THE DA1LF EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, i670;i HIE "FIDELIO'' OF llEETIIOVEff. tu rn An httn't Jiumul I. Tbe year lf04 was drawing to a close. EeetbcvtD, in the f nil vigor of yontta, had already prodnced hia oratorio of "Christ on be Mount of Olivea,"' when the Baron of Btht-.d, the tew director of the Imperial Tbtatre at Vienna, proposed to him to write fn opera, convinced, as he said, that the great qnalitiea of which he had exhibi ted a proof in instrumental music, would not fail to reveal themselves in the dramatic style. Aside from en.bonorable compensation, a lodging at the theatre was offered to the composer. All that he had to do was merely to make choice of n subject. A decision was soon made in favor of Cunjvgol Love, a tragic lucubration of M. Monilly, set to inur.ic by Gaveanx, and alto by Taer, who had brought out the work in Italy under the name of Leonora. It Las always been a question of thought with me bow Beethoven, with his genius, eccentric and impatient, wandering in his flight, like the eagle, could ever have been inspired by such a poor outline, by an anec dote merely suited to suggest a subject for a true melodrama of the olden time. It is evi dent on this occasion that the musician yielded to the pathos of the idea, and saw at one glance, in that prosy fable, all the poetry of emotion there concentrated. Terhcps one ought to suppose that he took it simply for what it was, without a moment's reflection, the chef d'auvre of the poet, who gave it to him. Ab a general thing the great masters, the men of genius, rarely exercise much care in the choice of their subjects. They take what is given, and make the best out of it. However, Beethoven threw himself into the work with ardor and con amort, so that, toward the close of finishing the Bcore. 180.1, ho succeeded in 11. Then began the true embarrassments, the real difficulties. When it became necessary to produce the work, singers were not to be fov.nd. La Milder only, charged with the role of Leonora, showed herself worthy of her part; add to this, the war then impend ing between Austria and France, and you have an idea of the unfavorable circum Etnnccs under which Fidelio was brought out. The opera of Beethoven appeared upon the (t age on the L'Oth of November, but without the least hope of success. The public was averse to that music which, notwithstanding the obstacles we have mentioned, had the great mibfortune to pretend to be in advance of itd time. After three successive representations the great work was suddenly suspended, and was not brought out again until the 2!tn of March, 1800. Although the order of the piece was materially changed, and the action was reduced from three to two acts, still the public failed to appreciate it; and, after a final attempt, on the 10th of April, the chef-duvre was finally deposited in the library of the theatre, there to sleep the sleep of the Pharaohs. Eight years passed by, but no one seemed to trouble himself about Fidelio, until an ' unforeseen occasion rescued the score of Beethoven from its secular oblivion for such it seemed to be. I ts reproduction, as was generally supposed, called out notable changes, to which the great master applied himself with greater energy. The work was altered from its very founda tion, the dialogue was rewritten, and the whole drama improved as muoh as possible. The second act, which used to transpire wholly within a dungeon, now terminated on a great day under the sun's light a dramatic circumstance which, although not very im portant in itself, gave place to the magni ficent entrance of the finale, which did not exist in the first sketch. The air of Leonora, in the first act, was likewise a new feature, as well as the sublime exordium, which every one admires so much at the present day, and, of the ancient portion, only the last sentence itrceics: ' O da, fur den i h alles trug!" (O thou, lor whom I all deceive !) But let ns allow the coadjutor of Beotho ven to speak of the great composer. Figaro once remarked that, "in a loved cbject, ell is dear." We all like to listen even to the most minute circumstances which attach themselves to the infancy of a chef tTuuvre; and the details, whose merit of ex actitude one would not wish to question, since it is the poet himself of Beethoven who repeats them, will naturally find place here: m. "Beethoven etrenaously wished to have an air in the beginning of the second act for his character of 'Florestan.' But I obstinately opposed this caprice of the musician. To icake a poor captive, debilitated by long fast ing end privations, an unfortunate man dying of hunger, sing a earatina di bravura, teemed a very great difficulty to my mind, sot to say insurmountable. We disputed the ei.bject a long time. Finally, seeing that he wee unwilling to yield, I contrived the means cf freeing myself from the affair as wisely as possible, and choose for a text to my words that kind of prophetic madness which people who ere about to die exhibit that supreme light which life throws out at the moment of iliBEo'ntio: " 'What wild end quivering air finds en trance here ? What divine ray illumines my tomb? An angel hovers near me in the vapors of the rose, a consoling angel, with the features ' of Leonora; it hastens me on to liberty, and to the Heavenly Kingdom !' "What happened on this occasion will never leave my mind. Beethoven came to my bouse in the evening, about 7 o'clock. Alter we had conversed for some time on one subject and another, he inquired for his tosg. I gave him my manusonpt; he read it, ad j pureed into a chamber, grumbling in a hollow voice, as was his custom when about to sing, and then sat down by the piano. Very often bad my wife begged of him to play for her, but in vain. "This time he placed the text in the stand, - axd began, with his usual movement, iome wonderful fantasias, in the midst of which he appeared to recall his air. The boors passed by; Beethoven continued to im gtrovise. "We wished him to sup with ns, but it wat impossible to interrupt him. At last he arose, embraced me with affection, and returned fcome without having eaten with us. The following day his air was written. "In the latter part of May, so soon as my Work was accomplished, I sent the manu script to Beethoven, and two days thereafter I received from him these lines, which I trea sure as a precious token or the little service which I was able to render him: " '1 have read with deep interest the admi rable modifications which yon have intro duced into my opera. It remains for me mly to dignify these rains by a fallen cha tttu. Your friend, . Bxethovem.' "However, Beethoven advanced but slowly Iritk Lis work, and when I wrote to entreat luu to yield to the wishes of the beneficiaries, wfco lad ajtady begun (ofeftr eet they should not be able to profit in season, here are the words in which he replied to me: " 'This opera causes me every anxiety in the world. To tell the truth, I am dissatis fied. There is not one portion which I would not wish to revise, in order to patch up my dissatisfaction of to-day by same shadow of satisfaction. It is a very different thing from having to do with reflection or inspiration.' "About the middle of April the repetitions began; the representation was promised for the 2:id of May. On the very day of the gene ral repetition the new overture (which re mains to-day) was still in the head of the great master, in limbo patrum. On the morn ing of the day of the representation, the orchestra was assembled; Beethoven had not Jret arrived. After waiting fully an hour, and osing patience, I went to his house, deter mined to bring him in, either voluntarily or 1V force, dead or alite. I found Beethoven sound asleep under a covering of musical leaves, which were scattered about, both on his bed and on the floor of his chamber. "Uron a table near by was a glass of wine in which a biscuit was soaking, l re marked the candle entirely consumed. Beet hoven had spent the night in labor. From that moment it was necessary to give up the new symphony, which, notwithstanding the diligence of the master, was found to be too late for execution, and to be satisfied at that time with his overture of 'Prometheus.' "Every one knows what took place that evening. The crowd was immense; the opera was pronounced a marvel. Beethoven, in front of his desk, conducted the orchestra and the singers with that earnest conviction, that genial tire, which he brought to every thing of his art. More than once his entbu siasm led him astray, so that there was great risk in following him, from seeing him throw himself without the measure. Happily the Kapellmeister Umlauff restrained him by look and deed, and thus checked the disastrous in fluence which the eccentric inspiration of the great man might have exercised upon the choruses and the orchestra. An immense success this time greeted the chef-d'teucre, and a seventh representation was given for the benefit of Beethoven, on the 18th of July. Beethoven wrote on this oocasion Becond air for Leonora, and some verses for the jailer." IV. In this opera Beethoven recalled the phe nomena of the heart, its mysterious sorrows, its throbbings, its inhnite discouragements Pathos predominates in Fidelia a pathos gloomy and sad in the very midst of dark ness and a dungeon; from beginning to end the music stifles you by force of its being true. No fancy can lessen between whiles the vigorous austerity; no breath from heaven, no warming ray of light, there pene t rates; you find naught but tears and sighs But at the last the day appears, the heart gives vent to joy and hap. piness, a joy of Beethoven, sudden, spontaneous, aeaiening; you pass without transition from the cry of anguish to the song of deliverance, from imprisoned sobs to tbe outburst of an intoxication which cannot restrain itself. Your ear, accustomed to the shades of meaning so nicely arranged by the school of Mozart, almost stiffens against the abrupt event which, either by force or voulntarily, leads you on, not with out making you experience at times some thing of that dazzling which a man feels who from the obscurity of a dungeon finds himself suddenly under the full sun. One cannot call that portiou which termi nates the score of Beethoven a final. The final, such as the great masters of the stage interpret and understand, and Mozart in par ticular, in the Nights of Figaro and Dim Juan, keeps up the action by invisible means, and forms with the piece an integral and necessary part; but in this work what da you see? A sublime peroration, a magnifi cent hymn of graceful action, which incites the audience to unbounded enthusiasm, but has not an absolute connection with the whole piece, and would in a concert-room, if detached from the score, appear no less a work one and complete. I would compare the final of Fiddio to the epilogue in the heavens, which Goethe has placed at the end of his poem of 'Faust," to that glory which unfolds itself and sheds its light after the consummation of things. We notice in the hymn of Beethoven, just as in the phantasmagoria of Goethe, a grand way of conclusion, a splendid offset to the main work. But really it is not a final any more than the sublime dialogue between "Leonora" and the jailer occupied in digging the grave of the prisoner is a duet. The in strumental forms rule in a manner as despotio in Fiddio as in all the chefn-d'auvre which Beethoven has ever composed. The opera is a symphony, but what a noble and dramatic symphony ! There is in the personage of "Fidelio," aside fron vocal difficulties almost insur mountable, some species of feeling of panto mime, of physiognomy, which always reader it impossible for the stage to attain to the ideal of the creation of Beethoven, and such is the character of the score that of ttimes it is found more practicable to play rather than sing it. One cannot imagine what in credible efforts, what excessive pain, a tir. tuoso is oblige! to undergo in rendering the passages written for the violin or the hautboy, passages where the musician did not for a single instant condescend to take into con sideration the resources of the human voice, and which it is necessary to bing despite the fury of the overwhelming gust of instru ments. I wonder how many voices are injured and ruined forever before one voice succeeds in surmounting such difficulties, and ends by killing itself by perilous practices? George Lowell Austin. CENT.'S FURNISHINQ GOODS. p ATENT SHOULDER-SEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORK. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made from measurement at very short notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS In full variety. WINCHESTER fc CO., 11 No. 106 CHESN UT Street o LD OAKS CEMETERY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. TLis Company is prepared to sell lots, clear of all encumbrances, on reasonable term. Purchasers can see plans at tne office of the Company, NO. CIS WALNUT STREET, Or at the Cemetery, where all Information needed will be cheerfully given. By giving notice at the office, carriages will meet persons desirous of purchasing lots at Tioga Station on the Germantown Railroad, and convey them to the Cemetery and return, free of charge. ALFRED C. HARMER, President. MARTIN LANDENBERQER, Treas. MICHAEL NISBET, SeCy. 10 B wfm 8m TORN FARNTJM A CO., COMMISSION MERJ fab M UiMALil sWwt,fmUUUa. j REAL. ESTATE AT AUCTION. "VJOT1CE. BY VIRTUE AND lNEXECUHO 1 of the powers contained in a Mortgage exe cuted by HIE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY COM- I'AN I of the cltv of Philadelphia, bearing date of etf?h tecntn of April, 1803, and recorded in the otticefor recording deeds and mortgages for the city and county ol rniianeipnia, in Mortgage Hook A. O. H., No. m, page 405, etc., tne undersigned Trustees named in (aid Mortgage WILL WKLIi AT t'L 1JLIU AUCTION, at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of Philadelphia, bv NESSR8. THOMAS A SONS, AUCTIONEERS, at 12 o'clotK M., on TUESDAY, the fourteenth day of February, A. D. 18T1, the property described in and conveyed by the said Mortgage, to wit: No. 1. AH those two contiguous lota or pieces of ground, with the buildings and Improvements thereon erected, situate on the cast side of Broad street, in the city of Philadelphia, one of them be ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven inches and five-eights southward from the southeast cor ner of the said Broad and Coates streets; thence extending eastward at right angles with said Broad street elghty-elgbt feet one Inch and a half to ground now or late of Samuel Miller; thence southward along said ground, and at right angles wim said Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northeast corner of an alley, two feet six Inches in width, leading southward into Penn street; thence west ward, crossing said alley and along the lot of ground hereinafter described and at right. ancles with said 15roal street, seventy-nine feet to the east side of the said Broad street ; and thenfe northward along the east line of said Broad street seventy-two feet to the place of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent of 1280. silver nionev. No. 2. The other of them situate at the northeast corner of the said Broad street and Penn Btreet, containing In front r breadth on the said Broad street eighteen feet, and la length or depth eastward along the north line of said Penn street seventy-four feet ana two incnes. ana on tne line or said lot paral lel with Bald Penn Btreet, seventy-six feet Ave inches and three-fourths of an inch to said two feet six inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of 172, sil ver money. No. 8. All that certain lot or piece of gronnd be ginning at the southeast corner of Coates street and Broad street, thence extending southward along the said Broad street nineteen feet seven Indies and five-eighths of an inch: thence eastward eighty feet one men ana one-nan oi an men: inenee nortn- ward, at right angles with said Coates street, nine feet to the south Bide or Coates street, and thence westward along the south Bide of said Coates street nlnetv feet to the place or beginning. No. 6. The whole road, plant roaC and rati way of the paid The Central Passenger Railway Company of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not included m Nos. 1, 2 and 3), roadway, railway, rails, right of way, stations, toll-houses ana other super structures, depots, depot grounds ana otner real estate, bulldlnga and improvements whatsoever, and all and singular the corporate privileges and franchises connected with said company and plank road and railway and relating thereto, and all the tollB, income issues and profits to accrue from the same or any part thereof belonging to said company, and generally all the tenement, hereditaments and franchises of tbe said company. And also all the cars of every kind (not included in No. 4),machinery, tools, implements and materials connected with the proper equipment, operating ana conaucting oi saiu road, plank road and railway: and all tne persmai property of every kind and description belonging to id? haul company. Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas sages, waters, water-courses, easements, rran- cnitseB. rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments. and appurtenances whatsoever, unto any of the above-mentioned premises and estates belonging and appertaining, ana tne reversions ana remain ders, rents, issues, and prollta thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim,nd de mand of every nature and kind whatsoever of the said company, as well at law as in equity of, in, and to the same and every part ana parcel tnereor. TERMS OF SALE. The properties wiii be sold in parcels a nam- bered. On each bid there shall be paid at the time the property is struck off On No. 1, 1300; No. 2, J200; No. 8, 1300; No. B, lioo, unless the price is less than that sum, wnen tne wnoie sum bid snan be paid. . , vv. piunr r an, I fmatpps W. W. LOfCGSTRETH, 1 razees. M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, 12 5 COt Nos. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. NEW PUBLICATIONS. II OLID AY PRESENTS!! 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CHROME IRON SPHERICAL Will resist all BURGLAR'S IMPLEMENTS for anj itiigiu oi umu. rieuae seua lor catalogue. MARVIN & CO., R7o. 721 CZXSSRJUr Street, (MASONIC BALL,) 860 Broadway, K. T PHILADELPHIA. 108 Bans St., Cleveland, Ohio A number of Second-hand Safes, makea and sizes, fur sale VKHY LOW. of differen Safe, Machinery, etc., moved andiolated promptly anu corciiuiy, at cmvubwv iv I Juiwoui FINANCIAL.. A RELIABLE Safe Home Investment TUB Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad Company 7 PER CENT. GOLD First Mortgage Bonds. Interest Payable April and Octo ber, Free of State and United States Taxes. We are now offering the balance 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 SO and the Accrued Into rest Added. The Road is cow 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 fall infor mation, apply to WR.1. PAINTER & CO.. Dealers in Government Securities, www til iiinw on wwt 6 tftp PHILADELPHIA. JANUARY 2,1871, O O XJ SP O IV s. THE COUPONS OP TH.E SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS OF THE Wilmington and Reading Railroad Company, DUE FIRST OF JANUARY, Will be paid on and after that date at the Banking House or WM. PAINTER & CO., No. 3G SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ?2Htf WM. 8. HILLES, Treasurer. UNITED STATES SECURITIES Bought, Sold and Exchanged on Host Liberal Terms. GOLD Sought and Sold at Market Bates, COUPONS CASHED Pacific Railroad Bonds SOUGHT AND SOLD. Stock Sought and Bold on Commit- lion Only. Accounts received and Interest allowed on Daly Bounces, suDjeci to cnecK at signu DE HATEN & BRO., No. 40 South THIRD Street. Ill PHILADELPHIA. D. C. WHARTON SMITH S CO. BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 121 SOUTH. THIRD STREET, Euccessors to Smltn, Randolph & Co. Every branch of tne business will nave prompt att ention as heretofore. Quotations of Stocks, Governments, and Gold, constantly received from New York by pbivatb wm, from our friends, Edmund D. Randolph ft Co. S I JL "V JES FOR SALE. C. T. TEHEES, Jr., & CO., . BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 20 South THIRD Street. 480 PHILADELPHIA- 530 530 xxAnxiissoi? axiAircixo, BANKER. DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AND INTEB EST ALLOWED ON DAILY BALANCES. ORDERS PROMPTLY EXECUTED FOR THE PURCHASE AND SALS Or ALL RELIABLE SJS- CUKITlKS. rn.LK!TION8 MADE EVERYWHERE. REAL ESTATE COLLATERAL LOANS NEGO TIATED. t8 SI em NO. 680 WALNT7Z St., PMI(U FINANCIAL.. A LEGAL INVESTMENT FOB Trustees. Executors and Administrators. WE OFFER FOR 8 A LB 82,000,000 or TBI Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s 8ix Per Cent, at 93 Bonds And uteres 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, 1S70, are made a LEGAL INVESTMENT for Administrators, Exocu- tors, Trustees, etc. For further particulars apply to Jay Cooke Ac Co., E. W. Clark A Co., IV. II. mewfoold, Son Sc Aertsen, C. & II. llorle. 121 im Wilmington and Reading KAIXXIOAD Seven Per Cent. Bonds, FREE OF TAXES. We are eflerins (300,000 ot tbe Second Mortgage llonds of tills Company AT 82 AND ACCRUED INTEREST For the convenience of Investors these Bonds Issued in denominations of flOOOs, $500, and 100s. The money is required for the purchase of add'. (local Rolling Stock and the fall equipment of Road. The read is cow Cnlehed, and doing a business largely in excees of the anticipations of Its officers. The trade offering necessitates a large additions outlay for rolling stock, to afford full faculties for Us prompt transaction, the present rolling stock not Deing sufficient to accommodate the trade. WM. PAINTER & CO., BANKERS, No. 33 South THIRD Street, -II PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, A 3D WASHINGTON, BANKERS, AND Dealer i In Government Securities. Special attention clven to the Purchase and Sam of Bonds and Stocks on Commission, at the Board of xtruser. in iu:h uuu oiuer emeu. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. L,OiLJIUT10JNH M A1)B ON ALL POINTS. GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT AND SOLD. ncuuuio nuurutiu duiiqh lor investment. Pamphlets and fall Information given at our office, No. 114 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. no 1 3m con SALE. Six rer cent. Loan of the city oi Williamiport, Pennsylvania, FREE 07 ALL TAXES, At 85, and Accrued Interest Tnese uonas are maue aosomieiy secure oy act o Legislature compelling the city to levysunlcientf tx to pay interest and principal. P. 0. PETERSON ft CO.. 270. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET, M PHILADELPHIA JOHN S. RUSHTON & CO., BANKERS AIJD BROKERS. NOVEHBEB COUPONS WASTED City Warrants SOUGHT AND SOLS, No. 60 South THIRD Street. 6 8Ct PHILADELPHIA. B. K. JAMISON & CO., SUCCESSORS TO P.F.KELLY At CO., BANKERS AND DEALERS IN Gold, Silver, and Government Bands, At Closest Market Bate, N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHESNUT St. Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS in New York and Philadelphia stock Boards, etc. etc 965 C ANKERS BTc 109 BOUTH THIRD BTRBOT, BKALER8 IH ALL GOVERNMENT MCURI. TIES, GOLD BILLS, ETC DRAW BILLS OF EXCEAKGE AND IK5C1 COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT OM VEJ UNION BANK OF LONDON. ISSUE TRAVELLERS' LETTERS Ot CREDIT ON LONDON AMD PARIS, available Urongboat Europe, Will collect sui conponi an Interest free ol darts or parties iDAklnf taelr Cnano'ai amnremenv FINANCIAL. TW STKONOEST AND TJKST-SK- RD. AS WKL.L AH 'MOST PROFITABLE NVBSTMBT NOW OFFERED IN THE MAR BLT. 7 rER CENT. Q OLD First Mortgage Bonds. Coupon or Registered, and free of U. 8. Tax, FR1NCIPALJAND 1NTERE8T PAYABLE IN UOLD, ISSUED BT THE Ilurllnffion, Jedar Itapid, and II Ii .. sota It. It. Co. The small remaining balance of the Loan for said At 00 and Accrued Interest in Currency. Interest payable May and November. J. EDGAR THOMSON, CHARLES L. FROST, ATU8leeB The bonds are Issued at 120,000 per mile against tbe portion only of the line fullv completed and equipped. Tbe greater part of the road Is already in opera tlon, and tbe present earnings are iargeiy in exoes of the operating expenses and Interest on the bonds. The balance of the work necessary to establish, through connections, thereby shortening the dis tance between St. Paul and Chicago 45 miles, and 90 miles to St. Louis, is rapidly progressing, in time for the movement of the coming grain crops, which, It Is estimated, will double the present Income of the road. The established character of this road, running aa It docs through the heart of the most thickly-settled and richest portion of the great State of Iowa, to gether with Its present advanced condlticn and large earnings, warrant us In unhesitatingly recommend ing these bonds to Investors as, In every respect, an undoubted security. A small quantity of the Issue only remains unsold, and when the enterprise la completed, which will be this fall, an Immediate ad vance over subscription price may be looked for. The bonds have fifty years to run, are convertible at the option of the holder into the stock of the Com pany at par, and the payment of the principal Is pro vided for by a sinking fund. The convertibility privilege attached to these bonds cannot fail to cause them, at an early day, to command a market price considerably above par. U. S. Five-twenties at pre sent prices return only 4x per cent, currency Inte rest, while these bonds pay 9jrf per cent., and we regard them to be as safe and fully equal as a security to any Railroad Bond Issued; and until they are placed upon the New York Stock Exchange, the rules of which require the road to bo completed, we obligate ourselves to rebuy at any time any of these bonds sold by ns after this date at the same price as realized by us on their sale. All marketable securities taken In payment free of commission and express charges. ii e:i6y clews & co.. If o. aa WALL Street, 31. Y. FOR 8ALB B7 TOWNSKND WHELEN & CO., BARKER BROS, CO., KURTZ A HOWARD, BOWEN tt FOX, DE HA YEN fc BROTHER, THOS. A. BIDDLE A CO., WM. PAINTER fc CO., GLENDENNING, DAVIS & CO., O. DINVILLIERS, EMORY, BENSON & CO., Philadelphia, Of whom pamphlets and information may be ob tained. 12 l 04t W. W. KUKTZ. JOHN 0. HOWAIID KURTZ & HOWARD, BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 32 S. THIRD STREET, Philadelphia, Buy and sell Stocks. Bonds, etc.. on Cnmminatnn. Dealers in Gold and Silver. Railroad Securltiea Negotied. Particular! attentlonl given to the Nego tiation of Commercial l'aper and Time Loans on Collateral Security. interest allowed on Deposits. 11 23 wslm LUMUbR. 1870 SPRUCE JOIST. SPRUCE JOIST. HEM LOOK. HEMLOCK. 1870 1870 SEASONED CLEAR PINE. - nA SEASONED CLEAR PINE. lo7(l SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. inuivn r Jl 1 Jill 11 1870 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLO ill DA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VlhGlNlA FLOOKING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1870 1 G7fl WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 1 Qiy 1 0 I V WALN UT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I 1 WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1870 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, -t Qrrfi UNDEKTA KEHS' LUMBER. 1 0 I U RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASON ED CHERRY. 1870 ASH. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. 1870 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1870 SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, run DALta jAiw, 1870 CAROLINA SCANTLING. CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. NORWAY SCANTLING. 1870 1870 118 CKDAR SHINGLES. CYPRESS SHINGLES. 1870 MAULS. BROTHER fc CO., rto. 8600 SOUTH Street I) AN EL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. 1 COMMON BOARDS. l and a side fence boards. WHITE PINE FLOORING BOARBS. YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, IV and tii SPRUCE JOIST.ALL SIZES. HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL 8IZE& PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY, Together with a general assortment of Bnlldinf Longer for sale low for cash. T. W. SMALTZ, 11806m NolTlB RIDGE Avenne, north of Poplar St.' STOVES. RANGES, ET O. THE AMERICAN STOVE AND HOLLOWWAR1 COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, IRON FOUNDERS, (Successors to Njrth, Chase A North, Sharpe A Thomson, and Edgar L. Thomson,) Manufacturers of STOVES, HEATERS, THOM. SON'S LONDON KITCHENER, TINNED, EN A' MELTED, AND TON HOLLOW WARE. FOUNDRY, Second and Mlttlin Streets. OFFICE, 209 North Second Street FRANKLIN LAWRENCE, Superintendent. EDMUND B. SMITH, Treasurer. JNO. EDGAR THOMSON, President JAMES IIOEY, 2Tmwf6m General ' WHISKY, WINE, ETCU QAR8TAIRS A McCALL. Ko. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Cti IMPOBTKBA OV Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olivi Oil, TUS, Vf BOLXSALS DIALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIkW IS EOSD ARD TAX PAID, M Is
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