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P From Mr. Alger's "Dream of Life" we make
the following quotations:
There is one curious aud diflicult inquiry to
, which no satisfactory reply has yet been given.
i It is in regard to the horrible phenomenon of
taiijhtmare. Why is it that our dreams, when wo
- uleep in an easy position and the organism is
In healthy action, are beautiful and agreeable;
but when we uleep in a cramped, oppressive atti
tude, or are suffering from indigestion, they are
invariably of a frightful character, full of de
lormity or danger", causing pain and terror ? Of
this abstruse and interesting problem the fol
lowing solution is suggested a solution which,
It is believed, will be acceptable and conclusive
to those familiar with the ultimate principles of
physiological and psychological science. Ugly
and terrible outward phenomena, reported
in tho brain, and there interpreted in
relation to what tho exigency requires of
the organism, produce disturbing and violent
reactions in various nerve-centres. These reac
tions, reporting themselves In the brain, are
there, by the inverse action of the law of asso
ciation, taken to imply tho presence, as outward
auses, of the ugly and terrible phenomena of
which they had before been consequences. If a
piece of tough beef in tho stomach causes from
within just sueh a ganglionic perturbation as
would be caused from without by a murderous
deed or a fall from a precipice, is it not quite
atural that the mind, deprived of its usual verl-
tying tests, should thjiik Us subjective Interpre
tation of the former an objective experience of
hecommosest misUkc in regard to
dreams is The bolW tha thy . enter the
mind from Xad. With fine fancy, ficti
tious thought, a poet says,
"Slwp Is a traitor
Who fills the poor iinfctnsnlniw eyes with tilaekncw,
That he may lot in dreams."
They are evoked, not introduced. When the
Inner play becomes, as It sometimes does, so ex
citing and powerful as to strike the springs of
volition, and thus move the muscles, we have
totnnambuksm, which is a dream put into action.
f Are not some men sleep-walkers all their days,
putting their dreams into actions? The cssenco
I .i f a liiwam flinn la flint titnta anA a irsin , .
which are only ideally perceived within the mind
are credited as having outward existence. And
in this innermost essence of the thing, in this
outermost color of the phenomenon, Is-nof our
whole life full of dream ? Pascal impressively
asks in one of those preguant paragraphs which
often fell from his pen, "If we were solitary
when awake, but dreamed in company, and dtir
dreams accorded with each other, who doubts
that we should bclievo matters reversed? In
line, as we frequently dream that wo dream,
piling one dream upon another, it is quite pos
sible that this life itself is only a dream, on
which others are grafted, from which we
awake at death, and during which we
have tho principle of the true and the
good as little as during natural sleep." How
many things, which for the time sway and shape
ns, are limited to our own souls, pure idealities
destined never to be any part of tho veritable
world ! It is one of the deep utterances of old
lleraclitus that "they who are awake have a
world in common among them; but they who
sleep are retired each to hi own private world.'
Nevertheless, literal and largo as the truth in
this maxim Is Kill with reference to our moral
experience an inverse statement; for tho former
cause of It would express a graver truth, and
one with a more comprehensive inference. Our
common waking life is like a dream, because in
it each man lives a special experience within a
world specially shaped and colored Ijy his domi
nant idiosyncrasies.
"Well nisy sli' p present ns fictions,
Since oar waking moments tecin
With Mich fanciful convictions
As make lite itself a dream."
Since God is infinite, nothing can occur be
yond Him. All things are embraced within His
intelligence. The universe, then, is His dream.
How wondrously has gilded through the Divine
thought the solemn and many-colored Dream
of History since the; birth of the earliest man
unto this hour I Silent, swift, with kalei
doscopic changes, the weird, embroiled pro
cession of nations, peoples, revolutions,
trophies, has swept on, ffoin the painted savages,
half-clad in skins of beasts, with their war-clubs,
their watch-fires, their frantic dunces and
idolatrous rites, by nomadic hordes with swarm
ing Docks, by slave-crowded cities, by Brahmin
ism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, to the peers
of France and the lords of England in the centre
of the nineteenth i utaiy. The somnolent
troops of actors and events file past and hide
upon our contemplation, a "liadowy vision all
a dream.
Dreams, literally speaking, are unhealthy pro
ducts, symptoms ol morbid states. They re
not the right working, but the impingement and
jar of the line machinery of the brain, not a part
of the soul's perfect music, but a discord. A
dream is a passing delirium; delirium is a fixed
dream over-powering reason. If every faculty
were in a wholly normal condition, and all were
harmoniously balanced, and every function were
entirely fulfilled, we sh.ould nwr dream. The
activities of the day IVodld sulliee; und no sur
plusage, defect, or irritation would remain to
create the disturbance of dreams within our
dark-covered slumber-. The application of this
fact to our waking life is immediate, and is
not without pathos. For what are our
choicest day-dreams, those dear reveries,, im
aginary scheming, inward scenic triumphs
what are they but the refuge and
resource of the", disappointed heart? Its
holy anticipation and wild longings thwarted in
a world gone wrong and too harsh and narrow,
the hungry but crative soul builds Us own
palace, peoples it from affection, and adorns it
with glories no stranger's eye can see. As we
are, aud as tho world is, how many persons lead
two lives, one of public duty.in he routine of.
business, the other of withdrawn romance in the
heart's secret home ! So we read, in tho tale
artfully elaborated by Bulwcr, of an enthusiast,
who, learning to connect and follow through his
dreams from sleep to sleep, led one life of pro
saic care aud labor in th dusty bustle of the
davs, another life of magical splendor aud sweet
ness in the star-hung silence of the nights.
While we wear this heavy veil of tiesh, here
where every essence of truth is hid behind the
mask of the material creation, all things are full
of dreaming, from the giant occau murmuring in
his -sleep, to the stars winking slnmbrously on
their thrones. Occasionally, for a little time, we
arouse from our dreams, aud are awaro of the
evanescent delusions, and of the everlasting
verities contrasted with them; but earthly tem
perament and fate have drugged us too deeply,
aud we soon subside into the papaverous and
Visionary realm again.
Death is tho last, and completest breaker of
the spells that bind us, the chief arouser of
drowsing souls. Mohammed wrote in the Koran,
"While men live they slcy1; when they die, they
wake." But Shakespeare' makes the deep
thoughted Hamlet say and, oh ! how many a
man in hours of lonely strugtliug with the pro
blem of his destiny, has trembled before a kin
dred surmise !
"But in that sleep of death what dreams may cornel"
The melancholy and skeptical, but gifted and
noble musician, Neukoom, once said inquiringly
to the learned and pious Bunsen: "Iuto what
dreams may we pass at death?" And when
Bunsen answered, "We shall then, I think,
awake from all dreams," he shook
his head and made no response. How
ever it may be after death, as long
as we live it is hardly possible lor any deep soul
to shako olf a haunting sense of dreaminess.
Above every charming landscape of earth floats
a haze of mystery which seems to say to tho
heart, "It is but a dream, it will melt away." In
all the entraneements of music, mystic overtones
are heard breathing sadly through each strain,
"It is but a dream, it will melt away." In tho
gayest moments of sensual abandonment, when
the thyrsus is bound w itli roses, and the goblet
sparkles to the edge, and the song rings merrily,
and all paradise lies uncovered in a pair of eyos,
ever and anon sombrely wails the ominous
refrain. "It is but a dream, it will melt away."
Amid this play of illusory shows two things are
solid and abiding; the will of God, and the soul
which seizes that will.
A German thinker, who died very young, has
recorded this maxim: "When wo dream that
we dream, we are nigh waking.'' It is true in
every sense. In dreaming we Are usually un
conscious that we are dreaming; but sometimes
we half suspect it, aud seek to test tho fact. So
all of us have some seasons, placid moments in
a turbulent career, lurid siots in a discolored
sky, when amidst the studies, vexations, deli
rium of life, wo are haunted by a dim conviction
of their vanity and falsehood; and, for tho time,
we almost free ourselves from tho delusions that
fascinated, the taskmaster that goaded, tho dark
regrets that pained us At all events ouo thing
is sure, namely, that even "if this life is not a
dream," as tho marvellous Novalis said, "it will
become one." What else can it seem when wo
look back upon it from the mighty hereafter?
With regard to the article which appeared last
month entitled "A Curiosity of Literature," Mr.
Bayurd Taylor makes the following note:
The article entitled "A Curiosity of Litera
ture," in the last number of Putnam's Monthly,
is a curiosity, it is true, but in another sense
than that intended by the writer. Tho Feeninj
Post has already pointed out that the Freuch
version of Wolfe's "Burial .of Sir John Mooro"
was really a translation from tho original Eng
lish, made by the clever Father Prout; but tho
J'ost U wrong in regard to tho German version,
which Was not made and, indeed, could not
have been made by the same writer. Any
reader, at all familiar with Gorman, will have
seen at onc e the absurdity of ascribing the poem
to "the Juru,r hull of the weventeeutU century:"
It s modf f n, from tho fli-st word to' the last.
The truth is, it is a JUhi translation of
Wolfe's original, published as such, in tho
Deutsrher Al uttiolmtnat:h, for tho year HM2. I
think.- I am not positive as to the year; the
book was given to me in Germany, in 184, mid'
tho translation seemed to mo so well done that I
then committed It to memory. The word
S'hirertern In the second stanza should bo lla
joneUen; and iu the sixth stahy.a the word
Freuntle. has been forcibly changed into ,Sciw
den, possibly in order to make tho poem apply
to "tho famous Swedish hero, General Torsten
son!" (Moreover, the Torstcnson did not "fall
at the siege of Dnntsic," but died iu his bed at
Stockholm.) In tho Musennlmanarh referred
to, the name of tho translator was given, but I
have forgotten It. Tho French version also be
trays its origin. It Is a stifl and uneasy transla
tion; and by no means the poem which would
have licen written upon an officer, who '"was
shot, in 1749, at the siege of Pondiehcrry."
(There was no siego of I'ondlcherry in 17401
The memorable siege was In 17til.)
it is well known that Wolfe's poem was first
published with two additional stanzas, which he
afterwards, with excellent judgment, oinittod.
Nevertheless, they alone are sufficient to decide
the authorship. They ran thus:
"And there let liiin rert, though tho too MinuM riiiw,
In real for the fame they coet,
A tomn or an altar to iwell the Drains
Of turn who has soared above it.
"hj Kn.-liihmen' feet when the turf i trod.
The (frnve of their hero ireivoiiK,
l.et them oiler a prayer to Kiiplnnd's 'tod
For lum who wa l'.iifclHml'B liti'wmu !"
As for the "probability" that Wolf Tone
"communicated" the French poem "to Wolfe,"
it is enough to say that Wolf Tone committed
suicide in 17K8, when Wolfe was seven years
old I As for the hitter's other poems, they are
not nil failures: his "Gramaehrce" is one of the
tendcrcst laments in tho language. Let us have
no more unnecessary mystifications.
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Alfred G. Baker, Alfred Fitler,
Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks,
George W. Richards, William S. Grunt,
Isaac Len, Thomas S. Ellis,
George A ales, GusUvus S. Bunson.
ALFRED G. BAKER, President.
' , GEORGK FALES, Vice-President.
JAS. W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
WM. GREEN. Assistant SecreUry. 89
rFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY
J OF NORTH AMERICA. No. WALNUT
Direct, ruiliuieipnia.
Incorporated l?i l. , Charter Perpetual.
Capital. 500.0011.
OVER $10,000,(100 LOSSES PAID SINOK ITS
UltOATllAA 1 1UK,
. t PlKKCTOnB.
Arthur O. Coffin, George L. Harrison,
Samuel W. Jones, Francis R. Cope,
John A. Brown, Edward H. Trotter,
Charles Taylor, Edward S. Clarke,
Anibrme White, T. Charlton Henry,
Richard D. Wood, Alfred D. Joxsup.
William Welnh, - John P. White,
8. Morris Wain, lxiuis O. Madeira,
John Mason, CbarleB W. Ciishman.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLAIT, Vice-President.
Matthias Ma mm, Secretary. 2 1
QTRICTLY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among
members of the Society of Friundn.
Good rlBks of any cluss accepted.
Policies indued on approved plunB, at the lowest
rates.
PreBldtmt, "SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, " ' ' "
Vice-President, WILLIAM V. LONGSTRETIT,
Actuary, ROWLAND PAKUY.
The advantages offered by tills Company are un
excelled. 8 1 27
J N S U R E AT HOME,
IN TUB
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. V2 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
AMSKTN, 8'2,O00,000.
CHARTERED BY OUlt OWN KTATK.
.MANAGED II Y OUK . OWN CITIZENS.
I.OWNEM PRO.IIPTLY PAID.
POI.K'IEN ISSUED ON VARIOUS PI.ANH.
Applications may be made at the Home Ottlce, and
at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 18
JAMES TKAOUAIR PRESIDENT
SA.HI El. K. NTOKKH VIOK-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. 1IOKNOK A. V. P. and ACTUARY
JIORATIO H. (STEPHENS SECRETARY
"PHOENIX IN8URANCE COMPANY OF
X PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1H04 CHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. Wi4 WALNUT Street, opposite the EachvngH.
Tlii Company insure from loss or damage by
FIRE,
on liberal term, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., for limited periods, and permanently on building by
deposit of premiums.
The Company ha been in active operation for more than
SIXTY YEARS, during which Mil losses have been
promptly adjust nd paidL
Ill u h-nTORR
John L. Hodge
David I wis,
Benjamin Ettinjr,
Thomas II. Power.
A. R. Mc Henry,
Edmund CaatiUon.
Samuel Wilcox,
jh. . mauony,
John T. Lewis,
William S. Grant,
Robert W. Learninc,
D. Clark Wharton,
Lswreno Lewis, Jr.,
Il HI W 1 XL I :i 1 II L'l) L' IJ li ; j .
ewis c Horns.
v ------ - i vvuttuan, i nnuvoL
SAMUEL WILCOX, Secretary. s jkg
rpjIE- PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
JL COMPANY.
Incorporated lKia Charter Perpetual.
No. 510 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square.
This Company, favorably known to th community for
over forty years, continue to insure against loss or daman
by Are on Puhlio or Private Buildings, either permanently
or for limited time. Also on i urtulure. Stock of Goods,
and Merchandise generally, on liberal term.
Their Capital, together with Urge Surplus Fund, 1 In
Vested in the most careful maimer, whioh enables them to
otter to th insured an undoubted security ia th va of
loss.
DUIECTOM.
Daniel Smith, Jr., i John Davareux,
Alexander Henson, Thomas Smith,
Isaac Harlehurst, I Henry Lewis,
Thouia. VMM H.ddock", F"U'
WM. O. CBOWKLL, Secmljiry. svj
INSURAfsiOE.
8
BURY
LIFT? INSURANCEXfiAlPANY,
i Ho. JM BROADWAY Cor. RE AD St., New Vrk
C h n p il n I ......7. v -W I f,(
tlU6,vvU Deposited with the State of New York m becurity
f r.r Polfe Holders.
LEMUEL BANGS, President. ' '
GEORGE ELLIOTT, V ice President and SecreUry.
EMORY MoCLINTOCK Actuary.
A. K. M. I'DIIDY, M. D Medical Examiner.
imhirHrm nv vt-tiMiMKirlN.
ThomssT. Taaker, 1 John M. Maris, . J. R. Llppinoott,
Charles Spencer, William Divmo, James Ione,
John A. Wright, H. Morris Wain, J nines Hunter,
Arthnr O. (kirtin, John H.McCreary, E. H.Worno.
i In the character of its Directors, economy of msnsge
rnent, ressonnhleness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN
OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction In female
lives, and absolute non forfeiture of all policies, and no re
atriction of travel after the first year, file ANHUKY pre
sents a combination of advantugi'S oftered by no otlioi
company. Poliries issued in every form, and loan of one
third made when desired.
l Sl-KCIAI. ADVANTMlKH OkFI-"I1KI TO CLKROYMKIf.
i For ail further information, adrnss
I JAMES M. LONOACRE,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delnwjire.
I Office, No. Una WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
FORM AN P. HOLLLNSHEAD Special Agont. 1
q-HE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
A PHILADELPHIA.
Office Southwest Cor. FOTTRT1I "! WALNUT Street.
FIRK INSURANCE. EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash CapiUl -tasMKin-oo
Cash AsseU, January 1. IW M
m.nn.ciuit.
T. Ratchford SUrr,
J. Lirlrltp-ton Erringer,
nainrn crazier,
John M. Atwood,
Benj. T. Tredick,
George H. Stuart,
James Clsgnorn,
Wm. G. Bonlton,
Clmrli'S W heeler,
ThnM. H. Montgoinery,
tlonn ft. nrown,
James Aertsen,
This Comnsnv insnre only tirt-t-cuvss risks, t-islng no
specially hazardous rink whatever, such as factories,
-mills, etc.
F. RATCHFORD STARR, President.
THOS. H. MONTGOMERY, Vioe-Prosident.
AI.T.X. W. WiBTKB, SecreUry. S'i
JMPERIAL FlltE INSU11ANCE CO.
LONDON.
ESTABLISH EO 1SOII.
Tald-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
ji!H,()00,000 ITS GOLD.
PREV0ST & HERRING, Agents,
9 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CHA9. M. PREVOST. cnAS. P. n ERRING
PATENTS.
QFFICEFOB PROCURING TATENTS,
FORREST BUILDINGS,
NO. 119 S. FOURTH STREET, TIIILA.,
And Marble Buildings,
No. 460 SEVENTH Street, opposite U. S. Patent
OOlce, Wasliington, D. C. -
II. IIOWSON,
Solicitor of Patents.
C. IIOWSON,
. Attorney at Law.
Communications to be addressed to tho Prlnctpa
Olllee, Philadelphia. 4 11m
p A TENT O v"Y I GE.
PATENTS PROCURED IN THE UNITED STATES
AND EUROPE.
Inventors winning to take out Letters Patent for
New Inventions are advised to consult with C. II.
EVANS, N. W. corner FOURTH and WALNUT
Streets, Philadelphia, whose facilities for prosecurlng
cases before tho Patent OlUce are unsurpassed by
any other OKency. Circulars c.onuiuiiig full lnfoniui
tiou to inventors cun be hud ou upplicutiou. Models
made secretly.
ii. hvas,
8 4thstti5 N. W. Cor. FOURTH and WALNUT.
pATENTS ntO CURED IN THE UNITED
STATES AND EUROPE.
1SDWA1ID 1J1JOWIV,
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
No. 811 WALNUT Street.
8 13 stuth3m
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WAHniNdTii.v, D. O., April lti, lsii.
On the petition of JOSEPH A. PEArSODY, of Philii
delphia. Ph., praying for tho pxtuninn of a patent giiintod
to bun on the l'ith diiy of July, lHT.fi, for un iinproveiiiont
in Machine for Mortising Window ISlinds, it is ordered that
suid petition be heard at this nttice on tho 24th dnynf June
next. Any person nuiy oppose this extension. Object inns,
depositions, and other pttpt re should be lilud in this ottiuo
twenty duys before the day of hearing.
ELISHA FOOTE,
4 20 tutit CommiMtionHr of Patents.
UNITED STATES 1' A T E NT OFFICIO.
WASHrsoTON, D. O., Aiiril 2, Isiiit.
v On tho petition of WILLIAM ADAMSON, of Philudel
phia, Pennsylvania, lirsyiug for the extension of a patent
granted to him on the 8d day of July, 106, for an improve
ment in SAND PAPER CUTTING MACHINES,
It is ordered that said petition be heard at this Office on
thnl'21st day of June next. Any person may oppose this
exttnsion. Objections, depositions, and other papers
should be tiled in this office twenty dsys before the day of
bearing. ELISHA FOOTE,
4 S tu3t Commissioner of Patants.
LUMBER.
1809
SPRUCE JOIST.
SPRUCE JOIST.
HEMLOCK.
HEMLOCK.
I860
1ft (id SEASONED CLEAR PINE. 1Qft
lOU SEASONED CLEAR PINE. lOUl
CHOICE PATTERN PINK.
, SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
' . KKD CEDAR.
18G9
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLORIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
D.ELA WARE FLOORING.
. ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
18G9
1 ftitO WALNUT BDS. AND PLANK. 1 QiU
lOUJ WALNUT BDS. AND PLANK. 1007
WALNUT BOARDS. 1
WALNUT PLANK.
IftfiQ UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, f Ql'd
10U7 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, J.OOU
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND FINE.
1 ft!0 SEASONED POPLAR.
lOUJ SEASONED CHERRY.
1809
AhiL
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
18G9
CIGAR BOX MAKERS'
CIGAR BOX MAKKkS
18G9
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
18G9
18o
CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA H. T. SILLS.
NORWAY SCANTLING.
18G9
CEDAR SHINGLES. 1QM.
CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOUJ
MAULE, BROTHER A CO.,
No. UbOO SOUTH Street.
in
UMHEIt UNDER COVER.
ALWAYS DRY.
WATSON & CILLINCHAM,
829
No. 024 RICHMOND Street.
PANEL PLANK ALL TniCKNESSES.
X 1 COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
1 COMMON BOARDS.
! 1 and Si SIDE FENCK BOARDS.
WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, 1W and
4k. SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZES.
, HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL 8IZE8.
I PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together with a general assortment of Building Lurab
for sale low for cash. . T. W. ISM A Li Z,
JB 26 6in FIFTEENTH and STILES Street
fTrE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE
C. L. M A I S E R,
maHUFACTUKkk or
M FIRE AND BURGLAR-PKOOF SAFES.
Locksmith, bell-hangeil and dealeu in
II , lJtsA-li--vj.v, rtiU X
BU1LD1NU HARDWARE.
8 6t
No. 434 RACK Street.
ALEXANDER G. CATTELL & CO..'
PRODUf-'K COMMISSION M ERCH ANTS
No.U NORTH WHARVES
No. 3T NORTH WATER ITREET.
P11ILADELPU1A. '
llXSAKPSB G. CAIiaJJ BUiAB OaTTCLU
LtlRII I I MI.'M UTil' A U las s 1 I i
Ji'Jt,'i" - "' ' LINE FOR
Z NEW YORK.
Sailing TueitrUTii, Thnrntlay", and Saturdays.' r
REDUCTION OF RATES. ' '
Spring rates, fiommpnr.lnif Maroh 18. ' ' " r
Sailing Totmdavs. ThnrRdays, and Sauirdays. OK '
anil after 16th of March froiht by this lln will be t
taken at 18 cents per 100 pounds, 4 cents per foot, or .
1 cent per gallon, ship's option. Advance cliarVg
cashed at odloe on Pier. Freight received at all 1
tlnifi on covcrea wuari. . . . -.
JOim F. OHI
8!9 PJcr 19 North Waarte , v
N. B. Extra rates on small paokagos Iron, metals, et.
rjr NOTICK IU HAVANA AND
k..J?s.NF.W ORLEANS SH1PPEHH. '
owing to me neiiresseu eonuitmn or t.ht i
rmj-rri frolgliting uusiness.
ireigni'iiig wubiuto, uiy nmamsnip
f- ' . .. I fn,m t V . n llntra
1 Will l WHui.u ....... ...,w vlr
Icsns Line until ther i an improvement in trade with
i and Now Or-
ihThl'f earnshiD JUNIATA will continue to' rlake rngnlar'
trips mont lily, nd freight will be 'rjceived for . New Or
lean, vi Savannah, weekly. WM. L. JAMES, ,.,
General Agent
Philadelphia and Rnnthorn Mail Steanisliip '.
PhlUdelyhia, April 90, fW. 4 ' St
.T FUK lil VHiltrUUL'ANU
rsZrOUEEN8TOWN. Inman Lin of Mall
'Steamer are appointed to sail a fol
! lows -
I. hoi Antwerp, Saturday, April 34, t 1 P. M. .
Lity ot I'aris, bainruuy, May i, t iu a. n.
City of (.'ork, via Halifax, Tuesday, Mivy 4. at 13 nnon.
And each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tuesday,
from Pier 46, North Kiter. ,
KATES OF PASSAOR.
BT THF VATL BTKAMfiB SAiLINO KVf.BT SaTHRDAT.
Psysble in4iold. Payable in Currency.
FIRST i; A BIN $100 STEERAGE fM
lo London... Infij To Iiondon 40
To Paris, 115 1 To Paris. 47
FAHHAUE IIY THK TOEH11AX Sl'XAMEH, VIA H ALU' AX.
riHHT (-AIHN. BlI.KRAllK.
Payable in Gold. Payable in Currenoy.
Liverpool. fHT) Liverpool $30
Haliisi JMilialilax 15
bt. John's, N. F., ) ;St. John', N. F., 1 m,
by Branch Steamer. ...j by Branch Steamer t
Pussrngers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen,
etc., at reduced rate
Tickets can be bought her at moderate rates by persons
wihliing to send fur their tnonils.
1-or further information apply t th Company's Office,
JOHN O. DALE, Agent, No. 13, BROADWAY, N. Y.
or to O'DONNELL A FAULK, Agent.
4 6 No. 411CHESNUT Street, Philadelphia.
ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE
THK GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC
niUPANV'S MAIL Kl K.A Mhllll'S
lii. I W J.U.N NEW YORK AND HAVRE, CALLING AT
BREST. , t
The splendid new vessels on this favorite rout for tb
Continent will sail lrom Pier No. fiO North river, as fol
lows: PEKEIRE ...Duchesne Saturday, May 1
LAFAYETTE Itousseuu Saturday, Miiy 15
ST. LAURENT Lemarie. haturday, May !S
1LLK HE PARIS Surmount Saturday, June Ui
PRICE OF PASSAGE
in gold (including wine),
'fo BREST OR HAVRE.
First Cabin sj 140! Second Cabin.. . .
.$85
TO PAK1M,
(Including railway tickuls, furnished on board.)
First Cabin ijsl46 Second Cabin $85
'1 hese steamers do not curry steerage passengers.
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travellers going to or returning from th con-
tinent of Eurnpc, by taking the steamers oi this line avoid
unnecessary rioks 1mm transit by English ruilways and
cnihsing the channel, besides saving timo, trouble, and
expense. UF.OKGE MACKENZIE, Agent,
No. ft BROAUWAV, New York.
For passage in Philadolphia, apply at Allium' Express
Compuny, to H. L. LKAt,
1 2VJ No. 3'iO CHESNUT Street.
. PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
EL.ttiTr AND NOH FOLK STEAMSHIP LINK,
LillLLT' l'IIOUtiH FREIGHT AIR LINK TO
SaCS;THE SOUTH AND W EST,
1".V..KY BAI UKUAX,
At noon, from FIRST WHARF above MARKET
Street.
1HKOUGH RATES and THROUGH RECEIPTS to
all points in North and South Carolina, via beuboard Air
Liu Ruilrad, connecting at Portsmouth anil to Lynch
burg, Va., Tennessee, anu tho West, via Virginia and Ten
ncHsce Air Line una Richmond and Dunville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT ONCE, und Ukon at LO WER
RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE.
'1 ho regularity, safety, und cheupnessof this root com.'
mend it to the public as the most desirable inodiuin for
currying evory description of freight.
No charge tor commission, druyago, or any expense of
transfer.
Steamships Insured at the lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDK A CO., ,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES. .
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point.
T. P. CKOWELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 1 .;
CHARLESTON. S. C.
TILE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST
FAST ll.lIGrllX LIIMi:,
EVERY THURSDAY.
Tlio Steamships PROMETHEUS, Captain Gray, J.
W. KVKRMAN, captain Vance,
WILL FORM A REGULAR WEEKLY LINK.
The steamship J.W. EVERilAN will sail on THURS
DAY, April 'l'l, at 4 1. M.
1 lirouiih bills of lailinir (riven In connection with S.
C. R. li. lo points In the South and Southwest.
IiiNuruuce at lowest rates. Kates of freight as low ;
as by any other route. For freight, apply to
K. A. HOLDER 4; CO.,
2 22 tf
DOCH STREET WHAKP.
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
Alexandria, Georgetown, and W ashington, D.
ii.. m ClicBHueuke and Delaware Csn.il. with
cuuuections at Alexandria from the most direct rout for
Lynchliuig, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Daltun, and the
Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from th
first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,1 .
No. I t North and South Wharves.
J. B. DAVIDSON. Agent at Georgetown.
HYDE A TYLER, A genu, at Georgetown; M.
F.LDRLDGE A CO., Agent at Alexandria. SI 4 ,
w iiuuvEj. tyn in,v 1 1'iilV, vi;
? DELAWARE AND R A KIT AIM nidll.
X- 'llT T'T- I- 1 1 XT T-1 1 r . -t .
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANV
li.o CHEAPEST and UUICKEST water enmumnln..
tion between Philadelphia and New York.
Steamers leave daily from first wharf below Market
street, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street. Now York.
Goods forwarded by all the lines running out of New '
York, North, East, and West, free of oommission.
F reight received and forwarded on accommodating terms.
William p. clydk a oo., Agnu.
No. Vi S. DELAWARE Avenue, PnilaUeivhilw .
JAMES HAND, Agent.
5 No. 119 WALLtreet. New York. X
. C7L NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK,
Ufr-Tfri Tm Delaware and RAritan Canal, SWIFI4
afaussacscit SURE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURK LINK? ,
1 he business by these lines will be resumed on and after
theHt hot March. or Freight, which will be taken oo
accommodating terms, apply to
W- M. BAIRD ft CO.,'
2? No. ia South Wharve.
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
g T . CLOUD. HOT. EI.
TUIS NEW AND COMMODIOUS HOUSE,
LOCATED OOHNKB OF
BROADWAY AND FORTY-SECOND STREET,
Possesses advantage over all other houses f or th. asanm.
modation of iu guest. It was built expressly for first
class Family Boarding Hons the room being large and) -w
mix, heated by steam-with hot and cold water, aitit
furnished second to none; while th culinary department
i iu uii most experienced nana, aaordinc guests aa an.
On of Atwood's Patent Elevators 1 ale iong th
"modern improvement," and at th servics of gnests at ail
hours.
Th Broadway and University Place' Oar pas th
every fonr 'minute, running from th City Hall to Central
Park, while th Sixth and Seventh Avenue Line, are but :
hort block on either side. .Hording amp) facilities for '
communicating with all th Depots. Stambt Landing.!
pUocof AmusementsndBusineMoftbegreat metropoJv
Mt. Vernon Hotel
8 i Monument street, Baltimore.
n-Y-nU, Furnlshsd, with unwrps, Culsir
On me European Flan. ,
-J Pl MORQABr.
PLUMBINQANDlAiriN
as. JiAijiv . .
niAl,
PLTJMBEE, GAS TITTrV
S. ANI 1) iilv i x i-h
943 south rmt.
..iow Leontt
DEAFNESS -EVERY INSTRuSrT, 7 '
scieno and .kill bav Invented . ).J TlAT
in even, degree of deafnej; H.iSU,t nng
dsll's Patent Crutches. .uueii?r . plnflor"; Cran
M ADEIRA'S, No. J fi&l usi,
WL-ili-J