=MONFE OCK. Editim • VOLUME XXII.-NO: 275. 12 , 14 'EVENING BULLETIN; tvimatinErt LVBRY Emma, (Suutlais excevted). - AT THE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING. 607 434eetnns Street, Philadelphia. E~EDTING psoiihrroEs. gOSBON PEACOCK, CASPER SoUDER, L. MBERBTo y ra N j i tin f kli s lLLLititiON. The Btrtiirtli aerved to subccribere in the city at 18 per creek, • arable to the carriers. or $8 per annum /AGENTS AND SOLICITORS FOR LIFE INSURANCE; And ntipetioni contemplating Insurance, WILL DO WELL TO SEE MR. H. G. WILSON, AT THE OFFICE OF THE Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., 821 CHESTNUT EITICEET. 146stuthil% WEDDING CARDS. INVITATIONS FOS YAM tlee.&e. New stiles. An MASON & sCOtr,. ntti Chestnut eet. IATEDDING INVITATIONS 'ENGRAVED IN THE - Tr Newest arid beat manner. LOUIS ORE'S& BM tlonerand Engraver. 103 Chestnut street. feb 21-0 MrT7M7II KID ► AIO.—On the 12th of &mogul , . b• Rev. 'Washington B. Erben, Mr. John E. Kidd to Moo 2gaty Craig, both of thLo city. DIED. • JOIINSOR.--On Third,. month, let inst., at her resi dence near Centre Bridge, hulebury, Bucks county, Pa., Sarah Johnson, relict of John L Johnson, dec'd , In her Beth year. The relatives and friends ate invited to her funnial, ran Fiftieday morning, Third month, 4th !net-, at 10,V o'clock, from the residence of her son, David R. John son, near Centre Bride, Bucks county, without foriher notice. Cirriages will meet the A. B Kenning, elvedere Railroad train from Rensinon. at Cedtie OT3rl‘lo43.l3ttition. on 4th inst. 1101tLACE BATISTE. ttvv BlAck I'opiine. Illa ßlack TAlnl et oc. Black Parlslezum. Black Slooetellne. Black floolbazlnei. Illtilsi)N it SON. Iloorniug Dry Goode loiB CalestUUt etrect 11 , LACK AND WHITE SPRING SILKS. J-0 One ease at 61 25. One ease at SA 37g. One ease at 'SI DI One case at 5.2 W. rnhl St .k.lti SPRING GUODS. BILKS, &c. • 'I 1 eASE SPRING S'll , L}:b PO N 1 CA snaTio PEI) PE.P.Co LES.. , I UAKE.PRECALE RUBES I CASE MOH FRENCH CHINI7.F.S. - Eli RE & LAN DELL 'Fourth and Arch. QPRING,24OHP.NING GOODS.' • . , BESoON L SON alll open on MONDAY, March lit a new dock of String Mourning Gonda. 3101..1N1NG DEN G•i.JD3 HOUSE, Nn. 918 Cheetnut etreet. te274 , 4 ?SPECIAL NOTICES. wir,.American Academy of Music JAMES E. MURDOCH , , Will (letter en aadrotafor the Dew:St of the SOLDIERS' ORPHANS of tho LINCOLN INdrITLITIoN and the NOIII DOSIE on TUESDAY EVENING NEI - I'- 111,mb Oil, at a o'clock. Bubject—"RECOLLEUTION3 AND IMPRESSIONS OF ABRAIIAM LINCOLN." illustrated in Poetry and Prose. INxervid Seats. Paronette. Parquotto Circle and Hal rani. Ono Dollar. All other parts of the house. 50 cents To he had at TRIMPLER'S. 526 Chestnut street. wing tinbAinc rps Mr Headquarters Republican Invincibles SPECIAL ORDER. -The Waehington delegation tri , I amble at Reticule! Union Club lionee.lliZ CHESTNUT 2treet, WEDNESDAY. March 3. 1888, At 8 21J A. U., sharp . Drees—Dark: clothes, white gloves. and blue cloth toga. lotion cap. My order of r j. " R I Min "' Aesiatant Marehals. .711 A aNntlati. 1 t er ANNITAL — C'4IINIISI . CF,SIE NTO F TEI - 13 Llahnemacn lirdical tlf)llece of Philadelphia, at tl.e Academy of Mink, TO.3IOIIIWW, at 1211. Doors open at 11 o'clock. Vnledictory adctrers by Proferaor HENRY rwAu 2MARTIII, M. D. Musk. under the diroction of Prof. Carl Gaertner. Secured Feat» can be obtained of no Faculty, and at tho Bornovatido Pharmaeite, or at the door on day of eomnunctment. lt¢ ;Air E PEN NSY LVA IA FIRE INSURANCE COM PANY.—tdarch ht. 180 The Directors have this day declared a dividend of SEVEN DOLLARS AND FIVI'Y UEN 18 per ehare on the stock of the , crayon , ' for toe tart FiX months. which mitt be paid to the Stockholders or their legal represents divee. after the 11th instant. coh2 to rithll3 WI& G. CROWELL. Secretary. stir LPIIST S 9 mr i i(j o r i lilll V lMEL l E:llit i , .11A ROIL NI ill (logo at thin ogle° on wEaDtattiLL?: li tt r ar * c a ti ni Va a i 7A. M. 11.4 II IL BINGEIAM, P. M. Iser THE REGULAR Ah NUM. MEETING OF THE YOUNG AMERICA CRICKED CLUB will be Acid at LANGSTROTH'ii HALL,Gcrmantowa.on TUEti DAY EVENING, March 24 rd, El o'clock. fe27 at rip' # ALFRED aLELLOR, Secretary. s t i r STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS Ashcroft'a Railway, Steamship and Engineer's Supply More, 133 South Fourth street. Steam and Writer Gauge., Improved Safety Valves and Low Water Indicators, for preventing Steam Boiler Ex. ploalons.and every variety of Enghmers' Supplies. fe1.9124 PENNdYLVAIfIA HORTICULTURAL pow. Ifigr'' Annuals ,' on TUESDAY oty--Easay- on h ar d y . lt• Evening at 8 o`otock. ge r z o igtveßl4 HOSPITAL. ,NSii n t9 AND 100 &rt. DitiPedear7 ent—Redi• cal treatment an medicine furnish tultowd- to the poor. A Fortran) who has traveled in fiermany re ports the following incident, for which he vouches: During the summer, Dr. J. C. Ayer spent some weeks at Dresden, in conference with the chemists of Central Europe, where' he was heralded as the inventor of the world-rtmowned Medicines that bear his name, and considered one of the American celebrities. While riding lone day, his open carriage fell in with the cortege of the King of Saxony, on a drive from. the re view. The Doctor soon became the chief attrac tion, and received the marked attention of the people; who were oven more ;demonstrative in their cottrtesleslo hint than to the King himself, whom they see so constantly. King John observ ing thimovrapped his military cloak around him, and reclined upon his seat. while our great Ameri can medicine man did the honors fort the 'royal retinue; graciously bowing, hat in hand, on every Side, until wearied by his excessive condeseen gion.to this .old monarch's people. —Some idea of the colossal dimensions of Co logne Cathedral maybe formed from the following particulars of the size and Weight of the flower shaped pinnacles which are intended to crown the two towers of the western ppttal. Their height is 27,feet,the thickness of their stems 4 feet, and each of the four parts of the lower corolla weighs 90 •centners; 1,000 cubic feet of stone, weighingl,6oo cent., will be used In the construc tion of each of these, ornaments, 432 cubic feet, or 060 cent., rough material being required for thelower leaves alone. The second crown will weigh more than 90 cent., and is to be so formed that its leaves shall correspond with the four spaces of the lower series, so that from below the - whole will appear like a single flower opening from a large bud. ... _ . • ... 4 1 . .....' . ..-. ...:' i ' 1 . . .. .. . - . . . . . . . . . ' • . . . . . . . ' * : ' ' ' . ~:-.•..-. I ";. 1 ',.. • .. '.:- • , . . ' ' 1: :-. :: .• . ..'„ . . - -" :: :', :-.-...,.-- ...:41#;' , „: ':',, ',,..-',..:',-,-- .. : •--•, '.:'''.,.,, .. .: --:, -. ~:. . , . . . •.. ~ . . , - • ~ . .. . • • • ,-.:,-, - 0.--. -. " J . . ... , . .'. • I • . . . . _ . .. .. . . • . . ... . . . . ... _ . • --- . • - • . , .. ..0.. '' ''' ' ' M ...:. •' ' ... '• • . ...• .. ... ..., -. •• .. ,• , ... • ,f •' I ' • , , .. , ' • 4 _ . , . • . •.;•.• • . ' . „ • , . . . • - . • . .• , • . • , . . . . , . . . ' ( I , • • . • - , . ~ . , , . . , • . 1 .• . ... . • . • , • . .. ~ , • , • ',,,,..' Y ' .. •.• . . ' • • r • • ' —• - .. ' .. . . . ''. • . . •• . -, •, , .. ... _ .. ; . ... . . . ' . . . • . ' ricgsoN 3ON, No. 91d Chtmtutzt etreet. GEORGE TI LT SIAN. Jr-, Chief Al arrhaL LETTEIit IVILIOXII WASHINGTON. The Grand Deception and. Bail at the treasury—lt PromiseSto be the Most Magnificent Ever Given at the Capt. tal—A Description of the Apartments —The City•Filledivelth Strangers Al ready—Hotel Accommodations at a Premium—Arrival of Geortra Stu. art—lautaors Om& lie le %ago into titre Cabinet / after all. , [Correspondence of the Plilledelphia Evening Bulletin.) Westuxoron, March 1.--The preparations for theanauguration ball on Thursday evening are on a- magnificent scale. Five thousand tickets are for sale for this grand event, and the ball promises to be the most imposing affair of the kind ever bold in Washington. The large num ber of strangers now in the city, and constantly arriving by every train, renders it alaiost certain that every ticket will be sold. The following description of the ball will be read with interest by those who may not be able to participate: "The north wing, or new extension of the Treasury Department, where the ball will be given, is of ample dimensions, and the many rooms within will afford facilities not to be had in nny building in the country. The splendor of the hails and dancing rooms, of which there are several, mill be beyond description when all ar rangements are completed. The banking room, which will be used until 10 o'clock as the reception room and then for dancing, is $2 by 80 feet and is entirely encased In marble. The lower stylobate Is built with domestic marble from Ohio Tennessee a ! ' - .EI . epl asters, .ItSe, caps, doors, window jambs and reveals are of the most beautiful and choice Italian marble. The ceiling, which is twenty-eight feet in height, is of beautiful work of rare and rich designs. A magnificent chande lier, with forty-two burners,'hange in the centre of the room, whilst at each end are chandeliers having thirty-two burners, which will be in fall glare, contributing to enhance the 'grandeur of the scene. The gray-atone balcony upon tht front 'will be brilliantly arranged. There afe swan a * aces between the columns which support the , • en each of which will be a gas-jet r of ten fee ter, the whole fortntng the wo d peace.' Aroma e columns' arid below the gatejets will be green garlands, festooned flags and other adornments. The fountain in the centre of theard will be filled with water, the small epray - Jetting th rowing it fifty feet high, whilst a calcium light will concentrate upon fountain and-Jetting, producing the most beauti ful colors. The basement will be used as aen pper room, and will accommodate fourteen hundred persons at a time, without crowding., As the f•ripper will continue from 11 to 3 o'clock there is coubt of all being able to satisfy 'tbe inner man.- A room 20 by 80 feet, in the N. E. corner of the basement floor, is set apart for a dancing floor, with- a number of smaller rooms cres tlt eons, . to be used as ladles' toilet and retiring rooms, asalsogentlemen's dressing rooms. The north wing is three stories and an attic in height. The first will bo the entrance story, and used as the reception and. subsequently ,dancing rooms. The second !sieve' with the - floor of the main Luilding, the extreme west end of which will be set apart far the use of Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Colfax. the ladies of the Cabinet officers, and other nota bilities. A large room upon the third floor will tat set apart teethe reception of ladies', cloaks, wrappings, &c., for which tables, bureaus, racks, &c., hrive been prepared, with competent le reales to receive them. The small rooms ad joining will be need by the seamstresses, dress (nuke rs, &c., an army corps of them being en gaged to repair torn dresses, &c. None of the etntlernen will, upon any pretext, be allowed to invade the sanctity of these rooms; they will have tht seek their lady friends at the hall or passage way to the floor. The attic has been asAgned to the gentlemen, where barbers, tailors, &c.. will he provided them. It may be of some interest to know that the price of a ticket, ten dollars, covers all expenses within the building, entitling the holder thereof to supper, with his two ladies, and also services of tailor, barber, and free use of cloak rooms." TITS PEOPLE 1. - Loc:Ersic TO WASHINGTON The trains to-day from the North are overflow ing with passengers. The train which leaves Philadelphia at noon, and usnatly connects with the New Tork train at Gras's Ferry, was so crowded that it was run straight through with out connecting with the New York train. The hotels are filled to repletion, and hundreds of or ders by telegraph from parties in distant cities to secure rooms have been unheeded, as it is almost imposdble to accommodate parties already here. The private boarding-houses are being rapidly filled, and hundreds of houseless people were running round to-day, trying to secure decent ccom in oda lions almost anywhere. And still they ccme. ARRIVAL OF GEORGE H. STITART George H. Stuart, Esq., arrived here this even ing, and his presence is said to be in response to an Invitation frem General Grant. Notwith standing it has been positively asserted that Mr. Stuart will not go into the Cabinet, there are some people who believe that he will, and that he was sent for with that ohjecL Mr. Stuart is very reticent upon the subject, stating good humoredly to those who have spoken to him on the subject that he does not come hero to ask for an office, but it is nevertheless true that if he wants one there is no doubt tint he can get it. Mr. Stuatt daring his stay will be the guest 01 Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute. MIME W. J. P. White, Charles O'Neill, ex-Receiver of Taxes, Benjamin H. Brown, ex-Collector of In ternal Revenue for the Fourth district of Penn sylvania, and a host of other Philadelphians arrived this evening. Mr. White Is a candidate ior the office of Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia, and it is shrewdly sup posed that most of the other prominent politicians from your city have aspirations for other posi tions which will be filled under the incoming ad ministration. Snag EHANNA. FRODI .11ARSISBURG. [Special Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bulletin. I linunisneno, March 1, 1869.—The State capi tal looming to the adjournmentunuanally dull— the only legislators I have noticed to-day being Senator Taylor, who•does not yet feel sufficiently recovered from his rheumatic attack to leave, and Representatives Kleckner, of your city, and Herr, who resides here. The only interruption to the monotony is the occasional ;Dossing by of firemen, who are either getting ready for their departure for Washington to participate in the inaugural ceremonies—for Harrisburg will send thither one of her best companies, the Mount Vernon—or preparing , for the reception of a fire company from Reading, which will pass through here en the way for the capital, and will have a hearty welcome here. Great preparations aro being made here for the festivities in May, -when the monument to the Mexican soldiers is to be dedicated. It is finished save the mounting of the statue, which will be shipped, I believe, today, from Italy, and the erection of the iron fence to surround the beau tiful shaft and base; and it is believed the largest crowd ever gathered in HarriAburg will be hero to witness the ceremonies. The large expense attending it will, I fear, have to be paid by the people et oar eity,as the Legislature does not ap pear to appreciate the importance of the State appropriating money for the purpose. The monument has been erected by the State, and the guests have all been invited by the commission ers appointed by the State. Surely-the Real ex penECß should be paid out of the treasury of the Common wealth. In looking over the bills Introduced Into the house prior to adjournment, I find a few of suf ficient importance to make a -note of their con tents—among them the following : Representative Cloud, of your city, has pro senfed one which provides that 'afteette passage PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAUL! 2, 1869. all mechanical, manufacturing e mining and quar rying companies doing business in, this State and paying a lax on their capital, 'sball be exempt from the payment .of any additional tax On net earnings or income. Mr. Herr, one providing that whenever a court, on bearing, shall be satisfied thata prosecutor hos subpoenaed witnesses for the purpose of op preeslon, the witnesses shall have the right to bring an action against the proiecution for the recovery of their costs and fees. Mr. Longenecker, one that requires any Court of Common Pleas, out of which a commission in the nature of a writ of de lunatic° inquirendo,to in quire into the lunacy or habitual drunkenness of any person,ehall issue, to order and direct that all costs attendant thereon shall be paid by the courts in all cases in which a party may be found to be a lunatic or habitual drunkard, when be has no estate out of which the costs can be paid. said costs to include not exceeding five 'dollars and six cents per mile, mileage as compensation to the commissioners, besides the usual fees of ihe Sheriff, Prothonotary, jurors and witnesses. The act is to apply to cases pending as wallas fu ture. Mr. Beane, one construing the judgments, mortgagee, recognizancea and moneys due and owing upon articles of agreement for the pur chase of real estate, mentioned in the act of April 4, 1868, to include moneys loaned upon judgmente, mortgages, Ike., whether for the purchase of real estate or otherwise, and ex empting them from all taxation except for State purposes. Mr. Heilman, one repealing so much of the sixth section of the act of A, iii, 1867, for the better •rotection of life , • , , t , • In ng reg ons, as mita the continuance of the police force to two years; also repealing the au thority to levy and collect a special tax for the maintenance of the police In Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, and providing that the County Commissioners shall hereafter levy a tax sufficient for the purpose, as other taxes are levied for the purpose: You will recollect that the bill to prevent the adulteration of drugs and medical pre parations was reported negatively by the committee in the Senate. The. House has a simi lar bill, and although a desperate effort has been made to kill it lb committee or otherwise, there appears to be some reason for supposing that bat branch will have tho opportunity to give it consideration. As the opponents of the measure are at work, it behooves its friends to be on the alert. Such a wise and proper bill should not be suffered to go by default. POLITICAL. RILORE ABOUt TH&T CONING MIX Guesses, bossfp, and Fact. The N. Y. Times Washington correspondent It is not improbable that the fortunate man from Pennsylvania, whose selection as a member of the Cabiuet of General Grant is to surprise himself, .as well as the party leaders from his State, may yet prove to be Ron. Galustut_A. Grow. Gen. Cameron and Gov. Curtin have each been claiming, through their agents' and friends. to be the influential leaders of the most Pow caul faction 01 4 the. Republican party in Pennsylvania, and insisting,' in view of what they did in the late canvass to carry the State for General Grant, on the right to dictate the- distri hntion of the patronage to that State; but it is ositively known here that immediately after the election both General Grant and Mr. E. B. Wash burn° expressed the °pinto4 that to the personal xertions of Mr. Grow more than to those any other man in the State, was it due that Pennsylvania was carried for the Repubti an party. It will be remembered that Mr. Grow, though not particularly prom'. rent in the canvass, represented Pennsyl centa on the Republican National Committee, which held its meetings in the Fifth avenue Ho ti.l; New York, and which silently but vigorously accomplished a great deal of most effective work. At the time alluded to Gen. Grant and his more inatecdiate political and personal friends named above, undoubtedly gave Mr. Grow the chief credit for the triumph of the party in the doubt ! ul State of Pennsylyanis,and there is no reason to think that their opinion has been changed on this Point. Gen. Grant is much more ready and dis posed to see and recognize seen earnest, quiet and practical efforts as those of the several mem bers of that committee, than the efforts of such tenders as Gov. Curtin and Mr. Cameron and— not to be invidious—Mr. McClure. His attention was more particularly directed to Mr. Grow than to any other member of the committee, on ac ount of the importance of the contest in hie 3ta , e; and those familiar with Grant's former ex pression believe be intends to give it a second edition in an Improved form by inviting Mr. Grow to the Interior or Postal Department. Ifilore Cabinet ItHeslonarkm. The N. Y. Worlds Washington despatches have this: There have been to-day some developments tuiong the outsiders regarding candidates and Dames for the incoming Cabinet, but nothing bas leaked out from the President elect. Thls :morning a Southern delegation called at army ocadquarters in a modest kind of way, and in cluded among It nine Representatives in Con gress. Mr. Whittemore, of South Carolina, a member of the House, stated that hey had called to make known to the General the confidence of the loyal peo ple of the South in his administration; to acquaint him with the condition of affairs and wants of the people in those States, and their indulgence of the hope that this section would be re mem bered by him in the selection of the Cabinet. General Grant, in his reply, stated he was glad to receive them—that under his administration he would endeavor to have affairs satisfactorily con ducted in the South, but gave no intimation as to what his intention was in reference to a mem ber of the Cabinet from that , section. He stated that military matters in the South would be changed, and commanders assigned to duty there who were in sympathy with the administra tion. In reply to a question as to whether Gen. Sheridan would be placed in command at New Orleans, he stated that that officer-.would- probe- , biy remain for the present in the West, where he had been so successful in quelling the Indian dis turbances. "General 'George A. Thomas," continued Grant, "will be retained in Tennessee, and you may form some idea of what I will do in this matter by his reten tion." This impressed the delegation with the uelief that the officers removed by President Johnson would be ordered again to their former positions. Grant's reply' to ono of the commik tee about having a Southern man In the Cabinet created a laugh. "Why," said he, "gentlemen, you ought not to urge too strongly , a Cabinet member from the South. You have had a Southern man at the head of the Government for four years, and you have tried . your utmost to get rid of him. However, you will know on Fri day next who will constitute my Cabinet,' and I doubt not it will be satisfactory to you. all." Senator Wade Not to 'Go Into the Cabinet. The Cincinnati Chronicle doges an article highly eulogistic of Senator Wade with the fol lowing announcement of his purpose to rotiro wholly from public life: "As the name of Senator Wade has been used by some in connection with a position in the Cabinet of the now administratiou,and by °there in connection with a position abroad, we take this occasion to state hero what we know to be it is the facts. It has boon the into tion of Senator Wade to retire from public life t the close of his , 'Senatorial term ! and to tha etcrusination ha ill adhere—declining a fo , nk n mission, or any ; tlAng Use. —The Austrian Ambassaaor at Rome paid ..aO,OOO for his servants' 'Werke on the °melon, of hispresentation to tho Pope. OUtt WHOLE COUNTRY. Ihe Insurgents Capture a Spanish par Ineauser—Dnlceys Lae* ravens- Mutton. The Havana correspondent of the New York World has the following: The insurgents of the district of Cienfuegos have, made a very important capture for their cause. - On the night of the 18th a body of them t•tmeeeded in boarding and taking possession of the small Spanish war steamer Damn .% while she was lying at anchor near the month of the Damoil river, capturing also her officers and crew. Early In the morning of the 19th the new oeners steamed np the river, and at a few miles beyond the mouth captured two. lighters, after which they continued their voyage to the head waters of navigation. What they intend doing with the steamer—whether they propose keeping her for river service, or destroying her after ta king from her the armament and all things else that may serve their purposes—l have not as yet ascertained. The Dam* was, until three months ago, a merchant steamer, engaged in the coast ing trade between several ports on the south aide of the island. She was then leased by the Government, strengthened, and turned into a war steamer, mounting two guns. Being of light draught, she had lately been employed in patrol ling the Canto, San Juan, Agabama, Damnji, and other rivers. Up the stream that she has been brought to by the insurgents, she is compara tively safe from the Spaniards, none of their men-of-war on' the south side being of sufficiently ilitht draught to go up the Daronji river and re capture her. This consideration may induce her cantors to keep her for service in that stream' 'lnc Latest news from the abate ' le Latest news from the seats of iniurrection in the district of Colon report an insignificant skirmish on Blount Corojo, in which, however, one of the principal characters of the revolution in the district was killed. This is Don Mats Guerra, until reeently the Government's prose cuting attorney at Colon. The Diario de la Marina and the Precza both claim that bands of insurgents, amounting in the aggregate to 120 men, on the 19th and 20th, sur rendered themselves to the military authorities at Corojo, at Pedroso and at littajal Grande, and as General Dalce's forty days' amnesty did not expire until the 21st, they received full pardon for their late insurrectionary behavior and were allowed to go home upon promising unfaltering fealty to Spain and her rule. All this very much needs confirmation. Particulars, of_ His Discharge from The. New York Herald says: Yesterday afternoon, by direction of Attorney- General Evarts,Asststant District-Attorney Parris entered a voile prosequi in the case of John C. Braine, who has been under arrest and in dictment for piracy since October, 1866, and moved his discharge, which was directed by the Court. ATTOENET-OHNEEAL's OFFICE, WASHINGTON, February 27, 1869.—8. F. Tracy, United States .bistdct-Attorney, Brool.•lyn, N. Y.-Brn: I have bad under consideration for some time the case of the proatcution pending in your district against John C. Braine. your last communication respect ing which, under date of January 14, ult., is now Wore. me. Without undertaking to determine the doubts eitpreeeed-in your letter as to whether this case falls within the embrace of the proclamation of amnesty and pardon , of December 25, 1.868, I have decided that it is a proper case for discon tinuance. From , evidence that has been laid be fore me I - entertain no - doubt that Brain° at the time of the action of irregular warfare which constitutes the ground of the indictment was a duly.commiesioned officer of the navy of the so calltd Confederate government, and that fact being established I am not disposed further to in sist upon the treatment of the case as Mins within the ordinary principles of the administra tion of criminal justice. You will, therefore, take as early an opportunity as the sitting of the court in your district will permit to enter a nolle proseryui in the Case. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Win. M. EVAIITS. Attorney General. There have been a good many groundless rumors afloat since the arrest of Bralnc concern ing the delay of his trial, and much virtuous in dignation has been wofully misapplied in his be half. The simple truth is that the government has been ready at any time to proceed with the trial and that every postponement was in °bath etic° to the wish of Brain° himself, sometimes for the lack of proper counsel and sometimes because of his inability to get the testimony he wanted. Be looked yesterday very much shattered and broken down, not, however, in con sequence of his long imprisonment; for that was made as light and endurable as the kindness and attention of the honorable officials of the j could make it, but from the ravages of a disease contracted before his arrest, and which all the ef forts of the physician of the prison were unable to cheek- Brain° left the court in a hack, and to one of the officers he said ho would first go to Savannah, where some of his relatives reside. This Is the last our courts or our county prison will have to do with Bralne, of the Chesapeake seizure notoriety. —Fisk's French Opera Company began a short season last evening at the Academy of Music, which was filled with a very brilliant looking audience. One of Offenbach's most recent pro ductions, La Perichole, was the opera. It belongs rather to the domain of the Opera Comique than that of the Opera Bouffe. It relates to the adven tures of a couple of street singers in Lima, under Spanish rule, the Viceroy endeavoring to trap the woman to become his mistress, marrying her to a man whom he thinks he can manage, but who turns out really to be her companion in street minstrelsy and the very man she wanted to marry. Of course the French librettist has made a lively comedy*on ;this outline, sprinkling it plentifully with broad allusions, many of them modestly omitted or softened down by the trans lator for the American stage. La Perichule Is a very amusing piece, but it did not seem to make much Impresbion on last even ing's andience. There Is, perhaps, too much spoken dialogue, the fun of which nine-tenths of the people did not comprehend. Then Mile. Irma, the prima donna, is a lady and an intelli gent artist,' with a good voice, and she does not condescend to any of the coarse vulgarities that seem to be the, esptecial delight of the enthusiastic lovers of Opera Bo lovers Aujac also, is a good,einger, and acts like a gentleman. So a great part of the really excellent performance of these two ; , singers,., mho are the only ones in ,the , company endowed with voices, Was . 'tamely received by the mass of their hearers last evening. The letter ro mance In the first act, sung by Irma, was really an exquisite piece of singing, full of tenderness and grace, but it created no enthusiasm. So in the lest act, When she sang one of the few really burlesque:Bongs in the , piece, with extravagant cadenzas and rhapsedical action on the common place refrain " Que les :houunes sent Vies,' there were few signs that the meaning and the fun of the thing were cottaprt3hended. Altogethor Irma and Awn. had reason to be dissatisfied with the cool reception accorded to their exertions and their talents. The comical acting of M. Le Duo as the Viceroy, and of Hamilton, Edgard and Fiends, was a good deal enjoyed, but not to the point of boisterous mirth or enthusiasm. The music of La: Pericliole has a certain Span ish character in'some of its numbers that is a pleasant change from the forms of melody that are repeated over and over again in Offenbach's otber °puree. There are several effective cho ruses, and the orchestral score Is nicely written. ,Still the work contains no more music for serious eriticism than dolts predegessors. This evening a real burlesqhe of the most extravagant kind— 01184 BRAIIIE, TELE PIRATE. Prison. Trim ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S LETTER. AMUSEMENTS. Orphie aux Enfers—la to he presented, and NM. Toatde is to appear in it. , —John Brougham's drams, The Eniarald Ring, was produced at the Walnut Street Theatre to an audience which filled the house completely. Synopses of dramas .are usually uninteresting and unintelligible to the general reader, and al though it would be the easiest thing in the world for us to follow the example of some of oar con temporaries and print a sketch of the plot cut bodily from a New York paper, we think it better to leave the story untold in detail. Those who wish to become acquainted with it had better visit the theatre. Suffice it to say that the pivotal in cident of the plot is the rescue of au infant from a sinking ship, just in time to receive from the drowning mother an emerald ring, by which the child is afterwards identified by its wealthy and aristocratic father. The dialogue is full of spark ling Nam:id real jolly good-humor In Brougham's beat style. The situations are sometimes intensely sensational; often natural, and always very dra matic. The play contains very little of the threadbare clap-trap with which Irish drama is usually afflicted; and while the Hibernian flavor is very strong, it Is very agreeable be cause the author has been true to nature, and has made his leading' rish character after the fashion of an ordinary man, and not a mere copy of the shil laleh-swinging, whisky-drinking, hard-swearing Patlander of the stage. The Emerald Ring is very much the best of any of Mr. Brougham's recent performances. The Lottery of Life Is not worthy to be played within a thousand miles of it. The first Is legitimate drama toned down to meet the public demand for exciting incident; the latter Is bald nonsense, without interest to -ne people. The play is elegantly mounted at the Walnut. There as a shipwreck scene which is admirably managed; a sea view with rolling surf, and seve ral very pretty terrestrial scenes. One of the moat exciting episodes is that in which the hero ine—the aforesaid rescued infant who has grown into womanhood—is chained to a rock Andron eda-liko, by certain heartless villains, while the surging tide rises at her feet and threatens to en gulph her in its roaring cambric muslin billows. Bet aU the stage effects are good, and well de serving of warm praise. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams of coursesustain the leading characters. Mr. Barney playa "Mike" very much es be plays all his other Irish cha racters, but in this Emerald Ring he displays deep feeling and pathetic power, in several of the tragic passages. Mrs. Williams acts charmingly, and with her husband singe several songs with creditable skill. This play had a long run in New York, and we know of no reason why it may not be continued here throughout the Williams 'd engagement, no matter how long that may be. —Offenbach's comic opera Robinson Crusoe was produced for the first time in America at the Chestnut Street Theatre hist night by the Gallon Company. Like Burbe Bleue, the story of this drama bears very little resemblance to the narra tive from which it takes its name. The whole of the first act occurs in the English home of the hero, and is conducted by the fond parents, and the sweetheart of Robinson, and by a musical ired girl who has a follower. The' second act finds Robinson upon his island—and avery pretty island it is at the Chestnut—with his man Friday, who sings extremely well for an untutored sav age. Their exile is broken in upon by the hired girl and her lover; there is a cannibal chorus, a rescue, and a return home, so that Robinson can clasp his darling to his distracted bosom while the curtain descends upon the peaceful scene. We can readily understand why this opera did not succeed in Paris. It is. too sombre. Pro fessing to be a comedy, it really is a little domes tic drama, with a great deal or seriousness in it, and with only ono truly comic situation—that in which the cannibals appear. But the music is very much better in many respects than that of sonic other of Offenbach's productions. There are passages of extreme difildulty in score; and throughout there is evidence of careful elabo ration and truly artistic skill which do not dis tinguish La Belle Belem or Barbe Bleue. In the first act there is a little love sour, full of tender ness and beauty, and this sweet melody was very sweetly sung by Miss Susan Gallon, who distin guished herself, as usual, by the excellence of her performance. Besides this, there aro two or three other interesting solos, and a number of very beautiful concerted pieces, which were admire- Lay - sung. As this will be the last week of Miss Gallon's erigage,ment, we hope she w4ll sing to a crowded house dvery night. She deserves to crown her east successes with a final triumph; and we should like her to carry away with her pleasant recollections of the city In which she first won well deserved reputation. She will always be held in kindly remembrance by our people, as a ra cell] I and accomplished artist. Miss G Alton can comfort herself with the assurance that the failure of her company to fill the Chestnut Street Theatre is not to be laid to her charge persoaally. The deficiencies of her troupe, and the unpopu larity of the house in its present contlition,are the real causes. We believe that Miss Susan, with proper support in opera, under judicious man agement, or as a star actress in such pieces us Fanehoo, Little Barefoot, nod dramas such as those in which Lotta has succeeded, would make a fortune. She has unusual ability, and, a pleasant person and manner—the real essentials of popularity and success. —The regular rehearsal of the Germania Or chestra will be given at Horticultural Hall, to morrow afternoon. The following attractive programme will be Presented : Overture--"Stradella,' (hy request) ..Von Plotow Duet from "William Tell," (by requett)....G. Rubin' "Kuenmlerleben" Waltz.. .......... ..... John Straus Andante con Moto from C Major Symphonyr Schubert Overture—" Oberon," (by request) ..... ....... Weber Aria from "Don &bastion" (Trombone Solu).Donizetti Performed by 0. Buethrer. Conjuration and Bonediction from "Die Ilugnenotten," —Mr. Carl Wolfsohn will give another of his charming classical matinees in the Foyer of the Academy of Music on Friday afternoon next. —On Saturday evening, in Natatorium Hall, Bread street. below Walnut, Mr. Charles H. Jarvis will give the fifth of his series of classical soirees. An exeellent programme will be offered, and Mr. Jarvis will be assisted by Messrs. Gubleman, Wm. Stoll, Jr., Theo. hammerer, and Rudolph Hennig. —There will be an organ and vocal concert in Oa of the National Printing Association for the blind, at the First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch streets this evening. —At the American there will be a variety per formance this evening. The Japs will remain only during the present week. —Mac Evoy's "Hibernlcon," which Is a pano rama of Ireland, will be exhibited at Assembly Buildings to-night. —Mrmnd Mrs. Madison Obrey will give a select musical and humorous entertainment at Assem bly Buildings, this evening. We commend this performance to the public as One of the most in teresting of its class. —On Monday evening next Mr. James E. Mur doch will give select readings at, Horticultural Hall. —Signor Blitz will perform at the American Mcchanica'e Hall to night. —On Thursday evening next the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" will be given at Concert TbaT performance will bo of a miscellane ous character ; a description of it will be found in the advertisement. A large number of pres ents will be distributed to the audience. —A . packed jury in Ohio, some time ago, ac quitted a murderer in the face of evidence of his guilt. Since then, each member of tho jury has either lost his reason, been killed, or committed suicide, and the presiding judge was burned up In an insane asylum. —The Duke do F r ersigny was not, as Rochelorte sneeringly assorted in La Lanterns, a newspaper carrier, but the clerk of a man who owned-a large number of Parklan newspaper routes. Persig ony's employer Is still - alive. He is one of the lead ing stockholders in the Comp«gnie des Atinolioes. F. L. FETHERSTON. PlibEstee. PRICE THREE, CENTS. FACTS AND rAmeitioli: —There must have been a scandalenti Sonnet the banquet at the Continental lest night. .The Al orninq Post, after giving the names !' of Aft guests, says: "At about ten o'clock tholinetrWall removed, and those , assembled were called, 01. order." They might well have been Tailed to order. We only wonder that the police dide'r interfere. —We are very glad to welcome back to earth an old Puritan friend, Mlles Standish, who died more than two hundred years ago. The inquirer,' in its account of the dinner at the . COntinental last night, gives the toast, "The City of Detroit," and says: "This toast was responded to In an able manner by Miles Standish." If this is correct we recommend General Grant to give Miles a place in the Cabinet—the> War Department, for instance. —Carlyle owns the copyright of all his worke. —Carpets aro bought by the yard, and worn the foot. —"Snoozer" Is a new complimentary term fen a fellow-creature in Arkansas. —St. Paul Is to have a $300,000 hotel to lake the place of that recently burned. —Reeds is to have an international botanled exhibition in May. —The Credit Mobilier of Parts has sold one Or its hotels on the Place Vendome for $225,000. —lt Is proposed to let the Chicago River unmet for a shower bath. —Church, the artist, has been wintering among tile Arabs. What can he Bedouin ?-Ex. —ruing—" What a man sows fie n reap, grasehoppere permitting."&iit Lake Tele graph: —To a marriage notice In a Cineinnati paper is appended the quotation: "'Minot well to be alone." -Bt. John does a large business in ovorting frozen codfish.—Ex. Rather a plebeian business for an apostle. —Cincinnati pork-dealers made an aggregate of three million dollars by their operations thki winter. —"Sweet are the uses of adversity." Witness the effect of the Cuban troubles on the .sugar market. —A watchmaker in Rochester has Just dm 4 = fished a watch movement which will run eight days without winding. It has two mainsprings —The Springfield Republican says that Anthony, Trollopo "wavers between being a'man of great talent and a noodle." —One of Eugenie's maids of honor recently , danced herself into a trance, and came near being, buried alive. , —An Illinois clergyman, on the way te' fent an "exchange" appointment, made antexchangee of carpfA bags with some one, and instead of twix sermons found $BO,OOO. • —A Kentucky photozrapher has eet up art ap paratus for manufacturing laughing-gas Etli gallery, to produce smiling countenances on WS' victims. _ —Here lies tho mother afc.hlldren Ave, Two are dead and three artriilive; The two that are dead preferring rather , To To die with the mother than live with the ratline: —The local news in a certain newspaper cona stating of accounts of whisky seizures, an ex-., change suggests that it head that departnieht "Bourbon and Suburban." —Ban Francisco has received seventy bales or Rust India bay sent to tho British Abyssinian ex pedition, but too late to be of any use.' It is tough and wiry, but nutritious. —One of the Western papers reports a certainL clerg3ruan as having "taken a contract for re, vival preaching" in Davenport, lowa. It state!' Out the gentleman has j ust ''concluded a success- 7 fill engagement" at Rock Island. —Spanish journals announce with apparent, seriousness that Napoleon will probably place the ea• Queen of Spain on the throne of Greece under the name of isabollhlen°. The FAJTA papers want to know what is to become of Mar— tori—"ce brave lnnme." —A newspaper passed through the Lexington. Kentucky ,post-office it day or two,since addressed, to "Petroleum V. Naeby, P. M., Contederate Cross Roads, Kentucky." It was mailed In Ore.. gon, and proves the existence of fools even in that distant locality. —A writer in the Chicago Tribune says, that ladles in Washington dress more remarkably' this winter thun ever before. "They wear' d ret , sch that (Apes° the entire spine. At. rocep-: Lions one sees numbers of ladies exhibiting mus cular trunks of enamel." —A sort of chum or crony of General Granni e ; when he used to haul wood from Carondelet, tea ti ears ago. Is now getting up a petition asking for the office of Collector of Internal Revenue in St,. Louis. He is disconnected with the pollticiana; and expects to get the ofhco on the strongth•ot old friendship.— Ctn. Cons. —Our army found the word "you ens" and' "we uns" all the way from l'ennsylvania to the. Gull. In Tennessee a Yankee soldier asked an, ancient lady if she bud seen any Feder* in that: neighborhood. "Well," said the dame, ,"thar was some of you uns over thar, 'cross the 'road,. but some of we uns come 'long, and them tuts got up and dusted." —A couple of drummers besieged an old lady in Canton, Illinois, to buy a patent churn from them. She said it was a humbug, and they of fered to make butter come in ton• minutes. she filled the machine with buttermilk. and they tugged at the crank for two hours before they dis covered the unctuous practical joke. —Russia now taxes the lnebma of all Polea twenty-five per cent. It takes the remaining, seventy-five per cent. in fines. If one of them chances to mutter Polish in his sleep, he is certain to be overheard by one of the numerous and übiquitous spies and to be dragged Into court for the offence. Meyerbeer —The Brownsville (Tennessee)Bas thus shoWa its devotion to the cause of free opinion In this paragraph : "Ex-General Longstreet Is an appli cant for Collector of the port of New °acetify 'Give that dog a bone.' Ex-General Battle, of Alabama, once regarded as a gentleman and 'a white man, has seallawaged. Give that dog a " —Count Milntine, the "Polonomastix," as the; enraged Poles call him, has ordered that the old Russian calendar shall henceforth be need in Po—, land, instead of the Gregorian calendar, hereto fore in use In that ancient kingdom. Re signed a. decree to that effect on New Year's Day, and the! . Cracow Czas calls that decree "the Sentimental Russian tyrant's New Year's present to lacerated,' Poland." —A novel manosuvre is practiced by 4.12e 7 French troops in garrison at Lyons. At the, sound of the bugle, the soldiers spread them, selves out in the plain in two lines. Throwing; off their knapsacks, the men of the second lino pass them to those of the first, who; 'placing,. them. on their own, form a rampart,behind both lines lie down. The mon of the first line' begin firing,. while those of the second line, stips€ ply them with cartridges, and confine themSelVeS to that occupation. . $ —An argument between a couple of Texas cdt—' tors is thus described by a correspondent at flonso, ton: "The shooting serape between Somers, Kinney, of the Times, and Tracy. of tb,e ; r &lawn. grew out of some severe personal remake about, each other in their papers. Tracy, was She attack*: ing party. Ho had been waiting for sonic thee for Kinney In Szabo's cotton warehouae, near the Times onico. At last Kinney appeared, uncon scious of dang er , when Tracy comMeticed- tiring upon him wth a six-shooter, He shot . wildly,, and killed a little boy, a son of Air. Mackie, who was passing in tho street. He fired three or,. four times. as I understand. Kinney was not hurt. That Individual stood It like a stone wail, daring his antagonist to come out and give him a fair chance. A tremendous crowd soon gathered, amt Tracy was arrested and borne off."
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