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*nd aro manatee taring's superior article of Marsh Hol
low Qain Drops, Boq'Bodb,*Cream- Date*,. &o. Call'
oad supply jourselfeß with the ,be*t Confections ryin
this city, 'at „ . \«SpPRi:gB & BVANSV
nolB-sai ~ No. 7XB MAKKBTSt., bet: 7th and Bth.
.ffiarpetittfla.
BAIbZ & BROTHER’S ,
> . CARPET WAREHOUSE.
. ;no. 820 chestnut. street.
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OP
v -. •. ■ ~ ENGLISH
TAPESTRY■BRUSSELS,
*< CROSSLEY’S” CELEBRATED MAKE,
OM DOilhAR A YARD.
Carpet, buyers .will Qnd our stock full and of fresh
P.KICKS VERY LOW,, , noB-tf
S.I ARRIS’ B BOUDOIR SEWING MA
CHINE Is offered t<> tho-pablio aatha most re
liable low-pricrd Sewing Machinelnnse., It will sew
from six to s sixty stitches to binch,-, 0* %]V kinds of
goods, from coirseat bagging to the flaeat cambrics. It
is, without exception, 1 the simplest in its meohanical
roastnulioc CTCrru&de, and can be run and kept Jn order
by a child of twelve yeara.of age., The mutuMUTr of
’Vhia machine: and the QutLiTT or its" wo»k, are war
ranted to be nnaurpajiaed by any other. Its speod ranges
from three hundred to fifteen hundred stitchea per mi
nute. i’he'thread media taken directly from tho spools,
wiTHOor thb troDbi.b or bbtAsdiso] In faot, it is a
machine that is wanted by erory family lathe land, and
the low price of
V*. \ THIRTY DOLLARS/, :
at which they are sold, brings, them within the reach of
almost every uni, -8. I>. IIAKBR, Ageftt,
d3l dfia/W-eow-Gra 30 Boulh EIGUTU Street.
fit WILSON’ 8
SEWING MACHINES,
REDUCED PRIOEB.
- NEW fITPLB, $6O.
All the former patterns $25 lew on each Machine.
V, ' : A NEW TENSION. .
NO WINDING OP UPPBR THREAD.
A nNUBIKR WHICH .TURNS ANY WIDTH OP
.HBMORPBhW
oFrrosa
«28 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
No. 7 West STATE Street, Trim too, N. J.
No. 7 East UAY Street, Weal Chester, Pa.
oeltof.Zd ■
©abincl tUau*.
I/ARGEST DESK DEPOT IN* ~
THE Union.
HOaUBI i.HDHOH,
(Boceweers to 3, T; Hsmmitt,) 1 .
Ol
' A. L, ADAMS’ IMPROVED DESK- RACK,
Ke. 45?.500th TJ3IBDB toot,'
, .V- ” - Philadelphia.
OP»IOB, BANE, and BOHOOT, FI7RNITURK;
RXTBNBIONTABhHi, BOOKOARKiI .
WARDROBES. *c. AS-Sei
! . Cool!
HOUSEKEEPERS, hOOKy fSO: YOUR
' laXßKKdT^i—UMitrßdduotion intbe' priea of-
COA&*; CU6*pf*ty*o(l'bBaV 'ThV/sab»oVlber’->hVTlni?
cOntr*ei«fofc hid jtappljr all Coaly )«enabled toi
■<? ffer Tftr/; p* n or,‘ J?tuuUy.<so*i;‘it; th® - following n-
rNBEJSSTOtt, & WILLIAMS, if o . 206
V/ WALNUT Struet, ate prepared to supply uhlp
sod Consumers with superior Broad Top Goal from
Meatier'Mines.' ' -v - ’ • oo4tf
ITiCERINXi, FOX,. & -GO.,' wliolasale and
X' retail dealer* In - MmiOH and SOnnTLKXI.L
OOAI/. Loilgla, rard—THXßD.itrMt and GJBBMAN.
•fOWK KOil). BeHuylUll jrard—BAOS.and BROAD
eireeis, Philadelphia.- da hand Cotf
from tho most approved mines, under cover, and nre»-
fnr*d exprauly for family tue. *'
]3 at) ill!) 3 jfnnjEi?;
CIX-PENN Y SAVING-FOND, corner' of
Kj WALNUT and FIFTH Streets, ’ Open every DAT
rom 0 to 8 o’clock;* and on TUESDAY and i PKID AY
SVBNINQS untU. T o’clockr. ' Large or aintdl sums re
ceivea and returned oa demand,- with interest.
•' JOHN THOMSON, President.
S. Debuah Hoboklkt, Sec. & Treasurer. d23lm
pijotagrapljß, &t.
*P G. CRANE* PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS,
H-/e (Formerly VAN LOAN’S,)
582 ARCH Street. All tho various styles and sites of
riotarHß, Daguerreotypes, Arabrotypw, Photographs,
and Ivorrtypos are taken, and at moderate prices.,
d7-3m# ,
JjJfaof Safes.
rgm salamandkß safes.
ISIS A Urge assortment of
EVANS & WATSON’S
PHILADELPHIA MANUJfAOTDIIK])
SALAMANDER :BAFKB,-
VAULT DOORS,
For Banka and Stores.
DANA LOOKS a* -
Equal to any now In use.
IRON DOORS, SHUTTERS, &0.,
On as good terms as any other establishment In the
United SU’.es/ by
-EVANS A WATSON,
No. 3« South FOURTH Street,
Philadelphia.
PLJU3B GIVE US A CALL.' aulMf
Slfltioricrjj.
JtyJOSS, BROTHER, A CO.,
No. W SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
BLANK ACCOUNT-BOOK MANUFAOTURSIM,
BOOKSELLERS, At STATIQNEBB.
ACCOUNT BOOKS,
Of every description, on hand, or Ruled and fionml
to Pattern, aalUble for
MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,
BANKERS, BROKERS, INSURANCE
AND RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Warranted .in quality, and at lowest prices.
FOREIGN AND DOMRSnO STATIONERY,
COMMERCIAL BLANKS, Ao:, Ao.
JOB PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHY,
PUNCTUALITY & SATISFACTION GUARANTIED.
MOSS, BROTHER, & CO.,
noll-2m 'New No. 16 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
DIARIES iqc:q
.1 Desk ancLPocbot inAOt/c/«
great variety of styles and aiiea, of ike iastly celobrated
PHILADELPHIA BDITtQNB, Infinitely eupurtor in
every respfect to toe New York Sditfooß,’ For/sale,
-Wholesale and Retail, by ike Publishers, •
MOSS, BROTHER 00 M
Coantlag House SUtfonera,
„No. WSotttbJOORIJH Street.
BLAHitI BOQ&S AND STATIONERY,
DAVIB M.HOGAN, Blank Book Jlariufaoiureri
Stationer aadPtlntm?, No. IOOWALNUT Street, is'pre
pared at all times to furnish,- either from the shelves
or make to Order-Book* oLevery dewrlption, suitable
for Banks, Pnblje Offices, Merchants, and oikeito, of the
best qualityof jliigUsb or American Vapor, ana hound
in varlousstylex, in the monk ftabatantiai, manner.'
Orders for JOB PRINTING, of, every doporlptioii/
Fagravina *od Lithographing executed with t**tn*M
•''•'auddeap&tqh.,., r ,,, . ,-- v ' /
* of Bcsliah, french and Ameri-
Concerning MV. Hogan's contribution to the Franklin
Institute,.the Committee say—- u This dlsplar of blank
books for backing and puxea&tlle use is the be*Vin the
Exhibition.’’' The selection'of the material l** good, the
workmanship'most' 1 excellent, and their finish‘ana ap
pearance neat and Appropriate.’ ’ no9Q»tf.
pXBST rBEMIUM AWARDED
* - ; s :~. ■ it in - .
IBiNKLMt IHaTITtJTJS, NOVBHBHB, IBOS,
io.ißs.- -■'",
WEST PHILADELPHIA
BTABOHtMANIjPAbTnRiNG'COMPANT
•' t >tos tasm tissiTiilsD • ’
; :;idmxCpßN: FARING ;
; ‘ : THOMPSON, CLARKE, * YOUNG,,
.180 aitf 138 South FRONT Street,
. / . Agents for the Company J
BHOTHERS
fv7. Are felling their whole etock of Fancy Goods—
Vftlenclafl and Poplins,
. Shawl* and Cloaks, •"
• New Fauoy Silks,
Silk and Oa*hmere Robes,
, - French and English Chintzes,
Dalbriggia Hosiery,
and Lace Goods, •’
A t priees very much reduced. They have also sup
plied their Onaap. Oouktsb with a large stock or new
Prints and DeLalnpß at very low prioes.
jaO . > . , CHESTNUT AND EIGHTH.
Goods seduced prior to stock-
TAKING■ . -A _ -
, THORNLRY & OHIBM,
, Would begleave to announce that the Holidays being
now oret they 'are preparing for Stock-taking, andwill
' ■ CLOfiK OUT VJ3RY QHfSAP!
THE BALANCE OP THEIR FALL AND WINTER.
• GOODS!
Cloaks and Raglans,. .. .
ftbawls and Silks.. , _ ,
- ' ■ Merlnoos apd Oaahmerei,
DeLalnea and.ParctiaUos,
Satin Trererpa and Valencias,
Chintzes and fliogbaras,
.Olotbs and Cassimerea,
. Blankets and Shawls,
- ' Linens and, MuslinS,
t .Table and Piano Covert,
~ r , . Table Linens and Towels,
Ladies* and Qentlemen’sHdkfs.
Hosiery and Gloves. Ac., &o.
' With a large and well assorted general stock of
FANCY., AND STAPLE DRY GOODS,
All Sought CHEAP for' CASH, and now to he sold
AT REDUCED PRICES!
To close out preparatory to'
STOCK-TAKING!
. 0 H IS Jff * B,
Northewt Corner EIGHTH lb WRING GARDfN
“WE BELL FOR' CASH .AND HAVE BUT ON?
_ • PRICEjU-N- . / : jal-tT*,
'SySTHITE PREJSOH MEfiIK<JB3" AN'I)
. .Jir. UASttJlSltEß.—Shraei iota to ho eloaed ont
eheap. ' OnAItLV.B ARAMS,
jad-tath s-tf ‘ Eighth and Arch atreeta.
ONE MONTH OF BARGAINS
MEFOItB TAKING STOCK.
GREAT INBUOSMENTB OFFERED TO i’UR
-OHABKRS!
AU hinds of
. WINTER DRY GOODS REDUCED, nr..,
Brooke ao<l Blanket Shawl*,
1 Drctw Goods in variety,
• French Sleriaoes and Coakmeros,
Blankets,
Best‘janlity Kid Gloves to 86c.
Hot French. Merlnoen to SOc.
Emoroideries. nil kinds, &0., «to.
OHAIiLBfI ADAMS,
Eighth upd Arch Btreetß
jS-tulh a-lt
f'tLOAKS,, BAGDANS, AND OIROU
ting—MtELBOY respectmlly invite* tho L».
dieo to call sod examine bis eiuck, embracing many
elegant styles not to be found elsewhere. As there
were & number of our customers ua&b'a to be suited
last week,ln coneeqaence of our assortment being di
minished, wo bare put on an extra quautity et'hands,
ahd hope that we will be. able to supply all who favor
uswßhacall.
• LONG AND EQTJARH BRGOUK BHAWI.B,
of superior styles and fabrics, all shades and colors, at
greatly reduced prices.
Long and Bquare Blanket Shawls, of choice colors,
decided bargains. . McKLROY,
No. 11 South Ninth street.
12b yards Bayador* poplins at 25, usual price 40 ebj,
The cheapest Black Bilks in the city. A largo assort
ment of French Merinoe* at $l, cost to import $1.25;
2,000 yards of figured and plaiu Merinoes, at 00, 65,66,
and 75 cents.
2,000 yards Cloth, fresh .ftoirt auction, for Ladles’,
Gants’, And Boys’wear, from 75 cents to $2.50, deci
dodly the greatest bargains In tho city.
600 Vards CasGiraere, at 44, cheap at 75 cents.
5 bales of Blankets, from $2.26 to $lO.
600 Undershirts ana Drawers, at 60 cts ; usual price
?!. ' The largest and. cheapest assortment of Velvet
Ribbons in the city, from 10 cents to $1.76, warranted
all silk. Embroideries and Ribbons, Gloves, Hosiery.
Trimmings, Fringes, and Linen Cambric lldkfs.. a full
assortment, at the renowned McKLKQY’S,
n 27-8 tu th No. 11 South Ninth street.
BJEAVS- STOCK Of BLANKETS—Ke-
JLjL duced in price beforo taking stock
Cradle and Crib Blankets $1 26 to 2 26
0 4 Bed Blankets 2 00 to 2 60
-10-4 do. do ..... 2 60 to 3 00
11- do. ,do. 400 t j SSO
12- do. •’ do. 4 60to 760
13- do. .do ......... TOO tolO 60
14- Rxtra do v 12 £0
These Jll-iokets are of superior quality, and-at least
twenty per cent, less than regular prices.
- - CHABLE3 ADAMS,
. j*B-etuthtf ‘ EIGBTH and ARCH Streets.
’YjfMTER cloaks closing out.
■ 1 PINAL BBDUOTION IN PBICB3
i AT THB .
PARIS MANTILLA CLOAK EMPORIUM.
$l2 Cloaks Reduced to $9 00.
sl4 Gloaks-Reduced to $lO 50.
. $lO Cloaks Reduced to ¥l2 00.
, { $lB Cloaks Reduced to $l5 60.
-i; $2O Cloaks Reduced,to s>s 00. ’ -
, ; , $24 Cloaks'Refooedr.to $lB 00.
•i.i i '■ $37 Cloaks Beducv.a to $22 60.
V, a.- $4O Oloiksßoduffltd tos3o 00.,
s seo.'OioUwßhdheiatos4s,oo^;r" .
sso DL>,
iiiswalmWjUmM'Mff&jti'srp ,'^
w oT OB s o o. ,
i 29 > 708 CHESTNUT STREET.
XSTINTER BTOCK KEDtJOED.
* * Ladles? Beaver Cloths.
Fine Black Cloths.
Boys’ Wear—Oasaimeres.'
- Satinettfl, and Vestings,
.All at; WHOLRBALB RATES.
. DRKB9 GOODS. •
Heavy Valencia, 18>f to 45 cents.
26 sent Delaines at 17 cents.
Merrimack Prints at ll oohts.
* '' Merinoes—Colora—Fine Blues and Blaoks.
' CttOAKBOOM.
Bleg&nt Beaver Cftefee and Raglans. Very bandßomo
.Gannents at mnflh less than usual prions for same
quality; *lO, *l2,and*l&olonkeare UNSURPASSED.
: ’ r . BROCHB SHAWLS.
A very large stock aleo of Woollen Shawls.
REDUCTION
Will commence on thelßth DECEMBER.
N. B.—No deviation from price.
COOPER A OONARD,
d!8, 8. E. corner NINTH A MARKET Sta.
V-feKILLS A SHEETINGS FOE EXPOET.
MJ BBOWN, BLEACHED, & BLUE DRILLS.
HBAvY & LIGHT BHEBTINOa,
Suitable for Export, for sale by
FKOTHINGHAM k. WELLS,
24 South FRONT ST., f 85 LETITIA ST.
_ 0016-IT
JB. VALENTINE A CO.,
• OOMMISrION MERCHANTS
- von the HAi.H or
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES,
No 51 COMMON STREET.
NEW 0 K L E A N S .
Special attention given to Collecting and Remitting
Bxohnnge. . d2S-3m*
Likens .fob mkn>s weak.
Ainnrloan Linen Company*# saporior stylo Brown
Linen Coatluge, % and various shadesj -Brown and
Bleached Linen Ducks, vorloes styles \ Brown Linen
Drills. A choice asnortment of the' above Goods now
on samplo, and for sale by JOSEPH LEA,
dlft-tf 128 and ISO OHE3TNIJT Street.
M7INOHESTER & CO., GENTLEMEN’S
iv furnishing store
PATENT SHOULDER SRAM SHIRT MANUFAC
TORY,
At the Old Stand, Jfo. 70S OUEBTNUT STREET, oppo
»ite the Washington House.
A. WINCHESTER will give, as heretofore, his per
sonal supervision to the Catting p.ml Manufacturing
department*. Orders for his celobrated style of Shirts
and Collars filled at the shortest notice. Wholesale
trade supplied on liberal terms. . jy24-ly
JW. SCOTT, (lato of tho firm of Wm
f OEKSTKa * 800T7.) GENTLEMEN'S FURNISH
ING BTORB Mid 8111 UT MANUFACTORY, 814
CHESTNUT Street, (nearly oppoHltc thu Girard House,)
Phrjftdelnhlß.
3. W- S. would respectfully call the attention of hli
former patrons and friends to hie new Store, and 1# pre
pared to fill orders for StiniTS at short notice. A
porfoot fit guarantied., COUNTRY TRADE supplied
«Uh PINK flmilTB and COLLARS. iylfl-tf
JE. & 00.,
• 823 CHESTNUT Street.
Hare receirod, per stoarasn, new style*
Jewelry, f Jbsieinina, Yer.t Oaalos.
Splendid Pans. Hair Pins.
Prnlt Stands, Sugar Baskets.
Jet Goods and Flower Vases.
Coral, Lava and Mosaic Beta.
Bole Agents in Philadelphia for the sale or Charles
Prodsharn’eLONDON TIME-KEEPERS nor 8
In alt their Varieties.
JB. JAKDEN & BRO.
• UAWOfAOrOaBIB AMD IMPORTS**! Otf
BILVBR-PLATED WARE,
No. 804 Chestnut Street, above Third, (up stairs,)
. Philadelphia.
Constantly on hand and lor sale to the Trade,
tKA COMMUNION SERVICE SETS, URNS
PITCHERS, GOBLETS. CUPS, WATTERS, BAS
KETS, CASTORS, KNIYEB,SPOONS, PORKS,
LADL3SB, Ac., &o.
Gilding and plating on alt kinds of metal. se2-ly
Gtrs STOKE.
PHILIP WILSON h 00.,
432 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW FIFTH,
«IU 07XS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 93,
An assortment of
FINE Q*U N 8
OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE,
THOSE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS
IN EUROPE.
The attention of
SPORTSMEN
Is requested to their Stock, which they oan pr
, PISTOLS,
VLASES,
POWDER,
SHOT, &0.
GUN FURNITURE IN ALL VARIETY.
nolß.Btn
POBKU-4Q9 barrels New Hess Pork for
sale by * 0. 0. SADLER & 00.,
IAROH St., seoond doer below Front,
VOL. l4O.
. ISetoiliDfu ®oai)s*
mijolesols C3vj) ©oo&3
Commission tlousss.
<©cutlcmcu 1 s ©cobs.
lUnldjcs, Scuiclrn, &-c.
©inis, Patois, &t
SHALL NOT BE SURPASSED
By any in the United States.
Nfixo fJttbiiroliona.
TWEW ENGLISH BOOKS—Just imported
II end for Buie by 0. J. PRICE & 00.,
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THE BOOURING OFTHtt WHITE Onbe
Long Vacation. Rambles of a London Clerk. By the
author of Tom Brown’s School Days. Illustrated by
Bichard Dovlo. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth.
ELLIS’S THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR,
during 1853-66. With notices of the People, Natural
History, Ac- Illustrated. 870, doth.
MUIIWtBAD’S LIFE OP JAMES-WATT. .With
Pc-lections ffom his CorresjionJeuca. Portrait and wood
cuts. Bto, cloth.
THE SOREST OP DEAN. A Historical and De
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RAWIiINBON»S TRANSLATION OP HERODOTUS.
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THE WHITE DOB OP KYLSI’ONB. By William
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WORDSWORTH’S PICTORIAL DISTORT OP
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THOMSON’S SEASONS. Illustrated by Picker*?!!!,
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THE STORY OP BETHLEHEM A Book for the
Ycoog. Finely Jllußtiatodi Umo, cloth.
THE MEBRIE DAYS OP ENGLAND. Bketches or
the Olden Tune. Edward McDermott 20 lirgo ou
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SCENES OP' ANIMAL LIFE AND CHARACTER
Prom N&turo and Recollection. ByJ.B. 20 plates.
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THE BOYS’ OWN TOY-MAKER. A Pictorial Il
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THE WAR TIGER. By W. Dalton. Illustrated by
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THE HEADLONG CAREER AND WOPUL END
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hnerd*.
' 'SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. Fragmentary Remain*,
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brothfr, John Davy. Bvo, cloth.
DUFFERIN, LORD, LETTERS FROM HIGH LATI
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LIGHT FOR THE PATH OP LIFE, from the Holy
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MOLTUAUBEN’3 JOURNEY TO THE TAOIFIO.
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PaUL BLAKE. A Boy’s Adventures in Corsica. Il
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THOUGHTS.”
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THE AFTERNOON
UNMARRIED LIFE,
A Oomrauton to
A WOMAN’S THOCGHTS ABOUT WOMEN.
From the Inst Lmdon l ittition.
t{ We rarely aeo a book in wbloh strong common sense
and an attractive style are no admirably combined in tho
trintment of an interesting theme as in this remarkable
volume. It is & work that cannot bo too highly com
mended, aud the author is entitled to the wsnneut
gratitude of her sisters for tho candid expression of her
houoht sentiments upon a subject that must necessarily
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12m0., cloth Uniform with <* WOMAN’S THOUGHTS
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EXTRACT FROM CONTENTS:
Prospects of Middle Ago—The Wish to Please—The
Lovu of Power—Vanity—-ifxtiugui»hed Love—Belf-Oen
trod AiTecUouß—The Ibsuor of Hope—A Short Time
Left—Many Kinds of Joy—The Happiness of Love—Uu
asMonable Affections—Leaving au Old Home—Cordial
Manners—The Tyranny of Fashion—Luxury—An Ap
peal to Memory—Tho Love of God—Tho Consolation we
Neglect to Claim—Single and Married Life Contnutted—
llapplnens not Dt'pondimt on OircutnHtansrs—Women
Conversant with borrow—Pleasures of Memory—The
Tr’umphs of Time.
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free, to any part or the United States on receipt of
prico.
ItUDD & OARLETON,
Publisher* and Booksellers,
No. 810 BROADWAY, ]
jal-tuthfcsalf
JAMES 01IALLEN & SON, N0.“i55 South
SIXTH Stroet, publish this d»y—
I. EUROPEAN LIFE, LKUBND, AND LAND
SOAPK. By au Artist. This is an interesting and in-
Rtiuc<ive aeries of admirably-written sketches, de
scriptive or Life, Legend, and Landscape in Europe,
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1859
The Bar and tho-Bcnch#
A practice, which is increasing in tills
country, of tho Jndgo boing porsonally cota
plimented by tho Oounsoi, cannot bo too soon
pntanondto. It may bo romombored that
during the iato Allibone and Nowhall trial,
one of tho moßt distinguished mombcrs.of tho
Philadelphia bar, employed for the defence,
more than onco addressed tho Judgo, “ as your
Ilonor very properly ruled,” or. “as was
judicionsly remarked ftom your Honor,” and
so on. The Judge so addressed, and blarneyed,
did not observe tho complimonting, wo pro
sumo—if ho had, ho would have put an ond
to it at onco, wo presume. It is bad taste
to do this thing, worso tasto to submit to it.
Only a woalc Judge would bo influenced by it.
In ono of the London Courts of Law, within
tho last throe weeks, ono of tho Barons of tho
Exchequer, who was being « buttored” in this
manner, sternly interposed, and astonished,
tho. Advocate by saying, “ Tho Court dooVlti
duty,- on-its bosrkndwledgo of tho law and by
the exorciso of its most deliberate judgment.
It is actual impertinence, although that may
have here been unintentional, for a Counsel
to pass any opinion, in public, whothcr, of
censnro or complimont, upon what tlie Judge
has laid 1 down as his reading of tho law. I re
quest that this may not bo repeated.” A
wholosomo reproof, firmly enunciated, and
likely to bo of nso. As, in this country, wo
dorivo many of our legal precedents from
England, lot us hope that this may also bo
adopted.
By the way, on tho Allibone and Nowhall
trial, just referred to, a very ablo advocate
commenced his speoch by expressing, in a
solemn manner, his personal conviction of tho
innocence of tho accused, whom ho dofondod.
This is making tho advocate’s high character
an additional witness in tho cuse, and, indoed,
wo lmd thought that such declarations bad
been “ pu.t out of Court” over since Charles
PiiiLLirs told a London jury, on tho trial of
CounvoisiEit, tho murderer, that Ac was fully
porsuadod of his innocence—-tho fact being
that, a few hours before ho said so, his cliont,
tho murderer, had confessed ids guilt.
Wo liavo hero uliuded to tho reproof which
an English Judge gavo to a barrister who at
tempted (as tho Baying is) to “walkup his
sleeve” by complimenting him. Wo liavo
now to mention two recont cases in which
English Judges havo como into collision with
jurios, and exhibited no small degree of tem
por.
Sir Cuesswkll GREBSWKLL is Judgo-Ordina
ry of tho newly established Court of I’robate
and Divorce, and presided, in that capacity,
at tho trial Keats t>. Keats and MoaTEseuA,
where tho plaintiff prayed for a dissolution of'
marriage on tho ground of adultery, and for
damages from tho male co-rospomlont.- Tho
trial lasted for soveral days, and, on Ducembor
ldth, Sir C. Obesswell summod up. After
going through tho evidonco, which wo need
not ovon glance at hero, ho entered into tho
question whetbor tho plaintiff, the wronged
husband, had condonod the offonco. Ho pro
ceeded thus:
New York.
“ With regard to tho noxt question, that of con
donation, ho felt great anxiety, for he oohld not
but fear that in administering tho law on.'some-,
what new prinoiples in a new tribunal he might;
fall into some error in the view.ho took, lloTvpuld
state, in terms that he hoped oould net bo mlsun
derstood,his opinion upon thesubjsot; be hoped that
full notes of his observations wonld bo tnkeh, and,
he challenged Investigation and impeschmont of
thoao observations, In .brier that the interests of
mreforenoe to some symptoms of approbation
■which hD hud noticed unions tho jury, that he
hoped never to Jive to see the day u'h*n the oh •
servations of a judge would be matle the subject
of praisein a court of justice. The administra
tion of justice would be tn great peril if ever po
pular applause were permitted to influence
judges.] Tho Legislature, he continued, having
thought fit to submit questions of fact in these
cases to jurios, it beoarno necessary to explain
to them the meaning of oondonation. After
looking through all the books of roportd of
dlvoroo causes in tbo Ecolesiaatioul Courts, he was
unable to find any preoiso definition of what was
moant in those courts by the word condonation.
But, looking to the oircumstancos in which jadges
had hold that condonation or tho contrary had
been established, ho hud come to this conclusion,
—that condonation moant a blotting-out of the
offenoo imputed, so as to restoro tho offending
party to the positiou which sbo occupied before
tho offenoo was committed. Tho English word
‘ forgiveness, * as oommonly used, (lid not fully
expross the meaning of ‘ condouation.' Dy for
giving an oflence a person might moan that ho had
no wish to punish for it, but might be far from
meaning that ho intondod to rostoro the guilty
party to his original position. A master might
forgive a oiork or a sorvant who had robbed him
witnout having the slightest intention to restoro
him to his employment. Oondonation meant
far more; to ueo the languogo of Lord Stowed, it
was analogous to releasing a debt. Again, it bad
been held that a person could not condone unless
ho know of tho offence. A man might, howevor,
say, ‘ I have hoard stories' about my wife ; I aw
in doubt about tho mattor; but wbotbor they
aro true or fulso, I will tako hor bnck to my bod,’
and could not afterward?, on obtaining more oor
tain information, revive tho chnrgo. If a man
condoned after ho had received information of hia
wife’s guiU.lio must bo presumed to have condoned
with knowlodgo of hor guilt. Rut a man whoso
intellect was obtuse, or whoao ohamotor waa less
firm thau ui.ual, might be induced by argument to
nscribo tho information ho hud rcoeived as to his
wife’s guilt to somo plot, anil to disbollevo it. In
that cu-so hoiuightnot intond to condono, although
ho took hid wife borne.”
Ho concluded by tolling the jury that if tlioy
believed (hat the petitioner, knowing Ida wife's
guilt, had condoned it in the sense of tho de
finition ho had given them, the respondent
was entitled to their verdict upon that issue.
Tho jury retired at half past 12 o’clock, and
at half past 15 returned into court. What fol
lowed wo take from the Times* report ot tho
trial:
“ The foreman said they had not ngrood upon
their verdict. One gentleman refused to aocept
bis lordship’s definition of condonation. Tho
other olovon had agreed.
“ Sir C. Grefcswcll repealed his definition of oon*
donation, and raid ho was responsible for the law,
and the jury were bound to tule it ftom him.
“ Tbe jury again retired, and in about an hour
returned there was no chanco of their
coming to an unanimous verdict Ono of their
number refused to accept his lordship’s directions,
and what were thoy to do? 'jhoy hod argued
and talked tho matter over in every way.
“ Sir O. Cresswell expre»3od bia surprteo lhat ft
juryman should sot himsolf up as a c-mri of nppoal
from a direction of a judge upon ft point of law-
Perhaps a special verdict might bo taken, and thon
tho questiou would bo deoiilod in tbo first instance
by tho full court, and thon by tho Umuo of Lords
—a tribunal which would probably give ns satisfac
tory a judgment ns tho gentleman who was upon
the jury.
“ It was found impossible to dovieo tho tonus in
which a special verdict should bo drawn up, and
tho jury wero again locked up. Within half an
liaur thoy returned, and thon found that Mrs.
Koats hod beou guilty of adultery, and that Air.
Koala had not condoned that adultery. They as
sessed tho damages to bo paid by Lou Pedro do
Montoiuma at. £l,Ufll)
Tliis seems like carrying it with a high judi
cial hand. For our own part, wo have conic
across judges from whom, were wo on a jury,
wo should no( take tho law.
From Mr. Justice Grksswkll, who is a fine
lawyer, albeit a littlo petulant, wo como to
John, Lord Campbell, who has always been
self-opinionated, and now, at tho ago of 80, is
obstinate, egotistical, aud ifttraaivo in no ordi
nary dogroo. In tho Court of Queen's Bench,
ou December 17, ho came into collision with
a Special Jury, under the following circum
stances : A commercial traveller, with tho un
common and aristocratic patronymic of Smitu
—“ durum st vencrabilc tiomcareceived
sevoro porsonal injuries, last August, while
travelling on tho Groat Northern Railway.
An accident arose from a fish train having
stfnk and como to a stand-still, in cousoquonco
of tho ballast under tho rails being washed
away by an unparalleled floo'd. Tho express
train, in which plaintiff was a passenger,
dashed into tho trucks, tho ongino was thrown
off tho lino, tho carriages wero broken and
upset, and tho passengors thrown out, some
into a ditch up to their nocks in water, and
some into an adjoining flold.
Tho railway company denied their liability,
and attributed the accident to tho demolition
of a bridge over tho river Bock, which, in
stead of damming back tho water, os it had
dono while it stood, roleased an immense
body to swell and give impetus to tho col
lected wators noar tho line, about throe and a
quarter miles distant. It was proved beyond
doubt that tho bridge gavo way half-past
olovon, and at ten minutes to twelvo, or about
toB minutes boforo tho accident, a heavy train
piisscd over the spot whero the rails becaino
displaced in perfect safety. Scientific wit-
proved from meteorological observa
tions at East Retford and Highfleld, near Not*
ttwgham, that the rainfall was twice as much
lif on hour and a half on tho day of tho acci
dent, as on an avorago during the whole month
6,t August.
p; In summing up, Lord Campbell said that if
|.We flood was sudden, unforesoon, and unex
larijpled—if thoro was nothing to indicate dan
•gafa and the speed of tho train was not exceß
jßlYO, tho company would have boon guilty of
pu negligence, and therefore entitled to a ver-
The plaintiff was not entitled to the
verdict unless he proved negligence on the
fiart of tho servants of the company which in
volved tho injuries from which ho had suf-
; and, if tho plaintiff were entitled to
recover, tho damages should be adequate, yet
Moderate.
tvAfter two hours’ deliberation, tho jury re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff, Smith—
dhtuagos ono farthing, or half a confc. On
tbi*', tho following strange scone occurrod,:
Campbell. I really cannot, in the diß
gbargo-of my duty, gentlemen, recoivo.thatvor
'lfccfthfjbt.boright. It is impossible that it’
.caV-bO ,iight. It oannot etand.' The Court of
<ltfssn's Bench Would set it aside. If you find for
the-,plaintiff, yon aro bound to give him reasonable
daipWgea. If bo is not entitled to your’verdict,
you'nmst say so. .1 must beg you will return to
yotcr-chnmbor.
“/Several Jurymen. There is no ohanoo of our
agreeing, my Lord.
“Lord Campbell. I really hopo, gentlemen, that
by Consultation and deliberation you will agree.
Trilby jury has flourished in England to tho
gteat benefit of tho land in whioh wo ]ivo ; but it
so by reason of jurymen deliberately and
consulting each other, and usually after
coming to a conclusion either on
onqaldo or tho other. Now, in this oaso it ia quite
clear,that you have not (loco so. I must respect-,
fulir tell you that you havo not done what, tho law
requires yoii to do, and I must beg you to wi f hdru w
and 'doliberato. 1 cannot receive such a verdict .
be guilty of a doroliotion of duty werolto
reoeifo a vordiot which is unquestionably wrong
agree in a verdict which is wrong;
•but;q>y consultation, somo of you may change tho
opinion which you originally had, and aulessyou
deliforato and try to come to a just opinion, in
•wbloh you all concur, it is notpossiblo that tho law
can bb administered. I must requost you to with
draw£
- jury then retired a second time.
” At half-post 0 o’clock, after the lopeo of a fur-
of two hours,
Campbell ordored the jury to bo brought
into and asked them whether they had
agraeAupon their verdict.
’ ” Tine Foreman. My Lord, there iano chance of
our hipping to any agreomont.
“ Campbell. Then I oan only ordor you to
roturft to your chamber and deliberate upon it.
T/ujfiif what the law requires, and I must en
foredtt.
• u Tho, Foreman. Wo bavo gono over it, my
Lord. and wo oaimot agree.
“liord Campbell. The law is binding upon mo
and you. Though not to force your coumuenoos,
you must return and be locked up until you agroo.
Wo havo agreed.
You have ngrood in
a vOrjjiot contrary to law , io justice, and to corn
monsidse, and lam astonished at it No judge
ovQf.fe&fc upon tho bonoli with u greater repeat tor
juries? than I Jiavo, and tho moro that I havn ns-
tho administration of justice in cnnjuuo
tionjjfjfch juries, tho moro I liavo admired Uio
tribunal which they form. Itdoossur
prise HS6 to find that gontlemon of your intolli-
now. after boing told that your vordiot
oiinbifl>'be rocolvod. and is a vordiot contrary to
law,-justice, and common sense, porsist in aver*
diet fqt.Hho plaintiff, giving it us your opinion that
therehogligonco on the part of the company,
whereby he sufiorod sovero injuries, and then out
ting Mm off with a farthing. That is nob orcdlt
ablo. |}Toa will return to your chamber.
“•AfFuryman. Does your Lordship refuse to ro
oelvejhe verdict?
• u LM (?ainpboll. Ido refuse to receive it, as
the la&dfcqiLires me. Xou will return to your
ohamW./..
. withdrew, and before leaving the
Campbell d{reeled - the officer of the
courtvto-receive any proper verdict, but expressed
a dewnGnatiOO' not to discharge them uutll the
if they persisted in tho vordiot they
: had #£&dy retnrnod. At 12 o’clock tho jury wore
the,.next morning.”
strongly ©f tho proceedings, in
when jurlos who refnaod to convict prisoners
to whom that weak monarch was hostilo, weto
threatened, bullied, coaxed, and starved into
verdicts of condemnation, contrary to their own
persuasions. To this hour, in England, from the
moment a trial begins until tho final discharge
of the jury, the rigid rule is that they liavo
neithor food, drink, nor light. Sending them
baok, thorofoto, as Lord Campbell did, in tho
abovo caso, was punishment for holding to their
deliberate opinion, and an attempt to starve
them into altering It. Wo havo not yot learned
tho result.
Mercantile Library*
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other reason than thoono whioh roaUy actuated the
board of direotors, it would havo passed by as a
more peculiarity of taste; but to nssumo tho right
of censorship in a matter puroly religious and
theologioal exposes tho direotors vory plainly to
adverse criticism.
Wbon Lord Biltiinoro foundod tbo colony of
Maryland he providod forontiro roligioug liborty.
No sooner did his followers find themselves in a
minority there than Iho policy of religious free
dom was changed, and thoy wore onoo more
cramped as of old. So, too, in Philadelphia, whore
William Penn established full religious liberty, it
reigned undisturbed whilo tho influooce of the
mild and gonial Quakers endured. Yet, now that
other denominations havo got the uppor hand,
they undertnko to pro*criho the roligious views of
cortuin Friends ; for it is no secret that tbo
“skepticism,” as it is called, of tho Westminster
Review- is akin to tho Unttftriuni&m of a portion
of tho Friends, who honestly and truly adnoro to
that belief.
Tho proaching of Lucrotia Mott and Huchol
Barker, and other Friend*, liko that of Elias
Hicks, may bo unpalatable to many, but thou
sands espouse that theology as truo. By tho ex
clusion of tho Westminster Review, and tho
publication of offonsivo communications on tho
suhjeot, the hoard of directors of the Mercantile
Library havo virtually said that Unitarianiam
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tirely unworthy of a grout metropolis Hko Phila
delphia ; thoy are iu fact a di?graoo to her, and
ought to bo removed. When it is considered that
they nro tho depositories of tho deeds of our
proporty and of olhor valuable papers, tho loss
of which by firo would Invoh'o our citizens in In
calculable tioublo and oxponso. wo would suppose
that no time would bo in providing suitable
apartments, undo ike-pruuf, largo, airy, and
convenient to tho sovoral courts, and suilublo in
ovory rospocb to tho increasing population of tho
oity. Shoultf-tt tiro occur in any of. them,'tho Hall
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might bo dcßtrayod and tho country in general
suitor. Mr. Everett, in ono of his lato speeches,
said Philadelphia held a precious rolio in our Inde
pendence Hall, and wo should bo careful that wo
piosorvo it, so that faturo generations may boo
tho place whoro our ferofathors plodged “ thoir
lives, their fortunes, and their saorod honor” in
dofeoco of our beloved country. Tho prosont
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about on a par with the market sheds, a massive
; ironrnilingahculd tako their place, bo thatthenoble
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of something bright and greon to reliove the oyo
from tho glare of marble, and the dulneßS of brick
and brown-stone—the contemplated monument to
tbo signers of tbo Doclaration of Independonoo
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and it is likely that if the offices wore away, tho
pavement would not bo so much orowded by
loungors, as it i 3 ofton now, to tho annoyanoe of
persons passing. A Citizen.
Philadelphia, Jan 7, 1559.
Hudson, whokillod McDaniel in King George
oounty, Va., has been discharged on tho ground of
solf-dofcnco.
Dr. Thomas H. Quivers, a writer of consi
derable Southern oolobrity, died o dropsy at Do
catur, Ga., on tho 18th ult.
Miss E. Moore, of Fcdoralsburg, Caroline
county, Md , died suddenly recently from a ho
morrhago.
Alvx. TnoMrsoN, Esq., of Ghanceford town
ship, York county, I*a., foil dead, a fow days ago,
from hoart disoaso.
On Monday last Major Archibald McLean
was re-elected mayor of Fayetteville, N. 0.
In Sweden a man who is soon four times
drunk ia doprivod of a vote at oleotions.
Barnum is in London, delivering his loctnro
on monoy-making.
Daniel Hamilton, a wheelwright by trade,
committed suicide at Petersburg, Va., Friday.
The Columbus (Ga.) 2'imcs hoists tho namo
of Governor Wiso for tho Presidency.
Tiie Slave Brio Echo was sold at Charles
ton, Oth instant, for $2,300 cash.
Cius. 'Wallis, the actor, who was atabbod
at Louisville, is not dead, but recovering.
To the Stockholders of the Philadelphia
* and Reading Railroad Company.
The managers respectfully submit the following
account of the receipts, expense*, and income, for
the fisoal year, ending 30th November :
[Here follows a long statement in great detail,
whioh wo condense as follows:]
Receipts of ifao road—
From travel 285,651, equal to 104,610
through passengers......**** $272,670 71
Merchandise, 187,729 tons 335,014' 04
Goal, 1,b42 645 tons, at 1 20.94 oents. 1.865 693 41
United titatesmall;.*.. 18.703 00
Miscellaneous 50urce5........ 17,759 85
$2,510,750 91
Exponsos—
Transportation .$858,493 68
Roadway 223 309 02
Drawbacks & allowances. 117,995 65
51,199,798 35
Not profit for tho yoar .$1,310,952 56
Interest on bonded debt —
Coupons to Ist January,
1859 $708,714 00
Intorest on bonds and
mortgages R. E....... 30,987 00
Total interest for the
year $739,701 00
Renewal Fund-
Five cents per 100 tons
on 365,844,285 tons,
transported ono mile,
during twelve months, 1
ending November 30th,
1858... 182,922 14
922,623 > 14
Dividend for the year............ $338,329 <42
Which has been disposed of as fol
lows, vix: ‘
Sinking fund, 1836 ’6O. ..$25,000 00
Bihklng fHnd,‘lB49*’7o... 75,000 00
Sinking fund, L. V., 1856-
’B6 50,000 00
State tax ou capital for
1858 18,389 03
Reserved dividend of 7
per cent, on $1,551,800
preferred stock.. 108,626 00
-Reserved fund for 1858 $111,313 79
The business of tho past year, compared with
1857, shows tho following results, viz:
In merchandise, an increase of
111 7*lo tons in tbo quantity oarried.
S 3 929 16 in rooeipts, And
$10,020 56 in profit.
In travel, a dooreuse of
6,028 passengers carried, equal to
3,520 through passengers.
$14,854 63 in reoelpts,
$20,912 25 in profits.
In coal, a dcoroaso of
167,046 2 20 tons in quantity
$547,229 96 in reoelpts,
$282,380 23 in profit,
and a small inorouso of $l3Bl 78, in mail and mis
cellaneous rocoipts.
Transportation expenses have been
Decreased 10 62 100 cts. por ton of coal carried.
3 82-100 ” ton of merchandise, and
Increased 14 30 100 “ per through passenger.
The not amount of froigbt and toll reocived on
coal averaged—
In L 857, Ml 13-100 cts. per ton carriod.
In 1838, J2O 92-100 “ “ “
and the per oeutoge of expenses to gross rccoipts
wns—
In 1857, 48 1 4 nor cent.
In 1853, 47 810 “
Tho latter, however, if allowance bo raado for
the reduood rate of freight and toll, would bo
58 8-10, instead of 47 8 10, showing a reduction of
10 pot cent, ia tho working expenses of tho road
during the presont year.
Tho following comparative statement, whioh in*
oludufl tho miscellaneous charges omitted in the
preceding comparisons, exhibits a dcorcoso of
$335,7 *7.71 intuo amount of profit earned, via:
3857.
O tosh receipts. ; $3,065,521 56
Expenses $1,481,745 22
RenoWal 120,908 21
1,601,753 43
Profit $1,403,768 13
1868-
Gross receipts $2,510,750 91
Expen5e5...1,199,798 35
Renewal... 182 922 14-1,382,720 49
Profit
Decrease.... $335,737 7L
Owing to tho alteration in the rate of the appro
priation for tbo renewal fund, from 3 cents to 5
cents per 100 tons, oarried one mile, as approved
at the last annual meeting, the ohargo this yoar
has been Increased $73,168 86. Ii this be de
ducted from'the above, the aotual decrease in the
year’s profit is $262,563 85.
As the earniugs and expenses of tho Lebanon
branch, for the last eight months, are included In
the general account, and. somewhat interfere with
the correctness of tho preceding comparisons, a
.Ui|h^iU^ateixiDLt^eJiq*inite<ff<the-bi l apbhrWiii l
be forma in stetettent R, annexed to this report. '
The dividend fund for the year ia exhibited as
follows, viz:
Net profit from all sources....' $1,128,030 42
Less interoston the bonded debt, (in
cluding those issued by tho Le
banon Company)....**..... 739,701 00
Dividend fund $355,329 42
equal to 3* percent, on $11,737,041 22, the total
amount of the onpital stock of the company.
The ohargo of interest ipoludos all the bonds of
tho consolidated oompanios, and, as it will not be
inorensed, may be considered as the fixed annual
deduotion from Income. Any future improvement
in business will, therefore, add to the dividend
fund of tho year.
'While every economy has been praotiaed in
working the road,' perfeot efficiency has been
maintained in every department, ana at no time
have tho roadway and rolliog stock been in better
condition. Tho cost of transportation has boen
reduced, partly by the lower ptioes of mate
rials and wages, but chiefly by tho] decrease in
the nurnbor of casualties arising from the superior
condition of tho road and machinery. The im
provement in this respect is shown in the follow
ing statement of cars broken to tons of coal car
riod. In 1853, whon the system of relaying and
widoning tho traoks first commenced, the break&go
was
1 to 2.875 tons carried.
Iu 1856 itw&s lto 4,950 “ “
InlBs7itwaB lto 10,057 u “
,1t027,955 »
In 1858 itwas.
The protraoted depression of tho iron trado, tho
stoppage of manufactures, and the gonerhl inac
tivity m business which existed at the cloao of
1857, sufficiently account for tho falling off ia tho
coui tonnago during tho winter and spring of tho
post year, and affoctcd, as upon other railroads,
tho general business of the company. Tho great
est loss woe .on tho lino of the road, where tho
trade oontinuos to bo light, asmany of the iron fur
iiiwos aro still standing idle. Tho demand for tho
oity and for shipment has been improving during
tho autumn, and the dcorease at Richmond would
have boon made up, but for tho groat scarcity of
vessels.
During tho wintor tho trade bad boon reduced
to the demand for immediate consumption, and
high or low prices could have littlo effect, until
there was some general improvement in business
Such, however, was tho anxiety to force sales on
tho opening of navigation, that very low prioos
woro established, and it bccamo ncoesaary to ro
dueo freight and tolls 20 cents, to moot tho reduc
tions on other regions. The total of tho coal ton
nage was nut affected by these reductions, 'but
thoy, no doubt, varied tho quantity that would
have been dono in the different regions. The busi
ness of lastyear was so exceptional in many res
pects, that tho rosult must not bo accepted as any
indication of tho future course of the trade.
The consumption of ooal has been almost sta
tionary during the last throe years,, and for tho
first timo in tho history of the anthraoito coal
trade, there has been twooonsecutive years of do
orcase. Former poriods of stagnation havo boon
followed by rapid expansions, und as tho manufac
turing intorostc and tho iron trndo will soon bo in
full activity, there is ground to hope that tho ooal
trade will net bo the last in recovering its former
prosperity. ,
Tho fallowing appropriation has neon lnalo of
tho year's income, via :
Amount of profit per statement $1,310,952 56
Less renewal fund.. 182,922 14
Net profit. • .$1,123,032 *l2
From which deduct for in
terest on bonds $7OB 711 00
Mortgages 30 957 DO
° * $739,701 00
Dividond fund $383,329 12
Which hag been disposed of as follows, viz :
To sinking fund on Read
ing bonds... $lOO,OOO 00
Lebanon Valley bonds... 50,0110 00
Together ......$150,000 00
(Which, with $123,214 0$
from last year, will, at
some futuro tiino, bo
distributed among tho
stockholders.)
Taxes...»»»••»»*•••»••*»«18,3S9 63
Per cent, dividend do
clnrod on prf’d stook, to
bo paid hereafter 108,626 00
* 277,015 63
Surplus $111,313 79
Carried to credit of reserved fund.
Tho balance at tho oredit of this fund at the end
of last year has boon appropriated, as sanctioned
at the iaat annual meeting, viz:
To losses and depreciation of assets. $108,655 94
To loes on tho negotiation of bonds
in 1856, issued on settlement of
Jloatiog debt 654,300 18
Together . 763,016 12
Tho amount of said balance :
Tho amount charged this year to inoome for re
newal fund is $182,922 14
Out of whioh thoro has been expended 170,208 25
Leaving abnlanooof. $12,713 89
applicable to the coming yoar.
During the season, 18milos of new track have
been put into the road, and the relaying and
widening has been completed up to Mohrsvlllo.
Tho total quantity of iron used for this purpose,
and for ordinary repairs during tho year, is
4,440 tons of now rails put in.
3,000 tons of old rails taken out.
Exoess 840 tons put into tho traoks.
Henceforth loss iron will bo required for ordinary
repairs, as almost all the sevonty-eigbt-pound rails
that woro laid in 1855 havo boon taken out of the
Sioco tho opening of the Lebanon branch, tho
impossibility to pass tho wide oars of connecting
railroads has been found a sorious impediment to
the dovolopmont of tho businoss, and the widening
of the tunnel* at Phcenixville and at Manayunk
could no longer be dispensed with. The work was
thoroforo commenced at both plaoes on the Ist of
Dooombor, and from the progross already made, it
s fully expected that all tho rook will be out by
the middle of February, and everything completed
by the end of March. The continual, passing and
ropassingof the' regular' trains requlresunusual
care and attention; but It is hoped that the pre
cautions taken to guard againatdangar will enable
the. engineers to carry, through the work without
accident oi'iriterruptionto the business. ’This im-
P ro i v °P : }® n t will opon the road between Harrisburg.
and Philadelphia to the wide oars of other oompa
nies, and permit bituminous coal and similar arti
cles to pe passed ’down direot to the'iron works and
manufactures at the lower.end of Schuylkill val
ley. , Another advantage,will be the intreduotion
of more convenient passenger oars on the road,
ms work iaone Of the objects pifovided for 1 by the
inoroased allowance for renewal fund.
■ The rolayjng and widening track, above Mohrs
,,, 1 1 re S n{re two* years to complete 1 ; arid it
will »ot be necessary,to widen Port Clinton tunnel
before 1861.
A viodubt over the railroad at Girard avenrie is
in oohrse of dohstruotiou, and will be completed
earlyrin .the spring. This is. one ofi the bridges
authorized last year to be charged to renewal
fund: ; ’ -
Several of the new passenger railroads propose
to cross tho-Reading tracks grade; but as, this
would interfere with its business, and expose their
own passengers to considerable risk of accidents,
the managers offered to bear part-of the' expense'
of ereotlng bridges, to avoid the danger and incon
venience. ’ As the offer was not accepted, the pro
tection of the Supreme Court has been appealed
to, to prevent suoh crossings bring! made until
some efficient system of precaution shall have been
established for the safety of passengers. *
A now freigb t depot has beinLuiU at PotUviile,
on some property owned by ‘tilo, company , r > ■* ■■
, Thu
heavy street’rafli frott 'tfourth'street te (he river,
and the store and wharf have been put into good
repair, and made convenient for .business. Iran
and heavy articles can now be snipped direct from
the oars, at a considerable saving in expense and
time, and the facilities afforded by this aveime to •
the Delaware,cannot fail hereafter to promote the
freight business on the railroad.
The only thlngwanting to’oompleto the business
arrangements in the oity is tho building of a con
venient freight and passenger depot on the com
pany’g property at Broad and James street. By
concentrating the business in one place a saving In
expenses could be made nearly equal to the inter
oat on the capital required for us construction.
The os'imato for complete depot is $150,000
It u not necessary, however, to build it ail at onco,
and the managers propose, with your sanotion, to
prooeed with it as fast as funds may" become ap
plicable for the purpose. - -
In accordance with tho resolution passed at the
adjourned meeting held on the Bth day of March,
the consolidation of the Lebanon Valley Railroad
Company with the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Company was carried into dfrat, and on
the 20th of Marob, 1858. the deeds w&rfe deposited
with the Secretary of the Commonwealth; and the
Lebanon Valley Company ceased to exist as asepa
rato corporation. The outstanding accounts have
been settled, and the coat of that road hasboen
added to the capital account of the Reading Com
pany. The total cost has been as follows, viz:
Roadway and bridges $3,044,751 25
depots 57 428 00
Real estate 30.312 67
Land damage 5........... 208,375 67
Interest, discount on bonds, legal
and othor oxponsos 643,842 31
Balanoa of loss on Reading 1880
bonds issued for this road 425,266 48
277,615 63
Together 976 3$
■Thore are still a few cases of land damages and
othor matters to bo assessed by juries, and some
Final 1 expenditure to oomplete the depot at Har
risburg. It will alro.bo neoessary to complete and
improvo the connexions with other railroads at
Harrisburg nnd Reading. The outlay for these
purposes will, in some measure, depend upon the
amount of business to be accommodated, and tho
managers projwso to proceed with them only os
they socomo indispensable by tho growth of tho
trado.
Considering that the road was opened during a
poriod of oxtreme depression, tho development of
thw'businesshas been very satisfactory, and thus
far has been steadily increasing. From the begin
ning of April to the end of November—
The gross earnings were $91,385 28
The expense* “ 49,948 56
Profit on Lebanon, brand*............. .$41,436 72
To which there ‘should bo added the
amount earned on the Main Line from
the same business (oarried without
oxtra trains, and at a very trifling ex
tra exp0nae)........................ 55,995 60
1,128,032 42
Total $97,432 32
Fight months net profit from the business of the
Lebanon Valley. Tho monthly net earnings
have increased from
$9,241 03 in April, to
$18,113 75 in Ootober,
being at the rate of nearly five por cent, on the
Cost of the branch- This is tho more satipf&otorj,
assuring this period very, little,ooal ot iron, ore
passed over too road. A large demand forbotb
;.wiU spring tb*Mrotfv trade-'
and it is expected that,early, in the spring all the
furnaces in both valleys will be in full operation.
At every station on the lino new improvements ore
going on, whioh are attracting to the road the bu j
smeas of their surrounding neighborhoods
Upon tho completion of the Fast Pennsylvania
Railroad, a new continuous route will be estab
lished between New York and the Welt, shorter
than any now existing, which, in addition to mer
chandise and passonger business, will command
tho oattie trado of Virginia, Ohio, and the far
West. The groat facility for pasturage on the
banks of the Susquehanna will attract the trade
to Harrisburg; and, in time’, it may become the
great central market from which the large
eities on tho seaboard will draw their future
supplies.
With a business steadily increasing-from exist
ing connections, and a local trado already of im
ftortance, and daily improving, the Lebanon Val*
ey Branch will be found, at no distant date, to
be a very important link in the chain of internal
improvements, and must , soon cease to be a bur
-1 don upon the resources of the consolidated com
panies.
The Fast Pennsylvania Railroad, from Reading
to Allentown, on the Lehigh river, is approaching
completion. It passes through a volley rioh in
deposits of iron ore and agricultural productions,
whtoh will hereafter pass over the Reading Rail
road to find their chief market in the Lebanon
and Schuylkill valleys. A mutually advanta
geous business will thus bo established between
tho companies.
A contract for five years, with tho option of ex
tension, has been entered into with tbo Chester
Valley Railroad Company, to work their road in
connection with tho Reading trains, and to keep
tho roadway and buildings in good repair and
working order. By this arraugement a trouble
some and dangerous crossing at Bridgeport will be
avoided, and in futuro this company will receive
some compensation for the money expended at that
place in sidings and othor conveniences, whioh
have hitherto boon quite unproductive. It is es
timated, also, that, by being worked conjointly,
tho tonnage of coal, iron ore, lime, , whioh pass
more or less over both roads, may be largely in
creased, to tho mutual advantage of the two com
panies. The existing time arrangements of the
Beading Company will permit oonneoting trains to
bo run very conveniently for the inhabitants of
tho Chester Valley, and the new business from
thonco will add very iittle to the working oxpensos
of the Reading Railroad.
Tho following mlditions have been made during
tho yoar to the costof the railroad, Ac., as exhi
bited in tho general balance-shoot of the treasurer
at tho ond of tho year, viz :
Account construction $19,30159
Do real estate 13,562 23
Do Willow-street road 100.01)0 00
Do telegraph 350 00
Do Lebanon Valloy branch.... 4,415 976 38
Total added this y0ar..... $4,519,190 25
Cost on 30th Novcmbor, 1857 ....... 19,262,720 27
'Total oost of consolidated railroads,
on 30th Novombor, 1853 $23,811,910 52
Tho amount expended on con°truotion and real
estate amounting together to $32,863 37, are the
only additions not authorized and direoted at the
last annual meeting. Tho former consists of tho
new depot at Pottsvillo, improvements on Willow
street, and at placos along tho lino, and tho latter
of sovoral trifling purchases required for oxton
siuns, and some small payments on account of real
estate bought io formor years. The cost of the
Willow-street Railroad, and part of the cost of tbo
Lebanon branch, wore included in tho assets of
tho ownpany at tho end of 1857.
Iu settlement of these additions to tho cost of
tho road, tho following stock and bond 3 have been
issued, and assumed as capital stock issued or to
bo issuod: , , „
In exchange for Lebanon Valley
shares $361,500 00
Heading 6s bonds, duo in
1886, issuod $3,586,500
Lobanon bonds, assumed
on consolidation... 1,500,000
55,086,500 00
$5,448,000 00
Bonds and mortgages en real estate,
and for damages 5ett1ed.......... 12,000 00
Total issued during tho year. $5,460,000,00
Stock and bonds outstanding on the
30th November, 1857 18,472 991 22
Total capital stook and bonded debt ’ _
on 30th November, 1853..........23,932,991 22
The excess of this over the total cost
of tho roads and equipment, i 5.... 121,091 30
Aid tho balanco in this year’s in
come carried to roservod fund..*. lLi,J>io 7v
Togothef•••••»»»»•••••»• $232 395^ 09
Being surplus of oapltal represented by floating
assets to be realized hereafter.
Of the loan of 1857, payable in 1886, there was
insued in settlement of floating debt of the com
pany at the end of 1858, bonds to tho amount of
$3 586 500< nnd tho remainder of the loan, amount
ing to ’53,413,500, is hold for the other purpose for
whioh it was ore&tod, vis.: the redemption of the.
bonds to mature in the year 1860.
By the lamonted decease of Charles S. Boker,
Esq., a vaoanoy occurred in the board of managers,
which hns boon filled by tho eleotion of Jas. Dutton
Steele, E*q., the engineer of tho road, and he has
subsequently been appointed vioo president of the
company.
It may be proper to call attention to the pecu
liar advantages resulting from the union with the
Lebanon Valley, the oonneotion with the Chester
Valloy. and that proposed with the Bast Pennsyl
vania Rallroada. The effect, it is believed, will
be largely to incroaso tho general business i, ana
while it will in no respect diminlshits efficiency
for the transportation of coal, it will open inde
pendent and valuable souroos of revenue from
passengers and general freight to be oonveyed to
and from the various points to which these rail
roads lead. . . , ~ ~
The managers trust that the stockholders will
see in tho small expenditures and diminished
charges an anxious desiro to conduet the affairs
of tho road with tho utmost eoonomy consistent
with eflioioncy. It is thoir intention, if they ro
TWO CJSJNTS.
NOTICK TO CORRESPONDENTS*
tjtorrespendents for “ Thm Puses” will please bear in
mind the following rules:
rfgßvory communication must fce accompanied by the
name of the writer. In order to insure correctness in
the typography, but oae side of the sheet should
written upon.
We shall be greatly obliged to gentlemen in Pennsyl l
vania and other States for contributions giving tho
current news of the day in their particular localities,
the resources, of the surrounding country, the increase
of population, or any Information that will be interest
tag. to the general reader.
* l continuance of the confidence of the stock
fv.ivfi* 8 j° pursue the same system, so that in the
kJ? 0 BDffu^D B year every outstanding
W| U be'paid in fall, and a
noijktDg oapital may be accumulated sufficient for
the.erdjnary business. This ,is believed to be tbo
trap polioy of the riomp&ny; and if this course is
approved and sanctioned by tho stockholders, and
the lOarninrs Of the ro&d ar« devoted to these pur
poses, any temporary inconvenience will be amply
repaid by the permanent prosperity that must
ensue.
By order of the Board of Managers,
, t f R. D. CoLtEN, President.
. Philadelphia, 10th January, 1859.
j The President’s Message*
[From the London Times.]
. 1 The message of the President of the United
States oocupied ; elght.columns and a half of the.
Tiv\es. .Of these, half are devoted to foreign and
half] to domestlo politics—-a proportion rather
starring tens in England; whose habit it is to look
at home filat, and only devote to foreign affairs so
•much attention'as vie have to spare after very
maturely-and minutely considering our own. We
tnusp, ill fairness, remember, however, that a
L Br l»P portion of the domestic, affair* of the United
estates dw-ndV come under the jurisdiction of
Congress.}ibttfc still,'-after all dne deductions made*
,the proportion of foreign to domestic business is
note "telestriking. How domes it that China,
Japdn, Nicaragua, Costa Rica; Spain, Brazil. Para
guay, and Mexico should oecupy the attention of
Congress to the exclusion of interests so much
nearer home, and so much more valuable to a peo
pla whose oooapation i* to Inoreaso rather than te
’ Fresident 'anddes ’to a deficit in
Post-Office, and attributes it mainly to the faofc
tuatiit. is overburdened by the cost of .transport*
y*g jthe .mails, and forwards a recommendatibn- -
From, the Pest master General that the postage on
letters should be raised to flvo cents, or two-pence
halfpenny, on a single letter. This subject is de
spafqhed .with great brevity, compared with that
of. the of the Republic. Yet
surely it is better worth the attention of Congress,
than; many whioh&re disouesed at greater .length.
, Ip Ine state of its Post Office Department may be 1
ibtjna an - ' excellent example of the reason why
things go wrong under, the present system of
American Government. ,When Government un
dertakes to carry letters, enters Into host- ;
n ® B3 J a ud can-only suocced in that business by
adopting the ordinary principles of Jncaeas—that
is, bv using' skilful oeentsUariA' obtaining the
utmost regularity, punctuality. tfuLceierUy; but,
according to the present Hjwxims of
party polltios, there Is a regular turn-out of-4ho
Post Office as well as officials, osySaoh
change of Administration.
little i trouble to master-the duties p
whicty no assiduity on their part can render*per- .8
manept, and the public is continually being de-.ii
prived by these rapid and sweeping changes of tho
benefit of such skill and knowledge as have been *
forced upon its servants
of office. The result is what might be jfipdSftd/'
the Post Office of America is discreditable to the
civilization of America; there is little punctuality
or regularity, and still toss security. Instead of
trusting everything to the post, as we do in Eng
land, people do all in their power to avoid it, and
this Ip ono, among other eauses, of the great de
velopment of the electric telegrapk system.in
America. Wo have mentioned this os an instance '*
of an; important subject, cursorily passed"over : tb
makeiroom for obscure quarrels arid.-doubtfal -
claims, and as an illustration of Hi?.manner in
which' tho American people, with* so muoh re
quiring amendment at home, are taught and en
couraged by their statesmen to donoentrate .their
attention on matters of. comparatively little con
sequence abroad.
The'messnge, or rather manifesto, of the Presi
dent, is studiously moderate in its tone, but still,
somehow or other, we should think that the inha
bitants of the petty republics with whose inte
rests it deals bo largely oannot read it. without
some internal tremors. It presents certainly a cu
rious {phenomenon. - Here is- a martial and ad- *
venturous race, spread over an enormous ter
ritory; disposing of unlimited naval and mi
litary] resources. They profess by their Pre
sident) that, except by fair purchase, as in the
oaeo of Louisiana, or by free annexation, as' a
little more doubtfully in the case of Texas, they
will never acquire any acce?sion of territory. They
breathe nothing but kindness and good will to ail ..
their neighbors, success to Hexioo, prosperity to
Costa Rica, and more strength to the elbow of flew
Granada. Did the world > ever see a picture
of so strength tempered and adornea by so
much moderation ? Nor is this all. The United
Statesjhave had losses; they have been robbed by
Mexico, obe&ted by Brazil, laughed at by Spain,
despoiled by Paraguay; and grievously tormented
by Costa R[ea and Nicaragua. Yet, stilt the
great Republic opposes her patience to the foxy of
the wasps and hornets of these fiery latitudes, and
calls gbas and men to. witness her. patience, her
forbearance,- and' her tenderness, it is a mo
ving spectacle, and our first feeling on witness
ing it is, how unwerthy the sulky, perverse,
domineering .natives of; these distant isles are
t* bo the progenitors of ,a. jgpe yhish exceeds,v
sfe
and' toierahee* aB v '!t does already in the extent'
of its torritorie*, and will shortly in the amount
of its {population. When we eome, however, to
look a little farther, we see some symptoms
that the quarrelsome spirit of the Eoglish has
not wholly died out in their descendants. The
old grievance of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is still
kept hanging over Great Britain, and we do not
see that our frank concessions ih the matter of the
right of search have inspired the President with
the slightest wish to meet us in a corresponding
spirit. He bums with the purest desire to extin
guish the slave trade; nay, in a transport of holy
zeal, hb would snatch Caba from the hands of
Spain, }u ordor that he may at once put an end to
the alaye trade from Afrioa, or rather may confine
it to Yirginia and the other breeding States of the
Union/ lint when Great Britain proposes to him
to devise some means to xeplaoe • that power of
oheokiog the slave trade, whioh search and visita
tion gdve her, he is .unable to devise any expe
dient, and tells us frankly that any plan she may
suggest is sure to lead to grave embarrassments.
To hand over Cuba to America is his only remedy,
and he'will hear of no other.'
Spain, too, has behaved extremely ill. She
draws out her negotiations to inordinate length,
and seeks to compound her obligations at the rate
of six-and-eight pence in the pound. Amerioa
has' borne it &U with patience, and even now the
only revenge she seeks is the purchase of
Cuba. |lf Spain will not sell it, the President
contemplates the seizure of the island under
the imperative and overruling law of self pre
servation. Of the existence and application
of such a law, Amerioa herself is to be the
judge, i Mexico cannot keep the peaco-on the fros
tier ; she has levied contributions on Amerio&n
citizens, and her lawless tribes impede the passage
of the Californian mail. Therefore the United
States should assume a temporary protectorate
over two of her provinces—Chihuahua and Sonora
—end hold them till a good government can
be established—a tenure certainly amounting to
freehold, and very probably to fee simple. Nor
have the States of the Isthmus, Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, reason to accept too literally the pro
fessed moderation of the President They are told
that if ian arm of tho sea ran through their terri
tories, uniting the Atlantic with* the Pacific, they
would have no right to obstruct the navigation of
all nations through it; and, though there is no arm
of the sea, but only a road, leading through their
dominions from one ocean to the other, this makes
no eort.of difference. The application of this prin
ciple needs no sort of oomment. The olaun of this
easemeht over a neighbor's laud draws with .it the
right of enforcing it, and that right the President
requests he may be empowered to exercise without
tho assent of CoDgress. Paraguay is to be com
pelled at tho sword's point to givo just satisfaction.
We have said enough to show that we ought not
to ho tqo much dazzled by the moderation of the
President, and that if his voice is the voice of
Jacob his hands are undoubtedly the hands of
Esau. IWe will only add one other refloction.
Can it be that the whole American continent has
ontered into a vile conspiracy to insult, despoil,
and ill-use the United States; that the weaker is
in all coses the aggressor, and the stronger in all
oases the attacked and injured ? Is it not, at any
rate,very remarkable that the United States should
be at this moment providod with a casus belli
against almost every State from the Gulf of
Mexico to Capo Horn, and that, though in a spirit
of tolerant moderation thoy ooniont themselves
for the present year with merely seizing two pro
vinces of Mexico, taking armed possession of the
Transit route from ocean to ocean, and sending a
flotilla up the Parana to invado the dreamy re
pose of Paraguay, they have grievances and claims
m store for any numbor of Presidents’ messages
and for any number of atriotly defensive expedi
tions? Is the wolf always so entirely in the
right ? Are the lambs always so completely in
tho wrong ?
During tho lecent election for United
States Senators in South Carolina, one for tho
long term and the other for the unexpirod term of
Judge Evans, thero woro many ballottogs and
much exoitement. A gay, dashing young widow,
of great personal attraction, waz in Columbia at
the time, and the nephew of one of the con
testants became bo confused between the oalls of
love and the lobby, that he aotually declared him
solf to the lady as “ a candidate for the unex
pired term of her latehusband l” We are pleased
to say he was eleoted to the vacancy on the first
ballot. '
The Weather in New Tore.—The
weather, yosterday and on Saturday, was some
thing like winter, cool and fresh; the mercury
down in the neighborhood of ten to twenty onlv
above zero; the air dear and hraoing; the earth
frozen solid; some floating ice in the rivers; a
hurrying among pedestrians; affeotion&te caress
ing of ears, and singular solioitude about long
noses; enormous consumption of ooal at heme and
whiskey abroad; with all the other signs, symbols,
and symptoms of a Northern winter.—lv. T. Tri
bune, yesterday .
Mr. Groux, of Hamburg, the gentleman
whose heart is exposed to observation, was on
Thursday evening presented to the members of the
Warren Club, in Boston, whore his oasa excited.
the interest of all present. This club ia made up
of gentlemen from the more liberal professions
and calling, and numbers about sixty members.
The Hon. Edward Everett, as Us president, added
his autograph to the -list of distinguished names
from many parts of the world whioh Mr. Groux’s
album contains.
A Jew d’Esprit.—When Rothschild was
asked whether he would not like to become a tem
poral king of the Jews of Palestine, “ Oh, no,”
said he, “ I would rather be Jew of the kings than
king of the Jews.”
Accounts from St. Thomas of the 7th
irst. mention that James W. Horbert, Esq., V. S.
Consul, at that port; died on the morning of the
7 th inst.
Mr. Ten Brooch’s winnings on the English
turf, in “ stakes,” during the late racing cam
paign, were 515,745. His “ bets” were probably
far more.
Mr. Ericsson, of the caloric steamship me
mory, is at Scheneotady, N. Y., applying calorie
engines with success to printing presses.