THE DAILY EVENING TKLECSlUrii-PlirLADBLVllIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, .1860. KING PIPPIN'S PALACE. iwn AM Tear Hound. j deeply regret that it should be my duty to Bound the alarm; but I am constrained to Btflte my fears that there is something the matter with our old, and, generally, esteemed friend the Dwarf. I don't meet him in soci ety, that is to say, at the fairs as. I was wont to do; and although I do not overlook the fact that I have ceased to attend fairs, and that, indeed, there are very few fairs of the old kind left to frequent, it is difficult to avoid the unpleasant conviction that dwarfs, as a raoe, are dying out. Very recently, in his Btrango, eloquent romance, L'homma qui rit, M. Victor lingo has told us that the pigmy, preferably monstrous and deformed, whose pictured semblance is to be found in so many works of the old Italian and German masters, wa, to most intents and pnrposos, a manufactured article. That mysterious association of the "Comprachicos,' of whom M. Hugo has told ., tis so many strange things, pursued, among their varied branches of industry, the art of fabricating hunchbacked, abdominous, hydro cephalus, and spindle-shanked dwarfs for the European market: the purchasers being the princes, potentates, and wealthy nobles of the continent. The Comprachicos would seem to have borrowed the mystery of dwarf making from the Chinoso, who had an agreea ble way of putting a young child into a pot of arbitrary form, from which the top and bottom had been knocked out, and in the sides of which were two holes, through which the juvenile patient's arms protruded. The merry consequence was that young master's body, if ho did not die during the process, grew to be of the Bhape of the pot, and, so far as the torso went, the order of amateurs for a spherical dwarf, or an oval dwarf, or a hexagonal dwarf, or a dwarf with knobs on liis chest, or an "egg-and-tongue" pattern on his shoulders, could be executed with promp- titnde and despatch. But we have another informant, of per haps greater weight and authority, who has told us in what manner dwarfs, and bandy, and ricketty, and crooked-spined children can be manufactured without the aid either of the Comprachicos or of the Chinese potters. The learned and amiable Cheselden has dwelt minutely in his Anatomy on the wick edly cruel and barbarous folly which marked the system of nursing babies in his time, and has shown how the practice of tightly B waddling and unskilfully carrying infants was calculated to cripple and deform their limbs, and to stunt their growth. We have grown wonderfully wiser since Chesel den's time, although I have heard some cynics mutter that the custom of growing children in pipkins could not have been more detri mental to health or to the symmetry of the human form than is the modern fashion of tight lacing. Be all this as it may, I still hold that the dwarf well, the kind of dwarf who can be seen for a penny at a fair continues, as the French say, "to make himself desired." Surely his falling off must be due to the sur cease of the manufacture. Old manufactured dwarfs are as difficult to light upon as Mort lake tapestry or Chelsea china, simply, I suppose, because tapestry is no longer woven at Mort lake, and Chelsea produces no more porcelain ware. To an amateur of dwarfs it is positively distressing to read the numerous detailed accounts which the historians have left us of bygone troglodytes. Passing by Buch world-famous manikins as Sir Jeffery Hudson and Count Borulawski, where can one hope, in this degenerate ago, to light on a Madame Teresia, better known by the dosig nation of the Corsican Fairy, who came to London in 1773, being then thirty years of age, thirty-four inches high, and weighing twenty-six pounds? "She possessed much vivacity and spirit, could speak Italian aud French with fluency, and gave the most in quisitive mind an agreeable entertainment." England has produced a rival to Madame 'Jeresia in Miss Anne Shepherd, who was three feet ton inches in height, and was jnarried, in Charles the First's time, to Ilich ard Gibson, Esq., page of the backstairs to his majesty, and a distinguished miniature painter. Mr. Gibson was just forty-six inches high, and he and his bride were painted "in whole length" by Sir Peter Lely. The little couple are said to have hud nine children, who all attained the usual standard of mankind; and three of the boys, according to the chronicles of the backstairs, enlisted in the Life Guards. But what are even your Ilndsons and your Gibsons, your Corsican Fairies and your Anno Shepherds to the dwarfs of antiquity ? Where am I to look for a parallel to the homunculus who flourished in Egypt in the time of the Emperor Theodosius, and who was so small of body that he resembled a par tridge, yet had all the functions of a man, and would sing tuneably? Mark Antony is uaid to have owned a dwarf called Sisyphus, who was not of the full height of two feet, and was yet of a lively wit. Had this Sisy phus been doomed to roll a stone it must Biirely have been no bigger than a schoolboy's marble. Eavisius (who was llavisiusV) nar rates that Augustus C;esar exhibited in his plays one Lucius, a young man born of honest parents, who was twenty-three inches high, and weighed seventeen pounds; yet had ho a strong voice. In the time of Jamblichus, also, lived Alypius of Alexandria, a most excellent logician, and a famous philosopher, but so small in body that he hardly exceeded a cubit, or one foot five inches and a half in height. And, finally, Carden tells us but who believes Carden? that he saw a man of full age in Italy, not above a cubit high, and who was carried about in a parrots cage. "This," remarks Wanley, in his "Woudors of the little worm, "would have passed my belief had I not been told by a gentleman of a clear reputation that ho saw a man at Sienna, about two years since, not exceeding the same stature. A Frenchman he was, of the county of Limosin, with a formal beard, who was likewise shown in a cago for money, at the end whereof was a little hatch into which he retired, and when the assembly was full came forth and played 6n an instrument." 'The very thing we have all soon at the fairs, substituting the simulacrum of a throe- Heltlnfr M. Hupo'a wild myth of the C'omprucht cos entirely on one Hltlu, uiiwt hUHi-iiu of tue social ' history of KriKlaud uro aware that the custom of kidnapping children (twnorjlly to be sold as slaves in the West Indies or tlio American plantations) was frightfully prevalent In this country In the seven teenth, and during the early part of tho eighteenth centiirv, and that Bristol was dishonorably distin guished as tho port whence the greater number of the hapless victims were despatched beyond gen. And it Is a very curious circumstance, which appears to have been overlooked by Lord Maeaiilay In Ins notice of Jeffries, that the infamous J mitre, shortly H!fure the Bloody Assize, went down to HriBtol, anil delivered to tho grand jury at the assizes a most eloquent and Indignant charge, ovenlowiusr with sentiments of humanity, bearing on the practice of kidnapping children for the plantations a practice of which his lordship roundly accused the corpora tion of Bristol of actively aiding and abetting for their own advantage ami gain. Jeffries' charge) Is preserved In the library of tho Ilntish Museum, and Is as edifying to read as the sentimental ballad What is Love? by Mr. Thomas Palnc, or as would bo an Kssayupon Cruelty to Animals, with proposals for 4U- bupi-u-bBiofl tlivicof, by the late JiuipviVl' N-''0. storied house for a cage, and not forgetting the modern improvements of the diminutive inmate ringing a boll, and firing a pistol out of the first-floor window! And after banquotting on these bygone dwarfs, who were scholars and gentlemen, as well as monstrosities, for was not Alypius, cited above, a famous logician and philoso pher? and did not Uichard Gibson, Esq., teach Queen Anne the art of drawing, and proceed on a special mission to Holland 'to impnrt artistic instruct ion to the Trincess of Orange ? after dwelling on the dwarfs who formed part of the retinue of William of Normandy when ho invaded England, and who held the bridlo of the Emperor Otho's horse; after remembering the dwarfs whom Dominichino and Kafnolle, Velasquez and Paul Veronese have introduced in thoir pictures; after this rich enjoyment of dwarfish record I am thrown back on Gene ral Tom Thumb. I grant the General, and the Coramodoro, and their ladykind a decent meed of acknowledgment. I confoss them calm, self-possessed, well bred, and innocuous; but I have no heart to attend their "levees." Nutt, in the caricature of a naval uniform, does not speak to my heart; I have no ambition to see Thumb travestied as tho late Emperor Napoloon that con queror could, upon occasion, cause himself to appear even smaller than Thumb nor am I desirous of purchasing photographic cartes de isite of Minnie Warren. My dwarf is the gorgeously attired little pagod of the middle ages; the dwarf who pops out of a pie at a court banquet; tho dwarf who runs bchfeen the court jester's legs and trips him up; tho dwarf of the king of Brobdignag, who is jealous of Gulliver, and souses his rival in n bowl of cream, and gets soundly whipped for his pains. Or, in default of this pigmy, give me back tho dwarf of my youth in his sham three-storied house, with his tinkling bell aud sounding pistol. It is not to be, I presume. These many years past I have moodily disbursed in divers parts of the world sundry francs, lire, guild ers, florins, thalers, reals, dollars, piastros, and mark-banco for the sight of dwarfs; but they (Thumb and his company included) have failed to come up to my standard of dwarfish excellence. Did you evor meet with anything or anybody that could come up to that same standard? Man never is, but always to bo blest; still, although my dreams of dwarfs have not as yet been fully realized, I havj been able to enjoy tho next best thing to fulfilment. I call to mind perhaps the won derfullest dwarfs' house existing on tho sur face of this crazy globe. It is a house in tho construction and the furniture of which many thousands of pounds were expended; and i t was built by a king for his son. It is for this reason that I have called the diminutive man sion "The Palace of King Pippin." King Pippin's palace is in Spain, and ha s been shamefully neglected by English tourist i in that interesting country. For my part, I think that it would be a great advantage t.) picturesque literature if the Alhambra an 1 the Alcazar, the Bay of Cadiz and the Hock of Gibraltar, tho Sierra Moreno, and the Mezquita of Cordova, the Cathedral of Burgos, and the Bridge of Toledo, could be eliminated altogether from Spanish topo graphy. By those means travellers in Spain would have a little more leisure to attend to a number of "coxan de Epani" which are at present passed by almost without notico. Among them is an incomparable dwarf honso of mine. 1'ou will observe that I have ex cluded the Escorial from tho catalogues of places which English sight-seers in the Peninsula might do well, for a time, to forget. The Keal Monasterio do San Lorenzo must needsbevisited,for King Pippifi'a Palaea is a dependency of that extraordinary pile. Few tourists have the courage to admit, in print at least, .that this palace-monastery, or monastery-palace of the Escorial is a gigantic bore When it was my lot to visit it, my weariness began even before I had enterod its halls; for in the railway carriage which conveyed our party from 'Madrid to the "Gridiron station, there was a fidsetty little Anda- lusian, a maker of guitar strings, I think he was, at Utrera, who was continually rebounding on tho cushions like a parched pea in a fire-shovel, and crying out to us, "El edificio, caballcros, donde esta el edi ficio?" It was his first visit to the northern provinces of his native country, and he was' burning to see the "edificio." To him, evi dently, there was but one edifice in the world, and that was the Escorial. When at last he caught sight of its sullen facades, its stunted dome and blue slate roofs, the little Andalu sian fell into a kind of ecstacy, and protruded so much of his body out of the carriage window that I expected him every moment to disappear altogether. To my surprise, how ever, when the train drew up at the station ho did not alight, but murmering tho conven tional "Pues, Senores, echemos un cigarfto," "Well, gentlemen, let us make a little cigar," calmly rolled up a tube of paper with tobacco, lit it, and adding, "Vamos al Norte," sub sided into sleep, and, the train aiding, pur sued his journey to the Pyrenees, or Paris, or tho North Pole, or wheresoever else he was bound. Ho was clearly a philosopher. He had seen "El edificio" from afar off. . Was not that enough ? I dare ay, when he went back to I'trera ho talkod guide-book by the page to his friends, and minutely described all the marvels of tho interior of tho palace. I rarely think of the little Andulusiau with out recalling Sheridan's remark to his son Tom about tho coal pits "Can't you scj you'vo been down ?" The "Edifice" itself is really and without exaggeration a bore. The good pictures hav j all been taken away to swell the attractions of tho Heal Muscu at Madrid; the jolly monks have been driven out and replaced by a few meagre, atrabilious-looking, shovel- hatted seminarists (even these, ' since tli 3 last political earthquake in Spain, may hav j disappeared), and it is with cxtrem difficulty that you can persuade thj custodes to show you tho embroidered vest ments in the sacristy, or the illuminate 1 manuscripts in the library. Tho guardian i of every public building in Spain have a set tled conviction that all foreign travellers ai j Frenchmen, who, following the notable ex ample of Marshals Soult and Victor in th j Peninsular War, are bent on stoaling some thing. Moreover, tho inspection of embroi dered copes, dalmatics, and chasuble soon pells on sight-seers who are not era. upon the subject of Kiturilimn; and as fo being trotted through - a vast library whon j yon nave no tune to read the books, all 1 can say is, that in this respect I prefer a bookstall in Gruy's-inn-laue, with frn j I access to the "twopenny box," to tho : lil iraryof the Escorial, to the Bibliothequo : lmperiule, tho Bodleian, Sion College, and the library of St. Mark to boot. Tho ex 1 toiior of the Esoorial, again, is absolutely hideous; its grim granite walls, pierced I with innumerable eyelet-holes, with green shutters, remind the spectator equally of the Wellington Barracks, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and the Great Northern Hotel at King's Cross. The intornal decora tions principally consist of huge, sprawling wnU-ftnd-ceiling frescoes by Luca CUwdoyo surD'mcd "Luca fa rrosto," or Luke in a hxrrry. This Luke the Laborer has stuck innumerable saints, seraphs, and other celestial personages upon the plaster. He executed his apotheoses by the yard, for which he was paid according to a fixod tariff, a reduction, I suppose, being made for clouds; and the result of his work is about as interesting as that of Sir James Thornhill in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital. Almost an entiro day must bo spent if 'you wish to see the Escorial thoroughly, and you grow, at lost, fretful and peevish woll nigh to distraction at the jargon of the guides, with their monotonous statistics of the eleven thousand windows of tho place, the two thousand and two feet of its area, the sixty-three fountains, the twelve clois ters, the sixteen "patios" or court-yards, the eighty Btaircoses, and so forth. As for the relics preserved of that nasty old man Philip the Second, his greasy hat, his walking-stick, his shabby elbow-chair, tho board he used to rest his gouty leg upon, they never moved me. There is something beautifully and pathetically interesting in the minutest trifle which remains to remind us of Mary Queen of Scots. Did you ever see her watch, in the shape of a death'sjhead, tho works in tho brain-pan, and the dial enamelled on the base of tho jaw? But who would care about a personal me mento of Bloody Queen Mary? She was our countrywoman, but most of us wish to forget her bad individuality, utterly. Should we care anything more about her Spanish hus band? To complete the lugubrious impressions which gather round you in this museum of cruelty, superstition, and madness, you are taken to an appalling sepulchre under ground: a circular vault, called, absurdly enough, tho "Pantheon," where, on ranges of marble shelves, are sarcophagi containing the ashes of all tho kings and queens who have afllicted Spain since the time of Charles the Fifth. This bonehouse is rendered all the more hideous by the fact of its being ornamented in tho most garishly theatrical manner with porphyry and verde antique, with green and yellow jasper, with bronze gilt bas-reliefs, and carvings in varie gated marble, and other gimcracks. There is an old English locution which laughs at the mon who would put a brass knocker on a pigsty door. Is such an architect worthier of ridicule than he who paints and gilds and tricks up a charnel house to the similitude of a playhouse ? As, with a guttering wax taper in your hand, you ascend the staircase leading from this Pantheon into daylight and the world again, your guide whispors to you that to the right is another and ghastlier Golgotha, where the junior scions of Spanish royalty are buried, or rather where thoir coffins lie huddled together, pell-mell. Tho polite name for this place, which might excite the indig nation of "graveyard" Walker (ho put a stop to intramural interments in England, and got no thanks for his pains) is the "Pantheon of the Infantes." Tho common people call it, with much more brevity and infinitely more eloquence, "El Pudridero," the "rotting place." The best guide-book you can take with you to this portion of the Escorial is Jeremy Taylor's sermon on Death. Once out of the Escorial, "Luke's iron crown" I mean the crown of Luca fa Presto's ponderous heroes is at once re moved from your brow, on which it has been pressing with the deadest of weights. Once rid of the Pantheon, and the stono staircases and the slimy cloisters, and you feel inclined to chirrup almost. The gardens are hand somo, although shockingly out of repair; but bleak as is tho site, swept by the almost ceaseless mountain blasts of tho Guadarramt range, it is something to be rid of Luca fa Presto, and Philip the Second, and St. Law rence and his gridiron, and all their gloomy company. You breathe again; and down in the village yonder there is a not bad inn called the Biscaina, where they cook very de cent omelettes, and where the wine is drinka ble. But before you think of dining you must see King Pippin's Palace. This is the "Casita del Principe do abajo," the "little house of the prince on the hoights," and was built by Juan de Villanuova for Charles the Fourth when heir-apparent. Tho only circumstances, perhaps, under which a king of Spain can be contemplated with com placency are those of childhood. In Madrid, I used always to have a sneaking kindness for the infantes and infantas "los ninos de Espnna" who, with their nurses and gover nesses, and their escort of dragoons and lancers, used to be driven every afternoon in their gilt coaches drawn by fat mules, through the Puerta del Sol to the lletiro. The guard at the Palace of the Gobernacion used to turn out, the trumpets would be flourished bravely as "los ninos" went by. Poor little urchins ! In tho pictures of Don Diego Velasquez, the ninos, in their little ruffs, and kirtles, and farthingales, or their little starched doublets and trunk hose, with their chubby peachy checks, their ruddy lips, and groat melting black eyes, look irresistibly fascinating. Ah I my infantes and infantas of Don Diego, why did you not remain for aye at the Toodle kins stage? why did you grow up to bo tyrants, and madmon, aud bigots, and imbe ciles, and no better than you should have been ? This Carlos the Fourth, for instance, for whom King Pippin's Palace was built, made an exceedingly bad end of it. Ho was the king who was led by tho noso by a worth less wife, and a more worthless favorite, Godoy, who was called "Prince of tho Peace," and who lived to be quite forgotten, and to die in a garret in Paris. Curios the Fourth was tho idiot who allowed Napoleon to kidnap him. He was the father of tho execrable Ferdinand tho Seventh, the betrayer of his country, the restorer of tho Inquisition, and tho embroiderer of petticoats for the Virgin. King, or rather Prince Pippin, Charles the Third's son, is represented in a very curious style of portraiture, in one of the apartments of the Escorial itself, a sutfn fitted up by his father in anti-monastic stylo, that is to sny, in the worst kind of Louis Quinze rococo. The king employod the famous Goya to make a series of designs to bo afterwards woven on a large scale iu tapestry, and Goya consequently produced some cartoons which, with their reproductions in loom-work, may be regarded as the bur lesque antipodes to the immortal patterns which llnfaelle sot tho weavers of Anas. In one of the Goya hangings you see the juve nile members of the royul family at thir sports, attended by a select number of young scions of the sangre azul. At what do you think they pre playing? at hull piti,t, a game very popular among the blackguard little street boys of Madrid to this day. One boy plays the bull. He has merely to pop a cloth over his head, holding two sticks passiug through holes in tho cloth at obtuso angles to his head, to repre sent the horns of the auiinal. The "pieadores" are children pickaback, who, with canes for lances, tilt at bull. The "chulos" train their jackets, the "banda rilleros" fling wreathed hoopsticks for darts, in admirable caricature of the real blood thirsty game you see in the bull-ring. Prince Pippin of course js the "matador," tho sloyer. He stands alona, superb and magnanimous, intrepidity in his mien, fire in his eye, and a real little Toledo rapier in his hand. Will the bull dare to run at the hoir-apparent of the throne of Spain and tho Indies? Qnion sabe 1 Train up a child in the way he should go; and a youth of bull-fighting is a fit pre parative for a manhood of cruelty and an old ago of bigoted superstition. It is somewhat difficult to give an idea of the precise size of Pippin's Palace. Mr. Ford, who speaks of the entire structure with inef fable contempt, says that it is "just too small to live in, and too largo to wear on a watch chain;" but I maintain that the Casita del Trincipo is quite big enough to be the coun try residence of Thumb, or Nutt, or Miss Warren, or Gibson, or Hudson, or Ann Shep herd, or Madame Teresia, or Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch dwarf; a wonderful little fellow with a head like a dolphin's, no perceptible trunk, and two little spindlo-shanks like the legs of a skeleton clock. There should properly be a statuo cast from the Manikin at Brussels in tho vestibnlo of tho Casita; but, if I recollect aright, the only object of sculp tule in tho hall is a life-size cast of the Apollo Belvedero, whoso head of course touches the palatial ceiling. Could that inanimate effigy stand on tiptoo he would assuredly send tho first floor flying, and could ho perform but one vertical leap, ho would havo tho roof off tho palace in the twinkling of a beg-post. There is a tiny grand staircase which (from dolorous experi ence) I know to bo somewhat of a tight fit for a stout tourist; and to increase the exquisite grotesqueness of the whole affair, tho walls are panelled in green and yellow jasper and porphyry, and there are verde antique columns and scagliola pilasters, and bas reliefs in gilt bronze on every sido, just as there aro in tho horrible tomb-house hard by. There are dozons of rooms in King Pippin's Palace; dining-rooms, audi ence chambers, council chambers, bed rooms, libraries, ante-chambers, boudoirs, guard-rooms, and ball-rooms, the dimen sions of which vary between those of so many store cupboards, and so many midship men s sea chests. But the pearl, the cream, the consummation of the crackbrainod joke is that the furniture does not in any way har monize with the proportions of the building. The house is a baby one, but the furniture is grown up. The chairs and tables are suited for the accommodation of adults of full growth. 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'I liis old and well known Company are prepared, as usual, Willi the highest decree of skill, and the most approved nia.liint.ry, 10 Ll VK, (JLKANqE and KIN IS II every vaiiflly of LADIK.rV and UKNTLKMKM'H CiAltMRN 1'H, nd I'll'.CK HK)DH, in their usual superior manner I UARMKNTH ULKANbKD WiroUC. HJ 11 fulw&n NOTK 'J'Uia la our ouly office in Philadelphia. CO It N E X C II A N G E IS AO MANUFACTORY, JOHN T. BULKY, N. H corner of MAHKKT and WATER Streets, Philadelphia. DKAI.KR IN BAGS AND RAGGING Of everr description, for (.rin, Flour, bait, haper PhospuaU of Lime. Bon Dust, Kto. I argeand ttnall GUNNY It AOS constantly on band. & AlsoOOL SACKS. COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wnpon-oover Duck. Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from thirty to seventj m iuuhea will, Paulina, LelloiK, Sail Twine, etc. JOHN W. KVFRMAN, INSURANCE.. 1829,OUARTER rEKrKTUAL' Fraatlin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I,,69,$2,677,372,I3 CArrrAL ACCRI F.D SURPLUS. PREMIUMS , '. Jt00,0n0-00 l,OS3,fvM-70 1,193,843-43 UNSETTLED CLAIMS, Ann .-n. n INCOME FOR 1S09, (23, OOUII. Losses paid since 1829,over$5,50D,000 Perpetual and Temporary Polioles on Mhoral Terms. Tho Company also issues Polioies on Kent of.Builuinftl of all kiuUs,C.round Rents, and Mortgagee, DIRECTORS. , Alfred O. Baker, , Alfred Fltler, (Samuel Orant, I Thomas Sparks, tieorge W. Richards. William K. Orant, Isaac Lea I Thomas 8. F.llis, UeorgaFales, ' OusUvns 8. lionsnn. AI.FRKD O. 11A KICK, President. OKOIUJK FALKS, Vice-President. JAR. W. MrAT.LIS TFR, Secretary. TllF.ODOKK M. RKGF.R, Assistant SocretarjN 8 J N 8 U K B AT H O M E, Dt tin Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMIANY. NO. 921 CUE8NUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. A8.NETS, 83,000,000. CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. MANAGED BY OCR OWN CITIZENS. LOSHES PROMPTLY PAID. OI.ICIEH I88UED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Home Office, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 8 18 JAItTKS TRAOUAIR PRESIDENT WAIYll'EI. K. HTOKES VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN W. HOKNOIt A. V. P. and ACTUARY IIORATIO M. STEPHENS. SECRETARY A 8 B U R Y LIFE IN8URANCK COMPANY. No. 2fll BROADWAY, corner READK Street, New York. CASH CAPITAL $160,000 $lu,(HHI deposited with the State of Now York as seourity for policy holders. LEMUEL BANCS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice President and Secretary. EMORY McCHNTOOK, Actuary. A. E. M. PUKDY, M. D., Modical Examiner. HEVERF.NCK8 II Y 1'EBMISHION. Thomas T. Tacker.i.lohn M. Maris, .J. B. Lippinoott, Charles Spencer, William Divine, James LonK. John A. Wright, 8. Morris Wain, 'James Hunter, Arthnr G. Cotlin, John H. McCreary. K. 11. Worue. In the character of its Directors, economy of manage ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLAN OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in femule lives, and absolute nnn-lorfciture of all policies, and no restriction of travel alter the first year, the AKUURY pre sents a combination of advantages oiTered by no other company. Policies issued in every form, and a loauol one third made when desiied. Special advantages ottered to clergymen. For all further information address JAMES M. LONOACRE, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office, No. rj WALNUT Strcot, Philadelphia. FORM AN P. HOLLINSHEAD, Special Agent. 4 lt5 S TR I CTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PniLADELFHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among members of the Society of F'rienda. Cootl risks of any class accepted. Policies Issued ou approved plans, at the lowest rates. President, SAMUEL K. SHIPLEY, Vlce-rresldent, WILLIAM C. LONGSTRETII, Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY. The advantages otfered by this Company are un excelled. 1 2T riMIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY 1 OF PHILADELPHIA. OUice S. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. ri PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSIJED. Cash Capital ,. ifcM.OOO'OO Cash Assets, July 1, 16o9. mAl:.2T'SH. DIRECTORS, F. Patchford Starr, J. Livingston Erringer, James L. Claghorn. William G. Boulton, Charles Wheeler, Thomas 11. Montgomery, ivalhro crazier, John M. Atwood, Benjamin T. Trediok, George 11. Stuart, Jolin 11. lirown, This Comnany insures only first olass risks, taking nn uames Aercsen. spocially hazardous risks whatever, such at factories, mills, etc. F. RATCHFORD STARR, President. THOMAS 11. MONTGOMERY, Vice Presidont. AT.FXANIiKIt W. WlHTKH, Boorotary. 2 t5 T)U(ENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF J. PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED l(i4 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 34 WALNUT Street, opposite the Hxchangs. This Company insures from loss or damage ty 1-IRE, on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture, etc., for limitod periods, and permanently on buildings by deposit of premiums. The Comnany has boon in active operation for more than SIXTY YEARS, during which all losaos have been promptly adjusted and Paid. John L. Hodge, David Lewis, Benjamin Ktting, Thomas H. Powers, A. R. Mollenry, -Edmund ('astillon, Samuel Wilcox, Lewis O. Norris. Al. v.. Alimony, John T. Lewis, William 8. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clark Wharton. TjLwrnnnA Lewis. Jr.. It. WUCUERER, Presidont. Samuel Wilcox, Secretary. 4 24 OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, No. 233 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. Incorporated 1794. . Charter Perpetual. Capital. $500,000. Assets $2.8r0(000 MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE. OVER $20.WW,0U0 LOSSES PAID SINOK ITS ORGAN. IZATION. BIBECTOltf; . Arthnr O. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Amhroso White, William Welsh, S. Morris Wain, r rancis K. uopa, Edward H. Trotter, Edward S. Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jossup. John P. White, I -outs O. Madeira, Charles W, dish man John Mason, Ueoi0 L. Damson, ARTHUR G COFFIN. Presidont. CHARLES PLAIT, Vice-President. Matttjtas Makih. Sooretary. I HAS. 11. Kkkveh, Asst. Secretary. an F A ME INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 809 CIIESNUT Streot. INCORPORATED 156. CHARTER PERPETUAL. capital, eawo.ooo. v FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insures aguinst Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per petual or Temporary Polioies. DIRECTORS: Charles Richardson, William H. Khawu, William M. Seytert, Henry Lewis, Nathan Uilles. 1? K John Kesslor, Jr.. Edward it. Orne, Charles Stokes, John W. Everman, Mordecai Ruzhy, George A. West, CHARLES RICHARDSON. President. WILLIAM 11. RHAAVN, Vioo-Preaident. WlI.I.IAMB 1. Blami-haiip, Secretary. 7333 THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. ' Incorporated 1K25 Obarter Perpetual. No. 610 WA LN 0T Street, opposite Independence Square. This Company, favorably known to the community for over forty years, continues to insure against loss or aam ago by tire on Publio or Private Buildingseither perma nently or for a limited time. Also on b urniture. Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, t invested in the most careful manner, which enables them to oiler to the insured an undoubted seourity in the case of loss. DIllECT . , Duntel Smith, Jr., John Deverom, Alexander Benson, Thomas Smith, Isaao Hazlehurst, llo"ry, Lewis, Thomas Robins, , , ! tiillingham Fell Daniel Haddock, Jr. DANIEL SMITH, Ju.. President VM. O. CROWELLBeoretary. 8 au! TMPEKIAL FIKE INSUllANCB CO., LONDON. ESTABLISHED lSOU. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, 08,000,000 IN GOLD. PREVOST & HERRING, Agenti, S i 'No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CI1AS. M. PREVO&T, CIIAS. P. WKRINQ. LUMBER. 18G9 BPRUCB JOIST. SPRUCE JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 18G9 18G9 SEASONED CLEAR PINK. 1nrt EASIS5U f I KA" riNE. 18()0 fllflTPH! 1'lfr'i'iiM tiivt'' SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. 18G9 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIHUIMA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP HOARDS. RAIL PLANK. I KliM .i'CV-i AND PLANK.- OPn WALNUT PLANK. 1 8GQ FNPE1ITAKERS' lvmrkr lOUtJ LMDKRTA K ICRS' I.L'MiiiilC 18G9 HPI) I'l'lll l WALNUT AND PINK. 1 HP) SEASONED POPLAR. lOUt fcKASONKl) C11KURY. A tilT 18G9 WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. . HICKORY. CIGAR T.OX MAKERS' 10nt lOVj CIGAR BOX MKEHS' lolIO SPANISH C EDAR BOX BOARDS XOKJJ IsV ID U I I D t 1 illr I FOR HALE LOW. 1 8 f 0 CAROLINA SCANTLING. 1 Q o ( lOUtJ CAROLINA II. T. SILLS. 1869 NORWAY SCANTLING. XKJVU 18G9 CEDAR R11INGT ES CYPRESS SHINGLES. lol)i raac1.11, xjuwi 11 tilt CO., No. 2K SOUTH Street "JNITED STATES BUILDERS' MILL., FIFTEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET, ESLER & BROTHER, Proprietor WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, ETO. BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK. A Large Ptoclt always on hand. 9 11 8m LU M B E R UNDER COVER ALWAYS DRY. Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem. lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rates. WATSON & GILLINGIIAM, 8 208 No. 924 RICHMOND Street, 16t,h ward. ENGINES. MACHINERY. ETO. tstzrt?. PENN STEAM ENGINE AN1J . f. rri'HiiiTirii. ami-, th n., .,;... .' .ir!'"!!? "waas -nuill IK A LKVt. ICA L ftiAKKRS. liLACKHMITHS, and FOUNDKRS, havina for many years been in successful operation, and been ex- v.....d., ,u uumuiiK ami repairing Marin and River Engines, high and low pressure, Iron Hollers, Water Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc., respectfully otter their ser. vices to the Dublio as being fully prepared to contract for engines of all sizes, Marine, River, and Stationary; having sets tf patterns of different sir.es, are prepared to execute orders with quick despatch. F.very description of pattern making made at the shortest notice. High and Low pres. sure t me Tubular and Cylinder boilers of the best Penn sylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgings of all tir.es and kinds. Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning Screw Cutting, and ull other work connected with the above business. , Drawings and specification for all work done at the establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. 1 he subscribers have ample wharf dock-room for repairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect aalety, and are pro vided with hears, blocks, falls, etc. etc., for raising hoavy or light weights. s ' JACOB C. NRAFIE, JOHN P I KVV 8 15 BEACH Snd PAL M Kit st'rooi SOUTI1WARK FOUNDRY. FIFTH AND WASHINGTON Streets, ' PHIIjADKLFHTA. MERRICK A SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, manufacture High and Low Pressure Steam Enelnei lor Land, River, and Marine Service. Boilers, Gasometers, Tauks, Iron Boats, etc. Castings or all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron Frame Roofs for Gaa Works, Workshops, and Railroad Stations, etc. Retorts and Gas Machinery or the latest and most Improved construction. Every description of Plantation Machinery, also: Spgar, Paw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Oil glneeux Defecators, Filters, Pumping En- Sole Agents for N. BUlenx'g Sngar Boiling AtmS ratusjlsesmyth's Patent Steam Hammer, and Aspln. wall AWoolsey'i Patent Centrifugal Sugar Druln lng Machines. 4 8Uj QIRARD TUBE WORKS. JOHN H. MURPHY & BROS, manufacturer of Wrought Iroa Plp, Ed. PHILADELPHIA, PA. WORKS, TWENTY-TMKD and FIXBEKT Mtreet. OFFICE, 1 Wo. 4'J Worth FI.KTH Htrect. ROOFING. READY ROOFING. This Roofing is adapted to all buildings. It oaa applied to STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily put on Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles, thus avoid ing the damaging of oeilings and furniture while under going repairs. (No gravel used.) PRKBERVK YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WELT0N1 ELASTIC PAINT. I am always preps rod to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also, FAINT FOR SALIC by the barrel or gallon the beat and cheapest in the market, ... W. A. WELTOlf, 8178 Wo. 711 N. NINTH Street, above Coatee. a"0 OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND ROOt F.R8. Roofs! Yes, yea. Kvery size and kind, old or new. At No. frtt N. THIRD Street, the AM K. KICAN CONCRKTfe: PAINT AND ROOF COMPANY are selling their celebrated paint for TIN KOOFS. and ' for preserving all wood and metals. Also, their solid cobs. plex roof covering, the best ever offered to the publio, witn brushes, cans, buckets, etc, lor the work. Anti vemilo. Fire, and Water-proof; Light, Tight, Durable. No crack-, ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat. Uood fur all climates. Directions given for work, or good work men supplied. Care, promptness, certainty! One price! Call! F.xamine! Judge! Agents wanted for interior counties. 4 &tf JOS FPU LFKDfl, Prinolpal. LOOKING CLASSES, ETC. E 7STABIjI8UBD 179 S. As S. ROBINSON, FRENCH PLATS LOOKING-GLASS 23, ENGRAVINGS, BEAUTIFCX CHR0M08, FAINTING 8, Manufacturer or all kinds or LOOKING-GLASS, PCRTRAIT, AND PICTURE FRAMES, NO. 910 CHESNUT STREET, 8 15 jri(tA??L59I?.tne Continental, Phlla. Win'dow classT" "WINDOW GLASS." EVAN8, SHARP & CO., NO. 613 MARKET TREET, Are dally receiving shipments or Glass from WoiIe, where thty aro nojv making 10,000 feet day. '0 They are also receiving shipments or ' rumen window glass. Rough Plato and Ribbed Glass, Enamelled Stained, Engraved, and Gronnd Glaus, which they oiTcr at 25 3m LOWEST MARKET RATES. I OHN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MER1 (J chants and Msnufaoturers of Coneeloga Ticking, etc. CUJiCftLTuet,Piukd:olu.. UwfatT
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