GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII'.--Na,115. ..i thy ':i ,Irl 111 I. LIA NT- DIAMONDS OF TRH JO Stet water, tor Chrlatmas prononti, get in Pea' ifitYitet at T, W. DAILY 8 , 822 Market drat. • ' , i ~; , ir - - 'it ADIES,IN PURCHASING YOUR FURS p.; 1.4 protect thrra from moths, insects, &c. (at the 4 memo time imparting a veri pleaaant odor), by oaring 'cti FITZGIBBONS'S Patent edar Lined Itoxesi,for furs l , ' , and clothing. Sold by t o principal farriers in the ~ 1 city. noV-ti to th-I.3t* .. 1 • i IFTS --- . TIOLII)AY G xiA BOX OF HAVANA CIGARS. ••• i Pura Wine', !Amon and Cordials. I. , Choice Brawls of Champagne. Plcklea. Monroe; Sat. Z•• :i dines. kr. TIIZO. IL 111.'0ALLA. del7.7try. .. 004 Chratnut street. , - ED li IN G CARDS. INVIi i iiTIONS v t l e fff Pune*, to. . Now *tyke. JEAI3OII k (JO , Ert Oheatant street. ~.; ...._. _ .. ' 'WEDDING INVITATIONS EN ., _graved in the newest and beet manner. 'LOUIE I;; DR HA Stationer end Engraver. lhE Ohestapt . ' street. MO tr PIER. _ ADOLPIL.—ttn the morning of the nth init., Alfred. W. Adolph, In the 44th year of hie age. The relatives and friends of the family, and tb6 Covenant Lodge, No. 114, I. 0. 0,1., are respectfully burins - I to attend his funeral, from hie lateresidente, No, ' Franklin street, on Tuesday after'uoon at I o'clock, , . without further notice. To proceed to Monument Came 1, tiwy. itltOtlatltio.—Ort the morning of the 17th Instant. at had ne Jiro wn ins, daughter of the late Abraham and Iteulah Drowning, • , Her Ninny and friends arc Invltiod to attend her In , sera', frotn her late residence, corner of Fifth and Marr ti..t streets. Camden. 01. J., on Monde 7, 2 001 li?tI.• at : o'clock. Thu burial seryke will be in ht. Marrs church, Co leetown .-the place of intents/1 t • • DEW R. 11.19 u the I/ tb Diet , WM, Jauti , Deareeei in I he 7atli year of her ege. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral, from the residence of her sorrin-lsw. Jacob Flubscher. N 0.027 North Fifteenth street, en Monday morning. 20th Inst., at 10 o'clock. garment at South Laurel CHSON.—Ou the morning of YridaY, beCeMsber • . at his rosidence, No. 1.116 Pine street, Samuel JllOlllOll. llf.D.(formerlyof Northumberland/, in the 821 year of ItPH.—On the morning of December 14th, inst., William Sharpe. M. D. Due notice will be given of the funeral. . • INDIA CAMEL'S HAIR SCAUFS Fon MaNTILASTIIERSNTS • ' OM NALUZ. PYRE k LANDELL, YOURTII AND ARCH. sPECIAL — NOTICOI. --- SAiUPLES OF THE PRICES Now Prevailing at the t; rand Clearing Sale In Progress at JOHN WANAMAKER'S 818 and 884 CHESTNUT SMUT. A Fine Petersham Overcoat iHaud.4omely Tihnated), worth 5±2, re „(Awed to 513 Fine Chinchilla Overcoat, - Worth S3B, reduced to A Business Suit of Tricot, or Ileltory Worth $35, reducOd A Black Dress Coat (Swallowtail), Worth $2B, reduced to 218 A Pair of Fine Pants of Fashionable Make, Worth &), reduced to $5. A Test of Cloth orFancyCassimere, Worth $5 50, reduced to $3 The Whole present Stook is to be Disposed of at Prices Like the Above The Chestnut St.CiothlngEstablishmen, SiS and 820 CHESTNUT STREET, JOHN WANAMAKER. U' COACHMAN'S OVERCOATS Int ING GAUNTLETS. Zll EU . LADIES' IN AID OF BROAD STREET -SYNAGOGUE, NOW OPEN. Baader's Promenade Band in attendance. del3 6tre 11-? DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS. OFFICE OF TUE CIIIE E F ENGINEER AND SUR VYOR. htIILADHLrUUI A. December 7th, 1829. NOTI C E .—Duplicate plans of the revision of grades en Thompson street, between Twenty-sixth and Thirty first streets. and also of the revision of lines and grades in the Tenth Survey District, to connect the lines and grades of Frankfort! and 'Whitehall with city plan . ex tended, bounded eastwardly, westwardly and south ward!, by Frankford creek, and northwardly ----- by ICenneday street, are note prepared and de posited for public inspection. the former at the office of the Surveyor and Regulator of the Seventh Survey Dis trict, S. W. corner of Twelfth street 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'_ , , Decem ber 10, 1869, at 103Ai o'clock, A. AI., to consider any objec tions that may be urged thereto by any citizen interested therein. STRICKLAND KNE ASS, del 11 18 3t rp § Chief Engineer and Surveyor. iraa CONCERT HALL. 0 WEDNESDAY EVENING, December 22d, 1869, i at 8 o'clock. precisely. 1 Reading for the Benefit of the Penn Widows' Asylum, . , IIY MR. WILLIAM. D. fa tutua,, , z It being his first public appearance. The programme will comprise in part selections from lihakeapeare's Ring Henry VIM and Julius Cesar, to :ether with the trial from Pickwick, in imitation of Charles Dickens, Esq. Adniisslon 50 cents. Reaerved Scats 75 cents. i The sale of Tickets and Reserved Seats will oommence 'at J. It. Mould's Piano Warerooms, 923 Chestnut street, 'on Saturday, Deo. 18th, at 9 o'clock A. M. Itre ... - ioa OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLERS of Public Schools, First District of pennerlvanio, (Philadelphia, December. 16,1869.—At a meeting Of :the 'Controllers of Public Schools, First District of Pennsyl vania, held at the Controllers' Chamber, Tuesday, Dec. 34, 1869. the following amendment to the rules. was adopted : , " That hereafter the afternoon session in the schools to commenced at Di o'clock and dismiss at 4 o'clock p bl . From the Minutes. it* 11. W. HALLIWEI L,,Seoy. 'STEREOPTICON AND MAGIC Lantern Exhibitions given to Sundey Elcitools s, Coileges, and for private entertainments. W. ' M ITOLIELL McALLIST.E.I3, 728 Chestnut street, second etorq• • no 2 2rnrp§ _ Erllo9 GIRARD EintEIZT. 1109 KISII. RUSSIAN, AND PERFUIitED BATHS. Aopartments for LBW ea' ozu ti A, AI. to 9 I'. M. mitt oven _r 1/Itf rp • , . - ~ . . .. _ • --- . . . • , •• . . • . • . 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DAY, the Val inn., at I o'clock P. 10.1 tolake into con slderation the purchase ofsnetrAte for the institution. delB 0. COPE, President. g;?. LECTURE HALL - • OF TUX MEIICANTILV LITIRRILY, Tenth street, above Cheattint, Can be engaged rot' Leetnres, *Me rie§ . WMOWO ARb D ar d sltr4eeBtl2 NUS . 1518 rot Lm tsadMb D arabbod D raaW RELIGIOUS NOTICES. • to -v, T LBTY-FOURTII ANN I wersary of." The HOMO Mlssitnisrr Society of;th• , City of Fhiladephia" will be held In the Second Re `formed Church, Seventh street, above.. Brown., TO ORROW IB %RHINO ,at o'clock, when adajeillBq will delivered •by • . REY.. T. W. J. WYLIE., JED., DR. OWIOIIT., • THEY. JOHN RUTH, • __ -And others. . THOMAS T. MASON, 11' Cita irme n Committer" on Public Meetingi. r".li hrt UNDER THE AESPICES OF THE YOUR; MEN ei CHRISTIAN 'A/SSOCIATION, REY. TIIOB, X.,. OUR will preach ' a sermon especially to young, mep To-Morrow ,irabbathi erettinit; 7 i . o'clock. in the First Reformed Church. fieventhand. Spring iierrien strerste,; Medical students and arm:were in tin city are cordially Invited. ll§ REV—MR., KEYS, LATE OF THE Methodist Episcopal Church, will isctiire To- Morrow Evening. at 74 o'clock. at the qlweden borgian Church, corner of Broad and Brandywine streets. Entoect—''Signs that the New Jerusalem now Descending." lie will preach in the morning at the same piece. Seam free. The imbue invited. it* Ws THE BEY. C,WADISWOUTH, D: will he installed Paster of the Third teformed Church, o Tenth street, below Arch, tolttorrow oven lug. o clock. The Bey. P. Stryker Talmatte,of the assists ;ofhiladelphin :Rev. Chancellor Farris. D. D., of New York. and the Bev. Dr. Woodbridge; of New Brunswick, will take part in the service. • It' 10-1. A trIII().N..ANNIVERSARY.ISIEET ING of thoCirinion SoCietit will bo nem in tha Third - Strc , pt 31(lbodist Episcopal Church, Cane un.Sunda7evening at 7 o'clock, to be addressed byltels, datues Neil, .IL Allen, U. R. and Georg. Sbebton, D. D. SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN CIIVEC/i, Sc',ury prti below Sixth "stivet. Caton ConunaniOn ota and Sigth Churches.. Roy. Dr. I'doliraine. wilt give • proparatory lecture tibia SATURDAY, at'fl clock P. . administer at ordinanco,to-cuorrow. at o'clock A. 31., mut preach at 7ki o'clock P. M. It' 'IIZIHEID.E.I4I3IJ - lIG RE F OR. 311 , 1 . 1) 6- Church. Melon . street, sbovo Twelfth. , Rev., -At m. R.Cullis will preach - W. - Morrow at 103-:„: end P. at Subject for tke mornitic " The ErAiltation , of Christ ;' Evening: '• Ruth,. tteS Gleaner .' Sunday School at li, I'. M. Strangers made wolcome. 1171'NORTH TENTH STREET PR'E'SII?: ' Wilms Church (below Girard asenne). 10.'l and. 7.S s oclock. Communion immediately after morning service. Rev. Dr. Jacobus, of Pittsburgkowill preach in aimal/dug, and the Pastor, Kos. li. Newkirk, in Ma evening. All cordially Invibal. U- ARCH STREET 31,•;. E. CHURCH.-- nija. Wan. O. Gray to-morrnw'a 103;A. If. Rev. Pains, at 7!.1 11, 'Subject for PV,llitM—Preach log to Itching Ears ; or Tho Duty and Dangers of the Pulpit. :Strangers invited. wcrCLIN TON STREET CHURCH, Tenth street, below Sprite*. Rev. Dr. March rettch to-morrow iettis,44) at_ lO)i A-M. and P. M. Subject for evading: Good Society." AU persons (young people especially) are invited. 11° NEW UNITARIAN CHURCH, lie, Wm. H. ?borne, Pastor. Usual service is th e Hall, N. B. corner of Broad and,Sprlnc Garden streets, to-morrowatunday) morning at 10. 1 / 2 o'clock. Beats free. .It* aou CHI:UST Clll3.liCH.,'' GERMA:N town.-The Rev. Wm. S. Langford will_preach in this Church, to-morrow, fa the morning and evening, Service in the morning at 103 i, and in the evening at .13,i o deck. goo UNION PRAYER EETING THIS afternoon at 4 o'clock, in thnOxford Prelbyterian Church. Sermon to-morrow morning by the_ paator, Bey. Mr. Flak, 1032 A -. M. Sermon by Rev. ickard Newton, D. D., in the evening, for children. It u. NORTH. BROAD STREET PRES bytertan Church, comer of Green.—Prearhhut to-morrow by the Pastor, Hay. Dr. Stryker, at 103: A. M. and 736 P.M. Evening subject: "Doman.* Stran gers welcome. . . lt" LOGAN ISQUAIGE UHURCH,TWEN tieth and Vino etreet,J.—p reaching, by the Pastor. Rev. Thomas J. Brown. in the morning' at 103.; o'clock. Usual .ervice in the evening' at V; o'clock. btronzers Welcome. [Ub. CALVARY PRESBYT 1'4:III AN Church, Locnst street, 11110V1) Fifteenth, Rev. fir. Humphrey. pastor .— servicesat 1034 A. M. and 7% P. M. Subjecttor evening discourse— •" r he Young, Man Ab salom." It. ALEXANDER PRESBYTERIAN U. Church, Nineteenth and Green atreets.—Preack ink on next Sabbath, at 10,% o'clock, It • M., by Bar- Dr. Speer, and at 7% o'clock P. M. by Rev.ll .R.Work. REV. THOMAS X OPR _PASTOR, will preach to4norroar at 10% A.M. and n, P. M. in the First Reformed Church, corner of Seventh and sprin g Garden streets. ga . TRINITY M. E. CHURCH, EIGHTH above Eace.—Eiev. IL W. Humphries, rasher. xt 10):i. Key. W. 11. Formosa at,Thi, Strangers in vited.it' n - UNITARIAN CHURCH,- GERMAN town .—Sorvices to-merrow at the usual hours. Subject of Evening Lecture—" Emanuel Swedenbere." Seats free. it* Among the relics of a New London couple,. Which the wife had excavated from a pile of rubbish, was an old fashioned mortar, heavy and capacious, but minus the pestle. It was of no use as it was, and the lady began to pester her lord to get the article necessary to make it complete. So on Saturday night he started out hi search of a pestle, visiting store atter store without finding the article. At each place he took a drink, until at 10 o'clock he found him self a little besides himself. At last in his search he discovered pair of heavy dumb bells; bought them, and taking one in each hand started on his way home. Arriving at • the.door be lifted the knocker with his teeth and let it " thigl." His wife let him in, and inquired what lie " lugged those nasty , things home- for 2" 44 • Pessol, my dear," he •.replied, " beau'fid (Inc) use t'other. S'perb pessol." And here the muddled .husband proceeded to. illus trate by grinding the dumb-bell in his best hat, what, a " fuss,rate pessol" it was. 4 But, my dear, I can't lift those heavy things," she re monptrated. "Exerdise with 'em and (hie) git so you can Ml' them affer 'while.—Hartford Courant. • —A new apparatus for saving the ship wrecked has been invented in Germany. The North German Corraspondent describes it : " For the first experiments a one-pound gun was ,used, which a single matt was able to move and direct, The projectile weighs about twenty pounds, and by vicuna of it a line may be thrown one thousand feet.. 'A light, four pounder un will cast the line about two thousandfeet, and a six-pounder from two thousand live hundred to three thousand feet: Twolcinds of projectiles, are employed; one . for stations on the coast, by which a line may be cast to ships in distress, while the other is intended for the vessels themselves. When it strikes it forms an anchor, so that 'a collude tion may be eStabllshed with the land. Without any assistance from the shore.. The apparatus' is said to be much cheaper than the rockets now in use." l~PL~'lA~"'Nb't'l' . ~~. DEPART/414U, REO,EWEE Oct' 111 W TAXES, ' PUILLIMILPIIIA, De). 15, 1869. TO TAX-PARERI3:=-The nomog . ,, of fai. ~propertjtb older,' whoa, taw are nhpasd by POO* tilf WPI dA advortleedJantioty lot as delittquento, n ocooraance with act of Amicably, approved Nov LI 1856. .rostr It. DIELLOY, dol . /3122D St§ Recelvor of Tioxeo, EIiCANTILE LIBRARIe - ROTICE. r—On and attar January Ist WC gm due. OW ; be as ollows: To Stocholders. Olt L . to thtbseilbeno,4l6 par anaum, or $4 for six month'. What better Christmas present oan be given than a dismal/kb stook, price 010; or a lifo membetship, free'of dues, price CO. T. MORRO PRROT, de4 11 18 24 El rpfi -Preeldent. OFF/OEIN TEE ATI4A.N, P - TIU .P BTOBAGIC 0011(PANT.4` The annual meeting and ap_election of officers' of this corporation will be beld on KONDAY_, January le. IVO. ut 3 o'clock P. 31 , B9BERTEI r delB-a to tit MY • - fiecsetorl: Mortar and Pestle. MIUT LAp41,41114 4 , SATORPAY I 18, 1869,.L-TRIPLE SIIEW laieldleakta st. ~Chipese- irlyier,4l SU Ith Poy, a Chinese merchant, died In San Frpmeisco a few days,ngo.-1 The -Bu ll etin de scribes the singular cerestronies of hlsi funeral:. 4' While the Indite were linning,;4end Only goOd gods were around in the , the mourn ers carbe.Outiln.the". l. tltreeti,', Then the co ffi n WAS brought out and placed on the sidewalk, drapedwithred, r white mid green ,cloths. The ; men/mess,' Of *horn there wem about a a/ditty —all women but one—were dressed in white robes, with whitec.owls , their head". The w hair on the !Mien's' Wadi: wss,: disheveled. Several of theneveept tdatilnemanner, but 1 the rest howled in such a way as to justify the statement Made by some in attendande that fheY were hired inAM I / 1 0179.) ,Whett the , coffin as pot down the mourners filed around it seicral Miles; Weeping, wailing 'and threviing up their bands; and then all bowed themselves with their faces to the ground / and remained ' in; hat position, several hours. •• •• "On the sidewalk, below the coffin, were ranged three or four wise tables, and on these were deposited the sacrifielal offerings. There were five roasted hogs—full size—with ties of tinsel on the leara end wreathed; abont'stheir snbuts. Three sheep, skinned and laid on "late pans, occupied prominent plaetts. Then there were chickens roasted *hole, with MB*: corared candies melted and run over them in imitation of robes., They were see upright in edible chairs, with their neeks sfraightened, . and fantastic covers placed , on, top of their heeds. Their claws were 'bent up and made tograsp spears, darts and exorcising wands. Several roosters had been baked till Off were brown, and yet the feathers on their wing, the wattles on their necks. and 'the crests'on their heads were not even wilted. These, too, were ornamentedwith tinsel endpaper; ss Several large crablrom .Alei t 's Wharf lay in the centre of the table, and were set off with ornaments ali the rest of 'the offeriugO. There were numerous "pyramids of fruit idsO —tipples, pears, grapes and nuts ; pyramids of high-colored, greasy-looking cakes; loaf talons of lambs. goats, duels, etc., covered with melted coufeetionery: piles of- Josh sticks and sacred tapem :with rows of them burning,: smoking and fpluifering on the borders,of the table; strips of red, white and yellow paper beating mysteripus characters;'.doll-looking images at several points;' -and everywhere tinsel, paper, smoke fames and insufferable stench. The streets were blocked 'by the throng of CiliDaDlell, negrees and - ' superiors,' but in , _thew crowd next the coffin and free lunch :Otthis gods women predominated. They were ,a-degraded and dieeased looking set for the totostpa,rtlandseemed-to besrivited in`their tracks by idle curiosity. ItA line, of hacks and a rank of badgering hackmen ocetipletConeside Of the street, wait , ' ing for their sloads.' . . "At 12 an old white-heat eetfoman came out Oftlie himse, beating in her skinny aims a huge load of tinselled.paper. She threw it on the pavement, and taking a Jighted Josh stick set the mass one fire: Theca other women brought out some curious-looking images, about two feet high, and supposed to be repre sentatiout of several prominent anti cooheites. These they cast into the flames,, evidently be-, lieving that possession afthem would certainly; appease the malignant gods, and give Ah Foy a safe entree into the land of 'the good. ss At I. P. M. the coffin wag placed in a hearse, the mourners got into the . hacks, and the melancholy procession of pagans and Chris tians proceeded to Lone Mountain, - where the remains will be entombed' tillthe sailing pf the ' next China steamer." The Independent says: " By a recent arrival, by way of California., an American lady, formerly a missionary in Siam, received the subjoined letter from the elder of the two youthful monarchs who at present occupy the throne of Slam, one of the richest and most pOpulous empiree of &when Asia. "The following is a literal copy of the letter referred to, neither orthography nor purictua lion being altered. The penmanship is alindst as beautiful as copper-plate engraving : "PALACE OF THE SECOND KING BANG ROE, SIAM, July . F---.—DEAR 3LCILNAL:-A few days since I received your congratulatory note of March 31st, for which please accept, my sincere thanks. ", Yours has called up many refreshing memories of my childhood, though you have been absent from this .country_ many learn. Numerous changes have taken place, and you would barely recognize Bangkok could you be transported here. Time will not allow me to detail the numerous changes, that have tran spired. You mustle . content to gather them from other sources. • ' After the demise of his Majesty aSomdeteit Plata Nang Klan, my much esteemed uncle, and father became - tile First and - Second Kings of Siam. Theirs 'was a peaeeftil and prosperous reign, which must perpetuate their. cherished 'memories. Treaties were made with nearly all the great powers of the West. Europeans and Americans resorted hither for trade: An extensive commerce • has .been the result. This city has greatly improved in 'its appear ;thee, its buildings, roads and cal:Ws. Beautiful square-rigged vessels and steamers are now owned by the ShuneSe government and Siamese merchants. The industry, pro duce and wealth of ,the country • have corres 7 pondingly advanced. " My deservedly-admired uncle• 'reigned nearly eighteen years, after which my cousin, heir to the throne, was crowned, November 11, 1868, with the title, Ills Majesty tiorudetch I'hra Paraniindr Maha Chulalongkoon Patindr Tepa Malta Mongkut, the Supreme King of Siam. On the 18th of the same . month, the rank I now hold was bestowed upon me. " 'Peace and prosperity exist throughout the • length and breadth of the kingdom, and long may it continue, will doubtless be yours as it is my earnest wish. Please'aceept as a keepsake from your once baby friend,. One set of Siamese coins. 14 One silver cigar-boA, finished on the out side with gold. • " ' liOnOred mother and other ladle's of the palace wish to be remembered to you. Ac cept my best , wishes for•yourself,your husband and your son, and believe me, 4 1YOurs,tnily, 46 K. SATIIAN MONGOL, " Second King of SiamoSic.,&e.,&c.' " In his lecture on ,music,. Prof. Ritter thus gave• ' a condensed. histbry. of opera : 44 The, opera originated in Italy. Thence it found its way all over Europe, being first exclusively performed:for the amusement of royal courts. Cardinal Mazarhi was its patron, and intro-' duced it Into Eninee,'and Handetfirst put it on' the English stage. It is in oratorio, howevor, , that Haridel's . fame . will .6es banded.. down through the generations.. Christopher Gittclrin; Boheinian,.boraln 111 , 1;18.0 . be credited with having brought opera to perfection. In 1162. hp produced Orpitcg at Vienna, and A/ceste , :QUA. WHO L E CoIThrIUM A Letter from of condensed History or Operis. 1768—both his own creations. He established Freneh tverit in Paris,'while •Ilandel did the same thing in Englandi , Plehil was 64ncit's great:opponent, and stoutly upheld itallea °PIO W 4 / 2 4 Giseles French inVdtietious. The works of Picini 'am forgotten, tint those of Gluck still live. Iriew,mtew tonic ,M MAR *KAUDIV. r - ow They Were Perpetrated , and flow They were Ithicenrered—sDishonest Inv parsers and ; : ClE lresnipar lesinsplers— Large SUMS Vont hifheTrftfhary. The N. Y. Times says The Attention of. 4.lolottel Prank E. Howe, special agent of the., Treasury. Department, was drat directed to !the frauds practiced at the Appraiser's Depart inept In this city itithe • underyahlation and undenreighing of inaPort ed sugars by receiving a personalletter from Secretary Bemire% dated on the 20th of July last, in which mention *as made of , certain complaints made by several , Philadel p hia and Boston sugar merchants. The • substance of these complaints was that:the trade in the im portation of sugar was rapidly leaving their respective eities,•and that New York was at taining a disproportieriatemonopol 'of the business,' compelling thein ;to ma ke their purchases through: .houses in this city, instead of receiving cargoes at their own,ports. They . attributed the fact ,to a more faivorable' standard for weighing and samplingg. on the part of New York than was possessed by the two drst-named places. On unit undertaking to ascertain the cittfSe of this monoptily, Col. Howe bad little euspicion that-dishonesty had been used ; but by maintaining caution • aid silence during hiS investigation, he ultimately discovered that a System 'of gigantic frauds • had been perpetrated in the Appraiser's De partment. the responsibility for whieh. he longed to the former Administration, in whose time it was carried on. Be was aided in his official undertaking by Gollector Grinnell and Appraiser Palmer, who acted conjointly with hint in the matter. An earnest and prominent part was also taken in the secret investiga tion by Colonel. Howes assistants, Messrs. Brush, Blunt, Toole and Shafer. It was found that frauds had been committed both in the weighing and sampling of sugars, thus en abling merchants to • improperly save large sums of money in the shape of tax which was rightfully due the national Government. In one instance Deputy Special Agent Brush dis covered that one cargo of sugar alone,broaght here by the steamer - Evening Star,for Havana, was nnders•eighed to such an extent as to put 52,1300 in the pockets of the consignees instead of the Treasury, where it legitimately be longed. There is good reason for supposing that several handred thoesand dollars have been lost to the Government in the manner mentioned, of ' which there is..no hope of recovery. Probably another 5100,000, which might • have • been lost, will be, • saved to the -Government by the present energetic course of Colonel Howe. In order to better comprehend the system of false sampling, it may be necessary to give the tax on the various grades of sugar, as regni lated by Dutch standard,•:• which is as follows Under - N0.1% three cents per pound duty ; above No. l 2 and under N 0.15, three and one half cents; over N0.15' and wider No. 20, four cents :'refiner!,' granulated sugars. ttc., five cents ner pound, It will be seen by this that a sampler sampling sugar in an inferior grade would save trom one-half to one , per cent. en every pound for the importer. At present there are about 100.000 hogsheads of sugar in the several bonded warehouses in this city,all of which will he resampled a.ad revalued. This will be conducted in such a manner as to inconvenience importers as little as pos sible. roftwrox ITEms. The Anti-Catholic Council ' From a letter in, the tOma it appears that, - populir denionstrations -against the • (cu "anneal Council were td talte, plate theonghout `ltaly on the day the Connell 'meets. viz., Dec. 8. Public, meetings on 'a large scale were to , be held in Palermo, Catania, Salerno, Aquila, Foggia, -Ancona, Parma; , Venice, Verona, Brescia and Treviso. At, these meetings reso lutions were to be brought- forward declaring implacable hosfilitr to the Poye, protesting against the oppression of the _Emperor Napo leon. and affirming the principle of the liberty of eonscience and the consequent necessity of abrogating, the'first article of the _TtaTinrt Con stitution. The letter is signed by ?Signor Ric eiattli, one of the leaders of the movement. and he says that Garibaldi Completely shares his views as to t he, desirabiliry and opportune ness of the demonstration. propo,,ed. The- death of Mrne. Grisi took place at Merlin while the renowned, cantotr ice was on her way,from Florence to St. Petersburg, to join Signor. Mario, who was fulfilling .an engagement in that city. When, about. five weeks since,. Mine. Grisi left the Villa Sali viata, her. residence in Florence, she had a small' carbtincle on her face. Dining the journey it rapidly deteloped i producing con siderable enlargement of the glands of the threat; - and she - was obliged to remain .at Berlin. The tumor being freely , opened, Mute. Grisi became better and sat up. 'A few days before her death. she• was seized with symptoms of apoplexy, and' Dr. Warren Isbell, of Plymouth, in whom for many years. Mine. Grisi had Placed great confidence as a medical man, was telegraphed for, but she died on the Thursday before that gentleman's arrival. Mme. Grist's daughters were with her at the time of her death. Signor Mario arrived at Berlin afterward. A Declaration of bientrallty. The Prince of Montenegro has addressed .a declaration of neutrality to the great Powers. •He carefully recounts all the measures which be has taken to avoid all reproach of con niving at or sympathizing with the Dalmatian insurgents. The principal regulations laid down by him In concert with his advisers are these: "First,,every 'Montenegrin is forbid den to take any part, direct or indirect, in the insurrection; secondly, in order to fully main tain the observation of the law of nations a guard of the frontier is established to prevent insurrectionary bands from entering; and thirdly, all insurgents preseiiting themselves will be disarined and sent into the interior of the country." • GOUGIi @N BE.ECHEIC• John weivuornbile Opinion And now John B. 'Gough is butting his small head against public opinion. The N. Y. Times of Friday says:, , . John B. Gough leetured for the Brooklyn 'Voting Men's Christian - Association, at the Academy of Music; last evening, on "Rio grtence and Orators?' : In coneluding his lec ture he Wielded to Rev. Mr. Beecher in con nection with the theme that has recently brought him so _prominently before the public for'criticism. He saidit• was the duty of the orator to speak in• behalf of the oppressed and do wntrOdden,the persecuted and despised, under all circumstances, whether it, be the Pastor of Plymouth Church or the 'most de graded member of satiety. He had been dis•- . gusted beyond' degree to seethe godless papers all over this country gloating over the mistake of as .pure-minded a mark as ever lived—papers which had never giv,n utterance to a cordial word er a :lonia "literal' sentiment before, all at once discovering that they hail a strong sympathy for the cause of Christianity and the moral purity of the human rage, 80 as to justify ' their 'mean' and hypocritical whines': about a mistake rtiade'.,la la y.one of the most; user farneu, of hi:? O, they should 'stand , 'by a man , when' he 4 was assailed by persecu tors Miniiders and Christians 'should static! bv.; each' .other!..tWhell enemies =make :their ' - vll6 eriticisras, :stana breAch Man: worthy of )us td iifo ;awl u lie' COWL'', speak :to' , dais felloW , man when sought to bound, him down, or.' ba ttr, * tut; front the late and respect of .ttiankind ' As the appeal rolled front the lips cir the elo4fient speaker like :a tonimt,/ the large 'assembly: nein and again applauded %most - enthustas4 • - 1/4 WEALT*iisfloia sNTtlitrh nal lway Capitaildter la ti e 1130 4 1,4041 Stakiteo. ^ fiTrlgn the Chicago- Post.) A very distinguished party of English capi talists and railway pen, arrived „here ye.ster _day evening at sir o'clock, by way the, Michigan Centrarßailroad,ln a Special train.. The party is composed 'of Alderman Prestdent'of the; Great Western' atailbray of Canada; Hon. John Pales lion, Blackstone Baker and.Olbson Holman:lE6aq Directors of , the Great. estern. AU tne gentlemen. are from London, England, with the exception...of Mr. Hides, , who >is front ,Manehester, and member of the Howie Of °ominous for Great GrinisbY. Preileus 'to leaving England on , thepresent visit he was presented . with. 'a .rnagaiticeint. , eandelabra; =valued at , $l,OOO, byhis tonstituents.. He is a gentleman of sterling gualities,and is held is high esteem rnhis countrymen. James Li. Reid, Esq., gineer of the , Great Wastern, and W. R. Muir, Assistant43nperintendent of thb Michi an Central Railroad, accompanied the party. This forenbiln they visited all the principal points of interest in • the city, and expressed theinselVes highly , pleased and astonished , at the rapid growth of the city, and the many im provements made. The party leave at,445', in a special Pullout/I ear, attached to the fast ^expresis on the Michigan Central. They; will proceed to SuSperision Bridge,where they, will remain ovet Sunday. They m go thence to Boston, where, it is reported, a joint eetine of the directors of the Great. Western and Michigan Ventral Railroad will be held for the purpose 'ofmaking arrangements by which the former road will cbe leased to the latter for'a term of ,years, and, run under one management, thin, 'making an unbroken. line from itrcity to Niagara loans, where close oonnections are 'made with the roads running to the East The party here to-day have in spected both roads, and it is highly probable a new ,arrangement will be, made, mind. these very excellent math: put in , still, better shape than before. A.MIISENIENTEI. • .ME. WOL,ESQIIN'S MATINEE. —Mr. Carl Wolfsobn gave the second of his cla_isical ma.tinees;•at the FOyen of the Acad emy yesterday afternoon, presenting the fol lowing progrfunme Sonata, (A minor, op. 1.43,) Schubert Allegro giusto—Antlante—Allegro vivace Carl Wolfsolin. Introduzione and Elegie • Mr, Wenzel Kopta ."Der Wanderer," • Mr. Ettore Eat* Song— Impronitn, (No. 3 B flat major,) Schubert : cal BVolfsohn. Concerto; (D ;minor,) • Mr. Rudolph Hennig.. Fantasies (C major, 0p.159,) ~ . ..Schubert ' Messrs.. Wolfiiihn and Kopta. TheSouato in A minor is a remarkably in teresting and genial work, entirely new to our audiences, and not too well-known, per hapss• in imaterir circles; although , it is a genuine inspiration and worthy of the great master in his highest moods. Impressed with its Manifold beauties and recognizing its sym phonic form, so frequently a characteristic of Schubert's works, Mr. Kla.iiScr has arranged this Sonata for the orchestra; a treatment of it that is more effectual under a careful per fortnance. such as that of Theodore Thomas's Society, ihan upon the• piano; . although the beauty of the work was fully Manifested. yes terday; in.Mr, loVoltsohn's, finished and gent interpretati on of ltEqually happy was she selection:9f, the lovely impromptu, lik ew i se a novelty,' and. Which, as Well as the..P'entaSie for piano and violin, was exquisitely iperforiaed 'by Mssrs.- Wolfsolin and Kopta. The Litter work Abounds in very difficult passages,wlnch Were bravely surmounted by these artists ; but it is rich in a wealth of ideas, and confirms again the claim so justly made for Schubert, he who :wrote the Symphony in C, and MS riarte,s Eons!, that his is of right a place with the highest. Qt the , Other portions of the programme yesterday, there remains tb be commended Rennig's solo. the Eckert Concerto, a recent production, which, though a work of no particular inspiration and ssmewh.at Muted. in, character, was made interesting chiefly by Mr. Hennig's characteristically careful and spirited performance: and Mr. Kopta's treatment of the Ernst Elegie, with its interesting introduction by Spohr, deserves as well a word of sincere praise. Mr. Ilarili, who essayed. the Wanderer in "choice Italian," was not so fortunate. Like the "liou's part" which Bottom said might be done extempore, it was "nothing but roaring." He who attempts the interpretation of songs of the high character of these Lieder of Schubert, especially, 'must come to them as Charles Lamb says of the reader of Milton, "with docile thoughts and purged ears." They suf. fer sadly, if treated in a manner that suggests a sans culotte shouting the Marseillttit:e. Mr. Wollsolin's next matinee, to be .devoted to Mendelssola, will be given on Friday, .lanii. aryl4. -,Mr. Totten Craig will - have a - benefit at' the Arai to-night, when The frigh Emigrant, P. P., or The Jign and. the Tiger ' will be pre tiented, with' a burlesque by Craig entitled Don Juon ; or, The Byron Scandal, and Craig's Protean farce. The Dregs Rehearsal, in which Mr. Craig will give his 'wonderful imitations. During the , evening Mr. Cathcart will recite " Lot* lillan's daughter:" Bateman will repeat Jlery Warner at the Walnut this evening. __Teitrice; or. The White Lady of Wicklow will be iepeated at the Chestunt Street, Theatre to might. --At the American, an excellent perform, amen will be given this evening. ' --Messrs. Carneross &-, Dixey will present a tine programme for this even ing's entertain ment. —Duprez Benedict's Minstrels draw full houses eYery. night at the Seventh street Opera, House. —signor Blitz will do wonderful feats of niagic and conniring at the Asseinhly Build ings, this evening. —The Pennsylvania Poultry Hoeiety will open their Annual Fair, at Horticultural on Monday next. . . -L-An entertainment entitled "The Voyage of Life ; or, the World's Progress," will be giVen in the hail of the Mercantile Library this evening, -11 r. William D. maid].) will give a read ing, at Coneertillall, on Wednesday evening, December 2.211. The proceeds will be given to A Locomotive and 'rsvo Can Th;rown lute the Penn Widows' Asylum. Bush Myer --,The following ctmi inunit'ation explains As an extra freight train onthe Philaderphia; Wilmington and Baltimore 'Railroad way., " Mr. Editor--I was of the audience alluded crossing the long Bush River Bridge, 'yester 'to in your paper of last Monday, who enj(?yed day afternoon, at about 5 o'clock, coming the performance of Mr. Duane, at the Nate, north, the locomotive ran ea the track, two torium, en the previous Saturday, and I wish together with two .freight cars went partly , to report that, the hearty laughter of an Intel- . over the bridge. The trill( Nvas being repaired , ligcnt company, gave frequent. proofs of the and it IS supposed that some' timbers ~may MO'Y' merits of theperinriner. And yet Mr. Duane have been'lying on it. 'Men were immediately ' - Acted then ,'•undet• several drawbacks of the set to work to clear the' track to prevent an .t 4 2 room, well calenlated to mar snteess: 'Rence avoidable interrupting' of travel,'ands lt lam glad to learn and inform his friends that AN as done, though' it was found neocestnettlit his next appearance in Philadelphia will be throw the expensive ionotriotive and two care. at the ,charming Seventeenth °street pri. overboard into the ricer', and the regular . Tate theatre, which has been very kindly put , i night through train frotu "Washington g at his disposal for a single' might, between the bridge intinie. The'efileers 'of,this 'nerte r _:,: , ,,, Christmas and New 'Year. Let me also say pany'" have got the netve'te dO'virliatkeer' that those who remember the delightful per necessary to, insure' regularity in rutniin `. fornmince pf 'Mts'Oarley?Kywax_Avorks,' will without steppingto maturate the eoalk be glad to witness 3 11 ,XT I PliAne the saute IR:- ono wits.hurt; by the accident The 10001notlite0!" clithar talent, displayed. in a dill - aunt form, thrown overheard la .the 'No. 37i a flue 'Wigs . and :414 tutited,liythe u-boru thin' ly giit.„ • eogine,' emit inemeeree will immediatelykttel "(1." 1 taken to raise her and put her in, rums f , The'second of the series of'' Varier Con: I ordetragaiiill'ilmbititon Votteincreidillosterday, • 'F .14 - PR/OFfnillAtONS • . , (so - '' 0 evotrartnititoitai tug 1 eits " 7 win' I ' . 1 t a t e k The. Wing, at i.. 111 lit fire+ "iiiter*t tj h Otte .{h ie 1 t ' tile. ea I ' ill , Of ithelkattaleOrtii „et , w h o has ,i4boitid'',P,..ii 1 0/,‘,„. e4 a 9,644/10 4 tleguyto_ptomptire.cl e i t u.:,,..r.,..,,,, tiott.by tbigm' 'ettal'dilse 4511 . t c num c "°°Rragene4. 4,2lo'#Atittia ~..-. I ( 1 ' . tirranillial fir.il • . • -147,4041!A' . • . • Few countries Isix theficitsira, With strachileattiat i ßstagiik'o,6; . s. & /OW Bvi high Suolk /WO iry On smaller scales .moz-switcli their - Wilk As sass like & swaggery ? , But for ihe heller & alaula & Swim. o , l 4iper tuneksCur,:w.. c u f & ;Scratch let loosek Bt,;tonerat juiciidt, , & for & craz & Atha 'star - ' & fora in pax & Agaig,the -rftstficiuckwakcrAft.,; On all 'these tax mut peOp/e.bax,• , '). The fixing of Magary. —; , , • &dictum,* Ct. e. • • —A Ayracuse paper realls•thorpodrigiaat ,vair immodest image!! anda " mulgarfraitVl) —There are only 41,000 Mongiliffairs lit;CriOr , • forma. Each of them has *think pingt;l'' , • - —A blue-eyed 'girl, -With short ikir;rialtitt , 'pug nose, is running for CoVeriit ifl Xrtilitatli f ; —A Richmond. man boa.made, rialtearacr.: tune out of amid-stone ,durftigAtieprist,mjar, mer. He , charged' fora rile apppfuttiOn.,/, „ —Polish parents are ,to give boats., , : of 200 roubles that their children shall, speak; only Russian in school. • —Rochefort's manner of •unbuttoning. Ids— gloves in the Chamber of Deputies is said to be defiant. —A huge petrified mitten has been forind at • Fort Ann, and it is supposed to have beau * that which Arm gave the Cardiff giant. --The face of the new postage-stamps is not, of so much account as the 'back, Which ought to be made to stick.' --The snuff-hex. which Napoleon gave to; Dr. Iticord is worth 17,1500 francs. That swift,' for curing an Emperor, goothiess nose! • The foul imputations cast upon a Chbr‘ir belle of having her toes cut off, in, Ardor to Itt 'r. o. 10 gaiters, is denied, in MN. , : • —A young wife of seventeen in ehioagoshairt,••. got a divorce. She married a fellow who Mild he bad 5200.000, when he hadn't a cent. Bo= sides that, he pinched her. , , —The railroad excavations in Salt Lake City ' turn out any quantity of big human bones pottery, flints-and other relics of the pre-Mqr-, mon race. —A woman in Sing Bing for bigamy asking Mr. Beecher's prayers, saying that she got her divorce just the way Mr. McFar land did. ..Ernst Schubert Eckeit —The bona fide advertisement of a dog- . 1 fancier in a New Orleans paper contains this ; suggestive announcement; "Puppies /aria— ished for sausage, blood-pudding, eto., —Au Oakland, California, Justice ot,thai Peace has decided that •it •is not micked, to swear falsely when. the perjurer does not_ tend to injure anybody! , • —At Des Moines, lowa, it takes the dett— cens all day Monday to paste together thee shin-plasters i put ilito the collection plate ost —The style of dressing the hair now.;rt vogue among the ladies is not liked by a Neer' York • paragraphist, who sais " it interferes with the prei;mpted rightS of a - falle4's arra ? "' —The presentation of a diamonci,ring; to ; g.: Cincinnati actress, the , other daY,gavek.S. gifted reporter efthat city the opportanitymr , this remarkable, outburst;".Lt ,was a,triflipg • tribute from au l humble admirer of the 21mble • - drama ,to., a brilliant 'beacon upon the ShOt-, tower of bistrionio genius." —A San Francisco Chinaman iwas, taught by his queue as he jumped through a hatch way to escape the police. in pursuit.,.ef He dangled for an instant, and then drawing his )(site he severed his precious, pig-tail; and • dropped in safety, while the officers tumbled over backward with attend/Id .or 4. —Brigham Young's newspaper gets very humpy over .the story.that txoopsare. to be sent to Utah, and says : " The .mea are not yet born the caution guns and instruments of. war are not yet invented, ,neither will they be, that will bring about the overthrow of this, systrin which Melt are pleased to call' " —A Dutch publishing house wrote to" Mid ame Collins," meaning Wilkie, that they pre hose to publish without pay a translation - of is last story. Whereupon the angty novelist writes back that they are a " pest among honest men," and asks if they would not like to steal his. pocket-handkerchief if they had a chance. —They have a base-ball club in Denver of which a local paper says : " It takes three of them"to pick up a ball. and then they quarrel seventeen-Minutes to see who shall throwitto the pitcher; when the pitcher finally goes a& ter it himself, and gets his nose ptuiched.'' lie reliably, teases a "_home run " then, —lt may surprise some of our readers to learn that while a bar of iron, one • inch in di ameter, will sustain twenty-eight tons, and p, bar of steel of the same size will sustain fifty tons, 4 bar of spider's silk of the same dimen sions; will sustain seventy-four tons. This is' based upon a calculation that a fibre of silt one four-thousandth of an inch in diametermia sustain fifty-four grains. • —An, excellent custom ptevails in Birming ham of making, on one Sunday in every year, a collection in all the churches and chapels, for the benefit of Hospitals and Dispensaries., n the past tcn years these collections have amounted in the aggregate to snore than .C.16,- MO. Might not our clergy here be' •induced to follow this charitable example, and to nat uralize, "Hospital Sunday" as an American in stitution —The most remarkable railroad in Ger many and Europe is the new Black Forest Bead, which will be completed , within four years. Between Horuberg , and St. George. Situated' 2,870 feet abeve the level of the sea t 'and but four miles distant from Hem berg, the railroad ascends nearly 2,000 feet,'_ and passes through 27,000 feet of tunnels. 11,000 feet of the latter have been completed. during the last two years. The truly perm work on the road is progressing,Mpully and attracting .thousands or visitors,., who flock' there from all parts of &Althorn tier, , many and Switzerland. ItAILIROAD ACCIDENT. =MEI ~:;`_ e~ 'lip' t' 9r)
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