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NORWAY.
JrVom the London Saturday Review.
Goethe said well, that tha "bumdlflM
arth" meant to Ilomer soinethirjg very dif
ferent from that whloh it means to as. When
ytt read the words, they glide from oar lips ai
ft mere poetio phrase; but to him the earth
was really something infinite, mysterious,
ooeqnal with the heavens, not to be measured
or known by men. Nowadays, the earth
ceems to most of ns ft very moderate alUir,
as far as magnitude ia oonoerned. That amia
ble writer, Mr. Helps, feels its Insignificance
o keenly that he oannot contain his
wonder that any one should care to be
famous, when his fame mast necessarily
be confined to sack ft speck in the
universe. We take an eight-inch globe in
our hands, and think that, compared with
infinity, there is not muoh odds between eight
inches and eiRlit thousand miles. We turn it
over, and pass from one quarter to another
Europe, Asia, Africa, Aoierioa, Australia, the
different ooeaus, in succession. How many
countries are there whioh, with an adequate
expenditure of money, we oould not manage
to see in half a year f Uow many of which
we could not in an hour or two gain a very
tolerable notion by having recourse to the
nearest library f Nevertheless, to people who
have thrown aside their books of geography
and travel, who hae even got to the end of
lineB of railway, and betaken themselves to
tbeir own feet, or to some other conveyance of
not extravagant speed, it does sometimes
occur that the earth is, after all, of rather a
decent size. Hut the effeot differs very greatly
according to the country in whloh a man s
journey lies. For instance, the Swiss tourist
is likely rather to underrate the earth's mag
nitude. Perched on the top of the Jangfrau or
Monte Koaa, or even on the Faulhorn or the
Bchllthorn, and really from these elevations
eeeiDg a not quite inappreciable portion of
the surface ot the globe, he is inclined to
think that he sees even more than he does
and moreover he in some degree uncon-"
eoioualy attributes to himself the command
ing altitude of his standing-ground. And
though Switzerland does oTten impress upon a
man the feeling of his own diminutiveness,
yet it is his diminutiveness as compared with
the mountain masses around him, while he
does not at all appreciate how small these moun
tain masses themselves are when compared
with the entire world. Ou the other hand, a
large plain, or the ooean, from its sameness of
aspect and want of salient points, always
appears in the recollection much smaller than
it really is; so that from neither of these is aay
one likely to be impressed with a, strong ilea
of the extent of our glo'-ie.
But any man who really wished to gtfu
something of the Homeric feeliag we woald
send to each a country S.'orway a couutry
in which the features are large enough to
reduce the spectator to insignifioanoe, and
yet not so large bat that they give a hint of
unknown trauia behind, greater than them
Belves; a country where tue for3t and desolate
Bnow-field in their vast ranges hem ia tha
traveller, sometimes shotviug tuir skirts,
Bometimes altogether nnseeu, never to bs
comprehended at one glance, yet, just because
they cannot be so comprehended, impressing
the imagination more vividly with the sense
ot an unknown mypteriousness. Of all the
differences between IS' or way and the Alps (and
two mountainous countries could hardly
be more unlike) this is perhaps the
greatest. In Switzerland there is great
sublimity, but very little mystery;
on the contrary, the interest of the
country is much increased by the
number of definite - historio asso
ciations connected with every part of it,
whioh, proving as they do how anciently and
Widely celebrated a country it is, exolude tie
feeling of the undnown. The ancient castles
and quaint meducval towns; the memory of
great generals who have carried their armies
over the rooky and onoe dangerous passes, and
thuB formed turning points in the world's
history, from the time of llannibal to that of
Napoleon; the thought of Tell on the Lake of
Uii, and of Byron and Rousseau by that of
Geneva all these things remind us that man
here has not unsuccessfully contended wnu.
nature; they diminish somewhat that feeling
of awe which comes upon us when we stand
consciously in the presence of a superior
power. Bat in Norway nature has it all her
own way. Take, for instance, the first stage
from Dombaas on the way to Molde. There is
nothing here that woald be called first-rate in
the way of scenery, and a traveller who had
come up from the magnificent valley of Rouaa
dal might even tb'.DH it dall. The road from
Dombaas descends a steep hill through a pine
wood, crosses a roaring rocky stream at the
bottom, and then ascends another hill, from
which there is a wide view over the main
coarse of the river and the glens that ran
into it. The coloring is sombre, but not poor;
the whole area below, the slopes of the hills,
and the distant glens are covered with inni
merable pines, while above the pines are dark
moors terminating in the distant snow-fields.
You feel what a solitude it is: not that there
may not be a house or two in view, for indeed
, all the houses in Norway cl aster round the
great roads; but apart from the road there is
no sign nor traoe of a habitation. The size of
the rivers, again, is a constant source of sur
prise to the traveller in Norway. Ia a very
short distance from their source they swell
into a size comparable to that of the great
est English rivers, and the causes of
this are not immediately reoognized ia the
great rainfall ef the district, the numerous
tributaries, and the large area of drainage.
There is no better way of contrasting Nor
way with Switzerland than by taking in each
one of the most characteristic scenes. And as
in Switzerland there is perhaps no more
typical district than the Lake of Luoerne, aud
in partionlar the Bay of Url, so in Norway
that branch of the Sogne fiord which ends at
Oudvangen, and the valley above it, may be
taken as one of those scenes whioh most strike
the traveller as unique and to be remembered.
And of these two, there can be no question
that for beauty, for pioturesqueness, and even
for a pure and tranquil sublimity, the Bay of
Uri is immeasurably the superior. The out
line of the mountains, the luxuriance of the
woods, the snows, the green upland valleys
with their villages, are all features that have
no counterpart at Gadvangen. Bat there Is
no terror in the Bay of Uri. Even if yoa
did not know of the excellent road and com
fortable hotels on its shores, the natural
features of the lake have too muoh
beauty for any fear to mingle with the im
pression received, (iudvangen, on the other
Land, is one of the few places that strike the
mind, even of a traveller who has seen much
of mountain scenery, with a feeling akin to
horror a feeling so generally experienced by
the unaccustomed tourists of the last century,
so rarely by those of the present day. The
effect is as simple as it can be; the valley,
whioh is called the Nojrodal, is of the nar
rowest; the fiord in which it terminates is
scarcely wider. Above both valley and fiord,
and on both sides, range the black and precipl-
tons cliffs, everywhere inaccessible, and Borne-
times BO sheer that yoa coald almost drop a
plummet from summit to base; their extreme
height is perhaps not overestimated at five
thousand feet. Ihej stream with waterfall, tut
THE DAILY"
there is tel an atom of fo'iage, and hardly of
grass, Bpon them. The valley ends in what
Would be a cut dt sac were it not for a great
bastion that stands out from the middle of It,
op which the road is carried. There is not,
perhaps, in Europe another so weird plaoe aa
Undvangen a plaoe bo utterly severed, as fir
as appears at first sight, fiom the outer world,
so entirely devoid both of convenience of ac
cess and of the customary ornaments of beau
tiful scenery. Yet the imnresslon it prodaoes
is profound. What is most singular about it
is that it lies on the high road from Uhristiania
to Bergen, it being necessary to take a boat
from Leldalsoren to Gadvangeu, a row of tea
hours in the finest weather; unless yoa can
catch the steamer, whloh goes onoe a week,
and takes four or five hoars in the voyage.
Far more beautiful than the Noero fiord, and
rivalling the Lake of Luoerne itself in their
varied splendor, are the great fiords that
stretch inland from Melde and Aalesund
the Romsdal and Btor fiords. Of these the
former is very well, the latter very little,
known to Norwegian tourists. It would be
difficult to say which is the finer, at least if
the valley of Romsdal be taken in together
with the fiord; otherwise the decided prefer
ence would have to be given to the Stor fiord.
They are both distinguished for the extraor
dinarily jagged and peaked outline of the
summits that overhang them a feature that
belongs to no other part of Norway south of
the Arctio circle, except the wild ranges of the
Ymes'jeld and llnrungernefjeld, which stretch
from the head of the Sogne fiord np to Lorn,
and, culminating in Galdhopiggen and Skag
tolstind, form the highest oleratbns in the
whole country. The Romsdal mountains are
probably loftier than those of the Stor
fiord, bnt these latter are the sharper and
more aiguille-like. This, it should be
observed, applies only to the western arm of
the Stor fiord, which runs past Sccbo, and to
the smaller reach that lies immediately te the
east of it; the long eastern arm, that ends in
llellesjlt la overhnng by less remarkable
summits. The Suebo branch has some very
fine glaciers and snowy domes. The steamer
from Aalesund runs only to Ilellesylt, pass
ing by the entrance to the western arm ot the
fiord; nor is this ilellesylt branoh, even if in
ferior to the other, at all to be decried. The
mountains come down sheer into the water,
yet are green and well wooded, the birches
and pines dinging to the ledges even of the
steepest precipices, and in every long receding
glen on the tops of the cliffs are farm-houses
and chalets that remind one of Switzerland.
Most refreshing is it to the eyes of the travel
ler who has been winding through the stern
barren islands of the iron-bound coast.
Not many Norwegian tourists traverse the
rough road from Ilellesylt to Bergen, yet few
roads can exhibit a greater variety of beauty.
The Bredheim Yand, for instance, is a lake
that will compare with the famous KOnigseeof
the Bavarian Alps, and is not at all inferior to
it. In parts, agaia, as at Forde and Eidevig,
there is a really luxuriant vegetation. The
Langfjeld and Justedel mountains, on the
snniiiiits of which are the largest snowflelds of
Europe, skirt the left of the road for a long
distance. We have not penetrated into them,
Lut to all appearance it must be extremely
well worth while to do so. It ia carious that
neither Mr. Forester nor Professor Forbes
came into these parts, nor even into Romsdal.
Professor Forbes, however, examined the Jua
tedal mountains from the other Bide.
The great defect of Norway lies in the gene
ral (though not invariable) want of boldness
and pioturesqueness in its higher summits,
and also, of coarse, as oompared with Switzer
land, in their leseer elevation. The want of
plain country, too, mast be reckoned a fault,
lor it results from this that the panoramlo
views, so frequent in the Alps, are rare, and
when they occur are defioient in character.
An extensive view mast be poor unless the
height of the mountains is shown by contrast.
The most celebrated broad view in Norway is
that called the King's View, on the Tyri fiord,
near Christiania; bat here the high mountains
are very distant, and, though some bold
tourist has compared it to the view from the
Rigi, the comparison is absurd. It ia even
very decidedly inferior to the view from Snow
don or Scawfell.
It ia the valley and fiord scenery that ia so
remarkable in Norway, and here it scarcely
yields at all even to the Alps. We have not
yet mentioned the waterfalls, whioh are con
fessedly the finest in Europe. There is, how
ever, one excellent rule that we have long
adopted in discovering the height of any
waterfall a rale both of extreme simplicity
and, as far aa onr experience goes, of great
accuracy. It ia this: take the height of the
waterfall asgstated by Murray, divide it by
two, and yoa will have the real height. If
yoa use any other guidebook than that of
Murray (and perhapa also Black) yoa are
pretty safe in dividing the nominal height by
four. Sometimes even Murray requires a
farther redaction; according to the current
number of the Cornhill, the Ostadfoss, reck
oned to be eeven hundred feet high, has to bs
b rought down to seventy, or even fortyfeet I
This, we think, is the ne plus ultra of
exaggeration. But even the Yoringfoss, the
greatest Norwegian fall, which we had always
fondly hoped to be a real nine hundred feet
of sheer descent, has now, alas l aooording to
the stern decision of ordnance surveyors, to ba
brought down below five hundred feet; how
muoh below is not stated. It is the same in
all countries. The Krimml Fall in the Tyrol
is roundly leckoned by Murray at two thou
sand feet; this fall Is in four parts, of whioh
the upper part is again roundly reckoned by
Murray at a thousand feet sheer. It sounds
well, no doubt. We have visited this fall
twice; the second time with a friend who was
well acquainted with all the Swiss waterfalls,
and over whom we consequently felt a oertatn
sense of superiority, for no Swiss waterfall
pretends to be a sheer thousand feet. Bat oar
friend's perception were unsophisticated, his
judgment Rhadamanthine; he insisted that
the united four fahs did not exoeed a thousand
feet. "Ye3," we replied, with some shame
(for we had boasted of the Krimml fall), "or
call it twelve hundred; fifteen hundred it may
even be." But we felt at the time that
he was right. The Staubbaoh, that beauti
ful "pillar of light," whloh some people
affect to contemn, is a very honest fall; it ia,
we believe, a genuine hundred feet. The Klel
foss at Gudvangen is reokoned at two thou
sand; we should like to see the man who,
wLile looking at it, can honestly say that he
thinks it higher than the Staubbach. There
is a nameless fall in Romsdal, at the top of
one of the cliffs, that appeared to ns at least
as high as the Kielfoss. Bat we were mis
taken when we just now called the estimate
of the Ostadfoss the ne i!us ultra of exaggera
tion. There is a wa'erfall in Derbyshire called
Kinder Downfall, ft picturesque leap of a moun
tain stream, some sixty feet into a rocky ra
vine, among a chaos of huge boulders, the
ravine continuing to slope downwards very
steeply after the fall. Of this one of the guide
books says, in a light and airy manner (we
quote from memory): "The fall is considera
ble; the Kinder leaps from ledge to ledge for
five hundred feet Into the valley; when full,
its breadth is about a quarter of a mile" l
That would indeed be a Niagara. Bat it is dis
tressing to see really pretty scenery pat to
Bbime in this way.
We have wandered, from Norway. Let us
KING TKLJIGlUl'H PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY,
conclude by ''injr, a good word for the people.
There is no jjort kindly nation aay where. If
their primitive mode of living, and the naolu
sion in which they, are neoessarily kept for
half ,he year have prevented their reaching a
vevy high degree of Intellectual development,
'hfv are at all events extremely eager to learn:
and an Englishman will ia many out-of-the-way
inns win their gratitude by leaving them
an English book to read. From our own ex
perience we should consider them the most
sincerely religions nation on the Continent;
certainly the most impressive service we ever
heard was In one of the Bergen churohes. It
is true that an Euglishman might have been a
little startled by the amount of expeotoratioa
indulged in by the congregation; between the
intervals of the sermon the sound was like
that of the large rain-drops at the be
ginning of a thunder shower. Bat
their attention was breathless, their en
ergy in sieging marvellous; and the faces
of the men were, for a devout and ugly earn
estness, like those in the pictures of Albert
Diirer. It is on a Sunday that the costumes
of the peasantry are best seen, and very pretty
they are, especially those of the women. Boa
nets and hats are nnknewn among them; a
scarf or handkerchief, sometimes white, more
frequently colored, is wound round their heads
and falls down their backs; the maidens wear
a red snood. The greatest amount of orna
ment and of color is on their breast v, here they
wear silver clasps or brooches, of curious and
Bometlmea very old workmanship. These are
to be bonght plentifully in the Bhops of Chris
tiania and Bergen, and no tourist returns
without some of them. The belts of the men
are at times of silver, and very remarkable.
From these belts hang daggers a dangerous
custom, it might seem; but the people are not
hot-blooded. Ia many valleys the men wear
a singular weird-looking red cap, loose and
long. Now that the costumes of the Tyrol are
going out of fashion, Norway ia distinctly the
country of picturesque dress, if indeed it was
not always on a level with the Tyrol in thia
respect.
Dr. Tjndall's New Researches.
From the London Athenautn.
"On a New Series of Chemical Reactions
produced by Light" ia the title of a remarkable
paper presented to the Royal Society by Dr.
Tyndall. It ia a paper whioh will be read with
eagerness for the interesting faots it disoloses,
and for the method of experiment, heretofore
nntried, which it offers to chemists. Vapors
of volatile liquids are introduced into an ex
hausted glass tube, and subjeoted to the aotion
of concentrated sunlight, or to the concentrated
beam of the electrio light. This is the method:
the effects produced varying with the vapor
employed, may, without strain of speech, be
described as wonderful.
The method has another advantage, for, aa
Dr. Tyndall remarks, the power of the electrio
beam to reveal the existence ot anything
within the experimental tube, or the impari
ties of the tabe itself, is extraordinary. When
the experiment is made in a darkened room,
a tube which in ordinary daylight appears
absolutely clean is often shown, by the pre
sent mode of examination, to be exceedingly
filthy. With vapor of nitrate of amyl, a
shower of liquid spherules was precipitated
on the beam, thus generating a cloud within
the tube. With a modification of the beam,
the precipitation was so rapid and intense
that the cone formed by the beam, before in
visible, flashed suddenly forth like a solid and
luminous spear. By proper management of
the light, the vapor within the tube may be
made to appear of a rioh pure blue oolor, equal
to that in the skies of the Alps.
With iodide of allyl, the vapor column re
volved round the axis of the decomposing
beam, drawn in at certain places like an hour
glass, while delicate cloud-filaments twisted
themselves in spirals round the bells of the
apparent hour-glass. With iodide of isopropyl
another change took place; the vapor formed
globes and cylinders, which were animated by
a commotion of rotation, disturbed at timea by
a paroxysm, in which beautiful and grotesque
cloud forma were developed, some represent
ing a serpent's head, others buds which seemed
to grow into flowers, and all of a gorgeous
mauve color. With hydrobromio acid the
cloud resolvea itself into a series of disks and
funnels, then parasols and rings of a very pale
blue color, and all rotating as in the former
instance.
With hydrochloric acid the cloud requires
twenty minutes for its full development, but
then it appears in sections each possessing an
exceedingly complex and ornate structure,
exhibiting ribs, spears, funnels, leaves, in
volved scrolls, and iridescent fleurs-de lis.
With bydriodio acid another modification is
seen, having a family likeness to the two im
mediately preceding, but with marked differ
ences of development, for the green and crim
son produoed were the most vivid that Dr.
Tyndall has yet observed. The development
of the cloud, as he describes, was like that of
an organism, from a more or less formless
mass at the commencement, to a structure of
marvellous complexity, at whioh the Professor
"looked in wonder for nearly two hoars."
We may anticipate that a subject which ap
peals to the eye as thia does will be taken for
one of the Friday evening lectures at the Royal
Institution. Meanwhile, different classes of
scientific inquirers may work with the new
method, for it connects itself with phenomena
of chemical decomposition, with molecular
physios, and with phenomena of the atmos
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G I It A H D
ESTATE.
In eomnllance with the twonty-roarth nee-.
linn of ttie will of Stephen Utrard, the Superin
tendent of tbe Ulrard Kwtate baa prepared the
following condensed atatemeut ol the alTaira of
the estate:
Blocks and Ionng appropriated for the "Im
provement of ttie eastern front of the city and
Delaware avenue."
Par Value.
United Btates ten-forty five per cent.
Losn 14,000 00
City ol Philadelphia, 5 per cent. Loan 7,000 00
Cliy of Philadelphia 6 per cent.
Loan, free from las IH4.2O0
City of Philadelphia 6 per cent.
Loan, taxable 54,100
19S 300 00
City Gas 8 per cent. Loan 10.0JO 00
22 shares of slock In the Iutturanoe
Company Male of Pennsylvania .. 4,400 00
42 shares preierred stock Union Canal
Company 2,100 00
Union Canal ComraDy of Penusylva-
ma fl per rent. Loan 1,000 00
Bfhnylklll Navigation Company Loan,
1870, 6 percent 252,193 84
Bcnuylklll Navigation Company Loan,
1882, 6 per cent. ..... 2,350 00
II.
Blocks and Loans, comprising the llcslduary
Fund, lfcliH:
United Slates Five twenties, 6 per
cent. Loxn $2,53000
United Hlaies Ten-foi ties, 6 per-ouut.
Loan 10 700 00
City of Phlindf iphla 5 per cent. Loan... 4,300 00
City of PiillHclelphla 6 per
rent. I,onn, free of tax tUO,500.00
City of Philadelphia per
cent. Loan, taxable 22,800 00
163,800 00
Bcriur lk 111 Navigation Company Loan,
1870, 6 prr cent 1.933-51
Loan to Fraukhn Inaiiiuie 1.0U0 0J
1U0 shares of slock, Philadelphia Ex
ohange Company 10,000 00
2200 sharesot stock. Bohuylklll Naviga
tion Company 110,000 00
Schuylkill Navigation Company Loan,
1882, 0 per cent, received for Interest- 211 63
408 shares of stock: Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Co., 50 eaoh 20,40000
102 shares of stock Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Co., received aa
dividends 5,100 00
1 certificate Bcbuylktl Navlga'lon Co.,
isoai juoan, 7 per cent., received us
dlvidond
Kbares of stock Oerniantown sad
Perklomen Turnpike Co
1 fcbare ot stock Husquebanna and Le
high Turnpike Co
1 bond for loan to KlUgo Koad Turn
pike Co
1 bond for lnteieht on loan to Ridge
Kond Turnpike Co
-Hrmnobed to be of no value:
6,600 00
20000
10000
10,000 00
900 00
4010 bharts of stock Dauvllie k Fottsville Rail
road Co.
4
1
16
' Centre Bridge Co.
Philadelphia Doinestlo 8
clely.
" Bumleton and Smith field
Turnpike road.
1 " " Downlngtown, Epnrata,
and Harrlsburg Turnpike
road.
1 " In the newxoaper otllad "Le Cour
rler tits Ktais Unls."
Loans appropriated to purchase fuel far "Poor
white housekeepers and rooui-keepurs" in. the
city of Philadelphia:
1 certificate of loan (Schuylkill Naviga
tion Counptny, 1870, six per cent. (9,089 37
1 certificate or loau Hnhuylklll Naviga
tion Compony, 18.12, six per cent.,
received lor interest 272 08
89,362 05
IV.
Loans and cash comprising the legacy reoelvel
in part from estate of Lawieuce Todd, deceased,
of Illinolt:
United Hi ute s loan 1SS1, six per cent...... 87,000 00
City of Philadelphia six per cent, loan,
free of tax. 10. 100-00
Cash Interest received .... 2.806 82
Balance in loan and cash..' 819,968 82
Tbe following account current exhibits a eon
denned statement of tbe cash account, em
bracing the amount of Interest, dividends, rent
of real estate, and payments made to various
objects for tbe year 18ti8:
Balance in tbe treasury Jan. 1, 1868,.....85t,491'83
Cabb received for rent of real estate 233 45S-73
" " collieries.. 109,24146
" " real estate In
Schuylkill county 295 00
Cash received, leases for cutting tim
ber 3,91788
Cash received lrom city loans, for inte
rest....... 22,157 85
Cash received from United Btates 11 ye
twenty 6 per cent, loan, interest 20912
Casta received from United Btates ten
lorty 5 per cent, loan interest 1,099 00
Cash received from United Btates loan,
1881, 6 per cent. Interest 583 23
Cash received from Uchuy lkiUNavlga
tlon boat loan, Interest M 303 41
Cash received from Schuylkill Navlga- '
lion loan, interest 419 10
Cash received from Insurance Compa
by Btate of Pennsylvania, dividend 48100
Cash received from Philadelphia Ex
change Company slock, dividend... 40000
Cash received from City tias 6 per cent,
loan, Interest 570 00
Cash received from Germantown and
Perklomen Turnpike Koad Company 22 09
Casb received from Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal Company stock, di
vidend 2,29500
Cash received from damages for land
taken in vicinity of League Island.... 15,135 33
Cash reoelved from taxes relunded in
Bcbnylklll county .. 1,000-80
Cash refunded by ReaJiug Railroad
Company, wel&hmasier' charge 50 00
$160,321 71
Cash paid nnder appropriations by Councils:
K8XATK.
Water rent $1,914 35
Taxes... 4: 814 87
Balarles 6.737 54
Lands out of the county 50 9U8-01
Permanent Improvements... 188507
Gent ral repairs to real estate. 13 097-21
Inside palutlDg.. 2,191-50
Outside paiutiuK and glaz
ing 2 518-61
Paper and hanging 8,854 03
Annuities..,. 600 00
Mlscellaueousexpeuses 5,889 16
Altering No. 1111 Chtsuut
fetreel 4,981 40
Altering No. 19 Bouth Fifth
street 338 25
Altering Nos. 1115 and 1117
Cbtauut street 16,995 00
Alteilog No. 132 Bouth TlUru
street r 4,99902
Lighting Delaware avenue
with gas 1,205-60
Turcbase of fuel 505-62
Investment In City loan 15,185 88
purchase of title In Bcnuyl-
kl.l county 14,158 81
$212,228 27
COLLEGE.
Committee ou
Household $109,927 61
Committee ou In
struction - 21,477 90
Committee ou Ao
counts 3.099 70
Committee on Li
brary . 399 44
Committee ou Dis
cipline and Dis
charge................. 209.33
Com mil iee 00 Ad
mimlon......... 20 00
Committee on Man
ual Labor... 4S515
$135,618 59 $346,875 80
December 81, 1K68 Palanoe
lu the Tieasury
1!Ibiic bv L'Hv 'treasurer's
$112.417 85
llsccouct $118,182-88
Variants not taken In 3 705 03
$112.447 85
Office of the Glrard Estate,
rhlladelphm, December 8. 1868.
C11AKLE-4B. SMITH,
1 St Superintendent Glrard EUate.
LEGAL NOTICES.
ESTATE OP " ELEANOR WRIGHT, DE
ceMd. Letters of Administration on tbs
bova K.'ate having bean granted to tha undar
lKutd, persons indebted thereto will maka payment,
and ll) one having claims against tae same preanut
tbein to HOIIKKI' K. FL.H.MI Nii. Administrator,
No. 1.16 MAKKKT Street, or to bli Attorney, UlUb,
O. LlftTH-U, No. 604 WLN O f street. 12 83 Ji6t
B1ZES CASUEU IN ROfAL HAVANA
KENTUCKY, and WIHHOUK1 LOITHJRI lt(J.
Circular! aeul and Inltrruailun given JlMBPH
UAiKH, No. 71 iUtU Ail W A y , New York. Pos
QlUce 0X4204, H UUu
JANUARY 4, 18G9.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
UNITED SECURITY
L I V U I X V It A N O K
AND TKUhf
COWPAl-Y,
or
PEN NSYLVANIA.
OFFICE:
S. E. Corner FIFTH and CHESNUT Sts.,
FBILADl LPBIA.
CAPITAL, -
S 1 ,000,000
DIltEOTOll s.
PHILADELPHIA.
GEOUGKH. BTUAHT,
UrOKUK W. VtilLLiH,
WM. A POK1KK,
F. A. DKKXKL,
WM. V. M( KKAN,
lOlOMAtt W. KVaNS.
B. H. HORPTMANIf,
a. jinr.A r.u.
wm. v. HuuaruN,
J. NllLMi,
UENHY JC ROOD.
HKW IUIK,
JAMFSM. MORRI1 ON, President Manhattan Bank
JOO-rU'll bit A Hi", ol J. J. btuait ft Co., Bankers.
BOSTON.
EON. K. B. TO BEY. late President Board or Trade.
CINCINNATI.
A. X. CHAMBERLAIN, of Chamberlain & Co.
CUICASO.
Ij. Z. T.EITFR. Of Field, Letter A Co.
C. M..ttMi ril, ol Ueo. O bniiih dt .brothers, Bankers,
LOUISVILLB, KV.
WILLIAM GARVIN, of Garvin, Bell A Co.
ST. LOUIS.
JAME8R. TBATMAN, Cashier Merchants' National
iiaua.
kkw RAMrsmm,
BON. J. W PAl'IKltsUN. U. b. Senator.
BALTIMORE.
WILLIAM FRKRCOTT BMITH, Superintendent
CoriROlldated Railway Line, New York to
-WaanlbKlon.
P. V. bUOKMAKER. of Adams A Co. 'a Express.
t II KIM IAN AX, of U. W. Uail A AX.
1KM:IH T. HI Mi, Preaiaeut Central Bavlngs
Bank.
GEOROK H. STUART. President.
O F. BETT4 Htcretary.
J. L. LUDLOW. Consulting Physician.
JOBMFGk?OKIRPEri.,il. B.. Medical Examiner.
C. B1TJART PATlER80N,lrnnn-Bl
RICHARD LUDLOW, J Counsel.
This Company larues Policies of Lite Insurance
upon all the various plans that have been proved
by tbe experience of European and American Com
panies to be safe, sound, and reliable, at rates aa
LOW AND UPON TElttfB AS FAVOKABLB Ai
THOSE OF ANY COM ANY OF iXiUAL bTA
B1L1TY.
All policies are non forfek ble after the payment
of two or uioi e annual premljms. 11 13 iinrttmxi
1829CnARTEB rERFETUAL.
Franklin Fire Insurance Co.
eJr jtAaAiakAr xtXA
OFFICE:
.Nub. 435 aud 437 C11ES3UT SillEJST.
ABHETS OJSf JANUARY I, 1S6S,
,ooa,7'o ou.
OA PITA i... M,..M..w.M.M.MM.94IOa)Oe)-oa
A CCH UK J) 8UILPL CS m....nm..... I.O I t.Stf.ffltt
UNbETTXJU) CLAIMS, USUOalK tfuit J8o7
IrflMEai I All SINC'B 180 VJBS
300,000.
Pcipetnal and Temporary Polioiea on Liberal Tsrmt
DIRECTORS.
Charles N. Bancker, Ueorge Fains,
Tublua Wagner, Airreu Fltler,
Baniuel Uraut, Frauds W. Lewis, M n
GeorteW Klcharda. Thomas Sparks,
Isaac Lea, William S. urant.
CHARLES N. BANCJ4.J1R. President.
tikUKuHi FaJJlS, Vlco-Preaiuent.
JAB, W, McALallM 1'D.R, beotetary pro tetu.
Except at Lexington, Kenlnaay, this Company has
no Agencies West of PuuDurg, m
INSURE AT HOME
IN TBI
Tcnii Mutual Life Insurance Co.
o. 1)21 CHESiMJT St., rnJlrtdelphlu.
assetm, $2,000,00.
chartered by our own state,
managed by oor own citizens.
LUt St 8 PROMPTLY PAID.
POLICIES ISaUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be made at the Home OOloe, and
tbe Agencies throughout the State. 3 18
JAM EH IBAttVAlB PRESIDENT
JAMUEli K. klOHKa, VlCE PREoIDENT
J AO. W. UttUKGH A. V. P. and AOIUARY
MOMATIO 1. SlliflltAS SECRETARY
I
8 U E a N C E COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
No. 232 WALNUT STREET, PHILaDa.
IN CORPORA TED 1794. CHARTER PEKPETUAi
marine, lnlaua, ana ! Insarsuve,
ASSETS JAUOARY 1, 1868, - t2,0OL266-72
120,000,000 Losses P&id In Cwl tiooa lU
Organisation.
. . DIRECTORS.
Artanr a Bonn, George L. Harrison
baxuuel W. Jones,
Francis a. Gods.
la'axk Tk 1 I g a fluna.
UUU A. illUWii,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
Richard D. Wood,
B. Morris Wain,
Jnhn Maann.
Eo ward H, Trotter,
Edward S. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jeauuu,
John P. White,
LuuU O. Madeira.
' tniranij ft .
Cbables PukTT, Secretary. ' ",lo,
WILLIAM RUEHLKR, Harrlibarg, Pa., Centra
Agent lor the Btate of Pennsylvania, t6
PHCBNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
PHILADELPHIA. A
1NOORPUKATED 1B04 CHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. i WaLN BT Street, opposite the Excnange. -This
Company Insures iruui 1U1M ot damage by
on liberal terms, on bnlldiugs, merchandise, furniture
eic, lor llui lied periods, aud permanently ou bulld
Ujs by deposit or premium 1.
Tbe O rupany bas been in active operation for mora
than SIXTY YEARS, during which all louses have
been promptly adjusted and tall,
JohnL. Hodge, .liavia Lewis.
M. H. Mahony,
Benjamin Ettlnr.
John T. Lewis,
Wll'iam S. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
D. Clark Whaiton,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
Tuouiaa M . Powers.
A. R. McHeary, '
Eda uud Castlllon.
Samuel Wlloox,
Lewi, 6. Noma.
W UCUEREli, president.
Samukl Wiixiux, btcreiary.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY THB
X ENKbk A.VANXA FlRai INSURANCE CUM
PA NY incorporated lbi Charter Perpetual No
610 WALeiUT Bireet, opposite Independence ba uan
This Comuany, favorably known to theoomnuinlt
ror over lortv years, Continues 10 Insure against lo
or damage by tire on Publlo or Private Bulldlnit
ntber permanently or for a limited time. Also or
Furniture Slocks of Goods, and Merchandise Vena
rally, on liberal terms. a
Their Capital, together with a large Burplns Fund
is Invested in the most carelulmauuer, which enabiM
tbeui to offer to the Insured an undoubted seourltw iT
the case of tots.
Daniel Bmlth. Jr..
SixawuM.
Ah zander Rouson,
lhaao nazlfhurat,
jonn ueverwtuc,
Thoaiaa cmuiUi,
Henry iewls,
J. (4llTlnixl.a.n Fall.
Thomas xtooina,
I ... .1 1 nt T3 f. ...... . .
DANIEL SMITH. jB.,P'eslCent.
WM. S. CROW ELL. Secretary. 00t
jmmilAL F1P.K 1SSUIUACU CGMl'AA Y
LONDON.
ESTAItLISIIF.Ii IS03.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
$0)000,0 0 0 IN GOLD.
FlIKVOMT t UHBRINQ AgenUh
Utm, 99, 107 Bouth THIRD Street, PhllA,
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
A 8 D U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
PEW YORK.
I KMCf.T' BANGS, President. , . . v ..
UfcO. ELLK'IT. Vice PrVsWIenl and Bee.
EMURY McCHNIOCK.. Actuary;
Tha Atbnry Con pany losius Policies In all the forms
la present we, on ids must I lie ral terms In tenpect to
rales, UlvlSitiu of Pi Ills, rntr K'lluus rn ocoupatloa
ano travel, cmpaiii with safety; loans one-tnlrd of
fueivlums, wbau desired, ond makes all policies aUsO
uieiy ron-fonelt-bl. ........
oriimf noh'g business only In April last, It has been '
received alio to o -h favor that ita assurances)
alrt-sdy amonDt toovw. 1,(pl0,0i0, and are rabidly In
creaalng -bf,YLVAN1A AGENCY, '
jAMrH M. l.ONOACKK, h anager.
No. mi KAlMii mreet, Philadelphia,
local Board of Inference In Philadelphia:
Tuomas T. Teaser, r. aiorris nsin,
James B I.nimacre,
J.jtm fl. Mccreary,
J. B. Lippmcolt,
James Long,
J aims Hunter,
Ar.nur u. lomn,
John si. Maris.
W illiam Divine,
John a. Wright,
j 1. worne,
It 2ihuiam
Charles 8,enccr.
TRICTLY MUTUAL.
PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST CO.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ot FKK. . HI t'OUKTII STREET,
Uraaulavd 10 promote lA.Ha, xAutiRANCJS among
meU,be",UbOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
Good risks of any class accented,
Policies Issued upon approves piaua, a tn iwwsc
IrpoaMcM f a
BAMXJEL R. BHIPLKY.
Vice-President, W'LL,tAM O. LuNUSTRlTH.
Actuary, KOWLAND PARRY,
The advantages offered by this Company are
excelled lill
ENGINES, MACHINEHY, TO.
PENH BTE.AM ENGINE) ATSO
1 '-1 BOJ1.H.H WUKAs. NEAK1K A I.I UV
lulL 1 111 A I. AM) VH kllKkTICA I. K.H111 1M lluui
K4 A 4 ' U I It IUTL iij.i 1 U'u r.t A 1.' S. uu i , . .
SMITHS, and FOUNDERS, having lot many yean
been in successful operation, ami been exclusively
engBKed lu buliillug and repairing Marine and River
Engines, high andlow-pressure. Iron Boilers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc., respectfully oO'er their
services to tbe publlo as being fully prepared to con
tract lor en gl nea of all slaes, Marine, River, and
Stationary; having sets Of patterns of different sixes
are prepared to execute orders with quick deapatoo.
Every description ol pattern-making made at the
shortest notice. High and Low-premnra Fine
Tubular and Cylinder Bullera, ol tha best Pennsylva
nia charcoal Irou. If'orglngu of ail sices and kinds
Iron and Brass Cast tuan of all descriptions. Roll
Turning. Screw Cutting, and all ether work connected
with the above buslnpsa.
Drawings and specifications for al work done at
thetstabtlahment free of charge, aud work goaran-
Th'e subscribers have ample wharf-dock room foa
repairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect aaxtitr
and are provided with shears, blocks, falls, etc aka'
for raising heavy or light weights.
JACOB O.N EAFL9.
JOHN P. LiCVY.
11 BEACH and PALMER btrecM.
VAt. AA1CK. hm WIIXIA,, H. WUIOg
SOCT11WARK FOUNLBY. FIFTH AXT
WASHINGTON Blreeta, ' irxa AJ3H.
PRIIWkDKIPHIA,
-.J,?',AKIU-'K SONS,
ilJUUINEERS AND MACHINIHTH,
manufacture Hign and Low Pressure Steam Engines
lor Land, Rlvur. and alarm Service.
Boliera, Gasomelere, Tanks, Iron Boats, eta
Castings of all kinds, either Iron or brass.
Iron irame Roofs for Gas Work, Workshops, ant
Railroad stations, etc.
Retorts aud uaa Machinery, ot the latest and moat
Improved construction.
Every description of Plantation Machinery, alao
Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Oil
Steam Trains, Defecators, Filters, Pumping, En,
gines, etc
a Bole Agents ror N. Blllenx's Patent Sngar Boiling
Apparatus, Nesmyth'a Patent Steam Hammer, and
Aspinwall A Wooisey'g Patent Centrifugal Sugar
Draining! Machines. tiut
PROPOSALS.
A1
RMY TRANSPORTATION
Of nt-i Usijir Um RTsuu.iiTiiii
Fort Lkavknwomth kui.iu n. luio r
BEADED PROPUbALS will be received at this
oHlce until 11 o'clock A. M., January 20, 1869, lor tua
TRANSPORTATION OF MILITARY SUPPLIES
ourlug the year commencing April i, itwu, on me
following rouies: (f roposa s tor route No. 8 will
also ne received by llrevet Lieutenant-Colonel M. I.
LuUuiDgion.c. Q M , at Santa Fe, N, M., uulU the
lime above mentioned )
ROUTE No.
From such points on the Union Paclflo Railway,
E. D. , as may, uurlng the existeuce of tbe contract,
be designated by tbe Chief 4u .rtormastur's Depart
nunt ol the Mhsouil, to any placts that may be
aesiKriateo by the lorivaidlug otUuer in the btate ef
Kansas and Territory of Colorado south of latitude
4U degrees north; lu such positions of the Btate of
1 tias and Iufllftu Terniory as lie north of the Caua
dUn river aud west tit longitude M7 degrees; aud lo
Fort Unl'.'U, New Mexico, or such other depot as
may be dtalgoaied In that Territory, aod any inter
lue. lt points on ttien uie to that depot. Bidders
will state tbe rale per 1(0 pounds per loo miles at
whicb I bey will transport ibe stores lu each month ot
the ear, begluulng April t itv.
Separate t'loi tewtv . , vlted aod will bs en-'i-u
j. i ktt iranno tati r to and from the iol-
otit l t iru.lhe ifetc tio ton per 100 pouuda forth
' in ii tr.tKt.enu not miles, as la the tore-
li ii t
' I J - i HARKER
f i, arm, Lamed, Dodge, Lyou, Reynolds, Gar
and, and Union.
FROM FORT HAYS
to Foru Dorge, Lyon, Reynolds, Garland, and TJnlen.
UtOM bUEiilDaN OU FORT WaLLaCE
to Frrth Ltn, Reynolds, Garland anj Uuiou.
The transportation herein advertised lor must be
Wholly by wagon.
lulormation will be given on application to this
othce of ibe distances betweeu tue places named
above, and upon any otber points regarding the ser
vice herein advertised lor. .
roui jc nx a.
From Fort Union, or sucn other depot as may be
etiabiiahed In the Territory of New Mexlcj, to any
poslBor atatlona tbat are or may bs established ir
tbat ierrluiry, and to such posts or stations as may
be dee guttled in the Territory or Aris.ua aud tha
State of Texas west of lei-gllude 106 degrees.
'Ihe weight to be transported will not exoeed on
Route No. 2, 20,000,000 pouudb; on Route No. S, lu.tOO 000
pouuds, Biauers will s'a'e their places of residence, and
each proposal mutt be accompanied by a deposit ef
I'AAH) (no esor certified cheo payable lo the order
ul the undersigned), as a guarantee that In caseaav
award la made to him the Didder v. ill aoeept It aod
tuler Into contract with good and satnoieut security
In accordance with the terms ot ibis advertlaauieutt
said sum lu be fortelied to the United Statea Incase
of lailu. e by tbe party to whom the contract may be
awardtd.to execute In due form auoh contract.
Each bit der must be present at tha opening of lhe
proposal,or be lepreseutod by his attorney.
The c -u u actors 1 1 be required to give bonds on
Route No. it lu socb amounts as snail be fixed by the
nndersigntd; on RuLte No o. lluo.tKiO.
fcailslacior. evldenoe ol the loyalty and solvency
of each blduer aid person oUered as seourity will be)
rt qui red.
Pio. oasis must he Indorsed "Proposals for Army
Transportation on oule No. 8," or ' " as Ihe oa e
maybe, and none will be entertained uuteaa they
fully comply with tua requirement of this adver
tisement, The party to whom an award Is made musi be pre
par d to execute the contract wltuout uuaecessary
d. lay. and .o give tbe required bonds lor the faithful
pei lormai.ee ol Ihe oontract.
Tbe right to reject any aod all bids that may be
OflVrf Is reservtd.
The contractor on each route must be In readiness
ft r srrv'ce by the let day ot April, 1860, and mutt,
have a place of business or agency at wnljo he may
bscommuDlcaied wl b readily, at the at ar ting point
or points of bii route.
Blank forms, showing the conditions of the on
iraoi. to be eotertd Into for each : route, cao be baA
opon ai plication to ibis othce, either personally or
by letter, and must accompany and be a part of the
pro pens Is.
Blanks for proposals will be furnished on appli
es' Ion.
Bv ordtrof tbe Chief Quartermaster, Military Dt-
vlflon of the Missouri.
12 17 lro L. O EABTOPr,
DepT P. M . Gen. V. B. A..C.Q. M Dep't M
JJ I R E GUARDS,
lUB ITUBH FRONTS, ATI,(7n(l, FAO
lOBIM, ETC,
Patent Wire Railing llron Bedsteads, Oraamenta
Wire Work, Paper Makers' Wires, and every vartet
ol Wire Woik, mannfaoinrtd by
SI. WALKr.B- A NORM,
t xnwf No. It North SIXTH ate.
QEORGE PLOWMAN,
CARPENTER AND BUILDER,
KLMOYLD 10 Ko. 131 DOCK Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
TXT ILLIAM 8. GRANT.
V V . OuM M ISS1 ON M EROH A NT.
No IB. DELAWARE Avenue, Philadelphia.
AGENT FOR
Papnat't Gunpowder, Redned Nitre, Charcoal, etd
W. Baker A Oc'a Chocolate, Cocoa, and Broma,