EVENING BULLETIN.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1866,
STATE EBCCmoS.
The State Convention of School Super
intendents which has just adjourned at
Harrisburg, has presented to the public
many facte mid suggestions which de
serve the most thoughtful consideration
and energetic action of the citizens of
this Commonwealth generally. Every
county in the State (excepting Philadel
phia, which has an independent school
system),Beaver, Clarion, Elk, Erie, For
rest, Fulton,lndiana,Lancaster, Monroe,
Montgomery, Montour, Pike, Bullivan,
Tioga and Venango, was represented by
its superintendent, and there seems to
have been a free and intelligent
interchange of ''opinions and experi
ences upon the general educational inte
rests of the State. The debates of the
Convention do not appear to have re
sulted in any positive action, the most
important proposition, that of extending
the school term from four to six months,
having been voted down; but much
.valuable information was developed
these •discussions. The condition of
many of the school houses and the
qualifications of many of the
teachers are alike disgraceful to
the State. The Superintendent of Bed
ford county declared that “their school
houses are unfit to contain brutes;”
while Mr. Armstrong, of Luzerne, bold
ly asserted that “not one-fifth of the
teachers in his county who held perma
nent certificates were fit to-hold them.”
Here are two radical defects in the
working of our public-school system.
School houses such as may be seen scat
tered all over the State, in which one
would not like testable a valuable horse;
ugly in appearance, uncomfortable in
arrangement, exposed on all sides to the
inclemency of the weather, scarcely de
cent in any of their appointments,tum
bling to pieces with neglect and decay,
are not only a disgrace to the State, but
an effectual bar to educational improve
ment. Teachers, often appointed by
boards of school directors more ignorant
than themselves, dragging through a
meagre examination by the skin of their
teeth, with no reference to their
natural qualifications for interesting
instructing and controlling the young!
are not the sort of people who should be
entrusted with the education of the fu
ture legislators and rulers of this com
monwealth and country. And yet these
are the facts brought out, not by any
means for the first time, by the late
School Convention.
There is another important fact which
was made the subject of one of the su
perintendents’ reports. Irregularity of
attendance is increasing in almost every
school district. The report gives some
singular statistics on this subject. It
appears that “Pittsburgh, with all its
perfections of teachers, buildings, &c.<
secures, according to statistics, only an
average of 53 per ceijt. in attendance,
whilst Patton district, in the same
county, with remote and ordinary
houses, middling teachers and four
months’ school term, has an ave
rage of 86 per cent. Westchester,
well supplied, has 49 per cent., whilst
East Vincent, in the same county, with
school houses scattered and six months’
term, has 89 per cent of its enrolled
pupils in attendance. Reading city has
only 51 percent of its pupils in attend
ance, which is the lowest figure of any
district in Berts county.” The report
argues, with much plausibility, from
theae and other, similar statistics, that,
good school houses and teachers will not,
alone, correct irregular attendance, but
that the attendance of the scholars can
only be secured by compulsory legisla
tion. Boston, where 91 per cent, of en
rolled pupils are in attendance, and
Massachusetts generally, where the
average is 76 per cent, against an average
in this State of only 62 per cent.,are cited
in favor of such legislation.
That the State’ has a right to expect
parents and guardians to enforce the at
tendance of their children or wards at
school, cannot be denied. The prosper
ity of the State depends upon the edu
cated intelligence of its citizens, and no
man has a right to bring up his children
in ignorance, in a land where education
may be had. But we are not prepared
to admit that the existing evil is only to
be cured by direct and compulsory legis
lation. The exp erience and observation
of many years warrant the opinion that
commodious school houses, pre
sided over by teachers who are not
mere mercenaries, but whose hearts are
thoroughly in their work, and whose
heads are thoroughly furnished for the
difficult business of winning the affec
tions and stimulating the ambition of
their scholars, will not long present
these beggarly accounts .of empty
benches, that are now so bitterly com
plained of. Boys and girls, in this free
country, cannot be successfully driven
to school, either by parentsor legislators,
and until'the present miserable sheds
and barns, that pass for county school
houses, are replaced by decent, commo
dious and attractive buildings, and until
the blockheads and incapables who now,
in so many places, are laboring to beat
into the backs of boys what they have
not brains enough to getinto their heads,
are cleared out and their places taken by
efficient and conscientious teachers,
worthy of the name, it is in vain to look
for any general improvement in the
'average either of the attendance, deport
ment or attainments of the pupils.
A CONCESSION.
Ex-Governor Perry, of South Carolina,
is of opinion that “if the proposition is
|jjaade by the North for the calling of a
nywonal Convention of the wisest and
■ggSgjest men of both sections, the South
*™SEcaccede to the call without delay.”
■Jilferth will possibly be much obliged
TgE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.— PHILADELPHIA. SATTPRAT, PECFMJBER B - T R
to the South for thi9' concession. ' The
experiment was tried in Philadelphia in
August last, and it proved to be some
what of a failure, a fact that is due, per
haps, to the fact that the “wisest and
greatest men” of both sections declined
to take part in.it. The days of, conven
tions came to an end in April, 1861. The
Southerners tried the recourse to another
arbitrament about that time, and they
will have to abide by the result of their
own appeal.
A FUNEREAL MUDDLR.
On Thursday last Mr. Le Blond, of
Ohio, speaking in Congress for the Dem
ocratic party, read Mr. Andrew John
son out of the organization of #hich he
was the spokesman. Last night the
“National Union Club” of the Fifteenth
Ward, in this city, assembled in their
might and majesty, and read the Dem
ocratic party out of Mr. Johnson, and it
is not quite clear, from their published
proceedings, whether they did not also
read Mr. Johnson himself out of the
Johnson party. At all events they
scolded A. J. because he had overlooked
theirmerits in making his appointments,
only as men can scold, who have been
“left out in the cold,” when the loaves
and fishes are being passed around. They
even went so far as to resolve as follows:
“Resolved, That the National Union
Johnson Club of the Fifteenth Ward do res
pectfully but earnestly protest to the Presi
dent against the manner in which appoint
ments have been made in this city,
“Resolved, That we will, at every hazard,
maintain in its integrity the organization of
the National Union Party, and under no
circumstances allow our organization to be
used by any other-party to further their
schemes.”
As Sir Lucius O’Trigger would re
mark,” it is a very pretty quarrel as it
stands.” Mr. “Leßlond says, “we have
no interest in the executive on this side
of the House, not the least;” the Fif
teenth Ward National Union Club re
torts by saying that in supporting An
drew Johnson they “did not agree to
become the tools of the Democratic
party and assist to restore it to power.”
Mr. Le Blond, “Mr. Johnson is
not the man of our choice; we did not
put him there.” Says the F. W. N. U.
C., “In nearly eveiy state in the Union
the National Union men were simply
used by the Democratic party to place
the reins of Government in their
hands.” Mr. Leßlond declares that “the
Democratic party did .not receive any
benefits from Mr. Johnson in the late
campaign;” the F. W. N. U. C. responds
that “here, in Philadelphia, the claims
of the original friends of President John
son are ignored and the worst class
of Democrats placed in position.”
“We never dropped Mr. Johns m,
for we never took him up,” shouts Mr.
Le Blond derisively; “The manner in
which the patronage of the Government j
in tjus city has been dispensed is dis-'
graceful,” mournfully ejaculates the F.
W. N. U. C. Mr. Leßlond, rising with
•the occasion, protests that “to shoulder
Andrew Johnson would destroy any
party in the world,” and the F. W. N.
U. C., not to be outdone, says that “the
President has allowed a few reckless
politicians, who assumed to represent
his friends, to control all the appoint
ments. Men who two years ago de
nounced him as a traitor and a usurper I
are now the dispensers of his favors.” J
Both the F. W. N. U. C. and Mr. Le-
Blond tell a good deal of truth in their
criminations and recriminations; but
it may well be questioned whether it is
decent to go to quarreling in this manner
over their defunct Caesar. As the little
boy once remarked philosophically, “it
is none of our funeral;” but everybody
expects to see at least a semblance of de- I
ceney upon such mournful occasions.
HIGHLY PROBABLE.
The New York Times says:
“We hardly suppose that the proposition
of Senator Wade for amending the Consti
tution, by making the President ineligible
for re-election,can be taken as a blow aimed
at tie present incumbent of the Presiden
tial chair.”
Is this intended as a quiet hint at the
proverbial difficulty of spoiling tainted
fish ? The country will agree with Mr.
Raymond that no sane man will take
any action towards rendering the pre
sent incumbent of the executive chair
ineligible for re-election. Mr. Johnson
settled that queirtioh very decidedly
when he “swung around the circle” on
his recent Western trip. Senator Wade
is not the man (to use a phrase of the
President’s), to waste ammunition upon
dead game. The proposed amendment
could be postponed for three or four
years v ithout iu the slightest degree in
creasing the chances of Mr. Johnson’s
re-election.
AN IMPORTANT CONFESSION.
Mr. Postmaster-General Bandall, in
his report, recommends an increase of
the salaries of the clerks in his depart
ment. He says:
“The salaries of clerks in the Post Office
.Department during the four years of war
were not increased, while all the expenses
of living were more than doubled. The sala
ries were fixed in times of peace and low
prices. TheyweTe not raised when war
raised prices. Clerks were compelled to
run in debt, ard, in many cases, their
families suffered from want.”
This is good logic, and Mr. Bandall is
certainly justified in presenting to Con
gress the claims of these poorly-paid
clerks and urging a better compensation
for them. But he goes a step farther)
and pays a tribute to them which is
worthy of special note. He adds :
or .ked faithfully and skillfully
<Jlß oharglng important du
wfr.^^ vern,nent - 1 submit that
to have some reasonable allow
in the fntnre?” Bt, and an inoreaße of salary
Here is a voluntary admission by the
.Postmaster General that the employees
of his department have, as a class, been
faithful, skillful and honest. How does
he - reconcile this confession with his
wholesale slaughter of these men, all over
the country,: for maintaining the prin
ciples.of the - Republican party? There
is no pretence that the postmasters and
clerks who have been discharged under;
Mr. Randall, and who have been “com
pelled to run *in debt,” while “their fa
milies suffered from want,” were less
faithful, skillful or honest than those
Who have taken 'their places. On
the contrary, Mr. Randall well
knows that the very reverse of this is
true, and that all that be has demanded
pf his present appointees has been abso
lute compliance with Mr. Johnson’s de
funct policy. The Postmaster General
has inadvertently paid a compliment
to his clerks, at the expense of his own
reputation, and has confessed himself the
mere tool of. the President in punishing
men, who, by his own confession,
“worked feithfully and skilfully and
honestly in discharging important duties
for the Government.”
A TEI.EOBAPHIC BLESDEB.
| The United States Associated Press
yesterday afternoon transmitted to the
various papers, a despatch headed
“Message of the Governor of New
York,” which caused no small bewilder
ment to thousands of readers who were
at a loss to account for the sudden som
ersault which Governor Fenton had ap
parently executed, in bewailing the ac
tion of Congress and denouncing the
course of the “Radicals.” The despatch
Was received at this office just before th e
late edition of the Bulletin went to
press, and so escaped the usual scrutiny
to which all matters intended for pub
lication are subjected. Upon examina
tion it will be seen that Governor
Fenton had nothing to do with the
message, but that it was the production
of Governor Patton, of Alabama, quite
a different style of person. The message
may be found correctly printed,as trans
mitted by the New York Associated
Press, in an earlier edition of yesterday’s
Bulletin.
THE SEW FIRE ORDINANCE.
A committee of firemen had a confe
rence yesterday afternoon with the
Committee of Fire'and Trusts, upon the
subject of re-organizing the Fire Depart
ment. The firemen proposed to amend
the ordinance now before Councils. As
the amendments would leave the De
partment substantially in its present
condition, it is not probable that Coun
cils will take a step backward in the
work of reform. They will doubtless
consult the public good, and not be go
verned by the protests of a body of meu
who, however meritorious they may be,
are too restive under lawful restraints
for the peace, profit and good order of
the community at large.
French Opera.
I The attendance at the Academy of Musi-,
last evening, was large. The Phlegmatio
Five Hundred were there in full force, and
several of them were seen to applaud quite
warmly on two or three occasions. The rest
of the audience was 11 large and respectable,”
and was very enthußiastie over a most
excellent performance of gampa. mum,
Naddie and LaurenOs sang and acted ad
mirably, as did M. Armand, who, with a
fine presence, has a tenor voice that is par
tioularly good in its upper notes. The other
parts and the chorus and orchestra were
extremely good. The one-act opera of Le
Maitrede ChapelU, byPaer, is a charming
and most amusing little trifle, in which M.
Wilhem distinguishes himself by most
excellent singing and amusing acting, being
extremely well supported by Mile. Lau
rentis. They were repeatedly applauded,
and were called out at the close. The
troupe plays Auber’s drown Diamonds this
afternoon. There is reason to hope that the
success which has attended these two per
formances will induce this capital company
to visit Philadelphia frequently during the
present season.
The Bisiori Reason.
The world of refinement and fashion is
on the qui vive for the first appearance of
the great Italian actress, Mme. Bistori,
which will take place at the Academy of
Mnsic on Monday evening. The opening
play is LegouvS’s splendid tragedy of
Medea, translated into Italian verse by
Montanelli. There is no one of her plays
in which the great artiste appears to more
advantage than this. All who design hear
ing Ristori should provide themselves with
the libretto in advance, ©n Tuesday even
ing Ristori and her troupe appear in a
translation of Schiller's Mary Stuart, in
which she is surpassingly fine.
Great Book Sale.— Next Monday,Tnes
day and Wednesday afternoons Messrs.
Thomas & Sonß will sell a very fine selec
tion of elegantly bound books, suitable for
Christmas and New Years’ gifts, from the
stock of Messrs D. Appleton* Co. Among
the works in the catalogue we find the Wa
verly Novels, 25 vote., with Proof Plates;
Dickens’s works, with over 500 Designs by
Crnikshank; Lever’s Complete Works il
lustrated by Phiz; Complete and Uniform
Edition of Macaulay’s works; Mew Ameri
can Cyclopaedia; Sbakspeare’s Works; Life
of Man Symbolized; The Holy Bible, new
edition, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, illna-'
tratedby Dorfi; Galleries of Berlin,Dresden
Munich and Vienna; choice editions of the
Poets, and many other superb Gift Books
with the best standard literature. The list
runs up to number 700 in the catalogue
which may now be had of Messrs. Thomas
& Sons. Every work in the catalogue will
be sold without reserve, and this is the only
sale Messrs. Appleton <fc Co. will have in
this city dnrißg the year. No lover of
valuable literary works, handsomely print
ed and bound, shonld miss this sale.
Musical. —Mr. Jarvis commences his
fifth season of classical entertainments on
Thursday next, at the Foyer of ’the
Academy. Four performances are to be
given, on December 13th, January 24th
February 28th and March 21st, commenc
ing at four o’ciook, and continuing for about
an hour and a half. Mr. Jarvis will be
assisted by Messrs. Gaertner and Sohintz
The programme for the first matinee com
prises a sonata by Beethoven (op. 69): a
violin solo by David; a piano Solo by Liszt
and a grand trio (op. 66)- by Mendelssohn’
The rapidly growing taste for the pure
classical standards of music, warrants the
expectation of crowded audiences at these
choice entertainments.
■' IXOr hie Philadelphia Evening; Enlletln.J
JOHNSON AND RAYMOND.
A TALE OF A TURNED COAT,
When Andrew J.'and Henry J. '
Struck hands in the Wigwam, one fine day,
Both Henry J. and Andrew J. .
Thought they’d an easy game to play, :
But the people punished Andrew J.,
And Henry J„ In dire dismay, .
From the Bread and .Butternuts fled away,
Leaving Andrew the game alone to play.
g.ow Henry J. begins to pray,
ike a sheep that has blindly lost his way,
To come in the fold again, to stay,
Vowing no more from the flock to stray.
He says that the tailor, named A. J,,
Had promised to turn his coat in a day,
And make it fit'in an elegant way,
But the bungling tailor, named A. J., <s
Had quite forgotten the needle’s play,
And,being without a machine ofSinger’s,
His stitches wandered in every way;
He patched the blue all over with gray,
While, with every goose that he did essay,
;. He scorched the cloth ana burnt his fingers.
So Henry J., whenhe saw the garment,
Frothed and foamed like a very varmint.
“They told me,” he cried,, “O, blundering
Andy,
That you with the needle were very handy,
And, though you were down' on ducks that
; - were dead, .5 ■ .
You were “ right on the goose,” at least,
they said.
“O downy duck i O downy goose!
You are brought to a very ignoble use.
Poor water-fowl, I fear some plotter,
Has watered his fowl, or fouled Ms water
With essence of rye or confederate ink,
A dangerous thing when he takes a drink.
When down on a duck, he’ll do,it is clear,
To stuff a pillow or tiokle an ear,
But when on the goose his fingers repose,
He’s very apt to ruin the clothes:
Bo with either water-fowl that you please,
Whether geese of iron or ii ving geese,
Or e’en dead dneks, Pm sure his deducflbn
Is wrong, if he calls th.s Reconstruction!”
Then rose and blustered the tailor Andrew,
With breath as fierce as ever a ™<>t> drew;
“You dare to say that I am a blunderer,
You impudent, penny-pipe ape of the Thun
derer!
O, Henry J,, why will you say
That coat don’t fit your stately figure?
I fear, H. J., you would shirk your pay,
Or put it off till the dreadful day
When the right of voting is given the
nigger.
You asked me, Henry, to turn your coat;
I turned it and now I come as a claimant
Upon your service—that’s my payment
Give it at once; I want no note;
For, H. J. Raymond,
The job may be lime, and
Yet, whether change of Raymond or rai-
ment,
Twas done to order, so where’s my pay
ment?”
“Payment! payment!
; For such a raiment?
O, Andrew, ’twould be a folly and sin, too;
Your fits are tight,
And it wouldn’t be right
Such a bad habit as this to get into.”
“It cannot be tight, it cannot be too little.
It fits as nicely as that of Doolittle.
’Tis the very latest Policy style:
The beautiful tail, observe a while,
Has a graceful Southern slope; the sleeye
Is good to laugh in, when Yankees griete
And as for the collar, sublime production! ’
I call It the Collar of Reconstruction.
Seward and Browning helped design it,
Butl got a Southern stnfftoline it— -
A cotton bnokram to stiffen the neck
And give all Northern leanings a check.
Cowan and Norton like it, and why’ll
You not take it and give it a trial?”
“Give it a trial? Andrew J„
Your Policy feahionhaa had ita day.
I thought it good in the Wigwam weather,
But for Northern climes it’s flimsy—rether;
And all the coats that yon turned, I see ’
Look shabby and ragged and beggarly;
Their owners shiver, and, showing the holes.
Say they got them all at the last fell’s polls-
So take mine back; at last I learn
There are better garments than coats you
turn,
And a naked hack I can bear, in sooth,
If I only stick to the naked truth.”
This was the Tale of the Turned Coat,
Told by Raymond, that man of note,
Who, though by trade a writer, can talk as
Glibly as any. one in a caucus.
The members listened with frown and
. laugh—
They are tender-hearted sons of men—
And though not killing a fatted calf,
They took the Prodigal back again.
But as for Andrew, the bad tailore,
He is merry. Andrew now no more:
“My trade is ruined, my goose is plucked;
I have apthing left me to reconstruct!” ’
This is the song he is sadly singing
As round the circle he’s slowly swinging,
Philadelphia, Dec. 8,1866. p.
John B. Myers A Co« Auctioneers. Nos.
232 Market Btreet. win hold daring nextweek
the following Important Bales, viz: wt - eK
OK Mokday, December 10, at 10 o'clock, bv cam
logne. on four months’ credit, about 600 lota of French
Saxony Br ush mialndia Dry Goods, Including aline
of rich raris Cashmere Shawls, Inst landed, for HoU
day sales, Including many new patterns of D able
Warp shawls, with pore white effects, In the style of
the most elegant India Camel’s Hate St awlsTof the
imttßuiactureot Messrs. H Hennsquln & Co Also
llerlnos. Dodllds, alpacas, Bops. Mohalra, Delator
All wool Tlaida. Fpuglines. <£c. Also. Dress" SiUs’
an di-feiVh RobS"for city t?aa^T° IC6Of
OK luesday, December 11, at 10 o’clock.! bv cam.
logue, on four credit, about 1200 package-
Boots, Shoes, Balmorals, 4c., embracing a nrlmeand
teeth assortment, of first-thass city and BSaaternmiinu-
On Thdbsday. December 13, at 10 o'clock, by cata
logue, in four months’credit and part for cash 850
lack ages and lota of Foreign ana Domestic Dry
Goods, including Cloths, Casslmeres, Satinets. Hanoi
maul. Moscows, Castors. Ratines, Chinchillas Fancy
Cloak Ing, Diagonals, Doesi Ins, Coatings. Italians */
Also, Dress Goots, Bilks; Shawls, LlnensT HosierS"
Rloves.J-hirts and Drawers, 1 lee. Balmoral andHooo
Skirts. Sewings, Umbrellas and fiarasols. &c 00p
Alßojlto packages Cotton and Woolen Domestics
On Fbiday, December 14. at U v’clock, by cata
logue, on four months’ credit, about MOpleces of gnoSC
Sue and Fine Ingrain. Rovsi Venetlan
Hemp, Cottage, and Bag Carpeting! ’ lj3t ’
„ „ Elesrant Book* at Auction.
On Monday. Tuesday ano Wednesday afternoons of
next week will ho Bold a large consignment or sooerb
G Ift ßooks. from the celehmed New VoS pabllSmg*
bom eof Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. The catalorae o 7
? ver tnemost expensive goite,
in- splendid bindings. We . notice panicularlv 'The
Eitile, lllastrated_ 6y G. Dote; Don Quixote" Rote's n-
Instratiors; Dantert Vision of Hell. if. Dorft MUion's
Paradise Lc at. fi. Dor& The Life of Man hymbjiizSd
elegantly embellished: .Cooper .Vignettes,! -aj lists ’
proofs, Waverley Novels. India proof Ulustratlona-
Dickens’s and Lever's works, the Urinous modern
Poets; all soperbly bound, in a great variety of styles
making the lineal lot of bookß for holiday pres nts aver
s»e;e.dßtanrtlomin.th^clty,:-nte Ka'ewlir be ottte
auction store of M. Thomas * sons’ South Fourth
Extensive; Bale ofßcalEstatc ana Stocks.
1 Thomas S. S' ns will sell «A Tnesday nert.at the Er
chargfva large amount of bask andother stocks; very
valuable lot and atabMa.NoieMNurthßroad street.'
ill leet frost; rtaldences, Twenty second and Arch
streets, 1135 , rpiece, Seventh and Buttonwood; deel
rjbie country eeataudfierm, known aa’lGreenweod,”
Chester com ty, Pennsylvania; several verydeslnble
mail dwi Hinge, lots, Ac., by order of Orphans’ court,
iateemora. Trustees and others. See psmphlet cata
mgues, Issued to-day, and full advertisements on third
Page.
Auction Notice—Sale of Boots and Shoes,
; Fhliln Ford & Co.. Auctioneers, will sell at their
store. Net 606 Market. street, on Monday morning,
yecember 10, commencing at ten o’clock, a large and
desirable assortment of Boots, Shoes; Brogans; Bal
morals. &c.
Towhicb the attention of buyers Is called*
Sale of a Valn&ble Store, No. 207 Market
street, by order of tbe Orphans’ Coart.
James A . freeman's sale, on Wednesday next, <n
2!f * ?*.' vMwtblefour.itory brick store, 2fo 207 Market
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PERKINS 9
«,.&§£!P TH NINTH ST.
WANTED,.
HANDS ON GENTLEMEN’S
WRAPPERS.
AT
ARCH STREET,
Opera Glasses,
Btereoscopes
Magic Lanterns,
Mlt losoopea,. .
t Mathematical Instruments,
Bpy Glasses,
Gold Bpeotseles.
Geld Bye Glasste > &o„&c.
WM. Y. McALLISTEE,
738 Chestnut Street.
H. & A. 0, VAN BEIL,
OLD 818 WHISKEY
FCR FAMILIES AND THE TRADE,
1810 (hestnm Streef.
H.& A.C. VANBEIL.
FINE OLD SHERRY WINES
FO3 FAMILIES AND THE XBADE.
1810 Chestnut Street.
H. &A. C. YAH BEIL.
VERYSUPERIOR BRANDY
For Medics 1 and other purposes.
1310 CHESTNUT STREET.
HJ A C. YAH BEIL
Champagne#
OF ALL FAVORITE BRANDS,
1310 Chessnut Street.
H. & AZ C. YAH BEIL,
i ' : WIBE;MEBOHASTB; •
Street.
noi2-ths.tu cmrpi .... ■.<
_ «li CHESTNUT 191«BlgR S6 °'
*«»»<■ ocs-tffp W.HfBTOOH.
STEPttEK F. WHITMAN'S
INIMITABLEAND
CHOICE CONFECTIONS
Now Ready
For the Holiday Season,
Together with a large variety of
FANCY BOSES,
Of bis own Importation, -
DIRECT PROM PABIS AND VIENNA.
NEW AND RARE
CONFECTIONS AND BON SONS,
ONLY KNOWN TO THIS. HOUSE.
Forming at once a rich and superb assortment from,
which to chose
For Select Presents.
STEPBEN F WHITMAN,
No. 1310 Market Street,.
PHJXADELPH EA. destfrp
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
A CHOICE COLLECTION OP
Holiday, Standard,
Juvenile and Toy Books,
At tbe Store of
JAMEB 8. CLAXTON,
. Successor to W. 8. <t A. Martien,
destfr? 14 °Hestimt Street,
Thirteen hundred new podi-
CIES
HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKES
PHILADELPHIA BRANCH
NORTH AMERICA
LIFE
INBURANOE COMPANY,
INSURING OVER
FOUR BULLION DOLLARS.
POLICIES ARE SECURED BY PLEEGE OP PUB,
LIC STOCKS.
THIRTY DAYS’ GR4.CE IN PAYMENTS.
USUAL RESTRICTIONS IN TRAVEL.
DRNCS AND EMPLOYMENT REMOVED
INCOME OF YEAR. ENDING NOVEMBER *i«t
1566, OVER . .
#1,100,000,
N, D. MORGAN.
PRESIDENT,
NELSON F, EVANS,
DAVID DURPEE, M. D, s
MKDTCAT. BYtMTum;
] MOAiAGam
G ffi SGEE ’ | XO-W WiLSUT
BAMXJEL D. DJELP, I
LIFE IKSURAHGE.
n *. 3 . a reUgious dnty, because we are taught -if any
provide not for his own. and eapftc’aliy torthnsenf
own house, hehath denied the lsfith mfd ta
an infidel”—! Tihothy, v, 8. wuree man
NOTICE.
To persons Intending to effect INSURANCE unon
their U.VJKS,
THE PENN MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,.
821 Cheittmt Strest, Hiilad’a.,
Offers inducementseqnal to any other Company, and’
superior to many.
The mum premium has averaged larger than most
of the other Companies.
The Insured participate EVERY YEAR in the dlvl
slon of surplus, while in some Companies no return
a evergiven for the .first year’s premium.
ALL THE SURPLUS BELONGS TO THE
INSURED!
there being no Stockholders to claim a share.
The Security is sample. The Assets are weU anil:
Safely Invested, and in proportion to the
1 amount'of Liability.
INSURE NOW!
All policies Issned previous to Ist January wili share
In the January Division.
Aaseta, 51.500,000.
OSSEB, PAID PBOMPILT.'
MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M.D., No. 1439 Walnut
. Street.
EDWARD A. PAGE, M. D„ No. 1415 WalnntStreet.
In attendance at the Office of the Company from l to C
P. M. dilly.
JAMES TEAQU 4IR, President. -
SAMUELE. SIOKSS, Vice President.
JOHN W. HORNOR, A. V. P. and Actuary.
HORATIO S. STEPHENS. Sec’y. no24^,w,S£ri»2
TtfETHODIST EPIBCOPAL BOOK BOOM, No. i
JM-1018 ARCH Street.—Dj mu Books, Biulea, Holi
day Gif s. Rocks from the Best Houses, wholesale
at a retail. de3-e,tu,lm,rp2
T ASH’S FIVE DOLLAR WASHING" MACHINE,
AJ—ln order to Introduce our dve doltarwasher more
generally lotho public, we propose to sell them with
the understanding that they will be taken back and the
money refunded. If they do not gl-e satisfaction.
J S. LAN a a OO
deBrs,tu,'h-3'} 727 Market street, Philadelphia.
WrOTICE.—The bu-lness herelofore'carried on at
is Twenty-first and Willow streets, by H Crosc-ove
and W. P BeynoMs, trading as Orosgrove & Reynolds. ’
will hereafter be conducted by W. P, hei NOLD3 he
having purchased the toll and enttre Interest therein
' ■ ADAMCfiO-GROVT*-
W, P. REYNOLna ’
Philadelphia, Dee. 8,1866. rtia at*
JESUBON EARTH, tl 75. ~’- i
1331 strewt
deB-3t;rp
No, 233 NoithTetuh street.
ATJTBB’S J&T Bt*ACK HAIB DYB f<» aalfTknrt
applied at Rldgway House, MAHKETT^etreet!
UOOP BfliitT- aMtJ>UiraOTOBY—Hm.
M 2 Eighth,
«a£anjj>|
AT *H2
OF TH2
GENERAL AGENT.
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