1 CHRISTMAS STORY FOR 1867. NO THOROUGHFARE. II V CDAUIES DICKEXS AND WILKIK COLLINS TUB OVEIITCRB. Dt of the month and yer, November tlia thirtieth, oil'; thousand cilit buudrcil ami ttiirtj- kaJon Time by the erc.it clock of idi Paul's, tea at niat&t. Alt the lesser L. ndon churches strata their metallic IhroaM. Some iippuiuly begin before the heavy brll of the treat cathedral; some tardily bein three, four, half a dozen etrokos behind it; all are in eui' Jlcieuily near accord to leave a resonance in tlic air, a if tUe winded father who devours hU children had ma le a soun liiiR svecp with his glcraatic scythe In living over the city. What is tlili clock lowerthau motof thereH, and neater to the ear, that lss ej far behind to night us to Urikc into the vibration alone? Thii Is the clock of the Hospital tor Foundling Children. Time was when the Foundling were received without question in a cradle nt the gate. Tune is when inquiries are made respoct ma them, and they are taken as by favor Iro.n the mothers who relinquish all natural knoiv Jcdee ot them and claim to them forevennore. The moou U at the t nil, and the ni?lit U f.tlr, With liht clouds. The day has been otherwise than fair, for Mush and mud, thick jtied wi'li the droppiiffs of heavy loir, lie black in the streets. The veiled lady wtio lluttcrs up and down near ihe pohttru-gate of the Hospital for Fouadhug Childien has need to be well shod to night. Bho nutters to and fro, avoiding the stand of iackney-conches, and often jmminrr In the shadow ot the western cud of the profit quad Tanele wall, with her face turned towardi the pate. As above her there is the purity of the moonlit fky, and bedow her there are the dc'ile jnents of the pavement, bo may she, triply, be divided in her mind between two vistas of rellec tion or experience. As her footprints, crossing and recrossiutr one another, h ive made a laby rinth in the mire, to may her track in life have Involved itself iu an intricate and uuravelaule iargle. TLe pobtern-pca'c of the Hospital for Found ling Children open-, and a young worn iu comes out. The laly stands tiilde, observes closely, nees that the crate ;s quietly closed aaiu from Within, and follows the yuujr woman. Two or three streets huve been traversed in Bilencc betore she, tollowim; close bcliiud the object of her attention, stretches out her hand and touches lier. Then the young woman stops and looks round, startled. Tou touched me Inst nieht, and, when I turned my head, you would not speak. Why do you follow roe like a silent ghost V "It was not," returned the lady, in a low Voice,' ''that I would not speak, but that I could not when I tried. " "What do you want of me? I have never done you any harm." 'Never." "Do I know you ?" "No." "Then what can you want of me?" "Here nre two guineas in this paper. Tak my poor little preseut, uud I will tell you." Into the young woman's lace, which, is honest and comely, comes a ilusb. as she replies: "There Is neither Rrotvn person nor child, in ail the larfre establishment that I belomr to, who hasn't a Kooi word for Sally. I am Sillv. Could 1 be so welt thought of, if I wa9 to be bought ?" "I do not iueau to buy you; 1 mean only to reward you very slightly." Sally firmly, but not ungently, closes and puts buck the ou'eriug hand. '-ft there Is anything I can do for you, ma'am, that I will not do tor its own sake, yon are much mistaken, in mo 1f you think that I will do it for money. What is it jou want ?" "ITou are one of the nurses or attendants at the Hospital; I saw jou leave to-night and lust sishr." -ies, lam. I am Sally." "There is a pleasant patience in your face which makes me believe that very youug chil dren wonld take readily to you." "Uod bless 'era ! So they do." The lady lifts her veil, and shows a facq no older than the nurse's. A face far more retlued and capable than hers, hat wild and worn with sorrow. "I am the miserable mother of a baby lately received under jour caie. I have a prayer to make to -you." Instinctively respecting the conalence which las drawn aside the veil,' Sally whose ways are oii " ot simn,icity and spontaneity replaces tt, d Kriih Id cfj . ... I 'you will listen to toy prayer ? ' the lady Brpes. "You will not bo deaf to the agonized entreaty ot such a broken suppllaut as I am ?" "O dear, dear, dear !" cries Silly. "What shall I say, or cau I say ? Don't talk of prayers. Prayers arc to be put up to the good Father of all, acd not to nurses and such. And ihere 1 I am only to hold my p.ace fjr halt a ?ear longer, till another young woman can be rained up to it. I am going to be married. I shouldn't have been out last nu;ht, and I shouldn't have been out to-night, bat that my Dick (he is the young innn I am going to be married to) lies ill, and I help his mother and sister to watch him. Don't take on so, don't take on so." 0 good Bally, dear Sally," moans the lady, Catching at her dress eutreaiingty. "A you are hopeiul and I am hopeless as a fair way in life is before you, which cau never, never be before me as you can aplre to become a re spected wife, aud as you can aspire to. become a proud mother as you are a living, loving woman, and must die for God's sake hear my distracted petition 1" "Deary, deary, deary me!" cries Sally, her desperation culminating in the pronoun, "what am lever to do? And there 1 See how you turn my own words back upon me. I tell you I am going to be married on purpose, to make it clearer to you I urn coins to leave, and there fore couldu't help jou if I would, Poor Thins, and you make it seem to my own self a If I was cruel in going to be married and not helping jou. It ain't kind. Now, is it kind, Poor Thing V 'Bally 1 Hear mo, my dear. My entreaty h lor no help in the future. It applies to what is pact. It is to bo told iu t xo words." "There I This is worse and worse," cries Bally, "8'jpposiog that I Understand v hat two "Words jou mean." "You do understand. What are the names they htivo L'lvea my poor baby? 1 ask do more lhan thut. I hnve read of the customs of the place. He hsd been christened In the chipel, tind registered by touio surname in the book, lie was received lasj Monday evening. Whit Jiave they called him V Diwu upon icr knees iu the foul mud of the Dy-way into which they have strayed-an empty street wuuoui a thoroughfare, ciAlng on the dark gardens of the llospiial-tho lady would uiuy iu un u3siuuuw- euueaty, out th it bally prevents her. 'Don't I Don't I You make me feel as if I was setting 111.1 sell up to be uocd. Let me look in your preuy nice Hgaiu. rat your two hands in mine. Now, promise. You will never nsk jne anything more than the two words'" "Never I Never 1" "You will never put them to a bad use, if 1 Bay them ''Never I Never!". "Walter WilJing." The lady lays her face upon the nurse's breast, iraws her clone In her embrace with both amis, murmurs a blessing aud the words, "Kiss him 1or me l" and is gone. Day of the month and year, the first Sunday In October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-st-ven. London time by the great clock of fSanit PaulV, half patt one iu the afternoon. The clock ot the Hospital for Foundling Chil dren Is well np with the cathedral to day. Ser vice in the chapel is over, aud the Foundling hildrtu nre ut dinner. THE DAILY EVEfrllSTG There arr numerous lookers-on at the dinner, 1.1 the u-U.in K Thcie are two or three gov ernors whole Inmilie! from the conre-ation, ftnulle'r groups of both sc , individual strag clrrsof various devices. Tho bright autumnal un strike) Irephlj into the wards; and the hoMvy-lramcd windows through which it idiiues, and the i nm lied walls on which it strikes, are prch windows and mch walls as pcrrnde Ili'garth'g t'icturcs. The girls' relectory (includ ing that ol the jounuer children) is the princi pal Inn Taction. Neat attendants silently glide about the otderly and silent tables; the lookers on move or stop as tho (ancy takes them; con ments in whispers on (ace such a number from m;ch a window nre not mifrequent: many of the faccp nre ot a character to tlx attention. Some ol the visitors from the outside public arc accus tomed vi-ltore. They have established a npeak ing acquaintance with the occuF iuits of paitiea lar scats at the table, and halt at taoso points to bei.d down and tay a word or two. It is no dhpnr&gement to their kindness that tno-.o points nre generally points where personal attractions are. The monotony ol the long (spacious rooms and the double lincti of faces is agreeably relieved by these Incidents, although so slitrht. A veiled lady, who h(M no companion, goes mi) org the company. It would scorn that curi osity and oppoitunity have never brought her here before. Khe hns the air of being a li'.tie troubled by tho eight, and as she goes tho length of the tables, it is with a hc-itating step and au uneasy nisnner. At length she comes to the re lectory of the boys They nre fo much less popular than the girls that it is baro of visitors when she looks in at the do.irway. 11 at just witbm the doorway chances to stand, inspecting, nn elderly female attendant some order of ination or honsekeeper. To whom tho ladv nddresM-a natural questions, n. How mmy boys? At what nse are they usually p it out In life? Do they otteu taks a faucy lo the sea ? So, lower nud lower iu tone, until the lady puts the question, "Which is Wulter Wildinar?" Attendant's hen I ehaken. Against the rules. "You know which is Waller Wilding V" So keenly docs the attendant feel the close ness with which the lady's eyes examine her face, that she keeps her own eyes fast upon the flcor, lest by wandering in tho light direction they should betray her. "I know which is Walter Wilding, but it is not my place, ma'am, to tell names to visitors." "But jou can thow me without te ling me." The larly's hand moves quietly to the atten dant's hand, l'ause aud pilence. "I am going to pas round the table?," says the lady's interlocutor, without seeming to address "her. "Follow me with your eye. The boy that I stop-at and spea!; to will not matter to you. But the boy that 1 touch will be Walter Wilding. Say nothing more to me, and move a little away." Quickly acting cn the hint, the laly passes on into the rcom, nnd looks about her. Altera few moments, the attendant, in a staid oilicial way, walks down outside the line of tables com mencing on her left baud. She goes the whole len-ith of the line, turns, and comes back on the inside. Very slightly glancing in the lady's direction, i-he stops, bends forward, nnd speak?. The boy whom she addresses lifis his head nnd replies. Good hum redly and easily, as she listens to what he savs, the lays her hand unon the shoulder of the next boy on his rip.ht. That the action may be well noted, she keeps her hand on the shoulder while sneiking in return, and pats it twice or thrice before moving away. She completes her tour of the tables, tonchiug no one else, nnd passes out by a door nt the op posite end ot the Ion? room. Dint;er is done, and the lady, too, walks down outside the line of tables commencing on her left band, goes the whole length of the line, turns, and conies back on the iuside. Other people have strolled iu, fortunately tor her, and, stoppinc at the touched bov, aks how oid he is. "Inm twelve, ma'am," hi answers, with his bright eyes fixed cd hers. "Are you well nnd happy?" "Vec, ma'am." "May you take these sweetmeats from my hand?" "If you please to give them to too." In stooping low for the purpose, the lady touches the boy's lace with her forehead aud With her hair. Then, lowering her veil sprain, she passes on, arid passes out without looking back. ACT I. ' TUB CUKTAIX RISES. In a court yard in the city of London, which was No Thoroughfare either for vehicles or foot paf-sengers a court yard diverging rrom a steep, a fdippery, nnd a winding street connecting Tower street with the Middlesex shore of the Thames stood the place of business of Wilding & Co., lne merchants. Probably as a jocose acknowledgement of the obstructive character ol this maiu approach, the point nearest its base at which she could take the river (if so in odorously mmded) bore the appellation Break Ntck Stairs. The court yard itself had likewi-,0 been descriptively entitled, in old time, Cripple ptner, c.,. Vrm ilin rrpar fine thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, poplo had left off taking boat at Break-Neck Stairs, and watermen had ceased to ply there. The slimy little causeway had dropped into tho river by a ';ow piOCtS Ol OUieiuc, niiu otuui ut piles and a rusty iron moormr rin(r Wlro all that remained of the departed BreakNcck glories. Sometime", 'indeed, a laden coal barj;e would bump itself into the place, and certain hiboiiouB heavers, seemingly mud-engendered, would a rlb deliver the cargo in the neighbor hood, shove off, and vanish; but at most times the only commerce of Break-Neek-Stalrs arose out of tho conveyance of casks and bottles, both full and empty, both to and from the cellars of Wilding & Co., wine merchants. Even that commerce was but occasional, aud through three-fourths of Its rising tides the dirty, indecorous drab of a river would come solitarily cozing and lapping at the rusty ring, as if it had heard oi the Doge and the Adriatic, and wanted to be married to the great con tervor of its nlthiness, the light honorable the Loid Mayor. Some two hundred and fifty yards on the right, nn the onnobite hill (aonroaching it from tho low ground ot Brcak-Neck-Stairs), was Cripple Coiner. There was a pump in Cripple Comer; there was a tree in Cripple Corner. All Cripple Corner belonged to Wilding & Co., wiue mer chants. Their eelleis burrowed under it, their man-ion towered over it. It really bad been a mansion in tho days when merchants inhabited the tilv, nud had a commodious shelter to the doorway without visible tupport, like the sounding board over au old pulpit. It had also a number of long, narrow stiips of window, ro disposed in its grave brick front as to render it symmetrically ugiy. it had ulso on its ioof a cupola with u bell in it. "When a man at five aud -twenty can put his hnt on, and can say, 'That hat covers the owner of this propeity, aud of the busiue?s which is transacted on this property,' I consider, Mr. Biutrey, that, without beiug boastlul, ho may be allotted to be deeply thankful. 1 don't kuow how it may appear to you, but so it appears to me." Thus Mr. Wulter Wilding to his man of law in his own cruniin;.'-hous, takinc; his hat down from the peg to buit the action to the word, and buugins it tip wh"ti ho had done 60, not to over step the pioocttj of nature. Au innocent, open -Rpenklng, unused-looking man, Mr. Walter Wilding, wlih a remarkably riiuL ami while rmnnb'xioil. and ft figure much ' too bulky f 1 r so young a uiho. though of a good i 6tattiic, with crit.pv. curling browu hair, and ! amiable, bright blu ; eyes. An extremely com , muuicative inau-a man with whom loquacity was the irre.iiaiuahie outpouriug 01 couieni ment aud giatltu le. Mr. Itintrey, on the other hand, a cautious inaiv, with twinkling beads tor eyes, in a larje, overhanging bald head, who in wardly but intensely enjoyed the comicality of opennes ot speech, nr lmnd, or heart. "Ye," said Mr. iiintrev. ' Ye3" 1Iahal , A decanter, two wineglasses, and a plate or bircuitb stood nn the debk. "Vou like this forty-flve-jear-old port wine?" paid Mr. Wilding. "Like it!" lepea'ed Mr. Biutrey. "ilathcr, tlrl" M "It'd from the best corner of our bc3t forty-fivt-jeur-old bin," baid Mr. Wilding. TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, ' Thank you, s'r," said Mr. Biutrey. 'It's inert excellent. " lie Inuphi d Hgsiln, bs he hel l up his pin"? and oghdit. at, tho highly ludicrous idea of giving away Mich wine. "And now," fiid Willintr, with a childish enjoyment in the discussion of affairs, "I think We have got everything ftiaicht, Mr. Biutrey." "Kverything ftraight," said Bintrcy. "A partner recured " "PnrtDer pecured," (aid Bintrey. "A housekeeper advertised lor" "Housekeeper Hdvertled for," said Bintrey " 'npply personally at Cripplo Comer, (Ireat Toer Stiect, from ten to twelve' to morrow, by-the-by." "My late dear mother's affairs wound up" "Wound up," said (iintrey. "And all charges paid." "And nil chaix'es puid," eald Bintrey, with a chuckle; irotmbly occasioned by the droll cir cumstance that they had bjtn paid without a bnenle. "The mention or my late denr mother," Mr. Wilding continued, Ms eyes tilling with tars, and his porkrl-lmndki rchief drying them, "un nitius me tstill, Mr. Bintrey. ou kuow how I loved her; you (her lawyer) know how she loved me. The utmost love of mot her and chil l was cherished between us, and we never ex perienced one moment's division or unhappi nets irom the tiaie when she took me under her care. Thirteen years In nil. Thirteen yenrs under my late dear mother's enre, Mr. Bintrey, and eight of them her confidentially acknow ledged ton ! You know tho story, Mr. Bintrey; who but you, sir?" Mr. Willing Bobbed, aud dried his eyes, without attempt at concealment, dining the'e remarks. Mr. Biutrey eniojed his comical port, and t aid, niter lolling it in his mouth: "I know the fctory." "My late dear mother, Mr. Bintrey," pursued tho wine merchant, "had been deeply deceived, and bad cruelly suffered. But ou that subject my late denr mother's lips were forever sealed. By whom deceived,! or under what cirentn btanccs, Heaven only knows. My late dear mother never betrayed her betrayer." "She had marie up her mind," said Mr. Bin trey, again turning his wine on his palate, "aud the could hold her peace." An amused twinkle in his eyes pietty plainly added, "A devilish deal better than jou ever will !" "'Honor,'" Baid Mr. Wilding, sobbing, as he quoted srora the Commandments, " 'thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land.' When I was in the Foundling, Mr. Bintrey, I was at such a loss bow to do it that I apprehended my day3 would be short iu the land. But I afterwards came to honor my mother deeply, profoundly. And I honor and revere her memory. For seven happy years, Mr. Bintrey," pursued Wilding, still with the same innoceut catching of his breath, nnd the same unabashed tcr., "did my excellent mother prticle me to my predecessors in this business, 1'ebbleson Nephew. Her affectionate forcthousht likewise apprenticed mo to tho Vintners' Company, and made ni8 in time a Free Vintner, tind-nud cverythiug ele that the best of mothers could de9ire. When I came of nge, she bestowed her inherited share In this business upon me: it w as her money that after wards bouaht nut Pebbleson Nephew, aud pa nted iu Wilding & Co.; it was she who left me everythhig bhe possessed but the mourning ring you wear. And yet, Mr. Bintrey," with a fresh burst of honest aBcction, "she is no more. It is little over half a year since she came into the Corn r to read ou that doorpost, with her own eyes, Wilding & Co., Wine Merchants. And yet, she is no more 1" "i-ad. But the common lot, Mr. Wilding;," ob served Bintrey. "At some time or other we must all bono more." lie placed the forty-five-jcar-old port wine in the universal condition, with a relishing bigh. 'do now, Mr. Bintrey," pursued Wilding, put ting away his pocket-hanukerchiefj nnd smooth ing his eyelids with his fingers, "now that I can no longer show my love and honor lor the dear parent to whom my heart was mysteriously turned by nature when she first spoke tome, a strange lady, I bitting at our Sunday dinner table in thft Foundling, I can at least show that I am not ah named of having been a Foundling, and that I, wlio never knw a father of my own, wish to be a father to all iu niy employment. Therefore," continued Wilding, becoming enthu siastic In his loquacity, "therefore, I want a thoroughly good housekeeper to undertake this dwelling-house of Wilding fc Co., Wine Mer chants, Ciipple Corner, so that I may restore in it some of the old relations betwixt employer and employed 1 So that I may live in it on the spot where my money is made ) 80 that I may daily sit nt the head of the table at which the people in my employment eat together, and may eat of the same roast and boiled, and drink of the fame beer I So that the people in my em ployment may lodge under the same roof with me! So that we may one and all I beg your Enrdon, Mr. Bintrey, but that old singing in ray end has suddenly come on, and I shall feel obliged it you will lend roe to the pumt." Alaimed by the excessive .mfc 0f Via client Mr. Biutrey loj "uot a moment in leading him forth into the court-yard. I was easily doe, for the counting bouse in which thev talked together opened on to It, at one side of dwelling-house. There the attorney pumped with a win, o oca lent 10 a sign irom me cnent, and the client laved bis head and face with both hands, and took a hearty drink. After thcte remedies, he declared himself much better. ' Don't let your good feelings excite you," said Bintrey, as they returned to the counting-house, snd Mr. Wilding dried himself on a jack-toffel behind au inner door. "No, no, I won't," he returned, looking out of the towel. "I won't. I have not been con fused, have I ?" Not at all. Perfectly clear." ' Where did I leave off, Mr. Bintrey?" "Well, you left off. But I wouldn't excite myself, if I was you, by taking it up again Just yet." "I'll take care. I'll take care. The singing in my head came on at where, Mr. Bintrey 1" "At roaBt, and boiled, and beer," answered the lawyer, prompting "lodging under tho same roof nnd one and all" "Ah I And one and all blngtcff in the head toeether " "Do vou know. I really toould not let mr cood feelings excite nie, it I was you," hinted the. lawyer ngaiu, anxiously, " iry some, more pump." "No occasion, no occasion. All right, Mr. Biutrey. Aud one nnd all forming a kind of iamilyl You see, Mr. Bintrey, 1 was not used in my childhood to that sort ol individual exist ence which incst individuals have led, more or less, in their childhood. After that time I be came absorbed In my late dear mother. Having lont hei, I tind thut I am more lit for being one ol a body than one by myself. To be that, and at the same time to do my duty to those depen dent on me, and attach them to me, has a patriarchal nud pleamnt air about it. I don't kuow how it may appear to you, Mr. Bintrey, but so it appears to me.',' "It is no. I who am all important in the casu, but you," returned Bintrey. "Consequently, how 'it may appear to me id of very small im- "It appears to me," said Mr.WildiDg, In a glow, "hopeful, uselul, de-ltghtlul !" "Do you know," hiuted the lawyer, again, "I really would not ex" "I am not going to. Thou there's Handel." "There's who?" asked Bintrey. Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Kent, Purcell, Doc tor Aine, Uieme, MeuJelsfohn. I know the choruses to those anthems by heart. Foundling Chapel Collection. Why shouldn't wo learn them together I" "Wlioliaru them together?" aked the law yer, ruth!- short'y. "bmplorer and employed." "Ay, ay I" returned Biutrey, mollified; as if he had halt expected the ans wer to be, Lawyer aud client. "Hint's another thing." "Not another thing, Mr. B.ntreyl The same thing. A part of the boLd among us. We will form a choir iu Bome quiet church near the Comer here, aud, having sung together of a bundny Mith a relish, we win come homo nnd take an early dinner together with a relish. The object that I have at heart now is to tret this system well in action wiihont delay, eo th.it my new pnrtuer may hud it founded when he enters ou his partnership," "All pood be with it!" exclaimed Bintrev, 1 riciiig. "Alny it prosper I Is Jix;y Ladle to tke a pharo in Handel, Mozart, Hnydn, Kent, I'er cell. Doctor Arnc, Creeue, nnd Meiuiel08ohn?" "i hope so." "1 wlMithem nil well out of It." returned Bin trey, with much hentttnes. "Good by, Bir." 'Ihey Phooiv hands ami parted, riien, (lirsv knocking with his knuckles lor leave) entered to Mr. Wilding, from a door of communication between his private counting-bonc and that in which bis clerks sat, the Head Cidlarman of the cellars of Wilding A Co., Wine Merchants, and rrst Head Cellarman of the cellars ot Pebbleson Nephew. The Joey Ladle in question. A slow Hnd ponderous man, of the drayman order of human architecture, dressed in a corrugated biilt and bibbed apron, apparently a composite of door-mat nnd rhir.oeero3-hide. "Ketpectiiig this same boirding and lodgiug, Young Master Wilding," said he. "Ye., Joey?" "Sneaking for myself, Young Mater Wilding and 1 never did speak nud 1 never do speak for no one el?e don't want no uoarding nor yet no loleiug. But li you wish to board mo 'and to loogo nie, take mo, I can peek as well as most men. Where I peck ain't eo high a object with me as What I peck. Nor even so high a object with me as How much I peck. It all to live in the house, Young Master Wilding? The two other cellarmeo, the three porters, t-c two 'prentices, nud the odd men I" 'Ye. l hope we bhall all be au uuitcl family, Jcey." "Ah 1" said Joey. "I hope they may be." "They ? liatoer fay we, .loey." Joey Ladle shook hi head. "Don't look to nie to irakc we on it, Young Master Wildiug, not at my time of lite and under the circum stances which has formed my disposition. I have said to Pebbleson Nephew many n time, when they have aid to me, 'Put a livelier lace upon it. Joey' I nave aid to them, 'Gentle men, it Is all wery well lor you, thut has been accustomed to take your wiue into your system by the conwivial channel of your throttles, to nut a lively lace upon it: but,' I says, '1 have been accuttomed to take my wine iu at tho pores of the skin, nnd, took that way, it acts ditieient. It acts depressing. It's one thing, gentlemen, ' I says to Pebbleson Nephew, 'to chnrte your glasses in a diiiiug-room with a Hip Hurrah and a Jolly Companions Kvery One, and it's another thing to bo charged yourself, through the pores, in a low, dark cellar and a mouldy atmosphere. It make all tho difference betwixt bubbles and wapers,' I tells Pebbleson Nephew. And so it do. I've been a cellar-man my life through, with my mind fully given to the business. What's the consequence? I'm as muddled a man as lives you won't find a mud dleder man than me nor jet you won't find my equal iu molloncolly. Sing of Filling the bumper lair, Every drop you sprinkle O'er the brow of tare Smooths away a wrinkle? Yes. P'r'aps so. But try filing yourself through the pores, underground, when you don't want to it V "I mil sorry to hear this, Joey. I had even thought that jou might join a singing-class in the house." "Me, bir? No, no, Young Master Wilding, you won't catch Joey Lndlc muddling the Armouy. A pecking-machiue, sir, is all that I am capable of proving myself, out of my cellars; but that you're welcome to, if you think it's worth jour while to keep such a thing ou your premises." "I do, Joey." "fcny no more, sir. Tho Busincs' word Is my law. And you're a going to take Young Matter George Vendale partner into the old Business?" "I am, Joey." "More change?, vou see! But don't change the name of the Firm again. Don't do it, Young Master Wilding. It was Dad luck enough to make it Yourself & Co. Better by tar have left it Pebbleson Nephew that good luck always stuck to. You should never change luck when its good, sir." "At all events, I have no intention of changing the name ot the nouse again. Joev." "Glad to hear it, and wish you good day, Youne Master Wilding. But vou had better by half," muttered Joey Ladle, inaudlbly. as he closed the door and bhook his head, "have let the name alone from the first. You had better by haif nave followed the luok instead of cross ing it." I To be continued. INTERNAL REVENUE PRINCIPAL DEPOT FOB THE BALK'OP UNITED STATES REVENUE STAMPS, No. 304 OHESNUT Street. CENTRAL DEPOT, No. 103 South FIFTH Street (One door below Ohesnnt street). ESTABLISHED 1803. Oar stock comprises all the denominations printed by the Government, ALL ORDERS FJCLKD AND FORWABDED BY MAIL OB EXPRESS IMMEDIATELY UPON RE CEIPT, a matter of great importance. Drafts on Philadelphia, Post Office Orders, Giseen Dacki, and National Bank Notes, received la ppy menu '.The following rates ol commission are allowed On 120 -..TWO PER CENT From 120 to 1100 ..rOCRI PER CENT From loo upwards FOUR AND A HALF PKB CT The Commission la payable In stamps. All orders, etc., should be addressed to (STAMP ACEBICT, No. 304, OHESNUT Street, PHILADELPHIA. ORDERS RECEIVED FOR STAMPED CHECKS DRAFTS, RECEIPTS, ETC 1122 STOVES, RANGES, ETC. NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED would call attention ot the public to his NEW GOLDEN EAULK FURNACE. Thin III an enLlrelv new heater. IllSHO'COn- Btrucled as lo at once commend Itself io general lavor, beliiK a combination of wrought and cast Iron. 11 la vorv ulnuilfi In Its construction, and is nerfectly air tight; aell'-cleanlug, having no pipes or drums to be taken out aud cleaued. It Is so arranged with upright lines as to produce a larger amount. 01 ueai irom me same weight or coal than any furnace new In use. Tne liyroiiieuic condition of the air as produced by mv new airanKemenl ot evaporation will at once de monstrate lout It Is the only Hot Air Furnace that will produce a periectiy iifcaiiny atmospuere. 1 hose In want or a complete Healing Apparatus would do well to call and examine the Uoldeu Kugle. Kos. 1132 and U3 1MA1LK KT ISlreet, I'hllatlulnhli A taree assortment of Cooking Ranges. Fire-Board BIovph, Low Down Urates, Ventilators, etc., always on nana. N. Ik Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. 510 DYEING, SCOURING, ETC. K- R E N C H STEAM SCQUKI1TG. ALBF.DYLL. MARX & CO. AND KO, 510 BACK BTBEET. UOmwf FERTILIZERS. A M M O N IATED PHOSPHATE, AM UKKUBPAKSED FEBTIUIEB For Wheat, Corn, Oats Potatoes, Grass, the Vegetable Oardea, Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Etc. Eta, Tills FertlhDwr contains Ground Bone and thebes INtf-miKlUE fcalui. I'rioH fno pt ton of 2000 pounds. For tale by UM Uauulacliuers, WILLIAM ELLIS A CO., GhemlsU, 1 S8mwf NO. T24 MARKET DECEMBER 18, 1867. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 1829 CHARTER l'ERFETUAb rranlilin Fire Insurance Co. OP PMII'AEI.PIIKAt OFFICE: now. at Ann 437 chess CT htueet. AN BETH Oft OCTOHF.B 1,1807, aa,ni,86!t. nvpltal Accrued bumiut, -............ IOO,IW0O ,.M...1.0".7fiST0 Prpmlunis ...mm. ONBETTI.Ep CLAIMS, IN COM R FOR 1867, .fxi.iN. f mil Id, IOHHTM PAID MMK 18tt OVEB 93,000,000. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. D1BECTORH. Cbftrlps N. Bancker, ttoorge Falp, Alfred Fltlcr, Francis W. Lwla, M, D Thomas hparks, YVIlilum S.Grant. Ionian wanner, Hanmel Uratit, ttporge W. Richards, Isaac CHARLES N. JlANCKKlt. Prfwrnnnl. GKOhWK FALKH, Vlce-1're.ldeuU J. W. McAMJSI tat. isecrctary pro twin. U 111281 BROOKLYN LIFE INSURANCE OF KEW TOKK, MIITIJAU POLICIES NON-FORFEITAELE. Thirty days grace given In payment ot Premiums. No extra charge for residence: or travel In any portion of the world. Dividends declared aansully, and paid In cash, Dividend In lbW, 40 per cent. COLTOJH & SIIELDEN, GEK&BAL AGENTS, N. E. C'OBNEB KETEMH AM) ClfEAKUT. Agents and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and towns In Pennsylvania and boulhern iS'ew Jer- 1 aii INSURANCE COMPANY OP NORTH AMERICA: OFFICE, No. 232 WALK DT BT., PHILADELPHIA. INCOBf OBATED 1794. CUABTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL, $300,000. ASSETS IANPABY 8,1807 91,763,36780 INSURES MARINE, INLAND TRANSPORTA- iivn Ainu utB, ttish-a. DIRECTORS, Arthrtr G. Colli n, t-amuel W, Jones, John A. Brown, Cbarlf Taylor, Ambrose White, Richard D. Wood, William Welsh, H. Morris Wain, George L. Harrison, .1.UU3 1I. VAipe, Edward H. Trotter, :CwRnl fct. Clarke, William CuinmliiKS, T. Cliir.tou Meiuy, Alfred D. Jesnup, Jonu P. Whim jonn Mason,; Louis O. Madeira. ABTHTJIt a. cut it. m u....if Pttiwtvo ?l ITT hwn.i nr.' ' WILLIAM BOEHLKR, ilarrhbarg, Pa., Central Agent for the Btate of Pennsylvania. I2ij Q-1RARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, (No. 639) N. E. COR. CUE5NUT AND SEVENTH STS., PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL AND hUHPLl N OTEB $300,000. INCOME AOlt ISO, 910S,U3A. Losses Paid and Accrued In I860, 847,000. Of which amount not t&ri)0 lemaln nnnald at this date. tliK).(uo,(HiO ol properly hau.bevn successfully insured by this Company In thirteen years, aud JbUgut Hun dred Losses by Fire promptly paid. DIRECTORS. Thomas Craven. Silas YerkPs, Jr., Furnian bheppard, Thi mas U ucixeilur.l John Hurmleo. Aiireu b. uiueii, N. W. Lawrence. CharUs I. Dupont, Henrv F. Keunev. John W. Ciagnorn, uoKupu &iapp, oi. u. 4THOM as CRAVEN, President', A. B. OILLETT, Vice-President. 2 22 fmw JAMES B. ALVORD, Secretary. TIRE INSURANCE. EIVEBPOOE AND EON DON AND GLOBB UisUBAMJE COMPANY. t ASSETS OVER ......10,000,000 IM VENTED IM TUB V.MH OVEB-91,800,000 PHILADELPHIA BOARD. Lemuel Coffin, Esq., ICharles S. Hmlth. Esq., Joseph W. Lewis, Esq., Henry A. Duhrlug, Euq,, Edward Biter, Esq. ' All losses promptly adjusted without reference to England. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, JTo. 6 MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, ATWOOD SMITH, 10 17 thstneml General Agent for Pennsylvania. PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, No. Ill 8. FOUKTU Htreet. INCORPORATED 8U MONTH iZ, l&i5. CAPITAL, lluo.WHS PAID Iif. Insurance on Lives, by Yearly Premiums: or by 6. 10, or 120 year Premiums, Nou-lorfeliure, ' Annuities granted on favorable terms, Term Policies, Children's Endowments. This Company, while giving the insured theseourlty pta paid-up Capital, will divide the entire proUla of the Lite business among its policy holders Moneys rteelved at interest, and paid on demand. Authorized by charier to execute Trusts, aud to act as Fzecutor or Administrator, Assignee. orUuardtan, aud in other fiduciary capacities, nuder appointment oi any Court ot this Commonwealth, or any person or persons, or bodies pulillo or corporate. PIHKCTOaH. SAMUEL B. SHIPLEY, lliiSNRY HAINES, RICHARD WUOK, VV. C. LON'JSTRKTH RICHARD CADKURY, WILLIAM HACKER 0 , , CHAKLE8 F. COFFIN. SAMUEL R. HUl 1LH.Y, ROWLAND PARRY, President. Actuary. WILLIAM C. LOKU&TKEnT, Vice-President. THOMAS WlfSTAR. M D.. J. B. TOWNtSKND, 7 'Z7j Medical Examiner. Legal Adviser. IlfEMX INSURANCE COMPANY; OP PHI. LA DELPHI. INCORPORATED 1E04 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. ii4 WALKU1 btveet, opposite the Exchauge. This Company Insures from loss or dainaue by FIRE,- on liberal terms on buildings, merchandise, fnr ullure, etc., lor limited periods, and permanently on buildings by depohlt ot premium. The Company has been in active operation for more than H1XTY YEARN, during which all 'oBtiH have been promptly aujusted aud paid. John L. Hodge, UlfclLCTOIlrt. David Lewis, lteujutnln Ettlng, Thomas II. Powers, A. R. McHeury, Edmund CaHtllion, Samuel Wilcox, Louis C Norrls. 41. ii. muiioiiy, John T. Lew is, William U. Grunt, Robert W. Learning', D. Clark Wharton, Lawrence Lewm, Jr., JOUri It. W UCHERKR, President. Samuel Wilcox, secretary. TjMRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. THH X' PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM.. PA NY Incorporated li& Charter Perpetual No, HO WALK UT btreet, opposite Independence bqnare. This Company, favorably known to the community lor over forty years, continues to Insure agalnHt loos or damage by fire on Public or Private Bulldlugs, either permanently or for a limited time. Also, ou Furniture, blocks or Goods, aud Merchandise gene rally, on liberal terms. . , Their Capital, together with a large Snrplus Fund, S Invested in the most carelul manner, wtiicu eimuit theuii o oiler to ihe Insured au undoubted security La the caae of loss. Daniel Bmlth. Jr.f "T W Alexander beunon. llwU' Isaac Hazlelinrat. " fliftnZiS Tiion.M Rubb u, I . . J. ujinghaia Fell, pANiiL hm ith, J a., President. Wiuiam a. Caoww. boexotaxy M FINANCIAL. 525 M S OF TU1 union pacific railroad Hun nlii g West from Omaha Across tiio Continent, ARE NOW COMPLETED. This brings the line to the eastern bane of tho Rocky Mountains, and It Is expected tnnt the track will be 'aid thirty miles further, to Evans Pas', the highest point on the road, by January. The maxi mum grade from the foot of the mountains to the summit Is but eighty feet to the mile, while that of many Eastern roads Is over ono hundred. Wori In the rock-cuttiugs oa the western slops wilt continue through the winter, and there is now no reason to doubt that the entire grand line to the Pa cific will be open for business Iu 187'i. The me ans provided for the construction of this Great Rational Work are ample. The United SUtea grants Its Six Per Cent. Rnnds at the rate of from Jie.ooo to 1 18,000 per mile, for which It takes a iccoiul Jinas security, and recelvfB pnyment to a large If no to the full extent of Its c'aim In services. Tueso Bonds are Issues.', as each twenty-rolle section Is finished, and after it has been examined by United folates Commissioners and pronounced to be in all re spects a first-claw road, thoroughly supplied with . depots, repalr-sbops, stntlojs, and all ihe necessary rolling stock, aud other equipments. The United Htutes also makes a donation of 12,800 acres of land to the mile, which will be a source of larga revenue to the Company. Much of this land In the Platte Valley is among the moat fertile In tha world, and other largj portions are covered with heavy pine forests and abound In coal ot the best quclity. The Company Is also authorised to Iisueltsowa First Mortgage Bonds to an amount equal to the Issue of the Uoverummt, aud no more. Hou, E. D. Morgan and Hon. Oakes Anus are Trustees ler tha Bondholders, and deliver the Bonds to the Company only as the work progresses, so that thoy always re present an actual and productive v.Jiuo. The authorized capital of the Company Is ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, of which over Ave millions have been p:UU In upon the work already done. Earnings of tho Company. At present, the profits of the Company are derived only from Us local traffic, but this Is already much, more than sufficient to pay the Interest on all tha Bonds the Company can Issue, If not another mtla were built. It Is not doubted that when the road la completed the through traffic of the only line con. nectlng the Atlantic and Pacific States wilt be large beyond precedent, and, as there wlil be no competi tion, It can always be done at protUable rates. It will be noticed that the Union Pacific Railroad Is, In fact, a Government Work, built under the super vision ot Government officers, and to a large extent with Government money, and that its bonds are Issued nnder Government dliectlon. It Is believed umb uu oiuiimi dcuui it. in ou i.uiaiuii xunxutiu, null certainly no other Is based upon a larger or mora valuable property. As the Company's First Mortgage Bonds Are offered for the present aro NINE TY CENTS OX THE DOLLAR, they are the cheapest security In tha market, being more than 15 per cent, lower than United b'tutes blocks. They pay SIX PER CENT. IM GOLD, Or over NINE PER CENT, upon the Investment. Bubtcrlptlons will be received In Philadelphia by DE HAVEN & BROTHER. No. 40 a Third street, WILLIAM PAINTER & CO , NO. 36 S. Third St. J. E. LEWARS & CO., No. 29 8. Third street. THE TRADESMEN'S NATIONAL BANK", In W llmlngton, Delaware, by B. R. EOBINSON & CO. JAMES McLEAR & SONS, And In New York at the Company's Office, No, 29 NASSAU Street, and by CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK, 7 Nassau It, CLARK, DODGE t CO., Bankers, No. El Wall St. JOHN J. CISCO & SON, Bankers, No. 83 WaU St.; And by the Company's advertised Agents throughout the United States. Remittances should be made la drallB or other funds par In New York, and the bonds; will be sent free of charge by return express. A NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP, showing th progress of the work, resources for construction, and value of Bonds, may be obtained at the Com pany's Offices, or ot Its advertised Agents, or will t6 nnft twajk nn annllriallnn (A VV vu ai'i'vnvAe JOIIX J. CISCO, TllEASCBEIt, NEW YORK. November 23, 1867. 12 U wfm9t HATS AND CAPS. J THE FALL AND WINTER STYLE HATS AT L. BLAYLOOK'S, NO. 6 NORTH KICiUTII STREET, Are commended to the especial attontlon of OKKTLESIEIf OF TASTE AM) FASHION BEING ELEGANT IN OUTLINE, MATCHLESS IN FABRIC, CUARMINOTIN FINISH For ease, grace, and fashion, they are. 11 22smw?0t THE IMOOEI M OF TIIENEANON. SBPft INSTRUCTION. OTJSVENBD ALE INSTITUTE. BOARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIE3. Terms Board, Tuition, etc.-per scholastic year, 1500 NO EXTRAS. Circulars at Messrs. Fairbanks & F.wlng's, No, 711 CHESNUT Btreet; also at Messrs. T. B. tersoq Brothers', No. 808 CHESNUT Street, Address, personally or by note, JX FOBTEB BROWNE, Principal; 10 I Uuntl South Amboy, N, r II Sixth svN& Jt
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