GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.—NO. 252. THE EVENING BUIiIsETIN; PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING, (Sundays exccptod), HT TBE HEW BBULETIIW BITII/DING. 6 OH Obeitnat Street, PhUndclpbla. ’ ' ' BVTOB ' ’ EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION, v raoraxrroEa. SISSON PEACOCK, OABPEK OOUDEB, .To.. If.U BETHEKBTON, THUS. JWILLIAMnON. FKANGIB Wblil S "The Bmirm 1s served to subscribers to the city at 18 •mb pat soak, payable to tbe carrion, or $8 par annum. WEDDING CAEDB, INVITATIONB FOB PAB W ties, Ac. New styles. MASON A CO.. au2stfj 907 Chestnut etroet. WEDDING INVITATIONS ENGRAVED IN THE Vf I* Newest end- best manner; HJUIB DKEKA,- Bta- Honor and Engraver. UB3 Cbostxut street. febl».-tX MAKKIEO. UOMNELL—KOPLIN -On 8 indny.Jtruary3l.br the Her M. L. Weekly, kr. J G- Homosil of Pittsburgh, and Miss 1 aura Jane KppUn, of Alexandria. ifnntlngden nths. . , uuesc'uoeof the funeral wo«boflren. * OLAFLIN.—In Bonus Italy, &*th nIL. Agnea Ftlsabeth, daughter cf Dos* William CUflin, of Boston, agei 18 jeanu MoOßEPlFLP.—Suddenly «n Wednesday morning. Fob. 5.1680 Infant eon of Charles w. and Bfeanor Moore held. Due notice will be given of the funeral * aTBOAG.—•At New Brunt wick, xJ. on Monday. Fab ruary U Tfcoodore Strong. Lii. D-, to tho 79 lU year of his •*e. WIBLCOX,—At Montme. Pa., on Wednesday evening, Jap; ST, lEB9, B. P. Wllko*, to the 6lflt yaar of hla »ge. BLACK DRESS SILK 6. M SATIN FACED UfiOGRAINd. HEAVIEST f’OP.DfcD SILKS. WIDOWS* SILKS. NEW LOT. BLACK 811. KS WHOLESALE. EYRE & LANDELL* Founh and Arch Btreeta. (FEOIAIi NOTICES. war American Academy of Mauie. JAMES E. MURDOCH WUI Bead, under ibe amplest of Tlie Mercantile Llbrar; Company, SOSMYIVHIM, Felrnary 8, 1869. at 8 o’ckfr. Tickets For Sale at TRUMPLER’A Music Store, No, 928 CHI'iSTNUr ctreet. wuet tteeervpd i.eat* Perqnet Cirrie ►/servetJ Feats UnScony »>t«:xv*d freaV k’*mVy Circle heaerved Sttata ItZ&trp eer FAME INSURANCE COMPANY, 4CB Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18, IDS*. TUa CowpADv, incorporated In 1 €96, and doing a Fire icrurance bmice»B exciuiivcij, to enable it to accept a large amount of buirtnew constantly declined for want of adequate capita!, win. In accordance with a supplement to ita charter, increase Its CAfiMI STOCK mi sl*o,ooo, ITS PESHI AIOUST, To $200,000, U SBIBES OF FiFIT BOLLIBIEICB, at id tor which bubvcriplioß Book.-? arc now open at thla •dice. By order of the Board of Directors. «lUBLf» BICUiBDSON, PEES ID ENT. WILL1&B H.BIUWS, VICE PBEBIDENT. WILUAHN I. BUSCIUBD, SECRETARY. jaSJtfrpi 1 o RAILROAD CONTRACTORS proposal* will bo received at IMACCH CHUNKS Pal, until February tbc 17th. 18£9, for the ORADIATION and HABONHY of the NKSQUEUONINO VALLEY BAIL HOAD, including the approaches of NESQtIEUONING Tl/NNEL. Specifications and Information as to the wsrk in detail may be obtained on application at the Engineer's Office, Mauch Chunk. J. B. HOOBHEiD f Pfctldeot Jal4 tfe!7rp fry ONE GOVERNMENT FOB TilE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT. a LKtm/BK on td* anove btriWßnT will be delivered by ihe - HON. Gfr-OROE COKNELL. AT CONCERT HALL, On FBIDA* EVi NINO, Feb. 6, at a o'clock. Alteration is respectfully called to the following CORSESPONDENCE,, iloa. Gkouqf. Conneli- State Senator- J)*ar Sir: The undersigned taavo beard that yon have recently delivered at Bile and other Western tithe a lee ure on *MNE GOVERNMENT FOR J HE NORTH AMERICAN CON- TiN’ENIV' and ***e desire to have the pleasure of listen* ink to it in Philadelphia. Jt you have no objtctiooe. please name the time it will suit you* public duties to repeat this lecture to the citi zens of this city - Very respectfully yours, C, H. Clark. William Welsh, DanielM. Fox, William B. Thomas, Jay Cooke. Richard Vgux, william W. Harding. EHK. Price. Henry M. Phillips, James A. Claghorn, N. B Browne, Then. Cuylef. A. J. DroreL John RwdtneriU. Morton McMichael, John Fallon, Charles EL Warburion, l>. H. Cummins, Caleb Cope, Lewis Wain Smith, Robert M. Foust, Alfred R Porter. H. Harper Jefft lee, Henry Hamm. P. B. Mingle, Vincent L.'Bradford. &RNATX CiIAAfDKB, BaHBI wtn—l banking you fcr tbe i tti.tion of my tellon-cltlzocfl which 1 regard act tho text i ?hal! bo bappy to comply wi EJNEMKQ N IXT, Feb. 6, at *ully your*, lo Meters, C. H. Clark, J Otheto. TICJ&KTfI TO THE LECI OUT CH AUGE. AT THE H, Jgy- CONU E H T HALL. MIBB JONEB'S WEODINO-No Cards, ON THURSDAY EVENING, February 4. HH, DE VOHDOVA, Ths popular and bumoiouß lecturer, will give Three of his most attractive Lectures in this city at UONOEKr ll ALL. as fcillov s: ON THUUHiAAY Feb. 4, ddino _ No * ON THURSDAY EVENING, Feb. 11. GRUNDY. ’ ON THURBDAY EVENING, Feb.lB. ' . , ... THE Ml’RAT’jra AT SARATOGA. .. Admission (with Kesereed Seat) 50 cents. T icbetetor the course (Reserved).'. rrtl 50. Toheohtainsd at GttlT.U’A 922 GIJKBTNUT Street Alsu at the door on the evenings of the Lectures. Deers open at 7. Lecture at 8. - fel tfrp ELECTRICAL INSTITUTE. afS> i 1830 WALNUT STREET. PmLAisKLPmA, February 35,1861. A cities of Ladles and Geutlsmeu is now forming at Dr, S.VV. liEi KWITII'S. 1221) Walnut strsol, Fhilrdolphla, for Instruction In the uFe of Electricity fot the treatlusut of Ctironfc Disesseß.to which all desirfog th becoming st’.i dente, both of the medical college* aud others,are invited. All students joining the Cla u s for February Bth, will bo admitted to the Operating Rooms for practical Instruc tion. Tenrts.arrengcd on application. ' 1 . . Dr. S. VV. HEREWITH, JTeWtrpJ ' 1220 Waluut street. U®»\Vl|LLB OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL. "7r RACK ABOVKEIGHTEENTU STREET. Open daily at 11 A. M„ for treatment ol diseases of tho eye. . Twr,nXI S I TING MANAGERS. au?, i i;PiY. F ift. M ..D - 1429 W .lnntetreot. O Nor til Tuntir strertt. ELMOIiL C. HI MR. M. D M 1534 GreenvStreoL _ ATTENDING SURGEON, rrps Dr. Tnos, Goo. Morton. 1421 Cbestuut shoot, jrlirs aif. fIXIJ OtmUlUfy pmkxxtl .75 cepbi. .76 cent* ,*6 c**ut«. .60 cents. isiiubo. Fob. 3, 1869 llentto epporlunitT of, culling the a'- i of Philadelphia to a HUbjoct great question of the dcy.f ith your request on FRIDAY Concert 11 all- Very respect. GEORGE Ct) ajNELL, lay Cooke, Mayor For. aud J URE CAN BE HAI) WITH IALL. , feU-ftrp. SPECIAL NOTICES. ■Cg- THE GOLD COUPONS OF TUB USH)** Pacific Railway Company, Eastern DlvMon, due February 1» IB&, will be paid on prosentatijn. on and afUrth*t date at the NATIONAL B INK OF COMHEBCE, : ja£9-f.m,w StipS Near York. MOh PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPjEDIO HOrtPiTAL No. 15 Booth Ninth e troot ~€Lub foo t, Bip and Bj/inai PiMoses. and Bodily IM/ormities treated Apply dally at 12 o’clock. pofrSnunfr May HOWARD HOfIPITAL. HQft. 1618 AND IftO wmr Lombard street, DJsponsary Depertmant.— Vfodl. cal treatment and medicine famished fenUuitooalr to theuw. Public BalMingg, To the Editor of the Evtnhuj Bulletin. — Dear Bih: The central part* of tbo city, viz : those lying between Third and. Ninth and Walnut and Qrcaa streets, are not fairly treated'by the government of the city: This portion pays a very heavy tax ation, greatly larger than the dlstricta onteldo of it, and its reasonable claims are for the moat part ignored. An appropriation of $4 000,000 has been made to boy ahd adorn a large park In the northern and western ecctions. In tbo western section, expensive.bridges have been bnlll and expensive grading done. At the eontb, the city bos pur chased ground at largo expense and presaated it to the general government for a purpose that will greatly benefit tbo soothem end of the city. On ibe east, Dolaware avenue boa been widened, also at great expense, - For the central portion nothing has been done. Finally, itlsfonnd that new municipal buildings need to be erected,and as this improvement natar nlly bi longs to the central section, it is agreed to place it there, after a thorough examination of the needs of the case. Hardly is this done, than by some hocus-pocus Common Council twists round and attempta toetnltiiy its own voice by a chsDge of site. Thus is thorongbly wrong. Let each section have wbatitis legitimately entitled to, bat let not one attempt to rob nno her. Certainly, the central section, paviog the largest taxes of all. would be most nnjttslly treated by having the means of doing a part of its own legitimate bnri otes violently removed to benefit some other m ctioo, especially when that removal will be the means of depriving a large nnmbcrof oar citizens of those reasonable conveniences for transecting their bnsimss with the city offices i bat they have always hitherto enjoyed. IsDEI-P.XOESCE. 7« ;!-r Editor of the Bulletin Dkab Sib: The question that Is now before the public is whether a compact clique can force through a measure generally obnoxioue—can shift the site for the new buildings from Independence Square, where they should he, to Penn Square, where they rbould not The writer of these Hues has watched the whole movement for ten years pa3L and he does not hesitate to say that worse than questionable wt one have been need at varioos times to bring ■ t out the removal. Bnt Select Connell has stood like a rock and has, over and over again, resisted I t u fluenecs that have been bronght to bear < pon iL That it will continue to do so be does i.ol question, and it will deserve and receive the thanks of the community for its firmness. It is high time that in this city the honest and right-minded part of the community should con it ol the municipal government uniformly, if we do Dot wish to fall into the same slough of cor ruption as New York. The writer sees with so licitude how resolute!v the corruptionists work 'o get control. New York sets a bvj example. Success there stimulates effort here. But it U -till time. If our citizens and tax-payers will ob serve and act V index. raon new ioah. New Youii, Feb. X—Tbo great fashionable evtnlof the season—the annual Charily Bill— took place last evening at the Academy of Music, and was attended by a large and brilliant com pany. The Jenkinses of the morning papers iilve ibe canits and descritx the dresses of many of ibe ladles. The most important fact staled is that the net profits to the charity] fund will be about 615,00- Booth a new theatre is to be opened this even ini'with Romeo and Juliet. At Wailack’s Much Ado A twut Nothing Is having a fine run. A sea i-on of Italian opera 1b promised at the Academy. Offenbach still reigns at the French Theatre and at ‘ the Grand Optra,” as Mr. James Fisk, Jr., has christtni-d Pike’sopera house rince he became tis owner. Brougham's pretty little theatre, ad joining the Fifth Avenue Hotel, is doing well, as are the dt zt-n or more of other places of amuse ment. The average nightly attendance at all of ihise Is estimated at from ‘Jo,OOO to 80,000 per sons. The “butcher-cart thief,” FMward Francis, arrtßted on Monday night, while making a suspi cious rtconnolsaance of the jewelry store of Mr. Squire, No. 182 Bowery, has been recogoized as Gas Shaw, the murderer of Short ff Oreutt, of Kalamazoo county, Mich. The murder was per peliatrd on the night of the Sd of December, 1867, while the Sheriff was attempting to prevent Bbaw’a escape from jail. Mr William Cullen Bryant lectured last night at the Historical Society, before a large audlenc', upon the “ Life aud Writings ot Filz Greene Hal tck.” He received repeated applause, and the hearty tbat ks oi the audience were tendered to the lecturer at lie close. The Grand Jury of Hudson county, N J.. have found irue bills against three Justices of the Peuce lor malfeasance in office and vurtous other ffences. Yesterday the distilleries of Joseph Black, In West Forty-seventh street, and A. B. K&tfera aud A” Freundlich, in Thirty-seventh streot near IhiNlnth avenue, were seized by officers of ihv Internal Revenue Department on suspicion that frauds on the government were being perpe trated, A fire occurred in the Roman Catholic Cathe dral yesterday, but wae quickly extinguished. In the inquest on the body of Phoebe Lvon, a colored woman, who died mysteriously in the basement of Shiloh charch a few weeks ago, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict of death by peritonitis; but whether superinduced through violent means or not Is unknown.\ The Board of Health Is censured for a lax system of granting penults for burial. 'A coroner's jury In Brooklyn yesterday. In the ease of John Hnrley.a laborer, who was killed by t behoving in of an embankment at which he was worbing.found a verdict of consnro against Died rlch Siemunn, the foreman, for not remaining at the place to watch the bank. Siemann was ar rested and locked up. The Pacific Railroad ease, came up again before, Jin t ice Dowling, at the Tombs yesterday, the four defendants bring present. Considera ble evidence for the prosecution was taken and the prise acre again remanded, bull being re fused. ln the United States Court yesterday, before Judge Benedict, counsel presented special pleas |)tt the case of the United States vs. Watson A' xCrnry, distillers, charged with illicit removal ol TRrits from a distillery, and argued them at great length, Tho Court overruled the pleas and directed the jury to bring in a verdict lor’ the gov ernment.! ' ■ j In the;Conrt of Common Pleas y osterday Jndgo Barrett, hv decision, confirmed the referee's r - port lfiNtho Stuyvesant divorce case, that the changes (tgsluet iho defendant, Mrs. Stuyvesant, were not prtHtmi. In the Court of Sessions yosterday, .lames Wilton, a young man of twenty-flVo, was .c-onvfcicd ot an aggravated .assault on tho person of Mary Carr, and sentenced to seven years and eixunioutbs in the Btute Prison. —Senator Morton, of Indiana, estimated tho stock of gold In the United States at $572,000,- €OO, with perhaps deductions enough to reduce It to $400,000,000. Huut's McrckanU' Magazine, on the contrary, fixes the amount ut only $160,- 0(0,000. The “facts” of finance aro as various as the fancies. - PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY* FEBRUARY 3, 1869. rROO BliV JEBSEY. tCorrwpondence ef the Phila. Evening Bnlietin.] TUB LEGISLATURE. Trenton, Feb. 2.—Senate met at 10 A. M. Several bills were introduced; among others, one for laying out a park In Paterson City. A sup plement to revise and amend the charter of New Brunswick. Tho following bills were passed: one for the relief of creditors against absconding, and absent debtors; an act to enable the Lodges of Freo and Accepted Masons to take, hold, and convey real and personal property; an act to in corporate tbo Stockton Hotel and Improvement Company of Cape May. As the persons compos ing the body corporate of this company are mostly Philodelpblans, it will not be amiss to give tome of the specifications contained in this till. It gives the company power to purchase, sell, ° r dispose of as they see lit,any real estate in the county of Cape May, and to erect hotels and other bnliaicga and improvements thereon. It giyts tbim power to raise by Bnbscriptidn a capi tal stock oi *125,000, which shall be divided into shares of *5O each, with power lo increase iheir capital stock to *500,000. The Senate then went into executive session,-and soonafter adjourned. House.—Several petitions were presented re questing the redaction of transit duties on mer chandise. Bills introduced—An act relative to transit da lles; an-act to incorporate tho Perth Amboy and EllZbbGjjhß. R- Co. Bills passed— An act to incorporate the People’s Marine and Life Insnrance Company of Newark; an act to change the corporate name of tho R. C. Church of New Brunswick; an act to enable husband and wife to testify for or against each other; an act to incorporate the Tuckorton and Atlantic R. R. Co. Several other unimportant hills were also passed, after which tho House ad journed. TRIAL OF WILLIAM SMITH. William Smith was tried to-day in the Mercer County Court, for manslaughter, in causing the death of a child named Anna Rice, on New Yeai’seve. The parties are colored, and reside n Trenton. It appears from the evidence that Smith came in the faonse, where mother and child lived, created a disturbance and acted in a very disorderly manner, whereupon the mother took tbo child in her arms and went to the house of Ivdward Thompson ; Smith followed, and a fight commenced there; the mother again attempted .o escape with her child, bnt in ascending the "aecment steps she was struck by Smith and Knocked do»n, the child's bead striking one oi be stono steps with such violence that it died from the effect In three days after. The jury ren dered a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. FKOJI DELAWARE, (CorrefljoDdence of the Phllada. Evening Balletic.] Hover, Del., Pcb. 2d, 1869.—The volcano still i-lecpe, but is ready at any moment to be aroused nto action. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad are still masters of the situ! . tioo. Thtir fiery steeds still alarm the denizens ol the low lands and marshes from the Brandy wine lo the-Chesapeake, in spite of the gathered v, ngeance and muttering threats or a Legislature > iiltng buinot daring to molest the formidable monster which holds the little Slate of Delaware 'u Its iron grasp. The threatened revocation of ue charter causes no uneasiness on the part of the i otiipany. Tear up the railß,say some.' I wonder what the stockholders will take for their bouds? ray others opposed to the road. Counter to these (itas comes the response: What will your State Kinds be worth, which are now selling for nlnoty ■trite on tho dollar? Wh it will yonr land be worth, which sold for five dollars per acre before Hie railroad was built, and which now sells for a undrtd dollars per acre? This is a potent argu mtei, and one which outweighs ail that can be aid against the railroad. Delawareans have too j-uch at slake to attempt to revoke the charter 't mis road. The injury thereby inflicted upon |he company wonld result in a two-fold Injury io ibe State; this fact is well known to manv who would be willing to strike the blow, bat feariog ibe recoil, dare not Meanwhile the direct tax bill “drags its slow length along” in the Committee of Ways and .Means. Averse as have been the people of Dela *arc to the payment of direct taxes, no bill to be 11 resented will be likely to give general satisiac lOE. Before the breaking ont of the Southern rebel lion this .little Stale was clour of debt; but daring ihe war. when the general Government wanted men and money with which to carry on the war •ad support tho national credit, Delaware, with out thought of the fntnre consequences of snch i policy, passed a law granting to every drafted man two hundred dollars, to .assist him in paying i.is commutation of three hundred dollars; but sot one cent to be given to the'man who had the” courage to go forth and defehd -the honor of his country’s flag. This policy has plunged oar State luto a debt of over a million of dollars, under the weight of which she is now groaning, and tor *, hich she is no w to reap the reward of sympathy with those who tried to break nponrgovemment. Some attempt will be made to improve the school law of the State by providing lor a State 7upi rin undent, but the crippled financial eondF . ion ot the State forbids any radical change in tho (locational interests of the State. The whipping-post and pillory stlU lifts Itsfor (tiduble head in the jail-yards of our State, and no t monstrance has yet been offered against the aw, which, more than all others, degrades Dela ware in the eyes ol her sister States- A Wife Ascertains (tie Cate of Hor Rol Bcrhathoffer, *450. No. 162, Eecosura, *230. Nq, 166, Fichel, *250. No'. 166, Kollltz, *326. No. 169, Schoenfeid, *315. No. 177, Milne Ramsey, *146. A landscape by Post, put up in place of the ‘‘Dover Clifie” of Kuwosseg pere, brought *5BO No. 71, by Castan, for which no sufficient bid could be obtained on Monday, bronght $3OO No. 63, by Do Lobbe, @2OO, No. 68, by Tous saint, *lBO. Tbe Clastic Models at Hie Academy of sciences. At an ordinary meeting of the Academy of Natural Science?, held last evening, Dr. Loiuer cier, on the introduction of Professor Leidy, made an elaborate demonstration of the Gorilla, from the clastic model of the animal by Profeesor Auzoux, of Paris. Oar Academy, though possessing a fine Gorilla skeleton, has never had the opportanity of dissecting a speci men, and the lecturer's explanations were there fore listened to with attention by the anatomists present. Tbe Gorilla possesses thirteen pairs of ribs; Dr. Anzoux has even found in two skeletons, both female, fourtetn pairs, but the cases may be exceptional. Many of tho gorilla's muscles, besides their eccentric volume, show prolongations and extra points of attach ment in addition to the human forms, and there Is one more muscle than In man, a short one in tte neck. This may have an effect in the vocal organization of the animal, which ie extraordi narily developed, including the air-pouch or ''bug-pipe ,> attached to tho shoulder which allies ibe gorilla with tho howling monkeys. To enrich bis demonstration, Dr. Lemcrcicr constantly re ferred to other Clastic Preparations, which were produced, usiEg the magnified models of the hand, human laryDx, &c., to illustrate his remarks on comparative physiology, and tbe head of. the lion, the human brain, the idiot's brain, young gorilla, Ac., in a running demonstration ot craniology. It was curious to observe that tho aavam present were one and all deceived by the Mi del of the gorilla's skeleton, in a free ex amination made beforo tbe meeting was called to order. Although permitted the qiosest tests, of sight and touch as well, the learned members were in about every instance convinced that this artlßtic preparation could oof possibly be a coun terfeit. Some thought that the skeleton had bien brought down from the museum up-stairs, others that the mounttd bones formed a part of ihe Dr s. equipage. Dr. Lemereler's remarks concluded with a spirited refutation of tbe theory of Darwin; this, in a echolurly circle that may be colled a fpcas or nacleas of the Darwin persuasion, was bold and not without naivete. The Dr.’s argument was. that the brain of tho wild beast develops in infancy, leaving no scope for progression; while the human brain is prepared tn ovt> for some thirty years of expansion. Remove from the human race of to-day all its attainments in civili zation, said he, and the babe of this generation contains in its cervical structure tho apparatus to organize a progress fully as brilliant as the past. Tbe whole animal kingdom, on the con-' irary, develops its intellectual caltore soon after birth. Us future growth being external and material. This difference the Doctor considered fundamental. A vote of thanks was then unanimously passed by the Boclety. Dr. Lemercier, having concluded his public and private engagements Id Philadelphia, is on theeve ul departing, followed by the good wishes of all v 1 ho are Interested in the refinement of systums ■ I popular Instruction. He leaves to-morrow for Buitlmore and Washington, bat will return north in March, having accepted a lecture engagement t.efore the ladies of Vassar College. ATHAKIUKHk At the. Arch, this evening, Twelfth Sight will be repeated. It continues to attract large au diences. —The Galtons appear at the Chestnut this evening in Offenbach's La Rose de St. Fleur and I.ischen and Fritschen. —At the Walnut, this evening, After Dark will bo presented, Ur. J. E. McDonough appearing as “Old Tom:" to commence with the taugnable tarce ot The Swiss Swains. —Mr. J. Holmes Qiover will appear at the Theatre Comique in bis sensational drama en titled The Way of the Wicked. —The American announces a miscellaneous perfoimanco this evening. —Mr. De Cordova, the well-known lectarer, will appear at Concert Hall to-morrow evening and discourse on “Miss Jones's Wedding.” —Mozart’s Twelfth Mass will be sung at the Academy of Mnslc to morrow evening by the Handel and Haydn Society. —On Monday evening next Mr. James E Mur doch will read at the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Mercantile Library. —Madame Josephine Scbimpf will give a grand vocal concert at Concert Hall, this evening, as sisted by some first-class talent. Tickets to be had at Trumpler'e, Gould's, and at Boner’s. —Madison Obroy will perform at the Assembly Buildings, this evening, on his wonderful musical recks, aDd that other wonderiul piece with the bard name. —Mr. Carl Wolfsohn's fourth matinfe, in the toyer of the Academy of Music, yesterday alter- Doon, was, In most respects, the most successful of the series. The room was crowded, the audi ence being very considerably larger than. upon any former occasion, and apparently mare an rapport with the musicians. The performance was unexceptionally excellent. There was some cariosity' to hear Mr. Wot. Candidus, the tenor, who brought with him a considerable reputation, l and whoso merits were declared to be very un usually great. Wc are. glad to be able to say that be fulfilled the highest expectation. Mr. Candi das possesses a heroic tenor voice of great power and clearness, and ot large compass. He, sings to high 0 with facility, and he is partlehlarly strong with his lower nolee. His last pleco, “lm Wald,' 1 by Franz, was warmly encored, ua It well deserved to be. It was given with very re markable expression. Thu instrumentalists ol course played well. Mr. Hon'nlg gave, upon the violoncello, two exquisite compositions by Wolf ' sohn. They were played with much feeling, ami were heartily applauded. We hope these melo dies will have words set to (hem, and bo given to the public. Mr. Woifsobu played Mendelssohn's Variations Sericuses in bis best manner, and thai is the highest praise that we can bestow upon the performance. Nothing was left to bo desired. Mr. Wolfsohn Infused luto the composition all tbeeplrU and tenderness which belong fo them. The trio of Schubert was admirably performed. Mr. Colonne played a ballad.by Vluuxtemps with his accustomed elegance «ud finish.. The next matinee of this' delightful series will be given ou the Oth of March, when it new trio of Schumann’s will be the attraction. —From twenty to thirty persons, no matter what the weather, still bathe every morning la the Serpentine In Hyde Park. f. i.: PRICE THREE CO M. FACTS 4VO VaSCSE*. —The Abyssinian expedition coat JS.SffiKIW, —London baa 206 divorce eases on tho docket. ' but congratulates itself that Chicago Isworee, poortat farmer.tn the land, if unable to, ieta bis calves, can at ways graze bis shln& ,hZ;Tsl oroblnBhe9 Uko little girls? Bocatu» they become women. ■ h ®"® ao ®®skilled operator- otji», velocipedo are matched for a race In Pittsburgh. —‘-SbakeeMare’s *Bho Stoops to Conquer.' Richmond (lod.) Palladium, ■ • —The editor of Once a Week speaks' of “Ossa* watomie Brown” os a colored abolitionist. ■ -< • —The Piris correspondent of the London Sidr dta^ftbobeart! ; •bo guards. >,s —A pleasant youth In Liverpool mired Wi family W tb ® rabbil »tew, and poisoned! hi» * —A printer puts a C for an H,and makesa- re-. ulsy^ omoUTe went -Thegravoof the Jerasalaui. Kirchoff, at Berlin, is entirely neglected and over grown with weeds. —lt is said that on the maps used by the Hla- i doos Africa is depicted as a small- island.' and 1 America is made one of its chief towns. uT ' —Besides the water supply: from Lake Hichl gan, Chicago has an artesian well throwing up 200,000 gallons of water a day when the lake dries op. —An Australian horse recently ran ten mlios la. twenty-three minutes /and thirty-five seooads. said to be tho fastest time on record for that dis tance. —The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a reso lution -‘to promote good morals by prohibiting" the chewing of tobacco in the Assembly Cham ber.” . ' —ln St. Louis a dressmaker has sued an aristo cratic customer for @75 for making a dress. Tito defence is that it did not “bend" to the amount ordered. —lt is said that failing health will prevent Mr,. Alexander H. Stephens from undertaking the duties of bis profeeaqyehlp in the University, of Georgia. ' , —When the Freedman’s Bnreau waS discon tinued at Alexandria, Vo., it had fifty cofilos on band, which were kindly tamed over to the Mayor of the town. —M. Panl Hnot, a well-known Freneh land scape-painter,(lately died snddenly wbiloat work: at his easel on a picture for the forthcoming ex hibition. —A poetical contributor sendsns aprodncilou, and adds: Did burns ever rite any thing like this ?” According to the best of our knowledge and ability, he did not Zanesville Signal. —Prentice says Senator Chandler, of Michigan, * isn't like the angel that sometimes went down-, into tho pool of Bethcsda. Ho never “troubles 1 the water." \ . - The London East-end theatres are reducing ‘ their rates of admission to the mlnlnum. Tho- City of London provides a holiday pantomime, ; with full harlequinade, for one peony per head. —An impecunious scoundrel, in Bloomington, 111., recently broke to pieces the corner-stone of ■ a church for the purpose ot abstracting.!wo dol lars in small change deposited there. —Quails are fast disappearing from.tho prai ries. even as far west as Kansas. Hportamea call for a law against catching these birds with ’ nets. ;>. —Punch inscribes this conundrum to Dr.Poaey: Why is it probable that a pariah clerk Is alwavs offending bis clergymen during the week? Be cause the congicgation invariably hear him,on Sunday making amends to him. —A beautiful crypt has. been discovered near the cathedral In Gran, Hungary, and Is to bo fully restored:. Eight granite columns, each with a ptcullar capital, support the roof. The date assign ed to It is the twelfth century. —Newman, the silk weaver of San Josd,-ln-. tends to mannfacture wholly of California nulo rial, a splendid silk flag, to bo presented to. hU> State, to wave over the new Capitol at: thpncnEfU , session of the Legislature. - . j —The mother of Baron Hauasman died, about., a fortnight ago in Paris. The funeral took plane', from a Protestant chnrch,which was fully draped outside, and more than one hundred private calr riagea followed the bier. —There is a carious legend of the origin of (tie •' Gregorian Chants, which intorms that us they wtXW-' invented in order to prolong tho sorviae, bv Pape-: Gregory 1.. on his being condemned, toaufl&r,: stomach-ache whenever he was not saying mass- ; —A play-bill for the first production,of “Daau, Giovanni:” in Lelpsic was lately sold, it com-r , mt nccd. “To-eight will be given Herru Capell- ' uiileter Mozart’s fine Slngeplel, ‘The Bake’s - Doom, or the Licentious Don Juan.’” —A great illumination lately took plDce lni Jerusalem, on the occasion of an edict of the Sul" lan liberating tbe Holy City forovor from military > service, and irom all payments of taxes- cor meted with the same. . - ', —Has tbe singular fact been remajtatithfttall ; operas have exactly the aame nambbr of pieces, fur they all have—a score? A thoughtful obser ver ib also puzzled by finding that fi>r a bum lesque to be completely eucceßsful it must have * breakdown Punch. » ' —San Francisco’s latest invention la the way ol a deadly weapon is a two-edged dirk, with the bandle at right angles with the blade, like a. chop-- ping knife. The blow is delivered straight from the shoulder, and goes slean through a.man tho* first time. —The Nation makes rather a good: point, when* It says that “the reason why the whlsky rlag is., so powerful among us is, that they have applied);' brains to the business of stealing and swindling,, and good people bavo opposed to themnothiag but rhetoric. —One of the Paris post- offices ordinarily re" ■ ccives about twenty thousand letters cveryove-' mag between five and six o’clock. On, the, last,.; evening of the old year this number increased, u ntold, the post-office being used to dlsUibuto ‘ visaing cards " Three million card* were dis tributed by the Fiench post-office on lust New - fear’s day. —Here is a chapter of accidents that befell One* man in lowa. He first fell into a well. After ho bud been drawn up about thirty feet tho ropo> biokc and let him down.again. A new nopo was* , procured and ho had just begun to ascend a. , second time when the reUdlaes rigging gave way and fell on his head. Ho Is now In the hands of eurgeocs. , ...1 —Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa., wllhltttha paßt few days has become terribly excited oven A i, port that a young uian named Felton Inherits by a grandfather’s will the greater portion of Cambria. There Is a tremulous overhauling ®t ; dieda in eouscquenco of the rumor, and a fit > j. for the legal profession ol thatpluco lmy bo pretented. , - f . —A monster wild cat, which long had been the . terror of Huntsville, Conn,, was recently oaqgbt ill a steel trap, and all ihe able-bodied.moo gath-, end together, and. armed cap qpte,,proceeded to'’ seduce him Into an old menagerie cago, HU first leap as they approached carried tum twouly icet into tho c igc, trap and- all, where bo now awaits the touting of eomo. Barmun. Tito Bros ture measures eight feet from nose tip to tall tip. v —Ban Francisco can claim to huvo tho greviest variety of. religous ; worship of' any .city In the land-. Not only has it a Citiluuae temple, but a Greek church began Its publlo eervioe* there ou the lust Thursday in August. There are about ono thousand members of this church lu Ojllfsr uia, emigrants frond Russia. Thoir nuinberWiU doubtless bo Increased from Alaska, when) tbs Greek religion prevails. / r. 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