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ART and POLITICS ; and the speakers selected for the
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LIST OF SPEAKERS ENGAGED
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.Rey. E. 11.Cluipiu, U. D., Rev. Robert Collyer, D. D.
George Curtis, Hon. Richard O'Gorman,
lion. S. S. Cox, Bayard Taylor,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, D. R: Locke (P. V. Nash')
Prof. Robert E. Roger., Olive Logan,
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On Tuesday Evening, October 19.
MISS ANNA E. DICKINSON.
Subject—" WHITED SEeIacHRES."
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R. J. DE CORDOVA.
Subject , " THE SHAH FAMILY AT HUME."
tin Intinday Evenin,g, October 25,
• MISS OLIVE LOGAN.
Subject , " Gums."
On Wednesday Evening, October 27,
B. J. DE CORDOVA'.
• Subject—" OUR NEW CLERGYMAN.' •
On Monday Evening November 29,
. EO N,' S. S. COX.
Subject—. Nitn• ENGLAND TRANsCMYMENT4LIS3I."
On Wednesday Evening, December I.
HON. CHARLES SUMNER.
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RE V. ,ROBERT COLLFER, D. D.
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Profestior MORTON'S ' enklect will be " &mita
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These lectures created # great ' sensation among the
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UNION LEAGUE - MEETING.
Hon. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL,
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
Will Address the People of Philadelphia
AT
• HORTICULTURAL HALL,
13road Street.
ON
SATURDAY EVENING,
ocron.Eß 9, 1969,
AT HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK.
Ninth Ward loyal Citizens ;
ATTENTION !
A meeting of the citizen» of the Ninth Ward favorable
to law and order, to the equal nrotection of all claoses of
the community, and to the principle» of ,the great Re
publican Party of the country, will be held at
National Hall, Market Street, below 13th,
On Friday Eyening. October 8,1809,
AT 8 cooLocy,:.
Addresses will be delivelred by
•
Ifon. CHAS. O'NEILL,
Bon. A. WILSON HENBZEY,
GEORGE L. BUZBY ,
and other eininent speaker».
By order of the Republican Executive Committee of
the Ward,
• JOHN E. ADDICKS, President
DAVID BEITLER.
WILLIAM 11. HOLMES. (. Secretaries.
lUb .Hdqrs. Republican Invincibles,
Firm AND LIBRARY STREETS,
October 7, 18,39
ORDER NO. 8
1. limbers will assemble at Depot, Thiity-first an(
Chestnut streets,
FRIDAY. EVENING, October S, 1569,
to proceed to WEST CHESTER. Cars leave at 6.45
o'clock P. M., sharp.
11. Fare for the round trip. el 00. Tickets to be had
at the Hall on Friday.
,By order of,
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CALEB B. KLMBER, Assistant Marshals
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PHILADELPHIA, October,lB69.
It. 74 • EVANS, Esq.—President of the Convention that
nominated. W. W. fi URNELL, A1..1).,f0r Select Council
—Sta In 1567, when you were a candidate for nomina
tion for Common Council and Dr. W. W. BURNELL
, was your competitor, you stated to scores of citizens
that unless he withdrew from the canvass you would
publish affidavits to prove that " so intense was his sym
pathy with the Rebellion, that on hearing of a rebel
'victory he publicly toasted the rebel General Stonewall
Jackson." Were your statements true? If so, where are
the affidavits? A VOTER.'
0c.5 3trp§
lux. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 4, 18439.
Benjamin F. Wean, Esq.—
intAn
SIR: A large number of the Republican citizens
of the Fifteenth D aril, satisfied that Dn. W. W. OUR.
NELL was not the proper person to represent
the Ward in Select Council, and that he could not pos
sibly,be elected, took the liberty, at a Public Meeting
held on the 29th ult., to nominate you asunderdependent
candidate for that position. It was done .the belief
that the interests of the Republican party,the interests of
the Ward, and the widespread dissatisfaction with Dr.
Burnell, would induce you to accept the nomination.
Tho undersigned, who participated in that meeting,
would be glad to hear from you, in order that, in case
you accept, the proper measures may be adopted to place
your naive properly before the people of the Ward, and
thus, we hope and believe.liecure your election.
Yours, very respectfully,
3 times .M. Harris, John It. Senior,
, r% ni. C. Stroud, J. Tilge.
George Burnham, Wrn. S. Biabing,
B. F. Hart, Henry Belifield,
John S. Wesley, George Milliken,
Isaac C. Price, Thomas W. Price,
E. C. Cheseborough, E. McFarland,
A. W. hand. Geo. F. Lewis, Jr.,
Wm. F. Geddes, ,'' Edwd. D. Lewis,
3. V. Lambert, Samuel Cooke,
Thomas Carson, . E. P. Server.
S. C. Collins, M. Baird.
Frank C. Potts,
1700 GREEN STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 4 1 1810.
Messrs. James M. Harris and others, of the Ft.Orcnth
Ward :
GENTLEMEN: Your communication of this date, art
prising me oi my nomination for the position of Select
Council, is received, and I thank you for the compliment
and implied confidence.
Although I have always felt a deep interest in the civil
and political affairs of the city, as well as of our common
government, I have refrained from seeking public posi
tion, or accepting , office, notwithstanding I have fre
quently been urged to do so; nor would I be willing at the
present time to accept the nomination• voluntarily ten
dered by you, if it were not for tho peculiar circuml
stances of the case, circumstances which stem to
demand, for the furtherance of the Republican Principles
by which we are guided, and which I fully and heartily,
endorse, that I should acqniesce " in' your andquest I
therefore accept the nomination tendered, in tho
event , of my election I can only promise to fulfil the du
ties of the position to the best of nay ability.
I am, viftlemen,-
YoUrs, truly.
BENJ.-F. GLENN.
•
Bab FOE CLERK 'OF THE COURT OF
Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions,
THOMAS ASHTON. ocl•letrp
Ix Tn.Em custom department at Oak Hail,
they are fairly "laying theMselves out" this
season. With now cutters, new styles, new
and most beautiful goods, are ' , turning
out some of the most clegaut garments that
will appear on our streets this fall.
—The following oppears ainonthe " Per
sonal" advertisements in a Newyork paper:
"Oh, Clara, darling-come back, and
will promise to givet• . you' lots of
nice new hoop skirts, and really wont
pinch you any more; sans ftsclum. DEAREST
JAI 'cu.."
BIM
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GEORGE TRUMAN. Ja.,
' Chief Marshal
PHILADELPHIA, 'THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1869:
THE BROOKS CASE.
An Attempt to Assist McLaughlin—lie
Refuses to Accept Relief—A Curi
ous Petition—Counsel ,
Declined.
Qt purl:SE ssi udge Ludlow—A
curious phase in the Brooks assassina
lion ease came to light this morning
in the court, indicating that there is
Some rivalry between New York and Philadel
phia, in regard to extending relief to the men
-clearged--with • the ally/Apt to murder Mr.
Brooks. Those who have been present at the
various hearings at the Central Station In this
ease, must have noticed the 'constant .attend
ance as spectators of certain notorious charac
ters. Their interest in the proceedings,
was not disguised, and in at least
one instance a detective was threatened with
condign punishment—even death—by one of
these spectators, if he dared to comp to his
house in the course of a search for the asses
sins. But when the Mayor's proclamation
appeared, naming McLaughlin, Mara 'and
Dougherty, the renewed activity of these
Men was plainly discernible. They haunted
the Central Station and the . court-room;and
long before the commtinity was aware of the or:.
rest of the three men in New York,these people
knew the fact, and prepared at once to. cirl
cumvent, if possible, the action of the authori
ties. .As it was necessary to Obtain a bill of
indictment against Mara and Dougherty, in
order to secure a requisition upon the Gover
nor of New York, our Grand Jury, was
watched by one'set of friends, while another
operated in New York in order to secure the
release of the prisoners by Judge McCimn.
District Attorney Sheppard, however, became
aware of the movements of the gang,
and took measures to circumvent the
plot. On Tuesday the (crowd was around
the Court-house, in, order to
'obtain earl).- information of the findings of the
hills of indictment., Mr. Sheppard dismissed.
the Grand Jury, at 12 o'clock, for two hours,
and the crOwd, thinking this an adjournment
for the day, left the neighborhood.. At two
o'clock the ,jurors returned, Mr. Brooks and
the other witnesses were Sent for, a true bill
was found, and au Officer despatched at once.
by a special train to Harrisburg to obtain the
necessary papers to send to New YOrk. It
was not until the next morning that the
learnedthe--=facts;
time it was too late to render
effectual assistance. The next step was the
one developed in Court this morning: Mc-
Laughlin, who came voluntarily to Philadel
phia, is believed by the gang to have given
important information, and hence the anxiety
to obtain an interview with him. 'This was
prevented by Lieutenant Hillocky, of the
Sixth District, who received orders to that
effect from the Mayor. Mr. John Cochran,
in company with. R. Lyster Smith, visited the
station-house and demanded an interview,the
former as counsel. The interview was re
fused, whereupon Mr. Cochran yesterdOy ap
plied for a writ of habeas corpus, filing the fol
lowing curious petition:
"To the lion. James B. Ludlow, Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City
and County of. Philadelphia.—The petition of
Neil McLaughlin respectfully showeth that
he is now restrained of his liberty.unjustly, as
be apprehends,by Martin Hillacky,Lieutenant
of Police, Sixth. District, in Philadelphia.
And your petitioner further avers thit he is
unable to communicate with his relations or
friends, and that his counsel was denied an
interview with him. Wherefore your
petitioner prays your Honor to grant a writ of
habeas corpus directed to the said Hillocky,
commanding- him to bring before your Honor
his, the petitioner's body, to do as andabide
such orders as your Honor may direct. And
he will ever pray."
There was no signature to the petition, but
attached was the tollowing
"Philadelphia County, ss : The above-nanied
William Madden, next friend, (Neil, McLaugh
lin's tame being erased by the draughtsman
of the petition and Madden's substituted),
being duly sworn according to law, deposes
and says that the facts contained in the above
petition are just and true, to 'the best of his
knowledge and belief.
"Sworn and subscribed, &c.,
"J. P. Drams,
[Signed] Witt, LAM MMDDE N."
This morning Mr. Cochran appeared in
Court and called up the case, the prisoner,
McLaughlin, being present in charge of Lieu
tenant Hillocky. The Mayor was also in at
tendance. After the petition was presented,
Judge Ludlow inquired for the return. This
was presented as follows
" Martin Killacky to the within writ of
habeas corpus makes, return that he produces
the body of Neil McLaughlin in obedience to
the writ: that the said Neil McLaughlin Was
placed in the custody of the deponent to await
a hearing on the charge of being con
cerned in an , assault and battery upon
James J. Brooks with intent to kill the
said Brooks, the said McLaughlin being then
tinder arrest upon .a warrant issued by the .
Mayor of the city of Philadelphia on Sept.
7, 1869, upon the said charge; that at 9 A. M.
of Oct. 7 a hearing was had - before Alderman
Kerr of the said defendant on the said charge,
and defendant was recommitted by the said
Alderman to await a further 'hearing,,and
that he now holds the said McLaughlin under
the said warrant and commitment, which are
herewith produced.
, [Signed] "MARTIN KILLACKY."
Assistant District Attorney Hagert now
moved to quash the writ, on the ground that
it was improvidently issued. He called atten
tion to the peculiarities in the petition, which,
while pUrporting to be that of Mr. McLauali
lin, was not signed by him, but by another
party.
Mr. Cochran contended that the . petition
was properly draWn and sworn to, a relation
or friend having the right to make the appli
cation. He bad been employed as counsel, and
claimed the right to have free and unob
structed interviews with_the prisoner. He did
not know the prisoner, not having had an.op
portunity to confer with him, except through
the agency of policemen. •
- Judge Ludlow - inquired for the prisoner,
He appeared before the bar of the Court, and
the Judge instructed him that be had the right
to employ, counsel, and that •rich counsel
would have.the right to full an.l free inter
views 'with him.
Mr. Cochran said he was the counsel.
Judge Ludlow said that be held in his hand
an 'affidavit to the contrary, The affidavit was
as follows :
"Neil McLaughlin, being duly sworn, saith
that the writ of habeas corpus in this case has
not 'been applied for by him, or by any one
authorized by him to make such application in
his behalf, and that be has not instructed any
counsel to appear in the matter of this appli
cation or hearing.
" [Signed] NEIL :".1 MCLAUGHLIN.
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WarK
Mr. Cochran slated he had been engaged as
counsel for the prisoner by his relatives.
Judge Ludlow said' that the man had the
right to select his own counsel, if he wished
Mr. Cochran then cOmplainel of the deten
tion of the prisoner, and said that he was ille
gally, held in custody, no hearing having been
had in his case.
Mr. Hagert replied that this was a mistake,
as a hearing had udten place this morning at
7 o'clock. .
Mr. Cochran inquired • when his Honor
would dispose of the motion to gush..
°Mt:WHOLE COUNTRY
' B deman de dans ses suppliques,
Pour le 'peuple qui suit son char,
Toutes le,s libertes publiques;
Quitte '4Jes suppntner plus tard. •
.
Of these verses we submit the following ap
proximate translatien:. • • 3
4 ., So he's prodigal and generous;
• Squanders faster than,LueulluA,
While we I.4umber—it's not onerous,—
AU the gals with whieh' he'd gull.us.
And he prays, in public orieons;
For his folloWers prone and greasy,
AU their dreams and wider horizons,—
Knowing rainbows break so easy 1—
41tidge , Ludlow said ho would take time to
eonsiner the application:
McLaughlin wa, then rem‘oved - front the
Court by Lieutenant Killadry, and
. the ease
ended tor the day.
OHIO AND .PENNSYIXANIA.
The End of the Work..
The Tribune has the following •
Vow States did more gallant service in the
war' for the Union than Pennsylvania and
Ohio. They sent their sons to the field, and
they poured their Money' into the National
Treasury. One was scomgcd by the actual
presence of battle, and will bear its memo
rials to the end of time. The other saw
the' hostile armies just across her southern
• er_and-4vas-saved-frem—invasion---only.
by the hard lighting of her soldiers.
Is •it conceivable that when the work in
which they have taken such a noble share is
all but finished they should turn back and try
to undo the labor of such painful years ? The
war was fought that America might be con
solidated as a nation of free and homogeneous
States, upon the common principle ot Equal
Rights for all. This cannot be wlule aremnant
• of bondage.yet lingers in the constitutions of
the reconstructed States. It is not enough that
,we' have decreed the destruction of Slavery.
We , have also to demand guarantees that it
Hhall never , be restored either in fact or in
name.' We have to place the freed race in
such , a position ' that they can peadeably en
force- their naturalrights, in the only .
. way an
American citizen ever should nejd'to - enforce
them, that is by the protection of the ballot. have •
We to defend them against the murder• '
ous eutrages of Ku-Klux Mans and the smaller
•wfongs of unrepentant rebels who have not
vet learned that the laborer is worthy of his
hire, ;f In a word, we mast secure all the peo
ple ofthe United States in the enjoyment of
their life, liberty and property, and. until we
have done this we have not gathered the fruits
of the war.
This labor completed, our next duty is to
,pay the debt which we cbntracted in the
struggle. It is not payment to send away our
creditors with less than we promised them.
We have no business to diminish their interest
under pretence .01 taxing bonds which we
agreed should be free of taxation, or to di
trunish their principal by paying it in a de
preciated currency instead of coin. We must
just pay what our bargain calliffor ; deducting
one cent is flat - thievery. Let us have no ,
dodging. The debt cannot he wiped out with
greenbacks. A promise to pay is not satisfied
by another promise to pay, nor by tendering'
debased coin,worth less than its.face..,_.W.Rither
do we, keel;To Vdrga — rit, when, after
promising six percent. interest on our bonds,
Ave oiler only four per cent., and , say "Qh,we
will keep . the rest and call it taxes.' The man
who votes' to repudiate any portion of the
national .debt is no more honest than the
tradesman who repudiates his private obliga
tions.. We are bound to pay our debt in full,
we can pay it in full, and we will pay it in •
full.
. . Here then arc the two crowning works
which are still before the American people—
the ratification of freedom by the - Fifteenth
Amendment and the satisfaction of our debt.
Towards both we have made great progress.
Nearly the whole required number of States
have given their, assent to the Amendment,
and the reduction of the debt has gone on so
rapidly during Gen. Grant's efficient and ece
iiemical administration that we can an
ticipate very soon , a sensible lessening
of takation, and such increase .in the
National credit that the rest of
our bonds can be funded, with the consent of
the holders, at a lower rate of interest than
we are now paying.. trust none of our
brethren who have marched with us thus far
will turn back when we are so near the end of
our journey. We hope especially that Penn
sylvania and Ohio, who, by their men, and
their money have contributed so much to our
past success, will, next week ratify their past
course, and enceurnge-us all to persevere to
the end. •
Lteense'of the French Papers.
The Paris presS is almost free .again.. Cen
sorship has been quite moderated, only one or
two prosecutions having taken place: But
how have the newspapers used their liberties?
Can they be said to have acted civilly, since
they become daily more bitter, ribald and ir
relizious ? The appearance, habits and pecit
liarities of the Empress and her son are de
scribed and caricatured, and the nature of the
malady under which the Emperor has suffered
is made the subject of a wit both cruel and (at
any rate to Saxon ideas) indecent.
The caricature of Dr. -- Nelaton armed
with hii surgical instruments, which apPeared
in the Eclipse, was the cause of the seizure of
that paper. This proceeding is thus deplored
in a Republican Journal : "Alas ! what has be
come of the old frank and free mirth of our
country, our gaiety and our laughter, our cari
catures and our, witty mocking songs, with
their sounding refrains? They have vanished,
fled, as our liberties have vanished and fled.
Formerly if la censure took fright at some
pungent epigram,our rulers yet allowed it to
pass, for they remembered that France was
the country of Rabelais and of Beaumarchais
= but now !" Prince Napoleon fares no bet
ter, as the following squib will show:
Flll.AltO.--LE PItiNCE CHARM ANT
Il etait une lois un prince.
Logue' epousa, dans le temps,
princesse do province,
Dont II obtint beaucoup d'eulants,
Sans etre beau ni laid, en somme,
11 ressemblait, en raccourci,
A defiant son oncle,—un grand homme,
Contrite on en voit pets, Dieu merei
Une ambition temeraire
Depuis peu, cliteon, I'i touche.
Le prince joue au populaire
Comme onjoiiraitau, chat perche
I) est gen6reux et prodigue;
Devant ]ui Lucullus
On Coropte—et meine sans fatigue,
Toils ]es heureux enrichit.
PRINCE °naming°.
In our land a darling Prince is,
Who enacts the loving turtle,
With a country-kind of princess,
Homely, and extremely fertile
This Prince, neither plain nor handsome
Bear a marked regard, however,
To a certain blessed Phantom—
From such blessings, heaven deliver!
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Now this 'Prince can cringe or sidle ;
And he feels the bold ambition
To be called the people's idol,
And be 'worshipped in the Itkohen
miuszazigmn!i.
ENGLIfiy OPERA-.AT
The best thing Madame ItoOa' can do: with
The Puritan's houghterOs to take.it from her
repertoire,; and substitute: for it some of'the
very many operas,' English; ,Frenchi.
or German, which are more worthy of the ef
torts of a company of artists; The perform
:ince last night was; probablY, much better
than it would have been if any other existing
company had undertaken to sing the music;
but the opera is not a good one, and even the
noble singing of Madame. Rosa, and of Messrs
Campbell and Castile, failed. to make it inter
esting.' The first act contains nearly. all the
best music; but that is not of the very finest
quality. Th6last tivu - 7 - acta are very
meagre. A little pretty melodnand some frag
ments of.harmony are spread thinly through
a vast amount of dialogue, which tedious'
enough even after baying; :suffered consider
able
abbreviation. The music has few
suggestions of the genius . . of the composer of
The Bohernicgt Obi. The qualities which make
that'operapopular with the masses do not ap
pear in this one. It belongs to no school,
but is a patch-work, withinfflations of all the
different styles. The story is obscure . ; and
lame, and the music fits it .completely in this
respect. There is no central idea, no single
motive, and no attempt to elaborate a theme.
The melOdies and harmonies continually sug
gest possibilities which are never realized,and
the • hearer, consequently, 'is'. subjected
to a series •of disappointments., There
are no grand climaxes, approached
steadily through the acts, but the conclusions
are tame and dispiriting. Here and there
through the opera there are bits of melody
which are very pleasing,liut there is nqt, o'ne
great
` passage the entire composition and
not,aphrase which the hearer would be likely.
to remember. The orchestration is very elabo ,
rate,:and, we are inclined to consider it the
most satisfactory' portion of the work. The .
admirable manner, in which the orchestra,
under the direction of Mr. Rosa, did its work,
contributed to the satisfaction which this gave.
Madame Parepa-Rosa sang charmingly
throtighont the performance, but with an
entire want of intensity and enthusiasm."
Even in the most exciting passages
she was passionless; and the.ahsolute absence
of emotion expre.ssed by her. face contrasted
strangely with the music and the 'text. Mr.
Campbell's performance was excellent;, and
Mr. Castle gave great satisfaction in the heat
thing he had to singing a rollick
ing drinking song. Mr Laurence's "Clifford''
was a failure, in a histrionic :sense; but the
- irdisiti'Sniteel.l - r; - .1.r.W - tenor , baritone - voice ad. —
mirably, and he'sang it artistically... His lower
notes are not good enough for a pure.baritone •
part ; but those of his upper register are of ex-.
cellent quality. 'Mr. Gustavus Hall appearedas " Ring Charles," and gave atolerably
good performance; Hall has a fair
voice but there iS a certain rawness' and want
of ease in his manner which • detracted .from
the pleasure which_ his general performance
gave. If this opera is, retained we would
respectfully suggest to Mr. Rosa that a further
abridgethent of the dialogue might be made
judiciously lie Striking out sonic of the'. un
cleanness. `e could not perceive.. that the
Coherence of the plot made necessary 'un
pleasant representations of the licentiousness
of Charles. H. Historical accuracy in a stage
portrait'not only is' not requisite, but often it
is very undeSirable. Impurity in Italian, set
to a recitative,
is endurable ; but Ivhen -it is
put into plain English dialogue it is not nice.
This evening The noheinkn girl will be pro
duced with Miss Hersee as "Arline:"
—At the Walnut, the thron g s attracted by
the appearance of Mr. Boothstill 'continue,
crowding upon the ticket-seller, and putting
his politeness to a strain which it is not always
able to bear,.. as in a particular case last eve
ning. A line house, of course, greeted the tra
gedian in his admirable part of " lago." Of
this conception—although the limitations of
the role deprive it of the sympathetic admira
tion granted to genermis and heroic parts like
"Hamlet" or "Othello"—yet in its degree it
Mayperhaps be said that Mr. Bocith fills it in
a more faultless and satisfying*aythan either
of those many-sided characters. His acting
last night was completely careful and finished;
he continued with great power, as the
story advanced in intensity towards the catas
trophe, to keep his own role foremost and 'pre
serve the figure of the baffled villain, even
after the plot consummates his failure and passes
on to other issues, foremost on the scene, in a
prominence which the play itself leaves
to the imagination of the reader or
else to the by-play of the actor. Mr. Booth has
changed his representation of this last cliax,
in a manner greatly to the advantage'of
"lago." instead of simply dwelling ,on his
own wound and staggering front the stage
With a handkerchief to his side, his ",ago"
now, after •being guarded with 'bound
Bands at the hack Of the stage,
makes a great rush forward at the
moment when "Othello" falls, and hangs over
the victim in a tableau, his face expressing,
with all its unique energy, the old text of the
beginning of the play, "I hate the Moor-!"
Many minor points are also altered for the
better, giving us the assurance of uninter
rupted study, thought and attention. The cos
tume, too, is changed, but hardly for the bet
ter ; although more gorgeous than of old, it
lacks the military appropriateness, of the for
mer dress, and is not snit as would have
borne the stormy voyage to Cyprus supposed
by the drama. Those who hung so breath
lessly last night upon the bad fascination of
"lagp" should not fail to attend Mr".. Booth's
benefit to-morrow, when he will show his ver
satility in the complementary part of Othello.
—The great circus is in full operation on
Eighth street, between race and Vine, and the
heart of the manager is made glad by crowded
benches anti immense enthusiasm. Perform
ances are
given every afternoon and evening,.
by the full company, and those who visit the
entertainment in the (lay time may rest assured
that they will get their money's worth quite
as well as if they went at night. During every
performance the wild beasts will be exhibited
to the audience
Prof. Peirce will enter the
. _
lion's den, and stir the lordly animati into
roaring 'wrath, and do wonderful, perilous
anti utterly astoundink , feats with them. Prof.
Peirce is a very Dame,l when he gets among
lions. He is not afraid of them 'no matter hOw
.
hihigry they are.' is tierfeetly Willing to sit
there and let them sniff him all night and he
will accept any amountor, bete that they will
not take a bite out of him." ileSides these an-
halals, the camels will be around with their
hacks up and their singhlar'ptoplachs packed
with Schuylkill water in caseF of another
drought, They will prance: around over. the
sawcitist and the tan with all: that untutored
grace - which distinguishes.thera in their gam
bols upon the sultry sands Of their native des
erts ; real Arabs will' giiide them in their ex
hilarating pastimes,andpoke there walla pole
if they get too lively. The eliiwas will be •on
hand with sparkling witticisms, creamy
jokes, and exuberant humor. The edumted
clogs will make their bow-wows to the audi
ence, and, balanced on their• paws, they,will
wag their curly tales in an interesting man
ner. , The potties will waltz around the circle
with visions of female loveliness upon their
Most happy hacks, and the lithe and beautiful
damsels will . disport 'themselves gaily. , each
• upon one leg, or penetrate the paper hoop ,
with singularly bewitching recklessness; The
acrebate. will appear in a largesuumber of en
tirelyiine* rolls, and there will be promisctious
fliVklakting all: over the place., This.is ft aired. - really worth going to see The .
second grand street [Parade . of 'the
eirmis will take place tomorrow at Ilro'clock
A. M. It will pass over the follo*lng route:
—Up Eighth to Green, to . Third, up Third to
Germantown road, to xford, to Socoud, down
Ft'fLIFETTIERSTON:
mod+• '• "•
'PRICKTfEREE.'CENTS'..:,',:-:;-;4''-:.'',
Vine, s e'oe igattl , ''' t" .3 '-
econd to thence thelac
p
-:— Billwet's five act hisWrical nlay or
lieu win be produced atthe Virartint thin tiV ing; with Mr. Edwin' Booth in the cliatviete!..A4.9,, i.
of `.‘cilicheliett.", On Saturday„ Ifidaaret , , 4 1-kges
and at the matinee on kiaturday, •Bulitte
beautiful play, The Lacly of Lyon& t 45
---OurAmerican Cowan will be presentea this - ; 0
evening at .Miss Laura Keene's New Chestrtit
Street Theatre.
--Formosa is having a very successful r the Arch.ml ,
—Carncross Bixcy's Min.strelis give
mirth-provoldng performance nightly..
FACTS AND: FANCIES.
"An Old Score" is the title of a' didlastr;
just produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London.
IL is by W. S. Gilbert, and is favorably critir
—Selwyn, of Boston, is about toprodaceVaa
his theatre in Boston, "ITncle.Pliable," amewl
comedy, by Mr, Arthur Matthison.
A London publisher proposes to, repriaw
ill one or more,volumes all that has beenpub--
fished in England and America on the Byru: '
controverSy. • .
—Nest Christmas eve is set for thd mat--i:;zb
riage of some five htmdred Cousins in , Noiwr
HamPshire: After that date. the intermar•
riage of-first cousins is prohibited there.
—A lynching party in'Wisconsin, who claim -
to have done substantial justice in a -recent.,
hanging case, propose to apply to the Legisla.a- - „,,
ture Tor an,act legalizing what they have done -
—Jefferson, for lour nights of "Rip Vatt' - ' .
‘Winkle" 'in BroOklytt, made, as his share of
the profits, $4,000. This (at the rate of a thou- -
sand dollars a night,) is as much as thb great,
prima, donnas of Europe can command; and
they, with English bishops and successful
patent tnedicine - men, are the best, paid people
on the, earth.
—Prof. Boehm, one of the most eminent
medical men in Berlin, died last Aueust,under
fearful circumstances; while dissecting before
a class ofstuddnts he pricked a .finger. He
thought it a mere abrasion of the skin'au t
failed to cauterize"it. Two days afterward his
hand began to,swell and became.enormous.
The poison pevaded big whole system and'
killed him. He retained, his' consciousness
nearly to the last, and saw his end approach
with undisturbed firmness. :
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-•--,Speaking ot i Pere Hyacinthe, the Cincin
nati Catholic Tevraph,s4vi that the 'honors ,:'-
- thathavebeen - paid , :to his: bfillianttalentgas
an orator,. have . caused him. to :;forget. the ••
, liumbln.garb of a Camelite monk, and the •/
miring crowds of sovaris and Infidel :professors
that crowded, the Madeleine : to listen 'to Ins .
rare, fervid elbquenee,'.haVe, induced him,
through his self-conceit, to prefer workilyap
plause to the'divine faith that he preached,.
and to renounce, the Church, of. Whieh"•he is
now a fallen, and ' if the report be not
aggerated, an excommunicated.raember.
—A clergyman recently related" the follow- .
ing : Two young friends of: his wererboarding .
in
,Germany with a very devout Catholic lady,
Who always asked a blessing befere each meal.
One day she asked the yonag' men how the
Americans - asked 'a blessing. One :.of 'theta,
remembering the haste with which so many ,
of • hiti countrymen .attack their ' food, 'said,
"The AmeriCan blessing . Ls.' Pitch in."' A
few days afterward the good lady,. thinking to
please ,her: boarders,fervently folded her hands
before, breakfast, and ,uttered the, words
• " Pitch le," which they of Course did.
—Gnstave Flenbert has placed' the maim
seript of his new novel in, MM. Michel Levey
Freres' hands. It is said. they gave him 86,000
in gold for it. He sent uP•the manuscript . in°
a small,• square oaken box, -with steel edges.
and lock The oak is varnished ;on the lid
are two letters, G. F., in black steel. , The
hinges are made of steel. The box is lined
with wadded gray silk, spangled with scarlet "
rose-buds. . The manuscript of the new novel
(whose title is "L'Education Sentimentale") is
in two volumes. They are boundin gray silk;
on the back of each volume is the author's
name in red letters; on the other side of each
volume are the initials G. F. embroidered in
scarlet silk.. The work is written on paper •
made in imitation of paper of the olden time, .
namely, very thick, slightly grained, and .yet
half glazed. The author' has written his story
in a most legible hand. The titles Of the chap
terS are written in red inkpand on each page •
are the initials G. F.
—A New York youth went to visit his in
tended in Jersey the other evening, and .as it
was late and very dark when he left the
house
. she insisted on his taking a lantern
with him, and gaVe him a red paper one, did
Chine Se. . The yonth had it long distance to
walk to the depot, and took the railroad track
as the shortest route. He walked along pay
ing very little attention to anything being
somewhat abstracted with the thoughts of his
lady love; but the reverie:was suddenly
brought to an end by some one from the rear,
who gave, the Chinese lantern a kick that sent
it flying. "Confound you!" said the person
from behind, "here I have been slowing my
train forthe last twO miles on account of that
red light." And indeed it was true, for not
far behind him the young gentleman . . saw a
freight train; and it was the engineer who had
kicked the light. The young man now goes .
among his chums by the ;mute of ''.Red,
—The Journal of the Telegraph has the lot.
lowing list of telegraphic bulls:" •
It Is said of operators that it' they do oc6a,
M ould] y make bad bulls, the credit of the
horns is often due to the fearful inaimscripti'
and orthography of the messages left: With
them to transmit. Here is a message left at
the office in Troy, N. Y., which we give as a
specimen brick:
.. "One load will be a Enofe !"
The writer of that message is probably a
greedy character and to whom, the word .
.'enough" is.an 'Unfamiliar term. Besides, he•
may have bad so big a load on as to be con—
scious that itwas quite a Knofe for him .7
A MOTEL MESSAGE.
"Have a room with.five in it."
wanted;
was
fellow that, but what he wanted 4
was fire.
A FAMILY MESSAGE. . 2
"Yolo* children Ore 100!"
Fancy a father's pheelinx on , receipt of such. '
a message! But the message only announced
to him that his children were well.
A DEATH MESSAGE.
"John is dead beqt. Depot:this evenin.2,7',
This was certainly a very unfeeling wat of
announcing that—._
"John
"John IS dead.. Be at-depot this evening." , ---
- ANOTHER, DEATH MESSAGE 1 .- `TIv 2;
'Brother lyed last night.'.' • -.:
Now - we submit that such a message must ,
have mixed up an agitated family tat maps , -
of soap-fat, ashes and immortality,
the, grave announcement it was designed to
make'
A BAD ECCLESIASTIeAL BULL
A message transmitting the intelligenee
i bat "the Presbytery lacked a quorum tex or.
(lain," caused a • prodigious amount of untie.
cessary theological dismay by, announcing,
in the following extraordinary ma - mier : ,
"The Presbytery tacked a worm onto Adana'!"
This is really too bad.' MR afebrifuge
been sent to our worthy anCestor by the Pres
bytery it would have been .tolerable,> but to
tack a worm onto him With an ecclesiastical 4 ,,,
hammer by telegraph is too Much a
—Gazzaulga returns from ttrope
with success in a point, of litigation.—Skiit.ico%;:-.,-.4 • ; 4,.
covers tt•out the estate of, her first hiniti!ZO4
Marquis de hl the the amount of bet firto4
fessioniti earnings as pritita donna duringtorkeir
married life, which( was claimed excl* yalsr
tor their SOU, ti Youog man redidirig
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