THE DAILY EVKN1KG TELKOKAFH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY; FEBRUARY 21, 1870. THE MAKC1I MAGAZINES. THE ATLANTIC." From Tnrner fc Co. wo have rcoivel the, A Uantic Mvntldy for March, which present the following lint of articles: "In Behalf of the. Birds;" "Joseph find his Friend," iii; "From Pennsylvania Hills to Minnesota rrairiesj" "The Military Ball at Goulacaska;" "The Minor Theatres of London;" "Balder's Wife;" A Romance of Ileal Life;" "Adventurers and Adventuresses in New York;" "Time Works Wonders;" "The Blue IUver Bank Robbery?" "A Night in a Typhoon;" "Even Rongj" "California Earthquakes;" "Is Mar riage Iloly ?" "Ilopes of a Spanish Republic;" "Captain Ben's Choice;" "Reviews and Lite rary Notices." From the papers on "The Adventurers and Adveturesses of New York" we make these extracts: Adventurers seem persons born out of pa rallel with nature, who misdirect their ener gies and capacities. To avoid wholesome occupation, they endure anxious toil; to be free from common dutios, they acoept the de gradation of perpetual shame and the pain of perpetual doubt. Their whole mental and moral code is strangely deranged. They be lieve that to seem is better than to be; that falsehood is preferable to truth; that cheating is the chief end and crowning glory of man. They soe all fitnesses at a wrong angle; their instincts are inverted; their apprehension is wholly at fault. Nothing is sacred to them; nothing worthy of esteem. To their thinking, all seriousness and responsibility are taken out of life. He is the best who deceives the most, and gains by all moral failure material success. In a great city the temptation to get along without work is besetting and constant. Wealth without worth, prosperity without labor, flash by on every hand; and the weak nature snys to itself, "Why should I toil without reward when others no better than I enjoy without desert?" So the weak nature conceives that to get without earning is most desirable, and bends all his faculties to such accomplishment. The first false idea of every adventurer is to have something for nothing; to share the fruit of labor without labor; to be at the restful summit, omitting the fatigue of climbing. Discarding honesty and the obligation of work, the way downward is easy; for it is paved with the smooth mosaics of sel fishness and self-indulgence. In New York the adventurer and adven turess are part of society. They are so many as to form distinctive classes, recognizable to a trained eye, though not at a glance. The men and women representing the profession for it is strictly such are as different as any persons can be who have the same object and the same needs. They carry out their purpose in dissimilar ways, each managing men and circumstances in a manner peculiar to his or her sex. They cannot be treated to gether, they ore so unlike. Let us, therefore, look at the adventurers first. To New York all who leave Europe for their own good and our ill of course come first; and there they stay, while dupes may be hod and falsehoods can deceive. That city has had avast number of French counts, German barons, Italian marquises, and will have no doubt for many generations. Ame rica has a strange fascination for the nobility of the Continent. They will persist in leav ing their picturesque chateaux and Rhenish castles and Tuscan villas, with all their splen dors, for the rude homes of the great. Repub lic and the uncultivated natives who are bent upon making money and incapable of appre ciating art. They often obtain the entree to bouses of the wealthy, criticize the elaborate dinners, pay court to the delighted daughters, and are feted and coddled in every way, until the adventurers condescend to borrow money which it is considered a high pleasure to lend and soon after suddenly disappear. Polish patricians, tracing their pedigree back to John Sobieski, who have fled from Russian persecution, have been welcomed and petted by generous gentlemen and sym pathetic ladies. They have been contended for by fashionable dames, and to secure them has been the triumph of the season. They have been on the eve of making an alliance with staid merchants' bewitching daughters, when they have found it convenient to take an early train on some road that issues no return tickets. Distinguished Irishmen without number have favored the city with their presence, and made epics about the glory of their an cestors. The difference between them and the representatives of other nations is that they stay with us even after they are found out. They accommodate themselves to circumstances, and have keen perceptions of the situation. As it changes they change. They make a good deal of noise when their pretension is de throned; but they soon resign them nelves to the inevitable, and look cheerfully upon destiny. An inflated Celt, whose talk makes common romances insipid, slips out of the charmed circle he broke into by force of sheer impudence, and devotes himself with equal complacency to borrowing small sums and reciting Tom Moore over punches of fusel-oil. Take him all in all, the Irish ad venturer is the most tolerable of his kind. He can always appreciate a joke, and he is so self-satisfied that it does not seem to make much difference with him whether he is toasted in the place of honor or is a rollick ing devotee to a free lunch. Few of the foreign adventurers gain much more than infamy and a little newspaper gos sip, which is poor compensation for the mag nificent impositions . they practise. Some times they contrive to capture a wealthy wife, and the paternal Croesus, being unable to undo what has once been done, says, "Bless you, my children!" with a sardonic smile, and transfers a certain portion of his income to the fellow be would have horsewhipped if it were not unfashionable so to treat one s son-in-law. The foreign adventurers must deplore these degenerate days or rationalism ana common sense, and Ions for the shifting bock of a century when such fellows as Cagliostro could infatuate cardinals, and bring women like Elisa von der Recke in humble worship at their feet. 1 Of the true American adventurers Mere is a great variety. They range from the lofty, brilliant fellows who in the days of Elizabeth of England would have plotted with Essex and fought with Raleigh, to the mean and vulgar creatures that exchange glaring false hoods for trivial loans, and kiss the dust to escape the penalty of their misdeed. The brightest class are men of strong mind and weak morals, supreme egotists whom the eternal Jeh of the German metaphysicians always dazzles and i deludes. They glitter through the community constantly, and in these weak, piping times of peace, seek com mercial triumphs and flnanoial crowns. Their natural field is Wall Btreet. The magnitude ' of its operations, and the reckless spirit of its operator, attract at nm ana fascinate ai ion. They crave and need this excitement of "corners" and "lockings-np" of bull and bear combinations involving millions. It is to them tho daily intoxication to which they have accustomed their nervous system. With hold it, and they connot live. To wealth they grow indifferent. At first the end, it soon becomes the means. Love of power and sen sation drives them on when mere avarice has long been sated. The energy, the foresight, the resolution, the daring that might have in stituted great reforms and moulded empires are spent in the pursuit of superfluous riches. Many of the present rulers of Wall street have been in very different callings. They have been cattle-drivers, ferrymen, shoe makers, peddlers, and horse-jockeys. They have extraordinary ability of a certain kind, understand human nature, and beliove in the commercial advantage of nnscrupulonsness. The financial magnates are more adventu rous now than they ever were before. Each month seems to render them more reckless and unprincipled, more dishonest actually. Jacob Little used to make country people stare by the magnitude of his operations and the suddenness of his combinations; but he never forfeited his reputation for financial integrity, and never dreamed of doing what is now done in Wall street almost daily with out compunction or criticism. Speculation in the banking quarter means making money by any moans that will not lead to the penitentiary. By success they are preserved from the necessity of offending in the common way, and are able to dictate terms to fortune. Early failure would have changed the entire current of their lives. Yet how few of the financial adventurers have any permanent success I Those who were powers and radiating influences ten or tweve years ago have sunk out of sight and are for gotten now. Hardly a great name on the Stock Exchange to-day had been heard of twenty years boo; and the monetary kings of the present will be uncrowned and throneless before the eighth decade of the century has passed. They rise and fall with the rapidity of revolutionary heroes in Mexico or South America, and, once down, the most sensitive echo does not murmur that they have ever been. They are used as pawns by the groat players, who let them stand or move them about for a while; then exchange them as the game grows interesting, or sweep them ruth lessly from the board. They learn nothing by experience. Each one fancies himself wiser than his predeces sors; trusts his thought and his destiny more, and yet is ruined in exactly the some way. Some subtle law of temperament deters them from following uniform courses for any length of time. They seem to become vio tims of what might be called great moral surprises. They lie down honest in intention, and bent upon duty. They awake in the morning, or out of a midnight dream, in the midst of a spiritual revolution, and the rebels of their constitution beat down the guards of their strongest purpose. Their hopefulness is always beyond their executive capacity, and their intense desires strangle their conscientiousness. However much they may be in the dark to-day, they fondly believe they will be in the full tide of radiance to-morrow. They are not wholly dishonest by any means; they simply, have an elastic code of morals, and stretch or con tract it to suit their passing interest. This is not truer of stock gamblers than of any class of men who set their future upon the cost of a die, who largely hope, largely play, and largely lose. There is something to admire, after all, in the adventurer; for he is cut by a broad pat tern. He does not whine nor fret because he throws double aces instead of double sixes. He does not moke wry faces when he finds the cordial, so tempting at first, very bitter at the dregs. There is usually cheerful stoicism in his philosophy, and he is really strongest in adversity; for the buoyancy of spirit that runs into wild schemes, while the sun shines, lends no little grace to misfortune after the night has fallen. The adventuresses have a narrower field, as all women do, for their operations; but no one can say they do not work it well. They have but two objective points men and money: and one ot them is always obtained through the other. There are no courts nor kings here for our modern adventuresses to tamper with and control; but there are men who, though the strongest and the shrewdest, can be made to dance to a woman s will, if she wiU but sing a new and seductive tune. European adventuresses have but few op portunities in this country. Unsupported by relatives, mends, or fortune, they are always suspected; and coming here only in quest of money, they sink to a grade too low to admit of anything deserving the name of adventure. Feminine Americans i have little natural aptitude for the career,' shameful for men, hideous for women. They rarely accept or seek it; it is forced upon them by circum stance. But, once entering upon it, tney fol low it with an ardor and bring to it a degree of tact that only France has heretofore shown. Something goes wrong with a woman's heart usually before her ethics are at fault. Let her meet her destiny, as the romancers style it, in the shape of tenderness, sympathy, and loyalty, and mere will be no smouldering volcanoes in her life, no unacted tragedies surging through her soul. The great city invites adventuresses from every town and village between the Northern lakes and the Gulf, the Atlantic and the Pacific. In this crowded wilderness, in this confusion of individuals, it says, you can bo lose your self that the man who starves for yon cannot hunt you down. If you have shame or woa to hide, or memories to banish, leap into the currents of Broadway, and its waves will con ceal you, and its tumult will drown the voioe of self-accusation. An adventuress is not difficult of detection to a clear vision; but eyes are used in this world for almost everything but seeing. She varies her form; but in the place where her heart was before some man broke it (as she would say), she is almost always the same. She is usually handsome or bears traces of handsomeness departed' or departing. At least, she looks interesting, and interesting ness is the sum of all we seek in humanity, literature, and art. She is rarely young, nor is she old. She is of an uncertain age. She may be thirty, she may be less; she may be forty, one is calm and cold apparently; but if yon study her, you will see her calmness and coldness are the result of severe self- discipline, and in her eye gleams of intensity and anxiety tnai aan oui wmie nor manners are relieving guard. There are certain hard lines in her face; the soft moutn nas lost some of its ' symmetry, the nose is questioning and suspicious, the nostril expanded as though it knew each individual bad an odor, and were determining to what species he should be as signed. Across the brow nit subtle shadows, and between and over the eyes they gather ever and anon as if the electricity of her sys tem were centring there to buret; and then the lightning leaps sharp and quickly out be low, and momentary darkness falls from' the hair to the defiant chin. Her ears are a trifle prominent, and when you look at them you see they are listening, listening perhaps for what she will never hear again. Her form is full, a trifle too full to indicate fineness and spirituality; and her manner is too decided and positive to be attractive at first. Her toilet Is " bomewhat outre, and there is more and less of it than there should be, 1 while some of her jewelry might be spared for the sake of taste. But above all there is an expres sion in her face and her hair that declares something has gone out of her life some thing that rounded and completed her womanhood something that will never re turn. She has been a wife and mother; she is not likely to be again; for the memory of that wifehood and maternity makes her shudder, and sends the strange almost lurid look out of her eye. She, may have a child or children with her; and if yon could look into her chamber after midnight, you would see her bending over the bed where the little creatures lie, with tears baptizing the whis pered prayers for them, which she never utters lor herself. Unlike the adventurer, the adventuress has a conscience, feels remorse, suffers for the past, dares not reflect upon the future. When the mental torture comes, she plunges into excitement, and laughs wildest when her heart sinks like burning lead in her bosom. Adventuresses are most at home in the great hotels. Hardly one of the Broadway houses that has not several of the singular sisterhood. They always avoid each other, are enemies on instinct. Men alone they affect. Without doing anything you con describe, they always attract attention- When they enter the ordinary, or Bit in the drawing-room, or walk in the cor ridor, every masculine eye beholds, and many manculine eyes follow them. They know, with almost mathematical certainty, the impression they are making, when it is their time to glance, to speak, to drop a hand kerchief, to write a note. Nothing esoapes their acute senses. The man whom they have selected for a dupe is such before he has spoken. What is the boasted reason of our sex to the subtle instincts of theirs 1 They have made men a study as Bal.ao and Goethe made women a study, and they have found their profit in it, be sure. They grow upon their acquaintances imperceptibly but rapidly, and after a few hours of untrammelled talk seem like old friends you ars bound to assist when trouble comes. It will come very soon. The adventuress is always in trouble, and she tells so sad a story that you feel during its narra tion as if you should dry every tear with a hundred-dollar note. You are too liberal altogether. She accepts half the sum; is eter nally grateful, and the situation changes with the pressure of a hand. The adventuress lives in Manhattan; but she goes to Washington frequently when Con eess is in session, for there she reaps a Harvest, one onnos all her arts to bear on members of the House and Senate, who yield to lemimne innuence when they con with stand bribes and the clamor of constituent?. The adventuress often arranges her campaign on the Hudson, and ficnta it out on the Potomac. She completes there what she begins here. Women want their rights. Let them have their rights by all means; but their rights are little compared to their privileges. Men have neither when an accomplished adventuress has fairly taken them in her toils. "Keep pretty women out of my sight," said St. Evremond, "and the thunder-stroke shall not make me swerve. But with, their eyes loojung into mine, I am liKe wax ove r the flame of a taper." Adventuresses do not decline so rapidly as the adventurers. Women of education and some breeding, as they usually are, seldom descend with the plummet-like promptness of men. Culture seems to make ledges for them, and there they lodge, instead of plung ing over the precipice down to the dizzy depths below. They change their nearest friends as they do their gowns; for those wear out even quicker than these. But they laugh and are gay, go clad in purple, and seem to float on the top wave of life. At the theatre and the opera, at the picture-galleries and the Academy balls, they queen it grandly, and many of their sex who know them not envy them the gilded shell in which they masque rade. They all have a history different from the one they tell, and sadder far. If they wrote autobiography, the simple truth would be more eloquent than any rhetono. If they could be set ' right, could once net their feet on the firm rock of principle, all might be well; but they seem incapable BomehowJ their will is too weak, their love of variety and excitement too great. They often turn to white memories and fairer futures, and stretch out their pole hands. But the voice that drove Ahasueras seems to say, "March ! march 1 and they go on and on, until the long grass of the churchyard mumes ineir weary lootsteps lorever. Turner & Co. also send us the following periodicals: Lipptncott's Magazine for March, which we;have already noticed. The American Exchange and Iteticw for February, which contains a number of excel lent articles on practical subjects. Godey's Lady's Book for March has a steel plate frontispiece, a number of fashion illus trations, and a good selection of reading matter. Out lovng Folka for March is made at tractive by plenty of good engravings and well-written stories and sketches suited to the tastes of juvenile readers. Our Boys and Girls for February 2G has an excellent series of readable articles. DRUQ8, PAINT8, BTO. J OIi:iaT SHOEMAKER Ac CO., N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE Sta., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Importers and Manufacturers of WHITE LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS, PUTTY, VARNISHES, ETC AGENTS FOB THB CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest prices forcasn. 12 45 DRUGGIST And chemist. AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. AND PATENT MEDICINES, Nos. 1301 and 1303MARKET St. UUUxtaea INSURANCE. DELAWARE MUTUAL RAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated bv the Legislator of Pennsylvania, 1838, , , Ofllce southeast comer of TTHRD and WALNUT Btreets, rniiwieipnin. MAK1NK INHUKANLKS On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the worm. INLAND INSURANCES On goods by river, canal, lane and land carriage to an pans oi mo ininn. FIRK INSURANCES On Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings, Houses, etc. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY November 1, 1h9. 1200,000 United Btatcs Five Per Cent. . Loan, ten-forties tf21 8,000 DO 100,000 United states Nix Percent. Ioan (lawful money) 107,760-00 60,000 United Hi teg hts rat Cent. Loan, 1881 $0,00000 800,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 113,900-00 800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per iwnu Loan (exempt rrom tax) 100,000 8tate of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First 800,928-00 108,000 -00 Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds 19,450 DO 86,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se cond mortgage Six per Cent. Bonds 23,o26'00 86,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail road Mortgage Six Per Cent. IlondB (Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) SO.OOO-OO 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent Loan lB.OOO'OO i,uw oiaie oi Tennessee tsix xer Cent. Loan 18,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 2fi0 shares stock 6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, 100 shares stock 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com pany, 80 shares stock 846,900 Loans on Bond and Mort- 4,870-00 14,000-00 8,900 -0C 7,600-00 ?nge, first liens on City Toportles 848,900-00 11,231,400 Par. Market value, 11,256,870-00 Tot.. I1.9IK.A994T. Real Estate 86,000-00 Bills Receivable for Insurances made. 823,700-76 finances uue at Affinclia- Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrned judical, uuu uiuer aeuia uue tae uoni nauv 66,097-93 8,740-20 169,29114 Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora tions, t47i6. Estimated value Cash in Bank 1168,818-88 Cash In Drawer. . 978-86 11,862,100-04 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand. Samuel B. Stokes, William h. Boulton, Edward Darlington, II. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Rlegel, Jacob P, Jones, James B. McKarland, John i Davis, iMimuna a. souaer, Tbeopbllus Paulding, James 1 raqualr, Henry Sloan. Henry C Dallctt, Jr., James C. Hand, wimam v. Lmiwig, Joseph II. Seal, Huah Cralir. Joshua P. Kvre. Spencer Mcllvaln, J. H. Semple, Pittsburg, A. B. Berger, Pittsburg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg. John D. Taylor, George W. licrnadoa, wiiuam u. Houston. thumas c. IT AND. President. JOHN C. DAVIS. VlciB.tTHHlil.mt. HENRY LTLBURN, Secretary. HENRY BALL. Assistant Secretary. 1 1 S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Ho. 805 IIIIOADWAY, corner oi lleventli Street, Kew York. CASH CAPITAL $160,000 li!B,UUQ deposited witn tne State of New York as security LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGK ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Secretary. KMORY MoOLLNTOOK, Actuary. A. E. M. FUBDY, M. D., Medical Examiner. PHILADELPHIA SERliI'MrnFa. j nomas i . easier, John M. Maris, i J. B. Llpptnoots, Charle Spencer, William Divine, James Long, S. Morris Wain. .TftmM VJ nnu Jonn A. wnvnt. Arthur O. Collin, 1 John U. McUresry. K. H. Worne. Organised April, 18. 876 Polioies leaned first Six months ; over 2U00 in the twelve months following. All forms of Policies issued on most favorable terms. Special advantages offered to Clergymen. few good agents wanted in city or country. Apply JAMICH M. IXlNriAniifc Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. No. Una WALNUT btreet, Philadelphia. Office, No. i2 WALNUT btreet, J BAMUKL POWERS, Special Agent IMS TNSURAKCE COMPANY OF NORTH A- AMXKIUA. Jawttaht l.tsw. INCORPORATED 1794. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL. $600,000-00 ASSETS...., , 4783,68100 Losses paid since organization 23,lHiu,OiK)'O0 Receipts ef Premium, '( l,eJl,837,45 Interest from investments, ltj& 1U,096"74 r ... -r . $2,100.834 19 Losses paid, 1869, Jan. 1, 1870... l.tflMbdm BTATEMENT OF THE ASSETS First Mortgages on City Property $768,460-00 Bonds 1,122,846-00 .iniiiuuii. u.u.i auvi vouu. ...... ...... DO, Cash in Bank and Office SM7,i Railroad, Bank, and Canal Stocks, Do,7U-W 147.11111 Loans on Collateral Security ifJ,56HU) Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums.. &11,M4'00 Accrued Interest 20,367 00 Premiums in course of transmission 8MM6-0U Unsettled Marine Premiums , 100,900 00 Real Kstate, Office of Company, Philadelphia. SO.000'00 2,783Jl-00 DIRECTORS. Arthur O. Coffin. Francis TL Onna. Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown. Charles Taylrr, Ambrose White, William Welsh, 8. Morris Warn, John Mason, Geo. Ik Harrison, Edward H. Trottor. Edward 8. Olarko, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jeasup, Loais O Madeira, Chaa. W. Cnshman, Clement A. GriBCom, William B rookie. ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President. CHARLES PLAIT, Vioe-Prea't, Matthias Mabis, Secretary. C. H. Rkkves, Aanintant Secretary. S 105 'T'llE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF a ruiJLA uj:L,r-rllA. Ottioe 8. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Street. MAT. ii.DunAi.un f.AlJljljrjl V ALI, PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES 1HKTTFTV OASU Capital (paid np in full) $300,00000 Cash Assets, Jan. It 1N70 834,3(15-13 vuwuiunn, T. Hatch ford Starr, . J. Livingston Erring or. Naluro Frailer, James L. Olaghorn. John M. Atwood, Win. O. Boulton. Benj. T. Tredick, Charles Wheeler, George D. Stuart, Thomas H. Montgomery, Jonn H. Brown, James M. Aertaen. V. RATOHEOPD STARR, President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY. Vice-President. ALEX. W. WISTER, Secretary. JACOB E. PETERSUV. Assistant Secretary JMPEXUAIi HUE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. ESTABLISHED 1S03. Fald-np Capital and Accumulated Funds, 08,000,000 IN GOLD. PEEV0ST & HERRING, Agenti, ,49 No. 107 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CHA8. X. 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Incorporated lHlA Charter PamatnaL No. tlO WALNUT btreet, opposite Independence btjnara. j Dis uompany, ravorauiy Known to we oommunitj If fat Over forty years, eontinnes to insure as-ainst loss or di age Dy nre on ruDiio or rmate Bniiuingsjeitner lit nentlyorfora limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks of Ooeds, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fond, la invested in the most careful manner, whioh enables them to offer to the Insured an undoubted aaonlts In Uiiuu Ui iosb. vamei ctmitn, jr., Alexander Benson, ! Thomas Smith, laaao Haclehnrst, Ilenry Lewis. 'X nomas xtoou nmi. uiiung. ham Fell. vara. .zrV1101' BMi'fU. Jb., President. WM. O. CROWE LL. Secretary. 8 i QRCAT WESTERN Mutual Life Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. EDWIN E. SIMPSON, MANAGER, No. 819 WALNUT St., Phllada. All the good, equitable and liberal features of the best Life Insurance Companies are guaranteed to the policy holders of this Company. 1 32 stuth2m Liberal arrangements made with eempetent agents. IIAIaDIlVG'S EDITIONS or TUE HOLY BIBLE. FAMILY, PULPIT, AND PHOTOGRAPH BIBLES, roa ' WEDDING AND BIRTHDAY PRESENTS. ALSO, PRESENTATION BIBLES FOR CHURCHES, CLERGYMEN, SOCIETIES AND TEACHERS, ETC. New and superb assortment, bonnd la Rich Levant Turkey Morocco, Paneled and Ornamental Designs, equal to trie London andOziord editions, at less than ball their prices. . No. 828 CHESNUT Street STRENGTH, BEAUTY, CHEAPNESS COMBINED! HARDING'S PATENT CHAIN-BACK rnoTooRA.ru albums. For Wedding, Holiday, or Birthday Presents, these Albums are particularly adapted. The book trade and dealers In fancy articles will And the most extensive assortment of Photograph Albums In the country, and superior to any hereto fotemaae. For great strength, durability, and cheapness, Harding's Patent Chain-back Albums are unrivaled. Purchasers will And It greatly to their advantage to examine these new lines of goods be fore making up their orders for stock. Also, a large and splendid assortment ofvnew styles of Photograph Albums made In the usual manner. No. 828 CHESNUT Street, 117 Philadelphia, M I R R 1 C K A SONS BOUTHWABK FOUNDRY, NO. 430 WASHINGTON AVENUE, Philadelphia, WILLIAM WRIGHT'S PATENT VARIABLE CUT-OFF STEAM EN Glial. Regulated by the Governor. MERRICK'S SAFETY HOISTING MACHINE, Patented Jane, lsea, DAVHJ JOY'S PATENT VALVELE88 STEAM HAMMER D. M. WESTON'S PATENT SELF-CENTERING, SKLF-BALANCTNg CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR-DRAINING MACHINE. AND HYDRO EXTRACTOR. For Cotton or Woolen Manufacturers. 1 10 mwf J.TATOHA1I lntKBICI. wJtliIAM . MsmiOX. MHO., fc CO., OILS oans Bo. 1 3'A a BEOOND Itrees. rTm. KLINE CAN CURE CUTANEOUS Eruptions, Marks on the Bkln, Uloers In the Throat, Mouth, and Nose, Sore Legs, and Bores of evf ry oonoeiva. t Is eharaeter. OWoe, No. 8 S. ELEVEN 111, between Cxteeaut sad Market street. PROPOSALS. 1RorOSAI.R FOR STAMPED ENVELOPE.' WRAPPERS. Foot Omci DKPAaTngv Janimry 10, V FPAled Pmpenais will be received until it on the 1st day ot MARCH, 1870, for furnlBhl. the "Htamped EnvclorM-g" nd "Newspaper I pors" which this DopiirtmPiit may require J a period of four years, commencing 1st oJ. 1870, via. t I No. 1. Note Slue, tu by X Inches, of paper. , jxo, a. urai-nnry iettpr gir.e, s i-n am ii.-b, vi wuihii ..nil, ittunry, vw ' colored paper, or in such proportion of eltj uiny do requited. No. 8. Pull tatter lxe fanrammnd nn II rirouiars). by 6X Inches, of the same col no. s, ana ouder ft like condition as to the mm oi eat'n. No. 4. Fnll letter sir.. IV hv BVf Inchrs. d colors as No. , and under a like condition as proportion oi ea:n. No. 6. Extra letter sire (nnimmmed on circulars), BM by v Inches, of mine colors ii i, and under a like condition as to the propor A each. I No. . Extra letter size, by e Inches, of colors as No. a, and under a like condition agrJ 9 proportion oi eacn. No. T. Official Blge. tti hr InrhAt nr colors as No. S, and under ft like condition an proportion of each. I No. 8. Extra official Size. 4V by tnohf same colore as no, , ana anuer ft like condlt to the proportion of each. , NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS, X bJ" X Inches, of ban or nianllln paper, i All the above envelopes and wiapiwrs to hi uuriK.-u wuu poBuijre lamps or sncn aonomin styles, and colors, and to Lear such printing iare. ana to tie made in the most thorough m oi paper or approved quality, manufactured t for the purpose, with such water marks or ot.l vices to prevent Imitation as the Postiiiaster-tJ may direct. ' I The envelopes to be thoronshly and m? gummed, the gumming on the flap of e;w;h f( tor circmarH) to ni pm on not less than naif 14 in wmtn the entire length. The wrappers gummed not less thau three-fourths of an 1 width across the end. All envelopes and wrappers must be bam parcels of twenty-five, anil packed In pasteboard or straw boxes, each to contain nf man two iiunurea ana nny 01 tne letter or letter size, and one hundred each of tb clal or extra oilicial size, separately. The paper wrappers to tie packed in boxes to c not less than two hundred and lirtv pai'h boxes are to be wrapped and sealed, or stf fattened In strong luanllla paper, so as to 1 bear transportation by mall for oellv.I fiostmastera. When two thousand or morel opes are required to fill the order of a posti the straw or pasteboard boxes contalniil same must be packed in strong woodeo l well strapped with hoop-iron, and add' J out wnen less than two thousand are re proper labels or direction, to be furnished agent of the Department, muet be placed opo iiaiaime uy in e contractor, wooucn casei ialnlng envelopes or wrappers to be tram oy water roniea, must be provided with s waier-proonng. The whole to be done tne inspection and direction of an agent Department, The envelopes and wrappers must be fn ana aenverea wun an reasonable despatch, in an respects, ready lor use, as may be required to fill the masters; the deliveries to be 1: Ofllce Department, Washlmrto ofllce of an agent duly authorized to inspect celve the same ; the place ef delivery to be option 01 tne rostmaster-uenerai, ana tne delivering as well as all expense of pack! orcssing, laoeimg, ana water-prooiing, to oe i the contractor. Bidders are notified that the Department quire, as a condition of the contract ,thn; velopes and wrappers shall be manururtin stored In such manner fls to ensure security loss by fire or theft. The manufactory must times be subject to the Inspection of an agent Department, who will require the stipulations contract to be faithfully otiserved. The dies for embossing the postage stamps envelonea and wraDDera are to be executed satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, In ttfv Rtvlf.. anil thf.v am tn ha nrnvl.lurl mnavj kept In order at the expense of the contractor i department reserves the right of requiring n for any stamps, or denominations of stamps nl used, and any changes of dies or colors s made wlthont extra charge. 1 ttpecimens or tne stain pea envelopes ana pers now in use mar be seen at any of the diA post offices, but these specimens are not toi garded as the style and quality fixed by the df nientaa a standard for the new contract: h are therefore Invited to submit samples of and different qualities and styles, tucludln paper proposed aa well as the manufactun velopes, wrappers, and boxes, and make the! BccoroNigiy. The contract Will be awarded to the bidder proposal, although It be not the lowest, u sldered most advantageous to the Depart laxiug mm account me prices, quality 01 uy Tiles, wnrkmanshln. and t.hn uutrlnionnl ability of the bidder to manufacture and dell envelopes and wrappers In accordance w: terms of this advertisement: and nn nrnnoul be considered unless accompanied by a auk and satisfactory guarantee. The PoBtmasterl ral also reserves the right to reject any and a) if In his judgment the interests of tho Govei require It I Before closing a contract the successful 1 may be required to prepare new cUca, and f Impressions thereof. Tuc ess or nil tuzaxa.. MAY OK MAT NOT BR CONTINUED. ft Bonds, with approved ana sufficient surety the sum or f '200,uoo, will be required for the,f performance of the contract, as required I seventeenth section of the act of Congress, arrf the 8itb of AuRust, 1S42. and pavmeuts undti contract will be made quarterly, after prot? Justment of accounts. A The Postmaster-General reserves to hlmsrl right to annul the contract whenever the saf any part thereof, Is offered for sale for the pi of speculation ; anrkuuder no circumstance transfer of the contract be allowed or sanei to any party who shall be. in the opinion Postmaster-General, less able to fullill the tlons thereof than the original contractor rlf ht Is also reserved to annul the contrac failure to perform lalthfully any of Its stlpul Tne numeer oi envelopes oi ainerent sites. wrappers Issued to Postmasters during the lad enaea oune uu, lbtsv, was aa iouows, vis. : No. 1. Note size 1.114.000. No. a. Ordinary letter size: (not hen nsedl. No. t. Fall letter size, (ungummed, for cir 4,loU,UUO. No. 4. Full letter Size 7,B67.500. No, 6. Extra letter size, (ungummed, for elrl 843,000. No, . Extra letter size 4,204,600. No. 7. Official slze-04,660. No. & Extra ottlctal size 1T00. W rappers ,66,ao0. mils should be securely enveloped and marked "Proposals for Stamped Envelopd Wrappers," and addressed to the Third AtJ Postmaster-General, Post Office Department, Irnrtnn. II. C JOHN A. J. CRKSWEf 1 11 eodtMl Postmaster GeJ pROPOSALS FOR STREET CLE' SEALED PR0IX)8AL8 will be received office of the BOARD OP HEALTH. 8. W. of SIXTH and 8ANSOM Streets, Philadelphia 18 o'clock noon on tne wtu oay oi February for cleaning and Keeping morongniy clean times from the 1st day of MARCH, Ib70, to thj day of DECEMBER, 1871, all the paved i ters under railroad crossings, gutters of u rrpeta. and all other DobllchlirhwavH. and i mediate removal of all tilth and dirt therefroi the same nas neen collected together; ai removal of ashea and the collection and burl dead animals embraced within the. follow tricts, viz.: . First. That part of the city lying north of GHENY Avenue, known as Brldesburg and ford ; to be termed the Twentieth district. Second. That part of the city known as : YUNK ; to be termed the Twenty-first dlstrid in as must be for separate districts, nan number of the district. The Board reserves the right to reject anyf mng ; also the rignt to awaru coutrucis ior trict onlv. Warrants for the payment of said contra be drawn in conformity with section 5 of thei Assembly approvea siarcn is, ihov. Envelopes Inclosing proposals muBt be 1, "Proposals for Street Cleaning," etc.," nanl number or uie uiairict oiu ior. , E. WARD, Prei Chas. B. Barrktt, Secretary. STOVES, RANGES, ETO.f THOMSON'S LONDON KUCT Of EUROPEAN RANGE, for families, h Ipobllo institutions, in TENi'Y DlVt--SIZES. Also, Philadelphia Banires, Hot I races, portable Heaters, V-U"7nt'r" Stoves, Bath Boiiera, Btew-ho e FUtee, Boilers, ) glove aaa flf? -THOM, U H 0IB Mf WV oe MJslWVMsV ct4 ana in such quni datly orders dri made either at tb n. D. C. orfi
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