GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
XXIII.--
THE,BIVE AT GETIrySBUR64:
4Y,JOIEN WHOTrinii:
In the old Hebrew myth the lion's Mune,
Ho terrible alive,
Bleached by the; desert's sun and mind, "be
The wandering wild bees' hive';
.And ho who, lone and naked-banded,:tore
Those jaws of death apart,
In after thee drew forth their honeyed store
To strengthen his strong heart.,
Dead seemed the legend: but It only slopt
To wake beneath our rsky ;
Just on the spot whence ravening. TroaSon
crept
Back to its lair to , die;
Bleeding and torn from Freedom's mountain
bound:3,
A stained and shattered arum
is now the hive, where, on their flowery
rounds,
The wild bees go and come. -
Unchallenged by a ghostly sentinel;
They wander wide and far,
long green hillsidesysown with shot and shell,
Through vales oneo choked with war.
rh6 low reveille of their battlo-drum.
Disturbs no morning prayer;
Vith deeper peace in summer noons their hunt
Fills all the drowsy air.
And ani'on's riddle is our own to-day,— • -
Of sweetness from the strong
)f union, peace and freedonrpluelced away
Froth the rent jaws of wrong. •
From Treason's death we drew , a purer life,
As, from the beast he slew
1 sweeter for hisbitter strife
The ohl-time athlete drew
PERIODICAL!.
.1. 11. Lippincott 67 Co., in publishing the
'pelican edition of the Sunday Magazine
ud Goo , t Words for the Young, have intro
uu•d •to this country a 'pair of periodicals
hid) probably excel all others in any land
u• the high tone of their written contents,
sid the profusion and splendid quality of
enilsellisbnients. The Sunday Magazine
Deceisibor cOntains Dr. Howson 's' (the
(qt.! of Chester) portraits of the companions of
t. hall, with a line study of 'Luke. Lamech's
wig, or the. Song of the Sword, is by Rev.
Itintel Cox,' with :an illustration. "The
ti in Fenara,", by the author of
'e ProltindiS, is parsued. These are
rt a few among , the :excellent and
tiled contents of the number. The
tpt rat ors .of this admirable book,
Alle of the best in England; have made every
umber a true Gallery of Art.: , Houghton,
inwell, .Maltony, Small, Fraser, ' Walker,
',Outwit, Virolf, and Dalziel,
_share
heir labors between this magazine and the
'test illustrated .standards issued by the Lea
nt publishers. "Good Wordstar/he Young,"
hied by George 'Macdonald, LL.D., author of .
krinals of a Quiet Neighborhood,",presents a
t of contents most admirably winnowed
em the literary departments of natural his
ry, trave6, adventure, fairy-land and fiction.
he illustrations are as rich, artistic and pro
se as In'the above-named magazine. A good
ttion of the value of these two periodicals
ay be obtained by glancing at the tables of
literati, • with authors' names, published in
.tiiiiLLLITLY. '
&W.; Encyclopedia, with its capital de
ideas and liberal illustrations, reaches No.
and Commo-uv. it is gaining on itself. It
11 be completed within the coming year, and
- tr *umbers (32 pages) will hereafter be
,uell under one cover weekly. But no sub
:Then, the indulgent publisher assures the
'blic, need feel obliged to take the numbers
ter than at present issued, in 16 pages, at 20
nts, helxiondnally.
Applelon's Journal, Monthly Part No. viii, Is
vived from Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.
contains its specialties of elaborate art-sup-
ments, engravings after rare French pictures,
portraits of great men whose faces are
',familiar and inaccessible—such as Sir Wil
• 2 ix Hamilton, Dr. Faraday, Fronde, the his
'lan' and Daron Liebig. The first picture
the monthly number is a very" excellent
- ,el-plate. by •S. V. Hunt, after Suydam's
:long Island Sound." The letter-press is a
itai selection of instructive articles, whether
cience. local history, philosophy or geogra
t. intermixed with gossip and fiction. We
te never seen any unworthy articif • in .
. .......
ii,l(ton's since the start; even in its persi
,;e it knows how to be informing and sug-
Over/and arrives front San Francisco;
th its hunter's bag :smelling of the red-wood
-Ives and of its proper wild game. The best ..
l ig among its contents is F. Bret ilarte's
yl of Red Gulch," which we partake
our readers itt'another column. The pe
ar freshness of the Overland is guessable
a the following list of articles, mostly redo
-4 of the Pacific; In Lava Land, by Agnes
Nannin g ; In and Around Astoria, by Capt.
N. Scannuou ; Expectation (poem), by
iixles Warren Stoddard;' Quicksilver and its
•
ne, by J. T. Meagher ; Legend of San Juan
Los Lagos, by Louise M. Palmer; Down
!ong the Dead I f etters,by Josephine Clifford;
ada (poem), by Mrs. F. F. Victor; Oa*
by William Wirt Pendegrass ; Those
• deans, by H. D. Jenkins ; Tea Leaves, by
i. Tileston ; Minna's Betrothal, by Rev. J.
Ver Mehr, D. D.; For Three Weeks, by
a Rosenblatt ; Old Lamps for New? by
h Brooks ; Her Letter (poem), byJefferson
;.k; The Idyl of Red Gnlcb, by F. Bret
.te, Etc., and "Current Literature."
le interesting magazine of Charles Scribner
1., /lours at Honie, beOns with an article
ev. George W. Bacon, in which he makes
• able fun of the sayings and hymns of the
tualists. Doesticks, (Mortimer Thoilipson)
'Antes an article entitled "Twenty Min
under the Knife," the first we recollect in
.11 a really graphic writer has given an ad-.
t of the effect and incidents of a surgical
'ation ; the business in this case was to re-
:e splinters of bone bruised by a shell some
e under tho axilla. The most instructive
Ile of the month is that on Roumania, (a
:.-known
Wells,`'
full of strange interest) by
Wm. Wells,' entitled "A New Nation-
Mr. P. rAlphouse, Perrin furnishes a
;1010111 stud very interesting . article on
111oier Hyacinthe and the "throes" bt.' Celt-
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7- - 714 e. Independent
Postcript to the famous article in the Quarterly
Ileritu, on the' Byron 'business, showing
Lady Byron's letters to Mrs. Leigh; they are
ritten in a tone which quite forbids us to
think there was any impression in the proide
fume's mind of culpability on the part of
lher correspondent. The same number begins
a story of Russian high life, translated for ; and .
copyrighted by the magazine; it is entitled,
Frenchily, ',"Clemence D'Orville," and has a
great deal 'of merit. The tranplation is. from
the German of Carl Detlof. Russian literature,
elcuacter and society, contain viens of gold
well worthy of being worked by Anglo-Sa_xon
miners, but as yet almost unknown to our
novelists.
Oily:aril, Captain Mayne Reid's magazine,
has a brave number for the month. It has now
completed a year of its existence, and the
gall . nt editor promises to lead it forward during
another twelvemonth with the best results of
his experience and natural ability. The unsatis
factory figure of Ithariel on the title-page will
be replaced by a new design of Minerva, in the
January number.
The Journal of the Franklin Institute for
last month contains colored, that is, chromb
lithographic, views of solar prominences in
illustration of Prof. Zollner's observations of
those protuberances, translated by Dr; A 'fred
11. Mayer from the Report of the BoyalSaxon
Academy of Sciences. The whole number is
edited with Prof. Henry Morton's usual ability,
nothing of interest in the scientific progress of
the month being allowed to escape.
Daughaday & Becker issue fbr December a
number of The &koolday Visitor which can
hardly be exceeded tiir interest and merit Mall
the close-pressed ranks of the juvenile periodi
cals. It continues the second part of Dr. C. D.
( ; a rdette's story ~P luck," and has its usual selec-
tion of sketches, poetry, problems and puzzles.
A handsome engraving, called "Help Me Up,"
is sent for twenty-five cents to every subscriber
for 1870. William M. Clark (Uncle ehailie),
Daughaday.and J. A. Becker, with Alice
flawthorne`as musical editor, will continue to
conduct . the enterprise. Oltice,7 424 Walnut
street.
._ •
The Little Coi•poral; we learn, has a larger
circulation than any other juvenile magazine
in the world; the November and December
numbers will be sent gratis to any subscriber
for 1570. Grace Greenwood contributes
of Mount Vernon" (Eleanor Parke
Custis) to the December number, and' there is
a full page Illustration representing Santa
Claus. The publishers, Sewell & Co., Chicago,
have started a new child's repository, entitled
The Little Corpovad's School Festival, which
has for young folks: the charm of plum-cake
that is all icing, or fables without any morals;
that is to say, the new comrade has nothing,
whatever didactic, but4s, devoted entirely to
school exhibitions, recitations, dialogues, tab
leaux,
charades, etc. A good idea, and one
destined to popularity. The January number
Is now ready. . -
The Nursery, by the elegant taste and the art-'
character of its illustrations, and its pure
literary tone, so far as pare literary tone can
mark a child's magazine, takes, a place all
by itself. , We can only fancy it read by small
ladies and gentlemen. T e most 'idtelligent
families in the Union appreciate and receive
this cbarming little journal. The December
number has some'excellent designs by Frolich,
and a variety of poems and sketches: Some
capital 'Christmas pieces are held over for the
January number. Shorey, publisher, Boston.
Tie Proof-Sheet, a type-founder's trade' pe
riodical, issuing from 705 Jayne street, exhibits
some new and brilliant typographical designs.
Literarily, it has a paper by Dr. Shelton Mac
kenzie. Artistically, it displays a very laugha
ble "Map of Boston and Adjacent Country,"
This represents the hemisphere s 'viewed from.
such a, point in space that Boston appears as
the geographical centre of the globe, "flattened
out at the pole, and revolving on ita axis in
about 24 hours." The Dub is represented to.
admin. Dr. Sanford irot,-; sensihle
chapter oftitik on "Conifo'rt its relations to
Physical Culture." 'We+ , obtain finin" It 'the
half-guilty, modl titat the great , , Dr.
Graham—lie of the "Graharnno" vegetarian
faction—has spoiled „ the New, I.?;ngland
physique 'and introduced consumption' by
means, of his super-viiimons reginten. "The
Childhood of ;Joseph Addison' Alexander,"' an
extract from the forthcomingLifenf sub
.
jest, by Rev. H. C. Alexander, describes a pro
. , „
digy of genhisand early" acquirements with a.
relation's partial fondness. Dr. Horace Bush
nell considera that our Goanells a gift to the
imagination ;: that its tents and Ideas; con
ceived in an atmosphere of exaltation and rap
ture, Can only be reepOnded to by the imagi
nation of the hearer, and are not comprehen
sible by the mere understanding. He insists
on the metaphors hidden in the : - short phrases
and mere words of the oriental tongues—a re
minder proper enough In the case of the lati
page which often calls a . spark "son of the
burning coal"—and teaches that no Imprison
ment of religious truth in words is possible,
since words in the course of time lose ' their
metaphorical significance. Prof. - Schele de
Verse contributes "Birds of I'as-
age." The author of Mary PoWell
continues "Compton Friars." Alice Cary and
A. 11. Stoddard furnish poetry 7 -the latter a
translation .from the Persian: The number is
embellished with some fine engravings taken
from the recent publications of Messrs. Scrib
ner* Co. We can point out no magazine for
the'month which excels Hours at Home in the
variety, entertainment and instruction of its
articles ; it exhibits some of the best thought
of some of our best writers. There are 'full
book-uotlces and collection. 4 of ephemeral aria.
In the January number
.will be commenced a
new serial story by Mrs. Craik (Miss Muloeh),
entitled "Hero," writt.en expressly for this
magazine, and- to appear in no other periodi
cal, even in England. Philadelphia agent, W.
B. 'Lieber.
Lille Liting Age. The 1381st number of
his inimitable eclectic 'nag-4 . 7.11w contains the
'e about the size of Lake Ontario, and NevlT
YOrk Is **Mail tO. : tigure at The great
lakes are the Boston Water Works; Mexico,
Iceland and . BOtttliatneriat contain the Gas
Works; the South Pacific is dotted with bath
houses; Madeira is the Yankee vinegar -factory;
and in the centrept: :Africa is.,,the Timbttetoo.•
Oflitc'of . Thc Aftaidk 21f6nt/ity. •
.11itelteock's Monthly for Ncivartilier has a
portrait of:Carlotta Patti, and choice music and
literary matter for the fantily eircle. r. ,Pnbltihed
at 24 Beekman street, N.Y."
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The next . sensation will he Old and New, a
bran-new Unitarian monthly, under the Con
duct or E; E. Hale; wbo as' a " brick Moon"
• will lead, up the tide of suecess.-,.
The first number, to be published December
15, will contain articles by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Hannah E. Lunt,
Henry W. Bellows, W. TOrighara, Robert
Conger, Sidney Andrews ("Dixon"), B. W.
Emerson, the Bev. E. E. Hale, J. B. Torri
cell', James Walker, and other authors of dis
tinction who reserve their names:
The Old .Franklin Almanac. for 1870 vie re-:
eoivc this morning front A. Winch, No. 503
Chestnut street. The great qUantity of just the
information that every man needs compressed
into this pamphlet of 08 pages' \is remarkable;
we are getting accustomed to; wonder at it,
however; December after December. Mr.
Thompson Westcott, the editor, has filled the
new number with the memories of the past
year (beginning betimes with November, 18070
and .with lists, formulas, tables, catalogues,
&e., of the tustornary variety. The Necrology
of the year occupies 'twenty-seven columns,
and is compiled with extreme exactness.. •
—We iclarowledge the Christian WOthl;
Organ of the American and foreign Christian
Union, for this month--Dr. Payne's Philadel
phia Unirerßiiy Journal of Medicine, for No
vember.— The Medical and Surgical Reporter,
a weekly,' from Dr. S. W. Butler, 115 South
Seventh Street.—The American Stock Journal,'
for December, from Boyer, & Co., Parkesburg,
Chester county,-Pa. .
—BOOK CAT tLOGUES.—Bossartge's Cata
logue cur Periodicals, received from Penington
& Son, places before
,the eye the names'of all
the principal papers and serials of France.—,
Porter & C'oates, of this city, issue a splendid
holiday catalogue, especially rich ,in juveniles.
--Little, Brown & Co, Boston, send us a 7S
page catalogue of their large and 'valuable stock
of law, foreign and miscellaneous hooks.--
Childs's Pithliahers' C'ircular and Scribner's
Book Buyer. for November, have interesting
literary gossip and neWs.
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—A venturesome Gentile of Salt Lake City,
who married a Mormon wife, while express
ing a contempt for polygamy, announces his
dislike of the "blood atonement," which die
thus describes : "Well, these fellows get a
grudge against a man, and they make out he's
done something he can't atone for except with
blood, and then some of the Elders have a
revelation that the man's got to be out of the
way,and then they go for him. 'Taint no use,
then. The revelation does the business for
him. Man's found dead, throat cut, or some
thing of that sort, and that's the last'of it. No
b Ody knows anything about it, and if you
catch 'em at it tain't no use, they all stand by
each other, and you cant halt one of 'em no
way. "Why;l said to my father-in-law one
day, says s'pose if old Brigham should
have a revelation that it Was your duty to cut
my throat . , you'd do it, would you?' and be
said 'yes, if it was the wilier Heaven. Well,
now, if it isn't a nice thing to go to bed at
nightin sucha family as that, with your own
father-in-law liable to have a revelation any
time in the night and get up and cut your
throat because it's the will of Heaven."
—Here is an old but good rhyme :
When Eve broughtwee to all mankind,
Old Adam called her wo=man;
And when she woo'd with love so kind,
He then pronounced her woo-man.
But now, with folly, dress and pride,
Thoir husband.s'ockets trimming,
The ladies are so full of whims,
That people call them whim-men!
•—A Hibernian Society,,out West, speaking
of suicide, said: "The only `way to stop it is
to make it a capital offence punishable with
death !"
.—The editor of the Detrott Post seems to
envythe Patagonians, who wear no clothes,'
because "all that they earn goes as spending-
Money,"
COINWnr.
t , bought. , himof — iolinion,lhe Immo-doctor,
and be said he was dammed by Flora Temple,
sired by black ilawk, and desired by all the
innse l lockeys in the State. I wish they had
got him.
He *as fourteen and a • half - hands high and
one finger over. His color was dun and. his
purchaser was about in that condition also.
lie was slightly sprung in the knees, and his
tall had once been cpt, so that It stood right
on end, and looked more like a bmich or
straw nailed to the end of a log than anythin g
Ile was rather a fine-loOking horse, arid the
man warranted him kind., •
But it Was a poor kind, I afterwards found.
He said lie could make his mile inside of
2.35 Withont an effort. it was two hours and
thirty-five , minutes he meant, unless he in
tended to deceive me. He could make a mile
inside of that time if he exerted, himself and
didn't get one of his fits on him.
He was a peculiar horse, and was subject to,
a variety of complaintslhat would have killed
• any ordinary animal;. but he seemed to stand
them well enough generally.,
The first night I had him, I plat him in. the
stable and gave him a feed. The next morn
ing my wife remarked that she didn't sleep a
particle on account of some locomotiie or
other out on the railroad, that was puffing and
blowing all night, trying to make headway. I
heard„it too, and it struck me as queer that the
engine couldn't get past that place.
1 wept out ,to see about it. It wasn't a le-
Comotive, it was my horse. He was breathing
and sighing unlike any other horse I had ever
heard before, and I was alarmed about him. I
was afraid he would blow the whole end of the
stable out. I unhitched him, and took him
around to Johnson.
Johnson seemed surprised, but said he only
bad a slight attack of the heaves. "Most all
horses has it. It'll pass off, - said he; so i drove
the horse home, and created an impression in
the town that the wind was freshening up for a
hurricane. •
About half way up the main street he came
to a dead halt; I clicked my tongue for him to
go on. He never budged.. I touched him
with the whip. He began backing, and backed
the buggy right upon the pavement and through
a plate glass window, worth two hundred dol
lars.
Then be started down the street like light
ning (slow lightning), and ran over two boys,
breaking their legs and crippling them for life.
I won't mention the expense I was, put to.
You wouldn't believe me if I gave the figures.
I was so busy attending court for two weeks
that I hadn't a chance to use him; at the end
of that time his lower jaw had swelled up un
til you couldn't tell whether he had got his
head on up side down or not. So I drove him
over to Johnson to see what was the matter
with him.
Johnson seemed to feel hurt that the animal
should behave so. But he said it was only a
little touch of the glanders. "It don't hurt a
loss a bit to have now and then; it does
'em good ; but it'll pass off," said Johnson.
So I was more hopeful, and drove home
again without any serious accident, except that
the here slued at a ehiekni in, the road =and
took a wheel off by running the buggy into the
fence. Still I didn't blame him much. Mr.
Johnson told me that "it was good for ahoss
to be timid; it's a sign of pure blood."
The glanders didn't affect his appetite any.
'He ate more oats and bay than would have
run an ordinary livery stable, and not satisfied
with that, be gnawed the feed-box all up, and
tried to eat his way through a yellow pine par
titian.
Jolinson said it was "a good thing for a boss
to be a hearty feeder."
I never owned a horse before,'and I was a
little set up about it: So I thought I would
drive my wife and family in town to church
the following Sunday. He went along all
right until he came in front of Ferguson's
house. Mr.. Ferguson is jealous of my having
a horse, and oar girls don't speak to the Fer
guson girls;. because they said we were "stuck
up" about our horse.
When this animalarrived there he suddenly
began to stagger from side to side and bolt
around, butting his head into tree boxes and
one thing another like some old rain. At last
he fell over the bank at the side of the road,
turned three or four somersaults, dragged the
carriage after him, and then lay stretched out
there apparently as dead as any dummy.
The women had on their best clothes, and
they were completely spoiled, while Augusta
sprained her wrist so that she couldn't do a
stitch of work for a month. And the whole
Ferguson family stood at the window , and
smiled and smiled.
I walked two miles to get Johnson to come •
and look at the horse. He came along and ap
peared as if he wasprovoked at the horse for
his conduit. • Then he stooped down and
stuck a knife Wills neck and let out a barrel
or two, of blood, and the horse gradually got
better.
"Ws nothing but a slight attack of blind
staggers," said Mr. Johnson; "Every Koss
has got to have it. It's just like measles in
children. pass off, and he'll be better for
• I,
We got him home by easy stages to the sta
ble, and there he stayed for three weeks, until
he seemed better, except that he still had a
touch of the heaves and the distemper.
Shortly afterwards I had to drive over to
3lillville to see a man, and I gave Mr. Johnson
ten dollars to go with me, in case the horse
came to pieces on the road, or anything of a
serious nature happened.
We started at daybreak, and had progre_qqpd
about a mile and a half by dinner-time, when
the horse Suddenly stopped short, and wouldn't
budge an ineh.
1 swmested that perhaps the barbed steed had
ibrgotten something and wanted to go back.
Mr. Johnson said, "No,IIL was only one of his
little tricks. Most every horse had some eccen
tricity or other. Just let him alone for a min
ute and he'll get over it."
We waited three-quarters of an hour. Then
Johnson got out and undertook to pat him on
the neck, and the horse got frightened and
kicked until he got one, leg through the dasher
and couldn't get it out.
I asked Mr. Johnson what he thought we
had better do now, 116 said, "It was all right,
All really good horses kicked. He wouldn't
give a cent for a anindle that hadn't pluck
enough to kick. It was a sign that he felt his
oats."
So we loosed his leg and got in, and before
we had time to pick up the lines he gave a jerk
and started down the road at lightning speed—
lightning for him, that is—and ran the buggy
into a ditch, and them tried to, jump over a. :
fence, but failed miserably and got another
blind stagger on him and laid there until nine
o'clock that night. ' '
I didn't get to see that man at and,
in fact, I haVen't'seen him yet. Johnson said
it Was a good tbing,.'atiyhoiv, for, they bad the
fever doWn there, and I,ouglit: to consider, it a.
Providential thing'that the. horse was •taliekt
just as be was.' If we had gone' to we
"night both have been dead men.
THAT 11012 HE OF MINX
BY JOBB QUILL.
it 1$ singular liow Johilson always looks on
the brig4t Side of things when that horse is
cootertod.
~Then i thought that perhaps . after - all I bad
better sell the horse, he was so :much trouble;
I advertl.sed hint. Trionum who came. to
buy bin was not as hopeful as Johnson; Ile
Said the horse was spavined, foundered and
'distempered. Ile had-the glanders,and bearea
and blind staggers and bots, and rivbone.and
number of other infiruilties that.l deret care
to mentton.. He said the horse was too hard
in the mouth, too. .
"And I,don't like :to p A
ull . too hard: on :
hoMe, you knoW,". said he, "for I larow a
man who split a horse' in half jerking at
him."
• So I told this man I wasn't much at driving
a bargain, but still if he would take the horse
off of my hands for any reasOnable 'sumo he
might have him. Its said he wouldn't assume
the risk of driving him for less than ten dol
lars. So I gave him that sum,ami he took him
away. But he hadn't gone more than a half a
mile before the horse got another blind stagger
on him, and laid down, and gasped, stretched
his legs out and then died, and broke for home
heaven for all I know.
Mr. Johnson was called in, but he cOrthhi't
do anything for him. Ile only said he con
sidered ita good thing,"for the horse, you
know, must have- suffred aa good deal, and
now he is out of his misery, and as you're a
kind-hearted-man, Mr. Quill, you ought to be
glad." So I was, but I didn't feel exultant
.when Johnson handed ima bill of ono hundred
dollars for professional .services. It didn't
seem fair. But 1 never. had any luck with
hoises,any how, and I don't care to specu
late again.
ABIUSEAIENTS.
—At the Arch Street Theatre, to-night,
the
..comedy entitled 9 The Wonder will be
presented, with the drama he .S'even
For Monday, Tom Tavlor's• play, The Over
land Route, is announced. •
—At this Chestnut, this, evening, Bald
9iilt's comedy, Hunted Down, Will be giten,
with the comic drama, The Jacobite. On
Tuesday, Patrice, a new play by au American
author, will be. roduced. The theatre will be
closed on Monday night to secure proper re
hearsal of Patrice.
—At the Walnut this evening, Uncle Tom's
Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, will be pro
duced. On Monday, Miss Bateman in Ilan/
Warner.
—At the American this evening there•wiil
be miscellaneous performances of unusual ex
cellence.
—On Monday night next,at the Academy of
Music, Mr. John B. Gough will deliver the
first of a series of fbur lectures, given under
the auspices of the Young Men's Christian
Association. The subject of the discourse win
be "Circumstances" - Tickets for these lectures
can be procured at Ashmead's, No. 724 Chest- •
nut street. The remaining lectures will be giv
en by Mr.Gough,Mr. Horace Greeley and Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher.
—Signor Blitz, the great, necromancer, will
give an entertainment at - Assembly Buildings
this evening.
—Messrs. Carneross & Dixey will produce,
this evening, several amusing burlesques at
the Eleventli Street Opera House.
---D uprez & Benedict's minstrels appear this
-evening in an excellent Ethiopian entertain-
Mew. The prograuuue includes several laugbar ,
ble burlesques.
—The first of Mr. Charles H. Jarvis's series
of six classical soirees will be given en Satur
day evening next, in Dutton's piano ware
rooms, No. 1128 Chestnut street.
—The new organ of the First Unitarian
Church, Tenth and Locust, will be opened
this evening, on which occasion there will
be an organ concert.
—The lectures -on cookery now being de
livered every morning at the Assembly Build
ing, by Professor Blot, are worth hearing.
They are full of instruction and are very
pleasantly delivered. The Professor will ap
pear every morning until the 9th inst., Sun
day excepted.
—The Junger Miinnerchor's concert, given
last evening at the Musical Fund Hall, was
one of the best musical treats of the season.
The Germania, Orchestra assisted, and, led by
Mr. Hartmann, their playing was much better
than it has lately been. The overtures to
..oberon and William. Tell, the scherzo from
Vendelssohn's ilid-summer _Night's Dream, the
love by "Andante con moto" from Beethoven's
bth Symphony, and an arrangement from
7'annliiiuser, constituted the orchestral part of
Pze concert. All were well played, though
. 31r. Hartmann is disposed ,to take .the
tempo rather too sloW. The vocal
part of the concert was worthy
of the old fame of the Junger Miinnerchor
Gade's song "Die Quelle in der Wueste," is
novel in style and very beautiful. popular
song by Silcher, followed for an enc,ore by
the favorite "In einem kuhleu grunde," gave
great satisfaction. A remarkable work, mn
sioby Schubert to Goethe's poem - the "Song of
the Water Spirit," showed careful and intelli
:gent study, and delighted every .hearer.
Franz Liszt's "Reiterlied" iS agood example
of the new school, excessively difficult, with
queer modulations, intervals and phrasing,.
and Therefore a test-piece for a musicalsociety.
It was admirably sung. This is almost the
only singing society in America that keeps
pace with the progress of the age,and grapples
with the moSt difficult pieces. The proffimanne
of last evening, with its works by Weber,
Wagner, Rossini, Mendelssohu, Beethoven,
Gade and Liszt, was an illustration of the ex
cellent eclectic spirit in "which the Society is
managed. It is rather to the discredit of Phila
delphia taste that but few of those who espe
cially plume themselves on musical knowl
edge and culture were present at this capital
and most enjoyable concert. Still the hall
was quite well filed, and .with people who
thoroughly appreciated the treat presented to
them.
—An English traveler in California, who
stopped at Clark's Randle, near the Yosemite,
thus describes the proprietor: "To look at
him, with his rough dross.'-rougher beard and
rougher trowsers, Western fasldon, stuck into
his boots, you might carelessly put him down
for a coarse, tobacco-chewing, swearing son of
the forest. But take a flower or a fir cone in
your hand and ask him what it is. He will
at once give its Latin =mein soft measure&
speech, and with courteous rejoinder. He
bad a few hoots in the window of the rancho.
I laid my baud at once on , Giithe's Faust and
Robertson's Sermons. Again and again we
met with combinations or contrasts of cha r .
meter in the same individual which,. I think,
could hardly be found in the old world."
—On her way to Egypt the Empress of the
French passed through a.village, the depot of
which the loyal villagers had decorated with a
festive aroh; the inscription was as tumid,
"Vire l'Empereur !" but in the middle of which
viera the letters N and 11. The Empress sent
ono of her officers to the Mayor to ask what
these letters meant, and he received the reply
that they were the initials of their sovereigns :
Napoleon and Ugenie! • , •
=lt is mentioned that the congregation as
sembled in the parish church of a Cornish
village were greatly astonished en a recent
Sunday, when their minister went Into the
pulpit, to hear the following announcement—
!Ai beloved parishioners , - last Sunday even
ing I entered into an engagement of marriage
with a gentlewoman °limitable ageya widow,
and childless like Myself.. 'With God's assist
ance, She will shortly take the' place of that
beloved wife lying iu thei church-yard you
der."
I".•.:LIZIVCRM - „Tat •
• revzsiarn razor= t
A Temwtontan h owl . , i
Cone—Come--comir—COMZ! j
Come out from your blessed 4hodc't r.
waited three weeks, and Pm gorgawl
tired,
s Fa
For you M the forks of the road;
The flre-ily darts like au angryshark 't
At a sailor's leg in the se;i—
And the gad-flies hum like a, rolling ;
While I watch and wait ib thee 4 ,
For thee—for thee—and onlytheet • ,
No other party will do!
I have sworn to this fact on my solemn anillr o :s
With a revenue stamp thereto 4, •
My passion may burn with volowaio force—%
My lbosom with earthquakes heave—
But bore I shall wait at your garden gt 4, ,
For MOO my. Genevieve , k•
O Gonevieve—my Genevieve!
Give your cruel parent some lip
If this won't do out his wizen in two--
Give bun poison and then the slip r
You are mine—you are mine—for I swore rC.
the rose,
And the sunflower likewise heard:,
And I linger and sigh for a note in reply,
Ileitonly a single Word! , •
I envy the horse-marine's careless life;
I I envy the cankker-worm's bliss,
When he looks his love in the eye anddiae.---:
And 'I long for a fete like this
I never will go the fierce bassoon, . ,
Or a game .of keno play,
If from the palace where you are chained , •
You will cut and run away! • '
The east is light with a sudden glare f
'lt tokens, the coming morn ;
I hear the cry of the mute sea-gull,
And the hunter taking his horn ;
Night picks up its stars and other traps, .
And commences to take its .leaye ;
She throws a kiss through the palace blinds—.
She comes! my Genevieve! J. H. L.
—Clipper.
A. painstaking man--the doctor.
—A woman'of Mato—Cleopatra.
—Clerical loans—Lent sermons.
—The hardships of the ocoan--the ices
clads. •
—ln buying sausages one should be lynx-
--When_does a man have to , keep his' word'
When no one will take it.
—When does a bonnet cease to be a bonnet?'
When it becomes you, my dear. • .
—The Chinese picture of ambition Ls a man
darin trying to catch a comet by putting salt
on its tail
—Western wags are trying to deceive their
readers by giving particulars of the shooting
of "A. J. Byrd" in their respective localitim
—Why is a man who hates writing like one
of the inmates of Chelsea Hospital?—Because
be is a pen•shtinner!—British paper.
—A Wisconsin. couple quarrelled. aboutt
whether there should be saJaratus in "flap
jacks," and applied for a divorce.
—A Southern exchange tells of a negro who,
insisted that his race was mentioned in the
Bible. He said he heard the preacher remit
about "Nigger Demus wanted to , be born
again."
—A Texas Sunday. scholar, Misa Mollie
Stacy, mollified her pastor by learning five
hundred and sixty verses of Scripture, nrhiok .
certainly aught to preserve her from ago- ,
Stacy. - _ _
—A professional beggar boy, some ten years
of age, ignorant of the art of reading, bought
a card to be placed on his breast,and appeared.
in the public streets of a Western city as so
"poor widow and eight small children:,
—"Here lies a man of good repute,
Who wore a number sixteen hoot;
•
'Tis not recorded how he died,
But sure it is that opened wide
The gates of Heaven must have been,
To lei such monstrous feet within."
—A 'western newspaper having repeated the
old paradox that if two letters be taken front
money there will be but one left, the Dicks
burg Times remarks: "We once knew a
fellow who took money• from two letters atuU
there was none left."
—The following singular advertisement' ap
peared in a Canada paper:
"All does people what I owes
I'll not ax 'em for dat,
But all dose people what owes me
Must pay me up iminediat."
—A Buffalo poet, while containing three
half pints of divine afflatus, produced the-fal
lowing stanza on dying to slow music
The swan, till then a silent bird,
Upon her dying day,
In tearful so/ /a solo, slow,
Doth breathe her solo-a.
—Speaking of undertakers, a - well-known.
member of the fraternity iv established next
door to a popular livery stable, and one day
an individual popped in, and accosting. the
first person he saw, who was not the proprie
tor, said : " Can I get an open buggy here ?"'
"No sir;" said the interrogated, "we haven't
got it'biiggy, but—(pointing to a hearse which,
stood at the door)--we can accommodate you
with a skeleton wagon ?"—Boston paper.
—A Frenchman by will left his property to
his wife on condition that she should put over
his grave a stone with this Inscription:
Here lies
Adolplie •
Who died at the Age of Years,
in the Possession of all his Teeth.
Thanks to the Dentifrice Wash
of the House of X. & Co.
No. —, street.
Ten Francs a Bettie.
—Here is a contrite literary confession,
which we find in the Pall Mall Gazette. "Not
only are there American adapters who adapt
from 'the British.' but we have lately discov
ered that there are British adapters who aAiapt.-
from the Americans—who not merely alter
American plays to suit the taste of English •
audiences, but moreover alter American
novels to suit the .taste of ' English
a t it
re qs. The tales published as original in
a ~ eeiclyjournals used often to be imita
ti ', more or less disguised (but better dis
guised than, the majority of adapted plays),
from the French. Many of them are. now
simple adaptations from the American,pre
pared by gentlemen of experience who. have
gained their .spurs as dopyrlght . destrosieze.--;
All that is required of them is than they shalt
alter well-sounding American names to.
well-sounding • English names, ' comic
Yankee names to comic cockney names,
what is specially ebaracteristio of New York .
to What is specially characteristic of London,.
and so on.'. .-. . .
—A historical roll of bread has come to light
in Vienna. In lel6 the price of bread had
risen to its highest, and the "rolls" of the
in •
• bakers had decreased size day by day. .One
• day an actor named Scholz apppared in the •
Carl Theatre in a kind of ehounsette t which. .• • •
I excited general hilarity, for instead of being '
fastened with the ordinary buttons,a pair of the ,
diminutive rolls baked at that time were used • -
for the purpose. Scholz was punished by the ••
city authorities for his joke. The rolls of, 1816, . •
therefore, have become historical in • Vientiap
' , .. 1
, W and one of the identical shirt buttons has beem:`, , ..•-
• carefully preserved, by an antiquarian sever.4 -- '.
since. Not long ago the city, anthoritlixt
de
eidedto found . a museum of antiquities • c.
ing to the.history of the city, awl called upott
the inhabitants to contribute to, the ,institu
tion.
tion. One of the very first 4 4iistoricarltd*-1'
jeets received was'Seholesiditorical•breed.roThl- - • •
shirt buttons t which, however, the aushoott eiv „(
returned, with the remarkthat they were not '
I going to begin ti collection of curiosities, but
a Set of historical archives.
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