THE CIIUnCH A rUlVEIl 151 CRKAT
CITIES.
A Dliconrie Delivered In Trinity Metho
dist Episcopal Church, by (ho Pas. or,
ne. U. II. Wadal, I). D.
"Except the Lord kpop the oily, the watchman
Wlkotb tyit in Tain." Psalm exxrit, 1.
The writer, In tbit PshIiii, Matei tho groat
truth that nothing la well done without the
blessing of God that the builder's skill needs
the grace of the Divlue touch, mid tbft waicu
miB the care of Ilini that never elumbareth nor
sleepeth.
Of course It la not meant to nsacrt that the
visible presence o' Deity, or In Its eteud tin angel
form, comes down and plies mallet, trowel, and
plummet on tho walls of the rising edifice, or
that God Interposes miraculously to protect the
endangered city or country. The meaning,
doubtless, Is that wirked counsels tend to ruin
and overthrow; that the wicked arc snared In
their own net, and that Goi works in the world
in and by good men; that all the Interests of the
city are well watched and guarded when it Is
controlled by the good and wise. The came of
good men Is the cause of God; their In
fluence In the world is meant to ba
and Is a divine iorce. God acts In tlicra
and by them, and intend, through their
Instrumentality, to bring the world Into a state
of moral and ppirltual soundness and safety.
Whoever hinders thcra in any virtuous, unsel
fish' tabor for mankind's benefit is God's foe, and
a binderer ol Hia cause. And tho idea seems to
be implied that a city furnishes a more striking
illustration of the principle than a mere village
or the open country. In the city, by the com
pression of so murb human lire into the cam-
fiacl layers of streets, of rows, of Btorie, this
ile necessarily becomes very intense, and
moral and intellectual erowths, both good nud
bad, are larger and quicker. In the cities, there
fore, sin and righteousness find the fairest held
in which to try their hostile powers.
Tho city tests religion, as indeed it does every
thing; that is, while religion belongs every
where, and must struggle against evil every
where, it mut nerve Unelf for itu greatest efforts
in the larsre cities. Religion has the Church for
its organism, and the livins Courch consists of
the truths and forms of religion melted iuto the
soul, and taken up, bo to speak, into its circula
tion. Religion only becomes a concrete reality
by a vital, mora), and intellectual union with
men. This is ths Church, and this Church is a
divine force on earth, and especially in the city.
This, then, is our theme, ''l'tie Church a Divine
Force in the Cii.v."
The good lu the world must bo organized, and
It always has been. Human nature, in lis tin
fallen state, was started as a Church, and after
the fall there was a near covenant and a new
Churcb. The pood that is in the world, unor
ganized, would be like the scattered branda
lrora a fire, easily quenched; like tho drilling
fragments of a sliln, tossed on the ocean, able
to float, but not able, like a ship, to carry trea
sure and passeucers to distant climes. Yes,
good men must be organized, and the orsaniza
tion must be around the central principle of
virtue, consisting of those who are pledged to
goodness, and who are united for the purpose
of spreading and promoting it.
It is therefore plaia that there must be an or
ganization distinct irom the political society
called the State. From the nature of the case,
the political society must, in some lorm or
other, include the whole people, high and low,
bad and good. Its rules, therefore, must be
general. ItB punishments are for crime, not for
sin. Its rewards are for orderly conduct, not
for spiritual-iDltidediiess. It cannot banish or
imprison for the neglect of a sacrament, or non
belief in the Trinity. Jiven where Church and
State have been united, and the Church has
become a creature of civil law, even there the
one society is not absoroed in the other; there is
only a partnership between them. A partner
ship, by tbo way, not like that between Chin
and Eng. the noted Siamese twins, who are
true brothers and equals, unite! by a ligature
&9 much alive as either ot the bodies it loins,
but rather like a horse and an ox pulling
together at the same cart. The State uses
the Church to assist in drawing its load; it
patches the rotten haraess of its laws with the
stronger leather ot toe conscience; it props the
throne with the cross, and adorns it with priestly
vestments; it uses the Church as a sort of
spiritual police, and the Church receives pay In
dignities, stipends, and glebes, and in havm its
own rules turned into laws by the force of the
civil sceptre.
True, there is a sense In which. Church and
State ought to be united. The power of the
Church its spiritual power ought to be so
great as to spread like a latent Bre like a puri
lying breath into the very heart and soul of
every department of Government, and thus
gently, but mightily, draw all men in power
to puiity and to God. Such a spiritual union of
Church and State wo hope lor, as one of tne
glories of "the pood time comins." As to form
and law, however, Church and State must re
main distinct and apart. Each must be free
and independent of the other.
We have already sr en that political eocicty Is
organized ior general purposes; the Church
must te a distinct organization, because it is
organized for one puroose alone, around one
sole i Jea, namely, virtue, that is, holiac, jus
tice, benevolence, truth. This, as tar as the
present world Koes, constitutes the entire call ot
the Church. She is to gather into one fold the
eood, the virtuous of all lands, and converting
them into un army of evangelists, she is to
march on the Bin of the world with the tire and
faegot ot love and truth. Besides virtue, other
results come from the Cb arch's progress for
example, industry, thrift, a higher civilization,
discoveries, inventions, and purer and hijher
forms ot.art but these are only incidental: her
core is virtue. The Divine society must not
forget the heart in studying the members. She
muBt not be thrown otf irom the centra by tho
giandeur of her own motion. Sue has just one
mission, and that is to renew the moral nature
of the world.
But then it belongs to the very idea of the
Church that she ground her mission in behalf
of virtue in religion. The Church, In the very
kernel of Its meaning, Is not merely a society for
tne promotion ot external morality; it is, as we
have already said, a divine society. It roots
morals in religion, which is the bond uniting
the soul with God. Morals roust be founded on
religion or on nothing: moral duties must be
primarily owing to God, or we must be entirely
Without responsibility. Morality is written, to
be sure, on the nature of man, and asserts its
own eternal reality. But if it begin and end in
human nature, and reach not back into the
eternal and absolute, It Is only a falsehood, and
the Creator has misled us. We know it may be
said that virtue is its own reward, and must be
loved tor its own sake, because it is fair to look
upon, and sweet to the consciousness of its pos
sessor. And so it is, but only on the supposition
that it Is a reality, espresing the perfections of
the Divine Nature, copied by the Divine Finsrer
out of the bosom ot the Infinite into our own".
Whenever religion is ignored morality be
comes a mere convenience, to be u-ed or
dropped as profit or passion may chauce to dic
tate. The loftiest intellectual culture cannot
save our virtue from the ill eifects of a shallow
theory of morals. Morality beiutr pulled up by
the roots out of its native soil of relic-ion, like
any other uprooted thine:, i( dies; and dies pre
cisely under tho prayerlirss, religionless culture
of which we boast, while U destroys us.
A man is not to oharpen his weak eyes with
tho best of glasses, and ttien fall h i violently in
love with his improved vision as to lose all re
spect ior his ears, aud stop them up with rose
colored putty. Our moral and religious nature
must keep step in culture with tho intelloct,
otherwise our progress Is a hop instead of a
walk, performed on a tall and very sleuder
stilt. The soul, like the body, has two eyes;
the iutelloct Is one, the conscience the other.
The intellectual eye consumes most of the lime
in winking through aud clearing away the cob
webs; the conseience-eje, it turned in the
rtght direction, sees up Into heaven, and rests
on God Himself.
In tbl current of thouerht we find tho reason,
the profound philosophy, of the Church's courau
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA , WEDNESDAY,
n having schools and colleges under h ?r cure,
tier enlightened leaders know that learning, left
in the hands ol mere sciontitic an1 llierary
instructors, sivos a lopsided and hiahlydan
gcious development. It makes a bloateJ intel
lect indi shrivelled and wltheied heart aDd
conscience. Its tendency Is only to make men
capable rascals. Tho culmination of Greek nnd
Koman civilization in the das of Pericles and
Augustus, showed what a culture destitute of
moral and religious convictions can do for
humanity.
it demonstrated thai agodles3 and conscience
less intellect, h'gbly redued by art and letters,
will always Hit its possessors as much above the
savage in wickedness as in culture. Intellectual
refinement and power are only used, in such a
case, to Increase the productive force of Hie p is
sions, to intensify and prolong toe rage ol' animal
enjoyment. Its language is: "Let us oat and
drink, ior to-mnrrow wc di''." The Church
would wed morality, sprouting out uf relision,
to the refining inMucnco of scholast c training.
Nay, Christianity, according to the theory of the
Church, Is an essential pirt of education. It
stands first, nnd must lend, permeate, purge,
and elevate tho culture of the mere intellect.
Uow blind is nine secular learning! llow it
ignores, in its pride, the highest part of our
nature, pampering tne servant and starving tho
matter giving its pupils the microscope
through which to inspect the mere gnats
and animalculie ot speculation, without lolling
them know a syllable about the splendid
telescope with which they have been provided
ior examining tho glory of the heavens. The
purblind wretch, lalscl.y called scholar anl
philosopher, eays to his disciple: "Never mind
that old telescope: it's entirely out of -fashion;
the visions seen through it are mnre illusions,
or, rather, tbey are not in the heavens at all,
but only painted on one of the lenses of the
instrument." But the Church says: "Givo
the higbcist training to both departments of the
soul I ShHrpen and clarify the intellectual
powers to the higheit point ! Dive into meta
physics ! Don't tear science; don't turn your
back on art; but be careUil not to go to sea
without ballast!" Morality, the spiritual
natuie, is the very weieht and substance o'
being. To cultivate the intellect, and forget
the soul's relxtion to the Divine, is to set the
table splendidly and torgct the dinner. It is
to make a splendid frame, and put in it no pic
ture, or else u coarse, blank duub.
It is to find on a desolate island a splendid
paiace, ana then to insist that it was not in
tended to be occupied, and that nobody built or
planned it. It is to be like the tool in the Greek
siory, who wished to teach his horse to live
witnout eating, ana succeeded; but when the
animal had acquired the an, he died. We
neelect our mural nature, ai.d the Immortal
perishes.
Heie ia the great evii of our system-of public
school instruction, valuable as it is on the
whole. We hold, and riirbtly, that all the
children of the people should have an English
education. Without this they will be until (or
their place in the body politic, and some cun
ning despot might soon snatch away our liber
ties. We know that the teaching in these
schools is almost exclusively intellectual, and
tho Mipposition Is that every child's parents
will give the moral and spiritual training at
home. And yet what a vast proporfon of
them have parents who have neither the will
nor the power to perlorm such a task ! With
these uuhappy children, theretore, education
does not touch the conscience; that is left to be
occupied and filled as accident may determiuc.
Happily, in a Christian city, they pick up tne
current notions ot right; but 1n multitudes of
instances these coma so iate and so completely
without authority, as to be ot no use. Ttiey
live in the sharpened bralo, a mere joke, or a
convenient blind. Crowds of those, both men
aud women, who fill our jails, our brothels,
nnd our thousands of drinking and gambling
houses, have had precisely this mere hard
mental training in the public schools. Does
not every Christian h"art earnestly cry out,
"Is there no remedy for this sad aud ruinous
defect''
The Church, then, is an organization for the
specific purposes of moral and spiritual renova
tion virtue is its great aim, and religion Is its
foundation. In a exeat city , this organization
attains its highest pjwer aud elhciency. lis
members, In great masses brought near to eauh.
other, can come together frequently, and at a
moment's warning, thus Inciting each other to
a livelier zeal, and making th"ir organization
more and more compact. Their vast accumula
tions of individual and combined wealth give
them command ot all needful material resources.
More and larger churches, More Christian
people, more bunday Schools, more wealth in
pious hands than are contained in half a State,
are here crowded into an area of four or five
miles square. When we think of the vast re
sources of persons and money at the disposal of
the Church iu a lare Christian city, it looks, at
first view, as though the Churcb ought to bi
able to have everything its own way, and estab
lish a reign of universal purity.
But we must remember that if the Church
organizes with special power ia a luro city, so
does its great enemy. I am not aware that'men
have ever organized themselves specifically to
promote sin, as sin; and yet they have often
united for purposes manifestly sinful. What is
piracy on the high seas, or a band of robbers or
burglars on the land ? What is a brothel, with
ita pi opiietor reducing crime to rule? What is
a society of liquor sellers, such as exists In New
York, with its ofheers, its lull treisury, aud its
regular meetings to prevent iegis'atiou m favor
of tempeiauce, and to keep open the flood-i;ates
ot dissipation? What are all these but sin
becomic orcanic? It would sound, not oddly
but monstrously, if a society should start up
under the title of "The Association for the
Promotion of Wee and Immorality," and
should boldly issue its prospectus, slating
that it had organized for the purpose of giving
encouragement to all the various lorms of sin;
that it was about to pet up a university, with a
great many subordinate schools, for the purpose
oi teachkg all the various branches of wicked
niss. It bhould have protes.-ors ot gambling,
of seduction, ot drunkenness, larceny, counter
feiting, burslary, eiuroiine, pock'et-piekiug,
poisoning, aud stabbing; with minor schools of
profanity ai.d obscenity and pilfering, for small
childien. That one of the great aims of the
society would be to secure the abandonment of
all bunday Schools, the demolition ot all
churches, and to select eligible locations for
gioggerlcs, gambling bells, theatres, aud bawdy
houses. That tbey would exert themselves to
the utmost to discourage tke publication of
food books and newspapers, and would estab
ish a book depository in Chcsnut street, where
all the most corrupt books would be otlered for
sale at a low piice, and in the finest bindings;
aud whence should be li-sued a newspaper, the
organ of the Association, containing indecent
wood-cuts and advertisements, set oif with cor
responding pongs and editorials to match.
Such a society would indeed be a monster, and
yet.it it existed, it would be the faithful repre
sentative of thousand of places and people in
this city.
Il the houses in this city devoted formally to
the various forms of corrupt life were all
brought together in one quarter, I doubt not
they would cover a Equare mile. If all the pio
ianity of the city for a single week could be
written in an ordinttry hand, it would cover a
roll of paper a yard wide, aud reichlug from the
Schuylkill to the Delaware. Half the men and
two-thirds of the b ijs you meet in tho streets
seem to curse and swear without knowing it.
And if all the frauds, great and petty, commit
ted here in a month could be brought to liiht,
and sent to the courts for trial, the authorities
would despair of get'lng through tho intermi
nable docket. Bo is crime organized and packed
in a ereat city.
Now, let us examine and see whether or not
the Church is the power thut antagonize this
learful amount of evil In the city. DoeB tao
Church pievent the complete desolation of the
city bvs n? What has she done and what is
she now doing! Recill the fact, then, that in
this city there are several hundred church edi
fices, and as many Sunday Schools, In all of
wh'ch the moral law is expounded and enforced
by divine sanctions every Sabbaib. Remember,
it Is the Church alone that heartily reverences
and ol terves the 8ubbatu day as a sacred time a
suitable frame in which to set the talks of divine
teaching. It is the bells of the Church, so dif
fered Irom all ether bells, that force the re
membrance of God ar.d His commands once a
week npon all the people. It Is the mind of the
Church, the laith of the Churcb, that is ex
pressed in the closed store, and sacred stillness,
and clean rsiment of the Sabbath day. It 1s
the Church that publishes the religious
newspapers, macraztnes, trHcts, and Sundav
bVbool books. It is the Church that prints and
circulates among tho people thoii'ant's of Bibles
and Testaments In all languages. It Is the
Church, for the mo-t prt, that founds hospi
tal" and homes lor tne poor and aged, and
a-ylums for orphans, inebriates, and Magda
leues. It is the Chuich, and nobody else, that
sends out missionaries into the most, wretched
pnrts M the city, to extend practical pity to the
victims of vice. It is the Church, in a word,
that, in tho prosecution of her divine mission,
keeps up and ever pushes Into new fields,
the greatest ot all Ideas, those, namely, of God.
of virme, and eternal life. If hor candle were
removed could there be anything left but
durkiiet-sf
Suppose It to be possible, for example, that
you should wake up some briebt Sunday morn
ing, and find every church edifice removed, and
a theatre built in Its stead. And suppose this
were the end of the churches; no more were to
be built; tho Sabbath gone, its peculiarities lost
in the din of business and pleasure; tho
Sunday Henoch nil gone; Sunday School,
Tract, and lible Societies, all, all at nn end;
the Church and all its ideas thines of the past.
Why, the very picture starts our tears; and it it
could be realized, many even of the most aban
doned people would come to their senses, and
feel that in painine their ends they had plucked
down on their city and race Irretrievable ruin.
They would weep for the perished Church and
vanished Sabbuth; nnd their dreams would be
visited by the gbo-dly echoes of the Sabbath
bell. Yes, brethren, the Church and her insti
tutions, her schools, her prcachinc, her ex
ample, her prayers, are the embankments that
restrain the overflowings ol crime and death
among ub.
But us great a power for good as the Church
already is among us, casting her holy shadow
even in ihe face ol the most brazen sin, and
Loldinir out her steady lamp for all the dark
and wandcrine, she Is bound, as she is able, to
become a still greater power. In order to this,
one of the first things to be done by her Is to
become broader, not latitudinarian, in doctrine,
but more expansive in charity. Holding fast
the precious doctrines of religious experience,
and not enjoying them a whit less than for
merly, wc must grasp at the whole city. We
must awake to tho lact that the worst classes
are our brethren, and that we are bound
to look after the man in vile raiment,
who niither enters our church nor any
other, as much as niter the perhaps worse man,
In gay clothing, who occupies a seat among us.
We must fill up tLat grave, almost as JJecp ns
peidition, between us nnd the outcasts. Tho
churches must Christ in the golden rule says
they must they must cek to save tho heathen
at their dor. And this increased breadth must
include union for these purposes with Christians
of all denominations. We must cast behind us,
ns uttcily beneath the Churcb, that despicable
lealousy that will not work in a mission with
others lest their sect should get the credit, and
hiiai'y own the Chuich that mayerow out of
the enterprise. Wo must also abandon that still
meaner narrowness of making it a point in our
city missions to build up from the more respect
able of the neighborhood. We must seek all,
even those ot the bottom layer of infamv. We
must remember that the divisions ot Christ's
household into sects is an evil, even if a
necessary one; aud that when it prevents
us Irom working for the friendless and
vicious poor, it becomes a sin.
IS0.01 "spoctabil'.ty in the Church,
it is a sad illustration ot the extent to which
this nonsense may be carried, when we be-iin to
ditcuss the different grades ot respectability
among the wretched objects of our charity.
Indeed, the mania for respectability l.s becom
ing quite a clog to the progress of tho Church.
Some denominations seem to be built upon that
idea. All but the so-called elite are excluded.
Fashion, not, the cross, seems to be the bond of
union, and the qualification of candidates for
communion, not purity, but position in what is
called socictyf When I see a person in my
own church gettinir this itch for fashion,
I always feel that ho ought to be
allowed to go, tho sooner the better. While
you are coaxing him to be satisiied
in his old home, and trying to persuade him to
turn away his gazo from the golden wedge and
Babjlonish garment, you might save aud bring
info the Church twenty better men. Such men
ate of worbC than no account; It is not a better
Church they want, but a good lot of common
sense, and a few of the first motions of Christian
feeling. All such affectation of respectability
hampers and cripples the Church. She mu3t
rather fill herselt afresh with her great ideas,
and reread her Divine commibslon.
When she sees the drinking-houses and other
establishments open on Sunday, in defiance of
tie plain letter of the law, ami under the
cjes ol an indulgent police, she ought to forzet
sectarian divisions, and make a loud, united,
atd irresistible demand lor the cessation of
such wickedness. When people cannot traverse
our chief thoroughfares in the evening. In the
glare ot gas almost as bright as day, 'without
meet i ni; flocks of courtesans, proclaiming their
character by their shameless deportment, to
the imminent buzant of public morals, it is
time the Chuich should demand of the public
authorities a liitle moral scavengerv, the purifi
cation ot the streets, or at least the preserva
tion in them of a modicum of common decency.
When it is manliest that engine companies, on
the volunteer principle, are schools of vice,
creating more tires than they put out, and
becoming centres ot the vilest rowdyism,
drunkenness, and riot, spreading the con
tagion ol sinful disorder, and resulting in
frequent mercers, it is time that the society
whore work is virtue, aud whose bead is Christ,
should cail on tho public authorities to sub
stitute such companies by a sater aud more
peaceable institution. Il.it is a matter of posi
tive certainty, thai to conduct municipal elec
tions upon national or State political party
issues leads to peculation, corrupt, ou, and dis
order, making it almost impossible to brintr
justice home to the greatest offenders,
the chinches should break away
fiom party thrall, and 'demind that
municipal officers shall be elected on ac
count ol their on competence and purity, and
with a view to the promotion of public virtue,
justice, aud tranquillity. It our public schools
carry the meal ot mental culture in one end ot
the bag and the stone ot moral neglect in the
other, producing, in tho case of ignorance aud
vice at home, mere monsters for the ranks of
citizenship, the Divine society is under impera
tive obligations to use its prayeriul and perse
vering eiiorts to rip the stone out of the bag aud
put in its place a total of the bread of heaven, to
match the bread of earth in the other cud of
tLcsack. lhat is, we ouubt to use our efforts
so to modify tho public school course of study,
as witboutotlending sectarian prejudice, to teach
Christian morals.
If the Church sees that in our great cities the
supply ot re igious instruction and evaneelizing
eft on is thametully meagre and inadequate, it
is her duty to devise mcauBto meet the demand.
Home missions must become an immense inte
rest, and institutes thiuld be founded for the
training especially of city missionaries, of whom
there should be blty where there is now one.
No man honors more than I do an honest and
patriotic public man. But if mere politicians
see, though la'e, tho power of the Church, aud
wish to use her for personal or party ends, tao
Church, instead ol lawnmt; on such men, and
paying tbem court, and thinking their ccunte-
nance a source of true power and respecta
bility, should leel the glory of her onn mission,
aud hold a po-It'on irom which rebuke may
he launched whenever needed.
In a word, tho Church iu the city, great in
wealth, strong in numbers, exuhod iu charac
ter, conimundiug in influence, with Its va4
b( uc voleucis, its great erudition, its splendid
and numerous church edifices, its vast respon
sibility, must hold on for dear life to the pre
cious truth, must push on the kingdom ofGol,
must cover every block of the city with lis mis
sionary labors, must dot it all over with Suudav
Schools, must strew tracts and good bonks
over lis whole surface, must keep vigl
lant euard over the press, both In
I regard to books and periodicals, must project
its power Into schools, must lay its Influence
npon Mayor and Councils, must diminish
poverty, whoe squalor is a true yoke-fellow of
crime, and must do nil ol this out of a burning
heart ol love lor goodness, lor man, and lor God.
Hie churches of a city thus workintr, not
against one another, but only against sin and
misery, and having a common OhrMian end
towards which to labor, and tor which to
sacritice, having all this Christian breadth, and
Ihis sacred boldness, will soon begin to see the
abuses and crimes about them giving way, and
the city growing into a model of order, sobriety,
nnd justice.
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INGTON, D. C.
Arclutecta are Invited to prepare plans and apeclflca
tlons and entlu atea of cost lot new tiro-proof buiidiiiKS
ior Uie War Department, on tlie aiU; nowr occupied by
the War Department and adjacent vacant ground. In
Washington. D. J.
The tiullUluua required aliould have a nperflclal area
as large as the site aelected will admit of. Photo
srnpba of aite. and all other information relating to the
subject, will be turniahed to Architects deMirlnx to com
pete tor the work, upon application, personally or by
letter, to i be undersigned
A premium of SHWO for the first, of S2000 for the
second, aud ol tiCHO ior the tblrd most acceptable
plana and specifications received, will be awarded,
upon the appioval ot the Hon. Hoorotary of War, by
Hie Hoard oi oiliccii charged with the duty ol select
ing a file and preparing plans and speculations for the
building" of the War Dcpaitiuvat uuUor act ot Con ureas
approved July 28. lsbti
J lie p tne anu specifications must be sent to the office
ot Hrevct 1 icuten:.nt l olonel T. J. Tieaowell. Kocorder
oi the lioird Orduance Otllce, Winder's Building,
V ashington, D. c, on or belore the 1st day ot February,
lt"b7.
'1 he Board will reserve the right to reject anv or all
f ilnns buLmitted.phould none be deemed suitable for
lie purpose, aa well us to retain any or all ot such
plans.
By order of the Board,
11 20 1m T J. 1 BEAD WELL.
Brevet Llentenant-Colonel, TJ. 8. A., lieoorder.
irtSf" OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL
AiD NAVIGATION COMPANY.
, ... , 1 uiLADELfiiiA, August 99, 1866.
i!L??ifkb-w?,?.of b, company are hen by noUUed
tLbt tne lloaro ol Managers have determined to allow
to all ieircns VtLo shall ai pear aa HtocWhoidcia on tao
hooksollhe tompaiy on the 8th ol (September next,
alter the closing oi transient, at 1 P. AI, ol tbat day the
privl tge of tulscr'blng ior new s ock at par, totbe
extent oi one fliurc 01 new stock lor every Ave shares
then stunolUR in then names jLach shareholder entitled
to a iractlota part ot a chare abaU have the privilege of
aubscriblug iora lull share.
i he subscription books will open on MONDAY, Sep
tember hi, aud close on BAT CUD A V, December 1, loots
at it P. Al.
Pajnient win be considered due June 1, 1867, but on
luttslii tut ot l(i pir nut , or t n do ir per share, must
be paid at lie tliLe oi BubscriDing. the balance mav be
paio iroiu time to tln.e. at the option ot the subscribers,
beiote tbo 1st ol Noviuiber, ibu7. On all payments,
including tie aforesaid Instalment, made before the 1st
o t Jui.e. iW. discount will be alioweu at tne rate ot 6
p er cent, per annum, ano on a 1 payments made between
tnat date and the la. ot November. lbo7, interest will be
charged at the tame rate.
11 stock nit paid up In full by the 1st ot November,
1P67. will be lorleiled to the uso ot the Company. C'er
tiheates ior the new stock will not be issued until alter
Jiinel lw,7 and said stock, it paid up In lull, wl;l te en
til ed to tne November dividend ot lao7, hut to no earlier
dividend. SOLOMON SUil'llKKI,
8 dO Tieaurer
frW OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL
AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.
PuiLADULrni, November 27, 1866.
Ihe Beard of Jlanugeis have this day declared a Divi
dend ot nVEPtKOENT. or Two Dollars and a Half
per share, on ihe capital stock of this Company, paya
ble on demand, clear oi National and (State taxes.
HUTU' SOLOMON BUEPIIEUD, Treasurer
O
F
L.
EXAMINATION FOB THE NAVY.
IU VULlMHtlt OrilCEllS.
Navt Depauimekt.
Washington, D. C, Noveuiber zO imB.f
Alt petsons who have served a volunteer officers In
the United titaies Navy tor the term oi two years, and
v ho ueslre to be examined li r admission to the regular
Navy, as provided In the act of congress approved
July 26, 18f6. will at once make application. adJressed
to i oHimodoie b. P. Lee, Hartiord, Connecticut wno
v IlliLolliv tl.eui when to appear. Those who do uot
mike application prior to the 1st of January next, or
who do l ot present thenmelvs when uotlued. will be
considered as having waived their claim for examina
tion Candidates', will take with them, when um
u oued, their otticlal papers showing their naval record.
GIlEO tVKLLbtt,
11 23fmwlm Secretary ol the Navy.
fS CORN EXCHAM.E NATIONAL BA1SK,
ov--' Philadelphia. October 16, 1H66.
Ihe Vlce-rreiOdent ol the Pauk. Alexander Whil den,
. having in At ay last, 1 1 view ot a prolonged absence
lu buropo rtsiincd his position, the Board of Directors
to tiny elected J. W. lotre, i.sq., Vice-President, aud
11. P. tchttky, tin , Cashier.
10 17 Al i.XANDi.lt O. CATTELL, President.
fK57- PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM-
PANY-TUKASCIltR'S DhPAUTUKHT.
I'liiLADKi rniA, N o vein Per 1, 1866.
NOTICE lO bToCKUOLDEKS.
The Board ol Directors have this day declared a semi
annual t'lvitlcnd ol FOLK Pr It CENT, on the Capital
Hoi k of the i ompany, clear of National and rJuiie
taxes, payable on ana attei Novemoei 3D 1866
l.itnk 1 oweis of Attorney tor collecting tUvldendg
canl e hd at the office oi the Company, No. 2i3 tt.
TnlKD Street.
11 1 30t THOMAS T. FIBTB, Treasurer.
BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE
THE BfcST IN THE WOULD.
Harmless, reliable. Instantaneous, 'ihe only perfect
dye. No disappointment, no ridiculous tints, but true
to nature, black or brown.
ULNUINK la BlQNi.D WILLIAM A. BATCHELOB.
ALhO.
Regenerating Extract ol Allllefleurs restores, preserves
and Leautiiics the balr. prevents baldness, hold by alt
MiiFglsig. Factory No 81 BAHCLAY He, N. Y. 83
tST- JUST PUBLISHED
Ey the Physicians ot the
NKW YOUK MUSEUM,
ti e Ninetieth Edition ol their
FOLK LKCTCBKS.
entitled
PHILOSOPHY OF MAHH1AC.E,
To be hrd nee, lor fotu stamps, b? aodressfog Seore
It iv New Vork Museum 0' Ana'omy,
tb No 61Sl.KOADWAY.New York.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE. DESIRABLE CORNER PRO
PERTY. The modern three story brick Dwelling.
with double three story back buildings, front and slue
entrance, northwest corner of TW l.LFlii ano WAL
lALK rttreetst new hea'er, range, tn bath, etc. t
piazza on Wat ace street Seplete with all come
n ences. Could be altered Into a store with dwelling
attached. Potae.-sl on with deed.
CM H, LESLIE,
10 30 o. 77 SAN?Oil Street.
Til FOR SALE. A VERY PLEASANT RESI
Jijideuce, In the city ot Burlington wtih near y ( our
Acres ot Ground, fsttihiing and other ou'-buildliigs,
two good Pumps with the nest ol water. Apples, Pears,
llun s. wllh oilier ir in is. Hydrant water lu the bouse
and kitchen yard. Address Box 176, Post OUiee, Bur
lington, New Jersey, U 1 6t
Q.EORGE r L O VM A N,
CARPENTER AND nWJ.DlSF.
No. 232 CARTER Street,
Aud No. i DOCK Btrcet.
latbuie Woik and sdlll writhtiu
"tonptly bttended
to.
DECEMBER 5, 18CG.
CARPETINGS.
QAKFETINGS! CARPETINGS !
Reduced to Present Gold Prices.
J. T. DELACROIX,
No 37 S. SECOND Street,
ABOVE CHE8NUT;
Has received per late arrivals,
200 PIECES J. CROSSLEY & SONS'
BRUSSELS CAR PE TING
Is-EVy AND ELEGANT FAITEHNS.
Also, large line ot TUBER-PLY EXTRA
AND UNK 1M.PA1N C'AHI'h'18. DAMASK
YEN Kl 1 All 0TA1K A N D II ALL OA Rl . 1 1NOS.COT
1AOK AND RAO t'Ahl-kl,01LCU)TH8,HllMKS
P.lc,, which W ill be sold low in conse quence or thef
In Gold. J. T. DKLACUOIX,
No 87 8. HKt OND Street,
10 27sintb?ni Ilelween Chesnnt and Market
XKEVE L. KNIGHT & SON
No. S07 (I1LSMT Street,
HAT MOW or Ml
A WKLL-ASSOnTKD STOCK OP
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH
OARIETIlSraS,
OIL CL0TH3,
COCOA MATTINGS, DRUGGETS, RUGS, ETC.
10 8wfmni6p
C AK P ETINaS
AT REDUCED PlilCES.
LEEDOM & SHAW,
No. 910 ARCH STREET.
BETWEEN NINTH AND TENTH 8T8. HSmrp
ELEGANT FAMILY CARRIAGES
DECKHAUS & ALLGAIER
Desire respectfully to call the attontion of the public
to tholr extensive manufactory of
FIRST-CLASS VEHICLES,
6UCH A3
Landaus,
Round Front Coupes,
. . Clearance Coaches,
Caleches, '
Barouches,
Phaetons,
Dog Carts, Etc. Etc.
Oi the latest improved European aoslnna, apeolally
adapted for private family use, of whioh ther have
a fine assortment constantly finished, on hand and
in process ol construction.
The residents of Philadelphia and vicinity are in
formed that tbey can he accommodated with. Car
riages ot modern style, superior workmanship, and
supeib finish, at home, without reference to New
York or the East.
FACTORY AND WARE ROOMS,
No. 1204 FRANKFORD Avenue,
11 13 lmrp
ABOVE GIBAED AVENUE.
AMERICAN LEAD PEfkClL COMPANY
NRW YOBK.
FACTORY, HUDSON CITY, N. J.
This Company is now full? prepared to furnish
LEAD PENCILS.
Equal lu Quality to the Best Braudi,
The Company baa taken great pains and nvested
lan e cauiiai In flu inn up Ihelr laetory , ana now ask the
An.eJle.au pubilo to give their pencils a loir trial.
All Styles and Grades are Manufactured.
Great care has been bestowed to the manufacturing of
farmioK hlxagojs dhavmmj pencils, spo
cial.y prepared ior the use oi Engineers, Architects,
Artists, eto.
A complete assortment, constantly on hand, fs offered
at fair terms to the trade at their Wholesale Salesroom
No. 34 JOHN Street, New York.
The Prncl's are to be bad of all principal Stationers
and .Notion licalers
Ask lor American Lead Pencil. 101 fmw6m
JJOUSE-FURNISIIING GOODS.
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO EECUEE
BARGAINS.
To close the estate oi the late
JOHN A. MURI'HEY,
Importer and Dealer In
HOf SE-FTJUMSlllNQ GOODS,
No. 923 CIIESNUT STREET,
Uetween Mntli and Tenth, South Bide, Pfclla.
His Administrators now offer the who'e stock at prices
Leiow the orCinary rales charged. Ibis aioca embraces
every thing wanted in a weil-ndored househoidi f lain
1 lu Wsie, Brushes, Wooden Ware, Uaskeia, Plated
w are. Cutlery, lion are. Japanned Waie, aud Cook
ing UteuHtisof ever, description.
A aieat variety of KHaKs U UOODfl. BIRD-CAGES,
eU. etc. tan be obtulned on the most teasonable terms
UfcM'lNJt AKCHO Ki.t UlOfcltAlOKa and WA.iB
CO LUiS
A fine assortment of PAPIER M.VCHE GOODS.
This Is the luivt st retail establishment In tbia line In
rbiladeil'hia and cltisens ana strangers wfil Und it to
tLelr advautane to examine our stock belore puicboslnir
ote Our iiiends In tbecouutrv may order by mail,
ai'd prompt attention win b siven. til 1 tnstu$
(JSE STARIN'S CCNDI1I0N POWDERS
FOB
HORSES AND CATTLE.
It cures Worms, llotts, and Co lo.
It cures Colds, Coughs, and Hide-Bound.
It is the best alterative for Horses and Cattle now
use, having a reputation of 20 years' standing.
It is a sure preventive for the much dreaded Kinder
pest.
So K aimer or Dauvman should be without it
t or sale in Philadelphia by DYOT1' CO.. No 2Sj
North br.COMJ fclieetl JOHNSON, UOLl.OWAY 4
tOWDKX, ho. 21 North BlXTli Mr.et, and by Drug
gists, bout the country. Addi ess all orders to
BTAK1N A FLOYD, Proprietors,
No. SOt DUANE Street, New York.
9 5 Cm
Pit IVY WELLS-OWNEH8 OP PROPERTY
The only place to get Privy Wells cleaned and d
n (acted at vary low prices.
A. PETPOW,
Manufacturer of Poudreita .
(10 i OOLDSMITUo' UALL.L liliAUlf Btnrtt
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS,
WHITE SHIRTS TO BE SUPERSEDED
HIE WATER-mOOF SHIRT FRONT
Will save the Expense of White Shirts ft
Eave the Trouble of Washing aud Ironing ;
Improve the Appearance ;
Eave Time in Dressing ;
Remove all objections to Colored Bhirti;
Preserve a Cleanly Ext rior ;
Protect the Breast, and Preserve Health
Give joy to the Household j
Make Travelling Pleasant ;
Eave your Money ; and
Keep your Wife in a good humor.
ALL FOB TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
MANUFACTOttY.
11 9 fmlm Ko. 44 S. TH1I1U Btroot, 2d story. T
Q.ENTS' I'UKNISIIING QO0DS
8HIKT8 MADE OF NEW YORK HILLS MtWLlH
on y Si usual price Ml.
MllitT.s aia1k ok WAMSUrTA MTJSLIir nly
l'7& uxual price fS-60
HO VB Ml i Hi H on band and made to order.
A liberal deduction to hi lessle trade
WKI.HM. HllAlLt,R, AMM'AMO.N FLA NNF.t tTff
DKKKHlltTS AM PBAWKBS, ell sires ana on all lie.
Alto, FANCY RCA It KM. NLCKI'lKH, tiLOVKH,
flDKFP.. HUHPKKDtlta, eta, In great variety, and at
reasonable prices. (.118 im
T. L. JACOBS, .
No. 1QQG OlIESNUT Street.
QUIRTS! SHIRTS! SUIIITS!
40 JOHN C. HEMINGION'3 40
Gentlemen's Furnishing Store,
No. 40 North NINTH Street,
rniLAPBLruiA, r .
Particular attention glrlngt t e Cutting and Mak a
ofbhlits. 1181m
H. F- BUTLER,
MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
Ko. 142 South EIGHTH St.
118
J W. SCOTT & O O.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
AUD DEALERS IV
MKN'S FUHNISIJING GOODS'
No. 814 CHESKUT Street,
OUH DOOU8 BIXGW THE "CONTINENTAL,
B'jT Srp PHILADELPHIA.
pATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STOBB.
PERFECT FITTING BUIBlS AND DttAWEUft
made irom measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of ULNTLEUEii b ltt-88 GOOD
in lull variety.
WINCHESTEB & OO,
11 IS No. 706 CHEBNUT Street
THE BEST FITTING SHIRT
IU AMEBlOA IB TUB
SHOULDEB-SEAAl PATTEBN fiBIBT,
M anafketured by
K. EAYBE, So, !! S. SIX H Street, Philadelphia,
ft here yon can find s large as so. tnient ot
GB.NT8' FUKMlMliINQ GOODS.
Clip this out and give ns a call.
9 IT No. 68 N. 81X111 Street, Philadelphia,
Q-ENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
F. HOFFMAN, Jit.,
(Late G. A. Hoffman, successor to W. W. Kilght,!
FINE 6I1IBTB, AND WBAPPEBS,
UOSIEBY AND GLOVES,
Silk, Lambs' Wool, a Merino
UNDER-CLOTHING.
10 Ctuthi No. 82ft ARCH atrt
SHIPPING.
ffffc STEAM TOLIVEttPOOL-CALLINCI
Mr' 'V A at Vueeustown The luinau Line, aaiiiua
eoember
December 11
December II
riiav I t.ian.l.a. .
and
eaih succeeding t-aturday and Wuiin.j.1..
noon, nom I ter No 4A North river.
KA'It.8 Or PirjrIAOB
. By the man steamer sailing every Saturday.
Ftist Cabin, Gold $!u fetei-rago ( urrouoy S.U
'10 London H5 i 'ioLondou 40
To Pari luol To Paris so
Besaae by the Yi ednctdoy steamers t First oabla.
(CO; steerage, 30. Payable tn United States cur
rency. Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bre-
ueii, etc., at moderate rates.
iMcenige passtige trom Liverpool or Queenstown, $40,
ruirency. 'l lcki ta can be bougfit here by persons send
ing lor their trienos.
For luriher luioimatlon apply at the Company a
orlcea JOHN O. PALF, Agent,
8 7 No. Ill WALNUT btreet, Pbilada.
rffrftT STAR LINE
TO NEW ORLEANS.
The New York U all Steamsblp ompany'alflne oceaa
steaineis Villi leave Pier 48 NORTH KIVEB, Now
York, at 3 o'clock P. At., as follows I
M OHM NO 8TAB On Satnrdar
klC.NTEafc.Tf On Wednesday
HAVANA , .....On haturilar
UlMbOUBl on Wedueaday-
All bills of lading signed at the cilice upon the pier.
Fir freight or passage apply to
C. K. GARRISON. President,
UAUlllsUN 4b ALLEH,
10 10 4p No. t BOWLING OK KEN, New York.
H. L. LF AF, Agent.
Office Adams' Ezpresu, No. SM Uhesuut street.
ATLANTIC COAST
MAIL STEAMSHIP LINES,
BEJ1I-WEEKLY, FOB
NORFOLK AND BICHMOKD, cabin Mandag
L'liAhLLKlON, coUli, S25. r-ecoudo aw ai
bA VAN Ail. cabin 26. Hecoud class IS
Every B AlCIiDAY, bur line .'or
Nr.W ORLEANS Dtrcct NFW ORLEANS
1' irtt cabin. .ktU. Bicond cabin.. t40. becc -id class.. tit)
Hrd cabin.. CO- recoud cabin.. 40. beooud olajM.. id
With uuourp aescd accommouations to either class.
Foi freight or patsane, apply to
ALLEN K. 1 IIOUAS dt CO.,
1018 4p Ko. 6 BOWLING GBEfciN, New York.
rxVZS FOR NEW YORK. PIIILADEL
Jri wt.rTTi r im deh hia bteam Propeller Company De
ktiuu.ii bM insure Liue via Leiaaxe aud barium Canal,
leaking dai y at l'i At. and 6 p. u connecting with aU
Nortlii ru and I astern lines.
tor irui lit. vtaliU vtiil be taken upon accommodating
temis, apply to WILLI A Al At. HA llil) i CO.,
1S No LfcLAWAJUtAveau
rfiff TO SHIP CAPTAINS AND OWNERS.
mLhlaLZ Ihe uudcrsljtned having leased the KEN.
b.JNU'XON bCUKW Dot K, bevs to luforui his tiienas
auu the paUooa ot the i'ock ibat he is prepared with
iiu rented laciiitles to oconimodale those bavlug vuasela
to beialsedorrepulre', aud being a Oi act leal sUlp-cr-p.
liter and cau ker will give per soual altentlua to the
vebBels entrusted to bun lor repulrs
Cuplalns or Ascuts bhip-L'arpenters and Machinists
having vessels to repair, a. solicited to cn I.
liaviug tbe agency fur the sale oi " Wottt rstedt'a
Patent Mela lo I opposition" ior Copper pauit, lr the
pretervatiou ol veKSuls' bottoms, for this ol y, l am pre
ptred toiuiuisU tiieeauisou lavoeable terms.
John 11 haakitt,
. Kt-nsluiiton Korew Dock,
115 Dl! LAW A RE I venue alMva Laurel siroety
' "...i. v ' ui. . umwu duties niai
"Oi'lY OF liALTltauBfc," Saturday, u
vii I utrcoKK".-..... Wednesday.
: IL. or p ak 1 8" sai urdar .
t'lil Vr h.W YOhK" Hutu