-1 - THE DAILY EVENING TKLKGKA PH rniLADKLPin A, SATURDAY, AUGUST S, 1870. cun n.Eiiaioua column. AUTHORITY AND 1XFLUEXCK. Tbere is a natural tendency in the bcart of (nan (and it operates abundantly even in real Christians) to bow to the influence o( perverted and falsely assumed authority. "The prophets prophesy falsely and tbe priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so." That honored place of authority and Influence once held by the unfallcu Cunrch, while it yet stood as the "pillar and ground of the truth," Las been seldom claimed by any without tbe claim (however false and presumptuous) being willingly owned, and sometimes welcomed, even by many who are really Christ's. But all f uch authority, seeing that It is neither based on nor guided by truth, can only lead into the dark ness to which itself belongs. What wonder therefore, that ignorance should settle in upon that soul that has made itself tbe slave of such authority; what wonder if unconsciously it should welcome falsehood and fight against truth, and congratulate itself most when farthest distant from the principles of Christ! Indi Tiduale too, as well as collective bodies, may claim an authority which God has never given; and not un frequently fear, or affec tion, or self-interest, or a disposition to lean upon others, causes it to be gladly recognized. But such authority, seeing that it is not in the power of truth, that it directs not to the Scrip tures alone, that it will not bear the test of the "law and of the testimony," can only, as in the Jormer case, lead toward, if not into darkness. Nothing but close adherence to the Scripture can preserve us from such results in a day like the present. Is that which we hear false or true? Js it or is it not the word of God ? Such are the great questions we have to ask ourselves now. The faithful use of the Scriptures will no doubt expose many an error, detect many a sin of Ignorance, and show us much that we have no ufficient grace to attain. -Christian Treasury. HILll.MAKY OF CIIl'KCU NEWS. 1'RESBTTERIAN. The Rev. Dr. T. D. Witherspoon has been obliged by HI health to resign the pastoral care of the Second Presbyterian church in Memphis, Tennessee. He took charge of it in 1805, since which time its members have increased from 180 to over 400. The edifice has been enlarged and thoroughly repaired, and the affairs of the congregation have been brought into a very prosperous condition. The congregation of Augusta Church, Vir ginia (Kev. Dr. Handy, pastor), is engaged in rait-ing means for the thorough repair of their lime-honored church edifice, a substantial struc ture of stone, built in 1747 seven years before JBraddock's defeat. Their ancestors hauled the Hone on sleds, and brought the glass and nails from WiHlamsburg on back-horses. The Presbyterian churches of the city of New Orleans have undertaken, in connection with a system of parochial sehools, the organi zation of a female seminary, intending that the came shall furnish superior advantages for men tal and moral culture. Though a quarter of a million of strangers came to Texas last year to find a home, only a single Presbyterian minister came. It is said by reliable observers that there are fewer Pres byterian clergymen in Texas in J 870 than there were in 1800.' 8amnel Small. Eso., of York, Pa., has sub scribed 130,000 to the Memorial Fund. Kev. George P. Hays has accepted the Presi dency of Washington and Jefferson College, Pa., to which he has just been elected. The American Presbyterian states that "the free-pew system is slowly making progress in the Presbyterian and other Churches, hitherto accustomed to pew-renting," and adds: "These movements in the direction of greater popu larity, and a bending from the old, stiff proprie ties of Presbyteriantsra, are full of interest, and bear directly upon the question ot bringing the Gospel to the outside masses and neglectors." The Congregational Church at Baroboo, Wisconsin, has united with the Presbyterian, forming one strong and self-sustaining body. . The Rev. J. F. Pressly, for the last forty eight years pastor of the United Presbyterian Church and a Professor in the United Presbyte rian Theological Seminary, died on the I3iti in Pittsburg. He was in his slx'j'-seventh year. Rev. E. E. hayliss writes to the Presbyte rian that, on the 14th of June last, with tbe assistance of Kev. Sheldon Jackson, he organ ized at Corinne the first Presbvterian Church in the Territory of Utah. On the 31st of July he organ! d the first Presbyterian Sunday-School in Mormondom. The Kev. John A. McAfee has accepted the Presidency of a college at Highland, Kansas, and will take charge the first of September. Dr. Roswell D. Hitchcock, of Union Theo logical Seminary, New York, has just returued to this country, with improved tealth, after a prolonged absence in Europe. In St. Louis there have been deeded to the United Presbyterian Church four lots, worth at present about thirty dollars a foot front, on the condition that it is occupied for church purposes. If not thus occupied, it reverts to tie heirs. The Rev. Joseph McKelvey, returned from China, is ministering usefully to the colored congregation of Leavenworth, Kansas. The Pittsburg Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church has unanimously endorsed the conduct of such of its delegates as in the last synod voted for union with the United Pres byterian Church. All tbe ministers of the West ern Presbytery have united in a call for a meeting to take action on the subject; and some of its congregations have voted almost unani mously for union irrespective of the action of tbe synod. CONGREGATIONAL. John Smith has made the noble offer of 135,000 to Andover Seminary for a Memorial Hall, and John Dove and Peter Smith have pledged 10,000 mo e, on condition that t "35, 01)0 be subscribed by others, tbe building and land to cost not over :JO,000, and J0,0iX) to be in vested, the interest only to 1 e spent for a library, reading-room, etc. Tbis offer stands open for ' six months. The Lord's Supper, in the First Church. Oakland, California, on a late Sabbath, was au occasion of memorable interest. Nine, persons were united to the church, but of these three were Chinese. The Kev. Merrill Richardson, of Worcester, Mass., has accepted tbe call from the New Eng land Congregational Church of New York, and will be Installed in October. The Kev. Jeremiah Porter, the Congrega gational veteran home missionary, is appointed post chaplain at Brownsville, Texas. The Advance eaya: "One of the railroad companies in Iowa has agreed to donate tiO.OOO In lands towards the proposed German Theo logical Seminary, if it shall be located at Storm Lake, providing tbe churches will give ti0,0J0 towards erecting the necessary buildings." The Shepherd church has erected at Cam bridge, Massachusetts, a granite monurneut in memory of its nine deceased pastors isxuli number for two centuries and more since its organization. There are CO Congregational churches iu Kansas, witn an aggregate membership ot 'J;)7S, Including til ministers. Twelve new meeting. houses were built last year. Tbe total amount raised by tbe churches was 155,313 4:. A gentleman of Stock briJire, Mas., ha presented to the church tbere a tlJOO par.ona. and another gentleman ha given t'leui tha per - petual use, free of rent, of a large hall lor euu iertnee meetings. It is reported that Rev.O. E. Daggett, I) I) , has resigned his professorship in Yale College, and bis pastoral charge of tbe College church, and that he has been requested l reconsider his action. Tt minutes of the General Conference of i'L-Q a itcrvs 1ft vver lac. year of 11 churches, 16 ministers, 433 church memlxirs, and 1300 Sunday-school children. The Oberlih alumni have undertaken the endowment of two new chairs in that college. They will be called tbe Finney and Morgan pro fessorships. METHODIST. The Methodists of Omaha, Nebraska, have arranged their church Into a block of stores tbat will rent for $10,000 a year. This income, it is proposed, will go to the cause of Church Bx tension in the State of Nebraska for ever, and is likely to secure the buildingof several churches in the rural districts every ear. Dr. E. O. Haven, President of Northwestern University, Evanston, near Chicago, has been invited by the Regents of Wisconsin University to tbe Presidency, in place of Dr Chadbo arne, resigned. A new proposal for the location of the Syracuse (N. Y.) University (Methodist), has been made by John B. Burnet, who tenders the gift of fifty acres of land, valued at $50,000, and the expense of tbe grading of thejrrounds. Tbe land is situated on tbe Geddes Hills, west of the city. A Methodist missionary at Salt Lake City writes that "God's blessing abides with the mission." Three preaching stations and three Sunday schools have been established, and con gregations are encouraging at every point; tbat at Salt lake City has grown from Mr ty persons to three hundred. To meet the cost of i t u-iw establishment in New York, f 9H0,000, tbe Book Concern issued coupon bonds, redeemable in fifteen vears or sooner, and bearing interest semi-annually. The breeze about "irregularities" awakened distrust, and the bonds were for a time "flat." Lately, however, confidence has recovered itself, and the inquiry for these bonds has been resumed, and sales have already taken place to the amount of f 400,000. This, it is stated, has been effected without a single paid-for adver isement, or any pushing whatever. In Ohio there are now four Methodist Epis copal Conferences, with four branches. The membership is 141,080, and is divided into 575 pastoral charges. The number of church edi fices is 1800, aud their value $5,183,323. The number of jarsonagea is 383, and their value $089,400. The average value of the church edi fices is 12873, and of the parsonages $1800. The most costly church is St. Paul s, Cincinnati, tlGO.OOO. There are 803 Sunday schools, 23,529 officers and teachers, and 149,755 scholars. The Methodist Episcopal Church has just lost two leading and liberal laymeu, Mr. Trumnn R. Ilawlcy, of Boston, who died suddenly at Plymouth, N. H., on the 8th instant; and the Hon. George T. Cobb, of Mor ristown, N. J., who was killed on the Balti more and Ohio Railroad, Dear White Sulphur Springs, on the 6th, and had lately given $100,000 to the Methodist Church at Morristown. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, at Piqua, Ohio, valued at 1 15,000, was destroyed Julv 25 by a tornado. The Rev. W. G. E. Cnnnyngham, D.D., has been elected President of the Centenary Col lege, Louisiana. The Wesloyan Methodists report a member ship of 1,146,081, and a subscription of thank offering during the centenary year of 8,:wa,u2. flSCOPAL. St. James' Church, San Francisco, the nucleus of ritualism in California, has ceased to exist. The Rev. George Morgan Hills, of Syracuse, N. Y., has been unanimously called to the rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J., the parish of which the late Bishop Doane was rector for many years. Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburg, Pa., strongly urges tbe wisdom of the free-seat system. Of the sixty regular Episcopal parishes in his diocese, but one-lourtn rent their pews; in all the rest the scats are free. The journal of the Convention of the Dio cese of Ohio shows a list of 111 parishes, served by two bishops and ninety-four clergymen; com municants reported 9190. The total of contri butions for all purposos, except salaries, in 97 parishes, $185, 584 -40. In the new St. Thomas Church, Fifth avenue, New York, a musical conductor has been eugaged, at a salary of $ 5000 per annum. The Register mentions, as a noble example, that the students of the "Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia," during the session just closed, have contributed to the Foreign Missions of tbe Church three hundred and twenty-two dollars, evidently the work of self-deDial with many of them, if not with all. Tbe Society lor the Increase of the Ministry has aided 145 scholars during the past year. Twenty-nine have recently been ordained. The necessary expenses of the society are $3000 a month. An Episcopal "Church Guild" has been or ganized in Cincinnati, Ohio. It supports three missions and a readiug-room, and will soon start a library. BAPTIST. The increase of the colored Baptist churches in Louisiana the past year has been 2000 mem bers, and twenty churches formed. A Baptist church in New Orleans refused the benefit f a horse-race to cancel its debt, "though assured that the gate fees would be sufficient for the purpose." In tbe cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny and the adjoining boroughs there are ten Baptist churches, owuing edifices valued at $ 180,500, and furnishing accommodations for 3950 per sons. In these limits there is a population of about 200,000. Tbe North 8tar Mission, Chicago, became the North Star Baptist Church, by public recognition, July 21st. Large accessions have been made to tbis body by baptism during the last four months. The pastor, the Kev. Mr. Pierce, for merly of the United Brethren, is the minister. There arc four colored Baptist churches in this city, and they are all prospering. Their pastors are Kev. J. P. Mills, Rev. James Under due, Kev. T. D. Miller, and Rev. Mr. Finn. The Sunday-school of the Shlloh Church made an excursion trip to Riverside, and cleared $ 53 lor the benefit of tbe school. The Sbiloh Church has a branch iu Camden, at Kalghnsville. Rev. R. M. Luther, for 6ix years a mission ary in Burmah, among the Kareus, is now sup- E ing the pulpit on Snnday mornings, of the iependent Church (Rev. Dr. Chambers), on Broad street. f he American Baptist Historical Socletv, by the earnest efforts of the President. Rev. How ard Malcom, D. D., has secured a very valuable library. More space is greatly needed, and a lire-proof building is talked of. LtTUEKAN. i The Southern General Synod of the Lutheran Church reports one hundred and sixteen mem bers, one hundred and ninetv-four congrega tions, and seventeen thousand three hundred communicants, distributed In North aud South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. ! REFORMED (DUTCH.) According to the report of the Board of Edu j cation of the Reformed (Dutch) Church In America to the late General Synod of that I body, sixty-seven young men are preparing for , the ministry under the direction of the Board. ! CATnouc. ! The Roman Catholic denomination is said ' to be the strongest, numerically speaking, in I California. It numbers 1 archbishop. I bishop, 124 priestf, 29 students for the priesthood, 103 houses of worship, besides 47 chapels and sta , tions, 3ii schools, including 5 colleges, in all ; having over 8000 pupils. It has also u asylums, 4 hospitals, and 8 convents. Sadlier's Catholic , Almauar for 1870 estimates tbe Catholic popu i latlon of tbe diocese of Monterey and Los Au 1 geles at 30,000, and the whole number in the j Mate can hardly fall short of 100,000. Next in numerical strergih to the Catholics is the ! Meth dist Episcopal Church. It has 113 preach' ii g nations, 120 preachers, 5200 members, and 1 140 Suiiday-scbooU. wiib about IHXX) scholars. : It Las !:i church building and 55 parsonages. These are valued at Wd.OOO. Their college, j the "L'Liveisity of tbe Pacific, " owns valuable j property near San Jose. The t 'aihoiin Sandanl, proving the preva lence of education in Rome, quotes from the census of 1807 that the population was 215,573, of which 2303 were clergymen, 2833 other reli gious men, ana 2i5 iigious female total of 7409 religious, or one in about 30. Tbere were 73'0 soldiers, and 330 in the prison"; 4iV53 Jews, and 457 other non-Catholics. In the retools were over 3500 males gqimr through the scientific and the theological courses, and 9.111 boys and 10,953 girls In the elementary schools; giving a total ot 26,771 scholars, three-fourths of whom were receiving gratuitous education. It adds that of the 11,713 boys in Home between tbe ages of 7 and 14 all but 800 were in these schools, and tbat tbe figures are still more favorable in the case of girls. They ay that Holland is, about to fend 12,000 soldiers to maintain the temporal power of the Pope of Rome. Probably they will be transported in those ten frigates which they my England is preparing to send- to his assistance. An incident almost matchless in its ironic horror is reported from Ammergau. The miracle play there acting, which was to have been re peated every Sunday till September, has been suspended, the representative of oar Saviour having been ordered away to battle! URV GOODS. O. WAR'S DOXTCG3. Important to Dry Gwds Bayers. Owing to the unfortunate state or affairs on the Continent of Europe, there Is a mora certainty of ALL EUROPEAN GOODS being advanced In price; in fact, already Importers of MILRS are askiog a large percentage over last season 8 prices, and goods are scarce at that. We have quite a good stock on hand of Silks, Shawls, and Dress Goods, Which we propose FOR THE PRESENT to sell at old prices, not putting on omi cent advance. Also, FRENCH AND LLAM 1 LACES, Which It will pay well to buy now at old prices, even to keep for next summer. Also, BLACK CRAPE; AMD CRAPfl VEILS, and BLACK ALPACAS, MOTIAIKS, and DELAINES, and KID GLOVE'4, CORSBTO, and LINEN GOODS. We would advise nur friends to lay in their sto. it of the above goods for family use. JOSEPH H. TH0RTJKCY, NORTHEAST CORNER OF EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN St 9 3tbSUlt. PHILADELPHIA. rstabUshcd in W53. GROCERIES, ETC. FINE VINEGARS FOR PiCKUNG. LONDON MALT VINEGAR, FRENCH WHITE WISE VI N Ed A It, VERY OLD AND PURE CIDER VINE GAR, JAMES R. WEBB'S, 8. E. Corner WALNUT and EIGHTH, 6 2lBtuth3mrp PHILADELPHIA. po FAMILIES GOING TO COUNTRY. THE We offer a full stock of tbe Finest Groceries to select From, And at the LOWEST CABn PRICES. Packed se curely and delivered at any of the Depot COUSTY'S East End Grocery No. 118 South 9ECONI St., 117 Unto BKXOW CHK8NDT 8THKET. yfllTE PRESERVING BRANDY, PURE CIDER AND WINS VINEGAR, GREEN GINGER, MUSTARD SEED, 8PICES, ETC. All the requisites for preserving and pickling pur poses. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, Dtlf ia Fins Groceries, 11 75 Const ELEVENTH M(j VtNK Strata. LUMBER. 1870 spruce joist. Spruce joist. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 1870 i QTA SEASONED CLEAR PINE. i QTA 10 i) SEASONED CLEAR PINK. lOlU CHOICE PATTERN PINE. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1 QrrA FLORIDA FLOORING. i QwA 10 i U FLORIDA FLOORING. 10 4 U CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOOKING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1 Qft WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. - Q'TA 10 i V WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK, 10 I U WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. IQrrA UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. iqwA 10 U UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 10 U RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CHERRY. 1870 AMI, WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. "I QT A CIGAR BOX MAKERS' -t OTA 10 I U CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 10 I U SFAMSU CEDAR HOX BOARDS, FOR SALE LOW. 1QA CAROLINA SCANTLING. f QftA 10 IV CAROLINA U. T. BILLS. 10 I U NORWAY SCANTLING. CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1870 CEDAR SHINGLES. 1 QTA CYPRESS SHINGLES. 10 U MAULE, BROTUER fc CO., io, '2600 SOUTH Street 118 1)ANEL PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES. COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 and I SIDE FENCE BOARDS. WHITE PINE FLOORING OARBS. YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS. IV and X fel'RUCE JOIST. ALL SIZES. HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLASTERING LATH A 8PKCLALTY, Together witn a general assortment of Building Lumber for sale low for cosh. T. W. 8MALTZ, 6 it Km No. 1115 RIDGE-Avenue, north of Poplar St. BUILDING MATERIALS. R. R. THOMAS & CO., tiiual in Doors. Blinds, Sash, Shutters WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., W. W. COKHBB Or EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Street! 4 IS 12m PHILADELPHIA. COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OK ALI numbers and brands. Tent, Awnim?, Trunk, and WsRon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufao turers' Drier Felta, from thirty to aeventj-aL Inches, wittt Paulina, BiUn(r. S&n Twine, eta. John w. bverman, WATCHER, WELRY, ETQ. TOVVttrt CLOCK?. : .. . V. ' ' 190. 22 NORTH SIXTH kTREET, Agent for STEVENS' PATBNT TOWER CLOCKS, both Bemontolr . Graham Bsoapement, Unking hour only, or 'striking quarters js4lfrpettng hour on foil chime. , . 4i, Estimates furnlshod on an pKoaUon either person iyor by mau.; '. j , .' ..,. 6 28 WILLIAM D, WABJE CO.. 17 k Tl 'II L'U 1 XI TV u;vr DVi 8. B. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets. 8 m Second floor, and late of No. 80 S. THIRD St. FURNACES. Established, in 1835. Inv,nblj the created (aeoeM Der all eompatitkn beneer mmI wberef exhibited or oned in tb ; UNITKD STATES. I ' 1 CHARLES WILLIAMS' Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces, Acknowledged bj tbe leading Arohiteeteaad Builder betbeinoet powerful and durable furnaces offered, an. the most prompt, eyatematio, and largest bouse in line of business. . , HEAVY REDUCTION IN PRICES, and onlf ret-lae work tarried oat. Nof. 1132 and 1134 MARKET Street, PHILADELPHIA,' K. B.-8FND FOB BOOK OP FAOTS ON BRA! AND VENTILATION. , . 6la4n PROPOSALS. ." CHIEF MEDICAL PURVEYOR'S OFFICE, No. 128 WOOSTER Street, New Yorte. ' Ar?0t'8T 15, 1ST0. TROrOSALS will be received at this oflloe until JO o'clock on THURSDAY, the ISth day of Septem ber, 1870, for the sale, on the part of the Unite 1 States to the highest bidder, of the following articles of hospital bedding and clothing, viz. : Bedsacks, 15,000; Blankets, J0.0P0 ; Counterpanes, 16,000; Cutta Tercha Bed-coyers, 1000; Mattresses, hair, 300: Musquito Bars, 20,000; Hair Pillows, GiXW ; Pillow-cases, white, 20,000; Pillow-ticks, 20,000; Eheets, 30.P60; Drawers, 20,000; Dressing-gowns, 16,000; Cotton Shirta, 20,000; Slirpers, 10,000; Wool hn Socks, M.OOO; Towels, hand, 7000 dozen; Rollers, 2U0 dozen. . The above-mentioned goods are new, have never been used, and are believed to be In good condition, and will be sold as they now stand. The Government will reserve the right to reject bids deemed either unreasonable, or from irrespon sible parties. No bid will be considered for less of any one article than the amount advertised. Sam ples will be shown and any information given at the office, No. 126 WOOSTER Street, near Prince. Terms cash. A fair length of t'me will be al lowed to purchasers to remove their goods. Pro posals to be indorsed "For tbe Purchase of Uospita Bedding and Clothing." CHARLES SUTHERLAND, Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting thief Medical Pur veyor, United States Army. 8 13 6t PROPOSALS FOR TREKS AND SHRUBS tOK NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERIES. O C ABTERM ASTER-O IN URAL'S OFFICII, WASHINGTON, D. C. l7thAUgUSt, 1670. Proposals for supplying Trees' aud Stirubs for ornamental planting of the National Cemeteries are invited from nurseries and gardeners la good btanding. i tie trees ana enruos snouia oe securely packed and delivered at the railroad station most conve nient to the garden or nursery. Bills and tills of ladlDg, properly addressed, to be fur niched. The freight will be paid by the United States, and the bills will be settled upon receipt of the trees and shrubs at the places to which they may be con- sipnea. The orders will be given by the officer In charge of national cemeteries In this oiUce upon estimates or requisitions from local oitlcers. It 1b suggested that the moBt convenient form of proposal will be a printed catalogue, wtrh such discount on the whole or on any classes or kinds of plants as the proprietor may be willing to oiler. imrchases will be made wherever most advan tageous to tho United States upon the basis of the proposals thus received. There are about eighty (60) national military ceme teries scattered over the wfiole United States ; and some planting will probably be needed In each of them. Proposals should be sealed and addressed to the Quartermaster-General's Ortlce, marked "Proposals for Trees and Shrubs ;" and they will be opeued at i.oon on Hie 13th of September, 1S70. M. C. MEIGS, Qusrtermaster-Oeneral, 8 19 6t Brevet Major -Oeneral, U. 8. A. OFF1CK OF CHIEF QUARTERMASTER. THIRD DIST., DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST, Philadkpuia, Pa., Aug. e, ls70. SEALED PROPOSALS In triplicate will be received at this office op to 12 M., onTUESDAY.the sixth day of September, 1870, for setting "Osage Orange" plants around the I ollowlng-narned National Ceme teries, in the State of Virginia (for tne purpose of enclosing the same with secure hedging), viz. : Richmond National Cemetery. .Richmond, Va. Fredericksburg " " .. Fredericksburg, Va. Culpepper " " ..Culpepper, Va. Winchester " " ..Winchester, Va. Staunton " " . .Staunton, Va, PanvUle " ..Danville, Va. PoplarGrove " " ..Petersburg, Va. CityToint " ' ..City Point, Va. Seven Pines " " . .Seven Pines, Va, Cold Harbor " ' ..Cold Harbor, Va. Glendale " ..Glendale, Va. Fort Harrison " " ..Fort Harrison, Va. Hampton " " ..Hampton, Va. Yorktown " " ..Yorktown, Va. Each proposal must be accompanied by a sufficient guarantee that In the event of the acceptance of the proposal the bidder or bidders will enter into a con tract for tbe planting of the hedgtng. The Quartermaster's Department reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Any additional information desired by parties wishing to bid will be furnished upon application to this onic. Bidders are required to bind themselves that if the plants do not thrive they will renew them for a period of two years, as they may happen to fail during mat ume. . nENRY C. HODGES, Maior and Quartermaster U. S. A., Chief Quarter- master Third Quartermaster's District, Department of the East. o T ASHING TON, D. C, f dULT Zl, 18iU. NOTICE PA VINO PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. The Commission appointed by "An Act to Provide for the Paving of Pennsylvania Avenue," approved .Tniv ft. 1870. la authorized to select and determine the best kind of Pavement to be used in paving Penn sylvania avenue, ana to nave saiu inorougoiare paved therewith from tbe northwest gate of the Capitol to the crossing of Fifteenth street, west. The Commission met and organized in accordance with the above law, and proceeded to the election of a President and Secretary. It was decided to invite all patentees, owners, or inventors of any of the linproveu paveuieuis, ui vuauiiec uiawriiu uuut- posed, whether of stone, wood, asphalt, concrete, or any other kind, to furnish accurate and detailed drawings or models, descriptions, speciticationa. in cluding the nature of tbe fouadailou to be laid, how packed, aud, in fact, all information as to their con struction and durability. This information is desired to enable tbe Commission to 4 eclde in tbe first in stance upon the general nature of the material to be ued in paving the avenue, and then to specify the preference that may be agreed upon in regard to some particular method to be adopted. A reference te the law public, S. 144) will give the required information as to how the payments for said pave ment will be made. It is provided therein "Tlit the cost of laying such pavement shall not exceed the turn of four dollars per square yard." The es'l mated area of said pavement is in the neighborhood of sixty-five thousand oo,00o) square yards All communications in relation to pavements should be addresstd to the Secretary, Geo. N. MICHLEK, OiT.ce of 1'ublii." BuinliDgs, Orouuds, aud Works, U. 8. CepitO), WA (rJJlNTOK, D. C 1 W REAL. ESTATE AT AUCTION. N i E. By virtne and In enecutionbf the powers contained In a Mortgage executed by TIIE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY of the ctty of Philadelphia, bearing date tho eighteenth day of April, 1803, and recorded in the omce ior recording needs and mortgage for the city and county of Philadelphia, la Mortgage Buok A. C. II., No. 6. page 465. etc. tho undersigned Trustees named In said mortgage "WILL BELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, In the city of Philadelphia, by MESSRS. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, at 1J o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the eighteenth dlty of October, A. D. 1870, the property described In and conveyed by the said mortgage, to wit: No. L All those two contiguous lots or pieces of ground,, with the buildings and Improvements thereon erected, situate on the east, side of Broad street, In the city of Philadelphia, one of them be ginning at the distance or nineteen feet seven Inches and five-eighths southward from the southet corner of the said Broad and Coates streets; thenco extending eastward at right angles with said Broad street elgbty-elght feet one inch ami a half to ground now or late Of Samuel Miller; thence southward alODg said ground, and at right angles with sal.I Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northea9t cor ner of an alley, two feet six inches iu width, leading southward into Peun street; thence west ward crossing said ailcy and along the lot of ground hereinafter described and at right angles with said Bread strtet, seventy-nine feet to the est side of the said Broad street; and thence northward along the east line of said Broad street seventy-two feet to the place of beginning. Subject to a Ground Rent of t280, silver money. No. 8. The other of them situate at tho northeast comer of the said Broad street and Pcnn street, containing in front or breadth on the said Bro.id street eighteen feet, and in length or depth eist. ward along the north line of said l'enu street sevtn-ty-iour feet and two inches, and on the lino of said lot parallel with said Penn street seventy-six feet Ave inches and three-fourths of an inch to said two feet six inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of f 72, silver money. No 3. All that certain lot t piece of ground be ginning at the S. E. corner of Coates streetaud Broad street, thence extending southward along the said Broad street nineteen feet seven Inches and live eighths of an Inch; thence eastward eighty feet one Inch and one-half of an Inch; thence uorthward, at right angles with said Coates street, nine feet to the south side of Coates street, aud thence westward along the south side of said Coates 6treet ninety feet to the place of beginning. No. 4. Four Steam Dummy Cars, twenty reet long by nine feet t wo inches wide, with all the necessary steam machinery, seven-inch cylinder, with ten-Inch stroke of piston, with heailng pipes, &c. Each will scat thirty passengers, and has power sufficient to draw two extra cars. Note. These cars are now In the custody of Messrs. Grice & Long, at Trenton, New Jersey, where they can be seen. The salo of them is made subject to a lien for rent, which on the first day of July, 1870, amounted to 1 600. No. 5. The whole road, plank road, and railway of the said The Central Passenger Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not Included in Nos. 1, 2, and 3,) roadway, railway, rails, rights of way, stations, toll houses, aud other super structures, depots, depot greuuds and other real eetate, buildings and Improvements whatsoever.au l all and singular the corporate privileges ami fran chises connected with said company and plank road and lallway, and relating thereto, and all the tolls, income, Issnes, and profits to accrue from the same or any part thereof belonging to said company, and generally all the tenemenu.hereditaments and fran chises of the said company. And also all the cars of every kind (not included In No. 4,) machinery, tools, topic ments.and materials connected with the proper equipment, operating air I conducting of said road, plank road, and railway; and all the personal pro perty of every kind and description belonging to the said company. 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 tho above mentioned premises and estates belonging and ap pertaining, and the reversions and remcJuders, rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, Interest, property, claim, and demand of every nature and kind whatsoever of tho said Com pany, as well at law as In equity of, tn, and to the same and every part and parcel thereof. TERMS OF SALE. Tbe properties will be sold in parcels as numbered. On each bid there shall be paid at the time the pro perty is struck oir Fllty Dollars, unless the price is less than tbat Bum, when the whole sum bid sha.l be paid. W. L. SCHAFFER, 1 rataaa 813 61t W. W. LONGbTRETH, iTUBtees. fp PEREMPTORY SALE TO CLOSE A PART jjijil nership account Thomas A Sons, Auctioneers. TTurge and substantial three-story BrlcK Building, three storv Brick Dwelling, and large Lot, Nos. 1516, 1617, aud 1M9 8. Front street, between Ta9ker and Dickerson streets, 60 feet front, 217 feet deep to Otsego street; 2 fronts. On Tuesday, September 13, 1870, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, without reserve, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that large and valuable lot of ground aud the Im provements thereon erected, situate on the east side of Front street, between Tasker and Dickerson stieets, First ward. Nos. 1615, 1517, and 1519; con talLlng in front on Front street 66 feet, and extend ing in oeptb 217 feet to Otsego street; 2 fronts. The Improvements are a well and substantially-built brick building, l7 feet of which Is three stories high, flouting on Front street, and 120 feet one story high, fronting on Tasker street; has a 85-horse power sttam engine, one tubular boiler, and two 3-rtue tollers, mill, with 2 sets of stones; platform scales. Also, a genteel three-story brick dwelling, fronting i n Front street, with a two-story back building and good yard. Clear of all Incumbrance. Terms caslu K ys at No. 1515 8. Front street. The above is valu ab.e for a mill, machine shop, or manufactory. Pinna of the buildings maybe seen at the auction ro ILB. Sale absolute. M. THOMAS k SONS, Auctioneers, 8 24 2T S3 10 Nos. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH St. SHIPPING- 4aj. FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEERS. nil iTi f'WM Inman Line of Royal Mail bieamers are appointed to sail as follows: City of Paris, Saturday, September 3, at 12 M. City of Antwerp (vis Halifax), Tuesday, Septem ber 6. at 1 P. M. City of London, Saturday, September 10, at 2 P. M. City of Brooklyn, Saturday, Sept. 17, at 10 A. M. and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 45 North river. Payable In gold. First Cabin To Londsn To Par's Payable in currency. .f'B Steerage 30 so; To Loudon 85 .901 To Paris 38 . 20 1 To Halifax 15 To Halifax.. vHsenners also forwarded to Havre. Hamborar. FrenieD, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by persons wishing to send for tneir friends. For further information apply at the company's 0tJOHN G. DALE, Agent. No. 15 Bioadway, N. Y. : Or to O'DONNKI.L & FAULK, Agents, 4 s No. 402 CUKS.NUT Street. Philadelphia, FOR NEW YOR , via Delaware and Raritan Canal. EXPHKSt STEAMBOAT COMPANY. 'Hie tu.-am Propellers of tbe flue will commence load i ii tf on the 8th Instant, leaving dally as usual THKOUGU IN T W EM t'Y-FUUK HOURS. Goods lorv. araed by all tbe lines going out of Ne York, North, East, or West, tree of commission. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO.. Agents, No. 12 8. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent, No. 119 WALL Street, New York. 8 48 1)ELWAKK AND CIIKSAPKAKK STEAM ToWBUlT COMPANY H:irj..a towed between PhlladelDhia. Baltimore, Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and in termediate points. VlIXIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agent. Captain JOHN LAL'GBLIN, Superintendent. V tCce, Ho, li bonUi Mriauvea rjadeipala. 11! SHIPPING. LORILLARD STKAMSUIP OOMPANJ FOR NKW YOltK, SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANI SATURDAY, arc tiow i ecelvlrg freight at FIVE CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, TWO CENTS PER FOOT, OR HALF CENT PER GALLON, Biur s OPTION. LSSURANCK ONE-EIGHTH OF ONK FER CENT Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, etc No receipt or bill of lading signed for less to an fifty cents. NoriCE On and after September 18 rates by this Company will be 10 cents per loo pounds or 4 cent per loot, ship s option ; and regular shippers by this line will only be charged the above rate all winter. Wlnfc-r rates commencing December 16. For furthet particulars spply to JOHN F. OHr, 28 PIER 19 NOkTH WHARVES. TnR REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ONTHE PHI. LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON 4STEAM. SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to issuo through bills of ladirg to interior points South and West it connection with South Carolina Railroad Com nan ALFRED L. TYLER, vlce-Presldcnt So. c RR. Co. tffif? r n i l a i ) klto i aand Charleston jfCJKtg BTBAMSHIP LINE. 'Hub line Is now composed of the following first, class Steamships, aniiing from riER 17. below Spruce Btreet, on FRIDAY of each week ,at S ASHLAND, 800 tons, Captain Crowell. J. W. EVEHMAN, 692 tons, Captain Hlnck'ev SALVOR, 600 tons, Captain Ashcroru ' UGUhT, 1870. J. W. Everman, Friday, August 5. Salvor, Fridav, August 12. J. W. Everman, Friday, August '.0. Salvor. Friday, August 20. Through bills of lading given to Colombia. S. C the interior of Georgia, and all point South and Southwest. u Freights forwarded with promptness and desna'ch Rates as low as by any other route. Insurance one-half pr cent, eiTected at the Office In first-class companies. No freight received nor bills of lading signed om day of sailing. SOUDER & ADAMS, Agents, No. 3 DoCK Street. Or WILLIAM. P. CLYDK A CO , Nn. 11 H Wll Ml XT r?o WILLIAM A. COURTENAY, Agent In Chartes ton. a84 Pfffc, PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN &TlaffiWaiMAlL RTKAMSHIP COMPANY'S RKttM Uk bKMl-MOM T11LY LdSK TO N?W iuL LFAN8, I t va" Ths AOHIIjtjES will aail for New Orleans direct- Turaday r.eptmber 6. at S A. M. uwect, od The YAZOO will aail from New Orleans, via Havana, on , September . THROUGH HILLS OF LADING at as low rate as b any other mate given to Mobile, Galventon, Indianola. La vacca.and Braeoa and to all points on the MiMiwunni ri.r between New Orleans and St. Louis. Rod Kiver freishu resbippad at New Orleans without ekarge of oenunisaions. WEEKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH O. The WYOMING will il f Satnr day, Scptmbpr 3, at 8 A. M. M"r Tbe lONAWA NDA will sail from Savannan on Satur. IHhUljbli cipal towns Ixmieiana, 1 the Central road, and Florida steamers, at as low rate ao by oompetinf SEMI MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. O Tbe PIONRKU will aail for Wilmington on Wednesday Anguet 31, at 6 A. M. Returning, will leave Wilininrtow Wednesday, September 7. Gouneotewitn tbe Oape Fear River Steamboat Oom. pany, the Wilmin, ton and Weldon and North Carolina, Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. Freights for Colombia, 8. O., and Angusta, C3a., takea Via Wilmington, at as low rates as by any other route. Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills of lading aigned at Queen street wharf on or before day of Bailing. WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent. 818 No. lau South THIRD Btreet PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP r iW THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED KATES rOR 1H70. Bteamera leave every WKUNKSDAYand SATURDAY at 12 o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAB KET Street. . . RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS an THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK. TUESDAYS and BA- tvjrdAvs No Bills of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sailing Ai JlROUGH RATES to all points in North and South. Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and tbe West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line ant Richmond and Danville Railroad. Kreight HANDLED BUTONOE, and talien at LOWER RATES THAN ANS OTHER LlNJC. No charge for commission, drayago, or any expense, of' 'Steamships insure at lowest rates. Freight received daily. No. 12 8. WHARVKSand Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. POR'l KK. Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. OROWKLLA CO.. Agents at Noriolfc. 1J FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE and Rurltan CanaL SWIFTSURE transportation; COMPANY. DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURE LINES, Leaving .dally at 12 M. and 6 P. M. The steam propeirers of this company riJ com mence loading on the 8th of March. Through in twenty-four hours. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions. Freights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO., Agents, 4 No. 132 South DELAWARE Avenue. NEW EXPRESS LINK TO AIFYAM. Adria, Georgetown, and Washington D. C, via cnesapeage anu Delaware- Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxrllle, Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon 'rom 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. CI . CORDAOE, ETQ. WEAVER & CO., HOPE 91 A IV V FACT U II 12 11 1 AKD 811 II ClIANlllVElttt, No, 29 North WATER Street and No. 28 North WHARVES, I'hUade'.phia ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK. PRICES. 41 CORDAGE. SZanllla, Sisal and Tarred Cordagt. At Lowest New York Prices sad Freight EDWIN n. FITLKH Ac CO Factory, TENTH Bt. and GERMA-NTOWH A venae. Store, No. 23 . WATER St. and 23 N DELAWABS Avenue. PATENTS. STATE RIGHTS FOR S ALE. STATE RIGHTS of a valuable Invention just patented, and foi the SLICING, CUTTING, and CHIPPING of drfcd beef, cabbage, etc., aro hereby ottered for sale. It is an article of great value to proprietors of hotels and restaurants, and it should be intr duced into every family. STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. Model can be s-en at TELEGRAPH OFF1CK CgPER 8 POINT, N. J. fc Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory. JOHN T. BAILEY. N. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET St ROrB AND TWINS, BAGS and H G 11NG, for Grain, Flour, Bait, Super-Phosphate of Lime, 6ou Dust, Etc, large and small GUNNY BAGS constancy rand. Also, WOOL SACKS. 5 IahjUL wol f cult ii bvAk Ur Cctcr Cnlu IrU vva vm.4 twu.lj So o 1 Wi coju oXati lit aUa. ur LA U1MU riven to all thanrin. in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, MissiaainDi. mavws, ana leonessee in oonneation witb Railroad of Ueoreia. Atlantic inH ri..lin..i mi
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