BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
Mr. Hoyt, of Boston, is adding every
few days to his already very extensive
and choice list of books for children. A
supply may be obtained at the Presbyte
rian House, 1334 Chestnut St. We have
recently receive)!
Sandy Maclean, a good story of a sturdy
young Covenanter. With other, tales.
18mo., pp. 108.
Our Father who art in Heaven. A
story illustrative of the several petitions
Of the Lord’s Prayer. 18mo, pp. 154.
Mountain Gems, by Rev. John Todd,
D. D. This is a sett of four handsome
ISmo. volumes, in uniform style with
many illustrations, each volume containing
a number of brief stories in the best style
of that charming writer for young and old
Rev. Dr. Todd. Each story aptly illus
lustrates some important religious truth
or principle, and while the moral and
spiritual aim dominates, the interest of the
narrative is never sacrificed to the lesson
to be conveyed. The whole is put up in
a neat case and is a very suitable present
for good children.
PAMPHLETS.
Smith.—Gillmobe. An Address delivered at
the inauguration of the author as President of
Dartmouth College, Nov. 18th, 1863, by Rev.
Asa D. Smith, D, D. With the Introductory
Address of his excellency, Joseph A. Gill
more, Governor of New Hampshire. Pub
lished by request of the Board of Trustees.
The exceedingly handsome introductory
of Gov. Gillmoreis followed by the graceful
inaugural of Dr. Smith in this pamphlet.
The governor welcomes Dr. Smith as a
native of New Hampshire, an old play
mate and a relative. Dr. Smith, in the in
augural treats in a discursive and general
way of the " College, in its Proper Func
tion and Characteristics.” He defends the
peculiarities of the American College Sys
tem, joined as it is with high professional
schools, in contrast with the English and
Continental methods. We quote a pas
sage on the Study of Metaphysics.
Scarce any line of study is more con
ducive to mental acuteness. Scarce any
is more imperatively enjoined by the signs
of the times. What need of guarding the
future guides of opinion against both the
Scylla and the Charybdis of modem spe
culation; against a dreamy idealism, on
the one hand, introducing us to a phantas
magoric universe, carrying its resolution
of all visible entities beyond even the
primeval fire-mist, merging, by some form
of Berkeleyism, the not me in the me, and
at last the finite in the infinite, and so
landing us, after preliminary vagaries of
rationalism and reason-worship, in a
dreary and desolate pantheism; or a shal
low though pretentious sensationalism, on
the other hand, losing the me in the not
me, making the phenomenal and the ma
terial all, substituting in ethics utilities
for principles, and coming, finally, through
tortuous passages of the positive philosophy
to a dark and comfortless atheism.
Annual Report op the Director of the
Mint, for the Fiscal year ending June 30th,
1863.
Ex-Gov. Pollock’s Report to the Secre
tary of the Treasury contains many mat
ters of interest to the general reader. The
value of the coinage of the year was $24,
688,411,12; the number of pieces 51,980,
515, nearly forty-eight million of which
were nickel cents 1 Gov. Pollock speaks
of Idaho as a promising gold-bearing field;
definite returns have not been received
from the mining regions of this nor of the
Oregon or Washington territories, both of
which are gold producing regions of high
promise. He would have the government
abandon the use of nickel, as an expensive
and troublesome alloy, in the composition
of the cent, and does not believe it neces
sary to increase the size of the coin, in
order to give the people a full cent’s worth
of copper. “The experience of other
countries, and indeed of our own, has
taught us that it was an unnecessary li
berality.” The people simply require
Some legal token and are indifferent as to
its real value. He advises that the cent
retain its present size and be composed of
ninety-five per cent copper, the remainder
to be tin and zinc, in suitable proportions.
When aluminum sinks to about one-third
of its present value it will be a most ad
mirable material for smaller coins. We
quote a passage on
Recognition or Gon in our Coinage.
I would respectfully and earnestly ask
the attention of the Department to the
proposition in my former report, to intro
duce a motto upon our coins expressive of
a National reliance on Divine protection,
• and a distinct and unequivocal National
recognition of the Divine Sovereignty.
We claim to be a Christian Nation—why
should we not vindicate our character by
honoring th‘e God of Nations in the exercise
of our political Sovereignty as a Nation?
Our national coinage should do this. Its
legends and devices should declare pur
trust in God—in Him who is the “King
of Kings and Lord of Lords. ” The motto
suggested, “God our Trust,”is taken from
our National Hymn, the “ Star-Spangled
Banner.” The sentiment is familiar to
everyjMzen of our country—it has thrilled
the heUpind fallen in song from the lips
of of American Freemen. The
time for the introduction of this or a simi
lar motto, is propitious and appropriate.
’Tis an hour of National peril and danger
_an hour when man’s strength is weak
ness—when our strength and our nation’s
and salvation, must be in the
God of Battles and of Nations. Let us
reverently acknowledge his sovereignty, aud
let our coinage declare our trust in God.
. The Lady’s Friend, a monthly maga
zine of Literature and Fashion. Edited
by Mrs. Heury Peterson: Phila. Deacon
& Peterson. Two dollars a year.
This is the second number of a new
monthly, started at the commencement of
the year, by the enterprising publishers
of the Saturday Evening Post. It is con
ducted with ability, numbering among its
contributors the popular writer Marion
Hartlaud, aud is abundantly illustrated
with representations of matters interesting
to the ladies. The editorial department
is well managed.
Vick’s Illustrated Catalogue of
Seeds for 1864, is a full, comprehensive
guide in floriculture, handsomely illus
trated. Sent, postage paid, to any ad
dress, for 10 cents. Address James Vicks,
Rochester, New York.
pfewg.
THE THEORY OF PREPARATION FOR
PREACHING.
dr. skinner’s article in the am. presb.
AND THEOL. REVIEW.
We have read this article with great in
terest. Its style is lively and perspicuous,
its tone is spiritual, its treatmeut of the
subject, masterly. Good service would
be done to the- sacred, office, if every can
didate for the ministiy, and every preacher
were made acquainted with the excellent
and judicious views of the experienced,
able and devout author. We will present
such extracts, taken in order from almost
every section of the article, as our space
allows.
Dr. Skinner in the beginning lays great
stress upon the thought, that the supreme
and dominating part in preaching, belongs
to the Holy Ghost. He says:
A true preacher is a spiritual man; the
natural man has no perception of the
things of the Spirit, the material of preach
ing : he may have notions of these things
and if he be an eloquent speaker, he may
discourse on them eloquently; but he can
make no spiritual discourse; this requires
more than notions or forms of the under
standing ; it is from spiritual discernment
of the infinite things themselves.
The sermons he [the Holy, Spirit,] is
most pleased with are such as approxi
mate most nearly to his own preaching in
the oracles of God. A true sermon is of
the same, temper and'purpose with the
Bible; tjspsame in assimilation with the
spirituality of God; the same in incon
sistence with evil and vanity; the same in
attractiveness to Christ aud heaven; the
same in antagonism to whatever imperils
the soul and the immortality of No
human preaching is perfect; but a true
preacher strives after perfection, and the
Bible is his standard. "
The supremacy of the Spirit’s agency
requires the preacher, not the less but the
more, to attend to his part of the work.
The Spirit does but help him to help him
self; his freedom is not abridged.
The natural expression of dependence
on the Holy Spirit, and the first means of
preparation, of course, is prayer. “Itis an
intuition of conscience that a preacher is
required by the business of his vocation to
be, above all others, a man of prayer.”
Advancing in the inquiry ; we meet the
question on the threshold, Whether writing
is to be included in the work? “On the
says the doctor, “the highest suc
cess in preparing, requires the use of the
pen.”
Under this head a quotation from Cice
ro, and another from Vinet, follow:
“The pen is the best, the most excellent
former and director of the tongue. How
ever long a person may practice spontane
ous elocution, he can never command ad
miration without practice in writing; and
the man who after using his pen shall
come to the bar, will carry along with him
this advantage, that though he shall speak
without previous meditation, yet what he
will deliver will have the air of correct,
composition; and further, if at any time he
shall use the assistance of notes, as soon
as he lays them aside, the remaining part
of his speech will be a piece with the pre
ceding. As a boat under sail, though the
rowers suspend their efforts, the vessel
still moves in the same direction as when
impelled by the impulse of the oars, so in
a continued discourse, when no longer
supplied -with notes, yet the remaining
part proceeds in the same strain, by the
resemblance and strength acquired from
composition.”.
“Itis necessary at the present day, in.
order to banish from the threshold of con
science prejudices which, to certain minds
of a fastidious character, may be a lasting
hindrance, that evangelicatdiscourse should
not be[unpolished and rude; it is necessary
that, when compared with other products
of the understanding, it should not appear
chargeable with any kind of inferiority,
and that no one should have to say, with
any appearance of reason, that it is only
the ears of the vulgar of Which it has the
command.”
PREPARATION WITHOUT WRITING.
But it should be added, on the other
hand, and with strong accent, that if
writing for the pulpit be important, not
less so are the capacity and the habit of
preparation without writing. Generally,
indeed, this latter mode of preparation is
a condition of the highest success in the
other mode. Better that a preacher
should write no sermons than compose as
many as he will probably have to preach.
Of three sermons a week, the least num
ber |usually required, he would hardly
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 18 64.
have time for more than the bare hand
writing. Unless he has uncommon facili
ty of composition, he cannot write well
more than one at the utmost. And the
utility of the habit of composition depends
on the care given to the work. Better
that one should do all his preaching ex
temporaneously, than practise no other
than negligent, hasty, extemporaneous
writing.
Indeed, valuable as well written dis
courses are in other respects, their chief
advantage, ultimately, both to the preacher
and his hearers, is from the influence they
have on the preparation to preach extem
poraneously. Certain itis, that the ideal
of excellence in preaching, is unattainable
when the delivery is from full notes.*
Extemporizing in itself is the best way of
speaking, the natural way, the only
speaking, indeed, in the strict sense of the
term. Each of the other ways, reading,
writing, reproducing from a manuscript, has
somewhat in it which nature would hard
ly suggest or allow in suqh an occupation
as that of addressing, speaking to, an as-:
sembly. Neither of them is often, if ever,
used in other kinds of eloquence. Does
the singularity of the pulpit in using them
so freely as it has done, admit of an apolo
gy ? A great master in the ministry, of
the word has said: “The people must be
taught in a manner that they may be in
wardly convinced and made to feel the
truth of what the apostle says, that “ the
word of God is a two-edged- sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of
the soul and spirit, the joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts'and'in
tents of the heart.” There is too little of
living preaching in your kingdom, (Eng
land;) sermons there have been mostly
read or recited. True and faithful ser
vants of God ought not to wish to shine
in the ornaments of rhetoric or effect great
things thereby;'but the Spirit of God
should be echoed by their voice,, and so
give birth to virtue. No possible > Hanger.
must be permitted to abridge the liberty of
' the Spirit of God, or prevent Ms free course
among those he has adorned with his
graces for the edifying of the Ghurch.’f
UNANTICIPATED ASSISTANCE OF THE SPIRIT.
By far the.best part of preaching is often
from unanticipated assistances of. the Holy
Spirit.' “The salient points of Whitfield’s
oratory were not prepared. passages;
they Were bursts of passion, like the jets
of a Geyser when the spring is in full play. ”
“ The degree,” says Thomas Scott, “in
which, after the most careful preparation
for the pulpit, new thoughts, new argu
ments, animated addresses often flow into
my mind, while speaking to the congrega
tion on very common subjects, makes me
feel as if I was quite another man than
when poring over them in my study.” A
preacher, whom we know, has related of
himself, that, when discoursing from Heb.
xi. 5, he had such a sense given to him at
the moment, of the patriarch’s privilege
there mentioned (“before his translation
he had the testimony that he pleased
God,”) that he was enabled to enlarge on
it, nearly half an hour, in an almost rap
ture, which made him nearly unconscious
of’what he was doing orwhere
yet, as he gathered from a reporter, with
out inflation of style, or any kind of ex
cess ; making discourse, he believed, never
equalled by himself before or afterwards.
There have been instances yet more re
markable—instances wherein the Holy
Spirit, in the exercise of his sovereign
right in the business of the pulpit, has dis
placed altogether the preacher’s pre-com
pdsed, sermon, by one spontaneously
preached by him from the same, or ano
ther text. "The Rev. Dr. Dickson
handed me on Saturday evening, his ser
mon for Sabbath morning, to read, and I
went to church expecting to hear him
preach it. He took the same text, but not
one idea of what he had written and T
read, did he utter. At dinner, he asked
if I had observed any thing at church.
Yes. What -was it ? Why, sir, you took
your Saturday evening text, but you ut
tered not one idea, on it, you had written to
preach. I thought you would notice it.
I got such a new and precious view of my
text, when in prayer, that I put my ser
mon in the Bible and spoke just as L saw
and felt.” It would be presumptuous
hastily to refer sudden pulpit experiences
to the direct agency of the Holy . Spirit,
but it may be no less so to determine ar
bitrarily that they are not from him: they
may be from him ; it is within his pro
vince to give them; and no possible dan
ger must be permitted to abridge his Ur
berty. .
The very idea of extemporizing, says
the writer, supposes that the words of the
discourse are unpremeditated. The mat
ter of an extemporaneous, discourse
should be as well prepared* as of one that
is written. The words, only are impro
vised. Preparation to preach extempore
should not include a programme or brief
to be carried into the pulpit The late
Dr. J. P. Wilson is quoted:
“ If you press me to say which is abso
lutely the best practice, in regard to notes,
properly so called, that is, in distinction
from a complete manuscript, I unhesita
tingly say, use none, carry no scrap of
writing into the pulpit Let your scheme,
with all its branches be written on your
mental tablet. The practice will be in
valuable. I know a preacher about my
own age' who has never employed a note
of any kind.”
Prepared paragraphs and pages should
not he introduced into an extempore ser
mon. This advice, and reciprocally, the
injunction not to introduce extempore
paragraphs into a written sermon, rest
upon the presumed difficulty or impossi
bility of doing so successfully and grace
fully. We should hesitate about any such
assumption. The latter mode undoubted
ly can be, and is, pursued, to great advan-
* “To read in a manuscript book' as our
clergy now do, is not to preach at all. Preach
out of a book if you must, but do not read in
it, or even from it. A read sermon of twenty
minutes will seem longer to the hearers, than a
free discourse of an hour."— Coleridge..
t Letter of JohnJCalvin to Somerset. ,
tage, by many preachers. It often proves
a most decided relief to what would other
wise be a tedious discourse; and such a
method of preaching written sermons:
i. e., with extempore prayers freely thrown
in, is perhaps the one through which
most preachers would reach the greatest
greatest measure of success.
The preparation of the material is
justly represented to be the same arduous
and all-important work, whichever of the
two leading methods of delivery, written
on extemporaneous sermons, we choose.
“ It is generally the all in all in extempo
raneous sermons; the character of the ut
terance and the elocution, the merit of the
performance probably depends upon it.
With few exceptions, the whole is done,
virtually, when this is done.” Prepara
tion to preach involves the preparation of
the preacher himself, as well as of the ser
mon. “And this, after all, is the most
important preparation . . . There is no
action more full of spirituality, more ani
mated by spiritual perception in its high
est degrees, than the just delivery of an
evangelical sermon.” The short-coming
therefore, in the most elaborate prepara
tion, is radical, if the preacher has failed
to prepare himself . His preaching, after
all, will not he preaching indeed.
Referring to the necessity of self-com
mand in presence of the congregation, Dr.
.S. justly presents the sacred and awful na
ture of the preacher’s office as a reason for
peculiar tenderness of feeling on his part,
and he asks the searching question:
Is it not probable that too much of the
self-poafession and familiarity commonly
exhibittd in preaching is to be referred
rather €6 the presence of a manuscript, or
to an unspiritual self-assurance, than to
proficiency in pulpit piety and grace ? It
is not in either of these that that the po
tentiality is seated, for spiritual activity
in preaching; it lies, exclusively, in a
habit of soul, produced and perpetuated
with reference to it, by the anointing of
the Spirit of God.
ON WRITING SERMONS.
It is to be kept vividly and constantly
before the mind in writing for the pulpit,
that there is a fundamental specialty in
this kind of composition. It approaches
as nearly as possible to the style of extem
poraneous speaking. The composition
of a sermon, should, if possible, be made
perfect in its kind; bu( its kind is its own
and unchangeable. The style of the ser
mon, like its matter and its purpose, is in
dividual and unique.
There is special danger of being un
spiritual in this part of the labor: the dan
ger of the undue pursuit of ornament; of
ambitions oratory; of going into a search
for the enticing words of man’s wisdom;
of depending too much on the sermons or
plans of others; of being too speculative
: jafomsei or, on the other hand, vul
gar and commonplace; of being only half
or almost true: in a word, of ignoring the
Spirit’s part in preaching, and consequent
ly, of abating the necessity and exercise of
prayer.
The work of composition generally
goes on better when, without anxious at
tention to diction, the pen of the writer
moves swiftly, under the impulse of strong
and vivid conceptions of the subject. Di
rect study of expression at the time of
writing, is seldom the best method of suc
cess in the style of a composition. Quin
tilian tell us, that the choicest expressions
are, for the most part, adherent to things,
and are seen in their own light; while we
search after them as if they were hiding
and stealing themselves away from us.
But, though, with the generality of
preachers, the rule in writing a sermon
should be to dispatch it, currente calamo,
yet they should not assume that because
they have followed the best method, aud
probably produced a better composition
than they could have otherwise done, they
should not subject it to a critical revision
of jthe.language, now that it is substantial
ly finished, according to the true rule.
Yerhal criticism has been hiding its time;
aft&r a little rest from the labor of compo
sition, this second. labor may be instituted,
not only without peril, but probably with
much advantage to the fruit of the first.
John: Foster, speaking of one of his own
discourses, says: “I dare say I could
point out scores of sentences, each one of
which has cost me several hours of the ut
most exertion of my mind to put it in the.
state in which it now stands, after putting
it in several other forms, to each one of
Which I saw some precise objection, which
I could at the time have very distinctly
assigned.” Robert Hall (witness what
his biographer says of his toil in preparing
his sermons for the press) was scarcely
behind his eminent contemporary in this
exquisite care for perfect expression.
We quote, in conclusion, a simple sen
tence on the relation of the pastoral work
to preaching, which we commend to the
attention of those preachers, especially,
who think it necessary in order to the pro
duction of a good sermon to immure them
selves like monks in-their studies: and
who regard all but the most necessary
pastoral duties as an interruption.
The best parish preacher is not one so
engrossed in preparing his sermons that
ho can earnestly do little else; but one, on
the contrary, so occupied in the work of
pastoral oversight that his abounding in
that work, his intimate acquaintance with
the state of w his flock thence resulting,
gives him the word of command in the se
lection of his topics for preaching, and
stimulates and guides him iu writing his
discourses.
The writer, finally calls for a distinct
treatise on his subject, and “would rejoice
greatly,” to know that a competent per
son had undertaken the work. Surely,
the article from which we have quoted, if
nothing else, amply proves the fitness of
the writer himself for such an undertaking.
Happy are the candidates for the sacred
office who sit under the teaching of an In
structor whose views so remarkably com
bine the maturity, richness and spirituali
ty of age, with the vivacity and ardour of
youth.
Literary Items.
A Work on the Will. —Dr. Whedon, the
popular editor of the Methodist Quarterly
Review, hasjcompletedj his work on the
Will andjput*it4nto*the 4 handsk>f the com
positors. | JW it'will be~published
this author will now turn
to,his'Commentary on the
Hew* Testament,’’jwhich jhas been tsus
pendedJuntiP his' work] on the Will was
completed.-.—The^Rev.*James W. Mas
sie, D. D., of -London, is now busily en-
gaged in superintending* printing of
America, to which he came
as the representative of many
the"British"clergy, chiefly of the dissenting
churches, who sympathize'with the. friends
of the supporters of the na
tional] government in its struggle with
slavery and'secession. Thejaook will be
entitled, “The Americans,: the Cause of
their Present Conflict, the Propect of the
Slave, and the’Test of British Sympathy,”
and’was expected to appear early in Feb"
ruary.-—Geo. W. Curtis, heretofore an
editorial contributor, has now become edi
tor of Harper’s Weekly.- ——Rev. Mr.
Riggs, of the American Board of Missions,
has just completed the first revision of the
Bulgarian Old Testament, which is now in
press; and Rev. Mr. Long, of the Me
thodist Mission, has just commenced the
revision of the Hew Testament.
Horace Greeley, in a late number of
the Independent has recorded his dissent
from the views of Renan’s book and has
asserted his belief in miracles. But such
“miracles!” Among what he calls mira
cles, he reckons the coincidence of Jthe
deaths of John Thomas Jef
ferson, signers of the “Declaration of In
dependence,” on the fiftieth anniversary’of
the event, and the fact that the messen
gers bearing the news of theJ,deaths,Jone<
goingl'north and "south,[met in
Philadelphia where] the declaration was
signed. the.
Messenger .*—j
§§,“ These coincidences he regards as 'mi
culous! A singular providence we see
in them, but what a perversion of the true
idea of a miracle to put them on a par
with the raising of Lazarus, or the curing
of blind Bartimeus! Theologically the
‘Tribune’ philosopher is a very unsafe
authority. His earnest reprimand of Re
nan remands us of the German proverb:
“EinEsel schelt den anderen ein Langohr.”
(One donkey brays to the other, lo ! what
long ears.”)
SI Prof: Shedd’s great Christian
Doctrine, gis not^without^lnaccuracies.
The Christian thus
out an error ia regardgto*the- teaching of
the]Heidelberg"oatechi3m tj'ggffiff’gjggqg
"We cannot imagine how a scholar, so
candid, careful, and affluent in knowledge
as is Dr. Shedd, should have allowed him
self to fall into so great and complete an.
"error, as to assert that the Heidelberg
Catechism teaches the Zwihglian theory of
the sacraments with decision, when in fact,
it teaches, with decision, the very opposite
of the Zwinglian theory.
“Any one who will consult the answers
to the 15th, 16th, 11th, 18th, and 19th
questions of that Catechism, under the
Twenty-eigth and Twenty-ninth Lord’s
Days, will see at a. glance, that the excel
lent historian of doctrine is surely at fault.
We much regret this error in a work which
is nowin the main the highest authority
on the subjects of which it treats. We
should not have adverted to it in this pub
lic way, save for the purpose of asking
some, who may see this article to correct
for themselves a statement which may
mislead those who are not familiar students
and expositors' of the Heidelberg Cate
chism.”
An Important Work for Missionaries.
Eight years ago Prof. Lepsius, of Berlin,
published a work called “ Das allgemeine
linguistische Alphabet,” which was trans
lated into English. A second edition
very much enlarged and improved has now
appeared in English, and bears this title :
“Standard Alphabet for reducing un
written languages and foreign graphic sys
tems to a uniform orthography in Euro
pean letters.” It is published at London
and Berlin and is recommended for adap
tion by the Church Missionary Society.
The work is invaluable to foreign mission
aries and to all who take an interest in
linguistical studies, inasmuch as it con
tains a development, based upon the most
scientific and solid principles, of- the rules
for a foreign system of orthography for
the reduction of all foreign languages to
the Latin letters of the English language.
First American Sermon Published. —
The first American sermon ever printed,
it is said, was preached in Virginia in the
year 1614, by the Rev. Alexander Whit
taker, D. D., who landed at Jamestown,
May 10th, 1611. He was a minister in
the Church of England, and from his self
sacrificing devotion to the cause of reli
gion in the colony, received the distin
guished title of “Apostle of Virginia.”
He was active in his holy work nearly ten
years before the pilgrims landed at Ply
mouth - B£slfS
What has been accomplished by Publi
cation.—Eight years ago there were three
Baptist churches in Sweden, with three
hundred members; now there are one
hundred and sixty-one churches, with five
thousand five hundred and fifteen members.
All these churches but four, originated
through the colporteurs, sustained by the
American Baptist Publication Society—a
noble work.
A contemporary, in reviewing a recent
work of a German writer, has the follow
ing amusing remarks on. the peculiarities
of the German language-and literature:
“We often have to express our admiration
of what is German. We may take this
occasion to say a word upon the great
German fault—excess. Ho nation in the
world contains so many adepts in the art
of carrying the thing too far; Their very
language is an instance. A friend of ourS
maintains that it has seven deadlysins, as
follows: 1. Too many volumes in the lan
guage ; 2. Too many sentences in a vo
lume ; 3. Too many words in a sentence;
3. Too many syllables in a word ; 5. Too
many letters in a syllable; 6. Too many
strokes in a letter; *l. Too much black in
a stroke.”
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Door above Chestnut, Phila.
JST’Strawberry is the first street west of Second.
Being under a low rent .and light store ex--
penses, we are able to .sell oar gooda at the
lowest prices in the city, arid in order that all
classes may be suited; we offer a well assorted
stock of
Tapestry, Brussels,*- Imperial 3 ply, Su
perfine, Fine, and Medium Ingrain
CARPETS.
Royal Twilled, affd Plain Striped Entry and
Stair Carpets; also, List, Bag, Hemp and Cot
ton Carpets in great variety.
Floor Oil Cloths, of all widths and- every
style: also, Canton and Cocoa Mattings, Table
and Stair Oil Cloths, Drugget-te, Hearth Bugs,
Stair Rods, Bindings, &c., sc. :
LEWIS & IVINS,
mar!9 ly 43 Strawberry street, Philadelphia.
Samuel Work.
Kramer & Bahm, Pittsburg.
BANKING HOUSE OF
WORK, McCOUCH & CO.,
No. 36 South Third Street, Phylada.
DEALERS in uncurrent Bank Notes and
Coins. Southern and Western Funds
bought on the most favorable terms.
Buis of Exchange on New York, Boston,
Pittsburg, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis,
etc., etc., constantly for sale.
Collections promptly made on all accessible
points in the United States and Canadas.
Deposits received, payable on demand, and
interest allowed as per agreement.
Stocks and Loans bought and sold on com
mission, and Business Paper negotiated.
Refer to Philadelphia and' Commercial Banks,
Philadelphia; Bead, Drexel A Co., Winslow,
Lanier & Co., New York; and .Citizens? and
Exchange Banks, Pittsburg. feblS tf
For THIRTY YEARS has received the Fa
vorable Recommendation of the PUBLIC* and
has been USED AND PRESCRIBED by the
FIRST PHYSICIANS IN THE LAND
BEST REMEDY KNOWN
Sick Headache,
Nervous Headache,
Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach,.
BihouB Headache, Dizziness, .
Costiveness, Loss of Appetite, Gout,
Indigestion, Torpidity of the Liver, Gravel,
Rheumatic Affections, : -Piles,
Heartburn, Sea Sickness, ...
Bilious Attacks,
Fevers, &c. '
For Testimonials, &c„ see Pamphlet
; with each -Bottle.
MANUFACTURED ONLYBY
TARRANT & CO.,
278 Greenwich Street,' New York.
(for sale by all druggists.)
REMOVAL.
0. H, WILLARD,
Photographer, 33
Has removed from 1628
new and spacious galleries,**!^
No. 1206 Chestnut Street-^l^9
jg|Mr. W. would say that : his : accommoda
tions now are of the most commodions and ex
tensive character; and lie feells confident that,
by close personal attention to fcisdbusiness, to
give his patrons a much finer _ quality of work
tnan has heretofore been produced in the city.
NOTICE.
We take this opportunity of informing our
friends and customers that we have associated
ourseveswith a -j 1
E. ;H\ MR! D.G El
'sfo. ; e>3S fMABKET STBEET.j
| (bei-ow seventh,) J ‘
Where we would be pleased to have you call.
We shall keep always on hand a first-class
stock of Ready-Made Clothing; also, a stock of
Piece Goods, which‘we will, make to order in
the most fashionable style.
ISAAC LIPPINCOTT,
GEO. L. HAINES,
CHAS. C. OZIAS,
Late with E. H. Adams, 7th & Market Sts.
P. & E. H. WILLIAMSON,
SCRIVENERS AND CONVEYANCERS
6y] S. W Cob. Aboh and Sevents^Sts.
William MoCouch,