COIBSON PEACOCK. Editor; VOLUME XXI.—NO. 260^ - the : EVENXNO BULLEJIN rTOLXBHja>*v«BY|!VK»n»o , fflunaart excepted). V „ '.AT TUB NEW BVUEVIR BtttDWO* cbeitnntiitrMt) BWlßdclphlti, »* TUB " ' ~■■ evening bulletin association. , . Btetlonar. Call «Ad look stationer, ... 1 . "- ; TO Arch etrcefc MARKIEIL ' UnrT.raTOOK— the SM J.nu.ry , 18» YorfahbS Enrtgd. bs, tfe F4^agl«Tafc El «h test, at the . tsHtm JennielS. bSmte.’sh the jMh fiat.to . Howard Bnjdani, Edmund D. Wakellu* nod Annie C„ ■ Aanehterof the Ute Au«n»tU» J, MlUer, of this city. mm*. ADAMB.-On the afternoon of the 6th iaf\, Emma vttpka Adam.. youn«ift daughter or toe low jttpSa, and wile if Itomrnaider 11. A. Adanu, Jt. 0. S. . (relatlwe and) friapt of to lamllrai e Invited to attend ithe lungral, from the refcfdencc of her bosband No/JlMBonth Broad etreet, on Monday mania*. tolOtt lnit, at 10 o’clock. To proceed to Laurel 1UU. ..... The rStlreTand Mend* of the family arorcapectfully • Invited to attend the funeral, from her late realdenco, • 3fo. HO4 Bummer atreet, tfata (Saturday) afternoon, Bth ivrjßlTE PORE M i J £iyi^^ BVE!aNO DKEBiJEiS ’ wairE^M®«u Fourth »d Atch streets. BEUGIOBB NOTICES. ,WSr Sabbalh Evening Services . CONCERT HAIL, YOUNG SEN ? B OHRTfTIAN MSOOIATION. Bcnuon by Lev. <t 'Flfß D |JL > ll kindly volunteered to «ing. All are Invited. Beat. free. It —PENNSYLVANIA BABBATH-SCHOOL ABBO - COATION. < NORMAL INSTITUTE FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACIIKKB. • AT TH F. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHU UUH, Oicatnut .treet, weal of Eighteenth. ■ Opening Sermon TO-MORROW (Sunday) EVF-NJSG, By Rev. M. K. VINCENT, of Troy. : On MONDAY EVENING, February 18, MATTHEW NEWKIRK, Eeq-< win prealde, : An Introluetory Ad. ■ dremton' - ;1 •TbaOblettof a Sunday Sol-eellnrtitrite," by Rev, G. A. r .. ■ PK/rz. ->■ ■ An AddrenOß"Jl#wto_l*repan!a Lemon," by Rev. J. H J YIKCfIENT» . Ab Address ’on "Hooka end Other Help* to' be need by -the Teacher*," by ANDREW A. SJiOTH, Eeq. of o Brooklyn. ,l -■' :). . QUEBTIOJIEOX.—QneatIon* to bp written on all pa of •paper by theCbngrcgatlou. To be aniweredby Rty. AD I’KRD TAYLOR ami other*. The meeting* of the Inatltate wuibe continued on TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY AFTER NOOHS and EVENINGS, the proceedings of which will be of a happy, intereatln* and lnatructive character, and will be announced in tutors advertisement*. JOHN K. F.VABB, Eeq., aadated by the chtldren’a choir of the Sundayßehjol efto Tabernacle BaptDt Church, win take charge of to muale at every aervice. The Sunday Schoolteacher* and all friend* of Sunday Schools bom aU denomination., are cordially invited to be preaent. ' . Jacob A. Gardner, Rev. Alfred Tajlor, John M. Evans- Rev. Thom** M. Bcnlcdr, John S. Camming*. Hon, jame* Pollock, and Rev. 0, A. Pelte, Committee of Arrangement*. * ' -It **3- REV. A. A. wnXITS. D. D., WILL PREACH in the Weft Arch Street Prrebytertan Church, To morrow. at iqX A. SI., on "King David’a Appeal for the Temple,’’ and at7X P.M., by requcet, on 'The Yoon* KolwV-repedaUjr adopted to fount men, who arc cor dially invited to be present. It* ! mar? CHURCH OF THE HOI, Y APOBTLEB-—DIVINE Service and cerroon hr the Rev. C. D. Cooper, to morrow, Sunday evening. o’clock. In the lecture-room of Tabor Precbjterian Church. Eighteenth etreet, below Chriftltn street, entrance on Jlontroee atreet Sunday School and Bible Clawee at 9 A. M. If mar- REV. J. W. BCUEXUK (OP THE THIRD RE *•» formed Church. Tenth and Filbert atreet*) will preach To-morrow (tho9th) lOhi A. M., in the Kendertpn Preabyterian Church, Tioga etreet. Rev. 8. W. Duiheld, paator. 1* -mar- REV. BAM’L W. DKFFIELD (OF THE KEN. ■w de> ton Preabyterian Chinch, Tiota street), will preach to-morrow (thnStb).loH A. M-. in Ore Third Re formed Preebjterian Church, Tenth and Filbert etreets. Rev. J. W. Schenek. Paator. It A MEETING. IN BEHALF OP THE SOCIETY f or tho advancement of Christianity In Pennayl - vania, will be held in Christ Glmrcii. on Sunday evening •next. Addresaee will bo delivered by tho Rev. Dr. Mot ton, tho Bov. Mr. Morris, and other*. Soatatree. It* mgs*. “A NIGHT WITH JESUS AT JEHUS ALESL”- W Fifth Sonron of the sene* on Night Beenes in the Bible,” or Rev. Dr. Mareb. to-morrow (Sunday) cveulnK, . at 7M o’clock. In the Clinton Street Church, Tenth below apriice. All yersops are cordial’y invited to ationtl. It* PRESBYTERIAN CmmCILCORNER A* of Eighth and Cherry streets.—Preaching by the Pastor. Rcy. Alexander Reed, D. D., in tho morning at IPX o’clock, and In the evening at ,7X. lt» —SERMONS TO WOli EN.-THE FOURTH OF ■Aw the bene* will bo prea. hed in tho Church of tho In .terceeaor, Spring Garden, below Broad, hr •Sunday morthm Efe/vico fit 10.30 A* JSI.« 7.3QP. 3L . Iffi ■waap. , FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. WASH j**® ington Square, The Rev. YV m. J. 11. Taylor. D.D., of New Xerk, will preach tomorrow morning at lo>< -o'clock. and la tho aftenioon atSM o'clock. lt*_ a£p- CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. LO “ east atroet, above I Iftcenth.— Preaching To-morrow morningbyßev, M. H. Vincent, ofTroy,N. \. Evening, Lyßev. B.W. Orittenden.ofthia citys t It* ■» ST. • MAUDS' CHURCH, THIRD STREET, ■a bolpw Walnut, win be open as naual to-morrow 7M o’clock. Sermon by Rev, Joseph N.SLiI- 'wa. CHURCH OF ST. MATTHIAS. NINETEENTH ■w and Wallace street*.—Roy, B. F. Chaco, rector elect, will preach tomorrow fcomlng at 10)4 o’clock and Rev. JB. F. Colton at 7M o’clock In the evening. .. It” Mg>. SUNDAY SCHOOL SERMUN.-EEV. ALFRED •W Taylor will preach the annual Sunday School Ser mon. is the Bi»th Presbyterian Chnreh,. Spruce, below .Sixth street. toJnorrow.at IP)* o’olopkA.M. , It* MB). REV; J. F, MCCLELLAND WILL PREACH AT TrinityiM. E. Church,, Eighth Bfroeh above Race, tomorrow at 10J4 A.M., andW P.M. Strangers are invited. . _____ lt waw WEST SPRUCE STREET CHURCH, CORNER dw of Seventeenth and Spruce atreeta.y-.Rev. Wm. P. Brew.ED., will preach onBabbathev6nlng,mh teat. at 7 >4 o’clock. A sermon upon Tho Theatre." It* ■fir OLD PINE BTREET CHURCH, FOUBTH AND ■** Pine. Eleventh ;Lectnre to young people by tho Pastor, Rev. K. », Allen, to-morrow evening at o’clock. Subject—"FamilyFaffing*," All Invited. It* ■<Sg- NORTH PRO, Church.—Rev. M preach at Ioj4A.M.an< ■naw TRINITY CHURCH, CATHARINE STREET, above Second.—Rev.JolmW. Brown, Hector. Bor vicoa To-morrow at 10J4 A. M. and 7 H P..M. It* •preach Sabbath morning >ad iftemoon« • It* . SPECIAL NOTICES. c &<BF co i&ist? Hiaa coal asd „, -. ! . ntoanku-nia, January 80.1888. InISTO atpor* 7 ** prepared,to purchase its Loan due wi» ' BoM,io aiamaa3& • ISTEXTv February 10. at o&6q r oF tbt BAodvir of * "™^“ J< aasisi£r I*B Bts Receiver of Tone. ffl site l#t«» ’lMihtm. D STREET PRESBYTERIAN SPECIAL NOTICES. WBT THE DEDICATION BETHANY SABBATH SCHOOL HALE, Twenty-aeoond and Shippen St*., WILL TAKK PLACE On Thursday Eveping, Feb. 13I1U The orercieCß commence at V 4 o'clock, and will be con ducted by ; Major-General O.'O. HOWARD, Rev. E.& BEADLE, D.D., r ••••••- Ber, JNO,CHAMBERS, Her. 3. M. CROWELL. D. D. Bcv. GKO. J. MINGINB, of New York, Rev. &T.LOWRIE. GEO. H. BTCABT, Biq. Ticket, can be had gnvtaltou»ly. by adult* only, on ap. * CHAB. E MORRIS. «I6Waluat etreet. J. H, COYLE, 08 Market street GEO. IL BROWN. 80 South Fourth atreet . Or At X R. GOULD'S Mutic Store, 923 Chestnut street Passenger Can run within one square. fesdtrpf mr MR. CHARLES DICKENS’S FABEWEL.Ii READINGS. CONCERT HALL. An Office for to sale of RESERVED BEATB has been opened at CHARLES E. SMITH’S, GENERAL STATIONER, No. 100 South third finch near Chegtnnt, where Scats can be procured for.either of to.two FARE WELL READINGS at TWO DOLLARS each, fettltrp the republicans of the. tenth Ward.—ln accoidance with tho roll, fort ha govern roent of tho .UNION UEPUBLIUAN PARTY, to Dlvl ston Kiccutivo Committee, and Election qffleem will meet to! TI'ESDAY EVENING, Febrnary Uth. between the hours of four and eight o’clock, to prep.ro a Registry of the Itepublican Votere redding in the various Election Divisions throughout tho Ward. (See Advertisement of 2d “ ** N. W. cor. of Ninth find Cherry Btreeta, m •* “8, W, cor. of Eleventh sad Vine streets, »- 4th *• ** S. W. cor. Eleventh and Rsce streets, . 6th ** 1 M N. E. cor. ltroad and Race street*, fith “ “ No. 233 N, Fifteenth ftreet. 7th ** “8. W. cor. of-ttlxteentb and Cherry, ftth ’ 44 4 * 8. W. cot. Twenty-first and Cherry. 9th “ •* 8. W. cor. Twentyrsecond and \ Ine. DF.NBV C. JIOWELL. Pres. Ward Ex. Committee. Blnbv Htm», Secretary. feB ut* sgß> HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOS. 151* ANDIS3Q FAj rar dsl7lh"t No.gl3Jaynogtarggt_ amusements. The Tiieatbes.—At the Chestnut thi? evening the Mikado Japanese troupe will close their en eagemenc with an attractive performance. On vOUbe prodOCed. Mr. and Mrs. Bamey,. WlUlama .’wilU appear at the Walnut in The Shamrock and l The hairy Circle. MtbfrAxch the sensational play, Under to Gas liaht. yi ltt t» Riven, The American offer* a mid- Hll. J T.* McaDO«H% Jas. E. Mufdodi, the atdcctlone at Musical Bond Hall this evening. . Tcaisbjr& Pabsons’ BinnsFit.-rMewrg, Tanl son dy Parsons, the popular proprietors of the Seventh Street Opera-House, will have a grand complimentary benefit (tendered them by their fwmuuivV at their establishment this evening. The personal: popularity of these gentlelden Vonldof itself suffice to fill the house, but there Is an additional Inducement in the shape of a very attractive bilL Old Folks.— This troupe of excellent mud dans will condude their engagement in this dty with a performance in Concert Hall this evening. Eleventh Street Opera House. —Messrs. Carncross & Dixoy announce for this evening an entirely new bnrlesqne, entitled Ours; or Maxi— miliums Avengers. The plece.has real merit It Is filled with comical situations, sharp local hits, tunny incidents and keen satire. In addition to •this, Mr. J. L. Caracroes will sing several favorite ballads, and there will be vocal and instrumental music, Ethiopcan delineations, dancing, &d, by the members of the company. The Grand Duchess. —On Tuesday evening next Mr. Bateman’s French Opera Company will appear at the Academy of Music in the comic opera of The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. The sale of seats has been very large this week, and if it continues at the same rate tickets for the whole house for event night of the season w _ be sold. The music of the opera is sprightly mid pretty, and the plot itself is of the jollies and most omnsing description. It will be ad nsabU for every one to procure librettos be on*hami and acquaint themselves with the out! ne* of die drama. Tickets are for sale'at Goulds piano store. ‘ j i - - Philadelphia Opera House.— The laugh able burlesque, The Black'Boole, will be given at this popular establishment to-night, with all the accessories of handsome scenery, eccentric cos tumes and a first-rate cast, This drama is well worth seeing. Besides this there will be a miscel laneous entertainment, in which the members Of the very excellent company will participate. Mr. Frank Moran wIU give some of his most amusing negro personations, there will be 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. , - ■ THE COURTS. TneAnspach infanticide* Oyer ■ ajto- Terminer— Judges Allison and Peirce.—This morning Mr. Dwight moved for judgment in the«ase or Margaret Anspach, con victed of mhfder in the second degree, with a recommendation to mercy. Mr. Oelschlager,in behalf of the prisoner.urged the Court to fully recognize: the force of the re commendation of the jury, and he added that sineb the trial he had been advised by the jurors that they were .ready to unite in a petition for a v“r ~r—t- ; “ JndgO Allison,’in pabslng'sentence,said thatal ■ though there wasconslderable testimony in re §ard to the death, it'was not satisfactory to im that the child came to its death in the man ner alleged. : It seemed almost’ impossible that a child could be thrown a distance of sixty feet without having theiife atonce crushed out of it- Wben found, Ithad but slight marks externally of violence, and. it is possible and perhaps proba ble that the child was born in theyard of the Ashland House, and then thrown Into the adjoining yard. It is probable that the jury took this view of the case, and Aterefore rendered a verdict of murder in the Second degree,' because they might bellevethat In casting the child from one yard to aßother. there was no Intent to take its life. But no matter how if occurred! life was taken. The Court had taken into consideration the recommendation, and while not prepared to treat the case as of no magnitude, thuActtoh'of the jury would not be disregarded; The prisoner was then sentenced to four years and six months in the Eastern Penitentiary, Nisi Justice Kead.—Caldwell vs. Tho Catawissa Railroad Company. Before reported. Verdict for plain tiff for ®l;6<W. ■ Exit Poland, —The Warsaw official Bzirmik polishes a ukase, to which the “Kingdom of Poland” is no longer accorded the name It has held so long, but la designated as Ole “Vistula Province." -* .1 » V PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY % 1868. THE PR' Broad and Filbert Philadelphia. We present Unlay the above excellent cut of the magnificent Masonic Hall which is to be erected upon the lot at the corner of Broad and Filbert streets. The contract has been given to Mr. J. H. Windrim, and he guarantees to lay the comenstene next St John’s Day, and finish the edifice five years hence, at a cost of three-fourths of a million of The engraving, to gether with the following condensed description of the edifice, is taken from Messrs. King and Bairdls psefitl Almanac: "The new hall will be of granite, and in the Norman style; the massive character of this order of architecture, however, being well re lieved by the arrangement of the buttresses, balconies, balustrades-and graceful pinnacles which form’part of the design. The four sides ol the building will be of granite, the only difference in the design being in the front on Broad street, which will present one ofithe most magnificent features of this thoroughfare, The building will be three stories in height. . The front’on Broad street will present two towers, one at each corner, the Intervening space being composed of a handsome portico, running to the second story, and above which will be two niches : t statues (one of Silence), the whole , stir; mounted at the apex of the roof with a small tower, at the summit of which will be a statue of Charity. On the face of this, main front, in ad- FKO.TI NEW YORK. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Nkw York, Feb. 7,' 1868.— About the fairest statement of our . position to-day is to Jsay.that we are quiescent. ‘ Those who can afford not to “make” are thankful that things are no -worse; and those whose necessities require that things should be much better than’ they are sokce fthem sclves with the possession which,'while it “denies man’s skill, to draw-his horoscope,” is still the unfailing as it is the last resort of humanity. In point of fact, the well-to-do live iah this style be fitting the importance of their position (if there be anything important or certain’in"“position” on thisglobe), and the poor live according to the necessities, of their. siiuatlon^and— hope. The one party can afford to look oh the bright side of as much of the future as it is permitted to our very circumscribed sagacity to see, while the other, which cannot veiy well afford anything at all, take the dark view and snllenly follow to the widte of Mr. Micawber, Whither that exuberant apostle of. uncertainty will conduct them they know not, bnt they certainly do expect , “some thing tomtom ug|’ before long, and a.wait realiza ; The estimate' made some time ago tkat there are fifty-thousand worthy and cotopeterit persons but of emplovment to this city was .considered : an exaggmation. but.unfortunately,examination only augments the-number of originally too portcntonsfigures. lt is an unhappy con : dition alike for the rich and the poor-that they should be, as they are, crowded together to in vidious and stultifying, contrast In great aities. A man who is comfortably wen off. to the coun try feels it to be hie. bonuden .duty to do his utmost ,to alleviate every case'of distress within his reach. Bdt to a human gre ’ gallonlike 1 New York ' the close and austere contact, of competing ambitions wears npob the eympathieeof the comparative few who fare fortunate, and the todlvidoals of their num ber turn from'a multitude of unfortunate brothers, saytog, “Surely, I am not the keeper of all these4' -But the first of March Is hear at hand— fthe date of which those .■who ' hope most,' with least reason to expect lt, fix for a general revival of bustoess; and It is certainiy to be earnestly de sired that me trade hnd' hOmhieree of the entire cbuutry may be, wifh; the corning spring, far .more vigorous than for the past elght mouths. ' As regards the marketvU wpuld Indeed be difficult,to name one, except (hat of gold, to which, prlcee do not rule very -low, with slow sales. Those WhO bnyfbr'Mty consumptton, and those who buy froto NOW; TCotk, gtire: only, very small ordere-jußt enOßgh .to Bupjply (he most OmtWHOliE COWt&RY. id mAsonio temple. iject: dition to the ornamental windows, will be (in re- Hefyemblems of the Order—the Bquare and com pass, &c. “The tower at the southwest, comer of the bnQdiug *ifr te toe great feature.- It will be three; hundred feet frond, too {pound to the top of the 'spile, or one hundred and four feet higher than Christ Church steeple. The four corners of this tower will be surmounted by pinnacles, while' the buttresses extending up a considerable dis tance, the balconies at the windows, and the ba lustrades and general ornamentation of this por don of the structure will add greatly to to»- beauty of the yehole design. The remaining three sides of the building will be relieved by buttresses between the . windows, \ and the whole effect of the exterior wlll be at ohpe' massive and graceful. The portico ait the front/being twenty feet in ad vance of the line of thedrailding, will still further add to the beauty of the design. “The bnllding throughout will be - fire-proof, iron girders being used-at all the stories,-and other precautions are being adopted to guard against the destruction of-the edifice. Ventila tion of the most complete kind has been provided, the steam apparatus to be used for heating the building being also designed to drive a ran to keep up a circulation of i fresh air in all oithe rooms. Provision has • also been made for a bountiful supply of water at every story. The entire building will be devoted to Masonic pur poses,, and,'therefore will bs no residence within the hall, as heretofore.” meagre demands. A friend of mine, an agent in in the Eastern States, for a New York flour house, tells me that the Connecticut trade to his line was-“hever so dull within the memoiy of the oldest inhabitant”-as it is now,, and -the reason of this is becanse so many operatives aro out of work. Happening to at the Produce Exchange, recently, I heard the question asked of a friend of mine—-"‘What Is Fancy ?" “f 11 25,” was the re sponse. “Isn’t that very high ?” “If I have to sell at that figure for a week longer I shall give up the bustoess,” was the answer. So that, after all, a“bigh”or “low” price is nearly as much a matter of opinion between buyer ana seller as lt is of fact. , In political matters our leading daily papers are exercising their “talents for the public good,” principally about the Johnson-Grant corres pondence and’the purchase of some of the West India Islands. - Of course the commercial ambi tion qi bur citizens will bring on the latter ques tion a considerable pressure for the ratification of the treaties already proclaimed, and for the voting of the stamps for the islands, be the prices what they may. The theatrical line is ono of the most profitable of all ltoes at present. The houses are large and the managers of course buoyant. And os with the drama, so, in the main, with music; New York is a heavy Mark Tapley, and what with the theatres, the opera, sleighing, skating, etc. 1 , con trlvde to be-qufte jolly, despite all the difficulties of the somewhat mixed bnslness situation. DISASTERS. Brewery Explosion—Additional Par ticulax* of tJbc Beceat Disaster at Dutmque, lowa. fFrom the Dubuque Herald of FebrnarjMtti.) lathe Monday morning edition of tho Blerald we gave a very full report of a boiler explosion at the brewery of TscUrgi & Schwind, known as the Western Brewery, at IVest Dubuque, on Sunday. ■ . . .. As la the custom, steam was being got up Sun day afternoon to run the brewery. It was sup posed that Sufficient steam wOs on, and the men were Just on the point of patting on the belts wben the explosion occurred... Mr. Tschliii was standing near the frbnt of the boiler, bnt a few feet from it, with several of the men employed about tho brewery. His son, a youth of about fifteen years of age, hadjustgbue out of the door at the rear or the boiler, and turned to the right, when he heard the explosion and saw the boiler, with engine attached, tear thrtmgk the doorway, taking with it »por tion of ffie eoUd waSF w ntasoiuy. He immediftoty HMhed and thereYriuieMed e father, who, as we have said, was standing near the front end of the jbqilerv Was badly scalded in the face and about ther body: One of the workmen, who had been at, his aide, was lying dead, with a ghastly hole In his temple and another In -his thigh. He was" also terribly scolded.. The name of this mAh wad John Groppe; Be waß A young man, twenty-three years of age, and lias a father living near the city on alarm, He has been employed aboatthu brewery for some time, partly in the capacity of engineer, yet doing other work, the engine not' requiring all ’of Ms time. ' Frank<Fnrner, aged 28 years, was also terribly scalded. From head fo foot he WAs parboiled, his flesh dropping In many portions ef hls body from the bones. He Uvea till nearly 7 o’elocfc ln the morning, when death came'to relieve him, , Dominick; Schmitt Another workman,--waa also badly scalded, chiefly about the head and breast. He Was btill alive yesterday afternoon, bat with slight hope of survivingthroagh the night. POtCHHEEPSIK. Burning of the Poughkeepsie Aims taonae—Panic among the Inmate*- > JUesperate PncOunter wUliaLßaattc —ho fives Lost. Feb. 7, 1868,—At abouthalf paat twelve o’clock this morning George P. Wert, a colored' cook attached to the City Alma house here heard a yell, as he supposed, pro ceeding from one of the crazy roomsln the build ing, It was nOt thousuat style Of yell generally heard from that department, but a mid unearthly shriek. Becoming startled the cook ran ont from the hltchen, when he was. met by a German Inmate who said the building was on fire. Look ing tip flames and smoke were seen issuing from the roof over the crazy room towards the eiut end of the main building. In an instant the alarm became general, when a scene of the ut most confusion and excitement was visible among the eighty or ninety inmates therein confined. The building being located on the suburbs some time elapsed before the alarm reached the city. When it did a general signal of fire was rung out from the , various bells. Firemen rushed in every direction, and as soon as the exact locality of the fire became known, a perfect stream of humanity commenced moving toward the spot. All sorts of rumors were afloat in relation to “terrible disasters,!’ “nnmbers burned to death,” &c.; but all such ru mors and reports were- utterly false. The in mates, every one of them, and even all the furni ture and bedding of the building, Were, through the coolness ana presence of mind of the colored cook and Mr. Jacob Hitchcock, removed to a place of safely. When it was ascertained that there tvas no pos sible chance of checking the progress, of the flames the attention of the colored cook and it. man named David Moore was. turned towards resetting the inmates. Wert first rushed to the closed room of' a crazy man namedFrear. , He started him. out, when he ran down stairs. Beaching the bottom he chattered liko an Onimal, and then rah into the burning building again. -He was ; again started out and finally secured. Weft then broke into another crazy man’s room, where a Germct named Mead was confined with abail and.chair to his leg. Mead took things rather coolly, and deliberately 1 and laughingly walked out, carrying his load oflron with him, Other lunatics were removed as easily till the last one was reached, and he a desperate, crazy Spaniard, who Wentby the name of “Polly.” • ’ . ’ Both Wert an&'Moore, knowing the character of thiainan, resolved to go into his cell together. <They approached .the dqor cautiously and d£er unfastening 4 shoved it suddenly open,-when it was. as suddenly and more violently dosed by ! the crazy Spaniard. In thumeaptime the flamw were'progressing rapidly and the smoke whirled 'throughthe corridor and about the crazy man’s room in dense and suffocating volumes. Wert soon decided: that he must act with great prompt ness and energy, and immediately procuring ; ah axe again pressed the dooropen and walking de . liberately up to where the lunatic was chained to the floor raised the axe on high and with one tre mendous blow severed the chain. He then seized ■the Spaniard, who by this time had become tho roughly aroused, when a terrific tussle ensued. 'ltwas apparent that the . lunatic was getting the better of the Bane man, observing which Moore, Wert’s companion, rushed in and the two grappled with the creature. A„very severe enconnter ensued during which the lunatic got Moore’s hand in his month and lacerated the skin terribly. After some further resistance tbe lunatic was picked np bodily and carried in safety from his dangerous position. Ail of the rest of the inmates were panic-stricken, and ran to and fro in every direction, but as stated above were safely removed. The bniidlng was a large frame structure, but very old and dilapi dated. It was insured for $B,OOO, which is pro!- bably about $7,880 more than it was worth. During the fire the weather was intensely cold, and the firemen suffered severely. A number of the paupers have been brought into the city and are at present quartered at the Court-house. . Aa the Poughkeepsie way freight and passen ger train, bound South, due here this evening, reached Castleton, and while lying at that station, an extra train, consisting of a locomotive ana three cars, also bound down, ran into the passen ger ear of the Poughkeepsie train, nearly demol ishing it. One man—a passenger—had his hand badly hurt. The engineer and fireman ,of tho extra train. jumped from their engine, thereby escaping injury.—iV. Y. Herald. ■■■: * Kailroad Accident-Burning of Cars* [From the Chicago Journal of tbedthj . As tbe passenger train due here at nine o’clock was about fifteen miles west of Fort ; Wayne, thci baggage car was discovered to be on .fire ana be* fore measures could be.taken for extinguishing it, the car and its contents were destroyed. When the idlscovery was made the train was stopped and the burning, car was disconnected. The ruins, after tbe fire had effected its ravages, were removed from the track and the train resumed Its way to this city, About two wagon loads of mail mutter, tbe American Expressfreight, and. all, the.passengers' baggage were, totally de-' stroyed. The loss entailed is estimated at $50,000. ■,4-- : Durlpg the burning of the car, several small boys were rescued mom the burning car; and' these constituted all that was saved. The baggage; Was, the greater portion of it, owned by. through passengers, and of this portion of the burden of the car nothing was secured. The malls, were. • the heavy through malls from Pittsburgh, the de struction of which may be of Incalculable loss to the business community, and the express freight, though not heavy, was mostly consigned topar ties In Chicago,.., ?... In the car burned were the remains of Julian. Higbee, late of Utica, Illinois. Mr, Higbee was a nephew of Mrs.' John H. Klnzlo and Julian Ma jrilli Of tMS city, A few days ago he passed tnrough Chlcago. on hifl way to Philadelphia, for the purpose ofbelng married. He was then In good health, and radiant with bright hopes for tbefuture. But soonafter his mnrriage, in Phila delphla, ho was taken sick anddled.’ His young ana grief-stricken widow immediately started With me remains for Utica, Illinois. Sne was a passenger on the train mentioned Above, and the encofflned body of her husband was consumed in the baggage car by the remorseless flames. , —lt is reported in the London Grotto thatpe . tiolenm has been found within the past few days in the neighborhood of Brosely, Shropshire. In sinltioga theft in afield adjoining the tnmplke road, the men employed dlacoverpl, issuing through a rook onlya few yards ftom thesur ; face, a quantity of tar. some of it ofthe corals ’ tenoy or treacfe. The shaft layabout half ajnile from the out-crop of the coal measures, Imme diately below whlch.onthe roadside hi dasccnd- ‘ :V F. 1. EETHERSTON. PnflKsher. , PRICE THREE ENTS, ' —Cheyenne call Itself the *‘Maglc City." —Albool is to appear in public again. —The Lord Bishop of Toronto was “enthroned* last Sunday. —Fred Douglass was- dined In Detroit lost Sunday by his colored admirers, . —The Lieutenant-Goverflor of all the Canadas gave a bail in Toronto on Tuesday|evenlng, —Cleveland, Ohio, mannfeefurea four and a half million cigars last year. ■ —jßishop Hopkins Is to have a nttmnmest in Trinity Cnnrch, New York city. —Gen. Burnside declines arenominatiott ; U Governor of Rhode Island. ; . —'Wteannea peace of Europo coata#l,6<3oi<KK>;- 000 a year. ... -- —Austria has had a paper currency for twenty yean.' -'.v ; —Two hundred and ten novels were published hyjhigland last year. —Scarlet' fever Is raging terribly at New Bed ford. ■ . -• • ,-f* —Mr. Millanl Fillmore has just been elected one of thecuratorsof the Buffalo Academy of Flue Arts. * —The standard of the French army measure has been lowered again. They will now take re cruits over five feet and omt inch high. —Some South Germah Governments' are again qnletiy engaged In sending their life convicts to the United States. • —The Ohio Legislature proposes to punish wi th imprisonment .persons reporting the pro ceedings at orizo-fights. —One village! a Nassau sends every year one hundred and City thousand dollarr, worth of earthenware to the United States.'-. —The number of daily and weekly journals ißsued In Gera any was 3,556 on the first Of January. • •. —Mile. Htdwig Baabe, a most accomplished and beautiful 1 German actress, will come to the United States this spring. —Maximilian is the 102 d member of the House of Hapsburg committed to rest in 4he vaults of tho convent of the Church of the Capuchins. —Offenbach’s Income, during’the last twelve months, amounted to the very snug sum of two hundred and forty thousand francs. —A woman at Nordenburg, in Prussia, mur dered her brother at the instigation of his wife, who promised to pay her a dollar for. the assas sination. ' ■ '. -•’ ' —The wife of a journeyman carpente'r in Cin cinnati deserted him because he did not buy a bouse with freestone front, and a divorce has been granted him. —Dr. H. S. Mosenthal, the author olLeah, the Fortaken (Deborah), has writteaa ndw tragedy, The : Village Mayor, which is said to be much superior to the former production. —MOoby, the famous guerrilla chief is success -fqlly engaged, as agent of the United States Emi rmtion Compauy, in populating Virginia by Im ' o:‘*«iion. Porte has decided on addlng a couple of* 1 rarre t ships to its Iron-clad squadron! Plum for thenOw vessels have: been received from several English and French builders, and are now Under consideration at. the Admiralty. —The new Episcopal diocese of Albany, in the State of New York, la to he erected oh the north of tbeaOtfthenf'hpundaxieaof I Columbia, Greene oad Dfilaware counties.. thousand dollars are to be ralsed for ah Epiacopol fUnd. ' —The Mobile (Ala.) ‘Bet/ufCr states that Judge Bhstetidf lately atiot by IMetrict Attorney, Mart®, baa nearly recovered; and" willhnld court’ again at an early day, even if he has to do it at ids hotel. . . —After the .first edition of Queen Victoria's last bookhad been printed and bound, a gross and abominable typographical error was found ln.it, on account of which a leaf had-to be changed , in every copy. It was the work of amiaciuevona compositor. ■ ".* „ —Charles Mathews is said to be the author dll’ thefollowlngjeu desprit: - “If horseflesu won’t suffice to feed the masses'. The next resources will certainly be asses;- And Heaven'only knows whbre that will end ! Some people won’t have left a single friend.” —The Independent hopes Congress “will lay as high a tax on sermon-paper as on whlsky-ln con formity with Napoleon's rule, that the vices should bo' taxed high.” It is, perhaps, needles* to ' add that the editor favors extempore preaching. ■ ' ‘ K —A San Franciscan has invented a means of propelling vessels without steam or sails. He connects three boats'together in a line,'and ex pects the two on .the ends, by. the rise and fall of the waves, to move machinery in the centre ves sel which shall propel all three. —A freedman attempted to steal a ride on a Georgia railroad, but was discovered by the fire man, who made for him with a pine knot. The darkey jumped from his perch while the train was running, landed’ on his head, split a sleeper where he struck it;, then picked himself up and went for tho woods. . > —At Dresden the police lately caught a fellow who spilled ink on toe dressefof the ladles. On his person was found a book, containing a regu lar account of his heroic exploits in the soma line. On some days, according to his entries In the book, he had succeeded In spoiling twenty dresses in this manner. —The Washington, correspondent of the Boston Pott says; “Baron StoeckT was being jqked this evening oh this probability of Congress refiising the necessary appropriation to pay for Alaska. He jocularly replied: ‘Very well; yon have it, aa<? if yon won't; pay for It, very good; yoa shall have it without pay/" —The gossips at Berlin ore somewhat exerclg «* about the rumor that the famous “white lady,’’ thoapparition which is said to announce import-- ant events dn the Hohenzonernfamlly, has again made her appearance at the royu palace. The old domestics at the palace flrmly believe In al) the stones told about the ‘fwhltolady.” htuadredthanhlverfcary of the birth: of the grcatjpopolar leader andinsurgent chief/ Andrew Hoieiy.hasrecen tly been celebrated -with a great deal or eclat tbroughouttheTyroi; which' he bo heroically: ' defended in 1809,.against the armlea of Napoleon. Several hew monnmento» In memory of Hofer’s valor and patriotism, are tat coarse of erection in. the T>rpL i-john Qnincy Adame was in Rusela at the time of the Invasion by bat he once said that he never dowd discover precisely who was the cause of the burning of Moscow. The Governor of Moscow denied it and the Emperwn deujed having ordered % Mr. Adams’s then** yras thaf if the Govennhent had aehnovrledge® that they caused : the fire they would have been, Obliged to indemnify the sufferers. • —Leopold de Meyer Wears exceptionally largo aqd shocking bad bats, and when he lost one na Connecticut, in despair at procuring another taf the proper size, bis manager telegraphed back to* baVe themisalnKartlde forwarded. The answers came as follows: “ Down erpresetraln rjet hafe lyintro ** NfiW Mistool neer shall. ,-r-On <. ¥ *••-*■* FAOT» AN» FANCIES*
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