, CIRSOW VOLUME XXIL-NO. 235. JOHN C. TABER, General Agent OP THE A. NI IQ it C INT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, S. E. corner Fourth and Walnut Streets, At Office dolly from 12 to 2 o'clock. cANVASSERB WANTED. jot lOW WEDDING CARDS. INVITATIONS FOR PAR tt ties, &c. New styles. MASON & CO.. nuEMS9 907 Chestnut street. TIVEDDING INVITATIONS ENGRAVED IN THE TT Newest and bast manner. LOUIS DREKA. Sta tioner and Eneraver.:l42.3(lbeatnutat*ert. fob =lf DALLAS.—On the 11th inst, Sophia Chew Dallas. wife of the late lion. Geo. M. Donna. • 01111 4 8.-0 u the 'mo, ning of the 11th lnet.. Margaretta D., wife of A. Balmy UMW., and daughter of the late Levi '1 sylor. The relative& and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral. from the-residence of her mother, 262 South Tenth street. on Thurrday, 14th at 10 ol.clock A: M. Interment at Laurel ULM. 2t U1 u1c 11.112.8.--Suddenly, en the 10th inst. Ratan& G. mhes. Her rye are invited to attend the ?moral. from the reeidence of Anna Flartehorne, No. 1210 Filbert street. on Frinttltdey. 18th inst. at 2 o'clock P. M. To proceed to Frtevds' Southwestern Burial GrAind. • LAW.—On Mendal.l the Mk that. Lytriii& Miehard Law. of the United States Navy. VOGEt..—On the 1 ith butt Bernell Vogel. aged 81 years and 2 month,. Tho relatives and Mende of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from hie late reeldence. No. 925 South street. on Wedneaday. lath inst.. at lid o'clock P. M. oft. steely. MELODEON COVERS AND'HAONIFICENT PIANO cOVf. FtB REDUCF D IN PRICE FOR TILE NOLIDAY PRE6EN TB. EYRE & LANDELL. SPECIAL NOTICES. Academy of Music. A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. . MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON. Onleiday Evening, January ISM. Tbla popular and distitignidhed Lecturer will discourse upon the WRONIA3 OF WOMAN AND Tar, REMSDY on the above occasion. The Addrare nu been prow:mood by th., Eastern Preis. irr , dpectlve of party, to be the moat beauttful, touching and thri ll ing appeal In behalf of her eel that bad yet been made. and with one voice accord it her very liapillext effort. Rummer) SEATS. ..... FIFTY .. . DENTS. ADMISSION Y. El E CENTS PhOIMANIUM. X . EB, holding FIVE Dub1.A.11.3. The *Peeing pale of llederved Beata will commence at S .'clock on TUESDAY MORNING. the 12th Instant, at 0 OULU% Piano Booms. N. fed CIiESTN U r treet. — ja 9tfn 1 p or STATEMENT OF THE ASsETS OF THE PENNSYLVANIAr FIRE INSURANCE COM published in enufortnitv with the provisions of the &lath section of the Act of Ae■embll. approved April 1b42: 13oude and Ifortgasce ISiile receivable__ Ph ihutelphia City ..... 67.135 40 Philadelphia. City fives Pennsylvania State Loan ........ ....... .L. . 33.000 00 Cincinnati 5ixe5............. ...... ...... 10.990.00 Pi•tsbn.rab .......... 5,53,5 En United States LOAD, (VEIL. , 9:1090 . 09 United States Loan 5.W. 1363. 25,000 OD Dotted States Loan 5.20.185'7... 106.000 00 Uoilad'States Loan, 620.6 Per cent . •••• ••• . • 59.000 00 Pbtisdelphts, Wibalostan and Sattimerro Railroad Company. 500 ,hare 29.957 R 9 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 420 shares 20.018 . 46 Pennsylvania Railroad Coro vany Loan 10.090 00 Camden sod kmb Railroad Company Loan , 63,403 and Erie Railroad Co. Loan.... 24 600 00 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co Loan V. 932 50 Harrisburg. Portsmouth &e. R. Co. Loan.... 18,500 00 Schuylkill Navigation Co. Loan._ 13.244 41 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Loan.... . 8,69.1 50 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Loan, 34 570 00 Delaware Division Canal Loan 17.015 00 l'hiladelphia Bank. :34 rhares Western Bank. IMO shame...... Girard Bank, 125 shares Franklin Firo Insurance Cu.. BO 'hares Manor:lnk Oto Co., 20 shares lea' Notate. No. 510 Walnut street Caah.. ..... . . . . 81.0 He al WILLIAM O. CROWELL. Secretary. jal2-6trp§ mgr. PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPAN Y. ••"'"' No. 111 BOOTH FOURTH STREET. At an annual Election held First Month 11th. 186'11, the following persons were elected Directors of the above named Company to serve tbreo years: T. Willer Brown, [ Henry Haines, Char les F. Collin, laichuiond, Indiana. The ft Bowing Directors hold over. Samuel R. Shipley, Wm. C. Langstreth, Richard Cadbury, Joshua H. Morris, Richard Wood. William Hacker. And at a eubeequent mee ng of the Board of Directors, the tenoning officers were unanimously elected: SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY_, President. WM. C. LONGSTRETH. 'Vice President InlB.Bt (Signed) ROWLAND PARRY. Actuary. gerOFFIOE OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND Trenton Railroad Company. No. RH South Dela ware avenue. PEILAIILLrinA, JUL At the Annual Meeting of tho Stookholdera, held thia day, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected Directors for the ensuing year: DI Mr.CTOIIII. Vincent L. Bradford. Ma J. Fieb, William 11. liart, John G. Stevens., William ft. Gatzmer, Benjamin Fish. Charles Macaleeter. John M. Read, John Dorrance, i Ashbel Welch, William B. Freeman. i Albert SW. Mark ley. And at a subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors, the following officers wore unanimously re-elected President—VlNCENT L. BRADFORD. Treasurer—J. PARSER NORRIS. Secretary--4A31E8 MORRELL. jail fit? J. MORRELL. Secretary. OFFICE OF THE NORTH PENNSYLVANIA Wir RAILROAD CO., PHILAJ)ELPHIA, NO. 407 WALNUT 8T JArtr Aar 11, 180. At the annnal Eleetton of the North renneylvanta Railroad Company, hem thte day, the following persons were elected to serve the ongoing year: FRANKLIN A. COMLY John Jordan. Jr.. J Gillingham Fell, S. Monis Wahl, William C. Ludwig, Ellwood Shannon, guar PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD COMPANY. (Mee, 227 South Fourth Street. PHILADELPHIA., January 11. 1869. ' The following °Ricers of the Phi Wobble and Heading Railroad Company Were unanimously reelected to serve for the miming year: FILEEIIDENT, CHARLES E. SMITH MANAGERS, H. P. ?URBAN. A. E. HOME R. B. CABEER J. H. LIPPIN4orr. JOHN ASHHuHST. STEPHEN OOLAVFJX. TREAROREZ. sAmuki7iiiMWoßD. BECIIIRTAB_,Y W WILLIAM H. EBB THE SOCIETY FOR SUPPLYING THE POOR 'with Soup," No. 838 Clriscom street, have die+ tributed to the poor of their District during the past moon, 110,040 pints of sou 12,844 pounds of bread, and p; 18,485 rounds of corn meal. to families tonslsting of 1,218 adults and 1,669 children. A visitor inspects the con. ‘litiorl of all aPPlicante before tickets are granted. Three 1/3 no paid collector employed by the Society, but all the members are duly authorized to receive donations to its Lunde. JOS. S. LEWIS, President, 111 Walnut street. WILLIAM EVANS, Treasurer, 618 Market street. GEO. J. SCATTERGOOD, Secretary, de3l-12trp4 , 418 Spruce street. N or TEACHERS , INSTITUTE.-LECTURES AT CONCERT HALL. "Elocution as an Ait.; , illustrated with Readings. By .SAMUEL K. MURDOCK. TUESDAY, Jan. 12. "The Good Fight," by Rev. THOMAS K. BEECHER, TUESDAY, Jan. 19. "Anatomy and Physiology." illustrated with elastic models, prared by Dr. Auzoux, of Paris, by Dr. F. G. LFMERC ep IKR, TUESDAY and THURSDAY, Jan. 26 and 28. • Doors open at 7 o'clock P. M. Lecture at 8 o'clock. Tickets for the four lectures, $1 60. Single tickets 50 cents. For sale at TRUMPLEWS, 926 Chestnut street, and at the door on tko• evening of each Leo. VITO. jardu the tu4trp6 THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK— lltir holden' of the Mercantile Libra Company wilt ba held at the Library Boom, on TUESDAY DAY EVENING. January 19th, at 75.5 o'clock. JaYthirPt JOHN LARDNER, Roc, Soc,y: 11640.670 00 2.301 00 . . Edward C. Knight, Alfred Hunt. William 0. Kont. Charles W. Wharton. Edward Roberta. DWARD ARMSTRONG, Secretary Jail tf rp* SPECIAL NOTICES. girTDB ENTRisPRISR INSUR&NOR COMPANY d naltidelehia, ()Mee, .No. 440 Walnut itreot. JALIIIABY the. At the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of (km. pony held on the ELEVENTH DAY of January, the fol. loss leg gentlemen were elected Directors los the °ruining .. r IT;i Tcwora Starr. John B. Brown. Naibro Frazier. J. L. Erringer, John M. Atwood, Wm. G. Boulton, Bee). T. Tredick. Chaa. Wheeler, Janes 1. Claghora,Thomas H. Montgomery. Gi•cri o 11. *Stuart, Jansen M. Moisten. Ate meeting of the Beard of Directors, h.ld this day, F. RATCHFORD STARR was re elected Pusident and THOMAS MONTGIOMERY reelected Vice Presidont. jP12t13.090.614 ALEX: W. WlSTER.Secretarr. mar— OFFICE OF TDB 8011UYLKILL NAVIIA. TION COMPANY. NO. ai WALNUT BUM: f. ?Li ILADIMPLIIA. January 12. uses. Fotice I. herchyitiven that the Annual Meetine of the Etockbolden and Loanholdere of this Company. and the ele.tton of Office-rs for the ensuina year, will be held at this °Mee on TUE/MAY.lh° ninth day of FebntarY, lEt73 at 11 o'clock A. M. W. M. TILOMMAN . iah-tu th 8104 becrotary. GEORGH FRANCIS TRAIN AT CONCERT Wir BALL, on SATURDAY Evening, January 16, 18f). in the tuts-oat of the Working Hen and Minim of Amer ica. and of the trentan Brotherhood. Subject: -rho Eng lish Bastße; or, Train va. Juba BulL“ Tickets. with reserved seats. fifty conk' at Congaed, Hall Box Office Tuesday morning , January II AM, stip o'clock. it• SiarFOß kiALE-8 CATE AND COUNTY RlCitil of a valuable patent just Introduced, and of tire greatest importance to gas consumers. Agents wacsted.to whom a' liberal commission will be paid. Partners wanted with capital. Apply to PETER KELLER. at Col Binder's. Fourth street. below Callowhlll street. Philadelphia. Is 7 6trp ter , arigterigrA.,, ti penbary 13. 1518 artm eteDifilM cal treatment and medicine fundehel gratuitously to the poor. wir. PHILADELPHIA ORTHOFVEDIC HOSPITAL, No. IZ Booth Ninth atreet.—Clubfoot, Hip and Spina{ Diseases, and Badly Deformities treated Apply daily at 12 d'clock. n09.3m.t05 &ACTA AND EANCIES. —Baron Brisse receives ten thousand francs a year for the bills of fare which we give daily. —Louisa Mull new novel , "Froth Solfe rino to Konigsgratz," is to be published in six teen volumes. —Theodora Mundt, eldest daughter of the German authoress. Clara Mundt, is coming to the United States to appear as prima donna. —A sale of rare old violins made by Btradiva ilus.Guarnerius and Bargonzl recently took place In earls, the old instruments bringing fabulous pi lees. —A society of gentlemen amateurs have lately performed at the Town Hall of Leeds the "Anti gone" of Sophocles with Mendelesohn's entire music. —San Francisco has a "meeting" every now and then about some public calamity. It had a number of "earthquake" meetings, and now we ere a lengthy report in a Ban Francisco paper beaded: "The small-pox meeting." Such an as sembly must be interesting. —Gold hunting near Atlanta is attended with reasonable rewards. At the -Tellico- plains the sold is found in blue slate. , which lies near the .nrtace and is easily broken up. From one little ho e two yards long and two feet deep ten thou sand dollars' worth was taken. There is consid erable machinery in operation. —What Is the beautiful snow? A sentimental ist responds: "White feathers falling from celes tial doves—the sky showering white blossoms on the grave of the departed year." If he had to shovel about a ton of it off the sidewalk once a week all Winter, he wouldn't allude to it in such flattering terms. —An old Boston Almanac, printed In 1769, re cords the tact that a gentleman of that city, whose napieja not given. had deposited !$lOO in the hands of the selectmen. Of this banottnt ? *4O was to be given the paten who, In the year 1771, should have raised the greatest number of Mal berry trees, fise for the next greatest number, *2O to the next, and *lO to the next. —The lately published reports of the Austrian staff, about the Bohemian Campaign of 1866,1410 w conclusively that General Benedek foretold to the Emperor the disasters which befell the Austrian forces, and that he cannot be held responsible for t hem. He sent telegram upon telegram to the Emperor, whom he urged to make peace without a moment's delay. —General Grant was met coming out of his headquarters, stoop•shouldered, hands in his pockets, looking as indifferent as if he were not oppressed with the cares of a nation. A friend sainted him, "Good morning, General." "Good morning." "General, you don't look as if you were President of the United States." "I ain't." —The Queen Dowager of Bavaria, who had rot much sense to spare, has conceived the plan that all Catholic Queens and Empresses should signify their sympathy for the reverses which have recently befallen their sister, Isabella of Spain, by inviting her to spend some time at their Courts. The proposition, however, does not bteM to have met with much favor at the hands of the august —When the women convicted of having poi soned their husbands at Marseilles were taken from the prison at Aix to the penitentlary,a large concourse of people surrounded them in the most menacing manner, shouting "To the guillo tine with the poisoners." Stones were hurled at the trembling wretches, and the gendarmes were barely able to protect them from the fury of the populace. —Rachel's brother, Raphael Felix, manager of the theatre of the Porte St. Martin, in Paris, has failed for eighty thousand francs. He lays the blame at the door of George Sand, for whose new drama, "Cadio," he spent a very large sum of money. 'the drama proved a failure, and Felix was unable to meet his eng,agetherits. He could not even pay the salaries of his actors and actresses. —A Meriden, Connecticut, bookseller has struck a novel way of advertising. He has a ballot-bex In his store and invites everybody to vote for the handsomest girl, best citizen, ugliest baehelor, or whatever kind of candidate he pleases to select, and, after a certain time, counts the votes and gives the stipulated prize. Last week Mies Julia Beach was elected the prettiest girl in town, and won a valuable 200-plate album. —The New York Sun gives the snobbish and increasing custom of keeping private secretaries this cut: "The practice tor nearly everybody to keep them has been introduced along with the Grecian bend and the Roman wriggle. We won der the busiest boot-blacks do not keep private secretaries. They have so much to do, and their hands are so black, it must be inconvenient for them to carry on their own correspondence." —Musicians are said to be conceited. Even the great Beethoven had the weakness of vanity, for in one of his letters he writes : "Kings and princes may easily make professors and privy councillors, and bedizen them with tides and ribbons; but great men—men that stand con spicuous from among the common herd—they cannot make. That they must leave alone; and when two men like myself and Goethe meet, we ought to be held in high esteem.' —William Alexander Louis Stephen Hamilton- Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, Marquis of Hamil ton, Marquis of Douglas, Marquis of Clydesdale, Earl of Angus, Earl of. Arran, Earl of Lanark, Baron Hamilton, Baron of Avon, Polmont, Mae hauslure, and Interdale, Baron of Abernethy and Jetiburgh Forest, Duke of Brandon and Baron Dutton,is a young man about twenty-three years of age, who seems to have more money than wit, and more wickedness than either. He and his younger brother,Charles George Archibald Ham ilton, have lately been making Paris the scene of their exploits. The other night, coming from the opera ball with a party of friends, like themselves under the influ ence of wine, they assaulted the occupant of a carriage who refused to get out of their path, the Marquis beating him over the head with a loaded cane, The pollee interfered, and drove the no ble rowdies into the shelter, of the Maison,d'Or, where they solaced themselves in the' 'company of some notorious courtesans. Yet these men are the representatives of one of the oldest, and proudest families of Great Britain.' Verily, a hereditary aristocracy is a valuable institution! PHILADELPHIA, TUE§DAY, JANUARY 12, 1869. FROM .WASHINGTON. Passage of the Dill In the Hattie pealing the. ennre-of.Office Act 1W by It was Done—in Deepens° to the Supoosed Whiles of General Grant— Cabinet Specuiatlons—Grant's futon. tient to Surround Himself With no Alen Ambitious of Bec..naing Future Presidential Candidates—The Pres'. dent Elect Gives a Private and Select Dinner Party—What .is ',thought of the Mandari's from the 'Supreme Court Restoring Lawyer Bradley— Who °hall Decide When Judges Dis agree I—The Great Principle of - Uni versal Suffrage to -be Established hroughout-the CountrY—The Effect of Representative liontwelPs-jilli— Philadelphia Whisky. Dealers ask. lag Congressional Legislation, dcc LUorreepondenco of the Pkinadelobla. Evening Ballotin.) Wasuirearosi, Jan. 11, 1869.—The passage in the House, to-day, of the bill repealing the Tenrre-of-Office act is the firet progress made towards "pulling down the fences" which were found necessary to curb and confine Andrew Johnson, after he turned traitor to his party and its prinoiples, when he assumed the Presidential office. The passage of the bill In the House was+ sudden and unexpected. It was carried by a large and overwhelming majority, clearly showing that in the opinion of the House thelime had *arrived for its repeal. The Democrats could not help voting for it, as they had constantly been clamoring about its unconstitutionality and unfairness, and they were consistent in voting for its repeal. The opponents of repeal were all Republicans, a few of whom believed that the pro longed future was not exactly clear, otilng to, the pro longed reticence of Grant as to his intentions and they thought it proper to have borne safe guard of this fund on the statute book. Others voted against the repeal, not on account of any doubt as to Grant's fidelity to the party that elected him, but because they thought that its re peal now would give it the appearance of being enacted as a mere party measure, to hold John son in cheek, and not as a measure of public a Why and propriety, defining clearly the powers, of the President and the Senate in regard to Federal appointments. Bn the chief objections were thrown to the winds when the Hon. James F. Wilson, of lowa, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, endorsed the repeal and said that it had received the are prove' of the Committee at a meeting on Satur day night. This settled the matter, and even those who had felt some doubts about it quietly surrendered and voted "aye," both upon tee previous question and on the final passage of the bill. One cause of this unanimity was the general belief that Mr. Wilson will go into Grant's Cabinet{ as Attorney-General, and from the manner of his endorsing the repeal and privately advocating it, it seemed to be conceded that he spoke "by authority"—hence the desire not to oppose the supposed wishes of the Presi dent elect on this question. 1 - HE UNFOLDING OF THE FUTURE POLICY OF THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION. Since General Grant's return from Philadelphia, it is said he has been more communicative than tonnerly, or rather has given greater facilities to his political friends for mutual consultation and reflection than was done previously. Last week, quite a number of the Republican leaders were in consultation with him, when the policy of his administration was freely discussed, and those who enjoyed the privilege of extended interviews' aPpear generally much pleased with the treatment • they received and the satisfactory replies given to their inquiries. It was this development of confidence between the President elect and his !fiends which produced the immediate repeal to dayl"so far as the House is concerned, of the Ten are-of-office act, which was doubtless in accord ance with General Grant's wishes, as there was Do earthly necessity of holding this act in terrorem over his bead. inasmuch as he and Congress are n penect accord upon the issues of the day. THE TENURE ACT IF THE SILNATE. The fate of the bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act In the Senate is not BO certain, bat trom the remarkable unanimity and promptness with which it passed the House, there is every reason to expect it will pass the Senate also. That body could not well decline to concur be cause it might be said its refusal might be con strued as an unwillingness to surrender some of its power over appointments, which the Senators justly believe themselves justly entitled under the constitution—which refusal would place the Senate in a very unenviable position. The House baring yielded so gracefully, it can scarcely be expected that the Senate will put itself in oppo • I don to what seems to be the clearly expressed wish of the President elect and the majority of the Representatives of the Republican party. (.RA.NT't , RECEPTION—GEM. GRANT'S DINNER PARTY. On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Grant gave the opening reception of the season, which was at tended by a large and brilliant company. These receptions will hereafter be held every Saturday, and will be public, no cards being issued. In the evening General Grant gave a private and select dinner party to a few intimate friends At his residence on I street. No newspaper men were in attends nce, consequently what trans pired is known only to those fortunate enough to be present. General Rawlins, chief of General Grant's staff, was one of the invited guests, but owing to the state of hie health, which admon ishes him not to expose himself to the night air, be was not present at the dinner. Considerable r.peculation was indulged in to-dey concerning the presence of Attorney-General Everts at this dinner, and some seemed to think it an indication , that Evarte would be continued as Attorney- General under Grant. Others, however,who are well posted, repudiate such an idea, and assert that it was a mere act of courtesy in returning the welcome so warmly extended to Gen. Grant at the Everts banquet in New York, some weeks age, where the General was the honored guest. There is no significance whatever in Evarte being invited to this dinner. CABINET RUMORS. As the "Ides of March" approach the rumors of Cabinet appointments increase. The latest one today was thatftenator Morrill, of Maine, was to be tendered the Secretaryship of the Interior, on account of his recent defeat in the Republican caucus for United States Senator, where he came within one rote of being nominated. It was also stated that his friends would "bolt" against the caucus nomination of Hannibal Hamlin, and the rumor originated probably from some of those who desired to make peace among the contend ing factions by providing for Morrill. So many distinguished men have been named in connection with the Secretaryship of the Interior, that it is extremely doubtful whether there is any founda lion for the report which obtained currency about Senator Morrill being invited to take that posi tion. Another Cabinet on dit to-day was one that Gen. Grant has intimated that he will take no man as one of his constitutional advisers who will use his official position to promote his own aspirations for the Presidency. Consequently. many of the distinguished gentlemen who have been named in connection with Cabinet positions, and who are known to entertain latent, if not ac tive, hopes of eucceeding to the Presidential chair at some time in the dim future, will not likely be called upon to take a portfolio in the new Cabinet. Secretary Seward would doubtless be willing to continue in hie present position, but this determination of Grant will effectually dis pose of that matter. TIIR MANDAMUS RESTORING LAWYRIt BRADLEY. The - promulgatloit, this morning, of the man damus from the Supreme Court of the United States, restoring Joseph n. Bradley, Sr., torprac- Bee as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, from which he was ex- CiUtt. - WHOX,E vaned for contempt, in challenging Judge Fisher, on the trial of John H. Buffett, created a great sensation in all circles, to-day, as such a decision was entirely tusexpected, and is almost univer sally condemned. It is well known that the most kindly * feelings do not exist between Chief Justice Chase, of the United States Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Cutter, of the District Supreme Court, and the friends of the latter do not he skate to say that personal spite was at the toundation of this extraordinary decision, and some even go so far as to recom mend Cartter topay no attention to the mandamus of tbe higher court, on the ground that in the disposition of cases of contempt which may transpire before the Supreme Court of 'the district, the U. B. Supreme Court has no legitimate jurisdiction- Thy allege that the conduct of Bradley was outrageous, instating, and dictatorial, and that to allow him to triumph In this way will be to destroy the dignity and efficiency of the lower court, and should not be submitted to. But who shall decide when Judges disagree? The court of last resort having do• cided the matter, it seems difficult to discover bow the lower court can refuse to obey the man damus. ksl44 4:1:* rizisl4 , lsa*) , ..*si*sss:sl , ol:ol.l•4• , ***:4o.ln:vg it _ - The bill offered to-day by Representative Bout well, of Massachusetts, to provide for carrying out the provisions of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, so far as relates to suffrage, and the enforcement of the provisions of the constitutional amendment against parties holding office who are disquali fi ed on account of parti cipation in the rebellion, is one of the most im portant measures introduced this session, and attracted a great deal of attention. It virtually establishes universal suffrage over the whole country, in the election of President, Vice Presi dent, and members of Congress, which must re sult in the permanent establishment of this great principle; for if a man is qualified to vote for President or for a member of Congress, it will bea difficult matter to deprive him of the right of voting for State and local officers. The friends of this measure are hopeful of its passage this session, or at the ensuing session o Forty-first Congress, which will be held after the 4th of March. PHILADELPHIA WHISKY BIKE AT THE CAPITAL. This morning a delegation of the heaviest deal ers in whisky In Philadelphia, consisting of IL W. Catherwood Daniel Giltinan,Charles Dough erty, Joseph Sinnott, William Anderson and othesr, came down to urge upon Congress the propriety of extending the time for withdrawing distilled spirits from bonded warehouses. Under the act of July 20,18&8, all spirits in bonded ware houses are required to be withdrawn within nine months from the date of the act, which time will expire In April. The dealers argue that it will entail great lose and inconvenience upon them unless the time be extended. They waited on Commissioner Rollins, but he has no power to extend the time. They ofterwards made a state ment of their case to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House, as it will require additional legislation. SUSQUEHANNA. —Boucicault's drama After Dark; or, London by Night, produced at the Walnut last evening, is, as everybody anticipated, one of those agonizing, sensational plays which find so much favor with managers and the public at the presext time. Its gobtl qualities are those of all Boucle-Emirs pro dections; the language is natural and grammati cat'and the acts bristle with effective situations. But the plot is not novel in conception,—al though the arrangement is original,—and many of, the scenes are stolen bodily from familiar plays of this Class. The characters include, of course, a villain and his accomplice—"Belling ham!' and "Morris;" a virtuous but misguided hero, "Medhurst;" a forlorn father, "Old Tom;" a wretched,but finally felicitous maiden, "Eliza;" an heiress, "Rose Egerton;" an omniscient friend who sets everything to rights, "Chumley;" a de tective, and, besides, a multitude of minor fig ures of little importance. In lieu o' criticism of a drama which was not intended for critical analy sis, we will give a sketch of the plot, assuring our readers that the entertainment is quite as at tractive as any of the same kind that we have had in this city. Scene first: A railroad depot; enter beetle browed villains, "Bellingham and Morris," just from the races. The former explains that "Med burst's" uncle has died, leaving "Medhurst" a fortune, provided he marries "Rose Egerton." But "Medhurst" has forged a cheek, which "Bel lingham" holds, and proposes to keep until "Medhurst" gives half his fortune for it. Enter "Medhurst," disguised as a hackman. Learns of his wealth. Alas! too late. He has married a bar-maid, named "Eliza." Affecting interview with "Eliza," who expresses willingness to die for her husband. Minor music by the orchestra, as "Medhurst" bids her good bye forever, and dies. Heartrending sobs on the part of 'Eliza." just as "Bellingham" comes in to tell her that she mustgive up her husband, so that he can marry "Rose." Indignant virtue from "Eliza," who shows the villain the door, after which she weeps scalding tears of bitter anguish. Scene changes to a place with the elegant name of "Silver Hell." Men disclosed playing seven up for theatrical greenbacks and other sham dross. "Billingham" and "Morris" meet "Med hurst" who becomes deliriously drunk on three small glasses of mineral water. "Medhurst" swears to forget "Eliza" and bigamize with "Rose." Exultation of the villains. Lively mu sic by the band. "Medhurst'' goes out, meets "Eliza," says he must part from her; she declares she will liberate him, and in her anguish hints at suicide. Air on the clarinet, "No one to love." Scene shifts to Charing Cross and shows "Old Tom," a ragged beggar, nourished on gin. Ho comes down to the footlights and tells Simon Hassler how he has seen better days; how he was a gory Crimean warrior; and bow, while he was a portion of battle's proud array, a villain stole his wife and lost his daughter. (Confidential to the public, "Billingham" is the degraded out cast who did this thing. "Eliza" is the long lost child). "Chtutiley" recognizes "Tom" as a fel low officer, and offers him cash. Rejected with indignant scorn. Music by the orchestra, ex pressive of indignant scorn. Scene under the arch of a bridge. Vagrants asleep. "Eliza" on top of the arch. says her prayers and leaps into the turbulent river of green calico. "Old Tom" to the rescue! Seiz ing a canvass skiff he paddles out and rescues "Eliza" from a watery grave. Thrilling tableau. Music by Hassler's orchestra—" Flow Gently, Sweet Alton." Scene in "Tom's" home. Unresuscitated "Eliza" lies prone upon the floor. Enter "Chum ley";• he promises to get a situation for "Eliza" in "Rose Egerton's" house. "Girl wanted for genera' housework," and all that sort of thing. "Chnmley" tells Tom that "Bellingham" Is the man who betrayed "Tom's" wife and destroyed his domestic felicity. "Tom," torn with passion, vows to have revenge. 8010 on the horn— 'Down with the traitor." In a moment of intense men tal anguish. "Tom" swears off from gin. "Eliza" revives; hears him; rushes up; clasps him to her heart. Be sees that she is his own offspring. -Me child! it is—it is me child!" Touching dis play of filial affection and parental love, Duet by first and second violins. "Father, come home." Next scene; "Rose's" house. "Medhurst," thinking "Eliza" entombed beneath the bounding billows, considers that he will wed "Roso." "Rose" prattles of love, while "Modharst" confi dentially relates to the prompter at the right first entrance how remorse is gnawing at his heart. He goes ont. Enter "Eliza" in search of that situation. "Rose" covers her with the kisses usually bestowed upon hired girls by mistresses. Thereupon "Eliza" falls down and sobs. Music indleative of sobs, by Mr. Ressler and assistants. "Billinghtun," the villain, calls on "Mediiurst" to extract money. „Meets with "Chtunley," who recognizes On as an escaped convict, "and threatens him with expostire, unless he gives up that frged note with which he scares "Med burst.' "Billinglinm" pleads for mercy. Air on " 4 .11 the halltboy—ast thou no feeling ?": Villain DRAMATIC AND BUTOICAIJ... frightened, promises to yield if "Chinley" will meet him In a certain den in London that night. Agreed. "Old Tore," behind a tree, overhears, and swears to track the villain to his doom. In accordance with his oath follows him out into the green-room. "Eliza" in a dark room. "Med burst" comes in; thinks it is "Rose;" confesses that be still loves the dead "Elise' and cannot marry again,. Footlights turned up. "Ella I!" Bow very singl'ar It cannot be! Yes! ' tie she! 'Lis she. Folds her against his agitated waist coat. Expressive music by the combined or chestra of sixteen performers, "Como to this bosom, my own stricken deer." Scene shifts to a concert saloon very suggestive of Brougham's Lottery of Life. Performanceaon the saloon stage. The company playing bagatelle. Enter "Old Toro," pretending to bo drunk. The villains "Bellingham" and "Morris" wafting for "Chumiey" their victim. Arrival of "Chnmley." Injudiciously drinks drugged fire water, and falls in a trance. Melody on the flute "Sleep well sweet angel." The villains rob him. "Old Tom" interferes. Terrific hand-to-hand combat. Thomas chucked down into the cellar. "Chnmley" taken out, put into a passenger car,on the underground railway. Villians fasten a log gn the track, to hurl "Chumley" and all the passengers into eter nity. Enter "Old Tom." Another deadly en counter. First blood for "Tom!" Myrmidons overthrown and the log torn from the track just as the locomotive and cars rash across the stage. Tom faints. Exciting tableau. Music expres sive of putting on th 6 brakes. Last act. ' Rose Egerton's Happy "home". "Medhurse serenely happy with his own Eliza. "Chnmley"felicitorts with "Rose." Enter villains in the custody of- policemen. Both brought to grief. "Chumley" says, "let them go; they are punished enough." In comes "Old Tom;" ac cuses "Bellingham 'of stealing his wife. Villains amazed, are carried off, to slow music; while Thomas wildly declares that he is "AVENGED I HA ! HA !" Final tableau. Everybody in unspeakable bliss. "Old Tom" gives "Eliza" a father's first class benediction, and 'Wipes a solitary tear away from his eagle, eye. "Rose" gives her number five hand to "Chumley;" they embrace; the gal lodes cheer, the curtain unrolls, the anguish is over for this evening, and the band strikes up "Gay and Happy," while red fire illuminates the peaceful scene upon the stage.. —At the Arch, this evening, a Flash of Light ning will be repeated. —An excellent entertainment is announced for to-night at the American. —To-morrow afternoon the usual rehearsal will be given by the Germania orchestra, at Hor ticultural Hall. Mr. Renshaw, of the Matinee, will have a benefit. The programme is very at= tractive. —The public rehearsal of the Philharmonic So ciety at Horticultural Hall, on Friday, will be very interesting. The music will consist of se lections from the programme of the concert to be given in the Academy of Music on Saturday. —On Friday evening, in the Academy of Music, Miss Anna E. Dickinson will deliver a lecture, entitled A Struggle for Life. This discourse has been warmly praised by the press of other cities, and is, without doubt, very interesting. Tickets can be procured at Gould's, No. 926 Chestnut street. —The Parepa-Rosa concerto will be given in Concert Hall, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Mad. Parepa•Rosa will sing several choice selections on each occasion, and will be assisted by a number of able artists, among them Mr. J. Levy, the famous cornet player. —At the Theatre Comique to-night, the Gallon Comic Opera Company will appear in the op peretta "66." This company has been very suc cessful, and deservedly so. Miss Susan Galton is pretty and vivacious, and she has a nice little soprano voice, quite suitable for a snug theatre, like this one on Seventh street. —The last of a series of concerts for the benefit of Bethany Mission Sabbath School (corner Twenty-second and Shippen streets), will be given at the Seventeenth Street theatre on Thursday evening, the 14th instant. The success of the two previous concerts, as evinced by the eihe, atten tion and brilliancy of the andieneel3, was very gratifying to the ladies and gentlemen taking part in the mission. At this, the final concert. the amateur talent will be kindly assisted by the very eminent pianist, Mr. Charles H. Jarvis, with his accom plished sisters, Mrs. Davis and Miss Carrie Jarvis. Mr. Jarvis will play Thalberg's celebrated Fan- Male from "L' Elisir d'Amore," and with the as sistance of two gentlemen, Mm. Davis and Mine barvie will sing Mendelssobn's four-part song"On the Sea." Mr. J. Jenkinson, also, will play two violoncello solos; and that the lively element be not wanting, Mr. Schautlier, by the request of many friends, will repeat his original medley, "Hodge- Pod ge• " Most of the seats for this Concert were sold for the course, but a few single admission tickets are to be had at the door on that evening. —On the evening 01 the 16th inst. (next Sat urday), the irrepressible George Francis Train will speak upon the subject of "The English Bastile," at Concert Hall. Tickets can be pro cured at the box office daily, from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. BASH V. lJ•:pm the Toledo Blade.; The Terribe Condition of Affairs In the South, of 'which We Read in the 'A elegratph Despatches--Mr. NUN by Investigates. POST OEM, CONFEDERATE X ROADS, (With ie in the State nv Kentucky,) Dec. 31, 1868.—The condishun nv affairs in the States with wuz en gaged in the late unpleasantness with a prejoo die in favor nv the Confederacy, is most terrible. The country is unsafe for any man to live into. brootal niggers armed with implements uv war go roamin thro the country in bands, burnin, killin, robbin, and destroyin; terrifrn the peece tul planters who are llyin to the cities for pertec tion. I saw more than twenty nv these stricken men in a faro bank in Loolsville, one nite. Feelin that a statement nv the facts uv the case mite possibly result, in softenin the rigger nv radikul root, and indooce the incomin adminis tration to remedy our evils by puttin the power where it legitimitly belongs, viz.: into the hands uv the white Caucashen citizens nv the South, irrespective nv their prejudisses in the matter nv Government, I indulged Into a small tour nv in specshen, extendin my researches oz far South ez Arkansas. My first stoppin place wnz in Georgia. Here I found a most friteful state Iry anarky exietin. The niggers were in a state nv complet inenbordi nashen. An old friend uv mine, whose hospi tality I hed aceoptid, wnz a livin with his house barricaded, in hourly expectashen nv an attack from the infooriated demons who was ragin without. 1 vory soon ascortanod the sitooashen. Major Ruggles wuz stripped by the war nv all his possessions in niggers. He wnz be- reaved. He hed 2,000 akers nv land and nary a hand to work it, and wnz consekently distress'. The unteelin Burrow officers insultinly remarkt that the Rugglesses theirselves mite possibly work enuff nv this land to make a subsistence, but the Mjaor withered em. Ho wuz compelled to either steno his hands with labor, or hire nig gers. 'He took the latter alternative, and hired a hundred nv em. I saw the contrax, and more deer documents I never saw. It wuz stipulated that the niggers shoed labor for six dollars per month, and shoed forfeit one dollar per day for each day's absence, no , matter wat the cause thereof. Ez the niggers wuz a stavvin they acceded to these terms and all wont pettedly. They got, eactinv ern, so mach corn meal and so much bacon per day, and the proapeck they bed uv gettin •72 each, at the end of the season stininlatid em to a tolerable degree nv ac tivity. The crop promist well, and the Major . and his family went" to Sara togy in the summer; It wuz harvested and re sulted well, and -the family went to Noo Orleans to spend the winter. On Christmas Day the Ma jor settled With his hands, and hevin no farther E L., 1 0 11.111.61{STON. Pabli PRICE THREE CENTS: I . goose for em till opting, he disChamed eat.. The, moat at- em he brot in debt to Mar largely, en they hed bin sick doorin the season more or less. and six days sickness balanced a mouth's, ,work when well. I.Jv course allhed:drawd stithbi all thro the year ter clothin. This class ho. treated getaway. "I don't want the money with yoo owe me he remarkt. "I'd Bkorn to take it. Too mai work it out choppin cord-wood, or Malaita fences, or any other work yoo choose. tdeska to be easy onto all nv yoo—nay, more, goner; Those who bed beet no me and Who bed' not drawd their pay in fall, by ti losin , time,he %tux jest ez generous with. He bed spent the heft or: his' money at Baratogy and to git his girls theiroSitit for New Orleans, and he hedn't a dollar to.pay em with. "But," sed he, "that shoodent interrupt oar friendly relashene. After the next crop I,proltr--, ably ehel hey enuff to liquidate these little bile. At all evence, whether Ido or not, let wh' peace. Let ns be friends ez before—let every-; thing be pleasant, and lovely, and serene." " The niggers, singler ez it may seem, didn't.nes it. Known en they , did that the Major hedn't any money the unreasonable, wretches instated upon his papist nv em. They swore that they coodent live thro the winter without Guppies, and that money they must hey. "I hevn'tgot it I" remarkt the Major, smiths onto em. "Bell your carriages and horses!" yelled they. "But Mrs. Ruggles and the , Miss • _Ruggles, coodent ride next summer in that event!" re' markt the Major. At tbis pint the unpleasantnis began. The in fooriated niggers woodent listen to , reason. Thar wuz eevral bales nv cotton yet on the place, sad' a score, more orless, nv mules and hotaes. The. cotton they seized; and hitchin up the mules to wagons they proceeded to load it,with a view nv cartin it otf - to the next markit town and Benin it. The Major, his four sons, and perhaps a dozen or twenty neighbors, who happened op portunely to be present arid armed with rowan t 'ems and repetin rifles, determined, unprepared ez they wnz, to resist, and in the melee perhaps a dozen or more tuggers wuz shot; and fatally killed. From this growd the trouble that afflicted this pertikeler neighborhood, and doubdis the cir cumstances are the same everywhere. The niggers hey no regard for law and no de sire to keep within dne bounds. The lawwng ober to em. Thirteen miles from Major Ruggteats place resides a Justin ny the Peace, and theycood hey mood the Major ef he owed em anythin, per vidin they cood git some white man to go their bail for costs. One batch did, this last winter. , The defendant . confessin judgment like a man,eze ention wee ny coursed stayed for nine months and before that time, the plaintiffs heyin all starved to death, the matter wuz peacefully disposed nv. Oh, bed Major Ruggleses Riggers done this! But inetid they attempted to wrest from him the produx uv hispoil, by force!' r know the Ablish inlets ny the North will assert that the niggers wuz justifiable in wat they did, that ef the soil wnz the Major's the labor wuz the niggers, but, that won't do. Law is law, and no nigger Ifez a' rite to appeal to anything else. Ef the law don't happen to ported ern, it's the - fault uv.the law, not nv the Major. Them niggers will starve this winter, or subsist by violatin the sacred injunction, "thou shalt not steel!" Oh,how nitwit better wood it hey bin, bed - they continy,ood ez the Almity intended em, the property ny ;kind ' masters. Bich is the bitter froots of Abllshnisni ! Sick is the result us , A.blistua interareddlin with the system onto which the South: wuz When niggers wuz worth $l,lOO per nigger, they were neither shot nor turned out to starve. They representid too much money. Bat sheL continue these investlgashens. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M., • • (Wick is Postmaster.) A STRANGE STORY. The Son of the Late hrs. Sagottrney Alive—He was Changed in infancy. To the Editor of the N. Y. Sun—Brit: What I now write you may seem to you very strangeand hardly to be belleved,but nevertheless it is strictly true. It, is this: It is a well known fact that the late Mrs Sigourney, of Hartford, Coml., had a son wtio was reported to have been drowned in the East River, New York, in 1857—1 believe that is the year—but late confessions and documents of a dying woman Drove the contrary. The legitimate, son of the late Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney is still living. He is a perfect image of his mother, and. he also possesses hie mother's talent, that of writing poetry and prose. His name is Andrew. The person that was drowned, and was sttp posed to be her eon, was not hers, but had 'been exchanged In infancy for her legitimate child, according to the confessions of a lady who lately died. The confession, with other letters and doc uments, will soon be given to the public through. the press, and they are such that they willstartle the whole community. They are in the posseel siou of a clergyman who is well known. If you wish you can give these pardeulamibt your paper. Mrs. Sigourney's son served in the late war, and returned home a Major.' Hei 'ls now in a town in this State, loved and respected by all who know him, and it ili rtuttored Mat he will receive a lucrative appointment under` the administration of Gen. Grant. These are facts; i and as he is pretty well known in your city, It• may be of interest to many of your readers. You are at liberty tome my name if you see.fit to make this public. Truly yours. .ALLorizo Hawley Late of Hertftrd, Conn. Address, box 90, St. Albano, Vt. NEW JERSEY MATTERS. THE STORM.—Tho storm which prevailed yes terday afternoon and last night was acoompanied by a tremendous wind, which, in the Vicinity of Camden, blow down trees and fences, and caused considerable other damages to property. In the county the wind approached to nearly a hurri cane, and the losses sustained were large. Along^ the coast vessels were compelled• to• seek shelter. in the inlets and harbors, from the northeaster that swept the entire lengtirtof the New Jerser seaboard. CAPTURED AT LiliT.—at last one of the nee., turnal depredators on the chicken coops of far— mers residing in the vicinity of Camden has heem captured, and with him a large number of fowls, which he and a confederate had stolen. Officer , Campbell secured him yesterday. Jost as he was about crossing the river at the Kaighn's Poink ferry, with his booty carefully stowed away lo a carpet-bag. He gave his name as William-Stan ley, was of African descent, and was marched up , to the station-house, where ho acknowledzed , hlB shortcomings, and said the fowls had been ob tained somewhere on the Moorestown turnpike. , He was committed. His accomplice mado•hier escape, although his lot of the plunder weg.tilistai captured. TnE COURTS.—The January term of the Cash den County Courts, Judge Woodhull preehling4 commenced this morning. The Grand Jury were empanneled, and the Judge charged them in' ark able manner, showing the necessity cv,ciatefeli and decided examination into the true merits;4t , such complaint as should be wade neinco titityjk and those matters requiring their peaticular ate tention. He especially urged them xtot to allow personal prejudice or malice' to dictate in the finding of a bill, but to regard; the " lions of their oath with eernotlaus =actions: They then retired to enter upoa the discharge of their duties. Life of Thaddo as. Stevens, Edward McPherson, Clerk of the Home Wash in ton, D. C., Is activels engaged upon the Me and Times •of Thaddeus- Stevens, tor: early publication, and will --he glad to reooll/11 copies of letter's of the 1113009:80i/Orl political toptce from 1828 to I$3 l Z, and allY persona] incidental illustrating may point in his career or any feature of hie charael'er. Original letters, or other doeu meta's, if er:nt to bite, will be returned after am;
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