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WENDELL PHILLIPS, January3l.
Subject Ti Queations of To-morrow.
PETROLEUM V. NASI3)I (D. R. Locke), .February 3.
Subject—The Lords of Creation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Februarf 1 .
• Subject—Social Life in America.
Rev. E.II. Cif A PIN, D. D., February
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CEO. P; M, CURTIS, February 24.
Subject—Our National Folly The Civil Serviee.
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Subject--Chemical it In Nature and the Arts.
BAYARD TAYLOR, March 3.
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PHILADELPIIIA, Jan.l4, 1870.
At the annual meeting of the Stockholders of this
Rank, held on the Jth instant, BENJAMIN ROW
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BENJ. ROWLAND, Jr., was elected Presid n , and
WM. H. RHAWN, Vice Presdent.
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CHANTS' FUND.—The sixteenth anniversary
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, Feb. 2, at H 6 o'clock.
The annualroport of the Board of Managers will be
road, and addressee will be delivered.
Hon. WILLIAM STRONG,
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At the annual meeting Of contributors to this in-
Ostution. held on the 3d Inst., the following nam:d
gentlemen were chosen Managers for the ensuing year:
Wm. F. Criffitta. John M. Whitall,
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IWHIGH SCHOOL ALUMNL—A
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SATURDAY EVENING, Jannary ls7o. on business
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AMIISEMEIVTI9.
• —At the Arch Street Theatre, this evening,
Little Ent'ly,, will be repeated.
Pyte -Galton will have a benefit at
the Chestnut Street Theatre, this evening, in
a first-rate bill. Offenbach's comic operas, 'A
Maeriage byLanterns Wad The'Prim a Donna of a
Night will be given, with Miss Susan and the
full company in the cast. We hope Mrs.
Galton will have a crowded hmise.
—At the Seventh Street Opera House to
night Messrs. Duprez &,-,'Benedict will oiler a
very attractive bill,-inehiditig new burlesques,
farces and negro comicalities.
—Messrs. CarEcross & Dixey announce a
nnmber , of novelties• for this evening at the
Eleventh Street Opera House.
—Signor Blitz, assisted by hifrion Theodore
Blitz, will:giVe` an exhibition 'of =magic 'and
legerdemain at Assembly Buildings every
evening this wee_k,--with a matinee on Satur
day. ,
—The, Ainerican Theatre has proelired a
number of new attractions for the present,
,week. Mr. Gibbons, the famous- gymnast,
will appear nightly, and Messrs. Sheridan
Mack and. Rollin Howard will perform in
special lines of, busiiiess: , . New Imilotn w,ill be.
'presented, and there willbe'the usual .iniScel
lanies by the members of the regular com
pany.
—At Mrs. Chas. Warner's circus, Tenth and
Callowhill, a. splendid performance will be
given this evening, in which Mad. Do Berg,
the daring rider, will, perform some of her
equestrian feats.- •
—Dr. Mary Walker's husband has Sent a
poem to the Independence (Moo Sentinel, of
which the following is a " stanzer .• "
The bird calls from its gilded cage
Its pate.farin the wildwood ' • ;
And so, my soul still waits for thee,
Bright angel of-my childhood.,
But if our fate, a cruel lot,
Bath out our hearts assever ;
1 Why, Mary--briugany trousers book! _
1 And then go :trot& forever!
Hersee, it is said, has been offered
,an engagement tin! nest : fOl.llO the Italian
Opera in Malta. %.,
MIN LOSS OP TIM INEWEOSt.
She Ic Chet Ashere—ilanqinet In a Tent
py~the Shipwrecked Party and Their
The Milwaukee (MeV:teat/eel of Tuesday
piblishes the following extracta from a private
letter from the United etatea Consul at Tunis,
Africa;dated December 17, 1869, and giving
an account of the disaster to the yacht Meteor,
although no mention is • made of her being
blown up
" I have written to you about the yacht
Meteor, owned and commanded by Mr.
George T. Lorillard, of New York. She
came here from Algiers on the 26th of
NoVember,and sailed on the 2d inst. for Malta,
where she arrived in foprteen hours; the
distance is 220 miles. She sailed from
Malta on the 10th inst., and on. the 12th was
cast ashore on Cape Bon, about fifty miles
from here by water, and eighty by land.
Lorillard sent me a messenger, overland, who
was forty hours on the road, and I wonder
that he got here at all, considering the country
be had to cross. I got Lorillard's note an
nouncing the 'Wreck, that all hands were
saved, but that there was chance of saving
the Meteor, and asking assistance. I imme
diately telegraphed to the Galetta to charter
a small English steamer, then in port, and at
3P. M. A was under weigh in her, for the
scene of disaster. My wife and another lady
accompanied me.
We had a pleaaant sail down the bay and
round Cape Bon. The sea was iimooth,
luckily—for at this season we have generally
boisterous weather—and, as a bright moon
was shining, we had a good view of the bold
headland of Cape Bon, rising abruptly from
the sea to a height of. 1,070 feet. After round
ing the Cape, passing almost within a' stone's
throw of it, we saw a wide reach of sandy
beach, with low land in the background.
After firing several guns, . some rockets,'
and burning some blue lights, we
were responded to from the shore by bonfires,
and in a few minutes we were lying-to near
the wreck. It was now 8.30 P. M. I got into
a barge with Captain Itynas, of the Lancefield,
the steamer I had chartered, to see'if landing
through the surf without the life-boat was
practicable. We got on shore without diffi
culty, and met Mr. Lorillard, his friend,Philip
Robinson, of New York, with all the offi
cers and crew. They, were, as you may
imagine, delighted to see as, I sent • Rynas
back for the ladies and some other persons I
had brought with me.
The Meteor, I was surprised to find. was
lying on the beach, apparently quite uninjured.
Soon after she struck, the sea moderated and
instead of her going to pieces,
,as Lorillard
feared she would, she passed through the
hammering of the waves unscathed. Her
masts were standing, but all her sails, spars,
and work about deck had been brought on
shore. They had rigged tents with the sails,
and looked extremely comfortable in every
respect, particularly about 10 o'clock, when
we sat round a table as well served and as
elegantly as in any gentleman's dining room.
They had got all their stores on shore, to
gether with the galley stove, &0., and. were
about to land a piano to lend harmony to the
scene. The tent was lit up with candelabra, '
and the table covered with snow-white damask,
a service of solid silver and beautiful cut glass.
We sat down to all the delicacies of the
season, washed down with Moselle, Rhine
wine, Burgundy, Bordeaux and champagne,
after which the finest of cigars; all this on a',
wild sand heathen the coast of Africa, with
savage-looking 13edottins peering around. I
do not think that there ever was a wreck made
trader circumstances so singularly contrasting;
certainly not in Africa.
Lerillard maintained strict . 'discipline, had
sentinels posted and prevented straggling.
The Arabs, he said, had behaved well, and
had offered no molestation. I spoke to their
chief and enjoined him to behave lamed/ and
keep his men in order, under pain of retribu
tiou if I heard any complaint. He promised
faithfully to do • all „in , tkis•power to maiiiMin
order. Lorillard' made arrangements with
Rynar to get the necessary materials, imple
ments and men, to get the schooner ofi, and at
2.30 A. M. Ws, iviifeWeaitefin tidard ilitVoit our
way, back to the Galetta, where we lauded at
7.30, and at 9.00 were home.
If the weather continues as it has been• for
the last six or seven days, they may succeed in
getting the Meteor off. But it may at, any
moment change, and if the wind comes round
.to the eastward, I fear that it will be' all up
.with her. . The present weather is exception
ally fine, and I fear I see, even nosr, as I
write, signs of breaking-up., The Meteor was
lost, I think, through gross carelessness, for
she went ashore in fine weather, though misty,
with a light wind from the southeast, and con
sequently fair.
Lorillard had changed his sailing -master at
Cerves, where he discharged the American
and took an Englishman who was quite un
acquainted with the navigation of the Mediter
ranean. Cape Bonis very dangerous, and is
called by the. Arabs Cape Treacherous. Every
winter there are numerous wrecks on it.
The Meteor is certainly the finest and most
splendid specimen, of naval architecture that I
have ever seen in a vessel of her clasS. r be
lieve I. have told you in a former letter of
Lorillard's challenge to the yachts of England
to race for any sum from £4,000 to a silver cup
and for any distance from 3,000 to 20 miles,and
against any yacht they chose to bring against
him. He hopes to get his vessel to Malta and"
repair her there, and still have his race, next
spring. The modeler and builder of the Me
teor, Mr. Fish, is on board of her, and will
superintend the repairs.
E711:2E5
Reported Discovery Of. ii VOUSpiraey
Against taco Emperor's Life 1
[From le Phare de la Loire.]
Lettersfrom St Petersburg state that a vast
conspiracy has been discovered against the
life of the Czar. The centre of action of the
conspirators was the City of Odessa. The
pupils of the University Papieh and ICereraic-1
hew are principally inculpated. In order' tot
carry out their object the conspirators had
resolved to tear up the rails of the line during
the journey of the Emperor from Odessa to.
St. Petersburg; but the rigorous sur-'
veillance exercised over the whole line
the Czar was to use prevented
them , from executing their project,'.
The police did not even suspect that the rails
had been removed by such dangerous con
spirators. This offence was attributed to the
peasants of the neighborhood, who, when in
want of iron, have recourse to robbery in
order to obtain it. The most rigorous surveil--
lance is powerless to repress this kind of theft,
and this deplorable cupidity of the 'ignorant .
peasants exposes the lives of the travelerSwho •
take the line from Baits to. Odessa 'to.. gravz
danger. The conspirators -arrested belong,
without exception to the Russian nationality: -
A large number of honks, pamphlets and revo
lutionary proclamations -- emanating from
Russian printing offices abroad, were
found in R their pcssession. Tho ..Russians
are much astonished ' that no Polo was
affiliated to the conspiracy, although the
Polish nationality is represented by a large
number of young men at the University of
Odessa. The police have also •discovered a
conspiracy: at St. Petersburg.- Several young
men are accused of having disseminated re
volutionary proclamations. It appears, how
ever, that this BCCOMI . conspiracy is a mere
childish affair, and the young people mixed up
in it will be tried in public. Lists of prosetim
B '
ons upon , which figures, among others, M,
Ilatitoff, the famous editor of .the .'Moscow'
ligzette, have also.been discovered. The.Gpv,
°rim:lout of aid Czar is orisiotla to aScortain,
wluither , these , plots were fomented - byl-the:
11(issiati exiles In:Switzerland'. The ; eunspi
r4y,',,ramilicatiOna of wineh Were'diSeoyered 'I
at 4101 scow and St. Petersburg, :has nothing in
common with the OdosAa'plot.,,' . 1, 1 -, =ark 71 %f a '
Oil NiviTOLE COM*rity.
!LADE
reseintLeat.- 1 / 4 111relmigent it the Allied
Fogies faro rearamissy...Retarre or
Count,. Erik, and lliatintion—,Lopez In
Trinity with lidlatin—iliklrinitheli in
Guises Jejlnltuland Winatinge.
A correspondent of , the New York , Times
writes as follows
BiTnNOS Alums, Saturday, Jan., 15, 1870.
There seemto be, at least, an appearance of
peace, so far as the power of Lopez is con
cerned. The Argentine troops are ,daily ex
pected in Buenor; Ayres, whore preparations
are being made to receive them with
rockets, music, ball's , and similar ".re
joicings. The Oriental Republic's forces are
also on:their way back,. tho Ugh out of the
5,000 which left at var ious times fop Para
guay probably not over as, many hundred will
return, and the Brazilian troops will 'shortly
leain, at least the greater number ; a few iron
clads being left'in the river. and a small force
in .Astmsion, will probably 'Constitute all the
forces lefty General Osorio has already left
headquarters; the Count D'En and Minister
Paranhos are under marching orders, though
,the twolatter are expected to stay a short
time in ;this city, bolero 'leaving for Rio
'Janeiro.
Aceording to the report of a deserter frem
Lopez it IR stated that, he, Lopez, • made , a
treaty with the Caignay Indians, v ,
before lea ,
ing San Estanislao for Curnguatv, by which
they agreed to furnisithira 150)00 men
and provisions. This report seems false, and
though Lopez may obtain certain aid'lrom
some of the savage tribes, and by this means
be enabled to carry on a guerilla warfare for
months, still there does not appear to be the
ghost of a chance of his being ever able to re
gain what lie has lost, since last accounts state
lie has been driven almost, if not entirely off
Baraguayan soil, accompanied by his faithful
Generals Caballero and Resquin, and also by
about one thousand men, to the other side of
the River Maracarr. The active movements
of the past fortnight are few, yet they demon
strate how completely Lopez b.as been
annihilated. On the . 15th tilt Colonel
Mello attacked and defeated a force of
about 200 men under Major Franco at the Ar
royo Guazu (Guazo ?) capturing about fifty
horses, and rescuing several families. This,
taken in conjunction with an ofiicial'despatch
of the Count &En, dated the Mth giving
accounts of further movements ) appears to in
dicate that Lopez cannot have any large num
ber 'of troops. From this despatch it appears
that after the enemy's defeat at Zejui•Guazo,
the 11th Battalion followed his forces to the
River Zejuinie, over which there was abridge;
crossing this, the enemy partly destroyed it
and proceeded to intrench themselves on the
opposite side, though closely pursued by Col
onel Fidelis, who drove the Paraguayans fur
ther back to Iguatuise. Two miles further
on, at Stareare, machines for manufacturing
gunpowder were discovered and destroyed - .
In this expedition several hundred families
were rescued. and Colonel Fidelis reported
sounds or artillery to have been heard,
they ' leading . to the supposition
that General , Camara's force had
also attacked the enemy further north, with
what result is not yet known ; but, as Camara
is advancing, or at lewd, ought to, be, by way
of Concepcion, this may be, true. Deserters
state Lopez to be living as a common soldier,
enduring his due share of hardship and misery
with the rest : all his troops are' halfstarverl,
their rations being one , ox to 200 men,' The
few men he hu t as els° Lopez himself, are
said to be suffering greatly from , the innumer
able insects which, abottedin the Sierrat
A rather unfortunate ." row" has taken
place between the Provisional Government,
at Asiincion, and the Italian Consul The
facts are Metre : The Consul belt, accused Of
appropriating - ceetain moneys, &c.,
placed under his _ charge by IM tan subjects
while Lopez was in power at Asunci on; • •
thought his wisest course would. be .to.
leave. With this intent he took rep
fuge on board the. Italian gunboat
Aidita, and while there endeavored to
ship some half a dozen boxes on a river
steamer carrying the Italian flag. The Port
Captain seized several while in the act 'of'
shipment; but while attempting the seizure
of two more his boat was attacked •by an
armed • Mew. , from the Ardita., and driven
off. An order was then issued prohibiting
the sailing of the Venezia, but• it
tailed nevertheless—the protest sent, by the
Provisional'Oeverninent CO the .Ardita's com
mander being return e d unopened. An " in
dignation meeting" was held by the " Trium
'Tate" at once, and. thus the matter stands.
Comniereizil news is unchanged, prices tend
ing upwards ; wool and produce sustaining
themselves as same prices. Lumber is just
now not wanted, the supply being enough to
cram all the yards in the city and several more
vesbeltt are expected. - PICKUNE
THE niksiv
le - Meal Condition of Cuba.
The New'lrork World sap
Wasnisre'roft, Jan. a).—The statements per
sistently and'inalicionaly made and repeated
today by a ~I slew York journal, of more
notoriety-than good repute, that a war exists
in Cuba of 'sufficient magnitude to warrant
•
the recognition of both parties to it as bel
ligerents, is disproves, not only by the positive
information received at the State Department
from our consttl4 and consular agents in
Cuba, by the most disinterested advices
that could possibly be received, and
which have been submitted to the Depart
ment, namely, letters and telegrams from
commercial agents in the so-called insurrec
tionary districts of Cuba, to business houses
in New York and other commercial ports of
the 'United States. These advices all agree in
showing thattho insurrection—which has at
no period been thoroughly organized and
powerful, but has expended its force in a kind
of heterogeneous warfare and disorder—does •
not now ,tangibly exist, save in, the
mountains or interior of the eastern
third of the island. In the western and middle
parts, including the district of the Cinco
-
illas, there are, according-to the information
obtained, no insurgent bands save a few prey
ing marauders. One evidence of the freedom
of this extensive region from war is found in
the authenticated fact that the Spanish gov
eminent on the isand were re-establishing
therein the telegraph lines. The remnant of
the insurgent forces quartered in .'Eastern
Cuba is not known to be so organized and dis
ciplined as to be entitled to be called an army;
nor has the alleged revolutionary native gov
ernMent in Cuba proved itself to be either
a government in fact of that island, or to have
been originally or subsequently authorized by
popular eleetler,' alio Cuban -,junta have
been unable to prove, to thesatisfacti on of the
President, the Secretary of State, or anybody
else, not blindly prejudiced in its favor, that
the representatives from the western districts
wore, or, could have been, chosen by the peo
ple, where Spanish rule was then, and now is,
predominant ; nor is it shown that the
majority of the people' of (Juba have
been at anytime in active "sympathy with
the insurrection. Immediately after the de
thronement of-Isabella in September, 1868, a
powerful party inlCuba prepared to , organize
a revolution, which was not, however,: to be
begun until long afterwards, in the fall of
18e8. The season for gathering the orep was
at hand ) anci planters were unwilling to jeopar
dize their best interests by engaging in anim
mediate Struggle: The npriSing - at the little
town of Yara was, therefore, Considered
premature; though that germ 'of insur
'reCiioo sPfelad, gradualfy among the, compara
irreeponAttle, popniation of ,Ouba, ' the•
veptur,e , wa,l,/golp(Ki , Is!ge .I,iody.ef
YV•0 1 1 4tia alts.,whe hay?
ne er's rite ere f O
olit 'ast ado-
°boded engiuSiaa fltei"
tie itt At'prtment
PMRGITAT
time the Ciiittait insurgents do, not possem a
sOigle fort on the coast of the island, nor have
they over possessed one; tiiir do they hold a
siiigle important town in the interior.
TUE 'GREAT TORNADO.
Awful Seenee at Cave Clify---Hausea
Mown About ke - Wi n slow ter Straw—
Several Hundred Persons Home'Lehr.
'lCorrespondenra of the Cincinnati Gazette.]
CAvrt CITY, Ky., ,lan. 1 18.,--•;-The particulars
of the doings of the tornado which cut off, and,
demolished nearly one-third of• this little town,
yesterday morning will never be known. The
storin had a begiiiiiing and an end; and the
end'was not More than two !minutes later than
the beginning; but a description of the seene
during those two minutes, or •of the
sad havoc which was the result of the storm,
can have no beginning, and can never be made
complete. The storm began about 5 o'clock
in the morning with a heavy fall of•
which continued but fer a moment, and was
immediately 'followed by a long, continuous
sheet of flame, lasting another moment. The
windstorm then commenced its terrible work.
No words can portray an idea of the scene.
Those who had witnessed the most terrifying
battle scenes say they never saw or heard, or
felt or conceived of anything so perfectly
hideous and terrifying as the howling of the
winds, the vivid 'flashes of lightning, the
crashing • of houses, the, drenching rain, the
heartrending shrieks, said piteous wailings of
• the terrified' and the wounded, the whole of
which occurred in two minutes, or probably
less time. The windshrieked,screamed,howled
and roared. By the occasional flashes of
' lightning, it could be seen that the air was
filled with flying trees, timber, houses, frag
ments of houses, stables •and •buildings of all
kinds, furniture, stoves and cooking utensils,
clothing, bedding, animals, fowls,and every
inanimate,
that
thing, animate and
that came within range of the storm, If the
fiend had form, it was that of a heavy, angry
cloud, which swept the earth and tore every
thing it touched from its, fixed place. The
crash was quick and terrific, but the, noise of
the breaking houses was music compared with
the bellowing winds that preceded it. The
destruction was complete. About fifty houses
were demolished, and there is not to, be
found a portion of a building, a piece of fur
nittire, an =tide of jewelry, an article of
clothing or bedding, a book or a piece of ware
of any kind that is worth the sum of fifty
cents. The remains of the houses may serve
for firewood, the fragments of furnitufe for
kindling, the clothing- and bedding for old
rags ; but there is nothing left within that
track of a half mile in width, 'and extending
at least twelve or fifteen miles in length, ex
cept iri two or three singular instances, that is
worth a farthing, or ever will be, in. the way
it was originally designed. The total loss can
never be , estimated. It •is enough to' know
that several hundred persons are homeless,
without clothing or food, except such, as
they havereceived front kind-hearted citizens.
slost of the destitute are poor and unable to
purchase clothing or furniture, or even food,
even if they could find houses' to live in.
Eleven will be taken to their narrow homes
to-day. It is indeed wonderful that this num
ber is so small. How any creative could'exist
in that storm and survive is ir mystery beyond
the comprehension of even,those who.were in
the thickest of it. Many of the survivors were
terribly lacerated and bruised by the flying
splinters and timbers, and semi , of the dead
were',shockingly crushed and maug,led.
FISH MIGRATION.
Appearance of Strange Members of the
• Finny Yrthe In New York Lakes.
, , , .
f Proln'the'Rocbester Union, Jan. DO '
The appearance of a new and strange fish in
Lakes.Ontario,Benecaand other inland bodieB
• of water has beemmore than once referred to
in these columns and a description of the fish
given to thopublic. It resembles the shad of,
the Atlantic coastand riversmorecloeely than.
any.other flak that we see. , The difference
is, however, co,nsiderable, as will be sliovvii.
• These fish appeared in the waters ,of west
ern New York two or three years since; and
they:were then stiall--so small that they could'
scarcely be taken. in the mite' and 'seines in
rise, it was, evident that these were , immi
grantsi all .'young—a detachment, . of • )(mg
America in theliney,tribe who had left the.
fatlierl'and or sea—and had gone into the a k es'
to seek new homes, *here they could fin pet
ter food' and incur less hazard •of be.l de.:•
voured by the monsters of •the ocean, o'arO
supposed to use sardines and other small fry,
as men do pepper and salt,to season a meal.
- A yearor two in the cold fresh water of the
lakes improved their condition vastly. They,
grew finely, and last year they could. not OS ,
cape the meshes as before, and were taken
into the markets plentifully 'with' other fish
with which the fishermen' had a better' ac
quaintance. These , strangers were 'a little
bony, not more: so '• than the - slrul,'.and are
scarcely inferior, "except inprico, which makes
a great difference with people who feel - in
, elined to be snobby in an eptcurean way. .
Seneca, Lake abounds in these ifsh. , They
. are seen there in kheala that might . be mea
:eared by acres.' To" eatiniate their numbers
'would boa useless task with a hope to make
an approximation to . what they really are.
The largest of these fish weigh scarcely two
pounds, and ,these have just r attained , their
growth. There, is every indication that this
fish will be hereafter abundant in the lakes.
' The inquiry naturally arose as to the name
1 and origin -of this strange strange fish. .Citizens of
Geneva sent a saniple of these fishes .to Prof.
Agassiz; supposed to be' hettei posted as to
piscatorial matters thafi any other man. He.
pronounced the fish a fresh water alewife, but
did not, we I:whew, attempt to account for its
recent appearance in the lakes. Various
theories were advanced
_by, those who knew
nothing of the matter. Theprevailing notion
among the more intelligent who thought on '
the matter was that the fish had come into the
lakes from the Atlantic , by way of the St.
Lawrence. This belief is now tolerably well
established, as the same fish has been found in
Atlantic waters, evidently an old resident
there.
Seth Green, who la up in such matters, had
given some' ttention to this strange fish, and
did not, we belietre, exactly coincide with
Agassiz as •to its character. The other day,
while on a visit to Chesapeake Bay he dis
covered the strange fish, or others of the same
family, iu great abundance. They wore sold
in the Baliimore markets under the names
;of brim-shad and muu-shad. In Norfolk they
are known as gizzard-shad, so styled because
of their having a musculo lis stomach pecu
liar to fowls, and which Is noteoromon to fish,
it' It is over found in other than this variety.
Mr. Green, by. careful examination, became
satisfied that the brim shad or gizzard shad of
the Chesapeake are one and the same .with
the strange fish in our lake. Until 'a bettor is
found our people may adopt one of the three
names given them in Baitithore or Norfolk
for these ifisle which have been hitherto name
less. ' ' • ' '• . .
It is not unlikely that fish of this family
may be found in the Atlantic, bays far north
'of the Chesapeake, from one of which they
'rnav have gone up the
,St, Lawrence. They
pram)* made their way from Lake Ontario
into 'Seneca Lake by ' way of the canals and.
rivers which form a channel from one to the*
other.,
• •
--A Fort Scott paper prlute the • advertise
roent,of a young, lady ward df a beau for a
paaq'deraOti ball. • : •
strange priests assisted Bishop Gad
,dreea rex', the thlounkeuteal, the other
dAY, daft when #1 had, ar;lyqi in the tlemucil
lipllbe found'uloodpg lass sold, cross set with
iliaul6hds;'the"gift of the Pope". •
Jr. t.
FACIVANJO FASCES:V.
— Harriettioaraer is worth filliS,ooo.
Estranged lovers live upon cold Meets.
—Calcutta has three daily paper*.
—Gadfly and trolliflcation are Missend,
.-.Taxes are paid in Great Britain on 1 M 111 , 221 dogs.
'—Rome has 15,000 lookers-on at the Med.
Be contented with your lot—evecially,,. Le
it 'Wen corner. . •
—`Wisconsin' boasts of 4,742 school-fl
and 304,837 school children. •
'-Women who tell fortunes, with teare4Rs
are properly called saucer-esses. , •
—A 'return game—sending home a Iftw
toived tunbrella.--Ex. , . •
—Another tee° is out, on Woman, wildcat
makes about the XL: work under that title.
--One of every seven Pseshyteriartmanist,ers
in Lhe South is an editor.
—At Tyringham, one Thoritas Grove, w i hie
was not wondrous wise, put ptowderin
cooking-stove, and blew out both his Oyes: '
is 'our enterprising shoe-dealets, that
know best how to make the "Shoat py"---•
Boston Post.
—Good style of walking—when you /get int*
an editor's room walk right out. It is healthy
exercise, particularly for the editor.
—The manager of the Lyons Opera noustlt
announces as stars for his next summer's cam
paign, Carlotta Patti and Clara Louise Xel 7
logg.
—A Cincinnati horse-car conductor gottirt4
of asking a passenger for his fare, so he
punched him once in the eye, when he fonhil
the man had died in his seat.
—Minister Motley has been robbed in Lon- •
don. If the thieves had only' relieved him of ,
the Alabama question, how happy he would,
be.--.N. 0. Times.
—Punch's "He smole a ghastly smile." and •
"Many a wink he wunk" have been imitated
by a minstrel wit who said, " You sneezed a
I
snooze, and said snoze it."
—lt is believed that the adoption of the,
Fifteenth Amendment would add twenty
thousand colored men to the voting popula,
tion of Missouri.
—A Natchez man obtained much currency a
few days ago by charging some emigrants
from Alabama anchor a wagon for crossing , a
bridge which has been free for the last forty.
years.
—A large animal, of dark brindle color,sup-.,
posed to be a cougar, which has escaped front
sonic menagerie, has been committing depre
dations in Page county, lowa. He is, said to
have killed 20 head ofstock.
—lt is said that Tennyson at one time
meant to introduce the " Idyls of the King" '
with a description of the coming of Arthur in
archaic prose, and actually wrote the intro- d
duction in that way, but afterwards changed .
bid •mind and put the story into: the verse
in which tho public now has it.
,
—A Maine soldier has had his name re
moved from the pension-rolls, saying •he has #
regained his health and does not need the pen
sion. Commissioner Van Aernam wrote Mtn
that his name should go down into history' as `•
a worthy example or ' -the coming.generae4
The warning of the Avondale disaster has
bebn heeded in the Illinois mines. The North- #
ern' Illinois Coal ,and Iron Couipany.baye,
completed the work of connecting
. the ,
Salle and Rockwell shafts,, so that now, in the
case of rire,the miners have means of escaping •
at three shafts.• ' • •
--The Springfield Republrevisays: "Several
of our olorgYalon gave the Russian concert a
first-rate advertisement yesterday by advising
their hearers not to attend it. It doesn't. Iraq
quire ~a very intimate acquaintance .with ;,•
human nature to see that all such warnings
help more than they harm the object against • •
which they are, fulminated." , , , ; •
—Raphael Semmes has ; not. been very 811 -
. cessful on the lecture platform. He has
great many peculiarities, 'not to 'say vulgar
• haps,,in his speech.; such as, for instance, the
addition of the cockney " r," as in ''Alabamitr;'
and." Wear." 'He 'pronounces "calmly," as ; - •
though it werespelled " kefnly," and also talks.
about being„" thdooced" to, do certain things' •
—An arrangement is now proposed:by which,
through tickets to, any part of the United
States may be sold in the
,riat by agents of the
Pacific Mail Steamship `.Company,.,' and hy
which, on the other 'hand,- ttle-Yo' °au be
bought here carrying the'' 'holder 'Alirongl i t' A tO 4 ,
Bong Kong, Yokohainal Hihgirdithd.'
—There is a queer snit being trfect•irarker ;
county, N. Y. A young lady whit' wished to:
marry a youth with SlO,OOO, protaised hatlyl' • •
friend Vl,OOO for -her assistance if the game
proved successful. The young , •manefell a
victim, of course, but the successful bride re- •
fused to pay the $3,000 when demanded, and -
this suit is the result.
—This affectionate advertisement appeared ~
in a late issue of the. London Times": ,
"GEO. E--, PADDINGTON. YOU' 'awn
Tooty will meet you ii,the saloon of the no* „
Greenwich Theatre. on December 16, or else ”
at the old bootruaker's at Chapel street. You .•-%
'must be a silly old dear to think Tooty had
forgotten her pretty linnet. tie, Elcorge;
never. Sally is in Wales." '
—Fire-proof furniture Ls the last scientific
announcement in Germany. it is said that a
German chemist, acting under a eonunivion ••
from a tire insurance company, diecovered
that impregnation with a concentrated solu
tion of rock salt renders all timber firelnoof. „
The salt, too, renders wood proof against dry
rot and the ravages of insects.
—A corresPondent who has been three years .
aprivatepi the army, complains of the tyran
nical way in which privates, are treated .by -
officers, so that, they leave the army after their
term of service with nothing but hatred for
the flag under which they have suffered so
long. He appeals to the .Military Committee
for an investigation.
—The gieat sensation of a new comic opera
in :Paris is made by a. chorus of mutes. The
mute§ of a Turkish seraglio are ranged across
the stage, expressing with their lips the sontals,
they do not sing. At certain moments, upon
a very high note given out'by all the' violins
together, the silent choristers extend their arms
With a movement said to be irresistibly lauglv
able.
—ln excavating beneath the rock at Cautp 7 .!
hell's Chain; in - the 'be' of the 3fississippt •
river, seven miles above Davenport, same ..
very line speciniens of coal have lately. 'beim
discovered. it is very light; resembling cannel
coal; quite clear, ana. burns with a light Mune,'
giv,ing out but little smoke or soot. The.vein
is six feet in thickness, and is remarkably free
froinslato and dirt. A shaft is to be sunk from
the surface of, the island, for the purpos,e of
ruining it. , .
—'The other evening when the lithe form of
Lydia 'Cho!Upson appeared on the stage,,m
ruatio from Arkansas became Jost in atiaura- .
Pion, and slowly strokin his unkempt beard
and eyeing the dazzlin g beauty as she co
quetted about in 'her,' 'peculiar ly fakinating
manner, he muttered 'to himself in a sort of,
hoarse whispord!thing'iny buttollg; but she's
';a, beauty! . Lively. ter , :a two-tear old.
lightning by thunder! she's bully thOuglai”!
and then, as if utterly at 14 lOW fOT 80140:0X1
claniation to express his intense, 01404a*
admiration; continued in a tone which prove e
.how deeply thefheart under hi'i copperita-ool
,orettmest.was moyed, "Yon little 1 4.58 0 /41r411
,if I only had you up in old .13 , 3,0keLU
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