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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGKAPII PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1867.
LICENSED TO KILL.
I finite spree with Socrates in many thinps.
That eminent pbilocopher and I completely co
incide in our estimate of mere physical science,
hut on a special point we are heartily and alto
gether agreed. If I remember right, Socrates
designates as the "obstetric art" that depart
ment of human knowledge which, to persons
circumstanced as I am, is most valuable, lie
lays down that every child, on his entrance
to this world, knows cverythlnsf, and will
answer correctly the most difficult questions,
provided his examiner only knows how to put
Lis queettons correctly. Shelley, I find, was ft
believer in this cieed, and frightened a nurse
Into fits by seizing her small charge one day,
and demanding to ascertain from it sometbing
about the essence ol aniiels. To me lue
doctrine is most comfortable and chctTlnfr. I
have the sweet consciousness that I know
everything in my inner tell, and that it w.is
altogether owing to the obtufcuess or ignorance
of my examiners that the world was not alive to
the extent ol my erudition. The incapacity of
my questioners ia the obstetric art has been
the bane ol my lilc. llow much the happiness
of man depends on the intelligence of others!
At school 1 was deemed a dunce and dolt, ami
was "kept in" or ilopgcd accordingly, solely
because my masteTs did not interrogate me
properly. An Inlant 1 am told that is a correct
rendering of the word pusio actually explained
to Socrates the dociriue of the squaring of the
circle, uui men riato Knew now to question
scienUtically. Unfortunately, my questioners
Wire not ol tuebocrates order, audi have been
a martyr.
My friends it is right to call them so de
signed me for the medical prolc-mion, an 1, to
say the truth, 1 was not averse to become an
W. D. I knew a tew last young students, and I
liked their Hie. It was au easy thiny;, I thought,
to walk the hospitals, and aMst the great sur
ceon by holding his instruments and bandage j.
The art ol administering boluses and applying
cataplasms seemed easy. Then there was so wide
a field lor gathering experience in pauper wards !
I believed I could shake my bead, look solemn
and be mysteriously silent, with the highest
practitioners. It was something to tiighteu my
lemalo consias dear Innocent girls with ap
palling; accounts of "magnificent operations."
They listened to me with curious interest and
no small lear. I think Mary's regard for me
began with lear, and that then (sensible girl as
eh was) she thought of marrying me. A youn"
surgeon who accomplished such extraordinary
feats would, she believed, be a good provider,
and would be able to cure her, no matter what
happened to her. Unfortunately, belore I could
obtain a License to Kill, it was nesessary to
pass examinations. Here, again, arose the
great barrier to my fortune. Success, you
perceive, did not depend upon myself; it de
pended altogether on the way in which ques
tions might be put to me that is, in the ooste
tric skill of my questioners.
Through my boyhood and youth I had experi
enced the supreme ignorance of my interroga
tors. I never could auswer tlicm, and an omi
nous quaking of the heart, as the day of trial
approached, warned me not to hope that the
Socratic science had been vigorously cultivated
now. I had walked the hospitals, attended the
prescribed number of lectures, copied out noH
made by men who had been fortunate in ob
taining somewhat enlichtened examiners, I had
invested In a skeleton, niado up twenty-two
pages of the pharmaceutical Latin Grammar,
and tried to master those extraordinary hiero
glyphics by which physicians will persist in
marking the quantities of ingredients in a
draught. May I, a hater of questions, venture
to ask a question plainly? Why is it that pre
scriptions must be written in dog-Latin, miserably
abbreviated? What magic is there in writing
pil, pul, cyath, haust, instead of the honest
English words which these fragments indicate?
I know that these abbreviations puzzled mo
wolully, and that I nearly killed a wretched
old woman luckily, she was only a pauper
by mistaking the meaninor of one of these
cabalistic symbols. The whole world is behind
the age. In village shops I still see monosyl
labic signs in gold letters, labelling poisons,
where the administering -iftsculapius is trie
druggist's younger son. I compassionate the
insides ol the village rustics, and thiuk that the
laud, tinct. and op. extr. might just as well be
labelled "quietness." Hut i am iu advance of
my generation like Socrates.
The day of my examination came, and never
in. all my life did I meet with questioners so
densely ignorant. They were not able to ex
tract a single answer out of my inner conscious
ness. I ventured upon an expedient which had
proved successful m a case somewhat similar to
my own. A dienitied examiner blandly a.kcd
me what I woold prescribe for a case of aneurosis
cerebri. 1 politely replied, "I would implicitly
adopt the formula given in his recent valuable
paper on the subject." A smile mantled on his
tranquil features, and I believed I was saf..
Unlortuuately, fools rush in where angels fear
to tread, and one malicious fool he was the
youngest and the most ignorant of all my
examiners asked me to repeat the formula,
flow, I never could get off Latin by heart. I
never could see the use of it. To make a sci r -t
of medicine by hidine it under an outlandish
tongue is un-English and unpatriotic. Despair,
liowever, impelled me to violate my principles
anu i-iiuVSV?1! BUPP'y uu auawer. 1 Co
pr'.'."".' remember wnat prescription I
pave; but I know there was a general stirt
among my examiners, and one of them rather
stiffly said: "Young gentleman, that doss
would kill a mammoth on the spot." I was
plucked.
My meeting with Mary was rather trviug.
She had rightly expected great things ot" inc.
for she d d not know . mao !
o- .. ui great was the
.uMuy of men In Ligh positions. The student
' Avho had operated most successfully in excisiug
nceurism of the aorla, and restoring by artiii
cial vertebra; the back-bone of a railway victim,
could do anything, she thought. She, too,
began to question me. Did I love her, as fondly
now as theu t Did 1 wish our engagement to
continue? Would I be coulent to wait? etc.
etc. These were intelligent questions nicely
put, and, of course, I answered them most satis
factorily. But when she inquired, What I in
tended to do now? Wtat medical school would
I study in? When 1 Bhould "go in" again?
When she did this, and put other interrogatories
of a similar kind, 1 lamented her dencieut
acquaintance with the Socratic theory, and was
silent.
In my despair I hired "a coach." This gen
tleman put fciuto my hands a very little booi in
dreadful dog-Latin, containing answers to all
Imaginable questions, lie directed me to learn
by rote, every day, two or, it possible, three
pages, and then lor one hour daily he tortuied
me by puttiDg the same questlou in every posi-Jn?l?t.u-'ty
) forul- Ue 8:'U1 te one reply
Ste,lMU,,",lfl'lc9. and b Ousted
Ue worked bar A.am,clPtt m3 examiner,
hundred re" e Vo hmreVtTi 1 n,a1tTrcd three
questions. 1 w as w e 1 1 oo u c li e I 'i lulafuury
tainly repeat muc h n , e 01 ,1. S could Cer'
than 1 ever undc,tood?' b t ItcTXT
Disease was to be cured by n 1," i" 1,.,1!lt?
was prescribed by sj mlol"' llTuTfZ
the clfseae and the symbol, aH wag .typo f
I went belore a Board m HeotUmi. i
rny coach nor I had calculated tu.u i Z. V X
called upon, not only to write ou' ''f
when the types ot disease were given T, V
translate any prescriptions my examined mn,t
think of puzzling me witu. 1 broke down
here broke oowu utterly. Next d:iy. i tn7,Ii
app: ndod to my ill-used uauie, thu rj(H(;. u
"Lamentably ignoraut could not trail".
late a prc-sciipuuu," I v:uiureu to Bay
it was not niv function to translate a nrecrin.
tion; that was the druggist's bnsine-n. jiUt
reinoiibtraiice was vain, and one of ruy ex
aminers insolently said, that he thought I had
better devote myself to airnculture.
And now, more than ever, I had to mourn the
ignorance ol mankind. Even body questioned
me j everybody interrogated me unscientlacilly;
of course, I was unible to tive accurate or s.-t-h-factory
replies. It is a fearful thing to be in
"'vance of your generation, and to be posses tea
' lurries whit the generality ot maukiud
cannot nrprccl'ilo. Mary and her mother hid
come up to Edinburgh; the excuse was shop
ping; but they really came to sh'iro my
anticipidcl triumph, and they witnessed only
my lall. Mary was what unfeeling soul
call a "Mnsible trill;" she had a little money
of her own, nnilkiiw how to take care of it.
On the evening ot my examiners' lailure,
ns I cat bcide her we were alone aha pres et
my hand, and asked roe, "What I really bud to
live upon?" A question so dillioult to answe r
was never put. even tome. I fenced with it,
played with It, tried to laugh It oil; but Mary's
blue ejes-prry nt that moment were fined
npon nie. Minera had grey eyes, I b"lieve, but
I do not like the character of Minerva. Ho, nt
hist, 1 pretended to be angry, and got up a p is
sion, but it was useless. Mary was very quiet,
and very btill. Gently disengaging her hand
lroin mine, she said, "It would bemiuflie'to
mairy, unless l irui some profession. Mie
would wait any kiis'h of time for mc; but It
whs belter for both that we should not meet imain
until I had made soa.e advance towards obtain
ing a livelihood."
1 began to thitik that Ignorance was conta
gious; for when 1 asked myself, what was I to
do now, I could give myself no answer. (Mary
Is now hemming npar me, uuconscious that "I
am writing about that weary time, and she has
forgotten the amrry outbrenk ot passion which
accused her of selti-h and mercenary motives,
when 1 nad only leason to be angry with
mjscH.)
A means ol escape was opened to me by one
who hud been as unlortunate iu his examiners
as 1 had been. I had noticed at tiie door of a
fine house in a laOiionable street a crowd of
foor sickly wretches, who swarmed ipon tie
sups every inoruini: from 10 until 11 o'clock.
At first I supposed the owner of the house to be
a puiianuiropisi, wno gave out soup or bread
tickets, liutmauyot the men had ualy bond
ages about their brads, or their arms were in
slings, and some supported themselves on
ciutehes. The women were pale and woru
fnced, many of them l ad children in their arms,
w hose low moans or piercing cries occasionally
betrayed sickness or pain. One day, as the
door opened to admit one of the number and
let out another, the crowd parted for a moment,
and I read, upon a bright brass plate of por
tentous size, the native of Ttieophilus Herbert
Smith, M. I)., surceon and accoueher. Can
this be my Smith ? 1 thought. Smith, ot my old
class, who was as unhappy as myself? es, it
was my Smith. He had obtained his degree.
Smith was licensed to kill. I found out that
Smith hud bought a practice that Smith pre
scribed lor beggars as the best way of advertis
inc. I resolved to s e Smith, and ascertain how
this thing was to be done.
We had a jolly evening together-Smith and
I and a hearty lausrh at those solemn exa
miners who had tried to puzzle us rather than
to ascertain what we knew. It was a paying
concern, this of Mn.th's, and 1 can vouch for
the excellence of his claret. He laughed mo
put of my despair, told me how to proceed, and
inquired after Mary. I do not precisely re
member how that night ended, but I think I
otlercd to prescribe gratuitously for all my
landlady's family during the course of their
natuial lives, belore I went to bed.
I am a benevolent persoB.tor the woild is pros
pering with me. I can allord to put all aspi
rants lor a License to Kill, up to a wrinkle. He
it, then, known, to all who meet with undis
criminating examiners,- that there is a medical
practitioner in Glasgow a regularly qualified
membtrol the Colli ge of physicians who can
furnish a candidate lor a oispensary or hospital
with a medical diploma, for a consideration.
The University of G lessen considerately grants
degrees in abseDtia to oil who can allord to
pay for the accommodation. Money makes
not only the man, but the doctor. The Glas
gow practitioner will equip anybody with a
diploma lor the so all sum of thirty-seven
pouudsfilteen shillings a fleabite when we think
of the advantages to tie gained. You pay twenty
two pounds by post office order or bank-note
bill at Giessen. and fifteen Dounds ton shilling
to the Glasgow practitioner. 1 susnect the
first sum to be all that the liberal University of
Gieseen obtains, and that the fifteen pounds ten
shillings is the honorarium or fee ot the Glasgow
praclitifcner. I think so, because he emphati
cally directs that the sum should be paid to
him "here." In his letter, staling terms, the
i.nugow practitioner lniormeu me mat as "no
was about to take out four medical dinlonuia nt
Giessen, and four from Pennsylvania, that
week," I had better torward the money at once.
There was an air of business about the trans
action which deliehted me. There were no
examinations no unscientific questionings no
writing out or translation of abominable pre
scriptions. You paid your money, aud you got
your degree. You could order a huge brass
plate, with the magic lettei, M. D., engraven
on it, the moment you got your receipt for the
money. The arrangement was' most npreeable
to me. 1 closed the matter at oucel filary
discreetly forbore to ask any upeless questions.
She helped me to purchase my present business,
1 keep a bevy of wounded and ailirg paupers as
well as Smith, and 1 think my claret is as good
as Smith's.
I found shortly afterwards that the Penn
sylvania degree possessed a great advan
tage. It could be obtained antedated teu
or fifteen years. Once I was bitten with a
mania for collecting ancient coins, and, want
ing "a brass" ol Caligula to complete my set
of Poman emperors, I visited a dealer in
antiquities who traflicked in such commodities.
TLc pkl.mnri was ill, but his assistant, having
searched in vain lor ''a urass'' of Caligula,
gravely told me that he would have one made
for me in two days if I gave the order. He
stunned me for the moment; but I gave the
order, thinking that this coin would pass muster
amongst the rest; perhaps half rny collection
was formed of similar forgeries. So with medi
cal deerees, l t js an enterprising American
agent who supplies this article in London. I do
not kiiow wheiher he deals also in wooden nut
megs, dummy clocks, or corn fixings, but he has
a variety ol diplomas, suited to thbtasieof all
purchasers. There is evidently competition iu
the market, for his charge is but thirty-two
pounds in toto. Vol can obtain a diploma
dated five years btick, ten years back, fifteen
years back, It old standing as an M. D. be de
sirable, "without additional charge."
All this is most desirable to gentlemen in my
position. The public seldom look beyond the
brass plate upon the door, and if your diploma
with its flaring sea) bo enclosed 'iu a massive
gilt frame, and hung up in your consulting
room, your respectability Is established.
Pocrlaw guardians have a proper respect for
the pockets of ratepayers, and are by no means
too inquisitive as to the source of your de
cree. The position of physician to a work
house or dispensary gains a man other and
more lucrative prac. ice. A discreet treatment
ofa wealthy patient may make your fortune.
Consult the idio3iicrasies ol your patient, and
lean as much as po-iblc towards nature. If, as
in my own case, jou buy jour degree from an
Americau bagman or a Scotch practitioner, and
you lull in with a v eulthy patient, be earclul to
prescribe nice tliiiiL'1; should theie bean ap
pearance ol daiiLcr, call in 6omo celebrated phy
sician. As to tue paupera. we alt know that
death is a relief to mem. And I never heard
of any objictiou hi ing made by euardians to a
pcorhouse dcdoi' who was followed by the
under aker as by a shadow.
But as if I'roMili uce now especially favored
the victims of ejammers, the General Medioul
Council aie now lmHteriously moved to benefit
them ttill nioie. A portion of that, body pro
posed, on the fit h-of Juue last, that the
diplona of any foreign university should be
lecognized, on proof being given that that
uiiivcrsi'y had Hdopted a satisfactory curri
culum ot iiicttieiil study. JNo proof is rcquireel
that the holder of a diploma really attended
in per on the pi escribed course of study. The
diplona ii the s;!o test; consequently, If the
pn position ot tie Medical Council be carried
out, eiery purcha-er of a diploma i-i absentia
will link, so In r as the title Ai. IX Is cou
rt rued, v.ith the r..Gst eminent British graduates
in iiieuieine.
Thcif is a dark ns well as a bright side to
eveiy picture. The upholders of wht I, and
many l.ke me, consider to be a monopoly,
oppose this eeneicn concession ot tho General
Medical C once I. 'The British Medieal Associ i
t on have I een . eremly feHbtim?, physically as
we.lui iuUUc iu.uy, in the liieU eiropolis.
Sit Pomtulr Corrlpan, President of the Q i"' ii'i
( o'lipeot Physician, actually rniertxi'ied the
Apsct la'ion with an ncco'int of the nuiniitiii tur-
of n edicu! decreeo, to which 1 one my position
and my M:iry I Nay, h" eiborled thr tnnibni
of the A'socintt in' to com tune with htm in
cpposlr.g the liberal an. I enlic htened propoal
of the Meetleal (.'eiiernl Coun il. Now, It Sir
Dominic Cortlenn came, hip point, poor-law
guard, ii lb will be corrpelld In pay oine'.hint
more than seventy-five pounds jearly tor a
doctor fo physic pauper; and '.hit, 1 t ,ibmlt, is
a violation of tho Untii-h Constitution.
Why should there not be free trade in phylo
as well ns In everything else? Sir Dominic
would tftabll-h In every county in England a
board of examiners the very word I. hoirible
to me to test the qualifications of candidates
for ti e degree or M. I. Nothing m;re ili-a-trous
to gi riflemen like myself, who cannot translate
a pieycriptiou, could be deviopd. The rate
would be increa-ed by on" farthti.g in every
pound, and a nutritious hopiUl dietary would
be established in every woikhousn in the klnp
dom. I leally cannot see why a military otlicer
should te hllowed to purchase powder to lea I
eight hundred n.eu to death, If men who are
unable to answer medical examiner sh. mid mt
purcnasp tno I'cnnsylvnnU cr (;ie-on decree
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completed by Uiedrst of October uezt.exteudiiiii irnm
theclly ot bt. Loulg luto Noruiexu and I Central u
lull particulars will be given on anollcaunn m
either ol tbe underslgted. PPcauon to
E. W. CLABK A CO.
JAY lOOHK t CO,
DBEXEL A CO.
P. B.-Partles holding ether securities, and wishing
to change them lor this Loan, can do so at the murkul
rate.. jmiu
N
A T I 0 N A L
BANK OF THE REPIIILIC,
800 and 811 CIIESNUT BTHEET,
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAI....., .w.I,000,0e)
DIRECTORS.
Joseph T. Pulley,
Nathan Hllies.
Ben. Rowland, Jr.,
bamuel A. Rtnpham,
toward ii. Oiuu,
V llllBm TTrvlon
Oftood WelHh,
reilerlck A, Hoyi. .
Wm. 11, Rhawn.
WM, H. RHAWN, President,
ate L'athier of th OcittTat national atA
JCB. F, MUM FORD Cashier,
t IS iau of (As fhdadilphla SMonal JSans
7 3-lOs,
ALL SERIES,
CONVERTED INTO
F1VE-TWEWTI ES.
BONDM DELIYEUED IMMEDIATELT,
DE H AYEN & BROTHER1
10 J rp m, 9 . THIBO ATBEET.
FINANCIAL.
4 Q MILES OF TIT IS
um PACIFIC HULROAD.
RmiRiiiK West from Omalia Across
ttic Continent,
Are now completed, and It Is expected t!it Hie re
maining 87 mile, to curry Hie track to tlie bmo of the
Rocky Mountains, Will be finished early In Octoopr
Contracts have already been made for rock-cuitluio
beyond, to be done during the winter. Thu work Is
being pushed forward with equal energy on the Cull
lorniaend of the route, under the direction of t'ie
Central Pact lie Company, commencing at bnora
mento, and It Is confidently expected that tlie two
roads will meet In Into, thus completing the entire
grand line connecting tbe At'antlc and Paclllc ocnn,
on which THIUTY-FIVK MILLION DOLL V US In
cash hnve alrrady been expended. From the liberal
Government aid, the wealth and euergy of the stock
holders, and the ready market tor the I lr.il Mortgage
Bonds, there Is do want of funds lor the must vigorous
prosecution of the work, aud lis early complcltou is as
certain as any future busine-i event can be.
MET Lilt.M.MlfiOt'Tlli: IMO PACIFIC
It A I LKOA I.
During the quarter ending July 3lst of the currem
year, an average of 35 miles of the Uul n l'aollic.
Railroad was In operation. The tsuperinteuduot's
report shows the following result:
EARNINGS.
PaRBongers f'in'i,"2fltv:
Freight 6lui72Viit
leltKraph MlHtu
Walls I2.ilii-ii
IraiiHportaiiuu, Contractor's Materials 4,.;i Xiyu
" " Meu i,077n;
l,20a,0o!)-l)5
.. J1SI,089T.8
.. lun.7i7-64
.. 50,UM,44
M.1W7-60
lr,.CH (13
.. 81I7.608U3
EXPENSES.
Fuel
Repuir ol 'track
" KiiKtneii, Cars, Shops, etc
Oflices and Isiatioim.
t oneluctors, KugiueerH, etc ,
Trains MM4
NtT i-AiisiNus to balance
(1,203,038113
From the relative high charges, the operating ex
penses of the road are but Si7, per cent, of the earn
ings, and the ratio would be much less If the contrac
tor's business were not done at half rates, Throwing
out charges to contractors lor transportation of mate
rials and men (M79,283-), and deducting from the
aggregate of all operating expenses (f93,53u,92) 827t
per cent, (l57.5ti4'42) as the proportion chnrgeable on
the work done lor contractors, which was less than
actual cost, because of tho half price charged for It,
and we have the net operating expenses on the com
merclul business for the quarter, 237,9SG'50. The
account lor the commercial bittineta stands as follows:
Earnings for May, Juue, and July 72:t 755-S4
" :.:.:::::. -iiTw
Net profits of operating 825 miles of road
three months ...fl5,789-04
The amount of Bonds the Company can Issue on
326 miles, at 1,000 per mile. Is 5,200,000. Interest in
gold, three months, at 6 per cent., on this sum, is
178,000; add 40 per cent, premium, to correspond with
currency earnings, Is lo9,20O-8howlng that the net
earnings for this quarter were more than four time the
inta tst on the First Mortgage Bonds on this length ot
road.
First Mortgage Bonds, whose Interest is so amply
provided for, and so thoroughly secured, must by
classed among the tacst investments. They pay
SIX PKIt CENT. IN GOLD.
And are OJfired for the present at NINETY
CEN TS on the Dollar, and Accrued Interest
at Six Per Cent, in Currency from July 1.
Many parties are taking advantage of the present
high price of Government stocks to exchange lor
these Bonds, which are over 15 per cent, cheaper, and
at the current rate of premium on gold, pay
Over Nine Per Cent. Interest.
Subscriptions will ho
Company's Ofllce, No. 20 NASSAU Street, and by
CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK
,,,.,. t,-,!,. . No- 7 Nassau Btreet.
CLARK. DODQE A. lit. iunu u au
JOHN J. CISCO & &.nZ&IZi'et'
No. 3a WALL Street.
lu Philadelphia,
TIIE TRADESMEN'S NATIONAL BANK
DE HAVEN & BROTHER,
WILLIAM PAINTER & CO.,
TOWN SEND WHELAN dt CO.,
3. E. LEW ARS & CO.,
F. fcTEEB.
In Wilmington, Delaware,
R. R. ROBINSON fc CO.,
JOHN M CLEAR & SON.
A ml by BANKS AND BANKERS generally through
out the United States, of whom maua and descrlotlva
pamphlets may be obtained.
JOHN J. CI&CO, TREASCBEH,
NEW YORK.
Angust SO, 16C7. 9 23 mwl3t
Jm G. CECURITIEG
A SPECIALTY.
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
DANKEES AND BEOKEEF,
HO.iaa TIUItD sTvSO. MASSAC kth
FBILAVKLFBIA. I HW TOBK
Ordtrs for Stocks and Cold executed in rhila
dtlbhia and New York. 11
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC.
18G7. all. 1867
JUBT IUXEIVLD, HEW (STVLL3
FANCY CASSIMERES
AND COATINGS,
In addition to our unniiually large line of goods
adapted to
MI N I AMI BOIM 1VIAB.
MCLT.IS, CLOTHIER & LEW 13,
CLOTH J0BBKH3,
I24iim KOW.H ANDII N.rOfliTII HT.
.
QLOAKINCS.
We call particular attention to a larte aaaortmeut
ol very diatiablettylea
I.AIIt tXO AKISICJ9,
Jnit received from New York auction sales, In addi.
lion to the BIL.Vi.lt FOX. DIAMOND. U DM
P A 11 K, aud many other leading makes.
MOKRIS, CLOTHIER & LEWIS, 1
CLOTH HOUSE,
WATCHES, JEWELRY, ETC.
LEWI8 LADOMU8 & Co7j
Dlameaa D.il,,, d Jeweller,l
K.fM (II FA NIT Tn nilLADELFIIIA
Would Invite th. atent,0Il 0l pnrchasert tfl tMU
large and handsome assortment of
DIAMOHDil,
WATCIII,
ICE PITCnERfl In great variety, ETC' BT1
A large assortment of small STCD8. for aval
boles, lust received. '
WA1-CUE8 repaired In the best wanner, ana
gnaranteed. siitp
WATCHES, JEWELRY.
W. W. OASSIDY
KO, 1 fSOtXII BECOMII MTBEET,
Oilers an entirely new and most carefully selected
stock of
AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCH E8,
JEWELRY,
B1LER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES OI
EVERY DESCRIPTION, suitable
rn BRIDAL OB IIOLIJDAT PnE-SENTH
An examination will show my stock to be unsmt
russiHl in uuulltv anil rbeHPiDWH.
PartlcuUr atlenilon palif to repairing.
(16
G. RUSSELL & CO.,f
Ko. 22 KCllIII SIXTH STKEET,
Have Just received from Eurrpe an Invoice Of
NOVELTIES, consisting of ANIMALS' HEADS, for
balls and dliiinK-roouis; U Al -is a CKs of Bear's tusks,
and some very curious Ci.OCKS, of Chamois and Ellc
horns.
Tbe above Is the first invoice of these goods In the
country, anrl are olVpred at very low prices. s ft
HEMRY HARPER,
Ho. E20 Arch Street,
Jil A A I'FA C2' I'UL'It AJS'D DEALER
VtAKIIES,
I" I Pil: JEWELUl,
BilLVtU-ri Vi i.U WARE, ANA
AIL NOI.1I) WILVEB WABB.
Jgx AMERICAN WATCHES,
ikfrnTbe best In the world, sold at Eactory Prices
C. & A. PEQUICNOT,
MANCFACTURERS OF WATCH CASES,
No. 13 South H1XTH Street,
ilnmtlactm-y, Ko. 22. 8. FJFTIJjilret:t,
FURNITURE, ETC.
FURNITURE! FURNITURE
StOJDEItX ANTIQUE!
PABLOB, HALL AND ( IIAHIREB SUITS.
AT UEUVCED I'UlVtM.
Ourfecllltlesare such that we are enabled to offer,
at very moderate price", a large and well assorted
stock of every description of HOUSEHOLD FURNI
TURE AND BEDDING.
Goods packed to carry safely to all paits ol the
country.
BICBHOND A FOBEPACGH,
9 21 KO. 40 M. WECOBf P WTREET.
a & H. LEJA1VIDRE
HAVE REMOVED THEIR .
FliRMTUREAhD UPHOLSTERING WAREROORIS
TO KO. 1108 CIIESNUT STREET.
(VP STAIRS.)
97 3m
T HOUSEKEEPERS.
t. i . . r
utc siuuk oi every variety of
I'UItNITUKK,
Wihic,hMI7i'i,ki.e.Uatrednced Prices, consisting of
WLIitrTH"0 HU"'S'
S IS Z iftWE?-
PARLOR fcCITH IN REHH.
.Jl'fx!418, Kxtension 'lables, Wardrobes. Book
cases. Mattresses, Lounges, etc. etc.
P. P. GCSTINE,
8 1 N. E. corner SECOND and RACfe Streets. "
ESTABLISHED 1795.
A. S. ROBINSON,
French Plate Looking-Glasses,
ENGRAVINGS, PAINTINeS, DRAWINGS. ETO
Manufacturer of all kind of
LOOIilftU-ULAft!, PORTRAIT, AND PIOc
11BE FBA9IEN TO OBUEB.
No. GIO OHESNUT STREETS
THIRD LOOR ABOVE THE CONTINENTAL,
VmiADtLPHIA. 815 J ;
GOVERNMEIMT SALES.
J-AKGE BALE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY,
UjcroT of Army Clothing and Equipage,!
Jkffehsonvii.lk, Ind., Sept. 7, 1807.
Will bo sold, at public auctlou, at tbe Cloth.
lug Warehouses (bonpltul grounds) la this oily, .
on TUESDAY, the lt day of October next.ooui
menciug at 10 o'clock A. M., tbe following arti
cles of ARMY CLOTHING and EQUIPAGE:
177, ius wooneu juankeia. , io,6hu i rowers, mountea.
1B.111 Unllorm Coats.
7S.U00 Troweura, Eootx
iv,tii2 Uniform Coats, Ir
regular. 5 4( 0 Unliorni Jackets.
U.7V7 V. R. Corps Jack
ets. S3.76 Roll Jackets.
20, (mu backs Coats, lined.
21, ( 0 hacks ( ouiH.uiiliiied
Great Co la, iuiun
try. 17,803 Great CoaU, mouut-
men's.
2.1 170 pairs Bootees, M. Sr
8,800 pul in Jioolees.M.a,
rubber soles.
2500 pairs HroKans.
101 pairs BooUk
,000 Shirts.
800 Drawers.
4,437 Cap Covers.
265 Caps.
7., IIulh.
eu.
1,241 Knapsacks.
Also, a quantity of various other articles ot
clothing and equlpane.
Riimik's can be seen at tbe depot within ten
dnys of aule, and cutuloguen .will be fur
nlf-lif d. .
T ims-Cnsh, In Government funds.
Uy order ol the titiui ternianier-Geueral.
G. A. IJULIi,
911 i(Jt Ceptaln and M. 8. K., U. H. Army.
s
ALE OK KLOUP YACHT GENERAL)
J1A NCOC'K.
Aksimtant Qua km aster's OpricS.")
U. 8. Arm v L
rmi.t)ELPHiA,Bopt. 23, 1807.
Will be sold at public auction, on account or
tho United btoles.at I lie Hanover Street Wharf
Philadelphia, on TUESDAY, October 1st, mil
o'clock A. M., the imtt uniting sloop yacht Gene
ral Hancock, together with her entire outfit
built by Albci tsou & Brothers, at Philadelphia'
The vessel enn be examined dally nt tha
Hanover (Street Wharf, from 7 A. M. to 6 P M
Tho vessel must be removed wRhlu live" tsi
dnys from day of snle. v '
Terms Cash, lu Government funds.
0 23 7t Bvt. chBBj AtdtSn- Arafr.
COAL. '
B MI DDI. ETON & CO., DEALERS IM
, ',JIU LKUIGH a'nd E AU LK VEI H
OAI. Kept dry uuUr cover. Prepared eirw! J
lor family ns. rd, No. ITU AUjioVoS
Avenue. Oilu,e, N0. bli WALK UT Btitstt,
3