A CLASSICAL FBU1LLETON.
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THE LATJEA OT PETRARCH.
Perrtreh belongs much, perhapsi. tei France
he do to Italy. To Italy, Indeed, he owes ,
kks birth, hi blood, hit Ungaafre lanauajre, i
too, whieb. mifrht appear to have boon made
Wte expressly for tbe iooneUxrinB: poetry ot
which he la the model. He alno owes to her the
earliest recognition of this poetry, through the
ponderous commentaries which were written to
Illustrate it, at a period when Italy gave the toue
to the rest of Europe. For with tae Itftilana the
critic takes the form of the commentator. Nor,
M might appear, is there the least incongruity
between the levity of the sonnet' and the
gravity of the commentary; for a country
where the mind is of a femiuine or boyish cast
i is, on the contrary, the natural scene as well for
pedagogues as priests, but Petrarch also owed
to Italy, or to her I ran tic (actions as Dmte did
before him his expulsion to a foreign Ian1,
not indeed in his own person, but in childhood
with his parents.
- This early exile of Tetrarch was to the neieh
boiing south of France. To this congenially
eunny land he was likewise much indebted. It
placed him at the distance which lent enchant
ment to his native country, which left In view
the halo of her historic glories, without drasr
pllng through the mire of her corruptions, tilth,
and tactions. It supplied him a purer atmo
sphere in that Vale 01 Vanclnse, which hai pro
bably contributed 10 their united immortality.
It iiad provided him with the Troubudours,
whose day of lame was then departintr, but who
had kit htm rich material-" iu those ever-varying
teimsot tender sentiment and sprightly fancy
by hub, as in the madcal effects of the ka
leidobCi pe, he was enabled to transmit us a
suniinary lmure ol that curious epoch. For this
is the true nature of tne sonnets by Petrarch, as
will bo made appear before the conclusion oi
this notice.
But beor.d all the contributions of Frinee to
the fame' of Petrarch was the subtect and the
soul ol those sonnets the immortal Laura. It
is singular, however, that a lady then so promi
nent, and who was made so famous already with
her contemporaries, should have left no certain
tract of her fleshly existence; that her family,
her place of residence, ihe date of her deatn aud
birth, the condition of her, the occasion of her
love, should all and all alike remain in doubt
to the present day. after over two centuries of
disputation on the subject
Home will have it that her birthplace was the
town of Avignon, then the residence ol tho
tl'apacy, which had, like Petrarch, to fly the
factions. Other writers will have the spit to
be a suburb of the city, which oueht to be con
ideied a distinction without a difference. With
still o'hers the favored locality was Vanclue,
which is situated at a distance of several miles
from Avignon. No less fluctuant is the place of
the first meeting of tbe lovers. The most
prevalent account says a church at Avignon, tbe
Church of St. Claire, which was attached to a
convent, a circumstance wnich would have
added poetry to the incident. Otliercommeuta
tors place the scene In tho lady's own house, or
rather, out at the window the quella fenestra
of the sonnets. Still others transport it to the
Vale of Vancluse; and there again, as she sat
beneath the shade ot a tr?e, or other wise, a she
was laving her hands in a brook. So with some
of these historians the time was Good Friday,
and at the early mass, or close to the house;
while, of course, with those who sought the
shade or brook it must have bnen noon; and
Others vary it to the sweeter evening hour ot
espers in the church of Avignon, but still dif
ferent lioin the St. Claire. Aaaiu, the age of
the lady at the time was either thirteen
v un tenero fiore, as the poet himself de
scribed her or else seventeen, or else
twenty-four; while by some of these account
she remained all her life a maiden, and accord
ing to otheis was the married mother of eleven
children. Even her death is represented as
having been by the great plague which at the
time invaded Europe lroni the East, like the
later cholera; while other writers will have the
malady to have been less vulgar, or the Interest
ing and endemic pestilence of consumption.
But of all these dubitations about the death
find life of Laura, her age, her state, her dwelling-place,
and other concrete circumstances,
and of which we shall supply the true explana
tion, the most strange seeras the uncertainty re
specting the family. Petrarch himself used to
chant it as noble. Proceed ins, perhaps on this
intimation, the earlier traditions identified tbe
iamily with that of tbe Counts de Chabrieres, who
were (In English phrase) the lords of the manor
of Vancluse, and to one of whom Laura would be
either a wife or daughter. This alternative of mere
aOinity would thus leave room tor another
claimant. Such accordingly appeared in the
. family of De Sade, which at that time held the
principal magistracy of Avignon, but even so
would hsve a tuint ot the burgher in its no-
b.lity. ' However, France wa not a country
where a Claim to the inheritance ot any sort of
glory would be left unasserted, any more than
would el,ewhere the pretensions to eold or
lands; and so tbe De Sade family lias found a
t " modern champion, who has been the main occa
sion of most of the subsequent controversy.
But this trait of French mauners is itself worth
explanation, more especially as even sti'l it isot
weekly occurrence. Nothing Is more frequeut
in the French-newspapers and courts of Jus
tice than so-called reclamations for alleged
- . wrong and injury to the repute of ancestors, who
may be dead for generations, and yet are they
supposed . to react upon the 1 iviue. The dis
pute about the Montmorency title is a present
sample, but a sample ot a sentiment observed no
less In tho lowest condition. There are few
publications ol national history or memoirs
that do uot bring upon the author a cloud of
such remonstrances In private when not pub
lic. In abort, the Paris correspondents of the
London newspapers are constantly amusing our
English coraruou sense with repoi tsof these frivo
lities by the lantaattc Gauls, but they would
better serve their readers by eudeavoring to ex
plain them. , If the French demauded "damages,"
conduct doubtless would be found quite simple,
and perhat'S none the less so for the frivolity of
the grounds. But to accept the mere correction
of a iaci or of an epithet as the sole satisfaction
for an injury to property, and tbe property of
men only dead, appears a tissue of absurdity.
Yet this appearance or estimate is but an idiosyn
crasy, the same in nature as the French, although
. quite opposite in the direction.
With the French the best of property, or what
is vulgarly culled their glory, is the esteen of
society lor themselves and their connections.
This is known in a more humble and familitr
form in the Irish, who bewail a loss of "char
acter" as spreading infamy through the whole
family. An English person of the same condi
tion, who complained of having lost ins charac
ter, would be supposed to mean apiece of paper
from his last employer; and would probably
be never, by the loss of even the real one, un
derstood by either others or himself to have
hurt his relatives. This fairy currency of the
Celts has nothing solid, nothing sterling, for the
grasp which Dr. Knox describes as "spatular
flngered." The Italians are more sensiiivo to
this social influence, ttioujh only to the narrow
phere of family society. Thus "Iago," who has
?. respect iar virtue or for women, la intd
by BhBkespeare to resent fiercely the infidelity of
his wife. But. the great British poet made a
mf,?;lyUiR.blJuuder in "Ending the sense
Ol injury from the domestic to the social order:
T?kmh',LhM ,rom me W food nam,,
Takes Irom me that wh-oh not ennotie him.
But leaves me poor indeed." m,OUU8 u,m'
The point of aaravatVon would be worthy of
toe greatest j.riet But the position which it
illustrates, to be true of the Italian character
should have been limited to the gSodTama
which Is dispented by the family circle The
poet accordingly has elsewhere, with a nicer
inspiration, drawn ''Iago" as neeriuo; at "the
bubble reputation." He here meant reoutatlon
proper-the military, public, social. epuia"on
The same principle is at this moment wit
nessed in real life, and in aformwhiou nressp.
it on the attention of this country, whose roam
trg sons and daughters are baeged like game by
the Italian brigands. But what, then, ts the
cause of this brigandage of Italy? Defective
civilization, barbarism replies the Engllihman.
. w.CBn tni8 weU be ia tb great mother ol
civilization, and in the region of the country
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. -PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY,
which has ben its oldest and mot famous seiUT
Then, again, there are other countries lndis
putably barbarous tor instanc?, Tarkey and
Persia ami which yet have no brigandage.
Moreover, as a matter of direct observat on,
the people or Italy and the brigands themselves
are apparcnfly, in manners, in courtesy, and
chivalry, supetior to th corresponding
classes of our own people. And- in fine,
throughout the ages of their nroudrsl civilization
Rome and Italy bore the brigands much the
same as at this hour. They were as old as
Komulin and Kemue, with their dens of robbers.
They weTe continued in the gangs that followed
Claudius and Catiline, and every other repro
bate or lamllv In tbe republic. They were
eretted Into public bodies in the petty States of
the middle nges, and dignified Into the tactious
and hlrclinir soldiers of those times. Why,
Petrarch himself, when sent by one of rhePopei
on a diplomatic mission to tbe Court of Naples,
had, through "lear of the brigands," to travel
by sea, thoueh this was scarcely less a terror to
him, irom the delicacy of bis nerves. Tho bri
gands, then, arc no production of barbarism or
of civilization, but of something independent
alike of both la the Italian race.
Tlds national peculiarity is the family spirit,
the conception of society in its primitive and
family staire, which recognizes but the ties of
blood, and the rule of despotism, and is sensi
ble ol no cotlntcral connection beyond the tribe.
It is, in lac, the e?pri de tribt, to whioh Napo
leon I used to attribute all his failures to unite
the Italians. And if they seem at present to
have largely overcome it, it Is that the new
kingdom is maintained as it was formed, not by
Italians, but by Gaiils on both sides ot the Alps.
Beneath this art tidal creation, which is borne
fii ssivi ly, the true Italian spirit lives and links
n the family sphere; and when it tries to work
in It, must take the shape which is known as
biipandage. The brigands are accordingly the
best ol husbands, sons, or fathers, and carefully
transmit the fruits of their lawless industry to
their laini!ii'S.
They are also loyal to death to their public
father, la aud spiritual; to Fiancis II; and
especially the Holy Father. The sanction of
these authont es is naturally to the brignuds the
supreme criterion of all morality, right, and
Eolicv, precisely as the orders or a parent are to
is chfldten. It is notoriously so with the primi
tive Chinese empire, whpre accordingly we find
the brigandage sun more enronic than in Italy,
notwithstanding tbe politeness and civility of
the people. The brigands, then, are really not
like ci iminalsof'other countries, and ought rather
to Ve.punished as prisoners of war. Nor is this
the only contrast, perhaps, to their advantage.
Thus the brigand dreads the priest as tne English
culprit dreads theprison. But wbichit therein the
more spiritual and therefore civilized being?
The poll t may be resolved by geographical
measurement. 'The prison, though at the anti
podes, muht still lemain upon the earth. The
penal sanction of tbe priest aud Pope lies in
6pace and time somewhere beond it, and so sup
poses a longer reach ot mental feeling to receive
its influence. The grand distinction of the
human species Irom the lower animals, says
Cicero, is that tbe latter never see beyond the
present and the physical, while man Is capable,
through reason, 01' ranging back and forth into,
the abstract realms of the past and the future.
Now (Lis Is just the range that takes the
mime ot the social spirit, as contrasted with
the personal, and even with the family pur
view; and which was noted in the French as
producing that quaint solicitude about preserv
ing tbe inheritance Irom the post, augmenting
it by personal glory, and transmitting it to their
posterity.
' So thb glory shed by Petrarch upon his mystic
qisfory could not well, in such a country, nave
been left to lapse or escheat, for want of a pre
tender in the lineage of the lady. This pre
tender appealed accordingly in the Abbe de
Sade, who wrote about a oentury ago a life of
Petrarch, and took the occasion, or rather
made it, to claim the honor for his pro
genitors. He maintained that PeUarch's
love could be no other than Laura de Hade,
a lady who was certainly in existence at the
t'.me and place, aud was (as belore noted) mar
ried and the mother ot eleven children. But
other Frenchmen, perhaps, envying the rich in
heritance to the Abbe, soon arose to call in
question his pretensions, and now reject them.
And, to say truth, a number ot the avowed cir
cumstances of this lady do not at all consort
with the descriptive iutimations which Petrarch
hin sell bus scattered sparingly throughout tbe
sonnets. This, however, was the least unplau-
sibie assertion 01 ner reat existence.
The only other serious indication was the fol
lowing: In a MS. copy of hia favorite "Virgil,"
Mill shown at the Ambrosian library of Milan,
there is a marginal note supposed to be by Pe
trarch; and which mentions, among other things
relating to Laura, that she was buried in a church,
which is named, at Avignon. By the aid of this
direction, and after long search, the tomb was
thought to have been found in 1533; and the
Abbe insisted that this belonged to his kins
woman. Nothing was, however, found to solve
the great enigma. There was a flag engraven
with a coat oi arms., surmounted with a rose;
under it some bones, with a maxiliary in its
integrity; and close by them a leaden flask
which contained apiece ot parchment folded
and si aled with green wax, and a bronze medal
representing a female In the attitude ot covering
ner bosom, and encircled with the letters M. L.
M. J., which were interpreted Madonna Lain a
Morte Jacob, or, "Here lies Madame (or Lady)
Luu 1 a in death." The parchment further bore
a scriLet, signed "Petrarcta," but which is
indeed completely unworthy of the poet. Sp
that the whole thing st ems, like the rest, a labri
cation.
However, such was the avidity in France for
all assurance, that King Francis I, the generous
patron of nascent letters, made a visit to Avig
non to see the newly discovered tomb; directed
that a maru oleum should be erected to Laura,
and composed hmi.-ell an epitaph in very tolera
ble Frencn verse. But the monument was never
raised, and even the telics of the old tomb, with
ihe church that contained them, was swept
away by the Revolution.
What then is the conclusion, from this series
of tailuies to invest the lamoits lady with the
flesh and blood of life and history? it
must be to regard her, with Voltaire, as
a mere mjth. But this perspicacious critic
did not go tar enough. For Laura was no
voluntary fancy of the poet, nor, on the other
hand, an ideal reflection of his own sentiments;
one or both of which notion is tbe meaning of
Voltaire. She was a myth in the proper sense
of a spontaneous embodiment of attributes ex
ternal to aud impressed upon tho poet. Now
these weryin the case of Fetrarch, the multifa
rious qualities which had been celebrated in
their lady-loves by the French Troubadours;
and which were gathered in the focus of bis
delicate and loreiu, tancy, through the contrast
with his own country, with the unity ot per
sonation. So that Laura was the ideal woman
of chivalrous love, as tne Virgin, was the ideal
woman of Christum piety and purity.
Thence, accoidtnaly, the other trait above Bug
pes ted by the poems of Petrarch. These poems, we
undertake to sav, are not, as thought, a mere
collection. They lorm a single poem, and of
lile-long composition; an epic, so to speak, of
the heurt or the feelings. They paint the ever
varyii g incidents aud aspects of a single object,
as it played tn lite or lancy for some twenty or
thirty years before the eyes or the imagination
of the most interested of observers; and thus
embroider on this petsonal tissue tbe scattered
beauties of tbe Troubadours. The composition
maybe patchwork, the design rudely simple,
nothing beltfr than the string that bold (he
pearls ot the necklace. But this only conso
nant to a primarj grey. It was the plan of ag
gregating round a single aud central object,
which is the star-tisn stage alike In animal aud
all toimatious.
Nor is it without positive example In the sub
ject. As Homer was the sumniarlst of those
Troubadours called the "cylic poets," and Dante
the suniniaiiHt of the "visions" of the monks,
and Macpherson the summarist of the Scoto
liith bards, to Petrarch, in the similar aggre
gat on of his sonuets, was the Homer, the
Dante, or even the Macpherson of these cyclic
poets or bards called the French Troubadours.
Theretult was an Iliad or an Odyssey of the
lair sex, as Drnte's "Divine Comedy" was au
Odj tsey 1 f the human eoul; and as the poems of
Osslan, which may be called tbe OetUnid, was
an Odyssy, or rather Iliafl of thfi aerial world,
la which the actors were the Bilades of heroes
and elements of nature ; that is to say, the two
great agencies of social anion and progression.
It is further worth remarking, that in all of
these cases the compiler or summarl has been
a foreigner to his materials. The instanca of
Macpherson is familiar to British readers, or at
least that even the Irish had the materials. The
sources ol Dante are no longer in dispute; for It
seems now admitted that the monkish f'visions"
were mostly foreign, and principally from the
quarter as in their ''Purgatory of St. Patrick."
In fine, Homer, it is also now discerned, was no
HeBen; but an offspring of the old Acha-anor
Felasgio race, and who thus could ob aln an
objective and aggregative giasp of the scat
tered lays that celebrated ice achievements of
their soldier conquerors. 80 stood Petrarch too.
the Troubadour. The contrast of the women
who were chanted by the latter with the Italian
women is only too notorious; and accordingly
the men never talked to them of chivalry.
They were themselves too feminine, as was
above remarked, to sympainize, ana conse
quently trust in female purity. For it Is con
trast, and not analogy, that bases sympathy
between the sexes. Women never believe in the
virtues of each other.
But the Italian view of women, as bearing on
the rjoint in nuestion. is furthermore continued
by examples the most decisive. How, lor in
stance, does Ariosto, In his mock-heroic poem,
trust the women wnica nn arew irom tue ro
mances of the Celtic West ? Ho trusts them, it
is familiar, by holding up to ridicule those fan
tastic virtues and graces of chivalry, and sots
all Italy laughing at them men, women,
and even brigands. For with this last
Italian power he was a particular favorite,
and a frequent intercessor on behalf of the petty
princes. The mere title of the "Mad Koland"
declares the purport ol the poem. And Vol
taire's imitation, in his blackguard poem of the
"Pucelle," which even his name has been unable
to uphold in France, affords a double comment
on tbe contrast in question.
It reappears directly in the attacks of Peter
Art tin, ol infamous memory, and other Italians,
upon Petrarch himself, and these foreign vir
tues of his Laura. But something more respect
able, and no Ices to the point, is the famous
'Decameron" of Boccaccio, bis contemporary.
For this celebrated book is also but an aggrega
tion, like the Homeric poems, like Ovid's
"Metamorphosis," like Dante's "Divine Comedy,"
and like tbe sonnet) of Petrarch. It is only
that the n aterials were here stories aud in proae,
not odes of sentiment or ratire, like the relics of
the Troubadours. And both the former char
acters were thoroughly Italian; but no less so
than the proie stories was the lax composition.
The talcs are known to be held together, as in
deed the title intimates, but by the number of
days w bich was consumed in the narration. It
nniBt be owned, then, that the alleged texture
of the sonnets of Petrarch, which revolved upon
a single and living object as centre, may pretend
a fair claim to composition and purity. Tue
"Decameron" means simply, the stories told tor
ten days.
But the more immediate question was the
lr.anners which these stories, in their Italian
raciness, attribute to the women, as contrasted
with the portraiture of Laura in the sonnets.
But it is known that the principal condiment
of the stories consists in the licentious intrigues
of monks and women, and which are told in a
language still more indecent. Tbe English
reader may form some notion of it from tbe
tnciisn versification ot them known as the "Can
terbury Tales" of Chaucer.
Nor does this Norman Frenchman at all aggra
vate the language, as has been imputed, to meet
a coarser national palate. All th secrecies of
sex are laid as bare as in Boccaccio. And how
brazen was this bareness may be judged of at a
aeceni distance dv viewing tne third-nend ettorts
of Pope and Dri den to. drape Chaucer. As to
Boccaccio, there is but one of bis "hundred tales
ot love" which he devotes to leeognition ot
4' 1 - . . 1 1 t . , .1 . . 1
leiiiuitj puruy or oiuer virtues. 11 is me laie 01
"Griseleidee," which closes the collection, and
Das loentitied bis name with purity and tender
ness throughout the world. .
But for tuis vcrv reason of nosition and Dathos.
it was probably much rather an ellort of art
than nature. This art was well adverted to by
Petrarch himself, who admired so much this
tale as to have made a Latin version of it, aud
committed it to memory lor narration to his
foreign friend.". . In a letter to Boccaccio, in
wnicn ne spcaas evasively, ana witn anectea
or real aeterence, ot tne bulk ot the "Be
enmeron." he dwells rapturously on the con
eluding tale of "Griseleides," the model of female
portraiture, and of nrose comnosition. And
then he compliments nun on the art of placing
add a disputant, should always range the most
euecuve part ot tneir productions.
This was, probably enough, not intended by
Petrarch as a delicate rebuke of the loose morals
of the book; or as a bint that he discovered the
purpose of the author to suspend a screen of
an wnicn sname-iaoea leaders mignt draw
behind them. He probably had not been weaned
sufficiently of Italian nature to feel that there
was any such necessity in the case. For he
speaks of the stories as genuinely Itali tn. But
whatever was his conscious purpose, the etft ct
oi uib commenaaiion oi tne story ot Urueleides,
and its nosition in the ' Decameron." ia to non-
firm that suspicion that in Boccaccio both were
art. And even were it otherwise, the tale would
still be but that exception, which, as the adage
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Blver St. Lawrence by daylight, returning to Hew York
or Boston by
FIFTY DIFFERENT ROUTES.
These routes offer to pleasure seekers scenery unsur
passed in this country.
No extra charge tor meals or state room on steamers
between Niagara Fa ts and Montreal.
Tickets good until Novemocr 1st, 1866, and entitle the
holder to stop over at any point on tbe route.
For further Information and Oulde Book de
scnptlve 01 tbe Boutea, apply at the Company' Office
Ko. 42B CHESNUT Street N. VAN HOKN,
8 13w.m2m Passenger Agent
RATIONAL HOTEL
AND .
EXCURSION HOUSE,
Atlantic City, N. J.
Tbe undersigned havuiR leased the above favorite es
tabllsbment, and having refitted and refurnished it
throughout, It will be open tor the reception ot guests
on 8ATCKDA Y June 16. 1866.
Tbe table will be supplied with the best the season
affords including Oysters, Fish, Clair s, etc etc., and
none but the purest Wine, Liquor, Cigar, etc, u
ltctedforthe Bar.
Dancing Music attiehed to the house for the use of
visitors.
J. WILLETT,
6 14 lm PBOPBIETOB.
7JK1TED STATES HOTEL
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,
Will open for the reception of guests on
WIDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1866.
DODWOBTB'S BAND engaged for the season.
Tersons desiring to engage room will addres
lil!OWN & WOELPPER,
PBOPBIEIOBS, ATLANTIC CITY,
Or No. 827 RICHMOND Street,
69 2mrp
Philadelphia.
C
ONGRESS HALL,
CAPE ISLAND, N. J.,
WILL B1MAIS OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 1.
1 here has been added to thjs popular House, since last
season, the entire Ocean House proper. y, giving an ocean
irom of ovir l'4'U teei, aud over k.t) rooms fronting and
in lull view oi tbe tea.
A penect system oi sewersge and dralnaiie has been
completed, a leature possessed by .ew Lolo s cuUtlde of
large cities.
'1 lie appointments of tbe House throughout have re
ceived a most careful aupeivlslon, suj nested by the ex
perience of oaataeasons. iorapaitineuut, address
J F. CAKK,
, , Congress Hall.
iJttsler s trass ana Strum Banu. . fyl)
T H E P I E It II OU S E.
PORT PEN'S DELAWARE.
JONATHAN DRAPER, Proprietor.
Tbe Proprietor having purchased this well-known
bouse, Ib low prepared to tecelve boarder at 8 Otf per
week.
Tbe lover of good gunning and fishing can here fully
cnoy that luxury.
I xcellcnt bathing, and a magnificent beach extending
for mile. ft 26 lui
rpiIE TAMMANY HOUSE,
NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE,
NEAR TUE DEPOT, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
The auhsrnber takes pleasure In in'orralng his former
patrons and the pub to, that tlie above bouse Is now
open where be villi be happy to receive ail who may
lavorhiin wlih a call.
In connection with the Hotel, he ha opened a FIBST-CLAt-H
BILLIARD ROCM.
ELIAS CLEAVER,
6 U lm PEOPRIETOB.
KENTUCKY II0U8B.KENTUCKY AVENUE,
At antic City, N. i .. Is now open tor the recep
tion oi boarders. Having one o the anest location on
tie Island and elug nearest to the best bathiug on
tbo becli, it offer superior fnduceuien to visitors to
gUlitrp"y' FRAMCT8 QUIOLEY, Pjoprletor
rpiIE ALHAMimA, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
JL This spacious and e'egant establishment will
oper lor the reception of guests on or belore the AHh
dyitfmBwi'n BARCLAY T.EKD9, Proprle'or.
rFilREE li EN Eft ALi AGENTS WANTED TO
-L aoi In Important locatlous for the New Yon Aoot
Cental Insurance Company Actlvenvnol good addreM,
lPl to VtiA h K O. ALLEN, HranwU Cmtce, No. 410
ClteKUT Street AfplJ svon. iU
JUNE 15; 1806.
f WATCHES, JEWELRY ETC.
DIAMOND DEALril & .TKim.tR.
; ' r A n l w, flftn Kbit I r i.i && nAKK, . J
Owlngto the dfellr l Gold, made grea
d actio ia price of ktiart,e and we I asserted stock
Diamonds, '
Watch
Jewelry,
bllverware, Etc.
The public are respectfully Invited to call nd examine
ear stock before purchasing elsewhere.
SILVER AND PLATED GOODS,
)F TUB
Most Superior Workmanship,
' AT THE
NEW STORE,
No. 704 ARCH STREET.
The undersigned date of the famona Borers Broe.
ttanutacturlng Company) respectully announce that
thev have ooened a new and beautttai store lor the sale
ot BILV'R and PLATKI) WARE, at Ho. 704 AKCH
fctreet. Our long experience as manufacturers will
enable us to kteD nothing but flrat-cla Goods, and
thoi-e who may patronise our store will find our plated
tooilalai superior to any ever imported, and our cus
umers n ay rely on the gooda being precisely what they
are represented to be.
6 26 BOWMAN A LEONARD.
G. RUSSELL & CO.,
No. S3 North SIXTH St.,
IDTITE ATTENTION TO IIIE1B FULL 8TOCK
or
FINE WATCIJEH,
JEWELRY, AND FA5CY AND PLAIN SILVER
WARE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 8 265
RICH J EWE RI
J 0 II IS BEEN NAN,
DEALER IN
DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES, JEWELRI
Etc. Etc. Etc
9 205 Ro. 18 8. EIGHTH SI B-EET.rlUlada.
SHIPPING.
ffS: FOR SAVANNAH, GA.
THE PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL
STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S REUtLAR LINE,
SAILING EVEBT SATURDAY.
The new and splendid steamships
PIOM EH Captain P. F. Hoxle
TOMAWANDA Captain Jacob leal
Cabin Tassage tloOu
Deck Pasage WUO
The Eteamshlo
"PIONEER."
Will commence receiving ireinht lor the above port,
at RaC'E Hreet Wharf, oo. IHURaDA Y, June 14, at 10
o'clock A.M.
Shippers are requested to lend bills of lading with
their goods.
The Sta e-room accommodations of thla steamer are
ol a superior and comruouious choraoter.
Freight taken tor Charleston, 8. C , and forwarded via
Savannah with quick despatch.
Ko bills of lading signed after vessel leaves the wharf.
S. 4 J M. FLANAGAN,
No 420 South LELAW ARE avenue.
For freight or passage applvL.oiAM c HARRIS,
Freight and PoRsenger Agent.
6 25 tf So. 21'8 A ortfa DELAWARE Avenue.
HAMILL'8 PASSAGE OFFICE.
Z ' ANCHOR LINK OF BlEAMF.RH."
l.lliiSRMA." "COLOMBIA.
C ALELON1A." "CAMBRIA,''
P.RITAXNIA," "INDIA.'
LlViJUOOL LONDONDERRY, BELFAST, DUB LIB
HE WRY, COHK. AND ULaBUOW.
BATES OF PASSAGE,
PAYABLE IN PAPER CURRENCY.
C A BINS a'JO. a0. and SW
bTE.fc.RAGE 30
IHE PAID CfcKllMC'ATE
lamed for bringing out passenger irom the above
points at
LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE.
Also, to aud Irom
ALL STATIONS ON THE IRISH RAILWAYS.
SPECIAL KOllCE PasBensers wtll take nartlculur
no1 Ice that the "Anchor I ine" Is the only line Braining
ttnonih tickets at tbe above rates, from Philadelphia to
tbe points named above, and that the undersigned i the
omy ui.iv auuioruea Agent in t uiiaatipuia.
Apply to W. A H A.HILL,
Sole Agent for "ANCHOR LINE,"
1 15 No. 217 WALNUT Street.
r lFT FOR NEW YORK. PHILADEL
Jtri , delphia Steam Propeller Company De.
boui.li fcv. insure Lines, vIh Delaware and Raritun Canal,
It avlng dm y at 12 M. and 6 P. U., connecting with ail
Kortbt-rn and Enstern lines.
For freight, which will be taken upon accommodating
trims, at niy to rt 11.1.1 ju m . da 11111 k iu.,
3 16 No. 11)28 DELAWARE Avenue
ri 0 SHIP CAP1AINS AND OWNERS. THB
X. underblgiied having leased Ibe EENSINGIOS
SCRLW Dot K.betrs lolu.onu his frtenos and ilieuatnini
ot the Dock that be la 1 repared with increoseo foci Itlee
to acct n.moaate inose having vesse e to be raised or
repaired and being a practical ship-carpenter and
caulker, wl I give personal attention to the vessels en
trusted to bint lor repair.
Curtain or Agenta. Ship tarpestera, and Machinists
having vessel to repair, are solicited to call.
Having ihn agency for the aaie of "Wettentedt'a
Patent .Metallic composition" tot Copper Point for the
pie serration ol vessels' boitoms, for this city, 1 am pre
paied to urnlsb the same on lavor.ble terme.
JOHN H. HAM MITT,
Kens ngton ticrew Docs,
1 If DELAWARE Avenue, above I-4UREL Street
SHIRTS, FURNISHIMG GOODS, 6o
J.
W. SCOTT & C O.,
SI11ET MAN UFACTU REUS,
AMD CEALIBS IK
MEN'S FU11N1S11INO GOOU.
No. 814 CHESNUT Street,
FOUR DOORS BkLOWTUE COTISENTAL,"
8 26 tip PU1I A DELI'UIA
PATENT SIIOULDEK-SEAM
SUIKT MANUFACTOHY,
AND OFNTLEMEN'S EDRNISIIING STOKE.
PEBFLCT FIT1INO SUIRlS AND DRAWEllS
made irom measurement at very short notice.
Al! ether tiltelcs of UEN'lLEMEN'd DRbSS GOODS
in lull variety.
W1NCHKSTF.R & CO.,
8 24 J No. 700 CHESNUT Street
J. J. WILLIAMS
No 16 ' orth S XTII Street
jt
W I N U O W
SUA L i J to.
lie Isrtestand ttest aftortnicnt in the c'tv at to
Ion est prices. 6 5Imrp
SI ORE SPADES MADE AND LETTERED.
PACKING BOXES
Of a'l kinds aed for all uae.supp ied at short notice.
Hy advai uifce for making are the bes' in the city, aud
I rices lii l. Ca I lor a list o' price bit lore you buy,
at coi ner of TH LK I H aud NObLK titrceu.
Pi uit dealer supplied. ..
Vint ALBERT D, COOKE.
: LEGAL NOTICES.
T M THECOUBTOPCOMMON PI.EAR rORTIIE
X C11T AD COliNIT OFFHILADEI.PH A.
ADIXAIbB MC.UI F.R. kr ete. TS. UMIMABU
vt . ' ' ' tER0vR' ' ' 1
In TMrorre. Varcn 'i. nn. Do.W.'
To BF-RK A M) AtKBCKR. Respondents ,
Take nolle that dr positions, on behalf of the IRV riant
In the above case, will be taken before Char es S. Mama,
F.q., I .xsmlner at hi efllco, northwest eomer'ot Flitat
and.reen street, on Tlll'R mY July 11. at 11 '
o clocks A. M.,wbn and where oti nv attend If yo
think proper. JOSKI'rfM PILK,
Jijot Attora,y lor Llbellant
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 4, 18(,6.-NOTICE 19
hereby given that a writ or scire facias will be
Issued upc the following c alm, at the uptratlon of
three irinnih Horn the date her- i unless the uun If
paid within that time to
W. A. fll.lVER, Attomoy-at Law,
, Ko. M. MLVKSTHbtxoei
CT1Y" TO P8B OF LANK SCBOtfRLD V.
Franklin Fire insurance Company. C p., Decem
ber T , 1HI. Vo t or raving, 14'4S, lot N. K. eorner
of "i wenty-iecond aid Hpruce stretts 11 feet fronton
Hnruce b $7 feet 4 Inches deep on Twentv-eecond
treet. i 4 i.lni'
STOVES RAWGE3, &o.
TJNION OIL STOVES,
A new and complete apparatus for Cooking and fleeting
by Petroleum OIL Out Stove give no smoke or odor,
and are not liable to get out of order, being aa simple la
every respect as Kcrotene Lamp. Ihe Baker, Broiler,
and Flat-iron fleeter are thpij snexfal tcllcles of fur
niture required. For alothes. ptjrposes ordinary stove
lurnlture may be nsod.
DAVID II. LOSE?,
60LK AOHKT FOB PENS8YLVAHIA,
Ko. 38 Foulb FIFTH Street,
Libiral diiccunt to Ihe trade. 4 17 3in rn
QULYEIl'S NEW PATENT
t F.EP SAND-JOINT
II O T - A I K FUltNAOE.
IIANGES OF ALL, SIZES.
ALSO, PHI EG A ITS hEW LOW PEKfiSCRE
6TEAM UKAUSG APPABAJTUS.
FOB iAL BY
CHARLES WILLIAMS,
610 No. 11S2 il A KKE1 BTUEET.
27 GAS COOKING STOVES. 97
f". THE EAGLE OAS 8TOVEB
Are warranted to
BARE, UKOlL, BOIL. BOAST, "TOAST, STEW, HEAT
IRONS ETC ,1C.
NO DUST. DIRT. 5Q -OB ASHES,
And are more econon lcai ttramsltwWCoal.or Oil.
O W. LOOM1S. Manulucturer'a Agent,
bU No 27S.HXTHStret Philadelphia, fa.
07 UNIVERSAL CLOTHES- 27
WRINGER.
The only Wringer with the Patent Coe-Wheel Regai
lator. We warrant this Wringer, and no other.
(i. W. LOOMIS, Atanulacturer'e Agent.
5 25 No. 27 S. fcTX 1 U PUcet, Pbllade pbio, Pa.
27 THE CELEBRATED 27
DOTY WASHING MACHINE. '
For sale at G. W. LOOMI8.
i a No. 21 B. SIXTH Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
27 REFRIGERATORS, 27
ICE COOLERS, ICE CREAM rRF.FZERS, CARPET
SWEAPEHS, CLOTHES-WBINGER3, ETC. AT
G W. I OOKI8',
25fmwlm No. 27 8. SIXTH Street PbUadelphla, Pa.
O T I C , E.
I, JOHN EDGAR THOMSON Trustee fn ceitaln
Indenture ot Mortgage of the pioprrty berelnatter de
sciibed executed by the Tyrone and ( leatflcld Uol.road
Company to me, as Morigogee In Tiust, to secure the
puientof the priucipal and Interest ot bonds of said
Company to tbe amount ol flib li(Hi. which Mortgage le
dated the 12th day ot May. A. D. 1W9. and reconlea fa
tbe ofllce lor lecordlng deeds, etc in and (or the county
of Blair, on the lHth day ot May, A D. 185U, tn mortgage
book A, pages M3-4-S-U-7 and 8, nd in the ofllce lor re-
cording deeds, etc ia and lor the countvol Centre, on
the IV i b day it May, A D. 18S9. In mortpage book K,
Eage 170 etc., do hereby give notice that ueiuult having
een made for more than ninety days in the payment of
the Interest due and demanded on tbe said bon is. I will,
in pnisuanoe of tbe written lequest to me directed of tbe
boideia ot more than ew0 in amount of the sold
bonds, and by virtue of the power conferied upon me in
that respect by the said Mortgage expose to public sale
and sell to the highest and bust bidder by M. I HOMaU
it SONS, Auctlcneer. at the PHILADELPHIA EX
1'HlSOK, In the cliv of Ibilaelpbla. on Thursday, the
27th day of September, A. D. lte. upon the terns and
conditions herelnaiter stated, the v ho e of the said
niortgaged premises, viz. :
The vthole ot that section of said Tyrone and Clear'
field Railroad Irom tbe point of intersection with the
'ly rone and Lock Haven hailroad pear Tyrone. Blair
county, Pennsylvania to I blillpsbuig Centre county,
Pennsylvania, as tne same is now constructed togoiher
with all and singular the railways, rails, bridges,
lences, privileges, rights, and al real property of
eery desciipiion acquired by and belonging to said
Company, and all tho tolls, fiicouie. Issues, and proBts
to bo derived and to a'ise from the sunie. and a 1 the
lands used and occupied tor railways, depots, or sta
tions between said points, with a 1 the building stand
ing thereon or procured therefor
AND GENERALLY.
A II Ihe lands, railways, rails, bridges, culverts, trest'e
worKs, tool-liouses, coal-houses wharves, lences, rights
of way, workshops, niachinerv, st.tions, depots dopot
gronnds, works, matonrv, and other supeisiructure,
teal estate buildings and linprovemenu oi whatever
nature or kind appertaining orbelonglng to the above
mentioned propeitv. and to the aald section of said
Tyrone and ( earile d Hailroad, and owned by sold Com
pany In connection tlierewl It.
1 he salu section of the Tyrone and Cleaifleld Railroad,
extending from 'he intersection ot the vrone and Clear
field Railroad v. l b Ihe railroad ortnerly be'ongtiig to
the lyrone and Lockhaven Rnllroad Company, but now
to the Bald tag e Val ev hailroad Company, I about
2(1 miles in length.
TESMS OF SALE.
10,000 of the purcliase money 'o be said in cash when
the pioperty u stiuck off, aud the balance wltolu 20 day
tbereaner
Pa MkNT on account of the aald balance of purchase
monev, to the ex ent of tbe dividend thereof payable
on the bonds secured by the sn Id mortgage and ihe ma
imed coupons of the said bonds may be made In the said
bonds or coupons; and If the dividend I les than the
actual sum cue upou the said bonds or couoons, the
holders nmy letaln possession o tho said bonds &nd
coupons on receipting to the said Trustee for the said
dividend and endorsing kaymeutol the same on thesaid
bonds or coupons.
I'pon he purcliase monev being Dalil as atorosuld the
Trustee will execute and deliver a died oi conveyance
oi tbe premises to 'he puichnser or purchasers in pur
suance ot taepoviet conlorred uoon him by tbe said
moitgae.
Any lurther Infonnatlon In respect td Bald sa'e. or
piemlses may Le had upon application to the undur
sined Trustee, at Ihe ollice ot tbe I'ennsy vanla Rail
roi.d Company, No. 23'SS. Third sireei. Phi ado pliia,
JOHN E10ARTIKM-iOt I rustoe,
No. 238 8 I HI t!D Street.
M.THOMAS A t-ONS Aiic ioneers,
1 11 niflm Nob. 1;I9 and 141 s FOUR1U Mrcet.
Porket Ktioks, !
Pbl'tcniniiiiiiU'H,
t'lur Cuscs,
l'oMfollos,
Druwilii!; f uses,
Ilankf-rs' Cases.
Ladies and Qenta'
Satchel and
Travelling Bags,
tn all styles.
JJIESKELL?S MAGIC OIL
CUBES TETTER.
ERYSIPELAS, ITCH, SCALD HEAD, AND ALL
SKIN DISEASES.
WABBAtiTtD TO CUBE OB MONEY REFUNDED
For tale by all L ingglsu.
PRINCIPAL DEPOT I
No. S3 South THIRD Street,
Atove Cnesnut.
Price 25 cent per bottle. 4 24 jm4P
O A W T.I tt r T Ct 1 T n
ij'jl O J i' J A' V J.V O A tl Ed.
A BECOND HAND
Farrel & Eerrinfir Fire-Proof Safa
FOR BALE.
APPLY AT THIS OFFICE, 44 p
Ik 7 I 5
1 WHiTiNU
If VI bKH ir
If TOII.rT !p
11 9
NciUleworhVl
L . made luto 1
V Katclieli.
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