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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
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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,,
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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.
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LECTURE
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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*
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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*
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NORTH FENNBYLVANIA RAIL
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Tim Miner* having reeunv-.I work we are again re
cclvlneafull Hupply 0 r IJARLKIGH COAL, which we
aro selling withuat advance in price.
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niEWINIfiPEO UfNPBBIEXTIO.V.
Flint Jluttcrlnif* of the Storm—Belrnrc
of the Road—lnterceiiUon or Governor
SlcDougrnll.
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. -
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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. -
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