MAYOR'S MESSAGE.
The Fourth Annual Message of Mayor Henry
was submitted to Councils yesterday.
To the ,elect and Common Coitticils of the City
of Philadelphia.:
During the eventful year which has recently
ended, the nation's troubles have pervaded every
community and have reached every home, but a
kind and bountiful Providence has kept this
city from the tumults of sedition, and from
unusual public calamities—has preserved it, to
an [unwonted degree, from violence and crime—
and has bestowed upon its industry a measure of
prosperity tot looked for amid the forebodings with
which that year began.
EXTENSION OF TERMS OF MUNICIPAL OFFICE.
Numerous changes in the municipal system have
been made by.tini Legislature of our State at its
last session, whicki l idaim notice in the general state
ment of the gOvernment of the city, and it is the
duty of the-Mayor to communicate annually to
Councils. The most important of these altera
tions has been effected by the act of March 21,
Which appoints the election of municipal officers,
formerly held on tbie first Tuesday in May, to take
pace with the gene tffil election on the second Tutu
day in October—extends the terms of the Mayor,
*Solicitor ] Controller, and members of Select Conn
,oil to three years respectively—assigns two years
as the period of service in Common Council, and
reduces the number that composed it, by enlarging
the ratio of its representation from twelve hun
dred to two thousand taxable inhabitants.
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In adjusting the official terms, made necessary by
the postponement of a municipal election, this act
continues the service of several incumbents to the
010E0 of the present year. The Dons of the Legis
lature to deal thus with incidents of a body politic
of its own creation, may not be denied ; but the
expediency of prolonging, by a special enactment,
the authority which has been derived immediately
from the popularwill, is open to grave objections
both in its own regard, and as a precedent. If, at
the eadatif the two years for which I have accepted
office from the people, I could commit to them the
cara e
direct choi a successor, my own views would
—be--ful 'by so doing ; but withdrawal at that
peri M m ust devolve such election upon the Select
and - Common Councils, in the former of which
almost half of the members will hold place by ex
tended terms under the provisions of this law, and
hence I shall accede to its added obligations.
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THE ,DIATOR REBUKES PARTISAN LEGISLA
_ .. , . TION.
The act of consolidation directs that "it shall be
the duty of Councils to make application for such
further legislation as shall be thereupon found ne
cessary," thus designating those who are to be pre
sumed most fitted by community of interest and
constant observation to discern its practical defects,
and to suggest its proper amendments. If, in the
spirit of such enactment, the Legislature would ab
stain from all laws relating to the government of
the city, or to its local improvements, unless asked
for by Councils, or until opportunity be given for
the expression of their opinion, much crude and in-
Miens legislation would be withheld, and many
schemes for promoting Selfish or improper ends, to
the common disadvantage, would be frustrated.
THE PROPOSED BRIDGE AT SOUTH STREET.
A bill which was passed on the 12th of April,
notwithstanding the disapproval of the Governor,
requires Councils, as soon as practicable, to erect a
free bridge over the river Schuylkill opposite to
South street, at a cost not exceeding two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, to be provided.by a six
per cent. loan, payable in forty years, the certifi
cates whereof are to pass by delivery, as in case of
negotiable paper. These requirements have
hitherto been inoperative by reason of the limita
tion of the proposed loan to its par value ; but a
public work of great magnitude is thus &treed,
and a new debt will be imposed upon the city,
without reference to the wants of the community,
or to the sanction of Councils, and an unusual
mode of transferring the certificates of loan is to be
established, which may tend to embarrass the ope
rations of the treasury. This act is but one of many
recently passed that are e qually deserving- of gene
ral condemnation ; and, in view of the important
interests which may be thus unadvisedly affected,
I would suggest that both branches of the Legisla
ture be requested to adopt as a standing rule that
all bills relating exclusively to the city of Phila
delphia shall, upon presentation, be laid before two
stated meetings of Councils previous to their con
sideration, or that in some other way timely occa
sion shall in every case be afforded for suggestion
or remonstrance.
A new ward, styled the Twenty-fifth, has been
carved out of adjacent parts of the Nineteenth and
Twenty-third, for which, it is believed, no sufficient
reason can be adduced; and, if intended to affect
the return of representatives in Councils, it affords
anotberinstanee of unwise legislation.
Commendable provisions have been enacted for
securing the purity of the elective franchise, re
quiring hourly announcements of the vote during
the progress of an election, and immediate delivery
of the ballot-boxes to a safe custody.
THE REVENUE OF PHILADELPHIA.
The administration of the municipal n1:1111LOCEI du
ring the past year has been attended with peculiar
embarrassments, but its result has proven more se
tisfactory than was reasonably anticipated. The
total receipts of the treasury from all sources of
public revenue, including the proceeds of loans,
were *1,568,493.27, which with its previous
balance of $280,222.42, amounted to $5,268,71519
--- "'" 1----- `"t- 5 ---of--witiQh $4 783,203.66 have been
expended, leaving, on tue - iinw-e-,r_v Aanar y,
$485,512.03 to its credit. Among these were $B5 - 4 - :,
182 97 for warrants of dates prior to 1861, and
$318,,913.76 for loans which had matured. The
interest paid upon the funded debt amounted to
$1,184,49219, together with $84,841.96 accrued
on warrants and temporary loans. The counter
signed warrants remaining unpaid are $1,099,444.52
(of which $83,997.63 were issued in previous years),
besides the sum of $480,000 borrowed for tempo
rary purposes—the whole of which indebtedness
will be discharged by the outstanding taxes and
the proceeds of the loan authorized for such use.
CITY LOANS
At the beginning of the year the loans of the city
were readily sold at a small premium, but, as na
tional disorders became more imminent, their mar
ket value depreciated, particularly when forced
into competition with a Federal loan yielding 7 3-10
per cent. interest. An ordinance, approved June
Bth, gave authority to borrow one million of dollars,
to make provision for the defence of the city and
for the relief of the families-of volunteers, without
the usual limitation to a par value; and of such
loan $498,500 have been sold as needed, at the ave
rage rate of 92 1-10 per cent., producing $159,690
net avails.
A further loan for the extension of the water
works of $42,500 was enacted by ordinance of May
3d, to be borrowed at not less than par—and by
ordinance of December 14th a loan of $1,200,000
was created, $117,000 thereof for the construction
of Chestnut-street bridge, and the remainder for the
payment of deficiencies, without restriction of price
—but no portion of either has yet been offered for
negotiation.
The actual increase of the funded debt during
1861 was $608.591.24, and its present amount is
stated to be $24845,285.05. of which $328,433.12
are overdue, but have not been presented for re
demption, $516,322.11 are held by the several sink
ing funds of the city, and $315,700 by those of the
Gas Trust. The many inaccuracies in the accounts
of HMO of the former municipalities have not been
fully rectified, notwithstanding the unremitting
efforts of all who have held the office of City Con
troller, and hence such statement of the funded
debt is to be considered approximate rather than
definite.
THE CITY SINKING FUNDS
The sinking funds for the redemption of the city
debt are eighteen in number—the larger, known as
that of the ten million loan, being applicable to the
paymeat of the maturing liabilities of the several
corporations, which were merged into one debt, in
pursuance of the act of consolidation, and the others
providing respectively for the loans by which they
are specially designated. The full and accurate
statement of .the condition of the several funds,
transmitted herewith by their commissioners, pre
cludes the necessity of a detailed reference to their
management. The aggregate loans authorized
since the consolidation of the city amount to $9,-
714,900, while $2,102,420.90 of its matured debt
have during that period been extinguished, making
an apparent increase of $7,672,479.10 to the funded
debt. The purposes for which these loans have
been created areas Mows :
Deficiencies and current liabilities $3,429,000
Railroad subscriptions, made prior to consoli-
dation
Extension of Gus Works
Payment of matured loans
Defence and relief
Building bridges, and road damages
Extension of Water Works
Conalruction of culverts...
Erection of school-houses..
Of these loans, the following amounts hag not
been disposed of at the beginning of the current
year, viz
Loan for culverts $1,600
bridges and roads 22,600
Water Works 54,800
school-houses 85,300
matured debt 225,000
Gas Works 203,200
Chestnut-street bridge :10i,100
Defence and relief 501,500
" Deficiencies • 1,083,000
The principal and interest of the loans for $1,450,-
000 to the Trustees of the Gas Works are specially
secured, and with allowance for the reduction of
matured indebtedness, if the loans already autho
rised shall be entirely negotiated, the funded debt
for which provision must be made by the city will
amount to $22,710,385.05.
TOTAL TAXES IN 1861
The municipal taxes assessed in 1861 amounted
to $3,080,782.06, of which $2,203,449.71- have been
collected ; and oft balancs—af ter deducting $203,-
000 for exempt property, $90,152.80 for rural es
tates, and $136,969.13 for rateable a110wance55447,210.42
$447,210.42 remain unsettled. The receipts from
taxes registered for previous years were $371,-
745.51, betides $376,281.28 from those payable to
the state.
An act watt approved on the 9th of April in aid
of the collection of taxes, which authorizes the city
to purchase real estate sold in default of their pay
ment, and to bold it temporarily for redemption by
the owner, and if that be not effected, to expose it,
after due notice, to publiC sale.
The allowance heretofore made upon the pay
ment of taxes, at the rate of twelve per cent. per
annum from date to the end of the year for which
they are assessed, has been abolished by the act of
April 17, and another system is thereby introduced
which demands the prompt and careful considera
tion of Councils. This act requires a deduction of
five per cent. from the taxes of a current year paid
on or before April Ist, of four per cent. in April
and May, and of two per cent. in dune ; allots
neither premium nor penalty for payment in the
next two months ; imposes two per cent. from the
Ist of September to the Ist of October; omits fur
ther mention of October or November,
and adds
five per cent , to each payment during the month
of December.
The plain tendency of such enactment is to post
pone payment of taxes until April, and to induce
those who may not earn a deduction of four per
cent. to withhold their assessments until the end of
November. A judicious arrangement of cumu
lative promintoo KA penalties will be more likely
to promote the collection of taxes than such irregu
lar inducements; and I recommend that Councils
shall exercise the power given them by this act to
set aside its scheme, and shall establish an allow
ance of twelve per cent. per annum upon payments
before the first day of July and a penalty of half
That rate upon those subsequently made.
CITY CONTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT
The expenses of the City Controller's Depart
ment were $17,60066, exhibiting $4,378.19 decrease
from the preceding annual amount. The report
furnished by that officer, in conformity with the
ACC of C9psolidation, presents a full and specific ac
count of the municipal revenue, and of the par
poses.for which it has been disbursed, whereby it
appears that the total expenditures of the city have
been $87,521.49 less than those of tho previous year.
As no statement is t;sitmiahed to this department of
the allowincem for proPerty exempt from taxation,
or for that in the rural districts, the amount of out
st anding,taxes charged upon its books is, to the ex
tent of such allowances, greater than the correct re
turn of the Receiver.
CITY seracrron.
For reasons sot forth in the communication of the
City Solicitor, neither the'reoeipts nor expenditures
of his office have equalled those of previous years,
but the services rendered by himself and his assist
ants have been constant and important, both in
advisory and professional capacities. The receipts,
chiefly from municipal Bone, amounted to $lO,-
917.30, and expenses were $9,300.70, allowing the
larger portion of the annual appropriation to be
merged. A well-timed forbearance has been exer
cised by the Solicitor, in the collection of claims,
and without losing sight of the interests of the city,
he has refrained from forcing the,property of its
debtors to the aaorike of judicial sales,
The survey of the rural districts continues to en
gage the attention of the appropriate department,
and ten new sectional plans, embracing portions of
the Second, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth wards, have been com
pleted and filed during the past year.
The construction of branch sewers, which, under
the system adopted by Councils, was progressing to
the great benefit of the community, bad been un
fortunately checked by the act of May 1, 1861,
repealing the authority of the city to assess any
portion of their cost upon adjacent property, and
requiring the expense to bo paid by general taxa
tion. The branch sewers provided in 1860 wore
10,716 feet in length, while those added in 1861
measured but 6,545 feet, of which 1,355 were for
"dolled by private expenditure. It is manifestly
unjust that citizens who, under the former law,
have been at the entire cost of these improve
ments in their respective localities should hence
forward be obliged to contribute for their general
construction.
The balance of the culvert loan of $200,000,
amounting to $11.354.89. bas been expended for
the completion of the Montgomery-street exten
sion, and for the alteration at Fifth and Parrish
streets, designed to prevent the overflow which has
frequently taken place in that vicinity.
A sewer has been almost completed in the late
borough of Manayunk, and one is in progress from
Parrish street, by way of Franklin and Coates
streets, to connect with that in Fifth street—bath
of which have long been required.
CHESTNUT-STREET BRIDGE
The erection of the bridge at Chestnut street.is
delayed by legal proceedings which await the deci
sion of the Supreme Court., but everything is in
readiness for the early prosecution of this work.
Essential repairs have been made in the Suspension
Bridge at Fairmount, greatly increasing its safety
and durability The early attention of Councils is
demanded by the condition of the bridge at Market
street, which needs additional weatherboarding, to
protect its structure from decay.
The Department of Surveys has expended $19,-
957.06, which, compared with the preceding year,
shows a decrease of $1,925.50 in its disbursements.
The operations of the Department of Highways
appear, from the Report of the Chief Commis
sioner, to have been much narrowed during the
past year, with large diminution of expenditure
and income, .the latter deriving $6,930, or nearly
half its amount, from passenger railway licenses.
The cleansing of the streets was again entrusted
to those who offered to perform it for the smallest
price ' and the sum of $49,961.99 has remunerated
them for their undertaking, without affording due
equivalent to the public. The system of cleansing
under contracts, awarded to the lowest bidder, has
always failed to be efficient, and its very nature
makes any other result impossible. A duty of such
importance should not be committed to those who
seek it avowedly for their own profit. The organi
zation of a new department is recommended, which
should assume the entire charge of this matter, and
have the sole authority to gather and remove all
ashes, giFbage, and refuse of every description, and
by judicious and scientific process, render them sale
able for agricultural and mechanical purposes—and
thus, it is confidently believed, the streets may
be restored to cleanly condition without expense,
and may even be made to yield annual revenue to
the city.
The Commissioner of City Property has dis
bnrsed for the usual expenses of that department
$61,151..82, beddes $20,500 as the dual instalment
of a mortgage on the Sedgley purchase, and
$12,722.30 towards the erection of a school-house
on • the south side of Coates, east of Twentieth
street. In the annual appropriation, sums amount
ing to $28,000 were specifically designated for the
further improvements of parks, but were made to
depend upon a proposed loan which has not been
authorized, and the aggregate expenditure for
such purposes has been but $7,465.76, or $19,284.08
less than at the preceding year. The revenue of
the department was $25,142.97, derived chiefly
from rentals, being a decrease of $528.30 compared
with its last report.
NEW COUNTY BUILDINGS,
A now bill was prwented for the action of the
last Legislature, which was designed to obviate the
defects in the act of April 2, 1800, and to complete
the erection of new municipal buildings, without
the concurrence of Councils, and henoe was pro
perly negatived. This important project, notwith
standing its plain necessity, was rendered obnox
ious by the manner in which its accomplishment
has been persistently seught—and, in all probabi
rnyi must pisime before it, will be re
vived.
MARKET-HOUSES AND WHARVES
The gross income from market houses was $44,118,
and that from wharves and iasidings $40,746.24,
eltperiditurm of $8,982.92 haying been incurred for
the first named, and of $3,290.40 on account of the
latter. The entire disbursement of the department
charged with their joint management has been $B,-
676.22 less than that,of 1860, and hence, notwith
standing a decrease of $4,573.13 in the aggregate
receipts, the net revenue of 1861, as compared with
the former year, is $4,003.09 greater.
BIIILbIPTC hiSriCTORS.
The reports of the buildinginspectors show L 045
permits to have been granted by them for the erec
tion or alteration of 1,877 edifices,of which 1,535 were
new dwellings. The houses built in 1860 numbered
2,867, but the disinclination for speculative enter
prise, and the difficulty in commanding capital or
labor, both induced by the untoward condition of
national affairs, have restricted the improvements
of last year below the ratio commensurate with the
increase of population.
NUMBER. OF HOUSES TH THE CITY
The Federal census of 1860 enumerated 89,978
dwellings in Philadelphia, and with allowance for
those erected in that year after each returns, to
gether with those since built, the estimate of 92,000
will not exceed their present number. Accurate
and specifical reports made by the police show that
there were 2.462 untenanted dwellings and stores
on the first of July last, whose united rental was
valued at $752,128. In the beginning of Augusta
like inquiry ascertained the number to be then
2,847, since which time, whilst there have been
fluctuations in the statements from the several
police districts, the monthly aggregate has con
stantly diminished ; and on the first day of the cur
rent year there were but 2,360 unoccupied hotuessre
rotted in this city. For want of former data of a
similar kind, it is impracticable to compute,
with
accuracy, the number of tenements which have
been vacated because of the pending war; but es
timating the previous average of unrented dwel
lings to have been 400, but little more than two
per cent. of their total number have been thus af
fected.
The tolls upon the city railroads have amounted
to $10,761.85, being $1,208.04 in excess of those for
the previous year. Of this sum $8,259.78 have
been paid into the treasury; $5,000 have been
credited to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
under the ordinance of December 15, 1860, for the
expenses incurred by them in relaying the track in
Market street, west of Eleventh, and for repairs
east of that street ; and the balance of $5,502 09 is
yet due from that company, subject to deductions
upon the settlement of their account for work done
west of the Market-street bridge. The sum of
$2.700 was appropriated by Councils, and has been
fully spent in the ordinary repair of these roads.
The expenses of the City Ice Boat, during 1861,
were $5,918 09, and its earnings $1,127, making its
net cost $1789.09. This boat was for seven months
of the put year in the service of the United States,
cruising with a heavy armament in the Chesapeake
and Potomac. Upon its return, in December, it
was found to need extensive repairs, which have
shies been made by the Government, and it is again
in readiness for appropriate duty.
1,725,000
.... 1,4110,000
.... 1,021,000
1,000,000
.... 417,000
.... 328,000
.... 200,000
.... 100,000
The several Water Works of the city, during
1861, have afforded 7,596,087,978 gallons, being an
average daily supply of 20,811,167 gallons, and
336,919 in excess of that for the preceding year.
The aggregate capacity of the reservoirs is 83,.
984,000 gallons. The present extent of water pipes
is 337 miles, and the slumber of fire plugs 2,772.
Of the former, 60,448 feet were added during the
past year, and 108 of the latter.
The water rents for 1861 produced $493,088.42,
arrears $5,510 98, pipe and sundries $35,380.62,
giving the department a revenue of $533,980.06,
from which there was an outlay of $162,724.94 for
its proper maintenance, Notwithstanding a de.
crease of $24,551.47 in receipts, the management
of the works yielded a larger profit than that of
any former year, by the reduction of $35,544.21 in
its cost.
$9,774,900
$3,510,100
The trustees of the Gas Works have furnished
272 new public lamps, making the present number
6,617, of which 323 burn fluid. They have com
pleted two new gee-holders, located in the First
and Twentieth wards, and have bought a site in
the Twenty-third ward for a similar purpose. The
mains which have been laid are twenty-five miles,
and the service pipes six and a half in extent—the
entire length of the former reaching four hundred
and eight, and of the latter ninety-seven miles.
While the lights supplied by the works have
increased in number and amount to nearly
505,000, there has been a decrease of one per
cent. in the total consumption of gas. The quan
tity manufactured during the year was 632,545,000
cubic feet, which, with that previounly supplied,
makes a total produce of 5;512,000,000 cubic feet
of gas since the commencement of the works. The
receipts for the sale of gas, &c., $999,777.62 ; the
proceeds of city warrants, negotiation of loans, and
other items making up a revenue of $1,724,661.14.
The disbursements in the purchase of material, ex
tension of works, and usual expenses, amounted to
1.,224,547.50, and for the payment of matured
loans, interest, and sinking funds, $467,377.22,
leaiing a balance of $32,939.32 to the credit of the
Trust.
GIRARD COLLEGE AND ESTATE
The general depreciation of rents has affected
the revenue of the Girard estates : the receipts of
$122,211.80 exhibiting a decrease of 1621,437.41 eom•
pared with those of the year preceding. Prom this
income the sum of $35,876.4.2 has been expended
under the supervision of the Department of Sur
veys,. .
widening Delaware avenue, conformably to
the will of Stephen Girard. This great enterprise,
with one exception the fondest object of Girard's
bounty, watt commended by ordinance of October
22, 1858, and the avenue has already been enlarged,
from Spruce to Arch street, by the addition of
twenty-five feet to its former dimensions, at a cost
of sixty-four thousand five hundred and three dol
lars and thirty-two cents, and the remainder of the
river fropt of the old city will ? in a few months, be
similarly improved.
The payment of eighty-two thousand five hun
dred and forty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents
has been made for the maintenance of the Girard
College, an institution which has entered upon the
fifteenth year of its liberal benefactions. In the
absence of any authoritative interpretation of the
language of the founder's will, the requisites for
the admission of pupils have, to some extent, been
dependent upon the predominant views of the di
rectors, and hence have varied with changes in the
board by the accession of new members. Repre
sentations have bgen readi3 to me lox interested
parties, arid confirmed upon proper inquiry. that,
under a rule now in force, admission is refused to
every orphan having a brother in the college, al
though the applicant be individually qualified
SEWERS AND CULVERTS
axaErwAYS
CITY PROPERTY
CITY RAILROADS
WATER AND GAS
to receive its advantages; and that such rule is
sustained upon the plea of a discretionary power
allowed by the testator, notwithstanding his posi
tive direction that tt priority of application shall
entitle the applicant to preference in admission "
in the accompanying qualification, t , all other
things oonourring. The minute and met de
tails of the Will, embracing the condition, sex,
color, and age of those intended to share its bounty,
and their precise fourfold classification according
to birthplace, afford conclusive presumption that
if the testator bad contemplated the admission
of but one orphan, to the exclusion of others
from the same family, he would have so
directed in equally explicit terms. Whilst
the whole purport of the Will denies admis
sion to any orphan, although within the letter of
its preferences, who, by reason of his .mental or
physical infirmity, has no suitable capacity for the
training of the college / it confers no discretionary
power of contravening its express ifijanctions. The
phrase stall other things concurring" having its
plain application and ample scope among the quali
fications specified, the right of priority should be
measured only by their standard, and not by the
alleged expediency of diffusing the benefits of the
institution most widely, which, if it may refuse
admission to two orphans from one family, may,
with equal validity, exclude all the applicants of
the class first in preference to the advantage of
those next entitled.
I deem this subject sufficiently important to en
gage the special attention of Councils, and as it de
volves upon them to preserve the trusts of this will
inviolate, I recommend that proper steps be taken
to have its true intent judicially determined.
ALMSHOUSE.
The Guardians of the Poor, during 1861, have ex
pended $231,485, of which the sum $63,000 has boon
employed for out-door relief, or in payment of in
cidental charges, and the balance for the mainte
nance of Blookley Almshouse, with its average
population of 2,898 inmates, an excess of 401 over
the former animal average.
In the hospital department of that institution 890
insane patients have been treated, of whom 523 re
main, and its surgioal and medical wards have sup.
pl.ied their aid with usual liberality and success.
The admissions since the month of July exhibit a
fulling off in number when compared with those in
the corresponding period of 1860 ; and the inmates,
on the 31st of December, 1861., show a similar de
crease of 196.
PRISON AND. HOUSE OE CORRECTION.
The commitments to the county prison numbered
16,201, which were 4,588 fewer than those of the
preceding year; and the expenses, amounting to
$56,826.76, show a corresponding reduction of $5,-
301.09 in the cost of its management.
The managers of the House of Correotion have
selected a site in the Twenty-third ward, at the
junction of the Peron:pack creek and Delaware
river, well adapted therefor by peculiar advan
tages of location and soil, but Councils have failed
to give the requisite authority for its purchase.
The truest public economy is nearly concerned in
the increase of reformatory institutions, and means
for early and effective prosecution of this much
needed undertaking should be provided without
&Jay.
DENIES AND MARRIAGES.
The total number of deaths during the year
1561, within the city limits, was 14,468, being a
ratio of one in thirty-nine of its whole population.
The full returns of the births and marriages will be
found in the valuable tables accompanying the an
nexed report of the Board - of Health. The sani
tary condition of the city has been unusually good,
I repeat the recommendation heretofore made, that
all interments should be prohibited within the
densely-settled parts of the city.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire
Department affords gratifying testimony to the con
tinued efficieneyaed invariable good oenduot of the
many companies under his direction—a testimony
which is borne out by the records of the past year.
The present force comprises 27 steam engines, 46
baud engines, 110 hose carriages, 11 hook and lad
der trucks, 78,100 feet of hose, and 1,635 feet of
ladders, with 11,814 members enrolled as active,
honorary, or contributing. The views expressed in
two of my former annual messages with reference
to the essential modification and reduction of this
Department have undergone no change, but there
are reasons which induce the belief that the imme
diate accomplishment of the plans there suggested
would not be well-timed.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
The Police force consists of a Chief of police, a
chief of detectives, 8 high constables, 8 detectives,
17 lieutenants, 33 sergeants, and 663 patrolmen; of
the latter, 34 serving as telegraph operators, 15 as
turnkeys,
and 2 acting in special capacities. The
duties of this force have, during the larger part of
the past year, been unusual in their kind—unre
mitting and arduous in their performance. The
arrests made by the police number 27,283, being
4,768 less than the preceding annual return. The
main charges were as follows
Breach of peace and disorderly conduct . . .... —.13,537
Intoxication 6,276
Vagrancy
Asoult and haiku L 613
Larceny and suspicion thereof 1,370
Misdemeanors 461
Corner-loungieg. 228
Beating stile 112
Interfering with officers 152
Disorderly how es
Rioting and inciting thereto
Burglary
Arson.
Murder
Pasting counterfeit money
Plekiraz pockets
There has been- a marked diminution of each of
the foregoing crimes, with the exception of the two
latter, of which the increase is reasonably due to
the unusual number of persons passing through
the city.
These arrests are classified as:
White males 19,767
~ females .. . ... .... 5,421
Colored males . 1,313
~ females 742
Natives of Ireland 14,012
United States 10,367
" Germany 1,616
fc England . 1,050
" Scotland .... 131
" France 50
" other countries 21
Married 11,709
Single
Between the ages of 5 and 10
44 & - . 10 u
.20 . 3,653
f. 20 .. 30 10,610
to ts. 20 " 40 8.006
40 z , 50 3,427
. 6 50 . 6 60 1,154
.6 60 70 295
t: To a so 40
Lodging for tke night has been afforded by the
station-bouses to 61,049 applicants, viz :
Wiate male. 41,854
" females 17,077
Colored males 1,562
" females 556
Of whom 44,389 were of foreign birth—their
total number being 11,369 greater than that of the
previous year.
The detective officers made 409 arrests, and re.
covered stolen property valued at $12,000, besides
rendering frequent and important services in be
half of the Federal authorities.
The officers specially detailed for the prevention
of vagrancy have arrested 191 adults and 233 chil
dren. Of the former eighty-two were committed
to prison ; of the latter forty-four were placed in
the House of Refuge, forty-six in the Northern
Home for Friendless Children, sixty in the Union
Home, and twenty-three in other oharitable institu
tions, the remainder having been reprimanded and
discharged.
TELEGRAPH AND FIRES
The operations of the Police and Fire-Alarm Te
legraph exceeded those of any former year in num.
ber and importance. It has transmitted 51,081 mes
sages, by which, among other valuable results,
3,112 lost children have been restored to their
homes, 1,088 missing adults have been discovered,
816 estrays and 233 vehicles have been returned to
their owners, and frequent notices have been given
of the attempt to pass counterfeit money. The
central office of the telegraph, which has heretofore
been unsuitably located, will, in future, occupy ac
cessible and commodious apartments, reeentlyfitted
for its nee.
The Fire Marshal reports 387 fires—many of
which were quite trivial—and a consequent de
struction of property to the estimated value of
$345,000, upon which $210,000 were insured.
ALDERMAN BEITLER
The police magistrate, sitting at the Central Sta
tion, has heard $1,602 cases, comprising most of the
arrests for the higher grades of crime.
THE POLICE BILL.
The total expenditures for the appropriate
charges of the Police Department amounted to
$432.,025.62, but the further sum of $499,031.27 ap
pears in its accounts as disbursed through warrants
drawn by the Mayor for special appropriations,
which, with trifr ag exceptions, have no immediate
relation to its management.
In reviewing the conductof the police during the
unprecedented occurrences and excitements of the
past year, I deem it an act of merited justice to ex
press my hearty appreciation of their general effi
ciency and zeal, and to attribute, in no small de
gree, the almost uninterrupted order and quiet of
the city to their prompt and vigilant efforts. When
the fast call was made. for volunteers to the Na
tional cause, forty-six membera of the department
obtained leave of absence, and enlisted for the ser
vice of three months, and there are now twenty-two
of the force in the military or naval service.
An act for the organization of the police, con
forming essentially to the draft annexed to my last
annual message, was passed by the Legislature in
the month of April, but, apprehending th that the
changes which it proposed ine control and disci
pline of the force could not judiciously take effect
at that critical period, I made such representation
to the Governor, who saw fit to withhold his approval
from the bill. The measures contetaplated by that
act, with slight modifications, will, it is hoped, fa
vorably commend themselves to the wisdom of the
Legislature now in session.
DEFENCES OF THE CITY
Upon the outburst of the pending rebellion it was
desirable that precautionary measures should be
had for the defence of this city, if the uncertain
fortune of war should expose it to attack, and an
ordinance was approved on the 19th of April insti•
tuting the Home Guard, which subsequently re
ceived the sanction of the Legislature, and that
body is now full.) , organized. Appropriations were
promptly made for the purchase of arms, ammuni
tion, and other/ requisites of military service, and
the sum of 07138,000.30 was expended during the
lust year fur ouch purpone, tinder the superviAse
of a special committee. The annexed report of the
Brigadier General commanding the Home Guard
affords a perspicuous statement of its organization,
numbers, and equipment. '
The attention of the Federal Government has
been urgently called to the necessity of additional
river defences, and the subject is now under the
consideration of Congress
SOLDIERS' BELIEF FUND
By an ordinance of April 22d, appropriation was
made for the temporary assistance of the families
of residents of Philadelphia who should enter the
army of the United States, and a committee, eom•
prising members of Councils and other citizens, was
appointed for the distribution of the fund.
After much inquiry and deliberation, a judicious
scheme of rend was adopted, and the first pay
ments were made on the 17th of May to one hun
dred end ferty-fire families of sums amounting to
8230. In the last week of December, the sum of
$16,149.87 was distributed among eleven thousand
and twelve families. The entire disbursement from
this fund during the year was $356 612.78, of which
$2,204 78 defrayed the necessary office expenses.
The services of the committee and of those called
to their aid, have been incessant—their duties
claiming in an eminent degree the exercise of en
larged discretion. patient investigation and generous
sympathy. Although necessarily precluded from
active share in their labors, I have had daily occa
sion to note the scrutiny and kindness with which
their trust has been fulfilled.
NEW COPE or soiotYLATtotTa. '
The not of consolidation requires of the Mayor
not only a statement of the general condition of the
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1862.
city, but also the recommendation of Use measure§
he may deem expedient for its welfare.
Under an ordinance of March 2d, 1859, two legal
gentlemen, peculiarly qualified for the duty, were
appointed to prepare a code for the regulation of
the departments of the city government, which
should afford a uniform municipal system, and take
the place of the numerous enactments whose obli
gation is restricted to the limits of the former cor
porations in which they respectively originated.
The labors thus assigned were judiciously per
formed, and their results were submitted in June,
1860, for the assent of Councils, but no definite ac
tion has ever been bad thereon.
I commend the subject to your attention, believ
ing that in no other city is there a similar anomaly
in the administration of co-ordinate and diverse
laws by one executive officer.
The prohibition of the erection of wooden build.
ings, which now only subsists in particular districts,
should be of general obligation throughout all the
010E013 , settled wards. The authority to grant li
censes for public vehicles, and to revoke the same
when expedient, and also to designate their stands,
should pertain to the Police Department, as essen
tial to prevent illegal fares, disorder at steamboat
landings and railroad depots, and obstruction of the
highways.
The washing of foot pavements_ should be prohi
bited during the winter months, and should be re
stricted to certain hours at all other seasons.
All street stands for sales of every description
should be abolished, as encroachments upon the
right of the public to the use of the entire sidevralk,
and as unjust to other dealers who pay rent and
shop tax.
The finances of the city for the current year re
quire prompt and earnest consideration. The
pledge from the city to its creditors that a SUlri
dent loan tax shall always be assessed to secure
the payment of interest and the instalments to the
sinking fund cannot be fulfilled by the rate of 7
mills. heretofore levied for those purposes, and the
requisite increase of that rate should be unhesi
tatingly enacted. Whatever expenditure shall be
needed to maintain the real estate, parks, bridges,
and highways of the city in good condition, is war
ranted by a prudent foresight ; but, it is submitted,
that new undertakings or improvements, however
desirable in themselves, would be unwise at the
present time.
The taxation which shall be found necessary to
provide for the most economical administration of
the city government, without impairing its vigor,
should be levied; and there should be no further
resort to municipal loans, unless called for by
emergencies that cannot be reasonably anticipated.
Philadelphia has reason for proper pride in the
unanimity and zeal of its people for the preserva
tion of the Federal Otiloll, and in the devotion
with which many thousands of its citizens have en
listed for that cause. The issue of the momentous
struggle between loyalty and rebellion must de
pend, under the favor of God, not alone upon the
might of armies, but' also upon the moral force
with which an earnest and united people shall en
dure their rulers—and it is from the yielding of all
political differences and the hearty resolve ot
common purpose, that we may confidently look for
the maintenance of the Constitution and the resto
ration of its rightful supremacy.
ALEXANDER HENRY.
Office of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, /
January 30, 1862.
FIELILADBLPFLLA BOARD OF TRADE.
JoHN E. AHDICRS,
THOMAS S. FERNoN, COMMITTEE OF TEE MIMITE
JOHN SPARHAWN,
LETTER BAGS
At the Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia
Ship Charter Oak, Witham.... ... . .. ....Liverpool, won
Ship Robert Cosh 111 OM, Otis Liverpool, soon
Ship Atalanta, Whitmore ....Liverpool, soon
Ship Frank Boult, Morse., ..... —.Liverpool, soon
Bark Sea Eagle __Port Spain, soon
Ship John Sidney, Wheeler Belfast, soon
Bark Isabella C Jones, Holmes .... ...... Liverpool, soon
Bark Hamilton, Jarman Havana, soon
Schr Joseph Maxfield. May Matanzas, soon
Saw Annie, Le Blanc.. .... . Port Spain, soon
SAILING OF THE OCEAN STEAMERS.
FROM THE UNITED STATES.
MPS LEAVE FOR DAY.
City New York.. New York.. Liverpool Feb 1
North Star New York..Aspinwall Feb 1
Karnak New York. _Nassau Fob 4
Europa • Boston ..Ltrerneol Feb 5
Cof Wasbington.New York.. Liverpool Feb 5
Bavaria New York-Hamburg Feb 5
Anglo Saxon... ...Portland..Liverpool Feb 8
Glasgow New York.. Liverpool ..... .....Feb 10
United Kingdom. New York.. Glasgow Feb 11
America- . ..... New York.. Liverpool Feb i 2
Africa..... ..... New York.. Liverpool .....Feb 12
Hansa New York.. Bremen .............Feb Is
_Edinburgh New York.. Liverpool.... Fob 15
Niagara... .... ...... Boston.. Liverpool Feb 19
Cleator New York. •Kingston, Ja. Fob 20
North American ..Portland—Liverpool Feb 21
Teutonia New York.. Hamburg ....Feb 22
Asia New York.. Liverpool Feb 26
Bremen ....New Tork..Bremen ..... ..... March 15
FROM NOROPE•
SHIPS LEAVE FOE. DAT.
North American-Liverpool-Portland ...Jan.. 9
United Kingdom....Glasgow..New York ...... ....Jan 11
Teutonia .Southampton.. New York Jin 15
C of Washington-Liverpool-New York Jan 15
Anglo Saxon Liverpool..Portiand Jan 16
Africa Liverpool-New York ....Jan 18
Edinburgh Liverpool.. New York ...... . • .. Jan 22
REMO ...... -Southampton..New York Jan 22
Niagara --Liverpool-Boston Jan 22
Bavaria Southampton ..New York Jan 28
Arabia ...... - - Liverpool-Boston Jan 29
Asia Liverpool-New York Feb 1
Boruesia Southampton.. New York.. ..... ....Feb 8
Bremen .. r ... Southampton ..New Yorl - Feb 19
it,,tt The California Mail Steamers sailfrom New York
On VA? WI 'nth end 21st of each month.
PORT OF PHILADELPIHA, Jan. 31. 1862.
BUN RISES 712 BUN BETA 616
RIM WATER .3 17
Bark Traperador, Power, Pernambuco and a market,
Lewis Jk. Daman.
Six S Sarmmir. Do.ara. Wasthingban. DC. T Wobnter, Jr.
The schrs Frances Edwards, from Philadelphia for N
York, and Idalia, from Halifax for Philadelphia, with
potatoes, &c., and the revenue cutter Forward are at an
chor inside the Breakwater. The eche Fanny Lee, from
Philadelphia for Kingston, Ja, is detained in the Road
stead in consequence of her crew having deserted while
at anchor off New Castle. Weather rainy, accompanied
with hail. Wind northeast.
Yours, kc. AARON MARSHALL.
. . _
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.)
LEWES, Del., Jan. 30,19 A H.
The ship Tonawanda, for Liverpool, was towed to sea
this morning. Wind Nby E, and raining.
Yours, &c., JOHN P. MARSHALL.
Ship Westmoreland, Pecan for Philadelphia, enteral
for loading at Liverpool 9th inst.
Ship Judah Touro, Hanscomb, for Philadelphia with
despatch. was adv. at Liverfoolllth inst.
Ship Fanny McHenry, Smith, for Calcutta, was at
Bombay 12th ult.
Ship Wm J Morris, Jackson, uncertain, remained at
Havana 12th ult.
Bark Oakes, Creech, hence for London, was off St Al
bans 10th inst.
• Bark Achilles, Gallagher, for Philadelphia, entered out
at London 11th i nst.
Rark Pleiades, Yates, from Wiscasset, via Salem, for
Philadelphia, put into Gloucester 28th inst. with loss of
main topmast.
Bark Tawny, Munday, sailed from Marseilles Bth bast
for Messina.
Brig. Elizabeth Watts, Bryant, hence, arrived at Lon
den 9th inst.
&bre Black Diamond, Young, hence, and Delphine l
Boss, from Delaware Bay, at Providence 18th inst.
Behr Jae Neilson, Burt, sailed from Providence 28th
lint. for Bristol, to load for Philadelphia.
Liverpool, Jan 9—The Westmoreland, from Philadel
phia, in attempting to dock yesterday in the Canada dock,
touched the ground, came off, and anchored.
The London Shipping Gazette of January 6 says—We
publish to-day our ueuel monthly record of ttrocks, from
which it appears that the number of wrecks during the
mouth of December was 241; in January the number was
202; in February 285; in March 133; in April 149; in May
142; in June 115; in July 91; in August 108; in September
140; in Octoberll9; and in November 298—makirg a to.
tal during the past year of 2029.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited
until the f.th day of February,lB62, for furnishing
FLOUR to the Subsistence Department of the United
States Army.
About twelve thousand (12,000) barrels will be re
quired, or a high grade of Extra Flour, to be delivered
in 'Washington, at the Railroad Depot, or at the mills or
warehouses in Georgetown, some time between the sth
and 15th of February, 1862. Each barrel of Flour to
be inspected just before it is received.
The Flour must be equal in quality to the mantles to
be obtained at the Capitol Bakery, at Washington city,
and the barrels to be bead. lined.
The customary oath of allegiance will be required of
each contractor.
Bide to be directed to 'Major A. BECKWITH, 0. 8
11. S. A., and endorsed "Proposals.".ja2s-tfe4
TERRAPINS, OYSTERS STEWED
AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN SALAD.—lnvi
teflon Cards and other notices will be distributed in all
parts of the city, With punctuality.
The undersigned Is at all times prepared to present, for
the inspection of Ladies and Gentlemen a Hat of the
things necessary for a large or small entert ainment, as the
case may be, thereby avoiding all unnecessary profusion
and waste, and flatters himself, that by bta long expe
rience in business, he will be able at all times to give, se
heretofore entire satisfaction to all who favor him with
their patrnage. HENRY JONES, Caterer,
No_ 250 South TWELFTH Street, above SPRAWL
oel-em
1 VVERY LADY WHO WISHES TO
J_ll BE - BEAUTIFUL should purchase HUNT'S
COURT TOILET POWDER. It is used by the Court
Beauties in Europe, and it is the only Powder that will
not injure the skin or rub off, Price, 12, 25, and 30
cents. BUNT'S BLOOM OF ROSES, a beautiful, nit•
tural color, for the cheeks or lips ; It will not wash off or
injure the skin, and remains durable for years. Prloe
These entries are quite new, and can only be i
ob
tained of HUNT & CO., 123 South SEVENTH Street,
1 above Walnut. AU kinds of Fancy Soaps and Per
fumery.
ENGLISH ENCAUSTIC TILES FOR
FLOORS.—Minton's Tiles for vestibules, halls,
dining-rooms, hearths, and for public buildings of every
hind, as laid in the Capitol at Washington and in many
churches, stores, banks, hotels, and dwellings, In every
part 'of the country. Patterns, composed of Buff. Red,
and Block, 32c per &inure foot, with Blue. °Teem, or
White introdnead, ain to 36e per toot. Lithographic de•
signs sent by mail, on application.
S. A. HARRISON, Importer,
No. 1010 CHESTNUT street.
ARMY AND NAVY PAY COL
LECTED.—AIeo, arrears of Day for resigned,
discharged, supornumerarYs and iltOtatted affittora--1/011U
ty money—Census money—Contractors' pay—Disclunges
—Extra pay—Land warrants-Pensions-Prize money—
'Recruiting Expenses—State Pay Subsistence and
Transportation, procured bY
ALBERT POTTS' Army and Navy Agency,
N. E. corner of THIRD and WILLOW Streets.
ja.4-Im*
HANGING VASES.
Ornamental Flower Pots.
Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers.
Baskets for Jardiniere.
Pedestals with Faye for Flowers.
Antique Vases for Mantels.
Yaippe Renaissance for Parlor.
Bustle and Terra Gotta Yeses,
Lava Flower Pots and Vases.
Garden Vases and Pedestals.
Brackets for Busts and Figures.
With a great variety of articles suitable for Christ
mas oreeents, for sale retail and to the trade.
Warerooms 1010 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
dell O. A. HARBISON.
Ty AM S .-1,000 pieces sugar cured
.11-2.oity-staoked Hama for sale by
0. 0. SADLER & 00.,
a 9 103 ABCS Street, 2d door above Front
n.LI) MEAD -8 barrels just received
V per lamer leleya, for Bale by
ECONOMY IN CITY FINANCES
PHILADELPHIA. AND THE WAR.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
CLEARED
(Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchange.)
LEWES, Del, Jan 28, 8 P
VT Tg•FORAPH .
MEMORA_NDA
PROPOSALS.
JAIIIIZTOHE a OANSTAITI9,
904 and 404 Boath ISO= 64M.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY
UM:TRANCE COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA.
Incorporated by the Legislature of Penneylvan's, 1835.
Office, southeast corner of THIRD awl WALNUT
Street*, Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANCE
On Vessels,
Cargo, To all parts of the world.
Freight,
INLAND INSURANOICEI
Oa Goode, by Rivera, Canal's, Laketa and Laud Oarrie6 ol
to all parts of tile Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
On Merchandise generally. On Stores, Dwelling.
houses, &c.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY,
NOVEMBBR 1, 1/101.
OOST.
2300,000 United States Pivot:or cent. Loan. $100,250 00
60,000 United States Six per cent, Tres.
Bury Rotes 40,996 87
26,000 United States Seven and Three
tenths per emit. Treasury Notes 25,000 00
100,000 State of Pennsylvania Five per
cent. Loan 85,561 26
123,050 Philadelphia City Six per cent.
Loan. 119,440 17
30,000 State of Tennessee Five per cent.
• Loam. ... . ..
24,076 00
20,000 Pennsylvania ........... let Mort
gage Six per cent, Bonds 20,000 00
60,000 Pennsylvania Railroad, Zd Dion
gage Six per cent. Bonds.. .
16,000 300 Shares Stock Germantown " .
teas
Company, principal and interest
guarantied by the City of Phi
ladelphia
5,000 100 Shares Stock Pennsylvania
___ Railroad Company
Bills receivable for insurances made...." 90,730 07
Sonde and Mortgages 75,090 00
Real Estate 61,363 39
sjilalancee due at Agencies—Premiums on
Marine Policies, Int3rest, and other
Debte due the Company 43,131 97
Scrip and Stock of sundry Insurance and
other Companies, Sll,B43—estimated
lue
Cash on hand—ln Hanka .
In Drawer
DIRECTORS.
Samuel E. Stokes,
J. F. Peniston,
Henry Sloan,
Md ward 15mM:1g-ton,
H. Jones Brooke,
Spencer M'llvaine,
Thomas O. Hand,
Robert Burton,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Hirai
John B. Semple, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morgan 7 Pittsburg,
A. B. Berger, Pittsburg.
MARTIN, Pnesident.
. HAND, Vice President.
TetarY. ial4-tf
William Martin,
Edmund A. Souder,
Theopidlea Paulding,
Jon S. Penrose,
John C. Davis,
James Trieituur,
William Eyre, Jr.,
James C. Hand,
William C. Ludwig,
Joseph 11. Seal,
Dr. R. M. Huston,
George G. Leiper,
Hugh Craig /
Charles Kelly,
WILLIAM
THOMAS C.
HENRY LYLBURN, Bea
TIIE RELIANCE
MUTUAL INSURANCE OOMPAE Y,
gOO
OF PHILADILFNIA,
OFFICE No. 806 WALNUT STREET,
Insures against LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE, on
Rouses, Stores, and other buildings, limited
or perpetual, and on Furniture,
Goode, Wares, and Mer
chandise, in town or
country.
CASH CAPITAL, 5 231,110.00—A5 8 ET 8 $817, 142. 04,
Which is invested go follow', 113 ;
In first mortgage on city property, worth
double the amount 1122,000 00
Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s 6 per cent. first
mortgage loan, at par 16,000 00
Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s 6 per cent, se
cond mortgage loan, (630 , 000) 17,000 00
Huntingdon and Broad Ton Railroad and
Canal Co.'s mortgage loan
Ground rent, first-ciao 2,482 50
Alateral loans, well secured 2,500 00
City of Philadelphia 6 per cent loan 80,000 00
Allegheny County 6 per cent. Pa. 88. loan. 10,000 00
Commercial Bank stock 5,136 01
Mechanics' Bank stock 2,812 60
Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s stock 4,000 00
The Reliance Mutual lusuzunce Co.'s stock. 15,850 00
The County Fire Insurance Co.'s stock 1,060 00
The Delaware M. 8. Insurance Co.'s aroma.. 700 00
Union Mutual Insurance Co.'s scrip . 380 00
Bills receivable 14,302 74
Book accounts, accrued interest, d 0........ 7,104 06
Clash on band 11,644 GI
The Mutual principle, combined with the security of
• Mock Capital; entitle. , the insured to YeittleiOata itt the
23011113 of the Company, without liability for Loses&
Leases promptly adMeted and paid.
DIBIOTOBS.
Clem Tingley,
William B. Thompson,
Frederick Brown,
William Stevenson,
John 5, Worrell,
'5. L. Carson,
Bobert Toland,
G. D. Rosengarten,
Charles 8. Wood,
James B. Woodward,
Chß
B. IL H,XOKefr, Secre
February' le, 1993,
ANTHRACITE INSTJRANOE
COMPANY. Authorised Capital 1000,000
CHARTER PERPETUAL',
Office No. 811 WALNUT Street, between Third and
Fourth Streets, Philadelphia.
This Company will insure against lost or damage by
Ere, on It Widings, Furniture, and Nerohandise gene-
MUM
also, Marine Insurance* on YeoeU, Cargoes, ang
Freights. inland Insuranoe to all garb of the Union,.
DEBROTOR&
Davis Pearson,
Peter Sieger,
J. E. Banm.
Wm. P. Dean,
John Ketcham,
LAN DIMED, President.
r. DEAN, Vice President.
William Esher,
D. Luther,
Lewie Andenried,
John B. Blakletott.
Joeepb Mullolo, FILL
WM.
W. M. Beam Secretary.
FIRE INSURANCE.
MECHANICS' INSURANCE COMPANY OF
PHILADELPHIA, N 0.1313 North BIRTH Street, below
Bac% Insure Buildings, Goode, and Merchandise gene
rally, from Lou or DEIIII4III by Fire. The Company fern
panty W KIM all Losses promptly§ and thereby hope to
Merit the patronage of the public.
DEBECTOBB.
Bobert Flanigan,
Michael McGeoy,
Edward McGovern
Thomas B. McCormick,
John Bromley,
Francis Fa%
John Camady,
William Morgan,
Francis Cougar,
George L. Doughertrs
James Martin,
James Larose,
Ilatthew McAleer,
Bernard Rafferty.
Thomas J. Hemp hill,
Thomas Fisher,
Francis REcNatna l
YEA
BERNARD B , •
INOVRANCE COMPANY OF THE
1 STATE OF PENNSYLYANLi—OFFICTE
snd 5 EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, North Bide of WAL
NUT Street, between DONK and THIRD Street., Phila.
debate.
INCORPORATED In 1704--011ARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, $200,000.
PROPERTIES OF. THE COMPANY, FEBRUARY
I, 1881, 8507,084.431.
AND INLAND TSWNBPOSTA•
NABINIC, JIBE,
TION INSURANON
DEREOTOREL
Henry D. Sherrerd, Samuel Grant, Jr.,
Charles Macsteeter, Tobias Wagner
William B. Smith, Thomas B. Watteon,
John B. Amain, Henry G. Freeman,
William R. White, Charles 8. Lewis,
George H. Stuart, George 0. Carson,
Edward C. Knight.
. _
HENRY D.
WILLIAM HAMPIE. Becre
A MERICAN FIRE INSURANCE
li COMPANY. Incorporated 1810. CHART=
PERPICTUAL. No. 810 WAL.IIIJT Street, above Third,
Philadelphia.
Having a large paid•np Capital Stock and Surplus, in
verted In sound and available Securitiee, continues to
kunireon Dwellings, Stores, Furniture, Merchandise, Ves
sels in port and their Cargoes, and other Personal Pro
perty. All Losses liberally and promptly adjusted.
DIBNOTORS.
Thomas B. Maxie,
John Welsh,
Oomtun 0. Morton,
Patrick Brody,
John T. Lewis,
THOM
&tame 0. L. es.twroan,
FIRE INSURANCE ExcLusiy&
LY.—The PENNSYLVANIA FIRE rNsunAtion
oonirexy. Incorporated Ises. OFIARTICE/PRIL
RITUAL. N 0.610 WALNUT &rest, onoultelndeimsgi.
ante Squared
This Company, favorably known to the community for
thirty-six years, continues to insure against Loss or Da.
wage by Fire, on public or private Buildings, either per
fume:Alf or fora limited time. Also, on Furniture,
docks of Goods, or Merchandise generally, on liberal
Their Capital, together with a hogs Burgas Vend, le
invested in the most careful monner, which enables them
to offer to the insured an undoubted security in the one
of loom
DUIZOTOBB.
Jonathan Patterson, Thomas Robins,
Quintin Campbell, Daniel Smith, Jr.,
Alexander Benson, John Deveram,
William Monteitax, Thomas Smith.
lama Haslaborer,
JONATHAN
WILLIAM G. CIIOABLL.
PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSU
RANCE COMPANY,
No. 021 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
ALL THE PROFITS
SU IVI DRED DED AMONG THE me
Insure Live' forshort termsor for the wholeterm of it r,
grant Annuties and Endowments ; purchase Life Inte
rests in Real Estate, and make all contracts depending
on the contingencies of life.
They act as Executors, Administrators, Andipsees,
Trustees, and Guardians.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, Jemmy 1,1861.
Mortgages, ground rents, real estate SWAM PI
United Staten stocks, Treasury notes, loans
of State of Pennsylvania, city of Philadel
phia, de 166,706 11
Premium notes, loans or collators* &a 118;694 II
Pennsylvania, North Pennsylvania. Rail
reads, and County 6 per cent. bon& 101,110$ se
Bank, insurance, railroad, *anal stocks, 10: 97,647 43
Cash on hand, agents' balances, Ao., die 38,116 14
$1,011,121 OS
DANIEL L. Krum% Piesident.
BMW= N. STORES, TIN Predient.
100 W. BONBON, tiecratary.
EXCHANGE INSURANCE COM—
PANY—Office, Ne. 409 WALNUT Street.
Fire Insurance on Houma, and Merchandise mmerally,
on favorable terms, either Limited or Perpetual.
DIBROTORS.
Jeremiah Bonsai, Thomism Marsh,
John Q. Qinnodo, (Ataxic* Thompson.
Nowa D. Roberta, Jame T. Hale.
Samuel D. Smedley, Joshua T. Owen.
Reuben O. Hale, John J. Griffiths.
.17CHINIAH DONSALL, PresidenL
JOHN Q. GINNODO, Moo President.
Oon, Secretory. IsRl
THE ENTERPRISE
INSUBANCI COMPANY Or PHILADELPHIA.
(FIRE INSUBANII NEALUSIVNLY.)
COMPANY'S BUILDING, S. W. CORNER FOURTH
AND WALNUT STBNZTS.
DIBIOTORB.
W. Retehford Stare, Mordecai th PalmWMlein McKee, Geo. H. Stuart,
Minim Frazier John H. Brown ,
John Atwoo d, .A. rahneettA,
Benj T. Tredick, Andrew D. Cash,
Henry Wharton, J. L. Erringer.
F. HATOHHOBD ISTABB, President
illgast..se W. Coss. Secretary ten
APPLES! APPLES !—Choioe Green-
Inge A -- and °there always on hand at the Cheap
store, No 812 SPRING GARDEN Street. jail-tf
nOTTON BAIL DUCK and CAN
%a VAL of all umbers and brazil.
Baron's Dock Awning Twllls ,of all deserts/mg for
fonts, Awnings, Trunks, end Wagon Owlell•
Also, Papas Nanufaatarane DrierTfar, _ ato
lot wide. Tarloalahl; Bating, f dull _
ai,°•oo..
J IIN W. NMI
lei .irownel ALrianr.
BILLREAD PRINTING, BEST
end Cheapeat in the city, et ,113180WiLT
/1/10W/81, 84 &nth TRIBD Street, 041111
40,130 Eia
14,587 50
851,098 03
. 617 33
81,815 38
$869,126 37
11717,142 04
Samuel Bisyham,
Robert Steen,
Wilkie Musser,
Beni. W. Tingley,
Marshall Hill,
. Juba:eon Da-own,
Charles Leland,
Jacob T. Buntini,
Smith Bowen,
John Bissell, Pittsburg.
X TUMMY, President,
Bernard B. Salmetaaan,
Charles Clare,
Michael Oahill.
CIS 000PMB,, Prodded.
oeMI
BWEBBERD, President
1. Iy2o-1r
Jame/ B. Oampbell,
Edmund G. Data,
Oberlue W. Ponape/1
Liao' 1 MorfiL
IL MARIS, President.
Secretary. fe22-t[
PATTIIII3OPI, President.
1$
RAILROAD LINES.
THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL
RAILROAD.
THE GREAT DOUBLE TRADE ROUTE.
Matieue 1862.
1862.
THE CAPACITY OF THE ROAD IS NOW EQUAL
TO ANY IN THE COUNTRY.
r7nMfMM= ' MIMT!TYrP
- - - .
Facilities for the transportntim of passengers to and
from Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul,
Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans. and all other towns
In the West, Northwest, and Southwest, are unsurpassed
for speed and comfort by any other route. Sleeping and
smoking ears on all the trains,
_ . . .
THE EXPRESS RUNS DAILY; ELM and Fast
Dine Sundays excepted.
Mall Train leaves Philadelphia at............ 8.00 A. M.
Feet Line "
Namara Train "
Parkesburg Accommodation leaves Phila. ak.12.30 P. M.
Harrisburg 44 .. 2.30 P. M.
Lancaster a
_. 4.00 P. M.
Weill. Cheater namengork wtil take the Mail Train, the
Parkesburg Accommodation, and the Lancaster Aceom-
Modation.
Passengers for Sunbury, Williatnimort, Elmira, Buf
falo, Niagara Falls, and intermediate points, leaving
Philadelphia at 8 A. M. and 2.30 P. 21., go directly
through.
For further information apply at the Passenger Sta
tion, 8. ]C. corner of ELEVENTH and MARKET
Streets.
By this ronto freight:, of sill descriptions, can be for
warded to and from any point on the Railroads of Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, or Nip
sonri, by railroad direct, or to any port on the naviga
ble rivers of the West, by steamers front Pittsburg.
The rates of freight to and from any point in the West
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, are, at all times, as fa
vorable as are charged by other Railroad %wallies.
Merchantaand shippers entrusting the transportation of
their freight to this Company, can rely with confidence
on its speedy transit.
For freight contracts or shipping directiows apply to or
aadroes the Agents of the Company.
S. B. KINGSTON, Ja., Philadelphia
D. A. STEWART, Pittsburg.
CLARKE & Co., Chicago.
LEECH & Co., No.l Astor Houae, or No. 1 South
William street, New York.
LEECH. & CO., N 0.17 Washington street, Boston.
ItAGRA.W & KOONS, .No. BO North titreot, Baltimoro_
IL H. HOUSTON, Can't Freight Agent, Phila.
L. L. HOUPT, Gen'l Ticket Agent, Phila.
ENOCH LEWIS. Gen'l Bun% Altoona jyl-tf
1861. an)iz
ARRANGEMENT Or NEW YORK LINES.
THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY AND rams,
DELPHIA AND TRENTON RAILROAD 00.11
LINES FROM PIDLADELPIILI TO NEW
YORK AND WAY PLACES.
IPRON WALNDT-SSAE•ES ARAB, AND KENSINGTON DEMON
WILL LEAVE AS FOLLOWS-VIZ:
At 6 A. M., via Camden and Amboy, 0. and A. An.
tonlmodetiom
At 6A. M., via (I,
Camden and Jersey City, ,
ACCOMMOdation) 2 22
At 9% A. M., via Keneington and Jereeyoity,Morn-
Mg Mail 800
At 12% P. M., via Camden and Amboy, Accommo
dation I lb
At 2 P. N., via Camden and Amboy, O. and A. Ex-
At 4 P. M., via Camden and Jeremy City, 'Evening
Express 8 00
At 4 ', It„ Via Camden and Jersey City, 24 Maas
Ticket i 8$
At $3 P. Di., Till Kensington and Jersey City, Kyis.•
ning >tlatl 800
At 12 P. M., via Kensington and JeneyCity, South-
orn Mail. 800
At 6 P. N.. via Camdan and Amboy, Accommoda-
don, (Freight and Passeuger)—let Class Ticket.. 226
De. do. lid Claw Ticket.. 2 60
The 0311 I'. X. Nall Line rune daily, Sundays excepted.
The 12 P. St aonthern Mail runs daily.
For Water Chap, Strondeburg, Scranton, Wilkosbame,
Montrose, Great Bend, Jac., at 7.10 A. M. from Kensing
ton. vie Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western B. B.
For Manch Chunk, Allentown, Bethlehem, Belvidere,
Beaton, Lambertville, Flemington, Jac., at 7.10 A. M.
and 3 P. M. from Kensington Depot; (the 7.10 A. M. line
connects with train Leaving Kasten for Menai Chunk at
2.26 P. lif.l •
Tor Mount Holly at 8 A. M., 2 and 4 P. M
Yor Freehold MAI A. M. and 2 P. M.
WAY LINES.
for Bristol, Trenton, itc., at 7.10 and 93 A. M., and
3,6, 6.30, and 12 P 11., from Kensington.
for Palmyra, Riverton, Delanco, Beverly, Binding
ton Flore nce, Bordentown, Ac., at 1234, 1,4, 5, and sx
ap- For a'rew York and Way Lines leaving Bonging
fen Depot, take the cars, on Fifth street, above Walnut,
half an hour before departure. The cars run into the
depot, and on arrival of each train run from the depot.
Nifty Pounds of Baggage, only, allowed each Passen
ger. Paesen,gers are prohibited from taking anything ea
baggage but their wearing apparel. All baggage over
fifty pounds to be paid for extra. The Company limit
their responsibility for baggage to One Doilor pyr
and will not be liable for any amount beyond $lOO, ex
cept by spacial contract.
WM. H. GATZMEB, Agent.
NORTH PENNSYL
VANIA RAILROAD.
TOR BETHLEHEM, DOYLESTOWN, M A U 0 H
ORITNIC, Menai:Tom, zASTON, KONTAIT, ko.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
THREE THROUGH TRAINS.
On and after MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, HMI, Paz-
Denser Trains will leave FRONT and WILLOW Street*
Philadelphia, daily,(Sundays excepted,) as
At 6.40 A. M., (Napalm ' ) for Bethlehem, Allentown,
blench Chunk, Hazleton, &o.
At 2.40 P. M., (Exprose,) for Bethlehem, Beaton, &o.
Thle tram machos "anion at 8 F. M., And makes
close oonnectlon with the New Jersey Gantt's/. for New
York.
At 6.06 P. if., for Bethlehem, Allentown, item&
Munk, Ate.
At 9 A. M. and 4 P. M., for Doylestown.
At 6 P. M., for Fort Wastungtou
The 6.40 A. M. 3Lapress Train makes close connector
with the Lehigh 'Valley Railroad at Betitlelleeet being
the shorted and MOIL desirable route to all point's in
the Lebigh coal region.
TRAINS FOB PHILADELPHIA.
Leave Bethlehem at 7.07 A. N., 0.18 A. 01. 1 and 6.88
P. N.
Leave Doylestown at 6.30 A. M. and 3.20 P. M.
Leave Fort Washington at 6.60 A. M.
ON SUNDAYS—Philadelphis for. Port Washington
a 9.30 a. N.
Philadelphia for Doylestown at 4 P. M.
Doylestown for Philadelphia at 7 A. M.
Fort Washington for Philadelphia at 2.45 P. AL
rare to Bethlehem....sl.so I b Fare to Mauch Ohunk.f2.6o
Fare to Easton 1.50
Through 'rickets must e procured at the Ticket
Offices, at WILLOW Street, or BEREA Street, in order
to secure the above rates of fare.
. .
MI Passenger Trains (except Sunday Trains) connect
at NAB street with the 'Fifth end Sixth streets, and &-
Mud and Third-streete Panic - lager . Railroads, twenty Mg.
Kates after leaving Willow street.
nod ELLIS OLARK, Agent-
Mew WINTER AR
- BANGEMENT.-PRILADEL
RPHOLA,. WILMINGTON, AND BELLT/MMIE
and after lifbireiLt, JAN. 6, DM.
PASSElletlit TRAINS X, AY PHILADELPHIA:
Pot Baltimore at. 8.30 A. M., Bib A. M n 11.86 A. IL,
(Express). and 11.00 P. DI.
For °heater at 8.15-A. IL, 11.36 A. M., 8.48 and 11 00
P. IL
For Wilmington at 320 A. M., 8.16 A. M., 11.86 A. M.,
145 auti 1/,99 F, 14,
For New Untie at 8.10 A. M. and 3.40 P. at.
for Dover at 8.15 A. M. and 3.45 P. M.
for Milford at 8.15 A. M.
for Baliabnry at 8.15 A. M.
TRAINS FOB PTITLADELPHIA.:
Leave Baltimore at 8.80 A. X. (Kinross), 1.05 P. M.
(Express), 5.20, and 7 P_ M. (Exprees).
Leave Wilmington at 7.30 and 3.1.33 A. M., 4.16, 846.
and 9.50 P. M.
Leave tialletrory at 2.85 P. M.
Leave Milford at 4.65 P. M.
Leave Dover at 9 A. M. and 6.10 P. M.
Leave New Castle at 11 A. M. and 8.10 P. M..
LeaveObeeter at 8.20 A. fa., 12.15, 4.50, and 9.30 P.M.
Leave Baltimore for Salisbury and intermediate etatione
1540 and P. X; for Dover and intermediate stations
LOS P. M.
TRAINS NOR BALTIMORE:
Leave Matter at 8.45 A. N., 12.05 and 11.30 P. N.
Leave Wilmington at 4.30 A. N., 9.26 A. N., 12.85 P
N., and 12.10 a. N.
FREIGHT TRAIN, with Passenger Oar attached,
will ran as follows
Leave Philadelphia for Perryville and intermediate
places at 6.10 P. N.
Leave Wilmington for Perryville and Intermediate
player, at 1.1.0 P. M.
Leave Philadelphia for Chester, Wilmington, Stanton,
Newark, Elkton, North Baal, Perryville, Havre-de-
Grace, and Baltimore at 8.30 P. M.
Leave Baltimore for Havre-de-Grace and intermediate
etetione at 8.45 A. M.
Leave Wilmington for Philadelphia and intermediate
places at 2.05 P. M.
ON SUNDAYS ONLY
At 8.30 A: 11. and 11.00 P. N. from Philadelphia to
Baltimore.
At 7 from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
The 3..30 A. N. train from Philadelphia to Baltimore
will rim daily, Mondays excepted.
se2B-tf 8. H. FELTON, President.
PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAILROAD
PASSENGER TRAINS NOR POTTSVILLR, READ
ING, and HARRISBURG, on and after November 4,1801
MORNING LINES, DAILY, (Sundays excepted.)
Leave New Depot, corner of BROAD and CALLOW
HILL Streets, PHILADELPHIA, (Passenger entrances
on Thirteenth and on Callowhill street%) at 8 A. M., con
necting at Harrisburg with the PENNSYLVARLS.
RAILROAD 4.18 P. Di. train, turning 19 ritlohirB i the
CUMBERLAND VALLEY 1.00 P. N. train running to
Chambersburg, Carlisle, An. • and the NORTHERN
CENTRAL RAILROAD 1.20 P. N. train running to Sun.
bury, AG. APTERNOONILINES.
Leave New Depot, corner of BROAD and CALLOW
HILL Streets, PHILADELPHIA, (Passenger entrances
CM Thirteenth and on Collowbill ste,,) for POTTSViLLA
and HARRISBURG, at lUD P. DL, DAILY, connect.
lug at Harrisburg with the Northern Central Railroad,
for Sunbury, Williamsport, Elmira, Ao. Express Train
from New York via Easton makes close connection with
the Reading Mail and Accommodation Trains, connect
ing at Harrisburg with the Pennsylvania Central 3.15
A. IL Train running west. For READING only, at
LSO P. N., DAILY, (Sundays excepted.)
DISTANCES VIA PH/LeDELPHIA AND BEADING
RAILROAD.
Isom PKILIDILIPHIA, KRAL
To Phceniaville 28
Reading 68
Lebanon
_BB
Harrisburg 112
Dauphin 124
Millersburg. 142
Treverton Junction.lsB
Ihnibury 160
Northumberland....l72
tewisburg 178
Milton 183
MMICY 16 0 7
Williamsport 209
Jersey Shore 228
Leek Raven 236
- . -
Balaton -
8381 Williamsport mid Minks
'Elmi
Troyra 287
281 Railroad.
The BA . M. and 8.15 P. . trains connect daily at Port
tliinton (Sundays excepted.) with the OATAWISSA,
WILLIAMSPORT, and RBIS RAILROAD, mains
dose concoctions with One' to Niagara rsus, oanada,
the Wost and Sonthwest.
DEPOT IN PHILADELPHIA : Rayner of BROAD
886 OALLOWHILL Streets.
W. IL MoIGRZNNIT, Secretory.
October 80. 1861.
J?ALL
atek~_ 'fx B AB AND GEMBN I T N :
1111LADEIZIIIA, GBBILILBTOWNi aid NOBBLE,-
TOWN RAMBOAD.
TUBB TAMIL
On and after Monday, October 28,18111, until further
notice.
808 GERMANTOWN.
Leave Philadelphia, 6,7, 8,9, 10.06, 11, 12 A.M., 1, 91,
5, e i 5,6, y, 8,9, 10,5, and UM P.
Leave Germantown, 6,7, 7346, 8, BM, 93(,19),
A. M., 1,2, 8,4, Ey 6,7, 8,93 i, UP. M.
The 8% A. M. train from Germantown Mold at Day's
and Tioga only.
ON SUNDAYS.
Leave 7, end 10M P. X.
Leave Germantown, 8.10 A. M.,,1, 0, and 9) P. K.
CIIINSTWIT HUM likil;BOAD: -
Ulm NellieWl* 649 in, A. M., St 4,0, i, t. 94
P. it
Leave oheetant NA 7.10, 8.10,10.10, Alg o l/40, 8.40,
4.40, 7.40, and 9.10 P. N.
ON SUNDAY&
Leave Philadelphia, PM A. )1., 2 and 7 P. X.
Leave Chestnut HiIL, 7.60 A. N., 72.40, 6.40, end 9.10
P. X.
PON CONOIIOIIOOII2N AND NONRETO777I.
Leave Philadelphia, ism, 9.06, 11.06 A. X, Ig, Los,
AM, 0.06, and 8.06 P. M.
- Leave Norristown, 7, b 9, 11 A. AL, 1%, and
P. IL
ON EICEIDAYEL.
Leave Phlladebldr,lP. M.
Leave Norristown, tg__A, WI 6 P. M.
FOB inapiAlroNN.
Leave Philadelphia, 6%, 9, UA. IL, 9.09, 4%,
6.06, and 8.06 P. 18.
Leave lilanannk, TM, 'Mr 9 . 1 11) UN IL lin f, 1 11
and Sji P. N.
ON SUNDAY& _ _
Leave Philadelphia, 9 A. M, 8 and Y P. IL
klaninank. TN fit fff.4s P•
BWTH. one ikipstinimActuil
4611 4 Vent =TN wad MUM Snob"
11.30 A. M
10.30 P. M
1861.
EME=
II 011
Phlladelphis and Reading
and Lebanon Valley B. B
Northern Neutral
Noi
Sunbury and iris R. H.
BALES BY AVOTIVIN.
FURNESS, BRINLEY, k 0 0.4
No. 429 NASKNT 1171244117.
SALE. TUB (FRIDAY) MORNIN(I, JANUARY 31,
I!=
A CATi.D.—Tii• attention of purchasers fn requested to
our Ill& of 450 kali imported awl domestic dry goodd, to
La mold tbim (Friday) morning, January :11, at 10 o'clock,
by catalogue, for caul', rompriaing a large antiorttnolit for
wine Pules,malty just landed.
NOTICE TO JOBBERS AND RETAILERS.
40 CASES
BRITISH SPRING DRY GOODS.
This Morning.,
cots 7-6 imadva vriattf mlisi colors do.
66 7.8 plate V.. 6 purple do.
staid chock and isncy gingham&
black and black and white fancy ginglrams.
. Irecade mixtures, fancy mohairs.
- volturno cloths, silk warp mixtures.
fancy challles, worsted poplins.
a 9.5 black arm white lawns, ligurisl percalei.
- a. jaeonet. C,lthr C. 3111.1.00 k. and check tausliog
- baimoral skirts. linen cambric Mil&
Mack Oros de Rbines and cravats.
.6 cussimeres, tweeds, satinets.
u French cotton:ides, London cambrics.
rolled jaconets, sewing silk, twist, &c..
TO DEALERS IN RIBBONS.
Yo. 40 onperior Ponlt de Solo bonnet ribbon&
-.w bit,sue] coloted mareellinee.
110 lota Nos. 1 and 16 superior quality plain taffeta rib
bone, &lightly damaged on voyage of importation.
BALE ON FRENCH PRY GOODP
This Morning,
January 31, at 10 o'clock, by caialogno, for canh
-800 lov, of fancy and staple imported and domestic dry
Roods.. ,
CABLE: Cf.IID WAITE, BLACK, AND COLORED
POULT DE SOIE BONNET RIBBONS,
Just landed.
A full line of Noe 4e40 super quality white, bleak,
and COIOII4 cable cord pm& On sole bonnet ribbons., all
froth goruh i inAk IMAM franc ot6uttier.
BL&CK axon PE %DAWN AND OROS DE
11.11INBS, for City Trade.
2410 40-inch heavy high lustre black gros de Zu—
rich and gri; de 'lndies. •
30 to 40-inch heavy black grog de Rhine cravats.
TO DATTEM AND lIIILLINERS.
2 cases mode and dark colors eating for linings
700 LONDON BALMORAL BIURTS, Or City Trade,
Just landed from steamer,
This Morning.
r.o new etyle fancy Balmoral skirta.
141) ri silk wool Balmoral skirts.
10 splendid quality all wool do.
lOU much heavier do do.
110 ex. quality silk embroidered do
40 CASES
BRITISH SPRING DRY GOODS.
Sonie just landei.
This Morning,
cases.?-8 London fancy madder prints.
-4, 7.8 4 , plate 8
* 4 high colored solid check giughants.
ary fine black and whita ginghanag.
" brocade mixtures,
" fancy niohairs.
vellum; cloths.
-
4 , silk warp mixtures.
66 fancy chillies.
— 6, satin stripe barece Ft ftliCfill3e.
- 1 1 -8 black and white lawns.
0.8 very fine plain black lawns.
-
46 rilk Dames, percalles.
44 fancy printed brilliants.
WHITE Vic ) VP§, Jni. r§, MARSEILLES, Sc.
--fine to huperfine white nairamiss,
jacticts and csmbrice.
46 ~ tape checks.
- 44 6 , Swiss spots and brilliants.
white niarseilles, for basynes.
men's, bays', women's plain and printed linen
cambric handkerchiefs.
5,000 PATEIiT PORTABLE 0021CING PRESSES.
Thie Morning;
5,009 patent portable eapylag presses, for the army,
navy : and general mercantile use.
Sale on account of Underwriters.
PLAIN 'TAFFETA RIBBONS
This Mornlng.t
:fatmary !,,`l., at 10 o'clock, for casli
-4 atom comprising a tail amortment Nos, 1016 supe
rior mute 'lain taffeta ribbons, slightly damagta on
voyage of importation.
PANCOAST & WARNOCK, AUC
TIONEEBS, No. 218 MARKET Street.
I` TOFF. OF A FIRST-CLASS RETAIL HOSIERY,
EMBROIDERY, Als. , 11:0 TRIMMING STORE, by
Catalogue
On Wednesday Morning,
February 5, nt 30 o'clock, comprising an assortment of
very fine goods, selected for the best city retail sales.
r. B. HOPPIN & CO., AUCTION
EERS, 242. MARKET STREET.
GENERAL SALE OF DRY GOODS, SHAWLS,
BLANKETS. FLANNELS, HOSIERY, FANCY
GOODS, NOTIONS' ac.
On Tlinrsday Morning,
January 6, at la o'clock, embracing a desirable assort
ment of eeasonatde goods, adapted to present sales; and
to which the attention of the trade is requested.
1116 r Goods open for examination, with catalogues, early
on morning of sale.
PIULIP FORD & CO., AUCTION
EERS, 525 MARKET and 522 COMMERCE Sta.
SECOND SPRING SALE OF 1862.
1200 CASES BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS, arc
On Monday Morning,
February 3d, will be sold by catalogue, at 10 o'clock,
precieciy—
M 0 CUES mew', boys', and youths' calf, kip, grain.
anti thick boots, calf and kip brogans, Congress gaiters,
Oxford ties, Balmoral alol Wellington boots, women's,
misses, and children's calf, kip, goat, kid, aud morocco
heeled boots and shoes, bahnorals. gaiters, Ice. Also, a
lame assortment of city made goods.
liar . Open Mr examination, with catalogues, early oh
morning of mil&
MOSES NATHANS, AUCTIONEER
AND COMMISSION NEWHAM% southeast
corner of SIXTH and RACE Street&
TAKE NOTICE
The highest possible price is loaned on goods at lira-
Mans' Principal EstaLlishment, southeast corner of
Sixth iu.d Baca stikeka. At least es&third more than at
any other eatabli.hment in tide city.
NATHAN'S' PRINCIPAL HONEY ESTABLISH-
NEST.
250,000 TO. LOAN,
In large or small nmounts, from one dollar to thousands,
on diamonds, gold and silver plate, watches, jewelry,
merchandise, clothing, furniture, bedding, pianos, and
goods of every description.
LOANS MADE AT THE LOWEST ItIMIRET BATES.
This eatuldishment has large tire and thief-proof safes,
for the safety of valuable goods, together with a private
watchman on the premises
EhTABLISH ED FOR THE LAST SO YEARS.
ALL' LARGE LOANS MADE, AT THIS, THE
'4 PRINCIPAL ESTA.BLISHMENT."
CHARGES GREATLY
AT PRIVATE SALE.
AT LESS TRAN HALF USUAL STORE PRICES.
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and sneer watches of every description, from one
dollar to one Inindrod dollars oach, gold chains, fashion
able jewelry, diamonds, &c.
li!!!
A OPPENHEIMER ) MERCHA.N
DISE BROKER in all branclosof trade, and
manufacturer of every description of Army Goods, No.
48 South THIRD Street, west side, second story, Phfla
dolphin. doll: tt
OPPENHEIMER AGENT AND
Mauufactum of ARMY GOODS. Contracts filled
for other parties. Terms liberal. Room No. 2, up stairs,
N. E. comer FIFTH and CHESTNUT Sts. ja9-1m
QTV,AM-SCOURING AND TAILOR•
ING done at the shortest notice.
HENRY B. BASCOM,
137 SEVENTH Street, above. Walnut.
a. itsksCOP,9. plan for the times id to secommend
Gents to bring their old Clothing to him, and have them
made new. Also, their Cloths, and have them fashion
ably made no• . delo-1Y
JOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE
fJI THIRD Street and GIIIIMANTOWIS
'Seed, is prepared to put on any amount of 120041NG.
an Mc most PLIODIVAATE TEAMS. Will guaranty te
yak. every Building perfectly Water-tight.
fir &Mors promptly attended to. Me-11
ID EVANS & WATSON'S
SALANAHDER &WM
STORE,
16 BOUTH FOURTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
• larite varlet ,: 4 WEIXR-plioor semis laws:*
hay if
MACHINERY AND IRON.
PENN STEAM ENGINE
AND BOILER WORKS.—NEAFrii&
LEVY, PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ENG&
BEERS, MACHINISTS, BOILER-MAKERS, BLACE
6DitT S , FOIUNDERS, lilting, far many pees,
been in successful operation, and bean exclualvely et
gaged in building and repairing Marine and River
Hn
vines, high and low pressure, lion Boats, Water Eankr,
Propellers, Rc, &c., respectfully offer their 881110011 it
the public, as being fully prepared to contract for En
gines of all sines, Marine, River, and Stationary, havin 4
seta of vattorao of differe nt
, eves , are PrePared el*
once orders with (mink assparch. Every description
Pattern making made at the shortest notice. High eat
Low Pressure, Flue, Tubular and Cylinder Boilers, o
the beet Pennsylvania charc oal iron. Forging., of
ekes and kinds; Iron and Braes Castings, of all ols ,
scriptione ,801 l Turning, Strew Cutting, and all olioo
work connected with the above business.
Drawings and Spaciiketions for all work done at 1101
establishment, free of charge, and work guarantied.
The subscribers have ample wharf-dock room for re
pairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect safety, aar
are provided with shears, blocks, falls, &c., &0., fn
Mating heavy or light weights.
JACOB 0. NEATIA,
JOHN P. LEVY,
jel4-ti BEACH and PALMER Streets.
r. VAYO.AII aasamabilt, .1011111 E. 0052,
WILLIAM H. MERRICK, WARTIME waszoi,
QOUTRIVARK FOUNDRY,
po NINTH AND WASHINGTON STRUTS,
PHILADELPHIA.
MERRICK & SONS,
ANOINEDRS AND MACHINISTS,
Manufacture Utah and Low Pressure Sienna Boatlsms,
for land, ricet, and marine servise.
Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, &o.; t k gt•
Ingo of all kinds, either iron or brawl.
Iron-Frame Roofs for Gas Works, Workshop', Bat
toad Stations, dm.
Retorts and Gee Machinery of the latest and m.*
=proved conatruction.
Evert deecription of Pints:Mon liti4Obinlrrt Mill al
Sager, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Open Mawr
Trains, Defecatore, Filters, Pumping Engines, 80.
Sole Agents for N. Milieux's Patent Sugar Boiling
Apparatus i • Nesmyth's Paten 'Steam Manner, and As.
pinwali & Wolney's Patent Centrifuge Sugar Draining
Machine. ana-t1
RAILROAD LINES,
WEST CHESTER
laniW l, lllD PHILADELPHIA HAII
ROAD.
VIA MEDIA.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT-
(hi and after MONDAY, Nov. 260861, the trains win
leave PHILADELPHLI, from the Row*, 21, R. Oetnet
of EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets, at 8.30 A./d.,
2, 4.16, and 6.46 P. AL, and will leave the oorner el
TRUITT-FIRST and MARKET Streets, (West Phila.
delphiaj at 17 minutes after the starting time from the
Depot.
014 SUNDAYS.
Leave PHILADELPHIA at BA, and 2P. M.
Leave West Chester at 8 A. M. and 4 P. M.
The Trains leaving Philadelphia at 8.30 A. M. and 4.18
P. M. connect at Pennelton with Trains on the Phila
delphia and Baltimore Central Railroad for Conoord,
Kennett, Oxford, Ac., AG. HENRY WOOD,
n025-ff Einnorintendent
ampipm PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAILROAD
(018 o• 1T 6onth Fourth street.)
PIifILADLL/HIA April 21,1601.
sicAsbiriiquns.
On and atter May 1, 1861, maim" tickets will be tuned
by this company for the periods of three, six, nine, and
twelyo month', not 011tarellble.
Beason school-tickets may alio be bnl at 08 ker. Oil.
discount.
These rickets will be sold by the Treasurer at No. W
South FOURTH Street, where any further informative
mu be obMined. B. BBAproB,D,
airl6-tY Treaetour
im s ompi WEST OLIESTEA
—RAILROAD TRAINS via PENN.
'YLVANIA RAILROAD, leave depot, corner ELL
TEETH and MARKET Streets, at L. N., 1180 noon,
end 4 P. IL anEN
(UNNY BAGS-60 BALES FOB
mats by .1111.IIRSTOH t OMPATAIBIII,
sole lee With 17LONT Wm&
SALES BY AUCTION.
MTHOMAS & SONS,
• Zion. 169 end 141 South FOUBTU Street
(formerly Nod. 67 and 39.)
lOW PUBLIC BALES HEAL ESTATE AND BTOGES
AT THE EXCHANGE ON TUESDAYS.
)TEAL ESTATE AT PEI trATE SALE
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111 W e /lure a huge amount of real retain et private
Rale, bieluding every description of city and country pro
perty. Printed beta may be bad at the Auction Store.
REAL ESTATE, STOOK.6, LO 4 NS, ,*c.—FEB. 4
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VALUABLE BOLLINU-MILL AND PARK, 9
FLCI,P, Mich ',perkr waterepower, stone Illiali4iob, tenant
linutieo l ox,, four inilem from Coatenrille, Chfiator I:Q=ln
Pa.
THWEE.STURY BRIER EITORN AND DW>ILL•
ING, Nu. 191.4er'Bowfin! tercet.
VALUABLY; FARM, 7 . 9 acres, Chester cutmty, P.
GROUND-RENT, $54 per
LOANS AND STOCK.
$2,000 Keokuk, Mt. Plefteant, and M necatine Baßroad
.company, for noconnt of whom it may concern.
00 AiIfITVIS llarriolniTff ISrllQa Company.
Aasigneea Eala (42ohaolidattd) Btodk Cattawlaaa HaLL
road Company.
6 Biatrea Philadelphia and IIaTYE! de Grace Steam T. 31 1 ,.
beat Company.
nharea American Academy of Music.
1 ewe in the Mercantile Library Company.
53,01* WA TA RA RAILROAD.
For accost tof whom It may commrrt
-6 bowls ($r..00 tiwßtitra JtAilromi o i mpluy
EXECUTOR'S 5A1.10.
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Fstato of A texituder Tottpr,
to slows ItoliancP Irma:trim Ch 860
6,000 SNARES PENNSYLVANIA COlt-
PA Y.
On Wednendny,
Fel . rostry /1, at 12 o'clock TIMM, at the office of the
company, No. 417 Walnut street, will be /told for non•
payment of misesments
-6,0(./0 shares Pennsylvania Vompany of /Stiehl
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MEDICINAL.
GLUTEN- CAPSULES
PURE CrD-LIVE OIL*,
The repugnance of most patients to t!Ob-tiVillt
OIL, and the inability of many to take It at all, has in
duced various forum of disguise for its adminktration
that are familiar to the Medical Profession. Some of
them answer in 9pecial moles, but more often the voldula
neutralizes the usual effect of the Oil, proving quite as
unpalatable and of less, theremutio value. Tito realm
macs, nausea, tic., to invalids, induced by diaituat of the
Oil, is entirely obviated by the use of our CAPSULES.
COD-LIVER OIL CAPSULES have been much wad
lately in Europe, the experience there of the good re
sults Irmo their use in both hospital and private practice.,
aside from the naturally suggested aliVilfgalTUS, are suf.
ficient to warrant our claiming the virtues we do for
them, feeling assured their use will result in benefit and
deserved favor. Prepare.] by
VVYETH & BROTHER,
1412 IN ALNITT
DR J. H. SCHENCK'S PULMONIO
SYLUP, for the cure of Coughs, Colds, and Con
sumption.
DK. J. 11. SCHENCK'S SEA-WEED TONIC, for
Dyspepsia and all weak and debilitated state of tits
Stomach.
DR. J. 11. gC!IIENCICS MANDRAKE PILLS, fur
disease of the Liver or a gentle elthattie•
Tfiese three medicines are all rretmently regolred lu
curing Consumption.
It is of great importance to keep tho Liver end Stom
ach in a healthy condition • it the appetite is gone the
paint cannot get strength. The Sea. Weed Tonle
WAS the Pu!moult Syrup iu giving a tone to the Rt. - mach.
then the Syrup ripens the matter and ViSti.reES the Waal
to a healthy condition,
A NOTHER RECENT CURE OF
.IAL CONSUMPTION AND EMCEEING OF THE
LUNGS BY SCUENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP.
PHILA.DOLPEILt, PA., January 2, 1862,
Da. J. H. Scit,.Nce.--Dear Sir: AA3 en hare cured Uly
wife of & WM-Marked copqMptjopt when she was, as It
were, in the very Jews or death, jliniGU to rollraOr, Fsv
well as duty to my fellow man, impels me to address you
this letter, and detail the condition of toy wife and the
very remarkable effects of your medicines In her case.
More than three years ago, bile was taken with a copious
bleeding fluni JLe 1111110, attended with a very bad
cough, loss of appetite, pain between her shoulders,
headache; cold feet and a gradual decline of her physical
Dowers.
I Called in our family physician, who Is marl/Malone
of the ablest practitioners in title city. He continued to
attend her for a long time, and during that time she had
several attacks of bemo rhage from the lungs, which
male her very weak and brought her nigh the grave. It
was when I lilt that her chances for life were very bad,
that Mrs. Edward French, of Moorestown, New Jersey,
who had been cured of Consumption and Bleediag from
The
.. tort l os, and who k,. Dr. Elcheardt. tehr.y, her Ittd
Consumption and came mar dying, and knew he was
cured with his celebrated medicines, sett word to her by
all means to apply to Dr. Schenck. as he would be sure
to cure her. At this time my wife was very bad. She
was much reduced In Ilesh and strength, bad no appetite,
a very bad cough, which was so distressing as nearly to
deprive her or sleep. She had a pain and distress in her
Higgs, end it was evident to tel all that she was far gone
with consumption; in the nftvrnoprio aho would have
fever and creeping chills, and at night free.sweata
After Dr. Schenck had given her an examination with
his Respirometer, Ile pointed out to my wile the part of
her lungs that was badly diseased. She had little con
fidence at this tints is any remedies, as she had used
nearly everything in medicine without the least benefit,
While her tifernv Wilt progressing to the destruction of
the vitals, and would doubtless soon Terminer; la
She commenced using the Pulmonic Syrup, Mandrake
Pills aml•Sea Weed Tonic. and continued to use them
about a month, seeing Dr. Schenck once a week, when
she experienced a marked improvement, There was this
difference in the entecte of these novilcinesfr nn all others.
Instead i f drying up the secretions and matter, as the
other medicines had done, They seemed to ripen the mat
ter and expal et in the font of stspeetoretilll, which WM
very copious, at the saute dine the secretiohi were re
•etored to their natural and healthy condition, and the
blood began again to circulate naturally.
The medicines were continued a long time, as the dis
ease was well seated, and obstinately resisted the action
of the medicines. At length the matter began to ripen,
and the cough became loose, Mid a free discharge of mai
ter occurred right from the spot where my who felt that
her longs were di.eastd. Ifi-r appetite and digestion Im
proved, and she eujoyed What sine had long been a strang
er to, sweet and refreshing sleep. The medicines con
tinued to act I.l}loll her blood and Vilified it, and after
four or flee months she had regained her strength, and
felt that her system was purified front all dicease. She
is now well and hearty and ablo to attend to the duties
of her family, and cannot speak in terms of too great
praise of the virtues of your medicines, dire is desirous
everybody shall knew edit they have done fur her, and
will be glad to direct any one to the tellibtliell that will
cure that fell destroyer of the human rites, Constutipthn.
I reside at 1307 Uherry street, stet Mrs. Lanultig or myselt
will be very happy to have any ono call on us, at our re
rtdence, and hear for themselves of the great virtues of
your very valuable medicines,
YOUrs, t G. W. LANSING.
Place of business, 00T ARCH Street, Philadelphia.
A DECIDED CASE OF CONSUAIp-
A.A._TION CURED BY SCHENCR'S PULMONIO
As it is doubted by many that Consumption is ever
cured, in of der to remove such doubts, the reader will
!hate,, to tha following plain statement of facts: In the
fall of 1860 I contracted a hearY cold, MIMI przliicod 14
dry, hacking cough, attended with headache, loss of op.
;elite, constipation, and au increasing debility. I placed
myself miller the care of an eminent physician of this
city, and remained under his care several months, and
follov cd ihe directions strictly, but kept getting weaker
and worse all the time. I lost in three or four months
twenty-eight pounds M flesh. I was exceedingly 'eeble,
bad a very taw cough ant pain in My chest, WC* four,
and minus night sweats. About this Uwe 1 was taken
with an excessive bleeding from the lunge, and raised
nearly a quart of blood. In this Manning condition I
felt 1 must die soon if I was not speedily helped, and
many of my friends thought there was not much hope for
me. I procured tome of Dr. SCllENelli'd ?COLONIC
SYRUP, which seemed to agree with me. I then sent
for Pr. Schenck, veto came over to my residence, in
Mantua, and examined my lungs cm erully with lila lie.
spirotneter, and fonmi lily right lung very much diseased,
and my other lung in an ulcerated condition. Ito pre
scribed, in addition to his Syrup, the free use of his
MANDRAKE PILLS AND SEAWEED TONIC. I de
termined to give his medicines a fair trial, as I felt that if
be could not cure me. no one else could. It was not long
before I felt his medicines were doing me good. 1 thutid my
appetite and. strength improving, and, best of all, the
pnlitionie Syrup seemed to linen tile matter in my lungs,
and, for days, I would sometimes bring op a 9 iiast of
matter and corruption. I continued using the medicines
for tl rec or four mouths, until ail the matter wee ox.
. peiled from my lunge, and they were entirely healed and
sound. I regained illy flesh and strength, and am well
and hearty to-day, and able to attend to my lintaineei as
usual. I have recommended Dr. Schenck's medicines to
many of my friends who were complaining, always with
benefit.. am satisfied I had the Consumption and was
ei,tLely MIMI by Dr. Schanck and I am fully pars
stunted that, if the consumptive Would perneVere in the
use of his medicines, and follow strictly the directions,
the majority of them would be cured.
I am doing business at the N. W. corner of Seventh
and Cherry street P, and will be very happy to give any
information I can to all who will call on we.
JOSEPH B. HAINES.
plifluclelphia, Pa., Dec. 27th,1501,
Dr. SC/RENCK. will be at his office, No, 3 N. SIX=
Street, every Saturday, to give advice and examine lungs
with his Respirometer. Lis usual charge for an exami
nation is three dollars, tint en Saturday, February list, he
will examine everybody that may come free of charge.
ja29-3ist
EYE AND BAR.—DR. jONES i of
N. Y., will Practice at HERR'S HOTEL, HAR
RISBURG, Pa., from the 20th JANUARY till the 10th
NEHRU ARY, 1862.
Dr. JONES cures all curable diseases of the EAR and
EYE', and performs all operations for the restoration of
bight and Hearing.
Dr. JONES straightens Crdssed Nice in one minute.
Dr. JONES inserts Artificial Eyes (to moreand appear
natural) without pain, no matter whether the Eye be
partly or entirely out.
Dr. JONES introduces artificial Ear Drums, which ha
prove the hearing immediately.
Dr. JONES has had tie benefit of a Medical Education
in the Medical Colleges, Hospitals, and Eye and Ear In
&Mutton of America and Europe. Ms Diplomas hang
in his Office. k09.9.-12t4s
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PERMATORILkIEA.-ONE TO SIX
Boxes of w WINCHESTER'S SPECIFIC PILL"
will permanently cure any case of Seminal Weakness, or
its resulting impotency, however aggravated, and whether
recently developed or of long standing.
BEAD TILE TESTIMONY.
Wo behave It to be as near a specific as any mech.
eine can be. We have cured many severe AIMS With
from SIX TO TEN DOSES.
KEITH. M. D."
Amer. Jour. of Med. Science
Price el per box; six boxes for $5. Sent by mail.
Sold only by S. C. UPHAM, 21.0 CHESTNUT Stroet.
solo spot for Philohlphti4 Trade PIIPPM•
no27.wfmam
VONSUMPTIO N.
WINCHESTER'S
genuine preparation of
DR. J. F. CHDROHILL'S
HYTOFHOSIMITES OF LIME AND SODA,
A Swine Remedy for the treatment of
CONSUMPTION.
The great warren which has attended the use of
the flypophosphites is creating a very general !wintry,
not only among the medical profession, but also
among the theueends wko are suffering from Pulntoner?
Disease.
In all Nervous or Scrofulous Complaints, Debility,
Lem of VITA!? P9wEli, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and
Female Weaknesses, it no a sovereign and lnyahlable
reedy.
Price Fl, or mix bottles for $5, with full directions.
Circulars may be obtained by all inquirers. Bold whole
wale and retail, by
8, 0. UPHAM,
6101:11}ISTNUT_Street,
Bala ttgant for Philtulalakia, Troda a . uPpilad.
n027-wfsoStn
FOR NEW YORK.
NiCW Wail' LIND, via Delaware wI
Raritan Canal.
Philadelphia and New York Narrow Steamboat Main
"any tiMOille freight and 11111 TO daft M 3 1 1 1 Mn 3113111 6
ins their cargoes In New York the following data
freights taken at reasonable rata.
WM. P. OLYDN, Agent,
No. 14 80IITA WHAR92B, PhiladelshN6
JAMES RAND, 'Agent,
sal-t1 Plan 14 and 16 EAST RIVER, hew Tait.
"E„ t vw FOR 144.EW YORK_ The
Phltedelphla Steam PropelJer Oompani
will commence their Mainers Jri the season on Mondale
lilth Instant.
Their steamers are now remising freight at Seem!
Pier above Watout street.
Terms moommodathap t
AP P I7o
W W. BAND r ON
"at Matti Delaware Amor
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A. every other description of Prhithot, of the !og
superior ;nudity, at the moo t seeeiyAshte retie, et RING.
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