GIBSON Fl iOCK. Editor 131; D 4 CARDS, rNVITATION 3 vy f o r I &roes, ho. New styles. MASON &CO., 9)7 Oboist nt tiwt. de3Ofmw tf§ EDING INVITATIONS Rif: DVrr D graved in the newest and beet manner. LOUIS ZKA, Stationer and Engraver, No. 1033 Chestnut street. fe2o tf DIED. • . , BORA IMANN.—On the 29th Instant, in Rome, ltaljr., 11. Hortitmann In the 49th year of his age. RAB r EL - A - CICSI ati ' EYRE h LANDELL, FOURTH end ARCII strode, EDP ALL THE DEBT BRANDS. BLACK ALPACA MOITAI RI, DOUBLE CHAIN ALPACA - SPECIAL - NOTICES. FINEST SPRING "Beady-Made" as GM' as "Custom" JOHN WANAMAKER'S 'atebtOrii Street ellotiilng Estabilsfitient, 818 and 820 Chestnut Street. 10* ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, 1025 C HESTNIIT Street. TB? YABITIONABLI RRSORT. 8 E IID A N ALOE STILL ON EXHIBITION. • .71,1 4 711 WEEK 07 THIS GREATEST OF MODERN PAINTINGS, MI 04 r(S",4l',Artlist. T. IWCHANAN HMAD. 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OD nwl Warning Anon ities,No 3 - 14 WALNUT street, iu thAt city- • JUAN 1201/gEntt, 661 f, Secretary. to. PILGRIM BENEFITS. weanewiar. 7.1/1 P. M. Evening, Sonth Street Pt.ebyterian• e;burch. Thursday , •.Ivonizig-s , ,uth rr,,t.),,orien Choral. Friday ...ening—Well. Pel-ral titre,t M. F. Church; and Chnrch or God. SILVER. PAY—tiaturdwy. BA-twee:l 2,:al and .er,aring, Tractional in ink 71 s:rp; I'llE TIOA1:1) OF DIRECTORS IX, -"Y of the L+drgtt Nailer Rat , roart Cm/twiny has th clot.,ll r dirldetpl of Tao and u Efalf Per Coot. on thc , cet pi.x.l «to/ I, of - the C...ropany, p.yrtlifF. At their "Mc-, N... ail 'Walnut str.et, un :m4 after FRIDAY . ..kyr/xi' nth, 1 , 74. CIIAS. C. LOINGSTLiETIi. mh.'lo•w I m&• Treasurer, LIEBIG'S COMPANY'S EXTRACT of Heat ee , ,:ttres great economy and concenirmce iu houeekev , ying And excellence In cooking. Note, 'genuine Without the eignetnre of Laren Lte'hig, the Inventor, and of Dr. Max Von Prttrukofer. delegate. w bilLif Ati . {4 0 . IP3 Broadway ; ; GIRARD STR BET Q .1 1 It X ) TITEKISII, RUSSIAN AND PERTUMED DATE'S Departments for Lad ICY Battle open from ti A. M. to v P. 3t. Wm THE AN LTAL ELECTION OF 1)I -rest, re of the Trinmpo Silver Spiting and loin mereial Company of Lower California, will be held at the othee,3l4.ii Waluut street, an TUESDAY, April 12, WV. at .1.1: o'clock noon. ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, TWEN tieth and Cherry strests.—During Lcut service, every 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 7ls o'clock—thornl -service. bents free. This evening, sermon on Palau" b y Rev, WM. P. LEWIS, of Pottsville. It DR. BEADLE WILL DELIVER hie Third 1,-rtnro in ennr.y. of Bibtfeal lilnstra• flow , WEI4NESDAY EVENING. March ./.1. in Whitfield Chapel, Twenty-liret and Walnut. mh2s2trp Ur HOWARD HOSPITAL, NOS. 1518 and 1581 Lombard street, Dispensary Department. —3ledital treatment and medicine furnished gratuitously to the porn-. TILE IMPISIAN CAPZWAL. Statistics of ht. Petersburg.. The St. Petersburg correspondent of a French paper gives information as to the re turns of the chief of police of that city for itat It appears from these reiarns that tit. tPetershurg is divided into Qffrfeen districts, each of which is. presided over by a superin tendent of with the rank of field-offiCer. The fire brigade includes a chief, 18 maitres de pompee, 14 under them, 51 non-commis sioned officers; 940 firemen, a farrier, with two assistants, an engineer, and :178 horses; in addition to these there is the lire brigade attached 'to the Imperial Palace, comprising Iwo officers, six non-commissioned officers and 100 men—total, 1,136 men and 378 horses. The Board of Health of the capital includes one " town physician," one head doctor to the police; • one head veterinary surgeon,' one chemist, three accoucheurs, twelve district doctors; with nine assistants, eighteen sur geons, fourteen midwives, in addition to the -staff of the Committee of Medicine, and that ofthe Medical Direction." The number of sick'persOns received in the ten large hospi tals was more than 48,000, of whom 6,700 died. Besides these, 2,780 -persons were received iu the prison hospitals, of whom 281 died; in pri vate hospitals 9,004, with 382 deaths ; in the hospitals 15,230, of whom 2,167 did not recover, and in the military hospitals 32,- .802 (deaths 2,411). That is,in the five hospitals, 108,149 were received (of whom 11,888 died— just ten per cent.)=--a 'proportion rather excel-' live for a city which has less than 000,000 in habitants.' ' ' - GUY ;FAWKES IN SAN FRANCISCO. Hai t ile Of the Belgian Conseil Blown Vp with Gunpowder. The Belgian Consul at San Francisco has secret and inveterate enemies in that city,•who last week attempted to take his life, Several :gentlemen wore dining, with him, and after <Miner. they passed outin a body to a rear house, and as they wont out they heard a ter rific) explosion. They waited, startled and even terrified, but all was still after the re -port. They= finally - ventured back into the house and found that in the •dining-room the table had been hurled fromthe position it had •occupied, while everything ou it and around it was utterly destroyed. In the parlor all the - furniture. was demolished utterly, the floor torn in pieces, all the glass in the windows, as R ell as in the windeivs of the 'adjoining •hbuses; broken. Air iron powder canister was found embedded in the floor of the par lor. The canister would hold about ten pounds. it bad been split and torn by the • explosion. Beneath the floor. marks of hands : . and feet - were observed, bits of a fuse and a quantity of half-burned paper, It evidently , been intended to blow up the whole house while the Consul and Ns (linnet „party were at,the ' table.• _ ! , • , . . • IP • , • , , . .. . , .• , - , '' , ;• :. .. 1 : ' % ' , • ' ' ... ~. , .. . .. . . f - ,:.,,,.,.:*-....,.,:.:.,..,-.:- ..:•'. . ~..., . , ~. ~ .. , OV ERC 0 Arys. Work. J. W. BAIN ANOTHEtt SHOT AT THE MONOPOLY The "Yr garlot' of the Asso:iated Pros; COMMENTS OF A VICTIM Bogus and Nonsensical Despatches As the Philadelphia Press this morning has • undertaken to defend the Associated Press monopoly, we will give to-day an editorial from that paper, in which a characteristic se ries of despatches is printed and complained of. If anything more ridiculous than these contradictory telegrams were ever put inthie, we should be glad to hear of it. "Cable lrawarles." [From the Philadelphia Press, Oct. 20th, 1463.1 *,** * * * As tW source of news is removed from the place of publication the difficulty of deciding upon its weight is increased. Thus it is that telegraph news by ocean cable is geaerally re ceived with but little inquiry, because the presumption ls that its merits would be well weighed before starting, and nothing that was not profoundly important there, or that was not !bought to he so here, would be sent. But the history of ocean telegraphy, when even loosely Btuthed, dispels any such presumption. With a great deal of legitimate telegraphic matter—matter that is really international—is intermingled much that rises 720 higher than stuff We might instance the • recent story 'of the mutiny on board an American ship, and the hanging of ever so many of the partici pants, a fabrication, 28 it turned out to be, of a midshipman, who was doubtless anxious to test the gullibility of a French agent. This story was bandied about by the wires until it became noisome, and what, with the reports and contratlietions,was the subject of a week's telegraphing over a line nearly four thousand miles long. lint to make such cases of electric indiscre tion as ridiculous as possible we cannot for, bear reproducing the almost nightly episodes of an ocean wire for nearly a month back. First came a plausible story that might have interested a. township. It might have been true or might not : " PAIIIS, Sept 21.—The bodies of six TOUT tiered persons, a woman and live children, bate been found iu a field near Paris. The police have discovered no trace of the assas sins." Now, regarding it an well told and true, the interest of, America iu this phase of French morals might be regarded w satisfied; but 'upon the discovery of a few startling details their transmission might have. been pardonable. Vire have them then; PARIS, September 22, Evening.—Evidence has been discovered which leads to the belief that the woman and five children : who were foinal , deadthis'iveek were murdered by the husband and eldest son, " , Now any reasonable being would have sup posed that the perpetrator's, being known, ould be speedily arrested and tried, and, per haps, ireprisoned or ling. without caring to be troubled about all the intermediate steps. But, after the interval of a day or two, the world is astounded with the information con tained in the following " September 24.—The father and son suiipostel to have assassinated a woman and her live chi Idrenov hose bodies were found this week ipa held near Paris, have been arrested at Havre." 01.r.erre, an air of supposition creeps into the affair, as If to pave the way for the next . " PAnis, Sept. 24.—The report that the husband and eldest milt of the woman recently murdered, with her children, had been arrested at Halve, was incorrect. A man named Turpinan„ an alleged accomplice, was,..traced.to Ora-place. endears thred. Additional evidence has come to light which leads to the belief that the father and son are innocent, and may possibly have been murdered by the same parties who killed the mother!' here the suspicion grows suspicious, and the parties change. Atter all the labor thus far expended by the police, and by that enterprising agent„" this p.naouncement must prove gratifying: " Loxnws, Sept. 2 t.—The mystery of the re cent family murder approaches a solution. The bodies of the father and eldest son have been diScovered near the spot where the mo ther and children were found." Now the veil lifts from the singular affair, and we begin to catch glimpses of a hoax. ahe agent has been running "a corner" in telegraphy, just to pass away idle time, you know. His amusement was of course con ducted with due regard for the pockets of the company. The curtain up, welled " PAnis, Sept. 28.—The recent murder of an entire family still remains a mystery.' The story published yesterday, that the body of the lather had also' beeu found, was not true." Perhaps there might . have been, after all, some little foundation fertile story of so many cables length, and the intelligent agent, stn ting his loins d'ors, makes haste to take ad vantage of it, thus: "Innis, Sept. 29,—Two acennplices in the recent murder of, the Troppmanit family have beet arrested." Then' a qualm of conscience and another speculative :fever conies over him, and he rushes into a correction : , " Oct.l.—The report. that the body of the father of the murdered family had been found proves false." The patience of every reader has by this lime been exhausted, but happy in the know ledge that gold conies of murders and cables, the agent ventures again, and this time, either from lapse of time or befuddlement of im agination, he gets two stories mixed : " PARIS, Oct. is again reported that the corpse of the father of the murdered Kinek family has been discovered in Alsace." And then. to make the agony of his im pertinent Untruthfulness as unendurable as possible, he repeats : " PAnts, Oct. 13.—1 t is now said that the story of the finding of the body of Mr: Muck, in Alsace, is false." if it be at offence to deny murdered people Christian burial, this agent surely merits a drawing and quartering, or if there ever were such a family, and it murdered, then their troubled Shades should not fail to hold nightly levees in the office of that irrepressible agent. The step to his madness must be a slight one, at, any rate, and to have him danced into it by retributive spirits would be the mildest of penalties for his folly., The clove quotations , are .but- a sample, of'; , the many which abuse the ocean wires. After all is over, and time has been given 40;; perceive their littleness it is a matter of astonishmentthat any individual who assumes charge of so important a medium of intelligence as an in ternational cable, can be guilty of deliberate de, ception, or can so mistake the mission of the world's greatest invention. We leave the above extract, and those that have preceded it, to the judgment of an inteM gent public. They require no special, comment from us. .A. perusal of them will satisfy the unprejudiced reader that thS eulogies ;of the AFsociated Press indulged in by the paper quoted above at the present time, are insin cere and dishonest. • —ln Uniontown, "Pa., there is an anti-slan dering society. This will seem very singular to our readers, until we.add tbat tt has only one member, and she is deaf and dumb.. COLLISION . IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL. DREADFUL .1:08E1 OF LIFE A Fact Not Howe to the Associatcd The Cork :Ireland) Examiner, of March 18, says: The screw steamer Mary came into collision with the mairstearnerNormanby, from South ampton, thirty miles off the Needles, yesterday morning. The Normanby sustained some in juries and sunk. - Seven gentlemen passengers were saved in boats, named Bulson, Sheerdale, Cooper, d B Greene, James anrownette. Eleyi3n lady passengers were also saved, named .Kinloch, Roche, - Wood, Clisett, Wriest.-Roberts, Pore, ciaydon, Burrows, Godfrey • and Warden. Five sailors and one fireman, the stewardess, live stewards- and the second Mate were also saved. R. is feared the captain, and engi neer are lost, also about twenty pasSengersdn eluding General Grantham, Mr. Westaway, Mr. Kinloch ,(brother to the lady saved), iMirladies,and tendeck and forecastfe.pasien germ. The Mary stood by for two flours, but noth ing more was seen of the Normantty. The New York Associated Press has never had a word of the above news, and its agent in New York has denied that the account was true that was furnished by the American Press Association, and printed in the Buz,- LaTIN of March 18th. That account, which is fully confirmed by the above extract from the Irish paper, was at follows : LONDON", March 18, 2 P. M.—A collision between the mail steamer Nortnanby and the steamer Mary, a Danube packet, occurred this morning in the channel of• the Gdernsey coast. The Normanby was stink almost instanta neously, carrying down with her the captain, crew and twenty passengers, thirty-one per bone in all, who were drowned. The Nary was not seriously damaged. C OLLIBION ON THE NORTH RICER. Lose of Life. At seven O'clock last evening the * ferry-boat Weehawken left the blip at the foot. of Barclay street for Hoboken, and when in the middle of the river ran into the tug-boat Joe, the guard-rail of the ferry-beat carrying away the pilot-house of the tug. The pilot 61 the, latter when be perceived that a collision was inevi-, table left his. box, and when the vessel struck' he jumped on board the ferry-boat; but when he saw the tugstill afloat he returned, thinking that the detnage was only comparatively tri fling& It had not drifted 100 yards, however, Nvheii , it became almost full of water, began to settle steadily* and then went clown. this. time he seized on the small boat on board the tug, and seeing that nothing else remained to him, he suddenly thought of the bos, who was at one end , o*: the tug-boat when it went down. Be shouted, but received no . answer. He pulled the boat in a circle till he discovered the 'youth floating' on the Water and rescued him. The lad was on the point of succumbing when he was rescued. They remained on the boat till they saw the Desbrosses street ferry boat. Colden approaching, and they and their I oat were taken aboard by the deck hands toid brought to Jersey City. The fireman, who was in the engine -room to the last, went down with the tug, and there is cute -!clubt about the safety of the engineer. It was stated that he is lying sick and the fire man was running the .engine' in his stead, while others stated that,. he..wa.s on beard.and .hared the late of the fireman. The ferry-boat, which was in charge of pilot Bunt, pursued her course after the pilot of the tug bad returned to his boat, as it was sup." posed the danger had passed. The question 01 culpability is one for investigation, as each pilot charges the disaster on the other.', Cap tain Bunt saws the pilot of tIM tug paid no at tention to the whistles. The ferry-boat re ceived little damage. THREE MIMING HEN ' . • ffuronti Life .Aptiarently Unsafe 'nt roughkeepoie—negititenee of the Au- theratiete. Within one month three well-known per sons have mysteriously disappeared from the -ity of Poughkeepsie, and, strange - to say, In each instance neither, to all appearances, had ?eft the ph;ce. The first was James Jay Cox. When last seen he was,, on his way to the depot to take passage 'on the milk train, due at Poughkeepsie at t P. AL, intending to go to New Ham burg. He bad on his persost_about one thou sand dollars in greenbacks.. He was just too late to catch the train, when he loft the depot, and has not been seen , ince.', At the time of his disappearance he was slightly inebriated. He was 33 years of age, was about live feet ten inches in height, 1 and wore red whiskera and-, red moustache ; ' •:-1:00 reward has been offered for any informa don concerning his whereabouts. Bis brother tirially believes: that he never :left town,'hut was murdered- and his, body secreted. The next person to disappear was Abraham Stock holm. Be left his home in Crandell street on Friday evening, March 18. Throughout that day he seemed to. feel downhearted,and was fearful that his businesswould , be dull. After having a *settlenient with his euiployer he went to his nonce and partook of supper at the family table. After tea be concluded :!he would take a walk out, which he did, and never returned. It is probable that he com mitted suicide, but, strange- to say, he was seen by no one after leaving .his own door way. Be was an old citizen, Well-known and rerpected. He bad but little inetileyWith him. Yesterday Poughkeepsie was again excited over athird mysterious disappearance. About a week ago a man twenty-three years of age, named Mathew Colwell, residing on the Dutchess turnpike, about three or , four miles from the above city, came to town with a load of eggs which he sold for about ' S5O. Just about dusk he visited the Tremont House,near the railroad depot, and that was the last seen of him. It was thought by his fanilly that he . might have come to New York ! ' but from con, respondence with friends here-it seems he did not. He has a wile who is 'nearly 'distracted over his absenee. Singular" to' relate, these disappearanees do not in. the least trouble the Poughkeepsie authorities, as no steps . of an official character have been taken to aid in Solving the mystery. . • , TILE LATEST CASE. POUGHKEEPSIE, March 29.—Another case of mysterious disappearance from this city , iw re ported to•night. This makes four within a little over a month. The last one is James Lynasen. The FiLeenth 'Amendment to , be Pro. WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 29.—The. Texas bill was received back by the House to-day, very soon after it passed the Senate, •and was referred to ' the Redonstruction , Committee. It will be reported In the House to-morrow, during .the morning hour; and passed under the operation of the "previous question" rule,' without debate. The President's Proclama tion declaring the adoption 'of ‘the Fifteenth Amendment will then be promulgated to morrow afternoon. The Proolaniation is ,al ready prepared, and. upon the, adMission of 'Texas will receive the Presideuessignature. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. Press. FORTY-FIRST CONOIRESS. ~ ,,Second.?tendon. EousE—rontinued from the Fourth Edition. I Mr. Arnell called up the bill donating the, Marine Hospital at Natchez and lands be longing thereto"; to the State of 'Visa's:UM - A' for educational purposes.. The praviotts question having beenseconded last , week - , he deinanded it•VoteOn• tlfe bill. • ' • Mr. , "Rairidall 'Vol:led an ' explanation would be mule. -.Efe,understood the land balonging to the Marine,aospital was worth $1:3,000. Mr. Scofield also aiiked fora further explana tion, but Mr. Arnell refused- to yield. The bill was then passed—ayes, ; nays, 73. Mr. Hoar, IromAke Committee on Eutaw, tion 'and - Labor, reported the bill to provide for a general system of education fu Stated which do not by State action provide for• the same. The bill:was postponed, and made the special order for the second Monday in De °ember nett • . . Mr. Arnell, from the 6amo Committee,called up theibill toallow the sohool trusteies in .A.r. kunsas to enter foriy aortas of laud, on condi tion that A school•house should be built there FIFTH EDITION. BY TELEGRAPH. CABLE NEWS. A !MI VAL 0 F STEAMERS OUT EUROPEAN MARKETS LATER FROM WASHINGTON NO3LtNATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT [By the American Press Association.] FRANCE. • Ateaniship Arrivals. • HAVItE, 31 arch 30.—The steamship Para guay, from lipw York, arrived late yesterday afternoon, on her way to London. *POLAND. Arrival of Ateamera. Bonn:temrole, March 30.—The steamship American, from New Yak, arrived at six o'clock this morning, on the way to Bremen. Steamer Frankfort, from New Orleans and Havana, arrived at 8 o'clock this A. M., on the way to Hamburg. Nl!Hannibal mid Conimerolal Quotations. LorrooN, March 30.—Linseed oil, £32 ss. per ton. BREMEN, ,MaTch 30.—Petroleum opened flat at 6 thalers, 63 groats, and closed quiet at 6 tbaler . 66 groats. HAMBURG, Mareh 30.—Petroleum opened quiet and closed quiet. ANTWERP, March 30.—Petroleurn opened heavy and unchanged. lIATRE, March 30.—Cotton opened quiet, both on the spot and afloat. HA3I.EUNG. March 30.—Petroleum opened quiet and unchanged. • Baximic, March 30.—Petroleum opened flat, at 6 tbalers, 61 groats. 14tvzirrOox., .larch 30, 4.30 P. M.—The Cotton market closed dull and quiet. Mid dling Uplands, on the spot, 10i ; Middling Orleans, on the spot, 11/d. Sales 10,000 bales, of which 8,000 bales were to the trade, and 2,000 bales for export. FROM WASHINGTON. [By the American Press Association.] 1110mlutattionn by the President. , WALITINi;TOIq, March 30.—The President sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day': George IL Ribble' as Collector of Internal 'Revenue for the Thirtieth New York District; Alfred E. Lee Collector ,of Internal Revenue tor the Eighth Ohio Djetti • -; Ho ratio O. Hunt as Collector of Infernal eve nue for the Fourth Texas District. t'oetirmatiou of Officers. Abe following officers were confirm a in Executive session, to-day: Thos. Comm' ngs, late Capt. 19th Infantry, to be Capt. In fantry, to date froth the 9th of FebruarY, 1863. J no. F. Trout, late First Lieut. 9th Infantry, to be First Zient:, from Nov.loth, 1867. The Cherokee Landc The House Committee on Indian Affairs, this morning s heard the argument of W. Loftin, agent of the settlers of Os Cherokee lands. iu . reply to the argutaent of_ r. Joy, President of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany, relative to the bill providing for the disposal of the Cherokee neutral lands in Kan sas to actual settlers only. The bill repeals the treaty with the United States anu the Cherokee Indians of August 11, 1866,and gives authority to the actual settlers to purchase lands on the reservation. Colonel Craig, of Kansas, was present, and requested the Committee, before taking de finite action, to allow Mr. Joy to answer the argument of Mr. Ladin. Vie IlleGarr.ahan Claims. The House Judiciary. Committee this morn lug heard' the opening argument of Colonel David G. Wilson, of lowa, in behalf of the New ldria Mining Company, who dispute Mr. McGarrahan's claim to the lands now in their possession. he further heard on Friday next. FROM. NEW YORK. [By the American Press Association.) A Vionniii , Feline' Deftd--She Is Supposed to Muse Been Poisoned. Niaw Youx, Hard :30. 7 -Mary Jones was found dead in bed 'on Tuesday. She is sup posed to have been poisoned. No marks of violence were found on tier body. Her hus band is suspected. The woman had been dead two days when found. `-NEW ENGLAND STATES. ALISSACHUSETTIS. Thti Supposed Wieek. . , >ay tike American Press AssociatiGnj liosTox, March 30.—The wreck stuff found near Plymouth, suppo.4ed to have been the re mains of, a wreck, is believed .to have come from the.steamship Tarifa, at this port, having been thrown overboard by emigrants. FROM THE WEST. Illy the American Press Association.] OHIO. liesheet to. the Memory of Gen. Thomas In Cfnelnxiati. CiNcirrNA•rx, March 30.—The Chamber of Commeree, to-day, passed resolntions of re spect to the memory of General Thomas, and appointed a"theeting of the Chamber to-mor row;to lake further action. A meeting of the citizens will be held to morrow, to express respect for the memory of the late Generid Thoinas. thank Consolidation. • • The Central'National Bank' has been con solidated with the First National Bank. op. 'He - yielded to a motion that the bill lie on the Speiker's table for the present. Mr. Amen further submitted a bill to abol ish the Freedmen's Bureau, and transfer its property ar.d effects to the Bureau of Educa tion in the Department of the Interior. He demanded the previous question. Mr. McNeely asked leave to submit a sub htitute, but Mr. Arnell refused. Mr. Welker hoped Mr. Arnell would not press the vote without debate,as the hill tranv ferred over $500,000, and ought to be fully de bated. 4430 O'Cllook Pending the disongsion the morning hour expire4l, and the bill went over. Death of fillgtound 11. norstniono. A cable telegram from Rome, received in this city, last evening, brings the sad news of the death of Mr. Sigmund H.Rorstmann. Less than a week ago, we announced the death - of Mr. Horstmann's daughter, stricken down by the malarious fever now racing with fatal virulence in atome. The same disease pros trated other members of Mr. Horstmarin's fly, ae it] has attacked a large p - fop(i= , orate foreigners visiting Rome this semon. rn. Etorstmann's health was already . in by revious disease, and the worst fears of hie count esi friends in this cityhave been ily realized. Sigmund H. Horstmsain was widely known as one of the heads of the old and nowfamous house of Wm. J. Horstmann & Sons, founded in 1815, by the father of the deceased. As one of our most enterprising, *night and public spirited merchants, as a liberal and loyal citi zen, as a true, genial and hospitable friend, as a man of irreproachable personal character, Siginund H. Eforstmann had surrounded him self with a circle of friends who will mourn his, loss with sincere grief, • and with the deepest sympathy for the double bereavement that has thus fallen -so suddenly upon his family. The brief , telegram tells the whole story of Sigmund Horsimann's last hours as . clearly as the minutest narrative could have done : " Died in full faith, without a struggle, perfectly conscious." To the Editor of the Philadelphia Epening : I beg'to suggest that a subscription be opened in Great Britain, and in the princi pal cities of the States, to which the British people may contribute. The said fund to be devoted towards the relief of the widows, orphans and others 'who were left deStitute by the loss of that gallant band who went down in the' Oneida. It is a reproach to the human race that a man should be so devoid of feeling for his fellow-creatnres. But the circumstance must be more severely felt by all who, with myself, are of the same country as ilaptain Eyre. There is one thought : if this sin of omission is not visited with the punishment it has de served, the author has earned the condfUnna-: tion of all men, and must suffer that severe retribution which follows the perpetration of a crime. The calamity is irreparable; but we might, in some degree, mitigate the suffering and sorrow occasioned by the melancholy disaster. 302 Spruce street PHILADELPHIA, March Lki, 1870 I We call 'attention to the art-sale of the fa ' mous English expert and collector, Mr. J. P. Beaumont, of New York, advertised for April sth and the days following, Leeds & Miner, Auctioneers. Mr. Beaumont, an' ar tist himself, and a connoisseur of finished taste, has been accumulating choice treasures for the last forty years, and now, in seek 4 ing the repose proper to his time ot• life, oilers a singular opportunity for the collection of curiosities. His handsome house we have seen filled with paintings by the old masters, by the great English names, and by , the better modern schools. Some of his furniture, also, which will form part of the sale, we remember •as very curious, a chair once belobging to Ru ben§ being an instance. This scattering of his penates and retirement from the, profession on the part of Mr. Beaumont, may be a rare chance for collectors, but it is a grief to his friends. The whole stock is now exhibiting at the Galleries of the auctioneers, 817 and 819 Broadway. r The late Charles Harvey, of Baltimore, left, a collection bearing all the seals and marks of taste.' Church, Boughton, Richards and John son, and most of the best native artists con- - tributed to it, and Plassan, Meyer von Bremen, Bosch, and many famous foreigners hung their gems upon his walls: This choice gallery of elegant cabinet pictures is now displayed at the Somerville Rooms, New York, and will be sold there on Thursday evening, March 31st. lila:, Blare tzex's Troubles ...Feebler Gets 012,000,1113 Gold. . , . (corrpmpoodenoo or the Albany Argos.) ' New York opera will probably take a funny torn next season ; that which was English be coming Italian, and that which was Italian beComing English. The success of the Pa repa-llosa Company in the performance of English opera has tired the bosom of Max Maretzel. to sail to Europe in quest of a troupe who shall be able to make his Operatic stage more successful than it has lately been. Be has been so unfortunate as to be obliged to leave the country indebted to the extent of $3,1)00 to Miss Kellogg, and $1,500 to Madame _Lumley, the latter of whom has sued him with no very clear prospect of reaping a gol den reward therefor. So Maretzek is to give English opera, and the l'atepa Company (F'arepit herself beim , ' ambitious to shine in parts for which If nature she is unsuited, being essentially a ha - ladist) will probably turn about and give Italian opera. It is said that in this season her company has cleared about $lOO,OOO, which shows that music is not altogether imappree ciatedip New York. . Xday or two ago, _Fred. Itullaian, the well known ticket speculator, paid, Mr. _Pechter $12,000 in gold for an engagement of four Weeks' at the Academy of Music; which is to begin on the :nth of April, and.in , which the great actor is to produce his entire repertoire. It is ,ruinored also that. Miss Kellogg's friends have partly succeeded in inducing her to appear at Booth's Theatre 'as " Ophelia, Aixibriisa.Thou n is's Ramlet, which opera was to ,',have been produced atthe Abadeniy by Maretzeir, but Coulanot be produced on ac-' detintef the "hammers" • ' Michigan ,boy who was a short time since'Sent to the State Reform School, was dis charged on account of good conduct, and upon histeturn home found his lather and mother both'cirtiuk and engaged .in a fierce quarrel. He Interfered, was pretty severely pummeled, and,turued out of doors. On Friday he ap plied to the'officer of the institution for re :0:01640n. ' OBITUARY. The "Less of the Oneida. • Your obedient servant, .P3IIID. GEO. K_EiiT Iliew York Art• Sales. I r, E L. .FE'IIIERSTON. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENODE LETTER FROM ROME. A New Biography of .ibisat--.A. ,filketelt of His 'Remarkable Career—Sickness Among. Tourists In lionte---ImprUdeatie of Amerfearis-.A Good Amerfeau Hotel Needed. morreepondenee of the Philadelphia Evening. Bu Ross, Italy, March 11, 1870.--A new biog raphy of Liszt has just appeared, translated from the German. But we in our day cast hardly have a true life of this remarkable man. We may have exact dates as to his birth; When he composed this or that piece ; but the events of his singular and romantic career can hardly be told while he is alive, and he looks as vig orous as if he might live some 'thirty years more. The private life of an artist who had royal princesses for the mothers of his chit dren could hardly have a correct account of it written during his lifetime. What a career he has had! His reputation began when he was only fourteen. Precocity of genius is more common among musicians than among literary or scientific men. There are excep tiims-Pascal, for example, who, at fourteen, " invented mathematics," as his father ex pressed it, and arrived at the 32d proposition of the first book of Euclid without aver having seen Euclid, just as Mozart composed a symphony in his boyhood. ' Liszt's success was so great in German. when he was only fourteen, that Adam Liszt, his father,like the elder Mozarktook his won derful son to Paris. As they had a powerful letter from Prince Metternich to Cherublisl,- they counted much upon his protection. Cherubini was then the Director of the Frencle Musical Conservatory, which he, (Oherabirul) had just established in Paris rinder the patron age of Louis XVIII., and had made it the leaning establishment in Enron:). Strangely enough, Cherubini received the father and son very coldly. 'Adam Liszt had the boy subjected to , a rigorous examination before Cherubini,Paer,and all thegreat artists in Paris. It was not only satisfactory, but the audience expressed surprise and admiration. Notwithstanding, Cherubini refused to admit young Liszt into the Conservatory, on the ground that he was a foreigner I Cherubint himself was an Italian. The biographer thinks the reason of this strange coldness was jest,- ousy. This could hardly have been the cause. There roust have been something in the man ner of the boy which made him antipathetic to Cherubini. The biographer says : " Preco- cious talents always give offence to talents on the decline." Precocious talents are, apt to make children very disagreeable and pre sumptuous, There is always a cousciousnees of superiority about a prodigy which, is offetto , sive and rouses one's antagonism. I fancy this was the reason of Cherubini's indifference. Cherubini ought, however, to belie been more forbearing, for he had memories of mortifies tions which troubled his youth. The first Na poleon treated him disdainfully. But in re senting unconsciously his own wrongs on is successors, lie only followed out the instinct, of the old Adam which is in all of us, and. which Sheridan hit ofd' so capitally iie Thz Rivals. " Sir Anthony rates master," cried the ser vant, "master abuses me—l'll go and kick BoetA." But time makes amends for all wrongs, if we could only wait patiently. Louis XVIII. rewarded Cherubini for all he had suffered; and the very Conservatory whose doors were closed on Liszt so insultingly in his youth is only too happy to accept any "applicant, on• any terms, rigorous as are its rules, at a Sink ple request from Liszt;-this I know to be a positive fact. Liszt has less of this vindictive diess of matured reputation than most distin guished men; he dOes not resent the wrongs of youth on younger, artists. Never was there a kinder man than Liszt to unacknowledged' and aspiring talent, in, man or woman. So kind is he, that he is apt to be ; deceived, and to ac cept the false for thezeal in'his desire to give encouragement. • , Paer and. Reicha, who wore present at the examination of young Liszt, interested them selves in his, affairs, and not, only gave him good counsel but efficient service. The..gifteLL boy was soon sought out - "hest sooiete of Paris. Indeed, like Mrs. Jarley, Lisztinte always been the , pet of the "nobility,and gentry,' and royalty has done more thauJimilet on him. , li.e: was presented to" King xy4ll, and to the royal family. The Duke of Orleaus,:Lonis Philippe,. took him under biar especial proteetien. We have all heard cif sonte,napkterious evens which produced a, sad effect on Liszt in his youth, Be,hada dangerous illness; indeethids death was, reported throughout Paris. The biographer says it was au unfortunate love allairoyhich nearly tnined him, as a similar one weinow know hastened Keats's death. But Liszt NM , made ,of stronger stuff than the young gnglisn poet who ,said so sadly, very thing which I want to Jive most for will be thegreat occasion of my death." Love,wbioh was 'titudi a tragedy to Liszt's youth, became the . gay comedy of his manhood, and, like Goethe, he bids fair to play the gay Lothario into his old age. The biographer does not give the name of the cause of Liszt's tender trouble,,the " soft impeaclnent," nor does ho give the reasons for the separation. The affair is wound up tantalizingly with these common-, place words :—"lnsurmountable obstacles op posed their happiness." Liszt's strange con duct, after his recovery, is well known. 11,0 tied from the s world, gave up his music en tirely,, and ocaupied himself iu works of clarity and pious reading. Like the little girl in FUlidi, be found his doll stuffed with brim and wanted to be a nun Paganini it was who drew bin:i out of ail% morbid retirement into the vrorld. The great violinist exercised a powerful ~iriflueriee, ip many ways, over the, youag ma. Then fo/ l ow ed ry brilliant, career, unparalleled in the history of artists, for even Raphael Ilad uPt such social success—such borates fortunes, 'as the French express the sort of admiration that was given to Lisat. It was a peculiar epoch in Europe; music, reigned triumphant ; a con-. cert or, a play ~Ttasi a n event, and occupied much place in minds and thoughts as politics do turw. ' • It is a remarkable fact too, that many load
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