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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1309.
THE DENT LETTER.
Jpdoe Lewis Dent bus evidently ruruie np his
wind that if the "crown' of MiHsisHippi (for
he calls offices ''crowns") is to slip through
Lis fingers, ho will at least have satisfaction
out of Secretary Boutwell. It would scaroely
tlo at this juncture to demand redress in the
good old fire-eating style, by ordering coffee
and pistols for two, and the best remedy loft
is to attack the guardian of the public funds
in the newspapers.
So far as the matters in controversy be
tween the high contending parties are con
cerned, we are inclined to suspect that there
is some truth in the charges which euoh
makes against the other, and that Dent is
about as near right in alleging that lioutwcll
cherishes Presidential aspirations, as Bout
well in turn is in attributing to Dent the de
sign of dividing and eventually destroying
the Republican parly of Mississippi. It is
therefore a very "pretty quarrel as it stands,"
and if the Secretary can be induced to follow
it up it will afford no little amusement to the
public.
In Virginia and Tennessee Mr. Uoiitwell's
efforts to keep the Republican party in good
working order have resulted in over.vhelinin
conservative victories, but as ho has taken
time by the firelock in his Mississippi experi
ment, that may prove more successful. Judge
Dent alleges that the interest displayed by the
Secretary in these campaigns, in connection
with the use of the national patronage to pro
mote his views, is not merely a perversion of
power, but a purely selfish intrigue to under
mine General Grant's prospects for a renonii
nation and re-election. Indeed, the more
direct charge is made that by ''dexterous
management and occult political strategy"
"Boutwell has induced Grant to "nourish the
club" with which he (Boutwell) "intends to
treak his (Grant's) head!" so that the busi
ness is decidedly serious.
The general tendency of the so-called "con
servative" movements in the South is no
doubt Democratic, and they have at least
afforded great facilities for dividing the negro
vote. It is barely possible that some of the
conservatives, men like Governor Walker, of
Virginia, for instance, may be disposed to
yield a faithful support to the President: but
certainly their organizations cannot be con
sidered as reliably Republican. And Judge
Dent, in calling the Mississippi faction, of
which he is tha ostensible lender, a "Nation il
liepublican party," can scarcely be ignorant
of the fact that the main body of its supporters
Late nothing worse than genuine Republican
principles. He cannot deceive the public on
this point, no matter how much he may rail
against the Secretary. His diatribes are only
interesting and important in consequence of
Lis elucidation of the mysteries of the next
Presidential campaign. Ho has resolved th vt
if he must howl as a baflled aspirant for thu
Governorship of Mississippi, the world shall
know his opinion of the plans adopted by
Boutwell to win the first prize in American
politics. He gives direct expression to the
rumors which have hitherto been circulated
only to be denied that tho Secretary "aims to
be the next President." He alleges that the
Kew York Sun is Boutwells organ, and that,
in the same breath it ridicules tho capacity of
his "master," and praises his administrative
capacity; that Tullock, who is called an "ex
cellent tool," manipulated the Treasury De
partment in the interest of Bout well's ambi
tion; and that the Secretary has assumed
power as an "infallible Pope of Republican
ism," for the purpose of destroying the Na
tional Republican party in the South, with the
intention of reconstructing "from the shat
tered fragments a Boutwell party."
If Dent is to go down as a gubernatorial
candidate, he is determined to sink with his
flag flying and his guns shotted. It is early
in the day to devise plots for the succession;
but such things have been done before and
may be done again, and although the public
will receive with much caution the alloga
tions against Boutwell, who can say that
there is not at least a grain of truth in thorn ?
EDUCATION FOR BUSINESS.
Parents whose sons are not to study profos
6ions are often puzzled to determine exactly
what course of school or college instruction
will best prepare their boys for life. Rocog
nizing the value of an educated mind in any
occupation, they are unwilling to send their
sons into the world with half -formed judg
ments and but little or no knowledge of their
own language and its literature. Perhaps
6uch a lack of early mental training has pre
vented their own success, or, if they have
succeeded, still leads them to say, with a pro
minent merchant of our city, "Had I only en
joyed such a training as 1 now give my
son, Low much greater might my
usefulness have been!" And yot
thpv both hear it boldly as
serted, and (as they suppose) often see
exemplified, that the old classical training of
nnr colleces not only does not fit, but
i "
positively unfits, young men for practical life
Of the several plans suggested as furnisLin
the required education, no one has proved
entirely satisfactory. Some parents, con
niderincr the colleL'o "cvat" altogether "too
loner." adopt the verv "short" ono of a little
commercial arithmetic and some business do
tails, hoping that those will make an able
merchant; but they usually see . in despair,
when it ih too late, that their sons can never
rise above the rank of clerk. A few whose
vealth enables them to employ private tutors,
supplement ho inbtructiou of tho school with
a course at homo, and ofton, it is true, find
fbe'r money well spont, when they boo not
only the prosperity, but the intelligence and
hiKh-toned lives, also, of which this expendi
ture has been largely the cause. But for the
many this plan is far too expensive, and there
fore impracticable. The question still ro
mains unanswered.
The validity of this position against tho old
collegiate education is by no means univer
sally acknowledged. . Many educated men, as
well in business as in tho professions, con
tend that both time and money aro well ex
pended for a regular college course Groek,
Latin, and mathematics; that if a young man
does enter the store or bank at eighteen or
twenty, and though neither Euripides, Ho
race, nor tho Calculus helps him in planning
ventures or in keeping a lodger, yet tho well
balanced judgment which he brings with him,
as capital, more than represents all that it cost.
This opinion, however, it is not our purpose
to discuss. "We wish to present to those
parents who are unwilling to givo their boys
classical educations other possibilities which
they may have overlooked.
It is never denied, we suppose, that every
system of education must fulfil two condi
tions: (1) That it strengthen, by develop
ing, tho mind, and (2) that it liberally sup
ply valuable information. A boy who aim
to be an eminent merchant, therefore, no
more than one who is to study medicino, may
fail, without loss, to acquire by a course of
study such intellectual power and genera'
knowlodgo as will make him both tho more
able to solve the problems of his occupation,
and tho more agreeable, intelligent, and
worthy of influential social position. Other
wise, though he be a member of a firm, he i t
below his proper station. His ability is of an
inferior grade, and his success is apt to be as
his ability. The examples of successful un
educated men, few as compared with the
whole number of men in business, can gene
rally bo accounted for opon tho ground of
genius, solf-education, or efficient help from
educated employes or partners. An educa
tion for business, then, should fulfil both tho
conditions named above, though, perhaps, it
should comply with the second in a greater
degree than tho first.
To furnish the course of study apparently
required for this purpose, several colleges
and among them our own University of Penn
sylvania have so arranged their curriculuuis
that, while the classical or the scientific course
may still be pursued by those who wish it,
two other courses, the elective and the par
tial, are open to other students. In the
former, a conspicuous place is assigned to tho
modern languages and their literature, espe
cially English, French, and German, while
enough of abstract study remains to insure
mental development. As set forth in the last
catalogue of the University, this course is un
usually attractive; and, as at Harvard, is re
warded at its completion with the degree of
A. B. The partial course is selective, the stu
dent pursuing any selected course sanctioned
by the Faculty of Arts. No degroe is given,
and therefore the time occupied by it may be
considerably shortened for students whose
age renders it advisable. During the last year
fonr students pursued stndios belonging re
gularly to tho two first years, and a similar
plan might be pursued, we suppose, for the
last two, if the case were urgent. Such a
"half loaf" is surely better than "no broad."
Business men, whoso sons are to succeed
n their firms, and who desiro to avoid tho
Scylla of what they term the " dead culture,"
find in these suggestions a plan by which to
escnpe the Charybdis of no culture at all.
Many young men to-day read nothing but the
newspapers, because they lack the intelli
gence which makes standard works interest
ing. Hence their dissipated lives: they have
nothing else to do, after leaving tho store. If
the boys who in the next generation are to
conduct the great material interests of our
country aro to bo at all equal to the possibili
ties of tho coming age, their intellectual
training must compare, more neorly than at
present, with that of our prospective lawyers,
physicians, and theologians.
THE LABOR CONGRESS.
Yesterday the Labor Congress labored
through an immense quantity of words, but
without any results that are likely to
have any appreciable effect in revolutionism,
society. The resolutions and speeches, which
fill whole columns of the papers, when boiled
down to their essence appear to be nothing
more man tne querulous complaints ot men
who have worried themselves sick over tho
problem of "Have and oh had I!" There
was a groat deal of talk about tho unequal
distribution of wealth, the oppression of
labor by capital, and the inadequate emolu
ments of tho working man, all of which, in
substance, amounts to a working man saying:
"I have but a dollar that I earn by obey
ing the Divine decree to earn my bread
by the sweat of my brow, while there is a
bloated banker or bondholder who has a hun
dred dollars that he did not labor for. He
has, therefore, violated the Divine mandate,
ho is no better than I am, part of his wealth
is mine by a natural right, and therefore
matters ought to be fixed up in such a man
ner that ho will be compelled to divido his
ill-gotten gains with me." How to make
these ill-conditioned holders of capital dU
gorge is the interesting problem in political
economy that the Labor Congress is appa
rently attempting to solve. One of tho reso
lutions which was ottered yesterday invited
tho co-operatio n of "all who opon np and
cultivate farms, build cities, construct rail
roads, erect factories, toil in workshop
. i l i it i
lencu scuoois, ianor in meir pro
fessions of law and medicine, and
divinity or preaching of tho Gospel
as also those 'who by intellectual labor extract
the principles of science from from the great
arcana of nature and givo thorn practical
forms of art and direct the hand of industry.'
This seems to bo tolerably comprehensive
bankers, brokers, and editors being appa
rently tho only ones excluded from participa
tion in tho movement for tho advancement of
the dignity of labor. It is significant, how
ever, that ono delegate was greeted with
hisses when he said, "But supposa I did not
do a hand-stir, but abor mentally. It is a
great deal harder on the constitution. I can
not understand this sort of thing of working
meaning one kind of la'ior. I hold that a
man if ho labors at anything is a working
man." This stray gleam of common sense
amid such a mass of pure bathos was refreshing,
but it was evidently not in accordance with
the leading ideas of tho Conrjss, and
disapprobation was therefore expressed in a
marked manner. And yet it is evident that
the ability to do a littlo mental labor is just
what the majority of tho delegates to this
convention, and tho labor ogitators generally,
most stand in need of.
Tho main idea in all tho discussions on this
subject appears to bo, that tho "ancient rule
of thumb" is alone entitled to be called labor,
and that tho man who digs and delves, and
never tries by his own efforts to do anything
better, is tho only workman, and that a man
who can earn more money by using his head
instead of his hands is an oppressor, an aris
tocrat, and a bloated bondholder. A very
largo majority of the wealthiest men in this
country commenced life as manual laborers
of the lowest class; they worked hard, how
ever; they saved wherever there was a chance
to save, ond they availed themselves of every
opportunity to push ahead in tho world.
They were not sotisfied with their condtiion
in life, but they did not whine about it, and
attend conventions and offer resolutions, but
set themselves seriously to the business of
making money. They did not limit them
selves to eight hours, but labored day and
night, and undiscouragod by defeat they
made their own opportunities, and without
waiting for something to turn up, they con
quered the situation by their brains no loss
than by their hands. The course of tho re
doubtable Brick Ponioroy is an example to
tho complaining workingmon of this
country. However little ho is to
be admired in other respects, he is entitled
to commendation for tho way in which he
won his way to fortune. His biography,
published some time ago, told how, after his
egular work was done, ho sat up the best
part of the night to learn tho niceties of job
typo setting, m writing, in studying books,
and in fitting himself by every possible
means to rise above tho position of a mere
laborer. Ho established paper after paper, which
failed or passed out of his hands, leaving him
as poor as before, until at last he made a hit,
and acquired a fortune which doubtless many
of the delegates to the Laboi- Convention
would like him to divide with them.
The fact is tho American workingnien as a
class have nothing whatever to complain of.
Our social and political system does not admit
of great fortunes and great landed possessions
being transmitted unbroken in certain fami
lies. The accumulations of tho millionaire of
to-day will, in a few generations at least, bo
divided up into a number of fragments, and
its benefits enjoyed by a great number of per
sons. Wages, too, are higher hero than any
where in the world; and if the average work
ingman cannot support himself comfortably
on what ho earns, it is either because ho idles
away a portion of his time or because he does
not practise a reasonable economy. Even for
those who complain that the various trades aro
crowded, and that it is hard for a man to
make a living at them, there is no proper
cause for complaint when immense tracts of
fertile country, capable of supporting mil
lions of people for centuries to come, are
standing in our "Western States and Territo
ries waiting for settlers to come and put them
under cultivation. Nothing has boon yet
said at this convention to indicate that the
workingnien there represented have anything
but a sentimental grievance to complain of,
and they will scarcely gain anything but ridi
cule, even from their own associates, unless
their sayings and doings display a littlo more
practical wisdom than tney have done as yot
THE TERRIBLE SUSAN.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has proved herself
entirely too much for the Labor Convention
She has conquered the masculines, and suffi
ciently demonstrated the superiority of her
sex, in powers of persuasion at least, to satisfy
tlie most incredulous. The convention do
clined to admit the champion of woman's
rights because they wore evidently afraid of
ner; hut as an outsider she seemed more
likely to be an object of terror than as a dele
gate. Consequently the convention yesterday
reconsidered tneir action of the day before
and finally concluded to admit her to their
deliberations, evidently also because they
were afraid of her. This speaks well for Miss
Anthony's intellectual supremacy, and it is
more creditable to the gallantry than the pluck
of the convention. The caso of this
lady has already ocoupiod the convention
obout naif tno time it has been in session. If
she speechifies at her usual rate, now that sho
has obtained tho right to do so, tho discus
sion of tho capital and labor question is likely
to suffer. There is this much to be said for
M iss Anthony, however her ideas are not
commonplace, whatever else we may think of
them, and sho is likely therefore to illuminate
tho sessions of tho convention with so
flashes of thought that, whether pertinent to
tho subject under discussion or not, will have
the tilect of making lively times, esneciallv
among those working-men who fear that the
imiouticuon oi lemulo labor will ttiko thj
bread out of their mouths.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
A m h'atch received yesterday from Helena,
Montana, from the exploring party which has
recently been engaged in examining tho route
of the Northern Pacilio Railroad, brings tho
welcome intelligence that the character of
tho road traversed far exceeds their anticipa
tions, not only in the mildness of the climate
and fertility of the soil, but in tho favorable
nature of tho grades. Tho Rocky Mountain
was crossed ot a pass where tho elevation did
not excood five thousand feet. The practica
bility of tho projocted new enterprise is now
fully demonstrated.
A CHOICE OF TWO EVILS.
"Monn than two-thirds of the members of Assem
bly at A llmnr lost winter hart the reputation of sell
ing thi lr vob?s to the highest bidder. Home mem
bers elected by Democratic votes, therefore, be
longed to the venal crew. If money is to control
the next legislature, we should prefer the Republi
can party to have a clear majority and the disgrace
of It. The Democratic party has for II task to com
pletely redeem the State and the nation from Repub
lican corruption, extravagance, and misriuc. no
thing Is gained by the country, and much Is lost by
the Democratic party, If its representatives, or any
coiiPKieraDie nunioer oi mem, can oe junuj ,.r piuu
Blbly charged with like corruption." AT. 1'. World.
This is the true theory. Tho talk of tho
World about the "corruption, extravaganco,
ond misrule" of the Republican party as a
whole is, of course, mere twaddle such as it is
compelled to indulge in, day after day, in
order to retain the confidence of its readers;
but aside from that, tho paragraph we have
quoted is ono that deserves tho careful atten
tion of all true Republicans, and especially of
all the Republicans of this city. If "corrup
tion, extravagance, and misrule" aro to bo tho
characteristic features of any legislative body,
the political party whose adherents are in tho
majority in that body will bo the greatest suf
ferer in consequence. It would be infinitely
preferable to have tho Legislature at Harris
burg unanimously Democratic, if mere per
sonal profit and reckless plundering are to bo
the only objects kept in view by tho members.
Tho last Legislature of this State was about
as corrupt as a Legislature could be, and tho
only hope of a change for the better lies in
an entire change in its composition. Six of
the old members from this city Messrs.
Stokes, Davis, Bunn, Adaire, Cloud,
ond Ilona have contrived so to mani
pulate tho delegate elections as to se
cure so-called renominations. But
tho people have not yet forgotten, and we
trust will remember until October, the fact
that the whole half dozen were nothing more
nor less than fair and overogo specimens of
the class of men whose shameless and reck
less course brought so much disrepute upon
tho State last winter. If the six seats which
these men filled so discreditably last winter
are to be filled next winter by men of the
same stripe, it will bo much better for the
State of Pennsylvania and for the Republican
party to have six Democrats in their places.
If we cannot send to the Legislature decent and
honest Republicans from these districts, let
them go over to the enemy. The -can
not possibly be made any wor .;u,i it is
barely possible that decent and honest men
disguised as Democrats may be elected in
some or all of the districts in question.
Behind the Times. The New York Times,
in serving up a small conflagration on Staten
Island, goes into the particulars of the losses
and insurances with such excessive minute
ness that mere fifty dollar items are not suf
fered to go without mention. How the Tinea
and all the rest of the New York journals
would rejoice at an opportunity to detail a
three million dollar whisky fire. But there
are some things in which Philadelphia can and
does leave the "the metropolis" in tho back
ground.
Edicationai.. The fall terra of the University of
Pennsylvania will open on Wednesday, September
1(5. with very fair prospects for tlio coming Acade
mic ycur. Last year there were H9 students la at
tendance upon the Department of Arts, but the large
number of Freshmen already admitted indicates that
the aggregate will be swelled to about 173 for the com
ing year. The lectures In the Medical Department
will begin on Monday, October 11, and those in the
Law Department on Friday, October 1. The ques
tion of a removal of the university to a more elegible
and commodious site than that now occupied by it,
although in abeyance, nan not been altogether
dropped. As soon as Councils resume their sessions,
the subject of disposing of u portion of the super
fluous Almshouse property will again be brjught up,
and we trust that the proposed measure will at au
early day receive the sanction of both these bodies.
The University of Pennsylvania will then be on the
high road to a degree of prosperity which it has
never attained in the past.
The fall term of Dickinson College, located at Car
lisle, in this State, will open on Thursday, Septem
ber 2, with flattering prospects for the coming year.
Thomas Reaver, Esq., of Danville, Pa., who had
already given $25,000 to Lafayette College, at Eas
ton, has just donated a like amount to Dickinson,
the Income from which will be devoted to tne sup
port of a chair of Biblical Literature, to be known as
the "Peter Reaver Professorship.-' The large cen
tenary collections, in addition to the value of the
old college property, make the endowment
of Dickinson about a quarter of a
million of dollars, the proceeds from which aro suf
ficient to place it in a very satisfactory condition.
The old buildings are being thoroughly renovated
and repaired, and undor tho administration of the
Rev. Dr. Dashiell, the new President, all the dif
ferent departments show signs of Increasing pros
perity. The Institution has a very eligible location,
a full and able corps of professors, and dates back
to the year 1783 as the commencement of her career
of usefulness. The list of the alumni numbers over
a thousand, and among the names of her sons we
liud many which have figured prominently In the
hiHtoryof the country, including those of the late
t hief Justice Taney, the late President Uuclianuti,
and the present Postmaster-General, lion. J. A. J.
C'rtswell.
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OLOI HI NO.
LOW WATER IN THE SCHUYLKILL!
A BIG DRY TIME!
R0CKHILL & WILSON
Not Dried Up Yet!
Elver Schuylkill goinp; dry!
Now, what d'ye thlnV?
All the water running out ;
Not enough tu drink!
Fa'rmount drying up !
Water all gone ;
Can't get enough to wash ;
Folks feel forlorn.
Can't souse the pavements now ;
Dry! Dry!! Dry'.!!
Won't let the hoses play;
That's the reason why.
One comfort even If
Can't squirt the hose ;
ROCKHILL A WILSON have
Lots of splendid Clothes,
Even If the river goes entirely dry;
There are yet
Lots of splendid piles
Of the best Summer Styles
Of Fine Clothes at Low Tide Prl:es,
AT
ROCKHILL & WILSON S
GREAT BROWN STONE HALL,
NOS. 603 AND 605 CHESNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
DARING ATTEMPT TO ROB
HERRING'S PATENT
FltANKLINITE BANKER'S CHEST.
Pekryviixe Station, Pennsylvania RR.,)
June 13, Ho9. j
Messrs. Farrei., Hekrino & Co.,
No. 029 Chesnut street, Philadelphia
Gents : A persistent but unsuccessful effort was
made on the night of May S9, 1S69, to drill the
Banker's chest received from you a few months ago.
From facts that have come to our knowledge, it Is
evident that the attempt to open It was renewed on
Sunday evening following. Finding all eirorts to
drill It useleBS, the eil'ort was then made to break the
lock. The hammering was heard by parties in the
neighborhood for several hours, but supposing It to
arise from the railroad men replacing a defective
rail, excited no alarm. The tools, with the exception
of the drills, were left. It Is evident that they were
rot only prepared, but perfectly familiar with tho
construction of your Chest.
That they failed is another evidence that your
Banker's Chests are what you claim for them, Bur-glur-froof.
Respectfully yours,
61P J. BALSBACK. Agent.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE NEW BOOKS
ALL
FOB SALE AT WHOLESALE PRICES BY
I O It V IS It Ac COAX U S,
Publishers and Booksellers,
NO. 822 CHESNUT STREET,
Marble Building, Adjoining the OontiaoLUl.
Our Now and Elegant
ART GALLERY.
Is now open nil h the finest collection of PAINTINGS
OHHOMOS and KNGRAYINKH in the city. 3 33 tuwfirp
Q. It EAT NOVELTIES
LOOKING GLASSES,
PICTURE FRAMES, ETC. ETC.
NEW CIIROMOS,
NEW ENGRAVINGS.
JAMES S. EAKLE & SONS,
NO. 816 CUESNUT STREET,
4 B mwfrp PHILADELPHIA.
THE BOSTON AND PHILADEL
PHIA SALT FISH COMPANY will supply
I Mo,
iCita pal mnB from the factory of the Glouces
ter aud Boston Unit Fish Company. 8 ltj 3t
Li
EDUOATIONALi
MISS IiONNEY AND MI38 DILL A YE WI
reonen their HOARDING ami DAY Rnm.
(t-ntith ypar), Knpt. lft, at No. 1815 UllKt4NUTSlr,
Particular from Circulars. s ik 7
AMERICAN CON8EKVATOHY OF MUS.
Or'KK'K No. 1"24 WALNUT Street.
(JI AR8 ROOMH. 1IU4 WALNUT and 867 N. BROi
Inatrurtions will bnirln MONDAY, Nnntembor 8. Ii
C1 HO V LA RS AT T 11 KJVIJJ 8 IU STORKS. 7
A N D A L if 8 I A C O I." LE (
RKUPKNB HKPTKMRER 18. IS. t
PRIMARY AND AOADKMIO DKPARTMENT8
n iiumr. nwn BIllBH MiHUUL t UK UOYS
Csnrgns $i"i0 to nor rpsr.
Address Kot. Dr. W K.1,1,8, Anda'osia, Pa.
813 lr
IELACOVE INSTITUTE, BEVERLY, NE
JERSEY. A loading school for Young Ladles, pro,
lent for Its select tone and superior appointment.
For prospectus addrosa the Principal, I
8 8tutbstiw m. RACHKLLR O. HUNT
VYER8' SCIENTIFIC AND CLASSICAL
rl c J'l'JTUTK, AT WEST OH KSTK.lt, PA. ;
The Ki'luilantic Year of 10 months bogins Wednesd.
hoptenibrr 1, next. j,
F or catalogues apply to WM. F. WY ERS, A. M., 5
' u "w Principal and Propriotof
QERMANTOWN ACADEMy7eSTABLISIIE
l"tU English, Classical, and Hciontiflo School i
Ilnys. Hoarding nnd Day Pupils. Session bogins MO
DAY, September 8. For circulars apply to V
C. V. MAYS, A. M., Principal,
Gnnnantown, Philadelphia
8 8tuthstf
lEMALE COLLEGE, BORDENTOWN, t
-1 J. This institution. so longand so favorably know
coBtinues to furnish tho bent educational advantg
in connection with a ploasnnt Christian home. O
loKUPs, with terms, etc., furnished on application. U
lege opens SepteMber lii. 5
7 27 Am JO lIN ILJtRAK ELEYJPresident
T UGBY ACADEMY" FOR BOYS, No. 11.
LOCUST St reet, EDWARD CLARENCE SMITjj
A. M., Principal.
Young men prepared for hunlnm or high Handing in C
lege. Circulars at No. 12-Jii CH ESN UT Street 7 17 3i
I
U F
US AD
M
ELOCUTIONIST,
GIRARD Stroet, between Eloventh an
No. 11
Twolfth and Chesnut and Market. 8
ISS ELIZA W. SMIThTTi A VINO R B
movod from No. 1S24 to Nn. t9l9 fcpmicif a. i
will n'opr-nhprflniinling and Day School for Young L
dies on EDNK SDAY, Sent. 15.
Circulars may be obtained from Lee & Walker. Jarai
. Queen & Co., and aftor August SB, J
AT THE SCHOOL. 7 27 3mJ
C T E V E N S D A L E INSTITUTE, SOUTI
k A M HOY- N- J-- Family Hoarding Bohool for Boysl
will commence on September 8, lsttt). Location nnsiu
passed in everything dosirable for a school. The instrne
tion will lie thoroimh and practical, embracing a carefil
preparation for cuIIprp. (lircnhirH sent on reouost. 1
J. H. W1THINCTON, A. M , Principal, 1
818m SOUTH AMUOY, N J. 1
pIIEOARAY INSTITUTE, ENGLISH ANE
VJ FRENCH, for Young Ladips and Misses, boardini
and day pupils, Nos. 1&J7 and lul SPRUCE Street. Phil
delpbia, Pa., will A
RE-OPEN ON MONDAY, Beptember 90.
French is the liinguago of the family, and is 000.
st 11 nl ly spoken in the institute.
7 16thstu2m MADAME D'HERVILLY Principal
TTAMILTON INSTITUTE, DAY AND
Boarding School for young ladies, No. 3810 t'HRsi
NUT Street, will re open MONDAY, September i For'
circulars, containing terms, etcapply at the school, which
is acceatible to all parts of the city by the horse cars. ' 't
JJ P. LA.OREOAR,A. Mrincipal. 1
LASELL FEMALE SEMINARY (AT AlH
RURNDALE, Mass., ten miles from Boston, ore
ltostnn and Albsny Railroad). For sevontoen years a lead
ing New Fngland Seminary. Not excelled in thorough
r.ngiiBn or anini ini training, nor In nigtiest acoomnlisU-i
mruin in nimii'rn i.aDguages, ratnung, ana Alusio. iioca
tion for health beauty, and retining intluences, unsur
passed. Next year begins Sept. SU. Address
7 27 8w CHARLES W. GUSHING.
rpiIE EDGEIIILL SCHOOL,
a Boarding and Day School for Boys, will begin its next
session in the new Academy Building at
MERCH ANTVILLE, NEW JERSEY,
MONDAY, September 6, 1S69.
Tot circulars apply to Rev. T. W. OATTELTj,
Principal.
T E C T O R Y SCHOOL.
-IV HAM DEN. CONN. '
Rev. O. W. E EREST, Rector, aided by five resident
assistants. The school is closing its twenty sixth year,
and refers to itB old pupils, found in all the professions.
" , 'r.j ......Uv ... .juo,iuk.. .u.fiwuku puysiuai
education, including military drill, hoatinir. anil iu.
ming in their Benson. Age of admission, from nine to
louneen. j units, if iou per annum.
The fall session begins September 7.
Reference Rt. Rev. J. Williams, D. D.
Hamden, July 15, 13t. 7 27 2m
ACADEMY OF THE PROTESTANT EPIS
COPAL CHURCH,
(FOUNDED A. D. 178.1.)
8. W.Cor. LOCUST and JUNIPER Streets.
The Rev. JAMES W. ROBINS, A. M., Head Mustor,
With Ten Assistant Teachers.
From September 1, 18ii, the price of Tuition will be
NINETY DOLLARS por unnum, for all Classes: payable
half yearly in advance.
French, Gorman, Drawing, and Natural Philosophy are
taught without extra charge,
liy order of the Trustees,
GEORGE W. HUNTER, Treasurer.
The Session will open on MONDAY, Septembor 6.
plications for admission may lie made during the pre-
In.
ceding week, between 1
10 and 12 o clerk in the morning.
JAMES W. ROBINS.
8 16 mwf 6w
Head Master.
y EST PENN SQUARE ACADEMY,"
S. W. c oiner of MARKET Street and WEST
PENN SQUARE.
T. URANTLY LANGTON having leased tho upper part
of the Third National Bank Building, will reopen h 1
School on MONDAY, eptenibor 13.
The facilities of this building for school purposes will
be apparent upon inspection. The Gymnasium will be
under the immediat ervisi of Dr. Jansen, and is
being abundantly supplied with apparatus for the practice
of either light or heavy gymnastics.
The course of instruction embraces all that is needed
to fit boys for College, Polytechnic Schools, or Commercial
Life.
Circulars containing full information respecting Primary
Department, College Classes, the study of Vocal Musio,
Art, etc., may be obtained by addressing the Principal as
above. 7 27tuthstf
T
II
E HILL"
SELECT FAMILY BOARDING Rnnnni.
au J.-UKUBO, iinnsn-ai, maiueiimucai, Doloutluo
and Artistic Institution,
FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS!
At Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa.
The F'irst Term of the Nineteenth Anuual Session will
commence on WEDNESDAY, the sthday of September
noxt. Pupils received at any time. For Circulars address
REV. GEORGE F. MILLER, A. M.
Principal
REFERENCES :
REV. DRS.-Meigs, Sehselfor, Mann, Krauth, Reiss,
Muhlenberg, SicBver, Huttor, Stork, Conrad, Bora-
berger, Wylie, Merret, Murphy, Cruiksbanks, etc.
HONS. Judge 1 1. nd low, Leonard Myers, M. Russell
Thayer, Benj. M. Boyer, Jacob S. Yost, Hiester Olynier,
John Killinger. etc.
KKON. James 1.'. Caldwell, James L. Claghorn, O. S.
4 el .....i. . .. ...
urove, i . j. vnno, rtarvey nancrou, 1 neodorou. Ifoggs,
C. F Norton, L. L. Houpt, S. Gross Fry, Miller A Derr,
Charles Wanneiuachcr, James, Kent, Santee A Co.,
etc.
7 28 mwf 2m
II.
Y.
L A U D
ERBACII'S
C1ASSICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND
ACADEMY,
COMMERCIAL
FOR HOYS AND YOUNG MEN,
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
FTntrani 0 No. 198 8. TENTH Streot.
1 bis school presents the following advantages-
F inely-ventilati d class rooms, with ceilings thirty foet in
heitlit, giving each pupil more than double the usual
Lrenthing tpace. 1
Wide, iiihssive t tairwnys, rendoring accidents in assom-
rt uiuii.ii-iii uaisscni, Illiirajlfitf,
.i.m.i auracuvo. .iisteau ot burdensome, to the uupii-an
indispensable renuisite for complete success pum "
Applications received at the Academy froin 10 A. M to
b P. M., daily, on and after Auiriist. :! 10
SchoolCil,al ' th8 Nortuwe' PWlo Grammar
. 8 17 Ira
Q R E X E L & co
NO. 34 SOUTH THIRD STREET
.Y morion 11 nutl FopoI
CRTaVaUulda- ou preta
Travellers can make all their financial arranire.
menu throuRh us, und we win collect their IntS&i
aud dividends wl'tiout charge, "iitrusi
DHEXKIWlKTnOHACO., Dkkxei, IIarjes 4 Co.,
New York. I v&lm, a 104
n. corps 01 ieae h is every one ot wliom has had Venn, nf
pl erienco in me art ot imparling knowledge and
nuking study Interesting, and. en-,.,, ,.,, 1., f,a
A mode of teaching and discipline calculated to main
Catahg lies containing full particulars and the names
of many ot our leading citizens, patrons of the institution
may be . blamed at Mr. W. F. Warburton's, No '
nutstreet,or by addressing the Principal, 11s above
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