GIBBON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXI.-NO. 303. 'THE EVENING BULLETIN PIIBLISILKO WERT artNEKG (Bandas excepted). AT TM& NEW WUJLIWIEVIUIt NOT Vbestniticblieeto iguladelphia 4 la TEM zrzNING! BULLETIN ABSOCIAT/ON. Bor rzurrous. 04:)N PEAVOSM. ERNEST IDLWALLAM FETBERSToN THOS. WILLIAMSON CIASPSK SOMER. 131., BEANO& WELL& Ttte Ilivatane L served to subreribere In the city at totes week. %lovable to the carriers, or fie per annum. INVITATIONS FOR WEDDINGS. PARTIES. Ica, executed Ina superior manner by DEBRA, PRI OUZISTNUT STREET. fe/Atfti DIAJRItIED. YEILLER—DU Pti Y.—On the 29th instant, at home, by the Bey. Edward Allen, P. B. Veiller, of New York city to Elizabeth , eldest daughter of Mr. T. Ilariciee DuPuy, of thito City, and grand.daug hter of the officiating clergm yan. No (Ards. ( New Yor papers'Wage cooy.j• SMASBURY—COET.--Un the 11th hut., at the British. Etnbasay. Paris, by the Hey. E, Salisbury, M. A., molded by the Rev. I. 0. Cox,' M. A., Edward Salisbury, Esq.. only son of the late Thomas Salisbury, Esq... of fianeastex, to Maria Theresa, daughter of the late Roswell L. Colt, Elul., of Patter.on, New Jersey, U. 0. A. DIED. DONATIL—At Gersessitewn. suddenly on the evening .4if Friday'. the V'h lust.. Janice A. Dona ti Esq. The take funeral will place on T u t. ay' afterneta. Strokes at fit. Joules I be Lees at 4 o'clock. _ . ERICKSON.- On Friday. 27th Mat., Michael Erickson, itt the 671 b year of his age. The relatives and triennia of the family are respectfully Invited to attend We funeral. from his late residence, No. 124 Nine etre t, em Wedneeday, Apia bt, at 11 1 1. proceed to Woodland Cemetery. - LAILZELIi lIN.—On the 27th bat,. - Rebecca A., relict-of tile late Judge John Lary-elem, in her 80th year. Funeral from her late residence. Main street, Burling ton. N. J.. this (Monday), EOM Met., at 4 o'clock B. •• LONG.—On Sunday, te 20th hut., Miss Anna 13. Long. en the 66th year of her age. • Interment at Chitin. March Hospital, tomorrow fruerday) afterno , re. at 4% o'clock. 1"/ C LEM:AM the 28th instant. Mne. Kate A. Vignera, wife of the late Jesse S. N'iguera, in the geth year of her 15 f Ihe relatives and friends et the family are respectfully invited to attend her lunera4 from the redflenee of her • tepfa titer. Der. James 2eltCahen,76fl;Sout It Ninth a treetwn Wednese ay nothing, at 8 o'clock Nutmeat eurvlcea at St. Joe, plea Chureb. interment at Cot hed• el Cemetery •• WiLTEth.ni, ElI —On Sunday morning. the 29th Instant, lulls 11., dauge.ter of Theodore M. and Sarah D. Wllt bel ger, in the 18th year of her are. The • relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the fnnerspil, from the residence of her paeente, Market street, on Tuesday afternoon, slat Instant. at 2 o'clock. • •• VYKII LANDELL OPEN' TODAY TUB LIG r .E 1 shades of Spring Poplins for the Fashionable Walking Dresscs. teel Colored Poplins. Mode Wooed Po..lins. Bismarck Exact anode. EI:JIG - 10M NOTICES. lier 7 The Rev. J. D. Fulton, Of Boston. Mw., WILL PREACH This Evening, at S o'clook, in 7118 Baptist Church, Broad and Arch Sta. Te Prayer arid eanference Welles of the Young People , * Areociallon will lie hold in the Lecture Room of -aid Church at nalf•paht **Van o'clock. The Pottle cordially invited. iIaQa.BPECIAL RELIGIOVI3 SERVICES WILL BE "••••• held on M. .DAY TUESDAY and WEDINIFZ DAY Evenings of this ssceic, in the Central Presbyterian t hurch. corner of Malt an L'hsery streets. Prayer•atteet• "lug at TR, Wendt. Prosehing *lB o'clock. Ito IFEl.;11 /11.1, NOTICES. Or JOHN B. COUGH AT 1 . 11 I: ACADEMY Or MUSIC, - MONDAY EVENING. March Oh. Subject-- F.LOQUENCE AND ORATORS. TUESDAY EVENING. Diarch 31. • SubJect—TEMPERANCE ' ` Valt 7111 BIRILIFLT or TUC YOUNG MEN'S CURISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Adtataion to Parquet, Parquet Circle and Balcony, 60 emu. No estra charge for Reserved heats. Family Circle. Re/reeved. ue cents. Unreserved. IS cents. Tickets for sale at J. E. {lead's New Plano Store, P'23 Chestnut street mhIS W f m•3t ,say- Rev. R. H. ALLEN, D. D., W Old Pine Street Chinch will deliver s LEuruite AT MUSICAL FUND HALL. TUESDAY EVENLN(i, March 3lst. . iisibject—Obse , cottons and Kcycriences in (4c .Scalthicakt. Tickets can be obtained at Presbyterian Book Shim, LliM Chestnut street ; Asheastiurs, Chnstnut street, and at the Door the night of the Lecture. kir AT A MEETING OF 'TIE SENIOR CLASS OF the University of • Pennsylvania, held March 26 Pia the follow lug preamble and renolittlenii were adopted: Wheram Our Alnlighty Father, the Giver of all good. lire bcelk tit in ills provide/ice to remove from this world of pain and suffering our brother, JOSEI'II WELLS coup Flt„ .Jr.; the ref, re, be It /inspired, That while we recognize in this cad bereave ut the hand of him who doeth all things well and with all revert nee sobnift to Rh decrees, we cannot ro train from come expreirion of our ,sorrow for the loss of • one with whom we him c been no long and so intimately connected. Lt, *deed. wefej[l his lose the moro deeply etl m In g, an it doer, co near tb.7) end of onr college course, when, with the prospect or a partial separation at hand, our hearts were daily becoming more doom knit together is the bond 4 of brotherhood. And that his death, which has been the Bret to make a vacant place within our circle, will always be retarded by us 119 a warning from our rather's voice, bidding no likewise prepare to meet Jllm in the world above.' ticinilved. That mindful of the fee that In a mailer cir cle ho wilt tic warn ini,erd than he can be In toe char. mein. we feel a heart-deep commiseration for the family of the deceased. . Reset red, 'I hat the members of the class wear, a black mourning ribbon fur thirty days, and attend toe funeral in a body. Resuiveci., That a copy of thane resolutions be presented to the family of our deceased class mete by a committee of three appointed for that purpose. iteito/vevi, That thole resolutions be published in ouch nen opapern an the moresaid committee shall elecL EWING .10liDAY, Chairman. . CHARLES ZEIGLER. O. A. M. WIEIILE. ----- ago.. OFFICE CATAWISSA RAILROAD COMPAN Y, No. 424 WALkli P street. . • PuitAnxoenrs. March 30th, VMS. The neard of Director of this Company have declared a Dividend of Three per Cent. on account of the dividends due the Preferred Stockholders, payable on the let of May next, to thoeo persons in whose name the stock stands at the elo-e of the Transfer Books. 'rho Transfer Books of the Preferred Stock will be closed on the illth day of April, and reeopenedon the let of May. mhain,w,a,ttatlf W, .L GILROY, 'Downier. HOWARD HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY FOR INCURABLES.—the Annual Meeting of the Con tributors to dna Institution will be held on Monday evening, 30th Ina., at 8 o'clock F. M.. at the Hospital. Noe. 1.518 and 1520 Lombatd W. J. , DloilLßO Y. mh2B 2trpo Secretary. _ iiiroXiile P otlr ß e Y o S i ' ve l d i Pf S b E riloTh l tlwilfE4 l lit i g ON. ttoLding ehyal e cian for Marco" Dr. C. Percy La Roche. 1342 Spruce. Attending Surma, A. D. Hall, ISIS Spruce. rala3-3tre HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOS. 1518 AND 1520 Lombard street. Divensary Do partmtm.s.-31ed1. cal treatment mid medirMas ihruiabola Mae/M I O I Y to the vow. Agar. NEWSPAPERS. BOOKS, FAMPHLETB,_WASTE pare'. dic., bought by E, HUNTER, oulgu.ltrirp No. B 11) Jayne street. A.B lirSh Despatches from MitiOreDenerat tram Nev.-The march Towards %%coda. rus—Duns and Mortars Around the Iteyol (stoup.-Report from the Clip. - Quint's Horsy, Lost**, March 29, B.—The War Office in this city kw army despatches from Motor-General Napier, dated at his headquarters in Abyssinia on the 9th instant.,. General expected the first brigade of the army to arrive at Lake Ashangl on the 16th of March. The despatches report that King Theodora* is posted, having guns and mortars defending his position, on the table land hear Talents or Da lanta—in the neighborhood of Magda's. The British captives held by the King were safe and in good health on the 17th of February. —The sale of church property in Italy is going on rapidly. Estates to the value of Ave and a half millions sterling have been sold, and lands which have long been lying waste are now being brought into cultivation. The selling price has exceeded the most sanguine expectations. Td• State •f Nielslgan—Tbe Expert. epee •f Jr.! , rieLeby therein, and a Frlgatfal Dream that he Dreamed. (From the Toledo Blode.l LAIMIXO, Mich., March 28.—Ef there is a State in this Yoonyun entirely worthy uv'bein ranked with Massachoosits—entirely worthy ny bein con sidered scarcely second in pint uv Ram•ridlettlin, Onecimus-defyin and Hagar rejecting Ablishn in fidelity, that State is Michigan. Massaeboodts is ()Defy and cussid—Michigan is (*wryer and cus cider. They hey colleges in every other county —skool-houses gorjeus and costly in every town, and if that ain't enough, they hey a croolo, tiratilltle, barbarous law forbiticlin the sale nv sustenance! In the larger towns where one kin, without material danger, glt suthin sustain in, municipal law steps in and compels the die pensers thereof to close at 11 P. M. In this town. from whence I write, I gathered together a few nv the faithful, and wtiz a eontirmin nv cm in the faith, when, es the clock struck eleven, the landlord put out the liter and us together simul taneous. Kin etch things be, and over come ns like a summer cloud? They kin! Uv course there can't be no whole hearted Dimoeriey in sick a State! Tkey don't hey time toget fully Dlmooratic. Eleven o'clock! The Dimocriey uv Michigan is a eleven o'clock Dimocriey. They don't live out half ther days. They fell short uv the troo stater uv full grown specimens just an hour. The only yore and trio ones I her seen ere a few far mers and sieb, who carried it home in a jug. But, nine! ez they never pay rent, they don't stay long enough in one place to make therselves felt. TLey naterally drift back to (Southern Nl noy, where fine tooth combs is unknown—where the wicked ccese from trouhlin, and the weary arc at rest. But we hey enuff tor that kind here. Ez I letired to my couch last nice, I was tilled with eadms. Thu eleckshun okkura in a week. or two, and the Abliehnists perpose to vote to tear down the few remainin land marks and give votes to the disgustin niggers in that state. Con teMplatin the gulf to wich Michigan is approachin —with my sole filled with forebodins, I fell into a troubled sleep, and bletpin drectned. Mt thawt I wuziu Liberia, that country across the waters, settled by eivillied Diggers. I .wuz somewot supnrieed at wot met my gaze. Nig gers to the rite uv me—niggers to the left uv me —nigger:: In front uv me—rode the six hundred thousand uv tun Occasionally in the streets of Monrovia, the cited town, I seed a white man— more frtkently a mulatter, and occasionally one In with wuz only a tinge uv white blood—jist enuff to show that his ancestors had left Ken tucky many years and gcnerasitens before. Puasin a lull-blooded nigger on the street, he pushed me contemptuously into thegutter, and forthwith a rubble UV full-blooded nigger boys pelted me with mud, yellm at me, ez tho it wuz a opprobrious term, "White man! Yah! White man! Yah ! Yak! White mat :" A mild faekd nigger came to my rescue and re booked the boys: "Is he," sod he. "to blame for brln whiter Remember, boys, the aamo God made him ez made YOU, and that he is not to blame for his color At this period he stopped talkin. The lust Qn lager returned, and darunin him for a disturbin one idea Radicle, knockt him into the gutter, and mutterin suthin about being troo to the tra diAuna tier his race. stalked hawtll3 away. "Is ther," 'said I, indtgnartl7, "no law for there outrages? Am Ito anima to bain pelted by boys and pumtnelled by. men, and no redress? Is—" "Alsrs, sir!" said the bencycleni-lookin nigger", who bed the appearance uv a Sunday School teacher, `•alas, sir, ther Yoor color, sir— yoor color! They hey prejoodises which they can't overcome, and that prejoodis the boys even nos.sess. Farwell, sir, some day it will be diffrent, but now—" And be drawd a sigh and walked on hastily, ez 'he notist a fresh crop of boys approachin. I walked on, in my dreem. SeCICI a large house, I entered it. It wuz the eapltle, and boldly 1 es eayed to pass the door. Thu doorkeeper, with a expression lay skorn I never saw outside uv Kentucky, remarkt that the white gallery wuz up that way. Up I mended, chant under the roof, where there wuz possibly a dozen more like me, and I sot and listened to a curious debate. The measure under consideration wuz amendment to the Constitooshn us Li beria, etrikin the word "black" out us that instrument! The thing hed been long pendin. Advoeatin it wnz a half dozen mem bers in a corner by theirselves, and opposin it was all the rest of the House. The sceen wuz very much etch ez I witnessed a good many years ago at Washirgton ' when John Quincy Adams wuz a champion in the idea uv the ekality uv all men in the House. One member denouust the leader uv the little minority ez a "base, grovelin, low wretch, who hed lost all pride ny race—all regard for the purity uv blood--and who wuz in gamely plottin, to debase the pure and proud race uv . Ham by winglin with it the pale, milky blood of the inferior races." Another wantid this House to ask Do yoo want to march up to the polls longsile ;iv a white man? Do yoo want to be tried for ye r little crimes afore a jury Iry white men? White men in oflie 1 I shudder at the thot! See," sod he, pullin out, from under his coat a portrate uv a white woman, ez I Feed Valla ndygutu do wuust in Ohio. at, a Dlmecratie naeetin, only ho hod on his paste-board a wench; "see to - what the gentleman wishes to ally hisself." Another nfember askt the House to seriously ask themselves, afore they voted on the bill, whether this House wanted to marry a white woman ? He wantid this House to ask herself whether she wantid his dortor to marry a white man ? "Ef we let em vote we tnusi marry em !" The vote wuz taken, resultin, nv coorso, in the votin down uv the bill. The eix Radicals were towunst expelled for introdoosin skit a incendiary measure, and the Howse adjourned. The populace got hold uv the news, and the wildest joy prevailed. One wagon was rigged up, into wich wuz twenty-four black, girls with a banner over 'em, "Fathers pertect us from white ekality," and another similarly loaded carried a banner onto which was written, "Black huebands or none! The purity of our Race!" Node's; me on the street, the populace went for me. The pollee wich ought to have preserved the peace , (they were mostly imigrants from an island ott the coast, wick they hed left on account ny being oppressed by the King uv another island wick heal got possession u v 'ere, and wuz a bearin down upon 'em), the per lice.men,insted uv pertoctin me, headed the hunt, and lively they made it. I was caught and rolled in the gutters, amid shouts uv "Kill the white-- livered whelp!" and they pounded and pummeled me,and tore my clothes off. "To the white often asylum!" shouted one of em. and to that cry I owed any lite. They beleoved in wholesale Mille ruttier than retale, and they made a rush for an asylum where the orfuns uv the few despised whites was a livin. Short work they made uv it. The orfuns wnss roasted and beaten to death, the' teachers run for thel,r lives, and the buddies was sacked, the black women meantime ridln around, with the banners otter em, and the errinciele citizens addressin the 'mob, depreeatin violence,' but nevertheless applaudin uv em for their zeal in preservin the purity uv the race. Two white' skeolhouses and eighteen dwellins was gouts' thro with, ez of by inspirashen. Finally ther: got site ny me agin, and ez there wusn't" any others in site, they a hat r e tt u r coesed me, and riggin a rope, run me up to a. lamp post. "that in hoomanity ! wat crooolty ! watt Injustice!" shrlekt I. Forchoonitiv I did not further commit my self. The shotain and the • sense uv, chokl n awoke me. I wuz not in Afrika, I bed net been beaten and pumeled and rolled In the gutter and: hung, but thank the Lord, I woe leAmerles, the lanrnv the free, where, when such things're done' the white men do em theirseiVert, wich is more' comfortable. , But wat a' (Moral dreem Wet a ralsforchoon! It must be to be UV another race whOtt that rage mhl !Aro* NAISBY. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1868. aint in a majority. I reely sympathize with the Diggers in this conntly. PantoLavat V. NABBY, P. M. • (Wieh is Postmaster.) _ F:1 ✓1 i'1:) :~'gi ii :1 NIl:~~HI:) /I :~ etTBAL Plenty of Petitions send Complaintai for I.ersundi—A Beggar 11. rams One stun. Oren 'thousand Dollars tat Lottery. Havens, March 25, 1868.—At Santiago de Cuba the people anxiously await the visit, of Captain General Lersundi. They have numerous petitions and complaint's le present to his Ex cellency. The government is weak and the pro prietors want the taxes reduced before tbey can loWer the rents. A prize of *lOO,OOO was won by a beggar at the lottery. le got $6,000 of the money. The new postal arrangement with Ragland has been published, but is disregarded by the officiale here, The gar rison is daily practised In rile exercise. A mili tary commission has sentenced to , death two watchmen for highway robbery. At Guinea a house-owner seed the Major Domo for rent. The latter Is in arrears for fourteen months, the claim amounting to *6,000. JAMAICA.. Return of the Be Soto to Kingston. HAVANA, March 29, 1868.—The United States man-of-war Do Soto,Commodora Boggs,retarned to Kingston, Ja., on Friday last. American consul Gregg was aboard. The project of colonizing Americana and Euro peans has been revised in Jamaica. HAYTI. ISAlnave Threatens_ to Lynch His X vals. flavAxA, March t!!t, 1868.—President Sahum threatens to lynch both Gelfrard and General Solatnon if he catches them. Their supporters are to share their fate. TUE GltEfaT ERIE STIAUGGLE Eteported Flight of one or the Wringers with Iwo Milliken Bollars--Work on the Bread linage Connection Be tween Toledo and Akron. Ohio. to be Baphity Pushed Forward. [From to d wed N. Y. Tribnatl The Erie Railroad Directors, who are stilt quartered at Taylor's Hotel, woro visited by a number of their friends yesterday, and the situa tion during the day was pretty thoroughly dis cus,ed. some information received at a late hour List evening, caused considerable rejoicing and merriment, but all interested were remarkably reticent as to the cause. It leaked out at last that Mr. Jay Gould, one of the principal direc tors, bad de , •amped for parts unknown, taking with him a black traveling bag, which, it is ru mored, contained between two and three mil lions of dollars, being part of the funds over which Mr. Osgood was appointed . Receiver by Judge Barnard. It is surmised by those who are supposed to be well informed in relation to the affairs of the management, that Mr. Gould is by this time either at Toledo or Akron, where he is to let out the remaining contracts for the building of the broad gauge connection between the Atlantic and Great Western and Michigan couthern Railroads. The money supposed to be in his possession ie to be need to make the ad vance payments on existing contracts. The bill which passed thu New Jersey Legisla tnre on the 19th itibL. became a low on Saturday night without Gov. Ward's eigiatere, the time allowed him to return it to the ionielatare having expired then. The following is 11 copy of this law : An Act to enable certain corporations more effectually to transact their busbies* in the State of New Jersey. 1. Be it moiled by the &nate and General A iseetnWy,o f the State Qt" Sete Jereey: That where any corporation ieblik has been created by the laws of any other State or States has, by any law or laws passed by the Legislature of this State. been authorized to hold property and exer cise franebisee and privlleges in this State, it shall be lawful for the directors of oucb company elected in an ether State to hold their meeting' in this State, and exercise all the powers and franchieee of such company within this btate, so far as may be necessary to transact any btalneem of such company 2. And be g enowe4. that it: shall be lawful for such Company to hare as office ha this State fey the transfer of tuck, and the °lnce, s andagente of such company shall be authorized to transact the 0 tit LIM et such coed/any 111 16i* State. 3. A be it enacted, That this act 'ball lie a piddle acts and shell take effect immediately. It is reported that on Friday night the onion of Messrs. Rapello & Spencer, the principal attor neys of the Vanderbilt side of the Erie litigation, was burglariously entered. One or two articles of petty value were taken away, several desks were rut:ringed, and a bundle marked, "Private, Erie," had plainly been searched through, though 1:o paper is reported abstracted. lie Origin of the Wilmot Provitin-A curious Story. A correspondent who styles himself "Bar , feign," referring to a report which has appeared m some of the newspapers that Judge Brinker hoff drew up the Wilmot proviso and had it pre !,.ented by the late Judge Wilmot in Congress, :;ices the following account of the matter, which, is true, destrves to be authenticated by some real came. We regard the story as improbable: "The history of that provisqls this : Ia 1817 a political club met at the corner of Eighth • met and Broidway, to partake of a weekly dinner. The club was composed . of Barn l,urners—democrate opposed to the extension of t•lavery. "At the dinner referred to Mr. Howe, a west ern member of Congress, was present. His pur pose in visiting New York was to take counsel ,vith the friends of freedom how to kond off the pro-slavery democrats. Among the members of the club present were John Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, John A. Kennedy, Isaac V. Fowler, Andrew H. Green, and other well known freesoil democrats. "During the consultation John Van Buren said Chat the protest against the extension of slavery Introduced into Congress was not worded right. le suggested that the exact words of Jefferson in the famous ordinance of 'B3 and 'B7 should be used. This was agreed to. " Mr. Howe stated that it would be difficult to introduce the proviso, as the Speaker would not give the floor to any one friendly to freedom. Mr. Tilden, as the chief organizer of the move ment about to be made, proposed that a strata gem should be played. It was agreed that each man composing the little biody of sixteen or eighteen Preesollers in Congress should have a copy of the proviso in his pooket. Bach should spring to the floor at the first chance, and shout, 'Mr. Speaker.' It was thought that one of them would be recognized. Mr. Tilden, with other members of the club, went to Washington to aid in carrying out the plan. At a time agreed upon; the Spartan band, each with the proviso in his hand, sprang to the floor and in concert shouted, `Mr. Speaker!' The Speaker was be wildered. He could not ignore the whole crowd. He selected Judge Wilmot as the most moderate of theparty, and so the Wilmot Proviso passed Into history. "It is quite probable that a draft of the proviso in the hand of Judge Brinkerhoff is preserved among his papers; brit the original draft, if it ex ist at all, will be found among the papers of John Van Buren." —Victor Emmanuel didn't eat anything the other day when Farragnt took antler with him. =lt is noteworthy that Mr. Disraeli, the new British tory premier, was inflexibly neutral on the American question dying the war. While Mr. Gladstone, the liberal loader, was declaring that "Jefferson Davis had outdo a nation," and that' "no may anticipate with certainty the success of the Bontirer4 States," Disraeli was discouraging_ every tendency to take sides against the North. • —Paris has a newspaper which sells for one , sou, and gives to each of its quarterly subsea-, hers a ticket entitling the holder to have his or her photograph taken at a certain establishment free of charge. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Dr. Schenok's Familiar Talk to his Patient.. (From the N. Y. Sun.ldaroh 26th.1 {Aa these plain, informal talks of Dr. - Bchenek to his patients contain ranch which may be of in a rest to all similarly afflicted, it has been thought best to report them occasionally, in order to ' place the Doctor's views before our readers. They take place at his rooms, at 32 Bond street. Ile conies on every Tuesday from Philadelphia, and given advice gratis. In what I shall say to you to-day I intend to use the plainest words I can find, so that you can all understand my meaning. I shall not use the technical terms of medicine, nor indulge in any theories or speculations. By my remedies I claim, under God, to be able to cure Consumption. A stranger might nstarally and properly mks "How does it happen that yon can truly pretend to know more about this terri ble disease than all the acute and educated minds which have carefully made it a study for several hundred years?" Title would be a fair question, and shall have a fair answer. Ido not claim to know more than the faculty do}. about the causes, nature and his tory of Consumption. I suppose that my views on these points would bo bound to Agree with those of most educated and intelligent physicians. We should agree that while the _final cause is ob scure ; in other words, while it is not possible to say why Consumption selects this pr that person as a victim, yet the predisposing causes are : Ist. Inheritance. Consumption is hereditary in a wonderful degree. One parent very often en tails it upon the oilispring, and both still more fre quently, so that whole families are often swept away, and hand the predisposition down to their children. 2d, Cold. By this we do not mean those changes of weather which often produce inflammation, but long-continued and steady cold, so that a condition of debility is produced. Indeed, what ever tends to produce long-eontinued debility will, in some persons, generate Pulmonary Con sumption. Prominent among these influences arc insufficient diet, living in an unwholesome air, sedentary habits, grief, anxiety, disappoint ment, whether of the affections or in business, and all other depressing emotions—the abuse of i mercury and the nfuence of weakening diastases. I also agree with the best doctors as to the man ner in which the lungs become affected. Pulmo nary Consumption is also called Tebereuloye Con eumption,by which we mean a disease of the lungs caused by tubercles. A tubercle is a small, roundish body, which is deposited in the substance of the lungs by the blood. This is the beginning and first set of the disease. Many of these are often deposited at once. Each one undergoes several changes, which I will not now explain to you, and after producing Inflammation of the parts of the lungs nextto it, ends iu ulceration, opens a passage into the bronchial tubes, and passes out at the month by spitting. The place where the tubercle grew and ripened now becomes a ca vity, and where there are a great many tubercles, of course they make a great many of these little cavities, wrath gradually unite and leave great boles in theAungs. Unless a stop can be put to this process, it will go on until the substance of the lungs is consumed and death ensues. Of course I agree with the faculty upon the symptoms and course of the disease; the short, dry, hacking sough, so slight at first, but gra dually increasing; then shortness of breath, a quickening pulse, then feverish sensations, flush ing of the cheeks and heat in the palms of the bends and soles of the feet, the slight but growing emaciation, with feeble appetite, bemiarrtiages, increasing cough, disturbed sleep, fevered tongue, then . loes• of appetite, taking to the bed, then expectoration of softened tubercle in the amp° Of small lettethe of yellowish, cheesy, or curdy matter, hectic fever, brilliant eye, chilli, nights sweats, sharp pains in' ther eider, increas ing emaciation and debility, disordered stomach and - bowels, diarrhma, nausea, swollen extremi ties, hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, weakness. so great that expectoration is impossible; then death, bringing welcome relief from the tortures of this horrid monster. Now, as I have said, I mainly agree with the medical faculty on these points. But when we come to the treatment of the disease I differ from it totally. The doctors believe Pulmonary Con sumption cannot be cured. Therefore they do not try to do any thing more than soothe the patient's path to the grave, and seem quite reckless of the medicines they give, so that the patient is kept conyortable and easy, even if his life is shortened. As soon as tubercles begin to appear in the lungs of a patient, it is a common prectice wits many leading physicians to begin dosing with whisky, in increasing quantities, until the ravages of excessive dram-drinking are added to the ravages of the disease. Or they send pa tients away from home on distant voyages or to Minnesota or Florida—any thing or anywhere so that they may die easy. For they do not, pretend to cure, and they have no remedies which will do so. Now I say not only that the diseases of the lungs can be cured, but that my medicines do cure them. The proof that by their use thou• unais of Consumptives hare been and are num being urea by them. The whole science of medicine is based on experiments. We cannot by any pro es, of reasoning decide that any particular medi cine will help or cure any particular disease. How was it found that Quinine will cure Chills and Fevers ? Why, by tiying one thing after another until experience demonstrated that it wss a specific for that disease. In just that way I came to a knowledge of remedies that arc spe cifies for diseases of the lungs. Pulmonary Consumption is hereditary in my family. My father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died of it. I had reached almost the last stage of the same downward road, when I was providentially led to experiment with my now tannins remedies—bfandrake Pills, Seaweed Tonic, and Pulmonie Syrup. As the result, you ree me before you to-day in perfect health, and weighing over two hundred pounds. What cured me has cured thousands all over the country. Now these results are not acciden tal. There is no such thing as an accident in na ture. My remedies cure because my theory of Consumption is the correct one, and because these remedies accomplish what I desire to have accomplished by toy treatment. I will try and make this plain to you. iffhatever may be the cause, the origin of Pulmonary Consumption is in the blood. Whenever, from any of the predis posing causes which I have just now mentioned, the blood becomes degenerated, it begins to make tuberculous deposits in the substance of the lungs. This must be stopped, or death will surely follow. It will not be enough to get rid of, the tubercles already deposited, and heal up the sores already made, but something must be done to stop further deposits. What shall that be? The regular faculty say, nothing can be done. I say purify, enrich and tone up the blood until it becomes so healthy as no longer to snake tubercles. Can this be done? Yes. How? By the easiest and most natural way In the world. Take a man such as I see many before me to-day. He shows to the experienced eye, by many in fallible elgns,that Consumption has sot in. He is feeble and without appetite. Now see what I in tend to do. First, I propose to cleanse his stomach and bowls of their dead, slimy, clogoing matter. This I shall ao with my Mandrake Pills, which are the best cathartic -Pillasin _the-world. They- -contain calomel or other minerals, only vegetable matter. They evacuate the atonsebh and bowels gently but thoroughly, and do not weaken or gripe. They act like magic on the liver, rousing it out of its dull torpid state, and promoting a fall, free flow of healthy bile, without which there can be no perfect digestion. Now that the stomach and bowels are cleansed and ready—what next? Create an appetite. This I do by my ; Seaweed Tonic. The effect of this medicine is wonderful. Unlike a temporary stimulant, which by reaction lets the organs- affected sink lower than - before, this not only tones up the, stomttoh, but keeps it toned up, The natural craving for food returns in all its 'theca; so, that • we have now a stomach hangs* for food,: ;and - =s digestive apparatus ready:to Mahe Mew, vdthlt. What next? You can, itnretteg,ype,.: avower thatquestlon. Pet info Mar Iningrm,itestgiC4,o6: abrindant supply of various and nutritious food to Ge cotiret ted by the strange chemistry of digestion into rich red blood. 'ibis will stimulate the heart into stronger action, and it will pump a ful ler current out through the arteries; healthy blood will take the place of the thin, blue, flat tened fluid In the veins, and soon a circu lation will be established which will flow through the lungs without making any unhealthy deposits; strength and flesh will in cressc, and the bad symptoms steadily di minish. At the same time use my Pulmonic Syrup, as you know I lay great stress on this in curing consumption. People die of consump tion because they become so feeble that they can not throw off the dead matter, which accumu lates in the lungs, until they are so stuffed and suffocated that breathing can no longer go on. My Pulmonic Syrup is the beat expectorant known, it blends with the food, and through the blood goes directly to the lungs; attacks and loosens up the yellow,foul, rotten staff, left there by the ripened tubercles, and strengthe,ns and stimulates the bronchial tubes Wand coatinsi "of the air-passages, until they get strong enough to lift it out and expel It by spitting. Then the lungs get over their soreness and have a chance to rest and heal. So you see that I have not only shown that my medicines ao actually cure consumption by ex periment, bat it also seems plain that they, or something like them, would, from the nature of the case, do so. I wish I had the time to explain to you more fully how they operate through all the different stages of the disease, and I wish you could follow me while I explained to you the wonderful mechanism of the human body. But I must stop. I sum it all up in this : Good food makes good blood, good blood makes health, and my medicines—Mandrake Pills, Seaweed Tonic, and Pulmonle Syrup—used according to directions, enable this to be done. I see you here looking at me anxiously; I pity you from the bottom el my heart, and, wish to help yon. Perhaps many of you have only some slight disorder which resembles Consumption in some of its symptoms, but is not so. Thati can determine with my Respirometer, which enables me to learn just in what condition the lungs are. For this examination I make a cbarge of $5. I am glad to see that you follow my advice about the necessity of avoiding exposure to cold and damp. You know lam opposed to any patient of mine going out into raw air with tender, sore lungs. Air that may seem only fresh to sound lungs, is raw and harsh to the lungs of a con sumptive. Keep your rooms, and breathe a dry, warm air, and only venture out in the very pleas antest weather. (hope to find you have im proved when I see you again. J. 11. B. THEATRES. Etc The Texan:m.B.—dt the Arch this is to be benefit week. Mr. Frank Mordaunt will have a benefit to-night in The Outcaet, and A Br/abated to Order. On Wednesday Mr. F. F. Mackay will have a benefit in a fine bill. At the Walnut this evening Mr. Edwin Booth will appear as "Shy lock," in the Merchant of Venice, supported py Miss Mary Mc Vicker as "Portia." The Cheat uut will open on Monday next with the Black CrooA:, which will be produced in unusually splendid style. At the American to-night, a varied performance, including feats by the Han lon troupe, will be given. MRS. SIZIRELR'S LAST READING.—Mrs. Kemble bad Concert Hall packed on Saturday afternoon to hear "Hamlet," the concluding play in the second course of fteadings. We regret. to ear that Mrs. Kemble was kept standing, though only for a couple of minutes, bye numba of heedless people who were still poking about the aisles when she entered punctually at three o'clock. There is no excuse for such behavior. If people will not be civil enough to accede to the request to be seated in time, they should at least nave sufficient sense of propnety to take back seats until the intermission. Mrs. Kemble's Philadel phia audiences have been very considerate, as we predicted they would be, and there has never been an interruption after a Reading has com menced. But there were, on Saturday, just enough people fifteen minutes behind time to delay and annoy both Mrs. Kemble and her impatient audience for a few minutes, and we greatly regretted even this degree of departure from the good manners of Philadelphia. Mrs. Kemble's "Ilamlet" was a splendid per sonadon. In bringing theplay down to each a rhape as to centralize the character of Hamlet, many grand and beautiful passages have beat omitted. Among these is the third scene in Act I, between Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius, and the whole of the description of Ophelia's mad ness. But the length of the play demands this wholesale abridgment, and it has been so done as to leave the character of Hamlet untouched. This character was sustained with great power by Mrs. Kemble. In his interview with the ghost and in the terrible scene with his mother, the Hamlet of Mrs. Kemble is Indeed great. His famous instructions to the players were given with an expression that was keenly personal, and very effective. The final scene was eripted with prodigious power, culminating with a grand climax in Hamlet's fi erce "Follow ray mother!" There was little applause -on Saturday after noon. The audience was evidently under the spell of the reality of the characters and scones before them, and if they fulled to applaud the actor, it was because they forgot that it was acting. Mrs. Kemble concludes her present engage ment with another week's reading in Philadel phia, during the lust week of May, when she will read "Cymbeline," "As Yon Like It," her own adaptation of Schiller's "Mario Stuart," and a selection of miscellaneous poetry. Jaeacserieu.—On Wednesday evening next, at the Academy of Music, Mile. Fanny danauschek, the great German tragedienne will appear in Schil ler's drama of Mary Stuart. During the week she will also produce Thasnelde and Iphipenia in Taurus. In each case Mlle. Janauschek will be supported by an able company. Tickets are for sale at Wittig's Music Store, No. 1021 Chestnut street. MUSEUM AND MENAGIIR tr.—Barnum and Van Amburgh's museum and menagerie is now on ex hibition at Assembly Buildings. The collection comprises many rare curiosities, and a number of wild animals. ELEVENTH ST. OPERA HOUSE.—This evening the sensational burlesque Anything You Like win be given with all the fine scenery, •harp local hits, amusing situations and great cast. A new farce, Trial on Travelers, is also announced, to- gether with ballad-singing by Cameros., negro personations, instrumental music, dancing, and the multitude of good things which make up a first-rate minstrel entertainment. OLD For.as.—•`Father Baldwin's Old Folks" troupe will begin an engagement at Concert Hall this evening. SOME, of - the members of this com pany are artists of.--no mean quality, and as the selectioto of music are of the beat, an entertain went agreat merit may be expected. BLITZ.—Tho renowned Signor Blitz will give an exhibition of magic this evening at Friendship Hall. cpruer Sepyiva and Norris streets, Ken -61ngteide , ' BENEVIT.—The comp lime n tary hellcat tendered Mr. Andrew Redifer will take place In the Arch Street Theatre, on Thurs day evening next, when a most attractive bill will be iiresented. ANNA DICKINSON'S LECTUNK—On Thursday evening next, Miss Anna E. Dickinson will deliver her celebrated lecture upon The Duty of the Hour, at the Academy of Music. Bannwrr.—Mr. Alfred Bennett, the celebrated humorist, will give an entertainment,at Town Hall, Germantown, this evening. SrustreAmow„—The advocated" ot Spiritualism will celebrate' the twentieth anniversary of the establiehtnent of their peculiar creed, at Rortieul-' tend Utdli to-morrow: afternoon and eveldtur• Addresdee will be delivered by Judge Eduntudk oY Nevr-lork, and °there: F. L. FETHERSTON. FalbAnt,. p.R . lps....v]iftE4 p i li i.;.TB; FAOTS AND gairictwo. —The Prince rmprial or,lfrance has :a skiff Lei the Prince of Wales 's canoe club. —Patti sane . as "Leonora" is Trovatere, for lb, first time, in. Paris, three weeks ago. —A blue horse is exhibited at this Sydanbats Crystal Palace. —k colony of "one-wife Mormons" la seaumif in Minnesota, near Otter Tail Lake. , —Daniel Draw is called "the exile of Et:je • ,blir the Boston Advertiser. ' —About thirty million newapsperia pass *out" the English mails every year. • • . —General Asboth was attended sticettssively ty fifteen physicians, and, of course, he did net Ma. cover. • —A smart Indiana negro managed to died 45 000 brick.. Arid yet the Democrats prides ter think that the Ethiop can't take care of histeett —The proprietor of the Virginia retranslate. the Tobacco Pima has made an extraordinary pee by changing its name to the Quid Nunc. —A Frenchman has wrlttea. a poem ea taut tlon. The subject is a vary prosy cousin this part of the world. —The N. Y. Express thinks the young keen have suddenly become muilcal, as each can:less brass band on her head. • —lt may not be generally known that , the • rombone was in use among the ancienti, but tke art of making this instrument was loat. 2nec= canting Herculaneum, one of them wattfOkall and sent to George 111. of England, under Whom direction the manufacture wan revived. —Of Mr. Tennyson's lines "On a Spiteful Let ter" the Temalulu* says: "To see Napoleon e the rock of Elba turn round and run after his cocked hat, which the wind might have blown off, would not be as 'great a descent from 'the sublime to the ridiculous as this sad ebullition of childishness on the part of the author of In Memoriam." —An English gentleman lately called at one of the Paris post-offices to Inquire how much it would cost to send himself home to England by mail. He was weighed, and after a little calcu lation the clerk informed him that It would cost 8,648 francs. The sum was counted out. but the police was called and milord was led back to his hotel and pronounced insane. • --Schoolmasters who are in favor of corporeal punishment are 'certainly able to quOte Georga 111. in behalf of their practice. Princess Sophia, one of his daughters, told Lady Murray that she bad seen her two eldest brothers, when they were boys of thirteen and fourteen, held by their arms to be flogged, like dogs, with a long whip.' He wanted to make them both Princes of Whales. —"The most luxurious smoker I ever knew says Mr. Paget, "was a young Trausylvauist%, who told me that his servant always inserted tt lighted pipe into,his mouth the first thing in the morning, and that he smoked it out before he awoke. 'lt Is so pleasant,' he observed, 'to have the proper taste restored to onb's mouth before one is sensible even of Its wants.'" —Dr. Mudd, one of the Lincoln conspirator", wbo was sentenced for life to the Dry Tortngae, is said to be hopeful ofpardon. His continet in exemplary, and his professional services &wing the continuance of the yellow fever at the poet last fall have made him rather popular with the officers of the garrison. But we sineerely .hopn Mudd will not get clear. —The grandmother of a well-known, ..eele; brated English 'financier, having reached' the rite:. triarehal ege of ' 99 years and 8 months; wog veryoirealt one morning„,sent r her doetttilfisufl asked hint if thought she would attain the ago of one hundred. "Well, Madam," he replied,'"yolt may depend upon me doing my my best." "Oh, do," replied the old .lady; "I Should so like be reach par." —The •Paptiel brethren Eta dilaters appear to have had rather a disorderly tinseyesterday. Th y preacher, at one end of the church, was, 'nei match, for the organist, at the other. The bold deacon had evidently been reading, Richard and was thinking of " A flourish, trumpets!--strike alarm, drinna t''. Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women, Rail on the LOY& anointed!" —Queen Victoria has continued the work be gun by Prince Albert of collecting engraving* and other representations of Banhaers works and of those attributed to him. The collection is about to be published in fifty or sixty huge volumes, and a special edition will be printed for amateurs and Raphael collectors,. the origins! design being only to distribute to personal friendii, foreign sovereigns and others who aided in mak ing the collection. —Victor Emmanuel is not so fond of popelar repression as his neighbor of France. A Corre spondent relates that as the King drove by one day in Florence, a h - not of people shouted "Viva II Duca di Toscano!" and their cheers for the de throned duke were not stopped even by thei carbineers. The astonished foreign papers oc cupy themselves with guessing what would be the fate of men who should indulge in similar rms. lutionary utterances in other European capitals. —A writer in the Chicago Triltune claims that thirty-years-old city is the headquarters not "only of business and speculation and of tine arts and music and religion and sin, but also of romance,. and all because a brother of Charles Dickens and file divorced wife of Anber„ the composer, have lived there. and "a character in Hawthorne* ' Scarlet Letter' is living there now." If this is true, the " character" aforesaid must be some what over two hundred years old. —The Rev. John S. C. Abbott has an article tot the April number of Putnam on "The Pope and the Temporal Sovereignty," in which ha reclproL cates the kindness shown him at the Tuileries by repeatedly calling Garibaldi "insane," by 'cow. mending the settoe of Louis Napoleon, '‘eves anxious to avoid war," alai saying that should that monarch place himself "at .the head of revo lutionary propavandistr, billows of blood•• end woe would surge ever all Europe." —The power of the press was lately illustrated in Dublin. The reporter of a Fenian paper was driven out of an Orange meeting. Alarm then took possession of the assembly and it was de termined to let him re-enter. But the reporter stood on his insulted dignity and refused to re turn unless an official Invitation should be seat him; and the chairman should conduct him to a seat on the platform. The assemblage humbly agreed to and carried out these terms. ---Bince Count Bistnarck's atisence from Berlin, on account of illness, the Prussian monarch is said to have been greatly badgered and irritated by political affairs. A story is told of a conver sation between the King. and Vincko, the once staunch Bismarcklan, which ended by ViniokeN saying, "I am ready to lay my head at voar Majesty's feet but net my conscience." `A II O do you think," the King is said to have Panii9a ately replied, "that I have no Ponseionce my self?"—and turned his back on hint. , —ln Lady Brownlow's reminiscences, recreate published, we And the following: "Queen Wet"- rill; said in a foot-note to her life of the reline Ctoneort, that the Princess Chariot_ .tel Mot in child-birth through-tha ll ium fells,of-troolsolk-. Ice attendant. Our se nagenadan nth**. pays ; am positively o opinion that Brhutellir Charlotte was starved to death! That the bete!. ess of England died from irtaufficientamPlEW meat! - 'A lady I know found.the Primus-m day, actually in tears over her itmetteoll-' et Vs and bread and butter ! She had been Napo touted to take mutton chop and a glue fotrt wine, and said she felt quite weak for.want o Sir Richard Croft, her physician, haying theft* den any meat in the middbrof the dey. Bed she required a generous diet, and haring always been used to It, she AMt the loser yet thsordiss of her physicbut Were strictly, oberk and _think tier Ufa was the Oct be fatale imultudika or her illness., flit • Richard Croft rusbed Into roommheraltra:Vamphell -nen„ exclaimed 'She Is dead bud dila too," Set off to London Oa dtlityPrldbitAktits. T 77 r