Mrs. Bouligny, District of Columbia; Mrs. C. J. Faulkner, West Virginia; Mrs. Jourdain Westmoreland, Georgia; Mrs. Ellen Call Long, Florida; Mrs. M. C. Ludeling, Louisiana; Mrs. K. S. Mino., Mississippi; Mrs. E. D. Dickinson, Missouri; Mrs. Edward F. Noyes, Ohio; Mrs. F. R. West, Iowa; Mrs. J. R. Thorp, Wisconsin; Mrs. J. M. Crowell, Kansas; Mrs. J. Beveridge, Illinois; Mrs. H. I. Cary, Indiana; Mrs. S. B. Bowen, Montana; Mrs. Frederick MacCrellish, California; Mrs. L. C. Hughes, Arizona; Mrs. W. I. Hill, Idaho; Mrs. J. M. Washburne, Dakota; Mrs. M. J. Young, Texas; Mrs. W. S. Rand, Eastern Kentucky; Mrs. H. C. Caldwell, Arkansas. THE WOMEN'S PAVILION. The Women's Pavilion, when completed, will be a beautiful and artistic ornament to the grounds, and a valuable addition to the numerous group of Centennial Buildings. Mr. Schwarzmann, the architect, has acquitted himself well in producing an appropriate structure, not only in respect to beauty, but in the more important particular of perfect adaptation to its intended use. It covers an area of 30,000 square feet. The plan embraces a nave and transept, each 192 feet long by 64 feet wide, terminating at either end in porches 8 feet by 32 feet each; four pavilions, each 48 feet square, fill the angles formed by the nave and transept. The cupola and lantern reach an altitude of 90 feet from the ground; the centre of the main structure has an elevation of 25 feet above the outer walls. Besides the walls, there are four columns to support the roof, cupola, etc. The building is of wood. There are reception and toilet rooms attached to the exhibition rooms. This elegant edifice was projected by Mrs. Gillespie, especially, and indeed exclusively to display the progress of a hundred years in woman's handiwork. The entire sum required for the erection, and, we believe, a large portion of what is necessary for the decoration of the Women's Pavilion, has been already secured, and it will be completed and ready for occupancy in ample time. The Centennial Buildings.-Two years ago the Centennial Board of Finance unconditionally promised the people of the United States that whether aid from outside sources were received or not, Philadelphia would carry for ward the work, and, at least, have all the Exhibition buildings ready by January, 1876, and a stroll through the Centennial Grounds shows that the promise of the Board is to be fulfilled. Every building designed for exhibits which it would be advisable to forward several months in advance, is in readiness for the reception of entries, and the other structures will be completed long before required. Machinery Hall has been ready for occupancy for the past six weeks. There is, of course, a great deal to be done in the way of foundations, etc., but these are all to be built by the exhibitors, and much of the floor already laid will have to be taken up to accommodate late comers. In the centre of the transept the Corliss steam engine of 1,400 horse-power is being set, and the Corliss boiler-house is being erected on the south side of the building, just east of the tank. A machine shop for general repairing is also being erected on the west side of the tank. The shoe-and-leather department is to be a separate exhibit, and all the machinery pertaining to this branch of manufacture will be received in the side building, between the hall and Elm avenue. Machinery Hall possesses architectural beauty in a high degree, an unusual simplicity and perfection of construction, and a rare adaptability for the purpose for which it is intended. Horticultural Hall is already in use. The conservatories on either side are filled with exhibits; the heating apparatus is in working order, and the main part of the building is completely finished. Some little painting and other ornamentation remain to be done, both outside and inside, but this will soon be completed. The ground on the outside is being terraced, and around this will be a wide sweep of steps. All the outside space has been apportioned to florists of this and other countries, and a much larger space would eagerly be taken if it could be obtained. The Main Building is so nearly completed that during the coming week goods in bond or in original packages will be received and stored in the northwest avenue. The decora tive painting is well advanced. All the wood and ironwork, with the exception of a small portion of the centre tower, is done. The Agricultural Building is in the course of erection, and in a few days all the Howe-trusses will be in place. The sheeting of the roof and the laying of a floor are mat ters of rapid construction, and, with the large force of men on hind, can be finished up in a few days. The northwest portion of the hall is under roof, and has been turned over to the painters. The architecture of this building is purely American, and, while neither beauty nor strength is sacrificed, is very economical in construction. Representatives of the United States Congress. He has been for several years the Editor of the Hartford Courant. North Carolina and the Centennial. "I am informed," says a North Carolina correspondent of the New York Herald, "that the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society will make an effort to comply with the suggestion of Mr. A. T. Goshorn, Director General of the International Exposition, that in the preparation of State Last, but not least, comes Memorial Hall, which will be ready for exhibits long before it will be desirable to forward paintings or statuary. It is completely roofed; the sky-lights and the glass in the dome are all set. Many of the rooms are plastered and are ready to receive the tiling. Both gas and heat are introduced, and this will enable the workmen to proceed without interruption during the winter. In a recent letter to The Nation, New York, its Philadelphia correspondent, says: "I have made a thorough inspection of the grounds and buildings. Fortune favored me with a pleasant day, and I had the additional advantage of securing the kind offices of General Norton, who served as a guide with unwearied patience for many hours. Although aware through previous experience at Vienna that great things can be accomplished by welldirected energy, I was not prepared for the truly wonderful changes that have been wrought at Philadelphia within a twelvemonth. It would be but a slight exaggeration to say that the Exhibition buildings are ready now, months ahead of the time. Certain it is that they will be in readiness to receive goods early in February. . . A cursory glance at the grounds and buildings ought to convince the most skeptical that the managers have labored with great wisdom and economy, making every dollar yield its full return. HON. JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY, President of the United States Centennial Commission. General Joseph Roswell Hawley, the President of the United States Centennial Commission, has long had a National reputation as a capable and energetic man. He seems to be peculiarly adapted to everything he attempts; as an Editor, a General, a Congressman, and a Governor, he has distinguished himself, but his fame as a public man will hereafter be chiefly based upon his successful administration as President of the Commission. He was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, October 31st, 1826; removed to Connecticut at eleven years of age; in 1850, he became a practicing attorney in Hartford; he commenced his journalistic career on the Evening Press, in 1857. In the late war, he began as a Captain in the First Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, he arose steadily, as the result of meritorious services, to the rank of Brigadier and Brevet Major-General. He was Governor of Connecticut in 1866-'67, and has served two or three terms in the House of agricultural collections it would be well, in order to secure the best representative specimens, to select from the variety of products offered at the different autumnal fairs those most worthy. Such selections will doubtless be made from the list of entries at the recent State Fair at Raleigh as will show the country and the world that North Carolina produces something more than the tar, pitch, and turpentine' which are generally considered by outsiders as constituting the sum total of her staples. As the agricultural department of the great Exhibition will contain, in addition to the customary mammoth vegetables, timber, fruits, cereals, animals, wild and tame, and animal products a wide range of contribution is afforded. And there is no doubt that the opportunity thus presented will be properly improved. It is a fact worthy of remark that North Carolina is the only State in the Union in which every article enumerated in the census statistics is produced. Her great diversity of soil and climate enables her to yield a variety of productions almost endless, embracing not only cotton, tobacco, rice, and Indian corn, but wheat, rye, barley, oats, and potatoes, together with all kinds of fruits except the tropical, and grapes of every species, foreThe most of which last is the luscious Scuppernong. Catawba, Lincoln, and Isabella are also natives of this State, and are excellent grapes of fine wine-making qualities. Interesting Tables.-The following tables speak for themselves; they are extracted from a Statement made at the banquet given December 19th, to Members of Congress, the President of the United States, Members of the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, and other distinguished | Japan, visitors who had come to Philadelphia to see the actual condition and prospects of the Centennial Buildings, etc. visit was a grand success in every particular. London, 1851, New York, 1853, Paris, 1855, London, 1862, Paris, 1867, Vienna, 1873, Philadelphia, 1876, Space Covered. 20 acres 534 acres 30 acres 24 acres *401⁄2 acres 50 acres Spain, 3 Egypt, 1 Canada, Australia, 2 Turkey, 3 Morocco, 21 2 I 11 Space taken by Foreign nations in Exhibition Buildings: Space. List of foreign nations that have accepted the invitation to take part, with the amounts appropriated for expenses, as far as ascertained: Great Britain, with Australia and Canada (gold) $250,000 Ohio, STATE BUILDINGS. New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kansas, West Virginia, Total Area of Building. 21.47 1.5 over 80 p. c. 14 about 25 p. c. 1.5 14.15 Nevada, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkansas, 1.7 Amounts of money subscribed and appropriated towards Michigan, 120,000 New Jersey, 76,000 New Jersey, Delaware, Japan, 600,000 Connecticut, China, New Hampshire, Wilmington, Delaware, Gifts, concessions, and interest, Further receipts from concessions, $100,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 5,000 -$135,000 230,000 100,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 Netherlands (ample provision, amount not yet known) Portugal, Turkey, Egypt, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chili (owner of all goods exhibited, and pays all expenses) Hayti, Venezuela (all expenses, amount unlimited) Of these subscriptions and appropriations, about 90 per cent. have been furnished by the State of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia and their citizens. This last table shows that one million and a half of do lars are still required, and it will be a blot upon our general Government, which, no time will wipe out, if Congress fails to appropriate the entire amount. CURRENT MEMORANDA. with approbation from my letter to him: 'As one of the most important means of memorizing history, as the best mode of inciting to noble and disinterested action by the contemplation of results in the way of honor, and certainly the surest way of restoring good feeling between the various sections of our country, such work-museum founding-cannot be regarded by thinking persons as a mere sentimentality.'" A Step in the Right Direction.-The news columns of the daily papers inform us that "John E. Grant, of New York has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and a fine of $500 for publishing and sending through the mails a disreputable sheet." Now there are published chiefly in New York, and circu Independence Hall and its Restorer.-At a recent meeting of the City Council, Common Branch, of Philadelphia, a striking illustration was afforded of the extreme littleness of some of the individuals who are sent to that body to represent the enlightened and patriotic citizens of some of the Wards. A motion was made and carried, to strike out of one of the appropriation bills an item of $3,000 to be expended under the direction of the Committee on Restoration of Independence Hall in the prosecution of the noble work entrusted to them; in support of the motion, a most unjustifiable assault was made upon the Committee, or rather upon its efficient Chairman, Frank M. Etting, a gentleman who deserves, and will receive, enduring thanks for the grand work he has effected, and he will be recollected with gratitude as a true man largely imbued with the patriot-lated throughout the United States, indeed publicly offered spirit of 1776, long after the small-fry politicians who led the attack referred to, shall have been forgotten even by his kin. The identical politician and his colleagues who voted to strike out, would undoubtedly have taken a more favorable view of the matter if Mr. Etting and his Committee had asked for $30,000, with a view to dividing the surplus among the honest members of the Councils. Perhaps Mr. Etting has erred in asking, from time to time, only the smallest sums that he could legitimately use, and refusing to derive any profit himself, or permit others to derive any profit, on the sly, from the grand patriotic enterprise to which he has devoted himself and much of his private resources. The Select Branch, fortunately for the good-name and repute of the City, refused its sanction to the contemptible striking out, and the item was restored. On the 28th of December, Mr. Etting wrote a letter .o a member of the Common Council, reviewing the action in that body, and showing the animus of the assault upon himself. We quote the last two paragraphs, which require no comment: "Now, I claim that I have contributed dollar for dollar with the Councils from the time I first procured the ordinance to be passed to permit the work to be done, and I am ready to-day to pay out of my own pocket, the full amount asked for from the City by the Committee of which I am Chairman. "I pledge myself by the end of 1876, to raise one hundred thousand dollars for the perpetual endowment of the old State-House of Pennsylvania as the National Museum, on one condition, that the Councils of Philadelphia, with the concurrence of the Executive, relinquish to the American Philosophical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, as trustees for the people of the United States, all the right, title, and interest which was acquired by the City in 1816, at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars. This would be an easy method to relieve the City of an immense expense, and would perfect the plan of a National Museum, as to which General John Eaton, the Commissioner of Education of the United States, in his last official report, quotes for sale on the news-stands and in newspaper stores, a number of "disreputable sheets," some of them positively pernicious in the extreme, working the ruin of thousands, especially of the boys and girls and young men and women of all parts of our country. Parents who conscientiously endeavor to “train up" their offspring "in the way they should go,” find themselves thwarted too often by these evil sheets which find their way into the hands of our children despite all our efforts to the contrary. The "sensational” style of literature readily commands interested readers among the young, and insidiously destroys all taste for instructive, improving reading; even "harmless," nondescript trash, in the way of "moral" stories, in time fail to interest the young reader who once learned to read "The Boys of New York," "The Boys and Girls of America," and kindred sheets. The taste thus once corrupted demands Dime Novels," "The Police Gazette," "The Police News," "The Day's Doings," and like devil-inspired publications, and in due time the young man or young woman is fully educated and fitted to figure in the Police Courts, ride in the Prison Vans, aud reside in the Jails and Penitentiaries, if not indeed thoroughly qualified for the gallows. Is it not high time for our laws to take cognizance of this growing evil? Cannot the strong hand of the law take hold of and suppress these " disreputable sheets?" The 64 Charity" of an Ultra-Liberal Christian Paper.-There is a religious newspaper published in New York, which is a professed champion of such liberality as is to unite the Christian Church, but its columns often call to our mind a sarcasm, not rough but strong, once uttered in our hearing by an earnest, zealous Christian who has gone from the Church militant" to the Church triumphant" some years ago; he was a man of pronounced views and devoted to the Denomination to which he belonged-charitably willing to believe those who differed from his views were just as apt to be true Christians as he knew himself to be, but not favorable to impossible schemes to bring about organic union in the Christian Church. A good Methodist brother had been for more than forty minutes, during which he himself had said nothing, demonstrating the beauties of such a union, wherein all should be "of one mind" in minor as well as fundamental matters, and had been lucidly defining the tenets to be held and taught by this "heavenly society," as he called the proposed united church; though our friend's tongue had been still, his mind had been busy, and at last he quietly replied: “Ah, yes! I see! the Methodist Church will kindly perform the part of the lean kine of Pharaoh's dream." And thus, we opine, it will ever be with good and sincere men of all Denominations who favor such schemes; each will expect all other Christians to forget or ignore their views of truth, and to fall into his own Denominational ranks. But for an unusually mild specimen paragraph from the "liberal" paper we have referred to; it thus sneers in a late issue at one of the sister churches of the great Christian family; the quoted words are thus emphasized in the original paragraph: "The Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown was consecrated "bishop" of Fond du Lac in St. John's "church" Cohoes, December 15th. "My Lord bishop" Potter, presided. The sermon was preached by "bishop" Welles. Several *other gentlemen called by the Episcopalians "bishops" participated in the proceedings." Valley Forge. A correspondent of The Press, Philadelphia, writes concerning Washington's camp at Valley Forge: "The surroundings are beautiful and striking, as if nature desired to perpetuate the remembrance of the event here enacted. The great hill on which the camp was laid out rises | an enduring monument to those who suffered upon its bleak sides such cruel hardships, suffered that they might win for us the liberties which we now possess, and trust may go down to countless generations of our descendants. On our way from the railway station to the site of the camp we pass Washington's headquarters, a substantial stone house in good preservation, and thence, after a quarter of mile along the road, strike off through open fields, up the hill, and through a wood path to the remains of the century-old breastworks, still plainly visible, and remarkable for their distinctness, solidity, and height. Descending towards the Chester Valley, on the far side, we presently come upon the larger of the two forts, built to command the approach from the road leading up from the valley below. The earthwork is very plainly marked, and if the old guns were again mounted in the em brasures it would look-save for the trees which have grown up inside-almost as it did a hundred years ago, when Washington surveyed the ground and ordered its erection. In shape the fort is triangular, the apex being towards the base of the hill, and the situation is one of great natural strength." The Battle of Trenton. The ninety-ninth anniversary of the battle of Trenton was celebrated in that city by a sham fight, in which about 1,000 men, composed of one military company and others without uniforms, but supplied with arms from the State Arsenal, took part. General Washington was personated by Captain Peter Wilkes, and the Hessian commander, Colonel Rahl, by Abijah Anderson. Each commander had his staff, dressed in the uniform of a century ago. | The troops mustered at their respective quarters shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning, and commenced to march for the various points of attack about one hour afterward. General Washington, with his detachment, moved on the city from the north at half past 9 o'clock, driving in the Hessian pickets and proceeding through the centre of the city, keeping up a brisk fire in the meanwhile. The Hessians retreated toward the Assinpink Creek before the advance of Washington, where their retreat was cut off by another detachment of the Continentals, and they were compelled to surrender. While the firing was going on, the streets along the route of the battle were jammed with people, and the housetops, windows, and porches were occupied by enthusiastic crowds. Thousands of strangers witnessed the display, and all seemed highly entertained. As soon as the battle was over the troops were regaled with refreshments bounteously sup plied by the citizens. In the afternoon a mass meeting w13 held in Taylor Hall, where speeches were made by a number of distinguished Jerseymen. Prison Reform.-The Evening Mail, New York, says: "The Assembly Committee investigating the subject of crime in this city had before it Mr. Sinclair Tousey, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association. He advised a more sytematic process of instructing convicts in mechanical industries; adverted to the tendency of tramps to become criminals, and coincides with the opinion that the bestow ment of charity upon the bummer serves to invite the shiftless to our city and to the prison cell. He would arrest every one found begging in the streets, investigate their cases, and if homeless, give them work, with board and possibly a small sum of money as remuneration. If they were really sick he would send them to the hospital and take care of them." |