SERMON BEV. HENRY WARD BEEOHER, DELIVERED Sunday Morning, Oct. 11, 1868 "SELF-DENIAL." The SW-Denial of Prize-Fighters—Of Soldiers Of Commercial Men—Man the Universdt Flea—Daniel IVebster—Self-Denial the True Self-Culture—Respect able Religion—Exalting Self- Denial and Debasing And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to ob tain a corruptible crown ; but we an incor ruptible.—l. Co, intl. , to /IS, .: 25. Paul, brought up as a dew at the feet of Gains lie), instructed in all the narrow, technical pro visional literature of his people, escaped entirely from it, and became as unconventional as you can well Imagine a man to be. For, while for strictly logical purposes, instructed to •argue to his own people, be was accustomed to draw his materials from whatever source soevor good could be obtained. He did not, like modern soi- Cisont apostles, refuse to introduce Into his letters or his discourse things "not proper for Sunday" —things "not proper for the pulpit, and things not proper for a sermon;" whatever thing bad power in it to make men better was proper; and he took them where he found them. If be went past a temple where there was He-' brew worship, straightway you shall find him nsirg it as an illustration, and drawing_ from it inferences and applications for the welfare of, men. If he went through a street which led him near a forum where men were striving, he in stantly appropriated that for an Illustration, and introduced it into his instruction; wherever there was an armed hand, wherever there was a skilful process of human life, wherever men dug and delved, there Paul found matter for preaching. The fact is, an' honest heart bent upon the rescue of his fellow-men cannot get material that will be amiss if he gets material that merely makes men better. The il lustration of which our text is a part was one drawn from the conflicts that took place in the games for which Greece was celebrated, whore their wrestlers or racers, as the case might be, contended for the wreath, rather than the crown, as it might be called. The wreath was made no of perishable vegetable matter, laurel-leaves or what not. To this Paul alludes when he says, "They to obtain a corruptible crown, but we en incorruptible." He declares the men who strove for those things were temperate. Now, the word " temperate," under such circum stances; means self-control; and self-control means self-denial. These two words are comple meats of each other. Wherein any individual's life any class of faculties desire, or any faculty de sires slower thing, and the superior faculty re fuses it for the sake of a higher one, the lower faculty is self-denied, the higher faculty controls. And so there is in every act of self-denial a cor responding act of self-control, as in every act of self:control the opposite or anithetical act of self-denial. The Apostle declares that oven those athletes, largely made up of heathen people, these men, for the sake of se small a res •muneration—for so small a motive as that of wearing a crown of leaves that soon withered and came to nothing—they practised heroic self denial and training. Temperate in all things—it was much to say in Greece or in the Roman em pire, anywhere, of the brute men that conducted the pleasures of society. There ie, then, in our text this contrast between the conduct of Chris tians and the reasons for self-denial and self control in them, and the reasons and motives which led to self-control .in common worldly men. When men are exhorted to live after the manner of Christ, they often admit the beauty of a Christ-like life; but they declare that it is beyond their power to live in such a way. The force of will is so great, the force of habit is so great, the force of appetite is so great, the force of temptation, external to themselves, its solicitations and variations are so subtle, so con tinuous, that men frequently despond and des pair of becoming what in some hours they fain would be glad to be. I hope there are no men so bad that there are not some leisure hours through which they look to see an ideal of a life better than that they are following, and in whieh they do not Ring to be something bettor and higher than they are. But these momentary aspirations are quenched too often by the feeling " I cannot do IL" The idea of repressing fiery appetites, the idea of moderation in the passions, the conception of a steady persistence in a regu lated life by men notoriously irregular, of con tinence of fairness, of justice, of the maintenance of social good-will, of benevolent disposition among their fellows—these, the lowest phases of religion, its very common, often everyday life, seam to hundreds and thousands of men very dit cult ; they seem romantic and visionary achieve ments, good enough to make poetry of, but not very easy to live on. I propose showing that self-control is the com mon experiene,e of men, and that Christianity appeals to an active possibility, and for a pur pose, only far higher than that for which men usually employ self-denial and self-control. It there is a class of men more than any other likely to be given up to self-indulgence, and force of animal desire, it Is the athletic class, the wrest lers and the prize-fighters, ancient and modern. Usually the men who betake themselves to such occupation are physically organized with high animal endowment; they feel the pulse of animalism far more than others ; and for the pleasure, the highest pleasure in that sphere where these men live they do per suade themselves to practice extraordinary self control. If we co down among men who in New York practice brutal pleasures, and preach to them to be temperate for the sake of spiritual dignity and future remuneration, they would reply, That will do for parsons; but it is impos sible for men like us " Now, I say that these very men, when it is not something spiritual that is to be gained, when it is not incorruptible, but corruptible motives, these very men do practice an amount of self-denial and self-control which is far more than is necessary to make them eminent Christians. Did you ever read—and you might have read worse things—the history of the training of men for prize-fights? I have read a great many; and have studied them. They are taken weeks, and months if need be,before the great conflict comes, and the very first rule which is laid down to the man who is to be trained a prize-fighter is, "tem perance." The man that heretofore never suf fered an opportunity of doing good to pass by. if drinking is doing good, is absolutely sworn in to a temporary total abstinence practice; neither brandy, nor gin, nor whisky may pass his lips—nay, in the most modern line of scientific training, may wine nor malt liquors pass his lips. In regard to his food,he is put upon only the most wholesome meats, and the most wholesome of farinaceous diet; and this in an exactly regulated quantity, prescribed at precisely the same hours; and he becomes a model of temperance, the admiration of every hygienist who looks upon the experi ment, and he continues this one mouth, two months, three mouths if it is necessary, till his whole system glows with the beauty of temper ance. These great, swollen.. bull-necked men, these great stalwart fellows, that are de vourers of meat and incontinent of plea sure and vast drinkers, see how, for the sake of a little transient praise, and the purse that goes with it, they will submit themselves to the most virtuous temper ance, and a lots continuance therein. Nay,they introduce a semi-moral e.ement, for regularity is that. ktinctual regularity is introduced, thromsh out their lives; these men sleep just as much as they ought to sleep—tug/,t comes in there—they just awake when they ought to awake; they are practiced in the most vigorous and robust exel else just as long as they ought to be practiced. There is a kind of brute conscience that tiny eau follow,a kind of conscience that bone and muscles Sanaa themselves to. The syste m:late exercise which men 6111)11111 CO is enough, if exerted in industry, and applied to the ""regular functions of society, to obtain for them a living a year LOW. What with pulling at weights. what with using . durab-belle, what with swinging clubs, what with running, what with walking, what with pulling St in oar:whit with a thousand disciplines of the inkid,, !nenput forth an amount of industry LLe.! if regulated and applied to a commercial commu nity would ,earry , them through a whole Bere,is thistringing up of the body to the gresi s Css endrititike and elasticity. to perfect health'und vigor, the bringing 'to an absolute phys kid manhood, to the highest physics Standard, followed day and night, without wavering, for weeks and for months— for what? For a conflict of an - hour and a half or two hours; for the most brutal results', to be sure. 'But men, there are the motives. For that they submit to a self-denial and .a self-control that must seem-marvellous to any than that looks upon ,it. Now, if in-such a class as this there Is the power of self-denial, we need not say that Christianity, which appeals' to men to deny themselves, appeals to au impossible,ro mantic. visionary power. It inheres in the low est natures. Only find men with the proper mo tives, and you will find that iu the lowest, the most brutal,the brother of the lion and the tiger, there is a human competency to self-control and self-denial. Consider, next, the example of a very much higher class of men, the soldier and the military man. If there be anything that men dislike in this world it Is the endurance of discomforts, con stant, unintermittent limitations and restrictions and disciplines; and yet bow cheerfully do sol diers endure I' low willingly do they forego the comforts of home! Row much do they suffer in the field ! flow do they become, when they aro veterans, almost indifferent to rain and cold and mud and ice ! How little are they dainty of their Mod ! What long periods are they able to go without it? Men usually shrink from dangers; at last the soldier cultivates danger; he becomes knowing and skillful in all Its exigencies. Al though they run eager to indulgence again, yet, when occasion requires, how modern soldiers put on the armor of self-denial, cheer and - persever ance ! In far less discouraging circumstances, how hard it is for men that are not soldiers to forego the comforts and the conveniences of life. But these men, under the stimulus of various motives, of ambition, of patriotism and of so ciety, esprit du corps, from rude motives almost all of them, how really and truly for years, and sometimes for lives, do they prac tise theniselves in every thing that is rugged and robust, and self-deny and self-con troll- Well, if those men can do it, anybody can do it. If prize-fighters can do it, soldiers cln do it; and if soldiers can do it, civilians eau do it. The only question is, will you? It is not a ques tion of whether you can, at all. Pat men-in cir cumstances where they want to, where they have a motive that stirs them up, they instantly show that they can practice these virtues, which at other times, presented to them speculatively in religions teachings, seem to them impossible,and for the poets. Go higher yet, to the commercial men. There ' is no class in the world who submit to so much inconvenience, annoyance, and self-denial as men who are making their fortunes—commercial men. It seems impossible to limit them. It be comes my duty, and the duty of every man who preaches in these great cities, to caution men against wearing themselves ont early. Now, in dolence is natural to man; laziness is a large ele ment in depravity; men like their own ease; and yet, under the stimulus of motives of wealth, see how men almost forget what ease means! how they thosent all the week, and are tormented on Sunday with weekly thoughts! How almost im possible it becomes for them to keep still enough even for health! One-half of their life they cheerfully give, collingtit in every way, tying it into all manner of knots, flinging it sometimes as a javelin, sending, it as an arrow is sent, swing ing it as a sword is swung, pounding as the blacksmith swings his grimy sledge, how do they bore and pierce and fly—for the sake of what? Amassing a little money. Are they to be happier with it than they were in amassing it? No; there are very few men who don't think they are going to be happier. I never knew a man to work in this way who had not some sort of speculative idea before him of what he is going to do bye and bye, "as soon as I have succeeded." They are al ways weaving that gold-threaded net that is to bring in the fish from the sea; and when they have gathered them there is to be that time which everybody is living for and nobody gets; there is a balmy Eden to which they are always going. But stop them and probe them, and inquire, "What is your observation; do, you think that men who have succeeded in life are all happy men ?" They say, "No; I don't they are." "Do you think your happihess has increased in the ratio in which you have approached to your ideal of r prosperity ?" "No; I don't think it has." "Are you now as happy a man as you were boy ?" "No." "Are you half as happy as you thought you would be when you passed that milestone, and that milestone and that mile stone?" "No; lam not." "You don't expect to be much happier in any part of your life, do you ? How old are you ?" "I am forty." "What! in the very heyday of life, the very fulness of strength and amplitude of experience! Did your heart ever beat more tenderly, would it ever send better blood to stimulate the brain than It does now? Will your life ever be more perfectly in your power than at that ripe age? You are not happy? Yuu have not gained that you expected to gain; or, gaining it has not brought you what you expected it would. And do you expect, as you decline, and so to the shadowy side of life, that you will be happier?" "No; Ido not." "And, you know, how cheerfully did you take half of your life, or two-thirds of it, and offer it as a sacrifice for the -t.ite of that speculative time to which you were to be brought, that Eden future into which every man hopes to be admitted before he dies." You see what sell-denial men practice for these illusory, imaginative conceptions of their commercial ,•tosperity. The half Is not told. The most ~h oigree.,ble things arc done by men. Mtn of sensitive nerve, if there he money to It, how patiently they will work in the talmwohandlery shop ; if there is any thing that is more odious than another it is de t 'tying fats, and yet, if - there is "money in it," how sweet is the perfume at last ! How disa gra sable must be the fish-monger's life—if fish smell to him as they do to me! How excessive ly annoying to be obliged to achieve large mon s by living in an oil store, being a collier, to work in grime at untimely hours ; and yet how glad are men for such a chancel Flow they train the eye, and train the nose, and train the ears to disgusting eights, and odious smells, and screech ing sounds,and ugly companionship,and all man ner of arinoyances, bow patiently they submit to all these things for the sake of gaining the golden profit ! Nay, more. How does man torture his own flesh! Men who live in temperate and right ly adjusted latitudes, how do they cheerfully go to the tropics, to burning Cuba; how do they sweat and swelter along "the line" if only there is a prospect of property. How long men make themselves exiles in china and Japan if only they can come home with bags full of money, be dried up and too old to make any use of them; and yet how cheerfully do they go through it? flow will they beat at the barrier, at the door of the North, which never yet has opened to any se same! How will they wander amidst the thun dering ice-mountains for wealth, and provoke extremes of temperature, and lace malaria, be familiar with fevers, with heat or with cold, with perilous adventure, with exposure, through years and years denying their tastes, their com fort, their repose! How do men go through all these things for the sake of—a little money; men who, when their ministers say, " You ought to live a noly, self-denying life," say, " Parson, that may do very well for you; I cannot deny myself; aer men of the world cannot deny ourselves " v$ hen they are perpetually going through self , enials. Ah ! new sublime this life would be of the all-the world disturbing merchant, if it only were for a moral cud, for lire eter nal, and not for the life that perishes; if .1 were for the glory t.f God, and nut for his own glory; if it were for the welfare of men, and not simply for his own welfare or that of his household. Oh! how glorious it would be! And yet we see most stupendous intiLtnees of self-de nial in the meanest Sphere, and for the lowest end. There are scarcely one or two in an age who dare practice for moral ends and upon the sacra d c3cle of eternity such self-denial as the meanest and noblest natures alike are oraetteing unwearingly for the lowest and yulgare,,t objects. What an example is the life, of such mem to the languid and very indifferent way in which others live a Christian life! onsider, too, how patient men rip, with their fellow-man. Heat is annoying, flies bother you, moFtluitoes vex you, dens torment us; but man is he (,soiis7/1 !piker u. t Of all vexatious insects he is the universal flea. Men annoy you and vex atm toimenc you by as much as they are more c. mposite in their nature, by as much as they Lave n larger power to affect unpleasantly your arious faculties. The man who can bear cheer idly with his fellow- man has but little to learn.. Now, consider how patient men become When . hey have sty motive. How uncharitable they are; how impatient they are: how they "won't be both - Cud" with men they can get rid of. But the moment they have an interest iu it,st e what per ct Christians men are in a mean way. If a man owes you a debt—l am speaking feelingly bow—if yon think you can gain it by crashing him as a cluster you will do it. But sometimes 'here Is no cluster to crush, and then you take our debtor as a vintsr takes the vine; you ma- IMIC it; you trim IT; yon train if; you cause it to besr;you do a world of work for thesake of help 'lig him bear clubters that bye and bye are to be pre PFt 43 into your cup. How you do tend him and take care of him! You say it is not sending THE DAILY EVENING BU'LLETIN-"PHILADELPHIA,:SATURDAY,fOCTOBER . 24, 1868. -a thousand dollars after another thousand, but it is to take -, care -of that very thousand, and bring it back; therefore yon him up in business; you will indorse -his,paper, all tae time mad at him, all the time -alighting him; all the time remembering that is ,the only way to got the money. You will glye him a.good name; yeti, you will canvass for him; get him that fat position; got an agreement that his salary is to be paid in Instalments; if men-speak against him, inasmuch as it Is to your interest to defend him, you .will stand up for him, you indignant hypo crite as you are, until at last you get your own again. And nobody thinks this is any thing more than smartness. And then for the same reasons see how men bear- with disagreeable men. You have your wares for tale; it takee - all men to make a world, you say, and if a man comes to you and pays you for what ho buys, you are accessible to him; you honor him it may bo with reluctance, but you say, "Business is business, and must be attended to;'' yon say to your clerks and to your young men, "It won't do to throw up these things; you must recollect our interest in' this matter." There is nothing too good for him. Men that all the community put a ban on if they come full-pock eted into your store, and buy largely and regu larly, and pay as they go. your store is just as hospitable to them as though it were a golden palace. Yon bear with them. That is not all. If itie hecessary you bring thorn home with you; you open the sanctity of your house to them; it' that cannot be, then you take them to a resplendent hotel, or, with all your friends', who will undergo it for your sake, you have a splendid dinner at Delmonico's. You say to your companion at home, "My wife, I shall invite so and -so to dinner at my house." She says, "My dear, you know that it is repue nant. What 1 such a man as that I By your own showing, what right have you to bring him into your family among your chil dren?" "Well, my dear," says the husband, "you have not the least idea of the value of his account to our establishment ; we must do it." "0, yes, my husband ; but what can pay you for the loss of your self-respect ? Yon know you are unable to feel any regard for this detestable man." And seeing you make no headway, you try something else, and any, "Mv dear, you know how it is; if I get through this crisis in my affairs—and this man will certainly take me through—then I shall have provided for my children. It le not for myself, or for you : it is for our children." "0 !" says she, "if it is for the children, then I suppose it must be." And so that ogre, that baboon, that golden-lined pocketed baboon comes to the house: the servant le ready at the door,and it is the best room, and the best place, while the poor righteous man in the neighborhood has not bad so much as the light of his hospitable neighbor's countenance thrown upon him. I don't say he does this be cause he loves IL But he does take up his cross, don't he? And he does it bravely. A friend who is present tells me of an incidentin the days when color was a virtue in a famous church in New- York. A distinguished mertant had a colored man in his pew, and the presence of that colored man in the congregation was of the same effect that a lump of salt would have in a cup of tea; the whole congregation thoueht of nothing but the colored man in that man's pew. As he went down out of the church into the vestibule, some of them gathered about him, say lug . , "What on earth has possessed you to bring that ,nigger into your pew ?" flu whis pered to them. "A West India planter; he is worth three millions." "Introduce him to us; please introduce him." As soon as they knew he was not a vulgar man, working for hie living day by day, and thought he was a capitalist, a millionaire, they were very willing to cross palms with him. Where was their fine taste ? Where was that consideration of the mingling of God's laws? Where was all that ethics that we heard so much about in days gone by of the social equality of different people? Gone in a minute when Mammon said let it go; but when the loving Jesus said let it go, no; that was detestable. Men will do anything for money. Anything is respectable that men do for money in this bad world. Ah! self-denial is very common Nay more; we see in great men, great natures, how they will sacrifice whole lives and multiform faculties and enjoyments for the sake of ignoble ambition. Let me mention one to whom in some respects I owe a debt of gratitude, Daniel Webster. In my boy hood his writings had a great power upon my imagination. A man that by education could have had moral sense, but by the circumstances in which he lived it was overslanghed, and, great as he was, he was a man, not without moral sentiment, bat without moral sense. He had the feeling, the inspiration of the dignity and the grandeur of moral things; but the moral sense that makes things right or wrong be was quite deficient in. And although he towered above all his fellows, and was truly the first man of his nation, perhaps, of his time. anywhere; although he had a creative brain, and all the great things that he did better than other men he did more easily than other men; although he was a man massive both in body and in mind. capable of standing easily above all his fellows, be gathered up his experience, his train ing, his taste, and moral sentiments. and sacri flu d them all for the bauble of the Presidency. He sold himself for it; be sold himself at such a price that he was not esteemed worth anything by the men who bought him; they bought him and threw him away. Hie heart broke, and.he died counting his whole life to have been a total failure. Yet he was a great nature; in many respects a nature we cannot but look up to and mourn over. His name, it sounds in my ears al ways as used the stroke of the village bell that said some one has gone to the eternal world. I mourn over it—how his great, varied, endowed, rich life, was made a matter of self-denial for the Door, paltry office of the Presidency—an office that Lever makes a man great, as we have had too man 3, instances to show, and which belittles a great many men who might have been There are those living, to be revered for many ex cellences, that are now counting all things as naught. Like the Apostle they could say, "I unt all things as but dung, that so I may win the Presidency." Literature and various learning and eloquence, and all political experience and all judicial excellences—. whatever there is to make up and well furnish a man they have; tho whole vast orb and mighty interior of these things, they cheerfully sacrifice it for the sake of poor, paltry ambition. lam sorry for them. There are a great many men of whom it will verify, "He that seeks his lite shall lore it," as of a great many men it is being written, "Blessed be God; he that will lose his life shall save IL" These illustrations are enough, I think, to sat isfy you that the principle of self-denial and of sell-control is one not only not impossible to hu man nature, but that it is ono of the COLElcsouest, and most universally in exercise; and that when the Christian religion introduces self denial, symbolizing it by the cross, it dues not introduce a new principle ; it does not Introduce a difficult principle. For no man is worthy to be a disciple of Christ unless ho takes up his cross, deny himself and follow Him. Ha is only saying in regard to himself and the world eternal what this world says in regard to every man that follows it. There is no training that does nt t say to every applicant that comes to it, "If you take up your cross and follow me, you shall have my remuneration;" no profession that does not say, "If you take up your cross and loliow me, 1 will reward you." There is nu pleasure, there is no ambition, there is no course that men purene, from the lowest to the highest, within the htitizon of secular things, which does not say to every man, "Unless you take up 3 cur cross and follow me, you shall have. none 01 me." Now, the Lord Jesus Christ, standing like an angel, is calling us to honor and to glory immortal, saying In behalf of these higher things what the whole world says for its poor, miserable, pitiable things, "Take up your cross and follow me." Lust says so; why should not love sey so? Wealth says so, that perirheth; why should not imperishable v,ealth Say so? Glory that fades, and is corruptible. as the laurel wreath says tto; why should not that crown of fine gold that never glows dim say so? If men will h itear from the world, oh! why will they not hear it from Eternity? When we urge such considera tions as these, when men are fired with such con siderations, when truly noble natures,hearing the call of the Gospel, yield themselves to It, and en ter upun a religious life of enthusiasm and fervor. and deny themselves all things in furtherance of its end, how strangely the world falls to recog nize its own redeeming qualities, how are they called fanatics and enthusiasts! Now, enthusiasm in religion is only a higher rationality. It is only good sense. There is not a father that does not say to his child going out into life, "If you will succeed as a lawyer, you must give yourself to it." I say to every man who Is going out as a Christian, "If you are going to succeed as a Christian you must give yourself." Every teacher says to the scholars who go out, "If you give ally our souls to it, you will become 01111- 11(3t." WC stir up men of whom we bops great things, and say, "Glow, glow; be intense, earnest, continuously so;" and when we see that they do it we praise them, and say that they will become eminent. But when, for the honor of God, when for his own self approbation, when for that which every maircarries In his aspirations and, in Ilia conscience' continually, a man chooses to follow 'Christ, men say, " Ere is an enthusiast" "I believeln religiori,",says one, "but'then there is moderation in all things:" ,No; there 43 not much when you swear; there is not. much when you - are after money; no moderation in your vanity, as your boatsing and continual outcry show; there is no moderation in your pride, swollen as you are, and overbearing; there le no moderation in anything except in your con science; that is very moderate. When men around you give way to their generous feelings, "Ah !" you say, " that man is throwing himself away; moderation in all things." If a man be intense in his oiligious convictions, men says he is dogmatic. If a man believes, men say no man ought to think ho knows better titan hie father, or better than his neighbors; it is arrogance, it is self-conceit. When a man says, "I know in whom I believe," it carries no reflection on those who went before, or those who are cotemporary: It merely says, "That is my conviction," and in that conviction he lives and triumphs. Mon say he is bigoted. a man who don't care any thing about what he believes, of course don't care what any body else believes. Men who are earnest in their convictions are said to be fanati cal because they won't give them up, just as a man is fanatical who will not give up his life to the man who is hewing at his life. Mon believe In the things by which they contest in this world. How are men reviled by the world because they persevere for a higher sphere, for nobler things—they are fanatical enthusiasts! 0! would that there was more fanaticism, more en thusiasm in this old sphere. It is the salvation of the world to have one man in an age who thus profoundly believes, and brings nature to his be lief. Ahl y these men who don't believe sre like casks of wine that leak. They go into the cellar full; drop by drop, unheard, unobserved, it is leaking away. Months pass; no one knows where the level of the wine is; Sears pass, and still the leak, the leak, the leak,• and by and by the owner comes for his ripened wine, and behold, the cask is empty. Men of genius, men of sensibility, men of philanthropy, In our day are all afloat; they have roots in nothing; they are like men who in the night are feeling In a strange room to know where the metes and bounds of things are. There Is no life to their faith. A word more in application of this subject to the matter of sell-culture. We live in an ago in which there is too much said about self-culture. There are two kinds of self-culture, the self-cul ture of self-indulgence, and the self-culture of self-denial. There are a great many persons under that term of self-culture who are providing for themselves the means of doing what they love to do best. A man foregoes physicsl and social duties in order that he may develop his strong faculty; and he becomes. it not indolent in self-reeking, to consider hie soul the very pivot of the universe, and that everything turns on that; all people are measured by himself. Men are developed in selfishness, and self-seekers, self admirers. That 18 one kind of self-culture, and a very natural one. There lathe other self-culture of self-denial, by which men feel that they are worthy to bear pain, worthy to do many things every man does not live to do. They crucify the flesh, they crucify the body • they beat down unity, and' build up the low places, that they may make themselves symmetrical and round, and so perfect, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, who loved them and gave Himmel! for them. This self-culture of prayer, this self-culture of self-denial, this abase ment for the sake of elevation.this dying for the sake of living—this is true self-culture. Ah ! bow few there are who talk about it, who under stand it is the process by which we are crucified with our Lord Jesus Christ! One word more, as to what .re called self-de nying acts in this world. Christian instances of self-denial, when we come to compare them with the corresponding actions of men of the world, do not seem so very absurd, perhaps, nor at all so wonderful as is otherwise likely. I know a child of one family who has gone to Africa to live; the parents stand second to none; she was the child of admiration, and upon her was lav ished everything that could be In the culture of native excellence. But she cheerfully took it all In her own hands, joined her life to that of a missionary, and is living in the wilds of Africa surrounded by the poor untutored creatures there. And men there are who are eo indignant at this throwing of one's self away that they will not speak of it, or tolerate her: or they bold up their hands in exclamations of amazement, orve ry weakly wonder how It is possible for anybody to do such a thing as that. Anybody who is ac quainted with the power of inward love would not consider it as doing very much. Ah! if ho had been after elephant's tusks, or gold dust, and his wife bad gone with him ! 0! that is different; that is another thing that they understand. But as she is there to teach the children in the schools, to pray with the dying, to give her own sex some elevation, as he is there to preach of Heaven, to lead men there, as she seeks her life in the wilderness, that she may live with the apostles and the prophets, and with God himself saying " Well done" to her forever and forever, men say that is " extnaordi n ry , extraordinary ; there must have been some thit g wrong there." But there was something right there. People go down into the sinks of New York, into the dog-kennels, into houses of ill-r erort ; they give their time and their labor: the world stands looking on and says, " This is bringing religion Into contempt." But what do they mean by religion? Religion is a beautiful suit of broadcloth,and a magnificent snit of silk locked arm-In-arm walking down to Grace Church or to Trinity, sitting to splendid music, surrounded by rt frpe etabilities who send their cards back ware's and forwards through the coachman's hands to each other, and have the appointed number of parties each year, and do things cortme it /quit—that is respectable, religion. You may depend upon it, respectable religion will never disgrace itself by going into these haunts. And when they see men go down there and work with the poorest of the poor, as Christ himself worked with the publicans and. harlots, they say, "This is dikredlting it, lowering it." But ah ! if you hat) said to them, "I want to go to Congress: there is votes in it " "0 ! Ah ! 0 ! I understand it now; 3'013 are right; go on; go on if there are votes in it." Only put motive to it, only put selfishness there instead of disinterestedness, only put the world there Instead of a pure trans cendent object, and it is all right with men who bad been despairing of self-denial, only the self denial must be always downward. When a man denies himself to be purer, more divine and noble —that is what men don't understand. Now, my Christian brethren, I Bay to your childre II there Is no difference between the life of men of the world and the life of Christian men in the matter of self-denial. That is the uni versal principle in every part of human life; without it no loan can go through the world; the only question you have to settle is this: Will you employ self-denial for the sake of exalting or for the sake of debasing yourself? Will you use it to go up ? Use it you will. but as the staff that lifts you higher and higher, or will you go down with it In to the morass deeper and deeper, and murkier and more degraded ?" And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate In all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." They are Ma crowned in the wearing; the dried and withered leaves are shaken to the ground. But ye wear round about your beads a crown of invisible leaves, or If visible, men call them thorns; but they are imperishable, even though the stars have gone, and the sun has forgotten to THE FINE AIRTII6 GERS' GROUPS. ALL THE ROGERS' GROUPS. WAR AND RUMoROUS SUBJECTS. Suitable for Wall or Mantel Ornament®. Bridal Present®. duo. SOLE AGENCY: JAMES S. EARLE Si SONS, Caries' Galleries of Paintings and Looking- Glass Warerooms, 816 CHESTNUT STREET. O GROCER?,HOTES. - REPERE37.P.aId Others.—Thee undersigned hasjust received a fresh sunray of Catawba. California and Champeilaie. Wines. Tonic Ale (for invalids). constantly en hand. P. J. JORDAN. - SEM Pear street, Below Third and Walnut streaba .Clllll ORDINANCES. kjESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CERTAIN ',1.11 transfers to be Made in the appropriation to the Pollee Department for the year 1868. ,flesoked, By the Select and Common Councils of the city •of 'Philadelphia, That the City Controller be and ,he is hereby authorized to • make the following transfers In the items of ap ipropriation made to the Department of Police for the year 1868, amounting to the sum of Two thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents ($2,862133 cents) as fol lows: From Item 3, Salaries of High Conetablesokc., to Item 16, Arrest and conviction of offenders, Jz.c., Six hundred and five dollars and forty-four cents ($605 44 eta.) From Item 4. -Salaries of Policemen, to Item 14, Incidental Expenses, Two hundred dollars. From Item 4. Salaries of Policemen, to Item 15, Stationery and Printing, Two hundred dol lars. From Item 4. Salaries of Policemenrto Item 17, Expenses in procuring Evidence, Four hundred dollars. From Item 4, Salaries of Policemen, to Item 18, Expenses In pursuit of Criminals, &c., Four hundred dollars. From Item 8. Conveyance of Prisoners,to Item 9, Meals and Medical Attendance, Eight hundred dollars. - From Item 20. Taking up Dogs, to' Item 9, Meals o .i:c.Twelve dollars and fifty cents (812 50). From Item 21. Ice, to Item 9, Meals, ...tc • I Thirty- four dollars and, _thirty-nine cents ($34 39 eta). From Item 23. Furnishing now Station house, &c., to Item 12, Stoves and Heaters and repairs to same, Two hundred and ten dollars($210). JOSEPH F. MARCER, President of Common Council. Attest—ABRAHAM STEWART, • ACEIS ant Clerk of Common Council. WILLIAM S. STOKLEY, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-third day of October.Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, (A. D. 1868.) MORTON McMICILAEL, 1t Mayor of Philadelphia. RESOLUTION OF INSTRUCTION TO THE 1.16 Mayor. Whereas Information has been received to the effect that large munbers of persons from other States visited - Philadelphia, and voted unlawfully . at the recent general election, at the instance of p e ersons residing within this State; therefore, b it Rest)iced, By the Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia, That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and Instructed to offer a reward of one thousand dollars for the arrest and conviction of any persons within the State of Penns3lvania, at whose instance, or by whose connivance, residents of other States voted or attempted to vote at any of the polls in the city of Philadelphia at the lust general electicin. JOSEPH F. MARCER, President of Common Council. A/TEST-JOAN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. WILLIAM S. STOK LEY, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-third day of Oetooer,An no Domini ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, (A. D. 1568.) 34ORTON McMICHAEL It Mayor of Philadelphia. RESOLUTION OF INSTRUCTION TO THE Chief Commissioner of Highways. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia, That the Chief .iom missioner of Highways be and ho is hereby in ati acted to enter Into a contract with a compe tent paver to repave the intersections on Walnut street from Fifteenth to Twenty-first streets, In clusive.and the south side of Walnut street front ing on Rittenhouse scinam, with cubical blocks, in conformity with an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance relative to paving streets and avenues in the city of Philadelphia," approved June 12, 1868; payment of the same to be taken from Item No. 24 of an ordinance "To make an appropria tion to the Department of Highways, Bridges, Sewers, &c., for the year 1868;" and the Control ler le instructed to countersign a warrant there for. JOSEPH F. MARCEL:, Pres•dent of Common Council ATTEET-JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. WILLIAM 8. STOKLEY, Preddent of Select Council Approved this twenty- third day of October,AnOo Domini one thou and eight hundred and slaty eight (A. D. 1868). MORTON McMICHAEL, 1 t Mayor of Philadelphia. AN ORDINANCE MAKING AN ett•PßOPKl ation for the relief of the widow of James Young, late of the City Pollee, deceased. SECTION I.— The /Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia eo ordain, That the sum of One Tbousand Dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to the widow of James Young, late 01 the City Police, deceased, who was brutally mur dered whilst in the discharge of his duty, on Tue belay, Octe.ber 13, 18GS. And the City Controller is hereby authorized to coun tersign the- warrant for that amount to be drawn by the Mayor. JOSEPH F. MARCER. Prreidvn[, of Common Council ATTEST-JOHN ECKSTEIN, cif rk of Common Cou ,, cil. WILLIII/1.8 SfOKLEY., Presidentiof Stfeet, Council Approved title twenty-third day of October, ALIDO Domini one thoueand elgbt hundred and sixty-eight (A. D. 1868) MORTON McIIICH kEL, It Mayor of Philadelphia. EcOIXTION RELATIVE TO THE SUS- Lt. pension of the Hope Steam Fire Engine Company. Resoired, By the Select and Common Councils of the cit.) r f Philadelphia, That the Chief Engi neer of the Fire Department be and he is hereby authorized and directed to immediately restore to service the Elope Steam Fire Engine Company without loss of appropriation. JOSEPH F. MARCER, - - . President of ommou Council. ATTEST-JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. WILLIAM 8. STOKLEY. President of Select Council. Approved this twenty -third day of October,Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight (A. D. 1868). MORTON Mc:MICHAEL, It Mayor of Phlkdolohia. IND 0 IiULXVIh The Liverpool & Lon don af Globe Insurance Company. 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PP.E9B NG. oStr..tb.t.lv• 'V , , IrLdif i I . ._.-..,„,...,--.._•,- 11.0.1311 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE• EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Day. ' NEW Yong, Oct. 23, 1868.—The tiftekith day's proceedings of the Protestant Episcopal National Convilition commenced this morning at ten o'clock, with the usual religions services, con ducted by the Rev. Dr. James 8. Hanckel, of Month Carolina, and the Rev. Dr. M. 0. Craine. •f Mississippi. The benediction was pronounced by Bishop IC.empar, of Wisconsin. The record of yesterday's proceedings was read. by the Secretary, and adopted by the Convention. It was moved by the Rev. Dr. Cromwell, of Kentucky, that the Convention adjourn sine die on Tuesday next. Agreed to. It was moved and agreed to that the coming sessions of the House commence at half-past nine o'clock, and continue without recess until four P.M. The Rev. Dr. Haight, from the Committee on Canon, reported adversely to the resolution of the Bishops abolishing the provision of the Con stitution making it obligatory on the Upper House to send their non-concurrence with rea sons, in writing, within three days, to the House, thus enabling the Bishops to pocket any dis agreeable legislation of the clergy and laity with out saying "by your leave." t The same committee reported a similar reso lution against the resolutions of the Bishops allowing them to transact certain business by correspondence, without personal meetings. The reports were adopted by the House. The Register of the Convention asked instruc tions as to the performance of his duties under the late resolutions of the Convention in regard to the plates of the standard prayer books, and which appoints the Rev. Dr. Haight as custodian and the choice of a joint commission, with power of control over the archives. The matter was appropriately referred. The Standing Committee on Foreign and Do mestic Missions reported a change in the consti tution of the Board of Missions.to the effect that the Board shall be intrusted with "the considera tion of the practical work of the church." Adopted. The special joint committee on' the publica tion of the early journals, reported the follow ing Re.soWed, That the Secretary of this House be authorized to effect the purchase of the stereo type plates of the reprinted journals of the Gen eral Convention, 'at a cost not to exceed S2bo; and that these plates,if thus received,be intrusted to the charge of the Secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. with, instructions to secure, if possible, the continuance of the publi cation of these jo urnals, with or without anno tations ~ t byl the surviiing editor thereof, no pe cuniary obligation being assumed by this Conven tion. Rewired, The House of Bishops concurring, That the Committee on Republication of the early journals be continued, as now constituted, with power to enlarge its members. The Committee consists of Bishops Potter,WLl- Hams and Odenhelmer, Rev. Drs. Hlt.fbee, Howe and William Cooper Meade, Messrs. 8. B. Rug gles, James Poll and E. P. Dutton. The resolutions were agreed to. The Committee on Clerical Support, through the Rev. Dr. Shattrick, of Massachusetts, made an amended report, in the shape of resolutions, recommending incorporated societies to accumu late a fund for the support of aged and infirm clergymen and their families;, and, also, that a collection be taken up, part to be used for the clergy and the rest to be distributed among the Southern and Missionary Dioceses; the first col lection to be taken up next Sunday. Dr. H. E. Pierpont, of New York, objected to the phraseology of tho report. He desired the word "Southern" left out, and make the report apply to the impoverished clergy throughout the country. The amendment was accepted and the report was adopted. The Rev. Dr. Hare, of Pennsylvania, moved that the special order of the day be rescinded and that the order of the day to-morrow be the Pro vincial System and Federate Council. A lengthy discussion ensued on this proposal, during which the Rev. Drs. Haight and Meade and mr. 8. B. Ruggles protested against the combination of the two propositions. The vote being taken the order of the day was rescinded. The Rev. Dr. Haight then moved to take up the report of the Committee on Canons on Fede rative Councils at once, which was carried. The action of the committee was based on the following Memorial from the Diocese of New York : Memorial to the General Convention of the Pro tertant Episcopal Church in the United Stales of America. The Memorial of the Bishops, Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of New York, in Convention assembled in the city of Now York, on this se cond day of October, in the year of oar Lord, 1868, to the General Convention of the Protest ant Episcopal Church, respectfully showeth: That your memorialists having in the Conven tion resolved that two new Dioceses should be erected within the present Diocese of New York, did also adopt, with great unanimity,a resolution requesting the General Convention to enact a per missive Canon,authorizing a Federate Council of the Dioceses now existing or hereafter to be erected within the State. That your memorialists have, in the Conven tion in session at this time, again con sidered this subject, and kave agreed upon a plan for the organization and establishment of such a Federate Council, a copy of which is hereunto annexed. That your Memorialists deem the organization and establishment of such Federate Council to be called for by considerations of very high expe diency, and to be necessary to the full develop ment of the resources of the Church in the State of New York, for the carrying on of the great work wherewith she is charged by her Lord, and to the preservation of her inherent rights and privileges in her relation with the State, as is more fully set forth in section 3d of the report of the Committee of fifteen on the Division of the Diocese presented to the Convention of 1867, a copy of which is hereunto annexed. That your Memorialists, therefore, pray that the General Convention of the Protestant Epis copal Church of the United States of A.merica, will, at its session to be held on the 7th of this present month, enact a Canon in the words fol lowing, or one of the like general tenor : Canon authorizing the formation of a Federate Council of the Dioceses within any State. It is hereby declared lawful for the Dioceses now existing, or hereafter to exist, within the limits of any State or Commonwealth, to estab lish for themselves a Federate Convention or Council, representing such Dioceses, which may deliberate and decide upon the common interests of the Church within that State, and exercise any delegated powers not inconsistent with the Con stitution and Canons of this Church. In witness whereof we have hereunto put our hands, on this second day of October, in the year of our Lord 1868, in the city and Diocese of New York. HORATIO POTTER. Bishop of New York and President of the Con vention. WILLIAM E. EIGENIIRODT, Secretary of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of New York. [A true copy. I Attest—William E. Eigenbrodt, Secretary of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York. At this time the following messages from the House of Bishops were received: Resoleed, That this House concur in the reso lution communicated to them in message 27 of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies. Resolved, The House of Clerical and Lay Depu ties concurring, That the last clause of Section 1 of Canon X, Title 1, beginning with the words "provided also" be and is hereby repealed. Resolved, The House of Clerical and Lay Depu ties concurring, That the Joint Committee on Religious Reform in Italy be continued, with the addition of three laymen, and that the committee on the part of the House of Bishops be the Bishop of Maryland, the Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the Assistant Bishop of Ohio. Resolved, That the committee have power to till vacancies. Resolved, The House of Clerical and Lay Dele gates concurring, That the vacancy in the office of Historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, occasioned by the lamented death of the Rev. Francis Lister Hawke, D. D., LL. D. be filled by the appointment to the same of the Rev. Doctor William Stevens Per ry, M. A. The Committee reported the Canon above mentioned with the addition of two provisos ; one, that no determined action shall be had until the powers proposed to be conferred on these Councils shall have been approved by the Gene ral Convention, and that nothing in this Can on shall he construed to prevent the Federative Council, in the interval between this and the next Convention, to secure all necessary measures of \ legislation for the civil authorities. The Rev. M. A. De Wolf Howe, of Philadelphia,, then proceeded to state the views of the Commit tee on Canons in regard to the question before the Howe. Lie stated that the proposed change Is experimeutal,a launch out in audther dtrection of the provincial system. , • " The Rev. Dr. Haight, of Now York ; referred to the fact that (his matter outnes.ttp on • motion • of those Dioceses containing piobably one-fifth or the souls or the church. It is uo paper scheme, no lucubration of some recluse student, but it is the Proposition of a practical measure, needed for the prosperity ofthe church. He believed - the canon proposed by the committee will be accep table to the five Dioceses of the State of . New York aeon to be established. - Rev. Dr. Muichany, of Massachnsetts, spoke' •of the active and spirited debate upon this sub ject at the last Convention;and he objected to the proposed Canon as too indefinite and uncer tain. The plan of federative conventions has been tried in the East, and fallen. Mr. S. B. Ruggles, of New York, stated that he was unconditionally In favor of the Canon pro posed. He thought the Canon before the House was conservative in its nature, and maintains the sovereign power of the General Convention. Judge McCrady, of South Carolina,, believed that there is an important question behind all this. Has the Convention authority under the . Constitution to adopt such a canon ? Unless the• Constitution gives the power it cannot be done. Rev. Dr. Hare, of Pennsylvania, thought that the proposed Canon does not lower the dignity or independence of any Diocese, nor concede legislative powers to the _Federative Council, without first submitting the extent of these pow cirs to the General Convention. Rev. Dr. Mahan, of Maryland, hoped that a more thorough consideration would be given to such an important matter. It came tip unex pectedly'and accidentally an'd should be well in vestigated. The hour of one o'clock having arrived, the Convention took a recess. Awrznutoon Smstorr.---On the reassembling of the Convention a number of resolutions were offered and acted upon, relating to minor matters connected with the Convention and the Rev. Wm. Stevens Perry, of Connecticut, Secretary of the Convention, was confirmed by the Conven tion as Historiographer of the Church, in place of Rev. Dr. Hawks, deceased. The following resolution was then read by the Rev. Charles Breck, of Delaware: Resolved, That the members of this House learn with peculiar eatisfar.tion that the number of subscribers to the Documentary Annals of the American Colonial Church is nearly sufficient to warrant the publication of the whole series. Resolved, That the thanks of this House are due to the Rev. William Stevens Perry. of Connecti cut, for the lively interest taken by him in this important work, and that we duly appreciate the arduous duties imposed upon himself in la boring to accomplish the same. to. . te 'e s ed pecial order of the day,the consideration of the report on confederative Councils, was then resumed. The Rev. Dr. Richard S. Mason took the floor and spoke of the dissimilarity of the Church con stitution and the political constitution of the country. While the first was a dissemination into parts of a unit, the other was the formation of a unit from several Integral and independent'parts. Re then gave the origin of church government. Mr. Tazewell Taylor, of Virginia, said it is pro posed to establish an intermediate line between the dioceses and the General Convention. This affects the organism of the Church; it is organic and ought to be In the Constitution and not in the Canons. The Rev. Dr. Haight, of New York, said in an swer, that there is nothing in the Canons and Constitution prohibiting the Union of the Die cesee of New York for combined action, but these Dioceses will not act, out of a feeling of loyalty to the Church. We were exposed to troubles and difficulties without precedent. One Bishop was, struck down by judicial sentence, and yet the Diocese bore the evils meekly, but went before the General Convention of 1817 and asked for relief, which was not granted. The Diocese waited and asked for relief again in 1850, and though it was not granted in the way it was asked she submitted, and now the Diocese will do nothing without the sanction of the Conven tion. Rev. Dr. Adams, of Wisconsin, said the pro vision for Federative Councils was already sanc tioned by the constitution. He argued that tke amendment made the dioceses and not the State the unit in the church. The Rev. Dr. Meade, of Connecticut, spoke in favor of the Canon proposed, and regretted that the true nature of the question had not been touched as yet. Judge William H. Battle, of North Carolina, spoke at length against the constitutionality of the proposed Canon. He thought that the more populous States In the North, which will be sub divided into several dioceses, will gain such pre ponderance that the Southern States will be con tinually out voted, and the North carry every thing their own way. The Rev. Dr. M. A. Do Wolf Howe, of Phila delphia, belived that the fact cannot be denied that the combination and conferees of dioceses for the purpose of carrying measures could not be prevented. Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, said that no diocese on the floor would yield more to New Yolk than Kentucky, and if it was a mere ques tion of assent to the exercise by diocese in a state of acknowledged right, why not do it by a reso lution, instead of a canon. Dr. Howe explained that it should be in the conspicuous place as a canon—a permanent ,canon. As a resolution it would be out of sight. After some farther debate, the report of the committee was adopted. The Rev. Dr. J. T. Hubbard, of New Hamp shire, from the Committek. on Prayer Book, re ported the following : Resolved, The House of Bishops concurring, That a joint committee be appointed, to consist on the part of this House, of three clergymen and three laymen, to prepare a report for the in formation of this Convention, an accurate copy of the Creed of the undivided Church in the ori ginal Greek, nis set forth by the undisputed General Councils, together with an exact literal translation of the same, ar_d that the committee have leave to print, their report for the use of this Convention. After some discussion the resolu tion was withdrawn. The revort of the Special Committee on Pro vincial System then came up, but on motion was laid on the table. . _ The Convention, on motion, then proceeded to consider Canon XI (before reported). The Rev. Dr. Crane, of Rhode Island, offered the following amendment to the Canon: "Provided, That nothing herein shall be so con strued as to prohibit communicants of this Church from acting as lay readers." After eome debate, the Canon, as amended,was agreed to. The Convention then adjourned until Saturday morning.—lnquirer. Wire in Lancaster, Pa. [From the Lancaster Intelllgencer of Oct. 2L. I A fire occurred in East King, street last evening which for a time excited considerable alarm among those owning property in its vicinity. The tire was first discovered, a few minutes after five o'clock. by means of the smoke issuing from it through the wall of the building occupied by the Farmers' Bank and that of the building known as Witmer's Building, the collar and first story of which Is occupied by Mr. E. Slay maker's liquor store, The fire was found to have originated on the third floor of Witmer's building, in the east end of the room occupied by the Sons of Temperance as their place of meeting. The door of this room was broken open by Mr. Slaymaker and the fire was found to proceed from the place where a flue comes in contact with the floor and the studding and laths a the east end of the room. Through the efforts of Mr. S., assisted by others, the pro gress of the flames were checked, and further' efforts of the firemen, who soon arrived with their apparatus, finally put an end to all appre hensions of serious damage. The fourth story of the building is occupied by an old_lady, Mrs. Dunmire, the pipe of whose stove enters the flue. It is supposed that the fire originated from sparks from this stove pipe and that it may have smouldered for sometime before the flames broke out. The Sons of Temperance will lose considerable from the damage done to the furni ture of their room, both by water and the tear ing,down of the laths and plastering of the end of the room in order to reach the fire. We are informed that there is no insurance upon their furniture. Mr. Dysart, who occupies the second floor s •for his sign and ornamental paint ing room, will also lose considerable. Mr. Slaymaker's_stock of liquors are also damaged to some extent; the stock of goods in Lechler & Bro.'s ladies' and gentlemen's furnishing store is also considerably damaged, 'but we learn that Messrs. Lechler' are insured to the full amount of their loss,__lf the fire had broken oat at night time a ,very serious conflagration might have taken place, resulting in the destruction of the whole building. This would have caused the loss of much property, particularly had the valu able stock, belonging to Mr. Slaymaker, been de stroyed; some of his liquors being stewed in his establishment since.lBoo, and consequently never could be replaced. THRD' 413.00;LAD -- 13 0 . d s CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. CO; A limited quantity of the TEURTY•YEAR SIX PER CENT. FIEST MORTGAGE BONDS of the Central Pacific Railroad Company stb offered to investoro, for the present, at 103 and Accrued Interest, in Currency. These Bordner° seemed by a Trust Deed apon the mod important linleof the great Inter-Oceanic Railroad, two thixdsef which are already built, at a cost of nearly ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS; And which enjoys already a self-sustaining way traffic. The whole line of continuous rail between New York and San Frandeco will be completed by July next, when an immense throush business will undoubtedly follow. More than 1.200 sacra of the distance between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean are already traversed by the loco. motive: and Rig probable that 200 miles additional will be completed during the current year. The future of this Ldne, therefore, is unusually promising. The Central Pacific Railroad. C )mpany ecoive from the United States Government abon t ten millions of acres of the PUBLIC LANDS, situated along the line of their Road; also a Subsidy Loan of U. S. SIX PER cEN Y. BONDS. averaging 4335.000 Per mile, as fast as the sections of twenty miles are com pleted. They have received, in addition, important GRANTS from the State and cities of California, worth more than 83.000,000 IN GOLD. The proceeds of these Lands. Bondi, Capital Stock. Subscriptions. Subventions, and Net Earnings are invested in the enterprise, to which ie added the amount realized from First Mortgage Bonds. THESE LAT TER HAVE THE FIRST LIEN UPON THE WHOLE PROPERTY, and are issued to the same amount only as the Government advances, or to the ex tent of about one-tkird the cost value of the Road, equip. meat. etc. The Cash Resources are abundant for the completion of the work, and the NET EARNINGS, FROM THE WAY TRAFFIC UPON MO MILES NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS, ARE MORE THAN DOUBLE THE CUR RENT INTEREST LIABILITIES. Ur - Beeldea a mileage upon all through business, this Road, having the beet lands for settlement. the most pro ductive mines, the nearest markets, and being exempt from competition, will always command LARGE REVE NUES, WHICH ARE WHOLLY IN COIN. - Two.thirde of the entire Loan is already marketed.and. judging by past experience. the Loan will coon be closed. lnvestore who desire an unusually safe, reliable and pro- Stable security would do well to purchase before the Bonds are all taken. The Company reserve the right to advance the price at any time; but all orders actually in transitu at the time of any such advance will be filled at present Price . At this time they pay more than I per cent. upon the investment, and have, from National and State laws, guarantees superior to any other corporate securities now offered. The First Mortgage Rends are of SLOW eachovith eemi annusJ gold coupon! attached, payable in July and January. Both INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL ARE MADE EXPRESSLY PAYABLE IN UNITED STAPES GOLD COIN. The back intereet from July let le charged only at the currency rater. We receive all classes of Government Bonds, at their full market rates, in exchange for the Central Pacific Railroad Bonds, thus enabling the holders to realize from TO 10 PER CENT. PROFIT and keep the principal of their investments equally secure. and receive the same rate of interest for a longer period. Orders and inquiries will receive prompt attention. In formation. Descriptive Pamphlets, etc. giving a fan ac count of the Organization. Progress, business and Pros pects of the Enterprise furnished on application. Bonds cent by return Express at our cost. rer - All descriptions of GOVERNMENT SECURITIES BOUGHT. SOLD, OR EXCHANGED. at our office and by Mail cad Telegraph AT MARKET RATES. Or - ACCOUNTS OF BANKS. BANKERS and others received and favorable arrangements made for desirable accounts. DESVEN*I3II9 Bankers and Dealers In Government Swirl- 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET, ITHJANDOLPH B c , '• (3 • GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Bills of Exchange for sale on London, Frankfort, Paris, etc We Issue Letters of Credit on Illessra. James W. Tucker & Co., Parts. available for travelers' use through out the world. Having now direct private commu nication by wire between our Phila delphia and New York Offices, we are constantly in receipt of all quotations from New York, and are prepared to execute all orders, with promptness,in STOCKS, BONDS AND GOLD. SMITH, RANDOLPH &I CO- ,- .a Ng IN( w-iceosii: SAYICO fectp, 112 aad THiR.r. ST, ',PHIL A, DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES We will receive applications for Policies of Life Insurance in the now National Life Insurance Company of the United States. Full information given at pur office. GOLD AND GOLD COUPONS BOUGHT BY P. 8: PETERSON & 89 Soutii Third Street. Telegraphic Index of Quotations. stationed in a con! spicaoua place in our office. STOCKS, BONDS. &c. A • I Bought Lind Bold on Commission at the respective Boards of Brokers of New York. Boston. Baltimore and Phila. delphia. mild king IMMAAOtAi. OF TIE tied, Gold, br.e., PIK I LADELPIELIA. DEALERS J.N ALL WINAMIOLdIir --- THE SAFE DEPOSIT CO:, For Sa ter If. repin R. of 'Valuables. P.ecuria , . ties, each Land ft entingol fisarea4 DIRECTORS. N. D. Browne, J. Dillinstottn Fell. Alex. Hearn C. 11. , Clarke. O. bissalotsri B. Geld 'sea John Welsh, E. W. Clark. . Ceo F. Tyler. OFFICE, NO. 421 CLIIENTIIVF ISTILEF. r• N. R. BROWNE, Preetdent. • C. IL CLAM. Wee President. B. PATTERSON. Secretary and Treasurer. Isla th GOLD BOUGHT. DE HAVEN & BRO., 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET 6617 Stall Qnn — TO INVEST IN A. GROUND RENT OR Sit! ) CP Mortgage, for a term of years. HOLSTEIN DE RAVEN, 0e24.2t• 131.1 Walreat street. LADIES' DRESS GOODS. MARY B. CONWAY, Lain DD IMEMOHLIG AB SHOPPING KURIL% 31 South Sixteenth Street, . PHILADELPHIA. Ladies from any part of the United Mates can send their orders for Drees Materials, Lresses. Cloaks. Bonnets, Bboes. Under Clothing, Mourning Buits, Wedding Pros. mean. Traveling Outfits, Jewelry. ate.; also, Children's Clothing. Infants' Wardrobes, Gentlemen's Linen, &c. In ordering Garments. Ladies will please send ono of their Baer trivia a nnessue for measurement ; and Ladies visit:lnt the city should not fail to call and have their measures registered for future convenience. lister% by permission, to MIL J. lit HAFLEIGH, 1013 and 1014 Chestnut street. MENU. HOMER. COLLADAY de CO. artlo Brom 818 and 820 Chestnut street. • :MLILLINERY GOODS. FALL OPENING. CHOICE MILLINERY GOODS. • S. A. & D. STERN, 724 Arch Street. relb-tu th a 3m6 LUMBER. MAULE, BROTHER & CO. 1868. SPRUCE JOIST. SPRUCE. JOIST. 18681 SPRUCE HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. LARGE STOCK. LARGE STOCK. DIAIILF., BROTIIIEI3 dr. CO. MOO SOUTH STREET 1868. FLORIDA FLOORING. FLORIDA FLOOR/NG. 1868 CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORIN G ___, DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH F WNUFLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANE. IR6B WALNUT BOARDS ANT , PLANR. 1868 . WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1868. RBEFFAAHrs: FARE& 1868 RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 11368. WHITE OAH`PLANH AND BOARDS. HICKORY. SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CHERRY. ABR. 1868. CIGAR BOX MAKERS CIGAR BOX MAKERS 1868. 1868. SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS. FOR SALE LOW. 1868. C CAROLIA H am . T. SILLS 1868. NORWAY SCANTLING. LARGE ASSORTMENT. CEDAR SHINGLES. CEDAR SHINGLES. 1868. CYPRESS SHINGLES. PLASTERING LATH. CHESTNUT PLANK AND BOARDS. ' 1868. 1.868. SP4,BIIEB CLE AR PINE. 1868. CHOICE PATTERN PINE. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. FLORIDA RED CEDAR. 113.A1CLE, BROTHER & CO.. 8600 SOUTH STREET. T UMBEIL-93,a14 FEET 1 LNCH YELLOW PINE 1-4 flooring Boards. 106,954 feet I% inch yellow Pine floor ing Boards. now landing from - brig Josie A. Devereux,and for sale by COCHRAN. RUBSPI.I ea. CO.. No. 12 North Front street oc&tf 1111133111ESIS CAIBIZOI. JOHN J. WEAVER. J. BELLEW] PENTIOGIL WEAVER & PENNOCK, PLUMBERS, GAS AND STEAM FITTERS, 37 North Seventh Street, Philadelphia. Country Beats fitted up with Gas and Water in first. class style. An assortment of Brass and Iron Lift and Force Pumps constantly on band. LEAD BURNING AND CHEMICAL PLUMBLNG.• N. B.—Water Wheels supplied to the trade and others at reasonable prices. JAM= A. WEIGHT. TIWILNTO2I PDEE. CLEMENT A. 0111A0ON IFELLOPOAE WRIGHT, FISA_NA L NEALL. PETER WRIGHT di SONS. Importers of Earthenware and Shipping and Corianderlon Herelauds. No. H 6 Walnut street, Philadelphia. 071 ON AND LINEN BAIL DUCK OF EVERY width. from one to eix feet wide, all numbere. Tent and Awning Duck. rapermakere Felting. Bail Twine, &c. JOHN W. EVEItMAN & CO.. N 0.103 Church St. ICY WELLS—OWNERS OF PROPERTY—TRE I only place to get privy wells cleansed and claim. fected, at very low pricee. A. PEVSSON. Manufacturer of Poo drette. Goldetulth's Vial', Library etreet. MEDICINAL. 'AL DENTALLINA.—A SUPERIOR ARTICLE FOR clear& g the Teeth, destroying animalcule, which in. fe.t them, giving tone to the genie, and leaving a feeling of fragrance and perfect cleanliness In the mouth. It may be need daily. and will he found to strengthen weak and Mee- lag RIME, while the aroma and eetereiveness will recommend it to every one. Being- convened with the a.,-ietence of the Dentist. Physicians and Micros copiet, it it contdently offered an a reliable eubititute for the en c. ; toin washee forum ly in vogue. Eminent Dentists, acquainted with the constituents of the Deurallina, advocate its use; it contains nothing to p, event its unrestrained employment. Made only by JAMES T. SHINN. Apothecary. Broad and Spruce streets. For sale by Druggists generally, and k red. Browne, D. L. Stockholm!, Barnard di Co., Robert C. Davie, C. R. Kenny. Gee. C Bower, lee H. Kay, Chas Shivers, u. H. Needles, S. M. 'McColl% T. J. Husband. S. C. Bunting • Ambrore Smith, Chas. H. Eberle, I,dward Parrieh, James N. Marko. Wm. B. Webb. E. Bringhuret Co. Ines L. Bispb am. Oyott Combe,l IL C. Blaire Sone. I lefty A. Bower, I Wyeth Bro. I SALBELLEa M. 225 N. TWELFTH Street. Consultations tree. CLOTIIS, HIABSIIIKERE3. AaO. ILOTH STORE—JAMES .t LEE, No. 11 NORTH SECOND etreot, have now on hand a large and choice aeeortthent of Pall and Winter Goode, particularly ad apted to the Merchant Tailor Trade, compriaing in part, French, Belgian and American Clothe of every deecrle tion OVERDO ATINGS. Black French Castor Beavers. Colored French Castor Beavers. London Blue Pilot Cloths. Black and Colored Chinchillas. Blues. Black and Dahlia Moscow,. ,PANTALOON STUFFS. Black French Cassimeres. Do do. Doeskins. Fancy Cassimeres new styles. Steel Mixed Doeskins. Dasaimeres for suite, new styles. 3.4 and 6-4 Doeskins. best maker. Velvet Cords, Beavertoens, Italian Cloths. Canvas, with every variety of other trimmings, adapted to Men's and Boys' wear, to which we Invite the atten tion of Merchant Tailors ai d others, at—wholesale and retail JAMES & LEN. No. 11 North Second street, anlftf Sign of the Golden Lamb. BOARDING. 11110ARDING.—TO RENT, WITH BOARD IN A IP private family. to a gentleman and wife, two hand some communicating rooms, suitable for parlor and chamber. Location. Spruce Street. Address "G. F.," BULLETIN Onion. 0c312t. - - BOARDING. --ELIGIBLE ROOMS WITH FlRST class board, at 3i , 01 LOCUST street, Went thin oclI•Im• Avicrrionr rta A/ AKI IN BROTH ER+. All OPIMERS.' (Lately Salesmen kr ThomiustriOns . box 5231 BEA '1 NUT street. r..as entranco nt ffo Minor. • Sale rear of No. 743 South. Front street LARGE LO/TER STILL. WORM, &C.. oy A DISTIL LF.RY. •_ _ _ ON MOND AY AFTERNOON. • Oct 28, at I o'clock. at' the distillery. rear *of No. 743 South I , tont street. large Copper stall 800 gallons; Copper Stitt small r; Wotm, doubler; 3 Copper Pumps. Lead Pipe. 13Fernienting Tube, 2 large Cedar Tubs. Ac.. 43c. May be seen on the day of sale. Sale at No. 1638 Green street. 11AND801.1F. te) , SIDENUE AND FURNITURE. VERY SUPERIOR WALNUT FURNITURE. ELEGANT ROSEWOOD 'PIANO FORTE,, FINE FRENCH PLATE MANTEL AND PIER MIRRORS. VERY FINE OIL • PAINTINGS, HANDSOME VELVAT CARPET.. &n. ON TUESDAY MORNING. Oct. 27. at 10 o'clock. at No. 1638 croon street, by cata logue. the very superior Walnut Furniture. includlng-- W stunt and Bair Cloth Parlor Furniture, Superior Chamber Furniture, Extension Table. tine Lace Window Curtains. elegant Rosewood Piano Forte, 7-octa• es; Fine French Plate Mantel and. Pier Mirrors, Handsome Gilt' Framed; Very Fine (R Paintings, by Ed. Moran,Faulkner, Fenimore, Julian , and others; Hanaeome Velvet and Ingrain Carpets, Oil Cloths. Kitchen Utensils, Ac May be examined at 8 o'clock on morning of sale. HANDSOME RESIHENCE. • Immediately previous to the sale of Furniture, at 10 o'clock, will bested on the premisee, , all that handsome Modern Threew ory brick Imitation Brown Stone Reel deuce, with double three story back buildings anti lot of ground 18 feet front and 190 feet deep situate on the south side of Green street, east of Seventeenth street. No. 1638. '2 he house is well built; has been recently put iris excellent repair; has parlor, dining-room and kitchen on the first floor, bath: hot and cold water, gas throughout. range. Ac Immediate possession. - • , gale at No. 505 Cherry etreeL SUPERIOR HoUSEDOLD FURNITURE. MAT REI36EI3, BEDDING. CARPETS. CHINA AND GLASSWARE. sic. ar• THURSDAY MORNING. , Vet 29 at 10 o'clock, •t No 51:6 Cherry sheet. the sup°. Hot Household Fur,, cure Walnut Chamber Furniture, fd slimes Beds and Beddiag. Carpets. China and Glass. ware'-Extension Table. Kitchen Furniture and titan. sibs. &e. May be examined at 8 o'clock on the Morning of sale. VALUABLE MEDICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY. ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Oct. 20. at 3 o'clock. at the auction rooms, No. 529 Chest. net street. Valuable Medical an' l' Miscellaneous Libsary, ncluding many rare worke on early American History. POSITIVE SALE OF A STOCK OF READY-MADE CLOTHING. CLOTHS. FIXTURES, ho. tits SATURDAY ArTERNOOSI, Oct. 3‘. at two (0•1• ck, at the auction rooms, by cant. Josue. the in , ire stock of a tailor declining business, COM" Over leo Overcoats, of various kinds and sizes. An assortment of Business finite Coats, Pants and V.sta. Cloths in the piece, Remnants , Ac. 'Alm Clothing is of late manufacture, and will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. May be examined on the day previous to sale. 13IINI iNG. DURBOROW & CO., AUCTIONEERS.. Nos. 232 and 234 MARKET street, corner Bank st liucceesora to John B. Myers & Co LARGE BALE OF FRENCH. AND OTHER EURO PEAN DRY GOODS. ON MOND stY MOG, • October at 10 o'clock, on fou monohs' credit DRE S fIOuDS Caste London Black Poplins, Alpacas and pure Mo• hairs, of a very superior mate. Pieces Paris Molina,, I/clothes. Epinglines, Serge& do. Emore.e Cl.th, Poplin alpaca. Coboxga do. Colored Poplins and L Alpcas. Melanges,Persiana. ASO -30 pieces Eustnie Diamond Cloabints, for beet city trade. . _ _ SILKS, VELVETS, dm. Pieces Lyons Heavy Black and i bored Silks. dr. Lyons Black and Cold Velvets and Velveteens SHAWLS, tiI.DAKi. drc. Paris Brodie, tacbomere Stella and Woolen Shawls. Finis Trin,med Jackets. and liloaka. Mends. Scarfs, du. LACES AND Hflif.na. A line of real O alenciennes Laces. A line of Aeplique Lace Handker• hlefs. A Pnc of plain. hen med, h• matitehed and Embroidered Handkerchiefs. _ —ALSO— A line of ruperior colored Satin R.bbona. —AL:3(I— CASES BRITISH FANCY DRESS GOODS, In large vaiiety of now and desirable styles. —ALSO— Ribboue. Velvet,, Drees aTci Cloak Trimmings. Crepes, Flowers. Balmoral and Hoop /nista, Hdafa., Emb.oid• eriee, Umbrellas. Wid.e boods. dm. BALE OF 2000 CASES BOOTS, SHOES. TRAVELING BAGS. Am ON TUEBOAI MORNING. --- . - Oct. 27. at 10 o'clock, on four months' credit, in do ding— Cases Men's, boys. and 3 outhe calf, Kip, Butf Leather ana Grin Cavalry, Nap , leon,'Dress and Congress Boots and Bal morale ; Kip, Ruff and Polished Grain Brogans' women's, minses' and children's Calf, Kid. Enamelled and Buff Leather Goat and Morocco Balmorais; tknigrees Gaiters. Lace B Ms: Ankle Ties; Slippers: Metall , Over hoes and Sandals; Traveling Basta: Shoe Lucas. dm ATTP ACTIVE SPECIAL. SALE OP PARIS DRESS GOLDS, VII KS. BHA WLS, etc.. by order of Messrs. I- etc B. GuliTIS dr. 00., UN WEDNESDAY MORNING. Oct 28. at 10 o'clock. on four months" credit. I or particulars sec display adv‘rtisone at. LARGE SALE OF BRITIS" FRENCH. GERMAN AND DOMESTIC CNN GOODS. ON TcsURSDAY MORNING. Oct. 00, at 10 o'clock. on four months' ci et it. LARGE SALE i P . CARPETING& OIL CLOTHS, ate. ON FRIDAN MORNING, Oct. aft at 11 o'clock. on four month.' credit, about 201 pieces of ingrain, Venetian. hint, Hemp, Cottage and Rag Carpetinge, C loths, Bugs, DAVIS & HARVEY, AUCTIONEERS Late with M. Thomas & Som. Store No. 921 WALNUT street. Rear Entrance on Library streeL tale No. 236 Vine street. SUPERIOR FITRNITORE LARGE OVAL MIRROR. ELEGANT TAPESTRY CARPETS. UN 1410NitAY MORNING. At 10 o'clock. at No. 236 Vine street. the superior Will. nut Parlor Furniture, Cbamb.er, Dining Room and Kitchen Furnitur., La•ge Oval French Plate Mirror, in hand eome frame; elegant Tapestry Carpets, Ingrain and Venetian Carpets, oil Marreeses. China, Glans. ware, tic, Large Sale No. 421 Walnut street. SUPERIOR WALNUT FURNITURE. FRENCH PLATE AllhhollB, PIANOS. FINE TAPESTRY AND IM PERIAL CARPETS STOVES, &c. ON TUESDAY MORNING. At 10 o'clock. at the auction store. a large assortment, including —superior Walnut and Hs ir Cloth Parlor Fur nitnre, Handsome Walnut Chamber Suits . three Largo French Plate Pier MilTol4 , two superior Plano Fortes, Rosewood Bookcase, Walnut Wardrobe, Extension Table, fine assortment of Tapestry. Imperial and Ingrain Cal pets, fine Feather Beds, 'nit of Cottage Furniture, Glassware, 4w. Also, about 30 gas-consuming and Cook. ing Stoves. Bale No. 1445 Noll h Thirteenth street. SUPERIOR FURNITURE ROnEWoOD PIANO. OIL PAINTINGS, FINE MIRRORS, TAPESTRY PETS, FINE CLOCK ate. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. t 10 o'clock. by catalogue, at No, 1445 North Thirteenth street, below Jt (lemon street, the superior Furniture, in• cluding—Walnut and Plush Palley Suit, Walnut Chain bet Furniture, uperior Ex'enzion Table, fine toned Piano F. rte, by Ballet sr. avi' ; two fine Oil Paintings—Beauty Unmasked and Old Toper by Blytee ; French Plate Oval. Mantel and Pier 51i, rot Tapestry Carpets, Roee wood Regulator, Feather Beds, Kitchen Utensils. &c. BY BABBITT d CO., AUCTIONEERS. CASH AUCTION HOUSE, No. 230 MARKET street, corner of BANE street. Cash advanced on consignments witbont extra charge, NOTICE TO CITY AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS, ON MONDAY MORNING, Oct. 26, commencing at 10 o'clock, REUULA is BA LE F.t<Oln THE OH ELVES. FOR CASH. 6eo Lots Ball and Winter Dry Goods. Fancy Goods, Shirts, Drawers, dm. 7531 3mo CATALOGUE BALE. ON TUESDAY MORNING. Oct :47, commencing at 10 o'clock. Goode arr•uged on second floor, as fo'lows: STuCK OF A JOBBLNG ROUSE. 3to Into Miscellaneous Dry Goode. 500 dozen Shirts. D. aware aid Jackets 300 late L °dory and Germactown Goode 150 lots Clothing. with several stock's of goods suitable for retailer e. Alen stock of a reta.l.r, com.riemc 100 LASES BOOTS SHOES. BROGANS, GINGHAM UMBRZLLAI:I. FE.LT BATS, Am, &c. D. McCLEES & CO.. AUCTIONEERS, No. 506 MARKET street SALE OF 171.,n CASES BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS. BALMORALS, &o. ON MONDAY MORNING, Oct. :16, commencing at 10 o'clock, we will cell by csstakogilo, for earn, 1700 citeeo Men's. Boys' and Youths' Bcotr. t.bore. Brogans. Bolinorale. awe. Aik(), a tuperior seem tuient of Ladiee', Mimeo' and Chil. drew' city made goods. SALE OF TheO CASES BOOTS, BEIGES, BROGANS, BALMORALS.d ON THURSDAY MORNING. October :19, commencing at 10 o'clock. we will cell by catalogue, tar caeh, ItOo eases Men's, Hoye' and Youths' Boots, Chose, dtc., Al.e, a large lino of Ladies'. Mime and Children's Citv.mado goods. THOMAS BIRCH & SON, AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MEROHANTS, No. 1110 CHESTNUT street. Rear Entrance No. 1107 Ransom street. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIP TION RECEIVED ON CONSIGNMENT. Sales of Furniture at Dwellings attended to on the moat reasonable terms. SALE OF A COLLrCTION OF RARE AND ` ALU AISLE AMERICAN AND FOREIGA GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER COINS AND MEDALS ON WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY. Oct. 20 and 20, at 3 o'clock P. 31., at the auctiotestore,No, 1110 Choetnut street, we will soli the collection of rare and valuable American and Foreign Gold. dilver and Cooper loins and Medals, the property of J. Colvin Ran dall, Eeq. Cataloguee are now ready for dietribution at fhe Auc tion SI ore. THE PRINCIPAL MO VEY ESTABLISHMENT— S. h. corner of SIXTH and RACE streets. Money advanced on Merchandise generally—Watches, Jewelry, iamons s, Gold and Silver Plate, and on articies of value, for any length of time a:geed on. WATCFIES AND JE WELRY AT PRIVATE SALE. Fine Gold Hunting Case.Doublo Bottom and Open Face • English, American and Swiss Patent Lever Watches; Fine Gold Hunting Case and Open Face Lepine Watches; Fine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Fine Silver Hunt- PatenßEO and Open Face English, American and dwiss t Lever and Lopine Watches; Double Case Engliah Quartler and other Watches; Ladle& Fancy Watches; Diamond Breastpins; Finger Rings; Ear Rings; Studs; .litc.; rue Gold Chains ; Medallions; Bracelets; Scarf Pine: Breastpins; Finger k ings ; Pencil Cases and Jewelry generally. FOR SALE.—A large and valuable Fireproof Chest. snit able for a Jeweler; cost StEu Also. several Lots in South Camden. Fifth and Chestnut streets. JAMES A. FRFNMAN. AUCTIONEER. No. 41X/ WALNUT street. AT PRIVATE BALE. A VALUABLE TRACT OF w Acq.Es OF LAND. With Mansion House, Rising Sun Lane, intersected by Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh, Ontario and Tioga streets, within 200 teat of the Old York Road. Valuable) depoatt Brick Clay. Terme easy. A. valaablebusineae property No. 819 Arch street. IJR.4IN.—A Handsome Mansion. on Mehl etti lot a be by feet Alb elfielvil SALEM. M . TEIORAS & SONS. AUCTIONEER && Nov. 13i and 141 South Fourth street SALES OF STOCAS AND 1110ALCICEITATE.__ [ll' Public sales at the Philadelphia Exchange EVERT T 1 , ESD ebY. at 12 o'clock. _ £Wr thindbllis of each • y werti betted separated" is addition to which ere publfth. on the Saturdair to each sale, one thousand catalogue. in Paint , largos OVINE full descript TUESDAY.ha looperty to be ll= the FOLLOWING and a Lbt of Red at Private Sale. . W Our sales are also advertised In the folioed/IS - nettepspers: NORTE( AMERMAN. PEES% LARDOIR Lena& Invvr.t.torrroan. INQUIRER, AGE, EITININT; SULLREEns EVENING TELKORAI'II. GERMAN DEVINDRAT, 10. Effr .Furniture Sake at the Auction Store EVERY THURSDAY. lier" Sales at Residences receive especial attention. • SALE OF STOCKS, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. 0(11011ER 27. ON TUESDAY, OCT 27, At 19 o'clock noon, ET at the Pldiedelpbla .ehanga. • Executor's bale— ro alums Jacobi?. Crook Oil Co. 100 shares Tarr F..rm Oil Co. , $12,010 Freedom iron and Steel Co. Ist mortgage eirpet -cent bonds. registered; Interest relnuarir A runnit 1. 51.050 Columbus and Indianapolis Central Railway Chu Eat mortgage 7 per cent bond. coupon Jan. Sad July 1. 53000 Allegheny Valley ER. 7 3.10 Bonds. 40 shares liedance insurance Co. 105 shares Freedom iron and Steel Co. Adminia'ratore. Baia -16 shares American Fire insurance Co. 10 shares Union Mutual Insurance Co. 24 shares Continental • 7 shares Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets Passenger Rahway Co. 2 shares Academy of Music preferred. 1 share Academy of Fine arts. For tither Accounte--. 24 shares National Bank of Commerce. 20 shares Western National nank. • 53 shares Union Bank Tennessee. • : 6 shares Camden and Atlantic Railroad. 5 shares Academy of Music, with'tioket , 10u shares Abbot iron Co. of Baltimin a City. 160 shares Pulite and Atlantic Telegraph Co. 1 share Mercantile Library Co. _ ' Pew No. 76. middle ante et- Luke's Chards, third ew from the chancel. 100 aba t es Central Transportation Co. " 2 shares Southern Transportation 4000 shares Malin= till Co. - REAL ESTATE. . • LARGE and VALUABLE LOT. 8O) ACRES. extending from Long latui to near Eighteenth et.. and croeseel 19th. 211 h, 21st. 224, Moore. Mifflin and McKean eta:. 26 Yard .111 . . Orphans' Court Sale--Eetate of David P. Moore. 'deed. -HAND6OME MODERN TEIREE4STOR.Y BRICK MENGE. with Bide Yard, Nu. 943 Franklin et.. above 7 ropier- 26 feet front. Has the modem conveniences., l..rpbans , Court t ale-Eatate of Samuel W. RoOP. de0544.- -STUNr, DWF.LLING. Queen at.. Germantown • .L. Executors' 13a e-Eetate of Joseph 13. Mitchell, - Ern.; ..• deed- ANDOOME -MODERN - RESIDENCE, flo, Tulpehocken at., north corner, of Green. Germantown, 60 teet front. 390 feet deep-3 trouts. ...au all the modern conveniences. - - . . . VALUAULE DISTILLERY, Steam Engine, Boller. Grain Elevator, Fermenting Tuba, Noe. L4OB anti 410 Nord) Front at, between Lallowhin and Margaret ta4o feet front, VERY VALUABLE BUM:NMI STAND—BRICIC LIVERY STABLE and DWELLIN'4. belonging to-Isaac D. Ouse& berry. Nor. lidd 1028 and 1030 Coates at -80 feet • front: 179 feet dean to Mellon at-2 fronts. BAIA) )ME MODERN RESIDENCE and L LW', north corner of Walnut lane and limn at. 83 feet front, 200 feet deep. Germantown Ilas all the models conveufene.e. HANDSOME MODERN FOUR.STORY BRICK REM- . DEN CE. no. 123 North Twentieth et . above Arch. Had ail the modernconvenienon. HANDSOME MODERN THREE•bTORY Balm kz- . RIDEM:E. B. W. corner of Twentieth and Recasts. Bea all the modern conveniences. 2 FOUIL.STURY BEIDE. DWELLINGS, Noe. 108 aadl Ile Uothic et. between Front and Bocond and Cbeataut and Walnut ate MrinEß& THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, Na 742 South Tenth at., below Fatzwater. Liao Edith° mo dem c. nveniences. Immediate posse pion TIl RPM:MORI' BRICA DVV ELLi Nu. No.B27Nortisst m between Cedar and Memphis, 19t. Ward. TWO-STORY BRICK DWELLING,No. 614 Howson st.. above Cedar. TIMES-STORY BRICK DWELLING. Catharine st,,, ea-t of 22d VALL'ABLE TWO STORY BRICK FACTORY. B. E. corner of Dickereon and Swatonn eta, Firer, Ward. BUILDING LOT. Snyder r treat. First Ward. DESIRABLE RaSIDENCE. No. atz douth Thirtoentb wrest To Lumbermen, Ship But Mere. Wheelwrights and Others Peremptory Sale on the Pre oleos_ SO MAO 131:ANDENG TIMBER. TurneVe lane; West of ilfOad.treet, oppoalte Monument Cemetery_. ON SATURDAY MORNING. Nov. 7, at 12 o'clock. will be sold at public sale. without. reserve, on •be remises, thirty acres ef btandtug Timber. cetera 'sing White Oak. Chestunt.v allow Poplar. Hickory and.. variety of suber hard wood. a will be sold in one lot. and to ship builders, iumter and cord wood men this is an opportunity seldom off.; ed Tha Wee of this sate it to have the land 'clew ed' by the first of April next Der bale absolute. 'ft rms—bseu to be paid at the true of sale. balance when the party purchasing shall commence to cut •he timber, and approved security given that the laud wlii be c eased by April 1, 18f9. . . For further pat haulers apply at the office of Moots. G. & 11. t'. bluitteid. No. Mb South Sixth street, or to the , auctioneers. Peremptory Bale No 211 South Seem:id etivet. STOCK oUPEkIOR CADLNE P ;FURNITURE. ON WEDNESDAY M.ORNINtA. Nov. 11, at 10 o'clock, at No. Oil South Second *Area' b• catalogue, the entire atock of oeperio: Vunnture, inclu ding Walnut Parlor Sulu, in green plush and hair cloth; bideboarde, Walnut Centre and DoquA flat Stands, eupe•lor Walnut Chamber Pnrnitnre, 'elegant. Walnut Wardrobes, I.oungere, Cane Seat Chaim Cottage t eke, &c, OW" The entire rtock was manufactured expressly for private ruler, and finianed in the best manner. Salo Perainptory. AT PRIVATE SALE, ELEGANT REiIDItNCEAND i'UII.NTrUEE. N. W. corner Fortieth and Pine etreets. Lot 100 by 176 teat. In quire at ths auction rooms. ttr - At Private Sale, a VALUABLE STORE. Front street, oetween Walnut and Chestnut. Inquire at the Auction Store. B. BCOIT, SCO TT GALLERY 1090 CHEsiTNUT area. Philadelphia. le 7D3 Arch street PEREMPTORY SALE oF THE STOCK. FIXTURES At.. MACHINERY OF A PEILFUMERY ANLI TOILET Bt .AP MANUFACTORY. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, Oct 28, at 10 o'clock, on the premises, 728 Arch street. will be sold, he en , ire stock of a Pert ante and Soap Mi nute, furor declining the business, cortiprising the stock, debuted and unfinished, Materials for Perfumes. Bottle". Boxes, Brays, Soap Presses and Boilers, Maulds Show Cases &c , &c. Jobbers and dealers will find this a d 6. suable stock. LAlt & EVANS, AUCTIONEERS. tDO and STNUT sell TILTS DAV, MORNING and EVENING et. A large Invoice of Blankets, Bed Spreada, Dry Goo,. Clothe. Cassimeree, Hosiery, Stationery. Table Pocket Cutlery. NoNone &c. City and country merchants will find bargain& ref Terme cash. Goods packed free of charge T. L. ABRBRIDGE & CO, AUCTIONEERS, No. 505 MARKET street, 'above Fifth. IZIACIHEIVEISY. IRON. ikt. M ERRICK & SONt iv BOUT ARK FOUNDRY. 430 WASHINGTON Avenue,_Philadelphia. . MANUFACTUitE STEAM ENGINES—High and Low Pressure, Horizontal. Vertical. Beam. Oscillating, Blast and Cornish Pomp s. SO ln lLEßß—Cyllnder. Flne r Tnbular. &a. STEAM BAMWI ..R.s—Nasmyth and Davy stiles, and o r all sizes. CASTINGS—Loam. Dry and Gretm Sand,_Brass, ROOFS—Iron Frames , for covering with Slate or Iron. TANKS—Of Cast or Wrought Iron. for refineries.waters oil, &c. • ' GAS MACHINERY—Such as Retorts. Bench Casting*, Holders and Frames, Purifiers, Coke and Charcoal Bar rows, Valves, Governors. ttc. t - SUGAR MACHINERY--Such as Vicuum Pans and Pumps, Def orators, Bone Black Filters. Burners. Wash. era and Elevators; Bag Filters. Sugar and Bone Black Cara, dm. Solo manufacturers of the following specialties: In Pbiladelphia and vicinity, of William Wright's Patent Variable Cutoff Steam Engine. In Pennsvlvania, of Shaw & Justice's Patent Deadatrokil Power Hammer. In the United States, of Weston's Patent Self-centering and Self-balancing Centrifugal Sugar-draining Machin. Glass & Berta 's improvement on Aspinwall & Woobers Centrifugal. BsrtoPs Patent Wrought-Iron Retort Lid. Strahan's Drill Grinding Rest. Contractors for the deslarm erection. and fitting up of Ma fineries for working Sugar or Molasses. OOPPER AND YELLOW METAL SHEATEONOs V Brazier's Copper Nails, Bolts and Ingot Cc_lppor. °Ga llantly on band and for sale by BENJW WINSOR CO., No. 832 South Wharves. NT°. I GLENGIMMOCK SCOTCH PIG IRON, FOR 1 1 gale in lota to Nun purcharma, from attire and to ar- T PETER WRIGHT & SONS, -' 15. ff 115 Walnut !Me. !NAVAL STORIES. X,aVAL STORES.-1375 BARRELS ROSIN, 210 BAR rele Wilmington Tar, now landing from oteamer Pioneer" from Wilmington. N. U., and for oak, byP COUItRA_N, RUSSELL di CO.. No. 22 North Front treot. Ol2B-tf pITI IL ROSIN AND SPTS. TCYRPENTINE.--50bble. (HI Pitch; 050 bble. Rosin; 125 bble. Spta. TurpM.- tine In store and for sale by COURRAP.I. RUSSELL, at Ct 1.. 2EI N. Front street. tf NAVAL STORES-101 BARRELS SPIRITS TUB. pentine Barrels Boapmaktre' Rosin; 100 Barrels North euTollna Tar, now landing from steamer Pioneer. and for sale by EDWARD 11. ROWLEY. No. 16 South Wharves. eelbtl Q TURPENTINE-5O BARRELS ESPIRITSTIIR-'. 0 routine now landing and for rale by ED W-:-.11..-ROW. =dna I,EY. nionth Wharcee. HEATERS AND STOVES. THOMAS 8. DIXON - d: SONS, Late Andrews & Dixon, 'mg • tt. No. 13'24 CHESTNUT Street, Philada.. ipposite United States Hint. Manufacturers of LOW DOWN. PARLOR, CHAMBER, OFFIGE., And other GRATES. For Anthracite. Bituminous and Wood Fire; ATAO. WAItM.AIn FURNACES For Warmit arming Public and Private Buildings. REGISTERS, VENTILATORS, AND • CIIDINEY CAPS, COOKIN G.RANG ES, BATH.BOILERS. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. GAS FIXTURES. Cl_ AB FIXTURE S.—IiIISKeY. ikraltglia° TRACI:CAR/1.N% 718 Chestnut street, manufactured, .f Gaa Fixtures. Lamps, &c.. nc.. would the attention of the public to their lar_ge and elegant assortment of Ciag Chandeliers, Pendants. Bracketa&c. They also introduces gm pipes into dwellings and public buildings. and.atterug to extending, altering and repairing gas DiPti• ;await. warranted..
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