, : .: , ::iVtiit. - - ~, " , ' ::-.,.,, : q..:Icl.f.'....:,' ~.., '•. , ; . ~,.,;; ! .. _ . 7 ....,....., - ...:.'... ~ ' .i .' . M.. '• .. ', :.'1: , • . ' , -.• .., l' 1 .... . :t..'„,!. : l'' :'^)l' 4' !' ' ..;.! ; , ....X ',' ' • ....,' j ::', .",1 -- ,----, : ..,.— .1 - 1r7.- , , -'” 'I '- '; ---: !-.,.: t -,-- "-- - 4 . • - 'i rr a ~ . . , . . .. , . . .... , . ~. GIBSON PEACOCK) Editor. VOLUME XXII.-NO. 216. PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS. First Mort gage, Tb ir ty-Yepr GOLD OIiLIGATIONS 1138 CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COG, . Second by an Absolute First Lien Upon the float Desirabre Portion of the Great National Pacific R. R. Line, Dmtn Sin: This great enterprise is approach ing completion with'e'ranidlty that astonishes the world. Lees than 400 miles remain to be built to connect the Centril Pacific Railroad with the Atlantic. lines. The _greater part_ of tb.e,Bl,_. terval is-now graded, :and, it is reasonably ex pected that the THROUGH CONNECTION BE TWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK WILL BE COMPLETED BT. JULY NEXT. The western portion of the Line, known as the CENTRAL' PACfFZC RAILROAD, besides having the largest settlement, the richest mines, the most valtablelaildeltileneltit rotate, is "also ' built and completed as a first-class Railroad in i all respects, being copstructed directly by the Company themselves, without the intervention of contractors, and in ouch a manner as to in-_ sure fu,turo stability,'SteonomY of ,operation, and the permanent value,of the property. The report of the SPiaial ;Commission of Ex perts, recently appointed by the President to. examine the railroad and telegraph tines of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, tele graphed to the SeertAamof .the Interior Decem ber 3, is full and suLlecHia, l and concludes as fol- ' Iowa: "Heavy trains of rails, ties s and fuel are run ping safely to the extreme end of the road, four hundred and forty-five (445) miles from Sac ramento. The road is being constructed in good faith, subatantlalr> manner, with out stint of labor, material 'or equipment, and is is worthy of- 14 ebtiniater as a great national work." By the aid of the,General Government, and val uable grants from'Cailfomiti sources, the Com pany have already met the bulk of their expendi tures, and have sufficient Cash resources to enable them to finish theitivoik with the utmost vigor. The iron,and a liberal equipment for the five httn-„' died miles now oboist completed, as well as the material needful for two hundred and fifty realm' additional, arc all lienglal; paid for, and at hand` for use. Tho speedy completion of their entire, line, and its nume r als a. grand business enter-' prise, are no lor,ger Matters of hopeful promise, ' but tireptaced beyond all ordinary contingencies. The business of the toad, although in its in fancy only, is without precedent. THE GROSS' EARNINGS FROM :SUS 1 TO DECEMBER 1 WERE UPWARD OF $1,4t0,000 IN GOLD, OF WHICH ABOUT ;ONE MILLION WAS NET PROFIT. This result was from local commer cial business only, at a time when the Company felt compelled to employ their available equip ment, to a large extent, in transporting the vast amount of supplies required to subsist twelve thousand men along a hue of more than five hundred miles, avid the ituatiiiiiikequired for ex tending the track THREE HUNDRED MILES during the period, to the temPom7 neglect of the enormous freighting business seeking transit over the road. - At a late date there were no less than seventy nine locomotives ...running on the road, eighty more on the way, and'aer twelve hundred cars, to which the Company are continually making large additions, so:Mat by the time the Immense tide of THROUGH TRAVEL AND FREIGHT ACROSS THE AMERICAN,OON'I'INENT shall be ADDED TO THE NATURAL AND EX.- PANDING LOCAL BUSINESS and the energies of the Company, with their immeiise facilities, can be devoted to the regular traffic, THEIR EARNINGS -WILL BE ON AN UNEXAM pLED SCALE, and their Securities be ranked' AMONG THE MOST POPULAR IN THE W ORLD. The current interest liabilities upon the Bonded Debt, upon an average of three hundred miles in operation during the above period,were less than $3r,0,000. The Issue of the Company'e FIRST MORT GAGE BONDS Is limited by act of Congress, and will not equal one-third the cost and value of the property upon whieh l ..they , constitute the, I ntelgreatdvfl'ait of . marketed, and is held as a perminent investment Isy , the capitalists of this country, ' 7 Bitycope'. Weare hdtheilzed offer te Hui re inairtile,r at 103 011 THE ACCRUERINT,EREST IN'OURRHNIJY, , , The Bonds are of 61,000'eaCh,bear sixpei cent. interest per aunum,,,payable n ,the city, of NeW Milt; tiNITEH BTATESIGOIi ti CQIN'. As the accrued hiterest from July Ist is charged to the purolitiser:ititioTeracy, and* semi-annual couponsinaiuribiJiinuary Ist next' will be paid in full, in gold, there Is an advantage in purchas ing during Hie present: inontlCliqual to the pre mium on the back Interest. The Componyresertie the right to advance the price at any time; but'all orders actually in iron, 3 iiu at the time of anvineh advance will be filled at predont prlee;,. At this time..they play s more than eiglit per cent. upon the investment, and Wive, from national and State laws, guarantees superior to any other corpbiati, securities now offered. Wo receive all classes of Government bonds at their full market }atee„in exehange , for the Cen tral Pacific Railroad 130nde; thus/ enabling the :holders to realize from 5 to 10 PER CENT. PRCi- FIT, and keep the principal of their investments .equally secure. F f, Orders and inquirlea will receive prompt atten;• tion. Information, Descriptive Pamphlets, igse:, giving a full account of the orgahization, Pro -grass, Business and Prospects of the Rnterprise, furnished on application. —Bonds Se'nt' by return express, at our cost. FISK & HATCH, . Bankersseilionttalitgents of the Central .Fitik Bikes , . ' t Woo 5-Woosolu Strews, Now Took. DR . '.: .I[ANEN/,.'....:4...:::.1i4Q-,. Dealers in Government' Soeuritieip, Gold,. &on, No.. 40 S. Third St., PHILADELINEityk. i• • , ' , 11 ENV it! Ittn (,i,1:3 &IC)! 0 Na• ENGLISH OI'INIONS Olt AMISILIcA,r •1•" - - , Hawthorne's Note Bof-ks have been' Aeglicised luau edition by„fiiptittr, Elder4a CO., in twovol umcs:' The Bdthrday let , eioto, takes up' :these RaTtl l PrltitiliPi in a eritielpPa N'iltereirr,cluaisinosi is pushed, to:a Blue ~Lrt,,and grudge ,to, a virtue. What significance is there in esillog,these bare studies l 'llr.•Hawthorne's rough-outlines"! If these areoutilues;An4 ropgh, where is' there finish? The radowerreiegates ,Hawtiabrne's ro inances,lo tho ‘,'novelg• which f.wel despatch, in a bbort afternoon, and often never think ',about again" t, ", lie was'Uni„luestionably ; Of- the second order (gays'he Renew,) andltiO:world is too busy and life too ehort for us to give much heed to the pre panitory. tionrishes and exercises of any but the greatest. Indeed, are there not some who yen ture,lo4l24l:lo‘..lfileftr4iVen-tlin ihaehe4.) pro; finets of secondary talent in fiction, verse, or palntitig f are worthy of much` stadv - or attentiot? Iho trunanswer to the question-is that theso sec ondary 'Works give great pleasure 'natures of corresponding calibre;l : for 'whom masterpieces are too great, and that ISt the end of got be to give pleakure, the fact that the "lemur° is not lfieliktiWlittaliablii'hbfeciudy,tiabliftriqttest of vibleli a given - is'capable, is ainpiejut titication of the:font. •-•- The Saturday`takes it k tpe matterin„ these Notes with n'tudf.eneir•Which 11 presently Cal. • • larges to include the editor Anybody eau perceive bow immensely useful a museum of observations such as these would be to the author of th&"House,with' this Seven Ga bles," or the *'Scarlet:Letter , " :The: pointed Il lustration, qtalntaside,,temefelleitous afire:pm, which strike the careless reader as - the happy inspiration of the Moment, ate in truth the labor of years in one senee, and this a sense which.is higbly,creditable to the author. The repute ,of improreptiie is great '410.9124her aMeng unable cal people than it "hie any right beim.Hair ttiorne%_preparatory thoeghts and_obserxations are of very degreesrarietetdegreesof.merit,eflornetionea they are excellent, as when he jots down the hint foe_itte ``punishment . of a miser—to pay, thetiraft of his bele in his - tomb,"- or -the comparison of moonligbt to eculpture,of sunlight to pain other 'lss,theyore poor Commonplace, as whet hb likens a character whom a satirist like Swift hasobandlett to sparchett_spet on which the devil may be supposed to have spit; or when he .reflects tkat"no fountain sdstilall but that heaven may be Imaged in its bosetd7r Or - '•askso•`what would man - Aolf he 'were • compelled to live aiwayffin the sultry' heat. 'of society;and could never better bideelf - le',,ctielsolitirde?" It is no Ehame to a man that commonplaces of this stamp come.to him edoegovitie choicer _things, ,or the& hellionid on the spur of the moment, mistaking therefor soinething • ,better than they are, give .them a refuge hetes' note-hi:Mks; but;we lutve a might to claim theft expungement by edito 'real discretion, One' Maier. remarkable rileirto rand= illustrates cirithesly ,Hawthornseireadi nteeto see LEl) . .attry. He watched -"a leofend sparroveapese m the slope of a- bitik,,brottght to :view by.,, mowing, the grass, bat still sheltered bet comfortably hidden'by - • obicisberrY'Arie lre4 llll o. Over,: Ile At OA • Ai* brown-speckled eggs, trim two little hare 'young ores, Which, on, 'the eliglitest",toiste lift their • heatle, - Mid.open:Wlde'mouthe,for food; Itaineel ately dropping their beads after a broad . gape. The•ection loelmore-=if theyevrat'making re most earnest, agoniztel • petition." In anotheregg, as itk Werth°, he could discern "the litdet) .death . like form of<the little bird.. The, whale thing le something awful and nagsteritne &A it.' Heie we ree Hawthorne% most striking , peculiarity in a curiously .marked form. Notmany Men would discern anything awful or myeLerions in a nest full of callow young. Yet it must be slid that ilawthorne's strong simplicity and minuteness of record awaken in the reader a depth of impres , non correepondbig to that which the Alget =de • upoin himielf. • - Among the remains in thi present volatiles are clever and minute accounts of all sorts of men whom the writer met on his rambles, excellently done, and such as would come in admirablyetmid the action of a story; bet. as it is velem:Mt-6 set ting of this kind,, we confew, to finding them rather too nunierome They giOw a shade weari some, or, if that be too harsh a way of patting it, • at any rate they fall to kindle a continuous in ,tercet. -The pictures of Hawthorn's domestic, life both before and afterhis Marriage are charm ing; some of the passages being idyls of the bast and most delightful quality. Yet even hero, after a little while, we become conscious of the need of some wore deliberately, framed setting.• In e word they are graceful sketches full • of promise which was amply redeemed, and it is because we have the fulfilment that one may be excused for a little indifference about the raw materiai. Those, for instance who, have read the Btithede/e &meows may lie allowed to skip the pages in the not& beaks which describe the author'a life at Brook Farm. ~ The Pall Mall ' calls Mr. Parton's • " Smoking and Drinking , " strictures " A formidable attack on our little pleasures.' Mr. Parton's articles in the Alla;ilie Haruki!' have very likely been noticed by many readers on this side.of the Atlantic who have never heard his Damn. We may mention esriecially a series on the great cities of the United States, which WO very neatly., the best specimens of the popular eesayist's craft thatve have met with in contem porary msgaztnes. This little volume is a re print, of threcimore recent articles from the At lantic .31arahly. In the first, ' Does it pay to smoke?' . Mr. Parton gives • it as the result of his own experienee that it, does not pay to smoke; and that it does pay to leave off smoking., Els arguments aro not nil good, and he does 'ndt set= tle the question 'w but let anyone who thislmi that the discuseion isworn 'out read - this 'neatly as acknowledge the power of •a first-rate Mesa, cook. it is difticutt to define Mr.. Parton's style otherwise than by •.-.saying;.:that ,•it is eminently read-I , le. It does not show great power i''' _.. ~d, or Subtlety; or deep feel-% ing, only the „,,election ,of a not very exalted art. This skill 0013303 out more remarkably still in the essay 'Will the Corning Menftrink Witte?! —a question which- littr. Parton, ofcourse, answers in the' negative: ;The last artiele.exciteff some attention in this country on its appearance, It is an account of that r singular American insti-! Tilden, inebriate asylums, and a‘ horrible .strinq of stories it tells of toe sclera' tragedies of dinnk, ounces. , Whether these protests ,from America ,wlll conVert , anyEnglishman or not , we tango; say,but at p - 7 rate they will be found both amus ing and ith,. ructive in lbw preemie :of reading; even it on digestion they phould leave a' bitter taste of remorse or of self-diacontent behind them. They:eortVey In al3 enable form some tier tion - of that new American idetd•of life which is a fact, though too vegtte and inchoate a fact to just tify . the atupendons nonsense whiek las been utf tered for and against it. For an antidote to any dleigtieting effect on sniokers and wine drinkers, have we not ; the ononthly and quarterly utter ances `of our own prophets, who prophesy smooth things?" I Mrscur.u.nuons.—M. Idoot's narrative of tho coup d'itut of 1851, in Parts itself, has beim %in deed in 'the Burturday Review; the 'author - new gives us the sequel of his volume and describes the state of the provinces immediately before WO mestablishment of the Imperial , rjytiine. His aim, he eaysos to refute the calamnlea which have_„been so busily spread abroad against thp non-Parisian Republicans, *foaled and pro scribed. In the 'places where the Democrats for a short time prevailed, does their conduct justify the accusations showered upon them? Was there really, in December, 1851, qa'Jacguarie taking thb word , according to its most unfavorable tion? M. Tunot endeavors to show that a detailed and. dispassiOnate statement of feats. negativea Able story . . The truth %however, that two parties stood in direct, antagonism to the President of the 'Republic at the time of the co 4 d'etat. Thelle were, on OEIO side, sincere and lord men, anxious to keep within the limits of strict legality, and to maintain order at any price, whilst they boldly protested against the violation et' the Constitu tion. • But there were also demagogues and au rchials ion:. in , o take advent's: oof events for f; Af t,4o.kyii f :A-;:; . . 5 , A i 1 ; 14 •. ! ):4t,.: _i.t.p*p.:;;.i.: i kjg,65,40*1n,.,0 . 8. 4 x0:.: ' the purpose or securing the trintaidi - ortlieli doe trines. M. Tenet„does not sufficiently distinguish between these two classes of, anti-Bonaparthste, and' ho' some tlines, tries' to_ ;eitenttating clx eumstances for acts witleht seems te impod sible to justify. ; , 111/1 vrork, nevertheless, Is a very lifterebting one,',and,, with some slight cor rections, would be excellent. ' ' ' From' the grophlk pageiof"Mi Pane" wo ea' tract the following bad' " . , .. • , Femur pw, rum eiads- - nu A ,Gozcouut *ho is mit dipping his head in the great fotin tain in , the Place de la Couecirda ?..c.Tha dark is gathering fast, and is .concealed in its friendly shadows. gathering Tarn surprised to seern,iThleur-•-=the rascallemerging; freak - as at eariymorn, from his brain-ducking. BLe has eoine over from the legielativepalace i witere he has been speaking and Ilsienhig , sific4i;noon, and now he stands,wiping themater from his stock of white hair,:before he goes to dinner," and -thence to the Montteur office, to sit up.all night , correcting the proofs of ; his speeches. A flacreidrives by; M. eigualo 11, and is speedily lost to view. The, IC Erening•fifaii.luul discovered 'a par ticularly rich and downy inertia nest: We are admirers of Mr.Whittier's poetry—hut Wa - mustcon&salltarotur knowledge of tive_anatomylsto limited that' we do'not appro.- elate one,liske among tbe opening stanzas of his last poem—Among the - - At-lest; a sudden" night-sterna tore The mountain veils asunder And swept the.valleys clean before, The baton; of the thunder .. ', Oar knowledge ..of !'Comparative Anatomy" is, as we have intimated, limited. By what pre ass- of inifitomfdal" - elassitidaticin - any part of a peal of - thunder may-be properly called *bosom,' We are ,at a loss ta uhderstalul."-c:New _York Evening Mail,. , the Nail ignorant of the fact that theta is tacit , a word us besom „in the dictionary ' ART_InirEM• "We • hive been iihown"by the:brother, of Er. Milne Rantsei (now in Paris) one at that artist's latest studies.of Ndture norte. tt, dessert ; of ()halibut grapes and petiehesi with ' wine and tiqueitr, grouped, on i'fileh oriental tapir:: The color'issan adrallee; the ` r Mier * 11 :dos! 00 0211 v,; the peaches are pardertlarly?welydene. illiphanripiethre of Abelian standing. 'at bay over the dead bindp of his mate, has _ been .on exhibition at the Darby Art: Gallery; New YOrk, and will be exposed by Mudd!. Earle, to ear l att une; in n short time. - At the TheatreTraneals' there has lately a performance for the benefit Of the, fund col lected hitt IbriPilPieallOf:ralairfkii tatipitelto,it the lato r ilLs Ponsard. lie Lion /imoureux,' the ieht piece fa ivbiett , leepoftant anceeee, was revived for the occasion awl :Was followed by his classical bijou, - "Horace - et 'lir die." The bust 'or the poet. executed- ?)r hi- FranceSehi,'*iis 'place& for tilt" - everting iri the ball of the theatre. The. receipts =minted to 7,115 frolics: "airit - Ei;k"' A correspon °tag Post "• the exact meaning of the term pre-Raphaelltism, as applied to pianting." Tomaise one unfamiliar with works of ors ond.the history of •art tirimprehend PC4-113P4aelttimn jsa,di u maPpfr-, Neirerthe ; " About -two hundred years before Raphael lived painting began - to revive, through the Church cruploying it to illustrate religious ideas and tog- mas, with a view to impress these ,more forcibly 'on then:lb:ids of the ignorant. It tamelo be "an .; Important agency in.spiritual , culture, the 'vehicle at metaphysical, abstractions, offering to the ,po pular eye 'the subetance of things hoped for' in -pictorial or artistic ahape. Fainting, in short, ; eccarne religions art. .„ "In the development of ' this art 'all sorts of .forme of human being's aturexternal objects were 'depicted, and generally the' qtteer, the quaint, the; 'tigly'and the grotesque; but ever with so revertmt; a feeling as to enforce with 'great • effect some: spiritual conception Or sacred' circumstance' on" .people's minds. For about two hundred years a' series of artists in Italy produced works with this; aim,- gradually delineating forms of greater; beata, vitether'human or otherwise, in order to; more truly convey impressions of, the exalted re-' liglots conception or event which they presented; in their pictures for public contemplation. This; series of artiste terminated with• Raphael. "The best illustration we can give of the dove-; lopment of this art is the progressive refinement of treatment of the idea of he Madonna. At first the Madonna, as mother of man's vicarious Re-' deemer (around which fig•are.mimt of the poetry • and virtue of the Roman Catholic system is con centrated), wait represented in every supposable'. circumstance belonging to the life of such a wo mun. Artists previous to Raphael portrayed her ; as a commonplace person, surrounded by com monplace figures, engaged in commonplace ac-, bone: sometimes she re seen visited by quaint an-, gels , : again in bed, lying-in; again washing her hands (symbolizing purification); again nursing the child: again' as the disconsolate mother weep- leg over a dead son—all' those incidents being typical and made up of every day personages in familiar attitudes and garments, representin saints and other important characters in sacred; combination With her: ' ' - - "As time wore on, and society better realized the purity of women and the tenderness of her maternal relationship, artiste selected parer and, • more beautiful format') express the,itlea,,d ivest mg it of all commonplace accessories; of useless; symbolry and uninteresting personages, grade-; ally reducing their compositions- to one single; group of a beautiful mother and infant, radiant, with nature's lovelinesa,and perfectly embodying the significant moral conception which led to her : worship. ' 'Raphael accomplished. the task dictated by; the church; what his , prededessors, the preati-; phaelites, began , two,' hundred years before him, ne finished. • lirt 'Crystallized - in - art = the refined: yearnings of previonS.barbarle ages; he made a' celestial ideal real; he smelled,the old from. its, dross, and, removing the idea oat of the circle of church metaphysics, madd it immortal and,unij , venal by preisenting„Wto the, orld in the simple and beautifullabgbage of Nature. • the: nature correspondent ' may see in the above the ; nature of pre-Raphaelitism. This term applied, twart means—aceeptinglt in thei best of its; originators—a return to Nature, or, in other, words, sernpalonely ~painting Nature as, she is. The apostles of sect inalet ihat the artists, pre-; violas to Raphael did so, and that' it is the true way., Their , iallecyllemin supposing that a Bern-, pulovs . Imitation of natural objects supplies the place of that ideal use of them which the pre• Raphaelites had in their:minds, Hence it is that so much bad, pains-taking, laborious art due to this theory justifies ns in defining pre-Raphaellt ism thus: 'To copy Nature,•however 'common place, and to follow,the suggestions of a moral Imagination.' " • Mr,f3chans, New/Toile :has just placed upon; kis walls, a sharniing picture entitled "Rceofiori,l from'the pencil'of 4 9., de Curzon '.at ;present of 'Farts, but for many, years a 'resident of 'Mime: Reis beet known for is .pletureS of - Pompeii; and classical landscapes with figures. The French Government has shown Its appreciation of his:petits by conferring on him. the arose ot the Legion of boner. • Dons Awn ROSEILNI.—The correspondent of th. Morning ',Star tells us: The Ambassador of, th United 13tates, General Dix, a great connote= and protector of , the fine arts, paid a visit' th other afternoon to . M. Gustave 'Bored atelier, t hoped a magnificent drawing in bleak and blue ... fl eas)), executed by the great artist, of - Rossini; male lay after hie death, before being placed In biti coffin. A. more splendid effort ot genius had seldom been executed. The bead lies almost re burled in pillows, the creases of which, formed by the weight of , the head, almost create a sort of aureole. The whole of the bust is displayed, as viall as the bands crossed and grasping a small crucifix. The features retain the expres f imm.nse concentratlin of 1t0..., Qua - wad ccivramy. spite of the Cadaverous appearance imparted to tne whole body, by , the.marvellotts genius ' of Dore's pencil,tbelikeness to the living Rossini la qmsitively startling. Dori e ln.• this-sketchy has presented himself to the artistic' 'world in a new iljzht, for if in "Ellane" he - represented the poetry of death, h this` masterpiece be gives the,riality n its iMposlng majesty. A laurel:` crown,Which hid been placed:by a friendly v-hand; lies at the' foot 61 , 111 o bed. ,•tieveral members of the' depute. tion tratkPesarb called on M. Dore to view this intereating souvenir of their great' Compatriot. So affected were lbey by. , this splendid' aketth; bud Abe' 'Marvellous fidelity J'''with which the m Iffireit ere eei f ed teatu'ciatreahafi `been , delineated, ` that they Waltol, , 341:Ausieuserrosw -1 ISM= oitt'lPPnitP .- • 1. , , ; Qua wing, Alto to ~,,pO-111eleated-.Senatorir,andl-Arletuperrs 1 - 011.01 HOMO: to , spend the Mondays -41Erartninsness tor the Senate to act "wens , the parrildentts Pirontio4tions, ejmeilit to du actual WMILMIGTON, Dec. 18, 1868.—The trial prac tlealretqr tawattha securing' a now Executive Mansion was takin up today Aty Sontitor Mei ton, _ introducing_.- a_ resolution .providing. for. a site on.lihildianMill, north of Botindary'street, a short distance outside of the city , Snails, and west of Columblantollege ' which is one of the most beautiful alkali' "Unf - tity or vicinity, hav ing a full view .of the capitol and city of Washing ton, the Botomic river fits Wiles, down to and be byond Alexspdria,'and in kW 'Nit:lw of thahlstorle it nof 'Arlington. The only"objection to 'it is that the distance froMtheltroposed mansion will heft:illy twice as great as it is , now, which Is'one of the great' inconveniencewof thia 010 of mag nificent dietanceai :aim bill provkies for a survey of the ground, containing snout thirty acresiand for a board of commissioners to assess the da m mnges to prop , 0 ' owners, and; appropriated *125,000 nitwit-ay a expensea of tite erection of the propoeedhu l g.: fit- was referred to the Committee on Public Buildings' and Grounds. There is a desire to provide General Grant with a anitablexesidence,before his, time,expires, and the proposition being brought forward by Sena tor Morton, there is a strong probability that it will pass this melon:,, „ , _ - DEPARTIIII.6 05' 511 , 318161.4 iNO SEMA•101:1115. The trains this 4 eveningk , were crowded with membergof thelicrde and Senators, going home to spend their eta*Puss 140114.14., The city will be very dull for the next two weeks, owing to tiM absence of so many of the fashionables, but General- Grant expected tomorrow. and he will become the great centre Of 'attraction. Al ready people are enectthAting, npon i attending his reception on Newrear's,,..Day, Jost New Year's he gate oner„Whicb. ma* ,numerit4ely at tended by the wealtlite:api tishion of :the; city. This year there vtill i ,donetlettibe klipp't attend ance, for obvious feacitts. liO3IIIIIATION3;IEFoIit4HEIStifittVz 'There is a movement on'loot'•-to'5 delay; notion upon-various nominations gnaw, by.ilae _President to the denate,---exceßt.Weitse4,,WAru, actttal va cancies exist=if no ha' Vontpiniei-itction upon them entirety this .session. t'iludrowitAohntion is just now in a free-and-easy mnod, and it does not scenkto be a difticult mattes to gethim to consent to make nttiv.#opainatiomt, where no vacancies exist, but utlmber of Benatbis are opposed gratifylnifitintbs his desire for frequent _Changes, which has been the curse of his administration, and some propose to quietly plgeon-hole his „nominations, till the end of the session. '4.i4asoisnr James N. Matta, of Philadelphia, IS hire, look ing after blit.,confinittlion as Collector of the Port. The Senate Finance Committee have taken no action tipinfhla'cate yet. He Is supported by Senator Cameron,"and the city Republican dele gation seems tabir divided as to the expediency of -confirming him at this , time. • SUSQUETIANNA. Why MCI pefitytpkted isll . The first part °film 'third volume of "Austria's Struggles in the'Year 1866," the official work on the German war now in course of publication by the Austriem staff, contains some interestaUgpar dealers Of the events which immediately preceded the battle •of teeniggratz. "Benedeke it says, "was thoroughly discouraged; ho had lost all con fidence in himself, his entourage, his army, and the great cause for which the army had gone into the field."' 2tflitlf-past twelve on July 1 lie Sent the following despatch to the Emperor: "I big your Majesty most strongly to make peace at any price; a - catastrophe for the army is Inevi table." To this the Emperor replied: "h is im possible to make peace. I command you to con duct a retreat with the greatest order." Ben edek then sent a second telegram, from which the following are extracts: "Oat of eight corps mere are only two intact, although we have had no battles; only skirmishes, and even 'those aro very much fatigned. * * All thiscomPelled me to retire hither. On the road I found the whole of the transport corps, which could not be placedkuilleientlylar back, and it the enemy lad energetically attacked us either then,or even before the first corps and the Saxons had been again placed.inlirder, and the arms had a; little rest, a catastrophe would have been inevitable. For innately,. the enemy bad as yet not come up to 1113. I will "ttiorefore let the troops rest to morrow. * * * It lam not outtlanked, , l can count neon At ralii-ditY on the 2d the chief of, the staff tele graphed that matters wero looking better; dek, too, was more calm and hopefal than he had been the;day before. •, He, summoned all, the general offiders, &e., to his tent, bat only spoke to them abont matters of detail; - not disclosing any of his plans.- When Field-Marshal Edelehelm remarked' that the army would probably; not have at. math- rest as was expected, out,would bo attaeked,that night, or the following. morning, Benedek Elude: ntireply, and the kenorals turac4.l.9 their quarters without knowing where the battio4ai to take place. The plan'was only drawn oiAt'tle'ven that night and cornMunictited ts. to the commandan clock on the morning at o The plap, according to the oilleial„report now pnblished, 4 wawextromely, defective, and was the chief n,tdre,elofAhe defeat of the Austrians. liitzilitave Bookkeeping- • The Irtagon2eregraph relates, the following : bavitojast-•been, handed an African butter and inilkocconnt for a month, on a slip of paper „as lung as our pencil. Long marks, we are told, mean qiiaris of milk, and short " ones","it the same line, moan - pounds'of butter. Tire account shall be squared, and a re-! ecipt be taken by throwing the bill -into the stove. This kind of accounting puts us in mind of the Tar River merchant's bookkeeping. We' dare say some of our old readers can call the' man's name, for the story le a true one. Tar' River did, a heavy . memantile business for that country—be *art!rich- 7 1re kept his own books, but could neither read nor write. Manner was to put the outlines of his debtor's face at the top of the ledger land underneath were pen pic tures of thearticles purchased, or, where that was illeipOSlSibleli 011311,1104 sign which the maker understood." •i• ' "r-k ono day.therovros a dispnted-..aceottot,Par-1 chaser was 'charged' with a cheese,,wbick 'he de nied buying, ~,.' What should , I want wish a • cheese, when . w e make more haine than we moll eat?" It ,was a poser, and TarliVrer amid only ; insie,f in reply - upon the accuracy - .1114 books.; "It there's anything ,I do value myself, upp, it JAI thu accaracy of my. books." , esYst debtor." ”It mnstbe go," soya Tar River ; "now! think over.What:yodhave had of me." "Well. have bad a saddle, trace-chains, hoes, mum, and': —a grindstone." "Good heaven," soya Tar; River, "is It possible that In charging that grindi stone I forget to-make a hole In the middle. and so.took it.tor a.cheeseP I can hardly credit Math, au error inzay hooks." • •• —On the'der'Of the funeral 'of t e late '/lax.en Rothschild his widow gave ordcreAlicitoovery lugger who came to the door should receive a gold twenty-frane plane. The news spread like wildfire among the mendicants, and the amount given away during the day was twelve thousand E n.est4rilot• ' • Worreepandence of thp Ppm. Evening Brillatbil BOOKS OF 'TWO WEEK. , The•Pdet and the Painterinr, - Geti*Of Art and- Bong. , ' , 4to; pp. 400.'ll e arkey Morodeo, glit'edges; steel engravings - Published by D. Appleton & Co., for sale by ,LIB. Lippincott &'Co. - • • ; Isaiah; with Notes; -critical, explanatory and practital, detigned fortieth pastors and'' , people. By Rev.' . Henry • Cowles; D. D r 12mo; pp. On. 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Pannicl Veal • Mutton Lirer.--Ont the liver in little sllces, With an equal qutintity',of finely , chopped onions I, brown the onion 'over 'a slow fire; in a little saucepan, with some batter; when thoroughly done add a pinch of flour, stir, the& moisten with boiling water; season with salt and pepper and let the sauce absorb the flavor for' some minutes, then set;the saucepan in • the nor-i ner of the range. • Brown the ,pieces of liver with,butter, in a fry--; ing-pan,'season with ealt, Pepper and a bay , leaf; when done to `a turn, stir In the contents of thel sauce-pan; fry'all together for an instant,' thicken, with the yolks of ono or two eggs acidulated with vinegar, and serve. Ohms Alussels is la Villeroi.—lf the ycittng ! ludic a 'Who cook in gloves will' lend Inc kind at-, tentlon, it will be easy for them - 'to' Prepare ft `delicate dlsli'from this common shell-fish;'which' will lessen the rigor of Friday!ti abstindice. ' Shell:Pi a la Velleroi. =MIX over the'fire some; bUtterin a little flour; moisteriwith watsr, season; with salt'and pepper; add some slices 'of onions,' one or two' heads of cloaca, some shreds Of mush-1 rooms and a bunch of not-herbs; let it•stew i then! pass through a fine colander , thicken withyolks' of eggs Mixed with cream and a lump of batter,l 'and take this Mixed_ from the flie when saki - antly thick. - Open the clama,'take them from their shells } and dry on a linen clothythen'dlp them one after another in the warm sauce, and place them sepa-; rately tin a table; ' • • , When the sauce becomes completely cold, dip' them one by one into fine breaderambs, and fry, them' of a good color. 1 PBS them up and serve with fried ,parsley,—.4 Petit'Journal. titTNNING.OI.IT MrxriNG.—Lorenzo Dew la reported to have stopped' , ! 001110LW from leaving' bis meeting by requesting 'MI who had holes in the heels of their stockings to go.: then or stay; through." A'similar instance though , more' truth ful, and in taste; is:given in the history of Plumes Mee, a Methodist itinerant. ' While he was stationed in one of the New York churches, he found that many of the young! PcoPle, of both , Ream' were accustomed' to, leave' the church at the close of the evening service. It, annoyed hini; anti he determined to stop IL , The: next Sabbath evening before he couarnenced his, sermon, he said: "Some of my brethren have' been greatly afflicted that o,p many young womeM leave piquet/ before the sersiee is,. through. Batt I them they ought not to feel to, for doubt-1 less, most of aloso Mat go out are young wometh who live 'at service, and then. miatressus requirei them to be at home it nine o'clock; and the young men have to go out to upon thenal Aware: so hereafter, whew their). young . womeni leave church before the service is over you wllh tuaderetand who they are,and not feel badly abo4 it." The brother who gave me this fact said:, "We were no , more annoyed after this; they, either staid awity, or staid till the ,meeting was closed." Planchette has remarkable powers in. TOSS& -,tirce , genthanon were recently learning the oven hi of the future by this moans in BroWusvlllo, whoa it Was suddenly discovered that they were spell; bound., . Neither could rise from his seat, and all were so frightened Atilt ;411ey Wore unable toll speak. Fortunateljw laq•came in and Spoko4 thus breaking Ow-spelt; and #tho• wrltingllog of PlenchtitlAr tiA , the sumo time. —The =jewels of the Duchess do Alertly, re 4 can fly sold at auction ituparls, produced .E.2?.000: 4folio et/the lots , reallied More. then thloi *len. ally cost, —Popular Sunday amusement.at Lima aonsists in throwing sticks at the' bead of a duck, poked up through a nolo iu a box and in fights, to the #. # n#. •e , s. .• . -PRIONTHREE - OERTS. a.N oszei. TenbgEon bas gone to Paris.: • ' Muhlbach's name la on sixty rolumeq.. a —Japaneao Toinmy dead,..; ;.;••tt..• —Colorado Jewett apealte..:*;good%,WOrliforr Iteverdy Johnson. • r , ! 9rr --A country newspaper calls,pan . ninetaskalit bigamist, the "champion roarrslst."4 I• —A pumpkin ple e nine feet itt - dlamotatOrtia exhibited at a recent fair la,PortamodetplUlL3 —A hundred French famillee filtAle.iinial • about to emigrate to Brazil. ' '', - • • 'i tagioill •• —Ecatainra,wife used 8117534 to call kiiiii/iir - linxiiortall' -14 •:. pta v . .t.t.i.itt•••c • '''''Veloo:ll/edkkognes,' 'hoW, klitittlA l • 4 113111# idea how to ride , '''''.f.* '...?; . ~, ' ieSllo4 ita ! -The''LOWell r ifetirter si Ckiiite illi ". M* i murder will otiarilipeotapitria2 , ~,. ,bittkik i „ — ,,,Wife'W*WPOk. is .Pialfl z ki/10 "zian*l . for -,-; ' ,.• •rl. t er r4t, 1 , ', 5: ex. VA i „.,_, — .„," l :•igi+llo4 -4 ,.V.FSPrY• 0 4n ef I rm ~.. ~„ ... 7 --e-. „, , z .f. f:< ~ >I Ifi, s ti The Bepublicane of Chicago propose tom , Ilth a Union League club similpr to Moto 0121011 t York and Philadelphia. -. ; ~, 4 -.7 q.' kli • Maggie Mitchell has been playingiht • Richmond. er last appenraneethere was MUM plity.of.Toodles.;- ; 7.7 • "i ilbrarY,will be sold h d raitcioat- W e st month. It is said to contain the nest o lection of bootie relating to Mexico ever mtufik; • . —An Irish jury recently gave a man £200.0t& atilt against a lady for breach of prop's° of man. riage. —The champion eater of Michigan won thet title by eating , forty-eight "slapjacks" far brosite• fait tb bre antagonist's toripmven.. • - —At a marriage party In Baden the bridegroom was eo thoughtless as to drink a glass ot water * and. liriesidiately fell dead In an apoplexy. Tim bride than wont insane. • - r :--Napoleon and Eugenie arrange their visited* at Compelpne in this way: First series,. news glary; second, series, 1 bores; third serles,„agay; fourth series, "serious people." A —"Abram° Lincoln e Giovanni Booth" is' the title of a play now acting at a Naples theatre: The sensatiolsal scene is the leap of a 'elavelgirt from a three story window. , —Writers from Paris say that during the labs visitor the Prince and Princess of Wales to the French Court, the Prince neglected his wife. abominably. • •. , —During the present Year tipwini of 1,164` dial. asters haveteeentred 'On ',the lakes,' ulttii `,ilia the lots of'Bsl.llimi, and.the . destructitire Of- thrall. millions , worth Ofproperty. • • —OpleilOnirdiffer,as to the pro p er treatme nt of tkeltidions. -The Chibago 'Times tiiiintinici that Gement' Sheridan ought .to• bei( ; ,Oonirt•martialsel and hanged for ordaring.lhe recent attack oh the Indian camp. ' • . • Al , ~ •• . • • • course the isilicitaixeitgiktitat,'woridei among 'the Indians 'milli° plaltik'vetten- they 'sett It for the first ' The Plistes Veined the loco '- motive "smoke wagon,"'but the filiohones l iesii happily call It "Heap wagon, - no,ham." ' '• —The latest use to which a viestertigenins'apt pike gruiPoWder Is blowlng'Olat theadot frolipla chimney, t Ills first ,experiment wee nusneskaajta se the povideiattielitO tatritallieettuiti the sqbt, but he is hopeful. '-" '• ' • • • 1 . • Tbejtey, A ltr. Gage r of ! Pearl street (Q4*- egitlottsl)eher,pii Hartford , instead spyi• • eg during the. sertice, '"Let no, sing;the bymt?;" says, ", nor/ Ilitento ths singin :Or:the :' - 7t 11 1E1 3 :P 4 73na i . ,t4.,k, 4 ,1 1 9 1 r:P1i 3 g..? ~,7 :t ;:;.*iiiiberles are sad, to pe.*lTta,kingpliico s ist the hotels and p.rlvate houses ,of , Rome. Gooks of organized and Cdacated thieves are practising their art to a great extent, • and with success. A princess has iately lost . • . 200,090 francs ' worth of jewels. • —The British,government hits lord yed.the fort ress of Gibraltar to, be planed, on 'is war4ooting., , ' This action, It Weald, has, greatly,ssonoye4 u the provisicolalG overt) Inent of • BPnin, ;PP, fii iilttfLeit remonstrancela! been sent to .Ato ; ;431111, pt. l psi t -Learl Behien',lielMeehailfeiigeti' t ' e 2lo'it. rhythe for velocipede;get uffithis istiPtofififte. 7 "Therewas a twin on :s velocipedei 13:A ;'.. ..., 4", ", s , r Who salkl. need Mot irit.e , nay heart a feedt:p_l Without s oata Or hay,.. 0 a k ., .` ,: , )1 , ,i He, will 1 day; , . ' It's a ch e aP tninetekeepswveleclitBtlei''"".: a —Fifteen yearn rigii`Md4,Who l vVist'is' '' at; wirer of Rossini,obtained two slipof`a, 0:1;ina h from Virgil's-tomb near, Naples, ; and tb's e 'ool6l* from lm the torah of Tao,' and planted, thdain'the composer's gardon'at Passy. Meth. ;Thu brew* * was placed upon Boutin's eoflitiL . wau "ereiettred. from these two trees. - ' '' ' , " —The `Australians are boasting abbot tag . .llW , gets of gold about these days. One wig: ll l 3 W 700 ounces le said to have been taken at Gymple, Queensland,. iv October. 'At Berlin, near Ingle wood, one, man took out4Bo ounces ih twoclays; and from the same field were taken ono riugoit which weighed 225 Onitees, and anotherywhich. weighed 175 'ono ces., —Some one has lately been rummaging apron g the papers left by Robcpplerre,,and has found among, them ashort poem in the handwriting of .the revolutionist,and signed by him. , The verses are very pretty, and describe in a, pleasant man ncr—ome would suppose quite torvign ,to,the Character of the red-handed „regielde r -the two. ages when one first learns to lisp the ,Words "Mamma," and "I love." , , —There is an attempt' in Limo to induce the women to abandon the use of the manta, or Week. hood-like shawl, which they wear in public, and in,which they are disguised so that their.oarts - husbands and sons do not, know , them. "Scathe -Effort is not likely to succeed. If they leave it off, they:will , hava ,, to dress their halr,i anti;that will be to laborious an -enterprise. The native servant women also wear the manta about the house; covering their disordered-beads and.dirty naked, shoulders and waists: - -.' . ~ r +.; g , -The champion eater of the'United States te. named Joshua Plumb. A few days agehe entered •a restairant in Hudson, N. Y, and 'offerett tonal all that any one would pay for. The challenge having been accepted, he disposed olthe..follow- Mg articles: Ten' pieces' of apple:' plen'six Corn cakes, a quarter of a pound of crackers, six'cUtts of peanuts, thirty pickled clams, four lemOttal.se -ounce of candY, and two bowls of 'Clam He then drank six tumblers of water:and offered to eat a hundred raw oyster& No one 'doebted ilia ability to accomplish the feat, but no' ottetetis willing to pay' for , theoYeters, so he went off grumbling , that he wasn't half full. -• • ' 4 —A Chicago paper' tells how the men of mils came to be celled "suckers."; ;The *tiff** were wide; the tramps 'long, and ''attlettis2water was scarce. The crawfish is a cold Water nfilinal„ under allcircumstancee, and whore he.liveSat all, he bone for his favorite lignor if he esinletit'on no easier terms. The habitation of ' 'the happy • crawfish' is never out of water, in whicianits the crustacean damp and el:Veda': The early thirsty prairie traveller coming to one 'of the 0614116 h boles, even if the surface of the low wits baked and parched, knew that hero was watent and the adjacent' reeds—perhapir'' he carried dne stuck in his hat-band—furnished the ready means of drawing on the sleek of the et•Syrllsh,•' , llet they came to be known as "suckers.": —The Wilmington Coninereiat of yesterday gives the following account of, titadolicste mat}- nerinwhich Helaware law ollicere treat 'Mew who are not oven proved,to be criminals: ,:A Mr.. S. Id.'Parker, of Bucks county, routes/11%11W whom wo do not , know, personally, but whasp pears to be a gentleman. and WllO6O business in Wihnington was to sell apatent window-leak. was arrested in this eitylesterday, on e,eapias. for debt. Of thO'n,aturo'ofthe Claim against him we know nothing but he was confined all night.. in that young 'Hell,' maintained beneath the,' Cate Hall, as a locknup, , by, the good people o f; this city, and this morning,was hand-cufhad tors,utsa charged Withmurderous assault, chained then, to another .'couple charged with vagrancy teed tar. CenY, aid' so aken down Market street; in open. da)light, in the old-fashioned style of a crevil Rang of slaves. on the way to the county Jail at New Castle. The delta against him is for .1111. and us he is not a resident here, the arrest and* . . „ •,•5.; • (If*. DEMIMIM3 ,T-':,-! , -i' . 7...'" ,,,, i- , ....•.;,,*...,. ti 71..5 . . . ....i . . ,. .;; . .1:•;?1•- : .„.-. ,:.it.i., .- ./ .::'!:. .! , i %!.7.5%.‘.:9
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