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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 • V 4 ' t ' '** f p ’ ■i * ; “■* * * *.->> ‘ I