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I tut TuNATitI•F".--A t the Arch this evening. will be
Avon for the Snit time Falroner's comedy, Does he Lose
Art, after which the drama. Pauline. edr. hdwin 13ooth
wilt swear- at the Walnut tanight in his famous
pervonallina Of "liamlet." TM Black Crook to announced
:lIT this eventnet at tne Chestnut. After a series of singe.
tar sad anaveldable mishaps the management have se
.. end idle. Ming. the famous thresetsse. and she will ap.
pear to-morrow night. At the American a miscellaneous
bill is announced.
ltiouttem Omens Tete:tem—The favorite company of
art iota will inauggrate a brief season of English Opera at
the dreamy of Music thLt evening. iltartlus is announced
with a cast include' Miss Riede's'. hirs. Arnold. Messre.
I;ampbell. Cantle, 'Wylie and Seguin.
Etevirevir Bruen CirREA BOUM —Mesas. Caracross
:, net Limey offer a very attractive entertainment at their
establialunent this evening. The meneetir e Piece entitled
Life on* Atitsfesiitstel Cotton, Boat wit be given- with
~sf its renewhable effects, and there wi ll in Addams a
-vacs of new burlesques. lanes and negro comicallties.
Air. CanalmeaVrill *ling enteral popular ballade, and there
Ail] be instrementel and vocal music by the members of
the troupe. Mr. Lew Simmons has t ai beneflt this evening
and he will appear in some of his m % amusing persona
ions. 'Bie PODularity will insure a large audience.
CARL WdtrifinThla Ninth Beethoven Matinee conies off
n Friday afternoon 416 e'eln e the Foyer. 31ffte Rom
Frankel will sing songs by 3 * Wenn and Schubert,
this being Wind Appearance is emison. The grand
sonata (so, ted in the original title), in 13 flat e nette
r 2, it) COMO to be a masterly work, and has been
warmly ed by the many gig and analysts who
mi t
have oven a itta, ,i t epeakiug of this
-onata, upon nevenset" acuity of being
, /wave Netc,'.with out depa rting 'free* the true . and beast.
"Jul. while ' a Cana la aUmellaidnead ' and triumphant
rote poles
The Sonata etteof ffl, _ble., 1: in N flat major. is twin to the
lfoonlieht , t 10443194 vrhlob indeed overshadows it, but it is.
ner utbetew, a competed*, of superior Merit. The an
dante ham Weill Wide in -Kole. the allegro in the manner
of a Scherzo is en easy Movement, full of expression, and
very intereeting, the add° is a distant echo of the'.rand
.air of Floreetan in INdelfoo. _
Let us approach with respect the lastlionata of Beetho
ven. his doi
t u Tfantent, the last accent of hie un
rirdlo. lyre. t there is no Last Sonata of Beethoven;
ail are in pet* able, as_ the genius of man which ems.
nat4 il from mn. laveds•Sonde. opus ill, in C minor.
which is itett seldom heard. lechowe ter. strikingly beau
tifuL it diens by a magnificent introduction, by the
•dtio of which, we know of nothing among the COmpael
-tf ono (for 'obviate) of Beethoven, yet to occupy apace.
The sectimd movement, and left, Is an Artetta with verb
[long, which offer a rhythmic study of Beethoven to
those wnte are curious in musical quantities. The whole
Sonata ts exceptional in character.' fdert and construe.
tion. and it eo marked by individuality as to defy classid
• cation or generalization.
Cain. Selma ennounces the,nth and last but one of his
Orchestra, Matinees for Thursdiv. ma fruit., when the
towel variety will be presented. The benefit tendered to
:he members of the orchestra by the Bayer and Proint.
?tent a im s of Philadelphia, will take solace on Thur..
• day afternoon. April Mth. at 05 o'clock. A number of
a aide bare already volunteered, and the, orchestra will
he largetv increased. 'The Lessee of Horticultural Hall
- dors it free of expense and the best feeling Is ehown on
even" eill# towards th is meritorlooe body of instruteen.
• taffeta. A magnificent programme is in PreParatlen. and
In
will probable he tbelargot audience ever assembled
In that vast building, as the price of tickets has wisely
been placed at the popular rate of fifty edits.
Mentirtgadur ficienerv.—The benefit tendered to Mr.
. Jean Louts on Baty rdar evening. by the Mendelssohn So
ciety. was a highly credibiblo performance. There was a
very large and lidded audience. and the programme
contained a rich feast for the brave of music. The me
rest opened with the "Magic Flute' , overture, followed by
the Grated '
'Choral Fantod* by Beethoven. The Piano
eolo was beautifully given by Mr. Wolteolin
-t:ind the'Ottoral passages bythe full'chorus of the Society
and an efficient orcheetra. Fred. llillerss "Llll.llllO. was
very well simg., the solos being sustained by Mrs. Behrens
mod Mr. llabelmann, who were both in fine voice. The
Concert concluded with Mendelssohn's superb canna:ta
r ion, • Theyalpurgie Night." The whole concert was the
heat yet given by tiffs young society.
—The old wooden safe newt in the 'Bank of Ma
rietta, t4;te grat bank in Ohio, is in postesSion of
Mr. LaMinot of that•place. Unlike safes of mod
ern times, it is constructed of wood, with sides
two - inches thick and etrapped with hammered
iron bands three inches in width, into which nails
are driven every three quarters of an inch. The
bands pass around the safe in both directions,and
at the points -of interae6o,on are secured by
nails that pale through into the wood. It was
; - .14,11 is New !Orkin' 7.07. ' , ,•• •
ALTER. TOE EICRIMIL.
JAMES RILSSELL LOWICLI
.
Yea, Faith is a goodly anchor;
W •
hen skies are sweet as a psalm,
At the bows it lolls so stalwart
In bluff broad-shouldered calm.
And when. over breakers to leeward
The tattered surges are hurled,
It may keep our head to the tempest,
With its grip on the base of the world.
But. after the eliipwr•Sek; tell me ! •
What help In Its irdn •
Still true to the broken hawser,
'Deep down among sea-weed and ooze ?
In the breakin,g gulfs of sorrow,
When the helpless feet stretch out,
And' find in the deeps of darkness
No footing so solid ds doubt,:
Then better one spar of memory,
One broken plank of the past,
That our human heart may cling to,
Though hopeless of shore at last!
To the spirit its splendid conjectures,
To the flesh its sweet despair,
Its tears o'er the thin-worn locket
With its beauty of deathless hair!
Immortal: I feel It and know it;
Who doubts it of such as she?
But that is the pang's very secret,—
Immortal away from me!
There's a, narrow ridge in the graveyard
Would scarce stay a child in his race;
But to me and my thought it is wider
Than the star-sown vague of space.
Your logic. my friend, is perfect,
Your morals most drearily true,
But the earth that stops my darling's ears
Makes mine insensate too.
Console. if you will: I can bear it:
'Tis a well-meant alma of breath;
But not all the preaching since Adam
mace Death other than Death.
Communion, in spirit! Forgive me,
But 1. s 4 ho am earthy and weak.
Would ;five all my incomes from dreamland
For her rose-leaf palm on my cheek !
That little sh ,, e in the corner,
ti., worn and wrinkled and brown,—
/irk motionless hollow confutes you,
.lad s your wisdom down.
—From , lantic" ..11k',
THE II ATER-COLORS AT THE AR
TISTS' FUND Roams..
Not e‘eryone.even of those who have cultivated
some taste for the arts, knows property how a
water-color should be looked at. In criticizing
any arti-tie effect, one should be 'sufficiently in
structed to estimate the resources and the diffi
culties of the material, or he may find himself
demanding organ-music from violins, or admir
ing the laces 'and veils of the second-class
sculptor. One of the axioms of all good art is,
never to be ashamed of the means chosen; never
to try to make marble statues resemble bronzes,
or wood-cuts figure for etchings, or to cast iron
bridges and facades in the forms of
granite. or soubrette actresses in the r6lea
of Lady Macbeth and Medea. The
ancients. in their bronze busts, imitated
the hair with ringlets of wire : when they were
working in marble they retired from any such
competition with nature, and always built up
their groups with the pillars and buttresses essen
tial to solidity ; mistakes were made, neverthe
less. especially in the latter days of Greek art;
and the sculptor of the Apollo is found attempt
ing (probably because copying from a bronze
model) to make his drapery look malleable. The
best of the old painters paid the most considerate
attention to their vehicle and the situation; their
distempers and frescoes are clear and sunny
leaving chiaroscuro effects to oil; Raphael's mu
ral paintings are studiously architectural ; i
was none of his business to weaken a
wall by excavating it into apparent
c es and abysses. Michael Angelo's "Last
Judgment - is applied to the side of the Sixtine
like a large bass-relief. Bewiek's famous "British
Bird," are wood -cuts and nothing else; appreci
sting the magnificent blieks and brilliant con
trasts proper to wood-engraving, he worked for
those and left out the network touches of steel.
Dorers illustrations, with plenty of faults, have
this merit of perfect applicability: it is no part of
their ambition to perplex the engraver with any
but legitimate difficulties. The ragged-looking
drawings wirich the English illustrators leave
upon the blocks lose more in rich
ness than they gain in a meretricious
resemblance to etchings. The ancient decorators
of the Etruscan vases denied themselves any effects
but such as belong to a sharply outlined ornament
laid upon a ground of.. a different color. Luca
delta Bobbin, ending that the glazing of hts por
celains affected their accuracy of form, came in
occasionally with a touch of black paint, with
which he, would define a boundary or voa outline.
The accomplished painters of SeVll36 porcelitin in
our day are uaually equally frank in acc'epting
the individuality of the material; some of their
most charming faience is painted with a
happy accidental, touch made up of a line and a
blot.
There is no material so intractable but that the
hand of the true artist is capable of making it his
servant. But a true man is always rather proud
than otherwise. of the complexion and livery of
his servants, anti has a satisfaction , in Making
them do duty in a manner to develop their espe
cial eccentricities. Ilfgeneral terms we may
accuse anv art we find outside its own frontiers of
some kind of weakness; . it has either the weak
ness of inexperience or the weakness of discon
tent; it is either juvenile or blaid. It either conies
upon the ground as .an adventurer, with the
audacity of inexperience, or it comes couteniptu
ously trying tours de force into the new tlomain,
after having lost the relish for some accustomed
one.
This exhibition Is hardly complete enough to
furnish an imposing array of instances; but
pretty good examples may be picked up here and
there ardund the walls of the water-color proper,
the water-color atteinPting to look like distem
per, the water-color. •ioo much covered with'
hatchings and line-work, and the watercolor
thickened with body-color and passing itself off
for oil. Let us remember, in looking. about us
among these varied exemplars, that a painter is
not of necessity a water-colorist simply Weanse.
his material was taken out of MI6 of Osborne's
boxes, any more thou the ingenious man who
can imitate birds and musical instruments with
his voice is in any resthetic sense a 410.4114.
In the first place, let rts 'got our 0td644 . 144 . ,
some adjustment by- examining the **M l ' ani •
artist who has made water-color riPecialSy;
who has long • studied its opportunities and , espal=
art& - whA; . is too WioviiPigtetliea ditUnit
P/lILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1868.
Effects outside the legitimate power of his vehicle.
itichardeori's ,"Capri," No. 28, owned by Mr.
Bolden, is 'a fair example. It is not an inspired
or dazzling work, for Richardson is
.nothing but
a plodder, but it is the work of a man who thor
oughly conceives his situation, and plays In it
with all the self-possession of old experience.
Notice the character of his subject, such
a thin. transparent atmosphere as
never has been satisfactorily indicated in oil
color—sea, cliffs and firmament all bathed in one
of those effusions of light that themselves sug
gest to the artist's eye the rapid passage of some
infinite brush charged with a . diaphanous glazing
or tint; the kind of effusion that Browning refers
to in one of his Italian penis. "an everlasting
wash of air." There is what anuarelle is fit to
dci—to record a natural effect that is itself a
"wash;" and the intelligent artist, wandering
through nature with his eyes open, ought to
know at once, when some fine combination
strikes him, what material nature meant that he
should copy it in.
Another artist who strikes his brush upon the
sheet with an admirable trick is Mr. Paul Marny
(23, 43, 49). Mach more wise and self-contained
in his color than Richardson, he succeeds admi
rably in'the thick air an gray distances of Lon
don, whose fogs Turned so frankly loved. Mr.
Marny's blotted indications of architecture, his
rainy Thames and bridges, his needled pinnacles
of Westminster and the New Parliaments,. that
look as if they were probing the clouds to find
the thinnest place; his inky splutter of a crowd in
the Strand, with the dome of St. Paul's hanging
over them all "like a fool's cap on a fool's head,"
are thrown off at hap-hazard w:th all the attractive
ness of ease and accident. These studies are 'so
broad, so fiat. so effective, that they might be
magnified without alteration into the most artis
tic of theatrical scenes.
Another well-balanced hand is that of F. Ron
del, ("Alter the Rain," 117) who indicates the . hot
light of summer noons, - striking square on the
gray. wet. bright rocks, that have been washed
by the departed storm, and then lain to rest, as
it were, in the'crisp meadows. The peculiar glad
ness of nature after a warm summer shower, a
gladness that steams through the atmosphere and
glimmers in the grass, has been the inspiration
of this picture..
"On the Upper Little Miami" (108), by Wyaut,
is anions the best and most elaborate landscapes
on exhibition. The fine spring foliage, standing
out to the eye in delicate shelves from one
branch to another, is touched with the fondness
-Ind patience with which Andubon would number
the scales on a lark's claw; the key of color is
most felicitous: the grass is singularly deep and
moist, and the water lies upon it, not clearly de
fined as water. but gathered into a veil of mist.
like the bloom on a ripening grape. Nothing
-Toils this truly lovely painting but a great rock,
;lung in at the left like an afterthought, rudely
and coarsely blotted into shape, and intruding
like a discord into the harmony of pastoral
repose.
"The Haunted House," by Fredericks, (71) is
large and striklug, but quite outside the sketchy,
sudden, evanescent purpose of water-color art.
It is too ponderous a thought tp be committed
to so exquisite a material. It is a tremendous
melodrama enacted in a summer-house. We like
better a little picture hanging beside it. "The
Blue-Bell Bank." (W. L. Thomas, 70,) made up
of sunshine and childish content, and "sheets of
hyacinth that seem the heavens npbreaking
through the earth." Mr. Thomas's figures,
spotted about over a landscape in this way, are
telling and vivacious; but he lacks the cultivation
accessary for genre pictures composed,of human
subjects, and his "Little Derrit'. (106) is a com
parative failure.
We ought not to omit to mention that, to the
non-professional eye, tim most beautiful pictures
ire sometimes those which have the least excuse
for being, pictures which are completely outside
the competence of the method. We can praise
such pictures; but it is like praising a tenor for
staging in basso.
Look, for example, at this beautiful pastoral
by Bellows, soft as a barcarolle, deep as the pile
of some Indian rug, warm as the i3eptemlier noon
it represents. • We mean his "Nook by the River,'
(No. 80.) not his "Androscoggin." Itis delicous:
but it is a simple carrying out, in touch and man
ner, of the painter's accustomed methods in oil
landscape: the peculiar advantages of water
tolor, its tenderness combined with brilliancy, its
easy breadth without opacity, never seem to have
struck the artist. He has not devoted a moment
:co searching out a subject that nature had de
signed, as it were, for the material he contem
plated; he has taken an oil-color subject, and
treated it in an oil-color manner; accordivly his
beautiful picture is thoughtless, headstrong, and
what we called juvenile. There is not a corner
of it that he could not have painted with the same
touches and with less embarrassment in oil.
Faulkner, on the contrary, in the best of his
studies frona.the Glenislor'raine River (No. 113),
affords an • example of ,the temper we calla('
satiety; he makes no effort to introduce the feli
cities that have long been familiar to him in the
practice of aquarelle; his picture is a kind of
rymnasties with his material, a determination to
wrest from water-color its transparency, and
compel it to the weight and precision of oil. He
had no more reason for presenting his subject as
a cartoon than was possessed by Mr. Bellows in
the other case; but we fear that he has been less
excusable, because less inexperienced.
Now take, as a totally new and different con
ception of the art of aquarelle, the noble French
landscapes of Harpignies, (20,48.) Here is the
grave, sombre, misanthropic French taste, a little
cramped with ideas of unity derived from Ra
cine's drama, and a great deal chastened by the
broad, classical landscapes of Pousein. But how
grandiose it is in its simplicity t Almost bereft
of color, almost a grisaille, yet What possibili
ties of sultry splendor seem to lie perdues within
these twilight heavens, these dark and tragic
groves, these dreaming , heavens before the dawn!
Like any good national art, it requires at first an
effort of sympathy from the foreigner. But, that
effort made, how , sage it appears, how grand,
.how studiously simple, and kow cultivated!
We purposelyavoistany reference to the figure
pictures. We never could for the life of us con
ceive the ,siguifiCance,Of treating lid& with tliat
painful, cross-hatched enamel which the British
water-color school use upon their figures cad no
where else. All this result Remit to haw been
verylpoorly borrowed from s tabflature painting,
an to'be obtainable With ** more 40 redit on
iv rye To our - notkatr the ' whtile -- soclete, of
geOsed, raked, hareenverdi belettainit 'beings, Mar-
Nittlirlte, Dorrit. , Mh o 4WelcvagtrA'4ind what not+ '
'haft lif# OW lilitlekagYo# 4 1 14r*tOldo, 06.
4raven 4 ere, i'i'
OUR WHOLE VOIUNIIRY.
A Literary Resisatlea—A. Valuate by the
Ceistidenttal servant el the Ltttcsin
iremily 'Waite in she White Ellenee.
• (eon eependenee of the Chicago /Welling JolumaLi
Nat% 1 mac, April,ls.—Before me arc the ad
vance sheets of "Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty,
years a , Slave and Four Years in the White
House." , I only time in this letter to pro
nounce_ it a shameful volume, and one which
should ne,ver have been published: and to repro
duce a few sample extracts. The writer is a
good-looking mulatto woman, named. Elizabeth
Keckley, who, from being a slave, became appa
rently the confidential servant of Mrs. Lincoln,
after the latter became an occupant in the White
House. She describes her slave life, and then
proceeds to relate various conversations and in—
terviews which transpired in President Lincoln's
family. Ilere b what Mrs. Lincoln thought of
,General McClellan:
"General McClellan is a humbug," remarked
Mrs. Lincoln one day, in my presence.
"What makes you think so, mother ?" good
naturedly inquired the President.
"Because he talks so much and does so little.
If I had the power I would very soon take off his
head and put some energetic man in his place."
After the assassination, the writer came to
New York, and she reproduces numerous letters
which Mrs. Lincoln has since written her. The
following shows how keenly the Lincoln faintly
felt the publication of the "Wardrobe" letter :
Cliicaco, Sunday morning, October 6.-2lfy
Dear Lizzie am writing this morning with a
broken heart, after a sleepless night of great men
sal euffering. R. (Robert) came up last evening
like a maniac, and , almost threatening his life,
looking like death, because the letters of the
World were published in yesterday's paper. I
could not refrain from Weeping when I saw him
so miserable; but yet, mydear,good Lizzie, were
it not to protect myself and help others—and
was not my motive and action of the purest kind?
Pray for me, that this cup of affliction may pass
from me. or be sanclift64l to me. I weep whilst
I am writing. I pray for death this morning, only
my darling Taddie prevents my taking my life.
f. shall have to endure a round of newspaper
abuse,from the Republicans, because I dared: to
venture to relieve a few of my wants. Tell Mr.
Brady and Keyes not to have a line of mine once
more in print. lam nearly losing my reason.
tours truly.
_-_ 31. L.
Two days later Mrs. Lincoln wrote "Lizzie"
another letter, beginning as follows: "Bowed
down with suffering and anguish, again I write
you." There are several other letters in the vol
ume of the same purport. Her coa.munications
to Lizzie concerning the wardrobe matter are
dated successively: Chitago, October 6,8, 9, 13,
24, 29, ,and November 2, 9 and 9—two letters in
one day-15, 17, 21, 23, 21. and December 26, 27,
and January 12, 15. and so on. In those letters
Mrs. Lincoln completely unbosoms hers*df to her
old servant, who was a dress-maker at Washing
ton before being introduced into the Lincoln
family, and made dresses for Mrs General Mc-
Clellan and other prominent persons. In her
preface, the author of this book says:
"I am not the special champion of the widow
of our lamented President; the reader of the
pages which follow will discover that I have,
written with the utmost frankness in regard to
her—have exposed her faults as well as giving
her credit fcr honest motives., I wish the world
to judge her as she is, free frbm the exaggera
tions of praise or scandal."
The following are the titles of the chapters of
the book—" Where I am born"—"Girlhood and
its sorrows"—"How I gained my freedom"—"ln
the family of Senator Jefferson Davis"—"3ly in
troduction to Mrs. Lincoln"—"Willie Lincoln's
death bed"—"Washington in 1862-9"—"Candid
opinions"—"Behind the seenes"—"The second
inanguration"—"Theassaasination of President
Lincoln"—"Mrs. Lincoln leaves the White
House"—"The ongin of the rivalry between Mr.
Douglas and Mr. Lincoln"—"Old friends"—"The
secret histcry of Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe in New
York"—and appendix—" Letters from Mrs.
Lincoln to Mrs. leckley."
Fate, of Bank Robber... Desperate
Resistance and Death of a ()chained.
Some weeks ago we gave the particulars of a
bold and audacious robbery of the liusselville,
Kentucky, Bank. From the Independence (Mo.)
&naafi, we extract the following account of the
capture and death of one of the robbers:
"Many of our readers saw the account of the
bell and daring robbery of the bank at Russel
vine, Ky., some two or three weeks ago. The act
was committed so publicly that many of the citi
zens who witnessed it were enabled to give an
accurate description of the perpetrators. On
Friday, the 3d inst., Deputy Sheriff Strode re
ceived a document containing a description of one
who was engaged in the robbery, which said de
scription suited Oliver Shepherd, who had 'been
absent from his home, in Lee's Summit, in this
county, for several weeks. Mr. Strode learned
that Shepherd bad returneed-homo that day, and
having a writ for his arrest from Ray county, he
t Stroae) resolved to arrest him. He accordingly
took the 8 o'clock P. M. train, and went to Lee's
Summit. Ile tittle called upon some Bor 10 men
to go to Shepherd's house, surround it, and wait
until daylight, when he (Strode) would inform
Shepherd of his business. The ,party at once
proceeded to Shepherd's house, but he was net
there. They learned that he had left that
evening in his carriage, • taking with him
his family. They returned and reported to Mr.
Strode, who ordered them to search the
neighborhood for him. Under these orders they
went to the house of Shepherd's father, where
they found his carriage. This was between three
and live o'clock in the morning. The Captain of
the party stationed the men around the house,
and then called to knew if Oliver Shepherd was
there, and was answered by a female that he was
not; but at the same time'they. heard him jam')
from the bed (that part of the house being neither
lathed nor plastered, and consequently offering
but little obstruction to sound or bullets).
The Captain being well acquainted with
him, culled to him and told him that they
had been sent by the Sheriff to arrest him, and
that if he would submit quietly he should not
be hurt. Shepherd replied, with oaths, that he
would not be arrested, and' that he would give
them as soon as he got his clothes on, and
at the same time fired two or three shots through
the weatherboarding in the direction of the party
who were talking to him. Two or three shots
were returned,but no one hurt. The parties with
out then took their position so as to prevent his
escape, and resolved to wait until daylight. At
every noise from that until day, Shepherd would
fire out at the windows and curse terribly. When
day had fully come he rushed out at the west front
door with a pistol in one band, a shot-gun lathe
other, and one or two pistols in his belt around
him. lie made for the brush, shooting as be ran.
The 'party fired at him, several of the balls taking
effect and killing him almost instantly. The
party reported without delay to the Deputy
bherlfl, who approved of their action under the
circumstances and his orders."
The Elephharit Romeo—New Display oft
The following account from the Harrisburg.
State Guard of the 'violence of the - elephant
Romeo proves that the temper of the animal is
not to be trusted, and that he should not be ex
hibited in a public place
" We have already given some particulars of
the antics of this elephaut t incitulin% the murder of
His keeper, and' we are now Wormed that al
though a part 'of his trip from Hatborough to
Lancaster was unattended with any unwonted
displays of temper,be,a short•distanee thisside of
Leimen Place, again resumed , his warlike dis
position, and report bath thit after arriving
tiles far his eleplmntahiP tOolt a faney that he did
not want to go any further_, but-Concluded to
take the MK, Wt. Ts;.' *Weyer, did.
not snit his propr i etors, who remonstrated with
him with sow tqty fttlelool he Wenn° en
raged Mid p • to,demoliktit thingsby` kilt
lag where(); soyetsl,(4lol.Wik ..( 1 0Fg,
brims and le • -- 17 crw'mKt-nrawy pkomm
h o lie and
/o .710rAt, )4k010400 into e a Ma °
ltis utwit Wewitimiged to put the chains Mt
Violence.
him, and then put him through the customary
process of pouncing, and stabbing, and shooting,
for over five hours before the, huge brute
would cry for quarter. He was then brought on
to Lancaster, where he arrived in time wr the
evening exhibition.
ENGLANID.
English Opinion of the “Erie Railroad
Wor”—losibile interests Endangered
by Wealth and Ambition.
[From the London Ti 13204 of April ad. I
Even the iropeachtnent of the President is not
the moat interesting of contemporary events in
America. The great public trial, an which for
the first time the executive and legislative powers
are exhibited in opposition to each other, at
tracts at the present moment less attention in
New York than the tremendous struggle be
tween Vanderbilt tepd Drew for the control of
the Enid Railway. The readers of our Ameri
can correspondence will have gained . a suffi
cient general knowledge of the "Erie Railway
War." in which the financial and legal contest
has been followed by a more primitive and ma
terial warfare. At the latest dates the office at
which one of the champions, Mr. Drew. has in
trenched himself was guarded by his friends and
supporters, armed to the teeth, while a body of
citizens was ready at call to retest any attack.
The events which have led to this state of things
are worthy of recapitulation, as giving a lively
picture of New York life at the present day.
Whatever may be the tendency of modern Enge
nehmen to speculation, they certainly do not go
beyond their brethren of the Western Hemis
phere. Nor are the snms,real or itnaginarv,with
which our capitalists deal more colossal than
those which are wielded by the magnatesof Now`
York. Up to two years ago we were almost over
wheined by graud speculations. We were so
much accustomed to hear of millions that an in
voluntary feeling of contempt arose in the minds
of all but the most sober at the
amounts involved in ordinary business.
But we never did anything on a larger
scale than these New Yorkers, who
are now engaged in a life-and-death struggle
which will possibly terminate in the defeat and
bankruptcy of one of the champions and his sup
porters. * * The American papers are Intl
of comments upon this spirited contest, and the
reports of the law proceedings are voluminous.
The decisions of the judges are conflicting, and
even the personal honor of an occupant of the
bench has been questioned. Judge Barnard
has been severely reflected on, and has felt
it necessary to make an affidavit to the effect
that he is not now, and never has been, engaged,
directly or indirectly, either individually or in
connection with . others, in any speculation in
Erie or other stock, and that he never has been
in combination with. Vanderbilt and his party.
It ' would seem that the opinion of the New
Yorkers is not very favorable to the tribunals be
fore which the case has come. Whatever may
have been the reckleseffess of railway management
in England, we have had notating less credita
ble than this contest, in which the chiefs of
two parties of opposing speculators persist,total
ly regardless of the welfare . of the
_concern
which is made the instrument and victim of their
machinations. The affair bears witness to the
boldness of the New York operators, but lit also
shows that in the New World, as well as here,
the interests of the shareholders and the public
can be set at naught by seen of enormous wealth
and unbounded' ambition.
NRA.NCE.
French Opinion or the Impenchonent
and its Causer.
[From Galigneni's Messenger of March :M.l
The conflict in the. United States between the
President and the legislative power is remarked
ou by the Si; , /e, which, while regretting that any
cause should have necessitated such a hostile con
test, declares that, thanks to the truly democratic
habits of the American citizens, the present crisis
will be brought to a termination legally and ac
cording to judicial regulations without recourse
to brute force„ and solely by the regular action of
republican institutions. At the saute time our
contemporary explains iu the following terms
what it conceives to be the origin of the grave
di Terence which has broken out between the
executive and legislative powers in that coun
try The present struggle between President
Johnson and the Congress is nothing else
than the prolongation, or, if you will, the result
of the war between the North and the South, be
tween the partisans of slavery and its adversa
ries. When Mr. Johnson succeeded, by virtue
of the law, td the illustrious and regretted
President Lincoln a difficult task was imposed on
the United Statea, victorious after four years of
a gigantic con,liet. The former rebel States had
to be reorganized and the Intim position fixed,
not only of the whole population, but also of the
four millions of blacks now liberated, but who
had been ‘Javes up to a short time before. In
France, habituated to a rigorous uniformity
of civil' and political laws, one can with
difficulty comprehend the nature of the
obstacles which the victorious North had
to surmount. The nine slave States which had
sustained the war against the frecitones possessed,
previously to the rebellion, the legal right 9f
self-administration without any control from the
central government; they regulated their civil
and political code as they chose, provided they
did not infringe upon certain very general and
very broad rules obligatory upon the whole
people of the United States. The prerogatives of
each member of the Union extended so tar as to
give to the local legislaturee, from the time of the
foundation ot the republic up to lst'ss, the right
of authorizing or prohibiting slavery. The
great question, therefore, before the repub
ilean liberals at • the close of the civil
war was this Was it expedient to re
store, with or without conditions, to the rebel
States the full exercise of their constitutional
rights. The Democratic party, that which had
constantly been hostile to Lincoln and which
sympathized with the slave South, maintained
that the authority of the federal government hav
ing been re-established in the rebel, states, the
duty of the Congress was to hasten to restore to
them, unconditionally , all the prerogatives which
they were in the enjoyment of before their revolt..
With respect to 'what should become of the en
franchised slaves who remained in some sort at
the discretion of their, former masters, the Demo
crats gave themselves little concern. The Presi
dent, Andrew. Johnson, a native of one of the
Southern States, who entered life as a Democrat,
but who,when ie rebellion broke out,had ranged
himself among the most ardent enemies or that
party, suddenly returned to his first opinions and
declared in favor of thereadmission of the former
rebel States without condition. Happily for the
honor of the great republic the Congress did not
approve of the versatile notions of the President..
Charged with the execution of the laws, he has
determined to pervert them; he has selected as
government officials men sympathizing with the
late rebels and adversaries of thei emancipation of
the slaves. And to persons of similar opinions
he has coudded the duty of applying the en
franchising laws voted by Congress. The latter,
bound to see that the acts passed wore executed,
has adopted various precautionary measures
against the encroachments of the Preaident. The
law recently violated by Mr. Johnson, and ;which
prohibited him from removing his ministers
without the consent of the Senate, was one of
these steps Wien by the legislative powcr. In, its
own delence. „
~
—A Nov'Bedford paper tells this dory: "A
collector of customs in this section, of the State,
who served in, the volunteer army and lost a leg
ID 010 servite, same Months since- ruched a eh'
milarletter from Wutddugton ealllnglipan him,
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liii , tr` Ha!r,fPlied...finit*. . noMOW V?
gi hay log WOW/ 110110 Ali he beld.,by
the' e ffi r r l, l B l # ll t °l ' 4 P, 1 0.: / A gi I: agglOtar the
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PRICE THREE COTS,
rarraum
—Kit Carson• was tii at Denver last woek.
—A Paris theatre is about to ,prodirde s plow;
written for a danPntee and a fountain.
—The East New York Conference prohibits WO,
use of "Intoalcating wines" in the sacrament.
—MI4,/gie Mitehell owns a handsome four-stot*
brown-atone-front houae near Fifth avenue, New,
York. •
—A young man id Richmond, Me., died lut
we& from an inward strain, mind by gyiulaatie ,
exercise& -
—A French paper announces the death of Coli
Jomard, the last survivor of Napoleorili hattiomi
the Pyramids, at the ago of eightpeightytkiint
—The first number of the Chicagoan, the Mir
literary paper of the West, is published and ft
vorably citielsed.
—The crew of the French ship, wrecked on gar
passage from Calcutta to Marseilles were fOreell
to cannibalism before relief came.
—Mr. McCormick, the "reaper man, "
pays titer
highest income tax in Chicago , his income foe
1867 having reached $282,306 84. There was no
other income in the city that reached SIOO,OOOL
—A Brooklyn paper says that the popular
proverb that when rogues fall out honsat mew
get their due" is denied by the Erie and Central
stockholders.
—Several manuscripts, a silver chalice Cini
other articles or known antiquity, have ,afreiwly
been procured in Abyssinia for the British Mu
scum.
—A tablet has been placed in the front of the
house where the great composer Bach was born,
in Eisenach, on the 21st of March, IGBB, cm, •
tuemorating the fast.
—The New YOrk car companies propose the
Berlin system of Issuing numbered tickets to pas
sengers to prevent conductors "knocking down.
fare," if possible.
—Earl Russell once• said : "Only two awn
ever did understand the Schleswig-Holstein ques
tion—another gentleman and I. The other gen
tleman is dead. lie explained it to me, but I
have forgotten all about IL"
—Tupper's last stanzas, on some bones found
at Smithfield and supposed to be bones of martyrs,
are called "ineffable rubbish," and it appears ern
worthy of their subject, which are found to be
pigs' bones.
—A North Carolina paper says that the cele
brated kaolin clay, large Quantities of which are
shipped north, is not only used in the manufac
ture of porcelain ware, but also for making
"meerschaum" pipes, adulterating flour, Sr.c.
—An English gentleman lately refused to de
liver a letter to one of his servant girls because
it was directed to her as **bliss" So-and-so. fie
thought it was not proper that a servant girt
should have "Miss" prefixed to her name.
—lt is rumored in France that one of the thea
tres of Paris Is about to import another English
drama. The papers are thsgusted at this,,and
one of them remarks that people are in the habit
of going to Martinique for coffee, but not for
chiccory.
—A large proportion, of the Weiler matches
used in this country are imported from abroad.
The Match Making Company of Jcankceping, in
Sweden, furnish a large quantity. In 18W they
made 45,698,2411 boxes, of which 36,000,000 were
sent to this country.
—The schoolmasters of Germany ask for the
co-operation of the press to- pat down the
growing tendency of the stage to immorality,
both with respect to 'the works issued and the
manner in which they are exhibited on the
—The Wamsutta. Mills of New Bedford, letam.,
which began operations In 1847 with $160,000
capital and one mill, and had increased to $4000,-
000 capital and three mills la 1860, now proposes
to build a fourth milk to equal in capacity the
three now running.
—The late Bishop.• Meade, of Virginia, occa
sionally said a witty thing. lip was once La
menting the neglect•of education In the State,arld
remarked, with a. significant expresaion : "Oar
girls are poorly educated, but our boys will never
find it out."
—A large meeting of Episcopalians, was held at
St. Paul's Chapel, Boston, on Tueiday, to take
measures for an organization to maintain 'anti
educate the daughters of impoverished Episcopal
clergymen. Bishop Eaatbum presided, and Rev.
Drs. Wharton, Huntington and others are a com
mittee for elaborating a plan.
—Mr. Johnstone, the Orangeman.who was
sentenced to imprisonment for violation . of. the
processions net, has completed the term of his
sentence, but does not leave Down.patrick
preferring to remain another month rather than
give bonds to keep the peace for six months His
friends propose to compensate his sufferings by
sending him to parliament.
—The London ,Spectator admires Gcn. Shut
-
thin, but it does not pay a very high compliment
to the British army system when it _says: "Had
he been bona ,13.). France ninety years .ago he
would have beanie a Marshal and a Duke; had
be been born In England, his fine military gifts
would his
have been lost toeountry or it he had
entered the army, be would have died at , most a,,
sergeant."
--An Englishm`an, residing in Paris, found that
the. Prefect had ordered his house to becorne.No.
19; so be painted up a large "49," andput op a ,
brass plate the. words "formerly 19.' "flow,
droll are your countrymen," said a Parisian;
"who but you would do that?" "Do what?"
"Why, put np your age after your name.” He
thought the inscription was a proper name—"M.
Formerly."
—A livery stable keeper, named Spurr, would •
never let a horse go out without requesting the
hirer not to drive fast. One day a young tout
called to got a turn-out to attend a funeral. "Oar--
tainly,'' said Spurr; "but," he added, forgetting
the solemn purpose for which the young man,
required the horse, "don't drive fast." "Why, .
just look where, old fellow," said the somewhat
excited young man, "I want you to understand
shall keep up with the procession if it kills the.
horse."
' —The clergyman who married the Archduke-
Henry 10 Mlle. Hoffman had no .discretion in the.
matter. He was not even informed , that any:
ceremony was to take place.. He was simply.
sent for to visit the archducal . palace. On arm--
lug he was ushered into a room where were.
gathered the wedding couple and two gentlemen,.
The archduke immediately began by saying: "it
declare at this moment, in the presence of• the.
cure and two witnesses, that I take the youpg
lady here present for my wife." Mlle. Hoffman.
made a similar statement,antlso the marriage was.
duly celebrated in conformity with the canonical
laws..
[For the Yhiladelphja Evening Du 110.14,1
Speciality Ire. Specialty. •
In this age of improved ideas care should to
exercised not to transgress the laws of correct :
spelling: Printers of the present day MOM In-,
elined to shorten some lengthy words,, even at
the expense of right and reason. Thu wrltAr of
this article contends for speciality, as aloud being
correct,' for the following reason : When il sena
is the root or foundation-ward, thin tertaialititai
ally is added, as: Mayoralty, Stuwittldty; bud
when an adjective Is 'the foundationAitOrd 'the
termination sty ie added, as: Ponnald ;Ititittajr,
Spiritual-ity, pecullar-ity, s aituplaUd 4 , , , ,,, , , ppy
L
illustration of this prig p ie in, the. *own
and the adjective national. If the nounirem wed *
ally would he the termination . ; but obiktoosoOttlfe
national is used, the word otkoomtuootiootaitfh
not nationalty. , , , . , brae.
GRANGE OF Tont.--Tlnt drain men
of the Camden and 14440* c oun t,
went into effect Wm .mornthg., ,The ~ P ktetitilt
the roads will' eZindni `thy
ment In another eolonlz,