0 THE DAILY EVENING TKLEGKAP1I PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY C, 1871 THE MALEiACTOUS'S VIOLIN. FROM TtlK FRENCH OF ERCKMANH CHATR AIN. Curl llafitz had spent six years in working et thorougb-basR; he Lai studied Haydn, Ghick, Mozart, Beethoven, llossini; ho was in the full enjoyment of robnst health, and of a modest fortune which allowed him tqpnr buo Lis artistic vocation. la a word, ha had all the requimt es for composing grand and beautiful inilsic except the ons liltle iaJisr pcrifiaMe thing inspiration. Every day, filled with noble ardor, he would take to his master very long and har monically very good scores every phrass of which, unfortunately, went to the acconnt of Teter, or Jnmen, or Christopher. Master Albertus, seated in his great arm chair, smoking his pipe, with his ieet on the andirons and his elbow on the tablo, would Bet to work to strike out his pupil's original discoveries, one after the other. Carl would cry with vexation, get angry, argue but the old master would placidly open one of hU innumerable music-books, and, with his linger on the passage, say: "Look there, my boy!" Then Carl would hang his head and despair of the future. Dut one fine morning, when he had handed in to Master Albertus, under hia own name, a fantasia of Baccherini, with scraps from Viotti, the old gentleman's composure gavo way. "Carl!" cried he, "do yon take me for an ass? Do you think I don't notice your wretched stealings? Keally this is too bad!" Then, seeing him in consternation at this address, "See here," said he, "I think it very likoly yon are cheated by your own memory, and take your own reminiscences for invention; but, decidedly, you are getting too fat; you drink too good wine, and, what is more, you are too loose in counting your glasses. That is what clogs the channels of your intelli gence. You must get lean!" "Lean!" "Yes! or give up music. It is not science you lack, but ideas. The thing is very simple. If you passed your life in coating the strings of your violin with a thick layer of grease, how could they ever vibrate?" These words of Master Albertus were a gleam of sudden illumination for llafitz. "If I have to wear myself to a skeleton," cried he, ''I shall shrink from no sacrifice.' Since it is matter which clogs my soul, I will grow lean!" His features, at this moment, spoke such heroism that Master Albertus was touched; he embraced his dear pupil and wished him good luck. By the next day Carl llafitz, with wallet and staff, left the hotel of the "Three Pigeons" and the brewery of "King Gambrinus" for a long journey. lie set out for Switzerland. Unluckily, by the end of six months, though nis plumpness was considerably re duced, his inspiration was none the better for it. "Could there be an unluckier fellow than I ?" thought he. "Fasting or good living water, wine, beer nothing can screw up my soul to sublimity pitch. What IJhave done to deserve bo dismal a fate? While a crowd of ignoramuses are producing remarkable works, I, with all my science, all my work, all ray courage I don't come to auything! Oh, Heaven is not just! No, it is not just!" Thus meditating, he was plodding along the road from Bruck to Fiiburg. Night was falling; he began to lag, and was ready to drop with weariness. At this moment he perceived, by the moonlight, an old shanty, squatted a little back from the road, with steep roof and ram shackle door, shattered window-panes, and chimney in ruins. Nettles and briars grew thick about it, and the little window in the roof scarcely peeped out over the bramble bushes of the plain, now swept by a wind which would have taken the horns off an ox. At the same moment Carl descried through the gloom the pine branch dangling over the door. "Come," said he, "the inn is not fair to look at it is even a bit uninviting; bat we must net judge by the outside." So, without hesitation, he rapped on the door with his stick. "Who's there ? What do you want ?" cried a gruff voice from inside. "Shelter and food." "Ah, ha! very well very well!" The door opened suddenly, and Carl found himself face to face with a stout fel low, with square-cut features and gray eyes, clothed in an old sack coat out at elbows, and holding in his hand a hatohet. Behind him flamed the fire on the hearth, lighting up the entry to a shed, the steps of a wooden stair-case, the crumbling walls, and crouching close to the fire, a girl, pale, ema ciated, and dressed in a poor gown of brown calico, spotted with white. She looked towards the door with a sort of fright in her black eyes was an indefinable expression cf wild sadness. Carl saw all this at a glance, and instinct ively tightened his grasp of his stick. "Well come in why don't you?" said the man. "This isn't weather to keep people out in." Thinking, then, that it would be ill-judged to look scared, he walked boldly into ttie shanty and sat down on a stool before the fire-place. "Give me your wallet and stick," said the man. This time Master Albertus' pupil shivered to his very marrow; but, before he could get over his dismay, the wallet was unstrapped, the stick leaning in a corner, and the host quietly seated again in the chimney-corner. This circumstance somewhat restored his composure. "IIerrWirth,"eaid he, smiling, "I shouldn't object to some supper." "What would you have?" said the other grossly. "A bacon omelet, a jug of wine, and some cheese." "Hey! bey! You've an excellent appetite, sir, but provisions are out." "Out?" "Yes." "All?" -"All." "You've no cheese?' "No." "Nor butter?" "No." "No bread? no milk?" "No." "Why, good heavens! pray, what have you got?" 'Totatoes baked in the ashes." At that moment Carl noticed in a dark corner, on the staircase steps, a whole regi ment of fowls white, black, and russet asleep, some with their heads under their wings, others with their necks sunk between thtir shoulders. There was even one big, dry, dilapidated old fellow, who was coolly j? ickiDj tnd Euiootljicg his fathers. "Why," said llafitz, pointing at them, "you must have eggs." "We took them all to market this morning at Bruok." "Ah! Well, then, anyhow, put me on a chicken to roast." Scarce had he pronounced these words, when the pale girl, with dishevelled hair, rushed to the staircase, crying: "No one shall touch my fowls no one Bhall touch my fowls ! Io, ho, ho ! Leave the Lord's creatures alive." There was somethiag so terrible in the poor creature's looks that llafitz hastily an swered. "No, no; we won't kill the fowls. Let us see the potatoes. I go in for potatoas. I shall stick to you. Now I see my vocation clearly. Here I stay three months six months long enough, anyhow, to gel as loan as a fakir ! " He said this with pingular vivacity, and the hoBt cried to the pale girl: ' 'Geneveva ! Geneve va ! look the spirit has him like the other!" The gale outside grew stronger, the fire Cared unsteadily on the hearth, and sent its volumes of greyish smoke in whirling eddies to the ceiling. The fowls, in the flickering firelight, seemed to danco on the steps of the stairs, while the mad girl sang with her shiHl voice a strange old-fashioned air, audthe green fagots, sweat ing with sap in the ilame, simmered a mourn ful accompaniment. llafitz understood that he had got into the den of llecker, the wizard; he swallowed two potatoes, and raising the great red water jug, drank long and deep. Then his spirit grew calm again; he noticed that the girl had gone, and only the man was left before the lire. "Ilerr Wirth," he resumed, "show me to bed." The innkeeper, lighting a lamp, went Blowly up the worm-eaten stairs, raised a heavy trap-door with his gray head, and showed Carl to the garret, under the thatch. "There's your bed," said ho, setting the lamp on the floor, "pleasant dreams; and be careful with the light !" Then he went down again, and llafitz re mained alone, crouching before a great straw mattress with a big feather bed for a coverlet. He had been musing for some moments, wondering whether it would be prudent to go to sleep or not, for the old fellow's face was far from reassuring, when, thinking over the light grey eyon, the livid mouth thick-set with wrinkles, the broad, bony forehead, and parchment skin, he suddenly recollected that on the (lalgenberg (Gallows Hill) were three hanged malefactors, and that one of them curiously resembled his host that he, too, had sunken eyes, ragged elbows, and his great toe protruding through his shoe rotted by the rain. He recollected, too, that the poor wretch, Melchoir by name, had been a musician, and had been hung for knocking on the head with his jug the landlord of the "Golden Lamb," who was dunning him for a conven tionsthaler. The poor devil's music had formerly touched him deeply it was wild and fan tastic, and Master Albertus' pupil used to envy the vagabond; but, at this moment, see ing in fancy the figure on the gallows, it rags fluttering in the night breeze, and the carrion crows hovering and cawing about it, he felt a chill run over him; and his fear was not diminished when he saw, at the baok of the shed against the wall, a fiddle with two withered palm leaves over it. He would have been glad to make his escape, but at tha: instant the rade voice of the host reached his ears. "Put out the lamp, will you ?" cried he "go to bed 1 told you to look out for tho light!" At these words Carl shivered with fright, but he stretched himself on the great mat tress and blow out the lamp. Everything grew still. Now, Fpite of his resolution not to shut his eyes, what with listening to the howling of ths wind, the hooting of the owls through the darkness, and the scampering of the mice over the rotten floor, to words one in the morning llafitz was sound asleep, when a sob sad grievous heartrending waked hiia with a start, and his face bathed in cold sweat. He looked, and saw doubled up in the corner of the garret the figure of a man; it was Melchoir, the malefaotor ! Its black hair hung to its lean waist, and its neok and ohest were bare. So lean was it, one might have taken it for the skeleton of an immense grasshopper; a moonbeam, which found its way through the little window, lit it up faintly with livid gleam, and long spiders' webs angled about it. llafitz, in silence, with staring eyes and wide open mouth, gazed at the strange being as one might gaze at death standing behind one's bed-curtains when tho fatal hour 'draws nigh. Suddenly the skeleton strotched out its long bony hand and seized the violin from the wall, put it to its shoulder, and then, after a moment of 6ilcnce, began to play. In its music there were why there were notes as funereal as the sound of the earth crumbling on the coffin of one we have dearly loved solemn as the thunder of waterfalls long drawn out by mountain echoes majestic as autumn gales through sounding forests; and then again sad sad as incurable despair. Then, in the midst of these sobs, would coma a song light, dulcet, silvery as the warbling of a flight of joyous sparrows fluttering over floweriDg khrubbery. It would swell and eddy in graceful waves, with an ineffable thrill of careless delight, and then in an in stant take flight, scared off by the waltz, mad, palpitating, eotatio: love, joy, despair, all sang, wept, streamed forth beneath tho vi brating bow. And Carl, despite his inexpressible terror, stretched out his arms and cried: "O, great, great, great artist ! O, sub lime genius! U, now I pity your sad lata! To be hanged for having killed that beast of an innkeeper, who knew not a single note of music! To wander through the woods by moonlight without your body but with such a talent ! O, heavens ! " His exclamations were interrupted by the rude voice of the host, crying out: "Hallo, up there! YVill you La quiet, or won't you? Are you ill, or is the house afire ?" Heavy B,tepa sounded on the creaking stairs, a bright light pierced through the cracks uf the door, which opened under a push from tho shoulder of the innkeeper, and allowed him btauding in the doorw ay. "Ah, Herr Wirth," crirfd IIfitz. "Ilerr Wirth, what is going on litre ? First I aai awaktned by heavtkly music, whiobjjravi'iue my soul to spheres above and thon it all fades like a dream !'1 The host's features grew grav6 and thought ful. . "Yes, yes," he muttered, musingly, "I might have txpected it Mtlchior hs come iguin to break our rest. So he will always keep coining. It is all up with our repose- no vise to think of sleeping. Come, comrade, get up; come smoke a pipe with me." Carl waited for no further invitation he was only too glad to get away. .But once down stairs, with his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands,, he remained a long time plunged in an abyss of Bad meditation. The host, for his part, had rekindled the fire, and, taking his place again on the rickety chair in the chimney corner, was Bmoking in silence. At last the dawn broke, faint and gray. It looked in through the dingy little windows; then the cock crowed the fowU hopped down from step to step. "How much do I owe yon ?" asked Carl, ai he strapped on his wallet and grasped his stick. ' "You owe us a prayer at the Chapel of St. Blaise's Abbey," said the man, with a strange accent. "A prayer for the soul of my sou Melchior, who was hung, and another for his affianced crazy Geneveva!" "That's all?" "That's all." "Good-by, then I won't forgot it." In fact, the first thing Carl did, on getting to Friburg, was to go end offer up a prayer for the poor vngabond musician and the girl he loved. After that he went to Master Kilian's, mine host at "The Grapes," Fpread his music-sheet on the table, and ordered a bottle of rikevir; then, heading the page "The Malefactor's Violin," he com pohed, at one sitting, his first really original score. From the Aldine. Comical. Coincidences. Dr. Doran tells of a comical coincidence of which the rector, curate and congregation of a Western vil lage were the victims. The rector and his curate both returned to their duty, after a long absence, upon the same day. The enrate took the morning service, and preaohed so well as to astonish his hearers. In the even ing the rector, who had officiated in a neigh boiing parish in the morning, ascended the pulpit, and rather surprised his flock by giving out the same text as the enrate had chosen in the forenoon. Their sur prise became puzzled wonderment when they found it was not only the same text but the same sermon; and one can imagine the horror of the listening curate. The fact was, rector and curate had each purchaped some lithographed sermons, and were so unlucky as to inaugurate their return home with tho same one. Good as this story is, it is capped by the misadventure attending three young candidates for a Scotch ministry. The first one put upon his trial, while putting on his robes, happened ta descry an ancient-looking, well-worn roll of paper, which proved to be a sermon upon the text, "Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents." Seeing that the old sermon was much better than his new one, the aspirant to pulpit honors took possession of it, de livered it as his own, and then returned it to its old resting-place. The sermon was a good one, and pleased the .hearers, although they would have preferred one delivered without book. Great was their astonishment the fol lowing Sunday when preaoher number two treated them with the same sermon from the same text; but it was too much for Soottish patience when a third minister, falling into the same trap, commenced his sermon by announcing that "Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents;" and one old woman re lieved the feelings of her fellow-sufferers by exclaiming, "Deil dwell 'urn. Is he never gann to flit ?" Chambers' Journal. PROPOSALS. u NIT ED STATES PENNSYLVANIA MAILS. Post Office Department, Wasuinuton, Sept. SO, 1S70. f PROPOSALS for conveying the Mails of the United States from July 1, 1871, t June 30, 1872, on tho fol lowing routes In tho State of Penusylvaula, will be receh ed at the contract Oillce of the Department until 3 P. M. of March X, 1871, to be decided by March 30 following: 2305 From Cutler, by North OaWand, Barnhart's Mills, Baldwin, and Bruin, to Lawrenceburg, 2 miles and back, three times a week. Leave Butler Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at7-80A.M.; Arrive at Liwreneebnrp: by 4 P. M. ; Leave Lawrenceburg Tuesday, Thursday, and .Saturday, at 7-30 a. M. ; Arrive at Butler by 4 P. M. 2010 From Liberty Corners, by Storr's Mills, to New Era, 11 miles and back, once a week. Leave Liberty Corners Saturday atSA.il,; Arrive at New Era by 12 M. ; Leave New Era Saturday at 1 P. M. ; Arrive at Liberty Corners by 5 P. M. 2C34 From Bedford to Downingsville (Imlertown P. O.), 6 miles and back, twice a week. Leave Bedford Tuesday and Friday at 3 P. M. ; Arrive at Imlertown by 6 P. M. ; Leave Imlertown Tuesday and Friday at 8 A. M. ; Arrive at Bedford by 19 A. M. 20S5 From West Bingham, by Bingham Centre and Bingham, to Spring Mills (N. V.), 7 utiles and back, twice a week. Leave West Bingham Tuesday and Sarturday at 8 P.M.; Arrive at Spring Mills by S P. M. : Leave Spring Mills Tuesday and Saturday at 12 M. ; Arrive at West Bingham by 2 P. M. 2C36 From Pottstown to Cedarville (no offloc), 2 miles and back, three times a week by a schedule satisfactory to the postmaster at Cedarville. 'JC37 From Oxford, by Mount Vernon, Colerain, Kirkwood, ForeBtdale, and Bartvllle, to Christiana, 18 miles aud back, three times a wetk. Leave oxford Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur day at 1 P.M.; Arrive at Christiana by o P. M. ; Leave Christiana Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 7 A. M. ; Arrive at Oxford by 12 M. Tins route is supposed to be covered by exist ing service, and, if bo, will not be let. 2638 Frem llorton's, by Rochester's Mills (no ofllce), to Brady, 12 miles and back, once a week. Leave iiorton's Saturday at 8 A. M. ; Arrive at Brady by 11 A. M. ; Leave Brady Saturday at 1 P. M. ; Arrive at llorton's by 4 P. M. Proposals for more frequent service Invited. 2C39 From Osceola MiHs, by Houtzdaleand Si ail era, to smith's Mills, is miles and back, twice a week Leave osceola Mills Tuesday and Saturday at 7 A. M. ; Arrive at Smith's Mills by 12 M. ; Leave Smith's Mills Tuesday and Saturday at 1 Arrive at Osceola Mills by 6 P. M. 2GJ0 ironi Ilanlln Station, by Eldersville (no oftVe) aud Independence, to Bethany (W. Va.) ia miles and back, once a week. Leave Hanlin but ion Saturday at 8 A. M. ; Arrive at Bethany by 12 M. ; Leave Bethany Saturday at 1 P. M. Arrive at Ilanlln Station by 5 P. M. Proposals for more frequent service Invited. 2C41 From Troy Centre (no offlce) to Tryonvillc'. S miles and back, once a week. Leave Troy Centre Saturday atlO A. M. ; Arrive at Tryonvllle by 12 M. ; Leave Tryonvllle Saturday at 1 P. M. ; Arrive at Troy Centre by 3 P. M. ProDosais invited for service twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday. 2C42 From Flicks v life uo oulce) to Penary (no oUlcel. Bidders will state distance and proposed ache. dule of arrivals and departure. 2C43 From Coonerbburif. by Lanark, Llmeport. Stinesburg, and Zlou Hill (no otllce), to Cooperaburg, is milts, three times a week, equal to 9 nilles and back, three times a w-en. Lrave Coopersbnrg Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 12 M. Arrive at Cooriersuure bv 6 P. M. 2044 From Dixon, by Fast I-emon (no Office), to rmrcevuie, e miles auu back, three limes a week. Leave Dixon Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur day ui i a. a. Arrive at piticevtlle by 9 A. 1L Leave riereevllle Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa- turd ay at 10 A. M. Arrive at Dixon by 12 M. SC45 From Milroy to Slglervllle (no office), 8 mflcs and back, three times a week, by a schedule satisfactory to the postmaster at Stgler- S646 From Sandy Lake, by North Sandy and French Creek, to TJtica, 11 miles and back, twice a week. Lrave sandy Lake Tuesday and Saturday at 8 P. M. Arrive at Utloa by 8 P. M. ; Leave Utica Tuesday and Saturday at T A. M. 5 Arrive at Saudy Lake by 10 A M. Proposals for an additional weekly trip on Thursday Invited. 2647 From Mlllertown, by CoflTnan's (no offlce), UM's Store (no oillee), Barnes' Hotel (no oillce), and Miller's Store (no oince), to Mc Rec's lialf Falls, 18 miles aud back, once a week. Leave Milleretown Saturday at 8 A. M. ; Arrive at McKee s Hair Falls by 12 M. ; Leave McKee's Half Falls Saturday at 1AM.; Airive at MUierstown by 1 r. m. 2048 From Edge bill Station (no oillce), by Fitzwa- wriowu, darreuown, ana Tnree ions, to Proupcctvllle, 8 miles and back, six times a werk, by a schedule making close.oiunectl .um at Edge Hill Station with regular mail trains. 2G49 From Newport, by Acker's Store (no olTtce) and juoiiTKomerj r 1 erry, to Liverpool. 15 miles only that part of the route from Newport to Montgomery's Ferry wLl bo let, 10 mues aud back, once a week. Leave Newport Saturday at 3 P. M. ; Arrive at. Montgomery's Ferry by 0 P. M. ; Leave Montgomery's Ferry Saturday at 730 A. M. ; Arrive at Newport by 1030 A. M. 2CS0 From Tobjhauna Mills to South Sterling, 8 roue anu uhck, once a wcck. Leave Tobyhanna Mills Saturday at 1 P. M.; Arrive at South Sterling by 4 P. M. ; Leave South Sterling Saturday at 7 A. M. ; Arrive at Tobyhanna Mills by 10 A. M. 2CC1 From North East, by Greenileld, to Wattsburg, 10 nines ann nacK, once a wees. Leave North East Saturday at 2 P. M. J Arrive at Wattsburg by 6 P. M. ; Leave Wattsburg Satnrdny at 6 A. M. ; Arrive at North Kost by W A. M. Proposals for an additional trip on Tuesday In vited. 2C52 From llerrickvllle, by James Mittens (no ofllce), and William Ncsblts (no oillce), to Hummer fleld Creek, 5 miles aud back, three times a week, in close connection with railroad mail - trains, by a schedule satisfactory to the post matters. 2CE3 From Wyalnslng, by Lime HU1, Ballebay (no offlce), and Camp Sohool-houBe, to Hcrrlck, 10 miles aud back, three tlmeB a week. Leave Wyaluslng Tuesday, Thursday, aud Sa turday, at 1P30 A, M. or after arrival of mail train; Arrive at Herrick by 2 30 P. M. ; Leave Herrick Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur day, at 7 A. M.; Arrive at Wyaluslng by 10 A. M. 2CC4 From Itussell Dill to Kelservillo (no ofllce), 2,V miles and back, once a week, by a schedule satisfactory to the postmaster. 2G&B From Flioenlxvllle, by Pickering and West Pikeland, to Ciiestcr Springs, 7 miles aud back, three times a week. Leave Phoenlxville Tuesday, Thursday, and Snturday at 12 M. ; Arrive at Chester Springs by 2 P. M. ; Leave Chester Springs Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 6-ilO A. M. ; Arrive at FhoenlxvMe by 8-30 A. M. 2050 From Cochransvllle to Londonderry, 2 X mHes and back, three times a week, by a schedule satisfactory to the Poslmaater at London derry. 2GM From Lanark to Allentown, 4 miles and back. three times a week, by a schedule satisfactory to the Postmaster at Lanark. 26B8 From Trunkeyville to Fagundus Forest (no onice), 1 mile and back, three times a weak, by a schedule satisfactory to the Postmaiter. 2659 From carrolltown, by Nicktown aud Klm- meirs, to rine Fiats, 13 mues ana dick, ouce a weeK. Leave Carrolltown Saturday at 8 A. M. ; Arrive at Pine Flats by 12 M. ; Leave Pine Flats Saturday at 1 P. M. ; Arrive at Carrolltown by 5 P. M. 20CG From Central oillce, in Philadelphia, to the fol lowing named sub-otllces, from October 1, 1871, to June 30, 1872, viz.: Soraerton, By berry, Holmesburg. Olney, Tacony, Bustle ton, Fox Chase, Mllestown, Oxford Church, Torresdale, Verrce's Mill, and Wheat Sheaf. twice dally, except Sunday, in each direction, or oftener If required, by a schedule satisfac tory to the postmaster at Philadelphia, and tnewnoie service ana meanr of transport tlon to be under his direction. Pate per annum to be stated In bids. 2GG1 From Liberty, by Brittonwood (no ofTle.e) and Steam Valley (no oillce), to Trout Hun, 15 mues ana uacK, once a week. Leave Libertv Saturday at 7 A. M. ; Arrive at Trout Run by 12 M. ; Leave Trout Itun Saturday at 1 P. M. i Arrive at Trout Hun by G P. M. Frcposals Invited for more frequent service. NOTES. Proposals must be to carry the mall with "celo- rir.y, certainty, and security," using the terms or tne law, and they must be guaranteed bv two respon sible persons, certitled to as such by a postmaster or juuge 01 a court 01 recoru. No pay will be made for trips not performed, and for each of such omissions not satisfactorily ex plained three times the pay or the trip may be deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as to break connection with depending mails, and not suiliclently excused, one-fourth the compensation for the trip is subject to forfeiture, Fines will bo Imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained, for neglecting to take the mail from or 11110 a post-onice ; lor sutiering it to be injured, de stroyed, robbed, or lost; and for refusing, after de maud, to convey the mail as frequently as the cou tractor runs, oris concerned in running, vehicles on the route. The Postmaster-General may annul the contract for disobeying the post-otllco laws or the Instructions of the Department. He may alter the schedule of departures aud arrivals, and also order un Increase of service by allowing therefor a prorata, increase on the contract pay. lie may also curtail or discontinue the service in whole or in part, at a proportionate decreasoof pay, allowing as full indemnity to the contractor one mouth's extra com periHatlon ou the amount of service dispensed with. and a pro rata compensat'on for the service retained and continued. Bids should ne addressed to the ""second Assistant Postmaster-General, ' super- Beriuea UToposais, btate 01 1 ennsyivama," and sent by mail For forms of proposals, eto., and other Informa tion, see advertisement of October 81, 18G7, and of th8 date, in pamphlet form, at tho principal post unices. juiitN a. j. uuksiv v,1jj, 1 U eod tMl Postraaster-Uoneral ri O IKON MANUFACTURER U. S. Lighthouse Depot, T Ofllce Lighthouse Engineer Third District, I Tomtkinsville, Suten Islaud, N. Y., f January 13, 1S71. rnorosALS for bcrhvv-pile light houses. . SEALED PROPOSALS from Iron Foundries will be received at this oillce until MONDAY" the 13th day of February, 1871, at 13 o'clock M., for tbe entire IKON and WOODWORK of TWO BCKKW-PILE LIGHTHOUSES, the plans and epeciiications of which are for in spection at tills oillce. A suitable place will bo provided by the contractor for the setting up of the entire structure for inspection and accept ance. The contractor, who must be a manufacturer of iron, will include in his proposals the cost of taking down and delivering on board the ves sels provided by the undersigned for shipment of the same. Proposals will Etato the time of completing the structures. The right to reject any proposals that may be deemed disadvantageous to the Government is reserved. proposals will be in duplicate, accompauled by a guarantee in duplicate, with a printed copy of this advertisement atlixed to each pro posal, ana win ue aaaresseu to we unaersignea, and endorsed "Proposal for Screw-pile Light houses." 0. c;. wuuLmuFF, . Lieut.-Colonel of Engineers, U. 8. A., 1 2013 13 Lighthouse Engineer Third District OORDAOE, ETC. CORDAGE. JK&nllla, Sisal and Tarred Cordag at LowMt Htm York FrloM tnd FrUhU. JCDWIN LL VITLKK fe CO MUirf.TKWTHSt. tod GERMAN TO WH Avamub au'. No. 83 H. WATE Bk tod 83 B. DELAWAB 11 Um PHILADELPHIA! QTEAM ENGINES AND PORTABLE AND )D Stationery lioilor of Hofrart', nd BUck'i, aud I inili. 1 I'ttellU nd other forum. Tnk, funs, luxi riute Weill, ununup. u. nowAitu, na Nynjum wymiittivmtiuwt, SHIPPINC. rrfJ( LORILLARD BTfiAMSUIP OOMPAN. FOR HEW TOHU, BAILING TUESDATB, THURSDAYS, AND SAT UIUJAVS AT NOON, are now receiving freight at winter rates, com mencing December 88. All goods shipped on and after this date will be charged as agreed upon by the agents of this company. INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT. No bill of lading or receipt signed for less than fifty cents, and no Insurance effected for less than one dollar premium. For further particulars and rates apply at Com pany s ofllce, Pier 83 East river, New York, or to JOHN V. OXIU PIER 19 NOKTn WHARVES. N. Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, etc. a 8 t --FFtV NATIONAL STEAMSHIP SiliuLLl LINK. Steam to and from NEW YOKK, LIVERPOOL, AND QUEENSTuWfl. Bteamers sail WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, aud Cabin, 75 and fas; Steerage, jw. Excursion tickets, good for one year, liberally reduced, fer poiis sending for their friends can obtain tickets (Mr eniRp) for 32. Tickets to and from Londonderry snd Glasgow by this lavonte route at the same low currency rates. Passengers booked to and from London, Paris, Hamburg, Havre, Bremen, etc.. at lowest rates. fiOTE. The niflgnitlcent Ocean Steamships of this llrie are among the largest in the world, aud are celebrated for speed, sarety, and comtort.' Owing to reduction, rates are now 15 in Cabin aud f i In BUeiage cheaper than other llrst-class linos. tor passage, or bank drafts for auy amount, paya ble at sight in all parts of Great Britain, 1. eland, end in principal cities rf Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Prance, Germany, and Italy, api ly to WALLER fc CO., Agonist, 1 16 Ko. 204 WALSUT St., just above Si'.roiui, rpnB REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PEL X LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STB.Mi BI1IP LINE arc ALONE authorized to lssuo tlirougl oills of lading to interior points South and West lj connection with South Carolina Railroad Compnuy. ALFRED I TYLER, Vice-President So. C. RR. Co. iti!ii.5IAlL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S KK- Oil-AK SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO NEW OR LKaJ8, La. The YA.00 will sail for New Orleans, via Havana, on Tuesday, February T, at 8 A. M. The JUNIATA wlil sail from New Orleans, via Havana, on rrinay, reoruary a. THROUGH BILLS OK LADING at as low rates n t, rr rtYw)V Piint-n irirtt n 1T I H I f TP flAf UL'O TON, INDIANOLA, ROCKPORT, LAVAcCA, aud BRAZOS, and to all points on the Mississippi river between JNew urieaus anu St. Louis. Jtdd river freights reshtpped at New Orleans without charge or cummlBslons. WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH. OA. The TONAWANDA wid sail for Savannah on Sat- urdav. February 11, at. 8 a. n. The WYOMING will sail from Savannah on Sat- nrdav. February 11 THROUGH BILLS O1 LADING! given to all tne principal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, aud Tennessee in con nection with the Central Railroad of Georgia, At lantic aud Gulf Railroad, and Florida steamers, at as low rates as uy competing uues. SEMI.MONTIILT LINE TO WILMINGTON". N. C, Tho PIONEER will sail for Wilmington ou Fri day, r eoruary iu, at o a. m. uoiuniing, will leave Wilmington Friday, February IT. Connects with the dipe Fear River Steamboat Company, the Wilmington and Weldon aud North Carolina Railroads, ana tne Wilmington and Mau Chester Railroad to all Interior points. Freights for Columbid, S. C, and Augusta, Ga., taktn via Wilmington at as low rates as by auy omer route. Insurance effected when requested byshfpners. Bills of lading signed at Ouceu street wharl on or before day or sailing. WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent, C 15 No. 130 S. THIRD "Street. Tmr.ATiP.r.TTTiA RTOuirnvn ami- ulNUU FOLK THAMH1UK LINK. 'J liKOl GH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE S JUTU AN 11 WEST. INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES. Steamers leave every SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock noon, from FIKST WHARF above MARKET Street. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND THURSDAYS, Na Bills of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sail ill 2 (In vs. THRuUGn .RATES to all points In North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Ratlrond, connecting at Portsmouth, aud to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennes see Air Line and Richmond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUT ONUK and taken ac LOW EH KATES T11A.N A IN X Ol HElt LINK No charge for commission, drayage, or any ex pense of transier. Steamships insure at lowest rates, freight received daily. State Room accommodations for paisenfrers. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 12 S. WnARVES and Pier I N. WHARVES. W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City point. ' T. P. CROWELL & CO,, Agents at Norfolk. 619 rpiIE ANCHOR LINfi STEAMERS I 1 .. : 1 ...... A...1 117,. .1 ...... to and from Glasgow and Derry. Passengers booked and forwarded to and from all railway stations in Great Britain. Ireland. Ger many, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark and Amarlca as surely, speedily, comionaDiy, aua cheaply as by any ouier route or iiue. "EXPKEHB" 6TKAS1EKS. "EXTRA" STEAM BUS. IOWA, TYRIAN, BRITANNIA, IOWA, TYRIAN. ANGLIA, AUSTRALIA, BRITANNIA, INDIA, COLUMBIA, EURO! A. BRITANNIA. f rom Pier HO Nerth river, New York, at uoon. Rates of Patsage, Payable In Currency, to Liverpool, Glasgow, or Derry: First cabins, C5 aud 75, according to location. Cabin excursion tickets (good for twelve moutns), securing best accommodations, $130. Intermediate, f33: steerage, lis. Certificates, at reduced rates, can be bought hera by those wishing to send for their friends. Drafts lcsued, payab.e on presentation. Apply at the companv's oillces to HENDERSON BROTHERS, 12 27t No. 7 BOWLING GREEN. FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE f Jci'S -i-Z and Rarltan Canal, ffft S W 1FT SURE TRANSPORT ATIOI CUMfAN r. DESPATCH AND bWlFTSURB LINES, Leaving dai'y at 12 M. and 5 P. M. TSe steam propeirers of this compaty will com Bience loading on the 8th of March. Through In twenty-four hours. Good's ror warded to any point free of commission Freigii "s taken on accommodating terius. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD fc CO., Agouts, 4) No. 182 South DELAWARE Avenue. J . V O R N B W YORK I yrtJ-'Vv Delaware and Rarttan Canal. JLiiUA! EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The bteam Propellers of the line will commence loading on the Sth Instant, leaving dally us usual. THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the Hues going out of Na York, North, East, or West, free of commlaiilon. Fieighta received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Agents, No. 12 S. DELAWARE Avenue JAMES HAND, Agent, No. lii WALL Street, New York. 8 ii y NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXAN lyVradrla, Georgetown, and WamuKtoa X.iti-;;H. C, via Chesapeake and Dc.swa.re tuual, with connections at Alexandria from iue most direct route for Lynchburg, BrtstoL Knoxvllle, Nashville, Dal ton, and the Southwest. bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon torn the first wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Na 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDS & TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELD RIDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1 delaware and chesapeake steam tow-boat company. --I , Barges towed between Philadelphia. Baltimore, Havre-de-Urace, Delaware City, aud .ntermediate points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents. CAPTAIN JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. omCE, No. 12 South WHaRVES, 12U PHILADELPHIA. . PEL A WAKE AND CHESAPEAKE JZ8TEAN TOWBOA.T COMPANY. f- tmHarfw towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, ana in termedlitte points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agenti. Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. 0Ulte,NQ.U80ttUiVfLttrv PUtUolphla, Uj tHIPPINO. FOR LIVERPOOL AND OUEEVfti iViUihiaw ii 1 n" inmnn iiim 01 noyaisi.au Steamers are appointed to sail as follows: Cltvoi ririisseis, Saturday, February 11. at 10 A. M. City of Brooklyn, Batnrdsy. Feb. 18. at 8 P. M. City of Limerick, via Halifax, Tuesday, Feb. 21, atl City of Paris, Saturday, Fb. 85, at 10 A. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, frm pier No. 45 North river. RATES OF PASSAGE Bv Mall Steamer Sailing every Saturday. Payable in gold. Payable In curreuoy. First Cabin 7B Steerage .....I.'O To Ixindon 8a To Londou 80 To Pans 90 To Halifax 80 To Paris 88 To Halifax IS Passencern man forwarded to Antworn. Rnttor- dam, Sweden. Norway, Denmark, etc, at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons wishing to send for their friends. For further Information apply at the company'! Offlc. r JOHN G. DALE, Agent. No. IB Broadway, N. Y. I Or to O- DON N KLL & FAU LK, Agonts, 4 B No. 41)2 CHKSNUT Street. Ptuiadel phia. &r? PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND! AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE. THROUGH FREIGHT .LINK TO THE SOUTH AND WEST. INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES FOR 18J1. Steamers leave every WEDNESDAY and SATUR DAY, at 12 o'clock noon, from FlhsT WHARF above MARKET Street. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAY'S and THURSDAYS, aud NORFOLK TUESDAY'S and SATURDAYS. No bills of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sail lng days. lHROrGTl RATES to all points in North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connectii.g at Pcrtsim.uth, aud to Lnchbnrg, Va., Tennessee, and the West, via Virglni and Tonnes see Air Line aud Richmond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUT ONE, and taken at LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE. No charge for commission, Urayage, or any ex pent e of transfer. Steamships insure at lowest rates. Freight received dally. State Room accommodations for passengers. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CE O WELL k CO., Agents at Norfolk. 1115 pOR SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. THE r LOK1UA 1'OKTK, AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. GREAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PASSEN GER LINE. CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA AND AT LANTIC AN GULF RAILROAD. FOUR STEAMERS A WEEK, TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS. THE STEAMSHIPS SAN SALVADOR, captain Nickerson, from Pier No. 8 North River. WM. R. GARRISON, Agent, No. 0 Bowling Green. MONTGOMERY. Captain Falrcloth, from Pier No. 13 North River. R. LOWDEN, Agent, No. 93 West street. 1 IEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 16 East River. MURRAY, FERRIS & CO., Agents, Nos. 61 and 02 Sou in street. GENERAL BARNES, Captain Mallory, from Pier No. 30 North River. LIVINGSTON, FOX A CO., Agents, No. 88 Liberty street. Insurance by this line ONE-HALF PER CENT. Superior accommodations for passengers. Through rates and bills of lading lu connection with tne Atlantic aud Gulf Freight line. 1 6t Through rates and bills of lading in connection with entrai K&uroau or Georgia, to an points. C. D. OWENS. GEORGE YONGE, AgentC.lt R., No. 49 Broadway. Agent A. & G. R. R., No. Broadway. w H I T E STAR LINE OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S LINE OF NEW STEAMERS BKTWEKN NEW Y( RK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT CORK. IRELAND. The company's fleet comprises the following mag nificent lull-powered ocean sieambliips, the six largest In the world : OCEANIC, Captain Murray. RCTIC. ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. BaLTIC. PACIFIC. Captain Perry. ADRIATIC. These new vessels have been designed specially for the transatlantic trade, and com blue speed, Bafety, and comfort. Passenger accommodations unrivalled. Parties lending for their friends in the old coun try can now obtain prepaid tickets. Steerage $32, currency. Other rates as low as any first-class Hue. For further particulars apply to LS.Vi AY, IMRIE & CO., No. 10 WATER btreet, Liverpool, and No. 1 EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADENlixLL 8treet, Imdon: or at the company's oilices, No. 19 BROADWAY, New York. 1 6t .T. II. SPARKS. A (font.. FOR NEW X y a VIA DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL, EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The StcimiPropellers of the Linn will commence loading oh the 8ih lnst., leaving Duly us usnal. THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOLR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines golnjr out of New York North, East, or West, free of commission. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO.. Agents, No. 12 S. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent, No. 1 19 W A LL Street, New York. 1 20 NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXANDRIA, GEORGETOWN, AND WASH INGTON, D. O., via CUES PEA life! AND J.ELaWaRE CANAL, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvillo, Nashville, Dalton, anu the Kouthwest. Steamers liave regularly every Saturday at noon from the drst wharf above Market btreet. Ireight received dny. WILLIAM P. CLYDil & CO., No. U North and South Wharves. rtYDE & TYLER. Agents, at Georgetown; M. ELDKI. GE ft CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 14 1S0ir 8 TT II OMHaS ANl) "BRA Z I C ' UMTED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM SHIP COMPANY. REGULAR MAIL STEAMERS sailing on the 23d of every month. MERRIMACK, Captain Wler. SOUTH AM h. RICA, Captain E. L. TlnKlepaugh. NORTH AM KhK.'A, Captain G. B. Hlocum. These splendid steamers saU ou schedule time.and call at St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, going and returning. For engage ments of freight or psssage. apply to WM. R. GARRISON, Agent, 12 lOt No. 6 Bowliug-green, New York. hURNACES, ETC. ESTABLISHED 1020. FBEB, t. MKCKB. H. J. DIA8 XX. J. & CO., IMAnVFAVTUSIStiy op Air Furnaces AMD Coolringf Ifcrmgfea, Portable Heaters, Low Down Grates, Slate Man Bath Butlers, Registers and Veuiilators. No. I I I north SEVENTH St., PHILADELPHIA 9 22 tnstuflrxirp JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTKNDKUTO Com Exchange Bag Manufactory. JOHN T. BAILEY, IT. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET Sti. ROF AND TWINS, BAGS and BAGGING, fof Grain, Flour, Salt, Super-Phosphate of Lime, Bou Dust, Ftc Large and small GUNNY BAG 8 conat&ntlj on band, Aiao, W OOL SACHS. I
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