GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXL-NO. 290. • EVENING. BULLE'T'IN EIIIILEMED EVERY EVENING (BUndays excepted), AT THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING, 607 (Ai estnut Street, Cluladelphltt, DV TD EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION. ritentIFTOP.A. GIBSON PEACOCK,. Y. RN EST C. WALLA(, E, F. L. PETKEBSTON 711013..1. WILLIAMSON. • CASPER SOUDER. 4.. FRANCIS WELLS. The Bui.t.r.xter is served to aubperibers in the city at Colts per week. piersble to the carrion., or 88 por annum. sf %NE OUNCE OF GOLD WILL DE GIVEN FOR NJ every ounce of adulteration found in 13, 'V. BAI3- 71FITS LION COFFFIL TbiP Coffee is roasted, ground and sealed hermetically under letters patent Irma the Pinited States Government. All the aroma isaced and the coffee preset is rich, &fay appu arance.Every hould melt, nit it is fifteen to twenty per cent. stronger than other pure coffee. One. For every twenty contaicut a °fief/oiler Greenback. For dale every Where. if your grocer does not keep this Coffee. and will notget it for you, vend your orders direct to B. T. BAD tUT r, Nos. EA, Rs, in, es. 00, 10, If and 74 Washington street, Now York, or - HENRY C. KELLOGG, $, W, corner Water and Chestnut streets. I'hiladelphia. fetlva,Rit __- INVITATIONS FOR WEDDINGS. PARTIES. &a, “tented It, a P perinr manner _by . DREKA. lOW (lIESTNCT ST CET. fe2044 ARRIJED. MARTIN--ouLLL:Rs.--on the evening of the 11th /Mt, Rev. J. Wheaten iitnith, 1) 11, Thomas , Martin to .ifertrude, daughter of James et. Oellvrs, Eel , of this clty.o DIED. ADWYTT.—On the 13th instant Ann N. Abbott, relict of the late Timothy Abbott, in the ;lath year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend her funeral, without further notice, from her late residence ; No. lde Clinton ' , treed, on Second day morning. the 16th in-d ,at 1U o'clock. • his residence in Buckingham, Bucks county, Pa., on the mot niug of the 13th instant. Joseph Ilroadhnud, in the Thtli year of his age. Funeral to take place on Second-day, the 16th inst., at 100 o'clock,. M. The friend: of the family are knvited. without further notice. •• tif.SSEIL—On March llth. Li7glV. C. .31. ' wife of lieu. jaunt Franklin }lesser, and daughter of the late J•-=re 'I he relativea end friends of toe 1.1,:ti Iv are r. ,meettully invited to attend the th, residence of her tho'inr, No. Unit n fl u : ItAll lust., at 3 o'ehoric I • 311 If ICKMA N.-- In Balt im% Me.ech Lth, Gen. Nathaniel I Hunan. in the e2d year of tile age. MAY};`.- Smlriczil:, on the morning. m . the 13 5 0: hist , Crrhin. cc it, of Janus P. Marts, and daughter of Lydia It. and the late delves M+..l duel , I, the family are ree ot' ct• tally invited to attend her tuueral. from the re--idta..e of her mother, N. 215 ,nth Filth etrect. below lipr. Monday morning the Pith ilg , S 1 Eit. at ten o'clock. •1.1 er,EI):S.- the leth itet.oft, James Seed•, aged • yt ate. The 11`1 ,, tiVe+ and friends of the fateily. ano the mein i:ers of Wet earns Engine at d 1...%d;!.., No. 2, huight• of Ps this). ais te,pectl idly invited o attend his tuncral 6,1.1/ Eagle Hotel. N. W. cot tier Sixth and Girard avenue, on Sill day morning at nit: Int, rowed at Lafayette Cemetery. SIM I t 1;1:.—t in the 12th ili•t-. at - 5--tatitpder, Mary land. Lizzie Baku', intent daughter. of Henry i.. and Lizzie It. Waiver. e..myrii. -on a, rth lament, Mr. 5%. Perry Smith, eon of lever end the late Eliza T. Smith. The relative's and male friends of the family, also the members of Philadelphia Lode, No. 72. A. Y. 3!., are re epertfully invited to attend UV' funeral, front the teat dunce of hit lather. No. It.: Pine street, on Monday ait.gr• stoop. tith nt two o'clock. 1011 , th—tin Saturday, the lit h rout.. Elizabeth, relict of the late John 1 mine. lier relatives and Wien& are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her brother, Thos. Earp. Esq.. No. 101 v Race street. on Tuesday mot . - Mils. the I:th 'net., at 10 o'clock. OBIT FA BY. At It meeting of the Delta Phi Fraternity, held Friday, I:tth MA.. the following reoaLtticuo were unanimously Adopted: lfherra•, It has pleased Almighty ood, in iitc divine providence. to take from lie our beloved brother and corn panion..Tonri Los' Bea. Th , !rcfore, IttArc'ti. 1. That although we bow in humble submission to liie insenttahle trill,, we deeply deplore the lose of this brother, endeared to us an by his many noble 11. That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the beilassed tams' of dit-c.ised tits bxe.s they have 111 That we war the weal badge of me arising for thirty dag. And farther, that the abore resolutions be publishetin the daily pacers. and that a copy be scat to ids family. Der.rs. Pits Bontrry. it Ahrua Pri , ,Noti /NIA., Committee ' 41,ZPRING RNING GOODS.-11F.SSON & 83M iJinvite the attention of WHOLF,SALE AND RETAIL CASH BUYERS of Mourning Dry Geode, to their Spring Stock, now ready for Inntu.tion. mlll4at MOW:BING STORE, No. : - .18 Che,- - thut at FRE LANDFALL TODAY TILLGur X:4 shades) of Spring Poplins for the Fashionable Walking Dresses. Steel Colored Poplins. Mode Colored Poplins. Bismarck Exact Shade. RELIGIOUS NOTICES. WO - The Forty-Seventh Anniversary PIIILAIRIPIII9 COMMIE 11183109AIIISOCIEN, I=l On lionday Evening, 18th Instant, At Horticultural Hall, -Commencing at 7N Wank. Addreem by Rev. 11. A, CLEVELAND, of Philadelphia.. Rcv. E. S. FOSTF.R, D. D., of New York. D.; , ef - New firtvaEivicit— itev. J. P. DURBIN. D. D. The largo Painting; of the Society for the new certifi cate. "Paul Preaching in the Areopagus," painted by I). K. Knight. Esq., will be on exhibition at the Artist l'und M ociety's rooms. No. 1334 Chestnut street. on and after FRIDAY MORNING. 13th inst. Tickets for the Anni versary and Exhibition can be had gratuitously at Per keneine & Iliggins's, Arch North Fourth etre* t, or at the Book Rooms, No. 1018 street. mbl3.3trp THE NIGHT OF TEMPTATION AND DENIAL li ar —Tenth termon° t the eerie' on "Night Scenes in the' Hible." - br Rev. Dr.- Marehv tomorrow , (Sunday) evening, et 1)6 o'clock, in Clinton Street Church. Tenth. below Byrum. Young men especially. and , all pemone cordially invited to attend. FOUNDLINGS' HOME AND CEIILDREN'3 Ifoopital in connection with "The Home for Little 'Wanderers," Tenth and dhippen streete. Dlopenaary nutmeat, for the treatment of disearee of women, child. ren and infanta. Medical and imrgical aid free to the suhl4-6trp* . Niagir.: OLD PINE STREET CIIERCII, FOURTH AND Pine streets. Preaching by the Pastor, Rev. It. H. Allen, at 10,4 o'clock A. M. 3,VP M, the Lord's Sttpper. Evening, 11 o'clock, sermon by Rev. .J, G. Montfort, D. D., of Cincinnati. - imige SERMON TO FIREMEN.—THE REV. B. WlB - Morris will preach a Sermon to the Firemen of Germantown in St. Luke's Church, Germantown, on 'Sunday Evening next, the ltith instant. Service to com mence at 7%. o'clock. Seats free. . ml+.llr. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN eiIURCII, WASH ingtou Square. She Rev. Dr. Mellvaine. of Princeton, N. J., will preach to morrow. IIYM A. M. annii P. M. It* CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LO. / 16 rcost street, above Fifteenth. Preaching to-morrow, •inorning and evening, by Rev. F. T. Brown, D. D.,of St. Paull, Minn. . it. lierl74tVit,g . gi2liritr ° nor of Eighteenth and Arch etree_w tomorrow, at 1034 A. .M. and 7}4 P. M. Strangare welcome. 1t... ` S& f!'reltt,Uge n."AFEBtI WheatonlUSlntiltlll4 event aetor, preaching w-morro Rev. morning at 10,4, ona gat 'O4 o'cloclt. All cordially ' invited. It' aljr3l'lllNG GARDEN-BAPTIBT-eltU-ItCl3,- ti lll feenth street; above Wallace, Rev. L. P. 'tombs' , 11:3 • Vaster.—PreachInt to-morrovv at 1056. A. NI. and 7% Wier R . RAWdl itt i3T h 'ilEET ATIOVV, FOURTH-7.OAR Rev. Harrison SmiTh . Presiding Alecting 'to.ntorrew. elder, will preach at 3 • o'clock. All are invited. eB Ing .TAB :NACLE BAPTIST CHURCII—CfIitS'I'• •••••• nut litteot, above Eighteenth street.—P.ev. Daniel C. Eddy. D. D., of Beaton. will preaeh Sunday morning and evening. • . isgap ST. PAUL'S 011URCIL Timm. STREET, below Walnut, will be open as usual tomorrow Vveningrat 7,56 .o'clock,, ie. THE REV. DR. MAW. OF RuCHESTER,WILL preach in the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Broad and Noun square, to morrow, at S 3 P. M . , lt• tMa i lfo l irol REVe r ig l ilij " XT 131 ' 1RM" at ": 3 ll i Church of the TO•morrow Afternoon, o'clock. lt• _ . . . . , . . , . ' . . 1 • ' ' S'' ' t i ~.., 1 r, ~:. ~ ..t, . . . , I r: • ilt , , I A 4 . .. RELIGIOVS N4YrIIVES *try- CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLFS..—Ser vice OVC/ y timidity evening. at 71 , 4 o'clockln tho Lech re loom of 'labor Pteebytetian Cbmrrh, Eigitteenth te.trw , Christian etreet, entronee on Montrose IstreAt. Rev, H. L. Diliwing will preach tomorrow (danday) eV, n'ng. it§ seer II:1.11; ; 10!1411;L1, D. plllttt(oNfrN N. ;iii T,l(.f„.r,‘vae(.ii3Odo,i 1o31: fit., and It' SPECIAL NOTICES. ie . EXCURSION SEASON OF 1809. CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC R. R. Lodges, Societies and Organizations generally who con• template giving excursions to Atlantic City during the rummer of lisfS. will Orme() call at the Company's Oflire, Vine Street Ferry. and es cure a day. Only 15 days remain vacant in July and August. D. A. MUNDY, Agent. tnlt9strii/ , 0 THE LEHIGH COAL AND 1. "`" NAVIGATION COMPANY. PIJILADELPIIIA, .Tanuary This Company Ia prepared to purchao ite Loan due n 1870. at pas. BOLOMON BEIEPHERD, Trearnrer. ja.3o-ttri? No. LC South Second Street. ter A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE: CITIZENs op. posed to the VACAIION and Olt rßucrfoN of BRIDuE 3 MEET, and in favor of n plan for crowing the Penurylranin Railroad WITHOUT DANGER. will ho held on SATURDAY EVENING, March 14, letk at o'clock, at the MA N ETA HALL, N. W. corner Haver ford and Thirty-fdth ofrects. It' Ig or :NOTICE.— THE liii:flriCßlßEllS TO THE CAPI tal Stock of the l'ennoylynnta Wood flanging Corn. pony, are notified that the I 0111 puny will organize at the Continental Hotel. on Hi. , 20th ,iext. All additional ,111nirlption:i tnuet be entered previou. to Hi , . above date. at the Lxhiliit ion kowns, .No. 917 Walnut ttreet. H,hi .tfrti; 'HOWARD nosriTAL. NOS. 1515 AND UM Lombard street, pemary Heiman:lent —Medi mi treatment and medicines furnished gratuitously to the poor. . sailgiy. NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS, PAMP , II,I:I6. WASTE •""": paper, ac., bought by E. HUNTER, febalmo.rp4 e. 61,.; Jane , etreet. TBIE Flr E AR'IY9. 1)11: Alt1:01•AGT:6; The collection of paintings in the Artist,' Fund Society's Rooms,. No. 13.31 Cheeteut street, has just had added to It a new one by Mr. D. R. Knight, of this city. The subject is Paul preach ing in the Art:op:l.ga., and the work was a COM mietdou from the Philadelphia Conference Mis sionary Society, who propose having it engraved for the new certificates of their mission arice=. The painting is a large and elaborate one, and Mr. Knight, without treating the subject theatrically, has made a highly interesting and truly artistic work. The principal figure, St. Paul, is standing on Mars Hill, with the right arm raised, preaching to an assemblage of Greeks, among whom are philosophers, epicureans and stoles, soldiers and civilians, men and women. The various expressions of doubt in the new doctrines are well portrayed in the faces of the auditors; while in the right of the picture is a group among whom may be recognized Dyonisins, the areopagite, and the woman named Damaris, who believed. The classical figure, face and drapery, and the rapt expression of the latter, as she listens to the strange preacher; are well worthy of attention. In the foreground, at the left, k thealtar "To the Unknown God," with a lamb prepared for the sacrifice. Beyond the assemblage, a statue of a warrior and the heathen temples of Athens Indicate the period and the locality of the scene. The grouping, the drawing, the coloring and the careful attention to details in all parts of the picture are well worthy of praise. The pose of Paul's figure, and the earnest dignity of his manner, will also be acknowledged to be excel lent.. Mr. Knight deserves great credit for his extremely good representation of a scene on which many artists have exercised their talents - and rarely with such success as his. The picture will remain on exhibition for a short time, and ought to be visited by all who take an interest in art. THE JIA,ELTINE PICTIFRIS The Eastern galleries of the Academy of Fine Arts are made very attractlve now, by the exhi bition of Mr. Charles F. Ilanltine's collection of American and foreign pictures, which lie pro poses to offer at public sale on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, March 23d and 24th, at the Assembly Buildings. These pictures have been purchased through a series of years, by Mr. Heseßine, and his excellent judgment and taste are so well known, that no assurances need be given that they have been well chosen. There are about one hundred and seventy pictures in the collection, which includes examples of over one hundred artists, European and American. Of the European artists mention may be made of the Achenbachs, Herzog, Kruseman van Elten, Troyon, Couturier, Theodore. Frcre, Chaplin, Lanfant de Metz, Dejonghe, Boichard, Robbe, Cell r; Mmatfellet; - Leon •Esi.o. surs,and - o the picture by Escosura, representing a game of chess, is worthy of the artist's great master, Meis sonier. AMODE.r. the American artists are Hamil ton, Whittredge. De Haas, Kensett, E. Moran, Dolph, Wm. Hart, Gifford, George F. Bensell, E. B. Bensell, W. S. Young, W. 'E. Cresson, E. D. Lewis, Hennessy, Montalant, Casilear, and many more of greater or less c fame. The collection is extremely interesting as illustrating a variety of schools, and its sale will afford connoisseurs an excellent opportunity of securing really good winks. MUSICAL. ITALIAN OPERA.—On Tuesday evening next the Maretzek-Harrison Italian Opera troupe will be gin a season of five nights and one matinde at the Academy of Music, with the opera Norma. The cast will include Madame Parepa-Rosa. A num ber of favorite artists .will appear each evening. CARL Woirsonx is so identified with the perfor mance of Beethoven's music in this city that one name seems naturally to follow the other. His Sixth Beethoven Matinee yesterday in the Academy of Music again revealed his masterly powers of technique and intelligence, and the So nate Pathitique seemed to discover new beauties under his hands. Mrs. Behrens was the vocalist of the occasion. A COMPLDIENTARY CONCERT offered to Mr. Jean Louis, by the Directors of the Mendelssohn Society in testimony of his valuable services as conductor of their concorts,is announced for Sat urday, April 18th, in the Academy of Music, This active body of amateur singers will doubtless rowtr the vast iitidittdunr, for they ' promise to produce Mendeissohn's Waipurgis Night, Iffiler's Lurllne and Beethoven's choral - Pantie - ia. Tus COSIPIXAIRNTARY CONCERT ; to Aaron - R. Taylor, tendered by his friends and admirers, is announced for Easter Monday night, in Concert Hall. He is so well, latown and popular among all elass'es, that he may expect to find his seats all taken long' before the date of the Concert. He has secured the assistance of 130010 eminent artists, and also the superior vocalists of St. Stephen's Church Choir. CARL BENTZ'S performance of Ilaydn's famous (and really grand) War Symphony, on Thurs day afternoon, was something to cherish In the Memory. - Such music - will- and• Enlist live -for ever. On next Thursday it will be repeated (as it.should be until the people know every note of it), when it must be laid aside. Mr. Wm. Stoll, Jr., is to play a violin Solo also. The season rapidly draws to a close. PHILADELPHIA SATURDAY, MARCH 14 1868. ME. CHART.RfI H. JARVIS will give his' fourth classical soiree this evening, at the Natatorium Ball, Broad street, below Walnut. Schumann's Sonata, for piano and violin (op. 105), played by Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Gaertner, will be the opening piece. Liszt's fantaisle from La Somiamhala; Chopin's polonaise (op. s.), for piano and violon cello, and Beethoven's trio (op. 70, No. 2), will complete the programme. Mr. Chas. E. Schmitz 1%111 be the violoncellist. Obi.AN CoNci . ar.—On the evening of Thurs day, the 26th inst.. a grand organ concert will be given at Concert Hall. A number of prominent organists will participate. CO If if 'NATION CONCERT.—On Tuesday evening, the 24th instant, a grand Combination Concert will be alven at Concert Hall. Madame Gazza nlga, Leopold De Meyer, the great pianist, and several other famous artists will appear. AMUSEMENTS. Ton THEATRES.—At the Chestnut this evening; the local dratca,rDead Sea Fruit, will be given for the last time. The hour of beginning the performance is not given, On Monday a new play, Dearer than Lire, will be produced. At the Walnut, .11h1111 Dirernon and the Octoroon will be given to-night. Curtain rises at half-past seven. On Monday, Maggie Mitchell in Fanchon. At the Arch hblud's Peril and the burlesque Faust will be given. The announcement for Monday next, is thefine old farce, Light at LaAt; or, The Shadow on the Casement. Performance begins this evening at a quarter to eight. A miscellaneous entertainment will be given at the American. A NEW PLA Y.—The production of Mr. George W. Search's new play, entitled "Bold for Gold," wilt be looked for with great expectation. It has been pronounced by those who have re:;(1 it a very fair dramatic work from the pen of a young writer. it will he produced at the Chestnut tit. Theatre in a short time. Of the manner in which it will be performed we have yet to spe'..k; 'we hope it may meet with a SUCCCES commensurate wi , h its merits. Mrs, KEMIsLE . 4 REArnNos.—The first of these ei,tertainmuits will hegin on Monday evening at Conceit Hall, Ant/ 'y and Ckvatra being the play ~elected for that night. A You Like it, it urh Ado about Nothii,g and Ilurneo and Julia will be given in regular succcssion. Tickets are for sale (without leE.ervcd seats) at Gould's piano 7:;kreroorns, No. ;I:;3 Chestnut street. ELEVENTH STREET OPERA I - TW'SE.—The great burlesque upon 1 - 7 , l<r the Gaslight entitled .1 dqthing 3:,,u Like, will be given at Carncross and I iiiey's this evening. This is one of the most amusing pieces of the kind ever placed upon the taw; in this city. It abounds in local hits. comi nl situations, and contains a multitude of good things. There will also be a miscellaneous min ttrel performance. PHILADELPHIA OPETIS HOUSE.—An attractive minstrel entertainmint will be given at this house this evening. The performance will include sing ing., dancing, instrumental music, burlesque, farce and negro persanations. Several of the most accomplished members of the profession are attached to the company engaged at this house. - - BrEsm-r.—Mr. Alfred Burnett, the celebrated e mimic, will give on of ids amusing - exhibitions at Assembly Buildings. this evening.. Mr. Bur nett assumes a multitude of different characters every night, and they are all drawn with great power and fidelity to nature. SANDI onn's Tl., , rimosi.m.—A. grand testimo nial bepeflt will be given to the famous minstrel Mr. Samuel S. Sandford, at the Academy of Music, on the evening of Saturday, the '26th of March. The particulars will shortly be' an nounced. but we may state-that an entertain ment first class In every respect will be presented. LETTER. FEWITI PARIS. ,iN - TnEpondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Palos, Friday, February - 28th, 1.868.—tn the teldst of such a crisis as is now pending at home, one can scarcely hope that European affairs will command the attention or interest of your readers. And, indeed, even here in France, what with the constant reference made to the United ..Statcs by speakers of all opinions in the Cham ber, the curiosity excited by the renewed conflict Between the President and the Congress at Wash ington. the anxiety, often of a personal char acter, flit respecting the solution of this ques tion Sci to the payment of the Five-twenty bonds in specie or in currency, and lastly, the interest which now begins to be generally taken in such enterprises as the Pacific Railway, now eying in the eyes of Frenchmen with the project ~f N. de Lesseps himself—what with all these attractive influences, it may be said that America and American affairs are before the eyes and in the mouth of almost every One in Paris. Of course. the French journals arc looking soon to Lear of a ''up <f< 'tat through the Atlantic cable: -uch a solution being, in their ideas, the only possible one in the species of dead-lock to which matters are come at Washington, and which most assuredly would be the result of a similar state of things in Paris. The absolutist .party here' - would - he ' delighted-to.,..reeeive Intel , ligence of such an event, and to be able to say that. alter all, "free institutions" are not so fine a thing as your liberals would represent them, and are obliged to take a leaf out of the imperial re gime. Even the liberals themselves are not al together easy on the subject, and more than one leading Oppositionist has intimated his appre hension lest you should take the wind out of the sail of his party by trying a little "Dictatorship" in the United States. But I only mention these things to show how much public - - attention in Europe- le directed Westward, and how great is the influ ence, both Political and social, which American action now exercises over mind and thought in the older hemisphere. Just to quote an instance, quite apart from politics, of the attention excited in this country by American enterprise, I may mention the eloquent articles at this moment pub lishing in the 41fortitettr itself, on the vast under taking above alluded to—the Facile. Railway. They are written by M. L. Simonnin, a well known French engineer, who gives in them an account of his recent excursion to the Rocky Mountains and the Far West. They have been read with great interest and attarcted wide atten tion. I quote a few lines just to convey the tone and spirit.of the writer : "At last," he says, "I have traversed that Pacific Railroad, created only yesterday, but destined in a few years to become the grand artery of the commercial world. Glory to the Martyr-Fresident Lincoln, who' decreed the execution of this line with the same pen destined at a later moment to sign the abolition of slavery. Tintirtliela - tholeldouis Opposition of the Southern . States bad slope impeded the construction of this line, of, communie.ation, which the Ameiican peo ple had ardently desired ever since the acquisitian of California. "Never before did the mysterious march of humanity, which, from the earliest days of history has been toward the West, reveal itself in a manner so striking and so imposing. Yes, this great work, of the United States is indeed, - at a - moment - vfhen the piercing of• • isthmus" is the theme of the day, a new revelation in the progress of the world. It is the ribbon of iron which, in our day, is the true piercer of the istiniatte. It is theirott hand across OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. to the Pacific which, hi three years or over, will be taken by all those who would make the voy age round the world in two months. Asia will come to visit Europe, and Europe Asia, by this great commercial highway, passing by what has been so well designated as the 'centre of gravity' of the United States. From Paris we shall be able to go to China or Japan in thirty days. Two lines of steamers and a line of railroad, and the thing is done! Havana or Brest, New York and San Francisco—then these posts will be the grand halting places of the journey." Such are the enthusiastic views now taken even by grave men of science upon American en terprise, and such the terms in which they speak and write of it. M. de Lesseps has left Paris suddenly for Egypt, In consequence of some disturbances among the laborers on the canal. But mechanical means now reach this work almost independent of manual operations. The Mont Cenis works advance satisfactorily. At the end of December, 7,816 metres had been accomplished, and 10G more were completed in January. The entire length of the gallery being 12,220, there remain 4,268 metres to be pierced. The Italian government has bound itself to com plete the tunnel, "so that trains shall pass through," by the 51st December, 1871. and the French government to pay down seven millions of francs on the 15th of July next, and subse quently in proportion to the work done, at the rate of 3,00 franca per metre. When I expressed my wonder on Tuesday that horse-flesh did not figure by the side of beef in the procession of Mardi Gras, I spoke, it appears, without due information. There was a proces sion of fat horses, as well as of fat oxen. The butchers who supply the hippophagi of the metropolis, were determined not to be outdone by their brethren of the anci, n 1- , ,jirne. Accord ingly, two 'prime fat horses," gaily bedizened with knots of ribbons, and led by four grooms in fantastic rnedheval attire, were paraded through the streeb , , attended by a cortege of horsemen mounted on animals whose extreme leanness was a striking contrast to the inviting plumpness of their—shall We say more favored or less fortunate companions? The mob which followed partly cheered, partly jeered, being evidently divided in opinion, and in .taste. After the procession the animals, the fat ones, that is, were cut up, and their "joints" duly displayed at the stalls of two now well-known horse-flesh butchers of La Villette, one of the recently inclosed suburb: of Paris. Bats are, 'Just now in great request in Paris—• not exactly for eating, we have not come to that rt; although the Coolies in India will tell you that they are capitl "curry stuff." But the de mand here it for them alive. The police have lately found the streets at night infested with suspicions-looking vagrants. carrying a wooden box in one hand, and a long iron rod in the other; and generally accompanied by a dog. These fel lows were all taken into custody trader the suspi cion of some atrocious design. But when ex amined. they had all the same story to tell. They were rat parties; the dog finds the rat in the gut ter, the iron pole pokes him out, and the box catches him. When interrogated as to their cus tomers, the general reply was that they wore iu the service of "Milord A nglaiB," who wanted the rats at five francs a head, for his bull-terrier! I mentioned the other day the continually in creasing price of oysters in Paris, which have gradually risen from eleven to twenty-four sorts the dozen. A great discovery is just reported. ! Some English fishing-boats, off Calais and Dun kirk, were driven by stress of weather in the di reetion,of Ostend. On drawing up their nets they found them, to their surprise, full of oys ters. On searching further, fresh discoveries were made and are making every day along the coast. The number is said to be "incalculable," and the whole Calais fleet of two hundred boats Is now busily employed on these newly-found banks. LETTER FROM NEW "YORK. The Streets and the Mud—Polities—The. atricals—Billiards Strange Case of esertion—A aliens] Fair—The Money Market—Real Estate. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.) NEW YORK, March 13th, 1868.—We have had delightful weather for several days and the good Knickerbockers are fast putting on their Spring habits and forgetting as much as possible the long, dreary winter which has just lazily gone to the shades. To-day is dull and gloomy, but we have just come out of days fit for the tallest son elt.Peelltilon...of._ their speedy return and longebiding we are a renoiatedpeopie. — Fof none on earth does the sunshine do more than for the dwellers in Gotham. Business, politics, art, everything, awakes, and we are a radically different people from the ice-bound folks of the other day. The only drawback now is the mud, which in quantity and consistency is really something wonderful. Everybody says that never was the like seen before. Even the oldest inhab itant joins in this declaration; just imagine our paste-like condition. Never was a poor street contractor so "sweared at" as Judge Whiting; and thus many of the citizens rejoice tifitt the Legislature has sent a committee to investigate the cause of the existence of these oceans of mud. The contractor is so dreadfully pestered that ho wants to throw up his contract, and eo he maketh it to appear, and as Recorder Hackett thinks there is'no power to make a new contract, and deplores the prospective less of Mr. Whiting, it is probable that this card will win, the contract stand, and the mud dry up itself. Well, perhaps it is just as well. We aro used to the present state of things, and a change might prove as un- . pleasant as many other "modern improvements." The political world has been mightily stirred by the'New Hampshire dection. No State election outside our owns has for a long time called forth so much discussion, and betting, and political hair-splitting. A salute of ever so many guns was fired yesterday by the Republicans. We must burn powder on both sides, you know. Powder is the personification of the much-talked-of spirit of '76. Beside all this in politics, the impeachment of the Prod, dent still comes in for its share of talk. Both the great political parties are laying all sorts of wires for all sorts of operations in the heat of the campaign just ahead. In theatricals the most noteworthy event of the past few days is the revival of the famous' play lof Rom dale, at Wallack's. This drama had three long runs tit Wallack's in 1863, '64 and 'Gs.'' It seems Ao be equally welcome now as then. The theatre has been crowded, and the play re ,ceived with abundant tokens of approbation. The - Olympic theatre has brought out the funniest kind of a pantomime— Hunapty, Dumpty, by Geo. L. Pox, and is ac cordingly prosperous. The Purim Masquerade Ball at Pike's opera house on Monday evening was so very brilliant andgorgeous that the news paper men have been thrown into spasms.in de scribing it. They speak of any quantity of dia monde, sapphires, rublea and coral, of lips like halfHapezed ...row, -hairlike the raven's wing ravishing music, magnificent scenes. The ball season is about closing. • The billiard match arranged to be played be tween ildeltrixt • Foster, of this eity,..aud , John McDevitt, of Chicago, causes a groat sensation among the entire community of billiard players. This match is for the 'championship of America „and 4500 a side,and is to be played in Chicago on the Bth of next month. Mr. Foster is praegsing daily in the rooms of which he is half owner. Ho has &dared against the push. The matches now arranged will, of course, be played with the push shot, jawing alone being barred. Should Foster be victorious. we understand that. Joseph Dion, who has likewise declared against pushing, will challenge him to play, this shot being barred. In accordance with a decision of the great billiard congress of 1863, one of the standard Phelan At Collendar tables is to be toed; Foster to have the choice of any of these now in use in Chicago. A curious, painful scene was that a day or two ago before Justice Mansfield, in which heartless Fred. Schnetcher asked that his bright, golden haired daughter, ten years of age, might be sent to the Poor-house, giving as a reason that he had recently married a second wife, who insisted that be should get rid of the child and all other incum- I of Ids former marriage. The good iTuatice sternly rebuked the father and adopted the little girl. Doubtless the story is - already worked up into a half dozen of the speedily forthcoming novels. After all sorts of swindles in the name of the soldier. and his widow and children, an enter prise has at last been inaugurated, which is worthy of support. Arrangements are making for the opening of a great National Fair, on the 13th of April, for the benefit of the destitute widows and mothers of soldiers and sailors.' The proposed National Fair will be conducted on the plan which proved so successful for the Sanitary. Fairs during the war. It is proposed to found from the proceeds of the Fair "National Homes" at centralpoints for the classes referred to. The gold market has, of late, been .rather heavy and unsettled. On Tuesday and Wednesday there was much stringency in the money market, evidently due to artificial means, the great Erie case beit;g supposed to be the cause. It is esti mated that the transactions of the bear party. in Eric looked out of circulation about six. millions of dollars. Seldom is a more desperate game played in stocks than the ono being played In Erie at present. It is almost impossible to keep track of the suits and counter suits; still _ . the bear party seems to have the best of the matter just at present. On Tuesday night the Erie Company removed from their offices m this city to the Long Dock Depot in Jersey City, taking their effects with them. The directors, including Mr. Drew. also withdrew to the same spot. The reason given for taking the money belonging to the Company beyond the jurisdic tion of the Courts of this State, is the guarding of it against attachment. Who will be checkmated nest? The quarrel is one of great bitterness;and both parties feel sanguine of success. Some peo pie will probably eventually wish they had risked less on stocks. The recent changes in the general business of the city arc mainly for the better. Real estate is remarkably active. The recent bales at auction of lots near the Central Park, to the amount of about one million and a half of dollars, has caused a de cided sensation, especially among 'the specula tors. So great a sale of real estate never before took.place in this city on one day, and rarely. have such prices been received. A lot on the southwest comer of Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth street was sold for $36,000. Property which in 1848 was offerred for $6,500 was at this sale dis posed of for over $700,000. No greater comment than this could be given on the amazing growth of our city. FACTS AND' r&nivitss. —Forrest is playing Richelieu in Cincinnati. —Hiram Powers is coming over this summer.. —Beer has gone up two dollars a barrel in Da buque, lowa. —Matrimony and hydrophobia are very preva lent at and about Golconda, Illinois. —Parisian ladies have adopted the fashionable custom of an after dinner cigarette. —The finest street in the city of Constantinople is only twenty feet wide. —Duelists cannot vote under the new Constitu tion of Mississippi. —Handel was, in his early days, a street must clan, but his mantle did not fall ou any successor —Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has gone to Flor ence and Naples. —Anna Dickinson discloses "Breakers Ahead' to Oswego on Friday evening. —Neopolitan Newspapers announce the arrival there of General Hooker, and say ho is known at home as "Fytin Joe." —The market men of New Orleans have given notice that they will not receive the currency of that city. —Owing to the cold weather and the high price of fuel in Montreal lately, several poor families, it is said, have been obliged to use their furniture for firewood. Temple. liar lately published an article on epi taphs, in which were several specimen inJerip tions culled from graveyards in the inland coun ties. The mourning relatives of Mr. John Daly announce that "Re died at Quinsy, And was buried at Binsy." Equally to the point is this: "Here - nett wrapt in clay, . The. body of William Wray ; I have no more to say." The'Trientis - t igniibury-householt%t ehow a cheerful confidence in his future. Left Sunbury, And started for Paradise, June ?sth, 18—." In the churchyard of Cotton-Hackett, Worces tershire, occurs an epitaph of quite another kind; one that can hardly be improved: "Here Iteth the body of John Galey in expecta tion of the Last Day. What sort of man he was that day will dis cover." Some of the inscriptions which he cites may seem to some readers too ridiculous to be germ inei—bnt any one who has at all studied the "monumental absurdities" of ths British muse will readily give them credence. —The .31oniteur gives some curious particulars about Pate.l de Foie arc., of which 2,600,000 franca worth is consumed In Paris every winter. Most of these pies come from Bergerac, Agen,,Pert gueux, Bordeaux and Strasbourg; but a few aro also made in Paris. It has beew asserted that these pies were common among the ancients, and that Pliny mentions them; but the Moniteur as signs another origin to them, stating that a Nor man of the name of Close, who was Marshal do Contade's steward at Strasbourg, invented the pie in question in . 1780.' M. de Contades was soon after superseded by Marshal de Stinville, but Close continued to make the pies, and never failed to place them on his new master's table; but, to his great discomfiture, M. do Stitt vale, who was not particular about his dinner, ate them as be would have done anything else, with the greatest indifference. Close, , who had expected high encomiums for his culinary talents, was so deeply offended at this supreme contempt for his masterpiece, that he resigned his post, in which, however, be had quarlaged to' accumulate a tolerable capital. He opened a shop, in the Rue Meeange, and there sold his pies to tlextiblic,.his establishment being the first of the - T{l7;lln He - Warne tt . main`; and would probably have died a happy one, had not, a few years :', later, in 1792, a man of the name of Doyen, at Bordeahx, proved tbe pie by the addition of Unifies. This was too much; not unlike his great predecessor Vatel, Close took the misfortune, to heart, And could not survive his defest=he died of grief. Of all the terrines now so much sought after by the gastronomic Parisians, that improperly called the terrine de Norse is considered the best. These trollied pies, however, do not come from Nerae, but from Agen;and, curiouscircumstance, which j perhaps, bAO'contributed to their fame, is tic 4, that,. contrary contrary tA the euatom, the diehee con taining' theate without any, address or indica tion of the maker. F. L. 4341111ERSTON. balder'. PRICE THREE CENTS. FIFTH EDITION LATER CABLE NEWS. APPOINTMENT OF NEW CARDINALS Lucien Bonaparte Among the Number. ERUPTION OF MT. VESUVIUS. By the Atlantic Cable. Lorwox, March 14.—Despatches received front Rome, to-day. annonnee that Lucien Bonapsrte, Gonella, Bariili, prardi, Moser, Borromeo and Capotti have been made Carinals.' Severe Bishops have also been appointed for the tailed States and Canada. NAPLES, March 14.—The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is increasing in power and grandeur. The volcano is throwing up vast quantities_ of fire, with but little lava. The detonations are very, loud and frequent. From tit. Louts Sr. Loris, March H.—The Lower House of the Kansas 'Legislature. yesterday passed what is known as the Fox-Baker bill, which gives the Southwest Pacific Railroad, in this State, to number of Eastern capitalists, including some of the Fremont bondholders and several St. Louis gentlemen, who are to give all the rights and franchises of the road, including land, and are to complete the road to the State line within a spe cified time. Telegrams from Cheyenne say the Indians cap ered a lot of horses and mules from Bordoas (audio and citizens in the neighborhood of Fort Laramie, on Thursday. • From Canada. llotturoN, C. W., March 11.—A despatch pub- Haled to-day, stating that the tracks of the Great Western Railway, near Chatham, were washed away for ten miles, is untrue. Only three quar ters of a mile of track was submerged, and the water has now receded and the damage is being repaired. The trains will run as usual on Mon day morning. The 'World Is Moving On. If those i physicians, Who at the beginning of this century were considered foremost in their profession, could rise from their graves and see the innovations made in the art of healing—ten chances to one—most of them would shake their heads and declare all a humbug. .But if they would commence to practice again in their old fashioned way, they surely would not be overrun by patients. It required many years to separate the chaff from the wheat, -to discern what wag ape and therefore valid for all times, and to ex tirpate all that rested on fallacies and was absurd. The .greatest progress made in medical science was the simplification, of remedies. Formerly mixtures were compounded of ten and even more different ingredients, which often destroyed each other in their medical action, and even entered into chemical combinations, the action of which was, directly opposite to the one intended. This , absurdity ;has been extirpated by the now prevailing rational method of healing, but any farther progress in the seience of medicine is now opposed with the same vehemence which former improvements encountered at their time. No physician has experienced that to a greater extent than Dr. J.. H. Schenck, when he introduced his rational method of treating consumption. Saffering himself from that disease, which defied the skill of physicians, all his thoughts were bent on studying the nature of consumption and pene trating its mysteries. If he succeeded in that, it would not be difficult for him, an experienced and scientific physician, to determine the proper remedies. And he did succeed. At that time I given up as beyond recovery, he became stout and strong, and enjoyed the best health. Such a miracle eduld, of course, not remain unnoticed. Patients suffering from pulmonary diseases called on him—some with the fullest , confidence, othem with some distrust—but in all cases the result was surprisingly favorable. The Doctor's fame was rapidly gaining ground, and patients crowded on him trommear and from far. The regarded him as their last hope, and they were not disappointed. The people saw that consumptives. given over by their physicians, were completely restored to health In a few months. Against such an argument all the wrath of physicians was in vain. In spite of all de monstrations, the practice of J. H. Schenck be came more and more extended, and now so many calls for medical treatment are directed to him from New York and Boston that he is compelled to visit those cities every week. How did Dr. Schenck achieve this wonderful success? The answer is a plain one. He threw oil old prejudices; he espied nature in its myste rious workings, and he discarded the artificial treatment of disease and introduced the natural method of healing. It was the old story of the -"egg tyf Colurehes" .over_again. After Dr. Schenck had pointed out the righrWayrovat pulmonary diseases, the rationality of his mode of treatment was obvious to everybody, save those who shut their oyes purposely. . The rapid emaciation of consumptives was the first symptom attended to by the doctor. Con sumptives generally swallow much food; yet their stomachs can extract but little nourishment from the food, and the patients become rapidly emaciated, no matter how much they eat. Dr. Schenck discovered the primary cause of this evil, in the deficient secretion of gastric juice, and he raked his brains to find a substitute for the latter. After protracted researches he made the fortunate discovery that from the- sea-weed a. preparation could be made entirely identical in its chemical composition with gastric juice, and, of conrse,identleal also in its effects. This remedy, the "Sea-weed Tonic, " is the most essential foun dation for Dr. Schenk's method of treatment, and its wonderful effect is soon perctible, for the patient gains flesh and his whole system gets strengthened. The regulation of the stomach is an indispensable condition to a cure, but, of its self, not sufficient to effect it: The liver must also be brought to a healthy action before the patient can be restored to good health. Formerly the only remedies known for derangements of the liver were calomel or other preparations of mercury, which beget salivation and break down the whole system. It was "falling out of the frying-pan into the fire"—the patient was re lieved of one evil, and a much worse one was im planted into his system. Dr. Schenck succoded in preparing from purely vegetable substances a remedy—the Mandrake Pllls--which have all the good effects of calomel and are entirely harmless. - No wonder, therefore, that Dr. Schenck's Man drake Pills have become the standard remedy for all derangements of the liver. - . , - Having restored the stomach and the liver to healthy action by the use of the Sea Weed Tonic and the Mandrake Pills, the Doctor Bete to work - and" omplefes the cure by-a_prepessAttigtecumt.of the lungs. His "Puhnonic Syrup" never fails for this purpose, and the patient is soon restored to perfect health. It is however, obvioes th a t th e patient must strictly follow all directions of the Doctor in regard to 'et,and avoidance of exposure to cold air. A consumptive 'running riot with his health, by staying out late at night, etc., can never expect to recover by any remedies. All directions of Dr. Schenek are so plaits that everybody can easily understand them, yet for patients living in, this city, it would be advisable ta_eall on-the Deeter,-nt his taffiee,_No. lfe.North , Sixth street, and to consult him personally. This Is the More advisablo, as Dr. Schenek does not, make , any ehargee for his professional advice. — _Philadelphia Ikmoerat Karel 7th,180. 4:00 O'Ulook.
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