6 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1870. THE SEPTEMBER MAG4ZINES. "TUB UAL.AXY." "OTtrland," Chapter VI, VII, VIII, IX, andX; 'Milk," by John C. Draper, M. D.; Ilistorio Doubtt Concerning Patrick Henry," by Edward A. Tollard; Tatienoe," by II. II.; "The Alburn of tho Regiment," from the French of Edmond Abont; "Ten Year in Home The Inquisition;7' "Lady Judith: a Tale of Two Continents," Chapters I, II, III, and IV, by Justin McCarthy; "Unpardoned," by Edgar Fawcett; "Temperaments," by Titus Munson Coan, M. D.; "Three Women," by Richard Grant White; "Three Singers," by O.j "Drift-wood," by Philip Quilibet; "Literature and Art;" "Memoranda," by Mark Twain; "Nebuke," by the editor. To what depths of humiliation mast Vir ginia have descended when a Virginian under takes to demolish the historic reputation of one of Virginia's famous heroes, in the style that Mr.' Edward A. Pollard does in his "His toric Doubts' Concerning Patrick Henry"! Mr. Pollard certainly makes out a good case against the famous orator, but alas that such things should be written, and by a member cf the F. F. Vs. We quote some portions of Mr. Pollard's article: It will be asked, who could be a more intelli gent witness to the eloquence of Patrick Jienry than his biographer, the elegant aud accomplished William Wirt Y We answer, the witness is only one; one sworn to exalt his subject, after the common fashion of that biography which Macaulay names among our wild literary manias; one whose own literary conceits were enormous; one who notoriously gives us Henry's speeches in the classic style of the oratio obliqua, himself practising the rhetorician; one than whom no single person could have been selected from Henry s con temporaries better calculated to give us an entirely unreliable description of tho man, and, at best, more likely to make his false hoods plausible and dangerous by the decep tions of his fancy and the peculiarities of his style. Let us meditate the remarkable, important fact that the volume of Wirt is, strictly speaking, the only historical evidence we have of the assertion, grown familiar in our day, and repeated with such unquestioning assent, that Patrick Henry was a great orator. Now, what is the value of this testimony ? The eame Mr. Wirt wrote "The Blind Preacher"; and the facts turned out to be that James Waddell was a very excellent old man, but not much above the mediocrity of speakers; that no one was more surprised than himself at Wirt's eulogy deeply mortified, in fact, as the honest man confessed himself to be, by the extravagance of his biographer; that even he was not blind, suffering only from the weakness of his eyes; and that he actually never did preach the sermon from whicd "the British Spy" professed to quote literally some one or two sentences ! Now, is it at all improbable that the same author may have done in a measure for Patrick Henry what he did for James Waddel ? and, indeed, is there any evidence but that of a page of Wirt that Patrick Henry ever did actually make that "give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death" speech whose inspirational words have been mouthed on the hustings and repeated foren eically by little boys for three-quarters of a century ? It is an unwelcome task to destroy a pleasing and romantic picture which we have been in the habit of accepting as true. But if we are to speak with the severity of the historian, we have to say that the evidence that Patrick Henry ever made such a speech is not worth a baubee, and that, on the con trary, there is reason to believe that he never did utter said oft-quoted invocation! Wo say so much, because it is only Wirt who reports the speech; because he produces it in such connection as to show that it is he (the author) evidently, though not by literal confession, making a speech for himself; and because, if Henry had so spoken, it is likely that it would have been noticed by some of hid nu merous and capable audiences, the utterance being bold, and not likely to pass unchal lenged by their memories. But granted that Henry epoke in totidem verbis; what, we' should like to know, is the particular elo quence of it? True, it is brave, fervent, and all that but is it not a trifle trite? Or, to be strictly honest, is it not a plagiarism taken from that classic morsel in "the Reader," "Sempronius Speech for War," which the writer recollects to have recited in school when he was ten years old, and thought to be capable of the instruction of "liberty or death?" ' It is to be noticed that this wonderful speech described by Wirt is introduced into the Virginia Convention of 1774, which sat in the city of Richmond. How is it, then, that of the many members of this Conven tion who themselves spoke on the question that of a resolution that the colony "be immediately put into a state of defense" none have testified to the burst of declamation attributed to Henry, a thing so remarkable and in which they themselves were involved as debaters ? Among his bo silent and uncommunicative au ditors were such men as Nicholas Bland, Pen dleton, Harrison, Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Mason, Page, and notably Jefferson, who did on another occasion, in the House of Bur gesses, notice, and in frequent detail too, another effort of the same orator. That Patrick nenry did make a speech in this Con vention we do not doubt. He was the mover of the resolution referred to, and he naturally epoke to it. Judge Tucker refers to him as speaking to the question "with all the calm dignity of Cato of Utica" a stoicism quite unlike the fierce and incandescent pro duct of Wirt. This, certainly, oould not have been the speech that tradition tells of. A recent historiographer who has meddled in the subject attempts to bring some sup port or color to Wirt, by a conversation, an oral statement derived from "an old Baptist clergyman," who, however, gives his support no further than describing the orator as speaking with such zeal that "the tendons of his neck stood out like whip-cords." Which U true, Judge Tucker or the Baptist clergy man? And, in such conflict, we may not be par doned for dropping the question, and c jai mitting ourselves to a wise skepticism "a to whether Patrick Henry did actually speak a a single one of those sentences which Wirt bas rehearsed? But it will probably be said that our asser tion has been too broad, to the effect that Henry's contemporaries have not testified to such greatness of eloquence as Wirt bas de scribed, and there will be obvious quotations, even from the tame and critical Jefferson, as to his power of oratory. Granted; but when we come to analyze the evidence of Mr. Jef ferson, we find it on near examination nut only to be equivocal, but to suggest new sus picions as to the true measure of Henry's Jifts. If the truth must be fully told, Thomas efferson was among the most envious of ild; one has only to read the "Ana" to pee this infirmity displayed in the busy, painful canvassing of theopinions of posterity,which to make the more effective he transported to the shelter of the grave. There is a curious in genuity of envious persons in making the most extravagant concessions of certain vir tues or qualities in their rivals, only that with better grace and deeper effect they may wound other parts of their characters or lives. Of this common deception or hypocrisy we think Mr. Jefferson has furnished a melan choly instance in the estimate of Patrick Henry which he has left to the world; that is, if the inconsistencies and contradictions of this estimate mean anything else than an utter looseness ef conception, the maudlin incoherence of an inoapable witness of which hypothesis we must certainly acquit "the sage of Monticello." "Henry was a great orator, says Mr. Jefferson rapturously: but then, after that was said, the great orator was ignorant, was fond of low company, herded with overseers, changed his shirt but once a fortnight, and was so brutally dull that he had to confess that he could not find resolu tion in a whole winter to read a few chapters that had been recommended to him in Hume's "History of England!" He suffered from "incorrigible idleness;" "his nV ij passion was fiddling, dancing, and p' nan try." Now, in this testimony it requires no deep sight to detect the marks of a man at cross purposes, attempting to disguise an almost fierce envy or contempt under the preface ef an insin cere compliment. And besides this suspicion of Mr. Jefferson's sincerity, his testimony in some instances is so utterly at variance with well-ascertained facts, . that we may apply to it the rule, falsim ii uno, fahus in omni bus, and declare the whole story which he told to Mr. Webster at Monticello of his quondam contemporary to be utterly worth less. So far from Patrick Henry being the dul lard here represented, we have been told by one who knew him well in Richmond, that he was such a student in his law office that he was known, in preparing for a single cafe of litigation, to have shut himself up for three days, during which he did not see his family, and his food was handed by a servant through the office door ! Mr. Wirt will have his hero mostly an "inspirational speaker," while the Richmond witness makes him a per fecta, whose preparations must have stank xaont unpleasantly of the lamp. At the very time Mr. Jefferson has the orator unable to digest the plain aud agreeable prose of Hume, Mr. Wirt has him reclined under the forest trees, in true pastoral style, read ing Livy in the original Latin. Another witness comes forward to Mr. Jefiferson's aid, and another Governor of Virginia reports the orator as habitually using a language not above the dialect of the negro. Mr. Randall, in his "Life of Jefferson, thus introduces Patrick Henry: "Ho talked like a back woodsman about man's naiterai parts being improved by larniit, about the yearth, etc. And this added in a foot-note: "Governor Page of Virginia usod to relate on the testimony of his own ears that such was the prononnoiation of the subject of this sketch." What then, shall we believe of this mess of inconsistencies, and is the "forest-born Demosthenes," after all, a mythical personage? Even as to the article of dress, there is a contradiction of testimony: and Mr. Jefferson's cruel description is mani festly false. So far from the great orator being clownish or unclean in his dress, he seems to have been eooentrically luxurious in it, and on occasions to have practised a pecu liarity in it of the weakest and most bizarre description. The diamond he displayed was worthy of Fisk, Jr. His usual attire in the Legislature of Virginia was "stunning" the body of his dress black, white cravat, and a red velvet mantle thrown over the shoulders! Really, as we collect the evidences of Mr. Henry's appearance and manners, there is a painfully increasing suspicion that there was an element of charlatanry in them, or, at any rate, that the man was not really as he is in the picture-books of our day and in the plea sant traditions of an admiring posterity. As to his qualities as an orator, we have a theory of our own one the merit of which is that it is curiously consistent with each extreme in which he is represented by his contempo raries. And we may as well say here in ad vance and plainly that we have no idea that Patrick Henry was an orator in the sense that Cicero, or Burke, or Mirabeau was, and that the few certain historical evidences which we have on the subject completely exclude such a supposition. Tho most important fact in his life which touches this question in one but little known to readers, or that has been slightly esti mated by his partial biographer. It is that this man, for whom so much has been claimed as an orator, sat for two years in the Con tinental Congress, when the early questions of the Revolution were being debated, when the most inspiring themes were appealing to mind and heart sat for these two whole years without ever venturing to speak onoe to an assembly so well qualified to hear him, if he had indeed been a great orator, and so well disposed to entertain him, if indeed a great reputation had preceded him. If the delegate from Virginia was really the incom parable orator that bad inflamed the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg, how could he have remained for two years this figurehead in Congress, and that when questions calculated to stir men's hearts to their depths required him to speak? It is the quality of true eloquence that it cannot contain itself, that it dares all assemblies, that it recognizes the variety and numbers of its audiences only to draw inspiration from them. Was Patrick Henry afraid of tne reputation he had made on obscure occasions in Virginia ? Did he fear to risk it before an assembly which Lord Chatham declared to exceed intellectually any parliament in Europe? Was he another instance of that phenomenon which we see so habitually in our meaner Congress of to-day: men coming there with great local reputations, and with great expec tations of their constituents, and never being heard of afterwards? We will not pursue these painful yet obvious and unavoidable surmises; yet certain it seems, if Patrick Henry had been the orator represented by his biographer, he would not, could not have been thehilent, undistinguished, in fact, ev tiiujuixhcd man he was in Congress. Patrick Henry had sat in Congress frooi 1774 to 177(1., He declined a re-election', along with George Washington, who had been equally a "silent" member of this high assembly; but for Washington there ww,of course, the excuse that he made no preten sions to eloquence. Henry had been flanked with other Virginia colleagues who spoke abundantly, and who made names as orators and debaters by bis side. Such were Richard Henry Lee, Peyton Randolph, Richard Bland, and Edw&rd Pendleton. He made not a sin gle addition to his eloquence, where every in centive and every opportunity were offered; end, what is more remarkable, he treat ob eouitly back into the Virginia Convention, to remain as silent and andiutinguishd there. In deed, from his first apparition as orator and "Rebel, "about the time he was designated by Lord (Governor) Dunmoxe as "a certain Pat rick Henry, of the county of Hanover, with a number of deluded followers" to the date of the Declaration of Indepen dence in the Virginia Convention, i. the resolutions which proposed this movement in Congress, Mr. Henry appears to have veiled whatever eloquence he had, and to have been satisfied to repose on his laurels. He re mained silent when the proposition for inde pendence was about to be decided by the Vir ginia Convention. The "supernatural voice" was not heard on an oocasion so great and exacting. Although a member of the oommittee that drafted the Declaration of Rights and the first Constitution of Virginia, Mr. Henry spoke on none of these inspiring themes, and he permitted another member of his oommittee to offer the resolution of inde pendence. Such poverty of speech, to say the least, was unworthy of such an orator as Wirt has described and traditfon has accepted. True, an explanation has been hinted that deeply involves Henry's integrity as a patriot. It has been conjectured that his zeal for liberty had declined, that he had undergone a change of his political opinions which he was un willing to confess in public; and there has been brought to light in modern times a very curious letter from General Charles Lee, written in May, 1775, in which he refers to Mr. Henry on the supposition of a letter from the latter taking grounds against inde pendence. But our explanation is different, and not so cruel. The falling off, we are dis posed to believe, was that of the orator rather than of the patriot; and we must believe this at the peril of far worse suspicions. There must surely be some explanation of this utter want of evidence of the orator, just where we should expect such evidence. That Patrick Henry had been flattered, that he had been overvalued by country audiences, and that he was therefore a failure in Congress, it is reasonable to believe. But for whatever reason he failed, our general proposi tion is not disturbed, to the effect that the historical evidences of him as an orator are essentially deficient, and that of him in this character we are thus permitted most seriously to doubt. If our Virginia orator failed to Bet the Sus quehanna on fire, it was perhaps no more than his failure to display his genius in any like conspicuous circumstances in his life. It is a most remarkable, and we may add sig nificant fact, that the greatest triumphs ac corded to him by his biographers were won in comparatively obscure places and before small audiences. If we may except the apocrypha of the House of Burgesses, they were mostly affairs of the county meeting and the local gathering. If his neighbors thought him a "god," as Wirt says, that does not prove a great deal, as many a man's neighbors have overestimated their prodigy; and the good people of Charlotte county have no peculiar claim, as we are aware, for putting their opinions instead of the world's, and having their apotheosis accepted by mankind. Patrick Henry, we repeat, we cannot admit to bo in any such sense an orator. What then shall we say? Certainly there lived suoh a man as Patrick nenry, and certainly he spoke with some remarkable effect in his day. Rather, let us take the hint just afford ed us by Mr. Wirt, and reconcile a number of apparent contradictions, by concluding that Patrick Henry was of the class distinctively known in our country (America) as stump speakers, and that he was a very eminent representative of that class. To speak with volubility, to affect an audience with the vivacity of our delivery, to make vague im pressions on them of assent, or of a sort of physical sympathy with the energy of our discourse, may have a certain merit; and it is quite sure to found with the vulgar the reputation of an orator. It is precisely such a style as will acoount for most of the triumphs of Patrick Henry, while explaining the barrenness of the popular recollections of the man, and reconciling the curiously conflicting statements which we have of his ignorance, his want of real intel lectual force, and yet, his unquestionable popularity as a speaker, and an undoubted fame as such, very unduly, but not im probably, expanddd as the last has been by the literary art of a biographer and the char acteristic extravagance of tradition. A theory that answers so many exigencies is perhaps the best that can be formed under the circumstances. If it offends the fancy of his countrymen, or the pride of his descendants, we shall be glad to have these point out to us wherein we may possibly and unwittingly have of fended that true object of a common regard the truth of history. In behalf and in the interest of this truth, a few more words are indispensable. We have in this article nothing to do with the record of Patrick Henry as a politician, ex cept so far as it touches the question whether or not he was a great orator. But really the one question enters into the other further than might be generally supposed. The maxim of Qnintilian that "the orator must be a good man" has a deeper sense than that yielded on first reflection. The warmth that constitutes true eloquence must proceed from an amount and degree of sensibility such as can be furnished only by an acute and deter mined sense of virtue. The demagogue, the man who speaks in any sort of selfish inte rest, with any lack of allegiance to truth, cannot possibly be an orator in the highest and best sense of that term. The test is an unfortunate one for Patrick Henry. Even throwing out of view the im putations which we have already seen cast upon his patriotism, aud his relations to the movement for the independence of America, there is enough ascertained in his puMio career to condemn him, in measured language, as the most inconsistent of politicians, aud the most detestable "turn-coat" of his day. He started by avowing himself the most de mocratic of-democrats. He was a man of the people, "a poor worm," a democrat intus et in cute, lie even quarrelled with the French cookery of Mr. Jefferson's table at Monticello, thought it unrepublicau to supplant the dish of "bacon and greens," and "did not approve of gentlemen abjuring their native victuals." Yet this excessive democrat, this homely companion of the people, we find twice involved in a plot to establish a dictator ship in Virginia. Such a plot existed' in 177G It was renewed in 17S1, when Tarleton had raided to. the bases of the Blue Ridge, when public affairs were disor dered, and when it was avowed that it was "necessary to "place Mr. Jefferson Icon de combat," to accomplish the scheme of the conspira'ors. It is true that the biographer of Mr. Henry labors to prove that be did not instigate or even actively engage in these plots; but they were known to him, and they must have been entertained by him, since be did not denounce them. There is reason to believe that in -he first instance he only gave up the evil ambition when Colonel Archibald Cary, aocosting his stepbrother in the lobby of the Legislature, said, "Tell Governor Henry for me, that the day of his appointment as Dictator shall be the day of his death that he shall feel my dagger in his heart before the sunset of that day!" When the Constitution of the United States was submitted for ratification. Mr. Henry op posed it as tending to consolidation, and as calculated from the large powers it gave the Executive to be the ruin of the country. Yet the last efforts of his eloquence that from which he sank exhausted at Charlotte Court House was to advocate the doctrine that "Virginia was to the Union only what Charlotte county was to Virginia": to pro nounce the alien and sedition Taws "good and E roper"; and to picture "Washington at the ead of a numerous and well-appointed army, inflicting military execution" on the people of Virginia, as the probable and deserved consequence of their persisting in the line of policy laid down in the resolutions of 1708 I A man whose public life could compass such inconsistencies, so utterly at variance, so audaciously contradictory, may have been a successful demagogue, may have been the very prince of "stump-speakers"; but he must have lacked, alike, the consistency of intel lectual purpose and the integrity of moral principle, to constitute him a great orator. SUMMER RESORTS. CAPE MAY. CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY, N. J., Opens June 1. 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Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas sages, waters, water-courses, easements, franchises, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments ana ap purtenances whatsoever, unto any of the above mentioned premises and estates belonging and ap pertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand of every nature and kind whatsoever of the said Com pany, as well at law as in equity of, in, and to the same and every part and parcel thereof. TERMS OF SALE. The properties will be sold In parcels as numbered. On each bid there shall be paid at the time the pro perty is struck off Filty Dollars, unless the price is less than that sum, when the whole Bum bid shad be paid. W. L. BOTAFFER, , 813 61t W. W. LONGSTRETH, "Mees. SHIPPING FOR LIVERPOOL ANIi OTTR-uvra. .TOWN. Inman Line of Roval mii DtettuierB arc uppuiuteu to ami as I0110WS: City of Baltimore (via Halifax), Tuesday, August 23, at 1P.M. " 8 " City of Washington, Saturday, August 27, at 2 P. M. City of Paris, Saturday, September 3, at 12 M. City of Antwerp (vis Halifax), Tuesday, Septem ber 6, at 1 P. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 4t North river. RATES OF PASSAGE. Payable in gold. Payable in currency. First Cabin 75 Steerage 130 To Londen 60 To London.... as To Parts 0 To Paris 33 To Halifax 20 To Halifax 15 Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg Bremen, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons wlBhing to send for tneir friends. For further Information apply at the company'! oftlee. JOHN G. DALE, Agent. No. 18 Broadway, N. Y.: Or to O DONNELL & FAULK, Agents, 4 6 No. 403 CHESXUT Street Philadelphia, fff DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE Lr5JVSTKAM TOWBO AT COMPANY. m 1 if Barges towed between Philadelphla, Baitlinore, Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and in termediate points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE & CO., Agents. Captain JOHN LAUGULIN, Superintendent oaice, No. 13 South Wl arvea VMJadelphla. 411 PHILADELPHIA. RICHMOND. AND NORFOLK HTRAMNHIP Mm' TUKOU1.H HEIGHT AIR LINK TO THK SOUTU 1 vii trr ipoti www A XI Tv MLO 1 i INCREASED FAOILITIRB AND REDUCED RATES FOR 1H70. Btatmert leave STery WKDNKSDATsnd SATURDAY at lj! o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF Above MAR KET Street. RETURNING, lese RICHMOND MONDAY'S snd THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS sod BA. TDRDAY8. No Bills of Lsding signed after 13 o'clock on sailing dUROUQH RATES to all point In North and Booth Carolina, Tia Seaboard Air Line Railroad, oonueoling at fortonioutb, aud Ut Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and tbe West, Tia Virt- inia and Tennessee Air Line an Riunmond and Danville Railroad. FreiKbt HANDLED BUTOfSOB, and taken at LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER Ll.NE. No charge for oommiseiun, drayage, or any expense of "tearo'ships insure a lowest rates. JYeigbt received daily. kUU Room aocoaimodstionsfor No. 13 S. WUiBVUS and Pier IN. WHAKVK8. W. P. FORI KK, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. OKU WELL A CO., Agents at Norlolk. eU FOR NEW YORK, VI V DELAWARE . and Human Cauul. S W 1 F T SURE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DESPATCH ANl dWIKTSURB LINE'S, ' Leaving daily at 12 M. aud 6 P. M. The steam prope'lersof Una company wld com nience loading od the 8th ct March. Through In tweutj-four honrs. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions, Freights taien on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents, 4 Ni. lUi South DELAWARE Avenue. SHIPPING. gfjfgE TEXAS roiiTs. TUB STEAMSHIP YAZOO WILL SAIL FOR NEW ORLEANS DIRECT, OH TUESDAY, August 23, at 8 A. M. Through bills of lading given in connection with Morgan's lines from New Orleans to Moblln, Galves ton. Indianola, Lavacca, and Brazos, at as low rates as by any other route. Through bills of lading also given to allpoInU on the Mississippi river between New Orleans and St Louis, in connection with the St Louis and New Or leans Packet Company. For further Information apply to . WILLIAM L. JAMES. General Agent, No. 130 South TIRD Street. 8 lBSt L0RILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY JPOIt NEW YORK, SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY, are now l eceiving freight at FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS TER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON, I 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 thta Company will be 10 cents per loo pounds or 4 cents fcr loot, ship's option; and regular shippers by this Ine will only be charged the above rate all winter Winter rates commencing December 10. For further particulars apply to JOHN F. OHU 88 PIER 19 NORTH WHARVHS. THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHT. LADKLPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM. SHIP LINK are ALONE authorized to Issue throujrti bills of ladirg to Interior points South and West in connection with South Carolina Railroad Oomn&nv ALFRED L. TYLER Vice-President So. C. RR. Co, f PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON 11 STEAMSHIP LINE. va '1 tus line Is now composed of the following n rot- class Steamships, sailing from PIER 17, below Spruce Btreet on FRIDAY of each wees fat 8 A. M. : ASHLAND, 800 tons, Captain CrowelL J. W. EVERMAN, 692 tons, Captain Hlncklev SALVOR, 600 tons, Captain Ashcroft AUGUST, 1870. J. W. Everman, Friday, August 5. Salvor, Friday, August 12. J. W. Everman, Friday, August 19. Salvor. Friday, August 20. 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 office In first-class companies. No freight received nor bills of lading Blgned on day of sailing. BOUDER A ADAMS, Agents, No. 8 Dock Street Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDE A CO., No. 12 a WHARVES. WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Agent In Charles ton. q 24 PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN STrlssA MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S REGU. LaK SEMIMONTHLY LINE TO NEW OR. LKANSe Ia. The YAZOO will fail for New Orleans direct, oa Tues day A ugust 33. at 8 A. M. w the HERCULES will sail from New Orleans, direct oa A5ROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates as by any other route given to Mobile, Galventon, Indianola, La vacca, and Bracos, and to all points on tbe Miminippiriver between New Orleans and St. Louis. Red River freight reshipped at New Orleans without charge of commissions, WEEKLY LINE TO BAYANNAH, GA. Tbe WYOMING will sail for Savannah on Satu day, AnKUst Sis at 8 A. M. Tne TON A WANDA wiU sail from Savannan on Satur day, August 20. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING given to all theprin. Cipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Missies! ppi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee in connection with tbe Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlantio and Gulf Rail road, and Florida steamers, at as low rates ao by competing lines. SEMI MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON. N. O Tbe PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Wednesday. August 17, at 6 A. M. Returning, will leave Wilmington Wednesday, August 24. Connect b with tbe Cape Fear River Steamboat Oom. pany, tbe Wilmington and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior pointe. Freights for Columbia, S. O., and Augusta, Ga., taken via Wilmington, at as low rates as by any other route. Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before day of sailing. WUxiAM l. JAMES, General Agent 618 No. 13U South THIRD Street FOR N JS W YORK. via Delaware and Raritan Canal. EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The bteam Propellers of the line will coramnpA loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally as usuaL THROUGH IN 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 A CO., Agents, No. 12 8. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES nAND, Agent No. 119 TALL Street New York. 8 4 NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AM. idria, Georgetown, and Washington, D. C. via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route ror Lyncnnnrg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon torn the first wharf above Market street Freight received dally. , WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. nYDE fc TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M, ELDRIDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 4 1 CORDAGE, ETO. ' WEAVER & CO., ROPE MANUFACTURERS AND SHIP CIIAmUEERM, 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 Lowest New York Prioes and Freight. EDWIN U. FITI.ER Sc CO., Factory, TENTH Bt and GEBMANTOWN Avenne. Store, No. 23 . WATER Bt and 22 N DELAWARE Avenue ENGINE. MACHINERY. ETO. FPFt PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER SJjiiilwOKKS. NEAFIE A LEVY, PRACTI CAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MA CHINISTS. BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS, aid FOUNDERS, having for many years been la successfdl operation, ana been exclusively engaged In buildiDg and repairing Marine and River L'nglnes, high and low pressure, iron hollers, Water Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc, respectfully offer their services to the public as being fully prepared to contract for engines of all Hizess, Marine, River, and Stationary; having seta of patterns of dlffetent sizes, are pre pared to execute orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern-making made at tne shortest notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgiogs of all size and kinds, iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning, ,V;rew Cutting, and all other work connected with the above business. Drawings and specifications for all work done the establishment free of charge, and work gua ranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room foi repairs of boats, where they can He in perfect safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, fallr , etc. etc., for rat ising neavy or iiKntweignia JACOB C. NEAFIE, juun r. r, BEACH and PALMER Streets. 8 16 QIRARD TUBE WORKS AND IRON CO., JOHN H. MURPHY, President, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. MANUFACTURE WROUGHT-IRON PIPE and Sundries for Plcmbers, Gas and Steam Fitters, WORKS, TWENTY-THIRD and FILBERT Streets. Office and Warehouse, 41 No. 43 N. FIFTH Street,
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