GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. OWME XXIII.-NO. 264. VARTFI CLOSET COMPANY'S COM- JuJ 1101101C8 and oßpirattel for fixed closets: Skt A. YIIANOItiOUS & CA". 0.513 Market et. de2ltu tb 5.104 REDING INVITATIONS EN _ _graved In the newest and best manner. LOUIS DD I IYIKA Stationer and Sngrayer. 103 t Ohoetnnt reet. Te2o MARRIED. WOODWARD—WENDELL—In Washington City, Yehruttry lOth. lty the Rev. Charles A. Allen. Dr. J. J. Woodward, U. N. A., to Blanche, danghler of Borne' i tie Weudell, BYWATEB,—Qn Sendai, February 13th, Maurice llywMer. to his Md year. Ilia mule friends are invited to attend hie funeral, from his late residence, 62.5 Pine street ,on Wednesday morning, nt ID o'clock. OAMlPL—titiddmly, on the 12th inst., Daniel, son of Daniel'and Plitaalitith Caitlin, in the 118th year of hie ag , The relative). and Dien& of the family are invited to sttend the funeral, from the residence of his parents, No. fi'Z' tunith , Eighth Attreet, tioutorrow (Wednesday) tiortili,g, at all o'clock.' Services at St. 'Mary a, rud in• (et mem at Cathedral Cemetery. CIIASE.—At his late reel fence, Salem, Mesa., on the Ilth hist—George Hazen Chase, , _ BANO,rOur the 1/Ith inst.. Charles Diming, in the lath year of his age. The relatives and male fri•nds of the family are re , leectfelly invited to attend the funeral, from his late tesideire. M0h1729 Filbert stre , A, on Thursday morni r it )I) ri Mock. MING.—On the afternoon of the 14th inst., Francis ing.in the 68th year of his rue. • KNIGHT.—ht Baltimore. on the 12th lutt.,Dr. Samuel t. linfabt• J r., in the 20th year of his age. LoTHROP.-11, New York. on Monday, 140) instant, ,Lothrop ()en of Charles B. and Deborah K. othrop. in the a•rond yew' of his age • _ Funeral ens Iltsiinseilatr. at 1 o'clock, from his father's teeldence, 10 West Forty-fifth street. Interment at S'oodiewn Cemetery. LYNOII.—At Brooklyn. N. Y., on Monday. February 1870. James Augivit I ne, infant son of James C. sad Matilda Lyneh.age4.77 deYa- Ftinural from the resident* of F. A. Eynch.Mo. IDID Mervine street, Philadelphia, Pa., on , Thursday, at 10 o'clock A. id. . 31cULA IN.—At Austin, Texas. December 2gtb, Captain David McClain, late of the Sixty-first Regiment I Pennsylvania Volunteers. PEIIIIRT,—On the 14th loot., lienry Augustus Perret7 - 1 in the 4241 year of Image. ' • The relatives aod friends of the family. also. and Swiss Benevolent Societies, are respectfully incited to attend the funeral, from hip late residence, No. 34 'Blade street, Captden; on Friday, the 26th instant, at 2 " • o'clock. SlLCillitAN.—ln Pottsville, on Ma I.3th inst., James SiUltima:aged 78 years. T AMIE PLAID NAINSOOKS FOR LA— DIES' WRAPPERS. SATIN PLAID CAMBRIC/S. - SOFT FINIBIf ()MIMICS. MULLS AND FREIWII MUSLIN'S. RYER Ac LANDELL. r3PECIAL NOTIVES. Finest Furnishing Clothing. Goode. Ready-Made 3-OHN- WANAMAKER, MIS & Is2o CHESTNUT Youths' And Boys' Clothing. [rAPPEAL, FULL THE POOR. UN lON BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. There has not been more sufferin among the better classes of the poor than at present s ince nce laht. A Yhtitor was called to a family living in a good house on Sixth atrf-et who bad not tasted food for forty eight hours. The ohibiren had gone to Sunday School without any break fast. A manager received a note, written in a beautiful female hand, appealing for aid to keep her family of little children from starving and freezing. The call was obeyed. but in the meantime the husband and father of the family had att.-Meted de•' epair at seeing his family suffering, with out the means to relieve them. A family of four !lute children wer'efound in a feat NI state of suffering. Their mother lay dead on no old carpet on the floor, and the father was ravingwith delirium tremens over the body. A young , st Liman of refined appearance,. pal e and ema ciated with consumption, was discovere d by a citizen - du au attic on Willow street, apparently dringovithout tire, food or attendance. If the good men and women of Phtja• delphia who are thing in comfort, to nay nothing of luxury. many of them troubled most to know hew to invest their surpluses at this time, could but see fa<e to fare the misery which is lurking within ten minutes' walk of their dwellings, they would pour out of their treasure to relieve the mutterings -, or If they could but realize but' half the distress. they would rush into the lanes and alley« to do that which they only want the knowledge of to assist. There are one hundred Ansi twenty visitors of the Union _Benevolent Association, and all the money they have to distribute is five dollars per month for each visitor, in all of title great city. The ak‘fia , Ciatiall is An COW plete in its ramifications that it can relieve the wants of the poor if the public would lint 'constitute it almoner. It Beta less than 8 20,000 per annttm, and a dis tinguished pitihnthropist, not of its Board, but who knows Its thoroughness, says it should g_et smog*. The demands have been so great upon it the present season, and the collections so meagre, that it has rued behind, spitfire - thousand dollars is needed imtnedi ate'''. to inert its pressing wants. An appeal is made to the public. with all the earnestness which language can express, to make up this sum without delay. Thirty subscriptions of one hundred dollars. with the smaller contributions which should be added, will meet the re nuirentent.--The Treasurer ii Z. It. WOOD, ESQ., 404 Chestnut _street„.autt!.the agent, Dr- 31c0A LLMONT, will also receive subscriptions at the office, 116 South Seventh street. SAMUEL H. PERKINS. President. Jolts H. ATwoon;Piec'ry. fe9 w f m 3trps vo—=b MERCANTILE LIBRARY.—THE annual election for nix Directors ' to servo for the onstiloo three years, will be held at the Library, on TUESDAY, the 16th instant, between the hours of 4 and BP. Pd. The Special Meeting of Stockholders will be held the RAMO evening, in the Lecture Boom, at 8 o'clock, when the subject of keeping the Beading rooms open until II P. M., and also on Sundays, will be discuseed, and the reports of the committees appoisted at the annual meeting riiad. JOHN LABDNHII, re!) etriA Recording Secret* IVESQUERONING VALLEY RAIL ROAD OOMPANY. OFFICE, 122 SOUTH SE UOND STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Feb.l9th, 1870. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS. The semi-annual payment of interest on the capital stock of this company, under tho lease to the LEIIIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION COMPANY, at the rate of TEN PEE VENT. Per Annum, or two and a•half dollars per share, clear of taxus t will be made at Ms office on and after TUESDAY. March let WO. fe14444:1023tmh6§ \V. B. WHITNEY, Treasurer. • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYL -1 VANIA LECTURES ON SOCIAL SCIENCE. Professor McIINAINE'S Second Lecture will be do. livered on WEDNESDAY, the 16th instant, at 8 o'clock P. M. fel4-2t§ U.Cr D .—AMATEUR DRAWING Rooni.—The subscriber desires to return his mod eincere thanks to the ladies and gentlemen of the •' Shakespeare Dramatic Association," who so gener ously aided in their efforts to afford the amusement for Saturday evening last. That their abilities were appre ciated, was testified by the delighted audience, and that they may ever advance in - their profession and " keep not their talent bid under a bushel," is the earnest wish ,of their humble servant. .1t SAMUEL McDOU CALL. IL - -?- THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE Anthracite Fuel Manufacturing Company are hereby notified to attend, a special 'meeting on the Bth day of March,lB7o, at 8 o'clock P. M., at the office of the Company. It. W. corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, for the purpose of increasing tho amount of capital atock. - - - By order of the President. fola-tu-9tl THEODORE BERGNER, Secretary. STAR. COURSE 01? LEG TuREs. Choke seats for any of the Lectures, For oak at fol 4 drns GOULD'S, 92. a Chestnut street, daily. PENNSYLVANIA IRTIC MIRY- ItAL SOCIETY —Stated Meeting , and Ns day' gins. EVENING. t. HOWARD HOSPITAL, "NOS. 151.8 .""s• awl 1520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department:,s edirm treatment and modinineturnished gratuitously' to the imp. ,1109 GIRARD. STREET. 1109 • intICISLI RUSSIAN AND PERITUAIRD' RAVI'S; Departments for Ladios Baths open from 0 A.M. to 9 P.ll, DIED. Gents' Fashionable Merchant Tailoring, 10.STEREOPTICON EXHIBITION, AT - Towti Ball, Germantown. on WEDNESDAY EVENING. lfith Instant. Exhibition by Mr. William McAllister. with explanatory remarks by Her. Win. W. Proceeds to be applied to purchase of bookie • for St. Mchae I 's Library Association. • fellS2t r THE BOARD 0F hi ANAG if . 0 F the Bible 'leaden' Society will bold their first regular monthly meeting at 11E2 Chestnut street, on THURSDAY, the 17th instant, eta P. It. lt* K. E. ALLEN .Secretar FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE LETTER mow nowt, The Gay Season In RomemiL Dinner at thitoshat...Daetiel and SlerJewels.«The S Death ofiltartutan Kuhn... Overflow of the' dotes of the Pope—News of the Cottsell . lOonvopdndence of the Phila. Eveleg Bulletin.) Roue; Italy, Jan. 25, - 1870.—Rern0 IS not 130 gay this winter as last. There is not the same general society, especially among Americans. We, have plenty of small reunions, religious and mundane; dinners and evening receptions for the bishops, day receptions and dancing parties in the evening for the gay;, but there are none of those charming successions of cosmopolitan entertainments we had last sea son, at which we met Americans from North, South, East and West. True, Mr. Longfellow was in Ratnelast winter,and he was a delight. ful reason for entertainments. Mr. Childs, of your city, led the way in a series of dinners to our _great _poet ;—no, _I _.believe Buchanan Read's was the first. Mr. Childs'i first dinner to Longfellow, however—and he gave the poet three or four—was the handsomest one ever seen in Rome. Last evening Buchanan Read had a delight ful dinner, which reminded me of last win ter's entertainments. Among the guests were :qrs. John Jacob .Astor and her son; Mr. Er win, of Maryland; Mr. Hooker, &c. The dinner ,was minimally conversational, being just small enough for " talk to run atone," as a witty Frenchwoman once said. Many clever stories were told. A droll one of Thackeray, which maybe you have beard, made us laugh merrily. At a Boston dinner, soon after the witty author arrived in America, he was told the bilge oysters served up were unusually small, and that he must not cut one, but swal low it whole. Be obeyed with a humor ous, sorrowful gait), and said, chokingly, af- terwards: " Ifeel• as If T bad Swallowed a baby !" These remarks of Dean Stanley on Raw -1 honie's "'Marble Faun" • were very interest ing. The story was told by theperson to whom the Dean had made them. • His Deanship said • he bad read this popular book Mx times. • " Why, Mr. Dean, how came you to read it so often?" " Once I read it as a new book, from curi osity ; a second time, on account of its beautl, ful language; a third time, because I was go ing to Rome; a fourth, while in Rome, as a work well suited to the spirit of the place; a fifth, after left , Retire, •as a plea sant reminder of my visit ; and the sixth time, Gfecalse was to."" Another story was about Rachel, the great. French actreSs: .. When she was in New York she promised some friends to eomP early on an afternoon appointed,ditie with them,and bring with her all the splendid jewels she wore in Adrienne Lecouri•eui.. Many of these she had received as gifts from crowned heads, and they were of great value and beauty. The af ternoon passed; dinner was announced, but no Rachel bad appeared: - The family waited awhile ; then went to table, concluding that something sudden had prevented their guest from coming or sending a regret. When they were • 'half through • dinner, a carriage was heard driving up to the door, and the door bell rang violently. " That is she !" exclaimed the master of the house. He ran to the front door in company with the servant; found Rachel, in a high state of nervous excitement, in a common street hack. The driver was an Irish emigrant, who had evidently just landed in New York. On the t.babby, dirty front seat of the miserable coach lay a heap of jewels, flashing in the light of the street lamp, for most of them were out of their boxes and lying loose, as if gathered together in haste.. The actress pointed to them, and said gaspingly : " Take them, show them to your family, and tell this man to drive me back to the hotel, for I am ill." " I shall do no such thing," replied her host, He lifted her out of the coach, secured the jewelS, and carried the poor woman into the house.: After a violent lit of hysterim came the explanation of the curious state of affairs. Rachel bad left the hotel at `2 o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of taking a respectable hotel coach, she got into the first chance hack with her jewels. The stupid coachman could not understand a word she said, and drove her about the city all the afternoon, vainly searching for the house to which she wished to go. In the meanwhile, as night came on, Rachel grew frightfully alarmed, thought the man meant to rob and murder her, and her fears had arrived at a crisis, when by some lucky chance he found the house. From a gay dinner to a death seems a sud den change. The sad circumstances attending the decease of your townsman, Mr. Hartman Kuhn, cause sympathy and regret among all Americans in Rome, both strangers and friends. Last Tuesday—only one week ago!— Mr. Kuhn was exercising his horses at Acqua Cetosa, about two miles from Rome, where there is good galloping across the meadows. He leaped bars two or three times with one oi the horses, and as he was preparing to make the last leap his groom 'counselled him not do it, as he thought the animal seemed tired, - . Such a little lies or more sometimes, and what a cost ! Mr. Kuhn thought be would try it at all events.. The horse hit his hoof on the top rail, threw his master and fell on him! . The groom, a very careful, thoughtful fel 7 : low, sat on the horse's head until assistance' came; and the poer beast; too; seemed as 'wise as the . groom, : for be remained quiet and _at lowed the men who Boon crane ups to manage" :him accerding to the groom's orders.: Mr. 'Kuhn was extricated, and'did ; not think hiS ;injury 'ills SO gala at • - first. He: got • a little" trap" Which was hunted up for him,.: 'zind was taken into town, but reit able to walls, up -stairs, with assistance, to his:apartment, Luckily, the best surgical help in'HitroPe`walli in Rome. I)r. Nolaton, the famous Paris Bur- von, happened, by the best chance in the PHILA.DELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1870. world, to, belt' the city. Be and Mazzoni,the ^noted Roman surgeon, did all that could be done for the unlucky gentleman ; but nothing could save him, and between Thursday mid night and Friday dawn he died. I forgot to tell you in my late letters—or else I bad not space and timeL--ef tin handful effect produced in two or three parts of Rome by the ,overflow of the Tiber, ;► . fortnight ago The sirocco melted the snow on the Appe nines and caused, the flood. The Pantheon was the prettiest sight Imaginable. There was quite a little lake in front of it, and the whole floor of the church was under water, on whose surface the vast dome was mirrored. Rocca de Ta Verita and the Temple of Vesta wore also in mid-water. A friend came in one evening to see me, repeating in a manner that sounds most natural from a Roman " Vidimus flavum Tiberim, retortis Litore Etruseo violenter undis Ite dejectum monumenta Regis • Templaque Vesta."* He had just returned from that quarter of thelcity, and wasroally eloquent in his descrip. tion of the bright moonlight , and the reflection of the beautiful Temple of Vesta in the "tawny. Tiber.' But I am sorry to add that even 'his fine description and apt classical quotation could not tempt my toes off the fire fender to go and see it. The night was cold; my dinner had been very good; the fire was brighter and more comforting than the moon —so I resolved to'follow Sheridan's counsel to his son about the coal mine : "Would it not do as well to say I had seen I believe you do not care much about Church and Council affairs, and the doings of the Holy Father interest you very little. This excessively droll story, however, may be taken by you as an exception. The Oriental prelates are mostly superb-looking men, and when they are in full canonicals yen can think of nothing more magnificent; they are asgood as a dozen ArabianNights'stories. But, lam told, when their outside festa robes are oft they are a very untidy set of men. One of them is an exception in the way of ugliness, but not cleanliness ; for nothing 'could be more dirty and ill-favored than he is. , Prelate as he is, he looks like one of those sort of men you would not wish to be found with at midnight in a dark, lonely street, especially if your jewels were as Rachel's, lying loose around. And yet he is, nevertheless, a very good man. .Looks belie us sometimes; that we all know, Well, this poor, unclean and ugly saint had an audience with the Holy Father last week, The Pope, by the way,is extremely fond of his joke, and,when sure of his surroundings,never fails to have it. The Oriental Bishop could not speak a word of Italian— French, or English—nothing but aeunous Latin, Arabic and Chaldee. The interpreter carried on the conversation. Before going he asked, as usual, the Papal benediction. Now be it re membered that His Holiness is one of the cleanest, neatest , old men in the world he takes a cold sponge bath every morning, and when you see him in his nice white clothes, notice his fresh healthy face, handsome hands, and thoroughly well kept appearance, you cannot help thinking of a hearty fat baby just out of the morning nursery 'toilette; for the white skull cap and silvery hair add ,to this illusion. Imagine then what such a clean old man must have felt while breathing the odor of this Oriental species of prelatical sanctity, When asked for his benediction, the Pope turned- to those who surrounded - him-and said, - with an expression peculiarly Roman—for these Romans are the most witty, sarcastic people in the world : "Are you very sure this Bishop does not un derstand Italian ?" " Very sure, Holy Father." "Well, then," said His Holiness, in Italian, drawing himself up 'before the kneeling un clean man, "Dirty and ugly as thou art, I bless thee," &c., &c., &c. Numberless are the stories told about the Pope's dry hunior. Once our last Minister had an audience at the Vatican, just about the time of the United States difficulty with the Fenians in Canada. "Come, now," said Holy Father in French, and with a sharp twinkle of hiS rich, dark brown eye, "Come, now, tell us all about these Irish fainiantes;" and be laughed heartily at his own pun as much as his visitors did. Several little drops of news ooze out of the secret sessions of the Council notwithstanding the extreme precautions taken, and these pre cautions are very droll. After a secret ses sion, first the hall is examined carefully so as to be sure not a scrap of paper can be found ; then the Swiss on guard go through an inspection, and not until all this is done is the hall turned over to the workmen. The "Demand " or " Postulatum," circula lated among the Bishops in favor of deciding or affirming the Infallibility question, has re_ ceived some three hundred signatures. A counter paper has been sent in to the Pope requesting him to give counsel against any such question being raised, because it is in opportune and unnecessary. Another "Pos tulatum" has been distributed among the fathers, begging that the obligation of secrecy may be abolished. The English, American and Italian Fathers have no trouble in keep ing a discreet silence on Council matters; but those voluble French prelates and metaphysi cal Germans are terribly bored with the restric tion, and, according to the Times' " special," they commit mortal sin 'every time they open their lips. ANNE BREWNTER We have seen the tawny Tiber. with fierce waves Wrenched violent back from tents in Tuscan seas, March on to Numa's hall and Vesta's shrlne s Menacing downfall." —n,01)1. BliilVer'S Translation of Ode 11.—To Cow. " Personal and Impersonal " of the Chicago Post began his column the other day with evident impatience at the frequency with which certain parties come up for mention, now-a-days, to wit: Fisk--(bang Fisk !) The po—(blast the pope!) prince Ar--(confound Prince Arthur!) . ',-Custonier (to clerk in a hardware store)— " Show ;no a small low-priced shears." Clerk (facetiously)—" Perhaps you mean a pair of shears." Customer (severely)—" I mean precisely :what said." Clerk (defiantly opening aAi peciMen Are there not two blades here? and don% 'twottuake s pair ?" ,nr• , (Instanter (trittrilpha'nel" You liaNie legs ; does that make you a pair of maii?' i The shears wore done up in profound Entente. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. NRARESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES is ' PLATED IN EUROPE. A HernialHoene. or Feebtor's "Hamlet. " Observing that Mr. Pechter, at Niblo'a theatre last night, gave his first representa tion of the Danish l'rince,witlf theituppott of a "Polonius" (Mr. Griffiths, expressly brought over from tielwyn's in Boston, I am reminded of a representation of " Hamlet " in which Mr. Fechter sustained the title role, and which I bad the pleasure of seeing in London in It was on the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, the same upon which the inexcusable Hervit, composer and actor, now nightly sings, grim aces, cancans, and struts, in his own creation of "Chilperio:" CIIILPBRIC. One day the great Pharamond, Coming back from the chase, Said : I want to eat ham; , Woodcock go to the deuce. The thigh of a hog at this mo ment I find touching. On that a princely butcher Said : sire, open your mouth. (Aside.) My horse is starting; I • can't sing on horseback. To what base uses may Lyceums descend, Horatio ! • , On the evening I refer to—after the night sceno which so grandly prepares the tragedy of Hamlet had rolled away; and the heart-sick and shivering guards had stolen off in the foot. steps of the ghost--tge flats were drawn back with the usual effect of a sudden dazzle and astonishment of light, revealing the gaudy Court of Denmark, and the (somewhat pur poseless) session of the new king in his state. The customary salvo of applause greeted the star of the, season in the character of " Ham let." • Mr. Fechter, recollect, reposed in a chair, the only sitting figure except the mimic roy ally. The dais being at the spectator's left, the tragedian sat as nearly in the centre of the stage as possible; one foot resting on the lowest step beneaththe throne, and his atti tude one of reverie and eomplete abstraction, —without the temper which some artists put, as depicting a supplanted heir-apparent, into this first introduction of the prince. • • He presented a singular appearance. His robes of black velvet were crowned by a large, perfectly white face, which was framed in an, enormous mass of reddish-yellow hair, tumbling' over the drapery in a cataract. As partaking the blood-royal, he 'sat covered in the presence of the Crown. Upon the brow was placed'the velvet toque from which escaped the long streamer— called becchetto in Italian—which descends and may surround the throat as a scarf,and which so disposed gave a peculiarly medieval air to the costume of Mr. Pechter. Thus surrounded with blonde locks and with the circles of the winding drapery, the face of the artist seemed to have escaped from one of the oldest galler ies of Flemish portraits. Mr. Fechter's countenance is more marked than beautiful. The depression of his cranium and the recession of the brow, it is true, were scarcely evident in that costume, and the spec tator's fancy filled out an upper half for the face which should correspond in prominence with the lower. This gave an idea of great size and poise to the head. From the temples, yet hidden in a white mass of clinging flesh, hung the oval of the jaw—the catenary oval which a -rope will-take--between--its -points of- suspension. Into the large curve thus defined, and rounding itself out with such a liberal animal swing, were faintly sketched the fea tures ; the eyes a little goggled, pale and swimming, and marked with delicate brows and lashes ; a pink baby mouth, touched with a moustache so light as to be valuable in as sisting the impression of youthfulness suitable to the part. But the greatest contradiction was in the character of the nose—a thin, sharp feature,curving out like an S, a rebuke to all the fleshiness and flabbiness of the face, and suggesting an iron spring set in a white pine panel. The eyes were liquid and dreamy— the mouth was a cicatrice—the cheeks were a waste of amiable pulp in their stirrup ofjaw-- nothing was positive but this little lean hebrew nose, whipping out to ask why:it came there, a keen interrogation-mark amidst a blank white page. As he rose to repel the flatteries of the king, the mass of velvet drapery fell over his feet,and his large pallid face looked statuesque and antique in its singular trimmings. In these passages be positively looked tall, and the cultured repose of his manner and atti tude made me expect greater things than I was able to find as the representation went on. I t was singular, also, that in this costume I imagined him a handsome man. His want of tragic power came out while " feeding," or listening to, the phantom. The ghost was represented by a strong actor and finished reader, whose only error seemed to be in teasing out now punctuations. • For in- " From use, whose love was of that dignity That it went hand-in-band, even, with the vow I made to her in marriage." For the einnoiation of his tale the ghost had got him into a rustic bower shaped like a watch-box; in which the buried majesty of Denmark was revealed at halt-length, in a frame of ivy;behind a screen of gauze, and through which, when his declamation was over, he sunk gradually down with a very transcendental effect. " Hamlet" by this time had rid himself of his sweeping cloak, and ap peared in the ordinary velvet frock and hose, and .1 well remember, as he struck a rather paltry attitude of surprise, and in it received the communications of the ghost,with his back turned the while to his audience, how big his head and body looked, how yellow and Ver- sailles-like his wig appeared,' and how planar and abort wore : his legs Fechter,before that,bad been acting in "The 'Juke's' M'otto,"--who that ever saw the setting of that piece 'at the Porte Sainte-Martin, can forget the ring of theJ'ysvis!--in Paris,where be had Oh4hed:Tepute as a spirtted • ilrtig of nielodramv; • - - A nielodrarnit he made, on the night I 'at tended, pt Hamlet. • His pusion ,and borror were genuine, tut they were the passions of an inferiOz njiellikfitelng entangled ;wilt the forms and conventiMmlitios of society: Shakes io4tre's passions. which strip Ole soul, were (mite beyond linn The daring and ease with which he thfew himself into expressive postures all through his play were very admirable. As, for his reading, it, bad four peculiarities, will not compromise him by calling them disad vantages, which separated it at once from 'all reading I have ever heard ou any stage. In the first place, i tseemed , to come from the top of his head; and the top of Mr. locchter's bead being apparently modeled with a blow of a spade, it could not be otherwise than Rat In the second place, he bad brought among his trunks and properties across the Channel, a delicate French accent ; this was more; pic turesque than otherwise, and the artist is rather to be complimented on his progress in English than twitted on the leavings of his native tongue; but it could not be said to as sist the Shakespearian illusion. In the third place, he had planted his French accent on to an acquired English accent, such as has struck us so forcibly in British artists like Kean and ScottSiddons ; and the Anglicism was very evident and astonishing to me as an American fresh from Bostonian pedantries of dialect. In the fourth place, he • added to all this the eadence of French tragic acting;.this is a chant— a charm perhaps, when you are used to it,, but incon trovertibly a mannerism;, just as Bressant, or any of the others on the stage of the Frail. eels, will intone the alexandrines of French tragic writers, with a emsura in the middle; and a graceful curl at the end, so did Pechter attempt to deal with the freer rhythm of Elizabethan blank-verse, It has struck New York oddly enough to hear (inßayß/as) Foch ter's • XAOTV is-the CRIZ'Z 'v -'m FAATE! But the American listens with still more " amazement and admiration" to Shake speare thus set to music. A singular and solid grace in fence, at the death-scene, revived my interest in a spec tacular performance, and completed the melo dramatic and realistic impression I derived from Mr: Fechter's Hamlet. For my ideal, I was compelled to course the threatres of the world, as another paper or two after this will give evidence,—and come back at last to find it in America. ENFANT PERDU. THE HE? tEIM OF .THE WAR. The. Chivalry's, aerraele Punishment. [From the Nation.) • The Fifteenth Amendment, which provides that " the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State; on account of race, color,or pre vious condition of servitude," has received the ratification of the requisite number of States, and its adoption will,doubtless, shortly be pro claimed. The reconstruction process may now be considered closed for all practical pur poses: Moreover, the agitation against very has. reached an appropriate and triumphant conclusion,' and the negro, from being the , subject of the strangest struggle in the .history of civilization, sinks into the rank of an ordinary and somewhat heavily weighted wayfarer on the dissty and rugged highway of competition. We can un derstand a thoughtful Southerner feeling awe stricken as be looks at what has come to pass. The very feelings which he most carefully fostered and made his boast and glory have ! been converted into instruments of torture under which he daily writhes. His pride of race, for instance, makes black equality; tenfold the humiliation it would be to any other inen. His contempt forlhe North, which Ire taught his children in their cradle, has made his sub jugation bitter beyond the bitterness of any other recorded conquest. Every reproach he has ever heaped upon the Yankee has given ' the Yankee sword a keener point, and the --Yankee order—book—a--deadlier- sting.--Even his hostility to " isms" has given the people who love "isms" and live by them, an in fluence and weight in politics and society which, hut for his hatred, they would never have had. He has the consolation Of know ing that free love. communism, rational ism, woman's rights, .• agrarianism," free schools, and everything else of the kind that he most bated, owe a great deal of what ever success they have achieved to his dislike . of them. We class them together, simply be cause this was a way he had himself. Now that it is all over, and he sees the negro on the bench (and the South Carolina bench, too) - and in the Senate chamber, he may sit down with the comfortable reflection that, consid ered from his own point of view, be has shown-himself thegreatest blunderer of the modern world. He 'ought to have the Fif teenth Amendment engraved on his tomb. No other epitaph would do him justice. " , SHOO FLY" COX. 11ew He Feltafterllle Fight with Butler A Washington correspondent says : Butlert' "Shoo Fly " jig with Cox was all the talk as hotels last evening. I met Dawes and POmeroy atfthe Arlingtou,and the former said he thought the retort was better than Webster's famous " git eout." Pomeroy was unusually mod erate, and didn't think it exactly fair to pur sue the little man in his humiliation. It seems thatwhen Morrissey carried hint out in the fresh air be revived without the use of the usual restoratives, though Brooks stood by bottle in band, and had. already drawn the cork, as he evidently considered the case a critical one. Cox's first words on recovering were addressed to Morrissey, "Jack, old boy, does lightning scorch ?" " Well, Sam, I've known it to burn," responded the anxious Morrissey, taking the bottle from Brooks and pressing the mouth of it to the lips of the wanderer after " Winter Sunbeams." "I feel better now, Jack. Guess you better call a back." The hack was procured, and the whole party drove straight to the National. Thatevening an entertainment was given at Mrs. C--'s, in I street, to which Cox had been invited. Be did not appear, and the fact elicited con siderable comment. Several excuses were volunteered, but an Ohioan, who bad known Cox when he was a member from the'-Buck eye State, "pooh-poohed" thorn all. " Bah !" said be, " because Grant once shut Butler up in a gloss house, every little Congressional gamin thought he could throw stones at him, and poor Cox only forgot that Ben had moved out long ago.' VICTOR HUGO. lie Writire auudi Ireland. . _ . . The Dublin Irishman publishes the following translated letter from Victor Hugo •on the Irish question. It is a rely to a communica tionti from " Mr.. Morgan M'Sween -, London :" HAUTEYILLE HOUSR, Jan. 16, 1 70.-1 have received, stri'ygur eloquent andji st letter. I have already raised my voice for I eland, and I shall raise it again. I was , think i g of Ire land when I said, a few weeks go, those words which irritated the Tory p sa: "One people has not the, right to own another people." You are right to call me Ilamo. Yes, man profoundly is, All who suffer seem to me my faintly: 610, I feel myself a father. England defends Poland and Oppresses Ire land. Never was stranger contradiction. Doubt not, sir, Ireland will triumph. Eng -10(1,1011 be recalled to logic and to truth. The consciousness of mankind makes itself felt. Count on the little I can do, and behove in my fratortial cordiality: . F. L. Ff,THERSTON. Pablisber. PRIOR THREE CENTEL THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TWENTY-1111BD ANNUAL REPORT _ ' OFFICR OF THR.PF.:NNSYLvetuARAtr.tioani COMPANY, PIIILADELPIIIA, Feb. 12, 18195 To.the Nuirelivltterg of the . Penratitroania Ra 7 road Company: . , Your Directors pleahure in. submit:Ong to you the satisfactory results of the operation of your railways for the year 1869, as follows: EARNSNOS, From Passengors...s3,ooo,o7l 06 " Emigrant Passengers, 131,065 93 " Mails 118,961 91 " Express Mat- ter 302,654 si. " General Freights ...12,932,656t 88 " Miscellaneous sources.— 265,401 41 AXPE For conducting trans portation $3,503,792 ST. z. For motive power... 3,679,196 15 . For maintenance of . , cars • 1,464,859 22 . For maintenance of roads 1,341,508 10 • \ For general expenses 213,852 50 • $12,208,2(' 00 Leaving net earnings' for 1869 of The total amount of revenues compared wait last year is • 1869 1868 Increase The changes inithe sources of shown below: Increase in regular freights $50,491 58 Increase in emigrants.... 52,821 64 Increase in walls 18,980 66 Increase in express matter 10,773 33 Decrease in first-class pas sengers $31,832 88 Decrease in miscellaneous sources. Inerease as above stilted $17,314 42 The apparent decrease in first-class passen gers, shown above, is explained by the dream stance that there is included in the earnings of 1868 for military transportation, due in, pre 7 vious•years, $113,433 29-100, whilst the collec tions from the same source in 1809 were. but $5,655 66-100. By adding this amount to the reported decrease, and deducting the sum, from that received in 1868 ($113,433 24-100), it will have an actual increase of first-class passenger traffic in 1869 over 1808 of $75,944 75-100. , The gross revenues f0r.1869 are equal to, $48,186 62-100 per mile of the main line of railroad. The whole number of passengers carried in 1868 was 3,747,178, and in 18(9 4,229,363 an increase in the number carried of 482,185, or nearly 13 per cent. The average distance• traveled by each passenger was 34 22-100 miles, being 1 32-100 miles less than in 1868; showing this increase to be mainly upon the , local traffic of the line. The number of tons of freight.moved chiding 410,000 tons of fuel and other materi als transported for the Company), was 4,992,- . 025—embracing 2,329;358 tons of coal. The• whole tonnage of your railway exceeds. that of. last year 270,010 tons, of which increase 264 r • 300 tons is bituminous coal. The average charge per net ton per mile won freights during The year was 1.718 against 1..906. cents last year, and per passenger 2.51 cents against 2.71 cents last year; or au average de l , crease in freight charges of 9.9 per cent., and• in passenger charges of 7.4 per cent. The earnings of the Philadelphia and Erie , Railroad in 1809, were: From passengers.. ...$ 672,96-1'46 From freights 2,507,082 93 From express . matter 31,337 51 From mails.. ...... 24,616 67 From miscellaneous sources 26,713 72 Total ;exceeding $1.1,000 per mile of road 53,2614705 The operating expenses during the same period, were : For conducting transportation..... For motive power.. maintenance of cars. 213,546 07 For maintenance of way. 733,415 17 $2,308,209 1.3 To which add 30 per cent. of earnings, payable to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad C 0... 9.56,009 12 Showing a loss. to this Company in operating the line under the lease tin addition to in terest upon the capital invested in rolling stock, &c., of.. 561,512 16 which is $21,661 69 less than in 1868. The low rates at which the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company is compelled to carry its freights—averaging but 1 .4-10 cents per tou. per mile, and the small passenger business it can command from the sparsely populated country that its road traverses, added to, Its: greater distances as a through line from eastern cities to all points in the west, are the reasons that more than 70 per cent. of its receipts are required to meet its working expenses. The operations of this railway during the past year have been carefully and economically con ducted by A. L. Tyler, Esq., its Genend perintendent. In this connection, it may be stated that, owing to some errors in the location of this line, but mainly from financial, sacri4eB,, In curred dttring its construction, this railway,:,: with a single track of only 288 miles in length,.. , , laid with lighter iron rails, and but partially ballasted, cost the Philadelphia and: Ent!' Com pany, without any equipment, :$19;150;47t 02, , whilst the Pennsylvania Railroad paasitr Over a much more 'expensive country to build a rail way upon, with a double track ef 3liBnalle,s; laid with heavy iron, andiveilballasted, including a third or single track of. 20 tidies between .Latt caster and Middletown; and branches daysburg and ludiananf 26 miles, in all equal to 771 miles' of single railway, exclusive of sidings, is represented by $21,3-10,024 51,3, is difference of kes than $1,6Q0,000 upon the cost of over, 2tiZ''' per cent. more of single track . . • These factS are referred to at this time on to show why it is that the shareholders of one of these lines have received regular dividends, II 4 $17,2 2,811 5,047,544 IS $17,250,811:73 17,233,497 31 $17,314 4t evenue are $133,067 21 83,919 91 118,752r10 5671 606 07 749,641 8 $3,324,216 a
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