THE' DAILY KVENlNUTKLKGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 0, 18V1. DOLLIK AND THE TWO SMITHS From Mac beood (Edinburgh) Magazine. My father was an Irishman and a writer of articles for magazines. I have never written in a magazine or anything else myself. My mother I don't remember. She died shortly after my birth. One of my earliest uiith metical efforts consisted in the disoovery that I tad nine brothers and sisters, concerning whom, aa they are tU Avc and are some of tbem Fenians, I desire tu ocik on' in com plimentary terms. I believe publishers did not py so liberally in those days as I have reason to hope they do now, or possibly my father may have ac quired dissolute habits throngh his contact with literary men; but from some cause or other I was bo blenderly provided with food, clothing, and education, and ruy home was Bo inconveniently crowded and uncomfortable, that I left it at the age of fiftoon with an out fit consisting of one extra shirt, one ditto pair f Bocks, a comb, and thirteen-aud-six-pence that I borrowed, without alluding to it at the time, from my eldest sister, who wai keeping house and acted as treasurer gene rally, and whoso balance in hand con sisted of that amount. I have sinoe paid it her back, with interest at seven per cent. As, however, my present purpose in writing is not to dwell upon tho varied and striking incidents in my own fortunes through life, so much as to portray certain scenes into which its destiny has led me, I will skip over the first twenty years after leaving home, and land myself in a neat white clapboarded house, with green Venetians, and a verandah half round it, situated on ft wooded hillside, and commanding a lovely view of a sejlided lake abont ten miles long and three wide, on the shores of which a few scattered clearings indicate that we are across the Atlantic, and in a part of tha country not yet very thickly settled. Nevertheless we are in one of the Eastern States of America, at no very great distance from a city of fifty thousand inhabitants, and can hear the shriek of the engine as the cars slop'at the little village at the head of the lake. As to whether that lovely creature with fair hair and blue eyes, and hands so small and white that it is a marvel how she can do so much housework and preserve them as she doos, and a plea sure to look forward to eating the bread they are now kneading I say, as to whether this young lady is my wife, or the "chattel," to take the legal English view of her, of that handsome broad-shouldered man unyoking a team at the door of the barn, ia a matter in which we three alone are concerned. It does not signify, either, who the farm or the two little chubby children belong to; the point to which I wish to call my readers at tention is this. Here am I, an Irishman by descent, an Englishman by birth, a citizen of the United States by naturalization, and of the world by an extended knowledge of it. I confess to only one inveterate prejudice, ac quired doubtless from a long residence among pore and simple Asiatics, and this is an intense abomination of, and contempt for, all society calling itself civilized, and espe cially for that mongrel race of money-grubbers, whether they are located on one side of the Atlantic or the other, which calls itself Anglo-Saxon, and which, to an inordinate conceit, adds an almost inspired faoulty for "peddling." If, therefore, the extremely sensitive feelings of my American readers are hurt by the record of my experiences of village lifo in their country, I only request them to wait until I publish a few observa tions upon which I am engaged in regard to the commeroial morality of London as compared with that of New York, when they will have an opportunity of judging for themselves of my extreme impar tiality, and of venting 'their spleen against England, by republishing my very original and uncomplimentary criticisms on that country, and pocketing the entire prooeeds of the labor of my brains. I give them fair notice that for every dollar of which I am thus robbed I shall stick a pin into them somewhere; and people with such tbin skins had better make friends with me in time. I am to be bought. I have not purchased and paid for so many, of my fellow citizens without knowing to a cent what my own price is. My stock-in-trade consists of a certain faoulty I have for wash ing the dirty ("soiled" we call it on this side "dirty" is considered coarse) linen of the Anglo-Saxon race in public. So much as re gards myself. The name of my broad-shouldered compan ion and fellow-laborer is Orange Z. Smith. As there are two ether Orange Smiths in the neighborhood, we have to be very particular abont the Z, pronounced zee, not zed, in America, and bo taught throughout the BoLools and colleges of the country. In the case of Orange, it does not stand for the first letter of any name, -tut is simply a distinctive middle ini tial; henoe it follows that he is popularly known as Orange Zee. When our first little cherub was born, we called him Zuyder Zee, out of compliment to a Dutch ancestor on his mother's side. I may here remark that my name is also Smith. I dropped my Celtic patronymic and appropriated the English one upon the occasion of my taking thirteen-and-sixpence from my sister above mentioned. The name of Zuyder Zee's mother is Mary, but she is called. "Dollie." All the pet diminutives of female names in the States end in ie, and not in y as in England, perhaps because there is a mjre refined flavor about ie than about y; and all Dollie's correspondents address their letters to ber, not by the Christian name of her hus band, or even by her own Christian name, but tenderly and affectionately as "Mrs. Dollie Van Snook Smith,' thus as it were inviting the affectionate sympathy and inte rest of the clerks in the post ofnee. , So when I was bo unfortunate the other day as to up set ber out of the buggy and she broke ber leg, the editor of theVan Snook vill Democrat touchingly alluded to "the limb of Mrs. Dollie Smith, one of the most beautiful and highly respected residents of this township." Dollie's grandfather, Van Snook, had been the first settler here, and the town was called after him. When Zuyder Zee was born I asked Orange Zee whether the event ought not to be announced in the Van Snookville Demo crat, but he aaid it would not be considered proper to make any publio allusion to the incident; and I remembered afterwards that I never saw a column for births in any Ame rican newspaper. Long may it be before our Dollie figures in an; other column! bat when ever she does her affectionate relations will stick to the pet diminutive, and will announce the departure, not of "Mary, wife of Smith," but of "Mrs. Dollie Van Snook Smith." It is not necessary to say how Orange Zee and I first became acquaintances una thn friends, and then decided "to go to farming" together, and were attracted to this pretty hillside, and to the immediate neiehborhiu of the farm where Dollie was living with her parents. I Lad to trout to Orange 'a farn- wan so great that he never ceased wondering where I bad been "raised." I should like to know bow many of my readers know how to drive a nail so as not to split the wwd. I think the profound contempt with which Orange Zee regards all Eng lishmen, to whom he owes his origin, 1 prin cipally baHert npon the information which I gave bim that there were actually inmy peo ple in England who did not know h' to drive a nail. Nor does be yet understand ns of course everybody.unwt be constantly wanting to drive nails in England as in Ame rica "what on earth they do, if they don't know how." After Orange Zee and I had seen Dollie, Biid ound that the adjoining farm was for sale, we determined to buy it; and we accord ingly went to Dollie's uncle, to whom it be longed, and told him that the fences were all out of repair, and the house whs falling to pieces, end the meadows were, all "run out," and that it was a miserable old pltoe "any sy, 'and not worth taking at a gift. Dol lie's uncle saw at once from this that we were dying to get hold of the place, and, as Le was equally anxious to sell, he said that he had now given up ail idea of selling, and in tended to "hang on" to it. Orange Zee told me afterwards that the great art of buying and selling was to appear as if jou did not want to buy or sell, and always to seem to hang back. So we hung back. As we were boarding with Dollie's parents, I found "hanging back" quite a plensaut occupation. At last one day Dollie's uncle came and said that be had been offered $75 en acre fur his farm, aud that if we wanted it we had better speak, as he was going to let it go at that. To my surprise Orange Zee said he had just offered $0 an acre for a better farm on the other side of the lake, and expected to get a decided auswer from the proprietor to-morrow. I felt quite arigry with Orange Zee when I heard this, as I bated the looks of the other side of the 1-ike; and when Dollie's unole went aay, I told him he might go there if he liked by himself, but that I hhould continue to "hang back.' He laughed at my innocence, and as sured me that what be had told D dlie's uncle was only as big a lie as what Dollie's uncle had told him, and "bow else could we expect ever to get bold of the farm?" So then, of course, 1 said that it was all right, and we went on "hanging back." Finally, we had a talk wuh Dollie s father on the subject: and Le said that if we would give him a hundred dollars down, and a note of band at six months for a hundred more in case he succeeded, he would get the farm from Lis brother at fifty dollars the acre; but in that case we must leave the place for the present und seem to have given up all idea of settling here. Orange Zee told me afterwards that the old man (we always called Dollie's father "the old man") had held a mortgage over his brother, and by threats of foreclosure forced bim to Bell. The old man was highly respeoted and looked up to for many miles round as being the best horse doctor and the "smartest" man at a trade generally to be found in that part of the coun try. He wus also an elder of the Btptist Church, and exercised a most powerful gift on the occasion of "reviviils" and "protracted meetings. When he found out how matters stood between Dollie, Orange Zee, and my self, be got nearly all our money out of us by secret promises of Dollie first to one, And tnen to tne other: and nothing but the accident of Dollie herself taking a decided stand of her own, prevented our being turned out of the house Dollieless and penniless. 1 he whole details of this fiaan cially romantic transaction were afterwards reported in the 'Van nookville Democrat? aud the old man received a sort of ovation for ome time afterwards whenever he entered a store in the village, in compliment to his skill in having thus turned the charms of bis Dollie to suph good pecuniary ac count. This did not prevent our having a wedding, which was the oooasioa of great rejoicing amongst all the members of the church to which Dollie belonged, aud wbich bore grateful testimony to her popu larity among the farmers' daughters in the neighborhood, who flocked to her marriage, in very elaborate Parisian toilets, in buggies and spring-wngons, and accompanied by "beaux tuo honesty of whose intentions it was refreshing, to one accustomed to less primitive conditions, to contemplate. If I decline for reasons wmcu may nereaf ter appear, to say whether Dollie was married to Orange .ee or myself on tins aus- fiicion oocasion, it ia not because either Dot ie or her husband have ever sinoe done any thing to be ashamed or. Uf tne purity and simple innocence of our menage thre has been a question. Nor did the fact that one of us had failed to realize his aspirations in respect of this estimable young lady embitter our home relations. The soeptios in virtue on the other side of the Atlantio may Bneer, but I am proud to say that no cloud of jea lousy ever disturbed the serenity of our do- mestio horizon. JNor was the disappointed Vniith ever for one instant false to the pure and innocent sentiment of fraternal affec tion which bound hiu to the other two. In deed I may say that we were (and I trust stdl Are) all three very justly considered inotieU of propriety by the highly moral community of the villace. : ' The said village consists of a single street, with three churches and a school -house, all facing each other, in a little square in the middle, with pugnacious-looking steeples and a hostile cock to the gables, as though they were all longing to fly at each other. There are three dry-goods stores, and a hardware tore, and a drug store, and a blaokstnith's thop, and a billiard baloon, and. two taverns, besides grist mills, i saw-mills, carpenters' shops, etc. The population is a genial, good natured race enough. Everybody is fami liarly known by his or ber abbreviated Chris tian name; and the most minute details of the daily life of every fomi'y, and . every obsoura member of it, are accurately known and care fully disoussed at post-time in the store that keeps the post office, and which serves as a club and resort for idlers gen erally throughout the day. For although the inhabitants . of Van Snookville are a tolerably industrious and prosperous community, they manage to spend a large share of thehv time in gossip, and find in the ever-varying excitements of politics and religion abundant occasion for quarrel end intrigue. To one not familiar with their habits their severe language and the harsh judgments they entertain of each other might be supposed to lead to irreconcilable feuds. But this is rarely the case, for the simple reason that an irreconcilable fend is a very unprofitable investment of time and temper; and men seldom hate each other so much as to interfere with their prospeotl of being able to cheat one another. Of course the more rich and influential a man is the more be can afford himself the luxury of a temper. In America, as in England, civility is a marketable commodity; and I had frequent oc casion to remark with admiration that inv I V au buoukviue ixichua rarely peiuiuted Utuu wurmib or Indication of feeling to interfere with their prospective pecuniary interest. O'Niige Zee said that, until we ooul l in cr UNO our capital, our best chance of he c i. iing respeete j in the village would be to j n the Methodist Church, aud get the better the old man "on a trade." He ha there fore already become a "class leader;" and in cousequenoff of certain secret iuforin itiou re garding her father, conveyed to u by Dollie, we see a way by which we shall be enabled to obtain poscetision of a g wJ dxal of the old man's property without rendering our selves liable to imprisonment. We are indebted for the idea to Swomp, the pettifog ging lawyer, who is the old man's rival in politics and in piety, and who is to obtain a percentage on the whole amount resulting from the transaction. After we had obtained possession of the farm aud of Dollie, we found that it would be necessary to improve our living accommodations; aud iustetd of building we determined to buy a ready-made bouse which was for sale half a mile distant, and move it to our own laud a proceeding which involved a great deal of the process known as "dickering." To dicker success fully, one must have a great aptitude for chewing straws and whittling. The great art is to force your opponent to be the first to put a value on the article to be bought or sold. You choose a morning when yon are not busy, for it is ruinous to let any indication of anxiety or haste appear. You walk slowly with your opponent to a fence-rail, aud both sit leisurely across it, and chew straws thoughtfully. I say oppo nent, because, in one sense, every man is your natural enemy all the kje.iibers of the community, whether they are engaged in Agriculture, commerce, or politics, being trained from their earliest infancy to prey npon each other's pockets. You fiud your belf engaged in a gigantic gams of grab (wbich nitaus getting all you can, and giv ing as little as possible in return), anl the weakest goes to tbe wall. Some win the game as bullies, others as sneaks; but you have very little chance unless yon are either the one or the other. Moreover, it is important to remember that if you do not treat every man with whom you have any dealings upoa the assumption that he is both a liar and a rogue, he considers you a fool; nor is there the least danger of his feelings being wounded by your openly doubting and re quiring proof of his most sole uu assevera tions. This entire absence on your ptrt of any gentlemanlike feeling excites bis respect for your "smartness," and leads him to doubt equally every statement male by yon in return as the highest compliment he can pay you. I remember my first attempt at a trade was made in Dollie's preuce, and what I imagined were feelings of delicacy she called weakness, and my sense of houor she said was nonsense a fossil sentiment which bad its origin in ages fitly called "dark," when idiots in armor devoted themselves to tbe protection of weak-minded women when they might have been making money, and sacrificed their material progress to an abstraction called chivalry. I explained to Dollie that among tbe Anglo-Saxons on the other side of the Atlantio it was only consi dered honorable to tell lies when they were necessary to screen the woman you bad be trayed; and that, according to modern ideas of chivalry, it was not considered important that you should respect the virtue of your friend's wife, if you religiously paid him your gambling debts. Nor could I get this obtuse Dollie to admit that the unscrupulous pursuit of dollars bv men of business in the New World was a more degrading occupation than the unlicensed pursuit of women by men of pleasure in the Uld. Orange Zee, who has an immense physique. trusts a Kd deal to bis overbearing voice and manner in a trade, and it was amusing to bear bim endeavor, by sheer force of will, to extort from little Deaoon Brown a price for bis honse, and to see the little Deaoon wrig gle, and writhe, and protest that he bad not the faintest idea of how much it might be worth, that he bad never sold a house in his life before, and that unless Orange Zee would make him an offer, he felt quite powerless and paralyzed. At least two hoars elapsed before either of them would name a figure. I think it was Orange Zee who, in spite of his brow beating, was forced to name a sum, which so wounded the Deaoon s feelings, that he quietly rose and walked off without vouch safing a word in reply, leaving our big Orange Zee ignominiously chewing his straw. In this game the little Deaoon made the first score. It was protracted over many days with varying fortunes, and might finally be consi dered drawn, as I do not think we paid either too much or too little for the house. The next thing was to dicker with tha "house-mover" to transfer oar new residenoe bodily on to our farm, which he did for a hundred dollars, with the assistance of an old broken-winded horse, a man, and i boy. . The tnodus operandi is simple enough, You go into the woods and out down two trees long enough to pass under the whole length of the building, which is of oourse of wood. By means of sorews the house is raised from its under-pinning and plaoed upon these timbers, which are in their turn placed upon wheels; the old horse walks round and works a sort of capstan fixed in the middle of the road, and attaohed by a rope to the house, which moves upon the wheels along planks plaoed under them as it slowly progresses. Most farmers in America are carpenters as .well, and build their own bouses without any assistance; bat we were in a hurry, and urange Zee had too great a contempt for my powers as an assistant for us to under take it. . . . .. , The most expensive operation was the pur chase of stock. Twenty-five oows at from sixty to eighty dollars apiece made a con siderable inroad into what the old man had left of our capital. ! Orange Zee and I work oar whole farm of 100 acres without any help. We have a team for which we paid three hundred dollars and a lumber wagon and a mowing-machine, with ploughs, barrows, and other farmimplements. Dollie has a German "halp" called "Lizer," who is not considered worth more than her board until she can speuk English. We are consoled for her stupidity by ber cheapness, She and Dollie milk all the oows, make all tbe butter, wash all the clothes, bake all the bread, cook all the food, and mend and make a great part of our clothing, to say nothing of looking after the children and the house generally. We have a parlor with some ornaments made with dried fall" leaves, and some cheap china shepherds and shepherdesses, and a picture worked by Dollie's mamma in worsted work. This room is keDt carefully closed, and its finery covered up, excepting on the monthly occasions when Orange Zee, in his capacity of class leader, baa a prayer-meeting in it. We live in tbe kitchen, out of which open two bedrooms, a buttery, a wood-shed, an attio staircase, and a cellar staircase, so that the walls may be said to be almost composed of doors. Lizer shares the at tin with dried apples and empty trunks. The tiowkiiig i U tii i a alov, uot an open fireplace, a thing never to be seen In an American f aruuDonne. The staple articles of diet are pork and beans, and apple-sauce; besides which Dollie is an excellent hind at coin-bread and griddle-cakes. We gat op at r, and OraogB Zee aud I g. out and do "the cborr s" in other words, attend to the stoik, draw water, and make Dollie's fire, chop wood, etc. At ( we breakfast, and at mid-dsy we dine, and at six we have supper and do our "chireB" again. The quantity of things Dollie does by machinery is surprising. She wat-heB with a machine, aud she dries with a machine, and she sews with a machine, aud can knit a pair of stookings in half an hour with a machine, and makes batter with a machine, and pares apples with a mschine: aiid idie "cans" tomatoes And sweet corn, and reserves blackberries, and saves wood-ashes, and makes soap with" "lye" (which is water that has soaked through them), and is a peifect repoHitory of domestic receipts; sid turns out on Sunday to go to mooting with a hie cnignon which she calls a "waterfall," aud a Ions; train, as neatly thavxte and gantee as if she lived on the Boulevards iuMead of on Beaver Lake. How hbe manages to effect these sudden and entire transformations is only one of the mysteries which attach to Dollie, and Are a source of perpetual wonder aud admiration to Orange Zee and myself. Then she takes in The Iieoo- lution, and seems to me to have more ad vanced opinions on "Woman's Bights," than busan J. Anthony herself; and she reads J he liodicni regularly, and watches the new devtlopment of the religions idea of Boston with such keen relish that I some times suspect she is a secret contributor. I verily believe she is corresponding with those two strong-minded opponents of stringent ceremonial observances, Olive Logan Rud Eleanor Kirke, on the marriage question; but she does not at present admit either Orange Zte or myself into her reasons for always going to the post office herself for her letters. We have perfect confidence in her, and are waiting without alarm for the results. So long as she is the most efficient house-wifo in the county we have no tight to complain; aud I believe that it is when she is on her knees fcrul bii g the floor that her most brilliant in spirations come to ber, and suggest those ab strut-e problems of theology with which she occasionally plies Elder Fishor, much to that poor orthodox minister's embarrassment. Notwithstanding all which there is not a Sunday-school teacher in the district (pro nounced (fceatrict) more universally respeoted and beloved; and no "sewing bees" are bo popular as those which our pretty little Mrs, Dollie gives alternately with Orange Zee's prajer meetings in the front parlor. Upon these occasions the neighboring farmers' wives flock to the manufacture of our "pants" and petticoats, and discuss the latest inventions in sewing-machines and theology over an abundant supply of tea. Dollie is a specimen of a new type developed sinoe the race was transplanted to America, and is as peculiar to tbe soil as are tbe beavers which used for merly to inhabit our lake; and I believe, not withstanding her regular attendance at Elder Fibhtrs', she is surely but silently sapping the foundations of bis theology in the minds of a large section of his congregation. Like the beavers aforesaid, I sometimes think that Dollie acts entirely by instinct, and with out any exercise of the reasoning faoulty, She always speaks under some strong, quick impulse, which is irresistible to the listener. A beaver is taught by intuition how to make use of bis tail: why should not the same in tuition teach a woman how to use her tongue? Tbe fact that it has never done so yet does not cause me to despair, since 1 have known Dollie I have become sanguine. Orange Zee and I both feel that she is rapidly developing UH IUIV DUUlDLUJUg, uub wt) UOU If J oL JLUOW into what. Time will show. Meantime, like Dollie, we do as much farm- work as we can by machinery too. We have a mowing machine and a reaping-machine. In the bot bayiug-time we mow before break fast, and rake and cure our hay with horse- rakes and tedders, and load it by a patent process on to our wagon, and get oar bright "Timothy" into our barn with another patent thing like a harpoon, the same afternoon. Think of that, yon poor befogged farmers of the old country i The amount of nay that we two can out, cure, and mow away in one aay, is so great mat l shall not mention it, lest you should imagine that I had been born as well as naturalized in America. We never stack it outside, and have a hay-press of our own, which ' we work, as we do most things, Dy horse-power, and press for our neighbors as well. We have a horse power tbreshing-maohine also, with which we thresh our neighbors' grain at from four to eight cents a bushel, and make a good thing of it; and by killing all oar calves two days after tbey are born, and sending all our milk to the cheese factory, we are able to contri bute to tbe large cargoes of cheeses which annually cross the Atlantio for consumption in the British Isles. What old fogies you uritish farmers are not to kill your calves, and so save tbe milk! . , Then Orange Zee can do almost anything he wants with a plough and team; he has surface-drained all our farm with open ditches three feet deep with the plough alone. As for me, all my most bril liant inspirations in regard to agriculture have been suggested by the remarkable farm iiig experiences published by Mr. Horace Ureeley in the columns of tbe tribune. believe, in spite of Orange Zee's knowledge. we should have been repeatedly ruined had it sot beea for the original ideas we derived from tbe lucubrations of that truly great man Indeed, as I can't be of much assistance to Orange Zee by my practioal knowledge, I en deavor to make up for it theoretically by studying the rural Aleu Yorker, the Country UtiiUeman. and other agrloultural Iournals. Had I been allowed to tave my own way, I should have invested in a variety of advantageous patents, and entered npon a large soale upon experiments with all tbe numerous varieties of oats, po tatoes, tomatoes, and other produce whioi are warranted to make the fortunes of farmers courageous enough thus jadioiously to riak their capital. Among tbe varied occupations of Orange Zee, however, he had passed a year of his life peddling patent rights, and the in formation he had thus aoqaired in regard to their value induced him invariably to prohibit my ever buying one. This was a great trial to me, for scarcely a week passed without come eloquent traveller calling, and offering for a few dollars tbe exclusive right to make and Bell in tbe county stove's warranted to season as well as cook meat; or f enoes whioh were cheaper and more durable than either wood or iron: or clothes-pegs whioh possessed the remarkable property of drying the clothes as well as of attaching them to the lines; or lightning-rods, which not only protected the bouse from lightning, but bottled up the electricity for private consumption besides maBy other ingenious contrivances whioh marked the fertility of ' the American brain. In fact, I feel sore that, had it not been for Orange Zee, we might have become proprietors of many exclusive privilfs which would have secured as a comfortable independence for our lives. I was confirmed in nuy opiuion of my own good judgment an 1 ability in these matters, by overhearing my self spoktn of one day an a "good, clever sort of fellow." 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TE OFFER FOR BALE, AT PAR THE HEW MASONIC TEMPLE LOAN, Searing 7 3-10 interest, Redeemable after Ave (6) and within twenty-oae (91) years. Interest Payable March and Sep tember. The Bonds are eglstered, and will be issued In sums to Bult. DE HAYEN & BRO., No. 40 South THIRD Street. 11 FHrULDKI.FHIA. Stocks bought and sold on commission. Gold and Governments bought aud sold. Accounts received and Interest allowed, subject t. Slgbt Drai ts. . DUNN BROTHERS, HArvur.uti, Nos. 51 and 53 8. THIRD St., Dealers In Mercantile Paper, Collateral Loans, GovernmuEt Securities, an l Gold. Draw 1 llli of Exchange on the Union Bank of London, aud lue travellers' letters of credit through Mesbra. BOWLES BROS fc CO., available In all tha cities of Europe. Make Collections on all points. Execute orders lor Bonds and Stocks at Board of Brokers. Allow Interest on Deposits, subject to check m tight. M , EUIOIT, COLLINS SCO, lULNlCkUti, No. 109 South THIRD Street, MEMBERS OF STOCK AND GOLD EX GUANOES. DEALERS IN MERCANTILE PAPER, GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD,Etc. DRAW BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON TflE UNION BANK OK LONDON. 3fmw 580 530 nzmnicsorj axiAr.iuo, BANKER. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AND EHTSB BST ALLOWED ON DAILY BALANCES. OKDEKS PROMPTLY EXECUTED FOR THE Pl'hCUAHE AND SALE OF ALL RJSLIABLS SE CURITIES. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE. REAL ESTATE COLLATERAL LOANS NEOO TLATED, 19 81 tax No. WALNUT 630 St., Phils dA, FINANCIAL SPECIAL NOTICE TO INVESTORS., A Choice Security. We are now able to lapply a limited amount of the Catawissa Railroad Company's 7 PER CENT. CONVERTIBLE MORTGAGE BOUDS, FREE OF bTATB AND UNITED STATES TAX. Thev arc l88nert for the sole nurrjose of hnfiriinir the extension from Ml HUN TO WiLUAMii-OKT, a distance of 30 th7, and are secured by hen on the ; enure roaa ej tuariy iwi riu$, mill equipped and doltm a tlooimMfig IiuHucsm. When It is ociHidered that the ertlre Indebtedness of the ompatiy wi 1 be lean than S'O.Ouo per mile, lfavinfltonttLelr Valuable Coal Projierly of imt arret, it will he Keen at oin e what an uunsu-il amount of 8'cnrltj Is attached to thne bonds, and they there fore must commend themselves to tne most prudent lrvtMrs. An additional advantHpe la, that they can t.e converted, at the opt l(n of the holder, after U years, ti.to the Preferred Stock, at par. They are rpplMrred Con pn Bond (a irreat safe guard). Issued In an ma of tnoo and tiOtt). Interest paynble Kebronry ami Angnsr, Price 92X and accrued Interest, leaving a good mnnrin for advance. f or farther lniormatlon, apply to D. C. WHARTON SMITH & CO., No. 121 BOUTII TIIIRR STREET, 12S5 PHILADELPHIA INVESTMENT BONDS' PORTAOR LAKE AND LAKE SUPERIOR SHIP CANAL 10s. freoured by Ural lnorttfaire oa tbe canal (now completed), a'ld on real estate worth Are times the amount of the mortgage. LAFAYETTE COUNTY, M'SSOURf, 10a. DOUOLA8 COPNTY, NEBRASKA (Including Omaha), Ids, and thr choice Western couuty aud city bonds, jitldli g good rates of interest. WESTERS PKNN8YLAVNIA RAILHOAD 6g, endorsed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. For full partlctilurs app'y to IIOWAKD IHULIHUTOf, 8 8 8m No. 147 Bouth FOURTH Street. JOHN S. RUSHTOfl & CO., BANKERS AND BR0KERP. GOLD "AND COUPONS WANTED. City Warrants BOUGHT AND SOLD. Mo. 60 South THIRD 8treet, SMI PHILADELPHIA. F o 11 A. Xa JEZ, Six Per Cent. Loan of the City of Wil liameport, Pennsylvania, Free ot all Taxes, At 85 and Accrued Interest. These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act of Legislature compelling tha city to levy safflolent tax to pay Interest and principal. P. 8. PETERSON & CO., No. 39 S. THIRD STREET, rHTLAnKLPHIA. ' B. K. JAMISON & CO. SUCCESSORS TO JP. IT. KF.T.LY & CO BANKERS AND DEALERS H Gold, Silver, and Government 2:udt At Closest Market Hates, . N. W. Cor. TRIED and CHESNUT Sti. Special attention given to COM MISSION O RDER9 -In New York and Philadelphia stock Boards, etc. etc Mf Bowles Brothers & Co., PARIS, LONDON, BOSTON. No. 19 WILLIAM Street 1 . f , p -1 ; ' ; N O "w York, ISUI2 ... Credits for Travellers j i IN EUROPE. Exchange on Fails and tne Unio Bank of London, . 1 IN SUMS TO SUIT. LIT Sin QITT OF BALTIMORE. l,2C0,000 six per cent. Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, endorsed by tne Clt; of Baltimore. The nndertfgned Finance Committee of the Western Maryland Railroad Company: offer through the American Exchange National Bank 11,200,000 of the Bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad Company, having SO years to run, principal and Interest guaranteed by the city of Baltimore. This endorsement having been authorised by an act of the Legislature, and by ordinance of the City Council, was submitted to and ratified by ao almost unanimous vote of the people. Aa an addl tlonal security the city has provided a sinking fund of 1200,000 for the liquidation of this debt at maturity An exhibit of the financial condition of city shows that she baa available and convertible assets more than sufficient to pay her entire Indebtedness. -To investor! looking for absolute security no loan offered In this market presents greater Inducements. These bonds are offered at 87tf and accrued Inte rest, coupons payable January and July. WILLIAM KETSER, JOHN K. LONGWELL, MOSE9 WIE3ENFELD, 1 s ectt finance Committee,
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