G s MMICKY AMONG AJilJIALS. Mimicry and Other Protertlve lleicm blances AiiiouK Anlnali. (Continued from yesterday's Evening Telegraph. As it is among butterflies that instances of mimicry are most numerous and most strik ing, an account of some of the more prominent examples in this group will flrat be given. There is in South America an extensive family Of these insects, the HeliconiIa, which are in many respects very remarkable. They nre so abundant and characteristic in all the woody portions of the American tropics, that in almost every locality they will be ween more frequently than anv other batterllies. They are distinguished by very elongate wings, " body, and antenn.e, and are exceedingly beau tiful and varied in their colors; spots ana patches of yellow red or pure white upon a black, blue, or brown ground, being most general. They frequent the forests chielly, and all fly slowly and weakly; yet although they are so conspicuous, and could certainly be caught by insectivorous birds more easily than almost any other insects, their great abundance all over the wide region they in habit shows that they are not so persecuted. It is to be especially remarked also. that they possess no adaptive coloring to protect them during repose, for the under side of their wins presents the same, or at least an equally cou spicuous, coloriug as the upper side; and they may be observed after sunset suspended at the end of twigs and leaves where they have taken up their station for the night, fully exposed to the attacks of enemies, if they have any. These beautiful insects possess, however, a strong pungent semi-aromatic or medicinal odor, which seems to pervade all the Juices of their system. When the entomologist squeezes the breast of one of them Iwtween liia fingers to kill it, a yellow liquid exudes which Btains the skin, and the smell of which can only be got rid of by time and repeated washings. Here we have probably the cause of their immunity from attack, since there is a great deal of evidence to show that certain insects are so disgusting to birds that they will under no ciroumstances touch them. Mr. Stainton lias observed that a brood of young turkeys which greedily eat up all the worthless moths he had amassed in a night's "sugaring," one after another seized and rejected a single white moth which happened to beamongthem. Young pheasants and par tridges which eat many kinds of caterpillars seem to have an absolute dread of that of the common currant moth, which they will never touch, and tomtits, as well as other small birds, appear never to eat the same species. In the case of the lleliconidir, however, we have some direct evidence to the same ell'ect. In the Brazilian forests there are gruat num bers of insectivorous birds as jucamars, tro gons, and puff-birds which catch insects on the wing, and that they destroy many butterflies is indicated by the fact that the wings of these insects are often found on the ground where their bodies have been devoured. But among these there are no wings of Heliconidie, while those of the large showy Nymphalidie, which have a much swifter flight, are often met with. Again, a gentleman who has recently returned from Brazil, stated at a meeting of the Ento mological Society that he once observed a pair of puff-birds catching butterflies, which, they brought to their nest to feed their young; yet during half an hour they never brought one of the lleliconidte, which were flying lazily about in great numbers, and which they could have captured more easily than any other. It was this circumstance that led Mr. Bolt to observe then so long, as he could not under stand why the most common insects should be altogether passed by. Mr. Bates also tells us that he never saw them molested by lizards or predacious Hies, which often pounce on other butterflies. If, therefore, we accept it as highly pro bable (if not proved) that the Heliconidie are very greatly protected from attack by their peculiar odor and taste, we find it much more easy to understand their chief characteristics their great abundance, their slow flight, their gaudy colors, and the entire absence of protective tints on their under surfaces. This property places them somewhat in the position of those curious wingless birds of oceanic islands, the dodo, the apteryx, and the nioas, which are with great reason supposed to have lost the power of flight on account of the absence of carnivo rous quadrupeds. Our butterflies have been protected in a different way, but quite aa effec tually; and the result has been that as there has been nothing to escape from, there has been no weeding out of slow flyers, and as there has been nothing to hide from, there has been no extermination of the bright-colored varieties, and no reservation of such as tended to assimilate with Burronnding objects. Now let us consider how this kind of pro tection must act. Tropical insectivorous birds very frequently sit on dead branches of a lofty tree, or on those which overhang forest paths, gazing intently around, and darting off at in tervals to seize an insect at a considerable dis tance, which they generally return to their station to devour. If a bird began by cap turing the slow-flying, conspicuous Heliconidie, and found them always so disagreeable that he could not eat them, he would, after a very few trials, leave off catching them at all; and their whole appearance, form, color ing, and mode of flight is so peculiar that there can be little doubt birds would soon learn to distinguish them at a long distance, and never waste any time in pursuit of them. Under these circumstances, it is evi dent that any other butterfly of a group which birds were accustomed to devour, would be almost equally well protected by closely re Bembly a Hehconia externally, as if it acquired aiBo the disagreeable odor; always supposing flere!?reT0I,lly a fow of them among a great Zdkf1-vn?liconiaa- "the birds could ther liT1Hlletwo kinda externally, and amont tbeveraee onlyne Stable among fifty uneatable, they would soon give p seeking or the eatable ones, even if they invT,r,t0 efiBt- lf'on tke other han 2fn?2 ? batterlly 01 eatable group ,tLu dlfla?reable taste of the lfelioo nias while it retaTned the characteristic form rZlitIlng f It8,own rouP tLiB U really of no use to it whatever; for the birds would go on catching it among its eatable allies (among whom, we suppose, it is com paratively rare, and it would nrobahlv wounded and disabled, even if rejected, and Would be aa effectually killed as if it were devoured. It is important, therefore, to un derstand that if any one genua of an extensive family of eatable butterflies were in danger of extermination from in-seet-eating birds, and if two kinds of varia tion were going on among them, some indi viduals possessing a slightly disagreeable taste, others a slight resemblance to the Heliconidie, this latter quality would be much more valuable than the former. The change in flavor would not at all prevent the variety from being captured as before, and it would most certainly be thoroughly disabled before being rejected. The ap- ' yroach in color and form to tue Heliconidie, however, would be at the very crat a posi tive, though perhaps a slight advantage; for although at short distances this variety would be easily distinguished and devoured, yet at a longer distance it might be m,HtK" for one of the uneatable group, and M b ed by and gain another day's life, which K Tin many ca he sufficient for it to lay a auantity of epgs and leave a numerous pro Pnv many of which would inherit the peon linrity which had been the safeguard of their rfow' this hypothetical case is exactly realized - in South America. Among the white butterflies forming the family ri!rid;e (mnny of which do not greatly differ in ap pearance from our own cabbage butterflies) is a genus of rather small size (Leptalis); some species of which are white like their allies, while the larger number exactly re semble the Heliconidie in the form and color ing of the wingB. It must be always re membered that these two families are as abso lutely distinguished from each other by struc tural characters as are the carnivora and the ruminants among quadrupeds, and that an en tomologist can always distinguish the one from the other by the structure of the feet, just as certainly as a zoologist can tell a bear from a buffalo by the skull or by a tooth. Yet the resemblance of a species of the oue family to another species iu the other family wa often so great, that both Mr. Bates and Mr. Wallace were many times deceived at the time of cap ture, and did not discover the distinctness of the two insects till a closer examination de tected their essential differences. During bis residence of eleven years in the- Amazon Val ley, Mr. Bates found a number of species or varieties of Leptalis, each of which was a more or less exact copy of one of the Heliconi die of the district it inhabited; and the results of his observations are embodied in the paper published in the ' Linnnan Transactions," in which he first explained the phenomeua of "mimicry" as the result of natural selec tion, and showed its identity in cause and purpose with protective resemblance to vege table or inorganic forms. The imitation of the Heliconidie by the Leptalides is carried out to a wonderful degree in form as well as in coloring. The wings have become elongated to the same extent, and the antenna; and abdomen have both liecome lengthened, to correspond with the usual condition in which they exist in the former family. In coloration there are several types in the different genera of Heliconidie. The genus Mecha nitis is generally of a rich semi-transparent brown, banded with black and yellow ; Methona is of large size, the wings trans parent like horn, and with black transverse bands; while the delicate Ithomias are all more or less transparent, with black veins and borders, and often with marginal and transverse bands of orange red. These different forms are all covered by the various species of Leptalis, every baud and spot and tint of color, and the various degrees of transparency, being exactly reproduced. As if to derive all the benefit possible from this protective mimicry, the habits have be come so modified, that the Leptalides gene rally frequent the very same spots as their models, and have the same mode of flight; , and as they are always very scarce (Mr. Bates estimating their numbers at about one to a thousand of the group they re semble), there is hardly a possibility of their being found out by their enemies. It is also very remarkable that in almost every case the particular Ithomias and other species of Heliconid.e which they resemble, are noted as being ' very common species, swarming in individuals, and found over a wide range of country. This indicates anti quity and permanence in the species, and is exactly the condition most essential both to aid in the development and to increase the utility of the resemblance. But the Leptalides are not the only group who have prolonged their existence by imi tating the great protected group of Heliconidie; a genus of quite another family of most lovely small American butterflies, the Erycinid;e, and three genera of diurnal moths, also pre sent species which often mimic the same domi nant forms, so that some, as Ithomia ilerdina of St. l'aulo, for instance, have flying with them a few individuals of three totally diffe rent insects, which are yet disguised with ex actly the same form, color, and markings, so that all four are undistinguishable when on the wing. Again, the Heliconidie are not the only group that are imitated, although they are the most frequent modes. In other parts of the world an exactly parallel series of facts have been observed. The Danaid;e and the Acrreidie of the Old World tropics form, in fact, one great group with the Heliconidie. They have the same general form, structure, and habits; they pos sess the same protective odor, and are equally abundant in individuals, although not so varied in color, blue and white spots on a black ground being the most general pattern. The insects which mimio these are chiefly Papilios and Diademse, a genus allied to our peacock and tortoise-shell butterflies. Passing on to India, we have Danais tytia, a butterfly with semi-transparent bluish wings and a border of rich, reddish brown. This re markable style of coloring is exactly repro duced in Papilio agestor and in Diadema naoia, and all three insects not unfrequently come together in collections made at Darjeeling. In the Philippine Islands the large and curious Idea leuconoe, with its semi-transparent white wings, veined and spotted with black, is copied by the rare Papilio id;eodea from the same islands. In the Malay archipelago the very common and beautiful Euplita midamus is so exactly mimicked by two rare Papilios (P. paradoxa and P. .-enigma) that Mr. Wallace generally caught them under the impression that they were the more common species; and the equally common and even more beautiful Eupliea rha damanthus, with its pure white band3 aud spots on a ground of glossy blue and black, is reproduced in the Papilio caunus. Here also there are species of Diadema, imitating the same group in two or three instances; but we shall, have to adduce these further on in con nection with another branch of the subject. It has been already mentioned that in South America there is a group of Papilios which have all the characteristics of a protected race, and whose peculiar Colors and markings are imitated bv other butterflies not so protected. There is just such a group also in the East, having very similar colors and the same habits, ana these also are mimicked by other species in the same genus not closely allied to them, and alBO by a few of other families. Papilio hector, a common Indian butterfly of a rich black color spotted with crimson, is so closely copied by Papilio romulus, that the latter inse-jt has been thought to be its female. A close examination shows, however, that it is IKfydUforwit and belongs to another seuion of the genus. th tSo111 VW8e ca8es of mimicry are from abuffit ?tLe form9 of fe r9,nore oiallv Wf ll? in8e development espe are afco on ncbkl luxuriance? but tbel;e regions In 'stances in temperate handsome f toeric& the large and uanasome red and black butterfly Danais erippus in very common; and the .m "oun ry J. inhabited by UuSftSfiSS! SL closely reisemblos the Danais, while it differs entirely from every species of its own rnn. In the prooeding cases we have found Lepi dotitera imitating other insects of the same order, and such species only as we have good reason to helieve were free from the attacks of many insectivorous creatures; but there are other instances in which they altogether lose the external appearance of the order to which they belong, and take on the dress of bees or wasps insects which have an undeniable pro tection in tbeir stings. The Sesiidie and Egeriid.e, two families of day-fling moths, are particularly rem irkahle in this respect, and a mere inspection of the names given to the various species shows how the resemblance has struck every one. We have apiformis, vesipiforme, ichneunioni forme, scoliieforme, sphegiforme (bee-like, wasp-like, ichneumon-like, etc.), and many others, all indicating a resemblance to sting ing Ilymenoptera. In Britain, we may par ticularly notice Sesia bombiliformis, which very closely resembles the male of the large and common humble-bee, Bombus hortorum; Sphecia craboniforme, which is colored like a hornet, and is (on the au thority of Mr. Jenner Weir) much more like it when alive than when in the cabinet, from the way in which it carries its wings; and the little currant clear-wing Trochilium tipuliform resembles a small black wasp (Odyuerus sinuatus) very abundant in gardens at the same season. It has been so much the practice to look upou these resem blances as mere curious analogies, playing no part in the economy of nature, that we have scarcely any observations of the habits and appearance when alive of the hundreds of species of these groups in various parts of the world, or how far they are accompanied by Hymenoptera,which they specifically resemble. There are many species in India (like those figured by Professor Westwood in his "Ori ental Entomology"), which have the hind legs very broad and densely hairy, so as exactly to imitate the brush-legged bees (Scopulipedes) which abound in the same country. In this case we have more than mere resemblance of color, for that which is an important func tional structure in the one group is imitated in another whose habits render it perfectly useless. It may fairly be expected that if these imitations of one creature by another really serve as a protection to weak and decaying species, instances of the same kind will be found among other groups than the Lepidop tera; and such is the case, although they are seldom so prominent or so easily recog nized as those already pointed out as occur ring in that order. A few interesting ex amples may, however, be pointed out in most of the other orders of insects. The Coleoptera or beetles that imitate other Coleoptera of distinct groups are very nume rous in tropical countries, and they gene rally follow the laws already laid down as regulating these phenomena. The in sects which others imitate always have a special protection, which leads them to be avoided as dangerous or uneatable by small insectivorous animals; some have a disgusting taste (analogous to that of the Heliconidie); others have such a hard and stony covering that they cannot be crushed or digested; while a third set are very active, and armed with powerful jaws, as well as having some disagreeable secretion. Some species of Eumorphidse and Hispid:e, small flat or hemispherical buttles which are exceedingly abundant, and have a disagreeable secretion, are imitated by others of the very distinct group of Longi cornes (of which our common musk-beetle may be taken as an example). The extra ordinary little Cyclopeplus batesii belongs to the same sub-family of this group as the Onychocerus Scorpio and 0. concen tricus, which have already been adduced as imitating with such wonderful accuracy the bark of the trees they habitually frequent; but it differs totally in outward appearance from every one of its allies, having taken upon itself the exact shape and coloring of a globu lar Corynomalus, a little stinking beetle with clubbed antenna?. It is curious to see how these clubbed antennas are imitated by an in sect belonging to a group with long slender antenme. The sub-lamily Auisocerinie, to which Cyclopeplus belongs, is characterized by all its members possessing a little knob or dilatation about the middle of the antenme. This knob is considerably enlarged in C. batesii, and the terminal portion of the an tenme beyond it is so small and slender as to be scarcely visible, and thus an excellent sub stitute is obtained for the short clubbed antennas of the Corynomalus. Erythro platis corallifer is another curious broad flat beetle, that no one would take for a Longicorn, since it almost exactly resembles Cephalodonta spinipes, one of the commonest of the South American Hispid; and what is still more remarkable, another Longicorn of a distinct group, Strep tolabis hispoides, was found by Mr. Bates, which resembles the same insect with equal minuteness a case exactly paralleled to that among butterflies, where species of two or three distinct groups mimicked the same lleli conia. Many of the soft-winged beetles (Mala codermes) are excessively abundant in indi viduals, and it is probable that they have some similar protection, more especially m other species often strikingly resemble them. A Longicorn beetle, Pieciloderma termi nal, found in Jamaica, is colored exactly in the same way aa a Lycus (one of the Malacodennes) from the same Island. Eroschema poweri, a Longicorn from Australia, might certainly be taken ror one Of the same group, and several species from the Malay Islands are equally de ... i -v.. i .i a f raM la lound one oAhis . group, having the who to body .and elytra of a rich deep blue color, with the head only orange; and in company with it an insect of totally different family (Boonwuidje) wi h identically the same coloration, i .., .nJ f.irin as to coin- pletely puzzle the collector on every fresh occasion of capturing them. . ' Ivl have found it necessary in these oases to drill t hole very carefully with the point of a shaV penknife before attempting to Lsert a pm. Many of the flue long-anten-nwed Anthribid (an allied group) have to be treated in the same way. We can easily understand that, after small birdB have u vain attempted to eat these insects, they should get to know them by sight, and ever after leave them alone, and it will then be an advantage for other insects which are comparatively soft and eatable to be mis taken for them. We need not be surprised, therefore, to find that there are many Longi corns which strikingly resemble the "hard beetles' ' of their own district. In South Brazil, Acanthotritus dorsalis is strikingly like a CurcullO'Of the hard genua Heiliplus, and Mr. Bates assures us that he found Gym nocerus cratosomoides (a Longicorn) on the same tree with a hard Cratosomus (a weevil), which it exactly mhulca. Again, the pretty Longicorn rimeelloonra batesii mimics i one of the hard Authribibe of the genus Ptychoderos, having long slender antenme. In the Moluccas, we find Cacia anthriboides, a email Longicorn which might be easily mistaken for a ' very common, specie of Antbribldao fonnd In the. same districts; and the very rare Capnolyrauir stygtuiii closely imitates the common Mecooerus gazella, which abounded where it was taken. Dollops curculionides and other allied Longicorns from the Philippine Islands most curiously resemble, both in form and coloring, the brilliant Papyrhyn cbi Curculionid.T, which are almost peculiar to that group of islands. The remaining family of Coleoptera most frequently imitnted is the Cicindelid.'p. The rare and curious Longicoru, CollyrodeH lacordnirei, has exactly the form and coloring of the genns Collyris, while an nndescribeJ epecies of Heteromera is exactly like a Therates, and was taken running on t'.ie trunks of trees, as is the habit of that group. There is oue curious example of a Longicorn mimicking a Longicorn, like the Papilios and Heliconidie, which mimic tlieirown allies. Agnia lasciata, belonging to tne sub-family llypselo lninir, and Nemoidias grayi, belonging to the Lamiina, were taken in Amboynaon the same fallen tree at the same time, and were sup posed to be the same species till they were more carefully examined, aud found to be struc turally quite different. The coloring of these insects is very remarkable, being rich steel- blue black, crossed by broad hairy bands of orange-buff, and out of the many thousand of known species of Longicorns they are proba bly the only two which are so colored. The Neiuophas grayi is the larger, stronger, and better armed insect, and belongs to a more widely spread and dominant group, very rich in species and individuals, and is therefore most probably the subject of mimicry by the other species. We will now adduce a few cases in which beetles imitate other insects, and insects of other orders imitate beetles. Charis melipona, a South American Longicorn of the family Necydalida?, has been so nam d from its resemblance to a small bee of the genus Melipona. It is one of the most remarkable cases of mimicry. since the beetle has the thorax and body densely hairy like the bee, and the legs are tufted in a manner most unusual in the order Coleoptera. Another Longicorn, Odontocera ouyneroides, has the abdomen banded with yellow, and constricted at the base, and is altogether so exactly like a small common wasp of the genus Odynerus, that Mr. Bates informs us he was afraid to take it out of his net with his fingers for fear of being stung. Had Mr. Bates' taste for insects been less omnivorous than it was, the beetle's disguise might have saved it from his pin, as it had no doubt often done from the beak of hungry birds. A larger insect, Sphecomorpha chalybea, is exactly like one of the large metallic blue wasps, and like them has the abdomen connected with the thorax by a pedicel, rendering the deception most complete . and strik ing. Many eastern species of Longi corns of the genus Oberea, when on the wing exactly resemble Tentbredinidae, and many of the small species of Hesthesis run about on timber, and cannot be distinguished from ants. There is one genus f South American Longi corns that appears to mimic the shielded bugs of the genus Scutellera. The Oymnocerus capucinus is one of these, and is very like Pachyotris fabricii, one of the Scutelleridie. The beautiful Oymnocerus dulcissimus is also very like the same group of insects, though there is no known species that exactly corres sponds to it; but this is not to be wondered at, as the tropical Hemiptera have been compara tively so little cared for by collectors. The most remarkable case ef an insect of another order mimicking a beetle is that of the Condylodera tricondyloides, one of the cricket family from the Philippine Islands, which is bo exactly like a Tricondyla (one of the tiger beetles), that such an experienced ento mologist as Professor Westwood placed it among them in his cabinet, and retained it there a long time before he discovered his mis take ! Both insects run along the trunks of trees, and whereas Trioondylas are very plen tiful, the insect that mimics it is, as in all other cases, very rare. Mr. Bates also informs us that he found at Santarem on the Amazon a species of locust that mimicked one of the tiger beetles ot the genus Odontocheila, and was found on the same trees which they fre quented. I conclusion Tomorrow, j INSTRUCTION. BOKDENTOWN FEMALE COLLECJB. BOR JjKNTOWN, N. J. An Institution for ttie cart ful and thorough Instruction of Young Ladies in all tne brancliett of a complete education. 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FULTON will la e ( hetrnut street Wharf on SATURDAY MOR.S INH, AiiKiiH 2yh, at 9 o'clock. Excursion Tickets, good to return on Monday, t:i, including carriage hire. Kack waj, iii'uO. Including carriuge hire. 8 2i it . pIHT-N FOR CAPE MAY ON TUK 4tec.V-'.-iDAYB. THURSDAYS, AND 8ATLH-j..ilp.-'llie uew and swift steamer tSAMUKL M. FKLTON, Captain L. Davis, leaves cilKsNUT street Wliarl on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saint duys. at 9 A. M.: and returning leaven Cane May on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 7 W A. M. Fare '50, Including carriage hire. Servants, 175, " Children, frai, - " Excursion tickets on Saturday, good to return on Aloi.uay, f4, Including carriage hire. w , O. H. HCDDELL. iv. Mann s Express Company have arranged to attend to baggage, will check baggage through to hotels, cottages. . etc.: also sell Tickets at their Olnce, Ko. 105 W. FltTH IStreet. 8 2ot rnjA NEW IRON STEAMER, EDWIN airtiai 'Ti. JUFORRKBT. leaves for Trenton, toucli il'"1. "''y.Beveriy. Rurlington.Brlstol.Florence. Robb ins' Wharf, aud Fieidshoro', Leaves 2d pier ab. Arch, i Leaves South Trenton. "1 hurday, Au. 22, 6 30 A.M. Thursday, Au. ae.10 A.M.' Friday, " a, 7 " Friday, ' 23,10 30 Saturday, ' 24,7 " Saturday, " 24,ll eunday. Aupnst25, to Burlington and Bristol only. Leaves Philadelphia at 8 A M. aud 2 P, M.; Bristol at 1UH A, M. snd 41, P. M. Fare to Trenton, 40 cents each way. Intermediate' places, 26 cents each way. Excursion, 40ceiits. s 21 lu r$ZZs FARE TO WILMlN(iT0N15 iatm'L'ijgrfa cents: Chester or Hook, 10 cents, on and alter MONDAY, July 8, the steamer ARIEL will leave CH ESN UT (Street wharf t H iF. A. f o w r, m. .neiuruing, leaves Wilmington at (T45 A. M unci li-45 P. M. Fare to Wilmington, IS cents; excursion tickets, 26 centa. jare 10 cnester or Jtook, lOcenta. 8 20 tit wAlKZZs daily excursions to WIL. issis'hi'l iiiuJia mington, Del. The steamer ELIZA liAiSCoA will leave DOCK Street Wharf dull at 10 A. M. and 4 P. M. Returning, leave MARKET street Wharf, 'Wilmington, at 7 A. M. and 1 P. M. Fare for the round trlp.......... Su cents eitigie ticket.. ao ceui, theater and Marcus Hook .....-...........20 cents rur lurwer particulars, apply on hoard. 7 22tf W. BURNS. Captain. EXCURSIONS UPTHE RIVER.- The splendid steamboat JOHN A. ARJNF.R makes dally Afternoon Kiramlnn. in .Dumugion anu .Bristol, stopping at Miverton, Torres dale, Andalusia, and Beverly, each way. These excursions leave CHE8NUT STREET WHARF at 2 o'clock in the Afternoon. Returning, leave Bristol at 4 o'clock, arriving in the city at 8 o'clock P, M. jaius-J-acursion, 4u eta. Each way,2fic. B 26 8m FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOFSAFES piRE AND BURGLAR SAFES MARVIN'S PATENT ALUM AND DRY PLASTER TIIOBOUUI1LT FIKE-PBOOF. PEBFEt'TLY DBT. ALWAYS DETAIN THESE QUALITIES. SLANT THOUSANDS OF OCB SAFES IN trsjE. EXAMINE BEFORE PCTBCHASINCI ELSE. WUEBE. MARVIN & CO., 721 CHESTNUT SUMasonlcHall) AND 6S BBOADWAT, NEW TOKK. FAMILY SAFES FOB PLATE, JEWELS Y, ETC. ETC. BANKERS STEEL CHESTS, SECOND-II AND SAFES. SAFES EXCHANGED ON LIBERAL TERMS. 1 stuthsm SEND FOB ILLUSTBATED CATALOGUE. C. L. MAISER. MANCJACTUBKB 07 FIBE AND BIIBSIiAB-FBOOP SAFES. LOCKSHITH, BELL-HANGER, AND I) K A LEU IN BUILDIN HARDWARE, a fif NO. 4t BACH STREET. A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FIRE and Bnrelar-oroof SAFES on band, with Inside oors. UweUlBK-house Safes, free from damoneaa. Prices low. C. UANMENFOHDKK, a 6 No. 4tt2 VINE Htreet No. 1101 CHUHNOT Htreet. E. M. NEEDLES & CO. OFFER IN HOUSE-FURNISHING DRY GOODS, ADAPTED TO THE SEASON, Pj Summer Oanse Blankets, . 1 uiv vivwi. .uu VUJIIH, Jiath and other Towels, furniture Chintzes and Dimities, Pillow and bheetlns Linens, i'loor and Hlair Linens, Honeycomb, AUeudale, AND OTHER LIGHT SPREADS, AT REDUCED PRICES. L'r ,i. f .... u ...1 1 . 198J18 .T.qiBgHP ion QNr CORN E X C HANOI BAG MANUFACTORY, JOHN T. II A I L M Y A OO,. . ' - - - iioviei0 I K. K. Comer of M " f U1 WATKR Streets, 1 Plilltulelphia, , . DWALER8 IN BAUel AND BAGGING .1 Vil ever? iHworipllon, lor I Gralu, ij 1 bait, buier-Phouute of Lime, Rons I arpe aj, J.jall OUN n ' BAu8 constantly on hand. Si UUM T BAJ1X.K, lAMXA CAaUAJU(i 1 PROPOSALS. -IMTROVEMKNT OF THE T)F,f MOIP JL HAUDs OK 'lilt MISSISSIPPI KlVKit U. H. Enoinkkh's OrFii R ' A DVBNrOKT, lows, July 24, 1W7. r Pealed propoKHiH, in duplicate, wilt he.', ceiveu at Mils oftlce until la M WKL)N I"4T a v Hepten.ber 4. 1807. for excavating she tfrlam amt coiiHtrnnllnu th. ,..i,.,.,i. R"1 ofBU.1,l"M,U'.e .lmPKveiueiitor the naviKaui1 TheC'aual Is to be ubont (seven ami half) miles long, extending Tfrom Nashv.ii- ?" Keokuk, Iowa. Thewldiu attlSwe?. ,!? 10 luslde the canal to be 8K (t hree hu X ut rW? In embank u.ent, and (two uSn re.Itf, flit y leet lu excavation, and in low X, -u, H 5 (live) feet deep All the material Texwvu from the prlam of the canal to be usdm bulM1 ng the embankment. The latter inrouuhn the greater part of the distance will b S?ni 8(H) (three hundred) (eel lrom tb Ji .k1'"' V here rock t-xoavatlon occurs, X X 'l: the canal will have a slope of IV (onssndan0' half) Inches to the mile The. U (m- to be bu.lt of earth lav ,U?i"l'.R.nAI"."n feet wide on top. lucludlni the L1?"?.?) lV uw itwij ieei above h irh-WHir mt. ihR oiwH .-.f mz f i ?lr .?ler mark. b,lt raL'T '. whSt marT. , All propositions muststate the price at which encu and every kind of work SDeclned i ,?U proposal is to be done, and u bWlll ein metered thai i not definite In this repeet! a The Government reserved the rlgUt to releet auy and all bids. 10 reject o..lf.1' cin'Z ot thu ftJvcrtisement must b attac tied to each proposal. MMI Each bid must contain a written or printed guarantee sl.ned by two respouSlble perSoua . Blanks lor propoals of the form required with iorm of guarantee, will be f urnlsiTefi thlscfliceon application. luruisued at The price or prices In the contract will be con. ruwflk"!1 m.lbe c.nnal estimated at J2,068,345 (two million sixty-eUht thousand propriawd by Congress Is JTUO.OoO (seven hun tired thousand dollars)-the contract can only be n.ade to cover this amount. 7 Fifteen (15) per cent, of the amount of anv work done or materials furnished, at the con. tract price thereof, will be reserved until the who e work which la the subjeot of contract Shall be entirely completed. Persons desiring lunher Information can obtain the satue by calling at this office, where maps, plans, upeci flea Hons, ana form 01 con. tract can be consulted. Proposals must be addressed to the under signed, and should be endorsed "Proposals for work on the Improvement of thn Des Molnea Rapids." J. B VIL80N, nn. Lleut.-Col. &5th Infantry, 7 30 4w Bvf Major-General U. a Army. pR0POSALS FOR A NEW JAIL. Department of trie Interior, 1 "1 Washington, D. C, July 81, i7.r Sealed proposals will be received at this De partment until 12 o'clock M.. on TUESDAY, the 17th of September, I8U7, for the erection or the Jail In and for the District of Columbia, autho rized and provided for by the act of Congress, approved July 25. lSi6. and the Joint resolution approved March 2, 1807. The deslgDS, detail, drawings, and specifica tions can be seen at the architect's office, in the eastern grounds ot the Caoltol, Washington city, every uuy, except Sundays, between the hours of 9 A. M. aud 3 P. M. Separate bids will be received for the ma sonry work, brick work, Iron work, and car pentry work. The contractor whose bid may be accepted will be required to enter luto a sufllcient bond, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, for the faithful completion of his contraot. Payments will be made as the work progresses, on estimates certified to by the architect: but twenty per centum of the estimates will be retained until the contraot Is completed. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, but the Department re serves the right to reject any or allot the blda should It be deemed for the Interest of the Government to do so. The bids will be opened at noon on the I8th day of September next, in presence of such of the bidders as may choose to attend. x-rupoNH.a huouiu oe endorsed on the envelope "Proposals for New Jail." and be directed to the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, O. H. BROWNINf.' 8 21t917 Seoretary of the Interior. DHILADELl'HIA DEPOT. Assistant Quartermaster's Office,"! No. 1131) Gikard Street, J. Philadelphia, August 19, 1867. j PrOnOftnlfl Will hfl roitAlvarl at t H la WH..A n.n If) O clock M., SATURDAY. August 24th, 1807, to . iv no ui igmtw cuuumuu eleven nuuurea and fifteen (1115) leet, more or less, of "Willow Grove Avenue,1' Chesnut H1U. Philadelphia. on the croundsformnrlvnrrnnloA hDth. n.iiu. . j j ,ii .) ij u 1 lJVA States Government in connection wltn the Mower" Hospital. -Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon- penued to the bid, and certified to as being good by the United States District Judge. Attorney Collector, or other public ollicer. " "', JHlnnk forma fnr fiiilu nan ha hnt v Mif tionattnisofflcetaud bidders are requested to w uicDcut vlv upvuiuK U lue same. The right is reserved to reject any bid deemed too high, and no bid from a defaulting con tractor will be received. Endorse envelonea . "Prnnwl fA.nni t Willow Grove avenue." By order of Brevet Major-General Q. H. Cros- man. Assistant Ouartfirmuntr.(i Anarnl I T n 1 n . 1 ' ' -" UV.Hl, wuibwa Stales Army, HENRY W. JANE3, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, 8 19 5t Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, U.S. A. WANTS., TOOK AGENTS v IN LUCK AT LAST. . . ,.id uuur una cuzne 10 lire lue vail 1. r au u w ,.t..k. V... V...l... ... . ' ' " ".wu iKvuurvucuvttiupea me inner history of the Brent civil war, and this Is done by oiler lug to the public tieaeral U C. Bakttr'a v HISTORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE." For thrilling Interest this book tranfnrt a.n th. romances ot a thousaudtyears. ud oouoluslveiy craves that "truth is stranger tl.su notion." Aireots are clearing from titio ta tunn mnnth which we can prove to si.j doubting applicant. A few more can obtain agencies lu territory yet unoccu pied. Address WO. 70S CUUNDT MTRBET, 1 2tf PHILADiXPUIA. ZJFfr GARDNER & FLEMING, COACH MAKERS, HO. S14 SOUTH FIFTH STBEET. New arid Second-hand Carriages for sale. Par tJcnlar attention paid to repairing. 6 80 6m QEOnCE PLOWMAN, CARPENTER AND BUILDER. REMOVED Xo No.134 DOCK Street, " PULUADKUUIA. SLATE M ANTE L Si BLATK MANTELS ara Beanty, trength. aud Cheapness. KLiTK M 1 lui'l'l . t, . - madeto order. " , "mu J. B. KIMKS A CO.. 1n Kos 212 and il CHESNXJT Hwaol T. STEWART BROWN, S R. Corner of -Ult TU A I'llES TNVT S TS MANUFAU1TBEA Of IRWKR, VA1ISE3, BAGS, D-ETICTTtlCS, BHA'wl bTRAl-a.TIAT CABui fOCKiX ISOO&S, Ji
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