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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.
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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.
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?SPECIAL NOTICES.
wir,.American Academy of Music
JAMES E. MURDOCH
,
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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
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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.
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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."