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ABIIOIIRBT—LACEY —On the let of Deeenther. at
the Chwrch of the Epiphany, by the 11ev. Dr. Newton.
Frantic; liebburet. M. D., to &rah D., daughter of the
tato Vt illtant N. Lacey.
DIED.
CD UltClll5lAN.—On the Zdtk November, Albert L.
non otltobort and Julia A. Churchman, in
the 26th yen's' of lilt age. . ,
The male friends of the family are"respectfulit invited
to attend the funeral. from the residence of his father,
No. 2.54 South Sixteenth street, on Friday, December 3d ,
at 12 o'clork
ENGAIID.-011 the 29th ultimo, after a short illness,
Dania, daughter of Samuel end II annaltil; Fmgard.
The retail ves and friend's of the family are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral, from her parents resi
dence. No. 1501 Oxford street,on Friday morning, at 11
o'clock. Interment at !morel Bill.
FOX the 30th November. flaunah Vex, widow
of the late Joseph M. Fox, of Clarion county, in the
tot b. year Of her age.
Funeral on Friday morning, at 11 o'clock.
600051 AN.—On Monday, the 29th ult., Catharine A.
Goodman, daughter of the late John Goodman, In the
79th year of her ago.
The relatives and friends of tho family are respectfully
Invited to attend tier inneral.from her late residence.
No. 225 Callowhill street, this ( Thursday) afternoon, at 2
o'clock. Intel - mut in family vault, tit. Johns Churo,
Dace street, above Fifth.
TEAL.—Dee.ember 2(1, Charles J gen of Jsmob, Jr.
and Whilst's Teal. steed 8 months and Z 6 days.
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QECONI) DRESS GOODS.
(losing "lit below the coat or importation ourentire
clock of full eand Second Mourning Popiins,llo
- Alpticapa, Moureelineas. &c.
& SON.
do.:-fit I9LN ChNionit fitre4.%t
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I .te DI A CAMEL'S PAIR SCARFS
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CIIBISTNIAS PRESENTS '
()V VALUE:
FYRF: I LA NDELL.
FOURTH AND ABM.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Set Sizth pare for additional Netirrs
To Counteract
Al, opinion. provalont among some . 10m have
tiot tiled ta that because we are on Chestnut
,tre-t, and deal only in a'class of Clothing
nmr tlusn ordinary-Ready-made Garmnate,
our prices tuned boenonmously high, we here
publish EL
LIST OF PRICES.
l.ight W.,ight OS ercoats,j BlibitlCSll Suite.
f rota 80 to 825. Chesterfields.....--.. 812 60
Blach Bearer Os srroats, Pants .......... 500
416.1 4 . az., 525, 835. Va•Rtb............- ............. 250
Chinchilla oserroat, Tx , , . __..—
151".:, $23. 4:. 4.3.5. Whole Suite sz) 09
ii.A% 'el
s2n Over- and
B l 2 g t$ .f rom
Youth, , osemopia, from 87 Handsome
&me sults, all
toB ^ black. 825 to 865.
Child;r7fe. Os erroats from Pins Trepots,e33 to 445.
*4 20 to .$25. . Swallow 'fail Dress Coate,
Caribehii Suits from 85 tot Black Cloth. 816 to 847.
Blue Cloth. ez to 83s.
Prince Imperial Snits from Boy? Jaettets....., 84 50
841 to ar, Boys' Pants ' 360
Bismarck's. 8 6 to az).•
and Whole Snits ee.. 03
tw,rfity.ott,, styles. and
lieut. N't rappers, all grades up to 620.
85 to 835. hietrofolltan Salta
nt
fro 10 to 826_
, . Youtha"besterfields from
810 to 820.
This list embraces only a small portion of
oar Stork, but giree an idea of what buyers
can do, and detnotwirate that
211 e Very Finest Styles,
The Very Finest qualities,
The Tory Finest Makes .
GENTS', YOUTHS' and CHILDREN'S
READY-MADE CLOTHING
Can he gob] and are being sold by us very
much
CHF:AIRE EL
Than the P'•aple think
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Chestnut Street Clothing Establishment,
848 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET.
to. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
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GREENWOOD_. CEMETERY,
Corner of Asylum Turnpike & Fisher Lane,
NEAR FRANSFORD.
A chance is now offered to stcure Lots, itt the
Low price of elffy
payable in instalments, in what is admitted to be the
beet adapted grounde for Cemetery purposes near Phila
delphia. being romantically located. perfectly dry and
beautifully - rolling surface. Apply to
PnEstomir—WlLßUß H. MYERS,
419 North Fifteenth street.
'tics PaEsinENT--HARRY M. GEARY,
S. E. corner of Ridge avenue and Wallace street.
SECRETARY-0150. CHANDLER PAUL.
Oinco of the Company, 1723 North Tenth street.
TREASI3IEI—.Wig. 5. EaTEID,
922 East York street.
ticrEninitENDENT—SAMDEL F. MEADE,
non burp§ On the Grounds.
10°ORGAs'; , ;' CONCERT.
FIRST , UNITARIAN CHURCH, TENTII AND
•, , LOCUST ST 4EN. TS.
SATURDA3LEVENING, DEC. 4.1E69.
OPENING. OF TI.M NEW ORGAN built by , E. J. Q.
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- GT. - HOOK, of Boston.
The following talent will appear:—Mme. HENRI
ETTA BEHRENS. Soprano ; Alias THOMAS, Con
tralto : Mr. F. TIEDMAN. Tenor ; Mr. W. W. GIL
CHRIST, Base; , Mr. J. PEARCE, Organist: of St.
Mark's: , Mr. D. D. WOOD,Organist of Bt. Stephen's;
G DIETRICH. Organist of the Church, and a
lull Brass Band, under the able direction of Mr. GEO.
BASTERT.
Tickets 81. To be 'obtained at 'Music Stores of W. H.
Boner & Co„ and J. Gould. Chestnut street.
no3o tu th s 3trp9
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A GRAND VOCAL__ AND INSTRU
MENTAL COI:I,CEALT,.
In iii;Fof the
SPRUCE STREET •BAPTIST CHURCH, •
Will be held at the Church, Spruce street, below Fifth,
ON THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. 9, 1869.
The Directory take pleasure in announcing that they
Lave secured the assistance of the following eminent
artists : , •
MR. CHAS. H. JARVlS,Pianist.
MR. DAVID D. WOOD, Organist,
MISS 'VIRGINIA PARIS. Soprano.
(Porn of Prof. florin.)
IIIISS CARRIE JARVIS, Soprano:
MRS. JAR.VISDAV/S, Contralto.
MR. G. A. CONLY, Basso.
i s '' ' (Pupil of Prof. Barth.)
Also the , assistance of a talented chorus of ladies and
gentlemen.
Tickets, admitting one, $1 ; admitting two, 81 so.
To be had at the Music. Store of W. 11. Boner, 1102
Chestnut street, the Booms of the Baptist Publication
Society, No. 430 Arch street, and at the Church on -the
oyen tug of the Concert. . [del 47 9 it§
Doors Open at 7 o'clock, P. M., Concert at a 34 before 8.
BEE CUBA.-PERSONS RAVING
in charge the Cuba petitions will please send theta
in to CALEB H. NEEDLES' Drug Store Possible, . rner
TV/ wan and RAVE streets, as soon as.tha
they mar he forwarded in time to be • presentetto (Ion•
grass on MONDAY next, It§
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srEcIAL NMECI&S.
(0. MEMORIAL MISSION.
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OF TIM NOW '
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NEUMED
A. R
FOR S'RE '
Sale of Useful and Fancy Articles
Suitable for Christmas Gifts;
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TO BE lIELD IN
HORTICULTURAL HALL.
Commencing December 9th at 4 P. M
And Closing " 14th at 10 P. X.
Our Citizens are requested to bear this in mind while
arranging for the Fair,
iub JOHN B. GOUGH
AT TIIE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
MONDAY EVENING, Docember6
Subject—"Olretzmetancev."
MONDAY EVENING, December Ls
Subject--"liablt."
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Subject not rut announced.
. TUESDAY EVENING, Yebruary 1
HORACE GREELEY.
o •The Woman Quen!lon
TUESDAY EVENING, February
Ticket« ff.! . these Lecttueli for sate at Asittnead's, 724
Chestnut street.
Reserved Seats is Parquet Circle and Balcony, 7rfc.;
Stage Tickets, fltandlng Tickets and Reserved Seat.. in
Feudly Circle, Mc. del-3trn
003. ACADEMY' OF MUSIC.
THE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES.
REV. ROBERT COLLYER. D. P.
t.in Friday Evening. December 8,
titibiect—" CLEAR GRIT." "
December?—MAßK TWAIN.
Docemlrer s -DE CORDOVA.
December 16— WENDELL PHILLIPS.
.Admitislon. 50c . Reserved Seats..7s.
• Tickets tor any of the Lectures for rude at GOULD'S
Piano-Wareonms, No. 11 . 4 CHESTNUT Street, and at the
Academy on the evenine of the Lecture. . •
Doors open at 7; Lecture at 8.
Orchestra Prelude at lii o'clock.
TEMPERANCE BLESSING . .—
Vint Anniversary Meeting. Concert Hall, Chest
nut street. above Twelfth. sevulDAy EVENING,
Dec. 4. Ptfi9. Hon. Jos. Allison will presole. Prayer by
Her. IL. H. n. U. I). Addresses by and
lets. I). D.. Rev; lierrylc Johnson, D. D.. Thos. DI.
Colt man, Esq. All friends of Temperance nre cordially
invited. del it*
POST-OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA,
PA.
DEC InitiElt 2.1%1.
Maile for Great Britain and th'e Continent. per steamer
City of Mime's. will close at this Office, FRIDAY,
11 , cerober 3.1, id. 5 P. M.
It§ HENRY H. BINGHAM. P.M.
05i. APPLICATION WILL BE MADE
t• Franklin blgurance Company to reissue Policy
26;33. in name of WILLIAM W. JUSTICE, on peenaleen
Li* Wallace etreet. Orieinelunelaid. de26l.
ART ITEMS.
—A royal meeting is on the tapis.—whicli
ought to be of cloth-of-gold for the occasion.
In a silver palace car, Messrs. Claghorn, Har
rison, and a few of our chosen connoisseurs,
are about proceeding to meet Probasco, the
art-king of Cincinnati. It is at the invitation
of the latter, and the/es:if will be simply daz
zling. Mr. Probasco, in his own domain, is a
kind of viceroy of French art, which be has
colonized in the City of Pork. His colleetion
of paintings of that school is unique in the
country, and our Philadelphia embassy will
be feasted to repletion on "carnation flesh."
—Edward Moran has just finished for Mr.
William Bin n ey,of Providence, Rhode Island,
a pair of large marine paintings. One repre
sents the sun dispelling a fog, early morning
in the Bay of Fundy, with lobster-fishers lift
ing their cribsi ; this is the first example in
which Mr. Moran has attempted a perfectly
level sea. The companion depicts the Bass
Reeks, coast of Massachusetts, heavy sea af
ter a gale, gray storm-effect. The same gen
tleman has purchased one of Mr. Moran's
sm all, gray pictures d Ia Richards, deline
ating a Nantucket beach-scene, like
wise his large, water-color represent
ing a dell on Tohickon Creek.
Mr. Moran has recalled-from Bailey's -jew
elry store,where it was imperfectly displayed,
the large Scene in the New Park. It is a can
vas about 60 by 40 inches, and represents the
view over the Schuylkill from ;Judge Peters's
;it shows the new bridge of the New
York Railroad, Girard College, the Cathedral,
steeple at Broad and Arch streets, &c., and
emits the new river-road in the Park, which
would spoil the foreground. It is one of Mr.
Moran's largest landscapes, and his friends
think it one of his most successful ones; an
Indian-summer haze is suffused over the entire
seene,affecting the color and treatment of every
detail. Two destinations have been proposed
for this painting, as the most important repre
sentation of the new Park yet attempted:
one as a subscription gift to General Meade,
as President of the Park Commissioners; the
other as part of the nucleus of an Art Gallery,
to be established as one of the local attractions
of the Park. Mr. Moran has a number of pic
tures him; the "Virginia Sands," which
was blistered at 'Barks' fire, he has Itepaired,
and it looks as fresh as ever. A large com
position, full of a most vivid light, represents
a wreck near Thatcher's Island, Cape Ann.
Ills large scriptural subject, taken from the
Book of Job, and representing, we may
say, the conflict of sea and shore, engrosses
his best attention just now. It illustrates , the
text : " Hitherto shalt thou come but uo fur
ther ; and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed." Job 38, 11. Moran vorks on this a
good deal at night, by the steady flame of a
gigantic kerosenc lamp; the light from this
precious oil is nearly 'white, and is quite avail
able for painting.
--Bail* is modeling the. life-size sitting
figure of Mr. F. W. Hughes, to be cast in
bronze, and: a buSt, for ,marble, of Eli'
Price, Esq. He has just completed a statuette
of flue finish, .representing the piquant°. and
spirituelle Mrs. B------.
—Tho Gaulois assures its readers that the fol
lowing, which it copies, is to be seen on the
door of a small house in the suburbs of Paris:
"House for sale at 6,000 francs, to honorable
people, and not to vagabonds who grow :doh
ou the sweat of the foreheads ,of the unfortu
nate, Back, vnrupyre r Apply in the court.
With refusal:'
—The flax chignons now in fashion are
rapidly Converting Chestnut street into a mete
tun-path.
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10'JLADgo,a . TA;';Tilun,Oit'.:15'0E146* , .2',,i - 04•' '-'7.,...i
FORE) tiff :CiAIIk,r4IS)OOOINDENISk
.1 - der*E'stiOnotlit , r.i.Altiek'- 1..-
Corierf pop &ince of iiiel‘hiladololtia Evening Bullet hr.)
PAzini, Friday, Nov. 19, 1869.-1 said a week
ago that the news of M.Emile 011ivier haying
been Called upon to join the imperial Cabinet
was " too good to be true:: And, indeed ;, almost directly "after, the' honorable mealier
for the Varjeft Paris and went (kWh, to visit
his constituents. , But he has just been sod
denly recalled* the telegr'aph'y:and if what
I hear be correct, I should not be surprised it
the del,sire4 combination has at last. proved
successful, and the cable announces to
you to-morrow that Napoleon 111. has
formed , his • first really Constitutional
Ministry. For Wis only fair to say of
011ivier that it is believed of him that ho will
not accept office, save on his own terms; and
that those terms are such as will give satisfac
tion to all the sane part of the French popu
lation. Of course they will not satisfy the
irreconcilables and the non-swearing party
But then these are determined not to be satis
tied with anything; and it may be said that
they have been equally successful in dissatis
tying every one else with themselves. It N .
not worth while to speculate on the re
sult of the Paris elections,when that result will
be known on Monday next. But it seems not
too much to hope that there is even a chanCe of
Rochefort himself being rejected, and earnot.
elected in his place; so completely has the
"man of the Lanferne" fallen in public: estima
tion. The roilt,indced,of the ultras is most com
plete, as far as public ' opinion is concerned,
and even Ledru Rollin ,himself has now with-,
drawn his name as a candidate, 'feeling sure of
being left in a hopeless minority. But I shall
dismiss politics for to-day, and await the issue
of the poll and of the ministerial crisis, which
cannot fail soon to place us in a position of
greater certainty.
I gave .you an account, at the time, of a
number of the Figaro, which took the whole
town by surprise, and took-in some people as
well, by publishing a pseudo-proclamation of
the Emperor, promising all sorts of liberal re
forms, and accompanied by imaginary de_
crees, of a humorous character, for carrying
out the imperial intentions. This jeu d'esprit
succeeded so well' at the time that more than
2C0,000 copies were sold, and the number of
the Figaro had been long out of print. It his
juSt now been republished as a pamphlet, with
illustrations;_ price one franc, with fifty most
amusing wood-cuts, caricaturing all the prin
cipal persons mentioned "in the text, and
forming quite a historical souvenir of theie
critical times.
The celebrated vineyard of Burgundy wine,
known as the Clos-Vougeot, or farm of Vou
geot, was put up for sale by public auction in
Paris, on Monday last. The competition was
keen, several foreign capitalists being there,
either in person or' bytheir representatives.
Beginning at a million, the bids event ,up
rapidly to one million six hundred and thirty
two thousand francs, at which suns the pro
perty w as adjudged to the Marquis de la Garde,
a French nobleman of the Cote-d'Or. The
extent of the vineyard barely exceeds
one hundred acres at the present day,and was
formerly considerably less, some of the adj,
cent land having been taken into it about
half a century ago. The produce is reckoned,
on the average, at about two hundred hogs
heads ; and the price of the piece, or half
hogshead, in which form it is usually sold,
varies' as much as' from 600 to
1,200 francs, according. to the year
and the quality; being about the same
rate -as the Chambertin and the Romanie,
which three together are known by the name
of les grands tins de Bourgogne. The prices of
all three have about doubled within the last
twenty years. I may add that the accounts
generally from the wino districts for the pre
sent year are favorable, the produce being
almost everywhere above an average yield,
and the quality, so far as yet ascertained,
good, though it is too early to decide upon its
keeping properties. , -
A new work of art has just been added to
the collections of the Louvre gallery, the pere
grinations and hair-breadth escapes' of which
are rendered more interesting by its intrinsic
merit. It consists of a beautifully-sculptured
group in ivory, representing. Venus playfully
bound by her son Cupid,execnted-by a French
artist of Franche-Conate, in the seventeenth
century. The work was originally made for
Louis XIV., and was subsequently presented
by him to the Emperor of China,through a spe
cial Chinese ambassador,who came to the court
of the Grand Monarque: li•&•ng - conveyed to
the capital of the Celestial Empire, the
group becaine one of the ornaments 'of the
Summer Palace. At the sack of that palace by
the English it escaped the general destruction,
and fell to the lot of a French soldier, whose
naturally artistic eye preferred the graceful
product of his own country to the.numberless
Chinese monsters by which it was sur
rounded. Being in want of money, however,
he sold his prize to an officer for a
hundred francs, who, in his turn,
parted with it to a dealer for 5,000 francs, who,
again,offered it to the Count de Nieuwerkerke,
Director of the Muse° flu Louvre, by whom
it has been just finally purchased for
35,000 francs. Thus after a couple of centuries,
this curious relic, presented as an act of
courtesy and friendship by a French monarch
to a Chinese Emperor, has been brought back
by French soldiers plundering a Chinese
Palace.
I mentioned some time ago the fact that
the trees in Paris-were suffering severely
from disease and the ravages of insects. Those
affected, at least the older ones, are chiefly
elms, such as grow, or rather, it must now bo
said, such as once grew in the Champs
Blysees, and the plantation of which dates
from the begbaning of the 17th century. But
I was taken the'other day to see ono of these,
which may be called the "monarch" of
the Parisian' groves, and which is, I believe,
at once the :finest and oldest tree whichlaas
escaped the ,ravages of "improvement," and
stood untouched and uninjured in the Capital
• for more than i two centuries, and a half.
It is a noble elm, growing 'in the
courtyard of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, in 'the Rue St. Jicques, a quarter
which has, as yet, more perhaps than any
other, been left in its original dirt and dingi
ness. This old veteran. stands upwards of a
hundred feet high, according to the account
of its present proptietors, and measures about
fifteen feet in circumference at a height of six
feet from the ground. Its' history is Affirmed
to be clearly handed down by tradition, which
',relates that it was planted by the hand of
Sully himself, in' the year 1605, and in the
reign of Elenri IV.
.ouß:f.wHl:%E,•;P:wwwior.,•i:!:)
I . omeapppdarice of tee Philadelphia Ermine' Bulletin:l
HAnnimisunG, Dee. 2, W9..—The meeting
o the Board of Pisiilit Charities, yesterday
was a
. t:ery harmonious One. Dr. Worthing-1
ton vris'ellOSODSeNefary, and General Agent
by the unanimous vote of the . Board, he not
;Voting. It was not deemed, necessary to ap 7
poiata-Correspoinling Secretary at prmenti
ankwben the appointment ulmade the wishes
of Dr. ; Worthington. wilt doubtle.ss be ,con-
Si 141. seemed to he generally tweed,
however, that the person receliing the ap
pointrinnt should be a Short-handWritei:
Dr. Worthington handed in lila 'reaignation
as á-member of the Board by .aPpointment of
theovern or, .th ifs morning. He Is. however,
a member of the Board. an-offleio, by virtue of
his "position asSecrel ary and General Agent.
ge:/pft town this morning, being; the last to.
leave. His plaee as a Member of the Board '
will be filled by appointment of the Governor;
perhaps to-day.
It is -understood that rules for the govern
ment of the Commissioners of the Board will
be adopted at the meeting" in rhiliidelphla to
miaow afternoon: - ,
Friends of Zachary Taylor Hackenberg,
ordered to be hung at Butler on the 7th inst.,
are, interfering in his behalf. The clergy say
that they have not time to prepare his soul for
eternity, and ask a respite , of at least two or
three weeks.
To give some ideaof the Governor's pardon
troubfes, it may be observed that he has now
pnder consideration no less than 78 (seventy
eight) applications for the pardon of convicts
in Pennsylvania guilty of murder below the
tint degree, besides almost innumerable ap
plications for offenders of-a less heinous class.
Every application for pardon, as soon•as re
ceived, is referred, with the 'papers in the,
case, to Attorney-General F. Carroll BrewSter,
who invariably, after due' examination, re
ports adversely.
Air. Benjamin Singerlv, State Printer, is
erecting an immenSetuflding on Third, be
low Market, to accummodate,his 'business. .
The Odd - Fellows of Harrisburg next
spring, build a .very large new hall, the pro
perty having already been purchased on !Aar
ket square. The building will run from the
square back to,Courthouse avenue. .
STI: OUP.
Instead of a Treasurer who neglected his
duty in collecting taxes from a vast corpora
tion we have the Credit Mobilier: sued for the
neat sum of' $529,000 due the Common
wealth. In place, of, a writ of , quo warranto
calling on that corporation to show by what
authority it existed, when proof cif its ex
istence was prima fade 'evidence that the
State had ajust claim on it, and a failure on
its own part to establish its rights to exis
tence was worth half • a million to its stock
holders, we have a verdict of $107,000 in favor
of the State. Whatever encomiums may
be passed ou any former management of the
affairs of the State, - this; at least, Is satisfac
toty. And as preetic.al beasts—Mr. Grad
grinds in fact—tbepeople of the State will not
withhold their praisefrom Treasurer Mackey,
Attorney-General Brewster, Auditor-General
Hartranft, and the latter - officer% able chief,
Mr. Foster, for their vigor and- industryr in
putting this greats= of money in the Trea
sury. And especial praise will be given to
Mr. )llackey, for the reason that this large
sum is for taxes which his - predecessor should
have collected and -failed to colleet; and to
Mr. Brev,-ster for his maiden effort as Ate
torney-General; for this is the first muse in
which be has appeared since his appointment
as first law Officer of the State.
It is not the habit of this newspaper to in
dulge in fulsome praise or in hepercritical
censure, but the thorough - business-like work
of our executive officers named above, extorts
praise from every one who is not blinded by
personal• or partisan malice against these
faithful public servants. And especlallrdoes
this success against - the Credit Mobilier illus
trate the clear and intelligent financial fore
cast of our present administration, as appears
from the following statement of facts.
When Mr-Mackey took charge of the Trea
surer's office, the balance on band was about
$1,135,000, and overdue loans, payable on pre
sentation, were out to the amount of $398,000;
this leaving an available balance of $737,000
received from his predecessor. After care
fully considering the condition of the finances,
Mr. Mackey , wee convinced that a large re
duction of the 'State debt might be accom
plished without a new loan for that purpose;
lnd be then determined to do what has not
eefore been • attempted in our State,
namely: to begin the reduction of the bonded
debt with the surplus revenues. -To this end
he called a meeting of the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund, and, with an available sur
plus of $1;236,856 58, proposed to call in the
whole of the- five • per cent. loan due July 1,
1870, amounting to $1,642,000, and to pay it on
presentation with interest to date, with notice
that interest will cease on 'Julyl, 1870. His.
willingness to aesumethis load, amounting to
$104,858 58 more than his cash on hand, was
based on an intelligent review of the situation,
and his firm opinion, fortified by his col
leagues, that the half million, due from the
Credit Mobilier, could be made, and used in
the liquidation of our heavy debt. A bungler
would• never have conceived the idea of
advising .that a portion of the debt far beyond
the present ability of the Treasury should be
called in for, payment. None but a financier
would dare to take so bold a step ; and any
man not endowed with extraordipary courage
would have hesitated before doing so. But.
Mr. Mackey took the bold step : and events
have shown that it was the wise one.
The very high credit which our State en
joys aas a protection from too great a
volume of the five per cents being at once
thrown on the Treasury for redemption: • eljie
cash on hand was deemed sufficient to meet
any demands immediately made. And a rig
orous collection of the revenue, together with
the claim against the Credit Mobilier, was de
pended on to meet the voluntary burden Mr.
Mackey was ready to assume. Governed by
these arguments the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund have set aside all the
unexpended balance in the Treasury—end a
sum in addition thereto sufficient to pay the
loan 'of 1870, before alluded to—and $189,-
613 46 of the overdue loan not yet presented
for payment. So that the present actual con
dition of the finatices of the State is briefly
this: All the money now in the Treasury,
and all, above the, current outlay, which will
come in for the next year, are set apart in
conformity with law, by the only legal body
empowered to do so, to pay the funded debt
aids may be presented, and they have antici
pated this payment on account of 'the healthy
condition of our finances the masterly man
agement of Our affairs, and a determination to
apply every farthing not required for the ex
penses of the-State to the payment of its credi
tors ,entithe relief of its taxpayers. Richlydo
they deeerve praise for the faithful and en
lightened performance of their duties, and we
sincerely accord them out thanks.
The London., Times makes the following
statement with regard to the Duke of ,Getioa:
"We have good authority for contradicting
the assertion of the' Madrid, ministerial jour
nals that 'the Duke of . Genoa, if elected, will.
accept the Spanish, Crown.' The ,young Prince
has, on the Contrary, expressed nis firm • de
termiiiatioA to, accept the Crown of
Spain, either now or any time: re,'t
'also autlibrizedtooleny the statement thattnew
Marquis Itapallo has, been 'intriguing
Modrittinfavor.Ottbe election-of the Prince.'.
The Uarquisanpallo,•who is now.in
has never been"• itt" Madrid nor in any other '
art of Spain ; and both himself and 'the
(From the Harrieburg Teleitp/Ph.)
• Oar StatiFlitanceti.
*at .tociwn OF GENOA•
lie Ileframas the Spanish C"WU.
D,uchm of Genoa are, and. have always WO*,
t4trooktly opposed to the Prinoe's..ttecoptaupe
of dm Crown."
CIABAI4V RE4!11111.1014011i.
* . iciniddable (Wisp+litany and "Ininsilnisit
ilpria~ing of Neurdes and Cbduatnen.)
IlAvAns, Nov. 27.---Some days ago ' Croy.'
Trillo
,of Sagua-la-Orande• sent a telegram: to 1
po,b4, requesting him . to push forward all the.
linen he c.ould, because be anticipated some in
Orrectionary morethent in„that jurisellinfou.
His request was promptivattentled to, and he
was shortly reinforcedzwith IMO men from
here and other places( We have since . 'been.
constant receipt of communications
from , t7ipanisb< propertpholders • residing
there, who say that the conspiracy maturing
among them is far more serious than that
. which took place when Gen. O'Donnell *was
in continand of the' Island. At that time_the
Government was assisted by the Cubans to
Crush the negroes, but now Coolies and Afri
cans are incited by the native owners of the
estates to 'rise. Once reinforced, Gov. Trifle
proceeded to some of the Sagua estates,
and committed abominable .barbarities,
Negroes, Chinamen, • and whites, have ,
been lashed and bayoneted, , 1
to use their own words, they sang the natnes.
of their instigators. Immediately after thus
singing, the cleft's have been shot, and those
they denounced have been executed as osum
warily. These proceedings have created in•
tense excitement in all the wealthy Western,
districts and a general rising is expected, re
garding which news I have seen confirmatory
despatches sent, to Gen. de Itodas. Commer-
Oa] advices report the destruction of 27 more
estates since my last. .
A Young Frenchman Shot by Spanish
Troops...MU° Americans Shot at Palo
Pleardo...other Ontragesby the Span.
lards.
The following communication. has been re
ceived by the French Consul in "NeW York
SANTrAGO, Nov. 6.—lnclosed please find the
official report of an engagement„ Sidonia be
tween the insurgents and. the Spanish troops.
It is stated in this report that among the killed
was found the body of Mr. Arthur Cazimajon,
a French citizen, whom, it is well known at
Cuba,was shot at Guantanamo, at 8 o'clock on
the morning of Nov. 2. The fight at • Sidoniai.
like that of Canto-Abajo. did nottake place in
fact, and the sole object'ef the report was 'to
announce the assassination of several strangers,
yet remove the , responsibility from Spain.
You shall learn how 31. Cazimajon was can
tured, as well as Messrs. Clavery and Crosland,'
Officers under the command of General Jor
dan, and. moreover, American citizens. Ar
thur Cazimajon„, a colonel of engineers, a tine
young man of twenty-four years of age, stop
ped at the ceiffee plantation of the Esperanza,
about five miles from .Guantanamo. He
brought despatches froin the insurgents, and
was about to sail for the United litatesoyhen
he was denounced by a negro. Governor
Barges irinnediaiely,ropaired to the spot, and
threatened to sheet, all the einploye.s upon the
estate if Cazimajon With net•iminediatolY
delivered up. The unfortunate Young man's
father was upon the plantation, and boldly
denied his son's.presence ;,but one of the la
borers, terrified at the threats that were used,
led the Spanish . soldiers , to the place
where our . compatriot was Con
cealed. He ' was conveyed to
Guantanamo,, and shot the next day upon
the public plaza. Now, since Caballero de
Bodes hes published an order that no person
shall be, shot except assassins and incendi
aries, M. Cazimajon ought to have been
spared, for he was neither one nor the other.
Herein lies the reason that they dare not avow
his, execution. 'The Spaniards must be made
to feel that France - would prove like the
United States, a redoubtable foe. Our situa
tion is , intolerable; we are persecuted;
•
our, property is plundered by soldiers;
our animals carried
_oil. But two days
ago a drunken soldier fired in the streets
at a French physician, 31. Penaud, who was
in consequence severely wounded. The
American officers Calvery and Crosland were
made poisoners at the contra-guerilla Mendig
men, and were shot by Palo Picardo. The
fights andthe victories which are pompously
announced have no other end than that of
covering np the crimes from foreigners, be
fore whom the Spaniards wish to appear as
humane, civilized, and, above all, victorious;
while in reality they are barbarous and beaten
assassins. And when the Spanish authorities
publish circulars of oven moderate tone, we
are bound to unmask them, and let the world
know the horror of their rule.
The Baekewasek Bridge• Tragedy.
The Newark Advertiser of last evening says
No event of a tragic character which has oc
curred in our immediate vicinity during the
year now nearly completed ,has elicited so
general an expression of sorrow for those be
reaved thereby, or, engendered more bitter
ness of feeling toward the party alleged to have
been the cause thereof; than the drowning of
Patrick Lane at the Hackensack ' . llridge; ou
Monday night; and, if we are not mistakenjt
will be the means of bringing about a reform
in the policy pursued by railroad: companies,
toward passengers not, supplied 'with nekets,
In EaStNewark, where the unfortunate man
resided, great excitenient stiff , exists in re
gard to the affair,.and so general was the
friendship entertained for deceased by his
former neighbors, that a number of them have
been unremittingly engagedin efforts, to re
cover the body,Sance the sad occurrence.' On
the bight.that it happened three boat loads of
menproceeded to the bridge; and. remained
dragging the river through the greater portion
of the night, and up to this time the search
has been, prosecuted without cessation. So
far, however, all efforts to recover the remains
have proved unavailing, and fears are enter
tained that the current may have carried them
to the bay. Of course, if they are not found,
au inquest cannot be held, and the family will
only be able to obtain redress through a civi
suit.
This afternoon the two brothers of deceased
appeared before Justice Green, and made oath
that they "believed James Parker to be the
cause of their brother's death," and the Jus
tice deemed it proper to issue a warrant for
his arrest, in order to secure him and hold him
until further evidence could be obtained. Thu
Justice also accompanied the constable to this
city, and secured the endorsement of the war
rant by Justice Nugent,and it is probable that
Mr. Parker will have been arrested and held
to bail ere this paragraph meets the eye of the
reader.
The conductor, Wm. James Parker, is a
. young man of 28 or 30, apparently of middle
size, and of very.slight frame. He appears to
feel his position keenly. He has not as yet
been suspended from hiS place. but expects
that he will be pending the investigation, as is
usual in such cases. '
The statement that the conductor, James
Parker; is the same one who ejected Peter
Edward Beale.from his train near Waverly,
under similar ciretunstances, on the night of
the 30th of October,
by which the latter lost
his life, is incorrect, the conductorin the latter
case being Ross Parker, a brother of James.
:The Jersey City
. papers say that Conductor_
James , Parker is one. of the , most :meows
rnodating ctflicials on the toact.s and that
when Lane „passed. out, of the car to
the
. platform 'and:stopped 'to the track,
no.l violened 'was 'nor either the
Conductor or brakeman touch hbn. Ho went,
out Without making any trouble: 'When he
real:lied the track he steppedbaeltward to
ward:th o other side of the bridge, ;when con- .
Anetor rather warned hits to be careful or he
ii6auld fall into the rivet. As the ears were
started the conductor ,noticed,l that Lane was
Mill:trievirig backward, and'atopped the cara,
again and shouted W+ahim ' second time'.
to be careful; Jest as , hei•p,irke -the warning ,
the Man fell baok-wards. into' the' river, and
aid was rendered that could be under
'the circumstances, but 'Without avail. The'
train was rapidly approaching the, Ilaclren.
sack bridge-•vrifen the . ecitidttefor ',the',
ie/l-rope to *Cep the train ; hytilelittro'ftpaittoit
"to• a stand 'it Waf4 on the-bridge. fief It' the , Otort
ductor and The brakeman Warnint tfr , it r is
said, that he hatf hotter he careful in vralicitijit
over the bridge . , as it bas `hatuff-ratit;fiet
being dcsigited for foot protßeifgers. urt.
ilerstand that the rules of the company'
'quire conductors, in putting off passe. ,
iihall (10 so in it msafel plate," wilier]; the l
is not.
14TATABIENT PROA TV. .r. fiAtttc.slt, tlfl camp.
kr...fed/tor : Your remarks abdut acrit-i
dent on Monday night aro very severmoultate,..
I regret, the accident very lunch. • I'_ dte'riosik ,
intend to put the man off on the .'bvitige or
in a dangerous spot.' The facts of the iiakteati!: - '
as follows : • ' '
,
• I called on the person fol. aptetrigrat
found that :be could not-find it. I passed'out•
and made the other collections and rettruetit
and told him'he would have to get off arVirbst
17,ndor pay his fare. He told me that he *Mild.
find the ticketor pay his fare bethre he got
Centre street. • • '
After starting from West End I wont toi
him again and•he ofterett:me- a few pennies: ,
then told him that he must-get off the train
and pulled the bell-rope, expecting the train , .
to stop and he would walk back to WtaV
End.
The track was wet and the train ran furth'er
than I expected. I did not'knowthist we wore.'
on the bridge midway. The man was too
quick for me, and got off before I discovereC
where we_vmre._. then called"to hint to be
careful. The bridge is a wide one and coVered.
tight. I cannot , account for , the manner in..
which the man got over the guard rail and..
into the river.
I had no idea of doing anything but my
in the case. 1 have been , on the road foray*
years and no accident of any 'kind has ever
bappened,to a train or passenger when .under ,
my charge previous to this.
Respectfully yours,
WST. J. PARKE* Condaetdr.
—At the. Arch Street Theatre this evening,..
Robertson's comedy, Single Lffe, will be •
presented. It, will, he repeated to-mor—
row, and on t3aturtlay evening The
Wonder; or a Woman Keeps a Secret, will , be
given. Toth Taylor'S drama, The O'vertantt,
11 oute, is announced. for MOnday next:
—At the Wrilnut - this evening, Uncle. Tana.
Cabin; or, • Life Among the' Lotly, will be'pro
duced. On Monday Miss'Bateman
—This evening Miss liNrno will ropeat;' .
at:
the Chestnut, The Sauey Housemaid, an adap
tation of Aloliero's conaedy,LeMa/ado .Intaytn
.
—At the American this evening. there wilt
be misecilaucous performances of unuE!ttaLet-
---The annual concert of the juitger Sfiinner
chor will he given at Musical Fund Hall; otr
Friday 'evening next. The Gennania °relies
tra. will assist. . •
-731essrs. Carncross & Dixey will produce,
this evening, several amusing burlesques at ,
the Eleventh Street. Opera House. . •
—Duprez &Benedict's minstrels appear this
evening in an excellent. Ethiopian entertain-.-
went. The programme includes several
ble burlesques. • ' . ,
—The first of Mr. Charles H. Jarvis's series
'of sit classical soleiezi will be given. on Satur
day evening .next, in Dutton's plane ware
roonis,.N 0.112 S Chestnut street. • .
-At the Amateurs' Drawing Room; Seven-
teen street. below Cliestmiti this even--
ing, Julius •Elehberg's comic opera, Tim 'Two
eadis, will be presented by an admirable com—
pany, including Madame. Josephine Schimpf,
Mr. Gilchrist, 3I r..Barnhurst and others. Mr..
Wm. Stoll, Jr., 'will be present and will give a
violin solo.
—The Rev. Dr. Moriarty will deliver ogee--
lure in the Academy of Music this evening..
The lecture is for a worthy purpose, as the
whole proceeds are to be given to " The Little-
Sisters 14 the Poor."
—A vocal and instrumental concert, in aid.
of the Spruce Street Baptist Church, will be.•
given at the Church this evening.
—The new organ of the Firs; Unitarian..,
Church, Tenth and Locust, will lie opened on
Saturday evening next, on which+ occasion
there will be an organ concert.
—The thirty-second matinee of the Ameri
can Conservatory of Music wag given yester—
day afternoon, at the Academy of Maisio.. ,
very large audience was present, filling every
part of the house. The programme comprised
excellent selections from the compositions or
Rossini, Mendelssolin, Balfe,Chopin. and
others. The orchestral deparment of the in-
stitution was very fully represented; and,
under the direction of Prof. L. Engelke, per—
formed the overture to Taneeedi in the most:
satisfactorymanner. Prof. Ettore Barill sang
"Largo al factotum," from ii •Bintiire di Si
riglia; Prof Wenzel li - opta perforined a solo.
on the violin Prof. John I'. Himmelsbach. a.
solo on thepiano ; Prof. R. Itennig.a.solo. on.. •
the violoncello, and Prof. Emil Gestei sang an
aria from 'flic.:Vigldin Grenada. These gen-.
tlemen are all well known, '
thorough and competent 'musicians. Pro='.
fessor Richard Zeekwer. from the Leipsie
Conservatory, made his first- appearaneeln , •
Philadelphia, and played a.piano solo—Rondo.
Capriccios°, E major, pp.lli. His execution
was brilliant, and his emphasis and phrasing
were excellent. Mr. Max Friedman, who pos
-6045C8 a clear, strong tenor voice,.alsomade
his first appearance in Philadelphia, and sang :
"The Beggar Child," by Gutnbert. The vocal
music by the lady pupils :showed evidence or
'thorough training and high cultivation. The
. most delightful performance was a duo, "Les,
Contrastes," 0p.115, by Moseheles,which was.. ,
played on two pianos, with much, spirit, by
Miss Nellie Bywater,Miss Mary E.Wilson.anth.
Professors B. Langlotz and Theo. G. Boettget....
The entire concert may be set down as a coin-.
plete success e and very creditable• to those.
171 charge of the Conservatory.
A FRENCHMAN
—We saw a well-dressed •young lady going
lip Chestnut street yesterday, with her toe
pressed against the back of her head ! At least
her tow -was..
Ayer's Hair Wigger is a remarkable eom-."
pound, mentioned in our advertising eoluttins...
In these days, when wigs are made out of -
sorts of material, we aro glad that the great-,
Lowell medieine4nau still proclaims himself
Hair-Wigger.
—Modest people have :but one objectioxi
the Hair Vigor. They can't use it witw ut...
taking flyer's on themselves. But they '
remember that it is intended to put new Ayer's.
in their heads. , .
—Lydia Thompson told a Chicago' _reporter '
that her "Philadelphia audiences were cold,
Stiff and Quakerish." The trouble was that bur
people were too intelligent and decent to laugh
at Lydia's crippled jokes or to become en
thusiastic over her legs.
--Gold has been discovered in Lapland. '
Two men who forruserly worked in the
fertile mines wondered last summer over a.:'.
part of Lapland, and it is said found gold.• in
large quantities. Ono nugget, as large as an
eight-ducat piece, was pure. The govern
tricot of the district min which the discoverY
was teeth) bought this piece for ninety-three;,
marks, and then forwarded it to Helsingforr.t.'
The men endured many privations during thek: , '
four weeks employed in traversing an utdiik64
habited region, and • they were finally
pelled to discontinue their search by scarcity of
provisiouS. In conjunction with a third pn3rr
son, who has • earlier"' been , engaged gold
washing in Australia, they are: now petit - let
leg the government for permission to search
for gold. in Lapland. ''The results of tba'atiq
wer's work ot the two mort,were satistadtory,
for they ebtaluetl sixty ounces o 4 gold, tot.
, whieli they received six. thousand Wark.S.
F. L FETHEnnoil
PRICE THREE GENTS:
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41M119M1E 418%
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