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WEDDING 41 , '"?../,INVAT . ..II,TIONS EN , graved in the netyrairtlattitbast manner. LOUIS DBE A, Stationer:"ant.P 4 Xttitritter, 1033 Citestnu street. fe2o tf 44 RBTEA I I" '-- CO It 131 ti--- ( l.llAWT....4)xt"tbnirust.,at the residence of the bride's father, 3010111* WA; Beg., Covington , I{ y., by the Rev..l . MOKeralree iley D.D., Pastor of Union. M. E. CillirCi/ in said city the lion . Abet Bath holirtf.rtitnel Iliew4Corlt, and i .2ol yirt ,tittio.ll,, Want, si str.l,llo3. Gr an t 4. t , 14 fr d , i”g %,,,i ..? • F.e,,?: r%,..7 6 4 1.,PN:t DIED: i. 4 .1 $ ii,•6 i i t kel Csi ,' : —l4 ' 4 lnb e• . t A. . . , . inst., ltii .1.; ..' 4. ,,i ~,, - € V.:. cr.!fri, . ► 4 . il ~. . lii ah f 1 . Oreftre • , t ~ ..t .' '', rgo I XI, 1 i_ _7' •, , i,r r, t ire invited to '-.. , .7/2 IN Can ble 6r , ce/021PE11e ...., .- 1.;.+-', , '" • , • 1 'Ern ..! , 4!. . yrilft bat '0 r i1 1 i 1'..31.4 it K t i 4 , I, • 4 1J . • 4 kirtskt.i , , af t ;lX t in tho 84 T _. ' " t ''' iiiiiiitti ..7 4:l?i ' tho' fare' s l4srr'i. ilcieed to attend the funt:ralsfror late residence, 1927 Coates street, on 84mutt:paw, 11114.4 at 3 o'clock. = : ... -* • • LINCOLI4.---tin the 17t _instant, Abel Lincoln, in the alth year of his atee..._ ~.1 .' , .1 , .-,fy , The retatiVey *Ad frittida of ' t h erihnur aie respectfully invited towttotal the funeral, from his late residence, No. WS hioaddll street, on Ultimata) teterhirw, 20th instant, at 1 o'clock. LLOYD.—On the 14th of Fifth j _'ntcath;after "'short ill. . nese, Elizabeth, widow of Itiaac L 10.14, of this dry, aged I 92 years. The relatives and friendsof'th ' e family ire reipectfully Invited to ottentfaittr.ltlbersli from hen late . residence. 140..102 Union street, ou riftb-day aftemo‹ . n., '2oth inst., at 2 otelsra.i!,Xpterpteriret'ifteiddelVAlsteni Ground. + • I EE. tills e a l lY ,ntty 15th , Mario Antoinette nineutttas, eof.Clun. hen ry 1.7 of CHlirortan. The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to at- i tend the funeral, trete the cathedral, on Lo 894 11 re. where (norm' str•treawllLboi!ohl at 34,0'ct0ck31., on Thursday. . • s . rot • . Icasurel.n a- - . , ..- irt Ari Fr. LAWNS AND LIGHT ORGAN -LP D 1 8. DARK FRENCH LAWNS. FINE FRENCH. ORGANDIES. 1- MAGNIFICENT GRENADINES. IRON BAREGES, FIRST QUALITY. EYRE LANDELL. SPECIAL NOTICES. WOOD & CARY OPEN_ PAWK_ Novelties in FANCY BONNETS, : TRIMMED HATS, FRENCH FLOWERS, ---- NEAPOLITAN HATS, FANCY HAIR HATS, _ RIBBONS and SILKS, CRAPES and ILLUSIONS, 1, Every New Style Out. WOOD & CARY, No. 725 CHESTNUT STREET. A few foie imported Bonnets and Hats BELOW COST. , v ,_oyoOD & CAR,Y. ea, AMERICAN AOADE r Y OF MUSIC; MRS. FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE WILL READ "AS YOE LIRE IT" For the Benefit of the MERCA NTILE LIBRARY COMPANY WEDNESDAY EVENING, May 25th, at 8 o'clock. AdmissionONE DOLLAR Deserted Seats in Parquet, Parquet ßS Circle and Balcony, TWO DOLLA. 'The Sale of . Tickets and Reserved Seats will commence at Trumpler a Music Store,926 Chestnut street, on Thurs day, the alth inst., at 9 o'clock, A. M. mylB-t1 Z 5 rp ao. OFFICE PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL 8. 8. COMPANY, No. 1..% SOUTH THIRD STREET. AT 13, 8.93. The Stockholders of this Company are a request l ed to present their Certificates at this office at once, that the proper mluctiou of the par value, in accordance with the provisions of the act of the Itgislature reducing the same, approved April 16, 1869, and tieceptcd by tlw stock holders Alai 5, 1869, may be sbunped thereon. Books of subscription to the capital stock, at its re duced valuation , are now ()pen at thin office. myls-12t CaA 8.13. TEAL, Treasurer. THE FORTY-FIFTH. ANNIVEI filmy of the American Sunday School Union will be held at the Academy of Music, on TUESDAY EVE NING, 75th lust, at 7.4.5 o'clock. Addresses may expected from Rey. M. M. G Dana, of .Norwich, Conn., Bev. N. 11. Schenck, D..D., of Brook lyn, N.Y., and Bev. Prank L. Robbins, of Philadelphia. A 1401 ec ted choir of 600 young ladies will slug under leadership of Col. D. AY. C. Moore. Tickets may be had at the Society Building, No: 1122 Chestnut street. Secured defitti in Parquet and Parquet Circle, 50 cents. _ Balcony, 25 c.,nts. Children not admitted, unless accompanied by parents or guardians. myl7 19 21 24 25 rpst§ fr.". PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD ikr.7 COMPANY, TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT. _ - PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 1869. NOTIOE TO STOOKIIOLDEIiti.—Tho books aro now litintl.ubscriptt?ia and .payment .of of inylB-3014§ Y. ' Treasurer; TICKETS FOR CLERGYMEN FOR I.l.e'v the Forty-first Anniiersary of the American S. S. Union can be had ( if called for previous to 22d inst.) at the Society's Building, 1122 Chestnut st. iny15,17,19,21-4trA 11U.PHILADELPHIA THEOLOGICAL SPIIIIIIRrY of the Lutheran Church will graduate its senior class THIS (Wednesday). EVENING, ti% o'clock. at St. Mark's Uhurch, Spring Garden street. aboi a Thirteenth.' Address by Rev. Dr. Bittle, of Va. 1. DITTCHER'S DEAD SHOT FOR Bed-bugs. Dutcher's Lightning Fly-Killer. Sold by .101INTSON, HOLLOWAY & COWDIN, and by Druggistsurerywhore.- myllw f erNEW METHOD OF BUILDING CBEAI! AND BEAUTIFUL COTTAGES. Clr , cp Etta free. A p.CALpWELL, • "ntylltlltre 1112 South Fourth Btreet; .MUSICAL INSTRU_CTIONi • ory CULTIVATION OF TILE VOICE, Siuging, Eiano, Violin, Guitar, by SIGNOR VALLO, littylLytriik MO North Tenth street.' ,•••••• 1 11fill.t1R.ff BATHS. - •• 11984IRARD STREET. TWO SQUARES FROM TEE ' • CONTINENTAL. Ladies' department strictly private. Open day and evening: - . , . • • apEtfrp§ O:O%HOWAPD HOSPITAL, NOS: 1518 nd"15.20" Lombard street, Dispensary Department: —Medical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to the•oer. . In making excavations for the impro — ii - si =nit of Alimrid a singular discovery has IrJon made near Porbi de Fnencarra,t. rho g:ound at -a depth of more than throe feet and covering a surface of about forty feet was literally „ of- , carbonated human bodies, being the remains of the funeral nova, ep the • old Inquisition' which •was es tablished upon this spot and where its victims wore burned. There - were ealso. found numy skulls, bones, &c., ivhich have been carefully deposited in one of the cemeteries of Madrid A"great - niimber of 'inatrunients of torturd were also found. ---- -- 0 - - --' -"-' - --- t ------- - -- .- - T -- . - ----- - '---------------- - -- I- -'--,--:-: -- .....__,,_........L.L. 4 ... . - 1 „ . . . . - , . , ~ . . ... , , _ . , , •,di',,,, ...,,,.. _ di f'' /' :',•; ':: 7 -'1 . ' . . , . , . . - - HDEDICA.TED HAVE WE 'A LOUVRE AMONG US ? LETTER FROM EATFANT PERDU 33Ii3COVERY OF THE CITY. , i^ 3v4sH l lvaTox!, May 17,1869.--On the banks of the'Potoraic—between the _Alms House, if: you linowwhere that is,und,,the equestrians' statue of Washlicigiiiii by Mills, which is on; three legs cif .a hortie—l have found a great! city. I have found, in fact, two' cities, super-; imposed one on the other. A city of potsherds 1 and shingles has been stretched on the ground, ' like some grimy, tattered, carpet; .through the foul holes of which another city—an` imperia city of icy marVei—rcrops up as it can, send ing up now a dome, now a pointed pediment, now a file of slender and flowery columns, now a campanile,—that recognize each other 1 in the sun, and wonder how on earth they I came to be stunk through such a matted and ' . .. vulgar plot. I have sunk into one of .. the • least grimy of the recesses of `tldi I old City, from which I can contem- I plate at leisure the 'white tinniest of the towers, courageously thrusting up on every i side and gradually exterminating their weedy ~ neighbors; the air is balmy _and perfumed 'W i th u4,14/20140h° busy throng isa Depeteal BtudY;49ll seems to ilia.' Mee Corinthof ' old, itindlhe pallid presen c e it, Akipiea &grama ' nd , „ lonoiituu,eutij structure IA neyer_manting i tO tip vi)li mta and carry ' onelif. IhMighta haelk . to , I tlie Greeks. The mon:dug air sings and whistlei past me penetrated with sunshine, and , / sally forth to see the prettiest things. in Washington, '•ivhich I am told are Mr. Corco ran's picture. Grant, tip very early, stands on the pavement of the Ebbitt Mouse as I pa. s, the r qtdetest-looking man in Amtrica, talkingterritorlatallairs tO a Western' govir nor, with the - , . shrewd air of an, expert' talking hon,es: his mouth, which has the shape of boi ng constantly gathered around-- ir-cigarr is- NN ithout that jewel this morning. TFIE cortconAN Nearly opposite the White 'Rouse the eye is struck by an edifice in brown-stone and brick, wlikii.lbok.s : very 'Mich like int Coiner - Of.? title Tuileries pinched oft; and Is fit to make a itighly.cretfi.table Louv . re.. faces ,president's Square, and the static:: of Jackscin firottze hat to it very nut as if it bad formed the ineutal intention of c..;antering. into ~thee. Statue, Gallery—for—the. building in question,..is the_Corcomuinstitn tion of. Art. " It - handsomely faces South ward, and is the. most striking in view as you emerge from,the Xansion f printing its mansard peaks and pavilions . aaniniit the blue, and having on its fa9ade the inscription "Dedicated a tv Art." The guide to, the interior at present is a Celt of aSorrel hue, who shows you a maze of rooms, all bare and noisy with tIU, work of stripping off the old wooden fixtures. Occu pied during the war by the Quartermaster General, it was filled with desks, temporary partitions and crazy galleries. In the princi pal room, a noble sky-lighted hall 100x50 feet in area, and s so feet high, is visible the large card: Silence! Applicalion! Accuracy!! which expressed the watchwords of the De partment, and which, if the Gallery should ever comprise an'Academy, might very prop erly remain as a monitor to the students. ThhEi large room is upon the second floor, approached by a fine stairway, and based upim a suite of ground-floor rooms intended for statuary. These various halls, now plainly finished in plaster, are handsomely proportioned and sus ceptible of every beauty of decoration. AN AIINNIC AN 24W.C.IENAH . Wills m W. Corcoran, Esq., the enlightened connoisseur whose liberality devoteB this fine edifice filled with his pictures, to the nation, is a•gentleman now ailver-tended; . hale and genial, mad - most courteous showing his treasures in the privacy of his splendid house. Through his personal explanations, reminis cences and general conversation, I was ena bled to understand the history - of his coiled ! . tion, and the vi6ws which will - be developed in its future arrangement. The deed of gift, which I saw at his banking-office, confers the large lot in square No. 167, with the improve ments on it, upon eight trustees, to be always replaced in such a manner as to keep the board perpetually full for the uses of the trust. These gentlemen are James M. Carlisle, James C. Hall, George W. Riggs, Anthony Hyde, James G. Berret, Jas. C. Kennedy, Henry D. Cooke, of the house of Jay Cooke Si, Co., and James C. McGuire, of the. city of Washington, and Wm. T. Walters, of Baltimore. , The honorable peculiarity of the trust' is, that the munificent founder is excluded from all participation in the execution of it. The powers of the trustees are supreme, the officers of the board to be selected by them ; they are to collect from the. Government the rent of the blinding during the war (now unpaid, and,_ let us hope, to be liberally estimated;) and em ploy it in the decoration and arrangement of the galleries. Only in the ev,nt 'of their recreancy, and the diversion of the property from the purposas of the trust, dnes the' whole estate revert to the Corcoran heirs. An In, formal meeting 'of the trustees (the . deed was only dated on the - tently instant) was - 6 o nyoked last Saturday evening, and' a' Chairman. and secretary appointed; their labors commence forthwith; and will he pushed forward with. . . the utmost energy during' the summer and THE CORCORAN COLLECTION This is the finest private gallery in Wash ington, nuxubering, between eighty and ninnty examples of painting alone, most of Avhfch are choice. Luray make an episode just here for the purpose of edrrecting a f ase report has got abroad amoug ilniumpipapers. It hail Men said that August Belmont♦ the Ameridan' Rothschild,has offeredadozen of his paintings to the'choice ofthe—Trustees. These "twelve pictures" are nothing but , arabesques in the: oriental taste, and correspond to Miss Kilmansegg,'s "two golden legs and a pair of -golden crutches?' The first twelve pictures -in Mr. Belmont's gallery would represent a - very!, large fortune, Audi am assured by Mr. COrca-i ran that no such crazy intention is - liarbore& i by the New York capitalist. He has,.however, with other gentlemen, reSponded favorably to Mr. Corcoran's suggestion of donating a single; picture; the latter gentleman's personal Thiene° friendship , have been ,wisely; applied in - soliciting contributions, , and; it is probable that the finest galleries in-Neiv"!, York and Baltimore will be repres — ented One or more example apiece, From this kind:' Gallery. . of noble begging, which nobody can. under 'take so gracefully' as Mr. Corcoran; who de nudesl his own hOine f r the nation, we may; expect a gradual ass mblage of representai tives from the best galleries . of the. country.— I Now to recur to the treasures' which formthel present decoration of Mr. Corcocan's house,i and the nucleus of the future Washingtotti Academy. - . • ' i SCULPTURE The literal gem of the collection is Powers' original Greek Slave; whose fair feet took almost the first steps in American plastic art. She stands non in a beautiful alcove at.the end of Mr. Corcoran's private picthre-gallery, wearing her chains so delicately that she "con verts her gyves to graces." A number of busts, some of them of great merit; now decorate the library, but I did not clearly understand whether they are to be removed or not; the Slave herself, in her pale solitude, forms a fitting type of Greek art caged and secured; she will wear her bonds, the only slave in America, and from her tender imprisonment will spring some day a whole marble progeny ' to serve and wait in the halls of art. . TICE PAINTINGS. The pictures collected by Mr. Corcoran du ring a lifetime of connoisseurship form a cata logue of over eighty, many of them are very choice, and the cosmopolitan habits and tastes of the collector, as it happens, have secured a Isingtdar variety, admirably stated to branch out from school to school as the collection grows. A short account of the more impor tant works now assembled may prove interest ing. German and Dutch Schoole:—Mr. Corcoran, at the dispenial.• of-the• Joseph -Bonaparte -collec-. don, bought a large Adoration of the' Shep herds, liy Menge: It is large;_and forms, in some respects, the most cont3pienous object in the picture-gallery. AntOn Rafael itengs wa a Bohemian painter who died in Rome three years after the American Independence; the picture in question betrays his: Roman studios, and produces the line of art started by Raphael and continued through Gitilio 'and the Ctiracci:'''''Arlinge - foreaborterted life,size M Shepherd is • boldly.thtown-=en-the ground •in front, the Virgin disjays the. Babe in 'her beautiful hands, and a chiud of kicking angela form a firmament, that has a great deal of the Corregiosity of- catrregio. This fine picture is in perfect preservation. A mall Flagellation of-Christ r attributed to Vandyke An exquisitely finished little Brenghel, perfect miniature, representing a battle, and ex - pressing the vivacity of Rubens or Salvator on a handsbreadth of spade. An unknown Flemish picture, representing Time and a warrior, dated 1619, signed A. A., with the legend: Ora. et Labo,ra. Rubens : Mr. Corcoran, when at Antwerp, was struck, as. every traveler is, by Rubens's mag,niticent_ altarpiece, painted for his own chapel, representing himself (as St. George), father, three successive wives and offspring. A noble copy, ordered on the spot from Ven nemen, represents the very spirit of Rubens, and is almost as valuable to the American stu dent as the original. De Block. A Dutch school , --a fine interior, painted with all the traditions of Rembrandt, and having a rich and transparent chiaro 'scuro. • • Vennemen. The village doctor; hard and Dutch, but interesting to me because I sup posed it to be the work of the successful copyist of Rubens noted above. Brackeleer. The happy and unhappy fami lies; minutely painted, but opaque, forced and mediocre. Spanish School. A small Madonna and Child, holding a Scapulary, attributed without much probability to 3lurillo. ItaltanScliool. Of a pair of Cahalettis, a Ve netian scene has all his best quality of trans parent gray shadow and silvery light. A large showy Italian picture, of oval shape, represents the "Coquette"--it brazen, Shep herdess, receiving the attentions of one cava lier while the negro page of another hands a letter on the other side. French Schou!. A large, magnificent Boucher, "The. Shepherdess." Decorative, flowery and ribbon-y as only this pleasant and flippant minter can be. Joseph Vernet; a beautiful example, with more aerial quality than the large pair in the Pennsylvania Academy. It represents Ver net's good old theme, a storm, castle on at pro montory, breakers, fishermen puzzled over their nets, and a general thick slaty tone, slab, yet without opacity. Tuvernier, a picture dated 1849, a good Italian moonlight—fountain and water bearers under a (lark ilex-tree, and theatriCal eirecl Coniac,—Children Dancing, ' , small oval, a little treasure of French grace. Cabinet I ntetiors by Demerne; formerly held to be worth $l,OOO each, size 7 X 9. Copy, of pega's Cl,illd and .Warse i such a, • favorite in the engraving. ---- .1 am sorry U . ..break off in the middle of - my little catalogue, .but the in ten minntes, and I must . send up the • rest 'to• morrow. -The - English andAtaerlean'pictures; a most interesting list, will then be noticed. THE TRIBUNE SCANDAL. The Matter Settled. The following "general orders" have been Posted in the office of the New York Tribune: GENERAL ORDERS. I. Mr. John Russell Young having resigned the position as Managing Editor of the New York Tribune, that position is henceforth abolished. '1.1.• Until further' orderirldr. - Whitblaw Reid • will Make Up the'schedlile, and will take care that my orders are generally obeyed. LlL , dianel O'Donnell is • , directed to take Charge'ofthe Foreign 'DePtirtinent, including all its rore , ign Correspondence. '. „ tunes McConnell will take, charge. oftheCily Department until further orders.- OUR WHOIiE COUNTRY. PHIL ADELPIIIA, WEDIsfEgDAY, MAY 19,1869. ENFANT PERDU MEM=9 EIIROPEAS AFFAIRS,. IUNITIMHAL DISCIONTENT. The Leaven of..ReplsblicahAseni. The London correspondent of the New York Times contain; thig paragraph: An 'Germans cherish the ideal of a great, powerful, United Germany; 'but the States of Southern and even of Central Germany cannot abandon their States rights doctrines. They stand out for that - as Hungaryhasstood against Austria; as Irishmen against the union. They _fear that _ a •Federal 'Union will State sovereignty in peril. Hanover and Frank, fort detest Prussia; , ' . - :Whieh has ah sorbed- them. Saxony, which still -pre ser.ves the seMblance . - .of nationality,' hates thoSe who threaten* The doctrine of . State rights bars the 'way the consolidation of a Gentian Inspire; and to make one by force, would be to fill 5000,000 of people with the Same rage and,hatethat you can new find, in . , the hearts i3f,the people of the annexed . FroVinces. Andf more or less,there is little i doubt that the same feeling* s at work in! Italy. No glory has, come., to Italian unity; sufficient to reward.themi for the less of in-; dependent sovereignty, and they are swal lowed up only to find . heavy.. _burdens of , conscription and taxation. Their sovereigns may not have been any great affinr. but they have not gained miich in Victor Emmannel. Mea,ntime, Spain gets along so well without a King that kingship itself is at a discount. Eng lishmen are• finding that the Queen is not the Vead of the Church, and only by a figure of speech the Head of the State—a rather costly myth, used in legal documents as a matter of form, and referred to in national anthems as a popular superstitution. The Mary Lowell Ontrage—An English Opinion. The London Owl says : !'The. case of Mary Lowell, stands over, for the completion of the evidence concerning, her. The United States have guided a new qiiestion to this . 'triangular puzzle by asserting that they will hold Great Britain responsible for. her males, detention, Sce., if it be proved that she was captured in English *colonial waters. This- opens , - a now question altogether, and, if conceded, would requite us to keep as many million ships for the Police of English seas as the Americans are, cbtiming dollars. from us, if we Are to furnish vessels to surround our every de- - pendency with a coast-guard." , THE NEGRO . , IN,EUROPE. The Singularity of Anaerican Prejudice. Moncure D. Conway, writing from. London' - to - the Anti-Narery - Sttnidaid; - says " The shadow of slavery , is yet so' heavy, upon the minds'of some Americang thatlhey (=mot conceive how.petty and provincial the preju dice against color seems to, the cultivated peo ple: ofEngland and Franee'. , .The New Yorker, for example, who sent the photographs of the ifegroes in the South Carolina Legislature, was,• I doubt not, impressed with the idea " that the mere sight of a black face in a-Legis lature would evoke exciainations of hor ror from the eminent gentlemen and TtidieS of the Royal. Bur English seholans are just now too much engaged in searching. with increasing admiration,into the literature of their two hundred million. swarthy Indian subjects, to End a red flag in any,black sldn. Livingstone has __Made con tempt of the negro forever impossible in Eng 3antb__The other evening John Ruskin lec tured-at the Royal, and immediately in front of him, on a benchseserved for the eminent, sat a black woman, accompanied by a noble lord and I:lisle/1y. There were a few Americans in the , audience; they revealed themselves by whis - pering their astonishment. But Mr. Ruskin, champion of Governor Eyre as he was, evidently did not note her presence. In France it is positively an advantage to be colored. A. likely negro is there apt to be a lion; so fond are the French of something a little 111Tivilln1 UnP ur , y , there see proud ladies escorted by, or dancing with, decorated negroes. And_ in England 'that dis position to take a peculiar interest in the swarthy - races — which - Ims - alreadv --- given - to England the tragedy of "Othello,"has assisted to make "Black. and White" the most popular drama now being acted on the London stage. The interest of this piece, written by Wilkie Collins, turns upon the,passion of a white girl for a' hero who has negro blood in him, in a region where the old prejudice prevails. Her love is finally victorious over prejudice. It is a pare miscegenation drama. Fechter acts the dark hero splendidly; and the audiences are enthusiastic enough to make an American negrophobist rave. No one can reside here without perceiving that everywhere in Europe the prejudice against color is becoming a sign of inferior culture. Thus lately, when, in a suit for breach of promise in Ohio, which turned upon the question of whether the woman had negro blood, physicians were called in to testify on the subject, the report of the trial was reproduced everywhere, and com mented on with wonder that such an event could occur in a community calling itself civil ized. It was treated as a trial for witchcraft might be. THE WISDOM or WISE. Henry A. Wise on War and. Peace. That eccentric politician and philosopher, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, has written a letter which appears in the Methodist Advocate, of Atlanta, Ga., on the War, its causes and ro sulist in which he assumes that the war was ordained of God as the only means of emanci pating the slaves. Gen. Wise says: That He ordered and directed and forced the result of the emancipation of slaVes in America, knowing that there was -no other way to bring it about, and at the same time save all that isprecious, I have not the least doubt. And I feel that he who resists, or in any unreasonable way obstructs the legitimate consequences of this special providence, "kicks against r the pricks:" This brings up the question: What should be regarded as the legitimate consequence ? My answer is,peace. The old strifes must cease and be hushed, and their wounds be healed. Next,, charity, toleration, brotherly and patriotic kindness. It is not for me to upbraid you, or you me,for the offences and injuries of this war. Slavery was its cause, -was our weakness ~.,if not our wickedness,'-and God has purged out its sins and Satanic influences by tire and blood;for the war was. His if the sin was mine. But woe unto those. on either side, who shall cause the tires to bUrn and the blood., to:heat,. after the • sin and, causes of woes have been burnt to ashes. We must not keep the tires ignited-,-the ashes must be allowed to, cool---, anct then, as from battle-fields the green her= bage may be nuide to grOW More ,Inituriant f . than ever, spring even from the cinders and ashes of this horrid war. No men, or set of men, must dare to take any bolts' of vengeance in their hands. . —Mrs. Judge Human, of Humansville, in Missouri, has made a contribution to the Hu inan race, in the:shape , of two simultaneous Human toys and an equally simultaneous Hu man girl, of the aggregate weight of eighteen potimLs. • - —According to. Clunese writers, the great bell of Canton was cast five centuries ago. ...At lirst - iroTerson - Was - .lbold - eziongh to' strike it.. 'Afterward, however, one of 'Ake Officials ordered it .to .be struck, ,whereupon upward Of 1,000 infants, male and female, died throUgh-• out the city. On thisaccount, young children, %botb. boys Andgirbt,,were .made to'w.careloth., .ing with fringes, to which' smaiP silver. bells were attached, as a charm to ward off the evil influence. Severe Eight on the 3d Idstant.-An. tire Battalion of Colored Volunteers , Rill their Officers and Go Over to the - , Cubans. The Havana correspondent of the N. Y.. World writes as follows : Generals Quesada and Castillo , gathered; together over 4,000.0 f their best troops at point beyond Las Minas and intrenched them• - selves, and then watched the movements of, 'the Spaniards keenly, with the hope of ells covering a weak spot whereat, to .attack them. A large body. of Spanish soldiers;•ledas far as. I can learn, by Gen. Letona as well as by Gen. Lesca,. assaulted the insurgent positions on the , 3d, and, despite .a naost., , stubborn resist mice, would have Carried them, "had not the.. Marquisof Sant Lucia, who had been; some; • miles off, hurriet , the assistance of Generals :1 Quesadd amt"C: arid, unexpectedly tco the Spaniards, attacked them on one of. their:' flanks. 'These insurgent reinforcements are • said to have exceeded. 3,000 men, most ofthem. badly ; armed, many . of them. having, only maeheta arid cane knives in their hands.. But they fought bravely, with the determination ' to win, and pressing. beddlY; . unflinchingly , upon the Spaniards, soon changed the aspect of the engagement. The superior drill, disci pline and armament of the Spanish troops would perhaps, however, havestill giventhem the victory, had not four-fifths, or about 400 men, of one of the wings of Yoller's Pat ; talion of Havana Colored - Volunteers at a;. 1 Critical moment raised the 'shout of " Viva /a libertad ! viva Cuba libre."' and, killing most of their officers and companions that tried to pre vent them, passed over to the inSurgents, and aided them most effectually in their struggle: The Spanish troops had to succumb before this desertion of the colored men and giVe up the day as lost. The Catalan Volunteers covered the retreat; and though they fought bravelY, yet their military inexperience and partial ignorance of drill and tactics fold against them, and they were more than once thrown into • confusion, and thereby lost heavily in killed and wounded. Quite a number of the wounded brought here are Catalans. What was the loss of the insurgents in the engagement I have not been able to ascertain, even approxiniatively. No doubt it was very large. A rumor prevailed in. Ntievitils that General Arteaga is among their - killed, and -Generabi Castillo and Porro among their wounded, but this strongly needs confirmation. That the Spanish loss was also large is unques tionable, . even if . one dOes not take into count the negro soldiers that paSsed over. Many, of the best and bravest of the Spanish officers are reported killed and - wounded:J - 13one to be able to give -, •off soine"tif their names in my next: - Apart ot a battalion of Spanish soldierw-the , San., Quintin—is re-: ported to have also made common cause with the insurgents during the engagement, but this Ido not credit: •The victory of their friends in the field has considerably elated the Cubans of Havana, but has had a contrary effect upon the Spaniards _here.' Never litiVe I seen them FO gloomy, morose and bitter. They curse the Cubans more than ever,' but at the - same time, for something new, let the "niggers" come in - for a very=-large 'I - share of - their . - abuse. I told you when Colonel Yoller's, colored_ volunteers left here for Nuevitas that 'many _Spaniards questioned the proPriety of sending colored men to ' the field, and what has hap pened has given them reason, and they are not at all s ow to remind . people - 'of - their" ex presSed-doubts. You will remember that last January,_ during the siege of Puerto Principe, the Spanish Colored - Volunteers, raised by Gen. Meria, deserted the Spanish cause by crowds, as many as 220 having gone off in a single night, so that the battalion had to be disbanded . This was the first attempt to have colored • men tight for the Spanish cause, and Colonel Yoller's battalion furnishes the second, and the ill-luck in the two instances will probably preclude a third attempt being made. Spanish colored troops may_iie.reaft.er be-employed,-as- they ""are-now to-day in Havana, on garrison and guard duty, but hardly for field service. .In .my hilmbhr opinion, the blacks and mulattoes of Cuba, the Chinese coolies included-among thehist r are r like the Cuban whites . , most overwhelmingly in favor of Cuban independence and na tionality, and will always practically demon strate this whenever opportunities will pre sent themselves. There is not a word of truth in the Key West - telegram,publishedin all the American papers, that the Cuban revolutionists had held a Conven tion at Sibanieg .; presided over by Captain-General Cespedes,affiliteh resolutions were passed in favor of independel4 qnd annexation to the Unittd, States. The Cubans justly complain that reports so in jurious to the republican cause in Cuba should appear in the journals of republican-America. Yully nine -tenths of the Cubans are in favor of Cuban independence,but it is veryquestionable whether a majority of these nine-tenths desire annexation, and printed reports that the Cuban leaders have decided, in tavor of this, even though false, give to the Spaniards a strong weapon which they are not slow to use to the detriment attic Cuban cause. The insurgent' successes in the district of Puerto Principe have rendered•the Cubans of Havana brimful of joy, and many are very imprudently giving rather public expression to it, which may yet cause au attack upon them by the vexed volunteers, and so this city be again disgraced by serious riots, and wilful acts of murder and bloodshed AIMUSEMENTS. —On Monday night next, Ole Bull will give a gran farewell concert In the Academy of Music. Be will be assisted by a number of competent artists. Tickets may b.l procured at Trtunpler'imusic store to-morrow. —Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, the Irish comedians, vill appear at the Walnut this evening in the clever drama Trodden..Douin; or, Under Two Flags.. —Tho "Elise bolt English Burlesque Company will ap , pear at the Chestnut again this evening imthehurlesque Lucretia Borgia, La Grande Dortresse. It . Is announced that a new extravaganza will be producedahortly. - —The delightful drama,- Rosedale ur - theli be presented at, pia-Arch. Street 'theatre again this evening. " -31 r. L. L. James, an actor of fine abilities and a point lar gentleman, will haven benefit at the Arch tomorrow night, when Robertson's. Cage will be presented. James should have a full house, not only because he well deserves it, but because the play will be splendidly per- —Mr. Robert Craig, of tho 4.rch Street Theatre;:. bee prepared an attractive. bill. for hie. benefits on Friday evening next_ Ile will produce all otigidal, hurleaqtto, entitled Le Glitetititeur, in which he will ludtritli Mr, Fin.- rest. lie will play ` 4 Tuadleii,". and appear:lti, two other pieces: The Spit f i re and The Pretty Har3ebreaker. —bliss . ,Sanyo , Gahm)... will ,tippea.r T at, the Theatrp. Combine, this QveuilPg, the:operettas 4dlfarriasr by. Lanterns and Les - Deux etaeugles: Ou Friday evening, Mr.ll'houlaaNtriiffin .have a benefit in Ching-now hi wail - Jeanette's -IVe - dding. ,- 11111e. - Solklie, the - dna- Yemiet aPßuni'.l On 'Mnaday,..un opera entititat Porette will 'ho ' given;' This' is the favorite &alum Fanehan, set to popular music by Mrs. Grafton. nsitit can play, "Fermium" splendidly we bloat. She will sing the shadow air from Dinorah. —Mr. J. F. Zimmerman, the Treasurer of the Richings, Opera Company, will have a beuekt at the Acinielny of 3lnsle this evening in Faust, The cast includea Mina Edith Abell, whO will appear for the first time as 'Mar guerlte;" Messrs, Campbell, Castle, awl other popular members of the company. DlrMlniniervin Ise worthy and excellent gentleman, and he deserves e crowded house. - , -L-The Chestnut•-ptreet Dink,-at - a - wentrtliird and Chestnut Stieets, will be opfined this evening pede iiding.for 6Cperts, and for, those who wish to mas ter the art. . —The annual exhibition of paintings 'is now open in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, • . --At Concert Hall this evening, Dr, James McOlintoc4e will deliver the third of his course of Physfologie& lectured. The philosophy of the voles will be explained, and the phenomena Of . Laryngitis, Trachietts, Catarrh., CVIIA. F. L. MTHERSTON.664 PRICE THREE CENTS I rneuniOnia, PleUrisy . and Consumption. sualcientir ado terted to for all to acquire such information as will bene fit theft.. The tialtslinard lie filietl,. ~ _ —A miscellaneous performance of an attractivecluirac ter is announced for this evening at the American Theatre. There will liebellet - darreinsbyamomnlishod, artiste, Ethiopian delineations, and a maltitadoof things • not to be found at any other, plade of amusement„ s . 7y —Mrs. Frank Mordannt, an excellent annetat i erill have a complimentary benefit hi the Academy or Mitahis,, 0r... Saturday afternoon, the 29th instant. .The Arch Company will appear, and there wiliberratirabeitifother artists besides. An excellent prograiranc , ,iB pared. —J.•B. Lent'eNew York Ciittras will' litetiljett oitet7 af ternoon and evening tilts week with a fifcse-clasa pm formance by the• excellent cattgiany.• Via. wilt bay tbs last week, and the only opportunity* to eiajoy tiait'rponir good'entertaininent. FAMiI A Hymn of reisto. Written for the Nationd OLIVER IVE.NDELL HOLDIES Angel of Peace, thou bast wandered tow long': Spread thy white wings to, the sunsbind of Come while ()Ili' voices are blendediln-Song,--- Fly to our ark like the stbruk•beateu dwo,— Fly to our ark on the wings of the dove,— Speed o'er the far sounding billows of son& Crowned with thine olive leaf garland of love-- Angel of Peace, thOwhast waltedtbo done Brothers we meet, onithia altar'or ingling the gilts we have gathered for:Wee r Sweet with the odors of myrtle and-pine? Breeze of the prairie and breath of.the sea r — Meadow and mountain and forest andSgaff Sweet is the fragrance of - myrtle, andluntr, Sweeter the incense we oiler to thee, Brothers once more round tlds nAttir Angels of Bethlehem , answer the sttaitol, .Uark! a new birth-song is filling the sky.!- Loud f 4.4 the storm-wind that tumbles the naiiit Bid the full breath of the organ Teply,.— Let the loud tempest of voices reply,— Roll ite long surge like the earthshaking; main! Swell the vast song till it mounts to the skyl Angels of Bethlehem, echo the strain!: --Homceopathy is the orthodox inedicalfiiitltt in Brazil. • —When did Moses sleep five -in &a , :bed? When he slept with his forefathers... Bishop . Aicllvaine fy visiting:METOOlaort, C. Winthrop, in Boston. . -Specimens of coal have .been found Ort 4 / 3 4) line of the Pacific Railroad, whieh. are . . ppgf flounced superior for the generation idearr4.. ) , —Hilgolatr3,' is a new termof French. joitur nalists which dries not: require any'ekpjana r lion. „ • —Victor Hugo has presented .1 life-budkattd Belt to a Guernsey harbor-inastefiiho hh.s &Wed the lives of 4i persons. • - - =-A:young - fellow in - Michigan Wiui Trighi-- ened into deafness and dumbne.ss by a &ea)** and couldn't hear or speak for two months. . _ --A, silk weaver in=l.4ons has - in:Vented , af loom so simple that an entire revolutionin the• manufacture.of silks and satins is predicted.-,-- - —The latest addition to the:conscience ftindi • has been tr - " Webste r. Unabridged," large sizes:_._ which an Illinois , soldier appropri.atedbtO found it to weigh too. heavily-on his Mild. —Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is to have gas, and cap contract has been, made for one, million feet of. wooden pipe to conduct it through the'streeti of the c ity. —The young woman of Bordeattic'z m w . threw vitriol in the face of her betrayer;•hig; been convicted of the offence and fined i - ,1111?- franc. —A quarter of a million of pounds of :bbidi cory have been imported into San .FrancLseer within sismonths---and the heartiii of boarding house keepers are glad. • , crippled_negro_m-Lkes-a. livinginalirde oester, Mass., by going about the streets, and eating glass, and is said to thrive on the diet. Here is a first-rate chance for the old joke about panes in•the stomach, but we deoline it. —The portraits of Generals Lee and -Stone. wall Jackson, that formerly hung in the,Oduti4 cil Chamber, at Charleston,S. C., have been removed,aid replaced by portraits of Generals Grant and Sherman. —A Utica landlord has a tenant whom,Lho • wishes to drive out of one of his houses,. but: she refuses to go. Accordingly he has hired seVeralorgan-grinders to play every nioraing before her door, at the hour when she most, wishes to sleep. —Justice in Texas is still very • ral4d,:if always certain. A black mare was stolen from a livery stable, and, after search waa- heard. from in a distant town. Theproprietomseut a messenger after her, and a day or two after,- wards received a despatch as follows: "Your mare is here; I will bring her; thief hung.". : . —A gentleman in Pittsburgh, Pa.,,publiab.ea the following offer: "I will give $2O for every passage of Scripture where the inatoortal#y crt s , the soul is mentioned, to any Church:or . Bun- • day school the finder may elect." 14-14: address is John A. Best, corner of Fifth aven,4e ands Tunnel street, Pittsburgh. Best seems to us kind of a better. • • . —Vast ruins have been discovcred in: the. Zulu country, in South 41._frica,--cllkelislo with colossal carvings, terraces, and halls. of hewn, stone, or cut out of the solid rock. The na tives regard them with mysterious avip,, , and. keep strangers from them, for feu that if they are approached no rain will fall for three, years. —A matt wearing a ,pair ot spotted p ,- anta loons took a noontide siesta urfler atree in the,• neighborhood of Madison, Ind. A,Gerrnam Who was out hunting, .saw his leg liaa.# l ,ng over a rock, and mistaking it for a huge 00a.• constrictor fired a charge of shot into it. The.. moral-is obvious. Don t wear spotted: parda: loons 'when you take au out-of-door's nap.in, Indiana. CAIILYIE ON NAPOLEON. The mero worshipper vs. a Hero.. Pierat, a French anther, having .i,no Written a hookondtled "Le Dram de Watery ice," has sent al copy of it to Af.a.. Carlyle. Tho Chelsea philc)sopher, in, reply, says: - I recognize your love or acturaoy aid car:. tainty, your great outlay of research: 'rind' at:i diom; examination, laborious reading of docu.. nients, othetwise repalsive rather, than inter. esting—and in result.' rAport to, you.. MY chain conviction. 1. That iappleoits capitPEdOic ended in four" days so tragically fpm, by Napoleon's own mismanagement, 1 313 r thil '14%04 which you have • rendered evident, that •hp was hebete, halals in sonmolsece gence, and not himself any more., 2: , Thaltrin t.tibsequent times he, with unconscious, aigt now and then with conscious mendacity, ,deayored to lay the blame on others---Grouchir t . ICey.,&c., and has now, as his fate was;,beelt. - convicted of that sad offence; anSI will lnavetra. pay the penalty before the world. "Itt loung yeays, especially in the Enilsou-Lotira.time, , r greatly au adudrer of the Great liapoleem hut -1.-'conftes; fora, long the seatial -meadacity, egotism; charlatanism, of his proeedttro andvelatiou to the world, have • been more and mere apparent to me, and the greatness of him, even as a _soldier, being steadily diminishing. "A great general?" 'as Richer said, "Ah, yes! a very great generglz.: a general of 10,000 a month! (le petit coquiii; no bigger than my' hoot !" .
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