GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-m 190. W JED DING CABDB. INVITATIONS VV for Parties, <io. Mow MylM. MASON AOO - » anStf} ■ ' ■ 907OhestnutstrsOt, TOTEM) ING INVITATIONS EN- In the newest and best manner. BODIB DBEKA Stationer and Ewtravor, IISS Chestnut atroot., ream MARRIED. AtJBTMAN—KB YBOLB.—-November IS, bythoßor. Br. HeUs, Cornelius Anltman, Of Canton, Ohio, to Kats ileybold, of this city, * G r ROBLANI>—WALLACE.—On Thursday evening, November Hth, by thoßov.T. W. J. Wylie.D.l).. Mr. George W. Cropland to Mis* Mar? Wallace, noth of this •it>\ S M.VKJIB—LTNDSLBY.—On tho J7th instant, in fit. Patrick b Church, Washington, l>. C., by the Rev, John «? Keane. Mr. George G. Myers, of Philadelphia,, to Miss LutTOtia.daugmerof tho !uto Kleazar Liudsley,, >.HQ. r r)fWashingtou,D.C. * ALLKN.—On Thurfiday morning, 18ili fust,, John B, A. Alien, .Jr,, nged ‘£t years. The relatives and friends are invited to attend tho fu nrntl, from the residence of bis mother-in-law, Mrs. J. W. G0f1.1700 Summer street,on Monday, 22d Inst, at 2 o’clock P.M. M< CULLAOII.—At Germantown, on tho 16th Inst., Mary W., wife of Robert P. McCnllagb. The fnneral will take place on Saturday afternoon, at ouruter pan three o’clock, punctually, . dHIKDAKKR,—On tho Itth lust., Henry G. Bhedakor, in the Cflth year o? his age. Ilia male friends, also Franklin Lodge K.of P., No, 1 2. are respectfully invited to attend Ins funeral, from the renidemo of h sbrother,Benjamin H. Bhcdukor.No, t*2ti Nojth Eighth street, below Girard avenue, on Sun day afternoon next, at 2 o’clock. - ■** Mourning dry goodn. BKSSOX & SON haM» jutft received 6 canes black all wool Poplins, 62*a,75,87>*c., 91 < 4;c. 3 ,v “ Ottoman Poplins, $1 25. a§2, Ac. 2 il u Poplin Biarritz,ail tiualitfee. .1 cases black double* warp alpacas, .'<o, C2l* and 76c. ‘1 “ (iro» grain Silks, #7)*, $2, $2 25, 62W, Ac. ' 2 cases black Thibet Lonjfc Shawls, full and extra el see. . ... 1 caw? black “ hemmed borders. I case black English Bombazines, all finalities. WHOLTCSALK AHP URTAIL MOUBMNG I>BY GOOOB HOUSK« A 918 Chestnut street. \\TA'VBli BROOKS FOR SUITS. W BLACK AND WHITE BEPELLANTB: * * GOLD AND BLACK IIEI’ELLANTS BBOWN AHD WHITE BEPELLANTB. EYBE A LANDELL, fourth and Arch. SPECIAL NOTICES. A CAPITAL INVESTMENT UOOD SECURITY AGAINST MISFITS May flow be mode In WINTER SUITS Of Mdtou. Silk Mixture and Cheviot! WINTER SUITS <rf Plaid. Stripe and Diagonal Cassimere! WINTER SUITS With Double Bni-.teJ WHiking Jacket. WINTER SUITS For Ert ulng Drew, ready for Immediate Use. JOHN WANAMAKER’S, Chestnut Street Clothing Establishment, 818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET. GREENWOOD CEMETERY. Corner of Asylum Turnpike & Fisher Lane, NEAR FBANKKOED A chance is now offered to etcaro Lota, at tho I«ow price of 815, oyablc in instalmeßtfl, in what Is admitted to be tho eat adapted gronsda tor Cemetery purpose* near Phila elpiiia, being romantically located, perfectly dry and cautifully roiling sarface. Apply to PHKMDEXT —WILBUR 11. MYKBB, 419 North Fifteenth street. Vice Pbesideht— □ABB¥4I. GEARY, S. K. corner of Bidgo avenue and Wallace street. SEtBKTiBV-GKO.CHANDLER PAUL, Office 'of the Company,l723 North Tenth street. Tbeasiheb-WM. S. SNEYD, ’ 522 East York street. .Si'i'CRt.MESDSMT- SAMUEL K. MEADE, noli l:m p 5 On the Grounds. LECTURE HOW WII.I.IAM D. KEUEY, CONCERT il ALl4,(Ci)fhtnut, above Twelfth), TUESDAY EVENING. Nov.23d, 1&». Commencing at Right o'clock. Pubjeci—‘‘Tu* Pacific Coast 1 . 1 * Tick<.*t’»iWccnta. Reserved Seats,7ficents. rp* ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES. Hon. S. S. COX. November 29. lion. CHARLES SUMNER, December 1. Bev. BOBT. COLLYER, December 3. MAKE TWAIN .December 7. DK CORDOVA, December 9. .... WENDELL PHILLIPS. December 16. l'ickcts at GOULD'S, 923 CHESTNUT Street, nol tfrp| SCIENTIFIC LECTURES. ILgU HAI ’ -YOUNG MEN’SCIIRISTIAN ASHOCIA ■ ■—a CHESTNUT STREET, ; REV. E. JEItS, I>. D., will lecture THIS ( Friday )E . . ..or, at 8 o eleck. ’ Subject—“ Russia,. the Most Progressive Notion on the Eu“H fn C’uutihent. Its Manners, Customs, Amuse ments. Kducntion and Oovernment.” Novemt»er26 —REV. E. E. ADAMS, D. D. Subject—“lnfidel Theories Concerning Man." Decembers—BEV. A.G. THOMAS, ofCamdeu. i Subject—“ The Coliseum ut Borne. Its Relations to Christianity.'’ _ . c Tickets furnished at the Booms. Its THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING IMy of Young Men’s Christian Association of First ’Presbyterian Church will be held this evening, at 1%. o’clock, at church, Seventh and Washington Square. Addresses by cx-Gov. Pollock, John Wauamakor, Esq,, and Hie pastor, Dr. Johnson. It* j£jj» HOMCEOJPATHIC HOSPITAL FAIR IS NOW OPEN AT j HOBTIOULTUBAL HALL. 5 Articles in every department of Fashion, whether for use or ornament, will bo found iu great variety upon the tables, at simply remunerative prices. . ; The Ilebtaurant is fully organized far supplying sub* stantials as well us delicacies. ... ; Music every evening, under Carl Sentz’n direction. ] It is hoped the public will appreciate the efforts mado io furnish an ugreeable entertainment through which to obtain the means for the great object in vi,i?w: i. <?.; the erection of ati Hospital open to all classes. ' .. t Fair will bo open on Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. " . nol7>st* MILHAU’S GOLDEN OOD LIViSK OlL.—With Hypo-phosphite of Lime, a groat ira* Srovcment; mado with the best oil known, it unites effi cacy witli pleasant flavor and easy digestibility. Sold j)F all respectablo druggists. J. 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The Vor’-lFcsfer, October 26, a Government organ, furnishes the following details of the first insurrectionary movement in Winnipeg Territory. .On October 22 information was laid before the authorities, and was sworn to in the form of an aliidavit, that the French were already in arms upon the road between Stinking River and' Pembina.ahd that such of them as took an active part in the uprising were adopting every precaution to intercept Mr. MoDougall on his way . in. They were fully . organized, and were sufficiently under military dis cipline to throw out scouts upon all the ap proaches to the Settlement from the South; and to post pickets and sentries at nighti These fellows had billeted themselves upon” the nhnbitants at their various places of ren dezvous. They were divided into three parties of about twenty or thirty each, these Sarties being stationed at Stinking River, eratthing River, and near Pembina.severally. On October 22 they threw a barricade across the road at Stinking River, and would allow none to pass'until they had undergone an examination. Upon the arrival of this news, considerable excitement was mani fested, hut no. steps of any kind have been taken by our people, as they depend upon a call upon our authorities. The Council of Assiniboia met yesterday to consider the matter, and they .used their’ ut most endeavors to persuade the leaders of the movement to desist, but without avail. We are happy fobe.able to state that this move ment is confined to a. very few among our French fellow-colonists: and before any fur ther action be taken, the Council have' de termined to engage the services of the loyal and Intelligent French to meet and to en deavor to persuade those nowinarms to retire peaceably to their homes, and to ah low Governor McDongall to , come in and institute his Government, and to give that Government a fair trial before resorting to extreme measures. This would he by aliniearns the mostsensiblp course to adopt; and we are certain that those “who fear that some tyrannous.outrage will heat-, tempted against their just rights, will be most agreeably mistaken.' We regret to learn that* the Government surveying party under the immediate charge of Mr. Webb, employed in surveying a base line over toward Oak Point, has been obliged to cease work on account of the opposition ; offered by French half-breeds. These men, in a band of 18 or 20, met the surveying party while running the line at a point some miles sooth oi tho A&duiboine ttnd eight ot ten miles from Fort Garry, on the 11th mst, and, claiming'all the country-south of said river for the French, threatened violence if the survey was'.flot at once discontinued. 31r. Webb, acting under writ ten instructions on this point, previously given by Colonel Dennis, ceased operations for the time, and reported the fact to the offi cer named. Two Government officials have endeavored to secure the submission of the band without avail. The following are the demands of the *Red river insurgents: 1. The right to elect their own Legislature. That, the Legislature shall have power to pass an act, of a local nature/ by a two-third vote, over the veto of the Executive. ,1. INo law of a local nature to be binding until sanctioned by the Legislature. 4. A free Homestead ana Pre-emption law. 5. An Indian policy calculated to insure good will and quiet in the Territory. 6. All the Executive, Legislative, Civil and Military expenses, for a given number of years.to be paid out of the Dominion Treasury. 7. An appropriation to be expended in the internal iinpovements in the Territory. After placing these guarantees beyond per adventure, then the proposition of annexation to the Dominion to be submitted to a vote of the people. EUGENIE IN THE EAST, Heir Devotions at Constantinople. The Sew York- World says: One. of the most interesting incidents of the visit of the Empress Eugenie to Constant tinople wtut the scene which occurred when her Majesty went to high mass at the Ar meno-Catholic Church of St. Marie. The cor respondents say that, of all thestriking sights that have been witnessed since her Majesty’s arrival, this was the most gorgeous and sin gular. The church is not largo, but for this occasion it had been very richly decorated. On the right of the altar a throne had lieeii erected for the Empress under a canopy of crimson velvet; on the other side were two smaller thrones for the Patriarch and the delegate of the Holy See in Constanti nople. In the nave was a magnificent piece of tapestry, presented by the Empress to this church’, which cost 250,000 f. There were present a large number of bishops and arch bishops from all parts of the Turkish Empire, who had come to Constantinople to consider matters concerning the Ar meno-Catholic Church in Turkey before proceeding ,to Home for the . Oecu menical Council: two Greek Catholic bishops, a Bulgarian Catholic archimandrite and two Mekhitarist archbishops—one from Vienna,tlie other from Venice. Her Majesty, on entering the vestibule,'passed between a double line of twenty-two bishops, in gor geous mitres aud vestments, and she was then met by eight Armenian notables, who pre sented her- with “gold and silver cups filled with rare and sweet perfumes.” The language used in the mass was. ancient Armenian—the - Armeno- Catholic, Syrian, Chaldean, Maronite, and Melehite branches of the Romun Church having always retained the privilege of -using their own language in their sacramental ser vices. Tbo mass was a. choral one, intoned throughout; “ but the only instrumental music employed was an accompaniment of two reed flutes, the tones of which were of a strange and plaintive nature.” A correspondent thus describes the more solemn portion of the mass: < ‘While the priest wns engaged in the conse cration of the elements, a missive blue cur tain, covered with silver stars, was drawn be tween biro and the rest of the, church, effectu ally shutting him from the view of all eyes but those of liis coii/reres who were assisting him; the idea of tliis being entire disconnec tion with the outer world at such a holy and solemn moment. When this curtain was again withdrawn, and while the elements were further being, prepared (for. in. the Catholic Church one ceremony is for tho clergy and another for the people), again a curtain was let tall, nominally not cutting oft the officiating clergy this time, for the separa ting folds were ol the most delicate white ganze’, interwoven with gold, merely inehnt as being symbolical of purity. And, certainly, the white, haze through which one observed the priests gave a peculiarly solemn and mythical appearance, to that part of the core mony. * ' Alter the mass the Empress left her throno, approached the Patriarch, and, kneeling, kissed his ring; “then* completely prostra ting herself, asked tlio blessing of his emi nence, which was given.” . ... oc3o-lmrp§ SPECIAL’ NOTICES. " PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1869. foreign correspondence LETTEBFROIH BO.v£ The New Season In Borne—Artists and liMltors—Excavations of the Ancient Citr—Description of the “VlKlll’’—-Tho Connell 801 l at St. Peters—-The, Acous tics All niKht>--Uszt’s Last Beceptlan. f Correspondence of the Philadelphia Kven-'nß Bulletin.) Rome, Italy, Oct, 2!», IB6o.—The.gay season, of tjjio American art circle in Rome Was opened on Wednesday evening by, a delightful recep tion at Buchanan Read’s. All the artists who have returned, with a few exceptions, were there—the old residents and new comers—Jlo zier, Rogers, Frcedlh, Terry, Colomah, Ved der, Simmons, &c. A little girl with bright eyes, long black hair floating down her back, and extremely simple, childliko appearance, attracted my notieo as soon as I entered the drawing-room. It was Vinnie Ream, the young Western sculptor, who has come, as Hattie Hosmer did sixteen years ago, to study in Rome. She looks like a clever, goodlittle school-girl, is very natural and artless, more earnest and straightforward than enthusiastic, and says “ she is going to study just as hard as she can.” . “ My studio has nothing in it but the bust of Mr. Lincoln now, but I shall be happy to see | yon whenever you aro so kind as to call,” was ' her pretty, frank invitation to us. Miss Ream’s parents—kind, quiet-lookihg, respectable per sons—are with her, and make Rome, as she says, seem quite like home to her. There were several notable persons present at Read’s—Judge Burdseye, of Brooklyn; Senator Fenton and his attractive daughter; and last, but not least, Rev. Dr. Osgood, of New Y«rk.. Dr. Osgood’s summer lotters to the papers at home have preceded him in Rome, and made a very favorable impression, which acquaintanceship with him has con firmed. The letter, with pen-portraits of the various English clergymen; the , one from Normandy, and one from Germany,describing a miracle play, are fine examples of European letters—such as ought to be written homo by American travelers; Wbat little conversation 1 have had with Dr. Osgood deepens my in terest in him. He seems to see Europe in such a delightful maimer—not only with in telli gent curiosity, but with. the earnest look of a scholarly .Christian philosopher. Dr. ; Osgood is a man of good size, mid-age; hhs a compact head, neither large nor small, but well-shaped; dark eyes, which look up a grpat deal in conversation, as if he was talking with your thoughts and his own more than with you in person. His moustache and beard are very becoming; the dark moustache contrasts finely with the steel-gray of tho beard. He has a leisurely, thinking manner, and is an agreeable representative man, such as I like to present tp our distinguished Roman Catholic clergy. Senator Fenton and Dr. Osgood go to'Naples to-day—the Senator on the way for Marseilles and home ; the Doctor only fpr a visit—he returns next week to Rome. Rev. Mr. Mitchell left Rome on Thursday. Sheriff Kelly, well known in Democratic politics in New York, is also in the Eternal City. The excavations in Rome are continually making new revelations and settling oldarch- teological disputes. The Piazza Navona, for example, has always been a subject of doubt. ’ Ramsay, in his valuable and Useful “Manual ! of Roman -Antiquities,” remarks: “We are quite destitute of sure information wfth regard to the Piazza Navona, but there was probably a stadium here.” Emile Bratm, in his excellent but too closely condensed book, “Ruins and Museums of Rome,” says: j “This extensive Piazza (Navona) seems to ! have belonged to that famous stadium of Do j rnitian, calculated to contain 30,600 spectators i The only vestiges of this edifice still remain ing are the curved lines, traceable by the di rection of the houses erected on the old walls.’ This winter there were excavations made in the Piazza Navona for the purpose of re pairing tho foundations of the fountains and the passage-ways for the water, in order to prevent the water from percolating through the soil and destroying thereby the ground-work, i While doing this work they have found "at the two extremities of the Piazza Navona the re mains ot the ancient Circus Agonalis of Alex ander Severus’s time. These ruins consisted of some pracinctioiies, or-seats, on which the people sat, and the carccrcs, small arched chambers, where the chariots stood before the beginning of the races; also, an Arch,.of Triumph. These had.to be destroyed, unhap pily, in order to complete the necessary re pairs, hut accurate drawings have been made of everything. It gives me a very curious feeling when I am walking or driving over the streets of Rome, atid remember that beneath me lies tlie great Imperial City of the ancient Ro mans. This accumulation of soil aud build ings above the old temples and houses is in. comprehensible. At St. Clement’s you go down below the actual church to an earlier Christian church; and not only that, hut you can descend still further, and stand on the floor of a Roman Senator’s house, and see the stucco-work on the ceilings of the rooms. Yesterday I stood in the ruins of ah ancient guard-house and looked up above the dilapi dated, roofless walls on to the foundations of other houses, and so on up to the busy, noisy streets of modern Rome—more than 80. feet above me! This guard-house, by the way, is one of; tho most interesting places among Roman excavations. It. is called tho “Vigili,” and doubtless many of your readers who have visited Rome within the last year or two will recall it with as much interest as I feel in it. The curious place was discovered about two years and a half or three years ago! It lies under the foundations of some houses in modern Transtevere, not far from the old church of St. Cecilia. The archeologists have concluded now, after many" pros and cons, that it was formerly an exeubiiorium, or guard house, which belonged to the 7th Battalion of the armed night police or.Vigiles, established by Augustus. The police patrollcdthe streets, and their special duty" was to .guard; against and extinguish fires. There were seven cohorts of battalions of this imperial night police, each composed o£o,» thousand men. Each cohort had charge of tvro of the fourteen. reylones Or districts into which the city was divided.. Its principal barrack or head station-honSe stood on the boundary line between the ; two districts. Thero was also an excubitonum or guard house for each region or district. Thus there were in all seven station-houses and fourteen extMbiibrm or guard-houses in tlie whole city. Six of tliese station-houses have been found, oua whole Country. and alien this one iu Trans tevere was opened Baroji Visconti immediatelyexclaimod: “We have found the seventh r But he was mistaken. Graffiti and inscrip tions on the walls prove , that it is one of the ercubitoria belonging to the seventh cohort or battalion of tho Vigjles.: Also, that.it was not a honse built especially'for the purpose; but one either bought or rented from-some mer chant, and adapted to the service of theguard. “But how caii you divine these things?” I. asked my clever archaeological friend,' Mr. Daneiani. ' ’ He pointed out to me the arrangement of the rooms, which is that of a dwelling-house and aliove all, the decorations of the pretty little frescoed temple, or chapel, to tho right of the atrium as you enter. It opens on this court. If this place had been built especially for a guard-lionse, the chapel would have been- to Vulcan. On the contrary, Mer cury Is the god who-sdaiji in tho centre picture as the deity of the place, and he was the god of the merchants. The frescoes on some parts of the rooms, especially those on the walls of the little chapel, are still bright and gay, and the flowers in the garlands axe rosy and gold en; but one graffito, scratched on the wall by some soldier, under the Mercury in the-tem ple, set me to thinking deeply. Tho letters are lAO. This was the. name the Gnostics ap plied to the bun, and the soldier who placed it there was probably a .Syrian Gnostic. In tho evening I met Dr. Osgood at Mr. Hooker’s, the hanker, and told him of this .’Gnostic in scription. This clever-thinking Unitarian looked up to the ceiling for a moment. I was. anxious to see what effect tho simple mention of this curious fact would have upon him. “Ah!” he said, meditatively stroking ids heard as if unconscious of me and every one, and speaking his thoughts aloud. “ Yes, a Gnostic. The Transcendentalists of anciqnt times.” I found it had struck the same train «f thought in his mind that it had in mine Gnostic, Transcendentalist,Arian or Catholic, however, each and all can meet as brethren when the men are like Dewey, Furness or Osgood; and since I have heard Dr. Osgood talk, I feel like applying to him that which I have so often to his other two clerical brothers —Bt. Clement of Alexandria’s definition of the Gnostic or true Christian : “He who loves Cod above all tilings, and creatures for God’s sake and the relation they bear to Him; who imitates HuTWbrd, which was made man for our salvation; who is gentle, courteous, affable, charitable, sincere,, faithful and temperate; who bears all un toward accidents and injuries with patience,: and who glorifies God, not only at fixed periods, but at all times,at noon, mid-day and night, rising, walking or resting, like Isais’ Seraphim.” But a few words more about the Vigili. The atrium or court is the first place ,we enter. Its floor is covered with mosaics of black anil white stone cubes representing Tritons with tridents and river horses,; this mosaic sur rounds the impluvium or cistern in the centre of the conrt, which is asexagon stone basin of considerable size. The atrium bad a roof in clined towards a circular opening in the cen tre, directly above the impluvium,and poured into the cistern all the rain water. Now the blue sky covers atrium and impfuviun i, and rain falleth as tho wind bloweth, where it listeth. The cistern is covered with a fine satin- like moss, the mosaic floor is slowly disappear ing—almost every visitor stoops and picks Hp two or three little cubes—and the gay frescoes are gradually fading away. I carried off a beautiful bit of purpled speckled marble, out of which I shall have a little basin made in memory of the Vigili cistern, and our learned friend, Dr. Taussig, who took .us, gave me a curious little terracotta lamp, which was found when the place was opened. It has on its underbase the stamp of the maker,but the letters are indistinct. It seemed very strange to stand far down below the city on thejtioor of-this old guard-house,which has lain covered over and forgotten hundreds of years. It has made amends, as it were, by its. centuries Of silence, for the bustle and confusion, the idle and ribald words, the contentions and wrong doings that have taken place within its old walls. It has witnessed many a, hot, angry scene; and if its old frescoed figures, could speak, they could tell us many a strange, tin written tale of Tiberius and Nero, of Domi tian and the fratricide C’aracalla, and, as Lord Kenyon v said once, with droll ignorance, of Julian the Apostle. This last Mrs. Malaprop reminds me of a very comical passage I met with yesterday in a book criticism in La Patne— it was on a book of poems by Mme. de Presense: “See in what direction her muse soars! After loving De Musset, it has been willingly inspired by the biblical melancholies of Long fellow, the poetic sadness oi Mme. Bleeckur- Stowe, the harmonies of Beethoven and tho great memory of Manin!” As I gave the wrong and injurious report about tho supposed acoustic defects of the Council Hall in a preceding letter,l take great pleasure now higiving tho refutation. Wed nesday morning there was a vocal trial made of the hull-, arid tho place is proved to be a suc cess. There were present all the members of the. College of Stenographers. These gentle men are of all nations, who have been for some time practicing their profession under tho directing of Abbe Marchese, formerly steno grapher-in-chief to tho Italian Senate. Liszt’s reception last -Friday was very de lightful. The flowers were beautiful, baskets, bouquets and pyramids made the large old monastery salon like a hot-house. Several fine artists played. Mme. Dlumo, the pnma donna of the opera troupe now in Rome, sang a Lnrle.i of Liszt's composition,and Liszt him self play ed twice. The last piece far surpassed anything I have ever heard him, or indeed any one, play. Not only its ingenuity of com position and remarkably execution impressed me, hut the superb pdasionato. expression which the great master threw into the music was indescribable. His audience was com posed almost entirely of artists—some success ful executants, and the effect produced upon them was glorious to witness* At one part of the music their voices rose in unison ex pressing their delight, and I shall never forget 'the impression it made upon me. —The San Francisco Chronicle has its seventh libel suit on hand. , ' . ’ —The. Chicago! Somsk# Ainerikamreni says': “Henry Ward . Beecher ar utom all. fruga Amerikas.rykth raste roan ionom det aiul liga brodraskapete lefler.’’; The well chosen lan guage in, which this.high compliment is paid to the eminent divine must prove very'satis factory to him. ■ ■ - c , ’ ' Anne Bhewsteb. MPWStOTTS MAOAZINE I’OK BE j VE»BEH. The fourth volume oi /.ippincott’s ifagazins is closed by a sprightly and entertaining number, embellished with three good English en gravings. Tliegreat attractions ol’theinagazino, the serial novels by Sir. Owen and Trollope, pe beginning to culminate towards:their dis appearance: “Jleyond the Breakers” is to Blosc in the February nnmbor, and Mr. Fou wielc the Vicar's vexations will be over shortly afterwards. The editor will be relieved by their foreclosure, as a large variety of excellent i short articles lias' accumu lated in his hands during their continuance > ho will therefore for a while in the Spring conduct the Magazine without any long novel. “With the Yam Eaters” is an excellent sketch of life aud manners in Mis sissippi, by Stephen Bowers. A few desul tory remarks, quite worth saving, however, are made by a nameless writer, on “The East; how I entered and how I left it.” The author of a short and crisp essay on Tobacco strikes the just mean in regard to an equally maligned and caressed ally of man, and points out the following justificatory and comforting function for the balmy coun sellor: “Tobacco possesses only to a very limited extent the narcotic power so conspicu ously displayed by opium. Its food-action,. however, is correspondingly prominent. It retards, as is supposed, the retrograde change which is constantly going on in our tissues. The nutritive forces of the economy thus gain an ascendency, which results in an increase of the hulk of the body. Whether or not this he the correct explanation, tobacco and its congeners undoubtedly do promote nutrition when used properly; and this, indeed, is one of the benefits attending their judicious use'.” In answer to Mr. Fitzhngh’s argument in the October number that it is an injury to the black man to educate him, Mr. William A. Hooper comes up with an excellent risposta, full of facts and instances, on the other side. “The coming crisis in Canada,” by G.T, Lani gan, is the report of progress in public thought throughout the Dominion, with the sentiment that the Canadians are ripe for independence. There are some short fictitious sketches, of which Edward Kirke’s “An Actuary’s Story” is the best, and some poetry—classical enough in every instance, hut want ing in “the miraculous,”—front Edward Benaud, W. L. Shoemaker and Cecil Dare. The speciaiity of “Our Monthly Gossip” is supported,as a melange of matters that might have rolled up at the most convivial hour of a' Wistar party. The Book Notices areparticu- 1 Jarly interesting, as they inolude clairvoyant predictions of a book tor- whose appearance our reading world is eagerly watching, Dr. Thomas’s “I.ippincott’s Universal Pronoun cing Dictionary of Biography and Mythol- AMINKHESTS. —The German Opera Company undertook to play Beethoven ’a Fidelia last evening, at the Academy of Music. Mine. Johannseifs voice has lost its freshness, hut she deserves credit ' for her personation of “Leonora,” which used to he her greatest part. Mme. Hotter was ex cellent as “Marce.iina,” and Messrs. Hiinmer, Weinfich and Formes acquitted themselves well in their respective roles. The chorus was bad and the orchestra was simply tile. It is hardly possible to imagine a worse perform ance oi Beethoven’s noble work. This even ing Halevy’s great opera, The Jewess, is to be Sroduced. For to-morrow afternoon, Fra Uarolo is announced, and for the evening, Faust. —At the 'Walnut Street Theatre this evening Mr. Edwin Eorrest will appear as “Richelieu. After “ King Lear,” this may he regarded as one of the greatest of Mr. Forrest’s persona tions. To-morroW afternoon the' drama Wait ing for Vie Verdict will he given, and in the evening The Octoroon and Ttobert Macaire. Mr. Forrest will appear on Monday as “Jack Cade.” , . ' —Boucicault’s drama, Lost at Sea, continues to attract large audiences at the Arch Street Theatre. It will be repeated this evening and to-morrow night. —Miss Keene has produced at the Chestnut a sensational drama entitled The Workingmen of iVap York; or the Curse of Strong ifrink. The principal object of this play (judging from the title,only) is to demonstrate the unpleasant consequences of rum upon a mechanic who is unluckily condemned to live in New York. The play will be repeated to-night and to-mor row evening., —At the American this evening a great variety entertainment will ho presented, in troducing the Zanfrettas, Burnett with liis wonderful facial changes, anil the whole com pany in a great, performance. —At the Assembly Buildings, on Wednes day evening, Wm. L. Dennis delivered another of his highly interesting and amusing “ Poneyville” course of lectures, on the sub ject, “(Social Fossils.” The lecturer illustrated his subject throughout with witty allusions, which were received with laughter and ap plause. The fourth and last of this courso will bo delivered on Tuesday evening. No vember Slid. Subject—“ Mrs. Wiggins and her Party.” —Mr. Carl Wolfsohn’s first concert will be given in the foyer of the Academy of Music at four o’clock this afternoon. —At Musical Fund Hall, to-morrow after noon, at half-past three o’clock, the regular Sentz-Hasslor concert will he given. A very attractive programme will be olfered. —There will be a lecture delivered on Tues day evening, November ”.'Sd, at Concert Hall, by the Hon. "Wm. D. Kelley. Subject—“ The Pacific Coast.” —Duplex &> Benedict’s Minstrels, at the Seventh Street Opera House, continue to per form before crowded houses, attracted thither by the novel and brilliant programmes. Carncioss & Dixey’s Minstrels give an Ethiopian entertainment at the Eleventh Street Opera House to-night. —Signor Blitz, with the assistance of his son Theodore, will give an entertainment at tlio Assembly Building this evening. —lsaacs. Geer, of Lisbon,Conn., in making some changes in a water-pipe, found it needful to extend olio through an uuder-drain that rau several feet below the surface. How to get the pipe through without taking up the drain was. a problem. But Mr. Geer studied upon it, and after while hit upoii this admirable plan: He opened the lower end of the drain, and theni catching an old calico cat that had been a resident of his family forseveral years, attached a small line to her leg: then thrust ing her into the upper end, and giving a most unearthly “’scat,” she popped out at the bther end, all covered with mud and water, with the line, attached to her leg, quicker than one could spy Jack Robinson. The pipe was thus dra,wn through, and Mr, Geer nad the satfsfacdon of saving ten dollars by his wit, and teaching his-neighbors a good lesson in civil engineering; —Sebastian Cabot lias found at this late time a historian in Mr. J. F. Nicholls, city librarian of 'Bristol, England. The birthplace of Cabot is disputed, but Mr. Nicholls' claims the honor for Bristol, and brings good evidence, tliopgh most people who thought anything at all about it thought that the great-explorer was a native of Venico.' Mr. Nicholls thinks that America ought to bo called “Cabothi,” but we are glad It isn't. - F. I FJiTiiERSTON. PnLlisher. , PRICE THREE 08N33. FACTS AND FANCIES. (From the Galax; for December.! ; ■ latter Spring. ■At kose TKitnv. The silent, silent Sunday morning— No noise of feet about the house: xou heart) tlib. cat’s assiduous purring, ' Or in„the wall a flittering mouse. There, all alone, we eat together, />•., .More hushed and still than only one; , < The ghosts of pain and grief are silent, ! There coiucs a time when words are done. Lo«t in therest tliat 'was not pleasure, _Goneback, as clouds that follow rain; for- I lie dreary moment, t)t life s delayed but sweetest gain: No various talk*or fitfullaughter— We did but lingor and endure: For alter all the weary winter One scarce canr feel the springsecure. When snddenly, outside the window. In the dull quiet of the lane, There catnc a sound-of tinkling voices. As when the blackbirds eome again. So sweet, so shrill, and yet so- tiny. So overflowed With- life and- bliss; Such rosy blooms and-songs together, Such loving scarlet lips to kiss. - We looked, for once, foil at each other, And laughed ourselves—“ They're coming home! . Like apple-blossoms ou the branches, Here, in one flush, our spring had come. —lron held in an artesian well in Michigan becomes In a short time magnetic. ■ —The tallest Americans are raised in Geor gia, and the shortest in New York. —-Father Hyacintlie’s enemies in Franco give out that he has come- over here to marrr a rich Boston widow. . - —Brigham Young returned four hundred «uirt forty dollars thoinoomo of the Mormon Church last year. , , —Clara Louise Kejioggjias bought a brown stone house m New York, furnished it, and taken her parents there to-live. : —A lady in Santa Clara, Cal., had to have a leg amputated in consequence of an iniury received by kneeling oma-hoop-skirt. —The world produces 713,000,000 ponnds of coftee per annum. Brazil furnishes over one lialf of this. Java comes next, and Coy ton next in the amount yielded. • ■ . ■ • - —ltnrbide of tlie Montezumadynasty lives in Georgetown, D. C.,. with- liis wife, nie ' Green, and with the child that was for some time adopted by the late Maximilian. —The Crown Princess of Prussia has shown of late frequent symptoms of insanity, caused, it is suspected, by the infidelity of her hus band. —Miss de Gorion is'a London gymnast who Ss from a high platform, bursts through a le paper balloon, and is caught by one of her brothers who hangs suspended from' the -trapeze with his head downwards. • —Many of the most valuable islands oft the Carolina coast will next season be devoted t»‘, the growth of the finer kinds of upland cotton. The planters expect to make more money to the acre than by continuing the growth of Sea Is]pnd cotton. —Milledgeville, Georgia, supports a poet who lately wrote six stanzas to console a lady on the loss of her little daughter. ; One of the stanzas runs thus: “The wail of anguish pierced thy ear, A nd to Atlanta’s gate thou didst repair, "With heavy freight of woaan’s bounty, Conserves from old Baldwin county.” —A Chicago paper tells a story of election night which, it thinks, shows the enterprise of the young Chicagoese. A parcel of boys were seon getting together .tho materials for a bonfire. When they were asked what was the news they replied that they had none. “ TFe don’t dabble in polities. We built the lire so that when the news Comes we can sell it ont to the side that beats!” —Dickens is the subject of a very critical at tack in the last number of .the Saturday Jieview. the writer complaining of his tendency to kill off his juvenile characters, and declaring that “his children, fromlittle Dornbey downwards, might fairly rise up against him with the old reproachful question of the tombstone: .. “What was I begun for, To he so soon done for?” —The happy man who does the Monthly Gossip in Lippincott's Mat/mine revives the fol lowing unknown or unremembered stories in the December No.: It will be recollected that in May, 1802, the little army of«©eneral Banks, lying about the Shenandoah, was unexpec tedly taken in flank by Stonewall Jackson, and compelled to heat a rapid Tetreat toward Harper’s Ferry. By. the almost superhuman efforts of the general and his officers the bulk of the trains was got into tho van and kept there until safety was reached with the I‘otomac. When the retreating column passed through Winchester, some twenty miles from the first point of attack, the advance of the enemy was in plain sight, hut' a skirmish-line that had been deployed from our rear was gallantly disputing tho ground and saving the golden moments for the retreating army. Although 'heavily outnumbered, the general was at first determined to engage with his whole force at this point; and ho replied to some of his stall', who urged the contrary, “Gentlemen, I will retreat no further. The opinions of the people are more imperative than the bullets of the enemy!” ft ho truth of history constrains us to add that the general was compelled to continue' his re-. treat, notwithstanding; and thus was one of. the most pungent expressions of the war tobbed of half its effect. While the learned and venerable Dr. Lord still presided over Dartmouth College, and kept as keen an oversight upon the habits and morals of the young gentlemen of the in stitution as they required, a report, reached him that one of the freshmen, 0 ,a good. student, hut rather a fast fellow, was contract ing the awful vice of gambling. Tho Doctor was always accustomed to take the bull by tha horns, and upon.this occasion tho delinquent', was immediately summoned into tho presence and bluntly interrogated.“ “How’s this, Mr C—- ?” the pvex sternly questioned. “ I hear, that you have been known to play for stakes.” ft'he eye of the young reprobate twinkled as he saw a chance lor a joko, and ho demurely, responded: “You have been misinformed, sir. 1 have never played for steaks, though L must confess that I have once of twice fori oysters.” ' Counselor R , one of the foremost ad-) vocates of the Bar of Central New York, was himself a collegian, and was naturally anxious that his oldest son should reap the honors Of ' his own Alma Mater, The counselor hadahaen. .a quite wild in bis early years, aiid Master Will manifestly inherited a superabundance of ; what the philosophers of the Josh Billings school would call “pure .cussedness.” During his first year at College, Will was suspended for some flagrant breach of discipline,, and’ . arriving at home, lie proceeded to report tho occurrence to his father. “Suspenaied, hey ?’* the old lawyer remarked* laying down tb» volume of lleports that-he was perusing, and . looking reprovingly at Will over bin spectacles“A pretty beginning you’vo made of it, I declare!” The culprit put; hia hands in his pantaloon pockets and said not a word. “Well, sir!” continued the pareat, be coming angry at Will’s perfect nonchalance, “what have you to say about it?”. “Nothing, ; sir.” “Nothing, Indeedir-Wbftt dldthepresi dent tell you when he suspended yon ,?” “He said I was the worst yoimg inan Jtie ooUegd had ever -held—with one exception.” “Aw? < Did he say who that was?” “Yes, Sir.* l Aft !’? (A slight pause). “And who was It?”- “My father, sir.” As may he-supposed, the-Wet reply whs a perfect non sapidur. - i irWr-r 1 * ! r ’
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