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Thb Man Who Lavish By Victor lingo
Trarmlrtteti by "William Young, Piihliflhed
y,y ), Apj'lfiton & Co. I'hilmlolpbia agent,
D. Asbiueftl.
Victor Hugo's romance, remarkable in more
ways than one, having run its course through
the pages of AppMon' Journal, has doubt
less, to the intense satisfaction of the pub
lishers no less than the readers of that pe
riodical, been completed, and is now issued
in book form. It would bo diflicult to find a
utory moro entirely unsuited in every way for
the pages of a popular journal than this; and
long before it came to an end the publishers
found that they had a white elephant of the
jnost unwieldy dimensions on their hands,
that they could not get rid of. And yet this
fitraordinary novel is worthy of better treat
ment than it has received at the hands of Mr.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, who, boing a
worshipper at the shrine of Hugo, has nothing
Int extravagant eulogy to bestow upon it, or
from the majority of critics both in Ame
rica and England, who have united to
condemn it without stint. This, indeed, is
scarcely to lie wondered at, for tho really
fTTnnd oulliuo and basis of tho work is so
overlaid by grotesquo and most ludicrous ab
ftfirditics that it is not easy to tell at first
glance whut the author is driving at. Victor
lingo is now an old man, and in "Tho Man
who Laughs'' the very worst faults and pecu
liarities of his gvotesquo and exaggerated
ntyle are intensified, while tho leading idea is
proportionally faint and feeble. The writer
is evidently terribly in earnest, and in this,
bb in his other writings, he makes an appeal
in behalf of Buffering uud oppressed humanity,
the sincerity of which we cannot doubt. Un
fortunately, tho book is in much the same po
sition as the hero. It 4 incoherent and dis
tressful appeals seem like iusano ravings, and
the grotesque visage excites disdainful laugh
ter and ridicule, which will not even give a
hearing to the came that is being pleaded.
In his nhort prefatory note tho author states
that the true title of this book might have
been "Aristocracy," and ho announces it as
the first of a trilogy, the second part of which
will treat of Idonravhy, and will probably at
tempt to give us a picture of Franco during
the reign of Louis XV or that of Louis XIV.
The third and concluding part will bo called
'Ninety-eight," and will treat oi devolution.
Victor lingo has grasped the essentially
true idea when he srys that "tho English
patriciate is tho patriciate in the true sense of
tho word. No feudality more illustrious,
more terrible, and moro full of life.
It is in England that this phenomenon, no
bility, ought to bo studied, just as it is in
Franco that we ought to study this phenoin?
non, royalty." Assuming that the proper
time to study the English aristocracy is in its
decadence, M. Hugo has endeavored to give
us a view of tho workings of the English sys
tem during the reign of Queen Anne
"Brandy Nan." as she was irreverently termed,
her favorite beverage, according to some
authorities, being cherry-bounco. Now,
there is probably no period of English history
that is better defined or better understood
than this, and it is scarcely conceivable that
any educated man, in attempting to describe
it, could possibly commit the blunders that
turn every one of M. Hugo's pages into bur
lesque. From title-page to Jinis he shows
an absolute ignorance of his subject; ho
knows nothing whatever of tho laws, man
ners, customs, or people that he attempts to
describe, and yet the whole story is a mass of
minute details, which are related with a
gravity and ingenuousness that are ludicrous
in the extreme, as tney indicate that the
nuthor has tho most perfect contidoneo in
liimself and in the entire veracity of the
information that ho imparts. There is
scarcely a work in literature, outside such
productions as tho "Arabian Nights" and
'Gulliver's Travels," that is so charged with
fantastic impossibilities. Indeed, tho "Ara
bian Nights" seem to have given M. Hugo
more than one hint, as in tho description of
Corleone Lodge in Book Seventh, which might
readily pass for one of those stupendous
palaces which tho oriental story-tellers in
some of the wildest ilights of their imagina
tion attribute to the supernatural powers of
some afrite or genius. It is very certain that
no such structure existed in England during
the reign of Brandy Nan. If all these particu
lars had been made strictly rmbordinate, and
the selection of a definite period of history
leen made a matter of strictly secondary im
portance, these inaccuracies would have been
of comparatively littlo moment. But M.
Hugo has deliberately undertaken to describe
the social and political system of a certain
nation at a certain and definite era: he
Las not only failed to do bo, but he has de
liberately made the situation something vastly
different from what it roully was, and con
sequently the local coloring of his fiction
being all false and discordant, there are com
paratively few readers who will care to study
the work for the sake of what is really good
and great in it.
To estimate the real valuo of "Tho Man
Who Laughs," it will be necessary to forget
Queen Anne and English history, and to read
it as if we knew nothing of either to road
it as a Frenchman would who knows as littlo
about the period as M. nugo does. The
book will then be removed out of the realms
of absolute fact, and it will represent certain
ideas and principles that are true and noble.
just as the form in which they are prosented
is false and ridiculous,
M. Hugo represents, in the person of his
bero. the common clay of humanity engaged
in a conflict with the world, the flesh, and
Uie devil. In illustrating his theme he hesi
tates at nothing, and certain portions of his
work are, according to Anglo-Saxon ideas on
such subjects, grossly and unnecessarily in
decent. It is proper to say, however, that
the offensive passages have been judiciously
toned down in the translation, so that it
$ bftto fxmm curivai jj still tfcfl
work is not one exactly adapted for family
reading or Sunday School libraries. Thought
ful and intelligent men, however, who can
appreciate real earnestness of purpose
and real genius, in spite of
its vagaries and extravagances,
may read this tragedy with pleasure and
profit; for underneath all the absurdities of
the book, the idea of a man with a grin on his
face, an undefined misery at his heart, trodden
under foot by a great, false system, only half
understanding his own wrongs, and troubled
to know why those evils which nature cer
tainly had not ordered should exist at all, is
sufficiently distinct. All tho characters in the
book arc embodiments of abstract ideas,
rattier than real personages, and they are all
moro or less sketchy and indefinite. At the
same time they aro masterly sketches, and
tho portrait of the "Ducheus .Tosaine" is a tine
and subtle creation of genius, beside which
tho others appear commonplace.
This is n work that is not to bo read for its
plot or its historical facts, and tho reader who
is capable of appreciating it at all will readily
forgive the irregularities of tho author for the
sake of tho real grandeur with which he has
invested tho essential features of his subject.
In every chapter there ore eloquent and
powerful passages, which are equal to any
thing that Victor Hugo has written in his
best days: nnd even his errors, growing, as
they do, out of his intense hatred of oppres
sion and wrong, arc entitled to tho respectful
consideration of thoso who, like him, look
forward to tho day when all men shall bo free
uud equal, nnd when legalized wrong and op
pression will bo done, away with on tho earth
forever. M.Hugo delivers a genuine sword
thrust when he says with bitter irony, "The
English address God as my lorrf." This will be
appreciated by any one who is at all ac
quainted with English history, or who
understand English society. It is easy
to laugh at his cant talk about the
"infinite," and at what appears like
an affectation of sentiment, but the sincerity
of his convictions and the honesty of his in
tentions cannot be disputed, and they cntitlo
him to a respectful hearing. In spite of
errors of fact and faults of style, "The M m
Who Laughs" is a great work, and it will be
appreciated as such by discriminating readers
who care more f r substance than they do for
form.
From Claxton. licnisen & UafVVlfmger
we have received "Frotetant Gems of tho
Fraycr Book." by Rev. J. Fleasouton
Ilamel. This is a series of short commenta
ries on passages from tho "Book of Common
rrnyer," designed to set forth its Frotestaut
teachings in a clear and explicit maimer. It
is printed nnd bound in a neat and attractive
style, and it may be perused with interest
and profit by others than tho members of the
Episcopal Church, for whose edification it is
particularly designed.
From Turner Brothers & Co. we have
received Apphton'x Journal for September 1,
which contains the last installment of Victor
Hugo's romance. Tho illustrations in this
number aro much better than usual; tho
frontispiece, in particular, cnilled"Wniiing."
from a picture by August o Toulmouche, is a
gem in its way. Tlio same house sends us
Our J'fis" Kin (.lirW Miiinxinr for Septem
ber ). nnd a lithographic portrait of Samuel
Hahnemann, the founder of homn-opathy.
EASTERN rilODICIES.
r.iw All tht War Ruvnil.
Of ouo Eastern city, in which I lived for
some time, the Turks told me tliat at the
creation of tho world Allah provided three
Micksful or bags of lies, and that he appro
priated two of the three to that particular
place, and one to oil tho rest of the world. I
had strong reason to believe this legend.
"What the Mussuhnen want in inventive
power, they make up for in capacity of belief.
Numerous aro the cities on tho surface, more
numerous still (according to them) are tho
cities beneath. 1 ho precise situation ol most
of these is unknown, but in one case it is
knoivn, and the entrance to it is visible; I
have seen it, in fact.
This entrance is in the taco ol a mountain
not many miles troia the city ot i.puesus. it
is a Hat niche, which looked to mo as if some
one had begun a small tunnel or driftway, and
then stopped. No doubt I must be wrong.
If we could get tho key of tho door, (and that
is perhaps in the keeping of some African
magician), we should find it readily swing on
its hinges, and tho population would stream
forth. Their carriages and horses, however,
they could not possibly bring with them, for
tho door (granting an invisible door) is too
low. There, within that mountain, is a vast
people in a largo t il y, with all tho establish
ments needful for such a concourse. They
are within a few feet of us. I wonder how
their streets and palaces aro lighted? I h ive
been over that moiintaiu range, but I never
could rind a clue to this mystery.
It is enchanted ground, however. I re
member once passing there on horseback;
none but my ow n party in sight. High above
in the air, we heard tho ringing of bells and of
cathedral chimes, like some carillon of Flan
ders! It came from no fixed station; but
floated up and down in tho air above us.
There, we clearly heard it, awakening old
thoughts of our Western cities, whon on Sun
day or holiday, or in the summer evening, tho
bells cheerily rang forth from the spires. I
could see no more; but I have little doubt
that this sound from tho subterranean city
was an echo of tho bells of strings of camels
moving in the distance.
Tho city is closed: but. it may yet give
forth its men. In holy Ephesus, near by,
did not the seven sleepers take shelter in a
cave, and did they not there remain for one
hundred years, when they and their dog came
out, and hardly found tho way to their own
neighborhood, when, what they thought had
been tho hurried sleep of a night, had been
the long epoch of revolutions in religion, and
in the State ? The street boys, who mocked
at them, were their great grandchildren. Old
men, to whom they appealed for information
and protection, were their own grandsons.
Their beards had turned grey, and their dog
had become decrepit; as well he might
at a time of life unknown to dogs be
fore. The citizens of Ephesus could be
little surprised to see men of past ages reap
pear, and treated them with honor; but the
sleepers found none whom they knew, of
wives, or infants, late or early friends. The
reven sleepers went into a convent with their
dog, and, after a further lease of mortal life,
were buried in holiness in their own cave, in
truthful commemoration of the event.
I heard of two aged men near Mecca, who
kawra j0 WRpy Moslem pilgrims. vejnS
six hundred, years old or , moro. Our own
grandfathers lived when George the Third was
king, not a hundred yoars ago; but one of
thoso sheikhs might have soon a shoikh who by
like communication would have learned from
an eye-witness tho events of two thousand
years ago, when the memory of Alcxaudor
still was young, and before Julius fought for
the empire of tho East.
The British Association at its last meeting
reduced by five thousand years tho age of tho
Wcllingtouia gigantea. and unlucky inquiries
have also brought down tho ages of the
sheikhs. Those who had n?t been on the pil
grimago fixed them at six hundred or eight
hundred years; those who had been part of tho
way said four hundred; I was afraid to inquire
nearer lest tho old men should be reduced to
boys, and I should lose the pleasure of tho
marvel.
I was told, however, by a loarned Turk,
thot the truth of tho matter was that a sheikh
taking possession of tho tent or abode of a
famous sheikh, is known by that name, and
that tho ignorant multitude see in tho per
petual succession of men of like name only
one long-lived individual.
Often have aged nnd bowed men been
pointed out to me as a hundred and fifty
years old; but I could never get such an age
proved. A Turk can always gain a few years
in age by the shortness of the Turkish year.
A Turkish friend who had been in Itonmo
lia told mo that at a great fair in tho Adria
nople district ho had soon nn old Greek
woman sitting at the foot of a tree selling
wares; her age, she said, was a hundred anil
fifty: but she pointed out her mother and
grandmother, and said that her great-grand
mother was at home in the village, being now
too infirm to attend tho fair. Tho old women
got much custom, including some from my
friend, but ho did not go to the village to see
the eldest of tho family.
Feople so gifted as to tenure of life are like
wise privileged as to other faculties, ubiquity
not excepted. There is now. or was lately,
an imam in the city of Diarbekir, who on tho
same day, and within an hour's time, preached
in tho great mosquesof Diarbekir and Aleppo,
two or three hundred miles apart. This was
attested by merchants and others, who had
known him in both places. He likewise
preached simultaneously in the cities of Mosul
and Itiarbekir.
An African friend who made arithmetical
mistakes in mnny matters of mine told mo
some singular tales. He informed mo of
men and women in his part of tho world who
bud three eyes each; and of another popu
lation having, besides the front eyes, two be
hind, and a tail. Thoso gentry were canni
bals. Tho people were named Nya Nyas,
and they had teeth tiled in a saw shape, and
there were Nya Nyas in Turkey.
At Constantinople, in Santa Sophia, Maho
met Ghazi, tho conqueror, rode on horseback
to the altar, and devoted it, by tho recital of
the consecrated formula, to tho worship of
tho one God of tho Osmauli. Tho bishop
who was olliciating stepped into tho wall,
gospel in hand, and has been waiting with
mitre and crozier in the wall four hundred
years for the return of the Byzantine empire.
Alas! the Ottomans have prophets too; they
came to Byzantium under holy guidanco.
Eyoob or Job, a followerjofjthe prophet, him
self led tho first attack on thoso triple walls,
and falling, left his body and tho prophecy of
tho apostle, as a pledge to those who were
to achieve success. By a vision granted to a
holy man, all this was revealed to Mahomet,
and littlo reck he nnd his successors of
tho bishop of tho idolators. The tomb of
Eyoob, surrounded by the many sepulchres
of sultans and warriors, stands on its holy
ground, a monument to them of divine as
surance. But for their enemies, the bishop is not tho
only tho testimony. In the monastery of
Balukli, outside the doomed walls, at the
moment when the hist of the Constantines
died like a warrior on a mountain of slain, tho
monks of Balukli were frying fish. And tho
fish, more sensible to tho events of this world
than tho monks, jumped off tho gridiron into
a sacred tank, w hero they still live to com
memorate the dread event, and keep up hope
in faithful Greeks. There they may be seen
on their yearly festival: and I have soon them,
at other times by the offering of a silver coin.
They still bear tho stripes of tho gridiron, as
any one can witness. Jf a few fish can live
for four hundred years, why should not the
sheikhs near Mecca live twice that time?
Though the underground people are hidden,
their treasures aro sometimes found. Treasure-finding
is a recognised way of attaining
to fortune Just as every poor family in
England thinks an unknown uncle may bring
them sudden wealth from India, so the na
tive, nay, the European resident, in Turkey,
never knows but in his very garden the tent
of seme Lydian king may give way to tho
mattock, nnd deliver up its wealth of gold and
jewels. Silver is seldom expected, for it is
better to have gold and jewels. According
to received notious, but unrecorded by his
tory, the old kings of these countries had the
peculiarity of burying with thorn immense
masses of treasure, jars upon jars of gold. Why
they did it, reason saith not; but who knows
who may have tho luck to find tho store?
There are tales enough of these discovered
hoards received as profound truth. I have
seen tho spots whore tho tombs were rilled,
and I have heard the names of the tinders. I
know a beautiful pass, with clumps of poplars
and planes, called tho Kavakli Here, or Poplar
Dale, where a Hollander, in the last century,
is recorded by the universal popular voice to
have discovered a tomb and treasure. He went
back to the city, and, taking a negro slave as
an assistant, gradually and steadily carried off
tho enormous prize. This he smuggled on
board the fleet in the bay, and, lest the secret
should leak out, he poisoned the black before
sailing: yet tho full and authentic particulars
seem to be just as well known as if the dead
negro had revealed them. Perhaps ho did, for
there is no want of ghosts in the East. There
was one in a well near my house that rarely
troubled the neighborhood.
Treasure adventures are not of the past
only. I have been asked to join in more
than one. It is always necessary to begin by
buying the piece of ground in which tho
treasure is. I have lost more than one cer
tain fortune by neglecting this preliminary
step. One chanco I lost was very strong.
The lucky discoverer had made a midnight
venture on the ground, had opened a jar, aud
had handled costly jewels. Fearful of being
discovered he put them back again, and came
post haste to me next morning for fifty
pounds as an instalment on the laud, and to
get the jewels out. He did not get the fifty
pounds from me, nor, I fear, from any one
else; for he died some years afterwards with
out bequeathing gold, silver, or diamonds to
his heirs. The secret died with him.
One is not limited to gold. Luck may turn
up in other ways. Statues are very good; for
a small investment you may come npon
a find like a Ballarat nugget; a thou
sand or two thousand pounds being a
small sum for an English lord to pay for a
statue. In my time the finds have been few,
and of limited value; though fragments are
Mn continually turned up. Ojio mm )
me he had found, in a villa in the interior,
twolvo statues as good as tho Apollo Bolvi
dere, and he offered me half a share of tho
find, on payment of a few hundred pounds
down. . If any statues were found, I behove
they were garden imagos. A Turkish proprie
tor told mo I might dig for statues orbas-reliofs
on mnny parts of his property; and I believe
him, for he was owner of tho site of a city as
large as Bristol or Norwich. It was, how
ever, an inconvenient spot to transport heavy
marbles from; and when it was not covered
with the winter floods, it was poisonous with
malaria. Such aro tho drawbacks, where
there are real chances!
Visions beset the Icvantino of cities in the
interior, desolate, lout with temples perfect
nnd statuary standing. Some will toll you
that they have found such places, when
driven by brigands off the beaten routo;
cities unmarked on tho maps and unnamed
by tho ancient geographers and historians.
They could not slay, and have wished
to return; but years have passed awav,
and their business has not yot permitted.
Tho columns they saw wore as polished as
when new, and gleaming in snowy white
brightness. Tombs aro ever and anon said
to be opened, in which lamps were found
burning, which only went out when tho fresh
air entered. By the last flicker of such a
lamp, the king whoso body tho light watched,
visibly faded from his life-like color, and his
solid flesh and embroidered robes fell tQ
dust.
All is fleeting, and all may perish. How
sweet is the small valley, with its vines and
figs nnd olives, its orange and citron trees
yet scenting tho air, its gardened houses,
its lanes and hedgerows, the trickling
stream nnd flowering shrubs! How charm
ing yonder street tho palaco, gaily painted,
as a picture by itself; the free foun
tain next its gate speaks of tho
bounty of its founders, mindful of the future;
the cott'ee-houso gives shelter in its shady
balcony, to the, reposing guests! All is calm;
with just so much air as cools and mellows
the sunshine, and leaves us to enjoy its bril
liancy unwearied; yet in one moment shall all
this, nnd all who live in it, be shaken to death
and ruin; one second moro of tho frequent
earthquake, one further strain of power, and
even tho fallen ruins are engulfed, tho sea
wave rolls over tho spot, and black floods
burst forth from tho chasms in tho soil.
There was one spot I often passed before I
knew its story. A cathedral with jingling
bells sent up a huce tower aloft, and around
its precincts quiet monks filled tho numerous
chambers. The shops had their busy occu
pants, and climbing vines made canopies over
the narrow ways; many a traveller has marked
the scene. One day, while 1 restod in n
countin-'-houso near there, an aged merchant
told me how, in tho great earthquake, his
family had occupied the house at the corner
of the cathedral yard. There they took re
fuse, and after the first shocks, sought re
pose. His father, then a baby, lay on a mat
tress by a servant. Suddenly the ground
opened, drawing in four men who lay next to
him, nnd, closing again, entombed them for
ever. I seldom traversed tho marble pave
ment but I thought what if the earth should
yawn again, as of yore !
In merely worldly things nono know what
eyes behold them, even in tho open streets.
"Those veiled Turkish women wander about
observant of all, and known to none. Yon
lady in a dove-colored ferijeo, whom you
cannot distinguish, is perhaps a bosom con
fidante of your own wife. That coarse native
woman in crinoline, tho suspicious Greek may
fear to be the governor-general in person,
disguised, watching evil-doers. He who ven
tures forth at night does so at tho risk of
encountering llaroun Alraschid and his
attendant, Mesrour; and if ho stoji at homo
they may be listening under his windows.
An Armenian may be scared to death by an
unknown soap-vendor, who follows him about,
pressing soap and conversation on him, and
whom he believes to be the Sultan Caliph of
Islam so arrayed, or the Grand Vizier.
What seems and is not, or what is, who
knows in tho East ? Philosophy and theo
logy flourish on the borders between the real
ami tho imaginary. The power of magic
comes to relieve unsettled minds and to reas
sure the vulgar, who are more numerous than
the select, if there be any select, who believe
not in magic and its kindred sciences. Islam
could not conquer magic; it only consecrated
its power and furnished it with new moans of
incantation. Tho magi of the East aro de
funct, but the magician of Africa, tho Moor,
the Mnghreli, rules with traditional might,
adapts the science, and weaves tho cuneiform
characters of Babylon into his weird alphabet.
All Islam confirms tho power of magic. What
tho magician does to find stolen napkins or
bring back lost lovers, the dervish acknow
ledges as potent to expel disease and restore
life. The great name of God may be written
in wondrous shapes. Here, such an emblem
protects a house from fire; there in a tablet
it shields the tailor from the temptations of
dishonesty. It is over the doorway of tho
mosque and the shop of the magician. The
magician is not now so favored as of old, but
his shop is sometimes to be seen, with speci
mens in tho windows of white and holy charms,
horoscopes, tables of magie letters and magic
squares, ineffable names. I remomber
one fellow's shop, and ho had a talking
parrot hanging over tho door. An incre
dulous passenger remarked to me that the
parrot was cleverer than the magician; but
tho magician drove an excellont trade.
In warding off evil, securing fickle love,
promising children, curing sickness, and dis
covering theft, tho talisman-dealer, tho magi
cian, nnd the astrologer yet thrive throughout
tho East. The gipsy is a missionary to be
found in every house. There is nothing too
impossible for credulity. A modern conjuror
drew five francs a head from a large commu
nity by sending round his carte-de-visito,
representing him with his head at his feet.
An intelligent audience of educated persons
was highly indignant that this part of the
performance did not come off.
One marvel 1 have read in a veracious book,
to wit, that the heads of beheadod ladies and
slaves are to be seen floating down the Bos
phorus in hampers daily, whorofore people
are not allowed to catch fish, aud are afraid to
eat fish. I have eaten fish and seen hampers,
but I never had the good luck to see a hamper
of ladies' heads, or to meet with any one who
had. One head would raise a mob of the
women of Constantinople.
Rev. Charles (Jodfrey, Methodist, of Lafay
ette, lnd., recently denounced the Hepublicun
party In the pulpit because it had not appointed
more Methodists to olllce. He was severe on
Mr. Lincoln for removing a man from olllco be
cause be was a Methodist.
The Springfield Republican Bays: "About
tho busiest traveler that we know of during this
dog-day weather Is the 'interviewing' reporter
of tho New York Nun. No sooner had this
attache of that luminary written out the notes of
his conversation with John Quincy Adams at
Hoston, than he hied away to Ohio, and now
offers us a mental photograph of the great Fen-dlvton.".
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ft Until. Sm2pl No. !W7 OHKSNUT Street, I'uilaila.
best quality of GASOLIN'K alwavs on hand.
BLANK BOOKS.
BLANK BOOKS.
The Largest Stock and Greatest Variety
OP
rULli AND HALP-EOUUD
BLANK BOOKS,
MEMORANDUM, PASS,
COPY-BOOKS, ETC. ETC
To be found In this city, Is at the
OLD ESTABLISHED
Blank Ocok Manufactory
OF
JAS. B. SMITH & CO.,
tio. 27 South SEVENTH St.,
6 18 tfistu3m
PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE AND SALESROOM, FIRST FLOOR ; WARE
KOO.MS, Ul' BTA1KS.
WINDOW SCREEN.
j GOOD THIN C.
IMPORTANT TO JTOUSKKEEPE11S
HOTELS, BANKS, OFFICES, ETC.
The Patent Adjustable Window Screen
WILL FIT ANY WINDOW,
Give ventilation and lifrht, screen from view, and exclude
FLIES, MOSQUITOES,
AND OTHKR INSECTS.
For sale by Dealers in Houso-furnushinir Goods.
THE ADJUSTAULF. WINDOW SCRKKN COMPANY,
BOLK MANUFACTURERS,
6 13 sfuthSin No. tl MARKET St.. Philadelphia.
CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING,
No. 214 South FIFTH Street.
BELOW WALNUT.
A Large Assortment of New and Second-hand
C 1 IM A G 13 Ht
INCXUDINO
RocfcawajB, Pliictons, Jenny Llnds, Bugirlcl
Depot Wagons, Etc Etc, 3 23 tilth
For Sale at Reduced Prices.
HOSIERY COOPS.
J WILLIAM UOFMANN,
No. 9 N. EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia,
Dealer In Hosiery Goods,
Offers for sale a large assortment of Hosiery, for
Ladles', Gents', an Children's wear; Socks, three,
quarter Socks, and Long Uo.e, of English and Our
man manufacture.
UNDER WE AXl
Of Cartwrlght Warner's manufacture, acknow
ledged to be the beg imported.
Also, the Nerfolk.and New Brunswick, acknow
ledged to be the bes of American Goods.
These Goods In all sizes, for 4 1 wsly
Soring" and Summer Wear.
PATENTS.
PATENT OFFICES,
N. W. Corner FOURTII and CHESNUT,
(Entrance on FOURTH street).
rXlARCXS D. PASTOZIIU3,
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS.
Tatents procured for Inventions In the United
Stutcs and Foreign Countries, and all business re
latlng to the same promptly transacted. Call or scud
for circulars on Patents.
Open till 9 o'clock every cvonlng. 8 smth
PATENT OFFICES,
N. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT,
I'lIlLADKLPIIIA.
FEKB LESS THAN ANY OTHER RELIABLE
AGENCY.
Send for pamphle on Talents. ,
8 4thStu CHARLES H. EVANS.
WIRE
WORK.
GALVANIZED and Painted WIRB GUARDS,
store fronts and windows, for factory and warehous.
windows, for churches and cellar windows.
IRON and WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, ofncea
cemetery and garden fences.
Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Builders
and Carpenters. All orders filled with promptnes,
and work guaranteed.
ROBERT WOOD & CO.,
T 3 Btutlicm M. 1130 RIDGB Avenue PhUfk
SHIPPING.
tfca'!!Lyv ERPOOL AVn
MM
Vr.r.r.r,iMWNInman I,ln of u' ,
tStnainor. &r. uih.inri n . "!n
I.T.-VS Inn,. .
-r. H . ,
;(! "J n, NatoifUjr. Anenirt, SS, at 10 A. M
l',lty t !,ryokl'0' Haturday Ni)tnilnr 4, at 1 P M i
City of lliiltinuirn, via Halifax, Tutadfty, Scut, 7'., In.,'
A.d .ach Micccriin Katurri.. H .I..,-.. ' r '
from I'ier 4b,
45. North IWr. Av-t,
RTi'M ntf Pllftinir
vl Trrr,
l i 1.1 "U"' 'VERY UTTTriTlAY
vahln in Uold. Payable in (Jurr.!
I' V A B 1 N 1 100 : 8TK K ft A UK.. arr9no-
.ondnn..- Inr. Tn I I
irtnu'f' 1
Tolondon luf, Tolondon.... 7
IIM luiarm i,
J-ASHAIIK M THR TUKS1MI STKAMEH, VIA RAM.''
HUNT CAII1N. BTKrUAui
nteSt.. .mlwM'J
'' y v Haiifii. . .
ht. John'a, N K, Bt. .lohn'a. N. F., ', 1
&ZZ mm,Vi--i: .h'Unn' Earner..
.tcTtd'VT to umbur-
tX,m f "r W
l(i!'rv,7J"T.V?t.,ir"iatl"n I'''1'" th Company'. OfBr.'
CHABLMTOH. 8.i
THE SOUTn AND SOUTH WBSX, v
FAST FREIGHT X.I1V;
EVERY THURSDAY. j
The Steamships PROMETHEUS, CuptiUti rm
J. V. KVK.HMAN, ( 'apt a 1 11 1 1 i 11' k i . v '
WILL FORM A RKui I.AU WKEKLYIVR. (
The Pt.iimstilp J'liO.MKTIIKI S will i,, '
THURSDAY, August i!ii,at4'.M Bal1
Thr.Miph bills of lading Rlvon m connection witf
K . K. li. to points lu the South riuI soiithw",.
Insurance at lowest rates. Rates of fre htaJiJ
as by any other route. For freight, apply t
2 22tf
r a. souii;ij crt !
DOCK STUCK!' WHAr'f.
rfOSLY WIRECTLINE TO FRANC
frFif Till? t: i-m 1. tj . VT. 1
fif'OMPA
E'fSt AKW YOKK AtiD HAVKKuAllj'i'l
Saturday. "' "orla ror, ev0r
1 m . .,. PR IRI5 OF PASSAGK
la gold (including wind.
vi,.. r-.,. 1 lmST. P.R "A VRK.
xxw 1
Anieiu p.n tiavullerB iroini to or rtnrnln r .l. 3
tincnt of Kun.,.0. l,y Ukii. "ttartSSSS"? fcJSiH
unneceaaan- ri"k" from transit, by KnHiah rd aV0"
crowing the channel, besides snvii ViV.. ' . ,' wa" ."
Pcns- UKOKUK MACKl 1" j . n.aS
T-or pkuM BkGaJ&a'y
Coniouny, to apply t Adanw' ' KxpSrf
1 ) I T T r . urit
At noon,
nrinti frnm U II?u'P ht , . r
, - w,. i irnjj H11AKH uHnA II A t it m
FIRST WIIAR' a'boye MARKER
DTrPf't.
.V ' -'iiiuiui.
Tfli; it II A VI. I Lhnt'WAwnn ...
RA'IKS THAN ANV OT1I Kit a' LOWKJj
'I he regularity, safety, and cheapness of thi. ,.
mend it to tho i.uuliu as lh m.l, h" f.V"..rou.f.9 -
can-jinn every description of freiKi,t ' HJeUmm
tr!rtt,X0'rComm,bSion' dfW or mjexpena.
Steamships insured at tho lowest rates.
ireujut received daily.
w No. 13 R. WHARVES PiorfhVvTiffi,
i.i. ,l m.i. A t,l Agents at Norfulk. ij
LOKILLARD'S STEAMSHIP
I7f ILVKKOR
------ . w tTXa
Sailing on Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Saturdays.
R10DUCTION Ob' KATJCS
Freight by this line taken at 13 centa per loo pound.,
cents per fooK or 1 cent per gallon, .hip's option Ad
vunco enaryes casued at oihce on Fier. 'rolht receirad
onu . JO"NF, Olir.,
2 5 Pier lit North Wharves.
N. B. Ftra rates on small package. Iron, metal, eto.
I Ft! , NE.W EGRESS LINE TCJ
Uj. Alexandria, (.oorgetown. and Washington
fihBaae:?tU.. via Chesapeake and Delaware Ouual. wilS
conn. -non. at A leiaiuliia from the moat direct route lor
Somhwe" H istol, Knoxville, Naahville, Dalton, auditli.
Steamy leave regularly every Saturday at noon from oj
first wliart above Market stroot, .
Freight received daily. I
S"lM.AMuP- qi.YDK A CO., I
t. toi.,?11 ii?0.rth un.d !"'" Wharvo.. f
- B""yg awAauunn. 018
4
FT? h "iiv-r. ruitiNiLVV YOKK, VTA
. V.T' i t AM R A RITA N OASALi
-I- ll'VlJUb'WU UTIT A l t, . . m ....... V.. .1',
f Vr-VAvkAKK ANI HA RITA N OANAJ
li.u LIUAI'l'.hi anil (JUIClvKST water communica
tion between rmiaiieiptna and Now ork. J
Steamers leave daily from tirst wharf below Mark.)
street, Philadelphia, and toot of Wall street, New Yorl
noon loinniiii'u iy nu me lines running out of Ka
Vnrk. Vnrth. IvmbI. aiijI Wo fn .?..:
Froight received and forwarded on acoommodatia
teriua. Wll.l I A M P. MADK A (JO, Agents,
.. .m u. .ua a ntniuB. I'liuauoiumaj.
r i ii i i . . r .
3? No. US WALL Street, New York
w nviCj ruiiiNrjW lOKK., Via
u Tti ) u-n m on1 1? il I u iir ivitti 3
1 a m tttc . i i ivmni iiv i a i ii m UUJVlrAW Y LI Rfl
i-Ali.ll AND NWHTSIJUK. LINK. 1
accommodating terms, apply to
,uc u ...... ..... . u. Hl'lKUlB, WUlliU Will UQ UKOQ I
025
No. lia Smith Wharves.
PROPOSALS.
AFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS 0!
THE SINKING FUND.
TllEASritY Dkpabtment of Prnvsylvania,!
li AiuiiHiA iui, August iu, IbtiH. I
Sealed bids will be received for the redemption
ONE MILLION DOLLARS of the loan of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, due July 1,1870, until 13 o'clock M.
October 1, 1&9. Communications to bo addressed Ut
R. W, MACK FY, Kau,., State Treasurer, Uarrisburg'
Pennsylvania, and endorsed Bid for Redemption of State!
Loan. I
F. JORDAN, I
Socretury of State. f
J. F. HARTRANFT, f
Auditoi'-Cionoral.
It. W. MAOKKY, !
State TreAsursr. f
Commissioners of tin 8 nking Fund. P.
N. B No newspaper publishing tho above withouf
authority will receive pay therefor. 6 33 lmj
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETO.
JOBEltT SIIOKMAKElt & O Ov
N. E Corner FOURTH and RACE SttJ
PHILADELPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUCCIST8
Importers and Manufacturers of f
White Lead and Colored Paints, Pnttyf
Varnishes, Etc. j
AGENTS FOR TUB CELEBRATED 1
FRENOH ZINO PAINT 8
Dealers and consumers- aupplied at lowest prW
forcasn. 1941 j
OROOER I E8 AND PRQVISIQ N s71
1011 A EL MEAGHKlt A 00
No. 823 South SIXTEENTH Street, f
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
PROVISIONS, I
OXSTEKS, AND BAND CLAMS,
FOR FAMILY CSX
TERRAPINS 11 PER DOZEN.
FJORNY'S TASTELESS
Fruit Preserving Powder, f
I. warranted to keep Rtrawkerrie. mperior to any known
proceas, a. well as other fruit, without bin air-utit.
Fries, 60 cent, a package. Bold by tba frown. ,
muttrn V CV VO., Proprietors,
136 North BJ00ND St., PbiljKUr
iiinwn n 1 r.M to all no nfa In vrfi, . 0
arolinn. via Seaboard Air l.,u Tuilnmd ?n f,Dtl, 8ratt
l'orlsmoiith and V, I,yn. hluiK Va S. ""iieotini .
fl'II I !' 1 II a r