GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 198. wedding cakds, INVITATIONS ?V for Parties, &o. Newstyleß. MAHON AGO* ; au2&tfs . 007 Chestnut street. INVITATIONS r EN :Ed the nowont and best manner. LOUIH DBEKA Stationer and .Engraver, IO3S' Chestnut ■treet. fe2o tf MARRIED. HILL—DA VIS .—On (lie evening of the 2.'rth inst., at the residence of th»bride, at WMfwown, Pa., by Rov. 4.PhJllit>9, A . L. Hill, M. jj.fof Philadelphia, ttinl Anna *l. Paris, j OHNSTON-aVAN, GILDKR.—On Wednesday even ing, the 24th of November, by Bishop Simpson. James M. Johnston, of Philadelphia, to Miss Leanora Van wilder. ofCflimb*n,N.J * * SAGE—SLOCUM.—On the 21th inst., at the renideTjci ♦f Juno-e IJ. Jerwain, Emi.. iv-ar Albany, by the Bor. 11. A. Bonrtlman, D.D., of Phihuhrlnhlu, avsjwtadby thu Rev. W. B. Sprague, D.P.. ltumdl Sago, of New York erty, to M. Olivia Slocum : only daughter of th<- Jalo Jo* aeph Slocum, of .Syracuse. men. ABBEY.—On the evening of th<* 28th unit,, Woodward Pub-, youngest non.of Charles O, ami Mnrgarotta J>. Abbey, aged 20month*. Tlia relative and frietul* oi the family are invited to attend hip funeral from hi* father’* residence. No. 117 (south Sixtci-mh street, cm Wednesday utteruoon, Per, Ist, at 2 o’clock. CHU< KMAN.-On Sunday luorning. 2*Ot inst., Al bert, am» of llohert and Julia A. Churchman, iD hifl 36th vear. Puo notice will be given of the funeral. * * PAYJH.—On tho2»th in*t„ Jame* Morrow, oldest hod or Elisha W. and Josephine Pavb*, aged 2*) year-, fl month* and 20 day* , The funeral will take place from th» residence of bn parent*, No. 733 North Sixteenth street, on Wednesday, nt 2 o’clock. Tho friend* of the family are respectfully Invited to attend. * „ ORR—On th* 28th inat., Samuel Orr. Pile notice of the funeral will be given. 2t SMITH.—At Gwynedd,on the y»th inat.. Sarah Ju liana, eldest *ist'*r of the Rev. Henry B. Smith. Service* and Interment at the Church of the Epiphany, Fifteenth and Chestnut «treow, on lue*la> 10 o’clock. Mourning dry goods. BESSON * SON have just received •. black all-wool Ac. 3“ *i Ottoman J?fl 25.A2, Ac. 2 “ Poplin Biarritz, all quahtfe*. 3 cases Mack don Me-warp alpacas, £O, C?H*arid ' 7sc. .3 .’♦» . Grojf grain Silk**, <yl 3-» ease* black Thibet Long Shawls, full and extra #I I caeehlack' ** “ hemmed borders. 1 <*«*' bled; English Bombazine-, all 'laalitlM. WHOLESALE ANP RETAIL MOURNING PRY , GOODS HOUSE. _ noSWk aWChMtnutwtreet. TIN bl A CAMEL'S UAJRSC AKFS I FOB CHRISTMAS PRESENTS OF VALUE. BYRE A LANDELL. FOURTH AND ARCH. SPECIAL NOTICES. Any gentleman wishing a COAT <ut in the highest stylo, and made up with every cinlxtl lishnirnt ot silk facings,, vt-1- . vet collars, quilted Lapels,&<■., can get it lust* either Heady 7uatle or .to Order, i»t HIS and HU’f) Chest uut street. Any gentleman wishing PANTS whether plain or nohby,made ■of fancy t-assimere or Heavy artistically cut, warranted to lit well, can get the Ixvf. either Heady-made or to Order, at SIK and *2O Chest nut street. Clot I>. Aj>y gentleman within" a VEST. cm high or low, maxle of vel vet, hilk, or any other fine ma terial, eati satisfy himself best in the Custom Department or Keady-mado Department ot Si 8 and B‘JO Chestnut street. The Chestnut St Clothing Establishment JOHN WANAMAKER, 818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET. OVERCOATS. OVERCOATS. OVERCOATS. jj-pv .JOHN B. GO VCi II at rite ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MONDAY BVKNINU, Decembers', “Circumstances.” MONDAY EVENING. December M Subject—“Hubil.” HENRY WARD BEECHER. Subject net yet announced TUESDAY EVENING, iVbrnurJ 1. HORACE GREELEY “Tlie Woman Question.” TUESDAY EVENING, February rt lectures will be delivered in the Academy of Music on the'day* named. for tho benefit of the Young Men’s Christ Inn Association of Philadelphia. Tickets for the course of four lecture will he soul at Dufliold Ashmead’n book store. .So. 72t Chestnut «!.. mi *rm‘.viay»Nov.3o; Single Tickets, on Wednesday, Dec. 1. Be»errpd Seats, Coarse Tickets, $2 SO: Single Ticket*, 75 cent*. Family Circle, 50 cents .£3” KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. GREENWOOD CEMETERY, Corner of Asylum Turnpike & Fisher Lane, NEAB B'RANKFORD. 0 A chance is.now offered to aecuro Lots, at the " I*ow price of $l5, payable in instalments, in what is admitted to be the fceflt adapted grounds for Cemetery purposes near Phila delphia, being romantically located* perfectly dry and AeantifuUr rolling surface. Apply to President—YVlLßUß U. UYBBS, 419 North Fifteenth street. Vice President—lTAßßY M. GEARY, S. E. corner of Bidgo avonuo and Wallace street, CHANDLER PAUL* - Office of tho Company* 1723 North Tenth street. Treasurer—WM. S. SNKYD, * £22 East York street, Superintendent—SAMUEL F. MEADE, no!3 lmrp§ On tho Grounds ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THK STAR COURSE OB' LECTURES. FIFTH LECTURE On .Monday Evening, November 23, HON. 8. S. COX. • . Subject—“PnoojtKss IN Si*AIN.” (Prepared expressly for this occasion.)! On Wedue,d K feyenin % Uo«mb S ., EK Subject— 1 11 Thk Question op Caatc.” -•OnFrid« £ |ven^Meee»b£r^ SiD ; b; Subject—“ Clkak Gbit.” December 7-MARK TWAIN. Dccemo Dcccmllor& _ DB CORDOVA. „ ■ Docexnber K—WENDELL PHILLIPS. Admission. 60c,. Reserved Seats,7s. Tickets for sale at GOULD’S Piano Wareooms, No. 92) CHESTNUT Stroet.and at tbo Academy on tho evening **o^chestraPreltide at 7?S o Vlopk. no2J7t rp§ tv-=s. DEPARTMENT OF RECEIVER OF TAXES. PKUJUmLPHIA* N0v.27, IdGfl. TO TAXrPAYEBS.—Notice ia hereby given that a penalty of Three Per Cent, will bo added to all Oily unpaid after December j buN M _ mellioYi u029-2t§ IteceiYer of Taxes. ' HOWABD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1618 lL|y and USO Lombard street, Dispensary Department. -Hedical treatment and medicine furuiuhedgrataitouslf to the poor. Paiifl (f femttg 13 tt lletiu PBEPAHKD BY MISS McDKATi, Ty hjjrrouml thy pyrtrafl of Gift nrofysßnr. of thef'ol!<*rt«, will l<« EXHIBITED THIS EVENING at IIOKTI CIJIiTBBAE HALL. n ~ . HENRY D. SHERKERP, ur/JS'Gt?, Secretary and Treasurer. JTS* OFFICE <>F “TH E KKLIANCE UeX INSURANCE COMPANY OK PHILADEL PHIA, NO. Z/S3 WALNUT STREET. Pn !L A DEI. PHi A, Nov. 29.15C9. The Annual Meeting of the Siockbolders of ''The Ke diftneo Itii'iimnce Company of Philadelphia,*’ nmlthe Annual Lie, turn of thirteen ( 13) Direr-torn,to «erv»* for the t-tiMting year. »ill !*• held at tins otiico cm MO.V DAY. D-cen,b.-r :30th. Iv/M, at 12.»'ch«-k M. no'jy to dr \VM. t'HL 88, Secretary. . ■The following is .the passage in the pastoral letter of the Archbishop uf Paris, which, ac cording to a cable telegram, it is believed the limtieror inspired: •‘Finally, my dear brethren, the statement respecting the ard.tr with widen certain dog mas Would be earned by acclamation,by a ma jority of the Bishops, thus supposing the lib erty of their colleagues whose, conscience may not be penetrated with the saute irresistible light, hardly merits stopjdug to refute it. (Jootl sense and history protest against these evil and idle insinuations, if for the gravest reasons the Church judge** it necessary to impose under the pain of eternal damna tion au obligation to believe in the future what she hits not asked you to believe up to the present, she will not, in a manner, bring her act into disrepute by depriving it of the condi tions which will recommend it to your favor. She will hot pronounce, from enthusiasm, a penalty so temble as anathema, nor would it be proper for live or .six hundred bishops as sembled to deliberate on such grave interests, to decide by force of numbers, disdaining to hear and satisfy scruples modestly presented, if there should be any entertained. The Church has never treated souLs in this man ner, and will she commence to do so now V . “lnthe Council of Jerusalem. which was »be first and has served as a model, delibera tions were held, although all the members of that'august assembly were personally infalli ble and could decide from their own opinion based upon the highest authority. An Oecumenical Council is held three centuries 'later' to define and formally specify the faith of the Church respecting the Incarnation of the Word, or, in other terms, the I>i vinity of Jesus Christ—the fundamental dogma o)' Christianity, for which'.millions of. martyrs hud died, and which had overturned all an cient religious and conquered the world, despite the Roman legions and laws of the Empire. Certainly, if any dogma, could es cape deliberation, It was tins: if there was ever ati error.glaring and absurd, from a Christian point of view, ft was that of Arina; yet it was upon such matters the Council of Nice delibe rated, and heard, weak as they were, the rea sons of the opponents —they did not vote by acclamation. This precedent—not to speak of' -the other—ought, dear brethren, to reassure yon; there will not he less freedom at Homo than fifteen centuries ago at Nice; and the ap proaching Council will not tarnish its labors by suppressing discussion. •‘Yousee, therefore, there is nothin" seri ous nor reliable in the alarms which you have conceived on the subject of the council, from the words of speculative or irreflective and ill-minded persons. Tlie object of this as sembly is elevated and of supreme import ance ; its labors will he conducted with the wisdom which the presidency of the Holy Father guarantees: the bishops will carry there an equal anxiety for their dignity and your interests and rights, hot you aid them by prayers and good works, and, in order that they be more, meritorious and efficacious, profit by the grace which the Sovereign Pon tiff accords under the form of plenary in dulgence.'’ no“ 0 S 4 27 29rt>5 Trunpraann. the Murderer. Examined by Phrenologists. IKrwn tho Pall Mall Gazette of Nov. 18th. 1 It may interest tho disciples of Gall and •Spurzhoim _to .learn that Traupmann, the assassin d la ‘mode in Paris, has boon subjected to the scrutiny of M. Berger* a,'French pro fessor of phrenology., TThe results of his in vestigations are at V‘ asr ' startling,_ and to the uninitiated might appear contradictory. The most highly developed organ of Traup mann’s head is the love of children. With 'the memory 'of ' his ' recentr ex ploits fresh in one’s mind this an nouncenfient is calculated to take one ' by sur prise, but the learned professor explains that an abnormal development of the bumps of combativoness, secretiveness and acquisitive ness enables an otherwise benevolent person to overcome hie philanthropic tendencies. The well-known M. Dcsbarollcj has also been admitted to examine tho hands of tho Pantin murderer, but his report is less favorable. In tlie lines of the palm ho reads the sign of many evil passions, and traces a general resemblance between his fingers and thoso of the notorious Duraollard, who was executed a few years ago for having murdered six toon girls in seven years. _ —Dumas gobs to Homo to report' the (Ecu menical for the//iberff. SPECIAL NOTICES. jJJ>* lIOSKFOPATint HOSPITAL PATH, At Ilorticwltural Hull, Will Close To-Morrow Evening, 30th lnst.» At 10 O'CLOCK .Many beautiful articles remain to be sold, all of which it is desired to close, and bantam* muy bo ex popped, /Jarl ftentz’s Band will furnish music. n029-2trp THE HAHNEMANN WREATH, ? IKS* GRAND VOCAL AND JNSTRtX JIENTAL CONCERT. In aid of tho SPRUCE STREET BAPTIST CIIURCIf* T.'ndtr the Auspices of the Youm; People's Association _ „ . SOLOISTS: MR.CIfAH. D.JARVlS,Pianist* 31 It DAVID D.MOOD, Oreanist, MISS VIRGINIA PARTS,Soprano. ( Pupil of Prof. Bar ill.) HISS CABBIE .IAItVIS. Soprano, MRS. JAKVIS DAVIS, Oontrafto. -Bit. G. A. CONI.Y, Ba«w». ( l*npU of ITof.llarjlU Prof. BAIULL will (by request) accompany Mian PARIS ami Mr, (‘ONLY. . A talented Chorus of Ladle* and Gentlemen, who have kindly volunteered, w ill ansiet on the occmdou. Concert wlllhe lield at the ' CHURCH. SPRUCE Stm t, below Kitth, On THURSDAY EVENING, December 9th. I m. Doors open at 7 o'clock, P. 3t.. Concert at a % before*. Director. L. C. GUOPENGIESSEIt. , Tickets, admitting on»>; fjfi; admitting two, .'JO. To be hud at the Mutdc Store of \v. 11. Boner, 1102 Chestnut street, the Koonin of the Baptist Publication Society. No. 6.10 A rch street, and at the Church on the evening of the Concert. Jt§ ITS*” OiUKNTAI/ AN l>~iills)Tto LA Nils' UtSr Do not fail to bear the Hon. IHRA EL' ft. DIEHL on the abo\ e eubject. at the Second Reformed Church. »v*\>utb street, .d»ot Brow ». on the following eve.niuus* MONDAY EVENING. InremWrt>th. \, . TUESDAY EVENING. J>«wmbor Oh. MONDAY EVENING, D.-cember I.‘sth. TUESDAY EVENING: D-cmlerlßh, At !iHlf-pa*t 7 o dock. Ticketi. for th*- « outv i four lecture*,), #lOO. Siuglo Lecture, ,V) cent.*. Tb keis for »aie b> GeoryeC. Drnggist, Sixth and Poplar streets, and at the door on the evening of Hie Lecture. _ no‘jyAdH-2t5 WiJLA UKhimJA EXCHANGE iMy COMPANY. Novi.mbkk 29, 1809, NOTICE.-*A general meetim? of the Stockholders of the Philadelphia K.vhanif** Company will be held on MONDAY. Dec. tf, P*J9, at noon,at the Exchange (room No. third floor), for the purpose of electing niua manager* to serve during thct?n*uim? year, and for the trau»attion of other business. IKS*' THE ANNUAL SALE OFTsEFCL and fancy urlu le. will be he'd at the Children's Dome. Forty-lirst street, above 31arket. Open from TUESDAY. Nov.:w,to THURSDAY, Dec. 2. Cat-. im«# tbr‘r'iw-r r-u-n five o inutffc. ■ It 1 * rUECEC'UIEIBU AL COUXCII*. file Archbishop of Paris’s Tlem of the Council. THE PAIUS TRAGEDY, PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1869. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE LETTER FROM PARIS. fCorrmpondsuce of the PbilndclDhia Even n"s Bulletin. Paws, Tuesday, Nov. 10,180!*. —Foy once, I think, it may bn said that every one rejoices over a law of the Empire, and is glad that the dispacefnl saturnalia, dignified by the name ..of electoral meetings, are about to come to an end. But these scenes have not been without their utility, and have taught the people, while it,was yet time, and at an easy rate, a lesson which has on former occasions been much more dearly paid for. .Just such things took place in 1850-1 ; but that was after a revolution, and after the days of dune. Fortunately, the experience has, in this instance, been gained beforehand. ilio country has been warned in what direction it was goiDg, and whither a few demagogues, at the head of a few thousand ruffians, were again preparing to lead it. As M. Allou ex pressed it, France was just about again being “tossed” between the two extremes ofajnarchy .and despotism. But ido not think that the nation will he again so easily “surprised’’ into what happened on the 2t>th of Fobru ary, 1818, or on the 2nd of December, 1851. There has been a serious re-actiou in public opinion, here iu Paris, and even if the ultras should carry the day in the approaching elections, their success will do more to alarm the Capital than to strengthen their ownctmae. When the people have heard Jules Favre called a “Jesuit in disguise Carnot described as a “Reactionist of 1848";” and the Wec/c,pronounced to ho'ttaeJourno/ rfes oritturrals, they begin to open their eyes anti ask where they are going to. Moreover, Rochefort has had time to mate an ass of himself, and Dedro Rollin to show the white feather by refusing to trust him self across the frontier. AU the’ healthier portion of the population has been thoroughly disgusted. All this has done good: it has separated the-chaff from-the wheat— men like Jules Favre, Picard and Jules Simon from the mere revolutionary element, and left the latter in complete isolation, and, it is to he hoped, in comparative impotcncy. The government, no doubt, eonspirator-like, has thought to play its old game over again, by lirst letting loose tho worst, elements of society, and then coming forward to “save” it. But it may find itself mistaken, and .learn that by teaching the nation to rouse itseiJ in self-defence, it has at the same time given it a new lesson in self-government and stimu lated afresh the desire for emancipation, The Court,meanwhile,continues its round of amusements at Compiegne, and we are daily told how much game, has- been bagged by the Imperial guests. Sometimes the Emperor joins the shooting party, but not often; and it is remarked that he set his to do so more for the sake of appearances,and in order that the fact of his being present may be chronicled by the semi-official newspapers, and noticed as au indication of his “ complete recovery,’’ than for the pleasure he derives from his once favorite sport. 1 am ossified,, however, by those who are well placed for forming a judgment, that the Emperor's malady Is i]uite as much connected with the mind as the body. lam told that he is “prifon'ifinent deeourage.” He feels that everything is to be begun over again, and that he has neither the youth nor the vigor to face the task. He 1s greatly Isolated, too; he has lost nearly all his old friends; he feels that his present ministers are nobodies, and he has tried in vain to get. new ones on his own terras. In this'predicament he lets tilings take their course, and simply does—nothing. East Sunday was the./Vfe of the Empress, in honor of which there were tire-works, ami a review, and a grand dinner, concluding with a ball. But those who are present report that there is a visible ert'ort about all ibis gayety: and tho whole party feel ill at, ease, like persons who, even though dancing, are conscious that they are /.dancing xur tin voU-an. Of serious business, very little appears to he effected, because the present ministers hardly believe that they will be in office when the measures they are called upon to concoct are presented to the Chamber, ami scarcely, per haps, themselves desire that they shoufil fee. ft is thought that the Emperor must have some great object in view iu detaching from his person, at a moment , like the present, almost the only old friend ho has abont him, and sending General Floury to St. .Petersburg. In Prussia lie Is accused of a design of under mining the good understanding which exists between that country and Russia, and of en deavoring to purchase a close alliance with the Latter at the price of the settlement of the Eastern question in conforming with its views and wishes. At home,.the mission of General Fleury has revived tlie suspicion that the Emperor seeks, at least, to attract, public at tention to his toreign policy, in order to create a diversion from domestic incidents. It Is certainly very remarkable that a man like Fleury should have been sent away at a time when'the government is known to have made every preparation against insurrection, and when there were so many old and tried diplo matic servants by whom the post might have, been better tilled, instead of taking the very man whose services might he so much needed at home. By way of pretending to “do something” tlie * government has just published a long de cree, professing to “regulate the official rela tions between the Executive and the t\yo Chambers.” in accordance with the late Senalit* Con nullum. But when one comes to look over its twenty-four articles one finds that it is a very poor affair indeed, and that, as far as the Semtu-sCoiisiiltuni is concerned, if ueedhardly have been published'at all, for it scarcely makes any change in these “ rela tions" from what they were before. Indeed, all that the decree does is to sanction direct rela tions between the Presidents of the .Senate and the Corps Legislatif in the case of bills voted by the latter and sent buck by tho former for reconsideration. But there is not one word about ‘‘joint committees” of the two Houses for the purpose of deliberating together and coming to an understanding, nor of the in troduction of any of that constitutional ma chinery of which it is well known tho Kmpc ror is so suspicions. »»d to which he is stf averse. If all'the other “intentions” of the Senntm Vormdlum be carried out no bettor, nor more fully, than these "regulations” carry out the exited actien of the two branches of tlie Legislature, the July Message might jnst-as well have never been delivered at all- The electioneering news of this morning is important. >l. Carnot, who was beaten by Gambotta, comes forward to oppose Roche fort, and is supported by the Slide, the Temps, and chief democratic organs. It is also an nounced that Felix I’yat, another ultra, retires from his eandldateship, recommending the election of ah “ou frier" in his place; hut tho onvrier does not seem to be forthcoming. In face of these events, and the defection of Ledru Rollin, the cause of the ultras is cor tainly not so strong as it was. A Parisienne found her. seat in a railway carriage occupied by an old lady tvho utterly refused to give it up. “Very well,” said tho lady, “ I will then sit upon you all tlie way to Marseilles which she did. and the old lady was taken out fainting from fatigue. OUR WHOIiJJ COUNTRY. The Approaching Nesslon of Congress--- Important MeHHiiresto be Considered. ' The* Washington correspondent of the A'. T. Herald, speaking of the mattops which will come up for consideration in the approaching Congress, says: . “The Cuban question will come up for im mediate action, and although a remarkable unanimity of sympathy exists on the subject, it is not likely .that thecountry will be spared a few able speechesand a raft of meaningless harangues. The American eagle is expected to soar aloft to the highest pinnacle of national glorification. J udging from the viows t of those who are gifted with the ability to con ceive an idea,! lougrcss will take strong grounds in favor of Cuba, Whether directly or by increasing tlie powers of the Executive cannot be said. Congress, having reassembled in January, the linancial question will consume weeks of discussion and tinkering, in which funding and specie payments vrill ho the load ing feature*. Tlie various appropriation bills for tlie different branches Of the government will, as usual, constitute a, protracted and perplexing fund of controversy,verbal rencon tres and ludicrous scenes. TheOhina mission, which it is understood the President-ill his message will suggest he raised to the first-class, will give an opportunity to Kurnner to venti late his new ideas on the yellow man. The St, Domingo annexation will be disposed of amid a torrent of eagle screams and salvos of bombast. The project of the Darien ship canal will doubtless ho put in a tangible shape. The other measures set down for legislation are the hills fortaking the census, the Para guayan controversy, revenue, and reconstruc tion in the cases of* Virginia, Mississippi and Texas for readmission. As usual, the army is likely to get another blow from the military failures who have managed to get into Con gress, and have proved as much of an embar rassment to Congress as they were to tlie army. / ■ ■ ■ The. session, altogether, promises to be ox citing, and will run far into summer. In the Senate some reorganizationwill bo necessary in the Committees on Appropriations and Na val Affairs, in consequence of the death of Mr. Fessenden and the resignation of Mr. Grimes. It Is generally admitted that Mr. Morrill, Mr. Fessenden’s Auccess or,'a» a matter of courtesy, will succeed to the Chairmanship of the Com mittee on Appropriations. There are several aspirants for the place of Mr. Grimes; Mr. Cragin, who is the oldest Senator, will proba bly succeed. MI'BDER IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. Shocking Termination to a Dance— Frightful Work with the Knife—One • Teuton Stabs Another to tbc Heart- Escape ol the Alleged Murderer. At a little before one o’clock yesterday morning, as officer Act and private watchman ■W.aldman were passing through Bowery street, Newark, N. J., they heard cries of “Watch! watch!'- issuing from tha lager beer saloon of a German named Hesse, at No. 82. Officer Fisher immediately proceeded to the house, and knocking on the door asked what She trouble was. Hesse answered in broken -“English, “Oh, notlung but a man’s nose.bleed ing.” The officer was not satisfied with tins reply, and went round to the back of the house, and forced an entrance, when he found the room in the utmost disorder, and. the apparently lifeless body of a man lying on the floor, with a deep gash from which the blond flowed freely.- At this moment Officers Fisher and Gort - entered the . place and arrested all the persons present. Upon ex amination it was discovered that tho wounded man was sinking fast, and died five minutes after the officers entered. The wound from the effect of which the man died was three and seven eighth inches long, and appears to have been inflicted by some very sharp weapon. Medi cal men state that the wound must have been inflicted by some person who stood very near the deceased and quietly drove a long-bladnd, sharp knife into his side, and afterward turned the weapon in the wound. The men arrested as engaged in the fight, were Nicholas Win kel and Thomas Roth. The murdered man’s name was Cornelius .Stahl, a German, aged about 25 years, and had no relatives in-this' country. Owing to tbe fact that all the par ties engaged in the affair are German, and do not speak English, it was very difficult to ascertain what caused the tight. It is stated by the police that the neighborhood* is a very bad one, and that rows occur almost nightly. Devenhardt Schcoup, one of the. men wl*o was known to have been engaged in light, is missing. It is stated that he left the saloon immediately after the deceased fell, and in such haste a* to leave his hat and coat; behind him. This man was*.seon near the Market Street Railroad Depot hv Officer Mil ler, half an hour after the murder. At that time, however, the officer did not know any thing of the affair, and, although wondering what the man was doing without his coat and hat at that time of the night, did not detain him. A Coroner’s jury was impannelcd and the body viewed.-. An inquest will he held this morning, when it is honed something definite may be ascertained.— Tribune The Negro Exodus from Virgluin. [From lheEynchburg ( Viv.) Advertiser, Nev. ftl. I Tlie press of Virginia is every day attracting attention to the immense exodus of negroes from the State. The importance of this move ment in .its variotis hearings, cannot be over estimated. YVe have long considered it cer tain to take place, and as furnishing the trite solution of the labor question so far as this State is concerned. That the vacuum in the labor supply of . Virginia thus produced will never b<f again supplied by hireling labor we consider absolutely certain, and it is equally certain that this vacuum will be filled by the small farmers of the North, who are already pouring into the State. The most obvious effect of this change in the labor of the State will be tthe rapid sulKli vision of large and ill-cultivatcd plantations into small and highly cultivated farms. Radical changes in the staples of production as well ns the mode of cultivation, and above all a vast increase in the price of kind will also neces sarily follow.; The difference between the State densely peopled with intelligent, and enterprising whites, and vitalized by the in flux of Northern and foreign capital, and the State . without capital, and dependent for labor •on the negro hireling, is oeyond calculation. Another less obvious but equally certain result of the southward move ment of the negroes will be a similar move ment by a very large proportion of the white Virginian population. Already the beginnings of this are discovered in eur business and cor respondence with land buyers and sellers. Many of our large landhoklers are so wedded to tho negro that they will employ, no other kind of labor, and as. the negroes leave the State these “okl masters’’ will follow ia their wake, and both-,-, will profit by. the 'change. Virginia has been formed by nature for agreat manufacturing,mining and' agricultural State, and these movements of population point to a speedy realization of the great destiny In store for her. —French papers advise all young men who would marry rich to join the Papal Zouaves, and, according to thoir statements, the heiresses of the Eternal City have eyes only for these "valiant and gay defenders” of tho Popo. The Princess ofSanta Croce, whose il lustrious family possesses the Duchy of Corchi auo and the Earldom of Torse, has married a private of the Zouaves and brought him a marriage portion of a million. Tho grand daughter of Princess Barberini is, since a few days, the wife of a Zouave belonging to one ot''the most modest families of Belgium, and the young ■ Countess iof Falyacappa has fol lowed their example. by marrying a voting lioutonant withorit name or fortune. A good many more such-matches are said to have been contracted. CCVNGBEAW. AMUSEMENTS. SECOND CHOI- 01-KKA, —There is good reason for believing that the season of German opera which closed on Sa turday was not sttccessfurpectiniarily. During the first week the audiences were moderately large ■ but the orchestra and chorus were so bau that the company lost what prestige it. had, and in the second week, when important improvements had been made in these particu lars, the number of persons present upon each evening was painfully small. But tho fact is, that from the first vory little confidence was felt in the ability of the coippany to give satis factory performances. The operas were of the very highest character, and most of them are given hero so rarely that many persons wote attracted by the mere announcement of their presentation. But, however creditabla,may have been tbe courago which impelled Mr. Grau to attempt such difficult world*, it is a melancholy truth that his means were not equal to the satisfaetory ful filment of his ambition. Many of his singers, by reason of imperfect education or loss of power, were wholly incapable of singing the music that belonged to tlioir respective char acters, and they made a very bad mess of it whenever thoy appeared.: Others, again, had lost tho freshness and beauty of their voices, and their struggles to accomplish their tasks produced a painful effect upon the listeners, who perceived the violence of the efforts made, and remained in constant anxiety lest there should bo absolute failure. One singor alone was in good condition, and he gave unfailing Sleasure wheneveirfje appeared. We refer to Ir. Habelman, wnose sweet voice atoned, in some measure* for the deficiencies of his colleagues. The chorus, throughout the entire, season, showed a want of training, if not of real inability to sing the music properly; and the orchestra, until Mr. Dietrich took charge of it, was almost ludiciously incom petent. It was second-chop opera. Those who recognized the fact as soon as tfio list of singers was announced, remained away from it altogether. Others, who attended at first, refused to come again, when experience had taught them the true character of the enter tainment. Managers might as well learn the lesson taught by such severe experience as this, and conduct themselves accordingly. Tlio time has passed when the people of this city will support an inferior opera company, simply because it offers pretentious works for a low price. Our citizens know what a iirst-rato performance is, and they will he content with nothing less than that, no matter how small the price maybe. It is nearly certain,that a good Com pany will find support here, even if the cost of seats be exorbitant; but we believe that the highest profit will be secured by tho manager who offers the best entertainment for the price which is now' demanded for tho poorest. A good Italian company can fill the Academy every night atone dollar and a half a ticket, while at two dollars,' or two and a half, the audiences will not he more than half as large. Parepa-Rosa succeeded at the former figures, althoughsome other artistawerefar fromboing perfect, and although she produced a series of operas which have become almost stale from constant repetition by every company that appears in the Academy. .What wo want is a collection of fine singers, a. repertoire that contains a few operas such as those pre sented by Mr. Grau, together with a fair pro portion of the best of those that are more familiar; and then reasonable prices. A manager who complies with these conditions and takes care to present occasional novelties might occupy the Academy of Music all winter with profit. Those who prefer to dis gustthe pnblicwitli the wretched performances' of disabled and incompetent singers,need not’ be surprised to find, at the end of the. season, that the balance is on the wrong side of their books “KNOCK ARDEN” AT THK WALNUT. —The transmutation of Tennyson's exquis- j itcly homely story of “Knock Arden” into a I melo-drama has been performed by Arthur j Matthison, Esq.,in a way which indicates great j familiarity with the requirements of the stage, and no mean degree of literary ability, liis i version was played at the Walnut on Satur day afternoon and evening, to audiences who ! testified their interest by tributes both of ap plause and tears. The playwright, divides tne action into five epochs. Omitting the early Hcenesbnthe shore,whenthe childish “Annie' promises she will he “little wife to both,” Mr. Matthison starts with the wedding, where “Enoch” hears off the prize from his rival. The second act gives ns the scene of “Enoch’s” departure for China, The third, after a supposed lapse of ten years, shows the incident of- Philip’s courtship in the hazel wood “by autumn nutters haunted,” Annie's distraction, her superstitious reference to the ; bible, and tile phrase “under a'palm-tree,” ! illustrated by a dream or vision or Enoch on i the lonely isle. A short act represents the I hero’s tropical solitude, and rescue. In the j last, he dies at home, beneath the window ) where he has seen his wife in the protection I of Philip. To relieve the sombre or at least j sentimental monotony of Tennyson’s eliar- I acters, Mr. Matthison has been obliged to draw upon his imagination. The only vestige ! of liveliness the poet affords is in the loquacity of, the village alewife, Miriam Lane; dexter ously seizing upon his advantage, Mr. Matthison in a turn of the hand entfows this character with a worthless husband d la. Toodles, and then proceeds to fabricate a ! general-utility comic old gentleman who shall ; piece everything together, come in at the con- j sulfations, and piously lift his hat in the i tableau at the close of the acts. This factotum I is the humorous “Dr. Orammct,’’whose gag is I to quote the better-known hits from Shakes- I peare apropos of everything—a characteristic, j by the by, more suggestive of a city dead- i head intimately acquainted with theatres, ! than of a sawbones in a remote Cornish vil- i lage; we have somewhat against Dr. dram- ] met, likewise, for losing every one of his traits and all Ids quotations, and becoming - direly vacuous, in the fifth act. The treat ment of this act generally, indeed, suggests that it was, written against time, towards morning of a night wheutlie author’s brain was especially fatigued. Vet it-contains the one really * valuable touch, of inven tion in the piece, the' one episode that Tennyson himself would scarcely disclaim: this is the singing of the evening i iivum by “Annie’’ and herfamily within,while “Enoch” isj breathing out his solitary life in ) the garden. A immber of tasteful ehorusses I and glees are interspersed throughout the [ piece, and indeed improve it in the semi- .i operatic point of view' from which it is con- ) • ceived. The characters borrowed from the j poem all adhere to Tennyson’s ideal with a ; very praiseworthy fidelity. The difficult J character of “Enoch”—evidently a man of few words, yet forced as a dramatic’ persenage ; to express himself volubly—is written up with a great deal of skill: it is a thousand times j better, for instance than Boucieault’s .Kip Van I Winkle, and it is quite conceivable that an-j artist of transcendent genius like Jefferson | could transform itinto a creation. Mr. Walcot, j indeed, made* very respectable success of it. ; Me was manly, tender and generous. 'Bntcan j any student of the laws of theatrical dressing explain at” what part of Cornwall * the fishermen, a hundred years ago, wore the j costume of ilosanictlo, or why stage sailors are i so generally addicted to cavalry boots, or . i whother the gentle millers of England ever i wont through their dusty lives in black velvet, i sacques and Byron collars? These little operatic elegancies all take theft place among | the adornments of the Knock A rden stage. The > characters may ho said .however, to havo been j f enerally well played. Mr. Morrison, although I is partof “Philipßay”was not adapted to his. ; appearance or, style, kept it carefully up to his j usual standard of level excellouco. Miss Graham, who sustains the role of “Annie”- looked and acted well, and in the scene of the - hlble and vision held the stage alone with | ample power. Mrs. Chapman, always satlsfac- | tory.was successful with “Miriam,’’though wo j . F. I! FETHERSTOS. Msfe PRICE THREE GENTS. .take the liberty of suggesting that if she wauiA read the latter part of TennysonTr poeaa quietly some morning before rehearsal,'Bhw might get a hist or two that would assist her: to dress and act a rather different character, and one worthy of the pencil of Ostade. Mr., I 1 nwcett, as the low comedy' drunkard in » ■wheelbarrow-, went through his motions just as it might be supposed,he would'db, but did' not succeed in getting the intoxication well into his legs and body. Mr? Bailey was at'hia usual point of merit in the Shakespeare haunted busybody. The scenery is cheap,; gorgeous and indifferent. Enoch Arden will or repeated every evening this week. —Miss K*eene announces for this evening,at the Chestnut, a comedy entitled The Saatagt Houseincrid. This is an adaptation by Charlou Keade 6f-Le Malade Imaginaire. the last, and i» some respects tlie most entertaining of the • greater comedies of Mollere, the founder of Wrench comedy. It is a standardpiay of great merit, and although characterized by thepeou- ? liaiities of that French school of which the ■ author was the first teacher, it is flill of inte rest for the American or English reader. Mir. Beade’s version of it ought certainly to-be - clever and entertaining, for he is an adept at ‘ this kind of literary work. He might have contrived, we think, to find a more suitable name for the piece, however, than The thmef Housemaid. A literal translation of the original title, or the Hypochondriac, would have been much better. —Mrs. Drew promises a week of most de lightful entertainments at the Arch Street Tlieatro. Tins and to-morrow evoniugs Oolloy Cibber’s famous old comedy She If oidd 1 amt' She Would. Not will be presented, with a farce. For Wednesday night, Craven’s,* comedy. The. NCcdful, is announced, with Mrs. Drew a* “Kate Harley.” On Thursday and Friday nights, Robertson’s comedy, Single Life,will lie presented; and on Saturday evening.' The- Wonder; or a Woman Keeps a Secret, will'be given. Tom Taylor’s drama, The Overland-• Route, is announced for Monday next. —The attractions at the American, which are already great, will bo reinforced this wcefc. by the appearance of Miss Rita Percy, a-great' statuesque artiste,who has been engagod at an “ enormous expense.” She has received the highest encomiums from the press and people: ot the various cities in which she lias giveu these exhibitions. —At the Eleventh Street Opera House the very successful burlesque of Bogus will be 1 re peated during this week. A number of inter esting novelties will bo presented. —lt is announced that Mr. J. Remington. Fairiamb will produce at. the Chestnut Street Theatre on the afternoon of December 15th his pretty opera, entitled Treasured Tokens. This composition is spoken of in warm terms of: praise by those who have heard it in private. .. Mr. Fairiamb intends to. place*it upon the stage in a handsome manner. The parts will he sung by Mrs. Behrens, Mr. Fairiamb, Mr. Bechell and Mr. Hill, the New York tenor. We sincerely hope Mr. Fairlamb’s under taking may prove successful, and that his . opera may acquire immediate and enduring, popularity. —Another great bill, full of novelties, ushers in the sixth week of Dupre/, & Benedict’s min strels. The troupe have been permanently es tablished, and arc enjoying a very successful; career, judging from the crowded state of the houses nightly. —The genial Blitz still flourishes, and mys tifies his audienco nightly by his novel and; clever tricks, at the Assembly Buildings. —A Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert' in aid of the Spruce Street Baptist Church, will be given at the church, oh Thursday evening, December 9th. —The First Unitarian Church, Tenth and Locust, will give an Organ Concert on the oc casion of the opening of their new organ, on-. Saturday evening, December 4. ’ OBITUARY. Isaac I'. Pray. Mr. Isaac C. Pray, a journalist of long and. varied experience, and the author of several dramas, died at his residence in Irving place, New York city, yesterday morning, of disease of the heart. He was joking and laughing a few minutes before his demise, and was, of conrse, entirely unconscious of the near ap proach of death. Mr. Pray was born in Bos ton, in 1813, and moved to New York in 18;id. Three years later he went to Europe and ap peared as an actor in London and Dublin, lie returned to this city in 1846, and became attached to the press. His journalistic career extended over twenty-five years,during which he filled various positions, txeqnontly that of night editor, on the leading journals of New York. He also devoted some of his time to" teaching elocution and preparing novices for the stage. Among his pupils was MissEacoste, a promising young actress who died a few years after her debut. Mr. Pray wrote and. adapted several plays of the classic school, and in his vorsion of Virt/inius he 8 himself acted the loading part. Koine years ago he became a convert, to spiritualism, and produced a drama -which’ ho. asserted was inspired by the spirit of Shakes peare. It was never performed, as none of the managers could discover traces of the divine afflatus nor anything that smacked of Shakes itearc, save the name on the title-page. Mr. 'ray’s funeral will take place on Thursday, at Bov. Mr. Gallaudct’s church, on Eighteenth struct. He leaves. a widow and several children.— World. A X OTII KIM *E Y Y .** YU.VA NT A TRAGEDY. An Unknown Man Mnrdered-Arrest of the Supposed Perpetrators. [From the Fittflburg (’ommercial, Nor. —{ On Monday morning last the dead body of a man was found at Mill Kun,Fayette county, Pa., on the Conncllsville Kailroad. Tho body bore e vidence of liavinghcen foully dealt with. Tbcrfe were two wounds in the face, near tho , right eye, one of which, a bullet wound, was sufficient to cause death, the ball having pen etrated the brain. Following is a description of tho body:—Kix feot in length, weighing ahoiit 180 pounds, dark hair, lmzel eyes, dark sandy whiskers and light complexion. In one of the pockets was found a coal ticket, an follows: —“Fifteen bushels coalfor W.Cainp bell, October Iki, 1860.” This ticket may afford a clue by a reference to the books at Mr. Armstrong's coal office. Last evening our reporter met Sheriff "Walker, of Fayette county, and Ho stated that two men had been an-ested and lodged in jail at I'niontown, on suspicion of being the mur derers. Their names are Dennis'Sullivan and Given- The murder was committed on Saturday night last; and on that day these two m<-n were /observed in Springfield. Thoy left there that evening, and their previous suspi «ious movements led to their arrest after the murder was discovered. After their ..arrest spots of blood were discovered on the coat which one of them wore, and this, tnkott in etmnection with the confused stories they, tell. of their whereabouts on Saturday night, leads many to believe they were the perpotratbrs of the foul deed. The murdered man had not been identified at lasc aeconnts. D.W.Dull, Mill Bun, Fayette county, Pa.,' can givn further information to those who may desire it, - —The Crown Princess of Prussia, Queon|Yi<v toria’s daughter,ts the idol oftho Prussian army. At the last general manwtrvres at Stargard, she covered herself with glory by attacking, on horseback, at the head of a regiment of dragoons, whose colonel she is, tho famous Black Hussars, routing thorn totally. For this feat the staff'of her regiment resolved to make a demonstration in honor of the intrepid Ama zon. it has presented to her Koyal Highness a magnificent sword, manufactured by tho most celebrated jeweler of BorHh. On the blade will be emblazoned, in characters of gold: “ The Dragoons of tlioPrincess Royal to their gallant Colonel,” - —Why is a balloon like silence ? Because it gives ascent,— Fun,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers