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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1870.
Th Tlsrte Caller).
MORN.
Vara calleth fondly to a fair boy, Rlrayinp;
'Mid goldea meadows.rioh with clover-dew;
She calls bat he still thinks of naught save
playing;
And so she smiles and waves him an adien;
"Whilst he, still merry with his flowery store,
Dreams not that Morn, sweet Morn, returns
so more 1
NOON.
Noon cometh bnt the boy, to manhood
growing, '
Heeds not the time he sects but one sffeet
form,
One young, fair face, from bower of jasmine
glowing.
And all bis loving heart with blisses warm;
So Noon, unnoticed, seeks the western shore,
And man forgets that Noon returns no more.
WIGHT.
Night tappeth gently at a casement, gleaming
With the thin firelight, flickering faint and
low,
J5y which a gray-hair'd man is sadly dreaming
O'er pleasures gone, as all life's pleasures
go;
Night calls him to her, and he leaves his door
Silent and dark and he returns no more.
Th Legend or William Tell.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth cen
tury that is to say, from its first invention
until the introduction of criticism the story
of Tell, Tell's son, Gessler, and the celebrated
apple trick, seems to have found general cre
dence. Indeed, it was not safe to eipress
any doubt on the subject; so much so that
Guilliamann, who, writing towards the end
of the sixteenth century, first discovered the
anecdotal character of the incidents, took
care, in publishing his history of ancient
Switzerland, to keep his discovery to himself.
"As to what you ask me about Tell," he writes
to a friend, "although in my book on the
ancient history of Switzerland I have eon
formed to the vulgar tradition on the subject,
I must tell you that after mature reflection I
look npon it all as a pure fable, the more so
as I have not yet been able to find it men
tioned in any writer or record more than a
century old. The people of Uri are not agreed
as to when Tell lived, and they can give no
information as to his family or descendants,
though many families still subsist who figured
at the same period."
When, in the last century, Freudenberger
ventured to publish his .famous pamphlet,
"William Tell, a Legend of Denmark," the
work was publicly burnt in the Altorf mar-let-place
by order of the magistrates of Uri.
Of late years, however, the fabulous nature of
the dwirs legend has been- clearly demon
strated by the critics of Germany and Ger
man Switzerland; and in the cantons most
interested in regarding William Tell as an
historic personage his mythical character is
now generally recognized. It was not until
very lately that any question of the genuine
ness and authenticity of the Tell legends was
raised in French Switzerland; but M. ltillett
de Gandolle published last year at Geneva a
work on the "Origin of the Swiss Confedera
tion," in which William Tell, as an actual
personality, is quite put an end to. The
egend of William Tell belongs to no fabu
lous age. The Swiss . chroniclers of the
fifteenth century were imprudent enough
to fix the precise date of the incidents, which
are alleged to have taken place in the year
1308. Yet no account of the incidents is to
be met with until more than a century and a
balf afterwards. The battle of Morgarten,
1315, in which the men of Schwyz liberated
themselves for ever from Austria, found three
contemporary historians; but not one of them
has a word to say about William Toll's insur
rection, which should have taken place only
seven years before, or of the feat of arche ry
by which that insurrection is held to have
been preceded. Nor in the absence of his
torians and chroniclers are there any contem
porary poets in whose verses mention is made
of William Tell or of the Three Swiss. On
the contrary, the earliest known ballad on the
subject is posterior to the earliest prose
chronicle.
The legendary stories out of which Schiller
formed the plot of his William Tdl appeared
for the first time about the year 1470 in the
manuscript known as the "White Book."
Until that time no one had ever beard of
William Tell or of the three Swiss patriots.
But the anonymous author of the "Whito
Book" knew exactly what had taken place
one hundred and sixty-three years before as,
for instance, that a bailiff of Sarnen, named
Iandenberg, had been ordered to seize the
oxen of a poor man belonging to Melchi
(whence "Melchthal"), and, being attacked
in the execution of his duty, had put tho poor
man's eyes out; that various acts of oppres
sion had been committed by an Austrian gov
ernor named Gessler; and that the victims of
these acta belonging to Obwald, Nidwald,
and Schwyz, had formed a league to resist
and overthrow the Austrian domination. For
the canton of Uri, the cradle of Helvetio
liberty, another anecdote had to be provided;
and the author of the "White Book' did not
hesitate to adapt one from the Danish, lie
had read in the "Danish History" of Saxo
GrammaticuB an abridgment of which, in
German, was published in 14:50 the story of
Tokko, one of KiBg Harold's soldiers, who,
boasting of his skill as an archer, was ordered
to bhoot an apple from the head of his own
son. Substituting Tell for Tokko, Gessler
for Harold, and throwing in plenty of local
color, the author of the "White Book" turned
the old Danish story into a capital story of
Switzerland. The hat fixed on a pole, before
which all who passed were to bow, is an
effective detail added by the adapter himself,
'whose tale is certainly more complete and far
more dramatio than the one told by Saxo-
urammaticus.
What, it will be asked, was the moral ori
gin of the anecdotes on Swiss affairs inserted
in the "White Book?" M. Hungerbutfler
ana i'roiessor vaucher agree in attributing
their invention to a political motive. About
the middle of the fifteenth century the citizens
ox z.uncn were weu-aisposed towards Austria,
and professed great contempt for the people
or benwyz, wan wnom tney were at war.
Songs ridiculing the peasantry of Schwyz,
were composed, and Canon Heuimerlin, in a
treatise on the nobility, represented them a
a vile race, who had dared to shake off their
allegiance to their lawful master, the Prince
of the House of Uapsburg. It was probably,
then, in reply to the attacks uf Hetmnerlin
that the author of the "White Book," meeting
invention with invention, introduced into his
work the tales of Austrian tyranny and Swiss
courage which together make up the story of
William Tell. The majority of lecwnda may
be desciibed as poetical formations around a
simple fact; but in the case or the William
Tell legend the simple f act seems to have
teen wanting. instead, moreover,
i getting pulled to pieces
liked other legends in which, as
time goes on, the false gets gradually sepa
rated from the true, the legend of William
Tell went on prospering and increasing from
. century to century and from generation to
feneration. The Swiss soil must certainly
bave boen well suited for its reception, for it
at once struck root and grew, and now, what
ever criticism may say, is for poetical pur
poses indestructible. After the "White
Book" came the "Tellenlied" (1474), in which
the hero, who in the prose chronicle is called
"The Tall" (Tall signifying "daft"), bears
the name, whioh is never afterwards to desert
him, "Wilhelm Tell." The "Tellenlied"
celebrates the formation of the Swiss Con
federation, of which Uri is the nucleus, while
of tms nucleus leu is the heart and soul.
The chronicle of Stumpff (1548) and that
of Tschudi (1572) give fuller and
fuller accounts of the history of the
imaginary wiuiam Tell; and Tschudi,
witn the naive mendacity of an inventive
child, names the very day on which each sup-
Josed incident took place. It was on the 25th
uly, 1307, being St. James' Day, that Gess
ler's hat was first hoisted on the pole, and it
was on the bandar after the festival of St.
Othmar, the 18th of November in the same
year, that William Tell passed to and fro
before it without uncovering himself. The
insurrectionary movement began on the 1st
of January, 1308, and the oath of the three
cantons was sworn on the 7th of January.
Tschudi could, if he pleased, name the hour
and the minute. As it is, he tells us the
exact terms of the alliance, which was formed
for ten years. He was personally acquainted
with Furst, of Uri, and reveals for the first
time the fact, Bince accepted by Muller, and
at a later period by Scaler and by Kossini,
that his Christian name was Walter.
Mnller comes forward with details unsus
pected even by Tschudi. William Tell, he
has ascertained, was born at Burglen. ne
married Furst's (Walter Furst's) daughter.
and he had two sons, William, named after
himself, and Walter, named after the
father-in-law. Gessler's Christian name was
Hermann, and Marguet, the wife of Stauf
facher, was a Herlobig by birth. These par
ticulars, obviously of Muller's own fabrica
tion, impart, nevertheless, a wonderful air of
truthfulness to the narrative. The historian
knew as well as a modern novelist the artistic
value of details, and to give additional reality
to nis taie did not nesitate to name and char
acterize every personage that he introduced.
So when he brought out the second edition of
his "Peau de Chagrin," Balzac, in the scene
of the banquet, and designated by proper
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names mciueiiiai characters wnom, in me
first edition, he had vaguely mentioned as "a
barrister, ' "a vaudevilliste, "a journalist,
"a physician," the French novelist had dis
covered what the Swiss hittorian knew full
well that if you introduce a personage to a
reader, and wish him to be believed in, you
must at least take the trouble to give him a
name.
Mnller, all the same, was conscientious after
his own manner, only ho held strange views
as to the duty of an historian, thinking ap
parently that his one great aim should be to
render his work interesting to the reader.
Do not let us blame him too severely, for
Muller's descriptions furnished Schiller with
the groundwork of some of his finest passages,
and supplied' material which was one day to
inspire Kossini. The ram chs vacltes, the
storm on the lake, the fishermen, the shep
herds, and all the picturesque details which
give such naturalness and beauty to the drama,
were of Muller's own invention. Muller had
a contempt for mere truth; perhaps he did
not believe in it. But he professed an
artist's regard for truthfulness, probability,
appropriateness; and ne takes care in a
foot-note to justify his description of Stauff-
acber s house, observing that "the antiquity
of this mode of building is proved by Prisons,
Lagatio ad Attuam. You may think what
you please of his right to invent characters
and incidents, but do not for one moment
suspect him of sinning against verisimilitude,
either of time or place.
1 rom penod to period the story of William
Tell becomes not only more complete and
more dramatic, but also more and more Swiss,
until in Schiller's play there is such a super
abundance of bwiss details that by that and
that alone (as a Swiss critic has ingeniously
pointed out) it can be seen that the poet is
not a native of Switzerland. He knows the
country by hearsay and by his own
vivid imagination. Everything in the
drama is thoroughly Swiss, only there is
too much of it. There are too many
remarks on cows and chamois, two many
precipices and chasms, too many winding
pains; the shepherds ot the Alps are like
German tourists astonished at seeing in
Switzerland what tney never could bave seen
at Weimar. Finally, in the hands of Kossini
the drama becomes more intensely Swiss than
even Schiller bad made it. in the opera we
not only see the Swiss sights, we hear the
Swiss sounds, though the crtio just cited
would probably say that Swiss fishermen do
not sing barcaroles, that the corno di basseito
is not used in the Swiss mountains, and that
the ram des t aches, aocording to Kossini, is
not so much a recollection as a beautiful
dream of Switzerland.
THE BRETON BLUE-BEARD.
In the ancient Abbey of St. Gildas de
Khuys, in Brittany, may be seen a rude
colored print relative to the legend of Co
morre, or Comor, the Breton "Blue-beard,"
in which bt. Gildas plays a conspicuous part.
The story, as told by Emile Souvestre, is
this: Uuerech, Count of Vannes, the coun
try of white corn, bad a daughter, Triphyna,
whom be tenderly loved. One day ambassa
dors arrived from Comorre, a prince of Cor-
nouaille, the country of the black corn, de
manding her in marriage. Now this caused
great distress; for Comorre was a giant, and
one of the wickedest of men, held in awe by
every one for bis cruelty. As a boy, when he
went out, his mother used to' ring a bell to
warn people of his approach. He shot a
child in order to prove his gun; and, when
unsuccessful in the chase, wuuld set his dogs
on the peasants to tear them to pieces. But
most horrible of all, he had had four wives,
who all died, one after the other, under sus
picion of having been killed by either the
knife, fire, water, or poison. The Count of
Yannes, therefore, dismissed the embassa
dors, and advanced to meet Comorre, who
was approaching with a powerful army; but
St. Gildas went into her oratory, and begged
Triphyna would save bloodsnad, and consent
to the marriage, lie gave her a surer ring,
which would warn her of any
intended evil by taming, at the ap
proach of danger, as black as the crows
wing. The marriage took place with great
rejoicings. The first day six thousand guests
were invited; on the next as many poor were
fed, the bride and the bridegroom serving at
table, a napkin under their arms. For some
time all went on well. Comorre 'a nature
seemed changed, bis prisons were empty, his
gibbets untenanted; but Triphyna felt no
confidence, and every day went to pray at the
tombs of his four wives. At this time there
was an assembly at liennes of the Breton
princes, which Comorre was obliged to attend.
Before bis departure be gave Triphyna the
keys, desirine her to amuse nerseu in nis
absence. After five months he unexpectedly
returned, and found her occupied in trimming
tm infant's cap with gold-lace. On seeing the
cap Comorre turned pale; and when Triphyna
joyfully announced to him that in two months
he would be a father, he drew back in a rage
and ruBned out or the apartment, lnphyna
ttaw that her ring had turned black, which be
tokened danger, she knew not why. She de
scended into me cnapel to pray. When she
arose to depart it was midnight, and she saw
the four tombs of Comorre's wives open
slowly, and they all issued forth in their
winding-sheets. Half dead with-fear.
Triphyna tried to escape; but the spectres
cried, "Take care, poor lost one! Comorre
Beeks to kill you." "I! sayB the Countess;
"what evil have I done?" "You have told
him that you will Boon become a mother; and,
through the Spirit of Evil, he knows that his
child will kill him; and that is why he has
murdered us, when we told him what he has
just learned from you." "What hope, then,
of escape remains for raer cried Triphyna.
"Go back to your father," answered the
phantoms. "But how escape, when
Comorre s dog guards the court? "Give him
this poison which killed me," said the first
wife. "But how can I descend this high
wall?" "By means of this cord which stran
gled'roe," answered the second wife. "But
who will guide me through the dark ?" "The
fire which burned me," replied the third wife.
'And how can 1 make so long a journey?
returned Triphyna. "Take this stick which
broke my skull, returned the fourth spectre.
Armed with these weapons Triphyna sets out,
silences the dog, scales the wall, sees her way
througn tne darkness, and proceeds on her
road to Vannes. On awaking next morning
Comorre finds his wife fled and pursues her
on horseback. The poor fugitive, seeing her
ring turn black, turned oil the road and hid
herself till night in the cabin of a shepherd.
where waff only an old magpie in a cage at
the door. Comorre, who had given up the
Eursuit, was returning home that road, when
e heard the magpie trying to imitate her
complaints, and calling out "Poor Triphyna! "
lie tnerei ore Knew nis wit e had passed that way,
and set his dog on the track. Meanwhile Tri-
hyna felt she could proceed no further, and
ay down on the ground, where she brought
into tne world a boy or marvellous beauty.
As she clasped him to her arms, she saw over
her head a falcon with a golden collar, which
she recognized as her father's. The bird came
to her call, and giving it the warning ring of
St. Gildas, she told it to fly with it to her
father. The bird obeyed, and flew with it
like lightning to Vannes; but almost at the
same instant Comorre arrived. Having parted
witn ner warning ring, Triphyna, who had
no notice of his approach, had Only time to
conceal her babe in the cavity of a tree, when
Uomorre threw himself upon his unhappy
wif e,and with one blow seyered.her head from
her body. When the falcon arrived at
Vannes, he found the King at dinner with
St. Gildas. He let the ring fall into the silver
cup of his master, who, recognizing it, ex
claimed, "My daughter is in danger 1 Saddle
the horses, and let St. Gildas accompany us."
Following the falcon, they Boon reached the
spot where Triphyna lay dead. After they
had all knelt in prayer, St. Gildas said to the
corpse, "AriBe; take thy head and thy child,
and follow us." The dead body obeyed; the
bewildered troop followed. But, gallop as
fast as they could, the headless i body was
always in front, carrying the babe in her left
hand, and her pale head in the right. In
tms manner tney reached tin: castle of Co
morre. "Count," said St. Gildas, "I bring
back your wife such as your wickedness has
made her, and thy child such as Heaven
has given it thee. Wilt thou receive them
under thy roof ?" Comorre was silent. The
Saint three times repeated the question, but
no voice returned an answer. Then St Gildas
took the new-born infant from its mother.
'and placed it on the ground. The child
marched alone to the edge of the moat, and
picking up a handful of earth and throwing it
against the castle, exclaimed, "Let the Trinity
execute judgment !" At the same instant the
towers shook and fell with a great crash; the
walls yawned open and the castle sank, bury
ing Comorre and all his fellow-partners in
crime. St. Gilda3 then replaced Triphyna's
head upon her shoulders, laid his hands upon
her, and restored her to life, to the great joy
of her father.
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tallsts, Gentlemen of Leisure, Invalids, and
all wanting a homestead In s climate of an
surpassed salubrity, exempt from tn rigors
of A Northern winter, and In close connec
tion with the commercial centres of the South. Few
If any sections offer such a combination of induce
menu as the town of Aiken, S. C, and iu vicinity
for a desirable and permanent home. A pamphlet
of 84 pages now ready, containing a description of
the climate, soils, and the nature of theproducUin
the vicinity of Aiken, especially fruit, cereals, cotton,
corn, vegetables, etc., Including extracu from
letters of distinguished visitors, correspondents,
i
action of town councils inviting emigrants, etc., to
which is added a descriptive list of property for sale,
Including improved farms, orchards, vineyards
water powers, kaolin deposits, aniirproved lands,
and town residences. For sale by K. J. C. WOOD,
Real Estate Agent, Aiken, 8. C. The book will be
sent by mail on receipt of price, M cent. Address
J. C. DERBY, Publisher, P. O. Box No. 1439, New
York, until 1st of February, after that date a
Aiken, 8. C. IT Sin
Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory.
JOHN T. BAILEY.
N. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET St
HOPE AND TWIN!". BAOB and BAGGING, for Grain
t lour, bait, super I'huapnate oi lism, ooue vmsi, clo,
Laraeaad small GUMWY BAOS constantly on band.
Ii Also, WOOL BACKS.
DRY GOODS.
1870.
LLAMA SACK8.
1870.
EYRE IL.A.NDIZL.L,,
FOURTn AND ARCH STREETS,
Open to-day an Invoice of DOGIN A CIS MAKB
CELEBRATED
LLAMA LACE JACKETS,
SAILOR JACKETS,
LLAMA PALM KRSTON9,
LLAMA FADETTES,
LLAMA PANIERS,
LLAMA POINTS,
LLAMA LACE SUITS. 13 8tuth3m
N. B. The following goods we are running this
week : Paisley Shawls, Iron Bareges, Tourists' Dress
Goods, Fine Marseilles, White Corduroy, 3 Black
Silks, per yard for best 8-4 Grenadine de Per."
GEORGE FltYER,
No. DIG CHESNUT Street,
Invites attention to his stock of DRY GOODS, se
lected with great care, and will be Bold as cheap as
any house in the city.
BLACK SILKS from ll-BO to 0 per yard.
FANCY SILKS from 1 to 110.
EERNANI in Black and Colors.
INDIA AND OTHER SHAWLS.
INDIA PONGEE.
DRESS GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY, and many
articles not to be found In any other store.
GIVE US A CALL. 4 6 2m
M
Ii 8. R. DILLON.
HOS. 833 AND 881 BOUTH BTREET.
Ladle and Misses Crspe, Gimp, Hair, Pamela and
Straw Round and Pyramid Hats; Ribbons, Satins, Bilks,
Velvets and Velveteens, Crapes, Feathers, Flowers,
Frames, Bash Ribbons, Ornaments, Monrain Millinery,
Crape Veils, eta. 1
T ADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS
XJ Staple and Faner.
! rinses. Gimps, and Buttons.
Pearl Buttons, a Rood assortment.
F.mbroidered Mippers and Cushions.
American Zephyr.
Berlin Zephyr sold, full weight.
4 It stnth 3m R APHON'8,
4 8St N. W. cor. of EIGHTH and CHERRY Streets.
Tjvtvir T uyo n usmvv f xittc a m
tnrer of Ladles' Cloaks snd Mantillas, flndins; her
late location. No. 16 North Kightb street, inadequate for
ber largely increased business, has removed to the
Kl.FHANT AND SPACJIOU8 WaRKROOM. at t he
Southeast corner of NINTH snd AKUH Streets, where
she now offers, in addition to her stock of Cloaks and
Mantillas, a cnoioe invoice oi raisiey ttnawis, uus
rotate and Bacqnes. a m
OARPETINOS, ETO.
CARP ET I N G 8,
OIL CLOTII8MATTIltaS,
HUGS, IKUETS,
Stair and Hall Carpeting
IN GREAT VARIETY.
PRICES ALL REDUCED.
R. L. KNIGHT & SON,
No. 1222 CHESNUT STREET,
BDStuthSm PHILADELPHIA.
EW CARPETING 8.
We are now openinf a fall line of
FOREIGN and DOMESTIC CARPETS
OIL CLOTHS,
AND
M A. T T I N O S,
OF ALL GRADES,
Which we are offering at greatly reduced prices from last
season.
LEED0M, SMAW & STEWART,
No. G35 MARKET Street,
tmhutnSm PHILADELPHIA.
ARCH STREET CARPET
WAREHOUSE.
CARPETINGS.
New Styles at the Reduced Bates
BRUSSELS, 3-FLYS, INGRAIN, AND VENETIAN
CARPETJLIfUS,
At 28 per cent. lower than last season's priossv
JOSEPH BLACKWOOD.
No. 832 ARCH STREET,
S 19 2mrp Below Ninth, South Bids.
TATENTED AUGUST, 1806. IMPROVED
A Mareh, 1869. Carpets thoronchly oleaned by the only
Machine in tne United States that removes Moths
and Worms snd revives the colors nend orders to WIL.
LI AM MCAKTUUK, Ho, 1418 BOUltt Htreet. N.
Patent rights for b tales and oities lor sale. 6 3 Ut
BOOTS AND SHOES.
BARTLETT,
No. S3 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
Ever thankful for the patronage extended
heretofore, and desirous of lurthur favors, begs
announce his SPRING STYLES OF BOOTS and
SHOES for Gents' and Boys' wear.
A large assortment of CUSrOM-MADB GOODS,
made on bis Improved Lasts, which are unrivalled
for comfort and beauty, enables him to furnish a
ready fit at all times, 1 13 thstuDdl
GROCERIES, ETO.
1809.
"YARRANTEP GENUINE OLD
Government Java Coffee
Iloastetl every day. at 4LO cents
per pound, at
COUSTYS East End Grocery
Ho. 118 South HIZCJONU St.,
llTthsto BELOW CHESNUT BTBKET
D EINQ AND SOOURINQ.
T o O E P II MLOTTET,
fj ELKVK VK fi.tl.in.
FRENCH BTEAM DYK1NU
API Lf
SOOURINQ,
On any kind of Wearing Apparel, for Ladies, Uenta, .and
Obil
lildrea. Patent aspajcataa fee BWetanius: ranis irom
ne to hve inches.
Ho. tOt 8. NINTH Street,
Philadelphia,
LOST.
T OST CERTIFICATE No. 6551 FOR 3
XJ SHARKS COMMON BTOUK. OI tne LIT HIGH
V ALLS.Y KiLKUAU uuarssi.is name oi iiary jc,
Chance. A ppUcatioa nas Been ataae lor renewal.
Aynmiim aoiat"
8EW1NQ MACHINES.
THE AMERICAN
Combination Button-Hole
AXS
SEWING MACHINE
Is now admitted to be far superior to all other as l
Family Machine. The SIMPLICITY, BASE and
CERTAINTY with which It operates, as well as the
uniform excellence of It wort, throughout the en
tire range of sewing, In '
Stitching, Hemming-, Felllnar
Tucking, Cording, Jlraldlng, ,
Quilting, Gathering and
Hewing on, OTemeamlng,
Embroidering on the
Edge, and its Iseautlful
IluttonIIole and Eye
let Hole Work,
Place It unquestionably far In advance of any othefc
similar Invention.
This Is the only new family machine that emb&les
any Buosianuai improvement npon tne many oiu
machines In the market I
It Certainly has no Equal.
It Is also admirably adapted to manufacturing puN
poses on all kinds of fabrics.
Call and see it operate and get samples of thoy
work.
We have also for sale our "PLAIN AMERICAN
a beautiful family machine, at a Reduced Price.
This machine does all that Is done on the Combina
tlon except the Overseamlng and Button-hole work
Office and Salesrooms,
No. 1318 CIIESNTJT ST.
i
4!8thstu3mrp PHILADELPHIA.
PROPOSALS.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
To Railroad Contractors.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the office et
the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY,
No. 120 BROADWAY, corner of Cedar street, Ne
iorK, .until Wednesday, the 1st day o;
une, 1870, at 12 o'clock Noon, for th
Grading, Masonry, Bridging and Ballast!
of that portion of the Northern PaclOo Railroad
the State of Minnesota, extending from the Dalles
the St, Louis River to the Red River, the weste
boundary of Minnesota (a distance of about 83
miles), including everything requisite to comple
the road-bed for a single track, and necessary sid
tracks, ready to receive the rail superstructure.
Proposals may be for the work in detail, or by thq
mile.
The said Company will also receive Proposals, ti
the same time and place, for the timber cross-tlesJ
and for the Iron rallB, spikes, and fixtures for tha
road as above. The Iron rails to be delivered on the!
dock at Duluth, Minnesota, or at the crossing of thol
Mississippi River, and the ties to be received accordA
ing to blank forms which will be ready for distriba-i
tlon on WEDNESDAY, May 4, 18T0, at the office olj
the Company, as above, where plans of the strucl
tures, and maps and profiles of the road, with ful
specifications, can then be seen, and the time al
lowed for completion of the contracts made knownJ
The Company reserve the right to reject any or al
bids not deemed to be for the Interest of the Company,
Printed circulars containing full information will
be furnished on application, by mall or otherwise
to EDWIN P. JOHNSON, Chief Engineer, or to thl
President of the Company, at the office, No. 19a
imuAD wax, as aoove.
J. GREGORY SMITH,
President Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
New York, April 26, 1870. , 4 27 lOt
LEGAL. NOTICES.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CITY!
- AND COUNTY OB" PHILADELPHIA.
MATTHEW CRAIG, Assignee, etc, vs. JOHN MoLEAN
and SARAH, bis wife, District Ooort. Levari Facias,
,1 u n ant , .'r. I
The Auditor appointed by the Conrt to report distribn
tion of the fund in Conrt derived from a Sheriff's sals,
under the above entitled writ, of
All that certain lot or piece ef groand.with the improve
ments thereon erected .situate on thewest side of Amerioaa
street, in the Seventeenth ward of the City of Philadel
phia, 180 feet north from Master street, thence northward
along American street 72 feet, thence westward at right
angles to American street 61 feet inches, thence west
ward at right angles to Oadwalader street 61 feet 7J
inches to said Oadwalader street, thence southwardly
along the earns 73 feet, thence eastward at right angles
thereto 48 feet inches, and thenoe farther eastward
at right angles to American street 48 feet inches to be
ginning. Subject to ground-rent of $433.
Will attend to the duties of his appointment npon
WEDNESDAY, May It, 1870, at SH o'clock P.M., at his
office, No. 618 WALNUT Street, in said city, when and
where all persons intersated are required to make their
claims before the Auditor or bs debarred from coming is
npon said fund. B. O. M1TOHKLL,
4 28 lot - Auditor.
ROOFING.
READY ROOFIN G.
This Booting is adapted to all buildings. It can b
applied to BTKKP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the eapeuae of tin. It is readily pot On Old
Shinrle Hoofs without amoving the shingles, thus avoid,
lag the damaging of ceiuags and furniture while under,
gules repairs. (Nogavel nsel )
PBJtSKBViC VOL H TIN KOOFS WITH WKLTOIP
ELASTIC PAINT.
I am always prepared to Kopair aud Faint Roofs st shst
notice. Also, PAINT 1UR HA1.K by the barrel ox galiosi
the best and eheapest in the market. WKI.TOH
B 176 No. 7U U. NIMH Street.'above Ooatis.
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFsl
lyjot the late trm sf KVAKS WATBOW.M j!
FIRE AND BUKGIiAU-FKOOP
NO. 63 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
IBU AlswdooxsabovsOhesnatsi.,Philai
PAPER HANGINGS.
7 OOK! LOOKM LOCK !!!-WALL PAPERS
XJ and Linen Window Shades Manufactured, thei
cheapest in the city, at JOHNSTON'S Depot, No. luaa
bPhlNO GAKPtJ Street, below Eleventh. .Branch, No,
8u7 JKDKRAL Street, Uamden, New Jersey. W
JET GOODS. NEWEST STYLES DIXON'S
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