r 1, r GIBSON PEACOCK,- Editor. UME vEr 1:,r) DI NG CARDS, INVITA'T'IONS v for Parties, &r, Nrw ttylcst MASON &CO.. 907 Chestnut street:, • de:telittsryli, DVICADING INVITATION:4 ; airesed in the nelvedt and beet manner. LOUIE EK A Stationer and Brutraver. 103! Chestnut street. r .• • 1.1,20 tf MARRIED. 11011 MAN—lbOPM14.—On the Eth that., at the reel &111(11 of the bride's father, by lbw. Richard Newton, P.D. Mr. Joseph - li. Dorman, of , New York ; to Mine Jo• ce Mane IL hopitr. of Philadelphia, ' • K Niccinceday; Jammer Mb, at • the rceeidenee .lif the bride is parents. •by the Rec. J. :Merges Pearce', etodetod by the Rev. T.• W. J.;Wylie, D.D., and ller. - 1 1 6 .1),'NeWlirs, Themes 31', Kerr; of Phila delphia, to Abu K., daughter of David Trjeiner, Emu., of Linwood, De aware county. f • ROACII—,TDOMAh.—On the 4th day of.lanuary, at the Cathedral. by the Voryiltee. C.. 1 . lf. Carter. Mr. Joseph Chandler ROftell to iditlh Mary Zewa Thomas, daughter of the late .14jiltl G. Thomas. SI1.VIO:1MR WESTCOTT.—On ,Thursday, - oth of JannerY, by the Rt. Dee. Dian) SteTent,;aceltited by the Her, F.dword L. Drown, lice. William 'Wallace 811- ecetcr. of Noreen-li, Conn.. to Mary flay, daughter of Gideon J. Weeteott. of hue ,- RY• AVINKTON—MICLEIt.-41, Pitteher/4, January 51h. WO; by net : F. A. Noble, Virginia daughter of Alex. It. Miller. to P. Henry Wincton, of Wleedsor,N. C. - - W fi.—On the 6th Doctor Edward. Lowlier In his Sfdli yfr The funeral, will take place on fiatnrilay morning,. a kr o'clock. from bid late dwelling, Nry. Ldp_ South. Eight! strOf4.. • ROBINS .—A t (;ertnnuttarn, on the thornily or the 611 i ifiktont, AlexamlPr Robih.on, „ Ills relatives and malt , trleihlo am invited to attend his I hueral. without rtirth^r notice. from his Isterosideune, Tulpebooken strect o dnaluaday afternoon :text. ato Ititerthent at Laurel 11111. TILACIC latoB GRAIN SILKS, $2. .1) Joist recoived n twit' of Lyonn hoary “ro‘ Grain Block bilks. at Fj2 : in itoreall pnairtl4,fromQl ns to 86 61 • BENSONh 4(iti, Mourning Dry Goniii, 141 C hestnn t street. ALP,M,A DE/PAIITMENT. .11) DXSSON it SON hag opetiod n frost' stock of Al pscals, trout:v. to-S7lse, klonsirs ur Gloss) Aipstrati. flc. to 81 25. • illotts(rl'aroilis or fri•ricii hi P 4 O . tO9 • to 41. liombicitris Finish Alpacas. Alpaca Poplins, Anstat- Mai et (Wig% to 81 12'1. • )101.11NINti PHI' GOODS HOUSE, ittsbi . 'l4o. PDS (.7bestnut strrot. CARD, JANUARY: , Q-1. 1 41 7 187 U. . 1 / 4 . LANDFALL.' J.O 4Us rouurfr Allis closing out 'WINTEk GOODS kw . to in - spars NEW SPRING GOODS. jsl srect - At -f kAT. ', 4 '....: :: . :4 ' ~ . ,.:1 _4 . :: - -,i...:-..:,...:7,*,, „ prices at, which ive,havO tic selling {or the last few :weeks will still prevail until our.,winter Stock is all eicated out and we are ady for our String Importations JOUR W,4NAMAKER, Finest Clothing Establish:tient, 818 A.: B_o C,ltetrtnt4 St. ()urn. is th Finest. Ready-Made Clothing in Ain't?ilea,; far superior in every way to all other Ready- Made Clothing and equal to the best Custom Work of most establish- tueuts, but in dosing out our pre- sent, stock we are selling as cheap as any house either on Market or ebeallllt, 3trrtts JOAN WANAMAKER, Finest Clothing . Establishment, 818 d; 320 Chestnut St. Our Boys' , %A.. and , Gents' Furnishing Goods are all marked down, and can be 'bought now at prices which would justify tiny one . in laykkg in a stock for future • use.i JOHN WANAMA*EIt, Finest Clothing Establishment. G II 813 & 34, 1 0 Chestattt:St. U. REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, MR. C. C. TRACY, MR. DUPITY, ofN. and others, 8011 speak'at the meeting of the NEWSBOYS' HOME ASSOCIATION, At-Concert Halt. Oa IlLonday Evening Neat, 10th lied. ADMISSION FBE.D. t' CO* SPRING GARDEN SOUP SOCIETY At the Annual . Meeting. J i ' gen tlenien veto' elected M iL year : a James Peters. Thomas Ma h, f J o h n M. Ogdeu, . A: N. Mtg!Phy , t Tbacntui Mather. ' - • Hiram Muier. F. B. Atmore, Israel Peterson, c..r. Bowerj . . Vilbert S. Parker, : J tunes' Ohainbers, Franklin Shoemaker, 3 .Joseph M. Collins. "WilliainTanderveer, D: R .. 1 4 r d man , . Pavid•Vauderveer, John Edr, Henry Warner, John ,Q:. innodo , Anion Walker, Joseph N+. Gaskill, John Gmlbou, Ali sirup . . .. __ Eimikal Aafoh . W. Hi1e1ti11,,,,... ........,.... . ..—..... Contributions for the above worthy charity will- be ',!gratefully received by either of 'the above Managers, or by the , regularly: authorized Collector, Mr. Jonathan,' g Pugh, who will call upon the . friends of the worthy , (poor. JAMES PETERS, President, *, . 833 'Bac ~' . JOHN M. OQD.EN. Vice President, l. 4d Marehaastrast. '. 1 ' THOMAS' MA.T.LlEE,Treasurer, . . 1106 Wallace street. V.- E. ATMOIS, Secretary. , , 1 tle29w f inOtrt. 101 South Water street. 'lfWe WATER HEN IS' , NOB IWO. • • , • iDEPAItTeENT FOR SUTYYING THE CITY WITH I p dir..tinn.rar4, January let, 1870. ) I EXTRAC FROM AN ORDINANCE APPROVED 1 • - DEC. 29th, la 4. I Buenos, I. The Select and Common Councils of, the ' 1 0ityof 'pisti Qphin do ordain, That all Water Rents !thall he par le to the Register of Water Rents, at. his Inlipe, snap ly, .. 1 4 1 '4 111( cE , ON 11110 ' ICAND MONDAY' OF. ' . • JANUAR ; .. . 'and upon all Water Rents nnpaid upon the first day of , illlay, In any year, there. enall...be charged' the aura of viva. peg contura: and, Upon. all 'rents unpaid on the 3rst day of July, in any year, there shall hei charged an' !Additional, aunt of TEN per centurn.. , :. filir The attention of the Water Testantil of tan' City is , :respectfullrlaYfted.to the pot:Adana of theabove !Weil l/once. ' . , . , air All memorandums for Bale of Water Rents motet 18tLeft at tho‘olllce of thiti Dellartment preview to . APril 1 Jaii.4trlki ' • ' QtOIIGE r, EZYStat, nogistor. . . . n , , . , - - 0,-y , v V ,-, 7A 1 '1: Fein,' ,, 7 :., ,3'': ! 'I !,..., ',', 1 1 '; 77l i . e 1,.. i 6 1 ... P'f'' - . 1'; i .. 1 :-1,..''i ,I . i, f ' c .f.) ,-.' f i l 3 1 1 : 1 " .1 )( LI I A '' i r q ''''' 1' . .. . . , . 4 , -A ~ . , , ~ „ - 'l , ' ,);.,..;,);, ;': ~ , ..i. 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Tenth•fatroet, above Arch. The animal report of the Ward of Managera I*lll , he submitted, awl an election Will be held for officers and monagers,lo serve for the (Towing year. • • • • • ~.11011N BiIiDLE, Coercion , . .os7. JANUARY 7. inn tL — • CENT! AL NATIONAL' BANK: Piti rAurimputA.Defiernbar P.l, 80. The. Annual Election for Directors or -this Bank will be held at the Bahl fint Mouse, on T EHDA Y, Januarr between Median rs of 11 A. In. and 1 P. H. TUB°. KITCHEN, °twitter. • asA.Llolllea. 11 1 , LED; ER LEER LOAN AND BUII4DING ASSOCIATION—AnnuaI Meeting and -Election of °Meets SA:nail/AY EVENING, January ri. nt 75a 0 cluck. at NO. 32 South Seventh street ( Pant Building). • - COOK ,Jg., ,President, , JOHN ttecr*tary. ' It§ Cy. OIL p .MILHUreli'S GOLDEN LIVER. ure and A able. obtained COD trots fresh, and healthy livers. and unsurpassed by any yet , produced• tiold by all respectable druggists. • J. 8111,11,0118' BONS IPB Broadway, New del6 w St. PORTA T. NOTIC - 137— .- WILL 6 , stlii i nzp o t t eptuch of the NEW YORK MU - Jefilitrp- WA' EK 'OF `FICAXg . .ELT AUCTI u r yr rut ET M. X, CH llllClL—Plerviceo BIM P. LACII „ETENII4O _of this week, except fiettirdaY, StranttPrg brats free. ia3-strp! ktvw.auu HOkinT.4l-14, NQS. 1410 itt a ltrc 2° .alt r at l itig =ln D o c r B = r ia D'P Srat= etr to the pony 1L"?. 1109 GI/i4lP7firtEET. TURNIeIi, RUSSIAN AND 11:11FOIXD Departments for adios. DathsoPet; DIVIDEND N(YPICEB. EU'OFFICE OF THE MOUNT CAR IION RAILROAD COMPANY. PUMA V.F.1.P11, 7, KO, The Board of litanagers basilic' day declared sr Dii dnud e t pi % e p er Gent „payable. en demand. and (Adak tail taxer. WILLIA*.RODINSON, ;1731' • Treasurer. DiANIDN AND BIpECHEIt. . Letter Item, 31x. Aitanton. The Ilan ford Courant pub:Wien , a vdte hotter written by the lat 4) Edwin Id. Stanton to Rvv. H Ware! Biteiner. The Courant remarks: *,` . 7 held the' first "of ',Deaetnher, . Rev. Henry Warillteeeht4- Who. had 'level. spoken to or seen Mr. Stanten,,thinking ,one day that. 'be lattO 4144 , tOmethntts feel bor.neAlciwrt. the 'labors mut responsibilities of his position, wrote the secretary a, purely private letter orgy,io hint that a inriltitndti of hiyal people ii'Llti:;llcd him with great respect and prptuumitsktriparly.. iteopy'of Mr. StaittonV an%wer earne , ututer our, notice, anti we have Mr. Beerher':; permission to publish it, as we Io in fuli:" . . , . LET'I7.I: TO MR. . , ' WAMI miGa't,ctifiJec. 4, ASt'4,ify , ,/sede I low deeply your kind note has a dented 'Mei is beyond. my phyret to Thiel kpproiting judgthent, confidente andsytnpOir br great . and good' wen; likt lOUrselty•is the highest evidence of faithful: petforrnatn* of public duty and its best re ward...,, The approlration, confidence and sympathy of any man was never more highly prized than yours is by hid Your . friendly Words . are a ' cordial tIM strangthem me, and your kind svmpathY Will scrve to dispel the gloorn anddespondencY that, as you rightly judge, do sometimes,, iri moments of physical , wearita,f, gather upon my btain and prem heavily upon my heart. Let me tell you that often and often, in dark hours, you have come Wore me, and I have longed to hear your voice, feeling, that above all other men you could cheer ; strengthen, guide and uphold me in this great battle, where, by God's providence, :t ha, Often upon me to bold a post and 'perform a duty beyond my own strength. but being a stranger I had no right to claim your cuntidence or ash fiu. help, and so haVU been forced to struggle on patientlyas 1 . might from day to day, supported only byfervent fluth in our if . 'acred muse, and the consciousness that prayers were being offered 'up by good people for aid. NoW, my dear sir, your voice Lis reached me, and your hand is stretched forth as to a friend, and henceforth I shall look to. you and lean upon you with a sure and abiding trust. Already my heart feels renewed strength and is inspired with fresh hope. There are some points involved in or developed bithis present contest edi which I wish to commune with you before long and indulging the hope that you will visit WiAtington at an earlyday,. I am, with sincere thanks and affection, Your friend, EDWIN J)1. STANTON. • Rev.'Henry Ward Reedier. AN ALLEGED HEAVE SWINDLE. IA Transaction by Wall Street Brokers—. One Hundred and Fifteen 'thousand 'Dollars Involved—The Mayor of Mud son City One of the Aetaied., • The New York Herald- of this morning says : Yesterday afternoon Benjamin F.; Sawyer, IMayor of Hudson City; Samuel Ropes and .1. .7. llowinan were arraigned befOre ' Justice Ledwith, at .Jefferson Market, on the charge of false pretence and obtaining a large Sinn in bends by misrepreSentatious. -,The affidavit was made on the 20tb' of Dccerriber, by Corne lius W. Campbell, 406 'West. Forty-seveuth street, a broker in Wall' 'street, _ who alleges that on October - ',:[d.,.,Samuel Ropes, accompanied ' -by Benjamin' F. Saw yer, called at depth. nes place 'of bu.siness, 60 Broad street, and represented that he could make from four to live thousand, dollars com mission by allowing them to use , his name to effect a loan of S:10,0041 upon $115,000 North Carolina Railroad bonds. :shortly after Ropes called again with a paper, which; he said. wa, drawn up by 3..1.r. Sawyer ; Ihabit was only a form, and requested deponent tif sign it: He signed this - and another paper, neither -of which he had read; at the same time Ropes represented thathe was in a great hurry, as btr...A.. A. Shepherd was waiting for him, and wanted one of the papers. Sinoe then deponent learns that one of ' the papers is an agreerneiat or a stipulation to hold in trust $115,000 worth or North Carblina' rail: road bonds, and to return the: sake and not dispose of them ; that the other paper was an order for the delivery of the bowls tcr . some person who deponent has ascertained to be A. A. Shepherd; that Benjamin E. Sawyer, Samuel Ropes and.: J. J. Bowman conspired together to cheat and defraud the owners and holders of the said bonds out of the same by virtue of the order so signed, , and did sell the same and convert :'the . proceeds of such sale to their _ own . as°, _ex cept a :snia/1 • portien . • - ;tithiell .• they have'beert compelled to pay one Colonel Lit tlefield, the former holder thereof;•that for the purpose of inducing- the holders of said ; . bomb to place the same intrust in deponent's hands the said Sawyer,'Ropes and Bowman • represented deponent to be a mutt of large means and havinglarge Sums of money to loan, all or which statements are false, fraudulent and untrue. • . Yesterday a preliminary examination was bad, when. Mr. Campbell was plaeed on the stand and testified >to the details of the transaction. A further hearing is set 'far to morrow. —Baden-Baden, though a terrestrial para dise, bas its hells above grourid', and - very near hot regions beneath. In excavating some of the warm mineral springs, larger and hotter , reservoirs have been found, an earthquake has been experienced, and.thetedsfie GiiritAn resting upon the huge foundations of the Roman time,. are cracking all over, the fissured iu somelaces being. fivcAnclies_yri4s; —There is e'aidioibiY•anuart int Nevada who is so abeent-minded that, ,o_p ; going, out o u . a certain occasion, lie' forgoe - that 'he - returned', and has been waltYlg 'px' I:vse lr to come home , ever since. ;I • , • routtarr connEsiii(irrioi k nit to LETTER FROM" PARIS., reorrmondeuce or the Philadelphia Evemingriltillotio.l Pants, Friday, Dec. 24,, 11169.--Polities; as usual at this season, are being set abide for the nonce, and by general, assent we are -te wait the turn of the year before oxpectingany important announcement on the subject of public affairs: Only it is possible that Napo leon may be reserving something pleasant, or ' unpleasant; to `say on New Year's Day, at the official receptions, of which notice has just been given. And what an opportunity he might make for himself, , and how he might throw confusion among all his adversaries, if he only had the courage to inaugurate the advent of lain and. make the date forever memorable in the annals, not Only of France, but of the world, by announcing the consolidation at once of the public liberties, and his own position at home, by the frank acceptance Of, a constitutional Ministry and abioad, by boldly setting the example of that disarmament which he is said, with only too little probability ; to, have proposed. But ever, in these as in all else, halt- ng, between two opi nions--fluctuating between. his own better instincts, and the prejudices or his race and name—the Second rrenchaVan , perer 'will found, I fear, nothing more solid than the First, and will quit the scene at last discouraged .; himself and leaving only cortin slot; to his successors. His only policy at thnt moment seems to be to stick to power as long as he can, and ; make it last, if possible, his own time:.' It is net too much to say that at the end , of',fifteen, years' rule the country is less prepared and less willing time, it was at the beginning pf that, term to accept , -his government and dynasty es the definitike political institutions'of Fractes: The year 18704 will open indeed with outward trans quillity, and in the • midst of much material splendor and prosperity; but the prospect is nuirred by that fatal uncertainty and instability of piddle affairs which must ever exist .Wheu the'netional trill iS not the real basis; upon which the destinies of a country repose: A good deal of Atteasiness, has been ',lna;nl- : felted here, in. otlicial quarters, at ,the growing good understanding betweeat Iltesia and. Prussia, . and the , open demonstration which has been niade of that feeling during the recent exchange 'of civilis ties'and decorations by the two sovereigns of thoie countries. More especially have, the somewhat singular expression.s respectingahe two "armies"—cuade use of by botir;111011- arclis, and which seemed to be lugged in, as it were, expressly and ' significantly—excited both attention and suspicion. " The friend s ship which unites ns," says the Czar. to King Frederic William, publiely, and by. tele graph, "is based upon the memo ries of that glorious period when our united armies fought side by side for a sacred cause, which was common to us both.' The "memories" here invoked, and ,the " period 4 and the " cause" alluded to for which the Ens sian and Prussian arinies fought together, are not exactly the pleasantest subjects of contem plation in the world for the above sovereigns to recall to the mind of their bro ther Emperor of France, inasmuch as they refer especially and markedly to such little episodes as the battles of. Leipsic and other sindlar precursors to the fall of Na poleon I. The King of,Prussin replied in the same strain; and, again, when Count Nostiz,_ as special representative of the Emperor Alex ander, presented the insignia of the Order of Sr. George to' the King at Berlin, he somehow immaged to get upon the "armies" a third time, and once more reiterated that these courtesies between the sovereigns were a pledge 'of the "bond which subsisted between the two armies ;" that is to say ; in plain words, of the "military alliance" subsisting, virtually at least, and by force of the aforesaid "memories," between the two 2Tkat Northern powers of Europe.. The raking up of such reminiscences as the above certainly looked as though the parties so act ing cared less now for cultivating a good un derstanding with the head of the French overnment than they once did. The authorities here showed their consciousness of the bad effect vrhichmight be produced by this entente cordiale and by the language which accompanied it, by inserting almost immediately afterwards. a note in tla; Joirnal Ofciel, which told us, apropos to. "tiotit ing unless to the above incidents, that the Frtinch Ambassador at St. Petersburg "tan Untied" to be the object of the most ,sytnpa , thetic attention on the part of the imperial family of Russia. This was silly and awk z . ward. Did Napoleon expect that the Czar would " leave off , u being civil** his .ittnbassa (kir after what he had said to, the King of Prussia? One would almost have thought so from the wonting of She' l l:Iola in the French official organ, which seemed intended to as sure the FtenCh people, thnt:th_ongh. Ehe save- reigns of Russia and Prussia thus boasted of having. philed doivia Nipoletin T. they had not the least intention of ,being . thereby impolite to his Highness. The Minister of the Interior, M. Forcade La Roquette, has come forward as candidate in the election for the Department Of the Lot-et- Garonne, by virtue of the new regulation which permitso , s Minister to be als . adeputy. The most interesting passage, however, lathe address which he Juts issued to the electors is, perhaps; that in whiclt he shows. how strongly the. Government pledges itself to the party of free trade. TCP that question M. de Forcade says he has devoted his Attention for the hist teryenrs:.-the , *ears, that tlioneir treaty.of, eimarnere, wlaioh,. be- adds,- both assiated,-in preparirkg and defended asa alkali contiane ,still,tO do so," he new repeats, "in spite the 11111,. merited attacks made on that&Teat act‘iii commercial reform, which hoe developed amongst nations relations founded on recipro., cal interest,and assured to: the agricultural pro., ducts of Prance the openings. whiph are ne cessary for her prEtverity." declaratien" is regarded ea conclusive of the nolicy whiolt the government is prepared to adopt In the coming debates. The Chamber is mil:lotted to adjourn in a day or two until about the 9th or 10th of Janu ary, during , witielrtlM ,ZMieror ig to " MAke up his mind" , wholtin - 4.3 , wp1; kpbp,ids old MinistOrs Or, ehoolie,ne* ottes. —A petition , to'„the mach 'setlafo' Oayed that .all,ntm4bnio4 rr• lutaight,',UL tattooed at the 4a,tris with s t earin& nurober, so. O,OIW faqiiitate•the* , retnntl4Qatinn, the event ,or th it turning out eriatina* ,I*Ttithing right of petititoti. OUR *ROLE COMTRY. 1 4 0,E: SUNKEN _F77 ' • interesting Particulars of:the Stockton Ca , lamity-- The Disaster Caused' by "Robbing the Mine"---Testi mony of Experte--=How • the Mine war Laid •• Out and Worked. A correspondent of the World ,WriteB as fol lows • WASIIINGTON, Pa., January 4.—The investi gation as to the cause of the disaster at the Stockton Mine was continued at that place yesterday and to-day, before W. P. Cart - right, Esq., acting Coroner, and a jury. Consider ablete.stimony was-taken-es to the falling of the houses and , the search, .for the, bodies, of which details have already been published. I fend you the following testimony of mining experts •as to dui probable condition of the mine before the accident and as to the cafise. To enable the reader to understand the tectini-: cal terms of gangways, breasts, headings, and lifts, let'them suppose the largest baU-room turned over on its side until its floor attaina a slope of sixty degrees, then calling ',the top, Of the room the north end, and supposing it a solid mass of coal, run a narrow avenue from the centre of the-north end one-third of the way down the hole, and this will represent the "slope." , Tin: Then cut right aa nn i t e rt t si r s um the bottom of thiS slope, and you will have the ,past, and west d4PgwaYs- Then. froM these east, and west gangways efit'pafisage.4 lip towards the north end Of the room, and theca' Will be the breasts- 1 'The walls of coal left between the breasts are, the pillars. ' Then cut .passages through the pillar's from one breast to another,- and you have the_cross-Iteadings; and the whole combined fortini the, first "lift." Then continue'the first slope tlowia another, third of the room, cut gangways, breasts and cross headings as before-; atrdi-en have the second lift. 4ePe.:l-t; Iite,PPMC- 8 8,,Z10. down:the 'ante' slope to the south ew.i of the room, cut gang w.Yl3, 84 C- , 81 4 i4;o l q.4itrd -lift n01m124% 1. Now, when this aft gone,' there: is, of, Course, nothing refi to sdppart'the rout but tho pillars, and taking these away is What is Called .‘ robbing",the'mine. The question to be dectded by this inqueSt is, .Did the proprietors, for the sake of the coat of-which the pillars .are , composed, rob'the' mime of the supportaflordedby.these columns. , . . ' • LAYING, OUT TIII,;.• ALINE.- ' lialph Simmons, sworn=-Have lived in, Stockton f r the last eight years and 'upward ; i t, have been miner between twenty and thirty' yeam ; I w rketi in the first+ lift of the'west gangway o Stockton No. 1 slope fourteen or fifteen ye rs ago. This is the gangway from which the breabts that have fallen were driven; I finished three breaSts "that had been ' egurtl before I went into_ them.,. The, breasts..were. driven - ab Ont ien Yards Wide ; the.pillars be tween the breast§ were between 'five and six yards ; we started the breasts with a Schutei six yards wide in the centre of the breast, and drove it up the same width" for six yards, then widened the breast equally on vaclfSide until it was ten yards wide ; ahout six or eight Yards up the breast we drove cross-heaAlings through the pillar trout one.breast to another ablaut three to four feet square ; about• twenty yards further up the breast we drove another cross heading through the pillar ; if the breast ox= tended twenty yards further we drove another cross-heading. DRIVING CROSS-READINGS. • It was the general rule to drive cross-head ings every. twenty. .yards, and oftener if the condition of the air in the breast required it; these cross-headings were made for the' pur pose of securing ventilation, and also to pass into on, a shot; they further served to prove ,The.thickness of the pillars.; the face of the breast is where the work on it is stopped; sometimes a cross-heading is driven at the face of the breast; I don't know that this was done in the breasts that I worked on the first lift; there is nothing br which the thickness of a pillar can be learned with any certainty ex- cept bY driving a croseeheading: as: :a general rule the breast is not as widest the topby - two or three yards as at the bottom ; the coal as it comes out leaving the breast somewhat arched; the - breasts are driven IN faraS the inside boss directs. - In working the first lift as we approach the outcrop the character of the Goal changes; and water sometimes runs through; I never saw a breast in which the coal did not ehangeas it approached 'the outcrop; it becomes • softer, changes in color, and comes Out in smaller pieces. In the most westerly breast which I worked, I drove by the direction of the inside boss'a narrow hole from the face of the breast to the overlying clay. THREE BREASTS CAVED IN: • • • There are three adjoining • breasts fallen in where the houses went down. The most eastern of these is I think the last' one I worked, as there is such a hole to be seen in it. From the face of the breast through the °coal to the clay of this hole was ten yards ; I think a part of the coal has since fallen away from the face of the breast, so that the hole is not now so long., I think most of the coal in the face of the breast is still standing, but part of the top coal may have gone with the rock. The thickness of the vein from top to hottoth rock was from 25 to. 30 feet at right angles with the pitch. Full one-half of the bottom of the vein that remained along the face of the breasts when the houses fell in is still 'resting there on the bottom rock in its natural place where it has always lain. The breast I last worked was free coal. It pitched about sixty degrees. We,bad to work, the breast full in order to keep upto the face. The coal after being blaSted out occupied more space than when in the vein. Only part was drawn out of the breast at once, leaving enough for: us to stand on mobile working to reach the face of thebreast. The covering work in the breasts that I Worked in the first, lift appeared to be solid rock. TUE CAVITY INTO , WHICH THE, HOUSES SANK. I hive examined the cavity into which the houses felland u rvorked there : to recover the bodies. There is a pillar standing on.the east and one on the west side. There seemed some indication of a pillar between the two western 'breasts that have fallen in, and some of the men who were working there thought it a pillar, but I could not say there was one, and am doubtful about it.. The top rock- as ex posed by the fall is a sandstone .mucli broken up. I think the work is much strongeri below. The last breast - I worked - vras driven, I think, some fifty or sixty yards from the gangway. FORMER CAVINGS • I was here when the former, f, 0 occurred in this gangway. That on the west of the houses frightenedd the people at the time, and they wanted to ;leave the houses. The hole was partly filled np, and then they thought it safe. This was thirteen Or fourteen years ago. Before the recent fall I considered thehouses safe, and would bare ,had -no objections to living in one, of them. When the 'breasts were coin pie:44 the coal was all drawn leaf in„,ff tile breasts ,enipty, , The former falls did not obstruct.the gangway, which was..efully , protected by the battery. . AFTER THE RECENT DISASTER, ' VA SundaYositer the re'seist lAI4I went into the gangway:with severtil'others., , ''We found' thei tnnher thereall righbas far as vent. We:went:in upwards i1f530-ftiet, 'about tO 'the point.nrbere the most easterly fall took place sons twelve yearn agOi , We !bearded the die tunes both below and on the - Apr . llWe. We-were': etopped by, the , roof lir, hut whether it WaS , d , recent hill , Or nu oh we'' could not tell. I.have ' - werked• !beat the' second and third lifts, WeetgattgwaY: 'nth& 'sconti lift workeddnieaht 7 Vio. 3, which was ( •,nearly,opposite.those in the first" lift. which, f have fallen in.., ItA , waS iworkea Bianilatly to A • WORKING THE FIRST LIFT • •• - - . • theme :in'• the ,first, lift; being generally tali (yard*,wide, " ~ . , ro 'No. 13 a "fault" was struck smite tifteett yards from the • gangway, The "fault" was about Seven yards thick'f coal broken' np and - dirt. Aft& going through the '" fault "' I worked the breast , about seventy yards' front the gangway. Above the "fault" the vein was regular and . pitched about sixty-five de grees. Pillars between brea,stS there' were live to Six yards thick.. The last I drove Was I think, about ten yards below the face' of 'the . breast.' The' top work was Solid both in vein and in the '" fault".' There were no indications ' of 'tali close an approach to the gangway in the,first lift. H • , THE HEIGT OF THE nods , . . ..• the "fault " spoken of the roof Was:of an unusual height, fifty or sixty feet, but, after passing, it the vein was found of its usual' thickness. The West gangway 'of the second lift was in good coal to breast No. 2t or 1% After tbat point I think it was in fault. There was no crush in thisangway' while. it was being worked that I know of. • I assisted, in taking up the road when the gangway was abandoned two years ago last fall, and have net been in it since., :There never was a pillar tak6f out of that 'gatagway. In breast No. 23; I think, whole was driven thrOngh the pillar to the gangway on the first lift: to prove the distance' from. the face of the breast to the gangway above. I drove the west turnout' in the third lift and part, of the gangway; also breast No:s, and am now working No. 15. , A PILLAR OLVES OUT. drove breast No. .5 :Omit thirty,yartls, and was Stopped`becauSe the pillar' gave 'Out be t Ween that add the next breast on the east. I then commenced Working No: 157 - Which , is` now worked abouvten yards, and an far as I have gone the coal is good. It is , very find coal. The pitch of the vein is from fifty-five to sixty degrees. There is some gas in the third lift I have not seen any evidence of a working of the 'coal, or any unusual weight on the timbers of the 'gangways in' the' third PIINGAIITIONS AGAINST ANOTHER Since the falling of. the 1101.12eS some extra timbers have .been put into the gangway of the third lift, to guard against possible. danger. ' THE CAUSE FALL. tel the tame of the fall When the lionses; went down, my opinion: is that a pillar be tween the breasts gave way. GEORGE CRIIIRSOANK. The Artist in his .014 The present generation (says the London' . Daily Net* is under some danger of overlook ing - a veteran artist of whom we now but dom hear; though hisinvention' is still active,' and his executive skill not. yet impaired by ' Sears : of service. Our people ; recollect, having been amused or instructed by-the works oft George Crilikshank more than tifty..ears ago; and middle-aged men , recall with delight' the illustrate& •books their boyish days, 'in which the pencil ''af admitiable humorist and picturesque •dranghtsman the mostvariett in. its productions, the richest and most charaeteristie. in its style, of any artists of, that. time. But the young men Of to-day know little of• Cruikshank, and perhaps are hardly awitre that be still lives among as„ and is occasionally ' obe heard Of; not only as a bOok-seller, but a. 9 a painter: To all sueli, the, republication of two of his best works-Lthe' " Omnibus" and.the "Table Book"—will come ' like the revelatioaof a species of drawing du- - ferent from any that now exists. George Cruik.sliank is the product' 01. a school of comic art founded many years ago by Gillray Rowlandson awl others, and, though in many respects be has' advanced far beyond tbose'eolebrated men d he yet retains some obvious traces of. their influence. ffe now, we believe, in his me-venty:-eighth, year,' and he began.his working • life quite early in' the present century, before be, was out of his teens. The "Omnibus" and the "Table' Book, " however, belong to a much later - pc-, riod—the one tolol, the other to 18,15, When the artist was in the full maturity of 'his powers. Both works contain extraordinary' specimens of humor. fancy and picturesque ness; knowledge of life the tuo.st varied, and invention the most prodigal, singular suds twine. . - - was given to a fair house ; last night, at the' Academy. , Possibly the lowering skies may have been of effect to prevent a large at tendance, and possible the well known inade quacy of part of the cast' may have had some thing to do therewith. As a whole, the per formance was an enjoya,ble oue. Marl. Briol, as a true lyric artist,deserres mach of the com mendation that heralded her appearance here. It is a matter of regret that her voice has lost much of its freshness and flexibility, and that she e- , ip erie ne es some ditlicuityin man aging it, which detracts in a measure from the generally pleasant irepietision her as.siunp 7 tion of the part of the heroine occasions. Nevertheless, her " Lucrezia" is something to see an, impassioned and artistic perform ance worthy of comparison with the hest ;interpretation of the part that has yet been witnessed in the Academy. But, after all. what is there eqnal to the "Duke Alfonso," of Ronconi ? The opera habitue whose experience does not include this artistic performance of this role has been at feast un fortunate. Ronconi, in the same part, it was Our fortune to hear during his earlier visit to America, some ten years since, in o a., past in cluding Gazzaniga and 13rignoli- The' n,it a revelation to us as a magnificent piece of lyric acting, and last evening the impression was forcibly renewed, his 11111011 to be feared that the greatness of the artiste is not fully ap preciated. Even now, iii the decline ;of • his great powers,, be has ,no equal in many respects in the:world ot. artists. His " Alfonso" is every inch a flake ; his very costume itself is an archreoloocal study; arrayed in it, he seems a veritahlelfgure from Froissart, or some ancient Venice tapestry imbued with flesh and blood.. Hi&whole per formance is somethinve be seen and studied as an illustration et a ,great school.new almost extinct.. Are we, not, to see this artiste in Marie di A'olion, in which he is still *Treater than fir Luerezia Of tbe rest of the cast it behooves us, to say, in our capacity as a conscientious' critic., that. Mr. Loin. was respectable as " Geitaro," voice not being equal to the demands of the part, and- that Mad. , Lumley made one of the most uninteresting of "Or, sinios." For a contralto her voice is of a most unsympathetic quality, and her management 1 of it is not that of a singer of,the first rank. As an actress she ha, rio clairaa to'recovnition, The chorus did well withthe hackneyed minx- 1 herti.belonglng to them, and-the orchestra wita boisterous and bra.s.qy after the 'best Italian manner; but,withal, much better than we are , r used to bear in these performances. , • . 1 To-night Verdi's unaccountably unappreci ated Dodo '.illaseliera. ' =At the Chestnut Street Illeatre - this even- f ing, Champagne; or; Step by Step • , will' be re- peated - for the last tinge. To-morro* after noon,,Thet Babes the iWoods 'and- The Ren dervOns,will be presented; and for the evening .11low for , IPow,iuld the connxiedietta Two Gan, y at that Game are.aunounced.. Miss May .1 Hower will aPP. 3 ;ttr to - 7 1 °79w Or .4 1 e+ first ' ,_ time since 'her recent illness. , 4xell .649.0 Theatre v tbis.eivenktig t Drew will 'appear nith ber company thECeortiecli, Vie Love "Man; and Lraig will'Preselit very aninsingqiiirletique, 'Don ,1 Juan, ortbe Byron Seandat'Kebleed. BET. Path= cart will have a , benelitl to-morrow night, ' , ln The .3.(ercltant Irenke, and in The ' Willow t Cop'e. On Monday Lig-10.Eiteill, NOtb•noW and lietyttifitlilpenery anda,great caste.. Tlie romaptinruilitaa7 drama ;Net will Ye itepeat,o(l at,tAttytr,"alAtit attoot. Theatre evenhig"aud lto-moTrowaftkimoou t ; At the e rgeTleatt.Theatre .tbts evt,.nlpsta first-rate' bill in offered, including ballet. ALI 2 UNE!' MI TS tt;CREZ J:0IW IA : . poadtait ' • I , ~• dancing, burlestine,, farce,,gpanastio,Ausi ilegro'conlibalities,and miscelianeops perfarjoir antes Mrs'l 4 v.i.A: Of &bons, tho fatimus acre*, Will appear nightly in hiss perilous rents: At the Benedictt, Opera Hui Messrs, Diiprez se announce' a' numi ber of novelties id' the way of ' burlesque and Ethiopian delineations, and'' besides thekti them will be good vocal and instrutneittal Music every evening, withthe mi . scellat nevus petformance. , , _ . •,; --Mesens. Carncross &, Di xoy offer's* very at, tractive entertainment at the .Fllev.enth , o4•oo4; Opera Roam title evening, tnelittiing i•ing;mg,, dancing, barlesqtte, and the pantomime Old Woman Who lived 'in' &Shoe. ' --ti ig n nor Blitz and hisr EfOlt Wilt 'gilt an S ir, hibitio of their wonderful and ventriloquism, at theAssenibly EMMA% every afternoon antlevening this weelr. • *AtTh &ND , ICANCIEX , . —Peanuts are said to lie a'aure our& forth Solorrion's wisdom is at trilinted:tn. the tae4 that , he had seven hundred ° • „ Richmond paper retuirKitli thankarPS 4 well-known brewer for a task of lager beer. ° —Maurice Strakesch has started' ai riewinn - sical journatin Paris. L': —Buftklo's receipt of hogs averaged Olieo 2 and : a-half per minute last year. , • '" ° , —lt is now remembered"that two of Gri , admirers , commit tted suicide ; butribwas in 110 B• —Milwaukee is to have a. •bald-hoaded A hal d' opera? ' • ' ' —"Ladies without regard to son"' are vited to attend a woman's rights meeting in no Western town. • ' —The ,intervieweni besiege Mrs.: Moran-- rand, in her retirement atCharlostown, Maws., bnt she has no story to toil. , • ', —An Akron, Ohio man has got into troulda by pulling a young lady out of the river by,thei ankle."' , -A railway train was recently Arm* bY ast, avalanthe on Mount Cents and hurled down a precipice: —Ofall the planets .I4iter v.-ear's the be't while baturn is the anqy one .thrit -"' inh* ring." • . , • , o --A girl Who went to a dance Out Veeit, WitV her hair combed but straight danced it kll-latei tight curls.: —A Chicago, dramatic, critic speak' of air actress as "pussgssing -an entire or yentionality, ' while her, voice Sweet' savor in urn ears." The At urfreesboro - Tennessee printer& return thanks for neat packages of ginfiefr' bread, sent, to 'them ' the young ,lades i of, that, city. --One of the colony of Corifederat* whirl endeavored .to settle 'in Honduras . recently- 1 returned to New 'Orleans . . most fdrlora plight.. , Francisco'San papers arefenjOytri naine,of bluff over: their respective eirdula= dons. 'One of them wantsto, bet sl.l,lXloiatut; Connecticut proposes to pass law 're.: stricting people from , procuring divorces until they have .been married at least two weeks. —A distinguished tourist was once found:in. a - paroxysm of team over the supposed tomb ; of -- Washington, at Mount Verne f, but it., turned out to be only - theice ' ' , , —Visitcirs to Hartford complain that they can't move there without ' rimiting again'st President, Secretary or agent or au insurance' company. —The critic of a Cincinnati paper passed' an unhappy New Year's, because the types , made him speak of Tennyson's Holy Wall, and other Poems." • , , • , —There are six millions of dogs in this court-' try, of which Live millions are worthless: The, Commissioner of Internal Revenue proposea,, s as a measure of getting rid of these pests, a, uniform tax of $.2 a head. , . —On the last day of the year the editor oto Georgia daily paer informed his' readera (or those who would-have been inch bad he per.' mined) that: he published no editorials tie:.' cause he "had nothing to say." , —Four hundred -letters 'were' recently dia ' covered by an agent of the Post Wilco Depart , : ment,at a hutelin Bestom -addressed toguostai but never delivered., He sent them to the Dead-letter Office. ' • . —An old lady, on reading that an ice•lppse had been burned, reniarked, "La, novi,l,sup r . pose it was' from spontaneous 'corrititistion: I , often noticed that die' ice in' the 'Wagon..q :.rnoked." • ' —A Western exchange says On Sunday evening, while the congreentioft were'engaged.; in prayer, a mouse was observer:lto' climb up , : the back of a young lady bowed reveren.:f tial attitude." Pious mouse. —.4% friend offered X. some milk to drink, rePlied,that milk bad been distasteful to • him from the earlie,st recollection. Being • pregsed to partake, he lifted his oyes , and gazed' upon the proffered cup. Beer in all Ito._ glory met his visiOn." Oh," said he, , smiling rapidly, " I thought it was the udder kind!" • •—lt seems that "fashionable patties"lia Boston give themselves' up to." the German,," and other varieties of round dances, And tureen the rounds the young ladies andgenfle-' men are refreshed:Avith beef tea "Tids,r marks the Transcript, "is more Creditable dila,: nutritious than champagne.',' , • • . . -The Mariposa Gmcifta of December 'V Ikh • says : " The unseasonable conjunction in and December) was again illustrated, in this place a few days ago, by the 'uniting 'the bond; of matrimony of a blushing darnser twelvasurnmers and stfavorable cas4 offortY:j five or thereabouts." • • . • , —An interesting discovery has ittst'lbeeit , made in _Russia, namely; , of a Byzantine? cameo in onyx dated from the seventh cern , fury: The gem, which is .embedded. iu a., golden cup,, presented' to the Cathedral, of ons,perlski by Catherine, 11., is two`hicile,s in length and of an oval 'form. The relief repre sents a cross surmounted by a medallion bear- , ing the effigy of- the: Saviour. aceeinp:anled by ' two figures of angels. Azinseription in Greek ebaractem contains the name of the .Emperor Leen - tins, who reigned at Byzantium from 696 to fifi?, having usurped the throne after the, death of Jnstinian - • —The 'explabation of the spectral axe at the Tower of London is. we. are' sorry, to sa,y,, ,shoeklugly siinple and prosaic. ?here seems, in one.oftlie-towers of that fortress t peculiar old toophole,,,sornewhatresembling: shape the capital letter T with the , arros' A, shortened ; thialoophole is in, the wall , of a iqos4t, outside, of which there is another 'wall. When the outerivall IS in shadow, and, thogini; lighted in the closet, a light is, thrown ou to the outer wall through the loolitiole, which. from its peculiar shape, makes the thrown light bear a resemblance to a• . battle-axe. In' these days we have no illtisiodsleft; not el'e I4badovrol.- • • , ~, , „ , Dreadful Accident. „ , .., t„- 'I- , On Wednesday . morning, , as the eaSteris . I. bound express train, onthePhiladelphia sat Erie road, was within about extensile of miltroi,,, the engine puma in contact with, a hone anti' f *eget,. dxiVe4 *ki Mr. , William 4am :A, OD , I of Gen: Boyle„,pf Kentucky, was in the Nen I: with ' him. Jr . Mari. 'was • instantly, ed, I end tis comrade - only* survived abou tilrO;i , hours. -Tice horse was also • killed,' and 'tltfec 1 wagon demolished: , It appears that the ' lane' t': leading to the railroad wan hidden by ' a higto l L boafd, ,ience, , and . the first intimation; illser,t engineer had, of any one ,attempting• t grow 0 1 wazthe sudden appearance of,he hone o‘w 17 `tae' track, when he was `instan tly •Struoix.: by rho ' engine with the above fatal reaull t 1 gr.. 3,14 in was well known in this city, 4 SleD,oytet, " 4 ,i as spooling his schoul vaeatilm' with: - w 4 friend.— 3rd/4.0)G/ 1 401 (ittr,ctto alni. iltaif *4 Glit. ': f ~ tk p~~ ~~ =KO SP fi t tr. e , )ift ) ,• • . J, , f ',1 t 7.10111 • ,•‘,l,
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