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FRTn{v 1 » vt?£?£o r ”^’c* t lhe Acad 'my of Music, on
/Hw Fcbnaa 7 13. 1869. Addreeaea by
rmiiuA,} a UUt, “' t '6« r ton «nd otnera. Singing by tho
UUle Wandorere, under the direction of J. E. Gould,
Doors epcn ot balf.paßt & Exerelao* commence at half
gome. 8B l & < ifoSS& t 0 * had “ tlie doof
SilyatHlmgkf llll u Wormitie* trea^d^Apply
*@* F OSPITAL, NOS. 1518 AND 1530
Dlaver“ wi?n tt | , f 0 ? f „ oarB ’ 011 Incesßant flute
semcwhaM Jn»C?“4 pf f ae 'y ord6 ' but haa •»»<! a
" U t3lk •*«»
dobta e nf a tho ° no ? hokilla another la Uabla
“ 01 th ? “ordered man. This enezeats
to eomo one an alteration of an old motto to
“Sweet it is to die for one’s tailor™ *
1 HE COOUE TUIOEDT
Seizure of an American Veum lu the
I'acific—Further Particular)*.
The following letter from Japan contains addl
tlonul particulars of the Coolie mutiuv, a brief
account of which wo published some time ago-
Since writing my last letter I am enabled to
give you a tew Interesting items, among thorn
the mystery, which I will endeavor to elucidate
In reference to tho mutiny ou board the shin
Luvoltl and which but recently arrived at Hako
dndl. Through-the Indefatigable energy of Com
mander Enrl.Kngllsb, of the ,United States Navy
uDd at rresentlu command-of. the Iroquois, tue
lengtU been satis
fi.cioriiy settled. It seems she was engaged
in tho Coolie, trade, and-in October, 18677311
Chinamen were taken on board of the Provi
denza, another Coolie ship, thoa at Macao; ware
carried to Callao, and from that place transferred
thH t mlHd^° l^ > r lioC,e “'? d r f°“» P »hatport about
Use middle of January for gome port on (he
Southern coast of Porn. To better keep the
Coolies under restraint, and to keep them from
mutiny, they were placed In tho main hold of tho
emp, their iood being passed below, dally, to a
Chinese cook, who had been detailed for this
special purpose. Intense dissatisfaction
seemed to pervade amongst these quasi slaves
and on tho morning of tho third day on’t
they rose os masse at a preconcerted signal
givtm by their ringleaders, who seemed to be ->f
the better order of this ranch abused people, and
lu less tlmo than It takes mo to relate the affair
on paper, they had fnll possession of the ship,
though not belore bloody wort had been done
and murder had usurped the place of reason. Tho
mate was cut down at the outset by a pole-axe
in the bands of a brawny coolie, whilst attempt
ing to use a revolver that he held In his hand but
from eomo cause unknown the instrument hang
lire, and being sore pressed by the vil
lains about him ho turned and fled, running
ufi and throwing himself into the sea. Toe
record-mate, mortally wounded, soaghl refuge
lu tho cabin, but others of the rebels jursnlng
aim he jumped through the cabiiTwlndow, and
with wbat remaining strength they still possessed
continued to swim round the vessel In the deape!
ration of despair, trusting to the mercy of the
yelling fiends aboard to be saved. This was not
to be. A boal was lowered, and several China
mtu>Armt<l-wUb axes and knives, went afier
tbemf catling and staboing al them as they
bwarh and pleaded for mercy, until tbu waves
above their poor woanded bodies, and
they sank to rise no more. The rest ot
the crew by this time had retreated to the fore
castle, but after a short siege were overpowered
tied by the hands and feet, and then bound to the
starboard anchor, which was let go shortly after
and. with Us living frelghtofehrleklnghumanliv’
went to the coral bottom of the Pacific By
Streuuous sxcruors on the part of the cook
i.Coofie'i. who appears to have been a ring leader
ol On tmeute, the captain's life was spared, pro
vided he would undertake to navigate
‘ h . e ., coast of China.
Eight Chinamen were killed In the fight
and during the voyage to China five fell
from aloft, and were almoslinsti ntly killed,
when about three months out after the mutiny
they came to an island surrounded by lee, whose
people were drawn In sleds by dogs, and whoso
coverings were furs of wild anlmofi, in all prob
ability an lsland -on the coast of Kamsehatka
Then, during a very severe gaJo, they lost their
only remaining anchor, and tho captain, accom
panied by the Coolie cook, having gone
..shore for the purpose of pur
chasing provisions, having failed to
re imu again, the ship was put before the
wind, and they eventually came lo Welcome Bay
oil the northern coast of Japan. Here they got
.wo Japanese pilots, .who took the vessel Into
Liakodudi, and the ehip, coming into port with
out q*jy colM flying, W&rdmmediately boarded
by tbtsproper aniborliies, ana; ,no papers being
found, she was taken possession of by the Japa
tese. The coolies arc at in prison, and
the matter Btill awaits the tCtinn ot the United
States. The crew were nearly ail Spanish, and
when tbo vessel left Callao tho Captain of th*
Dolores Ugarte awore that she had aboard 9 15 000
iD specie.
iaSOJfrp}
fragedr ln_ Wilmington, Dei.- At-
tempted suicide.
The Wilmington Commercial of Saturday says
Night before last, an affair, almost tragic in its
results, camo off in one of the largest restaurants
of this city. The story, os it comes to ne, is as
follows:
The junior member of one of our most prosper
ous down-town firms had become very much dis
sipated, leading to mach trouble in a business
point of view between him and his partner, and
resulting in misery to the young man’s wife and
children.
On the first of January he reformed and pro
mised his wife not to drink again. His appetite
was stronger than his resolution, hoWever, and
he tell. Recently his dissipation rendered hU
withdrawal from the firm to which ho belonged
necessary, and on the evening of the day of "ihe
dissolution, he wont home, bid his wife good-by,
kissed his children, and wont down town to a
lestauranl, where. In company with a number of
companions, he allied for drinks. Ho ordered
alt, and one of hto friends happened to Dotice
that he poured something from a phial into the
glass, and fearing the liquid might bo poison, he
prevented him from taking it, and also secured
the phial. The latter was found to contain strych-
Lice, and the ale was also strongly impreg
uuitd with this deadly poison. A moment more,
md ihe desperate man would have been beyond
human aid.
His friendß, who had been on the hunt ot him,
bis wife, alarmed at his conduct in bidding her
rocd-bye, having started them,) now with mueh
Mfficulty Irdnctd him to go home, where, we be
lcve, he atill remains.
Bor® Cahtuet Guesses.
A Washington paper contains the following
conjectures as to tho materia] oi Grant’s cabinet:
Lubl evening political circles were very mnch
excited over what seemed lobe wcllauthentlcat-d
rumors among well informed politicians in regard
to the probable complexion of General Grant’s
cabinet. It is said that Chief-Justice Chase will
resign his poeilion and become our Minister lo
England: and that Wm. M. Evarts, the present
distinguished Attorney-General, will ! be
appointed Chief-Justice of the Supremo Court.
That Senator Morion, ol Indiana,
will be mado Secretary of the Treasury;
Hamilton Fish, of Now York, Secretary of War;
John Latfarop Motley, of Massachusetts, Secre
tary ol Stale; Admiral Porter Beerutary of tho
Navy; Senator Nye, of Novada, Secrelarv of,the
Interior; John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania.
rostmaater-General; and William E. Chandler,
Attorney-General. There can no longer be auy
doubt bat what Elihn B. Waahbarne, cl' Illinois,
will be onr Minister to France." The paper adds
mat tho abovo impressions were entertained by
SS™i&W ,nBl rcCßp,iou and
gQDid?to^h^r“ u ,o l ‘ J ’ win favor of
tout thiifhnw. 1 di a“ ns Wllh Enn8 ’ on tlie Kroond
toeiV'halfdu tw“S d arrows Bre “ore deadly In
their bands than firearms. The effective distance
to which an arrow can be thrown is about eighty
yards. An expert warrior, drawing three at n
time, can discharge them so rapidly that he will
have the third orrow la the air hnfnm it,! e,„,
reaches Us destination. At the PhU
massaere eighty-two men and offleere were
s^rby n h l^ a,,ooehonr - Qnd ° ni^ sss
-Some South Carolinlanß wanted to atoil a
social dance to which thoy hod not been Invited
ft? Bbot fiddler in the abdomen, a lady in
tho thigh, and a one-armed man in the shoulder.
—A physician in Lexington, Ky„ haa been sen
tenced to pay a fine of @6OO for dealing iaro.
Having no money,he was sent to the penitentiary
to work.it out at fifty cents a day. > 3
CRIME.
PHILADELPHIA, MOND
TWELVE KSIGHTS; OH,WHAT IS IT)
Wo were lately present at an odd kind or re
beanal.or daylight representation, on the part of
the talented company from tho Arch street
boaide; the same eet of honest gentlemen, that is
10 say, whom Mrs. Drew cajoled for two weeks
into tho belief that she Is a charming little Greok
boy, and that her name la Ceeario. In other
words, that same circle of happy knights who
were Just now lending sach a gleam of wit ind
uraee to Shakespeare’s evergreen play of “Twelfth
Night"
The representation was given in the afternoon.
I 11J u e cents, as well as the Bate, were under the
I direction of a celebrity, no less a man than—than
whom? Why, the Old Man of the Sea, the ori-
I einal Ancient Mariner himself; the sea-scapist
sea-serpent, don’t yon twig?—the'Mer-man’or
I Moran; he who was bom in Somerville Valley at
I tho bottom of the ocean, and who cannot mi'-r nis
I paints with any vehicle bnt cod-liver, by means
I of which he makes oil-color water-color, ove r
acres of breakers. It was he who condesconded
to set the stage, in his own stndio, and to take
charge of the scenery, which he would spell sea-
I nery. Then, coming forward from the cou
lisses, (which were decorated with various views
of the Mediterranean from the coast of Illyria,)
I we hod the gallant company who havo given ns
such pleasure in their evening Twelfth Night
games. There were Sir Toby, acted with such
nnctlon by Mr. Mackay; Bobert Craig, tho only
Andrew Agnecheeh, the grand, abused Don Qnix
otle named Alaivolio, in the stockings of Barton
Hill; and the rest. The elder Bishop conducted
the mnsic, in a fashion we conld wish to have im- j
itated at one or two of onr theatres; that 1s to
say, he planted his npnght person In an orches
tra chair, and maintained, by the space of two
hours, such a rigid silence as we have never
Known to be matched by mortal man; what a les
son for leaders! We cannot enumerate all tho per
formers; we made abont a dozen.
[ The idle of Viola was taken, with a shrinking
modesty, a timid poetry that has seldom been
approached, by Mr. Edward Moran himself. He
dressed the part in gaiters, a close jacket, and a
meerschaum or sea-foam pipe. I
This was the order of the thing. Viola, or I
Moran, suffusing his palette with a green and
jelJow melancholy, placed a chair before his
t asel, and sat there like patience on a monument I
smiling at grief, and contemplating a stretcher I
covered with bare twilled canvass. j
‘‘Whai’e that?” said somebody. j
“A blang, my iotd," said !Wa. I
Moran then proceeded with bis part. His I
dumb-show was Impressive. He took np and ex- I
hlblted to tho company a paint-brush which ap- I
peared to have been violently pinched in a door! I
it had length and breadth; but no thickness. With I
this sharp instrument, as with a butter-knife, he
scooped up a frightinl piece of the yellow part I
uf bis melancholy. I
“What's that,” said somebody again; some- j
body was always asking what's that. I
“That's cadmium,” eaid Viola. j
“Cadmium!” said Malcolio with energy; “the
very tint T want! von shall see it to-night, gen
tlemen; yon shall commend it on my stockings.
I*ll be strange, stont, in cadmium stockings,
even with the swiftness of putting on.”
“Don’t!” said Sir Andrew.
"Pourqucy, my dear knight?” spoke ud
Mackay.
"Ob,” said Craig, simply, “cadmium was the
rock on wnich I split. My last painting was
spoiled with a firmament of cadmium; it hung
over my landscape like flax on a distaff. But go
n, fair artist, with your painting; I pray yon
■ring your hand agaiffHo the buttery bar.” 1
“I am not fair,” said tbe artist; “nor yon
' itber; 'asd be began to sing : 1
“My name was Ned Moran, as I Bailed." !
The brash, by this time, had warmed to its
task. It had worked up and down, and baek
ward and forward,doubling on itselt with a slap
ping felicity, till a kind of horse-shoe of the
cadmium was formed on the npper part of the
canvas; the great laps of paint were Been in relief
upon the surface. Then the deaerate instru
ment went plnmp into a mass oi ultramarine.
This color, planted on the upper corner, began
to sally out upon the yellow with straggling
blue lightnings of a fearful energy. Then the
frantic brush went to the other extreme, took a
tremendous header, and came np covered with
white. The white was landed pat in the centre
or focus of the horse-shoe, and then developed
into the yellow on every side. The aggressive
yellow wouldn't be covered, bnt poured down
and showed fight, like a boarding-school boy
■trnggling for the covers en a winter night.
Upon this white kicked np, leaving terrific rags
and disjecta membra around the scene, and finally
darted up among the blue; then the bine warmed
up, and swarmed down, invading the dazzling
centre of white, and trying to make something
like a black eye there. Then the yellow danced
about in a fnry/ boxing with the blue on one
side, throwing'lass os around the white on an
other, and at last raging round and ronnd the
horizon at large In a kind of war-dance.
“I like to see Moran’s canvas in action,” said
Craig.
“Yes, it’s a lively article when it’s stripped t 0
toe buff,” agreed Mackay, alluding to the pre
dominant color; “but did yon ever see such a
brush ? it was born under the star of a galliard.''
“I see what it is at now; it’s painting a shy,’’
cried Craig, mnch elated with the discovery.
Then he added with conviction, “it has danced np
to heaven in a coranto.”
In fact, by violently squeezing one eye, and
plastering the other with the palm of the hand,
and backing gradually against the stove, any
body could make ont a kind of a sky. It was dory,
transcendental, rnrncrish; it had blue corners, a
white bull's-eye, and a catharlne-wheel of clouds
sputtering over masses of purple and green.
Sir Andrew pointed it ont to his boon-com
panion Sir Toby. Sir Toby contemplated it dubi-
ously. "H yon or I had used those colors,” said
the lorrner, "the critics would say there were as
many Ucb in the sheet as would lie in the bed of
Ware in England.”
By about this time a suspicion may have crept
over the reader of the hind of game onr Arch
friends were playing.
In fact, the virtuous Sir Toby , and the warilko
■S't'r Andrew, and the stately Malvolto, and al|
the others, including tho silent chores of Mr.
Bishop,were simply having ono of their painting
lessons in the privacy of their friend's atelier.
, Craig and Mackay;it seems,began it,some time
since. Then, when Moran had manipulated and- nP;
terly snbdncd them to what they worked in, “like
the dyer's hand," they took the part of tame ele
phant, and worked-nearly oil the company-in,
one by one. !
Moran’s way was logical. For his first ieeSon
OORWHOLE COUNTRY.
Y, FEBRUARY 8, 1869.
be ect bis palette with the .three primary colore,
and painted a picture with them before his class.
Yon think It cannot bo done—go up to the Arch
tome night and just ask the company.
The disciples watched the painting In silence,
“ cv . t ‘f a finger, only keeping up such a
/vetuaae of chaff and wit that it was hard for the
master to attend to his work; he managed, how
i ver, to turn out a surprising picture with bis red
and blue and yellow. The comedians bore It off,
and returned in a week, each with bis copy. At
the second meeting Moran added vermilion to
Ihelndian red, and produced uneffect so much
the richer; and so on, reading the lesson of some
new color at each sitting. Ho did not bother his
acolytes with mnch drawing; for he meant that
hie way should be a royal as well as a logical
one. Each happy student is now able to paint a
landscape as gay and loud as a paroquet.
Fatigued with bis pyrotechnics, the artist threw
up bis part of Viola for a while, and there was
an interlude in the fashion of a walk-round.
Each callow artist now made directly for his copy
and stood in front of it with infinite satisfaction.
The copies were sot aide by side, in an innocent
sort of Exhibition. Barton Hill stretched with
an air of relief as he rose from his chair and
seized his study, a sunset, red, melancholy and
sublime. "This does make some obstruction »'» the
blood," said he, elongating bis Adonis face into a
yawn, “but what of that, if it phase the eye of
one?"
Craig has expanded his powers over an elabo
rate view of river and vale, tnll of light and air
and freedom. There were passages of foliage
that excelled in tone the model by his master.
Mackey bad produced a thickot of foliage, with
every leaf made out and accounted for separately*
He had minced his colors as conscientiously as a
Scotchman minces a haggis. The tints had sunk
in a little, but for intelligence and command of
band the picture evidently bore the palm.
It was pleasant to see how the artists reveled
In the new world they had found. Barton Hill
gazed into the crimson depths of his sunset like
a gentlemanly Columbus approprioting the West
Indies. Mackay, who is dry and singularly
modest la manner, could hardly be brought to
look at his own work, but waa ready to joke with
any one, no matter what might be the allusion,
e ° 1118111 did not bear upon himself or his doings.
This gentleman, whom we know as one of the
most admirable “old min” on the boards, leaves
bis theatrical existence moro completely at a dis
tance, in society, than any one we know. The
lines of his face, and the plodding step of age are
replaced by elasticity; the rich burr in his voice,
now unctuously Important, now trembling
and harsh, gives way to an accent cultivated and
controlled; the expressive and mobile visage Is
made as smooth and quiet and commonDlace as a
Quaker’s, only now and then the tongue of
lightning will whip out from the mask of wood,
whh eome ready and stinging jest. As for Craig',
the most tameless and volatile of embodied
spirits, bis impatience of that slight body which
imprisons bis essence was continually manifested.
Craig roves, with the caprice of a bee in a con
servatory,/rour chair to chair; yet the only use
he makes of one Is to hang his leg over the back*
he sipß the sweets of one cigar after another, and
there is nothing more expressive about those
sharp and sarcastic lips than the way they
wreathe aronnd and erilicise a taper habana.
After a short interval all went to work again!
Moran with his pencil, the rest with their eyes.
The mneh-endnring shovel-shaped .brush came
up, after a mixed brown study among the sienna
and mommy and bnmt-umber—came up the color
or balf-and-hal£ It drove straight at the white
centre of the canvas, and vlclonaly worked about
there. When it came away there was a squarish
silhouette lifted darkly against the fireworks.
Gradually this figure of architecture attracted to
Its base a foundation of rocks, turf, &o. ; for It is
the prerogative of painted castles,as of castles-ln.
the-alr, Is to be built banging, and let the foun
dation, If there Is any, account for itself after
wards. In less time than it takes to deseribe, a
dark, Radcliffe sort of a donjon-keep, approached
by a rude and gloomy canseway of rocks, nodded
into the sky.
The quick eye of Craig detected an hiatus in the
midst of the edifice; an opening of rectangular
rbape, through which you saw the thread of the
canvas. This became for a while the focus of
the jests.
It was generally supposed to be the window
of th e llcket-ofUce.
One venturous spirit suggested the window of
the soul.
“You will understand It in a minute,” said the
artist; “my window is only waiting for the gla
zing.”
Mackay, however, observing, at an opportune
moment, that a squarish rock was tumbling from
the end of the brush into a lonely part of the
margin. Insisted that the whole picture was a
paraphrase of the fire at Caldwell’s, and that a
bit of the cornice had just fallen into the
gntter.
No, no,” said Craig, “that is the ocean, not a
gutter, and tho brown thing Is a rock in the era
lie of the deep.”
This theory gave general satisfaction. The
painting rapidly grew beneath the eye; every
second gave it consistency and meaning; a dark,
aea-iaved promontory, glossy with seaweed,
seemed to support the rained wall of a castle,
which it lifted shield-like against the flaming snn
It was one of Moran’s rapla, melodramatic, nar
rative pieces of effect. What was strange, the
bold black relief of the foreground had a har
monizing effect on the flagrant sky—it tamed it,
threw it back into subjection, and gave it a
breadth and halo It had lacked before.
—lt looks surprisingly mellow now, we ob
served, to the grave, silent and archepiscopa)
Bishop, when the younger men had gone, and the
endden creatioirof the'painter's fancy remained
upon the easel. Tho comedians had van
itold together, without mnch noise, as toe snn
was sinking, as if toe gathering veils of twilight,
in toe remote and lofty studio, were oppressive
to their merry and glancing existence. The talent
that can beat its ganzy wings through toe caprice 8
of “Twelfth Night" ought, yon wonld think, to
shrivel and die in the dusk; It would seem an ex-
istence of either the noon-light or tho footlights.
“It will look mellower through .tho bottom of
this glass,” replied the mnsician. Ho was Ailing
a wineglass with a cloudy white wine.
“This is my own ’68," explained tbo singer. “It
ie from my vineyard on tho Brandywine; it can
build a castio In Spain foster than even our friend
Moran.”
The still, filmy wlno passed from tmdor tho
hard of the mnsician into onr veins and hearts
Twilight was dying in the warm aad,quiet boom
all tapestried with maritime sketches and fancies
In the centre, Instead of a light, tho drcam-castlo
hung against the painted hoavens. The mosses
and crumbling stones seemed real enough, yet
they were the hasty creation ef on artiet’s fancy,
dipping their unreal shadows into a painted
ocean where the blank cloth had been an hour or
two before. The brneh of a sleeve would melt
them Into embryos again.
By a sudden Inspiration, the artist who had
hitherto seemed so anperior in his qaletaelf-com
muning, had come out with a draught of bis pat
beverage to baptize the picture. The glasses
clinked, and the castle was named Otranto.
Then, passing to tne open piano, Bishop gave
with the deepest feeling and purest Intonation.
Moore’s "Songs of the Olden Time."
Ib there anything more touching, more Impres
sive, than a fine tonor at the time when it begins
to age a little,—the time when refinement and
self-possession, rather than weakness, have be
gnn to discipline its energy, and temper its Are ?
The tenor who has been the darling of the stage*
who has divided the bouquets with with tho
soprano, acquires In bis riper years another sor
of empire, and bathes the heart with tears where
he used to command the applauding voices of
the parquet.
The accompaniment bubbled like a fountain
from his soft white fingers. The voice that
traced tho melody of Moore was pare, low,
thrilled with meaning, foil of the essence of song’
Rich aDd snave, it floated over the just-developed
painting, as if it could cement and harmonize
those stlll-liqnid stones and floating banks into
some actuality of poetry and Imagination. It
seemed to give to tho cold edifice of paint some
new breath, to bathe it with the final afflatus,
and lift it from among the accessories of the
studio into the moro precious reality of dreams.
When we see the painting again we will re
port it the effect has been permanent.
innsEiiEiin.
-Kdmnnd Yates’s comedy, Tame Cate, wUI be pro
duced tbiß evening at He Arcs Street Theatre Mr
Yates ts well known to readers as one 0/ the most bio
cesafui and popular novelists of the day. His ventures
In dramatic literature have been few, but Uls ability Is
quite equal to the production of a first rate nlav We
give below a brief synapsis of the plot. We may pre
mise that the phrase “Tame Gats" i» a cant term aD
p ied to people who sponge upon their friends, and
abrre their hospitality by meddling with their affairs
and maklne mischief in their ramifies. English soci
ety has more such people than we have.
Mr Waverham, (Mr. Everlv) a young married man
in bDMue.-s in the city of Lonuon, has, some years be
lt re,come into the possession of a comfortable property
and acbaimmg country residence by the law of next
of kin.his uncle, the legatee of an eccentric old maiden
sunt, having perished m the wilds of Australia Be
ing of a hospitable temper and generous disposition
he hEB attracted around him a set of parasites (tbe
Tame Cats of the play) who, not content with living
ill luxury from hfs bounty, are endeavoring to destroy
Me domestic peace, and for their own benefit tempt
him into ruinous speculations. Through the machtna-
Unlit of Lhese creature* Wavernam la made to belie™
that his wife (Miss Brice) Is unfaithful to him S
that Charles Hampton (Mr James) a flue young fS
low who is in love with his (Waverham’s) ward. Annie
Temple (3 rs. Creese) Is the villain who robbed him of
his happiness and of bis honor. Irritated by losses in
business, principally caused by Mortimer Wodgewood
whem he thinks his friend, and Mb supposed ddmestii
troubles, Waverham upbraids his wife with his ruin
and Ison the point of abandoning her f irever, when
he finds that W edgewood, to whom ne turns for helo
is u villain. He thin discovers that Mr. Twoedle (Mr’
Hemple), sp old gentleman be had been entertaining
fur some time at his nonee, fa his ancle who waa re
f’i Iu da that the ruinous stock enecu
laiiou in which be suppohttd btrurslritivulTcO liarlOc CT ,
prevented by his nnefe s sagacity, and in the end finds
himself rich, beloved by his wife and respected by hla
uncle, who refuses to take back tbe property and onlv
asks in return for a borne for hia old age; while the
sycophants and traitors reap their reward In dismissal
and contempt. Wedgewood (Bartop Hill) is an
lent and vicious young manfwho unites to a handsome*
1 person and a good education* a heart utterly incapable
of any feeling. The other characters in the piece are
Ezra Stead, a returned convict (Mr. Mackey) * Mrs.
ttopplr (Mrs. Tbajor), a “Tamo Cat;” Mrs. Langley
(Mrs. Drew), sister to Mrs Waverham, and guest at
her house; Bubbles (Mr. Craig), a footman, with a
first-rate opinion of himself; and Ellis (Miss Daven
port), a lady’s maid.
The evening's entertainment will conclude with Mr'
Craig’s Larbe BUue. We perceive that Twelfth Xiiht
U announced for a matinee performance on Saturday
andihat Much Ado About A othing U promised Ip the
early future. This looks well for that revival of pop-i*
lar interest in the best class of dramatic literature fir
which the respectable and decent press have striven
to long.
—At the Walnut, this evening, Mr. and Mrs. Baraev
Williams begin an engagement, which wUI, of coarse
be successful. Tbe play for toe ouciv.me night will be
The Fairy Circle; or Con O’Carolan's Dream. This
will be followed by TheCuetcm* of the Country The
Williamses have in rehearsal at the Walnut a play
by John Brougham, entitled The EmiralU Hi, 17. This
cram a bad immense success in New fork, ruuuioi;
one buedred and teventy-seveu nights, R
—Tbe American announces several attractions
among them Gurr, the amphibious man. 1
—The Galton Opera Company will appear at the
Chestnut this evening in ti e operetta “(56 ,r Tomor
row night The Marriage by Lantern*. Ou Wednes
day the Chinese burleeqae Ching-Chme-HL It is ru
mored that Mies Susan Gallon intends to'produce
Statist shortly. We hope it will not be attempted, for
while Mb* Susan would doubtless make arery charm
ing “Marp.o*rite, , ’the members of her company would
be certain to fad in the other parts lamentably ana lu
dicrously. We have had the opera so well snug and
well acted here by first rate arikts, that Mr. White as
•Mephistophelee.” Mr. Whlftin as “Faust,” and Mr.
Bunn as “Valentine,” wou'd be simply unendurable'
Mi?a Gallon must either stick U) burlesque, or organ
ize a new company.
—Mr. James E. Murdoch, the tragedian, will give
tcle't readings from pormiar and classical authors at
ihe Academy of Music this evening, under the arns
l ices cl the Mercantile Library Company.
—Tie second (fraud concert of the Philharmonic
Sucieiy will be given on Saturday evening next, at is*
Academy of Music, Mr. Carl Wollrelin, Mr. Rudolph
Hennlg, and other artists will appear, together with a
monster orchestra under the direction of Prof. VV. Q
Lrletricb. The following programme has been prepared •
Scotch Symphonv (A Minor, op. 68),
Grand Orchestra ... Mendelssohn
Over lure—“ Der Freiscbutz, ’ Grand Or-
chestra . VonWebrr
Concerto—Piano <E Plat Major) Beethoven
Mr. Carl Wolfsehn—Orchestral Accornp nlment
Concerto Violoncello (A Minor) Goitennann
Mr. Rudolph Henuig—Orchestral Accompaniment
Overture—“ Francs Jnges” Berliox
A preliminary public rehearsal will bo given iu Hyr
i iculturul IlalJ, on Friday afiel'noon. at 3j£ o’clock.
Tickets can be procured at the office of tne Society
No. 1103 Chestnut street, and at the principal music
stores.
—The Sentz-Baesier matinee of Saturday was im
mensely crowded, and the orchestral part of the per
loimance was good. The Mozrrt symphony in G
minor was much enjoyed. Messrs Sentz and Ilass
ler, however, are presuming on their popularity and
ihe good nature of therr audience iu lntrodaulng half
taught orill-tauvht slngors and solo-p’ayers at their
concerts; and mnwlihaianding a palpable clariii was
present on Saturday to applund thuro.re dlsaatl-rac
liyn of ibe more Intelligent po-tlou of tUo nudlence
was plainly expressed. Next Satttrdty the Jupiter
• ymphouy is to lie produced, and other great works
are in p-operation for future concerts.
Wednesday afternoon next, nt Horticultural
Ilnll.lheicgulurmnilnooGf Hie dot-mania Orohostru
will bo given with the rawing attractive pro
gramme: 1
Overture “La Streno" Aubor
Frucl!ngs<“wnc.heu (by request) .'..‘.‘.'.e' llach
Weddlug Tour "Wally. A. Kuliiug
(Dedicated to the Ucrmuulu Orchestra, drat time)
Adagio,from Premiere Symphouy Kallhvoda
O'cr l lll e, T,eVul u’Audprre,’’ (by requeat). .IC. lialovy
Nehelhiltlcr Fantuslc, (try request) ..,11. C Lumhyo
Breslau Llegnltzcr Eisonbahu, Galop, (rlrst fee)
B. ililee
—There la a now theatre In San Francisco.
The auditors’ chulrs are made of laurel wood; the
scat Is twenty-threu Inches wido amlrffEavll y
cnshloned, ana the sitter can tilt himself back
waid or forward as ho likes,, by means of a
movable back. Under each seat is a recoptac’o
for a bat, where it 1b thoroughly guarded froqj,
being, snmmanly converted into a spittoon or a
foot-ottoman., , »
F. I. EETHERSTON. Pablislißß
PRICE THREE CENTS.
f AOXB AUD r AWCIBB.
the QdVenr P'OP^™**
trandMlo*’"? WOrfC °“ 0 P °° t,<M *
obBWTCd
WW 1,0 #**■»«*•«*
CC.I ”“ Cao ongh ‘ to 60 “ purr-manenfrac.
an gCt U,6lr baok# op ’« W»U«H»
suppose, tbomewa of comedy* 43 "*»«* ™
—Tates Is a story writer, and Tame /U Mn
alns the snbstance of several tails. <*w con
—Lotto, Mr. F. 8. Chantrau, Joalo Orton and
two versions of Barbe Bleue. are the*
attractions at New Orleans theatres. ° ProMnt
•-With Tame Cats at the Arch Street-w
Hemphill ought to run an opposition and get no
a cat-er-Watu-nut street. “ ,”* 9
Z-J}*** tax In Massachusetts is productive.
»pdea.KCoSnljra .K C0 S nljr L* yields 85,000 more-thS
the damage the dogs do the sheep.
n * 8,1 orchestral ar
wn|ement of Old Aun-sabby at Tame Cats to-
—As an accompaniment to rams Cats to-night
“l&s‘ttooSnofe^‘*? OMr - D ° dWOrUl
i. performance at the Arch to-night
a Mb.ch approprittto lf **• Craig would ffiig
Lancaster Express steals from this paper
a ° arU . clo entitled ‘'Wilkins on Velocipedes!*
without crediting It to the BtrrxßTnr, or giving
the author’s name.
oanse Aston’s being behind la said
° ‘ he necessity of stopping to rub his own
these frosty mornings. The extent of surface to
be gone over consumes a great deal of time.
~? harlea , A , Blor B, ? Bte d and William Young
arc engaged in translating Victor Hugo’s n«S
?n°th« I™^ rde Ji ot the Kln tr>” which wfll appear
AopletoM Uy paper t 0 bo published hy the
-At a medical examination a young aspirant
f 9' a Physician’s diploma was asked, '‘Wen
does mortification ensue ?" “When you propose
and are rejecled, was the reply that greeted the
Amazed questioner. •
i TP??, P r °P°s«d Congressional excursion of
Th 8 oh ‘V t r,° a r d l ° P I9CO next spring.
The object ia to show the vast country watered
by the Ohio and the Mississippi, and the neces
sity for levees—and other improvements.
■“That old Lamartlno, despite his weakness. Is
still popular In Paris, is proved by the fact that
d “ l,n ß 4i e flrat fonr dayB ofter hla return to his
».i n ! PaBB ?' n P ward of fifteen hundred persons
left their cards at his house. * ,
xt “X b S P ro prtetor of a traveling meuagerle In
t v!i :l c , oal d not take enough money to
?1 8 , ““AT 1 , 8 , »ud was obllged to ktll them
merely for the skins. Natural history must surely
be st a discount in those regions. ’ j
—The Moniteur d'Algerie states that on the
morning of the 4th of January, Ali-ben-Kouider,
condemned to death in October last'for having
murdered and eaienjßlx.persona In lesa than*
montb was put to death b/sbootln“lnWpl3a
near Blidah. ..
-No posthumous novel by Eugene Sae has
been discovered. Several little sketches, written
when the afterwards famous novelist was nlne
teep. years of age, were found, and an Uhßbfupn
lons publisher tried to force a sole by giving
th«m an Importance which their merits did not
deserve. •
—Robert Mitchell, the son of an Amorlcan.nnd
for some time post assistant editor of the Paris
Cons/ttulionnel, has been dismissed from the ■ staff
of that paper, in consequence of a scandalous
trunsactlon at the Imperial Club where he and
some of his friends are said to have choatod a
Russian In a game of cards for very high stokes.
Miss Kellogg, it seems, has not a vory hieh
appreciation of Cleveland mnslcal talent. The
Hamdealer says that while the audience was -
liring itself out in an excessive encore. Bhe ex
claimed in the dressing-room: “What shall I sing;
guess I’ll give ’em ’Sweet Home;’ they can’t ap
preciate anything higher.”
--President White, of the Cornell University,
N. 1., is a small man and very yonthfnl in ap
pearance. While riding out the other day, with
a sindent of the University, the cutter broke
<i ,°,' vu v. nlld two P a6 *i D K countrymen came to his
Did. Having put things into some order, one of
tbe men said to bis student, “Let the other boy
bitch np I” meaning the little President.
—“Bqnaw- k lsslng"iB one of the institutions of
New Year s day about Fort Benton. The Indian
und half-breed women go about and insist upon
kissing every one of the opposite sex whom they
pWlbg from tho keen-scooted squaws is
impossible, and the readiest way of getting
through the ceremony Is to take it manfully.
The custom was introduced by the early French
settlers. . '
-The Turkish ladles at Constantinople are
b. coming more and more civilized In their dress.
Although they BtiU wear the unoouth, shapeless
onttr cloak and close white veil when In the
street they have the European dress often under
the cloak, and make the veil of such thin ahd
transparent gauze as to show to the utmost ad
vantage the features they pretend to conceal.
—Ratazzi la getting very Impatient at Victor
Emmanntl's delay in placing him again at the head
of his Cabinet In a conversation which he re
cently had with a French journalist, he boldly
replied to a question regarding the King's policy
on a certain point, “Bab! Hie Majesty has no
policy at all; he cares nothing for politics, and
is more anxious for a smile from the Conntoss
Minaflori (his morganatic wife) than for the
destinies of Italy.” Ratazai, hotvevor,
added immediately: “Roslnl (the Countess
Mioaflori) Is a good woman, though; and I do
not blame the King so much that hu likes her so
well." Ratazzi’e own wife has written a now
novel, entitled “If I were Qneen!” This tltlo has
given riee to a great many witticisms at the ex
pense of that eccentric lady. An illustrated hu
meions paper even publishes an engraving re
presenting Madame Batazzi with a crown on her
Load, and surrounded by a crowd of male odal
itqncs, to ono of wbom she throws her handker
chief. The caricature is headed with tho words.
“It I were Queen!" Madame Batazzi is going
to site the publisher of the paper for this imper
tinent joke.
—The “captlvo missionary," Mr. Stern,a con
verted Jew, who was kept so tong ltt captivity in
Abyssinia, tells the story in a volumo of four
bundled poges. At ono interview Theodore
sboutid to bis people to kill Mr. Stern. “In the
twinkle, of an eye, ho says, “I was stripped, oa
the ground, and insensible. Stunned, uncon
scious and oimoat lifeless, with the blood oozing
out of ecoroa of gashes, I was dragged into the
camp, not as my guards were commanded 'to
bind me in fetters, but 88 they thonght—and I
heard It from their lips—to hnrv me." Tho con
stant mixture of missionary phraseology with ■
ordirrarysecniar terms haa eomortlmea cnrlona
efftc £- vnm the headings of one or the chapter*
ruu in this whet “Mv Baggage Ransacked—
Redeeming tove an Unfailing Comfort-Joseph’s
torebodlngg—-Fidelity of Servants—Thrilling
News—Bright .-Anticipation—Misplaced ConS
dence—Vain Conjectures-Selzure of m? Fn>-
pcrtV—PhdtograhEdo Loro—Brutality of my
Mailers— Crippling Fetters—An ,i Ever-present
Saviour—FrugalDiet."