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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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•
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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,
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WM. F. GRIFFITTS, President.
fel 6trp" THOMAS WISTAR,II.D., fiec'y.
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RIng of thecitizene Frankforl, opposed
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to
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or
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at
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right. It§
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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
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PHILAbELPHIA, Feb. 1, 1870. •
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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.
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lectures at the Mercantile Library, on FOURTH. DAY,
the 2d inst.,at 8 P. M.
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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.
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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%
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