AIIT ITEMS._ decoration Damn at Paris is being pushed The eastern chapel, that of Sault . 3 ' l^ c J , th a ; hind the choir, has been ornamentedwUhHi large composition by Maillot,rep oßenting. the apotheosis and translation to heave painters ***.** what “SfEl, eays . was an intimate friend of Saint JJ® patroness of the Hive Gauche of the Seine. This partiality continued after death, and made havoc when the relics ot the saints used to be carried in parade through Paris. It the processions crossed each other, it required the efforts of twelve stout porters t| drag away Saint Marcel ana prevent the commission of imprudences.— Le National. ' The elegant landscapist Corot is preparing for the salon of the coming Spring a picture which will take its place among his most re markable works. The history of thiß landscape is curiouß enough to be narrated; be has found his point of view on hiß own property, where he has lived for more than fifty years, and which descended to him from his father. [We sup pose the published address of the painter. No. r,B rue Paradis-Poissonifire, Paris, is referred to.] But why has he waited fifty years to find a Paradise, in his own garden? Well, a lucky chance created it for him. The gar dener, in improving the little property—fell ing certain trees here, suppressing a wall there, and suddenly developing a vista, acci-, dentally created’for the painter his charming model. Corot Bet himself to copy it with juvenile’energy, notwithstanding his seventy winters. He has placed in the scene a female reading -figure of exquisite attitude and ex pression.—The Figaro owes these details to an artistic visitor who has emerged from the etndioenchanted with what he has seen. Theatrical Decoration. There is no reason why a theatrical stage, set for a repre sentation, should not be a work of high art. Especially in this day of morbid development of landscape painting, the scenes should be expressions of the most advanced pay sage of the time. This principle is advancing prominently in Paris. When the stage is set with d Breton village for the play of Le Lion Amoureux,Vaa picture out of which the beau tiful Brqhan advances alone to the foreground, in her grief and weariness, is a group of ar chitectural shapeß, and lights, and shades which Ganaletti could never have exceeded- The last spectacle at the Gaiete, Theodoras, is the most magnificent assemblage of pic- tures yet produced; yet the scenes, even at the Porte BL-Martin,for a vulgar melodrama of Jack Sheppard, include a spectacle of the burning of London Bridge which is admi- rably pictorial and harmonious. London, as may be seen from the annexed extract from Mia.Athenaeum, is intending to follow suit after Paris. When will America catch uptn the race? We consider Bierstndt perfectly competent to achieve scenic landscapes for some grand Shakespearian revival. “More than passing notice is due to the Etfii!adif“G£iety ¥ifeatre''fb~ Introduce art of the better sort in the decorations of that house. Aa we stated some weeks since, Mr. Marks has executed the frieze of dancing and other figures which now surmounts the proscenium and forms, although at great height from the stage, the most attractive as well as the most important decorations of the interior. The carrying out of such an exten sive work as this upon those architectonic principles which are alone apt to the situation was the real difficulty to be en- countered by the artist, who, had he been ( less loyal,might have dispensed with law,and j f produced a picture of that kin<} which is ! , ordinary in such places, and o artistic eyes , as worthless as it is ordinary.- j “Truth of representation within the scope of nature not being obtainable even approxi- | mately to the ordinary limit of pictorial craft, the resource of the true artist is in the em ployment of so much of convention as archi tectonic laws wisely prescribe in such cir cumstances as those in question. Natural laws ot representation must, according to j these decorative ones, be left aside to a certain extent, and the great, ever-consistent, and in violable logic of Nature dispensed with, in order that the thing desired might at least be j consistent with and truthful to itself. If I complete within itself, and to itself loyal, the : result would not be untrue; and the deeper, j more thoughtful purposes of design, as well answered as by any other mode. Thoughtful art does not depend upon any particular mode of representing Nature; hence it is that if Ibcbght, pathos, or beauty are present in de- j sign the art so employed mußt be good and high. Without them, design is, however pretty or pleasing to the eye, merely deco rative, if not mean and low. The severest and earliest application of these architectonic principles is, of course, to be found where every other quality of the art is discoverable at its best, to wit, in the Paaathenalc frieze by Phidias, or Alcamenes, which is now in the Elgin Room, British Museum. “The student will see that, of course, witli a certain freedom, allowable in painting if not in sculpture, Mr. Marks has, in the frieze in question, illustrated the principles of the Hellenic sculptore. There is in his work but little relief attained or aimed at by means oflight and shadow; what modelling appears is purely and strictly -localized and proper to the l'especiive figures; hence what are called accidental shadows, such as are cast by one objept on another, although very important elemenls in an ordinary painting, are few and unimportant. In conformity with the archi tectonic law the composition of the figures haß'beeh, ae nearly as the artist could con- upon a single plane and this plane js that of the canvas Itself. “Mr. Marks has wrought out his purpose with rare carefulness, giving good drawing, apt expressions, graceful attitudes and plea sant coloring to his work. The sole fault in the composition appears to us in the dispos ing of the dancers in a sort of circle, so that more than one plane or line of figures was unavoidable; it is evident that the danger of such a disposition presented itself to the artist, for his figures are disposed, so far as was practicable, in a simple order and relieve each other by darker and lighter colored dresses, instead of by means of lights and shadows.” coloEßbl bust of Clylie turning to the DUDi by Mr. \V aits, will shortly be placed in the Bouth Kensingwii Museum, on loan. In the North Court, at the same Museum, haa been placed a statue in marblo, rather larger than life, of the late David Bassoon, the munificent Persian merchant of Bombay This figure, which is the work of Mr Wool per, is finally to be set up in a great hall which has been erected to |ho honor of the subject in Bombay.lwihers,'as at Poonah, be built schools and hospitals With a portiopiOt, bis enormous, wealth, —doing such .good works during his life; i as well as by: testament after death. -The attitude in which the statue is placed is that of Oriental*, thanksgiving, as if for wealth of Divine benefits. [Tranelated for the Philadelphia Evening BulloUn-J FRENCH GOSSIP. —“We artists—” said the hair-dresser of the Princess de Metternich. , “You artists!" said the Princess, interrupt ing him with irritation, “when you cannot even part my hair straight!” “Oh, madame,” retorted the chevalier du chignon with wounded pride, “criticism is easy, but the part difficult!” Parting, par-ting is pain! —A wine-shop is just established on the ground floor of the new official n ® w [ s P a Pf l office. Henceforward it will be bad taste to quote the proverb: In vino veritas. —Victor Hugo is himself correcting the proofs of “The Laughing Man” with great care He exacts three and sometimes tour proofs, and returns them in wrappers {ranked with bis baron’s seal —absolutely the only use he makes of his insignia. He thus saves about three or four hundred francs. —A curiosity hunter, by means of turning over all the authorities known, has succeeded in identifying the famous Mask, the Iron For my own part,however,l have long had my convictions on this subject. A human being, stifling his whole vitality under a mask of velvet bound with irou, en deavoring V> breathe through close bars which are made closer whenever he shows his head, condemned to silence under pain of torture, kept in the strictest I g| lora “f o f °f r a ' l f that passes outside, and unable, for fear of hiß life, to make the least complaint.— Why, who could doubt ? The Iron Mask is France, as she has been vegetating from the first days of royally to our own times inclusively.— Rochefort. Gavroche meditates an omeute. On Sun day, the 24th of January, the Prince Imperial was advertised to skate on the grand basm of the Tuileries. A band of gamins appeared, bombarded the, ice with stones, and gave the Prince’s skates a holiday. A guard of Turcos dauntlessly dispersed the ragamuffins. VON HELLBORN’S LIFE OF SCHU BERT.* Mr. Coleridge holds that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that, until very recently, Schubert's reputation in England rested upon little more than half a dozen songs. Thus Btated, the assertion is scarcely correct. Schu bert's claims as a writer of instrumental music have been, indeed, until recently, unrecog nized, except by a very few English musi cians; but his reputation as a writer of the highest rank in his own special line has rested upon much more than “half a dozen songs." Above seventy of his 6ongs have been now published with English as well as with the original German words, and of these a large number have been familiar to every cultivated musician for a whole generation back. Few of them have ever attained a concert-room popularity, nor is it probable that any such popularity will hereafter be their lot Taken altogether, they are far too good ever to be generally popular. Now and then it is quite possible that some popular singer I might confer on them a temporary celebrity with the multitude, just as the violin playing of Herr Joachim will throw an audience into raptures over a fugue of Sebastian Bach; but nevertheless, Schubert’s songs are above the appreciation, because they are above the un -I[he f expression of the emoti*ns r ot an intelligent and thoughtful mind, and the m&BB of mankind, being neither intelligent nor thoughtful, And in Schubert only an ex ponent of ideas to which they are personally strangers. Whatever may be the additional peculiarities of Schubert’s songs, in no other i quality are they more strikingly unlike the ! mob of popular music than in this element of intellectual depth and force, and in that origi nality of musical style whioh is the result of that depth and force. This originality of style, again, stands in the way of their winning a place for them selves in the affections of the non-thinking majority of men and women. The majority of men and women cannot understand what is original until it haß become thoroughly familiar to them; and the worst of Schubert’s songs—judged by the popularity test—is that their originality is of the most perplex ing kind. They are not only original in being unlike the Bongs of other writers, but in being marvellously unlike one another. In the German editions, which contain about J5O out of the COO and more which Schubert wrote, there are, of course, a good many which are more or less alike, in Subject in treatment. But yet the actual dissimilarity between one and another, above all in the accompaniments, is simply amazing. One after another you may go through them till you are lost in astonishment at the endless new forms which these accom paniments assn me. And ulmoßt all of them are as appropriate as tney are original. How ever disoimilarjn mere outline to the melody ! assigned to the'voice,they are essentially sub ordinate to it, submitting it and intensifying the impression that it is designed to produce. And herein is the rare merit of Schubart, shared, mdeed, by all composers of the high est rank, but standing out, perhaps, more prominently in his case than in that of any other master. Few things, every experi enced musical composer well knows, are easier than to manufacture a highly elaborate pianoforte accompaniment to a vocal melody, but lew things aie more difficult than to con struct it so as to enhance rather than over power the vocal effect. But with Schubart the unity of his melodies and the ornate phrases to which they are wedded is as comr plete as it is rare and surprising. Hence, further, another hindracoe to their general acceptance by the average performer, whether professional or amateur. Very few singers can play well enough to accompany themselves easily and effectively in the ma jority of these songs. They demand not only a certain amount of mere mechanical dexterity, but a delicacy of handling and a quick feeling for expressiveness and senti ment, which are by .no means to be fovind in the multitude of professional and amateur singers. And, as it need hardly be added, whatever assistance a singer may occasionally gain from a skilful accompanyiat when per forming before an audience, either public or private, in practising a singer is ordinarily thrown upon his or her own resources. Con sequently, from works where it is impossible to study tne melody apart from its accom- I paniment, the average stager turns away in hopeless despair. From the very first, the difficulty of Schubert’s accompaniments pre vented their popularity in Germany itself. Again and again we find the music publish ers remonstrating'with him, and begging him to send them works not beyond the powers of their customers. Ho would not, how ever, pay heed to their expostulations; per haps, even if he had tried, he would have found that in the attempt at .achieving easi- » xTho life of Franz Bctmbcrt.” Translated from the German of Kreiesle Von Hellborn, by A. 1). Cole ridge,M. A., late Fellow of King’s CoUcge.Cambriilgo With on Appendix bv George Grove, Esq. (Louden: Longmans & Co. 18C9.) THE DAILY EVENING BLLLF.TIN-PIiILADEt.PUIA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1M5. niSfi he would have accomplished only wasn inees. At any rato he declined the task, and, consequently, with all thb boundless feruli* of his pen/ho remained a- poor man totno lQ? BouhdlOss, indeed, was tliat fertility, W; cludingnot merely the production o$ more separate'songs than, we suspect, written by any other humap being, but music and operas with the samp breathless speed with which he dashed off his elaborate songs. It almost takes one’s breath away to look through the catalogue of his compositions given at the end oi Yon Hellborn’s Life; and the more so, when one reflects that all this was the work of the slightly educated sonot a humble Viennese schoolmaster, who dieit before he was thirly-twO years old. Here are part songs, hymns, cantatas,oratorio, numer ous pianoforte works, some of them on the largest scale, above twenty quartetts, and other chamber compositions, more than a dozen operas and operettas, four masses and sundry other pieces of church tnUsir, and—most astonishing of all—nine symphonies, all but one of them complete. Who can wonder that Schubert died at one-and-thirty of some sort of brain disease, and that hiß head, long before the fatal day came, showed signs of the awful work it was called upon to do? Perhaps of no other master can it be. so correctly said that he owed scarcely anything to study,and wrote by a process which, to the vulgar, seems a species of inspiration. His musical education was completed in a kind of govern ment college in Vienna, known as the “Kon vict,” which Mr. Coleridge, oddly enough, converts into “Convict, ” But it was super ficial in its nature, and was rapidly mastered by the precocious boy of eleven years old, who had already tried his hand at songs, quartettß and orchestral pieceß. Henceforth he was a living embodiment of the old Greek fable. As Minerva came forth from the head of Jupiter, all armed from head to foot,so did these innumerable songs,sonatas and sympho nies rush out of that wonderful brain, in all their elaborate completeness, and were put upon paper with a Bpeed and an absence of blunders and corrections which the. mere musical copyist might have envied. Von Hellborn relates the following sample of the circumstances in which Schubert frequently wrote: One Sunday afternoon he was return ing from a country walk with a party of friends, and, strolling into a public garden, he saw his friend Tieze sitting at a table. The whole party immediately determined upon a halt and a talk,and (we suppose) upon a drink. Tieze bad a book lying before him, and Schubert sopn began to turn over the leaves. Suddenly he stopped, and, pointing to a poem, exclaimed, “Such a delicious melody has just come into my head, if I had but a sheet of music paper with me!” One of bis companions drew a few music lines on the back of a bill of fare; and there, in the midst of an Austrian Sunday hubbub, with fiddlers, skittle players, -and waiters all around him, Schubert wrote his charming “Serenade-” In the outward man of Schubert there was nothing to suggest the inward presence of his wonderful gifts. Doubtless his eyes shone, at least when he was excited, with a light borrowed from the hidden fires. But in all other respects never was geniuß concealed within a less attractive frame. He was short and teoad shouldered, with fat, stumpy fingers/ features suggesting those of a negro, and a complexion which .one of his most ardent admirers describes as tallowy. He had a quick sense of humor, after the German sort, but his laugh was a hoarse, suppressed chuckle. He thought it funny to parody hiß own “Erl Bang” by singing it through the teeth of a comb, and was fond of practical iokes He cared little for musical society, or °— pumn; nf own works; but he loved the company of a few jovial friends, and at times he loved the wine bottle rather too dearly. He was a modest man, but very obstinate. He hated drudgery, and never obtained any permanent appointment, for which, indeed, he was wholly unsuited. On the whole, he was as little fitted for making a figure in the fashion able or money-paying worlds as can well be conceived, aDd he died as hs had lived, a poor man, maintaining a hard struggle for the humble livelihood with which be was content. He was never'married, but he was a good son and an affectionate brother. Von Hellborn’s Memoir makes as much as could be expected out of his uneventful, and, on the whole, melancholy career, and it is agreeably translated by Mr. Coleridge; though why the biographer Bhould have chosen t> put so large a portion of his story into foot notes is more than we can understand. To his natural passion for telling everything that can possibly be told about everybody con nected with everything, must be put down the minute accounts of the various nobodies who were Schubert’s schoolfellows or his friends in after life. Possibly, in the inter ests of universal humanity, we should be thankful for. the record. But for the author’s lengthy details of the extremely stupid libretti of Schubert’s operas, and for the lists of the Andantes, Adagios, Allegroß, Ac., to which Schubert set them, there is lesß excuse. Nevertheless, the memoir iB a good and wel come addition to the increasing store of recently translated biographies. We will hope that it will quicken a more general in terest in the works of one of the mast extra ordinary men of genius whom the world of art has ever known. —Pall Mall Gazette. den. Grant Forty learn Ago. It is, I think, forty years this winter since I heard Gen. Grant make his first speech. Bo far as I know,he has not made one since. I,t would do me-ufitold good to hear him make his second one the 4th of March next. It was the occasion of a village exhibition in which many of the boys of the town were engaged. Patterson, the tailor, was the leader of the whole gang. I sat down on the side of the stage to wait the coming of Grant. It was my thunder he had stolen. Patterson gave the speech to me three weekß before; I was so proud of it; thought there was not an other speech like that {p all the world for a boy to speak. But now it was to be taken from me. Borne unseen power fiad been at work. He took me to one side in the old court-house and said, “Ulysses, you know, is the smallest boy of you two; it will suit him best; that he would Belect another more suited to my age.” I was timid, aod not able to answer his words aud gave in. Well, there I sat when Grant came upon the stago, and begun: •‘You’d scarce expect ono of my age To speak Kl'public on the stage, And If 1 chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don’t view me with a critic's eye, - But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little ncornß grow, And many a man, ho bigger lhan me, Began by learning his A B C.” 1 have his form plainly before me now,j as he raised bis hand, and stretcued himselfiup to his utmost height at the line— "'Tall oaks from little acorns grow." Patterson had drilled ub well on action. Be was all action. This was the ne plus with the General. However high he may have" shot up since, he could get no higher that night. And of all that august multitude of gazing and delighted villagers, none would have ventured to augur that he ever would have grown bo tall. Well, it makes one feel good, poor as one may be, that one had been ~~ r* a schoolmate of a President of the Great Bo?.; public, that wo had v i\ 1 jj i *. Blrok’a bark atthc eatho mUl,;'r\f / •_} i t ’ And hroke hread at tho sameffitblo, . . -i, Run out. horses o’er the pamo mil;; i. tvg : ;And robbed them do wn in. the same stable; that ho had heard the same fpiee; rallying tbe- Bchool-boy train omthe yillago green before whose magic power had swept thotempest of battle and the shout of victory. It makes one feel better still, that he had wrought his way up to tho gaze of the nation by the wealth of bis own will, and that he has even won for himself the admiration of the world; that he had c.onquored by deeds and silence; that what eloquence and wealth could not buy. the nation hastened to lay at his feet un- BBkcd, and even begged him to accept the highest ermine her power could bestow. No man perhaps in the history of the country has risen to position so rapidly as he. No namo now carries with it such talismamc power as does his. Every line, and every paragraph given to the press, in which his name stands connected, is seized and read by all with eagerness. Even hia conversations are stolen away and telegraphed to the ends of the earth. All this is only prophetic of the grand thiDgs expected of the incoming administra tion. —Cincinnati Gazette. ———- A. S. ROBINSON, No. 810 CHESTNUT STREET. Hub jtut received Bpeclmenß of Fine Dresden “Enamels” on Poreelaln, In great variety. 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Auctioneers. 139 and 1418. FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, fe2tuthß9fe I UNION PACIFIC (R, IT. CO. CENTER L PACIFIC B. B. 00 FIRST MORTGAGE GOLD BONDS. Thia great enterprise b rapj ( !y approaching completion. About <1600) sixteen hundred mike have boen built by two (2) powerful companies; the Union Pacific Railroad, beginning at Omaha, building west. and the Central Pacific Railroad, beginning at Sacramento, and building east, until tho two roads shall meet. About two hundr d miles remain to be built Tho greater part of tho Interval Is now graded, nnd it is reasonably expected that the through connection between Ban Francisco and New York will be completed by June L 'As the amount of Government aid given to each is de pendent upon tho length of road each shall build, both companies are prompted to groat efforts to secure tho construction and control of what, when completed, will he one and the only grand Railroad Line connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts* One Hundred and Twenty Million Dollars ($130,000,000) In money havo already been expended by tho two power* fnl companies engaged In this great enterprise, and they will speedily complete the portion yet to bo built The Government aid to the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad may be briefly summed up ae follows First—The right of way and all necessary timber and atone from public domain' Second- It m&kcß a donation ol 12.600 acres of land to the mile, whiiih. when the road Is completed, will amount to twenty-three million (23,000,000) acres. Third—lt loans tho companies fifty million dollars :S50,000,000), for which It takes a second lien. The Government has already loaned tho Union Pacific Railroad twenty-four million six bundrtd and ninety eight thousand dollars (824.698,000). and to the Central Pacific Railroad seventeen mltlion nine hundred and sUty-fonr thousand dollars 017,904.000), amounting In all to forty.two million ill hundred and alxty-two thousand dollars (812,662,000). The Companies are permitted to Issue their own First M ortgago Bonds to tho same amount as tboy receive Worn tho United Ststea and no more. The companies tf|«vo sold to permanent investors upwards of (840.000,000) forty million dollars of their First Mortgage Bonds. Tho com panies have already paid in (including net earnlngß not divided, grants from Btato of California, and Sacramento city and Ban Francisco), upwards of ($26,000,000) twenty five million dollars offcapttat stock. WHAT IB THERE YET TO BE DONE ? In considering this question itmust be remembered that all tho remaining iron to finish the road is contracted ter. and tho largest portion paid for and now delivered on tho lino ol the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, and that the grading is almost finished. 1869, WHATi RESOURCES HAVE THE COMPANIES TO * Firet- They will from the Government tbe road progrewe# about 000,000 additional. Second- They can beue their own First Mortgage Bonds for about Third—The companies now hold almost all the land they have up to this time received from the Government; upon the completion of the rpad they will have received in all 23,000,000 acreap-vrtHch &t SI BO per aero would be worth In addition to tlio above tbe net earnings of tho roads and additional capital, 1/ necessary, could be called in to finish the road. WAY BUSINESS- ACTUAL EARNINGS. No one has ever expressed n doubt that as soon aa the road in completed ita through bueineM will be abundantly profitable. Grope enminge of the Union Pacific Rail- road Company for eta; m onthn % ending January let, 1b69, were upwordeof $3,000,000 The earnings of Central Pacific Railroad, for eix month*, ending January let, lfitß, Expense* Interest. Net profit of Central Pacific Railroad,after r paying all interest and fcxpecres for eU t months The present gToee earninga of tho Union and Central Pacific Eailroads are 81,100,000 monthly. Tbe First mortgage Blonds of the Union Pacific Kuilroad Company and the First mortgage Bonds of tbe Cen- tral pacific Railroad Cd!, arc both, principal and Interest, payable ii Cold coin; six percent, inter- est in gold coin, and run for tbirty years, and tbey cannot be paid before that time without tbe consent of tbe bolder. First Mortgage Gold Bonds of tbe Union Pacific Kuilroad for sale at par and accrued interest, and First Mortgage Gold Bond* of the Contra; Pacific Bailroad at 103 and accrued interest. Dealers in Government* Soouritiefl, Wo- 40 H. Tlrird. St., ) fXIZ < ; . r : S AND FINISH THE R©AD ? SB,OOXOOO additional $34,600 000. .$660,000 gold . 460,000 ** Gold, &c, t yini.iiliEM»Hl/b s ;„ V . ; . 1 / of jAirCopSE&Cft MS and 114 Sg. THIH.Xi ST. PHISsAD'Ab DEAL.KRS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Wo will receive appllcaUona fcr Policies of Life Insurance in tho now National life Insurance Company of tho United States. Toll information given at our office. ||T|£MD»| nciilcm mV. B.Honda and members of mock and Gold ExcligmKC, receive accounts of Banks and Bankers on lib eral terms, Issue Bills of Exchange on 0. J Hambro & Son, London. B. Metzler, S. Sohn & Co., Frankfort. James W. Tucker & Co., Paris, And otber principal cities, and leUer. of credit available tbroaKbont Baropo S, W, corner Third and Chestnut Street STEBvLiING d> WjfLDMAN, BANKERS AND BROKERS. So, 110 aotilb Third Sircel, Philadelphia, Special Agents for (ho Bile of Danville, HazeltonA Wllkesbarre 8.8. FIHST MORTGAGE BONDS, Dated 1867, doe In 1687, Interest Beven VerCeti- PV able half yearly, on the firat of April and firatoi October, clear of State and t7olteflStatggfeye*,At prewnit Bo mla are offered at tfae'low price of 80 *£&****?**£% tereat. They arc In denomination* of $5OO, $5OO andsl,vtf). Pamphlet* containing llape.dteports and full Informa tion on baud for dirtriba.tfca, and will bo sent by mall ojx Bond* and other Securities taken In ex change at market rates. _ -- . Dealer* in Stocks, Bonds, Loans, Gold, Ac. . jaSllntf WATCHES. LADOKUS & DEALERS & JEWELER&j WAT«'IIKS, JLtTEMIY iMLTKtt H.RE. I [aWATOHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.A Welches of the Finest Maker*. Diamond and Other Jewelry, 0( the latcet etyle*. ‘ Solid Silver and Plated Ware* BHAJLS. STUDS FOB EYELET HOLES A Urge assortment juat received, with a variety retting*. Ok WBl. B. WABNE & CO„ MZ& WhotewUa Deaden In WATCHES AND JEWELBY, B, b. torncT Seventh and Ctwatant Btewl** a„* !«»/. rj Bio, 86 Booth Third itnt*. Katy «ehti< wjbhmhto boom. FINE DRESS SHIRTS GENTS’ NOVELTIES. J. W. SCOTT & CO, 814 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Four doom below Continental Hot* h mnl4nwg PATENT SHOULDER SEAM BHIHTT manufactory. ■Msn tot theme eelebratwl Shirt. nwptlefl mt»Bf ■ brief natics. Sentlemen's Famlshiiig Goods, Of Into In fuErrarlety. WINCHESTER & CO.. Z\ GENT'S PATENT SPRING AND BDTJ v&*r of every description, verylow, W 3 Cbertzmt street, corner of Ninth, The beat Kid Glove* for ladiea and «ento, Bt RIOHELDERFE R'B BAZAAR, nol.tf} OPEN IN THE EVENING. SBOOEBIEIi jJQPOB»i BROWN STOUT, YOUNGER* O Co.*B Scotch Alo and Brown Stout- the genuine article, at $2 60 per dozen, at COUSTY*B Beat Ena Grocery* No. 138 South Second street, ______ CHERRY WINE-CHOICE SHERRY WINEATffi2JB O per gallon, by the cask of 12)$ gallous, at lOUBTIPB EAST END GROCERY, No. 118 South Second street. /\UEEN OLIVEB—-800 GALLONS CHOICE QUEKM W Olivt-8 by the barrel or gallon, at COUSTY B EAffP END QROCERY. No. 118 South Second street. CUTLER’S PATENT, SEPT. 8.1888, Delicious Tor the Lenten Season. DESICCATED codfish. The cheapent article of food in tho market.. It Roes further; taßtee hotter, gives greater Bati«faetion, In a doll cato relißb. will notelirinK. Will not BpoU tn any climate. ONE pound equal to FOUR of ordinaiy •Manufactured by the Boston and Philadelphia Salt Plata Company, No, 52 North SECOND. Street, Philadelphia, For Bale by all good Grocefe. None genuine unices bearingour trade mark as above* Parties offering any other will be summarily prosecuted. polfl com 6m6 1 , CHALK. FOR SALE, 180 TONS OF CHALK -afloat Apply to WORKMANi& CO.* 123 Wains street X,. IT, 802 Chestnut St., Phils; Etcu Etc* 700 CHESTNUT. MISOf:i.JL.AWKOPB. TKLEfikAPHIC BVnOABV*, . Tub Constituent CoriesorganlzedatMadrld on Saturday, by electing Rivero President. There was a alight earthquake at San Fran cisco yesterday morning. .. . r Tub Apollo Haix and othor buildings, in Norwich, Conn., were burned on Saturday night. Loss $200,000. Thb .elevator firm of Cottrel: & Dickey, in Cleveland,'Ohio, have tailed, with liabilities stated at $200,000,; and assets $69,000. ■ - Tub report of the State Treasurer of Louisiana Tor lOCB’sh6ws'expeDditnres in excess of receipts to the amount of $386,000. Boh. Caleb Cushing has returned to Wash ington, with the treaty concluded by him in refe rence to the Darien Ship Canal. Tub Democratic Committee of Franklin county, Pa., have chosen delegates favorable to the nomination bf Gen. Cass tor Governor. Fuad Pacha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Af fairs, and late representative of Turkey at the Paris Conference, is dead. t ' Tup. soles of gold and silver coin on acconnt of the United States; from'January, 1863, to Janu ary .9,1869, amount to $238,600,000. THb ‘ Episcopal Convention of Louisiana Closed its sessions, at Now Orleans, on Saturday, having resolved to establish freedmen’s schools and raise the Bishop’s salary to $5,000. President has pardoned Saudford P. Con 'OVer, alias Cbas. A. Dunham, under senteneo for perjury in the Albany penitentiary. Conover was a witness. In the Assassination triaL t; A motion is pending in the Kentucky Lcgiela jUro looking to the abolishment of all discrimina tion, witnesses on acconnt of race or olor. The Spanish anjbprUles have arrested many Caßists while attempting to cross the frontier from France for the purpose of inciting insurrec tion, ip Spain. Reports are srcnlatlng in Charleston that ves «ola containing Urge numbers of Cnbabß and other parties ItaVe sailed from various ports along the Florida and r Georgia coasts. .One,of the persona poisoned in Brooklyn by the accidental nse of arsenlo for aalaratus, died on Saturday, while several other members of the family, ere in a critical condition. ‘ SoutiiAkkbican advices report a revolution JnEcutdor, ex-President Moreno having sup planted Espinosa. The rebellion in Bolivia has been Completely suppressed. The yellow fever cobtlnnea to rage in Bonthern Pern. Toe South American Republics have aecopted the mediation of the United States In their dis putes with Spain. The Congress of Plenipoten tiaries is expected to meet at Washington in the spring. Mail bags havo been missed between St. Lonis, Mo., and Cairo, 111., for more than a year, and detectives have been working np the esse for aomo time. It was finally ascertained that the robberies were committed at Odin, liL, the con necting point between the Ohio and Mississippi and Illinois Central Railroads. On Friday night the. officers were there, and while the mail wot being transferred (Tom one train to another three men appeared and undertook to carry off some boxes. The officers sprang npon them, bat two escaped, and tbe other waa shot twice before he could be secured. The men who escaped were subsequently arrested, and proved to be brothers named Alsop, 25 and 28 years of age. They are now in jail at Odin. The wounded man’s name is HowelL [From Iho Toledo BUdaJ NASOV. Tbe I.ast Outrage Upon Kentoeky fajiiage o( tbe Constitutional Amend ment try tbe House. Post Ofkib. Cohpkderit X Boons (Wich Is In the Stait nv Kentucky), Feb. 7,1809.—The die is mostly cast—gloom has settled like a dark pall onto Kentucky. Tho last vestige uv consti looahuel, liberty is swept away, leavln us nothin but the name thereof, wich is holler mockery. Ef tbe senitgoes on and concurs with tho house —wich it will do—and the reklslt number of stalls ratify the ackshenof them accnsld bodies—wich they will do—why then all is over. Niggers will vote in Kentucky the same ez white men, and the atar uv liberty la eot forever! They may go 80 far, ez they will be in a majority,ez todisfran chise tho brave men who served in the confodrit army. Ez might her been expectid, the Intelligence affectid the Corners profoundly. We wuz all a eettin in Bascom’a ez happy as wecood be. A now barrel bed been tapped. Dekin Pogram hedfmo ney, and I wuz not altogether unprovided, ez a letter hed been dropped into tbe post-office that moniln wich contained a remittance nvelx dollars to a lottery concern in Noo York. Ez I beleeve lotteries to be swindles and demoralhsin In their nacher, I opened the missive and confiscated the contents. I will never bo the means nv leading young men to rooln thro the agency ot lotteries— never. It wuz a pleasant seene. The fire wuz burning britcly; wich rtfiectin on our respective noses, gave the room a more than usual britenisj Bas com wuz behind the bar, his elbows leanlu onto it, wallln for tbe orders wich he knew wood be mode; Copt. MePeiter wuz a smokin bis piDe peacefly, a walehln tbe clouds that ariz, formln a sort of halo about his bed; while Deekin Pogram and myself wuz Just in the act uv takln snthin hot wieh had been fixed for us. At this moment Pennibacker’s boy rode up oo Bas com’s mole and bove a paper at me wicb con tained tbe fatal Intelligence. I read it aloud. There wuz no more Innocent mirth that nlto. Deekin Pogram’s hand relaxed Us holt onto the glass and it fell to tbe floor, the precldna floold was tin itself thro the cracks, and the old 'saint fell from his chair in a swoon. I had more pre sence uv mind—l drank mine with one convul sive gulp and then dropped tbe empty glass. The effect, bo far ei manifestin grief wuz concerned, wuz the same as tho 1 bad dropped it liker and all, and It wnz better for me. The glass wuz Baa corn’s—the seneasbun in my bowlea predooct by the iikker wag mine. That even constooshnel amendments can't take away from me; It didn't take long to figger how this outrage, ef it Is consnmmatld, will affect the Corners. Thor is in this peecefnl township sixty-three loyal white voters, nv wieh number thirty-nine vindicated their manhood In the Confedrlt servls, tho .others being too old, ceptin Pollock, wich Is from Illlnoy. and uv Abllshen proclivities. Gar rettstown is In this township, and couDtln them in ther is two hundred and forty-four adult nig gers, and ther wood hev beau a hundred more hed niggers all bin bom bullet and rope proof. Bo long ez these niggers wuz In their normal condiahn uv servitood they wuz indlspensiblo— senco they wuz crooelly wrested from us we hev mode em almost ez yooßeful to us by hevin the law-Into our own hands. They hev ez a rool ac* cumulated snthin, for they labor. We uv coarse held'theroffises. lssaker Gavltt Is assessor, and Deekin Pogrom treasurer, and tho niggers hev bin made to pay all the taxes that hev bln paid. They coodent help theirselves, for tho law hez terrors when weelded by strong and willin hands, and tho hands nv our Offlshels are both strong and willin. But for these niggers the township government wood be a mere nothin. lssaker don’t dare to assess Bascom for fear he’d stop supplies onto him, nor wood Bacom hev any uV the white citi zens taxed lor whatever they ehood pay in taxes that went either into the county or state treasury wuz so much lost to him. He' wuz anxious to have the nigger sweat, for uv the money collected uv them he got a large per cent, either through the collectoror treasurer, wich wuz clear gain, ez they don’t patronize him anyhow. In various other ways wo had em. Penni backcr is justice uv tbe peace and hez bln for years,; and be held tbe scales firmly. The nig gers wood oecaßlonally labor in plantlu time or m .'harvest for tho white cltizons who owned land, and filled with the idea that they wuz frep citizens, they wood in tbe most Insolent manner demand pay for their services. Uv cdurso they wood be refoozed, whereupon they would bring '*oot before Pennibacker. The result uv their vencher it Is unnecessary for me to stuto. “What biznls hoz a nigger in this ver court ? ’ wood tho indignant embodiment nv the majesty uv tho law thunder forth with a face cz black ez a clone. And dlemissin the soot ho wood promptly ishoo an execoosbcn agin em for costs. Ten or twenty niggers who sood white men wuz sold out bob abd sinker by the court E P C *J 600t8 - and when the costs didn’t :“jL e “ u tb °y hed,tbe justis wood fine em for con r,w P < t = V f < ; oun f orc °mln belore him at all. Tbe ? fe ® “xperlmonts declined 'to seek huad av the article. in innn«.«u ™ .n aB f J uv aasault and battery and m inquests on tho ded bodies uv nlggors it was neesary to hev Pennibacker justis. Niggers wieh d w b ,r np:ln i tO , tr r eo£ '’ and ballot holes into em, wuz regleriy found guilty uv dyln by visitation, nr Providence. Es they hedu’t votes nycoane none nr the offistfela wnz afraid nv cm. ,lheard one nr. cm-wunst, who hed bin fined twenty dollars for striking lssaker Gavitt, wich bod M> a piayfal mijod cbased his daughter thro the Corners, groanlnly exclaim that be wish t hoid bin bom in Ireland instld of Amoriky. But now how will It be with us? They will vote and they will hev a majority. Pollock will be. made Jnstis uv the peace, Joe Bigler asAjsor.aud a nigger constable. Wot sekoority hev we? Nig gers will soo us and get judgments, and the nig ger constable will serve execooshens onto ns. Why, Deekin Pogrom owes enuff-to niggers to swamp every aker he holds, and Bascom wood bo sweat severely. And when we pnnch ono nv their heads for insolence to ns, then to be ar rested by a nigger, and taken aforo a jußtis elcctid by niggers, and be fined or perchance im prisoned! It’s too much. When this happens will (lie Comers, I ask, be a place for gentlemen uv prid and culcbcr? Nay. And to this it must come. I saw one weak spot in tho amendment, viz: It provides that no slate shcl disfranchise anybody becoz of race or color, but don’t say that people CBn’t be disfranchised for other .causes and I eagerly scczed hold nv that cz a ship wreck t mar iner does to a plank. “Wat good wil) that do us?’’groaned the deekin. “Why wo bin disfranchise them on the skore of ignorance! ” remarkt L “The niggers can t all read.” “No nlore kan I," replied lssaker Gavitt mournfully; “I’d be cut out with pm." And upon glvin the matter matoor reflection I saw thar wuz no bottom to that hope. By makln readin a test the- superior- elaes at the Corners wood bo more hurt than the inferior class. Thank Heaven ten states kin block this game and save us this torment Oh that they may do It! O,‘that this last bitter draft may bo spared us. May tbe Dimocrlsy nv tbe North put forth their strength and save us this last degradation. Petkoleum V. Nashy, P. M. • (Wicb means Poßt Master.) From our Late Editions of Saturday By tbo Atlantic Cable. Lohdoh, Feb. 13. —The political news is meagre. The amnesty petition winch will bs presented to the Qneen, by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, con tains over 100,000 signatures. Madrid, Feb. 13.— Tbe future form of govern ment for Spain Is tbe engrossing question with the Cortes and the people. Tbe proposition for a directory for a number of years has been aban doned, and a regency and council have been sug gested instead. ImportantCnneney Bills. [Special Despatch to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] Washington, Feb. 13.—The House has been engaged this afternoon on the reports from the Committee on Banking and Currency, and has passed two important bills. One prohibits the certification of checks nnless tbe money is actu ally on deposit at the time; another prohibits banka from loaning money on cnrreney collat erals, being m tended to preclude locking np operations. Hi. Colfax Notified of bis Election. (Special Despatch to the Pan. Evezunx Hull.tin i Washington, Feb. 13. —The committee to ap prise the next President and Vice President of Ibeir election waited npon Mr. Colfax In the Speaker’s room at tbe Capitol. Mr. Colfax replied to the address as follows: "Gentlemen-. Please convey to the two houses of Congress my acceptance of the office to which I have ten elected by the people of the United States, and assure them that I shall endeavor to prove worthy of this mark of confidence by fidelity to principle and duty." Revision of tbe Senate Buies. [Special Despatch to the Phil. Evening Bulletin. 1 Washington, Feb. 13.— As nsnal on Saturday, thdre is little of interest in either House of Con gress. Mr. Pomeroy, from the Committee on Revision of the RnJes, has reported to the Senate a new rule to enable that body to close debate upon any question by a two-thirds vote. . Nominations by tbe President. tSpecial Deepatoh to the Phjla. Evening Bulletin, i Washington. Feb. 13.— The President to-day nominated to tbe Senate Lewis Dent, brother-in law of Genera! Grant, to be Minister to Chile, in place of General Kilpatrick, and John T. Nagle, Secretary of Legation, to the same place. Tbe Overland, nail Contract. [Special Despatch to the Phila. Evening Bulletin.] Wash ikgtos. Feb. 13 Mr. Broomall to-day submitted his report od the Wells & Fargo con tract, to be printed and recommitted for action* to the Committee, who have not vet signified their conatirrence. As predicted In these de spatches, the report aranes in vindication of the administration of the Post Office Department. Notification of deneral Grant, Washibotox, Feb. 13.—This morning, at half- past 10 o’clock. Senator Morton and Representa tives Frayn, of New York, and Wilson, of lowa, made their appearance at the Heodqaarters of the Army for the purpose of presenting to General Grant the certificates of his election as President of the United States. The Impression that the proceedings would be altogether private,together with the fact that the committee arrived a half hour in advance of the time at which it was understood the ceremony would take place, prevented the presence of a large number of persons who would otherwise have been attracted by the interesting proceed ings. Gen. Grant was in his office at the time of the arrival of the Committee, busily engaged in the performance of his official duties. They were soon invited into his presence, and with but very little delay Senator Morton addressed the Presi dent elect, announcing that they were the com mittee appointed by Congress to present him with his commission as President of the United States for four years, commencing on the 4th of March next, and in a few remarks assured the General that his election was extremely gratify ing to his countrymen, and that the people felt assured he would, in exercising the duties of his distinguished office, apply the same energy, in tegrity and patriotism that had characterized him in former spheres of usefulness. In concluding hie remarks he said that he would have the sup port ol the people of the nation, even including those who differed politically from him, in ad ministering the affairs of the government General Grant, receiving from Senator Morton the certificatea of his election, announced, amid lDtense Interest on the part of the few gentlemen who were present, and In a firm, audible voiee, substantially, that lu accepting the office of Presi dent of the United States ho assured them ot his determination to carry faithfully the obliga tions of that office, and referred particularly”to ibe necessities for an honest and faithful dis charge of the Revenue laws. He would call around him men who would earnestly carry out the principles of economy, .retrenchment and honesty, which were desired by the people of the country. Should the officere of the different branches of the Government service not satisfy him in the discharge ,ot their duties, he would not hesitate a moment about removing them, and would do so just as quickly with his own ap pointments as with those of his predecessor. General Grant stated thathehad not announced his. Cabinet np to the'time of the official declara tion of the result of the election, but had intended at that period to make known the names ol those whom be would Invite to become members. In the interval, however, he had concluded not to make known tho nameß ol the gentlemen whose services ho would be glad to have in this respect, even to ihe. gentlemen themselves, until he sent them into the Senate for confirmation. The reason for this determination, Gen. Grant said, was because of the fact that should he do so a pressure would immediately commence from va rious parties to endeavor to induce him to change his deteiminatlon, not so much probably from the fact that tho opposition would be made irom personal motives, but on account ot the interest which gentlemen might havo for their own friends. For these and other reasons he bnd concluded to mako no public announcement of hlB Cabinet until the time mentioned. Gen. Grant spoke without any reserve, and with the greatest irankness and courtesy, and his remarks were received by his distinguished visitors with every murk of interest and approbation. Afterwards, Mr. Pruyn, of the committee, ad dressed Ihe General very briefly to tho effoct that while the party with which he was identified differed politically from the President elect, he desired to assure him that his administration, in currying out the principles which ho had men tioned, would have their hoarty support and co operation. The speeches wore delivered more In a conversa tional tone than in a formal, set manner, and tho occasion was one of quiet though most intense lu THB DAILY EYBlllfte BPJ.Ua’IK-mtAPEIj’HIA, MOKDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1869. tercet. 'The members of.; (he Btaff of General Grant were present About twenty gentlemen The Committed, after loivihg Geiieral bead quarters/v proceeded 1 to me '' Capitol and waited upon, Speaker Colfax in hia : reception room. ■ ■" ..-i.q f. ■ •! ‘ 7 They presented him with the certificate of hla election as Vlco-President, algnedby the 'Presi dent of the Sehato.'ahd then severally congratu lated him, to which friendly expressions he re sponded: ! ! '‘Gentlemen —Ploase convey to'tho two houses of Congress my.acceptance of the office to which I have been elected by the people of the United Stales, and asanre them that I shall endeavor to .prove worthy of this mark of confidence by fidel ity to my principles and my doty.’’ The committee then withdrew. Indiana—Explosion—Land Grants. •Bt. Louie, Feb. 13.—An Omaha despatch dated yesterday says that a locomotive boiler exploded at Rich Creek, on the Pacific Railroad, last night,'killing the engineer, con ductor and fireman. - 1 A telegram’from Helena says that gentlemen from the Yellow Stone report that two large war parties of Black Feet and Crow -Indians find a fight near Big Timber, on.the, Yellow Stone,.and several were killed and wonnded on both sides. A despatch from Lincoln, Nebraska,'says Mr. Stewart’s bill, granting, 10,000 acred ■of land! i 6 any corporation constructing 20 miles of railroad within the State of Nebraska, passed the House to-day. A combination bill} dividing. 080,000/ acres of public lands between five projected roads id Va rious parts Of the State, bat entirely Ignoring the Omaha and Southwestern road, has passed the Senate. > Havana, Feb. 13.—Captain-General Dolce has Just Issued an important proclamation. He re cites that whereas, the insurgents have refused np to this date to accept the amnesty proffered In bis former proclamation; and whereas, others arc continually Joining the Insurrectionary forces, therefore the proclamation of amnesty is withdrawn. The liberty of the press, is also suspended for the time, and the former censor ship is reestablished. The printing and distribn tion of newspapers without permission from the government authorities is prohibited, and all persons guilty of violating the .press law and all political prisoners in future will be tried by court martial. Haior-Gcneral James B, Barnes. A telegram from Springfield, Mass., announces the death of Major-General James R. Barnes in that city yesterday morning. Deceased was a native of Massachusetts. He graduated at West Point In 1829, and was one of the five starred names in a class of distinguished ability, includ ing Generals Robert E. Lee and Joseph E Johnston of the rebel army. General Barnes served in the army for several years, when he resigned and engaged in business as a civil engineer. At the out break of the rebellion, by request of the Governor of M assaebnsetts, he accepted command of tbe Eighteenth Massachusetts volunteers, and served with great distinction In the Army of the Potomac. After the retirement of General Martindale, In 1862, he was placed in command of a brigade in the Fifth Army Corps, and in 1866 tbe Senate confirmed his nomination as brigadier-general, with commission to date from Nov. 29, 1862. At the battle of Gettysburg he commanded a division and bore an important part in that .memorable contest. Subsequently be was made brevet major-general of volunteers. Throughout the war the deceased served with distinguished valor and ability. After the rebel lion had been suppressed he resigned his com mission and retired to private life. He was recently a special commissioner of the Union Pacific Railroad for the government, and was at one time superintendent of the Western Massa chusetts Railroad. The death of General Barnes will be sincerely regretted by a large circle of friende, and particularly by the brave men who served under him during the rebellion. He was a most estimable gentleman, a true patriot, and a high toned, amiable man Herald. 9■ _ _ City Mortality-. —The number of interments in the city for the week ending at noon to-day was 282, against 252 the same period last year. Of the whole number 149 were adults and 133 children—67 being under 1 year of age; 129 were ' males; 153 females; 60 boys and 73 girls. The number of deaths in each ward was as follows: First Second Third Fourth.... Fifth Sixth Seventh..-. Eighth.... Ninth Tenth Eleventh.. Twelfth Thirteenth. Fourteenth Fifteenth The principal causes C -i, cronp, 6,- consnmpti dropsy, 10; disease ol' tl scarlet fever, 12; inflami eld age, 17, and palsy 3. An Owner Wanted—A bag containing thirty pounds of sugar, supposed to have been stolen, was found this morning at Almond and Water streets, by Officers Myers and Brown, of the Harbor Police, and awaits an owner at the station-house, Front and Noble streets. Rescued from Drownino This morning, about one o’clock, Patrick Mcßride, residing at 223 Monroe street, walked' into the Delaware at Mead alley wharf. He was rescued from drown ing by Officer Denard, of the Harbor Police, and Philip Mullen, a private watchman. FRENCH MEDICINES PBBPABia) BY GRIMAUJjT . Clark Wharton, Samuel Wilcox, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., Louis C. Norris, „ JOHN R. WUCHERBB, President Saitukl Wilcox, Secretary. | UH^fimiT3ili. COMPANY< °™ E N 0 Indiana. A. M. MOTHERSHED, Omaha, for Nebraska. JOHNSTON BROTHERS A CO*, Baltimore, for Mary land. Sew England General Agency under the Direction off E. A, ROLLINS andJ W. E.,chandler] 0f 016 Bana 0t Dir< “ Ctora - 18$9 ~ CHAJtTER PERPETUAL. FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, Office—-435 and 437 Cheitnut Street. Assets on January l, 1869, l3. WU1....... .8400.000 00 Accrued Surplus £083,038 70 Premium,. 1,193,843 IS UNBETTLED CLAIMS. INCOME FOB 18®, 833,788 12. 8360,000. Losses Uaid Since 1829 Over @5,500,000. Perpetual and Temporary Polidee on Liberal Term,. PIEECIOBa Chat N. Baneker. | Alfred Ft tier, Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks Geo. W. Richard* WmTuSmt leaao Lea. Alfred G. Baker. Geo. Falee, I Thomaa 8. EUia. CHARLES N. BANCKER, Prealdent. .. „ _ „ „ GEO. FALES. Vice Prealdent. iA §• yy,\ LUSTER, Becretary pro tem. lIM. GREEN, ABaiatant Secretary. fell tde3l TUB COUNTY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY—OF * 6ce. No. Uo South Fourth street, below Chestnut. . i l ?.® Fi™ Insurance Company of the County of Phila. delphlaj’lncorporated by of Pennsylva ma in IK®, for indemnity against Toes or damage by fire, exclusively. _ . tJ a CHASTER PESfETUAL. This old and reliable institution«with amule capital »nj £°?i t i 9® eilt / un^‘care^ inverted, contin-'n to insure builaJoge, furniture, merchandise, Ac,, either permanent* [J or for a limited tiine,against loss or damage by fire, at the lowest rates consistent with the absolute safety of Its customers. Loeees adjusted Chas. J. Batter, Andrew H. Miller. I , l< L Er: ?, Bud<1 ' James N. Htone, John Bom, Edwin L. Reatdrt Joseph Moore, Hobort V. Massey. Jr., George Mecke, Mark Devine. CHARLES J. BUTTER, President HENRY JUUDD, Vice President BENJAMIN F. HOECKLEY. Secretary and Treasurer piRp»INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.—THE PENN. Fire Insurance Company—lncorporated 1825 d^pcn^uce^qmSe!~ N0 ’ M 0 nut Btrefit » oppoaite In- TbU company, favorably known to the community for over forty yean, continues to insure against loss or dam- or Private Buildings, either perma -5f * toe. Also, onJEumituie, Stocks Merchandise generally, oil liberal terms. JpK® toy with a large Surplus Fund, Is careful manner, which enables them to oner to the insured an undoubted security in the case of ‘““r. . DIRECTORS. Hamel Smith,Jr„ John Devereux, i Alexander Benson, Thomas Smith, «SS£ssa» , »»Feu. Daniel « Haddock, Jr. ~ DANIEL BitfTH, Jr., President. WUJUM g. Cbowxlx, Seatetarv dTwSSSfi 0 ??! Pl s£ INSURANCE COMPANY- OF No. M North Fifth street, near *^ c ?I£?£ at ? d to LegUlature of Pennsylvania. Char. Assets, SISxUOO. Make insu* or damage by Fire on Pu blic or Private favaSfo’tenS Istocks. 1 stocks. Goods and Merchandise, on Wm.MoDanlel. P. Moyer. ' Frederick Ladner. i, ohn Adam J. Glasz, H®“7 Troomner. ■ Henry Delany, John Elliott, SnWASSS* Christian D. Frick. BamuelMlHer. George E. Fort, .William D. Gardner. WILLIAM MoDANIEL. President. „ ' IBBAESS*ETEBBON. Vice President pun-ip E. Colxmam. Secretary and Treasurer. jWgg TTBB ASSOCIATION OF PHILADEI* yim A Incorporated March 27, 1820. Office. Fifth Btreet Insure Buildings, Household Furniture and Merchandise MBHCKP generally, from Loss by Fire. Aseeta Jan. 1, 1869. v .„. $1,406,093 08 TRUSTEES William H. Hamilton, Bamuei’Sparhawk, Pete* A. Koyaer, Charles P; Bower. John Carrow, Jesse Ligbtfoot George I. Young, Robert Shoemaker. J° [ oph R. Lyndall, , Poter Armbruster, Levi P. Conte, . . M. H. Dickinson, Pater Williamson. WM.H. HAMILTON, Preside t, rr Vice President WM. T. BUTLER; Secretary. XNBURANOE COMPANY OF This Company takes risks at the lowest rates consistent with safety, and confines its business exclusively to FIRE INSURANCE IN THE CITY OF PHILADEL PHIA. _P,?]? G E—Na. 753 Arch street, Fourth National Bank Building. . v. .. T w, DIRECTORS. TfaoniM J, Martin, Charles R. Smith, John Hirst. Albortua King. Wrn.A,Bolin, , Henryßumm, Jarnea Mongan, , JameaWood, - William Glenn, John ShaMcroas. Jemes Jennor, ' J, Henry Aakln, Aioxandor T; Dickaon, Hugh Mulligan., Albort 0. Roberta, Phfliu'Fitzpatricks < . „ CON UAH B. ANDIIgSS, President Wm. A. Bolin, Treaa. Wu, 11. Faqxn, Boe*y. HENRY D.COOKE. W. E. CHANDLER, JOHN D. DEFREES, EDWARD DODGE, H.C. FAHNESTOCK DIRECTORS; ThomaaC. Hand, James Ik McFarland. Edward Darlington, William C. EUdwl g. Joaapb EL Seal. Jacob P. Jones, i-oimiLd A. Bouder. Joshua P. Eyre, TTieophUmi Paulding. . William Or. Boulton. . Hugh Craig,. IlenryO. D allot t, Jr.. John C. Darts, John D. Taylor, JameaC. Hand, Edvrardnalourcado, John R. Penrose. Jacob Klegel, 11- Jones Brooke, George w fiernadou, Spencer M'llvalne, Wm. C Houston, Henry Sloan, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburgh, Samuel E. Stokes. John B. Semple, do, James Traquair, A. B. Berger, do. THOMAS C. HAND. President JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice President. HENRY LYLBUEN, Secretary. HENRY IIAIJU Ase't Secretary A merican fire insurance company, incor. XL porated 1810.—Charter perpetual. No. 810 WALNUT street, aboTe Third. Philadelphia. Having a large paid-op Capital-Steak and Surpluß in vested in sonnd and available Securities, continue to in sure on dwellings, stores, furniture, merchandise, vessels In port, and their careoe*, and other personal property. All losses liberally an^^om^Uj^^Jujjted. Thomas R. Maris, {Edmund Q. DutJlh. John Welsh* Charles W. Poultney, Patrick Bradv, hsrael Morris. John T. Lewis. [John P. WetherilL William W.PanL . THOMAS R. MARI! Albeit G, Cbawtoed, Secretary BUNTING. DURBOROW ft CO.. AUCTIO NEERB, Nos. 232 and 234 MARKET street, corner of Bang st Successors to JOHN B. MYERS ft CO. SALE OJ* 2000 CASES BOOTS, SHOES, fto, ON TUEBDAY MOkSINu. Feb. 1& at 10 o'clock. on four months' credit, including— Men's, boys' and ycuths’ Calf, Kip and Buff Leather Boots; fine grain long leg Dress 800 e; Congress Boots and Balmorals; kip. but! ana polish grain Brogans; women's, misses’ and children's goat, morocco, kid and enamelled Balmorals: Congress Gaiters; Lace Boots; Lasting Gai ters ; Ankle Ties; Traveling Bags; Metallic Overshoes, ftc. LARGE SALE OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. ON THURSDAY MORNING. Feb. 18, at 10 o’clock, cn four months' credit. DOMESTICS Bales bleached and 1 rown Shirtings and 8h etinga. do Hleacbed and Colored Drills, do White and all wool and Canton Flannels, do White, Blue and Gray All Wool Blankets. Cases Manchester Ginghams, SUecias,CCorota o t Jeans, do Tickings, Stripes. Checks. Denims Wigan*, do Jaconets, Cambrics. Kentucky Jeans. Cottonades. do Cassimeres, Satinets, Tweeds, Fancy Cio&kines MERCHANT GOODS. Pieces Belgian, English and Saxony all woo) and Union Black and Blue Cloths ana Doeskins, do Belgian Hoes kina, English Meliofis, ftc. do Fane Cassimeree, French" Tricots, Velveteens, Vesting*. Ac. LONDON BLACK ITALIANS. From medium to finest imported. DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SHAWLS, fto. Pieces Delaines, Plain ana Fancy Poplins, Mozambique, do Bareges, Lenoe, Spring Fancy t,resa Goods Full line Plaid Wool and Shawls. Dress Silks ftc. MOHAIRS AND ALPACAS. Cases Black and Co ored Mohairs And Alpacas, of supe rior finish and fine qualities. 160 pieces fancy coatings. Including very fine grades of Scotch and West of Eng land new bpring Coatings L C. HANDKERCHIEFS, A line of H Plain Linon Cambric Hdkfa A line of Hemmed Linen Cambric Hdkfa. -ALSO— Hosiery, Gloves, Balmoral and Hoop Skirts, Traveling and Under Bhlrts and Drawers, Sewings, Umbrellas, Silk Ties, Shirt Fronts, ftc. LARGE SALE OF CARPETINGS. OIL CLOTHS, fto ON FRIDAY MORNING. * Feb. 19, at 11 o'clock, on four months' credit, about 200 pieces Ingrain, Venetian. List Hemp, Ccttage and Rag Carpetings, Floor Oil Cloths, ftc. By babbitt ft co., auctioneers. CASH AUCTION HOUSE, No. 280 MARKET street corner of BANK street Cash advanced on eonrianmenti without extra charge PEREMPTORY SALE OF BOOTS, SHOES AND BROGANS. * ON TUESDAY MORNING, Feb. 16. by catalogue, commencing at 10 o'clock, 600 cases and cartons city and Eastern made Boots, Shoes, Balmorals. Brogans, Gaiters, ftc. Also 50 cases of Ging ham Umbrella?, Felt Hats, carpets, ftc. STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS. HOBIERY, NOTIONS. CLOTHING, fto. Comprising 800 Lot*. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. .. Feb. 17, at 10 o'clock* THOMAS BIRCH ft IWn7~AUCTIONEERB ~*ANI a commission merchants, No. HIO CHESTNUT street/ Rear Entrance No. 1107 Sanaom itreet HOUSEHOLD FUhNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIP „ . TION RECEIVED ON CONSIGNMENT. Sales of Furniture at Dwellings attended to ou the mot asonable terms- Administrators' Sale of a LARGE COiXECITON O? OIL PAINTINGS. ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, Feb 'l6 and 17. at 7 }6 o'clock at the auction store. No. 1110 Chestnut street, will bo sold, by order of Adminis trator, a private collection of over 300 Oil Paintings, by American and European Artists, the whole to be sold without reserve or liroitatioa 'j he Paintings will bo open for examination, with cata logues, on Monday. SCOTT, Je., AUCTIONEER. . SCOTT’S ART GALLERY 1020 CHEbTNUT afreet. Philadelphia. SPECIAL bALE OF MODERN PICIT7f.ES. ON TUESDAY EVENINGS, February 16 and 17. At 7?4 o’clock, at Scott's Art Gallery. No. 1020 Cheeton* street, will be sold, a Collection of Modem Paiotiogßof the A met lean and EngllAh Schools, all h&udsoaioly mounted iu newest sty'es fiuo gold leaf frames. Open for examination on Tuesday. THE PRINCIPAL MONEY ESTABLISHMENT- X S. E. corner of SIXTH and RACE streets. Money advanced on Merchandise, generally—Watches, Jewelry, 1 iamouce. Gold'and Silver Plate, and on alt articles of.value, for any length of time agreed on, WATCHES AND JEWELRY AT PRIVATE SALE. Fine Gold Hunting Case. Double Bottom and-Open-Faov English. American aud Swiss Patent Lever Watches; Fine Gold Hunting Caao and Open Face Lcplne Watches: Fino Gold Duplex and other W atchoo; Fiuo Silver Hunt Inß CBse and Opeu Faflo Fngliab, American andttwis* Patent Lever andLepine Watches; Double Case English Qu artier apd other Watches: Ladles*Fanoy Watchesj Diamond Breastpins; Finger Rings: E&r Rings.; Studs; ft©.; F«ue Gold Chains; MeakUioiwv Brabolotsj Scan ring: Breastpins t Finger Ring*; Ftncll Cases aqd Jewelry. * C FOIL&LB.—A large and valuable Fireproof Chest. sevendlrttoin kouth B i§amADmFifth and Chestnut streets. , rU ,:1 WBJPBAWCC« MUTUAL a^FEfrVINBUEAUCHCOH Incorporated by tbs Itgialatnrg of Peno*ylvanla,lBS, Ufflea.6.Seornor of'jTBUHD and WAIIBCT Bttoeta. V ' i T Cn Ve^oK of ttte . world. ,qn/Soodsbyriver,ca>ial,,!ako andiand carriage to- ail ■ jpafta of too Union. _•• MREINBURANUBS On Herchandlae generally; on Stores, Dwelling,. - Douses, Ac. AB&ETBQF TfIECOMPAHV. 8200,000 United BtaS < !Svo I Per Loan, 120,000 Uniterf States’ six PerXient-XoaU," 8208,600 00 60,000 United States'Si* 'Per CentL'Loaii 130,800 00 (for Pacific Railroad) ........ 60,00000 200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per 125,000 aiffii’huZfiitih'ia Six Per Cint 211,375 00 60,000 m634 o° L0an.,...;.,..,.... 5L500 00 : 2CMXW Penruylvania Railroad First Mort ‘ gage Six Per Cent 80nd5...... 20,200 o 25,C00 Pennsylvania Railroad Becond Mortgage Sir Per Cent Bonds.. 24,000 00 25,000 Western T’ehnpylvania Railroad Mortgage Six Per Cent, Bonds (renna. HR. guarantee). .. 20.625 00 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan:.-.!. 2LOOO 00 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 6,03125 16.000 Germ an town (las Company, princi pell ana interest guaranteed t>y , thQ, city .of. Philadelphia,, 300 ' snares stock.- *. ' 15.000 0(J 10,000 Pennsylvania Ralhoad Company, £OO shares stock. IL2OO 00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Com- « «. .PSDJi 100 shares stock 8,600 00 20,000 Philadelphia land Southern liail Steamship Company,. 80 shares stock..; 1.. i 16.000 00 207,600 Loans on Bond and Mortgage, first ‘liens on City Properties 207,900 00 BU ‘*- 90 ° Par. ' Valae, 81,131326 26 Real Estate 88.000 Bills JKeceiyabio for Insuranees made - 222.488 94 Balances due’at Agencies—Pro mlumfl on Marine Policies—Ac* croed Interest and other debts due the Company 40,178 88 Stock and Scrip of sundry Corpora ■tions, ; 83.166 00. Estimated _ value LBl3OO Cash in Bank 8116,160 08 Cash in Drawer 413 66 116,663 73 PHILADELPHIA. FIEE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY _ L , DIRECTORS. Chas. Richardson, Robert Pearce, TV m. B. Rhawn, John Kessler, Jr., Francis ft. Bock, John W. Everman, Henry Lewis, Edward B Orne, Geo. A!, West, Chas, Stokes, Nathan HlUes, Mordec&t Bozbv. CHAR RICHARDSON. President t*t , _Wfl. H. EH AWN. Vice-President Williams L Blanohabd, Secretary AUCTION BALEB; TUrffpOMAi* A 80N8* ACCTioNBEra,, - T“ l^MHaT^aUa* ****““*" EVKKC BiUn rt the Auction StoM.fcVHß#! •■nSalei utEcoideiie&recch-B wmui atteatton. ■ /.■• ■ii ~ At 13 o’clock noon, at the Philadelphia J2xehaia<& 5 ihare*WesternNatlonalßank. 16 shares Fourth National Book. . > / , B shares Wert Cheater and Philadelphia EaßrouL 25 share a Union PaaiengerßailwayCo. 160 shares Germantown Passenger Railway Co. 100 shares Pacific nsd-Atlantic Telegraph. Pew No* 140 St, Luke’s Church. 600 shares Mingo Oil Co. . . ? . WO eharesllio ualzell Petrnlonm Co. 5( 0 shares Worden Farm Oil Co. ICO shares Retro’em Co, SO shares Buck Mountain Coal Cot 26 shares Union Mutual ImuTAnce Co. * *- 60 shares First National Bonk. Philadelphia. ' 12 shares west of Salmon st., TweDty-fifth Ward, • Sale at the Auction Rooms, Nos. 139 and 1418outh Fourth street. HANDSOME HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PIAMOL FRENCH PLATE MIRRORS. HANDBOTIB YES VET, BRUSSELS AND OTHER CARPETSTSc. ON THURSDAY MORNING. - V i Feb. 18, at 9 o’clock, at tho. auction room*by catalogue a large assortment of superior Household Furniture* comprising—Handsome Walnut Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Chamber Furniture, superior Rosewood seven octave Piano Forte, made by E P, Graham t fine French Plate Mirrors, handsome wardrobe#. Bookcases, Bide* boards. ,Extension and Centre Tablea, Chiha and Glass* ware. Matressee and Bedding, large assortment of Office Furniture, small Steam Engine and Boiler,Gas-consuming and Cooking r toves, handsome Velvet, Bruseeli and other Carpets. 6c. ■ • TVT ' ' JW® No.’ MS Cherry street'' f ' ” s/ NEAT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. M . ON TUESDAY MORNING. Feb. 23, at 10 o’clock, at No 905 Cherry street the Neat Household Furniture, including Oiled Walnut Parlor Smt, covered with green reps; neat Dining BooUPFurnP tore,Oak.Extension Table China and Glassware,Wal nut and Cottage Chamber Furniture. Hair Matrcasea. Im perial and Venetian Carpets, Kitchen Furniture, - Sale No. 139 and 141 South Fourth street. EXT ENbIVE BALE OF ELEGANT CABINET _ FI RNITURa • •• 7 : TO CLOSE A PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNT. ON FRIDAY MORNING. Feo. 26, at 10 o’clock, will be sold at public sale, in our large second etorv warerooms, without reserve, by cats-* logue, a large and extensive assortment of Elegant Cabi* net Furniture. including Rosewood, Walnut and Ebony Parlor. Chamber and Dining Room Furniture,finished in. the latest style coverings and marbles, all- made by Hie celebrated manufacturers. Geo. j. .Henkcls, Lacy ft Co., and comprising a choice selection, warranted la every reßpect well worthy the attention of persona fur ni bing. &r May be examined three days previous to a ale, with catalogues. President PUBLIC SALE. HORSES, COWS., WAGON. a SLEIGH,JOARNB3B, &a. „ ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. March l, at 2 o’clock, at the Farm of Jamee M. Bullock- Eeq., (Jburoh lane. Darby, Delaware county, without re* serve, 11 superior Milch Cows, half breed Alderney Ball, (iray Mare, Grain Wagon, Sleigh, Plow, Double and Sin gle Harness. Collars, Halters, Ac. Bale positive. Terms cash. MARTIN BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS. (Lately Salesmen for ML Thomas A Sons.) No. 529 <'HEHTNUT street, rear entrance from Minor. - VALUABLE PRIYAT E LIBRARY. ON MONDAY EVENING, Feb. 15, at 7 o'clock, at the auction rooms, Valuable Privnto Library, including Cooper’s and Waverly Novels, iic., &c. BANDSOME WALNUT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ROSEWOOD PIANO FORTE, SUPERIOR MELO> DEON, HANDSOME VELVET AND BRUSSELS CARPETS, &o, ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. February 17, at 10 o’clock, at the auction rooms, N 0.639 Cbcetnnt et, by catalogue, very excellent Furniture* in cluding—Handsome Walnut Parlor. Library and Dining Room Furniture, 3 Suits B andsome walnut ChamberFur nituie. Rosewood Piano Forte, superior Rosewood Mo* leon, French Plate Mantel Pier and Oral 'ML rare* handsome Velvet, Brussels and other Carpet&GaS Con suming Stoves, Feather Beds, Plated Ware, Chin&axut Glassware, Uoniage Harness, Oifico Furniture, &e.. . TVAVIS A HARVEY, AUCTIONEERS. J J Late with M. Thomas A Sons. ' Store Nos. 48 and 60 North BlXTHstreet Sale at Ncs 48 and 50 North Sixth street. - ELEGANT’ FURNITURE, BOOKCASEB. MIRRORS, BAGATELLE table, fine tapestry carpets! OIL CLOTHS. Ao. ON TUEBDAY MOBOTNQ. At 10 o'clook, by catalogue at the auction store, a 1 arget assortment of superior Cabinet Furniture, induding---Bu perior W alnut Parlor Furniture; elegant Oiled Chamber Suits, beet Btyle;superior Secretary Bookcases, elegant Buffet, handsome Wardrobe, Office Tables, Extension Tables, French Plate Mirrors, Bagatelle Table, Am* Srrftog and Hair Matreises, fine Tapestry, Ingrain and’ Venetian Carpets, Oil Cloths, superior Cottage. Suits. China and Glassware. Ac. Gi ASS WARE. . Also, 18 packages Glassware, including Band Seta* Wjoee, Goblets. Nappies, Tumbiera, Baltß, Ac. JAMES A. FREEMAN, AUCTIONEER, No. 422 WALNUT street. GROUND RENT OF $B4O PER ANNUM; ON WEDNESDAY, Feb. 24, at the Exchange, will ha .soldtfi WELW3E* riihED GROUND RENT of $B4O per (par $l4 006), out of a lot and improvements, Cherrystreets below Eleventh, 68 by 93 feet to Academy street. . •**" The sale will be peremptory by order of the Or phans’Court. Sale on Account of whom It may Concern. 50)0 BHABES OIL RUN, PETROLEUM CO. STOCK. ON FRIDAY MORNING. Feb. 26, at 10 o’clock, at the auction store. 'P L. ASHBRIDGE A CO., AUCTIONEERS, L. No. 606 MARKET street, above Fifth. SALE OF BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, February 17. at 10 o’clock, we will sell by catalogue* alaigo asfortmentof Boots,Balmorals,Gaiters, Brogasts, Ac., of Eastern and city manufacture, to Which the at tention of city and country buyers is called. ' ■ T A-^LELLA ND .AUCTIONEB ife T NUTBtreet ' CONCERT HALL AUCTION ROOMS. Rear Entrauce on Clover street Household Furniture and Merchandise of every do- ’■ ecription received on consignment. Sales of Furniture at ; dwellings attended to on reasonable terms. ' C h.Mccle E 8 No. 606 MARKET Street. ; BOOT AND SHOE SALES EVERY MONDAY ANI> THURSDAY. * HBATEH9 AND STOVES THOMSON'S LONDON KITCHKNISB, OK J¥39 European Ranges, for families, hotel* or nubile * ggsra institutions, in twenty different sizes. Also* PhU adelpbia Ranges, Hot Air Fumaces. Portabla Heaters, Low down Orates, Fireboard Stoves, Bath Bo ere. Stew-hole Plates, Broilers, Cooking Stove*. etc«’ J wholesale and retail bj the manufacturers, SHARPE & THOMSON, No. son North Second street.. r 026 jJUi THOMAS 8. DIXON & 80NS, , Lato Andrews d> lOixon, " JS*?S No. 1834 CJUKBTNIJTBtIoeti PhtUda- OrposlteUnlted Manufacturer* of LOW DOWN. * I'AKLOK. CHAMBER, OFFICE, ~ . .. And otlior GRATES, * . For Anthracite; Bituminous and Wood Fire i ; For PrivSoljuadirwfca REQISTEaS, VENTILATORS, <1 v ■ ■[■■■ - AMD. CHIMNEY CAPS. COOKINO-RANGEB, BATHBOILERS. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. APCTiofiMUra; Sale No. 589 Chestnut street.