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Tbia tb clever production of nn anony
mous English mugaine writer, who has
neiced the oocasion of the Hyron-Stowe Boan
dal to exercise his power of satire, to display
his knowledge of fchakenpeare, and to show
" hill wit, by torturing the words of ihe great
r. poet Into nelf-aoousationa of secret crime. It
-.- baf alway been supposed that the 'domestio
nt "Wiltiam Shftkeirooare ' and Anne
Hathaway were of the ploasantesit iert; and
whether or not the reader of tnis otvcnure re-
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main- of ' that ; opinion, iney wi ;cenaiuij
smile at the plausibility of the author's theory
to the contrary, i- It ifl amusing aa ft literary
C". curiosity, and the critical reader will find in
. it enough merit to condone for the erroneous
T. imputation as to the motives of the author of
tho'Trae Story of Lord and Lady Byron."
' Although it cannot be denied that! the im
proved taste and higher .moral sense of the
' ? ' more educated classes, both in .England and
America, have completely driven the plays of
' ' William Bhakenpeare from the stage, yet this
advance is unfortunately more than counter-
balanced by the enormous increase of cheap
litiona of his works, daily taming from a
.corrupt and venal press; thus bringing the
nnreilectiBg populace and guileless youth
of both countries again nnder the power of
that brilliant and seductive genius, from
vfhich it was hoped they bad escaped. ' . ;
In order still further to ensnare and allure,
the thoughtless, these cheap editions are too
often garnished with biographical notices of
the author's life, described in garish and at
tractive language; and the editors (of these
dangerous works, not content with ' exulting
to the skies a genius only too likely to en
chant and enthral the unwary, endeavor to
blind the judgment of the unthinking reader
bytmblushingly repeating as truth the ful
some ' adulation" lavished upon Mr. Shake
speare by the boon companions of the tavern
wherein he was accustomed to seek (oblivion
of the dark thoughts by which his jsoul was
haunted, in the wildest excesses of imadden
ing intoxication, ; v i . " J .
Thus it is tipon the authority of his fellow
rioters that we' are . repeatedly told that he
was a -,
"dcntie spirit, from whose pen 1
Large streams of honey and sweet nectar flow.''
i -' -"The man whom Nature's self had made
Te moeK herself, ana thud id inmate i , . ,
With kingly counter, uudor nilmlc shad.
Our pleasant Willy.
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Truth to imitate we shall presently' see
wit(h fell intent. Again, it has been sauL
"A gentler Bnepherd nowhere may be found."
5 Such is the magio of genius, even when the
" life of its posseasor ia known to have been
one of lewd and unhallowed riot, that it is a
' fact that the poet's personality, fatel andhap-
piness have had an 'interest for the whole
civilized world, which we will venture to say was
tinparallelled. . It is within, the writer's recol
lection how, in the obscure mountain town
where she spent her early days, the life of
William Shakespeare had penetrated, and the
belief in the gentleness of "fancy's child" was
s universal. . t 1 ? J '
All this while it does not appear to occur to
the thousands of unreflecting readers that
they are listening merely to the story of his
fellow-mummers, and that the one witness
whose evidence would be best worth having
lias never spoken at all. Nay, morej this wit
ness, this unhappy but devoted wife, who was
h being possessed of an almost supernatural
power of moral divination, and a grasp of th
very highest and most comprehensive things,
that made her lightest opinions singularly
: impressive, has been assumed to have been
unworthy of her- accomplished husband; and
the artless Mr. Moore, in Ms life of the
lately-unmasked demon,; Lord Byton, thus
alludes to this angelic (- woman: By
whatever austerity of temper 1 or habits the
poets Dante and Milton may have drawn npon
themselves such a fate, it might be expeoted
that the 'gentle Shakespeare' (would have
stood exempt from the common calamity of
his 1 brethren. But amongst the very few
facts of his life that have been transmitted to
ns,there is none more clearly proved than the
unhappiness of his marriage.". . :
! It was of this one witness, whose faithful
lips were sealed by affection, and of her terri
ble existence while her husband was rioting
.in London, shut up in the lonely country
home made hideous to her by her knowledge
of the dark and guilty secret hidden within
its walls, that the poet was evidently thinking
when he wrote the awful lines:
"But that I am forbid ' 11
To tell the er4ts of my prison house, J,,'
I conld a tale unfold, wUoie MgUtent word . ,
Would harrow up my soul;" . " .
but she remained silent, even to her own pa
rents, ' whose feelings she magnanimously
spared. ... -j . -
The veil which has hitherto covered this
dork history may now be withdrawn. The
time has come when the truth may be told.
All the aotora in the scene have long disap
peared from the stage of mortal existence,
and passed, let us have faith to hepe, into a
world where they would desire to expiate their
faults by instituting did not the lapse of
time unfortunately render all soientiuo inves
tigation useless a coroner's inquest vpon tht
remains which, several centuries . earlier,
would have been found beneath a 1 certain
crab and a certain mulberry tree, in the vici
nity of Stratford-upon-Avon.
From the height at which he might have
been happy as a most successful dramatiut,
and the husband of an almost divine woman,
Mr. Shakespeare fell into the depths of Beoret
criminal homicide, assisted,- in the latter part
of his career, by a blood relation discovery
must nave been utter rum ana expulsion from
civilized society. t
From, henceforth this guilty, (damning
t secret became tne ruling lorce ot His lite
. holding him with a morbid fascination, yet
filling him with remorse and anguish and in
Bane dreadof detection. . His various friends,
seeing that he was wretched, pressed mar
riage upon him. . ' t
in an hour of reckless desperation, he pro-
osed to Anne Hathaway. The world well
. aows that , Mr. Shakespeare had the gift of
i expression, and will not be surprised that he
wrote a very beautiful letter. It ran thus:
"To the celestial, my soul's idol, the most
beatified Anne Hathaway. In her excellent
white bosom, these:
"Doubt that the stars are fire.-
uoubt that tne sun aota movt r "
Doubt truth to be a liar, j
But never doubt I love.
O dear Anne, I am ill at those numbers;, I
have not art to reckon my groans; but that I
love thee best, O! most best, believe it. Thine
ever, most dear lady, while this machine is to
him. - Wilijam Shakespeare."
The woman who hadalready learned to
love fcira foil t once Into the nre. Ttct
answer was a frank, onUipokon avowal of het
love for him giving fcerself to him heart and
hand. The tresure 'of affection he bad
secured was like a vision of a lost heaven
to a soul in boll. But he could follow his
own maxim, he could ! ;
"Look like the Innocf nt flower, :
Pot t the serpent nntler It.'' !
Before the world, therefore, and to his in
timates, he was the sucoessfnl fiance, con
scious all the while of the deadly eocret that
lay cold at the bottom of his heart. '
Not all at once did the full knowledge of
the dreadful reality into which she had en
tered come upon the young wife. Shs kn0
vaguely, from the wild avowal of the first
hours of their marriage, that there was a
dreadful socret of guilt; that Mr. Shako
spearo's Soul was torn with agonies of re
morse. In one of her moonlight walks
near the crab-tree, which, from Mr.
Shakespeare's being so i frequently seen
near,,-it, tradition, .though naans
picious of the dreadful truth has connected
with his name, there came an hour of revela
tion n hour when, in a manner which left
no kind of room for doubt, she beheld her J
husband interring tne corpse oi one oi inose
unfortunate minor playwrights, whom he had
a morbid passion for destroying, after purloin
ing the plots of their inferior dramas, which
his genius then rendered immortal, and saw
the full depth of the abyss of infamy ahich
her marriage was expected to oover, and un
derstood that she was expected to be the
Tloak and the accomplice of this villany. It
was to their lonely country house in Warwick
shire that the victims were one by one enticed
by him, when he returned there from the wild
orgies of his tavern life in London; and there
can be no doubt that a dark suspioion of the
dreadful truth had flashed across the mind of
the unhappy liobert Qreene, when he wrote
his dying exhortation to his friends, warning
them against the "painted monsters of whom
Shakespeare's troop was composed: "Yes,
trust them not; for there is among them an
upstart crow, ' beautified with our feathers,
that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a
player's hide,", eto; and even Dr. Johnson,
though he oppeara to have been too careless
or too obtuse to penetrate farther into the
mystery, admits that "he lied to London from
the terror of a criminal prosecution.",
The hasty marriage of a youth scaroely
Bineteen with a woman of twenty-six is thus
explained. He required an accomplice, a
cloak; a gentle, uncomplaining wife to dwell
in retirement in the lonely country house this
London roisterer was compelled to maintain
at a distance from the scene of his dramatio
triumphs. -- '
We have said that the young wife now be
held the full depths of the infamy her mar
riage was to cover. It was then that he
bade her in his own forcible and terrible
words: '
"look thou flown Into thlB den
And see a fearful sight of blood and death.
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All on a heap like to a slaughtered lamb 1
in this deteated, dark, blood-drinking pit,
, . . this fell devouring receptacle
As hateful as OocytiiB' mlaty month.
Look for thy reward i '
Among the nettles at the elder tree 1
Which overhangs the mouth of this same pit"
The evidences of an agonized conscience
are so thickly strewn throughout his works,
that we might almost quote at random:
"I. as his hant
That should atralnst his murderer shut the door,
Mot bear the knife myself." t
' -"Oh. niT offense Is rank. It smells to Heaven.
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 1L " i
"Now doth he feel ''
His secret murder sticking on his hands." ; -
. . , i "Better be the dead
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace.". '.'
"And all onr yesterdays,
Have lighted fools to dusty death."
"What If this cursed hand
Were thicker than Itself with brother's blood."
. oh, wretched state, j
Oh, bosom black as death," eta etc. j
Any one who reads the tragedies of -1ftc-
beth, ' Hamlet, 2 "ilu$ Andronicus, eto.j with
uus story in nis mind, will see that it is true
Many women would ' have been utterly
crushed by such' a disclosure: some would
have fled from him immediately, and exposed
and denounced tne crime. Mrs. Knakespeare
did neither. , She would neither leave her
nusband nor betray nun; nor would she for
one moment justify his sin; and hence eame
thirty-two years of convulsive struggle, in
which sometimes for a time the good angel
appeared to gain ground, and then, the evil
one returned with sevenfold vehemence. '
" His eldest daughter, Susanna, for whom his
preference is so plainly shown in his will,
became the partner of his guilt. Mr. Shake
speare argued his case with her, 1 with his
noble wife, and with himself, with . all the
sophistries of his powerful mind: ' " "
"Do what you will, to you It doth belong
; Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime." ' 8
" Tis better to be vile, than vile esteemed."
. "J will atqvaintance ttranylt, and look strange."
;' "No more be grieved at that which thou.hast done
. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud ;
Cloud and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
, And loathsome canker Uvea In sweeteBt bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this, , . . f
:.. Authorizing thy trespass with compare.
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are."
' These devilish sophistries, though unable
to shake his lofty-minded wife, were ruinous
to the unfortunate child of sin, born with a
curse upon her, over whose wayward nature
Airs, bbakespeare watched with a mother s
tenderness; though the task was a difficult
one, from the strange, abnormal propensity
to murder inherited by the object of her
cares, liut tnongu lie could tnus warp this
young soul, his divine wife followed him
through all his sophistical reasonings with
keener reason. She besought and implored
mm in uie name oi nis better nature and by
all the glorious things he was capable of being
and doing; and she had just power enough to
convulse and agonize, but not power enough
to Buuaue. ...... ' ,i
These thirty-two years, during which Mrs.
Shakespeare was. struggling to bring her
husband back to his better self, were a series
of passionate convulsions. Towards the last
she and her husband saw less and less of
each other, and he came more decidedly
under evu lnnuences, anu seemed to acquire
a sort oi nnirea to ner.
"If ere I loved her, all that love Is gone;
My heart to her but as In guest-wise sojourned." j
He had tried his strength with her fullv: he
had attempted to confuse her sense of right
and wrong, and bring her into the ranks of
tnose convenient women who regard mar.
riage as a sort of friendly alliance to cover
murder on both sides." When her husband
described. to her the Continental cities where
midnight assassinations were habitual things.
and the dark marrhtaes in which complaisant
couples mutually agreed to form the cloak for
each other's murders, and gave her to under
stand that in this way alone could she have a
peaoeful and friendly life with him, the
simply Bald, "Master Shakespeare, I am too
truly tby mend to do tnis.
Mr. Shakespeare's treatment of his wife
during the sensitive periods that preceded
the births of her three children was always
marked by paroxysms or unmanly brutality,
for which the only postiible chnrity on her
Edit was the BU(ipoHition of insanity. He
imself alludes to it, with his usual snpWu
try, where he speaks of "his eye in a fine
frenzy rolling." Howe aheds a significant
light on these periods.' by telling nn that
about tnotte time tShnkespeare was drunk
day after day w ith lien Jonson, Marlowe, etc.
A day or two after tho birth ; of her
first child, Susanna, Mr. Hhakenpeare
came suddenly into Mm. Shakespeare's
room, and told her that her mother, good
Mistress Hathaway, was dead. A day or two
after the birth of the second child, Hamnet,
he came with Mill greater suddenness into her
room, and told her that her father, the vene
rable Master Hathaway, was dead; and a day
or two after the. birth of the third child, Ju
dith, he came with greater suddenness than
ever into the chamber, and harrowed her feel-
mgH by announcing the death of worthy Mas
ter John a Combe. ,
Never has more divine strength of love ex
isted in a woman. Her conduct in these try
ing circumstances displays the breadth of
Mrs. Shakespeare s mind, and, above all, her
cleat divining, moral discrimination; never
mistaking wrong for right in the slightest
degree; fully alive to the criminality of Mr.
Shakespeare and his guilty daughter's murl
derous proceedings; yet with a mercifulness
tbat made allowance for every weakness and
pitied every sin. ' On one occasion, after their
removal to Kew Place, sue came npon him.
Bitting with the partner of his guilt,, beneath
tne fatal mulberry tree. Bne went' up to
them, and he, looking down upon the grave
among the nettles, with a sarcastic smile, said:
wnen will tnose tnree down tnere meet us
again " , j ; ;
bhe answered, "JSot in Heaven, I fear." 1
During all this trial, atrange to say. her be
lief that the good in Mr. Shakespeare would
finally conquer, remained unshaken. " She
forgave him even the cruelty with which he
strove to moke her ridiculous in the eyes of
the world, - by his constant allusions to her
being older than himself, and his false and
unmanly attacks npon her disposition:
"Too old, by Heaven ! still let the woman take -An
elder than herself." . ; : . , ;
"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together."
"Age, I do abhor thee t ;
Age, 1 do defy thee." ' r
"O spite I too old to be engaged to young!" ' "
"Curster than she i why, 'tis Impossible!"
"As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd r
As Socrates' Xantippe, or a worse.", '
All these and more ribald and unmanly in
sults and obscenity fell at her pitying feet
unheeded.
It has been thought by some friends who
have read the proof-sheets of the foregoing
pages, mat uie aumor suouia give more spe
citically her authority for these statements.
The great-great-grandmother of the present
writer was one of those pilgrim mothers, de
voted companion oi certain less widely known
but surely not less deserving pilgrim fathers.
who were despatched at the expense of an
effete mother country to assist in colonizing
me uTiiiBu possessions oi tne American con
tinent. The writer's venerable ancestor and
namesake, Mistress H B. Cherstow, had
occasion, before quitting her native land, to
visit Warwickshire, and the circumstances
which led her there at that time originated a
friendship and correspondence with Mistress
bhokespeare, wnich was always regarded as
one oi tne greatest acquisitions of that visit.
bhe tnere received a letter from Mrs. Shake
speare, indicating that she wished to have
Borne private, confidential eommunication
npon important' subjects, and inviting her for
that purpose to spend a day with her at her
country-seat near btratford. ' " i
Mrs. II B. Cherstow went, and spent a
day with 'Mrs.' Shakespeare -alone, j and the
object of the invitation was explained to her.
Mrs. Shakespeare was in such a state of health
that her physician, worthy Dr. Hall (the hus
band of the - abnormal offspring "born in
.bitterness and nurtured in convulsion"), had
warned her that she had very little; time to
live. . She was engaged in. those duties and
retrospections, which every thoughtful person
finJLa necessary when coming deliberately and
wnn open eyes to tne boundaries of this
mortal life, . " t . - I
At that period some cheap performances of
Mr. Shakespeare's plays at the Globe Theatre
were in contemplation, intended to bring his
works efore the eyes of the masseg. Under
these circumstances, some of Mrs Shakes-
Eeare'e friends had proposed , the question to
er' whether she had not a reroimbiUtu to
jsocicty for the truth; whether she 'did right
to., aiipw tnose dramas to gain influence over
the popular mind, by giving a silent consent
to wnat she knew to be utter falsehoods, - i .
Mrs. " Shakespeare's whole life had been
passed in the most heroio self-abnegation and
self -sacrifice, and she had now to consider
whether one more aot of self-denial was not
required Of her before leaving this world
namely, to declare the absolute truth, no
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matter at wnai expense to ner feelings. . '
For this reason it was her desire to recount
the whole history to a person wholly out of
the sphere of theatrical or local 'feelings,
which might be supposed to influence those
belonging to the county, or to the profession
in life in which the events really happened;
in order that he might she helped by such a
person's views in making up an opinion as to
her own duty. ; ....
The interview had almost the solemnity of a
aeatn-bed avowal. Airs, bna&espeare stated
the facts which have beea embodied above.
and gave to the writer's revered ancestor-
the first o bear the henceforth immortal
name of H B. Cherstow a brief memo
randum ' of the whole, with the dates affixed
The words and actions of Mrs. Shakespeare
during the last part of her life seemed more
like those of a blessed being, detached from
earth, than those of an ordinary mortal.
What impressed Mrs. H B. Cherstow
more strongly than anything else, was Mrs.
Shakespeare's conviction that - Mr. Shake
speare was -now a redeemed spirit,' and that
he looked back with shame and regret on tho
immense destruction of human life of whioh
he had been guilty; and that, if he ' could
speak or act in the case, he would desire to
prohibit the representation of ' those danger
ous dramas, the seductive poetry of which ha
had made the vehicle ef his morbid love of
slaughter, and unworthy passion for bury
ing his fellow-playwrights beneath, the mul
berry tree.
Mrs. Shakespeare's etrongly philosophical
mind had become ' satisfied that Mr. Shake
speare . was one of those unfortunately con
stituted persons in whom the balance - of .na
ture is bo critically hung that it is always in
danger of dipping towards insanity,; and that
in certain periods of his life he was bo far
nnder the influence of mental disorder as not
to be fully responsible for his actions.
She went over, with a brief and clear analy
sis, the history of his whole lif e as she had
thought it out in the lonely musings of her
widowhood. She went through the , uiisuian-i
sgement of his infancy how he was allowed
to mnle and puke in his nurse's arms; of his
neglected childhood, whining, and creeping
like snail unwillingly to school; yet so 1 preco
cious in deceit, as when there to show a
Shining morning face. Sh sketched boldly
and cleariy the mixture of ferocity and hypo
criny characterizing the 'nterral life of the
youth in his father's slanght? r-honne, where,
as oui auisrey tuil.i us. "he exercised his
father's trade, and whoa he killed a calf Would
do it in high style, and make a speeoh." She
dwelt on the accoant given by Davis of his
being "much given to all nnluckiness in
stealing venison and rabbits, and showed
how habits which, with less susceptible
mr ana coarser Btrengtn or nature, were
tolerable for his companions, were deadly to
him; unhinging his nervous system, which
Bhe considered might have beon Bllll further
unhinged, when Sir Luey, whose venison he
stole, "often had him whipped, and some
times imprisoned," and she recalled to the
listener's mind how the same chron
ioler adds, "but his revenue was treat "
quoting his own terrible description of the
state of mind to whioh he had gradually been
brought by unrestrained indulgence in every
description of criminality and excess:
Art thou not sorry for these heinous deads 1 "
"Aaron. , -
Ay, that I had not done a thousand more,
Even now I curse the day (and yst I think
Few come within the compaxs of my curse)
Wherein I did not some notorious ill :
At kill a man or, tlx atvite hie dath,n
Mrs. II B. Cherstow was so impressed and
excited by the whole scene and the recital,
that she beggd for two or three days to delibe
rate before forming an opinion. She took the
memorandum with her to London, and gave a
day or two to the consideration of the sub
ject.. She wrote to Mrs. Shakespeare that
while this act of consideration for the morals
of the people of England did seem to be
called for, yet if these dreadful disclosures
were published during the lifetime of Mistress
Kn.annnV, Hll 1 1 J
"uo" i vol uurtunuttf ui roittiioiis,
some steps might probably be taken to vindi
cate ner reputation and Mr. Shakespeare a
memory: but that by waiting until they should
all have been called to their account, there
would be no possibility of refutine the charces
contained in the memorandum, whioh would
thus become a document of considerable
marketable value. . . ;
, There is no doubt that the present writer's
venerable ancestor was inflnencedjin making
these remarks by that prudent forethought
for the worldly advancement of her family
which regulated her course' through life, and
has caused her memory to be gratefully re
vered by whole generations of Cherstows: she
probably foresaw that, if published at a fitting
moment, these dreadful disclosures might bo
made instrumental, under Providence, in pro
viding meat for those infant blossoms of the
Cherstow family she was about to conduct to
Amanon , f
- After the death of the first H B.' Cher
stow, her descendants sought eagerly among
her papers for the important memorandum in
question; but failed to discover it, and, in
deed, it had long been supposed to be irrevo
cably lost or destroyed, when the providential
fall (through dry rot) of the house inhabited
by the first generation of Cherstows brought
me missing aocument to lignc, wnen it was
at once appropriated by the present writer, as
an invaluable means of doing justice to the
memory of one whom she considers the most
remarkable woman the ; sixteenth century
has produced. No ". inch . memoir has
appeared on the part of her friends., and
Mr. Shakespeare's editors have the ear of
the public; sowing far and wide those poison-
-4r : . i.r i ,
wub cuuuuui ui 111a genius, wmcu are eagerly
gathered up and read by an undis criminating
community. . . - (
' However, Anne Hathaway Shakespeare has
an American name, and an American exist
ence, and reverence for pure womanhood is,
we think, proved, by these pages, to be an
American characteristic; and, what 'is even
more to the point, there can be little doubt
of the profit likely to aocrue to one specimen
of pure American. womanhood through their
publication by, it is hoped, a not unworthy
descendant ot tne original n is. Cherstow.
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ESLEK c & . BSOTHES, Proyrietori.
WOOD MOULDINGS, -
; -.;. , ' , BRACKETS, ETO.
BALUSTERS AND TURNING WORK. '
A Large Stock always on hand.
P U era
llAJfEL ! PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
X 1 COMMON PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES.
. lndSlUK KBNfJK HOARDS.
"WH1TK PINK FI-OOKING Rp A KD8.
- TFLLOW AND RAP PINK iLOOULNUh, ljand 41g
-Bl UUtE JOIST. ALLBIZC 8. 7 ,
IJKMT.OCK JOIST, ALL BTZKlt
, PLAKTfcRINCJ LATH A hPKDIAI.TT.
Together with a gouernl MaorUnent of Building LnmbM
lor sale law tut smSi. T. W. KMAL'IZ,
11 6m FTFTKEKTH ud STILKttfttreeta.
UMBKR UNDER
t :.: ALWAYS DRY. ,
.O V s
; Walnut, White Pine,' Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem
locfc, Slilngles, etc, always on hand at low rates.
!.-,,; . , WATSON GILLLNQHAM, '
nt No. nt RICHMOND Street, 18th ward.
What ia nicer for a CbrUtniM present than On :
SINGING CANARY and a BEAUTIFUL 0AQE t
Cheaper than toy place in the citf.
, No. 14 North SIXTH Street.
13 18 la ' Odd FeUowe' Hail.
W, A. IIEKKT. '
TOHN TARNUM A CO., COMMISSION MEKJ
CJ chante and Mannfaelarere of Ooneetosa TiokWi et4k
Jie.kCUiCbNUTbtjrwtt,PhUa4lilU . HmlaA
SHIPPINO.
-s LOKILLARD'S STEAMSHIP
V U1R FOR '
NBW;;,YO.I.
SAILING ON TUFRDAY8, " THURSDAYS, AND
SATURDAYS, AT NOON. .
On and after December li, the ralee will be 95 eesta oar
100 lb., 10 eente per foot, or S eenta per gallon, abip'a
ptlon,
Advance chariree eaahed at offloe on pier.
Freight received at all Untea on sorered wharf.
JOHN F. OltT.,
Tier If) NORTH WHARVES.
1. B. Vitra rate on email package iron, metal, etc at.
8PK.OIAL HOTIOB.-On and after the I5th of March
the rate b thla line will be rednoed to 10 cents per lofl
ids., e eesta per it. or 1 cent per gal)., ahip'a option- S I
tta . k . ffhn' T nrvnnnnf ivtt
; SV J 1 v Jit lb A V ' U All 17
T -'- - 4JJ9lJ,rr:N8TOWN.-Innien Una of Mail
. ' L Jstnlr appointed to tail a iol-
jr oi liroolljn. HattiTday, Jan. S3, 9 A. M.
City of Bnetnn, Tin HaDfai, Tumrinr, Jan. 3S, U Noon. ' '
C'H.fof Antwerp, Raturdar, Jn. ae, at 1 P. M.,
tltr of London, Cat.orriar. Fen. ft, at, 8 A. M. ...
Ktna, ria ilr Jifar. Tueedar. Feb. R, et 11 A. M. '
And each anccAenln K.tiirHn..ml i . ifnuj,.
from Pier 4b, North Ihver. .
. KATKH UF FA No A UK.
,. yv nre matv htkajiui aaiuNn itvp.nT hatttrtuy. '
Payable ia Gold. Payable In tlurrenor.
FIR8T OABIM......$1(10 STKhKAMK
To I,ondon li I To Iondon 40
To Pari US To Pane 7
itMUMtU b 1J1S ItJUUlAX BTEAMIR, VIA HALIFAX,
rimer CAHIN. RTKKnAUft.
Payable in Gold. ' Parable in Ciuxrenoy.
I.iTernool... I I.lerjool $1
Halilai....... 30 Halifax 15
8t. Jobn'a,N. F., , 8t. John'a, N. F.,
br Branch Steamer. . . . br Branch BUamer... .( w
Faeaenaore alao forwaadfld to Uarre, Hamburg, Bremen,
to., at. redncod rate. .
Tjckete can be iHiusht here at moderate rate br pron
Wixninc to send for their fnor.de.
ONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE
THE GF.NKRAT. TKAMUJTUWpm
pL -i, COMPANY'S MAM, HTKAMSHIP8
S'tSjLli;l1 KEW AND HAVRE, OALHNU AT
l)KF.Dr. .
The splendid new reaeel on this favorite rmit for the
Continent will sail from Pier No. 60, North river. ver
Saturday.
. p"IOR OF PASSAGE
in gold (Incmdlita wmn),
uuirflT rtn ttirnn
irstUabln $140 Second Cabin... i..,.,.. $86
TO PARIS, V '
(Including railway tickets, furnlahed on board.) .
First Cabin $146 I Second Cabin... i.....t38
These steamers do not carry steerage passongers.
Medical attendance free of charge. "
American travellers going to or returning from tho eon
tinentof Europe, by taking the steamers of this line avoid
Unnecessary risk from transit by English railway and
crossing the channel, besides saving time, trouble, and ex
pense. GKOBGR MA0KF.N7.IR, Agnnt,
J ' , , No. 68 BROADWAY. New York.
For passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams Krpreaa
Company, to " H. U LEAF.
im 1 ' ' No. 830 CHESNUT Btreel,
w ' PHIL ADELP1TT A . mrTTM-nvn
i4ri"5V..rS5'''"T4I link to
KVKHY HATIIHI11V
At noon,
Street.
from
FIKbT WHARF above! MARKET
THROUGH RATES ta all nnlnta l V.h a .v.
Carolina via Seaboard Air Line Hailmad, connecting at
y "-V,' . , " 'ennessoe, and the
V,et. ,,yir1i,,,t Di l eunesaee Air Line and Uiehmond
aad Danvill Knilroad. ,
Fre'rht H AN I1,K BUT NOF. and taken at LOWER
RATKS THAN ANY OTHKB lnk. , tt
The regularity, aafety.and cheannnaa nf thla innU ,m..
mend it to tb public as the moat dottirabl medium to
carrying every deeuription of freight. ,
No charge for commission, dray age, or any expense ot
Hteamsbips insured at the lowest rate. .
Freight received flaily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE OO ,
No, 12 8. WHARVES and Fieri N. WHARVES.
W. P. FORTKR. Agent at Richmond and Cvty Point.
T. P. OROWKLL A CO.. Agent at Norfolk i
AND
Tun Screw Btkahkiu of trk Nh,tr
Ua.i.man 1 jaVI) run regularly between New York, Bre-
men, ana-.rjoniaamnion, carrying ine United State, Eng.
hrh.and Continental mail. . ' ' i
FHOM BRKMKN ..ETERY SATURDAY
FROM bOUTHAMPTON V.. .EVERY TUESDAY
FROM NEW YORK , EVERY SATURDAY
Frictqf Jtmagifrom Ame Ynrklo Bremen, London, Havre,
w 1 and Boutkatrtptrns - f
First Cabin, $120) Second Cabin, $73; Steerage, $30, Gold,
Vrom Bremen to iVu l'oHo .
First Cabin, 8130 ; Bocond Cabib, 873 ; Steerage, $40, Gold.'
These vessels take Freight to London and Hull, for
which through bille of lading are signed. t '
An experienced surgeon is attached to each VosseL . .1
All letters must pass through the Poet CMIice,
No Bille ot Lading but those of the Compiny will be
signed. Bill of Lading will positively not b delivered
before good are cleared at the Custom House. .,,
Hpeciu taien to Havre, Southampton, and Bremen at
the lowest ratoki. For freight or passage apply to
J... ; ,rr ; , - . - OELRICHS A CO.,
1 17t ' ' - ' No. 08 BKOAD Street, N.Y. .
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO
1 Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
C.. via Gbsnioake and Delawara flam, .;h
connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for
Ljnchburg, Bristol, EnoxvUle, NaahvlUe, Dalton, and too
Southwest. ,
ri teamen leave rognisrry every Saturday at noon from
the first wharf above Market sUeet.
t
Hreigbt received daily.
'n : .. , . . - WI
'ILLIAM P. CLYDK A OO." '
No. 14 North and Knut.ti ihwvAa
HVDW TYLER, Agents, at Georgetown; M,
KLUR1DGK A CO., AgenU at Alexandria. . 4lt
l i NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK. VIA
W?T Delaware and RariUn Canal. 8WIFTSURB
jiV TRA NSPORTATION mud PA N r .nut
ATUli AND SWIFTBUBK LINE. .. - ,
The business of these lines will be Teenmed na anil
the Hth of Mnroh. For freights, which will b taken on
accommodating terms, apply to
. , W. M. BAIRD CO., ..
8 8.- No. 132 South Wharves.
FROM CHARLESTON TO
FI-ORIDA, VIA SAVANNAH, TRI.
a WKKKLY LINK. . .
B-I. The followiuar atoamera will 1 !.
. i.i leaton for Florida, via Savannah, three time a week,
after arrival of the New York steamships and t ho North
eustevn Railroad train :
PILOT BOY (Inland Route), every SUNDAY HORN
JNO at 8 o'olook. ,
DICTATOR, every TTJESnAY EVENING at 8 o'clock.
CITY POLNT, every FRIDAY RVENINU at 8 o'olook.
Through tickets to be bad of all Charleston and Savan.
nah btetmahip Line Agencies in New York.
J. D. AIKEN A CO..
: ' i 1 ' , Agent at-f.'harlestoh.
U. O. UU1A.MAK1XN A CO.,
14
. )
Agents at Havannah.
,FOR 8T. THOMAS AND RR4-
ZIL.-UNITE08TATKH AND BRAZIL
r-r.TillJjf MAIL BTKa-MhHIP COMPANY. 7
W..- iZM Heirular Mail Hteamara aAilinv nn Dim
fi4u of ovcry month ,
MKKKIMAOf, Captain Wier. " I .
HOD IH AMKKIUA, Captain R. I Tinklopaugh.
KOK'l U AMKRJCA, CapUin O. U. Blooniu.
These aplnndid steamers sail on schedule time, and call
at fit. Thomas, Para, Pernambuoo, liahia, and Rio da
Janeiro, going and returning,
lor engagements of freight or passage npply to
WM. R. UAKKISON, Agent,
14 No. 8 BQWLINO CRK1CN. New York
FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT.
mtnMwuii. r.tsri.'
Btoiimshilis of this Line will lnava Pier
8rJi'-i7-; No. i, NoiUi Rivor, at 8 o'clock P. M. on
DA'i UHllAYH. J .
ihukuk WAbHinuruii. Oogar. '
. MARIPOSA, Keiuhle. f '.
Freight taken fur St. Louis, Mobil, and Galveston at
through ratea. Cabin passage. t!.
it ui iiaasag (Unit ant cecoud cluns) or freight apply to
H. B. CKO.MWKLa CO., ,
.14 No. bo WK.ST Btreot. '
, 5
U. 8. MAIL TO HAVANA
5"-FN"S ATLANTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP-CO,
A'. JiL ?.f ailin reirulariy KVKRY TllK.sriAY
TM'ii3 H o'clock P. M.. lireciaHiv. f nun Pin. K
4 A ui ill hivur.
AH'ltO CASTLE, Captain R. Adam. fi .
COLUMBIA; Captain K. Van Sice,
KAOLK, Captaiu M. R. Orebue.
For freight or piunage apply to '
K . Wlir KLER, Jn . PreHldnnt.
1 4 No. 6J10WL1NU UKK1.N, New York.
c
O K N E X C II A 'N G B
BAOMAWUKAOTORT, I ... .
N. E. oorear of UARKKT and WATER Street.
Philadelphia.
DEALER IN BAOH AND BAGGING '
Of every description, for
Grain, Flour, bait, boper-I'luwohaU of Llm, Boa
Dust, Kto. . . . .
large and small GUNNY IIAGH constantly on hand.
tot Also. WOOL BAOH. -
I. I. rot. , afniHOiv,
1 AH X PI ate noJIAHOM
U smi'i iya a nn vommihmon mbhohaxt
No. COKNTIH8 bUP, New York.
rio, 18 PUI 1 11 rv nmn, k i. , uiiaueiyojaa
No. 48 W. PKA1T (itraet, Baltimore,
SAMUEL SMITH. & CO., No. 4 8. B EVENT
fitnwt, b'IKAM ANU GAS HTTKH8 Al
PLU M 11 liitfl. Tub, JTltUiigs an4 lira Work onaUa
oa head. ...
A li work promptly attended to.
OaivajiiJ Xiib lot (uualexy I oHlfujTiJahad. H
m
for further nartionlare aDnlr at the rinrniun,', nfl.u
JOHN O. DALtt, Agent. No. 16 BROADWAY .N. Y.
or.t? O'DONNKLLAKAULK.Aeint; "
4 5 'Wo. m OHK8N UT Street. Philadelphia.
udpk : NORTH GERMAN LLOYD
'SbX STEAM BETWEEN NEW YORK A
vkzTZtillsjl? BRKMKN. VIA SOUTHAMP'I'OM
We are prarad to ship every dasoripOon of Fretghtt
Philadelphia, New York, Wihaiington, and intermedia)
point with promptnee anddeauatoo. (Janal Beataaa
6usaa-twa ionuaiuid a4 Ui boriuat aotiea.
PROPOSALS.
R(rOHAI FOR ETA M TED ENVELOIT'J
Post OFrrcs DRPAw-rvgrn
v, : .i?n,T.ot I'
ri'aieii i ninucsm win tc n-iyi nnul R I
on Uf 1at (lay Of MARCH. 1S70. for furnlahi.,
thft "Htnmpprf Kuvekipps" and "Nswiptiper VI
pom-' which t.hlg Dopttrtirrent may require d3
a period oi lour years, commeucuig 1st of
18V0, VhS. ,
BTAM1 JEU li,-S.I.Cl'KM.
No. 1. Kote size, i-i br 4 ruches, of
paper. . '
no. s.ordlnrv letter SI7,e, S 1-10 by
menpf, or white, huir. . canArr. or r.r4
coioreu jiaper, or In such proportion of eithi
mv be r'fiuirert.
No. 8. Full letter aire fnnimmmoft on flan
Tlrcnlam): 8v by 6,v ln:h, of the amo cohu
xo. , aim unuer a like condition aa to the pr
tlon of men.
No. 4. Fnll letter 1r,i. tu hT rv inobwi nf J
w. .. X-.. A .. ., .. 1 ' . ... ' .. . '
i . , uuuci a uko coudition as U
prtiporHOH oi turn. , ,
No. 6. Extra letter line (angrimmett an Ann
clrcnlan)), 8f by 6i Inches, of same colors as
!, nnd under a like condition aa to the proporti
eneh.
No. 6. Extra letter li. 8.V by 6 V Inches, of A
colors h no. , ana nr.aer a UKO condition
it.
proportion of eAch. ... ,
No. T. OOlelal ilze, 8', by 8;f tncfird, of I
color a No. 8, n; under a lite condition as t
proportion or each. N i
No. 8. Extra official M7.n. 41- br inohe'
game colors an No. a, and uuilor a like oundltlo
to tne proportion or cnm. .
NKWSPAPRK WRAPPERS. -
M by 9M Inches, of butt or mnnilla pnper.
Aa tne aoovo eavmopen and wrapper, to be
bonKCd with postage RUintiH of kucIi tlmioinluiit
styles, and colors, and to War such printing on
im c, nini hi im niiuio in lire mom tiioroun mftl
of paper of approved quality, manufactured simm
lortlie purpose, with such water marks or othe
vices to prevent Imitation aa the Postmaster-Ucii
niBT direct.
The envelopes to be thoronehly and perfl
uinnicii, niv guniuung on me nap or eiicn (ex
i or circular) to no put on not less man nan an
In width the entire length. Tho wrannrtu t
gummed not les than three-fourths of an lud
wltith aoroos the end.
All envelopes and wrappers rnnst be bsndef
pareeia oi vweniy-nve, ann packed - in sli
paHteboard or straw boxes, each to contain not
man two minnred and titty or the letter or i
letter str.e, and one hundred each of the
ciai or extra onicini size, separately. The c
paiter wrappers to be packed in boxes -to coi
not less than two hundred anal llftv each.
boxes are to be wrapped and Bcoled, or sew
mwieiien in strong: nianuia paper, so as to
bear transportation by mail for delivei
postmasterar wnen two tnotisand or more e
lopes are required to till the order of a posting
hio sirnw . or pttBieuouru noxes coiiuiining
ino DiiiH De pacKeu in strong woouen c
well " Btrsnned with h non-Iron, and . ojt,Iru
but when less than two thousand, are requi
prupi r laocis oi u miction, to do lurnuuieti o.
agent of tho Department, must be placed npon i
packscre by the contractor. Wooden ease.
tainlng envelopes or wrappers to be transpr
by water routes, must be provided with eultl
water-proohng. The whole to be done u
the inspection, and .direction of an agent or
Department, - -
The envelopes and wraoners mcst ba' f urnls
and delivered with all reasonable despatch, comjl
in an respects, reauy lor use, anu in sucn quaul
as may be required to fill the daily orders of i
innHicr ; tne deliveries to ne made eitner at tne
Oiilce Department, Washington, D. C, or at.
ottlce of an agent duly authorised to lnHnect an.
Oulv. t ll 11 ...111... . 1 . lu.A .1 1 ntlun.v ... I . n
option of the Pontmastr-Oeneral, and thecoK'
delivering as wen as an expense oi packiug,
dressing, labeling, and water-proofing, to be pal'
tho euutractor.
Hldders are notified that the Department will
quire, as a condition of the contract .that the
velopesand wrappers shall be manufactured
stored in such manner as to ensnre security ara
loss Dy lire or tneit. . 'i lie nianniactory must at
times be subject to the Inspection of an agent of
Department, who will require the stipulations of
contract to be faithfully observed.
The dies for embossing the postage stamps on
envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to
sausiaciion or tne x'ostmaster-oenerai. in the
style, and they are to be provided, renewed,
kept In order at the expense of the contractor,
department reserves the right of reanhing new
for any stamps, or denominations of stamps not i
usea, ana any cuauses oi uiea or. poiors snail
vnilfln without. ATtr t-liartrn.
Specimens of the stamped envelopes' "and wb
pcrs now in use may De seen at any or tno pnnc
UB, VIUWD. UUV IUCRD BUIUIiUB W UU1 liV IR)l
garded as the style and quality fixed by the dep;
meutas a standard for the now contract; bldi
are therefore invited to submit Bamplesof ot
anu uuicreni qualities ana sryies, including
paper proposed aa well as tho manufactured
velopes, wrappersand boxes, and make their a
u.i.uiuiiutiji.
Tlie contract will be awarded to the bidder wh
proposal, although it be not the lowest, is i
. sidered most advantageous to the ' Departm
. taking Into account the prices, quality ot the a
pies, workiuansinp, anu tne suniciency
ability of the bidder to manufacture and deliver
envelopes auu wrappers in accordance1 with
terms of thla advertisement: and no proposal
be considered unless accompanied by a sulllclJ
and satisfactory guarantee Tho Postmaster-Oi
' ral also reserves the right to reject any and all lv
if In bis Judgment the interests of the Goveraif.
reoulre It i . .. . 1
Before closing a contract the successful blil
may be required, to prepare new tiles, and sub
impressions tnereoi. miis thk of tub pkbkknti
MAY OK MAY NOT BK COKTINUBU. ' v ' 'ft
Bonds, with approved and sufficient sureties
the stiui of S'AiOiUOO, will be required for the fall
performance of the contract, as required by
seventeenth section of the act of Congress, appro!
the roth of August, IM9, and payments under A
contract will ne made quarterly,, after proper
justnieiit oi accounts. . . . n . .,
. The Postmaster-General reserves to' himself
right to annul the contract whenever the same
any part inereor, is onerea lor saie ior me puri'l
of speculation ; and nnder no circumstances ws
t.raiiufAl- nf tliu ftnnlru.t. Iij. allnwfl or Bnn,M,W.
to any party who shall be, lu the opinion of'l
Postmas-cr-Ueneral, less able to fulfill the coif
tlons thereof than the original contractor. '(
right Is also reserved to annul the contract fol
failure to perform lalthfully any of lis stipulate
'l ne numner oi envelopes oi auierent sues, am;
Wrappers lesued topostmasiers during the fiscal
ended June SO, 1809, was as follows, vix. t
. No. 1. Note size 1.114,000. ,
r No. 8. Ordinary lettor . sle; (not hereto.'
U8( d).
No 8. Full letter size, (ungnmined, for circulij
,100,UUU. ' ... I
i No. . yull letter Bfae 0T,86T,600. : - . ,
. No. 6. Jxua letter size, (uuguiuiued, for clronl
843,0110. .
No. . Kxtra letter size 4.204,bO0 '
No. T. Official stue 404,000. -
No. 8. ixua onlclal Blue 1T0O. . .
Wrappers .6ue.2o0.
Rids should be sectircly enveloped and sea
marked "Proposals for btjniped Kuvclopes
Wrappers," ami addresacd to the Third AssM.
Pcsuua8ter(ifcueral, Post Office Department, W
lcgtou, JJ. C. . ., .
JOHN A. J. CRE8WELL.
llleodtMl v Postmaster General
PROPOSALS FOR PL'ECHAfiB. OF RIFL
CANJSO.W, KTC "i-
" ' ' bukkatj of ordhakcb, v
: ' ' Navy Depautmknt.
Washinoton Citv, January 4, lsja i
- Bralcd Proposals lor the purchase of 80-pouu1
and u-pounuer rarron Kinea, wmi uarriaires, M
piemetts, ani rrojeciiie. now on nana in tne
Yards at l'ortsmouth, N. H. ; Roston, New Yo
Philadelphia, Washington, anu xsonoix, will be
eelved at this Bureau until l'i o'clock noon, Janm
m itTii
in the segregate there are about S90 Cans, 854 f ;
rlhges, and DC.1&7 lVojectll. g. Bchedulea in dew,,
the at tides at each yard will he furnished, on api
'caMon to this Bureau. - '
Bidders will state the number of gnns, carrlaw
Implemeiits, and projectiles they desire to purcli.i
at each yard separately, snecliTlng the calibre
Kim, kind of carriage, whether broadside or plv
and the kind oi projectiles.
The gnus, etc., wfll be delivered at the rcsp
tlve navy yards, and must be removed by the p'
chaser or purchasers within ten days after the ;
ceptanco of his or their bid. But no deliveries v;
shall have deposited with the paymaster of the my
yard the full amount of the purchase money in enj
case. A
Many of the (tuns are new, and all are servl f
able. Bidders will therefore offer accordingly. J
offer for these articles as old lion or wood wiik
considered. I
The Bureau reserves tho rljrht to reluct anv or I
Lids which it may not consider to tho Intereai of ll
uovcriimeill n u;eru
IToposais should bo endorsed on the envolo
"Proposals for Purchase of Killed Cannon, etc,"
.A. LLDLOW CASE.
18ws7t Chief of Bureau.
OILS,
No. 133 &. BKCOND Itnos,
11 It 3m