THE DAILT EVENING TELEGRAPH PIHLADELPIIIA, MONDAY, JULY 2G, 1809. iHi: FKENCH CAKLIJ. A PotnllrH Hl-lory of the Fniprprl-p nnd Dr. nrrlpllon ml the Uouie-Thc HuroprKn nnd Arm-rlrnn Trrmlnl. Tho monopoly enjoyed by the directors of the AnKlo-Ainorieftii calle, together with the kit'h rates charged for the tmnnmiHmon of meHnoen, and the ahnoHt certainty that in the event of a rupture in the friendly relntionH now exMing between (treat IJritain nnd thiH onntry, the Uritiwh Uovernment, having both ends of the line resting on liritmh Hoil, wonld lake control of tho eal)lo nnd thus debar us from the privilego of European tolpgriipiiic omintinic-ntion. hnve led to tho estiiblishnient tit n new line of cable, directly connecting tho shores of Franco with thone of our own laud. THE COMPANY was granted its first charter two years ago by the French Government, having been assured of aHsistaueo from business men and capital ists in this country. On tho ith day of July, 1H!H, a concession was given to the Huron F.mil'o d'Erlanger, of l'nris, and Mr. Julius Jeuter, of London, by tho French Govern ment, to establish and maintain this line for n period of twenty years from the tirst day of September next, the concession stipulating that none but French and 1'iiiied St ites soil Hhould be touched by the cable, and fiivihcr luore that the charge for n despatch of twenty words should not exceed twenty dollirs in uoUl. '1 he rrench Government bound itself not to grant any other concessions for lines of telegraph from France to any part of North America duricg the time of the concession granted to this line. The capital stock of the f.nmmnv amounts to 11. .'(( UK II I, or yll.ODD,- (M, nnd is divided into lio.ono shares, vabied lit ! 1M each, in gold. The company has an organized Foard of Firectovs in London and Paris, nnd agencies in the principal European itics, as well rs in New York. No sooner were subscriptions for the stock opened in London nnd Pr.ris than the liveliest iuterest vas manifested in the enterprise. F.ut a nhort time over n week, nnd all the shares were taken and selling at a premium, nnd on ihe day the subscription was closed the tirst pay ment of X'L'no, odd was mad? to the English Company -who hud contracted for the manu facture of the cahte, which is nlmoiit twelve hundi'od miles longer than the one now so successfully workiag. It looked upon as far superior, and every advan tage has been taken of previous experience. It j"j one-third larger than the old cable, is more heavily covered with iron, mixed with a servingofvavn.diuiiuishingtho specific gravity of the water. Insulation has been made more perfect, the wires bvh-g imbedded in a new compound and covered wiih four laye' S of jjr.tta-pereha. around wliieh is an inch of steel wires, wound spirally, each wive tirst being bound with tine kiit.ihIs of hemp, well tionked in a preserving compound. Though unusually strong, the llo.cibility of the cable is Fmeh as to enable it to yield readily to the workings of the waves and currents. It is di vided into sections: the two shore ends, the deep sea portion from otf Frest to St. Pierre, the eastern and western shore ends at that island, and the Tierre to the near Duxbury. section to be laid from St. shove end oil' Massachusetts, A COMMISSION- of .scientific men connected with the under taking, at the request of Faron d'Erlanger nnd Mr. Feutor, made a report on the cubic, in which its estimated strength was placed at T tons, while the strain required for its im mersion could be only fourteen hundred weight. This commission further promise that it will be a matter of certainty to send through the cable at leat twelve words per minute, while by improved methods of sig nalling it is conlidei.tly predicted that oven this number of words will be exceeded. The power of transmitting messages through long lines of submarine cable is now perfectly understood, nnd no more a mat ter of doubt. In laying the cable defective portions have been found, where the insula tion was imperfect, but it is singular that these breaks have not been discovered till the fable has lain in the water for some three hours and a half, that time being required for ihe water to force itself through the various Bubstances composing the cable till it reaches the copper conductor. In all cases, however, these breaks have been speedily and satisfac torily overcome. Everything being in readi ness, A HrilVET was ninde for the most direct route from Brest to tho terminus on the coast of the United Slates, which was determined to bo tho neighboring town of Dnxbury, from which place a direct line from this city connects with tho cable. The main cable extending from lirest to St. Pierre lies one of tho groat plateaus which exist at the bottom of the At lantic ocean; this plauteuu being much higher than that on which tho English cable rests. By keeping in the live hundred fathom line upon Milne Fank. and around the southern fcdgo of tho Grand Funk there is no possibility of ice, or of anything else to injure the cable; tho northern edge of the Grand F;ink was awoided on account of the impossibility of Ascertaining at what depths tho icebergs ground. Sometimes icebergs ground in ninety fathoms: then again vessels employed in tho sealing trado might drop their anchors nnd thus injure, the cable, and to avoid either or both of these dangers, the southern edge of the Grand Fank was selected as the place to lay the cable. Moreove r, tho track from tho southern edge of tho Grand Fank to St. Pierre, and from thence to Duxbury, is en tirely safe from any dauger from ice, and does not cross the anchorage place of any fleet of Tessels. The cable upon Milne Fank, from the Grand Bank to St. Pierre, nnd from thence to Duxbury, is laid in water of finch comparative bhallownesn that repairs, if needed in the failure, can Vo made with tho greatest facility. Thocable, as now laid, starts in very shallow water from Minou Bay, but in four or five miles it deepens from 17 to 20 fathoms, and then gradually shelves from IiO to (18 and DO fathoms. At this level, but on the whole gradually deepening, it continues till in a line with the westernmost part of tho Irish coast, where, taking a northern course, it pattses down a gentle slope of sand that con tinues descending till tUo depth increases from i!)0 to KDO and '.HID fathoms, and then in a short distance to 17oo futhoics. Over all ihe rest of tho course to mid-ocean tho bot tom is mud, shells nnd sand, and with a uni form depth of about '.'(Mil) and I'lOO fathoms, At these great depths there is an absolute cessation of all motion. Over such a bottom the line is taken in an arc of a largo circle. ihe most, southerly point of the cable being in 42 degreoH north latitude, nnd the most nortiurlv 48 decrees. Along the southern ind of the Newfoundland Bank it is sunk in fdiut tr.D lo ''(id fathoms, tho water on tho bank itself varying from o) to 111) fathoms ThiiH it in n.iimleteltf (.helterod Iroiu ice which, if tho icebergs nass tho bank nt all must clear tho cable, which lies under its loo sly nuuiu uiiuiliuit laLuuiua iuwvi ihis poiat it in tRkcu vi duo. aVj-th ia tljo l torn tbnnnel between tho Green Bank nnd the St. Pierre Bank in nn almost unvarying depth of MM) fathoms. From this point out tho course is over very regular shoal water, so to Rjxiak, being nt no part less than KM) fathoms, and generally over ISO to its termination. For laying the deep-sea cable that portion of tho line between Brest nnd St. Pierre the com pany wisely mnde selection of THE GREAT EASTERN, in which, to answer all requirements, a num ber of judicious changes were made, nil look ing to the duty she was called upon to per form. She is now deeper by a foot than she has ever been. She is cumbered by deck houses, nnd has, in other respects, been made to resemble a floating hotel. Great improve ments hnve been made in her mechanism. Her rudder, formerly worked by twelve men, now answers the bidding of steam machinery. A sincle helmsman turns the wheel. All that ho does is to act upon certain valves, nnd to set in motion tho power by which in reality the vast hull is guided through tho sea. The pnying-out maehiuery has also been perfected, nnd thero is less chanco of in jury to the cable than thero ever has been. Tho cable having been coiled on board tho grent ship, on the 1 1th of June, the day In-fore she lef t the Mcdwny. where she was lying, a short tauce from London, to pro ceed on her work, a grand banquet was given on her, at which some ouo hundred ladies and gentlemen were present, among whom were Sir David Gooch. M. P., Chairman of tho Telegn ph Construction nnd Maintenance Company; Mt.isrs. John IVnder, Falph Elliot, Thomas Ibassey, M. P.; Captain Sherard Osborne. Sir Samuel Canning, Mr. Julius Feutor, Mr James Anderson, Mr. Vnrlev. Professor . I eiikin, Faron d'Erlanger, T.ordil.iy, I.onllfur.ghton, Mr. Elliot, Mr. J. P. Purke, Secretary of the Anglo-Mediterranean Company; Mr. F. Slater, Secretary French Cable Company; Mr. T. Crompton, the layer of the first successful submarine cable, nnd many others. The visitors examined tho various details of tho arrangements for laying the cable, and after having been seated nt the table Mr. Gooch proposed the toast, 4 'Pros perity to the French Cable Company."' This was warmly responded to by Lord Hay, who stated that the company had the highest reason to be grateful to tho Construction Company for the manner in which they had performed their work. Tho cable was excel lent in its work", and had been completed eighteen days under the stipulated time. Faron d'Erlanger proposed the toast of the day. "Success to the great work of laying down the cable." This was briefly responded to by Mr. Fender and Lord Houghton. THE rXSTr.t'MENT used on board the Great Eastern is that uni versally adopted in working all submarine lines the reflecting galvanometer. The principle of this most delicate instrument was discovered a few years ago by a Gorman elec trician nnmed Weber. It consists of a small mirror w ith a magnet laid across its back; and that the two are very small indeed, may be judged from the fact that both together weigh less than three-eighths of a grain. This small reflector, which is intensely bright, is sus pended by a silk thread as line as a hair, in the midst of a small circular coil of insulated wires. Directly a current is sent through this circular coil, no matter how slight, it induces another electric current within its circle, which acts in an op posite direction, nnd this causes tho little magnet at the back of the mirror to turn to the right or left, mid, of course, to turn tho little mirror with its reflecting ray of light with it. By a very simple arrangement, this fine ray of light is thrown upon a horizontal graduated scale, about three feet long and three feet distant from the. mirror. Thus, when a current is sent through the little cir cular coil round the mirror, the magnet is acted upon, and turns tho mirror with its ray of light say on the left of tho scale in front of it. When the current is reversed, and that is instantly done by pressing a little key in tho speaking instrument, the current in tho cir cular coil is reversed and sent in tho opposite direction, and this in turn sends the ray of light from the mirror on to tho opposite side of the scale to the right. When the ray of light rests stationary on any part of the scale it means a dot; when it moves rapidly to tho right or left it means so many dashes, accord ing to the distance it goes. Thus the little pencil of light makes dots or dashes on the scale, just as tho old Morse instrument used to make them in visible ink on paper, and any combination of words or letters or figures can be formed and read with the utmost ease 1 y the receiving clerk, who is watctung how the light moves and dictating tho letters and words it sends. When tho cable is at rest the light remains stationary in the centre of the scale at zero. When a fault occurs tho loss of electricity is shown by the currents, or the reverse currents, turning the light more to the right or left of tho cen tre of the scale than it should do. When a total fault occurs that is, when the cable has parted the little ray of light flies off tho scale altogether, and is never seen again till the mischief is repaired. So exquisitely deli cate is this instrument that most distinct messages have been sent through tho whole length of the present French cable with no greater battery power than that af forded by a lady's thimble filled with weak sulphuric acid and water. It was by this re flecting galvanometer that tho watchers at Brest knew whether tho Great Eastern at the other end of tho long rope of hemp and steel was steady or not. Each roll of tho ship produced n slight magnetic current in her vast coiIh, which, transmitted through tho cable to tho sensitive instrument, turned tho ray of light to the right or to tho left of the scale, thus showing in a fraction of a second of time the precise degree and rapidity nt which the vessel was rolling. This unceasing viurauon ionows the voyage of the ship, marking its progress and incidents to tho close. Tho same kind of instrument is also xnado use of on all tho stations of tho line. BREST. The eastern terminus of tho cablo is n forti fied town of Frnneo. .'170 miles W. SW. fn.m Paris, in the department of Einisterre, and is me cmei sinuou oi tue French marine, nnd ono of the first naval nnd military ports of 1... Ti Z.. -.V .... .1 .,-.. x.uropc. ii i unuiit uiree miles in circuit nnd is surrounded with ramparts planted vvith trees. Its outer harbor is unsurpassed for safety, nnd is exceeded in extent only by thoso of Constantinople nnd Bio Janeiro. It com municates with tho sea by n single long nud narrow passage, divided by u rock in its cen tre, so that vessels are obliged to pass imme diately under the batteries. Its inner harbor can accommodate sixty frigates, and is most strongly fortified. Brest is divided into tho upper and lower towns. Tho prison for gal ley slaves is the largest in Frunee, contain ing about three thousand convicts. Tho plane was first rendered formidable by Cardinal Bichelieu, nnd in Ki'.H it withstood a com bined attack of the British fleet and army. Its total population is not far from u.",0oo. bt. rir.nr.E, 1 fto rt landing place of tlio ctiblc, m m vt A group of three French islands, consisting of St. I'ieire and Great nnd Little Miquelon, off the sonth const, of Newfoundland and oppo site the Gulf of St. Lawrence: it has an area of 1(1(5 squnre miles and a population not far from i!(l(K). It is of great importance to France ns a fishing rendezvous, employing, with the two other islands, as many ns 12,000 men. The island is scarcely anything more thnn a rock, with a soil so scarce as almost entirely to preclude vegetation. nuxnt'RY, selected ns tho western terminus, is n town in Plymouth county, nnd is .'!( miles S. SE. of Boston. Here, nt "House's Hummock," tho western end of the cable will connect with the shore line built from Boston. This is sit tinted nenr the Gurnet light, nt the entrance of Plymouth hnrbor, nnd in a direct, lino is about ono mile nnd a half from tho village, but it ennnot bo approached without driving around tho bench a distance of live or six miles, unless ono feels disposed to cross mnrshes nnd rivers, which in a direct lino in tervene between it nnd the village. The Hummock is n conical shaped hill, and em braces about thirty or forty acres of 1 ind, covered with a slight growth of wood. Its highest point is about fifty feet above the level of the ocean, from which u beautiful view of the majestic ocean and the surrounding coun try can be had. Tho cable company have erected n building at this place, in which the ocenn caLle will bo placed. A man will con stantly be stationed in tho building, to guard the cable against dinger, nnd in case of a break it will be tested nt this point. tue distances by water nre from Brest to St Pierre, L,.'!l,' nautical miles; nnd from St. Pierre to Dux bury, 71':.' nautical miles; the other sections will make tho total length V, 107 miles. The portion of tho cable between Brest and St. Pierre wns successfully laid by the stoamship (treat Eastern; that from St. Pierre to Dux bury by the fitcamers Scanderia and Chilteru. THE MAIN OFFICE is in the old bank building at Duxbury village. This office will be under the charge of Mr. L. G. Watson, of New York, tho General Super intendent and Managing Agent of the com pany, assisted by Mr. it. T. Frown, of London, the mannger of the land lines. Mr. M. J. (mines, formerly Consul-Genernl for tho United States at Tripoli, but who for tho past seven or eight years has been engaged iu telegraphic service in the Mediterranean, is to bo the chief clerk in charge of the cablo, nnd a force of about twelve electricians will be required to perform the duties of the cable and land lines. LAYING THE CABLE. On the lHh of June tho shoro end of tho cnble was submerged nt Frost. On tho 1! 1st tho Grent Eastern arrived, tho splice was mnde, and the expedition started for St. Pierre at nn early hour in tho morning. At noon on the L'L'd, 1 71 nautical miles had been run; on tho ''lth, ;77 miles; the L'Uth, r71 miles (during this day there was a detention of over three hours, caused by an interrup tion of the signals, which difficulty was suc cessfully overcome); the L'7th, (i'.)7 miles; the 'JMh, SS.i miles; the L".)th, iH'O miles; at '.) o'clock on the morning of the :!()th, a message' was received that those on board the Great Eastern were going to cut and buoy the cable; communication was not had with the steamer again until July a at noon, when it was ascertained that a fault was discovered in the cable on Wednesday, Juno :(), nnd the Great Eastern was obliged to stop nnd locate it, nnd remove it. A heavy gale prevailed, and in order to avoid tho pro bability of a serious accident to tho cable, it wns decided to cut and buoy it, which was done with success the cable was recovered July L', the fault removed, nnd tho work of paying out recommenced; July at noon, 114(! knots run, nnd V2M knots of cable paid out; July (!, nt 10 o'clock A. M., tho Great Eastern arrived in American waters; tip to noon of which day she had run 1.":M knots, and paid out 1700 knots of the cnble; at noon, July 7, 1 (!:!! knots run, nnd l.slo knots of cable paid out; at noon, July , 17."i knots run, 1!77 knots of tho cable paid out; at noon, July 10, L'Oi'U knots run, T2ti knots of cable paid out; on tho morning of July Hi the stenmer was off New foundland, and only thirty miles distant from tho place where the splice was to be made; July K, tho Great Eastern arrived oft' the island of St. Pierre, and on the ltth the splice was made with the shore end, and com munication opened from St. Pierre to Brest, tho first message sent being a sealed message which was prepared by tho Emperor of the French and placed in the hands of Sir James Anderson, by whom it was transmitted. Tho short cablo from St. Pierre to Dux bury was then laid by the Chiltern, tho shore end being landed on Friday evening, July 2,!. JJoston TraviLr. tins; A rlli in. Tho London Atluiut um, iu reviewing a cu rious old romance entitled 4 'Merlin; or, the Early History of King Arthur," recently pub lished in London from an unique manuscript, remarks as follows: "The historical starting-point for tho eluci dation of the life of King Arthur is a single page in tho old writer Nenuius. It is as minute a point as that of tho noodle on which tho dreamer saw thousands of angels dancing. And on the Arthurian historical point, truth and fancy have combined to find standing room for as ninny legends. Nenuius only tells us that Arthur means, in other words, tho ''horrible bear." Wo hear, too, from Geoffrey of Monmouth, that when Vorti gern had seen a fight between a white nnd red dragon, in which the latter was ignominiously crumpled up, ho asked young Ambrosius Merlin what it meant. It moans, said the youthful soothsayer, that tho Saxon white worm will overcome the British rod ono, and that the Britons will have their nocks under tho Saxon heels till a boar (or a. bear), Arthur, shall come out of Cornwall and do right to tho down-trodden. Nenuius gives two other of Arthur's surnames. Mnb L'ttr, British for "dreadful little one," a nnmo which was fixed on tho not too calm-miudod chief for his cruel doings when a boy. As tho "iron hit mini r" Arthur is, of course, tho crusher of nil Ins foes. All of this, it hardly need he said, is to bo taken for what it is worth. Twelve battles aro named by Neiinius in which Arthur, with Christ nnd tho Maiden Mothcr on hisbronst -plate, or on tho inside of his shiold that ho might kiss tho emblem as ho fought, pounded his foomon to dust: tho king's wont in nil battlos. Nenuius even car ries tho war-loving King to Jerusalem, where ho fasted, prayed, and won from Heaven tho comfortable assurance that ho should over bo master into whatever bloody field ho bore the Pendnigon banner. Arthur brought from the Holy City a likeness iu stone of Blessed Mury, bits of which were to bo Been, nnd the faithful worshipping beforo them, in the religious bonuses in Woedohi in Ncnnius'own days. This "Vallis dohnis" is I-ut dvyya by tlw writer m Wwu M iwilvn westward of the once famous abbey of Mel rose, and then within the bishoprio of St. Andrews. These battles range from that at the mouth of the river Glom to the last and greatest fight of Mount Badon, in which King Arthur routed eight hundred and forty-ono men with his own hand, or nine hundred, as the less circumstantial put it. One account is ns credible ns the other. Such is tho outline given by Nonnius; and romance has raised upon it a building, the size nnd tho brilliancy of which dazzlo the gazers. As the building is as movablo as Aladdin's palace is hero to-day, elsewhere to-morrow, and is, like the gTeat King's grave, in half-a-dozen places at once tho seekers for it are utterly bewildered. Some persons even yield up belief in Arthur and his hundred shifting stories altogether, and bceomo faithless to both reality and romnnco. Nenuius does not trouble himself or his readers with dates; but wo may remark that the last of tho Komnns, Ambrosius, whom Arthur helped to crush tho Saxons, went the wny of all flesh nt the close of tho tifh century; that Uther Pendrngon reigned from ADO to f(H!; and that, during the next six-and-thirty years Arthur was himself king iu this island of Fritain. This is to be taken as something less sure then the year-courses of the ( leovgian era. At all events, six hundred years later there was strong belief in tho man and in his deeds. Aie.id nil the mist of romance, nnd the clouds built up by fancy, and behind which the (hi nt One wns only fitfully yet grandly seen, the i 'l it ish people 'kept firm to their faith in the bodily being and doing of Arthur. "It is of this Arthur," savs Malmesburv. iu tho book he wroto for tho pleasure of his royal scholar, Itobert, Earl of Gloucester "It is of this Arthur that the Britons fondly toll so many fables, even to the present day; but, he ndds, that Arthur was "a man worthy to bo celebrated not only by idle fictions, 'but by authentic history.' 'if Mnlmesbury had only set apart what was feigned from what was renl, ns learned folk thought of both in his own time, we should nil love him ten limes more than wo do; but Malmesbury only tells of tho great king's might at Mount Badon. It is to bo remem bered, however, that tho monk of Malmesbury wroto his book for Ilobert Fitzroy, tho learned but not lawful son of Henry tho First, nnd Earl Ilobert knew as much about tho prose nnd the poetry of Arthur's lifo as Wil liam himself. "The sepulchre of Arthur," says Malmes bury, "is nowhere to bo seen, whence ancient ballads fable that he is still to come." That of Arthur's nephew, Wnlwin, was discovered on the Welsh coast in the reign of William the First; but ns the monk says that, tho grave was fourteen feet long, we may believe that romance has somewhat stretched it. Fo this as it may, we find how clearly Malmesbury saw the truth, touching both uncle and nephew, when he says, ".Neither of these men wns inferior to tho reputation they have ac quired." A British poet has upheld Arthur's merit in the very spirit of this prose-writer. Hardying tells us that tho king was "T hroiiRhout tho world approved of his age, Of wit and strength, bounty ami largess; Of pcrKon hi'li above his baronage And other all ol P.ritain's vassalage, !y his shoulders exceeded in longitude Of all members, full fair in latitude.'' Writers of both poetry and prose undo tall fellow s of all their heroes. They would bring Nelson and Epnminondas from five feet four to the standard of Arthur and his fourteen feet of nephew, whoso grave was discovered in Wales. The belief in the towering height of Arthur may have been grounded on fact; and the passage in tho Saint Greale, which tells of tho grasses and flowers iu the hall, is perhaps but the truth, as it concerns his lovo of good smells. It is wonderful to follow tho British mind in view of its trust in Arthur's story. It was quoted as simple truth in a petition io Henry tho Eighth ngainst tho exactions of Friars, Pardoners, and Som licrs. "The noblo King Arthur," it says, "had never been nble to cany his army to the foot of tho mountains to resist tho coming down of Lucius the Emperor, if such yearly exactions had been taken of his peo ple." In a later reign Bacou, after tho manner of Malmesbury, said of the British king: "There is truth enough to make him famous, besides that which is fabulous;" but Bacon lacked leisure or core to sot forth tho "truth enough," nnd future searchers will find hat truth all tho harder to bo got at. Tho folk-lore for the whole story is to bo seen in this, namely, that a Hebrew MS. of the Ro mance of the Hound Table, translated from he Spanish, exists in tho Vatican. In the latter half of tho twelfth century writers disagree as to the year in digging a grave for nn obscure monk in tho Abbey of Glastonbury, tho diggers came upon that of a stulwnrt man, in whoso grave a yellow-haired woman lay sleeping her last sloop. 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OOKI LOOK 1 1 LOOK. 1 1 1- -WALL PAPKHS IJ and Linen Window KtindM Window mmtiHB mnutiMMjiureu. ina Manntautnreti, tin cheRi.wit In tho oity.nt JUUNbTON'S Dopot. Hit. IO:!: 809 HtUKKAL htrent. Uuutlun, New Jemey. II OUSK-WAltMINO WITH STF.AM.- Wa aro iiriiurid to wunn Hwrnllinits and Uuildiuif. rlr.KK... with uur I'Htimt improved LOW KTKAM APPARATUS, Which, for modioli. r!24Hm clUoiuuoy kud souuoiujt, rival all aimilar 11. P.KLKIK.L1) A CO., No. 4.KI North 11KUA1) Street rplIK ADAMS KXPKKH8 COMPANY, OFFICE J No. KM) IJIIK.SNUT Street, forward Paruels, Pituk. ft. t I.-.. Itunll N.klM.. .nil KiimIh M,tl,a.l... (Ki'H. Murulmuuie, tmn noma, nun nieuie, enuer uy it own linen or in conneotluu with other Kipreu Uoiuoaute, to all Hit uruiuval tonua ana etuvi ia 1110 onii-eu HUttec K (MILKMAN J-- UUI.HMtN. SaiMrin Undent CiOTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all iiumhein and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wagou-cover iJurk. AIimi. Puner Muuutaoturora' liner 1'eltH, from thirty to aeveuty ail iuuuo widei Pauhu. liuliiVK, Hail Twine, eta. 1 u. urn, uv a. JOHN W. KVERMAN, fio, 1W CHU1VVU BU.9. (Viti tiivm). INSURANCE.. DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY IN8U RANCH'', COMPANY, Incorporated by tho Legi latare of Pennsylvania, 1KJ6. Offioe, S. K. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. MARIN K INKljRANCFB On Veasela, Cargo and JYpight to all part of th world. . INLAND I NSURANCiKS food by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to all jart of the Union. M . ., TIKK INSURANCES Un Merchandia generally 1 on Store, Dwelllnns, House. r.to. ABRFT. OF THE COMPAHT, taun.OOO United Suuis'FWo' Percent. Loan, 190.000 United' 8W.BO0I0 fAOHO-UnUwi R't'a'tUi' 8lY 'Pe'r''unt.' lia'n 13-m Q0 anonon rJi- !.C"to I''roU.. W.0O0UO atli.OW) State of Pennaylvama hix Per Cent. laWKIO Clly of Philadelphia fiiV'p'er"iJ0n't: Ml-llom t o. . 11 ' xemi:t from tji 12,5"-IU0 u,io 01 iib iienwy hix rer Cent. Ionn 20,000 Penn. I!il. Find, Murttfi'iKo Ri'i'Per C.ont.. linn, Is 36,000 Penn. Rail. St con, 1 Mort. Hix Per 6l,fioooo 20,2,1000 o- ,uirt . .;"-". a,mj uu So.OOO WcMfrn Penn. Rail. Mortgage Nix PerUcnt. Ifonds (Ponn. Uuliroud ffn.r.ntnnl A.. ii. tit I'lini. notion 30,000 State of Tonneseuo l'ivo Per Cent. Ixiiin ai.wwooo 7,000 Stnte of Tennessee Six Per Out. Ixian 6,uali5 10,000 Cinrmuntonn (ia Company, prin cipal mid Inti rost ;iianititw by City of Philadelphia, 800 share Stock . . 15,000'iiO 10,000 Pcnnsj lvnni.i I'ailroad Company, 2.H) nharrs Ht.ii'k ll.WHO o,(('0 North Pprm-vlvnuia Kiiilro.nl Co., loo "hi, rci Stock 3,Sn0'00 J0,00 I uitadrliihia and Southrrn Mail KttaniHhin ( n., HO har.-n Mock. . . . 15,0iHAS) t.,W0 Lonns on H.mrd i;iiI Mortcune, tiint LiuUBon Cily Propnrtie 307,!ViO.ii0 H.IoWiO Pur. Murkot value, l,lai,:ia5-20 , . . OoHt, $,m,m 2i. RpiilKBtat Sfl.Oon-iKI liills receivable for insurance iim.lo 82a,lM6'!4 Uulancen cine Ht. aencira, prcmiumH on mnrino policies, accrued intor.t.. iitul ..t ii.r 1.I,M ,lna tho company Stock and serin of sundry corporations! It'il.'iti r.Mtininted value t.'ah iu bank li'i'lriVb'iii'i'H L'auli in drawer liy tx Thpmar. Hand, John C. Davis, James CI. Hand, 1 hfMt,hi!llH lJ:iMl,!in DIRECTOR. W. : I'-dmund A. Sender, : Samuel K. Stokes, t Meury Sliin, IVViliium C. Lnrtwig, (Ceorpo G. I.iper, .Joseph II. Soul, iiiitffi riutr, John K. Penrose. Jacob P. Jones, J.'imei Traipniir, I'dward OurliiiKton, II. Jones Hroeko, James . V.ut'urlnnd Kdwurd Lalourcude, Jobhua P. Kyro, lienry u. Ualletl, dr., lobn D. Taylor, CeorRO W. Hernadnu, W illiam Ci. tioulluu, JacoIi Rieiel. Nn.meer i T. Morgan, Piitjlmrjj, I John It. Mmiple, " 'A. ii. Hoiver JOHN (J. UAVis. Vi'co-Prosidout. TlFNTiY T.YLRURN, Secretary. lll'.NHY BALL, AKi.stant Secretary. 10 1829.CHAKTER FEUPETUAL. Eraailin Fire taaiice Compy OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Kos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets on Jaa. 1,1863, $2,677,37213 CAPITAL ACCRUKD SURPLUS... PlUlAlIUiUS , UNSETTLFD CLAIMS, fl'lOO.OOO'flO i.iivjj.vrwi INCJOM fl: FOR 1 SjJ, ;io,ooo. CM .ii Porpetnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. Tbe Company aibo issuou Policioson Kent of JUOiltliiiaT Of all kind. Ground KoaU. and Morla-OK, DIKKCJTORS. A 1 I WltT.- AlfrndO. Rnker. Samuel Grant, George V. Kichurdli Is:iao Lea. Thomas ISparke, V. tiliam S. Giant, Tbom'is S. KMis, (IlstjtvilM N itnnann Ueorno I'uleg, ALFRKI) CI. IIAKKR. I'ri.i.lont ..... .TT,GWj:iGK I'ALKS, Vioe-Presmuut JAS. W. McALHSTI'.iL Secretary. THKODOKK M. KKGiiR, Anaistunt Secretary. 88 A s BURY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 291 BROADWAY, corner KKADH Stroot, Now York. CASH CAPITAL lj.),(o $1U5,0WJ deposited with the State of New York us security tor policy holders. LFMUC.L HANGS, President Gl'.ORGE KLLIO'iT, Vice-President and Socrotary. EMORY McCLlNTOCK, Actuary. A. B. AL PUKDV, M. t., Medical Kxuininor, Thomas T. Tusker.' John M. Maris. KF.l EltKNCKH IIY l'EKillbSION. J. B. Lippineutt, Churlca Spejcer, William Divine, John A. VVnuht, S. Morris Walu, Arthur G. Collin. John li. McCrearv. .James iiuk. Juntos Humor, K. 11. Woi-no. in uio etiuracter ot its JJiroctorn, oconomy of manace mnnt, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN Ob' DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in lomalo lives, and absolute non-forloiture of all policies, unci no restriction oi travel utter tho hint year, the ASKUKif pre Bents a combination of advantages ottered by no oihor company. Policies iBaued in every form, and a loan of one-third made when desired. Special advantages ottered to clergymen. "k'or all farther inforinution address JAMKS M. LONQAORE, Managor f()r Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office, No. 30J W A LNUT Street, Philadelphia. FOIvJIAS P. HOLL1NSHKAD, Special ARont. 4 It; gTRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Lifo and Trust Co, OF miLADKLPIIIA. OFFICE, No. 1118. FOUKTII HTREKT. Organized to promote LIFE INSUKAKCB among members of the Society of Friends. Good rinks of any clttss accepted. Policies l&Bued on approved pluiiB, at trie lowest rates. President, SAMUEL, K. SITIPIXY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. IONG.STKETH, Actuary, ROWLAND PAJtKY. The advantages offered liy tills Company are un excelled, l S7 JNSUKE AT HOME, IN TUB P orn Ritual Lifs Insurance COMPANY. NO. 21 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. A.NSETM, 'i,000,00. EtHAKTEKEU BY OCR OWN STATE. MANAGED IIY OUlt OWN CITIZENS. I,O.N.SEH PROMPTLY PAID. FOIJt'IES ISWCED ON V Alt IOCS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Hume Oilloe, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 18 JAMEM TltAOTAIIt Ml.ul i l, E. NTGUKS JOHN W. JIOIt.NO.f. A. ilOKATIO K. KiTEPIIENM... PRKRIDRNT ..VIOKPitKSlUKNT V. P. and AOTOAKY S f :CJ R iT A K Y rpiE ENTEKI'KISK INSUKANfE COMPANY I OK PHILADELPHIA. 1 OUiee S. W. Corner KOIJKT1I and WALNUT Kti-nnta. FT H K INSURANCE KXCJLITKI v "lY Btreet , PKHPKTUAL AND TKKAI POLlCJIfcti ISSITF.D ( ahh t'apit al ,-, ihni-in) Caau Assets. Aluy, lmw, OVKK UAXJf AM1lLio1 In Mill A It rt. D1KICUTOK.H. F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Frringer. Nidliro krazier, James L. UliiKtinrn. John M. Atwo'.d, William ti. limilton, lienjamin T. Tredick. ( liarlus Wheeler, (ieoiKo H. Stuart, Thomas II. Montgomery, John H. hrown, James Aortrton. This Company insures only first-class riaWs, taking no specially hazardous rinks whatever, such a lactone nulla, eto. RATt,,lKORn STARR. President, THOMAS 11. MUNTUOMKUV, Vice-Prosident. AlEIANl'KU WLWlhTKH, Secrolary. sjti DIKKNIX INSUHAN'CE COMPANY OF 1 PHILADELPHIA. INC.'OHPOUA TKD 1ho4 OH ARTKR PKRPKTUAL. No. i!4 WALNUT Street, opposite the Kiehaima, Tins Company insures from loss or damans by h 1 1 K, nn 'liberal term, on builditiKS, merchandise, fnmltnm. etc., for limited periods, and permanently on buildim; by deposit of preniiujnB. rCl.a e..n,.V IlltM 1 has been In active operation for more than s. during which all losses hkv. luun SIXTY VIOAKS, during which all promptly adjuated OTORH. John Tj. Hodg, imvia iwts, Penjamin httlnff, Thomas 11. Puwer. A. K. Me Henry. l. K. Alahony, John T. lowiii, William K. Grant, Robert W. Iaiuin. Kdmuud C 'astillon. D. Clark! Wharton, hamael Wilcox, i . Iaiwio. Jr.. Iiwia O. Noma. John r, wucjumum, Prednt )5Ain;iwB-w'.vvtwyi , ., 40,178-88 1.S130 llu.iKi.T73 fil,H-',7,W7 so INSURANCE. PAME INSURANCE COMPANY, No. Wi CHESNUT Street. , 1NCORPORATK.D 1HM. CHARTER PKRPKTUAL. CAPITAL, 300,000. i HRK INSURANCE KXCLUSIVKLY. Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Perpe tual or Temporary Policies. i DIRECTORS: Charles Richardson, William H. Hhawu, Francis N. Puck, Henry Lewis, Nathan Hilles. jvooeri. rnHQO, a John Kewler, Jr., I K.ilward B. Orne, f Charles Stokos. John W. Kvennan, f Mordecai Bueby. ( ,i 1 ft T Ccorge A. West CHARLFS RICHAKDSUN, President, j WILLIAM II. RHAWN, Vicje Presidont, ) Wii.tjamh J. Bi.ANCHAim, Secretary. 7XK j TI1E PENN8YLVANIa7fIKE insurance A . COMPANY. f --IneorTinrnted I 'barter PerpntnaL i Wo. 610 WALNUT btreet, opposite Independence RnoarH 1 his (!onipany, lavorably known to the community for over forty yenrs, cont inui s to insure against loss or dainag by tire on Public or Privato Hoi Mings, either permanently or fora limited timo. Also on lurniture. Stocks of Uoodv "' Moreliandise generally, on liberal terms. i 1 heir Capital, together with a large Surplm Fund, I in Tested in the most careful manner, which enables thorata otter to the insured an undoubted security in the oaM f Daniel Smith, Jr., DmiCCTOnH. John Deverenx, I hoinns (Smith. Aiexamter Ifenson, Ihiihu IlH-.l.tltirMt. Ilenry lwis. i uumas luioius, 'i,an1eH,nd.i(,:,lIrnh'"a,r,,, t wm. n. rnovrKi.i.. 8.-crV..rv ' ' r""7 I I A V I li' I . 1 I'l'II T n t 1J...1 : - OFFICE OF T!IF, IXSUKANCR COMPANY lucorporated garter P.rp.tual. 9ai a ilis i !, 'is Li :d Ai viiivi YNsiiBAu,owj over $a,ou;,o; losses paid sinok its oroan.I 1A"II)N Arthnff rnmM DIBECTOltB. Hnmuel W. Jones, John A. Prown, Charles Tn;ior, mbroso hi;o, William Wel.Vu, 8. Morris V alu, John Mason, (leoriM L Iftirrisrn. r rsncis K. Oop, Edward U. '1 rotter, Edward S. ClarUo, T. Charlton Heury. Alfr.-d I). J..B!,np. John P, White, LpuisO. Madeira, Charle V. Caaliman, JlATTHTAB MAnicre1 LA 1 f" V""fM JMl'El'JAL ITKB INSUltANCjS CO. LONDON. Paid-op CaplttU and Accumulated Funds, 68,000,000 IIS GOLD. PREVOST & HERRING, Agents, 2 45 No. 10T S. THIKD Street, Philadelphia, CnAS. M. rRKVO.ST. CIIAS. P. HSRIUNS GOVERNMENT SALES, A ITTION SALE OF HOSPITAL- I'LUNITURE . ETC'. KTC. A.blbTANT MEDICAL PURVEYOR'S OFFICE, ' Washington, 1). t'., July w, lsti!)., Will bo oirercd at nulilh; mictldii. m Uiih eitv at Jinlicliiry Miuare Uepid. K stnvt, betwe.-n Fonrtli i and Fiftli streets, on WKbNKSDAV, tnn lstti day of 1 August, itt 10 A. M., a largo assortment of ilnspltal I tuniiluro and Apnlliinccs, ainonjf wiiic.li will be I ii'uini nn- iiiimwiiifr, vi,.: 3.0(0 Tin liasiiiH, a.ili'O Iron Heilsieiiils, a,t)oo Dt'if liowis, Joo T.cnttuT Hiifkets, ntio Womluii Huckots, 19,(100 Tin t ups, 2,600 Delf Lislies, as- sorted, 15.C0O Knives and Forks, each, 2,rC0 Litters, 3ii0 Doir Pitchers, 4.0(10 Delf rioted. ROD Tielf Tea Pots, (ioo Salt-cellars, 1,200 Kazors and Strops, l.fioo Spittoons, 10,000 Tablespoons, 0,000 Teaspoons, f0 Mess Chests, 6oo Knbber Cushions, 6,0uo yards Gutta-per'.'ha Cloth, 2,000 Gutta-percha Bed covers, And a lariro variety of other articles, embracing Funnels,- corkscrews, Dippers, Gridirons, Lanterns Scales and Weights (shop), Mates and Pencils, lie side-tables, Sick-chairs, Cots, llorso-litters, C'ollee mills, Tin Tumblers, etc. etc. With a stniill e.tcplliii. tho above articles are new. Catalnvues with lull particulars furnished upon ap plication. Terms Cash, In (lovernment funds only; 25 per cent, deposit required at time, of Hale, and' all pur chascs to be removed wiriiln livo'days. CIIA1U.ES SUTIIEUIiAND, Assistant Medical Purveyor, lirevet C'olono F. S. A. 7 20 ot NEW PUBLICATIONS. B U R I"; A U VERITAS (FIIEKCII LLOYDS). INTEltNATIONAL llEGISTEli FOB CLASSIFICATION OF VESSELS. THK RFGISTKR VERITAS, eontalnlng th Olaaai fiCiUionnf Vessels snrveyod in the Continental, British and American ports, for the year lsti, is FOR SALK bf the Agent in New ork. ALF MERIAN A CO., 4 38 No. 49 KXOUAN'OK PLACJtt M A N II O O D j A MFDICAL PSSAY ON THE OAITSP! Aln mmi OF PKK.MATUP.K JJKCLINK. IN MAN, the Treatment of Nervous and Physical Debility, eto. "There ia no member of soomty by whom this book will Dot be found uselul, uhethur such porson holds the rela tion of Purent, Precentor, or CleriryineM." Jeuu( Tim ai"l liuzt-tfe. Sent by mail on receipt of fifty cents. Address tha Author, I Hi. K. i.)K F. OUKTI8, ti v lira No. 221 V htroet, WashinKton, 1. 0. PHILOSOPHY OF MARUIAGEiZ X A New C'ourso of Lectures, as delivered at the Nen York Museum of Anatomy, embracing the subject flow to Live, and Vi hat to Live for; Youth, Maturity, and Old Age; Manhood Ceuorully Keviewed ; Tho CJuuse of IndiKertion; l' latuleoueand Nervous Diseases Accounted hor; Miirriu?o Philosophically Considered, elo. eto. Pocket voluKies containing thene Leoturea will be for. warded, post-paid, on receipt ot 26 cents, by addressing W. A. LKAliY, Jit., . K. corner of ili'TU and WALNLTf btroels, Philadelphia. 231 STOVES, RANGES, ETO. NOTICE. THE UNDER8IGNED would call the attention of the pnhlio to his 1J1.W CCIlmilN KAliliK rUKNAUK. This is an entirely new heater. It is so constrnoted as to once commend ilsult to general favor, being a oombi nst .on of wrought and east Iron. It is very simple in it contitruction, and is perfectly air-tight; selr-uleaniug, hav ing 0 pipes or drums to bo taken out and cleaned. It i Bo arranged with upright Hues as to produce a largor amount of heat from the same weight of cotd than any fur nace now in nbe. The bygrometrio condition of the air as produced by uiy new arrangement of evaporation will at once demonstrate that it in the only lint Air iuxuace that W'M pr, MlL.ce a perfectly healthy atnioiphore. Thot'o in want of a ooupleto Hei, ting A pparato would do well to oali and examine the Roldpn Hw-le. Wos. 1133 nd 1131 At ABKKT Street, . PbiiadelphU. A larc assortment of Cooking Ranees, Fire-board K tores, Low Down Urates, VentilaUira, eto., alwaya oa "l!i.1ij. Jobbing of all kind prcmptly don. loj Trf.MMfYM'H TYIVnnV VlTfTIVXIVa orKUKOPPAN HAKt.K. for fnmilies, hotels, of ; nublio institutions, in TWKNTY DlFPICKKNl M.r.n. iiso, i 'iiuaoeipoia jvangen, iiot-Air rnl nuces, Portable lleaiera, lxiw-down Giatos, Pireboari Moves, llath Uoilers, Htew-bole Plates, Hoilers, CJoolanf Ijioves, etc., wuoleaal and retul, by the uutnuiucturer. KHAftPlC A THOMSON, 5 a7wfmra No. 'JO N. SK.CJOND St reoi. CARPENTERS AND B U 1 1 D E r'sT" Rm Rm THOMAS A C 67 DEALERS IN Dccrs. Blinds, Sash, Shutters. WINDOW FllAMES, ETC., . N. W. CORNER OP EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streetl 6 EC 3m P11ILA1KLP111A. CEORCE PLO VM A N I , OAIIPENTER AND BUILDER, Ko.134 DOCK Stre.t, Philadeluhla Tf P. " t'TC'l? X THK PKNN COAL AND low finD. "IC." Chartered in December, wm ' ' ICR FROM MAINE, HONTUN, AND OATSKsr T, way on hand ud for (ale by the cargo, ton, or'car load, at hewharveaof the eomiMUiy, bPKUUli blwl, Scffi kill river, Plulddelphia. ' ! e lmrp CUAULKS J. WOLBERr IVcwJcoW '
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