GIBSON. PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXilt-:-Nb; 2'30. EAltTli c 074 bAlsi VS COM MOUES and apparatus for fitted closets. tit A. IrItANOIttiOIIS altt.'s;al3 DlsrkOt et. " dent° tltioBot3 EDDING INVITATIONS EN DUlErlitiaitohnerneTZt and beet manner. Parrot. tf MARRIEII. MAfingy-11101i1:8.-9n the 2d inst., et the reehleme of the hrldn'e father, by Rey.. Tbninne Winter, D.D., of Philedeltde. Mr. George B. Mesmer, of .Philede to 'Mho It:um:bid Norville ildtril, of Phutniarrillo. No cords. ROACH—Tiff/MA S.---On the 4th day of January, 1370 at flip Cathernt, by the Very net . . C. J. H. Carter, Mr Joseph Chandler Roach to Mims Mary Tema Thorne's daughter of the late John G. Thomas.. JACONS.—Mtltlenly. on the 4th fact.. at Bellefonte, Pa., Ann Jacobs, relict of the late Jeeeph B. Jacobs, of (theater county, Pa. The relatives and friends are Invite:l to attend the fu neral., on Vrtday. the 7th Intl.. at I o clock P. M., at tit, a elmrcli, (been Valley, Cheater county . . LOWIREIt.—On the dth luet., Doctor }Award Lowboy, In hi/teeth year. The funeral will take place on Maiurilay tuurnlng, at lU o clook t front hie late dwelling, No. 220 South Itleth Went. BLACK OROS GRAIN SILKS, S 2. Just received At cute of Lyons heavy Gros Grain Block nilks. at 62 : also, in store alt nualittes,trom $1 76 to 66 a yard. LESSON A; SON, Monrning Dry Goods, No. 918 Chostnut street._ PLACK ALPACA DEPARTMENT. 21.1 . DEMSON K 130 N have opened a fresh stock of Al. Oa cos non to 8734 c. olmirs or Glossy Alpacas. to $I 25. Mohair Mitts(' or French Alpacas. 66c. to /91.• llongstrius Yinish Alpacas, Alpaca Poplins, Auntra- I law Crapes, oVic. to SI 1234. mouRNING pia GOODS DOUSE, . _ N 0.918 Chestnut street. Y 1870• u 4 . 4 11%; • . j t A L N AUAL, • .1870 _ FOURTH AND MICh, rioiiug out WINTER DOUDItt low to prepare for NEW SPRING GOODS. jal SPECIAL INIOTICES. WAN AMAKER The low rites at which? we have been, selling foi the last. few weeks will still prevail until oar winter steek . is all. cleared out : and we are ready'for our Spring Importations. JOHN WANAMAKER, Finest Clothing Establishment, 818 & 820 . Chestnut St. Ours is the Finest Ready-Made Clothing in Atnerieit; far superior in every way to all other Ready- Made Clothing and equal to the best Custom Work of most establish- ments, but in closing out our pre- sent stock we are .selling as cheap as auy house either on Market or Chestnut streets JOHN WANAMAKER, Finest Clothing Establishment, 81814 830 Chestnut St. Our Boys' Clotilng and Gents' Furnislaing (iooth are all marked down, and can be bought, now at prices which would justify any one in Lityingin a stock for future use. JOUN WAIVAMAIiER, Finest Clothing Establishment, 818 it 820 Chestnut St. jov .RENr. PHILLIPS BROOKS, MR. C. C. TRACY. MR. M. DUPUY, QM. Y. Slid others, will speak at the meeting of the NEWSBOYS' HOME ASSOCIATION, At Concert, Hall, On Monday Evettlxyg Next, 10th inst. ADMISSION FREE. jao 3trpi UR YOUNG • • MIENNEKCIIVE GRAND • BAL 11A8UE, BAL HAS UE, DAL MAS 11E, A IKERIOAN ACAD EMY Or MUSIC, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY VTR, . TICKETS, - ADMITTING A GgNZLIGNAN .AI4D • ONE LADY. FIVE DOLLARS. EXTRA LADIES' TICKETS, EACH NONE DOLLAR. FOR SALE AT . THE PRINCIPAL MUSIC STORES,' NEWS STANDS. CONTINENTAL' HOTEL, AND OF • THE MANAGERS. jcidthliset &RIO WATER RENTS o. DEPARTHENT FORIUPPYING THE CITY WITH WATER, PUILADELPIIIA,JBIIIIIIrY let, 1870, IXTRACT Nsolll AN ORDINANCE APPROVED DEC. 29th, 1844. SEOTtOIt The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That all Water Renta shall be payable to the Register of Water Rents, at his <Moe, anmially, IN ADVANCE', ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF JANUARY; and upon all Water Rents unpaid upon the first day of May, in any year, there shall be Charged the mum of FIVE per centum ; and upon all rents unpaid on the - first day of July, in any year, there shall be charged an additional sum of 1' E.N per centum. ilia" The attention of the Water Tenants of the City is xespootfully invited to the provisions of the above Ord.i, wince. 661^ All memorandums for Bills of Water Rents most be left at the Wilco of this Department prevlona to April 100.. .la6-3lrP§ GEORGE F. 'KEYSER. Register. jun IRISH BARDS AND BALLADS. CHARLES W. BROOKE, ESQ, Will LECTURE on theabove subject, , AT CONCERT HALL. THURSDAY EVENING, Jan. fith, 1870. • H T o give proper expression to' the Melodies of the Irish rds , M'DME JOSEPHINE EICHILLPF • • jfas kindly consonted to appear— Cards of Admission, V iftY Cents. • Reserved Seats to be had at J. L. Com:rose '‘k No. 6 North Eighth street ; W. H. P. Covert's News Stand, Continental Hotel : O.IV. A. Trumplor's Music 'Store, No. 9% Chestnitt street ; John R. Downing's Book !Store, 139 South Eighth street, and at John Tr,ouwitit's pow* Agettcy, G 1 Chestnut street. AO 'Aro ~ , ,—...., A I yr" .I t: ';', AI Aif 'l.,.'"':' '• •'. ; -I-% A ‘'....,,1 ~ - . .:A A A , •. , . . , I '', it',• 1," 1 ,,,1.v. A '•'•A'AAJ;l':''A ''>.'. ••,..1.';9A.... . e: -' '', ,-, . 1.•,.. , e-...1 - I t 54c . ..ri .#l.li'l .:;,. 'w , , , , iLL I f.- " ' ''';, t i , , 1 •-,..'" ~• fiR ""',i• •: .' '' ' Y ' ''' !:..: 7 '''•! ..'' ;" ' l#' ).,:,::::' " , ~ - . .. . - . - w , • - ' ' , ~..... , r. .. ~.. . ,f, , . i, . .., ...; .. . f..: i ,/,3, 11; , Jririv i ..t. ; •i-•;. 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OFFICE OF UNION MUTUAL - ‘,DY INSURANCE COMPANY. N. CORNER OF TRIED AND WALNUT STREETS. L',!PIIILA , ORLPUILiJninary . S, Ift7o. The. Dlreilora or me UNION MUTUAL INSURANCE CDA,i4 Phi ladelOths, have thle datodeelared a dividend or SIX PEW CYN A T. on the stock and outstanding scrip. payable free of Unitnd Staten and State Tax, on demand. jot, nti • On N MOSS, Secreltt/Y.. ---. • ST. CLEMENT'S CIIIIRCH, TWEN tk=7" TIETH nnrl Cherry streets.--Festival of the naphatty. Choral . sorelco_ptstl sermon by the nor. Wit. RUDDER, P,. D.), TIO3 EVZSISG, 7.4, o'clock. - • 11' jr-.." ----- iStPORTAgii NOTICE. WILL ur.>" shortly open. a branch of the NEW 7fORK MD SEUht -OF ANATOMY. jed-Etrn* fl WEEK OF PRAYER AT. ARCH. U STREET M. E. CHURCH.—Serxices at 714 P. M. EACII EVENING of this week, except ,Satorday. Strangers invited. Beats free. itelbtrp* -------- (ZHOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 ere 2520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. eal treatment and znedicinefitruished gratnitonair to the poor a;; 1109 GIRARD STREET. 1109 , TURRIdII, RUSSIAN AND PERFUMED BATIIS, DepartMento for tidies. Botha oton from* A AC to 9 P.M. DIVIDEND NOTICES. I OFFICE OF THE UNION 161 . - F PROVEN/WE CONTANE, , NO. TiO WALNUT 8 REST; • • PHILADELPIthi, Jan. 5, IVO. The Donn, of Directors have this day declared a dividend of Three Per Cent.. paystda on and after. the 12th inst. EDWARD ROBMITS. Ju. Jatot Troagturer. ____ ... — FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE LETTER. FROM. BORE Scene at a Boman Tahlb d'Al4te...7The AriserlealiTaale and the British Lion— Dinner and Reception at Buchanan Read's—Some, Newspaper Celebrities.-. Bead's' Of : ilethieheni"..ol.ol. eel laneens News. (correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin .3 Roxic, Dec. ,17,' was dining with seine frikds ut fable ti'ht;te. the other day, at one of the first Itoman hotels. The company would have niade a fine Study for a Dickens or de Biti7l4 First ;caMe ,a 0 old English' dowager, whose generous proportions were like those Hawthotne described iiiithe British .51atr0n, , With iter was daughtet, whcilact one of those remarkably incomprehensible heads of the " Girl of the Period,7 and yet she was old leinnigh to have been the girl of niatiyi periods.. Poor thing: she Seemed is. 'if km might be one of those women of whom the &flu rday Reviler has said 7 ---‘She . viill not re surrect, nor have any part in the kingdotnof Heaven. She is not the image of God. She has no soul, She is no part of creation. /She was not created for Work. 'The . wcirld does not claiur her, and she claims nothing of the, world!' ' • , ' Then entered a father, mother and four daughters—Britishers also;—"traveling on the Continent," either for the benefit of weak purses, weak bottles, oE...weak heads, it mat ters little - whether or which. The • girls . were in various comical stages of the fella ' nine chrysalis. One was full-fledged, chignon and all. The secondwas in a droll state. The front hair had developed into .puffs—pro bably some cast-off "rats" of the full-fledged one—but the chignon bad not yet appeared ; there was, however, a • ludicrous rudiment which gave hopes. But each girl had that delicious complexion of the English girl—the bloom is so fresh 'and: ! NOW when my dear young American sisters have color, it looks like rouge; our features are so delicate; the young eyes, instead• of being simple and innocent i u expression, are startlingly know ing ; the eye-setting,,too, is sharp; the mouth thin and eager—every feature, opposed to color—a fitter subject for chiselling than paint ing. So I hail the pale cheek iti • a young American girl ; she is always prettier and more honest-looking with it. But rcrenons d nos Britisher. The mother was a "Mrs. General" anti • the father a " Mr. Smallweed." He looked as if he was a bit of skin or bladder, which they ca.rried about with them to serve as a figure-head; to be blownup as occasion required; filled with teeth, cheek pluinpers, eyes, padding; clothes, and a. wig clapped on him, the works set in anti wound up to run a certain number of hours. After these came two American young men,. who , ha've been " doing the whole world generally"—Rocky Mountains and Isthmus of , Suez, the North Pole and the Pyramids; winding lip with the opening of the CEpu menical council . ; "seeing history," as we dear Americans love to say. . . My inventory of the company finished, I paid little attention to their conversation; until I heard , a cry from the American'Oire and a broad flapping of the, wings over manly Chest. This provoked by Mrs. General saying, " Naw, gas you &hi' to en door the exile when you have to return to your •• country • No wonder the American eaglet shrieked. One of the young gentlemen informed her that he did not consider it an exile, &c., &c., &c. But it WaS useless for him to talk; it was evi dent that the whole English party thought Americans a sort of Camancho Indian set, who lived in wigwams when at home. Mr. Small weed seemed to be shaken up by some Judy of an opinion. He rolled his eys convulsively, wagged his old jaws in a frantic..manner, and mumbled some half indistinct words about the wonderful excavations and diScoveries made by " an Englishman, one Stovens—aw —on the banks of the 0-ee-0, some ruined cities and temples—aw,—AZ.tecs and all that sort of things—aw." The eaglet informed him, with vivacious politeness; as if wishing to spare him any. Mor tification, that these discoveries were in South America and not on the phio; but it was a matter of very little consequence to Mr.Small weed, just as would be to. us the slight clif ferehte of distance between the,Libyon Desert and the Mountains of the Moon, if au intelli gent African should attereptto make us com prehend it. Then Young A.merlei began to &vitiate on our great architectural works. " Our Capitol at Washington,"' heOan, in that exact style affected by some o , our eountry men. In it the partiele.s are strongly em phaalzed; a great dread is shown for abbrevia tions, as they maybe considered illiterate, and a proof of not having always been accus tomed to Syntax and Prosody. "Our Capitol at Washington is one of the finest buildings in,the world. Yes, I may say,, the finest in the whole civilized world. Before I left America, I made mpielf familiar with' all the wonderful points of interest in, my' own" country, that I might feel,qualifiedrto feral •a correct judgment of other placea-4Vocky Mountains, Big Trees, Niaeurar Falls, etcetera'. I went to litashingtcin,"'iliere, the eaglet gravy =NM oratorical, and in spirit mounted"the staifin and 'waved the mighty wind—ie,l vient , to Washington and studied that Wonderful, fabric, our _National Capitol; attentitely, that I might be able to compare it with other, Stroh mansions in the world. I can say now, with out exaggeration, that. there is no work of ancient art or modrn production—and I have seen them all—that can begin 'to compare with it. Why, it cost 512,009,000!" • Here was a broadside. Poor Mr. Smallweeil was gasping, and no Judy to shake him up! But Mrs. General came to the rescue. "Aw! hum! awlindeeeed!" and she lifted her eyebrows. Smallweed began to feel, himself spiritually manipulated ; the works ticked faintly, a few inarticulate words were heard, but they died away, and he subsided as Mrs. General con tinued: "Awl this Cap-eee-tol, awl What do you keep in it ?" "Keep in it!" thundered Young America, as if astounded that a Britisher should be so ignorant. Like Dr. Johnson, Americans are apt to think that " black4oreigners," such, as French, Spanish and Ita ns, do not l icnow much ; but the Gentians and English they stand a little in awe of.. They rarely snub them unless their toes are trodden on, and always have faith in their knowledge without proof. "Aw! yes! keep in it!" reiterated Mr: Smallweed, mumbling, thorciughly shaken up by the abrupt tone of the eaglet The figure-head was ready for duty ; its eyes rolled like Malzel's old chess-player's, and I expected to hear "Check!" come from its lips every instant. "Aw, yes!" said Sfrs.General, with languid insolence, "Aw, thought a Cap-gee-tol was a place to keep sacred things in. Why do you call it a Cap bee-to) if it is not for sacred things !" Young America was a little dashed for air instant. He certainly could not remember any especially sacred things America possessed,be= yond Independence Hall, the big bell, the Declaration of Independence and General • Washington's small clothes in the Patent Office. So, doubtless, for a moment: he felt, a little mortified ; but he soon rallied and said' in a bold, bluffing manner, "Oh,wekeep noth ing in it. • Our 'national curiosities, which' I suppose you mean by what you call sacred things, are in the Patent Office and Smith sonian Institute. But the Capitol is a place for our Houses of Congra to sit in, our Sen ate, Supreme Court,and all that sort of thing. Our what you call Par-lee-ment—Parlee tuent!" "Aw," remarked Mrs. General, in a "no consequence " sort of tone, " thought your Par-le-a-ment held its meetin's in a buildin called the White House." "Oh no," replied the eaglet briskly; and then followed an account of what the White House is; an elaborate description of the Capeee-t6ll, its' marble-lined rooms, its frescoes, statues, sculpture, &c.: all of which generous and un appreciated amount of information 1 am sure every member of the British Lion's family considered a pure lie from beginning to end. At last Smallweed managed to' itter : "Aw what style of architecture is this won derful Cap-eee-toll of yours ?" This was a' shot that took the breath out of young America. In his careful study of the National Political Temple he had never - once thought of preparing himself to answer such a question as that. After a moment's breathless. . . ness, he replied hesitatingly, but gaining emir. age as he went along, just as we Americans always do where others lose it, in a desperate canse: " Style? Why—yes. Style ! Hum—true— No particular sort of style—all styles. Yes, yes, I think it may be called Composite." Here the eaglet felt quite reassured. A happy thought struck him, and he exclaimed, in an excelsior tone of triumph,: "Yes, that's it ! Composite style—a dome with two wings. Yes, a dome—a great big dome, the largest in the world, with two wings!" " Ex-tra-000r-dinary !" ejaculated Mr. Small weed and Mrs. General in unison, and the four young British rosebuds looked ad miringly at the eaglet,who was a well-favored youth, comely, and wore good clothes ; for was he not a man, and if not exactly a brother like the fifteenth amendment, might Tae not atleast be a husband some time to some wo man.'aud pay her bills? - By this time the English family had arrived at the last nut, the last orange, and the last sponge-cake; they bowed themselves out of the room and left the field to our victorious young American eagle. But lam sure j if the truth could be known, he had made a most Curious impression upon the imaginations of the two elder members—the parontals---of our great National building. They will always think of it as "a sort of nightmare creation quite worthy of Americans, my dear—think of it! A great, htige two-winged dome! Oh, dear—something like those old, herrible Egyptians who had a winged globe, I be lieve. Oh, dear, reely!" A Camanche wig wam would b4s much less frightful to their fancies. Buchanan Read bad a most agreeable din ner and reception last Saturday. At the din ner were two American Jupiters, Mr. Ripley and Mr. Smalley, and a pretty strongthunder bolt of the London Jupiter, Mr. . Wreford, whose letters to the London Times are the cleverest newspaper letters written. His let ter of the 28th November, describing the first Sunday in Advent at St. Peter's, is a master piece of that style of writing, graphic, amusing, spirited and concise--a perfect study. Of course its tone is not agreeable to me as a Catholic, but I am judging it from a different point of view. It is so clever and witty that while it provokes me I cannot help admiring it. Mr. Ripley I think I have mentioned in preceding letters. Mr. Smalley is the Tribune agent at London, the Hierophant of that American Jupiter to whom we foreign cor respondents bend the knee. Infallibility is a fixed demi in, that case—the Tribune never says nay to his yea in the matter of foreign letters. • So I looked with some 'curi osity at ,Mr. Smalley, as a power. Re is 'not a handsome man, at all; few" notable American men are. He has a close, compact head,that looks as if the skull might be as thin as glass and hard as a flint—elaborated„. and worked close;with constant,hard,practical thinking, fine,_ olear temples. The eyes are the cleverest part of the face- 7 golorkles, oflntolleot.'rhey',are keen, and , at first you. think they are going to make you' antagotnstie, there is'a good, kincuy - .,. ray in them which causes you to like the matt */) . tiammt. PIIILADELP4IA,, TAU ' EDAM ; (TANITARY , 6 1 187 o. 001Th1.111.1C. instantly„ , His greatest peculiarity, however, his cleat/line:46i'; burely, if this quality ill 1 , 10341 to godliness, Mr:Smalley must be a fit satinet for Scripture canonization,for so,polished and spotlesif is 'be that- 1118 very word's seem to come out well scrubbed and, wbite. Ur. Smal ley had just retoined froth the Isthinus 'of Suez. He tall; welt, Without effOrt—indeed, a little indolently; but his description of the, Suez opening; of the pemoint connected with It, of little incidents occurring, was concise and graphic. Ekt,the reception there were Mrs. Macpher son (Mrs. Jameson's niecey, the correspondent of the New York • World ; Mr. Jones, the Florence correspondent of the New York Tithe): ; the correspondents of the Now York Evening Post, &c. As Mr. Ripley said, wittily, there were enough correspondents present to get up a popular edition of a " New and Com plete Letter Writer." Read is always having a new and popular 7 picture In his studio. The one attracting atten tion novr is the " Star of 'Bethlehem," which, both for composition and execution, is one of his best. His brother-artists speak of it highly. Yewell—whose praise is worth something, 'because be is genuine, sincere, and one of the best of our artists in Rome—says the, Angel is, 'a capital' bit of work—well modeled, well, ,painted, and a beautiful conception: Rogers :able praises it with honest frankness. The ,distant landscape is well composed, and the ;hazy atmosphere of moonlight melts into the ?supernatural rays proceeding from the Angel ?most harrnoniettslY. The 'Angel is poised (with fine effect over a stream ; above the head his a star in whose light a cross is 'faintly pre. !figured. The group of shepherds on the hill, iwatching their flocks is, spirited, and the fire 'of twigs and sticks throws up a ruddy glow . !over, them, which forms a fine contrast to the restof the picture.u I forgot to mention that, during Read's evenin ,, reception the poet ?artist recited with great effect and success his fine Ode, to the Rogers Lincoln statue, which Statue is now going into bronze at Munich. Tenerani—" the last of the Romans " among sculptors—died on Tuesdayafternoon. It is no little loss to art to 'have two such men as :Overbeck and Tenerani taken away at once.' itanciani, the clever young archmologist and architect, of. whom 1 have repeatedly spoken. in these letters, is to be appointed Director. of the Capitol Museum, an office made vacant by Tenerani's death. . . The Queen of §pain is expected daily. It is remarkable what a large convocation of royal.; tics and ex-royalties is assembled' now in Roane—and it is also-worthy of note how little attention they attract. Queens and Empresses visit studios, walk and drive about, looking just like other folk, and never a wise parrot to say, " What a lot oithem, to be sure !" It is only the Bishops who go abroad in picturesque clothes with " crowns •on their heads,", like princes in fairy tales. The Council goes on quietly at its work, and little that is reliable is known about its doings, so I do not treat you and your readers to the numberless interesting fabrications .floating in the air. The, conversations invented between Bis 'Holiness and Cardinal Tolle chose are highly dramatic, but I leave them for the London Tinles' correspondent, to,point his moral ,and adorn his tale. He can use them to better advantage,having what I lack— faith in their verity. The Pail tall says wittily: "One ofthe questions before the (Ecumenical Council should be : Why' is it that Christianity and civilization have failed to give us the manners of a gentleman?" Bishop Wood has been chosen one of the two chiefs of the American Committee. Bishop Simpson's daughter and her husband —Col. and Mrs. Weaver—are in Rome. Lord and Lady Aniberly are also in town. Mist Cushman and Miss Stebbins arrived on Tues day. Miss Cushman is much fatigued with her journey, but is otherwise quite well , and entirely restored. • ' 1311.EWSTIt IL THE FINE ARTS. Messrs. Earle's new galleries on the ground floor are proving'more attractive to the public than their former up-stairs show-rooms had lately been. They are frescoed, draped and carpeted in the best taste, and the little collec tion of art-gems is a constant rendezvous for the ilite of our city. Since our last notice of their contents a new marine , by William T. Richards has been framed and Placed as a centre. It was a risk and a commendable piece of courage in Mr. Richards, in the maturity of his peculiar faculties, to add a. nevi specialty to his art ; to challenge comparison between his landscape-work,—the slowly built success of a life,—and a novel line of studies among the waves of ocean. This new picture, which we prefer to consider solely as a design, may be praised in that regard almost without stint. The artist entitles it " Ocean." It represents the aspect of the deep sea, which all voyagers know presents dif ferent appearances, and seems almost a dif ferent element, from the shoal water seen from land. Under a clouded sky the ocean is delineated as sluggishly heaving into vast low waves, as it does in a subsiding gale. Two main wave-forms, in fact, make up the drawing ; the principal one to the right occupies a great part of the piettire, and in its character of tenacity, opacity and dull reflect ing power, and in the drawing of all the minor currents and ripples which culminate in its uphfting, is a remarkable piece of mut, lyzed texture. To the left the phrase changes, as it were, and a new motive of currents and streams washes. off towards that side of the. pieture ; the drawing hereabouts is less happy, ' and a steamboat is arranged in a_ good, plade, so as to amuse the eye and insist on the aqueous character. Over this plain of disquieted water the sky stretches like a curtain, breaking here and there into their transparencies whore the light shows. The rieture is very real, and would certainly attract the attention . of ',';those who know," in any.collection, in the world.. Other paintings of interest in galleries,most of which we hav,e already spoken, of, are a .iarge melodramatic scene by Samuel T. Gerry; called" The Land of Beulah ;",a "Glimpse of the Yo-Sernite," by one , of our best landscape painters, Thomas Hill; " Coming through the Woods," a pretty English figure, by S. Angier. son.; Lobster-catching," a, marine, by De 'lfeas ; 1 ," The Auxioui Mother'," by Carl Jaz; "The Toilet," by Meyer von Breaen, and others, the Work of ffognet, You Schendel,. De Casilear, Ed. Moran, Shattuck, Yirii!gt4;'4&4Bo:l.' 7 . clergyman, apealchw of the death of ,an eminent:professor, lest Sunday; tialtl,h it advertence,that the good man " Mid peso direct from heaveu to Bangor," it's + ~;i::. ~ i /ME Wri&i.t.tst ry 1 4v ru 4 4 1,0AiDiEMY OF 11111:410. It Speaks well for the musical ,triste of Plat adelphla that one of'the largest audiences; ever seen in the Actulenty of , Musit was that as sembled Mgt evenin at the performance of g, Rossini's•opera ,of Tell: For, while it is a great musical work, it is a, very, poorly omen - noted drama. • There hi within im portant for the leading lady to-do, except to sing One Solo and agoistin one duo. There is no sentimental hive story. no Italian -poison lug, no. Stwke-Byton abomination, nd vice like any of those that help to make modern operas, dramas and:: novels popular. The theme -of, Willitnn Tell is patriotism& The ,little epioode of " Arnold's" love for ," - Matilda,' helps to interest those who do ,not - appreciate the other sentiment. But 1:08Sitli, when he Wrote this grandest of his works, bad dropped"the old French and Spanish , comedies of intrigue, and was in-; spired by, one of the noblest tales of heroism,' be it true or a fable. William Tell is essentially a ''musical rather than a dramatic work. In its , orchestration it is as elaborate as a Gerinan symphony. There are many scenes so strongly marked in the Score with local coloring, that they Bug gest the situations as well as the characters 'belonging to them. The noble overture, which was - admirably played last even ing, is, a most. fitting prologue to the whole work. The accompaniments, in evert the most unimportant • scenes, are original, ingenious, and beautiful. The cho ruses are grand, and, indeed, the opera - is the recognized type and model of the heroic and' romantic grand opera, as-it has been treated by Moyerbeer, Halevy, Gounod, and others lesssuccessful than these. When William Tell was producect in Paris, over forty years ago, it wasateognized as something higher, than ROSBII3I bad ever written. He himself - con sidered it the crowning work of his .career, and during the remaining forty years of his life never chose to Write another opera. . Performances of this great work are rare, because it lacks some of the elements of that• 'kind of popularity which brings a profit, and, ,because the tenor role is excessively, difficult, the music being written for an ex, ceptionally 'birth voice. Neurrit created the part, aridDriprez succeeded him in it, his "id de poitrine"forming a theme for many scrib- , biers, as the "chest C " of Signor Lefranc does now.- In the Italian Opera of London Signor Tamberlik has been a distinguished.. " Arnold," and Wachtel, the German tenor, has some ,reputation in 'the part. In this country it has been undertaken, with Berne transpositions, • by Bottardi, simmer and others. But altogether the best representa• - tive of the character and best' singer of the music, ever heard in America, is Signor • Lefranc, the ".Arnold" of last evening. His admirable "Illamico,"of Monday, was quite eclipsed by the nobler performance of , the greater character. A great deal might be written on this re- , marltable performancd of 'Signor Lefrancrs, and yet no writing could give a• rue idea of it. His "chest 0," which is easy to dilate spon, is not half so deserving of admiration as, his, noble method, of singing, his fine intelligence in acting, his exqupite phrasing in recitative, and his earnestness, boldness and enthusia4m in all he does. The manly, sympathetic quality of his voice is never lost, be he singing loud , and passionate or piano and tender music. In all his great airs in Tell—in the duo of the first act, the trio of the second, the duo with "Matilda," and the magnificent solo' of the last act—he was superb. This last scene is often omitted, because by the time it is reached the singer is worn out. But it was Duprez's great climax - , and his " Suivez moi" in it is one of the great traditions of the Grand Opera. Signor Lefranc sang the whole long and difficult scene faithfully and as it was written, and in this, as in all he did, he was enthusiastically applauded. In most respects the opera was well given. Signor Reyna, as "Tell," deserves high praise for bis singing and acting. Mlle. Lauri was satisfactory as 'Tell's son, and the minor parts were well filled. But although " Matilda" 'has little to do, that little is much beyond the power of Mille. Pauline Canissa to do well. That most delicious of romances, ",Sombre forty"—or as the Italian version makes it," Selva opaca" —is altogether above her ability, awl she only made it seem ridiculous to those who know how it ought to be sung. There are better singers in the company who ought to be proud of assuming the role of " Matilda," sim ply for the sake of this lovely song. With this and some other deficiencies, William Tell was still very much enjoyed last evening, and it to be hoped that it will be repeated. Sig ner Lefranc, who is the great new star of the company, shines best in this, though he does well all he undertakes. This eVeningLucrezia Borgia is to be pro duced at the Academy, with Mme. Briol ,as " Lucrezia," and Itonconi as the Duke. It is so long since this great artist has appeared in a serious character, that it will be a real treat to witness once more a display of his greatest dramatic gifts. For to-morrow evening Un Ballo in Maschera is announced, with Mme. Briol and Lefranc in the the leading parts. —At the Arch Street Theatre, this evening, Mrs. Drew will appear with her company in the comedy, The Love ChaEe; and Mr. Craig will present his very amusing burlesque, Don Juan, or the Byron &andat Revived. Mr. Cath cart will have a benefit on Saturday night, in The Merchant of Venice, and in The Willow Copse. On Monday Little Em'ly, with new and beautiful scenery and a great caste. • —Miss Laura Keene will produce G'harn pkgite ; or, Stet by Step, at the Chestnut Street Theatre this evening. The drama attracted a large audience last evening, and is likely to be very successful. —The romantic military ma, Not Guilty will be repeated at the Walnut Street Theatre this evening. —At the American Theatre this evening a first-rate bill is offered, including ballet dancing, burlesque, farce,gymnastic feats, negro comicalities,and miscellaneous perform ances. Mr. F. A. Gibbons, the famous acrobat, will appear nightly in his perilous feats. —At the Seventh Street Opera House Messrs. Dnprez & Benedict, announce a num ber of novelties in the way of burlesque and Ethiopian delineations; and besides these there will be good vocal and instrumental music every evening, with - the usual miscella neous performance. —Messrs. Carncross & Dixey offer a very at tractive entertainment at the Eleventh Street Opera House this evening, including singing, dancing, burlesque, and the pantomime The Old Women Who lived in a Sloe. —Signor Blitz and his son will give an ex hibition of their wonderful skill in art-Magic and ventriloquism, at the Assembly Buildings, every afternoon and evening this week. —This evening, at Concert Hall, Charles W. Brooke, Esq., will lecture upon the subject Irish Bards and Ballads." Mr. Brooke is an eloquent speaker, and he will not only treat his theme with ability, but he will present his lecture in a most agreeable manner. Airs. Josephine Schimpf wi be present and will sing; a- number of ballads. Tiekets can be 'procured at, Covert's newsstand, Continental Hotel, at Trumpler's music store,, boolc-stand; 139 Sotith Eighth street, 'and at `Treiawitles; 014 Chestnut street. —At the Assembly Buildings Ulla evening, Dr. John C. Allen will , lecture upon the very promising theme, " ' 'A Very entertain ing discourse,may be expeotbd. girl ha Prineeton, 'lndiana, sent this note to • a young' acquaintance::."Dear Jake, .I,watd•you- to he. aura and come over this p ,4ing to heipi onft sal , pop and ,craCk. l .' wpßt. • • very pretty.;but . - alAentminded young lady ;inquired ; of, thehaudseino clerk , in the Norwich, COnn.,•PodtrOtlice, on Wednesday, it: there was a letter thero•for 'Volt anti MA' :;, • I r $ Ad„,.sl L.TETHRBSTON: Pobliskri . . , • • • ' ;7 I PIUGE THREE CENTS :F,V1.11 Lam* ARID irmorttrii. —The P. It.'s goddess..--1010arer.-TRir.. —Lydia Thompson and the Worrell Mists.* • ate quatrelling over " The !Peaty Thieves." , • —A , lightning strike—that cif the Weateta Union operators: . • .. r —The scene of numberless disasters-Ater. sone. —The name of the author of "Lady Hynes Vindfcated "Ai Harriet Beast Owe. —An Indiana Mart put ri'llatiron his pocket and, tried to drown ; himself ; but 'seed* strangers fished him out of the river. The City of Dubuque .is raising a dollen subseriptibri rot a inontnnerit to its fouridNr„ Julien .Dubuque r who died in 1810:.. —They call the girls in the Treasury Depart ment, vrhb scissor sheets' of, postal currency, "'Revenue cutters." Rubinstein tsdli soon:produce his oratorie; "The Tower of Babel" at Vienna, Berliwand Horugsherg. -One. hid:aired and fifty thousand bushels. of apples. ..were gathered' in Minnesota this' year. . • —The. Prince Imperial , must be unusuall destructive of his playthings. He has eve* made a little marble bust. --" The Hidden Hand" is a popular play with Western gamblers. It contains thethresi missing jacks. —A Texas paper informs us that "the Sow day School at Bonham has' adopted tlie . Old and New Testaments as their only literattireir —A clerk in the Brooklyn , post ofiles.'gbt " dead sure thing" on, a contract by .stealingl all the other bids as they came to the office. —Eight wild Texas bullocks have escaped, and are Makingsliort work of Western N."."K haystacks and such. , • —Why should , children never be taken to( artists' studios? Because of thern.easels (the, measles) there. —Charlotte Dekner is a Hungarian viollnlitt who is playing at Pascleloup's concerts ink Paris. —Last year 1,160 persons were killed is this country by accidents from gunpowder; and' onlyseven by nitro glycerine. —.lt is reported that the English language fit , to be universally adopted by foreign telegraph . companies. —One of the methods adopted to cure " Poor? Carlotta" of insanity is setting her to work at' a sewing-machine. --, " Washer-lady"is a word that will have to'be adopted. The Ledger contains an'adver tisernent which says a "Lady ,wants to• take. washing, at her own home, street"; „ —Astronomers have,found that the 8111 A 4,ooo,ooo'miles nearer the earth than wahave been taught to consider it. This- accounts for the warm weather. , • —A Memphis bride deserted hor husband, the morning after her Marriage, because he refused to send the breakfast up to 'her room. —The impenal Club of Paris hesitates what to db with one of its members who doesn't aiallenge another member who, kuoaked his bat oil: —Kentucky increased its debt one million last year, and the State Auditor estimites,that there will be a deficit at the end of the present year of over a million. ni be bloomed" was once a vulpr cock neyism, but it nromises to be the polite way of asking to be sent home by the pneumatic railroad.—N. Y. Herald. —lt is reported that the Hartford youth who; much to the disgust of the lady in the case, postponed his wedding by swallowing lauda num, was driven to the act by the refusal 'of • his tailor, in whom he trusted, to trust him for his wedding suit. . —A lady speaker at the New Hampshire. Woman's Suffrage Convention said the ghost of Captain Kidd laughed as the Spanish gdie boats steamed out of New York, harbor, and the scattered timbers of the Mayflower groaned. —A pet bear escaped from his 'fastening hi the yard of a Vicksburg hotel and walked tip, into the office where, not being ,pleased with. his reception, he showed light and got killed by a pistol shot. In the melees porter ' be longing to the hotel received a pistol ball La one of his arms. -LBangor has sharp lawyer who triedto get his Christmas turkey for nothing lie. axed a countryman if the bird was: yoUng, r and being answered in the affirmative, asked., if he would take his oath of it. The rural poulterer assented, and the lawyer adminis- tered the oath and demanded a .dollar as bis . fee. —The Aerial Steam Navigation Company of San Francisco held a meeting last week, and decided to build a new and larger " Avitor" for practical work, to cost $37,000. $3,615 have been subscribed.• The corporators are satisfied with the performances of the last model, which was accidentally burned while on exhibition. - —ln the fifth act of the' second part of Christopher :Marlowe's Tanthurlatne the Great, the hero says : And here, not far from Alexandria, Whereas the Terrene and the Red Sea meet, Being distant less than full one hundred leagues, • I meant to cut a channel to them both. That men Might quickly sail tp India." , —Baron .Rothschild is understood to havo been rather eagerly pressing his claims re cently for an English peerage. He has much money and bonds, and Mr. Gladstone was dis posed to indulge his aspirations by raising him to the House of Lords. But tho Lords stall ob ject to the presence of a Jew among them. They will have to give up that antiquated pre judice some day. —The Rev. Dr. Marston, a non-conformist divine,who lived in the reign of Queen Aline, was remarkable for his belief in the coinci dence of numbers. He was chaplain to Par liament and preacher to the Queen. He was, moreover, aprolific sermon-writer and carried the peculiarity so far as to compose and preach a hundred and nineteen sermons upon the CXIXta Psalm. —A lover in Georgia wrote the following letter: "MARRIED. My Dear—You say lam cold toward you. Well, new, let's prove who's the coldest. Lees you aad me get—oh, I hate to write it; look at the top of the letter awl , you will find-it. 3. - es, that's it—let's me anti you get—oh, you understand - me. Affection ately yours, ever." The reply he got was a regular marriage notice, naming the date (not a distant one) and the preacher, and ending with a nice little editorial notice about a bridal trip to New Orleans. The wedding came oil the next day. —Madame Itistori recently wrote to Miss Kate Field: Can I ever forget your dem. country, where I passed a year and a half so delightfully, receiving the warmest testi monies of affection from every clas.s ofsociety, enjoying perfect health, breathing in air charged with vitality, and feasting my eyes on 'skies as 'blue as those of Italy! * I * r always speak of yonr country with enthu- siasm„ bearing its Memory engraved upon my heart, and wishing, that a, provokingly wide and indigestible sea did not separate me from , people that 'I long to meet again." —One , of the French :papers gives •the fol lowing "account of the origin of the expression. To make a coniplet&liitSCO." A German one day seeing a glassblower at . his• occupatien, thought nothing could be easier than glass. :blowing; and that he could soon do it as well as , the ether. .He accordingly cornmeal:led' ,operations by hlowiag, vitt:moistly, but only produce a sort of pear-shaped balloon or. lure flasic(fiicp). 74e second attempt a sithilar result; and so on until ilium gin lingeo bad been Made. Hence` arose the- en- pression which we not • unfrequently have • occasion to use when describing the reluitk our private anti public tutttortalaugd. r > , . 9+ ~~fi '.t. ~"~ ; , 1
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