few weeks, and the
discovery oi bodies of negroes by the roadside
or iu the woods has become so common, that
little notice is taken of them.
—lt was Lobdell, not Brick Pomeroy,', who
wrote the articles in the La Crosse .Democrat re
joicing over the assassination of Lincoln. Brick
had the reputation of them, and became a great
man with the Democrats. Lobdell was smashed
and burned up at the Angola railroad disaster,
and the same fate awaits Brick—so far as the
burning Is concerned.
—Two well-known young ladies in Boston, on
Wednesday, shoveled off a long and wide side
walk, pater-familias having touched them up to .
tlie eflect lhat they neither dared nor coaid do
anything of the sort. They did do It, and showed,
muscle, courage, and:' a determination, besides a.,
very pretty spectacle, which excited the curiosity,
of lookers-on. . •
—On Thursday evening, a bevy of young ladles.
at ChilUcotho, Missouri, startled a number o£
young bachelors, Bays the Spectator, by driving
to thur solitary quarters in a gay “rig,”, and ask
ing them out to take an airing. The poor fellows
had to go. The girls drove out to the house of a.
late incorrigible bachelor, recently married; pro
bably to show their bachelor friends what fate
awaits them this leap year.
10(1 mUes.
—“Darkle the mystery of life!" exclaims a,
mournful poetess in The Independent. From her
own description, her case is indeed a sad one:
“I with bound hands go singing through the>
world, .
Who yet would pierce all thought, all depth pto
"found,
Break Time’s dull silence with responsive sound.
Compel the far, mute ages to unfold
The mystery of mvsterieß they hold „
In their abysmal bosoms, darkly cold!
Which is the more to be pitied, this [ucWeaa,
young woman, or the far, mute yges with thoir
darkly cold abysmal bosoms?—.V. 1- San.
—A marriage took place a few days, since, at.
Tunis, which merits mention, if only to shovv how
the’ Moors still retain hope-oT jecpßqwjring-
Spain. Ltila, first cousin oi the Bev of Tonis,
and a maiden of great beauty, married the weal
thiest Moor of that regency, Abd Allah Looflr,
who was not only the wealthiest, but the, hand- .
somest yonng man of that country. Among the
wedding gifts made his bride:were, the key-of;-
the home his ancestors owned at Cordova, Spain;
and ear-rings, made in .Gre.nma
during the reign of Mulov Hhasam, and a baptis
mal certificate of one of his great-great-groat
gre'at-great-great-great grandmothers wp(>*b
jured the Moslem creed for Christianity. Here
Is an old family, dating back beyond the dis
covery of America.
FACT* AND r-VVCIKS.