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Did any of our readers ever pay a viait to
Castle Garden f Perhaps some of them may
have done bo from motives of artistic curiosity
to view a crumbling relio of old New York,
while those more practical may have passed
an hour there vainly endeavoring to select
from the reeking horde of emigrants a cook or
chambermaid. Castle Garden proper is situ
ated on the northwestern extremity of the
piece of ground known as the Battery. A large
circular building, covering half an acre in
extent, with a flat dome of whitewashed wood
work, perforated with glass windows, whether
to let the numerous stenches made escape, or
to permit the air from the outside rather
foul at the best to pass in, is a problem only
to be solved by the Commissioners of Emi
gration. The building itself is of brown, unhewn
Btone with the old embrasures for gun3 still
Temai'iung, as they appeared when the first
ISonaparte issued his famous Iierlin decree to
crush English commerce. The parapet gate
way, or entrance to the Battery, as it was
called, still exists in all its huge proportions,
with its square cut blocks of stone, and
through its portals have passed in ton years
2.C00,10U emigrants from every nation on the
face of the globe as contributions to the future
Toting population of the States. A level,
arid, sandy plain, denominated the Battery,
for the reason that no guns are visible, fronts
the Castle Garden, and is encumbered with
peanut stands, apple stands, lemouade stands,
stands where Bologna sausages and large
loaves of Butch bread are exposed for sale,
and where gingerbread cakes as large as pie
plntes can be obtained for the moderate sum
of two cents. Aged but vituperative Irish
women of masculine frame, with bleary eyes,
tawdry garments, and faces lined with the
wrinkles of hardship, dispense the delicacies
of the season to the emigrants. , The peanuts
are not equal to p'Ucs ae Jbie gras as a relish,
the apples rot in the sun lor want of
purchasers, the sausages are mouldy and not
fit for Sitngerfest consumption; but the crown
ing glory of these retail huckster-stands is the
lemonade kept by them in dirty wooden or tin
pails. This delicious beverage lias three in
gredients or component parts, namely, mo
lasses, vinegar, and water. A few decayed
and repeatedly squeezed lemon rinds, intended
to deceive the keen eye of the observer, float
on top of the dirty-looking fluid. The tongues
of the Datnt da la llalle at Paris, or the noto
rious fish-women of London,cannot outrival in
acerbity and virulence these women whim once
let loose upon any ofl'ending party. We wit
nessed an instance of their agreeable proficiency
in the art of abuse. A half-grown boy of the
street had, it seems, purchased a glass of
lemonade from an aged Celtic priestess, and'
after putting it to his lips, such was the horror
and sensation of disgust experienced, that the
glass involuntarily dropped from his grasp
and fell to the ground, where it lay for a mo
ment broken into small fragments. With a
howling rage the savage sprang at the boy,
crying:
"What did'oo brake my glass for, 'oo scamp;
ayeh ?"
"I did't mean to," whispered the gamin, in
a whining tone.
"I'll tache you to brake my glass, which
cost me twenty cints, you young vagabond,"
and so saying, she fell upon the lad in a great
lage, and beat him in the face with her
clenched fists, for a minute or two, to the
great delight of the spectators. The hoy
would have been half murdered but for the
intervention of a burly policeman, who stood
at the gate of the Castle Garden, curling his
beautiful moustache, and admiring the grace
ful curve of his shapely leg. This majestio
Iwiutr advanced with a commanding step; in
stantly the crowd fell back in reverential awe
at his portly presence.
"Wot's all this V said he, in a voice like
thunder. "Wot's all this about, I should like
ter knew? Can nobody speak?" and the
majestio being glared in inquiry upon the
terror-stricken crowd.
"I only w-a-r-rumed that spalpeen's ears
for breaking my glass," whined the virage,
and with proverbial gallantry the noble police
man, finding that the sympathies of the crowd
were with the woman and the broken vessel,
turned to the reckless boy and threatened to
warm him soundly for his brutality. The
hoy shrank off in a meek manner, and Castle
Garden saw him no more.
Feeling considerable premonitory dread as
to our reception by this formidable being in
Tulue cloth, we asked in an humble manner:
"Sir, can you tell me if strangers are per
mitted to enter the Garden ?"
The "sir" mollified this gentleman to a
great extent, and in a gracious, patronizing
tone, he signified his permission. Entering a
long, narrow passage, with a flight of Btaira at
the end, we ascended and found ourselves in a
large room dedicated to the clerical staff em
ployed by the Commissioners of Emigration to
transact the business of registering the emi
grants. A number of frowsy-looking and
gawkish emigrants sat outside of an enclosure,
waiting for an opportunity to procure infor
mation. Whether their universal contact with
emigrants, who are looked, upon as bo many
cattle by these fellows, has rendered them
gruff when asked for information promptly,
and rigidly impassive or deaf when questioned
mildly, we do not know; but it is certain that
for stoical indifference a Castle Garden clerk
would compare favorably with Zeno himself.
While waiting in the office a scene ocourred
worthy of mention. A huge Irishwoman, with
red hair and freckled face, evidently not an
emigrant, but rather a drunken, besotted
specimen of the race, advanced towards the
desk, carrying a red-headed baby, with a
scrofulous affection in its face and head. A very
impassive young gentleman, with black
eide-whiskers, who sat at a desk, cried out in
a stentorian voice to the woman, who had no
stockings or shoes:
"What do vou want ?"
"I want to see Mistress Casherlly, bekase"
"What do you want?" again cried the
young gentleman, in a manner not quite so
impassive as ceiore.
"1 want to Bee Mistress aaueiuy, ye k.uuw,
l)6ltASd"M
"Go down Btairs," said the young gentle
man of impassive temper.
"I want to see Mistress Casherlly, bekase"-
"(7 down Btairs," cried the young gentle
man, with a great glitter in his eyes.
"I tell ye I want to Bee Mistress Casherlly,
bekase ye Bee"
" Will yu yo down btaibs !" yelled the im
passive young gentleman, in a now thoroughly
roused Btate. The woman obeyed this time,
and the impassive young gentleman, feeling
that he had dona his duty, his whole duty,
and nothing but hia duty, Bat down in a state
f exhaustion. Leaving him in this state of
mind, we left the office, went down a flight of
stairs, and entered through a ygh and wide
gateway a huge circular hall, used for the re
ception of emigrants during their stay in
Castle Garden. The hall is about three hun
dred feet ia circumference, with galleries run
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPII PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY,
ning all round, and rosembles a cirous more
than anything else. Light is admitted through
glass side-windows fifty feet from the floor,
but no air. A deadening, stifling smell greets
the nostrils as you enter the halL almost
overpowering. It is said that a keen-noso-l
traveller may discover forty dillerent stenches
in the streets and purlieus of Cologne,
each stench and odor differing from
the other thirty-nine. .But the stenoh
which strikes you as you enter
Castle Garden is a combination of forty
diflerent odors, not one of which resembles the
Balm of a Thousand Flowers or Jockey Club.
You can faintly recognize saurkratit, decayed
bologna, boiled butter, peanuts, unwashed
women, the odor of venerable hams, boiled
corned beef and cabbage, onions, rancid
cheese, herrings, and many other kindred
stenches. A motley crowd or rather swarm of
emigrants are herded together on the bare
floor of the Garden, like so many sheep or
pigs. From every nation in the world, from
far-off Sweden and Norway, from the homes of
Dalecarlia, from Sudermania, charcoal burners
from the Black Forest, in their caifs, with light
hair, red stockings reaching to their knees,
and heavy wooden sabots. Peasants with ruddy
faces from Cork and Kerry, from Dublin and
Galway, fair, fresh young girls with trustful
look and laughing, wondering faces from the
Danube, Bliine, and Shannon, all mingled pro
miscuously, chatting, talking, eating, crying,
or sleeping quietly. A cargo of Swedes, Nor
wegians, ami Danes have just been lauded,
and herd together to the number of 21)0 ou the
floor, gaping and wondering at everything
they see and hear. They left Gottenburg 40
days nince en route for the prairies of Illinois,
via Hamburg, Liverpool, and New York. They
look travel-stained, dirty, and weary, but as
yet have not begun to understand the toil,
trouble, and difficulties of their new life. Their
pastor, a venerable, slurdy-lookiug son of
Dalecarlia, with white hair and deep blue
eyes, sits among them on an old trunk. lie
has accompanied them all the. way, and will
Bee them safe to the settlement of which he is
pastor in far-off Illinois. Gnu of his flock, a
middleaged woman with deep blue Scandina
vian eyes, and tawny hair hanging down
her flushed cheeks, is engaged in cut
ting up a huge sausage for the delectation
of the 'Tastor." The men are all stout-bodied,
hearty-looking fellows, muffled up in warm
homespun, as it they were among the frosty
fiords of Norway, and carry at their belts short
dirk knives in leathern sheaths. They have
all blue eyes and light hair, such as is never
seen among Latins or Celts, and is only to be
found among Scandinavians or Saxons. To
look upon these fair faces and deep, earnest
blue eyes, almost burning in their intensity,
one is prone to think of the ancestors of the
people before him of Gustavus Vasa, of Mar
garet of Denmark, the Semiramis of the North,
of Harold llartager, of Udin, tue iather ot the
Gods, of Freya and Lok, the Spirits of Evil, of
Sagas and Scalds, of warriors and priests, and
heroes who went forth yearly to burn, destroy,
and capture, who drank wine from the skulls
of their enemies, and sought vainly during a
thousand years for Valhalla, the home of the
gods. Alas for romance I these poor, inno
cent peasants never heard of Odin, being
strict Lutherans, and their only trouble is
to know if Chicago is as far from New York as
New York is from Stockholm. The emigrants
who speak the English language are kept in
separate compartments of this large circular
hall, or bull-pen, as it might be more properly
termed. The floor is swept once a day, but
even that does not suffice, for the place is in
itself a sink of filth, and unfit for human
beings aB a place of occupation. The galleries
are sometimes filled as well as the lower floor,
when there is a number of passengers, and a
Btrange Bight is presented from the various
costumes worn by the peasant emigrants.
Now, for instance, let us go among the Swedes.
Here are children, men, and women huddkjd
together upon the floor promiscuously, and
without any proper sanitary precaution, in
the hottest weather. One-half of the emi
grants are Bleeping, and they are wedged so
close together as to lie like spoons, some with'
a dirty rag covering them, while not a few of
the women's body clothes are tossed about in
a manner which ought to call a blush to the
cheek of any adult. Ilere is a very nretty
little girl of twelve years or therabouts.
her lower limbs exposed as she sleeps, and it
is evident that a plentiful application of aoap
and water would do her no harm. One single
case of contagious disease among those 250
Swedes, and ere nightfall every one of them
would be stricken by the destroying hand.
10 prevent imposition upon the emigrants a
semblance of keeping out the emigrant boarding-house
keepers is maintained by the Com
missioners; but, notwithstanding, they may be
iouna insiae oi the uarden every day. the only
precaution that is taken to protect the inte
rests of the emigrant being to keep the boarding-house
shark off until all the routine busi
ness of the place is transacted with them, and
then these scoundrels are free to do their
worst. Boarding-house keepers are allowed to
advertise their dens of infamy inside of the
walls of the Garden in every known language
English, French, Italian, Spanish, German,
Swedish, Danish, Welch, Russian, and Swiss.
The rates charged by these fellows range gene
rally as follows: Board per week for adults,
$8 in currency; per day, $1-50 in currency;
single meals, 50 cents; single lodgings, 50
cents. The fare is just what might be ex
pected from these blood-suckers and human
vampires. There are three lunch counters or
restaurants within the walls, and there can be
no possible competition, as no person is
allowed to enter the Garden or leave it with
out a reason. Printed bills of fare line the
counters, in the different languages, with the
tariff as follows:
Sausages, per pound o 25
Cheese, per pound 0 25
Milk, per quart .""!!".".'. 0-10
Loaf of bread 0'10
Loaf of home-made bread n.20
1 cifcar 0-05
1 package smoking tobacco o-lO
Behind the counters the emigrants may feast
their eyes upon huge loaves of bread, huge
bulks of cheese, raw hams, and now and then
comes the odor of coffee, of what quality we
cannot undertake to say, as we did not taste
it. PasEiDg through the rear gate of the
Castle you will find yourself on the river's
bank, where several arcen nsnd fnr
tog emigrants from the shipping to the Castle,
are lying. There is a kind of a terra-plain of
Btone, and beneath thin iha
auer day, listening to the constant piasli of
111 ft tPfll'lia . .1 lit. . , -
j ?, u 1UUJ"US witn wistful eyes out
towards the Narrows and the sea, thinking
vaguely and confusedly of the Vaterland from
3,7, cam- Here they Bit, staring
i. ovom reauues 01 tne riew World
Wv..W exposure onthe
. "l luu emigrant BhiD
,ey are r,uHu with tn u
They are weary of the sun
Tug tU the heavy oar;
Ili uve at the stubborn sail
Thed In the inld-sea gale'
Wrecked on the fatal Uore
',
Bweel is rest, ah I sweet u rest
Wlilte the arms and warm tbehreaat
Jx'aught beyond but the unknown W..f
jNaueUt but tne waves luUmgwn,
The emigrant, on leaving the side of the
emigrant ship lying in the stream, after she
has pasaed the perils of quarantine, is taken
on board of a barge or tug, with his trunks,
bedding, clothing, bottles, parcels, and old
rubbish of all kinds, and from thenoa trans
ported to the water-gate of Cantle Garden. On
arriving there he is relieved of his trunks and
baggage, which is stowed away carefully in
racks and numbered in a corresponding fash
ion, with the number placed opposite the emi
grant's name in the register, where his bap
tismal appellation, surname, birthplace, age;
occupation, and future destination are regis
tered for future reference. The boxes and
trunks are kept in a long covered way which
makes half the circuit of the garden, aud
affords ample food for reflection. Here there
are boxes of all shapes and sizes tin boxes,
wooden boxes, metal boxes, boxes of oak and
pine, of cedar, rosewood, and mahogany, ob
long and square; some large as the camp
chests of McClellan on the Peninsula, others
lit to hold the title-deeds or regalia of an
empire. The eastern side of the Castle
is devoted to the baggage of emi
grants going out of the city, and
when they arrive at Buffalo, Chicago, St.
Louis, Boston, or Cincinnati, they And there
their baggage ready for them as soon as they
have satisfied the charges upon the freight.
The EDglish-speaking emigrants are registered
fiiet, and then the Germans. Alter being
registered, which takes a long time, the emi
grants are driven into the bull-pen to await a
further disposition. Lavatories, or places for
washing, are located arouud the Castle large,
gloomy-looking places, calculated to keep
before the eyes of the emigrant the hold or
steerage of the ship from which he has just
debarked. Washing or cleanliness is not en
forced upon the emigrants, and the huge
bloc ks of soap and the damp, wet floor of the
washing-rooms present a very black and
disconsolate aspect. Around the wall3 of the
bull-pen are scattered huge maps of the
States and Territories, admirably calculated
to impress upon the minds of foreigners the
great size and extent of Uncle Sam's domi
nions. The walls of this filthy house re
sounded with the clash of muskets, drums,
and swords of the old regular army, and after
wards to the glorious warblings of the peerless
Jenny Lind, to the delicious strains of Catha
rine Hayes, and to the crash of Jullien's
horns and instruments; for here were given
the monster concerts of this great artist when
in his prime. Well, to-day it would make
Jenny Lind sick to look down from one of
the galleries where thousands used to sit
entranced listening to her " Norma," and
behold her own countrymen and women, from
far-off Upsala and Stockholm, herded to
gether like sheep in a July sun. The ghost of
the great Jullien would not allow its white
gloved fingers to rest upon polluted lintel or
door-jamb for fear of contamination. Large
blue-bottle flies haunt the seams of the plank
ing in the floor of the bull-pen, sucking and
feasting upon the corruption. A thousand
persons have often been confined in this worse
than Black Hole of Calcutta, while at other
times not a score of emigrants are present. It
is an erroneous impression that the emigrants
from northern countries surpass in cleanliness
those from the more southern climes. The
Swedes, Germans, and Russians are, very
contrary to general expectation ; the
Irish and French compare favorably
with other races in cleanliness, and sur
pass them in light-heartedness and a
disposition to bear up under hardships. The
Welsh emigrants are, nearly all, consigned to
the embraces of the Mormon chiefs of Utah.
The specimens of Welsh emigrants who were
here, bound for Salt Lake, and the miners and
mill-spinners from some of the rural districts
of England, are terribly dirty and ignorant.
Great numbers of the English emigrants have
little or no knowledge of the Creator, or of
any revealed form of religion. The ignorance
and brutality of the lower classes of English
emigrants are astounding, and would be de
cided incredible by him who knows nothing of
tne facts presented. Ilere is a group or Irish
emigrants sitting upon their household Lares
and Penates. There are three little
girls, ranging from three to ten years
of age, a motherly-looking woman of
fifty, and a boy of fifteen. The
family are dressed comfortably, and rather
cleanly. The mother is crying quietly; the
smallest girl has caught the infection from the
old woman, and is burying her tiny knuckles
in her eyes with great determination, while
the boy stares steadfastly at the ceiling, and
keeps his mouth wide open as a commou
thoroughfare for the nasty flies which infest
the bull-pen. Anjacclimatizcd friend, with a
rowdy look, is talking to the old lady, and
endeavoring to make her feel comfortable, but
sue wui not he comforted. She left the hills
of far-off Tipperary at the bidding of a faithful
son, who resides "some place" in "Missus
Sury," as the old ladv exnressus it. but she
has lost the address, and forgets the name of
iiie precise locality.
"Can't ye remember the name of the place
at all, at all, Biddy ?" says her comforter.
"The divil a bit me knows. Jamesy tould
me in the letther that there was a great dale
01 watner near his place. Is there mucn
wather in Missus Sury f Will ye stop yer
bellewing there, Molly V
" Is it in Meessury ye mane f Sure, it3
full of wather and shnakes."
"Cross of Christ 1 and are the shuakes alive,
Tim ?"
"Yis, Biddy, and kicking, too."
"Well, I wish I never had left Nenagh, in
ould Tipperary," said the old lady, "for whiu
I'm out here, shure, Andy, that I thought 'd
be some use to me, is no more than an omad
haun," pointing to her son, who still kept his
mouth open for the admission of flies.
There is an hospital attached to the Castle
Garden Depot, situated on Ward's Island.
Ward's Island is 103 acres in extent, and
about $12,000 worth of produce is raised annu
ally on the island by patients. There is an
attendant physician at the Castle, and an
apothecary's shop. Cases of fever aud cholera
are instantly carried without to the hospital
for treatment. Two millions and a half of
emigrants have passed through Castle Garden
during the last ten years, bringing with them
an average of $50 per head. This amounts
in the gross aggregate to one hundred and
twenty-five millions of dollars. During the
year 18UG, 233,418 persons arrived at Castle
Garden, bringing with them 203,236 pieces of
baggage. Of this number 10b',716 were from
Germany, (18,074 from Ireland, 30,18(5 from
England, 4979 from Scotland, 3D07 from
Sweden, 3085 from Switzerland, 3240 from
France; Denmark, 152(5, and Hol
land, 1506 The remainder were from
seventeen different countries. The States most
favored by the emigrants on leaving Castle
Garden are New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
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Germans go to Pennsylvania, . Ohio, Illinois,
and Wisconsin; the Irish to New York, Massa
chusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey; the
Swedes to Delaware; the English to New Yorit
and Pennsylvania; the Scotch to New YorK
and Illinois; and the French toNewYorK,
Louisiana, and Canada. The greatest number
of vessels leave the ports of Europe In tne
following order: Liverpool, Bremen, London,
Hamburg, Glasgow, Jlesse, Antwerp, u
Londonderry. Formerly the Irish preponder
ated, now the Hermans hav lh n...i.,..r, v
in the proportion of on hira .(rt
The CotumittttionwB of Emigration have officers
in every city in the State of New York lVr the
aid and protection of emigrants. '
m 7 VK'nea 10 e Castle Garden depot
an office for the employment of emigrant girls
who desire to procure situations as help in
located on the northeast corner of the Castle
a-Ji 50 feet in
e :- ' u wiuin, witn seats ar
ranged with an aisle in the middle like a
church, and a desk rajled in whore a pulpit
would be in a church, behind which sits a
gentleman of the Teutonio persuasion, in a
mixed pepper-and-salt suit, to answer ques
tions. Here it is the custom for persons who
desire to get a great deal of work for very
little money to apply for servant "gals," as
the policeman at the door terms the private
help. Any girl who has just landed at this
port can obtain a situation by waiting at this
place and submitting her person to inspection
o those who may desire female help. Having
procured a place and entered the service of
her employer, she may, if she dislikes the re
muneratiou or work, inform the Coiumis
sioners of her wish to leave her situa
tion, and the privilege is accorded to
her of returning to the Employment
Agency at the Garden, as often as she changes
her mind during the space or twelve calendar
months from the time she has landed on the
shores of the New World. The large majority
of these cirls who seek employment are mdns
trious, clean, and honest before being defiled
by the filth and contamination of the great
city. Some of these are, however, very giddy,
thoughtless, fond of dress, gaudy colors, and
easily led away by solt and honeyed words
They may have to encounter two great dangers,
which shall be speciiied: Cut off from home
and parental teaching, set adrift in a strange
land, it is a common occurrence with them to
obtain employment in families, when design
ing scoundrels employ every art and influence
of money and circumstances to seduce and
destroy them. The other danger is from the
emigrant boarding-house keepers, who haunt
the Castle Garden depot like evil spirits to
entice any fish that may be en
tangled in their nets. Nominally these
birds of prey arc supposed to be
deprived of any power to further their
ends: but this is altogether a mistake, as the
calandar of crime in our courts, and the cata
logue of wretched women In these dens of in
famy infesting the city, will show; but a ma
jority of the girls are poor emigrants, driven
to desperate courses by the circumstances they
are placed in alter they leave Castle Garden.
Very few German girls ever seek employment
in the office at the depot, as they are picked
up m tne hull-pen by these scoundrels, speak
ing their own language, who make magnificent
promises to them, and wheedle them, in order
to have them accompany them to their dens
Very few single girls, without friends, arrive
in New York city with more than fifty dollars
in money. These boarding-house sharks charge
eight dollars a week for lodgings and food.
Having got the f,irl into the boarding-house.
the next thing is to buoy her up with delusive
hopes of a comfortable situation, which they
are certain never to procure for her, and hav
ing done this, it is then necessary to encour
age her to procure cheap finery, and end by
Keeping ner at the boarding-house lor
month to get her in debt. Then, should she
desire to leave, the next move is to hold her
clothing and trunk for a bogus board bill.
I he society of abandoned women, who are
employed to Bap the poor girl's virtue, and
the troubles of prosecution lor debt, make
the girl a pliant instrument in the hands of
the boarding-house shark. She then becomes
an easy victim to the lust of the highest
bidder, and her ruin is consummated. Many
of these girls, after undergoing a course of
prostitution and shame for two or three
months in the lager beer dens of Greenwich
street, the dance houses of Water street, or
the perlieus of Greene and Mercer streets, are
afflicted with fits of ennui, and return to the
Castle Garden depot for a change of scene, or
else they are secret missionaries of evil, sent
by their employers to corrupt girls who as yet
are perfectly innocent. These girls are quite
shameless, and by their vile conduct disgust
all who visit Castle Garden for the purpose of
procuring help. The clerk who has charge of
the employment office is sometimes put to
hia limit of patience by the antics of these
young ladies. A number of persons from the
country visit the Castle Garden daily in search
of girls to work on the farms. A few days
since a gentleman of venerable years and
appearance came from the Connecticut Valley
to procure help. About thirty girls were pre
sent, seated in the office, awaiting employment.
Some of them had the fresh rosy cheeks gene
rally found in emigrant girls before becoming
inured to this climate, bo different from their
own. the soft blue eyes, and expression of
innocence and virtue, while others bore in
their countenances the marks of hardened
depravity and crime, carrying in bonnet and
shawl the colors of the rainbow. The old gen
tleman, after looking around at the upturned
faoes, selected a rather hardened-looking girl,
and said to her:
"Do you want a situation, my girl ?"
"Well," said this charming damsel, "that
depends. How much you want to give f"
"How much do you want f" said the old
man.
"Well, I want tin dollars (with a toss of the
head), unless 1 have too much work to do,"
she added.
"Can you cook," said the old gentleman.
"Av coorse 1 can," said she, and addod,
"but where do you live ?"
"In Connecticut," said the old man.
"Oh, deed'n I'll not go to Kunecktikut for
tin dollars a month," and away she went,
tossing her head.
The old gentleman made another attempt;
this time, however, he did not have to make
the selection himself, for a gaudily dressed
woman, with flaunting ribbons and traoes in
her face of chalk and the rouge-pot, sauntered
up to him, and placing herself in an easy atti
tude before the old gentleman, commenced to
catechize him as follows:
"Is it a servant ye'd be afther wanting r
"Yes; I want a servant," said the old man.
"How much will ye give V
"What are you worth f "
"Well, I couldn't work for less than $12,
and I always got the fat where I worked
before."
"Can you cook t"
"Of coorse I can cook all around."
"Do you know how to make pastry f"
"What's pastry f"
"Why pies and cakes."
"And it's wanting me to make yer pastry
ye'd be for $12 a mouth ! Butjsure," with an
impudent leer, "I'll be able to make enough
pastry for meself and you. How large is your
family?"
"I have three daughters and a son," said
the old man meekly.
"How old is yer son t"
"Nineteen years."
"Ia he good-looking T"
"I cannot be a judge of that myself. You
hail better come with me and see for yourself."
"And bo ye Jiave ttice daughters. Well,
JULY 29, 1867.
why don't they make their own pastry r
Shure it's afihei quarrelling tuey i "
me. I'll, iiuiade 111 not go v iuukwvu.
widye."
The old gentiemnn asKPa a young
who was a bystander what he thought of the
yonng lady, and was answered: "Well, I
think if yon have three daughters, you had
ueiier not iukq mm gin iuvu juui ikuu.j
Ihe young man then recommended mm iu
question a young, pretty, and clean-looking
girl who sat apart from the rest.
Ihe old gentleman did so, hut tne young
Miss informed him that she had "been in the
habit of living in the highest of families, and
wouldn't go to Kuneckticut for the world; hut
she had a friend that might go." The friend
would not go either, because she wouldn't like
Kunecktikut," and "thin ye had to be ail
night on the boat," and the "man with whom
she lived wanted her to get up at 3 0 clock to
raiiK tlie cow, which was a shame, as every
body knows I" The last hair broke the
camel's back, and the old gentleman left Cas
tle Garden without a servant, nevr to come
back. AT. y. Tribune.
FINANCIAL.
7 8-lOs
ALJL, SIU14:il4,
CONVERTED INTO
Five-Twenties of 1865,
JANUARY AKD JULY,
WITHOUT CHARGE.
UOKDM UUIVEKED IMMEDIATELY,
DE HAVEN & BROTHER
10;2rr.
MO. 4U W. THlRl STREET.
U. S. SECURITIES
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS AKD EROKEB.S,
NU.ieS T1IIK1 St., St, 8 NASSAU ST.,
PHILADELPHIA. HEW TOKX
OBJDEBS FOB STOCHM AM MOLD EXfc
ll'TED IK FlIILAI'LLI'lIIA AND NEW
York m
JSATIONAL
BAM OF THE REPUBLIC,
809 and 811 CHESNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL,
...-.1,000,000
DIKECTOKa
Joseph T. Bailey,
fvalhitn Hilles,
lieu). Bowmod, Jr.,
fchiiiuel A. lilBiihtuu,
Kdward 11. urue,
William Krvlen,
Osgood WelHh,
Frederick A, Hoyt,
Wm. H, ttbawn.
WM. H. KHAWN, President,
JmU Cashier of the Central National Bank.
JOS. P. MUMFORD Cashier,
5 12 Late of the JPhUadrJvhla National Bank
T. LOUIS BOND S.
Vv e offer for sale a limned amount of
BIX PJllt CKHT. liOJSUb
CITY Ob' 8T. LOUIS,
Having twenty years to run, principal and Interest
payaoie in jnbw yoi-k,
AT THE LOW PRICK OF
KIUHTY-OJSK,
And accrued Interest. We recommend them as
reliable and undoubted Beourlty, yielding about elifht
percent, 10 tlie purcna.ser.
TOWKBJKNI), WHELENT A CO.,
7 14 St No. 30 W AlxNUT Street.
PROPOSALS.
TTWGINEER OFFICE HARBOR DEFENSES,
JLU Ko. 55BECOD Blreet, Third Hlury, HAL'
11 1 uniiL' u,i
A A AA A. V A-tf . va
Healed Prorjosals. In dunllcate. will be received
at this office until 12 M. of FRIDAY, the 9th
any or aiuibi, irni, lor tne TiruDer ana f ra
iolug required for tlie coustructiou of three (3)
cribs in the uusqueiKinua river, below iiavre,
de-Grace. Md.
Proposals must be separate for Timber and
Framing, and in duplicate for each
Proposals lor "Timber" will embrace all the
timber, scantling, aud piles required.
Proposals for "Framing" will embrace driving
the piles, framing and putting together In place
the timber of Cribs, including all bolting, spi
king, and bracing required to complete the
structures.
For particulars as to payments, time of be-
this uuice, wnere pians auu specniuauous can
be seen.
Contractors furrjJshiDg"Tlmber" areexpected
to hold it without expense to the United Mtates
until required for use by the engineer in charge
or the woik.
No bids will be considered except such as
are made after forms to be obtained from this
Office by letter or personal application.
Bids will be opened at 12 SO P. M. on FRIDAY,
the Uth day of August, 1.S07, In presence of such
bidders as may desire to be present.
The right Is reserved to reject all or any of the
bids lor any cause uoeiueu uunicient uy tne un
derslened.
iWILLIAM P. CRAIGHILL,
Bvt. I.t.-Col., Major of Engineers,
7 27 Ct Post Oihce Box 311, Baltimore, Md.
T3ROPOSALS FOR CAVALRY IIOR3E3.
DErcTY Q,uartkrma8Ter-Gkn.'b Office,)
Baltimore, Md., July 25. 1K07.
Sealed Proposals are Invited, and will be re
ceived at this office, until MONDAY, at 12
o'clock M., August 6, 1807. for the delivery, lu
the city of Baltimore, of twenty (20) Cavalry
The Horses will be subjected to careful In
spection beloie being accepted. They must
be sound In all respects, well broken, lu full
flesb and good condition, from fifteen to six
teen hands high, from five to nine years old,
well adapted In every way for cavalry pur
poses. The ability of the bidder to fulfil bis agree
ment must be guaranteed by two responsible
persons, which guarantee must accompany the
proposal.
The Horses must be delivered within fifteen
(15) days from the date of acceptance of any
proposal.
The Government reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Payment to be made on completion of con
tract. Bids will be endorsed 'Proposals for Cavalry
Horses," and addressed to the undersigned,
Baltimore, Md.
7 27 7t STEWART VAN VLIET,
Deputy QuartermftHter-General U. M. A.
Government
1 PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
AWHINCIS, WACOM COTKBS)
It you want an extra Awnlnf very cheap, lei oat
awnlus makers take the meaaure, aud make It from
a lot of imh) hospital tents, lately purchased by us,
mauy ol which are entirely new. and ot the beat U
UU V D UM.WW
Of all kuius. FIT K I N KJ
e 1 sm u,mDd m Horut sums tuwt.
J flTKIN A. KJ
arneas
'INANCIAL.
JEV7 OT ATE LOAN.
THE NEW SIX PER CENT
STATE LOArj,
Fro from all State, County,.
and Municipal Taxation,
Will be famished in sums to BUlt, on applica
lion to either of the undersigned: -
JAT COOKE A COn
DBEXKIi A CO,
7SlnHp E. W. I'LABK A CO.
m
BANKING HOUSE
or
Jay Cooke & Co.,
AON. 118 AKD 114 S. TIIIIID BT.( PTOLAt-
Dealors in all Government Socnritiea,
OLD C-SOs WANTED
IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.
A UBEBALDI1TEBESICE ALLOWED,
Compound Interest Notes Wanted
INTEREST ALLOWED UN DEPOSITS.
Collections made. Stocks bought and sold on
Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladles. f a am
NORTH MISSOUKI RAILROAD
FIRST MORTGAGE
SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS.
Having purchased $600,000 of the FIRST MORT
GAGE COUPON BONOS OF THE NORTH MIS
SOURI RAILROAD COMPANY, BEARING SEVEN
PER CENT INTEREST, having 80 years to run, wa
are now prepared to tell the same at the low rate ot
,
And the accrued Interest from this date, thus paying
the Investor over 8 per cent. Interest, which is paya
ble temi-annually.
This Loan Is secured by a First Mortgage upon the
Company'a Railroad, 171 miles already constructed
aud in running order, and (2 miles additional to be
completed by the Uretot October next, extending from
the city ol bu Louis into Nortueru aud Central Ails
souri.
' full particulars will be given on application to
either 01 the undersigned.
. W. CLABK A CO.
JAY COOKE A CO.
DBEXEL A CO.
P. a Parties holding other securities, and wishing
to cbange them lor this Loan, caa do so at the market
rates. 7161m
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE
PURCHASED THE
NEW SIX PER CENT.
REGISTERED LOAN
OF IBB
LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGA
TION COMPANY,
DCE IK 1807.
IHTEBEHT PAYABLE 0.1TABTEIILY
FBEE OF UNITED HTATES ASD STATE
TAXES,
ASD OFX-EB IT FOB SALE AT THE LOTV
Fit ICE OF
NINETY-TWO,
AND ACCBCEDINTEBE8T FROM MAT
This LOAN la lenurml h. ..
Company's Railroad, constructed and to be th
tructed, extending from the southern boandLt0aI
theborouehof M&iv.h r u
l&lva
"" diukb across me saldrlvei
now la process of oonMmntin ..m... ....
, wuu ail Lha
Company's right, llbertless. and franchises appertain.
ww HUU. 4JIlUfeb
Copies ot the mortuase mar bn h.H
at the office ofthe Company, or a eit w . .V
.Ujned. euiiuer.
DBEXEL fc CO.
E. W. CLABU st CO,
JAY COOKE CO. tJla
W. H.NEWBOLP.BQH A AEBTSEN;
7 8'IOS SEVEN - THIRTY NOTES
CONTESTED WITHOUT C1IABOB ITO
luis SEW
G - O s.
BONDS DELIVERED AT ONCE.
COMPOUND INTEREST Nnrira r.
highest market rates.
I WM lua
" -ni 1 ku a CO.,
RO. 10 BOETU XIUUDBilKEtX,
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