THE DAILY EVENtNQ TOLEdRAPIIIIILlmLPHlA,' THUKSDAY,1 AUGUST 18, 187a
MTEIIATURIJ.
Of JV2J IV SO 0X8.
There are a thousand indications that the
classics will not in the future maintain the
aame ascendancy that they haye from the re
YiTal of learning almost to the present time;
not that there ia any danger of the study of
classical literature falling into absolute neg
lect, for although it may be in a great mea
sure superseded as a mere educator, it will be
treasured, just as are the works of antique
Art, fox its own great worth, and as a standard
of taste and a means of culture. There is no
doubt, however, that the study of the
classics in the original will be confined
to a comparatively small circle of soholars;
but whatever may be the neglect into which
they may fall, the subjects of which they
treat have been so incorporated into our
own literature that a certain amount of
acquaintance with them will be necessary to
every reader of books who wishes to read in
telligently. For the benefit of such as have
not the time, or perhaps not the inclination,
to study the classic authors, the neat series
of hand-books entitled "Ancient Classics for
English Headers," edited by Rev. W. Lucas
Collins, M. A., and published by J. B. Lip
pincott & Co., will be found to contain just
the kind of information that is needed. We
have before us abstracts of Homer's "Iliad"
and "Odyssey," prepared by the editor, and
"Cfcsar," prepared by Anthony Trollope.
These books give in' a concise shape the
utory told by the respective authors whom
they represent, together with the passages
from the best' translations as specimens of
their style; and while they may not be satis
factory to scholars, they will be appreciated
by ordinary readers, who will be able to
gather from them just the kind of knowledge
of the poets, philosophers, historians, and
dramatists of Greece and Home that is neces
sary to a proper understanding of the allu
sions constantly made to them by English
writers. Of the projected series, "Homer,"
"Herodotus," and "Cresar" have already been
issued, and these will be followed by "Virgil,'
Horace," "iEschuylus," "Sophocles," "Ci
cero," "Aristophanes," "Juvenal,"and others.
"The Feminine Soul," by Elizabeth
Btrutt, published by Henry n. and T. W.
Carter, is a book that will scarcely suit the
advanced ideas of the female reformers of
this day, most of whom appear to have a
standing grievance against the Almighty be
cause He did not make them men, and against
the masculine portion of the human race be
cause they are incapable of assuming some
of the most important duties that have by
Providence been delegated to the sex femi
nine, and are therefore obliged to content
themselves with such comparatively insignifi
cant privileges as voting and earning bread
and butter for their families. Miss Strutt is
of the opinion that the feminine soul as
well as the feminine body is cast in a
different mould from that of the mascu
line, and that as a natural consequence the
abilities, tastes, feelings, and aspirations of
women must be different from those of men.
While the spheres of action of the two sexes
are in some respects widely divergent, one is
nevertheless quite as important as the other,
and according to Miss Strutt's view of the
case, a woman with a mission will accomplish
the object of her creation better by not for
getting that she is a woman than by attempt-
,ing to usurp the prerogatives of masculinity.
' The book contains' many.'so'und and sensible
' ideas and Bome"hpughts -upon marriage and
feminine duties that are worthy of the atten-
tion of the class of readers to which they are
particularly addressed. Received from J. B.
Lippincott fc Co.
T. B. Peterson & Brothers send us "Aunt
Margaret's Trouble," a very pleasantly writ
ten story by the daughter of Charles Dickens,
which originally appeared in AU the Tear
Round, and which has achieved considerable
popularity.
Part 39 of "Zell's Popular Encyclopedia''
brings the work down to the title "Milford."
In the article "Medici" a great mistake is
made in styling the monument upon which
are placed Michael Angelo's statues of Night
and Day and the famous 11 Pensicroso the
tomb of Lorenzo the Magnificent. One of
our contemporaries, in correcting the error
of the editor of the "Encyclopedia" a few days
ago, also made a mistake in stating that the
statue, of "the man thinking", represented
Lorenzo II, Duke of Urbino, grandson of
Lorenzo the Magnificent, and father of Cathe
rine de Medici. The fact is that the statue
in question represents Giuliano de Medici,
Duke of Nemours, and son of Lorenzo the
Magnificent,, while the statue above the
figures of Morning and Evening is that of
Lorenzo II. We refer the editors of "Zell's
Encyclopedia," and all others interested, to
Herman Grimm's "Life of Michael Angelo,"
where the mistake of Vasari and others with
regard to the statues in question is explained
and coirected. -
The September numbers of Arthur's
Home Magazine and TIte Children's Hour
are nicely illustrated, and are- filled with
entertaining reading for old and young, lie
ceived from Turner &. Co.
The Lady'i Friend for September, whioh
has also been sent ns by Turner & Co., has a
steel-plate frontispiece entitled "The Twin
Sleepers, " a double-page colored fashion
plate, and a variety of other illustrations.
The literary contents comprise stories,
sketches, poetry, and practical articles on
housewifery that will be appreciated by the
fair sex.
The Central News Company, No. 505
Chestnut street, Bends us the August numbers
cf The CvrnhiU Magazine, Temple Bar, All
the Year Bound, and London Society.
A confidence operator, named W. II. Hall,
recently attempted to work upon the sympa
thies of the Freemasons of Daubury, Vt,, by
aaying tbat he had come from California, and
had lost 500,000 by the way. Be was obliged
to haul off precipitately, in order to save him
atlf from a clucking in a neighboring horse-pond.
THE SEPTEMDER MAG AZINES.
LirpiNCoir's."
The contents of the September number of
Lippincott's Magazine are as follows:
"Admetus," illustrated by E. B. Bensell, by
Emma Lazarus; "The Story of the Sapphire,"
by Lucy Hamilton Hooper; "By Steam and
Paddle to Manitoba," by John Lesperance;
"About Dogs," by Donn Piatt; "Sir Harry
Hotspur of Humblethwaite, Part V, by An
thony Trollope; "Mexican Reminiscences;"
"A Pilgrimage," by Barton mil; "The
House of Pennypacker & Son," by J. W. Wat
son; "Waifs from Field, Camp, and Garri
son," by James Franklin Fitts; "On the
Hypothesis of Evolution,'" III, concluded, by
Edward D. Cope; "A Glimpse of Quebec," by
John Esten Cooke; "My Story," by J. F.
Stone; "Errata," by George n. Calvert; "Our
Monthly Gossip;" "Literature of the Day."
The following graceful sketch of a "pil
grimage" to the late home and the. grave
of Dickens, from the pen of Barton Tlill, is
as interesting as anything in tho magazine.
Mr. Hill's admirers will be plaoaod to see that
he can write as well as he can act, although
there is nothing surprising in this, as he had
considerable experience as a printer and as a
journalist before he adopted his present pro
fession: i.
Wellington street, Strand ! Close to the
arteries of London, one of its important
veins, and keeping tip a healthy circulation.
Teeming with life, a busy yet quiet thorough
fare. Among that hive of men too intent
upon their labor to notice it or you, and
heeding them as lightly, yon make your way
to a plain, unobtrusive, little-noticed corner
house, claimed by Wellington and York
streets the nursery, for many years, of a
world-famed journal. How often you have
observed that building, and wished to look
upon its owner! How you long to look upon
him now! How willingly you would give up
a part of your own existence to Bee him at
this moment, a living man and entering
that doorway! You cannot realize that
he is dead: you listen vainly for the
footfall that will never come, for the
sound of a voice that none will ever hear
again.
AU the Tear Round is published in that
building: all the year round privileged fin
gers have put into leaden type the golden
fancies of his master mind. Who shall take
his place hereafter? An idle pen, a deserted
desk, a vacant chair: who is worthy to assume
that throne? Willing but sad hearts are there,
working with honest purpose to fulfil his
wish, paying his memory the tribute of the
sighs they could not, if they would, conceal.
Fill as they may the column, the page must be
a blank: the leaf is withered, the book is closed,
the building is in mourning, the temple is a
ruin. The illustrations of his works alone lie
on the window shelves. The works them
selves adorn the walls within. .You enter and
purchase the latest number issued in his life,
and look your last upon a spot you will not
wish to see again; yet linger on the threshold
for the sad interest attaching to it. There is
a sense of desolation upon everything around
it that you cannot wonder at, and that you
fully share. It is no longer a habitation: it is
a tomb. You cast your eyes upon the oppo
site walls, and they rest upon these words:
"TJie Tablet;" "Catholic Truth Society."
Strange ! The catholic truths have emanated
from this tomb: its tablet is the title-page,
"The Story ox our Laves from Year to
Year." Turn aside, pilgrim: you are intent
upon the Story of a Death, for which you are
but one of many million mourners.
ii.
Along the crowded Strand to the South
eastern Railway. So many flowers greet you
on each side that it might seem the country
had responded to your wish and sent its roses
to invite your coming. No man so poor but
wears a flower in his coat the driver of the
omnibus, the cabman, the newsboy, the
bootblack, the fusee-vender and not
one among them but would drop that
flower as a token of respect and love
upon Charles Dickens' coffin: they would
hide his grave with roses. It is not strange
that you associate all things with him: huma
nity itself recalls the man who drew its scenes
with such a wondrous and graphio power.
His writings lie on every bookstand, and the
walls yet bear the promise of that never-to-be-unraveled
"Mystery of Edwin Drood." No
one seems to notice them: why should they ?
He died a week ago: the whole world felt
the blow upon the following morning, and
now the pain alone remains the dull,
dead, ceaseless, aching sense of something
lost for ever. The very engine shrieks its
lamentations as it ploughs its way through
villages and fields that knew him almost as
he knew them. How lately he admired the
flint-bordered gardens of yonder signal-station
the varied colors of the wild "dragon's
head" upon the chalky sides of the excavated
road the red poppies in yon field of oats
that bowed to him as he passed by! They
droop their heads as if in mourning now.
Higham! Here he left the noisy train to
walk or drive a mile up yonder hill, to what
was yesterday his home. You travel on to
Strood, and thence by omnibus the "short,
squat omnibus, with a disproportionate heap
of luggage on the roof like a little Elephant
with infinitely too much Castle" to Roches
ter, for you are seeking the home of his
childhood. You leave the omnibus, or,
rather, it leaves you, at the "Clock" in High
street, and find yourself in Cloisterham.
Every stone in this old city was known to
him. You cannot look upon an inch of space
he has not seen and analyzed. Cloisterham !
He has so well described it in his latest
chapters that it seems familiar to you too.
You enter that old gateway and wander round
the cathedral close, meeting an acquaintance
at every Btep. You recognize each face, for
you . have seen it in his books. Turn
from the living to the dead, and
the first tombstone that meets your
gaze bears the name of "Dorritt." You nave
his own authority for saying that, excepting
appellations coined for the wise purposes of
his sermon-stories, he found the names for
almost all his characters in the graveyard of
that old cathedral. On a sign in the High
street you meet the name of "Barnaby," and
look involuntrily for "Rudge."
A few steps farther on, upon "Star Hill,",
is the "drooping and despondent little thea
tre" (where he first saw a play), "with its poor
strip of garden" of "scarlet beans or oyster
ehellfi, according to the season." Returning to
the "one narrow street" of Cloisterham
High street you soon' perceive the "Nuns'
House," and look up at the leaden-latticed,
diamond-shaped panes of glass for a glimpse
of "Rose Bud Miss Twinkleton or Mrs.
Tisher. One of the three houses opposite
was once, evidently, the home of Mr. Bapsea.
Tbey would be interesting relics of antiquity
at any time, how much more ao are they from
being pictured in his "Mystery!"
And that Old building beaf to the "Nana',
House," with the stono tablet and inscription'
over the door, is "Watts' Charity," known to
you in the "Seven Poor Travellers." Why,
"Cloisterham" teems with dear old friends: it
is the moss-grown well from which he drew
the sacred truths of much that is airr pie,
homely, and honest in his writings. 1
Even "old Weller" might have lived here
once, for the man whom you engage to drive
you to Gadshill looks so wonderfully like him
you are tempted to ask his name. "The
Old George," "Crown and Anchor," and other
signs, familiar in most English towns, are more
familiar here by reason of his mention. You
select the paths you think he would have
chosen, and they lead you through the oddest
windings of the choicest of old cities; you
make the circuit of the castle walls and enter
its gates.
Rochester Castle! Perhaps the grand
est ruin in Old England, mentioned in
King John's time as an ancient struc
ture then. The moat is now a kitchen
garden; apricot and fig trees dispute
with ivy possession of the crumbling walls,
and the ruin looks grimly down on beds of
careful cultivation; You penetrate the wind
ing passages and stairways, the halls, corri
dors and dungeons, and ascend, by the aid
of ropes nailed to the walls, the stone steps
of the castle towers. From the highest of
these yon look down on the city "its ruined
habitations and sanctuaries of the dead; its
moss-softened, red-tiled roofs and red-brick
houses of the living; its river winding down
from the mist on the horizon, as if that were
its source."
And, looking out from this grand old ruin
upon the ruin that surrounds it, musing on
the words above, in which he pictured "Clois
terham" so deftly, it does not need much
stretch of fancy to believe that the shadow of
his form still rests upon the time-bleached
castle wall that the echoes of his voice still
linger on the silent summer air.
HI.
The road from Rochester to Higham-on-the-llill
forms part of the old highroad from
Canterbury to London. Every foot of it is
holy ground, for by this road the pilgrims
journeyed centuries ago. The shrine you
seek, sadder pilgrim than they, is built upon
Gadshill, where Ned Poins and Prince Hal
conjured visions to the doughty knight of
"thirteen men in buckram," and the "Falstaff
Arms" opposite commemorates the revel.
You give little thought to associations with
the past: yon quaint brick building, from
which as it seems but yesterday he "went the
silent road into which all earthly pilgrimages
merge, some sooner, and some later," absorbs
your feelings and enchains your thoughts.
Sixteen years back it was the vicarage of
Higham, and how its late tenant, as a boy,
admired it, he has oddly told ns in his "Un
commercial Traveler":
"So smooth was the old high-road, and so
fresh were the horses, and so fast went I,
that it was midway between Gravesend and
Rochester when I noticed by the wayside a
very queer small boy.
" 'Hallo," said I; 'where do you live ?'
" 'At Chatham,' says he.
" 'What do you do there ?' sayB I.
" 'I go to school, ' says he.
"I took him up in a- moment, and we
went on. Presently the "very queer small boy
says
" 'This is Gadshill we are coming to, where
Falstaff went out to rob those travellers, and
ran away.'
" 'You know something about Falstaff ?'
said I.
" 'All about him,' said the very queer small
boy. 'I am old (I am nine), and I read all
sorts of books. But do let ns stop at the top
of the hill, please, and look at the house
there.'
" 'You admire that house?' said I.
" 'Bless you, sir !' said the very queer small
boy, 'when I was not more than half as old as
nine it used to be a treat for me to be
brought to look at it. And now I am nine I
come by myself to look at it. And ever since
I can recollect, my father, seeing me so fond
of it, has often said to me "If you were to
be very persevering and work hard, you
might some day come to live in it."
"Though that's impossible,' said the very
queer small boy, drawing a low breath, and
staring at the house with all his might.
"I was rather amazed to be told this by the
very queer small boy, for that house happens
to be my borne, and x nave reason to believe
what he said was true."
It became his home through the mere acci
dent of his hearing, at a dinner party, that the
old vicarage was suddenly for sale. The din
ner was left untasted, the bargain made, and
Gadshill Place became as immortal as Strat-ford-on-Avon.
The grounds had been em
bellished from his own designs, but the
house would seem to have been left untouched
except by time. There is a tunnel under the
high-road connecting the two gardens, and
the noble cedars upon either side stand like
watchers at a grave and mourn the nobler
dead. Ivy and the Virginia creeper overhang
the walls and the arched entrance to the tun
nel, and red geraniums dot the velvet lawn
and crowd the windows in rich profusion.
On the couch by the bay window in the
dining-room he breathed his last, too weak
to be moved to the bed that had been
brought down from his chamber. His por
trait by Maclise (so lately gone before him),
and other pictures by Frith, .Cameron, Stan
field, Cattermole, Frank and Marous Stone,
etc., many representing characters of
his own creation hang on the walls, while in
the halls and the sleeping-rooms above stairs
lie the many books that have been crowded
out of his well-stocked library, rich in trea
sures, chief of which are the bound manu
scripts of his various works, interlined with
his own corrections. The library doors
are covered over with imitation covers of
oddworks, christened in merry moments by
himself and kindred spirits: Catt's Lives, in
nine volumes; Life of Zimmerman, by him
self; Catalogues of Statues to the Duke of
Wellington, 2'J large volumes; The World,
one very thin 8vo.; Hanging the Rest Policy,
by Our Wise Forefathers; A Rrief Auto
biography, 3 large quartos; Etityclopedia of
Knowledge, a skeleton duodecimo; A Peep at
the Pyramids, 5 vols., Five Minutes in China,
4 gigantic folios, etc
- Back of the library is the billiad-room to
which a miniature table had been fitted
for the amusement of his
friends, and where Fechter, Marous
Stone, Lord Darnley (his near neighbor),
Charles Collins, and like companions, whiled
away the pleasant hours, lightened as they
were by the polished wit and kindly satire of
their host, who, as marker of the game,
contributed not a little to the spirit of the
partie.
It is a strange waking from the dreamings
of the past to the sorrow of the present, as,
turning toward the-"Falstalf Arms," the
landlady, dressed in deep mourning you
need not ask for whom: her unaffected sad
ness speaks a volume remark; "Ah ! he
was a Kind friend, sir, to every one, and a
kind man to us l" You ask if the surviving
family still remain at Gadshill House. "Yes,
air, but not for long: it is to be sold in a few
days.- "Sold ;. '.strange t' IWh j, '
they couldn't live there, yod know, sir: why
he died in that dining-room: they couldn't
live there now P ,
. With all its wealth of cultivated land, its
fields of fruits and flowers, this is the sad
dest ruin you have seen. To the broken
hearts within, the rooms his tast adorned
are far more desolate than the barest wall in
Cloisterham; the flowers have lost their per
fume, the foliage its vitality: the life of all
the house departed with him. It is a ruin ) 1
Plucking, in sad remembrance, a sprig of
ivy from the garden wall, you turn towards
London by the road over which, only five
days before, all that remained of him was
borne to its final rest.
IV.
Poet's Corner ! Surrounding an enclosure
of rude oaken benches, an ever-changing
crowd look down upon a cross composed of
scarcely-withered flowers, dropped since yes
terday upon the hallowed stones that overlie
the coffin. For a few days it was exposed to
view, until the six feet of space above it were
all but filled up with flowers fallen from the
hands of those who thronged Westminster.
Abbey to pay tribute to the last comer among
these mighty dead. He sleeps in goodly com
pany, and yen feel that since it was Heaven's
will to call a noble spirit to its home, the
earthly frame lies in "the only spot in Eng
land worthy to receive it." Mark the great
and cherished names carved on the walls or ,
graven in the ground, and see what spirits
welcome him to his eternal rest.
Death boasts no richer harvest, and the,
scythe of time shall mow the earth in vain to
find a nobler sheaf than it has just Cut down.
Your pilgrimage is over. His office,
his home, his cherished town his grave.
His undying works alone exist for mankind
to share in common: he lives but in the
memory of man, whence he shall never die.
INSURANCE.
S TATE MENT
OF
NATIONAL CAPITOL
Life Insurance Company.
WASHINGTON, D. C,
As made to Auditor-General's Department oi
the State of Pennsylvania.
FIRST.
Capital Stock 1300,00000
Amount of assessment or Instalments on
stock paid in cast) 150,00000
SECOND.
Cash on hand $.517-F1
Cash iu National Bank of tbe Republic . . . 932-90
Cash in bands ot Agents in coarse of trans
mission, moBtly on Policies issued in July 43,378-29
Amount of loans secured by bonds and
mortgages, constituting the first lien on
Real Estate, on which there Is less than
one year's interest due and owing 114,600-00
Amount of stock held by the company as
collateral security for loans, with the
amount loaned on each kind of stock, its
par and market value, 723 shares Metro
politan Railroad, Washington, D. C, par
value, $60: market value, 90. . . . .- 11,050-00
Interest on Investments due and unpaid. . . 87-48
Accrued interest not yet due. 4,083-24
Deterred premiums balance semi-annual
and quarterly premiums for the year. . . . 14,322-31
Furniture and stationery In Home and
Branch offices 6,500-00
Premium loans en rolicies Issued prior to
1670 1,596-00
Bills receivable temporary loans on call . . 19,109-71
Personal accounts. 30684
THIRD.
Amount of losses resisted by the Company
fraudulent claim 5,000"00
Amount of all other claims against the
Company, contested or otherwise, cur
rent expenses, say a.ooo-oo
Amount required to safely reinsure all out
standing risks estimated, say 10,000-00
FOURTH.
Amount of cash premiums received. 117.93969
premium notes on Policies issued previous
to 1870 .- 58-00
Interest receivek from investments. 6,600-81
FIFTH.
Amount of expenses paid during the year,
Including commissions and fees paid to
Agents and officers of the Company. 3,701 -61
Amount of taxes paid by the Company.... 607-63
Amount of all other expenses and expen
dituressalary of officers and general
expenses 6,458-49
Amount of promissory notes originally
forming the capital of the Company 150,00000
Amount of said notes held by the Com
pany as part of or the whole of the capi
tal thereof. 150,000-00
Far and market value of the Company's
stock per share. 5000
I have examined the affairs of the National Capi
tol Life Insurance Company, and find them oorrect
as above.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my official seal, this 32d day of July.
A. D. 1870.
JOSEPH T. K. PLANT,
Commissioner in and for the State of Pennsylvania,
FRANCIS W. SLAUGHTER,
GENERAL AGENT,
No. IOOOCHESNUT St.,
8 5 Btutbet PHILADELPHIA, PA
HAIR CURLERS.
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(Patented July 9, 1667.)
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Full guarantee and moderate prices.
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PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. '46 NORTH WHARVES
AND
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PHILADELPHIA.
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FINANOIAL
Wilmington; and Reading
- nrtiT.no ad
Coven Per Cent. Donds,
FREE OP TAXES.
. :,
W are Aerlng 0900,000 ot the
Second Mortgage Honda ot
this Company
AT 82J AND ACCRUED INTEREST.
For the convenience of Investors ttese Bonds are
Issued in denominations of
lOOOs, f 500s, and lOOs.
The money la required for the purchase ot addl.
tlonal Rolling Stock and the fall equipment of the
Road. .
The road Is now finished, and doing a business
largely in excess of the anticipations of Its officers.
The trade offering necessitates a large additional
outlay for rolling stock, to afford full faoillties for its
prompt transaction, the present rolling stock not
being sufficient to accommodate the trade.
WH. PAINTER & CO.,
BANKERS,
No. 36 South THIRD Street,
66
PHILADELPHIA.
QEVEN PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
or run
Panvllle. Ilazleton, and Wilkes,
barre Railroad Company,
At 05 and Accrued Interest
Clear of all Taxes.
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER.
Persons wishing to make Investments are mvlt
0 examine the merits of these BONOS.
Pamphlets supplied and full information given by
Sterling & Wildman.
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
Ho. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
(1IU
PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken la
exchange for the above at best market rates.
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BANKERS AND BROKERS,
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NO, 29 North WATER Street and
No. 28 North WHARVES, Philadelphia.
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICES.
41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordage
At Low.it New York PrioM and FrethU,
EDWIN II. FITLER de CO
. F.ftory, TKHTH Bt. and GKRMANTOWH AT.no.
Btoia.No. 23 U. WATER Bt. and 22 N DELAWARE
Anoa,
8HIPPINU
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
H STEAMSHIP OOMPANr'S RKUU.
LaK bUMl-MONTHLY LXNK TO NJCW OR
LKaHS, L..
Tb. YAZOO will aail for New Orleans direct, on Tues
day A uirurjt 83. at 8 A. M.
Tb. HERCULES will tail from New OrUaiu, direct on
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at low raU aa bj
anr other route given to Mobile, Galventon, Indutnoia, La
v.ec,and Br&Koe.and to all point, on th. rliaaiauppi rirer
between New Orletna and St. Louis. Red Kiar freiphta
resbippsd at N.w Orleans without eharg. of oeaunissisna.
WKKKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH, OA.
Th. WYOM1NO will sail for Savannah on Bator
da. Anpnst iu, at 8 A. M.
IB. TONA WANDA wUl sail from SaTannaU on Satur-
YkROlJUH BILLS OF LADING.Uento.il th.prln.
eipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection with
the Central Railroad of Goorifia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road, and Florida imuuki, at aa low rats, aj br ooupaunf
lines.
SEMI MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON, N. O.
Tb. PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Wednesday,
August 17, at tf A. M. Retaining, will lea t Wilmington
Wednesday, August 84. t .
Connects with tb. Uspe Fear River Steamboat Com.
psnVi tbe Wilminjtcn snd Weldon snd North Uarolina
Railroads, and tbe Wilmington and Uanoueeter Railroad
La all interior points. .
Freigbu for Oolnmbla, B. O., and Aagusta, Gs , taksn
Tis W lioiington, at as low rates a. by any other rouU.
Insurance .fleeted when requested by snippers. Bill,
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or beiur. day
Of sailing. WtLIAM l. JAMES. General Asnt.
a ij No. laU South Till HP buwt
F 0R N B W YORK,
I JTCJfc via Delaware and Rarttan Canal.
i Jm EXPRKho) STjKAMUOAT COMPANY.
The bam Propellers of the line will commence
loadmir on the 6th luataut, leaving dally as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goortu forwarded by all tbe lines going out of Ne
York, North, Kaat, or West, tree of commission.
Freisuts revived at low ratea.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents,
No. 14 8. DELAWARE Avenue.
JAMES HAND. Agent,
Ko, U WALL bueet, New York. S 4
SHIPPING.
FOR TEXAS rOUTB.
THE STEAMSHIP YAZOO ,
WILL SAIL FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT, ON
TUESDAY, August 43, at 8 A. M.
Throngh bills of lading rfven 1ft crninectlon with
Morgan's lines from New Grloans to Mobile, Galves
ton, lndlanoia, Lavacca, and Brazos, at aa low rate
aa by any other route. j
Throngh Mils of lading also given to all points on
the Mlanisfllppt river between New Orleans and 8t. I
Lonia, in connection with the Bt. Louis and New Or-1
leans Packet Company. ' '
For further Information apply to
WILLIAM L, JAKES.
i . .
8 IB Bt
jno. 130 Bontn third street.
LORILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY
FOR NEW YORK,'
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANT
SATURDAY,
are nov.' i ecelvlng freight at
FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS
FER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON, J
SHIP'S OPTION.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc
No receipt or bill of lading signed lor less taao
fifty cents.
NOTICE. On and after September IB rates by thla
Company will be 10 cents per 100 pounds or 4 cents
per foot, ship s option; and regular shippers by this
line will only be charged the above rate all winter.
Winter rates commencing December IB. For further
particulars apply to JOHN F. OHU
ji8J riER 19 NORTH WHARVES.
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to issue througH
bills of ladlcg to Interior points South and Westln
connection with South Carolina Railroad Comnanv
ALFRED U. TYLErT
Vice-President So. C. RR. Co.
BTEAMmpILINE.ND Ca
'i his line is now composed of the following first,
class Steamships, salting from PIER 17, below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week at 8
ASHLAND. 800 tons, Captain CrowelL
J. W. EVERMAN, 692 tons, Captain Hinckley
SALVOR, 600 tons. Captain Ashcroft.
AUGUST, 1870.
3. W. Everraan, Friday, August 5.
Salvor, Friday, August 12.
J. W. Everman, Friday, August 19.
Salvor. Friday, August 9a.
Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S. C
the interior of Georgia, and all points South anJ
Southwest.
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch
Rates as low as by any other route.
Insurance one-half per cent, effected at the office
In first-class companies.
No freight received nor bills of lading signed after
8 P. M. on day of sailing.
SOUDER A ADAMS, Agenta,
No. 8 Dock Street.
Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO.,
No 13 8. WHARVES.
WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Agent In Charles
ton a J4
FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS
fflSlU2TOWN.-Inman Line of Royal Mall
bieaiuers are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Brussels, Saturday, August 20, at 13 M.
City of Baltimore (via Halifax), Tuesday, August
S3 fit Pa Me
City of Washington, Saturday, August 27, at 2 P. M.
City of Parla, Saturday, September 8, at 13 M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 4 North river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable in gold. Payable In enrrennv.
First Cabin 175 Steerage , ,30
To Londen 80
To Parl.i 90
To Halifax 20
iu lAiuuon 85
To Paris 88
to iiaiuax 15
Passengers also forwarded to Havre. Hamhnro
Bremen, etc, at reduced ratea '
Tickets can be bought here at moderate ratea by
persons wishing to send for tnelr friends.
For further Information apply at the company's
ofllce.
JOHN G. DALE, Agent No. 15 Broadway, N. Y.
Or to O'DONNKlL & FAULK, Agents,
4 B No. 408 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia,
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
SWIFTSURE TRANSPORTATION
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURE LINES,
Leaving daily at 12 M. and 5P.M.
The steam propellers of this company will com
mence loading on the 8th of March.
Through In twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO., Agents.
4 Nc 133 Sonth DELAWARE Avenue.
PHILADELPHIA. RICHMOND
i AND NORFOLK RTH. A MRiiid r tun'
THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINK TO THK SOUTH
INCREASED FAOUjITIFSAND REDUCED RATES
StMmera lea, .rery WKDNKSDATand SATURDAY
at li o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR
KET Street.
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK. TUESDAYS and BA
TURDAY8. , ,
No Bills of Lading signed aftealS o'clock on eeiliag
THROUGH RATES to sll point. In North and South
Carolina, via Beaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting as
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Vs., Tennessee, and tbe
West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUTONOB, and taken at LOWER
BATF8 THAN ANY OTHER LINK. " "w
No charge for commission, draysge, or any expanse of
steamships insnr. at lowest rates.
Freight received daily. ...
ut. -pks 00..
No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier IN. WHARVES,
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and Oitj Point.
T. P. ORUWELLA CO., ADtat Norlolk. 4U
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM. TOWBOAT COMPANY.
Barges towed between PhlladelDhla.
Baltimore, Havre-de-Grace. Delaware City, and In
termediate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agenta.
Captain JOHN L AUG B LIN, Superintendent.
Ortlce. No. 13 South Wlarvea VWjadelphla. 411
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN .
idrla, Georgetown, and Washington,
d. u., via cnesapeaxe ana Delaware
Cuual, with connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxrllle,
Nashville, Dalten, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
Tom the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDE ft. TYLER. Agents at Georgetown; M.
ELDRIDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1
ROOFINQ.
PHILADELPHIA
Fainting and Hoofing Co.
TIN ROOFS REPAIRED.
AU leakages In Roofs warranted to be made per.
fectly tight.
SPENCER'S GUTTA-PERCHA PAINT
Will preserve Tin Roofs from Rusting and Leaking,
and warranted to stand Un years without repaiau
f'liis Is the only Paint that will not crack or pee)
off. It Is Elastic Paint; It expands and contracts
with the tin, and leaves no cracks or aeama open for
water to get through.
IRON FENCES PAINTED WITH SPENCER'S
PATENT IRON PAINT, made expressly for iron
work, warranted not to crack or peel off; wlU retain
Its beantiiul gloss for five years.
, All work warranted. ' " .'"
All orders promptly attended to. Address '
PHILADELPHIA PAINTING AND ROOFING
COMPANY,
1 14 8m No. 53 N. SIXTH St., Philadelphia. r
RE ADY R OOFIN G.
This Roofing ia adapted to all bulldinga, j
can be applied to ,
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the expense of tin. It Is readily pot oa
old Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles,
thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings and furniture
while undergoing repairs. (No gravel oaed.)
PRLSERVE Yt'UR TIN ROOFS Willi, WEL
TON S ELASTIC PAINT.
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs
at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the
barrel or gallon; the beat and cheapest In the
market.
W. A WELTON
1 17! No. Ttl N. NINTH St., above Coatea.