MR8. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
Continued from our last Issue.
THE TWENTY-SE V OND LECTURE.
CAUM.K COMKH 1IOMK IN THE EVENING AS MRS.
CAUDLK HAS "JUST BTE1TEI) OUT BIIOITIKO"
ON HEK RKTtTRN AT TKN, CAUDLK REMONSTRATKH.
'iou ought to have had a slave, yes,
?,j , k slaVf nml 1,ot a wite- rm 8Ure
1 d better been born a negro at onoe
limch bettor. What's the matter now ?
Well, I like that. Upon my life, Mr. Caudle,
that's very cool. I can't leave tho house just
to buy a yard of ribbon, but you storm
enouoh to rn rrir ilwi rrf i.lT Vw , ......
J you only spoke ? Spoke, indeed 1 No, sir ;
f I've Hot, Hllcll Hllnorlmu ("...ilinrru nnA I lri'
cry out before I'm hurt. Jtut you ought to
have married a woman of stone, for you feel
for hobody: that is, for nobody in your own
house. I only wish you'd show some of your
humanity at home, if ever so little that's all.
"What do you say f Where's my feelings,
to go a-slmpping at night f When would you
have me go ? In the broiling sun, making my
face like a gipsy's. I don't see anything to
laugh at, Mr. dandle; but you think of any
body's lace- before your wife's. Oh that's
plain enough, and all tho world can see it. I
dare say, now, if it was Miss Prettyman's face
now, now, Mr. Caudle 1 What are you
throwing yourself about for? I suppose
Miss Prettyman isn't so wonderful a person
that she isn't to be named 1 I suppose she's
flesh and blood. What r You don't know t
Ha 1 I don't know that.
"What, Mr. Caudle ? You'll have, a separate
room you'll not be tormented in this manner ?
No, you won't, sir not while I'm alive. A
separate room I And you call yourself a
religious man, Mr. ('audio. I'd advise you to
take down the Prayer Book, and read over the
Marriage Service. A senarate room, indeed !
J Caudle, you're getting quite a heathen. A
separate room ! Well, the servants would
talk then 1 liut no : no man not the best
that ever trod, Caudle should ever make me
J "I Bha'n't go to sleep; and you ought to
V know me better than to ask me to hold my
tongue. Because you come home when I've
just stepped out to do a little shopping, you're
worse than a Fury. I should like to know how
many hours I sit up for you 1 What do you
eay t ' Nobody wants me to sit up ? Ha ! that's
like the gratitude of men just like 'em 1
But a poor woman can't leave the house, that
what 1 Why can't I qo at reasonable hours ?
Reasonable 1 What do you call eight o'clock 1
If I went out at eleven and twelve, as you
came home, then you might talk; but seven
or eiglit o'clock why it's the cool ol the
evening; the nicest time to enjoy a walk, and,
as I say, do a little bit of shopping. Oh, yes,
Mr. Caudle, I do think of the people thpt are
lcept in the shops just as much as you; but
that's nothing at all to do with it. I know
What you'd have. You'd have all those young
men let away from the counter to improve
what you please to call their minds. Pretty
notions you pick up among a set of free
thinkers, and I don't know what 1 When I
was a girl, people never talked of minds intel
lect, I believe you call it. Nonsense ! a new
fangled thing, just come up; and the sooner it
goes out the better.
"Don't tell me I What are shops for, if
they've not to be open late and early too f
And what are shopmen, if they've not always
to attend upon their customers 1 People pay
for what they have, I suppose; and ar'n't to
be told when they shall come and lay their
money out, and when they sha'n't 1 Thank
goodness ! if one shop shuts, another keeps
open; and I always think it a duty I owe to
myself to go to the shop that's open last; it's
the only way to punish the shopkeepers that
are idle, and give themselves airs about early
tours.
"Besides, there's some things I like to buy
best at candle-light. Oh, don't talk to me
about humanity 1 Humanity, indeed, for a
pack of tall, strapping young fellows some
of 'em big enough to be shown for giants t
And what have they to do I Why, nothing
but to stand behind a counter, and talk
civility. Yes, I know your notions; you say
everybody works too much: I know that.
You'd have all the world do nothing half its
f time but twiddle its thumbs, or walk in the
parks, or go to pioture-gauerios anu museums,
and such nonsense. Very fine, indeed; but,
thank goodness 1 the world isn't come to that
pass yet.
"What do you say I am, Mr. Caudle? A
foolish woman, that can't look beyond my own
fireside? Oh, yes, I can; quite as far as you,
and a great deal farther. But I can't go out
chopping a little with my dear friend, Mrs.
Wittles what do you laugh at ? Oh, don't
they? Don't women know what friendship is !
Upon my life you've a nice opinion of us I Oh,
yes, wo can we can look outside of our own
fenders. Mr. Caudle. And if we can't, it's all
y the better for our families. A blessed thing
I it would be for their wives and children if
I men couldn't, either. You wouldn't have
- 1 . 11 i J 1 1T.1 - - .. 1
lent Mini uve pouuus ami i uare say n goou
many other live pounds that I know nothing
of it you a lord of the creation ! had half
the sense women have. You seldom catch us,
I believe, lending five nounda. I should
think not.
"No: we won't talk of it to-morrow moru
Ing. You're not going to wound my feelings
when I come home, and think I'm to say
nothing about it. i ou have called me an m
human person ; you have said that I have no
thought, no feeling for the health and comfort
of my fellow-creatures ; I don't know what
you haven't called me ; and only for buying a
but I shan't tell you what; no, I won't
satisfy you there hut you've abused me in
this manner, and only for shopping up to 10
o'clock, lou've a great deal or fine compas
sion, you have ! I'm sure the young man
that served me could have knocked down an
ox ; yes, strong enough to lift a house : but
you can pity him oh yes, you can be all
kindness for him, and for the world, as you
call it. O Caudle, what a hypocrite you are !
I I only wish the world knew how you treated
your poor wife I
What do you say T For the love of mercu
let you sleep f Mercy, indeed 1 I wish you
could show a little of it to other people. Oh,
yes. I do know what mercy means : but that's
no reason I should go shopping a bit earlier
than I do and I won't. No ; you've preached
this over to me again and again ; you've made
me eo to meetings to hear all about it : but
that's no reason women shouldn't shop as late
as they choose. It s all very fine, as X say,
for you men to talk to us at meetings, where,
of course, we smile and all that and some
times shake our pocket-handkerchiefs and
where you say we have the power of early
hours in our own hands. To be sure we have;
and we mean to keep it. That is, I do. You'll
never catch me shopping till the very last
thing ; and as a matter of principle I'll
always go to the shop that keeps open latest.
It does the young men good to kep 'em close
to business. Improve their Minds, indeed 1
Let 'em out at 7, and they'd impjrovo nothing
but their billiards. Besides, If
Improve themselves, can't they
they want to
get up, this
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. rniLADELrPIIIA, WEDNESDAY,
fine weather, at 3? Where there's a will
there's a way, Mr. Candle."
"I thought," writes Caudle, "that she had
gone to sleep. In this hope, I was do.ing oir
when she jogged me, and thus declared her
self: 'Caudle, you want nightcaps ; but seo
if I budge to buy 'em till 9 at night !"
THE TWENTY-THlRh LECTURE.
MRS. CAUM.K "WISIIF.S TO KNOW II' TIIHY'KK
I01N(I TO THE HEASIMK, OR NOT, THIS HUMIMKU
THAT'S ALL."
"Hot ? yes, it is hot. I'm sure one might as
well be in an oven as in town this weather.
You seem to forget it's July, Mr. Candle. I've
been waiting quietly have never spoken; yet
not a word have you said of the seaside yet.
Not that I care for it myself oh, no; my
health isn't of the slightest consequence.
And, indeed, I was going to say but 1 won't
that the sooner, perhaps, I'm out of this
world the better. Oh, yes; I dare say you
think so of course you do, else you wouldn't
lie there saying nothing. You're enough to
aggravate a saint, Caudle; but you shan't vex
me. No; I've made up my mind, and never
intend to let you vex me again. Why should
I worry myself?
"But all I want to ask you is this: Do you
intend, to go to the seaside this summer ?
Yes? You'll go to Gravesend? Then you'll
go alone, that's all I know, (iravesendl
You might as well empty a salt-cellar in the
New River, and call that the seaside. What ?
It's handy to business ? There you are again !
I can never speak of taking a little enjoyment
but you iling business in my teeth. I'm sure
you never let business stand in tho way of
your own pleasure, Mr. Caudle not you. It
would be all the better for your family if
you did.
"You know that Matilda wants sea-bathing;
you know it, or you ought to know it, by the
looks of the child; and yet I know you,
Caudle you'd have let the summer pass over
and never said a word about the matter.
What do you say 1 Margate's so expensive ?
Not at all. I'm sure it wiil be cheaper for us
in the end; for if we don't go we shall be all
ill every one of us in the winter. Not that
my health is of any consequence; I know that,
well enough. It never was, yet. You know
Margate's the only place I can eat a breakfast
at, and yet you talk of (Jravesend 1 But what's
my eating to you ? You wouldn't care if I
never eat at all. You never watch my appe
tite .like any other husband; otherwise, you'd
have seen what it's come to.
"What do you say ? How much will it cost?
There you are, Mr. Caudle, with your mean
ness again. When you want to go yourself
to Blackwell or to Greenwich, you never ask
how much will it cost ? What ? 1 oh never io
to Bhu k well 1 Ha ! I don't know that ; and
if you don't, that's nothing at all to do with
it. Yes, you can give a guinea a plate for
whitebait for yourself. No, sir ; I'm not a
foolish woman : and I know very well what
I'm talking about nobody better. A
guinea a plate for whitebait for yourself, when
you grudge a pint of shrimp for your poor
family. Kh ? You don't grudge 'em anything?
Yes, it's very well for you to lie there and say
so. What will it cost ? It's no matter what it
will cost, for we won't go at all now. No ;
we'll stay at home. We shall all be ill in the
winter every one of us, all but you; and
nothing ever makes you ill. I've no doubt
we shall all be laid up, and there'll be a doc
tor's bill as long as a railroad; but never
mind that. It's better much better to pay
for nasty physio than for fresh air and whole
some salt water. Don't call me 'woman,' and
ask, 'what it will cost.' I tell you, if you
were to lay the money down before me, on
that quilt, I wouldn't go now certainly not.
It's better we should be sick ; yes, then you'll
be pleased.
"That's right, Mr. Candle; go to sleep. It's
like your unfeeling self ! I'm talking of our
all being laid up; and you, like any stone,
turn round and begin to go to sleep. Well, I
think that's a pretty insult 1 How can you
sleep tvith such a sjiliuter in your ftesh ? I sup
pose you mean to call me the splinter ? and
after the wife I've been to you 1 But no, Mr.
Caudle, you may call me what you please;
you'll not make me cry now. No, no; I don't
throw away my tears upon any such person
now. What I Don't ? 11a ! that your ingrati
tude 1 But none of you men deserve that any
woman should love you. My poor heart !
"Everybody else can go out of town except
us. iia! it i d only married hiinmoiw
What! Why didn't J? Yes, that's all the
thanks I get. Whit's Simmons? Oh, you
know very well who Simmons is. He'd have
treated me a little better, I think. He was a
gentleman. You can't tell ? May be not: but
1 can. With such weather as this, to stav
melting in London; and when the painters are
coming in 1 iou won t have, the painters in?
But you must; and if they once come in, I'm
determined that none of us shall stir then.
Painting in July, with a family in the house !
We shall all be poisoned, ol course; but what
do you care for that ?
" hi can't I tell you what it una cost? How
can I or any woman tell exactly what it will
cost? Of course lodgings and at Margate,
too are a little dearer than living at your
own house. Pooh! You k now that ? Well, if
you did, Mr. Caudle, I suppose there's no
reason in naming it. Still, if you take 'em
for two months, they're cheaper than for one.
XNO, Air. caudle, I shall not be quite tired ot it
in one month. No: and it isn't true that I no
sooner get out than I want to get homo again.
To be sure, I was tired of Margate three years
ago, when you used to leave me to walk about
the beach by myself, to be stared at through
an sorts ot telescopes. But you don't do that
again, Mr. Caudle, I can tell you.
"What will I do at Manate? Why, isn't
there bathing, and Tiickin.' nn shells, and
ar'n't there the packets, with the donkeys;
and the last new novel, whatever it is. to
read ? for the only place where I really relish
a bcok is at the seaside. No: it isn't that I
like salt with my reading, Mr. Caudle! I
suppose you call that a joke? You might
keep your jokes for the daytime, I think.
jut as i was saying only vou alwavs will
interrupt me the ocean always seems to me
A 1 . - ' 1 T . . '.
iu i.cji mo muni, i see nothing to laugh at;
but you always laugh when I say anything.
Sometimes at the seaside specially when the
tide's down I feel so happy: quite as if I
could cry.
"When shall I get the things ready? For
next Sunday? What will it cost? I shall
send for the painters to-morrow. What ?
can go and take the children, and you'll stay ?
No, sir: you go with me, or I don't stir. I'm
not going to be turned loose like a hen with
her chickens, and nobody to protect me. So
we'll go on Monday ? Kh ?
' What will it cost ? What a man you are !
Why, Caudle, I've been reckoning that, with
bull slippers and all, we can't well do it under
seventy pounds. No: I won't take away the
slippers, and say fifty: it's seventy pounds
and no less. Of course, what's over will be
so much saved. Caudle, what a man you are !
Well, shall we go on Monday f What do you
say? You'll see? There's a dear. Then,
Monday."
"Anything for a chance of peace," writes
Caudle. "I consented to the trip, for I
thought 1 might sleep better in a change of
bed."
Mrs. Cmallc's Curtain Lecture will be continued
flail, in 2'he Evening Telegraph, V.MU com
pieud.l DIAMONDS.
Wo yesterday gave an extensive description
of diamonds, their uses, value, etc., and below
we now add a
List of the Prlnrlpnl Diamonds and Pla
inuud.Uwntfi 1 u Aew York.
of
course, in the compass of a newspaper
artiile.it would be utterly impossible to in
elude even the names of all the parties who
possess diamonds within tho vast area of the
great city of New York. But enough personal
data can he given under this head to enable
the leader to form at least an approximate
idea of the general diffusion of diamonds
among all classes of our citizens:
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has a single stone said
to bo the largest in the country valued at
lj;S0,(K0. This is set with two other large
stones. The lady possesses a magnificent dia
mond necklace, and other jewelry, valued at
over 1,XK.
Mis. liiston, of Thirty-fourth street, a cele
brated fashionable belle, possesses some very
handsome costly jewelry diamonds, emeralds,
and other precious stones. Shu has a solitaire,
one ot the handsomest in New York, esti
mated at fctilHMi. The whole assortment is
valued at Jjr.U.OOO. .
.lacob Vandorpool, Fifth avenue, wears a
solitaire pin worth ijo(KM).
Mrs. Stuyvesant, daughter of Henry K.
Pierrcpont, wears an elegant diamond set,
worth Sr3l,0( (.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, of the Howard Hotel,
wear !fl.r),0(i(l worth of superior stones, includ
ing some line solitaires.
Mrs. George llenriques has some fine dia
monds. She formerly owned a single stone
valued at $20,000, which has passed, we
believe, into the hands of Bishop & Khein.
The Hendricks family have some costly
jewels, valued at $l.r,0()().
Mrs. Chadwick, of Fourteenth street and
University place, now, wo believe, in Kurope,
possesses diamonds estimated at $10,00(1.
Mrs. Poznauski, of Thirtieth street, has a
set of cluster diamonds, worth about $5000.
Mr. (ieorge Osgood, Commodore Vander
bilt's son-in-law, wears a single stone valued
at 5000.
Mrs. llelmbold, wife of the druggist, has
some line solitaire diamonds. Also, a line
necklace, of beautiful workmanship, valued
at $10,000.
Mrs. .larvis has a black diamond, very rare
and valuable, in a ring surmounted by other
diamonds; also, a rare cameo pin valued at
$3500.
Miss Thome, of Sixteenth street, now Mrs.
Fox, has a solitaire diamond worth sJijOUO, and
other elegant gems.
Madame Barreda, wife of the Peruvian
Minister to Madrid, who has a villa at New
port, and formerly a town-house on the
Avenue, has superb diamonds, valued at
upwards of $50,000, including some magnifi
cent necklaces and earrings.
Mrs. Zynaga del Valle, her sister, wife of a
rich merchant, also possesses some very valu
able diamond earrings, etc. valued at
$10,000.
The family of Mr. Udolpho Wolf'o, and his
connections, also figure extensively in dia
monds. Mr. Wolfe wears a splendid solitaire
pin and ring worth $3000 each and the ladies
of his family connections have very elegant
single stone earrings and other diamond
jewelry worth $30,000.
The Livingston family possess many superb
diamonds estimated, in all their branches, at
$50,000.
Charley White, the minstrel, has a single
diamond pin, formerly owned bv James
Weaver, Sr., of Brooklyn, valued at $3:100.
Mrs. .lames Gordon Bennett has a very fine
assortment ot diamonds, jewelry, necklaces,
and the like; many, we believe, purchased
abroad, and the whole estimated at from
$75,000 to $100,000.
Mrs. August Belmont, among other valuable
jewels, has a rare cameo pin, estimated at
$-1000, and $2.t, 000 worth ot diamonds.
the Schermerhorn families, ol Twenty-third
street and of the Avenue, have valuable dia
monds, estimated at over $50,000.
Mrs. Groesbeck has an assortment ot dia
mond jewelry, valued at $5000.
Join Merrit, the well-known sport, wears a
single stone, solitaire, one of the finest in New
York, worth over $4000.
Mrs. F. B. Spinola, ot Livingston place, has
diamonds valued at $10,0(10.
Mrs. .1. T. Loyd wears diamonds estimated
at from $10,000 to $15,000.
Mrs. Uarbeck, of tilth avenue, has magnifi
cent diamonds valued at $50,000.
Mrs. Charles Leland, among other jewelry,
possesses single stones and clusters to the
amount of 5000.
Mrs. Morgan possesses a largo and reinark
bly varied and full selected assortment of dia
monds, embracing a superb diamond head
dress; the diamonds are valued at $50,000.
Mrs. Pike, wife of Mr. Pike, of Pike's Opera
House celebrity, who is now a resident of New
York, has a diamond necklace valued at
$18.00(1; also, about $40,01 Hi worth of jewelry.
The late E. P. Christy possessed some costly
diamond pins and rings, valued at $.,000,
which are now in litigation.
Mrs. William Wheatley possesses a valuable
diamond breastpin, worth $4000, and several
line diamond lings.
Ada Isaacs Menken Heenan lately, in New
York, exhibited about $10,000 worth of
jewelry.
Miss Madeline llenriques has some neat dia
mond rings, valued at more than $1500.
Miss Sallie Hinckley, now in New York, lias
some diamond rings, and, we believe, a tine
sotitaire. Her jewelry has been estimated at
$4000.
M'mo Ristori has diamonds to the amount
of $25,000, embracir. a tiara worth $10,000,
Kdwin Booth is , lid to possess diamond
pins and rings to tht value of $10,000.
The well-known Theodore Allen is said to
have diamonds to the amount of $10,000.
Mackay, the sport, also claims some hand
some diamonds, valued at $3000.
Jerome B. Fellows sometimes wears as high
as $10,000 or $15,000 worth of diamonds.
Galletti has some fine diamonds, variously
estimated at from $3000 to $4000.
Miss Kellogg, the prima donna, has a miscel
laneous collection of diamonds, many of them,
we believe, presents from her admirers, valued
at 15,0( 0.
Mrs. Gosling, formerly the artiste Sophia La
Grange, possesses some fine diamonds, rings,
etc., valued at $3500.
Dr. Zacharie owns about $10,000 worth of
diamonds.
Madame Restell possesses some magnificent,
diamonds; among other jewelry, a brooch
worth $15,000.
Josephine Wood, of demi-monde notoriety,
in Eighth street, wears diamond earrings
worth $5000. She possesses diamond jewelry
worth from $10,000 to $15,000.
Noil Bryant, of Bryant's Minstrels, wears a
cluster pin worth $2000, and a cluster ring,
worth $1500.
Charles Itansom, sporting man of Twenty
filth street, wears a solitaire pin, worth $3000.
Mrs. Co.zens, of Neilson place, linn diamonds
valued at $5000; her husband possesses a set
ol jewelry estimated at $10,00(1.
Mrs. Livingston, of Marion street, has jewels
valued at $5000.
Sallie Andrews, of Twenty-fifth street, per
haps the most beautiful woman of the demi
monde, lias a fine stock of diamonds, worth
$10,000.
Mrs. Stanley, author of the "Seven Sisters,"
has diamonds valued at $10,000; ihe possesses
a choice assortment of precious stones.
Mrs. Bell, of Crosby street, is said to possess
diamonds to the value of $10,000 or $15,000.
It is hinted, however, that many of her gems
are only imitations.
Irene Macrcndy, of Fourteenth street, has
diamonds to tho amount of $15,000; though
she is said to be somewhat averse to their dis
play. Mrs. ex-Mayor Gunther has a variety of
choice diamond rings and jewelry. Her as
sortment is valued at $25,000.
Mrs. Edward King and Mrs. Charles King,
of Fifth avenue, possess ea h a miscellaneous
assortment of jewelry, estimated at, for the
two, at least $50,000.
Mrs. Cumuiiiigs, of Fifth avenue, possesses
a line collection of diamonds, worth $25,000.
Mrs. Hammond, residing atone of our Broad
way hotels, has a miscellaneous assortment of
diamonds, diamond crosses, breastpins, etc.,
valued at $0000.
Mrs. Jcrson, daughter of Mr. Meyer, mourning-goods
importer, has a miscellaneous as
sortment of diamonds, worth $50110.
Mrs. James E. McCormick, wife of the well
known Broadway coal dealer, has a solitaire
diamond in a ring, valued at $3000 a fine
stone.
Mrs. Sarah Bradley, of West Forty-fifth
street, has about $5000 worth of diamonds.
Royal Phelps, one of our well-known citi
zens, has an assortment of miscellaneous dia
monds, old and rare, valued at $25,000.
The Barber family, of Irving place, have
rare sets and brooches of diamonds, valued at
$25,000.
Mrs. Moncure, at the New York Hotel, a
wealthy and fashionable Southern widow,
posssesses a very fine assortment of dia
monds breastpins, necklaces, and solitaire
drops and ring valued at $100,000 in gold.
Mr. John Duff, of the Olympic, has pre
sented to the ladies of his family sets of dia
mond jewelry valued at over $10,000.
Mrs. John Wood, the New York favorite, is
the possessor of a stock of diamond jewelry
estimated at $20,000 comprising a miscella
neous assortment, and a single ring worth
$5(100.
Mr. Knapp, of the Olympic Theatre, owns
an assortment of small but very pure dia
monds, valued at $2000. j
John Nathan, the retired circus performer,
owns a single-stone diamond pin valued at
$3000, and a cluster pin estimated at $1000.
Silas T. Herring has a single stone valued
at $3000.
Mrs. Henry Phalon, wife of the well-known
perfumer, has about $2500 worth of diamonds.
The Jacobson family, of Eighth street, of
operatic notoriety, possess in their various
branches over $50,000 worth of diamonds,
many of them rare, and obtained in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Florence, the well-known
artists, have a line collection of jewels and
diamonds, rings, etc., valued at over $10,000.
The Hon. Ben Wood owns some fine dia
monds, in pins, studs, some solitaires, and
some clusters, lie is also said to possess other
lino gems, valued altogether at over $10,000.
Mrs. Leonard Jerome possesses a choice
assortment of diamonds, worth $30,000, said
to have been presented to her by her husband
on last New Year's day.
Mr. August Belmont wears occasionally a
very brilliant diamond pin.
Mrs. Paran Stevens has a large and choice
selection of diamonds, estimated as exceed
ing $15,000.
Mr. John Anderson, the retired tobacconist
and active philanthropist, has a choice assort
ment of diamonds.
George Law's daughters Mrs. Alex. Tay
lor and Mrs. Colonel May have a large and
choice assortment of diamonds, estimated at a
high figure.
Mrs. Morgan, of the Avenue, has a very
rare ana varied collection ot diamonds, em
bracing head-dresses and the like, displaying
great taste.
Madame de Trobriand and her accomplished
daughter possess a l-'.ne collection of miscella
neous diamonds, with some rare gems, valued
at $20,000.
The Van Buren family, of Fourteenth street,
have a collection of miscellaneous diamonds,
valued at $15,000.
A member of the well-known Uarbeck
family, on Fifth avenue, wore a necklace on
the night of the Russian Ball valued at $30,000.
This necklace is still in the possession f the
family.
Tht Lorillard family possess a miscella
neous assortment of diamonds, valued at
$5O,0(!0.
The Aspinwall family possess, it is esti
mated, about $50,000 worth of miscellaneous
diamonds.
Mrs. David Reed wears some fine diamonds,
estimated at $5000.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, possesses an
immense solitaire diamond-ring, worn, we be
lieve, in "Richelieu," and other parts. The
great tragedian possesses some $10,000 worth
of diamonds.
Ey tinge, the sporting Chesterfield, wears a
fine solitaire worth $500.
Mrs. Dan Bryant has some fine diamonds,
estimated at $7000.
Mrs. Lester Wallack has miscellaneous
diamonds valued at $0000.
Miss Bonfanti, of Llatk Crook celebrity, had
her diamonds stolen recently. It is a singular
fact that the thief had been already arrested
on another charge of theft. Miss Bonfanti's
counsel, Henry II. Morange, succeeded in get
tin" the perpetrator to confess whe,re the dia
monds were, and obtained them. The dia
monds were presented to her in London, and
are valued at $1500. Those who were in the
secret knew what so much depressed the
spirits of the lovely dancer, and with how
much moie elan she performed after she re
ceived thm from the hands of her counsel.
Mrs. Mygatt, of No. 27 Washington square,
niece of Chief Justice Robertson, has a collec
tion of diamonds which belonged to her grand
father, who painted the miniatures from life
of General Washington. This lady's collec
tion of diamonds is estimated at $15,000 in
go1-1-
Mrs. Ilallroth, of Twentieth street, possesses
diamonds valued at $10,000.
Miss Emerson, at the Brevoort House, the
daughter of the original owner of Died Scott,
possesses a fine assortment of diamonds,
valued at $10,000.
Signor Tamaro, now in New York, has two
diamond studs, valued at $1000.
Mrs. O'Conner, one of the Livingston family,
possesses a rare assortment or diamonds.
Among this collection is embraced a diamond
relio of European historic celebrity, and many
other gems.
, Mrs. Samuel Ward, a celebrity, has some
magnificent jewels, sapphires, and other pre
cious stones, estimated at $10,000.
MAJICH 20, 18GT.
Commodore Vanderbilt's daughter, Mrs. II.
F. Clark, has miscellaneous diamonds valued
nt $20,000; and Mrs. Cross' (her sister) assort
ment, is valued at $10,000.
Mrs. Heals, formerly of Twenty-third street,
possesses over $10,000 worth of diamonds.
Mr. Louis Phillips, the furrier, possesses
single stones and clusters to the amount of
$15,000.
Mr. Barney Williams has a handsome soli
taire ring, of peculiar design, worth $2500.
Mrs. John Morrissey is said to possess a
large collection of fine diamond rings, esti
mated at $5,000.
(ieorge Wilkes, Esq., owns a very fine stone
and ring, said to be worth $4000.
lion. John Morrissey has a solitaire variously
estimated at from $4000 to $10,000. This stone
lias a Haw in it. It is a very noticeable stone.
It was procured at Richmond.
Mr. Job Laurens, of St. Louis and of New
York, has many costly single stones, pins,
studs, and rings, valued at $:H),000.
The late M'me Jumel possessed some fine
iewels of historical celebrity; these gems pass,
we presume, into the possession of her heirs
or heir.
Mr. Simeon Leland, of the Metropolitan
Hotel, is the owner of a large solitaire dia
mond, one of the best single stones of its size
in New York, valued at $4000.
Mrs. Simeon Leland has a solitaire ring,
also a cluster of three and a cluster of five
stones very valuable; also, a pin and ear
rings, estimated altogether at $10,000. Miss
Leland has also recently had some fine dia
monds, valued nt $150(1, presented to her.
Commodore Vanderbilt carries a diamond
pin, brilliant in lustre, variously estimated at
from $3000 to $0000.
Mr. Samuel Sharpley, the minstrel, wears a
single diamond valued at $2000, and a cluster
diamond estimated nt $1000.
Mr. Richard W. Trundy has a single stone
pin worth $3500.
Mr. Edward White has a single stone pin of
the first water, and a set of sleeve buttons,
valued at $4000.
Mrs. T. Gilsey, of Harlem, has a very pecu
liar diamond pin, set in the form of a star
shaped cross, somewhat similar to the shape
of the badges worn by the firemen, estimated
in value at $0000.
Mr. Gilsey himself wears a very showy,
large, but fiat diamond, more dazzling than
valuable.
Mrs. John M. Davis, of Forty-seventh street,
has a fine assortment of solitaires, earrings,
pins, bracelets one of the best general collec
tions in the city, estimated at $18,000.
Mrs. lloey's collection of diamonds and pre
cious stones is remarkably line valued at
$15,000.
Mrs. Barney Williams has a fine diamond
pin, worth $5000 a present, we believe, from
the people of Dublin.
Leonard G rover, of theatrical notoriety, has
a live-carat diamond ring, valued at $3000.
Miss Carrie Bullock, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, possesses a diamond over a century old.
Also a set of diamonds presented to her by Mr.
Cbilds, of Philadelphia. ' This lady's assort
ment is valued at $10,000.
Mrs. Van Auken, corner of Thirty-eighth
street and Fifth avenue, a daughter of C. K.
Garrison, formerly Mayor of San Francisco,
has a collection of diamonds valued at $10,000.
Mrs. Mortimer. Fifth avenue and Twenty-
ninth street, has a miscellaneous collection of
diamonds, valued at $15,000.
Mrs. Herman, wife of the diamond broker,
sometimes wears diamond pins, bracelets, etc.,
to the amount of $8000 and upwards.
Mrs. David Sampson, wife of the well-
known liquor dealer, has an assortment of
large and valuable solitaires, bracelets, etc.,
valued at about $12,500.
Miss T. Seligman, of Lexington avenue,
possesses a miscellaneous assortment of dia
mond jewelry, estimated at over $12,000.
Mrs. Moss, wife of the Treasurer of Wallack's
Theatre, has diamond jewelry to the amount
of $3000.
The two Mrs. Vansaun, of Washington
Heights, possess solitaires, rings, bracelets,
etc., to the amount of $15,000.
Mrs. Colonel Ferris, of Metropolitan Hotel.
has diamond jewelry valued at from $12,000
to $18,000.
Mrs. Andrew Islin, of Madison avenue,
possesses a rare amount of diamond jewelry,
valued at about $14,000. N. Y. Sunday Mer
c ii ry.
MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETC.
M. B E R N H E I M,
Having reopened the store
AO. 145 K. EIUIIT1I SIllKET,
Will continue his olt htiHlneRS,
HI1L1.1ALU1 UOOlttt,
With the addition of
IIt:SS AMI CI.OAK TKIJJJIINCJS.
His old customers and the indies in neneral are so
licited to exiiuilue his stock, which lit constantly re
plenished with the Intern styles, uud which he will
sell ut the LOWKhT PK1CKS, Wholexule una HeiniL
N, B. A liberal discount allowed to Milliners,
Dress and Cloiikniukers. it 8 tin
SPLENDID OPRNINCI OF TUB
LATKST KTVLF.H. Jilts. M.A. BINDKK.
JsO. 1031 ClUisiiSUT Mieet, l'hlludelplila,
1MPOHTE.K OJt' LA Ijlla' iJllKEja AND
'I HIM MIMIS. Aim., mi l-lHiiilllt stock Ol
CLOAK
Imported Paper Patterns for Ludie' and Children's
iir. Parisian Lress and Ciu..k Al.ikinir in all Iu
varieties. Ladies lurnlshlng their rich an. -"ostly
materials may rely on being ai ll.uii aily iiKO--., and
their work finished In the moi I prompt and etllcieiit
manner, at the lowest possible n Ion, at twenty-tour
hours' notice. Cutting and batMiK. 1'alleruH iu sets,
or by the single piece lor uiei''haut and dress
makers, now ready. WJJ0Hui
MRS. R . DILLON,
KOM. 883 AND 331 SOIITIISTKKEI
Has a handsome assortment of MILLINERY.
Also, Silk Velvet, Crapes, Uibh nis, Feathers,
Flowers, Frames, etc. Ladles who make Sthelr own
Bonnets supplied with the maierials. 1
steamboatTines
TRIPS RESUME D. THE
steamer JOHN A. WA1U Jill will com-
u.tuLi- miming between rnnaueipum anu o '"
Till'KMJAY; the -28th of February, ii-aviug ulladel.
phla, CMKHNCT btreet whurf, al i o c ock 1. M..
sto
UK at juvenou, rorreui.ie, ""'"";
urliuglon. Heturulng, leaves Jiriswl at 7 o clock
and 1
A. M
Fare each way, 25 cla.
Excursion, 40 cts. 2 28 Ira
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
PAINTING.
THOMAS A. I'AJIV,
IIOCKE ANU SIU JVAINTEB.
(Late Fahy Bro.j
No. 31 North THIRD Street,
Above Market.
OLD EBICK FKONTH done up, and made to look
equal to the finest press brick, feamplea at the shop.
City and m.nntry trade solicited. 811
LOST.
ONE THOUSANDJHJLLARS REWARD!
LOBT. between Walnut Street Wharf and the
American Hotel, in Cneanut street, on Monday even
ing, March U. between 8 and 8 o'clock, a large black
enamelled Leather
LADY'S TRAVELLING llOX,
About eighteen Inches square, with handle on ton.
marked "H. C. J., Bolt." The finder will receive tne
above reward by leavlug tbe Box and couteuts at
tfo. t WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. t U
CITY ORDINANCES.
C COMMON COUNCIL. OF I'HIIADFXrHIA.
J ' Ci.r.HK'8 Okkkik, I
Iliii.ATitci.i'iiiA, Kenrwiry 22, 1W17.I
In pursiiHoee of the annexed Itesolullon, the
following bill, entitled
"A ORDINANCE
Orentlnft a Iionn to pny certain deficiencies, for
the I'ureliase of the Innsdowne Kstate, and for
other pnrpouf'S," Is hereby published In acoord
nnee with the act of Assembly, lor public la
Jor iiiation.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Ciwrk of Common CounoiL.
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOAN TO PAY CER
TAIN DKKK'IKNt'IKH, FOR TIIK I'URCIIAHR OT
T1IK LANKUOWNK ESTATE, AND 10 H OTUBU
riiWOHKS.
heetion 1. The Select and Common Council
ol the City of Philadelphia do ordain. That tht
Mayor ot I'hihMlelphfn be and lie is hereby
nut horlzed to borrow, at not less than pur, on
the credit of the city, from time to time. on
million eiRht hundred thousand dollars, to b
applied ns follows, viz.:
First. To pay deficiencies, one million flv
hundred thousand dollars.
Second. For the purchase of the Lansdowne
EMn'e, nnd improvement of the same, one
hundred thoiiBHiid dollars.
Third. Forn House ol Correction, one hundred
thousand dollars.
Fourth. To pay the Increase in the
School Teachers' and Houne Cleaners'
salaries, one hundred thousHnd dollars for
which interest, not to exceed the rate ol six per
cent, per annum, Hindi be paid half yearly, on
the first davs of January and July, at the oifloe
of the City Treasurer.
The principal of said loan Khali be pay
able and paid nt the expiration of thirty
vinrs Horn the date of the Hame. and not
iiore. u-iihnut Hie consent of the holders
thereof; and Hie certificate therclor.ln the usual
foiiuot the ceilllleates of City Ijoimi, shall be
issued in such amounts us the lenders may re
quire, but not lor any fractional part of one
hundred collars, or, n requireu, iu iiiuuunia 01
live hundred or one thousand dollars; and it
(hull be rxprcsxed In said cert 1 Unites tiiat the
lonti therein mentioned, una tne interest tnereor,
are pnvubie free from all taxes.
Hcelion 2. W henever any loun shall be made
by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of tiiU
ordinance, annually appropriated out of the
inc.me of the corporate estates, and from the
bum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient to
puy ttie interest ou mild certificates; auu tne
further sum of three-tenths of one per centum
cm the nar value of such certificates so issufed
shall be appropriated Quarterly out of said In
come aim U) H BlUKUIg lUIIUi IVIIIUU
and its accumulations are hereby especially
nledced for the redemption and payment of
said certificates.
KKSOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN BILL.
Hesolved, That tho I'lerli be authorized to
publish, in two daily newspapers of this city,
daiiy, for four weeks, the Ordinance presented
to the Common Council on Thursday. February
21, lS(i7,eiititled
"An Ordinance Creating a Loan to pay certain
deficiencies, for Hie purchase of the Lansdowne
Estate, and for other purposes."
And the said Clerk, at the stated meeting of
Councils after the expiration of four week
from the first day of said publication, shall pre
sent to this Council one of each of said news
papers for every day in which the same shal
have been made. 2 23 21 1
STOVES, RANGES, ETC.
QULVER'S NEW PATENT
DEEP HAN U-JOINT
HOT-AI1! FURNACE.
BAN UES OF ALL SIZES.
Also, Pbllegar's New Lew Fressnre Steam Heating
Apparatus. For sale by
CHARLES -WILLIAMS,
6 10 No. 1182 MARKET Street.
THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER
ID L'lll'l iDL' A IU V V I : I.' .... 1. .. . . . I 1 1 .... I n
liU lal. n.liiihll.ill..tlMiti..- I.. 'tU.L'V'lV niV.
i l.HKKT blZKts. Also. Philadelphia Hanitea.
1 lot-Air FurnaceB, Portable Healers, Lowdowu Orates,
Flrehoard Hioves, Bath Boilers, tstewhole t'lalen.
Boilers, Cook Iuk Btoves, etc., wholesale and retail, by
the manufacturers. tSHAIU'li; & THOMSON,
11 17 siuthUm No. 2o N. tsEC'OND Street.
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC.
T R TJ M ATP AM RVfifVP. A N II
LLiJWBOlLEK WOKKS.-KEAHK fe LEVY.
jiUtlll AL AND THKOKJiTlC'AL KNOINKKKS.
MACHINJS'IB, JBOILKK - MAKtiCS, BLAOK
(pMITJJS, and FOL'NL'KKis, having for many yeara
been in successful operation, and beeu exclusively
t tiKHKPd in building and repairing Marine and River
liglin'B, high ana low-pressure. Iron Boilers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc., respectfully otter their
services to the public as being fully prepared to con
tract for engines of all sizes, Marine, Klver, aud.
htatlonary; having sets of patterns of uiUerent sieea,
are prepared to execute orders Willi quick despatch.
J'.vt-ry description ol paueru-makiug made al tho
Biioricst notice. lilfh and J-ow-pressure Fine,
Tubular, and Cylinder Boilers, of the best Pennsyl
vania charcoal iron. Forgings of all sizes aud kinds:
Iron aud Brass Castings of all descriptions; Boll
Turning, Herew Cutting, and all other work connected,
wlih the above business.
.Drawings aud speciiicatlons for all work done
nt the establishment free ol charge, aud work guai
itntued. The subscrihrs have ample wharf-dock room for
repairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect safety,
i. nd are provided with shears, blocks, lulls, etc. etc
lor raising heavy or light weights.
JACOB C. NEAFIK,
JOHN P. LEVY.
8 21 BEACn aud PALMEK Btreeta.
J. VAUOHAN MKBKICK, WILLIAM H. MEBEICK.
JOHN K. COl'K.
SOt'THWAKK FODNDXtY, FIFTII AND
WAblilNUXON Streets.
FHILADK.LPHIA.
MKllltlCK te BONS,
F.NGINEEBB AND MACHINISTS,
manufacture High aud Low Pressure Steam Enginea
lor Laud, Itiver, aud Marine Bervice.
Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc.
Castings of all kinds, either iron or brass.
Iron Frame itoofs lor Oas Works, Workshops, and
Baiiroad Blatlous, etc.
Betorts aud Oas Machinery, of the latest and most
impioved construction.
Every description ot Plantation Machinery, and
lugur, Baw, aud Grist Mills, Vacuum Puns, Open,
buuiii Trains, Delecators, Fillers, Pumping .En
gines, etc.
Bole Agents for N. Billeux's Patent Bugar Boiling
Apparatus, Nesmylh's Patent Hteam Hammer, aud
Aspinwall Woolsey'a Patent Centrifugal Bugac
Draining Machine. 6 3is
BRIPiCSBURU MACHINE WORKS.
OFFICE,
No. 66 N. FltONT BTKEET,
PHIl.ADKl.l'HIA.
We are prepared to fill orders to any extent for our
weil-knowu
MACHINERY FOR COTTON AND WOOLLEN
M1LLB,
Including nil recent improvements in Carding, Spin
ning, aud Weaving,
We invite the utteution ot manufacturers to oar ex
tensive works,
1J ALFRED JENKfl & BON.
STEARNS, WHITNEY & BRIDGES,
Ho. 327 CHISNUT STREET,
Manufacturers of
CAST-IRON WATER AND STEAM PIPE
Of all sizes; also Fittings for the same, at the lowest
market rates. Extensive machinery has been pre
pared, and we are now ready to furnish this pipe to
any amount at short notice. Also general Kadroad
aud bieamboat supplies. iisu
HATTERS.
NPRING STYLES
GENTS' DRESS IIATS,
LA ROE VARIETY OF FANCY STYLES,
SUITABLE FOR TOPHI AND rHILDBEBT
ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES NOW BADY.
CALL AND EXAMINE THEM. lmrP