G THE MCKEY OF THE UNITED STATES. . AMONG THE GREENBACKS, i BY A. Da RICI1 ARDSON. WAoniNOTOv, 'AnguRt 3. Money who will write its history P It embraces in hundreds of forms the product of mine, forest, field, and factory. It is comprehensive as a cyclopedia and fascinating as a romance. The currency of barbarism is rude and va rious. We know next to nothing of that early, pemi-civilized American race whose very name has perished, though our valleys and prairies nee teemed with its living milliens. Their Btone cities in Arizona and New Mexico, their ten thousand earth monuments In the Missis sippi Valley, crumble daily under the tooth of Time and razure of Oblivion. 13ut their money, and that of' the Indians who succeeded them, usually in rudely ornamented disks shaped like our coin, comprised bone, shell, coal, terra cotta, mica, lead, iron, copper, gold, agate, pearl, jasper, chalcedony, and cornelian. Our great IVew Almadeu quicksilver mine was known to Aboriginals as "the Cave of lied iarth." The crude cinnebar (of which ver milion Is made) pasped among them as cur rency, and was precious for painting their , dusky cheeks. On the l'acific, red men bartered their shoicest otter robes for a string of blue beads; on the Atlantic they sold half a State for a belt of wampum. They drove out the mound builders to the Southwest. Now, in turn, we exterminate them as the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges. Tbe wealth of earliest civilization is flocks and herds; hence our adjective "pecuniary," from r ecus "cattle." Homer mentions that the armor of Diomed cost but nine oxen, while the lavish Olaucus paid a hundred for his. Britons, at the Norman invasion, had two kinds ef money, which they classed as "dead" and "living." The first comprised gold, brass, tin, and iron; the second, cattle and slai'es. Our Southrons thrived upon "living" currency till they fired upon Sumter and broke their bank. One step in advance was leather, the money of the Carthagenians. A few thousands in one dollar notes of sole-leather must have required a warehouse for storage and a ship for trans portation. Wa3 the office-seeker of Carthage as eager to become Superintendent of the Publio Tannery as ours is to be Director of the National Mint f Nails passed as money in Scotland; salt in Abyssinia; dried fish in Ire land; and mulberry bark in "the far Cathay." The latter, in circular pieces, bore the stamp of the sovereign; to counterfeit or refuse it was death. On the PaciSo coast, thirty years ago, hides were cash, and known as "California bank notes." In Oregon, wheat was legal tender at $1 per bushel. New settlements grow so fast that the little money brought by immi grants is soon exhausted, compelling the use of ome local substitute. In Massachusetts, until 1648, corn, live stock, wampum, and musket balls were all legalized currency. The bullets were required to be "full-bore," and passed for one penny each. Of wampum, four beads were a penny. No one was com pelled to receive either in sums exceeding twelve penoe. California, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado had their native gold, coined for con venience in private mints. Cincinnati adopted raccoon skins; St. Louis, furs; other Western colonies land warrants; and old Virginia, tobacco, which pioneer planter wisely invested in the purchase of wives. Indian traders, at their forts in the far West, used to buy the best buffalo robes for two cups of sugar. Now, robes are cheaper in New York than on the great plains. Texan traders afforded a striking illustration of the way civili zation traffics with barbarism. They put the furs an d skins of the savage into one scale, and their own muscle into the other, asserting that the white man's hand weighs half a pound! They exchanged, ounce for ounce, those strips of shining copper, with which the Indian delights to encircle wrist and ankle, for gold, silver, and emerald ornaments and sacred vessels, of which Mexican churches had been despoiled. But in the long run the Comanche usually avenged with the scalping knife his wrongs at the weighing-beam. Precious metals as money are older than history. Two thousand years before Christ, Abraham, the Chaldean shepherd, whose children have never lost his faith nor his thrift through a hundred and fourteen generations, returned from Egypt, "very rich in cattle, in Bilver, and in gold." Afterwards, says the Biblioal record, he bought the cave of Mach pelah where his bones where to rest beside those of 6arah, the wife of his youth for "four hundred shekels of silver, current money tcith the merchant." The Catholio version has it, "common, current money." The shekel was about (iO cents of our gold. It was weighed, not counted; for there were no mints in those days. Herodotus asserts that coinage originated with the Lydians. The world's coins, since, have been like leaves of autumn. Most are extinct; but the British Museum preserves more than a hundred and twenty thousand varieties. The Paris collection is still greater, and increased by two or three thousand every year. Our country has no large publio accu mulation; but the Cabinet of the Philadelphia Mint contains many worth studying. Its medallion memorials of Washington number 216; though not one I believe representing him in battle. It embraces many antique specimens. Here are the self-same coins which pious ancients placed between the cold lips of their dead to pay old Charon for ferriage over the Styx. Ilere is that very image and super scription of Caesar which the Jud;ean Carpenter pointed out to the fishermen and tent-makers following him. Here are faces of rulers and captians down to our day from Alexander of Macedon, and the mightiest Julius who be strode this narrow world like a Colossus. The courteous officer now at the head of the Mint, in response to my questions, dates the intereotir-g featu.eB of this collection so dearly and succinctly, that I take the liberty of giving Aim ciifcuo ictini. Mint of tub TJnitki Statks, PiiiLATuci.rnrA July 2.U Mr: Your inquiries have Kiven occasion to a fresh enumeration 01 our cubiuet coins.wlth the fol lowing' renulla: initiiK AN-Regular United Slates colimire 057 Colonial, Experimental, and Uold-reylou Issues -180837 PoKKiuN MiiUBrii: i oiiih in ineiimiian char acter, IucIimIIiik Central and Koiith Ame rica, and Europe (except Turkey and West luillcs) Oriental Oins of Asia, and Europeuu Tur key, In Arabic and othrtr cliarai tern. In cluding China aird Jupan, and the me duevul Cullo and Caliphate, also North ern A Irlca ......... Antio.uk Human, down to the end ol tha llvzttnllne Empire ANTiniiK-Greek. IiicIucIiuk Kyrlac.l'.fc-y ptluu. iaclrian. and Sussmiian MjbCKl.l-AKli.Ol 8 im 420 rfi.nl r, t nM nfl 4'JOO Ttr mm United' Wales National (bronze; H8 Jut... T..i. M-riniemot Waslilniilou 2W Miscellaneous (-old, silver, bronze) ll.,.734 Whole number of pieces.. MM It should be curved that w . do not collect the neitv ireaaitli aimwu , ....... , . EfkHiis "eto. We aim not at nii(mr bin worth; and i.,.iuii to kive Hie observer au Idea of the currency 'uni V.em of' " tfrfb- PP4 f . " " "'' 1 r. :oia ishlirh Into antluulty as any tier. VV luay mention three piece ittiiug quite THE DAILY EVENING m hack to the origin ol the practice of coining In their rpecilve ccunirles: 1. The sliver coin of A".(fln. a Oreeh Inland. Is gene rally pstlmatrd as having been coined seven centuries before the Christian era. V'e call ours MK years our. 1 he tetrsdrachm of Alheas is farther down, perhapo two centuries. , 4 ... h. 2. Tbe golden ftarta of Persia, coined by Darius, hut which one of that name Is uncertain. Its age la doubt "T S'iZb Mm, (one-third of the or Komn pound) of the yoiinK republic or -Home, Is about the ' Aco",fpP.e"of Xntfrk farther dnwr. the date, become mure definite, generally a scope of a few years must be allowed; but In some cases the exact year oi coin age can he ascertained. The duration. "How many varieties, counting the ditlereni dies, of American public coins, have circu lated r" probably cannot be answered by anyood; cit' alnly no two answers would be anywhere near alike. The subject has been laUhlully studied and largely wiltien upon, and yet much remains uncer tain, Collectors often make a trivial variation the ground of adding to the number. We are entirely unsble to give au answer on this point, lltspeci fully yours, etc., H. K. LftDK.llMAN, Director of the Mint. ' American money-coins must have numbered nearly lUOO. The earliest was a brass penny, Struck in the Bermudas in 1G12 for the Vir ginia colony. In William and Mary's reign copper pennies made in London for our North ern and Southern Hettlements bore the mottoes: "(lod preserve New England 1" "God pre serve Carolina and the Lords Proprietors 1" Massachusetts authorized silver coinage in ltj.r2, and other colonies soon after. In 178G Congress adopted our present sysi tern, from the $10 piece down. It originated with Thomas Jellerson, that many-sided man born of aristocracy, yet an incarnate demo crat reared in the wilderness, yet graced with every accomplishment interested alike in natural science, farming, music, architecture, and government designing the Capitol of his native State, adding half our present territory to the Union, and leaving for his monument the proud record: "Founder of the Univer sity of Virginia, author of the Statute of Re ligious Freedom and the Declaraticn of Inde pendence." "Mill" was from the Latin mille, one thou sandth of a dollar; "cent" from centum one hundredth; "dime" (formerly written disme) from decern one-tenth; "dollar" from the German dahler, or thaler, and "eagle" from our chosen bird. We selected an American species; but the eagle had already figured in old mythologies, Homan, Greek, Hindoo, and Scandinavian, and on many a martial standard from the Etruscans to the Poles. Franklin always cavilled at it as our national emblem, on the ground that this thief and pirate of the air subsists by preying upon the defenseless. The fathers long debated whether to adopt the eagle or the rattlesnake. In favor of the latter they plausibly urged that he never attaoks until molested, and never strikes without giving his enemy fair warning. Upon early devices he occupies the place of honor, some times with the significant inscription: "Don't tread on me?" A Continental note even repre sents him as giving the death-stroke to an at tacking eagle. Modern days reverse the pic ture. Now the official seals of Mexico and New Mexico both exhibit the dishonored reptile in the clutches of the victorious bird. Our first Federal coin one cent, struck in New Havenbore the wholesome injunction : "Mind your own business 1" There is a legend, "interesting if true," that when Washington saw his face upon the earliest silver dollar, he peremptorily ordered the dies to be destroyed. Cents and half dollars of 1791-92 still bear his profile. The first head of Liberty on our coin bore the features of Martha Washington. "Bank" we get from lanco, a bench; be cause in Italian towns Jewish money-lenders, in the yellow bonnets which law compelled them to wear, used to drive their hard bar gains upon long wooden seats in the market places. The Bank of Venice, the first in Eu rope, was established in 1171, to aid Govern ments in raising funds for the Crusades. It was a monetary Methuselah, and flourished for more than six hundred years. Its earliest paying-teller, perhaps, counted out shining lloriiis to Richard the Lion-IIearted. Its latest may have cashed a draft for John Quincy Adams. There, "Signor Antonio" mu3t have kept his account; and the bank's refusal to discount his little note the mere bagatelle of three thousand ducats for ninety days is shrouded in mystery. Possibly "Shylock," and old Tubal, that wealthy Hebrew of his tribe, had been fomenting a panio about him. Shakespeare avers that the merchant was good; but then the poet was no money-lender. In JJamlet he even oilers to advance a thousand pounds to the ghost, without an indorser a security unknown to Wall street, and doubt less to the Rialto. At last the Bank of Venice fitly fell, with the hundred-isled city. It was overthrown when that gorgeous Queen of the Adriatio yielded her crown to the revolutionary armies of France. The Bank of England was founded during a French war in 1694 to aid William and Mary, who had been paying 40 per cent, a year for loans. Both our old United States Banks like our present National system were also born of disorders which war had produced in Government finances. It required a cart and a yoke of oxen to haul $100 of the iron money of Lycurgus. Now, the boyish messenger of a National bank skips down Broadway with a million of currency in his little sack. And Samuel Rogers, banker and poet, had a note for one million pounds sterling framed and hung in his parlor. WThy did he not sing the Pleasures of Possession rather than the "Pleasures of Memory?" In the Congressional Library is a rare old scrap-book filled with antique specimens of American paper currency. They number 2G0, though few of the early issues are there, and none come down to the adoption of the Con stitution. A full collection until now would probably reach 10,000 notes, publio and private. The earliest simply bears the words: "One Penny. Massachusetts. June, 1722." It has no signature, and its execution would not serve us for the label of a match-box. Then follow issues of the other colonies. New Jersey notes, authorized in 1728, were engraved by one Ben jamin Franklin, then a journeyman printer of 22. He also fashioned a hand-press for striking them off. That runaway Boston apprentice that leather-aproned Philadelphia editor me chanic and diplomat jester and statesman trader, inventor, patriot, philosopher, philan thropist how his name is written all over our colonial and Revolutionary history 1 ine rude devices of that era represent shaky crowns; ships building upon stocks infirm of purpose; white men and Indians, cheated of teature by disFerubling engraver, sent into this printing world scarce half made up. In '76 the name of "His Gracious Majesty King Ueorge the Third" suddenly disappears, and pounds and shillings change to dollars and cents. A oeorpia note proini8eg to pay 50 wuinn twelve months, out of "moneys arising liom the sale of forfeited estates." Does that mean confiscation ? Continental bills bear sundry intimations war- tin i r couutr7 wages a hopeless Ttiear ahni ar ?Umiine at lLe point of 5"' ;in."d raP"'g brambles and the like. fcw are counC printe,i in colo- A lew are counterfeits, and altiH. i)in.T ni,i notes, creased, mutilated , ;i i J I-,, "lilthv " but n i ' B0lld. they are still coarse worthless rRBr u-u Bits of coari-e, worthless paner i v.. schemed, and toiled, and v . committed crimes to ffi .0ut. hTe9' ud endured, and suffered, and d waof . tit. Utt Bimilar reflections will move the long-pro phesied Nw Zealand arcliieologlst. AU day he rliall stand on the never-finished Washing ton Monument, to sketch the ruins of Wil lard's Hotel. But at night, bv his camp-fire on Pennsylvania avenue, he "will scan with sentimental eye the great scrap-book of our paper currency. Remembering the gorgeous notes of the one hundred and fifteenth Na tional Bank at Auckland that line his pocket book, he will wonder at the rude art which stamped the heads of Chase and Fessendon, McCulloch and Spinner, on these plain, tat tered, antique bills and bonds of the year of grace lbC7. And on getting home from his ex plorations he will rush to the library of the New Zealand Antiquarian Society, and hunt the well-thumbed files of the Tribune for the only authentio record of their history. It runs in this wise: In 18U1 our first greenbacks were printed by the New York Bank Note Companies, and Treasurer and Register signed them here with their own proper hands. But the infant army, that financial "Oliver Twist," was always clamoring for "More." Spinner wa no Bria rorus ,the hundred-handed, and Chittenden could not devote more than twenty-four hours a day to his own autographs. So Congress authorized them to sign by proxy. Then the issue grew till seventy clerks, at $1200 a year, were kept busy in writing their own in lieu of these officers' names. But so many different hands destroyed all the value of signatures. They were no more protection against fraud than the type (make it large and leaded, O Autocrat ot the Sanctum !) in which this dis cursive letter is printed. And the Secretary knitted his broad brow in sore perplexity. There was a keen-eyed Superintendent of Constructing the Publio Buildings, named S. M. Clark. A Vermont Yankee, and true to his nativity, he had done a little of every thing, and could make anything. Just now he was at leisure; the nation needed po new edifices till arms should decide whether it was a nation. He proposed facsimiles of the sig natures, and also of the Treasury seal, to be engraved and printed on the notes in peculiar ink, and by a peculiar process. Chase, under sanction of Congress, adopted the suggestion. Then Spinner was the hundred-handed. He could sign with a rapidity limited only by the capacity of lightning presses. Notes came to the Department in sheets of four each. Seventy-five girls, every one armed with her shears, trimmed and separated them by hand. Clark, the revolutionist, declared this ought to be done by machinery, and, more to the point, that he could make the machines himself. Fogies pooh-poohed. Cut bank notes apart, and trim their edges by steam f Utterly impossible I Besides, it would be too expensive, and would take bread from these worthy women. But the Secretary said "Go ahead;" so the Yankee coaxed his brain, and burned the midnight oil. In two months he brought in two trial machines, worked by a crank. The clerk to whom they were referred inspected and reported them failures. So Chase ordered them removed from the build ing. But what inventor ever acquiesced in the slaughter of his own progeny ? This one implored the Secretary, "Come and examine for yourself!" Chase did examine, and found that these marvellous automata, with cunning fingers of steel, not only did the work perfectly, but reduced its cost more than four-fifths. lie in stantly rescinded the order, placed Clark in charge of the cutting and trimming, and assigned him rooms for the purpose. That was the origin of the Printing and Engraving Bureau or the Ireasury Department. (Jn the 29th of August, 18G2, Mr. Clark began, as sisted by one man and four women. Now his Bureau has 21 subordinate superintendents, nearly GOO employes, occupies 74 rooms, and has turned out sixty millions of dollars in a single day. But it has fought for every step. It would have perished long ago, had it not adopted the principles ot the Prize Ring, and struck out vigorously from the shoulder. Its very existence is a vindication of the noble art of self-defense. It had to encounter the prejudice against Government's engaging in any sort of manufactures usually just, for the more employes, jobs, patronage, the more corrup tion. This case was exceptional. The Treasurer could not go into open market for his engraving and printing. The Bank Note Companies then but two, now three were gigantio monopolies. They made the paper money of North and South America. They offered no competition. There was work for both; they charged their own prices, and would not underbid eacn other. Greenbacks proved a Golconda to them. Shares, below par, rose to high premiums. One made dividends of 30 per cent, a year, on its immense nominal capital of $1,250,000. In all, Government has paid these three com panies over $3,000?000. But every piece of work done in Washington was so much taken from their receipts. Hence, arrayed against the Bureau was this gigantio money-power, working in a hundred ways on the floor of Congress, in the Departments, on Wall street, and through the printing press. In its favor was only the less zealous aid springing from the belief that it served the public interest. The currency required the very choicest execution. Tolerable bank-note engravers abound; but of first-class workmen there are less than 20 in the United States. The com panies employed them all, binding them by long contracts, and the moment a new one arrived from abroad, pouncing on him like a hawk. Once Clark posted over to New York, to see a skilful designer from England by special appointment. He found that officers of the leading bank-note company had pre ceded him by a few minutes at the place of meeting, and with an unusual salary had se cured his man. The President of another corporation brought written c barges againBt Clark's character. A Congressional committee investigated and de clared them wholly unsupported by proof. The companies refused to give up the dies and plates for printing here. Once this contro versy waxed so warm that they packed them for sending abroad, lest the Secretary should obtain them by process of law. The New York companies still print the greenbacks and the iwsues of the National Banks. But this competition has brought down their charges for engraving 75 per cent, and for printing 60 per cent, below what the Government paid them in '02. The work could readily be dona here, but there are 1700 National Banks. Were the printing trans ferred now, if any spurious notes from the genuine plates should get in circulation, a question might arise as to whether they were tampered with while in the custody of the companies or of the Department. The Comp troller ot the Currency declines that respon sibility. So they are printed in New i'ork, and expressed here, to be separated, trimmed, numbered, and stamped with the Treasury seal. ' One package upon arrival proved to contain 8000 more than it was marked and invoiced. Long the company stoutly denied the mistake, but at last owned up. Another package contained an excess of $100,000, but that error was speedily acknowledged. Clark's Bureau, besides finishing these notes, engraves and prints all our bonds, coupons, fractional currency, and Internal Revenue 5, 18G7. stamps for cigars and beer barrels; does the general printing of the Treasury Department, and manufactures its wrapping paper and en velopes. It is in contemplation to make bank note paper also. For this purpose the light est, finest fabric is best-just L a silk hand kerchief wil stand more wear and tear than a coarse napkin. The Post Office Department (chief, Alexan- ?en Wi" "yi8'nn), contains a roora boldly labelled, "Depredation Office." It is devoted, not to committing depredations, as the inscription might signify, but to investi gating them, bo the Treasury has one branch over which might be written, "Counterfeiting Office." Most spurious plates, sooner or later find their way here. A large detective force is employed in ferreting out counterfeiters. These have ramifications all over the Union. They are chiefly ensnared through their own con federates, ever ready, for a consideration, to betray them, and falsify the proverb of "honor among thieves." Hundreds are sent to Peni tentiaries yearly; but they find It easy to get pardoned out. When a counterfeit is presented at the Bank of England, the gold is instantly paid for it. If it comes from some known person he is only asked where he got it. If from a stranger the cashier signals to his detective, always in wait ing, and the officer follows secretly. Before many hours the bank is in possession of the stranger's biography. The offender, once ar rested, is likely to be tried, convicted, and sen tenced within two days; wherefore Great Britain is not an inviting field for that branch of industry. American counterfeiters are thoroughly or ganized, and adopt the great national prinoi pie division of labor. They have classes quite separate and distinct, for engraving, nrintint?. fiienintr. and nuttinir in circulation. The latter issue circulars to known dealers all over the country, offering the "queer" (their flash term for counterfeit money) usually at about thirty cents on the dollar. They have their spy system, too, and look out sharply for officers. Lately a detective mailed $10 to the address given in one of these circulars, asking the return of its value in "queer." The vigilant counterfeiter, penetrating the dis guise, replied that he did not sell to stool pigeons, but yet felt bound in common cour tesy to retain the officer's little contribution to his exchequer I The discomfited detective now shakes his head, and sighs with Juliet: "Too early seen unknown and known too late." But the facetious scoundrel gleefully apostro phizes his unlooked-for "Ten": "Green be the back upon thee, Friend of my belter days !" N. Y. Tribune. COPARTNERSHIPS. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Xi partnership lately subsisting between JAM fed U. Kursjiaij b, JUjMATUsn a. ubki(18, and JOHN K. KIPLK. under the firm of JONATHAN B. KOBKIU8&CO.. was dissolved on (thlsl the Such day of July, lnti7. All debts owing to the said Dart- nershin are to oe received Dy the said JAvlEa u, nu.cE.it i a, anu an oernanus on me sam partnership are to be presented to him lor payment. JAM:.1 O. KO BERTS. J. B. KOBEKT8. 7 80 81 JOHN it, KIFLE. 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Those wishing handsome and tlioroW'Mv niue Goods, at very reasonable prices, will rind It lo their advantage to give us a call belore VTir-hoilVnMurulshed fixtures reflnlshed with ''tr fct VAMKIJUS A CO. WA rcr.ES JEWELRY, ETC. AMERICAN WATCHED. HO. IS SOUTH HECOND STREET- pnit.Anici.PHi ASKS ATTENTION TO IT 19 VARIED AND EXTENSIVE STOCK or OLD. AND SILVER WATCHES AND SI EVER-WARE. Customers may be assured that none bnt the be articles, at reasonableprlces, will be sold at bis store A fine assortment of ,AIK"-WARR OKSTANTET OIT IT AND WATCHES and JBWELRY carefully repaired. Al orders by mall promptly attended to. 4 10 wsroltni LEWIS LADOMUS & CO., Plamond D.al.rs and J waller a, NO. 80S CUES NUT Tn PHILADELPHIA , Would Invite the attention ot purchasers to tb. Ir large and handsome assortment of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWtLUT, SILVER-WARE, ICK PITCHERS In areat variety ETC. ETC A large assortment of small STUDS, for eyelet boles. Just received. WATCHES repaired In the best manner, and guaranieeu. 6 114D We keep always on band an assortment of LADIES' AND ENTM' "FINE WATCHES' Of the best American and Foreign Makers, all war ranted to give complete satisiactlou, and at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. FAIIR & BROTHER, Importers of Watches, Jewelry, Musical Boxes, etc. 11 llsmthjrp No. 824 CHESNUT St., below Fourth. Especial attention glvpn to repairing Watches and Musical Boies by FIRST-CLASH workmen. WATCHES, JfiWELKY. w. w. OASSIDY. NO. IS SOUTH SECOND STREET, OHters an entirely new and most carefully selected BLOCK Ol AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable FOR BRIDAL OR ;UOLIDAT PRESENTS, An examination will show my stock to be unsur passed In quality and cheapness. Particular attention paid to repairing. 8l(t G. RUSSELL & CO., KO. NORTH SIXTH STREET, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN FINE WATCHES, FRENCH CLOCKS, GOLD JEWELRY, AND W SOLID SILVER-WARE. HENRY HARPER. No. 5QO ARCH Street Manulacturer and Dealer In WATCHES, fine Jewelry, silver-plated ware, and . SOLID SILVER-WARE. tfSL AMERICAN WATCHES." CtT, Sold at factory prices by C. A. PK(ll'RIOT, W A T C H C AUK 11 AN I F A O T U R E R S No. 18 South HIXTH Btreet. ' 8 8 Manufactory, No. 22 bomb FIFTH Street. The attention of deutert it culled lo our large ttock. No. 1101 CHEMNUTStreeTT E. M. NEEDLES & CO. OFFER IN HOUSE-FURNISHING DRY GOODS ADAPTED TO THE SEASON, Summer Gauze Blankets, Fruit Cloths ami Doylies, Bath and other Towels, Furniture Chintzes and Dimities, Pillow aud Sheeting- Linens, Floor and Stair Linens. Honeycomb, Allendale, AND OTHER LIGHT SPREADS, AT REDUCED PRICES. IMMis XnNHtfHO ion -OS TAMES E. EVANS, GUN-MAKER, SOUTH tJ Street, above Second, would cull the attention of sportsmen to the choice selection of B URGES' TROUT AND BaHs hOts (a new aHsonment), Flies, aud all the usual selection of F1SU1NU TACKLE la all Its Various branches. HAND M UZZ LE-LOADING GUNS altered to BREECH-LOADERS lu the best manner, at the lowest rates. 7 is tf PP. W. B. THE PET OF THE HOUSEHOLD. P. P. W. B. PARIS' PATENT WINDOW BOWER. Every housekeeper should have them to their shut ters; they supersede the old-fashioneu ribbons. Price, Twenty-five cents Per pair. Sold everywhere, and wholesale and retail by B. F. PARIS, '-ln No. 27 8. T1HRD auxeiit. JOHN CRUMP. CAKPENTEH AN I) liUltiDKK. SUOPMt NO. 813 LODGE STREET, AND NO. 178 CHESNUT STREET, 8 Tini APur.PB-r. T. STEWART BROWN, B.K. Coruor of FOURTH CJIESTXVTSTS LJl MANlTAOTUBtR IBTTNKS, VAIISES, BAGS, RETICULES, BHAWf BTRAP8, HAT CASES, POCKET B00KB, FLA&JU and Traveling- Goods generally. ' GARDNER & FLEMING, COACH MAKERS, 0. 814 SOUTH EIETU STREET. New and Second-band Carriages for gale. Par ticular attenUoa paid M repairing. 6 80 Qui FINE WATCHES. I n a SUMMER RESORTS. ' QAPE may, CAPE IfcLAXD. NEW JEKSET. Since the close of W much enterprise has hu displayed at this celehiated sea-shore resort. Mew nd nKKiiillceiit con sues have been erected; the Hotels have been remodelled; a fine park, with a well luaoe one mile urlve, has been luauKiiraied; and la all toe ewit minis oi piipuiar Bummer resort, a spirit ot lu)prov ineni Is largely n aulteeled. 1 lie aeoiiraphlcal position ot Cat e Island Is In Itself a popular feature, wheu properly understood. Situ ated at the extreme southern ponton ot the taate, aud occupying a neck of land at the continence of the Delaware Ray wlih tho Atlantic Ocean, It becomss entirely surrounded by salt water, hence favored, by continual breezes from the sea. 'I he ulun inruisnes m uriuiimi u, umn. Delaware Bay. and pl turesque bacH country, taking in Cat e Henlopen distinctly at a distance of sixteen n lies. Hie beach Is acluiowledKed lo surpass and other point upon the Atlantic ooast,t)eln of asmeoth, compact sand, which declines so iiviiiiy to the iur1 liiat eveu a cutiu cu i,inm i.u .u. A!liwl to iln.ua attractions is tbe fact that the effect ol the Gulf htream upon this point renders the water cumparallvely w arui a point not to be overlooked by persons sreKing iieaun iroui ot euu iuiiii. '1 he distance irc.m Philadelphia to Cae Island Is 81 miles by rail, aud about the same distance by steamer down the Bay, and by either route the facilities tor travel promise to be ol tbe most satisfactory clmrao ter. The Island has Hotel aud Boarding-bouse ac commodations for about ten thousand persons. The leading Hotels are tt-e Columbia House, with George J. Bolton as proprietor: Congress Hall, with J, if. Cake as proprietor; aud United Slates, with West and Miller as proprietors, all under the management of gentleman who have well-established reputations as hotel men. t mwslilw UNITED STATES . HOTEL, ATLANTIC CITY, IT. J., ' IS NOW OPEN. FOB PARTICULARS, ADDRESS SHOWN WOELPPEB, ATLANTIC CITT, Or No. 827 RICHMOND Street, "0ta Philadelphia. MERCHANTS' HOTEL, CAPE ISLAND, N. jr. This beautiful and commodious Hotel la now open for the reception of guests. - It Is on the main avenue to the Beach, and less than one square from tbe ocean. ; WILLIAM mason; PROPRIETOR, 7 8 AMERICAN HOUSE, CAPE ISLAND, N. J., BY JOSEPH fc. MliUHttf, formerly of the Ocean House One suuare Irora the depot and the ocean. Board (a per day, or i6 to ih per week 7 2Bmthslot SEA BATHIKG NATIONAL II ALL, CAPS lbLAND, N. J. This large aud commodious Hotel, known as tbe National Hall, la now receiving visitors, 'terms moderate. Chlldreu and servant naif price. AARON UARRKTSON, 62ni Proprietor. HOOP SKIRTS. ftOQ HOOP SKIRTS, OQ UZO HOPKINS' "OWN MAKii" OjjO , PRICKS RKDUCED1II . It affords us much pleasure to announce to otu numerous patrons and toe publio, that lu conse. quenceifa slight decline In Hoop Bkirt material together with our Increased lacillites for manufao luring, aud a strict adherence to BUYING and bKLLINO for CASH, we ate enabled to ofTer all our J Ub'l J-.Y CKLK RATED HOOP BKIRTH at RE DUCED PRICES. And our bklrts will always, aa heretofore, be found In every respect more desirable, and really cheaper than any single or double Boring Hoop bkirt In the market, while our assortment la unequalled. A lso, constantly receiving from New York and thf Eastern btales full Hues ol low priced Skirts, at very low prices; among which Is a lot of Plain Skirts at tbe following rates; 16 springs, 660.; 80 springs, 66c.: ta springs, 75c. 1 30 springs, boc; 86 springs, W0.1 and 0 springs, iron. Skirts made to order, altered, and repaired. Whole ale and retail, at tbe Philadelphia Hoop skirt JSm. porium. No, bl6 A-RCH Street, below Seventh. 610 8m rp WILLIAM T. HOPKINS. FURNISHING GOODS, SHIBTS,&C. pm HOFFMANN, JR., , NO. 828 ARCH STREET, FUBNISHING GOODS, (Li ttG. A. Hoflinan, formerly W. W. KnUjht,) FINE BUIUTtt AND WRAPPERS. UOMBT AND OLOYE8T, MILK, LAM BS'WOOIi AND MERINO 8 8fmwm BMPEBCLUTIIISBi J. W. SCOTT Sc CO., SHIRT MANUFACTURERS, AND DEALERS IS MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS NO. 814 CIlEStNUT STREET. FOUR DOOIU4 BELOW TILE " CONTINENTAL, EfP ' PHILADELPHIA. PATENT SIIOULDEIt - SEAM SIIIRT MANUFACTORY, ANDGENTLKMEN'S FURNISHING STORB PERFBCT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS madelrom measurement at very short notice. All other articles ot UENTLEMEN'H DRESS GOOUfc lu lull variety. , ; WINCHESTER A COH 18 No. 706 CHEfrNPTBtreet GROCERIES, ETC, " EXCELSIOR" HAMS, SELECTED FROM THE REST CORN-FED UO.S. ARE OF STANDARD REPUTA. TION, AND THE REST IN TUB . WORLD. J. H. MICHENER & CO., GENERAL PROVISION DEALERS, AN II CURERS OF THE CELEBRATED "IJ XCELHIO Ifc" ; SUGAR-CURED HAMS, TONGUES, AND BEEF, Nob. 142 and 144 JST. FRONT Street. t Nnejrenuine unless branded J. H. M. A Co., KX- ihe Justly celebrated "EXCELSIOR" HAMS are rurtd Ly J. H. Ji. & o. (iu a atvle peuullar to them selves), epresIy hji- i'ail ILY UdE; are of delicious flavor; free from II. c unpleasant taste of tult, and ar J 'renounced by epicures superior to any now ottered or sale. 6 si fmwaui N E w . ' : ,T SMOKED AND SPICED SALMON, FIRST OP THE SEASON, ALBERT C. ROIIEHTS, . Dealer a l lue Groceries, -11 7rp Corner ELEVENTH and VINE 8Ul JAPANESE lWClIOSG .THE FINEST QUALITY IMPORTED. Emperor and other Hue chops OOLONati, New crop YttUNG HY&ON and UUSPOWnm and genuine CHULAN TEA. , i'or sale by the package or ratal, at ., JAUESR. WEBB'S, , t Corner WALNUT and EIQHTir fcta. Q A li T 1 E L I) ' 8 7 SUPERIOR CIDER VINEGAR Warrauted lree from all POIBONOTJa ACIDS, l or sale by all Grocers, and by the Mule Auiita, PAUL, & FEHQUSON, ; , l8m NO. 1 NOHTH WATER ST. PK1VY WfcXLS OWNKHSOF PUOPEiVty" The ouly place lo ,ei Prt?y Well cleaned and I'lolufoclcdatvery low price. umao ., . r ICY SON, Mannnicrurer of piMirtrwiia 8 101 OOLDBillTH'b HALL, UliRAJi y , '
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