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ALYERS, 115 South • " Seventh street. —"At Clara Mundt's" says , the Berlin come spondent of the Baltic Gazette, "I met yesterda.y, Xerthold Auerbach. I was much surprised at his appearance. You would take him for a dry old lawyer much sooner than the author of so many heart-stirring novels. He is a clever chess player,and it is amusing to hear him curse himself In a humorous way when he is at a loss to know what move to make. He does not look quite as old as he is, and I have been told that there is still an immense amount of work in him, which will be good news to Hs innumerable friends and admirers." —There are over one thousand Dutchmen, mostly married men, in the Papal army. The wives and children of these men have remained at home, where most of them had to be sent to the poor-house. The Dutch Government sent, :in consequence, a note to - Cardinal Atttonelli, asking him to set aside one-half of the pay of the Zouavesin question, for the support of their families. When the worthy soldiers were in formed that the uovenament was about to com ply with the amand, they threatened to 'desert en mane; and in order to pacify then, promises that no part of their pay should be' withheld , from them had to be made to them. (Ito. R. MUNI. Wm. M. Wilson. Isaac E. Smith. Thomas Patter. Alex. T. Lane. Henry M. KimmeY. Hiram Miller. John Wiest, James W. Carson. guaranty to the community the disposal of the Society dispensed. eel4.m w s etz; DISAISITERS. THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE. LATER PARTICULARS Immense Loss of Life and Destruction of Property-1 owns and Cities giant lowed up with their inhabitants— " force latindred lihotriand People Without liomes. The Lima correspondent of the N. Y. Times writes as follows: Lula, Monday, August 24, 1868.—The warn ings of a great calamity, of which I gave a harried account in my last letter, have been terribly fulfilled. From Quito to Chiloe. the whole of our Western coast has been 'batted with ruin too dreadful for discriptlon. Whole cities, with their inhabitants, have been swan lowed by.the yawning earth or submerged by the overwhelming sea. The extent of the cal amity can be only estimated at present ; but every hour brings In fresh tidings of disasters from the coast and the interior, and the loss of life cannot fall below 30,000 souls, while it may reach the number of 60,000. But the extent of this appalling disaster• is only partially repre sented by the loss of life. Happy the fate of those who perished instantly, compared with that of thousands who survive. Provisions of any kind are scarcely to be had, and the country is filled with starving people seeking shelter and food. The Peruvian Congress has authorized the President to spend 82,000,000 on the desti tute; and the guano agents have loaned the Gov ernment 8500,000 of the money, without interest. But this sum will go but a small way toward re lieving the actual wants of the thousands who are cast homeless and destitute upon an almost ruined country. Although South America, and especially the Western coast, has often suffered from earth quakes, none of equal extent has occurred since tee country was known to Europeans. The shocks commenced on the 13th inst., about 5 o'clock P. 31., and were felt in a radius of about 1,000 miles, from the port or Came, near the northern extremity of Peru, down to Cobija, in In different places the shocks lasted from two to seven minutes, and caused greater ravages than any similar calamity that ever befell this country before; for not only were whole towns thaktn down, and their destruction completed by fire, but the sea, retiring to extraordinary distances, returned on the coast at the rate of ten miles au hour, and with a wave fall fifty feet high, that covered the towns and swept away in its reflex everything within its power, leaving big ships high and dry. The places where the convulsion was felt most severely are Arequipa, fifteen leagues inland, and 3loquegua, ten leagues dis tant. The first of these cities is close to the vol c- no called - 3Lista," and the second close to the "Üblnas." Tacna and Ica, distant from the sea six or eight leagues. have suffered little in pro poi Lon to the others. Callao providentially escaped destruction by the earthquake, though it suffered great damage by the inundation and the extensive fire, of which I wrote in my last. The news from every part of 'the country is heartrending. Complete. ruin has• befallen the land. from Pisco to Iquique, and we do not yet know the full extent of the disaster. It was as serted that Cerro Pasco and Hauncavellea, with about 80.000 inhabitants, had disappeared, en gulfed in the earth, but later reports lead to the nellef that the extent of the calamity, as far aS these cities are concerned, has been greatly exag gerated. The news from the different towns along the coast and in the interior comes in slowly, and is confused and contradictory. I give the latest par tk elate, as they reach me, from private corres pondence and the newspapers. THE CITY OF AEEQUIPA Arequipa, the most beautiful city in Pera, wail completely overthrown by the earthquake of the 13th. It was solidly built of stone, and con tained about 50,000 inhabitants. Without ex asgeration, I may say that not one stone has been left upon another. Not a church is left standing, not a house Is habitable. The solidity of the buildings enabled them to resist the first shocks, and gave time to the Inhabitants to escape to the streets and squares, bat was not sufficient to armst the continued violence of the earthquake. The number of persons buried be neath the ruins was about 200. The earthquake commenced with an undulating movement, and as the shock culminated no one could keep his feet. the houses rocked like ships in the trough of the sea, and came crumbling down. The shrieks of the women and the crash of fulling masonry; the upheaving of the earth and the clouds of blinding dust made up a scene of terror that cannot be described. Nineteen minor shocks took place that night, and at latest accounts the earth still continued in motion. Nothing had yet been done toward dis interring the dead; but I do not think any are bur?ed alive, as certain death must have been the fate 01 all those who were not able to get into the street. The earth has opened in all the plains around the city, -and water has appeared in various places. The neighborhoods of Tiabaya aul Babandia and all the outlets of the beautiful city have shared her lot. The Mistl, a volcano in whose lap the town was built, opened on the side toward the north, and threw forth earth and ashes; the we. ter which the inhabitants used to drink has turned black, and of an insupportable taste. iQuicons. This city, the most important place in Bonttern Perm, was almost totally destroyed. A few minutes after 5 P. M., on the 18th inst., the in habitants were terrified by loud subterranean noises, presaging the approach of an earthquake. The shock immediately followed. Every building was shaken to its foundation. The population rushed into the streets, and those who were not buried by the falling walls made their escape into the country with all speed. Had they re mained In the city the entire population must have perished, as immediately on the passing of the first shock, the sea retired for some distance and then returned with a great_ rush and a roaring Found more terrible than the loudest thunder. the wave was of dreadful height and force, and it swept Irresistibly over the town, icompleting the rum begun by the earthquake. Not a mer cantile establishment has escaped, nor does a vestige remain of the most opulent and hand some section of the town. The massive bniitt: ings belonging to the nitrate merchants, mostly constructed of stone and lime, hitve entirely dis appeared. Buildings constructed of timber were swept away at once, leaving nothing to mark the place where they stood. The inroad made by the sea extended - to the Pantera, part of.which was covered by the wave, and that section of the town known by the name of the Puntella, has been entirely destroyed, leaving nothing but the debris of innumerable houses. It is supposed that over two hundred persons were killed by the earthquake. Among the vie-. tims were the British Consul, Mr. Billingburst, and several of his family. Some of his family made their escape in.a boat, which was provi dentially carried inland by the advancing tide and left on a rising piece of ground. The archives of all the Consulates have been lest. The same has occurred in, the Judiciary and official departments, the Custom-House and its dependencies having ; been totally washed away. amen. This lately flourishing city, through which the greatest part of our commerce with the neighbor ing Republic of Bolivia flowed, and which was the most picturesque of our ports, after having been destroyed by the earthquake, was oblitera ted by the sea. There;as In the other towns on: the coast, the water having retired to a great distance, fell with irresistible force on the ruins of the buildings, and has left a sad and silent beach, where but a short time before was activity and life. Of flue ships that lay at 'anchor in the bay, all but one were destroyed with the entire or greater PHILADELPHIA, MONDAy, SEPTEMBER 14, 1868. portion of their crews. The single exception was the Waterce, - a war-steamer of the United States, which was carried nearly two miles inland, and lost only one man. The wife of Lieutenant-Commander W. L. Johnson, of the Wateree, was killed by a piece of timber falling on her while with her husband in the streets of Arica. trying to make their escape. The United States storeahip Fredonia was turned bottom up by the earthquake ,wave, and all on board perished. Capt. Doty, W. L. Wil liams, T. L. Dubois, Charles Levine and August Jansen chanced to be on shore and were saved. The following are the names of the lost: First Lieut. Benjamin Dyer and his wife; Second Lieut. David Organ. Employes--J. G. Cromwell, J.M. Hunt, Rudolph Bagstecte, Nicholas Schravesand, George Bender, Chas.-White, Sylvester Huggins, August Muller, Simon Juane, John Lambach, Jobn Smith, Wm. Kern Henry Hazenburg. Sailors--Wto. Peterson; Richard Murray, Charles Buderborn; Jacob King, Peter and Henry John eon, Henry Voss, Henry Sillin, Hans Holm,Chas. Shoemaker, John Bickers." The The number killed in Arica is not yet perty known; but is estimated at 200. 'The loss of pro is immense. The Custom House contained 15,300 packages, valued at $1,800,000. Terror, hunger and desolation reign supreme. There is no ha bitable building left. The Custona House, rail road station. Post Office, hospital, churches, the tort of San Jose, all pregone. Even the trees have been swept away. No one is seen in the streets save now and then a person looking for spoils, or searching for the remains of lost friends or kinsfolk. EOM - - - The Port of Chafe, about half way between Callao and Iquique, suffered great damage, the havoc continuing for about forty-five minutes. At the moment the steamship Santiago was about to anchor, after a shock which was felt very sensibly on board, the sea seceded, parting the chain of the vessel, and of the company's hulk, at anchor in the roadstead, and then returned at a height of about fifty feet, covering the rocks about the anchorage and in the harbor and sweeping up into the town for the distance of er 1,000 feet, The Custom-house, Steamship Agency, Mole, and everything within range was suept away by three successive seas preceded aid followed by as many as twelve shocks of earthquake, each lasting from three seconds to tv‘ o minutes in duration. Although it is not certain, no lives are pre sumed to have been lost. Launches and every thing afloat or within reach of theses were swept away. The authorities of the port and such persons as were afloat were compelled to proceed to Islay, owing to the Impossibility of returning again to shore. The estimated loss at this port is StBo,ooo. The port is almost ruined, and the inhabitants have Lad to remove to a distance of eight leagues. LOSSES IN OTHER CITLE9 The town of Tambo is entirely washed away, cad upward of 500 persons have perished. The towns of Tiabaga, %itor,Molliendo and Id* and all the villages withi 150 miles are totat destroyed. In the latter place all the materials for the building of the Arequipa Railroad, which were deposited there, were washedsway. liejil tones is completely destroyed. From Tacna accounts are equally gloomy and appalling; upward of forty buildings are de stroyed. said as many as sixty-four distinct "shocks of earthquake were felt, and which con tinued np to the last date (16th.) The earthquake was terrific-in its effect nothing of the kind being In the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. The tow ns of Bama and Lecomba are nearly destroyed. Tte earth opened In many places and vomited forth hot water. The valley of Lluta Is com ph rely ruined. At Pisagna three ships were lost. At Melia :the Fea carried away all the sleepers and rails for the 31 jia Railway which were on the beach. Owing to the elevation of the port, the damage &Tie to Islay by the sea was not very great, tbuugh the earthquake wave rose to the height of xty feet. The Sea Lion, English bark, lying ,there loading wood, suffered no damage. The Fr, neh ship Canton, although left high and dry, 'avec( coed in floating off with the return sea. The mole is nearly destroyed, and several of the 'launches. In the town every stone or cement wall is either demolished entirely or badly b lien. Among other freaks of the earthquake an t ntire new quebrada has opened at Guerreros, with a running spring at the bottom. lollendo is the depot of supplies for the Are quipa Railway. Provisions, houses and pro prrty of every description were completely swept A t Tilo not a vestige of habitation of any kind is left. either at the port or in the town, which contained a population of 500 or more inhabit ant,. What was not knocked down by the shock was swept away by the flood, attended by the lo,s of twenty lives. The Nmita, English sloop, belonging to Mr. A. Wellirgton, of Valparaiso, Is a total wreck. The Gambeta, belonging to Messrs. Gambeta Brothers, Is also totally lost, as well as a schoon er owned in Pisagna and the entire crews per ished. The losses will reach to more than $lOO,- 000, only part of the marine property being In sured. THE MISCHA ISLAM. These islands were visited by shocks so strong as to throw every one to the ground. No one could remain standibg. For a while after the subsidence of the earthquake the sea remained perfectly quiet, but about 9.30 o'clock at night commenced retiring and when about seventy yards distant raised Itself in an immense wave, which rushing forward threw itself with irresisti ble weight against the mole. The solid structure boas instantly torn away. The inhabitants gave themselves up for lost, supposing the whole Island was about to be submerged. The ships were dashed about like cockle-shells, and suf fered great damage from striking against each other. The following is a list of the vessels in jured or destroyed : British ship Resolute, par tially destroyed; British_ship:Eastern -Empire, bacTlyilaniaged ; destroyed;_ ship Oceanica, almost a wreck; British ship Southern Ocean, badly dam aged; Prussian bark Leopold 11. a total wreck. Many of the above vessels were loaded, and were about to leave; their cargoes have all been - badly injured. All the launches and small vessels are totally destroyed, the wharves and the mole are So injured that immense sums will have to be expended on them before they can be of any ser vice. EXTENT OF THE CALAMITY. It may be many weeks before we obtain full and exact accounts of the extent of this terrible calamity. No words at my command are ade quate to describe the terror and suffering to be Witnessed on every side. It is computed that 300.000 persons are homeless, wandering through the country, destitute of shelter and food. The Government is straining every nerve to relieve their Mfress; bat even' the most that can be done will go but little way toward sup plying their wants. The United States flagship Powhattan, with Admiral Turner on board,- - has sailed from Callao for Arica with supplies, and to render all assistance possible to the sufferers. The commander of the French war steamer La otte Piquet also placed his vessel at the dispo sal of the authorities, and has sailed for Arica. The steamer Union has' been loaded with provi sions, &c., and despatched from Callao by the Peruvian Government to render assistance to the destitute along the coast, but, owing to some de fect in her machinery, she was oblio•ed to put back to port. It having been agreed upon by :the e Beneficent Society of Lima to collect from the ruined towns all orphans under eight years of age; and not bring able to deduct from its own funds the sum of $lB,OOO, which had hem caleulated was the quantity necessary for the' construction of the building in which they should be received, the government has come forward •and ordered that it should be built at once from the funds of the nation. The Municipal body of this city have agreed to raise, a loan of $lOO,OOO on a mortgage.of their rents, in order to assist the helpless of the south. • OUR; WHOLE COUNTRY. President Baltabas idened the following pro 'elbThation : "To tht; People of the South: When I was pre pared t 6 shower all the good that power has placed Mmy hands on you, as on all the Re public, a terrible misfortune has struck you, and profoundly moved my heart. "With the approval of the Congress and of all good citizens, I have not occupied, nor shall I occupy myself in anything, but to diminish the evils produced by the great calamity which has befallen yon. My prat thought has been to fly to your assistance. tot' weep with you over your ruins and - to bestow upon you - all the means of consolation of which the Government can dispose; but I can serve you better here; and authorized by the Congress to take all necessary measures to assist you, I send the Minister of Justice, Dr. D. Luciano B. Cisneros, who will adopt all the measures necessary to alleviate your misfor- UM& • *qhe Divine Providence has thought proper to fillet the country with great misfortune, at the moment in which my administration was com mencing; being His work, it is also His the inspi ration which animates me, and the force which sustains me, to give to the Republic a proof of my love and my devotion to it. 'The school of misfortune has always been useful, and the great calamities with which God has afflicted His people have been at all times a lesson of humanity. Misfortune Is a bond stronger than prosperity. •`BO, let us unite then to dry the tears of the un fortunate, to succor the orphans, to save families, to re-establish your agriculture, to give impulse to your industry, and to raise from ruin all the &public, more prosperous, more united and more happy. "No sacrifice, not even that of his life to attain those ends, will omit your fellow-countryman and friend, JOSE BALTA. "Lima. August 21, 1868." According to the IndPpendance Belgc the Prince Imperial dances a good deal at Fontainebleau, although-his preceptor, M. Filon, proved himself lamentably deficient in the art one late occasion, when be was dancing vis-a-vis to the young Prince. M. Hon has accordingly commenced to take lessons in the art, and is showing laudable zeal in improving his education in this respect. The following words are attributed to his Impe rial Highness, which shows that his religious education has not been neglected: "When I am Emperor I will have everybody perform his religious duties; I will not have persons without religion." It is said that ho shows great apti tude for music, but the Emperor rather discour ages this inclination in his son. "I will not have him a Coburg," was the observation of His Majesty. The Government hem stores at S. Petersburg have just been in part destroyed stroyed by a conflagra tion. The flames broke out at 11 in the evening, and spread with such rapidity that in a very short time nine of the detached buildings of wood and stone in which the material is kept were on fire, and were totally destroyed,with the chapel of the establishment. The loss is estimated at 800,000 roubles (four francs each.) The origin of the dis aster is attributed to the negligence of some workmen. Cardinal Bonaparte's health continues to de cline. His Eminence grows more and more emaciated every day, and it is impacted by his medical advisers.that attacked with the came malady—cancer in the stomach—which proytti fatal to Napoleon 1. and to his father be fotV him. The Carlsruhe Gazette seems to consider the absorption of the Grand Duchy of Baden by Prussia as simply a question of time. In one of its latest numbers it describes the general condi tion of the troops composing the Baden army, aid then adds: The military system in this Dachy is so com pletely according to that of the Prussian army, even to the smallest detail, that the incorporation of the Baden force into the other could take place without the smallest delay whenever the entrance into the Confederation of the North, in: dicated in the recent speeches of the Ministers Beyer and Freidorf, shall appear opportune. The Pall Mall Gazette of the Ist of September, speaking of the future of Mexico, says: We can scarcely say that the future of Mexico is one of the "questions" of the hour. The des tiry of the empire which has known thirty-three changes of government in forty-six years has not been difficult to read ever since the fall of Maxi milian. For eleven years past Juarez has fought with all the energy of his nature for the reten tion of a power which never had any actual ex ; ister.ce. For five years the French succeeded in reducing him to a level with a guerilla chieftain, but they were the five years during which the United States were unable to stretch forth a hand to help a neighbor. Stray hints have been dropped signifying that General Rose crans has gone to invite Mexico to Join the great republic. The only question in our opinion is, how long will he have to wait before his errand is accomplished? Is Juarez already brought low enough to accept terms? * * * Perhaps even an Indian may hope to sit in the chair of Wash ington. At any rate they couldgovern their own States. There _ would be only two or three more stained glass windows in tbe roof of tho Blouse of Representatives at Washington, and space has be' n thoughtfully preserved for them. The re public has always been ready to take in new Come rs. Better the United States than anarchy, and to that conclusion the Mexicans will come sooner or later. The Pall Mall Gazette says: - "From Florence we are told that General Gari baldi has resigned his seat in the Italian Parlia ment. No reason is mentioned. The Austrian Government is taking effectual means for carrying out the new marriage law, the Minister of Justice having given notice to the civil tribunals that, in the event of the clerical courts refusing to furnish the documents re quisite for contracting civil marriages, they shall be compelled to do so by legal means. The Pal; Mall Ga7.elle says: , "A telegram states that the life of M. de Mon talembert hae been placed in danger by a ear rluee lA:adept. Hopes_ are entertained that he will recover. The Count's servant was killed." scene of a very unusual kind for a London theatre, and most of all, a West End theatre, oc curred at the St. James on Wednesday night, the 22a of August. The special attraction during the week was a performer placarded as "The Great Mexican Tragedian. He proved the re verse of a successful speculation. Oa Saturday night he was cordially hissed during the earlier at:ts of "Richard and on the dropping, of the curtain on the second act, the manager came forward, announced thttt the performance would not .proceed, and entered into explana tions that led to the Inference that_ insufficient capital was the carttse. The uproar Was intense, and the "gods" with a shoat proceeded to take out their revenge in tearing up the gallery seats. This destruction was, however, provepted by the intervention of some of the employds, and after au hour's indescribable confusion the house was cleared at ten o'clock. It was stated thatr the ac tors and actresses brought about the denouement by strikinz in consequence of the non-payment of their *arias. EUROPEAN AFP.AIRS The French Prince imperial. Great Fire in ttnssitt. Cardinal nonaparft. Prussian Annexation The Future off Mexico. Garibaldi. The Austrian Marriage Law Accident to Montalembert. DRA.IYIATIC. The Opening Night at the Arch. The regular season at the Arch Street Theatre was inaugurated on Saturday night, as usual with a standard play—on this occasion Gold smith's rare old comedy She Stoops to Conquer. A better selection could not have been made. This comedy is the finest in modern dramatic litera ture. Goldsmith's only great contemporary rival Is Sheridan, and while the best play of the latter, The S'ehoolfor Scandal, Is entitled to the second plaee, Goldsmith's comedy ranks first in the list of excellent dramas produced within the last century.... It fulfils in the greatest degreerthe re quirements of a play of this elass. The plot is simple and natural; the situations are dramatic; the dialogue is witty and amusing; the characters are original in conception, and have sufficient individuality; the moral Is evident without being offensively oppressive; and the whole play has that purity of language and that rigid regard for decency which are the pro-eminent characteristics of the author. The leading incident of which the other events are the consequence—the mistaking of a family mansion for a roadside Inn, is exceedingly farci cal in its nature. In the hands of a lees skilful dramatist than Goldsmith, the temptation to give the play the lower tone of broad humor, would have been irresistible. But he has piehed it in a high key, and while expending the full force of the comical situation, be bas grouped together a series of admirable characters, and given them language that sparkles, with wit and wisdom, while it is the perfection of elegance and simpli city. The peculiar excellence of the comedy adds to the difficulty of satisfactory representation. The actor who attempts any one of the leading parts, Foust possess certainly more than ordinary merit, to do justice to the author. It will not do to rattle through any of the roles with an imperfect com prehension of the spirit of the entire work, or with an inadequate idea of the full force and meaning of the language. A creditable perform ance re quires that each character shall be sus tained by an actor of considerable ability, and not by individuals such as those who too often form the bulk of our theatrical stock com panies. For this reason we rarely see a good representation of this comedy. Generally the leading part is taken by a "star," two or three actors of indifferent acquirements are thrown in the secondary characters, and the cast is filled out with wretched pieces of human mechanism, which strut about, without the slightest compre hension of the meaning of language which upon their lips is meaningit ss. For this reason too, we are glad to say, the performance at the Arch, on Saturday night, was in every way satisfactory. All the conditions necessary for a correct interpretation were ful filled, and we can honestly enjoy the rare plea sure of bestowing unqualified praise upon an en tertainment that was altogether exceptional in its excellence. The most fastidious critic could have found nothing deserving of censure. The judicious cast, the excellent taste of the actors and their familiarity with the dialogue; the capi tal by-play, the flue scenery. and the appropriate costumes, combined to please one of the most in telligent and refined audiences that we have ever seen in a theatre. Mm. Drew's impersonation of "Miss Hardeas tle" was worthy of her reputation as a first-rate artist. Of Ibis ardent but demure Miss, she gave a representation,the uniform excellence of which becomes more apparent as we strive in vain to recall some one episode in which her stall was better displayed than In another. Mr. Barton Hill, as "Yottog Marlow," the diffident youth who is-bold upon occasion, won fresh honors. His by-play, in the interview with his fiancie, was, in the highest degree, pleasing. It is in trifles such as these that the tree artist displays his powers, and Mr. Hill, with infinite grace, supplied the lighter tints and the delicate shadows of his picture. Craig's "Tony Lumpkin" is equally deserving of eulogy. It has been the habit of some comedians to depict "Tony" as a grimacing simple ton, who plays the fool through out. The text of the character exposes the absurd impropriety of such a conception `Tony" is a good-natured, unlettered. mischiev ous youth, s poiled by the fondness of his mother, and finding congenial companionship with his social inferiors rather than with the members of his own ft. mily. Mr. ilraig gave the character this interpretation,but with iutinite humor, that gained delicacy and force precisely at it was removed from anything like buffoonery. Mr. M okay's "Hardcastle" justified the praise we have al ways bestowed upon the efforts of this excellent actor. In "old man" parts" he has no superior noon the stage that we know of. Mrs. Thayer's "Mrs. Hardcastle." Mrs. Creese's "Miss Neville," Nir. James's "Hastings," Mr. Hemple.'a "Di„ gory," were all in the highest degree satisfactory, and deserve more praise than we have space to be stow upon them. Mr. Wallis also acquitted him self very well indeed in the.part of "Sir Charles Marlow." The farce of Jenny Lind was given as an after piece for the purpose of introducing to the au dience Miss Fanny Davenport, the daughter of E. L. Davenport, and the young lady who has assumed position as soubrette at the Arch. We are much pleased to congratulate her upon a successful debut. She can be assured that she has already found favor with the public,and that her popularity is an established fact. She has a fine presence, a beautiful face, a charming manner that recommends her at mice to the audience, and a very sweet soprano voice—light and not very powerful, but well trained, sympathetic, and very mush better than any that we are accustomed to hear off of the lyric stage. The moral of the success of the performance of Saturday night is so evident that we must In sist upon its application. If Mrs. Drew, without the aid of expensive "stars," can fill her theatre with a brilliant audience, who come to see an old comedy, and depart feeling that they have been entertained in the most completely satisfactory manner, why should Mrs. Drew ever again place upon her stage vulgar "sensational " plays, paro dies upon comedy, leg pieces, or any of the cor rupt and corrupting, the debased and debasing dramas which have so long been presented to a disgusted public? With the best stock company that we have had in this city for many long years, Mrs. Drew has it in ber power to act independ ently of those stellar artists who extract large sums from the treasury and give but a partial equivalent. She can take the first step towards reviving the interest of educated people in the drama, and she may always have in her house such audiences as she had on Saturday night, instead of . catering to a crowd of people who find enthusiastic pleasure in the running of a wretched railroad train acrws the stage; who are worked into a frenzy if a heroine is placed in a thrilling situation, and who find intense satisfaction in a conglomera tion of forgery, abduction and assassination. If Mrs. Drew will conscientiously stick to the legiti mate drama, presenting it al ways with the care fulness ana exactness displayed in She Stoops to Conquer, she will fill her treasury, please intelli gent people, and do her art a true and laudable service. THEATRES, Eto. AT THE ARCH this evening, the Richings Opera Troupe will begin a twelve nights' engagement, with the opera of Martha. The cast includes Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Seguin, Messrs. Castle, Se guin, Campbell and Peaked& AT THE CHESTNUT to-night ,The White Fawn will be repeated. • AT THE WALNUT, Foul Play is announced for to-night. AT THE AMERICAN, a miscellaneous entertain merit will be given. --The soli' of Prince Ruspoli, of Rome, has joined the Italian army as a private. His princely papa tried to persuade the authorities to release him, bat in. vain. F. L. FEMRSTON. Publisher. PRICE THREE CENTS FACTS AND. FANCIES. Braddon cornea hither In December. —A flying cat hat, been found in India. —The beat part of some poetry is the refrain. —Mrs. Bowers is playing Cleopatra in San Francisco. —Peaches are fifty to seventy-five cents ts bushel in eastern Texas. —John Allen, "the Wickedest," Intends to start on a lecturing tour. —One of the Chinese Embassy, just departed, thinks Emerson writes like Confucius!. ' —Crimson morocco boots are coming into fashion in Madrid. They are alwaysreddy made": ' —The weather at Springfield is in-horse-pielousi for the razes, says the Boston Post. —lt is believed after the present eruption that Vr.suvins will become extinct. ' —The Catholic clergy of Bt. Louis officially dec nouns Planchette as a diabolical invention. , —Cora Pearl, the notorious lOrette, is making arrangements to visit America. Opera bouge has prepared the way for her popularity. —"Baldy" Smith is credited with the ant'-. • Grant letters in the New York. World, probably because they are balderdash. —lt is reported on good authority that the next promotion to the Cardinalate will include Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, and possibly the Archbishop of Paris. —lllinois ' • jealous of the headless roister, points to aboy five years old without a head: -- His face is situated in the middle of his breast, and be has a remarkable voice for Singing. —Labor has been so scarce and expensive in Ireland this year that farmers have become re conciled to the use of reaping machines, for the first time. —Marshal Canrobert is writing a reply to cer tain passages In Kinglaks's third and tonrth vol ume, and his wife, a Scotch lady of considerable skill as an author, Is going to translate it into English. The Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate gives the fol lowing as a digest of the local exchanges : Prairie chickens; more prairie chickens; prairie chickens. Hops; more hops; hop lice; hop picking; hop sachs; hop driers: hops. Girls for hop picking; more girls; twenty thousand more girls; girls. —Mr. Furnivall has been examining the manu script of Chancer's Canterbury Tales in the pos session of Sir Morton Pete. It proves to be the liaistwell manuscript, used by Ty rwhitt, of which the trace had been lost by Chaucer students. English literary papers are very carefully noting the points of difference between it and the other manuscripts. —Richard Wagner requests, in a card published in several Gentian papers, American managers who will perform his now opera, the "Meister singer of Nuremberg," to send him accounts of the representations, and of the manner in which the audiences receive the principal airs, tt;c., of the opera. He says that if managers wish to shorten the opera, they had butter consult him about it. —Count von Schack, a Prussian artillery lieu tenet t, and considered the best swimmer le the North German army, made a bet the other day to the effect that he would swim across the Spree, lying on his back, and bearing on his breast a board, with two full bottles of wine, six eggs in a dish, and four tumblers. If one of these ar ticles should fall from the board, he would lose the bet. Ho won it —An Amt rican writer in the Ger Man Kirchen blatt says that if Henry Ward Beecher could speak the German language, and be prevailed upon to preach for a year In one of the capitals of Germany he would succeed in' stemming the tide 01 int:Welty in the old country. He says it if but the plain, unvarnished truth, when he as serts that there is on the whole continent no pulpit orator that could be compared with him. Charles Dickens has written the following letter to the Secretary of the German Authors' . IA ague: "Aly Dear Sir: I have road with profound intern st the proceedings of your late meeting at Drcsdt n, of which you have been kind enough to send me a copy. In the path which your society has entered, It is bound to accomplish s ereat deal of good. Pursue it steadily, and you may be sure of the sympathies of your brethren in usher countries, and, above all, of _your &rend, "CHAS. arcs:Errs:" —The feudal aristocracy of Austria treats Baron Van Beust and Ms colleagues of the Litivral Cabinet with the utmost disdain. His if. is not recognized by the high-born ladies as their equal, and, when they happen to meet her in pubtic, .they treat her with offensive rude ness Few wealthy aristocrats have ever set foot in Beust's house. When ho issued invita tions for his first pp bile dinner, three fourths of them were returned. Most of the Arch dukes, too, treat Beust and Gisktra with ridicu lous hauteur. —M. Cremienx, the celebrated Jewish advocate in Paris, says he deplores the efforts made by certain short-sighted Jews in the. United States to arrhy the American Israelites as a party against one of the Presidential candidates, as criminal folly, and assures the editor of the A venir how, 1, who expressed his astonishment at the course of the American Israelites. If their ru mor ed hostility to General Grant were true, that his advices from America seemed to Indicate the groundlessness of those reports. —English.managers who complain of the error bilun I, prices asked by Schneider and otherprime donne are consoled by being told that the com plaint is not a new one. In Handers time Sig nora Enzzani who was singing if London re tubed to go to Italy for 60,000 ducats,because she could make more in England. Once she ex pressed a desire.to haven certain set of lace trim ming which was not very valuable. A nobleman purchased and presented to hor a set very muck more beautiful and costly, but this she threw Into the tire because it was net - the set she wanted. —Dr. Von Schmidt, the famous cancer doctor at Paris, offers to cure patients at a distance, for h the eof ten thousand francs. He solids them Die ptcullar remedies, and writes them a letter twice a week. All patients must send their pho tographs to the doctor, who says that he uses them to study the constitution and temper of his path Eta, which, he asserts, is of the highest im portance. It the cure is unsuccessful, he charges ten thousand francs for every additional mouth during which ho treats the patients. Nelaton himself never demanded such exorbitant fees. —When the Emperor Alexander recently passed`.:. through the city of Warsaw, the streets were almost entirely deserted. Nearly every hand some house in the city was closed, and bat few r,ons, except the soldiers and public function aries, were at the llt. Petersburg, depot, where there are generally at least •a thousand Wes-. - Wens to be seen. But the Poles had determined , to make a demonstration against the emperor, and it was perfectly successful. The St. Peters burg papers denounce their conduct in unmeas ured terms, and intimate that they will provoke • still harsher treatment than they have suffered up to this time. —The Native Virginian thus Ku-Eli:ores delin quent subscribers and considers itself funny: "You have sent forward your wheat and oat crops ' arid have got the money' in your pockets or at the commission merchant's. Don't deny it. Be candid. Fork over. Plank down. Shell. out. Pony over. Pay, ere It be, alas! forever-- more too late, The secret, sad, and silent sea chinch bath mewed! The loud, ungodly goblt (kith whinny the clattery, frizzly air! Come down to condign. \Vhat, Ito! Bring out the_ t•lai,t&d, brazen boot-jacks from the bitter, boiling Baltic! Send for the seven-fold sledge-lismaser - of kne. zing steel. Fetch the cirmonamblent iron axt -beim, and the eleven hundred ghastly ham mer-hal dies of molten putty! Let down tho cum iprest Novy Skoshy willow-wattling grind t•tuLe! Whirl the everlasting cut-glasa well- El%et p, 'at d smash their drotted, and delinquent EhUllti into inexpugnable chaos and obi toAttt We vo.ut theta three dollars."
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