FOREIGN ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SOMETHING A110UT CLOCKS.
Cliaiinccy Jeromo, whose Connecticut clock
nriauul'aotory failed a few years since, through
the fault of others, involving Mr. Harnuni,
Wgan life anew boiiih tinid since near Chicago.
Tire miles out from that city he established a
new manufactory, which is now capable of
turning out one hundred thousand clocks a
year. Mr. l'arton tells us that Mr. Jerome ex
pects to be able to Hell them at New Haven
quite as cheap as those made in New Haven.
A new English volume by Kdward Wood
presents some interest ing facts concerning the
origin of clocks. The clepsydra or water
glass was used by the ancients for measuring
time. The sand glass, in which sand took
the place of Mater, was a modification of
the clepsydra. These time-keepers were
called clrpsammia. They were in use before
the time of Jerome, A. D. :Wl-420. The
candle clocks of Alfred are well known. Mar
tinelli, of ipoloto, in a curious work, lb'li;5,
ppeaks of clocks going by earth, air, lire, and
water. In the lire-clock the motion was pro
duced upon the principle of a modern smoke
jack, the wheels being moved by means of a
lamp, which also gave light to the dial, the
hours being given out by the explosion of
crackers set at proper intervals. In the air
clocks the hours were measured by the descent
of a weight expelling the air through an ori
fice in a tube, and giving motiou to wheel
work. In HIGH, the Grand Duke Cosmo was
astonished to see at the lto".u Society's rooms
in London a clock the movements of which
were derived from the vicinity of a loadstone.
This was the earliest precursor of the modern
electrical clock. It seems impossible to fix
the date when clocks with wheels and weights
were first invented. Koethius is said to have
made one in the year 510 A. 1). Pope Paul I
is reported to have sent a wheel-clock to King
Pepin in 75(. We are told that the Arabians
first made clocks to strike in 801. Rabanus
Maurus is said to have sent a clock with a bell
to a friend about the year 840.,
1 WHEEL-CLOCKS.
The honor of inventing a wheel clock is also
gwn to Paciflcus, Archdeacon of Vienna, who
died in the middle of the ninth century. Uer
lert of Fleury, afterward Pope Sylvester II,
has credit for a similar invention about the
year one thousand. It is not clear whether
the allusion of Dante is to a mechanical clock
or to a sun dial, or whether the orologium in
nvjne, given to Sherborne Abbey by William
the Sacrist, in the twelfth century, was of
either nature. St. Paul's Cathedral, as evi
denced by the compotun bruverirjor A. D. 1281!,
had its oroloiiariiiK or clock-keeper, and an
agreement for altering and completing the
whelwork of the clock is extant in Norman
Trflich, dated November 22, 1344, between
the Dean and Chapter and Walter the ' Orgo
iie'" of Southwark. The great clock house
at Westminister was set up by lid ward 1 in
128-9, out of a line of seven thousand marks
fo: corruption and malpractice levied upon
Hi- Ralph de Ilencharn. Chief Justice of the
Kng's Bench. Another clock tower was
eBcted there by Edward III in 1305-U.
ihe same writer tells us of the
ORIGIN OP WATCHES.
The origin of the watch, though not readily
be assumed to any rarticular date, is nr-
inly not of the same antiquity as that of tho
fiod or stationary clock. The lirst step
tcards it was obviously the invention of a
cied spring as the motive power, instead of
a eight and pendulum. And this appears to
hi e been made during the last quarter of the
lilienth century. Nuremberg has generally
hi the credit of the earliest "pocket clocks"
Nremberg eggs, as they were called, from
tidr oval shape. The same honor has been
darned by Blois upon less plausible grounds.
Jen China is said to have introduced the in
tntion into Germany, whence it passed into
lance, and so into England. Peter Hele, of
tyreniberg, who died in l.r40, as early as 14'.0
lide small watches of steel, which pointed
it and struck the hours, and might be worn
othe person.
I SECONDS DESCRIBED.
Py the year 1500, the manufacture was so
f improved as to describe seconds of time,
avhich period such watches were used tor
aronomical purposes by George Purbach, a
nthematiciau of Vienna. In 1544, the guild
cMaster Clockmakers in Paris secured from
ltncis I the exclusive privilege of making
ccks and watches, both large and small. The
Judon Clockmakers' Company was incorpo
red by charter of Charles I, 1C31.
The performance of these early specimens of
tl watchmaker's art was, we may suppose,
Ty imperfect. About the year ltI50, metallic
ains were commonly Bubstituted for the cat
jt cord previously in general use. A great
iproveiuent was introduced in the year 1058,
I the invention of the spiral or pendulum
fling applied to the arbor of the balance.
'h lirft idea of this spring is attributed to
i ingenious mathematician, Dr. llooke. It
thoroughly carried out in 1005, under his
tactions, by the celebrated watchmaker,
imias Toinpion. A watch of that kind made
f Charles II bears that date, together with
t names of both inventor and constructor.
("be Urst repeater was made by Quare, in
Jti. The horizontal escapement was iu
ittted in 1724.
CURIOUS AVATCHES.
ne of the most singular freaks of the art
V the lilliputian repeater, no bigger than a
grer two-penny piece, set in a ring, presented
teorge 111 in 1704, by the celebrated Arnold,
d)evereux Court, Strand. A curious watch
J made for Louis XV by Coupson, Jr., of
Jis, in 1704, in which a simple spring was
dstituted for the barrel, the mainspring, the
din, and the fusee. It required no winding,
J was set in motion for twenty-four hours
Ithe simple push of a knob, like the striking
iig of a repeater.
WEARING TWO WATCHES.
ibout that period the foppery of wearing
to watches came into vogue, and was speedily
rowed br the ladies, lo avoid expense,
hever, a dummy, or J'ausse montre, of some
swy material often took the place of a real
i In Paris all sorts of whimsical toys were
toed out by Julien le Roy, entitled etreimes
and he was even outdone in
.1 i. T 11 HoillrtTi Imrnlnn'ipr Ap. In. Tpinu.
llllO VJ tl. j J -7
v by falling in with the luxurious and
Weful fashions of the Court, died the richest
w hniaker in Europe.
THE CIIIONO.N QUESTION.
Dr. Cobbold, in a recent lecture before
f ,h London scientific institutions,
aU to relieve the minds of the fair Bex from
fear of some of those unpleasant, lunacies
i, i.av lmnn Trotaerated lately concerning
thions." He said that they had been led
todieve that the minute mirosoopio orga
i attached to the hair hail some
cUic relation to pediculi; and consequently
these appendages to the
LI they would become liable to the disease
"i.'.w niiiaa "nhthiriasis." He assured his
f.Lti.dt there waa no ground for alarm
m !.,..,iUma were neither entozoa nor true
eU. U was quite impossible that these
loy orgakLaed ectozoa suouia aeveiope tuum.
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY,
selves into any insect form. They closely
L . . . . . ... i i- ii...
resemniea too uodies wnicn are iouihi mum
flesh of healthy animals, and which attracted
a good deal of attention at the 'time of the
cattle plague, because some observers incor
rectly supposed them to be peculiar to the
llesh of the animals affected with that disease.
These ecto.oa had more or less conspicuous
vegetable affinities; that is to say, they resem
bled tho lowermost alg;c and the fungi in
respect of their mode of growth and develop
ment. TUB EXPOSITION.
The earthworks of the Paris Exhibition, in
cluding the Park, amount to upward of half a
million cubic yards. The ironwork amounts
to 13,200 tons, of which 10,000 tons are in the
great machinery gallery. The windows of tlris
gallery present a surface of 53,700 square
yards, and those of the other galleries 25,000.
The palace itself occupies an area of 140,ls4
square yards. Of this, til, 000 square yards is
occupied by France, 21,053 by England, and
2!)00 by the United States.
I'HOTOtlKAPIIV.
M. ISnzin, a foreign artist, lias contrived an
apparatus for photographing objects at the
bottom of the sea. II is photographic studio
consists of a strong sheet-iron chest, perfectly
water-tight, with water-tight windows, that
are in the form of lenses. The electric light is
used, and renders distinctly visibly and objects
lying at the bottom of the sea, so that they
may be photographed, and thus their value
and position be accurately marked. M. Bazin
has remained at depths of nearly 300 feet for
about ten minutes. This application of pho
tography promises to facilitate the recovery of
lost objects and the raising of sunken ships.
ELECTRIC OCNS.
A gun has been invented, says the Scirnliir
Ild ifu; in Prance, in which electricity is very
ingeniously applied to the ignition of tho
charge. Two small electric batteries are in
closed in the stock, the conducting wires of
which emerge at the surface, near the breech,
and by a very simple means are connected, at
pleasure, with a very line platinum wire
within the charge, so as to render it incan
descent, and thus ignite the powder. Car
tridges thus prepared cannot, as those con
taining fulminate often do, explode thorn
selves'; but it is not probable that the contri
vance will ever be more than a scientific curi
osity, unless found to answer for artillery.
WOKE ROMAN ANTIiJL'ITIES.
Inexhaustible Rome has lately yielded some
extremely interesting antiquities discovered
under San Crisogouo, a very curious church
in the Trastevere, which is supposed to date
from the time of Constantino tho Great. The
discoveries consist of vaultedchambers covered
with inscriptions in black lead; a tomb con
taining the skeleton of a young girl, and some
very curious objects of jewelry. This church
is supposed to occupy the station of the 7th
Cohort of the Guards.
An English writer argues that the English,
people mainly are indebted to Scott for their
LOVE OF LANDSCAPE.
He says: "We are apt to attribute it all to
the influence of Wordsworth's poetry in a
general way; and yet it is not very like
Wordsworth. He is no doubt its chief analyst
and spokesman; but he did not exactly create
love of natural beauty. The taste for outdoor
life and green fields came back full tide on all
our writing after the coffee-house life of the
last century; and Scott, we think, did most to
stimulate and raise it. Wordsworth tells us
all Wordsworth's thoughts about the paternal
pines of Borrowdale, and states that the cata
racts blow their trumpets from the steep.
Scott throws himself into his scene, and for
gets himself in it; he tells you what the cata
lact really was like with straightforward love
of color and brightness, and force and fern,
and heather,and birches, and big stones; it
does not occur to him that cataracts sound
like trumpets, and in point of fact they never
do; their sound is deeper than any which
metal ever made. And we think that most
young artists must begin with Scott, at least."
Muscular Christianity has, perhaps, carried
the love of mountain scenery too far in the
direction of adventure; but much is forever
due to him who cunningly mingled the sylvau
feeling with the contemplative, and taught
the hunter to delight in the hills as much as
in the deer.
The London Engineer affirms that
THE WH1TWORTH
oux
surpasses all others in use.
It says: "It is
time that the results of the Armstrong and
Whitworth competition were well understood
and acted upon. We have now the know
ledge that, with thousands of costly guns
in the service, there is one every way supe
rior, which we have not got superior in range
and accuracy, and in respect of the cheapness
of its projectiles. As an instrument tor pro
pelling shot to great distances, and with the
ertamty oi Jutting the mark, the Whitworth
iJled cannon is superior to any other ordnance
ever known, inis superiority is, ot course.
one of degree only ; but it is very often by a
moderate amount of advantage, and not seldom
by even nice shades of difference, that actions
and the fate of nations are decided. Mr. v hit-
worth, by his hexagonal bore and shot of
orrespondmg form, can rifle a gun with a
iiiicker twist than is practicable upon any
other plan."
a writer in Marmihan s Mawtzint, in de
scribing the life and traits of
GERMAN (ilHLS,
says: A child is seldom sent to another town
to school ; the extra expense of board and lodg
ing is a serious item, and the Germans are
proverbially a frugal people. Thus, eveu in
the holidays, there is no change ; the children
do not, as with us, 'come home' from
school ; they are at home ; they only have
more time for the discussion o"f their little
spites and jealousies, more coffee drinking,
more possip, and more liberty. As time goes
on, and tho little girl buds into early maiden
hood, this passing to and fro through the
public streets has serious disadvantages ; she
becomes self-conscious, has a bowing ac
quaintance with her friends' brothers, and
a system ot coquetry is carried on which
has no good influence on her character.
I say coquetry advisedly, for it is not
the 'flirtation' we see among young
people in our own country, begining openly in
fun, and ending in amusement; nor is it that
sort of school boy love, which is at times so
life-enduring that the little fourteen-year old
Etonian with the club foot ceases to be an
object of ridicule in his all-absorbing passion
for Mary Chaworth. Boys and girls never
play together in Germany, as our boys and
girls do; therefore, the young fraulein of four
teen who has a bowing acquaintance, and
something perhaps more, with her friends
brothers, since wiey arrange iu meet ner on
their way from college, or on her way to
school, is conscious mat these tacit arrange
ments are not allowed, are wrong, and to be
enjoyed after the surreptitious manner of
stolen fruit. She has had hitherto coffee and
cossip, but now a fresh stimulant comes into
her life; she ceases to be natural; she has the
consciousness of something to conceal, and
her eyes become less candid, and her gaze ii
, not so fearless a3 It was."
ENOLISH PAUPERISM.
The returns made by the English Poor Law
Boaid for the month of December last shows
that at the close of tho year 1806 the number
of pa opera in receipt of relief in England
and Wales exceeded 1)00,000, showing an
increase of 2 per cent, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1S05, but a decrease
of 2-0 per cent, as compared with 1804, owing
to the improvement since that time in the
manufacturing districts. The increase of
pauperism at the close of 1800 was not very
great in any division of tho kingdom except
the metropolis, but there it exceeded 20,000,
and amounted to nearly 20 per cent. The
number of persona receiving out-door relief
in the metropolis increased from 71,312 at the
end of 1805 to 89,727 at the end of ISOti.
A PIIOTOMAONETIC COMPASS.
An English naval engineer, Mr. Corridi by
name, lias invented an ingenious contrivance
for ascertaining a ship's course during a
voyage.
On the dial of the compass, instead of tho
star which indicates the North, a circular
opening is made, furnished with a small lens.
The light shining upon the compass penetrates
through the lens, and traces a black mark or
line on a sheet of sensitive paper underneath,
which is made to move at a certain speed by
means of clockwork. Tho sensitized paper
turns with the ship, and as the needle re
mains perfectly steady, every designation or
alteration of the course is photographed on
the paper.
(HEAP IIAi'lIS.
Arrangements are now being made in seve
ral of the English villages for insuring a free
use of soap and water among the poor. At
Ecdhill, for example, hot and cold baths are
provided three days a week for women and
children from one to live o'clock, and for men
from six to nine o'clock free of all charges
save a penny for soap and use of towels. A
bath may be had on special evenings for six
pence. A washhouse has been litted up with
coppers, tubs, a patent wringing machine, etc.,
with an ironing room attached, available three
days a week at the charge of a penny an hour,
soap and soda being sold at cost price. Spe
cial care is taken to prevent the liuen from
houses in which infectious diseases exist being
received into any part of the building.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S HOOK.
Queen Victoria, says a London correspondent,
has written a work, entitled "Leaves from a
Journal in the Highlands," which consists of
about forty papers, descriptive of her life at
Balmoral and the neighborhood. The work is
illustrated by photographs and wood-cuts from
her majesty's sketches. It contains, among
other interesting matter, three long accounts
of the incognito journeys made by the Prince
Consort and herself to different parts of Scot
land, and the adventures which they met with.
In one of the papers she gives an account of
the preaching of Dr. Norman Mcbeod, of Glas
gow, and after stating how astonished she was
that any one could preach "so eloquently and
touchingly without notes," she adds, "And
then he prayed so kindly for me and the
Prince in the after prayer that I was deeply
touched; but when he invoked God's blessing
on the children, I felt a great lump come iu
my throat." She had not expected to be
prayed for so kindly by a Presbyterian, and
least of all did she expect him to remember
the children. I think there is something
touching in this simple note of the queen-wife
and mother, which shows how true a woman
she is. Only forty copies of the work have
been printed for special friends and favorites,
but sooner or later it will of course be re
printed, and will be a most interesting addi
tion to contemporary literature. What would
the world not give for such a work by Queen
Alary or Queen J'JizaOeth the copy lrom
which I have quoted bore on the title-page the
following inscription:
"lo dear Jeaume G , in remembrance ot
many, many happy hours gone never to
return again, lrom V. K."
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1 gross Vial Corks, "large."
300 lbs. Flaxseed Meal.
48 bottles l'owoll'H Llulnieut, not "Kinbro
cation." 400 gallons Coal Oil.
3K) gallons Sperm Oil.
1(H) gallons Ncats-foot Oil.
Kill gallons I.lnseed Oil, "raw."
120 gallons l.inseed oil, "boiled."
40 gallons Olive Oil.
Ml uallous Alcohol.
8 dozen Brushes, Paint, 6, "Clintons."
6 dozen Brushes, Paint, 5, "Cliulous."
5 dozen Snsti Tools, No. S.
dozen Sash Tools, No. 0.
250 Corn Brooms.
350 Stable Brooms.
IS gross Files, "Handsaw," 33 In.; 3 3J.J In.;
64 in.; 6o in.; and 2 by. In.
75 lbs. Irish Glue, "light."
15,0H) IbR. Nails, Cut fiOW 10,1.: (11)00 3d.; 301)0 6 !
50 lbs., each, Finishing Nails, iu.,V liu.,
lUln., and 14 lu.
3 dozen Buck Saws.
2 dozen Chamois Skins.
12,000 lbs. Willie Bend, iu Oil. "T.ewls," 40 kens
25 lbs.; 00 kegs 60 lbs; 80 kegsloo lbs.
2-50 lbs. Putty, ln25-lb. kes.
0 lbs. Bed Bead, in Oil, 4 kegs 25 lbs; 4 kegs
100 lbs.
100 lbs. Bed Bend, "Dry," In 25-lb kegs.
44 gallons Copal Vurul.su, "Coucli-body ,"
extra.
St gallons Copal Varnish. No. 1.
50 los. Terra Sienna, "Burnt In Oil," iu 1
and 2-lb. cans.
50 lbs. Terra Sienna, "Kuw Iu Oil," iu 1
nnil 2-lb. cans.
50 lbs. rnp Black.
1! pieces Hullnct, "lilue.
70 1 us. v i
hy I.e.-ui. "Kry." In 3-lfo. papers.
1UU los. lllitclc l'nlul, in l, 1, mid o-lo. cans.
1 dozen VnrnlhU Drushc.s, 2, "Oviil,"
All of the above-named articles to bo of tlie
bent quality, nud to be subject to Inspection,
.niiiplis of Ihe urticles bid lor must lie de
livered at this oilico twenty-lour (21) hours ire
VlotiH to I he opening of the bills.
l-.ncli bid must oe KUiuaiiteeu oy two respon
sible persons, whose hluututcs and residences
must, tie uppenueu to ttie ttiiiuaniee ana certi
fied lo lis being good nnd hullicient security by
the United Btmes District. Judtso, Attorney,
Collector, or other public oilicer.
Tbe rinlit is reserved to reject nil bids deemed
unreasonable, und no bid from a defaulting
contractor will be received. i
All proposals to be made out on the regular
forms, in duplicate (which will be furnished on
application at this Ollice), and conform to the
terms ol this udvertisenit nt, a copy of which
must accompany each proposal.
Envelopes to be endorsed "Proposals for
O uartcrmaster's Stores."
Bidders are requested to be present at the
opening of t he pioposais.
By order of
BvU Brigadier-General O. H. CKOSMAN.
Asst. Q. M. Cien. U. 8. Army.
11KNHY W. JANES,
Capt. and Asst. Quartermaster,
8 30 8t Bvt. Mu.ior U. S. Army.
PROPOSALS.
PtKSTLV.4MA AUKlCri.TUKAI LAND
KlUIP FOE nALli.
The Board of Commissioners now offer for
sale TWO Ul'KDKEU AN1) TWNET THOU
SAND ACHES ol Agricultural College Land
Scrip, being llie balance of the Scrip granted to
mo commonweaitu oi j-ei'uwyivauia lor itiu
endowment of Agricultural Colleges iu this
Slate.
Proposals for the porcha- of this Land Scrip,
acliireuHed to "The Board of Commissioners of
Agricultural Lund Scrip," will be received at
the Surveyor-Cieneral's Oiiice, at HAKKIH
BUKU, until 11 o'clock M., on WEDNESDAY,
April 10, lhb7.
This land may be located in any State or Ter
ritory, by the holders of the sorlp upon any of
the unappropriated lands (except mineral lauds)
ol the United States, whicn may be subject to
hale at private entry. Knell piece of scrip
represents a quarter secth of one hundred aud
sixty acres, is issued in olank, aud will be
transferable without em: S M-meni or formal
assignment. The blank Vv d uot be tilled uulil
the scrip Is presented for lucailoa and entry,
v. hen the party holding li ci.n 1111 the blank,
und enter the land lu hisoivn name. Bids must
be made as per acre, ani nu bids will be re
ceived lor less than one qui' ner section.
The Scrip will bo lssuec immediately on the
payment of the money to ln- ..urveyor-CJoueral
On all bids for a less quant. ( thuu lorty thou
sand acres, one-third of i.u- p ;rehuse money
must be paid within ten d-.v.-, and the remain
ing two-thirds within thin y .lavs alter notifica
tion or the acceptance of tht- bid or bids by the
Board of Commissioners.
JACOB JU. CAMPBELL,
hull veyor-Ueueral,
For the Boaro oi Commissioners.
Harrlsbnrg, February 27. J.su7. 3 4 U 1U
JpKOl'OSALS l'Oll CAVAI.HY HOUSES.
Depot Quaktek.mamtkk's Okkick,)
Bai.timohi:, Mi!., April 2, 1SU7. J
Sealed Proposals invited and will he received
lit this ollice until MuNhA V, at 1:2 o'clock M.,
April 15, lfiu7, for the delivi iv in tnu city ol ' Bal
timore of one hundred ('n ')j Cavalry Homo.
The lloises will bo sub.h tiui l, careful in
spection belore being accented. They must be
hound in all respects, well i.ioken, in full llesh
and good condition, frc.in illteon to sixteen
hands high, lrom live to nine years old, Weil
iKiapted lu every wuy for cavalry purposes.
The ability ol the blddui to fulfil his agree
ment must be guaranteed oy two responsible
persons, which guarantee i..ust accompany the
proposal.
The i.lorses must bo deli veied within twonty
('20) days from date of aco pianco ol any pro
posal. Tbe Uovernment rescrvi s the rhtht to reject
any orall bids. Payment in be made on com
pletion o! contract.
Bids will bo endorsed "Propo&nls for Cavalry
Hoises," and addressed to iliu undersigned, Bal
timore, Mil,
By order of the Quartet miuter-General.
A. S. KIMBALL,
Captain and A. Q. M. U.S. A.
4 4 Ot Di-potQuurtorinasler.
! flC'K 1'iKKSYLVAMA EA1L1C0AD CUM
FAN. pbh.adm.phia, February 4, 1867.
Proposals will be received at the Ollice of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia, nmtl
the lirst day ol May, lso7, inclusive (unless a satislao
lory proposal should be received and accepted pre
viously). lrom responsible parlies deirhi u contract
with said Company lor the establishment ot a direct
Line oi bleaamhips between wiadelphu. and Liver-
PejBl'ank- forms of proposal!, with detailed Informa
tion, will be furnished i upon iipimcatimi i to
2718 i EBMLNl) bMITIi, Secretary.
s
LATE MANTELS.
BLATE MANTELS re ODsnrpassed lor Durability
Beauty. Strength, and Cheapness.
SLATE MANTELS, aud Slate Work Generallj
made to order. ,
J. 13. KIME8 Sj CO.,
8 12 Cm Ho nd itiat CIIESNTJT Street,
HARD RUBBER ARTIFICIAL
LIMB.S. Arms, lK, Appliances for ,
Deformity, etc etc. These Lluibe are J
irausierreu ironi nie in form aud tit; I
are tne ngniest, most durable, com-
mrtaoie, ueriect, ana artistic lutwti-
lutes yet Invented. TIibv am an-
Droved and adoniad bv the United
State Government and oar principal Surgeon
patented August lfc loon May 2.1, ls6; May L la
Auaruea kiuuaujiiuu,,
rti
FfttapkleU free.
N. tl) AJICH Street Piiiladelpbla.
baa
?3l
SHIPPING.
i.. Nil '11 H KiV mAlli OirJttlM.WiAA vv.
aanV'S LKOIM.AH LINK
TON A VA NBA, KM) tons, Captain Win. Jennings.
WYOMINO, 8. tons, Ciiptam Jacob TeaL
1 lie Bieninsnip w i it m win irn,o - -
port on Saturday, April 8, at o'clock A. M., from toe
second wharf below ispruce street. ...... ...
J llll'l'S" llinni(J m.nrwi .wn ......
nil nolulahi connection with IhpHeorKia Central Rail
road. WILLIAM L. JAMKH. General ARetit,
INo. 311 rs. jieiaware aveim".
Agents at Savannah, Hunter & Oammell. ji It
fPPTv TIIK rilII.APKI.IMII. AND
JfjrfJ-HRniri ni.nN MAIL teHj.AMSll.LP COM.
iiM to KKOUl.AR LINK
t OK Mill NM.
VIA HAVANA.
STAItOKTHE UNION, Itttt tons, Cnpt.TJN.Onokser.
JUNIATA. P2I5 tons, Captalu P. L. Iloxlo,
VIII leave this port every two weeks alternately,
touching at Havana for passengers going aud re
turning. ... ... . .....
The JUNIATA will leave ror in e w uneBns April .
at s o'clock A. M.t from tbe second wbari oeiow
Spruce st reel. . .
TIIK S I Alt OF THE UNION will leave New Or
leans April l.i. . ........
Through bids of ladlnn signed for freight lo Moblla,
(InlveMon, Natchez, Vlcksburg, Memphis, Nashville,
Caiio, St. Iuls, l.oiilsviiic, ana . iiicuinnii.
V 1 LLl A HI. JJ. rfArarfl,ufiii:i.i jnKr-t
4 I No. I4 H. lleliiware avenue.
Agents at New Orlenns, Creevy, Nlckeison & Co.
r, tiik iiiii.aii:miiia and
iSOl IIIKKN MAIL STKAftlSUIP COM.-
UilV'S itKOCLAU LINK
ft'Olt IV 1 1. ill I U1 'ON ,!.:.
Tlin ilnmiiilini 1II IN I I- It Kl'i Lulls. I alllHllI J. JiRll-
neti. will leave lor the above port on Saturday, April
, at 8 o'clock A.M., from the second wharr below
Spruce street.
Jims ol lading snrneu nt inrptigii anu reuueeu raw
to all principal points in North Carolina.
Agents at V ilmliiKton, Worth A iiiinici.
WILLIAM L. JAM I S, (.encral Agent,
4 1 J No. HI4 S. Delaware avenue.
GRAND EXCURSION
TO THK
PARIS EXPOSITION.
The new and first-class Ocean-going ivi Steamship
HAVANA,
iiion Tons Burden,
STErilEN WHITMAN, COMMANDKR,
Will Uibke an Excursion lrom New York lo Havre
find buck, sailing from pier No, 4B North Klver, on
WEDNESDAY, April 17, at 12 o'clock M., taking
l'tishengers lor Paris, London, and llremen. HeturU'
lug, will sail tiiun llavreou Junes, giving Passengers
holding Excursion Tickets ubout six weeks lu Europfc.
'1 his inugnihcent Steuuiship is divided Into watt
tlklit compartments, and hus been newly furnished
und elegantly fitted up expressly lor this voyage.
. i ne ii a v an a win only carrv nrst-ciass 1'assengera,
A ! I'LL HAND OE ML'siO will accompany the tshlp.
Price of PiussiiL'e. In currency, lo Havre, fcl.m and
&173. To Havre and return, froO and tfivo. ao-
coioing to size ot Slate-room.
An experienced .surgeon on hoard.
or luriher particulars and passage apply to tlia
AgeuUi,
JH Ulllt AY, FEIlltlS & CO.,
No. U!l SOUTH Street, New Y'ork,
Or lo tbe
PHILADELPHIA LOCAL EXPflESS COlYiPAKT
an ln4p
No, (itf.t TIKSN'UT Street, Phila
fff
B.u KTKlM 'I'll I IVk l.'lmnr f T I t-ai
MIS ........ " ' '-.i iv v, txlljl lKM
iJss,atUueeiislowii. The lumau Line, sallln
s ii,i- uekly. carrying the United btates Mailsi
HE'lUltN 'HlKE'lS lO J'AKIS AND BACK.
1 UST CLASS, GOLD.
CITY OK PA1US Saturday. April
EljlNlilTttill Wednesday, April It
1 1 1 Y OF ANTWEHP haturoav, A pril 13
CITY OF NEW YOltK Wednesday, April 17
11TY' OF HUSTON Saturday, April 20
and each succeeding eaturdiiy and Wednesday, at
noon, tiotu Pier No. 4j, North ltiver.
HATES OF PasnaUR
I3y the mail steamer bulling every Saturday
Puyuble In Uold.
Payable iu Currency.
FustCnblu till)
Steerage I0
To London sa
lu i.oimoi Jib
To Paris la6
lo Paris ts
Passage by the W ednesouy steamers: Fi"ret"cabln.
iiu; oieeraKe, .iu. rayanie in ljullwl states currency.
Passengers also lorwai ded lo Havre, jUutneurir. Bro.
u en, etc., at moderate rules.
Steerage i.assage from Liverpool or Queenstown, 137
curreucy. Tickets can be bought here by persons send,
lug lor their Iriends.
For further information apply at the Comnanv'i
Ollicts. JOHN (i. DALE, Agent,
7j No. Ill WALN l)T Street, Phhadelphla.
4rf&Pf.s PASSAGE TO AND FROM
SiMiii,, ET BKl'l A1N AN U IKEIAM V
iV bTEAfiiSAli' AM) HAlLlf0 PACKET
AT UEDUCED KAl'En. '
D1UKTS ATAH.ALLE '1 HKOUOIIOUT ENGLAH
11:1.1, AM), IfC'OTLA J,D, JLUli WALE8.
For patticulars applv to
iarSCOlT BKOTUEKS & CO.,
. . No. 86t-Onp Street, and ho. 't'i LhOADWAT
I 1 OrtoTHOS. B. bKAKLK.217 WALNUT St
.3ff??r rORNiiVVVORK. SWIFTSURH
JfcS j2ATr8U''l,orlal,ou Company Despaicto
Vtr-Wtf?ar, fr and Swlilsure Lium, via Delaware
una Burltan Canal, on and after the Ifith of March,
leaving daily at 12 M. and 6 P. JU. connecting with
all Northern and Eastern lines. " wlw
For freight, which will be taken upon accommoda.
ting terms, apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO..
1 1 No. 1M B. DKUWAKK Avenna.
TO SHIP CAPTAINS AND OWNERS.
'Ihe Uhuersltfllcd liavlne itHt m.. l- L-k.,
bnuio.N SCltEW DOCK, begs to Inlorm his Irieuda
anu ihe inttrous of the Dock that be is prepared with
increased lacilitles lo accommodate those liaviiiK vi
tels to he rulneu or repaired, and bemg a practical
Hlup-carpeuter und caulker, will give personal alteu.
tion lo the vetsels enirusled to him for repairs
CupiHiiisorAKeiits.Slilp-Carpenters.uud Macbinlsta
lmving vessels to repair, are solicited to call. .
Having the agency lor the sale of " Wetterstedt'a
Patent Metullio Composition" for Copper paint for
the preservation of vessels" bottoms, for this city I am
prepared lo lurnish the same on rcasoimnle terms
JOHN 11. HAM MITT,
.. nTrr . w . . Kejsington Screw Doc-k.
' iWJAuue, above Laurel street.
GOVERNMENT SALES.
QAI.K OK OLD AN I) UNSEHV1CABLJS
O AimCLES OE' OK UN AN CK.
CUKEAU OF Okdnanck,
K 1 VV llL'll, IliHlm...
W ASIITNfJTuM Itwv M,,,...l. IX fjisr
1 lierH Will I IH Kill, I 111 mil.liiiull.,1 1.... . '. 1. ,.
- t " , . v. 1. 1 , bu nie ii il; ii
est lildaeiK. at uoou, THU1WUAY', the lltu day
oi April, 1M)7, at the ollice of the Inspector of
Oitliianco.Navy Yard.l'liiludelpliia.reuusylva
n la. a lot ol old and unserviceable articles of
Oidnunce.embiaclngBnolaudWliell.aboutsevea
bundled (VU0) Carbines, breech loaders, about
twenty-live Hundred (26(U) Muskets, rilled ami
Miiootb bore, Gun Can hiyes and other Stores.
The articles will be sola in lots.
Terms, one-Half cash in Oovernment funds,
to be deposited on the conclusion of the sale
und the remainder within ten days afterwards
(lut ing which time the articles must be removed
lioni the yard, othti wise they will revert to tha
"vernmeut. 11. A. WISE.
3 18tAU Chlet of Bureau.
REMOVAL.
I J lvEEli A SEA US KEMOVED TO NO. 412
' Ai.A-jt- cuppfc.-jwivjji.tt gl biLAKH fnrmAr.v
of Goldsmllb'a Hall, Library street, have wnToved lo
No. 412 PHUNE Street, between Fourth and Filth
Blrcets, where they will continue their Manufactory
of Uold Chains, Bracelets, etc, lu every variety. Alsn
the sale ol line Gold, Sliver, and Copper. (JldaolS
and Silver bought.
January 1, lHt7. igjm
CONSUMPTION CUREd
US1S HASTING'S
COMPOUND SYRUP OP NAPTLIA"
BOLD BY
DTOTT A CO., AGENTS,
No. 98a Kortn SECOND Street '
ROBERT SHOEMAKER ft CO.
WHOLESALE DMJCCISTS,
MAHUFACTVJiEJUi,
AND DEALERS H
ralnts, Yarnlslies. and Oils,
No. 201 NORTH FOURTH STREET,
1 it Sin CORNH OF BAO&