THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1870. 5 AT THE SEASIDE. OUR CAfE MAY LETT Keeping Cl Frly I" fenen-A IIIh Wind find a Heavy Fall In the Marcary Flrt Notes of Winter') VVrl A 3ennral Vr.hre.vitl, both oa Land and Water-And ttlvrt-iher Mea-ldo ftlnttcr. Fret Off Chrn OorrttpondmU CAri Mat City, K. J., April 16, 19T0. With tbo thermometer standing, at 3 o'clock yestcisay afternoon, at 84 degrees in the shade, your correspondent's orders to repair to the sea side on the first train were recolved with a com msndable degree of good grace. In fact, the aoon-tldoof Friday was worthy of a July day, and the contemplation of a flying trip to a cooler and breezier climate was ly no means depress ing. The train that left the Camden depot of the West Jersey Vallroad on that umseasonable afternoon presented a scene of bustling activity that assisted materially in maintaining the delu sion of a midsummer day in the early spring time. Taking time by the forelock to the extent of a half hour did not avail to secure a seat on the shady side, and, although the greater num fojr of the passengers dropped out by the way, a od number kept to their scats until the end of the journey. And here, in passing, it will not be out of place to note the material benefits which the network of railway lines known under the com prehensive title of the West Jorsey Railroad has conferred upon the section of couutry through Which it extends. Before the completion of the road and its numerous branches, South Jersey Was a terra incognita, a sort of ultima Untie, into which no one ventured save one who was native and to the manor born. It was a dreary place ti io to, a cheerful place to leave when once you had made your way there. The West Jer sey Railroad has changed all this by opening up tho country to the outside world. During the sumini r months there is an immense through travtl, but this, large as it is, i but oue-seventh o: the passenger trafllc of the year, which is co lslantly increasing at the rate of about ten per cent, per annum. The result of the opening of the road has been a perceptible improvement Of this entire section of the State, and a South Jersey farmer Is no longer, as be used to be, weighed dowm by poverty in proportion to tho number of his acres. During the winter tho railroad company has been busily engaged in putting its roaes and rolling stock in trim for the approaehiig season. To accommodate the anticipated inerease in travel a large number of elegant and comfortable passenger cars have been built expressly for the through eummor trail', c, while a laree portion of the road has been baUastea, and preparations mads to relay a portion of the track with steel rails. An im portant improvement, at an outlay of about $125,000, has been made at the crossing of Man tua creek, where three miles of new roadway have been constructed to straighten the line, an1 a substantial stone bridge to replace the old wooden one. The indications at present arc that t Je Cape If ay travel over the road during the coming ssasoa will be largely in excess of that of all previous years. Already special excursion trains for thirty-five days have been engaged, and additions are being made every day to tke list. One of the most noticeable engagements thus far effected is that of Colonel Latta's regiment, the Grey Reserves, who will pack up their traps for Cape May on the 15th of July, and remain in camp there ten days. The encampment of the Grey Reserves last summer was a signal tuccess, as all who were on hand at the timo will remember. Although there is no present pros pect that the "boys" will be complimented dur ing the approashlng encampment with two or three reviews by his Excellency,the comnander-in-chief of the armies and navies of the republic, and the opportunity to "receive thoir old com mander with cheers," they will have a good time and a merry one, and the island will be all the more attractive for their sojourn upon it. And just as the Grey Reserves are about folding their tents to steal away to the sultry city, the Fifth Maryland Militia, which is regarded by all Baltimore as mest emphatically a "crack" regi ment, will storm the island, and entrench them selves upon It for a week or so. I trust that the commanding officers of the two regiments willmauage matters so that the Marylanders may arrive a day or two before the Philadel phlans depart. The "troops" from both cities would enjoy themselves ail the more through a friendly tilt at dress paradlrjg and light-fantastic toe-ing. But, to return from this digression, before we reached the proximity of the sea yesterday, there was a noticeable change in the weather. When the train drew up In the depot on the island, the wind, to use an expressive term, was on a high horse and in a f rolicksome mood. But despite the time of the year, and the bluster of the sea breezes, the depot was fairly crowded. All the winter denizens of the town had turned out to enjoy the dally sensation of the arrival of the train, and by a superfluous bustle, inspired by the keen wind from seaward, the grand stir of a midsummer eve was measurably repro duced. It was quite as much as one could do to work one's way through the jostling crowd a crowd that, In one respect, presented such a Startling and painful contrast to that assemblage which makes one's entrance Into tho town at the height of the seasoa such a serious and perplex ing matter. Not a woman was to be seen, save the few who had alighted from the train. There was . no dazzling array of sparkling eyes and marbled shoulders, no musical clatter of brisk womanly tongues, no eager and tender embraces, xto rustle of silks and snapping of steel springs la all that jam and jostle. But the jolly sea-oreeze made ample amends for all that was lacking. It veered and it shifted, and took one sharply under the ear, like a rough fellow who entertained a grudge against you It pierced one's spring overcoat, and worked and worried its boisterous way Into the very tuarraw of one's bones, and then gal loped up and down through one's innermost cavities, and wound up its gay frolic by throw ing one into a grand midwinter shiver, and it slid not mead matters when one was told that at two o'clock the air was as lazy as an Italian beg car. and the thermometer marked 80 degrees lu -the shade ! "There s a high tide to-nigni, remarked a friend who bad preceded rue by twenty-four Lours. "Suppose we take a tramp along the beach and take a look at it." Ihe iuvitatlon coming, as It did, just as we were comfortably housed iu the substantial cottage which of. old was Known as the "Bluff Fig," but which is now devoted to worthier purposes, and tenanted by mine host Cake, of Congress Hall the Invitation to take a trl,mn on the beach in such a rattling hurricane . .,mrrelv an inviting one. But it was re- .....tori in an urgent way, and so down by the beach we strode, and gazed In the full moonlight upon the grand but dismal scene, ana snivercu. and shuddered anu uuooa. o no Ru. "Tills i?n't ill9 highest M we'ye hud, by anj means, chattered, apologetically, one of the aborigines who accompanied the party. "N-n-no ap-apology-gy is neod-d-d-ed, was my comforting response. "What a glorious surf for a bud bath," again put in tho aborigine, the rattle of his teeth almost drowning the roar of the breakers. Very properly, no attention was paid to this unsea sonable joke. Although the ycry marrow seemed to be working its way out of my bones, I could not persuade myself to turn back to the tempest and seek the shelter of the "Blue Pig," without a little dalliance. That shifting, piercing, roar ing wind was working its own sweot will with the obedient waters, and all that came within their reach. Along the whole beach front, for a stretch of a mile or more, an array of stout piles had been driven, as a breakwater for the grand beach drive of which I shall have more to say by-and-by. In and out among these the wind frisked and flurried, and round about them whirled and danced the water, breaking into misty spray as it rolled on past the unheeded barrier and scooped up a sheet of gravel to carry out to sea on its return. Great gaps in the gloomy array of wooden sentinels had already been made, and now and then a fresh log would let go its hold upon the shaky sand, and shoot off iu a bee-line for the Bay of Biscay, with the wreck of a shattered bath-house to convoy it over the ocean. But, as we contemplated the discomfiture of the beach-drive breakwater, the joints of the aborigine ceased to creak from stiffening, and the party at last cheerfully returned to the w hilom "Blue Fig," to sit around a cosy supper table and demolish raw oysters still dripping ith the brine in which they were serenely happy less than ten hours before. And after supper I am regaled, as are your readers now in their turn, with the most notable things that have been done since the close of the Inst season, and are yet to be done before the opening of tho next, by way of rendering Cape Island more attractive than ever as a summer resort. But here, at the very outset, I am guilty of a blunder; for Cape Island is Cape Island no longer. The Legislature of New Jersey recently in session, like your own, did an infinitude of thiugs, and among others it transformed Cape Island into the City of Cope May. Everybody will approve tho change, and especially those whose correspondence in former times, when addressed simply to Cape May, brought up at Cape May Court-house, a dreary little hamlet eleven miles off in the woods, where justice is dispensed in old-fashioned Jersey style that is to say, without fear or favor. The last Legiplaturo likewise did another good thing, in perfecting its former action looking to the creation of a commission charged with tho laying out, widening, extension, draining, and general care and supervision of the streets of the town. This commission, which is now in full working order, was appointed by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, in accordance with the act of Assembly, and consists of the following gentlemen, all of them well known to frequenters of the Island, and deeply interested in its prosperity: John C. Bullitt, Esq., of Philadelphia, Chair man; General William J. Sewell, of Camden, the General Superintendent of the West Jersey Railroads; and J. F. Cake, Esq., the proprietor of Congress Hall; Joseph Q. Williams, Ejq., ex-Mayor; and George Iiildreth, Esq., of Cape May City. The act requires that at least three of the five members of the commission shall be residents of the city of Cape May, and all of them pro perty holders. Meetings are held by the commission every Friday evening, Mr. Bullitt presiding, and Mr. A. P. Iiildreth, of the Congress Hall office staff, acting as clerk. They have entered heartily into their work, and are now engaged In dis cussing the most available plans for thoroughly draining the town, while already at the task ot putting the streets in a better condition than they have been for years past. As a sample of what they are doing, Jackson street may be taken. This thoroughfare, which is always so thickly crowded with vehicles and foot passen gers aboat train time during tho summer, has been thoroughly reconstructed from the depot to Washington street. Flag curbstones have been laid and flagstone gutters constructed the entire distance; and the roadway has been bedded with gravel and crowned with' oyster- shells, forming a smooth and compact highway which will turn water as neatly as the back of a duck. " But the grand enterprise in which the autho- sitlcs have been engaged during the winter is the Beach Drive. The original plan for this contemplated a grand roadway sixty feet in width, extending along the entire ocean front, a distance of a mile and a half. The foot of Decatur street, which runs j ust west of the Columbia House, is about the central point of the proposed drive, and from this point east the Beach Drive is already completed, a smill out lay only being needed to put it In condition for travel before the opening of the season. At the eastern end it runs at right angles Into Madison avenue, a new and substantial roadway which, crossing the shallow sound, extends over the marshes to tho mainland, a distance of about one mile, until it strikes Washington street, the main thoroughfare of the seaside city. On the portion of the grand Drive thus far com pleted about 920,000 have been expended, and without doubt the money will prove a good iu vestment. An effort has also boen made to ex tend the Beach Drive westward from Decatur street to the foot of Broadway, a thoroughfare some distance below the Excursion House which Is to rival Madison avenue and connect with the turnpike from the island to the steamboat landing. But this effort, I am sorry to say. is thus a far a decided failure. As already Intimated, the wooden breakwater which must first be erected has found the boisterous ocean an unrelenting foe, and such of the piles below Decatur street as have not been uprooted by the sea are being re moved by the hands that placed them In post tlon. But I am told that the enterprise has not been abandoned, and that It will be attempted again at the close of the approaching season Precisely how it Is proposed to overcome the difficulties which have thus far proved insur mountable does not yet appear, but they are to be overcome if it be within the range of possl bility. Another Important item in tho way of im provements of a general character is the thorough overhoullng to which the gas works are now being subjected. Heretofore the works have been very unreliable, the gas of a poor qaallty, and the price, 17 per thousand cubic feet, out of all proportion to the amount of light furnished. There is a promise that all this shall be renie died, and to render a material reduction In the price possible all the street mains are being taken up, repaired, and relald lu a manner that, it Is hoped, will prevent the excessive leakage which has been one of the loading difficulties heretofore. With good substantial streets and plenty of light upon them. Cape May will be come vastly more attractive la the future than it has been in the past. So much for generalities. Into the details of the winter's Improvements I will entsr in my next. Washtenaw. CITY ITEMS. SrnrNa Ovcbcoats. hkttfh nt bttlk, Btt.b in Kit, Hicttfr IN OtIT, llKITKn IN MiHI. titan any oiler Heady-ntotle in the city, al price from. $8 to t - Bknhbtt A Oo.. Town Hall, No. SIS Mahkki bthkf.T. Ir tour throat l sons, or jron ar annorod by a con stant Cough, use promptly Dr. Jayne's Espsotorant. It will relief tbs air passages of all phlegm or mucus. allay inflammation, and so giv the dlssasod parts a chance to hoal. No safer remedy can be had for all Coughs and Golds, or any complaint of the Throat or Longs, and if taken in time a short trial will prove its efficacy. Bold overywhore. MonK Novelties FOB SPRtMO, The new style Vest for Gentlemen. Englihb Pantaloons, new style and an endless variety of elegant Coatings. full line of Bannockiicbns for Burrs. Charm Stokes, No. 821 Ohosnut street. It Is 8pi.f.kpid.- Most of our readers hare probably heard of the patent article manufactured from Irish Moss, and known as Sea Mobs Farine, whioh Mr. Rand, distinguished praotieal chemist, has reoently intro duced into the kitchens of America. Liebig, with all his recipes for concentrating the life-sustaining elements of animal food, has never done society so great a service. Be has been successful in extracting the nutritions mate rial from meats, and condensing it Into a small compass ; but he has given us no article that, like the Boa Moss Farine, will increase moro than one-thirl the quantity of wholesome bread obtainable undor ordinary oircum stances from a given quantity of flonr. We are not prone to place much confidence in new disooverios, even when announced under the sanction ef a patent ; bnt the testi mony in fsvor of this cheap and simple preparation is so overwhelming, and has been so entirely corroborated by onr own experience, that we cannot and do not hesitate to recommend it most emphatically to the attention of every household desirous of combining economy with tho enjoyment of luxurious and delicious articles of foed. Mb. William W. Oabstdy. the Jeweller at No. 8 B. Becond street, has one of the largest and most attractive stocks of all kinds of Jewelry and Silverware in the oity. Be has also on hand a large assortment of fine American Western Watches. Thie entire valuable stock is now being sold out below cost, preparatory to removal. Those who purchase at this store at the present time are oertain to get the worth of their money. Another Giant Stripe has been made In chemioal science. Phalon's Vitalia, or Salvation fob ths Hair, is an astonishing improvement on all preparations for restoring the natural color of grey tair, heretofore known. It is pellucid, cooling, limpid, inodorous, and never-failing, and has no sediment. Sold by all druggists and fancy goods dealers. Dbt FEET. The most efteotnal way of guarding ons'a health is to keep the feet dry, and that eaaonly be dona by the use of India Rubber Overshoes, and as the incle ment season is upon us, we wonld advise oar readers to buy none bnt the best quality, which can only be had at Goodxeab's Headquarters, No. 808 Ohesnnt street, sooth side, Philadelphia, Ha vino secured the services of the beet workmen, w are prepared to despatch all orders entrusted to us with promptness, and satisfactorily to those favoring us. Oar pets altered and put down, furniture reupbolstered, covered, and varnished, bedding overhauled, furniture slips cut and fitted. Alpe btson t, Co., No. 1435 OHEBNUI Street, St. Jamfji Hotel. Boston. Massachusetts. Darin? the travelling season, if our pntrons will kindly inform as, either by telegram or lotter, of their intended arrival, wa can De Deiier prepsrea xor taeir comiort. In accordance witn tne reduction in tne value or rolf the transient board at the bt. James is reduoed to Four Dollars per day. r-HUl-ItIKTOH OT. HOTEL. Rubber Oyebshoes and Boots for Men, Women, and Children, can be had at retail at the very lowest prioes, Goodyear'a manufacture, old stand. No. 8U8 On sunt street, lower aide, Singer's Family Sewlko Machines, Tea dollars cash. Balance ia monthly instalment. O. g. Pavm. Ko. 810 Ohesnnt street. Wanamakeb A Brown's Bots' Suits, $3 Up. Wanamaker t Broum't Garibaldi and lliemark. Wnnamaktr f Brown' Jiatituu Huiti, $9 uji. Wanamaktr Ilroum't Chttttrfltl'ts. Wananiaktr it Brown't Jfta Style Walking Coat. WrmamakT Broiim't Vrru Haekt. Wunamaker f Broum't Light Orerroat: Wanamaker it Broirn'i Spring Overcoat, $(. Wanamaker Bronm'e Black Suit, $17 up. Wanamaker & Broicn'e ttelton Suits, lti . Wanamaker it Browne Vouthe1 Vheeterfirld. Wanamaker it Broton'i Youlhe Metropolitan Sarkti. Wanamaker if Brown' Black lrel Mhi( St up. Wanamaker it HrOirnt Black Dree V'eel, up. Wanamaker it Brmrn't flergumeti'e Suite. Wanamaker it Broicn"1 Silk-Jaced Cheeterfiehh. Wanamaker it Broim'l Hegieter Walking t'oate. M'anamaker it Wroirn'i l'atetot .Street Coat. Wanamaker Brown' Harri Oaneimere Suit. Wanamaker it Broicn' Nexe Sltjlc Boy1 Jaekctn. Wanamaker it Brown' Blue Hack Coat, IglO up. W anamaker it Brown' JCrery-itay jn(, $8 up. Wanamaker it Broum't Silk-mixed Suite. U'ntintenl-er it Brown' Bonn' Dept.. Ant floor. Wanamaker it Broicn' Custom Department, the largest in tftiludelphM. ft. K. corner Stx.h and Market. ,s. K. eitrner Sixth and Market. A. . corner Sixth and Market. C1vOak Hall. S rVOuk Mall. iUT Oak hall. T7 IJASD. nince IU, fail wo uh.d ni.ui o ,uo ,wu large lot adjoining us, and have erected upon them an irOQ'irOOb UUHUIUK IU kU ...II.1V. U..1.UII.B,, making OAK. HALL TWIUK AS LAKUK AS BrC- 1' UK ", li Oraer W wwwiiiiuwuawj tun uiann nu- 110 WDO nave necomv uur uusvouitjnJ. a iuivv eti uur . . . tl,n. naiohlinM .nl Manila tt raxi ill sin CUHlOUltjrB, "IIU siiiaia J" . 1 j ftriy Villi to .XMlliun uua uwuiuutu uuuuiug,o es'tv ia ""' WANAMAKER ft BROWN, OAK HAI.L CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT, Not. 632, and KK MARK H.'V Street, and Nos. 1, 6, 7, D, 1, and la S. SIXTH Street. MAltltlEU. tjfttwtt Poii-rnv Cirt Thnro.l th 14t.h in ilkll'l'AV .1 ' . - " - . , - - - tiuni at tha Uiint.iat PanionfttrA. Vrt. Aft7 Oftrman. town avenue, by Kev. O. P. KacUes, Mr. Gboroii V. KUPDaCH, or roirrimuwH, i u., to jnina uiuhuii BKirroN, oi wis kivj. iii:i. Barton On the lfltn Instant, Alice Baktok, aped IT years. Funeral from tli residence of her brother-in-law, JoHculi Elverson, No. 437 Stevens street, Camden, ou . i .i rr a a.QO n'.il w. I. bovcb Mabtha Ann Bovcb, damrhter ol John and Mary Boyce, apeu is mourns. The friend and relatives of the family are respect fully invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday at o. nVlnt'tr frnnl N(i. kll VYnilt ufraut uwimiuu -- i - - - - - - - - - --- ...u.. above Pine. KewBoi.n on the morning or the iTtii instant, near wrigniainwu, o., ai.bxandkk nswBULU, Due notice 01 tne mnerai win ue given. morin ApiIIIO. Louis Morin, aeed 19 years. member of St. Peter's Boys' Choir from Its formation. l)tD v lameiiie" uv ms orouier cnuriaiera. Funeral at Ht. Peter's Church, Third and Pine streets, on Tuesday, the lath instant, at ti o'clock- f. M. nnARM.K8. On the 15th Instant, at Cueiten mils. near Philadelphia, IIskbv U. U. Suabplbaj, la the 7thyearof his age. The relatives auu rnenas oi tne iarauy are tnvltea to attend the funeral, from the residence of his brotUvfcia-lijYr, li JUUUD, E4 S!? , Wejt Ftfau Square. Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 19th Instant at is o'clock. WBionT. On the 1t.h Instant. Frank P. Wbioht. son of Louisa 8. and the late James A. Wright, la the 18th year of his age. The relative and friends and those of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral ser vices, at the residence of tils mother, No. 144 N. Eleventh street, on Tuesday evening at IX o'clock. Funeral on Wednesday morning at I o'clock. To proceed to Uartsville. OLOTHINO. JONES' ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, Ko. C04 MARKET Stroot. OUR GARMENTS ARK WELL MADE. OUR CUTTERS ARE MEN OP TALENT. BUT ONE PRICE 19 ASKED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED EVERT PUR CHASER, nmwttptr CEO. W. NIEMANN. NEW PUBLICATIONS, LITriNCOTT'S MAGAZINE For 91 aya WITH FULL-PAGE ILLUSTB ATION3. 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TODQER8 & WOSTKNHOLM'8 POCKET- KNIVES, Pearl ana mat handles, and beautiful finish Bodcera', and Wade A BnUher's Rasors, and the oele. brated Leoonltre Rasor; Ladies' Soissors, ia oases, of the finest qualltri Bodsere' Table Cutlery, Carvers and Porks, Raaor Strops, Cork Sorews, Rte. Ear Instruments, to assist the bearing, oi tbs most approved eonstrnotion, at P. MADEIRA'S. DRY GOODS. "J. W. 1V J. W. TV LACK GOODS. PGiriTE8, ROTUNDES, 8ACQUE8, In White and Black Lima Laces. JOHN 7. THOMAS, Nos. 405 and 407 North SECOND St. 8 80 8mrp PHILADELPHIA. GEORGE FRYER, Io. OlO C'IIi;s:lJT Hftreet, Invites attention to his stock of DRY GOODS, se lected with great care, and will be sold as cheap as any house In the city. BLACK SILKS from li-M to 10 per yard. FANCY SILKS from 11 to 1.0. HBIiNANI la Black and Colors. INDIA AND OTHER SUAWL8. INDIA FONGEB. DRESS GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY, and many articles not to be found In any other store. GIVE US A CALL. 4 6 8m BEST IRON BAREGE IMPORTED. FOURTH AND AROII STREETS, HAVE MADE HERNAN1S A LEADING ARTICLE. MESCH DE FER, MiSCU DE DIAMOND, MESCH DE POISON. EYRE & L.AW1I2I.I. Have now their Second Opening. rorULAR SPRING SILKS, POPULAR JAPANESE SILKS, POPULAR SHAWLS AND ARABS, LAMA LACK JACKETS, 213 8tuth3ra MAGNIFICENT GRENADINES. LINEN STORE, No. 828 ARCH STREET. AND Mo. 1128 CHESFJUT Street Spring; Importations. IMMENSE STOCK OF LINEN GOODS, WHITE GOODS, and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. PRIOES DOWN 8 81 mwf TO PRESENT GOLD RATE TJII2 MISSES McVAUCH A DUNCAN. NO. 114 SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET Have opened their Spring Siook of EMBROIDERIES AND WHITE GOOD3 AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. FRFNOH BREAKFAST CAPS. PIQUK8 IN KVKRY VARIKTY. PLalD, F1UURKD AND bl RIPED NAIN8OOK8, VICTORIA LAWN, OAMBRIO AND JAUONKT LAWN AND SWISS PUFKKD MUSLIN. KRltNOH NAINSOOK AND ORGANDIES. RKAL AND IMITATION LACKS. LADIKS', GENTS' AND CHILDREN'S UANDKER. CHIKF8. LINEN AND LACK COLLARS AND CUFFS. NOVKLTIKS AND FANCY ARTICLES. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO MAKING UP INFANTS' WARDROBES, 82HsmwJinrp GOODS FOR THE LADIES. MRS- R- DILLO N. i-IA. NOS. 823 AND 831 SOUTH STREET, has a Urg assortment of FINE MILLINERY tadiea and Missas, Ribbons, Satins, Silks, Velvets an VeU vetsens. Crapes, Feathers, Flows rs, Frames, 8aab Ribbons, Ornament, Mourning Millinery, Crap Veils, eto. T EMOVAL. MBS. E. HENRY, MANUFAO- Ai turer of Ladies' Cloaks and Mantillas, finding her late location. No. IS North Eighth street, inadequate for her largnlj increaaed business, has removed to the KLKUANT AND SPACIOUS WARKHOOM, at t be Southeast corner of NINTH and ARCH Streets, where she now offers, in addition to her stock of Cloaks and Mantillas, a choice invoice of Paisley Shawls, Lace Points and Sacqnes. '6 iW 8iui FOR SALE. WEST PHILADELPHIA-FOR SALE or to Rent. No. 41 IK RPRUOK Street, very hand. aouie brown' stone front Residence. Mansard roof, side yard, all modern conveniences, in perfect order. Imme diate powesmnn. No. 411K PINK Htrcet-Double Mansion, built of dressed (rrey stone, side yard, every convenience, in perfeot order Possession May 1. ... O. J. FELL 4 BRO., asmwlm No.JJO 8, FRONT Street NO. 131 S. EIGHTEENTH STREET, auov. WALNUT. THOMAS A SONS Will aell this elegant medium size dwelling, April I'i. Possession immediate. Terms one-third oaaa. 4 14 It MFOR 8ALE OR EXCHANGE. Elegant Country Seat on Wilmington Railroad, noar Clsymont Station ; contains 7 sores, good dwelling, ice-house, boat house, and stable. Furniture and sto.lt also for sale, all at a low price. J. H. MORRIS, slStif No. i33 North TENTH Street. FOR SALK, THE DESIRABLE RESI denoe No. 16 Spring Oar-ten street. Immediate posnSSHioil. Apply loVYM. KOSSHL.LiAL.LKN, No. i(4 WA LNUT Street. 41ri3t TO RENT. TO LET THE STORE PROPERTY. NO. 738 Chesnat street, twenty-Ore feet front, on han dred and forty-Uv feet deep to Bennett street Baok buildings fiv stories high. Possession May U 1870. Ad dress THOMAS 8. FLETCHER. U lutf Delano, N. J. FOR RENT PLEASANT HOUSE ON WAtNCJT tttreet. central, at nominal rnnt. Gen- t Ionian and wire wish permanent board. Address (,., "Telegraph Ottioo." 4 18 3t TO LET A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE. with sll the modern conveniences, on Locust ave nue, near n mow avenue, iforiuan'uwa. xiiree minutes walk ironi Clmi-ch Lsne Station. Iinmnrliiite posauHHion. Apply to SCOrf A DAY, No. d N. THIRD Bt. 41361 FOR RENT A LARGE STORE AND XiJi Dwelling, No. liia rtiage avenue, newly Dtted np witn all modern convenienses. Apply to I. O. PKIOH. No. U N, hh.V K.NTU St reet. 816tf TO LET-iW-r DESIRABLE TEN ROOM bonae. No. UI4 Paiisn street. All modern conve niences. Uoe square from the Uuiun Passenger Railroad Deuot. Apply to in tit A,g,5i;';vRe.v,15aJit3tst,,3:, 1ml FIFTH EDITION ran latest nnws. Aggravated Homicide in Cincinnati The Croat Ohio Tire. Etc. r.tc.t i:tc, Etc. Etc, FROM THE STATE. The Rata nasi the Freshet. Rkadino, April 18. Very heavy rains hero during the past thirty-six hours, aud still raining. NoRRiSTOVf n, April 18. Tho Schuylkill Is over eleven feet high, aud still rising. Rain contlnnes. CosanonocKEN, April 18. The river has risen twelve feet at this point, and still rising. Ma ten Chunk, April 18. It has rained here all night and during the greater portion of to day. The Lehigh, is much swollen. Fears are entertained of a freshet if the rain continues. Bethlehem, Pa., April 13. The rain has been very heavy, bat there are Indications of a slacking up this afternoon. The river Is much swollen, Immense volumes of water coining down. Lambeutvillb N. J., April 18 The Dolawara has risen aoout six feet. Still raining. FROM THE WEST, The Medina Fire. CLF.vr-i.AM), Ohio, April 18 The loss by the Medina, Ohio, fire is over 1200,000. Insurance about $70,000. The first boats from Buffalo arrived yesterday belonging to the Union Steam boat Company. But little ice is reported. Navigation may be considered open on Lake Erie. Stabbing Affray In Cincinnati. Cincinnati, April 18. W. H. Sears, private watchman of the Cincinnati Commercial, was stabbed and dangerously wounded in frent of tbe office last night by Jerry Lynch. A brother of Lynch had been arrested on information furnished by Sears. Lynch sought the latter and struck him, when a struggle ensued, ending with inflicting a probably mortal wound. The murderer escapea, but was arrested at Carthage this morning. Sears was recently on the police force, and was a brave officer and excellent man. Tbe crime is one of most infa mous that has occurred here for months. FROM NEW ENGLAND. AJurv Cannot Agree. Boston, April 18. The trial of Newcomb, for burning a school house in Newton, resulted in the disagreement of the jury, and the defen dant was discharged. Senate. Cvntintui from the Becnnd Edilitn. Mr. Drake called for the reading of his amend ment heretofore offered providing for the employ ment of troops by the President for the suppression of acts of violence, and the subjugation and disper sion of Illegal organizations and combinations, etc. VThlle he admitted the proposition was extraordi nary, be claimed that the circumstances t which it was to apply were extraordinary. He had sought (n t tie history of organized atrocity, oatrapte.and murder for a parallel to the events In tbe Southern states, and this could be found In tbe history of the Thug4 of India, of whom he read a brief description. They were a set of assassins, their atrocious practices being followed, not so much for the sake or plunder, as from their ideas of religious worship. A handker chief is the means by which they strangle their vic tims. The Ku-klux of the Rebel States employ the dagger and the pistol, and should be called the American Thugs. In alluding to tbe outrages con tinually committed In tbe South, he caused to be read a letter from North Carolina, addressed to Senator Abbott, lie dared not give the name of the author, for such a promulgation would cost him his life. Mr. Drake proceeded at great length to show Ku Kinx outrages, and contended that there mast be military protection. Mr. Drake finished his speech at S o'clock. It was followed by Mr. Sumner, who replied to the remarks made by Mr. Carpenter on a former occasion in cri ticism of his record and position on this and similar questions. ITease. Continued from the Second Edition. 1 be bouse refused to lav the bill en the table yrss, Id; uajs, 06. The bill was then passed yeas, 66 ; tiays, 83. The bill, which is the one prepared by Mr. Paine, provides that from and after the Bd or March, 1ST1. the House of Representatives shall be composed of 475 members, to be apportioned among the several States, provided that If after such apportionment any new Stat shall be admitted the Representatives from such Slates shall be additional to the number of STS, aud that if the number of Representatives of any Bute shall be reduced by such apportion ment such reduction ahull not take effect in the Forty-second Congress, but such State shall have the same number of Representatives in the Forty second Congress to which It is entitled in the Forty Brat, and that If the representation from any State sball be increased by such apportionment the addi tional Representatives for the Forty-first Congreat shall be chosen by the State at large. The Secretary of the Interior is to ascertain the basis of repre sentation from th preliminary census report. Mr. Stevenson, from the Committee on Elections, made a report in tbe contested election case frm the First Congressional District of Louisiana, declar ing J. II. Hvpber entitled to the seat. He gave notice that he would call it up for action to-morrow, or soon thereafter. Mr. Cake, by way of personal explanation, said that nine years sgo to-day It had been his privilege, with some nve hundred companions, to take Ms place on the floor of the Itousu, not as a representa tive, but as a member of a Pennsylvania volunteer regiment, which he claimed was the ilrst regiment to arrive in Washington. Mr. Wood remarked that it was not Pennsylvania bnt New York that scut the first regiment of soldiers to Washington. Mr. Mtiniren Will the gentleman from Pennsyl vania state who got here ilrst from Bull ltuu? (Laughter.) Mr. Cake, not heeding tho Interruption, went on to state the claims of the 2Stli Pennsylvania Volun teers as the first regiment that arrived In Washing ton, and presented a memorial of the surviving sol diers of that regiment, and a resolution for referenoe to the Committee ou Military Affairs for a suitable medal lor each member or the battalion ilrst to arrive at Washington from Pennsylvania ou the 13th of April isoi. Mr. Hill suggested the same as to the New Jersey troop?. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts lnqnired whether such a resolution was in order in reference to the movement of men who had not a guu in their bands. rim Speaker said that that was not a matter for the Cliuir to rule upon. Mr. Hchenck Inquired In an undertone what regi ment had left the night before Hull Run. Mr. Cuka replied that the gentleman could not say that it was his regiment, and made a remark about i inn's Buttery, from the city of New York, having left the battle-field. i Mr. Ingrrsoll protested against such matters being brought before the House under the guise of per sonal exnlnnatlon. 'i he memorial and resolution were referred to the t'( mmittee on Milltarv Affairs. r. Connor offered a resolution Instructing the Secretary of War to ascertain aud report the num ber of American citizens murdered by the Indians on the irentiers of Texas siuue January, 1S6U. Adopted. The House then, at 8 o'clock, went Into Com mittee of the Whole on the Tariff bill (Mr. Wheeler in the chair), resuming ii at the paragraph taxing at 40 per cent, ad valorem yarns Hiuultj of flax or letup, or of the tow of flax or hemp, or of Jute K rats or tlhre, and all manufactures tif tlax, jute, lu ii p, or like vegetable material not otuenvlso pro vided for in the bill. FROM KUKOPE. The l.uiret wwouttlonit. Livsitpooi.. April 1S-8 P. M HrealituH llrra. Provisions quiet. Spirits of Petroleum, is. vd. . rhln fifvrn. Southampton, April Ii. Arrived, steamship Ilansa tim .Sew York,
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