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Ohnrch.—The with an Ito Grand Crombinatione, bo exhibited on Theodor, Yobtuary 22, 1870, at 8 o'clock, for the bonefit of, the tichoig le2l 2trO • . . . , . r " . .. . • . ~ , -4. , . 10' . • . • - II ~, , . , . ~. , . . I , ~., , . •t ; , ~ -, ' ..... , ... -i : • - - - ... . • , _ , , Cl*i e ß... . ' ';'''''' '' , . . . 1 ' ' , . .. , . ~. -, • , . i , ' . . ' • ' - • , . , , . . . • , , . •, , . , - , . . . , . . . ' • , . . . . A Rare Piet are by lernmbult—.4The facade Of flitibroitae”—sA Charity Coneert lin Ztome.--Tate btreness of eistliellosse Mende of the .Costeere=ss i Mies Freeman, the.ficolptor, shad some of Mier 'Works. (Correspondence of the Phila. Eyes'a sylletin, J ROME, Italy, Feb. 4.—There Is a very inte resting picture in the possession of Mr. Map ) pherson, of Rome, the artistspbetographer, so well known to 'Americans. This picture Is the second study Trumbull made of his "Sortie of Gibraltar." Trtnxibull matte three. The firit was 12 by I i inches, carefully finished, add was presented by Trumbull to - WeSt at, an acknowledgMent of that artist's kindness. I Then he painted a second , picture—the one. I Mr. Macpherson has-20 by 30 inches; finished ;`it with laborimis. - Care, as be intended it fur the use of the engraver, and sold it to Sir Franeis Baring for - 500 guineas. Mr. Mac ! phereon• bought it from the Baring collection. The third Study was 'painted 0 feet by 9, add is the one which Sharp, the , first engraver of Tnitabnil's day, used fOr his engraving. This third, study • was pUrchaeed by the Boston • 'Attica:elm, whore it now is. • ' Trumbull excelled in miniature oil, and was 'unrivalled as a historical painter; - this -plc ture,vvhichis in Mr. Maepherson's possession, is exquisite in color and finish. It also lias • some points in the composition which differ from the large study in theßoston Athemeuta, and which make this one superior. The third study is too much Crowded with heads. Tram.' bull wished to gratify the vanity .of several distinguished persons, and in t - reduced their portraits into this larger and third picture. Iltit there is one grand feature in the (mmo- Afton of the second picture, which I am cur " prised he did not preserve in the third. Any one who has'ever seen the engraving, or the one in the Athena:um, will remember that the picture is divided into two groups, On the right; in the plain, is the General in com mand and his staff; their attention is attracted from the charge that is taking place on the left—the scaling of the Heights and the veri table horde—by a wounded and dying Span ish officer, who, occupies the front plan of the picture. In the second study—Mr. 'Macpherson's-- this yonng officer is looking towards his com vaniens, who are still in the thick of ,the com bat, thus varrying on the interest 'of the pie tore, and connecting the two-groups. In the. Athenasini picture, the dying man has his head drooping to the ground, thus making a - -break,, the compoeitiou, dividing, .and thereby 'Weakening the interest in the eultject. 1t is said that Trumbull made this change ,at the , stiggestitin i 4 West, Whose taste was not the best in the world in such matterit, although nsliose days he was considered quite an au thority. West. fancied that' the pose of the dying gladiator—which is precisely the ono it( which the young wouuded officer is repre sented—would be: more picturesque, losing sight of the general effect for the sake of a detail, and breaking the connecting lick. • I could hardly believe - this "Sortie of Gibraltar" was by Trambull.'The only pictures I haul ever seen by this master are thoseln the Capitol at Washington,' which are not very pleasing in tone, and are extremely monoto nous in composition. Greenough said: "Those who have only seen' Trumbull's Sortiei of Gibraltar'. and, the Battle of Bunker's would scarcely 'believe that these large works in' the Capitol at Washington are by the same land, from their inferiority in color and effect They have a chalky distemper-like tone which is very Trumbull painted the Sortie to soothe the wounded vanity of his English friends and patrone. HO. found that the painting' of hunker Hill had given offence in Lendon; and hying desirous to conciliate, he determined to select a subject from English history which would he equally flattering to the national vanity. So .he selected the Sortie from the garrison at Gibraltar. The picture was exhi bited with great success in London. An in valuable feature .in Trumbull's historical pic tures is the authenticity of the portraits. In this. second. study, which Mr. Macpherson owns, the faces . are _finished up beautifully, anti the action of the picture is full of life and animation, and the coloring is very rich. The scarlet uniforms of the British General and .his Staff contrast well with the lurid smoke and cloud of the combat. It is a beautiful little picture, and I have dwelt thus long upon the subject because I wish to attract attention to It seems:a pity that such a painting should remain• in a private collection, and in Europe. So valiable and meritorious a work, by one of one early national artists, ought to , belong to a public gallery in Trumbnli'm native country, America. We hate had some very good concerts lately. Last Saturday there was one given for 'a charity under the patronage of several prin.( ceases, countesses, &e., whose. names figured in full on the programme. The pretty sculp tor, whose appearance attracted my attention at the Austrian . Minister's reception this autumn, was one of these Premotrieg. She is not a Princess but a Duchess. Her title runs " Duchessa di Castiglione Colonna." She is the same beautiful woman, I am told, who made such a stir at the French Court 'fifteen or sixteen years ago. I remember when I was in Paris at that time every one was talking of her. The print-shops had her pia ture in their windows, and, it was whispered that the Emperor admired the handsome, blonde Italian more than the Empress did. Bait Engenie has been a wise woman. She has lived through a trying career, and held her own well against rivals, and powerful ones, too, in her husband's affection, enemies in her family, and slanderers in public life. Those who know this beautiful, good woman well, describe her to me as possessing a lofty mind and gentle nature; self-eoncentrated,but impulsive ; uttering herself more by deeds than words; sometimes entering on a mute protest when greatly outraged, but always ending the struggle by acquiescence and self- , denial. This once rival of the Empress, the Duchess die Castiglione Colenna, is still a beautiful woman. Her artist name is "Mari:olio." 'On Fut!. Heavy Over, onto suitable for this • vroath,T, clqthits^ ;;( all kholf al arara.,cou;,(ilaand LETIFER WHOM BONE. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1870. the day of the concert she Was in the front row with the other lady patronesses, and was in splendid toilette. The exquisite white lace of her little bonnet, which fell over pink feathers and hung down on the magnificent blonde tresses of hair, was sornothingto make a woman who loves such follies envious, and covetous. lint the music 'was as delightful as lace or betnity in women. tagarnbati, this young mu r sical Raphael of Rome, played a ballad of Liszt, with all the fire and finish of the groat master himself, and the Beethoven sonata, for piano and violin, opus 96 in G major—that difliculn thing. He had played it at his own concert a day or two before, but it did not go so well, as Pinelli scratched even more thin usual. Pinelli's piano passages on the violin are good; his execution is careful and well done, but his tone is bad, false, very oftgn; never sympathetic, and his forte passages are scratchy and rough. But at this, nobility con cert he played better and the sonate went off finely. • The greatest charm of the Concert was the singing of a Spanish artist, who is carrying away all hearts by his voice; a Signor I. Diaz de Soria. I never beard of him before, and was elichanted with his style and tone. voice is a high baritone, full, rich and ilekible, but he depends more on the simple utterance of the composition and his rich, broad, true . tones, than on ji ri oritu. He sang "II Sogno of Mereadante," that beautiful composition which has a violoncello obligate; and which Furino played honestly; then afterwards "L'omoroso rimprovero," by Corticelli, and Gouned's " Serenade!' Among the American female sculptors now working in Rome, is Miss Florence Freeman, whose studio is well worth visiting; it is in . the Via Margatta, No. 5, at the head of Via Babuino, only a few steps off from Miss Hosmer's and EaseHine's. She has a beautiful has relief of Dante fromMr.lcirkup's tracing of the fresco by Giotto in Florence. Her bas reliefs of fancy and ideal subjecig are poetical in thought, and the designs e_xquisite. There, is one representing the seven days of the week, which is charming. The figures are arranged in a circle. Monday is belting on his sword to fight the battle of the week, a graceful tint athletic youth ; Tuesday a young maiden with a distaff; Wednesday and Thursday are drawinf , water; these are the most charming of the whole group ; their pose, the fine form of the water vases, and the Straight line of the well-chain and cord are classic, and 'almost Pompeian. Friday has a torch lighting the way to Sunday; Saturday gathering the flowers of the week as an offering to Sunday, and Sunday burns them as incense. It is a verita ble little poem. Miss Freeman's designs for ehimney-piece.4 are mite original; one has over the chimney a has relief of children dragging home the Yule log, and on either side are wood elves .sitting on logs as if watching the blazing of the lire pensively and thinking of their lost trees. Among the many studies and designs iu Miss Freeman's studto one of the most inte resting 'statues is " Thekla, or the' Tangled Skein," taken "from the Schonberg Cotta family. The pretty, sorrowful girl sits looking despondingly at the tangled web of yarn, which she has vainly tried to wind; and I can almost hear the old grandmother's wise words which helped the girl in after-life, when she had life's tangles to contend with, " Wind away, child, and take out the knots one by one." Healey has just finished an admirable por trait of the Pope, which is .the most pleasing likenesSl.have seen of Holy Father. He has also painted excellent and strikingly like por traits of Bishonßayley, of NeW Jersey, and of that pearl of Bishops and scholarly theologian, Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis; also, one of Archbishop McCloskey, of New York, and Monsignor Parker, the Pope's Major-Domo— quite a convocation, not of " politie worms," but of excellent Churchmen and Prelatee. FAGNAIiI AND TIRE NINE MUSES. The, great interest taken in the group of portraits at Earle's Gallery has led to innumer able inquiries about the artist, which we pro pose to anBwer by a brief sketch of his artistic career ,Toseph Fagnani was born in Naples on christmas Day; 1819. He showed at a . very early age a delicate take and talent for draw- ing ; and when only thirteen years old took a portrait of the Queen Dowager's chamber lain with such success that her Majesty gave him sittings for her own picture, and a pension for five years from her privy purse. Ile was at that time a pupil of the Royal Academy, and continued to study there. At the age 'of eighteen he was commissioned by the Queen Regnant, wife of Ferdinand IL, tot go to Vienna to paint a portrait of her father, the Archduke Charles, the famous adversary of Napoleon. On his return he stopped for some time at Florence and Milan. In Florence he painted portraits `of members of them Grand Duke's family, and at Milan the likeness of a lady who was then regarded as the most beau tiful woman of Italy—La Laniixiani. In 1842 Fagnani went to Paris, where the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Christina, was then residing in exile. As he was specially recommended to her Majesty by her mother the Queen Dowager of Naples, she immedi ately employed him to make an album :of portraits of the Spaniards, her eolapanions , in exile, Narvaez, Olozaga and many others. The Queen also sat to him for her own por trait. The Duke d'Aumale hadjust returned• from an Algerian campaign, and El Aboudi, an Arab chief, was one of his favorite aides-de camp. Faguani painted a portrait of him, which so pleased the Duke that he sent the artist a beautiful diamond ring with his cipher and coronet in brilliants. He painted also the Prince and Princess of Capita. The Princess, it will be remembered, was the celebrated and beautiful Penelope Smith. When Queen Christina was recalled to Mad rid, Fagnani shortly afterwards followed, and, remained at that capital for two years, during which time he painted the portraits of almost every one of any distinction- in the country— among others the young Queen, her sister (the Duchess of Montpensierh the Duchess of Alba (aiSter to the Empress Eugenie), Sir Robert Peel, then an attach& of the British OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. In ..180:1' Eagitani:visited Constantinople, where Sir Henry Bulwer was then British Ambassador, He painted the Sultan AMU] Aziz; the - *tient (;rand Pacha, and others. The Sultan was so gratified with his portrait that he gave the artist the cross of Commander of the Order of the Medjidie,' and a siiperli gold 'snuff-box, enameled with views of the 'Bosphorus, and the lid entirely (livered with diamonds. On his return to Paris Ife . niade a copy of Victor Emmanuel's portrait forhis daughter, the Queen of Portu gal, who-expre.ssed hersatislataion by sending him the Portugneee decoration of the order of Christ. At this time be painted the Empress Eugenie and made a portrait in, oils of the Countess tiniccioli's famous miniature of Lord Byron (lately photographed by Saxony), whiCh she had never betore allowed to be copied. This likeness of Byron is said by the Countess' to.be the only- good one . . extant. In the spring of 186,1 Fagnani visited Lon don for a few weeks to paint a portrait of John Bright for the Vision League Club of New York, and another for the Chamber of Commerce of that city, which was presented to it bY S. B, Chitteuden. Ile also copied Mr. Cobden'sortrait for T. Bayley Potter, his sue cessor in parliament, and painted Bright and Cobderi, - grouped on one canvas, for the muni cipality of Rochdale. In the fall of Isfis Fag natir:returried to New York. Since then he has painted two portraits of Lieut.-General Sheridan, one for the Union League Club of New York, the other for the General himself. He has 'alb() .painted half-length portraits of General and Mrs. Fremont. The Nine Muses" were finished last spring, and, as is, well known, are all native American beauties. The exhibition of these pictures, which has been so very successful in this and other cities, is very won to close here, as arrangements are being nOtie for their_xemoval to Washington, and ing*diately on their completion the paintlifghlire to be withdrawn from view at the gaheiies of Messrs. Earle & Sons. There ANNE BREWSTER is Nome talk of their being followed,soon, by a magiiificent painting of White Mountain scenery. iw Mr. Thomas Hill. A correspondent of the Vienna Wanderer, writing from Rome, says: "One summer morning I entered the church of asmall moun tain village near Tivoli. Before I had time to commence my study of the pictures, my atten tion was attracted by the extraordinary lamen tations of a peasant woman. She stood before an altar dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, and addressed the saint 'in the wikiest and most excited manner. In the midst of tears and sobs, she exclaimed: ' Thou art a cheat, thou art a thief, thou art a villain. These and still stronger epithets were addressed to a painted wooden figure, which, of course, continued to smile in undis turbed tranquility, with a white lily in one hand and the infant Jesus in the other. The woman continued: have brought thee candles, I have given thee oil and wine, and yet thou bast permitted my child, the son otja widow,to die; thou art a villainous cheat.' As i began to be concerned for her sanity, I applied to the priest who was engaged in praying from his breviary. I informed him of, what was going on, and was not a little sur prised at the answer of the highest spiritual authority of the village. t Sir,' he replied, ' will not say the peasant woman is right in act ing as she does, bnt she is not entirely in the wrong. She really has made St. Anthony a. number, of presents, at some personal incon venience to herself, for the widow is poor ; and yet the saint has done nothing for her— her child is dead. We must allow the poor woman to speak her mind freely, for her cOm plaints are just." —The northern tower of Cologne Cathedral has reached a height of one hundred and eighty feet above the ground. The towers are to be builtat the rate of thirty feet a year, and in 1871 the third entablature will bo reached, where the octagonal lanterns begin. According to the assurances of the architect the cathedral will be completed in 1875 as far as the cruciform ornaments, should the sub scriptions amount to 250,008 florins a year, as they have lately done. Legation, aad nearly, all the foreign Ambas sadors at the Court. Here he became ac quainted with Sir Henry Bulwer, the British Minister to Spain, who formed so strong a friendship for him that he invited the artist to take up his quarters at' the legation. The friendship thus formed has continued without intermission up to the present time, and there lane person of whom the artist speaks more warmly, and to whom he expresses such sen timents of gratitude as to Sir Henry. During his stay in Madrid, Fagnani, was ordered to Naples to paint the portrait of the Count of Trapani, to whom it was , at that time intended to give the Queen in marriage. While there he was unanimously elected Academician of the Royal Bourbonic Academy, and received the only gold medal ever given for a portrait. On Ids return to Madrid he received from the Queen the decoration of " Isabella la Ca tolica." Shortly afterwards he returned to Paris. Here he painted the celebrated Countess Gtriccioli, then affianced to the Marquis do Boissy, and several other personages of note , among them Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville. He had a sitting appointed bysthe Queen Marie Amelia, when the revo lution of 1848 broke out. and everything was Changed. In 1849 Sir Henry Bulwer was ap pointed Minister to this country, and wrote to ra,gnani. offering him a place in his suite and a passage in her Majesty's war steamer, the Ifecate. The artist 'accepted the invitation, and the party arrived in Washington in De cember, 1849, after a pleasant voyage by the way of Madeira and Bermuda. General Taylor was then President. Thus Fagnani visited the capital in time to see the great constellation of statesmen of the last generation, of whom Clay, Webster, Benton and Calhoun were the bright particular stars. He painted portraits of Webster, Clay, Cass and Fillmore, and two likeneSses of .'resident Taylor, after death, for the faintly. Fagnani procured commissions as soon as he reached New York, where he determined to settle. In 1851 he married an American lady. He continued to reside in New York until lezB, when be returned to Paris on ac 'count of the health of his eldest son. He had scarcely arrived, when Queen Christina, then living at. Malmaison, sent for him to take two portraits of herself, one to be sent to Madrid, and the other for the palace she was then building at kome ; and gave him commissions, also, for portraits . of her daughter and son in-law, the Prince and Princess Ladislas Czartoriski. In MO Yagnani painted Richard Cobden (who was then in Paris negotiating the treaty 'of commerce), in two different poses. One of .there portraits was presented by the artist to the :New York Sanitary Fair, and purchased by Morris Ketchum; who gave it to the New York Chamber of Commerce; the other was Wright by the N'ational Portrait Gallery of London. In 1861 Fagnani went to Naples and painted Garibaldi, 'who was then Dictator. This portrait is now owned by the city of Naplas, and bangs in the City Hall. In 1862 he re ' peiec'd a coimnissi 3 On from the Neanolita.n, mu Mentality to paiiitAhe aing, :Victor Emmanuel, and went to Turin for that purpose, and made a portrait so satisfactory to his Majesty that he nave the artist the Cross of the Order of St. Maturlce . and St. Lazate. ' While in Italy he also painted the Prime Minister Ilatazzi and ABOISING A SAINT. St. Anthony the Victim. HEAD on Axtings A Ifieeeef Ex•Poyersior King, of Rhode Island, Diesight Days Dead, and the Body Daman, irate irstil,Cheeksifitudie4l 9 and Lips lied. [nom the Boaters Peetj STONINOTON,- Conti., Feb. 19.—For the. last ,few days, this village, as, well as the neigh boring towns of Westerly:. and Charlestown,in Rhode Island, have been the scenes of much excitement, caused by various rumors as to the condition it' a young. lady in the latter place, who, it was reported, had been in state of trance for nearly a week. Others de nied this; asserting that she was dead. Yester- . day afternoon your correspondent, in coin pany with Dr. George D. Stanton ' of Stoning- . ton, visited 'Charlestown, a small manufactur ing village, and met with no difficulty in find ing a low, weather-beaten house, about a mile and a-half from the village, the residence Of Mrs. Josiah Ring, the- young lady's' mother, from whom we learned the following facts : Miss Susie A. King, her daughter, wag about twenty-three years of age, and of tine personal appearance. About two weeks ago she was taken sick with some affection of, the throat, by which she was confined to her bed for several days, when she was supposed to be convalescent, and allowed one day to come down stairs. That night, however,,she grew worse, complaining of severe pains in het hands and feet, and continued to grow worse till the next day, when she lapsed into an unconscious state. in which she remained until her death, Friday, the 11th, at 7,1 A. M. The usual preparations for .the grave were made ; the body laid in the coffin, and Sunday, the funeral services, were held. While the friends were taking their last look' at the body,a physician present thought he observed eigns,ot life. The body was removed from the coffin, and, being placed in blanbets, friction and 'artifi cial respiration were resorted to without ef , feet. The next day the galvanic battery was used, but was also without, avail. After hear ing the above particulars, we - were invited to view the body, which lay in a coffin on the table,where it had remained since Sunday,this being the eighth day since death was supposed to have taken place. The body presented the appearance of a per son in full health and sound sleep. The thee was full and round; the cheeks flushed and the lips"red ; the eyes unsunken, with no out , ward suns of death. There was a total ab sence of muscular rigidity, and Wednesday, after lying six days in this condition, the body was perceptibly warm to the touch: The phy sician present applied the stethoscope, but could detect no pulsation of the heart, while the application of a lighted match to the skin produced no blister tilled with serum, which 'is said to be invariably the case when life is present. • Many physicians from the ' Surrounding country have been to witness this wonderful phenomenon, though disagreeing in their conclusions, some believing Miss Ring to be 'in a state of trance, others thinking her dead, and attributing the preservation of the corpse to arsenic, which' it is possible she bad been accustomed to take for the complexion ; a -habit practiced by many young. ladies. That Miss K. had this habit, however, the, family deny. The father - of the young lady_ was dosiah King, brother of ex-Governor King, of Rhode „Island, who, it 'may be remembered, occupied the Gubernatorial chair during the ‘i Dorr War," in 1841-2. Much sympathy, is felt and 'expressed for the family, and some idea ofthe public feeling manifested in the case may be inferred from the fact' that during the past week over 2,500 people hate visited the house to see and to hear for themselves CIITRIOITS DISCOVERIES. fnteresting Antiquities Found. Three. well-known archteologists; Mr. Pui lan, Mr. Wood and Mr. Dennis, have been re cently excavating in Asia Minor; The anti quities disinterred by these gentlemen till upwards of two 'hundred cases, and are now on their way to England, to be added to the 'possessions of the British Museum. The greater part of these. antiquities is the result Qt' six mouths' excavations among the ruins of the Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene, in Asia Miner, by Mr..E. Popplewell Pullet], who, as architect of Mr. Newton's ex pedition to Balicarnassus, rendered 'etnetual services to archaeology, and has since distin enished himself by his explorations of the Temple of Bacchus at Teos, 'and of Apollo ~uiiutliens at the Troad, under the auspices of the DUO tantiSociety. The cases now on their way to England contain fragments of the sculp tural and architectural adornments of the Temple, including portions of the celebrated tuatne of Minerva mentioned by Pausanias, a colossal female head of aline period, parts of several draped statues, heads of the Macedon ian time, and fragments of the frieze, which in style, closely resembles the reliefs on the , Mausoleum, and is believed, in fact, to be by the same baud. There are aLso a few inscrip, tions of much interest. • • ' Besides the 'marbles discovered by Mr. Pußan, . there are thirty-three cases, the fruits of the labors of Mr. Wood at Ephesus. This gentleman, as is well known, has been employed for some years past by the British Museum in seeking for the world-renowned Temple of Diana. Two eases sent ftom Asia Minor by Consul Dennis, whose researehns among the tombs of the - Lydian kings at Sardis were abruptly brought to a close by the wantAof funds, are also among the consign ment of ancient marbles shipped by The Simoom. OBITUARY. Chief Justice Joel Hinman, of Commie. tient. Yesterday forenoon Hon. Joel Hinman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Con necticut, died at his residence in Cheshire, of pneumonia, at the age of sixty-eight years. On' the Bth inst. Justice Hinman opened the Supreme Court in New Haven, but on the following day, feeling indisposed, he returned home, and after an illness of twelve days died. He was born in 1802, in Southbury, and after receiving a common school educa lion studied law at first with Judge Chapman at Newtown and after wards in New Haven. He commenced prac tice in Waterbury in 1826, and was soon after elected Judge of Probate. In 1812 he was elected to the Connecticut House of Repre sentatives and during the session of the General Assembly that year he was chosen a Judge of the Superior and Supreme Courts. In 1861, upon the death, of Judge Storm, he was elected Chief Justice. Last year, his term having expired, be was again chosen by the General Assembly by a unanimous vote. In politics he was a Democrat of the old school. As a .jurist he was considered one of the ablest the btate has produced. HEAT IN COAL NINES. Investigations In England. An English journal says: From experiments made at the Rose Bridge Colliery, near Wigan, the deepest mine in Britain, it apvears that at the depth of 808 yards the temperature of the coal is ninety three degrees and a-half. It will be readily in ferred from' this fact that the cost of labor and timber for props must be immensely increased, and the danger augmented. No doubtgeolo gists are right in their belief that below the old red sandstone are inexhaustible beds of coal, but if the temperature increases in the ratio ofl degree to every 55 feet, it will be ne cessary to train a race of salamanders to work the mineral. • F. T. FETHERSTON. Publisher. PR,IOII,THRSE NAM' AND IPANICUIE —Tim firematils hell(e)--HoseiAnnat —Yesterday was the people's , waltr.dar. To-day is Birtbingtores. Wash-day.. —A trade that never fails—the ntillbr4; _he can always grind his —lt is strange how our volunteer iltimest can do - osent to pay-rades, is they db.- • —Colorado offers 85,000 reward for the tirrsts artesian well sunk in the Territory. ; —Some blighted old bachelor' sac ;Mate "he supposes the natural diet of :anti unit being milk account for its (i)creatri!, —The gas performance at Horticulturalt Hall, last nighv, carne near bringing dbwn the,. house. • ---,Spirittialiamds " Spiritism." Aiis tralia, and it has a newspaper, organ called the. Glogwormt ' • —lf Mr. Wil s lard did- not amuse his audience last night, it • was not because he did-iAot take: panes enough. Blame not the barred," as the inmate. of Moyamensing said,aklien he declined' an in vitation to the ' " • • —lntelligence has been received''thraugh, the cable that the title of Mr. :Dielt•ensN new story is to be "The .Mystery of Edwinprnad." —The Pall Mall Gazette credits and.extends the report, that Prince Arthur visited the President in a Pair of « Cashmere" 'pantaloons.. =The stereopticon exhibition, last evening, at Horticultural Trail, ' included' igottiti 'tine• statuary, and conclndedf withn "inagniflcent bust. —The frankingprivilege was not appreciated / by the people of New Hampshire forty-4 . 1w,- years ago. One of their Congressmen sent borne a package of garden seeds under his frank, and so indignant were they at the wrong that they would not re-elect him. —His said that a new description of laws is being thrown from the crater of.. Vesuvius since the last eruption, consisting of crystal lized salt. This beautiful phenomenon has hitherto been unknown in' volcanic natural history. —An enthusiastic patertittnilias- has -peti tioned the French Senate to invest the fathers of the greatest number of children withsome new decoration, and to subject the entire fra ternity of bachelors to a special tax, rising in amount according to their age. • -A Church in Dupere, Brown county,Wis., glories in the name of the United Evangelical- Methodist-Baptist-Congregationalist-Preshy terian-M oravi an - Protestant-E • piscopa e ran-G ernian-D inch- I ieformeil-Catholie- ;''and United Evangelical Church and Christian Brethren of the Glorious Reformation.. —A chemist in Albany, while -expatiating on the discoveries of chemical science, An nounced that snow possessed considerable heat.. An Irishman present said cheiriistry must be a valuable' science, and ' asked the lecturer how many snow balls it would; re;-- quire to boil a tea-kettle. This was a poser: -Tha. New York gas companies. quake • out their bills '! by guess." One consumer found it out in thiS way : One month' two 'btirriers were' used and -the bill was six dbllars'; the. next month one burner was used, and 'the bill was considerably larger; the- next month- he used every burner iu the house, and a gas stove in addition, bid the bill was only Live dollars. —The New York Nation, usually so:accurate and fastidious in the use of langivae as*to, be a model for;youtliful writers, 'speaks , editori ally, this, week of C . cll WCHS "dq/iftWajtkiL Ifirkli to railroads, and — fliTils there were people who paid off in paper during 'the war• debts contracted in gold,: and "saved :forty, fifty, or a trundroft percent. in the, process.'.' Micawber's 1.0. C.'s made about such it. say ing as this ; but we believe the greenback was never quite worthless. The Kaftan also - U.4— " When the time comes, if it is lotto "to'w'nie," —and otherwise shows that it is not quite In fallible in matters of literary elegancei• any more than the hastily made-up daily papers. _ _ AMIISEMMTV. . —At the Chestnut Street Theatre TheArcels of Xav York has drawn crowded houses 'for a week past, and there was a Very - fair audience last night despite the- fact that the intense cold made the attendance at all the • places of amusement rapier • sfinall. Those who like realism and sensation will find that 7We Mreels of X(10 York will suit them exactly ; and those who demand gebd acting even in pieces of such a character will derive a great daill or pleasure from, the clever performance of Mr, Frank Mayo. 'This gentleman has proved ,that he has i - cry considerable ability, ,by his Management. of a series of characters which cannot be regarded as particularly prontisinz. His personations are distinguished for, versa lility, bright intelligence, complete knowledge of stage effect, and such sincerity and earnest ness as win forhimthc complete sympathy-of his audiences. The subordinate characters in the piece are sustained in a most satisfactory manner by the members of the exoellont cem pany., , A report has been circulated to the effect that the management of this theatre will bands. We are authorized to contra dict this statement positively. Miss lieene will continue to direct the theatre, and will present in the future, as in the past, firs =class entertainments. • —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins :appeared Th at the Walnut Street Theatre last night, in the sensational Irish drama. Trodden .ert,, , We have spoken of this play, upon former occa sions as an exciting, interesting awl well Con structed drama. It is one of the best' of a claSs which finds favor With a large number of people,and there is no reason why it should not win popularity as great as any of the pays which are founded upon the idea that Ireland is oppressed and that Irishmen are the bravest and best and Englishmen the meanest and most cowardly of mankind. Mr. Watkins is an excellent actor—quite the equal, we think, of any of the gentlemen who have Won dis tinction and wealth in romantic Irish characters of late years; and Mrs'. Watkins is not only a very charming actress, but she is a sweet singer, and the pretty Irish Melodies introduced in the play by her add greatly to the attraction: of the performance. She has a good mezzo-soprano voice, untrained, to be sure, but of excellent quality, and capable of a great deal of expression. Trodden hewn will be repeated this evening. —The American Theatre offers for this evening an attractive miscellaneous bill, In cluding performances by fludworth and dancing by the excellent ballet corps. —At the Arch, this evening, The , Love Chase and Don Juan. Mrs. Thayer Will have a benefit to-morrow nightin a good bill. —The Circus at Tenth and Callowhilletreete will be open this evening with a performance by Mlle. H enrietta and the entire company. —A number of novelties are promised at the Eleventh Street Opera If ouse,this evening the chief of which is an original burlesque of Brougham's Red Light. There will be a capital minstrel entertainment besides. Benedict promise a first-elass performance at the Seventh Street. Opera House, to-night. Mr. Hugh Dougherty will appearin new delineations : and their will be a miscellaneous performance. —The very handsome panoramic illistra dons of Invoyan's Pibithn's Progress will be exhibited at Concert 1411 upon every evening of the present week. —Signor Blitz will indulge in magic legerdemain, tit Assembly Buildings, ex-ery night this week, and on Wedne4day snit Saturday sifterndons.
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