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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1868.
Maine.
On Monday next, Maine holds her State elec
tion, and then we shall have a breathing spell,
until the 6th of October, when Nebraska ap.
peals to the ballot-box. The Maine election
is for a Governor and members of Congress
the candidates of the two parties being as fol
lows: FOR GOVERNOR.
7?'J. Drm.
Gen. Jobliua L. Chamberlain ...EbenF. fUhjbury.
FOR conouess. -thu'rict.
lirj. Dun.
Kimt John l,ynch CharlesW. Shaw.
Hecoud 8. P. Morrill AlonBi(rceloa.
Tlilrd Jas. O. limine... M. E. W. Karley.
t'oiirtli John A. l'etBr8.Oeore W. LtdU.
rTflh Eugene llHle ....Arno W 1b well.
The following is the vote of the State at
eaoh annual election held since I860:
Y'ar. Urn,
lH(;(i((iovernor)..(i!.4ij!)
JVm.
fa -m
Ma. T it'U
lH.UUl 122 6U7
100 HIS
tf7.7
Wi II I
17 7111 JW.hKi
1!) ISO 111 SUM
17. fill J It'tfOll
22.82 L 811 WW
27,S7 1IIK7M
11.614 101.(1 tl
liiO(l'reBldoni;..f(2 8il as.iOZt 83.1 ist
lKfil.. h7,475 411 iH 'j 30 JV.of
4il 8!)0.t 1U.2IM
ma m b't.iiH i
18fi4 (Uovernoi) 05,5M 4ll.lU:l
l.SM (t'rfcHldeui). (ll H 3 41,211
I sit.", 51411) 81 0119
lHfMi (W.B2U 41 (Hi)
1S07 67 H19 4t).03i
The totals marked thms () inclinl a few
scattering votes For the years in which the
votes and majorities are marked thus (t), the
tetal opposition vote is given under the head
of Demooratio, and the Republican plurality is
given, instead of the majority. A comparison
of the votes of 186G and 1867 shows a Repub
lican decreasse of 11,977, a Demooratio in
crease of 40!) 6, a decrease of 8189 in the total
vote, and a decrease of 16,073 in the Republi
can majority. This apparent "reaction,"
although known to be cused by local dissatis
faction on aocount of the anti-liquor legisla
tion of the Republican Legislature, was
made much of by the Democracy, being re
garded by them in the light of a very substan
tial "crumb of comfort." There will be nothing
of the kind this year, for all the indications of
the present canvass, which has been one of the
most thorough ever made in the State, indicate
that the Republican majority will be increase!
to from 25,000 to 30,000.
Not only 1b the State secure by an over
whelming majority, but eaoh of the five Con
gressional districts is positively certaiu to oast
a large Republican majority. The following
are the names of the present members of Con
gress, all Republicans, with the votes by
which they were elected in 1866, the nams3
marked thus () being renominations:
Ititt. Sep. Vein. M'ti.
1. John Lynoh Jim I 11,8j ;t!iitf
2. Sidney Vrtrham ..13.784 7.403 HI21
3. "James G. Hialue H.tfOtf 8,318 OVU
4. Jolin A. Peters ,.1209 0.5UI 5H5
5. Fred. A. Pike 12,331 7.U73 4178
The last Demoorat who crept into Congress
from Maine was Lorenzo D. M. Swett, whi
was elected in 1862, by a majority of only 127,
his predecessor, like his successor, being a
Republican. Such is the reoord of Maine.
It will be made still more glorious on Monday
next.
Wanted An Editor.
Tub London Punch, whose serious sayings are
sometimes far more brilliant than its attempts
at wit, deolares that Parliament wants an
Editor "to put the language of all bills into
such order as fit them to beoome law." Am
biguity and obscurity appear to be the leading
characteristics of the enactments of the Eng
lish Legislature, due solely to their nothaving
been properly revised and oorreoted, before
being stamped with the impress of aathority.
What is true with regard to the legislation of
Qreat Britain in this respect holds with far
greater force in the United States. The aHs
which are ground out by the legislative mills
of this oountry, national, State and munioipab
are chiefly remarkable for their crudeness,
ambiguity, and conflicting provisions. Any
person who desires to appreciate the fall force
of the evil has but to step into a well-stocked
law library and glance at the backs of the
ponderous tomes, eaoh of whioh contains the
enactments of a single session of some
legislative body. It is no nn usual
thing for the Solons who gather every winter
t Harrlsburg to turn out a volume of from
one thousand to fifteen hundred octavo pages
of legislative literature. 1 hat any one mem
ber of the body takes the trouble to pernBe
the book from beginning to end, or to glance
over all the slips, as they are laid one by one
oo his desk during the progress of the session,
is an idea entirely at variance with our know
ledge of legislative activity. In the latter
stages of the session the business of legisla
tion is transacted with lightning rapidity, bill
after bill being disposed of by its title, fre
quently at the rate of o ne per minute. It is
safe to say that the j'. roof-reader of the Gov
ernment printer is the only living being at the
Capital who ever begins with the title page
and closes with " The Ead." At every other
State Capital, 'and at Washington as well, the
process of legislation is about on a parallel
with that 'at Harrlsburg. Haste is the ruling
prinoiple, and quantity the apparent test of
the Vanta of the country.
The fruits of this reckless fashion of manu
facturing law are seen in the reports of oases
which are carried to the courts of highest re
sort for final adjudication. Every State in
the Union, not even exoeptfng the most dimi
nutive, oontrives to turn out its annual vol
ume of Supreme Court Reports, while in
some of the larger States from two to six vol
umes are produced yearly. A great portion
of thtse reports is neoesBarily taken up with
decisions upon mooted points of law and
equity arising under the unwritten oode,
whioh is in force wherever and whenever sps
oial legislation has not repealed its provisions.
But the interpellation of loosely-worded sta
tutes and ambiguous phrases, and the recon
ciling of conflicting sections of the same enact,
ment, come in for their full share of spaoe,
and constitute the most difficult Usk of the
judges who are worried and perplexed by
them. There is something entioing in the
study of the Common Law of Eng
land and the United States. It
is one of the noblest legaoles which
has been bequeathed to us, despite its occa
sional uncertainties and confliots. To unravel
these and arrive at the true state of the un
written law is an employment whioh demands
at once the profoundest learning and the most
careful research, a task which has been enthu
siastically welcomed by the brightest intellects
of both countries. But when it comes to the
wretched jargon which is thrust by our State
Legislatures upon the oourts for interpreta
tion, judicial knowledge is found to be an.en
cumbrance, judiolal ingenuity is pnt to its
severest test, and judicial patlenoe is well nigh
exhausted.
If .the judges of our oourts were the only
ones who suffered in consequence of crude
and hasty legislation, we would be content to
let them bear their hardens without com
plaint, or resign their seats to the self-sacrificing
attorneys who are always found willing
and aaxious to retire from praotioe by takiug
a seat on the bench. But from this fruitful
source springs a vast tide of vexatious litiga
tion, which is disastrous to prosperity in busi
ness and to good-feeling in the every-day rela
tions of life. The "honorable gentleman"
who pens an ambiguous and oonllicting bill,
and then pushes it through a legislative body,
is no better than a common barrator, and
should be proseouted and punished as
such. Bie would do the State better service
at Cherry Hill than at Harrlsburg. A rasoal
more deserving of punishment than this same
"honorable gentleman" Beldom. goes unwhtpt
of justice.
A notable case, by way of illustrating the
vexations of hasty legislation, has been before
the publio for a long time. The amendatory
Internal Revenue Law enaoted at the olose of
the last session of Congress provides for the
appointment, by the Secretary of the Trea
sury, on the recommendation of the Commis
sioner of the Bureau, of oertain officials to be
known as Supervisors ef Revenue. Mr. Rol
lins is an ardent Republican; Mr. McCallooh
trains with the Blair people. Henoe there was
found great difficulty in selecting a sufficient
number of persons willing to serve the oountry
for a consideration, who could impress both
these officials with a sense of their entire fit
ness for the positions. Mr. MoCullooh has
entire control of an immense patronage which
he unhesitatingly wields in the interests of the
reactionists. For this reason Mr. Rollins in
sisted that all the Sup rvisors should be of the
Republican faith, but was met by a oounter
demand on the part of the Secretary for an
equal division of the spoils. So, In conse
quence of this disagreement, but one of the
Supervisorships has been filled, and the inte
rests of the country are obliged to stand the
consequenoes.
The slightest degree of foresight, the most
superficial knowledge of the exigencies of an
excited and warmly-contested Presidential
campaign, should have taught the framer of
the bill to avoid all such elements of con
flict. If it was the intention of Congress to
strengthen the hands and inorease the patronage
of the Seoretary of the Treasury, the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue should have been
kept away from these newly-baked politioal
flesh-pots; if Congress intended that the
Supervisorships should beoome the legitimate
spoil of Mr. Rollins, Mr. McCulloch should
have been waved off by an explicit provision
in the bill. But einoe Parliaments, and Con
gresses, and Legislatures, and City Councils
will persist in making themselves ridiculous,
either by not knowing what they mean, or by
not being oapable of expressing their inten
tions, their literary productions, crude and
conflicting as they are, should never be suf
fered to go before the publio without being
carefully revised, oorreoted, and burnished np
by an editor whose individual knowledge ex
ceeds their collective wisdom. Snoh a man
could easily be found. If given an opportu
nity, he would beoome a publio benefactor.
Have We the Devil Among Us?
It is not a polemio discussion that we are about
to engage in. Of course we have the devil
invisible, and the devil traditional, both of
which are good old-fashioned orthodox devils,
with talis and horns, and even hoofs. None of
us pretend to doubt that such a devil is among
us, that he uses sulphur as a soeut and actu
ally exists upon brimstone. It is not this sort
of a devil that we mean, but a new and simple
form of his Satanio majesty a form so Bimple
that it is well for us to question whether or
not there is a playful element in his charaoter.
Then we have the word of a distinguished reli
gious newspaper, the organ of a seot whioh
numbers several hundred thousand in Phila
delphia, that we do have either his Infernal
Worship himself, or a confidential ambassador,
with us in our midst, seated on our sideboards,
standing on our tables, and packed away
in our trunks. Let the Universe speak for
itself:
"Therefore, Planohette is moved by the agent
of bell. Hut why BhouiUlue
devil connect hlmneir with a 1'lancheUe with a
little triangular board set on email wneeli, fur
nished wim writing faollitle, and havlug
baud lightly place j on ltf No one can give
the devil' reaion for the aot. Facte are faoU;
and the point Is that Planohette Is not a toy;
that It In moved by an Intelligence, and, that
the Intelligence whioh moves It U necessarily
evil. We would, therefore, ad vise all who have
a Planohette lo build for it a apodal tire of
pilch and brimstone. It Is a bad ornaiueut on
the Hldeboard, and a bad aiuiitetneiit In the
drawing-room. No one has u rlht to nonsuit
the eneuiv of God. They who do mo are In dan
ger of becoming wornUI pper of the devil aud of
U welling with biin forever."
It is therefore on the word of the Calholio
orgtn of Pennsylvania, oo small offense to
have a rianohette board In the homes, and
tbeir advice Is given not as a joke as some
would naturally think. It is given to ignorant
eervant girls, and most of the olass of small
intelligence, and is calculated to awaken in
them emotions of real aversion and fear. It
seems to a thinking mind almost inoredible
that snoh an article oould be aotnally written.
Why it completely sustains all notions of in
fernal propriety. To saorifioe hoofs for wheels,
to out off his tail and resign his horns, to say
iiothlng of abandoning his prinoipal diet, is
really too much for us to ask the Devil to do,
in order that he can help ten Sogers pressed
on a board. The fact to our minds does not
admit of discussion, and the reason why we
think the Universe is wrong we will state
briefly.
FirBt. The article in question looks too much
like an advertisement, "now much a line T"
seems an appropriate Inquiry. If the patentees
of that artlole, if there be any, would not con
sent to pay f 1 a line, then they are no men of
business and ought to consult their star and
get wisdom. Yet we fear that suoh an attaok
is calculated to enlarge the sale for this horror
of horrors 1 The depravity of the age would
lead every man to want to have a little devil
all to himself and he would not hesitate to in
vestthe neoessary funds; and,
Seoond. Beoause the argument by whioh the
Universe deduces its startling conclusion is a
fallaoy. It says:
"It moves; undoubtedly it does. And how?
Intelligently I It answer question of auv
kind put to it la any language required, ft
doeslhlH. ThN CAiinot, be done but oy Intelli
gence. Plancuette 1 therefore moved Dy an In
telligence. Weil, by whit description of lut-1-ligeuceT
It cannot bo mippimed thai the Divina
Intelligence Is tne motive; lor how can U d oo
conceived to make miort a manifestation, of
Hlmaelfas Planor-Ptte exhloits I A correspond
ing reason cu a off the ldeathat ltls presided
over by an angello intelligence. And It Is
evident to all mat a huinwn mind doe no',
coutrol It. There Is but on a morn character of
Intelligence that of too evil spirits. "
Now there is an error here, and a palpable
one. It overlooks a species of intelligence
quite abundant in the world, although it seems
to be singularly laoking in certain quarters of
it human intellfgenoj. Why, is not Plan
chette moved by the human will f We have
seen men mesmerised by will. We have
well authenticated writers of "seoond sight,"
as the Soottish call it, performed by Ike will.
Why not Planohette f The idea that the
devil caused rappings has long since exploded
It is in all probability the same agenoy which
moves Planohette as caused the seanoe
tables to move. There is no more devil in it
than there is in any other physioal oause
produolng phyLioal effeots. Call it electricity;
call it magnetism; call it what you please,
but don't make the king of darkness conde
scend to push a three-oornered board on three
wheels over a sheet of white paper. Despite
the warning of the Universe we will not have
an auto da fe over our Planohette. We need
not fear that special one which is our pro
perty. First, Because there is no devilish
spheres in any Planohette; and, secondly, be
cause there certainly is not in ours, for no
agency, human or infernal, has ever made it
write a word.
"A Crumb op Comfort" has been picked up
by the hungry Democraoy in the insignificant
town of Alton, Illinois, which they claim to
havo carried at a municipal election, held on
Tuesday, by an increased vote. Alton, it will
be remembered, was the soene ot the cowardly
and brutal murder of Lovejoy, by a pro-3lavery
Demooratio mob, some years ago. It has been
Democratic ever since.
The Opera Koiiffo.
"Let me write a people's songs, and let who
will make their laws" la the sayings of a wise
man, and a wise man whose head is not too
much bemuddled by hie wisdom, will never
consider as commonplace, trifling, or beneath
bis notice, anything that delights, amuses, or
instructs the great mass of his fellows.
The majority of people In this world are es
sentially commonplace in their ideas, and the
number is comparatively small of those who
have the ability, leisure, or requisite cultivation
to appreciate or understand the higher and
noble r forms of art, literature, or aolenoe. "You
my drive a horse to water but you cannot
make him drink," and you may take an
average specimen of humanity night after
sight to the opera house to bear the best music,
and nothing will prevent him from yawning
over VideHo, or nodding during the recitatives
of Don Giovanni, while his eyes will sparkle
and he will encore ucn musloal trash as
'Champagne Charley" and "Not for Joseph''
until the singer's lungs are exhausted.
But, saj-a the advocate of nigh art, we must
cultivate the public taste up to the highest
btundnrd, and we can only do this by banishing
low and vulgar models and keeping the best
works before the people. This Is all true to a
certain extent, and we heartily wish that fide,
lio could be performed ten times where It la
once at present; but we cannot shut our eyes to
the fact that the best music, the best books, aud
tbe best pictures are iasufleruble bores to more
men and women than are willing to acknow
ledge the fact. Many of this unappreolatlve
class make It a rule to vlvlt the opera whenever
thoworkof acelebrated composer Is on the bills,
because It Is the fashion; but a muoh larger
number who go to places of amusement solely
for tbe sake of their being amused, and who want
to get tbe worth of their money, taoltly ac
knowledge their deficiency In taste, and remain
at home until they are sure of seeing and hear
ing something that will please them. Thus
Mozart, Mendelssohn aud Beethoven are too
often performed to a beggarly acoouat or empty
benches, while Offenbacu tills the bouse from
parquet to dome. It would perhaps be better if
U were otherwise; bat so it is, aud all we oaa do
Is to accept the situation, and hope for an Im
proved state of affair at aome future day,
The critical star-gazer, however, whose admi
ration for high art will not permit him to
endure anything but the best, fumes and frets
and vents bis spleen in wh jlo colutnus of type,
la tbe attempt to prove that Offeubaoh's music
la low, vulgar, commonplace, and utterly un
worthy of praise. Tae result is that the
manager who stakes his fortune on Oftenbaoh
f miles as be glanoes from the orlilo's dlspar
ogements to his bank acciun'; and the publio
wrong as usual aooouuts the crltlo a foal.
Bo muoh for sacrificing one's-self in the cause
of right. Our candid opinion Is that art.
whether it be high or low so long aslllsfrue
art Is to be enoourged as a means of oultare.
education, and refluement. Independently of the
immediate pleasure which may be derived
from it.
Last winter we were introduced to a new
style of musical entertainment, tbe Oper
Bo n fie; and, es Is the case with most new
thing, tbe Opera Boufle was extravagantly
praised and savagely attacked. The pnblln
however, were tickled, the thing was a uooess
and it promise to beoome a permanent addi
tion to oar usual round of winter amusements.
We ee in thl nothing to deplore, and no ooca
eion for fault finding. WltH the most slnoore
admiration for the best forms of musloal ex
pression we yet confess that we like Offenbach,
for a change. La O ramie Ducheue de Gerolstctn
and La JJclle Helena cannot properly be put in
comparison wllii La Prophcle, The Huguenots
Don Giovanni, or many other tuat oould
be named, for the reason that tbey be
long to an entirely different grade In
art, and In all fairness aud justice they are en
titled to a critical valuuilon on tholr own
merlte, and aocordlng to a standard of good
taste, which will admit of various degrees of
excellence, and which will acknowledge that
art, like nature, Is unlimited in the variety of
lis forms aud means of expression, The painter
of some little genre picture representing a soene
from everyday life, with a dash of humor, aud
appealing to the most superficial emotions of
human nature, may be as true an artist in his
way, as Raphael or Mlohael Angelo were In
t hell s, aud thousands will experience a delight
In locking at his work, and will carry away
with them new ideas of graoe and beauty, wno
wonid turn away unimpressed aud unmoved
from the best efforts of the great masters. This
Is a point worthy of intelligent consideration
from the writers of criticism.
We like Offenbach's music, however, and we
oonslder the Opera Boufle as worthy of Ulstlnct
and emphatic recognition, not merely beoauso
they give pleasure to people who would not bj
pleahcl with something better, but because they
are essentially good In themselves. Itwilluo1
do at tbe present day to attempt to circumscribe
the field of art with dogmatic rules, or to fetter
It with the conventionalism of Academic prece
dents. Individual tastes, of course, will have
their preferences, bu. a critic, If he Is fit for hi
business, should be catholic In his tasttft, orat
least he ought not to allow his tastes to run
away with his Judgment, but should be able t
look with an equal degree of impartiality
on all forms of art, aud to decide
upon their merits with a judiolal spirit
Now, the grotesque and the burlesque are
recognized forms of art as well as the beautitui
and the sublime. Clarke's "Major Wellington
de Boots," Owen's "Holon Shingle," and Jeffer
son's "Rip Van Winkle" are as truly artistic
performances as Forrest's "Lear," Rlstorl's
"Marie Antoinette," or Booth's "Hamlet."
Sore's wildest fantasies aud most outrageous
distortions of nature, are as truly works of art
as the carefully studied and photographically
elaborated pictures of Gerome. That Homer
has given ns the "Iliad," Dante the "Divine
Comedy," Shakespeare "Hamlet," and Milton
"Paradise Lost" would be misfortunes Instead
of blessings If we were. In consequence of
their greatness obliged to deoy our
selves from perusing books whioh
did not approaoh the same standard;
a decided misfortune, for the fact is that many
well Informed persons of more than average
mental ability And Homer, Dante, Milton, and
even the "Divine William," emphatically dull
reading. Therefore, we approve of Offenbach,
notwithstanding the fact that Handel, Haydn,
Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and their com
peers, not to mention Verdi, Flotow, Doni
zetti, Anber, Balfl, aud other lesser lights, have
written Immortal works that will be remem
bered long after La Grande Duchetse and La
Belle llclene have ceased to live even in tradi
tion. Oflenbach's music has the merit of being ex
actly adapted to its subject; the man is not a
great genius, but what he undertakes to do he
does well. The principal airs in both of his
operas which have been performed in this elty
are lively, graceful, and sparkling, and they
will lose nothing by being put in comparison
with nine-tenths of the selections from operas
which bear the critical stamp of legitimacy,
which are to be found in the repertoire of every
young lady in the city who strums upon the
piano. Besides the leading airs, there are to
found, particularly in La Belle Helene, pas
sages of dellolous tenderness and rare beauty;
suggestions of themes which we long to hear
elaborated into something more perfect, but
which, even in tbeir crude state, cannot fall
to impress upon the uncritical hearer, who
does not care a toss of a button for high art or
low art. There is no danger whatever, as some
seem to think, if we recognize or admit any but
tbe best and most periect forms of artthat the
publio taste will be deteriorated, and the
highest class of works be ntterly set aside, and
contemned except by a few devoted admirers.
Let the writers of criticism by all means en
deavor to inspire au appreciation of all that is
noblest and best in art, but let them not for
get that the surest way to cultivate the
artistic tastes which exist In a greater or less
degree In the minds of almost every man
and woman, Is to discourse in a truly critical
spirit, and not in one of captious fault finding
about matters that tbe average man and
womi n incline to, and are capable of under
standing. The dramatlo merits and demerits
of the librettos of La Grande Duchesne de
Geroltteln and La Bell Selene, and the conduct
of the aotors who personate the charaoter in
them are not necessarily bound up lu the
question of Offenbach's standing as a musloal
composer, but as much virtuous Indignation
has been expended in regard to alleged inde
cencies and improprieties, of whioh the muslo
is at least Innocent, it may be as well to say a
word or two on these points. There are some
persons in this world and unfortunately
they are not few in number who
have a natural affinity for nastiness,
but who seek to bide their proclivities under a
mask of virtue, taking care all the time to keeD
the peep-holes large enough to see all that is
going on around in the world. Charles Reads
hit off this class exactly when he Invented the
phrase "prurient prudes." These lndlv'dual.
are always tbe first to detect a double entendr
in conversation, even when nothing improper
is Intended; and it is the prurient prudes who
always expatiate in a tone of outraged virtue
but with graphic aud elaborate details, in the'
columns of newspapers about tbe shocking
naughtiness of certain plays and operas, dwel
ling upon every point with au unotuousness
that reveals the delight they take in dealing
with such subjects.
It is a very poor argument, or rather it Is no
r.rgument at all, for us lo say that La Belle
llclene and La Grande Duchetse are no worse
than tua majority of plays and operas which
have a firm foothold on the stage; for Immo
rality and Indecency are not excusable, no mat
ter how many precedents may be brongbt for
ward in their favor. It may be a sort of moral
obliquity on our part we do not think we have
a natural predisposition or a cultivated taste
for indecency but we have not been able to
detect the horrible wickedness which has
been imputed to the works we have named,
aud if the publio had not been Informed
exactly when and where to look for par.
tlcular points of Impropriety they might
have enjoyed Offenbaou's muslo and
Tostee's acting In perfect lnnoceneyof heart,
without suspecting that their pleasure was
being seasoned with a dash of slu, which to
ninety-nine out of every hundred made the
whole thing doubly enjoyable. We saw To tee
kick her leg In a way tbat was neither graceful,
elegant, nor refined, but apart from the good
taste of theaotlon there was nothing particu
larly hurtful to good morals in it, aooordlng to
our way of thinking.
By all means let every right-minded man
and woman endeavor to banlHli from the stage
Immorality and real vulgarity of every de
aorlption: but tbe majority of the tirade on
these subject ce infinitely more barm than
good, beoause the usual effect 1 to send crowds
of people to the theatre lo eee the abused play
or opera who otherwise would not bve thought
of going. It 1 sometimes the crltlo' duty to
condemn, and to condemn sharply; but let him
first be perfectly certain that be has good oause
for censure, and then remember that no ques
tion be can be called upon to discuss demand
more discrimination and Judgment than this of
Immorality and indecency on tbe stage, or in
literature, especially if he really desires hi
words to have any influenoe in the cause of
virtue.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
yw-rr. RKLMJIOtTM SERVICES IT SI WEB
U5D the auspices of the Y M J. a., or the Team
luptliit Church will be beld to-morrow (MiiDdy
arirrnnnn at o'clnrk, on tbe mt N K. corner of
Hh()Al)nd 01.UMBIA Avenue. Preaci ln by the
kev.J. 8FfcrCJt KKflMAKD. The public are cor.
dlally Invited.
ARCH NTRDIT FHRttnT-
ou ARCH. Prewfalug at l(i. A. M. u(l 7 P M. by
tr l-.otur, Rev. A. A. WILWTrt. Preach i n i tbe
MIMSIUN. HIXTKKNTH aud PJtABL, at 'i P. M.
Blraugtyi vte Iconic
pop. NORTH PREISYTERIAH CIU'RCIf,
HI X I II Sireei, above Urexn. Kev. K. W.
HJCNKY. D.D., PsHlor, Hervlos I'o-mi rrow, at In','
A.M. PBcrament of Lord's Bnppper S o'clock lo tbe
Atiernoon. Mo Kvenlng service.
Dfta REV. CH4RI.EM TOITNCI, OP PRO
kaJ vldetue Coo ereoce. wl l prescti in 1IIIN1 VY
M. K.CHUKCH. K1UHTH Birnet, ebovn Khcb, To
morrow, ai lo'. A. M. ev. X. W. HUM PUK1SS at
8 P. M. Btrati8r welcome.
Cpcc. NORTH HHWID STREET PHES
G? BYTKRIAN CttOKUH, Corner BKOAU and
URK'N Htreein. Preaching To-morrow at I0S A. M,
and P.M., by the Pastor, Kev. PKIEK bTKYKJCK,
1). P. Htrao gers are welcome.
wfcOco. I If T II E R II A V !I CIIAPHL,
JWK? TWELFTH and OXFORD. Rnv. NOAH. M.
PRICK, Pas.or.-lOJi, -'Marked '1'eit. or the LM
ureal Prayer of Jesus." 7-i, "Christian Perfection I
Is It Attainable In tbls Llle?'' Pews tree.
ALEXANDER PRKHHVTRni Af
CHURCH, oornar ot NlNUTiCKNrM hi. it
OKKKN Streets. Rev. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, D.D.,
Pas'or. Publio woniblp To morrow at lui A. M.. and
M. Bunday School at S P. M,
fta SERVICES IST THE NPRINO 4R-
H? DKN BAPTIST CHURCH, THIRI'KKNTH
H'reet, above Wallace, To-morrow, at A. M. and
IX P. M. Prsacbiug by the Pastor, iter. L. P.
LORNBKRQKK.
JEST
wri-c REV. IIEMRICK JOHNSON, I. I.
sa? Pastor of tbe Firs. Fresby ter Ian Cburcn.W aso
lug'nn Fqaare, Will preach To-morrow, at lu'. A. M.
aud 8 P, M. it
REV. . A. PELTI WILL PRRACII
To-morrow Morning and Kv.eulng at tbe
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. CHIWNUT
turret, went of Eighteenth. Services at 10! A. M.
and 7i P. M.
wjp CALVARY PRKSIIVTEKIAN
CHURCH, LOCU8T Btreel, above Fifteenth.
Preadilrig To-morrow at in A. M. and P. M-. by
the Pastor, Rev. St M. HUMPHREY, 1. D.
FIRST RAPT IST CHURCH, RKDAD
HK& aud ARC a Hlreeia Tbe Kev. Dr. WksTO.V
will preacb In this Church to-mono w at 10 30 A. M.
aud 7'W' P. M.
p-n SERMON TO VOCNO MEN. REV.
UV R. J. C RsoN. at luH A. M. and 7.', P. at., la
VlDlon M. K. Church, Fourth .treat, below Arch. The
sermon In the evening will be to Young Men.
y-rn. WEST SPRU E STREET CHURCH.
UKQ BEVJ-NTKKNTU and BPRUOK aireais.
Kev. William P. BREED. D D., PaUor. Regular
monthly evening seivice on next Babbath, 13m To-,,
at "iVj o'clock.
flj-p.. NORTH It HO AO STREET IT. P.
a? CHURCH. BROAD btreet. abov POPX.AR -v.
JOHN ERWINU. 10. Publio Invited.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
frSSy- WRIGHT'S ALCONATED GLYCERIN
Tablet of BolidlUed Ulycerln tends to preserve
the ekln rrooj;aryneRa ana wrinkles, imparts a won
derful degree of softness and delicacy to tbe cora
plexlou.aud wblteuess to tbe skin; la an excellent
dentifrice, grateful to the tanle and tonio to the
mouth and gums ; Imparts sweetness to tbe
breath, and renders the teeth beautifully white. For
?elwl..u.l8,,' Q. A. WRIGHT, No. m
UHEbNPT Street. j 4j
JSgP" CRITTENDEN '8 COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE,
No. 687 CHE3NUT Btreet, corner ot Beveuth,
ESTABLISHED 1814.
INCORPORATED 185.5.
The conrce of Instiactiou Includes
. BOOK-KEEPING in all lis branohe. a practiced
Id tbe best business bouses.
PENMANSHIP, betb Plain and Ornamental.
COMMERCIAL CA1.CU LA I IONS. BUXINKSS
?Af,Ji?.- U81J!iIi:8S PKACriCUI. COMMKUUIAb
LAW, Etc. Etc
The accumulated advantage which over Twentv
four Years have given us, and the Improvement re
cently Introduce.' render (he Instructions at this In
stitution nntqualled.
Tbe large number of It stnienu, and the numer
ous applications received from business houses tor lis
gradnates, attest It standing among the business
community
utudeuta received at any time, and not limited to
set hours. Diploma awarded on graduation. GoUejcs
now open.
EVENING PE9SION8 comm.' no Bept. 15.
Circulars furnished on application. 810 Strp
KSSr- WOMAK'S MEDICAL college. at
a---' a meeting or tbe Corporators ol tbe Woman's
Medical College ot Pennsylvania, the following reso
lutions were adopted ana directed to be published fa
tbe dally papers of tbe city:
Resolved, Tbat lo tne death of ISAAC BA1TOX
tbls College ba lost a most earnest aodsfOoleul
trlend.
Resolved, Tbat the deep Interest he took In the
advancement of tbe cause of the medio I eduoation
of women and the untiring oons'.auoy with which be
watched over the welfare of tbe College, devoting to
It time, labor, and meaus, sustaining U la tbe dark
days when its friends were few, ana endowing It at
lsst with so much of bis worldly goods, have large' y
contributed to Its suocess aud bave linked his name
forever with the history of the caise
Resolved, Tbat bis simplicity and purity, his mod
esty and Integrity of character, bis loveofknuwleatte
and bis large-hearted Interest In all efforts for Im
proving the condition of society, are a perpetual ex
ample to us who remain; and In paying tbli mll
tribute to tbe memory of our beloved friend, i
wou'd express our sense of personal loss In the ab
sence ol his valued counsel and sympathy.
T. MORRiH PEROT, President.
O. Nnwi.m Pkibci, Beoreiary. if
PHILADELPHIA AND BEADING
RAILROAD COMPANY, Office No. 127 8.
FOURTH Btreet. Philadelphia. May tl. 1843.
NOTICE To the holders of bond of the PHILA
DELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD COM
PANY due AprUl, 1870.
The Company offer to exchange any of these bond,
of novo each, at any time before the (1st) first day of
October next at par for a new mortgage bond of equal
amount bearing seven per oeut, Interest, clear of
United State and Btate taxes, having twenty-flve
years to run.
The bonda not surrendered on or before the Ist of
October next wUl be paid at maturity, in acoordanoa
with their tenor. b. BRADFORD,
Sastoi Treasurer.
UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION COX.
VKjsTTon.
l'LTJM. hTKEET HALL, VINELAND, N. J.
Train for Vlneland. S ift P. M.
BA l UKBAY, nth Inst , 1H P. M"., and alt the next
(lay. Convenient tralus bulb days.
11 2tJ ALFRED H LOVK, President.
Lucretla Molt, Racbel W. Townsend,
Henry T. Child, M. D , I H. C. Wright, and other
KjST POST OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
September 11, IMS.
On and altar MONDAY, the 14th Instant. Eastern
Malls will close at this oUlce at IS noon, Instead of
It M P. M,
a It it ' HENRY BINGHAM, P. M.
trj&T UEliMANTOYVN CKICKET CLUB,
Germantr.wn, Bept. 11, 18S -Tne stated An
nual Meeting of tbe Club will bebedalthe WETitE
Kill lid LaK, BaNHOM btreet, above blxtu, on
MONDA Y, tSeptemher M, W, at o'clock P. M.
l2t WM. C. MOHHAN. Ja.. Meoretary.
rZsT' AMERICAN HOUSE, BOSTON. THE
L A RU KbT FIRHT CLABtJ HOTEL IN NEW
ENGLAND Vertical Railway a; Apartments with
Ratblng aud Water conveniences connecting. Bil
liard Halls, Telograpb Ofllce, aud Cafe.
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rp UNION REPUBLICAN NATUUALIZA-t-
TION COMMITTEE will meet daily at Hop
kins', No. 11 L1UKAUY Btreet.
It bl. C. HONO, oaalrmaa,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
iggr I'OETS HAVE WAXED ECSTATIC,
tm no Me. t iham r . i.
Jiy l, you wit 4
W hattt lnnlM
(SUSS. Perfume ro"r
conc.Dtr.,"B;,ld by mi! twgXmmm ?, W
KgF" Tim pensylvama"firb IN.
SURANCE COMPANY,
RBPTKMBBR, T, IMS.
at JSU'ji0. h"v8 th,t "3r declared a dividend of
BEVEN LOLLAH8 AND FIFTY CENTS per Mt are
on the Htock of the tympany for the last aix months,
wblcb will be paid to tbe Htock bolder or their legal
"P'wentatlvea. after the 17tb Instant.
7t WILLIAM G. CROW ELL. Secretary.
tSr-fr TWA' GALE3 P08TER, OF
wUl rtn?;r.b,."."tPB' D- -lh" r Trance Medium,
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It
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Pupils may enter durUg thu aud next week.
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engagement ot the following-named Profmaors:
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