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To proceed to Thonday. the 4th tat, Cbarlea Norrfi, :, -Risß-Ont”he°M twK'Jane Rom. relict of Rev. John wlllbeiiWen. E'^ot^XW^ ' • Blamarck Exact Shade. - _ POLITICAL NOTICES. , .COUNCII^ HTrniPKrr’To' KEpY'Bljfe'AN RULES. jsp- FOE citv controller. »», SAMUEL P. HANCOCK. Subject to H.ft Rnlefl of the republican Party? j Jot stn> •«. 8 o’clock, to ooMnate oele**^ jqjjj, p NEALY, President _ W. H. Wm.«i:». Secretary. .. >t ‘— . NA^' IONAL USl ° fN HW L CIkEBTNyTBTB|ET. ’ , PuiuuJtJ.ruiA. Juno 3, law. ThemTObcisoUboliatlonil Unlm Club will meet at FVKKINO NEXT. Jtree sat 8 o'clock. . VWtn^pXby wllhtopoUtJcaloptalonanro cordially U The < irieUo^gJll,b^JuWr£^;diJti-BKEI'iSTBR DENNIB W. Prraideut. A VL Vf»uci«wuw.Be«taij. : .tho UNION "Diritloa i Phltadelpbl* J*ui SJtCESDAY AFTERNOON.<Jtme S isiftfinßsns' each Divirion to a JS^thS CONVENTIONS iball meet a. fol DAu£“oU£ffH AND GEORGE STREETS, Second COMMISSIONER. NATIONAL GUARDS’ v OF TAXES. -AT NATIONAL HALL. MARKET “tMET/ ABOVE TWELFTH, eeconi * t S&Y SOLICITOR, ABSEJDBLY BmLDINGS.TENTH SIXTH iS FELLOWS HALL, S. koom’s-1:-cor ns<^^"lHri?ict-ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS, second ' Kt T?irt C DlaWet-AMERICAN MECHANICS’ HALL. -SlTd floor. n , . . ,Q Pli ™(; GARDEN lIALL, THIK- T #&OR’!c“NVEN^ON: N T^W-Ei*htbWard. ;i The ß meet WEDNESDAY. J une loth. • John L. Hill, \ secretaries. loaao Moßbide, J ■ SrJECIAI< NOTICES. OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA B4JLEOAD COM wr rAl(lf , t lBth. 1868, iSieSStaM may S prSSliea therefor, forTwenty-flvo Cfl&t. of sddwoou Stock at F&r«io propcrtlflQto .respective interests aa they l stand registered on the boohs o fcS n «SlS£ , entitledto.ub ■ecribotor afuU .hare, and those bolding more Shares tchan a multiple of four Shares will Jje entitled to an addi- to the newßtoek will, he received on and *»♦«««'Both. 1868. and the privilege of rubacriblng wfflMMeon the seSdSyTif Jitf, 1868. „ ... 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Ine impeachment Trial—Comments /Of *l»o French Frees—Effect* of the Verdlet-A Heavy Speech-tteleat' «l (lie Government The Prospective Imperial Tottr Lord Bronghnm’a ■ Memorjr-Tbe Havre Exnlbltlon. [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Paris, Friday, May 22d, 1868.—The vote Ir the American Senate has been made the subject of observation ‘on the part of' most organs of the Parisian press. In general, the appreciation of the Incident has been of the character Which I briefly intimated in the conclusion of my lost letter, viz.: surprise and admiration at the pub 11c tranqnillity which has never ceased to prevail throughout the United States during the whole continuance of the impeachment • trial This Impression is, perhaps, most ' fully expressed by La France, a journal which professes to be at once liberal and imperial/ “Everybody,” it says, “has been struck with the; calmness.which has prevailed in the United; States during the late political crisis; and we are lujly prepared to admit and to pro-; claim how much this tranquillity and ab., sence of all Illegal action amidst the excite ment of the struggle, do honor to the Amerl-t can people.” But what above fill commands the approbation of La France is this:,that,’ whereas, in France, violence of words Is immedi ately productive of violence of action, and any such debates as those at Washington taking place in Paris would have been the certain precursor to •meuies { and insurrections in the Provinces; in America, the adversaries and partisans of the President have been allowed mutually to accuse each other of violating the constitution, and to use language more violent than la to be fpund iii the reports of any of the revolutionary assem blies of , France, and yet “the country j continued quietly to carry on its own a flairs"! ; The national temperament In America, I.aFrancc adds, “resisted all the provocations of party; and the heat of partisanship, which set the Capitol on fire, was notable to raise a street tumult, or cause a Single musket to be shoulderedi”; This testimony is sufficiently; complimentary, I thinly to deserve to -be • neticcd' and quoted. But the ' Jot .the Impression pro duced 1 on ' Franre-and Europe by the bearing of the American people throughout the present crisis has been something far greater than that which can be expressed by the mere langnage of compliment It has, above all, im pressed the people of this country with a far firmer conviction than they ever before enter tained of the unshakable stability of Amer ican institutions, and of their capacity to resist any strain which the violence of party ieeling' or the force of circumstances can put upon them. The growth of this feeling and impression ia. notnp-mere theo retical, but of real and praetfiSrValae to the United States and their Govern Am. It inspires at once shch a,Government as that'of France (as well as other European powers) with a whole some respect and deference, and it at the Bathe ime raises in the estimation of the European public everything connected with America—her credit in the money market, her pnbiic securities her financial and commercial, as well as her po litical, social and intellectual status. In a word, it elevates the American “character’ in the eyes of the entire world ; and there is nei ther man nor nation which does not derive mate rial benefit from an acknowledged elevation of character in the opinion ofjurrounding nations. But I have been led'further than I intended,and too far, perhaps, in these laudatory remarks. My excuse must be that this item from America has been thffmost important and the most spoken of in our news budget of the week. Our home dis cussions have been «f the same ponderous char acter as heretofore. In the Chamber, jj. Rodher, the Minister of State, be gan . his reply to the nineteen column speech of M. Thiers, by an oration which occu pied 18 columns ol' tbe Monileur next morning, and, not being concluded in one Bitting, was 4 carried on through nearly 10 columns more of the next! You will scarcely be surprised :to learn that after such an infliction, the' patience of tie : Chamber' seemed to :be exhausted, and refused to hear any more dissertations upon this wom-ont subject.- In spite of the vociferations of M. Thiers and others, the debate waß cut short and brought to an abrupt conclusion by a vote of the order,of jhe day, without a division,- Thus the Government has triumphed, as nsual; but not, I think, without alienating.a strong body of adherents, whose hostility may one day manifest itself in a dangerous fashion. The Government has jnst sustained a crashing defeat in the election for one of the colleges of the' Department of the Tarn, where its candi date has been beaten, after a second ballot, by a majority of more than 7,000 votes. Between .the two ballots the opposition candidate gained 4,000 votes, and the Government candidate lost 1,100. When' it is considered what an oppbsition candi date has to contend against, in the mockery of what is called “universal suffrage” in this country, his success' is little Ahort" of ’ miraculous, but speaks volumes as to what might. be the consequences of a genuine election in which the electors should be really left free to follow their own volition. Much mortification, not unmingled with alarm, is felt in official quar ters at tbC above result at Tarn, now that j the dissolution of the present Chamber cannot bo much further prolonged. » i Projects of a voyage of the Empress and Prince Imperial to Rome are still in contemplation. The - imperial steam yacht, the Aiglo, at Tonlon, is undergoing complete repairs, and an entirely now set of cabin furni ture, of the richest and most costly description, and evidently designed for occasions of groat state, whs sent off the other day from Paris by a flrm colebratod for such articles. The Idea is that the Empress wifi first go to Rome, and then, prolong her* voyage to Algeria. Her pretty Majesty is always leading her sposo about some- PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 186 a. where or other, popularity-hunting. The other day she walked him right up the Champ b Elysces, as far as the Bond Point, and back again, across the Place do la Concorde, and so home by the Toiieries gardens, through all the crowd, bowing and smiling very graciously on every side. Another time tho imperial couple astonished the public in the waiting room of tho St. Germain railway station, by coolly walking through and taking their places in the train, just - like every one else. They went together, to St.' Germain, took a walk on the Terrace,; and, with out dining at the Restaurant Henri IV, came back to Paris in the same fashion. The other day, in one of his strolls, the Emperor pitched a Napoleon to a lot of those little Italian gamins I who just now Infest Paris in such numbers. The municipality cf Cannes hnvo just decreed a place of honor and a public monument to Lord Brougham, in tho Cemetory.of that place. The inaugural file of the International Mari time Exhibition at Havre has been fixed ‘ for the Ist June. - ■ AB\SSISIA. Laler interestingDetails—BeneralNft* pt«f* order 8> coiiKratalailoD> The New York Herald 1 * correspondent with General Napier’s army In Abyssinia, In his last letter, says: '•. . Therowasjoy and triumph'on every counte nance in the English army when the merry bugles, with their clear sounds, awoke all to the fact that that day our homeward march was to commence. The drums also awoke louder echoes among the hills os they beat the reveille, and cheer after cheer burst forth from the conquering army and its thousands of camp followers as the advance guard filed down the steep slopes towards the Basbllo, preceded l?y a band playing the well known tune, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Boon the army was in motion, repairing to its own country,conscious that it bad performed its task well.. Along the road to the Bashilo were witnessed anew the horrors of war. The fugitives, hurrying from Magdala and pur sued by the ferocious Gall as, left their aged and; wounded.upon the roadslde, to poison, fho attno sphere with the horrible stench. Over ninety seven bodies were counted from our camp before; Magdala to Bashilo,.a distance of seven miles.) Dead mules and ponies lined the road ..thickly ; half eaten by beasts of prey. Bnt leaving these; fearful scenes behind, let ns hasten on the top of* the Talanta plateau, where; but a few days) gone, we gazed for the first tome upon Magdala; and its surrounding heights, and where for the; last time-we turn'to look upon those natural fortresses.. Magnificently sternand sombre, they raise their lofty heads fir above .the mountains which bound too scratoerh horizon, which, ming-: ling with the morning sky, glow in radiant 90- iprs. Their summits are, covered with a haze or the smoke of the still burning rafters. Itoeems to ns more like incense offered to appease Divine wrath, ana, looking down upon the Arogay valley, up to the fortress* of Magdala, and then down to where the Bashilo river dnshes.headloog from its rocky heights, amid shining spray' and rainbows, fnlly four thousand feet below us, si multaneously we lift our voices, in songs of praise; the captives, Who are near by, moved by a sudden impulse, fall upon their knees and join in the universal chorus of thanksgiving. . : ' ■ There neycr was such a sight witnessed before lu Abyssinia. ' j Mounting.our horses we followed the European, andwhlle saddle to catch one parting glimpso ..Qt..,the lor-famed stronghold of Theodoras, we won dered if we should ever stand upon the plateau of Talanta and look back Upon Hagdalaagain.. i NAPIER REVIEWS THE ARMY. ) Before continning the inarch from Talanta plateau seaward a grand review was held of the Armv of Abyssinia. They presented a most gal lant array, taking into consideration the fatigues they had undergone. Three months ago, when they first started from the tableland of Senafe, straining their eyes towards the Equator, they numbered 5,600' strong; to-day they , numbered 5,359. The Commander-in-Chief was very well pleased with their fine appearance and good con duct, and the following is the GENERAL ORDER read to thepa after their brilliant success, which contains a short account of the perils of the route: Soldiers of the Army of Abyssinia—The Queen and the people ot England entrusted to you a very arduous and difficult expedition to release our countrymen from' a long and painful captiv ity and to vindicate the honor of our country, which had been outraged by Theodoras, King of Abyssinia. I congratulate you with all my. heart on the noble m in which you have fulfilled the com mands of our sovereign. You have traversed, bften under a tropical sun or amid storms of rain'.and sleet, four hundred miles of mountainous and difficult country. Yon have crossed many steep and precipitous ranges of mountains more than ten thousand feet in altitude, where your supplies could not keep pace with you. When you arrived within reach of your enemy, though with scanty food and some of you for many hours without either food or water, in four days yon passed the formidable" chasm of the 1 Bashilo and defeated the army of Theodoras, which poured down upon you from their lofty fortress in full confidence of victory. A host of many thousands have laid down their arms at your feet. . . - You'have'captured and destroyed upwards ot pieces of artillery, many, of great weight ande fflciency, with ample stores of ammnnitipn. You have stonfied the almost inaccessible For tress of Magdala,-.defended by Theodoras with the desperate remnant Of his chiefs and followers. Alter yon forced toe entrance, Theodoras, who never showed meroy, distrusted the offer of mercy heldputto him and died by his own hand. You have released not only toe British captives, but those of other friendly nations. You have unloosed toe choinß of more than ninety of the principal chiefs of Abyssinia. Magdala, on which so many victims have been slaughtered, has beenlcommitted to the flames, and remains only a scorched rock, Our eompleteandrapid sticcess'is due: —First, to the mercy of God, whose hand 1 feel assured has been over ns in a just cause. Secondly to toe high Bpirit with which you havebeen inspired. - Indian soldiers have forgotten the prejudices of race and creed to keep pace with their European comrades. . Never has an army entered on a war with more honorable feelings than yours; this has carried you through many fatigues and difficulties; you pave been only.eager fortoc-moment when you . could close with your enemy. The remembrance of- your privations will pass away quickly, but your gallant exploit will live in history. 7 ) . „ , ' ... The Queen and the people of England will appreciate your services. - On my part, as your commander, 1 thank you for your devotion to your duty and the good dis- : cipune you have maintained. Not asinglo com plaint haß been made against a soldier of fields injured or villagers wilfully molested in person or properly. ; ■ We must not forget what is duo to our com rades who have been laboring for us in the sul try climate of Zooln and the pass of Koomayiee, or in the monotony of the posts which have maintained our communications; .JSacli. and aU. would have given all they possessed to be with us. But they deserve our gratitude. I shall watch over your safety to too moment of your re-cmbarkatlon, and to the end of my lifo remember with prido that I have commanded you. ■ •;* ■ ■ - R,.Navikr, * Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chicf. OamivDalsulo, April 20,1868. OURWHOLE COUNTRY. Tbe Abdication motion in *»«urllament _Br, Bearden on (fie Queen** ncaWfi aim Uic Succession. London, May 23,1868— 1 n the House of Com mons lost evening Mr. Rcardcn. a cltiJ^n,of Lon don end the representative of Athlone, gave no tice that on Monday next ho •wouldask the Jrre mier if he intended to request her Majesty to ab dicate in favor of the Prince of Wales. The pre vious publication of this notice has been greeted by a* portion of ihe press with unlimited abuse, and Mr. Bearden was at once nicknamed tho Piccadilly Cromwell.” Hero is exactly what oc curred In the House: ■ ... • Mr. Bearden said—l beg to give notice that on Monday next I ask' tho JETiret Lord of . tho Treasury whether it be true that her Majesty the: Queen has been" compelled,' through delicate, health, to retire from 1 England;-during 100,10;. mainder of this season; and. if so, whether It Is the intention of her Majesty’s government, ont : of consideration to bef Majesty's health, comfort and tranquillity, and In' thejintcrest of the royal i lamlly and afJaerMajcaty’s subjects 'throughout tho empire,Wild especially Of this metropolis— I rioud cries of advise her Majesty to abdicate. 1 Continued cries of “Order’? and ■‘Chair’’ from all parts of the House. | . ■: ■ The Speaker—The House has anticipated my dedsion as to this question by the; expression— rjoud cheers]—the indignant expression—l re newed cheers)— offeeling with regard to the termß employed In tho notice 1 of tho honorable member.'' No doubt any question may be ad dressed by a member of this House to tho confi dential advisers of the crown as to any matter re lating to the discharge of public duties by. tho sovereign, but these questions, must be addressed in respectful and Parliamentary terms. [Much, cheering. 1 The question of the honorable mem ber certainly does not appeartomo to be couched in such terms, [Renewed cheere.l : . Mr. Bearden—r beg very earnestly to apologize to tho House for putting a question in any form of words which is either unparliamentary or not in striet accordance with the views of this House. T“Order!”| .Nothing can be fnrther.froffi my views, mind or heart; than to do anything incon sistent with strict loyalty to her Majesty. [Cries of “Order!” and “Chair!”l -Whether the member for Ath one will be bold* enough to persevere with his question in the face of the groans of the House of Commons is an other ’ matter. I think that he will be weak enough to Withdraw it But no one who knows what Parliament is will fail to comprehend the “rave significance of a movement like this. What ever members of Parliament may say about it, tho ’fact is certain that a majority, of the English peo ple have the utmost disUko for a Queen who neg lects her public duties and indulges in unconsri rational, private caprices, and that Mr. Bearden would have plenty of popular support were he plucky enough to stick to his point. Humored tenian Attempt on the Ule of ihe Oucen—lmportant letter Kc. helved by the Authorities—Jßxtraor dinary Police Precautions; . [From tho London Correspondence of Leeds-Mercury.] Very alarming stones have been afloat for the; last lew dayß respecting the- possibility of a' Fenian attempt upon the life of the Queen. Tho fear of such a crime was very strong last" Wed nesday, when Her Majesty laid the foundation stone of St Thomas’s Hospital, a letter having been received by the authorities staring that an attempt to assassinate her was to. be made as she crossed Westminister Bridge. The precautions adopted by Ihe Chiefs at Scotlandynrd ~and the Home Office do prevent any... such outrage as that threatened, were, of the most extensive character. No fewer than 6,0i)0 policemen were on duty along the route taken: by the Queen and in and about the At least half-of these were In plain clothes. We may hope that the letter which induced these precautions was sim ply a noax. At any rate the only .suspidous eir eumstance observed during, the day was, the pre sence in the crowd that had assembled-to- see the Queen pa sb of a number of the Golden square '-euiais When her Majesty went down to Bal moral the same rumors were floating about, pro duced by the same cause, and extra precautions were taken throughout the whole journey. BBOUITD. WENO£LL PHILLIPS. mint nle TbinbKOl tbe Verdict—me Irrepressible Gets Slightly Excited. The two elements of the party, the Radical and the Conservative, have grappled, ahd oat cf this straggle thß Conservative element has come forth victorious. Mr. Fessenden represents an elemen t which was reluctantly absorbed into the Repub lican movement, in ISdU the question Was whether, ench men should sink—disappear for ever or submit to their conquerors, and wear a livery that belied their opinions. To avoid being coffined, they became camp followers and ate their leeks in si lence. 'As public opinion was always sufficient to whip them into line during the war, we fondly imagined theirs was a weak section of the party. On «bia theory we could only see with contempt what appeared to be the ridiculous technicality Of Stanton’s eating and sleeping in his Depart ment rooms. That a triumphant nation, with the greatest of living soldiers, we were told, at the. head of its army, dared not have its War Office room vacant an instant,seemed so ridiculous—like a constable keeper put in possession of a bank rupt’s : goods, with a score of Sheriff-sharks watching him. But the event shows that Stanton knbw the Senate better than we. Had he then given them technical poßsession of the War Of fice: by. this time Johnson would have hod the whole Capitol as thoroughly his own," as is the Benate Chamber. We owe a very'large debt to 'the sagacity of Mr; ’ Stanton. - We thought he was representing and dealing with statesmen. He knew he. was standing out against Tombs lawyers and a whisky-ring masquerading as Sen ators. - ’ • . For us the value of this defeat consists m this: It shows that thus far the Radical element of the dominant partv has bton safely defiSH. President Johnson has ignored all its legislation; thwarted all its plans; cashiered all who sympathized .with it. . He is justified in so doing. , Senators, blaim in<» to be Republicans—men who have hitherto only murmured dissent, but on the first utterance of the public wish, have slunk into line—are now bold enough to defy the Radical loyalty of the nation , and flaunt their own disloyalty on’ the Senate floor. After such impudence the party assembles at Chicago, and not only dbes not date to drum them out of its ranks, but contrarywise, models its nominations and plat form to conciliate them. Manifestly, the Radical element .has been, on all hands, safely defied thus far. “Power,” savs Macaulay, “safely defied, tonches its downfall.’.’, We wait to Bee whether this is the end. If it be, then farewell to the Re publican party. The lines will be dravm anew. The cause is never lost. That survives forever victo rious. Betrayed, it breaks the worthless tools— but only to make better. A white man’s gov eminent will never rulG this bolt of the Continent ■again." Anarchy' may devastate it for awhile. Civil war may waste it. Conspirators, disguised as President and Congress, may legislate for a time at Washington. But laws stronger than Maino spitc, or Illinois rioodleism—more inexor able than the law of supply and demand In the market of corruption—have us in their iron grasp.' Let whoever may, legislate, Justice and Liberty govern this land; and out of anarchy, corruption and starvation they will lead it finally : to peace and law.' ; We do not believe that the Radical. clement in this ’ land cad be safely defied. It ‘ will yet crush its assailants:' It will yet spew forth out of Its mouth men Uko Wilson, who never confess a truth till twenty months after it is of any value —fussy puff-balls, like Trumbull—greedy camp followers, like Fessenden, whom a monopoly of the'five loaves and the two fishes onlymakCß to snarl tho angrier at those whoso disinterestedness tosses them all the spoils. The force whoso tri umphant vigor tempted theso men its livery, will yet sweep" them from the threshing floor and organfeo victory. ’ v • • - - wKtnjkt.t, Piunurs, "the Wilmington and Weitern Boaft r JFttvorableMe.pon.es to tncjprppn»ea. ; .Enterprise* V- . . I The Oxford (Pa.) -i , gives the following parlfealara’ trt this enterprise: ■v; ; Within tho last fefr “weeks the project of build-. ine'a railroad from' WUmKgton to Peach Bottom on the SnSqnchanna river has elicited’.consldera ,blo attention alopg thp lino ■at /the route., >Tho universal expression is that tho road woulq he a grafid and successful enterprise, favoring tfed. In terests of the people along tho route and of in ? calculable bebeflt to the city of Wilmington. We are pleasedto observe that the citizens of -the lat .terclty orb awake to the importance of :the road 'to them, opd are already taking .the;lnitiatory, steps to secure Its eompletion. .: - , 'A party of- gentlemen* consisting of George G. Lobdell, Allen Gawthroh and Bi Mortimer Bye, : Esqa., dUzens of. Wilmington, accompanied by Washington Dunn, of Lock Haven, a civil engi i near, surveyed the route of. the proposed road last week, and reported the proposition os en tirely practicable, with a gradeof not over fifty- ! two feet to the mile. .These gentlemen made as near an alr line as possible from -Wilmington to Oxford, They report the country as rich In re- Bourns and the people aßXiouSXdr this outlet to market. ■ - . From Oxford to Peach. Bottom tho party_fol towed a survey made some years ago byWm. Brown, of Lancaster county, which: orossedv the Octoraro at Rea’aFordicsr and ’runs near jurks Mills and New Texas, This region, rich in agri culture and minerals, would thus also be brought Into connection With the growlng buslness city of Wilmington and the outside world. ,;It Is .stated that the friends of the Peach Bottom and Han over Junction road, in York county, are Vigor ously at work and that: $20(1,000: have ■ already been subscribed to itko capital stock. It now to* mains for the people ;■ along • the proposed route from Wilmington to the Susquehanna to, take this matter Into serious consideration and .come forward with a readiness to help the work and eecnre Its completion, as we believe the, citizens of Wilmington are moving in good earnest in the matter, and the capitalists and business men of: the city will: not rest short of its accomplish ment , We hope onr people of Oxford and vici nity will see how greatly to their Interests la the construction of this’ rood. With it built; Oxford will be fairly out of the woods, and could then shout and go ahead. Then let every man put his shoulder to tho wheel. HABVAfiD AND WSFOKD. Reply o* the Oxtord Boat Club to tbe Harvard ChttUonße. The following is the reply of' the committee of the Oxford University Boat Club to the challenge from the Harvard Boat Club: ■ ■ . i < Oxford, May lfflb.— Gentlemen: We beg to ac knowledge the,receipt of your letter of April 20 th. Had your challenge been to row a race against the Oxford eight on the terms ybu mention next September, we should have had much pleasure in accepting it, though (as we mentioned at the commencement of our former correspondence) it would be very difficult for ua tQ get together a crew at a time when all the members of - our. club have been for more than, two months, sepa rated. As, however, your challenge is torow a race in September, 1869, we do' not see how we can either accept itor decline it, asR ' affects our successors, ana not ourselves. A year mokes a great difference in our club, and in-all probability no member of our present commit tee wili be in Oxford in 1869. Considering that a cal}., upon Our eight to row any match .besides - the , annual one against Cambridge is entirely unprecedented! we are in this difficulty—that by accepting you* ■ challenge, we shall pledge our ' successors to do that which, when the time, arrived, they might be either unable or unwilling, to cany out. We can- Only answer for ourselves, and accept a challenge to race in the present year; But, as regards a race in September, 1869, we think the best plan will be to let the matter stand over till the early part of next year, when (if you are still in the same mind) you canrenew vour challenge to the committee which have suc ceeded us, and they will be able to answer for themselves. . • ’' .. ,■ We are, gentlemen, yours obediently,. • Frank Willan, President, r ■ - W. Wigh'mian Wood, Secretary,, (For Committee of the O. U.B. C.) To tbe Presided! and Committee, Harvard Uni versity Boat Club, (THEATRES Etc. The Theatres. —Mr. Joseph Jefferson will appear at the Walnut this evening, in Rip Van Winkle. It is his benefit night. At the Arch, Under the Gaslight vim be given this evening. The pantomime Humptu Dumpty will be presented at the Chestnut to-night and to-morrow after noon. A varied performance wilt be given at the American this evening. Concert Hall, last-night, was well -filled with an appreciative audience, and the Concert.and Readings announced yesterday proved to be a perfect success. The music, by some twenty five or thirty members of the Handel and Haydn Society, under tbe direction of Carl Bentz, the well-known violinist and orchestra leader, was received with tbe greatest satisfaction, while the selections in prose and verse, read by Professor and Mrs. Shoemaker, were in every instance warmly applauded. Professor Shoemaker deserves great credit for the manner in which he gave the trial scene from ••Merchant of Venice,” as well as many other of the selections. His Voice has a peculiar power and flexibility, and is wduderfuliy adapted to the expression of almost every phase of feeling and of passion. Mrs; Shoemaker’s “High Tide” and "Loehinvar” also deserve especial notice. Ristori Madame Ristori will inaugurate a brief season at the Academy of Mueic, on Mon day evening next! with the drama Sor Teresa. This will bo followed in regular succession by Marie Antoinette; Sor Teresa; Elizabeth; Mary Stuart; and on Saturday afternoon Marie An toinette. Tickets can be secured at Trumpler’s. Mr Rohert Fraser’s Benefit.— On Monday evening next Mr. Robert Fraser will have a bene fit at the Chestnut; when the pantomime Hwnptq Dumpty will be-presented with new features, in cluding the original Can-Can and new dances, in which will appear, fore the first time, the great -danseuse, MUe, Thereto Wood. Mr. Fraser; is most important and mbst excellent actor in the pantomime, and hedeseryes a crowded house. '■ Miss Effle Germon’s Benefit.— To-morrow afternoon Miss Effle Gennon will have a benefit at the Academy of . Music. The programme ar ranged for the occasion is a very attractive one, and the cast of the plays Is superlatively good. The burlesque Pocahontas, and the farces Cool as a Cucumber and The Loan of a Lover, will be pre sented, with Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Owen Marlowe and Miss C. Jefferson in the parts. CarncroßS & Dixey’s Minstrels will, also partiei-- ' patefgivlng some’of their most popular perform ances, MissGermon enjoys immense personal and professional popularity, and she deserves a a full house. • ‘v; The European Circus.— This great circus and menagerie combination gives -afternoon and evening performances every day in.the tent upon the lot, Eighth street, between Race ! and Vine. The collection of wild animals is rare and curious, and the performances in the den of lions are very remarkable. The equestrians and acrobats .are the best in their profession iff the world, and those persons who are fond of entertainments of this character cannot fail to be pleased. • Eleventh Street' Opera House.— Messrs. Carncross & Dixey effor an attractive entertain ment thto-evening. -The programme includes The Hurrah I'rip Around the World; The Phan tom Broker; The Spectre's Frolic, and other bur-, lesques, witb Blngulg by Carncross and .tho com pany, and negro comicalities generally. —Barnes, a clever pantomimist, has committed euicftein&ffdon. F. I, mHERSTON .v PRIOE THREE OENTS., : t'ACTS aim: iSjjColorodo Jcwctt is in Montreal. .f'Blttck.Swan’! Is in Chicago, i. —Oil a bUst—Poo's raven. ■ • • ; —LIUIO 'PittU ls reported to be worth $300,00C. " 5 is golngto Europe for. yearn’ study. 1 —Mount Vernon Is sadly out of repair, ■. ought to be preserved by soniebody. , —The Menken’s “Mazeppa” is dcuzilng the Londoners. —The once famous Count Joannes Is pracELiagf law In - an obscure town in Maine. ... " • —A pop-corn manufacturer returns one of Iks largest incomes in Fltclibnrg, Mass. ■ • ' ; > —Canned beefsteaks, fromthe Texas prairies, are lit the New Orleans market.' —Some one says Clara- Lonteo Kellegg wll come borne in the summer. < ■ —A. Mlssisslpplan was fined the other day for getting “whipped in a street fight.” —During a recent hail-storm in Livingston, Alabama, all the prisoners lodged in the jail there escaped. .—A bald publisher,' wants a sensations story that wul maKe his hair stand on his head. ■ ■■ —At a. recent concert In London,a pianist,Chas; Halle', played from memory the whole of Beer thoven’s sonatas. —Gen. C. S. Buckner announces in a cardin the Louisville Courier his connection'with that journal as editor. ' • \ ’ .’ —The Eastern Township (CanadaYßank.has removed its specie to Montreal for safe keeping, in apprehension of Fenian raids. ■ -'': —At S recent trial Of the Hemy repeating rifle at Woolwich, England, thirty 6hot3' were tired in forty-fonfi seconds. —The British Government has abandoned the idea of buying up the telegraph lines of the United Kingdom. , ...... . —Commodore Perry’s statue will he unveiled in Touro Park, Newport, Rhodolslan’d/on or about June 20. • . —ln some places in .Mississippi the farmers . have become so infatuated with the present high’> price’of cotton that they have ploughed, up their i ' com and planted cotton. • , . ( —An astute member'of the .legal .profession V; looking over some old. documents, 'recently, so 1 far forgot himself as to mistake 7 the . ‘•will”, for the “deed.” , . ’ .- ” —Parepa is to give six Concerts in San Fran cisco. ’ If $19,200 in gold arc flnbScri6ed;stie will alßo give 7 24 ‘representations’ of Ttallan ‘Opera. We would be willing to try our best lor that sum. —The cables for thenewbridgeatNiagaraFalle have been received, and will be put ,np, imme diately. They are in fourteen coils, each! coil weighing fourteen tons.’ '' -' ’■ 'j ' —Chicago Republican papers do not agree at •all. • One of them pleasantly Bays' of a: -neighbor that it has seven principles—five loaves and two fishes. '■ v ■ m \ .“—The last, new use of steel Is for. tho manufac ture of billiard balls.-It is claimed for the metal balls that they aremoie elasticthan .those of ivory, and are not liable, to crack and chip. —Aman and a boy. buricd lua coal pit in ; * .Wales, lived for eight days on water and six can- , - dies. ” They .then law *lhe light. Candles; we » should think, Wonldinduce moro-tallowty.- • A woman in Indiana, the other day,- was di- , voTced from one hnsband.at ton o’clock, on-Tucs- ' day morning, and in fifteen minutes afterwards was married to another. ; —Brownsvillo denies that it ishatboring Santa Anna, and declares that neither he nor his friends . : have any money ..wherewith to start a new re volution. ■■■ >4. ■ —Jostee is praised in Boston as In admirable .voice, and the jiyaiwepjrf declares that she has , gained in follness and certainty. She might do mat and yet not amount’to much. —Terra alba, or white earth, is extensively used to adulterate confectioneiy. Dissolve a piece of candy in a glass Of water, and the sediment, will exhibit the amount of adulte ration.. ■ -• .:. ■ . t ; ’ ' ’. ' - —A Massachusetts paper says: “B. !B. Abbe,' of 1 West Sandwich, has imported and let loose six pair of California quail, larger andfiner than our local variety, wim a view of improving the stock; but they’ll all be shot first.” —Agnes Kemp,the woman .who dared to heard. W. Phillips in the convention, of the-female vo ters, writes to a paper in this State to explain mat when she said she didn’t r .want him .for a leader, 7 she didn’t mean- that.shO;did want GCorge Francis Train. r A person from the rural districts was .walk ing through Montreal, the other day, when a rough-looking fello w’lald hold of him by the col- - lar, shook him and Insisted upon knowing tho hour. The farmer’ nulled but a pistol with me remark, “My taan, it will be just one if I fire.” - —Fearful cruelties to singing birds are.prae tised in Belgium and the north of France. iTliey ore blinded with red hot' iron and! men impri soned in dark cellarslor a fortnight After this theyare brought into me fresh air and their joy shows itself in song. Contests are common and njhch money is bet by owners on,their birds. . —Because me Brown University faculty omitted to replace a stolen rope and bucket attached, to a. well on - the grounds, the students marched through Providence on Thursday with a banner labeled “Water,” and bearing all sorts ofwtonsils to receive it in. Three leaders in the affair " have been expelled. —Strange stories are floating about among Eu ropean court circhm respecting the private habits of the Emperor orßussia. It is said that he Is drunk most of the time, and mat his recent ill ness was not a slight stroke of apoplexy, as waa reported by the continental papers, but simply, an attack of the delirium tremens. ■ —A letter from- Omaha thus touches on the subject of mud: Every man you meet has, his pants stuck in his bootß,-. and hia-bodts stuck in the mud; vehicles and horses go about wim a coating of soil varying in thickness irom one to three inches; and things generally wear the' moat dejected, wo-begone appearance I ever had the misfortune to be compelled to' endure. —Galignani tons “pitches, into” Picard’s old comedy, “La Petite Ville,” revived at too Odbon, Paris: The personages who people tiffs‘Pitite Ville” are as ermuyeux as their doings. There Is the laughing did maid with her eternal re proaches, find the old country coquette; thoriro vincial bore, strutting about uko Roland toe Jnst, with ribbons in bis shoes and a managing mama, theheat character in the play. The tendor parents who bring np pretty plantsto cornish Bclgravtai. drawing rooms might profit by her code ofln stxhctions to her daughter Flore. —The Duke de Persigny is a notablo figure In toe Benate. Of all toe men about too Emperor ho Is toe only one that was wltff hlsMajcaiy ia both toe attacks on too monarch at Strasburg and Boulegne. Tho Duke is about the Emperor’S ago, toortrsquarely built, has hair that remains dark bv some means or other, has a fancy for rido whiskers. mustache and Imperial. ; Ho; to not • a man that would be. noticed in; a crowd. ; Ho stoops when talking, and his manner to quiet and unassuming. He makos speeches often; he reads them and reads .them well. Ho is one of tho men of tho Senate who .has ideaß of his own but unfortunately ho covora toom up in a flux of language. It to a maximum of words wito a minimum of ideas. Nevertheless too Duke’s ideas are original, and he does not ask beforehand whether they suit his master or not. Tho fact is, he thinkß tho Emperor belongs to . him, and of all toe public -men, he Is toe man for whom the Emperor hasunost indulgence. Tfio . only fault wofindwithM. de Persigny to that he mixee up Liberalism wito Imperialism m such a way toat: no party; knows where to find hlrqt.— . tans Cor. N, F. Times. ’ : la ■ ’ . jpaMister. con. • ,4
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