THE DAILY fi v s NO TELEGRAPH rffiLADKLPHlA, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1869. 6 Unley the rnjgical Basil of Lids. Frofisor IIuxleT hat an Important and Inte yestlng paper in the Fortnightly Jieoiew, from Which we make soma extracts: Mr. IIaxl7 begins by admitting that, when rst apprehended, anoh a doctrine as hie ap pears almost sboohing to common sense. What emmanlty of faoaltj can there be between the brightly colored lichen, whlou. so nearly resembles a mere mineral inornstation of the bare rook on whloh it grows, and the painter, te whom it is instinot with beauty, or the botanist, whom it feeds with knowledge f If we regard substance,, or material composition, what hidden ' bond can conneot the flower which a girl wears in her hair and the blood whloh courses through her youthful veins f or what is there in common between the dense and restating mass of the oak, or the strong fabric of the tortoise, and those broad disks glassy jelly which may be seen pulsating through the waters of a calm sea, but whloh drain away to mere films In the hand which raises them out of their element T .Saab, ob jections as these must arise in the mind of very one who ponderB, for the first time, npon the conception of a single physloal basis of life underlying all the diversities of vital existence; but Mr. Huxley proposes to demonstrate that a threefold unity namely, unity of form, and a unity of substantial composition does pervade the whole living world. To illustrate his case, Mr. II axle y goes to the common nettle: You are doubtless aware that the common nettle owes Us stinging property to the lnuu merable stltr and needle-like, tcoaga ex qnlsitely delicate, hairs whlou cover Its Bur lace. aob slinging-needle tapers from a brond ho a slender summir, which, though rounded at Ibe end, Is of such mlorosopplo fineness that It readily penetrates, and breaks off la, the skin. Xbe wbole balr consists of a very delicate outer cse of wood, closely applied to ibe Inner surface of whlou in a layer of seinl-fluld matter, full of Innumerable granules of extreme minuteness. This seml-Uald lining Is proto plasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid, and roughly correspond ing In form with tue interior of the hair whloh it nils. When viewed with a sufficiently high magnifying power, tbe protoplasmlo layer of the nettle hair la seen to be in a condition of unceasing activity. Local contractions of the whole thickness of Us substance pass slowly and gradually from point to point, and gave rise to the appearance of progressive waves, Just as tbe bending of suooesslve stalks of corn by a breeze produoes tbe apparent' billows ot a oorn-fleld. But in addition to these move menu, and Independently of them, the granules are driven, In relatively rapid streams,.through channels In the protoplasm which seem to have a considerable amount of persistence. Host commonly, the currents In adjacent parts of the protoplasm lake similar directions; and, thus, thei e Is a general stream up one side of tbe balr and do wu tbe other. But this does not prevent tbe existence of partial currents which take different routes; and, sometimes, trains of grarjuls may be seea coursing swlttly in opposite directions, wiinia a iweaty-inou-samlthof an inch of one another; while, occa sionally, opposite streams come Into direct col lision, and, after a longer or shorter struggle, one predominates. . . . The possible com plexity ol many other organic forms, seemingly m simple as the protoplasm of the nettle, dawns upon one; acd the comparison of suoi a protoplasm to a body with an Internal circula tion, whloh has been put forward by an emi nent physiologist, loses much of Us startling character. . . , The acts of all living things are fundamentally oue. Is any such unity pre tUcable of their lorms? Let us seek lu easily verified facts lor a reply to this question. If a drop of blood be drawn by pi lotting one's finger, and viewed wiih proper precautious and under a sufficiently high micro scopic power, laeie will be seea among the innumerable ' multlinde of little, circular dlsooidal bodies, or corpuscles, which float In it and give it its color, a compa ratively small number of colorless corpuscles, of somewhat larger size and very Irregular shape If the drop of blood be kept at the tem perature of the body, these colorless corpuscles will be seen to exhibit a marvellous activity, changing tbelr forms with great rapidity, drawing In and thrusting out prolongations or their substance, and creeping about as if they were Independent organisms. The substance whloh is thus active Is a mass ot protoplasm, and Its activity diflers In detail, rather than lu principle, from that of the protoplasm of the nettle. A nucleated mass of protoplasm turns out to be what may be termed the structural nnitof the human body. As a matter of fact;, tbe body, In its earliest slate, Is a mere mul tiple of suoh units; and in Us perfect con dition, it is a multiple of such units, variously modified. But does the formula whloh expresses the essential structural character of the highest Animal cover all the rest, as tbe statement of its powers and faculties covered that of all otbeis? Very nearly. Beast and fowl, reptile and flsb, moliusk, worm, and polype, are all composed of structural units of the same char acter, namely, masses of protaplosm with a nuoleus. There are suniry very low animals, each of whloh, structurally, is a mere colorless blood-corpuscle, leading an Independent life. But, at the very bottom of the animal soale, even this simplicity becomes simplified, and an tue pnenomena 01 me are manifested oy a particle of protoplasm without a nuoleus. And what has been said or the animal world Is no less trueot plants. Traced back to Us earliest state, the nettle arises as the man does, in a particle of nucleated protoplasm. And la the lowest plants, as In tbe lowest animals, a single mass of suoh protoplasm may constitute the wbole plant, or the protoplasm may exist -without a nuoleus. Under these circumstances it may well be asked, how Is one mass of non nucleated pretoplasm to be distinguished from another? why call one plant" and tbe other "animal?" The only reply Is that, so far as form Is con cerned, plants and animals are not separable, and that, In many cases, It Is a mere matter of convention whether we call a given organism an animal or a plant. There Is a living body , called .ttthallum septlcum, whloi appears upon decaying vegetable substances, and in one of Us forms is common upon the surface of tan pits. In this condition It Is, to all intents and purposes, a fungus, and formerly was always regarded as suoh; but tbe remarkable Investigations of Ue B iry have shown that, la another condition, tbe vKihallum Is an ac tively locomotive creature, and takes la solid matters, upon which, apparently, It feeds, thus exhibiting the most characteristic feature of anlmality. Is this a plant, or is it au animal ? As It both, or Is it neither ? Mr. Huxley declares at this point that pro toplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter, whloh, bake It and paint it as yon will, re mains clay, separated by artifice and not by nature, from the commonest brick or sun dried clod. All living powers are oognate, and all living forms are fundamentally of one char acter. - The researches of the chemist have revealed a no less striking uniformity of material com position in living matter: ' In perfect strlotnoss, It is true that chemical Investigation can tell us Utile or nothing, di rectly, of ice composition of living rusuter, ' Inasmuch as suoh mailer must needs die in t le act of analysis and upon this very oovlons ground, objections, which I confess seem to me to be somewhat lrlvolotis, have boen raised to the drawing of any conclusions whatever re specting tbe composition of ac.utliy living matter lroiu that of the - dead matter of life, whloh alone is accessible to ns. But objectors of I his class do not seem to relit at that It is also, in strictness, true that we knew nothing about the composi tion of any body whatever, as it Is, The state ment that a crystal of calo-spar consists of car bonate of lime Is quite trne, If we only mean that, bv SDDronrlale nroneHses. It maybe re- ' solved Into carbonio acid aud quicklime. If you pass the same caroonio aoia over tue very quicklime thus obtained, you will obtain car bonate of lime again; but 11 will not be calo spar, nor anything like It. Can it, therefore, be said that chemical analysis leaches nothing about theobemloal composition of oalospar? Bucli a statement would be absurd; but it Is bardly more so than the talk one occasionally bears about the nselessnessnf applying results - of ehemloal analysis to the living bodies whloh have yielded them. , One fact, at any rate, la out of reach of such refinements, and this is, that all the forms of protoplasm which have yet been examined contain the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oaygen, and nitrogen, in very complex union, , and that they behave similarly towards seve ral resgenu. To this complex combination, lb nature of which bss nevr Mwn dftonn'nM with eaaolnes, lb name ot Protein hM tweo applied. And If we nm this tmm wlm auoa cnoi Ion may properly arl out of onr com parative Ignorance of ine things for wnt.Qlt stands, It may be truly said ibat all pr.no plasm Is prolelnaceous: or, aa the white, or albumen, ol an egg le one of tbe commonest eaample of a nearly pure protein matter, we may xay that all living matter is more or less And now, what is t he ultimate fate, and what the origin, of the matter of life? Is It, nsx-une of the older naturalists supposed, diffused throngbont the universe in molennles, wnloh are lhdeslructlble and unchangeable in them selves; but, in endless transmigration, unite In Innumerable permutations, iuto Ibe diversified forms of life we kuow? Or, Is the matter of life competed of ordinary matter, differing from It only in the roanuer lu which Its atoms are tigrtgate)!? Is it built up of ordiuary matter, aud again resolved Into ordinary matter when Its wotk Is done? Modern science does not btsliale a moment between these alternatives. I'bysioiogy writes over the portals of life "Pctemur roortl nos nostraque," with a profounder meaning than the Roman poet attached to that melancholy line. Under whatever disguise It takes retuge, whether fungus or oak, worm or man, tbe living pro toplasm notonly ultimately dies and Is resolved Into Us mineral and lifeless constituents, but Is always dying, and, strange as tbe paradox may sound, could not live unless It died. All work implies waste, and the work of lite results, directly or indirectly, in the work of protoplasm. Every word uttered by a speaker costs him some physloal loss, and, in the strictest sense, he barns that others may have light so much eloquence, so mnoh of his body resolved into carbonio aoid, water, and urea. It is clear that this prooess of expenditure cannot go on forever. Bat, happily, there is also a prooess of renewal: For example, this present leoture, whatever its intellectual worth to jou, has a certain physical value to we, which Is, conceivably, ex pressible by the number of grains of proto plasm and other bodily substance wasted in maintaining my vital processes during Its dell very. By-aud-by I shall probably have reoourse to the substance commonly called mutton, for tbe pnrpose of stretching It back to its original size. Mow this mutton was once tbe living protoplasm, more or less modified, of auother animal a sheep. As I shall eat it, it is tbe same matter altered, not only by deaih, but but by exposure to sundry artificial operations in the process of cooking. But these changes, whatever be their exieut, have not tendered it incompetent to resume Us old func tions fcS matter of life. A singular inward laboratory, which I possess, will dissolve acer tain portion of the modified protoplasm, the solution so formed will pass Into my veins; and the subtle Influences to which It will then be subjected will cot. vert the dead protoplasm Into living protoplasm, and transubstantiate sheep Into man. Nor Is this all. If digestion were a thing to be trifled with, I might sup upon lobster, aud the matter of life of tue crustacean would undergo the same wonderful meta morphosis Into bumaulty. And were I to return to my own place by sea, and undergo shipwreck, the Crustacea might, and probably wcuid, return the compliment, and demonstrate our common nature by turn ing my protoplasm into living lobster. Or, if nothing better weie to be bad, 1 might supply my wants with mere bread, and 1 should find the protoplasm of the wheat-plant to be con vertible Into man, with no more trouble than that of tbe sheep, aud with far less, I fanoj, than that of the lobster. Hence it appears to be a matter of no ureat moment what animal, or what plant, I lay under contribution for pro toplasm, and the fact speaks volumes for the general Identity ot that substance In all living belnL'B. I rhare Ibis catholicity of assimilation with other anlmuis.all of which, so far as we know, could thrive equally well on the proto plasm, of any of their lellows, or of any plant; but lure the assimilative powers of tbe animal world cease. A solution of smelling-salts in water, with an infinitesimal pi oportlon of some other saline matters, con tains all the elementary bodies which enter Into the composition of protoplasm; but, as I need bardly say, a hogshead of thai fluid would not keep a hungry man from starving, nor would It save any animal whatever from alike fate. An animal caunot mike proioplaam, but must take It ready made from some other animal, or some plant the animal's highest feat of constructive chemistry being to con vert dead protoplasm Into that llvlug matter of life which Is appropriated to Itself. Therefore, In stekiDg lor the origin of proto plasm, we must eventually turn to the vege table world. The fluid containing carbonio acid, water, and ammonia, whloh oilers such a Barmecide feast to the animal. Is a table richly spread to multitudes ot plants; and, wkb a due supply of only such materials, many a plant will not only maintain Itself In vigor, but grow aud multiply until it has lnoreased a million fold, or a million mllion-fold, tbe quantity of protoplasm whloh it originally possessed; In this way building up the matter of life, to an lndeflnlleextent, from the oommon matter of the universe. But it will be observed that the existence of the matter ol lite depends ou the pre existence of certain compounds, namely, carbouio acid, water, and ammonia Withdraw any one of these three from the world, and all vital phenomena come to an end. They are related 10 the protoplasm of the plant, as the protoplasm of the plaut is to that of the animal. Oarbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are all lifeless bodies. Of these, carbon and hydrogen unite in certain propor tions and under certain conditions, to give rise to caroonio aciu; nyarogenanu oxygen produce water: nitrogen and hydrogen give rise to am monia. These new compounds, like the ele mentary bodies of which they are composed. are lifeless. But when they are brought to gether, under certain conditions thev give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, and lb is protoplasm exhibits the phenomena of life. I see no break In the series of steps la molecular complication, and I am unable to understand why tue language which is applica ble to any oue ttitn ot the series may not be used to any of the others. We think fit to call different kinds of matter carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, and to speak or the vailous towers and activities of these substances as ibe properties of the matter of which they are composed. When hydrogen and oxygen are mixta in a certain proportion, aud an eleotrlo spark la passed through them, they dn-appear, and quantity of water, equal lu weight to the sum of their wetghis, appears In their place. Tu re is not the slightest parity between the passive aud active powers of the water and those ol the oxygen aud hydrogen which have given rise to it. At 32 deg. Fahren heit, and far below that temperature, oxygen and hydrogen are el.utlo gaseous bodies, whose particles tend to rush away from one auother with great force. Water at the same temperature is a strong though buttle solid, whose parlioles tend 10 cohere Into definite geometrical shapes, and sometimes Inula up frosty Imitations of the most complex forms of vegetable foliage. Nevertheless we oall these, aud many other strange phenomena, the properties of the water, ana we do hot hesitate to believe that In some way or nnother, they result from the properties of the component elements of the water. We do hot ussume that a something called "aquoslty" entered into and took pos session ol the oxide of hydrogen as soon as It was formed, and then guided the aqueous particles to tielr places in the -facets or the crystal, or amoral the leaflets of the ho ir frost. Is tbe case In any way changed when carbonic acid, water, and atnmnula disappear, and in their place. u-der tbe luflueuce of pre existing living protoplasm, an equivalent weight of the uiaturof iif0 makes Us appvar- BDC.? It is true that there Is no sort of parity between the prntfiiios of the components and Ihe properiles ol ti o resultant, but neither was lJtt.VfLl of ? lbu influence of pre-existing ilvliiB lualter is something quite unlnielllglole; but dots anybody gm", ,i; prebend ihe moriux operandi of an electric Dark which traverses mixture of oxygen au.i hydrogen0 uu What Justifies1 ion is there, then, for the afsumptiou ol the oilstence in the living matter f a honn'ih tig whloh has no represent, tive or coireJuirve in the not living miner which gave rise t i:? What better pbllosophi. cl status has "vi.allty" thau "auuostiy?' And why should "vitality" hope for a better fate thsn the other "Hys" which have dlsaa. reared since Merlin us Hcrlbleru accounted for he operation of the meat-lack by lu inherent "meat roasting quality ,,T aud Boomed the "materialism" of those who explained tbe turning of the spit by a certain mechanism Worked by the draught of tbe chimney? And now, says Mr. Huxley, after still far ther enforcing Lis view of the faots: I bid you beware that, in accepting these con clusion, you are placing your feet on the first rung of a ladder which, In most people' esti mation, is the reverse of Jacob's, aud leads to the no tlpodes of heaven. Jt may seem a small iblrg to admit that the dull vital eotlont of a foDgnr, Or a InraralnUer, are tbe properties fif tbelr proioplaKm, and are tbe direct results of the tiainre of Ibe matter of which Iney are composed. But If, asl bave endeavored to prove lo you, their protoplasm la essentially idem ioal with, and moat readily convened Into, that of any animal, lean discover no l glol halting plaee between the admission that such is the cafe and the further oonoeaslon that all vital acticn may, with equal propriety, be said to be tbe rnll of lh molecular foroes of tbe proto plasm which displays It. And If so, It must be true, In tbe same sense and to the time ex tent, that the thoughts 1 1 which I am now giv ing utterance, and your thoughts regratu them, are the expression of moleoular ooaogee In ihatmatteref lire which la the source of oar other vital phenomena. Vast experience leads me to be tolerably cer tain tbat.wben tbe propositions I bave Just plaoed before yon are aucesslole to public om- inem ana criticism, mey win De condemned by many xealous pel Bona, and perhaps by some fewof tne wise and thoughtful. I should not wonder if "gross and materialism" were the mildest phrase applied to tbem la certain quar ters. And most undoubtedly the terms oi tbe propositions are distinctly materialistic .Nevertheless two things are certain: the one, that I bold the statements to be substantially true; tbe other, that I, Individually, am no materialist, but, on tbe contrary, believe mate rialism to Involve grave philosophical of ror. What, he says farther on What lathe difference between tbe concep tion ot llie as the product of a certain disposi tion of material molecules, and the old notion of anArchrcus governing and directing blind matter within each llvlug body, except this that here, as elsewhere, matter and law have devoured spirit and f poutanlety ? Aud as surely as every future grows out of past aud present, so will the phj Biology of the future gradually extend the realm of matter and law until it is co-extensive with knowledge, with feeling, and with action. The consciousness ot this great truth weighs like a nightmare. I believe, upon many of the best minds of these days. Tney watch what they conceive to be tbe progress of materialism, in such fear ana powerless anger as a savage feels, when, during an eclipse, tne freat shadow creeps over tbe face of the sun, 'neadvanclDg tide of matter threatens todrown their souls: the tightening grasp of law Im pedes their freedom; they are alarmed lest man's moral nature be debased by the Increase Of bis wisdom. But, after all, what do we know of this terrible "matter," except as a name for the nnknown and hypothetical cause of slates of our own consciousness 1 And what do we know of that "spirit" over whose threatened extinction by mailer a great lamen tation is arising, like that which was heard at tbe death of lau. except that it is also a name for an unknown and hypothetical cause, or condition, of states of consciousness? Inoiher words, matter and spirit are but names for the imaginary substrata of groups of natural phenomena. In itself It is of little moment whether we express tbe phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit In terms of matter; matter may be regarded as a form of tnougbt, thought may be regarded as a properly of matter eaoh statement has a certain rela tive truth. But with a view to tbe progress of science, tne material lsuo terminology is in every way to be preferred. For It connects thought with the other phenomena of the uni verse, and suggests inquiry into the nature of tnese puyncai conoitions, or concomitants ot thought, wblon aie more or less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, In future, help us to exercise the same kind of control over tbe world of tbought as we already possess In respect of tbe material world; whereas, the alternative, or spiritualistic, terminology Is utterly barren, and leads to nothing but obscurity and confusion of ideas. Thus there can be little doubt that the further science advances the more extensively and consistently will tbe phenomena of nature be represented by materialistic formula) and symbols. But the man of science, who, forgetting the limits or pniiosopnioat inquiry, snaes irom these foimuJiu and symbols into what is com monly understood by materialism, seems to me to place himself on a level with the mathe matician who should mistake ihex'a and i's with whloh he works bis problems for real en titlesand with this furltier disadvantage, as compared with the mathematician, that the blunders of the latter are of no practical con st quence, while tbe errors of systematic mate rlaiitm may paralyze the energies and destroy me ueauiy ui a ui. PAPER HANGINGS, ETC. 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OiW O'LONNAH A FAULK, Agents, bi aii u i ptrett, rnnaaeipuia. ft ONLY" DIRECT LINE To FRANCE. 'lux. UH.JMKRAL TRAUBATLaNTIO COMPANY'S Tbe splendid new vessels ou this Uvome route for the Continent will sail from Pier No. 60 North river, as loilows: 1ST. LA U RANT Brocande -.Saturday, Oct. I VILLI!, Dili P ARi6au. .buraiout Saturday, Oct. 17 Pii.Ra.IRJt . .....Duehoaue tjatuxuay, Oct. Si PRICK Olf ASBAGS In gold (Including wlue). TO RRlusT OR HAVRE. First Cabln.......w.M......i oecoud Cahiu.-........... (36 (Including railway tlcke.s, lurnlabed on board) i irai cabin.....Mo Beooud cbio..................A36 x uvbb iwMuon uu t.ut carry eweiage passengers, A) edlcul attendant. e nee ol charun. American travellers ruins 10 or returning from the continent of Aurope. by taking the steamers of iuii uussvuiu uuuvuessary ritttf.a jrotu trausit oy English railways ana crotsiog tue channel, beside. saving Mug, uuuoie, anu exprnBe. GJfeUMGJ MACKENZIE, Agent, No. 6S BROAL WA Y, New Yoik. For passage In fuliaueluula, apply at Ariauia' Express Company, 11. L. LEAV, 17 No. 820 CH ESN U f btreet. fe PH1LADKLFHIA, RICHMOND lixMUUGU JfREJUiMT AIR L1JSE TO TBI Ow UU A A A TT AO A EVERY SATURDAY, At noon, from SLhal WiiARif above MARKET SLvmL TJUROTJGH BATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS HIRIIIIUIUMUI MJU DUU.U VUUI1US, VU S6S board Air Line Railroad, conuectlngat Portsmouth ana to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, aud the West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond and freight HANDLED BUT ONCE, and taken at LOW ER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINJt. The regularity, safety, aud cheapness of this routs oommeud It to the public as tne most desirable me uinm tor carrying every description ol freight. No charge for commission, dray age. or any expense Ot trauBler. Steamships Insured at lowest rates. freight received daily, WILLIAM P. CLYDE as CO., No. 14 North and Bomb WHARVES. W. F, PORTER, Acent at Rlchuond and City Point. T, P. CROWELL 4 CO., AgenU at Norfolk. 1 fttV, NOTICE.-"FOR "NEW YORK, VIA yiH?nm..m.uit AND RARITAN mini,. &APRESU STEAMBOAT COMPANY. TheCHEAl'EsT anu QCxCKESi water communl canon between Phhadelpuia and Mew York. clean, us leave dally imiu Orat wharf below Market aireet. Phllaaelphla, and loot ot Wall street, New Goods iorwurded by all the lines running onlol New Ynrk. North, East, and West, tree Ol oouuniaslou Frourht received ou and after the 8th lbStant, anl foiwaidf d on accommodating terms, WILLIAM P. (JL.YDE A CO., Acsnta. No, 1:4 S. DELAWARE Avenu, Philadiphla lAffliuj HAND, Agent, K Ho. 119 WALL Street. New Yorf. 4gt NEW EAPKE8S UNB TO ALblXi uhBuiaHk nuuiiM, utuobuwa( puiu vvasmngiOa D. c, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with con nections at Alexandria from the most direct routs tor L nchburg, Bristol, KnozvUle, Nashville, Daltoa and the Southwest. steamers leave regularly every Baturday at boob from the first wharf awe Market Street. Prsigh, received dally. WM p CLYDE CO.. . No. 14 North and South Whazyee, J. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Georgetown. M. JsiLDKLDGE a Co., Agenia at Alexandria, YU. glnia. si aCCCa. KOTlCBlfOE NEW YORK, J.rrgj- vl" 1j" aware and. Rarllan Caual, 23i5ESS SWIFT laURETitiLNoORfATiON DESPATCH AND BeIPTclURB LINE,' Tbe bualneia by these lines will be resumed on and alter tbe tub of March. Kor Freigh's, which will be taken ou accommodating terms, apply to W M. BAIRD. A Co., . 3 2J No. 134 South Wharves. BRANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETC. QAR8TAIR8 & tfcOALL, HOS. 128 WALSCT and 21 URAMTE Sts IMPORTERS OF Brandies, Wines, tiln, OUre Oil, Etc. Ets WHOLESALE DEALERS IH PURE RYE WHISKIES, JN BOND AND TAX PAID. i 11 Yy I LLI A M GROVES, e. 838 SAKSOX Street, "agent for YE AT MAN A GHAHAMS 2 ti lm riTBE CISCINNATI CATAWItl WINES. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. Mt.. Vernon Hotel, 8 1 Monument street, Baltimore, Elegantly Furnished, wltb unBurjiMsed Culalne. On the European rian, 1 D. P. MORGAN. NORTH PENN HOTEL, NO. 415 N. THIRD lrirec, I blladelphla, is NttvV uPKN, on. the iinroprao plan, A. S I it I SON, buperlnl enUent, Rooms lo rent, with or without bosrd; hoarding, with or without rooms. 8 & lm jrv- DR. F. GIRARD. YET ilUNARY 8LR. AtJ GEON, treat all disease, of horse, and cat He, and all surgical operations, with eillcloul accom modations for horses at hi lu Urinary No. U AiulXAi a. bwvei, above tovnu. lui 1 -; ' INSVPANCE. 1T.LAWABK MtJTUAJU SAFETY IN8UH- Eg Islatuie oX Fenxuylvanl, 1836. Office 8. K. comer of THIRD and WALNUT 3WflWe irUHiUOHuie1 On Veuola Cargot nd Freiglii to all parU Ol On good by river, canal, lake and landoarrutge to all parw of tbe Union. i i.i ijnnussAuis DnMerchandlae generally; on h tores, DrelUigs, Xlousea, eta assets or THB,ooMPAirr, Novmhl.lHW. 1200,000 United BUles Five Per Cent. Loan, 10-40 120,000 United Blates BIX Per Cent. Loan 1H81..mm,...i.. 60.000 United Bute Biz Per Cent. Loan (for Pacific K). 300,000 Stale of Pennsylvania Biz Per Cent. Loan 136,000 City Of Phlla. Blx Percent. Loan (exempt from tax). 60.00 State of New Jersey Blx Per Cent Loan............ 20,000 Penn. Hall. First Mortgage Blx Per Cent, Bonds . 36,000 Penn. H. Beconcl Mortgage Hlx Per Cent, Bonds 26,000 Western Penn. K. MorU Blx Per Cent. Bonds, (P. K. K. gnarantee) m 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan....... 7,000 State of Tennessee Blx Per Cent. Loan 15,000 Germantown Gas Co., prin cipal and Interest guaran teed by City of Phllad'a, 800 shares Block 10,000 Penn'a Kallroad Company. 800 shares Block 6,000 North Penn'a Kallroad Co., 100 shares Block 20,000 Phlla. and Bontbern Mall Bteam.Co..H0sharesHtock: 207,900 Loans on Bond and Mort gage, first liens on City Properties ee see see eeeeeeee . 1308,600,00 136,800-00 60,000-00 211,875 00 128,59400 61,600 00 20,200-00 21,000-00 80,62600 21,00000 6.03125 15,000 00 11,300 00 8,500 00 15.000 00 207,90000 11,109,000 Par. Market value, 11,130,325-25 UOSt, Jl.Wii.UWiO. Real Kstate ' 88.00000 Bills receivable for Insurance made 822,48o W Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine policies, accrued Inter. Ant. anil nLhAr rlohra riiiA thA nnm. pany................. 40,178'88 Stock and scrip of sundry corpora- . tlons. tai&S. Estimated value 1,81300 Cash In bank....... 8110 150 08 nosh In .Iranav 413-Kfi 116,563 78 $1,647,3(57 80 DIBBOTOBa Thomas 0. Hand, Edmund A. Bonder, Hamuel K. Stokes, llenry Sloan, William C. Ludwlg, George G. Lei per, Henry O. Dalieit, Jr., John D. Taylor, George W. Bernadoo, William G. Boulton, Jacob Klegel, i pence r Mollvaine. jonn j. ahvis, James C. Hand, Theophilus Paulding, Joseph H. Heal, Hngb Craig, John K. Penrose, Jacob P. J ones, James Traqnalr, Edward Darlington, 11. Jones Brooke, James B. McFarland, Edward Lafourcade, D. T. M organ, Flttabarg lonn o. uempie, B. Bererer. JoshUA P. Eyre, UOMAB O . HAN li. President. JOHN C DAV1H. Vlaa.Prealdent. HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary, HENRY BALL. Assistant Beoretry. (10 8 Franklin Fire Insurance Co. MT rAUIAAJsrJUlAa Nos. 135 and 137 CULSaUT 8TUlk ASSETS OH 1AIDABT 1, 1S6X, .UUa.74U-09, (MPITAln.,.,, ... Heo,ooe)ea 4. vy,rfL?.UJLFI' 03 S,8S-S9 f&SMJ UMH. .....l.iai.tMtfug. DNbTTLKl OLAXftlbe IXVOMJL VOX 187 as.eea-as ssoe.ooa-ocv. . t5 4500,000. Perpetual ana Temporary f olldes on labor 1 Term, I DXKUUTOBa. Charles If. Bancs: er. Alfred Fltler. Eiaiuuel Urant. luomas nparu, tieorgeW iUcharoa, Isaac Lea. w muuu o. urant. Beorge JfJ.HABjjKa B Thomas H. Juilsf OKUKUS: FALKH. VkM.Pra.in.ni JAB. W. MoALLim'Jteii, becreiary pro tein. Except at Lexington, KentucAy, this Oomoanyati no Agencies West of Putshurg. w"'",1j1S1., o FF1CEOP THE INttUKANtJE COMPANY ' iilr NDkTh A M hK lllA Nn v jo 117 . . , . V7. Btreet, PliLaueipbla, Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual Capital, ftSOO.OOV. Assets 92.330,000 MA1UN E, IN LAN 1), AM) i'l UE IN a U tt AN CK OVEB $20,000,000 LOSSES PAID SINCE lib ORGANIZATION. .. , DIBBCTOBS. Arthur G. Coffin, George L. HarrlsorL Bamnel W. Jones, Francis R. cope. John A. Brown, Edward H. Trotter. Charles Taylor, Edward B. CiarAe. Ambrose W hlte, x. Charlton Henry. Kicbard B. Wood, AUred 1). Jeseup. William WeUb, John P. White, B. Morris W ain, Louis O. Madeira, JohnMahou, Charles W. Oushmaa. . ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President. ax.- CHARLES PLATT, Vice President. Matthias Maiub, Beoretary. 21J FIKE 1MSDRAKCB E2CLU61VELY THB PENNB1TLVANIA Flitn. INsUKANCJfi COM i'Afi7in.tfVrrtor,kMa l-Jharier Ptetual-No 10 kW VS blJ.1' Ofl-oah inuependeuce TiSquars This Company, favorably known loth. oomnVuuai for over lorty years, continues to Insure agiUust loS or damage by lire ou Publlo or Private Bulidinn either peruiauently or tor a limited time. Also Si jrurolture. blocks ol boods, and MerohandlA en rally, on liberal terms, " sene- Then-Capital, together with a large Surplus Funs Is uivesteo In the moat carelul manner, which eiiai.ii Uiem to offer to the Insured an undoubted seeurli i ihe case of loss. 7 19 biksOtoas, Daniel Brulth, Jr., i John Deverenx, Alexander Ueuson, I Thomas ouiiLhT Inaao nailehursi, - Henry Lewis. Thomas Moh.us. . I J. Ollll ogham Fell lianlel Baddock. jr. DAN1KL bAtllu. Jm. .PIslCeok, WM. 9. CBOWALL, Secretary. 1 taut QTRIOTLY MUTUAL. PROVIDENT LIFtTAND TRUST CO. OF PHLUAC AX fHIA. OFFICE, Mo. Ill H. FUUUXU STB EXT uiganuHMi 10 promote liJ i-MaUKAJMUA amoiia uembers ol th. u BOOIKTY OF FRIXNUa, I Qood risks of any das aoccptea. Policies laaoeU apwu approved pians, at th. lowest tk' President, BAMTJEL it. BMIFLKT. Vice-President, willam o. low u hi kktm. Actuary, hOWLAMD PAJUtT. Tbe advantage ottered by this Company ar. Siuelled, 1i7 T11(EMX JNSURANCii COMPANY OJ? X- PHI LA DEL PH 1 A. LNOOltPOJttATItU 1MH CHARTER PKRPKTTJAr. jso. iai WAL bT btreet, oppouiie the JUcuauMeT w-mmu y i H sf oi uaiiiags oy on liberal terms, on bulldiugsmerohandls., furniture sic, tor limited i periods, and permanently on build. liigs by depositor premium I. . The I mpauv has been lu active operation for more wan riAi x i jLAiws, uuriua " uiuu an iosae have been promptly adjusted ad t'Hl l, 1 1)1 JUAJTOKS. Jobn L. Hodge, .David Lewie, si. u. waiicuy, Jo hu T, Lewis, William u. Urant, .Robert W. Learning, 11. Clark Wharton. Benjamin Kttlnc. Thomas 11 . Powers. A. H. MvHeury, Juluiuud Caslllion, Bauiuel Wilcox, Lawrence Lewis, Jr. s. jr.. iiiwi. J.nrrif. JOHN R. VV VVHJLBJLR. Prealdant. utwn v. rfnrri.. Bannx. WlLOOx. ncretary. t.c4 . IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. KSTABU8UED 1&03. - Paid-up Capital end Accumulated Funds, $8,000,000, IN GOLD. jVKEVOST t IIEKBIKO.AsVenfa, t No, 107 South THIRD Btreet, Phllada. CHAB, M. PRjTVOHT. CHA. P. HERIUNO INSURANCE. 1 HE ENTERPRISE INSORANCi CO f! Cthce molbweet tor. KOUKlll and WALwirrT PMtr JtTUAJu AHU TKKM PoLlClEa ln'orr Cash Assets JaauaryT l"9 yj5J' F. Batch ford Starr .1. i.ivit.Mt.M 1 rajDru f r.iirr, J( hn V. AtwHL BnJ. T. Treick, beors H. Htuart, Jame. L. Oiaghoro? j Wm. U. lloultua, 1 r'h.rlM UhMlu - I Thoe. H liomgVmery iohu M.unjwn. am. m. A.riaea, I bis Company Insures only erat-claas riaki, takt- pMtally hazardous rlks whatever, suoh as fcui' a. mill., ato, sami ' F. KTOHFORDFTARR PrridanC ;T5S J no rlea. I ri un. n. , v.w in ftn i , vioe-rrestaeni AIM. W. Wist . Brrnary. i i ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETol - PtTn UTRiM VAIfirXTb J ft. AAiASi vavaMss A1 VIA-J Jf !sZ BOILKR WOKkB.-NKAriit a f lT n AO 1 Ol JCxJ IjjIiIs aH iaa A JVIID H 1. 1 i j fMlTHls, and FOUNDS KH, baying tor m.oy ... been In successful operation, taia been eioTuii. engaged In building and repairing. Marine and Rlv Fnglnes, high and low-pressure. Iron Bollen, w.i Tank., Propellers, etc. etc., respwlfuliy offer th. service, to tbe public as being fully prepared lo ea tract for engine of all s!es, Marine, Hirer, a, Btatlouary; Caving scis of patterns of different si. are prepared to execute orders wltb quick desnatc Kvery description of pattern-making- mad. at ti Shortest nothw, High and Low-pressure Pi Tubular and Cylinder Ui lie is, ot th. beat P. nnsvli nlacbarooal troh. Forgmgs of all nlars a.id klm Iron and H-as. Castlugs ol all do.or.ptio s. k. Turning, Screw CAuih.g, and all etker work onuact with tbe above buainean, "i Drawing, and si.tDClons lor el; work don. I thetstobllahment free of charge, end work guar toed. . Tbe subscribers havr ample wharl-dook room f A'U I 1M lu'ls. T r t l. 1.1 A J A 17 L. uta-T ard are provided wim atri blocks, falls, etc. . a.. K la'.wm k&awn n 1 1 -, WuIeULS. JACOB O.NFAFIW. i JOHN P. LAW. I 111 HHAfH and PALMAKBtreeaV I, vadsbji mnid, wiluam si kaaju fnnfriin s tiTr im t ' a v , rI . . ' lsv ui u iciinrjni ruip uji xt Fit AH ABH1NWTOH Bireei. rnijaiftiiA, M k.UL it ' U J. UkKI UbNOINJiJlKM iMn Miliui'm.n pannfaoture High and Lew Pressure Bteam'Xnchsf for Land, River, and Marine Service. u mi . iwiiers, uaaometera, Tanks, Iron Boats, eta, j testing, of ell kinds, etther Iron or brass. I ra0jn0t0M WM' Workshops, a Every description of FlanUtlon Machinery, air Bngar, Baw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, O Bteam Trains, Defecators, Filters, Pumping, X. glnea, .to. i Bole Agents tor W. BUIpux's Pateat Bngat BoUhv Apparatus, Nesmyth's Patent Bteam Hammer, as AsplnwaU A Woolseys Patent Centrifugal Bug. Draining Machine. PATENTS. PATENT OFFICC8 N. W. Corner F0UBTH and CHESS 0T, (Entrance on FOURTH Street), FRANCIS D. PA8TORIU8 f Solicitor of Patents, j Patents procured fur Inventions In the Unlte States and Foreign Coon. rle, and alibuslieas relat ing to tbe same promptly transacted. Call or sen for circular on Patents. 5 smtbi PATENT OFFICE I'atents rrocored la the United Stat and Kurope; .. . Inventors wlshlne to lake rnt Letters Patent In New Inventlurs are advised to consult wltb t). H JSVANe, N. W. corner FOUKTU and WALNUT 8 reeis, Philadelphia, whose facilities lor prosecunnf cases beloie tbe Patent lilllce are nusurpassed by aty other agency. Circulars coui.lolng full Informs tli.u to lnventois can be had ou application. Models mau. aecreuy, C. H. EVANS, 34tbstn N. W. Corner FoUETH and WALNUT. OFFICE FOR Ff.CClMG P,UENT8j o. 119 South FOCRTU St, rhlladelphla.j Ann u&iuiiiai uuil,uiub, No. BiVSMH Breet, opposite U. B. Patent OtUce, Washington. D. O. H. UOWeUN. Boilcllor ot Patent. V. UOWBON, Attorney at La. Commnnlcatlons io be addressed to toe Prlnclisl Ottice, Philadelphia. 1 lm PATENT N.-WIEDEKNIIFIM A CO.. fcOLlUlTORSU IT PATENTS. 4 00 CH E6I U T bl M K KT, PH I L A D&LPHI A. 468 7 l'H bT&EKT, WAdUlNUTON, D.U 2 16 lm DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. ROBERT SHOEMAKER A CO., NsEs Corner or FOt KTU and RiCJt 8i, f PBILADKLPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. XHFOBTKS AND MAN UFACTTJKEIBa OF Wblt Lead and Colored Taints, Putt Varnishes, Etc I AGENTS FOB THH CXELKBBATIOD ' FSEACU ZIAC FAINTS. ' j DFALKS AND CONSUMERS 8UPPLUCD Ail LQWKST PBJCaa FOB CABH. ISII STOVES, RANGES, ETC B0T1CE. THE DNDEKSIQNED ; would call tbe atteutlon of tbe publlo to his jn.w bULir H.AULA j; uitn auk, This la an eutirelv new heater. It Is an oes I i tr acted as le at once commeud It.ell to geueral btvor, j belug a combination ol wrought aud cast Iron. It k very simple In its construutlon, aud Is perfectly air tight; sell-cleaning, bavlugmo ilpe or drums tool taken out and cleaned. It la so arranged with uprigbl Hues as to produce a larger amount of heat from th same weight of coal than any furnace now Inns, Tne bjgioniello condition ot the air as prodnoed bf my new arrangemeut ol evaporation will at once de momtrale that It I hi ouly Hot Air Furuaos that Will produce a perefutly healthy atmosphere. Tuose In waut ol a oomplele Healing Apparatus would do well to call and examine tbe Uoldeo Hjtgla CH A RLMti W I LLI A MB, Nos. 1122 ana DM HABK KIT btreet. Philadelphia. A large assortment ol Cooking Ranges, fire-board Btoves, Lew Down Urate., Ventilators, etc., alwari ou band N. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. I lflj a THOMPSON'S l,ON DON KITCHENER A. jf or fcUKOPFAN AaNUK, IWr famillea, hotels, f or public Insiltullons.lu TWMl'Y Dlk'FKU-h-M' tilZKH, Also, Philadelphia Kangoa, Hot' Air Fninaces, Portable Heaters, Low-do wa Orates, Flreboard Btoves, Bath Boilers. Biew-hol Plates, toilers, looking btoves, etc,, wholesale and retail, by the mauulacturers, retail. jr me uiauu wiApK THOMPSON, 11 Kwfpifim No. N. BKCOJifl Btreet, t . ii i CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC. QOATir.CS I COATINGS I JAMES & L E E, HO. 11 MOUTH MecoHU SiTBKkiF, Sign of the Golden Lamb, ARB HOW HECEIVlNt HEW atTYLEI OF FALL AJiD WLNTEK C01T1XUS, TO WHICH THEY IHV1TB TUB ATTEM TIOM Or TUB THADE AMU or II K US, AT WnOLtSALE AKP BKT1IL. mm BAG MAWOFACTOKY. . " W " JOHN T. BAILKY W . . comer ot MilHTij. waTIU HtresBW Cm1 or every description, ... Sraln, Flour, Bait. lr-l-hSphi;2i Urns, BOe Larre and small etrNw r 'ba8 enseuDtiy oa3iaB ISAM Also, WOOL SwUUaH. "