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
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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.
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CAKPETINGS.
New Styles at the Reduced Rates
BRUSSELS, 3-PLYS, INGRAIN, AND VENETIAN
CARPETlIVCiSS,
At 85 per cent, lower than last season's prioes.
JOSEPH BLACKWOOD,
No. 832 AKCH STREET,
S 19 2mrp t Below Ninth, Sooth Side.
UPHOLSTERY GOODS, ETC."
I .1 - i 1 I Sj
NOBLIT, BROWN, N0BL1T & CO.,
Nos. 222 and 218 S. SECOND Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Importers, Manufacturers and ealers in
Upholstery Goods.
Car Trimmings,
Cabinet Makers' and Undertaken'
Findings'.
Swiss at d Nottingham Curtains,
Eair Beating, Curled Hair Bedding:,
ETO. ETC., 8I83m5p
Wholesale and Retail.
ICb.
DENN ICE COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Incorporated 1863.
OrTKlOKS,
8. W. Corner FOURTH and LIBRARY,
No. 408 North TWENTY-FIRST Hireet.
Pbipping IXapot. bPRUOE STREET WHAKK, Sohuyl
kill River. OHAS. J. WOLBKRT, Pretident.
SS0 Gotrp OH 48. B. REKS, Superintendent.
CUTLERY, ETO.
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,