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THE HUMOROUS ELEMENT Oh TllE
EARL Y ENGLISH PULPIT.
BY HOW. . W. WALt,.
Were we bo constituted that the sight and
presence of the imperfect and Jnoongrnous
could only move ns to tears, then, would our
eves Vecorae inexhaustible cisterns from which
tearB might ever flow. Were we fully to realize
the amount of Bin there is in this sad world
f ours, then should we never know peace.
"Without one ray of sunshine in life, we should
ait down face to face with grim despair; not
cnly so, for we would be in fit mood at all
times to listen to his croonings, as did the Red
Cross Knight of Spenser's immortal poem,
advising us:
"No further bop, no further stray.
Hot here lie down and to thy 1 eit betake,
For what hath lite. that may It loved mate.
And Klve not cause It to forsake T
vVar Hlckne-s n-i. Iosji. labor, sorrows, strife,
I'aTne? hanger, wide, that mukes the heart to
And ever hckle fori una raeeth rife.
All which and thousand more uo uiaiie u iuii,u
ful life."
Under the influence of such gloomy teaching
as this the business of life would stand still,
and the human race itself soon vanish from
the earth. Hut the human soul was made to
dwell in sunshine as well as in shale; and
fortunately there is a "time to laugh as well
as to mourn." The imperfect and the incon
gruous may exr.te mirth; and even that higher
erder of ridicule, which is animated by a seuse
ol right and a love of goodness, is most wisely
permitted us while dwellers of this lower
sphere. Jeremy Taylor has most beautifully
and fittingly sail: "It is certain that all this
which can make a man cheerful can also make
lain charitable; for grief and age, sickuess aud
wearine. 3, these are peevish aud troublesome;
but mirth and cheerfulness are content, civil,
compliant, communicative, anil love to do good,
ana Bwell up to felicity only on the wings of
charity. If a facete discourse aud an amioablo,
friendly mirth can refresh the spirit, and take
off from the vile temptation of a yeevifh,
despairing melancholy, it must needs be inno
cent and commendable. We may as well be
refreshed by a clean and humorous dis
course, as by the spirit of Campauian wine;
and our faces aud heads as well be
anointed with wit and friendly intercourse
as by the fat of the balsam-tree."
In these genial words we have the cheerful
and forcible testimony of the pious pastor
of Golden Grove, who had breasted the
Storm of sorrows until its waves had
gone almost over him. Humor, theu,
provoking innocent mirth and laughter, can
not be out of place in this workday
world, and has equal claims upon our atten
tion with matters of a more grave and serious
cast.
There is an innoceney in humor that you
find not iu satire. Humor is always harmless
in its mirth; like charity, ''it thinketu no
evil." It never excites passion, or stirs up
those baser elements that exist in the human
mind. Satire is bitter and corrosive. Humor
is gentle, soothing, entirely free from malice.
Satire is sometimes fierce and destructive, like
the red, fiery bolt launched from the angry
storm-cloud; while humor reminds us in its
Lannlessness of that sheet of lightning which
one often sees disporting itself along the edge
of the horizon in the pleasant evenings of the
glad summer-time. Satire may deal with wit
and have fun in it, but it is not humor. Satire
sometimes becomes a necessity, just as apesti
lence or a thunderstorm, when a great
national sin is to be scourged or the atmo
sphere cleared and purilled; but the necessity is
happily only periodical. Humor, however, is a
Standing necessity, like water, air, and light;
we could not live without it; the complex con
dition of our nature requires it to round per
fectly our existence, and harmonize what
otherwise would be rude and discordant.
Humor, not being addressed to passion but to
fancy, may really be considered a species of
moral painting. The subject of humor is
always character, but not everything in char
acter. Its foibles generally, its caprices, little
cxtrvagancies, weak anxieties, childish pre
ferences, pertness, vanity, and self-conceit,
these seem to be its especial quarry.
The old English divines never scrupled to
indulge in it, where they conceived that truth
coald be better enforced by it, the strain on
the mind relieved, or its weariness refreshed
by its use. It becras continually forth
from their more seiious dijeourbes, like
the diamond, whose flashes appear more
brilliant the darker the setting that tur
rounds it. It is, by very well-meaning
people, expected that clergymen, let the
turn of their natural disposition be what it
may, should always struggle against any ex
hibition of humor in the pulpit. A melan
choly asceticism, as mistaken as it is sense
less, forbids, by its arbitrary uka3e, any re
laxation from "the rigors of a ghostly white
cravat, an unbending glacial muscle, or a sto
lid, glazed eye." This same miserable, un
reasonable asceticism demands that the clergy
should always incorporate this unbending
gravity into their efforts in the pulpit, re
4iCiutiieia to the dead level of a dull uni
formity, and never for an instant permitting
them to illuminate their discourses with the
mellow light of a generous fancy or a chaste
humor. The advocates for such asceticism as
this constitute that class the genial Sydney
Smith describes, "as persons who consider
ennui, melancholy, groaus, and epileptic fits
as thank-offerings to be presented to the good
God, who has covered the earth with gay
colors, scented it with rich perfume, and told
us there was a time to dance as well as to
mourn."
Now, clearly, this was not the temper or
the tone of the earlier discourses from the
English pulpit. Cole, and the pious dean of
St. Paul's, studied Chaucer, from whose style
he sought and borrows that fertility of
illustration, racines3 of wit, and ever-abounding
humor that characterize it. Pious
Dr. Donne, George Herbert's bosom friend,
and whom Dryden styles "the greatest
wit, if not the greatest poet of the
nation," was full of a rich, quaint humor
that overflowed in all his discourses. Good,
honest old Latimer indulges in humor con
tinually. He wasaterribls soourger of the
vices that prevailed in his day, aud was quite
as powerful in satire as he was persuasive as
an humorist. The force of his satire was won
derfully strengthened by the fertility and ap
positeness of his illustrations. But he was
the more remarkable for thft quiet, searching
humor so fr Ay invoked to laugh and shame
men out of their sins. What can exceed the
quiet humor of that illustration of hi, when,
preaching against the graspiug avarice and
shameless dishonesty of the legal tribunals
of his day, he compares the judges "to a
cat placed to protect a cheese, one grasp of
whose teeth commits more ravages upon
the treasure then the prolonged assault of
a whole company of mice?" Or take that
" flash of humor in the J'louyh Sermon:
"Who is the most diligent bishop and pre
late in all England f I know him well;
but methinks I see you listening anil hearken
ing that I should name him. There is one
that passeth all the others, and is the most
diligent prelate and preacher in England. And
will ye know who It is f I will again tell you;
it is the devil. He is the most diligent
preacher of all others, lie is never out of hid
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diocese, he is never from Ida cure, ye shall
never find him unoccupied, he Is ever in his
parish, he keepeth residence at all times, ye
f hall never find him out of the way, call for
him when ye will: he is ever at hh plough, no
lording loytering may ever binder him, for
he is ever applying to his business."
Or let us take hia "merry toye," as'
he styles it, about Master Moore, as
his application of a humorous story to
refute the malignant allegation that the
f reaching of God's word had stirred up relat
ions in the kingdom: "Here was preaching
against covetousnnss all last year in Lent, and
the next summer followed the rebellion; ergo,
preaching against oovetousness was the cause
of the Rebellion. A most goodly argument
forsooth. Here, now, I remember a merrie
toye of Master Moore, which he useth in a
booke against Iiilney. Master Moore was once
sent into Kent to help find out what was the
cause of Goodwin Sands, and the shelf that
stopped up Sandwich. Thither cometh Master
Moore, and calleth the country before him,
suoh as were thought to be men of experience,
and men that could of likelihood certify him
of the matter. Among others came before him
an old man, and one that was thought to be
over one hundred years old. When Master
Moore saw this aged man he asked him his
lniiid in the matter, for, being so old, he
thought it was likely he knew most of
any man in that company, aud said, 'Father,
tell me, ii yoa can, what is the cause
of the great arising of the sands npon the
haven ? Yni are the oldest man that I can
spy in all this company.' 'Yea, forsooth,
master,' sai l the old man, 'I am nigh one
hundred years old, and no man near unto
mine age. I think Teuterden steeple was the
cause of Goodwin Sands, for I remember when
there was no steeple at all there; and before
Ttnttrden steeple was built there was no
manner ot Hats and sands stopping the haven;
therefore, I think Teuterden steeple was the
cause of Goodwin Sands.' And so, my
brethren, the preaching of God's word was
the cause of the rebellion, just about as
much as Tenterden steeple wa3 the cause
of Goodwin sands." In his seventh sermon
upon the Lou's Frayer, in warning his
hearers against t,he wiles of the devil, we
have this passage: "If he be young and
lusty, the devil will put in his heart, and say
to bim, 'What I thou art in thy flowers, man;
take thy pleasure, make merry with thy com
pany: remember the old proverb, ' Young
saintes, old devils;'' which proverbs is in very
deed naught and deceitful, and the devil's
own invention, who would have parents negli
gent iu b; inging up their children in goodness.
He would rather see them brought up in idle
ness and wickedness, and therefore he found
out Buch a proverb, to make them careless for
their children. But the proverbe is naught,
for look commonly what children are brought
up wickedly, they will be wicked all their
lives after: and therefore we may more pro
perly say this, ' Young devils, old devilsj young
saintes, old saintes.' "
Now we give these extracts from the sermons
of good Bishop Latimer, to show that humor
was not considered by this pious man as out of
place, even in a pulpit discourse. Let it be
remembered that his piety was almost inspired
in its zeal and devotion, for he attested the
earnestness of his faith by "giving his body
to be burned." It was predicted when he was
quite a lad, "that St. Paul's cross would yet
ring of this boy." This celebrated spot was
the forum of the London of his day, and from
its elevated pulpit, erected in the middle of
the churchyard of St. Paul's, announcements
and harangues in all matters pertaining to
Church and State were poured into the popular
ear and heart. And St. Paul's did ring of him,
for no preacher of his time had the power to
draw such audiences, nor was more faith
ful. He never spared either small or great,
but went about his Master's business, hav
ing no mind to be a respecter of per
sons. No donbt he had 80 me ecclesi
astical court sycophant or time-server within
the range of his vision at the moment he
uttered that fierce blast against unpreaching
prelates, commencing: "What are they
doing f Some occupied in the king's matters,
some in the privy council; so troubled with
lordly living, so proud in palaces, couched in
courts, ruffling in their rents, dancing in their
dominions, burthened with ambassages, pam
pering of their paunches." It calls to mind
old Wimbledon's picture of the clergy of his
day, as sketched in his Annals: "They be
clothed as knights, they speaken as earles,
while others are winning much gear as mer
chants. These proud prelates are too much
blent with shining of riches, for they make
their mansions like churches in greatness; but
the poore man, for default of clothes, beg
geth, and with an empty wallet oryoth at their
doores."
Jeremy Taylor, the immortal author of
"Holy Living and Dying," a work that Wil
mott has so happily characterized as "a divine
pastoral, in which the solemnities of piety
and wisdom, like the painter's tomb in Arca
dia, breathe a tender seriousness over all the
scenery of fancy, eloquence, and learning,"
did not hesitate to resort to humor whenever
he thought it would enforce the truth of hia
text. His sermons are full of a vivacity as
exhilarating as that whioh makes Livy the
most entertaining of historians, and Mon
taigne the most charming of essayists. He
draws his illustrations from every quarter,
manifesting a most astonishing familiarity
with all the learning of his time,and aptness in
applying it. The son of a barber, he
early- manifested a deep and earnest
love for study. He was the wonder of
his college, both on aocount of his as
tonishing mental precociousness, as for
the beauty of his person and the sweet amia
bility of his temper. "When he preached his
first sermon," says a contemporary, "his con
gregation took him for some young angel,
newly descended from visions of glory." Ilia
charming temperament and lambent humor
are constantly visible in his pulpit discourses.
How humorously he describes the wife who
has usurped the rule of the husband ! "A
ruling woman is intolerable; but that is not
all, Bhe is miserable too. It is a sad calamity,
my brethren, for a woman to be joined to a
fool or a weak person; it is like a guard of
geese to keep the capital, or. as if a flock of
Bheep should read grave lectures to their shep
herd, and give him orders how or when he
should conduct them to pasture. It is a curse
that God threatened Binning people, to be ruled
by weaker people. To have a fool to one's
master is the fate of miserable and unblessed
people; and the wife oan never be happy un
less she be governed by a prudent lord, whose
commands are sober counsels, whose authority
is paternal, aud whose sentences are charity." .
Of the evil tongue he declares: "It some
times praises God and rails at men; it is some
times Bet on fire, and then it puts whole cities
in combnBtion. It is unruly, nd no more to
be restrained than the breath of a tempest.
Reason should go before it, and, when it does .
not, repentance comes after it. It was in
tended for an organ of divine praise, but
sometimes the devil plays upon ft, and then
it sounds like a screech-owl."
Commenting upon the sin of much speak
ing, he says: -"And indeed there are some per
sons bo full of nothings that, like the strait
sea of l'outus, they perpetually empty them
selves ty me mouth, making every com
pany or single person they fasten on to be
their Propontis. Such an one was Aneximl-
nus. lie was an oceau or words, but only a
drop of understanding." Iu his sermon on
the Mercy of the Divine Jastioe, we have this
pasBnge: "The Italian gentleman was cer
tainly a great lover 01 nis Bleep who was
angry with the lizard that waked him when
a viper was creeping into his mouth. When
the devil is entering into us, to poison our
spirits and steal away our souls when in
sleep, God sends his sharp messages to
awaken ns, and we call thai the enemy, and
use arts to cure the remedy." Dr. Rustin,
concluding his very eloquent eulogy upon
Bishop .Taylor declares, "that he had the
good humor of a gentleman, the eloquence
01 an orator, the profoundness of a phi
ivuvj uvi KMC TV lOUVIU V It lliaiJTJliUl
the sagacity and beauty of an angel, and
the piety of a Baint. Taylor's religion was of
too cneenui a character to be shrouded by the
gloom of asceticism. He was too close a stu
dent of the springs and motives of the human
heart not to be aware that a religion thus
preached could never attain a lasting lodg
ment in the minds of men, or make anything
else than sour hypocrites. He therefore
essayed to win men to the doctrinos that he
preached by comprehensive, cheerful dis
courses, illuminated with the light of a chaste
Jancy, and mellowed by a gentle, persuasive
humor that fascinated while it convinced."
Did space permit, we might further illus
trate our subject by numerous extracts
from the sermons of Andrews, Hooker, South,
and many of lesser fame. We cannot refrain
from giving a quotation charaoteristio of
the humorous element of the early Eng
lish pulpit from Henry Smith, who was a
preacher at St. Clement's, in London, and
who died about the year 1G10. Iu discoursing
on the marriage tie, he thus settles the ques
tion of equality or superiority of the sexes:
"The woman was made out of a rib from the
side of Adam, not made out of his head to top
him, nor out of his feet to be trampled on by
him; but out ot Jhis side to be a support to
him, under his arm to be protected by him,
and near his heart to be most tenderly beloved.
God so ordered this matter between this man
and this woman, that this agglutination and
adhesion, the one to the other, should be per
petual ; for by taking a bone from the man,
who was somewhat monstrous by a bone too
much, to strengthen the woman, putting flesh
instead thereof to mollify the man, he made a
most sweet complexion or agglutination be
tween them, like harmony in music, for their
amiable cohabitation. It is specially to be
noted, my brethren, that this bone which
God took from the sleeping man was out of
the midst ot him, as Christ wrought salvation
out of the midst of the earth. The species of
tne bone, too, is noteworthy ; it is expressed
to be a rib, a bone of the side, not of the head,
for woman should not be domina, a ruler. Nor
was it of any anterior part, because she is not
prwtata, preferred before the man. Nor a bone
of the foot, as she it not strva, a slave. But
mark it, brethren, it was a bone of the side,
because she is socia, the companion of the man.
For do they not walk side by side and cheek
by cheek, as companions ? Finally, brethren,
it must be plain to the meanest comprehen
sion that, whenever a man taketh a wife and
every man, if he is a man, will do it let him
remember the maim made in his own side in
the garden of Eden, and endeavor to restore
it by a healthy and delectable rib."
Here we have a homely but truthful and
natural picture of the relative positions it was
intended the sexes should occupy in this
world, in most striking contrast with those
wretched caricatures, so monstrous and shock
ing to every refined mind, thrown off by the
unsexed advocates of women's rights in this
strange age of ours. But Milton more deli
cately and beautifully sets forth the true,
natural, and beautiful relations of the Hexes to
each other, in the following exquisite descrip
tion of the newly created in Paradise:
"Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed;
For contemplation he, and valor formed;
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace;
lie for God only, the for God In him.
His fair large front and eye sublime
Declared absolute rule; and hyacintblne locks
Bound li oin hia parted forelock: aiauly hung
Clusteiing, but not beneath his shdulders huge;
She, as a vull down to her slender waist,
Her unadorned golden tresses wore
Dishevelled, ns the vine curls her tendrils;
"Which implied subjection, but to be used with
gtntle fwoy,
By her yielded, by blm best received."
It will be well for the world if it leaves
these beautiful relations undisturbed. They
are the natural relations of the sexes, and any
attempt to change them must only result in
manifold evils U both. The early English
divines, judging from this extract suggesting
these reflections, clearly understood the true
distinctive differences in the relations of the
sexes; and often seized npon the occasions of
the marriage ceremonial to enforce them in
the quaint and humorous style of preaching of
that day.
The modern pulpit, in abandoning almost
entirely a resort to humorous illustration, has
by so doing most certainly demolished the
force and efficacy of its teachings. Old Fuller
onoe most truthfully said "that an ounce of
cheerfulness and humor was worth a pound
of sadness to serve God with." Say what we
may of this sad world in which our lot is cast,
sad because of sin and death, a little of the
sherry must be mingled with the bitters of
life to make our condition endurable. Our
graver faculties and thoughts are much chas
tened and improved by a continued blending
and infusion of the lighter and more cheer
ful ; so that the sable cloud should continu
ally be made to turn forth its silver lining
on the sight. The preacher's duties are
similar to those of the orator, as defined by
Cicero: " Dixit quidam eloquens et veruin
dixit, ita dicere eloquentem ut doceat, ut
delectet, ut flectat." Preaching, then, has
three ends, namely, that the truth should be
known to us, should be heard with pleasure,
and move ns; and in order to compass all these
requisites, there exists the necessity of an
occasional resort to humorous illustration.
"God has given ns wit and humor, flavor aud
brightress, laughter and perfumes to enliven
the days of our pilgrimage," says the
genial, whole-hearted Sydney Smith. Why,
then, should not his gifts bo used and enjoyed
as well in the pulpit as out of it? They
are his, and therefore good gifts; and if
the preacher has bestowed upon him a genius
for humor, why should he be forced to keep it
down and under restraint, substituting for it
a dry, unnatural, and costive style, lacking In
all the persuasive, properties and graces of
genuine eloquence rIt is a sad mistake to
Buppose that a ruanVhould be gloomy and
morose because he is devoftt; as if misery and
gloom were acceptable to GJfkon their ao
count, and playful humor aud rfiwrliilness
offenses. V
The ascetio style of preaching that delightsX
'to deal damnation round the land," aud to
represent the great Ruler of the universe as a
God of rigid, inexorable justice instead of in
finite mercy and love, must neoessarily create
hypocrites. Men, it should be remembered,
who are frightened into convictions of religious
truth, are apt to forget all about it when the
first spaBm of alarm is over. As Bishop South
in one of his sermons says of popularity,
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likhluing, it only flashes upon the face and is
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NO. 70 UUEhNUr STREET,
1 2'? Fill LA DELPHI A.
flB5 GARDNER & FLEMING,
COACH MAKKltS,
AO. 14 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.
New and Becond-liand Carriagesor Bale. Tar
titular attentluu puid to repairing. 6 IW tf
SLATE MANTELS.
BLATE M ANTKIJ3 are unsurpassed tor Durability
Beanty, treugth, and Cheapueus,
M ATE MANTELS, and Blate Wock General!
made to order,
J. B. KIMKS CO.,
I i!m Nos 212and 2128 CUKtlNUT 8t-l
QCORCC PLOWMAN,
CAIily lNTKlt AND BUILDER.
To 2No 130C1C Street,
in
PHILADELPHIA.
FINANCIAL.
11 E UNDERSIGNED HAVE
PURCHASED THIS
NEW SIX PER CENT.
ilEGISTERED LOAN
OF TDI
LEnian coal and naviqa.
TION COMPANY,
DUB IK 197.
INTEREST PAYABLE Q.UARTERET,
FREE Or US1TED STATES AND STATE
TAXES,
AKD OFFER IT FOB SALE AT THE LOW
PRICE OF
NINETY-TWO,
, AND
ACCRUED INTEREST FHOM AUGUST 1,
This LOAN Is secured by a first mortgage on the
Company's Railroad, constructed and to be con
strncted, extending from th southern boundary of
the borough of Mauch Chunk to the Delaware Iver
atEaston, Including their bridge across the said river
now In process ol construction, together with all the
Company's rights, liberlless, and franchises appertain
lug to the said Railroad and Bridge,
Copies of the mortgage may be bad on application
at tbe oclce of the Company, or to either of the under
slKned, DBEXEL A CO.
E. W. IX A It K A CO,
'AT COOKE A CO, gMtl
W. II. NEW KOI, I, WOW A AERTSEW
BANKING HOUSE
JayCooke&Cp.
113 and 11-4 So. THIRD ST. PHILAP' A.
Dealers in all Government Securities,
OLD 6-SOa WANTED
IN EXCHANGE FOR NEW.
A LIBERAL. DIFFERENCE ALLOWED, -
Compound Interest Notes Wanted
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
Collections made. Blocks bought and sold on
CommissVon.
Special business RcoommodaUona reserved for
adles. Hi 24 8m
NORTH MISSOITJ RMLROAD
FIEBT MORTGAGE
SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS.
Having purchased 8600,000 ot the FIRST MORT
GAGE COUPON BONDS OV THK NORTH MIS
SOURI RAILROAD COMPANY, BEARING SEVEN
riA CENT LNTKREHT. having 80 years to run, we.
ore now prepared to sell the same at the low late o
85,
And the accrued intereatf rom this date, thus paying
mo inventor over a per cent, interest, which Is paya
ble ceml-aunnollv.
This Loan Is secured by a First Mortgage Bpon the
. , w , .A .uiica nutjMuy constructea
and In running roer. aud 62 miles additional to be
"Willi niCT hn t n A n ma nt ftnt . .... '
r, . l? V , . . M:;""Jer i, extending from
tbe city ol fet, Louis Into Nortliera and Central Mis.
lull particulars will be given on application to
either ol the nuderslgted. wutuon to
. E. W. CLARK A CO.
JAY COOKE A CO.
DBEXEL A CO.
P. 8. Parties holding other securities, and wishing
to change them lor tbls Lean, can do so at tbe market
- 8101m
7 3-10s,
ALL SERIES,
CONVERTED INTO
F1VE-TWE IN TI ES.
BONDS DELIVERED IMMEDIATELY.
DE HA YEN & BEOTHEK
10 2 rp
HO. 0 S. THIRD STREET.
RATIONAL
RAM OF THE REPIULIC,
809 and 811 CHESNUT STUEET,
PUILADKLPIIIA.
CAPITAL.............. ...91,000,000
DIRECTORS,
Joseph T. Bailey,
William Ervlen,
Osgood Welsh,
Frederick A, Hoyt,
Wm. U. Rbawn.
jNaiuan nines,
Ken), Rowland, Jr.,
bamuel A, Rlnphom,
jldward 11. Orue,
WM. H. RHAWN, President,
iaU CUthUr of tta Central Sidional JBorwk
JOB. P. MUMPORD Cashier,
6 1JJ Luu ollht Philadelphia National Bank
Ja Q. OECURITinO
A SPECIALTY
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
BANKERS AUD BROKERS,
wo.ies THIRD STHSO. a hassau ST.,
raXLASKU-HIA, I STBW TOM
Orders for Stocki and Cold executed in Vhila
dtlphia and New York, 11$
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES. ETC.
1867. fall. 18G7.
JTJBT RKCE1VED, SEW STYL108
FANCY CASSIMERES
AND COATINGS,
In addition to our nnnsually large line of goods
adapted to
JtlEJ'l AND DOTS' WEAR.
MOlliaS, CLOTHIER & LEWIS,
CLOTH JOBBERS,
8 24 dm KOS. 10 ASP tl H.rOCKTU ST.
Q L O A K I N C S.
We are now prepared to olTer to the Trade a
full assortment of
CLOAKINGS,
Containing tbo newest and choicest styles,
many of which are confined to ourselves.
BU!BJII9, CLOTMEK & LEWIS,
CLOTH JOBBERS,
8 24 6m KOS. 10 AMD 1 S. FOURTH ST.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
LEWIS LA DOM US & CO.,
Diamond Dealer and Jeweller,
NO. 80 CIIESMUT ST., PHILADELPHIA
Would Invite the attention ot purchasers to their
largo and handsome assortment of
DIAMONDS,
WATCHES,
JEWELRT,
SILVER-WARE, .
ICE PITCHERS In (rent variety. ETC EI
A large assortment of small 6TTJDB, for eyele
boles. Just received.
WATCHK8 repaired In the best manner, an
guoranteed. . . BI4p
WATCHES, JEWELKY.
W. W. OASSIDV
NO. 1 SOUTH SECOND STREET, '
..!lt"8rBnenUrely new n1 m(M corefally selected
BLOCK 01
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES,
JEWELRY, '
BILVER-WARK, AND FANCY ARTICLES 01
EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable ,
FOB BRIDAL OB IIOLIDAT PRESENTS
An examination will show my stock to be nnsnx
passed In quality and cheapnesi
Particular attention pala to repairing. . S18J
C. RUSSELL & CO.,
so. 22 jtomn sum street,
Have Just received from Europe an invoice of
NOVELTIES, consisting of ANIMALS' HEADS, Jot
balls and dining-rooms; HAT-RACKS of Boor's tusks,
and some very curious CLOCKS, of Chamois and Elk
horns.
The above Is tbe first invoice of these goods In the
country, and are oflcred at very low prices. 1 28 '
HENRY HARPER,
No. 520 Arch Street,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
WATCHES,
FINE JEWELRT,
SILVER-PLATED WARE, AND
SOLID SILVER-WARE.
AMERICAN WATCHES.
-V ne oest m me worm, sold at Factory Prices,
C. & A. PEQUICNOT,
MANUFACTURERS OF WATCH CASES, '
No. 13 South SIXTH Street.
J 8 Manufactory, Ko, U. S,riFTII Street.
GOVERNMENT SALES.
gALE OF HOUSES, M ULEa, WAGONS, ETC.
Depot Quartermaster's Officf, 1
.vJ1 Bold b PUblio auotlotr, by direction
S(.t?vSV!:rrtU,-GeDeral't Lincoln Depot.
atVofe ABoptember 25, commencing
100 Hnrnnii.
i200 Mnloa
260 feiprlng Wagons or
AmbulauceH.worn.
100 Six-mule Wagons,
worn.
100 Wagon Saddles,
worn.
600 Wagon Bows, worn. I
100 Filth Chains, worn.
1U0 Hpreader Chains, I
worn.
lOOWagon Covers, worn.
2(0 Curry Combs, worn.
100 IxaO Lines, worn.
bO sets Ambulance or
Two-horse JIar
ne.il. wnrn
600 sets Mule Harness,'
worn.
100 Saddle Blankets:
worn.
100 Male Collars, worn. '
100 Double TrfHB irnrn
100 Single Trees, worn.' '
ii orue isrusnes.wora
iw w agon wnlps, worn.
100 Feed Trniiirri. iri-n
1U0 Tar Buckels, worn:
n.r r, UUKelH! worD- iw Jacic screws, worn.
The Homes. MiiI.h Wuonn. r,,i a.v,k...
M.Vi i "m slD8,v- Wukous, harness, etc..
though worn, lire serviceable. ,
l'arilcular attention Is called to this lot of
Wules.belug very superior animals, well broken
to Harness.
leims Cash In Government fnnds.
. J. C. WcFEltUAN,
n o iof vepuly Quarlennaster-General,
, Pl2t BvL Brig..ueneial, U.8. A.
GO V K It N M K N T ' S A Ii K
AT HILTON IlKAlJ. S. U
.iJSfi AWln8f 0rdnice Property will be sold
at Pubile Auction at Ordnance Depot, Hilton
lltud, 8. C., on TUESDAY, September 21, W07.
commencing at 10 A. M.:
About 450 net tons of Shot and Shell.
'ifd !'. " loaded Shell. . .
" " Canister, filled.
Scrap cast Iron.
J" " borap Wrouaht Iron,
o . 1 HcruP Biu-ss.
8 Aitll.ery Carriages (Iron). 93 W ooden Art 11
Icry Carriages (ironed), 63 Wooden Chassis aud
- ... inu u i. n i .t x uuiol IUU 1 ni IS ii.l.
ui11,1?1.?)' 5U 8tJ,"c Ar,Ulery Harness. 1330 .
. j. "pi'vi . j onuuie nag, b&uo bayo
net scubbnrds. 11 20 Caruiiltje Boxes 1UU7 far.
tridge-liox Bells, ZiU Uun tt.irjgs. 2U12 Waiat
Bells, m Bullet MouUls.aud a quantity of oiheV
emptily, consisting principally of Itags. ltoDes '
Inu.hnifeuls. and Miscellaneous ToohT eto eUcf
i AM j. a two-story Frame Dwelling house, of
the following dimensions:-- feet front by fc
feet depth, containing H spacious rooms '
lei mi; ('ash- on II. 7 .. .
Slates currency. ottiB ln unuea
A mpie me allowed for the removal of nro
pci ty, at the expiration of which timr Vint L
moved will revert to I he Government
.By suthorl y o. Chief of Orduanoe.
1 on lV ollI-A"&H, Captain anil m. a a.
COAL.
R nWJ;?3PX CO., DEALERsTv
CUAL." Kt Yt drX JLAULK VEIN
for fanillv n. v..i i, "r, rrriiarea eiprmny
-.. ttlu, u j oiretii, i ii
TJTED STATES BKVENUB STAMPS
venirai jj, pot. No. lua HouiU KI K i n sirt u
Rnn W Cl'm'1- E tabllHUd UH2.
l4dT"y ';:,,?,if ev"y deMiripiiou constantly on
vruers ey ul) or Eapress promptly attended to.