(GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. OLUME XXIII.-NO. 252 . FRArari CLOSET COMPANY'S COM- A MODES and apporatue for fi xed eleeete, at A. H A NtIIFOTIS & C0.'e..513 Market et. - do2ltu th Mt§ "WADDING 'INVITATIONS Bli graved in the , flowed end beet manner. LOUIS I) tre "WEDDING Stationer, and It nfiraver. 10X. Oh hentnnt s. _ w a PODNEY—WAS.REN.—Jan. 27th, 1870, In BC. Paul's Cathedtel, Buffalo,. N.' Y. by the Hey. Ur. Shelton, ileorre Brydges Rodney, U. S. A., and Jet Sr., ?laugh : let of the late' "Eliford S. Warren', or Minim; CLP.IIOIII.IE.—On the Mat ult., Cuthbert Lowther, in fant Non of Chriatopher James Cleburne, 31. D., United titatem Nary. i LICWIB.—Ou the 31at of January, Sarah, wife of WB. I iam 1). Lewis. The male relatives and friends of the family are re nter:trolly invited to attend her funeral. from her late -residence , 1012 Spruce "street, on Thursday next, :Al, at RI o'clock A. Feb, ItEED.—On Tuesday morning, the let Mat., Lizzie W. oil' at daughter of Win . J. and Caroline F. Reed. The relatives and Dinah of the fatuity are re,,pectl nlly invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parent', No. 6:31. North Seventeenth street, on Thursday albino on. the 34 mit., at 2 o'clock. Pottsvflio. Pa., January 29, Franres War!ilium wife of Henry C. *loosen. It y ARGL Plaiii - KSINgOORKITOICIa - - DIES' WRAPPERS. SATIN PLAID CAMBRIC& FONT FINISH CAMBRIC& MILLS AND FRENCH MUSLINS. EYRE & LANDELL. SPECIAL NOTICES. JOHN W ANA MAKER, FINEST CLOTHING ESTAI3LISHMENT, 818 AM) 820 CHESTNUT STREET. BOYS' CLOTHING GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS. u. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THE STAR COURSE OF LECTURES. SECOND SERIES.. PETROLEUM V. NABBT, . ON THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3. Subject—The Lord of Creation, or the Struggled of a Coneervittive on the Woraan'd Question. RALPH W ALDO EMERSON,Februarr 7. Subject—tint:ix) Life In America. Rev, E.ll.Clf a. PIN, I). D., February 10. Subject—The halt of Honor. GEO. W. 11.0 ti OTIS, Febrnarir 21. Subject—Our National Folly—The Civil Serri:e. . - . Prof. ktO.IITON , February 2.5. tiubject—ttolar Eclipses. DAYAItD TAYLOR., March S. bob.',ect—Refonn and Art. JOHN G. tiAXE, March 21. ,Subject—French Folks at Home. Prot. ROBERT E. 800 Ell 9, March 2.4: 6ubj rc t...471,...t c0 3 trorcrs is Nature and the Arta. ANNA E. DICKINSON, April 7. titabject--4)own Breaks. trir Adnitm.leu 0 each Lecture, 50 cants. Reserved 8 , ..tv. is cents. Ticket g to guy of the Lectureq for gale at Goull'a Piano Boontg, 773 Client out 'greet front A. 3.1. to SP. 31. - Loorg open at 7. Lecture at 8. fel•tf L. ANNIVERSARY OF THE MER, 9' CHANTS' FUND.—The slsteenth anniversary of the Merchants' Fond will be celebrated at the • ACADEMY OF MUSIC, On WEDNESDAY EVENING, Feb. 2, at 7 o'eloCk. The annual report of the Board of Managers will be ead, and addresses will be detjvered by . Hou. WILLIAM STRONG, • Rev. J. L. WITHEROW, lion. JAMES R. LUDLOW, GEORGE 11. STUART. Esq. The orehestra will be under the direction of 'MARK nmsniat. Canis of admission may be hadgratltoualy, by early application at S. E. corner Third and Walnut streets, No. 110 North Delaware avenue, No. 616 Market street, • No. td South Fourth street, or of either of the following committee: . _ WILLIAM C. LUDWIG, -JAMES C. HAND. A,. J. DERBYSHIRE, TIUTV.IAS C. lIAND, • JAMES-B. McFARL AND, jalgtfetv Committees of A rraugemegitti. RazOFFICE OF THE DELAWARE AND 'N A RARITAN CANAL AND CAMDEN AND y RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6, MO. The holders of the new scrip, in the above Companies are hereby notified that the UMW for paying the must in stallment will expire February 10, 1370, At any time before that date it may be paid by - those holding the re• celpta of RICHARD S. THOWBRIDGE,Cashier or F. 8 .-1.30 N OVER, Transfer Agautdo 31r. TROWBRIDGE, at his Mike. who is authorized to receipt for the same , ou the back rf the receipt for first installment. irdo-tfe9rll'' ' — '81011A111) STOCKTON; Treasurer. 11- - OFFICE PENNSYLVANIABAIL u-r..7 ROAD COMPANY. Pit ILADELPIIIk, *TautMy 25, 1370. NOTICE TO bTOCKIIOLDEItB.---The annual meet ing of the Stockholders of thle Company will ho held on SDAY, the 15th day of February 1070, at 10 o'clock A. hi., at the • Hall of the Assembly Buildings, 8, W. corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. The annual election for Directore will ho hold on 310NDAY, the 7tll day of March, Ib7o, at the Wilco of the Company, No, 238 South Third 'street. JOSEPH LESLEY, _ja2stfollip§ Secretary. L EYE AND EAR DEPARTMENT The, Philadelphia Diapeneary have opened an " Eye and Ear Department ') at 'No. MS South Seventh et reel (betwoen Spruce and Pine), where diseases of the Eye and Ear arc treated daily at /2 o'clock. ATTENDING tiORGF.ONS. Dr. GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, Dr. JOHN F. WEIGHTMAN, WM. F. GRIFFITTS, President. fel 6trp" THOMAS WISTAR,II.D., fiec'y. TAKE NOTICE —A PUBLIC MEET RIng of thecitizene Frankforl, opposed to the to _ordand L T verp lg inPr-h og e e)i fraHoofg Correction or any other wilt 3hC :gY E afP A FaiG 1640,aYihZs Institute, at eight o'clock. Come one, come all 1 and assert your right. It§ OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL ilfrr.D" AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, TREASURY DEPARTMENT]PHILADELPHIA. January 91,1870. Certificates of the Mortgage Loan of thin Company, due March 1.1870; will be paid to holders thereof. or their legal representatives, on presentation at this office on and after that date,front which time interest will B. BDEPIIERD. =BET LAVDEREACH'S - • - • tttY ACADEMY, Assetnbly Buildings, No, 108 South Tenth street. The parents and friends of the pupils, and others in terested in school education, are invited to •isit the Academy during the present ( examination) week be tween the hours of 9A. M . . and 3P. M. See . Educational Column. fel-Brp CITY TREASURVR'S OFFICE. PHILAbELPHIA, Feb. 1, 1870. • . Warrants registered in 1868 or Ib6o to N 0.60,003 will be paid'an presentation at this office, interest ceasing front date. J.oBllPil F. MAMBA, fel -3trp§ City Treasurer. 10° PROF. EDWARD D. COPE WILL deliver the Fourth in series of the Evening Deur lectures at the Mercantile Library, on FOURTH. DAY, the 2d inst.,at 8 P. M. Subieet—" The Bible and Illevelopment." Tickets, Twenty-live Cents um. 1109 GIRARD STREET, 1109 JURKISiI 'EUSBIAN AND PERFUMED BATHS, Departments for Ladles Baths °nen from 6 A. M. tog P. M. HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 nant 1620 Loinbard —1 street Dispensary Department. 7:dical treatment and medioinotarnislaed gratuttouldr to the pow. , . . . . . /-, ~ ~,-, ... '• , ; ~. , , , ,:, f ~. i! t ~,,,.. i ~. . : ~ r , 1 , .-. ~f , tlpr ~ ~ , . , . .. , 111 k , . • . . . . , • . .. , .., .. . , . .. . . , . ,410 . . . , . , i .. . . , .. . . . .. . , . . . .. . .. . , . . • . , . , . . ... . . . , . . DLED. EMI • S, ;MAL NOTICES. • - •-• 10*THE 'MiI:TRANCE COMPANY OF TIIE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. HILADELPHIA, Janury3l, The Annual M eetin g of the Stockholders will be held at the Company s Office. Nbs. 4 and 6 Exchange Build ing, on MONDAY, February 7,1670, at 12 o'clock K. • J. IL LIOLLINSHE AD, Secretary. Gen .Vie Itodas"N lltiosion to Cespedes...-Au tonotny to be Proposed to the Patriot Leader... The Volunteers Again Refuse to Fight.--Valinaseda , s Report and Ae. ensation...Fighting near Remedios... lioyeneehe's Losses... Women on Trial. HAVANA, Jan. 25..-'l3hortly after the arrival of Gen. Carbo from the Cinco Villas the Col onels of Volunteers were called together by Gen. De Rodas, who informed them of the critical situation in Camaguey and the East, and of his intention to march on 'Guaimaro at the bead of the Volunteers. The Colonels agreed to consult their men, and a day or two ago brought back a suggestion that 20,000 more men from Spain should be called for t declining at the same time to move from their present quarters. This is significant, and Count Val inaseda's recent communication does not mend matters. lie denounces the brave and enter prising lienegaasi as Insubordinate, and avows that he did not move to meet Pita() and Goy eneche as ordered - , to march, in the direction of Guairriaro, because he saw no possible chance of success. I have it frouian Official source of the first , importance that the reason of General De attemptfto-mOve the volunteers east ward was a peremptory order,by cable from the Regent's 'Government for an interview with CeSpedes, in which that leader should I be otlered the autonomy of the island. As the volunteera are too brutal to consent to any thing which may deprive them of their present .power, General De Rodas would lave been wise to have shipped them out of the way. De Rodaa will now leave his command to Gen. Carbo, and proceed to Puerto Principe. When he returns, he will lodge himself .in the Cabanas, and thence operate boldly against the armed slob. Ho de stares that he proceeds to Principe merely to obey . ordeni, and entertains no hope of .the acquiescence of • Ce.spedes to terms of autonomy at this day. .Aletter written by an officer under Goy eneche at Ciego de Avila reports .the loss of 9t:o of bin men in encounters with the enemy along the road. Another letter from a Span ish merchant at San Juan de los Remedios re ports a fight almost in view of that city, in which the Spaniards lost five .officers and -eighty-soldiers ; and- the —rest. ran away.- He further states that the insurrection is making progress among the Cinco Villas and in Co- Jon. Col. Lamela has arrived from Moron, badly wounded. The trial of women for treason has become frequent in this devoted island. Many have been incarcerated since the outbreak of war, and the; following, at latest advices, were he lve; tried by court-martial: Doilas Victoria , Valdes, Carmen Correa de Carbonell, Rosario t7ortaza. de Rubirosa, Rosa Perez Valdes, Pia tido Perez Valdes and Dolores Perez de Al fonso. You have already heard of the death sentence of Doila Fernandez at Espiritu Santo. Doilas Catalina Torres and 'Candelaria Ro thiguez, the latter with her three children, have been taken into custody near Trinidad. THE NANCY DIAMOND. Curious History of a Precious Stone. The Bombay Gazette says that the Sancy Diamond is now for sale at a jevieller's in Cal cutta.. It weighs 601 rutties t and is stated to have been found on the body of the Duke of Burgundy, and was afterwards, in 1479,-bought by the Ring of Portugal. Ho afterwards sold it to Nicholas de Barly, Baron de:SaucY, from whom it derives its name. Saucy sent it to the king as a present by the hand of a servant, who, being attacked by robbers, swallowed the stone, which was after his death found in his body. It finally came into the hands, of James II:of England, who sold • it to Louis XIV. fur 25,0001. In the French Revolution it disappeared—whieh was about the wisest thing it could do.. Someyears later it turned up again, and V 13 bought by Prince Paul Demidoff. How it got to Calcutta is not men tioned, but there can be no doubt it is a most adventurous gem. Mysterious Fires. To the Editor of the Evening Bulletin.—DEAß Sin : Your excellent caution in your local article entitled "Preliminary to Another Mysterious Fire," in yesterday's edition, should attract general attention. There is little doubt that the fire at the Chamber of Commerce occurred from this cause—a , gas leak. The joists forming.the floor support of the large Commercial Hall, and ceiling of the second-story oftices,were set onitop of the divi sion or partition-walls between the offices of . the second story, the joists extending east into the back end or east wall of the building. On the south side of the building, - between the joisis, the gas pipe ranthat gave gas for light- - lug the chandelier fixtures of the second story office . rooms ; and extending on up- a wooden box formed for a pilaster, which box-pilaster was fastened on the joist at the bottom, and opened all the way up to where it was fastened to the roof at the top. The same office-ceiling gas-pipe sup.; plied a side-light fixture, about 7 feet or more above the floor, in the large Commercial Hall, at the south side of the speaker's stand. The escaped gas accumulated between the joists 'of the ceilings of the, offices and the Commercial Ball floor, ascended the hollow pilaster to the roof, and was undoubtedly ignited while lighting the evening gas.' It exploded with several reports, and being a body, horizontal, say 10 by 13 inches and perpendicular 8 by 16 inches, it blew up andout at the end of the building, near the southeast corner, as was seen by a number of persons (6) near the spot, at the east end of the south side of the build ing, where the purlin rafters are three times as large and heavy as at the sides of the build ing. At this end (the southeast corner) the first timbers were burned off and fell. More caution' About our gas-pipes and the mode of lighting and extinguishing will save many tires. Very truly yours, J0,111 , i CRUMP. The .Florentlue Bloonrseis. To the Editor of -the Philadelphia Evening Bul letin: Allow me to offer for sthe consideration of your friends, at Florence Heights, the fob lowing passage"from'Virey : "L'e3tplication do ces etonnantes singu lathes se decouvre naturellement dans to mode de sensibilite de la femme, et dens sa - debilite originelle. " Il entre clans 8a nature de se cabrer contre la domination, de diSputer l'empire avec d'aute , ant plus d'acharnement qu'on lui en laisse moins, de s'enteter d'une obstination qu'on a qualidee diabolique, quelque fois memo con tre toute raison, et par cola seul qu'ello aura plus tort. Mais east surtout lorsqu'il entre du ' ' daat, et qu'on heurte par la, contradiction son amour pro pre qu'elle pousse l'opiniatrete ou la pre vention jusqu'aux °ices les plus dbraison nables. " 11 en est do itOme des enfans et de tens les /Ares faibles, qui, par leur inferiorite memo, " ue convieunent qu'aveo plus de poino de la, supinioriti) d 'autriii. , These remarks seem to be peculiarly- appli cable at the' present time, when our fair sex Claim their rights of talking against 'all'Pre. conceived ideas of prosperity. • RANA. CUBA. PHILADELPHIA. TUESpAY, FEBRUARY 1,1870. EVROFEAN AFFAIRS THE RONAN COUNCIL. The Mystery of the Proceedlnirs—Startli. twos of the Opposition. A Roman letter of the 14th lust. says: With a secrecy which is really deserving of all recognition as an instance of capital organ iza tion,A.rchblahop Manning and some friends have been hawking about a prayer on behalf of the promulgators ofthe dogma of infallibil ity. It is not easy to obtain trustworthy Infor mation regarding proceedings enveloped in so very dense a mystery,butenough is now known to authorize the assurance that the steps being taken were adopted after previous com munication with the Pope. Indeed, two most remarkable demonstrations have occurred on the same day in the same sense. Last Sunday the Pope gave audience to several Modred Catholics in a body, and addressed to them an allocution dilating,in emphatic terms, on his supremacy over Councils. At almost the same hour, Monsigneur Mermeillod, Bishop of Geneva, ono of the three great champions of infallibility, de livered in St. Andrea della 4 tralla a sermon on the three modes of incarnations of the Saviour. Once Ho had come down in the flesh, then He had in His ineffable conde scension chosen the medium of bread and wine, though exposed to the desecrating ac tion of any graceless wight. "And now," said the bishop to his electrified audience, "the Saviour is once more on earth—He is in the Vatican in the person of an aged man." It is impossible to assume that the crisis is not close at hand, even though there may still be doubts in some quarters as to the issue. It is true that, though some individuals tremble, the bulk of the'Opposition does not seem to lose heart. On the contrary, it appears to bo closing its ranks, and preparing for a stout stand. There is reason even to believe that unexpected adhesions have come in quite late, which both in number and in quality would make,up for defections that must be anticipated. Still, when It is clearly compre hended bow much is at stake for the party in the ascendant in the event of the dogma not being carried after all this flourish of trumpets, and how great are the resources at the dispo sal of this party, it requires a very sanguine temperament to have faith in the victory of the Opposition. • Teat of the Proposition of Infallibility. The Unita Cattolica gives the text of the resolution on the infallibility of the Pope, in the form that it will be proposed, and be probably adopted : " To the Bacred (Ecumenical Council of the Vatican.: The. undersigned Fathers humbly and earnestly ask the Sacred Synod of the Vatican to declare in, terms precise, and ex cluding all doubt, that the authority of the Roman Pontiffis exempt from error whenever it determines in matters of faith and morals, and declares what ought to be believed by all the faithful. and what ought to be rejected and condemned." • The Memorial on the Infallibility Dogma. The Paris Monde publishes the Latin text and a translation of the memorial _drawn up at the (Ecumenical. Council in 'favor of the proposition declaring the infallibility of the Pope. It commences - by saying that the pri macy of the jurisdiction of the Roman Pontiff, the successor of Saint Peter, is clearly taught in the Sacred scriptures; tbat the universal tradition of the. Church teaches by the words and acts of the. Holy Fathers, as well as the decisions of several Councils, that the doc trinal judgments of the Roman Pontiff on matters of faith, are unchangeable. De clarations from the proceedings of the Councils of Lyons and Florence are cited in favor of the super-eminent authority of the Holy See, and reference is made to the contrary opinions' held by the so-called Catho lics, and the disastrous results which would follow from their tolerance. Extracts are given from the records of the Council at Baltimore in 1866, and otherrecent ecclesiasti cal assemblages, to show the prominence given to the dogma of infallibihty, and the present necessity of its adoption. The bitter ness of the attacks directed against the Holy See is pointed out, and, it is said, that if the Church now hesitates to pronounce in favor of infallibility, it will be a cause of triumph to her enemies, and embolden their hostility. It is denied that this doctrine will place heretics and schismatics at a still greater distance from the Church; in any cage the in terests of Catholics require a definite decision' upon thisgraN e matter, and 'men seeking the truth instead of being turned away will be the more attracted at " seeing what forms the pnncipal foundation of the unity and solidity of the Church." The opposition of those lost to the faith is only a pretext to embarrass the Church. In conclusion it is stated that a de cision of the Council in favor of infallibility will be received with joy by the Catholic people. • THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS. Will the Catholics be gatislied When the Bible has been Banished? • [Froru tlio Nation.) Not many men, we suppose, , are thinking that, when once the reading of the Bible in the public schools is prohibited, the Roman Catho lics will be content with our American system of instruction by the State. If any one enter.- tains that opinion, he has only to take a look of" the Roman Catholic papers' to learn that lie is much mistaken. Says the Freeman's Jqurnal, under date of Dec.ll:—" Let thepublic school system go to where it came froin—the devil." "We do not and will not," says the Tablet, " accept the State as educator." ' There is no possible programme of common school instruc tion," says the Freeman's Journal of Nov. 20, " that the Catholic Church can permit ,lier Children to accept. * * * It is not that we declare so. It is the Catholic Church." And then the writer gees on to quote from the Sylla bus to the effect that no Roman Catholic is at liberty to believe otherwise than that it is a most dangerous error to think that any school is a tit school for Roman Catholic children which is not entirely under the control of the hurch. That the teaching in litate schools regards only or chiefly the mere knowledge of natural things and the purposes of our social life here on earth, is wholly beside the ques tion, says the Journal; the children are immor tal, and the whole object of, teaching them anything is to' prepare them for an eternal life. The same paper says : "If the Catholic translation of the books of Holy Writ which is to be found in the homes of all our better educated Catholics were to be dissected by tho, ablest,Catholic• theologian in the land, and 'merely lessons to be token from it, such aS Wathdlic mothers read to their Children, and ith all the notes and comments in the popular edition, and others added with the \ highest Catholic endorsement, and if these admirable Ilible lessons,' and those alone, were to be ruled as to be road in all the public schools, this would not diminish in any substantial do=_ Oree the objection we Catholics have to letting ur children attend the public schools." In hort, if the Roman Catholic press does not Misrepresent the Roman Catholic feeling and Spinion about our common school system, the chool must be the priest preaching, or else Our Roman Catholic fellow-citizens will be ad vised by their clergy to refuse it support. —Great efforts have been made to introduce the quinine•producing trees into India and the islands of the East. Indies, so that the civilized world may not be dependent on the wild forest.' of America. A million of cinchona trees are now in cultivation by the Dutch in Java, besides 800,000 more that were planted,. in the jungle, but have mostly. disappeared., The attempt has met with many olastacles, but deetus 111FeIy to bo ultimately successful. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. AN(WRIEJE SUOCRINkA MURDER. A Man Neaten to Death near Dloantion. , dale, N. .11.—.1the Murderer SIM at Lftrige. A murder, closely resembling in its circum . stances and the atrocious brutality the re cent Pascack homicide, occurred on Saturday nightat a late houramon the highway between the villages of Carmanville and Bloomingdale, in New Jersey, about two miles distant from each other, and about fifteen miles northward of Paterson. The parties to the tragedy were David Sisco and John Nixon, both of whom have,until recently, been employed in connec tion with' the • Bloomingdale Hard Rubber Works. A quarrel had previou.sly existed between the two families, but on Saturday evening the two men found themselves drink ing together in a tavern at Bloomingdaie. Nixon then treated, it is said, and was heard to say, re Let's forgot the past." Shortly after which, or about 9 o'clock in the evening; the two started off homeward together to Carman vile. Bike° did not, however, reach his home, and his family hearing on Sunday morning , that be had been with Nixon on the previous night, at once proceeded to inquire at the latter's house. Nixon, meanwhile, bad reached home during the night, his clothes stained with blood, and his whole manner giving un mistakable indication that something was wrong. In reply to an inquiry, first from his wife, and afterwards from his brother, he un hesitatingly stated that he had killed David Sisco, or nearly killed him, and shortly after ward.i, possessed by that unaccountable desire which carries the assailant back to look upon his victim, went to where the dead body of Sisco was lying, and, dragging it off into a thicket, covered it with brushwood. Since that time he has been at large, an inexcusa ble apathy having apparently existed among the neighbors relative to his apprehension. Mrs. Sisco, who, on calling at Nixon's house before he went to secrete the body, had found him in the act of washing blood , stains from his clothing, bad at once instituted search, after baying called some of the neighbors to her assistance, and but little time was required to reveal the ghastly story. The whole body of the murdered man was a mass of bruises, his skull was crushed, his eyes torn , open, and his face kicked so as to be entirely unrecognizable. The corpse was removed, about if o'clock on Sunday morning, to his late home, and during the afternoon a Coroner's jury, headed by Mr. Ferris Freeland, its foreman,. having heard all the evidence, found a verdict of murder at the bands of Nixon, who at last reports was still at liberty. He is represented as having already been once - auinmate of State Festal. Mrs. Sisco is left a widow with two children by this distressing occurrence. Her husband was very respectably connected in that sec, tion of the State. The indignation against the murderer is intense; and whatever delay may have taken place in the fix st moments of discovery, every exertion is now being made to apprehend the fugitive, who is reported to have stealthily entered his father's house for some clothing early yester day morning. It is the opinion of the -physi cian that Sisco must have been killed instantly, and bruised'and mutilated suhsequently. The nature of the country thereabouts offers so many facilities for escape or concealment, that some doubt is felt as to Nixon's immediate apprehension, unless, prompted by remorse, he may sarrender himself up to the law.— Times. The recent execution in Paris revived the old question whether death instantaneously follows upon the severance of the head from the body. in a letter to the GavloixDr. Pinel asserts that decapitation does not immediately affect the brain. The blood which flows atter decapitation comes from 'the large vessels of the neck, and there is hardly any call upon the circulation of the cranium. The brain re mains intact, nourishing itself with the blood retained by the pressure of the air. When the blood remaining in the head at the moment of separation is exhausted, there commences a state, not of death, but of inertia. which lasts up to the moment when the organ, uo longer fed, ceases to exist. Dr. Pin el estimates that the brain finds nourishment in the resi duary blood for about an hour aftet decapita tion. The period of inertia would last for about two hours,• and. absolute ' death would not ensue till after the space of three hours altogether.. If, he adds, a bodiless head indi cates by no movement the horror of its sham, tion, it is because it is physically impossible that it should do so, all the nerves which serve for the transmission of orders from the brain to the trunk being severed. But there remain the nerves of hearing, of smell, and of sight. • A Hunt In Lancaster County. , • The LancaSter Intelligencer of last night says: Summer visitors to Safe Harbor recollect -that right opposite the Mansion House; on the other side of the -. Conestoga,' and a short - dis.; ranee from the shore, a bold bluff, covered with stunted trees and_rank verdure, rises up and shuts off a view of the country beyond. This hill for 801110 weeks past has been the scene, nightly, of a singular proceeding. Several men living iu the neighbor hood beard repeated an old legend, that, years ago,.. when the Indians still roamed the country, they, on one occa sion, murdered a number of their white pri- Sonars, secured a large quantity. of gold, and buried it on this hill. The men beca ne im pressed with the belief. that the gold was still there. Accordingly, one of them came to this city, hunted up a German astrologer, and after telling the object of his visit, the astro. loger, of course, knew all aboutit, and advised him to prosecute the search. A spiritualist, of Safe Harbor was also taken into ,the secret, and he too was sure that the gold could be found if the proper efforts were made. The party went to work, and for many nights the people of the neighborhood witnessed mysterious lights moving • about the hill, and could% not account for them. It was determined to investigate the matter. A watch was seta few nights since, and at a late hour a most slngular scene was witnessed. In a secluded part of the hill wore three men with spades and picks digging away at a rapid rate, While at work the form of an Indian appeared, clad in aboriginal costume and bedaubed with war-paint. As somas this apparition stalked forth the men suspended labor, and at once commenced a series of prayers and conjtua llons,-imploring-the 'defunct chief to , reveal the spot where the, treasure was concealed. The red man spokeuot—he didn't understand modern English—but with gestures indicated the probable locality, and then disappeared. The party who were watching these opera tions, however, did not feel .satisfied of the , unearthly character of Mr. Lo! and as he happened to pass near them they surrounded - him, dnd closing . up, discovered he was .rather substautial for a denizen of the other world. The war-paint and feathers were stripped oft; and lo I a man well-known in the neighborhood stood before there. That settled the "big lujun," but the discovery had little effect upon the treasure. seekers.. They still continue their work, night after night, and have dug over a considerable portion of the surface of the hill. So strongly . imbued are they, with the superstition. that that they will probably continue their work until they unearth the treasure, or strike China ror the.insue aivium. • - ; —There i 8 a footiAsuow on tho trailleadiug to Yo-aemito Yam cs:~[nY~. THE GUILLOTINE. Does it Kill Instantly TILBASIURE TROVE. DRAMATIC. "THE UD LIGUT." , —When Mr. Brougham „ sat down to write the drama entitled The Red Light - produc ed at the Arch Street Theatre last night—We im agine he held a conversation something like the following with , hitmielf.: ” elegant,,sprightly comedies, of which I am' proud, do not attract the masses ; any realistic drama. The Lottery of Life does, but I am ashamed of, it ; therefore I will write a play which shall contain comedy, melo-drama and sensational ism, and I will stuff it with more myStery than an ordinary dramatist could unravel if he ran his work into one hundred and forty seven acts and' a prologue, like a Chinese com edy. First of all, I must hair° a villain ; will conceive an abandoned, depraved, remorseless diaboliCal villain ; a villain Who can derive happiness only from such crimes as the betrayal of con fiding maidens, forgery of checks, slow poi tioning of his Eriends, and cold-blooded butchery of his relations; a villain, in short, who would delight in selling his soul to the Evil One simply for the purpose of betraying that demoniacal being into purchase of a per fectly worthless piece of meichandize. Then I will fling in a heart-broken 'female victim whoni 1 will form, in some measure, upon the fashion or " Lady Isabel" in East Lynne; tender maiden; a hero who can do anything that any other man cannot do; _the regular old scoundrel of a lawyer to attend to the villain's dirty work, and enough figures besides to help the play along and make it lively. Then, as for mysteries, . there must be a long-lost mother who must browse around in anguish until ahe can reveal herself to her child; a lonely grasa-widower who must be reconciled to his erring wife; some mysterious rascality which must smash several princely fortunes to diminutive atoms ; after which the said rascality must be baffled and the fortunes built up again; there must be a will, a murder or two, weeping and wailing and tearing of hair, and just as much high old romantic love-making as I can cram into five acts. • The Red Light is the result of some such soliloquy as this. It contains all these pecu liarities and charaCters in a novel , shape, together with a personage or two with whom we have not met before, and several inci dents which are original and striking an, conception and execution. • A drama of such a kind necessarily contains some bald old stuff of which we are tired. It piles up the anguish in Popocatapetlian heaps and dumps down misery by the cart-load. It has a great deal of the .come-down-te-the-footlights-and tellayou-all-about-it viliainy, which would excite the utmost apprehension if even the smallest boy in the gallery, hadmot an absolute conviction that the designing scoundrels will come to grief in the firth act, while the hero holds the heroine to his throbbing breast and smiles a triumphant But Mr. Brougham, while catering to the lovers of melo-drama, has not forgotten his more fastidious admirers. He has arranged his. play in most effective shape, filling it with scenes, all of which are striking, many of which are singularly powerful. The dialogue is natural and easy, and sometimes even bril liant. A few of the characters—those of " Maedermot," " Maynard " and "Sharkey" particularly—are drawn with great skill; and some of the incidents,—the episode in the boat-house for instance,-are as telling as anything ever arranged for the tag by Mr. Brougham. We give the author the credit of having, combined nonsense with sense, blood and thunder with real passion, and sham agony with' genuine pathos most happily. In the figure of " Maynard" ho has given a most faithful representation of a keenly sensitive man who struggles with men tal disease, and is mastered' by it after suffer ing acute anguish. The character is a difficult one, and demands for the faithful interpreta, :lion given by Mr. Cathcart such high qualities as that excellent actor possesses. " Macder mot" is a dashing,. good-humored, free and easy sort of personage, with whose graces Mr. Brougham has made us familiar before, under other names, in others of his dramas. He is as pleasant as any 'old friend, and he had as fair a chance as lie ever had, in Mr. Brougham's hands last night. Mr. James played the conventional stage villain—with a deeper shade or two of rascality in hi in—in a capital manner. Mr. Mackey, as usual, made the physical " Sharkey" as perfect as was his interpretation of the character. Miss Price played rather an uninteresting part with good taste, Mrs. Stoddart did quite as well with her rather tame character, and Mrs. Thayer acted superbly in the few passattes in which she appeared. Mr. Balton also deserves warm praise for his.effort. The house was crowded, and as there was tremendous enthusiasm whenever virtue made the smallest triutriph. over villainy, we may fairly say that the play_ was very successful. It will be repeated to night, and we hope upon *Many succeeding evenings to full houses —The Bedouin 'Arabs, under the supervision of All Ben Abdallah, made their 111..8A appear ance last evening at the Circus. Tenth anti Callowbill streets. 7 here are twelve of them, each being a very, proficient artist.,, Their movements are singularly onick. graceful, oc casionally wild, and altogether wonderful. In the formation of pyramids, in which they excel all other performers, they present a series of beautiful pictures or tableaux. In one of these pyramids one of the troupe forms the base upon which eight men rest in graceful and intricate forms: These men weigh col lectively twelve hundred and thirteen pounds —rather a heavy lOad for one man to carry. The entire performance of the Arabs is de cidedly remarkable, and certainly well worth seeing. In the leaping over horses they are not equal to Rinehart or Fish, but in the pyramid tableaux there are no performers to equalthern. They remain only this week. A SENSIIILE SOCIAL cvsrou. How Would it Butt Americans? A French paper mentions the , following sensible custom which . prevails at Stuttgard, the. capital of Wurtemburg : On the afternoon of New Year's Day a sort of fair, or exchange for visiting cards, Is 'held in a public place. All the servants of good homes, and all the commissionaires, meet here, and one among them, mounted on a bench or table, calls tint the addresses, At each name announced a 'clolid':orcards falls into ...a - basket placed for the purpose, and the representative of the per son for whom these cards are. intended can pocket his contingent. Each follows in' his turn, and in a few minutes hundreds of cards have reached their destination without fa tigue to any one. The idea is ingenious and practical. , DISASTER AT NEAL Jpwreek and Loses of Twenty Lives. The Rill Mall ,Gazette of the 17th inst. says : On Saturday morning Messrs. Taylor, Tip per & Co., of Liverpool, received a telegram from Lloyd's agent at - Pwllobli, South Wales, announcing the loss of their ship, the Kenil worth, homeward bound from New Orleans with cotton, on St. Patrick's Causeway, at the entrance to Cardigan. Bay. The Baru:tenth lifeboat weht butand rescued eight of the crew; but the'captain (Allen), chief and second offi cers, and seventeen of the crew; were drowned';'and the ship, it was feared, 'Would become it total wreck. Two years ago the same firm . lost a large vessel on the. same E L. i'ETHITSTON. Publislx;r'.l PRICE THREE GENTS FACTh 11$4ilifeIES. [From the -Galaxy for Vribruary.l The Belouln's ]Rebalke," it HENRY Annior Nebar, a Bedouin of noble heart, That from all meuieeeived of praissi the fee t • ' Owned a 'brave horse, with which he wfitild not part, Because from death he once had run hhn free. The man and beast were friends, and it is vie* To sell our friend or friendship for a , , The horse was black and strong, his step wtis , proud; •• • • ' His neck was arched, his ear alert for sound; His speed the tempest's, and his mule a olatat; His hoofs woke thunder from the desert ground; , His eyes flashed lightning from their inmost core': , Victor of Distance was the name he'bote . . Daher, a Bedouin of another tribe, Had often wished to buy thi m s faodsheast; ; And as he smoked, and heard his,friends de scribe Its comely parts and powers, the wish creased ; But Nebar said the horse should not be sold, Though offered wealth in camels and in gold; 4 Then Daher put, on rags awl stained his face,' And went to wait for Nebar seeming lame. Him soon he saw a_pproaeh with daring pace t Upon the envied horse, and as he came He cried to him, "For three days on this spot ` : Have I lain starving ; pity me my lot." And seeing Nebar stop said on, «I die— ' • My strength is gone." Down Nebar sprang, o And raised him gently, with a pitying sigh,. And set him on his horse. A laugh out rang, And Daher shouted as he plunged his spurs, " Fair price refused, one sells at `lest for burrs." " Stay ! stay !" cried .Nebar : paher paused too: hear: . • " Since Heaven has willed that you my beast should•take, . I wish you joy ; but tell no man, for fear Another who was' really starved might,. • make • • - •• . Appeal in vain ; for some, remembering. me, Would fail to do an act of charity." Oh sharp as steel to Daher seemed remorse. _.:ire paused a. moment, then sprang to the ground. And with bowed head brought Nebar back his horse; And falling on his honest breast, he wound ; His arms about his neck for true amends, •. And ever afterward the two were friends. • If all of us, whene'er we suffer wrong, ' iShould bear it mildly, Since God wills it so, Nor lend our speech to anger, like the song The morning stars sang life would pass be- • low : For he who lightly draws the sword of wrath, Wounds most himself, and crowds with 'strife , , his path. —When is an oarsman like a herring? When he has a bard roe. • —Why is a man half asleep like twice six? Because he's a doze-in. —The Spruce and Pine street read has found • that slawson has got them into a bad box.. —The length of the shore line of lifaine not less than three thousand miles. —Railway Companies in apickle—The Cold- Slawsonites. —Why is wit like • a Chinese lady's foot?' Because brevity is the sole of it'', —Slaws on started off in quite a Spruce way, but soon proceeded to Pine. —Victor Noir's cartes de visite are making a Paris photographer rich. • • • 4 —The plan of compelling car-drivers to hayed .) eyes in the back of their heads has failed, and • the company is reconstructing its; —Schubert died in 1848, . and twenty:yearn. afterward—in October, 186} -theceremony.or laying the corner-stone of his monument took., place, —The people who poked fun at the Slaxison, box can scarcely be said to have been 'de riders, for there were no riders. ' " —The American citizens at Hamburg baire' formed a Washingtonian" Club, of which' Garibaldi is Honorary President. 1 —Slawson complains that he' has 'not been" treated fairly. That's just what's the matter. 1 There was no fare about it. — . Mlle. Schneider recently sung at Nlcerfor the benefit of the poor, and Offenbach, himself. lea the orchestra. _Dearest Slawson, thou haat left-us, • Here thy loos wo do not feel; Of our cars thou bast bereft us, Therefore let conductors steal. , - —A-society has been formed, in , Paris with a capital of - 1,600,000 francs, to develop musical, art in France, and the industries connectel. with it. —The Nile has risen this year to a great height than on any occasion within living ' memory. The damage is about 200, 000 , 0 0010 f francs. —An astronomer predicts for this year E comet of such hrilliancyauld so near the earth,. that our nights will, bo almost; as ,bright as our days. ; " —A London rucrchantudiertised for a Oerig who could " bear contlnemenf.7 „He receiyed,,, an answer from one,who had.beensevenicaUi M ail. —A dowager Countess widow of a Scotch', nobleman, has bestowed' her hand upon her' Italian eel - trier. The fair bride has passed her sixtieth year. —A young lady from the rural districts went to Des Moines to see the elephant. In the street car the conductor said to her, " Miss, your fare." " Well, if I am," said she, "I don't want any of your impearance." , —The Belgians think it disloyal to have their sovereign's head on theirpostageatamps, where it would be instantly soiled and defaced,, and the Minister of the Public Works is, to be substituted. • ' . —During/869, Italy contributed to musical art only the 'Rossini requiem, the joint work of divers composers, and Germany did not do ' even as much as this. In England, according to the Orchestra, something has been done in , the way of.churchanusle, as follows . " In England, the professor, the publisheil l and the amateur—the latter from the, parson ; down to the lady harmonium, accompanist of the choir—have been hard at work, , . church music,„ "C o mposers have 'txtulti plied with the -fecundity of ' the rabbit; of chants, hymn tunes, and all things of sixteen bars and thereabouts there has been, a perfectglut. The cathedral service has.been attenuated into the chant-wise,sOrvice, aiutthe t i anthem into a couple of pages of croteheta, a/1 4 moving in one and the same dirsetiOn. Thorn ' have been some new ca.ntatter,lt new oratorio or two, new songs and ntrw'ditnees at tint rata of fifty a week, much 'arrangement (if music - 1 for the organ, little or. no original musie for this instrument, and some short, and here and 1 there neat and delicate work for the , , piano.; School education has been marvelously upon ; the increase, and our boys and young Wert. , come out as very fair pianoforte playerti, awl • many eau sin _g a song and join well'. in 3 glee or anthem:- The amateur church choirs arer.. now one of our national institutions; and odes clergy are beaming, it' not rationalists tall theology,,at least 00,1 n ohurob. Must% ; r ; - 1 - 1 .i a 4 F I • a . , , !,1
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