c THIS DAlLf TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1870. THE WEAKNESS OF ENGLAND. An rinrr hy Fr.mle Prcnrlm f '(title f AflHlra-Prlvlleae xu. Right. An earnest and searching review of the Cannes of the decay of England hai appeared in late numbers of Francr'a Marmine. It is from the pen of Mr. James Anthony Froude, the historian, who is now the editor of Frater'B, and whose powers of research hare been exerted to very useful purpose in the task he has undertaken. He aims to show why England is decrepit; throngh what causes she has Tost much of the moral and physical force which once made her formidable; whom she has to thank for her present condition; and what is likely to be the final result. Mr. Fronde handles his subject with a vigorous pen, and reveals some facts which are of pe culiar interest at a moment when the scale is equally balanced between peaoe and war. The concluding part of this able paper ap peared in the September number of the magazine, and was written while England re mained safely outside the lines of conflict on the continent before the Itusuian cloud had become visible. J3ut the temporary escape of England from entanglement in the quarrel between France and Prussia did not convince Mr. Fronde that the English nation would re main secure in its insular solitude. Ho therefore gave expression to a solemn warn ing, which, in view of subsequent events, has a striking significance. "At this mo ment," he says, "if we were taken by surprise as Prussia has been, and a hostile power conld by any means obtain twenty-fours' command of the Channel, London would inevitably be taken.'" In other words, the British army is inefficient; while the suggested possibility of a hostile naval force obtaining possession of the Chan nel is virtually an admission that the British navy is not so well handled as it should be. These conclusions coincide with actual reve lations of a damaging character which have recently come to light through the London press such as the weakening of the re sources of the great arsenals, the inhuman treatment of the soldiers of the regular army, and the blunders of the naval management, all of which are serious and dispiriting grievances. Putting aside these questions, however, Mr. Froude proceeds to a discussion of another point, namely, whether or not the heart of England is Bound enough to stimulate the nation to a successfnl resistance of foreign aggression; to repel attack, for example, as it resisted Spain in the day of the Armada, or the First Napolon in the time of threatened invasion. Mr. Froude's answer is a molan choly "No!" He writes: "Thirty thousand favorites of fortune alone possess that origi nal hold on English soil which entitles Eng land in return to depend upon them in the day of trial; and thus it is that to porsons who think Beriously there appears something pre carious in England's greatness, as if with all her wealth and all her powor a single disaster might end it." Pursuing this train of thought, he further observes: No nation ever suffered a more tremendous humiliation tbnD France in the second occu pation of Paris, yet France rallied rapidly, and is now stronger than ever. II or popula tion remained rooted in the soil to which they are passionately attached, and their per manent depression is impossible. If she bo defeated in the present struggle, it will bo ultimately the same. Forty millions of peo ple can neither be destroyed nor reinovod; and where the people are, and where the land iu their own, their reoovery is a matter of but a few yeurs at most. They may lose men and money; and pos sibly a doubtiul oulljing province, but that is all the injury which an external power can inflict on them. With England it is difficult to feel the same confidence. If the spoil of our insular security be once broken; if it be once proved that the Channel is no longer an impassable barrier, and that we are-now on a level with the Continent, the circumstances would be altered which have given us hitherto our exceptional advantages; and those of us who can choose a home elsewhere, who have been deprived of everything which should specially, attach us to English soil that is to say, ninety-nine families out of every hun dred will have lost all inducement to re main in so unprofitable a neighborhood. This is plain language and, unfortunately for England in the existing condition of af fairs, it is likewise true. What follows is Btill tLarper, for it hits. THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES. The noble lords I speak of jsonie, not yet, happily, of all are grown" wise in their generation, and acknowledge the excellence of what they once despised. The growth of manufactures has doubled, quintupled, mul tiplied in Borne instances a hundredfold the value of their land. Their rents maintain them in splendor undreamt of in earlier gen erations, which has now become aneoessityof existence. They have their half-dozen parks and palaces; their houses in London, their moors in Scotland, their yachts at Cowes. Their sons have their hunters at Melton,their racing stables, their battues. In the dead season of sport they fall back to recruit their manliness with pigeon shooting at Hurling ham. These things have become a second nature to them, in which they live and move and have their being. Their grandfathers cared for the English commonwealth. It is hard to Bay what some of these high persons cared for except idle luxury. Another class of Englishmen, to whom Mr. Froude attaches part of the responsibility for the poverty of the workingmen and for the emigration of skilled artificers and intelligent laborers, consists of the great employers of labor. We quote: THE GREAT MANUFACTURERS. To the manufacturers abundance of labor means cheap labor, and cheap labor is the secret of their wealth, the condition of their prosperity, the means by which they undersell other nations and command a monopoly of the world's markets. Political economy, the employer's gospel, preaches a relation be tween themselves and their workmen which means to them the largest opportunity of profit with the Bmallest recognition of obli gation to those upon whose labor they grow rich. Slavery, beyond its moral enormity, was condemned economically as extravagant. The slave born on the plantation vas main tained while he was too young to wotk at his master's expense. His matter had ctttrg of him when he was sick, and in his old age when he could do no more he was fed, cl V.bal, and lodged for the remainder of his days. The daily wages system, besides having the advantage of being free contract, leavo the master t the day's end discharged of further responsibilities. He is bound to his his workman only so long as it is his interest to retain him. Wnd j trade flourishes and profits are large he givas him full employment. When a dead sew n supervenes he draws in his sails. He lies by till better times return, and discharges hi 4 hands to live upon their savings, or ultimately to be supported by the poor rate till he needi their services again, The State, therefore, in assisting emigration interferes to rob him of his liviDg. "Keep the people at home," Baid a noble Lord, "we shall want them when trade revives." Poor rates can be borne with, for those who are themselves little more than paupers share the burden of them. Even trades unions and strikes can be borne with so long as the men confine themselves to higgling over the wages rate. Hunger will bring them to terms in time. Anything but a large emigration, for with emigration wages will rise in earnest and profiti lessen. The man by whose toil the master has prospered has gone where his toil is for hi nsclf, where he is taking root upon the land, a sturdy mem ber of the commonwealth, and the home mar ket is relieved of his competition. The na tion in richer for the change so long as he re mains an English subject, but the capitalist employer loHes a percentage of his profits. By way of enforcing theso argument, Mr. Froude cites incontrovertible facts, such as the following: INFINITE WRETCHEDNESS. The infinite wretchodness produced by the present state of things ought not to pass for nothing. It has beoome not uncommon in these days to hear of miserable fathers and mothers unable alike to support their families or see them starve, destroying their children and themselves, and making an end of their troubles thus. Again, if we please, we may call in Providence. The classes which suffer most are toughest-hearted. The poor old Devonshire woman with eight hungry mouths about her and i)s. a week to feed them, looks with envy on the Lord's mercy to her neigh bors, whose babies die in arms, and sighs out, "We never have no luck;" but this cal lousness itself is frightful, and Is in itself one of the causes of the enormous mortality. KILLINO INFANTS. Omitting for the present those who are starved and those who are murdered, and confining ourselves to the great bulk of infant mortality, let us ask whether any means exist by which it can be successfully encountered. Encountered, I presume it ought to be if possible; we have not yet . wholly outgrown the idea that there is something in huninea life more sacred than in the lives of animals, and a murrain among the cattle is considered a sufficient subject for an act of Parliament. Men say impatiently that the parents are to blame; if the father spent the money which he wastes at the ginshop in providing better clothes and food for his family, this alone would save half those who die; but duty is a matter of conscience, and you cannot make people moral by statute. HOLES FOR HOMES. Tho artisans in the great cities, the agricultural laborers driven out of the old-fashioned hamlfts and huddlod into vil lages, are heaped together in masses where wholesome life is impossible. Their wages may be nominally rising, suflioiently, per haps, to keep pace with the rise of prices, but wages form only a small part of tho mat ter. The laborer lodges now many miles from his work. IIo leaves his homo in the early morning, he returns to it late at night. The ground in town has become bo enormously valuable that tho factory hand and the inechaniz ean afford but a Bingle room, at the best two. When his day's toil is over ho has no temptation to re turn to the squulid nest which is all that society can allow him, and ho finds the beer houso and the gin palace a grateful exchange The wife, obliged herself to work to supply the emptor platters, must be absent also many hours from home; she has no leisure to at tend to her children, and they grow up as they can; to fall a prey to disease and acci dents which lie in wait for them at every tern. LAND MONOPOLY. A stranger travelling on a railway from end to end of England would think that thero was no civilized country in the world where there was so much elbow room. He sees enormous extents of pasture land and undulating fal lows cultivated to the highest point of pro ductiveness, with only at intervals Rymptoni3 of human habitations. He sees the palaces of the noble and wealthy set in tho midst of magnificent parks, studded with forest trees and sheets of ornamental water, or main tained for game preserves and artificial wil dernesses. In Scotland he sees whole coun ties kept as deer forests and grouse moors that the great of the land may have their six weeks enjoyment there in the autumn. Room enough and to spare he womld naturally think there must be in a land where ground could be devoted so lav isbly to mere amusement. If he is guest at one of these grand mansions he will be told, as Mr. Goschen says, that over-population is aTdream. lie gazes across the broad-reaching lawns or down the stately avenues. Miles distant he sees the belt of forest which bounds the domain and holds the outer world at bay. His host tells him with pride that from his own coal and iron are made the rails which shall link together the provinces of India, that there is no limit to English pro duction, to English wealth, to English great ness. WHAT MUST COME OF ALL THIS? If we allow our industrial systom to extend in the same manner and at tho same rate of increase as hitherto, every feature moat fraught with danger must increase along with it. The boundary line between rich and poor will be more and more sharply den nod. I be number of those who can art or d to hold land must diminish as by a law of nature. The wealthy will become more wealthy, the luxu rious more luxurious, whilo there will be an ever enlarging multitude deeply tincturod with mere heathenism, left to shift for them selves, and resentful of tho neglect, with tho cobt of living keeping pace wi'h the advance of wages, and therefore in the presence of an enormous accumulation of capital, con demned, apparently for ever, to the same hopeless condition, and yet with political power in their lianas it they care to ue it. The remedy suggested to amend the evils which are thus forcibly described is organized emigration a subject which would bear much discnnsion, but Jor tho siguiaomt cir enmstanco that this emigration is actually going on, audi that many thousands or strong laborers and cf skilled artificers have already found better quarters elsewaere than th? conld hope to compass at home. They wanted to remain Englishmen; they are forced to become exiles. Through their ban ishment and the causes whioh led to it, Eug land has put herself into tho condition which b so vividly described by Mr. Fronds. A lady named Lutlia Groes, who had at tained her one hundred and seventh year, died recently at Urlaid, Me. Dr. Chase, of OrUnd, inane a poBt-mortem examination of tho remains shortly after death, lie states that ho found tue bones chalky and crumbly from age, aud tue at terles of the limbs turned to bone. " It is said that Nathan AIat thews has offered to expend $00,000 in the building; of a new hall for students in the college yard at Cam bridge, on condition that half the net income of the lame shall be used lor scholarships, to which young men who are preparing for the tj iecoal Church shall have the Am claim, WAR EPISODES. The Dmrrtut Vlllnve of Fraare. A plqnant sketch of the rtpsertod villains of France is given by a correspondent of the Lonl'n Daily Ken. Life In these villages, he savs, when the soldlefs make themselves comfortable In the absence of the Inhabitant!, is a sort of military pic nic. .Everything li hunted out which ran supply the wants of the moment, and no attention Is paid to the conventionalities which hamper common-plase housekeeping. If there be window curtains In one dwelling, and a lack of blankets In another, the curtains change their fanr tlon for the benefit of all concerned for the benefit of all nave the original owner, who Is faraway and forgotten. Tfle writer adds: Your trne deserted vllinge ta deserted becsnse of siege operations. It li lu the great holt of ruin round Paris, and its inhabitants have fled to escape the dangers of Miot and shell. Th owner of the curtains above named would have gladly com pounded to loss every article of furniture If only be conld save his bouse. As It la, he my chance to lese furniture and house together. Yet the soldiers will keep this last tit for habitation if they hd. The military picnic requires doors and win (lows on these eold nights to make It complete. There may fee need to brvak np some of the furniture If the owner has been careless about firewood, and has left little or nono la store. But even then the share and share alike principle or the hour helps out one supply with another, so that firewood enough is nsually found. So is wine In some cases, by the wonderfnt qnlck rifssof the men about nnearthlng It. A Prussian Jaeprr lias been pointed out to me who has tho re putation or smelling good wiiic through any depth of earth. Ills Instinct for tracing the slightest sum of concealment, and for Judging the likeliest spots in the garden to contain a hiaovn wine-iln, Is or ln mense value to his comrades. They think the wlno of .deserted houses a fair prey, and are content with tue moderation wniun leaves tne bo tiles uninjured to tie uiea again at some ruture time. That strong argument. "If we do not the next detachment will," covers much that Is done In a de serted village. Why leave anything but 'Mixtures'' to the unknown successors of those who picnic to day? Therere chairs to be shifted from house to Iioufc, according to the actual dlstrlhuMou or the guests. Plates must go where plates are needed even at the risk of confusing dure rem people's din ner services, and useless lumber must be flung into the back Yard taut it may not erjwd the sutmg rooms. I often thins anil 1 all this sad waste of pro perty, this scourging or the land by war, that the scene in sncn a village oners a wild su trees t ion or what would happen ir we were to "play at being In a desert Island, ' as children would say, but to piay it wiinine sireugiu or grown-up people. A MEDICAL VIEW. The correspondent or the London Lwtt. lnsida Varlf, forwards by balloon post the following com munication, show'ing that, among other things, the mi. itary surgeons are practicing conservative sur gery on an extensive scale, and apparently with more successful results than have been attained in the flelJ: The aicge of Tarts presents very many points of professional Interest. The almost dally skirmishes, attacks, and larger actions supply the hospitals with wounded, presenting injuries of all degrees of gravity, aud Illustrating In the measures taken in their management from all that Is ingenious, scien tiOc. and admirable, down to that which is lucon ceivably bad, horrible, and disgusting. Conservative surgery ti having, in some Instances at least, a fair trial, and ta doing wonders; lu fact, limbs shattered by bullets are being saved in cae where, some jears ago, anything bnt tnstaut amputation would not have been thought of. A considerable amount of dysentery, rheumatism, fevers, and chest affec tions have arisen from exposure of tiie troops in bivouaca and in the tent d'abri. There U very little disease, however, when we consider the great fatigue our troops hav had to undergo, and the wet, Inclement weather we have had during the greater part of October. Meat la now decidedly scarce; butter and milk are luxuries for the very wealthy, and eggs diitluult to be had and doar. The dally ration of beef or mutton now allowed to each adnlt inhabitant 's reduced to 33 grammes, that is, about an ounce aud a hair, Including bone, and in consequence of imperfect arrange ments there are many who have been un able to obtain that little scrap. The sick and wounded troops, except in tho purely military hospitals, are insufUuientlv supplied with meat, e -cept, perhaps, in the American ambulance and one or two others, where private energy supplies what official routine fails to furnish. This state of affairs is Injurious to the wounded themselves, and calcu lated to give rise to ill feeling among their effective comrades. It is, therefore, to be hoped that it will soon be rectified. Grmt abuse had crept into the system of taking the wounded off the Held. It has been asserted that some persona, who have esta blished private hospitals In their houses, for aeluah purposes, have actually paid money to infirmitra for carrying wounded to their carriages near tho held of battle. This has now, it is hoped, been put a stop to." LUMHbRi 1 QTA SPRUCE JOIST. Qrt 10 i) BPHUCK JOIST. 10 I V H KM LOOK. HEMLOCK. 1QF7A SEASONED CLEAR PINK. -t QftA lOiU SEASONED CLEAR PINE. 10 I U CHOICE PATTEKN PINE. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. j 1QTA FLORIDA FLOORING. 1 QTA 10 I U FLORIDA FLOORING. 10 I U CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1 O 711 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. - Q7ft 10 I V WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I V WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1Q7A UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 1 QTA 10 I V UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 10 I U RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINS. 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED OUEKRY. 1870 ASH. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. "IQTA CIGAR BOX MAKER8' H QfTA J O I U C1UAR BOX MAKERS' 10 t U SPANISH CKDAK BOX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW. 1CA CAROLINA SCANTLING. 1 QrrA 10 i U CAROLINA H. T. KILLS. 10 f V NORWAY SCAN XL UN U. IQPfA CEDAR SHINGLES. 1 QTA 10 I U CYPRESS SillNULKS. 10 I U MA.ULE, BROTHKR fc CO., Ui No. iiftoo SOUTH Street 13 AN EL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. L COMMON PLANK, ALL TUICKNKSsblid. 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 and 8 SIDE FENCE BOARDS. WHITE PINE FLOORING BOA UBS. YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, ltf and X bruit W JOIST, ALL HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY. Together with a general assortment of Building Lumber for Bale low for cash. T. W. SMALTZ, C l 6m No. 1716 RIDGE Avenue, north of Poplar St. United States Builders' Mill FIFTEENTH Street, Below Market ESLER & BROTHER PROPRIETORS. M7od Mouwinfra, Brackets end General Tumi Wtiik, Hand-rail Balusters and Newel Pouts. l 1 A LARG-E Ah.RTMRNT ALWAYS ON HAND. QENT.'S FUKNIKHIKQ GOODS. PATENT BIIOULDEB'BBAM - SHIRT MANUFACT03Y, AND OENTLEMEK'S FURNISHING STORE. PERFECTLY FITTIiiCJ 8LTIRTS AND DRAWERS Baade from measurement at very short notice. Ml other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS goods in fun variety. WrNCnKHTER k CO., 11 No, lxe CUKSN UT tftreet CUTLERY, ETOi TODUEflS A WOSTENUOLMS POCKBT KNIVES, Pearl and Stag handles, and beantilul flulshi Rodger', and Wade at Butcher's Razors, and the celebrated Le coultre Razor; Ladles' Scissors, in cases, of the flneat qualltv ; Rodgers' Table Cutlery, Carvert and Forks, Razor strops, Cork Screws, eto. Ear In. struments, to assist the hearing, of the moat ap proved construction, at P. MADEIRA'S, Ro.lie TNTU Street; telow Cheanut, FINANCIAL.. Wilmington and Reading IUU2.HOAD Ocvcn Per Cent. Bondo, FllEE OF TAXE3. We are offering $200,000 ot the Second Mortgage Itontlsof tills Company AS 82J AND ACCRUED IKTERK3I For the convenience of lnvestora these Bond issued In denominations of f 1000s, 9500s, and 100a, The money la required for the purchase of adot. tlonal Rolling Stock and the full equipment of t Road. The road Is now finished, and doing a business largely In excess of the anticipations of Its officers. The trade offering necessitates a large additions. outlay for rolling stock, to aiTord full facilities for its prompt transaction, the present rolling stock not being sufficient to accommodate the trade. WI. PAINTER & CO.. BANKERS. Ko. 30 South THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA. A LEGAL INVESTMENT FOB Trustees. Executors and Administrators, WE OFFER FOR SALS 52,000,000 or rni Pennsylvania Railroad Go.'s Six Per Cent. Bonds at 93 And ntcrest Added to the Date f Purchase. All Free From State Tax, and Issued in Sums of $1000. These bonds are coupon and registered, interest on the former payable January and July 1; on the latter April and October 1, and by an act of the Legislature, approved April 1, 1670, are made a LEGAL INVESTMENT for Administrators, Exocu tors, Trustees, etc For further particulars apply to lay Cooke At Co., IS. W. Clark Ac Co., W. II. Newhold, (Son At Aertsen, C. Ac II. Ilorle. ii i im JayCoqke&G rillLADELPniA, NEW YORK, AND WASHINGTON, BANKERS, AND realers in Government Securities. Special attention given to the Purchase and Sale of liouda and stocks on Commission, at the Board of uroners in mis ana oilier cities. 1NTEKKST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. COLLECTIONS MADS ON ALL POINTS. GOLD AND SILVKH UOUullT AND SOLD. Reliable Kailroad Bonds for Investment. Pamphlets and full Information given at our office, Ko. 114 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. flO 3m B. K. JAMISON & CO., SUCCESSORS TO I. JT. KELLY & CO., BANKERS AND DEALERS IN J3old, Silver, and Government Bonds, At Closest -Hnrket Rates, N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNUT Sts. Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS In New York and Philadelphia Stock Boards, etc. etc 2S E? O R SALE, Six Per Cent Loan of the City of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. FREE 07 ALL TAXES, At 85, and Accrued Interest. These Bonds are made absolutely secure by act o Legislature compelling the city to levyjsumclentf x to pay Interest and principal. P. 0. PETERSON ft CO.. No, 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET, M PHILADELPHIA T7LLIOTT & DVHR A-4 BANKERS Ho, 109 BOUTH THIRD 8TREBT, DEALERS IK ALL GOVERNMENT BBCUBI TIES, BOLD BILLS, ETC. DRAW BILLS Or KX CHANGS AND IKS US COMMERCIAL LETTERS 07 CREDIT 09 THE UNION BANK 07 LONDON. ISSUE TKAVSLLEK8' LETTERS 07 CREDIT OH LONDON AND PARIS, available Uuuag&oat Europe Will collect all Coupons and Interest free of cJurg or parties maU&s their financial arrangements vuau. sin S I JU V DB JEt FOR SALE, C. T. YEItKES, Jr., & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 20 South THIRD Street, 4 80 PHILADELPHIA. FINANOIAL. A RELIABLE Safe Home Investment 11 1 Hi Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad Company 7 PER CENT. GOLD First Jlortgage Bonds. Interest l'ayaltle April and Octo. lr, I'ree eTNtate ami United Ntntett Taxes. We are now offering the balanoo of the loan of $1,200,000, which is secured by a first and only lien on the entire property and franchises of the Company, At 90 and tho Accrued lute- rest Added. The Iload is now rapidly approaching com pletion, with a large trade in COAL, IRON, and LUMBER, in addition to the passenger travel awaiting the opening of this greatly needed enterprise. The local trade alone is sufficiently large to sustain the Road. We have no hesitation in recommending the Bonds as a CHEAP, RELIABLE, and SAFE INVESTMENT. For pamphlets, with map, and full infor mation, apply to VVr.l. PAINTER & CO., DANKERS, Dealers In Government Securities, No. 36 South THIRD Street, 6 S tftp PHILADELPHIA. UNITED STATES SECURITIES Bought, Sold and Exchanged on 'Host Liberal Termi. o o l, r Eought and Eold at Market Sates. COUPONS CASHED Pacific Railroad 23 one? 2 BOUGHT AND SOLD. Stocks Bought and Bold on Commis sion Only. Accounts received and Interest allowed on Daily Balances, subject to check at sight. DE HA YEN & J3E0., No. 40.8oi.th THIRD Street, 11 PHILADELPHIA. D. C. WHARTON SMITH CO. BANKE11S AND BROKERS, No. 121 SOUTH THIRD STREET, Enocesaors to Smith, Randolph & Co. Every branch of the business will have prompt at- ention as here tol ore. Quotat'ons of Stocks, Governments, and Qjld, constantly received from Ner Yors. by pbivatb wjkk, from our friends, Edmund D. Randolph k Co. JOHN S. (1USIIT0N & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS. NOVEMBER COUPONS WANTED. dty Warrants BOUGHT AND SOLD. Ho. GO South THIRD Otroot, 8 m PHILADELPHIA. 530 30 UAURIGCOrJ GZIAX.X230, BANKER. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS RKCEIVED AND INTER EST ALLOWKU ON DAILY BALANCES. ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED FOR THE PURCHASE AND SALE Of ALL RELIABLE SB- CURITIEH. COLLECTIONS MADE EVERYWHERE. REAL ESTATE COLLATERAL LOANS NEGO TIATED. (8 87 Sin No. 630 WALNUT St., Pbilada, W. W. KCHTZ. JOUN G. HOWARD, KURTZ & HOWARD, BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 32 S. THIRD STREET, Philadelphia, Bnv and sell Stocks. Bonds, etc., on Commission Dealers in Oold aul Silver. Railroad Keen ri tie Nfgolled. l'ariicalarl attention given to the Nego tiation of Commercial Paper and Time Loans on Collateral security. Interest allowed on Deposits; 11 23 wslm ROOFING. READY R O O F I N Q This Rooting Is adapted to all ball dings. It ean oe appnea to vv KTEKP OR FLAT ROOFS at one-half the expense of tin. It Is readily pot on old fchlngle Roots without removing the shingles, thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings and fornitare whUe nnderijoing repairs. (No gravel nsed.) PRESERVE YuUR TIN ROOKS WITU WBL TON'S ELASTIC PAINT. I am alwatj prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the barrel or gaUon, the bee and cheapest la UM B)rkefc W. A. W ELTON, S 1TI Ho. Trl N. K1MTH t, above Coato BHIPPINU. irfffitj, LORILLARD STEAMSHIP UOMPANI for ri:w you it, BAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY. ' RATES TEN CENTS PER 100 TOUNDS, FOTTR CENTh PER Cl'lJIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER GALLON, SHIP'S OPTION. INSURANCE BY THIS LINK ONE-EIGHTH OF' ONE PER CENT. Extra rates on small packnges iron, metals, etc. No receipt or blil of lading signed for less than Cfty cent. Good a forwarded to all points free of commlsMons. -ThronRh blllROf lading given to Wilmington, N. O., ny the flteamers of this line leaving New York trl weekly.Pur further particulars apply to JOHN P. OTIL, PIER 19 NORTH WHARVES. N. B. The regular shippers by this line will be -chnrged the above rates all winter. W niter raU'g commence December IB. 181 THE REOI'LAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI LADELPIIIA AND CHARLESTON 8TEAM 6HIP LINE are ALONE authorized to l.ssne through ollls of lad Up to interior points South and West la connection with South Carolina Railroad Company. ALFRED U TYLER, Vice-President 8o. C. Kit. Co. PHlLADELPITIAANn SOUTHERN d&&UAMAIl, HTKAMSHIP OOMPANY'8 RKOUi UK bK MI-MONTHLY UNB TO NEW OB. Th VAZOO will Mil for KfwOrlMni.TlilT.nn. OB TliarndftT, Ieciiiber i. at 8 A. M. juiviai win uu irom ttawUrlmna, via UAmuia. On tTiriy. Prcpniher 8. TUKUUUU BiLuiurLamnuit lowntMM b any other tool ffirnn to Monde, 0lvcton, INDIAN-Ol-A, KOUkt'OKT. LA VACUA, and BK &Z09,and to all poiuia on in mmHimippi nrm pnwmn New Urleans ana cU. Iioois. Red KtTer freigbu reshipped at New Oileana without charge of oeinmiMiona. WFFKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, OA, The TON A W A N l A will aall for Hnuuh Hii.n. day, Deremlwr 3 at R A. M. i De WYOMING will aail from Bavannsb on Battuday, Dfoeniher 3. TtikOUGH BUAJS OF L A MHO rlren to all tfaanrin. Oipal towns in ( loot-gift, Alabama, Florida, AHssHeTppI, Louini&na. Arkaaaus, and Tennessee in connection witti the Central Kailroad of Meorgia, Atlantic and Half Kail, road, and F lorida steamers, at as low rates as by oompeUns lines. PFMT-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. W. O. The PIONKKH will aail for Wilmmston on Tnmulaw. Tfcember 13. at t) A. M. Retaining, will ieare Wilming ton Saturday. December 90. Connects with tne Cape Fear KiTer Steamboat Oom. Pany, the Wllmin ton and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and tbe Wilmington and Manchester Kailroad to all interior points. Freights for Colombia, S. O., and Angusta, Ga., taken Via Wilmington, at aslow rates as by any other root. Insurance effected when requested by snippers. Bills Of ladins sinned at (Jneen street wharf on or bafora das ofsaiUoa. .... . . . . dAmao, uoDorai agent. IS No. m South THIRD Street. tfSS FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS' SXijkkTOWN. Inman Line of Royal Mall bteainers are appointed to sail as follows: City of V.niPHtls, Saturday. Dec. 8. at 8 A. M. City of Washington, Saturday, Doc 10, at 8 P. M. City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, Dec 13, at 9 A.M. City of Tarls, SaturrtAy, Dec. IT. at 1 P. M. and tat h succeeding rturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 4 North rtyer. RATES OF PASSAGE. Favable In gold. Payable in currency. First Cabin 175 Steerage S3 To London 80 To Paris 0 To London 35 To Paris 83 To Halifax 80 To Halifax ID Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg. Bremen, 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 office. JOHN G. DALE, Afrent, No. 15 Broadway, N. Y. I Or to O'DONNELL & FAULK, Agonts, 4 8 No. 08 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia. rnP5L PHILADELPHIA, PJCHMO ND ZLrtelJZkvn nokfoi.k steamship link, TUKUCtiH KKEIOHT AIR LINK TO THH SOUTU Awl W V R'F INCREASED FAOILITIKS AND REDUCED RATES Steamers leave every WEDNESDAY arid SATURDAY. t 111 o'clock noon, from FIRST WUARD' lOTe MAR. KKT Street. RETL'KNINO, lesve RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, nd NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA. TUK.X) A Y8 No bills of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on saiilni dl?HROUGH RATES to all points In North and SontU Osrolioa, via Seaboard Air IJne Railroad, oouneoting at Portsmouth, and to Lynohhnra. V.,1'.iuhm.uiI tfj West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond, and Danville Railroad. Freight H AN 1LK1 BUTONOK, and taken at LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE. No charge for commission, drayage. or any expense oi "bteamships Insure at lowest rates. Freight received daily. , Room accommodations for passenKftrm. No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES. W. P. POKTKR, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. GROW ELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. li MITVV WYPWRH T.rWK! TH itiitim: dria, Georgetown,, and Washington, wD. C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville, Dal ton, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon "rem the first wharf above Market street. Freight received dally. W ILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.. No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE k TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; M. ELDR1DGE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1 FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE pnri lturltjin Cnnul. iSWlFTSURJt TRANSPORTATION UUMfAMK. DESPATCH AND BWIFTSURE LINES, Leaving dally at 18 M. and 8P.M. Tbe steam profilers of this company will com meuce loading on the 8th of March. Through in twenty-four hours. Goods forwarded to arjy point free of commission Freights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO., Agents, No. 138 South DELAWARE Avenue. FOR NEW YOR via Delaware and Rantan Canal. EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. The btexm Propellers of the line will commence loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally as usnaL THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines goiug out oX Nfl York, North, East, or West, free of commission. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents, No. 13 s. DELAWARE Avenue, JAMES nAND, Agent, No. lltf WALL Street, New York. 88 i EL A WARE AND CHESAPEAK STEAM TOWBOAT COMPANY iitwbBarges towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore, 11 a v re-de-Grace, Delaware City, ana In- fcermeuiate "Mum. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agenta. Captain JOHN LAUGH LIN, Superintendent. Oulce. No. 18 Honth Wlarves 'Miadelphla. 4 11 OORDAOE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., HOPES JUANUFACTIJSIISIIU AND Villi UIIAff II.l fS, No, 89 North WATER Street and No. ss North WHARVES, Philadelphia. ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK PRICES. 41 CORDAGE. Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Cordaga At Lowcet New York Prices and rraigkts. tCDWIN II. PIT1.HK ofe (JO raotorf , TKMil 81. and OKRMANTOWa Avenaa.' Btoxs.No. 83 V. WATER 8k. and 23 N DEXAWAB Avenue, 41918m PHILADELPHIA! SAXON GREEN NEVER FADES. lem ALEXANDER G. OATTELL A CO. PRODUCE COMMISSION MKKCHANT8, No. 84 NORTH WHARVES AMD Ko. T NORTH WATER STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ALBXAMSUI a CAirUi. KLUAS CATTK1
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