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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
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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 • _
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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-
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Mervine street, Philadelphia, Pa., on , Thursday, at 10
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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. ' •
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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
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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