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"LET US NAVE PEACE!"
GRAND
NATIONAL PEACE JUBILEE
AND
MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
To be held Indus
CITY OF BOSTON,
June 15, 16, 17, 18. and 19, 1869,
To commemorate the restoration of PEACE
THROUGHOUT THE LAND
THE COLISEUM
in which the Jubilee is to be held will afford ample ac•
commodation for nearly FIFTY THOUSAND PER.
MINA • and the series of musical entertainments will in
:dodo oratorio performances by
THE GREATEnT CHORUS
ever organized in any part of the world, made up of mu.
Meal vedettes from all teeth:mut of the country, and
TWENTY THOUSAND CHILDhEN from the public
schools. with an orchestra of
ONE THOUSAND INSTRUMENTS,
comprielne many of the principal bands and best must •
aians in the United States.
DISTINGULt3IIED GUESTS
from all sections of the Union. Wadding NATIONAL
AND BTATB OFFICIALS. will participate in the Jubi.
lee, and the citizen], of Boston will be prepared to extend
those hospitalities and attentions to visitors from abroad
which they. hope DAY serve, to inaugurate the return of
kind and fraternal feeling among all American citizens].
and aid in perpetuating throughout the world, "Pesos
on stawru, GOOD WILL TOW AIM MEW'
'rho immense outlay attendant upon this vast under.
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ness by the citizens of Boston insuring for the Festival
and Jubilee every success which pecuniary aid can com
mand.
The following scale of prices has been established :
13iNonsa , Ainsiesion, milli secured seats, $5 and $B. ac•
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ISINGLII ADMISSION. without reserved seat..._ .......$ 2
Beeson Trogar,—transferable,—adraitting three persons
to ail the entertainments given in the Coliseum during
the season.— . ....... . ... .$lOO
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with the matey, may be transmitted by made dealers
broughout the country. or hymen or enrols, directed to
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Boston Mum Hall, Boston, Maws.
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aireertlfloates of Qualification for Teachers in the
Public Schools of the First School District of Pennsyl
vania will be held in the Zane Street School House; Fit
'bort. above Seventh, on Thun day and Friday. May.l3th
and 14th, 1869. The examination will commence at 1
o'clock P. M. prodigal/. on Thursday and at 9 o'clock A.
ISt on Friday. No applicant under 17 year's of age will
•-", be examined, except in accordance with the resolution of
the Board of, Controllers. No pupil of the pubilo schools
Will be examined who has not pursued at least a two
Taan' course of study in the Girls' Normal. or in the of not
trill High School, of Philadelphia: an average of not
~leas than 76 is required for a first-class certificate :An
taVerage of not less than 66 for
than econd•cl cortcate ;
snd an average et not lees 6O for a third-class' cer
tificate. There will be but one set of questions.
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LETTII6III W1LOI!1 PARR&
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.)
Palm, Tuesday, April 27th, 1869.--The Corps
Legislatif closed its session and its six years' legal
existence yesterday, and separated with loud
cries of Vire l'Empercur! from the majority; in
the midst of which the sonorous voice of Jules
Fevre might be heard to exclaim: Vire la liberte!
and that Eugene Pelletan, Vire la Nation! To
the former demonstration the President thought
fit to make a direct reply, by saying sen
tentiously that " the country did not
separate the idea of liberty from that
of the Emperor"—a sentiment respecting the ,
truth of which there may certainly exist two
opinions. The appeal which Is about to be made
to universal suffrage ought, indeed, to decide the
point. But then, as M. Prevost-Paradol observes
in the Debate of this morning, there Are unfor
tunately too good reasons for mistrusting this
decision. For It is a fact, he says, which no one
can really with good faith dispute, that the
whole alto more enlightened portion of the
nation, meaning by that not merely the
rich and cultivated classes, but all who have re. l
ceived a moderate degree of instruction upon
public affairs, are against the government upon
the questions at issue between it and the country.
And yet, he adds, it is only too well known that
this sentiment cannot prevail at the approaching
elections, because the obstacles opposed to it are
too powerful to be overcome. Nor can, indeed,
any efforts of the liberal opposition hope to com
pete succesafully with the local influence of
the administration in • the rural districts,
and the way in which these latter
are being bought up by wholesale. There is
scarcely n Val age or a parish In France to which
the "official candidate" has not been authorized
by the Government to make some promise or
other, of a church or a chapel, or a school-hone,
or bridge, or new road, or branch railway, ac
companied by a threat that they will get nothing
it the wrong candidate be returned. There is a
story, too, of a French Mayor who, when giving'
orders to the garde•champetre, or rural police
man of the district, as to the mode of fulfilling ,
his duties, wound up with this remark :
"And, above ail, take care never to see the fags
of an elector who votes for the government when
they are trespassing, and always to see those of
one who votes for the opposition !" Follow
the principle of the above official rule
into all its ramifications, and you will under
stand at once the French elections and their re
sult.
The general elections are spoken of for the 23d
and 24th of next month, and will probably take
place about that time. It is expected that the
Chamber will be called together for a
short session In the middle of dune, partly
to get through the formal business
of taking oaths and verifying elections, but '
mainly with a view,of parading before the eyes
of the country and the rest of the world the "suc
cess of the government," and the "new ratifica
tion of powers bestowed by the French people
upon the dynasty of Napoleon III"! As M.
Thiers exclaimed in the Chamber the other day;
What a farce It all is!
The last subject discussed by the Chamber, no
doubt designedly, was the popular one of
the, vote of pensions to the old sol
diers of the Empire. Of this it ;.% -
well be said that crescit .undo, for it hal
grown larger in dimensions every day since it
was announced. At first we heard of an extra
expense of ten millions being required for the
purpose; but now it is found that something like
thirty millions will be wanted. No one, however,
begrudges the money, and the vote passed almost
unanimously. M. dueroult, the editor of the
Opinion Nationale, and M. Magnin, another oppo
sition member, put, at the last moment,
some awkward questions about the new
Grand Opera, and the sum it had already cast;
and also why it was not finished. To the asser
tion made by these gentlemen that the opera
house had cost forty-eight millions, the Minister
replied that it had as yet cost "only thirty-one
millions," which is pretty well, considering all
that remains to be done before the building is
ready for use. At present you can scarcely, by
the minutest inspection, discover a workmam•on•
the premises. Thus the huge fabric stands,
looking silent and desolate. One rea
son of this, no doubt, is that M. le Prefet de
Paris has fairly run himself out at • elbows, and
has no money to go on with. Perhaps, also.
Baron Hanesmann has a secret pleasure in keep
ing the Parisians out of their new opera, in re
turn for the way in which he has been bullied of
late on all sides. But 1 believe the true reason
of the slow progress of the new theatre
to be this:—Some time ago the Emperor
wrote and . published an cal captanduns
epistle addressed to " Mon cher Prefet,' ,
in which he alluded to the simultaneous recon
struction of the Grand Opera and the HOtel-Dieu,
or great City Hospital, and expressed the hope
that both would go on pari paean, and that the
work of pleasure would not be in advance of the
work of charity. The Prefect, however, was
evidently more anxious about embellishment
than utility, and the walls of the opera wore
raised and roofed , over, while those of the Hos
pital had scarcely risen from the ground. The
Government is afraid of this produclug . a
bad Impression ; so the works 'of the
opera are being delayed par ordre aupeneure,ualtil
those of the Hospital are brought up to the*
and thee, just when both are on the point of eom
pleliou, we shall be favored with another coup It
thidtre from the pep of Napoleon, pointing out
how admirably works of beneficence and orna
ment, of art and charity, progress together under
the fostering hand of the Fourth Dynasty.
Speaking of theatres reminds me of a very shock,.
lug accident which happened two days ago at the
Cirque Napoleon, in the Champs Elysess. A very,
clever "prestidigitator," as ho calls himself, or,
conjuror, Dr. Epatein,has been performing there;
one of whose tricks consisted in catching in Wet
hand a pocket-handkerchief shot at him from ti
a gun loaded with powder. He generally asked
a spectator to discharge the gun, and , when , thiti
was done the other day, the audience beheld the,
conjuror fall as If he wore really struck. At firsi
they thought it was a part of the trick,but a loud
cry of "I am killed !" undeceived them; and then,
it was found that the ebony ramrod of the gun,'
left in it by inadvertence, had traversed his body
and pierced right through his left lung. The
poor conjuror Iles in a precarious state, and hie
'misfortune -has called forth-linivarsaltematiserai
lion.
—A. young lady at Troy, while, engaged in con l
venation with a gentleman a few days since,
spoke of having realded,in Bt. Louis." Was ESL
Louis your native place ?" inquired the gentle.:
man. "Well, yea—part of the tithe," responded
the lady.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1869.
NASH V.
Air. Mashy Tries an Experheielli W e rt'
hesnits es lie Expected—The New
Ifeeiing Towards the Negro in in.
Wants.
(From the Toledo Blade.)
Poor Orris Coriesninter X ROADS (Wlch ns in
the State nv Kentucky), May 1, 1869.—The Dim
ocrisy et , the ,country are not in that happy con
disben just at this time that I coed wish. Tho
satrap at the head ny the government, and his
sub-roinit satraps at the head nv the depart
ments, hey not left ez many openins ez they
ought, for our good, and the reduckshen av the
expenditoors ny the government so persistently
follered up is death to us. We want greasin, but
it must not be ny dismist clerks and army officers.
Hed the government put a garrison into every
town ez we profeside it would, and could we hey
bed this summer, in addition, the pointer rot,
weevil, frost, locust, floods, drouth, yellow
fever and cholery, we might hey stood some
chance uv carrying the fall eleckshuns for the
people wood hey murmured. But ez long ez
everything is smooth they Taff at us when we in
sist upon a change and say, jeeringly, "Go up,
bald head !"
And in addishen to these calamaties we hey bin,
or are jest about bein, deprived ny the nigger
itch hex bin our cheet and best bolt. 0, wat a
backslidin there hez bin in this matter! 0, wat
a javelin there hex bin us , the walla nv the Dimo
eratic Zion! 0, wat a goin back there hez bin on
Dimocratic cardinal principles!
Feelin an oneasinis in my mind ez to the eon
dishen uv the public mind in the northern states
on the adopehen ny the fifteenth amendment, I
determined to try a most hazardous experiment.
I bed no fears nv Kentucky, none. Kentucky
will git ready to adopt an idea ninety years after
date, but I felt that 1 wanted to be satisfied ez to
the soundness uv the Ohio and Injiany Dimocrisy
on this question.
To this end I determined to resort to strategy.
I wanted to know precisely the feelings enter
tained in those States regardin the Afriken. I
wanted to see with my own eyes the ekornfnl
took with wuz formerly slung at Afrlc's sons; I
wanted to hear agin from Demoeratic lips that
cheerin expression, "D—n the nigger, anyhow!"
To accomplish this, I determined to personate a ,
nigger, and in that gels to go boldly into In
ecany, announce myself as an Afrikin nigger,
determined to assert his rites, and note the re
sult. I expected, uv course, to be hooted and
reviled. I expectld to be stoned and shot at, but
I wood thereby kill two birds with one stun, viz:
I wood disgust the Ingeanions with nigger
ekality, ez they wood see to wat it was leadin,
and I coed exhibit my scars to Kentucky ez
proof nv the ateadfastnis sty their Northern
friends.
Wat I determine upon I do. In my younger
days the feat involvin the possession of a horse,
with resultid in my beta tried for grand larceny,
and convicted thereof by 12 prejoodist Joerytnen,
and my incarcerashen, from wich I wnz only re
lieved becoz my vote wee. needed to carry Penn-r
sylvany for Bookannon, this masterpiece wuz'
conceived and executed in less than four hours.
tinforchnitly, the courts wax nearly ez expedi-;
stle, for lour days thereafter I found myself in a'
basted.
I entered Ingeany ez a white man; I registered
my name at a hotel ez a white man, but** it
nigger,'wich transfOrmashen wuz SCCOKORShed
by means UV burnt cork, in my room; wieli trans
formashen weex ny double yooee, es it enabled,
me to leave my hotel without likidatin my ac
count, 'which otherwise wood hey Din impossible.
The county in with I landed wnz a close one,
the two parties beta nearly tied, neither hevin
fifty voters to spare; and there ban over 100
niggers in the county, the Afrikin will, of he
votes this fall, hold the balance ny power.
With my face and hands blackt to the color ny
cite and aesumin the character eiv a preseher in
the''hi. E. Afrikin church, wick character I cood
-aesoom. ez the burnt cork bid the acquired color
my my nose, I sallied forth boldly. Procoorin
the locashen uv a leadin Dimicrat nv the county,
with wnz also the candidate for sheriff, I sought
him out and demandid a subscripshen for a Afri
kin church, with I assertid I was desirous uv
main in the east part nv the county, and nv
wish I wuz to be the pastor in charge, holdin
myself at the time in sigh a posishen that a kick
cood do but little damage.
I was not kick; !
On the contrary quite the reverse! The gnshin
candidate kindly, blandly and winninly begged
me to be seated; he aakt me,with tears ay interest
eushin from his eyes, ez to the prospect of our
Zion; as to bow many we numbered, male and
female, adult and youthful, and whether or not
we coodent indulge a reasonable hope that many
more nv our color mightn't be indoost to leave
the South and settle in the county.
Hopin to frighten him with nigger emigrashen,
with I bad beard him denounce not a year ago in
unmitigated terms, I anserd promptly that I wuz
even then arrangin for the removal of three thou
sand into the county.
"Thank the Lord!" said he. "The admirashen
I teal for the Afrikine—the reepeck I hey for ther
many qualities ny head and heart, make me say
in the language ny the inspired writer,`The more
the merrier.' Here is my bumble contribushen
to your church," said he, handin me $4O; "take
it, and may the Lord bless its yoose. And next
tall, after the amendment is ratified and your
people sit the rites with wnz aline the rn, I trust
you will remember at the polls them with hey
stood your friends, uv whom I am with."
Dumfounded, I staggered over to another, who
aas candidate for treasurer,
and to my surprise
and horror, he not only give me 610, but took
me by the arm in a most affeckshnit manner, and
insisted on takin me round and aeaistin me in
raisin the amount I needed. Feelin that so far es
batin the nigger wee concerned, all wuz lost, I
recklessly went with him, and reely did raise
6160 cash off nv the candidates for the county
offices and one wich desires to okkepy a seat in
Congrie. Only wunst wuz this wretch non
plussed. Turning a corner sharp, we came upon
suthin like fifteen gentlemen who wez a workin
on the streets with a ball and chain attached to
em. The minit his eyes struck em he loosed his
holt of me and shot attend, keepin in advance till
we turned the next corner.
"Why this marieouver?" aekt I, thankful that
he bad oven that much uv originel Democratic
L:elinln him.
"Mk-dear sir," replied be, "yoo will excuse me,
but the fact is I'm in a prekarlous sitooashen .
I'm a candidate, and it's close. Them gentlemen
with the ball and chain hey votes, and they hey a
most croon prejudis agin those ny your color.
We must humor their idiosyncrasies, till we can
correct cm. The time is cumin', and I'm inherit'
for it nice and day, when it will all be removed.
My deer sir, at the polls this fall will you and
poor flock remember the sacrifices I hey made
and am makin ?"
But I did come to greef. One nv these candi
dates insisted upon taken me, nigger ez he sup
posed me to be, home to his house to dinner.
injoodisrui ez it wuz, I went and ther met my
fate. He led me to a chamber, and without
tbinkin ire the burnt cork on my hands I under
took to wash em, wich I made a pint nv dein
reglery twice a week. The first splash in the
water showed me my blunder. Oil come the
color and I stood afore • him a white man in die
gime. He gave one look at my hands and then
the kickin ! Ignominyusly he led me to the
front door and one kick • landid me on the side
walk. Thank heaven, be coodent kick that sip
out ny my breeches pocket!
It Is needlie to pursoo this diegnstin subjlek
further,
Ez a nigger I wuz welcomed; when it wile
known that I west a white man I win Ignomlni
-euslyeklekt!- .Isethis-thebeginitpnv-e- slew-order-
Of thiegs ?_ Is the niggers to receive, all the
smiles hereafter us , Dimocrats who want office ?
I fear me. No sooner is thee 'a probability sty
this race Bitting a vote than: the. Dimoeratio
leaders, forgittin there proud Ottneashan• blood,;
forgittin theLdifference in the anatomical etrictor a
uv the two races, and torgettin' that the mlnott
they give the nigger a vote, ther daughters must
all marry niggers; they forgit all this, and
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
cuddle with em the same ea they Ohm hey with
other Inferior classes.
I returned home weary and sad, and silent. I
hed nothin to say to Bascom; no cheerin words
to sling at Deekin Pogram. They didn't know
waykwent, for nor how I went, nor ebel they
eier Infir:T. •I am, however, satisfied that I must
immefitly make a shift into suthin. My time
here is drawin to a close—the shedders is closin
round me, and the cite Is at hand.
PETROLEUM V. NABRT, P. 11.,
(With means Post Master).
The Murder of Holmes at Charlotte
Court Jilootse—Fall Particulars.
Mom the Richmond Journal.)
On Tuesday we published' a brief statement of
the murder of JOB. R.Holmes, a colored man, and
member of the late Constitutional Convention,at
Charlotte Court House, by a young white ,man
named John Marshall, son of Judge H. H. Mar
shall, of that county.
The facts we had at the time were very meagre,
but this morning we conversed with an eye
-witness of the murder, and from his statement
there is but one conclusion to be arrived at, and
that is, that it Is one of in most premeditated,
cold-blooded and dastardly murders that has been
committed recently in the State.
Our informant, who is a very intelligent col
ored man, who was sent to that county by the
Society of Friends from Philadelphia to organize
schools, says that there had been rumors preva
lent during the previous week that there would
be trouble at Court, and Marshall's party had
boasted of their Intention to kill eight of the lead
ing colored Republicans, among them Bland, of
Princm Edward, also a member of the Conven
tion, and Holmes. The day previous to court
day the young men had been busy moulding bul
lets, and supplying themselves with firearms and
ammunition, even borrowing guns and pistols
from colored men.
In the morning of the day on which Holmes
met his deatk Marshall and his party had pur
sued and shot at a colored man, and boasted that
they had killed him. Marshall was heard by
several witnesses to say, "I've killed one negro,
and l'alative Joe Holmes's blood before night."
The colored men, all Republicans, contemplated
having a meeting at the Court House, and quite
a number of them assembled outside of the Court
Hones inclosure. Holmes was In the Court
House, endeavoring to get a warrant for the ar
rest of Marshall, for shooting the colored man
whom he was boasting he had killed that morn
ing. • As they desired to consult him about the
arrangements for the meeting, they sent in for
him to come out. He, came, and while in eon
versation with Bland and others, a colored man
came up and said : "John Marshall wants to see
you." Holmes turned around, thus placing his
back to the fence, and at the same moment John
Marshall, his brother Griffin, one Boyd, a cousin
of Marshall, and Mackey Morris came up to him.
John Marshall addressed Holmes at once, and
said: ."1 understand you are going to have me
presented for shooting that nigger this morning
that so ?"
Holmes replied that he intended to have all
this shooting at'colored men without caninilat
down,4ind be had a perfect right to moult any
body who had violated the laws.
Enraged at this, one of Marshall's companions
struck a blow at Holmes's head with a large
stick,. which the latter fended off with his arm.
John Marshall then drew his revolver, advanced
and shtick Holmes on the, head with it a very
severe blow, and, instantly stepping back,
pointed It at hie heart within three feet of him
and fired. The shot entered, took effect in the
sternum and penetrated the body. Holmes
started for the Court-House, and the whole party
commenced firing upon him as he ran. After
getting over the fence steps the wounded man
drew his revolver and turned around; but our in
formant says that the confusion caused by the
firing of Marshall's party was so great he could
not tell whether he discharged his pistol or not
but he immediately continued his flight, and
Just as he entered the Court-House he fell dead.
The excitement was very great, the colored
people scattering in all directions, and many
seeking safety in the court-room. The Common
wealth's Attorney of Lynchburg, we understand,
was the only person among the white people
present who made any effort to do anything in,
the interest of pease.
After shooting Holmes, and vindicating their
claims to chivalry. Marshall and his band re
paired to a house in the vicinity, where it was
reported considerable quantities of ammunition
and arms had, been stored where they disappeared
from the scene, except Mackey Morris, who was
arrested and bound over in the sum of $5OO for
his appearance.
Joseph R. Holmes, the victim of this most
cruel murder, was a very quiet and inoffensive
man, pleasant tempered, and never disposed to
be forward. In the Convention be was a silent
member, but hie seat being close to the reporters'
desks, a good-natured sort of familiarity sprung
up between him and the representatives of the
city papers, all of whom regret his death. He
was immortalized by Mr. Cowardtn in his "Hu
mors of Reconstruction." wherein his fondness
for good living is alluded to, and the difficulty he
had with Doctor Bayne about the "Code" fully
described. We believe he was a blacksmith by
trade, and had, by his labor, secured a few acres
of lsnd,upon which be had erected a small house,
which is all he has left to his family, consisting
of a widow and two children. A subscription
will be taken up among the members of the Re
publican party for their benefit, and all who de
sire to contribute can do so by forwarding the
amount to this office.
The proprietors of the popular sporting paper,
the Now York Clipper, have just erected a mag
nificent new building in New York City, No. 88
and 90 Centre street, corner of Leonard.
The Clipper building was designed, architectu
rally, by J. 2d. Morrell, of Brooklyn, who has
selected the modern French style, four stories,
with the Mansard roof, which is peculiarly
adapted for the location of a composing room,
wherein space and light are indispensable. The
front is of the school of Jean donjon, and will be
found to be one of singular beauty; in fact it will
be pronounced one of the purest specimens of
correct architecture to be found in Now York,tho
designer having avoided every attempt at
meretricious ornainent. The entrance porch is
commodious, while conserving its correct pro
portions,
without trespassing upon the line of
the street, or in the least obstructing the two
large and handsome stores on the ground-floor,
oath of which is fifteen feet in height.
The second floor is devoted to the business of
publication. On one side of the hall will be found
the counting and reportorial roomreon the other,
three editorial rooms, with all the modern im
provements. Upon cult of the floors above are
five rooms, three spacious closets and a water
closet, until we reach the Mansard, which is ex
clusively devoted to the composition room.
Above this is the dome, devoted to the janitor,
whose apartments comprise three rooms, with
closets. The height of the rooms on the second
floor is fourteen feel in clear, while the compo
sition room is six feet higher, and the other
floors in proportion.
The entire building. fi fty-seven' by, forty feet,
and eighty feet in,height, from the ground to the
top of the handsome iron railing surmounting the
roof, was constructed by Mr. Walter Jones, a,
master builder, who has gained a handsome re
putation. The stone front is of'the superior Ohio'
~slonet...Ceileiisiterifte._ The. windoW4 in the frfilAt
of the building are of Freriaiglesb;ltnptirled` fix- .
- pressly for thisTßEl;each - pane bolhg - abfteen feet
square, arid two forming each wrodow, except
the stores; which have four each. . • s
As the Clipper is• naturally. anxious to be ' on'
time, the front inaling win int grandwithatril.!
iuminated dial three feet in diameter and another
on the sidewalk in front of the door. Whoa
'completed the workB will be pieced to a gtass
A ONE-SIDED WAS OF SAOIiS•
TUE NEW 44 01LEPPER 79 BUILDING
A Handeome Edifice.
room, constructed expressly' for them in the
basement, so as to be open to public inspection,
whence the shaft will communicate its action to
the dial above and to that on tho sidewalk. -This
last will be elaborately ornamented, while at
night the dial of the clock will be illuminated.
To "cap the climax," the proprietors have caused
to be placed upon the roof a tlrg•etaff, rising to Lt
considerable height and bearing a gilt weather
vane, above which, emblematic of the title under
which the good craft has weathered the stormi
and sailed along upon the sea of prosperity for
sixteen years and over, is a miniature clipper
ship, seven feet in length, full rigged,and with all
sails sot, made of sine, covered with gold leaf,
and adding materially to the beauty of the struc
ture.
A n 06ENLEN r&
—The announcement that Miss Susan Galton
would sing "Arline" in the Bohemian Girl at the
Academy of Music this evening, created so mueu
enthusiasm among tae admirers of the very es
timable and talented young lady, that ail the
seats in the house were sold early last week, and
every twelve square inches of the floor of the
building wimplaced at a premium. There will be
a larger andlUnce present than any that has as
sembled in the Academy during the season, and
Miss Susan may be assured that everybody will
be in a condition of frenzy. She will win laurels
tf she does justice to her powers. Some uneasy
grumblers have found fault because the fair-eyed
- singer was not given a chance to appear in some
more elaborate part than "Arline." It might be
desirable, but the present arrangement resulted
from the necessity for Miss Susan's appearance at
the Theatre Comique upon the same evening. In
the Bohemian Girl "Arline" is supposed to devote
much of the first act to growing up to woman
hood; and so Mies Susan need not appear until
the second act. She will warble at her own
theatre early in the evening, and then go up
Market street rapidly in a hack all ready to ex
plain to the Academicans bow she "dream't that
she dwe-helt in ens-a-arble halls with vassals and
serfs by her st-hide."
—At the Theatre Comique the Gallons, wide
awake bathe demand of the public for good and
new things, have prepared a number of extra at
tractions for the present week. This evening the
sweet singer Susan, will appear in her charming
character of "Lisohen" the Teuton heroine of the
operetta Lisehen and Fritzehen. The musical
drama A Rainy Day will also be given. To-morrow
night the opera Fanchette will be produced for
the first Ume,and the house ought to be crowded.
On Thursday the comic opera Punchinello will be
given. This certainly is novelty enough for one
week. The Gallons deserve liberal support for
their enterprise.
—Mr. John Brougham has withdrawn the Lot
tery of Life at the Walnut, and announced a new
burlesque, entitled Much Ado about a Merchant
of Venice, a piece,
which, if report be trtie, is
better worthy of. his genius. Mr. Brougham's
versatility is so great that he aucceeds in all de
partments of dramatic literature, but some of his
beat triumphs have been in the field of burlesque,
as witness his Pocahontas and Columbus, both of
which, in their day, were great favorites with all
kinds of pedple, from the dullest to the brighten.
In his new drama, it is said that his burlesqtre
powers aro displayed to greater advantage than
ever. The subject is a good one, and we doubt
not the piece will be succesefal. We hope so at
any rate. Mr. Brougham is completely . worthy
of success and of popularity. The stage has not
many abler men upon it.
—At the Ardi, to-night, Lotta will appear again
in the drama of Pepina, which she Mae made sue
ceessful, despite its defects. , She will sing a new
sentimental ballad for the first time this evening.
There have been some very ungenerous attacks
made upon this young lady by newspapers which
found nothing to condemn in the vile antics of
the women who sang in smutty opera. These
have not been justified by anything in the con
duct of the clever little actress. There is occa
sional coarseness of manner in her personation,
and there are very many unnecessary kicks and
saltatory evolutions, but these are merely the con
sequence of an overflow of animal spirits. The
young lady is everything that a good woman
should be in her business and social relations,
and while critics may fairly discuss her acting,
correct her faults, and wish that she might aspire
to higher things in histrionism, they have no
, more right to go further than they have to intrude
I upon the privacy of any other person in the com
munity. There is a very broad, but, to some,
imperceptible barrier between criticism and im
pertinence.
—Mr. Barton Hill, the stage manager of the
Arch, will have a farewell benefit on Monday
evening next, prior to his departure for Europe.
It is said that Mr. Hill will proceed to London to
assume control of Mre. John Wood's theatre in
that city. We eball be sorry to lose him. He
has been a good manager, he is a popular and
excellent actor, and a very estimable gentleman.
May ho have a full house, and subsequently a
plethoric pocket book.
—For very excellent reasons the re-opening of
the Llhestnut street theatre, by Mr. John E. Mc -
Donough, has been postponed to Wednesday
next. Then, Mr. MoD. will begin an engagement
with an English burlesque company, headed by
Miss Elbe Holt. The first piece on the tails is
Lucretia Dargia,M. D., ae Grand Daatresse.
—The American theatre announces a good mis
cellaneous entertainment for this evening, includ
ing new ballets, by Bolkhe and others, plays by
the Dasbwood slaters, and variety performances
by the members of the immense company.
—Mr. J. B. Lent's New York Circus will ar
range itself to-day under a tent upon the lot,
Eighth street, above Race. The first performance
will be given to-night, when all the wonderful
artists will appear. There will be acrobatting,
nip-Rapping, jumping, riding and climbing. The
trained animals belonging to this immense estab
lishment are the most sagacious in the world.
They comprise horses, mules, potties and doge.
—Mr. William Castle, the tenor of the Richinga
Company, will have a benefit at the Academy of
Music on Friday evening in La Traviata.
—The Chestnut Street Rink, Twenty-third and
Chestnut streets, is open daily from 8 L. M. to
103( P. M. for riders ana learners. To-morrow
night there will be a grand exhibition, when a
half dozen superb prizes will be competed for by
accomplished riders. An exciting time may be
expected.
Tobacco.
To the Editor of the Bulletin—Bin: I am sorry
to see that Dr. Hammond has undertaken the re
habilitation of Tobacco. That a few cases of very
healthy men should have been found in a tobacco
factory Is very far from affording him a legiti
mate basis for his position. The sallow and un
healthy appearance of those who'deal in tobacco
and cigars nes attracted the writer's attention for
many years, and the exposure in their ease' to the
Influence of this narcotic poison is far lose than
that of those who aro working in snuff mills,
Am It is within the writer's knowledge that
persons, after trying to stand the atmospnere of
tobacco factories, have been utterly unable to
endure its effects and the disease it produces.
Tobacco owes its influence to nicotine, an or
ganic alkaloid whose toxical effects are so power
ful that , it has been calculated that if extracted
from the entire tobacco crop for a single year,
there would be enough to destroy the life, not
only of the whole human race, but of every ani
mal on the face of the globe, provided that each
received its portion is a single dose. But even
in the proportiond actually rebeived Into the
:spitem, its effect* upon nineteen constitutions
;out' of twenty ire injurious. According to
;Vitale: 1s elfecrientrophy - of - the - braink
-vrissedieitt-Viefld-'nersefle).... as he_ informe , the
writer personally. • •
The increasing extent to Which tobacco is in -•
dulged in must be a.subject of regret te all who,
~wisp well by the community, especially when ex
. tended even to children. the writer - Saw today
a boy eight years old smoking a large Meer
sebum with great apparent relish,. L.
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F. L. FEUiIMON. ,NVifily3rl
PRICE THREE CENTS.
FACTS AND rerstatiss...'
SONG.
JlO5 INGISLAii.
In the night abe told a story,
In the night and all night thrOtigir, -' A
When the moon was in her glory,
And the branches dropt with dew.
'Tons my life do told, and , rounfL,it • , r
Rose the years as from a deep;
dlt
In the world's great heart she onn •
Cradled like a child asleep. , ,
ttf
In the nlght I saw her weaving
By the misty moonbeam cold. •
All the welt her shuttle' cleaving
With a sacred thread of gold.
Ab 1 she wept me tears of sorrow;
Lulling tears so mystic sweet;
Then she wove my last to-morroww
And her web lay stray feet.
Of my life she made the story:
I must weep—so soon 'twee tOldi
But your name did lend it glory,
And your love its thread - of gold. -
[From a nate voitante.
—Mr. Dickens's doctors have forbidden him t
read for several months.
—Gen. Tom Thumb is building a fine residence
at Middleborough, Conn.
—The Toronto Telegraph tersely describes the
town councillors as "a lot of ruffians."
—Andrew Johnson's property is valued at
$75,000.
—Davy Crockett has a grandson, Colonel Bob.
of that ilk, living in Arkansas.
—Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, smokes Inces
santly.
—bliss Adelaide Phillips Is going to Paris foe
two years.
—Whittier has written a long ballad for the
June Atlantic.
—The London Saturday Review says that
"Reverdy Johnson was bred In a world as extinct
as the glacial period."
—The son of Dickens's French friend, Paul
Feval, is making a new French version of Bozos•
books.
—An lowa man telegraphed to a oheritt in
Illinois directing the arrest of a man who was
eloping with his wife. He added,' "He owes
me one hundred dollars. If he pays, let him go.-
-All male children born in France this'year-on
August 15th, the birthday of Napoleon whose
parents will consent to their bearing the name of
Napoleon, ale to be taken under the epeeist preS
tection of the Government.
—Father Taylor lately expressed this opinion
of a distinguished fellow-countryman: "Ralph
Waldo Emerson is as sweet a soul as God ever
made, but he knows no more of theology thap
Salaam's ass did of Hebrew grammar.";
-The, orator who wait chosen by the 'bar -of
Louisville to present a cane to a brother barrister
assured the beneficiary that , the cane came froth
friends "around the tendrils of whose heart his
image was inseparably woven."
—George Lerman, who personated - General
Sherman in Bt. Petersburg, has been personating
Mr. ideward's youngest son in Stockholm with
such success that he has , been chosen to pick
oakum in the penitentiary. .
—Camilla Urso, the little woman fiddler, is
trying to p . urchase the famous violin once aped
by PaganinL It is now owned by a Freud'
nobleman, but has been sold a great many time
in this and other countries, and the supply Will
always equal the demand.
—At Dunstable,Mass., in 1651,dancing at wed
dings was forbidden, and in 1060, "William
Walker was imprisoned a month for courting s
maid without the leave of her parent:o .In
1675 the wearing of long hair, and superstitious
ribbons to tie it up, were prohibited by severe
penalties.
—A plumber of Davenport, Iowa„ bought
35,000ipounds of army belt buckles at Rook
Island for about seven cents a pound. They , met
nearly a dollar a pound,and would have supplied
an army of more than 200,000 men. They are to
be melted down for the brass and solder.
—The caricature by Gill of Wagner, the coin
peter, which has been so much enjoyeds is
describable as follows: The first page of VEclips
le entirely occupied by a gigantic human ear.
Wagner, a capital burlesque likeness, with a high
lean forehead, and an expression of maniacal
energy, stands against it, resting one foot on the
cur led edge near the lobe, and the other knee in
the contra! cavity; in his right hand he hoids.a
big hammer, and with hie left he grasps a musical
crochet,-the stem of which, looking like ,a
wire, ho drives into the drum with deadly ferocity.
The red blood spirts in every direction, and the
general situation it' comic enough to force -a
laugh even from Charles Lamb, who "had no
ear."
—The following number of the paper in which
the above appears, is devoted to a burlesque by
the same artist of "The Man who Laughs." It
embodies the story of the first book, "The Bea
and the Night." Up the snow
near Portland, which is adorned with 'a gib
beted corpse and a cloud of ravens, toils a pro
cession of four personages. First comes the
wolf, got up like a Bt. Bernard Cog, with a flask
strapped to him, but casting liquoriSh glandes of
much intelligence at the swinging both. at
which be shows all his teeth. The cynic staggers
after him, grasping him faithfully by the tall; his
long hair gives a handle to the boy, whose artifi
cial grin is very comic; and the blind girl, having
(affected a fibre of shirt from the costume of the
latter, makes use of it to assist her babyish steps,
and brings up the rear, wrapped in. the large
"vareuse' of the young hero.
—There is too much fun in the following
medley of bad temper, bad spelling, bad gram
mar, bad punctuation, bad Latin, bad veracity.
and stuff and nonsense generally, to be lost In
the unseen pages of the "University Journal of
Medicine and Surgery; Editor, W. Paine M. EL"
Its perusal may enable our clever readers to as
certain the "centre of percussion." Wo print it
verbatim et iiteratim.elpunctuatim
The Evening Bulletin,a sensation paper of.graat
consequence in its own estimation, has just pub
lished the last Twitchell hoax in which a states
that the defencittnesi counsel, John O'Byrnellsq.,
has in his possession the indentical weapon • that
killed Mrs. Hill, henee the poker had nothing to
do with the matter; and calls upon Mr. 0 1 13yrue •
to come forward and show this weapon tlie
public, thus relieving Mr. Bulletin of all future,
anxiety. it will be remembered that this paper
was the one that concocted the horrible ,
features of the defence and now since , the.
triol is over and, as they claim, the murderer ottt
of the way, it would appear that they; wished to.
still agitate the subject, and, if possible, tW met
some odium upon the learned counsel who.,de-•
fended him, forgetting that the palladiamof eivlb
liberty is thus maintained and , that while•pm:dab:-
recut should be inflicted upon all who violate the
laws, an impartial judgment is duo to all, and we.
believe that sensation newspaperti' that prejudice•
and create false impressions either for or ogainitt
the execution of justice .are hazardone to the>
safety of the community and the mairdainance of
civil liberty. Mr.• Twitcheli was tried v.by an
ablo court, prosecuted and dehmded , by laaseed.
counsel and was condemned by eiplimpattlailuity
of his country. ,'The case Ia now ended; why
continuo to harass the mind end agitate the pub
lic longer. Zahn° justice does not demand it.
But what ean be expected elf newspaper when
It will open Tits conieutTWthi iidverdsemanied -
notorious - humbugs -,- an d .- quack - nostrum. that
every sane man kept 0,0 calculated to attributer
death and misery ,among the afflicted for the
paltry dollar; halt Is done. .4id oopitanittat
vtilgva." • ••
Here's`richness!" Read carefully, or laci
may loso some of the gems.
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