iMPflfllTfHflVlj MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 18G0. sriniT or thu rnxtso. Bdllorlnl Opinion, of "" Jmal Upon Corrent Topic- -Compile Brery Day for the KTenln Telegraph. CIVILIZATION GIBBETED. Promt, r- WbuM. The discussion In Michigan of tho policy f restoring the publio Thnggism, whose abolition has, it seems to us, worked well, returns upon us somo old oonsidarations. Judge Cooley, Judge Gravos, end Governor 131air, though lawyers, and, like most lawyers of our day, brought up at the foot of the gallows, have been wise enough to see that nothing can give to a performance essentially murderous, even when operated by the hands cf the law, the dignity of decency. It costs society, to say the least, as little to abstain from killing as to kill. Whether we shall do f iolenoe to our common nature by examples of publio murder; whether we shall gibbet our own civilization; whether we shall take the brute method of dealing with immortal Bouls these are the obvious questions. Let ns appeal, however, to another experience than our own: In 1774 the Grand Duke of Tuscany vir tually abolished the death penalty, and in 1780 it was repealed by statute. Ke-enacted in 180G, it remained almost inoperative till about 1830, when the sight of two executions caused a disgust which effectually banished It. Though made legal once more, during a period of revolution, it was never enforced, and its abolition, subsequently reoognized by the Italian code, still continues. British writers, lately commenting on these facts, have failed to call to mind the admirable share in this great reform of the Marquis Becc&ria, the father of the movement to put an end to publio legalized murder. The Grand Duke's statement of the effects of the ref ormjrecalls some of the most practical argu ments of Beccaria. "The mitigation of pun ishment," he remarked, "joined to a most scrupulous attention to prevent crimes, and also a great despatch in the trials, together with a certainty of punishment to real de linquents, has, instead of increasing the num ber of crimes, considerably diminished that of smaller ones, and rendered those of an atro cious nature very rare." A statement that during the twelve years ending in 180-t crime in Tuscany was on the increase, has, we un derstand, been disproved; and it has been shown that, allowing for the growth of the population, the number of offenses against the laws has really been steadily diminishing. Uad this not been the case the Italian Minis ter of Justice would not in 18G5 have approved of the abolition of the death penalty, nor the popular Chamber of Parliament in 18GG have Toted for it. Such is the progress of this reform in a country which, though badly beset by brigands, and now and then by her politicians, claims to have been its nursery. Yet we, with our countless educational institutions, still deem the scaffold necessary, when the Italians, with comparatively few schools and legions of ig norant citizens, think they can afford to do away within it. Had the countrymen of Bec caria possessed our wide-spread intelligence, who will say that, with the example of Tus cany before them, their Senate would have re fused to add its vote to that of the Lower Chamber in favor of abolition? In a country where ignorance, poverty, and brigandage go to cheapen life, the death penalty has proved Bterile. Are we to suppose that it cau only thrive here, where there is so much to make life doorer, and so much to toach us the vir tue of publio forbearance? We think not; and every tragic deed done on the gallows, every human life 'Sacrificed as a warning. to others, only confirm our belief. To a grossly ignorant people, an example of publio mercy and self-restraint should bo the most legible of lessons; an intelligent ono ought to have learned the lesson by heart. THE GALLOWS AS A GATE TO HEAVEN. From tin K. Y. Sun. A few days ago a murderer named John W. Moore was hanged at Greenville, Bond county, 111. His victim was a young woman, eighteen years of age, and only a year married. Moore had attempted to outrage her in her own house, had pursued her as she lied towards her sister's, and stabbed her to death. Ho was himself married, and had one child. On the morning of the day of his exeoution, he wrote ns follows in a letter to his wife: "Afteh Biieakfast. 1 have been out and eaten ft little breakfast have dressed myself ready to de part. I feel calm, and ruy trust Is lu God. There Lave been several In to see me this morning, bo that I was somewhat annoyed; but my soul U calm la God. trusting In 11 im In whose sacred firesence 1 shall soon appear; but I feel that 1 am going to meet a reconciled Father Instead of an angry God. Fare well, dear Hannah ; farewell, my dear child. Oil ! meet me In heaven. I am going soon. I shall be safely landed over on the golden shore. May the Lord bless yon, and save you for Ills name's sake. Good-by." This would-be adulterer, and violator, and ' murderer here talks of his calmness of soul in the very Bight of death, and asserts his confi dence of going straight to heaven, as thou sands have done under like circumstances. Not only in their own estimation, but in that of others, their crimes have been expiated and their evil natures transformed by the piety of their last few mortal hours, and tho gallows has been to them the gate of eternal bliss. Is this a well-grounded belief, or a mere delusion of the imagination? According to the opinion of many intelli gent people, the happiness of heavon is the result, not of admission into a heavenly place, but of the acquisition in the soul of a heav enly state. Thoy hold that a man must have heaven within, as well as around him, in order to taste its delights; and that no matter what may be his superficial condition of mind, if he dies with a heart occupied by selfish, cruel, and devilish passions, the abodes of the blessed will be as uninhabitable by him as the air by a fish, or the depths of tho ocean by a land animal. This is the doctrine of Sweden borg and of his follower Emerson. Others go farther, and assert that all men are naturally disqualified for heaven, and can never enter it except by a radical change of character and conduct. The change, they also say, must bo at least commenced during this life, and that, too, sincerely and voluntarily. No mere im pression of the mind, arising from temporary excitement, will effect it, nor yet will avail it if it be caused by the fear of some impending calamity. There must,' aocording to this class of thinkers, be a free, unconstrained, and hearty repentance of one's evil oourses, and a firm purpose to avoid tneni in future with all one 8 inignt. Anytmng less in an tms must, thev ear. prove a false ground of hopo. Viewed in this light, the class of thinkers that we are speaking of argue that the mental condition of a condemned criminal awaiting the gallows must be such as to render his chances of heavenmore doubtful than they are commonly supposed to bo. His repont- anoe may be sincere ana tnorougn; dm ne n like a man with a pistol at hia head who is required to give up his money or sign some paper. Were he at perfect liberty he might possibly comply with the demand; and tho pistol may really not control his action; but every one will admit that this is by no means certain. Bo when a man under sentence of I death, moved by the dread of the unknown ' future into which he is about to be lannohed, betakes himself to pious language .and prac tices, and even attains to the ecHtosy of reli gious enthusiasm as did that brutal murderer Anton Probst in Philadelphia, wo may pos sibly believe him to be Bincere, and accept his repontance as genuine, but, at the same time, the common sense of mankind generally doubts it. A zealous defender of the death ponalty for murder once gave as a reason for its rigid enforcement in all canes when onoa pro nounced, without interference from executive clemency, that, in his experience, wherever a criminal had thus escaped the gallow, the pious contrition which bad been previously developed in him was dissipated, and he re lnpsed into his former evil habits. He there fore humanely insisted that this calamity should be prevented by hanging the man and thus giving him no chance to apostatize. It does not seem to have occurred to him, as it does not seem to occur to many other good people, that a piety which will not stand the wear of life in this world may not be of any permanent value in the world to come. And so John W. Moore, edifying as his state of mind would appear to have been, while awaiting his death on the gallows, may have been really no bet ter a man than he was when he committed the crime for which he suffered; though we must charitably hope that he had really be come reformed, and was not merely under a delusion. But it should not be forgotten that the only sure reformation is that which is un dertaken voluntarily and persevered in through all difficulties and all failures; and that a good life with a sincere effort to obey the divine laws is better and safer than a sudden excitement of the mind under fear of death, and a religious spasm of tho imagina tion that after all may be unfounded and de ceptive. IN SILK ATTI11E. From the N. Y. Tribune. What is to be the costumo of tho emanci pated woman? There is evidently on increas ing gorgeousness of array upon the platform, wherever she sets her courageous foot. Miss Dickinson, having lately traversed a continent, bears a reminiscence of its broad acres behind her in her train. Miss Logan was mildly cen sured by her presiding officer on one oocasion for her personal splendors, and she now ap pears "in heavy black velvet, heavy silk over skirt and panier, and gold ornaments." Miss Field, on the other hand, according to "Susie V." in the Springfield Republican, is "clad in simple white muslin, pure as her aspirations." Mrs. Paulina Davis, in the Hartford Con vention, &s "radiant in an overwhelm ing confusion of blue satin, black velvet, and white hair," and Mrs. II. B. Stanton in black velvet solely. The latter lady, at the Newport Convention last summer, discoursed upon the vanities of dress, while arrayed in a brilliant Roman scarf tied over tho loft shoulder and beneath the right arm. Yet she bears testi mony in a late number oil'te Revolution against "many of the new converts, who, being persons of wealth, refinement, and cul tivation, desire to make the platform highly respectable, fashionable, unobjectionable in all ways," and regrots "to hear so much said just now about tho importance of keoping our platform clear of sll humble, plain-spoken, uncultivated people." Now, which is to be the attitude ? Under which king, Bezonian, or which queen ? Is it Eugenie, or Lncrotia Mottr who is to regulate tho costume of the platform ? It is a now problem for reformers Where withal shall we be clothed ? In the anti-slavery movement no sucn trouble came in. w e utterly tail to recall any bewildering gorgeousness of dress on that platform. Concentrated on moral idoas, women bore no 4 'trailing clouds of glory" in the form of dry goods, and men were plain in costume as in speech. Stephen Foster, for instance, as we rooall him in those better days of the llepublio, had no leaning towards the vanities of dress. There is a tradition of his having once made a speech in blue yarn mittens, when the weather was cold; and uiwarmer moments, he was npt to handle sinners without gloves. Nor did Charles Burleigh habitually dress his hair or his person according to the requirements of a vain world. After all, there were some advantages in those good old. times, when simplicity of attire had neither to be pre scribed nor proscribed in The Liberator. Feminine orators then dressed well, as some still dress well, according to Dr. Johnson's standard, "1 am sure she was well dressed,- for 1 cannot tell what she had on. Am eminent French writer has said that the artist or man of letters needs only a black coat and the absence ol all pretensions to put him on the level of the best society. And the author of Teihnin sums it up more briefly, "There is safety in a swallow-tail.'" Thi3 for men and for women, every step into the avocations of men must involve something of that simplification of toilet which man has undergone. "Let them be sea-captains if they will," said Margaret Fuller, but she did not recommend purple ana nne linen as a nautical right; nor does any shipmaster, except the pirate captain of the dramatic stage, habitually tread the quartor-deok in silk and velvet. There are fitting scenes for theso splendors no doubt, but the soiled planks of a publio platform are unfit. There should be a conventional cos tume and a convention costumo. Women of society cannot be won over by wearing a dress which every such woman sees to be inappro priate. The attempt to meet fashionable ladies on their own ground by dressing more elaborately than they do is like Mr. Kichard Swivellor's efforts to demonstrate his clerkly qualities by carrying a pen in his mouth and another behind each ear. There is such a thine as over-doing. It is not desirable that ladies should appear on tho platform in the costume of Miss Sally Brass; but it is safe to fall back on the maxim of that anonymous countess who writes Mr. lloutledge's "Manual of Good Society:" "Ladies who are neither very young nor very striking in appearance cannot do better than wear quiet colors." THE IDEALISTS. From the If. Y. World. The "Garlyle and Emerson Association" is thetitle of a new organization the pros pectus of which it is worth our while to re produce and our readers while to peruse. The singularity that will strike any reader of it who has been also a reader of the two illustrious men whose names it bears is that tho disciples of the chief preachers of indi vidual effort should feel moved to combine for the purpose of associated effort. . Mr, Carlyle has over and over expressly insisted that individual thought and individual effort are tne true reformatory powers, and that the curse oi our age is mat everything; is at tempted to be done m it by what he calls macmnery. ut courso, an honest oonstruo tion and acceptance of this belief of his does not hinder one from joining with his fellows to promote any specific work of justice or cuaiiiy. nut it does, wo think, discounte nance the banding togothcr of men to pro mote so vast and vogue an object as the sal vation of the world. "I will leave the salva tion of the world," says Mr. Carlylo, "to the maker of the world, and look a little to my own saving, which I am more oompoteut to. ' Instwaxl of this, these professed disciples of his have organized a league to save the world, an would appear, by virtuo of his teaching. The other sponsor of the association is in finite an hostile an attitude to them, if we may judge from the whole tone of his writing. With mm, too, men are all; institutions are nothing. A more striking illustration of that prone- ness of our age to distrust individual effort and trust to co-oporation, which Mr. Carlyle has expressly, and Mr. Emerson by inevitable inference, deprecated, oould hardly be found than in the formation of an "association" to promulgate their views. The postulate of a Bociety which professes to found itself npon tnem in that thov are wrong in one or tne most distinctive of the doctrines which thoy hold and inculcate in common. But, waiving that, what is it that this asso ciation proposes to itself to do? This speciflo tmng, among a number of nebulous and general things: "to popularize the writings and teachings of Carlvle and Emerson." But Carlyle and Emerson are quite accessible aireaay to anybody wno has a taste lor tnem. If it is complained of them that they are both sometimes obscure, we do not imagine that me oanyie and liinerson Association in tend to commit the impertinence of illustrat ing them bv noten. or hv franalnfinnn into thfl vulgar tongue, by way of "popularizing" iuem. Ana, inaeea. sucn ormmintv as mere maybe in them is inherent; for no appreciative reader of either will donv that he is an admi rable literary artist, or admit that any other expression oi nis tnought could bo an im provement upon his own. 'I he truth is that tho main valna of the writings of Mr. Carlyle in particular is not mat ne promulgates a systematio scheme of religion or or morals, but that he is a con tinual stimulus to the feeling and the con science of his reader, and forces him by the power oi earnest appeal all the more enec tive because it is unconscious to live up more nearly to tne reader s own ideal. This may be called the highest worth of any writer to any reader; but this cannot be attained in any other way, that we can seo, than by indi vidual study or tne writer s works. All that an "association" can do for a student is to direct him where to go for instruction, and that, it seems to us, he would find out. in the present state of intelligence, quite as readily L Al. - J! fi - wituout ine association as um it. If tho admirers of two eminent writers wish to do them honor and that we suspect to be tne real motive ot this association no body can object. But the mode which has been chosen in this instance, we may safely say, is one wnicn noituer ot tne persons meant to be honored could approve, and in which many of their true admirers and disciples cannot join. It is doubtless the birth of a generous young enthusiasm, for which its possessors will by and by discover a more fruitful field. But to get up an "association" for the purpose of testifying the gratitude of pupils to instructors is a boyish way of vent ing entnuuiasm wnicn neither gods nor men can approve, However much they may sym pathize with the spirit that prompts it. LIQUOR LAWS IN POLITICS. From the N. Y. Times. Last Tuesday's elections show that the prohi bitionist people made good their threat to have a hand in Mate politics whenever they could: and tneir wottc is visible Iroru Massachusetts to Minnesota. So far, however, as can now be Been, their mam achievement has been to damage their own cause. In tho 'two States just mentioned they made a very poor show. and in the former, whore they once controlled the Legislature by an overwhelming vote. they have now lost it by a majority equally overwhelming. The policy of the prohibitionists has been at once grasping, inconsiderate, and short sighted. They have clamored everywhere to have the single issue and that a moral ono which they present, raised above tho groat fundamental political principles on which the two great parties of the country are organ ized. They have not even been content to take from these parties a Renorul declaration of sympathy with any movement for true temperance, allowing every member of the party to exercise his own discretion as to the proper means for tho progress of temperance, Ihey have sought, rather, to commit potiti cal conventions to tho support of their ex tremcst measures; to allow no latitude of judgment; to read out of the ranks any per son, no matter how hard a worker and honest a thinker on all other questions, 'whose ideas on this subject did not square with their own, A man in favor of the strictest sort of license law was to be anathematized. And, in da monding those things, under all sorts of threats of "bolting" and opposing, the prohi bitionists have never minced their words. 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LONOSTKETIT, Actuary, ROWLAND PAIMtY. The advantages oilercd by this Company are un excelled. 127 rpiIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE C03IPAN? 1. Ot PHILADELPHIA. Ottioe 6. W'. Comer FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. FIRE INHURANOK EXCLUSIVELY. rEKPKTUAL AND TERM POLI01ES ISSUED. Cash Capital dM.OUU'OO Cash Assets, July 1, 18a, w S13.27l!a. DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, . J. Livinmrtnn Erringer, nainro rrazior, John M. Atwooo, Kenjamin T. Trediek, (ieorRO 11. Stuart, u nines ij. uiaguorn, William O. Uoulton, Charles W henlor, Thomas li. Montgomery, dolin II. llrown, This Conmany insures onlv first class risks. taVins nn rpociully hazardous risks whatever, such as fautorios, mills, etc. V. RATCHFORD RTARR, President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President. Alexander W. Wihikk, Secretary. atij PIICENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1K04 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 24 W ALNUT ritroet, opposite the Bxohauge. This Company insures from loss or damage by FIKE, on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture, etc., for limited periods, and permanently on baildings by donosit of premiums. p The Company has been in active operation for more than SIXTY YEARS, during which ail losses have been promptly adjusted and paid. John L. Hodge, M. E. Mahony. David Lewis, llenjaimn Etting, Thomas 11. Powers, A. 11. Mo Henry, Edmund Castillon, hamuol Wiloox, Ieivis O. Nnrri.. John T. Lewis, William S. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D.Clark Wharton. Lawrence Lewis, Jr., WUCUKRER, President. 6 AMTT1X WILCOX, Secretary. OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, No. 233 WALNUT Btreat, Philadelphia. m , Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual. . Capital, $fi00,0OU Assets f2.R50.000 MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRE INSURANCE. OVER (20,000,000 LOS8E8 PAID SINCE ITS ORGAN IZATION. Arthnr O. Coffin, bamuel W. Jones, John A. Iirown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, William Welsh, B. Morris Wain, .lnhn Alsnnn. DIBECTOB; r ranois n. uope, Edward H. Trotter. Edward H. Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jessup. John P. White, Louis O. Madeira, Charles W. Cuaiimaa (jieors.0 L. Harrison, CliAKLKS PLAIT, Vice-President. MATTHTAS Mabib, Secretary. CUA8. U. Rucves, Asst. Secretary. IJ 7 A ME INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 809 CHESNUT Street INCORPORATED 1M. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL, 824XMM0. TIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per. potual or Temporary Policies. DIRECTORS: Charles Richardson, Robert Pearoe, William H. Rhawn, John Keaslor, Jr., William M. boylort, Fdward K. Orne, Henry Lewis, Charles Stokes, Nathan Hilles, John W. EvermaOa Geoive A. West, Mordecai Busby. CHARLES RICHARDSON, Preaidont WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vice-President. William I. Blawchabp, Secretary. 1 83 rfrLlE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE J. COMPANY. Incorporated 11x16 Charter Perpetual. No. IPO WALNUT Street, opposite Independence qaar, This Company, favorably known to the oomniunity for over fort y years, continues to inaureagainst loss or dam age by fire on Publio or Private Builuingseither perma nuntiyorfora limited time. Also on furniture, block, of Coeds, aud Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, la Invested in the moat careful manner, which enables them to offer to the insured on undoubted security in Uie of lose. Daniel Fmith, Jr.. John Devereni, Thomas Smith, Henry Lewis, Alexander licuson, Iximo llazjehurgt, '1 nomas ttoums. Damei naoaoca. ur. DANIEL SMITH, Jn President WM. G. CROWF.LL, Secretary. Sao ID, I v. - I'TI'I " T"t TMFEltLAIi FIRE INSUUANCE CO., LONDON. ESTABXJSIIED lSOII. Tald-np Capital and Accumulated Funds, SS.OOO.OOO IN GOLD. PKEVOST & HERRING, Agenti, 8 45 Ko. 10T S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CnAS. M. FREVOST. CUAS. P. HERRING. LUMBER. 18G9 BPRUCB JOIST. SPRUCR JOIST. HK.MMK'K. HEMLOCK. 18G9 IftftQ WARONET) CLEAR TINR. -fQpr. 100J UKANONKI) CLEAR PINK. . lollil CHOICE PATTERN PINK. SPAN I& II CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS, KK1) CEDAR. "IQi'tO FLORIDA FLOORING. 10 1001 KLtHtlDA FLOORING. lo(9 CAPOI.1NA FIjOORINO. VIRGINIA KI.OOUINU. DKLAWAKK FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA HTKP HOARDS. ' RAIL PLANK. 1 RfiQS'Af?.nXnf)ARns AND FLANK.-I Qrt lOU J WALNUT HOARDS AND PLANILlOUi1 WALNUT HOARDS. W ALNUT PLANK. VNDERTAKERS' LUMrtER. -1Qnt 10)J UNDERTAKERS LUMBER. IHllif It I. II WALNUT AND PINK. 1 RftQ REASONED POPLAR. J.OUJ SEASONED CUKlUtY. 18G9 ASH. WniTB OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. " "IftPiQ CTGAR BOX MAKERS' -tOMX A0W,m.V,P.AR POX MAKERS l0G9 SPANISH CEDAR l)OX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW, ' 1 fi fi 0 ?AROLrNA SCANTLING. i QOf lOVJ CAROLINA II. T. BILLS. loo9 NORWAY SCANTLING. xuv, 18G9 CED,tR SHINGLES. -, rnt CYPRESS SHINGLES. 18G9 MAULS. BROTHER A CO.. No. 8600 SQUTn Street -JNITED BTATES BUILDEKS' MILD, FIFTEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET, ESLER & BROTHER, . Proprietorf.' WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, ETO. BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK. A Large Stock always on hand. 9 it 8m LUMBER UNDER COVER ALWAYS DRY. Walnut, White Pino, Yellow Tine, 8prnoe, Hem lock, Shingles, eta, always on band at low rates. WATSON & GILLLNQHAM, 8 80, No! 924 RICHMOND Street, 13th ward. ENGINES, MAOHINERY, ETO. PENN STEAM ENGINE AND jLT-tf'PRAOTIOAL AND THKOrktouT HC3rpi!nr'EN;iNEKRS, MACHINISTS, HOlLKtt AlAKEivS, liLACKSMITHS, and FOUNDERS, havtnit for many years heen in successful operation, and been ex clusively engaged in building and repairing Marine and Enuines, hih and low pressure. Iron Hollers, Water 1 aTiks, Propellers, eto. etc., rospocttully ottor thoir ser vices to the nubile as Iwinn fully prepared to oontraot for enitines of all sizes, Marine, River, and Stationary; havinir sets of patterns of ditlorent sizes, are propared to execnta orders with quick despatch. Every doscrintion of pattern making mado at the shortest notice. High and Low pres sure rine Tubular and Cylinder Roilors of the best Penn sylvania Charcoal Iron. ForKingsof all sites and kinds. Iron and Rrasa Castings of all duscriptions. Roll Turning Scrow Cutting, and all other work connected with, the above businoss. - Drawings and specifications for all work done at the estaMishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room for repairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect safety, and are pro vided with (hears, blocks, lulls, eto. etc., for raising heavy or light weights. , JACOB O. Nil A FIE, JOHN P. LEVY, 31 BEACH and PALMER Street. SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND WASHINGTON Streets, Pnil.ADBLFDTA. MERRICK SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, mannfactnre High and Low Pressure steam Engines for Land, River, and Marino Service. Boilers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, eto. Cantings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron Frame Roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, and Railroad Stations, etc. Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and moat unproved construction. Every description of Plantation Machinery, also. Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans Oil Steam Trains, Derecatora, FilterB, Pumpina Kn glnes,etc Sole Agents for N. Blllenx's Sogar Boiling Appa. ratus, Nesmyth's Patent Steam Hammer, and Aspia. wall k Woolscy's Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain lng Machines. 4 soj QIRAFID TUBE WORKS. JOHN H. MTJBPHY & BROS. Blunufucturcre of Wrought Iron Pipe, Etaw PHILADELPHIA, FA, WORKS, TWENT Y-TIII Ul and FIIJ8KHT 8 tree to. OFFIOK, 4 1 W. 44 North FIFTH N treat. ROOFING. READY ROOFING This Roofing la adapted te all boll dings. It oaa applied to BTF.EP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half the expense of tin. It is readily pnt en ISbingle Roofs without removing the shingles, thus avoid, ing the damaging of ceilings and furniture while nodes) going repairs. (No gravel used.) PKKBERVK YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WKLTOWI KLASTIO PAINT. ' I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roftfs at short ' notice. Alto, PAINT FOR BALK by the barrel or galloa the best and cheapest iu the market. W. A. WKLTOW. 2179 No. 711 N. NINTH Street, above Ooatea. rpo OWNERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, X AND ROOFERS. Roofsl Yes, yes. aTvery sise and kind, old or new. At No. 648 N. THIRD Street, the AM K. R1UAN CONCRETE PAINT AND ROOfe COMPANY are selling their celebrated paint for TIN KOOFH, an4 for preserving all wood and nietals. A lso, their sotad ooaa. plez roof covering, the best ever offered to the publio, with brushes, cans, buckets, eto., lor the work. Anti vermin. Fire, and Water-proof; Lb ht, Tight, Durable. No wrack ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat. Good for all climates. Directions given for work, or good work" men supplied. Care, promptness, oertaintyl Una trioel Calll Examine! Judge! Agents wanted for interior eonnties. 4&ti JOHEfU LEEDS. Prlnelpal. ' 1 the principal Depot FOB TUB 8AXI 07 REVENUE STAMPS. NO. 804 CHESNUT STREW. CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 105 S. FIFTH 8TREET - (Two doors below Cheannt street), ESTABLISHED 186 8. The sale of Revenue Stamps la still continued $x the Old-Established Agcnclce. Tho stock comprises every denomination printed by tho Government, and having at all times a largo supply, we aro enabled to All and forward (by Mail or Express) all orders, Immediately upon receipt, a matter of groat importance. United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafts on Philadelphia, and Post Office Orders received la payment. , Any Information regarding the decisions of the Commissioner or Internal Revenue cheerftlly aud gratuitously furnished. Revenue Stamps printed upon Drafts, Cuecka, Receipts, etc. The following rates of commission are allowed on Stamps and Stamped Paper: On "28 and upwards. g per cent " 100 " 3 u " 800 4 11 Address all orders, etc., to STAMP AQENCY, KO, 501 CHESNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA. 1
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