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BETHEL SUNDAY SCHOOL OF
the 7" the A.. M. E. Ohnrch.—The with an
Ito Grand Crombinatione, bo exhibited on Theodor,
Yobtuary 22, 1870, at 8 o'clock, for the bonefit of, the
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A Rare Piet are by lernmbult—.4The facade
Of flitibroitae”—sA Charity Coneert lin
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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
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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.