GIBSON PEACOCK. Eibitor. VOLUME XXHI.-NO. 221 WEDDING CARDS. INVITATIONB g v a v ur artieg ' " ' New 471 "*Ixff Metiitreet. MDING INVITATIONS graved3N eet. thene V eb t man e2oggionerid end b ee t ur la tf DIED. DFMING.—On Friday. December 24,1809. of typhoid, congestion of the brain, Sidney Deming; aged 86 years. Ills friends and relatives, Fraultford lodge, No. 292, A. F • 1 4• A KeYetone . H. A. Obapteri NO. 172, and lit. John's eommandery, No. 4. K. T., are invited is attend his funeral, from his late residence,No. 2107 Mount Ver. pen street, on Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock. ' Fox.—At kroxburg, elation connty.on December 251 k, Samuel M. Fox, of elation county, in the 49th year of his atm. . . _ • lt HAINDS.—On the morning of the 27th" Inst., Agnes, daughter of Sarah and the late Abraham Mints, aged 84 years, l'lte relatives and friends of the fatuity are Invited to attend the funoral, from her late residence, 471 Franklin street, on Fourth -day unirnlng, the, 2911.1 Distant, at 8 e'cinck._ Interment. at Cm pwell - New Jersey, 2t R,14.11 LA3.—On Bunday morning, the 2lnis inst., Wil liam Henry, sun of William Henry and Matilda C. .Larned, in the 19th year of his ago. Due notice will be given of the funeral. LEATHERMAN.—On the nth lasi., airs. Ann C., wife et John Leatherman. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral. from the residence of her husband, No. 1.13 North 151xteent II street. ou Thursday morning. tire 80th inst., at Di o clock. MOOHF.--On Sunday, 26th lend., Mary, wife of Deo. Q. Moore, and daughter of Frederick and Catharine . In her 7.4 year.. Duo notice of the funeral will be given. It SNOWDEN.—Oh the 27th lust., Hannah 8., wife of Doha C. Snowden, Iris`MesitY COMMANDERY, NO. 36, K. Yr—TIIK member% of Mary Commaadery will assemble on TUES PA Y, December zeth, et 101e'clock, at the sylinri, Ma sonic flall,Lltatunt street, for the purpose of attending the funeral of our Let, 'compnnlon,• SIN SIDNEY MEWING. • WM. J. KELLY. E. C. I. ,_.....„ NDIA CAMEL ' S HAIR SCARFS OIIRISTAIMPPRNSENTE3 Of VALUE. EYRN A LANDELL, FOURTH AND A.ROD. SPECIAL NOTICES. 1870! THE NEW YEAR BEING NEAR AT HAND, THE GRAND CLEARING SALE NOW P.ROGIITMING AT SS and 820 CHESTNUT STREET, WILL DE Vigorously' Pushed FOR TUE FEW DAYS DEIIAINING Of the Old Year. Still Further Accommodation of Prices! Chestnut Street Clothing Below Market Stireet Prices ! BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING j BOYS' CLOTHING • I BOYS' CLOTHING I BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING BOYS' CLOTHING An Our Clenthig Must be Soad Out for We will Corry ➢ioUe Of this Stork Over. JOHN WAN AM. AKER'S Chestnut Street Clothing Establishment, 818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREET. ui* " THE SOCIETY FOR SUPPLYING TILE POOD WITH 50LTP,"33.3 Griscom street, sop& to the public for the usual annual aid by which they are enabled to carry on their operations. lu addi tion to a dolts delivery of Soup, Corn Meal and Bread are 'distributed: each, twice weekly. A visitor is 'em ployed to examine into the fitness of each- upolfrant to receive aid. The Society has no paid collector, but every member is authorized to receive, funds for the treasury. JOB. S. LEWIS, President, 11l Walnut street. WM. EVANS, Treasurer,6l3Market street. JAS. T. SHINN, S. W. cor. Broad and Spruce streets. WM. L. REHM 619 Walnut street. CALEB WOOD, rat 8. Second street. JOS. K. WHEELER, 21126 Chestnut street. [tie2l-12trp§ U. OFFICE OF THE GREEN AND COATES STREETS PHILADELPHIA PAS ;SENGER RAILWAY CO., TWENTY-SOURTH AND COATES STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27,1869. The Annual 'Meeting of the Stoelcholders of this Com pany will be held of ihe Oflice of the Compri n,y , on MON -DAY, January leth, IMO, at 10 o'clock A . M., at which time and place an Election will be held r a Preamont and twelve Directors, to serve, for the ensuingyear. J. H. MOFFITT, dc27 31 jai ST 9101 Secretary. ub WE RETURN' OUR SINCERE thanks to tho America, Diligent, and Humane Hobe, and blechanio and United States Engine Comps.: life& and the Fire Department generally. for their valu able and successful efforts in endeavoring to save our stores from destruction durinhe burning of the Sugar House on Vino street, below hiedna the morning of the 28th. GILRT & ROYAL, Noe. 30 and 911 North Third street. THE PHILADELPHIA, WIL MINGTON AND BALTIMORE RAILROAD COMPANY. PIItL4DELPIIIA.,Dee. 23, DM. The Annual Meeting of the Btockinoltihrs of this Com- Ipany, and an election of Directors, will take place at the office of tho Company. in Wilmington. on MONDAY, the lOth day of January, 1870, at 1 '. Ai. de27 tjale A. HORNER, Secretary. c? YARD. The undersigned, residents in Arch street, above 33road, tender their thanks to the entire Fire Depart tnent in service on Friday evening, December 21th, for their very judicious management In protecting' the rear et their dwellings from the destruction with which they vere threatened. NOTICE.—THE ANNUAL MEET-. Ikr,Dr IRO of the Stockholders of thoPHIE,ADELPIIIA COMMERCIAL WIIARP AND RAILROAD COM TAN Y will be held at the ofllce,Bl Walnnt street, oa MONDAY, January 1901. 1870, tit le M. R. ALLEN, Secretary. rnitanEattiA, Dec. 27,180. It* 10. 1109 GIRARD STREET. 1109 guitRIE;II, RUSSIAN AND PERFUMED BATAS, Departments for Imdles. Baths open from 6 A. M. to 9 P. M. STEREOPTICON AND MAGIO gLantern Exhibitions given to Sunday'' Sob ols, le , Colleges, and for private entertainments. W. IIIoALLISTEIC, 723 Oliestuo street, secon4 nod 2mrpt I I . . , , • . , . • , . . ' . ', ' . ' .'' . '. ~ . ' • ' :••• .• 7 , : :•: . . . . , .. .. —., . r • , , . . . . , ' • - ...'.. ': . —.., .: ' , .. : ' ..,. , . ::.., .: •: : •.: P • , ... . , .• . ~ , . . ' . • !I it 0 : :.. ;,:,.' r: • : • :, ''..;:•.•,, :,: ~:.• : ' , ' ','t ~ . • ,r , • '' ' , '. • ' ' \ . . . , . . . . i 1 :, . • u • . , • - ' • . . ••• • I—• P I . , ~ . . . . .. . ' . ` • . ~ • , . , .• . ..... • ''. ' 1 ~ s' I. .. ~ • , . ... ~.P - ' r', • ' ~ , _.,,, ~. : ~: .. . , , ~ . ~t • I t . ~ !P , • ' , ••'''l P. , • 1 . . ~ . ' . . . , . . . • P . ~ , . . . . • • • OF TEM FINEST QUALITY BEST STYLES. COST It is the Fittest to Philadelphia and VIII Be Bought now at Lower Prices than THOIIAS WATSON, A. HART, BEN,IANLIN AULLOCR. SPECIAL NOTICES. 00 . teetare on Persia, Bokharatc China; On Tuesday Evening, Dec. At 8 o'clock, In the E Hall of the University! of Pennsylvania, Math Iltreet, meow Market. DR. W. DAVIS,' ex-Professor of the University of St. Petersburg. will Rro a description of his -Scientific Travels in Soutborn ussia, Persia, India and Chinese Tartary, The Lector° will embrace not only Geographical de ocrlyttoris, but also dome lively sketches on •the life, customs and manners of the Inhabitants of Central Asia. Tiskets can be obtained at the _Music Store of Mr. Trtunpler, No. 9% Chestnnt street It* • KEN:3Ii n() ur.7 4 247 ALLEN STREE Ps M a meeting of the Conti Kensington Senn Society, ing named gentlemen were the emittingyear : George W. Vaughan, Edward W. Gorges, Charles 141. Ltiltette, Gezrge Stoeknapi, Eli Garrison, James Barnard, Dr. I. G. Young, Andrew Zane, Jr., Albert 11. Fracker, Thulium' D. tithes, David Duncan, Jacob Jones, Andrew Zane, Contributions in money, in aid of the Soclety.or flour, meat or vegetablen, will be thankfallyireceived , by any of the managers. Tdr. DANIEL B. MICKLE, Shack , mama, street, above Richmond. is the duly authorized Nora of the Society for soliciting and receiving contri- bUtiollB. The Soup Home *lll be open for the dietribedien of eoop on 11.,'"ESDAY, January 4,1970. BY order of monager.r. GEORCIE fiTO6KIIAM President. CHAS. M. LIJK ENS, &err. de27.nt e2t§ CON,,U FIL r HALL. Non. J. 11. WARWICK, of 'California, Will deliver his grand War Lecture. " THE NEW NATION,' Introtlncing the splendid poems of "Wounded on the Bottle-field.' "Bans Breitman In Georgia." The etripes end the . -Stars." ' 4 Sheridgn's nide," ..*BSibare Frettche," and Oar C•tutry_ Forever," ttn TBBSDAF SVENINO, Bootuber 23,1269. This has been one or the most successful lectures ever delivered in the United States, drswing crowded houses Main after night in the prmcipsi. cities of the East. Tickets, 14 eta. /deserved deals 1L cts. Lecture to commence ,41 tots o'clock, Tickets for &dent Trumpler's Music store. 926 Chestnut strort, and at the door on the evening of Lecture. del! 211 • UYOUNU 31EN'13 tIHRISTIAN CIAT lON . I .The 'Month' yi_Meet in; of the elation lie,held this MONDAY EVENING, it - their Hll. 1210 Cheotuut ill met. Addrmia by TOO-VAS S. cam:, Elul., of Pit tilhorgh , Chairman of the State, Executive Committee, tiuhje ct— • Our An6uciAtioit Work." fut discussion- 0 ' What swathe duties of ,the no Julien-of the 'Yonne Men'AChrititlan-Aboinciation f" C limitation by JOUR L. SHARPIE. Esq., of Canada. Nocal and Instrumental Musk under Gm direction of Prof, oif N Elt. The public aro invited. u. THE . 80 LTP HOUSE, located al the N. E. corner of Fourth and Peters strect, nrst street Above Drown, r‘ open Tlt• MOW , itiww.D. , coutAr 2.sth. for the grat tilt 0113 distribution of wilt, and continue so daily throughout the Sic - ai.on. from II to I o clock. Voutributiona in money - or- proyisions gill be thankfully rectlitod by • CIIAS..I.IttIiTTER. Pros . t. Callowhill it.; T. 310 . 1.tit1gPV,BOT, Trsaa., 31 . 4 Vine st.; SA3I4. T. CIIII,B. Sp'r'y. &A North 'e,ohd at.; RlCll ABB BACON, Var; Green st.; JOHN li,. 51N.P.,11,7;11 Nolan Filth Cl,, or of any of her of the Managers.' ' 4e27 31 jai 3t COLERftOOK_DALE RAILROAD LbeY COMPANY; orrlcE . SOUTII FOURTH :!clittET DIULADXLI'IIik. DOC. 27 1 180. The annual meetin of the Stockholder,' of ?Joe Coin y be held at their office, on the 17111 day - of Janu ary 18d 1 1, at l o'clock P.M.. at which time an election a ill Lo held for l'o-t.ident and atz Director*. to eery,' for the ensuing yeur. DAVID J. BlioWN; devtjaii,t , SC, FP tl4 CY . per. OFFICE OF THE Ntr oitT- F;ENN SYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPAN Y, WM. N UT dtretl ruLEADELPIII.A, Deer. 21, 1562. The annual meeting of the bierkholders of the. Berth Pennsylvania Balltbad Company will tin held at the office of the Company, No. SW Walnut street, Philadel phia, on MONDAY, the lOth‘daY of Jatittary,4ll7o.at 42 0 elect: M.. for tbe.purpose of electing a President. and ten Directors, to serve for the ensuing year. • .LeVtialol EDWARD ARMSTRONG, tzscretary. - THE - ANNUAL ME.ET.I.NtiOFIHE contributors to the Freston' Retreat, will be held at Ma Retreat, Ilan:11.1ton and Twentieth streets. on MONDAY AFTERNOON, Jutivary .112. 1170, at 4 O'CleCk. for the purpose of electing twenty-font aaanazcrs,a. treasurer, and two auditors and transacting such 'tiler business as may be broughefonward. - ROBERT C. CORNELIUS. Secretary, PIIILADEI.PIIIA, Dec. 24, 11169. U * WEEK OF 'RAPER.—THE CLER .GY MEN of the city are invited to Meet at the Hall 01 the Young Men's Christian Association. 121(3 Chestnut street. TO-MORROW (Tuesday) A FTERNOON4 at four o'clock, to make arrangements for the coming Week of Prayer. REQUEST OF SEVERAL PASTORS. OFFICE ANTHRACITE INS U tity CO., NO. 311 WALNUT STREET. • PITTLA.DELPIIIA Dec. 23, 11W. The animal election for Directors will be held at this Oise, on MONDAY, the third day of January next, be tween the hours of 11.1 and 12. A. M. dei7 di§ • ' WM. M. SMITH, Secretary. OFFICE .INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA iM2 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. The Annual 3leeting of the Stockholders will be held on MONDAY, January_ 10,1e79, at 12 M.., at the office of tic! Company, and on TUESDAY, January 11 au elec tion will be held for Directors to serve the ensuing year. def.7.l2tf, MATTHIAS MARIS. Secretary; • THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF tit TIM STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. December 27th, 150'' 1 . The Election for Thirteen Directors of the Company will be held at the Office, of the Company, Nos. and 5 Exchange Building, on MONDAY, Jll4l. 10th. 1070. bce tween the hours of 10 o'clock A. . 7 OLLINStI. and 1 o LI B'clock AD. P. M. J. H Secretary. u PUBLIC SERVICES CONNECTED with the Ordination of Mr. Charles S. Schaeffer wig occur this Monday craning, in the Tenth Baptist Church, at 7 o'clock. it* TO RENT—THE LECTURE HALL th e y of the Mercantile Library, Tenth litrent, above Cliestnut dell fruvri HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 and l&M Lombard street, Dispensary Department, —Medical treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to the poor SIXTH NATIONAL BANK, PHlLA delphia; Dec. 10.1.5x;9.—The Annual Election for Directors of this Bank will be ha•ld at the BANKING HOUSE. un TTESDAY, January 11,1970, between the hours nf 11 A. 31. and 2 P. M. dent 110B1IRT B. SALTER Cashier. AMITSFYIENTS. - • • A3ITA . E uE, DRAWING-ROOM, SE- Iar.STEV:N , ab,,,...ebordnutstreet.—On TUES DAY X V ENINO, her. Meth, the operate of LISCHEN AND I' urrzcitEs , with LE CHALET, will be tlivon by the DUILANO, Mosorn. BRAIDSILAIV, G. T. F.KNORR,andachuru , +. Conductor, yi DIETRICH. Tickets, 81, for sale at Andrea L Co. n, 1104 Chestnut street.' It* Bowls and Spoons. Editor of the Evening Bulletin : In answer to an extract in your paper of Friday evening, permit us to say that groSs injustice has been done to the Freshman Class. It was with the advice and assistance 'of the Class that their companion foiled the attempt of the Sophomores to perpetrate someprac tical jokes, upon him; and. when they found force out of the question, they persuaded bin to return to the college and accept the Bowl and Spoon, intended jocularly 49 an appreciation of his merit in having received the lowest honor. But when the Sophomores attempted, as is the, usual custom, to bear the man upon their shoulders through the balls in triumph, the Freshmen ". pitched, in." A friendly scuffle took place; the lqwest honor, was borne away by his comrades; the bowl and spoon broken in pieces, each man reserving some small fragment as a me mento of the fray of '73. This is a plain and true statement of the whole affair. DECEMBEV, Frmm' shiVering vagrant wandered into the Court House of Madison county - , lovia, and was discovered at midnight warming himself at the stove, which he was stuffing with the court records! —M. Dupression, the lemee of the gambling hells of Baden-Baden and Weisbaden, has opened a branch establishment in Egypt, and the descendants of Psammetichus and As tranaPsYchus are courteously solicited to make their little game. SOUP HOUSE, NO 111.ADP:LPif lA, Dec. 23. 039. haters to the support of the old this evening, the follow elected managers to Barre Hon: John Robbins. William W. Taxis, A.H.HcFadien, George J. Hamilton. Thomas M. Montgotnern tianmel M. Idecutcheon, Henry Kessler, Joseph 8. Allen, - David Dickerson, George Day. Joseph Lippincott. Isaac H. Wainwright. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, IjEOEMBER 2,71869. THE NEW NATION. Declaration of Independence of Ru peft's Land and the North west Territory. TIE LLND yip• THE .maAPITANTS., A telegraphic abstract of the declaration 'of independence issued by the provisional go vernment of Rupert's Land and the North west Territory ham been published. The full text of the declaration has since been received.- Whereas, It is admitted by all men, as a fundamental principle, that the public author ity commands the obedience and respect of all its subjecai ; it is also admitted that the peo ple to be governed have the right to adopt or reject the form of government, or refuge alle giance to chat which is proposed. in accord ance with these fundamental principles, the people -of this country have obeyed and respected that authority to which the circumstances surround ing its infancy compelled it to be subjected. A. company of adventurers, known as the Hudson Bay Company, and invested with cer tain powers granted by His Majesty, Charles the Second,established itself in Rupert's Land and in the, Northwest Territory, for trading purposes only. This company consisted of many pexsons, requiring a certain constitu tion ; but, as there was a question of com merce only, the constitution was formed in reference thereto; and, yet, since there was at that time no government to see to the interests of a people already existing in the, country, it became necessary for, judicial officers to have recourse to the officers of the Hudson Bay Company—they inaugurated that species of government which, slightly modified ,by, eub eequent circumstances, ruled this. country up. to a recent date. Whereas, The government thus created was far from 'answering the wantB of the. people, and became More'and more so as the popula tion increased in numbers , - and,as the country was developed, commerce extended, until the present day, when it commands a place among the countries ; and this people, ever actuated by the above-mentioned primples, have gene s rously . supported the aferesaid . government and given to it a faithful allegiance ; when, contrary to the law of, nations, in March, 1869, that said government .snrrendered and trans ferred to Canada alt the rights which it had or pretended to have in this Territory, by trans actions with which the people were considered unworthy to be made acquainted ; and ' Whereas, It is generally admitted that a peck pie is at liberty to establish any form of gth-- ernment it may, consider suitable to its wants as 60011 as the :power to which it was subject abandons it, or subjugates it without its con sent toll foreign power, we maintain that'no right can be transferred to such foreign Arozo, therefore, First, we, the representatives of the people, in Council assembled, in Upper Fort Garry, on. the 24th day of November, 1869, having invoked the God of nations also, relying on these fundamental moral- princi ples, solemnly declare in the name of the Con stitution and our own names, before God and man. that from the day on which the Govern ment we had alwayi obeyed abandoned -us by transferring to a strange power the sacred au- I confided to it, the people of Rupert's I..and * and. the Northwest became free and ex empt from all allegiance to the Government. :.ecozid.---That we refuse to recognize the authority of Canada, which pretends to have a right to 'coerce ,us and impose upon us a despotic form of government still more con traryto our rights and interests as British ante. jests than was that government to . which we had subjected ourselves through necessity up fito a recent date. Third—That by , sending an expedition on the Ist of Novetuber ult., &arged. tp drive Mr. William McDougall and his companions, coming in the name of Canada, to rule us with the rod of despotism without previous notifi cation to that effect, we have but acted con formably to that sacred right which commands every citizen to offer ,energetic opposition to prevent his country from being enelaved. Fourth--That we continue and shall continue to oppose with all our strength the establish ingof Canadian authority in our country, un t der the announced form ; 'and in case of per sistence on the part of the Canadian Govern ment to enforce its obnoxious policy upon us by force of arms, we protest beforehand against such an unjust and unlawful course;' and we declare that said Canadian Govern ment responsible before God and man for the innumerable . evils ,which , may be caused by so unwarrantahle a course. I. 13e it known, therefore, to the world in gen eral, and to the Canadian Government in par ticular, that as we have always heretofore suc cessfully defended ; our country =in frequent wars with the neighboring tribes of 'lndians who are now on friendly relations with us, we are firmly resolved in future, not less than in the past, to repel all invasions from what soever quarter they may. come ; and, further mere, we do declare and proclaiman the name of the people of Rupert's Land and the North went. that we have on the said. 24th day of November, 1869, above mentioned,establLshed a provisional government, and hold it to be. ' the, only and ,lawful authority now in existence in Rupert's Land and the North west which claims the obedience and respect of the people; and that meanwhile we hold ourselves in readiness tb enter in such nego tiations with the 4.lanadian goirernment as may be favorable for- the good- government and prosperity of this people. In support of this declaration, relying on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our selves on oath, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to each other. Issued at Fort Garry, this eighth day of De cember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. [Signed' . Joint Bnecu; President. [Signed) LOUIS AIELL, Secretary TIT - ;.E TO THI , :_INSURGENT TERRITORY. In the year 1670 Charles 1., of England, granted to Prince,Rupert, the Duke of falbe merle, the Earl of Craven, and thirteen,others "the sole trade, and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks, and sounds in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all lands and territories upon the coun tries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds afore said." This was the orig.in of the famous Hudson Bay Company. The territory. was ceded under such conditions that the company were made absolute proprietors in free and common socage, 'saving the, filth, allegiance and sovereignty due the crown. The company had power to make lam, constitn-, dons and ordinances., and to provide pains and penalties for their violation. The territory comprised but .a portion of its present posses sions, and is described on English maps of 1760 (the time Canada was ceded, to Great Bri tain), in the form of a horse-shoe, not including the northwest territory, the southern boun dary of the territory being at the northeast corner of Lake I•Vinnipeg,a.bove latitude 54 de grees north. Until the cession of Canada the Indian territories on the south and west of the _Hudson Bay Territory had been French. but when Canada became a - colony of England the Indian Territory became English, and the company extended their claims over the whole northwest. Rupert's. Land was recognized as included in the company's charter, or rather,` the name was extended over ' the portion acquired,from the French. In 1831 the British overnment granted exclusive trade over the :Indian territories to the Northwest. Company, but this right passed, in 1838, into the hands of the FlllClBolllBay Company. This is the abstract of the title of the tcompany t he land in revolt. comam. , THE NORTIIWZOT TARIVIVYBY comprisesall that country lying north of the United States and west of Canada, Noose river, and the great lakee. The country itself is described by some as an earthly paradise, andJby others as unfit for humau habitation. Emigration was contrary to the interests of the Hudson Bay Company, and they spared no pains to have the land reported as desolate as possible. TEE BED UnrEll. EiF,TTLEMENTS. In all the vast region under control of the Hudson Day Company, the `only attempt at colonization worthy tho' name win; that; at Red River, except= , at one or-two points in Labrador, nothing - haling:been attemptedsave the cultivation of, ifew acres around time trad ing posts. In 1812 Lord; Selkirk, a Scottish peer, obtained a wont of 10,00 Q acres of, land in that district :o ..the country designated' aS Red River, and Which may be described as half ellipe,the major axis being the "boundary line of the United , States, •commencing at the junction. of • ,that line with -• the Lake of the Woodtr, curving northwesterly so as to touch.:the southern portion of Lake Winnipeg, and_ then curving winthw,esterly 'tek ,the bounary line again. The first settlers left Sligo in 1811 and,going by Hudson Bay, Wintered at York, and-pro ceeded up the Severn River to their place of , destination. To the settlement Lord Selkirk Ove the name of Ostia, Bois, or (Asian's Tower. The community thrived apace until the outbreak of hostilities between the North west and the Hudson Ray. Companies in 1815, won a number of the colonists were escorted to Canada by the Northweat CoMpany, and the rest dispersed arsiiind the southern' shores of Lake Wintdpeg. They were attain gathered together by.. Lord Selkirk who demanded troolr for the protection of his •colony from the Governor. of Lower Canada, but the de- Mond was refused. They were, more or less 'troubled until the amalgamation of the, two companies, since which time they have main tained an existence isolated from the World, and with little or no emigration. • The present population of the country eon sists mainly of half-breeds and Indiar.s,Scotch, French, English, and a few Canadians and Americans. The greater part of the French riside along the banks of the Red river, 'ex tending from' Pembina and the American boundary line, sixty miles to Fort Garry, and on the Assinibeine as far as Portage la, Prairie, bixty-tive miles west of Fort Garry, tke latter river emptying into the Bed at the fort. The Scotch settlements are also oh the Red river, extending north'VernWinnipeg town (about a quarter of a mile from Fort Garry),a,distance of six or seven Miles, the English settlers facing the French, on the north bank of the Assinibeine,but only'extending aboXit half-way from Ft, Garry to Portage la Prairie. From Ft: Garry to Lake• Winnipeg the distance is sixty miles, and along the river, after passing Lower Fort Garry, or the stone, fort, Indian settlements :raggle up, the lake to Norway Flonse. The' portiOn of territory in actual re volt may, therefore, be represented a reetan ele si sides re mil e es ressqent inuare, the the , nrthern and east tl pg northern and Red Rivers. 'The farms and farm ,heuses line bbth banks of the Red.and A ssiniboine Rivers, as the grants of land only extend about a league back on the prairie. The French half bteeds are the most numerous; the Scotch next. The Indian settlements are on a reserve ceded them, and the inhabitants have aban doned a nomadic life and taken to civilized habits, many of them. possessing good farms and houses. OTTAWA, Dec. 24:—No money has yet been paid by the governinent to. the Hudson's Bay Company to - coniplete ,the purchase of the Northm-cyt Territory' no . proclamation o4nanY change has been made "in England, and the government is still in the hands of the com- Pany. It appears that when.McDougall left to assume the position of Governor , of the orthwestTerritory, he was instructed' by the' governinent here that the purchase -would be made by -Ist December, -and--that -he-should therefore issue his proclamation on Ist De cember. • , , • When the government here found that an insunection at Red River was threatened, they determined to .leave the Territory in the hands• of the Hudson's Bay Cotapany. - until spring ; and, it is said, theyfievatched a mes senger th McDougall, apprising him of this, and ordering him not to issue his .proclanui tion. McDougall,. it is said, did not receive these instructions in time. The proclamation spoken of at Red River as the Queen's Procks mation Ls the one , issued by McDougall. As the government does not intend to complete the purchase till spring; it is fully expected McDougall will be recalled. • Opposition _to-,thelisanana Bargain De• Though annexation of Dominica is gene rally favored, by members of Congress, it is riot to he denied. that several. Members-, are growling against the measure and protesting that they will oppose• it when the proper occa sion arises. Those who thus place themselves in antagonism to the project do so for several reasons. .Somehepause they are opposed to all new acqulsition.s, deeming • that we have' enoughlinileVelaped territory on band to -oc cupy us yet for throe or four generations to comp, and that to expand our -territorial main is to treqlren our power and not to strengthen it. Others oppose annexation or leasing,ligeausellify hold that such important measures should" not be undertaken by the Executive without authority in the first place frogithe legislative branch of the Government. and thFy declare that no such' authority has been given in this instance. They say it is abput time to mut a step to this business of speculating in real estate, which was •so curt• ningly inaugurated by Mr. Seward, and • only then given a quasi legislative sanction because the, Witham] gond faith was involved. They ask, further, what is the use of paying at all fiat. vrlat was offered ns so recently for abso lutely nothing? If tbe Dominicans really want to become annexed, believing that such a col:Within would advantage them, why not let them vote, on the point first and declare in that way their real wishes? Jr they do not want to join us, then, say these grumblers, we ought not to force them to It ,by barganting with President Baez,"nor, should we desire to have them at all ae unwilling subjects. These are the prin cipal reasons urged or opposing the Babcock- Baez treaty, whateVei it, may be, and which are expected. ,to be urged when the matter comes up for discussion in the halls of Con gress. The chief advocate of all these annexa tion schemes is General Banks, notyet arrived at his post. Perhaps when he reaches here he will find means to strangle the incipient hostility, and be able, by his well known skill in argument and' parliamentary tactics, to engineer the measure throu;h sue- , cessfullv.—Wpslaingtora Correspondence off/e Jr. Y. Ihretld. North.Gerinan Sailors in Battle with [Frain the Berlin Correepondencia, Dee. B.] According to news from Hong Kong the North-German merchant bark Apenrade, sailing under Capt ain . 11. Davidson, was at tacked by pirates in , 4 the Chinese waters, near Macao on the 2,lti September. The crew of the bark consistedof captain,the pilot Bud twelve men, while the number of the assail ants was about a hundred ; yet the Germans defended themselires with such resolution that one man was slain and all the rest were in jured, the wounds of the captain and pilot having been of o very severe description. No bravery could of sours° successfully contend with such odds.:;; The The pirates were, however, disturbed in their work. Of Phinder by the approach of a steam:vessel, and the Apeßrado escaped to the harbor of Macao. THE COLONIsTs--iniEnt THEY LIVE What Will Canada Dot! [Peapatch to the TOronto Globo.) THE SAMANA BARGAIN. weioping Congress- CHINA. 'e,b[ri~l~da7r~ —On Friday evening Mee. Drew - predeced, at the-Arch Street Tlieatre,a dramatization of Little Porrit,, by Mrs. E. TI Wallace. Arranger •went of One of Charles Dickens% newel/ear 'the stage, *Meant' departure'from the exact • limits of the narrattioe, is ationt as difficult a task wea drainatist , can undertake: .In nearly • every came, when au adaptation has been at successfully, the writer has - Med merely „a few ; loading incidents and adopted the most striking cliametere, fi lling in ~ eveittei •end personages of • bie own, here and there„ that strikihg often; may be produced , and that the story may have eoberence. Mrs. Wallace haiehot used her'itatiaination'in dramatizing Little Dorrit ; she bee been courageous'eneughe to try the more arduous , work of premeuting the real history iu as forcible 'and complete a form as poseible. - The result 'is an entertaining• drama, which lacks just tve • things—marked prominence of ' the heroine, and entire intelligibility, . "Little Dorrit," as Dickens drew her, Is a very quiet , unobtrusive personage ; but she • plays • a mighty party in the story, and she, far more 'than any other figurate interesting to t,heeeead er. lu the drama she retains all her pleasing characteristics, bet she is dwarfed ,by the characters about her • not because thee° che meters were present e d more forcibly, bet be valise the text actually precludes the pos sibility of the part being made as boldly line portant as that of "Little Nell," for instance, In Brougham's arrangement of • The Old (furl- , osity Shop. Mrs. Wallace ham omitted, too, a few sentenceehere and there which seem to be necessary to Make plein the motive of the drama. Those persons who are familiar with the story, of course; comprehend every word of the play, and can enjoy it hear.. But a drama should tell its own story, independent of any extraneous assistance. It is true that in every . audience there will be found numbers of persons who are not acquainted even with the most popular work of the mastpopular author; and the dramatist must care for these, taking nothing for granted, but making the edifice complete in itself. Any one who will look through the elaborate and intricate story of Little Don'tt will perceive. how:very hard it must have been, to present a reasonably intelligent abstract of it ite four short acts. The matter for surprise in this in stance then, is, not that Mrs. Wallace's dra-` matization has faults, but that it is at all satisfactory. 'lt presents the inanortant characters clearly and accurately, each,with its peculiarities plainly indicated, andet places them among the most dramatic scenes of the story, so that we have a series of strong situations which need only a, little further elahorattou to make up a power ful play. `The climaxes are wrought out ` cleverly, and they close' the acts , eftectively. 'There is a judicious use of humor, as a relief to the sadder episodes; and there :is, . above everything else, rapid, • unhesitating action *which proceedn without wearisome delay Act the 'end. Mrs. Wallace essayed the character' Little Dorrit," and succeeded , very 'nicely. _Tbe nervousness naturally incident to a first appearance, the inevitable anxiety of qii au thor for the reception of her play, and the in 'sufficiency of the text of the • part, were, of ' course, hindrances , to perfect success. . But Mrs. Watlace played with feeling and appre ciation' and we doubt not that:' greater familiarity withthe presence of an audinuce will enable her to make her performance More nearly complete. She was very kindly re ceived on Friday evening, throughout the play. The enthusiasm was so great, indeed, at the •end of the first act, that she was called before •the curtain, The members of the `conapany ' also treated the • debutante' with generous consideration, helping her whenever it was possible to do so. Her friends in the audience appreciated this kindives, we are sure. .Mrs. Drew played the part" Mrs. Cletuuun" superbly. She was =tell' superior to her Op portunity ; for the character, passive even in the novel, is' very unpromising in the drama. We incline to praise Mr. Mackay very warmly for his personation of " )Ir. Dorrit." As usual ` his "make up" of tha character was very artistic, in ,the prison scene particularly. Crniksbank could not have conceived a better picture of the weak, vain old man, than that preeeuted by Mr. Mackay, who played the part also . with consummate ability. Mr. Craig' s _ management of _the costume and lines of "Mr. 8.11Cle8" was Particularly good; Mr. Mathews gave us Flintwina" in a faithful shape which proved that he had 'studied the original closely ; Mr. James made diaboli cally clever " Illandois,7 but be was restrained ifrom doing perfect justice to the character by the narrow hunts of his text. Mrs. Stoddart appeared as " Maggy" and although the audience were prevented, by the absence of her name from the bills, from applauding her intelligently, their applause and laughter were none the less hearty. Mrs. Drew has mounted the drama splelididly. All of the scenery is new and good ; the finest scene being- a view of the Corso in Rome at the ! time of the Carnival. Little Dorrit will be repeated until further melee. —At the Chestnut Street Theatre this even r ing Miss Laura Keene will repeat the very clever drartaitization of Dickens's " Christmas Carol," together with the fairy piece Beauty and the Beast. On Wednesday evening a new drama entitled Ghampagne ; or, Step By 6Yep, the, oint work , of Miss Keene and Miss Matilda Heron,' will be produced. -Miss Bateman will appear at the Walnut Street Theatre this evening in Leah. On Mon day next Mr. Hemphill will produce a new drama entitled Not Guilty. This is a romantic drama of the best class. The author's right for the United States has been bought by the management of the Wainute-the only duly version of the play in America. It is in four acts, written by Watts Phillips, author of The Dead Heart, Lost in London, &c., and was first produced at the Queen's Theatre, London, in February last, and performed there nightly, with success, for four months. The action takes place in England and India. The effects are of remarkable variety and hapreesiveness. Every scene will be new from original de- signs. The mountings will be elaborate, and the east throughout a good one. —A very attractive programme will be of fered at the American theatre this evening, including pantomime, acrobatic feats, ballet, singing, farce, negro comicalities, and miscel laneous performances. —Messrs. Duprez & Denedict offer a. very attractive bill for this evening, at the Seventh Street Opera House. They have prepared a. number of new burlesques, in which the prin cipal members of the company will appear, and besides these there will be the customary variety of songs, dances, &c. —At the Eleventh Street Opera House to night a minstrel entertainment will be given. —At the Academy of Music this evening the famous Hanlon Brothers will perform some of their most wonderful feats. Mr. J. Levy will pla,y several soles upon the cornet. " Little Bob" will do marvelous things upon the trapeze, and Prof. Roberts will exhibit his " Dreams of Illusion." —Tim sale of tickets for the Italian opera season, which begins at the Academy of Music on Monday night next, commenced at Trumpler% • this morning and progressed rapidly. There is every masen to believe that this will be one of the most successful ventures is -opera. over undertaken in this city. The artists are all,first-rate, the repertoire in cludes the most popular operas, and the pubic is low. Cortaiply these conditions should in sure success, and we shall. be surprised if the how is not crowded every night. V. J. Davis, ex-professor at the Vnie, versity of St. Petersburg, will deliver two led ' tires in the Rail of the University of Pennsyl vania, on the eubject of his travels in Persia, Bolehara, Sent - horn Russia and China, Mr. Davis is a gentlemaii of high scientific' aaite merit and ability, and the lectures d o ubt- ' I=l rL. I PRICE ITER,BE OENTS. less be very instructive and interesting, as trip results Of" , an extensive sCieriti* tour itt European , and ,Asiatic countries. The first 1 ' lecture Will be delivered to-morrow evening, 'at 8 o'clock. , —Offenbacli's Opera, hischen and Plitreheni ;IS to be performed at the,Amateur Dtawia e r Room, on Tuesday evening, December 2 , 304. 4 together with the charming operetta* of ,Ohokt, which will be given for the , fi rst time in English in this city. The parts will be Nue tained-by the Misses, , Duraug, breasts. Itruitt show, R. Knorr, and other' talented. '4 2 , 'tidies and gentlemen: —To-morrow eveningrfore.T. vrtinotto; • of. California, 'deliver a:-lecture, entitled , "'he New, Nation," in he:. will. ißtrrlr duce many beautiful poems, The proceeds for the benefit of, Camps 7 and 10 Pa., ratdr., otic Order Bons of,America. FACTS AND , WANeItON: . •--Sheet.lightning—Oauclle lectures. 7 .1 n Wabash, Ind., warner, who bake -- Ns-- 7t elute of a Sunday are placed under arrest. ,s. -Ante Khedive thinks of makiuga coma Mfs r - the Upper Nile. --Eugenie pays the Abbe Bauer 50,0410 from , salary for preaching to her court. r , , —A dwarf eight- inches shorter‘ than Tom, Thurnlxis attr&ting eight inehion Chicagi. —Four tons of mall matter were franked,l4F.. each Congressman last sesSion. —The owners of the Cardiff giant sing "The days when we Went gypwanling." • —Another of 'Washington's. body servaa has just died in Tennerssee. . --They hare one-horsestreet-carsis Chimgo s7 and they call them Bobtails. , —William' Till is, the latest attraction at Mad,- rid, with Tarnberlik in Is great part or- s y " Arnold." , —Mozart, when be conducted his full re-;.. hearsals, used to wear a crimson pelisse alid'af big gold,laced cocked hat. • • - —Another Cardiff giant has been cast - at — Syracuse. It is• intended for the ScistOsi market. ; : ' • —A "culled gemman" was lately arrested II Petersburg for stealing a four hundred . pou*d t niill-wheei. t , ,; lti '—A mad gospeller in CleVeland• goes aboubt.2!,,, town in his night gear singing, psalms and ex-,` porting shmers. . —Rosa lionheur has, sold , her.picturee for . more than 500,000 . "rands,. although, the - 11 1, a: weren't half vermillMn. . • • ,‘ Chicago reStaurant-keeper , found the, , head of a young hg' son in a chest of tea; Whkelif.,..o. was a chop he hadn't bargained for; —A woniau In Chicago Decently seized man; _and; before he could secure asSistazice;,," brutally married.o him. • • —Thirty•thousand 'copiers of TeritlYSOWElngir ,- velum e, ‘. The holy Grail, and Other Poterei" were sold in England in advance of: its Pubh.-- cation. . , • , -LA:Freitchman has discovered a metheiteltv steering.balloons by prodeping a vacuum •;irt.-..-;.; front of the balloon, wbieh;,ts coriseqiientiy.; iven forward. . 2 -Seme ingenious New Yorker biviluvented-)'. a metallic - clasp to inclose a ballot, by phe.iise; of which, he contends two iia.nnot be • cast kether without detection. ' • ' --:Oregon hie A tale of a headless ghrist,, and',' is nuzzled to•know tvhether the body is to bo advertised under the' head of taissing, 414.: whether the head only has given up the ghost';• • —They tell this tale Of a gentlemen wIto• lives in .Nev Raven .••• "He was stitiering iron" thetocothache, and, to ease the pain, filkid his ~! leouth with alcohol. 'Thinking to see it flame ,he: discharged the liquid into a flame*!,. ; caught his whiskers and singed them 'eleti OL —The i?efornie is infortned,it pays, that Mazzini has left London during the last . clays, and that he is now traVeling . iO Goroidojr.! . • : 4, Indefatigable In his work," . it • adds,'", '• seeks to realize his great idea of the Euston of the Latin rates (Italy, Frane.e and •Iberia) •der the Republican banner?? -; • • , ; ;.•is —Sir Walter Scott's old Edinburgh hotae---B!! , „ dear 3!) North. Castle street," as he , used to, 7 7 call it—the house in which " Waverley" yaw written, where he resided for twentyttiver, years, and with which he parted with such deep sorrow: is now in part - an attorney's Of-'-'" fice, and in part a lodging-house. , —The Empress of France, since her retors. to Paris, distributed to the ladles of her ac-' quaintance rich presents brought from. Egypt, consisting of shawls and stuffs from the, vent, jewels and objects of curiosity. Atuoug the persons most favored were the Duchess tie Mouchy, the 31 arquise de Las Marismas,Dtme., • Caurobert, the Princess d'Essling,the Duebeta , de 3lalakoff arid Mme. Carette. ' —As a railway train stopped at Hanna, a. station in Indiana, lately, the brakeman thrust, '' Ins head inside the earaloor and loudly called "Hanna!" A young lady, sttting next the door, probably endowed with the poetic appal lotion of Hannah.. supposing that .the: brake- man was addressing her, and, shocked at his familiarity on so short an acqualtitativai frowned and retorted, ‘. Shut your mouth!" . —The cause Of Count, Bismarek's sudden journey to Bonn is a severe wound received in a duel by his son Herbert, who is a student at, the Bonn University. The `wound is a deep. sabre-ept in the head, and Dr. Busch, who he attentlitig the young count, reports that he• is: in great danger. The news was first coin- !, municated by the director of the University to, Herr von Thile, Under-Secretary of State at the Berlin Foreign Office, who informed the King, and his Majesty at once telegraphed to ' Count Bismarck at Varzin, urging him tol` proceed to Bonn without delay. —French journalists at, last have a gallery of their own in the Corps Legislatif ; but they have had to light for it ever since Napoleon , - banished them with a coup de pi& when: he had finished his coup Wetut. Since lt".-Z they have indeed been admitted to'the House, but , under disagreeable restrictions. Count. Walewski was so good as to set aside every day sixteen tickets of ad mission for journalists, and M. Schneider gave twtety-four. At last the prow has elbow/d its way to a tribune, which, how ever, is by no means the best in the House, although no sensible man can doubt that it, should be the best. Out of the thirty-six journalists who there find seats, only twe)ve can see what isgoing. on without stretch'n their necks till they look like geese, and twist ing their spines till they almost snap. Treat- , meat of the press is not one of those things which are'.' managed better InFrance." —The effect of freedom of thepress Rip.. Him is rendered not more obvions.by the daily increasing demand for <reform expressed its journals, with which the Government dares net tamper, than in Hie quality of the books which are now read there ; some of them such as Radischiefs works, for writing whiebt their author was banishedto Siberia by Catha rine It being-now for the first dine allowed' to be read. This state of affairs was aided and almost directly Drought about!), the bold ness of the Gazette de 3loscow, the .4 - 910.91 and later and even more liberal Jiaperii. work by ‘, Prince Vasilcinkof_ boa just appeared, entitled; "A litatary. of Self-tiovernMent," the first Tolima of which contains '," comparative view -ler Russian and foreign institutions relative tar land and society,". ,;In the reign of NiehOlaar the Russian people were net allowed even to ! see papers ceataining accounts of Earollnetalt-?1' revolutions or attempted revolutions, aridyett , Louis Blano's "History of the. Revolution Opt '1848" is shortly to appear iris Russian trallatik tion. The 'Works &John Stuart Mill aatire: 4 ','• long been popular ameng the Rnsabuts, 'suit sot now for the first time they are peratitteit to read the. assays, cm 'Liberty and Utilikir! Tim country is, just•. emergingc frOollr-T-I; . ' barbaristu, such Much may be erpeehid of tinder such inatruction as these worka it, wilt give it.
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