GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor; yolivn.:X - ,1411;7Q2i0 . 9;; ; ;.:1,; REIAGIOUS NOTICE 14; T. E R . H OXFOD PRESBYTERIAN Church will ho Dedicated To• Morrow. Services at 1 .107 1 A. 31.,3 P. M and 731 Evening. On Monday Even ing, Ina-. 13th. tha) will be, a Social li:union. Tickets . SI. On Tuesday .vening, Dec.lith, reaching by Rev. B. S. Storrs. 1). of Brooklyn. On 'ednesday Even ing. 7/(, (,'clock, a Grand Concert. Tickets el—to be bad nt the door. On Thursday Evening, Sermon by Rev. John Hall, D. D., of New York. On Friday Evening, Sermon by Bishop Matthew Simpson, and on Saturday. at d o'clock. P. M., a.Unlon Prayer Meeting. -It __—________... _ jr". SERMON TO YOUNG M Ilve 7 Y- UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNI MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 11EV. A. A. WILLITS, 1). D., will preach a sermon especially to younga ninp To-Merrow (Sabbath), evening, at the West A rill Street Presbyterian Church, corner of 'Eigh teenth nod Arch streets, at 7% o clock. Seats reserved for Young Men Medical etudents and- strangers in the city are cordially invited to attend. 111 10. CITY EVA NOEL ZATION.—THE iizd union meeting in behalf of the Philadelphia Tract end AI bodon Society will be held in St. Andrew's 'Lutheran Church, N. E. corner Bread and Arch streete, an Sabbath morning at 10/11. Tract vlsitors , monthly this evening., at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Third etreot. below Wellint, at 71 , 1 o'clock. fif3vonti miselon• alliPS and others will take part in the exercises. Tract for December—" The Sabbath." 1)., NORTH PRESBYTERIAN Chnroh, Sixth greet. above Green. Conannnloit fiervice to•morrow (Sabbath) morning at 10% o'clock. The funeral bervlce of the late ;moor. Rev. Robert W. lienry. D. P.. will take "dace at 3 o'clock P. M. Hie friends and acquaintances, the members of Central Pre.bytery and los ministerial brethren generally, are invited to 'Mend 10. METHODIS T MISSIONARY MASS Meellng. on TUESDAY, I ;Di lust.. conaleting or lktioetlonary Lover Yeagt, in Green Street Church. Green and Tenth. at 2% P. M.. when Mellor, Slmpeou will pre• Bide :and evening nervicce at Onion Church, Fourth. below Arrh, at 7 o'clock, when Bishop Scott will preelde, and addreesce he dellvered by Biehop Janes, Dr. Jew T. Peck And Dr. T. M. Eddy. dell-Bt.rps Ilaa E, TH BISHOP'S FREE U mirth weie Spring Garden, below Broad. The lector, nee. J Bonham, will preach Sunday morn• Jug on the "Now Heavens awl New Earth." Rev. Percy ' Drown, of 81. Philip 4 Church, will preach In the eve n . lag. THE OLIVET PRESBYTERIAN Church. corn-r Twenty meemid and Yount Ver non, having been newly frescoed, will be re-opened for vrorehip • Tobnorrow. Sermon in the morning t.Y the Patton Rev. W. W.. Taylor. At night by Rev. Hr. Y. E. Adams. tu. !EN TEAL COICOR BUA'fl ON AL Eighteenth and Groan etreets.—Tho pr w t o r, Edward Havre*. will preach to-morrow at IeLL: A. AI. and 734 P. M. Subject for Evening— " The DIVILI• Coodncti," The public cordially in vi red. It* ice?'NO II AD ?my, j a I U T P? ITA T li r ( e 4 r " O . ( t i frn -T Pre P t i t i A g t; by the , Ddr.tor, Rey. Dr, Stryker, to-m,.row. Commu nion aerviee in the morning Subje-t for evening Air. couree—"The Dunble-minded Mao." Strangers wel come. . n-Tieo A Will STREET M. E. CH URC IL--- Utz? Rey. James Neill to-morrow at H. Rev. C. 11. Po v at' 7N P. IC Subject for evening—Daniel. the Unr,emp>tohlittllg Yours, Man. Youngnuat eepecially Jut ited. lt • r• — •-zo. W EST SPRUCE STREET CHURCH U,s" Serrlite-rut, and li . prtzte. istreet..—Rpv 11r. orj, It. 1).. pa-tor. Service?, t.o.nwrruw at 10% A. al. at,t1.7:4 P. ,31 Suh.;ect in the erening, "The Uterine dint, • it' FIRST REFORMED CDITRCH 11,1,4" con wr Sr Tenth and Spring Garden 6tMi3Til.- 710. ma. X. lorr. factor, will preak h to morrow at in!. A. At. and 7!;• P. M. Jr ‘ ' l. WORTH D. D PAS iIT'I preach to morroic in the Third ItefOrtucci Churf•li, Tenth strict, below Arch. Ser. 111.!-; A. 31.,734 P. M. THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Waohingion Square.—lter. J. . Mc -71. nine. D. D.. ~t priccwtou, will preach to-ruurrow at W., A. li. and f'• M • 10 *, CALVARY PRESBYTER' AN Church. Lncnet rftreet,abovo - ,ntli.—lbev.Dr. 7lunphrel. Paetur. Stirrialis at 103 i A. M. and Vi P. de{-a- f 3• • C ENtit A SII O'ER lAN Church. Vahth aid Cherry street.—R.i. A. need. 1). D., will preach to-morrow (Sabbath) morning at lig, o'clock. and in the evil:dog at Pi o'clr,pek. up UNITARIAN CHURCH, GEI: MAN tow's. Ser.vice tomorrow morning at 10:i o'clocki , V./ening at /!: o clock. Subject of erasing lecture— John Calvin. Seats fres. It* SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN • Church. Broad ortreet, ahoy° Chestnut.—Rev. William E. tichtrucit, D. D. will preach in this ehnrch to-toorrow.l2th Instant,utlei A. M. awl 35 P. M. It - EVW t . M. S. OWENS AT NORTH United Presbyterian (March ; Maxtor t r r.4 . A etbole Ilifteentb. at lirbo A . M. and 7! 2 P. M. Chilriran's church at Vi P.M. C -I,i 14,1 T 0 N STREET CHURVii, Tenth street, below Spruce. Kee. Dr. March Intl I_preach tn•snorrow (Sunday) at I0.!i A. M. and iN P. M.: tinbject fur evening: "Redeenied Immortality." It• TRINITY M. E. CHURCH, EIGHTH abort. Ilace.—Bar. W. Hanspbriss, Pastor, at tOS sad 7; . Stranzers hrfted. 1t• SPECIAL NOTICES. um, JERUSALEM AND THE GAR- den of Eden.—The HON. I. S. DIEHL will de liter the two remaining lectures of the course. on these subject«, on MONDAY EVENING, Dec. 13th. an T 1: ESDA If EVENING, Dee. leth, at the Second Ile formed Church. Seventh above Drown. These will be the most intere,ting •f the course. Tickets. 25 cents, to be had at the door. Do not fail to hear him. It* L"?. GIRARD NATIONAL BANK. PHIL/ IDULPIIIA, Dee. in, liteci. The annual ineetiott of the Stockholders, for the elec• tion of Directors and ior other purpoote-4, will be held at the Bahktog House on WEDNESDAY, 12th Januur.t. 070, et itro clock M. The election will take place between the hours all() A. )1. and 2 P. IL dell attit W. L. "CHAFFER, (23,111er. u. PENN NATIONAL BANK. The 'Meeting of the Stockholckra will be 'bold at rho Banking House on Tr ESDA.Y , January 11, IVO. at 10 o'clock A. 141,, and on ih , • maw day, betwccn t Flu Lour, of II A. 111.; and 3 P. ki t an election for Pirectora will be Leld. den ii Kind GEO. P. LOUGUEAI). CsAllirr KENSIN °TON N AT lONA.L, HANK: PHILADELPIIIA, DeTenitior 11 13i9. An election for Diroctore of this Bank will be bcdd at the banking house on TUESDAY, January 11th, 1870, kieFirelin the hours of 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. to Wit. MrPOIsINELL. Cashier. EZ.TIOTN/TLEB Asi I:HILADELPH IA NA- PIIMADELPIIIA, Dec. U. Mit The annual meeting of Stockholders for the election of Directors pill be bold at the Banking Rouse on TUESDAY January 11 between the hours .111 o'clock A. M. and '2:o'clock P. M. D. F CHATII.3,M, dells t jail§ Assistant Cashier. ISIEIWAN TILE LIBRARY NOTICE. —Oh And after January 1et,1870, the dues will be as follows : To Stockholders. re 4 ; to Subscribers, et per annuni.or 84 for six months. What better C hristmas present cap be ,given than a share of this stock, price 8110 ; or a life membership, free of dues, price $4O. T. MORRIS PEROT. • dal II 13 24 31rp§ u , UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA; NlA.—The annual oration before the Society of the Alumni Will booelivered by I 3 ro. F.CARRoLL BREWSTER, on MONDAY EVENING, December 1.31 at o'clock, at tho College Mall, Ninth street below Market.. Tickets admitting a gentlenutu and two ladies may be obtained gratuitously at the office of . the Legal intelligeneer. 10.3 South Filth street, at the office of the Continental hotel, at Duffield Ashmeatre, 724 Chestnut street, and of the Janitor of the University. jam• WILLS OPHTHALSIIO tiOSPl tal, ltace, above Eighteenth stniet. Open daily at 11 A.M. for treatment of diseases of the eye. ATTENDING BURGEON: Dr. R. J. Levis, N. W. cor. Arch and Thirteenth streets. VISITING MANAGERS: Cllll[loll Ellis, 8. W. corner Tenth and Market streets. Joseph 0. Turnpenny, N 0.813 Spruce street. Dillwyn Parrish, 8, W. corner Eighth and Arch streets. • de4s.vrtfA DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS 01 7 FICE HIP THE CHN TOI NGINEIsIN AND SUE. Plirts.nxtrutA, December 7th, 1869. NOTICE.--Duplicate plane of the revision of gradee en Thompson street, between Twenty-sixth and Thirty - tirst streets, and also of the revision of lines and grades in the Tenth Survey District, to connect the lines and grades of Frankford and Whitehall with city plan ex tended, bounded eastwardlyp westwardly and south wardly by Frankford creek, and northwardly - - by Konnoday, street, are now prepared and do posited for public inspection. the former at the office of the Surveyor and Regulator of the Seventh Survey. Die trict i S. W. corner of Twelfthstreet and Girard avenue,. the latter at the office of the Surveyor and Regulator of the Tenth Survey District, Frankford, and at the office of this Department, N 0.242 South Fifth street; and the Board of Surveyors have appointed MONDAY, Docem- Der 59, 1869, at 10N, o'clock, A. 91,0 consider any objec tions that may baurgod, thereto by any citizen interested therein. \ STRICKLAND KNEASS, del 11 18 St rp § Chief Engineer and Surveyor. UNION LEAGUE HOUSE, U•e 7 ' BROAD STREET. . PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6, 1866. The annual '111(431.113g of the Union League of Philadol phia will be hold at the League House, on MONDAY :EVENING, December /3, at 7 o'clock, at which mooting there will be an election of °films and Directors fot the emitting year. dealt rp§ GEO. IL BOXER, Secretary... . , t .. ..,. . ' ' 1 I ,H I , ,; ' , '', _ ! i ; , : . c , 1 .i , 4.i., r . t, ' '. • 1 ' - . MaiiffiiMi lua KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. GREENWOOD CEMETERY, Corner of Asylum Turnpike & Fisher Lane, NEAR FRANKFORD. A chance is now offered to secure Lots, at the. Low price of $l5, payable in Instalments, In what is admitted to be the beet adapted grounds for Cemetery purposes near Phila delphia, being romantically located, perfectly dry and beautifully rolling surface. Apply to PnYsinaNY—WILBUR H. MYERS, 419 North Fifteenth street. VICE PiraslDErr , -11ABILY M. GEARY, S. E. corner of Ridge avenue and Wallace street. Sec arra sr.-GEO. CHANDLER PAUL, `•Office of the Company, 1723 North Tenth street. TR ciallairit—W3l. S. EINEYD, 12 East York street. EXPERINTENMENT--SAMITEL F. MEADE, noL3 lmrps On the Grounds. lUDREMOV AL. NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY TO 133 South Fourth Street, Opposite Library Street, Philadelphia. STROUD & MARSTON, General Agents. de2 th tu az? . STEREOPTICON AND MAGIC Lantern Exhibitions given to Sunday Schools, Schools, Colleges, and for private entertainments. W. MITCHILL McALLISTEIt, 728 Chestnut street, second story.— • no 2 2mrp§ fl GIRARD STREET. this bah triai RUSSIAN, AND PERFUMED BATHS. —IIeHOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 and MO Lombard street, Dispensary Department. dical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously General Humphreys, chief of the Engineer Bureau of the army, has submitted the follow ing estimates required for the next &cal year for repairs, improvements, &c., of fortifica tions for harbor and river improvements, &c.:Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, $lOO,OOO ; fort at,Willett's Point, eastern en trance New York harbor, $160,000; Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York har bor' $104,000; Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island, $32,000 ; Foit HamiltonL $92,000 ;FortiTomp kins, S 60,000; Battery Hudson, $60,000; North, Cliii Battery, Staten Island, $27,000; South Cllll Batt ery,Staten Island,sl7,ooo; Fort Sandy Hook, $150,000; Fort Mifflin, Delaware river, $197.000 ; Fort Delaware, $37,000 ; battery at Finn's Point, New Jersey, ' $67,000; Fortress Monroe, $150,000; barracks for of ficers and men at Willett's Point, $45,000; Dunkirk harbor, New York, $100,000; Buffalo harbor, New York, $220,000; Olcott harbor, Eighteen Mile Creek, -New. York, $50,000; Oak Orchard harbor,; Now York, $50,000; Charlotte harbor, mouth ' of Genessee river. $45,000; Big Sodus harbor, New York, $35,000; Little Sodus harbor, Now York, $23,000; Os wego harbor, New York, $35,000; Plattsburg harbor, New York, $25,000; Burlington,:Ver mont, $75,000; Delaware breakwater, $2;000; Hudson river, $100,000; annual expenditure to keep open the channel between Albany and Troy, 520,000, but he doubts the practicability of the measure: Hell Gate, New York, $4OO,- 000; Rondout liar or, 'Hudson river, $137,- 664 56. SPECIAL PEYEICEIL 10. MEMORIAL MISSION Or THE NOW REUNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BETHANY, Corner Twenty-Second and Shippen Ste.. A. . kr., ' FOR THE Sale of .Us eful and Fancy Articles . FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS, NOW BEING HELD IN HORTICULTURAL HALL From 11 A. M. to 10 P. N. Contributions solicited. Either money or goods may be sent to the Executive Committee at the Hall. A very excellent Musical Entertainment every evening. JOHN B. GOUG,II AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, MONDAY EVENING, December LI. • Subject—" Habit." HENRY WARD DEWIER. Subject"not yet announced. TUESDAY EVENING, Irebruatl 1. HORACE Gummy. "The Woman Question " TUESDAY EVENING, February 22: Tickets for the course, 192. liesemed Seats in Parquet Ureic and Balcony, me. ; titape Tickets, Standing 'tickets and Iteserved heats in Yawn,' Circle, We. hold at futlunetul'a, 724 Chestnut dtreet. deb ltrp O ° ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THE STAR COURSE OF; LECTURES. • YOUNG - FOLKS SERIES. Afternoon Lectures. By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU. ' Mr. PAUL B. DU CHAILLU. the famous African .ex plorer.a ill give u course.' three Lecturew to the YOUNG FOLKS of Philadelphia, in day time, as follows: ON SATURDAYg,,AFTERNOON, December 11, • " UNDER THE EI.)UATOR." • ON WEDNESDAY AFTEREtiON, December 15, " AMONG THE CANNIBALS." ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. December la, LOST IN THE JTiNGLES. - The.Lectorea will L. illustrated with immense paint ings, hunting implements weapons of warfaro,and other .nornetive novelties. Mr. Da Uhaillu will appear on ono. of these occasions in the identical costume worn by him ;in his travels. A (1111b04411/ to each Lecture 2.5 c. ; Reserved Seats ( extra) ' Doors open at 2. Lecture ut i o'clock. Orchestral Prelude at 2.1 i. • • To be obtained at GOULD'S, 923 Cheitnut street, from 2A. M. toSP. H. • del tf 40 2 ' ACADEMY OF MUSIC. - THE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES. THE . CONCLUDING LECTURE OF THE FIRST SERIES. ON THURSDAY EVENING, December 16, • WENDELL PHILLIPS, THE MOST FINISHED ORATOR IN AMERICA, Will deli% er his tedebnitnil oration on "DANIEL O'CONNELL." Admisaton, 60 eta. flAserved Sento, 75 cta. Tickets for sale at GOULD'S, No. 1113 CHESTNUT Strt , et.and at the Academy on the evening of the Lecture. Doors open at 7; Lecture at 8. Orrheetral Prelude at 734 o'clock. 1;100 6t ',apartme for Ladies Baths oven rroni 6A. M ato 9P. M. Army Engineer Bureau. I',IILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1869.--TRIP E SEIBET. A PIiOTAO J0ger,141414. ! I was down at Old Castle, Delaware, last week, and Mr. and Mrti.'" Wilkins occupied the room in the hotel next to mine. They talked ;very loud, and as I could not sleep, there was ••• nothing for n3e'• to :do' lnit•lie EitilVand listen. This is about what took place : "I tell you, Mrs. Wilkins, you've got to put a OtoP to , ; wan% baseit: •This thingf. has been" going on: long' enough,' ild it's about played out. Ilere you've been going to that gymnasium now. nigh nearly six months, and you're getting to ,be a perfect she-Sampson ; you're getting more muscle than any woman who moves in good society's got any right to have. I don't want to be married, to . an Ama zon, I tell you; I don't want my wife to be going about trying how many fifty-siX pound weights she can lift ; I don't want to be tied to a woman who hits from the shoulder, do I? and who can knock an ox down with her fist, and smash a door panel with one blow ? Not much I don't, and I say I won't have it." "But, Mr. Wilk—"' ~tOh, there's no use of talking, for it's got to be stopped. Ain't you ashamed of yourself, and you a mother of nine children, to be dress ing yourself up in Bloomer costrune and showing your thick ankles-,". "Mr., Wilkins, you !"= "Shoiving your clumsy ankles—you needn't get mad. for they are thick, and you latow it— and swinging dumb bells and sticks, and dubs, trying to dislocate your arms, so as to give me another doctor's bill to pay, and re duce me to bankruptcy; 'sue for a divorce, I will, by George, if it is'nt stopped ; • I won't put up with it any longer; if I do, hang me." "Mr. Wilkins, do stop swearing." "I tell you it ain't respectable for you to go to that gymnasium, and let that teacher put his arm around you all the time he is pretending to show you how to move your elbows." "Mr. Wilkins, this is scan—" • "To move your elbows, and then for you to come home and then begin exercising yourself on the joists in the garret, pulling yourself up 'to see how many times you can touch your chin. In my opinion you'd better be down stairs practising with a bar of soap and a wash board—a good deal better than doing that, or 'going `out into the yard and trying to balance a clothes prop on your chin." "Why, M-i-s-t-e-r Wilkins, I never—" "Don't Mister Wilkins me• ' you can't say you never did it, for I know you did. Didn't I see you the other day while I was at the back par lor window ? You'd better say next that you never tried to catch the dining-room chairs by the rounds and hold them out at arm's length ?" "Of course I never d—" "But I know you did, though, and I tell you lam sick of it. I don't want to lire all my life with a woman who can whip me. I expect you'll he practising on me next—l ex pect nothing else than you'll be trying to see if you can throw me. But .I don't want to have. anything to do with you. If you come wrestling around me you'll get hurt. i give you fair warring,; I won't stand any of your nonsense." "Mr. Wilkins, I declare you're too bad, for—" "I know I am ; I know I don't suit you; I know you wish you,were married to another man. You'd like me to haVe a plug muss ith you every day, and have me try to beat you at lifting, and get me to go around this community and brag on your muscle. But I ain't proud of you; I'm mortified about it. It pains me to think that you are so depraved. I know you ain't satisfied, so you'd better apply for a divorce and go and get married to the Belgian giant, or some prize fighter, and spar with him, and crowd him to the ropes, and sluice him in the aob, if you know what that means, and I dare say you do, for you learn all that low slang down at that gymnar slum." "Mr. Wilkins, I won't stand this any longer; it is perfectly—" "Oh, I know it is, I know you won't stand it. I expect now you will get up out of bed and try to throw me out of the window and break my legs, or upset the stove on me. I expect that ; this is the chance you've been laying for all this time; I know it; I'm your victim ; kill me, murder me, put me out of my misery, and then go down and marry that prize-fighter, that's what you want. But there'' one woman who will shed tears over my grave; you'll be glad to get rid of me, but there's one woman will be sorry." "31r. Wilkins, who do you mean?" "Oh,never you mind; you'd hate her if you knew she liked me, and maybe you'd ex ercise yourself.on her, but I won't give you a chance." '•lt's that horrid, nasty Maria Browne, I know ; she never puts her foot in this house again. -,, Yes, there's one woman would be sorry to see me go, and if you ever die I'm a going to marry her---" 7. "You brute, how can you talk so 9" "Marry her and see if I can't have some peace . of my life. She . on't go to any gym nasium and behate as you do,—" • "It's that Browne, I know," "Because she don't approve of such things, I know,,for she said so, and she thinks that you—" "Has she been daring to talk about me to you? the.vile minx." . • "Yes, she has ; and she says for her part she thinks that—that—" . . "Well, out with it." "Oh, that- - -that--that you—oh, I guess I won't repeat it—it ain't necessary." "But 1 will know." "Well, then—but no, it was told me in con fidence." Phugh 1: I - don'ts care what Idarla.Browne thinks; she may say what she pleases, I don't care a cent." "Butjt wasn't Maria, but the other woman, and she observe&--but no—" "I won't hear it; don't you dare to tell me; I wouldn't listen if you were to bellow it into my ears." , "Well, then, I'll tell you ; she said that—" "Shut up, or I'll stuff a pillow down your throat." " That of all the Jezebels she ever did bear of—" "I tell you I won't listen to you." " Ever did hear of, you are the worst, and if she were me she'd give warning to the store keepers not to trust you, , and-make you wear old-fashioned bbnnets for the rest of your natural life." "I ain't listening ; I don't hear a word you. • "And she said she didn't wonder I was mis erable, for any man would be who was mar ried to such an old 'beifer—" "John Wilkins, I'll be the death of you Take that, now." Here there was a' series of thumps. upon,the floor, the itoise of a scrimmage, then a groan, and I turned over and went to sleep, while Mrs. Wilkins came down to breakfast the next morning dressed all ready to go to the gym nasium' and reported that Mr. Wilkins was taken sick during the night and couldn't leave his room, , . • , OUR 'WHOLE COUNTRY. t ' Now that Italy has a new-born prince, it is well to know something about "him. His nurse, it seems, is a young peasant woman, who'receives 200 francs a month. He was bap tized on tbe 14th ult., In one, of the halls of, the royal palace. All the dignitaries were present: The lady of honor %to the - Princess iijargherita—Marchesa • di Montereno—en feted the ball, carrying the ro,vat Want, which shelaid on the table. ThenresidentbftheSenate, Count Cassati, after verifying the gex,drew. up the act of birth, and gave this to the secretary beside him to read aloud. Immediately after wards the Minister of Foreign Albers, acting as crown-notary, affixed the prescribed ac knowledgment of its legality. Then, followed by all present, the lady of honor carried the Prince of Naples into the ball-room, carefully transformed for the occasion into a chapel, hung with blue and.white. The royal chaplain then baptized the child by the names Vittorio Emmanuele Ferdinando Maria Genuaro,the Syndic of Naples standing close at the right hand during the ceremony, as godfather, representing the city of Naples. The munici pal/oes in honor of this royal godson were postponed till the 27th, !&.th, and - th ult., at the request of the young mother, who was de sirous of witnessing as much as possible the popular diversions from her palace. The Toledo and the principal squares of the city were illuminated for three nights; there were abundance of fireworks ; gratuitous represen tations at all the theatres ; grand gala night at San Carlo ,• and horse and foot races in the Campo di Marte. Mr. Shirley Brooks tells the Illuxtrated Loa,- don News a rather singular story of a bit of meanness and the appropriate revenge which followed it. When the Prince of Wales lately visited Hull there was a desire to ornament,iu his honor, the montunent in that city erected to the Memory of Wilberforce: But the column was lofty and not easily climbed, and it was hard to find any one to make the ascent and wreath it with flowers and foliage. The au thorities offered a money reward to any man who would accomplish the task. • After some time, two. sailors from one of Her Majesty's ships undertook the job, and performed it well. They applied for the reward, but the local officers refused to pay it, on the I,rround that, being, servants of the Queen, it was no more than the duty of the sailors to decorate the shaft in honor. of the 'Prince. Beer was offered in lieu of the expected guineas, and the sailors drank it and went their way. But daring. the night before the arrival of the royal guest, all the ornament was torn away, by the same strong and skill ful hands that had carried it aloft. Moreover, a small ladder, decidedly not an ornament to the column, was left sticking there, where no one could get at it. The loyal authorities of Hull could only hope that the Prince did not observe the barrenness and disfigurement of the Wilberforce column, as he passed it. Rebel Bonds In England. The English holders of Confederate bonds seem to have arrived at a conclusion relative to their property, very different from that which is entertained here. But, of course, they know best in England. We are told that the prices of the rebel bonds have "consid erably improved" in value in anticipation of the settlement of the Alabama claims. People who are anxious for the stock ought to have been at the sale on Wednesday, when bonds to the nominal_ amount. of two and a quarter millions were sold at the alarming sacrifice of $B5. Many Englishmen have quietly locked up their Confederate bonds, under the idea that some day or other they will turn out to be a "good thing." We have not so much faith in worthless securities on this side of the water. The city of Venice has officially thanked M. Do Lesseps for his courtesy in remembering Italy by calling one of the principal piazzas of Ismailia after the distinguished Italian engi neer and patriot, Palaescapa. The three piazzas of Ismailia are called after Leibnitz, Cbampollion, and Palaescapa, representing, as the Venetian City Council wrote, "three diverse epochs, which Kiluor is now uniting into one homogeneons whole." Venice reason to offer these thanks, for Palaescapa was one of its most distinguished patriots of the period of 1848. Subsequently, by the practice of his profession, he attained such eminence that he became in Piedmont Minis ter of Public Works. But this compliment to Venice will be better understood when it is remembered what relations Venice hopes to hold to Ismailia as a sharer in the commerce of the work. "The physicians,"says the Gcru/ois, "and Dr. Ilicord at their head, are unanimous in de claring that the late illness of the Emperor, far from impairing his health, has, on the contrary, consolidated it. 'His Majesty,' says that eminent practitioner,Thas found in the struggle with his malady a fresh and unex pected force. Pay no attention to fantastical and• malevolent diagnostics; it is not the Ern.:peror, peror, who is most surprised at this issue of the crisis ; it is I.'" Edwin Forrest has been playing " Lear " in Cincinnati, and the Ehquirer says of him • ! Remembering the almost innumerable points of excellence we have observed in former years, we incline to the belief that at every new ,presentation there are apparent some new and subtle beauties of detail in tone of ex presSion, resulting from the actor's unremit ted study of the role in which "his brightest and most enduring laurels have been won." An lowa postmaster neglected to certify on oath to the correctness of his recent report, and wrote to the Department in justification: "Ili hant give oath enuff then you Can take the office and r ,l shall'be very glad of it—l shal do the Best i t i au for the united states that dont think it pays to go so far to aJustes once in 2 years is altutf-1. should have to hier horse it is up bill." A Present for the Pope. Among the presents brought to the Pope by the Archbishop ,of Nei'' York is a gold fish, with the mouth formed of rubies. This rarity Only opens its mouth to throw out pieces of gold, and the coin is both of the best quality and appears , to be almost inexhaustible in quantitv. Gift fish, it would seem, are not of the nature of gift horses, but are intended to be looked in the mouth. American Artists at Florence. A correspondent at Florence (if we mistake not, Mr. Alfred Austin), writing to a London paper, says : Our Transatlantic cousins have taken a start in sculpture, and seem fully determined not to let the grass, grow , beneath their feet. Mr. Powers has for many years been established at Florence and the Italians, no load judges of a branch of art in which they have few rivals, are free to confess that the grace and beauty. aniLlabove all, the elaborate finish which characterize the productions of the American sculptor, have powerfully stimu lated the exertions of their own contrymen, and contributed not a little to the pr6gress of a noble art, which, during the present century, has ,entered upon . a brilliant period of rejuve neScence. I have already made a cursory' mention of Mr. Thi)4laB Ball's new statue of Eve, now on its way to the 'Tatted States. It is a masterly work, worthily personifying what may be called an Anglo-Saxon ideal of * * thelaireat of her daughters, Eve; Manlike, but ditrreot sex, so lovelyfatr, That what seenVd fair in all the world sepolid, flow Mean, or in her suninfd up, in her contained. I was greattypleased, alse t with a fi negroup executed by the saws artist, and deterving to be reprodtteedin , 'proportions befitting it rta- 1 tiOnal monument. It apresents poor Presi dent Lincoln breaking the chains of the Afri can slave. Another very remarkable work MATTERS IN GENERAL. That Italian Prince. Meanness Repaid. De Leasepa and Venice. WapoleoWs Disease. Forrest's Lear." A Model. OMeial. due to an American chisel is Mr. Giorild's'im -personation of the West Wind. Considering :that the wind is Masculine inmost languages, I fully expected to see the West Wind repre- , suited by amide instead, of a female. figure;. but Mr. Getild'assures me that therels. Greek authority for the mode 'of treatment which he has adopted. After all, this is a mere conven tion' the essential part of the matter being that Mr.Geuld 'has given its au admirable suble.ct, executed with grace, freedom., and' 'lightness of touch, and carried out his conception in a healthy spirit of originality. What a Sculp,. tor will principally admire in' this beautiful work'of art is the masterly dexterity with which the technical difficulties of the stqi port have been vanquished, the figure being, in fact, sustained by what is in appearance its most delicate and aerial portion, the swelling folds of the drapery, which seem to float along, almost without touching the earth. As Eng land and America form in many respects, and especially the world of art, but one country, I imagined that these particulars would' be equally interesting to English readers. ABIILISEMENTO. —Miss Kate Bateman will appear at the Walnut this evening in the drama Mary Warner. —At the Chestnut, this evening, Patrice or The White Lady of Wicklow, will be repeated. This drama is attracting large audiences. —Mrs. Drew will repeat The Overland Route at the Arch this evening. —On Wednesday afternoon next, at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Mr. J. Remington Fairlamb'S opera Treasured Tokens will be pro duced for the first time with an excellent oast. —The American Theatre announces for this evening a good miscellaneous entertainment, which includes pantomime, farce,ballet,negro coinicalitic, singing, and the wonderful per formances of the Rizzarelli Brothers, who are gymnasts of extraordinary skill. —Duprez & Benedict announce a very, at tractive entertainment for this evening at the Seventh Street Opera House. New extrava ganzas will be presented, with good music— instrumental and vocal—dancing and Ethio pian delineations, &c. • —Signor Blitz, the great conjuror, will give an entertainment this and every evening, at Assembly Buildings. The Signor has a num ber of curious new tricks which lie will per form every night. —At the Eleventh Street Opera House this evening a miscellaneous entertainment of un usual excellence will be given. .—On Monday night next the second of the course of lectures given under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association will be delivered by Mr. John B. Gough. , The snh ect %%ill be " Habit." • , —On Tuesday' night next, at the Academy of Music, the Handel and Haydn Society will give a concert. Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" will be sung, together with aseleetion from "The Forty-second Psalm," and a chorus and chorale from the oratorio of "Saint Paid." The solo parts will be taken by Miss Maria Brainerd, Miss Nellie Luckenbach and Mr. Jacob Graf. A full chorus and a large orches tra will be in attendance. Tickets may be pro cured either at Boner's,Trumpler's or Gould's. —The second of Mr. Carl Wolfsohn's mati nees (the Schubert matinee) will be given in the foyer of the Academy of Music, on Fri day next, at 4 o'clock. The following very tractive programme will be offered : Sonata, (A minor, op. 145,) Schubert. Allegro giusto—Andante—Allegro vivace. Carl Wolfsohn. introdurione and Elegie Ernst. Mr. Wenzel Kopta. Song—" Der Wanderer,".. Schubert. Sig. Ettore Barili. Impromptu, (NO: 3. B flat major)....Schnbert Carl Wolfsohn. Concerto, (D minor,) . Eckert Mr. Rudolph Ilennig. Fantasia (C major, op. 1590 Schubert. Messrs. Wolcsohn and Kopta. PUBLICATIONS Or THE WEEK. By HENRY C. LEA. Studies in Church History./ By Henry C. • Lea. l2mo pp. 515. By AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. 'How Paul became an Artist. 16 rno. Illuis trations. By PORTER& COATES. ' [Little Rosie Series.' Little Rosie's Christ- RMS. Little Rosie in the Country. By Margaret Hosmer. 16mo. Illustrated. By 0. P. PuTNAM & Sox. For sale by Porter & Coates. Astronomy Without Mathematics. By Ed mund Beckett Dennison, LL. D. 12mo. By Huhn & Houuurox. For sale by Turner Bros. & Co. Ting-A-Ling. By Frank It. Stockton. 12tuo. Illustrated. Stories froth my Attic. By the author of "Dream Children" and "Seven Little Peo p]e and their Friends." lthuo. Illustrated. Old Gray Horse and Parish of Grumble town. By Edward Hopper. 12mo. Two Lives in One, By, Vieux Moustache. 12mo. . An American Family in Paris. 12mo. 58 illustrations. By LEE & SHEPARD. For sale by Porter & . Coates. The "8.0. W. C." By the author of " The Dodge Club." 12mo. Illustrated. Sabbath -Songs for Children's Worship. Brodie. ROBERTSBy Buos. For sale by Porter &, Coates. The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition.. By Frederick Henry Hedge. Pinto, pp. 2(11. By LouiNo. For sale by Turner Bros. & Co. Hitherto. A Story of Yesterdays. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, author of ",Faitli Gart ' ney's Girlhood," &c. Largti 12mo, pp. 473. Luck and Pluck, or, John Oakley's Inherit ance. By Horatio Alger, Jr. 12mo, pp. 343. By D. APPLETON & CO. For sale by Claxton, Remsen & Hatleltinger. Origin and Development of Religious Be lief. By S. Baring-Gould, M. A. Part I. Heathenism and Mosaism. Large 12mo, • pp. 414. Pursuit of Holiness. By Edward Meyrick Goidburn. 12mo, pp. 1. By E. B. TREAT & CO. For sale by Hubbard, 400 Chestnut street. Our Home Physician. By George M. Beard, .M. D. 8v o. pp. 1066. By HACHETTE ET CIE. For sale by Pening ton & Son. Le Soleil. Par Amedee Guillemin ; broche, 58 vignettes. • i 'ER I ODICALS, Childs's .Anierican Literary Gazette, Christmas number. T.. S. Arthur's _Magazine, Hours at Home, and Children's `Hour, for January. American I..",rehatte ' and. Review ; for December. Zell's Encyclo pedia, Nos: 73 and 74. Sloan's Architectural Review, for December. Leisure. Hours, for .December. Littell's Living Age, No. 1332. Van Nostratid's Edlectic Engineering Magazine for December. Peter,s's Musical. Monthly, for December. Scientific American; (weekly) for December 18. Tilton's Journal Mr- ticulttire, for December. Gardener's Monthly, for December. Merry's 1112iisettni, ' for De terober. , Woman's Advocate, for December. ~ 44/trimoiih conlique pour 1870, from Pen, _._„. ingtort &got. : ,• • —Cardinal Anton°lli has had within the last few months, several quarrels with the Italy Father,'who, to punish him for his boldness, ~has not consulted. hie Secretary of'State since then in regard, to any questions connected with theSEcumenicril Council. • Louisville burglar, in,order to reach a jeweler'eshop, passed through two occupied sleeping-rooms, , and after-packing up 38,000 worth of valuables, went to the kitchen for a basket in which, to carry them, and when he at lhst left, he took'the pet dog with him. " E L. FRAIROSTON. PIMA& MEMO PRIM TERRE CENTS. PACKS AND VANCINAL . A Blew Poem bjereatayson. The following niorcean from advance sheets of the forthcoming 'Volume of 'Tennyson, "The Holy Grail and other Poems," is published: "Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the A young :man will be wiser by and by ; An old man's wit may 'wander ere he die. , Rain, rain, and sun 1 . a rainbow on the lest And truth is this to me, and that to theel, , And truth or clothed or naked let it be, , Rain, sun, and rain! and the free blosaolut blows : sun, rain, and sun! and where is - he knows? From the great deep to the great deep kis? goes." --Reynard's declaration—l love owe.---Ex. , —The Cardiff giant is being done in mini*. ' 4 ture as wparlor ornament. —Am Edinburgh chloroform manufactory makes. 3;000,000 doses in a year. .. —Prince Napoleon's enemies say he has • aqua ed 50,000,000 francs since 1852. • , —George Sand bas been offered the positio* of editress-in-chief of the Paris Daily Temps. , —Gold-plated skates are the latest extravar gance. —Pecan nuts aro selling in Texas a $3 a bushel. —The "Anatomy of the Bedbug" is the sub ject of a recent German scientific volume. —lowa has an incorporated "city," contais. lug 218 people. In this way lowa manages to count up 79 cities. —A Glasgow inventor now has a flying steam engine, to carry four tons through tits air at a rate of fifty-six miles au hour. —One bill-posting firm used sixteen barrels of paste the day before the New York charter election. —Queen Victoria has allowed four British ofile(rs to aid in the organization and drill •of the Prussian army. 41 —An Ohio child tried to , drink out of the spout of , a boiling tea-kettle. It succeeded,but its thirst was assuaged forever. • —" The richest lead mine in the country° has been discovered near Mount Hope, Ma- —Edwin Foirest and Frank Maya are in Cincinnati, and F, S. Chanfratt is in New Orleans. —Signor Antonucci is singing in Italian opera in London, and the critics seem to Like —Earthquakeometers, warranted to foretell the coming of a shock, are peddled in the streets of San Francisco. —A St. Louis woman lately attempted to kindle a fire with kerosene. She is now in heaven. —A typographical error made a Buffalo pit per speak of Joseph Hermann's rendering of "that grand air; 'Pm a Shoat." —A Southern paper annou'ices that noth ing but red neckties are now worn," which must be a rather cool costume for this season, even at the South. F —A Baltimore pollceman knocked down and dragged to the station-house a saloon keeper on the sole charge that he voted with the Republicans at the last election. —A Detroit girl recently attempted to kiss a waiter at one of the, city hotels, and was in formed by theproprietor that she must respect the men about the house, or leave. —An unexpected divorce case was brought before a Wisconsin court just as the crier was proclaiming adjournment. Thejudge set down his hat, the clerk opened his book, and in live minutes the decree was recorded. —A Fond-du-Lac woman put $462 into her stove for safe-keeping over night, but as another person built the lire she found a lack of greenbacks in the morning. Play on the word Fond-du-Lac.—.Ez. —This epitaph is a somewhat extraordinary combination of resignation andpoliteness : "She once was mine ; and now, To Thee, 0 Lord, I her resign, And am your obedient, humble servant, ROBERT KEMP." —A negro girl has been condemned to the gallows in 'Bedford county, Virginia. The crime of which she stands convicted consists in her having placed a child of her employers on a fire and holding it there until its limbs were burned off. —A lovely Indiana girl, finding two of her lovers quarrelling about her in her father's parlor, seized them by their back hair, and after knocking their heads together several times, shoved both out of the front door, and told them-never to darken it again. —Material prosperity is not generally, thought to be provocative of suicide, but the. wife of a London_coke merchant, who had drowned himself, testified that "he had been much depressed of late -on account of the great increase of his business." Cincinnati committee appointed to in vestigate an alleged charge of undue punish ment inflicted by a school teacher, reported "that the punishment was not actuated by malice, but was occasioned by an undue ap preciation of the thickness of the boy's-panta loons. --- —The first sentence of one of the stories in the Christnias nnthber of Once a Week is thus set to the tune of a well-known chant: Mrs O'Flanagan was I a washer wo man 11. Mrs. O'Flanagan wa-as a-washorwomau Mrs. 7 O'Flanagan—was a I washer—woman Ir. Mrs. O'Flanagan—wa—as a—washer-woman —The San Francisco Town and Stage gays: , "Our musical critic, who also attended 'Ours, wishes it to be recorded as his deliberate con- viction,_ that the music between the acts is the worst he ever heard in the California Theatre. The dramatic critic (who never by any chance remains in the theatre betweenacts) expresses his hearty—ant kndignant—concurrence. —The Paris ficnclois prints this description of Rochefort, the Irreconcilable : " Tall, thin —very thin, thin as a skeleton. Head more than pale-:-of a color not to be (leaned be tween the creamy white and greenish blue of the electric light. Cheek-bones prominent, eyes holloW, forehead high, a chin terminated with what the Yankees call a barbiche—un- combed into the bargain ; au irregular nose— everything angular—hair like independent bruA.wood—sbrort jacket—black hat." • —The Mayor of Lexington has declared war on the dogs in his jurisdiction in the following , words : " The marshal, deputy marshal arid policemen are hereby ordered. and every per- son authorize(' to kill by prepared poison, and the Mayor is directed to furnish such poison to such persons as in his discretion he may see yit every dog found on the street or in any pUblic place uninuzzled ; and any person ki11,..'. ing any such dog shall be paid tweuty-tive cents for each and every dog so killed, Said reward to be paid by the treasurer upon the presentation of the oath of the person, de scribing the dog killed, and the time and place of killing." rr —The style of ;Chinese gambling in. EAU , Francisco is simple, if not ' exciting. . The gamblers stand shout the table, 'open whiens black square is marked. The dealer takes r>k handful of " Cash " (a small Chinese eoin}in hand and places it upon the table. A sphere of brass partially cuversthe 1401). : player now laces his money oti one stile r another of the black • square, and the doider, with a sharp.pointed Auk, draws the "made towards him. As his stick pills in four piecti‘ , ',' his left hand sweeps them into the ketier M pileC4?;,, before bim—and so on, Until the heart in Me, middle of the table IS exhausted. Accordingly% 'as the remainder consists of one, two, three nri four pieces', the individual betting upon the side of:the square'corresponding to the wow "; ber' winning receives three times the amount. 14 , " .of his bet, less eight Per cent, the other sideS of the square losinf, , . e:
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