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‘70141
,;,.NN (Le ?Stall). A Tale of the
aT OP GINSSAL SCOTT. 2 r
HOUSE. Ey anchor of " Wide.
males Lamb. ftiverside edition.
BOYS' BOOR riF SPORTS
Engravings. One of the baodso
books for boys yet publlebed.
.ANA• or, A Hymnal of Sacred Po ,
rat English writers by the Rev.
Ir printed on Oiled paper, red et
KS and books of all glade In c
now receiving from the late T'
. na sold at very low prices.
ASHMBAD & EVANS,
Successors to W. P. Hazard,
724 CHBSTNIIT Street
I:LAT WAR BOOR,
,rny OF LIEIIT. OEN: WINFIJ
I.mo. liioattated with two steel-p
takel, at different ages.
lIIP author of " Wide, Wtde Worlt
2
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%York for Winter. Work for Sprl
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F HOLINESS, by Eforatins Br
:TERS OF DAVID COIT BOCCI.
astern India, by Horace B. South
AND THE REBELLION. A menet
altos. against the Qirernment of
li t agency of the Church, No
.n taeltto. By R. L. Starkton.D.
Nv: , ..,L1A51 S. & ALFRED MAETIEN,
606 CHESTNUT steer
11:.914.11'14 OF 013AMB,
A MYR EV18131) EDITION, WITH
51 , W BEADY.
1:e Burning of Ulismbsraburg, Pa.
Iv. By the Rev. B. 8 Balw
bonnice Statements from severs!
, Cad Edition. Bevi.ed andimPrn
hoist Potion of the Town, dm
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per
BLABINTON, Publishers.
No. 25 South 6lXra direr
LOW-WATICE
•
s --- .•*! Mantilla SWAM SO ilsit al
Ptn , v,..=r
goatoh
AtrOß.
174 Nortl
lONERY & BLANK IP
MINING}, aml4, AND CP
; coxpaima
proud to Willa New Corforetlou N
the mart, at short mottos and IoW
.oltty. CI Stiles Of hiding.
YLAII viinnOATin 0? STOOK.
.17WOOLAPHID
Ifs/13t BOOK,
".Dlhs 01 TICKIMEL
1.41)0112.
r.. , 11 LINA& ZALABIOIL
OF emrreaz, STOOL
.. Aire cirri tam's.
.7111, Or 1LL.T.43.
SI 'IDOL
MOSS & C 0..,
LE xAD)A
41% 01115ST1IST Street,
DILVGS.
cdT az•Ta DRUG .UOO3ll.
VRICIHT & SIDDALL.
Jn. 1J HARKET STREET,
'Arden FRONT and SECOND Streets
; 41 NT.5, PHYSICIANS, AND GR
t.hitAl., STOREKEEPERS .
+:aed at ear establlabsaant a tall assortntaat
rt4e. and Dimeade Droge,Pdpolar
Paink, Coal Oil, Window elan%
64., at as low Drives as Lena•
•,n..laesgoods on be sold,
, FINE ESSENTIAL OILS,
111 toll yarieti wild of the but
, t'aea', Bengal Indigo, Madder Pot Ash,
*l7, Soda Asa, Alum, 011 of Vitriol, Anstalt.
4N1"411, Sztraid of I mood. Bao..
FOR DYN.W: USE,
oirt liand at ',west not OnO. Prim.
SI'LPHITE OF LIME.
•larlar alder sweet; perfeetly harmless
,•,,
- 1 T , I! , I, cut up, with fall directions for um
contatrang aulletent for one barrel.
by wail or city post will meet with
a!'4 , ntion, or special quotations will be
$l,l when reenacted.
WRIGHT SIDDALL.
WHOLESALE DEW WkII.IIHOI7SE.
112 MANKIT Street. &WY, FRONT.
FANCY FURS.
FURS.
L &F. IL WONRATH,
" •,s To THE LATE GZO. 7. WOMEATIL
X 0.415 Arch Street,
NUM HOW OHM
k FULL ABSORTIEINIT Of
`IDLES , FANCY' IrVIELS,
.Ach they Invite the attention of buyers.
::DIES' FANCY FIJREI.
JOIIN A. STA.MBAOH,
IPORTIR AND MANIVA.OTUBSII OP
Es' vANCIE"
HO. SSIS EVROS STREET,
B&LOW wmrt
''' ' ) / 44 etis I large and handsome gook of
14 ' OD OBILDUN'S NAM
ntrt dewriettos, and In the newest and moi
Proved styles, ►t the
.1,: \ VEST C ASH PRIi
lt4,3ta
011 1 MISSION HOVSES.
AD & BUTOBINBON,
11,11 OBILSTNETT MUM'.
uM MISSION MEROLIAN
POP, THI PAIR OP
P SILADELPGIA,MADS GOODS.
`4 ll -IVis lrla METALLIC WEATHE
Fs, F.na
WINDOW tams
4 creticea •
'Zeitdo
of Cold Wind, Bain, Snow, and Do,
DOORS AND WINDOWS.
-40 u-half the t el.
ARLES B. BAKER,
Ito. 3 S South FIFTH. Street,
Sole Statent.
Ctrealat
"‘ h. t '
8 wantd. throttehout the State. te inno34
AAT
CATERTZ-NEW TOIL
mart and plot bottles of °holes gas
!Or elle by RHODHS 4 wruiems,
107 Swab WATER likribet
L, 4 , 1 !E AND SKATE STRAP
i.% kre r eqUeibted to sail and examine sal
~..1 ? „eb DT Lattice and Gents! Skates Tor
aT ti . : l kill! Imbibed at the lowest maunTrt
4, got, B,AlitsZtV. Manotaeteserpoi
VOL. 8.-NO. 102.
EBDUOTION IN TES
JAMES IL CAMPBELL & CO,
MEI TRIM lIIIL'IRB STOOK OF
KEBINOES,
•
POPLINS AND REPS.
EPrermams,
OLAX PLAIDS,
ALPACAS AND MOHAIR%
BLACK AND FANCY SITAYS;
BRAWLS, GLOVES,
LINENS, WHITE GOODS,
FLANNELS, BLANKETS,
LINEN AND COTTON
MEETINGS, •
REPELLANTS AND
CLOAKING CLOTHE,
AT BITHBROLLY LOW RATEB.
Ire bet have to assure the publis that we hays
sarkod down ovary artists In our stook, and now hays
t In our POWIllt 10 Offllll
411 RARE BARGAINS.
c 05213
CLOASE DISPLAY.
Our Cloak room imagine s Mae show of properly-
made and elegant armour% for fall and winter wear.
RICH VELOUR CLOAKS.
HANDSOME BEAVER DO.
FINEST FROSTED BEATER DO.
BLACK TRICOT AND BEAVER DO.
FINE BLACK GARMENTS.
WATER PROOF CLOAKS.
CLOAKS MADE TO ORDER.
mili4-,imw3m Southeast corner NINTH and MARKET.
10214 WIEVERET STREET.
I • N. NEEDLES
.. HAUT Itnarnite
1 • e.
1 NOVELTIES e
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WIVAIa t ia d R t HI R I P A U L C L EI TIES. M. .
-----11114onsErnurr snow.
LAS TEEL & SON HAVE NOW.
a open a largit and choice assortment of
7.141,L LA WINTER DRESS GOODS.
Plain Merinos!, SIM to AS. Plain Poplins.
Plaid Mellow; and Poplins,
Plain and Plaid Silk Poplins,
Plain and Flawed Mohair Poplins,
slid a great variety of new And choice Dress Goods, all
it 'price, far below
THE PRESENT COST OP IMPORTATION.
SILKS-01 all Made, a great variety, from 70 cents
os3 per yard below
, htE mamma's PRICES.
SR AWLS—A large assortment, at a small advance
over last season's prices. '
se4- tt Nos. 113 and 713 North TENTH Street.
4_A SUPERIOR QUALITY MANTIL
-x LA VELVETS. of Lyons manufacture.
Very heav7 Corded Silks for Cleats.
t•pleneld quality Frosted Beaver Cloths.
Black and Colored Velvet Beaver Clothe.
Bealeand Plain Beaver Cloths.
ater-Proof Cloths, &c.
Cloaks ready•made, and. made to order Out of the
above cloths.
Splendid quality long Broelle Shawls.
Shawls and Scarfs in great variety,
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
211 South SECOND Street.
BARGAIIIS FROM _ KUCTION..
one lot. Swart' Skin Flannel, all wool, at 56M;
'beeper tb an canton manned
One lot Ow Ws Skin Flannel, all.wool, at 62X; a de
cided bargain,
Four lots of Marseilles Counterpanes, large size;
pretty pattern and good.
Lead Colored Canton Flannel, 65 and 75 cents; scarce
and desirable.
Ladies' Long Shawls, largest size and best styles;
only $lO. At JO. STOKS3',
no2l 702 ARCH Street.
sTATioi;ua
GENTS , FURNISHING GOODS.
BG2 - 6 - LBO BTREBT.
G. A. HOMLiB,
T PREEDY SKR7 AND WRAIPPID
ALINO7ACTONY. AND GENTLINNIII
FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
7. K. !MODAL&
TO TES lOW sTO2II.
925 ARCIEI STREET.
4ell•tamNßta
1864. .314 • 1864.
E. 0. THOMPSON,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
N.B. Corner Seventh and Walnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA.
N. B. Having obtained a celebrity for culling
GOOD-FITTING PANTALOONS,
maths it I specialty in my business for some yearn
Puts it is thought of sufficient Importance to SZZOILI3.OO
the fact in this manner to the public, se that those who
are dissatisfied may know of my meihod, and give me
a trial. 0c27-thstmdm
EDWARD P. KELLY.
JOHN Ic.BLIArs
TAILORS,
nil CHESTNUT STREET,
Rill iron► this dais ((Mishit 8d) NA Jtt
REDUCED PRICES,
sox
CASH. ."
044 i .
1864.
' ' S • '1 01-C I tz
1864.
vuus,
M•l7-in FIELEABILIPILIA.
1864. 1864.
ir.cocAmir.. - um ar.
RETAIL DEPARTMENT.
1119 01118'19111'1' STUNT.
seit-lha 017051111MIIPENDBXCIIMALL.
if
it ip.
CANTON MATTINGS.
j'IIST RECEIVED,
11.A.RD.-BELCBER & CO., PROPELS.
tors of
GENTR•L EATING 1101183.
No, 431 CHESTNUT Street,
Opposite General Poet OElee, Philadelphia, Pa.,
tender, by medium of the public press, to their mans
Erna and friends. their warmest thanks for the
ral enoouragement most generously bedewed,
ea promise to add still further improvements and
attractions, and nee every endeavor to merit thesupport
and patronage of the business men and ,generalpuhils
of Philadelphia and vicinity, eorl-bit
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RETAIL DRY.I6IOODEI.
PRICES
OF
DK' GOODS.
11117 011313TNIIT STRE/T,
DRY GOODS,
OORSISTING IN PART OY
COOPER dc CONARD.
lEG 111 0 V A. LI •
=MOVED TROM 605 ARCH iiTHUT
i); II 4 ZV : 'WW I = VI
FALL
0 MILLS,
GERMANTOWN.
htIeOALLIUM Qs CO..
CARPET WARIMOUSZ,
NO ozuorriarr STRUT.
A LARGE INVOICE OF FINS
COCOA MA.TX"ENCrS.
MoCALLUM Sc CO.,
509 OIDISTNITT Stmt.
CURTAIN GOODS.
Cann.
TAY ENTIRE STOCK
LACE CURTAINS
FORTY V'`=M 031114Vre
LISS TEAR CIOST 07 IMPORTATION.
I. E. WASAIELAYMN,
strOOBSSON TO W. R. CIABICTI..
IffAsONIO HALL
119 CHESTNUT STREET.
oels-tf
1026 CHESTNUT STREET. 1026.
CURTAIN STORE.
Constantly on hand a Milne of
WINDOW CURTAINS,
CURTAIN MATERIALS,
FURNITURE COVERINGS'
WINDOW SHADES
CORNICES, BANDS_ A _
TASSELS GIMYS.
CORDS, ica., ae.,
AT THE LOWEST PRIORS.
For first-elan goods. The workmemetap of Me tetab•
liehment is second to 110 other in the United States.
0. M. STOUT do 00.,
0031-2 m • No, 1026 CHSSTMIT Street.
SEWING MACHINES.
HE "FLORENCE "- AMERICAN
INVENTORS' GREAT TRIUMPH—THE SEWING
MACHINE laßoserza. —All 'the objections to other
Machines are overcome in the FLORENCE. It makes
MIN DIFFERENT STITCHES with the same ease,
and wiih as little machinery ae others make one, Be
sides, it has the REVERSIBLE PEED MOTION—a mai:-
term, self- regulating tension of thread and no springs,
cog wheels, or,gams to get mit of order. It does 'ALL
HINDS OF nmthy SEWING, from the heaviest
woolens to the most delicate fabrics, acing all kinds of
silk, cotton. ard linen thread, from No. 20 to 200. •
NO OTHER MACHINE does eo large S range of work
ae the FLORENCE.
NO OTHER MACHINE pleases the ladles so well as
the FLORENCE.
More than ONE THOUSAND Of the FLORENCE have
been sold fn Philadelphia within the last few months.
The FLORENCE is tie only PERFECT FAMILY SEW.
IND MACHINE, v emitted to give entire satisfaction,
or money returned. There le no one whO owns
FLORENCE that woild - aell it at cost.
Call and see its operations. whether you wish to pill,
chase or not. Samples of sewing. with price list, sent
free by
FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY.
n022-tf 630 CHESTNUT Street.
THE HOLIDAYS.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS
D. W.
Has now on band a very large'slock of
WATCH JEWELRY. and '
SILVER-PLATED WARE,
Selected expressly for the, coming HOLIDAY TRADE,
which are being sold at extraordinarily low prices.
We have a large stock of the following goods:
Gold Watches,
Silver Watches,
• Ladies' Watches,
Gents' Watches,
Boys' Watches,
American Watches,
English Watches,
Swiss Watches,
Gold Vest Chairut,
Gold Chatelaine Chaim,
Gold Neck Charm
Gold Pencil Cases.
Gold Pena,
Gold Toothpicks,
Gold Thimbles,
Gold Armlets,
Gold Bosom Studs,
Gold Sleeve Buttons. •
Gold Watch Keys.
Gold Pine. o.nts'.
Gold Pins, Ladies',
Gold Pins, Biases',
Pine. Cbtslioldazos• - -
Gold Bar Rings,
Gold Finger
Gold
Pin. '
Gold Bracelets,
Gold Lockets.
Gold Charms.
Gold Watch Hooks,
Silver Thimbles
Silver Napkin Rings,
Silver Fruit /Davao,
Silver Fob Chains,
Silver Vest Chains.
SILVER•PLATED WARE,
Plated on gendineAlbata metal,
and warranted;
Tea Sete,'
Cake Baskets, .
Fruit Baskets.
Card Receivers.
Butter Dishes, LL
Fyrup Pitchers,
Sugar Dishes,
•
Breakfast Castors.
Dinner Casters,
Fickle Castors.
Boon Holders,
Wai s ters,
stands,Batt
'Goblets,
Cups
Call Hello,
Napkin Rings,
Fish Knives.
Pie Knives.
Ice Cream Knives,
Cake Knives.
Crumb Knivea,
Children's Knives,
Children' a Forks,
Childrenre Spoons, •
Oyster Ladles,
Soup Ladles,
Table and Deasert SpOolle.
Tea, Sugar, and Salt Spoons,
Tea and. Dinner Forks.
PLATED JEWELRY.
We have on hand a large lot of line plated Jewelry,
which we are closing out at cost prices to make room
for other goods. Those wishing goods in our line would
do well to call and examine our stock before purchas
ing. All goods warranted, as recommended.
D. W. CLARK, _
GOB CHESTNUT Street.
N. B. Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired by
experienced workmen, and warranted.
nol9 swtdel7did7t
COUPONS OF 1881 Boxpa,
DUE JANUARY 1,
BOUGHT AT MARKET RATE OP GOLD, BY
nolo- 0
EEARLEB MORT. [ALEX. BEN4ON, JR.
CHARLES EMORY & 00.,
STOCK IND EXCHANGE BROKERS,
No. 15 South Third Street,
All kinds of uncurrent funds mid Gold and Silver
bought and sold, and Collections made.
Particular attention given to the purchase and sale
of Government, State, and other Stocks and Loans on
commission. . nold-5m
EIARPER; DURNEY, & CO:,
EVANIKEIVS,
STOCK AND EXORANGE BROKERS.
Particular attention paid to purchase and sale of 011
Stocks.
55 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
REFEREgonS. —Drexel kOo , Philadelphia; .Irl3. Aus-
tin, President Southwark Bank. novl6-3m
Ra, WILLIAMS, •
1864.
JO, 101101:12 BIM STEM%
Ilfautureettuer•of
VENETIAN BLINDS
AID
WINDOW SrkIAIMS.
Mr The Largest sad lined Assortessat Is the env it
ale
WABST PRICES.
• Z•Paitint anomie& to promptlL
Aar Store Shades Made sad Uttered. SII 4*
LOOKING GLASSES.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
818 CHUTE= STREET, PHILA.,
have now in store a very Ens assortment of
LOOKING GLASSES.
• of every altimeter, of the
VERY BUT HANITIACTURS AND LATEST STYLES.
OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS;
as PICTURE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES.
NEW BUOKWHE.&T FLOUR..
VI% CLOVER HONEY.
NEW PARED PEACHES.
VOLITVATED ORANBERRIES, age.
ALBERT 0. ROBERTS ,
Beeler in Pine Groceries,
nol4l Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Streets.
pEACRES.--5,000 DOZEN NERMETI
-0114 sealed reaches of -the finest qouliti..Prepered
by EL Yetwards & •Co.. Brid_g OD eton. N. Belearoote.
BRBEI WELLTAKS.
Wag Soath. WATNS Street.
I WILL OP7?IR
602 CHESTNUT STREET,
FINANCIAL.
Ditoolr-Frrl Br, Co.
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26; 1804.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1864.
Actors and Actresses.*
The public at large take more than ordi
nary interest in the lives of actors and ac
tresses. Those who wear the sock and
buskin Make unto themselves friends oat
of the audiences whose favor makes them
famous, by acknowledging their talent.
An old-playgoer speaks of the performers
he, has seen and applauded, as if he knew
them well and was the personal friend of
each. Performers of note have partisan's,
by hundreds, who seldom saw and never
spoke with them off the stage. At one
time, in London, there was the Siddons
fever and the Kean fever, as it was cal*
as some sixty years earlier there had been
the Garrick fever and the Barry feVer.
That was a memorable contest, on one
occasion, when. Sprenger Barry, one of the
handsomest men of the time—tall, well
made, and graceful to boot—played Romeo,
at Covent Garden, against David Garrick,.
under the middle size, who was autocrat
Drury Lane Theatre. The contest con
tinued for twelve nights, by which lithe
the public bad quite enough of the lbvers
of Verona, for one- spell. The country
folks, visiting London, complained bitterly
that one play should keep the stage, for a
fortnight, at the two patent and principal
theatres, and hence some wit wrote this
epigram :
" Well, what's to•nightl" says angry Ned,
As up from bed he rouses;
'Romeo again!' be shakes his head ;
A plague on both your hones "
Fair Miss Bellamy played Juliet to Gar
rick, and Mrs. Cibber played the. same
character with Barry. Dr. Doran says
" There is no doubt that Mrs. Cibber had
the handsomer, more .silver-tongued, and
tender lover. She seemed to listen to him
in a sort of modest ecsta# ;' while Miss
Bellamy, eager love inher eyes, rapture in
her heart, and amorous impatience in every
expression, was ready to fling herself into
Romeo's arm's. In Barry's Romeo the
critics _laud his harmony of feature, his
melting eyes, and his unequalled plaintive
ness of voice." As for the rival Juliets, it
is said that Bellamy Was more tender and
natural, while Cibber was_ grander and
more tragic. But the contest was between
the two Romeos. A lady, who did not
pretend to be a critic, but had common
' sense, and was guided by her feelings,
seems to have ably distinguished between
them. " Had I been a Juliet," she said,
"to Garrick's Romeo, so ardent and im
passioned was he, I should have expected
that he would have come 24p to me in the
balcony ; but had I been Juliet to Barry's
Romeo, so tender, so eloquent, and so se
ductive was he, I should. certainly have
gone down to him."
The antiquity of the drama is very great.
The dialogue of the Book of. Job itself has
a dramatic character. • Spoken tragedy
dates from the-age of Thespis and . Pisistr
atus, five centuries before the Christian era.
Some of the finest portions of Greek litera
ture are the dramas which remain, immor
talizing, the names of Aristophaties,
.lEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The
dramatic art was neither thought highly of
nor cultivated.with much success in Rome.
Roscitis and 2Esopus, respectively excelling
in comedy and tragedy, enjoyed the friend
ship of Cicero and his familiar associates,
and were scholars and gentlemen ; but
Lstberius, the Roman Knight Who appeared
on the stage at the request of Cmsar, for
feited his equestrian rank and privileges
- ny - notur; ou, noron-o-tigtrthesa_vmra_r_sa—
stored to him, did he ever recoveh the
respect of his fellow-citizens.
Moralities, or plays founded on Sacred
historytaor intended to have a moral effect
on the popular mind, were common in
England from the Norman to the Tudor
period. The first English prince who had
a dramatic company of his own was Richard
111. (whom so many actors have since so
cruelly " murdered" on the stage I) , but
not having much time to attend to them,
he used to permit them to stroll through
the land, from shire to shire, now playing
in the castle of the noble, next in the man
sion of the country gentleman, then in the
hall of the franklin or the yeiSman, some
times in the market-room of a corporation,
often in the enclosed yard, with its sur
rounding gallery, of a large hostelrie.
King Richard's sanction led to the tolera
tion of the actors, and acting became
fashionable in schools, in noblemen's fami
lies, among the law-students and lawyers of
the Inns of Court, sometimes with kings
and queens among the itudience. Not un
frequently the playwrights", were clergy
men, acting as well as writing. Nicholas
Udall, master of Eton school, and author
of "Ralph Roister Doister," (the first regu
larly-constfucted English' comedy written
in 1540), was a grave "clerk."
It long has been believed that players
were declared " rogues and vagabonds"
by an English act of Parliament. In the
reigns of Mary L and of Edward VI. the
drama was discountenanced by "the au.
thorities," because the actors had incurred
the suspicion of not being orthodox—the
trouble being that what Catholic Mary held
as orthodox was accounted heterodox by
Protestant Edward, her successor. In
Mary's reign, no doubt, a decree of
sovereign and council prohibited all play
ers and pipers from strolling through Eng
hind—such strollers being suspected of dis
seminating seditious and heresies. In
Elizabeth's reign the drama.was in favor,
though a sharp censorship was, held over
audience as well as actors. But the actor
and his craft were legally recognized by a
royal license in 1512, when the players
connected with noble houses were allowed
to act where they pleased, if their masters
permitted them.
This did not declare players to be
"rogues and vagabonds." It threatened
to treat as such, all acting companies
who should set up their stage without
the license of " two justices of the peace"
at least. _"This," Dr. Doran says, "was
rather to protect the art than to insult the
artists." Four years later, when Eliza
beth granted a royal patent to certain
actors maintained by the Earl of-Leices
ter, it gave them full power to produce
such plays as seemed good to them, "as
:well," the Queen said, " for the rectea
tion of our loving subjects as for our solace
and pleasure."
Elizabeth personally patronized Shak
speare. There is a tradition that he wrote
" The Merry Wives of Windsor" to gratify
her desire to see Falstaff in love, and an
old stage story is that, on one occasion,
when he was playing the part of King,
while Elizabeth, after the fashion of the
time, occupied a seat of honor on the side
of the stage, she purposely dropped her
glove, to see whether she would thereby
embarrass " the divine Williams," (as
Monsieur Ponsard calls him,) but the actor
author, finishing a sentence, interpolated
" And though now bent of this high einbaesage,
Yet stoop we to take up our oousln's glove,"
suiting the action to the word, at the mo
ment. There was presence of mind, if not
wit, in thiS, which we hope may be true.
James the First—" the wisest fool in
Christendom," whose character is so well
drawn by Scott in The Fortunes of
Nigel—was so fond of theatrical revels
that, much to the horror of the Puritans,
he had them, at large cost, in the royal
• 1 . Their 'Majesties , Servants." iinuala Of the
English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund
Kean. Acton—Authors—Audiences. By Dr. Do
ran, F. S. A., Author of 11 Table Traits,” "Lives
of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover."
ID two volumes post Svo., pp. MO. New York :W.
J. Widdletotk,
palaces of Whitehall, . Greenwich, or ,
Elampto'n bonrt i on Sunday evenings.
Eis wife, Anne of Denmark, whose chief
fault was an over-fondness for "strong
waters," was sometime at once manager of
and actress in the masques performed at
Court—onsrepresentation.-sometimes cost
ing a thousand pounds, which would be
equal to $25,000 (in gold) at this day.
Charles 1:. followed his father's example,
and favored the players—his fondness for
Ehakspeare's dramas was seriously alleged
against him by the Puritans, Queen Henri
etta Maria was a French woman, and, un
der her own supervision, her. ¶' dermoisates"
brought out a French pastoral, in which
her Majesty played a part. " During the
Civil War, and throughont all the time of
the - t fr Odunonweitith, the drama was at a
discount in: England -the able-bodied
actors taking 'part, as might be expected,
withiheir patron, Kin* Charles. One of
them, named , Mohun, rose : to the rank
of Major, and, after the Restoration, re
turitt*,to, the . stage, where he used to be
Set down, in " the cast," by his military
title. Charles Hart, grandson of Obaks
peare'a sister, was •; a major in Prince Ru
pert's horse.
Very soon after Cromwell's death and
while General Monk was in doubt whether
he IN:Ould side with Royalty or the People,
be encouraged fthe. revival -of 'domestic
perfo9nanees iii. the Cockpit at Drury Lane,
and wAlfond of attertfliug them. About
this ante young Betterton, whose father
bad been cook to Charles 1., went on the
stage';, and his acting was witnessed by
Shakgpeare's younger brother, who sur
vive& until shortly after the Restoratien.
Truly does Dr. .Doran say that Betterton
was 4- for fifty-one years the, pride of the
BritiSb stage," He performed, in that time,,
one hundred and thirty new characters,
sometimes eight in one season.' He was the
first Jailier, Vitginius, and Sir John Brute.
He had an almost royal funeral in West
minster Abbey. It will astonish some
"stars" and eacting stock actors to learn
that the highest salary ever received by
this greateet of all English players was $25
a week, which included a pension of $5 to,
his wife after her retirement in 1694.
Of the Drury Lane company, ten actors
were enrolled, in the king's household,
afte?l * he Restbration, sworn is before the
Lord Chamberlain to serve the King faith
fully, and provided with uniforms or live
ries of scarlet and gold. In. these warrants
of appointment they are styled " Gentle
men of the Great Chamber," (which dis:
proves the assertion that the profession was
held in light account,) and we have perso
nal recollection of the time, not more than
thirty'years back, when the bills of the
patent theatres of Drury Lane and Covent
Garden commenced with .the announce
ment! "His Majesty's servants will per
form," &c. 1
It may be hard to believe, but, until the
year 1661, the female parts in the English
drama were always played by lads. Fancy
Juliet-and Desdemona, Viola, and OpAelia,
lattheWe and .Beatries----represented by
great, hulking boys, who sometimes, grow
ing upto manhood in these parts, finally
had to be shaved before they could appear
in them"! 'ln 1661, when Rhodes formed
.his 'company, in the Duke'rt Theatre, (at
Lincoln's lnn Fields,) it included six lads
employed to represent female characters.
Killegrew, of Drury Lane Theatre, the ri
val of
,Rhodes--some of whose "boys"
were men of forty—first cast a woman into
a we PRIOS part, on the English stage ;
the part was that of Desdemon.a, bid
the „lady's name is unknown. Seydral.
montca later, other managers browlik, for
ward real actresses. Court and the
tieing - itdiearakontrgtow-- . acittally
brohgb.Ta•comedy in which every part was
played by women. Some of the " boys"
who used to appear in petticoats, , took-to
playing men's parts, and succeeded. Hart
is said to have played Othello as' well as
Betterton, who created the part of Alexan
der ; and Catiline, in Ben Jonson's play '(a
character to which Forrest could do full
justice), died with him. Burt, who played
Cicero with rare ability, in " Catiline,"
was another of the "boys," and Pepys re
cords the success of Rynaston in female as
well as male characters—it was said that
in Shakspeare's kings he was never equalled
for natural dignity. John Downes records
(in his " Roscius Arglicanus, or An Histo-
rical Review of the Stage," published in
1708) that "it has since been disputable
among the judicious, whether any woman
that Succeeded him so sensibly touched
the audience as he."
This stage gossip has been suggested by,
and partly taken from, one of the pleasant
est books about the profession we ever read.
Dr. Doran, who has written theie Annals
of the English Stage from Thomas Better
ton to Edmund Kean, is an author whose
books have obtained great circulation iri
England and this country. All that we
know of him is that he writes a good - deal
of sound, readable criticism in the Ache
"llall,97ll which is about the heaviest literary
periodical in the world. Dr. Doran (as
his namidenotes) comes of an Irish family,
and was born in London in 1807. We learn
from Dr. Allibone's reliable Dictionary of
English Literature, that at the age of 15
young Doran wrote a melodrama which
was first played at the Surrey Theatre in
1822 ; that after various other works he
produced f the series by which he is' best
known, including " Table Traits and Some
thing on Them," "Habits and Men,"
" Knights and their- Days," " Monarchs
who have retired from Business," &c., all
of which have been republishd by Mr.
Weddleton, New York, whose new and
uniform edition of them-is now ready. In
his "Annals of the Stage" •Dr. Doran
shows himself master of a difficult and
interesting subject, which he treats with
tact and ability. The American publisher
has brought out these two volumes in
a ,very superior style, and there is
an index to each volume. For the
benefit of book-collectors, a large paper
copy (size 11 inches by 8) has been pro
duced. Only 150 copies are printed, and
(when we state that-in this edition de /u 36
are introduced photographic portraits of
Nell Gwyn, Betterton, Garrick, Mrs. Sid
. done', Miss Farren, John Kemble, Mrs. Jor
dan, and the Kean,) it cannot be called
dear, as books sell now. There are few
books in the language so capable of being
illustrated with portraits, views, and' auto
graphs, and the size of the large paper edi
tion will enable this to be done without
making full-sized portraits marginless. The
work is not onlycrowded, but crammed
with theatrical anecdotes. We would se
riously recommend some man of letters who
has taste, time, and sufficient personal re
collection of our great perfortners, to set
about writing a couple of companion
volumes to Dr. Doran's "Annals." There
is a great deal of material in William Dun
lap's " American Stage," and our periodi
cals and our light literature are crowded
with reminiscences of actors and acting
which could be rendered very available.
BALTUIOILE.
PPNISTIMEET OP A FEMALE REBEL SYMPATHIZER.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 26.—The case of Mrs. Sarah
Hutchins, who has been convicted by the military
commission of sending arms to Harry Gilmor, and
sentenced to dye years' Imprisonment, attracts much
attention here, and strong efforts are being made to
procure a mitigation of her punishinent. Many of
the snort earnest portion of the loyal oltizens of Bal
timore earnestly protest against any such leniency,
considering that the social position of the lady
should not shield her from the full responsibility,
and that her offence, in extending ald and encourage.
ment to such a public enemy, freebooter, and high
wayman as Gilmor, was an act not only against the
nation, but the State of IffarylandLa high crime,
meriting the most rigorous ,punishment—such as
will deter many others of her sex in this ally and
State trom like offences.'
,EitgiVlLL OF WILMA BED rnisoms Papal. GEORGIA.
!Several steamers have arrived at Arnow:Me with
teleagd prirertritOst poyituna,
r mum,ovio.
fibute of slot English Bar to the French
A A•oeate Bermes.
RESULT OF THE LATE CRIMINAL TRIAL
IN SWITZERLAND.
More about the Breat4 of Neutrality in Brazil.
The London Times Of tlO h reports the dinner
given to M. lierryer ' the' great Frenoh lawyer
(vialting Lord Brougham), 10 the English bar. At
th e F renc h bar, it is known, :LvietTyer has but one
rival, and that h! warn] parser:la friend and junior,
the great .Jtiles Favre. In an editorial the Times
says:
DLL Berryer °omega's:tong' the barriaters of-Eng
land, not only as the head of the Feenett advocates
or to-day, but also as a represeotativeof the famous
lawyers of the old • sigime. He has' ar hereditary
claim to the fronttrank of French jurietin Is is at
moat a proverb among ourselves that the sons
Of great lawyers are never stamessftdl, but M.
Berryerls a proof that the rule dam not holdsonmss
the channel. Hie father was a must eminent ed.
vocate, and would be .better known were , not he's
fame overshadowed by the greater fame or Ids- die
thiguished Son. But - the son remote:were that' he.
won his first Spurs by the side of hle father r and
throughout his career we discover the influence' of
paternal example; Along with politiCal predllee
dons which have contributed more than auytbing
else to determfne the form of his after history, IC
Berryer inherited from his father a certain dignity
and grace which lathe advocate trained before the
Revolution, the associate and friend of :11aleseerbeS,
was probably 'habitual bat which we rarely meet
with in the , rougher society of modern France. The
eider Berryer was one of those liberal RoyalLsts•
who sought to mould the French Monarchy alter the
fook.Sola-of-wiscr - Illaulioix-Ocrsm.2. - trovaroo - A - vairsura--..
principles 01 1789 while patmerviugthe authority of
the throne and the conservative influence of an
aristocracy ; and the son has.been faithful in his
Pursuit of the Settle ends. But neither father nor
son ever suffered political feeling to interfere with
the duty of an advocate. ed Berryer was barely
five-and-twenty when he was associated with his
father and 911. Dupla. In the defenee of Ney, and
from that time downwards we find9ils learning, his
acuteness, and his eloquence engaged on behalf of
persons of all shades of opinion. The Legitimist
Who accompanied Louis. . VIII. to Ghent, and
returned to Faris to be the advocate of Ney,
-elhon accused of treason to the Sing, has de.
fended Republicans, Imperialists, Legitimists,
and Oileanists, as each in turn has Wen tne object
of prosecution. In the prosecutions of the press,
which all Governments of France agree In think
ing necessary for their safety, M. Berryer has
almost invariably been- the eloquent advocate of
the free expresalor of opinion. In 1840, after the
affair at Boulogne, he watt selected by the present
Emperor to conduct his defence. Throughout the
State trials of France for forty years—and no coun
try has been more prolific of such trials—the accused
seem to have always turned to M. Berryer, in the.
belief that nothing but his ability and eloquence
could possibly save them from the vindictiveness of
the' prosecution. Nor has M. Berryer's practice
been confined „to trials of this nature. Hie father
earned his first fame in the conduct of mercantile ,
cases, and the acumen which AI. Berryer has so
often displayed in the tribune In theanalysis of a
Budget or the exposure of the evils of a tar has been
in part, no doubt, the result of his experience of own.
merelatilltigation.
At the dinner to Berryer four hundred guests, the
best lawyers of England, sat down, and the Atter
neY.General took the chair. Accompanying Berryer
Was Lesmarest, the battonier, or leader of the French.
bar. Brougham, Kingsdowis, Chief Justice Cock
burn, Gladstone, Bruce, Martin, Pigott, Bramwell,
Blaolthern, Whiteside, Cairns, Ballantyne, Wal
pole, Kelly, and other eminent barristers of London,
lords and barons of justice, and sergeants of the
law, were among the guests. The Attorney Gene
ral, in proposing the health of Berryer, said:.
• " In no country in the world has there been a bar
which has deserved greater honor than the bar of
France [cheers], and I shall carry your assent with
me in saying that at no period of the brilliant his.
tory of that great natio)", distinguished as it has
been by great names, has there been at_the head of
that bar a more honest, more virtuous, more elo.
quent ft and more able man than M. Berryer. [Loud
cheers.] At a time when most of those I see around
me were beginning their legal studies, this great.
man commenced a great publiccareer, which to
this day he continues to fulfil. By the aide of his
father 'scarcely less distinguished than himself—he
acted as the'advocate of Marshal Nay. In the se
cendanoy of those principles of which he has ever
been .the faithful advocate ;; at -a time when there
was a disposition to make an exorbitant and exaes
sive use of the success of those principles, he stood
forward not only on that unfortunate occasion, but
also in defence of other distinguished men involved
in a like misfortune ; and I believe it is known to
all of you that M. Berryer, then begitusing tilagreat
career, ever raised his voice when his politlpai prin
ciples were triumphant in favor of moderation and
justice to those whose fortunes were in decline.
[Uheers.] We have nothing to do with the political
vicissitudes of hie great country, except to admire
the consistency ant nobility of the man who bore him
self so well under all of them. [Rear, hear.] When
his political principles were no longer . In the ascen
dancy he did not retire calmly from the service of his
country. His voice was still raised freely, and yet
without the possibility of an Imputation that he
favored disorder. When called upon at the bar he
was always found the dauntless , and fearless advo
cate of every unfortunate man who needed his Ser
vices. [Cheers.] it is almost a volume of History
to tell how this distinguished man was the advocate
of Lamennais, Chateaubrland, the preSent Emperor•
of the French [gear, hew], a,nd many others whom
-it would-.be-tedious to. merithin. „Whatever their
liprnioris - wore, when they needed a free word to be
spoken for themselves, they went to M. Berryer.
When the wheel turned round we find him still not
refusing his services to his country in any way—still
lifting up his voice as the advocate of freedom of
speech, as in the great trial of IVlontalembert ; and
we find him still preserving not only the dignity of
his position, but the power, and influence, and the
brilliancy or his earlier days. [Hear, hear."]
We translate for the readers of The Press the Bab
joined speeches of Messrs. Berryer and Desmarest
BYIOIOII . OF M. BBBBM
Believe me, when I tell you that I am deeply
grateful for this imposing and almost brotherly re
ception. [Cheers.] I find myself honored, in the
very midst of England, great and free, and you will
not be astonished, therefore, at whateverembarrass
meat I may exhibit in returning you my thanks.
Yesterday the Attorney General congratulated you,
and I congratulated the great and noble country for
having seen an Attorney General (a rare and curi
ous sight), with a zeal as pure as wine, seconding
such associations as have for their object the perfec
tion of codes of law. [Cheers.] To-day, as a
lawyer, I feel proud to hear you ‘ speak as the chief
at the bar, In name of all the lawyers. Great and
beautiful spectacle, it recalls to me the time when
it was the custom, in my own Country, for the Fro
cureur Generals and the Advocate Generale to call
themselves the Generals of the members of the bar.
In speaking to me in the name of the English bar,
you have deemed me worthy of compliment for the
labors of my life. I assure you that I feel humilia
ted by such compliments, when I. remember what
members of the English bar once honored me with
their friendship. Where was Lord Lyndhurst, for
whom ye all mourn—[cheere]—and that other
great man, who has endeavored to point
out to me all the great things of this country ;
that noble propagator of all the progress of all the
liberal institutions in this free England ; that great
man whom I salute—Lord Brougham. [Loud
cheers.]. After filly years.of labor, I received from
my confreres of France an earnest of their fraternal
sympathy. But there I was in the midst of my own,
I was sustained by fifty years of friendly relation.
utfor once I am away from my own, and am near
to yon—you who well know what I [eel. So here let
me say what I feel at this moment. It appears to
me as if I beard the voice of posterity falling from
your lips. [Cheers.] It is a thought more fruitful
of the future than any homage paid to a single man,
for it tells me of an alliance between the bars of the
two moat civilized nations of the world. I have been
present at all the courts of justice of your country,
at all their judicial deliberations, and I have been
amok at the high position occupied by the members
of your bar. Nothing could touch me more than the
familiar relations subsisting betieen the judge and
the counsel. This is a striking proof of the attention
whlcli Is accorded him. In it I see a guarantee of
the continued independence of the noble profession.
I have the most ardent wish that the alliance between
the two bars should be closely cemented. We cannot
have in France those reunions which the laws of this
country authorize, but we can communicate with
one another, and from this communication has been
born, I hope, a union of intelligences. The French
bar has not, like the English, furnished men to all
the positions of political life. In our revolutions
men who respected themselves could not be pre
vailed upon to accept place. [Chime.] -The bar
has ever keen an asylum to those who, confirmed in
their convictions, have had no wish to depart from
them. We can count among them our most emi
nent men. [Cheers.) We have free trade, but it
must not be diverted to the exchange of silks and
cottons. What we want is a free trade, a free in
terchange of Ideas. [Clime.] You can find among
us many geed things to desire and adopt. We meet
here among you learned and enlightened writers,
and a powerful press, such as we have never known.
[Cheers.] I move an alliance of the two bars, and
I ask my colleague to second the motion.
•
6F88031 OF N. DESMAILEST.
I feel moved as I rise to reply to each a kind and
affectionate toast to the French bar. The union of
the two bare has been the dream of my life. When
we consider earthly things (even after such a Sidon
did banquet) it is impossible to deny that there are
in the world two Influences—might and justice.
[Cheers.] Ido not want to speak ill of might ;as to
justice, it is becoming to speak well of It here, in
the presence of your present and of your ancient
glory ; allow me to add, in the presence of those two
standard.bearers of , right and juStice, Lord Brough
am and lii. Berryer. [Loud cheers.] There is a
great Similarity in their characters. Both have
carried intellectual glory to a high point; both have
shone in 'public assemblies; both, finally, are
members of the French Academy. [Cheers.] I con
fess that I should be embarrassed if I bad but the
tribute of my own recognition to give. But as Boon
as I vjde informed of your gracious invitation I took
advantage of those legal meeting& authorized in
France to tell our lawyers of the honor which had
been done me. All, young and old, replied to me,
"Go to England." I had no time to consult the
members of our provincial bar, but all would have
held the same language—all. I see in the great
figure of the legal body of France giving its hand to
the legal fraternity of England, the preliminary
step leading to a more intimate alliance between
us, according o to the beautiful idea of film who
should be our perpetual leader, and who is always
our moral leader. Gentlemen, allow me to say, my
dear brethren—[cheers]--yOu have given us the ex
empla, you may be certain that it will be followed.
One of your statesmen—the illustrious Chanoellor
of the Exchequer—said on a recent occasion, with
that incomparable eloquence whichrecalls the great
:days of antiquity, that in the times in which we live
the progress of civilisation should be aecemplishrd
by milder means than in times gone by. These
words, which reconelle many difflotallee, have found
hn echo in Fronde. I alga a treaty Of , allianee with
Sea which will , tend to the peeing trleplph of pro.
#grese, eheezla/
01' 1 8.
TEA WAOHON21"1" AND atoartm APPAIN.
The Times arguer with what appears consider
able advantage against the breach of neutrality
committed in the Brazilian port of Bahia, and
thinks that the Florida was illegally imbed in or-
der to Obtain the $lOO,OOO reward offered for its cap
ture by the New York Chamber of Commerce.
With this view the great body of merohatita at
Bahia have sent it a remonstrance. The Time*
goes on to say :
We - are bound to presume not only that this
request wlll meet with attention, but that the Go,
vernment and.citizent of Me United States will haeten
to repudiate Me nefarious act done in their name.
Mott aggressions on neutral rights, such as this
pursuit of a flying enemy within the jurisdiction of
a neutral State, have some kind of excuse, whether
In authority or usage, but we cannot even conjes
tore what defence can be get up for this. The United
States have invariably claimed Me absolute inviola
&lffy of neutral territory, and the American text
books of international Low are full of the most
dogmatic assertions of this principle. Oho of the
most recent of them, which boars this name
of Betook on its titlopage, recapitulates the
law on this subject with great force ands clear
ness. e The armed orre.sera of belligerents,. while
within the jurisdiction of a neutral State, are
bound to abstain from any mite of hostility towards
the subjects, vessels, or other property of their
enemies; they oarmot Increase their gnus or mili
tary Mores, Or augment their crew, not even- by
the enrolment of their own eenntryinen ; they can
employ neither throe nor stratagem torecover printe r
or to rescue prisoners in possession of the enemy';.
nor can' they use a neutral port' or waters within
neutral jurisdiction either for' the purpose of
hindering the approach of integer of any nation
whatever, or for the purpose of attatiking , those which
depart from the ports or shores of neumal Powers.
No proximate sots of war, am% atrawhioestationing
herself within the neutral line, and sending out her
• boats on hostile enterprises, can, in any manner, be
allowed to originate on neutral territory;. nor Gan
.any measure be taken that will lead to immediate
violence." 'We owe our readers somirapolbgy for
r e-entering upon ground already familler'to - most in
ciMnection with the Alexandra oase. shat' thia sum-
XVlAe v iithlttlraig li r Wt t ljAtt l aßiihnsill r "i
Wakehusett pissed herself by cutting amorterars
ailment of a neutral port. Had the Florid% for
Instance. aetualirkalled from Bahia, this - Wisctra•
sett could not have followed her till after the
lapse of twenty-four home. without lafringlisg.tne
lew of natters. To attach her by nigh/ in the
harbor, and that after a solemn ple4fir had
been Ist.ven that neutral rights should be re ,
spected,.was neither more nor less Illegal than
it would bare been to kidnap Mr. Mason in , the II
streets of London. The plea that was urged' by
Lord Ashburton sixida4lmitted by Mr. Websterinther
Very dissimilar case of the Caroline—tbat of own,.
cushy of sel , bdefence, instant, bverwhormlng. leav
ing no chohmof means,. and no moment for delfsera
tlon here conspicuously wanting. and we tat
nbt believe that the Federal Government will cog
descend to make use of it. It may possibly be al
leged that the consul was carried off against hit"
will by the captain of the Waishugetts who is likely' ,
enough to claim the whein credit and responsdbillty
of the exploit, and it is tube feared that some of Mr
Barnum's countnymen may chuckle over its Shame
less audacity. But the New York Chamber of ,
Commerce has a character to lose, rhoi, unless we-
are greatly deceived, will scruple to forfeit It by re
warding or justifying a crime so utterly subversive
of confidence between neutrals and belligerents.
THE BRIBE, roneNTIM CABE.
We have already given the story of this remark
able case as presented at the inception of criminal
proceedings: The sequel is told in an editorial of the
Timer ' which descants upon the strangeness of the
Swiss form of oath.
Two incidents In the memorable trial at Berne,
which ended in the acquittal of Madame Trumpy
and Dr. Demme throw a curious light on the
peculfaritlee of Swiss criminal procedure. The
prisoners, as our readers will remember, being re
spectively the widow and the physician o
h the de
ceaeed, M. Trumpy, were of conspir to
poison him with strychnine. Minty features of th
evidence exactly resembled the circumstances of
_pelmet's case, which hardly sus passed this either
In the duration of the inquiry or , in the imposing
array of scientific witnesses. The duty, however,
of striking a balance between their conttictiog tes.
timony, was confided by the Swiss ()Dart to the
"College of Health." Te this council of assessors
certain questions seem to have been referred, and
its report, embodied in eight separate propositions,
doubtless influenced the result very materially.
The effect of it was that the immediate cause of M.
Tt urepy , e death was apoplexy, produced by strych
nine, at a time when he see suffering from nervous
depression; that Dr. Demme had given an impro
bable account of the symptoms immediately pre
ceding the seizure, and had otherwise acted unpro
fessionally ; that there was no ground for the imp
position of accidental poisoning, but that there were
scree reasons to suspect suicide ; and that, from a
scientific point of view, the administration of poison
by the band of another could not be inferred from
the admitted facts. One consequence of this report
was that the doctor, although acquitted, was sen
tenced to pay half the costs of the trial, while his
co-defendant received an indemnity.
The second point which deserves our attention is
the strange custom observed in administering the
oath to certain witnesses. Two women, Anna
Warner and Anna Moller, both of them servants
in M. Trumps , s household, who had attended him
In his last hours, gave testimony whiob,upon the
whole, was unexpectedly favorable to the moused.
The rocure= General, thereupon demanded that
they should be sworn—a precaution which is only
taken in Switzerland on rare occasions—and they
were sworn accordingly ; but not until a terrific
form of adjuration prescribed by Swiss law had been
solemnly addressed to them, the whole audience
standing. A curious chapter of antiquarian lore
might be written on the history ofoatbs, and in such
a treatise this marvellous form of commit:lotion
would certainly deserve a prominent place. We ex
tract a few sentences as specimens : "The words
which you era about to repeat signify that yon
renounce, forever and deliberately, the clemency,
the help, and the blessing of God, and that you do
_not expect from. Him anything but disgrace and
malediction if you swear falsely: , • • •
Reflect how great and terrible are the penalties for
false swearing. With respect to temporal life, they
consist in the loss of your honor and your fair re
pute, the abomination of all honest people,
the
privation of the Divine blessing in all your
undertakings, the malediction of God on your
worldly goods, your house, your belongings, and
your children. With regard to spirituals, they are
a hardened, unquiet, and despairing conscience,
which, night and day, will inspire you with fear and
terror, fearful agony, judgment, condemnation, and
the pain of eternal suffering: , Etc. The famous
anathema pronounced by Dr. Slop in Tristram
Shandy hardly goes beyond this in vielence, and to
match it in superstition we should probably have to
go back to the Saxon usage of compurgation.
THE CITY.
THE BOLDEIZRB' VOTE-OFFIPIAL.
The Return Judges of the city mat yesterday
morning to count the vote of the soldiers, oast at
the late election for President.
Upwards of four hundred packages wore received,
and, notwithstanding the immense labor, the work
of receiving the returns and tallying the vote was
oompleted by noon.
The total vote of the soldiers, as counted, was as
follows :
For Lincoln....
For McClellan
4 240
1,988
Majority for Lincoln 2 254
The majority on the home vote wag 9,508, making
the majority for Lincoln in Philadelphia 11,762.
The following is the total vote, home and soldiers',
received by each elector :
Lincoln Electors.
H. Mck1ichae1........65,791
'r. Cunningham.... -66,792,
Robert King 66,794
G. 111 Coates • 66,794
Henry Boum.. ...... 66,796'
Wm. H Kern........ 66,793 i
Barton' H. Junta 56.798
Chas. M Bunk 65,794'
Hobert Parke.... 63,794
Win. Taylor 65 794!
J. A. Heletand.•.. • ••55,794
H. H. Coryell 65,793
Edw. Holiday ..... —51,795
Chas. F. Read. .... •••55.7941
Elise W. Bale 66.795
C. H. ahriner......- 56.793
John Wi5tex......••••55 794
D. McConaachy 56. 794
D. W. Woods 55.796
heat Beneon 56.796
John Patton CO 795
Samuel B. Dirk 66.794
Ererard Snorer 65,794
John P Penney 65,794
B. ..... 55,792
J. W. Blanchard-- 65.793
•
DEDICATION. •
The following resolutions were adopted at the
close of the dedicatory exorcists of blears. Bryant,
Stratton,& Bannister Commercial College, Tenth
and Che stnut streets on Tuesday evening last :
Whereas, The best interests of the country demand a
careful and conscientious regard for the intellectual and
moral culture of those who are to shape and control its
future, and give it character at home and abroad; and
Whereas, 'the molt proper method of advancing these
interests is to encourage all legitimate efforts aiming to
attain this end; and
Whereas, The more direct and practical these efforts.
the more they are entitled to consideration and respect;
therefore
Resolved. That in the Commercial College enterprise
of Messrs.' Bryant. Stratton, & Bannister we tee 'gait°
a most Important auxiliary in this direction, believing,
as we do, that a sound business education is the great
essential In forming a truly American character, and
that an institution devoting itself entirely to the prac
tical teaching of business science is thus better able
to secure a high degree of proficiency and fidelity of ap
plication.
Resolved, That the spirit of enterprise evinced by
these gentlemen In establishing their colleges in nearly
all the important commercial cities of the country, as
well as in the completeness of the /*ditties for irepart-
Big instruction are worthy of great credit, ;tad justly
entitle them to the marked success which has attended
their elbrte.
ReeOved, That in the-preparation and publication of
text books on the different subjects embraced to their
course of instruction, they have given to diet public the
best and fairest teat of their claims to favor and patron
age, and afforded the strongest evidence of their fall ap
pit recion
iation of the duties and responeibllities of their po
s
Resolved, That the euceess which has attended the
establishment of the Philadelphia College evinces sound
diecretion on the part of Messrs Bryant. Stratton. a Ban
nister, and ehonld be accepted as an earnest of brighter
results In the future.
Resolved, That we heartily congratulate Messrs.
Bryant. Stratton, k Bannister, and their associate Prin
cipals and Professors Baron &bout theinternatlonal chain
of colleges, upon the position the have won In the
copular esteem , and that we most e eerfally commend
their college to the young men of the country who de.
sire to prepare themselves for the dutiee and responsi
bilities of active business life
•
Turner'e.lane Hospital, on Thursday, was the
scene of some Interesting exercises. A sermon was
preached, in the morning, by. Chaplain Hokum, on
Eph., 6, 20. At two o'olock, about two hundred sal.
Merit set down to an excellent dinner, the expenses
of.whieh had been borne by the ladies interested In
the institution. At about four o'clock a large num
ber of ladies and gentlemen, as well as the Inmates
of the hospital, assembled to bo present at the pre•
sentation of a very fine flag which had been donated
to the hospital by the ladles and, some of the ear.
geons. The Rev. Kr. Robbins, of the Green Hill
Presbyterian Church, presented the flag in the
name of the donors, and the ohaplain received it in
the name of the officers of the institution, and re•
sponded. A. patriotic song from the ladies and the
playing of the band preceded and accompanied the
raising of the tag, and the hearty and enthusiastic
cheers which at the conclusion were given for the
ladles, the flag, the surgeon iii charge, and the faith
ful steward, gave evidence that the exercises had
passed off toile satisfaction of all.
About flue o'olool4 last evening, the 'workshop of
Allan Baird, stairbuilder, located on Amboy street,
above Osford, was entirely destroyed by tire. T he
lops 15 estimated at $3,000, upon which there la no
insurance. The lire originated in an upper sto r y.
At five o'clock yesterday morning the roof of the
holler.house attached to Mr. Hughes' immense
Jefferson Mills, for the manufacture of woolen
goods, was destroyed by fire. Damagaitsoonakter•
able.
CASIIALTY.
A bed carrier named Daniel Callahan fell from
ladder at a building on Walnut street, above Fif
teenth, yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, and re
ceived a fracture oc a leg and an arm. The unfor
tunate man was conveyed to the Penn Hospital.
DOMESTIC xuItEXTB.
' There hove been butlew changes in the prieee of
In& t k Otth 4 3 13 490 4Rt 10A rigr igoing
McClellan Mentor&
R. L. Johnston 44,027
Richard Vanx 44,023
'Wm. Loughlin 44,032
'R. R. Helmbold 44,03
'Edw. P Dann..........44,023
T. McCullough 44.027
Bdw. T. Hee5.........44,030
;P. E. Gerhard 44,032
,0. 0. Lefton. 44,0 R
;Michael Seltzer .44,034
'Patrick 11eav0y.•....44.032
:Thos. H. Walker 44.032
0. S. Dimmick 41,0.32
A. B. Dunning 44,032
Paul Leidy 44 032
; Hobert 5winef0rd..•.44,032
`John. Ahl 44.032
Geo. A Smith 44.032
Thaddeus Banks 44.092
B. adontsomers 44.031
John B. Irvine 44,034
J.M. Thompson 44.032
Rawlins Brown 44.031
James P. Ban 44.031
Wm. J. Koontz 44,032
Wm. M0ntg0mery....44,092
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The money Inuit always accompany the order. and
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gra- To the getter-np of the Club of tan or twenty, Mat
extra copy of the Paper will be given
about five Cents per dozen, which is almost the only
noticeable alteration.
Apples, per half peek 85 to
'Beane, lima, per quart
-
pound. _ _
Bartel:, per pound 86 to TO
Orbbages, per head 8 to 16
CSder Vinegar, per gallon 48
Cheese, per pound 80 to 88
- e; perr dozen 50 to 66
FUh--Blaelc, per pound 8
to Li
Co, pb; autd. 10
u,-, pbr pon. .
Dry
per pound 20
Lobster, per pound 10
Maokeirel,salt, each 10 to A'
Perch, per pound 12
Pikes, per pound 15
Rock,perponn 15
Phad, soft, eac d
h... 40 to 60
Salmon,.• •,,, -
_•••
smoked, per pound 60
Herring. smoked, per bunch 16 to 20
Lamb—hind quarter, per pound 2i
fore quarter, per pound .. 18 to 20
6,ard, per pound 28 to 33
floats—corned beef, per pound . 18 to 26
beef, dried, per pound 80 to as
rib roast, per pound 25 to 30
rump steak, per pound . 20 to 25
sirloin, per pound 28 to 30
soup pieces, per wund 14 to 111
beef tongues, melt 76 to 1.26
bluttoriur-ehops, per pound 25
fore quarter, per pound ........123{, to ts
hindquarter, perp0und......... 18 to 26
OnlohB, per half peck 36 tO 46
Pork—corned, per pound fiS
hauls, d i sci, per pound 30 to 85
hash; whole, per pound 28 to 30
shoulders, per pound 20
'beakg per pound ' 26
• illatisages Bologna 26 to 30
potatoes, Irish., per
half peckhalf peok 281.0 28
swest per ' 26 to 30
Poul—Fowts•pd
SpringChce n ,
18
per pontid... 80
Veal—cutlets, per' pound 26 to 28
forequarter, per pound 16 tol.B
hind quarter, per pound-- ..... 2 0 to 22
shouldArs, per pound 15
line, par poor& 20 te 21.
MOE2'• idIICESTS.
Tbytis ,more persons attached to the retry yard
were arrested yesterday afternoon by United States
detectives. It is allesed they are Implicated to the
recent heavy robberies that have been committed at
the Philadelphia naval ate:Alma. In addition to this,
it was stated that one of therparties, a marrieeman,
arrested a short time sines, had furnished a house
in a costly style in the southern part of the city. The
mistress of the came suddenly sold the furnithre,
and decamped with the proesesla of the Sale. The
subject bus engrossed a very large share of pope
/sr attention, and rumors are wild in regard to tt..
The most marvel/ ms stories ofTraud are told, all of.
which are probably esiaggeraiefl.
A' VIRE-PROOF' WITH ITS COI9TBINTEI
LE bre-proof was stolen from a lager beer saloon on; street, opposite Union, after 12 o'clock on
Thursday night, It was placed in a go cart from.
the rear of the• house on Water street, and then
taken to another house near Front sad Dock streets, .
where it was tumbled down the steps, and then car
ried Into the coal-hole. The fire-proof was broken
into and robbed of its contents. A considerable
amount of foreign coin. title•paperc ter property. and
other things were stolen. Three merrwers arrested
yesterday afternoon on the charge of the- robbery.
The papers were recovered by the offtlers. Tee par
ties will probably hove s heating this afternoon, at
the Central Station.
[Before Kr. Aldermsa Beitler.l
AI:MIMED OriglrWAY 80882R7
TWo men who were arrested on last SatUrday on
the °bars e of highway robbery, near Twenty-seem:id
and Pine streets, were arraigned for a final hearing
at !the Centre! Station yesterday afternoon. The
principal witness who was robbed did not wish to
prosecute theaffair, because the money stolen from
him had beea•returned. The watch stolen from his
companion waa•also returned. The witness• under
went a long examination by the magistrate; he
was very' reluctant in answering the questions pro
pounded to him. The ease went over for a•further
hearing, the defendants in the meantime being held
in the sum of $1;500 each to appear.
CONFISCATED GOODS DISPOSED OP.
The basket of marketing, consisting of chickens,
butter, eggs, Eigh., taken from a woman alleged to be
a thief, was :dimmed of yestentay by order of the
Mayor. The articles were sent to the Cooper Shop
Refreshment Saloon, they being perishable artistes,
the owners not being known.
POLICE =TURNS
The returns made by the . police lieutenants, at
their leveeyestenlay morning, poaseseed nothing. of
any general interest. The whole number of arrests
fell short of the reports on the day after Thanks
giving of one year since. This may be attributottes
several things : the good humor everybody was in,
the efficienpy of the pollee, the high price of whisky, .
or the general closing of the public houses. Thera
were several amanita and batteries, bat none of a
serious nature. Thanksgiving days, a few yews
ago, were generally attended with two or three tires,
and a half doyen of fights among the firemen. We
have seen in former times from thirty to fifty men
with bruised faces, blackened eyes, lacerated heads,
arraigned on the morning after Thanksgiving day.-
the result of indulging in serious riots. But at the
present time such scenes would be novel indeed,
There never wasa Thanksgiving day to this oily at
tendant with more pleasant recollections than last
Thursday.
THE COURTS.
United States Dlotlrlet Court Judge
Cadwabider.
United States vs. John Wade. The defendant was
indicted for falsely persOnating a discharged musi
cian of the ad U. S. Cavalry, and receiving, upon
forged discharge and other papers, $334.80 from sh-
B. paymaster. The case was before reported.
The jury rendered _a verdict of guilty. Santana!,
deferred.
The United States vs Michael Premier. The de
fendant was indicted, fin* for passing counterfeit
United States postal ilfty-cent currency, and, seoond,
with having a numberol such notes in his possession
with intent to pass the same. The indictment is
under the act of Congress of March 8, 1883, and the
penalty in case of conviction Is a fine not exceeding
Be4ooo and imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years.
The evioence for the United States showed that,
on the let of October, when defendant was arrested,
he bad upon his person eighteen fifty-cent counter
feit notes, and that le stated to the officer that he
bad bought $2O of them for 85 ; that he was a poor
mall, and did it for the purpose of making some
money out of them.
His defence. as presented, was, that he was an
Italian, recently arrived in the country, and but iro
perfeetly acquainted with the Eng li sh language;
that being intoxicated, certain parties, to him un
known, bad taken advantage of his condition, and
induced him to take the money which was found
upon him. Good character was also proven. The
jury rendered a verdict of guilty. Sentence de
ferred. United States Distriot Attorneys Gilpin.
and Valentine for the United States, and Messrs,
Earle and White for plaintiff.
District Court—Judge Sharswood.
Pharo vs. Schick. A feigned issue. Before re
ported. Verdict for plaintitt
Marshall ye- Simpson. An action of replevin.
Before reported. Verdict for plaintiff, i5i64.21.
J. C. Kirkpatrick & Co. vs. Z. Lock & Co.; Same
vs. R. W. Frodiek ; Same vs. Ferdinand Huts.
Feigned issues to teat the right of property in 190
barrels of coal oil, which was levied upon by the
sheriff as the property of H. L. Foster & Co. by de
fendants, who were his execution creditors, bat
whieh is claimed by plaintiffs as belonging to them.
Verdict fo_r_plaintiffs. Builitt and Dickson for
Pa
plaintiffs; ctinartrle and Olmstead for defendants.
Perrino & Dryden vs. Joe. Hawthorne, garnishee
of F.dw. Jones defendant. An attachment stir exe
cution. Verdict for plaintiffs, $164.79.
The Premirim Fund Association of Philadelphia
vs. Chas. McNeill. An action on a promissory
note. Defence payment. Jury out.
Court of Common Pleas—Judge
The court met yesterday, but the ease assigned
for trial, and in which the jury were sworn, not
being ready, it adjourned tin this morning,
No other courts were in session.
FOBENN ROTES.
A letter from Berlin says : " Englishme f n
visiting Berlin and takingrefreshment in any of the
ordinary restaurants that abound In this any are
extremely, liable to make a discovery which many
would esteem not wholly agreeable. If, for Instance,
they ask for beef, they stand a great chance of ob
tain's g a dish of horseflesh. The case actually oo
caned to the writer a week or two bang. The eon•
sumption of horseflesh is increasing every year in
Berlin. It has been twice as great in the year just
elapsed as in the previous. The official returns
show that, from October 1. 1863, to October 1, Mc,
there were 1,552 horses killed In the eight horse
slaughter-horses in Berlin The meat is sold at
prices varying from I to 23S silver groschens (I NA.
to 3d.) per lb., which is only half the usual price of
beef here. Most of it Is disposed of to the keepers
of public dining-rooms, cafes, gardens, and beer
houses, and is consumed by the public under the Im
pression that it is beef, which It much resembles in
taste."
—An Invention has been patented in England
which proposes to dispense with the ordinary me.
clianical compression of steel and homogeneous
metal by the action of steam"hammers, or apparatus
of that clan, and to give the metal the requisite
closeness and strengh by testing it in a form ap
proximating to that in which It is intended to be
used, and by immersing It without any previous
forging in a bath of suitable liquid, such as oil or
water, and giving It afterward, where requisite, the
temper necessary to enable it to be worked. The
metal being made by this proem is eo much harder
and stronger it will be desirable in some cane to
rough-tarn, bore, or shape the casting preparatory
to the hardening and tempering of the metal.
At the Newcastle Police Court, en the 7th inst.,
Mr. Robert Ward, proprietor of the orris of England
sdoertiser_, applied for a summons against the Da
venport Brothers, who were giving affracet in that
town, on the groaned - that they had swindled their
audiences, and obtained their money by false pre•
tenors. lie quoted a case from a newspaper where
an old woman had been Drought before the magis
trates for obtaining a quantity of household furni
ture by pretended fortune-telling, and submitted
that the Brothers Davenport were equally liable to
similar proceedings. The magistrate, however, re
fused the application, saying that, though he did
not believe in these atjiy exhibitions, yet if people.
would be so foolish as to pay their money to see woke
manifestations, it could not be said that-they had
been deluded by false pretences.
—A number of working coppersmiths of Paris
are now forming a society for the foundation of a
firm to be conducted by the members themselves- in
common. A capital of 25,000 - has. already, been
raised by 250 eharee of 100 f. each, subscribed by 208
workmen. The intention of the association is to
gradually unite as many membersaa possible of the
trade as associates is workshops. to be Suecelaively
added to the establishment.
The Liverpool Past of the 9th says that on the
Saturday previous, notwithstanding the recant pro
ceedings before Sir J. Welsher°, one of the inspeo
trrs of the Poor. law Board, the Rev. E. A. liillyard,
rector of St. Laurence, Norwich, admitted Brother
Ignatius to the celebration of eaziy communion_
Brotherlgnatius is in lithealth, but applied him
ee If with undiminished ardor to the cause of the
Englieh order of St. Benedict.
The underground railroad system in London is
objected to since it haagone into operation, In oon
lequenceeof the tanned being so Riled with gas that
the passengers can scarcely breathe at times. The
difficulty which has been experienced from having
fire in the tunnel is likely to lead to the use of oom
pressed air as a motive power, whioh would obviate
the above objection, and give a pnre atmosphere.
The emotion of joy can kill, observes the Saint.
Public of Lyons, and gives as an example the case
of Captain Crefet, of the sopeurs-porapris in that
pity. flexing received the Cross of the Legion of
flionor on the occasion of the Emperor's late visit to
the eolith of France, his delight was so great that
be was taken ill and expired two days ago.
During the stay of the Empress Eugenie at
Schwalbach for three weeks, she gave away to tho
beggars of that place, and in reply to b eg ging let-
tere from various parts of Germany, not less that;
20,000 francs.
The screened "liintioovy Duck" tea native cit .
the Lake of Nicaragua. They were originally pro
cured from the Mosquito Shore, the country of the
'ffitysee Indians, and hence the name feitisreh
Dock , ' oorroptod tit "Atitony7 /MOW!.