GUISIN PEACOCX: Editir. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 2go. „ SPECIAL NOTICES. 1870! THE NEW YEAR BEING NEAR AT RAND, THE GRAND CLEARING' SALE NOW PROOIIIBBING AT 81$ And S2O CHESTNUT; STREET, WILL BB Vigorously Pushed FOIL THE YEW DAYS DEMAININD Of the Old Year. Still Further Accommodation of Prices! Chestnut Street ClOthing Below Market Street Prices ! BOYS' CLOTHINGI BOYS' CLOTHING j row (mum BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS ; CLOTHING ) BEST STYLES, BOYS' CLOTHING) BOYS* CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING i t BOYS' CLOTHING I • COST ! BOYS' CLOTHING ) All Our illettitoX Must be bold Out for We 0111 (10.17 None 01 this Meek Over. JOHN WANAMAKER'S Chestnut Street Clothing Establishment, 818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET. ,CHRISTMAS DINNER TO THE The Teachers of the Sabbath and Pay Sehoolsof the Bedford titre ,, ,t. 3lit ,, ion intend givig a dinner. WI RISTMAB DAY. to the a,:.holars tauter their care. at the MISSION HOUSE, No. 61ti BEDFORD street, be. tween Hand 1 o'clock. Interoatitig exercises in the chapel. before dinner, by the children. The citizens arc , cvrdielly iroited to be present. Dnuationa, either in money. poultrr, proTision4 or clothing. respectfully scan:iv - A, and can be tent to either of the nstlereigned • E.BM CND c TA RD, • N.:=4 Spruce street. JACOB. H. lICRDSALL, No. Inletteetnut street. GEORGE MILLIKEN. No. e:t., , t Arch etreet. _ • JAMES L. BISPIIA51.• •n No. 71u South Second etreet. WM. H. HEISLER, eveuth National Bank: Fourth an SPE Mark: , e R t streets. CHARLES N 0.7 Bank etreet. thy. JOHN I). LONG, Rio. 619 lit:Mont street. . . "THE SOCIETY FOR SUPPLYING THE POOll WITH Stir' ()flacon' !street, appeal to the public for the usual annual aid by which they ire enabled. to carry on their operations. Iu addi tion to n Jetty deliverYSoup, Corn Ideal and Bread are distributed,. each, (mice tese/a.y. A visitor is em ployed to es.arnine into the fitness Of each applicant to receive aid. The Society has no paid collector.but every member ii anthorized to receive funds for the treasury, JO5. S. I,EW IS, President. 111 Walnut street. AVM. HY ANS, Treasnrer,6l3 Market street. JAS. T, bIIINN. S. W. con. Dread and Spruce streets. WM. L. 111111:. 619 Walnut street. ALKB WOOD.ritt S. Second etre' t. .108. K. WIIKELER, .ar26 Cticedunt street. [de2l-12tra THE A DKCP IA AND BAL TIMORE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY. PFULADT.LPIIf A. Becieticher 2.1i1 0009. The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Phila delphia and Baltimore neutral Railroad Company :will be held on MONDAY, January 10th, 1,570,1 n the Ballot the Borough of Oxford, Chester rotinty: Pa at 11 o'clock, A. 11f ~ for the purpose 'of electing a President and Twelve Directore,and to tike action for changing. the tune of holding annual meetings : also fur such other LueiueAs SO may legally come JO fore said meeting, • SEPH lIEDDELL, Lle24-ittl w t AS§ Secretary: fun THE ENEPItPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA: COM PANY'S BUILDING, NO. 4 L 0 WANUT STREET. • - • Dxcs.vu aa l4, Notice—The Annual IMOetini Of the Stockholders'of the _EN LERI.KVE INSURANCE COMPANY will be held on 310NPAT. the 10th day of J untiary next,at 10 o'clock A A. M., at the Office of the Company An Election for Twelve Directors to i , crve for the en suing year will be held at the same time and place, be• tween the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M. ALEX. W. IiVISTER, y duct r w time§ Secretar. tob OFFICE PHILADELPHIA GAS WORKS . . Proposals will be received at this Office until noon of the Ist January, We. for the Witte the Trustees of the Philadelphia Gas Works of stock in the Gerutautowu houthwark and fileyanionshad, Manayuuk and Rich-. mond Gas Companies to be need as invest ntents fur the zilnkino Funds of said rainy:lnks. de24 Stg. BENJA IdIN ti. RILEY, Cashier.. 80. OFFICE OF THE PIIILADEL PHIA GAS WORKS, 20 SOUTH SEVENTH 4TRKET The 1104 ism Of the Six Per tent. Gas Loan. N 0.7, doe Jalllllll l / I, 1.870, Rre hereby notified that, the Certificates afield Loan will be pied at this office on that day, after which tune interest on the same will cease. deZt tit§BENJ. S. RILEY, Cashier. Ow 1109. (II STREET. 1109 TBRIEIaI, RUSSIAN AND PERFUMED BATIIS, Departments for Ladies Batlts'open from 6A. M. tog P. M. ' HOWARD HOSPITAL, .NOS. 1518 and. 1.520 Lombard street, Dirpensary Department. —Medical treatment and maione furnished gratuitously to tho poor MILHAVS -GOLDEN COD-LIVER Oil, pure and ieliable. Obtained from fresh, and healthy livers, and unsurpassed by any yet produced. Bold by all respectable druggists. J. MILHAUS' SONS, 189 Broadway, New York. 11015 w fist ITOMERCANTILE LIBRARY NOTICE. R —On and after January lst. 1870, the dues will int as follows : To Stockholders. $4 ; to dubscrlbers, $0 per annum, or $4 for els: months. What better Christmas present can he raved than a shire of this stock, price 410 ; or a life membership, free of dues, price 00. T. 111011.11 Id PISROT, detll 13 21 31rp§ ',readmit. /1Z STEREOPTICON ANDMAI:RC) Lantern lilxhibitione given to Sunday Scheele, ,e Colleges, and for_privato entertainment/I. W. 111T01111111.L MeALLISTIOR,7 2 / 1 Chestnut street, eeccud star/. no 2 2mni* —Herr Louis Hantur, artist and special cor respondent for the Leipsicjeurnal (Oareen &rube); was surprised, while sketching the ruins of a Dalmatian village .'burned by the Aus trians, by'a numerous band of insurgent 800- chess. Not content with robbing their victim, they. cut off his cars, and, accordin a cr to the Turkish custom in such cascs,.thrugthem into. Ms pockets. Herr Hantur has returned •to Vienna,' and • intends to claim an indemnity from the Austrian government. _ . ' , J. , : ' '' f ; ' , ..1i '• 1 i• . '. ' ' , • .• ~, ~, ;„ ~•• . . • • • , .• • • , : , „ ~, ,„ , , , . •'. c . ~ ~ '.,' ~'. . ' ,' -., ~, ':, , , , •.• • ", " ''' '''. ' -'• '' ' . 'sill' . , P „ , . . . - " •. . / 1 ' • "I ' ' " ~', ' ' ./ , •.:, .r 4 ,., • 4 , • ‘ 1 , ', 4 t , 4 . ' , . ' i e ~ , . ~',' ''', .' . 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LISIMPRAIPIRODE INILUIS. .: -! 1 ~ r; ,• , ',, f correeoondeinee 'o 1 thO Thttattel Atli teen ino Bulletin 3 ; Pants, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1869.—The political news ,thiti interning . hi'.. lit MIMI' importance that is,to:all who feel an interest in the political Prospects of this heading nationin Europe,aud . it the steady advance towards.constitutional freedom bytha gallant and cultivated A'reuch Peofile. .Ili MY ' last :letter' ti hail'`-to , citvell cidefly upon the. dbtseutim,ent . which had broken out among, the Littera' . ,party , and the °Pea Split ythieh had Unfortithathly takenplace in their ranks upon the occasion of the vote for the Vice President of the Chamber, After that vote it appeared as though, beginning from the Centre,otie . :portiartnf tits Liberal party had permanently , inclined toward the Bight Centre and extrenie Bight, endeavoring to lind'in that diretationthe basis of a working majority; and that another section of thesame,. party had gone off towards the Left Oentre and extreme Left, seeking their point Want* du the opposite side of ;.thet house. ~ LIMI this state of things become permanent and estab lished ,it would heve amounted to a complete dichotomy of the,conelltutional party; and as the greater , strength, in pointiof numbers at least, lay towards the Right, where a compact ..,nucleus of the old - Imperialist majority still 'held together--such a COmbi nation 'Amid have virtually .plooed the control of affairs in the hands of the latter. For M. Emile (Miler to have, put , himself :definitively , . at . the. head of .; this 'unnatural :- coalitiOn, and attenipted to assume . office and term an. administration on such a basis, would', have teen to give the lie to all his previous decimations, and forfeit all public . confidence ter the sake only of the Imperial favor. lam glad to think that there' is a fair prospect of spelt a result being avoided and of a solid and t4nupaet central 'majority` being formed, eiptally remote front and independent of the support Of the extteme Bight and the extreme • Left. This desirable 80- fOon appears to have been bronght about Mainly by the dis.satisfaetion , experienced, by' a certain number of. those who have followed the, lead of M. 011ivier in. accepting the, co-. operation of the . eitrenie Right -anditi VOtine for one of its members, the Baron David, as Vice-President.' , These deputies. Were dissat- Jailed at finding - themselves' separated from their . fernier colleagues, . and - also. made the object .of the ' public - opprobium •aS having allied themselves with the reactionary party in the Chainber. ;Atli , ing ou thefie considerations and feelings, - It' meeting was first summoned by M. Gooseau, at which the above views were strongly : , enforced and a demand made that a political" pro gramme should be drawn up and published, shoe:big that the object and policy of those Who adhered to M. 011ivier were still "strictly liberal - and that . their desire was to i - orm a compact majority on a liberal platform. 1 rather think that 'some kale pressure has been . exercised by his party on Itl. 011ivier, to induce him to fall in with this new movement and to assume a , more independent attitude in his. negcK i rtions with the Emperor. However this mar be, no time was lost in drawing up the necessary de claration, which has been made public only . t his morning.. - The eVident object of this . im-' portant manifesto is to form a common plat form on which the two sections of the Liberal party which have been on the point of dis union—the Right Centre and the Left Centre—may re-unite for common action. The chief poihts of the declaration are: The government of the country by itself, under the term of parliamentairy regime and a responsible ministry. AS a necessary accom paniment to this, a free press and free elec tions. To secure the former, press cases must, in future, be submitted to a jury ; for the lat ter there must be a new electoral law, to tix the electoral districts permanently and secure the liberty of the electors. For the latter pur pose especially, and also to guarantee the persons of citizens from, arbitrary pro ceedings, the impunity from prosecution at ' present enjoyed by all public functionaries, under article seventy-live ; of the old Napo 'iconic Constitution of, the year Vlll:anitst be modified. The mayors must be chosen from the municipal councils. . 1 The appearance of the above programme of the Right Centre immediately led to a ,con- . dilatory demonstration . on the part of the Left Centre. The latter were on the.Phint- of I publishing their separate platform. But 1 instead of doing so they have ad ' tiered unanimously. to a report &emu up by their President, the Marquis d'Andelaru, in 'which it is declared that the principles above enunciated are, for the most part; 'wart.* iden eal with their own. Only, on two points, the :Left Centre makes its reserves: It desires, iti conformity with the bill presented by Juleit Fevre, that the Government itself should take 'the initiative in making such changes In the ,constitution as shall restore to the Corps Legislatif i the powers of a constituent assembly, which pow ers are necessary to it for the duo enact ! ment of au electoral Ikw, and also for regara. . ting the choice of Mayors. On the latter point, secondly, . the. Left Centre evidently desires that the Mayors Should be nominated 'directly by the Communes; and not "chosen by the kinperor;even from the municipal 1101111 di, and altho' those , councils are themtelits the result of universal salliage. With. these reservations, the Left Centre is all for union between thelibemicouservative party- of all denominations. ' . . Fortunately, a favorable opportunity of nurnifesting this reconciliation has just presented itself. The election of M. Veillard, a. member' - of - the tiers-part - 1i - was - violently' oppposed by the Right mil extreme Right, but supported by the Left-Centre. The great-, eat excitement was .manifested yesterday in the Chamber to see how, under these circum-• stances, M. 011ivier and his party would vote, and whether they would cuthere. still .;to :their late allies. • But no; they, supported the Left- Centre; both the Liberal sections 'again 'once more voted together, and the "'old majority" was fairly beaten by 110 to 94. All this looks as if "liberty,".in.the true sense of_ the word, stood a better chance at this.rnoment in Prance than at almost any previous . period of .her PARIS, Friday, Deo.lo, 1869.--We have ex perienced some very severe weather in,Patis of late, muck mote so than As usually the case with us before Christmas. A heavy fall of snow took place about a week ago, with keen frost, plunging us at Once into mid-winter. The sledges turned out lu groat s 'number , rstr 4 p.goimi, tiothAy, Iif,QED4BER 24,1869.-TRIPLE SHEET: A inericaußlingt- by far the mosb 4 conspictiOus ip this distflay of winter etiuipages.' ''The lakes of the Bois do Boulogne, were soon frozen, and just'' able to 'bear. But' the paternal care of the authorities prohibited the too eager public froth as yet maldng use of the opportunitylor ekiiting, and, marked the tempting sheets of ice all• round with the warningiword-" dangereux," while sergeants de vile stead by,Yeady to take into cuatody all adventurous Anglo-Saxoits, of both hemis pheres, whre,persiated-inl the right, of free men to risk droWning themielvos if they so .pleased. Skates, however, were held in readi nese, and the Skating Club was on the qui rive; and, more important still, many, a pretty Polish or Russian costume was ordered, and got' ready in haste by more than one - fair debutante', ` anxious to dis play at once her taste andher agility. The Bob; was crowded on Monday last with gay equip ages of every description; and all round the edge of the ice stood a circle of elegant toilettes, the wearers of which amused and tantalized themselves by tapping the crystal mirror before them with their pretty little feet, or venturing a few inches, on its surface until warned oil again by the aforesaid inex orable policemen. All went away, however, giving each other rendezvous for that "to-morrow" which, in mundane affairs and pleasures, so often never , arrives. And ao in this case; the rude berm which blew so keenly that afternoon changed int 6 the "sweet south" before the' morning, and in twenty-four hours ice an d novr and the - hopes of skaters had disappeared together, and our first winter episode was over about as soon as it had begun. There is great . backwardness this year in " opening the ball" of the Season. Rome has robbed us, and is -robbing us daily, of num bees of our floating population, who, hearing• 1,..at the hotels there are empty; apartments to let, in scorer, and the greedy Romans coining at last to their senses, or at least to a sense of moderation, are changing their minds and their destinations, and taking themselies off to the Papal instead of the Imperial capi tal. The numerous visitors, too, of the-Khe dive of Egypt are being arrested on their way hithet%by the, supposed " attractions" of the , Council, as well as by an unwillingness to ex change at once the skies and temperature of the East for such a wintry aspect as that which they read of here, and which I have above described. The conelusion of all of :which is that, for Paris, we are very dull and 'deserted ; always excepting, of course, as re gards politics, for there we are lyely enough to satisfy the, most rampageous disposition. . . But though our political atmosphere be ", warm," it is by no means, I think, charged with thunderbolts. On the contrary, nothing can he more satisfactory and encouraging, for instance, than the.result of ourrlast and con cluding election contest. heze iu Pilrid. There were only two caudidate-s' in the field: M. Glais-Bizoin, a pure democrat, and. Barbe's " Citizen" Barbes, I ought to , call him, for he would decline the "title" of Monsieur" as being too " aristocratic !" Well, the constituents of the Fourth Electoral Division were plainly Called upon to pro nounce between liberalism and socialism, be tween reform and revolution, or, as Napoleon would express it, between liberty with order and anarchy without liberty. And how did they decide? Why,' by returning M. Gists- Bizoin, as the representative of the former opinions, by 16,000 votes against .1,4.500 ! And yet Napoleon told' the World, in , one of thoSe coup de thidtre phrase in which he ;so 'much delights, that . "he" would , be responsible , for "order"! Begging his Majesty's pardon, it appears to me, as it does to most of his subjects here, that the Pencil people in - general, and the Paris population thparticolar, have taken that. task already and entirely out of his hands, or at least have reduced it to a very light one . . In fact, the grandiloquent phrase which has been so ninth quoted as a proof at once both of strength and confidence—" L'ordre, j'eu • riparith..-"—when calmly considered, amounts' to nothing more than a vain and idle boast. Wbo desired to " disturb " order"? NO110;414V0 Only some ten or 'fifteen thousand , ragariurflins; the rabble of a great _capital, who would run away before , any display of military force, just as they did run away in the month ofJune, and just as they did not even venture to "show tight" on, the 26th of Itelbber last. -- - Audit is againSt these " terrible enemies" that the absolute master. of a hun-• dred thousand soldiers:within call of the cap italtells us grandiloquently, that " he" will be responsible for " order "! The only real danger Which '." order" runs is from himself—his stubborn clinging to power, re sistance tci the clearly-expressed will of the na c lion, and his own Unwillingness to fulfil his promises. It he persevere in such a course until he aroused a general spirit of indignation throughout the country, then " order 7 would indeed be in danger ; but whose would be the fault? The entire Liberal party, including oven the extreme Left itself,,with the solitary exceptions: of. MM. Rochefort and. RaSpail, 'have abjured and repudiated all recourse to violent measures, or any,measures save those legally open to them fOr the prevention of their rights; and a Paris constituency has just reaffirmed and adheredto that policy by a ma,' jority of 16,000, o,lol* *,OO. • • • The state of parties in the Cha„mber still continues to be fluctuating; but, in the main, it remains what I. pointed it out to be ininly last letter, with an array of figures and a repe tition of gauche and dreit, and Right Centre and Left Centreovith which I willpot again try the patience of your readers, The votes subsequently taken have been, entirely den votes ; and as many personal feelings and questions are mixed up with them, the deputies have voted pretty , much as they liked, without much refbrence either to parties or principles. The fact is, that so many even of those who _ have • new joined ihe liberal ranks have been indebted for their own election to government influence and, other, corrupt practises, that they don't like to vote against their colleagues, when elections are disputed on similar greands. The Minister of: the Interior, M. de Forcade ha Roquette, made a (speech quite d la Rouher yesterday, and' was vehemently applauded. Re ptit, forward a grand e display of , liberalisra of the imperial type, and was sent' flit after - wards, to be 'c thanked" for..his zeal, both , by the Emperor and. Empress, just like an actor , . after a successful performance. 0 - There are utsW . Mpg' ivthousand men at work rebuilding and repaitiug the Loltieiana levees ori the Mississippi ' COUNTELY. 111 W .ATTACH S. ON THE ' SUPREME COUNT. Jr. Triimbutres Eituprotue Court $lll. • The Nation has the following: Perhaps the' strongest argument' for' Mr. Trumbull's hill' . cutting' off the right of , appeal to the Supretrie Court in certain cases, and obliging the *court • to derive from Congress its official kriotvledge ; of political facts, is to be found 'in ,the'ques tion, What should Congress haVe done if the, Supreme Court bad declared the r'ivar constitutional by denying .Ihti tight of 'the Federal Government 'to coerce a State? ; Of course the answer of ninety-nine Men out 'of every hundred would have been, Disregard it. In other words, people would have said: There are some issues too grave to be submitted,' in the present state of human nature, to' anylegal tribunal,' which never have been and probably never will be submitted to any legal tribunal; and -one of them is 'the right of twenty millions of people to exist'as a nation. This is a quetition which has never yet been laid before any less arbiter than the Lord of Hosts. There never yet has been 'a. man, and never will be a man, it Is safe tosay, in the present stage of human development, competent to give judgment on it, The .proofs in such . a controversy - could be carried into no earthly chamber nor coinprised within any written or spoken pleading, for they consist in the readiness of vast numbers of men to lay down all that makes life dear,and life iteelf,in pursuit of an Ideal good. henmen enough agree to do this to make all material resistance to their will useless; all argument on .their right to do it becomes child's play. Na tions may yet submit to -' legal arbitrament questions of more or less, of this meaning or that meaning, of true or false, .of honorable or dishonorable; but the question to be not to be will, it is safe to say, be forever reserved to the sword. ' I * • The right to fight in defenceof the national existence would,however, be of little Use with out the right of deciding whenithe danger to avert which the fighting was began is over. Anybody who is authorized to tell us when to lay down our arms, might as well alsohe au thorized to • tell ua when to take them up, because he can with a word render our' taking them up vain. In other words, if we conceded to the Supreme Court the right of saying when . an insurrection was fully suppressed, we might as well concede to it also the right of saying whether it should be suppressed at all Or not. Therefore, that Congress should have charge; and exclusive charge, of the work of recon struction, is the logical result of its having-ex . clnsive charge of the work of putting down the rebellion. The elements which' enter into the question whether the rebellion is extinct or only smouldering are of a nature to prevent them being properly placed before any legal tribunal, and to incapacitate any legal tribunal from forming a correct judgment on them. Baring said this much, we may safely add that it is needless to attach any importance to Mr. Trumbull's bill—much less to Mr. Drake's bill depriving the Supreme Court of the power of declaring-any Act, of Congress unconstitu tional—on the ground that something is needed to, check the 'tendency Of the Court to usurp power over the co-ordinate branches of the Government, or to assume predominance in the Government. The argument is made still less respectable, too, by the attempts made to fortify it by citations from the prophecies and protests of the democratic fathers. The dangers which these worthies, without any experience to guide them. thought they foresaw, we, with a good deal of experi ence.-perceive that they did lint foresee at all. The fear that the court would lord it over 904-, gess and the President hag' been proved not to have a particle of foundation. Indeed, the judiciary is the branch 'of the. Government; and the only one, which has.: been steadily de clining in influence and authority daring the last fifty years., • The , ether two have found means to compensate themselves in one direc tion for what they lost, in another; , but whatever ,tbe judiciary, has lost, it, has lost outright. Nearly every tendency of. the clay has told against the increase of its power, while there is hardly one which has not helped to increa.s.l the Vowel. of the executive and the legislature. growth of wealth, combined with the possession by Congress of the public purse, has lessened the influence of the beirit by condemning ft ,te poverty, and making it less attractive to able lawyers. The increasing influence of numbemon the conduct of public affairs has added: enormously to the force of the representative branch of the Government, and proportionably diminished the force 'of the branch which has no constituency to back it up. In an age when the 'number of men who dare - to speak their own sentiments as such is greatly diminished, of course judges' opinions count for less than they did in the age when intlividnid statesmen tivere.a political power. MOreever, the prevailing taste - for political and moral speculation, the decline of authority, the weakened force of habit, the dislike of walking,by landmarks or ou beaten tracks, have all tended to bring into disrepute the function of comparison and interpretation, which in our jurisprudence is the only one left 'to the judges,.,: : _ It has been hown,too,by aetualexperience, what one would think might have been pre dieted a priori even by Jefferson, that. the re visory power oVer : legislation of a tribunal which can neVeirhe called Onto pass judgment on the validity of a law at all except on the demand of a suitor in a bona-fide controversy, can rarely he a source Of danger or, even of inconvenience: is a remarkable fact, too, that, the one occasion on which the court could be.. fairly, charged . with attempting to, settle 'a political controversy by a judicial de ciSion, the attempt was made not for the honor and aggrandliebrient of the court itself, but for the benefit,ef...one of the great . political parties of, the day ; - dins revealhig its danger, and that which those who legislate about it are bound to give most heed to—the danger of its • being used as a tool, bya party in power to. give a kind of moral sanction to measures not otherwise justifiable. . • There are Many signs, some of which we mentioned A fortnight ago, that the Supreme Ceurt..ist.•recouth4 from,.the totop.erary 408 S. Of.. influence and dignity inflicted on 'it 'by the Died-Scott decision and the events of thud war. The general excellence of the President's ap pointments to the new circuit judgeshipa,capped . Uy the bestowal : of the. vacant seats. 111 the Su preme Court itself on Judge 'Roar and Mr. Stan ton and the increase of salaries. which ts now. pending in Corigreke,are all signs of a healthy reaction in thepnblic mind as to the inestimable *value of an - UprightOudepetident andhcinored judiciary. The jurisprudenee,of country is neither more nor less than what we may. cal its morality tp .40, -Or; other words, its moralitylormulated and committed to the custody of men trained 'to 'the faithful and .eifielent, glWehme.of the 4uty, , •A people R hich, emancipated from the ruleofantherity. is left witliont "Yrt...litrisprudeUeo so ,preserved aml - exteliOdy.taid. without more: exact testa or the, value. oflits Mittives than the' winds' doctrine. , 7 'blowing - 'from' ''''platfenns," fiM debating , clubs, and .newspapers,- ,ma .be , thf• • 'the' 'e . taral a place. itiMewhat analogous ttithat' which nomad trihes occupy in the political world—running from one well or oasis to; an other, without aims f or aspirations, or progress. 'The art ofladging.and the, ,babit of honoring jadges are aNuisitions which the. Anglo-Saxon race only ,among modern nations can be said to possess; and there Is none,of its riches it should more carefully cherish. The judge as an in dependent; institution,. and not a Government functionary, is something of , which , other, people only dream or sing.. We have it : let 113 keep, it. • ; , , • y E rlrmm Emirs MESSAf;Oft,' Zositsh Opinions of It, The London Spectator discovers from the President's message that we are no longer asked to apologize for having been in•the right, as we were in our' acknowledgment of South ern belligerency, but, for having been in 'the wrong, as we were in our unfriendliness towards a cause which, whatever the motives of its defenders, was, the cause, of freedom. We may pot ,ablc, to apologize even for the second,oilenc,e; because it is one which, as an independent nation, we had a right to commit but the withdrawal of a demand to which it would have been dishonorable to aceedeott least clears -the way for the settlement which is to result. in permanent good-will. In this withdrawal the President repre sents his people. The protests of their, lawyers , have tiltere4 down, into the American raind, and that without giving up their grievance• they are prepared to place it upon groundsWith,whinh it is atall events pos sible for Gewrnment to deal. This is an im mense gain to both nations, and may well in duce Englishmen to pass over the one bit of high-handed arrogance in the message, the as sumption that the United States has a right of pre-emption in every colony on the North Ame rican Continent. Peace abroad, retrenchment, reconstruction, and honesty at borne., this is the American progmanne as defined by President Grant, and it is one which will do much to en hence their • position in the family .of nations. They may rely on it, .a nation which pays off a national debt is the last nation with which an old-established Power would like to ettarrel. • TIIE SATURDAY REVIEW Observes that, as might be. expected, General . Grant takes. no,notice , of the fact that every power in Europe concurred in the English recognition of belligerency, which . proceeded from no unfriendly feeling to the United States. Dining the whole course of the war the Government and both bosses of Parliament carefully abstained from any expression of sympathy with the Confederates, and whenever two or three members of either House at tempted to disturb the system of absolute non interference they.were summarily silenced by general consent. The President of the United States has no hesitakion in declaring that the United States desire theindependence. not only of Cuba, bat of Canada and the West India islands, Which have not hitherto invited his interference- The Lower House of Congress, in its last session, passed a resolution in favor of the.insurgents of Cuba. and a request of the President tar acknowledge, at the earliest pos sible opportunity, not only 'their belligerent rights, but the independence of the island. In the middle of thesivil war the Emperor of the French proposed a joint Mediation which would necessarily have assumed the inde pendence' of the Confederate States. The English Government declined to take part in the movement, which would assuredly have .been both iritating and injurious to the Federal Government. With utter disregard to the merits of the. controversy, General Grant insists •on absolute , submission, and on the payment of penalties which, as they, werf--alculated by Mr. Sumner, may per haps amornat to hundreds of millions sterling. It is useless to protest against a policy which makes negotiations impossible ; and the only result which can be hoped from remonstrance is that public opinion in the United States may in time allow itself . to be better informed. It is i to the, credit of Americium that they -habitually despise the adulation and the pro fessions of friendship with which injudicious Englishmen sometimes attempt to remove, or rather.t6 conceal, the antipathy which prevails against England. The best compliment which, can be paid to a nation which k unjust, as to a man, is to say and to prove that it is in the wrong,--4 3 0/ Mall Gazette. • Ant SEMENTS. ITALIAN OPERA —The Italian opera season which will begin at the Academy on Monday evening the third ofJanuary,promises to be one of the most satis factory ever given in this .city. The artists engaged are among the best—certainly they are the most popular—that have appeared here for a long time. Signor Lefrane, the tenor is a stranger, hut he brings with him a great reputation which, we are assured is well deserved. Miss Kellogg and Signor Itonconi, are already known, and they are great • favorites. The other singers are of lesser fame, but • they „are said to be . good artists. Opera goers will be glad to hear. Milian& Tell and works of relatively orcat merit' performed once more in a satis factory manner, and there is not a little curi osity, to bear .Ferrari's comic opera Pepele, which 1148 created such a stir in Europe. Mr. liaretzelt promises to produce every opera in surairb style, with hand Some properties, a good bbortis, a full Orchestra, and a first-rate ballet.. Subscriptiims for the course will be received at Trurnpleir's on Monday morning next. The price for tickets for the fourteen performances is only fifteen dollars, which is about, as cheap as grand opera ever can be if the manager does his duty in presentingit. —At the American a uew pantomime is being performed, and, there is a miscellaneous assortment of first-class amusement There will be a performance to-morrow afternoon and evening. —Messrs. Carneross & Dixey will give another of their novel minstrel entertain. monis at the Eleventh Street ,Opera House, tills evening. —A very attractiv,e bill is announced for this evening's performance at the Seventh Street Opera, Rouse. Mr. Frank Brower will appear In his amusing delineations. There will be matinee to-morrow. —Signor Blitz will' give performances at the Assembly Buildings this evening and to-mor row afternoon. ' The' Signor is 'making mreat preparations for Lis Christmas matinee, and promises to outdo all previous efforts. Re will give an entertainment every afternoon and evening next - week. —At the Walnut Street Theatre, this week, Miss Bateman will have a benefit in Leah, the Forsaken. At the 'matinee to-morrow 77w Serioutt Family and The Carpenter of Rouen will be performed. • —At' the Arch Street Theatre) this evening Mrs: Drew will produce Mrs, E: D. Wallace's drarentizatiOn of Lftf(ri Darrif. Mrs. Drew will appear tuf:',l•lrs. Oreumun," while Mrs. Wallace wig make bpr debut in the charaoter of "Little Dotrit." The rest of the cast is first-, rate: Tho piece will ; be placed upon, tine Stage in stiperb style. 'lt will be given to-morrow afternoon; _The performance of Eichberg's comic opera;l The' Deeter of itlecnitara . , at, the Fievoll teentb,4 Street , fl'heatre, last , melt, 'woe very clever, a nd it eeelned to give iutemie katieftio. ticti to, the ittltt audience. The ebaracteas were euottea9lwlti4 much spirit ,by the WWI , teurti who st2citi t ifici,,atia in some Anstanoea, Very Oollsidetatle bintrionic talent AVM the F. 1 MMSTON. PubEihi. plum Vrit played:' hifitivide tbroughopt - was king i 0111:. charming irlanneti •1 • i! , : on-The While Ladyof:Wirklotb,wi be repeated at the Chestnut this evening. 4 , croritiutles to 'attract large audieneeg. `Tik-mor rOw afternoon Mists Keene will present avert „ attractive bill, consisting of a dramatization of Dickens's Christmas, Carol," and ahio charming version of The Babes in the —There is no- doubt that the ente raying by thellanions, at the Academy , Of' Masi;, it the best of dui= kind. evor, offered here.,„,lt is not to be desctibed way` to' do it jUstice,, The, trapeze performance is the best we ha*a had, and as .every thing is. done : , with . a 0.0K,_ fief slte;eheff across' the stage. there ,its no danker of lapis,. .The 'three little'beys arts marvels of grace and agility., ,Levir'icncornet. playing , is enchanting. l'rofessor „Roberts'a •rDreams ' of ' 4te ' exquisite, and wonderful. 'The ;two dogs are feice,ssively funny and intelligent. And there is agree& deal more that young and old will all delight in. Evellbady might to go to - see the: Han: lons. They appear to-night, to-morrow after noon and to-morrow evening. • •• FACTS IPANCIEg. La *ler Del Salvador. (From the Overland forJannary.l The, Dafrcidirsang "Darling of, the Hun Are I, am 1, thatiwear - • His color everywhere." • ; ,The Violet pleaded soft, in undertone: "Am I leek perfect made? , • • - Or. hidden in•the ahade. So dose and deep, that heaven may not nes., Its own fair inie in me?" • The Rosestood up t •full blown— ltight royal as a Queen upon her throne: ' "Nay, but I reign alone." • ' • 6he said, "with all . Marta . for my verrowtil One Whispered, with faint flush, not far away: al am the eye of Day, ,'• • And all men love me;": and,_ with.drows, sighs, . • , A Lotus, from the still'pend where "she lay; • • ,Bretithed:_ ,4 l. _am precious habit for wear* eyes ' Only the fair Field -Lily, slim - and tall, Spake not, for all 4, ' Spake not and did not stir, Lapsed in some far and'tender memory. Softly I questioned her: " And what of thee ?" And winds %sere lulled about the beaded Aud the warm sunlight swathed her as iti flame, While the awed answer eanie: , "Rath Iln uot &WAIT 4 —Savannah's solo amusement. just notr the Panitheopticonicon.. —The drinking saloons of. Serantonyield the city a yearly revenue of $8,1350.. —A golden net full . of golden fishes is the gift of the ladies of Lima to - the Pope. • —Brigham Young has an idea of setting-up an iron foundry. —The. Sultan bac; sent the Pope a 5 , 1,000 ring. —Change in monetary value- , -A. Spanish crown is no longer worth a sovereign .-2C.0, Times. . . —Scbnnlondomovitchewegiu means love in Choctaw. Levers •mast tind conversation rather laborious in. chocktalk. —Henry Ward Beecher dooms an offender. to " sitfour mortal hours in a cold cluireliond listen to a sermon read by a near-Sighted luau lvho had lost his spectacles!" —The Buflalo Expremsays that G. P. Train is " a little bolder, wilder, older, more inclined; P to be gymnastic and cireethlocutiantic than ever before.'! • —Chivalry rules in New Orleans. A young . _ man from Cincinnati way kicked out. el , horse-car in the former city because decline& to give up his seat to a lady. —One hundred years ago' Rev. S. Kirkland wrote : "The manner in wch ye ppl. in yse parts keep Xnias day in commemor!g of the birth of ye Savior, as ye pretend, is very af feet'g and strik'g.. They generally assemble •.: for read'g ,prayers, or .Divine- service,,bUt: after, they eat, drink and make merry. They . alloW of no Work Or Servile labor on Ys - day and ,ye follow'g-'their servants are 'free-i-but drinleg, sweitig,.fight'g, and frolie'g -are not only allowed, but seem. to be essential to ye joy of ye day." • But that was in the Mohawk : Valley one hundred years +ago. It would'he Very unjust and very . untruo in these en lightened days in any part of New York State. —The silliness. of our nursery rhymes is ob jected to by aeontributor of .Harper'sDrawe - r, who proposes to accommodate the teaching of childhood to the requirements of the age. The latest investigations i n seience might be taught in this way: Wrinkles ' Wrinkles, solar star, • ' I obtain of what you are, When unto the noonday sky • 1 the spectroscope apply ; For the'spectrum renders clear Gaps within your photOsphere, Also sodium in the bar Which your rays yield, solar star. ' .lack Horner's career is objected to, as •it hi eulcates gluttony. The same hero might he , used in this way : • • Studious John Horner, (If Latin no scorner, In the second declension did : py, How nouns there are some, Which. ending in um, Do not make their plutal in i. jack and could be made to illustrate the progress of the wommesmovement: • Jack and Jill ; • • • Have studied MILE, And all that sage has taught too. Now both promote • Jill's claim to vote, As every good girl ought to. —A contemporary publishes the following lines, which are easy reading,and makeavery goodappearance in type. We have an idea that suth lines should always be east in pleas ant places; and so we give them an insertion in this column: A MOONLIGHT THOUGHT I see the moon— The moon sees me ; Thou seo'st the moon— The Moon sees thee ; I can't see thee, Nor.thon see me! But this thought sweet Is over near; Thus I repeat It for thee, here, • Ho t'o - dheer • Thee, also, dear: One moon—though wide:; The distance be , That cloth Thee; Jove; fronione— Shines 'oVer theo And over rue t ' . , i The following's suggested as a sweet tliongbh for a poem , with a similar title. If eat inter short lengths, and pmpetly piled up, we Wilk it could be made to,stand alone. .t.X"eoUrsep , lo A should be dedicated, to Hemel loved ourt,wher would tipprec ‘ iatt?,, plc felltr iyAig#,; pervade it , s. A moo:l.:Licari' rnettowt: I've heard tOrq , catii—:< I fzb.,y Caterwaul; t Thou'st beard tere-qato— LlYzkeh yawl; I I can't hear thee, 1 Nor moil hear mA* But this sireet thcatle la rather ,rteat, I And .1 have brought It to Mee, 'tnireet,s }loping to eheer IThee up, my dear; , Tom-eats--though far I The 'distance bei I That dpth debar, I,Tbee, love, front ,ream I•Ant heard by thee I Arid heard by nael =II2IE . .., ..
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