Till: DAILY eV-IHKQ .TELEGRAPH FniLADELPlILV, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 18C9. rOI'ULAR SCIEJiCE. ' - l.amlnonn Mrteara. The principal remarkable featnre of the Ire-bnll of the 7th of October, IHt'.S, was its vaflt volume mtich larger than that of any other meteor Been for many years. Two other ircnnintancefi appeared also to be of some important intercut, viz.: -1. Tho immense dintanco to which the scries of detonations was heard over an area of more than 1!() tmiios in width, incomparably surpassing the distance to which the longest claps of thunder ox the discharges of the lnrgest cannons can be heard. If, moreover, the wtatements of the majority of tho observers may be trusted, the interval between the bursting of the me teor and the sonnd of the report was so great that the 'phenomenon- must have taken place at a prodigious height. I8B than five minutes cannot bo allowed, on the most mode rate estimation, from the explosion of tho meteor to the sound of the report, and this would imply a distance of more than (0 miles. Tailing into account the direction of the metoor as Recn by the observers, it would be difficult to admit a height of less than 48 miles This height is confidently within the limits which it would bo necessary to assign to it when the greater number of exact do Bcrip'tions of the meteor, given by competent observers, are taken, into tho account. Ihe meteors of the 14th of November, 1808, were well observed in tho United States on the morning of the 14th of November last. 2. Trof. Newton has selected several instances of me teors of conspicuous brightness, which were fiimultnneouslv observed by observers at dis tant placos. The rosnlts lead to the supposi tion, from the observed motions of transla tion and distortion of some of tho streaks, that a northward current of the nppor air pre vailed at an altitude of about r 1 miles, and that above this level, to 8 height of about CO miles, a current of air existed, moving in a northerly direction. The double appoarance vt the streaks observed with the telescope, in Home of tho meteors in the shower, suggests the proboblo conjecture by Prof. Newton of an actual duality in tho meteor itsolf; and a very possible analogy, it is thought, may thus Le recognized among the November shooting stars, to the donblo or multiple character which is common among the detonating and Btonc-producing meteors. New Flrc-AIcnsurrr. M. Lnmy has invented a pyramctcr which indicates the exact temperature of a red-hot furnace, and transmits the same to considera ble distances. The manager of a porcelain manufactory, for instance, will be able, by moans of this new invention, to nszcrtain, at anv time, the exact temperature of all tho furnaces of his establishment, without being obliged to leave his bureau. As for the appa xatus, it is simply a retort containing white marble, the neck ot which, by means ot a tube, is connected with a needle that moves ft dial-plate. Under the influence of the heat the marble is decomposed, and the carbonic acid set at liberty. Each temperature is rigorously characterized by tho tension which the gas takes when produced; tho result of the entire series of experiments proves that it is sufficient to measure this tension, in order to obtain with precision tho tempera ture sought tor. The Dnrwliilan Theory. At tho lrjst meeting of the British Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, several papers were read upon the Darwinian Theory. Some of the writers handled without gloves this hypothesis of tho descent of species, with modifications through uatural selection. Tho most striking of these papers was entitled "Man vs. the Animalsjbeingn Counter-Theory to Mr. Darwin's as to the Origiu of Species," by Archdeacon Freeman. Tho author said that the question raised by Darwin was already an international one. In England great names ranged themselves on either side; in France, Eo Quatrel'ages, Langel and others ' disallow tho theory; while in Germany, Fritz j Mullen and Fraeckol warmly espouse it. But , what is wanted is a compact counter-theory, I accounting for all the phenomena on which I Darwin's rests, while free from the dilli- ' culties which beset it. It is not enough to j allege objections,howover serious. Mr. Darwin ; confesses to them, but believes thorn to be not insuperable. Now, there is a very ancient ' view, entertained by Plato, and counteuaucod, to Bay the least, by Scripture, as to the pro cess or order according to which tho produc tion of the world, the animal world included, took place in the Divino working. It is that certain ideals pre-existed, and that after those the creatures were formed. Man certainly was created after a pre-existing image, that of God bioiBelf. And of the higher animals, the lion, the ox, the eagle, we seem to be' dis tinctly told that the ideal existed before in the form of tho cherubim. And man is there exhibited as on a par with them, and they with him. Especially, it is said that they were, in certain respects, anthropomorphous. They all had the likenebs of a man, and tho face and tho hands of a man (Ezekiel i., fi, 8, 10). And their employment is de cribed in the Revelations, iv., v., as that of conjointly glorifying God. Now, this mysterious representation only shadows forth with marvellous accuracy what science and observation teach ' us about the higher ani mals. They are anthropomorphous; their or ganization, limbs, digitution, expression, in telligence, emotions, all are intensely human. But, whereas Darwin would aocount for this by supposing a common descent and slow graduation of the species with each other, we are thus helped to a widely different view. The purpose of all being to unite with man in glorifying God, whether by tho exercise of common powers of action, feeling, and intelligence, or by aiding him, it is per fectly natural that they should have had im pressed on them from the first a common , type, both of bodily and mental organization. It is an ennobling badge of brotherhood be tween creatures serving in their degrees the same purpose. The sum is then, the species, or great orders however, were croated Jat once, as tho Bible tells us, but with an affinity and uniformity of which a very suffi cient account cannot be given. And this view does not exclude, but welcomes the observed phenomena of "natural selection," considered as accounting for a certain degree of variation in the creatures. But it sternly defines that there are strict limits to that variation, as Mr. Buskin says ("Queen of the Air," 18(ii)), "the species may mock us by de liberate imitation of each other." Professor Huxley, in reply, said ho had been delighted to hear the Archdeacon, for his way of looking at things was so novel that he should have to make quite a new pigeon ' hole in his classification of men for his special reception. He had generally found that theologians hang on to certain dogmas or doctrines till their fingers are burnt, and then, letting go, say it is of no importance, or was not meant in the sense which' they have been contending for. Now, the Arch deacon did not do this, but was honest and consistent. As to his theory of the cherubim, it was essentially the 6am e as the Platonio doctrine of Archetypo, which has been advo- f&tcd ly 0'ivca jud Afpssls, JIc M Jucl great pleasure in listening to the-Archdotann, though he need not. tiy that he totally ilis scnted from bis views. At the close of the discussion the President said that not any one of the three authors hod nhown any knowledge of what tho Darwinian theory really was. The general notion that it taught that man was descended from tho apes was quite false, since it did nothing of the kind. C'hnrloM Luuih In the Temple. The following charming and characteristic letter of Mary Lamb to a child cannot fail to interest all who cherish the memory of Charles Irftrub and his sister. Tho "little Barbara" (afterwards Mrs. Edwards) to whom it was addressed was the youngest sister of Matilda Betham, a poetess whom Southoy valued, and of Sir William Betham, the well known genealogist and antiquary: November 2, IP 14. To Miss Barbara Bot- hnim It is verv long since I have met with such nn agreeable surprise as tho sight of your letter, my kind young friend, afforded me. huch a nice letter as it is too. And what a pretty bond you write. I congratulate you on this attainment with great pleasure, because 1 have so eiten felt the disadvantage oi my own wrcicne'i nanuwriung. louwisnior .London news. 1 rely upon your sister Ann lor gratifying you m this reppoct, yet I havo been endeavoring to re collect whom you might have seen hero, and what may have happened to them since, and this effort hns only brought the image of littlo Barbara Betham, unconnected with any oilier person, so strongly bet ore my eyes that I sec ni as if I had vo other subject to write upon. JNow l think 1 seo you with your feet propped upon tho fender, your two hands spread out upon your knees an attitude you always chose when we were in familiar con fidential conversation together telling me long stories of your own home, where now you say yon are "mopjng on with tho same thing every day, una wincn men presented nothing but pleasant recollections- to your mind, llow well 1 remember your quiet steady face bent over your book. One day, coiiKcience-struek at Having wasted so much of your precious time in readings, and feeling yourself, as you prettily said, "quite useless to mo," you went to my drawers and hunted out somo unhemmed pocket-hand kerchiefs, and by no means could I prevail upon yon to resume your story books till you had hemmed them all. I romember, to.), your teaching my l'.Ulo maid to read your sitting witn ner a wnoie evening to console brr for the death of her sister; and that she in her turn endeavored to become a comfort to you tho next e vening when you wept at the' bight of Mrs. Ilolecroft, from whose school jou had rcutntly eloped because you were not partial to sitting in the stocks. Those tears, and n few you once dropped when my brother tv.ised you about your sup posed fondness for apple dumplings, were the only interruptions to tho calm contentednoss of your unclouded brow. "We still remain tho same as you left us, neither better nor wiser, nor perceptibly older, but three years must have made a great alteration in you. How very much, dear B.irbura, I should like to see you! Ve still live iu Templo lane, but I am now sitting in a room you never saw; soon after you left us we were distressed by the cries of a cat, which seemed to proceed from the gar rets adjoining to ours, and only separated from ours by the locked door on the farther side of my brother's bedroom, which you know was the lit lie room at the top of tho kitchen stairs. AYo had tho lock forced and let poor puss out from behind a panel of tho wainscot, and she lived with us from that time, for we wore ia gratitude) bound to keep her, ns she had introduced us to four un tenanted; unowned rooms, and by degrees we have taken possession of theso unclaimed apartments first putting up lines to dry our clothes, then moving my brother's bed into one of these, more commodious than his own room. And last winter, my brother boiug unable to pur:m a work ho had begun, owing . to ' tho - kind interruptions of friends who were moro at leisure than himscl)', I persuaded him that he might write at his ease in one of those rooms, as ho could not tli.-n hear the door-knock, or hear himself (Ionia I to be at homo, which w.w sure to make him call out and convict the poor maid in a fib. Here, I suid, ho might be almost really not at homo. So I put in an old grate, and ma.lo him a lire in tho largest of these garrets, und carried in one table and one chair, and bid him write away, and con sider himself as much alone as if ho woro in some lodging on the midst of Salisbury Plain, or any other wide unfrequented place where he could expect few visitors to break in upon his solitude. I left him quite delighted with his new acquisition, but in a few hours he como down with a sadly dismal face. He could do nothing, he said, with those bare walls before his ev s. Ho could not write in that didl unfurnished prison. The next day, before he came homo from his office, I had gathered up various bits of old carpeting to cover the floor; and, to a little break the blank look of the bare walls, I hung up a few old prints that used to orna ment the kitchen, and after dinner, with great boast of what an improvement I had made, I took Charles once more into his new study. A week of busy labors followed, in which I think you would not have disliked to have been our assistant. My brother and I almost covered tho walls with prints, for which purpose ho cut out every print from every book in his old library, coming iu every now and then to nt.k my leave to strip a fresh poor author which ho might not do, you know, without my permission, 'as I am elder sister. There was such pasting, such consultation where their . portraits, and where a series of pictures from Ovid, Milton, and Shakespearo would show to most advan tage, and in what obscure corner authors of humbler note might be allowed to tell their stories. " All tho books gave up their storios but one a translation from Ariosto a deli cious set of four-and twenty prints, and for which I had marked out a conspicuous place; whenlo! we found at the moment the scissors were going to worn mar a part ot the- poem I was printed at tL3 back of every picture. "What a cruel disappointment! To conclude this long story about nothing, the poor dos pised garret is now called the print-room, and is become :r most favorite sitting room. Your si iter Anne will tell you that your friend Louisa is going to France. Miss Skipper is out of town; Mrs. Bey- i i i i t , ' nonis desires 10 in remembered to you, and so does my iiei;;i bor Mrs. Norris, whj was your doctress when you were unwell, Her three little childnn have grown threo big children. The lions still live 'in Exeter Change. Returning home through the Strand, I often hear them roar about 12 o'clock at night. I never In ir them without thinking of you, because you seemed so pleased with the sight of them, und said your young com panions would staro when you told them you ' bad seen a lion. Ana now, my dear Barbara, tovcl'i I liaYC nvt wattea evvh a 1s letter ft lorr Uw.a, bv.t J am vry sorry I fcr.fl tM.rtit.cj j to wiilo Rbrmt. ''Wir.hirg you rmy pais hap pily through h rest ot your school days, and every day of your life, I remain, your affec tionate friend, "M.IiAMlH My brother sends his lovo to you, with the kind remembrance your letter showed yon have of us as I was. He joins with me in re spects to your good father and mother. Now you have begun, I shall hope to have the plea sure of hearing from you again. I shall always receive a letter from yon with very great de light. CONTINENTAL CLUIW. If aw they nre Conducted. Probably the three best clubs on the Con tinent (says the Vail Mall Gazette) are the Cercle Imperial in Faris, the Club Anglais at St. Petersburg, and the Nobles' Club in the Herrn Gasse at Vienna; but none of these can in any woy bo compared with tho larger political and litorary clubs of London. The Faris clubs make the nearest approach to tho English; for one may breakfast and dine there, smoke, read the papers, play billiards, and pass one's evening at whist. But here the points of similarity end. In every other respect save those just mentioned, an English nnd a French club are as Tinlike as possible. The class of men to whom the English club is such a boon, that is, the bachelor who has but a few hundreds a year, is rarely seen in a Paris club. Barristers, artists, officers, jour nalists, and professional men generally, spend their leisure hours at tho cal'o. They look upon the clubs as something too extravagant and expensive for incomes less than fifty thousand francs a year, and they are not wrong. The members of Taris clubs nre almost all either bankers, stockbrokers, imperialist deputies, sportsmen, diplomatists, genend officers or young noblemen, and a poor man would not know what to do in such company. The subscription is very high, ranging bo tweeu 800 francs (02) and 1000 francs, and the number of members is small, the good clubs seldom admitting more than l"i0. A strong Freemasonry exists between the mem bers. They bow to each other in tho streets, they talk to one another when they meet, and on New Year's Day they loavo cards upon each other. As Parisian clubs aro never mon ster buildings, Btich as those we have in Lon don, but merely large suites of apartments, the members are thrown very much together. The conversations in the rooms usually be come general, and when the gambling begins, as it mostly does towards midnight three or four times a week, those who do not feel in clined to join go home to bed. It is this systematic gambling which has earned such a very bad name for the Taris clubB, many of which have become of late years regular private gaming houses. They are even more dangerous than the casinos of Germany, for in French clubs the members aro not obliged to play with ready money; they gamble "sur parole," and lose sunn which appear incredible. In 18(!( a youn viscount lost aoo, 000 francs (tlti.OOO) at hi' j club in one evening playing baccarat. His relatives complained to the Empress, and the prefect of police interdicted baccarat, but the gambling continues" as furiously as ever with other kinds of games. Two years ago the mem bers of the extreme Imperialist party founded a political club in the ltue de l'Areado, but it was a failure, the politics of most of the mem bers being too shifty to admit of long agree ment. Ltitterly there has beon some talk of founding an artists' and journalists' club ou the model of the Garrick; but the insuperable difficulty is what tho French call "Z;f jahtntia (hi, until r," which is threo times stronger in France than elsewhere. One of tho organ izers of tho scheme was heard to declare naively that, unless there were open voting, not a tingle vacancy could ever be filled up. It is almost needless to observe that there is not such a thing as a Liberal club in Franco. 'When the ultra-Imperialist Cerclo do l'Areado was started, tho chief members of tho Opposition fancied that they, too, might found a club, but tho Government ex plained to. them that, however lawlul an Im perialist club might be, n Liberal one would lie illegal. ' Bussinn clubs pure (that is, those in which tho members are not for tho most part Eng-lit-h) are, like tho more fashionable Paris clubs, mere gambling houses in disgui.se. They are very sumptuous establishments, the subscription is extravagantly high (rang ing between 230 and GOO roubles, t. 4,'iO to M), and the entries to them aro fiercely, often ridiculously contested. The clubs aro the only places in . Kussia where faction makes itself felt; the secrecy of the ballot enabling many an apparently devoted noblo to give his sovereign s favorites a sly kick in the dark. In Russian clubs no Jews are ad mitted. ' The Nobles' Club at Vienna is pretty much what the Jockey Club is in Paris, a luxurious lounging nnd gambling houso. It is very ex clusive; so much so that a few years ago Count Esterhazy was blackballed, very greatly to the indignation of his friends, who vowed to exclude every new candidate until the Count was admittted. As it happened, tho first candidate who offered himself was tho secretary ol the Russian Legation. Tho Esterhazy clique blackballed him, as threat ened; but the Government set mutters straight by intimating to- tho committee that unless the diplomatist were admitted the club would bo forthwith shut up. . The clubs of lesser note iu France, Russia, nnd Gerumny are mmp!y private cafes. In the provincial towns of Franco, where ihero is a Cercle du Commerce and a Cerclo do la Noblesse, the former is a miniature exchange where stocks and prices are discussed frater nally, every man taking his coffee or his ab sintho. The Cercle de la Noblesse is gene rally select, every member being required to prove that on his father's or his mother's sido lie boasts of a titled relative. The club generally consists of a billiard-room und coffee-room provided with papers. Tho mem bers neither read books nor write there. Tho chief amusement of everybody is to black ball any "noble" suspected of Imperialist proclivities, or supposed to havo wrong fully tugged the partielo "do"' to his name. , To sum up, one muy say that foreign clubs differ from English iu that thoy are looked upon ultogether as places of relaxation and amuse ment for the rich and idle; not in any way as homes in which a buchelor may live, out, drink, and do anything he pleases but sleep. Few f .reign clubs have ft library, and very few a dining-room. Members of (Jonth.entul clubs scarcely ever have their letters scat to their clubs, or think of getting through any importunt business, such as correspondence, there. Finally, no man who has common sense thinks of talking politics at a foreign club, unlefcB he does it in a whuper, and with only a few sure friends within earshot. It bus been noticed that political sentiments uttered over club firosidos ubroad have a re markable tendency to creep into police offices. This is especially tho case in Russia and in "j " A Itasqiie" Tillage rrs rKcriiAHixiEs the pkoplk. j A correspondent of the London Telegraph writes: . "A Basque villnge is nlike any other. At IU entrance ywi roroo upon the church, with its poetic churchyard, where each tomb is fresh strewn with fragrant flowers, and where weird headstonos of a circular form stare at you with their undeciphered charac ters, the meaning whereof none can as yet explain. Close to the church is the We, lot j ground. lUiU is the sacred game of the country. It is in reality tho origin of tennis, and no hamlet of ten houses is without its pelote ground. It is open, unenclosed, but at one end a mighty wall rises np on which the marks are registered. Each player, instead of a raritt tte, has a kind of prolonged arm in wicker work attached to his right hand, with which he catches and impels the ball. The strength, agility, and grace displayed by these men are not to bo described; they must be seen, and might help a sculptor in his Btudies. "After tho church ond iho pdote ground, you may see perhaps a house or two large, solidly-built dwellings, the upper story of which reminds you of a Swiss chalot. From under tho widely-projecting roof appears on tho second, and sometimes third, story a balcony, into which open several doors and windows. These balconies are as are the window-frames and doors painted red or (lark green or orange; while the walls of tho houso are dazzlingly white. In the garden you may seo tig trees big as oaks, or laurels witn stems like elms, or lilac aetheus (often double whoso topmost branches touch tho roof the house. As to tho vegetation, it is fabulous; you may seo the leaf of a poplar as big as a very large pudding-dish, and tho In dian corn grows up to look like tho trees of a smaii wood. Well, in these villages you go from one dwelling lionso to another, and at tho end of half a mile you say 'What a thinly scattered villago !' But it is not tho villago, you ore told the commune, as it is called, is yonder, behind the hill. Then vou cross meadows. verdant as in England, and babbling littlo streams, and you mount a hill clothed in forn that reaches tip to your very shoulder, and men you perceive tho commune that is lyin peacefully nestling demcrcht montarue. You must be very familiar with the Basque coun try before you can flatter yourself that you nave come to the end ot a UaSque villago Ihero is always something more to come some lovely little homestead, hidden from view by oaks and chestnut trees; and that. i i i ., . , 7 wuen you nave iounu 11 out, maKes you envy mo 101 oi me poasanis wno live mere. "The Basque has, in fact, no 'nobility,' ho i i 1, i ... n lowiy descended, ana one witn ins own soil, und he bears marks of Nature's royalty inai it. is naru ro una in any otuer race, lie is tall, perfectly proportioned, and with the lordly swinging gait that is peculiar to inouu taineers and indicative of freedom. The Basque is a shephard, a husbandman, and a very centaur, a horso being at once and grace fully subjugated by him; but ho is not a hunter. He is the king of all pedestrians and his genuino admiration of all Britons arises from our capacity of walking. He is honest, veracious, frank, hospitable, sincere. brave, and cautious at onco, like the Scot But what he possesses beyond every other continental race is his unexampled cleanli ness. "Look at him in his villago files, and soe if there ever was such fine clean linen a i he wears (and wears always), and go into his house and seo his wifo making her maizo bread or cooking,' or in any way pursuing he nousewiieiy avocations, and say it you aro not afraid lest your boots, with the road dust on them, should soil tho shining floor. Eveiy thing shines floor, fireplaco, furniture every corner will bear inspection, and everything smiles. That is the greatest charm of nil in this lovely, unfrequented Basque country, that thore lies as it were a smile on all on the fruitful fields and sparkling streams, on tho sunny walls and leafy woods, on the fern and heath-grown hills, and on tho fine hnndsorao faces of the people." EDUCATIONAL. No. 1416 LOCUST Street. EDWARD OLAUENUB SMITH, A. M., Principal. Yountf nieu prepared for uniei or high itandinq in Ool leg. Otrculursat No. lliaj OHKKNIIT btreot. Noxt turn ioo begina Keptemlier 13th. 717Sm TAMES PEARCK, M. 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THE riBST MORTGAGE BONDS or Tns Wilmington and Reading Railroad, BEARIXQ INTEREST At SEVEN PER CENT, in Currency, PAYABLE ArRIL AHD OCTOBER, FREE OP STATE AND UNITED STATES TAXES. This road runs through a thickly populated and rich Agricultural and manufacturing district For the p repent, n e are offering a limited amount the aoove Bonds at 85 CENTS AND INTEREST. connection of this road with the Pennsylvania ending Railroads Insures it a largo and reuni te trade. We recommend the bonds as the pest llrst-claas Investment In the market. V7m. PAIOTTER a CO., BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS, No. 36 SOUTH THIRD STREET, tl 2 31 ra ILADELPIIIA. AY 7"E HAVE FOR SALE SIX PER CENT. GOLD BONDS OF TDK KOCllESTEtt WATER WORKS CO. DUB 1889. ritlNCIPAIj AND INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD. INTEREST AT SIX IER CENT. COUPONS MAY AND NOVEMBER. For particulars apply to DE 1IAYEN & BRO., BANKERS, No. 40 South THIRD Street. 115 PHILADELPHIA. B A N K I N G HOUSE or JAY COOKE & CO., Nob. 112 and 114 South THIRD Street PHILADELPHIA, Dealers In all Government Securities. Old 5-208 Wanted in Exchange for New. A Liberal Difference allowed. Compound Interest Notes Wanted. Interest Allowed on Deposits. COLLECTIONS MADE. STOCKS bought Ad Bold on Commission. Special business accommodations reserved for itUlU'B. We will receive "applications for Policies of Life Insurance In the National Life Insurance Company of the United States. Full Information given at our office. 7 1 3m 33. II. JAEIXSOItf & CO., SUCCESSORS TO P. F. KELLY & CO., liaukerai and Iealer In Geld, Silver, ani Government Bonds, AT CLOSEST Mi RKET RATES, 'l N.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNUT Sts. Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDEKS la New Tor and Philadelphia Stack Boards, etc. etc. a b tia ai T L L I O T T & DUNN. BANKERS, KO. 109 SOUTH THIRD STREET, , PHILADELPHIA, DRAW BILLS OP EXCHANGE ON THE UNION BANK OP LONDON. DEA LERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD, BILLS, Etc. Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing Interest. Execute orders for Stocks In Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Baltimore 4 'Mi QLENDINNINO, DAVIS & CO., NO. 48 SOUTn THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. GLENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORT, . NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK BANKERS ANJ BROKERS. Direct telegraphic communication with the New York Slock Boards from the Philadelphia Office. 12:18 Q IT Y WARRANTS BOUGHT AND SOLD. C. T. YERKES, Jr., & CO., NO. 20 SOUTn THIRD STREET, I rniLADEr.rn.iA, FINANCIAL. QMITH, RANDOLPH & CO., BANKERS, " rillLADELriHA 'AND" NEW TOR. . DEALERS IN tTNITEB STATES BONDS, and MRS. BKRS OF BTQt'K AND GOLD KXCHAN9B, Receive Account of Banks and Banners on Libera , ' 'Terms. i I8STJX BILLS OF KXCHANQB OH C. 3. 11AMI1RO A BON, London, B. METZLER, 8. 80IIN A CO., Frankfort -JAMES W. TUCKER k CO., Paris. And Other Principal Cities, and Letters ol Credit i v u Avanaoie Tnrongnoni Europe. JOHN 8. RUSHTON & CO., No. 50 SOUTH THIRD STREET. OITY -WARRANTS 10 5 3m J3OU0I1T AiDJjOLD. PETERSON & P. 8 CO., Stock and Exchange Brokers, NO. 39 fcOUTH THIRD STREET, Members of the New Tcrk and Philadelphia Stock and uoid Hoards. STOCKS, BONDS, Etc., bought and sold on com. m Irs Ion only at either city i jm ROOFING. 1 E A D Y ROOFING 1 Tbta Routing la adapted to all buildinna. ft . applied to ct t.- r. u nn t. t , m n . . ... at one-half the exiienM of tin. It ia roadily pnt en ol rninKie nmm wimuut rrmoTin tn atiiniilea. thus aroicl ma thfl namnfrillu (if rnilinir. n .1 f . .u.i- . ffMnarepnira. ( No irarel need. KEbEliVK VOUK TIN KOOF8 W1TU 1VELTON1 R1.ANTII1 PAINT 1 I am alwaya prepared to Repair and Paint Rnnl. Dotit-e. Also, FAINT FOR bALIC u tha baml the best and cheapeet in the market. 8 178 No. 711 N. NINTH Street, bov Uoatas. TO OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND KOOiKftS.-Roofa! Yea,oa. Krorr .ize and kmd, old or new. At No. 543 N. THIRD Street, the AMK RltlAN OONCRHTIt PAIKT AND KMK lVMPAN Y" are soiling their celebrated paint for TIN HOOFS, and for preserving all wood and metala. Also, their solid oom. plex roof ooverinR, the best ever offered to tha public, witla, brashes, cans, buckets, eto., lor the work. Anti Termin. Fire, and Water-proof ; Light, Tight, Durable. No crack" ing, pealing, or shrinking. No papor. gravel, or beat. Uood for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work' men supplied. Gate, promptness, oertaintvl On nricet Call! Kxamine! Judge! Agent, wanted for Interior counties. , ' iliytf yiiil5?DS. Principal. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. HITE PRESERVING BRANDY, Pure Cider and White Wine Vinegar, Green Ginger,. Mustard Seed, Spices, eto. etc All the requisites for Preserving and Pickling purposes. . . , ALBERT C ROBERTS, Dealer In Fine Groceries, 11 Ti Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Streets. JJIOHAEL MEAGHER & 00. No. 1K3 South SIXTEENTH Street, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In PROVISIONS. OYSTERS, AND SAND CLAMS, FOR FAMILY U81 TERRAPINS lia PER DOZEN. SJS ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO. PENN 8TF.AM ENGINE AND ),? I'KAOTIOAL AND TUKORKTIOAli j"jt KNIllKlrviiq M inwlM K it mm ni. "41 nwiL,r.K nUKHH. w K A r I K ft i.KVr. : ht.AllKKUITkIM '.nil h,lfl!'IM;b( I . ... . ....... . " " v. w 1 1 ..1. ua.iu aw. uiau jtm.d . ..1. u ,u nukvireo, lu uywrniiuii, SOU UOOn .X cluuvoly engaged in building and repairing Marine and Fiver Kngines. bigh and low-prossnre. Iron Iloilera, Watw Tanks, Propellers, etc., etc,, respectfully offer their ear. vices to the palilio aa being fully prepared to contract for engines of all kefi, Marine, Kiver, and Stationary; baring els of patternwof different sixes, are prepared to exeont order, with quick Jespatcb. Every description of pattern, making made at. tne ennrtest notice. High and Low-prM. sure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Hollers of the beet Peon, gylvania Charcoal Iron. ForginK. of all sices and kinds, Iron and Brunt Uastinga of all descriptions. Roll Turning, (Screw Cutting, and all other work connected with tha above buaines. Drawing, and epeoiflcatlona (or all work dona at thf establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-r.-om for repaint of boats, where tbev can lie in nerfect saJetv. and ara nr. Tided with .hear., blocks, falls, etc ate, for raising hear! or light weight. , JADOB 0. NEAFUJ, ' JOHN P. LKVY, 818 BEAOH and PALMJtRBir U. SOUTIHVARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND WAfcHlNGTON Streets, .V rim amarnrA. , MERRICK A (SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, manufacture uigu and Low Pressure Steam Englnefr for Land, River, and Marine Service. Boilers, Ganomefers, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc Castings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron ;rnme Roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, and Railroad Stations, etc Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and moat Improved construction. Every description of Plantation Machinery, also, Stifi-ar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Otj ji-amTraius, Defecators, i'Utera, . pumping En. Hole Apentsfor N. Bllletix's Snjrar Boiling Anpa. ratus, Nesmyth a Patent bteam Hammer, and Aspla wall k Woolstj's Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain lug Machines. 4 aot QIRARD TUBE WORKS JOHN II. MURPHY A BROS. , Manufacturer f Wrought Iroa Ftp. Eta, PHILADELPHIA, FaI WORKS, TWENTY-THIRD and FIXBKKT Mtrtsts. OFFICE, 4 1 We. 4'A Narth FlIfTH Strsxc. , rpiIE PR1NCIPAL DEPOT -- FOU TUB 8AJ.X OF REVENUE STA.MPS, No. 3t)4 C11ESNUT STREET. , CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 105 S. FIFTH STREET (Two doors below Chesnut street), ' j ESTABLISHED 1803, ' Tlio ealo of Revenue Stamps is still continued at the tild-Estubllshed Ageuclc. The stock conutrlses every denomination printed by the Government, and having at all tlnws a largo supply, we are euublud to fill aud forward (by Mall or Express) all orders, immediately upon receipt, a matter of great Importance. Vnited States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts on Philadelphia, aud Post Oiilee Orders received In puyment. Any information regarding the decisions of tha ConiuilKSioncr of Internal Revenue cheerfully and gratuitously furulnlied. w Revenue Stamps printed upon Drafts, Checks Receipts, etc. ' IJTlie following rates of commission are allowed ou Stamps and Stamped Pa perr on 28 and upwards ,,er cent " 100 8 " " 300 " 4 , . Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AGENCY, No. 804 CIIF.BNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. J7WPIRE PLATE MANTEL WORKS.-U. B -rf JaLUJCB, Ng,.W(K;iUiMUTBU., R3.HW, '
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