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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."
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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