6 THE DAILY fi nmNG TKLEG R APH PHIL AD EL PR A, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1868. E THK KOVfcMBEtt MAGAZINES. "Mpplncnft'n." The Noretnher number of LippincolC ' Maga jrifMKOntaina the following: "Mahala's Drive,' an American story, by Mrs. F. R. Stookton; "Fcleutifio Kxploration to Alaska," by George Davidson, U. S. Coast Survey; "Fata Mor gan," by Mary K. Atkinsoo; "The French Umpire," by Oeerge M. Towle; "Dr. Aar," by Kate P. Kereven; "Forest Itecollections," by Charles Lanman; "aillonettea," by Prof. J. D. Brims; "Lt-gal Interference with the 4Iourj of Labor," by Hon. Auia-,a Walker; "Emtnannel Leutze, the Artist," by Anne Brewster; "In-, cognita," by Miss Harriet MoEsren Kiinball; "Kiccardo il Falcone," an Italian story, by Robert Itoggs; "Aoout Strength," second paper, by Walter Wells; "A Day at Cherry patob," by Kev. J. A. Harris; "Monthly Qos ip;" "Literature of the Day," eto. Miss Anne Brewster's interesting reminis cences of the lamented Leatze we give entire: Twenty-five or thiity year aero an oU EojjIhu inan, Jonn Kubens fmitii, tiiugnt dranriug and perspective iu Filbert street, near Tenth. Phila delphia. Ho culled hiinhi.-H "I'rofcsior of Drw. lug BudFerspeclive iu the Philadelphia Academy ot Fine Arts," with a pride tbut niaio you feel nure the old nmu innocently Imagiued it was some foreign royal academy. "Proiepor" Huiiiti was an excellent tachcr and a curious, eccentric num. full of Enirlitio. o-sip, particularly reiauuir to eiiKritvi'rd ot tua aiier partot the lust century, such as Bartatozzi. SStrarRe, Hiid Wollaaton, and others he bad kuowu or lie aid ol in his youth "at home." as he called Lionciou. i nave otten recognized my old lem urs anecdote when I have Miice r?ud memoirs of English trcists "jainous in palette or but-kin." Smith h id a curious way of teaching. After our class assembled ud each member was seated at the desk, working at a piece, he would sit down by any one, ju-t ns the tunoy took him, call all of us around him, place a paper over ih? ununioned Uiawlntr, take a pencil, and befc'ia sketching, at the tame time sayiuir: 'When you wish to dm a tree,'' (or whatever the offending parage of the pupil's piece might be), 'you do thus and thus and ihue." Mo he would pneced, pointing out each part wherein the copyist 0 student had failed. When all the faults were male very glaring, he un covered the drawing and displayed his owu work with fcreat triumph beside the poor cou UFed pupil's uufortujiate study, our manor iiisuBteu upon huvinsfuU portfolios brought to the lessons: he wished to see every thing we drew at home as well as at school. Sometimes he would open otic ot tue?e, pretend to take it by chance, a? if he iiid not know to which pupil it belonged, aud again assemble the class around him. He turned over piece after piece: every little bit was carefully scanned. Tue more liutsued sketches received tbe severest oriticls.u.-t: indeed, the old nun was tercely Ironical ou comt.leted pi;jce:: woe bcti.led the p ipil who culled any study 'Jinislied.'' Suddenly Smith took pencil and piper and th$ above process of sarcastic teaching betian: "It you wish to m titc such a study, you do so. You begin by tketclinj? in tue whole liirh'ly nevtr uniu auy one point. Tuen jou do thus and tuu." Then followed a bas'y b'lt correct copy of some deieciivo stuily iu tue portfolio the very one probably that was the pupil's pride and an object of almir i tion ti ttie associates in ttie class. The master placed his sketcu, after t ha t arrived at a cer tain poiutof co nole'.iou, besi le the imaginary chef d'wuvre, and began ruthlessly to destroy all its fancied merits. It is very pleasant to dwell on these old lesson hours, and I could de-enba much mat was interesting" ns well as ainusinn about tbe old man; butl did not Intend to do more than mention bis name wiic.ii 1 beyan this sketch. I am already transisre.-sinir'oue of his ureal rules by dwelling on iiitn so long mating an accessory too pfoniitipnt. As our cla:s descended the stairs from the painting-room on the lesson days, we ofteu iul'C a class ascending of vouna: men, ated twenty years or thereabout. They were "academy students," as Smith called them with innocent pride. One ot these yonus mpu was a threat favorite with our master. 1 nover heard the old man praise a pupil so much. Soaietimns he showed ns da-hintr sketch' s niajo by this student, or hue perspective studies; and at u when tae youne man seized upon success by a painting that was exhibited ut a public exliibUt n, one mipht have thuueht irom Kubens Smith's exul tation tLatthe ld maa Had painted it himself. This jonnu nr;it was Kiumanuel Limiizu, and the poiutiiiir was an ludiuu c izin, at the sun-et. 1 reinemu-r wen now i.cut.e.iooiteu iu tuose jouutr Ua; ""d through all these long and eventful thirty years, whenever I have heard of I the preU artist ana seen Ins works, I have re- ! called the appearance of tbe serious, earnest looking youne German whom I used to meet on ltubens hni' h's stair vay, whose f ace-was more intell'ePiit than good looking, and who always passed us with shy haste. In all this lime I ncvir met the young artist again. Last cprinir, in Wasbinnton, I noticed at a little company ouo evening a middle-ized, thickset, extremely plain-lookine man. Ho had a bristly, red browumoustache. ill-kept beard aud thick, rounh hair: a square, hard, tlerman face, with a concentrated expression, that was in creased by the spectacles ho wore aud his extreme shoit-siehteduesB. His head was massive; he looked about fifty; a serious man, indiQerent to, indeed regardless of, convention alities; quiat, unobtrusive, but selt-poss-essed and observing. He was laree, had a broat chest and healthj-bokiug phvsique, although his habit seemed a litile plethoric; but when this was noticed, the quick, energetic move ments of the man, the fire In his eye, seemed to correct all tear of injury that might arise from this lull habit. A inug lite, and the most un limited liberiy of meat and drink, it seemed, might belong to this healthiest and strongest of Teutons. When I first obr-erved him, he was In a corner, with a small puner book and peunil in his haud, and wns busily employed sketc'uiug tne head of a picturesque-looking man, who, with the rest of the company, was listening to some fine music. A little while after, I was looking over a laree book filled with water colors, many ot them by Kualish artists of en at not. A gentleman who was showing them to me taid. as he turned to one '5Tou surely remember that ?" I did not! the picture bad a faint resemblance to some place I had seen, but I could not name it. "Stranee!" exclaimed my companion. "Why, that is Lake Ueneva jut above Vevey." Yes indeed," I replied : "it seems odd that I should not know It, tor I llvod nearly a year at La Tour de Peilz. the point irom which that view must have been taken, and looked ou thut landscape daily aud hourly from my parlor aud bedroom windows." "Nov at all remarkable !" said someone in a Belf aserting voice. 1 looked up aud saw standing near us the person wbom 1 naa noticed a utile while belore skelchiuu: as he was aUo interested in the water-colored pictures, I pushed tbe book a little teaier to him, that be migut see them better, and remarked as 1 did so: "And yet I leel somewhat surprised at not recoenizioir my old home; but nevertheless I do not, although the picture is ocautiiui." "beautiful f No I Because It is grossly in error," he replied, abruptly. "That's not a bit like Chilian. Cbatelard could not be there. Dent du Midi should be here, Dent de Morales there, aud MontVelan at this point." Bo he continued criticiziue, not ouly this pic ture, hut every oue we turned to, in a manner that afterward recalled to my memory my old master, Rubeus Smith. Venetian, Neapolitan, and Oriental studies, each and all. received his unsparing criticisms. The man was not pedagoauish nor conceited: there was something bevoud and above either in ills manner. He was, as I have said, self- Bssrrtine, and also as If p-rrer.tly conscious of the actuil possession of true knowledge. - When we reached the last pu'.ure In thccoW book, the lively convcrs ition that had ans ti over it was suddenly ended by Ihe Btrfin-r walking away as abruptly a lie had joined uB. Who is that geutleinauf" I ased. "Is it prssibie you do not know him? o,i must both purdon me. I thought vou wr acquainted with cbcIi other;" aud without re plylnetomy question, my companion lett ine suddenly aud went in pursuit ot tun straneer. Iu a tew moments they came back together, and Mr. Leutze wns presented to me. Lrutze took a chair beside me and beeai a cnnver-aiion In a ton slightly mo iihed: a little more drlercnce. du'. much, could have beeu ob s rved in it, though oi ihe sliahicst provocation his sel asset lion wh-1 very prominent. 01 course I directed the 'alk to his own works bb foon as I could, nl'hnuen at first we spoke of idaces in Europe we had visited, certain lamous buildiiBi cr laiids?M', or places not so famo i, but wh?ch had pleased our tas.e and Inncy. He talked ol Home wi'ti me, where 1 had never neen, nut lowarns wiiton puce my oath was leadinir, and said he !cir. at hone in every part of the great dly he 'knew every cranny aud nook." I asked him if he remembered takimr lessons of old kubens Smi'h years and years a-'o iu Philadelphia. Hm f.ien brightened and grc ulmoi t boyish; it wa- charming to see the hard lines placed on It by manhood's wo k and hard earned expeiiciM e Kd en down at the mention of a loiifr, loi g past, lie smiled almost tenderly and replied, "Yes, yes; I took perspective lessons of Smith, anil an excellent teuc'e r he was. Excellent P I n cntioued to him part ol" what I bva alicarly related, aud lie listened with dellchted interest, lio re me in lie red perfectly the class he used lo meet on the s airway, and was gratified at my repeating to him his master's pruisa, and especially the delight and triumph the old man had displavl over the youthtul suc cess the picture ol the Indian gazing at a Btin set. Leutze was piea-ed also wheu I recalled 6ome other popular pictures of his youth. This was a happy oneninz to a talk on bis later works, and I mentioned his mural paint ing on the Capitol M mease, "Westward Ho!" which bad been lockine at carefully a few days belote. Leutze entered upon the subject ot this picture which redoubled interest, and grew almost eloquent as he described his visit to the Rocky Mountains and his preparatory studies for this creat picture. "I know the scene t is correct, "be reiterated. An interrogatory remark which i made added to his gratification. We had taiked about the various groups id this p'ctuie, and had spoken particularly of the one on the mountain height to the lett of the lo -ker-ou '.he sick mother, kind father, aud eater cbildreu; then the wagon with tLe young tew Eu?laud ma'ron, i "Both ol these are representative wonien, Mr. Leutze," I said; "ba'. allow mo to ask you a question Time is a group almost iu the centre of your picture i ou' g Irish woman seated on an ass holding a child the a's is led by a negro. Did you not mean this group to teach a new go".'.l to this continent, a new truth which this part of the world is to accept that th" e nierant and the fVeed mau are the two pieui (.lenients which are to be reconciled aud worked .vilh? The y oung, beau tiiut Irish woman, f o. is the uot your new Madoi.ua?" The nrtisl's fneo ulowed, and a prim smila gleamed out fnnn nu .er the rough moustache; t nts secpicd swept on, the h.ud lidges on toe browned cheeks grew -oft, and his eyes tairly laughed with joy at n.y comprciier.sion of his thoimbts. Iu tue flusu of his pleasure he told me I was the firt American lhat had uuder slood his picture. T-jis was a pretty compli ment, and his lips v, l :e quite unused to utter' such; ihirelore we ir.usi be indulgeut when it is disclosed th.it, hice most flattery, it had lit'le truth in it. I learued afterwards that althouch mv in'''ipretation was original so far as 1 was couccruui, it bad been made by others and unproved of by tbe artist. But uo matter. We pleased dicti other for the time, and had a pleasant talk, nich not ouly gratiied us both, but 1 trust will please the reader of Lifipincott. We spoke of a o'c ire of h's whic'i I hal lately seen at the house ol Mr. Iligus, the Washineton banker, uud which had interested me deeply. He cave me an account ot the circumstances that lea to the paiutmi and an extdanation of th? niiMnine of tbe picture. Wnen Cieiome's "Duel after the Masquerade" appeared, it was c&lle I a "complete homily on tbe masquerade." L'nitzc disapproved ot this expression. A masquerade in itself is not a wicked amusement, and a duel certaiuly is not a homily, even supposing the wild gayety needed one. A duel too niieht take pluce alter asuppyr, or even any busiue?s occupation; so there was no homily conveyed bv the picturp, which was, however, none the les clever and attractive as a woik of art. Leutze resolved to paint a hamily on the masquerade, and on a certain kind of masiue raditg thut might cal. for a lesson of reproof. The artist said he c!i se the early moruiug of Ash Wednesday. His punning represents several masquers (returning troai the clo-iog gayetiegof a Venetian carnival. Tuy are in a gondola: lovely women are garlanded with flowers; the men am in various costumes; and the whole pany is just giving utterance to the brilliant, overbrimming spint ot the moment. The gondola is apprcachlug the Bridge ot siiuls, from un it r whicn is seen coming slowly out a boat, with flauros standing shrouded in black. and lying m it, wito lace lull front to the early dawn, is a dead body ! The clown who stauds in the centre of the masking group has just taken his cithern or mandolin to accoiipauy tbe naccuanalian chant which is to be the clong song of the revelry: probablv he is to sine the boio verse oi a chorus. Just as the tinkers are ready to strike the spirited, rhythmical beat to h is song, the clown's eyes eaten a tiaht ot the upturned lace of the corpse, which I e sees dimly, lying still and calm, hands tohtcd on tho breast, all worldly woik over, nil earthly trial and pain at au end. The music is arrested. The man per sonatiug the clown looks apoalled, but his companions, who do not see tue boat, are lgi.o rant both ot his feelings and ot the grim, horri ble sight at which he is looking. We moralized a little on the picture, and our conversation assunn-d a sad tone, toruewhat at variance wHh our co n pany, which was a pleasant merry-makiug. There was music and talk on pictures and politics, on great sineers and statesmen, flowing be-ide us, and our serious words, like the cIoau's cause ot terror, passed on unuoticed. We were interrupted by the host, who came to take me into supi er, and Leutze and I sepa rated. At supper I was not seated near tiie artist, so I had no cuaace to resume ourta'k. When we left the supper-room, t bade Leutze good-bye, and told hi u it had pleased me very much to meet him and have so pleasant a conversation with him. He courteously hoped we might see each o her agaiu, but we never did. A few days after I left Washington, and during the summer this distinguished aud successful artist oied very sudiieuly in that city. When I heard tbe sad news it shocked mo terribly. Leutze seemed so ribitst and vlaorous that I could have prophesied for him a Michel Aneelo or Titian age; and yet it appears be was swept off at only ntty-two. lor It is said he was bora at (Jemuud, Wurtemn irg, in 1810. Tho day of his death an intimate frienl called to sea Leutze. and louud the artist at work in his studio. L..uiZe, however, complaiued of lee ing ill: hi visi or persuaded him to stop painting and pro io bed; his daughter also sent for a physicist.. The frieud left, promising to call aiaioj wmn he did so, at 9 o'clock in the evening, poor Leutze was breathing his las). In a lew moments after, the artist s soul drifted oil, under ihut eieat undue ot Surhi called Death, into eternity 1 " A strange incident took place a fortnight belore Leutze's death, which was meiuioned at the time ot its occurrence to some Irteuds Leutze wis lying on a lounge In his painting! room about three o'clock In tbe afternoon. ms servant, a colored man, opened the door and said a lady wished to see his master. At tbe same moment a female, dressed in black and c'osely veiled, entered. She advanced towards Ia utze, who arose to meet her. The lady threw up her veil, and Ihe artist was astounded to see a friend who had beeu dead ten years I "tiuod Uod, madam I" he cried out, "where did jou come from?" "Oh, Mr. Leutze," f he replied, "mv sis',er Is In the hall. 1 wid brine her in." She stopped oa. of the room, Lutz fal lowed her, hut coulo net see nth-r his v'miior or any one else in the hal'. lie ran to tin Btreet door, looked up and down, but In vi.i. The servant whs summoned. "Did you show a lady iu to sec nie ?" ask- d Lenize. Ye, sir." "Where is she?"" "She Is here, nr." The boy turned to look for the visitor, but not find in a her, said, "t-he his not Lad time to leave the house;" and went quickly to the front door. Leutze r 1 lowed him, and both ran into toe street, looked in every directlou, but neiihcr master nor ser vant taw her again. This is an Interesting account surely, and Mariling to some. It is the f irecast ot the soul, the prescience . of thy rushing doom, ihe suadoiv of thy tate lengthening into eternity as it declines from earth." wrote Bulwerln thatsmar', dre-sy Eng lish of his which was so attractive tooureui s whin we were young, although we understood never a word of it. "As the sun, Ere It Is risen, sometimes .lnin its 1m nice In t lie alruoiphpre, bo olten 1 1 the minu Ol ureal eventnirlilo on before the event, And In to day aiready walks to morrow," sings a famous poet through the voice of a great and ambitious tnau, Wallensteiti, as be stood on tbe very edue of doom. Wheu we are in exalted eta'es of mind or feeling, certain departments of the nervous system are acted upon in surh a manner as to gt icrate certain states of beliel or experience: hence arise such previsions as Wallensteiu speMks of. But when "cotnine events cast their shadows before," such as Henry the Fourth feeling tbe stroke of Kavaillac's knife belore his assassination, it is the knowledge of a natural result following certain modes of action. This it is that creates the warning shadow. In this dav and in our country there Is a growing tendency to a certain form of the marvellous. Iu more romantic days this natural craving for a knowledge of the lifo after death displayed itself iu a more poetical shape; but the same desire prompted the old astrologer as that which inspires the modern spiritist. Let us have patience, those of us who believe In revealed religion, and have faith in (Jod's wisdom. Scientific physioloeists will before many years discover what Hallam said were the links wanting between tnese tragmeuts of some general law of nature these phenomena of what are called mesmerism, clairvoyance, and spiritism, which some foolishly cull surematural. The incident just related, which ocenrred to Leutze, can hardly be explained, and yet it seems so unnecessary to have occurred in a Spiritual point of view; for what use was there in a figure of warning to announce simply the inevitable? It tiave no information, left no admonition. That there was some unconscious deception in the matter seems most likely; and jet this may remain tor ever unexplained; but the artist himself, I fancy, if alive, would give a more rational than mvstieal solution of the occurrence, lor he was a practical, sensible, Industrious man; ui,d while he expressed on canvas picturesque representa'ions ot historical incidents or adventurous actions in daily life, neither his conversation, his apoeat ance, nor his works displayed auy undue amount ot imapination, or capability on his part of beine led astray by his fancy. Whether these conclusion j are fab e crtrne, wbctner the veiled visitor was "an houeit ghost" or a shrewd mortal, the fate of ihe ereat aitist remains as a sad lact. ' This fetl Hereant, Death Is strict la his arrest " and Leutze. has cone to "t.ha. butrne from w hence no traveller returns" to tell the Ureal Secret of Mernity. From Dr. Walker's paper on "Strength and How to Use It," we take the following hints to brain-workers: Head-wot kers need more rest than hand workrts. The old saw precisely iu verted tue proprieties ot the ca-ef so far as it involved tbeui, declaring that "seven hours' sleep suffice the student, oie at tue laboring man, and nine the fool." Three hours of hard bram-woric destroy, as betorc observed, more nervous tissue, and cause a (.reader subtract'ou of the pbosphates from the system than an ordinary day's work at mere mecrianieal labor, the pro portion in grains (of weight) being as HU 77. Above everything else, brain-workers need sircp, eai Iv sleep and late sleep, and enough in the middle to feel "real stupid" at tue end- of it. Stupidity is precisely the condition into which this class of toilers should manage and devise and strive to get themselves for a time, looser or shorter, each twenty-tour h.iuts. Nothine rests thj brain aiid the whole workitiir systen like it. Narcotic ftnriidity. the product of ale, tobacco, or wine, is i o the thiug refcired to though iu etnrgeiicii s this may pet baps be had recourse to as a medicine but the quiet, rooosetul read justment of the nervous conditions and the re cbargiiur with vital lorce ot the nerve-batteries, the contacts not yet closed, thu ualvanic cur rents therefore not yet set in motion, but only filling up tne system with a blind, diffused Idl ing of healthy sensations aud reserved elii cieney. , In particular, It is believed that all workers, both men ind women, in all depattmeuts of labor, and especially iu the department now in debate, will find it greatly to their ndvantaceto lie down, for a time longer or shorter, during the day. preference beine given to tbe hour alter dinner, and to lie long enough, it possible, to just fall asleep. Every other working animal than man, it le t tree, will, alter having eaten at noon, lie down for a nap, or, if Irom auy cause it tails to get it, shows decided abatement of efficiency lor the rest of tbe day. Judicious tearasteis teash their horses to lie down in their stalls, or compel tbem to, and many have to be compelled to it in such narrow quarters tttat they are liable to chafe or wound themselves ia getting down or up. In a recumbent posture the pulse is siower by eight or ten beats a min ute tbau in standing, aud lour or five slower th an in sitting ; the breathing also is less rapid aud is deeper: digestion begins sooner aud progresses more rapidly. Accordingly, the worker can recuperate faster iu tbe recumbent than in auy other position; aod if in a quiet place his nerves getcomposed more speedily and thoroughly in a given time. Working peopls understaud this well enough, but not "hreliue tired," they hate to camp dowu on a bed or settee, it Is such dull business. Dull enough truly when the heal is swarming with plans, work is ready to goon, and the worker feels ready to go on with it. But it pays well this Is our argument it pays well by the day, month, year, or lifetime, and lor the great majority of workers. If at any point the working day needs curtailment, it is by way of a longer "morning." aud tho time is coming soon when tbe wotkine millions in the trades, in stores, in Jac'orles, will demand such a mio day rest as will really avail lor rest. They should strike for It to-day. Mr. George Davidson's account of the soien tiflo expedition to Alaska by a party of the United States Coast Surrey offioers, has the following interesting information about the Japan warm ocean current: Oue of the popular errors concerning this new tenttory is the bpiief iu the rigor of Its climate; and ou accouut of its gieut larttuae, extending from 54 dee. 40 min. to 71 dee. 3D min., it is difficult to disabuse the popular niiud by 6imple asserttou to tbe contrary: aud a gre.tt array ol figures is frequently looked upun as lullacious. In this connection it is curious to recollect how completely the question of climate was ianored pending the nego'tations of tbe Oreuou boundary ia 145-0, wheu the nation demanded "fifty four forty or fight;" this very latitude being the southern boundary of Alaska. On the sea-const of British Columbia, which we then claimed as part ot Oreeon. the climate is quite as severe as tbatot Alaska in the region of Sitka; the annual rain-fall at tbe mouth of the Columbia, between Oregon and Washington. is even six incues greater than at Sitka. The mean annual temperature of Hitka is a fraction hieher thau that ot Moutreal, Canada, and Partland, Maine; aud the mean temperature of winter is onlv one and a third degree below that of Philadelphia. These statements are not based upon isolated facts, but deduced irom the results ol system atic observations catrled on hourly aitir 1817 by Kussia'i otlicers a, iegui.iny appointed ob servatories establi-hed ttironeh'out' Earooo. tne United h a'cs, Canada, paitiof Asia, attheCspc of (jood Hope, St. flch na, and even in Aus tral. a. The results are accepted taioug io n the scientific, world, and personal examina tion of th ob-ervatory and ob-ervers at Sitka satisfied us of thu trustworthy qu ihty of the results. Tticy niay, however, anpear delusive to the rjoii-scieniinc mind until the deeper laws are made plain. If the rigor of the c limate waj as creat as that of tho same latituiie on the eastern coa-tof Amencwr in the interior of the continent, the value of the territory would be veiy problematical excent In its political aspects; and thcrefoto it seems essential to first demonstrate the causes producing such a com paratively warm fea-coast climate In such high lllllMl(!lS. There exists In tho Pacific a mighty ocean river of arm water, r. m nkabij analogous to tbe Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, but ot greater volume, ereator velocity, and hieher tempera ture. The main bodyot this Japanese warm stream stretches Irom the coat of Niphon, In latitude 35 dog., eastward and northward through the broad Pacific, thirty-three hundred nautical miles, to about latitude 48 de?. and longitude 14H dee., wuere It is within eight or nine hundred miles of the American coast. It thire divides, aud the greater part continues towards the coast of Queen Charlotte aud Van couver's Islands, aud thence down the roust of Washington, Oregon, and California, stamping well-known peculiarities upon that coast cliwa e. Tho smaller part coutlnueg to the coast of the Alexander Aicbipeiago: Is thence deflected to ti e Dortbward and westward alone; the fhotes of tiie eieat Gulf of Alaska, and embracing the Kad ak group, it lollows the southeast shores of toe Alaska peninsula and outlying islands, aud thence continues south ward and westwaid past the eastern part of the Aleutian chain. Ibre it joins the curreut coming through the middle of the chain ot islands fiom l'.ehring Sea, and can be traced southward until it strikes the northern edge of the great stream, forcing it southward and undcrrunDitg it. Were observations wanting to Biista'm this deduction, tbe wcli-cstablihcd fact of Japanese juuks having been carried by the main sticani between four and five thousand miles to tbe coasts of Oregon and Washington, atd there wrecked, would demonstrate it. As late as 1833a Japanese junk was wrecked near Cape Flattery, in lati tude 48 deg., ou the coast of Washington; and about 1854 a unk was relieved in mid ocean in the centre oi this great stream, being slowly but irtegibtibly carried to the American const. This great Japan Btream, iu longitude 165 dee. West, or neaily fourteen hundred nautical miles from our coast, has a breadth of over twelve hundred miles, and a temperature of 78 deg. on its southern limit in latitude Tl deg., aud t4 deg. on its northern edge iu latitude 43. deg., being 11 to 13 deg. warmer than the variable returning currents north of it. Od the Alaska coast, in latitude 67 deg., the temperature of the surlace water was observed on this expedition to be from 60 to 62 dee. in August and September, white the average ttmperature of the air was almost uniiormly three degrees higher. In the Gulf of Alaska, thecurieut of the northern branch has. at limes, a velocity as high as thirty-six miles per day; near tho Sunnakh Island we lound an cxcbptionally strong current runniug three or four knots per hour, part of which may, however, have been tidal current towards the Unituak Strait into Behrmg Sea. When the great Japan stream leaves tbe coast of Kiplion, a small btauch called the "Katn schatka current" continues along too Asiat.c coast, through the western part of Behrine Sea and Behiing Sliait, to tbe Arctic Ocean, with a velocity at times of one ucdaualf miles per hour through the strait. Part of this mass of water, just belore reaching Behrmg Strait, Is derleced eastward by tbe islands south oi it, sweeps round the American coast, receives the waters of the great rivers Kvtchpak, Kuskovm. etc., and c.rcles southward and westward through the ml Idle ot tbe Aleutian chain, atlecting their climate remarkably. At the isltind ot St. Lawrence, in latitude 63 deg., the temperature of this warm stream is 47 dee.: north ol tho Aleutians, 47 deg.: near these islands and touth of them, ' 49 deg. At the bead of Cnaluska Bay we observed the temperature of the surface-water to le 45.J deg. in tho middle of Sep teniber. Between this current und the Astatic coast a polxr current works its way southward, exactly as the polar current follows our eastern coast inside the Oult stream. Two out of many remarkable proofs in the cumulative observa tions lending to tbe above deductions are, that, north of the coast of Nipliou, Japanese, woods and disabled vessels are never thrown upon the Asiatic shores, but upou the westernmostjof the Aleutians, upon tbe American coast noith of the Alaska peninsula, and even lntu the Arctic Ocean; and that icebergs are never carried by the current Irom the Arctic Ocean to Behrmg Sea. The influence of these great volumes of warm water upon the coast climate of Alaska, as well as that further south, is perhaps even more ii nrked thai: the influence ot the Wulf Stream of the Atlantic upon the coast of Europe. The results of ihe condensation of the warm vapor laden air, aud the consequent precipitation of ra.n, by the colder and drier aiw ot the conti nent, are exhibited in the enormous and quick growth of the timber; the rapid development of grasses and plants; the carpet of moss that covets the sea-coast region ns tar south as Van couver Island: the high thermal condition of the air; the very small ditlerence between the temperatures of tbe wet aud dry bulb thermome ters, indicating slow evaporation; tbe non formution at Sitka, in latitude 57 deg. 3 min., of Ice clear and olid enough for the California market: the existence of timber T deg. further north than on our eastern coast; tbe "eay flowers" and "the rarest and most beautiful plants along the Arctic shore," that "make even Cape Lisburne, in latitude 68 deg. 62 miu., look like a garden," etc. etc. Godey's Lady's Book for November has, as usual, an attractive miscellany of stories, sketches, poetry, household receipts, patterns, eto. A fine Bteel engraving, entitled "Nothing this Morning, Miss," representing a young lady having a sly conference with the post man, is given as a frontispiece. The fashion plates are numerous, and the magazine as a whole is up to its usual standard of excellence. PROPOSALS. HEADQL'ARTfcltS DEPARTMENT OF THE CO Ul 11, , CUlKr QUABTEISIHTIH S OFKICli, 1 , ATLANTA, Ut pi. XI), ASM. Sealed proposals will be rteeived ( i Ii la oinoe unill 12 i ocu ber i, IStis, lor TltAnbPUHT i'l'iON of bOVUNMCNT 'IMiOlfH AND blOHiii from Clailt:iou H. C U bvunaU, Oa i'erimucllna, JuikMitivdle, jraotika, i'luoiaia, aud Kt. AUu0iOje, . norma. I l)iu nlicu'd be tor through rates from Charleston to fucli polut, aud alto rates lroiu oue puiut to another. Ail biores shipped will be Classified ana ptilil for aa CcirdliiK in ib Uoverumeul cla ilicaluu. I 'I I. Is contrail loren.aln Iu lorce lor on year. 1 l,t imual rrqulremeiHB lor 1)1 m will be e.xuuied. Pro; osnlsB-iuuld belu iriplica'e.iWlfb a copy of this dvtrtisemeul uiucneU io eauti, and slum d 0 m. dorsen ' 1'ri.pnbalb lor Tranrpurlaliou," an1 adreiidd lo Hie uuilerslint-d R. SiXTdS, iivt. Brig,-fpn. ord u. M.. U. a. A., 1014 61 Chief 4 M. ilepi.of llieSjutU. IjiRAXKPORD A It 8 E N A L, J" fHii.AOB.LeuiA, i'A. Ojiober m, isis. i Be led Pronosa it, Iu duplicate, will be received oy ! thn undermined mull li M... Uctober M, lotiS, at this oiucr, lur rui umninic tne iroups naiuouea ai rra'iK lonl Arsninl with Fresli llBef. nf a good tuitrlcgliitile quality. In equal propurtl' on of lore and lilnd quar ters, exoluiiug ut-ekH. aUatiks. aud klduey lalluw; Ibe Beet to b9 delivered free nf com to tt.e trouut la tucb quantities and on fucti dayt as may be from lime to time required by tiie proper authority, and to continue In lorce Hlx Aionibn. or aucb lens time as lite Uumuilisary-Ueneral tball olrent, uud nuhjul to bis ai proval, cciuuivuclng on the Nt day ot November, lsiiH. Upon acceptance of tbe onVr teourlty and bnud Iu the sum ( f Hlx Hundred Dollars will be required lur ibe laithlul perlormance ol the con tract Bide must be endorsed ' Proposals for Fresb et f ' ' JOWN K. GBEEIt, 10 20 6t Second Lteutenaut Ord., A. U. 8. EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH. TIIE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY. U KITED rSTATKS REVENUE STAMPS. pjlnclpal Uepot, No; Su4 OH KS NUT atreet. Ceotral Liepot, No. loa B. Kl I'l'H Htreet. oue dour be low (jbeanuL .Ktabluihed 114. Revenue biarffui of evbry description oonitauU On baud in any amount. Orders by Mail ox ttApreas promptly attended! Tills Company have nn exclusive grant to lay SUBMARINE CABLES Canton to Tien-Tsin, (TBK BEAPOIIT OF PEKIN), CONNECTING ALL THE POUTS ON TIIE ASIATIC COAST, Whose foreign commerce amounts to One Thousand Millions Annually. This Company is chartered by the Legisla ture of the State of New York, with a CAPITAL OF SD.OOO.OOO; SHARES, tlOQ EACH. LUMBER. A limited number of shares are offered at 850' each, payable 810 each, 815 November 1, balance In rronthly Instalments of $2 50 per share. THH IKQTJIBIES FOR THIS STOCK ARE NOW VERY ACIIVB, AND THE BOARD OF DI RECTORS INSTRUCT UB TO SA.Y IT MAY BE WITHDRAWN AT ANY TIME, AND THAT NONE WILL BE OFFERED ON THE ABOVE TERMS AFTER NOVEMBER 20 NEXT. For Circulars, Maps, and full Information apply to " DREXEL & CO., Ko. 31 South TIIHtU Street, rhiladclphia; To daly authorized Banks and Bankers throughout, Pennsylvania, and at the OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, XTcs. 23 and 25 NASSAU STBE-ET, 8 29 NEW YORK. FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC. 1868. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. FLAGS, BANNERS, TROSPAKEA'CIES AND LAATEBAS, Campaign Badges, Medals, and Tins, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different Kyle sent on receipt ol OneDoUar and Fifty Cent. Axeolt wanted everywhere. Flags in Mnsba, Banting, and Buk, all sizes, whole sale and retail. Political CUuba fitted oat with everything they u require. CALL ON OB ADDRESS W. F. 8CHEIBLE. Ho. 4 SOUTH TU1KD STREET, tnrp PHILADELPHIA. HOOP SKIRTS. biib. a0t b K I R T B, 62S. Ai J JT m. stmt O' I U AVJ3, LA PAN 1KB, and U other desirable styles and 4ltMa Ot our UhXEBRATEE) CHAMPION SKIRTS, for ladiw, itoLautiB, and children, eonatauily una I atd luadn to t ruer .Largest wmortuieut la theaul and sptulally adapted tot tint class trade. CORBET'S I CORSETS I CORSETS! Retailing at very low prices. Oar assortment is complete, eiubrauiDg l bow peon's uiove Fitting, la all giades, irom H& to 0Oo; Meckel', ttuuerioi French Woven Cornet, Irom to yaSG; suptt- llor Whalebone hand ruade Coraeta, Irom HI cents to M U, In abivlu. aad clrcnlar gure; Madame Foy's Corset bklrt Supporters, at Vl-ao. Also, Mis. Moody's Paleut bell-AdJastlng Abdom Dal Corseto; which every lady should examine. Corset Ciarp., 0 cents a pair. Wholesale and Retail Mauuiactory and Salesroom. No. AUCil Suteek niax WM. T. HOPgIWS. O B N mZVHANQS RAG MANUFACTORY. JOHN T. BAILEY 4 CO., UVUVID TO N, K. oorner ot Market and WATER Streets. 1 Philadelphia. DEALERS IN RAW AND BAQQINU 1 Of every drtorlpllon, for Grain, Flour, Salt, super-Phosphate of Lime, Bone Dust, Etc. Lanre and small OUNN Y BAGS cnostantly oiChand ti4 Also, WOOL BAt'ltS. ' Juhh T. BAH.MT Jam fUaOADM. DB. KINKELIN, iFTEB A RBSIDESCB and practice of thirty years at the Northwest corner of Third and Onion mreeia, has lately re moved to 8ntb ELE VENTH Street, between MAR SET end C'HJUSWlT. H la superiority la ibe prompt and perfect care of all rcoeot, chroulo, local, aud constitutional Affeo tiers ot a appeal nature, is proverbial. ' D seaseaolhe skin, appearing lo a hundred dif ferent tortus, totally eradicated: mental and physical weakness, and all nervous debilities solentilloallv and sncceseiuiiy itemed, Oflloe Uouxs from I A, M. otF.M, BeHTJCK JOIBT, KPRliCA JOleST, HtMlAKJlC, HKMUKjK. 18(58: CHOlt'K P ATTKKN P1KK. M-yJnJm, BP4N1MU CEDAR, KOK PATTKRNB.I HKi CEDAR. '' , 1 Q.IIQ FLORIDA FLOORING. 1 ooc; I lOOO. FLORIDA FLOOR1NO. lotaL VlHUlKIA F1.UOK1M. DELAWARE FUKIIUAGI AHH FL(XRINU. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA HTKP BOARD B. RAIL PLANK. lfJf'Q WALHUT BC8, ASD PUNIC,.! OfJO lOOO. W ADMIT UDS, AND PLANK. lOOCL' WALNTJ'l' BOARDH, wj,ru'i' f DA INK. Iftfift UNDKRTAKF.R81 LUMBKR. TOOl lOUO. TJKDIlKI AKKIW LUMx-Jlu I ttf lKj liiniu - Ithhiiniu WALNUT AND PJNF. lRfift BKAftONBD POPLAR. WHITE OAK PLANJf AND BOARDS. 186a! 1 PT.fi ClbAR BOX MAK.KIW AW VW. I in. u kr: z i Kf :n : bPACTi L, DAlt lux UOARDt5WWU FOR SaIA DOW. ! 1 Pilft CAHOTINA PCAKTLIKG, 1 D0 J lOOO. CAUUDINA il. T. MLIA 1868J Ill CKDA R BR INOLFJs. T O f UliPKi!.l-.SIsHINLK. lOOO-! No. 26HiHObTH MrfMit. FALL, 1 330. F. H. WILLIAMS, Seventeenth and SprinS Garden Sts. j Calls the attention or Builders and other i to his Stock of SEASONED LUMBER,! CONSISTING OF Hemlock and Spruce Joists, Carolina Flooring:, all grades, White Tine Boards, all qualities, Sliing-lcs, Plastering- Lath, And all kinds ol Building Lumber, lo 8 thsta2ia AT LOWEST PHIO t3t. T. P. GALVIIV & CO., LUKEER CCKKISSION MERCHANTS SUACKAJIAXOA STREET WHARF, BELOW SLOATS MILLS, (M-CALLKD), PHILADIfiLPHIA,' AGKNTB FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN Man! fucturersuf VELiAtw i-xMii and tifltucK TIMB ' DwARDii, etc., sUuil be liai py to lurulnn orderaat uit.i.l u.k Iu ra titM rii.i ....... ... .... - . v .s M , .. ..,..,, ,,, acuNiuie port, i Cunatantly receiving aud on band at our wharf I ODEb, EASTERN LA THH, PIOKETtBED-BLATfiL ' bt'RUCK, HEMLOCK, n ELECT M 1 UHIUAN AND J i;aaua rDAJNK AND BOARDS. AND HAD. MATCObHLV.RNEhtJ. "S' in Half ALL OF WHICH WILL BE DEUVEBEO AT ANY PABTWf TUB CITY I'KOJIPTLY. ""JJNITED 8TATLS BU1LDEK8' MIIL, Kos. 24, 20, and 28 S.' FIFTEOTH SL, PHILADELPHIA. e:slek & brother. MAKUVACIUBKBS OF WOCD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, STAIR BALUS TERS, NEWELL POBTd, GENERAL TORN. ING AND SCROLL WORE, ETC The largest assortment of WOOD MOULDINGS tn thin city constantly on band. 9Z2m GOVERNMENT SALES. SALE OF CONDEMNED OUDNANCB AND ODD JS A N CE o I O HU. OJr J.H K oy U. is. Oedsanoh Abknoy, ) ' Cor. Houston a Uijikmic bis teuiruuce ouureeue), - MW VOkK L1TY. 6eui. 24. lhoa. II. U.lul IKIl l bealtd Prouosais. Iu duulicattt. w in b rmitiuAit t tbiaotlice uuill ba'IDHIjaV, Octubrr 'U, itm, atU M., lor tbe purcbimlug uf coiideruued cuuou, stiot, bnell, scrap, wrounUl and cast lrou, nrana, and other ordnance stores, located at ibe loliowlug points on tbe Atlantic coust, lo wll: tort Hauiiuou and Re oi.uut i'urw WaclBwurili, Laiayette, Coluuibua, aud; r-cliuyler, and (Juftle WIUiuruB, in New York Harbora l url Trumbull, New Luuduu liarljor, Coun.; Fort Adams auu Walcolt, Newport Harbor, R. I.; Fort CouBtitutu n, Porisoioiun Haibor, N. H.; Fori Knox. Duckspoft, and torts Prel aud tecum iul, Portland Harbor, Me.; Eorls Pleven and Barrancas, Peusacola, Harbor, Fla.; mobile; and Pom Ualues and Morgan. Mobile llarour, Ala. l b Is sale coutein plates tb e disposition of 79 cannon In New York Harbor, estimated as Weigh ing 437,(1.1 pounus; 2b caiiunu Iu Port.auU Harbor, enilruawd as weigblug lus.ftuo pvuiidt; 42 cannon la N ew poi t Harbor.estimated as weigbli. g 2u.6(o pounds ; J9 cannon In New Louuou Harbor, eeilmated a weighing 96.045 pounda; 111) cannon In Peusacola Har bor, isilrua'.ed as weigblug bll,t7 pounds; sucaunoa tn Mobile Harbor, eatluiateU aa weigblug lti.4U0 pounds; Itu caunon In Portsmouth Harbor, N. H tstlmated as weigulng lnW.Mi pouuds. Also smaller Ion at Port Niagara, Youngs town, NY.; tort Ontario, Oswego r. Y., aud baclteu'a -Harbor, N.Y. Tbetoudemned shot and shell, amounting in th aggregate to l,l6,4i4 pouuds, ate in quantity at aaott ol ibe above-tueunoued torts; also, scrap wrougbt Iron, amounting Iai tue aggregaie to ion .Sol pounds. Pull and lompieie catalogues of the property ollered can tra nad ou application to to Is olllos), lbs) Ordnance OUloe at WaNUiugtou, aud to tbe com maiidlug orbcer of ibe dlileient fores. Terms, caso: leu peroeut. on tbe dy ol sale, auo the remslnder wbtu tbe property Is ueilvered. Tnlrty days will be allowed tor tbe removal oi beavy orduance; all other stoies will be required to be removed wliula ten days from close ot sale. Tbe Ordnance Department reserves the right to reject all bids not deeu.ed satisfactory. Prior to tbe acceptance of any bid, it will bave to be approved by ' tbe War DeparliueuU Bidders will state explicitly the fort or forts where U.y will accept stores, and the number aud kinds) tbey propoe to purcbaie. iMllverif s will ouly lie made at the forts. ' Proposals will be addressed lo Brevtt-Oolonel S Crispin, Msjor ol Orut anue. U. b A., ludorsed "Pro posals lor purchasing condemned orouauce aud ord nance storbs." CHlbPxN, Bievet-Colouel, U H. A. : II 24 iw Major of Ordnance. PAPER HANGINGS, ETC. j yJ A L L PAPER 3. HENRY S. MATLACK, i Kos. 11 and 13 Kortli NLXTll Street.' . I PHILADELPHIA, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN FRENCH AND AM Kit I CAN WALL PAPERS. i ALL OBDEP8 PERSONALLY ATTENDED TO I : Competent workmen sent to all parts or tueoou'n. i try. Work executed at city prices. ; 15 tuthsam, I FIRE AND BURGURPRQOF SAFES fl T w . . . U . . Al A 1 H o ,TUBKB Ol FIRh AND DURGLAK-PKO0P SAFES, LOCKbMITH, BELL-HANGER, AND DEALW in DVUiilMl HAuniVAiiir ' No. iH RACE Street,'
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