The Londoft Saturday Recieu), in a review
"The rrfrate Life of Qaliloo," compiled
principally from bin oorrcnpondonco"witta his
ehlcftt daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, which
has just been ptiblinhod by Macmillaa & Co.,
gives the following interesting sketch of the
philosopher:
Frofixed to this volumo is a carefully drawn
vp pedigree pf the Bonajuti family, wl, ib
in well kuown, changed their name to that of
Galileo It'' the' end of tho" fourteenth or be
ginning of the fifteenth century. The object
cf thia change is said to have been to per
pctnate the uaiun of a member of the family,
tialileo, a son of Tomasso de' Bonajuti, one
f the Twelve Buonomini in 1343. From
Tommaso Bonajnti ten generations in this
family record bring ns down to its extinction
in two great-great-grandchildren of the phi
losopher, who took the tows of religion, the
last, Coftimo, dying May 18; 1779. The family
stock, r originally .. noble, produced . rjany
scions of eminence. Galileo de Bonajuti,
grandson of Tommaso, a celebrated physician,
was $ent in 1433, by the- Republic of Fiom
bino, to undertake the cure of its ward, the
young ' Giovanni d'Appiano, Lord of Fiom
bino. Ilis full-length effigy in marble is still
to be Been in the church of Santa Croco,
Florence, in which city he was twice
elected one of the Priori, and in 1445 Gon
faloniere, besides filling the office of Lecturer
in Medicine in the University. Ilis nephew,
Giovanni de' Bonajuti de' Galilei, captain of
the Borgo S. Sepolcro, had a grandson, Vin
cenzio, born in' 1520, who has been called the
founder of the modern musical drama. lie
was the author of works of scientific merit on
mathematics and counterpoint, some of which'
have been published, others reposing in MS.
in the. Talatine Library. A passage in his
"Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Musio,"
published in 1581, cited by the compiler
before lis, is worthy of note for the principles
which Vincenzio lays down in directing his
son's -education, "ir appears to me,' says
one of the speakers in the "Dialogue," "that
thy who in proof of any assertion rely simply
on the weight of authority, without adducing
any argument in support of it, act very ab
iropply." In his stipulation for "freedom to
question and freely to answer," the father
anticipates sentiments which are clearly laid
down in the, famous letter to the Grand
Duchess Christina on the Copernican system,
and in' the no less famous Dialogue on the
2ito fiytcin qftie World. Vincenzio's eldest
aon, Galileo, was born at Pisa, February 18,
15C4. Straitened circuhistances, says Gher
ardini, had almost condemned the youth to
become a trader in wool, had not his early
talent induced the hope of his rising to higher
pursuits. From his father he learned both
the theory and practice of music; even ex
celling him, it was thought, in charm and
delicacy of touch upon the organ and lute.
In these he found a solace in the last days
of his life, when blindness was added to the
old man's other sorrows. Iu the sister art
kis talent was equally great. Had he had the
choice, he iisod iu later life to tell his friends,
be would have boon a painter.- His critical
judgment was invited by matters like liron
zino, iPasnignano, and Jucopo da Empoli,
while Cigoli, whom Galileo pronotmcod to be
the first paintor of his time, owned to having
derived from him his knowledge of perspec
tive. At the Benedictine monastery of Val
lombrosa a we learn from a loiter of Diego
Frouchi, a brother Galileo was grounded in
languages, graiumsir. and logic, but he was
removed before the end of his novitiate
wing to an attack of ophthalmia. At the
age of seventeen, when alrea 1 well versed
in Latin and Greek,: tu exe!llf ufc artist, and
an accomplished musician, he vu.) sent to the
University of Pisi, following the usual
course in philosophy uod medicine, being des
tined by his father for the latter profession. In
philosophy, we are told, the student's spirit
of contradiction and preference for proof
over authority found him no favor in his
teachers' eyes. The study of mathematics
was at that time utterly neglected in Italy,
despite the exertions of Comandino and
Maurolico. Even Vincenzio Galileo discou
raged it in bis son, as so much waste in the
practical pursuit of medicine. .From a cer
tain Messer Ostilio Eicci he' got lessons in
Euclid by stealth. His father's opposition to
bis scientific tastes gave way at length to the
proofs of the youth a mathematical and me
chanical genius. It lies beyond our present
scope to follow the development of Galileo's
scientific powers, or to trace the splendid
series of his discoveries in physics. The
chief stages in his public career are
indicated in outline in the brief memoir be
fore nq, but our task lies rather with the phi
losopher in his home. By his father's death,
in July, 1591, Galileo had become the head
of his family, a position of no little burden
and responsibility in Italian society at that
time. It was for him to see to the setting
out of bis brother Michelangelo in life. lie
is denonnced and even tbrcatenod with arrest
by his brother-in-law, Benedetto Landncci,
for the balance of dowry due on the marriage
of his sister Virginia. So writes his mother,
Madonna Giulia, in a curious letter, May .29,
1593,-"A1 Molto Magnilico'e Fidelissimo Sig
nore Galileo Galilei, uiio sempre OssorvancL,
in Padova." Li via, a novice sorely against
her will, and Intended for the veil in the con
vent of St. Giuliano, badgers her brother for
'some, stuff Jo make a dress." The girl
plaguing her mother to tind her a husband,
Galileo has of course to come down with a
dowry befitting one of the Galilei. Pompeo
Baldi, he bears, August 7, 1G00, is a "good
sort of man," but has no more than KM)
ducats yearly. Trusting for help from his
brother, Galileo makes up a match with a
Pimm gentleman, Taddeo Galetti, promising
1800 ducats, of which 8(K) were paid down.
Of these he had to borrow GOO, his whole
professional stipend then amounting to no
more than 1520 ducats a vear. Miohelanuelo
meanwhile had, got a post in the train of saiuu
Polish nobleman on excellent terms "his
table and dress siuulur to that worn by the
gentlemen of his household, two servants, a
coach and four, and a ftlary of: 1200- Hunga
rian ducats, which mate aliout 000 crowns of
our money, besides perunUiiteB." lie
started with olothes and ,iuouey in hand by
Galileo, who, after sending iUr letters to
Cracow in ten months without an answer, I
writes to insist on a proper deed Wng given
to Signor Taddeo. The ungratofnv fellow
never paid his brother a farthing. Iu k;o.-,
be is back in Padua, living at Gali
leo's expense till he is pnt
in the court of the . Duke ot
Bavaria. "Good heavens," writes back the
ne'er do weel, "the idea of toiling all one's
life jubt to put by a few farthings to give
one's sisters!" Michelangelo had picked up
a wife himself in the meantime, and given a
grand wedding dinner to eighty persons of
distinction, including four ambassadors, and
be asks for a caue of lutes, having in view the
showing off his musical talents in some con
certed musio next Lent. Fragments of Gali
leo's letters speak -of a pre Bent to Vir
gisia of Bilk bed-hangings and. velvet
damask dresses, and bis memorandum book
f ives a long list of sums laid out on gold
bracelets and rich attire for Iivia's trousseau.
The dignity of the Galilei roost be kept up at
all cost...
Galileo never married. By his mistress,
Marina Gamba, a Venetian of the lower class,
he had three children. Vincenzio, born in
August, IGOfl, was legitimated by the Grand
Duke, of Tuscany in 16J9. His daughter
Fohssena waa born in 1G01, Virginia proba
bly somewhat later. Tho boy remained with
his mother till October, 1612, when Galileo
bad him brought to Florence. Marina shortly
afterwards married atnan well to do in her
own Llation of life, one Giovanni Barto
Inzzi, Galileo behaving with bis wonted libe
rality on the occasion. Galileo's two girls
were placed for a while under the care of his
mother, but the old lady's temper being
terrible," as it appears from a letter of
Galileo's brother Michelangelo, the father
was minded to remove them into a oon vent for
life. Here a threefold difficulty met him. Pope
Leo XI (Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medio!),
when Cardinal, bad obtained a bull forbidding
two sisters to take the veil in the same con
vent in Florence. Secondly, the convent
chosen by Galileo being already full, the
dowry must be doubled for such an excep
tional admission. In the third place, the
eldest girl was six years below the canonical
age of sixteen. Cardinal Del Monte, in a
letter to Galileo, November 11, 1G11, pro
mises every exertion to ' get a relaxation of
this rule, which he declares at the same time
to be insuperable. The good offices of Car
dinal Bandini proved more effectual, and by
means of a dispensation as to age Galileo
was enabled, in October, 1G13, to place the
unfortunate children in the Franciscan con
vent of St. Matthew, at Arcetri. There they
took the veil a year later, Polissena hence
forth Sister Maria Celeste being but
thirteen years of age. Her letters to her
father, beginning from the year 1623, become
our chief materials for following the domestic
life of Galileo, his illnesses and private sor
rows; furnishing at the same time graphic and
instructive details of the interior life of con
vents. His letters to her, though we are told
that she kept them carefully and was in the
habit of perusing them during such- leisure
moments as her special duties in the
pharmacy and the still-room left to her, have
perished. They were in all probability de
stroyed by the abbess for fear of the house
being compromised by their heretical author
ship. Her own simple effusions are spoken
of as breathing throughout Bound sense and
sober judgment, without a trace of mysticism.
"She does not pass her nights in the church,
kneeling on the cold stones, expecting a vision.
She goes to bed like a sensible woman, and
takes her seven hours' sleep." One of her
crosses was the selfishness of her sister Vir
ginia, Sister Arcangela in religion, who was
subject to hypochondria, and a . perpetual
invalid. ' 111 health was indeed the rule, not
the exception, at St. Matthew's, Rheumatism
was prevalent. In winter the nuns were
starved with the cold, in summer they were
melted with the heat. Sister Maria Celeste
herself was scarcely ever well. Her father's
visits alone kept her from finding convent
life insupportably dull. What she pined for
was home life. Iler yearning is to penetrate
within the dwelling which her father's pre
sence'renders sacred, but which she can never
enter. "Discreet dame Pierahis housekeeper,
careless unloving brother Vincenzio, good
Signor Bondinelli the gardener, the boy
Geppo, may all go in and out, may all serve
her Dttoto, sit by him when he is ill, help
to tend the vines, run the errands;
nlv is debarred 'from the dailv inter
course which would be her supreme delight."
Little presents perpetually, passed between
father and daughter. She becomes his secre
tary, copying in a clear and delicate hand his
more important letters or papers, bne works
for him shirts and dinner napkins, mends the
apron "as well as she possibly can, and asks
for "any collars that wont getting up. In
turn she begs ten oraccia ot stun tor a dress,
not wide, or fine or expensive cloth. Galileo,
at this time settled at Borne, and in favor for
the while, asks his daughter what boon would
be most acceptable to the convent. The abbess
thinks it wiser to ask for alms than anything
else, the bouse being so poor. Sister Mario,
taking counsel with a nun of Lienor feeling,
begs that the Pope will grant the favor of
choosing for confessor to the convent a regu
lar or brother of some order, changing him
every tnree years, ner paper ot reasons
throws much light upon the habits of the
clergy of the period. The parish priests have
me scantiest Knowledge ot nuns, tneir rmes
and requirements. The fees they expect
outrun the convent purse, and they make a
practice of dropping in to take out their
arrears by dining and "getting friendly with
one or other of the nuns. And what is worse,
they make a common talk of us, so that we
are become the laugtung-stocK oi tne wnoie
Casentino, from whence these confessors
come, who are more apt at chasing hares than
at guiding souls. Later on CralUeo is called
upon to 6et to rights the convent clock, which
no one has made to go well before. In 1C28
Michelangelo died, throwing upon
Galileo the charge of his widow and
family. Next year Vincenzio marries Sestilia,
a sister of Luisa Bocchineri, Maria Celeste's
bosom friend in the convent, and the young
couple have to be set up out of the Profes
sor's slender income. In the throes of writing
the famous Dialogue leisure is snatched for a
memorable family dinner in the convent par
lor. Then the plague breaks out, and Vincen
zio runs away with his bride, leaving his father
to face the danger unmoved, against which
Sister Maria Celeste seeks to fortify him with
a wondrous elixir made by Abbess Ursula, a
Pistoian nun of great sanctity. Alone in his
tower, hemmed in by quarantine, be has
enough "his telescope, his thoughts." His
daughter's anxiety culminates with his jour
ney to Borne, and with the news of his cita
tion before the Inquisition.
We are enabled, by means of the minute
touches contributed in the narrative before
us, to realize with a force and vividness never
before attainable the struggles and the sus
pense of that crowning episode in the life of
Galileo. There may b nothing very weighty
ofnovel in these details. They seem, how
ever, to heighten our interest in the last
scenes of the philosopher's career, and to ex
tenuate what might otherwise be set down to
unbecoming weakness, vacillation, or want of
candor. It is a comfort to be assured, on
evidence which no longer admits of reasona
ble doubt, that bodily torture was escaped by
Galileo, wrung as bis lofty and truth-loving
spirit ruu6t have been by the concession, iu
however ambiguous terms, which he yielded
to an unjust and ignorant demand. . The
accusing spirit . might . equally blush to
hand in the record of a "pious fraud"
of minor degree by which Galileo keeps
from his daughter the truth of his failing
health. Agony enough seems to have fallen
! mon her in having to yield the keys of the
. library when fears of a domiciliary visit from
i the familiars of the Inquisition induced
Galileo's family to burn masses of his papers.
Her last prayer was granted, that she might
pjj j cuibiace tier fathor again, as it appears tiom
a letter of Galileo to Elia Diodati, July 28,
1634. While under restraint In hw Floren
tine villa, he was at liberty to pay frequent
viHitwW; tba' tyhfotit where, be .says,' '
the two daughters whom 1 loved deariy,
the eldest In particular, who was a woman of
exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most
tenderly attached to mo." She had before
this died on the 1st of April of the same
year, ner father's words well snm up her char
acter and the tone of be !fe. which gives
its most pleasing tone to what is recorded
here for the first time of the private life of
Galileo. Volumes have beea devoted to enu
merating the, works and measuring the intel
lect at tha treat rhilosoriher. This little
volume has done
much within its slender
the depth and tenderness
compass to probe
of bis heart.
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ALFRED fi. KAKKR. President.
OKOKtiK FALK8, Vice-Presidenu
JAMES W. MCALLIKTKK. Swrotary. W
I UKODOKK M. REUKR, Assiitant SeoreUry. 3 If
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
' PHILADELPHIA.
OOics S. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Btraeta.
PFRPHTUAL AND TRRM POLICIES ISHTTRn,
CASH Capital (paid op in full) euuO.ooO'OO
Caeh Assets, Jan. 1, 1870 8344.30319
F. Ratchford Starr,
Nalbro 1 lazier,
John M. At wood,
DIRKCTUKN.
J. Livingston imim,
Junes L. Ulaghorn,
I ben). T. 'iredlck,
I George H. Stuart,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
John H. Brown,
F. RATCHFORD BTARK. I
I THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vioe-Preeident.
K ruu-UHU HTAKK, Presiaent.
Kit Ktnl.rf.
JACOB K. PKi',
UUiOM, Assistant Secretary
T? AME INSURANCE COMPANY.
Ho. 80S OHEBNTJT Btreet
INCORPORATED VS6S. OHABTKR PERPETUAL.
. CAPITAL, t,00a
1 FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insores against toe, or Damage by Firs either br Per-
I petnal or Temporary PoUoieSL
I niuvi'NiliS:
Charles Richardson, . Robert Pearee,
William H. Khawn,' John H.essier, Jr4
VV imam ai. eeyiert. Kdwara n. urns,
John Y. Smith, Charles Stokes, ...
Nathan Hillea, I John W. Krerman,
Oaorge A. West, I Mordeoai Busby.
! CHARLES RICHARDSON. President.
I WILLIAM H. RUAWN, Vloe-Preaidsnt,
WnxiAKS L Blahohabo. Becretary. f ast
PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
Incorporated Usat-Cbartei Perpetnal
WALNUT Kinul. nnnnuta IndeBendenoe I
COMPANY.
This Company, favorably known to the oommnnity for
over forty years, continnns to insure against loss or dam-
nuntb) or for a limited time.
airs by nre on Pubho or Private litiiiuingi
ngsjeltiier Mrma,
Also en Furniture, Htookg
of (toeds, and Marenandiae generally, en liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Snrpina Fund, is
InvmitJtd in th mn.i. n.N.ln 1 ..nntf. Whiob enablafl ShAia
to offer to the tneored an undoubted sseaiitr la eUeeeee
... . . .1 -
Daniel Bmlth, Jr.. I John Dverem,
Alexander bensoo. ' 1 Thomas Smith,
baae lUzlehurat, I Rennr Lewie, ,
Thomas Robins, I J. Oilllnghaia FsO.,
' DANIKI. KM ITU. Jm.. President
nsa. u, vnuvri. Deeretary.
LossespaiSsiiice 1829 over $5,500,000
INSURANCE.
JV. S DB U K Y
r I iflirr I itirMtri i if nr 1 'ni ' 11 v
urc inauiiAHUL tiu,, ri. i.
Kmber of Policies leraed Irs the Are largest New York
Oowpsntse during the first yean ef their sxisteuoe :
MtJTUAL ss months) low
MW W'Uri ns months). iohi
MANHATTAN :il months).. 9M
KFICKBRHOOKER. ., (20 months) M
KquiTABLB ......(IT months)....'... ft
During the 81 months of its existence the
ASDURY
HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES,
INSURINa NEARLY , 000,000.
"Reliable Oaarasstoc Agents wanted throughout the
ouniry.
Manager for I'enMrWanta and Delaware.
Ofllee. No ft-l WALNUT HtnuL PhlUtalnhl.
i SAMUEL POWERS, Special Agent. 4 1
piTERIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.
LONDON,
ESTABLISHED 1S93. .
Paid-op Capital and Accumulated Funds,
08,000,000 IN GOLD.
PEEV0ST & HEEEIHQ. Arenta,
8 No. 107 8. THIBD Street, Philadelphia.
CHAR. K. PREVOST. OHA8. P. HERRING
BEWINQ MACHINES.
REMOVAL,
THE PARHAM
SEWING MACHINE GO.
HAVE
REMOVED
FROM
No. 704 c CIIKSNXJT St.
TO THEIR MANUFACTORY,
22 1, 22(J and 228
SOUTH FIFTH STREET,
Where all orders for their CELEBRATED MA-
cuiJNJts will nerearter ne adaressed, and where a
large assortment ol tnem will be kept on hand and
disposed of at 12 23 12t
Wholesale and Retail,
ON THE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS.
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO.
PENN 8TEAM ENGINE AND
BOILKR WORKS. NR A KUS A LKVY
rKauiiuaii ajsu -j hkukktiual
! KNGINKKR8, MACHINISTS. BOILKR.
MAikititS, LLACK8MITHB, and FOUNDERS, hanna
for many years been in snooeesful operation, and been ex
clusively engaged in building and repairing Marine and
iover f .ngines, nign ana low pressure, iron Hollers, Water
Tanks. ProDellere. etc. eto.. reeDeotfuihr offer their sen
ices to the oublio as being fully prepared to oontract for
engines or ail sizes, M anne. Kirer, ana stationary ; bavins
sets of patterns of different sizes, are prepared to exeouta
orders witn quick de suatch.
suatch. Kvery description of pattern-
inuKing mane a tne anortesi nouoe. uign ana Low pi
sure f ine i uDumr ana uinnaer Doners oi tne beet Fenn
Forgingsof all sizes and kinds.
Iron and Brass Castings of all deecriotiona. Roll Tnmino
Screw Cutting, and all other work eonneoted with the
above business.
Drawings and specifications for all work done at ths
establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed.
The subscribers have amole wharf dock-room for ninain
of boats, where they can he in perieot aaiety, and are pro
vided with shears, blocks, falls, eto. etc, for raising hear
or light weights. . n
JOHN P. LKVY,
BEACH and PALMER Streets.
SOUTH WARE FOUNDRY, FIFTH AND
WABH1NGTON Streets,
FlULADBLFDIA. ' .
MERRICK A KON8.
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS. .
manafactnre High and Low Pressure Steam Engines
for Land, River, and Marine Service.
toilers, uasomcters, Tanks, Iron Boats, etc.
Castings of all kinds, either Iron or brass.
Iron Frame Roofs for Gas Works. WorkshoDS. ana
Railroad Stations, eta
Ketorts ana uas Machinery oi the latest and moat
Improved construction.
Kvery description of Plantation Machinery, aim
Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Ol
('team Trains. Defecators. Filters, pamnlnar En
gines, etc.
Sole Agents for N. Btllenjfs Sngar Boiling Appa
ratus, Nesmyth's Patent Steam naiumer, and Aspln.
wall A Weolseyl Patent Centrifugal Sugar Drain.
log jnacninea. a uoj
QIRARD TUBE WORKS.
JOHN H. MURPHT & BROS. '
HsLBafnoturrre of Wrengbt Irea Pipe), JEta.
- - PUILADELPUIA4 PA. "
WORKS, -, - '
TWKNTV-TUIKD and FJXBXKV HttweMo,
' OFFIOH, - 4
j He. 4'A Worth FIFTH Btr C
J LEGAL. NOTICES.
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF PHILADKLPUIA.
Kstate of SAMUEL WAltK, deceased.
The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle, and
adjust the account of JAOOU W. FRY and UllaRLKS
M. LUKKNS, Administrators of SAMUKL WARE, de
cessed, and to report distribution of the balance in
the hands of the accountant, will meet the par
ties interested, for the purpose of bis apueintment, oa
MONDAY, the 7th dayot iUrch, IH7U, at ( o'olook P. M.,
at his oaice, No. 118 South SIXTH Street (second story
front), in the city of Philadelphia. i'i3wfiu6t
c
ORN EXCHANGE
BAG MANUFACTORY. .
iauu an U A 11 r-r
S. K. comer of MA RKRT and WATER Streets,
Philadelphia.
' '. . : DEALER IN BAU8 AND BAOGING r.
Oi every desoriuUon. for
Grain, Floor, Bait, Saper-Phosphatc M Alms, Boat
Tsirisand small GUNNY BAOS constantly oa hand.
Also, WOOL HAO&-
-T-
n e
RINCIPAL DEPOT
FOB TBI BALI OF
R E
VENUE STAMPS,
NO. 804 CHESNUT STREET.
CENTRAL OFFICE, No. 108 a FIFTH STREET
(Two doors below Chcsnut street),
TOHN FARNUM & CO., COMMISSION MER.
l ehaate and Manufaotnrers of Oonestoca Ticking, ate.
0.'W QtliSNill bUeet. Phlladelskifc tlwiaaT
FIRE AND BUHULAH HHOor bACk
E M
L.
FARREL, HEHRINO & .C0e
DAVR REMOVED TRGH.
Pio. 630 CHKSXirr Street
TO
No. 807 CIIE8NUT
PniLADELPIIlA.
Fire and. Burglar-Proof Safes
(wrrn dry filling.)
BIRRING, PARREL ft BHERMAN, New York.
UERRINQ k CO., Chicago.
BIRR1SG. PARREL CO., New Orleans, t ttf
J. WATSON A SON, t
Of the late Am ef aTVANB A WATSON,
FIRE AND BUBGLAB-FBOOV
B A F 13 T O E
NO. S3 BOUTIX FOURTH STREET,
su
A lew doors above Ohaennt st Phila
GOODS FOR THE LADIES.
G
HAND OriSNINU O I
SPRMti FASUIOIV8
Df .
Imported Paper Patterns,
TUESDAY. MARCH 1, 1870.
The eld establlabed snd only reliable Paper Patters
Drees and Cloak Making Emporium,
Dresses mada to lit with ease and elegance in M hoar
notice.
MRS. M. A. BINDER'S recent visit to Paris enables
her to receive Fashions, Trimmings snd Fanoy Good
superior to anything in this oountry.
New la design. Moderate in price.
A perfect system of Drees Ontting tanght.
Catting, Basting, Pinllng.
Faahion Books and Uofiering Machines for sale.
Bets ot Patterns for Merchants and Dress Makers now
ready, at
I
MRS. Me A. BINDER'S, 1
HOI,
W. Corner Eleventh and Chesnut.
N.
Carefully note the nams sad number, to avoid being
deceived- 8atntht
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A"1
THE NEW HOOKS
j FOB SALE AT WHOLESALE PRICES BY . .' ,
I PORTER A; COATKN,
J Publishers and Booksellers, '
Io. 8S CHESNUT Ntreet.
Our New and Elegant
I ART UALLERY '
Is now open with the finest collection of FAINTTNQ8
OUROMOS and ENGRAVINGS in the city. SZlmwf
PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE.
A New Course of Lectures, as delivered at the Nets ' '
York Museum of Anatomy, embracing tbe subjects ' I
Row to Live, and What to Live for ; Youth, Maturity, and
Old Age; Manhood Generally Reviewed! The Oauseol '
Indigestion ; Flatulence and Nervous Diseases Aeooonted 1
For: Marriage Philosophically Considered, eto. eto. . .
Pocket volnmos containing these Lectures wHl be for. 1
warded, postpaid, on reoeipt of 86 oente, byaddresalng W, I
A. LF'ARY, Jb.. S. K. corner of FJHTU and WALNUT
Streets. Philadelphia. t ' '
' GENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS. J
pATENT SHOULD EK-3KA4I;
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWEB,T
made from measurement at err short notice. '
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S . DRESt '
uvoua in rau ranetj.
WLNCn ESTER ft CO., ,
No. lot CHESNUT Street
in
T H
PRINCIPAL DEPOT
: FOK TBf BALI OF
RI E VE N U B S T A'M PB T-
No. 804 CHESNUT STREET. ' ' : "
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13
CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 10B 8. FIFTH STREET 1 1
(Two doors below Chesnut street), ' j
ESTABLISHED 18CS.
Tne sale or Rerenne Stamps Is BtlU continued at '
the Old-EstabllBhed Agenclce. ' , '
Tbe stock comprises every denomination printed ''!
by the Government, and having at all times a largo
supply, we are enabled to All and forward (by Mail '
or Express) all orders, Immediately upon receipt, ;
matter of great Importance. -'
United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drafta J
on Philadelphia, and Post Olllce Orders received In
payment
Any Information regarding the decisions of the J )
Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue Stamps printed spon Drafts, Checl 1
Receipts, etc . I
The following rates of commission are allowed i
Stamps and Stamped Paper: .. , i
OH f28 and upwards. ...8 per "
100 8 " ,"
800 " 4
Address all orders, etc, to
( STAMP AGENCY,
No. 804 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
J"0 ALL WANTING FARMS IN A LOCAL-
lty Exempt from Fevers, and Lung Complaints. '
To Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Capi
talists, Gentlemen of Leisure, Invalids, and
all wanting a homestead In climate of un
surpassed salubrity, exempt, from the rlgem
of, a Northern winter, and In close, connec
tion with the commercial centres of the South. Few
If any sections offer such a combination of lnduoo- .
ments as the town of Aiken, 8. C, and Its vicinity
for a desirable and permanent home A pamphlet '
of 84 pages now ready, containing a description ot
the climate, soils, and the nature of the products In
the vicinity of Aiken, especially fruit, cereals, cotton,
corn, vegetables, etc, Including extracts from '
letters of distinguished visitors, . correspondents, '
action of town councils Inviting emigrants, eto , to .
which Is added a descriptive list of property for sale,
Including improved farms, orchards, . vineyards,
water powers, kaolin deposits, unimproved lands.
and town residences. For sale by E. J. C. WOOD, '
Real Estate Agent, Aiken, a C.' The book will be t
sent by mall on receipt of price, 60 cents. Address.
J.iC DERBY, Publisher, P. O. Box Na 1439, New'
York, until 1st of February, after that date a. s
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