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SOMETHING TO DO.
Lecture Delivered by Mits Anna E.
Dlcklnso, at the Academy
of luelc Last Evening.
lerjCJAt pnoo"4rnjo report ron tb ivkk.
mifli J
The Acadcmj of Mimic was With ft lame
ami attoutive audience last evening, the occa
sion belnR the delivery of ft new lectiire.entltled
"fom..tbltiK to Do," by Miss Anna E. Dickinson.
Tbe lecturer was Introduced by Robert Purvis,
Esq., wbo made a few brief ronwks. After tbe
applause bad subsided Mus Llcklnson spoke
nearly as follows:
Wbo here 1b not fnmll ar with the infinitely
pathetic stcry which Charles Dickea3 tells of
poor little Oliver JwW, taking hn insufficient
lood In his thin, weak hands, and going up to
btd his trembling and hvingered voice asking
foi inoie, and the horror and amazement of Mr.
Fumble at the boy's obslluacyf is there a mad
or woman here to-night who has read that story
without hot tears gathering on their eyelids, and
a sense'of indignation filling the heart on ac
count of his sufferings? Yet start not, nor refuse
to listen, my friends, when I tell you that there
is more than one Mr. Bumble, and that, too,
within the sound ol my voice, who would shut
his ears to tbe cry ot more; for, mark you, there
are hungry mouttn and hungry sou's clamoring
in our streets, weeping drearily at our doors lor
something to eat, for eometuing to fill tubm, for
something to do.
I stand to-night the mouth-piece ol many
women, ho toil all day long fur a loaf of brca l
auo a bed of btraw; women who strive and
struggle and ftyif for room to stand, twenty
seeking to thrust themselves into the spaoe for
one; women who do tbe came work a that
man beside them, and receive but a portion of
his pay; women who are compelled to toll at
that tor which tbey are not fitted or have no
inclination; women who desire to know many
things and are told tnat ignorance is their lot;
women whoso hands are lull of gold, and whose
lite is one of i'asnion and dross: women who live
m beautitul houses, wbo?e lives are spent in
idleness, unfitness, uselcsisneds, for want of
something to do.
Tc-night I strive to gather all these voices Into
my one voice all their wants, all their sutler
lugs, all their pain. I cry lor more more
money, more culture, more opportunity, more
freedom, more justice for them at the hands of
the world. ( urqe this claim. I make this plea
on behalt of woman, because it in full time to
make this nineteenth century ashamed of its
injustice to one-balf of the human race; because
it is lull time to make the intelligent and
tbonrulful comprehend that labor cannot be a
law without alio bcin a nchl. In urging this
plea, J comprehend lmly what it is that opposes
me what it is that opooses me before, aud
drags me back Irom behind. Man on the one
Bide and woman on the other active warfare
and ppssive indiilerence; tbe insolence of
strength, the fear of weakness, the brutality of
ipnorauce the polished sneer that cuts as a
knife.
I stand bt hind a strong rampart, secure in
the stronar belief in and rhe absolute knowledge
that I am right, and that I have the great suf
lernK canse of humanity to back me. Comore
nending this, I stand but the closer to my guns
and lire them more determinedly on the one
point, until I shall make some breach and tind
entrance. I am often laughed at for being "a
man of one idea," who writes everything, talks
everything, knows evervthing; but I long ago
learnel that if I would riiake any breach it was
by pointing my gun? at one point. The women
who first spoke on any platform were laueued at,
hooted at, derided; pelted with foul words, and
even wiih stone. To day women, Man lintr, on
Uio piatiortu and urging me same plea, are
listened to with silencp." These women have
demonstrated the truth that there is somewhere
a great wrong, because there is never any dis
cussion where there is no wron.
y. Twenty years ago no one hid anything to
say of the condition of the laboring women;
tiiteen years npo their condition was the same,
but to-day there is not a man or worn mi, with
auy claim to decency, who would dare to stand
up and defend it. This question, beenn in cb
Ecuiity, has resolved itselt into the profounde-it
sociai problem of the day. Ills Mackintosh, I
think, who says somewhere, "Whatever is popu
lar demands attention." Whatever is right is
ture to come out, no matter how long we have
to wait lor it. I do not intend to recapitulate
here facts and figures which I have before
jnven in tbe hearing ol many whom I hope to
night compjse my audience.
Jsobody needs to bo told that there are mul
titude" of women dwelling in garrets aud cel
lars and dens of tbe earth; ay, that in this
very city there are those suffering from want of
Jootf, clothing, and shelter. There arc women
here who work from d iy to day on the verge of
a crumbling precipice, which, from day to Jay
breaks on the edge, and drc-na them into the
abyss beneath. It is the fashion 6. 4h WH
to say that a woman should be an angol-in r,I
versify as in prosperity ; should be the guardian I
form tor good in the man's house, as if he Was
a wild beast needing some care. Wa i
woros cost nothing. Give to thew wn,w
women food; treat them as well as rod h ?a
treated the brutes. Give them an otpoVtunrtl
to be respectable human beings, and demand o
them that they shall be angels. I ask his hi
their behalf, and you Instantly cry out, "heresv
-innovations,-' womau's rights," etc. Meanwhile
the great wheel turns t nd turns, and one woman
after another of these goes do wn to pcrd ItlonwHU
its revolution. Then you cry out, ''florrible crea
ture I she has fallen lrom her high seat "
Come.witu me into tbe filthy lanes and bywavs
5? ?La"l.w!l,ld, TtVyn7eTf
w. m... jnTtiij, mm uuu, suuenng, dec
dation, and misery, whether anything b'
formity can have its natural erowth. or 1
anything truly human can put its ' Ae'
lorth as God designed it; tb' - whether
some young girl, who hs- l,t"e leaves
miserablo childhood to p -re' tailing up
hold forth on her ur - grown lrom a
will you wonder ' - mi"tjrable maturity,
purity and hea" natural depravity, and
But think " er being lar away from
conceive'1 ,
Look ' . beseech you, of her having been
op' and born aud brought up in hell.
t alt this. It is good for man and woman,
in his or her life, to be brought tace to iaco
uritn fats, however homble. Come I let us
look into some little garret-room, at some moth
erless girl, whose fingers are aching over some
work. Mark her toiling on alone, from Monday
morning to Buiutday night, with no word of aid,
or counsel, or encouragement none whatever,
until her flesh at last giveB way, and the dark
ness settles down.
As I have been going up and down the streets
of tbe city. 1 have seen young girls in this bitter
weather, thinly clad, hurrying home from some
work-room, gathering their bundles under their
arms, with a look of utter loneliness in the
iuidstof the crowded metropolis. As I looked
at some of these cases, I have imagined a ship
sailing through the deep waters oil' in the wido
ocean. I have imagined the storm raging, the
winds howling about ft, the waves rolliug
mountains high. I have imagined some nent olf
to some post of danger, clinging fast, holding
tight, until a wave at last sweeps him out into
tbe abyss. I have imagined him wbo called,
but there was no answer, as he stretched out
eager bands to clutch at something that might
save him for a little while, and there was
nothing there upon which bis stiffening fingers
could grasp. I have watched him as the ship
went away life, friends, companions, all and
the waves closed over him.
As I was watching that scece in my mind's
eye, I have imagined this woman sweeping off
from this great ship of society, where there was
no place for her. Weak, tender, helpless
woman; there was no post for her save the one
of tbe uttermost peril and danger. Swept off,
J have imagined her looking, longing, crying,
TBE DAILY EVENING TELEjn
srrctchmgout hr eager handu no'ono to ass'.st
no one to aid no one to help. I .et us close o lr
C3P" on the remainder of the sad picture and
plutul story.
I trii jou of Mirh as those for what
purpose? You are not with them. Yon e'.t
here nelore me to night, handsomely drcsed,
and with money in yojr pockets ouch women
do not come into the Aeaieroy of Mtii
You should aid them, help them by the minis
trations ot mrcy and the work of chnnty. You
talit about working-women associations aod
working-women's leagues. They are nothing
but an attempt to dip up the Atlantic tVean
wub. npipe bowl.
Can "ypu lock ft th' social question In all
its horror,tfsd yel ventiu'C iv iij lat it is but a
liyht Diatwr as compared with the Universal.
w1.!c-pie8ding evil growing out or the de
grading oi woman's toil, and the loss of caste to
every woman who works? The whole system
of society must be changed, and then all the
obstaces removed, and woman herself must un
dergo a chansre, betorc the can take advantage
of a preliminary reform. Do you ask me whst
it la I defiant What it is that I demand f What
re I or in I am urging? Whatdolwant? I want,
in the first place, every woman to comprehend
that she was born lor herself and not lor
another. I want evrry man to understand that
bo has no more right to control and to govern
the woman Wde hJn than she has to govern
and contiol him. (Laughter and applause.)
J'o large heart, large biams, thoughtful, manly
roan needs to be told that. (Renewed laughter.)
I know that a great many men who profess
to be wise and grave In their day ana gene
ration do opposo it, and use very large words
aeain9t it. Men are arrogant in just as precise
a proportion as tbey are Ignorant. It seems in
this lund as it it were a natural habit. In his
Infancy, with knowledge, he thinks the world
was made for hira. Not until years pass, and
knowledge gathers an1 wi-dora grows, does he
comprehend that tbe-e things were before and
will be alter him. Not until years pass, and
the gntes of death close, and he is gathered
around God's throne, will It be revealed to
him that the soul that stood beside h.'m on
earth is equal with him in the sight of God.
Would you have a woman an artist, a mer
chant, a manufacturer, a lawyer, a physician?
Yes, I say. Would you have them neglect their
domestic duties and cares? No, 1 say. Would
I have all women physicians? I say no. One
woman has the facultv, or the ability, or the
genius to practise medicine. One thousand
have the faculty, the genuis, and what you will,
to stay at home. All that 1 ask is that one
woman should practise medicine, and the one
th usand stay at home.
There may be a great many women not mnr
lied to-day who will be married some time in
the future, and to some of those present I shall
in advance tender my most beaity and sincere
commiseration. (Laughter.) There are women
who will not be married at all, and to some of
these I will tender me congratulations. (Re
newed laughter.)
There are women wbo, being once wedded, are
to-day widows; and there are yel other women
married, with husbands who comprehended
with the gieatest distinctness that it wa9 a
gieat deal easier to support one than it was
two. What are you going to do iuthijcase?
You sav these women are to stav at home.
Many of them have no homes. Some are sup
ported by a father or a brother. Then you
spring back and sav, "Let their husbands take
care of them." If society insisted upon that
point, she would have to provide a thousand
women with the necessary article a husband.
(Laughter.)
Up in New England, where (hey are a great
deal smaller than we are, this experi
ment was tried. If Pennsylvania wants
to follow the exanioK I will rive vnn
a sample of it. Seven hundred young
i gitls were to be sent out to some Western terri
i toiy. They were to work there. They were to
i be taken away from the surplus women, and
I sent among the surplus men to balance it. I
: protested against 1, as did a ereat many others.
; The girls were to be sent to a place where they
had no friends and no homes. Their passage
I was to be paid( In pait or entirely, by subscrip-
tion, or by the United States Government.
Reaching their destination, what was before
theiu ? They must marry in twenty-four horns
! alter lauding on that shore, for the want of
, something to eat, starve, or do worse. Now.
my inends, there Is your idea plaiuly before
you: work it into fact and reality.
i Do you like the picture? Well, pcrbays you
aiifcwer me nay. Yel Governor Andrew ilia, in
his mcseaee, answer tiiis tame thing. He an
nounced that "these women would not have to
, marry as toon as they got there; and, tn fact,
they would not have vo marry at all If they
didn't want to." Alter having announced this,
I what have we sent them there for? Governor
Andrew tells us, in the Cist of his message, that
"in this territory there are eorae ten thousand
men living in shanties and huts of their own
building, ' and that these ten thousand men,
liunsf fllpne, are. apparently very much in the
condition ot Wild beasts, and iii need of some
one to take care" (f them, and which were to be
these young ladies aforesaid. Here are the ten
thousand men, and tlie picture of desolation.
Governor Andrew says later thut women
wilj not be driven into any uuion with any one
tor they will find all thev wish or need to do
in teaching ihe great numb'er of children in tbe
territory. (Laughter.) (It was evident from
the small number who laughed, that they did
not tee the point to that joke; and Miss Dickin
son, in order to enlighten them, said) Ten
"ueaii flieri ji'viu" aloue -of
"children-,; which eertCToJTaeffcet
roar of laughter). Governor Andrew hffi
p8c:ECeLbne.abIlecnt0nS,ail1
ing Witt; FCSol walk
for their duties, and t ' ttV-Jg no fitness
They are paid but - re wearing away,
tour a year. &? few hundreds three or
Council, "stu' .id a gentleman in Common
It makes no ,tve on your half hundreds,
people p' , difference if vou have half a dozen
pitta" home to sunnort. Take your little
ev' ce, and thank God for the opportunity of
.c-n curving on that." I aUosee women wear
ID? the honored fignet of marriage on the
bngcr, squandering their husband's fortunes.
' lou see these women spending their days iu
I eating and drinking, dressing, fluting, aud
thus the years goby. What an nccouut they
will have to under vikenat the bar of Judg
ment !
Any woman who has learned to respect her
self, to honor labor, to hold berselt accountable
to God and humanity for her days, can look iuto
the face of man and deniaud her rights.
Look into the faces ot these young girus, you
w ho live in the Wet End. They lade and are
artificial before their time. They are sick, yet
with no disease invajlds, with no ftilmout.
Having nothing to eat and nothing to do, feed
ing upon this, they waste themselves away. As
1 look at thee oung girls v bat I tell you I
pray you not to forget. There is no soil that
produces nothing if it be not cultivated, and
bring iorth a harvest of grain tares aud weeds
will spring up aud cover the ground. I see
these young girls your daughters, ladles
young girls with earnest, waiting, open eyes,
that look out into lite pi.crerlv aud a-kinulv.
Young girls wilh the cheeks full of blood, the
nerves strong, aud the ambition large to accom
plish what jou give them.
My good friends, libten to me for an instaut.
You have a son or daughter. Do you sit down
at home all day and do nothing, learn nothing,
and accomplish nothing ? If you bring that boy
up that way by setting him the esi.mple, of
course It cannot be expected but what he will
grow up and repeat his parents, example. The
world expects him to go to ruin because he imi
tates you. You bring up your daughter iu the
same way, and the world does not expect her
to go to ruin; but it is God's good mercy if she
does not, whether the world knows it or not.
Are they free from sorrow? Is the eye dry of
tears? There are chains stionger to break than
irons. There are doors moro difficult to pass
than prison-folded ones. You paa them, your
friends pass them.
Mark you, in all this I am saying; not one
word against the home lite. I do not mean to
disparage tbe home duties of these women. 1
am saving nothing about them. Every woman
wbo sits here within the sound of my voice,
since she was so high In been talked to und
Ipcturod to about tbm by very small men
who know nothing about them. There are
womeu who have lound their plac and have
found their work, and they doit. I am talking
for the wemen who ar searching for their
places, whoe work is btore them.
liou fay they are sotisticd and contented. I
deny ill Some of the women before me per
haps will my this lg false. My good niadnme
my good little girl, I can convict you out of your
owb mouth. 1 am simply speaking tbe truth
when 1 say that they are not satisfied with this
life that society affords them. You say that I
am wrong. Every five minutes you wish you
were a man, that you could aeompUpb so and
so. They arc not satisfied. They want some
thing more; they desire something better.
And you, my rood sir, who cry out, "What in
the world do they wont? they are a great deal
better off than wo are. They are sheltered and
cared for." Now I can convict you cit.of your
own mouth. I never knew a woman say "I
wish 1 was a woman." I never met a woman in
my ilrao who would have been a woman for a
single twenty-four hours. You say thee women
are except ional; no they are not. ff you say
that the great majority of women will not be
or desire to be lawyers, physicians, ministers I
giant it. The majority of men do not do it, and
a great majority haln t better be, by the wav
tbey perlorm their duties.
If men would study won an a little more they
would under-itand tbis question better. He un
deceived, my friends; do not attempt to arro
gate our beet qualities. You see one wc.
who swerves in the presence of dangc.
there are one hundred ho stand ur AVi?
undismayed, and courageously. T' -Kwn8Q0(1
back on the one hundred, and lo-.i'"
at the one, youjerytout, "The. "Ht?'f
you." You see one worna? ,wm1B hff
.WceX'r YXl S&
f,-LLlftAe,e-. Yon turn yon back
, 7 1 anflisay, "There's a woman
tor you." Yon see a woman with no help,
counsel, encouragement, schools, or colleges to
nack ner. You se one tuch woman who as
cends the ladder of tame.
You see ninety men who attempt It and fall;
you say nothing. You see one woman fail in
the attempt, and, with derisive fingers, you
point and cry out, "Tbeie's a woman lor you I"
You see one woman, who writes books which
everybody reads; paints pictures before which
every one stands with suspended breath: carves
marble which makes for her an Immortal lurue;
practises medicine, so that thousaoJs gather
unto her; makes speeches, to which people
listen, aud as you stand and look you say,
"Mark the masculinity of brain, of thought, of
genius which this woman displays!" If a
woman docs n grand thing grandly, she does it
as a man I II she does a small thing smally,
she docs it as a woman! (Applause.)
Young men, it you condemn all women for
the failure of one, why not elevate all women
for the success oi on? Rosa Bonheur paiuts
pictures. toes she elevate women? You say
she is au exception. Then, where a woman
attempts and fails, why don't you call her an
exception? If she succeeds, she stands alone,
It she fails, she stands the type of her race;
and yet you pass no judgments upon man.
Seven weeks ago 1 was dying as everybody
said-as near the eternal poitals as I will ever
get again and turn back. I was there not by
the terrible disease that had come upon me,
but through the ignorance of a miserable man
wbo had au M. D. to his name.
Another man was called in, and with skill,
patience, and devotioo he has brougM me bick
to you, my friends, and if it were for nothing
more than the pleasure of standing before you
here in my own dear city, it would be sufficient
to make me love and ctand grateful to him to
the end of time. If it bad been a woman who
failed, no woman for titty years could have
practised medicine in that town. I nrotest
against it all. The man wbo sajs tbe woman who
does anything does it like a man, is ienoraut.
Kosalionbeur is a woman just as truly as the
great Wendell Phillips is a man. It is not given
to all women to paint pictuiea. It is not gUen
to every man to possess such divine eloquence,
such marvellous power as the man Who walked
this platform a few wieka ago. Roa Bonhour,
In painting her marvellous pictures, no' more
becon es a woman thereby than Wendell Phil
lips becomes a demagogue by speaking with a
tongue that nunc cau surpass or match.
Do not unveil the weaknoss ut poor bum an
nature. It is not strange for these women that
men have tempted them, in some cases out of
their ranks, and declared them to bo their
equtds. To identify themselves with these men
Is to take upon themselves a rough way aud a
heavy cross. Masculiuity is one thing, and
femininity is another. You and I have soen
the rare and marvellous Ri.-torl move up and
down these samejboaids. She lavs her part ima
woman's way. idwin Booth plays a man's part
in man's way. No one neefis to be told that
four-fifths of all the want, suffering, and misery
in the world is the want of a sufficient number
of nvenues of labor for women. Schools ought
to be established, wherein young girls and
women might learn to fit themselves for the
duties and places which are profitable in the
world. How much misery saved; how many
obstacles removed at once, if this was done!
As I look into the faces of some ol these
women belore me, I realize bo.v terrible a thing
it js to be happy. Young girls are here belore
me, t.' ol courage and aspirations, with a love i
lor all things. I? there 8nJ Ijuman being on
tbo face of the earth quite as enthusiastic, quiie
as noble as those girls who are yet carrying I
school-books under their arms. I tpeak low;.
Vl'1in oul8 b" ' 1 V I 10 "aC
if netnro nrA 1 0-n'gb.t. i 'mi ttml
after afi, talk ot fashion, talk bf men, talk of
society, nobody can do this work but you your
6elves"lor yourselves. Some men can help you
laigely. Other men can belli you to stand, yet,
alter all, not largely. Society won't help you,
Sliu public opinioilstands threaten! over you.
What thf n ? Do without public opinion; and, if
society closes its doors upou you, why make a
society for yourself,
Alter all, the great underlying trouble in this
whole matter is", on the one' side, indolence aud
lack of perseverance; on theother,degradatiouof
labor by women themselves. Why, my little
girl, thou who art full of large courage ant
earnestness lor I know that there are such
girls here to-night I do not o into tbe
smallest Western or New Englaud town with
out jecelviug letters again and again from
these young hearts "I am not satisfied; I
want something more than this" and there
are lust such g'rls li-teuing to me to-uihf.
You ought to commence immediately. True,
wouderlully trueisit.thatthe path lies 9tretching
out coldbel'ore you. But, if you do not succeed,
try again, if you fail a second tim, try again.
Remember the old proverb "He laughs best
wbo laughs last."
lou bud a man who has been a bootblack,
who has sold neuHapers In the street,
who stands up a millionaire, and he lets the
world know it, and nothing Is said. You find
a woman who has caretully laid up money by
worV, and she is looked upon with scornful eyes,
and despised by those who consider it degrad
ing to labor. There are women that despise
labor who are despised by society for it.
Ti e speaker, begging pardon for alluding to
berselt. said the first mouey she earned was tvo
shillings lor sweeping ?orae pavementi.
She did it to go and bear Wendell Phi, lips speak.
1 do not fear about the ultimate result-of this
matter, for as wiih strong and rising footsteps
the tide bears against the ground up stream,
aud pushes back its hurrying waves, so witn
this great truth, when it bears up against public
opinion, and pushes back its hurrying tide.
Afraid! why, when people talk about the ulti
mate result of this great question being un
certain, it reminds me of a scene which I wit
nested on one of the great Western prairies a
couple of months ago.
In crossing the prairies in cars we stopped at
a place, and I got out with my friends, two
or ibrte of whom were with me at the time,
aud we stretched our weary limbs by passing up
and down on the platform; and as we were
walking up and down we noticed a light away
in the distance, and we speculated upon it.
One fald, "It is a camp tire;'' another, "It is the
prairie in flames;" another, "It is the reflection
of some light beyond tbe horizon;" and as we
there stand specula'ed, no one having noticed
how the hours had passed by, lo ! the gates of
night rolled back, aud the rising glory of the
sun spread athwart our view. It wai the
dawn of lay.
Spwlth this great and magnificent question
gathering up before us. One cries "It Is a
house on fire!" "It Is a mighty llht 'shining in
the distance!" "It is a few disaffected women
clamoring here, and a few unhappy ones yon
der." Meanwhile the day is dawning. I be
seech yon, for your own sake as well as for the
sake of the ereat cause, to leave the night mlsti
and shadows behind you leave falsehoo 1 and
error behind von, and go forth with frankness
wltd truth, with courage, to the greit arising
dav.
Slisg Dlcklnsm then retired, and Mr. Robert
ruryii announced that Judge Pitkin would
It cture this evening at the National Hall.
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Oianes, etc. etc.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINK GROCERIES,
11 7rp Cornet ELEVENTH and VINE Sta.
C W. WARNER, No. 1530 AND 1532 RiDOB
"- Avenue, below Sixteenth Street.
KEYSTONE FLOUR STORE
Choice Brandsof Family and Bakers' Flour,
Corn Mcjji, Oat Meal,
Buckwheat and Rye Floor,
Corn, Oats, and Mill Feed ol every description,
tent to all parts ot tbe cltr
Free of Charge. C12 141 mrp
RAILROAD. LINES.
NAME SSI C ROUTE!
THE SHORTEST; LIME TO AIL POINTS
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
JW8SENGEB9 FOR
Norl'olk,
Weldon,
Halt inn.
Newbtrn,'
Charlotte,
W 1 mingtoo,
Colum: la,
Charleston,
Klngsvilie, i
Savannali,
Augusta,
Atlanta,
Macon.
Went Point,
juontKoinory
Mo'il A
ie.
ana
M'.W OKLK4NS,
TO AVOID DKL Y (THE POTO.MiH BEING
CLOSll BV ICE) SHO U LD BUY HCKETS
NEW ANT) 8HOR1 AwN AMESSIC ROUTE
Truing leave Do not.
T II I LAD ELPIIIA, WlLiMOTo N , AN D BALTI MORE
B?ArBinvt ,ud WASHINGTON Avenue,
DAILY (Saturday excep ed), at 11 P. M ,
. A?I-' vl5? .'. J 01 ,0'k 1 f- M. tbe following dav,
11iV.tJU0U,KS P ,0!i-B T8 A N BY ANY OT.1ER
LINK, and making close ;conneetlons for all point
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST!
lItlctia.fDi "" ott',er lformatlon. apply at the
m,zmyh or
anuBaltiuioYe
S. P. WILTBAMK.
1 2 tf
PEN ERA L AOENT.
St Freight line.
ALL KAIL ROUTE TO THE SOUTH,
Via Orange autl Alexaudrla Railroad
aud lt Coiiuectloua.
Tbo underHlgned would respectfully k the attention
oltblppereto the ONLY ALL RAIL ROUTE between
Philadelphia and the Sou tn. .
Merchants and others desirous of avoiding freiuent
changes and water transportation, will please mark
tbeir freight via O, & A. B. R Ball, and send to depot
of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
BROAD and PRIME Stieets.
Cats run through from Philadelphia to Lynchburg
without bl taking bulk.
Brav receipts lutnUhed, and Bills of Lading Bigned at
the through freight office ot Philadelphia, Wilmington,
and Baltimore Railroad, No. Id South FIFfU Street
below Chesnut.
Rates guaranteed as low at all times as by other lines.
JAMES C. WILSON,
Agent Orange and Alexandria Railroad,
12 27 rpti No. 105 South FITTH Street.
INDIA RUBBER GOODS
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
OF ALL KINDS,
TOR FAMILY, DRUGGISTi', STATIONERS', OR
MANUFACTURERS' USE,
t an be obtained direct at the
MANUFACTORY AOENCV,
No. 708 CHESNUT Street.
Customers
here.
will find it to then-
advantage to deal
1 H tin
L NT II
THE GENUINE EAGLE VEIN, THE CELE
bratd PREBTON. and tbe pun bard GREEN
WOOD COAL, Fgg andHtove. nt to ail oaru ot the
clti a" 60 per t" ( .uerlor LEHKJH at 06 7S.
Each ot tbe above article are warranted to glye per
fect satisfaction m every renpeet Orders rec.ved at
No. 114 Houth THI Hit Btreetj Emporium, o l-'U
W.kJU'UTOH Avenue. Ml
IUIMM
JANUARY 10, 18C7.
DRY GOODS.
MUSLINS
Cheap enough to indue prudent bayera to pur.
chase. Tbe greatest decline Is in BLEACHED, ol
which we hare boujrht at the lowest point about
20,000 YARDS
NEW YORK MILLS,
WAMSUTTA,
VIL,L,IAMSVII.LE,
SEMPKR IDEM,
ADtORKEAO A,
WHITNEY, ETC. ETC.
7000 YARDS
UNDLEACHED MUSLINS,
IROM 15 TO 23 CENTS.
1C-4 CTICA SHKBTINGS.
10- 4 WAL.TIIAJI SHEETINGS.
11- 4 HUGUENOT SHEETINGS.
12- 4 HUGUENOT SHEETINGS.
PILLOW MUSLINS,
EVERY WIDTH AND WEIGHT,
All at Wholesale Prices
BT THE PIECE.
12tuths4?
DEPOT
FUKN1SIIING
FOR
DRY GOODS.
A CARD.
SHEPPARD.VANHARLISGEFi&ARRISCN,
N0.IOO8 OHliSNUT Street,
Whoee establishment for the saleoi y
H0V8E-FURPISHINQ DRY GOODS
la unequalled m the extent and variety of its assort,
ment, beir 10 announce w UOl fcEKEEf EK9 11ENKW
I .ojTHKIKHLI'PLr-, or persons about to furii.
that they are now receiving their '
SPRING ASSORTMENT OF
Fresh Linen, Cotton, and Woollen Goods
for household use.
BOOH A8
LIKEN SHE1TIKGS,
COTTON 8 U EE I P Gi,
1MLI.OW LIN UN d,
PILLOW MCKLIN8,
DAMASK TABLE-CLOTHS,
TABLB LIJNEHd,
damask napkins,
bordered'to wel9,
towellings,
QUILTS,
BLANKETS,
Table and Embroidered Piano and Table Covers,
And every other article suitable lor a well-ordered
household. 9 14 thstuOmrp
PRICE & WOOD,
N. W. Corner EIGHTH and FILBERT,
HAVE JUST OPENED
Several cases of Bloached Munlins, yard wldo, 20,
23, 25, 28, and 31 cents per yard.
VTiUiamsvllIe, Wamsntta, Now York Mills, and
TJtica.
Yard-wido Unblcachod Mulins, 19, 23, and 25
cents.
6-4, 6-1, 8-1, f 4, aud 10-1 Wheeling Muslins.
1 case extra heavy 6-4 Pillow-case Muslin, 26 cents
per yard,
Best Quality American Prints, 18,? cents,
fieavy Power-loom Table Linens,
Just opened, 100 dozen Heavy Linen Towols, 22
cents.
Linen Poyllos, $125 per dozen.
Linen Napkins, 13 00 np to 88 00 per dozen,
Russia Crash, 12, 14, 16, 18, V, 20, and 23 c?nte.
A large assortment of Ladies' tnd dents' Hem.
atitcbed ilandkorohlefB.
Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, 13, 11, 19, 20, 25,
and 81 cunts.
A large lot of Ladies' French Cloth Glovei, 60, 6G,
62, 66, CD, and 76 centi.
dents' Cloth Glove. 10 22
Ladies' and Gents' Merino Vests and Pants, etc
PRICE & WOOD,
X. W. CORNER EIGHTfl AND FILBERT.
Wholesale cotton yarn
COMMISSION WAUEIIOUSE.
R. T. WHITE & CO.,
Manufacturer' Agents for the aale of
COTTON WABI'S AND SKEIN YARNS, all
numbers.
HOSIERY YARNS In the skein or cop.
COnOH, WOULLLN, AND LINE.' CARPET
CHaIN.
Jin E FILLING, lor Venetian Cnrnets
GILL1NO.
BfclN K, AND ( LAi r WIN El.
IX I HA HEAVY BLACK
CLOTHIERS' USE, Etc
No. 3T MARKET Street, Phil.
R I WHITB. J, V, DU BOIS,
11 1 wtbtuSmrp
628
HOOP KKlltTS.
628
ILsTF.MT BTTLE, JUBT OUT
1.E 1'ETIT TKUL,f'rtliei'rouienau,2W yardH round
rilK t ilAUriOK TiUlL, lor the irwlug-rvoia,
yards round.
ids round.
Th.. Hklrti are In everv wav the most deelrsbl that
we have hereto. ore ottt-ied to tha public also, ooiupleta
llnea of Ladiea', Mlne', aud c hildren's riatn and trail
Hoop r-kirla lrom to 4 yaida m clrcuintt-renue of
very length, all of "oar own ranks," wholesale and
let ail. and warranted to five Mtk (notion.
rnn.t.nH An lianrf Inw-orlf ad Na York ma1 a BVfa
Plain and Trail, 'iV aprinita, W cent. ii apiinns. tl Mi
Mrmx, H0(aml40apriiiK el -15. '
Skins ruaue 10 oiuur. anerca. ami repaired.
Call '' send lor Circular ol style, Sixes and price
Msuufactory and Haleorooini.
o. HM AHCH Htreet,
12 4 In) WILLIAM T. HOPKINS,
MARKET
21 & o
0 NINTH, fv
DRY GOODS.
LINEN STORE.
BQ8 AHOH STREET.
Fine Table Cloths.
Pino Napkins and Doylice.
Extra Large Table Cloths.
Napkins to Match.
UPWARDS OF 200 PIECES
Heavv Power-Loom Table Linen,
FROM 75 CENTS PER YARD.
THE LARGEST LINEN STOCK
UN J. CITY, llDstutalin
Selling at Importers Prices.
FAMES & WARNER,
No. 229 North NINTH Street,
A HOVE KACE.
BARGAINS
BARGAINS!
Will open to-day One case Waltbam Pillow-case
Muslin, at 28 cents per vard, slightly wet.
Cheapest lil.ow-cao Muslin in the eity.
Bleached MusiUs at reduced prioes.
Yi lillamsville, Wamsutta, Forestdale, Semper
Idem, Amoskeac, Bartiett, cto.
I nbleached Mus in., 20, 21. 22, 25c, etc.
Table Linens, 1 j yard wide, 65 cents. Cheap.
FLANNELS I
All-wool Flannflls, 874, 40,12.45, 60c.,"eto.
Barralnsin yaid wido SMakor F
I'lain Ked Flannels, i7j, 45, 60o etc
Bed and Grey I willed flannels.
PtttWnn ClannA'aA. I . , . .
o v Kiuauy reuuooa prices.
Unbleached at 20, 22. K3, 26, 28, 81, etc
Blankets, law ize, all-wool, 8a-;5.
Balmorals, 60 dozen sold this season, tl 75.
Cloth Gloves, all kinds, reduced,
FARIES & WARNER,
JNO. a9 orth NINTH street, above Eaoe.
N. B. Breakfast Shawls from $1 to 3 60. Im
nioLe loss tonmuutacturers. 0 29J
ho. 1024 CHESiiCT BtTCt.
In Anticipation of Removal to
N. W. Corner ELEVEN I H and CHE8NUT,
White Goods,
Laoes and Lace Poods,
Hai dktntiets, Ladies and Gents, every
variety.
Linen Collars and Cufft,
Veils, Scarfs, Neck Ties, Etc.,
Embracing Novelties Adapted for
HOLIDAY PRESENTS,
AT REDUCED PRICES.
E. M. NUEDLEQa
9Jlw .M1SBW Hi) t!(lt 'CM
FURNITURE, BUDDING, ETO.
E II B Y CHRISTMAS
AND
A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
COULD & CO.,
UNION I UliNITUHB DErOT
C0BNEB NINTd. AND MARKET STEXETS.
aND
Noa. 37 and 39 North SECOND Street,
(Opposite Christ Church,)
Invite all 1 heir old customers, and as man; new ones
as will come, to nee their elegant and large assortment
of Fl EMU Ilk, tuitable ft r preaents or otherwise.
210 ftp
'PO HOUSEKEEPERS
I have ajarga stock ot every variety ol
FURNITURE
Which I will fell at itnuceu prices, consisting oi-
PLAIN AND MAltbLti 1U1' COTXAUJC bt'iTS
WALNUT CBAUlltU bl llrt.
i'AKl.OR 8111b lis VKLVET PI.U8B
1-AUl.OK KC1I8 IN HSIK CLOlli.
l'AHLORHnS I'M Kt-P8.
Sideboard, Extension Tables, Wardrobes, iiookoasas
Uattrcseea, Louusea. tc etc. . .
1 1. OTIKTINB'
H S. E. corner HKCOSH and KAOK Htreets.
gSTAIILISUED 1195.
A. S. nOBlNSON,
French Plate Looking-Glasses,.
ESCMYISGS rAIXTISGS DRAWINGS' ETC,
Manufacturer of all kinds o(
V
LOOKXKU-Ui30! 1 vvj
fBAMES TO OEDEB,
o. OlO OIIKSNUT BTHELTi.
TH1BD DOOB ABO TUB CONTIKtHTAL,
PBlLAPKLf UIA. )