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NoG wtarw sue most extenabre wa4 OlogWl WWI cant of LOOKING GLASEING, ww - everygpace and every position, and at tit. moat mQierate vistas LOOKING GLUM Li: tine meet elaberste and the moat eimple ttented LOOKING GLABBIN it - Lamed in the beet taste, and In the moil eleatantial LOOSING GLABBIB frzraisbe4 by os, are mousfaottired by oUtOOPODO la OUt awn establishment. LOOKING GLABBEB la idrltt — OGANY and WALNUT frame' for Uoootry dales JAMBS S. EARLE £ 80N, nits OHESTNIIT STREXT, PRIUDILPIIIA ittatbinern ant, Iron. pIG IRON, BLOOMS. &O. UABEEN te 00., ioo NORTH WATER STREET, AID Nu. DOD NORTH DELAWARE AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA, OW& FOR OALs AM EitiOAN FOUNDRY AND YOSHI PIG IRON et TIM roLtowirio MUDD, VII fuvtul DONAOMMONE, POCO, PIONEER, GLENDON, HAMPTON, HEYSTONE. ALSO, COLD BLAST CYHAROOAL PIO IRON, FOR OARAVEEEL PURPOSES. EVILER AND WIBA BLOOMS, BOILER AND ELM IBON, WATER & GAS PIPES. AMERICAN BLISTER STEEL, Ao., so., tOR SALE LOW, TO OLOSI A OONBIGNMINT. 500 WATER PIPES, miNl PEET Len AND .02-11 m TWENTY INCHES DIAMETER.. Er-Agents for Watson , ' Amboy Piro Brian. kAIIUBL V MiBRIO I VAUGHAN TARNULIOK WILIA4IOI H 11N4HION. SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, PIRTD AND WASEUNGTON STREIT/3, PHILADALPHIA. • St ERR/OK & *ON'S, INGINI IRS AND IR AORINISTS, risnitfacture High and Low Pressure Steam Zugines, for Land, River, and &farina service. Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Butte, &e, Cast ings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron Frame Roofs for Gee Works, Work hope, Rail road Stations. &s. Retorts and Use Machinery of the latest and molt Im proved construction. Every deseription of plantation machinery, each as linger, gam, sod Grist Mile, Vacuum Pane, Open Steam Trains, Defecetors Patera, Pumping Engines, &e. Bole Agents for N Rilliena's Patent -sugar Boiling apparel= ,• Naemyth'e Patent Steam Hammer; and Aspinwall & Woolsey 'e Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain lig Machine. aub-y Drugs anit Chemicals. ROBERT SHOEMAKER Sa 00, DOD. JTOURTH AND BACA MUM MA PiTILADILFRIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, MANUFACTURERS OP PAINTS i 1 OIL, iMPOWEIRA OA AMANDA PLATA liD WINDOW GLASS. liNALliftfi IN AMA - MOAN WINDOW GLANS x-091 -So Sewing WHEELMR WILSQ icinur.tavannie ao.le SEWING MAO HINES I Superior to all others for general it's, and for RIM 111LAKIIR3, TAILUgS, AND DILIDOMAKERB, WR FiF STYLE ONLY FIFTY DOLLARS. SITIO= OLeateast Streat, Philadelphia. t West State Street, Trenton, N. J. Over John Titaa's More, Easton, Penna. . !Lust Ong Street, West Cheater. SUB AGENTS: JlDMire BOBER rS, Moorestown, N. J. WILLIAM PATTERSON, Salem, N. 3. Permanent oases will be opened shortly, by ms, In geediag, Allentown, and Lancaster, Penna. IDANRY COY, Agent. 0.0-41 n firARRIS' i BOUDOIR SEWING XA 1.1 °nun hi offered to the public as the most se ::able law-prised Sewing Machine in use. It will low 'tom at: to sixty stitches to an bids, on all kinds 01 goods, from coarsest bagging to the finest cambries. It is, ithont exception, the simplest in its ineelasniaal eoseltection ever made, asican be run and kept Inordes by s child of twelve years of age. The nozsznarr this maeldne, and the QUALITY or ITS won:, are war smiled to be russurpassed by any other. Its speed range UM three hundred to 'fifteen hundred stitches per alt hea. The thread needle taken directly from tim spools sit:woos ran TIOIIBLII Or 11WINDIX6. In fact, it is machine that is wanted by every family to the land, wad she low pilot of THIRTY DOLLARS, ci whelk they ere mold, blimp them within the mead tamest every one. D. D. BAND% Agent, W -eow-tim 720 ARCH 878117 WERD's PATENT SEWING MACHINES • Baiagannedthe confidence of all who use them, and have proved one of the most valuable inventions of the age. They use a Bhuttle, making the Look ENO* on both sides of the cloth alike, which cannot be un ravelled or pulled out. They are all made with the highest mechanical skill, and all warranted to work well on all kinds of goods, from the Lightest Fehr* to Ileavy Leather. In Tem dealer, we would call the attention of all to our new Family Pewinc Machine. It has been manufactured expressly for Namely use, and hay met with favor from all. /t is eo simplified as to render it almost imposed , ble to get out of order, or derange its operations ; in deed it is no simple as to astonisE one, that ao small a piece of m.riebanism will sew. Below, we give a description of the different styles st the Weed Patent No I—ls a vary convenient etyle, table. be worked my hand or toot, on or off Its own For cony misses of shipping, and also for large manufscroriee. where it is necessary to place a number of Maohinei into a long bench, making one table answer for them ail. Price $9O No 2—With Walnut or Mahogany Table, either with or without Boa Top, which locks down. Price $lOO. and $llO No 8 --game site as No. 2, but runs with a belt, and vat a much higher rate or speed. This kind is well adapted to manufacturing Clothing and Leather work. This is really the cheapest Machine in the market, as there is no work done on s Bowing Machine that it will pot do. It is confidently asserted *3 thin machine SIMS easier than any machine now In use. Pries $lOO. No. t. This Machine has. a long arm, to aceommodate Serge work. It rasa at a high rate of speed. runs easily, and is, with. vat a doubt, the best Machine for Tailors' nee, ever offered to the pu b lic It is also pa. wanarly fitted for plantation work as it is very simple yet substantial and durable, with but little liability to gat out of order. Price $llO. No. 5. This lea new and cheaper style, and a general favorite for Family, Light Leather, and a great variety Of work. It has been gotten up with reference to far niAbing a st,ons and dem**, yet light and tasty Ma. chine, at a less price than either of the above. It runs . very easily, rapidly, and is pronounced the best machine *the market, for $6O aio. 6 This is a •Cachine get up on an entirely new princ:ole, different from anything ever before offered to the and pe 410a:tenth' assert that, tas ty, lly ope if bad .zOt en equal. It is very light and runs :cry r apidly, is al sost noiseless is its operation, and ones a STRA_IGI/T NEEDLE. It is so arranged as to he utterly im postale for It to miss stitchea. It has a tension on both sides ; and carries a large supply of thread on the ender spool. The motions are gained by iWO Sasall wanks that ran without perceptible mine. The two threads are worked in such a manner as never te both ull at the Bang) Eras i iind consequntly, little itableto p break. The seam e very elasti e c, and the &read does not break in Treating. It will do coarse uork better than any cheap reaching nowin market, and it uses silk, ratton or linen with equal facility. print MO DeSeriptive Oircalars furnished gratis. uvula, 411 Bp, LiDWLII, NEW VOICE_ Wli [TN EY & LYON. Proprietors. y— AfilllNT l 3 W ANTED. jell-lwd&lmW F _ iNITLE & LYON'S SF WING RA CHINES for Family nee, Tailoring mamas, fealery, ieo. Warranted to give better matefaotton Win any other Maxine's in market, or money refunded. Wanted—An AGENT in fkill eitY. & Addreal FINKLE! LYON, /964 r 608 BROADWAY, New York. 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TROY HOSIERY CO.'S MERINO SHIRTS *ND DR A W ER S ROBERT E. EVANS. .A. .111 M*l - T • 216 CHESTNUT STREET. jal6•wfitui2o2 Sung Eriry q,crobs Jobbers. H . DUHRING & CO., Noe. 29 and 29 NORTH FOURTH STREET, Are now receiving, by 'womanly, arrivals fronißurope, THEIR FALL IMPORTATIONS or =GIL= AND OERMAN HOSIERY, GLOVES, AND SMALL WARES, And solicit an inspection of their complete •nd et ell assorted stock, ESPIOIALLY ADAPTED TO SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN TRADE ]TII•Sm U3aickes, Jewelry, BAILEY & CO., raItNIZILLT BAILEY & KITCHEN, Have removed to their new Fire proof, White Marble Store, Sl9 CHESTNUT STREET, NORTH BIDE, BELOW THE GIRARD ROM. • Now opening their Yell Stook of IMPORT= JIWELRY, PLATID WARNS, AND NANCY GOODS, To which they Invite the attention of the patine. SILT HR-WARN, WATCHES, DIAMONDS, AND NUMB, ♦! WHOLIDALI AND lITAIL aaLl7.lt If JAMES WATSON. IMPORTER or WATCHES, JEWELRY, &a., No. 325 MARKET STREET. Constantly on hand a fall assortment of Vaoheron and Constantin Watches. IsLiim J• S. JARMO' & BRO., • MANURA.OTURRES AND IMPORTERS OP SILVER-PLATED WARE, No. 3114 011111HTNII? street, Om Third, (up Mimi Philadelphia. Constantly on hand and for sale to the Trade TB& sETS, COMMUNION SERVICE SETS, LeRNS, PITCHERS, OWLETS, CHES. WAITERS, BAH IIRT,e, CASTORS, KNIVES, SPOONS, • FORKS, LADLES, &0., &e. Gilding and plating on all kinds of metal. Na2-ly eibentlemcn's furnishing i.,trobs. R . C. WALBORN & CO_ {Now) Noe: a and 7 NORTH SIETE{ STRAIT, 81ANUFACT1TRERS or , ifiraTS, WRAPPERS, DRIBS STOOKS, ITO. Donlan in every artiele relating to the GENT'S FURNISHING BUSINESS. TINGHESTER & 00., GENTLEMEN'S IVANltilli/IM OTORMI PATENT SHOULDER-SEAM SHIRT DIANUFAO TORY, At the Old Stand, No. 701 CHESTNUT Street, oppo site The Washington House. A. WINOHESTER will give, as heretofore, his per sonal supervision to the On iting and biannfactunng departments. Orders for hie celebrated style of Shirts and Collars filled at the shortest notice. Wholesale trade supplied on liberal terms. iY24-/Y tons e- furnie Ong , 41, crobs. HOUSE- F lISNISHLN G GOODS. Just received from Europe by slaps lloise, Jane Henderson, and Wyoming, a large 'apply of new and useful articles, many of which have never before been °Martd for male in this market. JOHN A. MU RPI-EE - Yee CO.. 922 ORESTEUT STREET, ABOVE NINTH. iYI •fm&wtt Marble Works. MONUMENTAL MARBLE WORKS Has constantly on band a very large assortment of MONUMENTS, • ENOLOSURES, and GRAVE-STONES, Of various designs, made of the finest ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLES, Which he will sell at greatly reduced prices. Is Sift prepared to execute orders upon the most favorable terms, and respectfully invitee the public generally to examine kis stock - before purchasing elsewhere. ADAM STEINMETZ, Monumental Marble Works, BIDE N AVENUE, below Eleventh etreet, w f-dm Philadelphia. eLabinet-Ware. DESK DEPOT. THE LARGEST IN THE UNION. Suitable for Banks, Offices, and Schools, in Oak, Wal . nut, and Mahogany, of handsome etre and pattern, A. L. ADAMS' IMPROVED DESE RACK, St: kiirrTGINT (autaiaaona et) J. T. HAMMITT. No. 2b9 SOUTH THIRD STREET. apld.im CABINET FURNITURE AND BILLIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. 261 DOUTII SECOND B elt.l.llT, In Oonnection with their °Meagre Cabinet Btudnese. are now manufacturing a eraperior article of . BILLIARD T &BLEB, and have now on hand a full supply, flashed with MOORE & OAMPION'B IMPROVED OUBHIONB, which are pronounced by all who have need them to be aupericr to all other& ire the quality and finish of theme Tables the menu factnrere refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of their wort, isl4-8m anb Liquors_ LA PERLE AID RUBIS CHAMPAGNES. The undersigned have been appointed sole agents for tha United States and Canada ' for the sale of the Champagne Wines of Messrs. JACQUES GOERG & CO., at ChelOna-Sur-Marne, France. We present their wince to the public under two brands, namely : LA. FERLE AND RUBIS. The ‘, Wine is of exqnislte flavor and fruity taste, and is guarantied to oompare favorably with any Wine In the American market. The " is • One Cabinet Champagne, of a beautiful 'Ruby color, which is natural to the wine. This wine is undoubtedly one of the fiaest Cabinet Champagnes prodnoed In liranee, and is made from grapes of the choicest selections. From the long experience, extensive posseasions, and large means of the well known house of JACQUES GOMM & 00., and their determination to furnish wines which shall meet with the approval of consumers, we feel persuaded that a trial will fully earablish all we claim for the excellence of these wlnes, CRAMER, ABEGQ, & MoOLOSILEY, No. 19 BROAD STRUT, NSW YORK. The above Wince may be had at the following phew In Philadelphia: JIM Oeuitulow & 00 ,184 Walnut et.; Tawas U. JACOBS & 00.,23.8 Doak et ; JEBRY WALKII„ 231 Chest nut at. JOS. F. TOBIAS & 00., 206 B. Front at.i MIT. OBELI, & ALLEN, 214 8. Front at. PATTEIRSON, COANB, 88 N. Second at.; LAWBOS & Ifsamse, 807 ar ket at. ; TBONIIIOIO BLACK, coral * Chestnut li M road 046.1 WM.P.a.aviat,jr , Twelfth and Chestnut WA.; BID. DLINSN & HAYWLI.D; TOS Market ; Patinti COL TON ; 00r. Broad and walnut; ARNOLD & WOW, 120 Walnut street; wit. L MADDOOK & Co., 118 South Third at. Alas at the tamping Hotels: iRD 11017.1, rszesuirr, Bruse, & 00. ; WABIAINO TOS BOOBS. A ft. GLASS • BT. LAWMEN°. HOTSL, S. ULIIPBELL & Co.; 111110RANTIV Hovel" 0. MaKIB ale & no foll•mwf•em New Vublitatione. D APPLETON & CO. PUBLISH ON WEDNESDAY, TENT AND HAREM, NOM OF AN OBLINTAL TRIP, CAROLINE j PAIIrs, / Yulame ) Nam, 471qAtiP POPULAR TALES FROM THE NORSE, By Gooltoo WEBIER DABIINT, DO. L , WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 1 Volume, 12mo. Oloth $l. ON FRIDAY. TILE ROMAN QUESTION, By J. 113013 T. TAANBLATED TROIA TUE FRINGE( BY H. CI I). APPLETON % Co., PubHamra, jyl3.3t 848 and 3,8 BROADWAY CHAMBERS"' ENCYCLOPEDIA, (To be en eighty monthly parte, )6 cleats each) Regularly supplied to auy adiroes, by JOHN IooPARLAN. Agent POP APPLIfON 1 6 NIZI/ AU RIOAN OICLOPIDIL, JIRO ADE HOTEL, CRiileTNllr above sixth jyl4•tf ***ltd jr t anywhere—if paid iu &dram.. C G. EVANS's BOOK LIST.—AII Books wflii• .o'd at the lowest prises, and a handsome gift given with each purehase. Just published, ITALY, AND THb WAR OF 1868. Giving a history of the causes of the War, with Rio graphical sketches and finely-engraved Portraits of its Heroes, together with the official accounts of the Bat tles of Montebello, Paleetro, Magenta, &a.. &n., and Maps of Italy, Austria and all the adjacent Countries, by Madame Julie de Itierguerittes, with an introduc tion by Dr. R. Fhelton Mackerels. Handsomely bound in one 'volume. Ditao,, cloth. Pt; . 0.25, BVANEViiI POPULAR BPR ARM tr. AND EXUIBITION DEC LUKER, Comprising a treatise on Illocution and Gesture. Il lustrated with engravinge. One volume. 12mo , cloth. Prioe $l. TRH LADIII9 I RAND BOOK OW FANCY AND OR NAMENTAL NEEbLE-WOUK. Comprising directions and patterns for working in Ap plique, Bead-work. Braiding, Canvass-work, Hunting. Netting, Letting, Worsted-work, Quilting, Patch-wore, , ht. Illustrated with Zed new engravlnge, Com piled front the beat authorities, bi Mint Plasmas Hart. ley. S• e volume. Cloth. Price $l. HMS TOWARDS REAVRN i or, Religion in Com mon Life. By T. B. Arthur. One volume. 12mo. Cloth. Prise $1 Boos OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF PUN. Containing a large collection of the most laughable jokes and sayings. Ouevolume. 12mo. Cloth. Price $l. All the new publications can be found at G. G. KVANIPS Gift Book Store .3113-tf No. 439 CUES MUT Strset. NEW ROOKS. I STRAIGHT FORWARD ; or, Walking in the Light. A nary for sahool girls of all ages. By Leap B. Guerooey, author of " Irish Amy," &0., &a. lemo. Ilia ktratad. 76 cents. lILNN LEE; or, Best for the Weary. Madre, ted. 45 rents THN ANGEL OF Tlll lODBXBG ; and other stories. Litistratieg great moral troths. Designed chiefly for the Young. By John Todd. l6mo. 75 oents. BLIND TOM; or, The Lost Sound. 16mo. 60 gents. ICANNITH AND BUSH; or, Self Mastery. By Oonsin 1140. Dloso. 75 dents TDB WARS Olt TUN ROM; or, ftories of the Struggle of York and bancaater. By J. B. idgar. Il lustrated. 3.6 ,no 60 cents. •••.••• • - - - - TUREETIN ON THE ATONEMENT. Translated By Willson. 12mo. 60 cents. For We by WILLIAM S. & ALFRED MARTIAN, 1912 No. 606 CHESTNUT Street AN EARNEST- AND THOUGHTFUL BOOK_ LEOTURBS ON THE FIRST TWO VISIONS OP THE 8008 OP DANIEL. By Rev. William Newton. 12mo. 75 cents. NOTIONS OP THE PRUE There is a warmth of tone and feeling about this book which will make it not unacceptable to a large class of readers. Its practical earnestness and rave. ranee of spirit are high recommendations.—Banner of the Cross The volume contains sincere and earnest expositions of prophecies. Tho author'e TitElre arc, in some TO. Er,etsi peculiar , mo worthy of attention and con aideration .—American Presbyterian. The book is the product of a calm, thoughtful. ear nest, and reverential mi. d, and may be consulted with profit —Presbyterian Banner and Advocate: Just published by WILLIAM 8. & ALFRED MARTIEN, je2s No. 608 OIiBSTNIIT istreet. OLD BOOKS-OLD BOOKS-OLD BOOKS. The undersigned states that he has frequentlY for tole books printed between the years 1470 and 1500 ; early editions of the Fathers of the Reformers and of the Puritan DiviiioN tri Law, BrgAletqn, Lyttletua, Pat fendorlf, !}retina, Dowse, Coke, Hale, tke Year Books, Reports, Jac. ' are often to be found upon his slbelyes ; Oyolopedias, Lexicons, Classic Authors, History, Poetry, Philosophy, balance, Political Economy, Government, Architecture, Natural History. Treatises upon these and other kindred subjects are being oostinnally dealt in by him. Books, in large and small quantities. pu , - chased at the Custom-House avenue Bookstall, CHEST NUT Street, above Fourth, Philadelphia. mylll.4m JOHN CAMPBELL. Retail. Earn eonhs. LINEN TOWELINGS. A full eupply of Scottie Linen Diapers, or all widths. Russia patters* inc Disperi., Bird Bye and Sawa einekabsok. Very wide new *Mock piece Towels Fringed Towels in Ducks and Damaek. Colored Bordered fine Chamber Towels. Vesy rough Meditated Hocktbsok eons and vrirr 'Povrele. ' Bruiala Crash and American Linen Creek. Glare Towels, Dish Wipers, and Stair Crash. 811e,11P LEN Rao Tinos. 011ESTNTIT and EIGHPH /Meets, JULY, 1.859 M Fine 'French Drape Goode at ball price ! ! ! We have just closed ou OABII t. from en Importer, POE , Boyers , / lots of °Seel/eat goods, Which we will sell at less than 01411-HALF TRUE REGULAR PRIOR! Also, the balance of our regular stork of WARM?'aILBB, BkIiDGBB, Ac., AO. lrenop Lace Piccolomiuiec. French Lace POiDtBll anfl Mantillas, Mantilla Lace Goods, in great variety. Rich Black Bilk Dusters, very cheap Travelling Dusters, in digerati t materials. Bummer Goode. for Men'e and Soya' wear. Linens, Linen Handkerchiefs, Bash-towele, Ac., iha Piano-covers, Table•coyere. Btand-covers, &t, and a full steak of Domestic Goods. THORNLBY a CH/831, Q. 1. Corner &MUTH do SPRING HARDIN. 22 WR BUY AND SELL FOR GASH. GAUNTLETS, GAUNTLETS, GAUNT LETS.—A very large assortment of Gauntlota for Ladies' and Misses' wear, for sale at HOFMANN'S HOSIERY STORE, 9 North EIGHTH Street. Hosiery for Ladies' and Misses' wear. Hoehn, for Ciente and Youths' wear. For sale at HOFMANN'S, HOSIERY STORE, 9 North EIGHTH Street. Gauze Merino undergarments of every variety, For Ladies, Children, and Gents wear, for sale at iiIOPISIANWS H6BIIMY Sroux, inr/O-fmw-tf No. 9 North EIGHTH Street GENERAL REDUUTION IN PRICES OP 81:151.51Bn GUODB as esuil et this season. Bailer printed Ohsllies reduced to 123 i and 10 oenta. Barege Napoleone to 16 20, and 25 cents. Baegains and Pail de Chevron. Barege Robes from $7 60 to $5 50. st " $5.50 to 64 50. " " 16 00 to $5.00, &0., ico. Lace Pointe, Mantles, and Piaaolominia ail reduced. White Ground Orr:swim at 12) conta, White Ground Brilliants reduced to 19 Gents. line neat and medium style Preach Lawns, reduced to 10 cents, &o to. Wide White, Bisek, and Mode color Bereges, for Shawl's, Mentles, ato. Stella Shawls in variety. Black Silks, Irish Linens, Bathing P Wide, &o. OBARLBS ADAMS, in 22 wfmtf 'EIGHTH and A ROH Streets. LACE Bo 11ENu C'S WITH E: Capes, Points awl Mantillas, (dlencon,) all at reduced pricee. to slime ibe season, at the PARES MANTILLA. 351PORIUM. 708 0110IRTNUT Wept. PE4NOII LACE BOURNOUB WITH CAPES, Points and MantLlas, (thimbray,) in greet profusion, at re duced prices, to close the season, at the PABLO MANTILLA. EMPORIUM, 708 1311111311411 T Btreet. - - - - aticK AND SMITE BARRAN OLOALI AND Dusters, at reamed prices, to elate the season, at the PARIS MANTILLA EMPORIUM, 708 011aSTNUT Street. SIMMER CLOAKS AND DTheTESS, in an infinite variety of fabric, at redoced prioros, at the PARIS MANTILLA EMPORIUM, 708 ORERTNUT Street. The whole of our stock is now cffering at reduced prices, preparatory to the Mose of the season. J. W. PROCTOR & CO. j y l 7OB CHESTNUT Street. SE&SONABL sarvgeo coet, ER. Mown Robeeet 26. Excellent, 26 cents. Black garages, 81 coots. Black Org. !clarets worth 88, Thin Dress goods au reduced. COOPER & HON AHD, tele O. R. corner NINTH sad MARKET SERVICEABLE — Travail ng Dress Goods reduced Plaids, °beets, Mixtures, Stripes, Bayaderes, Browne, Chen° Figured, Ito. Pinat•rate cent lamilaa for 14 mac ixoanant Blank mantilla sums. 88 Myles beet neat and gay 12% cent Lamm COOPER & OONARD, Je2B 8.1. aorner NINTH and MARAIT. BEAUTIFUL-- "-JP Solid Black Bilk Mantillas. Real good genteel styles. E 4 .2 5. Frown and Chantilly Lace Mantles. Lane Pointe. Dareue Cantina. COOPER & OONARD, let B. H. corner NINTH and ISIARICIT 1311 DEAFNESS. DR. YON mosouzisisma, OCIZMIST .A.NJD AICFRIENT, Can ba sonsnited on all Diseases of the DTI and las OPPIOS No. 926 WALNUT BT., BiILOW TINTS. QT All.ll/10111. BTU 11118111111153. kW-1m - A As LIGHT COOK STOVE, &c., for C sninmar_ Ali ems of T Elbowl PhD& ) Patent Gas Light Cook Waves, Ita , from $l.lO to idbo warranted to boil, babe, roast, broil, heat tailors , and hatters' irons, &a Jelin Kershaw , a, No 1840 Ili Street. Ont this out for reference.. IigYRUP MOLASSES.-260 hbds and bbls. 1%0 New York and Palledelpbia Syrup for isle by .lA/Liflali&SAM & 00, LIMITS& meet jell PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY 15. 1859. ff/t Vrtss. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1859. Russia and France. There is a secret understanding between Russia and France on the abject of the pre sent war, if there be not a regularly-executed treaty. Russia would not aid France, we know, unless the Czar hoped to gain by it. ALEXANDER has a grudge against Austria because that, during the Crimean War, though nominally neutral, Austria sent in her troops to occupy Wallachia and Moldavia, which occupation continued all through the War. France, also, has grounds for quarrel with Austria. Reading the Future by the Past, what if France and Russia think, as NA POLEON and ALEXANDER thought, in 1807, of dividing Europe between them? When none Las, late Emperor of Russia, was the last time in his life in Warsaw, during the Crimean; war, be happen 4 to pass near Lazienki, where is the statue ot the Polish king SOBIESKI, which shows him trampling the Turk under the feet of his horse. The iron-hearted Czar stopped at once, as did all his suite, and after a pause he uttered a mono logue which has been thus reported by some persons present at the time ; 4 c He was a great king and great warrior—that king SOBIESKI, only he committed the gravest, the most per nicious error, in saving Vienna—that nest of treacherous snakes ! Another great man pre pared his doom by the union with Austria, which he ought to have annihilated. This er ror he expiated on St. Selena, and this was the gratitude of Austria which he had so many times under his feet, and ever pardoned, mag nanimously pardoned ! At last I myself was stupid enough to help np that snalto from the dust, to warm it at my heart's blood—to save it from imminent death ! Ingratitude to Po land; Austria first invaded the Polish territo ry, and gave the signal to the partitionof that country. To repay NAPOLEON, Austria turned her force against him when he was in the most critical situation, and depended on her alone. And now the Austrian army is ready to fall in my flank when I have to struggle against so many odds." In such angry words the stern White Czar gave expression to his rage—rather important at that moment. Pat as every thing in Rus sian politics is calculated for centuries, as the famous testament of PETER the Great is every year nearer and nearer its execution, so we may depend that the words of Count ORLOFF in the Paris Conference were no idle boast, but rather an indiscretion of an angry diplo mat. He said, "Austria has to pay the cost ot the Crimean campaign." Austria, as everybody knows, is an agglo merate of the mast heterogeneous national elements. It is composed mostly of the Sole- wait population, held together by German craft, inherited from the traditions of the Boa etas and the Spoßass, and studying deeply in the book of Meours,verm—a work, by the way, of an honest man, who gave a lifelike portrait of an Italian prince, his contempora ry. By the entangling and crafty adaptation of the old adage of the Ca 94.11,5, " of impfra, 3l Austria has brought each of the na tions composing her vast dominions against the others; so, also, districts, classes, persons, are placed in collision or mortal fend with others. So the Apostolic Government quietly enjoys itself, ready, at any occurreire 6 e, to send the Poles against the Italians, rod.tbe. Italians against -the Poles. Just - now, the Hungarians and Croats, the Bohemians and Sclavonies, the Gallicians• and Trannsylvani. ans, are battling against freedom in Lombar dy, while their own native countfies languish for liberty. In the 37,000,000 comprising its population, only Austria proper, and a part of Styria and Tyrol are German—say, at the most, 3,500,000' Lombardo-Venetia, 4,000,000 Italians ; the rest are all of Belavenic race. Bohemia, Gallicia, Silesia, the whole mass of Hungaria, with Sclavonia, Serbia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Carnia, and Carr:dole, (Illyria,) are populated by the Selavonic race, speaking mostly a language like the Russian, and mostly of the same (Greek) religion. The dislike to the Ger mans, common to them all y links them with Russia very intimately—particularly so from the time of the Russian intervention in the Hungarian war, when Austria, after having incited the Selavonic populations and arming them in a savage civil war against the Hangs- Hans, cheated them all, not fulfilling one letter of the most liberal promises made to them daring the struggle. When we look back through the eight cen turies of the existence of the house of Haps burg, we see it constantly busy at the work of deception or bloody struggle against any idea of progress, any religious or political liberty. Under CNABLES 7, it had overawed the whole of Europe. The Hussite war, the war of the thirty years, the extermination of the Bohe mian nation, the Seven-years' war, the wars against the French Revolution, and against NAPOLEON, when Austria regularly hired her troops to subserve the interests of despotism; in each and all of these Austria played a prominent part. Every where she paid, with the most abject ingratitude, those who saved her in a thousand battles. We have only to MEW WALLENSTELN, murdered by the orders of the Emperor when he was no more wanted, and done SOBIESKI, the good Kim; of Poland, who, against the most manifest rules of poli tics, refused the crown of Hungaria, and helped Vienna. Immediately after, Austria refused him winter quarters in her dominions, and repaid with rank ingratitude him who had saved her from the Turks. After the partition of Poland, Austria in herited a part of the mission and the politics of that nation, winch puts her naturally in an tagonism with Russia, making of her the only barrier of Germany and Constantinople against Russian aggressions. Russia sees it clearly, and is on her guard. Russia undermines the Austrian influence by her emissaries,` a very active propagandism of Panslavistie ideas, and many secret societies which prepare the ground for the realization of the great Stla vonic Empire. This influence, organized cm a gigantic scale, and very aysternatically and perseveringly adhered to, has a powerful ally in the. Greek Church, the language, and 'the general antipathy against Germans who eon itantly cheat and oppress them, exacting for taxes the last resources of the poor and harm. less, but improvident population. The last Elan garian war, putting these elements in imme diate contact with the Russian forces, and showing the power of the White Czar, literal ly destroyed all the Prestige of Austria, and raised Russia. The present Italian war, so thoughtlessly provoked by Austria, may prose the truth of our assertions. In all the nations there is a tendency of concentration, which is, so to say, the charac teristic of the nineteenth century. Itly, Germany, Scandinavia, are each striving , to unite in one body. The loose Polish and Russian elements are riveted together by the iron will of an Autocrat, who encompassesthe whole Sclavonic population in his Past 4cheme. The idea of Panslavism, of union in one body of all the Se.lavonie populations divided now in Austria, Turkey, and Prussia, isnot new. It was put forth secretly by PETER the Great in his testament, and afterwards vas publicly avowed by CATHARINE 11, who gave her two grandsons the historic and signifitant names Of ALEXANDER and CONSTANTINE. Mre remember alto a Caricature of that thno,ro presenting this &mamas, or rather Mena line de Nord, standing with one foot on the cupola of Petersburg, and with the other on the Great Mosque in Constantinople. This was called cc The Imperial Step." If we take 60000,000 of Russians 'and Poles, subject to the Russian empire ; 20,0(10,- 000 Sclavonians in Austria, 28,00,000 in Ter. I key, and 6,000,000 in Prussia, we have a large aggregate of 120,000,000 of people, speaiiicg the same language, and bound together byithe links of sympathy. The Emperor NICHOLAS cherished that idea very dearly, and made vigorous steps towards its realization. Russ; like America, has nothing to lose, and may gain every thing from the time. One century, or even less, may be sufficient for the realiza tion of that colossal idea. On the other side, the decentralizing repub lican tendencies which manifested them selves in the great conspiracy in the Russian army in 1825, put forward the same Selavonie idea, but wished to form, of all that mass, a kind of Federal States, united, like our own great Republic, with the loose do of a Fede ral Government, but independent at home as Nations or States. This idea was condemned by the hand of nenow, and its votaries (FESTEL, MotatAvisrv, and others) expiated on the gallows the presumptiOn of struggling against the Autocracy. But it lives among the masses and all the secret societies throughout Austria. Turkey and Prussia propagate it vi gorously. The conclusion of it is, therefore, that whether Russia is to remain an Autocra cy, or to take another form of Government, her tendency will be to unite in one body tile whole of the Sclavonie race of 120,000,000 people, from the Polar and Baltic seas to the Bosphorus, Archipelago, and the Adriatic! Nothing in European history has been more wonderful than the advance of Russia within the last one hundred and fifty years. When PETER the Great ascended the throne, in 1089, his only seaport was the half—frozen one of Archangel. Russia was known to Europe as a vast and barbarous country, without civilization, power, or influence. The defeat of the Swedes gave Russia her first harbor on the Baltic. After that her territorial aequisi tionS ensued. First came Livonia; then, by the partition of Poland, in 1773, the Russian frontier was extended to the Dwina and the Dneiper ; after that the Russian standard advanced to the Crimea and the Sea of Azoff ; then vast portions of Tartary brought Rus sia into Central Asia ;—in 1788, the Crimea was claimed and occupied as Russian, as were the vast plains between the Euxine and the Caspian to the foot of the Caucasus : in 1792, the Treaty of Jassy advanced the Russian frontier to the Dneister and gave the harbor of Odessa to the Czar ; in 1713, Russia secured Lithuania ; in 1794, she annexed nearly half of the old Kingdom of Poland - ) and even the Treaty of Tilsit secured her a portion of Prussia, which she still holds. During the conferences of Tilsit, in 1801, when NA r moo, in the battle of Jena, annihi lated the fabric of FREDERICK the Great, be ing not yet infatuated with the Xetternich idea of marrying an Austrian princess, he proposed to ALEXANDER to divide Austria and make two Empires of the whole of Europe. There cannot be any doubt of this. ALISON says, cc To Russia was assigned, with hardly any limitations, the Empire of the East. France acquired absolute sway in all the King doms of the West; both united in cordial hos tility against the maritime power of Great Britain. Turkey, in consequence, was aban doned, almost without reserve, to the Russian Autocrat. To the cession of Constantinople alone, NAPOLEON would never agree, and ri valry for the possession of that matchless capital was one of the principal causes which afterwards led him on to the desperate chances of the Moscow campaign." At St. Helena, NAPOLEON said of the Czar, cc All his thoughts• are directed to the conquest of Turkey. We have had many discussions about it; at first, I was pleased with his proposals, because I thought it would enlighten the world to drive those brutes, the Turks, out of Europe. But when I reflected upon the consequences, and saw -- whiCaffernendous weight of poorer it would give to Russia, in consequence of the numbers of Greeks in the Turkish dominions, who would naturally join the Russians, I re fused to consent to it, especially as ALEXAN DER wanted to get Constantinople, which I would not allow, as it would have destroyed the equilibrium of power in Europe." This, conjoined with the German sympathies of ALEXANDER, put an end to the Tilsit scheme, But the testament of Purge, the Great fostered the idea of conquest. ALux- ANDER actually had all the necessary informa tions, surveys and plans leading to the Eng lish possessions in India. Since that time Russia has made fine progress in that direc tion. Had the great Sepoy mutiny taken place a little sooner, and Russian ofgeers Ord artillery had been sent there, what would have become of the Anglo-Indian Empire? Nero- Leon's eagle glance saw this, long ago. He had concocted a plan, with the Emperor Pan, grandfather of the present Czar, for the Rus sian invasion of British India, to which France was to have given 30,000 picked troops, and 10,000,000 francs, in order to purchase camels and other requisites to cross the desert. The invasion was to be by way of Persia. The assassination of PAUL put an end to this scheme. The Treaty of Tilsit allowed Russia to pur sue, without molestation, her conquests over the Swedes and the Turks. Thence, in 1809, the Treaty of Stockholm gave her the whole or Finland, as far as the Gulf of Bothnia. The Treaty of Bucharest, in 1812, extended her southern frontier to the Pruth, and included the mouths of the Danube in her dominions. In 1815 Russia added the Grand Duchy of Warsaw to her territory, which has brought her within 180 miles both of Vienna and Berlin, without the intervention of any defensible frontier to' either. The Caucasian campaigns annexed Georgia to Russia, and, ever since the fall of the Great NAPOLEON, the Russian Empire has acquired an absorbing interest on the Black Sea and the Dardanelles. Really, more is to be dreaded from ALEXANDER II than.from NA POLEON 111. That astute politician, Nero- LEON the Great, said to LAB CASAS : " Show me RA Emperor of Raaeia, brave, able, and impetuous—in a word, a Czar who is worthy of his situation, and Europe is at his feet." Add to thls, that Russia can be invaded only during three months in the year, and can in. vado during twelve, and her commanding po sition is obvious. • Tt..eturn to Austria. During the feverish period of 1848 the Sclavonic idea manifested itself by a Congress in Praz of the repre sentatives of all the Sclavonic population of Austria and Turkey. It was interrupted by the bombardment. But the idea is stronger than brute force. It works always silently but steadily. Even Austria herself took up that idea to rouse the Croats againkt the Hungarians, and save. Vienna and the Im perial crown, by the hands of JELLACILICK.- to be saved, and hang her defenders after wards. During the Hungarian insurrection, Lord PALMERSTON repeatedly expressed in Parlia ment the idea that England can by no means allow Austria to fall. He was right_ Austria is indispensable for England to support the mock equilibrium of power in Europe—to hire her armies in all contingencies to the English interest—and certainly if a general war is the consequence of the present turmoil, England will probably back Austria. But if there.be a rent understanding between Russia and Fiance, the hours of Austria are count• ed—her sands of Empire will soon have run down into the eternity of the Past. Is there any other reason for the existence of that heterogeneous agglomerate called Austria but to support English influence and in terest in Europe 7 That profligate, tyrannical, unscrupulous, utterly demoralizing Govern ment must fall through the force of its own craft and treachery. It is entirely undermined by Russia. It is bankrupt. It is detested alike by the Hungarian, the Pole, the Italian, and even by the Viennese. The great drama of two Empires now being acted in Lom• hardy, with the world for an audience, will decide all. IMMENSE GOLD NEWS.—The Omaha Nebras kian—E ztra—of the sth instant, comes tone with the most flaming account of the richness of the South Platte Gold Mines that we have yet seen. Mr. Wm N. Bserk of that city, A. Dean, of Kelamszrto, Michigan, and W. Du freee, of booth Bend, Indiana, and J. Stan well,of Morgan county. Ohio, arrived in Omaha on the sth, They brought $7,500 in gold duet, and confirm, in the fullest degree, the reports of the extravagant richness of the mines.--Prissouri Republican. Dr. J., W. Francis on Benjamin FrAnklin On the Fourth, the New York Typographical Society celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of its organization. The speech of the day was that delivered by Dr. J. W. Famicfs, the veteran author and physician. In his « Old New York," published in 1857, this veteran gave agreeable and instructive Reminiscences of Sixty Years—commencing with his own childhood. In energy of character, extent of knowledge, variety of information, and agree able way of communicating it, Dr. FRANCIS much resembles Dr. FRANKLIN. With much appropriateness, his address to the New York Typographical Society bad FRANKLIN, a printer by calling, for its subject. Dr. FnAu- Cis spoke as follows : AsAwczates of the 'i'yyographical Society of New York GENTLEM ttN : I am happy to be of your number on this memorable omasion, and cheerfully unite with you in commemoration of the 50th anniver eery of the society since your first organization. I am tolerably familiar with your early history, have enjoyed pertional communion with many of your prominent membere, have marked your pro gress, and now eengratul ate you, in all sincerity, °A 019 strong hold you moiptein among your fol. low-associations. and the commanding foundation on which you at present rest, Almost yearly, from your bumble commencement up to the present hour, your march hes been onward ; you reem se to have conducted your transactions es to have proved sumeseful operators in the great design of rendering your fraternity worthy of the mighty name you bear. You have sustained an honest rivalry in the career of doing good• Like the illustrious - Franklin you have as a ' body practically enforced those principles of action which signalized the great philosopher in his individual life, and the habit of industry, the axioms of moral obligation, and the en. larged philanthropy which charaeterizzd the Sage in all his doings, would, I apprehend, upon close icquiry, be found to be the very agents by which you have built up the Typographical Society of New York. I can at least affirm that I know practically as a charitable institution you have not forgotten the Aliened poor and the disconso• late of your noble craft, and the generoris bounty distribumd by your hands has often alleviated the distresses of your unfortunate mei:there Your time ly aid has repeatedly bound up the broken heart, restored lustre to the dim eye, and given vigor to the feeble limb. In seasons of pestilence, when that direful scourge the yellow fever has invaded or people, your bounty bag alleviated the calami ty, and many of the appalling scenes originating from the AFiatid cholera have 'been removed by your charitable interposition. Let me ask, then what higher claim to a recognition among the most worthy institutions of this groat metropolis eau you possess than the proofs you S 3 repeatedly give of disinterested benevolence, which I have again and again become acquainted with as your medical counsellor, in emergencies in. volving life and death. I tell you, you stand well in relation to that vast subjects. Charity You cherish the old Knickerbocker tendencies. This is all right; you act in harmony with the place of your re-idenoe, and you cannot change your locality. But -I see ether demonstrations of your wisdom and of your benevolent nature. You bare very properly concluded that the phy -6:0%I. condition of man is not to net satisfied with the mere preservation of its ordinary functions; to this organic life is superadded a divine essence; that you have thought worthy of culture. Man could not live by bread alone, and hence to ennoble our speoies and cherish his higher attri. butes you have, by a wise forethought, and unti ring effsrt, secured, for the benefit of your asso ciates, a library, now of commanding considera tion, both from the character of its nooks, and the numbers which fill your shelves- This sup plementary work is demonstrative of the excel lence of your early plans of beneficence to others. and herein you have imitated the doings of your illustrious Franklin. He founded the first library in the Colonies but be forgot not the organization of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Summoned within a very few brief hours to meat you on this great National Anniversary, I frankly tell you I am somewhat perplexed what to do. The Day of Independence is blended with the histtory of the world's progress. It is the ncond redemption of diaenthralled man. c It is eeseciated with the prominent achievements of Franklin, and millions of tongues at this vary hour will con nect his acts with those of the Fether of his Country, and echo his name throughout the Re public. There is indeed, no orator in the land. whatever be his ingenuity, who can forbear to cite Franklin if he recounts fairly what properly belongs to the occurrences of this epoch in our nation's story • This seems to ma to - be an argu ment of sufficient force to let the patriot and the great statesman be committed to the petit'. clans and the public men of the day. They will not omit to entwine the wreath of glory on the proper brow, while we, keenly sensible of the worth of our liberties, of the price at which they were purchased, and of the noble army of martyrs sacrificed to rescue us from degradation and servitude, give, as is our province, to the Solon of our nation the eulogistic strains which awaken the divinest emotions of liberated and triumphant America. Let the fathers of our Holy Religion, and the promulgators of the Gospel of glad tidings, from the sacred desk, with all the weight of ea °tat authority; emsounce for the benefit of the rising youth of the country the itetemelete in tegrity of the great American Datriot, and tell the people that the maxims of Franklin are to he heeded as the Wisdom of a second Solomon ' • let the statesman preolairn the ma g nificent ideasthat fast entered the breast of our illustrious sage, the Union of the Confederacy, and its mighty is sues. Let the political economist satisfy him self, that whatever may be his views of the wealth of natione, and the means by which it is to be secured, that Poor Richard is an in dispensable study to secure the blessings che rished in imagination in his most favored doc trines The mines of a nation, says the glorious sage, aro but a shovel deep. Let the philanthro pist, who labors, like another Howard. with the seared obligations imposed on him by Heaven. in his sequestered and unnoticed paths of service, never target. while he alleviates sorrow, that the example of Franklin, in his industry and in his frugality, furnishes provision against defeat and want, and thus enriches humanity with the spirit and the power of independence. Let Franklin bo united with Locke when the humanist descants on that vast behest—religions toleration Let the men of every profession, scholars and artiste of every grade, tell, in unrestrained aocente, when in the height of their laudatory exposition of the dignity of human nature, that we turn to our Franklin as the highest and the most effective ex ample of what man can achieve by the faculties which God has vouchsafed to him, and that the humble printer-boy has secured, by actual service. the undying plaudits of a people who, by peril and by energy, have secured an immortality among the nations of the earth; that his sagacity has reared up her moral structure, his counsels consolidate her Union, and that his wise fore thought and unerring judgment have led to tri umphs unparalleled in the records of all former time. You will perceive, fellow-members, from the little that I have already uttered, how vast is our theme when speaking of your association, and of that name with which It is india - pliably blend ed ; and you may further learn, as I pass over this briefly so many important toplos. that I am compelled to be sententious even with the few cir cumstances that press upon cur notice as applica ble to the occasion which has brought us hither. have on more than one occasion considered Franklin in a philosophic disposition of affairs. The opportunity now at command does not al low of any special enlargement of the Subj tot in this hour of hurried business. Ent when I echo the sentiment of a thousand minds, that the American sage stands without a parallel in the annals of typography and of philosophy in the broadest acceptation of the term, you will be in clined to think I entertain very far from a limited opinion of the value of our association, and of the banner under which you assemble If I mis take not, yours is the first , organization in this country, chronologically speaking, of a society whose avowed objects aro such as your charter sets forth. I am, therefore, nocesearily induced to re strict myself to that portion of Franklin's life which is more intimately associated with the ty pographic art. This seems to me to be our duty of to-day. Let the great anniversary—the Fourth of July—be committed to our national era- tors. Let more than 20 000.000 _souls, from the Atlantic to the Pacific borders, announce, in sten torian accents, Independence—a vast privilege, indeed; but, thanks to the Almighty, a still mere wondrous spectacle enlists our admiration—they can read the Declaration of the mighty fact. Will you, with this truth before you hesitate to call yonr art divine? Let the Fourth, I repeat. be ce lebrated with countless demonstrations. We will he contest with saying a few things touching our beloved Franklin. Parental instruction first led me to a knowledge of Franklin. My Philadelphia mother lived bard by the reeidence of the great philosopher, and popular report awakened her attention to the . characters of three remarkab i e men of that re nowned city—Franklin, Paine, and Rosh. They were often Seen together in their walks through Arch street, and hailed by the juveniles in a sort of triple alliance ; There goes Poor Richard, Com mon Sense, and the Doctor. And here I may ob serve, by way of parenthesis that had Common Sense heeded the wise counsels of Poor Richard, and withheld from vulgar annoyance his ill-starred work, " The Age of Reason," he might now have bean enrolled on that immortal lig of names with our Washington, our Adams, our Jefferson, our ' Henry, and our Hancock, for the patriotism he manifested in the times that tries men's seu's. The reading, not to say the study, of Frank lin's autobiography led me to join the typo• graphical profession, and securing a pretty free range of reading by the opportunities now af forded, I had no sooner obtained a fair practical knowledge of the art than I aimed at a collegi ate course of instruction, which I accomplsheil in due time, and with my finial re:mimes thus de. rived from my awn earnings, I finally became a graduated doctor in medioine. There are those who may think the time thus appropriated 'a lose in the business of life; but I have no reason to repent this temporary obstruction in the accom nisement of my ultimate design. I learned the value of time In early life : if I possess induetri- Orti habits. I owe them to my juvenile devotion to business, and, moreover, having resolved, in my twelfth year, to depend wholly upon myself for the Indulgence of all my wants, I may say that my career thus far has been pretty much of my own choice—asking few favors, and sustaining a relationship with others, in a pecuniary sense, in no wise burthensome. My medical Tumults often brought Franklin before me ; be is so often dovetailed in the transactions of the phy -Bloal flederieeill. In 1810, DOW just at the edge of fifty years, I enjoyed the rare Oiretked I.+F an examination - of the voluminous papers of old Lieutenant Governor Colden, in e‘ hioh 1. found a large 11018 , 4 of the correspondence of Dr. Franklin, a considerable portion of which the able and honest Jared Sparks has embodied in his TWO CENTS. ample biography and writings of the illustrious man ; and our historian, Bancroft, from the same source, has enriched his volumes. in one of my former addresses to you, I communicated the lead ing foots associated with Franklin in New York. I derived nice of what I then said from the Col den papers. Hero, In this city, s'gnalizad by so many bold achievements, lived Franklin, for a while, ia a residence near Stone street, when our population was about fourteen or fifteen thou sand. Here, in this metropolis, where success- i fnl navigation by eteam was ea - noted by Fulton ; here, where the great project of the Erie canal was pr-jeoted by Clinton ; nere, where the Croton aqueduct was systematized by Douglass; here, where the magnetic telegraph was brought to a practical result by Morse ; here, where the Astor Library, under the supervision of Dr. Cogswell, is instituted ' • and here, as if to crown all, where Hoe brought to perfection his lightning press;— here Franklin appropriated his mechanical shill in constructing, if I do not greatly err_ the first electrical machine ever made in this country; here he used the belfry of the North Dutch Church (now your post office) in further illustration of hie theory of the identity of lightning and electricity; here, with Coition, ho had an, agency in the dis covery of the process of stereotyping, a devils., communicated by him to Paris, and adopted by Didot. Who among you can now tell the extent of operations in the great conservative art by that process in this city since Mr. Bru3e first published the stereotyped catechißm in 1811? Finally, here in this city, in 1 . 188-11, was teen at the head of Wall street. in Broadway, impeded in his pedte triati movements by admiring multitudes at dif ferent stations, who saluted them with that re spect and reverence so justly due him, Franklin, with his amide coat and his tri-cornered hat, but a very little while before he betook himself to that chamber which ho never left. YOU thus see, gentlemen, the relationship your society holds in this city with Franklin. You not merely bear his name, but you are operators in that very metropolis which more than a century ago be magnified by his labors and science, and subsequently consecrated by his presence. lam so fortunate as to be the owner of some few memo- I rials once in Dr. Franklin's possession. Every one of you is familiar with the embarrassment he snared on a particular occasion, while work- I ing at case, and striving to complete his four folio pages of Sewell's history of the Quakers, and that when just at the completion of his task certain of his pages were knocked into pi, his oppressive labor had to he renewed, and ho completed his daily work. You remember that, while working at that book, an accident destroyed several orna mental letters, when his ingenuity was awakened, and, having seen types cast in London, he now cut new letters tweessfully for his purpoFe. all our types at that early period were procured from , abroad, he is probably to be considered the fret type-cutter end moulder in the Americin co lonies The work ho did in Philadelphia, and a copy of that edition, the third. I think, of Sew ell's history, I placed years ago in the New York Historical Society Several works, the issues of his press, may also be seen in that great insti• tulion. Franklin's death occurred in his eighty-fifth year, at his residence in Franklin court, between Third and Fourth streets ' on the loath side of Market street, in 1790 The rage of improvements has abolished all traces of the spot. llie death excited the sympathies and regrets of both hemis pheres. His loss was mourned both in Europe and America. I have at different times sought from his few surviving contemporaries for additional particulars concerning his last illness, and of his fortitude in ex:fining from personal disorders. John Jones, his surgical friend, once a professor in King's College, (now Celumbia, in this city,) was a constant and a devoted attendant en Lin. Franklin, until at a late stage in hie illness, re oeived the visits of his friends with the sweetest composure and resignation to his fate. One of his intimate associates told me the divine old man was willing, amidst all his sufferings, to tarry still longer in his earthly tabernacle, God willing, though prepared for his departure. This lingering to launch away has from a clinical experience of fifty years in the lest illness of old ego often presented itself to niy contemplation. while youth and beauty with fairest prospects of temporal happiness for years, have seemed to he less reluctant for &final departure, and much more ready to submit to the irrevocable mandate. The problem is difilault of aolntion. I must leave the miracle to heaven. The Apostolic Bishop White, the celebrated Judge Peters, and Wm. Bingham, were among the last who witnessed the philosopher towards the close of his illness. The last named gentleman, William Binghant, Wad he who import ed from abroad the Statue of Franklin which graces the area in front of the Pennsylvania Hos pital. Some short while before Franklin's death, a young man.of The neighborhood ebriut that pe riod, nr soon after a clerk in the United S-Atee Loan Ofiiee, was often countenanced by Franklin in friendly salutation. lie was also on agreeable terms with Bache, a grandson of the Doctor, and editor of the ~471, - n ra. Benjamin Franklin Bael.e presented the youth with a walking-cane of the old philosopher, and that cane, after being preserved by Mr Phillips, now among us in his eighty-six th year, as a precious relit!, sixty years and upwards, by courtesy, hap become my property fir a few years past. I think lam at times invigorated with now zeal when I take a glance at it, and 1 trust you will pardon me if I present it for your inspection on this memorable fiftieth anniversary, L7o many pens have been employed in writing on the character of Dr. Franklin, and the inter leetual resources of the strongest minds summoned to portray every phase of his checkered and re- markable life, that, after the lapse of so many years_ little can be added possession. n novelty. Sir Joseph Banks aril Charles Blagdun told ma ha surpassed all others in the courtesies of conversa• tion. in'riolinesi of anecdote end amplitude of le- sources. Banks said that the infetings at Sir John Pringle's, when enlivened by Franklin's pre ssoce, were the highest intellectual enjoyment London afforded Colonel Sonathan Williams the efficient founder of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and in whose veins Row.d Franictin'a hood , assured mae. that Prankli-a a.- . Awed more enjoyment from his private printing office at Pa ssey than he obtainel from his inter course with the gaieties and splendor of the French Court. Gentlemen, I shall trespass on your kindness but a moment longer. 1 hare viewed Dr. Frank . 1111 more immediately in the light of a member of the typographical fraternity, because I thought his relationship to us would in that respect be the moat appropriate Subj.3et at this time. Ilia entire character, in its several bearings, is so marvel ously diversified, and yet so amnia forillustration, that difficulties encompass us on every side when we undertake to analyze his life and labors. No man ever left this world with a wider and more popular renown, and upon none other have poi thumous boners and considerations more increased. lie seems to be better understood and more fully comprehended by foreign nations than any other American. Yon are all familiar with the eulo glum; of Miraboau, of Turgot, of 13iot. There seems to have been nothing hyperbolical in the encomiums of these great men and the ablest writers of our own time Dave reverberated like praises in his behalf. That science, the offipring of his inductive powers, from the sim Vest experiment of the silken thread and the iron key, has unfolded itself in its several relations in our days to be the recognised agent of mightiest influence, of astonishing capabilities, and infinite appliance. A singular felicity of inductions,' says Sir Humphrey Davy, "guided all his re. searches; and by vary small means he established very grand truths." "The self-tanght Ameri ams,l7 says Lord Jeffrey, "is the most rational. perhaps of all philosophers,. He never loses sight of common sense in any, of his speculations." "Franklin," s , ya Lord Brougham, " is one of the most remarkable men of our times, as a politician. or of any age as a philosopher. He stands alone in combining together those two characters, the greatest that man can sustain, and in this, that having borne the first part in enlarging sci ence by one of the greatest di.coveries ever made, he bore the second part in founding one of the greatest empires in the world." It were easy to multiply these testimonials of the worth of our Franklin, and to add the grateful sketches of his exisellence penned by a long list of his native noun tryto on. as Bancroft, Sparks, Winthrop, Hildreth, Eveze t, Irving. and many more equally competent to do justice with discrimina, ing power. But I shall close this portion of this hurried ad dress by introducing the letter which Washington wrote Franklin in recognition of his patriotic ser vices. The original is in the valuable collection of autographs possessed: by Mr Putnam, the famous Bibliopole of this city. The letter, as copied, may be seen in that great repository of literature and authors—Allibons's Dictionary—a work philoso phers may consult with profitable recreation Echo lars study for improvement, and literary man use for daily aid. d'bo letter of Washington was ad drescott to Franklin shortly after his tettlltt frotu his official duties ohroad MOUNT VERNON, Sitivt. 25, 1785. Ditatt SIR :—Amid the public gratulation on your safe return to America. after a long absenco. and the many eminent services you had renders(' it, for which as a benefited person I feel the obli gation, permit an individual to join the public voice in expressing his sense of them, and to as sure you that, as no one entertains more respect for your character, so no one can salute you with more sincerity or with greater pleasure than I do 'on the occasion. I am, dear sir, your moat obe dient and most humble servant, 0. WANRINOTON. The lion. Dr. FRANKLIN. A singular and remarkable distinction has waited upon the name of Franklin. Our country is often, abroad. called the country of Franklin ; his life and actions are eo closely identified with her literature, her science, and the establisbnaent of her representative government. It must be admitted that hit example was a fit pattern for a natio-.'s adoption. His labors have assuredly proved an incentive to the most earnest appliamies of the moat vigorous intellects> Without scholar ship, he is a writer whose style of composition for purity, dignity, and clearness. a thomand univer sides could not improve. Ills counsels in the gravest deliberations of the nation had an influ ence unsurpassed by the Nesters of eloquence and the wisest maulers. Our historical annals tell us of his deoision of oharaoter, and of his noble bearing in the darkest hours, amid the great est perplexities. His Socratic wisdom dethroned the syllogistic rules of the most astute logi- Mans. Tne science of the wealth of nations he rednoed to a few simple axioms His exam ination before the House of Commons, in which he so successfully encountered that perjured minion of power, Weilderburn, afterwards Lord Roslyn, deserves to be used as a catechiem for youth in oar schools and oollegve, the better to promote a knowledge of the science of Govern ment in our Republic. We must be gratified to know that that tyrant of power- received in due ' time the rewards of his insolence towards Frank lin, as his patron, the King, most summarily pro , nounced his epitaph. Intelligence had been brotrrht to George 11l of the death of-hie inte ser i'vn.nt and ones " assiduous courtier." " Then," ex - otaimed the king. he has not left a worse man be hind him." In philosoulty where shall we look for n. ptrallel to Franklin? lie must ever rank with Newton, and Galileo, and Kepler, with the ad vantage of superadding=to his claims In science the gifts of tne statesman, and the still rarer talents of the wise negotiator. He satme to NOTICE TO COICItERPONDIr.NTS. Correspondent! for 16 Poe I'a36a will ploame bone n mina the following rule/ : Every eornmsoolov.tiola MAO TM sioompanni name of the Writer, in order to iILIIIIII oorreetneme In tnb tYPorraPhy, but one side of the latest ihonli Lis written upon We shall be gteatly obliged to gentlecon In YeOlley.'- nnfa, and other Staten, for contribations Ovine ts 24 current news of the day in their particular localities t , the resources of the surrounding country, the lames cr. of population, or any information that will be intermit ng to the eener.E remicr, have blended in profitable hammy the moat dissimilar qualities of in tellentual power. He gave directions for the beat re , uagement of the most ordinary things, and wee the undisputed dissev erer of a new and important soionim, and the pro mulgator or its laws. To crown all, his integrity, and firmness were never in doubt, and his believe , !once to the needy and the afflicted, even in his highest station, were almost proverbial. You see, then, how limited is our opportunity at thin tio2G, to awaken your contemplation to so rare and an exalted a gift of God's bounty to thin nation. Lot us leave him for the present in the mojastv of hie PieattlONN, In due Beason our.great orator, Elword Everett, will enrich our literature on Fronklin i the once poor printer boy, with the fruits of his ornate culture and his rich and elassieal intellect- I thank you for the courtesy you have extended to me Dr. Francis was frequently interrupted ty ap plauso. GEIVERAL 1VEV174,:. A JAIL PULL Or C• DARKIFIS."—On Saturriay last, as we are informed, an old negro man of Stet"• bonville, Ohto, named Tom Snowden, in cmpeti tion with one or two others this gentlemen of that Mace, 106311E14 up , a convevarme and wont to West Liberty, in this county, for the purpose of carrying away a slave girl and her ohilil, mother and bro ther, the property of Josiah Chaplin°. The old man, rinowden, is the father of the family. In the evening the fareifx were scut. down to the mouth of a lane some distance from the house, where they were to take a earriege which was provided fur the purpose. Sotne of the citizens of the vicinity bov• tog observed the colored folks during the day, de cided to watch their moVcitivatii i and so inter cepted the carriage as it was moving away with its load. The citizens demandod a halt und e r penalty of cold lead. When the two partied came together, it is said the old man Snowden fought desperately, and was several times kneeked down before he yielded. All the Degrees engaged in the affair, slave and free, were arreeted, committed to jail by a. magistrate, brotteht to this city. and safely confined for trial. —lTriteet in g (Ira, ) jnee%• ligencer. A DISORAOLFUL AOT.—Thr , Weekly Mirror, published at Lyons, foam, states that a stranger passing through Booknk, a short time since, had a child die at that place. When he cane to nay his bill, he found that he had not money enough I.y $ll, which be premised to send back as soon as he could reach Burlington, but the latrdlo..d invited upon retainiy2 the dead body of tire Mild ac se eorzty, which lie did. The father went to Boeing ton, obtained the neonsittry fund.t, and re+ aimed tr., redeem the b?dy of his;,tild, which in the mean , time, had been burled ! Ile paid .he bill, had the body disinterredeand started fur home, hut had not restated the river when be was stormed by a men calling himself a police officer, and eight dollars demanded for burying the child. Finding himself under arrest, and, unable to proeeed, be paid over the amount, and escaped by the first boat which left the city. Such an inhuman uct is a lasting disgrace to the city of E.eokuk and its puhlto officers. LOST HIS HEARTS—A delirious inebriate, at the City Hoapital, Boston, Macs is distressed with the belief that his heart bee dropped out, end been devoured by a big black dog. The delusion probably springs from his consciousness of a hor rible vacuum within, made there by the gnawing devil of whiskey. So metlao.lieel an hallucina tion deserves to be recorded for the edification of tigers. As to the rotting and devouring of men's hearts metaphorically, i. e., of their better na tures, by fashionable guzzling and money-grab bing, that is no hallucination, but is too common to excite much remark. The pleasanter way of losing one's heart, iro as to be ever finding it richer, are things which the poets and preachers are.paid to take care or. AN EDITOR 7ASSAtILTED.-Whil6 C. Wag roner, Esq , one`of the editors of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, was going from his office to his tea, on Fri- day evening, be was assaulted from behind by a. man named Pau/ Edwards, the canal collector at that place. Edwards struck Mr. W. on the side of his head, and immediately caught and bed him while partially stunned from the effect of the blow. A gentleman who witnessed the commence ment of the attack, immoliately came to bit assist ance, and be was relented without any serious in jury. The canto of the outrage was some com ments upon Edwards's fitness for the tate he holds. PLATING AT PUTTING ()UV A FIRE, -`,1313 , Zifolern. Rot,ceYVA Chron icle, at' Warren, Ohio, states that on the l'ourth of July the peopie of that town putchamd an old miol, which long been an eyesore, on the opposite side of the river ; and sot fire to it, in order to celebrate the day ; by giving the fire companies an opportunity to show their efficiency in extinguishing it. But just as they gut fairly at it ihe wind blew the horning shingles over on the town, tatting fire tc the Methodic church, as well as six or seven other building., at the same time rendering the utmost exertions of the citizens necessary to save the town from Liegromion. SWINDLED.—A. young man ding the eoileet ing;bosiness for en Eastorn firm, stopped at a Ent eltis.s hotel in Wheeling, on Saturday last, and left in his room two thousand revert hundred and fift:: dolls:a—there:mit of his Worms in the Wert—whilo ho w,rt out to traooact some bUBILIEV3. When be returned to his room the itnoaoy was gone. A wo man who followed him from Pittsburg, and was observed to take rooms on the same floor at the room hotel, is mupeeted of the robbery, and th , s Dolma of several cities are flying around to (tarok. her VaLoR IfEwetanpn.--By adeices just tO oeived, ter BLijeaty's Government, at the instiga tion of the Batts)] consul here, has awarded bray class gold medals to Pilots DoMyer and Chandler, and alto to the Han Judge Ruiseti and his amia ble lady, who were on board the pilot boat, and assisted in Having the life of the capt tin of iho schooner Caroline, lately wrecked near Deer 1 8 1 ''.. 1 - Th. J.4g.i..sirvily 4'n-stela - Is any prervia - Ilion to such reward, hu , alleptPlit . 6.§ s proof of the zealous care with which Great Britain watches the interests of her sailors in every quarter of the globe, A LETTER WBB mailed from Norwieli to Kill neiy, Conn., containing $16(1, a short time Einca which failed to roach its tbetination, and the mo ney had to be sent a. second time. The depart ment was notiO.td of the loss, and the opeolel dO tective, Mr Holbrook, was sent to investigate the matter; but before his arrival the letter was found in the overcoat peokat of a neighbor of the men to whom it was addressed, where it bad lain unditi turbed. He had probably taken it front the effice and. forgotten to deliver it, though he does not recollect the circumstance. WRITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA.-04Thura by week there were then about 325 viaitert at this place. This is a much larger number than bas ever boon at this watering place at Bo elrly a period in the Beaton. Heretofore , the seasons commenced at these Springs about the first of July ; but this year they have bean receiving visitors for thief* or f weeks. THE balloonists are in a personal quarrel about the ownership of the balloon, and the ho nors of the voyage. The gentlemen at Ben nington. Vermont, who furnished most of the funds, have planed the balloon in Mr. La Moue, halals, and ho will repair it for a seennd trip. Ho says he shall cross the Atlantic, in Oc tober. BAIL Sroam.--Captain Huston., of the Schnoner Sawyer 4 from Bangor, Maine. for St. John, reports that at one P. M. on Raturday week , when about ten miles west of Eastport, he was overtaken by a storm of hailetonea, of half an inch in thicknms, the lightning playing and thunder rolling meanwhile. The stones were of solid ice, and descended with great velocity. Tux LATE MR. JACOB BELL bas made snob a will as might have been expected from the gene' rods tenor of his life. He has bequeathed a dozen of his finest pictures, including several of Land- Rebl o 4 inaskerpl,cee—the smell " gores Pair" of Rosa Bonheur, and Frith's " Derby day," to the nation. 11. W. Coax, of Canaan, Connectient, has scow, pasture fed, which gave, in one week, 290 pounds of milk, making 111 pounds 2 ounces of but ter, and there is a cow in Gun Iford which gave, du ring the month of June. 1, 2111' pounds of same being accurately weighed. THE naluoa ovttr the Stivtitukett at Green. , villa, Connecticut, wh'eh " fell " away some time sine•, is to be immediately rebuilt, upon tho plan of Pratt's patent, and will be completed in a few weeks. Utter from Mount Holly Springs- Correepondenee of The Prose I MouNT HOLLT SPRINGS, Noar Carlisle, Pa', Ja y 12, 1858 Me. li:orrort : You, I hear, have occasionally visited Carlisle, and, doubtless, can bear testimony teuehing the beauty of the town, and the hospi tality cf its °Risen! ; but I believe you have never !Tent any time at this health-restoring and delightful watering place. Six miles Routh of Carlisle, in a gap of the Blue Mountain, and in one of the most beautiful and romantic portions of Cumberland enunty ~are the Mount Holly t=prings situated, Them twinge, from natural advantages, should certainly occupy a prominent position among the watering places of our State. The salubrity and purity of the air, the medicinal virtues of the water (etpecially to pulmonary affections.) the beauty cf the surround ing scenery, combined with the many facilities for exercise and amusement., should certainly gain for them the patronage of a portion of our health and pleasure-socking sons and daughters of Pennsyl- Vania. Truly this is a healthful, beautiful, e nd delight ful piece. Here the pleasure-seeker can find the choicest desire of his heart; hero the sportsman can gratify his taster to the fullest extent; bore the worn and jaded city merehaet can recuperate his physical energy ler the coming "fall trade;" here the wearied professional or literary man can regain intellectual vigor for future conflicta in the arena ~f life ; and here the invalid can find in the fatotty of mine hest. Parsons a home tree from the heat. toil, and bustle of city and town life. The large and splendid hotel, erected three years ago, has passed into the hands of Col lase.° Persons, fortu%vy proprietor of the " Mansion House," in Carlisle. Col. Persons has been long and widely known as one of the best and meet ac complished caterers extant, and his well-earned fame has gained additional laurels since his ad vent at Mount Roily_ Ma. table is at all times covered with the choicest delicacies of the season his servants are prompt, intelligent, and polite his vines and other liquors are of the most ap proved brands; and, intact, everything about the establishment is caleulated to gain the plaudit "well done," even from the most fastidious and captious. It would be a work of supererogation to say anything concerning the kindness and cour tesy of the Parson family. Wherever they are known they are appreniated, and their gueett al ways leave them olterialiiiag the highest feelings of esteem, T,uctine that you may give Mount II dly Springs " a call," I remain, Moat reapeotfulty yours, I. Pis flAnetriim.
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