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DANGERS TO THE YOUNG FROM CURRENT
LITERATURE.
A Dlseoursa by B. II. Nartal, D. DM Pastor
f Trinity M. K. Church, Delivered In
he Washington Square Presbyterian
Church (Dr. Burnet'), by Request of the
Yinng Men's Christian Association.
BFRCUIi HEPOBT FOR TIIE KTBNINO TELEORArn.l
"Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth
to err from'he words of knowledge," lruverbs xlx,
jn.
Solomon, the author of tlipno words, Is pre
clftely the pertiou to give uh a text for the rctlec
ttons of thin evening. At once n king and a
ago, against both hlH royal dienlty ind his
wihiIoiii, he allowed hlmnolf to be drawn Into
the charmed circle of sinful Indulgence. Of all
the men of his day lie knew best the power of
temptation, nnd the danger and emptiness of
worldly pleasure.
Kmergiug from the wreok and ruin of his
own life, Rated and drenched with pleasure, he
warns others against the course he has ho pain
fully travelled. Ilia advice, substantially, Is
that the young shall move cautiously, thought
fully, amidst their multiplied temptation; that
b delicious song, a witticism, a syllogism, a
fling, or a woll-contrlved story, shall not be
allowed to cheat them out of the truth, or put
them Into the hands of their soul's enemies.
Jn a word, he bids them consider and under
stand what truth Is and what falsehood, that
they may separate them. He bids thorn know
a solicitation to good from a temptation to sin,
and understand the great difference butwenn
the charm and sweetness of real, pure, vlr
tuons beauty, and the showy and shallow
attractions wnlch set oil" and conceal the ruin
of lust, lie would have the young men of his
day so pnre, so alert, so discriminating, so
concerned about the character they are forming,
that they will see through the wiles of tlio
false Instructor, and refuBe to hear him to the
end of his argument; that they will scent
error and sin at the first words, and way: (jet
thee behind me Hatan ! "Ceusemy son, to hear
the Instruction that causeth to err."
Our olject this eveulng Is similar. We see
error all around us In books, In newspapers,
in msgnzines. Wo see this error becoming
firnctleul in loosing the bonds of morality, In
owerlng sacred things; In grading tho way to
every form of worldly amusement and dissipa
tion, and iu dimming the eternal distinction
between good and evil, right and wrong. We
bold, as a matter of course, that the highest in
terests of man are the moral and religious; that
whatever threatens these must be resisted at
very hazard and every sacrifice. The world
Is bent on being rich and happy. We bid them
Ood-speed, but call upou them llrst of all to be
Virtuous, and beg tliuin to stay iu their mad
race after excitement and gold, and consider
whattticy were made for, what is duty, what
will stand tho test of the dying hour, and what
Will pass judgment in the last day. We would
especially analyze the opiates witli which they
drug their consciences, and dispose of true reli
gion while they yield themselves up to sin.
or to drop the figure, the thinking of a people
must determine their living. "As a man think
eth so is he;" and the literature which Is all
around ub, pressing upon him from every centre-table,
from every library, and from every
bookstore, is more than likely to modify his
thoughts. And that man or that association
that will aid the endangered spirit in sifting out
the error, and seeing and feeling it to be error, I
will do much towards saving a soul from
death.
This Is the taBk we propose to ourselves this
evening. Our theme is, The dantjers to young
men from the current literature.
First of all, let us consider tho dangers from
skepticism.
Within a few years past a number of books
liave been published agaiustChristianity, which
have made considerable stir in the literary
world. Among these may be mentioned Strauss'
'.Life of Jesus," Colenso's books, essays, and
reviews, Renan's "Life of Jesus," aud a few
minor performances. We do not mention tueso
books for the purpose of refuting them. Such a
task lies wide of our aim In this discourse. We
wish rather to call attention to the fact that
these books, so full of plausible sophisms and
bold statements, without proof, must be fraught
'with danger to the Inexperienced. To theolo
gians, and learned Christians generally, they
are quite harmless; perhaps, iudced, they give
to such confirmation of their faith. In reading
Strauss they see that his infidelity rests exactly
where that of Hume rested, namely, ou the
alleged uuchangealileness ot the laws of nature,
and the consequent impossibility of a miracle;
and that his theory of the mytnlcal origin of
the Gospels is a bare hypothesis, with nothing
to hack it, recently refuted by his fellow-unbeliever
Kenan, ns frequently before. In reading
"Colenso on the I'entateuch," they see In the
mistakes of a renowned mathematician how
lit tle the strongest foe can do against the Bible.
Mo puerile and so groundless are his arith
metical calculations, that a child ought to be
ashamed of them, and a child might answer
them. And In reading Kenan ho would come
to the conclusion, us we did, that the author bad
not even carefully read the Gospels before
undertaking to refute them, and mlghtrise Irom
the study of his book greatly streugtheud in
bisfttith by an eloquent effort to overthrow it.
Hut while such attacks on Christianity might
confirm the faith of the learned aud experi
enced Christian, tbey would be likely to affect
the young and inexperienced quite differently.
The bare fact that such books are written by
learned men, aud that Ittey find newspapers
and magazines and reviewers to give tlie in
.favorable notice, is well suited to make an in
jurious impression npon those who are unskilled
in theological science, especialy if tliey are not
Christians. The arguments lroiu these books
are constantly referred to in the newspapers;
they meet the young man's eye iu book notices
and magazine articles, and if tho range of his
reading lakes him mostly through periodicals
and papers unfriendly to Christiaultv, and
to orthodox views of it, these arguments, with
their friendly glosses, will repeat themselves
upon his mind until by sheer dint of repetition
they make a lodgment, or ut least create a bias
In their favor.
There is the more danger of this because many
Of the leading newspapers, those especially of
the greatest ability and widest circulation and
Influence, are under seml-lnlldel control. Take
for example the New York Tribune, a paper
which has done more for the cause of human
liberty than any other in the nation, what sort
of religion does it reflect? Its editor is a Unl
versalist which practically includes Unlturlan
lsm also, and its criticisms of religious publica
tions always favor latitudinarlau views. Hooks
which aim to establish the Inspiration of Scrin
tureas an infallible revelutiou, aud to sunuort
the doctrines of the evangelical churches are
always, or nearly always, unfavorably received
while works substantially infidel generally re
ceive elaborate and uppreciutivetreatmeut We
only mention the Tribune as the greatest, and
the type of many. '
It would take nice calculating to determine
whether the services of these papers to the
cause of humanity in genferal are not inferior
In bulk to the harm they have done to the
eacred interests ol true religion. The utterances
of such a paper as the New York Tribune, road
by a young man every day, are apt to become
authority, on religion as on other questions
lie grows accustomed to see the defenders of
divine truth treated as old fogies belotigiua to
an aee of which nothing is lelt buffossilu and
the lmpugners of miracles and inspiration
honored as the giants ol a now and better era
Xliese bold assaults of uubollef, which are
served up in book notices almost every week
have Indeed been fully and perfectly answered
ctly answered
....... nui icjiiumb wrwK.ntrn, out the re
views are never seen by the young men. and
the religious weeklies, Ifever seen, have not the
force of standard authorities among men of
the world, aud cannot compete with the great
and overshadowing dailies. 6
Uut the outspoken inlldel books that And such
lavorwith the secular press, are not thoonlv
ones that are Infidel there are others whoso
dangerous tendency is attempted to be con.
ceaieu under fair pretenses. There is a
L'??,y' , so-called, known as the "Bitter
' 'w.hlchlii. Perhaps, best illustrated in a
WnX; , VHUle- 11)18 poem is no mean
harinnwart', 11 i8 felicltou8 in expression,
i-vBJ l 0U8. ln '"ovetnent, and skilful in plot!
it has hP - y " 18 """" ve. The rasi
ln "Ilitter . ;. ","D l,or,on, ur. iioiiana,
eole aim r?f tv?1', wVul.a be8'' a score. The
essential t Vn8Qb,,ok ls to '" t evil is
necessarv in 8 '11Blle"' Bood-indeed. only a
And TeZ ,or Provocation to good,
wh eh he hoidl Ll? Bllow 1,8 that- evil
does not mean ml n,eceS8ry to virtue, he
evU also lie ?elVKa,l,"ral evU onlv. Dut ln"ral
Set e than tnt rrM,0" ?eVer ,iuht
tnriity vice niakeH u.,of, .nature UDtl1 evory
the human Z"iaorJ1eaU?a on,
craee. Ha "hi-u.K..i SU,ch t0 scion of
Evi l of life .withma distinct ou9"Qevl1' ' ever
. Li!'01 atmosphere of lust.
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the cheek of modesty. lie makes that hr-ro to
"sin in thought," to dally and play with tninp
Intion, ns a blessed means of salvation to Ins
wicked tempter. He tells us that had the hero
remnlned in absolute unstained virtue of
thought and feeling, bis goodness would have
beeu no blessing. How thoughtlessly have
many people praised this book and others
like It f
Let us beware ! Do yon not see here an ntter
removal of the distinction between good and
evllf Kvll, In this view, comes from God, and
is the fierce, necessary fire ln which sonls are
to be purified. There is here no real moral dif
ference between a robbery and a fever; drunk
enness and debauchery, like prayer, and
equnliy with prayer, lead ns to God 1 Ho that
the feeling of sin, the voice of conscience, the
pangs of repentance, are only artifices of God.
There is no sin In the sense commonly under
stood, and therefore no virtue; morality lueans
nothing.
This is the dreadful vortex on the edge of
which young people play, when they drink in
the teachings of such a book as "Hitter Sweet,"
however daintily mixed with the perfumed
and sparkling waters of poetrv.
'i'hls great wickedness, thus 'handsomely and
temptingly set ofr with music and song, is more
coarsely repeated and carried out in the pub
lications of spiritualism. What the author of
"Hitler Hweet" states delicately, as if shrinking
from the consequences of his own lessons,
modern spiritualism boldly and shamelessly
avows. The authors of the chief publications
of spiritualism deny Christ with fcilrauss and
Kenan, and abuse Him with l'aiuo. while, with
Iir. Holland, they also repudiate all moral dis
tinctions. Their greatest authorities say that
"whut we call sin and evil ln human actions ls
a necessity, and therefore lawful and right;"
that "Judas Iscariot was no worse than John
the liivine, nor Herod than Kenelon; that
Kenelon is no nearer to God than Herod." As
might be expected from such a foundation in
morals, we have blasphemy against God and
Christ, open derlRion of the liiblo, bitter and
obscene denunciations of marriage, and a prac
tice in perfect conformity with the revolting
theory. Ur. Hatch, a reformed spiritualist,
avers that the chief bond of union among
spiritualists Is debauchery between the sexes.
We cannot go lurther in this description. We
are anxious to show you only the rotten core
of the Kplrituaiistic literature which the Jlannrr
of Mjiht, Andrew Jackson Davis, and a host of
their imps are scattering over the land.
Agassi, has discovered, he assures us, that
God created more tlian one Adam; that all tho
different races of men sprang from different
Adams; and while, to tho alarm of timid Chris
tians, lie proceeds to prove his position from
dillereut shaped human skulls, and shlnbonos,
and the like, Darwin comes along with quite
another theory, which confutes Agussiz, aud
leaves even miles of margin. He teaches not
only that all men may have come from one
pair, but that all living creatures may be origi
nully from one species. This view is as hereti
cal us the other, but has the advantage for us of
contradicting it. While these two savans fight
out their difference, and each proves the other
to be a mere wild gucsser, the Dlble comes by
its own, and proceeds quietly on its course.
Sir Charles Lyell and other geologists think
they have found human remains which ante
date the Mosaic account of the creation of man
by many thousands of years. This may have
produced restlessness ln certain quarters. But,
my young friends, possess your souls iu
patience. The Bohemlau notices of these
alleged discoveries have Indeed been gay and
luuuatoryina high degree, but the Bohemian
must not be allowed to carry llctiou into tho
realm of science, and to create where only
bald, naked proof ls demauded. To this hour
these so-culled discoveries lack two important
elements. First, the supposition that these
human remains are older than the beginning
of our received chronology is a mere hypothesis.
resting upon a thousand contingencies ana
opposed by as many improbabilities. Second,
il our chronological calculations, supposed to
be based on scientific history, were all upset,
it would not interfere In the least with the
solid foundations of Biblical and Christian
truth. As the earlier discoveries of geology
required a new theory of the Mosaic account of
the creation, so the proven truth of recent
statements as to the antiquity of man would
only require a diflerent chronology, which
would not affect in the least the perfect whole
ness of the Scriptures. When the philosopher
allirmed that the earth turned, the Dope was
alarmed for the Bible; but it was the l'ope, not
the Bible, that was hurt.
We may mention in this connection that
most of 'the magazines published in this coun
try, as also some of tho literary weeklies, hava
very distinct skeptical leanings. Harper's
Mayaziue and "Weekly, however, are not liable
to this charge. We do not mean that tho lite,
rary periodicals referred to are always attack
ing Christianity. Their hostility only crops
out clearly now and then. But there is about
them a constont odor of unbelief, a sort of party
suppressed consciousness that skepticism is
essential to literary respectability. Why this
is so may bo hard to tell. It may be, in part,
owing to the fact that the Unitarians of New
Kugland, who control Harvard College, and
who constitute the hlghetr literary circles of
Massachusetts anil of the country generally,
besides owning some of the largest publishing
houses, and being the publishers of some of the
most popular magazines, furnish, also, a large
number of the more popular writers. Unitarian,
rationalistic Harvard ls eminent for testhetic
culture; she lays out her strength upon that
aspect of education, and with such men as Long
fellow, Holmes, and Lowell, she not only tills
the world with her literary renown, not only
sways it by her example, but furnishes a large
proportion of the men who fill editorial chairs,
aud supply matter for our critical and other
journals. These being trained for latitudinu-
rianism in religion, oi course to impregnate the
cm rent literature more or less with their own
Views.
Besides, l nltarianlsm being scarcely at all a
religion, but rather a mongrel resulting from
the union of taste and philosophy with a
spnniiie oi Christian ethics, Knows nothing of
the Divine call to the ministry, or the sacred
obligation to preach. While Yale, tho com-
petnor of Harvard, has her graduates iu pulpits
all over the laud, and iu innumerable foreign
missions, Harvard only supplies a portion of
jMiw n.ngianci, witn ouiy a cnurcn nere ana
there beyond it. We say a portion of New
Kngland, for In the whole State of Connecticut,
right at the door of Unitarian head-quarters,
there is not a solitary Unitarian church. This
proves our assertion! that Unitarlanlsni is very
little a religion. It contains no grand interior
life; no overwhelming spiritual convictions,
Imperiously urging its followers to go out, as
did Christ and the Apostles, toseek and to save
the lost. It never cries out in anguish, "Woe ls
me if I preach not the gospel." Holding Its reli
gion, therefore, under perfect control,!! is free
to follow its H'sthoticbont, und to give to letters
those inner forces which other churches devoto
to the conversion of the world.
Yes, Unitarianism is rather dilettanti than
religious. She does not behave like an earnest
Church; she makes no effort to convert the
world to Christ. When she begins to do so, she
will be her own first convert. Kven her prose
lytlsm bus none of the earnest boldness which
proclaims profound conviction. The trutli is,
she does not retain enough of Christianity to
constitute such a power in the soul as will
move her to conquests. She ls content, for the
most part, to let her religion play the part of a
modest handmaid to her literature. Aud when
you Hud what may bo called a pious Unitarian,
he is one who is lending back, however dimly,
to orthodoxy. Such u Unitarian always holds
firmly arid reverently to tho verity of tho
Gospel history, and to the geuulnenessof the
miracles; he alwavs denies that Christ was a
mere creature, and draws near to the Cross with
breathless, holy awe; he even goes so far as to
admit the depravity of the heart, and the need
of tho new birth by the power of tho Holy
GhcBt.
In a word, piety, that something inhumau
life which we see developing itself iu sweet at
tachment to the person of Jesus as Lord, aud in
love to the souls of men, where it ls found ln a
Unitarian, always draws him more and more
towards the views usually known as orthodox.
Dr. Chanuing, a Hue, loving soul, had a distinct,
conscious conversion, aud however unwittingly
to himself, .grew more and more towards the
doctrines of the Church. Thus Dr. Huntingdon
lately grew, until he broke his ecclesiust.ioal
bonds, and thus many are growing now; men
who feel thata philosophy and a culture will not
supply the place of religion. . .
When, therefore, my young frlonas. you meet
with the frequent traces of rose-colored infi
delity in the magazine literature of tho day,
when the convietiou hovers about you lu "-u-lug
that the writers and controllers of certain
more prominent periodicals regard skepticism
as essential to a literary reputation, remember
that Unituriautsm ls not a religion at all to
speak of, that it is only a culture, much more
anxious to munuge a magazine than to Pief""
the gospel or convert the wdrld;oall to nil nd lha
tin v have no missions, thai they do fotn1"
for 'the salvation of the masses, and that ror t ie
two-iold reason that they have no evangel1'"0
zeal, and no adaptation for a work ' once so
hip'h and so low. Jtemember that their bust
men, these who are pious, are tending baon
agnin (o the glorious Cros and Its clustering
companion doctrines, feeling that they cannot
live, or muke the world live, with the dry
morality which constitutes the wholo ol their
own system.
And finally, remember that Unltarlnnlsm
cannot much longer balance herself on the
sharp and slippery ledge separating bold inll
dellly from evangelical truth. Kveu now there
are two parties among the Unitarians; tho ono
IcK.s and less orthodox, sliding over towards
1 heodore I'arker, Strauss, and Kenan, and the
other rapidly gravitating towards tho truth as
it is In Jckub.
Another source of dn ngcr to yonng men Is to
be found in the Impurity of cortaln books and
papers usually passing for reputable. We
hardly dare mention the names of certain
books ln such a plaoe as this, and yet, on reflec
tion, this is the very place to name ami de
nounce them, Just as it is the place to name and
threaten with the Judgments of God the im
purity forbidden in the Decalogue.
We are not referring to the literary sonm
which ls smuggled Into railway cars, and
bought and sold with winks and whisper; but
to those books bearing the Imprint of reputable
publishers and the names of gifted authors
"Griffith Gaunt," for example, by Charles
Keade, is coarso and brutal, not to say filthy.
No innn could write such a book, at least so It
seems to us, without first being tho original of
the spirit of his story. From this high place, as
one of the humblest guardians of the nation's
purity, we pronounce this book degrading to
the tnsto and nnllt to be road, on the score of
the moral taint contained in It, It Is no more
fit for exposure to the public eye than the
dancing girls in the JHack Crookno more than
a human body that has died of smallpox is to
be brought out of the dissecting-room aud
placed in the parlor.
But if we speak thus of Mr. Reado.'what shall
we say of a certain Mr. Swinburne? If Kendo
shall be chastised wltn whips, then Swinburne
with scorpions. This Mr. Swinburne Is said to
be quite young. He ought to be young his ox
tremo folly would argue as much and yet 1'
seems almost impossible that a young man of
only twenty-eight should havo made such at,
tatnmcnts ln brazen lust, and succeeded so per
fectly ln forgetting the very existence o
niodestv. It in one of the very worst Indica
tions for our popular literature that several of
ine principal pcnoaicais nav vinnm una
w re tolled man among the great poets of our lan
guage. Their apoloaries for him show their own
looseness. They tell us he ls evidently sincere,
l'erhaps he is. Kven Satan puts darkness for
Unlit, and. it may be. believes his own lie. They
allege that he ls so constituted as, to have but a
slignt sense of morality. This ls apologizing for
a man on the score of his being a monster. It is
also said, in extenuation, that he is an unbO'
lievcr In the immortality of the soul. This
might help to explain his corruption, but will
hardly excuse it among those who believe that
life and immortality have been brought to light
in the gospel.
We aeree with these periodicals ueither ln
their mild censures, their apologies, nor their
praise. In lull three-iouuns or what this new
poet has written, we see neither sense nor con
nection. A . lithe aud graceful rhythm,
sprinkled over here and there with striking
metaphors, is used to string together the swel
tering clotted filth of an imagination whoso
every throb seems to be inspired by lust. Love,
as set forth by this man, ls the loveoi a brothel,
most appropriately Joined with blasphemy
against God and Cnrist. Lust is carried up to
the very gates of heaven; it is thrown lu the
face of the Son of God; it riots upon the very
form of death; it breaks out everywhere in hot
hissing and panting, as if it came from a crea
tuge half swine and half serpent, inhabited by
a demon.
1 tell you, my young brethren I would fain
lell.thls Christian nation I would tell the press
of the country, that the bare fact that such a
book could find a respectable publisher, and
could be printed with the publisher's name in
it, taken in connection with the still more ter
ribly significant fact that it bus received indul
gent treatment and distinguished praise from
the highest literary authorities, reveals the
greatest danger, not merely ahead, but already
here in our midst. It shows the strength of the
corrupt element lu our literature, together with
a lax sentiment lu our society. It portends an
inundation of libertinism. It shows lhatsociety
sits quiet, and that critics ou the tallest of our
tripods applaud, while indecency stalks nudo
and in daylight along our streets. If
the nation and the Church would save
themselves from that "riot, and chambering
and wantonness," deprecated by an Apostle,
from that slate in which, "being past feeling,
men are given over to lascivlousuess, to work
all uncleauness with greediness." from those
things of which "it is a shame even to speak,"
from that form of civilization in which intel
lect, aud culture, and art, instead of following
reason, and linking us to God and heaven, be
come the mere ministers of t he animal passions;
iu short, from the destruction ot all that is
Christian in our civilization. If, we say, the
nation and the Church would save themselves
from this ruin, so Imminent, so menacing, they
must arouse themselves; they must look deeper,
and with purer eyes than do the mere book
makers and critics; they must see theBO evils in
the light of Scripture, and, if possible, with the
very eyes ol the holy Jesus.
But we are not yet done. Another source of
danger ls the levity with which both sin and
religion are frequently and almost daily spoken
of in the newspapers. Religion is sacred, and,
viewed aright, sin is solemn, uwful. To trifle
wilh either ls irreverent and impious.
A uood man can no moro laugh at sin than at
the Cross. In the one case the authority of God
ls contemned. In the other God lllmsell. Tho
daily press ls not, as u matter of course, a
religious Institution; and a part of its ordinary
business is to furnish reports of both
the virtue aud the vice of the commu
nity, of the doings of religion aud of
the outrages of crime. But it often hap
pens thatrobbery, gambling, drunkenness, im
purity, and the like, are spoken of with tho
utmost lightness, even coined into lamillar
JestB; and sacred thiugs, the holy words that
represent religion, are handled with the same
thoughtless and Irreverent familiarity. Ttie
newspapers are hourly ln our hands, aud their
familiar style is constantly liable to imitation
hsni Bin ami religion frenuentlv. nay. con
stantly, seen ln this familiar mode of hand
ling; these forms of treatment, running through
our minds and from our mouths, are lu great
danger of diminishing tho horror of sin and
the reverence due to the divine. We tend to
grow familiar with, and then tolerant of sin,
and then, wearealready half ruined. If religion
loses its sacred hue to our vision, nothing is
holy to us, and what is that soul for whom the
world contains nothing sacred? Let us ever
guard the solemnity of siu and the sacreduess
of religion.
Nor should we forget to mention the fact tnat
the newspaper and periodical press are con
stantly commending, without stint, every ue
scriptlon of amusement, with little or no reg ard
to its moral character. Their notices, especially
of the theatre, which take up so large a po itlon
of almost every day's Issue, Pseut thiiseives
frequently in the alluring and pretentious form
of discussions of art, thus giving preatlM ad
respectability to the theatre. As art in the
high and noble sense, tends to elevate anu
purify, so. it is insinuated, will the stage. And
I "here is an intimation against the morality of
certain ulavs we are straightway doomed to
theat re might accomplish. MeallUmV! f.psr.
isUuK theatre continues to be a regu r pesf
house, as those who are ent rapped into H by the
news papers find to their cost.
,fit their ?urn tWone up into books. The
"V l HllHoo UrtUa's6ad
enow, it were still uo B inf,.hun(ll.edUl8 of
con
'o'an li'oZtmoml blemish, aud
re ot licuon i wi ,, ,i iw.nir.hv n
Some of t Is quite appropriate and healthy as
V.tl recreation: but the great danger is
UaV the tntshy'und bad will fall into
ti e bunds of the young and unprotected;
n.wl that in any event, whether they get the
Sood oi" the bad novels, the good or the bad
ihaguzlnes. they will read too much of such
iTtiifl' The ruin in such cases is none the less
?nal 'because It comes in the form of Inanity.
Tesus sneaks of the light ln men becomlngdark-TiesB-soit
is here. Much gives little; the more
the less; to be full Is precisely to be empty. A
:., buys a car-load of flour, and amoug the
barrels as the car is unloaded. Is one that
souuds'not solid like the rest, but hollow, on
being opened it is found to be full of straw.
Before you opened It you called it empty, and
iiow that it lias been opened you still call 1
tu
empty, nd the more a cheat on account of the ,
sliaw. '
Tills I" precisely what pirauslva rnnrilnir o.
even Innocent fiction will io for people. A
wioiouKii u uevniea novel reader is mane,
emptied, scooped out; all mental vigor Is gone,
and the void and rickety soul Is filled with dead
and rotten rosebuds, whose odor Is sought to bo
resiuicn " BiMio roiogne. What Is such a
man noon i.iir mere is quite ns much founda
tion on which to build up gocxt in a highway
rubber H8 in him. Tim rii,a .mi
strong nature, but full of evil. Affect his heart
ana convince ms juugment, and a true man
may come of In in yet. But lu the other man
there Is nothing; manhood proper ls gone, aud
you might h well attempt to build a palace out
of soap bubbles as to try to shape this thing of
sponge into a man. All that you could profita
bly do with him would be to make a dancing
mast r of him, or convert him into a walking
sign for a perfumery shop. Beware, young
men, of being ground Into a fragrant tooth
powder under a mountain of romance.
But it ls t ime to draw towards a close. You
will of course understand that our treatment of
our theme was not meant to bo exhaustive
We could not furnish a cntalogue of dangers
whose name ls legion. We have only aimed to
give specimens ol bad books, and of other forms
of literature, and to couple them with hints for
the guidance of the young in general. It is for
you, my young friends, to make your way
through these dangers as best you can, and with,
such helps as can reach you.
Aware, in a measure, of these literary
perils, what must we do? We answer thut
obscene books, such as Swinburne's, are pro
scribed by law; and as for tho rest, we ask no
onds of them. Let wisdom and folly, truth and
falsehood, contend for the mastery In a fair
and open field. Mere erroneous beliefs must
bo met by Christian convictions; falsehood
must be strangled, but by the unarmed and
naked hand of truth. Christianity, with Its
virtues, is worthy, indeed, of universal homage,
but, her disciples cannot he slaves.
It Is a most responsible thing to live; but re
sponsibility rightly met ls synonymous with
glory. Forewarned is forearmed. We must
know that the great world forces of civilization
are not to be destroyed , but evangelized, Tho
press in all Its aspects is to be pure ln tho glori
ous age which God has promised shall yet
dawn upon the world. As when a man is re
newed by the grace of God. his nowers hi in.
lluence, his wealth, are all included in his self
consecration, so It is to be on the broad field of
the woriu. science and letters shall feel and
own more and more the power which is to
bring in t he reign of Jesus.
Let then the young men who are to own tim
property and make and administer the laws,
and produce the literature of the future age,
new-sphere themselves for their duty. Let
them go forth from Christian closets, armed
with sincerity, purity, lalth, and spotloss cau
tion and candor. Let them dlsuouraan all
impure, loose, immoral, irreligious literature,
aud move among magazines and newspapers
as discriminate as they should among men,
giving their patronage, regardless of pecuniary
profit, only to the purest newspapers and maga
zines, and using all their legitimate Influence
ncrnlnst tliose tlmt ptinnnrnim ji'ri,llitr,i in,.
piety, or impurity, either fcdltorluTly or other
wise. Those young men who are resolved to be for
me rigiu. must duiiu tnemseives together to
save the whofe of their class. The Young Men's
Christian Association, by deep and deepening
convictions of Immortality, aud of the etornltv
and magnitude of the distinction between right
and wrong, and above all, by the profound
possession of the Christian life, must prepare
themselves for broader, deeper work. It is to
be feared that nearly half the young men ln
this city spend their Sabbaths and evenings at
engine houses, saloons, theatres, street corners,
and worse places, and never enter a church.
These, however fallen, belong to vour class!
they, too, whatever else they maybe, are young
men. Where is the genius to invent a method
for reaching them? and where is the holy
courage, the divine industry to carry it into
effect? Where? He that shall do such a work
ns this, and those who shall help him, will bel
ter deserve crowns than the best of monarchs.
These young men are in great part corrupted by
the lowest forms of literature. Your work is
by some means to give them a purer, and get
inem to read it; tnen a little child shall lead
them. Then the time spent in places of sin will
oe spent in yonr nnrnries and reading-rooms.
auu our churches win bo too lew and too small.
Settling-Up a Fashionable Dressmaker's
Bill What It Costs to Live Among the
Upper-Teudom.
llefore Judgo K. D. Smith. Mary A. Douglass
vs. Charles M. Mayer. The complaint in this
action sets forth that the plaintiff is a dress
maker, doing business ln this city formerly
under the name of M. A. Do Leney; and that,
between the 20th of March and 7th of April, 1SU0,
she furnished to the wife of the plaintiff various
"articles of ladies' dress wear," among which
were a black silk basque of the value of
SlK4,a brown silk suit worth SD10, a black dlk
dress at 8120, an embroidered mantilla. $101); u
purple morning wrapper, costing $'M; four uu
derwulsls, 828; one balmorul skirt, SIS; one pair
French corsets, 812; elevators, gloves, etc., of the
aggregate value of 8751)50. and that although
payment of the account had been demanded,
no satisfactory response has been elicited from
the defendant. Dr. Alexander Mott was called
for the plaintiff, and testified thut he had at
tended the family of Mr. Mayer at their resi
dence on Bloomingdale road, which belongs to
the estate of his father. Dr. Valentine Mott,
d ceased, aud was rented to defendant at about
8:!000 per annum, also at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, and that defendant had ou one occasion
stuted to blm, while residing at tho latter place,
that his (defendant's) expenses were heavy,
amounting to 8o0 per day; that the sister of Mrs.
Mayer formed one of the lumlly.and was intro
duced to blm as the Countess of Berrl; that they
were apparelled in a sumptuous, in fact, ex
travagant manner, and that the defendant
Maver had stated to him that he was wealthy,
that he had about 820U.UO0 in gold invested in
Mexico, and an equal amount in Cngland.
This evidence was introduced with a view to
proving by the social standing and society iu
which the defendant's family moved, that the
articles lurnished were "necessaries."
Charles M. Muyer testified that he was the
defendant in this action, and that at the time
the goods mentioned were ordered his wife had
deserted his home on the Bloomingdale road;
that about the 20th day of March, 18Gt. upon his
returning from his office to his residence, he
found the door locked, aud a note from his wife
stuting that she had "gone;" that he bad always
furnished an abundance ot wearing apparel for
her use; that he had paid one bill of 82000 to
A. T. Stewart for goods purchased by his wife.
Upon cross-examination It was elicited that
his wife had quitted her homo through a do
mestic "spat;" thut he had paid bills of her con
tracting to this pluinliil upon former occasions,
and that about the end of April. 18'JO, a reunion
was effected, and he subsequently lived in tran
quillity with the "partner of his Joys aud sor.
rows."
The Jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff
for the f u 1 lu. m ou n t claim ed. IT. Y. Herald.
ROOFING.
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lliUifcfcaV
OLD SHINGLE KOOF8 (FLAT OH BTEEP) OOVKR
Kli WITH JOHN'S KNOLlSlf HOOFING OLOTIf,
And coated with LIO.U1U UUTTA PKKCI1A
PAINT, making them perfectly waier-proof". LEAKY
OHAVKLilOOFS repaired Willi nulla Perclia Pal lit,
unit warrxnleu for live years. LEAKY SLATE
HOOFM comeit with llqnlil which I women as hard as
slule. TIN, lOI'PF.U, INI', or IKON coated Willi
Lidiild Onttn l'ercha at small expense. Cost ranging
from one to two cents per square loot. Old Hoard or
Miint'le hoofs ten emus per square foot, all complete.
Materials constantly on liaml and tor salt) hv the
PHILADELPHIA. AND PENNSYLVANIA HOOF
ING COMPANY. GEOKGK H GHAUT,
II 2fim No. 2'i" N. FOUK'l'It Street.
I O O F I 1ST O .
oi.i snixtai: nooFN,FiiAT oh stkkp,
IDtl lll l) U ll ll 4t ITTA I'KIM'MA MOOr'-lNi-
l.o I II, nml coaled Willi l.ltl:U aTT l
I'l Itt ll.t l-AI. r, uiuklng theiu perlecily wuier
pruol'. IKAHV ;it AVF.r, ItOOFN repaired with Gutta
Peiolia I'mnt. and warranted lor rive years.
l.F.AKY M. ATI; ISO OF coated with Liquid
China IVrclia Paint, winch hecoiues us hard as slate.
ForTlN,t'OIpIF.K,ieiKCaDd IHON HOOFM
this Paint In the ue, plus ultra of all oilier protection.
It forms a perlectiy Impervious covering, completely
riblHls Ute action of the weather, and coimlitules a
tliorouKli protection against leaks by rust or oiher
wlise, price only Irom one to two cents per square
foot.
TIN Mid 4UIAVF.L ItOOFINO done at the
ShorleKt notice.
Maierial emiRtnnttv on hand snd for Kale by the
MAMMOTH ItOOFINM FOMI'AWY.
Ki;tlil.F.W! .V F.VF.KKTT,
1 21 Cm No. 30 CiUEEiS btreet.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
"And trier the Leellns', wld bnrstln' feeling',
Btudr on theatepps In the pcltln' rain,
And bowd as grand as, and smiled as bland as
If Mickel Eooney wor the King ot Spane."
jLDEMlAN HOONEY
AT THIS .
OABLE BANQUET.
AN IMPROVISED F.FIC BY HIMSELF.
TheAitin' and Dhrinklu' and Spaykln and Toasts
PRICE. 60 CENTS.
Address all cash orders, retail or wholesale, to
T. B. rETERSON k BROTHERS,
INo. 3(H) C31KSNUT Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bond for our Mammoth Descriptive CataloKim.
Books sent postage paid, on receipt of retail price.
ALL NEW BOOKS are at PETERSONS'. 2 7
CARPETINGS.
JUST LANDAU,
ENGLISH CAUPETINGS
VliLYETS,
BRUSSELS,
TAPESTRY, and
INGttAINS.
Also, NEW BTYLE VENETIANS, tor BTA.IKS and
HALLS, -with separate Borders to match, all made ex
pressly for our sales by the best manufacturers, an.
will be sold at lowest cah pilces. li I ftnw3m5p
REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON,
No. 807 C1IESNUT ST.
QEORCE W. HILL,
MANVFAFTFKF.lt ATilt DE.II.EK IN
CAI1PETINQS,
No. 120 NORTH THIRD STKI.F.T,
1 Ins on hand a large assortment of DKSIRABLE
PATTERNS, to which he asks the (mention of buy
ers 2 13 wfrnuiu
HOSIERY, ETC.
J-JOSIERY,
GLOYES,
UNDERWEAR ETC
THE LARGEST VARIETY
AT
JOHN C. ARRISON'S.
Nos. 1 and 3 North SIXTH Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Also invites attention to bis
IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT,
Which has piven such general satisfaction for neat
ness ol fit on the breast, comfort in tho neck, aud
eaBe on the shoulder. Made of the best materials,
by hand. 122uiwto
A PEEFEC1 FIT GUARANTEED.
REMOVAL.
E M OVAL.
To accommodate our continually increasing bust
ness, we hava taken the commodious room,
BECOND STORY, NEW LEDGER BUILDING,
S. W. Corner SIXTH aud CI1KSNUT St.,
(Entrance on Sixth street),
Into which we have removed, where we shall be
jileiuieu to see our many patrons ana trieuas.
J. M. BRADSTREET & SON.
J. B. Bbookk, Superintendent Philadelphia Office.
Philadelphia, February 2, 1867.; 2 2 lia
R E M O V A
E. H. THARP,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
REMOVED TO No. 32 South THIRD Street
COLLECTIONS made on all parts of the Unite
States 2 21m4p
TREER & SEARS REMOVED TO NO. 412
XJ l'KUNF. Htreet.-DKKF.lt fc SEARb, formerly
ol UoIUhiiiIiIi'h Hull, Library street, liave removed to
No. M'i l'KUNE Street, between Fourth and Filtli
Btreets, where tliey will continue their Manufactory
of Gold t 'Indus, Urucelets, etc., in every variety. Also
the sale or line tiolu, silver, aua Copper. Old Gold
ana mnver boiiKUt,
January 1, lo7. 1 193m
THE SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY,
The Fidelity Insurance, Trust and Safe
Depont Company, for tlie Safe
Keeping of Bonds, Stocks, and
Otlier Valuables.
CAPITA-.. 9500,000
DIRECTORS.
N. B. BKOWNB, ifcUWAED W. CLARK,
C'LalOAjSeK H. CLABK, ALH.X ANDfcR HK&KV,
JOHN WELSH, its A. OALDWELL,
J. U1LLLNUHAM FELL. HEBY O ULBbON.
CHABLK.H MACALESrKll.
Office In the H ire proof Building of the Phlladolnhla
National Hank. CHKHMJT Street, above Fourtn.
i nil ouipanv receives on deposit, ana UL'AKiN
icco lax. oai n nnt.riiMj uf VALUABLES UUOU
the iollowing rates a year, viz. :
Coupon Bonas.......... tl per 100
Registered bonds and Securities 5n cents per 10t'0
nuiu luiii ur xuniuu tvib per slumi
Sliver Coin or Bullion 2 tier aluoil
uow or wiver hlato... i oer flu
-?:",""'"""" on noxos or flankers. Brokers,
Capita lists, etc., contents unknown to the Company,
nd liability limited. 26 a year '
Ihe Company oilers for lttCNT (renter exclusively
hold'n 'he key) SAFR8 ljNSIDE It VAULrs.it
"'"T""' ". auu id year, according to size and
location.
Coupons and Interest Col' ec ted for one per cent
Interest allowed on Money Deposits.
1 bis Company Is authorized to receive andexeouta
Trusts of every desorlpuon.
mimwnp S. B BEOWNE, President
lioiiKhT l'ATTKCBON. SecretaT ana Treasurer,
AWNINGS! AWNINGS!
MILDEW-PROOF AWNINGS.
W. F. SHEIIJLE,
No. 49 South THIRD Street-
No. 31 South SIXTH Street,
Manufacturer of MILDEW-PROOF AWN
INGS, VERANDAIIB, FLA OB, BAGS, TENTS,
and WAGON COVERS.
Btencil Cutting una Canvas Printing. 273mrp
SHIPPING.
r'ff FN STEAM TO LlVEltl'OOL-CAIXINQl
sTdirTJ-- t Quei nstown The Innian Linn, aAJlncri
niu.i-w fekly, currying I he Lnlted Htaies Mans. 1
C1TV Or BALI1MOKK Bulurday, Rehrosrv rK
K ANGAROO Wednesdav, KehrvvrSfif
CITY OF WASHINGTON Saturday, rebriwrv;
CITY OrMlWlOKK Hntu.daT, March 2?
CITY OF ANTW Khl Haturda, MarcS 9
and aeh succeeding baturday aud Wednesday, at nooa.1
Irom tier So. 45 Jnorth river.
KA lKo OK PASSAGE
Jiy the mall steamer sailing eerr Saturday I
Vay.ble in bol'i Payable Id Currensv.fi
First Cabin. asfl Steerage ..si ?
To London 95 loLondon
To 1'aru lift' To I'aris in
ranssgs vy me n ennpsanT steamers: - irat car
P0: steernne. tiO. Payable In United Htatea r.nnon
l'assengeis also tornarded to oavre, Hamburg, Bri-
Meersge passage from Liverpool or Qnecnstown.Cr!
enrrcnev Tickets can be liouut here by persons send'
inc lor their n lends.
For lur.ber Inlurmatlon apply at the Comnani
ofllces. .'OI1N O. DALK, vent
8Tg No. Ill WALNUT Street. PUllada.
FOR NEW YORK PHlT ltim
CtSviSfji dcliihla Steam Propeller ( omosny lwi
Muutu rwmsnr i.ine.Tia io, aware and Karitan Can.if
leaving dal y ut 12 M. snd t F, M.. connecting with . '
northern ar.d K.sstern Hues. w "v
or freight, which win be taien npon accouimndatln.
terms, nupiy to
v. iii n Ana. Aveauc.
ifN ,F.9$ liOPTON-STKAMStllP LINK
SaiUMj FKOM KATI FOR T EVERY FIVE I)TR
PltlA, AM) LONG WmAKF, llortf.H
The Hue between Philadelphia and Boston is c
commoted ol the
ROMAN (new) Captain Baker, 14W tnna ''
BA A ON , i aptaln slattliens. liM) tous.
OK.MAN Capiuln . roeli. lvlliston..
lnese substantial ana well-appointed steamships wll,
san punctut ny as aovertised. una freight will be rt-
ceivtd every day, a atcamer being always en the bertlj
to receive carun.
Phtppcis are requested to send bills of lsdlng wltl
theli gouds.
For lreluht or passogo, havlnir superior accommoda
lions, app j to litMtY WINHOR CO ,
,l Ko. 3;0 h. DELAWARE Avenue.
f ffT KOUTU AMKiilCAN STEAMSHir
JJ.I.W.1COMPANY. 1
ii. y v. ... .
i , I' PI I. T t V 1 IKF Tfl niTIVtnvti
VIA MCAKAOl'A. F.YERV TWEV1Y DVYS
From Tier bo. 211 Sortli Elver, foot of Warren street.
4 twitl taiitVk lioilcnmialM o T ipntnh - ji..
HA TEH. Coimeuting ou the Paciflc Ocean with thtl
NOrti' 8 TAYLOK. Canton lilcthen, and
1 tl L'Dll t 'n,liln '!.
Kor furllior mtoTUiatiou, appiy to tue 'orthAmerl4
Vt iLLi AM H. WEBB, President,
.o. 81 Exchange Place. H. Y.
II. N t ARKlAGlOM, Agent.
T No 177 West street corner Warren N V.
i BO HAS R. SKARLE.
So. 817 Waluut street.
'p, EMPIRE LIN E F0K SAVANNAH.
JbJi- Every SaTUUDAY. from i lar No. ia Nnni-
iwver, puueiuuny at o ciock r. at.
i be luroilie Mce-vWiecl Steamships
SAN JACINTO ,l.ovciii(l Commander,
HAN KAlAAIKllt. A tkliut Ci,niuien,li.r
Tli roil I'll tickets and bills ot lading to a. I Ddints. Ir
connection with Ccntiai Rulnoad ot Georgia, Ailunui
and Gull Railroad, ana Florida bteamers. .1
Llegant pussenger accommodations.
GARRISON A AIXE1V.
t No. 5 BOW LING GttEKN. N. V.
H. LEAfr, Agent, Adams' Kxoress,
No. 32U Cbesnut street.
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COil-i
fl'i
itlllOtbU LIE TO CALIFORNIA,
CARRYING L'MTEU SlAl'fe HAIL.
VIV PAKAAIA RAILROAD.
Btenmcrs leave Her No. 42 rth River, foot of Cam
street, at 12 o'clock, roon, as lotlows:
December 31. KtW YoiiK. Capt. w . G. Farber, con'
necting with CONKllTCiK'N. Caul. Caverlv.
January 11 HENRI CUAUNilEY, Capt- A. 0
Gray, connecting with GOLDEN AGE, Capt Lap, due.
January 21 RiMNG .'i.i K, t apt. 1- A. Barns, cou
necting with GOLDE.s CITY. Caut. 1 T. Watklns.
All departures touch at Acapuico ; those of 1st an5
lut connect at Panama with steamers lor boutn Pacini
pons; 1st and 11th lor Central American ports, and
tbosoot 1st touch at Mauzanl.lo.
Departure oi 11th each muu'.h connects with the nei
steam line irom Panama to a ustruil and New Zealand!
btermer ot March 11. lfbT. wi.l connect with tie Com
pany's steamer Colorano, to leave Man Francisco lor
Yohobama and Bong-Kong on April 8, 1SK7
one tumuied pounds ol baggage allowed each adult.
Medicines aud attendance tree.
For passage tickets and all lurther Iniormatlon, apply
at tue oir.ee on tlie wbart, toot oi uanui street, Aorte
River, cw York.
N o 320 Chesnut street,
t F. R. BAB1 , Aireut.
II. LEAF. Agent, darns' express,
KiMPIKK STF.AMSHI" I IN F Knu
nmiinu lrum euch port every Baluiday. from second
wbarl above vine street, 1'hUudelpliia, and Providence
and Boston lUilioad v bail rroviaeuce, it l.
The hue is composed ot the nrst-cla.s steamships
HUNTER. M. L. Rogers commander.
CllAbE.J. A. crosaiuancouiuianuer.
These superior and won euuippei. steamships sal
regularly us adverth-ed. Freight will be received daily,
a siesninhln being alwavs on ibe berth to receive cargj.
Freight lor Boston. Ala?s. and all intermediate
points on the Boston aud Providence or Worcester
Kaiiroaos. win ue receiveu. auu u e koous ueiivereuu:
less time and at lower rates than by any other route.
Bins of lading lurnisneu at tue ouico.
N o bins ot lading sinned alter the ship has sailed.
For lurther Iniormatlon. nppiy to
LA111BCRY, Vt 1CK.LV.SH AM & CO.. Agent",
t No. UB North W riarvel.
Henry Cleaveland. Esq., Agent at Providence, K L
PFFt NATIONAL STEAM NAVIGATION
Siilateii COMPANY (Limited).
Mieamurs weekly to Liverpool, calling at QuceDStomr
The splendid lirst cUss Iron etteaenshtp
LOl lolAiSA. captain Harrington.
PENNSYLVANIA. Captain Lewis.
EltlS. Cnptuin Cutting
TUE QUEEN. Captaiu Gregan.
DENMARK, Captain Thomson.
An experienced Surgeon on each ship free oi charge,
xiralts Issued lor any amount, payable at any baukiu
Gnat Britain or on the continent.
KATES OF PAHflAOE, fAXAULB IN CUBBKNCV.t
Cuolu eteerigt
To Liverpool or Queenstown.... Sluu
T trough passuge to Paris Antwerp. Hamburg, Ire
men, London, eto at low rates
k. ..... u .. u nnuiiM. a titkat. t., liplnir nArsons from LIW-
poul or ouernstown lor U5 in currency can be obulned.
at 0 11 BROADWAY. J
For lrelgbt or cabin passage, apply at the Office sltne
Company. No. 57 bROADWAY. For steerage tKlt.i
at the Passsge Ofllce ot the oroparjy, No 'tl BK0AD
WAY.or THOMaS R. eIEaKLIS,
S0.K17 Wa nut street.
f F. W. J. HCBST. Alansffir 1
f-frft. OM.Y DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.
SiJUiliTHE GENERAL I B AN tt ATLANTIC COM
"Tni'." MAIL STEAMsUlPa BETWtES iiW
V , . 1 W A 1)7 Ik HaVKK. I1AI.I.TM1 AT kUHMT
The splendid new vessels ot this favorite route fol tot
n ............... Ill uull fr,.,.. kU' '.. KM U.tK lM,r.P ff
OUIIIIUCIII lai ... ,.uu . w, ,VIIU J.i.w.
PEREIhE, Duchesne.
V1LLE DE PARIS, b turnout
EL'iiOl'E. Lemaue.
KT. i,ACRENT, Brcandl.
PRir-Ea OF PASSAGE, IN GOLD.
First Cabin, altjo ; second Cabin . li 0 Inc.ud'nK wine
'1 hese steamers do not earn stoerage pasaeugers.
V, ...1 I HltUOllltlWA t.A. ... -.1.......
1'aasengers Intendlua to laud at Brest can be furnlilitd
on board with tallroau coupou-iic&ets, anu their bsgb'We
oiici neu io rans, at an auuitional charge oi u ii
auu d ior secouu eiajs.
t OKuKGK MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 68 Broajwsr
Vt IT? U-iti-m irri vr-uPDRT
J-ij AVIll Pill uivi-n
J Ho l.o.iin and Nmi niin iin hv tha aniendid Mil
superior steameis NEWPeRT. MlROPoLlS, 0U
iuwji.im f. sir IKE state, 01 great suengm w
speed, ci'L-tructed express.; for the navigation ol Ui
Island bound, running lu connection with tue Oin
Colony and Newport Ral'road.
Leave pier No. 24. North Klver, foot of Murw
stieeL
'Die steamer VFWW1PT ntln Brown. lesTM
Moniisy, Weduoscay, and Friday, at P. M., landlng
Newport.
Thestoamer OLD COLONY. Captain Simmons, lesye
Tuesuay, 'ihursday, and eaiurday, at 4 P. m., landlti
at Newpoit.
Ihesesieamers are fitted up with commodious ststs
roouis. waier tiuht i-iiiiinurtiiieuis. and every airauKS-
meut lor the security aud comnTt of passengers wno
are allorded by this rou e a uight's rest ou board aad oa
arrival at Newport proeeeu per rauroau agaiu, reauuius
Itoslnn u.rlv i.n tliA l.illnwllli InorUllltf.
A baggage master Is attached to each steamer, Who
receives aud Nenets tne oagguge, wu .iwiuk."
same to its destination , ... ,K. K..
Asteanerruus in connection with this line between
Newport and Providence dai.y. Sundays excepted
Freight io Boston Is talteu at the same rules as by any
other regular line, and lorwardea wltu the greutestex
peuitlon by an expiess iralp. which leaves .Newport
every merulDg (bundajs excepted!, at 7 o'clock, lor
Boston and new Beoiord. arriving at its destination
bFor iVehiiifor passage apply on board, or at ths Office,
on Pier No UH Nonh River. For state rooms aud berths
apply on board, or, if It is de. rab e to secure them in
advance, apply to E. Lll ILEI 1ELD, Agent,
advance, apy j Ko n bu0AUWAY ewByort.
TO SHIP CAPTAINS ATjnntxnuCT'tJ.
The auderslgned havina lnjuaA ih kh.ii.
Wins HL'gKW DOCK. bCKt tn li,.n. .i. tvi,
auu ths patrons of the Dock that he Is prepared wlih
...mused lacllltles to aocominodato tlm. vuiu
... . a talsed or repaired, aud belnur a n, n, ..... .imiuam
prnier aud caulker, will give parsoual atteutlou to (lit
vessels entrusted to him lor repairs.
Caotalns or Agents. Khln-Carnnteri. and V.iihlnlstJ
ksvlng vessels to repair, aie solicited to oall.
Mavlug the agency for the aale of "Weit.rsteilt
Patent Metaiio l omooslthin" mr ( nnr n.it.t iur tlie
preservation of vessels' boltoois, for this oi.y, J am pre
pared to l Ornish the same ou favorable terms.
JGUN U UAMMITT,
. i. - Keuslngiou Screw Dock,
1 1 j DELAWARE Avenue above Laurel street.
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