11IE DAILY EVENING : ''TEtEGftArn PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY MAY 21, 18G7.
G
JQIIN U. SUHKATT.
a MORNING WITH HIS COLLEGE CHUM.
.om the New York Tribune. , .. .. , '
lnn,Ai.Ki.r.i!A, May 18.-ConvleBcwt after
jTronio tta,k of Centrifugal., that rhou
mfttiHtn of the bones that compels one to go
wSKre, for the sake of the go rather than
Ite omcUere, I had got back the other day
St and Bcant of breath, and was regaling
Jnyself with a walk on Chesnut street. Sud
denly I paBod a round-bellied young mm
with ere-claspes over his nose. It was plain
to me that 1 had gone to s. hool with him,
though wlio he was I was indifferent about
remembering. During my pupaw at the
l'hiladelphia High School about 1000 youths
had entered and departed from it; and while,
apart from my own class, 1 knew not a dozen
! ' them by name, I had hardly forgot a single
. face. Bo I swung my hat promptly:
"Good day, sirl Glad to meet you again.
The other hat came off in response, and I
walked a full black, forgetting, meantime, ail
. about the person, when I heard a qniuk wot
tehind me, felt a tap on the arm, and the eye
rlasses had got around to my front agam.
"I beg pardon," said the young man, but
you went to the High School. Your name is?
Wtly I I have long wanted to see you.
You know Weichmann 1"
t "Certainly 1 that is, not altogether.
"Lewis Weichmann ?"
"Lewis f" L, .,,
"The boarder at Mrs. burratt s.
- I felt newsy and centrifugal at once again,
and drew him to one side. In three miuutes
1 had him promised to come to my house the
jiext morning.
Out of his face and voice and the new m
' terest in him, I summoned, meantime, tho
whole memory of the man again. He had
leenin the next class behind me, and his
lonnd, chubby, red-tipped cheeks reappeared
aa when he climbed into his bench in the
lecture-room, and hummed, with the rest of
the hoys, disapproval of some dry, volumi
nous orator, or peeped at his lesson and got
"noted" for it during the reading of the morn
ing Scripture. An ordinary fat boy I con
siaered him, whose definition of school was a
place to get fun ont of; and he was of mixed
religious origin, his father being Protestant
and his mother Roman Catholic. He went
to the High School three years, and left it
in 1859.
Next morning after meeting him was Sun
day, and into my room the junior schoolmate
' was ushered at 10 o'clock. When he put
iy his hat, gloves, and cane, I saw him
grown up to be a young fellow of twenty
lour, brown hair, with dimples and tints all
over him, a moustache that will never come
to much, a nose with a good deal of bridge
to it, clear light eyes that do not strain by their
near-sightedness, and that bodily prematurity
which makes him "waddle" somewhat in gait,
and was expressed by Surratt in the nick
' name of "Fatty."
His address was singularly intelligent and
pleasant, and he has more than average in
dependence of opinion. I compared him, for
the first few minutes, to Snodgrass, the junior
loarder at Mrs. Cunningham's when Dr. Bur
dell was boarded the young fellow who
waltzed with Augusta and played the banjo
in his cell, sublimely indifferent to the great
tragedy he lived so close to; in half an hour I
found that Weichmann was altogether a graver
man, sobered, practical zed, even religiously
affected by the part he had unwittingly played
in the direst conspiracy of our times.
"1 believe, sir," he exclaimed, in the pitch
f the narrative, "that I was providentially
thrown in the way of those people that I was
' an instrument prepared to convict them.
Look 1 it was I that introduced St. Maurie to
John Surratt two years before the assassina
tion; how did I know that one was to be the
man who should chase the other round the
worJd and bring him home 1 Look again t on
Good Friday an order came from Mr. Stanton
to the department in which I was clerk, giving
only the Catholio employes holiday for the
afternoon. But for that holiday I should
never have driven Mrs. Surratt out to Sur
rattsville four hours before the murder, and it
was that drive that hanged her."
I asked him to go back to the beginning of
himself, and tell me all that had not been
evidence on the trial whatever inferential,
and domestic, and characteristic had marked
Ma acquaintance with the Surratts; for I had
been collecting data upon the great crime, and
liad been present in all its scenes, fresh after
their commemorations; the theatre, the Sur
ratt House, the Maryland swamps, the route
f Booth escaping, the barn where he died,
the scaffold. 1 admonished Weichmann that
as John Surratt was shortly to be tried, I
might print this conversation, and here
unless I am over-sanguine, the straightest I
Biory 01 tne conspiracy against the Govern
ment's preservers yot related:
weicumaxh's narrative.
In lt59, he began, I left the IUgh School,
where you had known me, and in February of
the same year I entered St. Charles' College
at KUicott's Mills, near Baltimore. A consi
derable number of students were present, and
, the Principal was the Rev. Father Jenkins.
About six months after my admission Surratt
came there to study for the diocese of Florida,
lie attracted no attention, either by his talents
r prowess, being one of the most sober and
obedient scholars, and winning the coinmen-
- dation of all the professors by his tractable
bearing. - He was then a fresh-faoed fellow of
sixteen, straight and thin, with a good, broad
forehead, and deeply sunken eyes. We were
not -allowed to sleep with one another the
monastic system being enforced, and, although
1 talked Often with Surratt. I recall nothing
now that showed him to have any depth of
character, nor pointed ever bo remotely to this
crime. 1
When the war broke out the whole school
'. teas, with few exceptions, favorable to the suc
' cess of the Rebellion. The teachers Boomed
to have little enthusiasm for the liberty of
pinion, the secular education, and the repub
lican civilization of the North, and most of
the students either came from slave States, or
meditated ininwtering in them. We were
bpt ignorant of Union victories; the news-
ners were prohibited; and when I emerged
rand myself as misinformed as if I had
been in jail. Surratt, with the rest, sang
secession songs very frequently, and he left
schol the same day that I did, in July, 18l2.
lie h&d previously satisfied himself that the
priesthood was not his vocation, and at leaving
Was so trraoU affected that he wept.
The l'lv sident held his hands over him, and
Said:- "John, you have been a good boy. Do
not feel disappointed. You will always be
remembered here." Indeed, Surratt belonged
to a Students' Society, called tho Society of the
Angels, very pions ju its nature, and I was
' altogether too wild to be admitted to it. Sur
' rat had often spoken to me of his homo in
Maryland, and some months after I loft tho
School he wrote me a letter, inviting ino to
Visit him. Meantime I accepted a tutorship
at Borroiueo College, Maryland, and, after four
months, went to visit a friend at Ellangowan,
familiarly tailed Little Texas, a small limekiln
town on the Northern Central Railway, and
here I helped him teach a small Catholic School
for a few weeks. In the meantime Surratt,
between whom and myself several letters had
pasppd, wrote to me to ask for a teacher's
position in Borromeo . College; his father had
died, and his family were involved. 1 failed
to get him an appointment; but when, soon
afterward, I changed to teach in St. Matthew's
College, Washington City, Surratt called upon
me, and we personally renewed our acquaint-,
anee. Ho f poke enthusiastically of his homo,
and invited mo down to see it .whenever I
chose. I observed that he was still a per
sistent Rebel, but I had seen so many of his
class in Washington, that I took no personal
offense at what he said, having already made
myself obnoxious by political arguments.
Meantime the life of the country tavern,
and tho entire change in his ambitious, had
given Surratt a brusqner and more worldly
manner. He talked variously of teaching,
farming, or entering tho Rebel servico. His
mind was unsettled. I saw him several times
at school and in town.
It was on a Friday afternoon in March,
rainy and dreary, when at last I went down to
Surrattsville with John. He came for me in a
buggy, and the road was bo rutty and miry
that we were four hours on the way. On
coming in sight of the house I was miserably
disappointed. The theme of so much pane
gyric was a solitary frame tavern at a cross
road, a few sheds and barns around it and a
hitching stall, and a peach orchard reaching
behind. The farm consisted of 300 acres, and
it was afterwards let, with the tavern, for $0'UO
a year.
A small porch stood in the middle, on which
opened a hall reaching quite through the house.
At the foot of this hall, to the left, was the
bar-room and Post Office, with a door opening
upon one of the cross-roads, and to the right
were the parlor and dining room. Altogether
there weie eight rooms comfortably furnished.
Mrs. Surratt received me pleasantly, and we
had a good warm supper, after which I went
awhile to the bar-room, where there were some
of the Rebel farmers of the neighborhood,
come to get their letters, to lounge, and to
play cards. John kept the bar, and we had a
game with two Jewish persons who had carpet
bags with them. These carpet-bags Mrs. Sur
ratt came in and removed. Their owners left
before daylight next morning, and one of them
named Jacobs was arrested crossing the Poto
mac with f 50,0(J0 upon him.
Mrs. Surratt was proud, and counted her
beads a great deal. She was a convert, and
not an original Catholic, and her husband was
a Protestant till his death, which happened of
apoplexy in August, 1862. There were three
or four negroes about the place; it was a dull,
cross-roads' existence, but pleasant for a day
or two to a stranger. Next morning, at day
light, we were awakened by very beautiful
music. It wa3 a brass band, come out from
the Washington Navy Yard, to serenade the
Democratio county officers just elected.
Among the hangers-on was a seedy, frowsy,
monkey-faced boy, whom Surratt introduced
to me as Mr. Herold. He came in with the
rest, took a drink, and went further up the
road with them. I left the house on Monday,
pleased with my visit, and we stopped at a
drug store by the Navy Yard, Surratt and I,
to get a cigar. The boy, Herold, was clerk
there. Surratt told me on the way that his
brother, Isaac Surratt, an engineer, had left
his home on the 7th of March, 1861, at the
news of Lincoln's inauguration, and gone to
Texas, where he had been ever since in the
Confederate service.
I got to consider Surratt an intimate friend
after this visit, and he had good points of
character; but his isolated life In the country
kept me from knowing of more than the
director concerns of our friendship; while
meantime the war went on more bitterly, and
his home was probably a convenient and con
stant resort of secret epies and traders. But
in Easter, 18G3, we agreed to visit an old
school friend at KUicott's Mills, and from
there I took Surratt to Ellangowan to Bee my
friend the school teacher. Before we started
a priest asked me to deliver a newspaper to
Mr. St. Maurie, whom I found to be my
friend's assistant, and to whom I introduced
John Surratt. He was a French Canadian,
black-eyed and black-haired, aged about
thirty, very fascinating in his manners and
accomplishments, a linguist and adventurer.
He was teaching for his board and spending
money only, being entirely needy, and he
amused himself by giving concerts in the vil
lage, where he was in love with a virtuous
and beautiful young lady.
When I left Ellangowan St. Maurie asked me
to get him a teacher's place in Washington,
and soon after he came to my room there, say
ing that he had left his place, disgusted with
its littleness, and was without a meal, a bed,
or a penny. I got him a position in Gonzaga
College, and when he came to see me once or
twice I found him so unprincipled that I wrote
to the lady he addressed at Ellangowan, bid
ing her beware, lie would tell me in a breath
that he had lied from Canada to avoid the
consequences of a most heartless seduction,
and at the same time put his new sweetheart's
bouquet under his pillow. His stories of him
self were that he had been a member of the
Canadian Parliament, a Federal prisoner of
state, etc. But, at any rate, he deoaniped
from the College after a montli, leaving me to
pay his board, and enlisted for the bounty in
a Delaware regiment, deserted, fell into Castle
Thunder as an object of general suspicion,
was released by reason of playing informer
upon his comrades, escaped by a blockade
runner to England, returned to Canada, and
hearing ot the 2.3,000 reward for Surratt,
pursued him to Rome, enlisted with him,
and gave him up just too late for the reward.
wnicn iiau ueen aireaay wnncirawn. '
I was now weary of teaching for insufficient
pay, and sought a Government clerkship,
which 1 obtained in the office of the Commis
sary of Prisons in January, 18(i4. In Sep
tember of the same year the Surratts moved
to Washington to keora boarding-house an 1
get John something to do, and to help theiu
along 1 moved in almost immediately. John
was engaged by Adams Express Company,
and with the exception of the arrival of a
blockade-runner or two, little happened until
a few days before Christmas of 1SU4-5, when
ly another cf those providences or coin
cidences to which I have referred, I was walk
J?..ln ib "reel with Surratt when John
to him by their-
...v.,.., ,,,, JUUUat j
After this the manner and nature of Surratt
changed. He became, grade by grade, a loi
terer and a Fpendthritt, subject at times to
Jits ot despondence; ami I h
Booth was his absolute master, debauching
him with his horses and loans of money, and
by his stronger worldliness and magnetism
controlling him altogether. I used to wonder
what affinity such unlike men could have- Init
bitter as the secessionists of Washington inw
no idea of confpiracy, particularly against
personages so high, ever occurred to me. And
it was onlv in the liead ot a monomaniac actor.
used to rehearse Brutus, that so desperate a
crime could have been conceived; his means
were just considerable enough to purchase
snih poor instruments as John Surratt; and
his own character was so impracticable that
nobody ever fathomed his plot. In Mrs. Sur-
ratt's house he was altogether '( tho most
talented visitor. The mistress of it jailed him
"Her Pet," in his absence.
During all these days tho plot was ripening:
dirty fellows like Atzerott, boys like Herold,
apd searching-eyed, mysterious persons like
Payne, began to visit the house. I felt that
iu my friendship with John, never very well
founded, 1 was eupplauted. John Surratt
began to be a bird of passage, riding to and
fro from Montreal to Richmond. I was only
puzzled by these things, but never alarmed,
and set him down as a mere "sponger" or
parasite upon Booth, who was never free with
me, and on whom I looked as a man of ac
complishments and genius that liked the com
pany of his inferiors. In all this there were
interludes of drunkenness, as when three or
four of the subsequent assassins burst into my
room, Baying that they were ruined men and
that all was lost. This wag afterwards de
monstrated to be Booth's failure to capture
the President at the Soldier's Home.
And this brings mo to the crisis of the nar
rative; the interest of the house was gone, its
peacefulness and charm. I was thinking to
myself on Good Friday, as I returned from my
office to Mrs. Surratt's, released for a holiday
on account of my religious belief, that perhaps
I had better seek board otherwheres. At that
moment, as if some providence had satisfied
me with these aimless companionships bo long
that I might observe their complicity aud con
vict them, if not defeat them, Mrs. Surratt
asked me to spend the afternoon in taking
her to drive. As we started out, I saw Booth
in the parlor, leaning on the mantel, paler
than usual I have since seemed to recollect,
his hand to his moustache, his eyes upon the
floor. We talked pleasantly on the way, and
once Mrs. Surratt stopped to ask about the
pickets in the fields, and when they were to
be removed at nightfall.
She died for that ride. I, who had made
her son's acquaintance bo unwittingly, and
slept under her roof bo long without unkind
ness given or received, do not shrink to say
that I have never been sorry that I accompa
nied her. And when she died I felt saddened
but not self-accusing; for if there is a doubt
that she was a principal in the murder, there
is no doubt, to my mind, that she knew enough
to prevent it, to save the President, the Secre
tary of State, Booth, and the tools of Booth,
and, perhaps, her own son.
That night I was weary, and read myself to
sleep. At 3 o'clock in the morning, called
from my bed by loud hands upon the door, I
heard the challenge of "Officers of the Govern
ment. Open at once."
"What is it all for, gentlemen ?" I said.
"The President and the Secretary of State
are dead I We want Booth and Surratt to sur
render, if they are here."
I do not remember what I exclaimed ; the
officers say it was: "My God I I see it all."
Then at daylight I hastened to read the par
ticulars "A tall man in a white coat stabbed
Mr. Seward" that must be Payne!
I hurried to the police station at once.
Directly I was off with the detectives on the
road to fcurrattsvilie again, we caught a
horse. "To whom did you hire it?" we say
to the lively man. "To a monkey-faced
chap named Erail, I think." 1 hat must be
Herold. Away we go to the widow Herold's.
David has been away quite two days. "Let
us see your album." His picture is secured.
I knew where Surratt had photographs taken;
we obtain a dozen copies. Then I am carried
before Mr. Stanton. He looks at me savagely
for having been one of his clerks and keep
ing Bucn company. I am ordered to Old
Capitol Hill. From the jail-yard I see Mrs.
Bun att at the window, fche kisses her band.
A man comes to me with a message on her
behalf: "You are to say nothing of anybody
of the female gender when asked." It is too
late, if 1 could have had such a wish. The
past is too vividly illumined by this fresh
crime to be forgotten. This is the story of a
scnool inendsmp asd buarding-nouse ac
quaintanceship. - i
He closed and shook my hand. I
wondered if there were boys in other genera
tions with the experience of this boy in ours
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Glogbanis, '12 and l6 cents.
Yard-wide t-prlnK Calicoes, 25 cent.
Bargains In Huckaback Linen Towels, 28 cents.
WHITE GOODS
WHITE GOODS!
Soft finish Jaconets, 25,87, and 60 cents.
Victoria Lawns, 81, ifX, 46 60, and 80 cent.
Nainsooks, Undressed Cambrics, Swiss, etc.
Shirred Muslins, hue white Brilliants, eto.
Plaid Nainsooks, 26,81, 87X. 60, 65, 60, aud 5 cents.
While Pluues, from auction, 6(1 cents.
Fine Corded Piques, 62 and 75 cents.
Ladles' and Gents' Linen Hdkts., from auction.
Hosiery and Gloves, at reduced prices.
Linen Shirt Fronts, 80, 87, 45, 50, 66, ilbi, and 750,
Three-ply Linen Culls, la cents.
Marseilles Uullta from auction, cheap, eta
FARIES & WARNER,
tm NO. 839 NORTH NINTH STREET.
No. 1101 CHESNUT Street.
E. M. NEEDLES & CO.
Have opened, at their NEW STORE,
N. W. Cor. Eleventh and Chesnut,
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
OF
WHITE GOODS,
LACES,
E9I BROIDERIES,
LACE GOODS,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
VEILS, ETC. ETC.,
Of Superior Quality, at LOW PRICES.
nOMB XQKS3HO 1011 02a
NDIA GHAVLS.
GEORGE FRYER,
No. 916 CHESNUT STREET,
HAVING A LARGE STOCK 07
INDIA SHAWLS
On band, will offer them for the next three weeks
at greatly reduced prices, less than ever offered
before. 4 18 am
Ladles In want of this article will do well to pur
chase now, as great Inducements will be offered.
&ILKS !
SILKS! SILKS!
BLACK SILKS,
GREY DO.
Pl'R FEE DO.
WHITE DO. )
GUIS PELE DO.
STRIPED DO,
And many other RICH SHADES, all of SUPERIOR
QUALITIES AND BEST Makes, are offered at a
LOW FIG URE, at
MAD'LLE KEOGR'S,
411 thstmml NO. 90 WALNUT STREET.
CHEAP DRY GOO 18, CAB PET8, M A.TTIJIUS,
OIL CLOTHS, AND WINDOW SHADES,
V. E. ARCHAMBATJLT,
N. E. Corner F-LEV.KNTH aud MAJiKET Streets,
opened this morning, from auction
lunrain Carpets, all wool, al 760., 87c, II, IllS.im.
and trtx). lunrain Carpets, wool oiling, 4UC, 5oc and
fx. .English Tapestry Brussels Cartels, only 41",5,
l!.ntry aud btalr Carpels, :ac to 75c, Rug Carpels, 4&0.
to 76c. Hemp Carpeta, 86c. to 62c. Floor Oil Clolbs,
oc. Window Shades, (1 to tx Plain Window Hoi
land, 60c. White Matting, 87c to 60c Red Matting,
400, to 60c. Woollen Druggets, tl to IlKU. Stair O
Cloths, !itc Spring Chiuues, Vic to Sua, DeLalnea
tic. ilusllna, Uo. to2&c
CHEAP STORK, fj 198m
N. F. Corner mtVtKTH and MARKET Streets.
CHAMBER'S, KO. 810 AKCH STREET.
. Novelties Opening Dallyj
-Real Cluuy Lao, 1
Bluck Uutpuie Lace. i
l'olnte Applique Lacea,
Folute de iiuze Lacxn.
Thread Veils Irom 2-5tt. , ;
WHITE GOODS. ,
Marseilles lor Dresses bargains,
Fieucli JUuslluH, a yards wide, al 60 cents.
'tMrred aud Tucked Late Wulliii India Twilled
Lung cloth ; Plaid, stripe, and Plain Nalimooks; son
llnmh Cambric, iU yard wide: Cambric Edgings aud
inne nk.ns.riew design vary cheap
6H lm
HARD RUBBER ARTIFICIAL
LIMBS, Arms, Legs, Appliances tor
Delomilty, etc etc. These Uuihsare
i..,..!...,.! from llni !n fiirru iluQ DC I
..u ii.. iiioit nw..t ilnrAhlH. nm.
lutes yet invented. They are ap-
Stales Government and our principal burgwn
patented August 18, IBM; Alay 2x, lti5; May Ik
Aduxeae KIMBALL CO.,
No. 689 AKCH Siruet Philadelphia.
Pamphlets free. 'B 6m
.-flrNl.2 PHILADELPHIA BURGEON'S
y, r BAKU AUK INSTITUTK, No. 14 N.
liiJ' NINTH fclretft, above Markel.-B. O.
iV i.HKTT, aller thirty years' practical experience,
guarantees the eklltul adJiiHtnient ol lila Premium
Puteul Graduating Pressure Trims, and a variety ol
oihem. hupnorlvrs, tlunllc SlockintfS, bhouldtr
Brares, Crutches, huspeudeis, etc. Ladles' apfrv
bicnis conducted by a Lady, 6M
1 v
SHIPPING.
Wrt. 1K l-llll.AI.l.fMU AI
H a.v.. krti .'i li 1. 11 v. a ... n ....
l i.V s IUlUII.aR 1,1m..
W v!.MT1iA,,,,'Ul,I",i,'ull, Wm- Jnnlng,
WiOMlNM, ehu tons, CaptKiu Jacob TL .
aliovt port oil Saturday, Wuv g o clock A Mu.
In m thf second wharl below Hpruov strwu
1 nrougn pawnge nrnei-i sold and ireiK,t taken for
all pnlntelu mnnertlmi Willi tliewvnrirtaljf.ntrRi lil.
N. an m. Delaware avenue.
Agents at Savannah, Hunler A Gamine!). 4 i
4fW1T T 1 K PHILADELPHIA AWD
2AWu.P0L-lUKnN MAIL, KIKAMHitrPuOM.
FAink'tt HmuiiAKSKMl MUNIIlLY LINE.
FOR Af.W UKI,KAng.U.
VIA HAV'AAA.
BTA R OF TH K UN 1 ON, laa tons. Ce.pt. T. N. Oooksej
JLMiATA. 1216 tons. Captain P. L. Uoxle,
will leave this port every two weeks altenmtely;
loueiiiiig at Uavaua for paaaeLgers going auU re.
turning. 3
1 hrough bills of lading signed for freight to Mobile
(lalvralon.Natcbes, Vlcksburg, Memphis isasuvU
v.uvwn.'iiin. lAiuin.uiv, K1IU VlllOimiatl.
WILLIAM L. JAMKM Umieral A iron,
V'1 . . Delaware aveiiu.
Agents at New Orleans, Creevy, Mckeison tiuT
E PHILADELPHIA AND
ZaJtJi BOUT HERN MAIL hTKAMBHIP Zu.
Xax'S It KG U LA It SKMl-MON'lULY LINW
lull ILHIIWSjI'lOM. M. C.
T. 'fI""ulP k,i.K. 612 tons, lanialn J. Ben.
nelt, will leave lor Hie above port on Saturday. June
1, at 8 o'clock A. M from the Ural wharl below
l'lue street.
Bills o : lading signed at throngb and reduced rates
to all principal points In North Carolina.
Agents at W lluilngton, Worth & Daniel,
WILLIAM L. JAMhs, General Agent,'
11 No. 814 S. Delaware avenue,'
fjff HAVANA STSAMER3. fffy
BF.MI-JIONTH i,y LINK. 1
CARRYING THK UNITED tji'ATKS MAIL.
The bleanisblpn
HKNDR1CK Ht'DSOX -...CAPTAIN HOWES
STAliS AND STR1PKS OAPIAUN HOLMKS
These Steamers will leave this port for Havana
every other Saturday at 8 A. M.
The Steamship lifcNDlUCK HUDSON (Howes.
Master) will sail lor Havana ou SATURDAY MORN
ING, June 1, at 8 O'clock.
Passage to Havana, currency.
No Ireight received after Thursday,
For Freight or Passage apply to
THOMAS WATSON A PONS,
618 No. 140 N. DKI.AWA11K Avaiiue.
flPI'ibklTlil V T'.. MA.A.
I.'Tput.Y.-DAlLY LINK FOR BAI.ll.
1, A'fafafc MO ttK , via Chesapeake and Dela.
Ware Canal.
Philadelphia and Baltimore Union Steamboat Com.
pany, dally at o'clock P. M.
Tb Steamers ol this line are now plying regularly
between this port aud Baltimore, leaving the second,
wharf below Arch street dally at X o'clock P, M,
(Sundays excepted).
Carylng all description of Freight as low aa any
olher line.
Freight handled with great care, delivered
promptly, and forwarded to all polula beyoud the
terminus freeot commission.
Particular attention paid to the transportation of
all description of Merchandise, Horses, Carriages
etc. eto.
For further information, apply to
JOHN I. KUOFF, Agent,
61fi No. IS N. DELAWARE Avenue-.
fFff THE 8TEAM8HIP ETNA
mirT IL LJ (newly fitted), of the Inruan Llne,:wlll
Ban irom Pier No. 45, North River, at Noon, on
WEDNESDAY, May 18, for Liverpool, oalllng al
Queenstown,
Rates ot Passage First Cabin, f 110; Steerage, 30-
Currency, JOHN G. DALE, Agent,
6 m t No. 411 CHESNUT Street, Pblla.
rfrfPT STEAM TO LIVERPOOL CALLING
BiiiLi&t Queenstown. The Inman Line, saillna
semi-weekly, carrying theUniled Stales Mails.
RETURN TICKETS TO PARIS AND BACK,'
FIRST CLASS, 1UX GOLD,
CITY OF BOSTON -....jsaturday, May 28
ETNA ..............Wednesday, May
CITY OF BALTIMORE. Suturday, June 1
EDINBURGH .. Wednesday, June
aud each succeeding fcaturda and Wednesday, at
noon, from Pier No. 45, North River. '
RATES OF PAbHAGB
By the mall steamer-sailing every Saturday-
Payable lu Gold.
Payable in Currenov;
Firs t Cabl n ...... ....... .,. 1 lu
To Loudonw... 116
To Paris 'U
Steeraget...M...MTC...M..w,.Ao4
To London......MM.m U
Passage by the Wedueaaay steamers: First Cabin,
(1 10; Steerage, (30. Payable in United U La tea ourrenoy,
Passeugers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bxe
men, etc, at moderate rates.
Steerage passage from Liverpool or Queenstown, I3T
currency. Tlukeua can be bought here by persous senitr
Ing lor their friends.
For further information apply at the Company!
Ofllces. JOHN G. HALE, Ageut, "
871 No. 411 CHEHNUT Street. Philadelphia,
10 raris..
PASSAGE TO AND
D I) a 11
GHEATBK1TA1N AND.IKELANDI
; bTEAAltlAlP AND SAILING PACkLKr, '
AT EEDULEli UATKM. '
DRAFTS AVAILABLE THKOLGIIOUT EMGLAB
IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES.
for particulars apply to
1 AT8COTT BROTHERS 3c CO..
Ko. I6B0U1H Street, and No. 23 BUOADWAT!
11 OrtoTBOB. R.bEARLK.ai7 WALNUT St'
FOlt N EW YORK SWI PTarTDll
VCTraniiportailon Company Despatoli
aud Rarltan Canal, ou and atXer the 16th of March,
leaving daily at 12 M. and 6 P. M., connecting wllll
all Northern and Eastern lines.
Fur freight, which will be taken upon accoinmoda
ting texais, apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO..
Ill No. 1q2 B. DELAWARE Avenue.
4ffb, TO SHIP CAPTALNS AMD OWNERS.
Mull mil tm " uuderslgued bavlug teased the KEN.
biiNO ION SCREW DOCK, begs to Tuforui his frieuda
and the patrons of the Dock that he Is prepared wlUj
increased facilities to accommodate those having vea
sels to be raised or repaired, aud being a practical
ship-carpenter and caulker, will give personal atten
tion to the vessels entrusted to him for repairs.
Caplainaor A gents, Ship-Carpenters, and Machinist!
having vessels to repair, are solicited to cull.
Having the agency for the sale of " Wetterstedt'a
Patent Metallic Composition" for Copper paint, for
the preservation of vessels' bottoms, for this cliy.Iaui
prepared to lurulah the same on reasonable terms,
JOHN U. HAM MITT, .
Kensington Screw Dock,
U DELAWARE Avenue, above Laurel street
LUMBtH.
i CAT SELF.CT WHITE PLNE BOARDS-
-LOO Is AND PLANK.
4-4, 6-4, fc-4, 2, lii, I, and 4 Inch
CHOICE PANEL AND lat COM MOM, 1 at loog,
4-4. 6-4, -4, i, S.1, 8, and 4 Inch
WHITE PINE, PANEL PATTERN PLANK,
LAKOE AND SUPERIOR Sl'OCK ON HAND.n
uu anuiauia j.ioeo, via ioiawarc
B U JLDlAlil BH1LD1NQ
T.TIILDIN'G!
UMBER I LUMBKKI LUMBER -
4-4 l a & r 1jVujiiiv.
6-4 t A ROLIN A FLOORING.
4-4 1 lE'LA W A RE FLOOR! NG.
6-4 DELAWARE FLOORING
WHi'lE PINE FLOORING.
AbH FLOORING
WALNUT FLOORING,
SPRUCE FLOORING,
ST EP BOi (IDS.
RAIL 1'LaNK.
PLAbTERING LATH.
Oir7 -CEDAR
AND CYPRES
J.OU I SHINGLES.
LONG CEDAR SHINGLES.
SHORT CEDAR bUlNGLES,
COOPER hlUNGLES.
FINK ASKOBTMENT FOK SALR LOW.
N O. 1 CEDA R LOGS AN I) POSTS.
1 R(I7 LUMBER YOU UNDERTAKERS
JLOU I LUMBER FOR UNDERTAKERS!
RED CEDAR, WALNUT, AND PINE.
1 Qf7 ALBANY LTJAlBEB OP ALL KIND.,
JLOU I. ALBANY LUMBER OK ALL KINDS!
SEASONED WALNUT.
DRY POPLAR, CHERRY, AND ASH.
OAK PLANK AM) BOARDS,
MAHOGANY,
ROSEWOOD. AND WALNUT VKNEERS.
1807
-CIGAR-BOX BlANUFACaUREHS
(JIOAR-BOX MANUFACT URERH.
SPAMbH CEDAR BOX BOARDS.
1867
-SPRUCE JOIST! SPRUCE J0I3
KPKLCE JOJbT
L' 1 k Kf 1 a 'Vi W C IT ITT Tnmrini
' 'V' Jl Al A I' A ALA . A JJ IV JT,
BUPKIUOR NOHWA Y (SCA.NTHNO.
. MA CLE, BROTH Kit A CO.,
11 22 Bnirp No. StOoO SO U THaST REET.
c.
r E R KIN S
L.U1V1UKH MfcltOUANT.
' bucceeeorto U Clurk.Jr ,
NO. 324 CHRISTIAN STREET. J
oMuiiWJbVr? a VfcrlBd 'VlTk
COPARTNERSHIPS.
r)A"NjCltS"IP- B- EDWARDS (OP
J the late firm of Mitchell dt Edwards) has this
Bui.h.i Vinde, il '5 .ru'""'uH" ol a General Lumber
BuhI less under Uie tlriu name of Jfi. u. EDWARUH
Nobleltre 'K Aveuue, nut wharf below
pjiiiuaLi-Hi a, May 1, 1SC7. 2 lmrp
1 ue htak OF THK UNION will leave lor New "Or
leans, Saturday June I, at o'clock A. At., lrotu the
eecnud wliait ... ttpruce street.
Junei ATA' wau"v,ie Orleans for this port