GIBSON. PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXilt-:-Nb; 2'30.
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MOUES and apparatus for fitted closets. tit A.
IrItANOIttiOIIS altt.'s;al3 DlsrkOt et. " dent° tltioBot3
EDDING INVITATIONS EN
DUlErlitiaitohnerneTZt and beet manner.
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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
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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
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to the poor
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DepartMento for tidies.
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8 REST; • •
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The Donn, of Directors have this day declared a
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12th inst. EDWARD ROBMITS. Ju.
Jatot Troagturer.
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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
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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,"
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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'
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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.
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