THE DAILY mriWlNG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JULY .21, 18G8.
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WILL THE COMIMl MAN DRINK WINE I
BY JAMKI PABTON.
JVw tht Atlantic Monthly for A uptwi
Tlit tfttolalcrs confess their failure. After
Jorty-flve years of zealous and well-meant nlort
In the "taune," they agree mat people nr drinlc-ina-
more thiin ever. Ir. K. T. Trail or New
Tforbf the most thorough going teetotaler e
taut, exclaim: "Where uro we to-day f De
feated on all piiieB. The enemy victorious and
rampant everywhere. Moreiutoxlcatlnjrliq'iors
junnulactureJ and druuk than ever beiore.
Way ib this?" Why, indeed 1 Wbeo the teeto
talers can answer that question correctly tboy
will be in a lair way to gum upon the enemy"
thatMs now co "rBinpniit." Tuey arc not the
llrst people who have nils-taken a Hymp otn of
iliseae for the disctue itbflf, and striven to cure
a cancer by apli? culve, and platr, ani
coolmjt washes to the tore. 1 hey are not the
first traveller through this wilderness whoDHvo
tried to extinguish a sniol lerlua; lire and diaoov
cring at. last that they have been pouring water
Into the crater ol a volcano.
Our teetotal friend nave not Reelected the
scientific qutsiiom involved In their subject;
nor have they settle! them. Instead ot IunuK
Iur the public iutclliarut e by HBHeitiDfr that tie
wines mentioned in the Bible wro some kind
Of unintoxicatluR flop, and exasperating the
public temper by pieniatute prohibitory lawn,
they bad better expend their Htreariu upon the
ecieuce of the matter, and prove to mankind, If
they chu, that these acreeable driuki which
they denounce are really hurtful. We all
ir.ow thai excess is hurtful. We abo know
that adulterated liquors may bo. But is the
thiut; iu itself pernicious if pure wine taken
in moderation? good beer? genuine Old
Jiourbon?
For one, I with it couM be demonstrated that
these things nre hurtful. Sweeping, universal
truths are as convenient as they ar rare. The
evils resulting iroiu excels in Uriiikiug are bo
enormous and so terrible tbnt it would be a
relief to know that alcoholic liquors arc in
themselves evil, and to be always avoided.
What are the romantic woes of a Uesdemona, or
the brief picturesque sorrow of a Lear, com
pared with the thirty years' horrv and desola
tion caused by a drunkin parent? We laugh
when we read Laoab'n funny description of his
Wukinq up in tne morning and learning in what
condition he bud come home the niatbefre
by seeing all his clothes carefully folded. But
Lis mster Alary did not laugh at it. Tie was all
ehe hud; it was tragedy to her, this self
destruction oi tier sole Uy and consolation.
Goethe did not bud it a laughing matter to have
a drunken wife in his house lor a I teen years, nor
a jest to have his son brought in drunk from
the tavern, and to see biindead in his coffin,
the early victim of champagne. Who would not
like to have a clear conviction thut what we
have to do with all such fluids is to let them
alone? I am sure I should. It is a prent
advantace to have your enemy in plain sight,
and to be mre he is be enemy. "
If something more is knon of the operation
of alcohol tlian of any other chemicil fluid If
there is any upproucu to certainty respecting
it we owe it chiefly to the teetotalers, bociuse
it Is they who have provoked contradiction,
excited inquiry, aud auKsested ex-periment.
They have not done much themselves in the
"way of investigation, but they started the
topic, and have kept it alive. They have also
published a tew paes which throw light upon
the points in dispute. After eoinii over the
cround pretty thoroughly, I can tell the reader
In a few word the tnbstaocu ot what has bt'en
ascertained, and plausibly inferred, oncoming
the effects of wine, beer, unJ spirits upon the
Lnman constitution.
They raunot be nourishment, in the ordinary
acceptation ot that word, because the quantity
of nutritive matter in them is so email. Liebig,
no enemy of beer, Bays t b if : "VTe can prove,
with mathematical 'certainty, that as much
Hour or meal as cuu lie ou the point of a table
knife is more nutritious thuu nine qaarts of the
test Bavarian beer; that a man who is able
daily to consume that amount of beer obtains
Irotn it in a whole year, iu the most favorable
case, exactly the amount of nutritive contstita
ents which is contained in a five-pound loaf of
Dread, or iu three pounds of flesh." fco of wine;
When we have taken from a glass ot wine the
ingredients known to bo innutiitioua, there is
ecarcely auythim? lalt but a grain or two of
Bujrar. Pure alcohM, though a product of
lishly nutritive snbit.'tnces, is a mere poison,
' an abfolnte poUon, the mortal foe ot life in
every one of its forms, animal) and vegetable.
If. therefore, these beverages do us pood, it is
Hot by supplying the body with nourishment.
Korean they aid digestion by assisting to de
compose food. When we have taken too nines,
shad for breakfast, we find tbnt a wineglass of
nhisky instantly mitigates the horrors of indi
gestion, and enables us again to contemplate
the future without dismay. Bat if we caIcu a
cutions fish or reptile, aud waut to keep him
from decomposing, and bring him home as a
a contribution to the museum of Professor
Agassiz, we put Lira In a bottle of whisky,
fceveral experiments have been made with a
view to ascertain whether mixing alcohol with
the prastric j aice increases or lessens iu power
to decompose food, aud the results of all
of them point to the conclusion that the
alcohol retards the process of decomposi
tion. A little alcohol retards it a little, and
much alcohol retards it much, It has been
? roved by repeated experiment, that any por
ioa ot alcohol, however mall, diminishes the
power of the gastric juice to decompose. The
digestive fluid has been mixed with wine, beer,
whisky, brandy, and alcohol dilated with water,
and kept at the temperature of the living bo iy,
and the motions of the body imitated during
the experiment; but, in every instatce, the pure
gastric juice was found to be the true and eole
digester, and the alcohol a retarder of digestion.
This fact, however, reqairtd little proof. We
are all familiar with alcohol as a prtsereer, and
scarcely need to bo reminded, that, if alcohol
assists digestion at all, it caunot be by assiatiajr
decomposition.
Nor is it a heat-trodiic'nfl; fluid. On the con
trary, it appears in all cae to diminish the
efficiency of the heat-producing process. Mokt
cf us who live here in the Worth, and who are
occasionally subjected to extreme cold for hours
at a time, know this by personal experience,
and all the Arctic voyagers attest it. Brandy is
destruction when men have to face a tempera
ture ot CO decrees bi low zero; they waut lamp
oil then, and the rich blubber ot the whale and
walrus. Dr. Hae, who made two or three
pedestrian tours of the PoUr regions, aud
Rhone powers of endurance were put to as
severe a test n man's ever were, is clear and
emphatic uoon tui9 point. Braudv, he suy,
fctimulatei but for a few minutes, ttud greatly
lessens a muni power to eudure cold and
fatigue. Occasionally we have in New Yore a
cool breeze from the north which reduces the
temperature below ztsro to the Bore discomfort
of omi.ibus-drivers and car-drivers, who have to
face it on their way up-town. Ou a certain
Monday ii'gut, two or three wiaters ago, 23
drivers on oue line were disabled by the cold,
xuany of whom had to be lined from the cats
and carried in. Jt is a fact familiar to per
sons in this business, that men who drink
lrtcly ere more likely to be benumbed and
overcome by the cold than those who abstain.
It seems etrans4 to us, when we first tear
it, that a meager teetotaller 6huid be safer
on such a night than a bluiT, red-faced
Imbiber of beer and whWkv. who takes some
thing at eaeh end ot the line to kep himself
-wanu. ii nevertneiess appears to be true. A
traveller relates, that, when Russian troops are
about to start upon a inarch in a very cold
legion, no prog is allowed to be served to thtm;
and when the men are drwn op, ready to move,
tne corporals amell the breath of every man,
and send back to quarters all who hate been
dnnkiLg. The reason is, that men who start
under the influence of liquor are the first to suc
cumb to the cold, aud the likeliest to be frost
bitten. It is the uniform experience of the
Lnnters and trapper? in the northern provinces
of North America, and of the Kockv Mountain.
that alcohol diminishes their power to resixt
yuia. juis whole magazine could It finea witk
testimony on this point.
Btill less is alcohol a Btrength-gWer. Every
man that ever trained for a supreme exertion
of strennth knows that Tom Sayers s p jke the
truth when he Bald: "I'm no teetotaler: but
ivaen I've any business to do, there's nothing
like water and ike dumbbell." Richard Ob
n, yibm rowcM were jubjcvUU. it lar
severer trial than a pugilist ever dreamed of
whose labors by night and by day, during the
rorn-law struggle, were excessive and continu
ous, beyond those of any other member of the
House of Com moRf. bears similar tcnlciony:
"The more work I nave to do, the more I have
resorted to the pump of the teapot." On this
branch of the aublect, all the tcstlnoay is
anainft alcoholic drinks. Whenever the point
has been tested and It has often been tested
tie trath ha been confirmed, that he who
vould do hts very best and most, whether
In towing, lilting, running, watchinir,
mowirg, climblns, fighting, speaking, or
wilting, muht not admit Into his sys
tem one drop of aleohol. Trainers ued to
allow their men a pint of beer per day, and
teverc trainris bnlf n pint; but now the know
ing ones have cut oil' evcu that moderate
allowance, nad brought tht'r men down to cM4
water, and not too nueu of tba, the soundest
dlgefters requiring little liquid of any kind.
Mr. Figelow, by his hnnpy puolication lately of
the correct version of Franklin's Autobiography,
has called to mind the famous beer pasac in
that immortal work: "I drank only water; the
other workmen, near fifty In number, were
great guzzlers of beer. On occasion I carried
up and (iuwu tdairt a la rue form ot types iu
each baud, when others carried but one In both
hand. " 1 Lave n long lift ot references on this
pcint; but, in these crickelm?, boat-racing,
prize-fighting das, the fart has become too
familiar to require proof. The other morning,
Horace (iieoley, teeto'aler, came to.hls oifice
alter an at) euro ot several days, and .'o.iud
letters mid arrears of work that would have
been appalling to any man but him.
He shut himself in nt 10 A. fif., and wrote
steadily without leaving his room, till 11 P. M.,
thirteen hour. When he had finished he had
some difficulty in getting down stairs, owing to
the stillness ot his joints, caused by the lonj
inaction: but he was as fresh atd smiling the
next morning as though be had done nothing
extraordinary. Are any of us drinkers of beer
and wine capable of huch a feat ? Then, daring
the war, when he was writing his history, he
performed very clay, for two years, two days'
woik one from 9 to 4 on his book, the other
from 7 to 11, upon the 'Irihune and, m addition,
he did more than would tire an ordinary man in
the way of correspondence and public speuking.
1 may also remind the reader that the clergy
man who, ol all otheis in the United State", ex
pends most vitality, both with tontrue aud pen,
and who does his work with least' fatigun and
roost gaycty of heart, u auother of Franklin's
"water Americnns."
Thi lew experiments which have been made,
with a view to trace the course of alcohol iu
the living pjstenj, all couSrin what all drinkers
feel, that it is to the brain alcohol hurries when
it has passed the lips. ouie inuoceut dons
have suflered and died In this investigation. Dr.
Percy, a British physician, records, that he
injected two ounces and a Unlf of alcohol into
the ttomuch of a dug, which caused its aimost
instant death. The dog dropped very much as
he would if he had been siruck upon the heal
with a club. The experimenter, without a
moment's unnecessary delay, removed tne ani
mal's biain, subjecting it 'to distillation and
extracted from it ft surprising quantity of
alcohol a larser proportion than he could
distil from the blood or liver. The nlcohol
seemed to have rushed to the brain; it was a
blow upon the head which killed the dog.
I'r. Tercy introduced into the stomachs of
other dogs smaller quantities of alcohol,
not sntlicient to canse death; but upon
killinar the dogs, and subjecting the brain,
the blood, the bde, the liver, and other poitions
ol the body to distillation, he invariably tojnd
more alcohol in the brain than tn tlte same
weight of the organs. He injee'ed alcohol into
the blood of dogs, which caused death; but the
deadly etlecl Tvss produced not upou the sub
stance of the blood, but upon the brain. His
experiments go fur towavcls explaining why the
drinkiiie of alcoholic liquois docs not. sensibly
retaid digestion. It seems that, when he take
wine at dinner, the alcohol docs not remain in
the stomach, but is Immediately ab-oi bed into
the blood, and swiftly conveycl to the brain and
other organs. If one ot those "lour-bottle men"
of the last generation had fallen down dead,
after boozing till past midnight, and he had beon
treated as Dr. Percy tieated the dogs, his brain,
his liver, mid all the oiVier centres of powur
would have yielded alcohol in abundsnce; his
blood would have smelt it; his flesh woald
hare contained it; but there would
have been very little in the stomach. Those
men were able to drink four, six, nnd seven
bottles of wine at a sittine, because the sitting
lasted four, six, and seven hours, which gave
time lor the alcohol to be distributed over the
system. But instances have occurred of labor
ing men who hsve kept themselves 6teadily
drunk for 48 houis, and then died. The bodies
of two such were dissected some years ago ia
England, ana tne rooa wnicn tncy uaa eaten at
the beginning of the debauch was undigested.
it had pecu preserved in alcohol as wo preserve
enakes.
Once, and oily once. In the lifetime of man.
an intelligent human eye has been able to look
into the human stomach, and watrrh the process
of digrbtion. In 1H22 at the United Hates
military post of Michillimnckinac, Alexia St.
Martin, a Canadian of French extraction,
received accidentally a heavy charge of duck
shot in his side, while he was standing one yard
irom tne inuzzie or tne gun. rue wound was
frightful. One of the luntrs protruded, and
from an enormous aperture in the stoaiaeti the
food recently eaten was oozing. Dr. William
Beaumont, U. 8. A., the surgeon of the post, was
noticed, and dressed the wound. In exactly
one year from that day the young man was well
ennugh to get out of doors aud walk about tha
lort; and he continued to improve in health and
strength, until he was at strong and hardy as
most, oi nis race, lie married, necame the
father of a luite family, and performed for
many years the laborious duties appertaining to
an officer's servant at a frontier post. But the
aperture into the stomach never closed, and the
patient would not submit to the paiuful opera
tion by which such wounds are sometimes closed
artlbcially. He wore a coaiprevt arranged by
the doctor, without which his dinner was not
eufe alter b(had eaten it.
By a most blessed cbnuce it happened that this
Dr. William Beaumont, stationed there ou the
outskirts of creation, was an intelligent, Inquisi
tive human being, who perceived all the value
of the opportunity aflorded him by this unique
event. He tet about improving that opportu
nity. He took the young man into his service,
and at intervals, ior eight years, he experi
mented upon him. nc alone atuon.3 the sons of
men has teen liquid flowing into the stomach of
a living person while jet the vessel was at the
drinker's lips. Turonch the aperture (which
regained to-Hud-a-half inches iu circuni
leiencel he could watch the eutirc ope
taiii.n of digestion, amd he did so hun
dreds of times. If the man's stomach ncheJ,
hu could look into it uiid bee what wis
the matter; and huv;ng foui d out, he would
drop a rectifying pill into the aperture. He
ascertained tke time it takes to digest each of
tne articles of food couiuiouly eaten, aud the
ellects of all the usual errors iu eating aud
drinking. In 18l!3 he publifhed a thin volume,
at Plhtuburg ou Lake Chauifdain, in whtcn the
rebults of experiments and observations were
only too briefly stated. He appears not to have
heaid of teetotalifm. and hence all that he fays
Upon the effects of alcoholic liquor is free from
the suspicion which the arrogance and extrava
gotce of some teetotalers have thrown over
much that has been published ou this
cuaject. With a mind unbiased, Dr. Beaumont,
feeiing into tke stomach of thlB stout Cana
ian, rotices that a glass of brandy causes the
eouts of that orssu to asumo the same in
flamed appearance as w ben he had been very
angry, or much frightened, or had over-eaten,
or had bad the flow of per-piratiou suddenly
checked. In other words, brandy pUyed the
Jiart of a foe in his system, and not that of a
riend; 1t produced cll'octs which wete morbid,
not healthy. Nor diu it wake any material
diOerence whether St. Martin drank brandy,
whisky, wine, cider, or beer, except bo fur ae
oue was stronger than the other.
"Bimple water," says Dr. Beaumont, "is per
haps the only flaid that is called for by the
wants of the economy. The auiCclal e!r.nkt
are probably all mere or les injurious: seme
more ao than others, but nnno caa laioi ev
eaiptien from the general charge. Kven tea
aud coffee, the common beverages of all cUsiea
Of peop!u. I.itu a tciulency to debilitute the
digeswv.. uifiu.,. - etc whole clahs of
alcwiio!'. li'ijoin ji.hj be itLti ldfi as uuuu
ties, producire very little difference In their
nJtimnte effects upon the system."
He ascertained, too (not gnesed or lnTarred,
but ascettained, watch in band), tnalsuch thinirs
ns mustard, horse tadish, and pepper ret ir I di
gestion. At the tdose of tin Invaluable work, Dr.
Beaumont appends a lone lit of "Infer mees,"
among which ate the following: "That soldi
food of a certain texture is easier of dUestion
than flaid; that stimulating condiments are in
jtirtotis to the healtby system; that the ue of
ardent spirits always produces disease of the
stomach II persisted in; that water, ardent spirits,
ai d most other fluids are cot affected by the gas
tric juice, but pass from the stomach Boon alter
they have been received." Oue thing appears to
have much surprised lr. Beaumont, and that was
the degree to w hicli ft. Martin's system could bo
disordered without hts being much inconveni
enced by it. Alter drinking hard every day lor
eight or tea days, the Btomaeh would show
alarming apprarauces of disease; and yet the
man would ouly feel a flight headache and a
general dullness and laneuor.
If there is no comfort for drinkers In Dr.
Beaumont's precious little volume, it must be
also confessed tbat neithef the dissecting-knife
ncr the microscope afford us the least counte
nance. All that has yet been ascertained of the
etlects of alcohol., by the dissection of tho body,
favois the extreme position ol the extreme tee
totalers. A brain alcoholized the microcopo
proves to be a brain diseased. Blood which has
Hljeorbed alcohol Is unhealthy blood the micro
scope shows It. The liver, the heart, and other
organs, which bave been accustomed to absorb
alcohol, all Kivc testimony under the mirro-icooe
which producej discomlort in the mind of one
who likes a glass of wine, nnd hopes to be able
to continue the enjoyment of it. Tne dissccting
knile and the microscope, so far, have nothiug
to say fur as nothing at all; they are dead
asaiust us.
Of all the experiments which have yet been
undertaken with a view to trace the course ot
alcohol through the human system, the moot
important were those made in Paris a few yeara
ago by Professors Lallemand, Perriu, and Duroy,
distinuuipbed physicians and chemists. French
men have a way of co-operatiug with one
another, both in the investigation of scientific
questions and in the production of liteialure,
which is creditable to their civilization and
beneficial to the world. The experiments con
ducted by these gentlemen produced the re
markable effect of causing the editor of a
leading periodical to confess to the public
that he was not infallible. Iu lS.r,5, the West
minster Jieciew contained an article by Mr.
Lewes, in which the teetotal side of these qaes
tions was ellectivoly ridiculed ; but In 18G1
the same periodical reviewed the work of the
French professors just named, and honored itself
by appending a note iu which it said: "Since
the date of our former article scientific research
has brought to liitht important facts which ne
cessarily modify the opinions we then expressed
concerning the to e of alcohol im the anliusl
body." Those facts were revealed or indicated
in the experiments of Messrs. Lallemand, Perrin
and Duroy.
tiher aud chloroform their mode of opera
tion; w hy aud how thiy render the living body
insensible to pain under the surgeon's knife;
what becomes of them atterthey have performed
that ollice tbete were the points which eugiged
their attcBtion, and in lite investigation of which
they spent several years. They were rewardel
at length with the auccess due to patience and
ingenuity. By the aid of ingenious apparatus,
after experiments almost numberless, they felt
themselves in a position to demonstrate triat,
when etberls inhaled it is immediately absorbed
by the blood, and by the blood is conveyed to
the brain. If a eurgeon were to commit tuch a
breach of professional etiquette ds to cut olT
a patient's bead at the moment of com
plete im-ensibility, he would be able to
distil from the brain a ere&t quantity
ot ether. But it is not usual to take that
l.berty except with dogs. The inhalation, there
fore, proceeds until the surgical operation is
finished, when the handkerchief is withdrawn
from the patient's face, aud he is left to regain
his senses. What happens then? What be
comes of the ether ? These learned Frenchmen
discovered that most of it goes out ot the body
by the road it came in at the lungs. It was
breathed in; it is breathed out. The rest escapes
by otbr cUuuueU of egrem; it all etcapes, and
it escapes unchunged 1 That is the poiut; it
escapes without having loft anything in the
system. Ail that can be said of it is, that it
entered the body, created morbid conditions in
the body, and then left the body. It cost these
patient men years to arrive at this result; but
any one who has ever had charge of a patient
that has been rendered iusensible by ether will
find little difficulty in believing it.
Having reached this demonstration the ex
perimenters naturally thought of applying the
same method and similar apparatus to the In
vestigation ot the effects oi ttlcohol, which is
the fluid nearest resembling ether and chloro
form. Dogs and men suflered iu the cause. Iu
the moisture exhaled from the pores of a
drunken dog's skin, these cunning Frenchmen
detected the alcohol which had made him
drunk. They proved it to exist in the breath
of a man, at 6 o'clock in the evening, who had
drunk n bottle of claret for brcuklast at half
past 10 in the morning. They also proved that,
nt mldnigLt, the alcohol of that bottle of wine
was still availing itself of other avenues of
escape. They proved that when alcohol is taken
into the system in any ot its dilutions wine,
cider, spirits, or beer the whole animal econ
omy speedily busies itself with its expulsion,
aad continues to do to until it has expelled It.
The lungs exhale it; the pores of the akin let
oat a little el It; the kidneys do their part; and
by whatever other road an enemy can escape it
seeks the outer air. Like ether, alcohol enters
the body, makes a dislarbance there, and goes
out of the body, leaving It no richer than it
found it. It is a gneit tbat departs, after giving
a great deal of trouble, without paying his bill
or "remembering" the servants. Now, to make
the demonstration complete, it would be neces
sary to take some unfertunate man or dog, give
him a certain quantity of alcohol say ene ounce
and alterward distil Irom his breath, perspira
tion, etc., the whole quantity that ho had swal
lowed. This bus not Pes a done; it never will be
done; it is obviously nuposbiblo. Enough has
been done to justify these conscientious and
indefatigable inquirers in nnuoeiicing, as a
thing susceptible of all but demonstration, tbat
alcohol contribute to the human system nothing
whatever, but leaves It undigested aud wholly
unchanged. They are fully persuaded (aud so
will you lie, reuaer, if you read their book) that,
if you take into your system nn ouhcj ot alco
hol, the whole ounce Kaves the system within
forty-eight hours just as good alcohol as it
went in.
The Coming Man, then, so long ns he enjoys
good health which he usually will from in
luncy to hoary at;e will not drink wine, nor, of
course, any of the coarser alcoholic dilutions.
To that unclouded and fearless inte ligeuce,
science will be the supremo law; it will be to
him more than the Koran is to a Mohammedan,
and more than the Infallible Church is to the
Roman Catholic, bcience, or, in oilier words,
tint law of God as revealed iu nature, life, and
history, and as a-certained by experiment,
observation aud thought this will be the
teacher nnu guide of the Coming Mau.
A eingle certainty ia a matter of so much lm
poitarce is not to be detpUed. lean now say
to young fellows who order a bottle of wine, and
flatter iheuselvea tbat, in so doing, they ap
piove themselves "jolly dog-:" No," my lads, it
Is because job aie dull dogs that you waut the
wine. You are forced to borrow excitement
became you kave squandered your natural
gayety. The ordering of the wine Is a confes
sion ot insolvency. When we leel it nscessary
to "take something'' at certain times
during the day, wo are in a
condition similar te that of a merchant
w ho every day, about the anxioas hoar of half
past two, has to run around among his neigh
bors borrow!.? credit. It is something dis
graceful or suspicious. Nature does not supply
enough of inward force. We are in arrears.
Our conditien is absurd, and, it we eught not to
be alarmed, we ought at least to be a-hamed.
Nor dees the borrowed credit increase our store;
it leaves nothing behind to enrich us, but takes
something from oar already insufficient stock;
and the more presnug our seed the more it
costs us to borrow.
A Sonlb Carolina alligator, probably in the
interest cf the "Rebel Demooraoy," ate a pro-
M.isii. v .iaig M;u;te vottr the other day.
Imprisoned on the Alps,
SIXTEEN HOURS IM TU COL DB ST. TIIEODCLK.
The following lively defcrlption of ao adven
ture on the All s appears in the Loudoa Stan
dard: 'Sir: Thinking that some of your stay-at-home
readers night like to hear of a s-now-storm
on the Alps, I now endeavor to give you
a short account of a nnrrow e.-cape that a friend
ot mine and myself hnd a few diys past. It was
on Tuefday, the '28d of June, that we lelt
Chatillon, on the Italian site, for Breuil. fro m
whenco we purpoied on the morrow cross
ing the Col de 8t. Theodnlo to Zcrmatt.
As we neared the eomforublo little inn at
Breuil we could see several people on the
balcony, evidently canvassiua who and whit we
were. We afterwards discovered they wre tkree
ladles, who were there for a similar purpose,
but had already been detained by bad weather.
On the Wtdnesdav, having the night brioie
given our two guides instructions to stirt at
4 o'clock, we were ra her annoyed that,
through their caiele-sness, we did not take our
kave of Breuil till a'ter (J, our three fait
friends, wi'.h foar guides, being about fifteen
minutes In advance. Two hours' hard climb
ing, and we at last were on the glacier, which
was completely covered with snow, not even
a crevasse visible to make the timid ones
uneasy.
"In an honr more, when we were thoroughly
wet tbrouch and miserable, we found ourselves
at the euaimlt of the Pass, with the plt a-ant
prospect ot two tours' more snow walking, ami
this, too, in a deme fog, accompanied by a
searching wind aud pelting hail. Here there is
a little cabin, or, a the Imaginative term It, a
pavilion, but, uufoituuately, not yet opened for
Ihe summer. We, however, contented ourselves
with a small shed adjoining, the floor of which,
being ankle-deep iu half-melted snow, you may
believe did not add much to our comfort. At 10
o'clock, as nearly as we could tell by oar half
frozen watches, wo left the Col, 10,000 feet of
elevation, to try and get to Zermatt more easily
said than dene. Ropes, of course, were neces
sary, and our small party taking the lead, the
Indies followed in our footsteps. Shortly after
fairly getting under way, our loading guide was
called to account by his colleagues for going too
much to the light. Fortunate for us would it
bave been if he had been allowed to follow his
own Intention, Instead of listening to the re
peated cries of a gauche! a gaucliel
'It was now bitteily cold and perfcotly dark,
the log being most dense; the halts wero fre.
quent and the attempts to find out our locality
by the echo fruitless. In answer to an inquiiy
of mine, a guide said it would take an hour lor
the falling snow to obliterate, our footsteps.
Imagine our sensations, when already one ho ir
had very nearly gone by, just then the two fore
most men exclaimed, 'nous sommes perdu;1 and
If ever fear was written on the face of man I
much mistake if it were not on theirs then; they
had brought us where they knew not; but there
in front ot us, not many yards from our feet,
was the most horrible-looking crevasse, of un
known depth, and whose lurther s;de was
obscured from sight by the mist. On oar right
it appeared to widen out, aud looked like a huge
chasm of ice.
"I think the flight must have done ns all
good, fr it was almost absurd to see the way
both euides and tourists, after the first look of
dismay, wheeled round and beat a precipitate
retreat. With care we retraced our footsteps to
a few hundred yard9 from home, when they
quite disappeared; but by keepiug well to the
right under the mouutain we could not very
well set wrong. How thankful we all were to
see something like a protection I cannot well
detenbe, but I for one shall never forget ho w
relieved I was, for all the guide? say that we had
a very narrow escape. We had been about t wo
bonrs and a half wandering about on the glacier
over unknown crevasses.
"It was only 1 o'clock, and not fit, if even
safe, to attempt a return to Bieuil; so we mau
aged to smash a window of the cabin and open
the dror for the rest ot the party. In this
harbor of refuge were two beda ot straw, one of
which was allotted to the three fadies and the
other to ourselves, the guides lying on the floor.
Our provisions consisted ol a little brown bread,
a cold chicken, and some horrible spirits, made
in the country, called Geneve. Ihree guides
firmly tied together left us for Breuil to try and
get a few more eatables; but it was more diffi
cult than they supposed, aud a lournev. that in
favorable weather, might have been djne iu Ave
or six hours tooK toem neatly twelve. The
night we spent was most wretcheJ, and I sin
cerely trust 1 may never experience such an
other, A Are being lighted nnd the room small
the heat was insufferable, while without the
cold was intense, and the wind blew tempestu
ously. "Suddenly, to our immene satisfaction, I
think it was a little alter 2 o'clock on Thursday
morning, there was a change, and on rushing
out of our prison we foaud everything ns dii
iereut as possible, the view ot the mountain
ranges was wonderful, and close on our right
rose the splendid ptle of the Matterhoru, seem
ing within a stone's throw; faciug as were the
mountains of Italy to a distance of eighty or ono
hundred miles. The sunrise, an hour later,
really repaid us, I think, for all our troubles,
and the three guides just then appearing with
our breakfasts, we suddenly discovered we were
not such wretched individuals as we were be
ginning to imagine. Yoa may believe me when
I tell you no time was lost in getting away; and
after lour hours' walking, partly over the gla
cier and the remainder down hill, we reached
Zermatt, where we were quite lionized upon the
people at the hotel hearing our story.
"I may as well state tbut on the way down we
saw a few taint marks of our track the night
before; aud the guides now say we had got oa to
quite another glacier, and a very dangerous
one, in the direction of the Matterhorn.
"I enclose my card, aud am yours, respect
fully, Votaqcob.
"Hottl Muller, Gersan, Lucerne, July i.''
A yoong Chinaman in San Franoisoo ont
off Lis ene, and announced Lis intention of
becoming "Melican man" in earnest, when a
party of his countrymen beat him unto death.
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS,&C
U. 8. Km C.
Harris' Seamless Kid Glovea.
ETEBT PAIU W Alt II ANTED,
JEXOLCblVE AGENTS FOB G&jNTS' QLOV1SB.
J. W. SCOTT a CO.,
irjrp HO. 811 CMEMNVT TjBEY
pATEKT BHOULDER-SEAM
(SHIRT nANVFAiTOBT,
ANUeKXTLEMEH'SrURKINIIiarU (JTttiaft
PEP.FKOT FITTING BHIRrs AND DR.WEK
made from mc8urment at vry abon nonce.
All other article ul UiLNTLKMJi'b
Q3O0S In fall variety.
WISCITENTEB A CO.,
U21 No. 706 (JUiUINOT HUraat.
GROCERIES, ETC.
rpo FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE RURAL
DISTRICTS,
We are prepared, as heretofore, to supply famine
at their country realdenoes with every description of
FINK GROCERIES, TEAS, ETC.,
ALBEBT C. BOHEBTt,
Dealer In Fine Grooerlea,
11 T.'rp Corner ELEVENTH and VINE 6 la.
MILLINERY.
MRS. R. DILLON,
MOM. sag AUD SSS SOUTH BTBIIT
Baa large Msortment of
MILLINERT.
Ladlea. VlMea', and Children'! Bilk, Velvet, Veil,
Straw and Fancy Bonnet and Hata of the tetett
tylea. Also, Bllka, Velvet. Ribbons, Crape.,
Fbuert, Jftowen, Frauw, ete., whglmale and
IeVll. tU4
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
S 110 E M A K E Lt & CO,
K. . Corner of i'OUllTH and RACE Sts.,
PniLADKLPHTA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IBirORTEKS AND MANUFACTURER'S OF .
White Lead and Colored Taliils, Tuttj,
Tarnishes, Etc.
AGKNT FOR THE I'Et.EHTt VI ED
IROtll ZINC FAINTS.
DEiLEM AND COSUMERil 8UPPUED
LOWKbT PRICKS FOR CA81L '!3!
SHIPPING.
UOSTOa-VIA NKWrOHT A.ND FALL
JJ RIVER.
Tb BOK1 ON and NEWPORT t,TNE, hv thBsplm
d'd uud nupprlor hi ea mors NEWl'ORT, METRO-1-OLlh,
OLD COLONY, an t KMPlRaS HTATE. of
great mrpngth and anod. onun'riiotfd exprtwxlT for
the navigation of Long IMand Hound, ruining la
ronnctlin wllh tbe OLD COLONY AND NEW
PORT RAILROAD.
Leave PIER ZD, NORTH RIVER, foot of MUR
RA V htreet.
Tli steamer NEWPORT, Captain Ttrown. leavp.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 4 P. M., landing
at Newport.
Ihe Rtcatuer OLD COLONY. Captain Hlmruons,
lt aves luesday. Tliuraday, and Saturday, at 4 1. M.,
landing at Newport.
Theoa ateamar. ar fitted op with comniodlona
atate-rooma wuier-UKht com pari uiwuta, and every
arrangement for the aecurl'y and coufort of p-iseu-
Ei ra, who are afforded by thl route a nlght'a mtno
oard, and on arrival at NEWPORT proceed per rail
road again, reaching Boston early on the following
morning.
A baggage master fa attached to earn steamer, who
receives and tlckfta toe baggage, and accompanies
thepsme to It dmlmatlon.
A steamer runs In connection with thla line between
NEWPORT and PROVIDENCE dully, fcuudaya ex
cepted. . .
Freight to Boston Is taken at the same rates aa by
any other regular lire, aud forwarded wllh tne great,
eat expedition by an express tralu, which leavre
NEWPORT every morning (Sunday excepted), at 7
o'clock, for Ronton and New Bedlord, arriving at lis
destination about 11 A. M.
For freight or i aaeaire, apply on board, or at tbe
OflH e. on PIER NOR 1 H RIVER. For alate-roo tjs
and berths apply on board, or If It la desirable to se-
cure Ihem In n".&tl7 TLEFIKLD. Agent.
t27 Wo. 72 BROADWAY -New York.
SAFETY, SPEED, AND COMFORT.
rUHlllltU REDUCTION IN P Arts AO a,
BATEH.
Favorite paaaenger steamers ot the ANCHOR LINE
Ball every SATURDAY with pas.enieis for
LIVERPOOL, OLAMOOW, AM) DKRRY,
Ironi Pier No. no North River.
Rates of paasage paable In currency.
To Llverrool, Olaigow, and Derry, cabins 90aufl
76, according to location.
Excursion tickets, good for twelve months, tjl60.
Intermediate, $35; bleernge fJ6,
Prepaid certlticttea f-ora these porta, fM.
Fasieogers booked to and Irom Hamburg, Rotter
dam, Anlwerp. Havre, etc.. at very low rates.
For further Information apply at the Company's
Ollice, No. ( BOW.LINO O K EN, New York.
HkNDhRON BROTHERS.
To avoid Imposition, paaaengera will please come
direct to the ollice, aa thla Company does not employ
runners. ?6,L
LONDON AND KEW YORK STEAMSIIIP
1.1 NE.
Passage to London direct, (110,TS, and IM currency.
Excursion tickets at reduced rates available lor 6
month.
Al ALANTA.
Bkl.LONA.
CELL A.
WM. PENN.
Freight will be taken and through bills of lading
given to Havre, Au twerp, Rottera am, Amsterdam
and Dunkirk,
Forp-psuKe apply to ROBERT N CLARC.No, 26
BROADWAY, New York.
For freight apply at No. M SOUTTT street, IT. Y.
S26tl HOWLAND & AbPIN WALL. Aganla.
CAUNARD LINE OF EXTKA STEAMERS,
BE1WEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL.
I'Al LINO AT QUEENrlTOWN.
FROM NEW YORK EVERY WEDNESDAY.
TRIPOLI, ALEPPO.
RATES OF PAfajAUE:
Cabin ISC Gold.
(Steerage...... 2i Currency.
tileeruge tickets from Liverpool or Queenstown at
lowest rates.
For Freight and Cabin Passage, apply at No. 4
Bowling ureen.
For tateerage Passage, apply at No, 6 Broadway.
2 2bt E. CUNARD.
o
NLY Dili EOT LINE TO FRANCE.
THE OENKRALTRANSATL ANT TO COMPANY'S
MAIL (STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW-VORK
AND HAVRE, CALLINU AT UK KIT.
Tbe splendid new veHsela on this favorite route for
the Continent will sail from Pier No. M NORTH
River:
N A 1'OLEONm...,; Lemarle
FF RE1RK Diiclieaua
VILLE DE PARIS .'. Hurmont
BT. LAURENT..... Bocande
PRICE OF PA88AOE IN GOLD (Including wine),
TO BREST OR MAVrtE,
First Cabin, f 160 or (Hti; Second Cabln.lfSS,
TO PARIS.
Including Railway Tickets, furnished on board,
First Cabin, f)li or I45; Second Cabin,
The e tteanu rt lio not carry t(fera(Kpaicnut,r,
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travelers going to or returning from the
Conlineut of Europe, by taking tbe steamers of this
line, avoid unnecessary rlaks from transit by English
railways and crossing the cbauuel, besides saving
time, trouble, aud expanse.
bEO. MACKENZIE. Agent,
2 26f No. M BROADWAY.
LIVERPOOL AND GREAT WESIEUN STEAM
COMPANY.
1 he following FIBST CLA8S IRON STEAMSHIPS,
built expressly lor the New York trade, are Intended
to nail regulaiiy between NEW YORK, and LIVER
POOL, calling at QUEENSTOWN, vls:-
JIANHATTAN, MINNESOTA.
COLORADO, NEBRASKA,
with other first-class steamers building.
From Pier No. 87 East River.
Cabin (the accommodations being equal to aay At
lantic steamer), fxo, gold; return tickets, fli gold; la
steerage, fv!6, currency.
lKkets to bring out passengers from Europe caa
be obtained on reasonable terms. For freight or pas
sage apply to
WILLIAMS & OUION, No. 71 WALL Street.
For steerage passage to 2 M t
WILLIAMS A OUION, No. 29 BROADWAY.
PROPOSALS.
IMPROVEMENT OF OGDENSBCKG IIAU-
J HOR. NEW YORK.
Sealed Pn porals In duplicate, will be received at
this ollice until 12 M.. MONDAY, August 10, 1868, for
deepening by dredging the harbor ol Ogdenaburg,
NiwYork aoaato give twelve feet of water at the
loweot stage, In the following plaoea, vIk.:
feeitlou i. On tbe outer bar across tbe channel Into
the upper harbor, northeasterly from the ligiitucmn,
whereabout Is.Mti cubic yards of hurd sand Is esti
mated to require removal.
Section 11. Between the bridge, the ferry wharf
and the Rome Railroad depot, where, It Is esti
mated, about 25,0l ruble arils ot very hard "hard
pan," willu gravel and small boulders, must be taken
out.
All the material (which will bo measured In the
Scows) must be dumped at least half a mile below the
outer bar, In deep water, at a point to be marked,
1 he work uium be commenced as soon aa possible,
and no later than bept. 16 IctiS, continued as long as
I onlble tbia season, aud completed by tneauth of No
vember, IM
Bidders must propose for each section separately,
and separate contracts will he made tor each.
Bl a must be made upon primed blanks, which can
be procured at this ollice, for similar written oues),
w htch mutt be properly tilled up and signed as Indi
cated. Ail the Information pt ssexsed at ibis etllce
will be given to bidders, but all wlthi'ip lo contract are
tMrticularly rtquaUd to (naiuitie al Oyid :tvburti ure
itnttnuinthirUl. C E. BLUNT,
Lieui.-coi. engineers ana urevei col. u. a. A.
V. S. ENU1NKKB O.KF1CK, 1
0 Vi'kuo, N. Y., July 14, 1868. J
7 16 20t
piTLSR, WEAVER & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
MANILLA AND TARRED CORDAGE, CORDS
TWINES, ETC.,
HO. 23 North WATER Street, and
No. 22 North DELAWARE Avenue.
tPBILADKLPHIA.
Edwin H, Fitlkb, Michael Wsavkb,
Com mad F. CroTHrica. t ul
WOODLANDS CEMETERY COUPANT.
The following Managar and Oilloivs have
been elected ti t the year ii'S;
Wm. H. Moore.
f .11 jl, -ti.i;jij, t-reaiueni"
Wm. W. Keen.
Samuel b. Moon.
Oliltea Xallell,
Ferdinand J. ureer,
Oeorge L Butby,
xucwinureuie.
..... T..o.,.L TIW XI TIIWNHIRD,
u. A. Dlg"t.
The Mauaners have paused resolution requiring
both Lotholdere and VlUlors to present tickets at i lite
entrance for adiuiaaioo to the Cemetery. IMitt
may be bad at the Office of the Company, No. JL3
ARCH Street, or of any of tbe Manasera. 7 2j
UNITED STATES KEVEN UK STAMPS.
Principal Depot, No. CHKHNUT Street.
Central ESpo Tt?Ntt .U ou.h FIFTH Street, ouedoot
below Cheaanu EMabllahed lata
Revenue toutuipa of every treecxlpUon oouataUtUyoi
hand In any amount.
OtiM by MaU ot Expiee orompUf attended to,
SHIPPING.
K'rf.Aii rn "i ivr.RPonT. pat.i rvn
L-m AT uUKKNsltJWN.
i lie Inuiiin Line, tinner contract with the Unite!
Sta'ea and British vovernmenls, for oarrjlug the
to at a.
CI I V OF AKTWERP Ratnrdav, JnTy ttj
CITY OH NEW YORi(Tla Halifax) Tuesday, July M
CTIY OF PA Hls....,MnM..MM.Suitirday, Auguat 1
rn V tie LONDON ...eiurdy. August
CilYttK v ASH iN'N(vla Halifax) Tnosd'y, Ang. 1
1I1Y OP MALI IMOaK.... .... fautrday Aagnnj IS
(1TY OF hiMlOiN ... t-nuroay, A uguit fa
and e-ch i tirxeedltig Satuiday and alternate Monday,
at noon, from Pier No, 4(i NORTH Rivor.
Rrim of pt. by the MMI Steamer BAILINQ
EVERY SA I UHDA V;
Pa aole lo Cold. I Payable In Currency. '
First Cabin .. laa Steerage, (TO
to Loiuloa lv to London..- n
" to Par!.... lis to Parts M
Passage by the Mondajr atauiera: Cabin. 9 gold:
Steeraco, lift, currency. Katw ot passage from New
York in Halifax Cabin. fat Hte .rago. 110. lo Bold.
Pa aengere also forwarded lo Har, Hamburg Bre
len.eic., at moderate raiea. fieerage paaaage'lroH
Liverpool or Uueenstown, 1 currency. Tl-K-is caa
be bought here by pi-rsons Bending ior their trtenda,
For further Information, apply at th Company's
ffllce. J'lHKH DALX Agmitl
No. 15 ItltOA UW4V, New York.
Or, ODUNNKLL ,i FAULK. Managers.
12 t No.jn CUFMNUr Slreerpalla.
affi,(ANHY. iMKlVfcTN" BTBAIWIUP
Y (trough List to Oaltfivraiist via. Pa,a,oa
HaUremd.
NEW AK IAINUKM ENT.
Sailing from New Yo.k on tie Ath and sotti of
KVKK) MONTai, or the (.ay beiore wfem ibevedftteg
fall on tiuuOay.
Psage lower than byni oihff line.
For Information add r"ss
D. N.CARRINflTON. A'entj.
Pier No. 46 NORl H hIVKR N a x York,
No. 117 WALNU T fcireet. Philadelphia, Pa.
W. H.WKBB. f resident. liIIU, DAN A, Vice-Prea
Ottice-84 KXOHA NOK Plac-. New York. g m
frftv PASSAGK TO AND FKOM UBKAT
BRITAKS AN lHKLtlvD
BY BlKAAIMHIP AND ttAltiUVU PACKi-T.
AT RKDCCaJJ IvAIRci '
DRAFTS AVAlLABI.e: Til K'4UUHOTTT K NO
LAN 1, 1RKLAND. SCOTLAND, AND WA1M
For partlcolnrs apply to
TAPiUll'Tf, BH6l HErtS A
No. W SOU11I btreet, and No. -il BKOA t'WA Y,
lr fn Til, Kl AH 1 UIT I b T.IP
H N -.217 WALNUT -trL
Yij aib. liniTO L,lM!i TU ALKX.
L'iica ailflriA. (l.i,ri,DI,..in a. ..I tir , .
v um-r biiu ueiaware caiai. with ooa
nectlons at Alezandna from the tuoat direct route
lor L) nchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville. Dal ton
and the bouihwest.
hteamera leave regularly every Saturday at noon
from the tint wharf Market street.
Freight received dally.
, WM. P. CLYDE 4 CO.,
, . No. 14 North and bjuth Wuarvea,
J. B. DAVIDhON, Agent at Oeorgetown. re
M. JCLDRIDOAi ft Co.. Agents at Alexandria, Vb
gin la. ti
-f5fjfft KOIICE.-FOR KEW TOBK, VIA
2y4aIlltl.AWAK ANUKAKITAN CANAjl
ni Aii-KM blKAMBUAT COMPANyT
Ihebteam Propellera of mis line leave DA IDT
from lirbl wharf below Market street.
THKOUOH liN 24 HOURS.
Goods forwarded by ail the Hues notng ont of New
York. North, Kat, and West, free Of commission.
Freights received at our usual low rates.
WILLIAM P. Oi Y ltK A OO.. Agents,
tamttb n,' YHARmi Fhlludelphla,
JAMFH HAND, Agent, an
No. Ill) WALL btreet. corner of Boulh, New YorH,
PUll.ADKLPlllA, KICHMOND
t.ANI) MiKiULk bifcAMslllP msu
AAlAvUbUlt jrKClOHT AIH LINK TO THH
WJtTHANUWESl',
EVKKV HVTUKDAY,
Btret"0011' m FiRaX WHABF above MARKET
'1 HROtlQH RATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS
to all points in North and bomb Carolina, via bea
board Air Line Railroad, couneclng at Portsmouth
and lo Lynchburg. Va. , Tennessee and the West, via
Irginla and Tennessee Air Line and Rloamond and
Danville Railroad,
Freight HANDLED TSTJT ONCE, and taken at
LOW KK RAT8 THAN ANY OTHBR LIKA
The regularity, safety, aud cheapness of this route
ccmmeiid it to tbe puullo as tne most desirable me
dium for carrying every description ot freight.
No charge for commission, dray age. or auy expense
Ot transfer.
bteamnhips Insured at lowest rates.
Frtlgut received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO.,
m No. 14 North and Bout h WHARVES.
W. P. PORTKR. Agent at Richmond and City
Point.
T. P CROWELD A CO.. Agents at Norfolk. 1
p,;nrr:s ou new yohk swift-sub b
Am li'L niaTr r 1"l7n Company Despatch
a u c n I sure Ltues, via Delaware and Rarltan
Canal, on aud after the 16th of March, leaving dally at
end a t. ai cooueoiliis" with all Northern and
i.BHtern lines.
For freiiihi, which will be taken on accommodating
terms, apply to WILLIAM M. I'.AIKD & CO..
llj No. la2 M. DELAWARK Avenue.
LOllILLARD'S OUTSIDE LINfl .
ntR NKtv vnpir
(loods oy welt ht. 10 cents per 100 lbs , gross.
Measurement guuds, 4 ceuts per cubic loot.
Freights received at all times, and Insurance fruaa.
an teed al three-eighths per cent. "
For farther Information, apply to
JOHN V OHL,
Jl il . rterM North Wharves
STEAMBOAT LINES. "
BRISTOL LINE
BETWEEN KEW Y0KK AND U0ST05,
VIABKISrOL.
For PROVIDENCE, TAUNTON, NEW BEDFORD
CAPK COD, and ail points of railway cotuiuunlc
tlou. Fast and North,
The new and splendid steamers BKIdTOL and
PRO V1DKNCK, leave Pier No. 40 NORTH RIVF.K,
foot of canal street, adjoining Dobraaaes Street Ferry,
New York, al 6 P. M dally, Duudays excepted, coa
nectlng with steamboat train at Bristol at 4 gu A. M.,
arriving In Boston at A. M.. in time to connect with
alt the morolDg trains from tbat city. Tbe most de
straole and pleasant route to the White Mountains.
Travellers for that uolnt can mika ill ret nnna
tlous by way of Provideuoe aud Worcester, or Boston.
btate-rooms and Tickets seemed at ollice on Plex la
New ork.
61 6m H. O. BRiqga. General Manager.
sXf p 0 u ci-p E u A r-
Sffe On TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS, ami
fed I LitiiAlb. ,
Tbe splendid new steamer LADY OF THE LAKXL
Captain 1NORAM, leaving Pier 19 above Vine
street, every Tuesday, Thursday, and baturday at 'U
A. M and returning from Cape May on Mondajr,
W ednetday, and Friday.
PArtiS '25, iuo.udlng Carriage nixe,
bervuiits...si'&t, " '
Children... f.6, "
beasou llckeis, I lit Carriage Hire extra.
Tbe Lady of the Luke la a Hue sea-bom, baa hasA.
Some at ate-room aocomiimdatlona, aud la luted up
with everything necessary lor the safety and comfort
Of pasaeugers, U H. UUUDKLL.
CALVIN TAUUART.
Office No. 118 N. DELAWAWO Avenue. tt itolf
FUH OUESTJBU, HOOK, AND
WI ,M IMI'illN.it 1 n .nil II M 1 t.
kbe i uu 1'. M.
The ateamer S, M. F ELTON and ARIEL leave
CHFe-NUT btreet Wharf (buudaya excep'ed) at 8 8
aud 60 A. M., and ftu P. M,, returning leave Wtl
mlngteu at e'SO A . UM, aud foo P, M. B topping at
C'hehier and Hook each way.
Fare, 10 cents between all points.
. Fxcurslon tickets, 16 ceutH, good to return by either
boat. Sltf
I'UllAUliljl'lllA ASSU lllCNa
itou bteautboat Liue, The steamboat
wN AoKKEHT leaves ARCH Street Wtiarf. !(
Ireuton, stopping at Tacony, Torresdile, Beverly,
Burlington, Bristol, Florence Rebbins' Wharf, aad
White Hill,
Leaves Arch Btreet Wharf Leaves South Trestoa,
baturday, July . s.'g A. M Saturday, July 23, 9 A.M
bunday, July2H, to BurtlUKlon, Bristol, and Inter,
rueuiate landings, leaves Arch street wuart at 8 A, Mi
and 2 P. ft..; leaves Bristol at 10' A. M. aud 4H P. U,
Monday, July 27. 6', A.M Monday, July 27,1a , A.M
Tuesday, 2S, 7 A.M Tuesday, 2s. 11 A. AC
Wed'oay, ' 29, 8 A.M I Wed'day, " t.l2 f.
Thursday, " so, 10 A.M! Thursday, " , J C
Friday, ' 10 A.Mlirlday, " 1, a P.at
Fare to Trenton, 40 cauls each way; Intermediate
places, 86 cents. U
nTf, OPPOSIl'ION TO THE COM-4L5iS-BiNKO
RAILROAD AND HI J US.
Bttalii1er1'j6lIN' BTLVaHTKR will make dally
excuralona to Wilmtukta (iusdays excepted), tosch
lag at beater aud Marcus Hook, leaving AHCH
fstreet wharf at 10 A. M. and 4 P. il relurulug, leave
V I'tmlBvier ai7 A M. and IP. M.
Light frlghts takes.
" In W. BURNS,'
28 tf ' IJapuJil.
rAlZs DAILY EXCUHSIONSTni
ffiiniM splendid eteamboat JOHN . WAH
isXii.. ieavea CHKbNUT btreat Wharf, Phllada at 1
o'clock and 6 o'clock P. M., for Burlington aad
Bristol, touching at Rlverton. Torresdale, Andalusia,
aud Beverly. Returning, leaves Bristol at 1 o'oloeJg
A. M.and i P. M.
Fare, gs ceuts each way: excursion 40 ot ill tf
WILLIAM a OBANT,
COU M IbHloN M kROH ANT,
Ne. 8 B. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia,
Pnpont's Gunpowder, Refined Nitre, Charcoal, Xtoi
W. Raker A C:o.'a Chocolate Onooa. aid Kroma.
Crnker, Bra,& cai.'s Yellow Metal Hheathtngt
tolls aud NaiJe.