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so that they may definitively belong to the Orchestra of the Academy of Music, and hence be enabled to rehearse and practice as much as needed. Otherwise, the Orchestra will never be what it ought and pretends to be. Herr Sipp, whom we have heard before, did not play, as we expected, Beethoven's Concerto. He is undoubtedly a good pianist, but his touch requires more softness and evenness, his wrist more flexibility, his style more expression. We should advise him also to leave to mediocrities the employment of so many motions and gestures while playing. Besides, that Concerto, which is one of the most attractive works of Beethoven, was a great deal too long, and not sufficiently known and rehearsed

with the Orchestra.

But what shall we say of Miss Schultze?-that it would be better, for the present, to suppress the singing solos?-or, if it should be absolutely necessary to have one, that it would be more generous to select some light piece for the performer, instead of an air which is one of the most difficult in the world to sing well, and which so few very good artists in Europe are able to execute.

Let us leave, now, Mount Vernon Place for Eutaw street.

HAMMER AND ANVIL.
A NOVEL,

BY FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN.
[Translated from the German for The Statesman.]

CHAPTER I.

was a mild and humane man,' he said, 'and well mindful of the words of the poet, that it was well to lay seriousness aside at the proper time and place; ay, even at times to quaff the wine-cup and move the feet in the dance; but then the cause should be sufficient to justify the license-a Virgil

We were standing in a deep recess at the open must have returned from a far-off land, or a Cleowindow of our class-room. The sparrows were patra have freed the people from imminent peril noisily chattering in the school-yard, and some by her voluntary, yet involuntary death. But how scattered rays of the late-summer sun glanced past could any one who notoriously was one of the the old gray walls down to the grass-grown pave- worst scholars-yes, might be styled absolutely the ment; from the class-room, which was high-ceil- worst, unless one other'-here the Professor gave a inged, sunless, and ill-ventilated, came the buzzing side glance at me-'could claim this evil pre-emisound of repressed talk from our school-fellows, nence-how could such a one dare to clutch at a who were all in their places, bent over their Sopho- garland which should only encircle a brow dripcles, and watching for the arrival of the old man,' ping with the sweat of industry! Was he, the who was looked for every moment. speaker, too strict? He thought not. Assuredly, 'You may be sure of that!' I had repeated, no one could wish it more earnestly than he, and when the door opened and he came in. no one would rejoice more heartily than he, if the He-Professor Lederer, Provisory Director of subject of his severe rebuke would even now give the Gymnasium, and Ordinarius of our class, 'the the proof of his innocence by translating without old man,' as we used to call him-was in reality an error the glorious chorus of the Antigone, not exactly old, but a man past the middle of the which was the theme of the morning's lecture. forties, whose small head, already turning gray, Von Zehren, commence!' rested upon a stiff white cravat, and whose tall My poor Arthur! I still see, after the lapse of and extraordinarily lean figure was buttoned up, so many years, his beautiful, but even then someWhat a treat to hear some good music! How from one year's end to the other, summer and win-what worn face, striving in vain to hold fast upon delightful to hear a voice-a true, fresh, rich and ter, in a coat of the finest and glossiest black. His its lips the smile of aristocratic indifference with sympathetic one-as is Miss Kellogg's! Balti- slender hands, of which he took extreme care, which he had listened to the Professor's reprimoreans do not meet often with such good fortune, with their long and tapering fingers-when twitch- mand, as he took the book and read, not too fluconsequently Concordia Hall was filled, on Mon- ing nervously, as they had a habit of doing, close ently, a verse or two of the Greek. Even in this day and Tuesday evenings, with an audience im- under my eyes-had always a sort of fascination short reading the scornful smile gradually faded, patient to listen to the American Nightingale. for me, and more than once I could scarcely resist and he glanced from under his dropped lids a look Miss Kellogg has still improved, and her style be- the temptation to seize one of these artistic-looking of beseeching perplexity toward his neighbor and longs to the very best school of vocalists. She hands and crush it in my own coarse brown fist. Pylades. But how was it possible for me to help pronounces Italian and French remarkably well, Professor Lederer always paced the distance him; and who knew better than he how impossible and phrases perfectly. How brightly she sang the from the door to his desk in twelve measured, dig- it was? So the inevitable came to pass. He turned Polacca of Puritani! With what exquisite feel-nified strides, head and eyes a little drooped, with the shaft of Helios' into a 'shield of Æolus,' and ing she uttered the ballad Home, Sweet Home! the austere look of intensest meditation; like a blundered on in pitiable confusion. The others and in what a lovely and coquettish manner the priest approaching the sacrificial altar, or a Caesar announced their better knowledge by peals of popular Neapolitan Kiss Song, and the English entering the Senate-at all events like a being laughter, and a grim smile of triumph over his song, Beware, Beware! How we regret not to who, far removed from the modern plebeian sphere, discomfited adversary even played over the grave have any opera in the city! Miss Kellogg must walked day by day in the light of the sun of Ho- features of the Professor. act charmingly, and we should have appreciated mer, and was perfectly aware of this majestic fact. her yet more in one of her favorite parts. So it was never a judicious proceeding to try to detain this classical man upon this short journey, and in most cases a prohibitory gesture of his hand checked the attempt; but the sanguine Arthur was so sure that his request would not be refused, that he ventured it, reckless of further consequences. So, stepping out in front of the Professor, he asked for a holiday for the day, which was Saturday. 'Certainly not,' said the Professor.

I

Among those who assisted the eminent vocalist, we must mention first Mr. Kopta and Miss Topp. Both have been obliged to play twice as much as was advertised in the programme. The violinist, Mr. Kopta, though very young, shows already a most promising talent. We are sorry that he did not dare to break with that conventional habit that all artists have of playing in America, the Witches' Dance, or the Carnival of Venice, instead of To go sailing,' urged Arthur, not in the least pieces which could better, than by mere mechani- deterred by the stern tone of the Professor, for cal process, show purity of style and real musical my friend Arthur was not easily abashed-'to go feeling. The same remark might be applied to in my uncle's steamboat to examine the oysterMiss Topp, whose talent is unquestionable. Her beds which my uncle planted two years ago. touch is very sweet, and when necessary, most have a note from my father, you know, Professor, energetic; her school very pure, her playing most and he produced the credential in question. correct; and the admiration we feel for her execu- 'Certainly not!' repeated the Professor. His tion makes us regret that we did not hear, instead pale face flushed a little with irritation; his white of a polka and a waltz, some piece of a higher hand, from which he had drawn his black glove, character. Mr. Petrilli and Mr. Lotti, who hides was extended toward Arthur with a classical minaunder an Italian name a German birth, contribu-tory gesture; his blue eyes deepened in hue, like ted also to the great success of these concerts; the sea when a cloud-shadow passes over it. only we could not judge of the beauty of the Duet 'Certainly not!' he exclaimed for the third time, of Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, as Mr. Petrilli strode past Arthur to his desk, and indicated by a could scarcely sing it. The air of the Ballo in silent folding of his hands that he was too much Maschera was no better interpreted by the same excited to begin with the customary prayers. And singer, who made in it some unfortunate changes. presently followed a stammering Philippic-the NEMO. Professor always stammered when irritatedagainst that pest of youth, worldliness and hankering after pleasure, which chiefly infected precisely those upon whom rested the smallest portion of the spirit of Apollo and Pallas Athené. 'He

P. S.—Since writing the above we learn that Miss Kellogg will sing the third act of Faust on Friday night. Although she cannot be well supported in such an improvised performance, we look forward impatiently to the pleasure of hearing once more her sweet voice.

1868, in the Clerk's office of the United States District
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year
Court of Maryland.

'The curs!' muttered Arthur with white lips, as he took his seat after the recitation had lasted a couple of minutes. But why did you not prompt me?"

I had no time to answer this idle question, for it was now my turn. But I had no notion of making sport for my comrades by submitting to be classically racked; so I declared that I was even less prepared than my friend, and added that I trusted this frank confession would clear me from the

charge that the Professor had been pleased to bring against me.

look at the others, which at once checked their I accompanied these words with a threatening mirth; and the Professor, either thinking he had gone far enough, or not deigning to notice my insolent speech, turned away with a shrug of the shoulders, and contented himself with treating us with silent contempt for the rest of the recitation, enlivening the lesson by sallies of the most classiwhile toward the others he was unusually amiable,

cal and learned wit.

No sooner had the door closed behind him, than Arthur stood up before the first form and said:'You fellows have behaved meanly again, as you always do; but as for me, I have no notion of staying here any longer. The old man will not be back any more to-day, and if the others ask for me, say I am sick.'

'And for me too,' cried I, stepping up to Arthur and laying my arm on his shoulder. I am going with him. A fellow that deserts his friend is a

sneak.'

A moment later we had dropped from the window twelve feet into the yard, and crouching between two buttresses, that the Professor might not

espy us as he went out, we consulted what was time it occurred to me that I had run away from next to be done.

ardous, for it often happened that a pair of teachers would walk up and down the cool corridors in conversation long after the regular time for the commencement of the lessons, and we had no minute to lose waiting. The other was still more dangerous, for it led right through the lion's den; but it was far shorter and practicable every moment, so we decided to venture it.

'Where has that rascal John put the?' 'Allow me, brother-in-law, to present my Arthur-.'

'Very good,' cried the Commerzien rath, without even giving a look at the presentee. 'Aha! there the villain is !'-and he made a dart at his servant, who was just coming up the companion-way with

school for just nothing at all. If Arthur came in There were two ways of getting out of the closed for a couple of days in the dungeon, he, at all court in which we now were: either to slip through events, would have had 'splendid fun,' and thus, the long crooked corridors of the Gymnasium-an for him at least, there was some show of reason in old monastery-and so out into the street; or to go the thing. His parents, too, were very indulgent: directly through the Professor's house, which his share of the danger was as good as none, while joined the yard at one corner, and thence upon the I ran all the risk of discovery and punishment a tray of glasses. Promenade, which nearly surrounded the town, without the least indemnification; and my stern The Steuerrath and his lady exchanged a look, and had in fact been constructed out of the old old father was a man who understood no trifling, in which 'the old brute,' or some similarly flatterdemolished town-walls. The first course was haz-least of all in matters of this sort. So once again, ing expression was plainly legible. Arthur had as many times before, I had helped to pull the joined the young ladies and said something which chestnuts out of the fire for somebody else. How-caused them to burst out laughing and rap him ever, what did it matter? Here, under the rus- with their parasols; I, whom nobody seemed to tling trees, after our brisk race, it was more pleas- notice, turned away and went on the more quiet ant than in the stifling class-room; and for me, in forward deck, where I found a seat upon a coil of those times, every silly, venturesome frolic had a rope, and leaning my back against the capstan, pleasure in itself. So I felt it a special piece of looked out upon the bright sky and the bright sea. magnanimity on the part of my usually selfish In the meantime the boat had left the harbor, friend, when he suddenly said :and was moving down with the coast on our lar'Look here, George, you shall come, too. Uncle board, where the red roofs of the fishermen's cotcharged me particularly to bring as many friends tages shone through the trees and bushes, while on as I could. I tell you it will be splendid. Elise the narrow strip of level beach here and there figKohl and Emilie Heckepfennig are going with us.ures were seen, seafaring folks, probably, or seaI shall leave Emilie especially to you. And then bathers, who were watching the steamer go by. the oysters, and the champagne, and the pine- To our right the shore receded, so that it was only apple punch-yes, you certainly must come.' just possible to distinguish it from the water; be'And my father?' I said; but I only said it, for fore us, but at a still more remote distance, my resolution to be one of the party was already gleamed the chalk-coast of the neighboring island taken. Emilie Heckepfennig-Emilie, with her over the blue expanse of sea, which now began to little turned-up nose and laughing eyes, who had roughen a little under a fresher breeze, while always shown me a decided preference; and re- countless flocks of sea-birds now flew up from the cently, at forfeits, had given me a hearty kiss, to approach of the puffing steamer, and now, with which she was in nowise bound, and whom Ar- their cunning heads turned toward us, sported on thur, the coxcomb, was going to leave especially the waves and filled the air with their monotonous to me! Yes, I must go along, happen what might. cries. 'Can I go as I am, do you think?' I asked, sud- It was a bright and lovely morning; but, though denly halting, with a glance at my dress, which I saw its beauty, it gave me no pleasure. I felt was plain and neat, it is true-I was always neat-singularly dejected. Had the Penguin, that, with but not exactly the thing for company. 'Why not?' said Arthur. 'What difference does it make? And, besides, we have not a minute to spare.'

Creeping close to the wall, right under the windows of our class-room, in which the second lesson had already begun, we reached the narrow gate that opened into the little yard of the Professor's house. Here all was quiet; through the open door we could see into the wide hall paved with slabs of stone, where the Professor, who had just returned, was playing with his youngest boy, a handsome black-haired little fellow of six years, chasing him with long strides, and clapping his white hands. The child laughed and shouted, and at one time ran out into the yard, right to our hiding-place, which was behind a pile of fire-wood-two more steps of the little feet, and we should have been detected.

I have often thought, since that time, that on those two little strides, in reality, depended nothing less than the whole destiny of my life. If the child had come upon us, we had only to come forward from behind the wood-pile, which every one had to pass in going from the Gymnasium to the Director's house, as two scholars on their way to their teacher to ask his pardon for their misbehavior. At least Arthur confessed to me that this idea flashed into his mind as the child came toward us. Then there would have been another reprimand, but in a milder tone, for the Professor was a kind man at the bottom of his heart; we should have gone back to the class-room, pretended to our school-mates that our running away was only a joke, and-well, I do not know what would have happened then; certainly not what really did happen.

a sluggishness altogether at variance with her name, slowly toiled through the water, been a beautiful swift clipper, bound for China or Buenos Ayres, or somewhere thousands of miles away, Arthur, who was in his best clothes, had not and I a passenger with a great purse of gold, or looked at me, nor slackened his pace in the least. even a sailor before the mast, with the assurance We had not a minute to spare, that was true that I should never again set eyes on the hateful enough, for as slipping through some narrow steeples of my native town, I should have been alleys we reached the harbor, we heard the bell light-hearted enough. But now! what was it then ringing on board the steamer that was lying at the that made me so low-spirited? The consciousness wharf just ready to start. The square figure of of my disobedience? Dread of the disagreeable the captain was seen standing upon the paddle- consequences, now, to all human foresight, inevi box. We pushed through the crowd on the wharf, table? Nothing of the sort. The worst could ran up the gang-plank, and mingled with the gay only be that my stern father would drive me from throng on deck, just as the wheels began to turn, his house, as he had already often enough threatand the men to haul on the warps. ened to do; and this possibility I regarded as a deliverance from a yoke which seemed to me to grow more intolerable every day, and as the idea arose in my mind, I welcomed it with a smile of grim satisfaction. No, it was not that. What then?

CHAPTER II.

'How you startled me!' said Frau von Zehren, seizing her son by both hands. We began to think, what was really impossible, that Professor Lederer had refused you permission. You see, now, Zehren, that I was right.'

But the little trotting feet did not come to us: the father, following with long strides, caught the child and tossed it in the air till the black curls glistened in the sunshine, and then carried it back, caressing it, to the house, where Mrs. Professor now appeared at the door, with her hair in papers, and a white apron on; and then father, mother, and child disappeared-the open door showed that the hall was empty-now or never was the time. With beating hearts, such as only beat in the breasts of school-boys who are about some dan'Well, it is all right now,' replied the Steuerrath. gerous prank, we stole to the door through the 'The young ladies were inconsolable at the prossilent hall where the motes were sparkling in the pect of your absence, Arthur-or am I saying too sunbeams that slanted through the gothic win- much, Fräulein Emelie and Fräulein Elise ?'-and dows. As we opened the house-door, the bell the Steuerrath turned with a polite wave of his gave a clear note of warning; but even now the hand to the young ladies, who giggled and nodded leafy trees of the Promenade were beckoning to their dark broad-rimmed straw hats at each other. us; in half a minute we were concealed by the thick bushes, and hastening with rapid steps, that now and then quickened to a half run, toward the port.

'And now you must speak to your uncle,' he went
on; but where is your uncle, then?'-and he ran
his eye over the company that was moving about

the deck.

What will you say to your father?' I asked. The Commerzienrath Streber came bouncing up. 'Nothing at all, because he will ask no ques- His little, light-blue eyes glittered under bushy tions,' Arthur replied; or, if he does, I will say gray brows, the long peak of his old-fashioned that I was let off: what else? It will be capital: cap was pushed back from his bald forehead, the I shall have splendid fun.' left sleeve of his loose blue frock-coat, with gold We kept on for a while in silence. For the first buttons, had slipped half off his shoulder:

Well, to have run away from school with an ardor as if some glorious prize was to be won, and then, in a merry company, on the deck of a steamboat, to sit away by myself on a coil of rope, not one of the gentlemen or ladies taking the slightest notice of me, and with not even the prospect that the waiter, with the caviar-rolls and port wine, would at last come round to me! This last neglect, to tell the honest truth, for the moment afflicted me most sorely of all. My appetite, as was natural for a robust youth of nineteen, was always of the best, and now by the brisk run from school to the harbor, and the fresh sea-breeze, it was sharpened to a distressing acuteness.

I stood up in a paroxysm of impatience, but quickly sat down again. No, Arthur certainly would come and take me to the company; it was the least that he owed me, after I had been so obliging as to run away with him. As if he had

ever yet paid me what he owed me! How many fishing-rods, canary birds, shells, fifes, pocketknives, had he not already bought of me, that is, coaxed and bullied me out of, without ever paying me for them. Ay, how often had he not borrowed my slender stock of pocket-money, whenever the amount made it worth his while, for which, sometimes, even a couple of silbergroschen sufficed. Curious, that just now, on this bright sunny morning, I should take to reckoning up this black account! It was certainly the first time since the beginning of our friendship, which dated at least from our sixth year. For I had always loved the handsome slender boy, who had such sunny hair and gentle brown eyes, and whose velvet Sunday jacket felt so soft to the touch. I had loved him as a great rough mastiff might love a delicate grayhound that he could crush with one snap of his jaws; and so I loved him even now, while he was flirting with the girls, and chattering and laughing with the company like the petit maître he was.

I grew very melancholy as I watched all this from my place, where nobody could see me—very melancholy and altogether dispirited. I must have been very hungry.

tigations-and they named the little foundling other voice. The voice was extremely thin, and
Christina, or Christel, Möwe [Gull], because the so was the lady to whom it belonged, and who had
screams of a flock of gulls in the air had attracted just come out of the deck-cabin. So also was the
Good wife Pinnow to the spot where the child was worn dress of changeable silk that fluttered about
lying.
her figure, and the reddish locks that fell on each
side of her pale face.

A noise close at hand caused me to look round.
Two paces from me a hatchway was opened, and This lady was Fräulein Amelie Duff, and the
out of the hatch way emerged the figure of a man little maid with the corn-flower eyes and ribbons
who was standing on the ladder, but whose head was her pupil, Hermine Streber, the Commerzien-
rose high enough above the deck to allow him to rath's only child. Of course I knew them both,
see over the low bulwarks. His short stiff hair, as indeed I was pretty well acquainted with every-
his broad face, his bare muscular neck, his breast body in our little town, as soon as they were out of
open almost to the belt, his shirt which had once long-clothes; and they might well have known
been striped with red, and his trousers which had me, for I had been two or three times with Arthur
once been white-were all covered with a thick in his uncle's large garden at the town-gate, and a
black deposit of coal-dust, and as he was blinking fortnight before had even had the honor to swing
with his small eyes nearly shut in order to see the little Hermine in the great wooden swing, from
more keenly some distant object, he would have which, if you swung high enough, you could catch
presented an unbroken surface of blackness, had a sight of the sea through the tops of the trees.
he not at this moment expanded an immense Fräulein Duff, moreover, was a native of the little
mouth into a joyous grin, and displayed two rows Saxon town which was the birth-place of my pa-
of teeth of unsurpassed whiteness. And now he rents, and when she arrived, some months before,
raised himself a few inches higher, waved his great she brought various messages and greetings from
black hand as a greeting toward the beach, and all the old home, which unhappily came too late for
at once I recognised him.
my good mother, who had been resting in the
churchyard for fifteen years. She had frequently

'Klaus!' I called out.

ternoon of the swinging-to bestow her instructive

'Hallo!' he cried, starting, and quickly bringing condescended-indeed no longer ago than the afhis small eyes to bear upon me. That was a mighty affectionate salute of yours, conversation upon me; but she was very nearKlaus.'

Klaus blushed visibly through his rind of soot, and showed all his teeth. Why, in the name of -George,' cried he, where do you come from, and what has brought you here?'

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'And what has brought you here?'

'I have been here ever since Easter. I have had

in my mind for some time to come to see you and inquire after your health.'

'You foolish fellow, why do you put on that respectful tone with me?'

'Oh, you belong to the great folks now,' replied Klaus, jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the quarter-deck.

We were now just rounding a long headland, which ran out from the western coast. At its farthest low extremity, in a spot entirely surrounded by water, separated by a wide interval from the row of houses on the down, and shadowed by a half-decayed oak, stood a cottage, the sight of which called into my mind a flood of pleasant memories. The old blacksmith, Pinnow, lived there, the father of my friend Klaus Pinnow. Smith Pinnow was by far the most remarkable personage of all my acquaintance. He possessed four old double-barrelled percussion guns, and a long single-barrelled fowling-piece with a flint lock, which he used to hire to the bathers when they took a fancy to have a little shooting, and sometimes to us youngsters when we were in funds, for Smith Pinnow was not in the habit of conferring gratuitous favors. He had, besides, a great sail-boat, also kept for the bathing company, at least of late years, since he had grown half blind and could not venture longer trips. The rumor ran that formerly he used to make very different voyages, of by no means so innocent a character; and the excise-officers, my father's colleagues (my father had lately been promoted to an accountantship) shook their heads when Smith Pinnow's by-gone doings happened to be referred to. 'Yes I am a complete ass. I wish all my But what was that to us youngsters? Especially, friends were as good as you are, Klaus.' Here I what was it to me, who owed the happiest hours of gave a glance toward the perfidious Arthur, who my life to the four rusty guns, and the fowling- was strutting about among the guests with the piece, and Smith Pinnow's old boat, and who had parasol of the perfidious Emilie, while she had set had the best comrade in the world in Klaus Pin-his little straw hat in a coquettish fashion on her now? Had had, I say, for during the last four years, while Klaus was an apprentice to the locksmith Wangerow, and afterward when he became a journeyman, I had seen him but seldom, and, indeed, for the last half year, not at all.

'I wish I was below with you, and you would
give me a good thick slice of bread and butter.
Hang the great folks, as you call them.'

Klaus looked at me in astonishment.
'Well, but why in the world-' he began.
'Why I am here? Is that what you mean?
Why, because I am a fool and an ass.'
'Oh, no,' remonstrated Klaus.

curls.

sighted, and I could not take it amiss that she ap-
plied her gold double eye-glass to her pale eyes,
and with a sweeping reverence, which in the danc-
ing-school is called, I believe, grand compliment,
inquired: Whom have I the honor to-?'
I introduced myself.

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night.

'I am wanted below,' said Klaus, with a friendly
grin-Good-bye.' And down the ladder he went. She rises from her downy couch, and dons her robes
'Was that a chimney-sweep?' asked a clear
voice behind me.

He came at once into my mind as we steamed I turned hastily round, rising from my seat. past his father's cottage, and I perceived a figure There stood a charming little lady of eight, in a standing on the sands by the side of the boat which little white frock, with ribbons of corn-flower blue was drawn up on the beach. The distance was at the shoulders, and streaming from her straw great, but my keen eyes recognized Christel hat, whose great corn-flower blue eyes first stared Möwe, Klaus's adopted sister, whom sixteen years with intense curiosity at the hatchway through before, old Pinnow's wife-long since dead-had which my black friend had vanished, and then found the morning after a storm, lying on the turned inquiringly to me.

beach among the boxes and planks of a wrecked At this moment the hatch was raised again, and
ship, and whom the old blacksmith, in an un- Klaus's head emerged-'Shall I really get you a
wonted impulse of generosity, as some said, or to | slice-?"

raise his credit with the neighbors, according to 'Oh, mercy!' cried the little lady. Klaus van-
others, had taken into his house. The wreck was ished instantaneously, and the hatch shut down
a Dutch ship from Java, as they made out from with a bang.
some of the things cast ashore; but her name and
owners were never discovered-probably from the
negligence of the officials charged with the inves-

'Oh, mercy!' cried the little maid again. 'How it frightened me!'

'What frightened you, ma chère?' asked an

with care,

And in a knot with ribbons binds her wealth of nut brown hair;

Then down the house steals silently as fleeting shad

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-On December 3d, Mr. Gladstone, after an interview with the Queen, accepted the appointment of Premier of the Ministry. Mr. Disraeli, the late Premier, has also had an interview with the Queen, and formally resigned the seals of his office. Partially conjectural lists of members of the new Ministry are given, and among the appointments now considered certain, is that of John Duke Coleridge, as Solicitor General. It is also considered certain that Lord Kimberly will be Lord Privy Seal. It is said that Sir Roundell Palmer will be appointed Lord Justice of Appeals, the Earl of Huntington Postmaster General, Mr. Groschen, President of the Poor Law Board, and Mr. Henry A. Bruce, Home Secretary. It is reported that John Bright has peremptorily declined the offer of Secretaryship of State for India, and was then assigned to the Presidency of the Board of Trade. Henry A. Bruce has accepted the appointment as Home Secretary. Lord Clarenden is the Foreign Secretary. Sir William Page Wood, the eminent Equity Judge, is mentioned as Lord High Chancellor, though regret is expressed that Chief Justice Cockburn had not received the appointment. Parliament was to meet on the 10th inst., to be followed by an immediate adjournment till after the hollidays.

-In the matter of the Alabama claims, the London Times argues against yielding to the new demand of Mr. Seward, that the question of international law be submitted to the commission. The Times says that the American commissioners will come committed against England, and claims that by national law the British commissioners will be driven to the opposite view. The Times regrets that Lord Stanley has been robbed of the glory of the settlement of these international differences, but is certain that Lord Clarendon, or whoever the new Foreign Secretary may be, will pursue the same policy.

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-The Republicans of Cadiz having paraded the -A terrible disaster occurred on the Ohio river, streets with arms in their hands, and made other near Warsaw, Ind., last Friday night, December demonstrations threatening to the public peace, 4th. The steamers America and United States the troops were called out, and at the latest ac- came into collision, and taking fire were destroyed. counts both parties were still in arms, the insur- Between 60 and 70 persons, about half of them gents attempting to make terms with the troops. being women, lost their lives. The steamer United Communication with Cadiz is interrupted. It is States had a quantity of petroleum on deck, and said many families are about to leave there. The when the collision occurred, the boats took fire, insurgents demand an armistice, which will proba- the flames seeming to come up instantaneously with bly be granted and they be allowed to evacuate the crash, on both boats. The wind was high and the city. The Hotel de Ville and many adjoining the fire had full sweep, entirely burning the main houses are now held by the insurgents, Similar deck of the America, and of the United States demonstrations have been made by the Republi- in part. Ole Bull was a passenger on the America, cans at different points. The Republicans at Tar- and it is said when the crash came he seized his ragona attacked and dispersed a meeting of the famous violin, and made his way ashore, jumping advocates of monarchy. It is rumored that the into the water and wading. He saved nothing general elections of Spain will be postponed until else but his violin. A newly married German the 15th of January, and that the Constitutional couple tied themselves together with a handkerchief and swam ashore. Cortes will not assemble for a month later.

-The Spanish press urges the concession of
liberal reforms for Cuba and the settlement of the
slavery question. Carlist movements are organ-
izing in the provinces.

-The Spanish Government has promulgated a
new tariff for the West Indies, and invites propo-
sals for a cable from Cadiz, via the Canaries, to
Cuba.
-General Laureano Sanz y Soto, newly ap-
pointed as the Captain General of Porto Rico, has
accepted the office on condition that more regular
troops be sent to the Island. General Dulce sails
for Havana on the 15th inst.

WEST INDIES.

-The argument on the motion before the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va., last week, to quash the indictment against Jefferson Davis, on the ground that by the Fourteenth Amendment disfranchisement was made the only penalty for treason, was brought to a close, and the result is a division of the Court on the subject, Chief Justice Chase favoring the motion and Judge Underwood opposing it. The division of the Court was certified to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the motion now goes for decision.

Judge Underwood, since the above action, has discharged Cæsar Griffin, a negro, who was convicted by Judge Sheffey of shooting a white man, his counsel having appealed for his discharge on -A Cable dispatch from Cuba says that the the ground that Judge Sheffey was ineligible to insurgents have retaken Villa del Cobre, and are act as Judge under the Fourteenth Amendment. preparing to attack Santiago: that they sur- Judge Underwood sustained the plea, but the case rounded the latter city, and have destroyed the will be carried on appeal to the United States Cirtelegraph and railway, and cut off water supplies. cuit Court, when Chief Justice Chase will preside. A severe battle is said to have been fought at This decision, it is said, annuls the legal decisions the foot of Mount Alta Garcia, between Puerto given since the war of two-thirds of the Judges Principe and Nuevitas, in which each party lost in the State. fifty men killed. Another battle was fought at -General Cole, on trial for the murder of HisMorrau, and the government troops, 180 in num-cock, at Albany, New York, has been acquitted. ber, claimed to have defeated a large body of The jury found that Cole was sane immediately insurgents, killing 83, with a loss to themselves of before and after he killed Hiscock, but doubted only two men killed. his sanity at the moment of the homicide. The Judge said they must give Cole the benefit of this doubt, when they rendered a verdict of not guilty.

The Havana Diario, of the 9th, publishes accounts of still another battle fought, this time at Guantamo, near Santiago de Cuba. It says the rebels were defeated, with a loss of sixty killed and two hundred wounded. The loss of the Government troops is not stated. Trade on the island is very dull. A complete stagnation prevails in all markets.

-News from Hayti, via Havana, represents the British and French Consuls as sending for men-ofwar to call Salnave to account for outrages on ships and consulates. He had been severely repulsed at Jacmel, with a reported loss of three hundred men.

PRUSSIA.

-American citizens who desire to reside for any length of time in Germany are officially advised to provide themselves with passports from the Department of State at Washington.

-Rev. B. W. Morris, of Germantown, Pa., has been consecrated Missionary Bishop (Episcopal) of Oregon and Washington Territory.

-Rev. Wm. C. Doane has been elected Bishop of the new Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, embracing northern New York.

-Deacon Andrews, on trial at Plymouth, Mass., for the murder of Cornelius Holmes, was placed upon the stand to testify as a witness for the de-Count Von Bismarck soon after his return to fence. He confessed to the murder, but claimed, Berlin had an interview with the ambassadors of as he did in his former confession, that it was done France, England and Russia, and assured them of in self-defence. The jury rendered a verdict of his confidence of the maintenance of good feeling manslaughter, and Andrews was sentenced to between European powers. imprisonment for 20 years.

-In the Prussian House of Deputies, Count -A Toronto dispatch says that Whelan, the Bismarck assented to the proposal to carry the Fenian, will not be hanged on January 10th, expenses of the foreign affairs of North Germany because of the proceedings of a writ of error in his to the budget after 1870. In answer to a propo- case. Should the proceedings result in judgment sition that Prussia should follow the liberal ex-against him, he will be remanded to Ottawa for ample of Austria, he asserted that the Prussian another sentence. people had enjoyed all the liberties now inaugurated by Austria for over twenty years.

AUSTRIA.

TURKEY AND GREECE.

-The Emperor of Austria has issued a manifesto addressed to the army, in which he says: "The country wants peace-we must maintain it. The Daily Telegraph says Mr. Gladstone's I am satisfied with the laws recently adopted for Cabinet is now ready to consider any counter pro- the reorganization of the army throughout the posals made by the United States. The Telegraph empire. Austria and Hungary are now equally adds that the competence of Lord Clarendon to interested in the grandeur and security of the emcarry out the negotiations is understood. The pire. It is my wish that the army, navy and landconcessions made by Lord Stanley are an earnest wehr ever remain truly united." of the spirit animating English politicians in dealing with this matter. All that can be honorably granted, will be. -Constantinople dispatches represent Turkey The steamship Hibernia, of the Anchor line, as continuing diplomatic relations with Greece which left New York November 14, foundered off only on the solicitation of Russia, and as having, the Irish coast on the 25th. The passengers and with the concurrence of the Great Powers, sent an crew took to the boats, five in number. A large number of those on board the Hibernia are known to be lost. Fifty-two persons, including the captain, are saved. Two of the boats containing 80 persons are still missing.

-Mr. George Peabody has made another gift of £100,000 to the poor of London,

ultimatum.

JAPAN.

The Mikado of Japan was crowned at Kioto on the 12th, but no foreigners were invited to witness the ceremony, owing to the ancient customs, which forbid foreigners entering Kioto. The civil war was still raging violently.

-Both Houses of the North Carolina Legislature have concurred in ordering an investigation into the alleged bribery of members.

-More troubles between the whites and negroes are reported in Arkansas. The latest occurrences were at Lewisburg, in that State, on the 3d inst., growing out of the attack of a disguised party on the house of two negroes, who were living with white women. The colored militia afterwards arrested two men, and killed one. The sheriff, a Republiean, took sides against the colored militia, and the greatest excitement prevailed on both sides.

FORTIETH CONGRESS. The third session of the 40th Congress began on Monday, 7th inst. In the Senate forty-eight members were present. The credentials of Senator Hill, of Georgia, were presented and laid on the table. Mr. Sumner introduced bills establishing negro suffrage in all the States, and providing for a resumption of specie payments; also, a resolution directing the President to open negotiations with European Governments for cheap ocean postage. Mr. Cragin, of N. H., offered a universal suffrage amendment to the Constitution. Bills

amending the naturalization laws were introduced in both branches of Congress.

Senators should remember that many of the utter-
ances on that floor are quite as irritating to the
President and to other Senators. Upon the con-
clusion of Mr. Whyte's remarks, Mr. Conness
withdrew his motion, and it was renewed by Mr.
Cameron. Senators Davis, Henricks, Morton and
others opposed the motion, and in the midst of the
debate the Senate adjourned-the vote on adjourn-
ment standing 26 to 22.

CHEMICALS-Demand moderate at unchanged

rates, viz: Soda Ash 2a24 cents; Caustic Soda 5a54 cents; Sal Soda $1.90, and Bleaching Powders &1⁄2 cents, gold.

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No. 3 (large, new)
No. 3 (medium)
100 fbs.....

Hakefish,
Cod, small,
Cod, large,
Labrador Herring...
Box Herring,sonled..

100 fbs..............

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In the House, 164 members answered to roll call. Messrs. Dickey and Pettis, from Pennsylvania, COTTON-Since our last report, has ruled very firm, and Stover, from Missouri, were sworn in. The and more activity is noticeable. The receipts for the credentials of Thomas J. Hamilton, elected as week amount to 2,020 bales, and the sales to 1,650 bales, Representative at large from Tennessee, were reat 234a23% cents for Low Middling, and 241⁄2 cents for Middling. ferred, and his admission to a seat in the meantime DRIED FRUIT-There is no improvement to notice refused. The credentials of Messrs. Christy and this week. Apples and Peaches are still dull and diffiWimple, of Georgia, one furnished by Governor The House of Representatives heard the Mes-cult of sale. We quote them at 6a8 cents for the former Bullock and the other by General Meade, were re-sage, but afterwards Mr. Washburne called atten- and 8a13 cents for the latter, unpeeled, and 25 cents & id ferred to the Committee on Elections. A resolution to the portion relating to the payment of the peeled, tion was adopted directing the Law Committee to public debt, and protested against it as plain re- prime Live Geese at 70a75 cents; fair do. 60a65 cents, FEATHERS-Are in good request, with sales of inquire into the expediency of amending the pudiation, "a disgrace to the country and the and common mixed at 40a42 cents ib. naturalization laws. Bills and constitutional Chief Magistrate who sent such a Message." Mr. FISH-Continues inactive and we have no sales re amendments establishing universal suffrage were Broomall offered a resolution denouncing the ported from the wharf. From store we quote: introduced by Messrs. Boutwell, Broomall and financial sentiment of the Message, and declar-Mackerel-No. 1 Bay, per barrel. No. 1 Shore (new) Kelley. Bills regulating the currency, providing ing against all forms and degrees of repudiation. No. 2 (new) for redemption of greenbacks in gold and prohibit- Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, proposed that the Mesing sales of coin by the Treasury, were presented sage be simply laid on the table, without reference by Messrs. Lynch and Pike, of Maine, and Inger-and without printing, and desired to submit a soll, of Illinois. Mr. Morrill offered a joint reso-motion to that effect. Mr. Washburne modified lution, censuring the conduct of United States his motion so as to have no extra copies printed, Minister Reverdy Johnson, and asking his recall, which was agreed to-yeas 128, nays 38. which, on motion of Mr. Banks, was referred to The House, after a lengthy debate, passed a bill the Foreign Committee, by a vote of 94 to 41. The ordering an election in Virginia on the third FERTILIZERS-The market is nominal. We quote Reconstruction Committee was directed to investi- Thursday of May, 1869, to take a vote on the Con- Peruvian Guano $62.50, gold, a ton of 2,000 lbs.; Mexi gate affairs in Texas and Georgia. Mr. Eliot, of stitution framed in Richmond last year; also, pro- $60; Rhodes' Standard Manure, $50, in bags or bbls.; can A $50 currency; Raw Bone $56; Super Phosphate Mass., introduced a bill continuing the Freedmen's viding for a meeting of the Virginia Legislature Orchilla Guano $30 ton; Soluble Pacific Guano $65; Bureau in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. Mr. in September, 1869. Both Houses passed bills re- Patapsco Guano $60; R. R. Griffith's Prepared Fish Mullins, of Tenn., introduced a bill to suppress lieving Chief Justice Moses, of South Carolina, Guano, in 125 lb. bags, $55 ton; Raw Bone Phosphate the "Ku-Klux." On motion of Mr. Lawrence, from political disabilities under the reconstruction $56 ton; Chicago Bone Fertilizer $46; Chicago Blood the Ways and Means Committee was directed to laws. A bill has also been passed by both Houses Manure $50; Maryland Powder of Bone $16 ton; Coe's Super Phosphate of Lime $60 ton. consider the expediency of sales of surplus Treas- for the sale of Government lands and tenements FLOUR-The market has ruled very quici for the ury gold to assist in liquidating portions of the at Harper's Ferry, Va. In the House of Repre-week, and we have no change of moment to notice public debt. The same committee was also in- sentatives on Thursday, Mr. Thomas presented a in quotations. The sales include some 8,000 barrels, structed to report on the expediency of providing petition from Frederick county, Maryland, asking chiefly to the trade for retailing. We quotes for a resumption of specie payments. Mr. Cary, Congress "to establish a Republican form of Govof Ohio, offered a resolution repealing the Tenure ernment in Maryland." of Office bill, which was tabled. There was objection to it on account of its language and reflections on the 39th Congress. Resolutions were offered recognizing the Provisional Government of Crete, calling upon the President for correspondence relating to imprisonment of American citizens in Ireland, etc.

In the Senate on Tuesday a number of bills, including several hundred names, were introduced for removing the political disabilities of individuals in the South under the Reconstruction acts. A resolution from Mr. Sumner was adopted, which will bring out Minister Washburne's correspondence with the State Department relative to the recent troubles with Paraguay, and the arrest by Lopez of American citizens.

PRICES CURRENT AND REVIEW OF THE
BALTIMORE MARKET,

For the Week ending Thursday, Dec. 10, 1868.
[Our quotations are invariably Wholesale, unless other-
wise expressed.]

ALCOHOL-The market is still very meagerly sup-
plied, but the demand is small. We quote 95 cent.
at $2.10, and Cologne Spirits at $2.12 gallon.
APPLES-There is no change to notice; supply good.
we quote New York State at 35a5.50, and Western $4a
BARK-There is some inquiry, but holders' views
are still above buyers'. We quote Quercitron nomi-
nal at $35 for No. 1, and $25 ton for No. 2.
BEESWAX-Steady at 38a39 cents. for prime
yellow.

4.25 bbl.

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GRAIN-The supply has been quite large and marchange foot up 65,000 bushels Wheat, 120,000 bushels ket active. The offerings at the Corn and Flour ExIn the House, the Speaker announced as the first BLACK-EYED PEAS AND BEANS-The supply is has ruled very firm and in active demand for the Cora, 45,000 bushels Oats, and 6,000 bushels Rye. Wheat business in order, the bill increasing the tariff on not large; under a fair demand the market is firm milling trade. We quote choice white and red Southcopper. The bill was passed-yeas 107, nays 51. and steady. We quote the former at $1.25a1.40 for firern at the close at $2.45a2.50; prime to good do. $2.30a The Speaker laid before the House the memorial to good, and the latter at $3a4 bushel. BUTTER-IS still in limited request, the sales being condition. Corn has met with an active demand, both 2.40; fair do. $2.10a2.20; and common at $1.90a2.05, as to of the Oregon Legislature, requesting the Senators confined to supplying the wants of the retail trade.- for shipment and the local trade. The offerings have and Representatives from that State to resign, for Consequently, only choice Dairies are saleable. The been sold at 93a97 cents for prime dry white new; 80a the reason that they had voted for unconstitutional sales include some 500 to 600 kegs Glades at 40a42 cents 85 cents for damp do.; $1.03a1.05 for dry yellow; old is measures and for the establishment of a military for choice, 38a40 cents for good, 35 cents for common, scarce; we quote it from 3 to 5 cents above new. Oats dictatorship in the South. Mr. E. B. Washburne and 33a35 cents for Western. CANNED GOODS-The demand is equal to the sup- $1.40a1.45, and prime Western and New York State at offered a resolution, which was adopted, to send ply, and prices are very firm. are selling at 70a75 cents. We quote Maryland Rye We note a fair amount $1.50 cents bushel. the memorial back to its authors, for the alleged of business at quotations: reason that it was indecorous and insulting to the 1 b Cove Oysters, per dozen cans. House and to Congress. Mr. Butler, of Mass., in-2 b troduced a bill repealing the Tenure of Office act. 2 Peaches.. Mr. Garfield, from the Military Committee, reported a bill, transferring, the Indian Bureau to 2 Pine Apple...... the War Department, and moved the previous 2 b Blackberries.. question, which was seconded, and the bill was 2 tb Tomatoes. passed-yeas 116, nays 33. The annual report of the Secretary of the Treas-2 tb Green Corn.. 2 tb String Beans... ury to Congress was presented. The Secretary 2tb Green Peas... recommends the legalization of specie contracts to 2 b Strawberries.. be executed in coin, and the declaration "that after 2 Damsons.... the first of January, 1870, United States notes shall 2 b Egg Plums... cease to be a legal-tender in payment of all private 2tb Quinces. 2 tb Green Gages.. debts subsequently contracted; and that, after the 2 Pears.. first of January, 1871, they shall cease to be a legal-2 b Cherries.. tender on any contract, or for any purpose what-1 b Lobster. soever except Government dues, for which they are now receivable." The report shows an in crease of the public debt during the past year of $35,625,102, the total debt on November 1, 1868, being $2,527,129,552. The Secretary calculates that the returns up to the 1st inst. will add eleven millions to the sum of the public debt, making the total increase during the past thirteen months forty-six and a half millions.

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HIDES-Are in fair demand with light supplies. We quote: City Association, Steers, 142a15 cents; Cows do., 13a13 cents; New Orleans, green salted, 124a132 cents; do. dry do. 17a182 cents; do. dry 20a 22 cents; Buenos Ayres 2223 cents, gold; green salted Calf Skins $1.90a2.10, and dry $1.50a1.75 piece. HOPS-Holders are asking 23 cents b for Eastern and 18 cents for Western, with sales only to a limited extent.

HAY AND STRAW-The demand continues good, with sales of prime Timothy at $18a20, Rye Straw $17a18, and Oat do. at $12.

IRON AND NAILS-There has been very little doing since our last report, and the market is quiet and unchanged. We quote: Anthracite, No. 1........

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Brandy Peaches, quarts..
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CHEESE-The demand continues good and prices
Forge.
are very firm. We quote Eastern Cutting at 17a18 American ref. Bars, ordinary sizes 90 00@ 00 00
cents: Western do. 17a171⁄2 cents, and English Dairy at Common.....
COFFEE-We note a fair demand for all grades, but
especially for prime quality Rio, which has become
scarce; medium and low are in good supply, and the
choice at 17 als cents; prime 17a172 cents; good 154
market for them shows less strength. We quote
a16 cents; fair 14a14 cents; and ordinary 124a13
cents b. currency; Java, 21a25 cents, and Laguayra,
16a17 cts. tb, gold.

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mand is fair and prices firm; sales of No. 1 Duck at 56
No. 2 do., 53 cents, and No. 3 do. at 50 cents yard;
and Yarn's 38a40 cents b. for the low numbers.

American Sheet..
English Hoop.
Flat or Boiler.
American Railroad Bars.
English Bar...

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