Daily evening bulletin., December 15, 1866, Image 7

, Tbe Anttaor of Lacon.
There, too; I was greeted with a sight
of the pale visage and hard countenance
of the Bey. Caleb Colton, .author of' Law
con. I had not for two years seen this
learned, shrewd, avaricious, conceited
man, one whose habits were as .singular
as hischaracter was contradictory. s r ;
“Come to-naorrow;” said he, “and take
■wine with, me in the English, fashion,
let us- have some conversation—nb fde
nial.”
“Where do you reside in Paris?”
“I have lodgings for a month or two
-at a wine merchant’s near the Chamber
of Deputies. I took them on the recom
mendation of an eld priest, an excellent
<sreekscholar, who says: they ; keep at
that house the best Beaume wine in
Paris. You will And this true; come
;and taste it,” ' :
-I dined next- day at an early hour, and
-crossing the Tuileries, overtook the par
son not at all mal apropos. We crossed
the Seine, passed the ho tel of the Legion
of Honor, and at last reached a narrow,
dingy street, at: right angles with the
liver, a short way along which my con
ductor led into a passage and then up a
flight of stairs that had not been cleaned
since they were put up; We then entered
a room on the first floor, looking into the
street. As many French rooms are con
stituted, it was a sitting and a bed room
combined, the bed being in a recess,
heiore which drew a faded green curtain
so as to conceal'the bed entirely when it
was drawn;- In the middle of the outer
space there stood a table strewed with
hooks, fragments of paper, pens worn to
stumps; here a neck handkerchief,
there a pair of gloves; a coffee pot
and cup, mid a candlestick , of, very
lack lustre appearance,were alsouponthe
table. A nest of drawers in another
situation displayed each receptacle open,
and linen, cleaned as r well as soiled,hang
ing out of each in a confusion hot very
agreeable to the sight. A coat hung
upon one chair, upon another a pair of
French boots, exhibiting a remarkable
want of polish. In this corner was a
fishing rod, in that a double-barreled
gun; in fact, the whole, to coin a word,
was a perfect ‘confusatory,’ even to a
Cantab. The floor of the room was in
the same, dirty plight as the stairs, or
very little better, and both were of tim
ber, a thing not so common then in
Paris, nor half so cleanly as the red hex
agonal tile, the floor was, no doubt, yet
more, neglected, because the frotteur
could not remind the owner that the
mystery of his art was hebdomadarily
required to keep up the brick-red polish,
so grateful to the sight and pleasant to
the feeling in the July of a Parisian
summer, and withal so clean too.
I began to wonder wherelshould find
a seat, seeing every piece of furniture in
use for a legitimate or illegitimate pur
pose; but in a moment the things upon a
couple of cha ; rs were turned upon the
floor, and the reverend gentleman pro
duced a rickety table, not a yard square,
placed it in the centre of the room, and
rang the bell. In a few minutes wine
glasses and a bottle- of that expressive
-contour which indicates the nativity of
Cote d' Or were placed upon the table;
our chairs were vis-a-vis, when the par
son said:
“Dear me, I have not dined!”
“Notdined!” I rejoined! “Why did
you not partake with me just now?”
“You dine too expensively for me. I
care not what I eat; but I must have
good'wine for sauce. ”
The best proof in the world followed
that what he said was correct, and that
his own laconic remark was true,—that
‘avarice is a passion full of paradox.’
He struck a light, lit a spirit-lamp, over
which in a few minutes he had half a
pint of Water and a couple of eggs boil
ing, and boiling, too, until they were as
hard as brickbats. When taken out of
the water they were eaten with a little
salt, and pain a la discretion, as the
French say, and the repast was oyer
before I could finish a second glass of
Beaume, for he had insisted on the wine
tasting proceeding simultaneously with
his cookery. He enjoyed' a glass of
wine and convsrsation, but he never
■drank when alone. Avaricious in
most other things, he was profuse with
his wine. He often cooked his solitary
mutton chop himself, and finished it by
the time a friend or two could drop in
and take wine and talk with him; for
as to the quantity of either he never
grudged it, and would have both of the
best quality too. Some of his habits
Were those of the college,of which when
in the great world he could never divest
himself.
Many things were said of this singular
man after his decease which were wholly
untrue, especially of his keeping low
•company, which he never did. His
besetting sin was a love of play; but he
made no friend .or companion of the
gambler, for such society did not suit
bis taste.. He played at public tables or
■dabbled in the funds,but in what be did
he was isolated, and formed no lpw con
nections. His play was more to gratify
an avaricious temper than for excite
ment, and the money he won he clutched
fast. “Light come, light go,” was not
his temper. He would drive as hard a
bargain about a horse as any Yorkshire
men, and rejoice over the extra guinea
gained by his finesse as if he had com
passed some great feat. His propensity
to play was well nigh cured by his
loss in certain foreign bonds, in which
he had speculated after dealing
some time in wine, under the
lose. He then started for America, re
turned to Europe by way of Havre, and
•commenced picture dealer in Paris with
a very slight knowledge of the art, by
which he must have lost money. We
chatted over our wine about all sorts of
things, but principally literature. We
had a long talk, too, about ghosts. Col
ton was superstitious, made so by his be
lief in the Sampford ghost affair, in the
matter of whicn he offered to give £2OO
to the poor of the parish, if the proceed
ings were ever discovered to be effected
•by human agency. He was never
• called upon for the money. Sometimes
he was sententious and sported his
aphorisms. His Lacon was written on
covers of letters and scraps of paper of
every species nearest at hana. ! / He
was never tired of quoting over his wine
• with the grammar-school
drawl and emphasis, some quotations
from a poem called Hypocracy,which he
thought the be3t thinthe had ever done.
IBut he had no genius. He was an arid
writer in verse, Pope’s Moral Essays be
ing the model of his poetry without the
inspiration.
“Now is not that a fine line?” repeat
ing it. 1
“Very? fine, Colton; capital; worthy
of Pope ?” ‘
Then came alinesomewhat analogous
in sound' from Pope, which he would
close with the remark—
“Upon my word,! think mine is every
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bit as good, as musical, as 7 antithetic—
nearly as good asPope,eh? Anothergtass
qf wine ? Would you rather have Vol
nay? Only say.” ■
< The bffer to change the wine showed
the right string was touched. It can
hardly be imagined that- the didactic,
philosophic, learned, acute, Baconian
Lacon would thus exhibit in himself the
fallacy of his own presumed doctrines—
Would destroy the picture imagination
had portrayed of him.
■j With a readiness of moral display be
longing to few, he exhibited a shrewd
cunning that ever spoke out of the
wrinkled corners of his two twinkling,
Ordinary, but penetrating eyes, and
spoke, all was not, what it seemed with
him; but his mealy; colorless visage was
as much proof against emotion as that
of Talleyrand himself. There is an idio
syncrasy of mind as well as body that
sets all analogy and calculation at defi
ance, to borrow from. himself, which
was well illustrated ih his own charac
ter. • In argument he was wonderfully
ready. One' day when I was present, a
celebrated Hebraist was inclined to ren
der the passage where Balaam's ass had
spoken, He was instantly put to si
lence by Colton’s remark, “In that
case. the Ne w Testament goes for no
thing.”
; “How so?”
; “Why I have the authority of the
Second Epistle of Peter against your in
terpretation, ‘The dumb ass speaking
with man’s voice forbade the madness of
the prophet.’ ”
> Nothing could be a more complete re
futation than the reading of a Jewish
Christian in explaining the meaning of
the Old Testament. Colton got once
into the pulpit and forgot his sermon.
He was not disconcerted. He knew his
residence was too distant to send for it,
and he preached off a sermon extempore
equal to any he ever wrote, and nobody
discovered what had happened.
When outshooting one day, at a dis
tance from any aid, in getting over a
hedge with his gun cocked, he discharged
a barrel through the middle of the upper
part of his arm, half way between the
shoulder and the elbow, tearing away
the bone for a space equal to the diame
ter of the charge, which at that distance
passed almost as compact as a ball. De
spite the pain, he had an apprehension,
not ill founded, that he should bleed to
death. He lay down on his back, where
he remained for an hour shouting as loud
as he could before assistance came,
pressing upon one of the main arteries,
the situation of which he well knew,
near the shoulder, to prevent the blood
flowing towards the wounded part,—a
remarkable instance of presence of
mind. With all this he was not physi
cally a brave man, and so fall of fears
about the supernatural, that when a cu
i ate at Tiverton he could not cross the
churchyard at night from a friend’s
house without an attendant, generally a
girl of about twelve years old, with a
lantern and candle to light him over
the fearful precinct. Yet this same man
committed suicide to avoid a painful
surgical operation! Such an enigma is
human character.
He was no respecter of persons, aud
very negligent in his dres3. I went to
hear him preach at Kew, being engaged
to dine with him afterwards. The pre
sent King of Hanover was there with
his then duchess. The congregation
was small. Not knowing the royal per
sonages were at Kew, he mounted into
the pulpit with grey trousers. This im
portant matter was .commented on by
the duke and duchess; it was fearfully
heterodox, to be sure. It came to his
ears that the circumstance had been re
marked. He was to dine with the great
people a day or two afterwards.
“Well, Colton, did you get a rap on
the knuckles for your want of regi
mentals?”
“Oh, no!” said he, I hardly expected
such a thing to my face—it would hardly
be good manners,
“But if it had happened?”
“I would have tola the duke that the
value of religious truth did not depend
upon the color of a man’s breeches?”
At that time he used to keep his cigars
in the church,in alittle dark place under
the pulpit, because it had the exact de
gree of dampness they required, for
which he said wrapping them in a cab
bage leaf was but a bad substitute. His
house looked over meadows to the
Thames, in the windows facing which
we often smoked and talked of the clas
sics, or chopped metaphysics, until
night closed the scene. I then used to
walk down Kew Lane, and across the
Green- to the stage at the Star and Gar
ter. No one was more surprised than
myself at the vicar’s sudden departure
and break up, in which, it is said, he
showed more apprehension of involve
ment than he was justified in doing.
Lacon; was composed in all sorts of
places and companies; much of it in his
town lodging, as I have before said, a
penurious second floor, upon a common
deal'table, With a stump of a pen. He
would drink costly wines, write an apho
rism,spout poetry or argue upon a future
state. In his creed I believe himto have
been a Materialist. Speaking of mira
cles oneday, hesaid “Hume’s argument,
that it was more likely'those who saw
the miracles themselves should he de
ceived than that the miracles themselves
should be true, had never been satisfac
torily refuted;”
“Your opinions, I perceive,tend to ma
terialism,” I once remarked to him.
“It is notalways wise for a man to dis
close his opinions,” he replied, with one
of his peculiar expressions of counte
nance.
I have no doubt he persuaded himself
into the act that terminated his exist
ence by long previous argument with
himself. He must, on the one hand,
have undergone a very painful operation
of uncertain issue, or on the other, make
the issue certain, and escape the bodily
torture. It was precisely the temper of
the man to choose the least evil in his
own notion, laying aside any reflections,
save those arising from immediate evil.
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taken in large doses
They are Sogar Coated,so that the most sensitive
can take them easily, and they are surely the best pur
gativo medicine yet discovered
AVER’S AGUE CURE,
For the speedy and certain tUreof Intermittent Fe
ver. or ChlUs and Fever, Remittent Fever, Chill
Fever. Dumb Ague. Periodical Headache or Bilious
Head&rhe, and Bilious Fevers; indeed lor tbe wtK-le
cia»s of diseases originating in biliary derangement,
caused by the malaria of miasmatic countries.
Ibis remedy'has rarely failed to cure the severest
cs&tsof Cbliis and Fever, and it has cols great advau
uige over other Ar e medicines, that it subdues the
ampl&ini without!, jury t-» Ue patient, it com alas
uo quinine or other deleterious sabstance, nor does ii
produce quiiilsxi or any Injutious effect whatever.
~hsklr g brothers of the army and the west, try it, and
Jou will endorse these assertions.
Prepared by J. C. A YER & C J., Lowell. Mass., and
■-:ofrf by J M. MaBJS <t CO., Philadelphia, and by ah
Lrtggms. n024-a,m,w-zm
OPAL DKKTALLINA.—a superior atucie fox
cleaning the Teeth, destroying animalcule
which infect them, giving tone to thecoma and leav
my a feeling of fragrance and perfect cleanliness ir
'.he mouth. It may be used daily, and will be fountf
-j strengthen weak and bleeding gums, while iht
tomaand detersiveness will recommend t; t; ever*
one. 'Being composed with the assistance of th‘
Dentist, Physicians and Microscopist. It Is confidents
offered as a RELIABLE substitute for the oncertair
washes formerly In vogue.
Eminent l*entisis, acquainted with the constituents
of the DRTgTA t.r m a advocate its use: it comalo
nothing to prevent its unrestrained employment
Made only by
JAMES T. SHINN. Apothecary.
Broad ana Spracestreeta
For sale by Druggists generally, and
Fred. Brown, D. L. Stackhouse,
Haesard & Co., Robert C. Davis,
C. R. Eeeny, GeoX. Bower,
Isaac H. Kay. Charles Shivers,
C. H. Needles, & M. McCollin,
T. J Husband, S.C Bunting.
Ambrose Smith, Charles H. Ecerie,
Edward Parrish. James N, Marks,
William B. Webb, R. Bringburst&Go.,
James L. Birpham, DyottACo.,
Hughes & Cooes be, H.C. Blair’s Sons,
Henry A. Bower, Wyeth&Bro.
I ENTIRELY RELIABLE—HODGSON’S Bronchia
j TABLETS, for the core of coughs, raids- hoarse
ness, bronchitis and catatrh of the head and breast
Public speakers, singers and amateurs wJI be greatlj
benefited by using these Tablets. Prepared only bj
LANCASTER & WIUJ3, Pharmaceutists. N. S. Oor
ARCH and TENTH Btreets, Philadelphia. For salt
by Johnson, Holloway * Oowden, and Druggist*
generally. segstf
B BUSH’S BRONCHIAL AND P'JLMONXI
DEW DROPS, ftir Concha, and all Diseases of th*
Throat and Bronchial Tnoea. This invaln tble prepa
ration tor every household. Public Speakers, Singers
4c., possesses a Wes* era celebrity, ana has been knowr
lo relletr the most obstinate and almost nopeleet
esses It is agreeable, strengthening and soothing.
Prepared by K. C. BRUSH. Ho. 253 South NlnLr
street, Philadelphia. Jafftf
CORKS. BUNIONS. ’INVERTED KAILS.— Dr. J.
DAVIDSON, Chiropodist. Operator oo Corns.
Bunions. Inverted Kails and other diseases of the
feet. Office, 924 CHESTNUT street. Dr. Davidson will
wait on patients at their residences. no3tg
LRESH ADAMS COUNTY PEACHES,
In Gallon. Half Gallon and Quart Cans. Fresh
Quinces and Tou-atoea Also. 100 doa Tomatoes In
ultn, 100 doa. Green Corn. For sale by
JAMEb K. WEBB;
WAIiKUT and EIGHTH Etna
MAINE potatoes— Prince Alberta and Jackson
Whites just arrived from Portland, aud for sale
In lota to suit from schooner Ida F. Wheeler, at
cattell’swhaxf below Arch street. dell-61*
I>RiMSKEW JERSEYLEAF LARD just received
L aadtorsaleby _
E. O, KNIGHT &Ca.
nol6-lm S. E. corner Water and Chestnut streets.
ITOX’B FABI27A CRACKERS,
r Fresh Crackers of this unrivaled Brand always ou
band and lor sale In bbls. and h bbls,, by
AU>RICH, \BKKKB & OAKY,
18,20 and 28 LeUtla street,
Exclusive Agents.
1 n non Cans FRESH PEACHES, WINSLOW
Iv.UUUConi, Freeh Tomatoes,Green Peas, Straw
berries. Moahrooms, Ac, In store and for sale, whole
sale or retail, by M. f. SPILLIN, N» W. corner Arch
and Eighth, ‘ ' •
r\HLED FRUIT.—Very handsome pared peaches,
Ls uipared. do. dried apples, in store and fot sale
by M KBPILIJN.N. W. corner Arch and Eighth.
DUCBWHEaT. BUCKWHEAT.—S,OOO lbs. of the
D celebrated Stiver Flint Buckwheat, in store aus
for sale by M. 9. SPLLLIN, Tea Dealer and Grocer. N.
W. corner Arch and Eighth.
NEW RAISINS AND FIGS-Superior new Lay*
Raisins and choice Elma Figs, for Bale by M. F
spfllin, y. w. comer Arch and Eighth streets. _
\TEW BETHLEHEM BUCKWHEAT & WHITE
Is C owr Honey, in store and for sale at COUSTY’S
hast End Grocery, No. 118 Booth SECoND street.
QUEEN OLIVES.—3OO gallons choice large Queer
Olives, In store and for sale by gallon or barrel, at
C« U»- TY S East End Grocery, No. 118 Sonth SECOND
street.
North Carolina hominy grits, nbw
Bcmlpy, paied and nnpared Peaches, just re
ceived and fors&ieatCOUßTY’S East End Grocery,
No. 118 Booth SECOND street.
STUFFED MANGOKB AND PEPPERS.GENUINE
Chutney Sauce. Robinson’s patent Barley and
Groats, always on hand at COUSTY’S East End Gro
ceiy, No. 118 Sonth SECOND street.
BLISDB A2TD SHADBd.
B. J. WILLIAMS,
&C. 16 HQBTE SIXTH BTBEIB
MANUFACTUKE3 Off
VENETIAN BLINDS
AMD r
WINDOW SHADES,
rue largest and finest assortment In the dtp M li
lowest prices.
store Shades made and lettered, ttsS-H
IMMSMoM;
every where
h
a
U o Vl
s 6 £
§ B
!* ©
VAN DEUSEN, BOEHM Mi & CO.,
627 Chestnut Street,
Agents for Philadelphia. n027-lm|
Needlework
made Into
Batohels,
Pocket
OLD WHISKIES. ~SM) Cases Pore Old Wheat, Eye
Boarbca by
5 North Etont rttntl
EEDIOAfi.
uuvvmuK.
soippuve
FOR NEW YORK, -
; Via Delaware and Raritan Canal.
Sbe SbUadelptua and Sew TorUfixpresa
, - Steamboat Company.
Steam Piopenen leave DAILY fins
amnaSb PIBBT ffHASg bftlnw IfJTOßTntwfll
maKSspe nm m 24 Houaa^~
line connects with all Northern and Eastern
.Transportation Companies.; Goods forwarded direct to
anpomta free of commission.
Yrelttt received at lowest rates.
WM. P- CLYDE A 00., Arena;
' Sonth Wharves. Philadelphia.
mSAVA.SJSAH, UA.
Swiispk The. Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Company’s Begular Unea, Becond wharf
below Spruce street. -•> . . :<■ ,
The steamshImTONAWANDA. OaptW. Jennings,
for -SAVAgSAH. will commence receiving treUnt
on THURSDAY, December 2Mb, and sail ons ATUB*
DAY,December 22d.at 10 o'clock A.M., and Over?'
alternate Saturday thereafter— viz.: January 19, Ac ~
Thla steamer has nne slate Booths and other ac
commodations for Dfcs3enger».
- jCabin passage', gs: Deck do.. |l5.
Through tickets sold to the following points—Macon,
Qa., tee; Columbus, Ga. gw: Angnsta.Ga„t32; Atlanta,
Qa.,g39; Albany.Ga .t4O; Montgomery,'Ala.,Her Bn
tania, Ala. g4u; Mobile, Ala., New Orleans, teo,
Brelgbt taken allow rates.
Through receipts given at through rates to Macon,
Augusta. Colnmbns, Atlanta,Ga.;Knoxvllle, Chatta
nooga, Nashyllle. Memphis. Tenn.: Canton,.Miss.
No frelghtrecel ved or bills of lading signed on sail
ing day.
agents at Savannah, Hunter AGammell.
Bor freight or passage, applyto
WM. X,. James. General Agent,
314 South Wharves. -
FOB HEW OBLEANB, DIRECT. • ’■ .
XUli£. THE PHILADELPHIA AND 80UTH
EKN IUIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S EBGUIiAB
LINE.
The first-clase Steamship '
1 ; JDIftATA.
■ 1 UOO tons register. P. P. Hoxlei Master,
Will commence receiving freight for tha above part at
recond wharf below bprnce street. oa MONDAY.
December 17th, and sail on BATOBDAY, Dec, 2BAst
12 o’clock M. ■
Betumins, win leave NEW OBLEANSon BATUK
DAY, January Sth.
This steamer has sap rl state Boom end mue
accommodations fbrpasreiigem.
Cabin rassmge $6O; Deck do., $3O.
Freight tahen at low rates.
No freight received or bills of lading signed on
lDgday.
Agents at New Orleans, Heasrs. Gravy, Nickerson A
0., who will give careml attention to sUßmentaC
goods to balveeton, Mobile, Vicksburg, and intwrpw
-points.
For ft eight or passage, apply to
WM. L. James. General Agent,
a* Booth Wharaa.
FOR WILMINGTON, IT. C
THE PHITiA DKLPHIA AMD BOM
i*Kn MAIL STEAMSHIP. COMPANY’b **Kt*ii ..<■ »«.
LINE, from Second Wharf below SPRUCE street
The first-class steamship PIONEER. OaptalnJ Best
rew. lor WILMINGTON, will commence receiving
freight on THURSDAY. December istb, and sell os
SATURDAY,December loth. at 10 o’clock A. M., and
every alternate Saturday thereafter—vis.: December
fc9th, January 12th. Ac.
Paasanteni will find superior accommodations and
best attendance.
Cabin taasage, fSO; Deck do., |lO.
Freight carried at low rates
No freight received or bills of lading signed on sail
log day. ,
Agents a) Wilmington, WORTH <& DANIEL, who
will give especial attention to forwarding goods ad*
dre&sed to their 1 care to and from the interior.
For freight or p&ns&ge, apply to
WE I*. lambs. General Agent,
sel2 314 Wharves
for boston.
Tmirafii STEAMSHIP LINE DIRECTE.
AjLl2x& JBOM 2T93DAY&,
FROM PINE ST. WHARF, PHILADELPHIA,
AND LONG WHARF, BOSTON.
The steamship ROMAN. Captain Baker, will saQ
uzn Ibilaoelpbiaon Mondav. Dec. 17, at 10 A.M.
The steamship NORMAN, Captain Crowell, will saß
won. Ret ion on Saturday, Dec. loth, at 3 P. M.
The Hue between Philadelphia and Boston U now
composed of the
ROMAN (new), Captain Baker, 1,438 tons burthen,
Captain Matthews, tons burthen,
NORMAN, Captain Crowell. 1,202 tons burthen,
these substantial and wall appointed steamships
-ill sail punctually is advertised and freight win bs
sseived every day, a steamer hem? always on the
erth to receive cargo.
Shippers are requested to send BSIa of Lading win*
i :e!r goods.
Vcr freight or ptoiage having superior
apply to HENRY WIN 60 K <& UU.,
mnr 832 South Delaware avenue
THROUGH AIRLINE TO THE SOUTH
. AND WEST.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND AND NORFOLK
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
THROUGH RECEIPTS TONEW3ERN.
Also, to all points In NORTH ami SOUTH CARO
LINA, via Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, and tm
LYNCHBURG, VA.. TENNESSEE, and the WEST,
via NORFOLK, PETERSBURG AND SOUTHfiIDg
RAILROAD.
The regularity, safety and shortness of this route, to
gether with the moderate rates charged, commend a
to ibe public as the most desirable medium for carry
ing every description of freight.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any erpeaaa
of transfer.
Steamships Insure at lowest rates, and leave regu
larly from the first wharf above Market street
Freight received dally.
WH, P. CLYDE & 00„
14 North and 14 South Wharves.
HAVANA STEAMERS.
SEMI-MONTHLY LINS.
The steamships
HENDRICK HUDSON CaphHowW
■STABS ABB STRIPES .Capt. TTnlnw
These steamers will leave this port lor Havana
every other SATURB AY, at 8 A M.
The steamship STABS ABB STRIPES, Holmes
master, will sail for Havana on SATURDAY HOUS
ING, Becember isth, at 8 o’clock.
Passage to Havana ?oC.
Bo freight received after ThtusUay.
For freight or passage; apply to
THOMAS WATTSON & SOSB,
Bo Borth Delaware avenna.
.POR NJCWBKRN, N. a,. VI a. NOR
jSSjEfe POLK VA.. ELIZABETH CITY, EDJ4W
TOJS AND PLYMOUTH. N. C . VIA CANAL.
TO OH SATURDAY, DEO. 15TH. UNLESS
SOONER FULL.
The steamer HANNAH SOPHIA* Tesf, master, U
now rapidly load leg for the above ports at WILLOW
street wharf, and having tearyaUof her cargo en
gaged, will positively sail as above.
*or freight, apply to
W UNION FXPBES3 LISKTO BATjTT
£BgiisS£ MORE, via CHESAPEAKE ANB
DMjAWAfeE CANAL
Philadelphia ard Baltimore Union Express Steam
boat Company will leave thesecond wharf below atoS
street every Wednesday and Saturday at 2 P. M.
Freight taken at low rates.
For Height or passage, apply to
JOHN D. RUOFF,
No. 116 North Delaware avenoa.
mmjdnz La the favorctk str vmboat
JOHN A. WAHKER for Burlington*
end Bristol. loaves. Philadelphia, Ch&tnnt street
wharf, at aP. M. Returning leaves Bristol at 7.10 A
?£., stopping each way at .Riverton, Torresdale, An
dalusiaand Beverly. Fare, 25 cents. Excursion, tt
cents. ' CC26-U5
NOTICE.— All persons are Hereby cannoned against
trusting any of the crew of the Br brig CON
QUEROR, Arch’d Sterling master, from Bordeaux ai
debts of their contracting will not be paid by captain
or consignees. _ -
AUPHOSSE STEPHAN! & CO. t
IST and IS9 South Eront street*
SHIP J. G. RICHARDSON, Kendall, master, ia now
dbcbarging under general order at Sooth street
wharf. Consignees will please attend to the reception
of their {OOO3. PETER WRIGHT & SONS, US
Walnut street. nc24tf
Steamship roman, prom BOSTON.—Con
signees of merchandise per above etpamer, vfll
please send for their goods, now landing at Pine street
wharf (dels St) - HENRY WINSOR & 00.
-A. 3R- x
* Suwmsoj to Geo. W Gray, 2
BREWER,
24,36, 23 and SO South Sixth St., Fhilad’h-
FuoOliStock k sflt-BrewsAla, • 6 >
nna Medioitt
HER MAJESTY
j CHAMPAGNE,
■X. S’. DirKTON,
11 165 «o®fS fSSSs? Sv,, m& AOESY, |i
'VTTINES.—The attention of the trade Is solicited to
it the following very choice Wines, <fcc„ for sale by
JOSEPH F DUNTON, No. 151 South FRONT street,
above Walnut:
M ADEIRAS—OId Island, 8 years old.
SHERRIES—CampbeII & Co., single, double and
triple Grape, E. Crusoe & Sons, Rudolph, Topas, Rleg,
Spanish, Crown and F. Vallette.
PORlB—Valleite.Vinho Velho Real, Danton and
Bebello Valente «fc Co., Vintages 1636 to 1856. •
CLARETS—Cruse Fils Freres and St, Eatephe Cha
teau Luminy.
V> RMOCTH—G. Jourdan, Brive & Co.
M USOAT—de Frontlgnan,
CHAMPAGNES—Ernest Irrony, “Golden Star,”
de Venoge, Her Majesty and Royal Cabinet and other
fevorite brands.
LOST OR MISLAID.
LOST OR Ml«LAiD.—Scrip Issued bv the PENH
MUTUAIi LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of
the following years and numbers:
1862, No. 798.... ...... .91011854, No. 884..... - W
1665, NO. 813 ............. 10 1856, NO, ;958.; .JT*.
1857, No. 688. 2U 18f 8, No. 858 . »
1859, No. 965,. ..... 80 Extra 59. No. 1,081 ... TO
186 U, No 921... 80 '
The finder will beenltnbl;
tbp Office of the LIFE
CHESTNUT street. No. 85
the Company fyi OgpUeai
BISHOP, SON & oa.
No. ICS Arch street.
F rewarded by leaving isafc
CNSUBANCB COitPiNT,
. Application Is maito ta
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