GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 193.
EArth-glosets, commodes and
jimalA ,xt rW S?k<«oom with A. H. PbAN
mriClip A </O.>6U Market styeot. ocUth,s.ta23tS
WEDDINO cards, invitations
for Parties, Ac. New stylos. - MASON AOO .
, auaitfj ■ 807 Chestnut streot.
WEDDING- INVITATIONS EN-
I* ye 3 newest end best manner. LOWS
street A Stationer and Eum-aver, dOK Chestnut
MARRIED.
BTJAVKK-I’ATTEBBON.-On the 17th Inst., at the
.residence of the bride’s parents, by the Bor. 0. Mcll
■valne, O. It. Beaver. M. to Malllo K.Patterson, both
of Norristown. Pa, Nocardfl.
IUKBIE—Bi ARIB,—On Friday. November 12th, 1869,
l»y Ui/ B«v. W\ M. Keilley, at his residence. No. KM
Broadway, Camden, Now Jersey, Francis liarcoart
Pioriotoilesnioß., daughter of William Marl*, Jr., all
olthlscity. • . •*.
died,
. -ALf’XANDEK.— On November 2d. 1839, in Dresden
Germany, Annie Grey, youngent daughter of Jobu Alex
ander, of ibis cit).
vltemHluK tolH* brought home for interment in Laurel
mil Cemetery. **»
CLKVKJ.AND.--At Boston, on the 21»t fast., BIr«.
franco* Cleveland, wlf* of Bov, Charles Olere
land, of that city, * ; v »
Mourning dry goods. “
IPkXHON b SON have just received
ft cnn*t* Mack all-wool Poplins, 621*, 76,87}«c,, 91, be.
3 * 4 u Ottoman Poplins. $1 25, 92, be.
3 », • \ . Poplin lliarritz, all quaiitfea.
:i cuae# Slack <ionWe-warp alpacas, eo,{|2?£ ami 76c.
-3 <iroH B rflilJ 91S7K, 92, 92 23,
©2 CO, Ac.
2 cases black Thibet Long Shawls, full and extra
tuxes.
I caw Mack .. " , “ hemmod borders.
1 cjtMP Mack Knglfiih Bnmtiazfuea, al! cmaHtfca.
WHOIKSARK A Nl> * lIKT A ir, ll 0 U RNIN O DRY
GOODS HOUSE,
91# Chestnut street
noIMIJ
ATER JPiioOFB FOE SUITS.
BIiAOK AND WHITE KEPELDANTB.
GOTjD AND BDACK HEPELEANTB.
BBUWN AND WHITE KKPKLLANTB.
Ei'BK& LANDKLL,
Fourth and Arch
SPJSCIAtNOtICEST
Aliy gentleman wiflhing a COAT
cut in tin: highest style, and
made "up witl£. every embel
lishment of. silk facings, vel
vet collars, quilted lapels,&c.,
can get it best, either Ready
made or to Order, at 818 and
s'jii Chestnut street.
Any gentleman wishing PANTS
whether plain or nobby,made
of fancy Cassiuicre- or Heavy
Cloths, artistically cut,
warranted to lit well, can get
t h c best .either Ready-made or
to Older, at 818 and 820 Chest
liut.street.
Any gantleman wishing a VEST.
cut high or low, made of vel
vet. silk, or any other line ma
terial. can satisfy himself best
in the Custom Department or '
Ready-made Department ot
818 and S2O Chestnut street.
The Chestnut St. Clothing Establishment
JOHN WANAMAKER,
818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET.
OVERCOATS. OVERCOATS. OVERCOATS.
W ACADEMY OF MUSIC
THE STAB COURSE OF LECTURES.
FIFTH LECTURE
On Monday Evening. Norember29,
HON. 8: S. C»X.
Sut>j»vt—‘•Peogbk.v* j.n Spain.” (Prepared expressly
for ihi* occasion.)
On Wednesday Evening, December l,
HON. CHARLES SUMNER.
Subject—** Tuk Guf-stion op Caste.
On Friday Evening. December 3, •
REV. ROBERT COLLYEB, D. V.
subject—'“ Clbab Gbit.* 1 ,
Dccfmbr-r7-MABK TWAIN. ' .
December 9-DB COBUOVA.
December 16— WENDELL PHILLIPB
Admission. 6oc. Reserved Seats,7s.
TtcketaforoaleuiGOULD’S Piano Wareoonw, No. 9t'
'CHESTNUT Street, and at the Academy on the evening
of Lectures, .
Orchestra Pivlude at 7>« o’clock. n 022 7t rpj
GREENWOOD CEMETERY.
Corner of Asylum Turnpike A Fisher Lane,
NEAR PRANK FORD.
A chaiire Is now offered to secure Luts, at tho
Low prlceof 915,
oyuble in instalment*, iu what is admitted to be the
cat adapted grounds for Cemetery purpose near Phlia
elpbia. being romantically located, perfectly dry and
eautifully rolling surface. Apply to'
PRiisnuiNT-WILBUB H. BK-YEBS,
419 North Fifteenth street.
Vice ParsiDE^T— HARRY Jf . GEARY,
S. E. conjer of Bidgo avenue and Wallace streot.
tfiCBKTA a t-GKO. (HANDLE!! PAUL,
Otlirp of the Company, 1723 North Tenth street.
Tbeasvkkk-WM. S. BNEYD,
522 East York street.
BtTEBixTBNDBHr—SAMUEL F. SIEAtIE,
nolSlmrpS On the Gronntls,
O-LECTURE
BY
HON. WIUiUM R. KELLEY,
CONCERT HALL,(Chestnut, above Twelfth),
TUESDAY EVENING, Nov. 23d, 1859,
Commencing at Bight o’clock.
Subject—* 4 The Pacific Coast.”
Ticket*, 00 cents. Reserved Seats, 76 cents.
• no l94 **
iv-S* KOTICK.--APPLICATION WILL
]>e Aiade by the undersignod to the Depart*
im-nt of Highways, No. 104 South Fifth street, on MON
DAY. 29tb jnsk„ at 12o’clock M., for ncontract for Hav
ing Chen 1 )* street from Twenty-third street to th 6 Itlver
Schuylkill, iu the Tenth Ward. All persons interested
may attend at the time and place if they think proper;
the following-named persons having signed a contract
for said paving, viz.: H, W. Gray,Dr.L.B. Filbert,
Wm. G. Boultou, Townsand & Hubbard.
„ DANIEL McNICHOL,
no2o 3trpS . Contractor.
NOTICE.—APPLICATION WILL
BrV be made by the undersigned to tho Department
of Highways, No. 1(W South Filth stroet, on MONDAY,
the 29th inat.. at 12 o’clock, M., for a contract for paving
Thirty-fourth street, from Market street to Chestnut,
in the Twenty-seventh Ward. All personal interested in
said paving may attend, at the time and placo, if they
think proper, as tho following-named persons have
sigued a contract for said paving, viz.: martin Books,
John .Lynch, J. W. Vanhouten, Thomas Ologg, Heury
S. Gabriel. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM,
DANIEL McNIOHOL,
Conti
no2o 3t rp
IKS*. - ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUN
lyj* ISHMENTI
lion. MAUVIN 11. IIOVEE, ofWlsconsln,
HABMoNIAL HALL' Eleventh and Wood'
Nov.22d,23dand24th.at7}»P.M.
Each Lecture 25 cents, or SO for Course,
PENNSYLVANIA PEACE SOCIETY. Third Anni
versary. Same Hall, 23d and 24th Inst. Senator BOVEE,
LUOBETIA MOTT, C. C. BDBLEIOH, and other
speakers. Free. no2o jUrp*
jrs» NORTH PENNSYLVANIA KAIL
UA? BOAD AND OBBEN LANE STATION. I '
The Miners haring resumed work we are again re
ceiving a full supply of HAKLEIGH COAL, which we
are selling without advance in jrico. &
no 9• lmrpS Office Ift South Seventh street, Phila.
|TS» STEREOPTICON AND MAGIC
Ifrey Lantern Exhibitions given to Sunday Schools,
SchoolB l OolleffeB, and forpriYato entertainments. W.
M ITOKELL McALLISTeR, 72$ Chestnut street, second
story. . no 2 2mrp§
jr3» 1109 GIBABD STREET.
BUSSIAN, AND PEBFUMBD BATHS.
Departments for Ladles.
Baths open from 6 A. M, to 9 P. M.
m imning piuictot.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
BILLIARDS—LOVERS OF 'THE
Wjmo are respectfully invited to attend THIS
atS o’clock,at the Palatial Billiard Boom,
N.W. corker of Eighth and Vine etreete, where a game
it* MOKTKK & 00., Proprietors.
THE RONEYVILLELBCTURKfci
UtSc The liut of the Couree will bo delivered by
„„ WILLIAM li. DENNIS, ESQ.,
ON TUESDAY EVENING. Nov,3M, 1868,
■ , AT THE ASSEMBLY BUiI.mNC.S.
Suhject- ‘MKB, WIGUINB AND HER PARTY.”
Aaiiiiftt>ion,fiOc*nt#. Secured SoatH, 75centii. ’ :
Beftl«at Tnjmpler ? H. Lecture at 8 o’clock. jio222t§
/jrs*- T>IBSTOK BUILDING AND LOAN
annual mating will be held on
TUEHDAIi KVKNING, November23d, atB'o’clock, for
tho election of oflicem. The annual report will bo
read y for dMribntion. CHARLES M. LITKKNri,
_no222t rp" __ _ _ Secretary.
'frsf NO TICE. PARTIES HOLDING
LcWghVol!<»y Railroad Company recelplß for full
paid stoeb—trom Noe, .1 to 1,241, inclusive—can rocciv©
certlficatee of Mock in exchange therefor, by applying at
the oillcfe of the Company, No, 303 Walnut at rout.
no22‘6trp CHAB.d LONGBTKETH. Treasurer.
PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPiEDIO
HOSPITAL, No. 15 Booth Ninth atreet.-For
treatment of Clab Foot, Spinal and all other Bodily
Deformities. <
Clinic every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, from 11 to 1.
Services gratuitous to tho poor.
d,thos.^» 08DEGKONH:
Dr.H.E»S?X I A 2 , lChCBt,,ntßtreot
-1427 Chestnut street. oc3o-lmrps
HS» HOWARD HOBPITAL7*Wa 15i8
r and 1620 Lombard street,Dispensary Department,
edlcal treatment and m ediejneforal shod gratuitooihr
to the poor-
DIVIDEND NOTICES.
ITS* GIBABD EIRE INSURANCE COM-
PA NY.—OFFICE ,N. E. COBNKRBEVEHTH
AND CHESTNUT STREETS.
DIVIDEND' N 0.23.
„ . . PmLA.DKLFHiA, N0v.9,1869.
A dividend of Five Dollars per share has been de*
clared by the Directors of this Company, and made pay
able to the stockholders, clear of all taxes, on and after
tide date ALFRED 8. GILLETT,
no9tu.th.siHS Treasurer.
FOREIGM CORRESPOIIDEiyCE
UETTEB FROM BOISE.
llounekeeplngr In the Eternal City—Life
In Apmrlinen,*(...Co*»t of Heals and Her
vanta—Fuel ArranjfetpenU—The Amer
ican Quarter—Sew Arrivals In Borne.
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin .J
Bomb, Italy, November 5,18611.—1 t is very
tme oiie-lialf the world does not know how
the other half lives; if they did, there might be
some agreeable changes made. For instance,
the luxurious Americans, with their heavy,
cumbersome machinery of housekeeping,have
no idea of the true philosophy of that sort of
business as it is understood by the Southern
European. 1 1 to all useless for our dear coun-
try people to come to Rome and sigh after the
seventeen kinds of hot bread, the delicious
oysters and terrapins, the whisky that “never
hurt anybody,” declare that there is no place
like an American home—then return, the men
to their dotfn-town luncheon, the women to
endless spiritual scuffles with Bridget or
Gretchen, Patrick or Fritz, to enormous hills
for food they never cat, to all the endless per
quisites of the old machine, which, like, the
old-time family-coach, ought to be broken in
hits—and expect us, “who have been there”
and gone through with the whole heart-break
ing business, to agree with them. The hus
bands do secure, It is true, alittle trotting-wa
gon sort of existence, which is sometimes
more agreeable and “fast” than strictly pro
per ; but the wives must either grow reckless,
and shut their eyes to numberless Impositions,
or fret tbeir lives into wretchedness while urg-
ing on and keeping in some sort of order this
heavy coach oi “good, old-fashioned house
keeping” after the manner of those darling,
mystical personages who exist in every gene
ration—“our grandmothers.”
Let me give you a short sketch of life in
Rome, and you will not wonder that those of
our dear countrywomen who have seen and
enjoyed it to perfection, pine for the “ flesh
pots of Egypt.” In the first place, we rent an
apartment. They are of various sizes and
prices, to suit all tastes and purses. The rooms
are, with few exceptions, on one floor. An
apartment for an ordinary family consists of a
salon or drawing-room, parlor, dining-room,
three or more bedrooms, a kitchen and one or
.wo servants’ rooms, and sometimes a billiard-
room and ball-room. Thete are few rented
apartments in Rome where large dances are
allowed, for the buildings are old and insecure.
A dancing-hall is only safeon the piano nobile,
which, in roost palaces, is reserved for the use
of the proprietor. . Only carpet dances can be
enjoyed, and even those are risky. I was at a
matinie last spring in the Palazzo Odescalelii,
when the ball-room was thrown open and a
dance for the young peoplo started. There
avert 1 but two or throe quadrilles on the floor,
and yet I saw the door-hangings and curtains
of the adjoining salon sway to anti fro quite
alarmingly: < .»
There are smaller apartments, to accommo
date one, two or three persons. These are
usually suites of rooms which are' rented un
furnished of proprietors by persons with small
capital; sometimes working people, wives of
petty tradesmen. They invest their little
gains in furniture, divide their apartments
oil', and underlet them. Service is supplied,
and sometimes meals. Many who rent these
small apartments of tlie'so persons have their
meals sent m from a trattoria, or eating-house.
If you have a comfortable purse, and can
order your meals from Nazzari’s or Spill
manu’s—those delightful Roman restaurants—
you may find trattoria fare palatable. But my
advice is to secure an apartment where the
padronit —as your landlady is called—willserve
you with your three meals; that is, if you are
only one or two, have moderate means, and
come to Rome to study and see everything.
You? landlady will render you a daily account,
and you will be amused with the precision of
the items.
“ FiUtto , eight soldi a slice”—thatis,breast of
turkey, which is sold in that way uncooked,
and you can have as many slices as your ap
petite requires. “Fegetini, ten soldi”—a, deli
cious dish, made of the livers and hearts of
chickens, with rice and curry sauce. Oso, ten
cents, which is the hone and meat for the daily
soup. Pune—bread—five cents a loaf. Butter,
from three to ten cents a pat, just enough to
last the day. Cream, from two to ten cents—
as much as you want; and so on—every vege
table, meat, lruit, &c., mentioned with its
price. Thus you can daily order;your next 1
day’s meals accordingto your taste and purse.
If a visitor comes in suddenly to whom you
wish to bo hospitable, you can send to Mmes.
Nazzari’s or Spillmann’s for one or two fine
dishes, and your table will be sumptuouS.
Then there are plenty of delicious little potted -
delicacies, pate do foig, anohovy paste, &c.,
which are extremely nice to have on hand for
emergencies, or for your own occasional dain
tiness, when the natural depravity of yoUr
stomach makes you quarrel with your pad
rona’s paradisaical providings. By managing
in this way, four or five francs a day (equal t
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1869.
eighty cento or one dollar in gold) will glv e
you an excellent table—throe meals for one
person; while one good trattoria dinner, alone,
from Nazzarl’s or Splllmann’s, costs six francs
for' one person—then comes in added the ex
pense of breakfast and luncheon,
The great charm of mode of life,
when managed in the Roman fashion, is that
you can regulate daily, to ,a penny, your ex- ‘
Reuses; and when you dine out, or when
your duties outdoors make it more con
venient for you to dine at a restaurant, your
expenses are not going on' at homo. Even if
you have a kitchen and servants, their table
is not yours. You pay them certain wages,
and then allow them daily so much money for
their own food, which they spend as they
please. You have no responsibility. It is no'
meanness to have a fine roast,of any nice dish
set aside for your own future use. The ser
vants here are no experienced in their science
of culinary economy, also, that they seem to
.know to asiice how -many potatoes to cook
for one person, and so on with every article
of food.
True, wealthy Americans come to Romo
and bring With them homo habits. The
surveillance iof house accounts has hanging
around it wretched memories of home wrest
lings and griefs,so themistresses omit this very
necessary duty. They order more food than
is needed, or than can he used at their own
table, and think, according to the law and
gospel their own kitchen gods and goddesses
taught them with bitter suffering, that it is a
contemptible parsimony to have the cold
meats kept for further, use at their own meals
and sent them all into the kitchen. The Italian
servants, unaccustomed to this “barbaric
generosity,” become speedily demoralized, and
a system of thieving begins which is endless.
But those of us who have small moans and
little leisure live differently; we copy the
natives, addiDg the while a few liberalities of
American life, and the comfort and peace of
mind that results is delightful. Everything
about housekeeping in Rome can be under
your own eye, and is arranged to give you the
smallest amount of trouble. Wood, for ex
ample, yon purchase by the c harette, er load,
which is a little over half a cord, and order it,
strange to say, at your grocer’s! To he sure,
the Romans ot comfortable means get their
fnel in another way, from their own lands or
from farmers; but the stranger will do better
to go to Mme. Fichelli’s, on the Piazza dl
Spagna, or some well-known shop of the kind.
The wood is sent, nicely dried, cat small, up
to your apartment door, and stored away,
sometimes in clothes-presses, or in the re
cesses of an ante chamber, and hidden very
often by a beautiful curtain or piece ’ of rich
old tapestry; for economy of space is also
another branch of this. “ great virtue for
women and vice for men,” as old John Adams
used to define economy. Poor man! What
would the good old ’76 Square-toes say, if he
could come to life in these days of women’s
rights to all men’s-vices, and “more too.”
Verily, “ Xous aeons chanye tout celd !”
Fire is only needed night and morning in
Rome—except in December and January, and
even then there are few days when it is
required the whole sixteen hours. , The
Romans use fire very little. The Pope—ahale,
hearty old man of 78 years of age, who takes
a Cold sponge-bath, daily exercise in the open
air in all weathers, and is one of the cleanest,
tidiest old gentlemen you ever saw—never has
a fire in his rooms, no matter how cold it is;
and those immense salons of - the Vatican
palace are cold enough in winter. In the
ante rooms there are large brass sealdinas or
braziers filled with hot coals, around which
Hisi Holiness’s Crimson Plushes toast their
shins and toes—but thatis all. .
Many of the rooms in Romo have no fire
places. But we, who pome from cold climates,
feel the raw dampness of the Roman winter
more than the natives do. Moreover, we have
become enervated by our luxurious houses,
the tight, wooden, carpeted floors and heated
rooms. So the brick or stone floors of Rome,
even though they may be well covered with
straw and carpets, are cold; and the large,
lofty old salons, with all their rich heavy door
and window curtains, are shivery places to-us.
Thus, in selecting apartments, it is wiser to
seek first, and above all, a full exposure to the
sun, and then rooms with chimney places or
stoves. The scaldina filled with coals is a per
nicious thing for living rooms, only fit for
large palatial antechambers, and should not
be used—by us at least.- -
The American quarter in Rome Is around
the Piazza di Spagna, on the Pincian Hill and
its slopes, over to the Corso. It is all very
nice to think you would like to live in other
quarters. I remember, when I first came to
Rome, fancying, apartments, here and there,
and in another place, as my historical memo
ries or tastes were gratified by the surround-
ings ; but this does not work.well. What the
majority does is generally wisest. To be sure,
we need not be sheep, and leap blindly every
popular fence. But in the main run it is better
to go through where the bars are let down;
there is always some good reason for it.
The Piazza di Spagna is healthy, gay,
bright, modern, and full of the life of to-day—
the life of which we ought to see something if
we expect to bo agreeable and useful to our
kind. We may go oft' in the morning early
and live all day,as desired, with
those dear, delightful heathen, “Neptune and
CTesar and Nebuchadnezzar;” talk with
Phidias and Buonarotti, with “Raphael and
his scholars;” go down into the bowels of the
earth,.]ook on statues, frescoes, and tread on
mosaics,which have lain buried in sileuce and
darkness so many centuries, with tides and
tides of warring barbarians sweeping over
their buried beauties. ' .
But at night-fall we grow “ spookey ” and
dreary. We pine for that which is flesh of
our flesh and bone of our bone, and if we can-
not have that, we must have the creature
comforts of one’s own home, which, after all,
are extremely solacing- in all circumstances
and trials. Then hew pleasant it is to have
this local habitation directly among the wide
awake living of the present day! The drawl of
the Southerner and the nasal twang of the
Yankee sound like the sweetest music to our
ears, and we are ready to fraternize, even
though we may not belong to each other’s
“ set" at home, nor unfortunately never met
each other in “ society.” It is also delightful
to bo within a few minutes’ walk of Piale’s,
where you can step in and read the Boston
Post, the. New York Tribune and Times. By
the way, we Philadelphians, however, wish
our own city to be represented in that congress
of journals, and I intend; that my Ledgers,
which _ Mr. Childs kindly sends; me, shall be
placed iu Piale’s Reading Room, all this wiuter
' OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
Then, after dinner, it is agreeable to be
within a short distance of, tho pleasant rccep- j
tions, or other entortainmeute given by our
hospitable resident artists or gay visitors to
to Borne; or to he within calling and visiting
distance of one’s friends. Moreover, all the;
American artists, with two .or three cxcep
tions, have their studios, as well ns their resi
dences, in this Piazza di Wpagna quarter, and
even'those who are farther oil—Story, Healey *
and Tilton—are only up a little beyond the
Plncian, near the Barbefini and Tritone.
Piazza. ,
I have hit little space for news of any kind,
and there is little to give. Bishop McFar
land, of Connecticut, has arrived, and Bishops
Wood &nd Bayley are expected daily. Mgr.
Nardi has returned, after his long and agree
able journey to Franco and England. He looto
.extremely well,and is as hospitable and genial
as ever. Dr. C. F. Winslow, whose book I
noticed last spring, “Forces of Nature/’ (a
work highly commended by Liebig and other
European philosophers), has settled profes
sionally in Rome for the winter. Mr.
Coniegys' and family, of your city, are
also in Rome. Among the royalties
that have come to Rome lately are the Quoeii
of Wurtemherg and her niece, Grand Duchess
Vera, the daughter of - Grand Duke Constan
tine of Russia. These ladies arrived on
Wednesday. The Queen is traveling as the
Countess Tcck. She was Olga Nicolwiewna,
and is sister of the present Emperor of Russia,
and had in her younger days some reputation
as a beauty. She walks about very simply in
the streets with her niece and attendant.'
One thing can he noticed in royalties at the
present period—they seem to have caught the
unceremonious spirit of our day, and look and
act like ordinary persons.
Decisive Measures on the Part of the
The Vessels to be Libeled To-Day by the
District-Attorney.
Tbe Marshal to Take Immediate Posses-
Washington, Nov. 22.—The Spanish gun
boats complication will soon assume a new
phase, which will bring tbe matter to a point
where its final and speedy disposition mil be
apparent. As has been stated heretofore in
this correspondence, the detention of the gun
boats to-the present moment has been on an
executive order of the Navy Department,
which has kept, an armed surveillance
over them. Without taking actual posses
sion, this action has been based on the com
plaint of the Peruvian Minister, Colonel
Freyre, who alleges that the gunboats will re
lease other Spanish vessels now on guard on
the coast of Cuba, and which will thus be
enabled to proceed against Peru. This tech
nical custody was sufficient so long ,as the
boats were unfinished, but eleven of them
are now ready to be turned over
to the Spanish authorities. The demand
of the Spanish Minister for their release
is daily expected, and the case will then 1 with
out doubt betaken info the Courts for regular
proceeding under the Neutrality act. Pern
will then nave an opportunity to make her
complaint good. If she fails to do so, the re
lease of the vessels will probably follow. The
Cuban question cannot affect it one way or the
other, for Cuba having no status, is not known
in the matter. This, I believe, is the determi
nation of the Government, and there
seems to be no other mode of
procedure. To be detained on legal
grounds tlie. vessels must be lawfully con
demned in' regular course of proceedings
under the Neutrality act; and, however the
resalt may affect the Cuban cause,the country
may look to see nothing done that does not
comport strictly with the law. Judge Pierro
pont, District-Attorney, has been here, and if
some of the people are anxious to know what
his business was will now watch the gunboats,
they will probably find out.
I'rompt Action of the United States Gov
ernment—Tfae Seizure oftbe Vessels to
be Made at Once—Tbe Course to be Pur
sued To-day.
The Times says:
To-day the civil officers of the National-
Government will take sudden and summary
possession of the thirty newly-built Spanish,
gunboats which have so long been a terror per
speetively to patriotic Cubans. Tbe vessels
will be libeled in accordance with telegraphic
instructions received by United States Dis
trict-Attorney Edwards Pierrepont, yesterday,
from; Washington, which are very terse and
explicit. Early this morning writs of attach
ment will be properly made out against each
of the gunboats separately and collectively,
which will subsequently be placed in the
hands of Marshal S. It. Harlow for execution.
Probably before 12 o’clock to-day the entire
flotilla will be in charge of Deputy Marshals,
to whose custody it will be transferred by the
Brooklyn Navy Yard authorities, who ‘have
maintained a close surveillance over them dur
ing the past few weeks. It is understood that
this action on the part of the Government, al
though now made public for the first time, has
long had the' Serious consideration of the
Cabinet. It was doubtless hastened by “the
fact that nearly all of the gunboats were ready
for sea, and that the Spanish (Minister, Seiior
Roberts, recently made a demand for their
release, in order to enable them to start on
their warlike mission.
On Saturday last Judge Pierrepont visted
Washington for the putmose of consulting the
President in regard to certain public matters
connected with his office, among which was
the Spanish fleet. After his return to this
city the - District-Attorney received a notice
from the gunboat contractors to the
effect that the thirty vessels would all
be in a seagoing condition within a few days,
the substance of which he communicated by
telegraph to President Grant'and Secretary
Pish. To this he received a reply directing
him to, libel the boats, and to submit them
to the United States Circuit Court to decide
the question whether they were designed with
a view to making war on a nation at peace
with this country.
It will doubtless bo remembered that public
attention was first called to the boats by the'
Peruvian Minister, Colonel Preye, who made
a complaint against them in June last, claim
ing that they were intended for warlike use
against the Republic of which he is a repre
sentative. The immediate result of the com
plaint was to order Admiral Godon to detail
United States vessels and men to watch the
suspected vessels, and to prevent them from
taking a surreptitious departure from this,
port. Several of the craft were on the stocks
at the time, but as fast as they were finished
they were conveyed from the various ship
yards, where they were being built, to the
Dolamater Iron Works, at the foot of Thir
teenth street, North river, where they were
fitted out with their machinery. The armar
meat .for the formidable flotilla was de--
spatched to Cuba in September last, audit was.
hoped by the Spanish Government that the
vessels would be able to leave the Narrows
and Sandy Hook in their wake" with as much,
ease as the- steamer Euterpe, which was
allowed to sail from here for Havaua with her
ordnance and ordnance stores as a cargo.
The seizure of the boats will be sorely felt by.
Anne Brewster.
THE SPANISH GUNBOATS,
Government.
sion of Them.
(Special Despatch to the New York Times.]
frion.&irtieularly as it cobles just on the ovo
of their’contempiated departure for" hostile
service on the coast of Cuba. It to probable
that.tbo complaint aaainstthem will remain in
court for many weeks, if not months, before a
decision is rendered, during which time the
flotilla will be obliged to* remain here i»a state
of inactivity.
In tho regular naval intelligence in yester
day’s papers appeared the announcement of
the arrival at this port of a Spanish steamer.
It was very brief; and probably created no
suspicion of the object of the vessol in these
waters, being as follows: “Arrived, Spanish
war steamer Pizarro, .Captain Evarista Casa
riega, Havana, six days", mounts six guns, and
has a crew of 350 officers and mem
all well.” The steamer was hero for the
purpose of acting as a convoy to tho gun
boats, in case the Government did not inter
fere and stop them from going to sea. The
brat convoy was to consist of five boats, whose
ofiicers and crew were to be obtained from
among tho surplus number on board of tho
war-steamer.
Fifteen of the thirty to bo built aro com
pleted, and could be got readyforsea in a day
and a half. Nothing remains to be done to
them but to furnish coal and provisions. Tho
remaining fifteen are rapidly approaching
completion, and it to expected that the whole
flotilla will be finished within seventeen days.
AMUSEMENTS.
“school” at the chestnut.
—Anybody who wants to witness; a first rate
dramatic performance, can gratify their de
sire by visiting, tne Chestnut Street Theatre
to-night. Miss Keene has produced Robertson’s
comedy, School, apd we venture to say that it
never has been better played, cither in Eng-,
laud or America, than upon her stage. The
comedy, although not equal in point of inter
est or in dramatic force to Caste or Ours, is
still a very clever play, with’ several strongly
marked characters, an Ingenious if not a
novel plot, plenty of fine situations, and,
above all, a lively, rapid, witty text. Miss
Keene has mounted the drama very hand
somely, with new scenery, some of which,
particularly the forest scene, to really
beautiful. Better than this, tbe char
acters are Oast with rare discre
tion, so that eaolr member, of the
company is fit* V with a part which seems
nicely suited to uis or her capacity. Miss
Keene played “Naoruie Tighe” in a manner
which convinces us that she has had boarding
school experiences. A woman who had not
entered an “institute” with six towels anrl a
spoon, conversed in crippled French—“ tho
exclusive language of the family”—and lived
on a diet of tough beef and transparent coffee,
with munchiDgs of molasses candy during
study hours,could not:have given.such a faith
ful representation of the boardingsehool Miss.
These things do not come by inspiration; they
aro learned practically. Miss Anderson gave
a very delightful personation of “Bella,’”tlie
lonely orphan who is the secondary heroine of
the drama. Mr. Sheridan appeared as “Jack
Poyntz.” and played tho character most
“Jack” is a commonplace, practi
cal good fellow, such as Englishmen delight
in. He to a little too dull for American taste
—or rather too unexeitable—but he possesses
strong individuality, aud what there is of him
is good. Mr. Sheridan’s versatility fits him
for almost any character so nicely, that uven
this’one seems peculiarly suitable for him. Mr.
Mordaunt’s representation of “Lord Beaufoy”
was capital; so was Mr. Otis’s “Dr. Krux”—
the Uriah Heepish tutor. Mr. Wallis prepared
a surprise with liis “Beau Farintosn.” This
character is peculiarly difticnlt, because tho
actor has to act the part of an old and vonng
man at the same time, and he is compelled to
costume himself to represent an aged beau
who desires to present a youthful appearance.
Mr. Wallis succeeded satisfactorily in over
coming the difficulties, and not only in his
"make up” but in hto acting gave a first rate
performance. This gentleman is well known
as a good actor in lesser lines of business. He j
proved last night that he has capacity for I
'ligber things. School will bo repeated this
and every night, and we heartly recommend
it to the public. Not the least of the attrac
tions at the Chestnut to the delightful music
furnished by Mr. Mark Hassleris orchestra.
THE HERMAN OPERA.
—Whatever other faults may be found with
the operatic enterprise of Mr. Grau at the
Academy of Music, it cannot be charged that
he has failed to abandon the brief list of
operas to which managers usually think it ne
cessary to coniine themselves. Every im
pressarlo who ventures a season in the
Academy seems to be controlled by the idea
thdt a repertoire which docs not include The
i Bohemian Girl and Maritana and ll.Trovatore,
Norma and La Sormainbula must ne
cessarily have no attraction for the
public. These operas ■ are excellent,
and nobody would object to their
frequent repetition; but there are
others equally good—even better, and.
the people like to have an oc
casional opportunity to hear them. Mr.
Grau has ventured bravely into newer fields,
and has presented a series of operas, some of -
which we h'avo not heard for a long while, all
of which are of the higher chess, anil,are as
well worth hearing frequently as Trovatore
and JVorr/ia. Last week we had Dcr Frey
schutz, Martha, The Slar/ic Flute, Fidelia, Faust;
this week wo have La Dame Btrmi:he,Blradella,
La Jitive, Don Giovamii, Hubert Le Diable. For
his enterprise in catering in this manner to
the public taste Mr. Grau deserves great
credit, and if as much care had beep displayed
at first in the organization of his oiehestra and
chorus, as is manifested now, we believe he
Would have met. with even more generous en
couragement.
Last night Bojeldiou’s opera La Dame Blanche
was produced to the largest audience of the
season. The opera is a very admirable com
position, tilled with music that is beautiful
and sometimes exceedingly intricate. That
the music is not more popular is attributable
solely to the indifference of managers and
directors of orchestras, who might oftener
present the opera, and selections from it, to the
public. It was performed last night ’very
cleverly by tho German company. Mr.
Habelman carried off most of the honors, in
the rule of “George Brown,” q.’.part
which requires for its just presentation
a noble . voice and fine histrionic
Sowers. Mr. Habelman acquitted
irnself in the most satisfactory manner, his
vocalization being particularly good. His
“ Itobin Adair,” of course, received especial
commendation from the audience; but it was
not sung in a better manner than other of the
melodies incident to the part. Mines. Johan u
sen and Dziuba also played and sang admirably
well, and Messrs. Formes, VVeinlich and
Amand were good in their respective parts.
The orchestra, under Mr. Dietrich's direction,.
• was immeasurably better than it was at any
time last week, and there was very perceptible
improvement in the singing of the chorus.
To-night Struilclla will be presented.
—At the Walnnt this evening, Mr. Edwin
Forrest will appear as Kbit/ Lear. His per
formance of this character-is Mr. ...Forrest’s
greatest effort. To-morrow he appears as Meta
mora; on Thursday, Richelieu ; on Friday (the
last night of Mr. Forrest's engagement), The
Gladiator. Enoch Arden will bo produced on
Saturday afternoon in superb style.
—Lost at Sea continues to. bo the attraction at
the Arch.
—At the American a number of novelties
will be presented.
—Duprez & Benedict’s minstrels appear at
the Seventh Street Opera House this ' eve
ning in their amusing specialities, including
several new burlesques. ■ .
—Carncross & Dixey’s minstrels give a first
class entertainment this evening.
—Signor Blitz will give an entertainment at
the Assembly Building this evening,
—At the Assembly Buildings every after
noon and evening of this week, the ‘-Living
Human Ouviosties will he exhibited.
F. 1. EETHERSFON. Pnblislier.
PRICE THREE GENTS.
rjkvm Aim fancies.
—Block Island exported ten fans ef Thanks,
giving poultry.
.—A Minnesota lady last week killed'soV«i
teen ducks at one shot. •:<
—Prussia lias not prison room for her ranldlr
multiplying criminals. . ■ ,
—The City of Mexico has 130,000 inhabit
ants. . »■ • ■• ■ ;
Tim Mexican priests are preaching auti-
Masonry. ° • •
—Ban Francisco has received over a-mllDo*
of codfish from tho Ocliotsk this season*
—Bow Orleans is experimenting with-street
cars propelled by condensed air. e ;
, Chicago is supplying San Francisco'witfc
cheap clothing.. . .
—Schneider won’t corile over here for fear
of sea-sickness. But we won’t worry about
her absence. . ■
—Eugenio considers the Suer, Canal the west
striking passage in Egyptian history;—
lorb Post.
—Tho anti-confederate papers in Halif»*
are exidting over a resolution favorable to re*-'
fn England Foreign Adairs Committee
More than twenty millions of passenger#-
were carried, by the London General Oin in bus-'
Company during the first six months of 18605'
—The North German merchant navy coni
si ™ of 5,110 ships, with a united' tonnage ofc
1,209,984 tons, ofwhichT46, with 102,140tonsi
are steamers, .
new coinage of Jamaica, Quoeni
Victorians ungailantly represented as a middle
aged woman, and not, as on English coins, in>
her youthful prime.
The black-legged South Down sheep are
now common sights in ali parts of Vermont,
and the number has been largely increased
this season by arrivals from Canada.
—On the recent death of a Rajah in Hin
dustan, catching fish was prohibited for three '
days, for fear his flighneas’s spirit may have
gone into one of their bodies—probably that
of a sole. .■ .
—An enterprising British house agorit is
vigorously advertising avilla whieh adjoins
■■ Mr. Tennyson’s house, and is recommending
it for the view it commands of tho grounds or
the poet. Tlie view of the poet is not included
m the lease, but is sold by implication.
—A Kansas journal says that the identical
star-spangled banner which floated over Fort
McHenry when Key wrote our national song*
is owned by the heirs of Colonel Armstead,
who commanded the fort and kept the his
tone bunting.
—Counting the collateral branches, there*
are in England about six-arid-twentv princes'
and princesses of the blood royal, ‘To-these
the nation pays in pensions the sum of .£lll,--
i 000 sterling yearly; arid as the younger sons
and daughters of the Queen grow up, it will'
be asked to pay a good deal more.
—A letter from Varzin, Prussia, reports that
Count Bismarck’s health has greatly improved
lately by bis using the mineral waters of Carls
bad. If tho improvement should prove per
manent, it may bo regarded as a certainty that
Bismarck will soon return to Berlin to resnxne
the Junctions of liis oflico.
—Mgr. Spaccapietra, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Asia Minor, a distinguished
and courtly Neapolitan prelate, has come to
gTief, and is to be succeeded by Mgr. Meletios,
Bishop of Philadelphia, not the American city
ot Brotherly Love, but the ancient Philadel
phia, hallowed as the site of one of the Seven
Churches.
—The celebrated Dr. Gregory, in the course
of one of bis medical lectures at Edinburgh,
stated: “One cannot stand perfectly motion
less for halt an hour; that he had once tried to
do so, and had fainted at the end of twenty,
minutes, the blood requiring the aid of motion
from the body in order to retain its foil circu
lating power.”
—A curious work is going on near Ceylon,
in the deepening of the sea channels between
that island ana India, by cutting away thB :
connecting reef, so as to allow shipping of.
larger tonnage to pass. This has been in pro
gress for ten years, with a considerable-iu-,
crease of depth and of the number of ships.
The work is executed by convict labor.
—The Buffalo Express relates the follow
ing conversation overheard between two
prisoners confined in jail and separated •by
several cells: ,
■One chap— Sam! let’s go fishing.
T’other chap —Wait a week; my trial don’t,
come on till about the 23d, and I guess I’ll'
hoard till then.
—lon a is larger than New York or Penn
sylvania—iaiger than New England, without.
Maine—and more productive thari’all of them,
put together. She has thirty-live million acres
of rich, black mould, and to-day a clean fur
row can be turned over thirty millions of these
acres. Although less than live millions are
under cultivation, they produced last vt-ar
eighty-llve million bushels of -grain.
—A new comic journal oalled Punch anil
Judy has just been started in, London.
Messrs. .Bradbury & Evans, the proprietor
of the original Punch, applied for an. injunc
tion to stop tlio publication of the new pe
riodical on the ground that it was a colorable
imitation of their property, but the applica
tion was refused. There arc, therefore, now;
besides other comic papers, a,Punch, a Judy,.
and a Punch and Judy,
—The “Man in the Iron Mask” continues to.
occupy literary searchers into mysteries. M;
Marius Topin has come to the conclusion that
| De Lauzun was that’ Man. He had asked,
| Madame de Montespan to obtain some favor .
| for him from the King; but he overheard her :
counsel the King not to grant it. On her as- [
suring De Lauzun that she had warmly sup
ported him, ho called her a liar, and was sud
denly east into the dungeon at Pignerol, and,
kept there till his death.
—The following strange occurrence is.
vouched lor by a South London magazine. It;,
would appear that “at a Concert givoa ashorfc !
time since in Walworth a gentleman startled '
the audience by reciting Paul’s defence iit-
Greelc. In order to keop up the idea of the
apostle as g .prisoner, the reciter was ledon to- '
the platform by along heavy chain, whioh
was bound round his waist. He did not, how
ever, consider it necessary to dispense- with,
his white kid gloves.' The Greek, the chain,
and the gloves together had a curious effect.’*
—The drill instructor of an old British regi
ment of the line—one of the old stamp of mar
tinet sergeants—who was the terror of every 1
recruit, and the remorseless tyrant of every
awkward squad, was putting a bring party
through the funeral exercise. Having opened
the ranks, so as to admit the passage of tin*
supposed cortege between them, the instructor
ordered them to rest on their arms reversed.
Then, hv way of practical explanation, he. '
walked slowly down the lane formed by the
two ranks, saying, as ho moved, “Now, I aid
the corpse. Pay attention.” Having reached
the end of the party,lie turned round,regarded
.them steadily with a scrutinizing eye- for a* -.
iuoment or two, and then remarked- in the
mes t solemn tone of voice: “Your •’amis is
right, and your ’eads is right, but you ’avu’fc
got that look of regret you ought to’ave.”,, ■
—The insurgents iu Dalmatia are pursuing
a coarse of unparalleled-cruelty. A -smaH-tfe- V -
tachment of Austrian troops under command
of a young officer, who: was accompanied by
his family, were taken prisoners by one of ;
their chiefs. A general massacre ensued, and
at last only the little son of the officer, a beau
tiful, fair-haired child of six„remained, and,
kneeling before the .chief, begged for his life. '
But the cruel monster had, him suspended by '
the arms from a tree, and drawing- his pistol ‘ ■
he practised upon him, shooting a bullet into
each.of his arms. Then.tbey fled,'leaving the'
poor child to its fate. The main -body- of
troops, coming through the pass half anliour- ;
later, found him still in the same terrihie posi
tion and in a dying state. lie died ia a short ,<i
time. ■ ' -i - ’ r,i
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