T1TL DAILY EVErvitfG TELEGRAFII PHILADELPHIA, FRIDa, APRIL 28, 1871. A zrAXISn KELWIO US PLA 1. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writing from Barcelona gives the following interesting description of a Spanish religions play witnessed ly him in that city: It may interest an idle reader here end there if I ave you a sketch of a religiotH r.lay which I paw last week at the groat opera house of Barcelona ono of the tiro or three largest, if not positively the largest, of tho opera houses of Europe. This play, Ln Von 6ii & Mutt le JVostre Scnyor Jiu-Cr't, ia usually played every Sunday and Friday during Lent", and is being bo played this yer. Before the revolution the clergy were always influential enough to prevent its performance perhaps because they thought it handled sacred things too familiarly perhaps, also, the Liberals loved it as setting forth Oar Lord with much distinctness in the character uf a victim of high priests and other ecolo niastical diguitnries. Be that as it amy, no body hinders the I'assio y Mort from being acted in these days of freedom; and a Lighly enrions entertainment it is. I say 'entertainment"' deliberately; because, what distinguishes this drama as exhibited at the "Liceo" of Barcelona from the miracle plays, pasbion plays, and so forth of old-fashioned parts of Germany, Italy, and Spain itself ? Just this that in Barcelona there is none of the nakcte and rudeness about the perform ance the simplicity good for the popular heart of such shows in old-world towns. Barcelona is a money-making, partly Frenchi fied, quite modern, and very prosaio city, vrtero- cheap opera is a favorite passion, and vhere "speotacle"' has more to do with the Buocess of tho drama under review than its -sentiment or its awful associations. Here, then, is the specialty of tho sight of which I am to give an account: it is a certain part of the Gospels (with unauthorized additions) tnmed into an acting drama for theatrical purposes as we turn "Kenil worth" or "Ivanhoe" into dramas. Rude pious curiosity of the antique world there is none in the affair. It is a mat ter of amusement got np in business style. And you may fancy the astonishment of a stranger (though, to be sure, one soon ceases to be astonished at anything in Spain,) when tho bills of the forthcoming play coino out, and he reads that "the difficult part of Jesus" ("el difnoil papel de Jesus") will be taken as usual by Don Joaquim Garcia Farreno. This gentleman, Senor Farreno, is indeed asso ciated with the "part" in Barcelona precisely as our Macreadys and Youngs with their re spective personations of the characters of Shakespeare. The reader, then, may fancy himself sitting by my side in one of the Billones or stalls of this magnificent theatre adorned with white color relieved by gold, and with painted ceil ings capable of holding, if need be, more than four thousand persons. The orchestra, besides the usual instruments, comprises some women singers. The mob in the galleries btamps and grows impatient just as on auy other occasion. The curtain rises and dis closes a richly-clad lady in a room containing various preparations for the ornament of the person in vases of classical shape. It is Mary Magdalen. The Magdalen has begnn to feel remorse torturing her for her way of life, and ehe proceeds to pour out the feeling in short black verse. Tho language, let me note, is throughout not Castilian but Catalan a Latin dialect akin to the dialect of Frovenoe, more brief and perhaps more energetic, but infi nitely less musical than the language of Cas tile; spoken universally ia Catalonia, and un intelligible (in spite of its linguistic affinity) both to Frenchmen and Spaniards of other parts of Spain. While Mary Magdalen is speaking, a mysterious light fills the room, and a voice sings to her that if she wants to be cleansed from her sing she must seek Christ. She asks how lie is to be sought, and the voice answers by "dolor" and "peni tencia." In the next scenes of this first act (there are five acts each divided into so many "qnadros," or pictures, and subdivided into scenes) our Lord and His disciples appear, end are feasted at the house of Simon the Leper. The first appearance of such a group gives a little thrill, perhaps a little shock, to the non-Catalan mind. The chief actor has taken great pains with the type which he ventures to present; and among other things has studied the best pictures piotures, in deed, having been used as sonrees for many scenes throughout. Regular features, pale and grave a sad, tranquil, not too stately manner, a flowing Eastern costume of colors dark rather than light such is the com bination presented by the actor of Christ. The apostles have each their special character. St. Peter is a venerable big man. St. John is almost feminine, dressed in white, and with hair like a woman's. Bat the palm of interest is for the multitude car ried off by Jadas, with regard to wheal I could not help fancying every now and then tbat te was regarded as a kind of comic char acter relieving the severity of the general tory. Judas has the traditional red hair, lways marches behind the other apostles at a I ittle distance, and it was part of the clever ness of the performer that he contrived by bis look and gestures to show quietly that ho was among the body without being of them, and that his mind brooded on thoughts which were not theirs. At the table of Simo Lepros Mary Magda len washes Christ's feet with her tears, and wipes them with her hair. Uenoeforth she u a pardoned penitent. Soon the scene is Jeru salem, and our Lord's entry makes one of tho most brilliant scenes of the play. The vast stage swarms with a multitude of waving palm branches and green boughs; the music strikes np a march, with a loud singing of "Ho Banna:" the crowd gradually forms a lane, and Our Lord, entering from the wing to the right of the audience upon an ass, rides slowly to the front of the stage, delivers His address to Jerusalem, and as slowly passes round the stage and away. We were carefully informed this year that some of the ballet had been engaged for this favorite tableau, and certainly it was a capital bit of effect, I need not follow, scene by scene, all the scenes, but only the most characteristic and singular, preserving, however, the chrono logical order. A long interview now takes place between Christ and His mother, con taining many things to remind ug that we are "Mariolatrons bpaia," as Mr. Ford would Bay. The Blessed Lady reasons with her Sn against the intended sacrifice; and He, to show her its necessity, gives her a miracu lous view of the "llims" (limbus), the place of confinement of unredeemed spirits fron the time of Adam. "Hear," Bays He, "the pain, the yearning, the desire, the sorrowful sights that Adam and our kindred make who are within the llims:" Oia lo sentiment gran Y log desitja permauents G.ue tb ploruam kuspirt lan Ailua y nostres parent Qae drntre los llluis eotan. Here there opens on the stage a view of a prison with irou bars, behind which are seen sorrowful figurea in white, who bing moarn fully their longing hopes of the Messiau. Just after ttisoui Lord kntwls to Ills mother, and receives her blessing. The actress was a tall, pale, rather good-looking woman, her costume the traditional blue and white, tho regular colors of tho Virgin, such as wo see them on the canvas of Murillo. The chief priest, with Caifas at their hoa 1, meet now, in gorgeous Eastern dro-wei, ia their hall, when Jadas cotuos to them to bargain for the betrayal of his Master. rl he Last Supper is worked up with much elaboration, as uiay be supposed. I could not but admire the excellence of the silent acting by gesture tho pantomime of the part in which it becomes the turn of Judas to have Lis feet wabhed by Christ: tho calm, gentle, but conscious look of the ono the surly, boorish defiance of tho traitor. The subject might bo improper for theatrical art; but at least the execution was artistic. None of tho fcenery wn, perhnps, mora beautiful than that devoted to tho "Hort do Gctsemanl," a valley of azure-colored rocko. In the centre was Our Lord with some of His disciples sleeping by; a supernatural light suddenly filled the place, and na angel de scended bearing a chalice and a cross. Then followed His arrest; and from that point, the demand on the nerves of foreigners grov stronger and stronger. There wai such a horrible literality about every detail ! Christ was beaten and thrust about while led by a cord by men carefully taucht to look and act like the worst miliaria of tho Roman world. A charming Austrian lady ot my acquaintance could not Bit it out, and left the house. She would not face tho (Jruciuxton The Catalan, "to the manner born," took everything more coolly being, in deed, an "unimaginative raoo, and little sensitive, except when touched in their vanity or (worse atill) in their pookets. They ap plauded clever bits of "declamation precisely as if at the opera, and laughed heartily whon the cock crew, and Tetor rushed out ro pen tan t. The servant girl, by-the-by, who talks to Feter was a smart soubrette; and that whole chapter in the history of the sup posed ancestor of all Fopes was evidently considered a capital piece of comely Watching the large audience carefully every now and then, I thought the predominant feeling one of ordinary theatrical curiosity. But in tho most shocking scenes, as when Christ was scourged and crucified, I noticed that some of the women near me, chiefly of the humbler class, were weeping. To be I sure, that was not necessarily due to tho reli gions character of what they saw; for would they not have wept if they had seen Mrs. Boucicault sold by auction in the Octoroon f The repentance of St. Peter was followed by the suicide of Judas, who hanged himself in a most life-like and death-like fashion upon a tree in the front of the stage. At his last kiok a devil appeared, and cutting him down, descended below with him, while flam s darted np through trap-doors like lightning-flashes. A minute afterwards, hell was open before us, and a "ball de dimonis," or devil's dance, was going on round the un happy sinner. Female demons, in short petticoats, gambolled and jumped over and over the prostrate traitor, and the audience broke into excited applause. The punish ment of Judas seems a favorite subject in this country. The other day a Spanish girl, just back from mass, showed me her prayer book, and I found it ornamented by n rude woodcut in which Judas was being gnawed by some creature of the dragon breed. The costumes and accessories of Pilate and hia Roman officers and troops were on a very respectable scale of accuracy. Pilate's un willingness to condemn Christ was very prominently bronpht out, and it seemed to me also that the complicity of the Jewish rabble with their high priest was softened, with an eye to throw the guilt as markedly as possible upon the Sanhedrim. Tho terrible details, as I have said already, were carried out with unflinching accuracy. Christ was stripped and scourged at a pillar, and the crown of thorns was placed upon His head, with the same dramatic fidelity to which we are accustomed in JJamlct and Maeoetn. The procession to Calvary was conducted with much care and pomp the bands which formed part of it playing some music specially composed for this scene music of a plaintive simplicity, strongly affecting. Our Lord repeatedly stumbled ia carrying the cross, till relieved from it. In short, not a detail was omitted. Tho ham mering of the nails on the cross was audible throughout the immense building; and there hrng the Saviour with His mother at nis feet, and spoke words of comfort to the "Bom Lladre," the penitent thief; and the sponge was held to His lips, and he gave np their ghost iu the regular order of events as recorded by the Evangelists. At tho supreme moment all the resources of the art were brought into play to reproduce the tremendous incidents of that hour. The stage was darkened; thunder rolled and lightning flashed; a white efful gence poured itself over the drooping body; and the dead, with their skeleton forms show ing through their shrouds, shot up to the boards of the stage and ran wildly about. These was still another act, the taking down from the cross; but by this time I had had enough of it, and I only hope that the reader has not had too much. That a commercial, essentially modernized city (for Barcelona, though ancient enough as regards history, is not an old-world city in type or manners) should seek excitement and amusement of the kind I have been describ ing may serve to impress upon us the vital dissimilarity cf northern and southorn ways of thinking. It must not be supposed that there was the least intentional irreverenoe or want of decorum in the whole exhibition, lasting, as it did, for more than four hours. There was nothing of the kind, and the s cred story was put before us with perfect good faith. Probably, too, in a country where education is at such a low ebb, and where it has been the policy of priests to lock tip the Bible, a drama like this, however startling to us, gives to the working people and the poor the only vivid knowledge they ever get 01 me facts upon wmcu the (Jans tiatity of history as distinct from the Chris tianity of the Roman Church is based. But good is done to the few; while, as regards the mass of playgoers, tne most saored of all nar ratives is unquestionably vulgarized by being made a matter of playbills, boxes, and stalls. and taking its turn with Dinorah and the Tro- vatore. A RAILWAY BATTLE. Klc;Iit I.oceutotlvcs Hutting; Eark Other. Warfare is relcr on at Peoria, 111., eetweea the Chicago, Reck IiUa4 and Pacific and f eo.'ia (tad Keck Island Railroads, as to their right to run trains oa certain tracks. Oa Monday erea i il.e lust-named company determined to force a pfcttat e with a train coapled te five locomo tives. They were resided y the Ctlcago aad feoriaConipsny, with three locetnetlves hitcksd together, Aflet buuicg aeaiait each other fur more tfcaa an hour, r 'asset; e was forced by the Psora and Keck Islaad mea, who stet taeir tiaiu ahead. Buiieiaently each company cbuin4 mi injunction against the ether's use f the road. Many place i in the South are now miserable with myriads of isoi-i ultoeB. SlIASM'IGnTlX'J. A Vnluntcrr lit view at HrlsfMon Failure ns Military IMsj-loy. A correspondent of the I'a'.l Mnll Gaz'tle writes: As to the fight, cf course 1 only knv.v v.-hat hnpprned to the tlivi-ion of which I w:n n unit. We fell in at 10 A. M.; did not leave the Level until 1210; completed Hie iann.li r,;t ut I4r P. M. From 10 li until fi 1 we di I n"t, hi t for ten consecutive liiiuiite . The gro-iud was stiff, the plow-land bcini; he. ivy i.;nl dirttcuH to pet over; we were uiarcLtd up a tioup tall, "i the crest of which ve were Lalfvl, form;)'; a cotiFplcuou9 mark for the enemy's l attery, of which we were w'thln ciuy rnu;c, and "well pounded we were. After a short pause we wore marched from "the cloud-ki'-jina" bill down tbe corrcEpoudluK f lopo to that up w hich we had previously labored; no r kinuishe ra wore thrown out, and ere lonir we arrived wlihia raij 'J of tlio oppofing line, which had hr-ou posted on the tide of the next slope to uwuit our a'.ts As we were taking up our j os-Hion. dejdovinff from quarter column, we were prcrtod with an Infernal fire; we did rot hurry, did not even move at the douM: as soon a wc were conve niently arrnTiGed we calmly, according to order, commenced independent "firisi; at tc men '' whom we had already, lu no ery liwdv imagi nation, been entirely destroyed. Nor tas t'tis all, but on iilancinjj; to our rear we foui.Jnuulhcr force covered by skirmishers adviaicin; upon us. Lofct already, we could only suppose tb .t we had been completely surrounded. We re treated, the fkirmifihers into whose arms we un reservedly marched did not fire upon us. We were balt;d. So fir as we could understand our Fucce&sful enemy had been relieved, and a frc-a foe opened fire on our desponding ranks ut a distance which none of us etuimated at lee thxn 1200. some at 1500 yards. (The Snider is siichttd for lt5 yards.) The force In our rear relieved us, and when they were in turn beaten back, we again merrily advanced, thus bringing our do feated division once more face to face with a comparatively fresh, confident, and victorious body of men. Aain our front was un covered; not a skirmisher had we to cover our advance, yet our enemy had skirmishers lying down and potting at ut, even while we were for a few minutes lying down discussing at ease the contents of our haversacks; moreover, the enemy's skir mishers had completely turned our right Hank. Well nd-jut an old soldier, with five medals on his breast, say at this moment. "If this is the new kind of eoldierintr, thank God iny fiaihtine days are over." Well might the Intelligent mea of our division, among whom were the best educated, most capable men of the whole volun teer service, feel utterly disgusted. No wonder that one commander suould sa3', "l never come here with the idea of learnimr auythlne." A more complete fiasco than our part of the sham fight was never enacted. A volunteer artillery ollicer who was opposed to us said, "Of course you did not nice It it s never pleasant to be ickcu: uui we uau t-piouuiu iuu, puuuuiue hwhv into the flank of one of your batteries for an hour without a shot being returned." If this is fun which 1 doubt it is certainly not solder- in p. An umpire would have marched our divi sion off the ground. SPECIAL. NOTICES. FIIILAPELrniA AND HEADING RAIL w FOAD COMPANY, Office No. 221 Souta FOURTH Street. rniLADELrnu, April is, iSTl. Asneclal meeting of the Stockholders of the Pulla- deljihla and Reading Railroad Company will l3 hell at t ho oillce of the said company, In the city ot Phila delphia, on the eighth day of .May, 1571, at 12 o'clock M., when and where tho Joint agreement entered into by the Board o f Managers of the PUiia-lelphla and Reading Railroad Company and the Board of Directors of the Lebanon and Treinont Railroad Company, for the consolidation of the said com panies, and the merger of the Lebanon and Trernont Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Read me itaiirnaa company, will be submitted to the aula stockholders, and a vote, by ballot ln person, or by proxy, taken lor tne adoption or rejection or the same. J. W. JONES, 4 18 Secretary. r7? rillLADELFHIA AND KEADINO KA.IL ROAD COMPANY, OlllCO No. 237 S. FOUKTU Street. rniLADKLrnu, April io, isti. A Special Meeting of the Stockholders ef the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company will be held at the Oillce of said Company, in the city of Philadelphia, on the feth day of May, 1S71, at 12 P. M.. when and where the joint agreement entered into by the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia anu Kea-ung itaiiroaci company ana tne jjoaraoi Directors ol the Northern Liberties ami 1'euu Town ship Railroad Company for the consoildatioa of tue Eaiu companies ana tne merger or tne northern Liberties and Penn Townsnlp Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany will be submitted to the said stockholders, aud a vote by ballot, in persou or by prosy, taken for the adoption or rejection of the same. ti. w. jutna, 4 18 Secretary. OFFICE OF THE LEBANON AND TRR MONT RAILROAD COMPANY, No. S77 S. FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, April 15, 1871 A spe cial meeting of tne Stockholders of the Lebanon and Trtmont Railroad Company will be held at the oillce of the said company la the city of Philadelphia, on the eighth dav of May, 1871, at 12 o'clock if., when and where the Joint agreement entered iuto by the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia and Kea-Iing Railroad Company and the Board of Directors of the Lebanon and Trcmont Railroad Company lor the consolidation of the suld companies, aud the merger of the Lebanon and Trcmont Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, will be submitted to the said stockholders and a vote by ballot in person or is proxy taken for the adop turn or rejection of the hmo. ALBERT FOSTER, Secretary. ti.",f- CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. Trkktov, April 10, 1911. NOTICE. 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The Company alao offer for Rent, at rates varying from f IB to (75 per annum, the renter holding the key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR-PROOP vaiuh, anoraing ausotuie bnuuKiTV against if ia TliKKT, IJUKULAUY, BUd ACCIDENT. All fiduciary obligations, such as Tkusts, Guab DiAMbUii-a, EiKccwKsiiik x etc., will be undertaken and fuithfullj dincharged. 111 trvtt invuttvunea art kept ecarati and apart Circulars, giving foil details, forwarded on appli cation. untie. "i vita. Thomas Robins, Augustus Ileaton, K. liatchf ord Starr, Daniel Haddock, Jr., Edward Y. Towusend, John D. Tarlor. Lewta R. Ash hurst, J. Ltvln-rHton ErrUiger, K. P. McCullaun, Edwin M. iAwla, James L. Claghorn, Bi niamln B. ComeKTS, Hon. William A. Porter. Edward s. llaudy, j out P 11 -uursuu, ju. u, OFFICERS. prflHtdp.ntI.EWTS R. AS11HOEST. Vice-President J. LIVINGSTON EKIUNOEh. RMvrnt&rH. P. MoCUIXAUli. Treasurer WM. L. DUBOIS. 3fmw5 2 PRIM E 11 E A Y SEED OATS. COLLINS, WBTliERlLL A CO., Ht(d eirowers. Nos. 1111 and 1113 MARKET -street. lOIIN FARM M & CO., COMMISSION ME1-U tl ihttiita and Mauuiacturers 01 Coiiebtoua Tick ing, etc. ttc., No. CilliSNL'T fatrect, Pulla-lel. phia. INBURANOEi gTATEMEKT OP THE CONDITION or TUB PHCZNIX MUTUAL Life Insurance Compauv. OF HARTFORD, CONN., On the blstof December. 1870, as made to ne Andl- tor-Uencrai s Department. F1rt. Guarantee capital Block....' liK),000'00 Amount ci asfteKBiueuta or instalments on stock paid in cash le.ooo-oa rmt. The value as nearly as may be of the Real Estate held by Uie company .... Camion hand MM,.M Cash in Backs, specifying tho Banks..; .w" &J Cubh lu hands of agents ln course of tram-mission 4J7.o;8'3 Amount of Loans secured by bonds and mortunges, constituting tne urst uen on Real Lststc, on which there U less than one year's Interest due and owing 1.6I0.7S0OO Amount of Lotus on which Interest has not been paid within one year Amount of stocks owned b7 the comnnuv. eoeclf v- li g the number of shares and their par aut market valne: 21'OBh.CharterOakNat.Bk, Hartford.' oun.$2.n'y-o 2eo " Firm " " " " .. t'7,4V0( 65 ' it'tlia ' " ' .. 4.8iu1tO HO " Mercantile " " " " .. 11.6ih0i 4m) American " " ' " .. v-i,oi-oi 70 " Formers' A Mechanics' " " .. ;t..'4iiM 2f0 " Plitcnix " " " " .. su.wMioi) lt'O " First ' Masslllon, Ohio. lJ.wvt-oo 2.M) Toledo " Toledo, " Oi.iVM'O 1P9 " Hartford City Oa Light Oe 7,7-Hi'O S.K conp. lids. Key city (uh Lltic Co. .. . 3-i,700i 0 8 " Indiana Central R. R. Go... S,iw)-oo 10 " Southern Minnesota R.KCo. nyo-in-flO 20 " Tennessee State 12.7ni)-('rt U. S. Registered Bonds 2G j,S25o Amount of stocks helrt by the company as collateral security lor loaus, witn the amount loaned on each kind of Block, its par and market value lC'i sh. City N'l liauk, Chicago, 1U !1U,Gj UU g.SOO'OO Amount carried forward f ,,"?.'i3,ot0'23 Interest on lnvestrcents due and unpaid. .... Accrued tntiTept not yet due .... Other available, miscolianeons assets. snecifTluff their character and valuo.. (50.0104 Dtierred premiums f 103,243-09 Notes secured by real cstato aud en dorsement! lV2S0rt Bill receivable amply secured 8,0S3,36i-4n Furniture in Home and Branch ouioes.. 19,5?jva Gross prefent assets . . . ....10,090.582-11 Third. Amount of losses during the year, ad justed but not due 1 117,900 00 Amount of losses reported to the Com- ranv but not acteJ upon Amount of losses resisted by the Com- nan? .... Amount of dividends due and unpaid.... .... Amount of moaey borrowed, and the nature and amount of the securltv given .... Amount of all other claims against the Company, contested or otherwise .... Amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks.. 4,211,51104 14,820,41494 Fourth. Amount of cash premiums received ll.732.924-.-v2 Amount of premiums not paid ln cash during tee year, stating the character of such premiums: FKmluni notes 753,O01'7S Amount of premiums er.rced Interest received rrom investments 143.247-22 income irum uu uiuur ouuitea, opecuj- lng wnas sources .... Interest on notes taken for premiums... 167,SM9 Gross lncomo for year 1870. . . 13,527,63916 Amount of losses paid during the year.. 8300,40614 1.C10-7S Amount paid and owing for reinsurance premiums Aniov.nt of return premiums, whether Dald ornnpaii Amount of dividends declared during year Amountof dividends paid Amount cf expenses paid during the 490,711-11 878,36901 87,3si'67 63,554 07 64,00000 6-1,000-00 B0O0 lH.roO'OO 83,5073 27,-3346 27,r 0060 year, including commissions ana rees paid to agents and offlcers of the Company Amount of losses due and unpaid Amount of taxes paid by the Corap:iuy.. Amountof all other expenses and ex penditures Amount of promissory notes originally forming the capital of the Company... Amount of said notes held by the Coin. pany as part or or tne wnoie of the casltal thereof Far and market value of the Company's stock per share, par value Paid for Interests of Agents ln Renewal commissions Tald for Medical Examination Surrendered Policies . " Oincers' and Employes' salaries GroBB expenditures for year 1670 $1,573,914-86 EDSON FESSENDEN, PiestdeuU JAV.E3 F. Bl'RNS, Secretary PHILADELPHIA BRANCH, PENN BUILDINGS, No. 430 WALNUT Street. 4 2MutIl86t NEW PUBLICATIONS. H "The Charged CroBs," size 22x23, the flne3t ever offered to the public "Mary and St. John," size 22x23, a most sublime chromo. "The Beautiful Snew,' size 16x23, a very impres sive picture. "The Holy Family," size 22x23, a real gem. "Delhi, Del. Co., N. Y.," size 22x23, a beautiful an- tumn scene. Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by J. HOOVER, No. 804 MARKET Street, 8 lSsmwSm Philadelphia, second door. Z ELL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, DICTIONARY AND GAZBTTBUR IS NOW COAPLKTE, IN 69 PARTS, AT 50 CENTS PER PART. ZELL'S HEW DESCRIPTIVE HAND Atlas of the World, First two Parts now ready, to be complete In S5 Parts, at 00 cents each. Experienced Agents Wanted. T. ELLVW00D ZELL, Publisher, Nos. 17 and 19 South SIXTH Street, S S3 tnsSm PHILADELPHIA. BARLOW'S INDIGO BLUE IS TnE CHEAPEST and best article ln the market for HI I KIXJ til.UfllKS. It does not contain any acid. It wUl not Injure the llnest fabric. It is put up at Na 233 N. SECOND Street, Phhmloloiila, And for sale by most of the Grocers and DrutrirUts. The genuine has both BARLOW'S and WILT BERCiEH'8 name on the labl ; all others are COUNTER!-' EXT. IlAlCl.OH 'H BIX'K will color more water than four times the sum weight of indigo. 8 23 tuthsttm C0PYINQPRESSES. Just received, a Largo Assort ment of the Latest ttlf-s COPHNO PKESiEa. WM. M. CHRISTY, Stationer and Printer, No. 127 S. THIRD Street, OppoHlte Glrard Bunk. a -need; GARDEN AND FLOWER A Vr.ll Assortment. SEEDS. OUR OWN GROWTH. COLLIN!?, WETHEUILI. .t CO.. SEED (iROWKiH, Nos. 1111 and Hid MARKET htrtx-t. 4 4 tuts tf L S O N ' S C A II P 13 T CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT, 4 1 Sm NO. 611 South SEVENTEENTH Street, OITY ORDINANCES. II E 8 O L U T 1 O N To Lay Water-plpo on Celeste, Amelia. ami otLer streets. Kepedrcd, Bv the Select and Common Coun cils f the City of Philadelphia. That the Chlet Er.plneer of the Yater Department be and Is fcereby authorised to lay water-pipe on the following streets: Celeste and Amelia streets, from Seventh to Eighth street. blith street, from Mlfllln to McKean itreet. Seventh street, from Moore lo McKean street. And MiffllD, Amelia, IIolTman, and Dudley streets, from Sixth to Seventh street, in the First ward. Jure street, from Seventh to Eighth street, la tbe Fourth ward. Terrace street, from Grape to Mechanic street. J Grape street, from Wood to Belalr street." He 1:1 em lng and Belalr streets, from Grape to Cotton street, ln the Twenty-first ward. Union street, from Uavcrford avenuo to Aspea street. Aspen and Atlantic streets, from Thirty-fifth to Thirty-sixth street, Ln the Twenty-fourth 1 ward. Chadwick and Seventeenth st eet3, from Reed 1 to Dlcl.erfon street; and Dickcrrson street, from , Bancroft to beventeeulh street, ln the Twenty- ) sixth ward. CarliFlo street, from Monument Cemetery to uP(juehanr,a avenue. Norris elxeet, from Carlisle to Croat1 street. " Cu Broad street, from Westmoreland . street to Tioga street, in the Twenty-eighth ward. And Harvard Etreet, between Oxford : and JeCeieon streets, la the Twenty-ninth ; ward. henry iiuiinV ; President of Common Council. Attest Robert Bethell, Assistant Clerk of Select Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-fifth day of April, Anno Domini one thour-and eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1671). DANIEL M. FOX, Mayor of Philadelphia. AN ORDINANCE To Make an Appropriation to Pay a Bill for Advertising In 1S70. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils ' of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of three hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents be and the same is hereby appro priated out of Item 5 of the appropriation to the Clerks of Councils for 1S71, approved December 31, 1870, to pay a bill for adver tising ordinances, etc., in "The Press" in tho year 1S70. HENRY RUHN. rretident of Common Council. Attest Benjamin II. Haines, Clerk of Select Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. A nTfriT-Ofl fThla tnAntv.flftl Anxr tt i r,v1T Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 1 eeventy-one (A. D. 16711. DANIEL M. FOX. Mayor of Philadelphia. EESOLUTION Of Instruction to the City Solicitor. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be and he is hereby authorized and instructed to take all necessary proceedings to stop the erection of telegraph poles on Fifteenth etreet, between Chesnut and Market streets, or other streets; and also to cause the Immediate removal of all those lately erected on that part of Fifteenth etreet. HENRY IIUIIN, President of Common Council. Attest ROBERT BXTHELL, Aesistant Clerk of 8elect Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of 8elect Council. Approved this twenty-fifth day of ApriL Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (A. D. 1871). DANIEL M. FOX, " Mayor of Philadelphia. PROPOSALS. CXUARTEKM ASTER'S OFFICE, UNITED STATES ARMY. Philadelphia, Pa., April B, 1871. SEALED PKOFGdALH In triplicate will be re ceived at this office until 12 o'clock M. on MONDAY, May 8, 1671, fcr the delivery of fifteen (15) cords of merchantable hard Wood, at each of the following named National Cemeteries, viz. Annapolis. M1. ; Cnlpeper, Vs.; City Point, Va. ; Danville, Va. ; Fredericksburg, Va. ; Fort Harrison, Va. ; Glendale, Va. ; Cold Harbor, Va., the last three near Richmond, Va. ; Poplar Grove, Va., near Peters burg, Va. ; Richmond, A a, ; Staunton, Va. ; Seven Pines, Va. ; Winchester, Va. ; Hampton, Va. ; York town, Va. ; Newbern, N. C. ; haleigu, N. C. ; Salis bury, N. C. ; and Wilraliifrton. N. V. The Wood to be delivered in such quantities and at such times as the Superintendents at each of the Cemeteries may respectively desire. Forms for proposals furnished upon applicatlo to this office. HEN RY C. HODGES, 4 6 ct Major and Qfi-utermaster U. S. Army. TT S. ENGINEER OFFIOK, llllKD Die'KY esiUN DASK Dl ILIHNU, Favettb St.. nkak Charles, Baltimokk. Md.. March 29. 1871. 871.) PROPOSALS are invited for excavatim? a channel in the James river, at the Rocketts, near Rlchtaond, Va. 1-ropopniB, wi uo nrwm, m aupitcuw, rniiorsea on s outeiae, ana accempanieu ny a copy or tms adver- i tlsement, will be received nutil noon of April 89, , lbTl, and will be opeued in ten minutes thereafter, in presence or aucn uiaaers as may wisn 10 oe pro sent. The material to bo removed is rock ln beds and fi boulders. The channel is not to exceed ISO feet in f width or 18 feet In eieptti ai mean high water. The ' locality Is sheltered. The tide rises about iitf feet. , Forms of prnpesal and any desired information to be had on application at n!s oillce. The right to reject auy bid is reserved. WM. I. CRAKiniLL, S 29 Malorof Engineers U. 8. A. : A TUARTEEMASTERS OFFICE, V. 8. ARM, J PuiLAUJSLrHiA, Pa., March 80, l&ll. SEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be re. celved at this oillce until 12 o'clock M. on Mondav, May 1, 1S71, for building a brick or stone wall wltU one double and one single iron pate, around the National Cemetery at Aunapolls, Md. Bidders will be reeitiired to specify the price per lineal foot, and uo bid will be entertained that does not conform to this requirement. Forms for propo- a a 1 a a t-i A oni.j KI'OtlAli J 1 1 1 rn a h ar nnnn annliootln t."X. this oillce. i 8 81 Major and ia arterruaster U. b. A, CLOTHS. OASS1MERES, ETC. Q L O T H H O U 8 Bt & M U Q B If. Ro. 11 North MKCO.tD Street, aigu of the Golden Lamn, Are w receiving a large and splendid aaaortmen of new style of FANOY CABHIMEKE3 And Standard makes of DOESKIN 3. CLOTHS an COATINGS, II as mwi AT waolJMAI AND RZTAIL, OROOERIES, ETC JONDO' liKOWN STOUT AND SCOTCH ALF, In gi lc ud sf ;ce, by the ess "r Moion, AX.I1EUT O. KuiltT3, Dealer In Fine Grocertas, Corner ELEVENTH and VINE eta.
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