THE DAILY i-E'VfSJNlNG. TKLEGRAFH PHILADELPHIA, Fill DAY, APRIL 15, 1870.
New I'oernn toy Ilnnte alrll
ftowettl.
"We select the following poems from the
roof-nheet.". of a new yolunie of remarkable
went by Mr. Rennet ti : !
TUB WOODHPUPOK. ,
The wind flapped loose, tho wind wan still,
Shaken ont dead from tree and hill :
1 had walked on at the wind s will
I sat now, for the wind was still.
between my knees my forehead was
My lips, drawn in, said not Alas !
My hair was over in the grass,
My naked ears heard the day pass.
My eyes, wide open, had the ran
Of some ten weeds to fix upon;
Among those few, ont of the son,
The woodspnrge flowered, three onps in one.
From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory;
One thing then learnt remains to tne
The woodHpurge has a enp of three.
TT1E BALLAD OK DEAD I.ABJEH.
(Francois Villon, 14.10.)
Tell rue now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman ?
Where's Ilipparchia, and where is Thais,
Neither of them the fairer woman '
Where is Echo, beheld of no man.
Only heard on river and mere
She whose beauty was more than hnman 'i
Bat where are the snows of yester-year ?
Where's Heloise, the learned nan,
For whose sake Abeillard, I ween,
Lost manhood and put priesthood on ?
(From Love he won such dule and teen ! )
And where, I pray yon, is the Queen
Who willed that Bnridan should steer
Sewed in a sack's month down the Seine?...
But where are the snows of yester-year ?
White Queen Blanche, like a queen of lilies,
With a voice like any mermaiden
Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Alice,
And Ermengarde the lady of Maine
And that good Joan whom Englishmen
At Ronen doomed and burned her there
Mother of God, where are they then ?
Bat where are the snows of yester-year ?
Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Except with this for an overword
But where are the snows of yester-year ?
JOHN OF TOURS.
(Old French.)
John of Tours is back with peace,
But he comes home ill at ease.
"Good morrow, mother." "Good morrow,son;
Your wife has borne you a little one."
"Go now, mother, go before,
Make me a bed upon the floor;
"Very low your foot must fall,
That my wife hear not at all."
As it D eared the midnight toll,
John of Tours gave np his soul.
"Tell me now, my mother my dear,
What's the crying that I hear?"
."Daughter, the children are awake,
Crying with their teeth that ache."
"Tell me though, my mother my dear,
What's the knocking that I hear?"
"Daughter, it's the carpenter
Mending planks upon the stair."
"Tell me too, my mother my dear,
What's the singing that I hear?"
"Daughter, it's the priests in rows
Going round about our house."
"Tell me then, my mother my dear,
What's the dress that I should wear?"
"Daughter, any reds or blues,
But the black is most in use."
"Nay, but say, my mother my dear,
It's that John of Tours is dead."
"Mother, let the sexton know
That the grave must be for two;
"Ay, and still have room to spore,
For yon must shut the baby there."
A Sunday in New York.
From the London Saturday Review.
We are informed by the New" York Herald
that "the new editor of the Oberlin (Ohio)
JVeics has issued a salutatory, brief but to the
point, lie says: 'We come here to make
money and a readable paper.' " The "salu
tatory" of journals which hope to succeed
and of journals which do succeed, and the
valedictory of journals which fail, might, we
conceive, as in Oberlin so in jjonaon, do
reduced to the terse formulary of our Ohio
contemporary., But if we come to
reduce the statement to logical form
the proposition does not admit
of simple conversion. All that
is readable makes mpney, but we are hardly
prepared to admit that all that makes money
is readable. We have no doubt, for exam
ple, that Mr. Charles Dickens' later novels,
and his readings, now brought positively for
the last time to a final farewell, make money,
but we should be sorry to pronounce the
stories readable or the elocution tolerable.
The New York Herald itself by all accounts
makes money, but its "readability," to use a
probatle phrase of its elegant writers, must
depend upon public taste. Among
many specialties of this re
markable paper, and it seems to
be an invention of its own, is giving on
Monday twelve columns of reports of the
various sermons preached and services held
at the different churches and meeting-houses,
tabernacles, conventicles, theatres, and
music-halls in New York and Brooklyn. The
reporters and penny-a-liners we beg pardon,
the journalists engaged on the New York
Herald, like their British brethren, must turn
their hands to everything, and we seem to
detect the same fine Italian hand in the re
ports of New York religion and Washington
pleasures. A " Jam at the White
House" and "the Gossips of Grace
Church and the Beauties of Fashionable Wor
ship and Lovely Ladies as Aids to Devotion"
have the same unmistakable flavor of Jenkins,
just as we find a British chiffonnier of litera
ture adopting the same style of word-painting
to the details of a burlesque and to the
(Ecumenical Council. We note the faot be
cause, in the impending Americanizing of all
our institutions threatened or promised by
Mr. Bright, we shall probably some day find
in our Monday's newspapers copious and per
sonal reports of the sermons and dresses ex
hibited at the London churches on Sunday
morning. We have already advanced a Btep
towards this desirable consummation. Al
ready the Saturday papers, or some
of them, give us a prelibation of the
banquet about to be spread next day by our
spiritual pastors and masters, and from tho
increasing length of the announcements made
by ecclesiastical touters of the "Preachers in
the London churches to-morrow" we conjeo
ture that the churches and the seots alike are
getting folly aware of the advantages of ad
vertising. But, as in the case of theatres and
other popular exhibitions, anticipatory adver
tisements ought to find their correlation in
rrilichl reports. A play or a burlesque is ad
vertiwvl and then criticized. It it only fair,
if ftcrvicea and sermons ere advertised, that
tlwy should be reported. The Now York
Htrtdd is more logical than the 1'all Midi
(Jatttte find the lilolic.
The difllcnlty, and by a little practice it
may be got over, is in getting penuy-a-liners
to go to chnrch or rather, when they have
got to chnrch, in getting "journalists" who
(ire sufficiently acute not to display their en
tiro ignorance of a novel subject. Just as the
typical flunkey of the jest-book hoped that it
would be connidcred in his wages if he was to
be required to attend family prayers, so we
truRt that the penny a line has been raised to
twopence in the case of the gentlemen of the
press who are required by the New York
Herald to go to church on Sunday and
afterwnrds write out their experiences of this
unusual exercise. At present we should say,
judging from the reports in the New York
Herald of February L'K, that the reporters
have not yet quite settled to their work.
Theological and ecclesiological technology
hardly comes, like rending and writing, by
nature; and we remember some cases in this
field of disquisition among ourselves where
"able editors" and accurate sub-editors have
committed their journals to queer blun
ders in unfamiliar matters. xears ago
the limes inserted a report, communi
cated by some expert, of some choice
ecclesiastical celebration in which the writer
dsscribed the altar of a new church or college
as elevated on a "foot-paoe," the recognized
phrase for a step. This was printed in the
'livxe as a "foot-pan." The New York Herald
has not pernors committed so good a joke as
tins, but its Kengious nummary shows here
end there the lucubrations of tyros in church-
going. It used to be said of a de
ceased bisnop. wno naa acquired a
knack of looking very nnctuons
and religious In church, that he
always joined in the Lord's Prayer as though
it were a decided novelty which he had met
with for the first time. The journalist who
does Graee Church for the Herald may be
pardoned for his cushina and enthusiastic
language, seeing that "the strikingly impres
sive effect" of which he saw and heard, was
decidedly the same sort of impression which
is made upon ns by our hrst pantomime.
The picture is drawn by a novice in religious,
bnt an expert in theatrical, enects:
The softened holy light streaming through the
multi-colored panes aud devices In glass, the wavy
pearls of music, the deep and stately tones of the
earnest preacher's voice, the delicate tracery In the
Gothic roof, resting on high-reaching and moulded
pillars, the maasive dark-stained and richly-furnished
pews, the elegance of toilet and beauty of
feature among the many fair worshippers, the air
of real aDd calm and quiet contemplation, had alto
gether a strikingly impressive effect.
That is to say, the combination of the Beauty
ot Holiness ana tne Holiness or Keauty had
such an efl'ect upon the susceptible reporter
that we are not altogether surprised at his
conclusion:
SittlDg on a softly cushioned seat near the centre
aisle, midway between the chancel and the entrance,
listening to the music, the ripple of responses from
the congregation, and the full sonorous swell of the
reader's voice, It was ditncult to feel otherwise than
an impulse of sympathy with this order of Christian
worship.
Grace Church, we need hardly soy, is a
very orthodox Episcopalian church; bat not
an extreme one. And yet, if we may trust
the reporter, some things are done there
which would make even Mr. Purchas stare
and gasp. We are informed that "after the
splendid voice of Rev. Mr. Egbert had ceased
to intone the lessons of the day, the tall form
of the Itev. Dr. Potter rose in the pulpit."
If in the use of New York the sermon follows
the second lesson, and nothing follows the
sermon, for such we are explicitly told was
the case on this occasion, the New York Epis
copalians can hardly complain of the length
of their Sunday devotions.
We felt curious to know how the more ad
vanced school manages matters across the
Atlantic; bnt we regret to say that the re
porter on "St. Alban's Ritualistic- Church,"
evidently knowing nothing about the matter,
skulks from his duty in language safe, but
provokingly vague. We are only informed
that
The services are of the orthodox ritualistic order.
The oitlciating clergymen are attired in ecclesiasti
cal vestments, and are surrounded in their exercises
by a throng of white-robed choristers. While tliu
celebrant solemnly recites the prescribed passages
the members of the congregation alternately bow
and cross themselves In the responses, while addi
tional tapers are lighted as the worship progresses.
The impression made npon the gentlemen
of the press by the Episcopalian churches
seems to have been that of an assembly of
lotus-eaters, a calm and dreamy Castle of In
dolence, and a revival, if anything, of
the Dutch governors of New York. The sec
tarians are certainly more lively. At Ply
mouth Church, bo the summary informs us:
Mr. Beecher preached on the 'hourly preparation
to meet God in the other life," and some of his
hearers must have thought they had been rather
delayed in this work by those gentlemen who stood
at the door of the tabernacle, crying out, "Only
pew-holders allowed to enter at present." Silently
and with Christian resignation, we trust those un
happy mortals who had been unable to bid for a
pew, stood by while the elect, Boine of whom, we
fear, imagined that they had paid a price for tho
first consideration of the Lord, entered In silks and
satins. These anxious supplicatory for
iJiviue grace wern no sooner seated than some of
them engaged in pious conversation about sociables
and the price of gold.
At the Church of the Messiah Unitarian
a singing match was
decided. The pastor's
place
was filled by a Boston clergyman, who Informed the
congregation that he had heard much of tlielr siug
lng, and desired to ascertain for himself if they
could do as well as the congregation on "the Hub.''
Thus challenged, the worshippers struck up "Far
from mortal cares retreating," with an energy and a
lustiness that must have been gratifying to the chal
lenger, and we pray acceptable to Him, etc The
match was worthy of the metropolis.
At the Lyric Hall, Mr. Frothinrjham, the
person who assisted Mr. Beecher in the clini
cal marriage of Richardson and tho woman
McFarland, got into first principles and the
high etymological latitudes, and also some
what out of soundings. He delivered a "ser
mon on religion, which word has three defi
nitions one to 'read over,' one to 'bind
again,' and the third to 'loosen.' " We are
quite aware that Cicero is responsible for the
first, and that Lactantius and others father
the second derivation of the word. Bat that
religion means a "releasing" is peculiar to
Mr. Frothingham's dictionary, though not to
his practice, seeing that in the ceremony
aforesaid he considered the loosening of the
marriage knot a very religious duty indeed.
Were it not that to inculcate any duty is
not in their way, and did we not detect a
slight plagiarism of a certain Spartan practice,
we should for liveliness reoommend to the
conductors of the Sunday lectures at St.
George's Hall the following American mode
of spending Sunday evening:
The usual temperance meeting, under tne auspices
of the Kings County Temperance Association, was
held at llooley's opera liouee last evening. The
place was crowded to excess, aud the "end meu"
got on several very amusing caricatures of Inebri
ates to the delight of a decidedly "mixed" audience.
If, as we have already hinted, the know
ledge of the New York reporters is limited on
religious matters, as in one case where we are
informed that the sermon was on the text
"Charity never fadetb," and in another where
a verne, new to the authorized version, is
quoted, "Thon didst not lead thy Holy One,
to Fee corruption," the penny-a-liners are
quite at home in their pictorial and personal
estimate of New York church-going. The
column which, in the New York Herald,
immediately follows the Religious Sum
mary is filled with an account of the
"receptions and balls last week."
The one column reads exactly
like the other, and evidently proceeds from
the same pen. At the White House we are
told that the President's wife "wore a robe of
ruby velvet, with her portly shoulders sub
dued under a iichn of point d'Alencon,"
and that Mrs. Hamilton Fish "wore delicate
mauve satin." At the churches the reporters
are equally and in every sense at home. At
Grace Church the "costumes of velvet and
pliiHh jackets in brown and black were nume
rous." "ltich and heavy velvets and flashing
diamonds" are noticed at one church, while
at another we are favored with a personal in
troduction to "a young lady of nineteen,
small but elegant in figure, with a com
plexion of the purest pink, etc. etc., and
attired in a silk dress draped with graceful
flounces en pa hit r, a pink tie, and
a pretty bean-catcher." In New York
the Quakeresses seem to "comprise
the wealth, beauty, and fashion of the city,
and it might make Fox and Mrs. Fry tarn in
their graves when told of the velvet and silks,
satins and iris plumes of the doves. Bat they
are run hard by the sable belles. In Zion
Colored Church we find that "the congrega
tion is decidedly well-dressed, and that a sub
dued quietness prevails, which gave a very
elegant tout ensemble; while deep purples and
black velvets show to advantage a dark skin
and pearly teeth, and that the costumes are
heightened by diamond pins and ear-drops."
To do them justice, the various pastors seem
feel what the Bishop of Orleans calls the Un
bridled Luxury of Women as a sort of chal
lenge, and a good many of them preached
against the feminine extravagance of the
ege. One pulpit orator quoted some verses
new to ns:
What Is the reason, can you guess.
That men are poor and women thinner?
So much do they for dinner dress,
That nothing's left to dress the dinner.
Bnt, judging from our own experience, the
women rather like these pastoral objurgations,
J. hey treat a homily against fine clothes as a
sort of "beau-catcher ' and advertisement of
their own and their milliners' taste. We are
not sure that there is not some understanding
between the shepherds and the lambs of the
flock, and that the ladies do not consider the
pulpit reproof rather than in the light of a
testimonial of their good taste ana skill in
fashion. The writer of the Religious
Summary of New York says that there
were only two aristocratic chnrches in
which the subject of female dress
was not touched in the pulpit. We can
only say in conclusion that we almost, when
it is too late, begin to repent of giving this
picture of Sunday in New York. What if the
satire should prove an inducement and the
beacon be taken for an attraction? We may yet
live to see a new fietas Londiniensis edited
by the compiler of the Court Circular and
tne reporters or tne Morning rost. Ana as
at New York weare informed that "ex-Health
Commissioner Crane, and Mr. Chaancey,
President of the Mechanics' Bank," said their
prayers, or listened to somebody elses
prayers, at Trinity, iirooklyn, while "Airs
Commodore Vanderbilt and her mother,
Mrs. Crauford, with others of
equal prominence, 'V honored Almighty
God and Dr. Deems with their
company at "the Church of the Strangers"
we should have been glad of some informa
tion abont the fashionable congregation who
assembled at the parti-colored striped brick
"church edifice" in New York commonly
known as the Church of the lloly Zebra we
are not without serious apprehensions that
the day is not distant when the dresses and
devotions of the Sunday visitors to the Bel-
gravian churches will be as fully reported in
the London newspapers as the victims of
those much duller entertainments, Belgravian
receptions.
Oxford.
From which point did I first see my dream
city? Well, it matters little, for there is no
good point of approach to Oxford now. You
used to enter, I believe, by the coaoh, over
Magdalen bridge, and for a long time, as yon
came, you could see the gray and ancient
towers and spires appearing out of the ram
part of groves and gardens which skirt the
city. Green meadows stretched, somewhat
Hat, about your road, but your absorbed mind
was fixed on the stately panorama which
stretched before you. There was nothing to
take your attention away from it, nothing to
jar the harmony with which your mind was
preparing itself for the first visit to the au
gust university. It is not so now. This en
trance is nearly spoiled by the crowding
growth of new red brick cottages that has
sprung np about the town since the building
of the railway. True, they cannot altogether
spoil, although they do greatly mar, the
effect of Oxford seen as you approach it for
the first time. The tall towers and spires
look out grandly into the distance, above
the ring of upstart little huts, and gather
their gardens round them, and fold their
feet in their trees. There you see them
Magdalene, St. Mary's, Merton, venerable,
gray, and calm, seeming wrapped in their
own abstraction from the hurry of our petty
life, the noisy trains, tho fussy engines, the
long stations, and the mushroom growth that
surrounds them. They look out straight into
the distance, and perhaps from their height
do not see, or scarcely notice the impudent
and glaringly new pigmy gathering at thoir
feet. Many, very many years can they oount
since their foundations were laid, and these
many years have thus softened their tone
and hushed their new stone in that soft, deli
cious, almost solemn grey. As many years
have stepped into light and died away in the
shade since these towers were new as the
little red cottages can boost weeks. London
Society.
Uarly Ute of Paper.
Mr. Thomas Wright sends the following in
teresting note to the London Atliemeuim
"I have made a little discovery, which I
think will be considered curious, in the his.
tory of paper. I believe that the first traces
of the use of paper in Western Europe are
found towards the end of the twelfth century,
and we have no reason to suppose that it was
in use in England until the thirteenth, or
even the beginning of the fourteenth. It is
understood to have been brought westward
from Italy, where it was in nse earlier; and I
believe that our word paper a corruption, of
course, of papyrus is considered to have
been borrowed, with the article itself, from
the French. I saw years ago in Paris I be
lieve they belonged to the royal col
lection (it was in the time of Louis
Philippe) a few of the earliest doouments
on paper known belonging to Western Eu
rope in the period since the Romans, which
interested me much. They consisted of re
ceipts, or rather bonds, for money borrowed
from the Jews in the time of cur Caaur do
Lion, given by chiefs who were starting for
bis cmsade; and, U 1 remember well, the paper
resembled much that of the fifteenth and six
teenth centuries, except that it was of a rather
coarser texture. It would seem as if, in the
West, its nse at this early period was known
principally among the Jews. Now, I am just
passing through the press an edition of a
Glossary 01 xatin ana tngiisn or, as we
are acenstomea to can it, Ancrlo-waxon
Words' of, I think, not later than the middle
of the tenth century. We may safely look
npon it as the English of the days of
Atnelstan; ana in tiie part or wnicn l
have just received the proof I find
'J'apirus, paper.' The word paper does not
occur in Dr. Bosworth's, or any other Anglo-
Saxon dictionary; but we hive here evidence
that it was in use in our langnage at a very
early period, and there cannot be a doubt
that we derive it.from the Anglo-Saxons, and
have not taken "it from the French of the
Middle Ages. Bnt this fact leads ns to
another that our Anglo-Saxon forefathers,
to have the word in an Anglo-Saxon form in
their own language, must have been pretty
well acquainted with paper itself, and, no
doubt, they found the Roman paper in nse
in the island when they came. It is a fact,
indeed, which opens to n several others,
equally new, in the social history of our
Anglo-baxon forefathers. I need hardly add,
that paper probably never went entirely out
of nse in Western Europe after the Roman
times, and a little research might still throw
some curious Herat npon its History during
the earlier Middle Ages. It certainly was not
supposed before that it might be in nse
among the Anglo-Saxons."
SHERIFF'S SALE.
s
HCRIF F'S SALE.
By virtue or a Writ of Levari Facias to me directed
will be exposed to
PUBLIC SALE,
AT TBE HOT EL OF JOSEPH YARNALL,
In the town of New Castle, New Castle County
Delaware,
O SATURDAY,
The 23d day of April, A. D. 1870, at 2 o'clock V. M.,
the following described
REAL ESTATE, Viz.:
All that certain tract or parcel of land called the Mile
Bouse Farm, situate, lying, and being In the hundred am
county of New Castle, in the State of Delaware, near the
town of New Castle, and which is bounded and described
as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point in the centre of
the road leading from New Castle to Hamburg lane, oppo
site a stone, set on the north side of said road, and at the
distance of 17 16-100 perchos from a ditch dividing the land
hereby to be conveyed from land now held by T. Taskor,
formerly a part of Btonbam farm, thence along the centre
of the said road north 73)6 degrees, east 17 16-luO perches,
to a point in the laid road opposite the middle of the
ditch aforesaid, thence along the mlddlo of the ditch
aforesaid notth 37X degrees, west 54 M-100 perchos, thence
north 49,V( degrees, west 44 76-100 perches, north IH.'.J de
grees, east 86 44-100 perches to the centre of the New Cas
tle and Frenobtown Railroad, thence along the line of the
said road, westward! to the line dividing this land from
land of the heirs of Robert Burton, deceased, thenoe with
the said dividing line south, nine degrees, west 73 perches.
north 78)tf degrees, west 10 MO perches, south 30H degrees,
west 53 perouos, south 78tf degrees, east S 6-10 perches,
south 24 degrees, west 89 2-10 perches, to the Marsh Bank,
and continuing the same course 13 8-10 perches to low
water mark on the river Delaware, thence by the line of
low-water mark np the said river to a point opposite to
the stone on the side of the Hamburg road aforesaid, and
thence by a line at right angles to the said road, to the
eontre of the said road and place of beginning, containing
of upland and marsh eighty-fonr acres, more or loss.
Seized and taken in execution as tho propert y of Charles
W. Grant and Isabella bis wife, and William H. Paddock
and Lanra his wife, and Klnier Clark, terre tenant, and to
be sold by
JACOB RICHARDSON, Sheriff,
Sheriff's Office, New Castle, April 4, A. D. 1879. 4 13 lot
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No. 9. OOKM riFS BLIP, New York.
No. 18 SOUTH WH4BVKH, Philadelphia,
No, 46 W. PRATT Street, Baltimore.
We are prepared to ship every description of Fretga (
Philadelphia, New Yoik, Wilmington, aud intormed; t. (
points with promptness and despatch. Canal Boat kl.0
KUara-toes tnrniabed at tbe shortest notioe.
POTTON BALL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of all nnmnere ana Dranas. -1 eni, wnuut, ituk
and Wason-oover Duck. Also, Paper Manufacturers'
Drier Felte. from thirty to eevejntrsu loohea, with
rauaoa. Biting. twin.. ye. w BVFRMA,f
No. 10 CUUBUU BUeeUOit-tiU.
FIRE AND BUHCUAR PHOOC SAFE
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FAltREL, HEBBING & CO
FJAVK REMOVED FKOM
o. t;iiK!Oit;'r wire
TO
Fill LA DELPHI A.
Fire and Biirglar-Prccl Sales
(WITH DRY FI1XINQ.)
HKDK1M4, FA K RET., ft fcHEKMAN.New Tori,
UKKK1NG A CO., Chlcaiio.
UKKrCM. FAHRKL A CO., New Orleans. ttl
J. WATBON & BON.
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FI1U5 AND BTJKGLAK-PKOOF
B V X" 11 H T O II. I
NO. 63 80UTII FOTJBTH STREET,
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LEGAL. NOTICES.
TN T11KDISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
1 BTATKS FOU THK KASTKKN DISTRICT OK
PKN.N8YLVANIA.-TUOMA8 W. 8WKKNKY, of
Keadin?. in the County of Berks, and Btate of Pennsyl
vania, in the said Diatriot, a Bankrupt, who formerly
carried on business in Philadelphia, Pa., nndor tbe linn
DSmeoi J , v . cwnaer, jr., naiu urm iwiuk numiiDtwaoi
himiwlf and R. liellman ana lHaao Wells. lothof Miners.
vilie, Pa., bavins: pet itioned for his discliaive. a meetirur of
creoitors will 00 neia on tne itn aay 01 April, a. i. ih,ii
at a o'clock P. M.. before Kecistor II. M ALTZBICRGKB.
at bis office. No. 4N. KIXTM Street, Heading, Pa., that
the examination of the snul banKmpt may be tiniithecl, and
any bosinwisof meetings renmred ty sections 37 or 98 of
the act of OnnRress transacted. Tbe Register will certify
whetner the bankrupt has conformed to nis duty. A
Deanna; win aino ue niu nn n r.irimniia i,iniiii.anij
of April, A. 1. 1870. before Uie Court at Philadelphia,
at 10 o'clock A. M., wnn and woere parties in Interest
may snow cause against t ne omcnarire.
-ui. .v. - itnn 1, 1 1 1 v rinvirinvu
(y ) Judge of thnsatd District Court, and the seal
1 u J thereof, nt Philadelphia, tbe luth day of March,
A. 1. iOttf.f
G. R. FOX, Clerk.
Attest II. MAT.TZnKnflF.lt, Register 4 1 t27
PROPOSALS.
TEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES,
OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, No. 104 S.
Hi Til btreet.
Fnn.ADiti.PHiA, April 13, 18T0.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTOH8.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the Ofllce of
the Chief CommlsHloner of UlKhways until 18 o'clock
M. on MONDAY, 18th Instant,, for the construction
of a Sewer on the line of RACE Street, from the
Sewer In NINETEENTH Street, to the east side of
TWKN1IUTU street, sain rjewer to De con
structed with brick, circular tn form, with
a clear inside diameter of three feet.
with such manholes as may bo directed by the
Chief Engineer and Surveyor. The contractor shall
take bills prepured against tho property fronting on
said sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty
cents for each lineal foot of front on each side of the
Btreet as so much cosh paid ; the balance, as limited
by ordinance, to be paid by the city. The con
tractor will be required to keep the street and
ewer In arood order for three years after the sewer
Is finished. No allowance will be made for rock exca
vation, unless bv special contract.
When the street is occupied by a City Fassenger
Railroad track, the sewer shall be constructed along
side of said track in such manner as not to obstruct
or interfere with the safe passage of the cars thereon ;
and no claim for remuneration shall be paid the con
tractor by the company using said track, as specified
in act 01 AHsemmy approveu may o, isoo.
Each proposal nuiHt be accompanied by a cer
tificate that a bond has been filed in the Law
Department, as directed by ordinance of May 85,
I860. If the lowest bidder shall not execute a
contract within nve days after the work Is awarded,
he will be deemed as declining, and will be held
liable on his bond for the difference between hia bid
and the next lowest bidder. Specifications may
be had at the Department of Surveys, which will be
strictly adhered to. The Department of Highways
reserves the right to reject all bids not deemed satis
factory. All bldders'are invited to be present at the time
and place of opening the said proposals.
MAULON 11. DICKINSON.
4 14 8t Chief Commissioner of Highways.
"OFFICE OF TnE BOARD OF IIEALTFI,
D W. UUKINKK. H1XTI1 AND SANSOM gTS.
PROPOSALS FOR 8TRKKT CLKANINU.
Pealed Proposals will be received at the OFFIOK of the
BOARD OF HEALTH until 12 o'clock noon, on the IPth
day of April, 1X70, for cleaning and keeping thoroughly
olenn at all tlmes.f rom the date of oontract tofthe 81st day
ot December. Ib71, all the paved streets, alloys, court,
inlets, market bouses, gutters, gutters under railroad
crossings, gutters of unpaved streets, and ad other publio
highways, and the immediate removal of all filth and dirt
tborefrom, after the same has been collected together.
Also, tbe removal of aabes, and the collection and burial
of all dead animals in tbe built-up portion of the city
lying nori oer Aiiegoany avenue, Known as rsrlrtoauurg
and Frankford. and termed the Twentieth district-
Koch bid must be aooompanied with a certificate from
the Citv Solicitor that security haa been entered at the
Law Department in the sum of live hundred dollars
(KiAHU, incompliance witn an orOMnanoeot Uouuoiisap
Droved Wav 1. lm).
Tbe Board reserves tbe right to reject any and all bids.
Warrants for tbe payment of said contracts will hn
drawn in conformity with section live of the act of Assem
bly approved niarcn in, low.
irnveiopes enclosing proposals must De endorsed rro-
rjnaala for Ktreet Uleaninir.
KLIAB WARD. M. D.. Presidont.
Cats. B. Barrett, (Secretary. 4 8 Hit
DRUCS, PAINTS, ETO.
T OVE1&T gllOEMAKEll & CO.,
sV. V
N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE St..,
PHILADELPHIA,
r i f I74SAI r? nrjiioricTQ
Importers and Manufacturers of
WHITE LEAD AND COLORED FAINTS, PUTTY,
VARNISHES, ETC.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH
ZINC FAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at lowest prloei
for coHh. l 45
31. JMIIMIIVSJIj,
DRUGGIST AtVD CHEMIST.
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. AND
PATENT MEDICINES,
Nos. 1301 and 1303MAEKET St.
Ul si thstnAni
COAL.
rSBCTVAI. X. BELT BJCWflOH NBAVIal
II2K1VAL. 12. IIEL.L. Sc CO.,
DEALERS IK
Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal,
DEPOT: No. 1338 North NINTH Street.
1 IS West Bide, below Maatar.
Branch Office. No. 407 RICHMOND Btreet.
PATENTS. -
CTATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE
O Rights of a valuable Invention just patented, and for
tbe SLIDING, CUTTING, and C1HPP1NU of dried beef,
cabbage, etc., are hereby offered for sale. It is an article
of great value to proprietors of hotels and restaurants,
and it should be introduced into every family, h i' ATM
K1GHT8 forsalo. Model can be seen at TKLKGBAFH
OFFICE, OOOPKR'b POINT, N.J.
6 27tf MUNDY A HOFFMAN.
D EINO AND SOOURINO.
T O H fi 1' II 11 O T T IS T,
J KLKVK DK PARIS.
FRENCH BTEAM DYK1NO AND BOOURINQ,
On sny kind of Wearing Apparel, for Ladies, Gents, and
Children. Patent apptratua for Stretching Pant from
one to hv inches. .,,,, A .
No. Dut B. NINTH Btreet,
P5 Philadelphia.
STOVES, RANOE8, ETO.
THOM80N'8 LONDON KITCHENER
or KUBOPKAN RANGK, for families, hotels, or
publio institutions, in TW rciv ry iHirvaKKV'r
KIZK8. Also. Fhiladolohia Harnres. Hot-Air Fur.
naces, Portable Heaters, Low-down Grates, Fireboard
Hlovoa, liato lioilers, blew-bole Plates, Boilers, Cooking
Btovesleto. KDGA It L. THOMSON.
Successor to HHAHPK A THOMSON,
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OITV ORDINANCES.
OMMON
COUNCIL OF PLULADEL
Ctbrk's Orrfcit.
rniA.
Pnn.APET.r11 1 a, March 85, 1870. f
In accordance with a resolution adopted by
tho Common Council of the City ot Phlladcf
l'hia on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of
March, J8',0, the annexed bill, entitled ''An
Ordinance to authorize a loan for the erection
of a bridge across the river ScbnylkUl at Fair-
mount," Is hereby published lor public inior-
tnuuoD. '
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council
AN OKDI N A N C E
To Authorize a Loan for tho Erection of
lirldge across tbe River Schuylkill at Fair
mount. ,
Section 1. The Icct and Common Council
of the city of 1'blladtOphiu do ordain, 1 hat the
.Mayor ol I'lillndulplila be and ne is hereby an
lliorlzcd to borrow, at not less man par, on toe
credit of the city corporation, from time to
time, snch sums of money as may be necessary
to pay lor the construction and erection ot a
bridge over the river Schuylkill at Fairmount,
not exceeding In the whole the sum of seven
hundred thousand dollars, for which interest
not to exceed the rate of six per cent, for an
num shall be paid, half-yearly, on the Orel dayft
of January and July, at the oillce of the City
Treasurer.
The principal of said loan shall be ravable
and paid at the expiration of thirty years Irom
the date of the same, and not before, without
tbe consent of tbe holders thereof: and certifi
cates therefor, in the usual form of cerliQcatea-
of city loan, snail be issued in sucn amounts as
the lenders may renuire, but not for any frac
tional part 01 one Hundred dollars, or, ir re
quired, in amounts of Ave hnndred or one thou
sand dollars; and it shall be expressed In sold
certificates that the said loan therein mentioned,
and tho interest thereof, are payable free from
all taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof, there shall bo, by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated, ont of the
income of tbe corporate estates and from tho
sum raised by taxation, a sum salllcient to pay
the interest en said certificates; and the fur
ther sum of three-tenths of one per centnm on
tne par value of sucn certificates so issued,
shall be appropriated quarterly ont of said in
come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund
and its accumulations are hereby especially
pled (red for the redemption and payment of said
certificates.
RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN
BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun
cil be authorized to publish in two dally news
papers of this city, dally for two weeks, the
ordinance presented to the Common Council on
Thursday, March 24, 1870, entitled "An ordi
nance to autnorize a loan ior me erection 01 a
bridge across the river Schuylkill at Fair
mount." And tbe said clerk, at the stated meet
ing of ConncilB, after tbe expiration of four
weeks from the first day of said publication,
shall present to this Council one of each of
said newspapers for every day in which the
some shall bo made. 3 20 24t
COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Clerk's Office,
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1870.
In accordance with a Resolution adopted by
the Common Council of the City of Philadel
phia, on Thursday, the third day of February,
1870, the annexed bill, entitled
"AN ORDINANCE
To create a loan for tbe building of a bridge
over the River Schuylkill, at South street,
and for the payment of ground rents and
mortgages," is hereby published for public in
formation. JOnN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A LOAN
FOR THE BUILDING OF A BRIDGE
OVER THE RIVER SCHUYLKILL AT SOUTH
STREET. AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF
GROUND RENTS AND MORTGAGES.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That
the Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby
authorized to borrow, at not less than par, on
the credit of the city, from time to time, one
million five hnndred thousand dollars, to be ap
plied as follows, viz.: First. For the building
of a bridge over the River Schuylkill at South
street, eight hnndred thousand dollars. Second.
For the payment of ground rents and mort
gages, seven hundred thousand dollars, for
which interest not to exceed the rate of six
per cent, per annum shall be . paid half
yearly on the first days of January and
July, at the office of the City Treasurer.
The principal of the said loan shall
be payable and paid at tbe expiration of thirty
years from the date of the same, and not before,
without the consent of tho holders thereof; and
the certificates therefor, in the usual form of the
certificates of the City Loan, shall be Issued in
such amounts as the lenders may require, but
not for any fractional part of one hundred or
one thousand dollars; and it shall be expressed in
said certificates that the loan therein mentioned,
and the interest thereof, are payable free from all
taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of
this ordinance, annually appropriated ont of
the income of the corporate estates, and from
the sum raised by taxation, a sum sufficient to
pay the interest on said certificates; and the
further sum of three-tenths of one per centum
on tbe par value of such certificates so issued
shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in
come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund
and its accumulations are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption and payment of said
certificates.
RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN
BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council
be authorized to publish In two dally news
papers of this city, daily for four weeks, tho
ordinance presented to Common Council on
Thursday, February 3, 1870, entitled "An ordi
nance to create a loan for the building of a
bridge over the river Schuylkill, at South street,
and for the payment of ground-rents and mort
gages." And tho said Clerk, at the stated meet
ing of Councils after said publication, shall pre -sent
to this Council one of each of said news
papers for every day In which the same shall
have been made. 3 25 24t
WINE8 AND LIQUORS.
QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts.,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 1 88 apt
I ITIZ CURRANT WINE.
o
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
Dealer in every Description of Fine Groceries,
1175
Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Btreet
WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
In Mwt Wauakiea,
o. lit north SECOND Street,
93 Phnadelpnla;
FURNITURE, ETO.
RICHMOND & CO.,
FIRST-GLASS
FURNITURE VARERO OMS
No. 45 BOUTII SECOND STREET,
EAST BIDE, ABOVE OHESNUT,
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