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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 18G7.
AN INTERESTING LAW CASE.
We publish below the decision of Chief
Justice Woodward and a majority of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on
the case of Bmith vs. The Com
monwealth; also, the dissenting opinion of
Justice Agnew. The Court held that a solici
tation to commit a felony or misdemeanor was
not indictable, while the dissenting Justice
affirmed the contrary. "When doctors dis
agree," eto. The case is of importance and
interest:
Suprkmi Court. Tho following interesting
opinion, toucniDfr a very delicate question, was
ikiivered by the Chief Justice at the recent sit
tiriR of the 'Supreme Court at Harrisnurg.
Bmith vs. The Commonwealth. Certiorari to
the Qnarter Sessions of Clinton CouDty. Opi
nion hv Woodward. C. 3.
An attempt to commit a misdemeanor is a
fuUeineanor, whether the otl'ense is created by
statute, or was an offer se at common law.
These were the words of Pnrker in the case of
Iiex vs. Roderick, 7 Car. and Pay., 705, delivered
in the year 1837. They have been adopted by
the compilers on criminal law, 1 Kup. on Crtine.
46. 1 Arch. Crlm. Pleading, and Ev. P, l'J
Wharton's Crlm. Law, pp. 79 and 873.
Lons? bclore 1837, to wit, in 1801, it wis hold
in the King vs. Higgins (21 Er. aud p. 6), that
to solicit a servant to steal his masters Roods la
a misdemeanor, though it be not charged In the
Indictment that the servant stole tho goods, or
that any other act was done except the soliciting
and inciting. This was the caoo of an unsuc
cessful solicitation to commit a felony, and it is
authority tor nothing more than that such soli
citation is Indictable as a misdemeanor, though
the lanRuape ol tbe judses, and especially J mice
J., went so far as to Intimate that such solici
tation to commit a misdemeanor is indictable.
'AH these cases prove," said the learned judge,
"that inciting; another to commit a misdemeanor
Is Itself a misdemeanor. A fortiori, therefore,
it must be such to incite another to commit a
felony."
No fault can be found with his conclusion If
his premises be true, but "all these cacs" to
which he referred himelf were cases rather of
attempts than ot mere tol'tcitations to commit
misdemeanor. Thus, liex vs. Bcoflcld, Cakl.,
31)7, was an attempt by a man to set tire to his
own houe; at that time the burning of one's
own hojse being only a misdemeanor in Kng
land. but since made a felony by statute. Tho
act done in that case was setting a lighted can
dle under the stairway, and the question was
whether the intent was to burn the house.
And in Rex vs. Vaughan, 2 Burr, 2494, the
defendant attempted to bribe the Dake of Graf
ton, then a Cabinet minister, to give the defen
dant a place in Jamaica, and it was indicted as
an atttmpt. The King vs. Plymplon, 2 D. Reg.,
1377, was another case of attempted bribery;
the offer of money to a member of a corporation
tor his vote.
Rex vs. Johuson, 2 Shew, 1, auother of the
authorities relied upon by the Judge, as in Hig
jrjns' case, was nothing less than subornation of
perjury, the actual putting of money into a desk
to be paid to a witness upon the event of a
verdict. And such indeed was the unreported
case mentions J by the Judge as having occur
red before Baron Adams, at Shrewsbury, where
the indictment charged an attempt to suborn
one to commit perjury.
These were the cases upon which Iligglns' case
was ruled, and no doubt they were ample autho
rity for the point ruled there, but do they sus
tain or attempt to sustain the obiter dictum, that
merely inciting another to commit a misdemea
nor is indictable r That depends upon auother
question, whether there is any distinction in
law and reason between an attempt to commit a
crime, and the inciting or soliciting of another
to commit a crime ?
Long before any of the above mentioned cases
were ruled, it had been decided in Peirson's
case, 1 Balkeld, 382, that one maybe indicted
ior keeping a bawdy bouse, but a bare solicita
tion of chastity is not indictable, and this had
passed into tbe text of Hawkins, cap. 74, and
perhaps of otner writers on criminal law. Here
the distinction between attempt and solicitation
is sharply drawn. Keeping a bawdy house is
an organized temptation to adultery, and a pre
paration of all facilities lor the consummation'
of the crime. It is an attempt, a deliberate
effort, to promote the crime of the most unquali
fied eigniticance; but so many equivocal words,
looks, and gestures might be constrained into
solicitation, that it would be difficult to define
the crime. What expressions of the face or
double entendres of the tongue are to be ad
judged solicitations? What iraedoms of man
ners amount to this crime? Is every cyprian
who nods and winks at the married men she
meets on the sidewalks ind ctable for soliciting
to adultery? And could the law safely under
take to decide what recognitions in the street
were chaste and what were lewd ? It would be
a dangerous and difficult rule of criminal law
to administer.
When an act is done which unequivosally
tends to crime, the law can lay hold of it, and
onnlsh it either as a consummated crime, or an
attempt at crime. As, for instance, the renting
of a house ior purposes of prostitution, as in
the Commonwealth vs. Harrington, 5 Pickering,
206; but until something has been done which
- may be called an overt act, it seems unreason
able thatthe law should be required to detect
and punish the criminal intent. This Court
aid so with great emphasis in the case of Shan
non and Nugeut vs. Commonwenlth, 2 EI., 220,
when it was held that a conspiracy between a
man and woman to commit an adultery was not
indictable. Conspiracy to commit adultery looks
much more criminal than unsuccessful solicita
tion. In Regina vs. Martin, 9 Car. & Payne,
215, Justice Patterson hit the distinction when
lie 6ald, "It is perfectly clear that every attempt,
not every intention, to commit a misdemeanor ia
a misdemeanor." To the name effect are the
cases collected in Wharton's Crim. Law, 873,
which have been decided under the Btatutes
that exist in keveral States for the punishment
of attempts to commit crime.
The attempt can only be made bv an actual,
ineffectual deed done in pursuanee'of and fur
therance of the debign to commit the offense. I
would have supposed thatthe case of Rex vs.
Butler, 6 Car. & Payne, 308, would have fallen
within this rule, and yet it was held there that
a count was not good, although it was clearly
proved that the defendant did solicit, by tlio
most overt and almost forcible acta, the
plaintiff to commit adultery. This wai
eoliciting and persuading with overt acts that
clearly manifested the guilty intent, and if soli
citation with, such indubitable acts be not in
dictable, it is quite necessary to conclude that
mere solicitation, without any overt acts, is not
Indictable. It is easy to say that solicitation is an
attempt, but a study of the cases will show that
every case of attempt has included something
more than mere solicitation, and the slightest
reflection will persuade any observant man that
a rule of law which bbould make mere solicita
tion to fornication or adultery indictable, would
oe an impracticable rule one that, in the
present UBages and manners of society would
lead to great abuses and oppressions. The
morality of the law cannot undertake to regu
late the thoughts and intents ot the heart. The
oeM it can do is to puniah open acts of lewdness,
i and repress indecent assaults. For the rest it
fViIf ""People to the refining influences
of Chrittlan education.
uu nc7 turn t0 tfle case upon re
Sr -mIi. !?.lndtctnlent in two eomiu, both
of which charge that the defendant did
'solicit, entice, and endeavor to persuade" a
married woman to commit fornication and
adultery." These are the etliclent worus, and
contain the substance or the ctaan-e There
are plenty of adverbs added, but they "implied
only legal Inferences from what Is charted
In the second count the offense is laid as "felo
niously" done; but as adultery, even when
consummated, has never been treated as. a
Itlonv in Pennsylvania, it is nonsense tn
solicitation to tbe crime higher than the crime
We have taken the. liberty of altering the
reading of the opinion or the learned J u-ulce, In
Hie case cited, as tlieoriKliml luninuure. ultliouuli
(tufted for legal hearing, is not quulined lor euia
polite.
itself.fJiJ If the conviction was sustained, this
word would have to be rejected as a ur
plnnec. It is ob.ervhble that no assault or
overt act is charged, no writing or
picture or indecent exposu.ro of penon
is alleged; inviting. Indeed, is suggested,
but mere solicitation. And the man
ner of this is not hinted, ft may have
been by direct request, by inupndo, by argu
ment, founded, as has sometimes happened,
upon Scriptural texts and analogies, or it may
have been by gay and frivolous anecdoto or
appeal. Pof-slbly nothing was said, but only
impure thoughts insinuated by looKs or ges
tures. What evidence sbnll be mfflcient to sus
tain such a charge? Nothing equivalent to an
attempt is alleged. Of course, the evidence
would fall short of nn uttempt, and what would
it consist ol? We have no precedent for such
a case, and as precedents are evidence of tho
law, the lack of them implies that the law has
never undertaken to redress such an indefinite
offense as Is ehm ped here. The authorities to
which I have adverted jlfld no support to the
indictment, unless we confound legal, distinc
nuDb w uviii eveij may oe cou
sidercd a solicitation of chastity as an attempt
upon chastity. In a high moral sense it may be
true that solicitation is attempt, but in a legal
rente it Is not. And the law ia as likely to be
distorted by pressing it into extravagant re
forms of the manners of men and women, as it
is by too loose an administration.
Tbe diligence of counsel has succeeded in
finding but one case, that of State vs. Avery, 2
Conn. R., 2G7, that goes to support the indict
ment. That was an Information in the nature
of an indictment for writing and sending to
a married woman a scandalous letter, Inviting
her to an assignation for adulterous purposes.
The Court sustained the prosecution as for a
libel, but added, arguendo, that if it were not
a libel it was not Indictable as a solicitation
to commit a ielony, and for this llipgins' case
was cited and relied upon. By the Connecticut
statutes adultery was a felony, and whs in that
case. That this in principle was Iliggins' case
over agiiin, and is distinguishable from the soli
citation charged here, which was not to commit
a felony. On another eround it is distinguish
able also, for the sending of the letter whs an
overt act, which miKht be considered sufficient
to raise the offense "to an attempt to debauch a
married woman, which we agree is indictable.
Various forms of malicious mischief have
been held Indictable in Pennsylvania, aud gross
and obscene language, publicly uttered in the
streets, has been indicted, but in all such cases
the overt act, not the guilty intent, constituted
tLe offense.
Nothing being alleged in this case which can
bo thought to amount to an attempt upon the
chastity ot the wile of the prosecutor, the judg
ment is reversed.
Fmith vs. Commonwealth. Agnew, J. To
sol.cit a wife to commit adultery, and, conse
quently, to attempt to corrupt morals,
contenin religion, wrong her husband, and en
danger the peace of society, is snid not to be
an indictable offense. I aih unwilling to assert
this in the liebt of the present aire to a people
professing Christianity, and recognizing tho
JJecalogue as the express command ot God.
To roe it Troves nothing that adultery was
not punishable in Eneland. In 1C50 we are In
formed by Bir William Blackstone (4 Com., p.
64) that this offense was made capital. "But at
the Restoration, when men, from an abhor
rence of the hypocrisy of the late times, fell into
tho contrary extreme of licentiousness, it was
not thought proter to Tenew a law of such un
fashionable rigor". And these offenses have been
ever fince kit to the feeble coercion of the
spiritual court, according to the rules of tho
common law a law which has treated the
offense ofincontinency, nay, even adultery Itself,
with a good degree of tenderness and lenity,
owing perhaps to the constrained celibacy of its
tlrst compilers. The temporal courts take no
cognizance of the crime of adultery otherwise
than as a private injury." But such a sys
tem has no application in a State whose
founder was unwilling to imitate the vices of a
Court from which he withdrew, and among a
people whose mon.l sense, so early as the year
1705. declared tLat, for the preservation of
virtue, chastity and purity, and for the preven
tion of the heinous sin ot adultery, any one
thereof convicted should receive oh his bare
back twenty-one lashos, well laid on, at the
common whipping-post, and sutler imprison
ment tor one whole year at hard labor. Lord
Mansfield, speaking of offenses of incontinence,
in Rex v. Deloval and Burrows, 1438, snid: "They
tall properly under the jurisdiction of the Eccle
siastical Court, and are appropriated to it.
But if you except these appropriated cases, this
Court is the casloa morum ot the people, and has
the superintendency of offenses contra bonoa
mores." To exhibit an obscene picture is indict
able because it is contrary to good morals; but
is an actual proposition of lust to a married
woman less injurious or less inciting to a pru
rient desire? The English law, and the licen
tious Court of the Second Charles, are not,
there'ore, the pure fountains from which we
should draw the living principles of our laws
as to this offense. To do justice to society and
to ourselves as the custodians of public morals,
ns C. J. Tilghman also termed the judges ot this
court, we must resort to our own legislation,
and the general principles of the common law.
instead of the exception introduced by a pro-
uigate monarcn ana a system or jurisprudence
d'tfering in this special case from our own.
lo solicit a marneu womau's chastttv is to
counsel and to endeavor to procure the commis
sion of an offense indictable at law, and forbid
den bv the Divine command. In the perpetra
tion of a felony, the adviser would bean acces
sory before the fact, and in the commission of a
misdemeanor he would be a principal. To steal
a iew inning articles, to touch another rudely,
and to ridicule him in writing, are public offenses
because ot their tendency. But what greater
Injury are tuese than the loathsome proposal of
lust to the mind of a sensitive woman? If we
protect a virtuous wife, faithful to her marriage
vow. and peruaps the mother ot children. Irom
such indignity, it does not follow that we must
become tho yutxotic defenders ot a strumpet,
who hantrs out the flag of surrender over the
abandoned citadel of virtue.
Nor should human inflrniltv look unon tho
offense as venial. If such solicitation be left
only to the lash of society as its puubhment,
what protection has a chaste woman against
one who pursues her with his importunities ? If
his wanton proposal be no breach of the peace,
she can have no bail to keep the peace. It. in
her own vindication, she takes the law into her
hands, ard with it the moot her persecutor,
wno wouia pronounce ner onense more than
manslaughter? The provocation could be no
greater, and pa.ssinn corresponding, she must be
m quitted or malice prepense. Thus a human
lile might be lost from a want of protection. But
a thinking woman is more apt to fly to her huB
band for relief; and what husband would fail to
defend her, and castigate herannoyer? A libel
has, in its tendency to a breach of the peace, no
comparison to an insult of this kind. The con
sequences are aleo contra bonos mores. To suffer
Fuch solicitations is to fan the flames of lust;
furnishing it an opportunity gradually to under
mine the citadel or virtue; and giving to vice a
ini n which is hideous at first, but, tolerated, at
last attracts.
On the (ieneral principles of the common
law it is a public offense. Whatever amounts
to a public wrong (eays McKean, C. J.) may be
maao tbe subject ol an indictment. Respub
lleavs. Tenscher, 1 Dallas, 33H. He then in
stances the polfoulng of chickens, cheating
with fuhe dice, fraudulently tearing a promia
sary note, breaking windows by throwing
stones, and decides that killicg a horse wilfully
and wantonly, an act In its nature but a tres
pass, is indictable as a public wrong. The
Commonwealth vs. Taylor, 3 Bruny, 277, was
an indictment for maliciously and secretly eu
teiiug a house, and when in, makmg a great
noise, which irlghienmJ a married woman aud
caused her to miscarry. Tho act was held to
be indictable by reason of its tendeucy. G. J.
Tilghman says: "There is another principle
upon which it appeared to me that the indict
ment may be supported. It is not necessary
there should be actual force or violence to con
stitute an indictable offense. Acts injurious to
private person, which tend to excite violent re-
Bi-Nimtftc. anil thus produce ngnucg ana aiBiuro
auee or the pence of society, are themselves in
aictable." lltnce, a libel of even a deceased
person is an offense apninst the public, baraino
It rr.ay stir up the passions ol the living and pro
duce act ot rpvenge. This language fits tho
casebetoTP us precisely ; lor what Is more likely
to ptoduce resentment than an insulting pro
position to a virtuous wie?
. Eavesdroppers who listen under walls, win
dows, and eaves ol houses to catch and detail
conversations to the prejudice of others, are
Indictable at common law. So is a common
scold, as this Court has recently determined;
and jet these cft'es bear no proportion to tho
ODe befcre us. Exhibiting an obscene picture
is indictable as conlra bonos mores, though not
charged to be done publicly as a common nui
sance! Commonwealth vs. Sharpless, 2 8. &
91. Jofpph Barker was charged with collecting
crowds in tho streets of Pittsburg, to whom bo
ppoke scandalous and infamous words repre
senting men and women in indecent postures.
This Court held that count to be (rood, tbouirti
it did not charge a public nu'sirice, Lewis, C.
J., remarking that it would; be a reproach on
the common 'aw if such aols were permitted,
expmsionn very applicable to tne case now
CC.oro vH 1 Haines, 412. In the Commonwealth
vs. Trundtll, 2 Grant, 610, Thompson, J., held
that running the street cars on Sunday, to the
disturbance of the "peace of the Sabbath," as
he well expresses it, is a breach of the peace.
In principle it is a step downward irom this
case to that. Now if in Pennsylvania all these
have been held to be indictable offenses, it is
certainly a public wrong of greater magnitude
and worse tendency to solicit the prostitution
of a virtuous married woman, to incite her to
commit adultery, an offense which has been
indictable in this State for more than one hun
dred and sixty years. To be solicitous on
account of the debauch of public morals, Is to
be overnice. The modesty which does not
shrink from the disgusting details of a case of
crim con. or of fornication and bastardy, can
not be greatly shocked at the proposal only.
It is said there will be difficulty ot proof, and
Courts will be called upon to punish lor a wink
or a nod, or some other cbscene invitation to
criminal intercourse. The argument furnishes
a dispensation to all crimes of a sejret or uncer
tain character. In punishing for a libel, no
difficulty is set up because the allusions are
purposely veiled. Who and what is meant are
often questions for a jury. Nor do I think such
an argument lust to those who are the custo
dians of public morals, which invites them
deliberately to close their eyes to plain and
palpable proposals to lust, because in some in
stances their visions cannot detect an invitation
in disguise. Besides, tbero is a full protection
against silly and pretended prosecutions, in the
power to visit the unwise and the malicious
with penalty of all the cost.
The Englifh case, which is so zealously
attacked in the opinion of the majority, and
seems to bear against all the fine powers of the
intellect which" prepared the opinion to over
turn its force, was a surprise upon me, for I had
not expected such aid Irom a country which
ignores the offense ot adultery itself in her civil
Courts, ft only discovers the fact that even
their judges are compelled by the iuherent iu
dignity ol the proposal to advance towards its
punishment. But the Connecticut cae, of the
State vs. Avery, 7 Conn., is an American au
thority and precedent which, it seems to me,
should be adopted.
It is asserted that mere woTds are not indicta
ble, and nothing short of an attempt is indicta
ble. This I conceive is a mistake. To approach
a married woman and to propose adultery, is an
act quite as much as to exhibit an obscene pic
ture, or to listen under the eaves of a house, or
to spout out vulgar and indecent language to a
gaping crowd. Indeed, it is as gross an act as
can be well imagined. To say that it requires
the touch of the would-be seducer to require
legal visitation, is to stick in tbe mud of pollu
tion, and to expose a virtuous woman to their
abuse is as abhorrent aud wounding to her
pure spirit as the mere touch of her pursuer.
I would affirm the iudgment.
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No. 1101 CHESNUT Bireet.
E. 171. NEEDLES & CO.,
! AT THEIB
jEW STORE,
-
X.Vt. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut
I
- OFFSJt IN THE
HOUSE-FURNISHING DEPARTMENT,
2000
FLOOR CLOTHS, ALL LINEN,
AT 173.
XQNH3H3 1011 'OH
T CHAMBERS, NO. 810 AKCH 8TKEKT
U i .Novelties Opening Dally,
Heal Cluny Daces.
Black Guipure Daces.
Polnte Applique Daces,
Folnte de Uate Duces.
Thread Veils Irom $2-&0.
WHITE GOODS.
Marseilles lor Dresses Bargains.
French MuhIIdb, X yards wide, nt 60 cents,
Shirred and Tucked Lace MuHllns; India Twilled
Dong Clotb ; Plaid, birlpe, and Plain Nainsooks; soft
liiilHb Cambric, 1)4 yard wide: Cambric iitfgings and
Insertions. new design very cheap 8 8 ina
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS.&C.
105 H. A. FLEISKER & CO., 1Q5
Successors to Bamberger Brothers,
DEALERS IN
HOSIERY AND STAPLE TRIMMING?,
GLOVES, EMBROIDERIES,
L DIES', GENTS', AND CHILDREN'S
VNDEBSHIRTS, ETC.,
NO. 105 NORTH EIGHTH STREET,
THREE DOORS ABOVE ARCH, 5 16wfm24t
105 PHILADELPHIA. 103
p( HOFFMANN, J R.
NO. 8X3 ARCH STREET,
FURNISHING GOODS,
(Late Q. A. Hoflman, formerly W, W. Knight,)
FINE SHIRTS AND WRAPPERS.
HOSIERY AND GLOVES
SILK, LAMBS' WUOL AND MERINO
8 S tm worn UNDER CLOTH INO.
J W. SOOTT & CO.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
aud at, if mi rat
MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 81 CHESNUT STREET,
f OUR DOORS BELOW THK "CONTINENTAL,
t iiVirp PH1LADBLP.U1A.
PATENT SIIOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNaSHING STORK
PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made Irotu measurement at very short notice.
All other articles ol OENTLEMILN'U DRIBS
GOODS In full variety.
WINCHESTER 4e CO.,
1 11 No. 7o CHKSNPT Street
WHISKY, BRANDY, WINE, ETO.
HENRY S. HANNIS & CO.,
Ncs. 218 and 220 S. FKONT Street,
OFFSJt TO TBS TRADX, IN LOTS TO BVIt
Two Thousand (2000) Barrels Free
OLD RYE WHISKIES1
Ranging from THREE to TEN years of age.
ALSO,
Six Thousand (6000) Barrels in Bond,
DISTILLED IN 1B6S AND lsStL
Liberal contracts made for lots TO abbiyb, of this
year's manntacture. 29mwf4qnp
Ztf PHILADELPHIA' BURGEON'S
lTT.''.'T5 BAN 1 AUK INSTITUTE, No. 14 N.
EL-" NINTH ritreet, above Market, B. U
iVitBETT, alter thirty years' practical experience,
guarantees the sklUul adjustmeul of his Premium
pmenl Uraduallug Presoure TriiKs, and a variety of
others. hiipporiere, Elastic blockings, bbould r
Braces, Crutches, buspeiidera, eto. Ladles' apnrt
lueii ta couducted ty Xuy, M
MM
SUMMER RESORTS.
SUMMER RESORTS
ON LINE OF
Beading Railroad and Hraiichcs.
MANSION HOUSE, MOUNT CARBON,
Mrs. Caroline Wuuder, Poltsvllle P. O, Schuylkill
county.
TUSCAROIiA HOTEL,
Mrs. Hannah. Miller, Tuscarora P. O., Bchuylklll co
MANSION HOUSE,
G. W. Frost, Mahanoy City P. 0., Schuylkill county
WHITE HOUSE,
Mrs. Busan Maradorf, Beading P. O.
ANDALUSIA,
James 8. Madeira, Beading F,0.
LIVING SPRINGS HOTEL,
Dr. A. Smith, Wernersvllle P. O., Berks county.
SO UTH MO UNTA1N HO USE,
H. II. Uanderbach, Womclsdorrp. O,, Berks co
COLD SPRINGS HO TEL,
Lebanon co., Mrs. M. Bodermel, Harrlsburg P.O.
EOYER TO WN SEMINAR Y
T. II. Haulier, Boyenown P. O., Berks co,
YELLOW SPRINGS HOTEL,
A. V. Snyder, Yellow Springs P. O., Chester co.
LIT1Z SPRINGS
a. Llchlenlhaler 4 Son Litis P, O., Lancaster co.
EPHRATA MOUNTAIN SPRINGS,
A. P. Feather, Ephrata P. O., Lancaster co. 5 6 2m
3 U R F HOUSE,
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
The i bove House will be openedoa the 1st of JUNE.
For particulars, etc., address
WM. T. CALEB PROPRIETOR,
6 8 U ATLANTIC- CITY, N. J.
COLLEGE HILL HOTEL, TOUGUKEEPSIE,
NEW YOBK.
This (lellghitul Bummer Hotel, under the mnnagn
nient ol WILLIAM 1'EHKY, formerly proprietor of
tbe Collnniore House, New York, will he OPENED
about Julie 1. Application may be made to UEUUUK
1IOBOAN, Propilelor. 10 lm
COUNTRY EOABD.-VERY DESIRABLE
accommodations aud excellent BOARD can be
had at MorriKtow u, N. J., tor a season ot twelve weeks
from the 24th or June. Belerenres Riven and re
quired. A ddress Post Office Box No. 146, Morrixtown,
New Jersey. 8 10 lm
SCMMER BOARDING AT A FARM HOUSE,
elegantly located, about one hoar's ride Irom the
city. Situation biith. healthy, and airy: plenty or
hade: superior accommodations. For particulars ad
dri'HS, staling where lo hesoen,"KIng," Box 074, Phllit
delphlu l'QBt Ollice. - 6 28 2l
SUMMER BOARDING. THAT SPLENDID,
healthy, and popular place known as
CHESNUT UKOVE,
el Media (on tbe Went Chester Ballroad), Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, la now open for the rocoriilon
ot guesis 5 lu'ui
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city of Philadelphia, and other towns. Address or
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6 22 1m Philadelphia, Pa,
INSTRUCTION.
BUSINESS COLLEGE
N. E. CORNER FIFTH AND CHESNUT ST
Established Nov. 2, 1801 Chartered March 14, 1805.
. BOOKHF.EPING.
Course of Instruction unequalled, consisting of prao
tlral methods actually employed la leading houses 1
this aud other cities, as Illustrated lu Fairbanks'
Book-keeping, which Is the text-book ot this Institu
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Telegraphing, Camuierclnl Calculations, Business
find Ornamental Writing, the Uiuher Ma hematics,
Correspondence, Forms, Commercial Daw, eto.
YOVKU MEN
Invited to visit the Institution aud Judge or them
selves ol Its superior appointments. Circulars on ap.
plication. L. FAIRBANKS, A. M., President.
T. K. MKBrHAWT.Secretary. 6
THE GREAT NATIONAL TELEGRAPHIC ANO
COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE,
NO. 710 AUCH STKEET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
This Institution Is now open lor Educational pur
poses. The outilt Is perfect furniture throughout
being entirely new.
THE TELEClRAPniC DEPARTMENT
Is under the control of Mr. Park Spring, who, as
most complete and thorough operator.ls unqualifiedly
endorsed by the entire corps of managers of the
Western Union Telegraphic line at the main office In
this city. Twenty -one Instruments la constant opera
(ion.
THE LADIES' TELEGRAPHIC DEPART
M EN 1',
In comfort and elegance,equals any Drawing-room In
tbe city. Opportunities lor study are here ailorded
that are unequalled.
THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
Is under the especial care of Mr. T. C. Kearch, an ex
perlenced accountunt, and lale Proiefmor of Accounts
In a prominent Business College of this city. A full
corps of Teachers always lu atleuduuee.
UN PARALLELED OFFER.
We will reluud the entire charge of tuition to any
pupil who may be disuaiistted with our Instruction
alter having given two weeks' faithful labor la either
Department.
SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
TERMS PBEVIOUS TO MAKAJU 1, 187.
Full Courtio, time unlluiitei........... -........,..t8B
Telegraphing, three mouths o
Pobitions Guaranteed.
Iay aud Evening J UHtmctlon.
2 11 mwf em JACOB H. TAYLOR, President
FURNITURE, BEDDING, ETC.
r0 HOUSEKEEPERS.
I have a large stock ol every variety of
FUKNITU11E,
Which I will sell at reduced prices, consisting of
PLAIN AND MABBLE TOP OOTTAUlfi BUITa
WALNUT CHAW li EH BUITB,
FABIiOK fciMTH IN VELVET PLUSH,
PABLOU BUITB IN HAIR CLOTH.
PARLOR HTJITS IN RE Hi.
Sideboards, Extension Tables, Wardrobes, Book
oases, Matlresses, Lounges, etc, etc
P. P. CUSTINE,
g U N. VS. corner SECOND and RACE Streets.
STOVES, RANGES, ETC.
QUL,VER'S NEW PATENT
DEEP SAND-JOINT
HOT-AIU FUItNAOK.
BANUEM OF ALL IBKd.
Also.Phllegar's New Low Pressure Steam Heat ng
Apparatus. For aate by
CHARLES WILLIAMS,
10f No. 1181 MARKET Street.
T. STEWART BROWN,
B.I. Con ot
TOXTRTUA CUKSTXVTSXS.
MANurACTuaia or
JTHTrTKB, YAHSEB, BA6B, EKTI0TI1E8, BHA
mn S nd Tl A H n 1 a F DnPlf ! I' Mlkfl H H P
Dd Traveling lto4 gtMiauy-
-JTOSJEVVELRY) ETC.
AMERICAN WATCMEG.
W. "W. CASSIDY,
HO. IS SOUTH SECOND STREET,
miLADIM-HI
ASKS ATTENTION TO HIS '
TARIED AND EXTENSITE STOCK
or
SOLD AND SILVER WATCHES
IND
MILTER-WARE.
Customers may be asnured that none but thabe
articles, at reasonableprlces, will be sold at his store
A fine assortment ot
PLATED-WARE CONSTANTLY ON IT AND
WATCHES and JEWELRY carefully repaired. Al
orders by mall prorartlj attended to. 4 in wam8ra
'DIAMOND BHAT.'ERS & .TEWELKES.
T. A KUKH, JgMSLPT BILTKR WAKg.
sWAlOHUS and JEWELKT REPAIRED.,
Hay on hand a large and splendid assortment
PIAHONDft,
WATCHES.
JEWELRY, AND
SILYER-WAR1
OF ALL KINDS AND PRICES.
Partlrmlar attention la reqnested to onr large itoot
Of DIAMONDS, and the extremely low prloea.
BRIDAL PRESENTS made of Sterling and BUU
Card Bilver. A large assortment to select front.
WATCHES repaired In the beat manner, and wV
ranted. ll)4p
Diamonds and all preclons stones bought for oath.
JOHN DO v man;
No. 704, AHOII Streets'
f H7XADXLPRIA,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
SILVEB AND PLATEDWAHE.
Cur GOODS are decidedly tbe cheapest in thtolty
TRIPLE PLATE, A WO. 1. ' if?
WATCHES, JEWELRY.
W. W. CASSIDY,
No. IS SOUTH SECOND STREET,'
Offers an entirely new and most carefully select
toe of
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES, .
JEWELRY,
BILVER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES
EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable for
BRIDAL OB MoLjJOAX PRESENTS.
An examination will show my gftack to be nnauj
paxsed la quality and cheapness.
Particular attention paid to repairing. T'V,
C. RUSSELL & CO..
NO. SS NORTH SIXTH STREET.
Have Just received an Invoice of
FRENCH MANTEL CLOCKS,
Manufactured to their order In Paris,
Also, a few INFERNAL ORCHESTRA CLOOYI
with side pieces; which they offer lower than the sani
goods can be purchased In the oltv. ISiet
kC.&A. PEQUIGNOT,
Manufacturers ot
Uold and Silver Watcli Coes,
And Wholesule Dealers Ip
AMERICAN WATCH CO.'B,
HOWARD A CO.'S,
And TREMONT
A1E1HCAN WATCHES
4 8 NO. a SOUTH FIFTH STREET.
HENRY HARPER,
No. 5520 ARCH Street.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
WATCHES,
riNE JEWELRY,
SILVER-PLATED WARE, AND
tl SOLID SILVER-WAR
LEGAL NOTICES.
TNTIIK ORPHANS' CODBT FOR THE CITY
L AND COUNTY OK PHILADELPHIA.
Estute ol WILLIAM DUNCAN, Deceased.
Tbe Auditor appointed oy the Court to audit, settle,
and actlUHt the account of OKOllHE W. DUNCAN.
WILLIAM I). MOULDER. ANNA O. DUNCAN.
JAMES J, DUNCAN, and JOHN O. FORD. Kxecu
lorsot the last will and tfsiauieul of WILLIAM DUN
CAN, deceased, aud to report distribution of tbe
balance In the hands of the accountants, will meet
the parties lutereHted lor tne purposes of his appoint
ment, on WEDNESDAY. May 21), 1867, at 8 o'clock P.
M.. at his ofllce, first floor, II rut room back. No. 82 S.
THIRD fat., lu the City ot Philadelphia. 3 17 fmw&t
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY OK PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of SAMUEL MclLRKK, deceased.
The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle,"
and adjust the account ot HORACE Kit I I ,, Ad
minlHtrutor of the estate of SAMUEL MclLREKt,
deceased, and to report distribution of thebalauce la
the hands of the aocountant, will meet the parties
Interested for the purpose of his appointment on
MONDAY, June 8. 1K07, at 4 o'clock P. M., at hi
Ofllce. No. 43S WALNUT Street, In the city of Phil,
delplila. THOMAS J. WORRELL,
6t2wfm5t Audi tor.
PAPER HANGINGS, SHADES, ETO
1867. SPRING, 1807,
WALL P A P E H S,
P. NEWLAND & SON,
WO. Oa NORTH NINTH STREET,
1 22 fmw2m
One door below Arch.
nuust ainu smiM PAINTING.
PAINTING. "
THOMAS A. riHY,
HOUSE AND SIN PAINTER,
(Late Pahy A Bra.)
No. 31 North TIIIUD Street:
Above Market.