L " ANOTHER VIRE IN TOOLEY
STREET:,
A * Carious London Sketch.
There always is Another Fire in Tooley
`Street. There is no end of them; they
are appealing to
in public attention con
tinuously. Fires Tooley Street have
become almost an accompaniment of
our commerce, a regular institution, a
thing to which the newspapers look as
.affording them pabulum,.a phenomenon
to which the directors of fire-offices are
-supposed to be always lending their at
tention. It is true, the designation is
not at times quite correct. Bermondsey
would be abetter name sometimes; or
Dockhead, or. St. Saviour's Dock, or
Shad Thames,or Horsleydown,or Roth
erhithe. But it is all one to the west
enders, who know very little about the
S. E. postal district, and who very rarely
penetrate any part of it beyond the Lon
don Bridge Railway Station. They have
an indistinct knowledge that Bermond
sey is a place for hat makers and leather
tanners, glue makers and wool staplers;
but further than this they are silent. To
them, Tooley Street is a sort of general
name for all the unknown region on the
south bank of the Thames, between
London Bridge at the one extremity,
and, say the Commercial Docks or the
Survey Canal at the other.
And good reason there is, if we knew
it all, why the "devouring element" (as
newspaper•writers call it) should so often
reign supreme in this region. Let the
reader ferret out for himself, and he will
see what there is to feed the flames there.
Passing the Station, which has been in
course of building and enlarging for
these thirty years, and is not finished
yet, we plunge at once into Tooley
Street. But Tooley Street, we see, is for
the main part a street of shops, not
more likely to catch fire, not more likely
—to burn quickly when they do catch,
than similar houses elsewhere. The
little crooked turnings out of Tooley
Street, the streets beyond it towards the
east, and those between it and the river,
are those which contain the warehouses,
bonded stores, and wharfs towards
which the fire en g ines are so often sum
moned in haste. There are Hay's Lane
and Morgan's Lane, and Mill Lane;
there are Fenning's Wharf and Top
ping's Wharf, Chamberlain's Wharf
and Cotton's Wharf, Beal's Wharf and
Wilson's Wharf, Griffin's Wharf and
Symond's Wharf, Stanton's Wharf and
Phoenix Wharf, Freeman's Wharf and
Brook's Wharf; there are Shad
Thames and Pickle Herring Street,
Horsley down and Dock Head,
Bermondsey Wall and Mill
Street, and other streets and lanes so
crooked and narrow, so dark and dirty,
that we cannot imagine anything inter
esting in them except that they are
worth millions of money. The timber
docks and wharfs are further down east;
but the region round about the streets
and wharfs above named is crammed
with wholesale stores of valuable things
to an extent almost incredible. Wher
ever the owners deign to announce by
inscription-board their trade or calling
(and they do not always condescend to
do this), we find that here is a granary
keeper, there an Irish provision-mer
chant, a wharfinger, then an alum
dealer, then a lead-merchant; just at
hand are ham-factors, cheese-agents,
paper-agents, tarpaulin-dealers, oil and
color merchants, seed and hop dealers,
ship-biscuit., bakers, shumac-dealers,
drug-merchtnts, sail-makers, tallo w
merchants, sack-manufacturers, rice
mills, flour-factors, 'chicory manufac
turers, and other storekeepers, literally
"too numerous to mention." Besides
the establishments which contain cer
tain definite kinds of merchandise, the
general wharfs, as the great commission
and deposit warehouses in this part of
the world are usually designated, are
filled from cellar to roof, over acres of
area and in numerous ranges of stories,
with goods from every clime under hea
ven, mostly deposited here until the
merchant finds the state of the market
suitable for sales, or (in the case of
bonded warehouses) until he finds it
convenient to pay the customs' duty.
Now, imagine a fire to burst forth in
such a district. What a temptation to
the flames to lick up all around them!
The streets are so narrow in Shad
Thames and thereabouts that galleries
run across to connect huge granaries on
the one side with equally huge granaries
ik on the other. The corn in thousands or
perhaps millions of bushels parches up,
and chars and burns; the flour clogs to
gether, making a hideous kind of dough
when the water from the fire engines
mixes with the heat from the flames,
and smells like overbaked bread. The
cheese in the provision stores becomes
toasted cheese rof a most unwelcome
kind; the butter melts out of the casks,
and the lard out of the skins, and feed
the flames; the bacon anti ham frizzle in
their own fat; the tongues send out an
effluvium still more offensive, from hav
ing less fat to frizzle in. In the tallow
stores, the white enemy melts out of the
'casks in such quantity as to form liter
ally pools of tallow in the lower ranges
of warehouses, which give forth a body
of flame most difficult to deal with. The
vast stores of oil and turpentine, of cam
phine and petroleum, are still more
rapid in their destructive propensities.
The gunpowder stored thereabouts may
possibly not be very large in quantity;
but two of the ingredients, saltpetre and
sulphur, are in immense store, ready to
give forth their thunderous reports and
lurid flames on the slightest. provoca
tion. The drugs and chemicals, the
dyes and colors, are exceedingly numer
ous in kind; and as many of them are
highly inflammable, they do not fail to
take their part in the dread display of
fireworks, especially as some of them
give forth vivid colors and others,
brilliant sparks, when burning. The
atmosphere is sometimes filled with a
strange medley of odors that would sin
gly and in other circumstances be plea
sant—coffee, cocoa, chocolate, mace,
-cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, perfumes,
all burning at once. Then, ginger and
pepper, rice and sago, mustard and
salt, macaroni and vermicelli,
liquorice, jams, preserves,
Pi c c u kie a s n' s tq w , ee a t
_meats, dates, figs, raisins, rr
tend to produce that strange compound
\ of colors and odors, so often noticeable
at a Tooley street fire. We once stood
upon a heap of half-charred flour, still
hot underneath, with this indz•zeribable
conglomerate of smells around tis,on the
forty-ninth ' day after the breaking out of
the greatest of these fires—so long con
, tinned is the smouldering of some of the
commodities thus heaped up in incalcu
lable quantities..
When
When Southwark was a pleasant
country suburb, to which Londoners
were wont to take boats across the water,
to see the bull-baiting and bear-baiting
at the small theatres thereabouts, there
were, of course, no very large stores of
merchandise in the Tooley street pst.
Olive's' street) district—London north
of the Thames being then not • too
crowded to warehouse its own goods;
consequently, the Southwark and. Ber
mondsey fires, in bygone centuries,were
not largely associated with warehouses
and granaries. There was one in 1212,
in the reign of King John, by far the
most awful fire ever recorded in the
annals of our country, not for the pro
perty, but for the human life sacrificed.
The fire broke out at the Southwark
end of the London bridge of those days.
The bridge had a double row of houses
from end to end; and there happened to
be some pageant or show, which caused
the bridge to be crowded with people at
the time. The flames leaped along from
one wooden house to another caught
both ends of the bridge, and enclosed a
crowd of frightened persons between
them. Maddened by the obstacles at
both ends, the surging multitude pressed
those before them into the very flames,
and all was wild horror. "There came
to their aid," says Stow, "many ships
and vessels, into which the multitude so
unadvisedly rushed, that the ships were
thereby sunk, and they all perished. It
was said, through the fire and ship
wreck, there were destroyed about three
thousand persons, whose bodies were
found in part or half burned, besides
those who were wholly burned to ashes,
and could not be found."
One of the fires which affected the
strange jumble of houses on the bridge,
rather than those on the south side of
the river, was that of 1632 (or, as we
should now 'call it, 1633, for the year be
gan on Lady Day in those times). A
maid-servant set fire to a tub of hot sea
coal ashes under a pair of stairs,' in the
house of one Mr. Briggs, a needle-maker,
on the bridge. During one night the
fire consumed all the buildings from
the north end of the bridge southwards,
until forty-two were in rains. Water
being very scarce, and the Thames
nearly frozen over, the fire continued
smouldering in the cellars and under
ground rooms (if such there could be on
a bridge) for a whole week. Wallington
the Puritan, a friend of Prynne and
Bastwick, speaking of this fire, said :
"All the conduits near were opened,and
the pipes that carried the water through
the streets were cut open, and the water
swept down with brooms with help
enough; but it was the will of God it
it should not prevail. For the three
engines" (fire-engines had been only
just then introduced), "which are such
excellent things that nothing that ever
was devised could do so much good, yet
none of them did prosper, for they were
all broken, and the tide was very low
that they could get no water, and the
pipes that were cut yielded but little.
Some ladders were broke to the hurt
of many; for several had their • legges
broke, some their armes; and some
their ribs, and many lost their lives."
The names of seventeen shopkeepers on
the bridge, mostly in the mercery line,
are recorded as among those who suf
fered by this fire.
The most celebrated of all fires in
England, the fire of London beyond all
comparison—that which, in 1666, filled
up the cup of horror which had almost
overflowed during the plague-year of
1665—did not immediately touch the
south side of the river. It was only in a
secondary way that Southwark was a
spectator of the scene. Evelyn, in his
Diary, describes in vivid language what
he saw when he crossed the river to
Bankside (near the great bridge for the
Cannon Station, now building for the
Southeastern Railway) some hours after
the fire commenced: "The whole city
was in dreadful flames near the water
side; all the houses from the bridge, all
Thames street, and upwards towards
Cheapside, and down to the Three
Cranes, were now consumed. The fire
having continued all this night (if I
may call that night which was as light
as day for ten miles round about) after
a dreadful manner, conspiring with a
fierce east wind in a very dry season, I
went on foot to the same place, and saw
the whole south part of the city burn
ing. Here we saw the Thames crowded
with goods, floating all the barges and
boats laden with what some had time
and courage to save, as on the other side
the carts carrying out to the fields,
which for many miles were strewed with
movables of all sork, and tents erecting
to shelter both people and what goods
they could get away. Oh, the miserable
and calamitous spectacle! such a'
haply the world had not seen since the
foundation of it, nor can be outdone till
the universal conflagration thereof !
All the sky was of fiery aspect, like the
top of a burning oven, and the light
seen above forty miles thereabout. God
grant mine eyes may never behold the
like, who now saw about ten thousand
houses all in one flame! The noise:and
cracking, and thunder of impetuous
flames, the shrieking of women and
children, the hurry of people, the fall of
towers, houses, and churches, was like a
hideous storm, and the air :d1 about so
hot and inflamed that at the last one
was not able to approach it, so that they
were forced to stand still and let the
flames burn on, which they did for near
two miles in length and one in breadth,
The clouds also of smoke were dismal.
and reached, upon computation, near
fifty miles in length. Thus I left it this
afternoon: burning, a resemblance of
Sodom or the last day. Such was the
fire which swept away everything that
covered 436 acres of ground, including
89 churches and 13,200 houses.
There was a fire in Southwark in 1676,
that brought down sixty houses; and
another in 1725, commencing near St.
Olave's church, which also swept away
sixty houses, and reduced to a tottering
state the "Traitors' Gate," which in
those days spanned the south end of
London Bridge. It was, however, to
wards the end of the last century that
the great warehouses began to be built,
which have fed the flames so profusely.
The year 1780 witnessed a fire at Hors
leydown that speedily lapped in its em
brace granaries, provision warehouses,
ships' stores, boat-houses, cordage and
sails, lighters and barges, and a, ship
under repair. Eleven years afterwards,
in 1791, Rotherhithe lost several vessels
and sixty houses by a great conflagra
tion. In 1814, a fire broke out at some
mustard mills near St. Saviour's
Church, on a Sunday evening.
London Bridge was thronged with
spectators, in carriage and on feet; and
as night came on, they saw all the
buildings on the north bank of the
river magnificently lighted up by the
reflection of flames from an extensive
range of warehouses; and boats so
thickly studded the river that "the
water could hardly be seen." Corn,
flour and hops were destroyed to • a vast
It EVENING BULLETIN PHILA.DELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1866.
amount. In 1820, nearly sixty houses,
besides warehouses and vessels, were
consumed during a great fire at Bother
hithe. The year 1836 was marked by
that vast conflagration at Fenning's
Wharf, not far from London Bridge,
which consumed warehouses and mer
chandise to the value of - 2250,000.
Then came, in 1851, a fire that swept
away £50,000 worth of property in
Tooley street; and afterwards, in the
sami year, another that figured for
£150,000. In these fires , hops (South
wark is the headquarters of the hop
trade) were consumed in enormous
quantity; and in one of them, at
Humphreys's Wharf, it was only
by flooding whole acres of premises
for several days that the flames could be
kept away from enormous stores of but
ter, cheese and bacon. In 1852, a fire
took place at Rotherhithe, the flames
from which, fed by corn, casks, boats,
and timber, sent up a glare into the sky
to such a height as to be visible all the
way from Gravesend in the east to
Windsor in the west. A rope factory at
Bermondsey in 1854; four large ware
houses at Bermondsey Wall in 1855; a
provision depot at Rotherhithe in 1856,
containing millions of bottles of ale,
wine and beer, intended for the Crimea;
a flour mill at Shad Thames, containing
£lOO,OOO of stock, in the same year;
cooperages and paper warehouses in 1860
—all went. At the Bermondsey Wall
fire in 185 , 1, after thousands of quarters
of corn had been burnt, five thousand
barrels of tar, tallow and oil burst,
smoked, flamed and flowed out into the
street in a liquid blaze. At Hartley's
Wharf, in 1860, a two days' fire burned
two great blocks of warehouses crammed
with grain, hops, bacon, cheese, butter,
oil, lard, seeds, feathers, jute, and wool
to the value of 2200.000.
Those who saw the great fire of 1861
will not soon forget it. It was by far
the most disastrous, in regard to the
value of the property destroyed, ever
known in Southwark, and had had few
parallels in any part of the metropolis
since die great event of Charles ll.'s
reign. It was near the old place, St.
Olave's Church—Cotton's wharf by
name, although owned by Messrs.
Scovell. How it burst out at four in the
afternoon on the longest day; how it
spread to eight large warehouses
in two hours; how the firemen
in vain attempted to stop it;
how it leaped across an opening and
caught another • stack of ware
houses—this was known half over Lon
don before bedtime. And then Mr.
Braidwood, the able and courageous
man who had formed the Fire Brigade
thirty years before, and had managed it
ever since; how deep was the regret
when the news spread abroad that a
tottering wall had fallen upon him and
killed him. And what a night followed:
London Bridge was choked with specta
tors all night; the avenues by the side of
the steam packet piers, Billingsgate, and
the Custom-house, on the other side et
the liver, were equally thronged; and a
heat and smoke, accompanied by that
strange mixture of odors which we have
already noticed, almost insufferable,
were wafted across the river. The
Depot Wharf caught, then Chamber
lain's Wharf, and then Messrs. Irons'
granary. Then, several schooners
laden with oil, tar, and tallow
were seized hold by the flames; and in a
few minntes the Thames was literally on
fire along a space a quarter of a mile
long by a hundred yards broad, hem
ming in and greatly imperiling some
boatmen who ventured thither to see
what they could pick up. The wind
saved old St. Olave's Church from igni
tion; but the same wind carried destruc
tion successively to Kay's Wharf, Daisy's
Wharf, Elis's Wharf and Humphrey's
Wharf. By three o'clock on Sunday
morning, the firemen, who fought on
bravely though deprived of their chief,
were oble to mark out the probable limit
beyond which the flames would no!
extend; and they were right. But, oh,
he time that it took to consume all that
hose valuable warehouses contained!
There were thousands of casks of tallow;
and the inflammable substance, melting
out from the casks, flowed into cellars,
lanes, and open quadrangles,w here some
of it was speedily licked up by the
flames, while the rest was deluged with
water from the 'powerful steam tire
engines. After seven days of burning,a
new explosion and a new burst of flame,
showed how far the conflagration was
from being ended. There was a depth
of two feet of melted palm-oil and tal
low, covering the who lo floor of nine
vaults, each a hundred feet long by
twenty wide; and this immense quantity
all went to feed the flames. Before
the last heap of ruin was cold,
there had been consumed 23,000 bales of
cotton, 300 tons of olive oil, 30,000 pack
ages of tea, 2,000 packages of bacon, 900
tons sugar, 400 cases of castor oil, 9,001)
casks of tallow (this was the terrible
item), and stores of other merchandise
almost incredible in quantity. The
total loss did not fall far short of £2,000,-
, 000: And yet all has been rebuilt--larger,
higher, stronger, handsomer, and fuller
than ever.
After this wonderful fire,all else would
seem in significant; yet there have been
many great ones since. There was the
fire at Davis's Wharf, Horsleydown, in
the same year (1861). There was the
fire at Dockhead in 1863, which en
closed in its embrace vast stores of
jute, cofn, flour, and saltpetre. A
strong wind not only fanned many
hundred tons of saltpetre into flame, but
wafted the sparks and lurid smoke
from it in a fearful way. Under other
circumstances, such a thing would be a
splendid display of fireworks, for there
was a combination of brilliant flames,
loud explosions and volumes of smoke.
As newspaper readers very well know,
this present year, 1865, has been a busy
one for the firemen in the Plutonic
region extending from London Bridge
to Rotherhithe Wall. The fire at Beal's
Wharf in October last was only one
among many, but it was the greatest of
the year. The building was eight or
nine stories in height, and had been
built in 1856 with every regard to fire
proof construction. Yet did the flames
dance along from one range of stores to
another, until merchandise had been
consumed to the value of one hundred
and eighty thousand pounds. The upper
floors contained thousands of chests of
tea, while the lower stories and the
vaults were crammed with seeds and
colonial produce. There is said to have
been a million pounds of tea burned or
injured; andthe destruction of coriander
seed, caraway-seed, liquorice, Malacca
and partridge canes, and other commo
dities was such as to occasion a rise in
the market price of those articles.t There
was a warehouse adloining :contain
ng merchandise to the value of a
quarter of a million sterling; and it
was only by a brave battle against
flame and smoke that Captain Shaw and
his mien could prevent the extension of
the fire thither. .
One of the most noticeable features in
connection with these great fires is the
power which the insurance companies
manifest of bearing up against the con
sequences. A loss varying from one
hundred thousand to two millions of
pounds suddenly occurs, and those on
whom the blow mainly falls scarcely
stagger under it. They make what they
can of the salvage or damaged wreck of
the buildings and merchandise, and give
checks on their bankers for the re
mainder. The truth is, that the com
panies rather like these things once now
and then. A rush of new insurers always
comes immediately after a great fire,
largely increasing the receipt of steady
annual premiums, and more then com
pensating for the sudden outlay in re
ference to the fire that produced the rush.
But a great deal depends upon the pro
viso "once now and then." This Tooley
street is a source of anxiety to the com
panies. They do not like to charge pre
miums so very high as to discourage
insurance ; yet they are liable any day to
a series of catastrophes so simultaneous
and overwhelming as
. possibly to brinF
down even the "Sun" and the 'Phoenix."
nix.. '
The surveyors of the several companies,
it isunderstood, possess ground-plans of
all these vast ranges of granaries, ware
houses, wharfs and quays, with the
structures of iron, brick, stone and wood;
and no doubt the premium of insurance
is made to depend On the local character
istics in each case.
The High School Alumni.
Last evening the annual meeting of the
Alumni waft held in the election room of
the High School, Charles Backwalter, Esq.,
presided and Henry R. Edmunds, Esq.,
acted as Secretary.
The committee appointed at the last an
nual meeting of the Alumni,for the purpose
of protecting the interests of the Central
High School from the attacks of its foes,
made a lengthy reptot, accompanied by the
following resolutions :
Whereas, The attacks on the Central High
School of Philadelphia have assumed a pro
portion dangerous to the existence of the
institution ; and, whereas, it is a daty
which those who have received an educa
tion from her owe it to their fellow-citizens
to testify to the condition of that school,
with the internal working of which we,
of all others, are best acquainted ; therefore
.Resolved, That we, the Alumni of the
Central High School, do unanimously de
clare, as our sincere conviction, that the
existence of our alma mater is of incalcula
ble benefit to the proper education of the
youth of our city, and that as a reward for
meritorious scholarship its beneficial in
tluence extends far beyond the immediate
limits of those who fall directly beneath its
Care.
Resolved, That we call the attention of our
fellow-citizens to the dangers to which the
whole common school system is subjected
by the unfitness of many of the officers
elected by them to superintend its working,
and that we shall most he.krtily join, both
as individuals and voters, in any etnrt
which may be made to secure the selection
only of such men as are fitted, both by
probity and intelligence, for so important a
stewardship.
.Resolved, That unless some reform is
speedily made in the class of persons select
ed to be the judges of our educational sys
tem, the question will arise whether the
whole elective plan, as far as a choice of
school controllers is concerned, is not a
radical evil, and efforts be deemed neces
sary to seenre the appointment of officers
by the courts.
Resolved, That we are of the opinion that
the carelessness with which such officers are
chosen will result, if not corrected, in the
overthrow of the entire public school sys
tem, as well as the destruction of that insti
tution whose existence we revere; and that
we implore our fellow-citizens to join with
us in removing the educational interests 01
our city from all political influent*, which
can only degrade and injure the cause of
knowledge and advancement.
A lengthy discussion ensued in relation
to the report, when it was adopted.
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NASEVILLIC, Feb. 14.—The river is at a
stand with seven feet of water on the shoals.
The weather is clear and very cold.
Cotton is very dull, and prices :34@35c.
No shipments. Receipts 92 bales.
Alexander M. Parker, a well known and
wealthy merchant, died suddenly to-day, of
an epileptic fit.
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S.A.FMS.
721 CHESTNUT STREET.
Nearly Twenty-five years experience in the mann
facture and sale of Safes in New York City, enables us
to present to the publican article unrivaled in the mar
ket, Our Safes are
Free Iron dampness, and do not corrode the iron.
Thoroughly fire -proof, and do not lose that quality.
Furnished with the but Powder-Proof Lock.
DWELLING HOUSE SAFES of ornamental styles
for Silver Plate, Jewelry, &c.
/Of - Safes of other makers taken in exchange,
Bend for descriptive Circular.
MARVIN & CO.,
721 CI S
H(E /
TNUT STREET,
Masonic Hall.) Phfladelphia_,and
jal9-Imi MS BROADWAY, N. Y.
HIE RESTORATIVES.
JETTEtEIK. AL.
THE
NFALLIBLE HAIR RESTORATIVE! !
This is no Hair Dye
REASONS WHY THE EITBEKA, SHOULD BE
It will cleanse the scalp, and thereby promote the
growth of the hair.
If the hair is dry, stiff arid lifeless. It will give it a
softness and Lively youthful appearance.
If the hair is becoming thin, weak and falling oft it
will restore its strength and beauty.
lithe hair is gray or becoming so, it will restore it to
Its original color without staining scalp or head.
It is free from all impurities or poisonous drugs.
It is no hair dye, but an infallible restorative, and
will do all that Ls promised. when used by the directions.
SOLD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,. BY
ROBERT FISHER, Sole Agent,
210 .:5 North .FVCA, between ategenut and Pine, Sl. Louts.
Agent for Pennsylvania, DIOTT & CO., 1= North
Second street, Phllada.
18th,atir Sint
FANCY GUODM.
PAPIER MACHE GOODS,
PAPIER MACHE GOODS.
TARTAN GOODS,
SCOTCH PLAID GOODS.
A fine assortment q) Papier Mache Work Tables,
Writing Desks, Inkstands and Semen Plaid Goods,
Just received per the steamer "St. George." too late for
Cbristmas sales, suitable for Bridal Gilts, dm., will be
sold low.
ISAAC TOWNSEND,
House Furnishing Store of the late JOHN A. MOM.
PDT,
922 CHESTNUT STREET,
Jaen to Below Tenth street.
RETAIL DRY GOODS
BE OLD ESTABLISHED CiTP p CLOTH
T
STORE.-lAME.s
their friends and others to their large stock of season
able grtods, which they are sell ng at greatly reduced
priers.
Superior Black French Cloths.
buuerior Colored French Cloths.
overcoat Cloths, all qualities.
Black French Doeskins.
Black French Cassimeres.
lied and Plain Ca...ssimeres.
Fancy Cassimeres, of every description.
Ssaatch and shepherd's Plaid Cs-sm. - term.
Cords, Beaverteens and Salinetta.
Plain and Neat Figured Silk Vesting&
Black Satins and Fancy Vestings.
With a large assortment of Tailors' Trimmings,
Boys' wear, rho-. for sale, wholesale or retail, by
JA.3I - 11:S el: LEE,
No. 11 North Second st., Sign of the Oralden Lamb.
Ey p.E fi LANDELL, FOURTH AND ARCH, have
Just replenished their assortment of
STAPLE HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
And are now fully prepared to trapplv families with
GOOD IitUBLINE. BY THE FLEUR,
GOOD SHIRTING LINENS.
GOOD TABLE LIN
GOOD BED TICEINGS.
GOOD WHITE FLANNELS.
GOOD,,FINE BLA_NSE'PS.
GOOD DAILLSK. NAP=S.
BUFF MARSEILLES QUILTS.
PINE MARSEILLES QUILTS.
FINIT AND LARGEST WHITE DO'
IRISH BIRD-EYE AND SCOTti`H TOWELS:WIS.
NEW LOT or BRILLIANT'S, MARSEILLES, drn.
SPRING STYLE CH.L.NTZ., PERU* r.F.t, ,to„
(L.C.ENT BLACK ALPACA&
r..PIJ 6i 75 and It. superior Alpacas.
111 00 Wide Black Wool Delathes.
11",50 for finest r. wide Black Cashmeres.
1 12 for new Spring Shades Wide Wool De'sines:
ew White Piques, antes, Cambrics, Plaids, dic.
Heavy Nursery Diapers, some extra wide goods,
Flue Toa - e:s ; 40-cent Towels- a bargain,
ps and es Napkins are much under value.
Richardson's Heavy X birting and fine Fronting
Linens.
Table Damasks under rket price.
COOPER rt. CONARD,
S. E. corner Ninth and Market streets,
EDWIN HALL & CO., 26 South Secono street, would
Invite the attention of the Ladies to their stock of
SLLS S, and recommend them purchasing now, as we
have no doubt of their having to pay a much advanced
price for them next month and the coming spring.
Colored Moire Antiques,
Black Moire Antiqum,
Colored Corded Silks,
Colored Poult de soles,
Black Corded
Black Gros Grabaes,
Black Taffetas,
Black Gros de Rhincs,
N. B.—A fine stock of Evening Silks on hand.
XTOW IS THE TIMK TO BUY ALKSLLES AND
111 CALICOES.
Good Unbleached Muslin, at M cents.
Excellent Unbleached Muslin, at SA
Bleached If usrins, yard-wide, at 34.
Bleached M. - telin, very fine, at 37,4.
New York Mills, Wamsutta, and ell the best makes
of Bleached and Unbleached Muslin. at the lowest
market prices, at JOHN H. STOKES'S,
7( Arch street.
84 PURE WHITE MOHAIR GLACE, with a Silk
finish, Just adapted for Evening Dresses.
4-4 White Alpacas,
White Irish Poplins,
White Wool Poplins,
Pearl Color Irish Poplins,
White Opera Cloths
White Cloths, with Spots,
Scarlet Cloths.
EDWIN HALL & CO.. 26 South Second itt.
It is one of the most useful Inventions for domestic
use ever offered to the public. The flour is sifted in
onequarter the Aline (and much better than by any
other process) by putting the flour in the top of the
Sifter then, by turning the crank, the filour passers
through the sieve with great rapidity. Clean, very
fine and light. This Sifter has no• India rubber
rollers to grind up the dirt, such as bugs, worms, flies,
&c.. ant sifts all articles and leaves the dirt remaining
in t sieve; the Sifter is made of tin , is very neat and
ed.
easy he
to keep clean. It is the only Sifter now in use
that gives SAFACTION. Every Sifter is warrant.
. Be sure a T nd IS ask for Spencer's Patent Tin Sifter.
Sir Wholesale trade supplied on reasonable tame.
Samples sent to any address on receipt of $1 09.
Factory, 846 North SECOND Street.
nelB-BmP M. E. SPENCER.
AND CO. `c
M.A_LTSTERS,
HOUSES IN PHILA.:
Thompson street above Ninth,
Pear street above Dock,
Office over Farmers and Mechanics' Bank, and Pro
prietors of the
ONLY
MALTING ESTABLISHMENT,
AT AVON,
Livingston County, New York
restil
SPENCER'S
PATENT
TIN SIFTER
STRAINER.
Sifting Flour, Meal,
wheat. Sauce and all
articles requiring a
tate and County
HTS FOR SA LE
it•z;
4' • ' 1 ,4 .
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STOOK & NOTE t,
BROKERS,
218 1-2 WALNUT STREET.
STOCKS and WARS bought and sold on commie-
Edon. Trust Funds invested In City, State or Govern
ment Loans.
H. BACON.* [noal-ami] (CEO. A, WAHDBE
P. S. PETERSON 6 CO.
P. S. PETERSON & CO.,
39 South Third Street,
Stooks, Bonds, &o , &o , Bought sad
Sold at Board of Brokers.
Liberal Premium paid for CO3ILPOUND
NOTES.
Interest allowed on Deposits.
Gold and Compound Interest Notes
Wanted
P. F. KELLY 88 00.,
lllT:sommrAdammizivowo
C. A. ROBINSON
ROBINSON it DICKSON.
STOCK BROKERS,
No. 319 Walnut Street.
STOCKS, BONDS, &c., Bought and Bold at
Board of Brokers. felO-Irat
W. W. KURTZ. JOHI G. HOWARD
KIJIITZ & HOWARD,
STOOK AND NOTE BROKERS,
NO, 23 SOUTH THIRD STREET,,
(BOOM NO. 5,)
PHILADELPHIA,
Particular attention given to the Purchase and
Sale of Stocks, Bonds, ttc., at the Regular Board of
Brokers. [fes-Imn
ALSO. COMMERCIAL PAPER NEGOTIATED.
5-20 7 3-100.
COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES
WANTED.
DE HAVEN & BRO.,
40 South Third Street,
_C A C 117.4
'k r t A
4". lirs\
• \i " )
IW SPECIALTY. jQ
SMITH, RANDOLPH lc
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
16 South Third st., 3 Nassau street,
Philadelphia. I New York.
STOCKS AND GOLD
BOUGHT AND BOLD ON 00212dISSION.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. Jal7
$16.000 AND OTEIER SUMS, TO LOAN ON':
. Mortgage of firat-class City Proper
ties. Ahd also, for sale, - Dwelling House 142.3 Walnut.
street; WM. McLbAN, Conveyancer,
fel3-3t. 1483 South Fourth street
WATCHEAS AND JEWELRY.
RIGGS ot BROTHER, •.+.
CHRONOMETER, CLOCK,
AND
WATCHMAKERS,
No. 244 South FRONT Street,
Have constantly on hand a complete assortment o
CLOCKS, &a, for Railroads, Banks and Counting
Houses, which they offer at reasonable rates.
N. R. Particular attention paid to the repairing 0
fine Watches and Clocks.
DIAMOND DEALER & JEWELER,
WATC7IRS, JEWELRY la SILVER WARE,
WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED
802 Chestnut St., Phila
FINE DIAMOND WORK.
WATCHES
OF THE MOST CRT.RTIRATED MAKERS.
Silver Ware,
FOR WEDDING PRESENTS, LY GREAT VA—
RIETY.
REPAIRING DONE IN THE BEST hLiNNER..
Old GOLD, SILVER end PRECIOUS STONES.
bought for CASH. jalltf
CABPETINGM.
OARPETIN GS.
A large assortment of
DOMESTIC CARPETINGS
Constmitly on hand 'and for sale at: the lowest prim:
GEORGE W. HILL,
No. iza Narth THIRD Street;
REMOVAL.
Me DEL AWAR E have removed to No. 204 North ,
JO AVENUE, and No. 265 North
WATER Street.
PITILADES.P.UI4, Jan. 30,1666.
DICICSON,NR
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