GIBSON TEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 25. THE EVENING BULLETIN.; puBLISHZD ?MYR! NVILKLING, UMW'S excepted). OT TIEIE NEW BULLETIN BUILDING. 607 Cliestuut Mreet i Philadolplata. IT irmi WINING KILLIMN ASIOCIA7/0/I. . . . a'MON PTIAOO6II, CeSPEIt EliikiP*l3, Ac t _ is, FETHERBTON THOB. J. wil.t.eoeis .. FlaN€lB W 8.14 8. The linuente is served to subccribers in the city at 18 swats • •• week. payable to the carriers. or 68 por annum. WEDDING CARDS, 111V/TATIONS FOR PAH ties. 4e. Pew styles. IdASON & CO.. sant§ - 997 C. • teat street. IWEDDING INVITATIONS. ENGRAVED IN THE V V Newest awl beat manner, LOUIS DREKA. Sta. Saner and Enzraver.4433 Cheat:mit street. tab 20.-tt DiAItRIED. LEEDS—MILLER,—On the evening of May 9th. at the Moravian Cbarch, Franklin and Wood. by the Pastor. Rev. J. 11. Kammer, Mr. J. Elwood Leeds to Mita Maggie A. all of tide city. . Dl,~s. DE STOMEZ—Ott : the 6th "Butt , John DOetOnet, In the rad year of Mange. The male - telethon and friends, Co the "'renal Be nevolent Society are regrectfolly invited to attend the from his lota reeidence No. .1109 Walnut street, on Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock. Funeral very ice at St. John's Church. ,Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. ZbY.—Sllddenly, on the morning of the sth inst., General John Ely, Marshal of thelbasteria District of Penney lvtutia. Ills relatives and friends are invited to attend his funeral, from TIT Fine Morn, next Saturday, at 11 o'clock. FCERING.—On the 6th Inst., liatgaret Fcering, aged 72 years. Her relatives and triode are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence. No. 418 North Fifth street, on Monday, 10th inst. at 2 o'cloth. Toreeeed to Laurel Hill. ** FULLER—On the 4th inst., Abbott Chauncey, youngest child of Maria B. and the Late Abbott IL. Fuller, aged I years and 6 months. HOUGHTLlol.—biuldealy, on the 28th of April. at Jerseprille Jennie, wife of W. H. Iloughttin. The relatives and frLnele are invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her father, Samuel L. Mcleetridge. No. 1207 Ship pen street, this (Friday) af ternoon, at o'clectr. It LOWDER —On Friday morning, May rth. Elite tenh Twelle, erne of Dr. Edward Lowber. Her funeral will be from No. 220 Mouth Eighth street, on Monday, 10th inst., at 10 o'clock. MoEl.lloY.—May 6th, Susie it., dthghter of Ellie S. and the late Caroline McElroy, aged 11 years. • Interment at Blackwoerttown. RANDOLPH. —On the ath irsift.. at 6 o'clock A. M.. Philip I'hyrick Itaud.lph, eon or the late Jacob Ran dolph, M 1). The relatives and tattle friend, are vespectfaily invited 'o attend the funeral, from the residence of his mother, s - 21 South Fourth street. on Saturday, etb nut-, at 4 o'clock P. M., without further, notice. ii _ SHAWLIJ FOR si‘eiNG BALEB. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. FILL pTNE OF WHITE BIIANV FULL LINM OF BLACK BIIAW Lfi FULL LINE OF PLAIN RHAWI.S. EVILE & LANDRLL. FOLRIII AND ARCH STS. SPECLAkIL' NCPTIVEN. WOOD & CARY, OPEN DAILY Reveilles In FANCY BONNETS, TRIMMEDTHPiTS, FRENCH FLOWERS, NEAPOLITAN HATS, FANCY HAIR HATS. RIBBONS AND SILKS, CRAPES AND ILLUSIONS, Every New Style Oat. WOOD & CARY, No. 725 O.IIESTBUT STREET. A few fine imported Bonnets and Hats BELOW COST. WOOD & CARY. spn 1p stegr JOHN B. 001.7G11 AT THE RINK. TWENTY-THIRD AND CHESTNUT STREET& THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING. at 8 o'clock. BubJect—"TEMPERAMCE." PREBIDENT ALLEN, of Girard College, will preside. A Band of Mimic will be in attendance. Admission 10 CENTS. COME ONE COME ALL. 1 fro ser. TENTH WARD THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OATHS TENTH WARD Will amenable THIS (Friday) EVENING, May 7. at 8 o'clock. at Gm N. E. corner of Broad and Race streete. HENRY C. HOWNLL, Free Mont JOSEPH COOPER. Secretary. It 4 01RALD OOLLEOR. Per To the "Me: On the sixteenth day of Novem ber, tesz. the undersigned havisig been previously elected to the Presidency of Girard College by the Ward of Directors. entered upon the dntles of that office after a decision by Judge Allison. lance that date. no orphan In the College ban been for a moment confined in the lock. up. nor lusslinngeon or eecluded room of any kind; nor have any Of the abuses referred to in a recent charge to Oho Grand Jury existed hi the institution. Every facility will be afforded the Grand Jury to mate st thorough exemination of every buddies and room on the premises, and to question both officers and pupils. The undershmeit therefore. solicits a suspension of liniment on tho part of the public until utter the fury shall have made lte presentment. W 91.11. ALLEN. Ili{ President. OFFICE ELMIRA AND WILLIAMBPORT RAIL• .""' ROAD COMPANY. Putx.atmcents., May 6, 1869. At the Annual Election of the Elmira and Williamsport Railroad Company. the following °Moore wore duly ideated for the ensuing year: PRESIDENT. THOB. KIMBEB, Ja. TIBEASURI.S., WM. C. I:ONtiBTRETH. MANAGERS, ALLX. 8. DIVEN. WM. C. LuNGsl'RBlll. TIi..bMAS NEILSON. LEWIB P. GEIGER, Secretary. ELLIS LEWIS. W 40. 111; L. LEWIS, 111 lid, • par BETHESDA PRESIII TER LA ".1 U4Ol-1, corner of Prankford road and Vienna street. Th. 4 opening services of the new edifice will be held on next Sabbath. at 1e34 A. M., IN P. M., and quarter before a in the evening., Beaide the Pastor, the Rev. Albert Ramos, Bev. Dre. Humphreys. Stryker, Adams, Shepherd, Wis. well, Meare and of ere are expected to take part in The services. my7.2t• pa r FRENCH BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—THE members of Bile Hoelety aro respectfully invited to attend the funeral of JOHN DEdTUUE r, ESQ . from hill late tealdeince, 1809 Walnut street. on SAL'UttIIAY MORNING. at 9 o'clock. By order of the Preoldont. lt•• N. PETRY, Secretary vro tem. Mgr. °PYLE& OF THE METALLINE LAND COAL PANY„ NO. FM WALNUT S'FrtEE'F. 'MOM The stated annual meetinic of the *tooth° dora of the Mottallne Land Company will be bad at t h o °Moe of the Company, on MONDAY, June 7th, proximo, at is o'clock, AL my 7 76 M. H. HOFFM Clerk. , . sop. HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOB. 1518 and 1521 LOX. bard street, Dispensary Department.--Medleat treatment and medicine tarnished gratuitously to the poor. • • ' \ ' , . , ____ ,_., .. . .., ~ ,• ... •-, ' . - t - - • ‘ ,' ' '' - - . - ~., • • - •-\ , . • ... , . . , ~.. .. • ' , • . . ~ „ , . ' - . , . . . . . . '. - . 1 .'., A: . _ I. ,' . . 1 , .. ' " - ' .• - ~ . . . ':' '..: 7, r ~,,,"..,,,, . . . , ~ . . . . ~,..,,. , „ • • - . . . . . ... ~ t • , • • ''• . • • , ~ . ~ . .: ...:: '. ' - '' ' . . -'' . ' .; - -' • .. • • " - . . . . . . . , . . . ~ .. .• ' ' , .. . i • . . • .' • . , , .. • ~, ,r•-..., . • ... . .. „ • . . . . . . , .. . . - . - • . , ". • . • . ..• SIEILIIIL9a, NOTICES. gee , A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Will be Wes by the members of the GREEN HILL PRESBYTERIAN SABBATH SCHOOL, assisted by a part of the to the Church. GERMANLS, ORCHESTRA. GIRARD AVENUE,. ABOVE SIXTEENTH STREET, FRIDAY EVENING, May 7th, DB6 . rXerciFeil cram:lame at 8 o'clock. Admissioa, Tsreaty•five emits. mys.etrp lar AENOCIATION OF. TEM CI CY OF PUILADELTLIIA. A meeting of this Arenelation will be bell at tiro Web rill House, Salmon] et•eet above 812th. on FRIDAY EVENING, May 7,1& 1, at o'clock. 8ud0e. , ..5 of importance. DAVID BEITLER, • wyf-2t Secretary. g i er. TURK IEIII OATHS. MA GIRARD STREET, TWO SQUARES FROM THE CONTINENTAL. Ladles' department strictly private.; Open ' day and erveLtnr. - apt tiro /DIViDMIIUI fitowicr", EXCILAANGE NATIONAL BANK OF Prrrs .--BL'ItOIf. Na - DIAy 4t11.18511. The Board cf Directors have ,tt Is day declared a divi dend of Five (5) Per Cent.. free of all taxer, payable or. and after tbe loth loot. Eastern Ittockholdera trill be paid at the Western National Bank of Philadelphia. coy 7 3(5 A. LONG. Automat, Cubic,. Ef ir PENNETYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, TREABUREWS DEPARTMENT. PitIGADELPLUIL Pa.• May 241869. The Boyd of Directors nave this day declared a vend annual dividend of tive per cent. on the capital etnck of the Company, clear of National and State taxes, payable in mob on and alter Ma, 30 . 1899. Blank powers of attorne) for collecting dividendl can be bad at the Office of tie Company, No. 2:13 d. Third Mr, et. The Office will be opened et 8 A. M. and closed at 4 P. . fi on /day P.O to June 6. for the payment of dividends, and alter that date from 9A.ILto B B . id. THOMAS I% VIRTU, resumer. l'iwni—The third Instalment on New Stool ' of 1868 Is due and pas able on sr before June 15. [my4 2airps 1 HE iIDRIIIII3TRATION ON THE CU BAN QUESTION. Complication of the Cuban Question ) inbarrassment of the Administra tion-Senator !Sumner's Views. The Washington correspondent of the N. Ye //eratd has the following: 'I be Cuban question is giving considerable ern e veiny s to the administration_ Each day itas presenting itself to the President and his Cabinet in new shapes and under more embarrassing cis cunistancee. From official sources I learn that 01 the present the government has determined to take no official notice of the troubles in Cuba. The President and the members of his Cabinet t bet t rain from the newspapers that there is an insurrection in Cuba; they see accounts of meet ings held in the different cities to express P . ) CO Wilily with the Cuban patriots; they trod about expeditions being fitted out and of ettips sailing with men and arms to aid the insurgents, but neither President Grant nor soy member of his Cabinet is supposed to know any thing officially about these matters. In speak ing of this subject to-,day the President said that he saw a good deal in the newspapers about Cuba concerning which the Government, as far us be knew, had no official information. When the queetiou was put to him whether he knew e beet the sailing of ships with arms and men for Cuba, he naively answered, " Well, I have seen something to that effect in the newspapers." Having his attention called to the despatch et Admiral Hoff received at the Navy I). pertinent yesterday, containing an account of an unsuccessful attempt to land men and arms on the coast of Cuba for the insurgents, the Pre rident quietly remarked that he supposed what etoff said was correct, but he had no knowledge of who they were or where tney came from. ft.ere seems to be a studied effort on the part of the government officials to Ignore, in a quiet, official way, for the present the whole Cuban tattiness. The President does not know any thing, the Secretary of State is reticent and the other members of the Cabinet are not disposed to say publicly what they may think privately about Cuba. In a emus: conversation with Sena tor Sumner to-day your correspondent asked that gentleman what be thought of the struggle in Cuba. He replied that he was afraid it was a little premature, and that it would not result in anything, unless the Cubans should receive mate rial aid from outside parties. He would like, as he supposed every American would, to acre the Cubans succeed. First, because it would secure emancipation to the slavers in that island ; and second, because their success would end either in the independence of Cuba or in annexation to the United States, most probably the latter. I suggested that perhaps it would aid the Cubans to some extent if our Govern ment abould accord to them belligerent rights. Mr. Sumner replied that there might be some difficulty about that, and he doubted whether even that would be of much material service to the Cubans. If Isabella was still Queen ,of Spain it might put a different face on the matter, but there is an effort being made in Spain to eatsb !lab a liberal form of government. "We cannot," Bald Mr. Sumner. "very well do anything to em barrass this movement. To take an active part with Cuba against Spain would seriously distract the home government." I inquired whether we had not a right to accord the Cubans belligo tee t rights. To this Mr. Sumner replied that while a e might have the right, the question was whether a would be expedient to exercise it. A great nation like ours could do almost anything, but it must take the conseqacnces of its acts. He bought that a recognition on our part of the belligerent rights of the Cubans might load to trouble with Spain. The Spaniards were not F I rong, but they were proud, and would show fight. What would be the result ? Oar com merce is not large, but that of Spain is leas. In this respect she has little to lose. There would to twenty Alabamas afloat instead of one, and we would be the losers. Mr. Sumner went on to say that he believed the annexation of Cuba to the United States was inevitable, but it would come about of itself. Ho thinks that the present contest, if it does not result in subduing the in surgents at an early day, will end in leaving Cuba comparatively a desert. A Brazil Han Present to John 0. Whittter. The Boston Transeript says: "A curious present has been sent to Whittier from Brazil. One of the Duet's most beautiful pieces is the 'Cry of a Lost Soul," founded ou a tradition of Northern Brazil, 0 the c treet that the lonely nocturnal cry of the bird callel by the people on the Amazon the Alma de l',llomda or Alma perdida (the soul of the I t.diau, or the Lost Soul), is nut the cry of a bird, but of "'The pained soul of some infidel Or cursed heretic that cries from hell.' "This poem so interested the Emperor of Bra -711 that he translated it very faithfully and pond cally into Portugneso,and sent an autograph copy to Whittler. It was also translated by Pedro Line, a Brazilian poet, and published widely in South America. The Emperor furthermore sent to Mr. Whittier two fine stuffed specimens of the Alma perdida (the Fiaya Cagenct Lin), but through the honesty of the captain of the vessel, or of the New York Custom House, the birds never reached Amesbury. A few weeks ago two other unstuffed specimens were sent from Brazil to the poet, and have recently been 'sot up' by Mr. Charles G. Brewster, at his place in Treinont street, where these 'lost souls' have attracted much attention. They are to be forwarded to Mr. Whittler to•day." —Near Mounalua island. of Hawaii, there are Wei likes si thc hylittf6, - :lslllr:ortitali - Water - WU the other salt. Both are far above the level of the sea; and it Is believed that there is no con- nectlon between the salt lake and the Nem. The deposits of salt in the former era now utilized by parties who have just begun to ope rate there and will thus make the article very cheap for fishing parties. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869. THE ITLIFEESTEROS. supposed Expedition! from Mawr() to Cuba. The Baltimore American of last night says: The steamship Chickamauga sailed from Bel throne on Tuesday with a clearance and an os tem•ible destination for Wilmington, North Caro tine; but among persons engaged about the har bor and river and on vessels it is helleved that her real destination is Cuba. The Chickamauga was a blockade-runner daring the war,and after hav ing made a number of successful tripe between English ports and Wdmiugtou and Charlene% carrying arms and.war material into the Confed eracy, was stink in the Cape Fear river, haring been chased upon the shoals by a Federal gun boat. After the close of the war she was raised fr out her position in the sands of Cape Fear river and brought to Baltimore, where she was put in thorough running order. The Chicka mauga is a long, low and rakish iron steamer, having double propellers and engines, and was ore of the fastest of the swift class of steamers a bleb were employed in running the blockade. Several times she was chased by'Federal cruisers, but always distanced them. If the supposition in regard to her destination be correct, it will be a powerful aid to the struggling Cuban patriots. The Filibuster Armaments The New York World this morning contains the following additional particulars of t>fe Cuban expedition which sailed from New York : THE ARMB AND STOEE-8 OY TH/1 ANAOO For the first time we are enabled to give a complete inventory of the arms and ammunition which were pieced on board of the Arago a week brfore she put to sea. They are as follows : 10,000 st.ind of arms. 6,1k0,000 rounds of fixed ammunition 12 eta -poundal rt 6 twelve-pounders. 2,000 saddles. 2.000 Whiles. Besides theee articles of contraband, there were carriages for the guns, loth of pork and beef, me dical stores, crackers, and alarge quantity of rum to cheer the patflots. The 10,000 stand of arms were not needed alto gether, of course, as is understood, to arm tha 11,113 In the Arago. The surplus arms were for .he Cubans who are willing to fight in the centre of the island, but have not arms. The saddles and bridles were for the use of the mounted in fantry, as that arm has been found the most ser viceable in the war with the Spaniards. Mounted Infantry can be need for the double purpose of cavalry and infantry. NEW TOE FC - 13 CONTINGENT OF FILIBUSTERS To show the extent and secrecy of this move ment against the Spanish government, we will bow give the names of the officers in command of the different bodies of men who have sailed from this city during the past thew weeks, In t eel a manner as will convince these people who are still incredulous. It was necessary to keep back this information as long as - possible from the public, in order to avoid implicating those ho gave it to this journaL The vessels sailed as follows; in the following order, and with the following number of men on board: First vessel, commanded by Ce!onel J. B. Johnson, carried 552 men. Second vessel, commanded by Frank B. Spinola (not the General F. B. Spinola,of Brook -13 n), 300 men. Third vessel, name of officer In command with held. 632 men. Fourth veeed, commanded by General French, Fifth vessel (the, Arago), commanded by Gen Thomas Jordan, formerly chief of Beauregard's oil, 420 men and 84 officers, of all ranks. Of his number of officers, four belosured to the French army, on leave of absence In this city. Lind no one hindering, they took French leave lid. Cuba. There were also seven English officers Lf high rank, who were in the batch of 84. NAMES OF THE OFF/CEEB. It was impossible to get a list of all the officers aho went in the Arago under General Jordan. but we give all the names we could get, and It a 111 be easy for those who are acquainted with them in this city, where they are all well-known, to deny the fact that they have gone on the Artigo, if they choose to do so. Among the dicers were: Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General Charies May. Lieutenant J. F. Magi!, of the British artillery. Lieutenant Edonard Barre, French Cavalry. Msjor. George Inman, Seventh Rhode Island Infantry. Captain L. C. Bailey, formerly of the Filth L cited States cavalry. Lieutenant Thomas Fitzgibbons, Quarter master. Major E. B. Martin, of the Twentieth Pennsyl vania cavalry. Colonel Warren, who is to have the command of the body-guard of General Thomas Jordan, who is to command the entire revolutionary army. The body-guard will be selected from the 6.1 officers. Colonel Charles Reid. Colonel Charles Lester. A great number of menjwere rejected as recruits by the Cuban officers; 64 recruits were rejected by one surgeon. Young Waiter's name was not found upon the roll of the Arago. He entered upon the name of Pedro Gonzales. In a few days an advertisement will Lippear in the morning journals from the Cuban au thorities, stating that no more recruits will be received for the Cuban army. They have enough already. Several boys unfit to servo .ere brought back from the Arago on the brigs Yankee and Phillip. OTHER EXPEDITIONS In Met the entire seaboard has been and is still being crowded with filibusters. Within the last thirty-three days we have positive information that 9,000 men have left the cities of Charleston, Baltimore and New Orleans for points adjacent to the Cuban coast and for the Island Itself. Twenty live hundred have left the city of New York, and live hundred more are now, while this is being written, waiting to get off. It is not pos sible, however, for this batch to get off now, that the authorities have been so effectually alarmed. It is expected that a force of 25,000 men will, in a few weeks, be placed under the command of General Jordan, who has command of the entire Cuban army at present, unless that he is untortunate enough to be captured by Spanish war-vessels during the next six days. The Arago will certainly either have landed her troops within the next bix days or else they will be captured by the t 4 p9nish or American war-vessels. It is expected ,that 10,000 men will be conveyed from Nit xleo and the West India Islands to a port con tigueue to the Island of Cuba, and here they will be reinforced and armed with the arms now on board of the Arago. Jordan, if not captured, will be in command 0r25,000 good troops in ton days. The Cuban Committee in this city, which bao furnished the *385,000 in gold which equipped the Arago, and of which Senor Altars is a leading Lumber, kris now in the treasury *900.000 to 41,000,000 in gold. An Engagement on the Coast---k steamer Disabled. !From a Private Letter to a gentleman in New York. ) HAVANA., April: 27.—One of the Spanish steamers, much injured, came In yesterday, and a few hours afterward the General of Marina and all the squadron in port wont oat. All kinds of reports are afloat, some that a patriot steamer bad an engagement with two of the government steamers, to protect the landing of an expedi tion of 2,500 men, and that the patriots sunk one boat, while the other made off, the letter being the eum-that-earnis in. -The -town is -„quiet- now,- but In the country people aro still shot ad libitum. —Emile de elrardln has just been challenged by Anatole do la Forgo. in reply 'he proposes that each should take a ream of paper, a bottle of Ink, and a box of pens, and that the combat should lust till paper, ink, and pens are mod up. OUR - WHOLE COUNTRY. some Facts about Ilt—lts Threatening' Froporttons -1/ he Duly of the.lreople —& Great Itenevolence—hcenes at the Midnight fllisellon,, 4 It is time that the press and the public had elven some attention to alearful evil which ex-- lets In this city, and which assumes daily greater and more terrible proportions. We allude to the operations of the lost women who throng ou r streeta and ply their trade in multitudes of estab liehinents throughout the city. We have pursued a wrong policy with this matter. It has bees the custom for society to close HS eyes upon it, to seal its lips, to ignore the very existence of such an institution. It has stared men in the face for generations; it has made the paitsage of our streets at night impos ., eible for honest women without an escort; it hat debauched young men; it has brought misery and degree° fo many a household, and disease and death to many an innocent person. The law does'net regulate nor even recognize it, and so, unchecked,_ =cared for,ndeed, encouraged by neglect, its proportions ncrease, and the ranks of the prior victims are swelled, until the safety, the reputation, the very life of our social syStem demand that some steps shall be taken to re deem the lost, and to prevent others going astray. It is not required that this matter shall be made the theme of common discourse, or that the unsophisticated pare shall be tamiliarlzed with Its evils and extent. What we demand Is that the press and the pulpit shall speak clearly and plainly upon the subject, and urge upon all men, whether professed philanthropists or not, that they lend their aid In effecting a reform. If this community should be smitten with an epidemic disease which threatened to bring de vastation and death Into our families, tie latent benevolence of the people would and cep' t...sion in liberal contributions of money, and to eirnest personal efforts to check the disease. But we are stricken with a plague more terrible than any which expends Itself simply In physical results. The one brings bodily death; the other sluices both soul and body with a mortal sickness, and its virus spreads through all classes and eastee,de moralizing society with its spiritual results, and destroying men, women and childreu with its physical poison. People cannot and must not pass by on the other aide and refute to notice this thing. They cave no right to do so. There is a solemn obli gation resting upon every honest man to taco the frightful spectacle, acquaint himself with its awful features, and then to give his voice and hand in behelt of its reformation. While we are negligent, the ministers of this evil are not idle. They are ardent, active, en scrupulous in their efforts to gather fresh vic tims for their hideous sacrifice. Daily, the coun try pours Its supplies tato the great reservoir of the city. Young and innocent girls are brought hither in scores by scoundrels who have deceived them, and who abandon them when they have made their betrayal sure. At all the depots there are men and women constantly upon the watch for girls tvho come to the city unpro tected, and who, either from ignorance, want, or tvil . propensity are easily led-away to destruc tion. There are stories so sad, so pitiful and fall of anguish, of the dellkrattd ruin of these pare ereaturee,that the heart grows sick at the relation. Many o girl has gone out from her father's house as white as snow, determined to seek employ ment in the city, and'no tidings of her have ever comeback. She has been ensnared, and has fallen and been lost, often beyond hope of re clamation. Tiler- is no limit to the devilish in genuity tit the procurers. See does uot, hesitate at any crime to secure her object. It Is almost too dreadful to relate,bnt these women have even penetrated 56 the sanctuary, and, beneath the cloak of religion, done the devil's work in turn ing the steps of pious children into the paths of death. There have been mstances,we are credibly informed, where procuresse,s have entered SUSl day schools and taken classes, that they might betterlead astray pure children. Can any malt refuse to heed the warning that there fain this? Who so shrewd a seer that he can foretell that his household may not next be invaded by this Insidious and persistent enemy? There are families in this city whose children were once as pure, as innocent, as happy as any, who now sit desolate, mourning with Inconsola ble anguish the absence of those whose feet aro wandering upon the dark mountains. It will be well tor all of us to learn the lesson of other men's bitter experience and do what we can to work reformation. About five thousand loot women tramp our streets night alter night, boldly, shamelessly practising their trade. To counteract the influ ence of this host, what have we? Half a dozen inatitutlone, most of which are simply reforma tory, and wait until the poor outcast comes to the door and knocks. All are worthy. But there is one institution which does a better work because It is more active—The Midnight Mission. Its doors stand wide open so that the repentant and the hardened, alike, can enter and go out as they choose. At night its earnest missionaries traverse the streets and alleys, and when they meet one of those to whom the mission is devoted, they slip Into her hand a brief, earnest and pathetic ap peal that she will come to the Mission Howe and hear what the goad men and women there have to say. It seems nearly a hopeless task. Women of that class are tilled with the reckless indiffer ence of despair. But the leaven works. Late in the evening a poor wanderer, painted and bedizened—some- OMB the wors e for liquor—enters the door with hesitating and timid step. One of the attending ladies receives her with cordial kindness. She is taken to an inner room, where gentle hands minister to her and give her refreshment. She Is with those who fear no defilement—women who have learned their Christian charity from film who was the friend of the Magdalen. and who bid the adulterous woman Go in peace. After awhile another and another comes in, until there are three or four, sometimes twenty,. sometimes seventy or eighty present. Some of them are children, not morn than twelve or four teen years of age—lost almost in their infancy— all are young; most of them are quiet and gentle, and seem deeply affected with the interest taken in them. It is a new thing to them that pure women should touch their polluted hands and whisper in their ears sweet words of comfort and peace. It is a happy assurance that they arc not cut off from fellowship with common humanity. While they converse, some one plays an old, familiar tune upon the organ, and a hymn is sun;. They all seem to know it, and some, as the words recall memories of past and almost forgotten happiness, hide their faces and cry. There are tears in all eyes. It is a scene that no human being can look upon without intense emotion. The clergyman addresses them briefly. and perhaps tells them that ho would like those who nave been Sunday-school scholars to hold up their hands. Every hand is raised. There is not a woman or a child of them all that has not some germ of good 'in that recollection. Tao remain log time is passed in hearing music, looking at ()coke and pictures, and in conversation. At midnight tea is served ' , and then a lust appeal is made to them. Some yield to earnest entreaty and remain in the Horne, others go out again to their wild and'awful life. Last night, five or els. poor girls—some of them mere children—staid, and were furoiseted with•conifortable beds, ClOth log, and kind attendance/ Alter a short term of probation these and' the other inmates will be sent to _their parents or Juniata:A with , homes in Christian families, far away from old associations and from all tempta tion. A large number have thus been and have sent back messages of gratitude those wilt , have snatched them trout ruin and disgrace. That this noble charity may earry:on its work. and rescue MOW , those outcasts frani'dograda THE SOCIAL EVIL. Lion, we call upon the people of this city to give liberally to its support.. We regard it as the most important benevolence in this community. It is but a small organization, to be sure, to stem the mighty current of licentiousness, but It is active aid wise, and it eaves many a poor woman who has despaired of salvation, and who has searched la vain for a way out of her desperate life. There is no other means than this. Society sets its brand upon the brow of the lost woman, and holds her in scorn and de rision. She is a pariah; she is despised and spit upon: all the doors of honest life are shut upon her; there is no hope, no mercy, no pity, no forgiveness anywhere but in this charity and in such as these. if Christian people do not give of their substance here, then even this must cease. We say that the Christianity which can close its ear to this cry is worthless. It Is not as goad as genei one paganism. Those who are willing to do something, how ever little, may send their contributions to Rev. George Brinchurst, No. 758 South Ninth street. A LITTLE HERO. What a Cripple Did While the Eyes of Delaware Were dJpon film The Wilmington Commercial of yesterday says: The other day a young boy, a sow of Mrs. Forest, living on Riddle's Banks, near this city, bad occasion to take his aunt across the dam of Jeasup & Moore's paper mills, to the east sine of the Brandywine creek. On returning, owing to the strong wind and high freshet, the boat became unmanageable, and was carried over the dam breast. Providentially the boat, as it was rushing down the rapid water below the dam, atrack upon the only rock in the creek whose top was above the water, and hero young Forest scrambled and thereby was saved from immediate drowning. The people soon gathered for the rescue, bat the question arose as to how the boy was to be saved from his perilous condition. At that moment a lame boy, with a crutch, came forward and said: can fetch him off!" One of the by-standers objected, until his father, Patrick Malden, who was present, said: "Let him go; you Can't drown that boy." A rope was procured, and young nlrien, with rope and crutch, went to the'rescue. After tceling the water a little ho threw the crutch asbore, and manfully plunged into the rapid, rusbirg flood of waters, headed for the rock in the middle of the creek, where set the half drowned, chilled and frigh t( red boy. Mulrlen s warn round and round till he got through the eddy ing' water, and on to the lee side of the rock, where be scrambled up, tied his rope around yourg Forest, and with his feet had to push him 4t• the rock into the seething, boiling current, as the boy stubbornly refused to leave the only place of safety, being benumbed with cold, and afraid to face the dangers of the rapid flood again. The men soon pulled him ashore, where kied hands ministered to his wants. The trouble then was how Mulricn was to get back again, as he till] sat upon the rock and looked quietly at tie people. then at the rushing flood. He pre ! . pared himself for the plunge, and after circling round the partly covered dangerous rocks, di rected his course down the creek, made head way n Oh the current, and very soon gained the shore, some distance below the scene of the disaster. A 51VSEUEN ES —The Ricci Brothers' opera Crispin° was given at the Academy of Music last evening, in a very clever manner, by the Richings Company. To-night Mr. A 8. t ennoyer, the business manager of the troupe, will have a benefit in Martha. „„To-morrow afternoon Fra bit/two/0 will be given. —On Monday of next week Mr. Behrens, the accom plished leader of tee Blain' Opera Company, will hare a benefit in the Bohancian Girt. Upon this occa sion Mirs Susan Galion will appear, for the first time in ibis city, as "Arline." It is worthy of mention that Miss Susan willeuig in au operetta at the Theatre Continua, the same evening. "Arline," in The Rohe mum; Girl, does not come on until ttie second act, and so while the curtain to down Miss Susan will be driving furiously up the street, ready to go to sleep in the gyp. say camp. —At the Walnut, to-night, Mr. John Brougham will bare a benefit, and will appear In his sensational drama, The Lottery of Life, and in the burlesque Pow/Lour/2s. On Monday evening Mr. Bronsham'a new extravaganza, Myra Ado A bOW a Mcrotstant of Vetace —Latta played kw the benefit of the struggling Cu bans last night, and the Aran was jammed so that people could hardly move their arms to applaud._ In our local column we print the receipt given by the Cuban Committee for the proceeds. It should be un derstood that this benefit was given by Mrs. Drew and generous little Latta, and that nothing was deducted from the gross profits but a portion of the expanses, say for sallries, &A% Every mail who sympathizes with Cuba should attend LOttleN benefit to-niivitt, fn Pepincr. and d ive her three Oteers, with a vociteroas "tiger" for Mtg. Drew. There will be a Pepind matinee to- morrow. --At the Theatre Comique, to-night, Miss Susan Gallon, the prettiest, brightest singer upon the American stage, will appear in the comic opera Jeanie Lea and the operetta tea Deux A reugka. There will be a matinee to-morrow. As played by this company. Miss Blanrhe Gallon, in a man's dress, represents oue of the blind beggars in Lei Deux A veugtes. Both parte were written for men, and they have been sustained by men when the piece nag been performed here. The lust time we remember was in January. 1864, when Juignet's French company was at the Chestnut Street Theatre. The parte were tilled by two ovital low conirdiane, Donatien and Edgard. the latter now at tached to Bateman's opera company. Miss Blanche tialton is not so well suited to the role as a man would be, but she does it very cleverly. —The thirtieth and last Sentr-flaseler matinee will be ghee at Musical Fund Ball to-morrow afternoon. The following excellent programme wiU be pre seined: March—Rottninq the Dueppel .Fortilleatlone....Piefke Woltz—Marian Kliinge..... ...... ........Btranse Undulated Symphony, B minor Schubert Allegro moderato. Andante con moto. Overturn—Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes, Wagner --The Chestnut Street Rink, at Twenty-thlrd and Chestnut streets. is open daily from A A. M. to 1034 P. M., for thof e who web to learn velocipede riding, or to practice the art. —Mr. J. B Lent, the proprietor of the great New York Circus, will bring his immense establishment to ibis city this week, and on Monday evening, the 10th lust., will open it upon the lot, Eighth street, above Race. It is one of the very best of its kind in the world, as its mlonged success in New York city ',roves. —Mr. John E. McDonough announces that he will appear at the Chebtnut Street Theatre on Monday evening of next week.wlth "Elsie bolt's English Bur !erotic Company." The engagement will begin with an extravaganza entitled Luorotia, Borgia, She Grand bo,:trooso. —At the American Theatre, to-night,a mtecellaneone performance of nunPual excellence will be given. A number of new artiele, have been engaged. and the lemons balk t troupe having been retained,will appear in several novel dances. —The concert of sacred and organ music given at St. Augmtine's Ohurch, last evening, was well at tended. Mr. Thunder's playing on the tine organ, re cently remodeled anti enlarged, was very autterior. A fugue r f Bitch's, an turiumenient of Mozart's elarionet montett, and an organ sonata by Mendelssohn were particularly admired. A young pupil of Mr. Thunder's, Muster Robert Winterhottorn, also played cmcerto by Witch in rernarkaoly good style. The vocal music was excellent in the choruses, but the solo singers were not all equal to their work. A tenor In the quartett from Mozart's Requiem was positively bad. The concert was, however, chiefly to exhlb4 the organ, and to test the new electro magnetic action, which has never before been applied to en organ to America. It seemed to work very well, and it Is said to facilitate the playing' reatly. —Mrs. F. Mordaunt, well known to the playgoers of Philadelphia as a capital actress. will vibe a benetit matinee at the Academy of Music on the 98th instant, when a very Interesting variety of dramatic. entertain ments will be presented. TUE COURTS. VirML OP HENRY FutotrA, Dac'o.—ln the Court of COMMOR Pleas, in the above caso, the appli cation fora feigned Issue was withdrawn yokel.: day, and the feigned issue stricken olf. This leaves the. will as made by the testator, with E. D. Yates as executor. A recent suit In Chancery at London was brought by a confectioner to protect his copy ( right of a sweetmeat' im the shape of an oyster., F. L. FETHERSIDN. PRICE THREE CENTEL FACITB AND FANCItga. A WIFE'S SONG BY MRS. MARY U. MILL Bweetheart, I pray thee take thine one; Let those tired hands from labor cease, Nor crowd the day's full measure. Turn thy grave face to me awhile, And let me see the old-time smile, Which love still counts a treasure:; I would my song, soft as the air"' • • Which brings the scent of violets fair And fragrant mignonette, Might breathe into thy troubled bruit. Balsamic quietude and rest, , And thou ilfe's grief forget. • ' Life's grief forget ! 0 no, not quite. For what were morn without the night, Or sunlight without shadow ? As well might June forget its showers When singing birds and bloom*g 1101/11111 Make glad the silent meadow. • Byer to good the dear God's will • Guides us through many a seeming W. , Hearts oft in anguish steeping. But through the lens of tears Jo seta What may forever hidden be From, eyes unused to weeping. Then let na trust His vim behest, Who ordering all things for the best, Has joy and sorrow blended,. And we may learn to bless the shower, Though beaten down be every flower Onr hope has fondly tended. —Jenny a nd has gone to Sweden. —Brasil , Ike of a cable to Europe. —lsabella allows her head cook 869 a day to feed the household. —The isle excitement ls coming up again. Its England and Cuba. —When does a ship tell a falsehood? When she Ike at the wharf . —Ben, did you ever see a eat-fish? No, but I've seen a rope-walk. —Nilsson denies s matrimonial engagement with the Duke of Meese. —Chinamen aro beginning to coma from Cali fornia to the Atlantic cities. —A gay Mormon in Williarnaburgh, N. Y.. aged 68, rporla eleven wives. • is the inside of everything unintslligiblci Because we can't make it out. —A noisy carpet-bag on a London train was found to contain a lively idfant. —At the first opening of the county court at White Pine, 150 lawyers were on hand. —An old bachelor editor says: "Lovers, like armies, get along well enough 1111 engaged." —The man who ate his dinner with the fork of a river has been trying to spin a mountain top. —There is famine in Central India, many , dS log by the roadside on the way to obtain.: relief. „ —Horatio Seymour is President of a Like and Rivrr Transportation Company operatingin Ms cumin. —lt le proposed, to build in Now York a first class hotel, to be devoted to the exclusive use of negroes. ' —What's In a name? A Kentuckian by.ther, name of Stamps has an income of. only 415 to show for It. —Memphis le ehipplegoit cake to Liverpool by way of Nt w Orleans at the rate of one hundred Lone a Week. —Some fool lately bid and paid fifty dollaii far Confederate coteolor 98, 0 0 at a nubile rage be Augusta, Georgia. —A four-year-old In Cincinnati found $1,0(101m Treasury notes tinder the c.arpet and usod then to stuff his rag-baby. • —The Sultan had a bracelet of the value of $lO,OOO made up from his crown jewels to giro to the Princess of Wales. —A man in Kentucky has been sentenced 'Sca three years in the penitentiary for stealing' 'two infants preserved in alcohol. —Wagner has been invited to compose apiece for the Mammoth Noise in Boston next month.. The occasion ought to snit him. —A Western farmer advertises a fugaclows wife, who, he says, "has left him Just as his swu m r's work is beginning, notwithstanding he km had the expense of wintering her." —Austria bus 3,000,000 acres of virgin forests, prod act d by planting, which are estimated to be worth several hundred mUllons of florins. —A big moccasin snake has been ereatinx`att excitement on the etreets of Savannah, exhibit leg a partiality for the heels of treed women. —The Hon. Brick Pomeroy is recovering his health. Ho puts up 56-pound dumb-beds essilv. and snuffs a candle at thirty paces with ttocw: volvor. —A clergyman in Virginia reports having =T OO to another man the widow of a person whose funeral sermon he preached on the pre ceding day. —Peter Cartwright, the famous Methcidlst pio neer, thinks his time is about up, and , is anxious his conference should look aftet his aged wife, after be is gone. • _ —Napoleon's little piece of generosity, in al lowing an extra 00 to soldiers of the First Em pire, is likely to cost France 412,000,000; and civilians grumble. —The monarchs are to meet this Year., King William and the Bmperor Napoleon will see each other at a German watering I place and the Czar will call upon the King of rrucalti, n June. —Violet Colville is an American girl, whose voice excites admiration among the connoisseurs of Paris, where Elio is studying. WarteJ, her teacher, predicts that she will be another Mali-- bran. —Two London clergymen appropriated their sermons from the same source a few Sundaye since. oud bad the satisfaction of seeing them printed simultaneously in a Monday morning paper. —"Red as a Rosa is She" le the title of a now serial novel about to be pibiished In London, by the anther of "Cometh up as a Flower." The de mand for striking titles seems to have gone for beyond the supply. —White Fine, Nevada, is fast settling down. Into the ways of civilized life. It has a handsome.. and newsy paper called the Inland Empire and not 200 rods from Its office one of the richest silver mines yet discovered has pin been located.. —lt is told of Lord Norbnry that when passing • danilLet of death upon a man for stealing a, • watch, be said to the culprit: "My good fellow, . 4 yvti mode a grasp at time, but caught eternity." As a toil fof thne the fellow might have beea culled Procrastination. —Au astronomical friend who has watched spots on the sun's disc for a few days past, says,:, the largest spot id (dEraiddhing, and now, covers only one million four hundred thousand. nltte:,4 hundred and ninety-nine sonar° miles of .the Stilt& face, and he don't call that much of a spot.'. --Sergeant Bates, the great "ItagNbearer,"ll it , " present in Milwaukee. That city honorit`lll6 l,, ' "distinguished" gentleman with ti`eoinpiline tary benefit at the rink, and he amuses the quid people of that village with, an exhibitiott of the trophies of his march front “Vieitakoirg to the Soo. ' —The archives of the Holy Synod, St. Peters imnr,which-erortairrinatertairrof tiretigtrestialtte for the history of the Hessian Church and religions legislation, have remained hitherto tat • little known and almost inaeeessible to the studies of the learned. The Heeperor Aktexander has just authorized the apOolntment of a special commis. sloe charged to plaCe these docutnents In order. and to publlati a cortala atuabor of them. • • , 1 :a 3,. iF~ —N. Y. Port.
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