GIBSON PEACOGIc.. E. Volt NAITATIMS WEDDIN(4O, executed in aau rice matinee.. DRENds CIIEWPN wroarmr. DIED, BRYANT.Athe lith inst.. Martha Dryant , formerly of Portland. 6/ Year., • The friends, o the Nnn/ are Invited to . attend the ftweer4 from the residence of P. S. Kimball %Vest Walnut te Lane, Germantown. Pa., Wednesday afternoon, at 8 o'clock Ir. ht. (Main pa Please COPY GOTTRINGEW.-44 a mending of the 11th hurt, Mrs. Diary C. Cottringer. in e 60th year of her ego. The relatives lad friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the ftinerAl, from her late residence. No ia4 North TWelltii *Met. on Wednesday. loth istanc, al a P. bi * ccati.--13addmit t a i on the Oth inst. William M. Ford, in_the 201 4 1 1 / 4 Yhar fif kig az a tiii4 ,. The frt . Rising Star Lodge No. 120, .A. Y. 11. • xce l tdor la., . o 21f; Oriental If. It. A.G.. No. PM i th e DU ant !guano Company , and the cm -cloy6a o f. the , Fklllll4 Railroad Gompany are ,invited pig , Magraktrinn his late residence, No. 1.% Bohm KU et, on wednesday, May lath, at 2 o'clock P.M. ' , • LEVISTIY.I-011 the 10th of May, ma, Mary Frances ~ 33. re Lava!, of the Island Of Jamaica, in the Nth vear i ef her age. MUORREAD.--On the lath Inst.. Harsh R. C. wife of Wm. G. Moorhead, and daughter of the late Honorable Eleatheros Cooke and Martha Cooke. of . Ohio. Funeral on TtitliklaY. 14th inst. at 11 o'cleck,tgin 1012 'W alnut street - Relati v e s and friends of the fa IIY are invited without farther notice. - le - ROT , r. —tin ***Mb inst., in Washington . D. C. Mar garet Roth, in the 04 year of her age. SMI 11.--tin the 10th inst. in the Nth year of hi. age, •G. Roberts diultli. • OBITUA Iw. HELEN JULIA. rIOI4IIINH -PITD--AGE 23. When those we love die, it laperhaps not easy to speak of them with measure.. Beath encircles thenr with a halo. and to us they are tramfigured as angels, , If too, we have eern them. always young, bright. ututolled by the world's contact, we rebel against the destiny that bean them away from to on this earth, forever. blowly, very slowly, we accept the truth, that it is God's will. and that Be doeth all things well. J And so, when DOT DieDdlll learnt IIELT.S' ULIA Di.stlflN* WAS no more. it war romy hard to believe it true. Po fair—ao young. scarce t.. entinthreo-oo happy--so loved—all asked why could not oho have been spared. to be the delight of her home—tiro guide of her fan:illy—the ]t) . {" of Ler friends! Why could ells not have lived, most of all for hint, who during three too brief . years. was ever :IS loving and gracious to her, as the. tender and true to him ? But it was not to be. Penny er tering intowomenhood, pith feet lingering amid tit., blos>o,os of spring. and scarce touching on the :winner ilow.lrs, the has passed away to happier lands ..f smarmy!, and itamort it glories. leaving us behind to cherish and regret her memory. But to him and to all. to whom she has hid " Farewell." we 71111) , ray. "Be comforted." Only a little earlier, she seeks that mansion where those who art worthy. will ere long rejoin her. We should have known Earth was not her rtntiDlß Place. We should have seen that ehe was ":year. ing awn' to the hied of the teal:" and, as the dread .hallow of tbe mighty wings stole over her, might have raid, after the words of au old poet: Sweet soul! so fair--10 pure. co bright— Searce meant for Ear th—kin to the sky— Angels shall bear thee in thy night, • Since thou Must die. Gnu. 'T. TI17)11N. Ales We can newer see him more. He died near mid night. on the loth. lie was good, generous and brave. _Peer knew hie true merit his sterling worth. Ilia brain .Via large and magnetic. and hie heart kind as a woman's. Death hers hos deprived us of one of the noblest speci mens of humanity, As &member of the Legislature, he was able and heneet .as a man he was just—;w a hasoand and parent be was loving and kind. and as a friend he was unsurpassed for fidelity. Philadelphia will not soon have as careful and faithful a representative of her in terests. Vr e knew him well, and because we knew him Ni ell, we loved him well Gtoeur. T. TIPAN was no ordinary man, lie was gifted and great. yet so simple that be scarcely knew his pi were. hlr City, in his death. loses one of her best fries de—he. Inanity one of her boldest and noblest champions—one of the select few willing at all times to folio wTruth wherever she may lead Our deceased friend wee fall of moral courage. and con. requently cared little for popularity. We repeat. his place will not soon be tilled. God largely favored him. and he ever followed the Promptings of duty. regardlem of coneequemees personal to himself ilia record in time id good: we think his record in eternity V as good. 'ills life was gentle; and the elements $e mixed In him that Nat',.llB might stand up, Ana aay to all the world. - ibis was& maid' J. IT. YRE d: LANDELL OPEN TO-DAY THE LIGHT IN shade* of Spring Poplins for the Fashionable Walking Dc erste. Steel Colored Poplins. Mode Gotored Poplins. ' Bienisrek Evict Wade. RELIGIOUS NOTICES. INSTALLATION SERVIOES. THE RI V. sior'Peter Stryker. D. P. formerly Yager of the Thirty onrth Street Retortned Chornh In Nn York Wu% <l3. V.) will be Metalled raster of the North Bros I Street Presbyterian Church ((corner Broad and Green streets). hy the Third Presbytery of Philadaphia, THURSDAY EVENING. lith instant. The exercised to commence at ft q arter before eight o'clock. The Rev. IL H. Stryker. of the Cleasiit of New York (fathof the e % Dr Rev. E. E. Adamr. D D.. Rev. Da n is I Mare% D. D., and Rev. G. F. Wiswell, D.D., will participate in the exercises. aiyl2 to th2t rp Z HALL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS ' • •""' Um, N 0.1210 (Acetone street. PUBLIC ; TILEPEP ANCE hifIkTINO. To be beld I. EVE NDIG, at 13 o'clock. Addiesa, by I. N E WT ON O P Itecit...tion, by Prof. 111; PIA ADAMS. Poem by THOILE3 NICHOLSON. F.W. Exercise.' in ed with choice music. It SPECIAL NOTICES. COMPLEMENTARY TF.S7I3IONIAL SIGNOR BLITZ.. [Correspondence.) rIVILAPIMTIIIA, March MIA& Urse Bin: Your many friends In the city learn with re gret that you have resolved to retire from professional life, Iterillfty_yeare devotion to the amusement. Instruction end gratification of the public at large. Remembering the many hours of innocent and rational pleasure experienced at your hands. and the numerous charitable acts by which yosr professional career has been marked. they cannot vermit that retirement to take Place without some suitable demonstration of their re• spectiland good will. They, therefore, request your acceptance of a farewell 73enctit. to be given at ouch time and place as may be most agreeable to yourself. Very Reispeodfully. MORTON . MoILICHAEL. JAMES PAGE, _ .101114 TiIOILNLEV, WILLIAM H KERN, M. Kiwi ok ROB IdUCKLE, „ithiwPli W. BULLOCK. GEORGE BULLOCK. HENRY W. AREk. • SIGNOR BLITZ. PHILADELPHIA. 3farch SI, l(W. GIaiTLEMEPI: Your friendly and generous letter of the .nth itud., tendering me a farewell tlompli mentary Benefit previous to my retiring from public life, after fifty years of faithful du induces me to nay that lam highly .battered by the inguirbed honor proffered by my fellow citizens. and daily gratified to find that my profendonal exertion have been deemed by them worthy of esteem and t. the Richest and moat abiding re. ward that can be eved by aby public _ _performer. 4 I accept yourkbad or and will mune the 'Academy of 'Nude, Broad and Locust streets es the moat desirable 3dace for tbe proposed Testimonial, and appoint Friday evening, the Mh of May next, WI the time for the ex pre& elon of your pleasure. Very respectfully. Gentlemen, Your obedient fervent, SIGNOR BLITZ, 11331 Wallace erect. To Memo. MORTON MoMICHAEL. JAMES PAGE • JOHN THORAET M. RICHARDS astbux. WILLIAM E. KERN. JOSEPH W. HEMLOCK, GEORGE BULLOCK. It, And other OFFICE NORTHERN LIBERTIES OAS COM. • ItILADELNITA. May istkosa. At $l, meeting of the Board of Trustees. held last even ling, it was resolved that the price of gas furnished by this Company to private consumers on and after the let of .Duly next, Mull he $2 40 per 1,000 cubic feat net; and of ghat furnished to nubile lamps, $l2O per 1,000 cubic feet :wt. with an addition of 5 per cent. ma the amount of all ibilis not paid within rive days after presentation. • FODELL, Secretary. NT LITERARY AND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, xnyl2.tu.tb,s,Bt4 AT TEM SPRING GARDEN STREET M. E. CHURCH, :WEDNESDAY RVENINtA, May lath. Select teaStnlict b 3, Mile B.A. STETSON, Singing, Ore. ANNIE' E NEVINS. Admittance, 50 cents; children. 95 cents. myl22trips AMERICAN,, ACADEMY NforaVlMlT'erlifira' the Foyer of the Academy on MONDAY. Juno let, at 4 wolock P. IL, when an Election *lll be held for twelve phoctors to servo the ensuthg_year. myth 1519 22 26 29 jell AIIUHAEL NISRET, &WY. NOW UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI&—DEPART BIENT OF ARTS.—The public examinations of the 'Senior Maas for Degrees will be held from May Bth to May R2d. beginning each day at 4 o'clock. P. M. ; and' ahoy on guesdaYtt, at 1116 o'clock, A. M. FRANCIS A. JACKSON. • Secretary of the Faculty. 110WrtD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 1520 AND Lombar street, Dlapezusary Department,—Bledloal Ixeatment au medicines funlished gratuitously to the i ller no . :lB l l7Ou i tan ' th . .fre fr o O A. y " a l. d gad disown and bodily u=orznitlea tasted. dau gat 12 o'clock. - . , • ago nunti per NEWSPAPER/3,13001M IWIPIILIDTS t IVASTE • 4c" bough t by JIWIAttt. . ' • •f.". Ti-i• f m -f: • ''. '''-'. re , , . , u . • , , , ~ . . . +.% , • t . . : Yom. . .. ... . ...... . , ~.. . • _ • , . i i '4 , • 0 , , . .„ , . , . . .., • f . : 1 • , \I, , I •,, . • ~ . ' . . ' .. . , . , , , • - , . ~ . , • . , , ART NO VICE. THE SCULPTURE AT THE ACADEMY. OF FMB ARTS.—Joseph A. Bailly, P. A. 343 to 353, 367,. 368,, 383, 585, 443. No less than ten blocks ell stone changed by a single Cadmus into men and women ! If this fecundity continues and proves contagious among the ambitious sculptors of Philsdelphia, it will be but a short time that the single chamber at the Academy will suffice, and we shall find separate rooms allotted to the vari ous contributozs, after the manner of the mod ern sculpture galleries of the Louvre, over whose portals one reads donjon Hall, PuJet Hall, and the like. M. Bailly's particular exhibition so nearly fills the SepiPture Gallery of the Academy that everybody else ' flying out of it in confusion. Poor Rinaldo 81-' naldi has betaken himself, with his gigantic Pens lope, towards the north doorway, where she almost blocks the passage. Steinhauser,itt the case of his lovely Hero and Leander, is inceitt, raoniously shoved to one side, while his ponder" ous bust of Goethe has been shot up more 'than half way to the ceiling, and clings giddily to the great canvas of Mr. West like a brooch in a lady's veil, or a blue-bottle in a spiderweb. Hamisch's graceful Cupid, which ought to be in the room, appears to be flying down the stairway to the Cellar where the Greek statues are. And Mons. Bailly,sitting in hemicycle in the majestic marble whiteness of his works, excludes the public by his mere multitude, and broods alone. The larger statues exposed by M. Ballly are the two called "Echo," and the groups named "Paradise Lost" and "The First Prayer." The plaster models for the two last-nanard subjects were exposed in the same hall at the Spring Ex hibition of 18G4. A decided gain in the beauty of finish accrues, as was to be expected, from the transfer of these conceptions to the liner material in which they now present thems.lves. The "Eve" in the former we consider to be Bailly's most successful effort up to the present time. She is ample, flexible, graceful, and posed with a fine abandon against the protecting side of her: lord, which she looks as if she wished sincerely she had never left. The much-vaunted "Eve" of Bartholomew, as we remember it, was little, if any, superior to this. It bears a very consider- able resemblance to the "Eve," pictorially" treated, of M. Cabalael, in the large picture, with the same title, belonging to the King of Bavaria; a resemblance accurate enough to take its place among those strange coincidences, demonstrably accident 1, with which the history of all the fine arts abounds. The Adam, to whom she clings in the desolation of exile, is less to: our taste; he manages his limbs without purpose, school-boy like, and his left arm and hand,very prominently exposed, are carelessly cut. The feet of the Eve, beside him, are twenty times better; indeed, M. Ballly, to judge from his present collection, has a predilection for beautiful feet equal to that Of the prince in Cinderella. In the "First Prayer," (mem. why first?) the heroine has, grown more matronly, and displays, In the doll-like sytumetry onw l iOst,' a fore, shadowing of modern threories of lacing, if not the corset outright. She sustains against her side, with great expense of muscular power, the infant Abel; rind bends a glance of gentle reproof on the surly little Cain, whose "first prayer" ap pears to be postponed for some years later. The children are beautiful and chubby, like those of the later Italian schools of art, though Cain lays his ten linger-tips on his left breast with a ges ture that is French and nothing else. Thee figures, in the crowded state of the gal iery, are pieced against the wall, and one cannot view but half of them. The back of the Adam i f , fine; but that of his helpmate, in the "Prayer,' loses little by its concealment against the hang ings. In relation to these two groups, perhaps the most elaborate heretofore sculptured in our city, we see no harm In stating a fact which will be in the nature of an enlightenment to some honest folks who stare at the "huge figures" paid for works of art. The payment made by Mr. Gibson, the owner, was large ; but so far was it• from being remunerative that the artist found in his hand, after paying for the marble and satis fying his assistant sculptors, as his own net pro fit—the sum of six dollars. If he had toiled for anything but a noble desire for fame, he would have thought himself but poorly paid for four years of labor, anxiety, and the inental fuver of invention. "Echo" is the name given to a pair of single standing figures the size of life. The male, which would be more appropriately named Nar cissus, represents a boy who has just blown a note upon a rustic flute, and pauses with an ex pression of curiosity and pleasure as he hears the repetition come back to his ear. Echo—in strict keeping she should lean against a reel: rather than the tree that helps to support her—lifts up her head with animation, her lips parted, and her hand forming a flange beside them with the nat ural gesture of one who sends forward a cry to a distance ; in the statue it seems as if she meant to blow back the note like a kiss to the parent mouth she is enamored of. The left hand, with which she holds some drapery, is large and beautifully Anished. But it does not correspond with the 'arm, which has been studied from a model of a dry and mus cular habit, while the former indicates an adipose temperament. The feet, again, are good. In this pair of ideal subjecta the sculptor has unfor tunately forgotten to idealize from his models; they are portrait-statues of the nude bodies of some young man and some more mature female, and nothing more, except that the faeea are not like portraits of anybody; but study from• the model in any way is a luxury .we are scarcely used to in this country, and in our thankfulness for figures evidently repeated from nature we do not like to criticise the comparative vulgarity of the type. Mons. Bailly's bust of "Youth" is a replica. His alto-relief of a girls head, less to our taste,is called "Spring." Ills medallion in bronze of an Indian chief is full of character and much to our liking; but we find the face too large for the skull. His group of flowers, (hung in the Ro tunda, No. 443) is a most exquisite bit marble jewelry, not to be surpassed by any artist now, living in any country. The relief is very high and perilous, the surfaces modeled to the very point of illusionthe marble pearly and treslu cent, and the grace and ease of the whole bouquet beyond anything we remember to have 60M in the material. The tremendous fecundity of this tirelesS‘artlsf has caused the absorption of all' our hvallabiti space to.day; the remaining, sculpture will be noticed in a supplementary article. PHILADELPHIA, TUEpAY, MAY 12, 1868. MiTi3.'7•TIWIM7IMM. LETTIEIIt FROM PARIS. [Correepondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] PARIS, Tuesday, April 28th, 1868.—We 'have been shaken up a little at last from our long-pe riod of dullness, and news of one sort or aficither comes pouring in upon us from all directions. The moat exciting, at least, if not the most im portant, arrives from very distant quarters; and we hear at'once of the success of the British ex pedition to Abyssinia,: almost Waved by the tearful murder of McGee in Canada, and the dastardly attack on the life of Prince Alfred in Australia. But these events lie quite out of my province; and if I mention them, it is only be chuse it Is difficult not to make, some reference to a: subject which every one around you is talk ing about. As to what people are saying, that is a,very different matter, and falls directly, under my own field of observation. The British suc cess is not regarded or spoken of with superla tive favor here, notwithstanding the entente cor diale. A trifling disaster of the English would have been a good set-off against that untoward Mexican affair. The opposition journals ask sarcastically whether the British intend (after the imperial fashion) to "regenerate the Abyssinian, and to establish the predominance of the Saxon nice" in Africa, as France Would fain have estab- Hailed that of the "Latin" in America. It is amusing to listen to the "friendly" remarks one hears in French official saloons upon the success of "our allies." and "to see how these Europeans love one another!" Even the attack upon Prince Alfred is turned to account, and enables the friends of "personal" 'government to turn round and ray: You see a constitutional dynasty is exposed to just the same dangers as our own. Coming to matters nearer home, we have again a pacific, as well as commercial speech from the King of Prussia at the opening of the Customs' Parliament of Federal Germany at Berlin. There is not a doubt that Germany is inclined to remain perfectly pacific and tranquil. if France will allow tier to do so, and not interfere with her internal developments. No one dreams of attacking France; and the armaments which she insists upon keeping up and strengthening have therefore no other motive than that of maintaining a preponderating influence in 4 . xternal affairs. It is for this visionary ad vantage that a dynastic government is gradually swamping the resources of the country. To what an extent this is done we had the other day a striking example. The Chamber was called upon to pass the final accounts of the budget of 1864 (we are always four years in ar rear in France.) That Budget, at the commence ment, was supposed to show a balance between receipts and expenditure. But how does it end now? Why in a real deficit of 72 millions, and in tin expenditure of no less than two thousand millions and a quarter. And this monstrous sum was expended during a year of peace, and before any new armaments were spoken of. And now. again, we are beginning the Bridget of 1868 with fresh demand o. (T loan of 400 millions. Another financial circumstance which is mak. ing a strong impression upon public opinion here, is the fact, which has recently been re vealed, that the Prefect of Paris has incurred a debt of four hundred millions in the name of the city, but on his own authority, and without the intervention of the Legislature, which is required by the statutes. The transaction amounts, in fact, to a loan illegally raised. The Prefect gave his acceptances for the amount in question, and these are now in the hands of the Credit Fonder, which discounted them: The Prefect, not being able to take them up, is obliged to ask the Legislature for a bill, which is. in fact, a bill of indemnity, authorizing him to enter into a contract with the Credit Foncier for the repayment of this debt, or loan, in sixty years, by half-yearly payments. The Prefect is obliged to ask for this bill, because otherwise he could not _make a legal contract, which the Credit Fonder insists on, having .in place of his acceptances, before it will give him the time he requires. And so the whole affair became public, doubtless to the great disgust of that en terprising and active, but extravagant function ary. In his own report of the matter the Prefect says that the "plan for the transformation of Paris" was "traced up by the Emperor's own hand." It has cost a pretty sum of money, though far from being yet complete. By the re port on the bill now before the Chamber, we learn that the sum expended on improvements and embellishments from the commencement of the Rue de Rivoli the Louvre up to this time, amounts to one thousand millions, and a vast deal more is to be done which cannot easily be left in its now unfinished state. For instance, the City has contracted for the whole of the head of the Rue de la Paix and con- siderable portions of the adjoining Boulevards to be pulled down and cleared away before the fast of June, to complete the space round the New Opera and open out the new street leading thence straight to the Palais Royal. This is a stupendous operation, the property to be pulled down being perhaps the most valuable in all Paris. The indemnities paid to occupiers alone for their leases amount, I understand, to above a million. The American Bankers and Commis sion Agents, Bowles, Drouet Co., who have just established themselves in their new premises in this neighborhood, have received, I believe,an indemnity of 190,000 francs. A friend of mine, who occupies quite a small apartment on a fourth floor, and who had only a few months' lease to run, claimed and received an indernaity of 8,000 francs; and so on in pro 'portion. M. Did.o, the Deputy, who was the fortunate, or rather, as it turned out, the anfor tunate owner of the well known corner house ocqupied by the celebrated Tahan, was paid two and a quarter millions for his property. Al though already a man of large fortune, he was so overcome by his good luck that he first went mad and then died! Private extravagance in Paris has been vying lately with the acts above enumerated of impe rial and municipal expenditure. We have had such a sale of paintings as was perhaps never before known for exaggeration of prices. Twen ty-three small pictures sold for very near a roll . lion and a half, or, as,some - one took the trouble to palculate,' at thereto of seven thousand francs pet quarter of an.inch of eanvass,and a thousand poUnds sterling per minute of .tme! The paint ings wore no doubt valuable; but the wholcrif , fair was a job, and many of the purchasers begin already, I hear, to repent of their "bar gailas." The gallery elonged to the old Prince Demidoff,., formerly husband of the Princess Mathilde. ,It was pledged for a large sum to -Count Duel:olle], a French nobleman, - and was On the point of being forfeitedr when, on the last OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY. day for repayment of the money, some Paris dealer combined with the auctioneer, raised the necessary funds, redeemed the paintings, put them up to sale, forced the prlies, and made immense profits. The highest price given was 182,000 franca for the Congress of Munster, by Ter burg (about 8 inches by; 7), and which was bought in 1857, at the sale of the Due du Berri, for 45,000 francs. A cattle-piece, by Cup, bought at the same sale for 18,000 francs, were sold on thts occasion for 140,000 francs! There were a great many Americana present, but they were too acute to buy under such circum stances. IgINIEVNIERIAJI4, ineseorasulautrY. andaelobs Speech or the Prussian Premier-'The North German Parham meut. Count Bismarck made a speech of unusual length, and marked by much of his old audacity, lbthe North German Parliament, on Wednesday. The matter under debate was an amendment on the Government bill for the administration of the public dthts of the confederation. This amend ment, which was introduced by Herr Miguel, one of the most eminent of the Hanoverian members, tc quired that individual officials of the new depart men t proposed to be established by the bill should be made directly responsible to the House for their official conduct. Count Bismarck argued ;he question not so much on its own merits as from the constitutional point of view. The Fede ral constitution, he said, gave the Band the right of contracting loans, and in accordance with this right, a loan for the further development of the Federal navy had been Voted last year. Ho had not, however, been yet legally empowered to contract this loan, and the amendment now in queetion would practically render illusory both the paragraphs in the construction relative to loans in general, and the loan voted for the navy in particular, unless the Government would make a concession to the "grasping ambition" of the Liberals. They alleged that they wished to be secured against abuses; but the prOposal was itself an abuse, for it aimed at an infringement of the constitutional rights of the Federal Government. "You wish us,'.? he con tinued, "to purchase the right of. defending the country by an expression of the powers of Par liament. This is the real question ' and I con sider it the duty of every government that wishes to depend on the continuance of the present state of things firmly to resist such a proposal as a matter of principle. Who will guarantee that on the next occasion, when th period of the military budget has expired, ior instance, you will not say, 'Allow us sub sistence-motey, or we refuse to maintain the army?" As for the more immediate object of the amendment, he would be prepared to admit the principlepf the legalresp_onsibility of Minis ters, rather than make the officials dependent on any one but the heads of their departments. If such a regulation as that proposed had existed in Prussia, he and his hearers would probably at that moment have been under the orders of the majority of the Federal Diet at Frankford, perhaps diminished by a portion of the Pruden State. When the Prussian Par-* !lament declared it would not give the Ministry a farthing, even if the enemy were at the gates (WM statement was indignantly con tradicted by the Prussian members of the Left), the Ministry did their duty in obtaining money for the necessary defence of the country. What if, with the fear of a judicial sentence before their eyes, they had washed their hands of the matter and allowed Prussia to remain defenceless? In questions abigh policy, moreover, a certain dis cretion mnatkbe allowed to Ministers; and any one who had not the advantage of their expe rience and: knowledge of affairs, might often think a loan unnecessary when the interests of the country required it. Nor must the House suppose that the question of the extension of the navy wail one in which the Federal Governments were more interested than their subjects. How would members like it if the Government were to de clare-that they would not allow the naval or- Hanization to be proceeded with unless the ouse would give up some of its constitutional rights? Andyet this was the sort of demand now made by Herr Miguel's amendment. This was not the time, when the foundations of the new organization of Germany had only Just been laid, for such obstinate disputes on abstract principles. Let the House first assist in firmly consolidating the.. Union, and not take the opportunity of wresting a new concession from the Federal Governments by laying before them the alternative of either agreeing to their demands or being compelled to suspend the further improvement of the navy. Ile cold assure the House that, should the timeiWent pass, the Government would be forced to take the latter course. N.stwithstanding this threat (Which Saturday's telegram informs us has already been carried out), the amendment was passed by a vote of 131 to 114. The general impression at Berlin appears to be, how ever, that the bill will again be introduced in the House, with such modifications at will enable it to past. The Coming Marriage of Prince Achille The marriage of the Prince Achille Murat with the Princess balorne de Mlngrella will be the oc casion of a very costly expenditure. The wed ding dress is to cost, it is said, more than 30,000 francs, (X 1,200) and a great profusion of dia monds is also spoken of. The young Prince of Mingrelia will place among the wedding presents of his sister the contract for the purchase and sale of the splendid hotel situated near the Park Niowiean, and sold by M. Eugene Pereire. Min grelia, where the ancestors of the future Princess Murat reigned, is the ancient Colchis, celebrated for the adventures of Jason and the crimes of Medea, who, according to the legend, is the an cestor of the Mingrelian sovereigns. The widow of the last reigning prince, deposed by the Czar, is the mother of the Princess Salome. Trouble in Tabasco—The Yucatan Elections—Collector of Mazatlan Car ries off 'blinds—Chihuahua Mining— General Hems. EAVANA, May 11th, 1868.—The French mail steamer Paris has arrived here with dates from Vera Cruz to the sth inst., and from Sisal to the 7th. Her malls from the city at Mekico are to April 30. In Tabasco the government employds had joined the insurgents in Cocalapa. Colonel fignatio had started in their pursuit. Govern ment hail ordered the elections in Yucatan to take place immediately. Government had also praised General Alatorre for his conduct of the Yucatan campaign, and had censured Senor An cona, the new (ioveruor, for having postponed the elections; nevertheless, it admitted that as he wag on the spot and knew the situation best the troops should be withdrawn so as to allow fair play in the elections and> tranquillize the penin sula. The defeat of Negrete near Tulancingo is officially confirmed. The port of Mazatlan had been closed by order'of President Juarez while it was in the bands of General Martinez.- Colonel ihitalos, with four hundred rebels, had left for'Guttyreas, as also the Collector of the Cus loins, with as much of the funds as • he could transport. •Rfrendbrcements were expected in Jalisco for the"' national army. The discontent there wee•eiormfog,'OWing to election intrigues. Art English company had contracted to work the. Santa Eulialia „minim in - Chittualms, A company ot"AmerleanS had bunglif the mines of UraeW. party of rifiladelpPatts ,were negotiating for the' purchase Of'''f'fr these of Gusnacebl. The gold placer at the latter point extends a idistanco hundred and' twenty relics. There were lit tihilruahua twelve hundred Amprieans eugagedlittrtintoo as well asks largo uumber.of Genumw.g They are making so fa [From the Pall Mall Gazette of April 28.] FRANCE• ilitritt. 17.IEXICO. onl3 $2 a day. A motion has been made in Con, grew to suppress the remaining legal holidays. I be merchants of Chihuahua had petitioned Con gress to suppress the depreciated silver and cop per coins that are circulating in that State. Fregoso's name bad been proposed for the office of chief of the new mounted gendarmerie. The loss tog the revenue by the recent smuggling operations of one Teasel at La Paz is estimated at *BO,OOO. The government now demands the full amount from the consignees and owners. The assassins of Braniff are still at large, and the authorities are indifferent as to securing them. The successful operations of General Corona in Sinaloa have been confirmed. The colonists re cently settled at. Tuxpan had been in formed by the authorities that all religions are tolerated In Mexico. Small-I)ex had begun to show itself at Zacate-eaw. Senor Mendez, the Prefect of Mitantlet, had been dismissed for hay ir g ordered the Bandit Ortiz to be shot without a trial. At the Conservatory of Music, in the capi tal, Senorita °luta had been killedby . accident. An entire cargo of goods destinedfor Guada lajara had been stolen by bandits on the road. Such robberies hild become fre quent since the troops left for Sinaloa. Lynch law had been recommended as the only cure. General Pecobedo was at Monterey. At Oaxaca a curate had been fined $lOO for organizing a procession on Good Friday, such out-door cere monies being now illegal. The Legislature of Zacatecas had authorized the appropriation of $200,000 for the re-working of the Freentilo mines. The Governor of Puebla was mistrust ful of his ability to keep qrder, and had asked for troops. The stage between Orizaba and Paso del Macho had been robbed. General Figueroa bad been sent in pursuit of the bandit Galvez. General Alvarez was levying troops in Titioa- DRAMATIC. Miss Amy Girdlesteue's Debut. For the second time within a fortnight, Mrs. Drew last night introduced to the public a' new aspirant for histrionic honors, and Are are as glad to chronicle the success of the lator debutante as we were sorry to speak somewhat depreciatingly of the first. Miss Amy Girdlestone (for whose name,by the way,despito report to the contrary, her sponsers in baptism are,we believe, entirely responsible), was fortunate in that she attracted an audience of the very best character, an audience whose intelligence enabled it to per ceive her real merit, and whose good nature in duced It to exhibit hearty sympathy with her in the natural perplexities of her novel position. The choice of the pleasant little drama The Child rgr the Regiment for a first appearance, was very judicious. It is vivacions.and.somowhat pathetic; it affords opportunity for that moderate display of power which even a nervous novice may ex hibit be she ever so' frightened; •and it provides for the introduction of that beautiful music which added so largely to the interest of the entertain ment last evening. Upon the whole Miss Girdlestone's perform ance was very satisfactory. She labored under one disadvantage throughout: she could not quite overcome her "stage fright," even daring the latter part of the play. Her entrance was the signal for really enthusiastic applause, which seemed to overwhelm her so completely that her earlier sentences were indistinct and inaudi ble. and throughout the performance she seemed almost painfully conscious of the novelty of her position. Considering the distracting influence that this must have exercised upon her, she did remarkably well, and she is justly entitled to warm praise. At times she acted with spirit and power, and always she played with grace and natural simplicity. Her personal attractions in a great measure contributed to the very favorable impression made by her. She has bright black eyes, a pro fusion of dark hair, a charming manner, and a beautiful figure that displayed itself to great advantage in a tasteful costume. Her voice—a mezzo soprano of considetable compass—is strong, rich and sweet, and very musical. She sang several of the most popular airs from Donizetti's opera, deliciously, and while the effect of her nervousness was occasionally per ceptible, and in some instances rendered her unable to execute some passages as brilliantly as she otherwise could have done, it was very evident that her capabilities were great, and that usage, and the greater ease which it will bring, will enable her to display her line powers to their beat advantage. We think Miss Girdlestone may justly be proud of her success, and from its very incompletenes s take courage to try for higher honors upon the ;tage. She possesses talents which, with appli cation, will enable her to occupy a prominent position among dramatic artists, and it is simply due to her to say, that by her appearance and manner last evening, she impressed her hearers with the belief that the stage would be the gainer in tone and character if more women of her class and of her genuine ability appeared upon it. CRIME. Sup posed Murder In Pittsburgh. [From the Pittsburgh 0 azette of may rid A sudden death occurred Saturday morning at No. 211 Wylie street, in the Sixth Ward, the cir cumstances of which were such as to make an in- Tiuest advisable. The victim was a Mrs. Lane, wife of Lewis Lane, residing in the basement of 211 Wylie street, who, it appears, had been in good health until Friday evening, prior to her death, when she was taken suddenly ill and con tinued to grow worse until her death, which oc curred Saturday morning about seven o'clock. Alderman Butler, of the Sixth Ward, proceeded to the house to hold an inquest. Before the jury was impannelled, however, information was liad against the husband, charging him, with maltreating his wife, upon which a warrant was issued, the accused was arrested and committed. The testimony went to show that the husband had given his victim whisky which Wab probably poisoned. after the prisoner had been delivered into the hands of Mr. Smith, assistant Warden, and was being conducted from the jail Mike to the prison, he suddenly drew his hand from his coat pocket and threw a bottle containing some liquid, into the fire. The bottle, was broken into fragments, but a portion of the liquid splashed against the fire-wall of the grate. A substance resembling , arsenic adhered to the brick and some pieces of the bottle were taken out. The accused said the bottle contained medicine which he had been taking, and that he had thrown it in the fire be cause ho did not wish to be troubled with it. The pieces of the bottle will also be given to a chemist for examination. A leather satchel belonging to the accused was searched in the jail office and found to contain seven or eight small bottles with drugs of differ ent kinds, but none of them were labelled. Lane is apparently about forty-five years of, age, and the deceased, it is said, was his sixth wife. The accused. we aro informed,has served a term in the penitentiary, having been sent there from Wash ington county, whero he was convicted of arson. It is alleged that he attempted to poison one of his wives, but falling In the attempt, put her in a room up stairs; locked the door' and eet fire to the bed. The wife Made her escape through a window, but:the hOuse was burned. artn wouTtt Tun:rm.—To rido on a towell-horeepto reads volume of water; to clip the iwinge of ,a hospital; to staffs pillow with tho "feathers" you mak° in rowing; to get a direct ansivor from a government official. F. Z. YETIIEASTON. PRICE TIIREE CENTS. FACTO AND FANNIES. —Ole Bull returns; to Europe In June '< —Belf-opening umbrellas are a new inventrola , —Rev. Alexander Varian , weu-knowa SPie copal clergyman of Cleveland, la dead. , , —The Sultan is modeling_ the municipality O( Constantinople on that of Paris. —Weston wants to make $5;000 by welkin' from New York to St. Paul. • ' —A musician in Tennessee has vented his feel lags in a 'Bloody Morn Polka." —Twenty thousand men are out on a eta . the "black country," near Manehesterpigittselt. —l3t. Joseph, Mo., has redeemed, 189,00 G morel of Its city bonds than it ever issued —totta owns a nice lot-a real estate in New York. —An English paper chronicles the death of ter* riders at steeple chases within a single week.. —Great floods prevail in Sciuth Carolina. ' The rice fields on the Santee river are covered With water to the depth of seven feet. —The entire domain belo e lging b to the Huei* Bay Company le to be eed to the English Go-- veinment. —The Kansas City Advertiser declares thatltt 'Tanis for "the happy odor of Democracy." In other words,it aches fora bad Smell. —Mrs. Frances'Anne Kemble commenced her second series of Bhaksperian readings , m Boston last night. -The Dayton Ledger speaks approvingly of "a gentlemanly and recherclai hook," otherwise a bar-room. • —A. G. Browne, Jr. Is writing a biography of President Johnson. We wish it might be the biography of an Ex-President to-day. —The London Times' Paris correspondent styles Rouher the "Richelieu of the Second Em pire." , —Louisa Pyne, with her opera troupe, is back in London. Fyne takes the palm among Eng lish opera E),lngeril. . . —lf you wabt to measure your length, it is better to take a yard-stick than a treacherous sidewalk. --A. neirro woman, a late corner from the South, appears in the streets of Taunton, Kass. with a short, black pipe carried in a hole In the lobe of her ear. —Dr, John Ellotson, to whom Thackeray de dicated "Pendennis," hag died. He la aaid to have been the original of the character of Dr. Goodenough. —Youatt, the well-known veterinary surgeon who has been bitten eight or ten times , by rabid animals, says that crystal of the nitrate of silver rubbed into the wound will positively prevent hydrophobia in the bitten person or animal. —E. Z. C. Judson, known to the public as Nol Buntline, hasjust gone to California tolectpre on temperance. If he would exercise temperance in the sanguinary passages of his stories it would be a good thing. • —A sailor, exhorting at a prayer meeting in a London chapel, said that on dark, stormy nights, while on the sea, he had often been comforted by that beautiful passage of Seriptare—"A faint heart never won fair lady." —The muddy soil of the C.hamp de Afars hav ing seriously impeded the tactical exercises of the French troops, the Emperor Napoleon has equipped them in wooden sabots, which, if not strictly military in appearance, will enable the men to go dryshod. —The Boston Transcript says that when Sir Morton Peto came to this country, he was wel comed as a man of boundless wealth, variously estimated at from .£10,000,0p to £14,000000., The4rpth Is he was at that time worth just about that amount less than nothing. ' ' • • —Young Freemen. the American actor, draws very full houses at Frankfort, and in othereities of Southwestern Germany. He is overwhelmed with offers from managers who wish to Profit by his sudden popularity, the theatrical season on the Continent being exceedingly dull. —A young married man in Newark, N. J., has become insane through apprehensions that the ceremony uniting him to bts wife is not valid. So an exchange says. But it is not an uncom mon occurrence, we believe, for a man to be come insane from causes directly the opposite to —After the last bard frost, a man near New Albany, Indians, 'offered to sell his prospective fruit crop for twenty-five cents. A , bystAnder banded over the stamp In the presence of witnesses. The trees will be full of fruit, and a fierce quarrel is going on between the owner and the purchaser. -A young American lady, said to he from Cleveland, Ohlo, has been arrested at Dreadeu, on a charge of infanticide. If she should be convicted' of the charge, she would be sent to the peniten tiary of Waldheim, which is considered through out Germanyene of the worst on the whole Continent. —There is a rumor afloat In Paris that the Sul tan was so well pleased with his lute Visit to the western capitals that he la going to repeat it this summer, and will probably extend his trip to the United states, in the history of' which,he Is said to take great interest. He likes to make sea voyages, and the distance will not deter hint, We can offer him "hoorays" if not houria. —Lowell has "an elephant" in the shape of an eagle. Some of the citizens purchased him, and offered him his liberty, but he flew only a few' rods, when he came down so low that he was caught by a boy. Ho is to be fed up in, the hope that he will soon have spunk enough to leave.— Ex. If the bird is any kind of an elephant, ia'he not a Lowellephant ? —The result of the late municipal election an Indiana town is announced by the local paper with half a column of stunning head, lines., of which the following aro samples; "Xt. Carmel declares the rebellion a crime; treason to ba made. odious, and traitors . impoverished; Republican: majority thirty; the 'great reaction' lost in the Wabash; the country perfectly safe." specimen of Southern literature during the war has been presented to the city library of Springfield, Mass. It is a novel of the "Dlek Turpin" stamp, written by Sally Rochester Ford, and printed on wall paper, at Mobile, in , 1864. On an advertising leaf the publisher announces works of more value, and asks for , immediate orders, as the "scarcity of materials compels a limited edition." • —A letter •from San Franciseo notes the death in that city of a Mexican named Manuel Ocboa, at the age of, one hundred and four years, and adds: "'rhe iongeyity of the Spanish-Americans is something remarkable. The old Spanish sol dier Cimone Avalos, who carried a musket in Spain more than a hundred years ago, and was one of the military guard of the Padre Janipero Berra, when he rased the cross in Alta California at San Diego, ninety-eight years since, still lives and enjoys good health and memory, at Todoit Buttes, Lower California." --The London Spectator says that° Sir Robert Napier, in his. Abyssinian expedition compelled "a loft African desert to yield water by an rican device not a twelve-month old.' "A 'half a dozen mules," itsays. "are drawn up, loaded with thin steel tubes. Tap, tap, tap, goes aban,i., mer, rigged up in five minutes, ,and its ten. to curse of Ailieft has bean conquered as # , s: new Moses had smitten Clio rock, and pure' -iy4terg 9 r an army is spouting among the stOriee.".: . W--A locomotive engine, designed 16 rtur ou the Mount Washington Railway, is cow tad at Franklin, N. H. The boilers are a and contain three hundred and thirty tabeeillitit five hundred square feet of heatingentrfade.: -The cy linders are ten inches in diameter, - ilfith sixteen Inched stroke. This engine, tu , ,rotasuding .toe mountain, is coupled to the learend of the: train and pushes the care up the. declivity. The best materials have been used 1n4,4 construction i and powerful brakes and °titer, safeguards; provided , for protection, igaiust neeltlenta. It imbue° far .lontbs building, and Woe* ab0141441U1 Walk
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