THE DAILY EVKXINO TKLEGUAI'K PIIILADELrillA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1871. I i:rcir.u;n in. From Hit London Spectator. The life of Edward V was bo brief and bis reign no entirely nominal, tbat it would bo absurd to give any estimate of bis character as a King of England. We flee him for a moment as a child, a mere puppet in the bands of others, and then he disappears from our sight for ever, and neither coutemporary curiosity nor modern research has been able to penettate the mystery which surrounds his fate. 'With hia uncle, who supplanted him on the throne, tho case is very different, and ? et we seem to know with certainty nearly as ittle of Richard III as of bis unfortunate nephew. . The writers of the succeeding period have left us -a portrait which is of a monster rather than of a man, and even the genius of a great dramatist, assuming their narratives as the basis for bis creation, has hardly been able to rise above the present ment of an Vinmitigated stogo villaiu. And when we endeavor to ascertain the truth or falsehood of this representation, which, not withstanding the occasional skepticism on the part of a few clever writers, has been generally received as true, we find ourselves reduced almost entirely to a choice between the statements of unfriendly writers and the inferences as to character which we may think ourselves justified in drawing from a few ascertained facts, generally isolated, and pome of which are not incapable of more than one interpretation. Under such circum stances, an estimate of Richard must be ne cessarily imperfect, and on some points open to doubt, but we think that some leading features in his character may be ascertained with tolerable certainty. If the popular judgment has been so vio lently unfavorable to llichard. it is, on the ether hand, almost impossible for any candid and impartial student of history not to feel disposed to take up the defense of a man whose memory has been exposed to such un friendly criticism. Yhether llichard was the villain he is said to be or not, it is quite cer tain that his traditional character is drawn by those who were either violently prejudiced against him, or interested in blackening his fame the partisans or flatterers of the prince who had dethroned and slain him. Denun ciation proceeding from such a source cannot fail to rouse a suspicion that something might have been said on the other aide, if Richard had been as fortunate in his biogra- f hers as some of his predecessors, and we If Kppm to be makinc ourselves acces- I sories to an act of injustice in adopt Y ing without hesitation evidence so T palpably one-sided. This feeling is con firmed wnen we and tnat, in one instance at least, the change of kings operated in a very suspicious manner on the tone adopted by an historical authority. One of the most vio lent denouncers of Kirjg llichard is John llous, the antiquary and historian, who wrote his history under the House of Tudor. But fortunately for us, and unfortunately for his reputation, we possess a roll of the Earls of Warwick, drawn up by him in the reign of Richard, one copy of which has escaped the noli lie alterations of the author. In this we find him describing llichard as '"in his realm 1 (ruling) full commendably, punishing offen- ders of his laws, especially extortioners and oppressors of his Commons, and cherishing those that were virtuous; by the which dis creet guiding he gat great thank3 of God, and love of all his subjects, rich and poor, pnd ix;? laud of the people of all other lands about him. ' Of course, an historical student will do well to distrust this panegy ric as much as the subsequent denunciation, but the case may serve as a warning against receiving blindly the statements of the Tudor historians. On the other hand, we must not bejmisled by the fact of exceptional injustice having probably been done to the memory of Richard by these historians into the idea that he was iu reality in no respect such a man as they have depicted him, and that their por trait is a pure invention, rather than an ex aggeration and caricature of the real man. As far as our present materials enable us to judge, it seoms to us that, quite independently of their representations, the character of Richard is not one which is deserving of much admira tion, or even of high intellectual respect. He was not, indeed, the exceptionally bad man among his contemporaries that his Tudor biographeis have made him; La was probably a better man than several of those whose reputations have been whitewashed by them, but he certainly was neither a good man nor a very wise or great sovereign. Indeed, it feenis to us that in depicting a successful villain these writers have unconsciously given him credit for an undue amount of intellectual capacity. The first pint which requires notice with respect to Kicbard of uloucester is the short ness of his life. The popular mind cherishes the idea of an elderly villain, but the fact is that Richard was killed before he had com pleted his thirty-third year. The actions of his life are, therefore, those of a young man, and should be judged in a corresponding light. The next point is, that the epoch at which he becomes a responsible agent in the i political events of that age must be placed j much later than is popularly imagined, and !' that consequently the time of his supposed political machinations must be limited to a comparatively few years. There was an in terval in age of ten years between him and his brother Edward, and on the first accession of the latter to the throne llichard was only between eight and nine years old. He was only just eighteen when he took refuge with Edward in Flanders, during the temporary restoration of Henry VI, and he had not completed his nineteenth year when he dis tinguished himself by his valor in the deci sive battles of liarnet and Tewkesbury, and when Henry died in the Tower. He was little more than twenty-six when his brother George of Cla rence died in the same fatal fortress, and he had not completed his thirty-first year at the date usually assigned as that of the murder of his two nephews. Even his undoubtedly premature apiearance on the stage of pub lic life and the natural prococity of his cha racter can only modify to a certain extent this consideration of his comparative youth. His political life can hardly have commenced in any true sense of the term until after his brother's restoration in 1171, and twelve years only are therefore left for the concept "lion and consummation of all that villainy which is supposed to have culminated in the murder of the young princes: and estimating he nature of these machinations, we must I ges of nineteen and thirty-one. W -. I . 1 . 1 J 1 . . I . 1 I'll lticnara, iue ewvenm oi me iwetvecniiuren of Richard, Duke of York, waa born on the 2d of October, H "2, during the short interval of tranquillity which followed the first armed struggle between the houses of York and Reaufort a contest in a later stage of which he himself perished. And here we are at once encountered by the calumnies of later historians, who attribute to him a for bidding personal deformity. The truth seems to L that Richard, unlike his brothers Ed- ward and George, was puny in growth aoJ nickly in constitution, Ilia person was short and slight, and though the limbs were oom pBctly knit, be waa not musoularly strong. His face, if we may judge from contemporary descriptions and existing portraits, was very peculiar. It was rather short than long, but the contrast between the broad forehead and prominent cheek bones and the sunken cheeks gave an Appearance of elongation to the whole face. The upper part of the forehead was not at all full, but there was a marked protuberance immediately above the eyebrows. The nose was well formed, and slightly aquline. seem ing to indicate sense and fair sngncity. The eyes the interval between which was very mall seem in the portraits dreamy and self centred, and tb brow is contracted into a look of painful and anxious thought, ap proaching in one portrait to something almost sinister. The chin is particularly well formed, firm, but prepossessing; the lips are very thin, and closely compressed almost into a Bingle line. The auburn hair falls in thick straight rupsses on each side of his face, after the fashion of bis brother Edward, and indeed of that age generolly. The impression left by the face is that of deep and anxious brooding, and of an intensely nervous but highly ttrung organization. It is certainly not a faoe which inspires confidence, though it excites an uncomfort able interest. It is certainly, however, not the face of a vulgar hypocrite and assassin, any more than it is that of a man of noble and frank nature. The deformity exagger ated by his maligners probably really con sisted in one shoulder being rather higher than the other; he was certainly not a hunch back in the sense which the word usually im plies. He was active in his habits, and courageous and enterprising in his spirit in a more than ordinary degree. His manners, on the other hand, seem to have been quiet and reserved; his eyes, as the portraits also testify, are said to have been habitually mild in expression, but became fierce and threaten ing when his passion was once thoroughly roused. He was courteous and pleasing in his address, and he appears to have exercised when he chose an extraordinary fasoination over those with whom he came in contact. But with one or two exceptions the power he thus obtained over the minds of others was transient in its character, and, as a rule, he seems to have been unable to retain the con fidence which he so strangely trained. Fran cis, Lord Lovell, indeed "Lovell our dog" who appears to have been a ward of the groat Earl of Warwick at the same time that Richard was himself under the care of the King Jlsker, and about whose ultimate fate such a mystery hangs, clung to llichard to tho last with a fidelity worthy of the animal which gave him his sobrifvet. John and Thomas Howard the J"jockey of Norfolk" and his gallant son, Surrey, were also true in the hour of danger, but they had certainly a strong personal interest in the maintenance of the power of Richard. Most, however, of the men whom he seemed to have gained for the time, forsook or betrayed him. The two in famous fetanleys would probably have be trayed any one, if such a course seemed to open a path to their aggrandizement. But Hastings, whom he is said to have at one time loved better than any man, and who stood by him stoutly in the first crisis of his struggle with the "Woodvilles. shook off hia fiieiidt-hip immediately afterwards, and sought his destruction. Tercy, the restored Earl of Northumberland, whom ho honored and trusted, and who seemed bound to his inteiests, betrayed him on the very field of Boswerth. Henry Stafford, Duke of Buck ingham, who had seemed his alter ego, de ceived him grossly, though he did not escape a just reward for his dissimulation and treach ery. On tho other hand, llichard won over Queen Elizabeth "Woodville, and all but won her son the Marquis of Dorset, even after he was publicly credited with tho mur der of the Frinces; and the young Elizabeth of York would have been willing, it soeius, to accept the hand of Richard's son, even if the story is false that she would gladly have become the wife of Richard himself. These, again, all failed him in the hour of need. In fact, men appeared to bo won and lost again by him in an equally sudden and in comprehensible manner. It would almost seem as if Richard, while ho possessed the power of discovering and appealing success fully to some strong feeling or desire in the mind of another, was not capable of grasp ing a character as a whole, and through this imperfect apprehension lost the hold he had at first gained. Much of his ill-judged violence, and equally ill-judged confidence, may be traced to this cause. He destroyed Hastings, whose interests, by a little judi cious moderation and management, might have been identified with his own; and ho alienated Buckingham by his disregard of some strong wish of the latter, after he had made him only too powerful by his lavish generosity. The extravagant confidence be placed in the Stanleys is notorious, and it is alone sulncient to discredit nis penetration into character. If Richard was a hypocrite and a dissembler, he certainly was a very poor proficient in bis art, for it is an im petuous rashness and imprudence of con duct, and an impatience oi ditncuities, w hich made him always cut the Gordian knot, instead of attempting to nnloose it, that ap pear to be his characteristics. Under this influence he was always either too violent or too generous. It seemed as if he restrained his excitability, and concealed it under a smiling face just long enough to give tho uncomfortable impression of a deep and de signing nature, and then gave vent to it on seme momentary occasion, with the excess and abandon of a man who took no thought before he acted. It seemed as if his judg ment were not well-balanced enough to see any medium between blind confidence and blind violence. His brother Edward's mind, even w hen seemingly palsied by sensual indul gence, was alwaysclear,healthy,and active; that of llichard was perplexed, morbid, and rest less. He gave an impression of violence and irregularity far beyond the natural import of his actions. There was scarcely a public man then alive who might not (as far as his moral character is concerned) have committed most of the acts of cruelty attributed to Richard; but by his mode of action ho gave to them a character of exceptional atrocity which goes far bevend the actual fact. And so men came to attribute a natural and systematio cruelty that was really alien to Richard s nature, which was quite as much addicted to an ex cess of compassion and generosity as to any thin? in the opposite direction, lie was accordingly credited with nearly all the bus picious deaths of the period, of several of which be was certainly innocent. The young Edward, Henry VI's son, an nears to have been killed in battle, calling out to his brother-in-law, Clarence, whom he saw in the opposite ranks, to save him; and Richard had nothing whatever to do with tho event. Henry VI Lime elf diod, not improba bly, though not certainly, from violence; but the mere mention of the psence of Richard (a lad of eichteen) in the Tower about tho supposed time of the death, is the only pieoe of evidence to connect him with the deed, and as the Queen and family of Edward were nlno resident in the Tower at tho same time, this comes to very little. Clarence's destruc tion appears, from the indictment against bin), to have been the work of the Queen's family. The execution of Hastings and of Rivers and the other members of tbe Woodville family have all the appear ance of acts committed at the instigation of some sudden feeling of resentment and alarm. Tho Woodvilles were only committed. to safe custody as long as it seemed that Hastings was their enemy; they were executed after the seizure and execution of Hasting had probably led to tbe disclosure of some more of tbe facts of their recent plotting with that nobleman. The death of Hastings was evi dently an act of resentment and alarm on the discovery of the hostile position he had sud denly assumed. Of the death of the young Princes it is not easy to speak, since we really know nothing as . to their fate. But tho probability seems to be that something like tbe common Btory actually happened: and, at any rate, Richard must be held responsible for their disappearance, since ho never pro duced them, when it became his manifest in terest thus to refute tho accusations against him. That he certainly gave Fpecial rewards to the inon to w horn common opinion afterward ! attributed tb deed is a fact of compa' lively little weight, since the most trusted of his confi dential agents would be just thoso to whom tho public would be likely to assign th9 com mission of the deed; but tho coincidence of the reward of these persons with tho sup posed time of tho Princes' deaths is of slightly more importance. On the other hand, the conduct of Henry VII to the man who had the charge of the Tower at the time of the supposed murder, and to whom the ar rangement of the deed was popularly attri buted, is very strange, on tho supposition that that King believed the acousation against him to bo true. The hypothesis that this al leged assassin, Sir James Tyrrell, revealed the fact of his complicity in the murder only on tho eve of his subsequent execution for treason is purely gratuitous, and comes to nothing, as Henry could always have easily as certained if Tyrrell had the custody of the Tower at the timo of tho alleged murder. On the whole, wo must rest satisfied with the leading facts that tho Princes disappeared in the autumn of 1433, just in the crisis of an attempted insurrec tion in their behalf, and that Richard (as far as our present knowledge allows us to speik) never denied that they were dead, had him self crowned again at York just about that time, and never produced tho boys when the portisans of Henry ol Richmond proclaimed th6ir murder, and when their reappearance would have been a death-blow to the hopes of that pretender, and a matter of compara tively little risk to himself. It is probable, then, that Richard, without premeditating their deaths, had them destroyed on a sud den aceess of nervous alarm, and thus gavo another signal proof of his fatal impetuosity and want of judgment. Thero can be little doubt that tho deposition of the young King Edward was not an unpopular act, and that Richard, if he had ruled with ordinary steadiness and moderation, might have defied all the efforts of the young King's partisans; while bis existence was always an obstacle to the pretensions of Henry of Rich mond, and of all other possible pretenders. But by destroying him thus hastily. Richard not only threw away his best card and com mitted an unwise and unnecessary crime, but broke up tho Yorkish party forever, and gavo a cry to all bis adversaries of which they eagerly availed themselves. It is not at all impossible that Uuckingham (whoso preten sions to the Crown wore notorious) made ltithard his cat's-paw to remove ono great obstacle in the young Princes, and then tried to avail himself of the odium thus caised to destroy Richard himself. The subsequent attempts of Richard to conciliate Queen Eliza beth and the oodvilles, and to unite their interests with his own, were a vain effort to escape from the consequences of this and other previous political blunders. I be public policy and government of Richard were marked by tho same general character of discontinuity,and excess iu oppo site directions, which marked his personal acts. He was always either the ardent reformer and rigid censor of morals, or the lavish patron and the ostentatious imitator of his brother s stately magnificence. Ho did many worthy things, and corrected abuses; but bis gav- ernment was unsystematic, his policy chaugo. able and inconsistent, and his goi and evil acts alike intermittent and disproportionate to the occasion, bucn an administration is even moro hostile to a settled state of society than one of unmixed and consistent evil. The sense of personal insecurity and tho nervous alarms to which he was himself sub ject, seemed to communicate themselves to tho kingdom over which he ruled, and with out any definite causes of complaint against his Government, and with a certain conscious ness that he w as in some respects an able, and, generally, not an ill-disposed ruler, the nation at large longed for a termination of his reign, and at length submitted quietly, though without any eagerness, to the succes sion of a man of whom they knew nothing. except that he belonged in some way to the royal family of England, and had relieved them from a state of painful uncertainty and suspense. That Richard was not a sufficiently bad man to bo beyond the pangs of remorse has been deduced from the fact of the numerous chantries he erected in the places connected with some of his violent acts to pray for hia own 6ou 1 or those of his victims. But this act was probably as much one of superstition as of regret, for his nervous temperament seems to have rendered him particularly sensitive to superstitious feelings. But a feeling of remorse and a sense of retri bution may have mingled with the bitter agony with which, according to a tole rably reliable chronicler, he was tortured almost to madness on receiving the news of the death of his only legitimate son, on the anniversary of the death of his brother Edward. Richard was a deeply-affectionate father and a devoted husband, aud there is probably no calumny more base than that which attributes thim the gradual poisoning of bis wife, soon after the sad event with which they had both been nearly distracted. Anne wa of a consumptive family, and her death was probably precipitated by that of her stn. On the whole, as far as we can read his character, Richard was no deliberate villain, and not in natural disposition evil-minded or cruel. But his character and his acts were the result of a disordered nervous tempera ment, and an impatient and unstable will. As the second man in tho State, under a sove reign (such as his brother Edward) whom he trubted and looked up to, ho might have been an able and high-minded Administrator. When lelt to himself he had neither judgment nor self-confidence, and became a violent man and an unsatisfactory ruler. OYSTER Cut bti. KNIVES OP PINE 240. m b. FIFTH bU RAILROAD LINES. pniLADKLrillA AND READING RAILROAD Depot, TnTRTEKNTn and CALLOWHILL Street. Until farther notice trains will Leave and Arrive BS folOWB t TRAINS I.RAVK. A.M.' TRAINS AHR1VS. A.M. Read'gAAllent'nWay 7-30 Tottstown Accm.... 9 15 HarrlBb'gAPotts-e Kx 816Read'g rottsv'e Ac.l020 I'biia.A Fotts'e Way 1 p.m. Train i2o , Harrisb'g.v Fotts'e ex l oo P. M pnna. pottsve w. nnrriBb'K&Totts'eEx 880 Pottstown Accoramo. 4-00 Read 'g& Pott sve Ac. 4 45 ON SUNDAYS. A. M. 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The trains of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad loave the Depot, at THIRTY-FIRST and MAR KET Streets, which Is reached directly by the JMar- ket street cars, the last car oonceotinir with oaoo train leaving Front and Market streets thirty minutes before Us departure. The Chesnut and Walnut streets oars run within one square of the Depot. Slceplng-oar tickets ean be had on application at tne Ticket omce, jn. w. corner isintn aau ;uos. nut streets, and at the Depot. Agents of the Union Transfer Company will oall for and deliver baggaRe at the depot. Order? Ic'.l at Mo. 901 Chosnut street, or No. 110 Market streot, will receive attention. TRAINS LBAVB DU70T. Pittsburg Express .... 12-11 A. M. Mail Train a-ou A OL Lock Haven and IC'mlra "i-press . . 840 A. M. Paoll Accommodation. 10-10 A.M.& 110 and 7-10P.M Fast Line 12 40 P.M. Erie Express 12-40 P. M. Harrisburg Accommodation , . . 2-30 P. M. Lancaster Accommodation . . . 410 P.M. Parkesburg Train 630 P, M. Cincinna ti Express 800 P. M. 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Trains will leave aud arrive at the Depot, THIRTY- FIRST and C'HKoNUT Streets, as follows: FROM PHILADELPHIA For West Chester at 7-45 and 11-20 A. M,230, 6-1&. and 1180 P. M. Stops at all stations. For Westchester at 440 P. M. This train stops only at stations between Media and West Chester (Greenwood excepted). For B. C. Junction al 4-10 P. M. Stops at all sta tions. FOR PHILADELPHIA From West CheHter at 630 and 1045 A. M., 1-85, 4f-B. and 6 fcfi I. M. Stops at all stations. From West Chester at 75 A. M. This train stops only at stations between West Chester and Media (lireeuwoou excepieuj. From B. C. Junction at 8-40 A. M. Stops at all stations. ON SUNDAY" Leave Philadelphia at 830 A. M. and 2 P. M. Leave West Chester at 755 A. M. and 4 P. M. 10 14 W. C. WHEELER, Superintendent. TIT EST JERSEY RAILROADS. FAIL AND WINTER ARRANGEMENT.- r llYIMKNOLNG MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1870. Trains will leave Philadelphia as follows: From foot of Market street (upper lerry), 8-16 A. M.. Passenger for ttrldgeton, Salem, Swedesboro, Vlnelano, taiuviue, anu way Bunions. li w A- iu. nwvu.'i - R-1& p. m.. Paasensrerlor Cape May, MUlvtUe. ana way stations below Glassboro. y. M., Passenger for Brldgeton, Salem, Swedesboro, and way stations. 630 P. M., Aeoommodatlon for Woodbury, Olass boro, Clayton, anl intermediate stations. Freikbt Train leaves Camden daily, at 19 M. WULIAM. J. SLWLLL, buptrlnujaJent. RAILROAD LINE. IHII'APELPHIA, WIIJYUNaTON. AND BAL TIMORE RAILROAD. TIMETABLE. COMMENCING- MONDAY. NOVEMBER l, 18T0. Trains will leave Depot, corner of Hro&d itreet and WftrtbloKton avenue, at follows: W-ht Mail Train nt 880 A. M. (Sunday! excepted), for Hftltiuiore, toppin- at' all regular stations. Connecting at Wilmington with Delaware Railroad Lane, at uiayton with Smyrna Hranoh Railroad and Maryland and Delaware Railroad, at Har rlngton with Junotlon and Breakwater Railroad, at Seaford with Dorchester and Delaware Rail road, et Delmar with F.Mtern Shore Railroad, and at Salisbury with Wloomloo and Pooomoke Rail road. Jiipreci Train at 11-46 A. M. (Sundays excepted), for iialtlmore and Washington, stopping at WR. mlngton, Perryvllle, and Havre-de-Orane. Con. necte at Wilmington with train for New Castle. Express l rata at 4 t. ni. (Sundays excepted), Tot Baltimore aud Washington, stomdnir at Chester. Thurlow, Llnwood, CUymont, Wilmington, New port, Stanton, Newaik, Elkton. North East, C'harloBtown, Perryvllle, Havre-de-Oraoe, Abei ueen, ferryman e, nugewooa, magnolia, cnase'i ana -M.euimer'8 nun. Mtiht Exprees at 11-80 P.M. (Dally), for Balti more and Washington, stopping at Chester. Uln- wood, uiayxuoni, wiimiDKton, .ew-trk, tmton, North East. Perryvllle. Havre-de-Graoe. l'errv. roan's, and MnnoiU. Parser irers for Fortress Monroe and Norfolk will take the 11-45 A. M. train. WILMINGTON TRAINS. Storrln-r at all stations between Philadelphia And Wiliuinuton. Leave Philadelphia at 1180 A. Iu., 2 30, 6 00, ant 7-00 P. M. The 6oo P. Al. train oonneois with Dela ware Railroad for HarrlnKton and Intermediate stations. Leave Wllminirton 646 and 810 A. M 3 00, 4-00, and 716 P.M. The 8 10 A.M. train will not stop between Chenter and Philadelphia. The 7-15 P. M. train from Wilmington runs Dally; all other ao oomaiodatlon trains Sundays excepted. Trains leaving Wilmington at 6-46 A. M. and 4-00 P. M. will conneot nt Lamokln Junotlon with the T-00 A. M. and 4 80 P. EL trains for Baltimore Cen ral Railroad. From BalUmore to Philadelphia. Leave Balti more T26 A.M., Way Mail; B-35 A. M., Express; 886 P. M., Express; 726 P. M., Et press. buniJAi mail kkuiU uALTi.-nurtif. Leaves Baltimore at 725 P. BL. stopping at Mar- nolla, Perrynian's, Aberdeen, Havre-do-Grace, Per ryvllle, Charlestown, North East, Elk ton, Newark, Stanton, Newport, Wilmington, Clay moot, Lln wood, and Chester. On Sundays, leave Philadelphia for west Grove and Intermediate stations at 8 00 A. At.; returning, left Weft Grove at 8-66 P. M. ThrouKh tickets to all points west. South, and Southwest uiay be prooured at ticket offloe, No. 828 Ohcsnut street, under Continental Hotel, where a lao state Rooms anu uertus in bleeping oars can be scoured during the day. Persons purchasing tickets at this ofhce can have baggage cheoked at their residence by the Unlen Translor Company. hu k. iS.tJNit, supeii-itonuent. 1 -Ftm NEW YORIT THE CAMDEN lO i J and Am boy and Philadelphia and Tren ton RalM-oad Companies' lines from Philadelphia to New York and way Places. rnoM walwut stbkbt whabtt. At 7 A. M Mall and Aooommodatioa, via Cam den aLd Am boy, ar.d at 830 P. M., Aooommoda tlon. via Camden and Jersey City. At 2 and 6 P. M., lor Amboy ana intermediate sta. tlocs. At 7 A. M. and 3-80 P. M. for Freehold and Far- nolngrtaie. At 7 and 10 A. M.. 12 M.. 2. 830. and 6 P. M. for Trenton. P At 7 and 10 A. M., 12 M., 2, 830, 6, 6, 7, and li -so r. iu. ior woruontown, ciorenoe, uuriina-ion Ediie water. Keverlv. Delanao. Riverside. River. ton. and Palmyra. At 7 ana 10 a. iu., 12 ai., 0, 0, 7, ana 11-so p. 3L for Fish House. The ll-SO P. M. line leaves from Market Street Ferry (upper side). VBOK WKBT FU1L&DKLFH1A DBPOT, At T 30 and 9-46 A. M., l 'io, 310, 63u, 046 and 12 P. Id., New York Express Lines, and at 1130 P. HI., Liine, via jersey 1 'ity. At 730 and B4& A. m r0, 3-10, 0 33, 046, ftOd 12 P. M. for Trenton. At 9-46 A. M. 120, 645 and 13 P. m. for Bristol. At 12 P. M. (niirht) lor Mornsvtlle, l'uilytown. Schenck's, Eddlngton, Cornweils, Torresdalo, Ho'mesburg Junction, Taoony, Wlaslnomlng, Brideaburg, aid Frankford. Sunday Lines leave at 940 a. oi., 0 46 p. 01., aad 12 night. I BOH ESNeiHOTOB DaPOT. At 730 A. M., 280, 880, and 6 P.M. for Trenton nnd Bristol, and at 9 30 A. &L and 6 P. M. for Bristol. At 730 A.M., 2-30, and 6 P. L for Morri3vll!e and Tullytown. At 7 80 ana o A.m., -430, 0, ano o i-. n. ior Schenck's. Eddlngton, Cornweils, Torreadsls. and Uolo-'esburg Junction. ton, Holmesbnrg, and Holmesburg Junction. At 7 ano u so a. ni., vi '-, z-bo, a to, a, ana 7-uo P. M. for Tacony, wisslnomlng, Brldesburg, and traBEiora. VIA FKI.VIPKRK DELAWARE RAIl.KO AD. At 780 A.M. for Miauara Falls, Buti.Uo, Lao. kirk, Elmira, Rochester, SyraouBO, Great Bend, Wiikesbarre, scnooieys mountain, etc. At T80 A. M. and 830 P. M. for Scranton, Stroudsburg, Water Gap, Belvldere, Easton, Lam- bertviue, t letnington, etc. At 6 f. M. tor jbamberivuio ana intermediate stations. FROM MAEKBT BTRKBT VKBBY (UPPISH BIDS), VIA KBW JBBBBV SOUTHCRN KA.ILROA.D At 11 A. M. lor New York. Lona Branch, and Intermediate places. VIA C'AWDKN AND BUBLINGTON COUNTY RAIL BO AD. At C-46 and 11 A. M., l. 2 30, 3-80, 6, ana e8o r. M., and on Thursday and Saturday nights at 1130 P. M. ior Meiehantsvllle, lUoorestown, Hartford, mason vllle, Halnesport, and Mount Holly. At o-4D a. ui., uu ana O'su r. iu. ior LUinoerton ano Medtord. At 6 45 and 11 A.XQ..8 so. . ana 030 p.m. ror smith- vllle, Kwans vllle, Vlncentown, Birmingham, and Pemberten. At 6 46 A. m., i ana bw r. m. ior lewistown. Wrightstown. Cookstown, New Egypt, Homers- town, Cream Ridge, lmlayetown, Sharon, and Hlfchtstown. Dec. 12, 1870. w m. it. u ai iuj-LK, Agent. PHILADELPHIA AND ERIB RAILROAD. WINTER TIME TABLE. On and after December 4, 1870, the trains sa the Philadelphia and Krle Railroad will run u follows from I ennsylvanla Railroad Depot, Went Phlia- peiphia W1STWARD. MAIL TRAIN leaves Philadelphia 9 40 P. fit. - w liiiamsport i o a. m- arrives at Erie 7 49 P. M. ERIE EXPRESS leaves Philadelphia 12 20 A. M. " wiuiamsport s tm r, ra. arrlveB at Erie T-40 A. M. ELM11U- KAIL leaves Philadelphia 9-39 A. M, " " WilllamHport 836 P.M. " arrives at Look Haven T-60P. M, BAST WARD. MAIL TRAIN leaves Erie . 9 00 A.M. " WlUlamsport 10 06 P. BL arrives at Philadelphia 6 60 A. M, ERIE EXPRESS leaves Erie . . 8 00 P.M. " WlUlamsport 8-26 A. M. " arrives at Philadelphia 6 80 P.M. ELMIRA MAIL leaves Lock Haven 8 16 A. M. " " WlllUmsport 9 26 A.M. " arrives at Philadelphia 6 30 P. M. BUFFALO EXP. leaves WUUamspert 12 86 A. M. tt Sunbury 2 80 A. M. " arrives at Philadelphia 8-40 A. M, Express, Mall, and Accommodation, east and west, conneot at Corry, and aU west bound trains and Mall and Aeoommodatlon east at lrvlnetoa Witt Oil Creek and Allegkeuy Bt m Kallroa General Superintendent. THE PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE CE-NT. TRAL RAILROAD. CHANGE OF HOURS. On and after MONDAY, October 8, 1870, trains will run as follows: Leave Philadelphia from depot of P. W. i it. rt. if-i corner uroaa street ana wasu In p ton avenue: - For Port Deposit at T A. M. and 430 P. M. For Oxford at 7 A. M., 430 P. M.. aud 7 P. M. For oxford Wednesdays and Saturdays only at 8-80 P. M. ForChadd's Ford and Chester Creek Railroad at T A. M., 10 A. M., 4-30 P. M., and T P. M- Yt ednes days and Saturdays only 830 P. M. Train leaving Philadelphia at 7 A. M. connects at Port Deposit with train for Baltimore. TralnB leaving Philadelphia at 7 A. M. and 4-80 P. M. connect ut Chadd s Ford Junction with the Wilmington and Beading Railroad. Trains for Philadelphia leave Port Deposit at 9-25 A. M. and S P. M., on arrival of trains from BalU- Oxford at 6-os A. M., 10-35 A. M. and D-30 P.'M. Sundays at 6-80 P. M. only. C hadd slFordlat 726 A. M., It -88 A. M., 865 P. M., and 6-49 P. M. Sundays 4 P. M. only. Passengers are allowed to lake wearing apparel only as baggage, aud the company will not in any ease be rehpuuaible for an amount exceeding oue hundred dollars, unle-m special "-t & m tot the6ame. HKNRi WOOD, XOs General BuperlttteadeuU ADO riON SALES. M THOMAS fc SON8, AUCTIONEERS, NO?. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street, SALE 6F REAL ESTATE ND STOCKS, Jan. lo, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the Exchange will Include Maksiui.l, No. b23 Modern Reildei ce. tiiKKMCT juli, AVENUE, Chesnut 11 U-Srona fcemdencp. Tiiiktkkn-ih (Noilly, No. 1513 Modern R.mi dence. Pknn, No. 4T21 (Frankfordi-Han laom? Real-dem-e. Warnock, No. 1731 Oenteel Dwelling. Maiinolia add Noblk, 8. K. corner Ueuteel Dwelilcg. MAVI.ANt) STRFKT AND Mri.BKRRV ALbBV, S. E. Corner Tavern and Dwelling. Front (North), No. MA Brink Building. Tayi.ok. S. E cf Coral 2 Building Lots. Ground Hints I'M and ' a Tear. Si OCRS, LOANS, ETC. Peremptory SaIo for account of whom It may con cern r,e,Ofio Fredericksburg and Gordonsvllle Hallroad, 7 per cent gold. 17 shares Northern Liberties Gas Co. , tamo SwedePborongu Kaiiroad 1st mortgage bonds. 1 share Point breeze Park 80 shares Central Trarmportation Co. P w No. 122 1 hutch or the Holy Trinity. 20 slimes Phliada. and Southern Mail Steatu sliln Co. IvoiH) St. Louis City bonds, 6 per cent., Jan. aa1 July. lo shares Seventh National Bank. 80 shares American Fire Insurance Co. $2coo Delaware Mutual Insurance Co. scrip, liG. 1 share Acadeinyef Fine Arts. 111,000 Western Pennsylvania Railroad bonds. ?2.oo Lehigh Navigation Convertible Loan. 50 shares Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Co. 100 shares Klmlra Kaiiroad Co., preferred. 120 shares I'ntan Railroad and Transportation Ui. 1 share Philadelphia Library Co. 80o shares American lliittonliole Sswlng Machine. :;ooo Pennsylvania State loan, second series. JOfiCO new City loan, clear of t-xes. t KM'O new city loan, prior to' A payable in gold. $R0 t Camden anil A nib -,-Vper cent. loaD, l-"w3. $lono Belvldere and U.-rf'.v'ara Railroad. 1 6 at K2 BUNTING, DURBOROW A CO., ADCTItNEEK, Nob. 232 and 234 MARKET street, corner of Bank street. Successors to John B. Myers A Co, 6PECIAL AND PEREMPTORY" SALE OF 14.15 CASES METALLIC OVERSHOES; ALSO, THE STOCK OF A RETAILER, AN I) A OKNERL ASSORTMENT OF BOOTS, SHOES, ETC. On Tuesday Mornlug, January 10, at 10 o'clock, on four months' credit, comprising 406 cases women's F overs, regularly assorted. 806 cases women's M overs, regularly assorted. 10 cases women's M Imitation, regularly assorted. ICS cases women's M gossamer, regularly assorted. 61 cases women's M overs, packed solid. 864 cases men's M overs, regularly assorted. H6 cases men's M overs, packed solid. 81 cases misses' ovets, 102. N. B. The above will be so'.d In large lots and strictly without reserve. ALSO, the entire stock of a retail dealer, comprising a choice line of custom-made goods. ALSO. a line of men's, women's, and children's wear, of the best Eastern and city Juukcs. 1 3 CL BY MAGILL. FARREL Alt' HON EH US, No. 31S MARKET Street. & CO. PEREMPTORY SALE BY AUCTION OF TIIK ENTIRE FURNISH MENT OF THIS HOTEL KNOWN AS 'J HE WASHINGTON HOUSE, NOS. 709 AND 711 CHESNUT STREET, BY CATALOGUE. On Tuesday Morning, January 10, 1ST1, commencing at 9 o'clock. In cluding Parlor, cliainber, dining, sltt'.ug, and ban lcom lurulture; minors, oil paintiugs; gas fixture, etc. etc. Ili3l8t Fuither particulars in future advertisements. r-plIOMAS BIRCH SON, AUCTIONEERS AND 1 COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 1110 Clies NL'T hlrei-t; rear cmi-incc No. Ilu7 Sausom street. M ART1N BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS. -No. 7P4 Chesnut street. CONCERT nLL AUCTION ROOMS, No, 1JH J CHESNUT Street. T. A. MCCLELLAND, AUCTIONEER. Peri-al attention given to sales of household fa, uiture at dwellings. Public sales of fnrnltnro at tho Auction Room, No. 12l Chesnut street, every Monday aaJ Thar? dav. For particulars see "Public Ledger." N. B A Bujierlor ciass of furniture at private at CIRCUS AT AUCTION. Oreat iaie cf Circus property at Raleigh, N. C, on MONDAY, January bu, 1871, consisting of tlia entire Stock and Fixtures of Dr. James L Ttiayers New Circus, lately travelling intheSjuttt; every lliitifr necectrary for a liisM-lass circus: 42 liret-class Hoises. 8 lirst-class Ring Horses. 8 firbt-class trained Pad Horses. 2 1 rick Mules, tlio bent in the busluesj. 12P!atfonu Spring Wagons, neaily new. Ticket Wagon; Performers' Wagon, nearly now. Hand Wagon, Concord built, nearly new; coat f ,600. Advertising Wagon, Pole Wagon, lV.e3, Seats, aud evciyihing required for canvas. 8f sets Double Harness, almost new. 20 Bridies and Saddles almost new. a complete out lit of Entree Dresses, for ladies, men, and horses; Pads for horses, etc.; Instru ments for brass band, aud .other articles too nume rous to mention. All the above property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. T. E. LEE, Sheriff Wake co-tnty, N. C. N. B. Nine experienced drivers aud hostler can be employed on reasonable terms. 12 iJVJ-iO RAILROAD LINB, XTEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAILROAD LIN3. X NEW ROUTE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA VIA LONG BRANCH. An ACCOMMODATION TRAIN Li the morula;! and AN EXPRESS TRAIN In the Afternooon from each end of t ie roata THE EXPRESS TRAIN will be furnished with SPLENDID PALACE CARS. NO CHANGE OF CARS BFTWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND SANDY HOOI. ASK FOR TICKETS VIA PKMBERTON ANO LONG BRANCH. ON AND AFTER MONDAY, -tfa'y 4, 137J, trains will run as follows : LEAVE NEW YORK, from Pier No. 23 NORTH River, foot of Murray street, at 6-40 A. M. Accommodation and 4 30 P.M. Ex- PrCBa" LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, from foot of WALNUT street, at 7oo A. M. Accoaa. moaation and 880 P. M. Kxprttss. The NARRAUANSETTT STEAMSHIP COMPANY Magnificent Steamers "Plymouth Rock" and "Jesss Hoy t" have been fitted np expressly for this business. the former with unequalled accommodation, and will make the connection between New York: and Sandy Hook Passengers by this route can be served wlta BREAKFAST or DINNER on the EUROPEAN PLAN in a Myle unsurpassed by any lintel in America. Fare .between Philadelphia and New York f3-uu " " " Long Branch... W For particulars as to connections ior TOM'S RIVER, RED BANK, and all way stations, see the Traveller's" and "Appleton's Guides." 6 87 C. L KIMBALL, Superintendent TI1E PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE CEN TRAL RAILROAD. Tr, CHANGE OF HOURS. Oh and after MONDAY, October 3, 1970, trains will run as follows: Leave Philadelphia from Depot of P. W . t B. R. R,, corner of BROAD Street and WASHINGTON Ave- DUForPort Deposit at T A. M. and 430 P. M. For Oxford at 7 A. M. , 430 P. M., and IP. M, For Oxford on Saturdays only, at 8 -30 P. M. I For Chadd's Ford and Chtster.Creek Railroad, at 7 A.M., 10 A. M., 430 P. M. and 1 P. M. Satur days ou.y, at 2 80 P. M. Train leaving Philadelphia at 7 A. M., connects at Tort Deposit with train for Baltimore. Trains leaving Philadelphia at 10 A M. and 4 33 P. M. connect at Chadd's Ford Junctiouwltn the Wilmington and Reading Railroad. Trains for Philadelphia: Ia ave Port Deposit at 8 -28 A. M. and 4 -85 P . M.( on arrival of tralus from Baltimore. Oxford at c -05 and 1033 A M. and 6 -30 P. M. Sun days at 6-80 P. M. only. . M Chadd's Ford et 7-S6 A. M. 11 -63 A. M., 8-65 P. M., and 64tt P. M. Sundays at 648 P. M. ou y. HENRY' WOOD, General Superintendent. LEHIGH AND SCnCVLKIIX COAL, Depot N. E. Corner NINTH and MASTER, i 43S0Uia TUU 43 South THIRD Street, 13 H tf
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