GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO.IBO. T7A5 TH »? I * ,SETS > COMMODES AN JklXnJl Salesroom with A. H. FBi CIBOUB & C 0 . 1813 Market street. ocl, th,s,tu-28t| X*rBDDING GAUDS, INVITATIONS .lJ«& rPirtJe,l4o> New stylos. MABON AOO < L*?®" s 907 Chestnut street. TK7TEDDING INVITATIONS BN TM.Eff* Te 3. the newest and. beet manner: LOUIS VUEKA’ Stationer and Engraver, lOK Chestnut «**”*• fe2o tf MARRIED. STEEN—OCHNJEIt.—On Thursday ovonlncr, Novem ber 4tb,lBeo at the first -English Lutheran Church, in Pittsburgh, hr the Key. Samuel Laird. Mr. Thomas I>. Steen to Miss Millie P. Ocliner. all of Pittsburgh. DIED. KKOu t lie )th inst., Alfred Long, treth, Don of ThfrranH T. *nd Elizabeth 11. Butcher, In tho 19th year of bis ago. . . The relatives and friend* of the family arercspoctfally invited to attend the fnneral, from tho'regldenco of hut naronta. No. PU OHnton street, on Monday morning, r oo « wc £' at Mount Moriah. * COLEM AN .—On the evcjV^'i v f the 4th inst., at his residenc* in Pemberton, Ne%' Jersey. Dr. Isaac P. Cole man, In the 66th year of his ago. . and friends ot the faniHy.are particularly invited to attend Jits funeral, from hi» late residence, on Monday ne*t, th p Bth inst .at 1 o’clock, without farther Market fc’tre't Kerry, upper side, atlOo clock A. M. » themornfns:of the 6th lust., Ann O.v wife of Job Dawson. Due notice of th« funeral willt«e given. * DIIiLOh .—Ou the sth inst., dames Dillon, in tho 71st year of his age. The relatives nud friends ot tho family are respectfully re<jue«ted to attend the fnnerul, from his lute residence, . ,9* oouth Pixth street, on Monday mominsr next, at hH o ch*ck. High .Maes at St. Philip de Neri’s Church, , Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. HI J UNKIN.—On the morning of Saturday, the 6th Inst 1 ., J e anie Pe Forest, youngest daughter of George and Jane De F. Junkin, in the eighth yeai iher age. Funeral from her parents’res '*nce. No. 1725 Spruce street, on Monday. November fcth, at 2o’clock P. M. * OLI>PEN.—Iu Brooklyn.on the morning of the sth Inst., Kate, wifeof James R. 01ddeu,And daughter of Mr. K. Piue.of Philadelphia. * PAULY.—On the 6th inst., the Rev. George Washing ton Pauly, nged 27 years. His friends and these of tho family are invited to at tend his funrrul, from the residence of hls.father, 1616 ' Poplar street, on Tueiidar afternoon. The funeral ser vices will be held at tho Church of Hi. Janie* -tho Leas, ot .3 o’clock. Interment at Honth Laurel Hill. ** \ TAYLOR.—On the 6th Inst., Franklin H. Taylor,aged \37 years. Xliue notice will he given of the fnperal. -v.V firATKIt PROOFS FOR SUITS. fV BLACK AND WHITE REPELLAHTB. GOLD AND BLACK REPELLANTS. BROWN AND WHITE RKPKLLANTS. \ fKYHK A LANDKLL, \ . Fonrth and Arch RELIGIOUS NOTICES. ARCH STREETsM. E. CHURCH.- Rev. 0. H. Pa>n*. Pastor, to-morrow, at IOJi A. M.und 75iP. M. Stranger* invited. It* jy-s»' C~A LVARY PRESBYTERIAN D-ely f'Lurch, Locust street,above Fifteenth*—Rer.Dr. Humphrey, Pastor. Services W 5 A. M. andfH P.M.* ALBERT BARNES WILL preach in the Western Presbyterian Churcb, heveMeciith and FUbert stroeta,Sabbath; at 101* and S^. PREACH to morrow evi-nina at the Churcb of the Nativity. Eleventh and Mount Vernon street*. It* TRINITY 11. E. CHURCH, EIGHTH Mreet abovo Race.—-Her. Mr. Shock* of New Jersey, at JO. 1 ?. Rev, A. Wallace,7‘s. All Invited. It* IP'S* R E \CE~ ‘RrBILUILE WIiTPEEACH l*eX to morrow at the Second Presbyterian Churcb, S. E. corner of Twenty-first ami Y/alnut streets, at 10# A. HI. and 7?j P, M. ... , lt*_ SECOND REFORMED CHURCH, Seventh street, above Brown. Bey. F. R. Har* bfinab wiil preach in this churcb to-morrow (Sunday) at 10, 1 .? A. BE and 7ii P, M. It* . jy-S* FIRST REFORMED CHURCH, corner of Seventh and Spring Garden streets.— Bev. Thomas X. Orr. Paster, will preach to- A.M.aindUtP.M. ___ REV. CHARLES WADSWORTH' V. D., will preach to-morrow in the Third Re formed Church. Tenth street, below Arch. Services at 10,S in the morning and 7)i in the evening. It* iSIXTH PKESBYtEHiAK CHURCH, bprucc street, between Fifth and Sixth. Bcv. Blr. Anderson. lat*of WHllamt College, will preach to morrow at It’.*--morning «nd7*» evening. It* CLINTON STREET' CHURCH' Tenth »twt, below Spruce. Ber. Dr. March will preach to-morrow (Bundav) at W>» A. M.and 7 H P. M. Subject for evemng: “The Revelations of Im mortality.” It* „ ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN Church, Nineteenth and Green itreet#.—Bev. M. V. Jon** U expecU-d it- preach in this church ou next Sabbath morning at \ % o'clock, and in the evening at 7, L i o'clock. It* jr=» NEW UNITARIAN CHURCH, N. K. corner of Brood and Spring Garden streets (Hall of Spring Garden Thome, Pastor. Serricea at lft}* A. M.and7HP. M. Seat* free. nog^At* LOG A N SQUARE CHURCH, Twentieth and Vine etreete.— Preaching Sabbath rooming, at o'clock, by Rev, S. W. Crittenden. Svonins eerrice, preaching by pastor, Rev. Thomas J. Brown, at 7}g o’clock. it* FIRSTUNIVERSALIST CHURCH, IhV Lombard street, above Fourth. B«v. H. C. Leon ard, Paetor t will deliver an address before Keystone Sec tion No. 27, Cadets of Temperance, to-morrow evening, at 7}i o'clock. It* SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN Church. Broad Ktreet. above Chestnut.—Bov. Gardiner Spring Wumly. of N. J., wit* preach in this Church to-morrow, 31st instant, at 10>* A. M. and 3 M. It* ST.' MARK’S (EPISCOPAL) Church. Loctiat, above .Sixteenth.—ln addition to the regular MTvices. ft choral service every Suudav evening, at 7N o’clock. At this Service all the sca/J-trta be fret. Strangers specially invited. no6,s2t* THE BISHOP’S FREE north aide Spring Garden, below Broaa.—Bev. J. W. Bonham will preach Sunday evening on“ The Glory-Filled Teinplo The third of the series of oa the 'iemple, its Altar, Priests and Sacri fices lt* F It A N K F 6 R D —AT HERMON Presbyterian 'Church, un ordination and installa tion ofKMers will take place. Sabbath evening, 7J$ o'clock. Sermon and charge to Elders, Ijy Key, Pr. Stryker, of North Broad Street Church. Charge to the people by Rev. J. Ford Sutton, Pastor. It* THE: FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Church, “Washington Square. Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. Pastor, will preach to-morrow, at aoli A. M. and 7S P. M. Eveniug.—The second of the fieriee to Young'Men. Subject: “ Aim ; or, the Impor tance of a Worthy Purpose in Life.” It* jPsT GOD’S RECORD IN FOREIGN Lauds.—The next of the series of discourses on this subject will be delivered in St. Andrew’’ Church, 1 Eighth street,’above Spruce, Sunday t to-morrow) even i itig, at 75c o'clock. Subject—“ The Wells and Pools of j Palestine.” It* i n-s. CHURCH OF THE HOliY TRINITY, Nineteenth and Walnut streets. The Twenty • second Anniversary of the “ Churchmen’s Missionary ' .Association for Beamon of tlio Port of Philadelphia’' will he held in thisclinrch on Sunday Evening, Novsm i ber 7th, at 7K o’clock. Keports of tho managers and missionary will he presented and a scrinou preached by the Rev. Percy Browne. A collection will be made tin old of the Association. Public cordially invited. It* SPECIAL NOTICES. OFFIcFWBSTtPHILADELPHiA PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY, N. W. corner.Forty-tirst and Haverford streets. Pmi.AUELPHiA, Nov. 3,1859. At a meeting of tho Stockholders of this Company, hold at their office on tho 2d Inst., the following gentle men were duly elected Directors for the ensuing year, (vriz ' i Jolm S. Morton, Benjamin Griffith, : ft Jolm F. Gross, William M. Wright, !|; .tinmuel Baugh, Jamoa Rhoads. $ Jaim-sG. Hurdle, I Samuel W. Cattell, j IV illiam J. Swain. ! And at a meeting of tho Board of Directors held this filar, the following ofllcors were duly electod, viz.: I 7 ’ JOHNS. MOBTON, President, i SAMUEL P. HUHN, Treasurer. , 1 B. F. STOKES, Secretary. ; jt§ M. ENGLISH. General superintendent. jy-ja, A MEETING OF THE SIOUE- holders of the Oak Ball Oil Company of Pennsyl vania will be held at tho office of Anspacli tc Stanton, No. 326 Walnut street, on TUESDAY, tho 9th inst., at 12 ° The'jlirectors will lay before the meeting a plan they Bre about to adopt for leasing and working tho property of the Company. - .. no6-3t* THE science oe life.—con- IL^CEBT HALL.—Prof. McClintook to Qentlenicn, Tbilisiv(!\l. THIS SATUBDAY EVENlNG,do’cloclt. Admission. 25 cents.. ; It* i "T’ONEX"VILLE LECTURES. WILLIAM L. DENNIS, Esq., is will deliver tho Second oLtbe Course, entitled: i “ THE PONEYVILLE LECTURES,’' t . I On TUESDAY EVENING, Nov. 9th, 1869, At t o ASSEMBLY BUILDING (Largo Hall). I Subject—" OUR OIIUBCH AND CONGREGATION.” ■WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17: “ Social Fossils.” i TUESDAY. N0v.23: “Mrs. Wiggtnsandher Party.” i Tickets with scoured seats (three Lectures), 91*50. Single Tickets with secured seats, 75 cents. Admission 00 cents. Lecture at 8 o’clook.. , Tickets and seats at Trnmplor a Muklc Store. lnos-lrp ST. JOSEPH’S EAIIt, HORTIOUL- CombHi'oUw grand painting of “ Christ Bearing His dross.” .Table No.#. Only s*l a chance. • uo3-ltrp Itet Tlio great objection usually urged against Beady- Made -Garments ta that ther do not fit woU. VTa oVABAnTKE that any gentleman, with no special pecu liarity of shape about him, can ha PANTS, VEST, COAT AND OVERCOAT, The Chestnut Clothing Establishment, !ljy* ACADEMY OF MUSIC. H O n. B TH » E c| T X*«» FLKO,TUBEB - , Hon. CUABLKS SUMN£R, December 1. Bev. KOBT. COLLYER. December 3. MARK TWAIN, December 7. DK CORDOVA, Decembers. WENDELL PHILLIPH..December IC. Tickets at GOELD’B. 923 CHKBTNUT Street. nol tfrpj n"S»PHJLADELPHIA EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, S. W. comer Elerenth and Bnt toawood street*, and Eldge arenno.—Open daily at 12 oxlock. ATTENDING BDEGEONS. P. D. KEYSEB, M. D., 1111 Arch street. JAS. COLLINS, M. D., 8 \V. Marshall and Green. „ „„„ VISITIN’6 trustees. T. LLLWOOD ZELL, 17 South Sixth street. .^ALAN-W00D,519 Arch street. - S. GRANT, Jr., 139 South Water. nod s lmo§ A LARGE VARIETY OF HAND* pome and useful articles for sale at Table No. 6, St.~ Joseph’s Fair. Horticultural Hall. no 3 4trp WILLS OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL UBA UE ABOVE EIGHTEENTH STREET. Open daily at 21A. M. for treatment of diseases of the eye. _ _ ATTESDISG SURGEON, Dr. B. J.LEVIS, N. W. cor. Thirteenth and Arch. VIMTIKG MANAGERS, MORRIS rATTLBSON, No. 1511 Spruce street. EDWARD TOWNSEND, No. 526 North Fourth street. WILLIAM C. IIANNIS, No. 323 Walnut street. _ __ __ oc9-a vf tf rp| union ur“house7broad IK£F STREET, ' , . . _ PiriLADRLPniA, Nov. 4,130. A meeting of the Union League of Philadelphia will be held at the League House on THURSDAY, November Uth, 1369, at 8 o’clock, P. M.,for the purpose of Humi liating candidates to be voted for as members of the Board of Directors. By order of the Board of Directors. n&4 gtf GEORGE 11. BORER, Secretary. IT3- TABLE NO. 6, HORTICULTURAL HALL. ST. JOSEPH’S FAIR. Portrait of Right Rev. Bishop Wood—handsomely framed. no 3 4trp fV-S* STEREOPTICON AND - MAGIC Lantern Exhibitions given to Sunday Schools, Schools. Colleges, and for private entertainments. W. MITCHELL McALLISTEB, 728 Chestnut street, second n'°2 Smrp§ HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FAIR WILL BE HELD AT HOBTICL'LTtfRAL HALL, From 17th UH Sfthinst. Manager* iheet on TUESDAY, at 4 P. M., at College, Filbert, above Eleventh street,.where ail donations may be notified, and those interested are invited to at* tend. no6*2trp* ITS* PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPAEDIC •IMF HOSPITAL, No. li Sooth Ninth street.—For treatment of Clob Foot, Spinal and all other Bodily Deformities. Clinic crery TUESDAY and FRIDAY, from 11 to 1. ..'Serriees gratuitous to the poor. ATTENDING SURGEONS Dr. THOS. G. HORTON, Residence, 1421 Chestnut street, Dr. H.E. GOODMAN, 1127 Chestnut street JV"-* HOKTIC tfLTUB AL HALL. ST\ JOSEPH S FAIR. $l5O Sewing Machine—so cents a chance. Table No. 6, no 3 4trp CHOICE PEAE TKEES FOB SALET —Several thousand Bartlett, Scckel, Dachease, Ac., statuUrrt and dwarf, all sizes and varieties, from a Srivate Fruit Garden. J. 8. HOUGHTON, Olney P. ~ Second street turnpike, Philadelphia. nol-rp6t* FOB THE NEW ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, UCIHTICULTURAL HALL. Table No. 6. Magnificent portrait of the late Fatherßarbelin. 50 cents a chance. . no3-itrp* 1109 GIRARD STREET. 1109 TURKISH, RUSSIAN, AND PERFUMED BATHS. Departments for Ladles. Baths open fromt>A.M.to9 P. M. pltfrp H 5» HOWARD "HOSPITAL", NOS. 1518 r and 1520 Lombard street*Dispensary Department, edical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to the poor. | j-s* McCLIIN 10OICVILLE PETROLE UM UM COMPANY. WALNUT Street. Philadelphia, November 2,lSftL At a meeting of the Board, held this day, a Dividend •f Tbreoi3)per cent, on the reduced capital was de clared, clear of Stato taxes, payable on ana after TUES DAY, tho 16th inst. Transfer books to close.on the 9th and reopen on tho 17th inßt. nob tdt* A. L. KERN, Secretary. WANTED, AS SPECIAL PARTNER, TO enlarge the business, a capitalist with $30,000. in an old established Solid Silverware Manufacturing business, in this city. The best of references given and required. For further details apply to GJSt>. S. WEST. Att’y at Law. No. 419 Locust St. nofi b tu th 3t rp* IJKPJj'JJSMWt;' KIZZU, HAVING Eli A turned from Europe, will resume instructions in Vo cal Music immediately. Apply No. 1220 Spruce street. noli 91113 «* —Here is a funeral speech which a Paris paper assures us was actually pronounced at Montmartre the other day, by a father at the Brave of his son: “Gentlemen,?’ said the father, in a voice full of emotion, “the body beforo me was that of my son. Ho was a young man in the priino of life, with a sound constitution which ought to have insured him a hundred years. Jlut misconduct, drunken ness and debauchery of the most disgraceful kind,'brought him in the flower of age to the ditch which you see before you. Let -this; be an example to you and to your children. Let us go hence.” —The impression made by Henry Clay upon the late English Premier, Lord Derby, during a visit he once made’to this country, was sin gularly lasting. It was observed by those who heard Lord Derby speak afterwards, that in many things tho effect of his intercourse with Mr. Clay could be seen. He often expressed his preference and admiration of Mr. Clay as a statesman and orator to any other of our great men. —A letter from Peter Cartwright, the ven erable Methodist older, whoso jubilee was celebrated the other day, rofers with gratitude to tpe gold and silver gifts of the occasion, and says they do not solve the question, “ What shrill and my old and faithful wife eat and ,wenr ? for that all the available moans received on llie occasion, that could be used in that way \vith any conceivable propriety, would not secure a comfortable overcoat or a warm shawl to breast the winter storms of Illinois." SPECIAL NOTICES. CLOTHING READY-MADE, TO FIT W£LL, Well and Satlstectorily Fitted OBT OF THE Large and Well Proportioned Stock FINEST CLOTHING NOW SELLING AT 818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET. JOHN WANAMAKER. DIVIDEND NOTICES. WANTS. MUSICAL. • toe fcocnl Elcotlonii—Detent or the Tll« Barnacle Rlnlr—Btattstf cs of Misrule— tetters of PereurloePlrklr. [Correspondence of tho Philadelphia Brening Bulletin.] ' ,f kGO > k r ° v - 3.—The most oxciting, and, . lb many respects, the moat important munici pal campaign which has ever occurred in .the West, was closed on yesterday, in the elec tion, by a very large majority, of the , “Citi zens’ Ticket." The issue, in tho main, was one between honesty and dishonesty. It is quite unfair to assert, and the assertion can in’ nowise be justified by the facts, that it was simply a quarrel between • the “ins” and the “outs,” and thatthe result is a “Copperhead” victory. The desire for local reform which has manifested itself in San Francisco by the overthrow of a municipal Bing, and in Cincinnati by a similar political revolution, has resulted here in the general defeat of the Tite Barnacle Bing. For some ten years this Bing has been constantly in creasing in strength and corruption. Com mencing from imperceptible beginnings,and doing at first nothing that most men would refuse to do, the members of this King had become a power in influence and wealth that absolutely controlled this county, its Con gressional representative, and to a very large extent the Legislature of this State. This' power had become practically vested in one man, the autocrat of Chicago, our Bismarck, as he is called—Mr. A. C. Hesing. (A German himself, after getting control of the German influence he soob conquered the Saxons and the Celts that went with the Bepublican. party. This power was exercised in the ordi nary ways of political corruption, although in corrupt audacity it may have the dishonors-, ble credit of some originality. "Without see ing the “Chief” no nomination was possible, and a nomination was equivalent to an elec tion. Primaries were absolutely in the con trol of these men, and conventions were packed with their followers, whose votes were given in accordance with commands from the “Head Centre.” A close corporation of office-brokers had been formed, the mem bers of which, by note or otherwise, were obliged to payfor their offices., The gambling fraternity of the city had been made an ally; and in broad daylight, on the most prominent comers of the city, advertised by all the mys terious insignia of the craft, these gamblers were allowed to keep their “hells” without fear of molestation—a security purchased by a price. Through the lobby at tbe State capitol, which it controlled, and of which it was the mostptominent member,the Ring secured spe cial legislation extending or limiting the power of the different branches of the city government -according to its views of pecuniary benefit. It has thus unconstitutionally extended .the tenure of office of the assessors and other offi cers fora year; and, although the citizens never had expressed a wish for a new charter,it procured from the Legislature a new charter, called an “amendment,” which redistricted the city into new wards and. took away from . the Common Council the power of appointing judges and inspectors of elections, transferring this au thority to a small hoard of county officers, who were utterly irresponsible as regards our city, and who were also, almost to a man, de pendent upon the Bing for their positions and ' for their political future. The city was first informed that it had been honored with the gift of this new charter by the publication of the act granting it, whicn had been smuggled through the Legislature in an Omnibus bUi. The Bing had, further, so manipulated the laws that the city Was preventedfrom receiving any interest from its own deposits, averaging from one to two millions of dollars, thus com pelling it borrow money for current expenses, even when there might be a deposit of two and a half millions to its credit Tbe following figures, ■ which are authentic, will give some notion of the nature _ and ex tent of this single swindle of the Bing: The city has on deposit in the First National Bank .5378,852 21 To meet current expenses it has borrowed from the First Na tional Bank, at 7 per cent. int.... 100,000 00 From the First National Bank, at 8 per cent interest. From the Merchants’ National Bank, at 10 per cent interest From the State Savings Institution, at 10 per cent From the Loan and Trust Company, at 10 per cent oc3o-lmrp§ $258,000 00 While the bank at which the entire deposits of the city are placed pays the citv, under the rule of the King, no interest, it asks eight per cent, interest of the city for the use of its own money; and this in face of a standing proposition of several of th.e soundest hanks here to pay the city four per cehtfor the use of all its money,giving satisfactory bonds. Instead of paying the city anything,thisjbank pays the City Treasurer, a weak luan' placed there by the R ing, four per cent., an average of $BO,OOO per. year. The taxes and special assessments have also been so manipulated as to be very profitable to tins close Corporation, and greatly injurious to the citizens. Not content with controlling the enormous fees of the existing offices, new offices have ' been created, by special laws, directly tributary to these footpads. The trade in salt fish at this port has been very seriously injured by the manner in which the King Inspector has farmed out hiß brand; and other branches of trade have been more or less corruptly interfered with to satisfy its greed. The effect of King rule upon taxation m this city may be seen from the following tax-levy of 1860-70: Whole cash value of property in the city.... 520i),006,q00 Regular levy for municipal pur poses...... 54,500,000 Special assessments 8,000,000 State and County tax 1,200,000' Added to city and county funded debt 2,500,00) Total expenditure for the year. $11,200,00) Contemplated additional water works 1,500,000 City Parks 4,000,000 Total.. Present city debt $10,000,030 And in addition to this the city aud county pay to officers in fees and salaries between three and four hundred thousand dollars an nually. These facts are only a few of a great ! many that might ho stated to show the condition to which we have been brought by our little Tammany Hall—the Bing in the West, This -Ring was broken, if riot utterly annihilated, on yesterday. At a very large vote the county was carried by the citizens’ movement ly a majority of 10,000 votes, 5,000 more maionty than this banner county of Ketmblieansm gave for Grant. The Republicansof the West o not wish to be misunderstood by this ejec tion. The defeat of the regular ticket wasac complishcd by Republicans and not by Demo crats, and the party,as a whole,is stronger tad. purer for having rid itself by this severe iro-t cess of tho domination of a'very small and ex ceedingly ebrrupt clique.' • Chicago has something, to be proud of be sides grain and beef. We have very creditiblo beginnings of literature. It is true that a little more than a quarter of a centurv ago the Indian followed his trail, as best" ho 'might, through tho morass upon which this oity now stands; but to-day I have a ,boolc before Hie, the production of an eminently Western mind, which would do honor to any Eastern author or publisher. Eollowing an example vmic ourwhole couhttry. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1869. OITB tUIVAOO I.KTTKB. ....... $16,00Q,0)0 A WESTERN BOOK. seems to have become,contagious, among; journalists, the literary editor of the' Chicago Tribune, Mr. Geo. P. Upton, whom any person' familiar wi|h Chicago journalism will recog nize as thowriter of the “Pereginp Pickle” letters,which for the last few years have been the most attractive feature of the Sunday Tribiene, has collected, in a volume entitled ’ “Letters of Peregrine Pickle,” the choicest ; extracts of Ids literary and social feiiilMons. A writer who with such rare tact., and. judg ment can perform the severest duty which it falls to the lot of a critic to perform— to sit In judgment upon one’s own work—has done much to attract the attention of the con siderate reader.” More than any other, Mr. Upton is the prose poet of the West. He can he brilliant, gay, grave, lively or severe: can scourge fashionable follies. with the bitterest sarcasm, and bourup a false life to deserved scorn. But he is more at home when treating pathetic : subjects. a scarcely perceptible thread of plot,'Mr. Upton has strung his brilliant comments on the social topics ot the day, which constitute a valuable - contribution to current literature. He takes the world as he rinds it, and considers it, upon the whole, a very de-, cent world. He has faith in humanity and virtue, and tells his belief in such a genial, graceful Tvay, like the river that “glidetlLat its own sweet will,” that no oue can read r these disconnected sketches of real life without; being a better and a gentler man. Of the different sketches, “A Christmas, carol” rinds the author in his best vein. “Lake Michigan” is a good bit of descrip tive writing. “Hip Van Winkle” is a piece of honest, classicalilramatie criticism/for which the writer is celebrated. “AWomannot of of the Period” tells us of the woman we all love, your mother and my mother, in a very g aceful and delicate manner. “A Trip to eaven”anda similar journey to Hell are pleasant imaginative sketches. It is a book .upon which, if placed upon the library shelf, the dust would not be allowed to gather. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Tbe filrcat Fi re—Des traction or tliclloynl Opera Hoiw—A German Fire Engine— BOW They Do Mot ExtiaeuUh Fires tu Dresden. Dbesdeh, Bept. 22.—We who live in Dres den have strung our nerves to perhaps too high a pitch of excitement over the horning, ■yesterday, of our Hoif Theatre, or Court Theatre. In New York, like Paris, a city of theatres, one does not fully appreciate the loss ofasingle place of amusement; butinGermany the niinor capitals have, as a rule, but one good theatre. This is one reason for the importance attached here to the late confla gration. .Another noticeable feature was the conduct of the German Feuer-welir or fire com pany. The German is eminently sedentary and easy-going, and scarcely designed by Pro- ■ vidence to “keep a hotel” or put out a fire. The theatre, a circular building, with three fa cades, was sinated in a large open square, called the Theatre-platz. Both inwardly and outwardly it was perhaps the hand somest and most tasteful structure of its kind in Germany. Around the main body of the building ran a lofty corridor, two stories in height and of considerable, width. This of fered a peculiarly advantageous means of scaling the roof in case of fire. On the north side of the Platz are low buildings, a restau rant, and the Hotel Bellevue; on others, the Zwinger or Gallery of Painting and Piaster- Casts, and the cathedral. The,position of the edifice made it accessi ble from afl sides, while tbs river Elbe, flow ing within a stone’s throw, furnished a limit less supply of water. Instead of employing these natural advantages, the German course of procedure was as follows: The proprietor of the “Bellevue” Hotel saw, from an upper window, a light column of smoke rising from a portion of the roof of the theatre, and despatched one of Iris own men to the box-omee to give the alarm. The ticket-seller received the message with contempt, denied the possibility ! of such an accident, and made no examina tion of the building, Fifteen-minutes later the upper part of the theatre was enveloped in fitful flame. Just ofie hour after the break ing out of the lire, detachments from the Are department arrived, accompanied by soldiers, with two microscopic hand-engines, which were little more effective thau powerful syringes would have been, and these were very inefficiently managed. Thousands of people skirted the open place, hut were vigilantly kept at bay by a cordon of soldiers, lest, in the excitement *of the moment, they should retard tho total destruction of the edi fice by assisting at the engines, which no one was permitted to touch, except certain func tionaries adorned with brass badges. Occa sionally these privileged officials, with due solicitude for their physical comfort, gave up pumping altogether, to rest. While the flames were .fiercest I saw one of them coolly strike a light and refresh his over strained system with a cigar. By this time the conflagration had so spread that the walls of the Zwinger, our famous picture-gallery, were much heated. On these one of the en gines, in despair of extinguishing the blazing theatre, turned its single hose. The other spouted a feeble stream toward the foyer of the theatre, on which the fire had not so seri ously encroached, and by fierce exertions tho water was ejected perhaps 30 feet from the mouth of the hose. It is thought that some of the spray did actually all upon the flames. The construction of the engines used on this occasion is peculiar and primitive. They are provided with a tank iof liliputian dimensions, which must be re supplied from buckets handed along a line of men. One ofthese superannuated machines displayed in a flourishing inscription the date of its build—lBo4! But the crowd seemed to be well satisfied with the proceedings. Its tone was Teutonicafiy philosophic, ‘tit’s a pity,” “It is really enough to make one cry,” I heard in different quarters. But no one, save a few Americans present, was indignant at the puerile efforts of the firemen. It never seemed to occur to them that it was possible to save the theatre. ' t Tho effect of the conflagration was often weird and picturesque. At seme points the copper of the roof melting, gave to the flame I a bluish-green tint that was exceedingly beau tiful. Amid this whirlwind of flame, the many statues which adorn the outer walls stood motionless in their niches, poised in va rious attitudes of activity .and repose, joy and grief. In the pediment Of one facade the fire bored through the wall en which a crowded froup of moulded figures leaned, marring and lackening them. Here in a niche was Mercury, soaring On winged feed, as if he would join the lurid glare in its upward flight—so full of life, so human, yet making no effort to escape. There sat an in spired bard in flowing garments, liis breezy hair bJewn back with the winds of Parnassus, his hand waving the pen ere it touched the scroll before him. The flames stole around him, hut he stirred not. Had they lent their furious breath to the words he seemed 'about to writo, his verse would havo been all too ardent. The dark smoke whirled over him, hut he continued to gaze up, to Heaven until he was lost in the ashy gloom. Only once did the firemen make a determined effort. Then half a dozen of them mounted a short flight of steps fto the parterre. Seeing the; eyes of tho multitude upon’ them, and • desperately resolved to do something, they fell upon a swinging door, and tried to naok it down. Then they abandoned that, and, struck with a new idea, led a hose through and played on the fire, whioh had f now, however, nearly burned out. The loss amouuts to :2,000.D00 thalers, i. e., $2,000,000 in currency. But indirectly it is much greater, for the opera is a chief attrac tion to foreigners seelring a. residence in presden, and, some of them are already pre paring for flight. The want will not be soon 23,000 00 70,000 00 50,000 00 . 15,000 00 DRESDEN. supplied; either, if.popular conjecture in right. But tho crovVning absurdity of the affair is the article published in The Dresden Advertiser of to-day, in which the etfbrts to extingtlisn the fire are gravely extolled and the suffer ings of the firemen glowingly depicted. Had a westerly wind prevailed our picture-gallery, and with-it the chief attraction of Dresden, must have pgyished. ", I'EABFUL HVRDEB IST BRUSSELS. lw» Ladles Murdered in Tlielr Own . Dwelling. The correspondent of tile London Morniwj Heraid gives details of a fearfnl murder; still shrouded in the deepest mystery, and perpe-. trated in Brussels. Ail elderly widow, Mine. : Vandenpoel, occupied a house at No. 7, RUe de Brabant, close to the terminus of the Co logne Railway, together with her daughter, an old maid,- about forty years of. age. The house belonged to them ( and they were very well off, bat rather miserly in their nab Us. They ledia very quiet lire, occasionally received a few! friends and neighbors, and very seldom went out. On Friday last, the lßthunst., their door ; remained closed. A card wan- stack up out side with the word “absent” written upon-it. On the previous day a lady, who had rented : their first floor, had moved the two ladies, who kept no servant, wereTffins quite alone in the house. The neighbors were rather surprised at their hav ing gone away without saying anything about) it, but the notice affixed out side the door prevented any suspicion being entertained of any foul play. Sixdiws passed, and the notice still remained nailed to the door, and neither Mme. Vandenpoel nor her daughter made their appearance. The neigh bors got alarmedt An old friend of theirs be thought himself that they had relatives at Lou vain, and, thinking it possible they might have gone there on a visit, took train to. Louvain, nt soon returned, having ascertained) that the ladies had not been there. He then, put him self in communication with the JPofice. An entrance was made into the house; and the murdered bodies of the mother and : daughter ’ were found in the dining-room. The daugh ter’s corpse showed signs of a fearfnl struggle; her hair had been torn off in several i places; her face was all over . scratches; her skull had been beaten in, after an at tempt at strangulation,' which had left inef faceable marks on her throat; the body was lying in a pool of blood. The mother had been killed by repeated blows about the head, inflicted by a hammer; her head rested on her knees, as if in her terror she had wished to shut out some dreadful sight. The cloth was laid in the dining room for three persons, and the furniture was not broken nor dis turbed. The drawers of a writing table were found open, and title-deeds, shares and other securities in them are untouched. In the bedroom of the mother the bed showed traces of having been slept in. On the last day they were seen alive, Oct. 14, they were bustling about the house, superintending the removal of their tenant’s furniture.. During the evening of the 14th, the neighbors fancy they recollect hearing the noise and men’s voices, and supposed they were receiv ing company. No clue whatever has been dis covered to the assassin, or rather assassins, as it is supposed there were two persons engaged in this bloody work. ART ITEMS. —Mr. Frank.‘Whittaker, the “hippozoono madic” artist, and probably as good a judge of neat (or slovenly) cattle as can be found anywhere,—this critic was pointed out to us yesterday gazing fondly at Trotter’s Alderney heifer, in Earles’window.. The animal held him with her Juno eye. The rapt attitude of that expert,—a man who-knows everything, a horse can do, and before whom a comic mole has no reserves, —we thought a picture only inferior to the work of the artist. Trotter also exhibits, at the aforesaidrepo sitory, life-sized studies of a turkey-gobbler, a calf s-head, and some little pigs we hope the latter, as well as the rest, will “ come to market.” They are &U for sale. „ —A contemporary has committed a mistake, or at least an indiscretion ora prematurity. Poet Read’s picture is not. on exhibition at. Earle’s. Tf it is there at all, it is only for framing, and is not visible; and those who' may go on the faith of'our neighbor’s promise will not he permitted to see it. When the upholstery business is over, and not till then, it will see light at last. —Yo Semite Hill, says the Boston Tran script, has celebrated on canvas one of his White Monntain sketches. It is to come to Philadelphia next week. —Champney, still at Conway, is malting studies oj the Indian summer. He is also busy upon several large pictures of Conway subjects. —Moses Wight, of Boston, author , of the best American portrait of the late Baron Humboldt, has completed his “Eve at-the Fountain,” aud will exhibit it at Child’s Gal- lery, in that city, soon. He has. begun apic ture of John Alden and Priscilla. —Ferdinand Pauweb, the Belgian artist, whose work entitled “The Emancipation,” an allegorical subject relating to America, now adorns our Teague House, has at the Barker Gallery, 845 Broadway, N. Y., a work entitled ‘ ‘ Boccacio at the Court of Naples.” The fore ground of the picture represents a balcony scene, with a brilliant company seated at a collation of fruits aud wines; • At the head of the hoard is seated the queeu, supported by a lady of honor, and other personages are grouped on either side of the table. Boccacio appears standing on the right, resting partly against the parapet of the balcony, anu read ing from manuscript, sheets of which lie oua bench at his side. The costumes are rich,and the drawing aud positions of the figures easy. In the distance are the Bay of Naples and Ve suvius smoking. A companiou-work in size, of a decidedly more vigorous character, is by Hendrick F. Sebaefcls, illustrating a searfight, tho subject of which was gathered from Mr. Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch Republic.” In the delineation of the picture tho progress of tho hattlo is drawn with great breadth and power of expression. Shaefel’s “Market scene in Antwerp, sixteenth century,” has at tracted much attention at Haseltiue’s gal leries. Rural Drives. Mr. Editor: Persons residing in the -western part of the city desirous of driving out to Ger mantown or its vicinity, or vice versa, are now compelled tp drive down to Broad street, out Broad by the way of Township Lino turnpike, to Twenty-second street. Thus a person residing on Twenty-second- street, in visiting-and re turning from Germantown, is compelled to travel at least four miles more than no would if one of the western streets were opened north to the Township Line turnpike. I would, therefore, urge upon the'Councils to take immediate stops for the opening of Nine teenth street (that being' the. westernmost street which avoids Girard College grounds) to the Township Line turnpike; and to Ken nedy’s lane. The latter is a perfectly straight and level summer road, about two miles in ex-, tent, and terminates abruptly-at Nieetowu lane, but it might bo widened to a 100 feet street and extended to School lane and the "Wissahickon. This is the only summer road now left running northwest from the city. If it is objected that this road is hot on the city plan, I can reply by referring to Bidge, Ger mantown, Bassyunk, York and Moyamen sing avenues, which are more traveled than all the, other streets put together. It: is hard for our citizens to be compelled, for eight or nine mouths of the year to ride oh turnpike roads, and to pay toll, when they would cheor- F. I. EETHERSTOIt Vtitokßef PRICE THREE OENT& fnlly pay toll to keep off of them, aiKfltodriv® on a good, wide summer road. Ihopevant'C tliing will be dote at once to remedy- thiei*- , convenience. Tours truly, SSoatu, AMUBKMKSTS. —On the stage of. the Academy,Hermann #f « the Black Arts rises nightly before a mystified! ' audience. alone, dark and calm, like a,sombre*- : dream. Sis best tricks are performed wttliw.'," weary, distrait air, as if he were half tirod ? off<■, i obeying some superior (or inferior) beh&st-- His wit is the sinister wit of a phantom. ttiryf, glides silently from side to side of the' stage, which has never looked so> immense* as \, now when er/nptied for these singular perfoMfiN ances. Now and then he retires to aivinahK f 5 !- Then, appearing from the side, hemovwr'/ through the audience, dark, deep, uhfathomfcf • hly wise,with magic in every wrinkleof. hisssft* ' low cheek, and eyes like the ink-spots in wldb|t< « Indian pundits read the future; his dress easin'.’ If, faultless, bis .air facile pnncepe, his throat shfip / collar marked with half a dozen deni, while he fills the handkerchiefs, of 1 , the spectators with nutold wealth, sends their on* parel into walnuts or oranges, or plays a Saw held at arm’s length from his mouth. ' A cant leaves his hand and flies to the ceiling ; a basin of water and fish pass es invisibly across the stage into a goblet of wine, which it dis places before tbe eye; solid brass hoops, tested by the audience, link themselves into chains; a heavy ebony rod clings to the end of liis finger; the spectators rub their eyes, and, if it were j roper, would ask their attendant houris to bite their fingers, like the mystified victim of Haroun al Kaschid; and then suddenly, while the music drones and tbe lights godown, ' the black and blase Hermann hows and wan* ders wearily away. It is abraeadabrante ! Hermann to-night, and for another week; —The Illustrated London News, in a notice of the production of She Stoops to Conquer, at Mrs: John Wood’s Theatre, says; “Here a strong American element prevails. ‘Mr. Hardcaatle 5 is personated by a portly American artist, Mr. Mark Smith, who wears the great flaxen wig of the period, and looks remarkably handsome in it. Mr. Barton Hill, also an American,sus tains very creditably tbe part of the bashful ‘Mr. Marlow;’ and Mr. A. W. SToung, that of ‘Piggery-’ These three performers reflect honor on the Transatlantic stage.” —Boucicanit’s drama, Lost at Sea, will be re peated at the Arch Street Theatre this even ing. —Miss Laura Keene will appear at tha Chestnut this evening with her company ins Rachel the Reaper and Our American Cousin. —Miss Lucille Western- will appear at the Walnut this evening as “Nancy Sykes,” in Oliver Tifist. This is the most powerful per sonation of the actress. ;; —Gran’s German ©pera Company will ap pear at the Academy of Music on the evening of Monday, the 15th inst- The sale of seats will begin on M onday morning next at Trumpler’s music store. ' —Upon two evenings of next week the Franko Family, a company composed of in fant phenomena, will give concerts at the As sembly Buildings. These children are said ttt be very remarkable musicians.. —An Ethiopian, entertainment is given nightly at the Eleventh Street Opera House. < —Buprez & Benedict’s Minstrels give a first class performance at the Seventh Street Opera Housethis evening. / —A varied and interesting entertainment is announoed for this evening, at the Ameri can. , —Theodore Thomas, the well known orchestral leader of New Tork, will give three grand concerts at Concert Hall, be ginning on Thursday, November U. The sale of tickets for these orchestral concerts will begin on Tuesday morning next at Triunpier's. —Mr. W-. L. Dennis will deliver his second lecture on next Tuesday evening. , —The Mace and Taylor Sensational Combi nation will- appear at National Hall next week. FACTO.AND FANCIES. —A Washer women’s Union is projected in Schenectady, —Bicci has written additional music for Crispino e la Comare. —Michigan lost a million dollars’ worth pf apples by the late cold snap. —The women of Indiana are on the wart path, pnd are about to start a paper to bo known- as The Avenger. ' —Berlin dressmakers have remonstrated with the Prussian Queen, because she has her good clothes made in Paris. —“Divorciana” is the latest verbal ontrago in the way of a standing head in a St. Louis paper. , —Now it is said that a posthumous oratorio by Beethoven has been discovered among the papers of a Vienna .music-publisher. —The new executioner of Paris is making a collection of the skulls of those beheaded by him. His skull-pahle conduct deserves repro bation. —California is trying to get iip an oil fever in the Bear -Biver region. Uno man has bored, thinks ne has struck oil, and has sold one-six tieth of his interest for five hundred dollars. —The red-tape of the Paris police service , demands that no lost dog shall be given up to its owner from the municipal pound until lie furnishes a certificate of morality. —lt is worth something to live among the divorcers. The clerk- of the county contain ing Chicago makes $lOO,OOO a year from fees and salary. —The popularity of Burns in. Germany is attested by the recent appearance of a new metrical translation of his entire works by -4dolf Laun. They are said to be exquisitely rendered. —The people of Louisville, Ky., are strongly in favor of the building of the St. Louis air-lme roan; which will bring into that'eity mucli of the trade along the proposed line iii Indiana and Illinois. —A “ Complete Concordance” to the works of Mr. Alfred Tennyson is in active prepara tion, and will soon appear. It will contain, it is said, some 125,000 references. This has never been done before during tbftlifetime of any author. . —A fisherman of Montereaii, France, lately caught a fish, within which was found a 1 breastpin ornamented with thirty precious stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sap phires, the whole valued by Patjs , jewelers at 8300,000. —Large tracts of tide lands have been filled ' ’old " ~ r Y S''" /■* •55,-3 •■ „ ■ • $s
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