Daily evening bulletin., February 29, 1868, Image 1

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( 05SON PIIACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXI-NO. 278.
THE EVENING BULLETIN
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ABBOTT.-On Thmudav. the STth instant, Samuel W.
A tibott. In the bUt year of hit Me. . .. . .
The mate friends o( the t amity ai a respectfully invited
attend the moer-h irou thu resUenrcofhl* brother
*J?t Bummer rtreet, on Monday, March 2d, at 2 o'clock.
BEECHER.—ttn the J9th hut., Howard Clarence, aott
of 3. F. and Catharine E. Beecher, aged £3 month*.
Una notice will be riven of the funeral *
• fjIVRE ft I.ANDELL OPEN TO-DAY THE LIO«r
l -Fiahadea of Spring PopUtw for too FaahlonaUe Walking
r kJrmki.
Steel Colored PopHaa*
Mode Colored Poplins.
Bismarck Exact Snad«.
itEXICIOVa NOTICES.
r *»* ‘'THEATRES.” _
r - u ' w J py request of the
VOCiNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. REV.
WM. P UKAKU. V, I).
Will preach co tho above subject hi
CONCERT IMLb.
TO-MORROW (Sabbath) EVENING, at VA o’clock*
bEAfS FREE ; IU
west* THE NINTH ANNIVr RSAKV OF TUB
Yonutf Prop**'* AssocUtloo. at the Tabernacle
Baptist Chttich. cnestont street, veil of \, gbteentb. will
be held Tuesday Evening next* March 34. commencing at
o'tlrxk. Kev. Die. A. A-WilhU and \\ aireo tUu
dolpb wit* dWiver addresses, and a select musical pro
(riarunio wiil be presented. U*
KT I VKI * CmTIICII- THIRTEENTH. BEIOW
*’ w hpn’ce, A meeting inbehsif of the Episcopal Miv
jaiout iu the pO»the*s*ora part * f th*j city, will be hold in
fbt.« cbmch. to-n.orrot»* (fcjimday) evimlcg. at 7>f o'clock,
by lU®tottth»*«wlt ; rn MUsion*»T Convocation, Adda*—t-g
b' la v. t»r. |towo and *#veral Mi slonary clergy. Public
coKtially Invited. It*
UH'RCH OF THE HOLV APOSTLES, -ter*
y|{vcve‘ v duiiday ev-oiuc. at o’clock, in the
11-4 tuc t o»m of i abor Piv*b>teM'tu church. Ei<Utce i;ii
1 clow ClirviT*.o street, durance on Montrose street,
her 'iita/Jwcli YValdeo will preach to'inonoir (aundav)
oveniug. , *tf
tMf. IN MI.MOi:iAM KKV. I. I.EESEII.-ON sSL'N'-
***' d»7, M < 1-h 1-t. lit l!) o'clock. A; M, Ilci'. Ur. J«*t
row will dUivn « mtloxi. Ju ibu EugUnliuuusuoge,oo
Jwv. U at > fi-rrr, »t !hr bynaitasuc, m I’rwikllo rtroet,
alaiye Gieru. Al.frKr.ri T- .HINE-S,
Tiemdcnt.
mar T«c'isfei r srdHTopiBßAixTs wier'f
'Ui.’.VU >nuf iciie* on "Night Sreuet in the
Kihle" Lt it*.-? Vr A*rch. on to-morTOtr tdandoy) o' * -
nine. it 7*«. oVoek, in Chnftm ot eet tihurch. Tenth
*tr et, beljw svf.Cj AU Vtwiu< aio cordially invite/
to uttenj. ' It*
cmumF.N'S SERVICE AT THE GE.-ffltlL
***' PiwuyteilsuChnrgb.cornerufEighth and Cherry
.•icet«. To mu-rinv Alierooou, *t dcrmon. by
tlir P.rtor. Kw. Dr. Kwd. Morning service at !0K
u'rlOCk. . ' -lit.
«**■* CENTRAL PKKSHYTIUUN OHURU s, N* L.
Wl,, ’ ( o*i«m;u't, kiow FjiJtli -lty icu'iMt a utroion
ou t‘* JrVavt *HI be m»<»ch*d by the paator,
U V. MltchelMo-m irrow cTcaiflg.st7/y o'clock.
bi'sUfne f'cLnic invited. * / It*
mZ2f~ OLD SPRUCE STREET BAPTIST UHUKuU,
fiprr.ta »{rr«t, belov-' Filth; Rev. J. Wheaton Mnltii,
V.l). PMtor.—Preacblag To morrow Morning. and Kvcn
'iup*. Subject in the Evening—*'Toe W*y of Salvatiou.
silt angeu* welcome. It*
wGSf* BT. M \RK*S EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH,
Spring Garden above Thirteenth itreet. tfarvictM
.to-morrow at l'J,% A. M. andU>j P* M. freaching by the
raetor. It*
rev. j. f. McClelland will preach in
**■* TrioftvM. K. Church. Eighth street above Race,
on Sunday, Mart h let* at 10>y a. M. Sacrament at3tf
p. 4L No Evening service. Ail invited, It*
most- CHILDREN’S GATXIKKING.-PIRST RE*
iW formed church, Seventh and Spring Garden street*.
Sunday School exercise* at o'clock, Address to the
children uy line Baker, Eeq. It
WEST SPRUCE STREET CHURCH, CORNER
of fterrntecDth and Spruce afreets. Rov. Wm.
p Breed, D. !>., will preach to-morrow (Sabbath) morn
iieg, at IQS o’clock. A eennon on **Tfae Theatre.” It*
OLD PINK STREET CHURCH, FOURTH AND
"*** Pine. Preaching by the Pastor, Rcr. It. U. Allen;
loominr, lo>i o*clo:k. evening, o’clock. All cordially
incited. It*
•£?» CALVARV PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LO
‘****' etut at ret t. above Fifteenth —Preaching to-momiw
itioininx and evening, by Rev. L* Pratt, of Washing
ton, DC. . It*
SO*TH BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN
Church.—Rev. Thomas Street, of New York, will
j reach'lo-uuXiow at lUjo A. M., and o’clock, P. M. It*
' WESTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
Seventeenth and Filbert f Rev. Mi. Bridella
will preach Sabbath Morning and Afternoon, It*
m&f* ST. PAIR’S CHURCH. THIRD BELOW WAL*
** w nut, wbl not be open To-Morrow evening.
-Children’* church in the afternoon at 3 o’clock. It*
•gw* TRINITY CHURCH, CATHARINE, ABGV/.
Second afreet.—Rev. Jnbn W. Brown, Rector, will
preach to-morrow at Io>* A. M. and7>fP>*M« ’ : It*
*£&» BISHOP SIMPSON WILL PREACH IN ST.
mmgf . John’s M. E.'Church to-morrow morning at 10MA.
4 M.. and Rev. Jacob Dickeraon at'7Jtf P. M. Seats free. *
SPECIAL NOTICES*
9SF- Concert Hall.
SELECT BEADING
S. K. MURDOCH,
K»WAI|D'S SpHQOI<,
Cii Tceii}af£vcninf,Barcb 10, atB e’dotk.
Ticket*, SO cents. Reserved Beats, VScents.
To l>o procured at TRUMPLER'S Mnslc Store, No. 936
-Chestnut street, and at the ball on, the evening of the
Heading. It*
A 'PLEA FOR THE DESTITUTE AND
ERRING.
“The Young Men’s Sunday Breakfast Committee" of
the Tenth Baptist Church, for feeding the Homeless Poor
from our Staiiont ouses. end to afford Free Medical and
Surgical Aid and Medicine to the Poor, will be In session
at their HslL Eighth and Buttonwo.dstreets.THlB CBat
uiday) EVENING from 7 to # o’clock, to receive con.
tributlonsof money, provisions, new and cast-off cloth
ibtf, dsc.
e prompt and liberal response to this appeal will
, relieve a vast amount of suffering, disease and die.
*’Further information in regard to our wort wilt be given
at tlio Dispensary, Eighth and Buttemvood streets. We
aro also pern itted to rMerto ABRAM MARTIN, Amerl
- can Sunday School Union. It*
SCV OFFICE OF THE GRAND ISLAND IKON CO.
No. 121 Walnut street. ,
; PHitADEUuna, Fob. 1868. :
In eomplianre with Section 1. Act March f), IIOF. of the
Legislature of Michigan, a meeting of the Stockholders of
' tlm Grand Mand Iron Company-will be held at .the Com
psuy's Office, in this city, No. 121 WALNUT street, on tlio
foth dsy of March, 1668, at 12 M.. for the purpose of author.
iKlDgasnleof thepioOerty of eald Company iuSchoolcraft
.•county. State of Michigan. . .
foigtmhlioi tU9 0 ‘ U ' I GOia)ON O M6NGES. Sooretary.
LEOTURt .BY WC- CHAH.I.U—PAUL DU
tTTI. JSP tu . ra * l Concert HaU. on TUES-
March A Subject—Journey to
'tlie Lnunibal Country ■ the Gorilla,its habits.and affinities
cents ilu,tr “ tcil b y numerous diagrams. Tickets 60
Ko extra clwrge for ree«maM4t«."
ChMtnut
fc£S-4tr|)*
®C%^^F^ enBl “ 8t ? nl^epot, • M**wv.m
'- Accident c»aea received if brought immediately after
rtceetion of injury. ~ j ‘
Lying in caaoa received at a moderate rate of board
free medical And surgical advice given on Wednesday
and Saturday AitomoC'na.bctweon 4 and 6 o'clh. feia-tfrn
: « ;■ PniUADKLPUi*.,'JaDaary3o, 1868
Tlila Company la prepared to purchase its Loan duo
In 1870, of j>«r. • „„
SOLOMON SHEPHEF.D, Treasurer.
No. 123 South Second Street,
Ja3Qtfir
MB* CABO OP THANKS.
, We beg leave to return our.thanks to the officers
and men of the
, , FIRE DEPARTMENT
for their active and efficient efforts In eulduing fhe fire
at our Laboratory this morning.
Fan. 53.1638, [lt»] POWEiIS & IVEIGHTMAN,
tHr , TJtE PLtJMB'NG BUSINESS OF THE DATE
~~ JOHN PHILBIN will be continued by UU son,
STEPHEN K. FHJIBIN and JOHN E. EVaNSON.
fe2B,bt,rp*
mag- THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE YOUNG
America Cricket Club «* ill be held in Langitroth's
Hall, Germantown.-on TUESDAY EVENING, March
Dd, at 8 o’clock. £fe29-:it rp*| ALP. MELLOIU poc'y.
■o*. HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. UlB AND. I MO
Lombard street Dispensary Department—Medi
cal treatment and medicines fnnilsbed gratuitously to the
poor.
MB- NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE
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special .noitce-iiie sunday school world
Ofor March rcutaios a romiauation of the SemiouM for
Child. «n, on BIBLE WONDERS, Abd an OUTLINE
LES ON for Sunday School/, by the Rev. Dr. NEWTON,
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Mat Twelfth* with every convenience and in perfect
order. Addrew ARCH STREET, Bulletin Office., It*
Ciikstm t Street-Theatre.— I The French com
pany had, last evening-, a larger audience than
they have yet attracted. The play was a laugh
able one called Les Diables Hoses, and it needed
the services oi all tho best members of the troupe.
Vimes. Keiilez, Larmet and Hamilton had impor
tant and excellent'roles, and each played most
admirably. Among the gentlemen of the troupe,
Juignet, Hamilton, La Roche, Roche and Edgara
were especially to be admired. The minor parts
were also well supported. Les Diables Roses is
very l?reneh, and some of the dialogue
Is free*'and broader than any to be found in the
other pieces thus far produced. The mnslc in
terspersed, said! to be by Offenbach, consisted
chiefly of trifling adaptations of airs from old
operas by other composers, and one or two frag
ments from the Grande Duchesse were also Intro
duced. This evening the season oftheFrenqh
company will be, brought to a close. They will
play the fine, and highly successful new comedy,
Les Idees de Madame Aubray. The English com
pany will also appear In the afterpiece of “That
Nose.”'
: The Theatres— At the Walnut this evening
Mr. J. W. Wallack, Jr., will appear in the drama,
The Iron Mash. At the Arch, Lotta, In “Little
Nell” and “the Marchlonesq.” ' At the Chestnut
this evening the French company will appear In
Les I dees De Madame A übray ana That Nose. On
Monday, .Dead Sea Fruit, At the American a varied
bill be presented. ( ;
Eleventh Street Opera' House, —A new bur
lesque by Mr. Robert H. Craig will be produced at
this establishment this evening. It is entitled
Anything You Like, and is filled with sharp local
hits, jolly humor, keen witticism And laughablo
situations. The name of the author is a guarantee
of the. merit of the- piece. In addition to *hia
there will be singing, dancing, negro comicalities
and a multitude of good things.
Assembly Building's— Mr. Alf. Burnett will
give one of Mb original humorous entertainments
at Assembly Buildings this evening. : Mr. Burnett,
possesses remarkable power as a mimic, and an
Impersonator. The facility with wMch he as
sumes a dozen different characters In one even*
ng is really wonderful. -Me is drawing crowded
houses. - ■ -
Italian Opera — Max Strakoßch’s Italian Opera
troupe will Inaugurate a,brief season at the Aca
demy of Music on Mouday evening next, with the
opera La Traviata, The cast includes Mad. de
La Grange, Miss Phillips and BrignoU. During
tho engagement of this company Mr. Joseph,
Hermanns, the great basso, and MUe,RVfa Sau
galll, the famous Premlbre Danseuae, will appear.
TJckete caftbd procured at ?rumpler’B;aiid at the
Academy. '' ' "
Vocal aßd Instrumental CUncekts —On
Monday evening, March 9 th, a grand Vocal and
Instrumental Concert will be given! at Horticul
tural Hall. A number of prominent and favorite
artists will participate, supported by the entire
Germania orchestra.
and at the H&IL
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No. II South Seventh atreet.
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AMUSEMENTS.
MUSICAL.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1868.
THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.
While there has been much idle gossip and
even malicious falsehood talked about the pro
jected monument to Abraham Lincoln, the Lin
coln Monument Association has been quietly
and vigorously prosecuting its work, and we, to
day,have the pleasure of presenting to our read
ers an engraving of the design wMch has been
adopted for a bronze statue of the Martyr Presi
dent of the United States.
In the early part of last year, the Association
appointed a Committee on Design, and instructed
it to procure designs from American artists, at
home and abroad. The committee has been dili
gently at work and has received various plans
from different artists. After several attempts to
procure a satisfactory standing figure, it was
found impossible to combine anything like
artistic grace with a truthful representation of
the gaunt form and homely garb of Mr. Lincoln,,
and the committee determined to adopt a sitting
attitude for the statue, and with a most satis
factory result.
The successful design is the work of Randolph
Rogers, the American sculptor, at Rome, whose
works are familiarly known to all cultivated
lovers of art. Mr. Rogers is an ardent lover of
his native country, and was one of her ’most
devoted friends throughout the war of the
•ebellion. He couples with his high pro
ficiency in his art, an enthusiasm for the
character and work of Abraham Lincoln,
md has manifested great personal interest
in the project of the Association. • It will be re
membered that he was selected by the great .
sculptor, Crawford, on his dying bed, to complete
the famous WasMngton monument at Rich
mond, and he has lately received commissions
from the State of MicMgan for a magnificent
monument to her fallen soldlera, and from Rhode
Island for another for the same purpose.
The Philadelphia monument, which we have
engraved from a photograph of Mr. Rogers’s
rough sketch, will be of bronze and granite. The
figure, in its sitting posture, will be nine foot
high and the pedestal fourteen feet Mgh. The
proportion ot the statue is about double life-size.
In his left bond Mr. Lincoln holds the Emancipa
tion Proclamation, and in his right the pen with
which he bos just signed that immortal document
XETTEB FHOItt I'AItlS.
(Co rrespondenco of the Philadelphia Evening BulletinJ
Paris, Friday, Feb. 14th; 1868 -The American
mind-herb is being thrown into a sort of ferment
by what are called the “alarming news” from tho
United States. We are told that war with Great
Britain is imminent, that diplomacy and arbitra
tion are alike thrown overboard with respect to
, tho Alabama claims, that an ultimatum on the
subject is about to be presented,and that the time
is at last come when Eif&iftiid mus( “payor fight.”
Tltisis startling, lndeedr-if true. But setting aside
thefact, which !consider tojbe indisputable, viz.:
that England has made up her mind to pay,
but bnly nota’s yet the mode and manner of pay
ment—for to propose or submit to arbitration was
as good as undertaking to pay, for any arbitra
tors would give the case against her—setting
aside this 1 consideration, I would just ask those
who'are so anxious to set two kindred nations
together by the ears, to reflect for a moment
What sort of figure both would cut in the eyes of
Europe were they really to enter upon a, conflict
at this moment. The whole of this old “rubbishy
continent” (as we nro fond, of;' callifag it)
has ‘ been arming to the itc’ctU for the'
last twelve months, and ruining itself
OUR WHOIsE COUNTRY.
zkmm
. WE HERE HICU.T RESOLVE
THRTTBECOVERWOT err.c PEOPLE ,y
THE PEOPLE t.a ro«THE PEOPLE
SHALL SOT PERISH na«r«E EARTH
His face is turned upward,invoking the blessing of
Heaven on the deed. The attitude is easy and
natural, the awkwardness of the body and limbs
being completely overcome by the position and
the arrangement of a cloak, which is carelessly
thrown over the back of the chair. The features
as represented in the engraving must not be
taken as Mr. Rogers’s likeness of Mr. Lincoln,
they being only roughly sketched in, to show
the general design. The head will be modeled
after the fine bust by Mr. Rogers, now in the pos
session of Dr. Wood, of this city.
The upper-side panels of the pedestal will be
decorated with the arms of the United States, on
the one side, and those of the City of Philadelphia
on the other, in bronzo, the corners being sup
ported with Roman fasces, also in bronze. On
the lower corners of the pedestal are four Ameri
can eagles, supporting festoons of laurel, all in
bronze. Appropriate inscriptions will be placed
on the several unoccupied panels of the pedestaL
The whole bronze work is to be executed in
the finest style of art, at the Royal Foundry at
Munich, the most celebrated works of the kind
in the world, and will probably be completed in
about two years. Thegranite work will, of course,
be done in this country.
The whole cost of this beautiful monument,
wich will probably be the finest work of art of its
kind, in America, will be about $30,000. The
funds of the Association amount to nearly $23,000,
but it is confidently believed that the design will
so commend itself to the good taste of the com
munity, that there will be no difficulty in making
up the deficiency among pur patriotic citizens.
The Lincoln Monument Association was or
ganized May. 25th,. H>SS,'an.4..wa@. incorporated by
the Legislature, April loth, 1861.' The following
gentlemen constitute the Committee on Design:
Charles J. Stille', ex officio, N. B. Browne, Henry
C. Lea, Francis Wells, Jas. L. Claghom and J. B.
Lippincott.
The site for the Lincoln Monument has not yet
been determined. That subject will be carefully
considered by the committee, and it will un
doubtedly be placed in some locality where the
people at large, in all coming generations, will
be constantly reminded of the virtues, the great
public services, the sad death, and the shining
example of Aubaham Lincoln. ’
with “bloated armaments.” Still the people don’t
fight, and say they have no intention of fighting.
Nevertheless, we ourselves constantly hold them
up to ridicule (and justly.so) for.
folly of which they are guilty in spending mil
lions upon sMps and guns and soldiers; and the
wisest men amongst them are never tired of
pointing out the example of Anferica, who “dis
bands her armies” and “sells her monitors.”
Only just the other. day,. the Revue des Deux
MoHdes contained awarnreuloginmbf tho United
States and' their government on this very point.
But what will our admirers here say, what wll l
ail Europe say, Jf they sop the only two nations in
the world who do not seem' to have gone quite
mad upon this mania for “arming”—what will
they say if these two “unarmed” nations be the
first to go to loggerheads with each other ? I
should think that what they would say would be
something llke'thiB:;‘‘Well, this r is’a joko! Here
are England and America,who have been laugh
ing at us, and protending to bo sb, much wiser
than tho rest of. mankind, tho very first, not,
indeed,, to. arm, lmt what lB far worse, to fight!
We have spent our money, indeed ; but, at any
rate, that is better than cutting each other’s
throats and destroying each other’s commerce
Better to arm and not fight, than to begin by
fightlDg and have to arm afterwards. Really
(I think I hear said around me) these Anglo-
Saxons, or whose practical common-sense we are
tired of hearing so much, are no wiser after all
than their neighbors. Look at (hem palling each
other to pieces, after, forsooth, laughing ntns
for baying a few Chassepot rifles and keeping np
a hundred thousand soldiers or so more than
themselves!” I take It that this is just about
what would be said of ns; and said at once with
a good deal of trath and a good deal of ill-na
tured sarcasm and satisfaction. As to'myself,
if I might be allowed to express an opinion, living
here in the centre of Europe, and after criticising'
severely what I see going on around me, if I be
lievi d that these two nations were really going to
fight (which Ido not)—l should be cautious how
I again charged other people with folly for only
aiming, and before finding fault with them,
should soy to myself—in a whisper—look at
home'
I rem orked the other day upon the constant
reference made in the debates in the French'
Chamber to American example and American
greatness. The same allusions meet one’s eye in
every quarter in a way that is highly gratifying.
A brilliant French writer, M. de Layelaye, in a
recent covp (Tml on the Uni’ed States, from
a French point of view, thus 6peaks ol
an enterprise which, thanks to Colonel Heine’s
(of the American embassy) lectures daring the
Exhibition, ia now becoming quite familiar to
scientific men and the public iu general of this
couutrv: "In 18G1," he says, “there existed 31,000
kilometres cf railway, in full operation, in the
United Slates: tbut ie, more tbnu in England,
Fiance and Germany put together. .Two years
later, f<,ooo more bad been added, and since the
peace the increase has been more rapid. Bat
what new impulse shall we not witness, when the
road, which has even now reached the Rocky
Mountains, shall have united, not merely by an
iron line of way. hut by an uninterrupted line
of cities and counties, the States of the Pacific
and tbobe of the Atlantic, thus allowing the
Youthful Giant to embrace with one arm Europe
aid with tbe other Asia ? The annexation Of
Mexico, of the smaller republics of Central
America, aud even of all those of Southern” (he
might have said Northern as well) “America,
becomes only a question of lime.”
These are the peaceful triumphs of American
greatness which intelligent Frenchmen love to
point out to the emulation of their countrymen,
and contrast with the wasted energies dud ex
penditures of their own system and government-
There is nothing going on here but grumbling
outside, the Chamber,and inside the wearisome de
tails of a Press-Bill, in the intricacies and subletie3
of which the speakers on both aides flounder and
lose themselves, and which the public seem
neither to care for nor understand.
Looking over some financial reports the other
day, I find that the Budgets of the years 1861-5
have never yet been able to befit! ally- closed or
audited by the Courdcs Comptes, on account of
a deficiency of twenty-hine millions of Mexican
vouchers, which have never been recovered, and
which were counted as “receipts” on thoseyears!
How that fatal Mexican expedition starts up into
view through every phase of imperial finance,
and Las now a worthy successor in the expedi
tion to Lome.
A fire of extraordinary dimensions and of a
most regrettable character has just happened in
Paris. It took place at the immense printing
establishment of the Abbe Migne, whose splendid
editions of the Fathers and > other learned
ecclesiastical works are known all over the
world. The Abbe began business as a simple
priest, without a dollar, and by pure persevc
rence and industry, and in spite of ranch .opposi
tion from his Superiors, had, in the course Of
some fifty years,- created what was quite an
institution. One peculiarity was that everything
connected with the printing business was manu
factured on the premises, the types even being
founded there. From himself and a workman or
two, the establishment came to employ more
than four hundred people. The loss is variously
estimated at from\ four to six million francs.
The most valuable portion of the property was
a unique series of more than a million of stereo
type plates, the produce of the labor of half
a century. Thousands of volumes also perished in
the flames,and scarcely ever before,perhaps,were
such, masses of paper seen in combustion. A
warehouse full of organs, religious pointings and
church ornaments shared the same fate. The
■poor old Abbe, now past seventy years of age,
'was almost alone in the place when the fire burst
out with incredible violence, and literally, in a
moment, converted into a smoking him all that
his industry had raised up and collected together
in the course of a long life. The property is
largely insured, but no money can replace to n
man such a monument of his own genius and
energy as tho great Printing House of Montrouge
was to the Abbe Migne.
An incident of a pleasanter character happened
just at the same time as the above, to the old age
of a very "different individual. Rossini’s great
opera of William Tell was being played for the
five-hundredth time, and it was determined to
compliment the maestro on the occasion. It was
just forty years since the first performance, and
rarely, indeed, doeß it happen that an author
lives through such a period to find himself and
his genius appreciated more highly than ever.
After the performance at the theatre, the or
chestra and the, entire, company, with the Di
rectors of the Opera House at their head, and ac
companied by other-friends, adjourned to the
court-yard of Rossini’s Hotel, in the Rue de la
Chansde d’Antin, at the corner of the Italian Bou
levard, and there performed the glorious over
ture, and can g many of the choruses, with some
also of the solos, by Faure, the first tenor. Ros
sini, who has been ill, was able to appear on the
balcony, and at the conclusion Was presented with
a crown of gold lanrel leaves, in momory of the
occaelon, amidst the enthusiastic cheers and
bravos of the assembled spectators.
—Tho St. Louis Republican says that General
John B. Gray has withheld nearly $lOO,OOO of the
money paid by the general government to tho
State, Gray was appointed agent to see-after
the collection of,six millions and a half due the
State, and the governor contracted to allow him
ono and a half per cent, on all ho could obtain.
Tho compensation for a few days’ work wob cer
tainly very liberal.
—The Boston Transcript says; “Thoso who
think tho popularity or the artistic Ballet and
. . o» r
Epcctaclcs implies'that the people are losing taste
for the legitimate’ drama shoufd remember' how
steadily ‘Dora’ has drawn, aridhpw good plays
well acted prosper at several of ; our theatres,
Variety may be demanded, andall sorts of enter
tainments gather audiences; but meanwhile ster
ling acting Use not lost its charm.
F. 1. FETHERSTON. Pnlilisfe.
PRICE THREE OEiNTd
fACTSAHD'F ANVERS.
-r-Booth Is play in;
.mg . .cveland.
—Santa Anna asks tfei blessing, of the Pope.
Napoleon is now writing the We af Caesar
Augustus. j ;
~."/? r V? lary Walker is lecturing in C'onntetie.t
on “A Deeply Interesting Subject."
—Utah owes nolhiuLvand has $1(5,000 In iti
treasury. ~ : ;r
—The Confederate ram Albemarle i 3 being cat
up for fuel in Nofolk.
-A play named “Trodden Down, or the Lost
Cause, ’ is a great hit In Bavaunah.
—Newfoundland also protests against the con
federation schemes with Canada. , :
S' 000 public
—No less than thirty thousand letters are dis
tributed in the Salt Lake Pos t-office every week.
—A protection paper in Toronto, coiled tho
Com mmwealth, has just died..
—Kansashas 62,000 school children,'and only
700 teachers.
—Cranberry Meadow Pond, in Charlton.
Mass., is frozen solid—fish and all.
-Dizzy may have been a poor Chancellor, bat
he will make a Prime Minister.
—Florence Nightingale haa subscribed £1,09*
to the fund for erecting an infirmary at Roth
erham.
—Pollard, the shoo tee, is lecturing in BalU*
more on the “Political Condition and Prosracts
of the Sbuth.”
—California la to have a paper in the RuatMaa
language for the six thousand persona of that
nationality in the State. ...
—Russia has a new sect called .the Christian
Anti-Taxpayers. It is more popular with the
people than with the government;
—North Carolina republicans believe they can
poll 90,000 votes for the ratification of the new
constitation, which would insure its adoption.
—English astronomers are to view the total
eclipse of the sun In. August from the : summit of
the Himalayas.
—Caldwell county, Missouri, has discovered *
petrified butterfly twenty feet below the surface,
of the earth. ' \
—ldaho raises mahogany in such amount that
it takeß six cords of it to buy one ton qC hay,
which Is scarce. , v ...
—All the tickets for the entire course of raid
ings by Mrs. Kemble, in New York next week£
were sold before noon yesterday. ' , v '
—Mrs. E.C. Stanton is publishing a series of ar
ticles on “The Strong-minded Women of the
Bible." • l.
—Mr. Hughes, M. P., (Tom Brown,) is a lead
ing stockholder in the “London Dressmakiug
Company, limited." ;
—New York has a national guard or active
militia of 50,000 men. The force decroasedby
1,600 last year. '
—lt is reported in a letter from' Dresden that
in a single district of Gumblnnen. there are 40,Q1W
families without food or fuel. ‘ :
- A class in the Russian language,is organizing
in New York. “It is very'easy,” the professor
says, and he ought to know.
—A ! black and fan terrier Is'the Idol of New
York, for killing two hundred rats in" four
minutes. ■ -■* ;l • ' -
No'va Scotia “ear vlxentsii
sister.” Why not say “wayward sister," audtbll
her.to “depart in peace," as Canada advised us
seven years ago ? :
• —The most prominent candidate mentioned!*
connection with the vacant Protestant Kpisopii
Bisliopric of Vermont. Is the Rev. Cr. Samuel P.
Parker, of Andover, MassJ
—lt is rumored that the Pope hesitates to
grant the dispensation necessary, according to
the rules of the Catholic Church, to enable
Prince Humbert to mafry his cousin.
—ln the California Legislature the Senate has
unanimously passed resolutions asking the Pre
sident and Congress honorably to acquire or an
nex British Columbia to the United State*.
—General Bnrbridge is to have a cane made
from the “Pemberton oak” under which Grant re
ceived the Vicksburg surrender. The officers and
men of a Wisconsin regiment present it.
—lowa has three women editors—Mrs. Money,
of the Jefferson Era ; Mrs. Hartshorn of the Coiy
don Monitor, and Mrs. Mary Bend, of the Wright
County Register. , . . ,
—St. Louis has a paper which calls itselfthe
liepudiator. The only safe way for the publisher
of such a paper will be to secure payment in ad
vance, but subscribers will feci shy of trusting
money in'such hands.
—The Pope intends to confer a cardlnalate
upon-Lucien Bonaparte. The Emperor insists
that if so, be shall elevate him all by himself, and
with great pomp, so that the glory shall accrue
indiviaibly to the Bonaparte family.
—Jack Howard, of Bradford, England, to
matched to jump over a full sized billiard table
lengthways. Captain A. bets £2OO to £lOO on
him, three trials to be allowed, the man to ’foot
from the around.- ’ •* .
—Since Vanderbilt assumed control of the Hud
son, Harlem and Central railway; he has cut off
about 30,000 free passes, and compelled former
dead-heads to pay full fare when rldipg over those
routes. ,
—The Hon. John Morrissey was absent daring
the drawing for seats in the House on Monday.
The following notice was lacked on hi a deakt
“Any person taking this seat mnsrprtporo to
put on the gloves.” - •
—The Central Park menagerie In. New York
now embraces Oil animals, 311 birds and 29 • rSp
tlles, and the collection Is to be enriched by the
addition of lf camcls,wblch’aro now on “their
way from Texas. . ■ ;: r ,
—The Prussian Government , are rapidly push
ing to completion the works at Kiel, ana jut the
dockyards recently built in the neighborhood
they will commoncc early In 1869 their first iros
plated frigate.
—Benevolence has not wholly died out A
ragged little girl in Brooklyn picked dp a wallet
containing six hundred dollars the other day; and ,
running after the lady who dropped It, restored
the property. For her honesty she received a re
ward of one cent.
—lt costs seventy pounds sterling s week to
keep the Great Eastern. The chairman of th«
company, at a recent meeting, advised patience,
as other cables must be laid and the Great
Eastern is the only vessel to accomplish U suc
cessfully.
—General Von Boon, the Prussian Minister of
War, who received a stun of three hundred thou
sand thalers ask reward on the conclusion of Urn.
war, has devoted the amount to the creation of a
lamily fund, which Is to bear his name. No
danger of that family being involved in general
roofi. - .
. —An English clergyman has been brought before
a magistrate for “keeping an illegal lofreyi ’the
samu being one of the Incidents of a fair in ala of
chdrch enlargement. Ho was toputhr
any better plea than that the offence was acom
mon one, and was let off with areprunand; hut
the Incident Is held up as #a awful warning is
the public. Should our ma^fraCT 2 \dMt ,aa*
the numerous lairs held in TOg pari of the world
for similar purposes, they might find distances Iff
the violation ot the law qtfifo as flagrant as this:
—Henry Clay Dean recently made a speech la
-New Hampshire, and at the conclusion of one of
bis moat flowery sentences, asked If there was a
Republican in die hall. ’ He'repeated the Juqhtiy
Ume times, and atlast an oldfarmorin-.the rear
of tbc ball got up and sald he wa» a Bepubliran.
“Well,” said Dean, with an sir of triumph; “ho*
'do you feel?” “Well,” drawled out the tiller of
the soil, loud and dldir, U I don’t ’zackly know, but
it ’pears as ef 1 felt like a sound ejtg In 4’ bushel a*
rotten oues." Shouts of laughter feUeweh. suft
the meetiag terminated suddenly.
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