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Tuz THEATEES:Mr. John Brougham offers an immense
bill at the Walnut on the occasion of hie benefit tonight.
Be will appear as "Wilkins Mteasvber" in his own dram
atization of David Coppertietd, and as "Ain( Powhatan"
in his amusing burlesque of Foca-hen-Ms.
The Black Crook will be withdrawn from the Chestnut
after this week. Tonight Wile Diani, an accompliehed
demons, has a benefit.
Mrs. John Drew, with her excellent company, will sp..
pear at the Arch this evening in the Pant Fan/Wm_ Craig.
the inimitable, will have a benefit tomorrow night in a
first rate bill.
A miscellaneous performance is announced for this
-evening at the American theatre.
ELEVENTH STBEET °PEEL Morel!. —The programme
for this evening's performance at this popular place of
amusement, is an excellent one. The Biack Crook ballet
is a leading attraction in the way of an extravaganza.
.and r_he impeachment Trial. with a capital burlesque of
fhtligro hready , . also, are very amueing, and cannot
fail please the large audiences which nightly attend
these minstrelperformances. Mr. J. L. Cameroon will sing
several pathetic ballads this evening and there will be
singing, dancing and negro comicalities by the company.
Wrisart.—Wyrnan. the magician, will give an enter
lainment at Assembly Builaap to-night, when he will
perform feats of legerdemain and ventriloquism. At the
•conchnion of the performance sifts wwill be distributed
among the audience. There wilt be a Matinee toluene: h ,
afterno.
Ambits - 1r Or Num.—Laßelle Helene will be performed
tbe French Opera Comp_any this evening. The Grand
Cashews will be given at the Matinee tomorrow after
noon.
—Mr. Wm. J. Moon was released from Auburn
'frill"' on : kto 'sy, and relapsed into beer, "ten
fold dearer by a force of intermitted custom,"
He made tdmstai, first drunk, then sick, then fell
into a trance, was taken off the train at Utica
and decided "dead" by a doctor. Tile coroner
was called, but before the coroner could come,
Moon like his celestial namesake, "issued forth
peculiar" and absorbed a pound of beefsteak.
—N. Y. World. Sometimes it is injudicious for
Moon to get on a "shine."
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES IN EC-
A Visit to the Catacombs of St. Sebas.
Clan and St, Calixtus—A subterra-
VICEIM Cctiv.stery—The Dead of Fineen
Cencuirle , A—Lurtous Superstition—The
Footprints of the Saviour The
'Bombs of the early Christian Dar.
tyre.
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening ButtethLl
PARIS, April 26, 1868.—When we were In R o me
we did:not as Rome does, but as Americans do.
We tired ourselves nigh unto death - with sight
seeing. ;For six weeks we drove from villa to
villa, temple to temple, and church to church.
Of the latter we sometimes saw five in one day ;
and yet, when we left Rome there were at least
fifty, with works of art by the old masters, that
we bad not seen. On one morning, when ten
o'clock—our breakfast hour—came round, I was
still in dream-land, and on being called rather
loudly, I refused peremptorily to join the party
fOr the day. With Spartan firmness I refused all
the tempting offers of enjoyment, resisted the
pictures of sunny views along the Tiber, drawn
for my express benefit, and turned my face to the
wall to sleep again, when my tormentor left me
in disgust. At one o'clock I wakened, hungry,
cross and chilled.
Forebodings of Roman fever, an indescribable
uneasiness of spirit, and in short, a decided mar
au cctur possessed. me. A knock at my door.
Ah! le bcmheur ! An old friend from Philadelphia.
One of those beings who can humor any mood in
any emergency, without appearing to act con
trary to her disposition. "Well! "she exclaimed,
"this is sensible. I suppose you have been tak
ing a little rest. Dear me, if I ever get away
from Rome and our energetic party, I'll do the
same thing.! Peel chilly, do you ? Don't want
any breakfast! You're not wide awake yet; so
you can't be considered responsible, even if you
do talk nonsense."
Let me inform you that this lady was president
of the "Home Cluster," a circle of ladles of our
rise fami/S s in Philadelphia, who by their in
dustry clothed and fed hundreds of orphans in
the " Northern Home for Friendless Children,"
and gave liberally of their pocket-money to
supply delicacies for the sick. Imagine how Mrs.
President rang my bell, and ordered a pannier of
coals, that is, a brass pan of red hot pebbles, to
stand on a tripod in the centre of my room (the
Roman substitute for a stove),and a breakfast that
would tempt a Capneine. And then, such a
string of reminiscences of Home, our own
dear America; Philadelphia, before - the war;
floral fairs, lectures, Lea-drinkings, Wissahickon,
horseback riding on thetSehuyikill and supper at
the Falls ! Before I knew I was In Rome again,
my toilette was completed, the room glowing
with a rosy shimmering beat that seemed like a
haze as it rose from the brassiere, the sunlight
came streaming in my windows as the curtains
were drawn back, and my breakfast was finished,
when Mrs. President exclaimed, "Dear me ! it is
two o'clock, and I promised to join our party at
Nazzaris (the café on tbe'Plazza D'Espagna),
and go with them to the Mosaic factory. There,
don't frown; I'll not bore you with an invitation.
Uo wherayer your fancy leads you to day, and
I'll claim your time tcemorrow." . Away she
went, my blessing with her.
And where did my fancy lead me? First down
stairs. At the door a new "trap," that is the
Roman name for coupe, drew up as I gave some
instructions to the porter, while he changed the
word entre: to sorti over the number of my room,
a custom absolutely necessary in Europe, where
it is fashionable to live in the sixth story. By
looking at this calendar your friends are at once
informed of your presence or absence, and have
not. the trouble of waiting on slow servants or
mounting the stairs themselves. Soon I was at
the Hotel D'Angleterre. "Entm," said the
calendar, as I looked for the name
of a Mexican lady whose acquaint
ance I had made in Paris. Dismissing
the coupe, I went to her room sans ceremonie, and
there she eat at her easel, putting some finishing
touches to the copy of a brigand's head, and
looking as forlorn as I had felt two hours earlier.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, "lon have just come at the
right time! This head has made me positively
nervous. Let us go somewhere and have an
adventure of some sort; so we get back alive, I
do not care what!" "Delightful, just the com•
panion; Miss Fancy," I said, "you're an en-silent
leader!" Of course this remark was explained
and credited to Mrs. President, and that called
forth a long chat about Mexico, the home of
my Spanish friend.
We took an open carriage, and both looked
perfectly blank when the cocker asked "where he
should drive us?" "Anywhere," said Madame in
good round Italian. Past the Fountain of Tervi,
the Capitol,Roman Forum, Coliseum and Palace
of the Caesars we drove,,bidding cocker drive on
as he paused at each. We were . mutually bent
on a rest from sight-seeing. After a while we
drove into the Appian Way by the Church of the
Domino quo vadie. tln the centre of tals church
a piece of marble is laid, with two foot-prints,
said to be the foot-prints of our Saviour. That
was more than we could resist, so in we walked.
My Catholic friend reverently approcudied the
monk in attendance and asked him if he did not
think that tradition rather obscnre,and questioned
the possibility of our Saviour's meeting Bb.Peter on
that exact spot, when he was never known to be
so near Rome. "He was constantly performing
miracles," replied the monk, "and here St. Peter
accosted hisn with 'Dentine quo vadisP or, Mas
ter, where goest thou? On his replying, 'to
Rome,' St. Peter begged him to turn back or he
would be crucified. This stone," the monk con
tinued, "marks the place where he stood, and is
only a copy of the real foot-prints that are in the
church of St. Sebastian, three miles further on.' ,
Purchasing some photographs of the original
stone, we ordered ..&cher to take us to St. Sebas
tian. Entering the little church we found an old
monk of the Capuelne order on hie knees on the
cold brick fiber, his pale face and emaciated form
a sad reproof to the fat capon-fed cardinals who
passed us on the highways, with their scarlet
cloaks and splendid liveried servants.
In a few moments the monk rose and tottered
with his aged limbs stiffened with the cold, and
with weakness from hunger, no doubt, towards a
bell, which he rang, and instantly another monk
as old as himself, but in better physical condi
tion, entered, lighted the candles on the altar,
drew aside a green curtain, and there appeared
behind an iron grating the supposed original foot
prints of our Saviour. We wore silenced, If not
convinced, by the reverential manner of the old
priests, and turned to go out quietly, when we
were asked in French, tho common language of
Italian, Spanish and English in Rome, "Are not
you goht , to the Catacombs? " Sure enough !
Tvarvo3/
it Opro,
NO. N {'l
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY, 15, 1868.
we were in St. Sebastian, the entrance to one of
the most interesting parts of the Catacombs!
In a few Moments the monk placed a lighted
taper, about the thickness of a lead pencil and
nearly two feet long, in the hand of each of us,
and took one for himself. As the sandaled feet of
the old monk foil heavily on each stone step, dnd
only the small red flame of his taper could be
seen in advance of us, descending deeper Into
the darkness, my heart nearly failed me, for bore
were we, only two women, following a feeble old
man info a labyrinth of graves in total darkness.
What if in some current of sir all these tapers
should be extinguished? That would be more of
an adventure than we
,desifed. Down those
stairs St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Sebastian and a
hest of Christian martyrs had walked,
many pursued by vindictive Pagans, and finally
stoned, burned to death, or torn In pieces
in the arena of the Coliseum, for the amusement
of eighty thousand spectators. At the foot of the
first flight we entered.a passage leading to the
chapel of StSebastian, where we found the beau
tiful recumbent statue of the saint, pierced with
arrows, his face the type of agony softened by
Christian resignation. This work, by Giorgetti,
after his master Bernini, was to my taste the
finest of St. Sebastian, for all the others seem to
wear only the smile of St. Stephen, without the
consciousness of pain that a martyr necessarily
feels. The place where the remains of the saint
were buried, in a marble urn, under the altar, was
pointed out to us.
Before going further, let me state for the benefit
of those who have sever visited subterranean
cemeteries, that these immense galleries were ox..
cavated first for the burial of the dead; then,when
pressed by persecution, as actual homes for the
early Christians, their chaVels.a_nd rooms some
times cut out of an earthy rock called tufa, and
adorned with mosaic, or frescoed designs Illustra
ting scenes in their lives, or Scripture stories, so
beautiful In their simplicity and yet so unmis
takable that we were deeply affected by them.
The tombs are in tiers, three or four on each
side of a passage-way, so narrow sometimes we
were obliged to walk sideways. Each corpse
was allowed just a bed in which it could lie
decently composed, and then the place sealed by
a marble slab cemented in the wall. If a violent
death had been suffered, a sangliere, or bottle of
blood, was placed in a niche outside the tomb.
Before one the old monk paused, inserted his
taper in a hole that had been drilled through the
mar ble, and bade us look through another near
it. Getting down on our hands and knees, we
rooked into a little tomb, where the skeleton of a
child lay with every boneperfectly preserved and
evidently undisturbed, after ffteen hundred
years ! Of coarse, the very act of opening this
tomb only enough to admit Its being seen will
cause the air to destroy the form in time. The
alleries are four and even six stories
deep, ventilated by shafts as coal mines
are, and so dismal was it to be doin
under ground eighty feet, with three cellar&
between ourselves and the surface of the earth
that sometimes our breathing seemed to be sus
pended, and when our lights were almost extin
guished by a sudden mo'ement or contact with
the earthy walls, our terror was extreme. Some
passages run off to the right, inclining upward,
others down a steep grade, and the "darkness
made visible" of each turn, was any first literal
realization of the old saying. "Suppose this old
man should get lost," - whispered my friend ;
"there are over five hundred miles of these dark
entries, and they used to beat a dram at' the
stairway so one could tell by the sound the way
out, if the light should go out." .With a husky
voice I answered any Job's comforter—" Please
reserve your suggestions till we reach daylight."
How we found our way out, I will inform you
by the next mail. lam late, as usual, for this
one. E. D. W.
MiM
La. Belle IFielene.
'Offenbach's comic opera La Bell ,
after much preliminary puffing, was produced
last night at the Academy of Music by Bateman's
French Opera Company. So far as a brilliant
audience, elegant stage effects. ; fair acting and a
moderate display of enthusiasm contribute to
,uccess, the performance was successful. Bo far
as good music, artistic singing, genuine humor
and a proper regard for decency constitute suc
cess, it was a wretched failure.
The text of the Grand Duchess is fresh, original,
witty and amusing ; La Belle Delta , does not
contain a witty passage, and has neither origi
nality nor an excellent use of ancient material.
.Travesties of Grecian mythology are as old as the
belief in Saturn, and not an age has passed since
the ruin of that ancient faith, in which some
humorist has not made the jolly old gods and
goddesses of Greece and. Rome the subject of
banter and, parody. Messrs. Mellhac Halevy
desired to write something funny upon which
Offenbach could exercise his talent. Their selec
tion of a purely classical subject does not argue
anything for their inventive talent. It simply
proves that they were stranded upon the shoal
which catches all wits who float in shallow
waters; and they only' sang through a shell that
has for ages been set for the same tune.
There is something intrinsically absurd in a
conception of the mighty Agamemnon with a
cigar in his mouth; of King Menelaus coming in
upon the accommodation train with his ha.-box
and umbrella; of Ajax guessing a conundrum;
of Orestes securing reserved seats for the sacri
fice; of Achilles bathing in moderncostume in the
surf; of a soothsayer making a collection of
stamps for his album. This is funny, because it
contains that essential element of all humor,utter
incongruity. But what if we become so familiar
with utterly incongruous things that they `lose
their peculiar distinction and consequently
their humor ? All this has been
done before; the association of very
ancient men and women with modern ideas,
customs and things, is robbed of nearly all its
amazing and startling characteristics by the fre
quency with which it is attempted. The incon
gruity has lost its savor. We could not be in
duced to laugh now at the spectacle of Julius
Cesar in a high hat; or of Herctdes.engaging in
a prize-fight with•bottle and sponge. And this
second-hand humor is the only kind that is con
tained in the libretto of Laßelle Hilene. The text
is a burlesque upon the story of the flight of
Helen with Paris, in consequence of the award of
Venus, giving him the most beautiful woman in
the world. Mlle. Tostee in this latter character,
Constituted the most consummate parody in the
whole entertainment.
The acting was very good, but it was not in
any degree better than that which can be seen at
any first rate minstrel entertainment; and it was
precisely the same in kind. The Ajax First of last
night would make a successful "end man," and
Agamemnon would rise to eminence as a "con
versationalist." The minstrel companies pro
duce scores of burlesques yearly that are more
original, and infinitely more amusing* than this
One is; and their music is bettor. Laßelle Millie
kdoes not contain an air, or a ehorus, or a con
carted
_piece of any kind,•that is as sweet, or as
beautiftd as the vast multitude of songs that
negro minstrelsy has given to the world. Not
ono of the melodies sung fiat might was worthy
of an encore. Indeed, but one hearty encore was
given, and that *ea awarded, to Mile. Tostde,
who was compelled to sing , a little aria in the
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
second act three times over. And what woe it
that excited the enthusiasm of' a Philadelphia
audience to such a degree that the actress was
vehemently applauded; that masses of Bowers
were showered upon her. and that she was re
quited to repeat? It was not the music, for that
is beneath contempt. It was that Mlle. Tostee, -
dressed as La hells IfilioA would have blushed
io have been attired, indulged in a queer trick of
iiitieg her gaiter from the stage and twisting it
oddly over her left leg. It was not funny it was
vulgar and coarse. It had a slangy, Jaieey air
about it, which. with II peculiar movement of
her body—something between a shake and a
shrug—seemed to word intense amusement to
the male portion of the audience. The fact is
discreditable alike to the person who executed
the movement and to those who applauded it.
Mlle Toot& suoceeds in this country simply
because she does coarse things in a rakish way,
to which, happily, we are not accustomed. It is
not her talent that wins popularity for her; it is
the boldness with which she transplants the
tricks of the Concert Saloon to the stage of the
Academies. This was the only really objection
able thing in the whole performance if we except
the occasional, double entendres in the text of the
opera. But the translator is a careful man, and
ho has purified the English version so that it
does not in any great measure offend Anglo
Saxon taste.
La Belle 17eline will not, we think, prove pop
ular with intelligent people. The house was
crowded last night partlYbecause the piece has
been well advertised • partly because the rumor
had gone abroad that'it was not nice. Nobody
will go to see it a second time, and if we are
not mistaken many who intended to go, will
now stay-at home.
TUE FIFTEENTH MATINEE of the American
Conservatory of Music will be given, at the New
Horticultural Hall, to-morrow,
.afternoon, at 334
o'clock.
Tbe Attempt to Assassinate Prince Al.
fred—kull Account of tbe Affair—or.
rest of abet Arial and
Conviction.
The Panama, New Zealand and Australia Royal
Mail Company's steamer Rakaia, Captain H.
Wright, arrived at Panama on the morning of the
4th instant. On her outward trip this vessel left
Panama on January 27th, and arrived at Sydney
on March ed, after a pleasant run. On her re
turn trip to Panama, the sailed from Sydney,
New South Wales, on the Ist of April, at three
P. M., and from Wellington, New 6e,aland, on
the 81h of that month, al six P. M.. arriving
within her schedule time. She brought fifty pas
sengers, of whom fifteen proceeded to New York
by the Rising Star, and arrived in that city yes
terday with the following . account of the late at
tempt upon the life of Prince Alfred.
SYDNEY, March 31.—The people here are espe
cially indignant that the attempt on the life of
the Prince should have been made upon an oc
casion at which his good nature alone and not
any consideration or public necessity or propri
ety induced him to be present. For some time
efforts had been made to establish a permanent
Institution at Sydney, to be known as the Sail
ors' Rome, for the benefit of distressed seamen,
without, I believe, regard to nationality. It was
at length determined to endeavor to raise
the necessary funds by a picnic, and the presence
of the Prince was secured to lend eclat and tone
to the affair, and of course to enable the man
agers to dispose more readily of their tickets.
Everything up to the time of the attempted as
sassination went off admirably; the tickets sold
like wildfite, and on the morning of a sunny
autumn day the beauty and wealth and fashion
of Sidney gathered at Clontarf to amuse them- •
selves, as people on such occasions generally try
to do.
About hall-past one the Prince arrived in a
special steamer, and the people collected at the
wharf and cheered lustily, while the Prince
smiled and bowed his thanks. Immediately
upon landing he was conducted to the luncheon
tent, and in company with the • Governor of the
colony, Lady Belmore and several others, par
took of some refreshments.
Leaving the tent, the Prince led Lady Belmore
to a special pavilion which had been erected for
the use of the elite of the party, and then saun
tered away with Sir William Manning (an old
resident of Sydney) to enjoy a walk about the
grounds. As no went along he met a gentleman
named Allen, with whom he shook hands and
chatted for a few moments, and then handed an
envelope to Sir William Manning, saving that it
contained a donation to the Sailors' Some.
Scarcely had he finished speaking, when a
man, whose name is now known to be 'O'Farrell,
was observed to ran quickly across to where he
was standing and fire with a revolver at the
Prince, who immediately fell forward, crying
out, "Oh, my God, I am shot; my back is bro
ken."
Sir William Manning turned hastily round upon
hearing the report of the revolver, and seeing
that the man who had just fired had pointed his
weapon towards him (Sir W. Manning), he
stooped to get out of the line of fire and in doing
so fell. This time. however, the revolver snapped,
and while O'Farrell was again levelling his pistol
at the Prince, a gentleman named Vial, who had
witnessed the whole occurrence. ran up and pin
ioned his arms to his body, thus changing the di
rection of the weapon.which, however, exploded,
the bullet hitting a Mr. Thorne in the foot.
Meanwhile, the report of the revolver ,had
drawn together the picnickers from all parts of
the grounds. and a scene of confusion and disor
der ensued which ite words can depict.
O'Farrell struggled hard to get free from Vial,
swearing fiercely and loudly, and in the tussle
the identity of the combatants became a little
confused. When, therefore. the bystanders, who
had now discovered that the Prince had been
shot, rushed'in and separated the men, they were
uncertain as to which of them was the assassin,
and while the • majority of the crowd pitched
upon the right man, Mi. Vial was also seized
upon and very severely maltreated. After a
while the police succeeded in getting hold of
O'Farrell, but not before he had been terribly and
brutally beaten. The people called savagely out,
"Kill him!" "Rang him! "Lynch him!' and
fought desperately with the police to possess
themselves again of his body, the poor wretch
getting a dozen kicks and blows for every yard the
police progressed down to the wharf. The po
lice, however, at last succeeded in getting to the
water. and here a last determined effort was made
by the mob, who had been yet further infuriated
by a speech which was mat ceby one of their num
ber appealing to them not to let "the assassin
leave the ground alive." But the police were
again victorious, and O'Farrell, bleeding and un
conscious from the injuries he had received,
was conveyed to Sydney and lodged in Darling
burst jail.
Meanwhile the Prince had been raised from'the
ground and conveyed to his private tent. He
was evidently in great pain, and once or twice
asked the gentlemen who were bearing him along
to carry him more slowly and gently. Although
very weak from lose of blood he did not become
unconscious, and noticing that the people
crowded around the tent he desired a gentleman
to assure them that "he was not much hurt, and
would be better presently."
An examination of his wound, however,
showed it to be a very serious one and, indeed,
it is strange thet the bullet, entering where it
did, an inch or two to the right of the spine,
about the middle of the back, did not produce in
stant death; or, at any rate, more serious re
sults than it has done. In describing the sensa
tion he felt when the bullet struck him the
Prince said it seemed to him as if he were lifted
from the ground.
Towards evening he was placed in a litter and
taken by Water to Sydney. where a carriage was
waiting to convey him to Government House.
The best medical • aid in the city was of coursephy
obed, and althou for seral e
sicians tain Were unable to gh
extract v the bullet, t a h nd the
Prince wad unable to lie down lest it should
change its position, no unfavorable symptoms
occurred, there was no appearance of hemer-
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/binge, which was naturally the chief danger, and
at last the necessary operation was successfully
accomplished. It has now been oftleUilly-an
flounced that he is out of danger, and for the
peat few days he bus been out through the streets 1
in a carriage, guarded by a strong escort. Even
with yOuth, robust health, and a strong consti
lotion in his favor, it is singular that he has es
caped so lightly as be has.
it is almost impossible to describe the excite
we in Sydney the night of the attempted as
sassination. The.cafifs and saloons were crowded
with people, whose sole topic of conversation
seemed to be the disaster to the Prince. The
theatre and all other places of amusement were
closed; the evening paper hourly issued extras;
and Immense crowds gathered round the bulle
tins giving an official account of the condition of
the Prince that were posted up in mimes quar
ters of the city.
The American residents, through a deputation,
Composed of the consular agent, Mr. A. B. Hall,
and hissers J. H. Williams, - B. M. Mortimer and.
G. H. Smith, presented the following address.
To Ins EXCELLY.NOT THE RIOLLT 110N00.101LE TUE EATU,
OF lIMMOBE. GOVERIVOR.INAMIEF ov Nnv Bovril WALTA,
Al' n V ICE A D 1111143. OF TUE CAME ..Ma j/ WOW'
Eacellencv: We. citizens of the United States of America,
at present in Sydney, New South Wales, earnesay desire
through your Excellency to convey to MS Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburg, the assurance of our deep and
heartfelt sympathy in the great calamity which has be
fallen him; our utter detestation and abhorrence of the
°merely and most wicked attempt which has recently
been made upon hie life. and our gratitude to Almighty
God that he was so merelfudy spared.
e further desire through your 'excellency to impress
his Royal highness with the assurance that the senti
ments weilow Worms areous we firmly believe. those en
tertained by each and all of our fellow countrymen res.
ident In theAustrallan colonies,
We have the honor to be your Excellency's most obe•
dient servants.
The addresses was signed with fifty-twosigna
tares.
In presenting it Mr. Hall spoke as follows:
With your Excellency's permieaion, before proceeding
with the address, I wish to state that .1 have been re
wrested by this deputation and the American residents in
bydney to convey to yourself trials_B their
deepest sympathy for you in the which you have eo
recently Loosed through. I need scarcely assure your
Excellency that my own heart echoes the same mutt
ments most fully.
O'FARRELL IN COURT.
The day after the pie-nic Henry James O'Far
rell was arraigned before a special court in the
debtor's prison, Darlinghurst jail, Mr. H. ll.Voss
presiding as magistrate. West of the members of
the suite of the Prince, together with the Gover
ner and several of the ministry, were present.
The prisoner, who was dressed in gra prison
uniform of white canvas, presented a horri
ble and repulsive appearance. The left side of
his face was frightfully swollen and the right side
cut and bruised in Several places. His right eye
was black, protruding and closed, and his left
livid with bruises and only partially opened.
His nose was considerably swollen and distorted,
and the skin down the front of that feature cut
open. His lips were also swelled. A very few
witnesses were examined, and their evidence gave
the same account of the affair as that detailed
above. The Superintendent of Police testified
that after he had been taken into custody the
prisoner had said, "I've made a mess of it, and
all for no good, but it can't be helped now," add
ing subsequently, "I am a Fenian ; I've done my
duty and am not afraid to die; and may God save
Ireland." It was also testified that in addition to
the revolver with which ho shot at the Prince,
and which was found on the plc-nie ground,
another six shooting revolver, loaded, was found
upon him after his capture. The weapon which
he fired was an American revolver, bearing the
names of Smith & Wesson, Massachusetts.
After the testimony had been taken the priso
ner was told to stand up, and was then asked if
ho had anything to say. He replied, without
hesitation, "I have nothing to say bat that the
task of executing the Duke was sent out and al
lotted to me." The Crown solicitor asked him to
repeat what he had just said, and he then added,
"The task of executing the Prince was „sent out
to me, but I failed, and am not very sorry that I
did fail. That is all I have to say.'
O'Farrell was then formally committed to take
his trial before a special court.
SYDREV, April I.—The fall history of the at
tempted assassination of the Prince has now
been almost acted out. The Prince has com
pletely recovered, as O'Farrell himself predicted,
while the latter has been already tried, found
guilty and is now under sentence of death. But
one final scene has now to be enacted—the exe
cution of the intending murderer.
The trial has been extremely short, and, in
fact, somewhat hurried. The prisoner has been
tried while the public excitement is at fever heat
against him, and before men's minds have re
gamed sufficient composure to allow of their
taking fairly into account any extenuating cir
cumstances which may exist in the case. Of
course no one can saw that this is unjust; but at
the same time it is not very magnanimous.
O'Farrell's counsel rested their defence wholly
on the ground of the insanity of the prisoner,
declining to dispute the fact that O'Farrell really
attempted the life of the Prince, or to discuss
the question whether the. crime possessed any
palliating features. In support cf the theory
of insanity, his sister and several of his Bal
larat acquaintances were called, but their evi
dence simply proved that .O'Farrell had been
a very hard drinker, that he had been in a state
of delirium tremens on two or three occasions,
and that he suffered from a form of epilepsy.
The Judge, in summing up, entered at length
into the evidence presented to show that the
prisoner was insane, and charged the jury that
unless they believed that O'Farrell, at the time
he fired at the Prince, was unconscious that the
act he was committing was criminal, they must
find him guilty.
The jury were.absent about an hour, and then
returned with a verdict of "guilty."
The Judge, In passing sentence of death, ad
. dressed the prisoner as follows :—Henry James
O'Farrell, the jury have found you guilty under
the inforination which the Crown preferred
against you—that is, of wounding the person of
1 his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburg, with
intent to murder him, and happily for you in the
position in which you are placed, you have been
ably defended by the counsel who have appeared
for you. The jury have well considered the evi
dence which was adduced by the counsel on your
behalf, but they have felt themselves bound to re
turn a verdict against you. Except from the evi
dence adduced, I know nothing, nor can I know
anything of your previous life which might sug
gest to me any remarks. I can only see before
me amen in health, strength and vigor, who has.
deliberately attempted to take the life of a fond
and youthful son of our beloved and revered
Queen. Before I proceed presently* to pass the
sentence of the court let me beseechyou,by every
remembrance of vehatever has bean virtuous or
good in your past life—let me entreat you by any,
the faintest trace of true religion which may
now be in your heart—to reflect upon the wide
amount of sorrow and suffering which your cruel
hand would have caused if your murderous de
sign had been successful. Consider what unut
terable horror and shame would have fallen upon
this colony if the providential care of Almighty
God had net defeated your attempt. Con
template the awful gaief and anguish of the
Queen if one of her beloved andinnoceint children
(innocent even of any evil thought against you
or any other human !Aug) had been thus torn
by your ruthless hand from her 'widowed
heart. Let me implore you to employ the short,
period of your remaining life in such reflections
as I have suggested, and especially in subduing
that callous insensibility of heart which Inuit
originally have led you to your, crime. Although
happily your murderous intent was not accom
plished, I hold out to . you not the least hope of
remission of the sentence of death. For not only
am ! unable to discover any, even the slightest,
circumstance upon which I'could recom
mend any such remission, but it must also,
be manifest to the whole, wend that all men like
you, whose evil hearts may' now be harboring
and nurturing Muffler murderous intentions and
similar tralthrOtur designs,_ should >bo taught by
your sad fate how swift, unerring and stern is
the punishment which ail civilized nations must
inflict upon such a terrible crime as yours. Let
me exhort you to make the best use of the short
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time that may remain to yon in life, and At ones
apply to those ministers of religion who may
willingly assist yon in your sorrowful audits..
tions. It only remains for me now to pronounce
the sentence of the law for the crime of which
you have been convicted.
The prisoner while the Judge addressed hint,
listened with perfect calmness, the only per
ceptible signs of emotion being the pallor of his
lace and now and then a slight tremulous quiver
ing of the, muscles of the lower part of the face.
Be expressed no desire to make a speech, but
remained throughout quiet and composed.
It is said that O'Farrell is to be executed at as
early a day as possible—probably_ in about tea
days from the present writing. That he has a
very slight rhalace of escape there can be no
doubt; but till It 18 just possible that the Prince
will follow the line of poltey adopted by his
mother in all similar cases and intercede for the
prisoner.
FACTS AND F4IWIZS
—T. B. Aldrich edits Every Saturday.
—Dickens is going to Paris.
—Robert Collyer is one of the writers for the
new "literary" paperjn Chicago.
—"Whistling taught in six easy lessons" is ad
vertised in Connecticut.
—ln Western Massachusetts there are stilt
deep snow drifts on some of the country roads.
—All the telegraph wires about Springfiehd
were recently cut by the lightning.
—The staircase at Niagara Falls which led
under Table Rock fell last week.
—A California paper wants Beecher for Presi-.
dent. In that case the Republican party would
only have to carry one Ward in the city of
Brooklyn to be successful.
—Josh. Billings has taken to puffing quack;
perfumeries in his "letters." But anything is
better than the shabby humor which Josh.
evolves.
—Mrs. Pancake, of Peoria, Illinois, has suc
ceeded in obtaining a divorce from her husband,
George H. Pancake. George says that flattens
him out.
—Governor Holden, Governor elect of North
Carolina, has tendered the position of private
secretary on Ms staff, to Robert Douglas, son of
Stephen A. Douglas.
—A certain Ohio Colonel, who has traveled,
announced, upon his return, that he had "sailed
up the Subterranean and exploded the pyra ;
mils."
—The French ships of war sent to Civita Vec
chia to convey home the brigade of Gen. Pothier.
left behind their entire armament as an Easter
offering from Napoleon 111. to the Pope.
—Sothern, the original Dundreary. is reported
by . the French papers to ,be laboring under the
delusion that be was born with eleven fingers.
He spends all his time counting over his hands.
—The famous surgeon, Dr. Nelaton, has lately
left Paris for Stockhohn, to operate for a tumor
on Baron Hoepner. Ills fee is to be $20,000, and
traveling expenses.
—Sergeant Bates, the star-spangled "walkist,'_,'
whose peaceful march through the late rebel
States has been so widely chronicled, has arrived
in New !ork.
—A fox, hard pressed by hunters in Canada,
jumped on a steam train at Belleville, which was
going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. The
concussion killed the poor animal.
—One morning last week there were eighty
thousand pounds of halibut afloat in the harbor
of Gloucester, Mass., all of which was sold du
ring the day, and boxed up ready for trans
portation the next morning, at six cents per
pound.
—Sir S. Y. Simpson states that in the old town
of Edinburg there are 13;000 families, consisting
of 60,000 individuals, living in one-room houses;
and that 1,500 rooms are the abodes,day and
night, of from five to fifteen persons. About 120
have no windows, and 900 of them are cellars.
—The local editor of a Georgia paper, an
nouncing his retirement from his post, says that
be proposes to• seek labor in a different field,
which he describes as "one where the genial rays
of the sun spreads its golden light and fills the
earth with flowers, and smiles on loving nature
with bright and hallowed countenance." ate
&teed to English, this may perhaps mean that he
is going to hoe corn.
—Brown, on his first journey per coach not
long ago, worried the driver, beside whom he
sat, with incessant childish queitions about
everything on the road. At last ha got his quietus
thus:
Driver—There's been a woman lying in that
house more than a month, and they haven't
buried her yet.
Brown—Not burled her yet! pray tell me why
not?
Driver—Because she isn't dead.—Western paper.
—According to the Pall Mall Gazette the Eng
lish diplomatic service is so monopolized by
members of noble families that is is next to im
possible to obtain advancement without family
interest. In 1855 the list of foreign attaches
showed 68 noblemen to 41 commoners, three
fourths of the latter holding inferior positions;
while at present the proportion of aristocracy to
gentry is 34 to, 18. The effect of this prepondet
ance of the former class is to encourage favorite
ism lower the tone of the service, and prevent
untitled men, however capable, from entering it.
—We fear that the people of Chicago have not
got their money's worth in the famous tunnel
which they have built out under Lake Michigan
for the purpose of obtaining pure water from its
distant depths. We read in a poem which has
just been published by P. Fishe Reed, of that
city, an artist who cultivates with success more
than one of the muses, the following startling
stanza
"In the deepest recesses
Of the surging lake,
The tortoise caresses
The slimy snake."
It is manifest that water occupied by such, In
habitants cannot be fit to drink.
—The Morning Post's Washington correspond
ence has this interesting paragraph: "The Presi
dent's friends are , jubilant over the course of
Messrs. Grimes, Fessenden and Trumbull, and are
profuse in their thanks to. Providence on the face
that these gentlemen have at last got their oyes
open. A rough Western Senator, in remarking
on the fact said, to-day, that it reminded him of
a Dutchman who wanted to obtain a premature
opening of the eyes of a young puppy. He
therefore,taking the pup , by the hind logs,knocked
its bead vigorously against a lamp-post; but to
his chagrin he found that, as the eyes flew open,
the brains flew out.
—A newspaper published in Chile has an as
tonishing story about a new monster, which does
not swim like the sea-serpent nor walk the earth
like the Dodo, but files through the air and shuts
out the sun's light while it passes. This fright
ful creature has "great wings, clothed with
brown plumage," its head is shaped like
that of a grasshopper, its eyes are enormous,
the body is that of a snake, and its hard scales
"emit a metallic sound." A small company of
miners, tranquilly seated at the WHIM Or
the Gunn mine, awaiting their evening .
meal, were the first who saw this fearful crea
ture. As It flow above them, it was supposed
to be a cloud, but when the gapping' of the
wings and Cho grating of the metallic scales were
heard, great fear fell upon the imument-mhtded
diggers of ore, and when the wonder passed
away, they told the story to a newspaper man in
Santiago, who straightway printed- it. "Can it
be possible," says this writer,' "that In the desert
of the Cordilleras nature planet to give life to
these monstrosities, haring them hi liolitude for
many years, and that when they have attained
sufficient strength_ they commence their illitht
through space with no other object than that of
transporting themselves to other mime" *ore
death masters them, and the earth gitardit their
skeletons to the confusion of sages, who, on
meeting thera,•belleve they have found antedilu
vian remains f"