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JLBEhS.
FIRST EDITION.
BY CABLE AND mTAIE..
EUROPE.
Awful Destruction at Strasbourg
ROW NAPOLEON WAS BETRAYED
Minister Sickles and the Brigands
ITALY AND THE POPE
f By Oabfe.l
HEROIC STRASBOURG.
luiuentllne Fall or tlie Great Toner.
: Xhflve.riowBfroni
u«ir Strasbourg to-day, by way of the Rhine,
■as late as Thursday. There is reason to be
lieve that General Ulrich has six weeks’ pro
visions for the whole population, 'and there
are no signs. of surrender. It is believed that
the army of Lyons will soon be put in motion
to attempt to raise theiiiege. The sighs observed
from the German works lead to the belief
that'the magnificent tower of the Cathedral,
ihe noblest architectural achievement of the
German race, lias been so severe!v shaken as
to be on the eve of falling. The immense mil
itary hospital near the arsenal, was set on fire
by bombardment of Tuesday, and burned to
the ground. The whole city is indiseriml
natelv subjected to an incessant ram of balls
and shells ; the flags of the Geneva Conference
are tro longer respected, and . the inhabitants
are forced to take refuge in the cellars and
other subteraneah constructions. A terrible
cannonade is reported to.have been opened oh
tlie devoted city yesterday.— H'oi-M.
MAJOB-OESERAI, SICKLES AYD XIIE
BBie&SDS.
A Maid or Hie Outlaws Planned Agralnst
ilie Mlijlsj er—The Ueneral Forewarned
I ...His I’Jnn of Action and Barely—-Tlie
Uoral Situation—Polities.
London, Sept. 20tli, P. M.— The special cor
■ respondent of the Herald in Berlin reports a
v mail ne-ws letter, dated on the 10th instant,
tor transmission to Sew York, in which he
i -ays
; f have already informed you that the Snan
|Tsh Government had recalled the greater nor
■ lion of tlie fjendm-nux force from their posts in
Uifi mountain districts—thus leaving the
j farmers and travelers at the" completo 'mercy
I ot the brigands, and this notwithstanding the
! very numerous cases of the most daring high--
! way robberies and ruthless murders which liave
f been lately recorded as having been perpe
trated b_v these men.- The brigands roam about
quite unrestrained by any legal or moral code,
and the Government in Madrid has done noth
iDgto check their criminal outrageous nro-
CCedmERT' ; - “ —r..........
Tliere-is-scarcelyh province of the Pciiin
sula but has now two or three different bands
J '•>? armed robbers on itssoil. These men order
; everything. With the view of carrying on
their depredations in greater security from
I the law, and in order* to procure fresh arms
j and ammunition;' tlie bandits always adopt
' some political banner as a rallying standard.
Under cover of this they enter the villages and
; proceed to exact funds and rations from the
inhabitants, even from the authorities. A
I sum equal to SoO.OOO in American gold was
■ demanded recently by them for the release of
| a rich proprietor in Andalusia, besides a va
riety of smaller sums which were had in other
; instances elsewhere. Gruel treatment, even
; murder-ami butchery of the recusant, follows
i n cases pf refusal.
General Sickles's Cose.
1 You have beard briefly from your corres
pondents in Spain of the escape iof .Major-
General Sickles, United States Minister in.
Madrid, from the hands of the brigands Gen. ■
Sickles has to come at regular intervals from
his country residence to Madrid, in order to
discharge his official duties. This fact, as well
as notes of his time, were communicated to the
brigands by their accomplices in La Granja.
It appears that, the Geueral was expected to
leave Madrid lately by an eight P. M. railroad
. train. He, however, previously warned, per
haps, started by the 5.50 P. M. ears of the same
line. Aware of the insecurity of the lower
roads, he adopted wliat he regarded, as a very
oiirewd plan—that ol crossing the mountains
at an unexpected hour, and when he would
not, be thought to journey.
On arriving at VillaJbaj accompanied by his
aide, Gen. Sickles called the same conveyance
which bad taken the two from La Granja to
, VjlliUba. The driver of the coach, who was
'evidently surprised to see them at that hour,
said that he expected them by the eight P. M.
train- Arcarriage was prepared immediately,
■ and the party set out for the mountains.
When the coacli in which it was imagined
the General would come had arrived at a”very
lonely spot in the mountains, .a couple of bri
gands broke out from a hiding place and
stopped the vehicle. They demanded if Gen.
Sickles was among the Dassengers. A nega
tive reply was given them. Then followed a
very close scrutiny of the different passengers.
Not finding Gen. Sickles, the brigands con-'
tented themselves by plundering every person
who was there.
The Spanish government, well knowing
wliat a serious affair it would turn out'to be
if the representative of a foreign power should
fall into the hands of the brigands, have or
dered out a detachment of the gendarmes for
the duty of profiting Major-General Sickles
when he journevs to and tro between Madrid
and Yillaiba.
(By Mai!.]
A Polish Veteran in the French. Service.
i Gen. Louis Mieroslawski, who has just of-
I fered his services to the French Provisional
I Government, is on his father’s side of Polish
' parentage, and though born in France in 1814,
was educated in Poland. In the unfortunate
struggles of his' country in 1880, he took
an active part; and after the partition
of Poland, found refuge in France, and
became deeply involved in
thejrintless insurrection of Poland ih 1848.
he wasTnTested at Posin',' and"
condemned to death, Pending.the . exeeution .
| of the sentence at Berlin, the revolutionary
, movement in the latter city in 1848 resulted in
| his liberation. He plunged into the full tide
i of the political convulsions of that year, and
i -gns placed by the Provisional Government at
Baden in command of the revolutionary army
Khins. J With the aid' of Sregiel and
D’Oborski, he defeated, in .Tune, 1849, Prus
sian forces of superior numbers in battles at
Leutershaulen and \yaghausel, and
J. 9 : Prince of Prussia’s army
of, <>o,ooo men -in check. Again retiring'
to private life and literary pursuits in Paris,'
he. lias nevertheless always been ready to en
gage in enterprises for the, liberation ,'of Po
land, and vim the leader in some of the -at
trmp .s at Polishi insurrection during"the,lastr
decide. Strongly republican in Tus views, a
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1870.
correspondent of and co-worker with Kos
tuth aDd Garibaldi, it is considered that Lis
ofier of aid to the French Provisional Govern
ment carries with it, in addition to his distin
guished talents and energy, the sympathy of
republicans throughout the Continent.
The DiACoveiy of Arms In Paris.
The story of the discovery in Paris of a store
of upward pf Prussian guns is thus given
ny the Paris Journal: u Some days ago some
cheats were seized, which were found to con
tain Uhlan -Uniform*? Yesterday the arms
were, found. The plan contemplated was sim-
P”r> Iln< l Ahd it succeeded; would have been
effectual. The 30,000 or 40,000 Germans who
inhabited Belleville and La YiJlette before
the. decree of expulsion was issued had
been formed into ’regiments with that ma
chine-like precision which marks all the
proceedings -of -Prussia. At sf"given inbY
ment, and concurrently with an attack by
the ..h?KfqHtßg forces, we should have been
takenm the rear-by false Uhlans, who would
have charged upon us, and cause us to believe,
that the city had been entered either by a
breacli or through the sewers or catacombs,
borne persons appointed for that purpose were
to have called out ‘ Treason,’ and then our
troops would have been assailed in.front , and.
in fear. The discovery was made quite acci
dentally. A quantity of rifles having , been
sent to the station at La Chapelle, a railway
servant seized one, which he took away with
him,, and, being somewhat intoxicated, de
clared loudly that he knew where thew were
plenty of arms. A body of the National
Guard, upon being Informed of this
man’s.. statement, _ proceeded -to the
.station-—and —interrogated--the-- officials,-
who at first denied that there were any arms
there, but some of the porters pointed out
several railway trucks which were laden with
cases of muskets. Upon careful search, 10
trucks were found to oe so laden, haviug ac-'
cording to the statements of. the employes,
arrived from Bedan- some days before.' The
National Guard having no authority to seize
tlie arms, an application was made to the
Police, who took possession, not of 16, but of
trucks, all laden, with arms and amunition.
AmoDg these arms were Chassepots and
nefcdle-gnns bearing the Prussian eagle, rt is
said that cuirasses and lances were also found.
An investigation is now proceeding, which, it
is hoped, will acquaint us with the names of
the intended receivers as well as of the actual
senders.”
Frpre Hjoclnthe's I.etter to Minister
"Was lib u me.
Tlie’text of the letter from Frere (late Pere)
Hyacinths- to Minister Washburne, referring
to his communication-recognizing the French
Republic, is as follows:
but: Detained in the country for more than
a month by the state of my health, which has
Miliered so many and cruel ordeals, I much re
cret that it is not in my jiower to grasp the
band that has just written a letter so noble and
•jmpathetic toward my country.
That letter is a page in the history of liberty
in the tw» worlds. It revives the recollec
tions of Washington' and Lafayette,and proves
that if despotism had succeeded in dividing
two governments, liberty bad not delayed an'
jhnsttrTrHd-nnittrtwcrpconlesT—Etrropei —where"
the blood of our defeated heroes has flowed is
'■till silent, but' America, despite the ocean
which separates us, has made her voice heard,
bhe affirms that neither distance nor diversity
of race will make strangers of nations
w hich have the same son), and , that
-lie demandsfor her young sister, that right
I which it appertains to her to dffiiue, because
she was the flrst to Jjnow how to practice it—
the inalienable right to live toiling for the
happiness of ail.
1 aln happy that such sentiments fiave found
-: heir-offi eial interpreter in one whom I love
and esteem so much, and I pray vou to ac
cept with the expression of my patriotic grati
tude the homage of my respectful and deep at
tachment. HvAcrjrrriE.
Bouwac, Sept. 10,1870 ...
The Ex-Emperor— Deserted twr m B
Friends—Accusations or Treachery.
Jt is a sad commentary on the instability of
royal greatness that Napoleon, in his cap
'iviry, is deserted even by the London
Tela/roph. i-)A correspondent of that cele
brated organ of the Imperial back-stairs
sends i-rom Paris the following rumors and
suspicion?: '
There is but too much reason to apprehend
that the almost universal belief entertained bv
Frenchmen that treachery and treason have
been rampant,, not only among French civil
ians, but also in the ranksof the French armv
is founded upon fact; I have talked with
several soldiers who escaped from the-wreck '
of De Faiily’s division, and who have made
their way, back to Paris. They are unanimous
in their assertion that this trailer, as they all
regard him, so handled his troops as to deliver
Them over. ...to be helplessly massacred ,by
their enemies. But JL regret to add
that, although De Failly is even more
execrated to-day in France than Lehoouf,
there is a still mightier name on eveirv lip
agiiiusl which the strangest innuendoes are
whispered. The latter from the pen of 11.
I’odevin, late Prefet of the Department of
I-a lleurthe, which appeared iu last ni'ght’s
-"w, has produced a prodigious effect? It
will be remembered that 11. dePodevin was
violently animadverted upon by public opin
ion for having .surrendered Nancy, the chief
town of his department, without a struggle,
and for having advised his fellow-townsmen
not to resist the enemy. The peccant Pre
fet was ifr.-stioic* and disgraced by 11.
Chemeau, late Minister of the In
terior. He now defends himself energeti
against the calumnies of M!. Clievreau,
-ays that his rcpeated.appeals for arms were
disregarded, and tliat not a grain of powder
was supplied to him wherewith to blow up
the.bndges over the Meurthe.. He adds that
on the morning of August 11 he was
ordered to blow up.-thie bridges. but that, after
having in vain applied for powder from the
Engineer Department, he shortly after re
ceived une depeclie chiffrfee de I’Empereur
in’onjoignant de ne pas les faii-e' sauter. I“ A
cipher despatch from the Emperor, forbidding
me to blow them up.”] These words are
printed in italics in M. Podevin’s letter, and
have here arroused intense surprise and indig
nation. A story is to-night bandied about
that Marshal Bazaine has announced that the
E mperor himself made overtures to him, his
most distinguished General, of a traitorous
character. “ Traitor,” “ bandit,” “ robber”—
these are the mildest words which fly to-night
irom lip to lip—and I grieve to add that they
are applied to no less a man than the unhappy
Emperor himself. Of course it is natural that
i* renchmeii should be .only too■ eager, in the
present condition of France, to find
any excuse for the dismal reverses of
the French array. /-vBnAFIow as is the esti
mate everywhere the military
and late Em
peror, it seems inconceivawfcf to Frenchmen'
except on the suppMitiot£c® jreach.@ry. tW
Fe eoiiKrhave
that-it would enable lffm to escape from a posi
tion which he Pad- riotously enjoyed Tor 18
years, and which lie felt to be no longer
tenable. A mot is attributed to the Emperor’s
most trusted favorite, who exclaimed when
e , 9 nals , calne > “ -Du moins noiis nous sommes
diablement amuses dei/uis dixhuitans a lours frais!
! -f-t any rate, we have amused ourselves, dev
lhsli well at their expense during these 18
years.’l You are told that the Emperor,-hav
ing had at his disposal a sum or 30,000,000
iranca annually, was in the habit of nevor
spondiriglcssthan-]00,000,000.-'The"Htafo'ac-'
so “oooked” and j uni bled up with
each other in Inextricable confusion, that any
auditorsliip nr supervision wns Impossible. - It'i
was, indeed, never attempted. 1 am, not re
penting to you mere Idle' and'.-ivindy rumors.
For several days these damaging imputations
li.i’i e been the .staple of conversation at four
out of hve dinner-taWes in Paris. The letter
from M. Podevin has undoubtedly given them'
increased weight and circulation. Nor should
1 be doing iny duty as a chronicler of daily’
in . la "s if I omitted to mention that,
whether justly or unjustly, the cry of treason
is rife to-night in this city,and that neither the
Emperor himself nor the Ministers who corns
menced the war, and who,by quitting France,!
are likewise giving color to the charges, have
escaped what I cannot but hope is a slanderous
accusation.
WHY m; WIHPFFEN scbbekbebed.
His Plan to Escape Coantermanded by
tbe Cmperor. -
[From Galignani-V Messenger.]
A?, officer who had not quitted (General dp
\\ Impfien airthe morning of the Ist writes as
follows to the Debate:
On that morning the Prussians, having ter
minated their movement, attacked us on our
.right, in order to drive us on the fresh troops,
who awaited our descent from fhe plateau, be
fore deploying all their forces. For a moment
Gen, de wimpffen was deluded, and believed
j n i 1 vietpry, not as yet knowing that he had
.before him more than 150,000 enemies. In the
evening he resolved to open a passage for his
troops_ to the Belgian territory, or to march
upon Garignan. He would doubtless have suc
ceeded, as the enemy, half disorganized by
the con test, had remained in position on the
field ot battle; but the Emperor, who still
held ae facto the chief command, prevented
him, and paralyzed his best efforts by calling
up the PrusHian.s witha white flag,"and by
.-addressing a letter to the King.'General de
Wimpfien, after a warm altercation with the
Emperor and his suite on the subject, re
turned to his quarters and gave in his resigna
tion. Napoleon refused to accept it, and.
wrote to him the following note:
General • You cannot resign at the moment
when the army may still be saved by an
honorable capitulation. You have done yoilr
duty all day ; do it still. You will render a
great service to the. country. The King has
accepted the armistice, and 1 am waiting his
propositions. Believe ih my friendship.
' , Napoleon.
Tbe Genera], being then persuaded that
only one course was open; that in retiring
alone, as he could still do, he might avoid,
personal captivity, but would abandon the
gallant sojdiers who had braved death under
bis orders during the whole day; seeing, also,
that in so acting lie would ill perform the
functions of general-in-chief placed in his
hands by the fortune of war,’ decided to re
main at the head of the army, to share the lot
of all, and to set his name to the capitulation
—that terrible act which—closes—by an im
mense disaster, by an unforseen catastrophe,
one of the most brilliant.of' military careers.
" ■ Genera] Belle also refused to adhere to the
capitulation. A letter addressed by him To his
wife says: • ■
I am prisoner of war with the whole army.
Never has any people had to undergo such an
aftront. Tell your brother that if he reads,,tbe
report, of the council of war held for the sur
render of the .army, lie wili'see that two gene
rals reltL-.-ii to submit. They were not named;
but the world should know that the dissen
tients were Generals Belle and Carre de Belle
mare.
WHAT WILL, ITAIjY DO WITH THE
"■ DOPE?
Tbe«*Keds” Alert. •
I From the Fell Mull Gazette, Sept. II.J
The occupation of Home by the Italians is
the natural and inevitable consequence of the
i lownfall of the empire: The Italians wore to
the eonventipii,of September, and that con
vention depended for its maintenance on the
French b,qyonets sent to support it. It was a
convention imposed by forge and maintained
by force, and as soon as that force was with
drawn it was certain to fall to the ground.
Tbe Italians have lost no time in taking
advantage of the sudden collapse of
the eldest son of the church, but it
is only fair to them to remember that in the
first instance the convention was thrust upon
them against their will, and that the continu
ance of the French occupation for so many
years was altogether contrary to the spirit, if
not the .etter, of the compact. The Italians,
as far at least as their government was con
cerned, showed themselves anxious to con
ciliate tbe Vatican, and to make things
pleasant, But the Holy Father himself was
obdurate and resentful. “Non possumus”
and •• Lt Tape ne transigera jamais’’ were the'
only answers he would make to the advances
Italy and the urgent representa
tions ot France. Even now, even after
rii- evidence of the recent Council
and flic assumption of personal infallibilitv,
there seems to be a lingering hope on the part
of the Italian government that some kind of
understanding may be come to with the Pope.
A-variety of arrangements is proposed by
which the Pope is still to be an independent
ecclesiastical prince, with some apparatus of
worldly authority. The question the Italian
government are apparently seeking to solve is
how far they can make concessions to the
Vatican without provoking their own people
and jeopardizing the dynasty of Savoy. The
revelutionistsare evidently on the alert, and
only a hold and decisive course will save the
monarchy.
MATTERS IN SPAIN.
Tlie French KevolnUou 9uU Spanish He-
publicans.
A Spanish correspondent of an English pa
per says:
Hou' will the rapid march of events in
France affect Spain ? is a question which all
Spaniards are at present anxiously asking
each other, but which they find it difficult to
answer satisfactorily. It Is now nearly a year
since the Federal Republicans in this country
rose in arms against the Governments " That,
the movement was then popular was shown
by its strength as regarded numbers.but it was
smothered in the cradle by the superior force
of military discipline; and since then the Are
has been smouldering, and waiting only for a
waft of outside sympathy to fan it again
into a ilame.- Republicanism is, undoubtedly,
an important political element in Spain, but
it ha> hitherto been weak from internal
divisions and disagreements on - minor
points between , .the heads of the
party. The Republicans were divided
Into two classes, or , parties, namely:
the l nitariau and the Federal Republicans.
The l uitarians comprised the Progresistas; for,
although the Rrogresistos called themselves
monarchical, it. was evident to all that in de
fault. ot a monarch they would choose a presi
dent. It was even alleged that they, with
their leader Prim,, wore Republicans at heart,
hut restrained trom. putting their ideas into |
practice by tuo threats of Napoleon and the i
f jnCTllßingujitH,tad^o£-a^,.an»^u--S l it,rt«em-h— J
cipheircarnst party. “The Federate, it was
asserted, were ready to link their‘fortunes''
with those oi the Unitarians, if these would
only declare the Republic at once, regard
less of Napoleonic consequences ; but tW&j
Unitarians' could not he prevailed upon'
to plunge into tills course, and thus
Spain jogged on, trusting to chance for a
i windfall. • The question now is, Will the
Spanish Republicans.oonsider this an oppor
tune moment for action; and, if so, will the
Federals adhere to their former ideas, or
modify them soas tO imeetiUnltarian-yiows.
and 'obtain tlioir Support ? Should the Fede
ral Republicans rise again, as they did in Oc
tobpv last, thprmns# succumb, for their orgau-
Tzation is not .iniUtarj, and they have already
:,had exjppnencSpfiwliat this, force, can do- In
quieting restless: spirits. Tho Carlists, how
ever, by their ill-ndvlsed Jagitation, arc doing
all they can to rouse the spirit of the Re
publicans. The army is being increased,
ana extraordinary precautions aro ta
r™,, over the country, specially,
tn the northern provifices; but what
•does it portend? It is difficult to tell. Rumor
says that Prim contemplates a coup d'etat, but
theonly importance _to_boattached to this is
that it is quite certain that Prim is prepared
to take advantage of any good thing that may
turn up, but as regards any particular course
yoti may feel sure that he has' none. The pre
vailing opinion is that if the Republicans be
come the party of the present, it will be be
fj*? 8 ? V 1 ™ 30 chooses, and although people
speak of him contemptuously, all know that
he has the army with him, and tliat as long as
he is thus supported he will be the man of the
.day. .Whether. Spainis-to-bo-a—Republic-or-
Dot every one .here feels confident of one
thixigy and • that is that the crisis in France
must produce a crisis In Spain. ■*'
A NOTEE SPECTACLE.
Cruel Treßtment 6f a tTidow an Clrtcasco
nISS. II^? 0 Besieged and Innndaied-
Heroic Defence of tbe Oarrteon. „t
Chieago of the Kith has the fob
A somewhat singular spectacle is just now
a » the intersection of Eighteenth street,
. Canal street and Canaiport avonue. ft is
nothing more nor less than a “lone,lorn”
widow woman living in a small shanty located
A 1 ? 1 tee way she happened to
become thus isolated from the world around
her was tins: the three streets which intor
seof each other at-that point -are-being -over
hauled, reconstructed and improved bv
the city authorities. In the progress of these
!? ip i r ?^ ei l Venta and changes it Was found that
tbe littiehouse or shanty owned and occupied
iii 8 foresting widow, with five small
children, stood in the way, and its removal
was necessary in order to push forward the
improvements to completion. The contractors
accordingly opened negotiations with the
widow for. the purchase of her “ cabin.” Thev
oflered her S2OO for. the structure, or S5O for
removing it out of their way. The owner
failed to > see it.” The contractors, impor
tuned, entreated, threatened; but the woman
stubbornly refused to budge out of their
way, or to sell her property at any such
paltry figures. The work of en
larging and improving the streets was brought
to a. stand-still. A council of war was held,
and anally it was decided to dig a trench en
- tirely around the house, and till it with water
from the adjoining hydrants. jThis was ac
cordingly done, andjn a few. hours more the
widow and her children were dwelling unon
an island. The waterin the trench three
2*" it grew deeper, and
finally it entered the dwelling and covered the
-floor, so that tlie-occupants were compelled to
\mount a table.tokeep dry. The- situation be
■ came interestmg, and scores of spectators
visited the spot and viewed the spectacle ’
v' l,b intense curiosity. JstUl_the hero
-lue of the occasion obstinately-refused to da-'
pituJate; and when oftr informant left the
place she remained master of the situation de
_termined,-apparenUyy—never— to strike her
colors white her ammunition and provisions
hold out. Her only means of reaching “ land”
is by a narrow plank which she has succeeded
in running out of one window of her domicile
so as to form a tolerable bridge., If thalitua.
tion remains.unchanged much longer, perhaps
some enterprising party will establish aferry,-
ror. her- convenience and the benefit of bis
fiwn pocket. This is an age of bald enter
prises, as well as of strange novelties. I
DRAMATIC.
The ChestnntTStreet Theatre.
—We are informed that Mr. E. h. Daven
port, has leased the Chestnut Street Theatre,
and will open it immediately with a first-elass
stock company. We are very glad that this 1
establishment has fallen into such good hands.
Mr. Ildyenport is an estimable gentleman
whose permanent connection with any theatre
would tie a sufficient assurance that it de
served the patronage ot the respectable public. •
We regard him, also, as an actor who is in
every respect the equal of any other upon the
American stage. In certain characters in
deed he is superior to hnv of his contempo
ranes. The presence of this versatile and ac
complished actor in any company in this citv
ought to insure a crowded house ever nmht.
Mr. Davenport has, we understand, arranged
tor the appearance of Mile. Janauschekr on
October 31.
“Central Park” at the Arch. « ..
—At the Arch Street Theatre, last night, a
play was produced, eutitled Central Park: or,
7he House with . Two. Doors. Mr. Lester. Wab
lack-;- oTNewTorK, claims the authorship.
In the hills the drama is entitled, “a brilliant
local comedy in live acts.” In reality it is a
lively farce expanded with some- ingenuity
far beyond its just dimensions. If the dia
logue could be cut by a bold and judicious
hand, and the incidents compressed into three
acts, the farce would he much more effective.
It depends for 'its interest entirely upon the
plot, and that could.bo developed with greater
clearness and torce in a much smaller com
pass. It is undeniable that the plot is very
excellent. It has for its subject a series of
queer blunders in which several very worthy
people are involved through tlie absurd
jealousy and suspicion, entertained against,
each other by a man and his wife. The inci
dents consequent upon the misapprehensions
of the parties, are very amusing, even if they
are a little unnatural and extravagant/-The
situations are often full of genuine humor,
which loses none of its heartiness because the
time-honored trick of hiding visitors,- whose
presence mightexclte suspicion, in closets from
whioh they emerge in time to participate iri a
striking tableau, is adopted with remarkable
frequency in every act of the play. The dia
logue is not particularly brilliant or witty, blit
it is easy, natural and amusing in most of the
scenes and tolerably good in all. None of the
characters aro new or striking, and there is no
attempt at the nice development of any of
them. They all have about as much
individuality as any of the figures in ordinary
inroes, and they are .placetl in situations so
comical that . they afford amusement without
exciting admiration for their accurate resem
blance to known types in actual life. Mrs.
Drew, Miss Price, Air. Hill,-Mr. Mackey, Mr.
McManus and. Mr. Hemple played the princi
pal parts, and, ot epurse,' performed in a mod
acceptable manner. Those who wish to en
joy some honest, hearty fun, can obtain the
article at the Arch Street Theatre, while this
farce remains upon the stage.
Eneille western at tbe Walnut.
Last niglit Miss Western played in East
Lynne before an immense number of that par
ticular sort oi gourmands whojthri venpott-lhe.
Srast^ifTror
part.of “Lady. .Isabel”,show tHlalllierokl
power oyer the feelings, .ana depicted" the
changes ot jealousy, remorse and maternal
with an energy amoUntiug to violence,
part,■ we should feel and could express
anShhjtagned admiration .for Lucille, if she
wouldTntener condescend to be quiet: to our
thinking, the scenes whore “Lady Isabel”
shows to her young husband the beginnings ,pf
distrust,, and afterwards where sue tries to
keep her self-command in proposing as a test
the removal of the' mistrusted lady, were much
.more- touching -than the- agonies .which fol
lowed.- The play was well borne up by the
efforts i of : the <■ other ; performers, especially
Mrs. Qhttpman. , In the upholstery' and
dresses, which were bright, new and rich, we
were pleased to ohserve a great advance oil
the 1 part of the' old Walnut, and one which
will set forward the reputation of the house as
PRICE THREE CENT,-*
amoDg and handsomest intli*
un l r /v Th? wiH.be continued: Frida™
benefit©! Miss 'Western; Saturday, her
pearance in a matinee. ’ p
THE FINE ABES.
A severe-domestic calamity has occurred to
tbe painter Hamilton. In Chedeath of hia ex
cellent wife, he loses the partner and trfie help
meet of many years. Mr. Hamilton is natu- ,
rally much depressedyand has but little energy
for the prosecution of his Just great conception-'
—a new treatment of one orf his most cele
brated inspirations, the “.Conflict of Be Ban
nomine, Richanl and Serapis." .
"Knight’s fine picture, illustrating a scend'
from Othello, is prosperously advancing, but i*
not yet in a condition to be shown even to the
pubhc personal fri ® nda - let alone the-general
One of our most laborious and conscientious '•
artists, Mr. T. Henry Smith, exhibits at Hasel
tine s, as the result of three, years’ patient la- •
bor, a very interesting picture representing the
modern mechanic. The subject is an artisan of
our century tending a Hoe press in full ope- '
ration. young man is of an intelUgent
cast, and grasps a book, t« be studied in the
moments snatched fiom labor; while musical
instruments and works of art lie around. On \ -
. th eyy all is pictured a plodding mechanic of the -
oldschop], laboriously working a hand-pre'sa •
oi the kind used in Franklin’s day, The idea
of modem versatility, and the zest of life, is
very strikingly given. Artistically, the figure
is studied with almost-painful oare; and- the
strong young torso, with the neck power
fully planted on the shoulders,—the en- :
«f ge i - c ,^“ erlc ? n hßa <l. with its union
of ...haughty spirit and - .intellectual delicacy
—and the modeling and shortening of the
hm bs,are represented with insight and power.'
The composition, with its not very tractable ''
mechanical details, is likewise sidlful. The
‘J‘ftewmtttom anything-we have seen
ot Mr. Smiths, —theblender” having been
iisedwtihperhaps excessive frequent— and
recalls English work of the old school. Some
°* ol "i typosraphical-associations should deco
ful work 1113 " Ith this uncommonly thought- ’
Roberts, sculptor, has modeled a profile in
re,le J> °\ the ? ort known as the “ veiled statu
a,y Tlle of a young bride is seen'
quutrcoveredwitli diaphanous-laces, yetTuHv:
apparent under the- thm disguise, which en
hances rather than conceals its beauty of out>-
|“>e. One hand, resting on the bosom,holds-'
}!?“ .!£?}, ,a 1 .Roberts is about to try .T~;
Ins ski]] on a lull-length male figure.
, yesterday entered the studio at Messrs,
fatrn thers & Sons’ establishment, for the i>ur-~' 7
pose of seeing a bust of the late Judge Gner.
which we had found under way at a previous- '
-Visit._ii_Q__were—disappointed—in-this,— the— —,
promising young artist, Mr. Wells; having de
stroyed his work on account of some .dissatis
faction or scruple about its merit. He had
ust finished, however, an excellent portrait
bust of Dr. Green of Easton; pa., which we -
.believe to.be a perfectly satisfactory likeness.
as it is a most creditable work of art! ■
- Mr.btarkey, a tjlie sauieatelier, is tnodcling
a full-length life-size' figure of Buth. The
Moabitess stands in an attitude of meditation,
pressing a few wheat-ears to her bosom. Her
tace.wbicljisnotofaJew-islrtype.butism-
. tended to representthe pri tuitiverace of Syria —~—
is thoughtful and perplexed. The drapery id
thrown around the form with much grace
and the posture is good. This figure is aid
ready ordered by a Philadelphia connoisseur,
and will be cut in marble during the winter.
Akers’bust of Luoreti a Mott, the philan
thropist, is now chiseUed in an uncommonly
beautiful fragment of Carrara, and may bt>
Been at Mr. Struthers’ establishment. It is re
markable for an absolute purity and unsur
passable refinement of expression! which the
translucency of the material and the skill oF
the cutter have enhanced. The drapery is not.
however, quite so fortunate as the face.
At Caldwell’s may be seen a statue of Pane
looe Sleeping, in plaster, by J. Obermeyer.
J.be figure struck ns as elegant and savant,
while wanting in originality. It recalls a cer
tain line of antique recumbent figures such as
the Mourning Agrippina and Deserted
Ariadne of the Vatican, and the drapery, in
tbe metafile precision of its folds, likewise
suggests the style of ancient sculptors. At the
same time the figure and folds are both cor- .
reet, and hard to find fault with. Mr. Ober
meyer is the artist whose statue of a Nvinnlt
ailornrtbe fountain at'Bitfgnhouse'Sqjiare. "™ ■’
CALIFORNIA UONSTERS.
Relics of Ancient Times.
The Pacific coast is wonderfully l'ich iu.tho
l?,*. • remnants of the autideluvian era.
Within the last two months, says a San Pram
cisco correspondent of a Charleston paper,
discoveries have been made, which in any
other country, would set the scwam crazy with
excitement and furnish material for endless
discussion. The chief of these is what was
once evidently an immense sea monster. It.
lies on a high plateau, about, one hundred
miles to thp southeast of Hamilton, Nevada,,
and trom its position it Is supposed
that the Jocale was once a great shoal,
anc * that the leviathan floundered and
perished on its surface as the water re
ceded. The petrifaction is- perfect, and is esti
mated to weigh about ten. tons. Ithastho
head and body of ahumpbacken whale, while
the extremities extend into feelers and an
tema»l, like the polypus or devil fish, with the
exception thattney are evidently lined, during
life, with a hard and bony substance. The>
bead is flat and, oblong, with eyes set on each
side twenty-four inches apart. The mouth is
armed with tripple rows of tooth, sharp in
front, but underneath and well into the jaws
they turn into grinders, capped by a solid
osseous formation. The length of this singular
relic of an unknown ago has not yet been de
termined, but as tho body bleniis into._fho tail
it tapers down'into so small a size, that,
making due. allowance, its weight would not
be far from that stated.
At the present time there is on exhibition
in the city the tusk aud some teeth of an auto
diluvian animal, whose magnitude must have
dwarfed into littleness the most monstrous
mastodon or megartlierium.of which we have
any account-—a beast so large as almost to defy
the power of imagination to conjure up an
image so vast before the mind’s eye. The re
mains were discovered very recently in a for
mation of cement and lava near Stockton, in
this State. One of the teeth weighs ninety
ffyi! in>uqils„4n.d the tujdc
*j) ropo it I oil'sw i; t t'D i,! ortSkiUre towhich n) be
--longed -niust-liavcbeen-several-hnndreiT-feetr —
long, and weighed hundreds of tons.
These mammoth hones will shortly
leave .for the East and Europe, and
are certain to Croat a sensation wherever seen.
Last week the petrified claws of an immense
lobster or crawfish, measuring a foot and a
half in length, wore found in a drift in a
Mount .Diablo gravel bod, live hundred' feet
abovo tide level,and the papers this morning,'
contain accounts of the discovery of a perfect
petrified seal in the White Pine country, tn-_
geth'er with a great variety of curious fossils '
and ammonites. Indeed, the coast abounds
with relies of antediluvian and. possibly pre-
Adamite monsters, and every square mile of
grpiind shows evide_nee_of the fearful convul
sions that agitato the globe when those tre
mendous creations oftlie Supreme Being wo to
.coffined in stone.