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WELSH PREACHING,
A correspondent of The Nation gives
the account of a Sabbath which he spent a
few miles inland from Cardiff, among the
mountains of Glamorganshire, to which he
had retired from the former place for the
express purpose of finding a genuine Welsh
village, and hearing a specimen of that
celebrated eloquence, the eloquence of the
Welsh pulpit. He says:—
Dropping into.a stream of villagers along
the road, and listening to the incessant
click and rattle and bang of their Celtic
words, I was told by a man to whom I ad
dressed myself, that the best preacher in
the place was he of the Baptists—a verdict
of rare sectarian magnanimity, as the man
was going to another congregation. A
brisk walk soon brought me to the Baptist
chapel, and as I approached I was made
aware that the work had begun in earnest.
The two doors were open, a very fervent
prayer was being uttered, and many of the
congregation bad risen and turned about in
their pews, bowing their faces upon the
pew-backs. Several of them, who were not
too far rapt in prayer to perceive a stranger
standing in the vestibule, condescendingly
peeped through their fingers at me, and
then pointed to a seat.
The room was nearly square, with a lofty
old pulpit at the end opposite the doors,
and a gallery running round the other
three sides. It was well filled in every
part. The minister was a young Welsh
man, with thick black hair parted in the
middle, with darlr, massive, and tough fea
tures, and an intense expression. His
voice was incisive and sharp. The hard
Welsh words were hurled from his tongue
like stones from a catapult. There were
the Celtic fire and passion; the:consciousness
that, in the simple minds of his hearers, he
was invested with mysterious authority, an
appearance of invincible earnestness and
determination. I could easily accept him
as a very likely young Druid—if Druids
were ever young.
The congregation seemed composed of
plain country-people, shopkeepers, miners,
farm laborers; and one portion of them,
from first to last, enchained my attention.
Directly in front of the pulpit was aqarge
square pew, capable of holding about thirty
persons, obviously a place of eminent and
solemn honor; and on this occasion it was
filled with men, mostly old men, all of them
apparently being the more advanced and
redoubtable saints of the community, the
veterans and senator s
. of the spiritual host.
The lesser saints and the average sinners
were accommodated with' subordinate sit
tings at the sides and back of the room, or
were comfortably stowed away in the gal
lery ; but into this great central box, as
into a sacred enclosure, had gone the
potent, grave, and reverend seniors of the
flock; and I found that their function in
the exciting exercises of the service was a
very important and picturesque one. Some
of them were men of strange visage; they
seemed a group of the seventeenth century
Puritans, confessors, and religious heroes;
they^ had grim, iron old faces, stiffened into
preternatural rigidity by the awfulness of
their Sabbath occupation, and by the two
or three centuries which they had evidently
lived; altogether they had the air of men
who fasted and prayed ; who defied the
world, the flesh, and the devil; who kept
the eye fixed on one thing with a gaze to
be distracted by no terror and by no fasci
nation; who came into the world on pur
pose to be prophets, apostles, martyrs, and
Baptist deacons.
All this time the prayer was going on.
Not one word was intelligible to me, and I
was left to give my whole attention to the
strange tones of the preacher's' voice, to the
anatomy and cadence of his sentences.
There was something weird and impressive
in it all. His utterance did not, flow, it
came forth in jets and gushes. Then at
every clause a series of inarticulate guttural
sounds timed from the midst of the great
pew, and occasionally from other parts of the
room. At last, the audible characterof the
prayer underwent a sudden and startling
change : it rose high above the already fer
vent level, at which I had first heard it,.
into a sort of ecstasy, and then followed
the wildest and most electrical sounds I
had ever known. The speaker's voice be
came transfused by a terrific ,enthusiasm,
the words leaped forth in torrents; they
were not a vulgar shriek, they were not a
canting bellow; they were a real old mag
nificent Druidic chant, the sentences taking
their places in perfect rhythm, flowing and
ending with a cadence so wild, so poetic,
so mysterious, that it made the blood thrill
in one's veins. The effect on the congre-`
gation was wonderful. From the depths of
the great pew the resppnses heaved aloud,
swift, distinct, and impassioned ; they were
re-echoed all round the room, and even in
the gallery; and when, at last, this devout
ecstasy of prayer lapsed into sudden silence,
the cries from the whole congregation of
amen, and of certain Welsh. ejaculations,
continued for nearly a minute, like the
lingering and passionate reverberations of
the speaker's own voice, or as if the people
would storm heaven with a love and a
desire that could not give over the suppli-
cation. •
In Cardiff, afterwards, I was told that
this stage of vocal and emotional ecstasy is
the necessary final act.of all Welsh prayers
in public, and, as I' 'soon discoiered for my
self, the necessary climax of all the impor
tant passages in the sermon. For ages the
people have been accustomed to it. They
await its coming as the sybil might have
waited for the rushing descent of the god.
Their fiery Celtic natures are inflamed and
electrified by its magnetic delight. It is a
tempestuous spiritual intoxication to them,
a spasm of devout frenzy, a rhapsody of
heart and train struggling toward the
Highest in an ag ony of prayer and praise:
The Welsh ministers themselves, from child
hood accustomed to observe its manifesta
tions,. unconsciously cultivate the art of
reaching this rapt, impassioned stage. They
learn to work themselves up Co it whenever
they ,preach or pray, like the lions referred
to by Montaigne as goading themselves into
madness by the lashings of their own tails.
Yet, concerning these Welsh preachers, I
o".not mean to imply anything affected or
disingenuous in their habit; and I can tes
tify that its manifestations are as far as
possible from being repulsive.
Next came a hymn. It was abominably
sung; nay, it was not sung. Through
linked discord long drawn out, it was
simply twanged; the venerable patriarchs
in the large pew, more especially, employ
ing their great, ancient, sonorous noses as
if they thought them originally constructed
by the Creator for speaking-trumpets and
organ-pipes, and that to contravene the
Divine ordination would have been impious.
At last came the sermon. The preacher
began in a low, almost inaudible tone. His
manner was so quiet apd informal that I
supposed he was " giving out the notices.y ,
Soon, however, his words became more
clear, his tones more earnest; and this fact
was immediately signalized by the responses
of the assemblage. Thus he proceeeded•
for about ten minutes, gradually swinging
into his theme, and warming with his
thought, aooompanied at every step by the
audible sympathy of his audience, until
finally he seemed to reach the vantage
ground from which to bound forth into
what I have indicated as the ecstatic stage.
Now came once more those strange wild
notes, that Wurricane of 'oratorical rapture,
those indescribably impassioned and rhyth
mic sentences which I have spoken of as
concluding his, prayer, only in the sermon
borne onward by greater freedom of gesti
culation on his part, and of bodily move
ment on the part of his audience. In this
torrent of Celtic eloquence he stopped as
suddenly as before, and began the next ar
ticle of his sermon in the same quiet tones.
This process of storm and calm was re
peated, though at shorter intervals, five
times in the course of his address. I have
never in any other religious assemblage ob
served Such excitement as was manifested
in this little rustic congregation. More
over, long before.the conclusion of the ser
vice, I saw what efficient allies the preacher
had in the venerable lay senators of the
large pew. Their devout and even sepul
chral alien cast a sort of -subduing shadow
over the whole assembly. Their heads
were the first to nod and swat, in confirma
tion of the preacher's statements; their
voices led the ceaseless rumble and shout in
response to every sentence which fell from
his lips. Those hard, iron faces became
molten, and gleamed with enthusiasm. The
first notes of the hymn rose from their
midst. They were, in look and speech, in
act and attitud4 the ooryphmi and exam
plars of devotion.
The sermon lasted but thirty minutes.
I had been able to recognize only four
words—Jericho, Jerusalem, and Christmas
Evans; but I am bound to confess that it
was one of the most interesting, exciting,
and 'profitable sermons I have ever listened
to. And the foregoing account is, l be
lieve, a fair description ofthe general spirit
and methpd, of the Dissenting congrega
tions of Wales.
PILGRIMAGES AND CHOLERA.
During ,the bygone year, as is well known,
the Egyptian Government has propounded
the view, that the cholera, which from time
to time , carries terror, and no slight des
truction,,through Europe, is generated, or
at least greatly increased, by the vast gath
erings of Mohammedan pilgrims at Mecca;
while France has suggested a sanitary con
ference or commission to inquire into the
subject. The writer entertains no manner
of doubt dot there is a good deal of truth
in the Egyptian statement It is probably
too specific, but still it is very far from
being a wild or unfounded conjecture.
There is, we think, evidence to show that,
in certain circumstances, pilgrimages can
actually originate the disease; while in all
they powerfully aid in flinging the seeds of
death broadcast over the several lands
through'which the devotees travel oc their
journeys to and from the sacred shrines.
India, as most people are aware, •is gene
rally held to be the native country of the
cholera. All up and down its widely ex
tended territories, too, so-called sacred
places abound. Not a year elapses without
vast assemblages of pilgrims at these holy
spots, while ever •and anon the cholera
breaks forth among the worshippers, in
flicting on them the most fearful destruc
tion. The connection between Indian 'pil
grimages and cholera is then an essential
department of the inquiry which it is pro
posed to carryout.' It is the object of the
present article to bring together' a variety
of facts and reasonings on the subject.
A few years ago, when as yet there were
no railways in India, a missionary prepar
ing to march from the coast into the inte
rior of the country was sure to be presented
by some Christian physician with a bottle,
ominously labelled, "Cholera Mixture," to
which were superadded directions how to
act if the epidemic broke out among the
attendants who were accompanying the
traveler on his way. If, however, he showed
ordinary prudence in the choice of encamp
ing 'grounds, it very rarely did break out ;
the reason, under God, being.that the party,
which probably did not exceed ten, fifteen,
or twenty, was too small to invite the as
sault of the mysterious destroyer. It was
much more likely to fall upon a regiment
removing from one cantonment to-another ;
and yet there was a simple precaution
known, which was often perfectly effective
in warding off the danger; it was to make
the regiment cross the country "" by wings,"
or in plain language, to divide it into two
portions, sending the one forward a few
marches in advance of the other. The
principle involved evidently was, the greater
the number that march or encamp together,
the greater the danger of the outbreak of
cholera. An army, again, was more liable
to the assault of the disease than a regi
ment, and many a fine military force has
suffered more from the unseen pestilence
than from the sword of the enemy. For
instance, in the first cholera epidemic that
attracted European notice in India --that
which some still hold to have been the
origin of the disease, though more profou n d
investigators believe it to have existed
amono . a the Hindoos from the remotest an
tiquity—we mean the outbreak in the delta
of the Ganges in the year 1817, a portion
of the Anglo-Indian army suffered very
severely. The central division of the troops
then brought together for th e Pindarrie
and Mahratta war -w" suddenly assailed by
the mystemysteriousdeetroyer ; and according
to Professor Horace Hayman ,Wilson,
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
" during the week of its greatest malignity,
it was ascertained that seven hundred and
sixty-four fighting men and eight thousand
followers perished." 'Careful study of these
numbers will enable us to advance another
step in the argument.. The camp, followers
are to the soldiers ot an oriental army as
four to one; so that to ascertain- how many
human beings are crowded together in an
encampment, it is needful to multiply the
fighting men by five. Asiatic combatants
have in every age had a host of retainers;
and when we read that Xerxes led two mil
lions of men across the Hellespont for the
invasion of Greece, we ask permission to
employ the ordinary divisor five, and are in
a moment ready with the quotient-400,-
000 fighting men, a much more credible
number than the larger one, when the latter ,
is held to stand for the actual men of war.
Analyzing now the numbers that perished
in the central division of the. Indian army
in 1817, namely, 764 fighting men and
8000 camp tollowers, we find that the latter
suffered far more severely than the former.
Had the camp followers perished only in
the same porportion with the fighting men,
then there would have died of them only
764x4=3056. But in place of this there
were 8000. And why so vast a difference
in the rates of morality ? Because the one
body were thoroughly disciplined and com
pelled perforce to attend to sanitary care,
the others were left very much to their
own courses, and did not live in a manner
conductive to health. But the mere habit
of associating with disciplined men makes
even camp followers in some faint measure
observant of the laws of health. They
never would think, for instance, of carrying
with them putrescent corpses on "their
travels, as is done year by year by the Mo
hammedan pilgrims to the shrine of Hoos
sein at Kerbella, in Persia. Though this,
would scarcely be tolerated in India, yet
even there pilgrims and holy men in gene
ral look with supreme contempt on the laws
of health, and when journeying to or from
the sacred places, are swept away in far
larger proportions than soldiers, sepoys, or
even camp followers on a march. The late
Rev. Adam White, the missionary, has
several striking passages on the subject of
pilgrims and cholera in his "Notes of Suc
cessive Visits to the Shrine of Vithoba, at
Punderpoor." Take, for instance ' ,the fol
lowing, of date Ist November, 1862 :
" I learned from them [some, officials of
the toivn] that on the present occasion
there will be but a small gathering of pil
grimsnot much more than a fourth of the
ordinary number. The causes assigned
were the fear of cholera, and the high
prices prevalent. . . .`This year but little,
if any, cholera. The authorities have di
rected that every possible precaution should
be used , to hinder the approach of the
disease; but the folly ot the pilgrims them
selves constitutes the great obstacle. One
instance of this was given me by the Fonj
dar,[criminal judge]: The rains are hardly
yet over, and the sky is threatening; should
heavy fain fall, the river would rise and
sweep away the tents and property of the
hordes of pilgrims encamped in its bed. To
avoid 'this terrible risk, it was proposed
that the pilgrims should encamp, not in the
bed of the river, but close by, at another
place; but the pilgrims were determined to
be at the feet of the Vithoba on the holy
sand of the river. Being warned of what
might be the consequences, they said
4 Well, let us lose all, even our own lives,
but let it be at Vithoba's feet.' There
they are accordingly on the sand, which
recent raina have made into mud in many
places, ready to.be swept away, unless the
God of all long.suffering retrains the
storm. May. He be pleased to prevent such
a catastrophe It was also proposed to
bury and burn the dead at the other side
of the river. When cholera bursts forth, as
it did, for example, last year, the air is
loaded with the'stench of the burning dead;
but the fear is that the madness of the pil
grims will be a barrier to this reform. They
look on death at Punda poor, and burning
or burying in the bed of the river, as a sure
entrance into heaven." The scene at the
temple itself on the great day of the feast,
is thus graphically described.:—
"If any one could see the awful crush
ing of Vithoba's worshippers in his temple;
while they sit huddled together, waiting
their opportunity to enter into the narrow
temple-den in which the images of Vithoba
and his wife are set up; if he could see
them rise at the first chance, like a wave
of the sea, and rush forward to the narrow
passage, crushing, trampling, elbowing,
fighting, and crying, in indescribable con
fusion, in order to get in; if he could see
them, as I have done, subjected to blows,
right and left, from Government sepoys,
and from temple officials—blows which de
scend on "their bare backs, their heads,
faces, and whatevei. part came uppermost
in the confusion, in order to drive them
back; if he could see them dragged out by
neck and heels by these officials, or hurled
badk upon the pavement of the temple; or,.
if he could see the keepers of ordt r running
with the instruments of chastisement in
their hands, over'the shoulders and heads
of the thousands sitting . too close to allow
any other way of progress through them,
and beating them in all directions to quell
their ardor, and this all at the moment
considered by these worshippers the most
.solemn in their lives ;—truly, he would be
ready to bless God for the light of the
Gospel, and to appreciate, more than ever,
his own quiet opportunities and high privi
leges." In his report for the next year,
1863, he states that the number of pilgrims
at Punderpoor, at the time of the great
festival, varies from fty to a hundred
thousand. The following extracts, to our
mind, leave no doubt of the very intimate
connection between pilgrimages and chol
era. " Men think Vithoba's favor better
than life, and expose themselves to fatigue,
expense, hardship, disease, and death, in
order to behold him, and participate in the
benefits of his worship. In - a flowing
stream, in thousands they pass on to the
shrine from every direction ; weary and
worn they then encamp near the town,
mostly in the bed of the river. Some have
tents, some light cloth sheds, many nothing
at all to protect them. First comes a day
of fasting, distinguished by eating either
nothing, or else unwholesome trash, and. by
shouting forth by day an d by night, with
Clang of cymbals and violent gesticulations,
nP to the - list ebb of strength, the names of
v itheba and
• his wife,•and their saints.,
Add to this that the whole atmosphere be
comes frightfully tainted from the first, so
that One cannot walk anywhere, far or mar,
without being sensible of the most sicken
ing odors. Can it be wondered at that
cholera is very often generated at the place ?
But the peculiar seed plot where that pes
tilence first generates, remains to be de
scribed. It is believed that it is the very
temple. of Vithoba itself, a small stone room,
with no aperture but a small door, into
which, perhaps, 50,000 persons, in the
course of a few days, force their way, and
in the immediate neighborhood of 'which,
in the temple court, may be seen thousands
of men and women, closely packed, waiting
for their turn to enter. So polluted does
the air of the temple become, that the
vapor from the breath and' bodies of the
worshippers condenses 4 - 11 the image, thus
giving rise to the idea that the god mirac
ulously perspires. The sub- assistant surgeon,
now appointed by Government to Pander
poor, stated to mat Ais belief that the disease
in its first origin could usually be traced to
that spot," (4 The day after I left Punder
poor, cholera in a bad form manifested
itself among the pilgrims, but yet many
did not die. The disease might have died
out, if it had not been cultivated. But the
same pilgrims immediately resorted, as is
their wont, to Alandi, near Poonah, and
there it met with a favorable field in which
to grow. The , seed sown at Punderpoor
ripened gradually and fearfully at Alandi;
and the grain was then scattered broadcast
over the length and breadth of the land.by
pilgrims on their way home. Poonah was
one of the first places to suffer, and vast
multitudes died in it. The moment the
rgurning pilgrims reached my field of labor,
the &lease appeared, and the people began
to die."
The chief town in Mr. White's district
was Sassoor, whicla was fearfully ravaged,
losing twenty-five a day, out of a population
amounting at the beginning to no more
than seven or eight thousand. The reason
is not far to seek. For, hear what the mis
.
sweaty says
" It is enstontary among the natives to
bunt the dead, it possible, by, the side of a
stream, and then cast in the ashes when all
is over. At Sassoor the stream is shallow
and narrow. The various heaps of the
ashes of those who died from cholera nearly
choke the stream at the place. It cannot
be said that burning always pertectly con
sume§ the remains. I saw a Loan, for in
stance, burning his father's hand separately,
the pile not having hilly done its work.
Through, such heaps, then, of fresh mortal
remains was the water running and perco
lating to be used for. drinking and washing
a few' hundred yards down by the people
of Sassoor." The wave of death, propagated
first from Vithoba's temple at Punderpoor,
received n new impulse from causes like
these as'it passed to Sassoor, and- among
those whom it swept away was the devoted
evangelist who penned the paragraphs here
extracted, So doubt, we think, cam remain
of the close 'connection that subsists be
tween pilgrimages and cholera.
"Am I my brother's keeper.?" asks the
opponent of =dem. missions. "If fanati
cal pilgrims will defy all sanitary laws, w`hy
they must suffer for it ; and if they do, it .
does not matter." Nay, friend, it matters
a great deal. For, putting aside for the
moment all higher arguments, there is.one
which appeals t' o the instinct of self-preser
vation. Whether we like it or no, we are
linked together with all men in a certain
common brotherhood; and if one member
suffer, all suffei with it As then it may
be used as au argument for home missions
that infectious disease, generated among
the neglected poor of St. Giles' or Bethnal
Green, may 'find their way to the aristocratic
districts of the metropolis; so may the
progecation of foreign missions, be recom
mended, if on no higher grounds, at least
by the consideration that the gathering of
untold multitudes of pilgrims and devotees
of talk faitli: in Arabia, in Persia, or in
India, may set in motion a wave of death
which, ere its course be run, may sweep
over every European land, or . even the
world-at large, sending many in every lo
cality prematurely to their final account,
and leaving behind, wherever it has passed,
mourning, lamentation, and woe.— Chris
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KET Streets.
The cars of the Market Street Passenger Railway
run;. to and from this Depot. They leave Front Street
every two minutes, commencing one hour previous
to the time of departure of each Train. and allow
about 30 minutes for a trip. Their cars are in waiting
on the arrive! of each Train, and connections are
made with all roads crossing Market Street.
Mann's Baggage Express is located at No. 31 South
Eleventh Street. Parties desiring Baggage taken to
the trains, can have it done at reasonable rates upon
application to him.
TRAINS / LEAVE AND ARRIVE AT DEPOT—
THUS: .
LEAVE.
Erie Express' at 718 A. M.
Mail Train
Pabli Accommodation, No. 1 10'00 ..
Fast Line 12'00
Parkesburg roo P. M
Harnsburg Accommodation ......... 2'30
Lancaster Accommodation
Paoli Train, No. 2
Pittsburg and Erie Mail
Philadelphia Express
ARRIVE.
.
Cincinnati Express A at 130 A. K.
Philadelphia Expresa
Paoli,Accommodation, No. 1
Parkesburg Train
Erie Express... 1120 ..
Lancaster Train ... 12'30 P.: - .lli.
Fast Line ... 110
Paoli Accommodation, No. 2 4'40
Day Express 515
Harrisburg Accommodation ... B'4o'
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Philadelphia Express leaves daily. 7 Pittsburg and
Erie Mail leaves daily (except Saturday.) All other
trains daily (except Sunday). , ,
The Pennsylvania . Railroad Company will not as
sume any , risk for Baggage, except for Wearing Ap
parel, and limit their responsibility to One Hundred
Dollars in value. All Baggage exceeding that amount
in value will be at the risk of the owner, unless taken
by special contract. THOMAS H. PARSE,
Ti c kbt Agent at the Depot.,
W H.OFULTON,
CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
No. 40 SOUTH' SIXTEENTH STREET,
Residence, No. 1532 Vine Street.
ESTATES KEPT IN REPAIR.
Carpentering .in GeneTal
Executed Proniptly 1087-3 m
Outs' anti gralumits.
Ent STIEMOIII MILTS
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TELEGRAPHIC INSTITUTE,
ASSEMBLY BUILDING,
S. W. COR. TENTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS
The Philadelphia College, an Important
Link io the Great International Chain
of Coll es Located in Fifty Princi
pal Cities in the limited States
and Canadas.
The Collegiate Course embraces
BOOK-KEEPING.
as applied to. all Departments of Business: Jobbing,
Importing. Retailing, Commission, Banking, Mann
faeturthg, Raiilßadips. Shipping, &c.
PRNWANSUIP,
both Plain and Ornamental.
COMMERCIAL LAW,
Treating of Property, Partnership, Contracts, Corpo
rations, Insurance, Negotiable Paper, General Aver
age. An.
.
COMMERCIAL CALCULATIONS.—Treating of
Commission and Brokerage, Insurance. Taxes, Su
ties, Bankruptcy, General Average. Interest, Dis
count. A nnuities, Exchange, Averaging Accounts,
Equation of Payments, Partnership Settlements, &c.
BUSINESS PAPER.—Sotes. Checks, Drafts, Bills
of Exchange. Invoices, Order, Certified Checks. Cer
tificates of Stocks, Transfer of Stocks, Account in
Sales, Freight, Receipts, Shipping Receipts, &c.
TELiZGRAP RING,
by Sound and Paper, taught by an able and experi
enced Operator. A Department opened for the ex
clusive use of Ladies.
PHONOGRAPHY
Taught by a practical Reporter.
Diplomas awarded on a Satisfactory Examination
Students received at any time. 1030-1 y
THE WEST CHESTER ACADEMY
MILITARY INSTITUTE,
The Second Term of the scholastic year commences
on the Ist of February next. an closes on the last
Thursday in June. The Corps oflnstructors numbers
Ten gentlemen otability, tact, and experience, beside
the Prlucipal, who is always at his neat in the Elchool-
MOM.
The Principal having purchased the extensive
ichool.property of the late A. Boll:oar, lately occupied
by the Pennsylvania Military Academy, designs re
moving his sohool there before or during the Easter
Recess.
Fol. Catalogues, apply at the Office of the AMERI
CAN PRESBYTERIAN, or to
. WILLIAM F. WYERS, A. M.. Principal.
CLISSICAL SCHOOL,
FORTIETH STREET AND BALTIMORE
AVENUE,
WEST PHILADELPHIA.
REV. S. H. McMULLIN,
PRINCIPAL.
Pupils Received at any time mad Fitted
for Business Life or for CoDelve.
REPERMIES:
Rev. J. G. Butler. D.D.: Rev. J. W. Mears; Rev.
Joustlum Edwards, D.D.; Rey. James M. Crowell.
D.D.; Dr. C. A. Finley, U. 8. Army; Samuel Field.'
Esq. 0 1023-tf
PRILIDELPEA Milan ISTITITI
YOUNG. 14.A.MIXES,
NORTWEST CORNER OF CHESTNUT sad
EIGHTEENTH STREETS.
REV. CHARLES A. SMITH, D.D.,
PRINCIPAL
Young Ladies' Classical Institute.
The Rev. JOHN CROWELL, A.M., will open a
Seminary for Young , Ladies at hi9r4idenee. No. 1340
Noith Thirteenth Street, on the 18th of April.
For qironlars and otherintormation apply as above.
either personally or by letter. 1035-5 t
Stub' gunisting Gulls
Mclntire & Brother,
•
1035 Chestnut Street,*
Would *all attention to their ! l arge assortment o
yery ciao.
Silk Scarfs,
- Neck Ties,
Scarf Pins,
Sleeve Buttons,
and Studs.
Also, to a stock of
UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS
FO)3
Fall and Winter Wear,
Consisting of
Extra Heavy Merino,
Saxony Wool,
Shetland,
Shaker Flannel,
Red Flannel,
Canton Flannel (very heavy).
Alen, to their
moazomr,
"SHOULDER SEAM SHIRTS,"
Guaranteed in every case to give entire satisfaction.
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WM. L. GARRETT,
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No. 31 South 2d St., above Chestnut. East
Side,
Has constantly
s. on
day hand a large assortment of Men's
Boots and Shoe Made. •
Ladies', Misses, and Children's Balmorals, &c. Be
sides Trunks, Traveling Bags, ate., in great variety
and at LOW PRIORS. Men's Rubber
31sole
Shoes all best quality o lOg- u f; 31
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Dealer in 'and Manufacturer of
WATCHES, FINE JEWELRY
siiiv - _ion WARE,
AND SUPERIOR PLATED GOODS.
SPECTACLES.
WILLIAM BARBER,
Manufacturer of Gold, - Silver. Nickel. an (LS teal -Spot/-
U.)olm Eye Glasses, &c., has neatly furnished a room
in connection with the factory, for RETAIL PUR
POSES, wherespectaeles ,f every description may be
obtained, aocurately adjusted to the requirements of
vision on STRICTLY OPTICAL SCIENCE.
Sales room andiactori. •
Ito. 248 2[0.11,Y1E EIGHTH . Street.. B reorld
• .Floor.