BEDFORD STREET, As It Was, and As It Is. The Lower Strata of Humanity lu Great Cities. THE BUMMER'S RESTAURANT Tlie Slianty Xlio Collar THE PEOPLE WHO DWELL THEREIN The Bedford Street Mission and Its Work. Kte., Kte., Etc., Etc., Kte., Etc. ' In all great cities, and indeed in all places wlicie a great number of people are congre gated together, there i a class that seems to fall into the lowest depths, as sand falls to the bottom of water. They seem to get there at one, and never to make anjr exertion to rise again. The whole end and aim of their existence are comprised in the gratification of their low cat animal desires and appetites. Degraded in appearance, they fihun the light of day, and keep within their burrows. Stunted in their moral growth, there are none of thebetter, loftier impulses of humanity that should ac tuate the creature moulded after God's own Image. Aa we think of their condition as it is now at this very moment, as it has been tor generations, and as it will be for generations to come, unless new and more powerful measures are resorted to to cleanse them from their moral degradation we feel sad when reflecting on the depths to which poor human nature can sink. And jet there are lew comparatively who are aware of the immense amount of filth, squalor, disease, and all manner of wretchedness that exists amongst the lower strata that herds in cur midst. Perhaps our readers have read the description of the lower classes oi London as portrayed in the English periodicals from time to time, or as jnore vividly described in Victor Hugo's cele brated "Mlserables." But terrible as is the misery there described, wretched as the poor creatures are said to be, even these descrip tions do not give all the details ot the frightful picture. We remember reading once a descrip tion of a place in tiouuvi. ..... , pA Btreet. It told how the houses in that place were packed with its miserable humanity of rooms reeking with filth, foul with exhalations from the bodies of its inmates, and irom the rotting valla sheltering (?) men, women, and children, buddled together indiscriminately. Sometimes there were four or five families ' In one wretched room, which was at once their Sleeping, eating, and sitting-room. There there Were none of these kindly feelings that so en noble the mind and the heart; there there Were none of those household virtues that alone Can give happiness to man. But living like beasts, shunning the sight of all that was pure and heavenly, retiring within the shadow of their abodes as jthe beasts, these wretched beings lived on in their misery and degrada tion. In reading the description of these hor jlbla localities in the old cities, we would be apt to exclaim: "Thank God, we have 210 such places I" But how Idle l the boast may be very ellj shown by taking a ttroll Jnto the , lower quarters of any of Cur great cities. ( Only a few years back New Sork bid one locality that was .celebrated for Jta squalor, Altb. and misery. , Wh6 has not leaM of 1 the -''Five Points"- and the "Old Brewery P.r-ArtUU have made studies of its ancient-looking, ' decayed,1-' and " tumble-down Bhaatiet, " with its " crowded tenement-houses, 'a wanning with human beings and vermin of all Jtinds-crowded with .those poor , wretches Whom poverty compels to 'crawl for shelter under the leaky roof, and in rooms where the old battered windows could not boast of a glass, where furniture was a luxury unattainable, and V here the cold crust of bread or the rejected bone', was ravenously devoured by the aid of fingers and teeth. Booms that in the hot sum mer months were swarming with flies, roaches, find all , manner of vermin, . whilst decay ing ; vegetable matter and filth bred disease with every breath; where in winter the V howling storm swept , with unresisted force 'tbiough the broken doorway and the pnglazed window, and through the wide gaping cracks in the shanty itself, that have not been jflosed with old paper and rags. ; There through the day might be seen poverty and misery .stalking around with pallid features and skeleton-like forms. There through the night crime and all manner of iniquity were carried on lu the moat daring and God-defying manner. The pounds of debauchery, drunkenness, and blas phemy rang their discordant notes on the air through the horrid nights until the dissipated wretches ceased from exhaustion and dropped off into their drunken sleep. Such was " Five .Points" such Is "' Bedford Street even now, much as has been done for It by the 'Mission, which is even now striving to still further improve the street and Its environs. , Who that picks up the daily papers does not see the name of this notorious and terrible locality. All manner of crimes that are known in the laws used to be committed within iU uuhal 'Jlowed precincts, and even now it Is a sad spec .laole. And yet, much as has been said of it 'jnuch as has been written about it it is com paratively an unknown region to thousands of our citizens. . II e father of a family, as he sits down to his morning paper, with his happy children and wife around him, and shudderlngly glances ove an account of some terrible crime or outrage that has been committed within the limits of Bedford street, can form no idea of its Snkerlesi Not even from the finely portrayed descriptions of Charles Dickens or the power ful wrltinsrs of Victor H uo-n. ran tint mind farm .proper Idea of what 1 to be seen in the lower THE DAILY EVENING TELEGliAHI TRIPLE SHEET. haunts of the miserably poor and depraved wn.-tcb.ci who exist In such boirlblo places. There are some tbinirs wblch must b) seen to be thoroughly understood. . With such f jelinpc as these we started on a tour through Bedford street, and much as we thought we wore pre pared for what we were to see, vet we found that all our ideas of the place foil far short of the reality. The street itseli runs east and west, be-, tween Fifth and Eighth streets, and between Shippen and South streets. One morning we started out to make a tour through the place, by invitation of the Missionary, Kcv. Mr. Long. It was a bracing, cool morulnn in October, and the sun shone clear and brisrht. As we ap proached the street, we soon began to see Its in fluence in the people that i89ud from it We reached the place, and turned towardsjthe Mis. sion, which U situated between Sixth and Seventh streets, on the north side. It was a plain, unpretending, structure, three stories in height. Finding Mr. Lona: at his post, we soon got ready and made a start, A few steps brought us to a rickety tumblo-down looking frame shanty, whose rottou superstructure seemed to lean over with more ot an inclination than the celebrated tower of Pisa. The windows which once, perhaps, had panes of glass in them exhibited a mass of rags and old paper that served to keep out the rain and wind. No curtains were there, and the broken shutters were closed with a bar and padlock. The roof broken, and covered with masses of moss that still looked fresh and green, although it covered decay and corruption, and the tumble-down chimneys,com pleted the outride picture. No, not quite, either. On one side of a cellar door sat two negro women. Thoy were dirty and slovenly. On their heads were ragged, greasy, and filthy handkerchiefs that had once been of gay colors. A mass of filthy rags covered their attenuated figures, whilst their sharp visages and bleared eyes gave a wicked look to their fea tures as they sat huddled up resting their chins on their hand, and looking up at us from under their eyebrows. Says Mr. Long to them, "You live down the cellar, don't you ?" One of the women replied In an indignant manner, and with a flourish of her hand, "No, I don't live down tnere; I live in Spafford street, I does;" and then got up, and, with a series of grunts, waddled off to her proper domicile. The other negro said, In a sort of half-ashamed, half-defiant manner, "1 live there, right down there," pointing, at the Name time, with her skinny finger into the cellar. We looked down where she pointed, and instinctively shuddered at the wretched sight. The bottom of the cellar must have been of black mud. Over the mud were laid boards, and between these the black, foul mud bad oozed op, and was spreading over the scanty flooring, which was already covered with some half an inch of black filth. Around, the walls of the cellar were begrimed with smoke and dirt. There was not aslDgle article of furniture, not even a bench, visible. "And yet," says Mr. Long, "in that miserable place will pro bably a score of homeless tramps and thieves rr IT" ru" ""vering, other than the clothes they have on, and sleep to many beasts. There, with the foul black ooze clinging to their rags, will they drag out the weary night hours, to disperse during the day through the city, stealing, begging, and carrying disease wherever they go." The upper room was almost aa wretched as the cellar. On the black ened, discolored walls, Jbat had here and there a ragged shred of wall paper clinging to it, and through the battered plaster, by whiph the laths and scantlings were exposed, hung ragged and tattered garments. A mangy-looking dog lay down before an old stove that still con tained some embers of . a fire almost out; two or .', three chairs, a 'three-legged table, and some few articles of kitchen use strewn about, completed the picture,' as far as furniture went. .There were no carpets of any kind, and tho flnctf seemed alive with vermin. From it there issued a noisome stench that spoke In volumes of disease ani pestilence. The in mates, some half-a-dozen in number, wero fit beings to. Inhabit such a ' place. A couple ot bleared-eyed,' Unkempt," uaahaved ' men, with nothing on but ragged breeches, a dirty shirt, and worn-out, "rough t boots, lounged around with' pipes in i their mouths, cursing- the women and children who were huddled together In one corner. It was a Bad picture, but there were far worse ones. - ' " "' The Tramp's Reetsmraat. -j , ' At one corner we stopped to look lntoi a pro vision shop and tramp's restaurant. There were plates of bones and broken meat, crusts of bread.and parts of potatoes in heaps and piles that would hardly be inviting to a hungry dog. They were piled on the reeking counters. The marks of teeth could be seen in many of the unwhole some viands that were exposed to view. On the shelves of this store were lots of rancid ham and decayed vegetables. The smell of putrefying meat, bad tobacco, and rottening vegetable matter was almost enough to drive pne back wards; and yet these dens are well patronized by the tramps and thieves, who pay ten cents per plate for the victuals that even a well-to-do dog would turn from lu disgust. Such a luxury as a knife and fork, In such a place, Is a rarity; and fingers and teeth take their place with wonderful success, judging from the way in which the foul viands disappear. The shops are constantly replenished with the stores obtained from the beggars, who bring the contents of their bags and baskets, mixed with cigar stumps, "old sogers," and dirt of all descriptions. It is well the hun rry tramp and ravenous bummer have no fastidious appetite, or their leather-lined stomachs would reject the filthy scraps. Around the walls are hung dried up a.ad mouldy links of Bolognas, and sickly looking meat that evidently never came under the hands of the butcher. In these places, at the meal hours, can bo seen the aged and pal sied, the ragged and forlorn, devouring with hungry greed their rations. After takiag a hasty glance into the "restau rant," we moved on. The foul exhalations from the street, and the bursts of murky, pestilential vapors .that issued from the opened doorways, almost made us think of giving up our inspec tion. But we plodded on, and stopped opposite one of,the "slums," or alley ways. It had once been paved. But the bricks were broken, and had been forced inta the blackened mud, and we had to pick our way daintily over the treacherous ground, through the dark and noisome passage. We emerged , into a back yard. Before us was a collection of frame and mud shantlea, none of them more than two stones, and ruoat of them only one-story. To describe any one of thorn would be an almost lm poftHib'e task. In some of them two and three fa mines were huddled together in one room, which was at once sitting-room, eating room, sleeping room, and kitchen. Here Is where the cholera started, says our companion. We look around, and-wonder that It had not started sooner, and with mcre.deadly poer. The vegetable refuse anfl kitchen offal of all descriptions were heaped with piles of ashes. From the offensive heaps the morning sun raised vapory cloud of pesti lential missroa that ppoke plainly of disease and death. Around us were hnlf-naked groups of poor creatures, who seemed to wonder what brought us to such a place. Wo could hear deep muttered curses and imprecations Irom the ruf finnly looking men, who Imagined that we were there for no good lo them. Pays our compmlon: "You see these misera ble hovels. Well, as a paying Investment, there is no speculation that is better than to build, and in a just such places as these. There is a house (pointing to a onc-storlod mud-hut) that would probably not cost'over $30 to put up, and yet it brings not less than $120 to $150 a year. And .yet these places are owned by men whom society looks up to as wealthy and upright citi zens men who would not venture within the unhallowed precincts ot their o wn possessions, but who think it no barm to own them, and get an income irom them through their less scru pulous agents." We stopped at a dilapidated doorway that led into a narrow entry. A short flight of rotten and rickety stairs led the way to the upper story. In that place, on a Saturday niht especially, could bo seen crowds of thieves, pickpockets, bummers, and tramps of all descriptions. At night every available spot Is taken up by the lodgers, who, lor ten cents, have the shelter of its walls for a few hours. No bedding of any kind is furnished. Down on the bare floor, with no other covering than the rags that cover tbeai, lie these miserable wretches. In one mass they lie, regardless of age or sex. On any clear night thore are numbers of the vilest of both sexes who con gregate and lie around like brutes. Humanity shudders and sinks abashed at the horrible debaucheries and lasciviousness that the pen refuses to picture, and the mind cannot con ceive of unless it were seen. . On our way out of the "slum" we stopped at the open doorway of a room that opened into it. There an old, wrinkled-looking has lived with her three daughters. The latter were from fifteen to eighteen years old, we were told, but to our eyes their ages were a mys tery. Dissipation, want,and misery had so changed and warped tnelr features that there was little ot humanity in them. They looked at us with hollow, glazed eyes, and a stolid, listless ex pression on their sallow faces that seemed to Bay a smile wai never to illumine them in this lite. Stunted in growth, mentally de formed, and old before their tlm they were the victims of the crime and penury of her who ought to have been their gnide and pro tector under God their mother. Prostituted for gain in their earliest years, these poor - . , irnnnr "it- the meanin? of vlrtae an i honor, unless, perchance, a lathuv niuuu.. thought would flash through their dwarfed minds, as the glortous sun or the starry heavens would, for a passing moment, arrest their attention. We emerged, from that alley feeling doubly sad at what we bad seen, and proceeded through Bedford street again. There were numbers of children thronlug around. And oh, what a spectacle! Not happy childhood, with its many pranks and gleeful laugb, but old faces on young shoulders. Per haps a smile would linger for a moment on their poor attenuated features as a kind word was spoken to them., Our friend, the Missionary, would always have a pleasant word for. them, and would inquire why they were not at the Mission School. Some of them would say thoy bad to go out and earn something tor their parents to buy bread with, and others would give somewhat similar reasons for non-atteud- Aa we went along the street there was one particular group that arrested our attention. Some seven individuals, equally divided as to sex and color, were lying huddled together on a cellar door. Two of the men had black stumps of : pipes in . their i mouths, . and bo also had ant old, ill-looking ' negress. i Al though the morning was ; pretty well ad vanced, they still slumbered on, smoking and snoring in their troubled rest.' Not one of then but would have , made a study for a painter. Their dilapidated garments, recking with grease and dirt, scarcely covering their nakedness; the pallid, vicious looks, the begrimed faces and tangled bair and beards of the different members of the group, made a sad picture. And see, one brutal teilow quarrels with one of the wretched females, and raissi his fist and strikes her! For a fe w seconds there is a wrangle, and then they relapse Into their old stolid condition. This is a common picture, and not as bad as some that are daily and hourly to be seen at any place in the whole street. A Bedford Street Groggery is the lowest place that the mind can concoive of. A low, dark room, Into which the light of heaven only enters through the battered door way, We enter, and what a sight meets our eyes a mingled mass of be'stialized humanity ! There are no other pieces of furniture bat two or three rough chairs, and some barrels labelled "Old Rye," "Gin," and "Rum," several bottles of the fiery poison on a dirty sheK, and a half dozen green glass tumblers. Behind an old rough plue couuter, cut and Lacked by a gene ration of loafers and bummers, stands a fat, un wieldy woman, whose lowbrow, coarse face, and Titanic limbs give evidence of tremendous muscular power, while the glaie of her red blear eyes give evidence of her willingness to use it. The chief objects of interest, ho wever, are the miscellaneous groupings of men, woman, chil dren, bogs, and dogs that throng the hell. Here may be seen placards announcing dog fights, rat-fights, and all manner of bestial amusements. Here may be seen the rum-soaked bummer and sot sinking, a mass of filth and disease, upon the rotten floor, whilst around him roots a family of piga, or above his head a dog-fight is going on. And see the wretched customer as he 6leps Into the vile place to get his glass of lightning ! UU bloated face fiery with the potency of the draughts of liquid poison; the eyes red, blood-shot, and bleared ; the uncombed hair and shaking, trem bling limbs all go to make up a terrible picture that is a common alas! how very common I spectacle. And even he is not the most sadden ing picture. Imagine a poor, degraded woman PHILADELPHIA , SATURDAY, XOVEMBER 3, 18CC. one of that sex whom we look up to as purer and better In all her impulses than we fallen, fallen below the beasts I A woman, whose sense of sbame and self-respect are totally gone, whose only thought Is how to obtain her daily grog. See. her come' Into the vile den, and swallow the deadly poisonous liquor that burns her throat with its fiery strength. She staggers out with unsteady steps, muttering curses and male dictions upon all who stand in her way. Small children obtain draughts of rum and gin, and stagger and swagger In Imitation of their older companions in vice and debauchery. To see these hells all their worst aspect, one should pay them a visit about the hours of ten and eleven at night. Then they swarm with besotted crea tures of bothtexes and all ages and color?. Then ran be heard the coarse oatbs and blasphemies and ribald jests the fierce laugh of the cutthroat villain and the shrieks of some poor wretched being who is suffering under the hand of some merciless beast. There, ljlng prone on the floor, can be seen the fallen sot, lying in the disgust ing filth, and unconclous in his drunken sleep. Around are groups playing with dirty, well thumbed cards, or thro wing d ice. But enough of such a picture; and even that is not half as horrible as tho reality. Indeed, to do justice to such a subject would exhaust all the words of abhorrence and detestation in the language. We can only pretend to describe a very smalt portion of what can be seen at any time. Cariosity Seeker used occasionally to meet with rather rough treatment from the denizens of this benighted region. The Missionary told me of one case in particular. A man in very respectable cir cumstances thought be would like to see some of the carryings-on in the lower dens of the street. One bitter cold night in the winter he set.out on his travels in search of the elephant. He stopped in front ot a cellar, attracted by the sounds of a furious merriment within. He en tered., The crowd of women who filled the cellar instantly stopped their dancing and ribalry, and tho old cracked violin, which was played by a one eyed darkey, also stopped. The women gathered around him, and, alarmed, he attempted to retire. But they barred his way out, and, seizin? him, amidst curses and yells of ribaldry, they took from him his coat, his vest, his pants, his boots and stockings, his underclothing, and, in fact, every stitch he had on, In spite of his lrenzled yells and struggles. They then put on him an old, dirty, ragged shirt and pair of draw- i en. in una Biaie iney mrust mm out oi tho cellar. As be emerged, a policemen met him, but he begged off, and started for home at the top of his speed, reaching there a wiser man in some respects than he was before. The foregoing is but one case of a hundred similar ones. The Mission. which was organized in 1853, by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has effected a great change In the character of tho street and its environs. Formerlena Trectncts with impunltv. If he "Vaiuou-niB-lite. To be there was to render oneself a prey to mur- ""' whwrv. The sounds of drunken quar rels and howllntf Imprecations filled tfkn air rpnin early morning until the drunken wretches fell mio meir Desiial and besotted slumbers. Whn the Mission was first started, even the ministers of the Gospel could not get entrance within its pale to address the benighted people. They were assailed with sticks and stones and mud, and dead animals were hurled at them, whilst besotted ' men and women would howl out curses and imnro cations, so as to render It impossible to be nearo. patan seemed let loose, and dovtiiahnaoa reigned triumphant. We will give the expe- i.outc oi one nay, as related by the Missionary Rev. Benjamin T. Sewell, in his Interesting work on Bedford street. He says: "My reception In Bedford street the first Sabbath was an vthlnir hut flattering. After giving out and, with the aid of luc uiemren around me. singing a hymn, I com menced praying, but I had scarcely begun when a scene occurred which completely spoiled this part of the exercises.", Rome one having taken a lanse dog Ironi his home In the vicinity of our meeiir.g, naotiea an Old wash-kettle lo. his tail, and then started him borne again. On he came with railroad speed. On, too, came the crowd close on the heels of the doer men. wnmon boys, and girls, all eairer to see the fun, and with their yelcincr. shoutine. hurrah! ling, jumping, stamping, laughing, etc., making me went in ring." Through such discouragements the Mteslon has pursued its unwavering CDurse upward and onward. Its great adversary is Intemperance. It is not confined to the men, but even the women and children are frequently under its influence. Some there are whose sensual appe tites, once formed to the taste of liquor, not even the tear of death can induce to abandon their rum and gin. When taken down'by disease, no Inducement can be powerful enough to make them leave off taking a "dhrap of the crather." We will here make another extract from Mr. 8ewell's work. It is the description of a single room and its inmates: "There are no chairs lu the room, aiid a seat on the floor would not be so comfort able, for It looks as if it had not been cleaned since it was done four years ago by order ot the Board of Health. But here is a rickety stair way leading to the attio, but that is occupied Dy other families. Just stand where you are, and jou will see enough to show that Katv's home is not tho most comfortable tmaeinablo. Here is a drunken woman to commence"with, a young woman who. three years ago, moved in mpect able society. But, alas I bow fallen and degtadednow! "And here is another, an old offender, whose bloated face and blackened eyes and ra coered body indicate the depth of infamy to which she Is sunken, for ruai and rags go baud 1n band. The one destroys all virtue, the other takes away all self-respect, while both unlto in A V I Mfi t.v . l n .nl....iinn.n .. 1 ... 1 . 1 1 Lviuuiu me uuiuiiuuara v iu inn irom an honest and honorable associations. "But here is another, hid awav in the corner, who has mil some sense of shame leit. She Is the mother ot three beautiful children, from whom she has been enticed by the demon of ruic. Poor woman! she baa been wandering about from one grotr-shop to another, drinking penny-a-glass w hiskey, till she Is well nigh ruined. "And here, too, are two racged colored men. Don't be alarmed and scold because of the un natural amalgamation here exhibited. It is a common thing in this locality. Rum has mode it so. ' "In that place were throe little girls and a bright boy, who bad all learned tn use of in toxicating liquors, and had acquired a taste for them." The above description is not an unusual one. The curious reader can see the same thing in scores of places and at any time. The whole' str.?et teems with such. What the Mission line Don is only to be appreciated by those who have seen it in the days when it was first es tablished, and who know its record There is many a reclaimed drunkard, many a reformed "wretch Who bartered her greatest earthly Jewtl for a mess of pottage, and many a happy chill, Who has been rescued from the paths of crime and from the sinks of iniquity which so abound in Ibis frightful locality. It has carried com fort to the dying hour of ' many a poor despairing wretch, whose guilty soul shuddered, ere It took its flight from its earthly sepulchre, at the enormity of its guilt. It has carried comfort to the sick and weary, and food to the starving. It has given instruc tion to the ignorant and stood the friend of the friendless. All honor to these noble rren, who, in the midst of famine and desolation, drunkenness and debauchery, sur rounded by sin and crime in all its abhorrent nakedness, have manfully done (heir duty in reclaiming the fallen or their race ! It is a God like service, and well have they earned the ap preciative plaudits ot alL They are engaged in a work thst should stir the hearts of all to come forward and atd them with deeds of kindness and gifts of benevolence. ' , The Mission Building, wherein the schools arc situated, Is a neat but unpretending three-storied brick structure. On the first floor, as you enter, is the chapel, which is capable of comfortably seating about two hundred people. On the second floor la the infant school-room. We paid the children a visit. Mrs. 0 , the very kind and ladylike teacher, had the little scholars, who are of both sexes and colors, in very good order. Indeed, there arc very few schools In which such excel lent discipline la kept as It was in that room. They were all orderly, and had clean faces and hands and their hair combed. They sang a hymn, called "The Harvester's Hymn," we be- lieve, and accompanied their singing with ap propriate gestures at the lead ot their teacher. After saying a few woids to the children, we visited the third story, where the older scholars are taught. Miss I and Miss R , the two iaay teacners or this department, were very kind In explaining the rules of the school to us. We heard the children repeat the Lord's Prayer in a very creditable manner, and after saying a few words before leaving, we rstired very much pleased with the pleasant faces we saw there, and thankful that so many children were being so well cared tor. The financial condition of the Mission is not in a very flourishing state. In this connection we will make an extract from the thirteenth annual report, for the year 18C6: ' "Financially, the Mission has not prospered during the year as we desired it should. The school fund naa suffered less than the current expense account. We are still short to meet outstanding obligations. Our cherished project of extension has consequently been retarded, but bv no means abandoned. The nronortv has been secured through to South street on favora- Die terms, ana we are ready to go to work, we need the means with which to erect a building suited to our wants. We require ten thousand tiun public ""--i --Tfii , Pn uPn a Chris- No one who has not seen the misery and degradation of the poor fallen wretches who live, or rather exist, in this wretched locality can conceive of the immense work that is to be done in reclaiming them and reforming them so ns to oe useful members of society. And It is a duty we owe not only to our God, but to society at large, as a measure of policy, if for no otner reason, that thit hot-bed of vice and cilme should be purified and rendered a blessing, instead ot a curse, as It now 19. It is, as a mere matter of dollars and cents, expedient to aid the Mission in preventing the still further spread of me crime ana disease that Issue from its midst, JfEW ' ROUTE TO THE, SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST, Via the Delaware Railroad line. '" -! ''-n .. - In; it... .', i . ". !?.' a .. . ., ,s- . ... 1 1 ,, .. On ead fterMOKDAY, Kovembers. Trains wlU leave Bepot, at BEOAD street and WA8 IUSO row Arenue, .vr. .ouniayS excepted), arriving at CBI8 FIELD, Man land, on tbe Ohea Bt thfiDCA tor thA DAW And AlMrant uniTV eta OB FOLK," arriving at K OK FOLK, a 45 P, M., cos- SEABOABD AND ROANOKE RAILROAD, For aQ points South and Southwest - Elegant State-room 8leeplng Cars from Philadelphia For inrthcr information apply at TICKET OFFICE, " No 828 CHESNUT Street, OB AT THE DEPOT, BROAD Street and WASHINGTON Avenue. H. F. KBNNEY, 11 ,2t Superintendent P. W. and B. B. B. LETTER . COPY-BOOKS, 300 pages, $150. LETTER COPY-BOOKS, 600 pages, $'00. LETTER COPY-BOOKS, 1000 pases, f 3-00. FADER'S PENCILS, 73 cent a Dozen. ENVELOPES, f l-3 per thousand. il. IIOSKINS CO., btASk BOOK MANTFACrCBEKS, STATI9KEK8 AND CABD EITORAVEBS, 1 28mrP No. 913 ARCH Street. W POINT BREEZE PARKTHE FOL lowing a xhlbltion Prolamine will beoffeied to me public lor tbe benefit ot Jur. b. I! bauer OS MJRDAT NEXT. N ft V am Ft Ml K M f m rt a n I n at ri a aba In fle to taaTneM. " ' """ tbn rr, "nton ne 8. A DouhUm Wl Main Doble enters b. b. btratbmere B. Daly enteia b. h Dan. ... .o.u ui, innw inn nea'i the celebrated rone tbe saddle, ricd.n by Mr. Bodtl Doble. Member are rrapectiuliy requeued to watre the occasion 1 ickeu 1 each, may be obtained at Offloe Ho, ,144 n. Fourth street, BiBley'i Continental Hotel I Ulrard House. ere li ant's Hole1, Van 0'.n t . 1 "'net's, reitea a. ana i sntatau's Hotels. urn POINT BRKRZE PARK. A sneolal tram of e will leave BKO AD and fluME Htiee.s on MtailV next at m o'clock f. at. , ror tbe Hace at tus Jr"rk. ""r,""j Mr)uerI,v, uii,m.i. at tlis station on tue Penroae Ferry Koaa. close to tne Pert. A te turning tra'n wl.l Uave tie same station at o'clock 1. M. 11 2 t DRY GOODS. SILKS! SILKS! SILKS,! . CHiEAT BARGAINS IN if DRY GOO I W. HEAVY BLACK OROS URAIN. LYONS BLACK TAFFETAS. PLAIN AND PLAID POPLINS. I RENCII AND ENGLISH MBsaiNOES. LUPIN'S ALL WOOL DELAINES. REPS AND ALPACAS. , ' BEAUTIFUL PLAID GOODS FOR CHIL DREN. Teble Linen and Damask sTapklns, Towels, FlaaneU, every grade t bbawlt, Balmorals. Merrltneo Callcoee, Hosiery, 5 ew and Elegant Styles Baoqulogand Cloak Iors, lor ladles' weart Cloths and Casslmires for mea'a and boys' weart Lsdlot' and Gentlemen's Handker chiefs; Tickings, Huckaback, Crasb. ete. MUSLINS. A very larce Stock of both Bleached and CuMe-ohed. at prices guaranteed low. BLANKETS. BLANKETS. ONE THOUSAND PAIRS from aSM to a a pair. I he finest la the city at Nos. 2 and 4 Norlli NINTH Street,. ' ABOVE MifcKET. C0 llthstalni M. K. WILLIAMS. CURWEN STOQDART & BROTHER ANNOUNCE A GENERAL REDUCTION OF PKICEsi Large purchases ft the lata AUC TIO V B ALES, when Goods of late tm porta' Ion have been greatly BACBI fUED, enable ns to offer groat inducements to BCYEB9, and afford aa the oppoitaruty of making acb a , REDUCTION OF PRICES ' AS WILL EFFECT BAPID BALES. CURYJEN STQLMRT BROTHER, Nos. 450, 452, and 431 N. 6EC05D St, 1HM , ,, : ABOYJt WILLOW. . , BLACK D R E 8 8 GOOD 8. TAKSn POPLINS. HIAKKITZ. , EMPKKSo CLOTH8, PI AM SB OLOI HB. . MOUBHKLIi, DE LAISES. -SLPACAB. PKENOU MKKTKOES. All tbe above bave been iraught at the lata auction tales, and are told at REDUCED PBIOES. - : : CURWEH RTOODABT SV BROTHER, Koa. 50, W. and 4M Morth 8RCOH n atreet. H 8 at Above WUiow. FRENCH MERINOE9. ' ' From late anetloa Sa'es , . ., FRENCH SlERIiiOttH AT a1M. FRt.NCH WF.K1NOK8 AT l l. ; ' ' FRf N( H MEKIHOES AT Bit. , FIfiEB GKADLU AT LOW P&1CE8. CURWEN STODDABT BROTHER, " Kot. 4S0, 491, and 4M Worth 8EOOHD Btreet, 11 8 - A be vo WUiow. ' AB19 P0PI.IN8 IN CHOICE SHADES. PBICES BRDUCED. - -ovxtWBBT STOOD ART fc BROTHER,' ii e Ho-0.45a. and 454 North 8F.OOHD Btreet, 1,8 " , , ' Above WUiow. DEPOT FOR FURNISHING DRY GOODS. A CARD. SHEPPARDjVAN HARLIRGEN&ARRISGH, No. 1008 CHESNUT Street, : Whoso establishment for the i ale of , ' ' Hbuse-Fumishing Dry Goods It onequalled tn the extent and variety of Its assort ment, beg to announce to HOUSEKEEPERS B SKEW ING IBtlB BCPPLY, er pertout about to tarnish, that thej are now receiving their FALL ASSORTMENT PBESH LINEN, COTTON, AND WOOLLEN : 'r . GOODS FOR ; HOUSEHOLD USE, ' : ' SUCH A3 , .; .'' '' " " i TetinM, Cotton Sheetinffa. ' - PiliowSOLinans, Pillow Muslin. Datuask Tabla Clotha, 1 V . ,. , .Table Linen, ' . ' . ,'," ' ' " Damas Napklna, ," Bordered Towel,' Towelling, Quilts, BlanO, Table and Emoroidered Piano and Table Covera, And every otter trtic'e soluble lor a well-ordore4 household. f Ilthetuemrp OLD SHINGLE B00F3 (FLAT 08 , STEEP) COVERED WITH John's Enelisa Hoofing Olotk, finideot"'1 w,h "QUID GCTTA PEBCBA PAINT nas.ln ibein peiiectly water proof. sr.n. f I . . I I 11,1 U II T I . VV. A . . . - unitt rflrOn. . in,. ,1 ...-it....... . 1 .. - . . . l010.0"" PeT Qure toot. Old Board or shingle Bool, ten cents per square loot alleomp.eie t SrS ?rJ"L", eonmnntiy on band and ror sale by the pHILA DELPHI A AJiO. PEUHri.VAJIA KOOPiNU CO si PA a Y. (isrtKtiK immiiT " II s Sm So. ! North s OCKTU bireet. JJ F. UUTLER, MEN'S FURNISHING . GOODS, No. 142 South EIGHTH St. in JpINE OPERA GLASSES ' - - , . "'iimi . v 1 tSl is BeTl i- j . ' ' ' i "''"i 11 im, mm, mtmiV'J IMPORTED AND FOE SALE BT JAMES W. QUEEN & CO 10 18tl ... No. 034 CHESNUT Street' I L L I A M B . G B A Ii , T, COMM1HMIOJT MERCnaKt, V0 MS. IELAWAIiC Avenue, PnutOcIphta, ACsntitob . , Poprnt' Gunpowder, Heilued N ttrs, Chnrooal, Eta. W. Ksker A t'o 's CUociiUjte. Cocos, and bruuia. Ciorkcr Bros A Co Tsllow fcutai bbeeUiou. Holla 'i4laU .-' H. 1 y-- - ' ' "" ;;, f (.. f . .. 4 . . . - ...,.,,.-. 11 . .- , ' '".. v ; ,. , " .!,. n , ''5 --...' t.u ., .' ft , ' if I ;. , a v ; .. . t . V Jl
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