GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXII.—NO. 270. •THE EVENING BUtLBTINj PUBLISHED EVBBT EVENING, ~ excepted)* AT THE BEW BITIXIiTIN UmDINQ. 007 CbeitnntNircel, TJUlladelphiu, -■ ; : - BV TOM 2.y 5 ' ‘ ■ - ■ : EVENING BVLLETINAB3OCIATIOH. CDfflON FBACOC3L CABPEKBOBDEIL Ja., The Bnuanriiti served to sabscribera Infho city »t l 8 bents per week, payable to-the carriers, or 88 nor annum, ’ ; f ■ 'or '■ ‘' ‘ Ait lipe companies bavloglnauraoco to plage, will find’the ( ‘ New England Mutual , - an organization they can confidently recommend, 1 1 a sacta, 07,000,000. BTEOtiD a MAitBTON, General Agents, feB m w f IBM 32 North FIFTH Street ftogtfft --a -•- ■#- v .*- go? Otoitßat street. WEDDING INVITATIONS ENGRAVED IN THE Vt Newest and best maimer, LOUIS DRBKA, Sta- Honor and Engraver, U 33 Chestnut etreet, ~feb3Q,‘tf MARRIED. COLLINS—CONRAD.—On the 03d Inst, at the Church of the Atonement, by the Bev.Dr. wateon, Henry HDI Collins to KdUh iL, daughter of Solomon Conrad, B>n. t all of this city. * WHITBY—VAN UAMP.~OnJ Tuesday morning, the S3d inst., by. Her. William J. Clark, at the rest* tience o_f Percy llellticr, Esq., Harry Whliby, Esq , io Hies Kate \an Camp, both of Lancaster city. 11 ”d3S). ASHMAN —On Sunday, Slet Inst, In Baltimore, at twelve o’clock P. JL, Alfred Ashman, fa the CWth year of his age. - FINN.—On the 22d Inst, Walter H. Finn, in the 2Gtb jear of hia age. The relatives and m»le friends are respectfally In vited to attend the funeral, from the residence of bis father. James C, Finn, No. Hifi Chestnut street, cm Tharsday morning, at 10 o’clock. Interment at Laurel Oil). I.ANB.—On the 22d Inst., William Horace, son of Davie M. and Caroline D. Lane, agedh years and 2 tnotuhs.- The relative* and friends of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of bis parents, No. 33 North Thirty-ninth street, on Thursday, the 2ftth fust, at 2 o’clock F. M. To pro ceed to Mount Moriah Cemeteiy. REED.—On ti o morning of tne22<J inst , Annie Ger trude, wife of W. T. Iteea, in the 33d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend loc funeral, from the residence of her hu.-b&nd, Cheltenham, Montgomery county, at 10 o’clock A M., on Thursday, Siith Inst. To pnwteed to Laurel Hill. Carriages will be in watting at Oak Lane Nation. X. T. H. K., for the U4SA. M. train from this city. ' HUSTON.-On Monday morning, February 22 4. Mrs. Margaret Klatou, widow of the iato George Kis lon, of this city. The.friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence. No. 23 £■• utii Sixteen* h blje‘-t, on Tharpday morning, at o< JM-k. A H'gh Ua*s will be celebrated at St. John's Church. Thirteenth street. • ScHNEUJA.--Fell asleep in «Te»u£ v in Hacken- N. J. t on the evening of tb<*2rd inst.', Henry <V S hitthly, in the year of his age. The idative* and friends of the family are Invited to attend the foocra', from the res'<3gr.ee of his eqn-ln )«w, James K. Linurh, No. 222\\*c>rth N'iulh at:eel, on Th ir-duv, at 2 o'clock. WAItL-Dn the evening or the 2?d Inst., John F. War*.-, rmi of L»r. Joimihan anti Mary A. Ware, of >» ii!ou. Mass. It YaKRQW- February 23d, Jvlward Yarrow, In the 2. hi year of his " The relathe* aud friends of the family, Franklin Lodges No. 134, A. Y. M., • *mpaav I), Uxey HeserM-s, and th»- PhcerJx Hoe Company, are respectfully in viied io attend hi* funeral, on Friday af.ern*»o«, Feb. 2.6 th, M 3 o’clock, from his late residence, 2133 Arch-si. i N-w York and Savanoab papers please copy, j ** TVf AGNIFICENT BLACK DRESS SILK 3. IVI satin faced gp.oqiuins. HEAVIEST CORDED SILKS. WIDOWS* SILKS. 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It ■MSV LANDSDOWN—LANDBDOWN.—WiII not the owners of this Estate convene, and adopt somo measures to prevent the sacriiice of their property? 22 3t* HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOD, IMS AND 1630 Lombard street. Dispensary Deportment.—Medi cal treatment and medicine furmshea gratuitousi* to the poor. RAID UPON VHB JIERPHHS AND CHABLGSfVN BAILBOAD. The Battlers Foiled—'Three Captured. One Killed. [From the Mobilo Register, Fob. 18.1 We learn some particulars of an exciting af fair which occurred on Monday night in Tish oming county. A party of five or six men, un derstood to be from Moscow, Tenn., came over the lino with the purpose of throwing off the track and robbing the pay train on tho Memphis nnd Charleston railroad, at a point between BurnsviUo and lulsa. The sheriff of tho county by some means obtained Intelligence of the proposed depredation, and, gathering a pome, came upon tho desperndoes in thoir lurking place. His order to halt was responded to by one of the gang firing at tho Sheriff’s party, several of whom returned tho Are, and two charges of buclc- Bhot took effect in the face of ono of tho robbers, named Jack Davenport, killing him Instantly. A charge was then made, and three of iho gang were captured, one or two others escaping. Tuesday morning tho prisoners wero under an efficient guard at the' depot, In Burnsville, the body of the dead man lying on the platform. —ln a wine case in New Orleans a few days since twenty bottles were used up by tho judge and other members of the court in testing Us quality. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS TUB ECVJinENICAE. COCNCII,. Subject, for Deliberation—The Pope of •be future. | [Florence Correspondence of tbo London Times.] . Among themattcre upon which the Universal Connell, appointed to. meet at Romo In the month of December next', will have to deliberate, .'there is one in which Italy la particularly inter filed. TbU Is a project for proceeding to the choice of a new Pontiff without awaiting the death of him whom ho shall succeed. ;The cholfco and; Inauguration of , a Pope arc divided Into three parts : First cornea the election by the Cardinals assembled In conclave at the Qalrinal: then the ■exaltation, when the newly-elected, seated in the pontifical chair, is carried on men’s shoulders to tne Chhrchof St. Peter; finally, to thd exalta tion succeeds the coronation, when thejpulssant spirllnaLprince, and most abiolate of-eurthly sovereigns, who adopts the lowlv title of the ‘•Seryant of :the Bervants oC God,'’ afesniiies the triple tiara that symbolizes his various powers. Of these three ceremonies, the first only can be carried ont In the case ol a Pope elected during .the life of bis piedecessor, and who will thenceforward have the position of an heir to the crown. The object of thus choosing a suc cessor to PlusJX. before his death is easy to di vine,. It Is desired to.abbreviate an interregnum that might favor the designs of the enemies of tbctanporal power. It cannot be doubted that the great Council which is to assemble in Rome in about ten months’ time will be ready enough to meet the views of the originators of the scheme, and to sanction, in the most solemn manner, the proposed innovation. It re mains to be seen what Italy wQI say to a manoeuvre so manifestly’ directed to thwart her aspirations. There are grounds for btlievlDg that this Government, whose informa tion from Rome seems better than It used to be, is perfietly aware of the plans of the Vatican. These were not to have been allowed thus early to transpire, and it is only in consequence of the indiscretion of a highly-placed dignitary that they nave now become known. We may pre sume that no time will have bceD lost in calling utlcDtioD to them at Paris, bat time has yet beeo wanting to know the Impression there produced, or to allow of the topic being discussed between the two Cabinets. Such discipline is likely to be facilitated by the fact that there has lately been itnprofcd cordiality of Intercourse between the Governments. Suffocated in a Turkish Bath Two Turks, domestics in the employ of Prince Moetopbn Fsztl, were suffocated a few days ago in the bath which has just been erected in his Highness's konak at Stambonl. The bath had her n boated for ibe- first Lime, and the deceased went into It about 2 o’clock in the morning. It sctmß that they fell asleep; one, a young man, never awoke; the servants succeeded in rousing the other, but Ibe poison of the fumes bad taken too etreig hold of him, and he died in the eourse of a few hours.— levant Timet. A Valuable Art Acquisition. The Berlin Mueeuw has just been enriched by a inagniflctDt acquisition, consisting of a "talue ol an Amazon of Pcntelican marble recently ex cavated in the Vicolo di S. Nicolai di Tolcutino. Ihe lype is that of the wounded Amazons, of which two copies are extant, one in the Vatican, the oihcr in the CapitoUnc ilusunm. That now lound, though resembling the Vatican one more ■ •iossiy, is. in the uuanimous opinion of the Ltichit-uiogisle and sculptors of Rome, fur superior to both in conception and execution, it is al together prono.ncnd *.o bo the S»uot ctalnp that has come to light in Italy within the last thirty years. It is abont eight feet high, and quite per fect, with the exception of a few slight deficien cies In the feel <md hands, about the proper resto ration of which there'is, in the presence of the two replicas, not the slightest difficulty. Ii was sold to the Berlin authorities for 15.500 irancs. Praryer. in tbe ft ti dm Iren l.anjiuaerc.. The Homan Catholic college of Pet.ersborg has decided that the Russian language is, ecclesiasti cally speaking, no language at all. The question arose out ol the fact that in Lithuania and other parts It had become absolutely imperative to say the prayer for the Emperor and the Imperial family In Koseian. Was there any objection to tho use of that language on the part of the Church authorities:' Whereupon the Roman Catholic consistory of Mohiiev gave II as their official opinion that tho public prayer for the Emperor could ODly ba said cither in Latin or in Polish, becanso the Pope lmd ooly recognized Polish Lithuanian and IxTlish as the national languages of the Catholic inhabitants of Lithuania, while Russian bud hitherto never been known uud used within the Roman Cbnrcb, and “is, therefore, without the special permission of the Pope, not to be made nee of on pain of excommunication.” The Burgos Murder—Excitement at It o 111 e. Thr tragedy at Bnrgos has thrown the Vatican into consternation, and this has been aggravated by the accounts received of the hostile manifesta tions against the Holy Bee at Madrid, and the at tacks on the Nuncio. The first impulse was to break off relations with the Provisional Govern ment by recalling Moneignor Francbi to Rome, but, as the lacts are known only from the news papers, It was decided to first demand satisfac tion from the authorities, and make the continu ance of tho Nuncio at Madrid depend on tho re sult. Benhor Posada Herrera has tried to reas sure the Pope, but with little suc cess, and the Holy Father expresses the greatest alarm at the religions agitation in the Spanish peninsula. His Holiness is, we hear, hardly less disturbed at the position of the Church in Austria. Count de Trauttmansdorff’s expedition to Vienna has done nothing to im prove his position at the Pontifical Court. Count Bcust will make no concession, and only urges the Vatican to accept the new laws, and wait a more favorable lime lor obtaining modifications. He has sent Connt Leon de Thun, a fervent Catholic, and a favorite with the Pope, to second the efforts of the ambassador for this object There iB a rumor, indeed, that the Count brings conciliatory overtures, but the Pope is probably aware that Count Beusl has little in his power in this respect Death ol William Carleton. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, died on Saturday, January 30, at his residence .in the suburb of Bnndford, England, at the age of 75 years. He 1b tho last of the class of writors who have devoted themselves specially to the illustra tion of Irish peasant life, and he was probably the most successful, haTlng, besides his natural ability, peculiar advantages -in his early associa tions. He was the son of a small farmer living at Cloghcr, in the county Tyrone, and he mingled in the scenes which he depleted with such touching pathos and graphic power. Ho has worked up somo of the incidents of his own career in his “Traits and Stories of the 1 1 iab Peasantry," which first introduced him to tho public ae an author; nnd among tho most striking characters in it are persons of a type familiarly known to him. Ho was educated for the priosthood under great difficulties, but changed his mind and his course in life, and, coming to Dublin with 2s. 9d. in his pocket, he betook himself to literary pursuits. He became edilor of tho Christian Examiner, which pious periodical waa his first source of permanent em ployment, and contrasted rather strangely with the humorous tone of his works. Ho did not, however, very long remain in a position which was not quite In keeping with tho character of his mind. He wrote a ( second series of “Traits and Stories,” and a num ber pf novels upon a larger scale. Tho most popular were “Fnrdoroughn the Miser,” “The Fawn of Bpringvale,” “Valentine M’Clutehy,'’ “Tho Irish Agent,” “The Black Prophet,” and others of more modem production. His latter PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 186&. works, commencing with the “Agent," were In tend! d to depict come of the features of the Irish .question, and had a political tendency different from that el his first writings. Ho was allowed a pension of .£2OO a J'car, and has left a numerous family utterly helpless, and dependent upon, the hope of its continuance. Con nt Blamnrcli’s IS ew Map of Europe. The International of London and Paris of the fid inst. publishes a. plan of Const Bismarck's geographical views respecting . the future, of Europe. The most striking feature Is the solid and square proportions given ,to tha Prussian empire, the frontiers of which are Indicated as follows: To,the north along the: Baltic from the Vistula to the frontiers ol Holland, including Dcnmsrkf to the southeast it avoids Cracow and Vienna, but Includes Bohemia, Bavaria and Wurtcmbhrg on to tho right shore of the Rhine,' the left'' being, ceded to" France. Switzerland and Holland are loft, as it were, in donbt, the frontier line not being in el tlicr casAcarried past the present boundaries of those conn tries. 'Berlin is indicated as tho imps* ■ isl capital, while Hanover, Posen, Dresden, Prague, Stuttgart and Mnntch are classified as the reals of Viceroyalties. Austria and the Princi palities are entitled the Danubian Empire. The Kasslan limits start from the norih.at the month of. the Vfstnla and strike off eastward at the city of, Cracow, which city Is incinded in the Dana bian Empire. The line of the French Empire follows the left shore of the Rhine from the fron tiers of Holland to the frontiers of Switzerland. CUBA. Wunto in Eton’s Itlrttiday in Havana— X lie Iren-clads at Key West- the Cause of Hxcltement. Hz vaka, Feb. 22,1869/ —Washington’s birth day has been celebrated here by the United States steamer Contoocook, the flag-ship of Admiral Hoff, firing the nsual national salnte. The Spanish and French flag-ehipß in the harbor courteously replied, hoisting, meanwhile, the Siars-ond-Strlpes at the main. Daring the day (he French Admiral paid an official visit to Ad miral Hoff. Intelligence has been received from Key West 10-day of Ihe arrival of two iron-clad ships there, which has caused great excitement and mach peculation as to whether they are the two Span ish iron-clads, Fernando et Catolico and her consort, whose coming has been announced from Spain. - panlsb Troops to Start for tbe Inte rior-more I'lantaiioiis Burned—An Expedition front Neuvitas Bone to t>unnaira—Tile Relief of Puerto Prin cipe tiie Supposed Object—lncreased Import and etport buties. Hay asa, Feb. 23, 1869.—Three thousand Span ish troops leave here to-morrow for the interior, bnt ihtir precise destination is not yet known. Ail the papers published here urge the volun teers to preserve good discipline and place re liance npon the assurances of the authorities that vigorous measures will be pursued towards (he rebels. When the salutes in honor of Washington’s (’irihday were being fired on yesterday, the in habitants of the suburbs became terribly frlght teDfcd, supposing that a etruggle had commenced n the city. Reports from Villa Clara state that another ••Mate bos been burnt near that place. At Jagaey be iDsnrgents have fired thirty-six cane fields I hev have also burnt the plantation Australia, :■( forging lo Senor Mara, a Cuban. The steamship Bavaria, for New Oricans, will t arty 2,500 (?) passengers. Intelligence Irom Nuevitas to the 18th instant, represent that Governor Lesca, at the head of an « j f.vduton of a,aM men. including a force of cav alry, with several howitzers, a large number or ectsee, provisions to last for some days, and 110 oiinds of ammunition for each man, has gone in hj. It is not stated where this force is tles oocd lor, bnt Guanaja is supposed to be the ob i ciive point. From thence they can march to !’u>*Tto Principe, a distance of thirty-six milts, through an open road, avoiding the it:b< 1 fortifications. Gnanoja being in possession of ihe insurgents, however, and fortified with ,-everal pieces of artillery, the troops will prob ably have to carry Ihe place by assault before moving on Puerto Principe, as they cannot make a flank movement without leaving their rear ex posed to the insurgents. The road also runs Lbrough the Culita Mountain, which is now in poseestion of the insurgents. The 6chooDer Kate Rangei has been prohibited oading a cargo which came through the rebel hues, and has gone to Matanzas. The steamer Bemiramishas sailed for Hayti, lea ling the claim upon her unsettled. By a decreo of the Captain General the export inly from the Ist of March next will be as follows: On sugar, fifty cents per box and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hogshead; on tobacco, one collar pur bale, nnd cigars fifty cents per thoa s:\ud. On all imports five per cent, additional ax will be levied. Twenty-five per cent, of the ecelpts will be paid to the Banco weeklv for the -d vance of SS,OUO,OOO. A l ighting- Parson—A Challenge Dc- dined, According to the Ere/iing Express, of Washing ton, parson Sharman, who was hissed on Sanday ■ veniDg while preaching at the National theatre, cause he pitched into President Johnson for pardoniDg the static r who eosv tiidtd a Patent Office < >, has taken ht offensive attitude, says: “On Vlonday Mr. Dempsey >n by a gen leman acting as tl Kev. Mr. sharman, who conveyed a message to the tallowing effect: ‘lf Mr. Dempsey will bring his ■ owhioeup to the rooms of Mr. Sharman, No franklin Square, he will find Mr. Sharman at home, and Mr Sharman will in no event prosecute him for asaault.’ ” Astounded at the strangeness of the message, Mr. Dempsey was some time in makiDg_.it ont as a challenge to combat, if DempseySfcre so disposed. MaKing inquiry to ascertain if his correspondent waß a wag or a lunatic, Mr. Dempsey as ■eitained that the Bev. Mr. Sharman was an ex captuin of the English army,vigorous in tnclegs, ditto in tho arms, bandy with the small sword uDd lively with the trigger. Ascertaining these preponderating circumstances on the side of tho Church militant. Mr. Dempsey declined to en gage In combat with Mr. Sharman, and at the latest accounts the Church militant was also the Church triumphant. The moral of all this is : ihat fighting is communicative. The first blow is the first of a series, and a private quarrel pro vokes partisans, leads to fresh aggressions, and finally passes from tho domain of sinners to in volve even the saints. Ihc Burden murder. The New York World Buys : ‘‘The story which the World printed a few days ago, embodying the alleged confession of Charles M. Jctfefds that he mnrdered Dr. Bnrdell, has been widely copied and commented upon by the press thronghont tho country. We have refrained from an expression of opinion as to the truthful ness or falsity of the story; but one of Jeflerds'a counsel has taken pains to declare that in ills belief Jeffords not only did not murder Burdell, but was not concerned in the Walton- Matthews assassination, for which he was tried and convicted. Tho Albany Evening Journal also calls attention to aVTonfes slon made by George W. Symonds, who was hanged at Trenton, New Jersey, April 8, 1888, that Ae was tho murderer of Dr. Burdell; and a daily paper in tiffs city at the time of the murder labored industriously to show that a person who was recently sentenced for another crime was clearly tlie assassin. At this rate, the murderers of Burdell threaten to rival, in number at least, tho prosumed murderers of Rogers, and thero are nearly enough of tho latter to give tho attack upon that unfortunate man the character of a regularly organized battle. “Ae to the presumed connection of Jeffords ■with the-Burdell affair, without yot affirming to know whether ho really committed that murder ■j OUR TtfHOLE COUNTRY. **Afl tbe family of Dr, Thomas’ Dlcklns wfire at sap per Jest night, several armed unknown men, npon hon ee,reae up to the house and fired their cans through the windows, kHlfne Dr. Diqklnsand Mr. Green Wil son find a * colored servant named Mary, and then hashed PIT to parfs unknown. Dr. Dlckins was hit in ? the arm and be Ad. AH the victims died soon after they were tobot.; The remainder of the*famQy were para lyzed* with fear at this mysterious and unexpected vla itaiipn of,death, and did not recover their conscious nessi w time to see or follow the assassins. “The news was at length spread among the neigh bors; who.spent the*night in scouring the country »ind watching the roads, to capture thedemons. Their efforts were unsuccessful, ana a courier was sent to •ecure the assistance of the Sheriff and bis posse, and *lro the police force of the city, who aro now investi gating the affair. “Who the assassins are Is not known, but tho friends of Dr. Dick ins are said to believe that they are a party led, ®r employed, by fcfs opponents In a law suit, which is now pending in .the Chancery Court.” Tho 'Williamsport Standard of Monday says: “We’were startled about 1 o’clock on Monday morning by the ringing oi the locomotive belis and tbe cry of fire, when it was discovered that a fire bed broken out in the engine house occu pied by the Catawissa Railroad Company, situ ate on Railroad avenue, above Hepburn street, in this city, which destroyed the house, and also the freight depot, adjofning, which buildings were used by the Catawissa and N. C. Railway Company. The freight and movable property of both buildings were removed and saved, leav ing tbe loss of property comparatively 6mall. It is believed to have been the work of an iocen diary, as there wub do fire known to have been left on Saturday evening about the premises.” The troubles of the Episcopal Church in rela tion to the invasion of the jurisdiction of one clergyman by another seem not yet ended, ft now appears that even a Bishop cannot preach in ibe diocesan limits of aether Epis copal dignitary without runnSg a risk of exploding gome canon. Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, formerly widely known as ihe eloquent rector of Trinity Church, last faU made a powerful address In the city of Newport against the Ritualistic party. Hev. Mr. Cheney, of Christ Church, thereupon invited him to visit Chicago and speak npon tbe same general subject, in connection with tbe work of the Evangelical Education Society, a Low Church organization for educating candi dates for the ministry. To this, Bishop Whitchonse has entered'his protest. Bat Bishop Camminßjbelieving that he has an inalienable right to preach wherever a brother clergyman may ask him to occupy his pulpit, has declined to yield to such assumption of authority. We learn that he speaks to-night at Christ Church, on “The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; its Work and Its Worth.” Garibaldi- on the furagnayan War. A c£.r.a>rinßa®»t writing from Florence to iko [Hano do Rio says: "A friend happening to talk with Garibaldi ■< bout America, the conversation turned on the Firagnayan war, upon which the General said: Notwithstanding that I am not a friend of crowned heads, and that my opinions are Repub lican,'! am bound lo confess that in South America Brazil forms an exception, because it is governed by a monarch who is honest, enlight ened, and a friend of liberty. The ambitious Ideas of conqnest attributed to him are false, and in the present war Brazil is completely right. It knows the provoking turbulence of its neighbors. In all its wars Brazil has always given solemn proofs of its moderation and disin terestedness, and It maybe 6aid that the neighbor ing Republics owe their prosperity and the liberty they enjoy to Brazil. No better proof of this is Deeded than the Argentine Republic, that has prospered so much since Rozas was expelled Irom the country, at the cost of such great sacri fice of blood and money on the part of Brazil. Lopez, I leel certain, is even worse than Rozas, and Paraguay also will owe to Brazil Its civiliza tion and liberty.’ ” Thk Cxi.vert Gaxlbby, a small private colleo tion very carefully selected, will be dispersed to morrow evening at the establishment of B. Scott, Jr., 1020 Chestnut street. The following pictures are really worth attention, for the successful fea tures which we shall Indicate: No. 54, a large Bubject by Nordenbere, is con sidered the gem of the group, and wUI delight Ibose who like the Diisseldorf style of painting. It is a complicated scene of weighing rustic beauties in a mill. The picture tells its story to perfection.—67, “The Unlucky Number,” has still more excellence as a piece of painting. An armorer is employed to mend a cuirass after a battle. A bullet-hole, precisely opposite the heart, tells a horrible story of sadden slaughter, which is finished by the raven, tearing on the floor a bloody cloth which has formed tho lining. The armorer, to his superstitious sur prise, finds, from an engraved mark, that the piece has pertained to a suit of mail designated by the fatal number 13. This single figure, capi tally paißted, is better than a wholo battle-piece. —Van der Vin, in 69, presents a simple ferry scene, one of tho best pieces of tone in the col lection; a pendant to the picture is owned and highly prlzcel by Ball, Black & Co., the New if ork jewelers:—No. 62, by Bosdermann, repre sents two pretty children plaving in a doorway, in the radiance of noou; a line warm effect of light, pleas ing figures, and felicitous accessories: —Nci. 42, by Slroebel of Amsterdam, evidently a carelul student of Rembrandt, represents a com 7jUtee meeting In a sombre interior relieved by glowing passages of sunlight.—No. :tu, Dutch ndiarf-scene,by Hnlck, hhs light todtirv water.— ;> '\ ky B&vry, cattle-eeeno, is a fair example.—3B, The Coming Storm." is by Mnsin, of the Brus sels school, a beach-scene painted much as a Frenchman would have painted it, with good tone but defective wave-drawing. Kook koch, the father, presents his elegant, enawelud oolting landscape idoal in No. 49, and M A- Koekkoek, with a stag-hunt, and W. Koekkouk, v. Rh one ot his Dutch street-views, justify the (avor in which this industrious family of picture loskors are held in this country.—The French picture, No. 10, by Limfant de Motz, was selected with an artist’s discrimination by poor Julliard, ihe capable painter who reverted to his native land, in 1867, to learn, —and only returned to his adopted one to die. Tbs collection is rich in interesting Philadel phia pictures;'Mr. Calvert hardly over selected a work of a tcliow-townsman that was not a credit to the art of onr city, and to the discernment of the patr*n. The femalo head by Bully, No. 27. ustd to bo surrounded by admirers while exposed by Its owner at tho Sanitary Fair.—W. T. Rich ards, whoso pictures so seldom escape into tho public auction, is represented by nn effect of sunset light on . a hoaving sea, as rare, as it is true. This (No. 46) is one of his close studies made at Narragansot. —E. D. Lewi?, in No. 61, “Valley and fills of tho aiuonoosnek, White Mountains, displays him self in a groat diorama, filled and saturated with sunehino. This picture rovoals his very best or not, it is beyond dlepnte that ho declared that be conimiUcdjULand made tbe confession which th e World printed to Detective William B. Moore, of this city/* TRAGEDY* Three Persons JlaPdOred. The Memphis Post of the 20th'Bays : ' Great excitement baa prevailed on tho streets this forouoon in cootiegaeuce of a vague story of three most horrible murders which occarred l&8t hight,abont twelyeinUefl from tbia city, at what is known as the 'Old. Dickjba Place,' two miles from Cuba, in this county. Tbe report was brought to tbe police author ities by a special meeseDger r deBpatched from the scene of tho atrocious and appalliag outrage. The particu lars of the Affair, as wo learn then* from the Sheriff and polled, are as follows: Fire In Pa. Tbe Episcopal T roubles f n Chicago. 1 (l From tbe Chicago Tribune, Feb. 2LI VHE FINE ASIA'S. qnallticß, and 1 very few of Iris weaker ones I here are Govern! sketches by Hamilton; Hamilton . .cares little for these easy trifles—lt la the con- Boiasenrs who valne them E. Moran’s "Out \ w ard Bound,” No. 14, Is small, bnt large enough ;to develop one of . his happy effects ,of vapor on the water.—Behnessele, 1b 0 . ,?r ge . and recent plctnre, No. 35, exhibits tbe bcantifnf Alsatian costtuhe, snch a .favorite with Dore. Two handsome women are depicted, one of whom is puzzled over a sheet of blank letter-paper; the legend Is, “VPhat shall I Bay to him?”—Milne Ramsey, who is sanding from time to time snch beautiful fruit-pieces from his Paris studio, is- represented by a des eert gronp that was a particular favorlto with himself; ho left the picture regret fully with Mr. Calvert on his departure, feeling, hardly able to part with it, and doubtful whether he could ever match again certain grays in the background, certain coruscations in the wineglass, and a certain mysterious bloom oil the fralt. No. 29: “The Captive Bird,” an unchallfcoged original by Roux, is exciting the interest of the antiquarians. It is a figure of French «4ze, and % length. The color Is very sweet and Just, and tho conception piqpant; it is a-vainable example of what may be called sonbrette art. Jean Raoul was a French painter of gallantry at the beginning of the eighteenth cehtnry. Gain ing the prix-de-Rome in 1704, he resided and Btndled in Italy on the favor of that prize, and npon returning to Paris in 1714 began to execute works of decoration for the prior of Vendome, (his patron and a Roman acqnaintance) and others among the luxurious clergy of the time. He entered the Academy in 1717. His many por traits are generally hutoriia or decked out with allegory: a large number actresses of the day, whom he delighted to paint as Venus,. Pomona,Ceres, “and sometimes (says the French memoir) as Vestals." His works, which have been largely reproduced by the French engravers, are usually more burdened with pedantry, and more divregent from modern taste, than the pleasing figure in the picture cow exhibited. The history of the latter Is a somewhat cartons one, and will be communicated to tbe buyer. But- a single work of Raoul’s (a Telemachne and Ca- Ivpso) adorns the Louvre, but his portraits and decorations are eommon in French collections. Tho sale will commence to-morrow at half past 7 P. M. AraVSEtnEMTS. —The Handel and Haydn Society have com pleted their arrangements for the performance of Rossini's Oratorio of Moses in Egypt , and in a few weeks expect to present this great work in a style worthy of the memory of the great com poser. The coming performance will be the last of the season, but it should not be so, as two per formances would certainly be well sustained by the public. It is understood that the solo parts are confided to Miss Maria Brsinerd, of New York, (her first appearance in Philadelphia). Mrs. 8. Mozart, Mr. George Simpson, Mr. Grat, Mr. Gilchrist, and lastly, Mr. A. R. Taylor, to whom is assigned tho part of “Moses. With snch an array, the performance ought to bo the great event of the season. This oratorio has been repeatedly performed in Boston, where it is a great favorite, bnt has been performed here bnt once (and then withont an orchestra), owing to the great expense neoessary for its proper production. The character of the music is exceedingly brilliant, and its six solo parts require voices of extraordinary compass and culture. An unexpected difficulty in its pro duction arose from the fact that the orchestra parts were not to be obtained in this country or in Bngland; the only publication being in Italy, and that the operatic arrangement. This diffi culty was overcome by the kindness of the Bos ton Hander and Hayan society, wno nave their orchestral parts for this occasion. The vast difference in the cost of bringing out a work of tbis kind, in comparison with ordinary concerts, is not properly appreciated. The re hearsals of the choral music and of the orchestra, the cost of the music, and of a grand orchestra of the best musicians, the expense of bringing solo ists from other cities to give a satisfactory ensem ble in the performance,and the liberal advertising to bring it before the public,require a formidable outlay, when it is considered that it is lor one performance only. It is well known that in Boston oratorios are continually given through the winter, and the taste of the religions public is improved by these opportunities. Our Society should do more, during the season, and more pride should bo taken by those who do not attend the opera, to sustain their efforts. The Handel and Haydn probably have in their library a dozen standard oratorios, which they have studied, and could sing, if properly sustained; bnt the neces sity of purchasing and producing several new workß each season, entails upon them great expense. Standard operas are produced year after year to full houses, and the appreciation of the music evidently improves with the know-’ lulge of it. Why should ft not be so with sacred music? The Messiah is frequently snng every winter in New York and Boston to large audi ences, bnt Is rarely beard here. Tho evident pleasure with which the Contralto solo from it was received at the last Handel and Haydn con cert is an evidence that it ought to be kept before the people and performed every season. The Society is rising rapidly in the estimation of the religious public, and can exert an influence which will soon enable it to aim at gTeatcr CDds. It has a large list of subscribers of influence and taste, and it should adopt some plan to bring them more In contact with the working members. The mere subscrip tion is not all that is now needed; there are many, who, knowing nothing of the Society except in its concerts, would, we have no doubt, gladly give such assistance if colled upon. This would infnse greater vitality, enlarge the viewß and in crease the ability of its Directors to make their uoncerts perfect, and would, we have no doubt, enable them to exert still larger usefulness, ana udd to tho prestige which tho Handel and Haydn now enjoys, of being one of the best music soci eties in America. —Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams will appear at the Walnut Street Theatre this evening in Shandy Mayuire, In and Out of Place , and a Look af a Lover. ■ —A Victim of Ciixumstances nn& the burlesque Pocahontas wilt be given at the Arch this evening, / —Miss Susan Galton will appear In the comic opera Fanchetlo at the Chestnut Street Theatre this evening. Mr. WhiiHn will have a benefit on Friday night. —The American announces performances by 'he Japs and by the stock company. —The French Comic Opera Company will be cln an engagement at the Academy of Music on Monday night next. Tickets can be procured at Bower’s, No. 1102 Chestnut street. —MncEvoy’s “Hibernloon” will bo exhibited at Assembly Buildings to-morrow eroding. —Mr. Jos. E. Murdoch, tho tragedian, will give select readings at Morton Hall, West Philadel phia, to-morrow night. —At the Acadomy of Music, to-morrow even ing, ltev. Henry Ward Beecher will lecture upon "Rational Amusements.” —ln “La Darne do Moneoronu,” now perform ing in Paris, tho actor Mclinguo, who has to de fend himself in a combat against sixteen assail ants, becomes so fatigued toward the close that iioia obligta to retreat to tho wings, when another actor, dressed precisely like him, takes his place and continues the fight, taking ears to keep his buck to the audience. - In his new book on tho uso of tobacco, Dr. Grieeom lays great stress on its directly poison ous eflccts; and his ugly catalogue of the oouso qucnccs of excess in its use iucludes uervous dis turbances and palpitation of the heart, blindness, djßpepsio, jaundice inflammation of tho liver; dysentery, cancer, destruction of tho teeth and jaw. paralysis, ear-ache, imbecility, idiocy, in sanity and death. He insists further that the common notion that tobacco prevents malaria, or aids digestion, is wholly-unfounded, F. I. FETHERSTOJf. PoMislUK PRICE THREE GENTS. FIFTH EHIMOH BY TELEGRAPH. WASHINGTON. Mr. Sehcnck's Financial Bill. The Howto Passes It by a Vote of 119 feas to 61 Hays. PRINTING THE CONGRESSIONAL" REPORTS* Latest cable quotations Passage of thf Financial mil few tlt*: If o use. | [Special Despatch tc-tbe Phfla. Bveaini BaQattn.! ' Washington, Feb: 24 The Bouse has passed Mr. BcheDckfs finance biU by a vote of 119 to fit The first section declares in favor of an early re sumption of specie payments, and that all gov ernment obligations, which are not otherwise specified, shall be paid In coin after the green backs are made eqnal to coin. This section woe retained by a strong vote of 129 to 54.. The second section of the Mil legalizes gold contracts. Printing Congressional Debates. [Special DeroaUh to the Bhlla. Evening Boliotin.l Washington, Feb. 24.—' The Senate has passed a resolution authorizing the Printing Committee to contract with the present proprietors of the Globe for printing the Congressional debates, If they can mahe a satisfactory contsaet. By Use Atlantic Cable. London, Feb. 24, Evening.—Consols, 93 for money and account. Five-Twenties firm, at Railways quiet. Erie, lllinois, 973*. Fhankfobt, Feb. 24.—Five-Twenties, 83. Liveupool, Feb. 24, Evening:—Cotton do oilning; Dplands, 12d.; Orleans, 12%d. The sales to-day were 7,000 bales. Shipments of cob ton from Bombay to February 19th, since the lost report (according to Renter’s despatch), 33,000 bales. Turpentine, 82. .London, Feb. 24, Evening.—Refined Petro leum, Is. lOd. Linseed Oil, .£2B 6s. Antwkrp, Feb. 24.—Petroleum fiat at 57@57)£f. Havbk, Eeb. 24.—Cotton qnlet; Low Middling, afloat, 142 f. From \V asbington. Washington, Feb. 20. —The Senate has passed the joint resolution authorizing the Committee on Public Printing to conclude a satisfactory contract with Rives & Baily for reporting, and publishing the debates (or the next two years. From ist. Louib 8-l Louis, Feb. 24, —At a late hour last night* the lollowmg cimnengu was sent w On.UagVr%. the winner of the prize light yesterday: St. uouis, Feb. 23 I hereby challenge Mr. Charles C. Gallagher to fight mo a fair stand-up fight, necording to the new rules of the London prise-ring, in one week from to-day, for $l,OOO aside. $250 are left by me this day at Isaae Campbell’s saloon, corner of Fifth and Green streets, as a first deposit on the match, and I hope Mr. Gallagher or his friends will hare game enough to cover it _ [ Signed | The tobacco factory of John W. Wray & 6®., Id Alton, Illinois, wsb burned last night, aqflt the adjoining block seriously injured. The loa is not known. Fortieth Congress Thinl Session* [Senate— Continued from Fourth Edition. The Senate then proceeded to consider the joint resolutions reported by the Joint Committee on Printing, to provide for the reporting and print ing of the debates ot the next Congress. Mr. ADthony said that the Committee had not been able to come to any definite conclusion on the subject, and had therefore decided to re port two resolutions, leaving Congress to choose between concluding a new contract with the lowest bidder, Mr. Crowell, and having the work done at the Government prindng-olUee. The Committee could not with any confidence recom mend either plan. If deciding to make any ohango, it should bo remembered that the pre sent publishers of the Globe had done their work very well and satisfactorily. [JdocsK -Continued from Fourth Edition.) Mr. Brooks (N. Y.) said ho would vote for the bill, and he remarked there was not time to say a few words upon It. Ho contended that the Democratic party had always been a hard money party, and that it was not till the days of the Republican domination that the country was flooded with an irredeemable panor currency. After some farther remarks by Messrs Judd, Bromwoll and Broomall, Mr. Schonck moved the previous question on the bill and amendments. Mr. Shanks moved that the bill be laid upoat the table. Snip News. Boston, Feb. 24th Arrived, steamship Per sia, from Liverpool. New Yoke, Feb. 24th Arrived, steamships India, from Glasgow, and Electra, from Naptha, and Palermo. Kins; mud, Messrs. Editors: —Your remarks in reference to "King Mud” in your edition of the £2d- lush arc very good, and to the purpose. They suggest the following: I know afmo way of bettering the condition of the streets.than by placing the cleansing of them in the bands of tho. Board of Health. Wo know that the cleansing ftfi' the streets by contracts voted for by Qouceila Itfc costing the city vastly more than it ought, s.nd more than It wonld If contracts weregirou. out by a department where there wonld not be much chance of bargaining for voles. The solo of street dirt ought to go far towards paying the. cost of cleansing the streots, ahd; would da-so’ with jndicions management. If a company could be formed to cleanse the, streets. Including tho cleansing of cess-pools, and located vvlthcat the, city bouiids, a compost couth bo made., alike valuable and profitable, and bafoae a great- while permission would be asked La olcauso tha streets*, without a consideration. Thcgatherim^af, caal-v., ashes is, perhaps, an Impediment to cheap cleans*, mg of streets. It is known, however, thai nshoa, possess fertilizing Dropoff,es. and will Been ba used in that connection;, besides, they are botter for paving than gravel, and have lately taken the’ place of sand in plastering, having.; been used with success In some of Our best structures. The garbage can bo collected by Individuals without cost. In Boston aad suburbs itbil-aesan income 10 tho city (It Is contracted far) of $0,805, and receipts for Bale of ashes amounted to $lO 373. All these thing®, could be accomplished in Phila delphia by proper efforts in the right direction,; ASuMOfiIBBB. —Dubuque is a town where tho boys reign su preme. An assemblage of citizens hcadedhv the ‘'mtmliipal lhoy fondly believed themselves, was lately broken up and driven tiom tbo ground by n crowd of boys armed only Xi\lh snow balls, . 4:00 CVOloofa:; Thomas Auen.
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