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.UrliU Opinion of the ladln Journals
Upon Current Toplo-4J.mplld Erer
Ur lor the Kvenlnc Telegraph.
OlrT OF WORK,
from the X. 1. OVrtmw.
Thore are always thousands seeking em
ployment in every great city this one espe
cially and many more at this season than at
others. They may generally be classified as
follows:
1. Those who know how to do nothing;
V. Those who can do something, but no
thing that any one wants to pay them for
doing:
5!. Those who are not willing to do what
they can do and might find to do, but will
only work at something lighter, more gen
teel, and better paid;
4. Those who insist on staying where there
is no work for them, instead of seeking it
where it might be fonnd.
This last-named class is very largo, very
miserable, and qnite undeserving of sympa
thy or pity. If one were to go blubbering
abont that he had fished for pearls in a Long
Island pond, or dug for gold in the Sonth
Jersey sands throughout the last six months,
yet had not realized one cent from the pro
ceedst people would reasonably ask what
right he hod to squander his time on such a
hopeless folly; yet day by day we hear this
story: "I came to New York in search of a
clerkship have been looking for one intently
these three months have not yet found an
opening have spent all my money, and
pawned my spare clothes won't you lend me
money to get away with?" What right has
one who acts thus madly to help or sympathy?
What right had he to idle away genial months
in evidently hopeless quest of employment in
an overcrowded pursuit, when he might have
found work in a week if he had chosen to do
such as was needed, instead of persisting in a
vain quest of that which was not?
There is not a man or womau too many in
the world, and not one more than might have
work if he or she would seek it aright.
Though this is the dull season, yet there is
still work to be had. But a few days since
planters were in New Orleans hiring stout
laborers (white) to work on sugar estates for
45 per month and board. This is a high
xate; but there are tens of thousands of mere
diggers now grading new railroad tracks at
$1 to per day all over our country. Men
are wanted to cut timber in Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the
South; chopping cordwood is just beginning
in the vicinity of most railroads: ditching and
draining were never more active than now,
and a good deal of building or repairing is in
progress all over the country. Here and there
work stops and men are discharged; as the
premium on gold declines nearly everything
else is sold cheaper, and wneres share the
downward tendency; but there is still work
for those who can do and will seek it aright.
But here is the difficulty. Too many imi
tate the drunken vagabond hired to dig pota
toes, who, reproved for not doing so, managed
to hiccough out, "If you want your potatoes
dug, jnst fetch em on; I ain't going to run
all over the lot after them." They squat down
in great cities till thev overcrowd them, and
then grumble that work is so scarce and rents
so high both their own fault. Here are
scores of servant girls applying to the Labor
. Bureau for places, but when offered them a
few miles in the country, turning away
abruptly, and saying, '"I won't leave the city''
Had they been born here, this would not seem
go irrational and infatuated.
We object to this crowding into cities that
it tends inevitably to the degradation of
labor. The employer and the employed
should stand on a footing of perfect equality
so far as obligation is concerned. A wants
B's work; B wants A's money; they make a
bargain and exchange commodities to mutual
advantage. If B does his work faithfully and
welL he is under no more obligation to A
than A is under to him. But if A don't want
' B's work, but is importuned into hiring him
in order to keep him out of the almshouse,
then the case is bravely altered. B is now a
crincinff beggar, eating the bitter bread of
dependence and virtual charity. He has
sunk from manhood's high estate, and has
dragged labor a good way after him. Every
working man is injured and degraded by him.
There are a hundred thousand men in this
city to-day who ought to have long since
found their way to the public lands, each se
cured a quarter-section thereof, and made of
it a home evermore. Had they dene this,
they would have aided to elevate labor instead
of conspiring to drag it down.
'But, the slotniul man says, "there is a
lion in the way! It costs money to reach
the public, lands; it costs years of patient,
earnest labor to mako of a wild quarter-section
a comfortable home. The poor pioneer
must put up a very rough log cabin and be
content with its shelter for years; he must
live en coarse, simple food, and wear coarse,
patched clothing; and he must work hard
through nearly every hour of light, Sundays
excepted. He must "work out" for the
means which pay for breaking up his virgin
prairie; if he gets each acre broken for a
week of his own faithful labor, he must be
thankful. The life of a thrifty pioneer is by
no means an easy one; and it will take him
from ten to twenty years to improve and
fence his tract so as to secure him the com
forts of life. And yet there are hundreds of
thousands now living who have reason bitterly
to lament that they did not attempt this ten
to thirty years oro
No man is obliged to be a pioneer; but it is
every one's duty to find something to do and
then do it. And it is very dubious charity
and worse economy to set men or women to
doing work that is not wanted rather than
feed them and start them along to some place
where their services are really needed
In summer, when almost every farmer
wants more help and pays good wages, and
when travelling is a luxury, even though you
go afoot and sleep under a tree, thousands
cling to the city in idleness, vainly looking
for "something to do. Now that winter is
at hand, this class say, "Wny snouid we go
into the country r The weatner s inclement,
and nobodv wants to hire us." Perhaps not,
if you are a dead beat who can do nothing;
but vou should look for labor where it may
Dossiblv be found, rather than where you
know that it cannot be. If you can render
aught of real service to mankind, in the way
of productive labor, you will find a chance, if
at all. where much is to be done and there
are but few to do it. Don't settle down into
honfelass-beccarv. but put oft' while you have
still shoe-leather, and keep on till you find
something to do I
f
i
HUMORED FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE
ADMINISTRATION.
trom th K. Y. Herald.
W lmve a rumor from Washington to the
f.flWt that the President, in hia foithoomin
lni'KKace to Congrehs, will make particular
.fai-uiun to the national nnimees. and that lie
will huggist the desirability of udopting inea.
L.'iiwiirtt a speedy roniiupt Um of spucia
raEJLEENINGTELEGRAPnPIIILADELrnL WEDNESD AY,
payments. With regard to the action of
General (trant's administration on the national
finances nothing can be snid but in commen
dation. The President set out with the pur
pose to execute the laws and to collect faith
fully the revenue, and he has succeeded. We
Hee the result in the enormous returns of the
revenue, in the expenditures that have been
cut down, and in the surplus of forty-five mil
lions applied to the reduction of the debt, in
excess of the sinking fund, during a period of
eight months of his administration. So far,
then, as the administrative action of General
Giant's Government in this matter goes, the
President can speak proudly to Congress, and
the country will endorse what he may say.
The policy, too, of the President, as indi
cated by our Washington news, relative to
funding the debt at a lower rate of interest
and of keeping up the income of the Treasury
till that can be accomplished, will meet with
the approbation of both Congress and the
people. It is the common sense view of the
subject. In all such matters General Grant
is eminently practical. Every one, except,
perhaps, the bondholders, will admit that the
interest on the public debt is too high that
the burden upon the people is too heavy
and that the result of this high rate of inte
rest and untaxed investments in Government
securities is to absorb the active capital of
the country and to chock our material pro
gress. People will not invest in enterprises
which tend to develop the country while
they can get six per cent, in gold or eight
per cent, on currency on money put into
United States bonds, which are free also from
taxation. In every way, both as a heavy
burden upon the taxpayers and as absorbing
active capital that would be employed in the
development of the country, the present'high
rate of interest on the debt is a great evil and
ought to be reduced. Then it is a wise and
statesmanlike idea to keep up the large in
come of the Treasury by not prematurely
taking off the taxes, so as to raise the credit
of the Government and to fund the debt on
the lowest terms possible. It is evident, too,
that the President does not regard the na
tional debt a national blessing, for he wisely
desires the liquidation of it as soon as possi
ble. A large permanent debt, like a great
btanding army, is inimical to republican in
stitutions and freedom, and should be got rid
of as soon as practicable.
Now, however, we come to a Bubject on
which the President is less practical, if his
views be reported correctly that is the sub
ject of returning to specie payments. It is
said he will suggest the necessity of speedily
returning to or forcing specie payments.
True, this report comes with the qualifying
remark that the President has not yet deter
mined upon the manner of effecting this
object, and that he may leave the entire
question to Congress, after merely suggest
ing that something should be done. We
have more confidence in this last statoment
about the President not having determined
upon the manner of returning to specie pay
ments than in the practicability of the idea.
The truth is General Grant will go
beyond his depth if he attempts to cany
out the notion of the on-to-specie-payment
theorists. Eminently practical as he is
in military affairs and in administrative ac
tion, and remarkable as he is for strong com
mon sense, he will plunge into waters beyond
his depth if he should take up the old bul
lionist theory of forcing specie payments.
General Grant, we suppose, knows little on
this subject, and may be influenced by the
Secretary of the Treasury and other narrow
minded men who have but one crude idea on
the currency question. If a metallic basis
for the currency be desirable, we can never
reach that by any forcing process without
overwhelming disaster. Unless we are pre
pared to bankrupt the whole country and to
create such a revulsion as has never occurred
before in this country, we must let the cur
rency alone and leave the return of specie
payments to the laws of nature and trade.
However, there is little for Congress doing
anything so reckless and destructive. The
country is doing very well under the presene
currency, and if the debt be funded at a lower
interest and the burdens of the people light
ened, it will do still better. With our enor
mous debt now held abaoad and the exchanges
so much against us we should, with a gold
basis, be at the mercy of foreign capitalists.
The Bank of England could at any time cause
a suspension of specie payments here again
and throw the whole business of the country
into confusion. The late Wall street opera
tion of locking up gold was nothing to the
effect that would be produced by the drain of
some millions of specie whenever foreign
capitalists or the Bank of England chose to
put on the screws. Specie payments would
Erove a fiction, ana probably we snouid soon
ave to suspend again. The only safe course
to pursue is to leave the currency alone and
to let the country grow up gradually to specie
payments in accordance with the laws of na
ture and trade.
THE NEW ALLIANCE IN EUROPE.
From the N. Y. Times.
The announcement from our own
correspondent at St. Petersburg fore
shadows a new and startling complication
in European politics. The statement is
that a proposal has been submitted
by Prince Gortschakoff to the French Min
ister for an alliance, onensive and defen
sive, between Russia, Franco, and Austria.
The alliance is to exist for three years; it
binds each party to maintain a standing army,
and the treaty is renewable upon six months
notice.
It is true that this plan is only as yet pro
posed by one power to another, but Prince
Gortschakon is too cautious and experienced
a diplomatist to venture publicly on a move
of great importance unless he had ascertained
beforehand the reception it was likely to
meet with. The suggestion, we may be very
confident, will not take the Emperor Mapo
Icon by surprise. It may be one of the direct
results of the meeting between the Czar and
the Emperor some time ago agreed upon at
the time, but delayed by motives of policy.
The Eussian Government would never have
invited the attention of the world to a projeot
which had not been privately discussed be
tween the powers principally concerned in it.
The new alliance wouia almost certainly
be the harbinger of new troubles in Europe.
Two out of the three powers thus leagued
together have been with dimculty restrained
from springing at the throat of Prussia.
Austria has great losses ana terrible defeats
to avenge, and France has wounded pride to
appease, and the long-desired rectification of
frontiers to accomplish. If ltussia can be
induced to connive at these designs, neither
France nor Austria would begrudge the Mus
covite the gratification of striking a deadly
blow at Turkey. It is easy enough, then,
to estimate what each party to the alliance
ha 8 to gain by a Bcheme which is a serious
menace to the peace of Europe. France
might recover her old place in the world, and
humble the pride of Prussia. Austria might
ot least nartlv nidr the ravaees which the
needle-gun inflicted upon her, and wipe out
the bitter memories of Hadowa. And Russia
might hope to drive out the Crescent from
Constantinople, even if she did not push her
Central-Asian outposts still further towards
British India.
We are only discussing probabilities, and
it may happen that the rumorod alliance will
never come into existence. Our correspon
dent at St. Petersburg, from whom the news
comes, has access to special sources of infor
mation, and he is not likely to have been
misled in a matter of so much consoquence.
But the attitude of England may induce Na
poleon to pause before entering into a league
which undoubtedly could bode no good for
any but the contracting powers. We need
not recount the obligations which Napoloon
owes to England. Great Britain recognized
him first, and her countenance and support
have enabled him to pass safely through many
critical stages of bis career. Hitherto he has
clung closely to his allianoe with England,
and certainly has not shown himself ungrate
ful for it. But the new alliance would indi
cate a change in his feelings and his policy.
The event would render the close of this year
memorable, for in all probability it would
prove the letting out of the waters of strife,
and no man could toll how far the flood might
extend.
THE CUSTOM IIQUSE FRAUDS.
From the X. V. World.
We do not propose to dorogate in the least
from the special dishonesty of the persona
especially implicated by the disclosures of the
Custom House frauds. Neither do we wish
to avert the blame which the present adminis
tration has justly incurred for the scandalous
recklessness with which it has appointed in
competent persons to office. But behind all
this is the fact that the tariff under which
those swindles have been brought to light,
and under which far greater swindles have
doubtless been perpetrated with impunity, is
one which offers every facility to unscrupu
lous placemen to aggrandize the mselves.
This tariff is perhaps the most unintel
ligible piece of legislation which has boon
put upon the statute book of any civilized
nation in our day. In England, in Franco,
and in every other country which has en
joyed enlightened economical legislation, the
import duties are levied upon comparatively
few articles, and those of luxury rather than
use, in accordance with a predetermined
principle which the mind of an average cus
tom house official is capable to apply to the
particular cases which come before him. Here,
however, not only is there an absurd multi
plicity of dutiable articles, but there is abso
lutely no common scale of charges upon these.
In other words, our tariff is no tariff at all.
The difference between the simplicity of
the European system and the complication of
our own is easily accounted for. There,
duties are levied for revenue. Here, they are
levied for protection. As no Congressional
committee is competent, of its own know
ledge, to fix a general scale of duties sufficient
for this purpose, it is obliged to take counsel
of the American producer or manufacturer in
every instance. According to the varying in
competence or the varying greed of those
classes the duties are fixed a moderate rate
upon this article, an exorbitant rate upon that
other of the same species and the result is
an amorphous botch of incongruities and
compromises.
No man can understand it. No man can
explain it. No man can apply it. Amid this
universal and inevitable ignorance, thieves
thrive and honest importers suffer. If the
collector were an archangel, with a staff of
appraising seraphs, they would not be able to
administer such a set of unwise and dishonest
laws wisely and honestly. And when they
are more fallible mortals, it is not to be looked
for that irretrievable errors and gross and
undetectable frauds should not occur in the
collection of revenue. Of course this does
not relieve the immediate delinquents of their
responsibility. If such offenses must needs
come, nevertheless woe unto them by whom
they come.
An Awful Old Musket.
Mark Twain tells the following Btory, re
lated by a fellow possenger, -who, being ban
tered about his timidity, said he had never
been scared since he loaded an old Queen
Anne's musket for his father once, where
upon he gave the following:
You see, the old man was trying to learn
me to shoot blackbirds, and beasts that tore
up the young corn and such things, so that I
could be of some use about the farm, because
I wasn't big enough to do much. My gun
was a single barrelled shot gun, and the old
man carried an old Queen Anne musket that
weighed a ton, made a report like a thunder
clap, and kicked like a mule. The old man
wanted me to shoot the musket sometimes,
but I was afraid. One day, though, I got
her down, and so I took her to the hired man
and asked him how to load her, because it was
out in the field.
"Hiram," said he, "do you Bee these marks
on the stock, an X and a V, on each side of
the Queen's crown? Well, that means ten
balls and five slugs that is her load."
"But how much powder?"
"Oh," he says, "it don't matter; put in
three or four handfulls."
So I loaded her up that way, and it was
an awful charge I had sense enough to see
that and started out. I levelled on a good
many blackbirds; but every time I went to
pull the trigger, I shut my eyes and winked.
I was afraid of her kick. Towards sundown I
fetched up at the house, and there was the old
man resting on the porch.
"Been out hunting, have ye ?"
"Yes, sir," says I.
"What did you kill?"
"Didn't kill anything sir didn't shoot her
off was afraid she would kick (I knew
blamed well she would)."
"Gimme that gun!" the old man said, as
mad as sin.
And he took aim at a sapling on the other
side of the road, and I began to drop back
out of danger. And the next moment I heard
the earthquake, and heard the Queen Anne
whirlinar end over end in the air, and the old
man spinning around on one heel, with one
- . . . , a , 2 1 .t.
leg up ana Dotn nanus on nis jaw, nuu me
bark was torn off from that sappling like
there was a hail storm. The old man's
shoulder was set back three inohes and his
jaw turned black and blue, and he had to
lay up for three days. Cholera nor nothing
else can scare me the way I was scared that
time.
PERSONAL.
c
U T I O Nl
REMOVAL.
DONNELLY'S OLD ESTABLISHED
PiUKNIX MUKKY IAMN OFFWK,
rwnovAd from No. U28 tSOU'l'li Rtrottt. aanmar of RONALD,
SON. to hie new and lame buildins No. 14:13 HOUTH
titrant, above Broad. Kotninoe to private efface at door of
DwulliDii also on POYLK Street, in the rear, where
n..nu. .. ill I... 1 ........ H ,.,. I nn S. ..Am IV.. ..t
Jewelry, hilverwure, Jry Goods, Clothing, ttwis, lieddinii.
.'U.IJU1.B, uriiuuru, riuiiuiwi (.miinfd, x i.unn.
Muaical Inutruiuunls, and Roods of every description and
value, bvcure safes for the kepln of valuables; also
ample accommodation for t he care and storure of Kuoda.
V1NDKNT P. MONNKLLY Broker,
10 80 lm Ne. Im bOUTH blieet
D
V I D F L E M M I N G,
OIOAB BOX MANUFACTURER.
No. 626 OOM M KROK Street, above Market,
Orders oiled at the shortest notice. u 14 lot
SILVER PLATED WARE, ETC
ESTABLISHED IN 1840.
MEAD & ROBBINS,
SUCCESSORS TO JOHN O. MEAD k SON,
ftlnniifhrturer of the Fluent Grades of
UJJbVJLiJ.ii
MATED
WARES.
Ws make our own goeds; deposit th. Silver accurately
by weight, and Warrant eaob article by our Trade Mark
on the bate, and by writton guarantees If preferred. They
are equal to the finest grades ot English and French
Wares, and artistio in design and elegantly ornamented.
Pearl, Ivory, and Rubber Cutlery In great variety, plat
and unplated, in quautitie as required.
N.E. Corner Ninth and Chesnut,
to 1 fmwOm
PHILADFLPHIA.
HOSIERY, ETC.
WOW OPEN AT
HOFMANX'S HOSIERY STOKE,
No. 9 NORTH EIGHTH STREET,
GENTS' WHITE WOOL SniRTS,
GENTS' WHITE WOOL DRAWERS,
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL SHIRTS.
GENTS' SCARLET WOOL DRAWERS.
GENTS' MERINO SIIIRT8 AND DRAWERS,
LADIES' MERINO VESTS,
LADIES' MERINO DRAWERS,
LADIES' CASHMERE VESTS.
CHILDREN'S MERINO UNDERWEAR,
GENTS' COTTON SHIRTS AND DRAWERS,
LADIES' COTTON VESTS AND DRAWERS.
Also, a very large assortment of
4 T wsly
COTTON, WOOL, AND MERINO HOSIERY.
MILLINERY.
1VEYL fc ICOSIMllI.n.
NO. 726 CHESNUT STREET.
OPEN THIS DAY,
10 PIECES ROMAN STRIPED SATINS,
at $3, $2 50, and $3 per yard ; one dollar per yard below
former prices.
40 PIECES SATINS,
16-inch, of all desirable shades, 41 40 per yard ; reduced
front $
18 PIECES BLACK VELVET,
warranted all Bilk, at 4, 44'50, and $5 ; one dollar per yard
below the real value.
A Iso, a full stock of all kinds of
RIBBONS,
SILKS,
HATS,
FRAMES,
FLOWERS,
FEATHER,,
etc. Era,
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
WEVL &, irO.SILBli:i.M,
10 18 Ira NO. 725 CHESNUT STREET.
PIANOS.
STEIN WAY & SONS'
Grand Square
and Upright Pianos,
With thoir newly patented RESONATOR, by which
the original volume of sound oan always h retained, tue
same as in a violin.
BLASIUS BROS.,
No. 100C CHESNUT STREET,
5 27wbtf PHILADELPHIA.
ALBKECHT,
RIEKKS 4 SCHMIDT,
MANUFACTIIItEHS OF
FIRST-CLASS PIANO-FORTES.
Full guarantee and moderate prices.
2 WAKKKOOMS, No. 610 ARCH Street.
LUMBER.
-t QHCi SPRUCE JOIST. -t Qp(
looy spruce joist. looy
HEMLOCK.
HEMLOCK.
1 O O O SEASONED CLEAR PJNE. 4Qft
lOOy SEASONED CLEAR PINE. lOOiJ
CHOICE PATTERN PINE.
SPANISH CEDAK, FOR PATTERNS.
RED CEDAR.
IQPfi FLORIDA FLOORING. 1QP(
lOOt FLORIDA FLOORING. 10O7
CAROLINA FLOORING. "
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOURING.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
1 QflCi WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK, f Q
1001 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK.I0D V
WALNUT BOARDS.
WALNUT PLANK.
1869
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. , tQt'O
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. lOOl'
11 CD
WALNUT AND PINE.
1869
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED CUElUiV.
1869
ASH.
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
-(QPfs CIGAR BOX MAKERS' . 1 QJQ
lOOy CIGAR BOX MAKEKS' lOOtJ
SPANISH UKUAK UOX BOAKU3,
FOR SALE LOW.
1869
CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA II. T. SILLS.
NORWAY SCANTLING.
1869
1 OP A CEDAR SHINGLES.
ifSlill PY PR ICSS SHINGLES.
1869
11 No. 8600 SOUTH Street.
JJNITED
STATES BUILDERS MILL,
FIFXEENTH STREET, BELOW MARKET,
ESLER & BROTHER, Proprietor..
WOOD MOULDINGS,
BRACKETS, ETC.
BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK.
A Large Stock: always on hand. 911 8m
LUMBER UNDER COVER
ALWAYS DRY.
Walnnt, Walte Pine, Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem.
lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rates.
( j WATSON GILLINGHAM,
9 895 No. 9M RICHMOND Street, 19th ward.
WILLIAM ANDERSON
& CO., DEALERS
T T in Fine Whiskies,
No. 148 North SOOOND Street,
Philadelphia.
TOIIN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MERJ
I chants and Manufacturer, of ! OonestogaTickin:: ..to.
No. SWiOUKhNUTStreat. Philadelphia. I wfn5
DR. R. J. LEVIS JIAS KKMUVWJ TO THE
northwest corner of ABC 11 aud TUIKTKKNTti
Streets,
H I" lut
T7MPIRE 8 LATE MANTEL WORCS.-J. B
sUMhJ No. i-Uodlia-sNUT tiusst.
JLjwfml
NOVEMBER 17, 18G3.
GOODS FOR THE LADIES.
QHOICE GOODS AT LOW PRICES.
MRS. M. A. BINDER,
NO. 1101 CHESNUT STREET.
Correcpondsnce with the leading Parisian and Continen
tal Houses enables ber to receive the latest novelties
direct.
Bargains opening daily in
Black Guipure Laces.
Black Thread Laces.
Pointe Applique Laces.
Vslencieane Laces.
Pointe Collars.
Thread Collars. Lace Veils.
Pointe, Applique, and Valenciennes Handkerchiefs.
French Muslin.
Hamburg Edgings, new designs, very cheap.
Alter Laces, all widths.
Bridal Veils and Wreaths.
Kid Gloves, 75c. and $1 a pair.
White Costa, Cloaks, and DreMft.
Also, elegant ITrimmiags, .Velvets, Flowers, Ribbons
Buttons, etc.
Particular attention given to
DRESS AND CLOAK MAKING,
Satisfactory system of
DRESS CUTTING TAUGHT.
Sets of choice patterns for Merchants iand Dressmakers
now ready, at reduced prices.
Roman Ties and Sashes.
Paris Jewelry, newest styles of Jet, Gold, and Sholl, the
rarest and most elegant evor offered.
Hair Bands, Combs, Nets,
Zephyr. Slippers, Cushions, and Brackets.
Curwtsand Hoop Skirts. 3fls'nth
BLANK BOOKS. "
BLANK BOOKS.
The Largest Stock and Greatest Variety
Of
FULL AUD II ALT'-BOUND
BLANK BOOKS,
MEMORANDUM, PASS,
COPY-BOOKS, ETC. ETC.
To be found In this city, la at the
OLD ESTABLISHED
Blank Book Manufactory
or
JAS. B. SMITH & CO.,
No. 27 South SEVENTH St..
9 S3 thsta3m PHILADELPHIA,
OFFICE AND SALESROOM, FIRST FLOOR ; WARS-
KUOJ1S, VtT STAXKS.
WANTS.
y ANTED AGENTS, TEACHERS,
Students, Clergymen, Farmers' sons and daughters, and
all to sell
BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS AUD
BEHIND THE SCENES.
BY OLIVE LOGAN,
27ie Great Iiefoiiner of Vie Stage,
who, having abandoned stase life, now ehlbt?An.Tr,,1,'!
color, the whole ulinw mrtJ M'.H" u,? . N
THE bCENKSs. Being Truthful, Moral, and High toned,
aa well as Hensational, Rich, and Racy, it outsells all
in lie 1 books, lieautilully illustrated with 4U spirited en
gravings, 24 full-iage outs, 650 pages, on rose-tinted paper.
OreateHt inducements yet ottered. Prospectus, Bample
Copy, Hoxes, and btationery Free. For oiroular, explain
ing, address, immediately, PAKMELKU A UO-. Pub.
liehnrn, either at Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio, or
Middletown.Uonn. 10 26 tut lis2m
CARRIAGES.
GARDNER & FLEMING,
CAHRIAOrj BUILDERS,
No. 214 South FIFTH Streo
BELOW WALNUT.
A Large Assortment of New and Second-hand
CARRIAGES,
IKCLUSDiO
Rocfcaways, Phaetons, Jenny Linda, Bngglei
Depot Wagons, Etc Etc, 8 S3 tntn
For Sale at Reduced Prices.
FOR SALE.
T AILROAD FORECLOSURE SALE. THE
undersigned grantee in trust, and as Special Master
Commit sioner of the Circuit Court of the United States
in and for the Southern District of Ohio, in the case of
Charles Morau, Trustee, against the Cincinnati and Zanas.
ville Bailroad Company, pending in aaid Court in Chancery,
by authority of the decree rendered in said cause at the
October term thereof, A. D. 1869, will, on th. first day of
December, 18tiS, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and
4 o'clock P. M. of aaid day, at the door of th. Court House
of said Court, In the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, offer and
expose to sale by pnblic vendue, to th. highest bidder for
cash, payable on confirmation of aaid sale by said Court,
but not for less than th. minimum sum fixed by aaid
Couit. namelyone million three thousand nine hundred
and sixty-eight dollars 1,003,W8). THE RAILROAD,
OTHRIt PROPERTY AND FRANCHISES, IN
CLUDING THK FRANCHISE TO BE AND ACT AS A
CORPORATION OF THK CINCINNATI AND ZANH8
VILLE RAILROAD COMPANY IN THE STATE OF
OHIO. If no sale shall be affected at the time and plac.
above designated, th. biddings will be adjourned from day
to day, or time to time, by proclamation, and pursuant
thereto, will be continued to complete the sale. Posses
sion of the premises to be delivered to the purchaser an
confirmation aud payment of th. purchase money com
pliauce in other respects with tb. terms ef the order of
sal. by the purchaser being ulso required.
OHAHLK8 MORAN, Trustee,
And Special Muster Commissioner.
Address, New York City.
Eckteb A Dauohertt, Solicitors for Complainants.
Ad.lrets, Lancaster, Ohio. lu 27 thtutlii 1
LOST CERTIFICATES. NOTICE 13 HERE
by given that application has been made to the City
Treasurer for the issue of duplicates ot the following de
scribed certificate, ot the Six perOent. Loau of theUity
of Philadelphia (free of taies):--No.
4) So, liw, dated October 6, l'A.
4M), fj00, " " 6,
4W)0, $4uJ, " " 25.1W4.
fc!71, $:oo0, " November UU. 1SH.
(46UO, ia name of JOHN H. B. LATROBF, la
trust. AUSTIN A OHKHCK,
u tbsStit No. m WALN UT Street.
MATS AND OAP8.
HWARBURTON'S IMPKOVEB VENTI
lated and easy-fitting Dress Hats (patented), in all
the improved fashions ot th. season. OHKhKUT Street,
next door to th. Pot Offlo tl l! n
WIRE WORK.
GALVANIZED and Painted WIRE GUARDS,
tore fronts and windows, for factory and wareuou
windows, for churches and cellar windows.
IRON and WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, offlcei
cemetery and garden fences.
Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Bnllders
and Carpenters. AU orders filled with proniptues,
and work guaranteed.
HOBERT WOOD A CO.,
TtitatnSm No. 1IS6 VIDUE Aveaae puna.
AOOTION SALES.
M
THOMAS RONS. NOfl. 139 AfJTl im '
. 8. IfOURTH STEKKT. ...
BrFOIAL BALK OF FINK PLATKt WARK, HtRf.
HOMK TKA 8KT8, FINS 1VOKY TABIDS OUT'
LERY.KTO. 7 .
Oa Wednesday Afternoon,
Bia.oinri,Bnu r.TemoK, B i? DOiiwx, aa XOaHSSMj ,
rolled ion of Finn Plated n are, innlndiag handsom. t
sets, ice water piiohera, cantors, hotter aishasv fork, last '
spunos, fine ivory table ontlnry, eto.
RIOH IMPORTED FANCY OOOD8.
Also, in the evening, an Invoie. of tfoh lnir)ortesT ,
fancy goods, satchels, cabas, companions, pert-meei.
naies, etc. 11 UK
NOTIOE. Thnrsdayneit, November K being Thanks. '
giving Day, oar roirular sale of furniture, ate., will tax. -plnee
on Friday, November HHh.
Extensive Sale at the Auction Rooms, Nos. 139 aa U
South Fourth street.
SITPFRrOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. FT AW.
MIRRORS. BUROI.AR PROOF SAFE. Or 'VwA
FURNITl RK, HAIR MATTRKS8FS, FRATHRR '
RF DH. 8T( V K8, H A N DSOM K VELVET, BRUSSELS.
AND OlUEU CARPETS, F TO. . v
On Friday Morning,
November l!th, at 9 o'clock, at the auction moms, bs
catalogue, a large assortment of superior Househelc
Furniture, comprising S handnome walnnt parlor imit,
covered with plush ; walnut parlor furniture, covered witte
reps and hair cloth, library and diningroom furniture,
walnut chamber suits, superior rosewood 7-octav. piaaw
forte, 3 rosewood grand pianos ; French plate mantt an 4
Im' r mirrors, hnniTsome walnut wardrobes, bookcases, side
loards, extension, centre, and bouiiuct tables, lounge,
sofa bedsteads, arm chairs, atageree, hat staads. Mice '
furniture, oil paintings and. engravings, fine bair seat
troHscs, feat liar beds, bolsters and pillows, china an.
glassware, sewing machines, chandeliers, gaavoonramiajr,
and cooking stoves, cabinet niaker'a benoh, nandaom. vai
v.t, Brussels nnd othor carpets, oil cloth, etc.
TO RANKS AND HANKERS.
Also, S lnrge burglar-proof antes, with patent OombIaa
nation locks, made by Evans A Watson.
PIANOS.
Also, superior rosewood 7 -octave piano-fort., mad. by
Ililneng A Narresrn, N. V.
Also, superior rosewood 'octave piano-forte, made bf
Wiiholm A Schuler.
2 rosewood grand pianos,
ROOKCASES.
A lso, 4 superior oak bookcases, mads by Moors ft Oam.
pioii. 11 It ft
Peremptory Sale at the Fairmoiint Iron Works.
FRAME BCII.niNtiS. FN? IRON, CAST W II RELIC.
KTK.KL, IRON FLOOR PLATES, OFFICE FURfll-
1TRE, I IRE PROOF, ETC.
On Wednesday Morning,
November 24, 1589, at 11 o'olock, at tiie Fairmoant I row
Works. Coates strnet wharf, river Sohuylkill, will be sold
at public anlo. without reserve, SO tons mottled pig iroa,
cast-iron wheels, eto. ; pedestals, assorted sizes; iron floor
plntos, cast steel ; blacksmiths' bollowa; large Frame Mill
Building (to b. aold in seotions); board ana rail fencing,
old lumber, empty barrels, oitice furniture, fire-proof, bf
Herring, etc. 11 17 6t
BUNTING, DURBOROW CO., AUCTION
EERS, Nos. 233 and 234 MARKET Street, cornsr tat
Bank street. Suocessora to John B.Myers A Co.
IMPORTANT SALE OF OARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS.
ETO. F.TO.
On Friday Morning.
Nov. 1?. at 11 o'clock, on four months' credit, about SM
pieces ingrain, Venetian, list, hemp, cottage, and rages,
petiugs, oil cloths, rugs, eto. 11 IS 6t
LARGE SALE OF DAMAGED GOODS FOR CASS.
On Friiijtv Morninir.
Novpmber l!, embracing the stock of Messrs. Herzberg.
uMiotjiiian a jo.t anruugeu at me late nre, consisting
hosiery, glove, white goods, shirta and drawers, oorseta
trimmings, hoop skirts, veil bareges, suspenders, cutlery,
8 ALSO, SOUND GOODS,
On four months' credit, including travelling shirt,
clothing, shirt fronts, ties, tailors' trimmings, fanof
ffOfMis. Ht C I 1 1R lit
LARGE SALE OF FRENCH A ND OTHER EUROPKAS
On Monday Morning,
Nov. 32, at 1U o'clock, on four months' credit, 11 16 4t
Also,
A SPECIAL SALE OF SHAWLS, BY ORDER OB
K UTTER, LUCK.EME x"ER A CO.
Particulars hereafter.
SALE OF 8000 CASES BOOTS, SHOES. BROGANS.
ETC, ETO.
On Tuesday Morning,
Nov. 23. at 10 o'clock, on four months' credit. 11 17 4t '
MARTIN BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS,
(Lately Salesmen for M. Thomas A Sons.)
oa sa uxxc-on u a smn, rear smirano. xroni miner, - -
SALE OF A RETAIL 8TOOK OF DRUGS. GLASS
JARS AND BOTTLES, SUOW-OASKS, FANUxT
GOODS, ETO.
On Saturday Morning,
Nov. 20, at 10 o'clock, at the Auction Rooma, the entire
stock of a retail drug atore, fine glasebottlea and jars.
,1. i. i . ,.ia nh- v III IQril
SALE OF STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE.
On Monday,
Nov. 29, at ia o'clock, noon, at the Philadelphia Eg.
change. Third and Walnut streets, will b. sold, withoat
reserve
STOCKS.
Estate of James J. Martin, deceased.
82 shares Steamship Dock Compauy.
20 shares do. do. do.
SH shares do. do. do.
1U shares do. do. do.
1-10 interest in the Big Hickory Association of Warresi
county.
150 shares Wood Preserving Oo. of Pennsylvania.
GO shares Camden and Am hoy Railroad.
1 share Meroantile i.ibrary.
REAL ESTATE.
THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, No. 704 S.
Fifteenth street.
THKKK STORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 703 Wysv
mini street.
BUILDING LOT, S. Sixth street, above South.
THREESTORY DWELLING, if. Thirteenth street,
above Girard avenue. CH13 7t
Execntor's Peremptory Sale Estate of tb. late Joaa
Bartram, deceased.
VERY VALUABLE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION.
Rare American and Foreign Coins and Medals, Eto.
On Monday and Tuesday Afternoons,
Nov. 29 and 30, commencing each day at 3Si o'clock, th.
entire large and very valuable Numismatic Collection, ntr.
American and foreign speoimens, eto.
Part iculara hereafter.
Catalogues one week previous to sale. 11 13 7t
c.
D. McCLEES & CO., AUCTIONEERS,
No. Coti MARKET Stroet.
SALE OF 1600 OASES BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS.
ETO. ETO.
On Friday Morning,
Nov. 19, at 10 o'clock, including a large line of city-mad.
goods, to which we invito the attention of th.
trade. 11 16 31
THOMAS BIRCH A SON, AUCTIONEERS
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. UU
OHEbNUT Street, rear entrance No. 1107 Sanson straws.
Sale at No, 1110 Ohnsnut street.
ELEGANT CABINET FURNITURE; OHIOKERINO.
Hallet A Davis, Meyer, and ( iaher Piano Fortes; Vel
vet, Brussels, and Ingrain Carpets; Mantel and Pier
Glasses: Mattresses and Beds; Velocipedes; China ;
Glassware; Paintings and Engravings; Fire-proof;
Omce Desks aud Tables; Cottage Suits; Tin Toilet Seta;
Stoves; Kitchen Utensils, eto. ,
On Friday Morning,
Nov. 19, at P o'clock, at the auotion rooms, by cata
logue, will be aold. a large stock of elegant eabinet furni
ture, both new and second-hand, comprising 12 suits of
parlor furniture, covered with brocatelle. plush, reps and
an uiuiii, iiuiai, Buuv. vuT.im mm i.iu .uu Bvriifou
reps; about !i0 walnut and cottage suits of chamber furni
ture, with wardrobes to match; .large and small book
cases and sideboards; chairs, tablos, and lounges of every
beds und bedding; china and glassware; velvet, Brussels,
and ingrain carpets; chandeliers: gas-consuming and cook
stoves; cabinet-makers' bench : cooking utensils, etc.
ROSEWOOD PIANOFORTES. Also, 8 rosewood
Piano fortes, by Ohickering, Hallet & Davis, Meyer, Fisher
and others. It
L1PTINCOTT, SON & CO., AUCTIONEERS,
No. iW MARKET Street.
B
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8COTT8 ART GALLERY. No. 10'iA OHKSBUsi
mreei. r-aiiaaeipoiaw
PATENTS.
pj ILLIAM 3. IRWIN,
GENERAL PATEXT AGENT
Ko. 400 LIBRARY STREET,
OUTOALT'S PATENT KLASTIO JOINT IROB
ROOF.
AMERICAN CORRUGATED IRON OO.'S MANO
FAOTURE8. FIRE PROOF BUILDINGS, ETO.
TAYLOR A OOALE'8 PATENT AUTOMATIO
LOCK UP SAFETY VALVE.
BRADFORD'S LOW WATER INDICATOR, ETO.
ETC. 10 4 tl I
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
WAimNcrrnN, D C, Nov. 12. im.
On the petition of HENUY BESSEMER, London.
Enuland, praying tor the extension of a patent granted to
biui on the llth duy ot November. IsW, for fourteen yearn
from the 12th d.-iy of February, leiitf, tor an imnroveiueut in
MaNLFAUTUKK OF IKON AM) STEEL, it is or
dered that the testimony in thuca.0 be closed ou the llth
d.vof January next, that the lime for hung arguments,
and th. Examiner's report be limited t o the Hint day of
January next, and that said petition be heard oo the tn
day of January nxt.
Any person may oppose jj g usiIKR,
11 17 w: t
Cmiunih-ioner of PateuU.
rTATF.
RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE
O Right of a valuable Invention just tiitented, and for
the SLICING, OL'-ITimn, anu ji ...u ui unuu oaw,
Caliban, etc.. are hereby fflerod for sale. It is au article
m .rmit'value to piopriotora of hotels and restaurant
sod it should be iiuroiiuced iuto every family. bTATet
R IGHTS iersle tlodolcan be wen at TELEGRAPH
oi l H E COOPER'a POlJiT, N. ,1. , ,
f.Ul MVNDY A HOFFMAN.
DH. M. KUNE CAN CUUE, CUTANEOUS'
Eruptions, Aluiks ou tun Skri, I'lceis in the throat,
mi'UtU and ", r" loj lull soies of ev'i y couoivubli.
c'uirartei'. Oil"'., No. li'J South KLiiYltMll, hjtweesi
t)hiu:t and ti,ke. air ei II
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