TltE DAILY EVENING. TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,' 1870.
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TUILA DEL nil A TO W1L L TA MS PORT,
WITH 11 ALTS 13 7 TUB WA Y.
THE READING RAILROAD AND THE HOHTJYLKILT,
VALLEY THE BEAUTIES AND TERRORS OF THE
CATAW1HSA A HALT AT DAMVILLE ITS IRON
FURNACES AND FOUNDRIES, ETC THE NEW
RAILROAD TO RUNRURY WHAT ENERGY WILL
DO fiUNBVRY THE RAILROADS AND COAL
FIELDS BUSINESS ON THE SUHQUF.HANNA.
from Our Own CorrtHVorutera.
WiLLiAMsroRT, August 18. Numbering
among the best, if not in itself the best,
managed railroads on this continent is the
Bending. Its locomotives are of the most
powerful description, and its cars and other
accommodations are certainly unsurpassable.
Leaving the depot at Thirteenth and Callow
hill streets at A. M. the traveller soon
finds himself gliding over the smoothest of
tracks, along the banks of the Schuylkill, at
a rate of speed which even in these fast
days is decidedly refreshing and stimulating.
On every hand along the narrow valley,
industrious hands find ample employment in
the hundreds of manufactories and iron fur
naces which dot the banks of the river, from
the limits of the Quaker City to its source
among the mountains of Schuylkill county.
It is a valley which for resources and wealth
has probably no superior on the globe, when
its length aud breadth enter into the con
sideration of the subject.
Leaving the main branch of the Schuylkill
tt ; Tort Clinton, the tourist in search of
scenery and pleasure takes one of tho nume
rous branches of the Heading Hailroad, and
at the words "All right" from the conductor,
we cross the main river and commence wind
ing our way along the tortuous course of the
Little Schuylkill, from which river this branch
railroad takes its name. After numerous
finake-like twistings among the hills and nar
row deiileB, we at length reach Tamaqua,
where after changing our locomotive we push
on at a fine rate of speed up one of the
nteepet of grades to the Mahanoy Junction,
where we again change locomotives, and are
s-con oft' again on the
CATAWISSA KAILF.OAD.
A decent regard for the safety and feelings
cf those who travel over this celebrated rail
road does r.t permit of running at a "light
ning" gait, but nevertheless we skim along
at a fair rate of speed. On the right, going
weet, far below us lie the most picturesque
of valleys, dotted here and there with
comfortable houses and barns which fairly
glitter in their whiteness beneath a noonday
sun. Here and there we catch a glimpse of
what we at first suppose to be the banks of
some mountain torrent, but which afterwards
develops itself to be the Lehigh Valley
Hailroad. Here it lies hundreds of feet
below us, running hither and thither among
the hills, looking like a silver cord
foiming a circlet about the
base of a mond of laces. High
up, on the left, are the mountains from the
bowels of which the households and manu
factories of Philadelphia derive their supplies
of anthracite coal. Passing onward, the
railroad, which but a short time since was
many feet below us, is lost to view on the
right, and our attention is called to the fact
that it is now above its. Here for n while
the two railroads run on a parallel line,
but one considerably above the other,
until at length we cross at an acute
angle, and then again we find the track,
which but a moment before was on our right
and above us, has changed to the other side,
and gradually goes sinking down, down, until
finally it is lost to view among the hills and
dense forests which surround us on every side.
Tassing on, now Hying around the brink of
ecme precipice, and again darting into some
cut whose tides threaten to come tumbling
down without a moment's warning, we find
enough to occupy the attention without
troubling ourselves about the probabilities
or circumstances of what might be if
things were otherwise. But the men who per
mit us to take an almost aerial flight have
studied ell the probabilities long before we
were permitted to pass over this road, and
with that peace of mind which a knowledge
cf all being right gives us, we lay back and
lose ourselves in wondering Low such a
thing as running a railroad over such moun
tains ever entered the heads of its projectors.
The wonderment is answered by the simple
word "business." Now we stop for
a moment among the trees to
throw off a package of letters or take on a
passenger or two, and then again we press
onward. Hut now we come upon a portion
cf the route which strikes the beholder with
amazement. What was grand before is now
doubly bo awful and yet inspiring. The
whistle sounds, the brakes are applied, and
our train blows down. Glancing out of
the window is seen, stretching directly
across our path, a deep, narrow
valley, with sides almost perpendicular. Di
rectly in froJt of us is seen a row of timbers
standing upright, like stakes upon the ground
far below. Onward we go, and ere we are
fairly aware of the fact we are upon the
trestle work which supports the track. Down,
far down beneath ns, the tallest trees scarcely
reaching half way up between ns and the
earth beneath, dogs bark and gleeful
children clap their hands and cheer
ns. We hold our breaths instinctively,
and an involuntary smuttier mis tne Heart as
we move over the creaking, groaning timbers;
but all is safe. I have been on the top of
monuments, and have felt that peonliar feel
ing which I presume all persons experience in
looking downward from a high point, but I
never before experienced so peculiar a sensa
tion as I experienced while looking down
along the side of the car and seeing nothing
beneath bat the hard .ground and jagqe-1
rocks which lay below ns about one hundred
and thirty feet. In few words, there is no
realizing what I have so faintly endeavored
to depict but by actual experience. Five of
these structures were passed over ou oar
route through the mountains, and I am free
to confess that I felt thankful when the last
ne was left behind ns. About three
boars end a bulf after leaviag
Tiucequa we find ourselves r.t
DANVILLE.
This town is one of the most thriving in
the State, and is situated on the North
Branch of the Susquehanna, about two miles
from its confluence with the West Branch. It
is pleasantly situated on a high bluff, and is
entirely surrounded by mountains of very
respectable proportions. Like most other
towns in this section of the State, Danville
has almost an exclusive interest in
a certain line of business. Here
some of the largest and certainly the best
arranged iron works in the State may be
found. Hence, when the iron business is
moving everything else keeps pace with it.
Just now, considering the season, a fair busi
ness is being done. The population of the
place is about eleven thousand souls, and a
number of fine improvements are in progress.
Among these may be noticed the new State
Lunatic Asylum, an edifice which when
finished will be one of the largest buildings
in the State. Its extreme front is eleven
hundred and fourteen feet. When finished
it will accommodate nearly five thousand peo
ple. The people of the place are oi a gene
rous, social disposition, and this, added to the
fine hotels, makes the town a most agreeable
stopping place.
On the opposite side of the river, and con
nected with Danville by a fine bridge, is the in
fant town of South Danville, a village which
has sprung up within the past two years, and
which promises great things in the future,
through the instrumentality of the S. P. Case,
or Sunbury, Danville, and Hazleton Hailroad.
This railroad traverses the right bank of the
river, and when entirely finished will be-one
of the greatest arterios of the Ha
zleton coal fields. The building of
the road is duo almost entirely to
the efforts of Mr. S. P. Case, of Danville,
who has devoted almost a life-time to its
construction. The road is in most excellent
condition, and although not yet finished has
most elegant cars and does a fine business.
Its successful completion is one more evi
dence of what perseverance and zeal are
worth. By this route we reach, on the Sus
quehanna, SUNBUEY.
Beautifully situated, about two miles belqw
where the two branches meet and form the
main river, is the town of Sunbury. It is
one of the railroad centres of the State, and
has no less than five different lines passing
through or near its precincts. It is the
northern terminus of the Northern Central
Hailway, and the southern or eastern termi
nus of the Philadelphia and Erie Hailroad.
Its population at this time is about five thou
sand souls, but the spirit of improvement
appears to have broken out among its inhabi
tants, and the day is probably not
far distant when Sunbury will be
a successful rival among the inland towns of
the State. Sunbury, like Danville, has its
exclusive interests. Here it is railroads and
coal. Everything depends upon the condition
and facilities of the railroads, or the coal
fields. The men talk of these interests in
the bar-rooms, the women talk of them in the
parlor, the children lisp them in the street,
but withal there is a good business done in
other lines of trade, providing always that
the railroads and coal mines are all right.
The same troubles experienced in the coal
regions lower clown are experienced nere.
The miners rule supreme, and if only half
I hear of their misdoings be true, they should
be exterminated. They rule with an iron
hand, arid set both divine and civil laws aside
whenever i 'it - suits their convenience. Nor
does yomr correspondent see how this condi
tion of affairs can be remedied so long as the
Democratic party, as a party, protect these
lawless people in the course they are now
and have been pursuing for the past five or
six years. I am re ninded of a case which
occurred here a few days since, which is a fair
sample of how some things are done and
others not done. In some way or another a
colored man and a miner got into a quarrel,
and the result was that the African had
too much muscle for the Hibernian,
and knocked the Irishman down. A
few hours afterwards the Irishman
visited the hotel where the colored man was
at work, and deliberately shot him down
through the window. The assassin was ar
rested and taken before an alderman, but
through ignorance was permitted to depart.
He was no sooner free than he boasted to his
companions of haying done the deed, and
this, in connection with other facts, induced
his second arrest, and his ultimate trial before
court. Men swore that they saw him do the
deed, but the defense produced a number of
men from among the man's companions who
6wore that they were standing by his side at
the time the shot was fired, and that he did
not fire it; and the assassin was acquitted.
This is simply an expose of how swearing on
the Bible is reduced to a science in the coal
regions.
A little log hut at the lower end of the
town, near the Lutheran church, was pointed
out to me as the birthplace of the Hon.
Simon Cameron. The whole concern is not
larger than a medium-sized stable. Numbers
of stories are told about the boyhood days of
the old General, but as most of them are of
little interest to the general re ider, I pass
them by. One incident in connection with
Mr. Cameron's early life, however, is so de
cidedly American-like, and bo valuable as an
example, that I relate it. Mr. Cameron's
father was a very poor man, and had enough
to do to support his numerous family with
out attending to their education, at that time
a more expensive item than now; hence
Simon and the other children were permitted
to run around loose. As a boy
Mr. Cameron did whatever happened to fall
in bis way, until at length, by the kindness
of one of his father's friends, he was fur
nisbed with a small sum of money (a few
cents,) and ferried to the canal on the other
side of the river. Once afloat, Mr. Cameron
luade his way to llarrisourg and was lost to
the view of his friends here until be turned
tip as a contractor. From that time on his
tLtttks as a u-e.n of buhiutbn was upward and
onward, and from the little start he derived
from the friend of his father dates his suc
cess in life. He is the architect of his own
fame and fortune. Hon. John B. Packer, a
relative of Mr. Cameron's resides here, and
is the owner of a magnificent mansion on
Market street, near the river. He will pro
bably be re-elected to Congress during the
coming campaign.
8IXG ULAR ELECTRICAL rilENOMENOX
A tornado passed over some parts of Min
nesota a few days ago which was marked by
the same characteristics as that which visited
some parts of New York and New England
about the same time. It was very severe in
some towns, while in the neighboring places
it was not felt at all, or at most was scarcely
noticed, and it appeared to travel in a nar
row path. A writer in the St. Paul Press,
who witnessed the storm at Owatonna, in the
southern part of Minnesota, gives the fol
lowing account of its singular appearance
there:
This morning at about half-past two o'clock
this city was visited by the most terrific and
destructive tornado which it has ever known.
The ronnd house of the Winona and St. Peter
Hailroad Company was unroofed, and a large
portion of the walls demolished. The engine
Clermont was nearly buried in the debris,
but sustained no serious damage. The night
watchman was in the house when it fell, but
feund safe refuge in the pit underneath the
engine tender. The wheel of the windmill
on the eminence west of the city was com
pletely destroyed. This wheel was nearly
one hundred feet in diameter. A large ice
house was blown to pieces. The cheese fac
tory was so badly damaged as to be unfit for
further use without repairs, and I am told
that the summer's accummulation of cheese
must be removed.
The upper portion of the fronts of several
buildings was blown on; awnings ana sign
boards were badly damaged; trees and garden
fences suffered severely, and chimneys and
outbuildings were generally capsized. Some
roofs were badly broken, and others damaged
but little.
There was neither rain nor hail. There
seemed to be one current approaching the
city from the southwest and another from the
southeast, and when 1 first noticed these cur
rents they were quite distant from each other,
but they rapidly approached, converging di
rectly upon the city. When apparently a
mile away there appeared midway between
tne two currents, ana at a low elevation, a
light, small at first, but gradually increasing,
until it reached the size of an ordinary hogs
head. Its base was parallel to the surface of
the earth. The sides seemed to approach
each other to an inclination of about thirty
degrees. At tne top of tnis cone, ana appa
rently j use separated irom it, appeared a
bright blaze, which shot towards the zenith
in forked flames, I judge from ten to fifteen
feet in height. The cone beneath the blaze
seemed to revolve rapidly around an axis,
vertical to the centre of the earth.
The brilliancy of this air-fiend became con
stantly more intense as the currents ap
proached each other, and its revolutions be
came proportionately more rapid, until in the
shock caused by the collision which ocourred
on Cedar street, some fifty feet north of the
public square a terrific and deafening sound
was heard, followed by a dispersion of some
fifty fragments of electrical light, in appa
rently solid form, inese were seen rico
cheting in every direction, approaching the
earth, and withdrawing from it in fantastic
though appalling gyrations. The scene of
this phenomenon was the region of the great-'
est disaster, lbe wind blew sharply, but did
not do the damage. Ihere was a fierce and
terrible force in the air, not in the air itself,
wnich potnmg could witnstand. single shin
gles were plucked from roofs. One picket
was torn from the fence while its fellows were
unmoved. A single row of onions in a neigh
bor's garden were torn from the ground, and
the others left to grow and ripen undisturbed.
The foregoing facts furnish data upon
which I base the following theory: Ihe ex
cessive heat of the two preceding days was
such as to produce great disturbance in the
atmosphere, and give rise to the formation of
strong aerial currents, which, after becom
ing complicated, rioted awhile in close com
bat, and then separated, perhaps by electri
cal force, formed again in different quarters
two strong channels of moving air emerg
ing upon a common centre; Approaching
each other, tne space through which tne elec
tricity inherent in the air was diffused be
came rapidly less, and still less, at the same
time it would be carried along by its own ad
hesion to the moving mass of clouds.
It thus became gradually condensed, and
by its own motion, together with the con
stantly increasing pressure of the approach
ing currents, forming walls through which it
could not break, and the friction caused by
the mobility of its own particles upon them
selves intensified the heat until it became
nrst luminous, then lambent, then concen
trated in tangible form, and finally yielding
to the power of its own explosive force,
burst asunder, forming numerous balls of
concentrated fire, which discolored aud
spent their fury on surrounding objects.
Traces of this tornado are visible as far east
as Lewiston, unattended, however, by any
serious damage.
The first building society of St. Paul, Minn.,
has been in a uouriemng condition for some
months past. At a recent meeting for the elec
tion of Ulcers, 2000 were distributed to four
members at the usual high premiums.
PIANOS.
ALBRECHT,
RIEKES A SCHMIDT,
HAnuf ACTUKKHU OK
FIRST-CLASS PIANO-FORTES.
Full guarantee and moderate prices.
8 86 WAREHOOMS. No. 1Q ARO
GROCERIES, ETQ.
JEW No, I MACKEREL,
IN KITTS.
FIRST OF THE SEASON.
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
Dealer in Fin Groceries,
11 Tt Com ELEVINTIi end VINE Street.
HAIR CURLERS.
T H K II Y 1 i; II I O H
A
IIAIR CURLERS,
AH INDISPENSABLE ABTIOLK FOB TUB LADIES
(Patented Jul 9. 1W7.)
This Cnrlar U the most perfect invention ith offend
to th. public. It is easily optnttd, neat la appaarano
nd will not injur, tb. bur, ea there U do best required.
Bur any metallic substance owd to nut or break Uie bair
kianuiaetorad onl, and foe aala whalMal tnd r.Uil, bf
McMillan a co
1 83 8m Ho. 68 North FRONT BtrMt, FbiUd.lpH
bold at all Dry Uuoda, TAouoicf and Notion btaraa.
I- INANCIAL,
AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT!
XO rer Cent. First mortgage
Land Grant Bonds
or TBI
Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship
Canal Company,
At 15 and Accrued Interest.
Coupon a payable January and Jul? at Ocean Bank.
New York.
Secured by mortgage of the CANAL, Its tolls.
franchises, and EQUIPMENTS, aud uoo.ooo ACRES
of very valuaMe and carefully selected
IKON, COPPER, FINE, AND OTHER TIMBER
LANDS,
Worth at the lo'weBt estimate five to eight times the
amount of the mortgage.
Whole Iue $500,000,
Of which a balance of only f 160,000 remains unsold.
This Ship Canal after five years labor and an ex
penditure of nearly a million of dollars, besides
nearly half a million more for machinery and equip
ments la nearly finished, and will be entirely com
pleted the present season.
The tolls on the present commerce of Lake Supe
rior would not only pay the interest on these bonds,
but large dividends also to the Stockholders. This
trade will be increased immensely next season when
the praln from the great wheat-producing regions
of Minnesota shall paws by this route (as It neces
sarily must) to the seaboard, by way of the railroad
from St. Paul to Duiuth, now just completed.
Send for maps and circulars.
For sale at 85 and accrued interest by
B. K. JAMISON & CO., Bankers,
COR. THIRD AND CHESNUT ST3.
86tf ' PHILADELPHIA.
LAKE SHORE
AND
MICHIGAN SOUTHERN
RAILWAY COMPANY
SEVEN PER CENT.
Consolidated Mortgage Sinking
runo pongs.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railwav
Company.for the purpose of providing for the pay
ment ui im Bevvrtu uiungHge ueuui an tney Decome
dne, has executed a mortgage to the Union Trust
company, of New York, as Trustee, upon the whole
of its Railroad and branches, payable on the first day
of July, in the year one thousand nine hundred.
COUPON BONDS of 11000 each will be issued,
with Interest at Seven per centum per annum, paya
ble semi-annually, on the firm; day of January and
July, in each year, and REGISTERED BONDS of
fjiooo, 500, and $10,000 each, without coupons, with
interest at Seven per centum per annum, payable
quarterly, on the first day of January, April, July,
ana uctouer, in eaca year, principal ana interest
If
ayaoie ai me omce oi me union Trust, company la
ew xors.
We call the attention of investors esneciallv to this
class of REGISTERED BONDS, which, on account
of the SECURITY AFFORDED AGAINST LOSS BY
ROBBERY. FIRE, OR OTHERWISE, AND THE
PAYMENT OF QUARTERLY INTEREST, offer an
Investment peculiarly desirable.
A limited amount of these bonds can be purchased
at 7X and accrued interest, upon application to
ROBINSON, CHASE & CO..
NO. 18 BROAD STREET,
NEW YORK. 8 81m
Application may be made to
Messrs. GLENDINNING, DAVIS CO.,
Philadelphia.
gEVEN PER CENT. BONDS
At 75, Interest Regularly Paid.
WE OFFER FOR SALE
$00,000 SOUTH MOUNTAIN
I ROW AKD HAILROAD CO.
SEYrai PER CEST. IIOM8,
At 75 and Accrued Interest,
SECURED BY 17 MILES OF RAILROAD.
Finished and doing good business, and about 23,000
acres or Coal and Iron ore land situated In Cumber
land Valley, Fa,
B. K. JAMISON & CO.,
N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNUT Streets,
7 27 tl Philadelphia, Pa.
p O R S A L E,
Six Per Cent. loan oi the City of
Williamiport, Pennsylvania,
FREE OF ALL TAXES,
At 85, and Accrued Interest.
These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act of
Legislature compelling the city to levyjsutllaeut tax
to pay Interest and principal.
P. 8. PETERSON & CO.,
Ho. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
M PHILADELPHIA,
B. E. JAMISON & CO..
BrjCCXSSOKS TO
ff. JET. KOiLY fc CO.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN
Gold, Silver and Government Bonds
At Ioet market Hates,
N. W. Cor. THIBD and CHESNUT fits.
sntwtai attention riven to COMMISSION ORnmta
in New York and PhLadhla titoc Boards, eto.
eta.
E
LLIOTT A
BANKERS
O U W N
KO. 109 SOUTH THIRD BTRKET,
DEALERS IK ALL GOVERNMENT 8 SCUM.
TIEti, &OLD BILLS, ETC
DHAW HILL Or EXCHANGE ND ISUUI
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT OU TBS
UNION BANK OF LONDON.
ihBCK TKA V2LLEK S' LETTERS OF CREDIT
ON LONDON AND PARIS, sv&U&ttle ttrouguool
Europe.
WU1 collect aU Coupons and Interest free of caartt
for partlu oiiUJ-i tutux'.V arraxif minu
vitftna.
FINANOIAI
Wilmington and Reading
Gcvcn Per Cent. Bonds,
FREE OF TAXES.
We are Serins; $200,000 of the
Second Mortgage Honda of
this Company
AT 82$ AND ACCRUED INTEREST.
For the convenience of Investors ttese Bonds are
Issued in denominations of
1000s, S500, and 100.
The money Is required for the purchase of ad-ti-tlocal
Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the
Road.
The road Is now Cslshed, and doing a business
largely in excess of the anticipations ol its officers.
" The trade offering necessitates a largo additional
outlay for rolling s:oc, to aTorttfull facilities for its
prompt transaction, the present rolling stock not
being sufficient to accommodate the trade.
WM. PAINTER & CO.,
BANKERS,
No. 36 South THIRD Street,
BB
PHILADELPHIA.
gEVEN PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
CP TCI
Danville, Blazleton, and Wilkes
barre Railroad Company,
At 85 and Accrued Interest
Clear of. all Taiew,
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER.
Persons wishing to mate investments are lnvit
wO examine the merits of these BONDS. ,
Pamphlets ("applied and ra.: indorsation given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL A9ENT8,
Ko. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
ia a
PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bontfs and other Securities tasen la
exchange for the above at best marset rates.
SILVER
FOE SALE.
. C. T. YERKES, Jr., CD.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 20 South THIRD Street.
M PHILADELPHIA.
QLEIVIiraif IX,DAVIIi 4l CO.,
Ko. 43 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS I AMORT,
No. 17 WALL STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
Receive deposits subject to checs, allow Interest
on standing and temporary balances, and execute
orders promptly for the purchase and sale of
STOCKS, BONDS and GOLD, In either city.
Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia
house to New York. i a
SHIPPINU
L FOR
LIVERPOOL AND QUEEVS
SliiiiiTOWN..
-inman Line of Royal Mail
bteumers are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Baltimore (via HaUfax), Tuesday, August
Z3, at i u.
City of Washington, Saturday, August 2T, at 2 P. M.
tuy 01 l arm, samruay, oepieuioer 3, at li XL.
City of Antwerp (vis Halifax), Tuesday, Septem
her 6. at 1 P. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, iron) pier xxu. o durm river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
PavaWe In cold. Payable in currencv.
First Cabin "5 Kterage. . . : fi
To Londen M To London 35
To Paris JK To Pans 88
To Halifax SO' To Halifax 15
Passengers aiso forwarded to Havre, Hamburg,
BremeD, etc., at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
nersons wishing to send for tneir friendu.
For further information apply at the company's
omce.
JOHN G. DALE, Agent, No. 15 Broadway, N. Y,
Or to O'DONN ELL & FAULK, Agents.
4 B No. 402 CHE3N UT Street. Philadelphia
DELAWARE AND mRSAPRilf R
STEAM TOW BO AT COMPANY,
.UBS lhjlm (D vuwc-ti uc.wccu r 1U! WlKl D tl Id,
, f . m I mn . . . . . . . n n II k i I 1 1
Baltimore, iiavre-oe-urace, ue. aware cuy, and in
termediate points.
William r. ultima cu., Agents.
Captain JOHN LAUGH LIN, Superintendent.
Ottlce, No. 12 South wl arves V'Jatlelphia. 4
115
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
awn Kiintin u ktkamkhip iimu
liiKUljt-H t KEIUHT Alii IdXE lO 1UK BOUTH
A K Ik WKST
INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES
Kt..mr lai.a (n WKD.V FSPAYand SATIIRn V
at Uo'ofock noou, from.lIKbT WHARF above MAB-
W fa T Kru.
KETL'KNING. leae RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS. uid MORI OLE TUESDAYS and SA-
No Bill of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on aailinf
dUROUGH KATK8 to all poloti in North and 8oatn
Carolina, Tia Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at
Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tenneuee. and tne
Went, via Virginia and lennewee Air Line an4 Richmond
uid Danville R&ilroud.
ireiubt HAN ULKU BUTOJiCE, and taken at LOWER
BATKS THAN ANY OTHHR LINK.
No charge for eommiaaien, drajage, or anf expenae of
ranaler. . .
ltemsniia insure at loweet rate.
Fre'.Kbt received daily.
I, Doom eccoinmouation lot uaaaencere.
tlete tioon,tctm,"'vv iljl.iAM p. olY1K A OO..
No. Li 8. WHARVI'B.ud Pier 1 N. WilaUVK.A.
W P PUK I KK, A vent at KicLmond and Chi Point.
T. P. CRoWLLL CO.. Akidi at Aurto.fc. e il
FOR NSW .YOKE, VIA DELA'.VAKB
sifr and Hirit-to Caiul.
JrfT-lL s YV 1 FT S U K K TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AN i' feWlFTSURE LINES,
1 eavihtf lai y at 12 M. and 5 P. M.
The s! earn prupe'lers of mis company wUemi
ineut e loading ou the Mh of March.
Through lu iweutv-lour hours.
Good forwarded "to auy point free of eomniioalouih
Freights tuWeu on accommodating terms.
App'.v to
WIT LI AM M. PA1 A CO., Ajen!,
4 :j bjw'.U x)uu iV alii aUuC.
SHIPPING.
jfgfr VOIl PORTS.
THE STEAMSHIP YAZOO
WILL SAIL FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT, ON
TUESDAY, August 23, at 8 A. M.
Thronch bills of ladlntr riven in connection with
Morgan s lines from New Orleans to M obi in, Galves
ton, Indlanrila, Lavacca, and Brazos, at as low rates
as by any other route.
ThrouBh bills of lading also ilven to all points on
the Mississippi river between New Orleans and Ht.
Louis, in connection vritn tne su Louis sua new Or
leans Packet Company.
For further information apply to
WILLIAM L. JAMES,
General Agent,
No. 130 South TttlRD Street.
8 IBM
frfFta. LOKILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY
i on .i:w York,
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND
SATURDAY,
arc now l sceiving freight at
FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS
PER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON,
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 for less than
fifty cents.
NOTICE On and after September IB rates by this
Company will be 10 cents per 100 pounds or cents
per foot, ship option ; and regular shippers by this
line will only lie charged the atwve rate all winter.
Winter rates commencing December IB. For further
particulars appij to iii v. oiiu
28
PIER 19NOKTII WHARVES.
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to issue through
bills of ladlrg to interior points South and West in
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
ALFRED L. TYLER,
Vice-President So. C. RR. Co.
Mfy PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON
J K ! JL STEAMSHIP LINE.
'1 his line is now composed of the following flrst
class Steamship, sailing from PIEK II, below
Spruce street, on FRIDAY of each week, at 8
ASHLAND, S'K) tons, Captain CrowelL
J. W. EVERMAN, 6U2 tons, Captain Hinckley
SALVOR, 600 tons, Captain Aghcroft.
AUGUST, 1870.
J. W. Everman, Friday, August 5.
Salvor. Friday, August 12.
J. W. Everman, Friday, August 19.
iSnlvor, Friday, August 2f.
Through bills of lading given to Columbia, S. C
the interior of Georgia, and all points South and
Southwest.
Freights forwarded with promptness and despatch.
Rates as low as by any other route.
Insurance one-half per cent., effected at the offlco
in first-class companies.
No freight received nor bills of lading signed after
3 P. M. on day of sailing.
SOLDER & ADAMS, Agents,
No. 3 DwCK. Street,
Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 12 S. WHARVES.
WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Acent In Charles
ton, e 24
rTfN PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
liklTiin STKAMSHIP COMPANY'S REUU.
Uk ofc.MI-AlONTHLY LINE TO NEW OR.
LF.ANS, La.
The YAZOO will aail for New Orleana direct, on Tnes-
day Anc"!t at a. M.
The HERC'ULKS will sail from New Orleans, direct on
A'l HH6UGU BILLS OF LADING at as low rates as by
any other route given to Mobile, Galveston, Indianola, La
vacca, and Brazoa.and to all points on tlia Missibaippi river
between New Orleans and St. Louis. Rod River freight
reetupuad at New Orleans without obarge of cemmi anions.
WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, GA.
Tb WYOMING will sail for Savannah on Satur
day, Aujrust 2is at ? A. M.
The TON A WANDA will sail from Savannan on Satur
day. Auirust 20.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING given to all tneprin.
Cipal towns in Georgia. Alabama. Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkaveas, and Tennessee in connection wnb
the Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlantic and Gulf Rail,
road, and Florida .learners, at as low rates ao by competing
lines.
SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, ft. O.
The PION K.KR will sail for Wilmington on Wednesday,
August 17, at ti A. M. Returning, will leave Wiluungtoa
Wednesday, Augusts. .
Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat Oom.
pany, the Wilmington and Weldon and North Carolina
Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to all interior points.
freights for Columbia, S. O., and Augusta, Ga., taken
via Wilmington, at aslow rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or befor day
of sailing. -WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent
g 15 No. 130 South THIRD Street.
FOR NEW YORK,
via Tielaware and Rarltan Canal.
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
'liie sieam Propellers of the line will commence
loading on the 8th instant, leaving daily as usual.
THKOUGH1N TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne
York, North, East, or West, free of commission.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE & CO., Agents,
No. 12 S. DELAWARE Avenue,
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. ll WALL Street, New York. 3 4$
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN'
.fdria. Georgetown, and Washinston.
I). C, via Chesapeake and Delaware
Cauai, with connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle,
Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
'roiu the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
nYDE & TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M.
ELLR1DGE & CO., Agents at Alexandria 1
CORDAGE, ETC.
WEAVER & CO.,
kope 5i a ui .4 c ruui:iit
AND
BIIII ClIACVIL.i:ui,
No. 29 North WATER Street and
No. 23,Norta WHARVES, Philadelp&U.
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICES. 41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, 8iial and Tarred Cordage
At Lowest New York Prices and Freight.
EDWIN II. FITI.KH. 6Y CO.,
Factory. TENTH St. and QERMANTOWn. A vena.
Store, No. 23 . WATER 8t and 2 N DKLAWABK
Avenue. t
WASHINGTON, D. C,
July 27, lbTO.
NOTICE PAVING PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
The Commission appointed by "An Act to Provide
for the Paving of Pennsylvania Avenue," approved
July h, lbTo, is authorized to select aud determine
the best kind of Pavement to be used lu paving Penn
sylvania avenue, and to have said thoroughfare
paved therewith from the northwest gate of the
Capitol to the crossing of Fifteenth street, west.
The Commission met and orgauized in accordance
with the above law, and proceeded to th election of
a President and Secretary. It was decided to invite
all patentees, owners, or Inventors of auy of 169
improved pavements, of whatever material coiu
pobtd, whtther of stone, wood, asphalt, concrete, or
soy other kind, to furnish aeon rate and detailed
drawings or models, descriptions, specifications, In
cluding the nature of the foundation to be laid, how
packed, fiLd, in fact, all lnforniutiou as to their con
struction and durability. This Information is desired
to enable the Commission to decide la the first In
stance upon the general nature of the material to be
ustrt in paving the avenue, aud then to specify the
preference tliat may be agreed upon in regard to
some particular method to be adopted. A reference
lu the law public, S. 14) will give the required
lufoiiuatirn ss to how the payments lor said pave
u.eLt wul be made. It is provided therein "Tnat
the cost of lavii.'gauch pavement shall not exceed
tde sum of ft.ur oeiUis per square yard." The esti
mate u arts of baid pavemeut is in the neighborhood
ol suty-live lliou.-aiid (Oo.Ooo) square jard
All conimuDK atioiis in relation to pavements should
be addresst-d to the Secretary, Gen. N. MICHLKIt,
ir? ief I'm'-.c Pii'ldmgs. G.'ouucs, aud V iiku, u.
h. Coi-tci, V ASlilNToN, 1). C. 1 i