I ILE YIIICISICAL SEN‘ATION 11N PA111.161 Auher's Pow opera—Grand Ovation to the Veteran Composer. tcorreopondenco of thr New, York worm) Pains, Feb. 21.—The "maestro" Auber has been the "lion" of the week in Paris. This wonderful old man seems an inexhaustible mine of musical treasures, and has actually 21 es years of age composed one of the freshest and most effective of chef d'oeuvres. The first representation of this opera, Le Premier jour do Bonhcur,mentioned in my last letter, was the occasion of a veritable ovation to the composer, which is compared to a similar great event in the life of the great Voltaire—the representation of Irene at the Theatre Francaise. The comparison is not by any means a just ono. Irene was in fact, the most insignificant of Voltaire's pieces— indeed, the .tench do not hesitate to call it detestable and ignoble—and Voltaire received the magnificent triumph on the occasion of its first appearance, not as the author of the poor tragedy which fell immediately before the public criticism, but for having conse crated his life in defence of ideas which in the outset were pereecuted and misunderstood, but commencing to take deep root in the popular mind, and which led to the immortal revolution of 'B9. Auber's case is not in the least similar. He has lived entirely away from political agitations, and has contented himself by singhig like a bird, without taking into account the changes of governmenta go ing on around him. When he wrote the .41tvette do Portia. ("Matteabiello") he had not the faintest idea that in the grand duo between Pietro and Mas nanicllo be was assisting in overturning a throne and in sending a dynasty into exile. (This duo, itmay be known, is one of the great republican songs of Naples.) Auber, in this case, was the unconscious spark destined to create a great conflagration. The immense attecess of the new piece is theretore not in the least due to a worship of the man, or even as a testimony of respect to his old age. :tuber, at sixty years of age, brought out the dancee of the King of Garbe," which was i sastrous failure. The "Premier jour de Bonheur" has succeeded purely and simply on its own intrinsic merits, and one cannot help being surprised that the grey-headed old man should be capable , of producing such exquisite-love- melodies- as -are to----be found in the new opera. The libretto is full of charnac—a rare thing in modern opera, it must be admitted. The scene is laid in India, at the period when the Commander Dupleix defended the French Colonies against the aggressions of the English—far superior in numbers and with better ap pointed army. A young French officer, Gaston de Maillepre, has just arrived from Versailles. He is entirely received, and is hopelessly in love with an unknown fair one, whom he has seen but a moment, during a passing visit to London. Under these cir cumstances he performs prodigies of valor in the hope of being put out of his misery by a "friendly" shot from the enemy. In the meantime, however, he relates his tribula- OM to an Indian priestess, Djelma, who consoles him, and counsels him to live and hope. Suddenly a wonderful change comes over his fortunes. In the same' day be is breveted colonel, receives the announcement that he has fallen heir to a great estate, and towards evening his soldiers lead in a fair lady prisoner vihorn they have taken within the French lines. -Of course, the fair lady proves to be the lovely Helene, his unknown charmer of London. This situation is, as may be supposed, too bright to last. Just as he thinks his happi ness assured; his fortime is dissipated by his gamin Bergerac; his best friend challenges him for having been passed colonel over his head, and Helen announces that "Sir John," who had been brought into camp at the same time with herself, having accompanied her in the promenade, which ended so unluckily —Sir John was her destined husband! In the second act we are in Madras, in the' drawing-rooms of the English Governor, who is giving a great ball in honor of the safe return of his niece Helene, who has been re leased and returned to her uncle's protection by the two gallant Frenchmen, Bergerac and De Mailly. Here come a ballet to represent the gay dances of the Governor's guests, and in the height of the festivity is introduced our friend Gaston, who, in his turn, has been made prisoner; in his eagerness to approach Helen after her liberation he has been sur- - prieed and taken. The Governor treats him as a guest and invites him to be of the party. He finds himself at once the object of the politeness and attention of all the com pany, as he is, of course, ' a model .chivalry and elegance. Helen grows less sby. Bergerac and De Mailly have made efforts to conciliate him. 'Later, these sympathies of the company seem redoubled in the most incomprehensible fashion. Ber gerac approaches and tells him that he re nounces the disputed inheritance; De Mailly begs pardon for his ridiculous challenge; Helen, with tears in her eyes, allows herself to express to him the tenderest sentiments. Gaston does not try to analyze all his de lightful sensations; he gives himself up to the charna of the hour. Alas! his dream is but a a short one. The Governor advances, and with a thousand circumlocutions, declares that Sir John, during his captivity, had for pure pastime made a sketch of the French fortifications; this sketch had been found, and Sir John was accused of being a spy, and had been condemned to, be shot; that the execution would take place at daybreak ; and that, as a reprisal, it had been decided -by the General in command, that ' Gaston should be shot at the same hour. Poor Gaston begins, to -comprehend -the gen erosity of Bergerac, the remorse of De Madly, and the sudden passion of Helen; but, after a moment's melancholy, he takes his place again in the dance,and continues to converse with Helen, withhowever, much more tend . erness and deeper feeling. Helen, full of sorrow, finds that she really loves the young hero, and responds fully to all his avowals. hi the third act Gaston is preparing to die. He says adieu to Helen and Djelma, who have come to soften the horrors of his last moments. But suddenly appears Sir John ; the phlegmatic Englishman has come to, request that he may be exchanged for Gaston, and, in case of refusal, he has given his " parole " that he will re turn to the French camp. The English Gen eral accepts the condition, but Gaston refuses. He prefers death to being a. witness to Helen's marriage with his cold rival. Sir John is determined to live at any price—consents to eive up Helen, and everybody is made happy. Ike success of the piece was immense, the ole theatre calling out for the author, but Auher did not make his appearance. Bou iluets of the most tigantie proportions were ready to be thrown7to him upon the stage . ; but he remained hidden .fin the back part of his .twoe one the stage), and, f heai, was en tirely inconsolable because the Emperor had not consecrated his triumph by his imperial presence. All the loud huzzas were lost on him, He attempted to leave the theatre by a private door, but the crowd *sated for him, and pressed around his carriage with acclamations and felicitations. stage Costume—Blunder s of the Past. fillOrt historical sketch of the anachrone kali) • of our stage costume will serve best to show bow slow but steady has been the pro gress of realism, natural as it now seems, that actors should wear the correct 'dress of the time and place which the author had used in the play he has giVen them to represent. In Shakespeare's day there was no attempt to dress characters correctly. The Earl of Southampteo, Italeigh,and such patrons, gave their court-suits to the players. Hamlet was enacted in the peascod doublet and bolstered hose of James the First's court; and the pretty pages and chorister-boys who played Juliet and Imogene, played in large fardin gales and white quilled ruffs. There was no more attention to correctness, then than there is now in drawing-room charades. That great tragedian Betterton played Hamlet and Alexander the Great in the stiff square-cut dress of William of Orange, with tufts of rib bon on his shoulders and on his sword-hilt, knee-breeches and square-cut shoes. He pointed his periods with waves of his cocked hat and tossing of the huge powdered mane of his court wig. Over his -manly breast streamed a broad steenkirk of Flemish lace; he not improbably took snuff and made a point of dropping his snuff-box when he saw his father's ghost. As for the stage murderer, he always scowled from under a black Charles the. Second wig. Quin played the gay lover in a heavy scarlet coat anti waist coat, black velvet breeches and long half powdered wig,flowing down upon his breast. Garrick, a scholarly man, and the friend of scholars, was no better. He dressed Hamlet in a black court suit and short bag-wig: he had ruffles on his wrists and buckles in his shoes. His cravat was of the time of William the Third, and streamed over his chest. Woodward, as the gay Mercutio,was still more inconigible. The rashness of the delightful young Veronese gallant was indicated by a carelessly-tied laced cravat, and a three-cor nered gold-laced hat,cocked gayly on one side. His waistcoat came down nearly to his knees, and into one of its profound pockets he thrust his hand when he began his arch de scription of Dreamland and Queen Mab. Another actor of the same period played Charles 1., whose style of hair is so familiar to us, in a streaming full-bottomed flaxen wig of Pope's time. Talking of Pope, we learn from a passage in the works of that satirist, that Booth played the venerable Cato in a large fashionable wig and a richly flowered dressing-gown. But to return to Garrick, that excellent and ver satile actor made Macbeth a sort of Scottish sergeant-majori Jas....Ron - Igo wore the cotqt, dress so familiar to us in Hogarth's pictures; in Richard the Third he was, however, a little daring, and ventured on an ermine trimmed cloak, brigand boots, and slashed James the First breeches; but Buckingham, Hastings, and Cateaby were not allowed to go beyond bag-wigs, cocked hats, and the stiff regulated costume of the time. Kemble was innovating, but his errors, too, were outrageous. He put Hamlet into a black velvet Vandyke dress, powdered black curly wig, and diamond shoe-buckles. Below his knee he wore the Garter, and the broad blue ribbon of the order instituted by Edward the Third was conspicuously scarfed across his breast. Charles the First, as Hamlet,— that was what he appeared to all educated people. The stage of the Kem ble period kept pace exactly with the art knowledge of those days. Fuseli, Northcote and Stothard dressed their his torical characters just as well, but no better. In Mortimer's drawings you perpetually see half-naked men with nothing on but breast plates and flaps of armor reaching to their knees. The absurd,abominable brigand hoot was clapped on every one, warrior or prince, David Rizzio or murderer in the Tower. How did Lewis play Earl Percy—in coat of mail? 0 dear me, no !—in a jerkin and knee-breeches, of summer silk; while hi ow in hair, plentifully powdered (Dr. loran tells us), was bound with light blue streamers. This same gracefactor played Hyppolytus, the son of These , a hero of the ante-Homeric days, in a spacket -silk knee-breeches, tight thin boots, and a court sword. Mrs. Crouch sang as one of the Witches in Macbeth, disdaining hump, ruddled wrinkles, tow hair, and brown-paper nose, in a charm ing broad-brimmed fancy hat, her hair pow dered and her snowy bosom emerging from airy clouds of lace and muslin. Edmund Kean moved things a little. Dar ing and passionate in everything, he tried - to be true in dress. He it was woo discarded the traditional red wig (Judas color) of Shy lock; he and Macready turned Macbeth into the grim, _Highland _chieftain, now__ so ...well known to us. Mr. Charles Kean, we believe, first introduced the earlier semi-Norse dress, which at once carries us back to the earlier times of ' Scottish history, and is correct enough for even the sternest critic. To Mr. Charles Kean, indeed (insufficient as an actor in all but melodrama), we owe much. His adviser, Mr. George Scharf (au excellent antiquarian and no mean artist), with great research' and the best taste, superintended his great historical revivals. It is untair to say that in them Shakespeare was buried under heaps of flue dresses and hidden away behind scenery. It was not Mr. Kean's fault, but natures, if the actor did not rise above the dresses and scenery. The Richard the Second was admirable in costume and very true to old illustratiOni. The lotig4o - ed - POlit - h - bo - iitSr tied up with chains to the knee, the jagged fringed sleeves, the parti-colored surcoats., were all as true as they were picturesque; equally true was the Henry VIII. and the Hamlet. There is one curious fact about stage cos tume, mentioned by an excellent writer on the'subject,—that is, that many of the stage dresses of old time had been celebrated court dresses. The first villain .at Covent Garden wore for a whole century a black wig that Charles the Second had-given--Killigrew..---It. afterwards belonged to Dickey Suett, who cried like an infant when it was destroyed in a fire. Quick used to wear a coat of James the Second's, and King Arthur's dress in Tona Thumb had belonged - to Lord Northumber land when English Ambassador at Venice. Theatrical costumes were often handed down for generations. Dr. Doran says that Matthews, as Old Foresight, used to wear the dress in which Wilkes played the fashionable Sir Harry Wildair, and Peg Woffington's coat for that favorite character was afterwards worn by Dicky Suett when playing ridiculous old men.—Every Saturday. ENGLAND AND ARIERICA. Continents 'Upon the Career of Minister Adams, tuna Speculations as to the 113UOICO of Ills bliCeeSSol%. [From the London Times, Feb. 2M In the midst of the singularly intricate and difficult negotiation which arose between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States out of the incidents of the civil war, it has happened that the Envoy of each power has been removed. It is acontroversy which has passed through - many vicissitudes. Of "the persons who were originally ,erigaged in it one. only remains `to carry it on. The English Foreign Office has been under the direction of three Ministers since the ques tions still in dispute were first raised, and of the two plenipotentiaries who represented the Government at Washington between MO and 167 ODOIS now Ambassador at Paris, and the other is dead. On the part of the Arnei leans there has been no change in the principal negotiators until now, when the retirement of Mr. Adams is announced, and thus Mr. Seward is left, the only Minister who has throughout taken a part in the dis cussion. There might be circumstances in which the • substitution of one voice for another in so protracted -a dispute - would -be THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY M*AHCII p,..1868. _ of advantage, but the: resignation, of Mr. Adams can only be regarded as a great;lots to both Governments. He is ; thoronzlilY fit-, miliarWith every one of tie points at issue, and although he has never shrunk from pre senting hls own case with firmness and deci sion, and maintaining it even ,with persist ence, he has always been fair' and courteous, anxious to maintain peace, though never for a moment forgetting. the interests of his country. There have been times, no doubt, within the last seven years when we should have liked him better if, consist ently with his duties, he could have put be fore us the views of his government in a less rigid and inflexible form. It is - natural, al though perhaps not altogether reasonable,that we should have wished him to look at the questions between us with English rather than with American eyes. But Mr. Adams had his duty to his own Government to per form, and the nicest ingenuity could not have enabled him to render that duty specially at tractive to us. He invariably, however, ex hibited a wise discretion and a cool judgment. It is easy to comprehend the painful embar rassments into which both countries might have been plunged by a less cautious or a less capable man. We have only to read the speeches constantly delivered in the Senate of the United States to appreciate the mischief which some prominent advisers of the Ame rican people would have produced. Mr. Adams, the representative of a family which has been connected with public life in the United States since the earliest days of the Republic, has himself taken an active part in the politics of his own country for al most a quarter of a century. It would be in gratitude on the part ofkhe American people to forget the services helms rendered them in England. He has been unyielding in their behalf, but no English Minister has ever ques tioned his good faith or good feeling. It is a success of no common kind for a " man to have been constantly engaged years together in pressing upon us questions of claims which we deemed strained or unjust, and yet to have won the regard of the Government and the nation. Mr. Adams has been obliged to pur sue a course often most distasteful to us, but when he leaves this country it will be with the esteem and good wishes of all classes of the people. We have so recently experienced the diffi culty of finding a competent represfentative at Washington, that we can understand the reluctance of the American Administration to part with Mr. Adams. He has, we believe, sought to be relieved ever since the close of the war, but Mr. Seward was reluctant to deptive himself of so efficient find trustworthy an agent. A successor, however, has now to be appointed,and the choice is rendered more perplexing than ever by the bitter variance which exists between the President and the Senate. In these days the President can nei ther appoint nor remove a public officer of any eminence without the concurrence of the Senate, and the post of Minister to England is likely to be warmly contested on both sites. The President would scarcely like to have in England, as a mouthpiece of his Government, a man who was intensely hostile to it, and,on the other hand, the senate will not permit the designs of Congress to be unfavorably repre sented. Thus a new conflict is unavoidable. To us it is of no importance from which party the new Minister may be selected, but it is of great importance that he should be a fair and just-minded man. « * * * * If the recent - precedent of the Vienna Mis sion be followed with regard to England, the future Minister will be chosen by a process of elimination. It will be remembered that the--President nominated--gentlemen of all parties, and that his nominations were inva riably rejected by the Senate until he hit upon a candidate who happened by an extarordi nary combination- of accidents to be equally a favorite at the - White House and the -Gaoi tol. In the present instance the President has begun what is likely to be a sharp cam paign by nominating an officer who was once extremely popular with his. country men, General McClellan. Such a nomina tion could scarcely be made without rekind ling some animosities which are better for gotten, but with these domestic questions we in England have nothing to do. Should the President's nomination be accepted, America Would again be represented by a dis tinguished citizen, and one who would I command a welcome from us. Mc- Clellan _ -is an able man, :still_ the prime of life, and his military renown, and his active experience in a war, the conduct of which will always have great interest for Englishmen, would recommend him favor ably to this country. Before that war was ended, and while all its disturbing forces were still in operation, Mr. Adams wrote to his Government to counsel a policy of recon ciliation. He reminded Mr. Seward that the English Ministry had resisted all temptations to break faith with the American Uovern ment, and admitted that "at one moment a slight vaiittion, stimulated by sonic of the adverse influences within it," might "have led to a material modification of our present prospects of success. In any event it would have imposed much greater difficulties in our way.” - We can desire no better - repreSenta five of the United States in this country than a man who was thus able to do justice to our general purposes, however much he may have misjudged isolated circumstances. Philadelphia. Bank Satteinent. The following is the weekly statement of toe Phila delphia Banks, made up on Monday afternoon, which presents the following aggregates: Capital Stock.. ........ .......... $16,9170.50 Loans turd Discounts.... ...... .... .. 53,081,665 Specie 232,180 Due from Other 8ank5................ . . .... 4,048,024 Due to other Bunks. ....... 8,147,941 .. . .. 3026;861 Circulation.. ...... ....... .... ....... ....... 10,633,713 U. S. Legal Tender and Demand Notes..... 17,157,954 Clearings.. ........ ........... . 32,079,505 Balance.— ................ .3,358,843 The following statement shows the condition of the Banks of Philadelphia, at various times during the last few mouths: 1867. Loans, Specie, Circalation.DepoSits. tin. 1.....52,311,825' 903,633 10,369,820 '41,308;327 Feb. 4.....52,661,130 874,564 10,430,893 39,592,713 Star. 4..,..51,979,173 820,873 10,691,800 39,367,388 April 1....50,780,306 803,148 10,631,632 34,150,285 May 6.-53,064,267 386.063 10,610,696 37,574,050 June 1....52,747,308 334,303 10,637,132 37,332,144 July 1....52,538,002 365,187 10,641,311 36,616.847 AO* 5„ _153,427,840 302,055 10,635,925 83,094,543 Sept, 2....53,734,657 307,658 10,625,2113 38,323,354 Oct. 7....53.041,100 258,1303 10.627,921 34,857,406 Nov. 4....52,694,677 273,500 10,64(1,820 33,604,001 13ec.2, _61,013.435 216,071 10,646,319 31,817,955 1868. • Jan. 6.....52,002,304 235,912 10,639,003 36,621,274 Feb. 3...152 604,919 248,673 10,630,915 37,022,287 " 10....52,612,448 257 875 10,635 926 37,390,653 17....82,662,046 263,157 10,631,328 37,010,520 24.,..52,423,166 204,929 10,632 495 30,453,464 •Mar. '2.,..52,459,759 211.965 10,030,424 35,799,314 " 9....53,081,665 232,180 10,633,7131 34,826,861 The following is a detailed statement of the busi ur r of the Ph; ladelphla Clearing 11006 C for the past week, furnirhed by G. E. Arnold, Esq., Manager: iMearingS. • Balances. $6,001.782 SO $700,155 81 5.446.1139 15 430,639 32 5 .75386241 : 44T.476 4,08 1 ,761 61 • 759,072 05 . 4,969,440 Of 452,709 a 4,926,618 99 569,735 00 Mar. AND $B,OOO TO LOAN ON StOR rc AGE: $12.000 LUKINN &moN.mommly, - NM; 2t.' 10M Beach street. WELL SEOI.IIIED SS 383 33. - 0 Rent W roM D-A uf a Per annum C . thliO 2t. LUKENS & MONTGOMERY. 1015 Reach et, ot ,i di TO LOAN ON MORTGAGE. tip t_ll I V. LUKENS & MONTGOMERY. , i Luti.4,2t,* , 1.035 Reach otreot. _.._ . , 134.4100 TO proved Real( E y t atT(4 ,3 4 ci a m q BO? , B 608 ir r ggitit mtre y et • TURKEYFIGI3.—a. CA'SEI3 I :EWclioP. — v - ARiOUI3 grades, landing and for ode by JOE. B, BUBBLER CO.. lue booth Delaware avenue. !i32,070,505 00 CI 358,845 01 FINAINCIIALL. crirY oIi.IOIIrvANCES. , COMMON -COUNCIL—OF -PaIhADELPRIA., CrAr.nx's OsiticE. PITILADELPRIA, Feb. 23. 186 S. In pursuance of the annexed reeolution the following bill, entitled - AN ORDINANCE . To authorize a loan for the construction of Ctilrerls, is hereby published in accordance with the Act of Assembly, for public information. JOAN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE A LOAN for the construction of culverts. SHI.,TION 1. The. Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor of Philadelphia be, and he is hereby au thoried to borrow, at not less than par, on the credit of the city, from time to time, eight hun dred thousand dollars for the construction of culverts, for which Interest, not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum, shall be paid half-Yea rly,on the first days of January and July, at the office of the City Treasurer. The princi pal of said loan shall be payable and paid at the expiration of thirt years from the date of the same, and not before without the content of the holders thereof; and the certificates therefor, in the usual form of the certificates of city loan, shall be issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for any fractional part of one hundred dollars, or, if required, in amounts ci five hundred or one thousand dollars; and it •shall be expressed in said certificates that the loan therein mentioned, and the interest thereof, are payable tree from all taxes. SEC. 2. Whenever any loan shall be made by virtue thereof, there shall be by force of this ordinance annually appropriated out the lucerne of the corporate estates, and from the sum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient to pay the interest on said certificates; and the further sum of three tenths of one per centum on the par value of such certificates so issued shall be appropriated quarterly out of said income and taxes to a sink ing fund, which fund and its accumulations are hereby especially pledged for the redemption and payment of said certificates. RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH it LOAN BILL. Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council be authorized to publish in two daily newspapers of this city, daily for four weeks, the Ordinance presented to Common Council on Thursday, Feb ruary 20, 1868, entitled "An Ordinance to autho rize a loan for the construction of adverts." 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The undersigned are prepared to receive orders for the Iron-work of the Coalhrook Dale Company, Shropshire, especially sheep and cattle hurdles, and every descripiton of fencing, railing and palisading; also, entrance and hand-gates, garden seals and chains, and all varieties of ornamental castings. Pattern books with lista of prices can be seen by application to YAT:NALL & 'MOM LE. fal-f&tuBt4 418 S. Delaware avenue. 'MERRICK & SONS, SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, 930 WASHINGTON Avenue, Philadelphia, MANUFACTURE STEAM ENGINES—High and Low Pressure, Horizontal, Vertical, Beam, Oscillating, Blast and Cornish Pump ing. • BOlLERS—Cylinder, Flue, Tubular, &c. STEAM HAMMEBS--Nasrnyth and Davy styles, and of all sizes CASTINGS—Loom, Dry and Green Sand, Brass, &e. ROOFS—Iron Frames. for covering with 'Slate or iron. TANKS—Of Cast or Wrought Hon, for refineries, water, oil, &c. GAS MACHINERY—Such as Retorts, Bench Castings, Holders and Frames, Purifiers, Coke and Charcoal Bar- TOWP, VHIVCS, G0V0 , 11.113. &c. SUGARMACHINERY- Such ing Vacuum Pans and Pumps, Defeeafors, Bone Black Filters, Limners, Wash. era and Elevators; leg Filters, Sugar and Bone Black — Cars: - &c: Solo manufacturers of the following Biles:Wiles: In Pbliadelphia and vicinity, of Wiiinuir Wright's Patent Variable Cut off Steam Engine. In Pennsylvania, of Shaw & Justice's Patent Deal Stroke Pow Cr it airliner. • In the 1. rifted States, of Weston's Patent Self-centering and Self-balancing Centrifugal Sugar.draining_tglachine. Glass & BaitoPs improvement on Aspinwall dr. Woolsoro Centrifugal. ilartors Patent Wroughtlron Retort Lid. Stratian'iDrill Grinding Rest. conti actors for the design, erection, and• fitting up of Re- Snarled for working Sugar or Molasses. COPPER AND YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, Brazier's Copper Nails, Bolts and Ingot Cooper, con stantly on band and for sale by HENRY WiNSOR bt CO., No. 532 South Whams. wru - mDraz ONE SCOTCH lIM PIG IRON—ENGA_R. 11 :nook. brand, in store and for sale in lots to snit, by PETER. WRIGHT SONS, 115 Walnut street. CROWN BRAND LAYER RAISINS. WHOLES, halves and - quarter boxes of this, splendid fruit, land ing auo for sale bY JOS. B. BOSSIER & (n. 103 South Delaware avenue. REIM" DST ' . GREAT BARGAINS WHITE 'GOODS &O • The dissolution of our tirm on the lot of January. re quiring 1 . 01 its settlement a heavy reduction of our Meek, we are now offering, at Greatly B educed Prices, To rneure Speedy Sales, OUR P.NTJRE ABROATMENTOF White Goode, Linens. • Laces, Embroideries, And House.; Furnishing Dry Goods. Ladies will find It to their advantage to lay in their SPRING SUPPLIES in WHITE GOODS, &0., NOW, As they will be able to purchase them at about ANTI. WAR PRICES. Extra inducements will be offered to those purchasing by the Piece. E. M. NEEDLES & CO., Eleventh and Chestnut Sts. GIRARD BOW: • tel MYER POPLINETTS iT) For the Spriug trade, MS. An ateortment of thee° N cry Choice Goode, mat received. SPRING SILKS , rjUNG POPLINS, SPRING MOIIAIRS: In the New and Dei.iro.hle Blinded. ', CF: , . from 213 to 75 centa. A great variety of Pattern& 111::% RY ALBERTSON fi• BRO. - 245 Booth Second Street, Phila. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT UP STAIRS. mix 934 T ADIESCANSAVETJMEAND MONEY BY CALL 1.1 ing at Mae. M. A. BINDER'S "TEMPLe: OF FASH ION," NW Chcs,nnt. LATEbT PARISI &N FASHIONS. over 5(3 different THINIMED PATTERNS. whole:Aide and I'o+ol. A liberal dierount to Dreeemakere. Porteiau Dreee and Cloak Making in every variety. A leo, DRES.I and iLUAK TRIM3IINGef at aetonlisliing ow price e. Silk Bullion and li istori Fringee, Tareeb, Corde, Gimpe, aide, Bottom , . Satin Platte and Pipinge, Crape Trim- Velvets, real and Imitation Laces, Bridal Veil, and Wreathe, . . I.3dica' and Children'e French Coned)! and !Loop Skirt,. Ju=t received, fine French Gilt Jewelry. Gilt and Pearl Orr.amente and Banda tor the Hair,. Coral, Steel and Jet bete mhti tf SILKS' CI %eat Plaid 7.4ikp, *1 1236 Neat Strip. riikr: Neat Foulard Him f - 73-1. White Ground Black I'laid, id 12. Black slikr, allgrader. 'Mode flilkn, good