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WiilTE.-tin Sunday afternoon, 55th October, William
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THE "OLD OAKS" CEMETERY
is situated on the Township Line Road, at the 'acme
tion of Nicetown lane. and embrace' BIM" ,?.INE acres of
romantically beautiful land. It is the estate known for
many ream as "Old Oaks." late the country seat of John
Tucker. Esq.
The name is taken from the great number and unusual
thrift and beauty of the majestic "Old Oak" trees now
growing on the property. and which lend to it a charm
and appearance of permanency peculiarly in harmony
with the purposes to which the pound is dedicated.
No better selection of a location for a cemetery could
Dave been made. AL the advantages posseesed by each
of the other cemeteries are combined In this. it' is cen
tral in eituation.and easily accessible by good roads from
all directions ; it is perfectly convenient to and is but a
short distance from Germantown. illanaymik, Nicetown,
Frankford and Brideebnot, and can be reached from all
parts of the city of Philadelphia by means of Broad
street, which is now the most attractive and command
ing in appearance of any avenue. not only in this city
but in the whole country, and which is free from those
interruptions and delays which render private travel on
most of our highways not only disagreeable but often
dangerous.
It extends for long distances on both Nicetown lane and
Township Line road, and will have three math and orna
mental gateweys, so as to afford facilities for ingress and
egress from all directions, and the drives through the
ekce and all the approaches to it are so arranged that ite
embellishments and superior advantages cannot fail to be
at once seen and appreciated by the visitor
It is the intention of the proprietors to make "Old Oaks"
the most beautiful Cemetery in America, and the artifi
cial decorations, the lakes. drives, walks and horticultu
ral ornamentation, will give it an appearance ewer
emceed by any other ever brought to public notice, and
will tend to allay the feeling of gloom often caused by the
sombre and funereal aspect so prevalenrui - Cerrieteries
generally.
The Buildings on the property are weltknown as the
most costly and handsome ever erected by private capital.
The Mansion will be used in part as a Chapel , and, the
surroue dinga beautified in keeping with the character of
the place; in a word, the Proprietors wish to do away
with the feeling of repulsiveness so often associated with
Graveyards and Charnel Houses, and hold out every in
ducement to the friends and relatives of the departed, to
visit the grounds which contain relics so precious to
them.
The "Old Gras" will be made an object of intereetto
strangers, as well as residents of Philadelphia, and while
the solemnity of the scene will not be viom ea, yet the
imercesion will be conveyed, that death is a mere sepa,
ratiomand that them who have fought "life's battle." are
only resting from their labor% and are always kept alive
in the memory of their survivors.
The grounds will be open to Visitors at all hours dur
ing the day. The office of Inc• Company to at No. 413
Chestnut street, Room No. I. where maps and plans of
the Cemetery can be seen applications made for lots, and
any desired information given. ocl4.rp 61*
larb OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF REVISION
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Purts.untrwrs. Oct. 21, 1868.
The Board of Revision of Taxes will Meet at their of
fice. No.ll State House Row, on the following days, be•
tween the hours of 10 A. M. and 8 P. M., for the purpose of
hearing appeals from the Assessors' returns of taxes for
the year 1869, as follows
First and Second Wards—Wednesday,October AlB6B.
Third and Fourth Wards—Thursday, October 29.1868.
Fifth and Sixth Wards—Friday, October 30.1868.
Seventh and Eighth Wards—Saturday, October 31.1868.
Ninth and Tenth Wards—Wednesday. November 4.1868.
t3M.Eleventh and Twelfth Wards—Thursday, November 6,
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Wards—Friday. November
6, 1868.
Filte - entlyand - Sixteenth - WezdaSaturday, November
7,1868.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards—Monday. Novem
ber 9,1866.
Nineteenth Ward—Tuesday, November 10.1868:
Twentieth Ward—Wednesday, November U. 1868.
rs tB6 -
November 12. 18.
Twenty - third and Twenty-fourth Wards—Friday. No.
vember 13. 1868.
Twenty fifth and Twenty-sixth Wards—Saturday, No
vember 14.1E68.
Twentyeeventh and Twenty-eighth Wards—Monday.
November 16, 1812.
THOMAS COCHRAN,
WILLIAM LOITGIILIN,
SAMUEL HAWORTIL
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AT A MEETING GRPOST NO. 6 G. A. R..HELD
01 ' 7 ,at , their headonartera In-Germantown, , October 2Z3,
UN, the following resolutions were nruiniznouslyadoptcd:
Resolved. That the thanks of this Post be and are hereby
tendered to Mrs. Belle. Beaver. Mrs. Reuben Keyser, Miss
Kate Keyser, Miss Mettle Keyser and Miss Kate Dooley,
for the magnificent National Flag and Holy Bible pre.
suited to us through their exertions; and we assure the
fair donors that, guided by the Bible and following the
Mtg. we will endeavor to be worthy of their gifts, and
pledge ourselves to renewed exertions for the, perpetua
tion of the great principles of our organization.
Resolved. That the Poet Commander and Adjutant be
directed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to each of
the ladies named.
OSCAR ROBERTS,
Poet Commander.
CUA4I. P. TULL, Adjutant. It.
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"A lamentable incident occurred yesterday in
Madrid. Senor Perez Raiz, private secretary to
Gonzales Bravo, and known as one of the most
unpopular functionaries of the late Admihlstra
tion, appeared yesterday at the Home-office,
whence, It seems, he hoped to withdraw some
papers highly compromising Gonzales Bravo.
His presence collected a crowd at the door of the
Palace do la Gobernacion, in the Puerta del Sol,
and on his again appearing he was fallen upon
by an excited mob, out of whose hands the pub
lic force and the better class of citizens could not
rescue him before he had received several dan
gerous wounds.
"General Prim being Informed of the outrage,
stepped out of ono of the balconies of his hotel,
the Fonda de Paris, in the same locality, and ad
dressed the multitude at considerable length, and
in words which seemed to work a beneficial im
pression. He said:
"Two days ago all of you were lavish of the of
fer of your arms and your hearts; you were ready
for the greatest sacrifices for the sake of liberty.
Do not, for Heaven's sake! disgrace it by excesses
which could only be prompted by our enemies.
Every breach of the law is a crime. Do not com
pel us, now that so much has been achieved by
our glorious revolution, to despair of its final
victory. If you disturb us in our work
of reorganization and order, if you inter
rupt the deliberations with which the recently
constituted government is busy, if you do not
allow 1115 to provide for the future, you will com
pel us to give up our office, and leave open the
way to reaction. Your cheers and applause
avail me nothing unless you mind my words and
enable me to ensure order. I do not mean the
order of the moderadees, which means disorder
in the higher spheres and oppression of the
lower; but I mean order at the summit, in the
middle and at the base. Whoever allows himself
a misdeed of the nature of that which compelled
me to leave the Council in order to code and ad
dress you is no friend of mine—no friend of
liberty—and you ought yourselves to lay hands
on him and deliver him up to the judicial
authorities as he is most likely to be a hidden
enemy, a disguised foe of the revolution. Why
should you inveigh against these wretches who
are now cast down, cowed and defenceless ? As
they dared not meet us sword In hand when we
came forth to confront them, leave them at peace
now; for to attack them in their present plight
is the deed of cowards, not of Liberals. Have
you forgotten that one of these miserable men
said in a paper not long ago that it was not only
lawful but meritorious to put me to death, as if I
were a mad dog? Yet I, who have withsteod and
endured all this, forgive this poor unfortbnate
with all my heart. Follow my example, and for
give for your own part, I beseech you, from the
depth of my heart.
"Such were General Prim's 'Words as reported
by the Correapondencia of this day. He was fol
lowed by Senor Rivero, a democratic leader, who
assured the people that his party at a late meet
ing had come to the determination to uphold the
new government to the utmost of their power. I,
am assured_that,"ott_thelirstiOuib_mk.of the tn
mult, both Serrano ' T end Prim had determined to
issue forthwith a largo posse of military and en
force order at any cost. The conflict has been
so far avoided."
In the Paris Siede's weekly review of things in
general, M. Edmond Texier, who wields a pen
essentially French, and of which the effusions for
the most part are not to be rendered into another
tongue without despoiling them of their light
ness and point, touches upon an appropriate
subject. Letters have been addressed to him, he
says, respecting some remarks he lately made
about the Queen of Spain. "Is it becoming,"
asks one of his correspondents, "to be severe upon
a Queen, a woman, the very morrow of her fall?"
Texier replies as follows:
"I think it is always becoming to toll the truth
when possible, or what one believes to be the
truth. A journalist who, a week before Isabella's
departure, should have spoken, foully of. the
Queen of Spain would have brought himself into
contact with the sixth Chamber of Correctional
Police, which would have proved to him, by fine
and imprisonment, that he' had been wrong to
take such liberties with a sovereign ally of
France. Isabella falls. People say that she
has not been_ a pattern Queen and wife.
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LETION.
The formal reception of Gen. Prim in Madrid
on the ith instant was a gorgeous spectacle,
which is described by the correspondents of the
London papers in extravagant terms. One writer
says:
Prim'. Reception.
"At last, every living thing converges towards
the triumphal arch, under which may be seen to
pass a small group of homemen,headed by a dark,
thick-set, middle-sized man, in a plain undress
uniform with a bright star on his left breast, and
raising in his hand a blue foraging cap, with
which he gravely salutes the enraptured people.
That is Prim! Close to his bridle hand rides Berra
no,in full marshal's uniform, covered with plaque.;
and crachats, a heavy plume waving from his
gold-bound cocked hat. He is scarcely looked at,
gay and gallant as is his seeming. All eyes are
final upon the great Progealsta, all hearts leap
out towards him, every throat is strained with
passionate cries of devotion and thankfulness.
Such moments fall to a man's lot but once in an
existence, and
It
cannot be denied that Prim bore
the surpassing honor of his position modestly
and worthily. Surrounded by a gorgeous staff,
glittering with gold and crosses, while he was as
simply dressed as one of his high rank could be
without affectation, he looked the impersona
tion of a popular leader. But for a bright glance
of recognition, levelled now and then at some
balcony whence the face of an old friend gazed
fondly upon him, the calm of hie resolute coun
tenance never varied; one could see that he felt
the enormous responsibilities of his power, but
that his spirit was equal to their fulfilment, and
that the knowledge that so many hearts yearned
towards him, while it filled his soul with a deep
gratefulness, did not avail to break down his self
command or overwhelm hirg„with a tide of emo
tion. I never saw a man ofwmore gallant pres
ence. ,
"Presently, after riding through the Puerta
del tkil and round the Celle San Geronimo,
he drew up at the door of his . quarters and
alighted. We awaited him in the large
corridor leading to his apartmentg, and ac
companied him to the grand salon looking over
the Puerta, from which he addressed the peo
ple in a few soldierly, terse sentences. He
said :
"Friends and Countrymen • Do not expect a
long speech from me. 1 am weary and
exhausted with fatigue and emotion ' • besides,
I am no missionary to spin you out an elabo
rate discourse. Accept my thanks and con
gratulation. 'Viva La Libertad 'Viva el
Pueblo !"Abajo los Borbones!' Farewell for
to-night.
"Returning into the room, he had to pass from
the arms of one friend into those of another.
Everybody embraced him• and it was a pretty
sight to see a timid, budding young English
beauty, the daughter of an eminent Englishman
resident in Madrid, receiving a fatherly kiss on
her fair brow from the Liberator, whom she
greeted in the name of her countrymen as the re
generator of Spanish liberties. Several
his compatriots, kissed and cried over Win with
such passion that 1 could see he had to struggle
for self-possession. One oldfriend and comrade.
an Englishman, wrung him by the hand, saying,
'No words can express how rejoiced Lam to see
you here!' To which he replied, 'II etait biers le
temps, nest ce use. ami ? "
A Blob Checked by Prim.
Mr. Brinell writes to the Temes, under date of
October 10:
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 186.
It Is true f The wholequestion lies there.
Respect to misfortune is a fine thing,
but I ask that it . should be equal for
all ; that the small ehonld have as good a share
of it as the great, and that they should not make
an exclusive privilege - of it in favor of august
misfortunes. Upon _the morrow of the day in
which revolution trianiphed in Madrid the doors
of the prisons were opened to political offenders,
and among these unfortunates was found an old
man (he was, it is true, only a journalist) upon
whose bead the justice of the Queen had accu
mulated a trifling total of 400 years of imprison
ment. Who had ever thought of pitying this
worthy man, aged by captivity rattier than by
years ? If the world has been severe for Isabel
la, it must be owned that she had neglected
nothing in the course of her long reign
to provoke such severity. When Queen Marie
Amelie quitted France in consequence of the
revolution of 1848, nobody, that I know of, ven
tured to attack her person, and many, even ad
versaries, landed her virtues. What would my
tompassionate correspondent, have thought if one
had waited six months before leisurely examining
the acts:and deeds of the en-Queen of Spain?
'Who now troubles himself about Isabella?' ho
would have asked, 'and what interest can one
take in such an old story?' There, my dear Sir,
you have the justification of all that has been
said and written concerning the recent events,
in defiance ill' the famous respect due to misfor
tune."
The Spanish Ambassadors.
The Paris Matorial Diplomatigue says that in
virtue of a universally admitted usage the repre
sentatives of Queen Isabella in foreign capitals
continue to exercise their diplomatic functions,
by reason of the protest she has notified to for
eign courts, until there shall have been consti
tuted at Madrid, in the legal forms, a government
that can be recognized by foreign courts. The
Paris correspondent of the London Times says:
"This may be so,
,inform or nominally, but
meanwhile the ambassadors quit their posts. M.
Mon left the embassy several days ago, and the
Duke de Rivas has arrived in Paris from Flor
ence."
The English vandidnte (or the Throne.
(Path, (Oct. II) Correspondence of the London BtandarL)
Spanish affairs continue the chief topic of
the day. The general feeling here is that in
spite of the denials of the semi-oflicial press,
there is every reason to believe that Prim and
Serrano mean to propose the Duke of Edinburgh
to the Cones as their future King. The argu
ment of the London Times, which can find no
thing more conclusive against it than the old wo
manish plea that being a Protestant he could not
reign over a Catholic country. is viewed here as
weak in the extreme. Your contemporary
ought to know that the present revolution is
quite as anti-Papal as it Is anti-Bourbonlan,tuadthe
tact of their future sovereign being what the Lon
don Times calls "a heretic" would not be a bar
against his election. Your contemporary might
have reflected that there is a very notable exam
ple of a "heretic" sovereign rnlin..r• successfully
over a country quite as intensely Catholic as
Spain itself. King Leopold L. of Belgium, was
none the lees beloved and respected by his sub
jects because he did not go to mass. Such child
ish reasoning in a paper of such standing is sur
prising. No doubt the "silly season" accounts
for it.
Gen. Prim on the Future.
A telegram from Paris of October 12, evening,
reports : General Prim has addresed a letter to the
Paris journal Le Gautois thanking it for the sym
pathy it has shown for the popular movement in
Spain. The general expresses astonishment at
the impatience of that portion of the French press
which considers that Spain is not setting to her
work fast enough, and adds:
Eight days sufficed for us to overthrow a dy
nasty 300 years old and to esta_bffsh a new govern
ment. We shall not delay now to consolidate
our position through a constituent Assembly on
the basis of our programme, which is 'known to
you. We shall then have succeeded in attaining
the political ideal of contemporary Spain,
namely, a really constitutional monarchy founded
upon the most extended liberal basis compatible
with that kind of government.
Popular Progress and Mope.
[From the London Star. Oct. 12.1
* Whether a Bourbon or a eobnrg is to
rule at Madrid, whether the dream of a Federal
Republic Is to be real ind or whether the tradi
tion of a reunited Iberian kingdom is to be ac
complished, is of little importance compared
with the fact that'the statesmen of Spain,whether
civilians or soldiers, are united in a policy
sonunt with the tone of liberal opinion throughout
Etzrop,., and in a determination to carry the un
sparing pruning knife of administrative reform
into every department of the public service.
It cannot yet be ascertained whether this
latest effort for the regeneration of Spain will be
crowned with the success which we are free to
say that It well deserves, or whether the Slumber
ing evils of ecclesiasticism and militarism may
not recover strength to crush the good seed. But
one thing is clear, the popular feeling in Europe
is thoroughly in sympathy with the revival of
Spanish liberty, and the public opinion of the
civilized world would unanimously and justly
condemn any attempt on the part of a foreign
Power to coerce or to repress the endeavors of
the Spanish people to settle in their own way
the stable foundations of a free government for
Spain.
A Neu , Phase of Ritualism in Eng.
land.
According to the London Times, the Book of
Common Prayer is largely superseded in the
Ritualist Episcopal Churches in England by a
little volume called "The Hymnal." It condists
of three parts; the first being "The Words of the
Hymnal Noted," published by Novello, and well
known to all members of church choirs in the
kingdom.. The third part is "Hymns, Ancient
and Modern," a set of tolerably , "advanced"
hymns in themselves, and by no means requiring
any additions or supplements. But between
these little books is bound up an "Appendix,"
consisting of some sixty pages and about seventy
hymns and litanies "for the use of the congrega
tions of St. Paul's and St. Michael's Chapels.
Brighton." Among the rest of these "Apocrypha"
are two litanies both translated from Roman
Catholic sources, "The Litany of our Lord Jeans
Christ" an& "The Litany of the Holy Name of
Jesus."
The last named litany is a literal version of the
Celesta Palmeluna, a boalt of Roman Catholic de
votions, in verse and prose, published at Mech
lin, under the special approval of the Pope.
The Times says:
"The{book as it stands reminds us immensely
of a sandwich, the "strong meat" being placed
in the middle. A good many of the hymns com
prised in it are taken—no doubt by permission—
trom the "Oratory Hymn Book" of Father Fa
ber, and several others are English versions of
the Latin hymns of the Catholic Church."
PRINCETON COLLEGE.
Dr. racCosh, the New President—His
tory of the College.
PurxcErox, Oct. 26.—T0-morrow will witness
the installation of another President of old Prince
tonr the alma mater of so many of our country's
wisest - bravest and - b - esr - sons. The programme
of exercises you have already published, and it
only remains for me to say that every preparation
has been made to render the ceremonies as im
pressive as the importance and solemnity of the
occasion demand.
The incoming President, Dr. James McCosh,D.
D., LL. D., is a native of Scotland, a tall, hand
some maiimith dark, penetrating eyes,a pleasant
smile and most engaging manners. His fore
head Is high and clear, and his month indicates
him as a man of great! firmness and strength of
will. He has just enough of the scholarly stoop
to betray his sedentary avocation, yet his
step )4 elastic, and In all respects he
seems lice a vigorous man; to whom that
exercise of mental or bodily powers is never
fatiguing. His hair Is gray, for he is fast ap
proaching the age of . three score years, and he
wears his whisk,ers in ,'the English. style. For
sixteen years Dr. McCosh was pastor at Brechen,
in Scotland, and for the same length of time occu
pied- the chair of Professor of Logic and Meta
physics in Queen's College, Belfast. Ho is the
author of several well-known metaphysical
works, among which are his "Method of the Di—
vine Government, Physical and Korai" "iota-
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
tiOns of the Human Mind;" "Typical Forms
and Special Ends in Creationf'"The Sn
pernatural in Relation to the Natural."
"A Defence of Fundamental Truth," in answer
to John Stuart Mill, and others, in all of
which he shows great depth of thought
and the erudition of a mighty scholar. His
"M'elhod of Divine Government," when read
here, created a strong feeling among the Trus
tees of Princeton, and when the venerable Dr.
McLean signified his intention to retire from the
Presidency of the college Dr. McCosh was spoken
of as his successor, and immediately secured.
He will enter upon the discharge of his duties
under the most favorable auspices, as he comes
warmly welcomed, is most sincerely respected
both as a man and as a scholar, and bids fair to
preside over the time-honored institution for
many years, a fit successor to the long line of
great and good men who have preceded him.
"The College of New Jersey " is now 122 yea%
old if we reckon from the date of its first charter,
which was not regularly accepted. The Rev.
Jonathan Edwards was its first President, when
the College buildings were at Elizabethtown. He
died in 1147, and the new charter was-granted in
the following year, when the College was re
moved to Newark, and the Rev. Aaron Burr be
-came its President. He was the son-in-law of
Jonathan Edwards, and the father of Aaron
Burr, a graduate Of the College, and at one time
Vice President of the United States. In 1766 the
College was removed to Princeton. This was
during Gov. Belcher's administration; and it was
proposed to call the main building by his name;
but the Governor ,modestly declined the honor,
and had the hall, at that time the largest building
in the country, named Nassau Hall, in honor of
King William M. During the Revolution Nas
sau Hall was used alternately by the British and
the Patriots as a hospital, and to this day it bears
more than one mark of the deadly struggle in
which the contending forces engaged within easy
rifle range of its peaceful walla. At the time of
the battle of Princeton a portrait of George IL
hung upon the wall of the old chapel, now a
part of the Library. When the fray was at its
height a cannon ball crashed through the build
ing, tearing His Majesty's likeness out, but leav
ing the frame uninjured. Six years afterwards
the Continental Congress sat in the second story
of the building. The commencement exercises
of the College were then being held, and Dr.
Ashbel Green, afterwards President of Princeton,
(1812-'23), was the Valedictorian. All the mem
bers of the Continental Congress were present,
and among them sat George Washington. To
him turned the young speaker, and in a burst of
fervid eloquence which electrified the assem
blage, gave thanks to the great warrior whose
valor and wisdom were soon to make him the
idol of the world. This, it is said, was the only
time General Washington was ever known to be
present at a college commencement. Shortly af
ter the memorable occurrence recorded above, by
request of the Board of Trustees, Washington
sat for his portrait, and It now graces the south
wall of the Library, Inclosed in the self-same
frame which once held the portrait of his Britan
nic Majesty, Geo. 11. The artist, the elder Peale,
introduced into the picture a portrait of General
Mercer of Virginia, who was mortally wounded
at Princeton—a portrait remarkable from the
tact that the artist had never seen the original,
but painted It from Gen.. Mercer's brother, In
the back ground of the painting is a glimpse of
the battle and a view of the College, near it, one
of those glassy streams that in their brilliant path
mirrored the desperate strife that helped to set a
nation free and win a rescued world; that viewed
the deeds of men who live in grateful hearts; that
laved their bleeding limbs, and hymned their
requiem.
Nassau Hall burned down in March, 1802, and
was rebuilt, the old Mils still standing. Again,
in March, 1855, it fell before the flames, bat the
old walls remained firm, and it is now, though
very plain indeed, a solid pile that may stand for
centuries.
Dr. Edwards was succeeded In the Presidency
by his son-in-law, Dr. Aaron Burr, in 1748.
After him same Dr. Samuel Davies and Dr.
Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declara
tion of Independence, a native of Scotland,
electedjust a century ago. Then came Dr.
Smith, Dr. Ashbei Green, Dr. Carnahan, and Dr.
McLean—the last four, regular graduates of the
college. Dr. McLean, before his resignation, at
the last commencement, had been for 50 years
connected with the institution, and for his sup
port the trustees have recently made ample pro
vision.
Among the graduates of Princeton were Rich
ard Stockton,one of the signers; James Iladleon
fourth President of the United States; Dr. J. Ad
dison Alexander. the great linguist and com
mentator; Luther Martin,Brockholet Livingstone.
Samuel L. Southard, Benjamin Rush, David
Ramsey, Nicholas Biddle, Theo. Frelinghuysen
of New Jersey; Berrien, of Georgia; Governor
McDowell. of Virginia; Tapping Reeve, of Con
necticnt; Justice Wayne, of the Supreme Court.
and a host of others whose names are known al
over the land and far beyond it. Among those
who have been and are professors in the institu
tion I may name Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian
Institute; Dr. Torrey,the botanist; Prof. Dodd, the
mathematician; Dr. Jas. W. Alexander; Prof. Ste
phen Alexander,the astronomer;and Prof. Gayot,
now professor of physical geography and geology
at Princeton.
At one time, about 35 years ago, one-sixth of
the Senators of the United States were alumni of
Princeton. Up to that time one-third of the
chit f law officers of the Government and one-fifth
of the members of the Supreme Court, were also
her children. Her record as an educational in
stitution is one of which the whole country
should be proud. Beside what she has done for
the world in furnishing teachers for her own
classes she has sent out a noble host to other tem
ples. She has supplied 30 College Presidents,
and nearly 100 Professors in Colleges, Theologi
cal Seminaries and Law Schools. She has fitted
50 Senators for their duties as Representatives of
a free people. More than 20 foreign Embassa
dors have called her alma mater; eight judges of
the Supreme Court owe much of their fame to
her care, and nearly 30 Governors of States have
acknowledged their indebtedness to her.
It is a fact not generally known that the first
Professor of Anatomy in this country waso gra %
duate of Princeton.' I - Mean Dr. William Ship;
pen, of Philadelphia. The first medical diploma
ever given in the United States was given to
another Princeton granuate—Dr. John Archer,
of Maryland, In 1768. He won it at the Medical
School of Philadelphia,in which Dr. Shippcn was
for many years an honored teacher. Princeton
sent forth warriors too, and more than one of
her sons were struck down within sight of the
roof under which he had learned his best lessons
of patriotism. When the great rebellion broke
out she sent her quota with the rest.
Frank Preston Blair was one of her children.
but like Aaron Burr, another, he has not held to
the promise of his youth nor has ho followed the
teachings of his early guide. Gen. Gansevoort—
he who hunted Moseby—was another; and the
lamented young Hugh Janeway, twelve times
wounded, and killed at last just before the rebel
hordes came under the yoke; and brave Tolles of
the Sixth Corps, whom a rebel bullet carried off
when Sheridan rode down to Winchester town;
and a hundred others, not known to fame, but
braveinen all, Whose memories sha never die.
All these, and more, old Princeton mourns to
day.— Tribune.
WILEELING, WEST VA., Oct. 25, 11 P. M.—The
Republican majority in twenty-seven counties,
casting four-fifths of the vote of the State, is
forty-two hundred and sixty-seven. The re
maining_ounties will not materially change the
result. We have kelected Republican Congress
men in, all three districts of the State. Daval in
the First District by 800 majority,' McGrew in the
Second by 2,200 majority, and filcher in the
Third by from 800 to 1,000 majority. In the
Legis' lature we bay° from thirty to forty, ma
jority on joint ballot,.•tit of a total membership
numbering seventy-eight. •
The Democratic special - despatches claiming
the State are deliberate ,and persistent hes, -in
tended for effect on the country.
Runusno;
• Sec 'Y Rep State Committee.
POLITICAL.
The Victory , in West Virginia.
DRAMATIC AND INDSICAL.
SENSATIONAL DRAMA AT TILE WALNUT
Even the most enthusiastic artists want cash.
However pure and. sincere a man's love for hia
profession may be, it is quite Impossible that his
instinctive desire for gain, apart from important
considerations of bread and butter, should permit
him to be indifferent to the rex pe e cunia —the com
fortable revenue, in accumulating and spending
whicb,mankind waste their lives. As we all have
the same it is unjust to find fault with
those who display it when opportunity offers.
Fol. this reason we have not censured harshly Mae
eminent actors who, during . the past year or twd,
have forsaken the shining paths of legitimate-art,
and gone wandering off amid the brambles and
gullies of sensationalism. Mr. E. L. Davenport,
for instance, finds that his elegant and finished
impersonations of the conceptions of great dra
matists do not attract largo audiences. He per
ceives that the flash characters of impossible
dramas do. Naturally he sheds .a silent but pa
thetic tear over the loved ones in his repertoire,
gazes into his empty exchequer to find courage
for the sacrifice, makes a bold plunge into the
muddy waters of melo-drama, and strikes out for
popularity and dollars.
Last night he produced a play with the excel
lent and novel title "Ft" or the Branded. We are
anxious to do full justice to this production, and
it can be done in a sentence. It Is the very poor
est play of its class that has been presented in this
city within the past year. With the recollection
of the sensational dramas that have amused au
diences in this city of late, and, with the memory
of certain domestic plays, fresh in the public'
mind, this depth of poverty seems quite impos
sible. But most of the above pieces had the
merit of coherence, and the characters possessed.
some individuality, stolen as it was oftentimes
from better works. Mr. Davenport's drama has
the great fault—in this instance—of originality.
It has no apparent design, and the personages in
it are just so many figures tossedhelter-akelter
into the composition,without any Visible relation
to each other. Many of them could be with
drawn without affecting the play in the slightest
degree. "Tippet," for instance, figures largely as
the comic young man; but, although Mr. Fawcett
did what he could with the part, nobody in the
jiudience could perceive why there was a" Tipped"
at all, or what he meant, or what he was tryi n g
to do. He was evidently a very dastardly vff
lain, but what particularly dastardly villainous
schemes he was contriving did not appear.
This was the ease with other of the personages;
as when Mr. Davenport appeared as an "Italian
refugee" in a Parisian coal hole, and arranged,in
the most amusing and absurd manner, the assas
sination of Napoleon. Neither his assumption
of the part, nor indeed the whole scene itself was
important to the play. The threads by which
both were attached to what had gone before and to
that which came after, were of cobweb thickness.
The only apparent object of the dramatist in in
troducing the episode was to find opportunity to
eulogize the Emperor Napoleon very untruth
fully. The same want of intelligibility is obser
vable throughout. The hero is branded on the
hand; how or when,or under what circumstances,
we are not informed; he is engaged as ir spy by a
man whom he fears and hates. Why he placed
himself in this fellow's power ' the dramatist falls
to tell. The heroine dies and the hero is accused
of murdering her. How she dies, what she dies
of,wben and where she dies, are still mysteries.to
the audience of last night. She is the supposed
daughter of an Englishman and the real daughter
of a gipsy woman, who has made the English
man s daughter a gipsy. Just as we begin to
understand this fact, along comes an unneces
sary blind beggar, who is an Italian gipsy and
whose father was in the French army, and who
has a generally mixed up history, and says the
girl is grand-daughter of Napoleon the First;
whereupon the Englishman very illogically ex
claims "She is, she is indeed my child I"
But it is hardly necessary to point out in de
tail the defects of the drama. This little for fair
ness. The whole piece is a mess of Incongruity,
impossibility old situations, weak climaxes and
bewildering incoherence, which even the efforts
of excellent actors could not make satisfactory.
It is very evidently the handiwork of an author
wholly without experience in the construction of
plays for the stage, or at least wholly incompe
tent ler such a task. Very wisely, we think, he
has determined not to reveal his name at present.
With all charity for him, and with sincere sorrow
that the requirements of frankness and hon
esty make it Impossible to praise his work, we
recommend him to preserve strictly his incognito
and carry his secret to the silent grave.
Last night at the Chestnut Street Theatre these
young ladies presented The Grand Duchess to a
crowded house. The version of the opera in
which they appear is simply an adaptation from
the French. The text is a tolerably fair transla
tion, but with excellent discrimination the in
decencies of the original are omitted,while all the
Inn of what certainly is the most amusing of the
dramas of Messrs. Mdilhac and Halevy is re
tained. The music is given entire although the
fact is not as creditable as its judicious curtail
ment would be. The three sisters play their parts
very prettily, and were heartily applauded by
the audience. They will repeat the performance
this evening.
—At the Arch to-night little Lotta will appear
as the Elater noctilucus (scientific for "firefly') of
the drama. Her engagement will conclude on
Saturday next.
—The American announces The Grand Duchess
for this evening.
—Messrs. Bentz and Hassler announce that, in
order to produce Mendelssohn's great Reforma
t ion Symphony in all possible grandeur and per
fection, they have obtained the hearty co-opera
tion and personal assistance of a large delegation
of the principal instrumentalists of the New York
Philharmonic Society, who will be present to
participate in the performance of the Symphony,
on Saturday afternoon,October 31st, in the Musi
cal Fund Hall.
—The Germania Orchestra will give its banal
matinee performance at Horticultural Hail to
morrow afternoon. The following programme
•has been prepared :
1. Overture.—"Semirarnide G Rossini
2. Scng—"Wledersehen" T Dlethe
(Comet Solo, performed by (L Dunn.)
3. Waltz—"Almack's Taenze," Lanner
4. Andante con moto, from Fifth Sinfonie..Beethoven
5. 0 vertnre—"Oberon,"._.. ......... ........ ~..Weber
u. Aria de Ballet—from Robert..._.. .......Meyerbeer
,(Cello Solo, performed by R. Hennlz.)
7. Selection—from "Don Sebastiano," Donizett I
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The Women's Typo
graphical Union and the Sewing Machine Opera
tors' Union met last evening and formed a cen
tral association of workingwomen by consolida
ting the two societies, with Miss Susan B. An
thony as President. Miss Anthony announced
that Anna Dickinson had offered to lecture far
the benefit of the association, and said that it
would be well to secure Cooper Institute, Stein
way Hall or Tammany Hall for the occasion.
She knew Tammany would give them the 'milli -
Mr. Cooper or Mr. dteinway did not. '
A decision was given yesterday by Judge
Shandley, of the Essex Market Police Court,
Dranting the motion of counsel to discharge
eputy Sheriffs Leary,Quinn and Ward, arrested
for alleged implication in the Broadway Theatre
shooting affair. The investigation against Deputy
Sheriffs Hickey and Moore was, adjourned two
weeks.
Officer Cole, of the Fifth Precinct,. yesterday
morning, at 6 o'clock, discovered two men load
ing an express wagon with six trunks from the
basement of No. 30&Canal street. He arrested
the expressman and one of the two other men.
and took them with the property to the Station
house. The trunks contained silks, velvets and
ribbons, valued at $7,000, stolen from R. Prank,
on the first floor of No. 308 Canal street. The
thieves had previously hiredithe basement for a
trunk store, and obtained tite propertyby forcing
aWay through the ceiling to the premises of Mr.
'Frank above.
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volutnes completing
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LATEST CABLE NEWS.
Earthquake Shooks Felt at Cork
Princeton College Inauguration
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON
Dedsslon by the Revenue Commissioner
HOTEL-KEEPERS INTERESTED
By Atlantic Cala*.
LONDON, Oct. 27, P. M.—Tallow quiet at SS
Cotton closed last night at Havre, at 127 f., for low
middlings afloat.
Lormox, Oct. 27, P.Jd.--Unlted States Fir"
twenties quiet at 7338. Erie Railroad, 28. Eli
.
nois Central, 97.
LrvenirooL, Oct. 27, P. K—Cotton brut, but
not quotably higher. The sales to-day will not
exceed 15,000 bales. Beef dull. Lard, 695.
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Light shocks of earthquake
were felt at various places in Cork county, Ire—
land, yesterday.
Duman - , October 27.—The house of a Mr. Arg
more, near Cork, was entered last night by a
body of men, supposed to be Fenians,and robbed
of a quantity of arms and ammumtion.
Haves, Oct. 27th.—The closing exercises of
the great Marine. Exposition are taking place to..
day, and the markets are not open for business.
It being a genel'al holiday.
vaarooL, Oct. 27, 2.80 P. M.—Cotton firmer.
but not quotably higher. Yarns and Fabrics at
Manchester are firmer. California Wheat quiet
and steady. Red Western heavy at Os. 2d. Flour
heavy. Corn 87s. 9d.®BBs. Lard dull.
The Inauguration of President
McCown.
[Spools' Despatch to the Phila. Evenint BoBeth:0
PRINCETON, N. J., Oct. 27.—Among 'the }far
shale were the following Philadelphians : John
Cochran, Jas. H. Heverin, Joshua K. McGam
mon and William Wetherill. The procession:
was headed by Graft:l)ll'a band.
The chapel in which the ceremony took place
was crowded to its utmost capacity. It is a small
building and its inability to accommoiste the
crowd that tbronged to it , taday was never more
manifest. The galleries were appropriated to thp
ladle% while the first Root, was set apart for the
procession.
,The platform was filled by the distinguished
graduates of the college. Among the more note
ble was Warren Scott, a graduate of 1795, and
Dr. Herring, a graduate of the same Svar; also
Bishops Claggett,of Md.; Hobart, of N. 1%; Meade
of Virginia; Johnson, of Virginia, and Mclivairte,
of Ohio.
The ceremonies within the chapel were accord
lag to the programme.
At every allusion to Dr. McClean, the retiring.
President, the students and spectators cheered,
and the recipient of the ovation was frequently
required to respond, which he did by rising and
bowing. Dr. McCosh occupied a seat to his
right, and as the several speakers referred to hint
and his past history in literature, he was cheered
throughout.
The kindliest feelings were exhibited by both
the outgoing and incoming professors. The cere
monies incident to the inauguration of Dr..
McCosh will not conclude before 5 o'clock.
From INmehington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Commissioner Rglifgg
has recommended to Secretary.lacthalliadhat
Spencer Kirby he' appointed Supervisor' for the
southern district of New York.
The Commissioner has decided that hotel and
restaurant keepers whose sales of liquors amount
to over $25,000 a year, must place themselies In.
the category of wholesale dealers,and must there
fore exhibit the sign of wholesale dealers; ac
cording to the provisions of
FACTS AND FANCIES•
—An English clergyman calls Gladstone one of
the devil's generals.
—Seward has a free pass over the Erie Rallxoad,
engraved on silver.
Victor Emmanuel has officially recognized
the Republican government of Mexico.
—The world's crop of tobacco is estimated at
432,400 tons.
- —A New York jeweller has made a gold chain
worth $l,OOO for the nest President.
—IL. Louis has secured a wrought Iron jail,
which ought to be a terror to all who steal.
—(3. F. Train writes:—"lt is well. In 1872.1
shall be President."
—Mrs. Ann B. Stephens is writing a life of An—
drew Johnson.
—The Buffalo Commercial calls the advice of.
the Woad "the mammoth cave."
—Tamberlik, the great tenor, presented & gi
gantic laurel wreath to Serrano at Madrid.
—Swinburne has edited Coleridge'spoems with
notes and a preface.
—Milton has been made the hero of a tragedy
by Gatinelli, the Italian dramatist.
—Gen. Grant has got a big cake by the votes
of a Hebrew fair at Quincy, "IL
—Mrs. Seguin, of the Richings opera troupe, is
dangerously ill in Baltimore.
—Ninety-three flocks of sheep were recently suf—
focated in Switzerland by a thunder clond which
nassed over the country.
—Miss Bateman made her reappearance at the
Haymarket Theatre, London, last week, as Leak.
Advices•represent that her success was immense
-The great diamond which Ole Bull has lost
out of the bead of his fiddle-bow was given tor
him by the Duke of Devonshire. •
— = - ..Murdoch, - the tragedian, — has - siectme about—
his personal impressions of the late President
Lincoln -
—Catapults aro a London-nuisance,-need by
small boys to fire stones through the windows of
unsuspecting householder&
—A fireman on a lake steamer was caught by
the crank of the engine and 13 queezed through a.
hole' six inches wide in its restless descent. .He
was found in pleas in the hold.
—A grumpy Englishman writes from Pekin
that Burlingame's suite are the ""oirscouring of
the streets." He would have liked to be an off
scouring.
—The Paris Eclipse had prepared to issue thir
Q-five ' ,thousand copies : of a caricature of the
ueen of Spain, when the authorities Intervened
and suppressed the number.
—The silly people who are digming for gold fa
Kelly's Island, Lake Erie, tmdef - the-direction of
Planehette, have gone eight or ten foot into. soffitlimestone ,
limestone, without results, but they persevere.
—The temporary , government of Spain has re
moved the jewels from the church of Atocha at
Madrid, and placed them in tho Bank of apala far
safety.
4:00 O'Cllook.