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'flairkday, Feb. kn. by the Rey. F. D. Allen, the Um
NunittPl D. Backne. of Pooghkeehele, N. Y.:to /Alpha
A. Clark, daughter of ex-Uoyenaur Myron 11. Clark.
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.JOIINSON.—On Third month, let inst., at her resi
dence near Centre Bridge, Solebury. Backs county,
Pa., Sarah Johnson, relict of John L. Johnson, dec'd.,
in her 86thyear.
'TI36 relatives and friends ate invited to her funeral,
un Fifth-day morning, Third month. 4th Lust., at lex
o'clock, from the residence of her son. David IL John
son, near Centre Bridge, Bucks county , without
further notice. Cirriagee will meet the 120 A. M.
Belvedere Railroad train from Kensington. at Centre
Bridge Station, On 4th Inst •
KEYMER.—
On the 24 inst., after a very short Bl
ues., Peter A. Keyser, In the 64th year of his ago.
The family, hiss male friends, and membe Franklin
Sinand Lodge A. Y. M., of Pe.nnsylvania,
Lodge, No. 124, A. Y. M., andPhiladelkhla Royal
Arch Chapter, 169, are respectfully Invitedlo attend
his funeral, from his late residence, Green streaLaboye
Tulpebocken stree t Germantown, on Friday afternoon
next (sth inst.), at If g o'clock. ••
LB ROY.—On Monday, March 1, at the residence of
Rev. Dr. De Eleven, Itilddleinwn, Conn., in the 93th
year of her age, Cath•rine Ceyler, relict of the late
'Robert Le Roy. Em., of New York.
PENTLAND.—On Sdnday. February 14. in London.
'England, after a short illness, John Allen Pentland,
Esq .of Belfast, Irelat d. -
PRICE.—On the 2d instant, at Minneapolis., Minn.,
Richard Price. formerly of init.-cry, '••
SIIREVE.—At Mt. Roily, March Ist, Mrs. Edith
Ann Shrove, in her 44th year.
The relatives and friends are invited t 3 attend the
funeral, from ber late residence, on Thursday, March
4th, at half-prast 11 o'clock. Services at St. Andrew's
Church at half past 12.
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SPEOLII. NOTICES.
s®- American Academy of Music
JAMES E. MURDOCIL
WM deliver an addrentfor the Benefit of the SOLDIERS'
ORKIA.NS of the LINCOLN INSTITUTION and the
NORTHERN HOME on TUESDAY EVENING NEXF.
March Ch. at 8 o'clock.
flut6iect-w*DECOLIXOTION 3 AND PAPRESSIONA OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.^ illustrated in Poetry and Prose.
Reserved Beats. Parquettr. Parquette Circle and Bal
cony, One Dollar. All other parts of the house, Erl cents.
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MOW abated's) EVENING. the al Ma, at the !PINK
Ott REPUBLIC BUILDING. No. ale Chestnut street at .8
o'clock P. M.
Punctual attendance requested.
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ger NOTICE.
A meeting of the Staab°Men of the BIG BAND
CRIFER Olt. COMPANY. of Ws-st Virginia, will be held
at the office of J. 8 Hoffman. 428 Walnut street. on the
lith day of March. 869, at 12 o'clock. for the purpose of
autbot lying the sale ot the Company's property. the set
tlement of its debts and surrendering up the Charter
from whence it came.
By order of
PATRICK BRADY.
President
mh3 61D Ira
BIBLE STUDY.
HALL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA
TION.IIIO CHESTNUT Street.
PITEh B. BlMoNli. Esq. will conduct the Bible Study
TO.MOREoW (Thursday ) ) * EVENING. at o'clock.
Subject—"Tbe Women of 4 ammia."
Horeb 11— CHARLES E. LEX. Faq.
f Subj. , t—" The Temptation and Fail of Mem.
All are welcoms. Young men especially invited.
Luton Prayer Meeting every Saturday Evening. It§
-INTRODUCTORY LECTURE TO THE SPRING
and Summer tear ion in the PHI LADELF gIA
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and LOCUST Streets, on WEDNESDAY EVENING,
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DAY APFERNOON. 6ih inpt.. at I o'clock. Assisted by
M. EDOUABD COLONNE. Violinist. and HOAK
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l.l•;4►Al. NWEIVES,
IN THE COURT OF , C IMMON PLEAS FOR THE
CITY ANT) COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM STOPPERAN ye. EMMA H. STOPPERAN.
September Term. 1868. •No 43. In Oivorce.
T • EMMA M. 13 tOPPERAN, Respondent:
Madam—Take notice, that the depositions of witnesses
in the above case. on the part of the Itt °Rant. will be
taken before HARVEY 0. WARREN. Eaq . Examiner, at
the offiee of the tub crtbar. No. 315 North dixth street. In
the city of 1-htladelphia. on FRIDAY. the lAth day of.
March 116), at 4 o'clock. P. H., when and where yen may
attend if you think proper.
FRED. DITTMANN.
Attorney for Libellant.
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PARIS, Tuesday, February 16th, 186 e. The
intermission of gaieties which Lent is sup
posed to bring with it
,during • this por
eon of the Paris season reminds one of
the old cry of : Le lloi est mort ! Vive le Itoi !
Balls, indeed, are out of fashion for a moment;
but they are so instantaneously succeeded by con
certs, often preceded by grand dinners, that of
either gaiety or feasting there can hardly be said
to be a cessation at all Seldom has the
sound, if not exactly the dance of pleasure,
been louder In Parisian salons than during the
past week, when all society has seemed to con
spire together to banish oven the appearance of
asceticism :or ennui. Beginning with a first grand
dinner and concert at the Hotel de Ville, followed
up by a similar entertainment at the Tuileries—
the sound of revelry and harmony has never
ceased. Any attempt to recapitulate one-half, or
even a much smaller portion,of what is going on,
would probably be only tiresome to those
at a distance from the dazzling scene, or
consist in a catalogue of names only
known, or at least only familiar, to persons
on the spot. But one may, perhaps, by glancing
just at a few of these reunions convey some
general idea of the nature and quality of Parisian
high-life and its doings at the present moment.
For instance, the Concerts given by the Empress
during Lent are something very dtkerent from
the large and somewhat miscellaneous balls
which have preceded them. To the former, some
three or four thousand "persons" are Invited; at
the latter, the "guests" rarely exceed so many
h tt ndred e.and are either p&sonally known to their
imperial host, or for the most part Introduced to
her by'her private friends, after permission for
that purpose asked and obtained. But no mere
boring your Minister to death for tickets" will
obtain access to this more select circle. Talent
often commands entrance, and especially musical
and vocal talent; and as Ameripan society in
Paris shines pre-eminent in the latter quality
among the fair sex, they are often included in the
privileged few. Often have the fine voice and
cultivated style of Mrs. M n been
heard in the imperial salons, where the
almost severe elegance of her toilette is ad
mired as much as the perfection of her song.
Several times of late I have seen that lady entirely
devoid of "puffs and panniers," when all around
her were blown up into walking balloons; and,
:.!though but little used to mark such things, I
Lave le.en,compelled to admire the elegant sim
plicity, the simplex munditiis, which gave style
and te,to wire. and made the belle A mecicaine the
admired of all admirers, without effort
or exaggeration. But I beg par
e( n for this personal digression. The
concerts et the Hotel de Ville are less select than
at the Tuileries, but still very elegant. They are
always preceded by a grand dinner of some sixty
covers, the invitations to which are highly prized
by amateurs of wines, for the excellence of which
the Prefect's table is justly celebrated. Here the
music is always wholly professional, and it need
hardly be said how great a blank is left by the
impossibility of even once hearing the notes of
PAU swelling through the beautiful and well
known Salon des Arcades, where these brilliant
1 concerts are always held.
it is a common remark now in Paris—and I
beard even a Chambellan de l'Empereur make it
himself the other day—that the splendor of
official life here almost destroys private society.
And what private "at home" indeed can pretend
to vie in attraction with the above; or again, with
such reunions for instance as those now just
recommenced by the Princess of Metternich, at
the Austrian Embassy,on Thursday evenings, and
known as the Princess's "Petits Jeudis?"
Petits indeed ! And on such a scale!
A labyrinth of salons opened, through
whose mazes you wander all the
evening without ever knowing whether you
have seen the whole, besides galleries and corri
dors innumerable, and snug corners, and oven a
still snugger smoking-room—while music steals
aliaround upon the ravished ear, and the eye is
entranced with long accumulated and innumer
able works of art. There is another chosen ren
dezvous, dignified by the title of "little"—locus a
non—known as the Petit-Luxembourg;—a small
palace adjoining the larger one, where the Presi
dent of the Senate and his lady receive every
Sunday evening. Here the Court Noblesse
of the second Empire come faith
In all the traditional grandeur of the First Em
pire, military and civil. Heavens ! what uni
forms, gold lase and decorations are there beheld
on tha backs and breasts of the men, and what
toilettes on the—but no, I must not carry oat
toe description further, especially remembering
bow scanty to the fore and how superabundant
aft, are the "decorations" of the other half of the
community in the present day !
Then again come such semi-official salons
as those of the celebrated romancer, poet,
ex-Director of the Theatre-Francais, ,Sr.c.,
Artene-Houssaye, where Princes and Min
isters, and diplomatists, and men of letters,
and men of art, as well as the entire world of fe
male fashion, meet on a sort of neutral ground,
both of taste and politics. and where the "liberty
of the mask" gives a piquancy unknown to more
reserved and stately reunions. Such a varied
crowd probably does not meet within four walla
at any other point of the universe. It is even
whispered that theMspress was once there her
self, to see the fun and frolic, and hear the explo
sion of wit, for it is astonishing what repartees
are both listened to and struck ont,under cover of
a black mask and a pink satin domino trimmed
with white lace! Incognito makes us wondrous
bold !
But speaking of art and artiste reminds me
that American art, as well as American beauty
and toilet, is conspicuous just now in Paris.
There was a charming reunion last week at
Albert Bierstadt's, presided ovetby the illustrious
artist's charming wife and deter-In-law, and
"decorated," in the best sense of the word, by
some of his own immortal productions, hung
around the walls of the salons. It was gratifying
to see there Gudin, the French "painter
of the sea," admiring so cordially
the American "painter of the land;"
and to hear, too; the brilliant touch of Mlle. Car_
react, accompany the speaking tones of Sighicelli,
the first violinist of Paris. You had but to' look
around you to know at a glance that hero the
American element predominated. The "good
looks" of the women told-yotethat at once; even
if you did not discover at by their frank and unre
strained gaiety, and the absence of that manietri
and conventional style and air which creates
the monotony of the French beau monde. Brit I
must end my trifling sketch of fashloaable life in
Paris, which I have, indeed, only attempted to
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PHILADELPHIA, WgroNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1869.
give !meanie it Is In fact the predonkinatlng fea
ture of the moment. ,
GRANT ITE RA:
Cabinet Conjectures—Gossip in Wash
ington—lite Possibilities. and (Cer
tainties ell the "mine.
OEN. GRANT AND Ina CABINET.
A letter from &Metier Schurz to his journal in
St. Louis, the IVestliche Post, contains the fol
lowing:
"Grant has kept his secrets admirably well,
and one knows as little of his Cabinet to-day as a
month ago. He has only expressed himself
clearly in regard to the genetal character of his
admirers. 'lf I were a member of the Senate,' he
lately said to one of the newly-elected Senators,
'end a Democrat had been elected to the Presi
dency, I, as a Republican, would not hesitate to
confirm the nomination of good Democrats as
members of the Cabinet. But if a President
elected by the Republican party should under
take to nominate men for his Cabinet who wore
eoccompletely In sympathy with the principles
and the policy of the Republican party. I would
deem it my duty to oppose them with the utmost
determination. "
This does not leave any doubt in regard to the
general political character of the Cabinet.
GRANT NOT TO NAVE "AN ORGAN."
The Washington correspondent of the Herald
eery's:
A number of persons have been trying to make
arrangements to start a new organ in the interest
of Grant, but their success has been anything but
encouraging thus far. Grant, on being consulted
about it, said he did not want any newspaper or
gan at all, and would recognize no paper as au
thorized to represent him specially.
AN OLD LADY ANXIOUS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Journal says:
A New York clergyman who called at head
quarters on Monday afternoon was informed by
General Grant, with evident satisfaction, that an
old lady who had gone out of the audience-room
rs he (the clergyman) had entered, wanted to
know who the Cabinet were tO be, as she had a
large house to be rented and thought that one of
them might like It. "I told her," continued Gen.
Brant, "to read the newspapers, but she replied
that she bad yet found nothing in them about
the Cabinet at all reliable." This appeared to
please the President elect much.
CABINET RUSIORS—TIIII INAUOUCAL ADDRESS, &C
The Washington correspondence of the New
York Times contains the following:
Cabinet rumors still thicken the air, despite the
tact that everybody knoWs that nobody knows
.mything about the matter but General Grant.
People will speculate, guess, and predict, and
correspondents are compelled to take cognizance
of such material in the absence of anything.
'Dore reliable. The mystery of the Cabinet is
regarded on all hands as the best kept
State secret in the country's history. To-night
there comes a nervous rumor that John A. Dix is
to be Secretary of State, then a conjecture that
Pierrepont will be Attorney-General, forgetting
that ifanytbing goes to New York, it must be,tn
he nature of things, either the State or the Tree-
racy. Hamilton Fish is set up as the figure-head
of the Administration a dozen times a day, and
..s often taken down. The names of Griswold,
Morgan and Commissioner Wells still palpitate
upon the air. The latter's stock has suddenly
Laken a turn upward, but nobody knows the
reason, unless he cannot be persuaded to go and
talk to Grant at present on any subject. Bout
sell and Hooper loom up in the uncertain future
a dozen times a day, but without object or pur
pose. All is still locked in the bosom of the won
derful little man whose immobile features and ex
eression are adjuncts of safety,.l4etbe country.
Only three more days of waiting before this rack
.ug curimity is satisfied.
Gen. Grant has suggested the idea in recent
eenversation that the three leading Customs
Revenue offices at New York are national in
their.character, and that not alone New York,
hut the whole country are interested in their
administration. If Gen. Grant should act upon
this idea, the country need not be surprised to see
these offices filled by a selection of one from the
ity, one from the State, and one from the coun
try at large. I have reason to believe that these
flees will receive very early attention.
• Although it has been freely stated that Mr.
Johnson has notified General Grant of his wll
,ingnees to participate to the usual extent in the
inauguration ceremonies, it is, nevertheless, not
:rue. General Grant has not received any such
n dmation, and his action will not be subject to
~ny change because of the reception or non-re
et piton of such an intimation. He will ride to
the Capitol with his staff.
Gen. Grant has finished his inaugural address.
it covers six pages of letter paper, and is estima
A d to be about the same length as that of Mr.
Lincoln in 1865. Nothing definite concerning its
enor has transpired, except that it will urge the
atification of the Constitutional Suffrage
amendment and the payment of the public debt
ID coin.
There are some absurd stories afloat that he
eel take a threatening position on the Alabama
-laims question,but they are fomented for a purely
,ensauonal purpose. He will read the address
from a manuscript copy, which will immediately
furnished to the press.
Gen. Grant has decided that upon taking the
oath of office as President his commission as
general becomes vacant without the formality of
resignation. Acting upon this determination,
'le will on Friday. simultaneously with the nomi
,•etion of his Cabinet, send to the Senate the
mime of Lieutenant-General Sherman for the va
-ant post of General. Ido not understand that
be filling of the vacancies below this grade con
e qnent upon this promotion has yet been deter
_eked upon If it should bp, the impression pre
vails that Major-General Sheridan will receive
the promotion of Lieutenant-General.
rug FORMATION OF PREMEDS= LINCOLN'S
CABINNT..
A Washington correspondent of the Hartford
Evening Post, in correcting some misstatements
especting the formation of Mr. Lincoln's
Cabinet, gives the late President's own h version as
it was on ono occasion stated by him in the
presence of several gentlemen from Connecticut,
with particular referenoe to Secretary . Welles.
The correspondent says: • ,
Mr. Lincoln stated that upon the night after the elec
tion he remained at the telegraph of until 1 or 2
o'clock,at which time it was reasonably certain that he
had been elected—that he went. to his residence and
retired, bat that he did not and could not sleep, his
thoughts naturally turning to the great responsibility
which devolved upon him, and he began to consider
whom he Could call around him as his advisers and
upporters—that during that night and the subsequent
day his Cabinet was blocked ont, substantially as it
was aiterwards formed; that a few changes were sub
sequently made, but that no change was made in the
New-England member, either as to the individual se
lected or the position assigned him.
Mr. Lincoln also stated that he was subsequently
opposed in Ids choizeby.M.r. Hamlin, by Hon. Preston
King. by Gov. E. D. Morgan, by Mark Howard. EN ,
and others, who urged the selection •of Mr. Welles.
W hat influence these gentlemen may have had in pre
venting a change in Mr. Lincoln's original plan, can
not of course he stated. It is known that be was
,pressed to appoint lion. John P. Hale, Hon. Ames
Tuck, Hon N. P. Banks and others. His dotertnins
t ion to appoint Mr. Welles was announced some time
before ho left his home. lion. -Mr. Fogg, of New
Hampshire, who went to Springfield to urge the selec
tion of Mr Tuck, stopped at Hartford on his return,
and stated that Mr. Lincoln said to him that the New
England member of his Cabinet had been determined
upon. and that it was Mr. Weller.
When in Hartford, in the winter of 1860, Mr. Lin
coln spent a day wish Mr. Welles, and the Interchange
of views on the great questions before the country
which then took place, Mr. Lincoln often dilated to
as having made an impression on his mind, as it influ
enced and probably governed his act on in selecting
the member of his Cabinet from Now England.
'THE LAST O 1 THE JOHNSON 'PARTY.
The New York World's Washington msn sends
this :
The last meeting of the old Administration
t ;took place at 11 4. M. to-day, in President John
isou'a private office at the White Ileum .1.11 of
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
the members of the Cabinet tendered their resig
nations. which were pro forma accepted. What
little business' was left was 'disposed of; and
after a general hand-shaking ' all around, the
members 'retired from the setting sun. Seem
tary'f3eward will leave at once for Auburn. Mr.
Frederick Seward. Assistant Secretary of State,
will remain, a short time to settle up family affairs,
and to turn over the Department to the incoming
Secretary. For Mr. Seward. this closes a con
demn's residence of twenty years in Washington
—twelve as Senator, and eight as Cabinet officer.
Secretary Browning FOOD returns to Woes'.
Illinois; Secretary McCulloch settles down near
Washington; Mr. Everts remains for the
present, as does Mr Randall, while Secretary
Welles goes to Connecticut next week. The Pre
sidentbas all the papers filed in the executive
mansion,properly indorsed, and ready to be
transmitted to the departments to which they be
long, and he is now prepared to vacate the White
Rouse on the 3d of March, and leave it in pea
session _of the officers of the Metropolitan Police,
to be occupied by General Grant, it he should
choose to do so, on the 4th of March.
NEWS BY THE CUBA CABLE
Coolie Izup or o n ev oln tionox
Bavaria, March 2.--Intelligence from Santiago
de Cuba states that a Steamer has arrived there
with a number of Coolies on board, but the ne
groes would not allow them to land.
The Prensa says that Captain General Dtdce has
ordered 150 of the enrolled volunteers to take the
prisoners captured to their destination in Spain
by , Me Cadiz staamer.
The erection of a large barrack in this oily for
the use of the volunteers is In contemplation.
It is probable that the brig J. D. Lincoln will
be permitted to clear from this port. For some
days past the authorities have refused her clear
ance.
Items.
BY MAIL
Unruly Demonstrations off the . Ha
vana Volunteers—Dniee's Address,
itc., &c.
HAVANA, Feb. 24..—0 n yesterday the Spanish
mail steamer Nuevo Alisendares came Into port
with seventy-five political prisoners from Swam,
Remedios and Cardenas. They have all been
lodged in the Moro. Numerous political pri
soners have also been brought here within the
past three days from Bahia Honda.
Fines. del Rio, Gnanajay, Gaines, and
other places, and, with a dozen or so
taken up in Havana, have been lodged
in the same hostile. It looks very much as if
both the Moro and the Cabanas are to become
ere long brimful with the victims of the govern
ment's harshness and suspicions. These may
yet fare badly and terribly. The volunteers of
Havana, are nearly all clamoring for their blood,
and eager for a repetition of their riotous and
murderous proceedings of the 22d, 23d and 24th
of last month. On last Sunday the officers and
soldiers of a battalion of volunteers—the Fifth—
while returning to their quarters from ditty out
side the city limits, made themielves hoarse
shouting "Viva Espana and death to her
enemies!" the Colonel,Ramon Herrara—the same
wealthy merchant who played so discreditable a
partduring the last month's reign of terror
leodingin this blood-desiring demonstration. Oa
Monday morning a large crowd of volunteers in
uniform, but unarmed, surrounded General Rs
pillar, the second in command on the island to
Captain-General Duke, on O'Reilly street, and
through a number of spokesmen
demanded of him: first, the lives
of the enemies of Spain (los enemigoa
de Espana) confined> in the Moro,
the Cabanas,
Fort Principe and the prison; - se cond, lha - t - the
further emigration of Cubans from the island be
prohibited, since it does great injury to business.
General Espinar very properly refused to enter
tain such demands, but told the volunteers to go
to their homes, which after a while they did.
These unruly demonstrations have alarmed
General Dnlce somewhat, and he
has had a conference with the officers of the
volunteers and with a delegation of their ser
geants and corporals. 1,. which, amid a good deal
of blarney talk, he has urged upon them the ne
cessity of a firm support of his government and
their duty to preserve order and tranquillity at
all times. Whether this will do any good is very
problematical. General Deice possesses neither
the respect nor confidence of the great mass of
the volunteers, as every well-Informed person
here knows, and therefore his talking is them
about necessities and-duties cannot flaVe much
effect.
He has also published in all the Havana jour
nals ansddress to the volunteers. thus :
superior Political Government of the Province of
swan.—Vountannint: Beware of the counsels of the evil.
Minded. who content, ratios the cause of the insurrection
VS already lost, seek. in the introduction of discontent.
alarm, and mistrust in vonr ranks, a means to render your
valorous and patriotic efforts for the suppression of the
revolution sterile.
I am sure they will not meet ed in this, because I know
your merits andlyour virtues ; but. neverthalest , it is my
duty to put you on your guard against their mancouvrea.
The period of the amnesty has expired. The time for
the action of authority. widened and fortified by the ex
traordinary faculties with which I have been invested by
the government of the nation, has arrived. My decree
of the 12th Mat. an emanation from these faculties, by
which councils of war for the trial of offences of disloy
lt y are ordered, shall be inexorably followed out, and
the pi nalties_prescribed for those found guilty executed
with vigor. 'lt s game shall be the case with the punish
ments adjudged by the ordinary tribunals for offences
committed before the promulgation of the decree.
Voluntcere ! rely upon the justice and rectitude of
these declaim" and do not become the echoes of those
who would stain the sacred canoe we defend with ex
, eases unworthy of your culture and the fame of noble
and strong men you have won. Maintain order and the
,opremacy of the law with an admirable discipline. We
are soon to commence an active and vieorous campaign
against those who are disturbing the public peace in fields
of occupied by the troops nor guaroed by you Union,
then, and discipline. which is the law of strength, let ue
have. Rely in the authority with which the p rtriotic as
orations of all of you shall be represented by your
Gl.eneraL DOMINGO DULGE.
II AN ANA, February FM. F. World,
Prisoners in Havana.
A Havana letter to the New York Times says :
The condition of the political prisoners In the
Moro and Cubanas forts is said to be most la
mentable. Those who are confined in the forts
suffer a great many hardships—are herded to
gether like animals, cut off from all intercourse
with their friends, and, not allowed to receive
any comforts or delicaciea, or even necessaries of
life. lam told that In one large room there are
several hundred, end the greater part have no
cots or blankets to rest upon. Their only food is
the rancho, or coarse rations of the common sol
dier. In several compartments of the fort where
the prisoners are confined, the only light received
is from a window in the roof, thirty feet high.
How comfortless and cheerless must such a con
finement be! Among these prisoners are to be
found many Americans. In the common jail
are several who have already suffered imprison
ment for months, only on suspicion because of
the lack of passports to enter the island, or even
cn account of the discovery of a rifle or a pair of
pistols among their luggage. The Courts, both
civil and martial, must have their dockets full.
Extensive Wire in Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee lirimunsin of the 27th ult. gives
the following account of a lire in the town of
Chii)pewa Falls:
IN e learn by a private letter that on Wednesday
afternoon a lire broke out In a confectionery store.
at Chippewa Falls,and spread until the best busi
ness portion of the town was destroyed.
We understand that many of the goods were
saved from the business houses, although in, a
very bud condition.
Last evening the citizens were using their ut
most endeavors to arrest the further extennton of
the flames, and fears were entertained by oar in
formant that Mitchell's. Hall would bo consumed,
as there was no evident abatement of the fire.
The loss is estimated at over (92110,000. •
filaurlna Intelligence,
rouTLAND, March a:--Tito steamer North Ants
rican,kalied to-day for Liverpool, having boort
detained , . by the non-arrival of the Canadian
Mails by reasott,isf Ilsoimmonso snow drifts.
LOSS AT SEA.
The Ship Harry Won Wrecked oft
D unto:ekes shoals-t mm Lives Lest—
intense bartering of too Crew.
The • Boston Post - cootoins. the following ac
count of a disaster already announced by, tele
graph:
We are Indebted to the mate of the brig Clara
Jenkins, Mr. A. Philbrook, for the following par-
detours of the loss of the ship Harry Bluff, off
Nantucket Shoals, shortly before midnight, on
Thursday Light last:
The ebb) Harry Bluff, Oliver, master, was
bound from Cadiz to Boston, with a cargo of salt
and wine, when, as above stated, she wont ashore
on Nantucket Shoals. In launching the boats,
one of them was upset, and two of the crew
drowned. The captain, mate, second and third
mates, and fourteen of the crow, then took to the
long-boat, with the bodies of the two drowned
men. They remained in this boat at the mercy of
the wind and storm from midnight of
Thursday till twenty minutes past 10
on Saturday morning, when they were
picked up by the brig Clara Jenkins, and
every attention showed the suffering men by the
officers and crow, the men freely giving up their
berths to contribute to the comfort of the suf
ferers. The Jenkins was from Bangor and bound
for Messina, but put into this port yesterday af
ternoon. Two of the crew died in the long-boat
at 2 o'clock on Friday night, being literally
frozen to death, and it Is remarkable that all of
the others did not perish. The crew of the ship
wrecked vessel was composed of lourteen negroes
and two white boys—including the four officers,
twenty people, four of whom perished.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon Collector
Russell,,who was on board the revenue tug Ham
lin, boarded the Clara Jenkins off Fort Inde
pendence and at once proceeded to provide for
the survivors of the Harry Bluff by having them
taken at once to the marine hospital at Chelsea.
The ship was only partly insured. She en
countered heavy gales off the Western Islands
and sprung a leak and was obliged, to keep one
pump working all the time.
A portion of then crew were enabled to save
part of their clothing, but the captain saved
nothing except the clothed he stood in. Much
credit is to be awarded to the officers and crew of
the Clara Jenkins for their kindness to the suf
fering mariners, and also to Collector Russell for
his promptitude in attending to the wants of the
rescued crew. The names of those who perished
are as follows: John Brown, cook, of Baltimore;
J. Austin, of the West Indies; W. Scarily,of Nova
Scotia, and J. short, of Fall River—all colored.
FAMINE IN THE WEST INDIES.
A Swedish Colony suffering.
The Pall Mall Gazette says:
A piteous wail comes up from St. Barthelemy,
in the West Indies, the single colony possessed
by Sweden. The Government physician, Dr.
Goes, repo& officially to Stockholm that within
the lour wake preceding the date of his letter no
lees than nineteen deaths have occurred on the
if land from sheer starvation, and 600 more people
are on the point of sharing the same horrible
fate, unless help is speedily forthcoming. It is
chiefly the children and half grown-up people
who have to suffer most. The youth of both
sexes, but chiefly the girls, present a miserable
spectacle with their prematurely old counte
nances. In many districts, chiefly Marrigot, the
populace have reached a point of physical ex
haustion which unfits them for the slightest ex
ertion. The visitor meets in the different cot
tages worn-out decrepit children or young
women, in whom even the capacity or desire to
rise and accept a proffered gift seems to ba want
ing. Hurricanes and droughts speedily follow
ing each other within the last few years have
utterly destroyed the only crop which that soil is
capable of yielding; and even if the fund which
is now being raised for these pot), creatures at
Stockholm does amount to a sum sufficient to
save them from starvation for the moment, the
question still remains about the future.
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CROPS
%Wheat and Peaches In Caroline Co.,
The Denton Union of the 25th ult. says:—
The wheat crop in this county. so far as our own
observation extends and from what we can learn
from others, is looking exceedingly well for this
season. We have seen a number of fields, and in
ell the wheat somewhat sot and of a very healthy
color.
We have the opinion of close observers of the
fruit trees and the weather to the effect that the
cold has not damaged the peaches. Tney think
the buds were not tar enough advanced, and as
this has been a "dry freeze," believe no great in
jury, if any, is done.
WQACESTER COUNTY
The Snow Rlll Measengtr,of the 27th,says of the
"cold snap," last week, that on Tuesday night the
wind rose higher than it was during the day, with
a cold, keen blast for some time. Ice was found
Wick as a quarter of a dollar. It is thought that
the fruit is badly injured, though the wind blew
to hard. Oar only hope is that the water was
shaken from the swelling bads before the ice
formed. To us, the destruction of our fruit crop
interferes with our luxury alone. To our neigh
bors in Delaware, and our adjoining counties, it
is a matter of bread and butter. We sincerely
hope that our fears will not be realized.
LOWICR DILAWARE
The ?Milord Mutual Friend, of the 27th ultimo,
says: "Grave fears are entertained among our
farmers in regard to the prospects of fruit this
season. The mild weather of late has brought
out the buds in some localities, and if u cold snap
comes the injury to this most important branch
of Delaware's wealth will be serious. As an ex
change truthfully says: the prospects are that we
must either suffer a scarcity of fruit or a lack of
Ice the ensuing summer. If the wishes of our
farmers were consulted they would declare for
fruit. Sussex county cannot suffer many more
failures."
Parties in Cutts as Witnesses.
The following petition, from Members .of the
Bar of Philadelphia, has been sent to the Legisla
ture of this State:
To the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of
Pennsylvania—GANTLltal MN: The following bill
having been introduced into both the Senate and
House, we beg leave to submit our reasons in its
favor:
"That in no case now pending, or which may
hereafter be brought In any Court in this Com
monwealth, shall any person be disqualified from
testifying as a witness, by reason of his or her
being a party thereto, or otherwise Interested in
the result thereof."
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Except in actions by or against the representa
tives of decedents; and provtded that this act
shall be operative only in the city and county of
Philadelphia.
=ME
The law has been in successful operation in
England for more than ten years.
In New York for about ten years.
In New Jersey about eight %ears.
And is the law in the Uuited States' Courts sit
ting in Philadelphia.
The anomaly is presented hero of one rule of
evidence between Fifth and Sixth streets; and
another, totally different, between Fourth and
Fifth.
All the advances in the law, thus far made to
this State, were limited in their operation to the
city of Philadelphia : as witness the act allowing
a Judge to enter a non suit.
The law requiring tad wits of ,defence.
Practically at this day. parties are allowed to
testify for,thilutseiver: 4 — , the following cases:
"In'nllr affidavits of-deftulco.
In filing Affidavits for the continuants) of cause.
TO prove senile° of subpoena.
In applications for attachments, and to set forth
fully, under oath, what is expected to be proved
by the absent witness.
To make affidavits of the loss of original papers.
4 ° 1113, tahlgro
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PRTCOTOWPOI'*;::
and thus lay the ground Work forthe tuindsBlolX Or. 2 •L
secondary evidence. • • • • • Is • •'fi+')
In prtreedings in Egnity,both parties 'file their . f. „
sworn statements; and both itlawAnd Egaitt,
each party is at liberty to call and extunitre his ad
vl nary, under oath,in open court. = - • =- 1
And yet the jury who desire all the light that
can be furnished them, are not allowed tci
the testimony oi parties who,of neeensity, aro the ty
best witnesses and know all about the :various:.
transactions; and their examination enables the
jury to see the exact point in controversy.' - -= ":.:
'fbis lest advance has been found to work ad
roirably In bringing out the whole truth, and is
do mended by the spirit of the age. Let the ea•
periment be made In Philadelphia. ' •-••
COMMITTER OF BAR, of Philadolph4.
TUE NINE ARTS.
PALS OF THE RFFECTB OF THE ARTIST LEM*,
The Artists' Mutual Aid Society of New York,
of which the lute historical painter Lentz° was a
member, have arranged a sale for the benefit of
his widow, the collection being largely made
of the studies, sketches, art-properties and other "•
effects of the deceased. The vendue wi l l be con-
ducted at Clinton Hall, N. Y., by Leaiiit.
neigh & Co., on the evenings of Thursday and -;
Friday omit.
Forty paintings by Lcutze form the nucleus tile
the sale. These include the cartoon for Ida in
tended allegory of Emancipation, desigaed for "
the Capitol at Washington; portrait of the •
elan Minister, for Lentze's last picture, the Treaty
of Alaska; portrait of d Venetimak lady, interest- ,
log as having received touches from the artist
only four hours before his death; a iliconosi of - -
Grant; and various other portraits and
conceptions. The considerable library of the,.
deceased, including many illustrated works; his
portfolios, with a proof of Dupont's engraving of
the Hemicyclo; and the armor, costumes and --
furniture belonging to his studio, complete the
list of personal effects. - Besides these will be sold,
twenty paintings contributed for the same benefit,,_;
by members of the Society, among whom aro
Darley, Lambdin, McEntee, Elliott, and a clay'
model
model by J. Q. A. Ward. A variety of contrlbn- •
none by disinterested well-wishers complete the
catalogue, including works by Rotherrnel, •
Bispliam, Laurie, Huntingdon, Kensett, East
man Johnson, Homer and many others. ,
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We hope the sale will be a pecuniary success,
and that the family of one of our few historical
painters will not have cause to regret that their ,
worthy head chose to dedicate himself to an.
honorable but precarious career. The macithiery
of the affair has been well managed, and we
work. call the attention of our own Aid Societies
to the success with which this Now York 'associa
tion has canvassed among the art of the country
at large for sympathy and aid. The Artist's
Fund of this city has done well already, in &atte
nd instanccs;thc relict of poor a shoit time
back, as well as the widow of 111—, lessreeently,
have had cause to remember 'with gratitude the`
Society
Society for which their husbands worked in life- 5
time; but the assistance in these cases was ren•
detect with a secrecy and decorum perhaps a little ••
too scrttputons. The cases were differentjor'
Ltutze's name is tinging in the country's ears,
and will be quoted today by thousands whii se- ,-
cend the stairway of the Capitol decorated by his
great mural painting. It is felt as an honor by any
artist to contribute his name to the catalogue in the;
title of which is that of Leutse. Bat Add Sedan
ues are especially, and always will be, foi the
bete& of the weakest and not the strongest mem
bers. The chances are that the families of the
best artists will be least in need of their help.
And there an advantage; even in the casee
of the least noted artist who shall next drop from
our ranks, in invoking that concert of notion
amongst the whole profession which the New
York painters have here displayed.
AIIIIIMiEMENTEJ.
Emerald Ring will be given at the Walnut
to-night, by Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
—At the Arch, this evening, A Victim of afro
cumstancea and the Corsican Brothers will be
given.
—Robinson Csuabe will be given at the Chestnut
this evening by Miss Susan Gallon and her
company.
—"The Arabian Nights' Entertainment" will
be given on Thursday evening, at Concert Ra/L
There will be a miscellaneous performance byes
variety of artiste. One hundred presents will be
distributed to the audience. , ,
—The first ambitions effort of Offenbach in the
line of burlesque was his Orphee aux Ettfers o writ- •
ten when Gluck's great serious opera of Oquieia
was having its extraordinary run at the Theatre ,•
Lyrique, and Madams Viardoi was making a real.;
sensation in the prihelpel role. The burlesque ,
made a decided hit, and deservedly; for none, of.
Offenbach's operas contain so much good and.
carefully written music as his Orphie auz EaferA.
As played by Mr. Fisk's French Company—
at the Academy of Music, last evening.
before a very large audience, it met , .
with decided favor. The part of "Eurydice." as:-
signed to Mlle. Toetde, is less important than ;
thosein which she has won her , peculiar laurels.
Indeed, in the long second act, which is the beet
in the opera, she does not appear at all. The
success of the piece is, therefore, due to Its mar
merits and the general excellence of the perform
ance, rather than to the fascinations of the;prima
donna. The part of "Jupiter" sustained by
Duchesne, was the perfection of burlesque. Leduc
as " Pluto," Deere as " Orpheus," Lagriffoul as
"Mercury," and Guidon as "John Styx,"
were also capital. Guidon, indeed, who •
only appears in the third act. made the beat'
hit of the evening in his funny song, "Quad -
rdtais rot de Beetle," which was encored. Thb
opera is not one demanding analytical criticism;.;
but it is well worth seeing as well as bearing.
While there is, on the part of some of the wstnen.
a rather unnecessary display of ugly legs, there is
nothing else in the performance that is indecent.
And there is so much rollicking fun all through,
that one cannot kelp enjoying it. The finale of
the second act, in , which all the gods and god- •
desses sing and go through a variety of grotesque
manoeuvres, is excessively funny, and it was
encored last evening. The finale of the opera,
including a jolly dance, is also vert amusing.
The piece is one that will bear repetition' better
than any other in the repertoire. For this even
ing Barbs Beaus is announced, with Mlle. i/rma
and Mons. Anise in the principal parte.
—Mr. Carl Wolfaohn will give another of Ms
charming classical matinees in the Foyer of the
Academy of Music on Friday afternoon next.
—On Saturday evening, in Natatorium RA
Bread street. below Walnut, Mr. Charles EL
Jarvis will give the fifth of his series of classical ^.
soirees. An excellent programme will be offered ' ,
and Mr. Jarvis will be assisted by Wpm.
Gubleman, Wm. Stoll, Jr., Theo. Kammerer, ,
and Rudolph Rennig.
—At the American there will be a variety per-,
formsnce this evening. The Japs will roman,
only during the present week.
—Mr.and Mrs. Madison Obrey will gives Select ,
musical and humorous entertainment at .S.Soolllwe
bly Buildings, this evening. We commeadltiiv
performance to the public as one of the pleisthil ,
tereeting of its class.
On Monday evening meat Mr. Jamest Mur
dot)" will give select •readings at HertiCaltural
The Oriente at Columbia, IPa—Passage
or, the Eire% hkaithreemit
The Columbia Bpy of yesterday says:,
Oa Monday morning last, the locomotive, built
expressly for running over the bridge, , with
fricght train attached, passed over` - the new
bridge at dais place,in'enarge of`Wm, F. Lockett!,
Superintendent Philadelphia Division, Pennsyl
vania, Railroad. Quim a crowd of spectators
were assembled at each end of this bridgefor tie ;
purpose of witnessing the passing of the "ant
train of cars over the new structure."
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