NEW PUBLIWATIONS. 'Under the Willows, and other Poems. By, James Russell Lowell. Fields, - Osgood & Co. On sale at Turner's, late Pitcher's. The present volume is mule. up, with the exception of two pieces, Of contributions to periodicals and poems published with other collections. Werecognize such old friends fui "The firpt snoW-J'all,", and "Row looks Appledore in a storm ?", The collection, covering the working' period of the . poet's entire maturity, shows him under every mood—now scholarly to the very verge of the pedantic, now racing among the June hies- SOMS like a country boy. Poems of nature, perhaps, axe in the majority; and' if :we were asked what •gives the compilation its prevailing tone,we should say that it'was the poet's peculiar fashion of look ing. at '4AV:if-doors. Lowell is penetrated, thrilled; often elevated, by the most exquisite sense of nature; yet, for his misfortune, .he : never is quite at home therei the' reader feels throughout the scholar, the man of books, -the,man of in-doors; ono sees that his lyric 'guide is pale,lhat his gait is a little 'cramped by the. Academic fauteuil, that his voice misses the reverberation of the library walls. in;the following extract, for instance, exqui - elle as it is, one scents the literary man, one cattiothelp - thinkinghow - Burns - would have turned the same thought: "Mt& is a pions fraud of the almanac, A gbastly parody of reallipring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o'er-confident. site trust the date, ' Aiad, with her handful of anemones, Herself as shivery, steal into the sun, The season need but turn his hourglass round, And winter suddenly, like crazy Lear, heels back, and brings the dead May in his arms, t Her budding breasts and wan tlislastred front With frosty streaksand_drifts_of his white beard All overblown. Then, warmly walild with While b my wood-tit l e supplies ooks, the sun's defect, Whispering oldforest-sagas in its dreams, .1 take my May down from the happy shelf Where perch the world's rare song-birds in a row, Waiting my choice to open with full breast, And beg an alms of spring -time. ne'er denied indoors by vernal Chaucer, whose fresh woods Throb thick with merle and mavis all the year." Here again, as it strikes us, we have nature spoiled and hurta little by the self-conscious tees of the historian and pundit: '9Jpon these elm-arched solitudes No hum of neighbor toil intrudes; The only hammer that I hear Is Wielded by the woodpecker, The single noisy calling his In ell our leaf-hid Sybaris; The good old time, close-hidden here, Persists, a loyal cavalier, While Roundheads prim, with point of fox. Probe wainscot-chink and empty box; Here no hoarse-voiced iconoclast I Myself too prone the axe to Wield, I touch the silver side of the shield With lance reversed, and challenge peace, A willing converrof the trees." Lowell as a' nature-poet is at his best just in proportion aslaeforgets all this Puritan pa rade; and the followiiik ektracrit3 admirable for that reason; the only trouble about it is that the philosopher is too clever in reason ing out the why and how of the sentiment he so exquisitely perceives: "Once, upon a rock's brown bosom, Bright as a thorny cactus-blossom, I saw a butterfly at rest; Then first of both I felt the beauty; The airy wldm i the7grim-set duty, Each from the other took its beat. "Clearer it grew than winter sky That Nature still had reasons why; And, shifting sudden as a breeze, My fancy found no.satisfaction, No antithetic sweet attraction, _Bo great as in, the Nomades. "Beythians, with Nature not at strife Light Arabs of our complex life, They build no houses, plant no mills To utilize Time's sliding river, Content that it llow waste forever,. If they, like it, may have their wills. "An hour they pitch their shifting tents In thoughts, and feelings, and events, Beneath the palm-trees, on the grass, They sing, they dance, make love, and chatter, Vex the grim temples with their clatter, And make Troth's fount their ittoking-glass." A welcome part of the volume is that in which .are.printed in succession M.r. Lowell's very earnest and heart-full contributions to the lyric history of the war; —not, of course, the Biglow papers,which form a tithe of peculiar folk "all by themselves," but such noble songs as "The Washing of the Shroud," "Memorim Positum," and the patriotic lines called "On Board the '76," and written for Mr. Bryant's seventieth birthday. When the Atlantic was a new breath and a new force•in the land; when its pages were much more fastidious than now, a stanza in cluded in these poems was accepted by thoughtful critics as one of the most profound, most honey-sweet of the utterances of West em poesy; in its singular completeness, ma turity and air of ennui; it seemed more likely to have been poured forth from the window of some old historic hotel or palazzd, to run down with the tide of some storied river used to be stained with the blood of con tending races, than here in a new land, by the fresh Charles, from the heir of a springing nation; it was a little poem called "Happiness;" it almost alarmed people by what we called its maturity, by its experience in fatigue, so odd and apparently uncalled-for; time passed, and the small, wise verse was found clipped and set into a longer poem. This poem, this "Ode to Happiness,"polished and finished to the last degree, is the final expression of the poet Lowell, atter all his Biglow Papers and Fables tor Critics,—and is found as the central jewel in the present reliquary. "Among the Hills," and other Poems. By Whittier. Published by Field, Osgood & Co., on sale at Turner's, late Pitcher's. It is needless at this day to sound the praises of the Quaker poet. Not Beato An gelico, working away at the laces of saints and sainted men in his Florence cloister, kept his soul more virginal from the spot of the world, or infused into the visages of his creations an air of more unconscious purity. Of- these stainless types are the heroes of "Bearcamp Water," with which our volume opens;—a brave young farmer, nobleman of the fresh New England field: a city maid, who has brought from the haunts of Men all their refining influences without a taint 01 their corruption: when two such souls unite, their life is a poem—and who but Whittier i 3 fine enough to catch and seize it? Other poems are added, the harvest of a few meditative months; until the golden ears blend into a sheaf. Everything is gentle, refinedly nnitzlc, pure enough for an angel to linger by. All who wish to surround themselves with refining influences, will care to add Bless bars of liquid muds, to their collections, The nublisners aye, by exquisite printing w d tti e addition df three or four harmless Me engravings, given an entity and a hal.- mony to these poems which they hardly seem to have if we merely turn over our old 'At lantica for them. ;From among the seasonable publications of the solid publishing tondo Of p. 'Appleton ez, Co.,Nve select the following for notice.' Messrs. Appleton's books may be found in this oity on the shelves of Claxton, Repsen and Haf felfinger : , AZ pleton's Juvenile Manual for 1869 is a collection of stories, adventures; fables and legends, obtained from all sorts of sources, illustrated with brilliant and spirited engra vings, printed On toned paper, and gilt and stamped in the style of a decoratiie holiday book. It is a large 'duodecimo, and its four hundred pages compose a labyrinth of hair breadth napes, wonders and perils. These stories have the advantage or disadvantage of being scrupulously authentic, and—we hope the statement will not scare away any of our „ young iriends—of embodying a vast deal of practical information about the habits of Ilea.; ven's creatures. Their edition of Prof. Alexander 13ain's "Mental Science" is solid and neat, suitable for students in the higher class of seminaries. The Scotch professor condenses into a man ageable volume a systematic exposition of Mind, together with a historical portion devotee to the retrospector - the • greit ques tions which have agitated the schools of Mental' Philosophy. Not avoiding these_ vexed disputes, he lends a new clearness to old theories of Nominalism' and Realism, the Origin of Knowledge in the mind, Free-will and External Perception. The easy, popu lar style and ready enthusiasm which lend so much charm to the critical studies of the Aberdeen professor are visible, throughout the book,-and give a grateful fluency to these more solid lueubrations. An exquisite spirit, detained for but too short a time on earth, was Alice Neal; whom her little friends loved to call Cousin Alice. At once witty and good, she could 'entertain without planting a sting; and her satirical writings, of which she became morbidly ashamed before she died, contain the seeds of an exquisite-honor and a generous. morality. Her children having desired to see their mother's fictitious sketches made up into a collection, the compilation has, been put by the Messrs. Appleton into the hands of a ju dicious editor, acting with the assistance of Miss Neal's early patron and counsellor, Mr. L. A. Godey. The volume is plain, work-a day, and thoroughly companionable. Ellsworth's Bookkeeping, as published by Appleton, contains the rules of the science in rnirable---ertery-and . - densed, with an Introduction , which ably elucidates the philosophy of the science. Saintine'e exquisite blossom of Picelola has always thriven well on American soil. Printed from carefully-edited proofs, with all the elegance proper to Hachette or Didot, and introduced by an interesting essay on Life in State Prisons, the faultless French edition of Appleton & Co. will be almost a necessity to lovers of the purist. literature of Paris. Appleton's standard editions, not easily matched for neatness and bon marche, are advancing. The Dickens (made up of the attractive plum—pudding pamphlets bound to gether in a rich blue cover with medallions), has a very classic look, and the price—only $1 75—is a surprise. The last volume— very dense, yet not too heavy for the-hand,— contains, with a number of the original illus trations, the whole of the long novels of Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit, together with the delightful essays reprinted from Mr. Dickens's periodical. Messrs. Appleton's pamphlet issue of Mar ryatt, also, c has every element of popularity. It will be completed in twelve volumes, of which the sixth, Japhet, is now ready. Below is a group of books, all marked by the spirit of selection and refinement which we look for when that scholarly Boston house, the Roberts Brothers, commit them selves to a publication: "Miss Lily's Voyage Round the World." Boston : Roberts Brothers. Miss Lily,a kind of Donna Qu?jotte of seven years, together with Master Paul, Master Toto and little Peter, saturate themselves with Robinson Crime, Cook's Voyages and the Swiss Robinsons. They then become uneasy with an interior press of the chivalric spirit, and determine to conquer new worlds. They journey round the globe, and get as far as the woods, where they meet a white cow, who proves her' savage disposition and barbaric hauteur by avoiding them anxiously. After combating any quantity of windmills they come into the realms of the Ogre,whose mere human semblance is that of a wandering artist; ho tyranically 'drags them hcnne o tO mamma, who is irrationally prepared to die with joy at the return of her brave adven turers. This light little story ripples like an impor t taut young rivulet among a series of forty-eight large chocolate-colored engravings after the Strasbourg artist Frolich, which are big enough and conspicuous enough(to over ride the text completely; children will appre ciate this delicious preponderance of the icing over the cake,the fine•arts over the literature. The book is a pretty large, huard, flat edition de luxe, with a most tempting holi day air. Miss Luyster's translation preserves the evanescent aroma of the original French (by "Elie Sanvage"), in which this graceful trifle was written.—Sold in Philadelphia by Duffield Ashmead. "Happy Thoughts." By F. C. Barnand. Boston. Roberts Brothers. Whether Brit.: ish Humor is decaying or not is a question we are happy to leave to those who are too old and wise to laugh. Howe'er it be, w believe Mr. Bernand's contributions are ad mitted to have been the best haul made by Punch since the - - adolescent writings of Thackeray. Last summer we extracted and smiled over some detached " Happy 'Thoughts" with the readers of this column. We now welcome the complete series, in the, shape of one of Roberts Brothers' "Handy Volumes." Mr. Burnand's philosophy;—as the nsicinum of it remains in the mind after you have done shaking your sides—is that everybody is petty, cowardly, clumsy, base, secret, mean and prone to contreleinps. His hook is the very Ecclesiastes of minor vices. The expression and lifelike movement of his sketches is, at the same time, in pen- portrait tire what Leech's studies were in pencilling. —For sale by Duffield Ashmead. Roberts' Brothers have issued in a delicate little,,volume the "Rural Poems" of Willianai Barnes, an — English writes of bucolics WhO Pi_ DAILY EVENING. BULLETINLPHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBERIO;IB6B. has secured the warm admiration of the very bestoEnglish critics; such as the reviewers of. the Spectator, Athenceirni; Mall and Saturday. Mr. Barnes ',paints nature with the loving detail of a pulst, White his realism never degenerates into hardnesS: • his origi- , nality gives an exquisite piquancy to what ever he says, while never,.tempting him into anything, that is not classical and chastened in style. If' a middle-age illuminator, inter lining his tender botany-.; ameng tbe pious thoughts of a Book of Hours, Could be meta morphosed into a modern poet, he would reveal that peculiar preservatien of a cloistrAl purity and, delicacy which is the attraction of these fresh thoughts; or if Cowper, keeping all his priceless air of introversion and, rural privacy, could have been* .madea a contem porary writer, subject to but' not'overcome by the thousand pressures of our. uneasy age, he might have produced something as dewy and cool. We like these Remus' greatly our selves, and are mire' the public will learn to like them too.—On sale at turner's, late Pitcher's. "Tablets," by A. "Bronson Alcott, is a handful of essays, of a refinement of culture that is only too rare in this country and in this age. - Mr. Alcotßias learned to examine his thoughts narrowly and express them with accuracyLto_digest hinwide_reading and har monize hits ctinclusinns. Ment - il - refinement •and moral refinement lend their seal to every Dnerof - these fine papers. We recommend them with it cordiality that we can hardly ex press in our necessarily short notice of the book. "Little Women, Meg, Jo, Beth and Airy," is a very pleasant story in which the heroes are children.. _We have found it very good juvenilereading, and for once in it the small people - talk childishly. - - The writer, Louisa X Akar, - deSerMs, at; - a" - Christmas tribute, a whole world of little hearts to love her for writing so exactly down to theii'com prehension; while - many a parent will pick up the volume half on the sly, and find himself committed to its perusal by an involuntary laugh of enjoyment. Some very feminine it by May Alcott are bound up with the work. Sold by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Duffield Ashmead publishes, as an uncom monly elegant (and rather costly) Christmas trifle, the little religious poem "Nothing but Leaves," in a series of chromo-lithographed tablets, bound together, and each_ containing a stanza of the lyric surrounded with rich and heavy colored borders by the tasteful illuminator Jean Lee. The figure of the Leaf, which is at the centre of the poem, has been .:41-by-the-artiat-o4 the rulingspirir—oLher_ designs, which all represent some variety of foliage, apparently studied as a general thing after nature. This is a luxurious decoration for holiday centre-tables. The novels of Messieurs Erckmann and Chatrain (writing in partnership on the French plan) are about to have a 'tworld-wide, instead of a Parisian, celebrity. The 41 rk power and Poe-like detail in the "Con script" were appreciated as a new sensation by novel-readers „in England and this cot n try, while the touches" of humpr by wh eh the miserable histery - was - relieved gave a zest to a jaded public. "Madame Theri se' is another historical novel, now just issued by Scribner & Co., and destined, we think, to secure a whole populac2 of admirers. The fact that it has attracted the interest of s' re spectable an essayist as Colonel Higginson, who prefaces it with a very lively biographi cal sketch of the twin 'authors, is an earnest of its intrinsic value. It is handsomely issued, with the illdstrations by Riou, the accom plished French designer, by Scribner S.:, Cr. For sale by Claxton, Remsen astral finger. The essays, which proved so stimulating, so provocative and so widely attractive in' Hours at Some, of Rev. R ,race Bushpril, have been collected in a volume by Scribner under the title c of "The Moral Uses of Dark Things." Their perpetual suggestiveness and frequent profundity imprison the attention of whoever lights upon them. The moralizing of the day, which seemed to be going to wrack under the perilous assistance of well meaning weaklings, receives an immense succor from this good man and energetic thinlier. We do not wish to inflict on so good a book a degrading monotony of praise, but we will copy, that the reader may taste for himself, a passage or two in which we think the reverend philosopher is at his best. In the essay on plague and pestilence• occurs the following argument: "It is s most important use of great pestilences that they enforce, with an energy so terrible,the convietion•of the unity of the race,and especially that they compel the higher and more privileged ranks of mankind to own their oneness of life with the humbler and more degraded or even savage classes. It is a most remarkable fact that as the Asiatic cholera, so called, toolt,its birth in the remote East,aniong a most degraded and de cayed family of the race, so all the great pesti lences of history , bad their rise In Ceina, Egypt, Africa, or among some other people of the globe,run down by heathendom and its vices. Here, among the mine of BM, whore race has been reduced in quality by along course of physical and moral corruption,by savage pas sions,by indolence,filth,falsehood,oppression,fear and licentiousness—just here, I say, when we are beginning to doubt whether a type of humanity so low can be properly called human, there is generated the virus of some death that !s to deso late the world. First we hoar of it in the distance of a half circumference of the globe; thou that it, is marching on through kingdom after kingdoui till, finally, it reaches the highest points of civilization, filling cities and palaces with death and terror * Lnd so the highest rauki of character and cultivation are seen to be one family with barbarians and savages. * We cannot escape•tbe dark fraternity of woe in which they claim us, for there is no other anti separate world to which we can retire. We an abut up with them to breathe the miasma of their sin, and die with such kind of deaths as they may propagate. * This terrible brother hood, this oneness of organic order and fate sig nified by the word humanity!—what an appeal does it make to us for the gospeling of these barbarous and decayed nations!" Ilere is his admirable picture of the man who has learned to bridle his moods, and to acquire the habit of balance and self-control; it is from the paper on "Insanity." "Now a wise man is one who understands him self well enough to make duo allowance for such insane moods and varieties, never concluding that a thing is thus or thus because just now it bears that look; waiting often to see what asleep or a walk, or a cool revision, or perhaps a con siderable turn of repentance will do. Ho does not slash upon a subject or a man, from the point of a just now rising temper. Ho maintains a noble candor, by waiting sometimes fora gentler spirit, and a better sense of truth. Ho is never intolerant of other men's judgments, because he is 'a little distrustful of his own. He restrains the dislikes of prejudice,.because he has a prejudice against his dislikes. His resentments aro softened by his condemnations of himself. His depressions do not crush him, because.; ho has sometimee seen the sun, and believes it may ap pear, again. ..He revises his opinions readily, be cause ho has a right, he thinks, to better opin ions, Übe can find them. He holds' fast sound opinions, lest his moodiness in change should take all truth away. And if his insane thinking eptiears to be toppling him doirt•,., the ',,golfs of Ekepticlam, be recovers himself byjust raising the question - , whether a r maTril sane way or thinking /eight not think differently:2 Amen who is duly aware thus of his own distempered faculty, &life how diffarout from one who acts as :if ho were infallible, Tit - A, haffnothing to do bat just to let himself be ' pr eliciunced Other conspicuously original ' essays are those on Bad Government, on Oblivion, on Dead• History, on Solidarity, on Things Un sightly, on the Bea, on'Distinctions of Color. The philosopher's sturdy optimism, among all these depressing considerations,—"from seeming evil still educing" hope—,-is what'we like especially, about him.' ,The papers are sixteen in all, and we commend them, in the guise of moral necessities, to scholars aud,to those who are only students.--Sold by Clax ton, Rernsen & Haffelfmger. The second weekly number of Zell's Popular Encyclopedia and Universal _Dictionary begins with the word Abro tanum and ends with AcidOcation; • there‘ are eleven neat little -- engravings, in seven* pages; the idea of the work,—to combine the features of both dictionary and • encyclopedia —is surely • an expellent and pcipular one; the definitions are very full, and often swell into, the proOortions of small essays, _while con centration is evidently aimed at; the , staff of editors appear to be careful and intelligenL The weekly tax on - anyunbseriber - COuly - ten7 cents) is so ridiculously small that we do not think any one who gives his attention to the prospectus can avoid sending his address to. Mr. Zell—Whose subscription and publishing office is at 17 South Sixth street. ,The "Pair Times," printed by Ringwalt 45' ,Brown, and devoted to the interest of the. 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More than two-thirds of the Through Lino and Brat:whet' between the Mieeouri River and the Pacific Ocean are comtructcd, at a coet of nearly ONE II'UNDRED !MILLIONS, And the remainder le being pushed forward with un pat elided vigor. - "7 he bueinees of 'the eintral Pacific Railroad for the month of Julyiaet was a* f,,llows, let oot.u: Orme harninge, • • Operating Expenses. - Not Earnings. $2,69,620 E. 9 680.852 12 $179.210 11 'lhis result was upon lee, than 200 miles opened for businees. with insufficient rolling eMek. and was derived from legitimate commercial business' tally—being alto gether independent of the transportation of the immense amounts of men, subsistence. and materials required for grading, and extending the Artier nearly. one hundred mike eastward during the elute period. , • The under:dip:led offer, for pale, and, retcOntinend to in. waiters the " - • First Illortgoge 30. Year Gold Floods CENTRAL , PACIFIC R. - :R. CO bearing six per cent. per minim interest, both principal and interest payable in •"UNITED BTATEB GOLD COIN.n Theo bonds are the tint lion upon one of tho most productive and valuable railroad lines in the world —a line which will be flubbed within twelve menthe,and • which la already earidafr, after paying operating ex penses. more than twice the annual charge of its Bonded About 3.01!0 000 of the Bonds have been taken in Europe where ditty aro well liked: limited A mited amount will be disposed of at -10311B:IMINfrACURUIDINTERFSI'MURREICY . The 'Bonds are of BLOW each, with senatannual gold copper is attached, payable in July' and January. We receive all cleans of Government bonds at theicfull mar Itel. reles,in exchange to , the Clentral Pacifle Ra il road bonds. this enabling the holder, to realize from 5 CU tO Flit CENT. PROWV end keep thOPrinelP l ll of their iti• vestments etinally secure.• , • Orders and Inatihies will receive prompt attention. In. formation. Dereriptive Pamphlets. &e.. giving a full ac count of the Organization Progrees. Business and eres. peens of the Entenrire, furnished on application. Ronde ecnt by return Express at our cost. • , i , ,y • •,- • , 1 •,. ,• _ _ ,_ j ~7 ....; i _ E.,._:. .: . 4-- ii-,4 Dealers in Comment Stages, Gold No.. 40 S. Third St. nol9ll BA:I.TKING 'BOCISt de - ' • - 112 and kl 4 80. - DEA,Latlnfil IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES We will receive applications for Policiesof Life Insurance in the new National Life Insurance Contnany,of the United Btatea, Fullinfonnation given at our office. • , ITII :'/ANDOIIII' rd - 13114 WERs Dealers in all Government Securities, HAVE IMMOVED To Tai; OLD " LEDGER " BUILDING, S. W, corm Third and Chestnut Streets. Having a private telegraph wire direct to our New York office, we have always the latest New York quotations of ROCKS, HIM and GOLD. Orden for the game are promptly executed, 111118 OF MILS NGE drawn on London, Pair, Frankfort, &e., &c., and LEITERS OF CREDIP hued available throughout Europe. 1 ' ' SMITH. RANDOLPH & CO., Corner Third and Chestnut. ifIIBCEY.LA iEOIJ . ~ , 1 . . - STAR c,z - .. SPRI.NG, SARATOGA, N EWNORIt. The analysis proven thatthe waters of the SARATOGA STAR SPRINGS have a much larger amount of solid subatance, richer in medical ingredients than any other spring in Saratoga, and shows what the taste indlcateinamelyythat Ms the Strongest Wat er. It also demonetratee that the STAR WATER contain., 100 Cubic holies-More of Gas • in a gallon than any other spring. It Is this extra amount of gas that impart., to this water Its peculiarly spark ling appearance, and renders it so very agreeable,to the taste, It also tends to preserve the delicious flavor of the wate' when bottled, and cameo it to uncork with an et:fervor tame almost equal to Champagne., Bold by the leading Druggists and Hotels through out the country. JOHN WYETH & BRO,, 1412 Walnut Street, Philada. Wholesale Agents. del-tu the IvrPIS *3O Per Week. ANTI-WINDOW RATTLER, The Greatest Invention of the Age. Any active man ont of employ oan make $5O per week with the above useful and verynortable eatent. • The attention of Carpenters, Milldam Mechanics and all others is invited to this really valuable Invention. Call on the General Agent, 0. P. ROSE, Zro: 727 JELYN - E1 Street, Between Karket and Chestnut, Philadelphia. By enclosing 50 Cents and, two, stamps samples will be sent by mail deb to th 3n4 p ITltkrA NTOUNG MEN AND . BOYS' ENGLISH, CLASSICAL, I Mathematical tied Scientific Institute, 1208 MOUNT VYRNON street. Instruction thorough. Preparation for bueineme or college. _ .Rey. JAMES G. SELENN_, A. M., deb•tu th e 260 Principal. CBEGARAY INSTITUTE ENGLISH, AND FRENCH FOR YOUNG LADIES. BOARDING. AND DAY PUPILS, 1621 and 1629 SPRUCE Street, Philadelphia, Penna. Will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, Sept. Md. MADAME D'HERVILLY has the pletu3ure of annonno. ing that DR. ROBERT B. LABBERTON will devote him time exclusively to the Chogaray Institute. French in , the language of the family and In constantly epoken in the Inetitute. lelge to th 8m 1 OEM IL FOX. BE D ey 611 tiouth Fifteenth street, will give instructions in French and German, at any wane desired. to gentlemen wishing a knowledge of theeo longue gee t with a view to Hui npadienl. prob.:l4in. This is a desirable opportunity.!' , ' • nontfir litllo CS, ABID-Sitims: VRNEST BOPP. '"' , . 114 • NO. 230 NORTH NINTH STREET, llao on hand a Ripply of Oentlemenhy Bocite and Shops. of the fibeAt• quality of leather and'work (natality; alai) made to order. de2•2ml FALL opercarkida.._. CHOICE MILLINERY GOODS. S. A. & I). STERN, ir3llo A A. 84316-tu th Shit -=' Sums. TUE EINE . AVM'. 614 ARCH. STREET • 614 LOOKING GLASSES, PICTURE FRAMES 01L.:.9►t107`,11.?t:, C Hit 0 AlO la Great Vtaitty, At tae Very Lowest Pobsible Pikes. OW EN & SH 614 ARCH STREET_ It is an acknowledged fact by all who exorable our quality of work and scale of prices. that we rot up the "BEST" work for the "LEAST' , amount of money of any Ilona In the city of Philadelphia. toirgaremnen, allifitrea . :4l24 allo• - • . ty, l 4 4 l:iS & Co IMMO:1M )f!..,` A 1,1:1t6 JIMELEItii. • iv,,,Tcurs:, ilrl'le.l.lß :410' 4Z WATOICE3 3.711 ,TF,741.11:,7 AEPAIRED. 8 02 Ch0.41:..-At st.. Watches of the Root Makers. Diamond and_Other Jewo Of the latest style& Solid Silver and Plated Ware, Etc.. DM SMALL STUDS EDI; EYELET ISIOLESs A. lama einortment !us received. with a variety Q 9 settbsm Wfll. B. WARNS & Co n ;.`' Wholeeale.Deabrs in WATCHES a.ND 3 LfIWEIARY, 11. IL corner Ceventh and Chestnut Farces, And bin of No. ES South bird soseot &c• EX'~~A~.~ FINE FURNITURE. Lidest Dedgne•-•Superlor !flake and Fintsb. A. & -IL LEJAMBRE, French Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers, No. 1455 Chestnut Street, ' PIIILADELPIILI. del-tu th int* GIBLCMUIEEF.I34S. LiQVOlfite t ass: • FRESH MILS- AND PRESER,VES. Bunch, Layer, Seedless end Sultana Raisins, Currants, Citron, Oranges, Pam, Figs &0., &e. Every description of Groceries suitable for tire lioEtlsys, ALBERT C. ROBERTS Corner Eleventh end Vino Btreetat Patented September 8, 1868 Boston and Philadel phia SALT FISH COMPANY- ~,f*reer to, 7 k 7 41- AF7O( DESICC&TED COD MB FOR PUBIS EBB. OND POUND EQUAL TO FOUR, POUNDS EAU tlsfl. , Warranted to keep in any climate for an y , number of gre.thir Greato peoat2i'mhgettilllnte'aranglt decay. and sample cases 24 and 98 pound. each. Bold by all Grocera, and manufactured by the Boston and Philadelphia 114di Fish Company, LEDGER PLACE, rear of No. 52 North SECONDSt.,phdada. nol9 eom 6m• 'DI RENEW CHOCOLATE. -COCOA AND BROidA. A manufactured by Josiah Web KNI Co.. for Ba (X) le by C. GHT dr. .. Agento for tbe Manufactures. 8. E. cor. Water aed Cheotnut ate. VOW LUNCH--DEVILED ,lIANG TONGUE. AND Lobster, PotteLpeet Tgngne Anchovy Paste end Lobster .at C01.1131A 0 8 EasVED.d urocery, No,llB South Second ;street ./VrMESS SHAD. TONGUES AND SOUNDS-IN titts. put up. expressly for family we, in *coo emai for wale at OLI OESTY , S Earl I:J . ld Grocery. No. ns South So cond street. 'MEW PRESERVED GINGER IN SYRUP AND Day. AA of the celebrated Chyloong _Brand, fur sale at COUSTIPS East End Grocery. No. US South Soma street. NEW GREEN GINGER. PRIME AND GOOD ORDER, at OuIUBTY , B East End Groom'. No. 118 Santa E ea. and street. PAPER BIIELL ALMONDS--NEW CROP PELNCESa Paper Shed Almonds—Finest Dehecia Dorado Crown Raisins, NOW Pecan , Nuta, Watanta and Filberts., at COUBTY'S East Rnd Grocery Btore, No. US Sonib Second street POC T BOOM; :!_D i) I) Ice II It C 2 II I :, :III: II - .Boat quality Hair Matttesses, Bed. Extra quality Goose Feathers for sale. Binh Mattresses with hair tope. Ilusk'Mattressea and Straw Beet quality , Spring Mattresses made to order.. Tucker's Springs And Howe's Lola. Bedsteads in groatvariety. Suits of Walnut and Cottage Furniture, Dining. Chamber and Kitchen Chaim. • • • Bureaus, Chairs, • • and Bedsteads for children COMFORT 4 TILES, BLANKETS • . AND t6OLINTERRANI3.3. The above goods and many other altvaye on band and made to order by ULI allt.ltd FL Clatill34 5c4.5.1m, " No. 11 :Sort') I.leven.tit Erred. RIDAN, Balaton; • - and ElHowe. 1 TALICORAPHIO SILIMMILKT. ! Glut Z. B. VANCE has been elected Grand Mas iter of the Masons of North. Carolina. • TuE AnnUal Council of the North - , Carolinao Friends of Tedperance is in session at Raleigh. Tins Townsend block, in Syracuse, N. Y., was damaged by fire yesterday. Loss $35,000. AT Chicago, yesterday periling, the ther snometer marked zero. Bonn Chicago speculators are enjoying a cor ner in pork, and lard. 'Tim Gettysburg Cemetery Association met in Washington yesterday. 1, • Tun Academy of - Letters and Fide Arts was or , panized in New York on Tuesday night. J. Lotbrop Motley was chosen lirosident. GIiiNERAL itIBANT had it ma6niflcent recect i itin at the residence of Marshall . Roberts, New York, last evening. Tun death, sentence of Christian Gorlies, Of Buffalo, has been commuted to Imprisonment for THE loss by the buriling of Bailey's hat factOry, at Newburyport, Mass., is $80,000; insurance, $30,000. Yu.srEttney the Supreme Court of the United ; States was further engaged in hearing the legal , tender cases. - A nitloK stable iri-New:rork wow blown down by the high wind yesterday. A boy was killed by the falling walls. Is South Carolina the Legislature has elected a colored man to be Register of idesne Conveyance for Charleston county. THE Commissioner of Emigration at San Fran ' ciseo has sued the Pacific Mall Company for, vio ' latton of the Passenger act. He lays the penalties at $5,000,000. Grotog P. BANTON, late cashier of the COM mental Bank of Brunswick, - Canada; was arrested In Brooklyn. yesterday, oa the charge of embezzling the funds of the bank to the amount of-elOO,OOO. - He was-Imprisoned• -In`ds fault of ball. I k 4 411 4JII hf : 1) 4ti ('1 EIZIES. Ilse Continent and. Winding: Seas of the Planet Ilars-11. World Unlike Ours. '[From the Baton Jonnisi I ' _ The/planet Mara is the only object in the whole heavens which is.known to exhibit tea , tures similar to those •of our, own earth, and the acctimulated explorations and discoveries of astronomers during the last two hundred years have resulted in the construction of a globe representing the characteristics of this planet as astronomers believe them to exist. At a recent meeting of the Astronomical So ciety of England, a globe of Mars was ex hibited, on which , lands and seas were de picted as upon an ordinary terrestrial globe. By far the larg er portion of these lands and seas were lai ddown as well known entities, respecting which no more doubt is felt among astronomers than is felt by geographers concerning the oceans of our own gl obe . An interesting description of this glo be appears in .F'razer'B Magazine. To the lands and seas, .developed in the planet, are applied the names of those astron omers whoae researches have added to our knowledge on the subject. Each pole of Mars, it seems, is capped. with Ace, which varies in extent according to the progress of the seasons. Around each cap is a polar sea, the northern sea being termed the Schroter Bea; the southern, Phillips Sea. The aqua tarifa regions of Mars are mainly occupied by extensive continents, four in number, and named Dawes Continent, Hadley Continent, Beechi Continent, Herschel I (Sir W.) Conti. Lent. Between Dawes and Herschel Continents flows a sea shaped Bee an hour-glass, called Kaiser Sea, the large southern ocean out of which it lbws be ing denominated Dawes Ocean. Between 'Medley and Dawes continents flows Dawes Svelte, connecting a large southern ocean and a northern sea, named after Tycho. Herschel continent is separated from Secchi continent by Higgins. _inlet, flowing trom a tarp southern sea, teamed Maraldi Sea. In like manner Bessel inlet,flowing out of Airey Bea (a northern sea) separates the Nadler and '&ezhi continents. Dawes Ocean Is separa ted into four large seas, and large, tracts of bad lie between, but whether they are islanda or not is sot` certain. In Delarue Ocean there is a small island, which presents so , bright and glittering WI aspect as to aug ge, st the probability of its being usually snow covered. These seas, separated , by lands of doubtful extent, reach from Delarue Ocean to the South Pole. One of the most singular.features of Mars is the prevalence of long and winding inlets and bottle-necked seas. These features are wholly distinct from 'anything on our earth. For instance, Higgins inlet is a long, forked Stream, extenditirg for about three thousand miles. Bessel inlet is nearly as long, and Nesmith ' \st still more remarkable in its form. On r earth, the oceans are three times as cite • e as the continents. On Mars, a very d c • rent arrangement prevails. In the first place, there is little disparity be tween the extent of oceans and continents, and then these are mixed up in the mast complex manner. A. traveler by either land or water, can visit almost every quarter of the planet without leaving the element in 'which he began his journeyings. If he' chooses to go by water he could journey for upward of thirty thousand miles, always in eight of land—generally with land on both Sides—in such intricate labrynthine fashion are the land and seas of Mars intertwined. Anecdotes of Epicures. One of the Most"heartless things ever done was a trick once played on Pope, the epi curean actor. A. wicked man asked him to dine oil a small turbot and a boiled aitchbone of beef, apologizing for the humble fare, with the usual feigned humility of friends. "Why, it's the very thing I like," said Pope, in his reply, referring to the aitchbone. "I will come, my son, with all the pleasure in life." He_came„he_saw, he ate; ate till he grew nearer the table, and could eat no more. He bad just laid down his knife and fork, like a soldier tired of war's alarms, when ;a bell was rung, and in came a smoking haunch of veni son. Pope saw the trick at once; he cast a look of bitter reproach upon his friend, trifled with a large slice, then again dropped his now useless weapons, and burst into hysteri .cal and unrestrainable tears. "A friend of twenty years' standing," he sobbed. "and to be deceived in this matter!" One of the greatest vexations to a true epi cure is to see the obtuse blunderings of an ignoramus, who does not • knoW what he is eating. A dinner was given to Lord. Cheiterfield on his quitting the office of Master of the Buckhounds, at the Clarendon. Thirty per sons sat down. II was ordered by Count d'Orsay, an epicure of the highest taste, and the price was six guineas a head. dinner got up at the . Albion, under the auspices of g.dir William Curtis, cost the party between thirty and forty pounds apiece; but then, special messengers had been sent to West phalia to choose hams. Lord Southampton once gave a dinner at the Albion at ten guin.eas a head. Curious Letter from Dumas. Alexandre Dumas, Senior, has published the following letter in a Havre journal: "To the Editor: One of your writers is anxious to know why I have preferred stay ing on. the second floor of the Hotel Washing ton to inhabiting the charming palace of Chiatamone, given to we by Garibaldi, by, virtue of a decree inserted in the Monitore of the 7th of September, 1860; for service done for the Italian cause. You may well ask me'also why I spent 65,000 francs in that campaign, instead of - investing them in the funds. To these two questions I will reply that I tore up the decree which gave me the palace—that is to say, 400,000 franc's —because I 'considered it baneath me to receive pay for 'anything I had done for. Italy. As to the 65,000 ihe.ca with whiCh left ParbstheY vi6re'doBfried Prit My share of a general vengeance in which I had a pri vate:Vengeance to ,satisfy..-Ferdinand.l. of Naples AMPrisoned my father at 'Brindisi . . You know the words hi the Bible, the sins of the fathers shall visit the children even to the third and fourth generation. I did my part towards making the.sin ef Ferdinand visit his grandson. and I paid,without regret, the main of £2,600 for the pleasure of seeing the throne of the Bourbons of Naples crumble before my eyes. In a word; sir, lam not in the palace, because I never OW , where I do not consider myself at homePaud I stay on the second floor of the Hotel Washington because I pay , any way with the money I earn,givia:g,by my presence alone, a standing to the hotel, which it never had until I crossed its threshold. "A. DUMAS." nonannoo Writing for the uormons. ' Mom the Montina Gazette.] ' Unless some gifted 'saint will vrite roman ces in which the 'hero can make love to a whOle platoon of, fair Mormons at once, it would seem ,that romances of ail, despriptions must be included in the index expurgato rim; of the new Tabernacle. What a vista of greatnead - thisldea opens to romantic and poetical Mornioti. ground'.' of vantage he wotild have over = common novel ists. They are confined to one heroine; he might have it dozen. „They can only describe the perfections of one beauty; he might revel in the delineation of every type and style of beauty of which an artist could dream: They are confined to one sweet thrilling de lineallonot.love; he might tluill-us-throngh a dozen chapters, as his 'hero tendered WS' undivided heart to a dozen or morejvarying his.sentiments to stilt theiriemperaments,and his praises to accommodate their different oomplexivnts, and all the degreea „..of . form' ' from the plump 'beauty with a merry face, to the scraggy beauty with a sentimental air. Then, as to the plot, how much more, intricate and. highly sensational it can, be made, when the hero has a different rivalfor every fair object of his affection. How all the , schemes,, and counter- schemes , - eplisOdetti can be worked up and mixed, in, till even Wilkie Collins, or his most inveterate readers, could not give a gtuiss - as - to "how it watt' coming out." But ail these pale before the interest with which he could invest the finale. Im agine a denouement when the virtuous hero, and his loves, having worked out their de liverance from the evils that beset them, the machinations of the wicked and the enmity of rivals, have arrived at that point where vice is punished and virtue rewarded. This troop of blushing brides,each and severally attended by a half-dozen blushing bridesmaids, shall, like the seven women in the scriptures, re cently quoted by our Saltlake cotemporary, lay "hold of one man," and claim him as their own, their only Augustus. Then the hero and his , dozen brides are made one by the Reverend Latter Day Bishop, and two dozen father-in -laws bless him, and two dozen mother-in-laws smile at him through their tam. , - Here, fortwuttelyter the writer the moat apPreVed rules of - lltition_will allow the novelistio drop the curtain;.nor have we any desire to follow the development further, content to permit the happy man to regulate his dotuestic institutions to suit himself. We are perfectly-impartial In the matter, and only throw out these ideas for the benefit of reformers on the one hand, and on ,the _ other, as a Mat to W. W. Phelp% Mr. Lyon,: or whatever erudite and.tune fu l gentleman that' may be, at this present writing, the Pixtt Laureate and Novelist in Ordinary - .of his moat serene and comfortable highness, Brigham Young. A RTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. Thepartnembip heretofore existing_ under the firm of ROOP , KIBBE CO is this day - dissolved' by the deaM of SAMUEL W. HOOP. The busineas will be edited by the surviving partnere at Nos. 24 and 26 Bank street. JOSEPH C. ROOF'. _ - Executor efSamuel W. Roop. HENRY R. EIBBP,_ CLINTON .1. TROUT. JOSEPH C. HOOP. WILLI* 1.1 COLLADY. ' Surviving Partnere. PUIL*DELPIIIk. December 1.1868. PARTNERSHIP FORMED. The undetsigned hereby give notice that they have lesrmed a limited partnership, under the provisions of the act of Assembly, entitled 'Au act relative to special pub Ismaili," approved March 91.1838, and the supplements thereto, the terms of which are the following. viz.: 1. The name of the firm under which such partnership is to be conducted is KIBBE. (X)LLADAti ROUT. The general nature of the business intended to be transacted is a general Dry Goode Importing and Com mission beakless. 3. The GenemlPartntms - are - HENRY R. KIBBE. re. atthe Girard House, in the City of Philadelphia ; WILLIAM Y. COLLADAN . residing at No. 1329 North Broad Street, in tne same city. andt:LINTON J TRUU residing at No. 749 North Nineteenth Street, in the same city : and the bpecial Partner is JOSEPH C. ROOF'. resid ing at No. 20e6 Wallace Street. m the said city of Phila delphia. 4. The amount of capital contributed to the' common stock by mad Special Partner is t ifty Thousand (830.0 0 :0) Dollars in cub. 5 The said partnership is to commence on the first day of December. A. D• 181,18, and is to terminate on the first day of January. A. D.. 1871. HENRY R. KIBBE. WILLIAM Y. CoLLADAY. CLINTON J. TROUT, General Partners. JOSEPH C. HOOP, Special Partner. des Imat ENSIIII,AACTJEs MILE COUNTY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY—OF fIee, No. ilo Booth Fourth street, below Chestnut ' The Fire insurance Company of the County of Phila. jnevporated by the Legislature of Pettru3ylva. uis in JIM for indemnity against loss or damage by fire. exclusively. CHARTER PERPETUAL This old and reliable institutioMisith ample capital and contingent fund carefully invested, continues to insure buildings, furniture, merchandise, dm., either permanent is or for a limited time,against lose or damage by fire, at the lowest rates consistent with the absolute safety of its •customers. Loans adjusted and paid with all possible despatch. DIRECTORS: Ara l Chas. J. Satter. Andrew EL Miller, Henry_ Budd, *James N, ?Stone. John orn. Edwin L. Reakirt , Joseph Moore • Robert V. Massey, Jr.. George Meat.; - - - Mark Devine. CH 8 J. BUTTER, President.. BRhItY BUDD. Vice President. BENJAMIN E. HOECKLEY. Secretary and Treasurer el FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF el Philadelphia-OMo% No. 24 North Fifth street, near Market street ... . Incrorperated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania: - Char ter perpetual. Capital and Assets. $166.000. Blake hon. muse against Loss or damage by Fire on Public or Private Buildings, Furniture, Stocks. Goods and Merchandise, on favorable terms. DIRECTORS. Win. McDaniel, s Edward P. Moyer. Israel Peterson, - Frederick Ladner, John F. SaLsterling, Arians J. Glasz,• Henry Troennu3r, Henry Delany, Jacob Sclumdein„ IJohn Ernott,_ Frederick Dolt Christian D. Frick. Samuel Miller, William D. George E. E. Fort, WILLIAM fdoDANIEL. President ISRAEL PETERSON, Vice President. Pais' E. COLMLILN. Secretary and Treaeurer. HtE NIX INSURANCE COM ANY AF PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1804—CHARTER pERTETUAL. No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the - E•rehange. This Company insures from Losses or damage by FIRE, on liberai terms on buildings, merchandise. furniture, &c., for limited periods, and Permanently on_ buildings by , deposit or premium. .T, he Company has been in active operation for more than sixty ears , during which all Mena have , been promptly adjusted and paid. • DIRECTORI3: Lewis. John L. Hodge, David L M. B. hlahony, Benjamin Etting. John T. LewisThos. H. YOWOrB. Wm. S. Grant, A. R. McHenry. Robert W. Learning, Edmond (Alamo% D. Clark Wharton, Samuel Wilcox Lawrence Lewis. Jr.., Louis C. Nonls; JOHN It. WUCLIEREE, President. SAMITEL WILCOX. Secretary. • A NTHRACITE INSURANCE COMPANE.—CHAR- Jon- TER PERPETUAL. Ellice, No. 311 WALNUT street, above Third. Phila. 'Who insure against Loss or Damage by Fire on Build ings, either perpetually or fora limited time. !leasehold Furniture and MerchancUse generallv. • Also, Marine Insurance on ,Vessels. Cargoes and Freights. Inland Insurance to all parts of the Union. DIitECTORtI. Wm. Esher, Peter Sieger. 1). Luther J. E. Baum, Lewis Audenriod, Wm. F. Dean. John R. Biakh3ton. • John Ketcham. Davis reateon. John B. ESHER. President. F. DEAN, Vice Preildent.• ja22.tu.th.a,tf Wit. M. SMITIL Secretary. A BILIIICAN VLRE INSURANCE COMPANY. INEIO/1- .LI. porated 1810.--Cbarter, perpetual. No. WALNUT street, above Third Philadelphia. Caving a large paid-up Capital,. Stock. and Surplus hi vested in sound and available Securities. continue to in. Mae ou ` nye stores, furniture , 'merchandise, veneele inmort,and their cargoes. and other pereonat property. All lanes liberally and fromot i ll ad lui husted. -1,, • Thomas It Edmund 6. nutim. John Welsh - , Medea W. PouLtnaY.. Pstrick Brat. lerael Morrie., -- 4ohnT. Less .• William John P. Wetherill. . Paul. ',MONA R ZULIMUT GALlitirOitiot§4crettly, l'reddent THE DAILY EVEN.ING 13IILLETIN--- :I - 4 I INSITR,ANCE ,COMPANY. _ • The following statement of the affairs of the Vompany lo Published in conformity with a pnwidon of Rochester. PREMIUMS RECEIVED From November ist. MI : to 043: 45.205 ber US. Ott Marine and Inland Risks 5M3.506 74 ' On Fire Risks Premiums on Policies not marked off November 1. 1867............ . — 400.845 71 PREMIUMS MARKED OFF - Ai earned from Nov. 1.1867. to Oct. 314868. On Marine and. inland Blake. ...$7 77 On Fire Mao— ..... ...... 148.817 Interest during the game peijod_--- d 991.993 49 Salvages. &c 101.493 Pd 5L808.421 81 LOSSES, EXPENSES, &C.. During the year iss above. Marine and Inland Navigation Um" ' ' 5424,05214 , ~ - Fire Lessee 73.485 87 ' Retina Premiums 69.141 02 Ite.lusurances.... ..... ...... 16.108 61 ..liermr — Obarges, - - Advertisinc — Printing. dm 60.68863 Taxes—United States, State and Municipal Taxea.. ........ 43.555 82 • , , , Eiperiaes. .... - 23.908 66 111230.000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan. 13238,500 00 120.000 Vatted litaitiri Siz 4or Cent Loan. 1881. . . 110,800 00 50,000 United States . (for Pacific Railroad) _ . 1 . .,....:50.000 00 230.000 State of Pennsylvania. dix Per Cent: Loan.. ' 211,875 00 125,000 Citr of Yhtlsdefphfa Biz Per Celia' Loan (exempt from Tax) 123,594 00 50.000 State of hew Jersey Six tor Cont. Loan.. .. suceoo 2000 i iiiiii gage Six Per Cent. Bondi.-- . %MO 00 Z. 400 Pennkylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Six Per Cent Bonds.. 24.000 00 25.000 Weiteru Fennsylviuria Railroad _ Mortgage Starer ()ant. Bonds (Penna. RR. guarantee)...- . 2105 03 Lo 30.000 State ofan. lennearee Five Per Veit. • 7,000 state of iii _ • Loan.. i . . 5,081 25" 18,000 Germantosinaliabo - inPani. pal Priad and interest guaranteed by tire I,lly .01 khihdelphia, 303 shares mock 15.000 00 10,003 Pennutranni - Railioad ompany. nalo shams stock. 11,800 00 5,000 horth_Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 3.505 co Parry. 100 shares stock 23,0)0 Philadelphia and Southern Mail Stetimship Company, 80 shares stock. . . . 15,000 al 207,903 Loans on .... Mortgage, Bret Bens on City Propertiee 207,900 00 -- $1.14900 Par. Market Value, $1,130.825 25 Cost. 5L093,604 Real Estate ... 86MM oa sins itecetr;:iiii far lnenraneea made . 322.486 94 Balancea due at Agencies miums on Marine _ d Policies-Re. g u ee thenComd other &ila 40,178 83 Stock and Scrip of sundry Corpora. Dona 53,156 00. Estimated value 1.813 00 Cash MBank 51118,150 08 Cash in Drawer. 413 65 116563'73 The Board of Directors have this day declared a CASH DIVIDEND of TEN PER CENT. on the CAPITAL bTOCK. and S/X PER CENT. Interest on the SCRIP of the Company. payable on and after the Ist December proxlmo, free of _National and State Taxes. They have': slab declared a SCRIP DIVIDEND of THIRTY PER'CLNT. on the EARNED PREMIUMS for the 3 ear ending October 31. MA certificates of which will be issued to 'the parties entltled to the same. on and after the Ist December proximo. free of National and State Taies. They have ordered, also, that the SCRIP CERTIFI CATES OF PROFITS of the Company, for the year end ing October 31,1864, be redeemed in CASH, at the office of the Company, on and after let December proximo, all interest thereon to cease on that day. lar - By a provision of the Charger„ ail Certificates of Scrip not presented for Todd:option nithin Sie years after public notice that they will be redeemed: shall be forfeited and cancelled on the Books of the Company. 133 r -No certificate of profits tutted under 'STA By the Act of Incorporation, — no certificate shall issue an ew claimed within two sears rifler the declaration of the atridend scheregt ft ie evidence." _DEFLECTORS; Thomas C. Hand. Edmund A. Souder. John C. Davie. Samuel E. Stokes. James C. Hand. Henry Sloan, Theophilus Paulding. William C. Ludwig, Joseph EL Seal. George G. !Alper. Hugh Craig. Henry C. Hallett, Jr.. John E. Penrose, John D. Taylor, Jacob P. Jones. George W. Bernadou. James Traqualr, William G. Boulton, Edward Darlington, Jacob Riegel. H. Jones Brooke. Spencer Mllraine. James B. ht'lcarland. John B. Semple, Pittsburgh, Edward Lafoureade. A. B. Berger, do. Joshua P. Lyre, D. T. Morgan. do . THOMAS C. HAND, President JoHN C. DAVIS. Vice President. HENRY LYI.J3IIRN. Secretary. HENRY BALL. Ass't Secretary. nol2-Im4 LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST Office l Southent Col% Fifth and_Chestnut, - - --$1,000,000 GEORGE H. STUART, Philadelphia. GEORGE W:OHILDA WILLIAM A. PORTER. F. A. DREXEL. " WM. V. Pd °KEAN. -- THOMAS W. EVANS. ‘,*‘; S. H. HORSTMANN, A. J. DREXEL. JOSEPH PATTERSON. WM. 0. HOUSTON. . J. SOLM HENRY EOOD. " New York—JAMES M. MORRISON. Provident Minzaat• tan Bank- • JOSEFI3. STUART. of J. at J. Stuart at Co.. Bankers'. Boston—Hon. E. S. =BEY (late Provident Board of Cincinnati—A. E. OILA3II3EBLEUN, of Chamborlainla Chicago—t,. Z. LEITER, of Field. Leiter & Co. .• C. M. SMITH, of Geo. P. Smith & Brothers. Bankers._ ' Louisville. Kv.—WDL GARVIN_ , __of Garvin, Bell & Co. at. Louis—JA•,YEATMAf‘ VaaMer Merehante National Bank. Baltimore—WM. PitaSCUTT SMITH, Superintendent Coneolidated Railway , Line New. York to IVu lfafi n far B. B. 0 it, of Adam &..Co. Es. . " Crl r ititiTlAN_of G. W. Gail &Az FltAr4ClB T. KING. Preeident Central Savings Bank. Hon. J. W. PATTERSON, U. S. Senator from N. IL 411E0i1GEH. STEditT, President.. Tbig COMbatlY iStllOO Policies of Life 'neural:ice upon all the valuate plane that have been proved by ttus expo. rieuco European and, American Companies to bo says, sound an reliable, at rates no LOW nag IleowrinßritS AB r 1 OItABLE as those of any. Company of equal etnbilltAid es are• non forfeititble af the porn:tont of two or more premiurrio. . , . ot‘ieic OF THE DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY PHIUDELPIUA. Novombv *'SETS OF THE COMPANY. November 1,1868. Pitft"rpru , ata. Nov6tber It, U. UNITED SECURITY COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA. DIRECTORS: REIM L ROOD, Vice President. C. F. BETTE, Beentary. J. L. LUDLOW, M. D., Consulting Physician R. M. 0113.V1N, IL D., JOSEPti F. IC DEEPER, M. 0.,c Medical Era/33111ml _ . C. STUART PATLERBON,I RICHAID LUDLOW, 5_ c°"':!s°'• The Liverpool & Lon a'on', Globe Insurance Company. The Report of this Com pany for 1868 s ows: Premiums - $5, 79,278 3)344)7 28 and after paying a divi dend of 30. per cent., the TO tal Afets are_, in. Gold, $l-710051026. 8L8E61i57 51 ATWOOD , SMITH, General Agent, 'No: 6 MERCHANTS' ,. EXCHANGE, de,ba, 1829 CHARTER'PERPETUAL • ]'RANT TIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY -' ' PHILADELPHIA, _Noe, - ,.. - 435_ and _437. Chestnut Street. Assets on 3mi:wiry 1, 1868, - $2,60.3,740 09.. - Capita 1..... .......::.:.. Accrued Surplus MAC S ° 9 Premium, .... • •• • -------- •• • • • .1.184.646 29 UNSETTLED CLAMP, INCOME FOR 1.868, 833.693 Y 3. • - - - 8.356,006. Losses Paid Since 1829 Over - - 4145,500,600. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. Chas.-N. Bancicer, Fares: - Tobias Wagner. Alfred W. Lewis,Fitts . is.. D.. Samuel Grant. Geo. W. Richards. Thomas Sparks, lease Lea. Win. S. Grant. CHARLE N. BARMIER. President. GEO. PALES, Vice President. JAB. W. MoALLIBTF.R. Sec retary pro tem. - As E crelen t i gt e rNtr Mfr e gr c 114.1116 Company any ht:4° SVI SEG 00 *MUTUAL FUSE INSURANOIf, COMP*. OFI3FIeE2I,Iif No. 8 SOUTH RUTH STREET. SECOND 1t AISSEIB, $170,000. Mutual system exclusively. combining economy with safety. Insures Buildings, Household Goods, and Merchandise generally. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID:' Caleb Clothier. . Benjamin Malone. Thomas Mather. T. Ellwood Chapman. ' Simeon Mat' Aaron. W. Gefs, _ CLO' 81,4317.28/ 80 BENJAMIN TIIOIIAB MANESS, Treat T. ELl,woor, CHAPMAN. frliE RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHIL. ADELPIILt Incorporated in 1811. Charter Perpetual. Office, No. 306 Walnut Street. CAPITAL 5300.000. Inflates against loss or damage by FIRE. on Houses. Stores and cOtter Buildings. limited or perpetual, and on Furniture. Goods. Wares and Merchandise in town or country. LOcSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. Assets .. 5421.177 78 Invested in the following Securities, vine: — First Mortgagee on City Property,well secured-$16.600 00 L:nited b tatea 117,000 00 Philadelphia City 6per cent. Loans,— ... 75.000 00 Pennsylvania $3,004000 6 per cent. L0an........26.000 Cki Pennsylvania Kaihoad Bonds. first and second Moitgagee. •• • BUBO OD Camden and 'Amboy liallrOadUomPani's 6 - Per Cent. Loan 6.000 00 Philadelphia and Beading Railroad Company's 6 per Cent Loan. . . . 5.000 00 Eirmtingoon and Broad - ToP 7 per bent: mort gage Bonds v. 4.660 00 County tire Insurance Company's btock— 1.060 00 Mechanics' Bank Stock.. —' . 4.000 00 Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania Stock 10,000 00 Unioublutual Innovate() Company's -Stock 880 00 Reliance Insurance Company of Philadel phia — Stock dCaah in Biakodaliii 7,587 10 Worth at Par. Worth thia . date at market p_riees. S DIRECTOR. Thomas H. Moore, Samuel Butner, James T. Young, Isaac F. Baker, Christian J. Hoffman, Samuel B. Thomas, Biter. M. TINGLEY. President, Clem. Tingley. Wm. Mune; Samuel blenneun. Can3on, Win. Fib:mention, Beni. W. Tingley'Edwar TEIO3IAB C. B I Beare • PIIEWDELYHIA. December FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PEITLAD this. Incorporated March 27. 1820. Otfice. W11.' 17 -6' No. S 4 Fi"4 t Btr'et. ure ari l fr ir ALlCl ldin df a / 3 0 generally, from Lou by Fire (in the City of • •!--- C . Philadelphia. only.) • Statement of the Aeeete of the Aaeociation January let. 1888, pubbehed in compliance with the pro. visuals of the Act of assembly of April sth, 1842. Bonds and Mortgagee on Property in the City of Philadelphia only ..... ............. ......$1,076,166 17 Ground Rents 18,814 98 Neal Estate • 51.744 57 Furniture aii ..... 4.490 93 U. S. 620 Registered 80nde......... ..... 45,000 00 Cash on hand.. ............... ...........-.... 31.873 11 ' 6BB 86 William H. Hamilton, bamnel fiparhawk. Peter A. Keyser, Charles P. Bower. . John Darrow, _ Jesse Lightfoot, George 1.1 oung,__ — Robert 'Shoemaker. Joseph R. Lynda.% Peter Armbruster, Levi P. Coate, M. H. Dickinson. Peter Williamson. WM. H. HAMILTON. President. BAMUFL BPAILUAWK„ Vico resident. WM. T. BUTLEJL Secretary. MTED - PIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY OP , II PbILADELPIITA. This Company takes risks at the lowest rates consistent with sofetY, and confines its business exclxu3ively to FLRE INSURANCE IN PAHA.THE CITY OF PHILADEL. OFFICE—No. 723 Arch street, Fourth National Bank Building. DEFLECTORS. Thomas 3. Martin,. Charleaß. Smith. John klirat, Albertus King. Wm. A. Bolin, Henry Bumm. James Mongan. . James Wood, V Main Glenn. John Shalicross. James Jetmer,_ J. Henry Arkin. Alexander T. Dickson. Hugh Mulligan, Albert U. Roberts , Philip Fitzpatrick. CONE B. ANDRESS, nesilont, Wm. A. Bor.nr, Treace r Wm. IL Fangs. Sec's. VISE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.—THE PENN- I! sylvania Etre Insurance Company—lncorporated 1825 —Charter Perpetual—No. 510 Walnut street, opposite In dependence Square. This 4. orepauy, favorably known to the community for over forty years, continues to insure against loss or dam age by fire. on Puolic or Private Buildings, either perma nently or for a limited time. Also, on F urnitui e, Stocks of Goods and merchandise generaliy. on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large -Surplus -Fund, is Invested in a most careful manner, which enables them to offer to the ituiurbd an undoubted security in the case of loss, 1 . . _ -UIRECTOIV3. Daniel Dmith,Jr.. John Devereux„ j Alexander Benson, Thomas Smith. loam; Hazlehurst, Remy Leccia, - • Thomas Robin's, J. Gillingham Fell. Daniel Haddock, Jr. tiSlllll, Jr., President. Witham G. Cnownxi. Secretary. 'LIABLE INSURANCE CUM 12 ntree . PHILAD: FIRE .INBURANCT • . , Francis N. Ike DIREt Chan Rich on Henry Lelade, Robert Pearce. Geo, A. Went, • Robert's. Potter, • gjtl) . .NCll4 N. BD RICHAR Wm. L. DIANOII.A.ED. Score C ROWN MANI) LAYER RAISINS. -- WHOLES. Citalves end quarter boxes of this splendid fruit, lan& =me for sale by JOB, UUF.,II BB di CO,lOB South {7IT : fiASTIGE 8011 E-100 130XE5 .orsurNs VT White, °utile soap. landing from brigßesmoylvania, frorn'esnoa;, arid for saW by JObi. BUIIIWAH do CO. ; .101 Sout4 Delaware smuts, , • , , \LIVES PAROLES. CAPBRS. &c.—OLIVES PAROLES N../(Stuffed °fives).- Nonpareil and Superfine Capers and French_ Olivet; fresh goods. landLng ex NaPoleon from Benue. and 'for JOIL othafsusa 46 uO. 1940oRtliRolaware 41 , 031Ti0; • ' • " wavnuTiiwwiimirgri ' AMIONISMOISs William P. Reeder. Joseph Chapman, Edward M. lieedloe Wilson M. Jenkins. Lukens Webster. Franols T. d Atkinson. Prodent. I B AME, Vice President. Secretary. 5e1.3.3m5 ' ANICINO. 408, CHESTNUT lELPHIA E EXCLUSIVELY. JTORS. Philip S. Justice. John W. Everman, Edward D. Woodraff. John Kessler. Jr.. . Chas. Stokes, Mordecai Buzby. OK, President. ISON, Vico President. Mary LI 2110111 AF ds 130biS..AUCTIONEEBS. . • ZULL Noe 189 and lel South Fourth stenar, ONE ART EXIEDITTUN AND SALE OF Ta.r. VERT 1.11011.E8' T - DIPOIITANCE. Di. REDEEM:ft, successor . to 0131.1PEL is C0... N0w Ydrk. announces , to the people of Philadelobia, that he will make an impotent offering of Fine Works of Art. in January nest, and designs that It shall be the finest and most elegant c"llection of Welt:tree and Works of Art ever offered In Pbiladelimis at'•publie sato. Theentire Collectlon.will be on exhibition in the eastern galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy, of ' Fine Arts, commench3g about January Ist, until the day of sale. At the request:'of Df.Knoedler the' , entire arrangement, exhibition and be under the management of Mr. Charles F. Dominus, 1L95 Clecolinnt at: • VALES or STii;1011 . 8 AND Palk, ESTATE. Or Public sales at the Philadelphia/2.A1 EVE= TLFSD_ eY at-18 o'clock. , T r - Furniture Sales at the Auction Store EVERY eir7 Bales at Residences receive especial attention. ' _ STOCICQ._LOANE, Ago ON TUESDAY,: DEO. 15, At 12 o'clock runni„ at the ' , Exchange. -by order of 'Eats .cutcra of Estate of A. Heyman deceased— • One seat, No. I. Pew 85 in Seneseth /wad Com:toga. Pion. Sixth street, above Blown. A well IlleCOnd ground rent of $4B, situate bro. 1715 Marlton street • - • .. . , $5600 U. Five.twino Bondi:Janitor, and July: 7000 b. q en , forty Bonds: 1000 North Missouri/in. Bondi. • 13C00 Tennessee Bonds, 1869 • - grtgtztt entieesee Bonds, 1868 • • ' 1020 Lehigh Navigation 6 per cent Bold Bonds. 5500 Onion Cans 1 Company Bonds. • 325 lieneseth Israel Coregation Bondi. 50 Allemanla Club Bond gr s; of Pidiadelphlad 76 Ilarmitua Club' Bondi, ,• . • - 160 Loan Certificate A. O. Norton. Philadelphia. 1000 shares Sheldon Oil aad Mining 750 shares Monitor Oil Co; _ 2 shares lien:infield Sit 'Co.. of W. "Va.. gi SOL $5OO Bond Chapman Mining and Lumbering Co. 300 Bonds Springfield, Mt. - Vernon and Pitfebtirgh Railroad Co. 8 Continental Lisurance Co FAMte of Anna Pauper— sloo Philadelphia City five cent. loan. 8640 ..nhtlad.lphia City 6lft cent.; loan, old. -P 18000 Philadelphia City 6 lg cent. loan, new. ' 1060 Ciandext and Amboy Colman Bonds. • • __looo Delawareand Radian Coupon - Honda. - - 1000 Petmevivaida Railroad Convertible - CoupOn Bond. 4116 Schuylkill Nay. Co. Loan, convertible, 7439'62 Cbessfoeske and Del. Cana Loam, 1865: 15. , ear ip Chesapeake and Del, Canal_xpan, 1855, 10 shares Pal Nast Co., common, • 8 Bharat C'hosaneake and Del. Canal. , 97 shares Phcenix Ineurance'Co. - 197 stares Pennsylvarfia Railroad Co. 88 shares Lehigh Valley : Railroad Co. • - • lanhares Mechanics , National Bank. 17 sharettFarmers' andMechanfer:Bank,:- 11 aharte Philadelphia National Bank.. 28 e hares Commercial National Bank. sbarea Bank of North emetic... For other Account of the PennsylvanittHospital 18 sharea Franklhi Fire Insurance Company in lota to _sr.itpuretuisers. • , rFor - OtherAct - 10 shares rennin and - AtiantleTelegraPh. - 25 ROAM Union Mutual Insurance CO. 5 enamel Academy of Music. with ticket. 3 'bares Southwark National Bank, • $ second mortgage Columbus and Indiana Central Railway 7 percent bond. - 20 sharer) Rridesourg Idanufachiring CO, 1 sham Philadelphia Library. s42oDelawarp Mutual Inaurance Co. Scrim 1883. MEAL-ESTATE SALE, DEC.IS.' __Orphans' Court Sale—Eetate of David P. fdoore. deed. id NDSOME MODEBN '3 Hr EBB CRY BRICK RESI DENCE, with aids yard, No 912 Franklin street, above Poplar; 26 fret front - Ilas all the 'modern - Conveniences; and in excellent repair. May be examined any day pre vious to sale. • Orp_bans* Court Sate—Estate of Mary G. Lewellyn,deed DWELLING. Shippen street, east of Ninth Orphans* Court bale—Estateaof Archibtdd Mclntyre Robinson, dec'd, and Robert Henderson Robertson, a minor. - 2 ,three-story - BRICK &AIRES -and DWELL INGS Noe. 1831 and 1833 Spruce street. corner of Bid mouth Place. with six three.stoty Brick Dwellings in the rear, fronting oa tildmonth Place. between -Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets-37 feet front, 104 feet deep. FRY VALUABLE GERMANTOWN PROPERTY— Two-story - Stone Buildir g • and Dwelling, Not 4669 and 4671 Main etreet, Germantown. 59 feet front, 435 feet deep, known es the old Germantown Bank. Sale by Order of Heim—Estate of Chas.& Snyder,dec'd. —VERY VALUABLk COAL LANDS; 800 acres. Tremrnt tosvaship Schuylkill com.ty. Pa.._ Bb b. by Order of Beire—Estate or John Venter deed.— LAROE and VALUABLE 'LOT, 13d acres, Chestnut Bill and Ewing House Turnpike, Chestnut VALUABLE BUSINaSS STA- D—Foirstory Brick - 801 EL and DW ELLINO,' No. 206 Pine street. VALUABLE MILL PRBPERTY and FARM. 481 i acres, with water power. known as Broadbent , a •obh , s t.reek; Went y-fourth Ward. tour miles west of Diarket street bridge. • .. • VERY VALUABLE COUNTRY PROPERTY—STORE and DWELLINGS and 831 scree. Lancaster Turnpike, Lower Merlon townehip.biontaoroery county . . PtL,_6 miles from Market street bridge. 2 mike above ilestonville. MODERN k 011.11,13T01CY BRICK Rt. SIDENCE, No. 119 New street 'I'IIitEE:STORE MUCK DWELLING. No. MO North_ Twenty. second street. PEREMPJORY SALE—For account of whom it, may. concern-- TWO.t+TON s FRAME RESIDEP.O No. Che etnut street, 2u feet front, 220 feet deep. West Phila delphia. MODERN TURFY...STORY BRICE RESEDENOE. No. IM3 Coatis street. . . . MODERN F..JUR,STORY ERICH RESIDENCE. Na t 2 south Sixteenth Street. north of Pine at. 2 HANDSOME MODER , THREE.STORY, BRICK RESIDENCES, Noe. 715 and 717 North Sixteenth street, corner of Swain street They have all the modern con veniences. HANDSOME MODERN FOUR-STOW BRICK RESI DENLK No. lEM Pine street, mat of Sixteenth street iiBß all the modern conveniences._ LkASE. GOODWILL AND FIXTURES OF THE GUNNER'S RUN DISTILLERY, No. 1053 Cumberland street, Nineteenth Ward. SUPERIOR _nourEktoLD FURNITURE. LARGE MADUSL 'APILI PIER MIRRORS, BRUSSELS CAR. PETS. &a. _____ _ . _ Dec. 11, at 10 o'clock. at No IVA Walnut street, by cata logue. comprising Thawing Ro,,m Furnitaress in -overe; pair large and cusgant French Platn..Mautel and...ffinr hhrrsrs. fine Muscle's and other carpets, superior Birch wood Chamber Funnta.e, made to ordsr by Parker; do. gent Choval Glees. Ingrain Carpets. Oil Cloths. ,tic. May be examined on the day of sale at 8 o'clock Executors' gale Real Estate. ESTATE OF SAMUEL. O. RILL. DECD. UN SATURDAY As TERNoON, Dec. I9th, at 3 o'elbek. will be sold at public sale, at. the Blue Bell Hotel. Darby Road. 27th ivard,fransod barn, slaughter house and five *e.t.a of land. Island Road. Kir peessing. Also, stone dwelling and stable, North et, ParchalvMe, near Blue Bell. Lot 10 feet by 13135 feet. Ftitll particulare in handbills. • LEASE, GOODWILIAND FIXTURES OP THE GUNNER'S RUN DISTILLERY. $421,176 70 No. 1053 CurnbElann elret . 3t., hißetecnth. Ward. belonging OW L 022 24 UN TUESDAY, Dec. At 12 o'clock noon. wits be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange all that valuable Lease. (which has 5 3 ears to run from August 1. 1808. at $1 800 per as num), Goodwill and Fixtures of the well known Gunner a Run DiatillerY. situate at No. t 053 Cumberland street, ex tending from Aramingo Canal to Commerce street. it is in complete sunning ceder with everything a , pertalning to the business, including Boilers, Mills. Mash and For Tubs, Pulleys Shafting, Belting. Pumps, a com plete Distillery Apparatus. Bang one of the most complete Distilleries in the United States; cost the present owner's. Misers. Kahn weiler & Becker, $75,000. The lease and specifications may be seen at the Auction Rooms and will be sold sub. Ject to terms of said lease. 10, — immediate possession. May be examined any day previous to sale. The putchaeer has the Privilege of buying the Real Es. tato for $26,000 before the expiration of lease. Bale by Order of Heirs. Jal-tu the tffil ESTATE OF CILARLE:i A. SNYDELt. DECEASED. VERY VALUABLE COAL LANDS, 300 ACRES, TRE MONT TOWNSHIP. COUNTY. ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TH. 1868, At 13 o'clock. noon, will be si Id at public sale, at the Philadelibils. Exchange all that valuable property coat. pop. d of the "Leshor Jx - Miller Coal Estate." 2X - Full particulars in handbills at the Auction Rooms. IrktelleiVe Bahl at NO South &WWI(' street. STOCK OF hi:Pl.:Rita; U IttINET FURNITURE ON MONDAY MORNINO Dec. 21. at lu o'clock.. at T J A. Ileaksis'a Ware rooms, No. 240 South Second street, will he sold at public sale, an extensive assortment of superi .r Furniture, com irising—Walnut parlor suits, with rich and plain cover ng.; library, dining room a..d hall furniture; elegant chamber furniture various . tylss, all manufactured in a superior manner expressly for their wareroom sales, and warrarted. -- • tier - ;The ealo will be peremptory. and L 3 made on an. count of Memo. Lienkela being about to remove to their now wareroome. No. iota Arch street. DURBOROW & CO., AUCTIONEERS. .A.O Nom. 232 end 234 MARKET street, corner Bonk st, Successors to John B. Were & C• LARGE BALE Qp_ctulpfamog. (?LL CLOTHS. Ate. ON FRIDAY MORNING. Dec. 11, at 11 o'clock. on four month's! , credit, about 200 Clem Ingrain, Venetian. Libt. Hemp. Cottage and Rag Carpetinic4lol_Cletblkituge. &G LARGE BALE OF FRDRY O ENCH na a E AND 0 . UROPEAN , lODS. ON MONDAY MORNING. Dec. 10, at 10 o'clock. on four montbe ccedit, SALE .OF 151 m CABER 800T5..13110E15. TRA VELING BAGS. dm ON TUESDAY MORNING. Dec. 15. at 10 o'clock, on four months' credit. M. WOLBERT. AMU. NEER, N 0.16 South Sixth it - reet,below Market. LARGE. AND SPECIAL SALE OF RICH FANCY GuODS. DECORATED CHINA. SOIIENItAN GLASe, WINE SETS. TOYS, LARGE AND GENERAL ASSohTMENT OF CROCKbRY IN GREAT VA RIETY. ON FRIDAY MORNINO. • OM Inst., at 10 o 7 clock,'sit 18 South Sixth street, will be sold a large and general assortment of Fancy Goods. Glassware, Toys. itc. Also, Granite and C. 0. Ware. 1130 7 Notice. special attention is rogue ted to this sale. ss it - comprises the best and largest assortment offered this season. THE PRINCIPAL MO VEY ESTABLISHMENT— S. E. corner of S x.ru and RACE streets. Money advanced on Merchandise generally—Watches, Jewelry, I ianionrs, Gold and Silver Plato, and on all articles of value, for any length of time agreed on. _ WATCHES AND Jt;'WELRY AT PRIVATE SALE. Fine Gold Hunting Case:Double Bottom and Open Face English, American and S wire Patent Lever Watches ; Fine Gold Hunting Case and Open Face Lupine Watches; Fine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Fine Silver Hunt ing Case and Open Face Irnglieh, American and awls' Patent Lever and Lapin° Watcher; Double Case English Quertior and other. Watches; Ladies' Fancy Watches; Diamond• Breastpins; Finger Rings; Ear Rings; Studs; 4 1c . ; Fate Gel& Chanss• Medallions; Breceletsi Scar Pins Bre a stpins ; 'Singer Rings; pencil Cases and Jewell*" generally. FOR SALE.—A large and valuable Fireproof • Chest, imitable fora Jeweler; cost SOW Also.aeveral Lots in South Camdathirifth and Cheetzut streets.. CLASH & EVAN% ALICTJONEBRB, , • : , CIIBEVI'MUT ntroet. Witl''ell TIIIB DAV, MORNING and FIVENINO_. A large torah:at of Blankets. Hod aprsads;, Dry Monde Cloths, Canoltneres, 11 °sissy. Btationery , Table and Pookst.Cutlery, Notions Rto. City a nd toUntly merobentivlll Bud Barg no. ' ' W — Tema ensh, , . Onods packed tree n of charge, i 099 tt 11;4811BRIDOR it: CEP.: ' , AUCTIONENRat' ' " w • -• • ENltigt 11tre061449.Q Mho pvi ON: lOadt4ebw. Sale at No. 1624 W.lnut street JUU.Sga&==LI to Messrs. (ahnw. filer & Bucker. AVOTWN 111ARTIN IHROTTIRRIL AUCTIONENWir. ATI ALately Saleantenfor M Thomas eblo. WI/CHESTNUT otreet.Tear OUCcoluse IkOrllkUntror Solent No. 1317 Cheednut street.. •• • • •- HANDSOME ; ! FURNITURE .' SUPGitleili- GOTTA= en A 14BEK SUIT& Fllib 11A1 MATSCSSES• BRUSSELS: INGRAIN AND VEN,TIAN CAnp,ffiTS. • ON mums 'MORNING!. i • men, U. at 10 o'clock, at No. 1817 Cneatont orroisact re - , catalogue, the entire oaperior 'Household FurnitUre, ducting Buyorlor. Walnut Parlor Furniture, throe Suit. . Handsome Walnut Chamber Furniture,. four; Sidle Sot- MatreQees,pp tier, Cottfffe d C i li n aingr Fumltt i t i r c ihrine ci li : at i r t I . eg ri athe an t , • Yenittan Ca;pets.t hin7. Glanware. KiteGariFterat' tore and Utensils, Window Shades. drO. • • ' •-;:••••• May be examined at 8 o'clock on the monument s aid • . LARGE SPECIAL SALE OF I'INE TOILET WARN AV THE AUCTION ROOMS. • • • ON SATURDAY . FLOItNiNG, Dee.l2, at 11 o'clock, at the Auctionßooms, by i*ta. logne, 'oritlont reserve, a largo assortment of "plake and. fancy painted line toilet sem, Una slop jaw, foot tube' line! water carriers. - Salo at No 20'27 amac street. 511pEPIOR HOUSEHOLD FoRNITuRe., RoBEWOIIII' PIANOFORTE. MB BRUSSELS AND OTHER OAR: PETS, Edo. _ • ON MONDAY MORNING, , '• Dec. 14, at 10 o'clock , at No. 2021 Cannot emend: between Tw elf th and Thirteenth. above Beds, theontire superier • ' Heuechold Fundtnre, Roeonted Piano . ' Forte; Fine Brwrio sale lz grain. and other Caryet4 China , end, Matrenaes, Bedding, Extension , Table. 'etc.' , • , • May be examined at S o'clock on the morning of s&ie, Public 8a e on the Premise& MI6 Brandywina 13ESI9ENOR AND FURNITURE. ON THURSDAY MORN/NO, • 17, at 10 o'clock. on the premises, all that neat ma. darn three-story brick residences two-story back bailout/6 and lot of ground, Id feet front by 17 feet deeo.eitttate the south side of. Brandywine street. No. 2116. Subject to a yearly wound-rent of 10d4:- • SUPdHIOII HoUSEHoLD FURNITURE. FINE BUGS , //ELS AND OTHER, OARPETd,,dta. -- Immealately after the sale' of the Residence, at 10 o'clock. b_y_t•atalegue.- at Non 116 13rand y wine street. tan. Superior Walnut Farl r Furniture, sueerio,r_gbaseber and,., ' /Anima Roondlfurrtiture, fine firm .els and-Venetian pets, uhina and Glassware. H,alr, Metro% Refrigerator. .7 Slily, be examined oath° morning of sale at 0 o'clock. Sale No. 6/9 L'histaut street... VA.LUABIR AND, Ha Nugoz4EAogpikori ON MONDAY. AFTERNOON. 14th inst.at 4 o'clockat the auction rootas,by catalogue,. valuable collection of bookalncluding finely illustrated works. bibles, handsomely bound photographic albums. . _ Sale at NA.= Arch street. VERY ELF.OANT WALNUT. FURNITUII3. PINE . His.NOII.PLATE, MANTEL- AND PIES MIRRORS. - - LAIE, WINDOW—CURTAIN% HANDSOME Linn BRUSSELS. VELVET AND OTHER,' MONDAT .• ING. •, • Dec. 21, , at 10 o'c lock.- at No 13MO RN - st 5 Arch by logne.the entire very elegant walnut honsehcad furniture..: , Mending .tat handsome walnut drawing•rocet'furnittire:- covered with gre en plush; elegant etsgere and centre • table; large an fine Fretichnla • :;,1 ' e,-and lA= PO- • son; splendid suit walnut chi .rteiterer—elegaut wardrobes. mirror doors ;ham:loom triat" -- atitt - hbttagtr -- chamber suite; tine spring and Wife m esses. and bed ding; hall stand and chairs; book Asses; . ditaniproom furniture: extension tables; rich brocatelle and lace win. dow curtain/sr shades ; china and glassware; natidsoure English Brussels. Venetian and other csrpeta. dec. the , "lichen utensils and refrigerator. dec. • - May be examined at 8 o'clock - on' MO ra °ming or ItlgN , THOMAS • BIRCH di SO N _AUCTIONEERS AND COPdhiII3BION MF,RUHANTI3.- • - No. 1110 CHESTNUT street. • . Bear Entrance No. 1107 BUIS= street. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE OF EVERY DESCRIP TION RECEIVED ON CONSIGNMENT. Sales of Furniture at Dwedlingsattended to on the most reasonable terms. Sale at No. 1110 Chestnut street. SUPERIOR NEW AND SECONDHAND HOUSEHOLD - FURNI'EURP: — PIANOI3, -- CARPE MIRRORS. PLATeD WARE, GLASS Iv ARE, MELODEON. CHINA, dm. • ON FRIDAY MORNINII. , - At 9 o'clock, at the Auction Store , No. 1110 Chestnut street, a ill be sold—A largo assortment of superior Ileum. I old Fundture, including—Elegant Walnut Eerier Suing in plush; Chamber Suite of Walnut. finished in oil and varnish; Sideboard*. Extension Dining Tables, Spring end Hair Mattresses. Marble Top Tables. Cottage . Chamber . Furniture, Brussels Tapestry, Ingrain and Venetian Car- Pets ; Melodeon, Parlor Organ; Rosewood Pianofortes., • Also. Office Desks and Tables, Fire-proof Chest,Letteg Press, 16 CASES OF GL ASSWARE.—AIso. 16 packages of new slassware, consisting of band sets. goblets, nannies , tum blers, dishes . bowls. ,ke. • •'. )3 OILS ON ARCHITECTURE Ales a number 'Sabra bin works on architecture, belOnging to the estate of a deceased architect. • • t, - - RunEWOOD FURNITURE—One Parlor suite of rose wood furniture ,covered with satin Rrocatelle. Fl' NOM ORGANS, de,—itho, 3 rosewood pianofortes, parlor organs,_l. melodeon------- 1110TOtittAtil GALLERY—AIso. a large wimber Of elegant phonograph show frames,counter cases, 5.000 nese., elver', and other fixtures of a photographer, -- SALA uN FIXTURES-4h° fixtures of an eathne saloon.' ;'.:' comprising 8 tables. DI) oak dining room chairs, table elotbs.napkina castors. knives, forks, spoons, mockery and cooking utensils, — Sale at N 0.1104 Green street. HOUSEHOLD PURNITIInE, i OTTA.GE SETS., OAR ' • ON SATUDD7S I i I deI e iNING NEXT. ' At 10 o'clock. at No. 1104 Green street, will be sold time Fut nit ure of a family declining housekeeping. comprising Walnut Parlor Furniture, covered with hair cloth ; Mar ide Top Tables Parlor, and Chamber Carpets. Walnut Chamber Furniture, three Cottage duties, Spring and B air 'Mattresses, Feati er Bees. Dining Room and. Bitting Room Furniture. China, Glassware. Moves. Kitchen kin niture, The Furniture may be examined 'early on the morning cf ea e. , • „ J N 0.422 w TAMER A. FREEMAN. AUCT/ONEME, AL dent. " Peremptory Sale No. f 924 North Fourth street. VALUABLE MACHINERY._ JACQUARD LOOMS. WINDING FRAMES. WARY MILLS;• HIND LOOMS. SPOOLINL* WHEELS. COTTON AND BILE SWIFIS. SHADING MACHINES. BUPTOW HOLE SEWMG MACHINES, TURNING LATHS. COI TON AND WOOLLN YARN. TASSELS, GIMP. WEBBING. FRINISE, FIREPRtiOF, ON TUESDAY MORNING, Dee. 15, at 10 o'clock. will be sold the entire Stock and Machinery of a Shepender and Dream Trimming mann. factors , . . Peremptory Sale N 0.1924 North Fourth street, • VALUABLE PALI:DRY FOURTII AND HAUKLET bTREETd. NINETEENTH WARD. ON TUESDAY MORNING Dec. 15th, at 10 o'clock. will oe sold at public' sale, with. out reserve on the premises, a valuable threeatory brick Factory, with baeement, 1904* feet on Hackle, street. and 119 feet on r onrth street, with engine and- boiler horse: emote stack. superior 20. horse power engine, made by organ. Orr dr, Co„ flue boiler all complete, and in porfect order. C_ - The Factory f 3 substantially construated. itt. per fect order and complete in all its arranoements.. VP' dale LPeremptory. $5OO to be paid at the time or Hate. rer - Ibe machinery will be sold immediately alter the Beal tetate. AT PRIVATE SALE. A VALUABLE TRA.CT OF 20 AORES OF LAND.. With Maiusion House. Bun Lane, intermemd fry Eighth, Ninth. Tenth and Zleventh. Ontario and TiOffi streets, within 200 teot *he Old York Road. Valuable deposit qf Brick Clay. Torma easy. _ A valaahle businem property No. 819 Arch street. HUEUNOTON.—A Handsome Manion. on Main alai tot 66 by lazi feet. D. Jr SCOTT. J. AUCTIONEEA. SCOTT'S ART. GALLERY 1020 CIIEsTNUT street. Philadelphia. SALE Olf MR. .A. D'HUI VETTER'S SUPERB UOL LI.CTION OF MGM CLASS MODERN PAINT- INGI3. Mr. A. D'Huyvatier, previous to his departure for Mi me, has instructed B. Scott, Jr, diepose of his entiret gallery on the evenings of TRUitSDAY and FRII)A.Y, 17th and 18th December, at 734 o'clock. The names of the 'showing distinguished artiste are represented by very choice and important works: • Louie Van Kuyck, Verbat. Portleije, !C. U. Webb,' H. Ten hate. David Col, . - . Theo. Gerard, S. Bos-h„ David De Noter, P. UMW. .1 . ti. t 3. Kookkoek. H. Bondermann, Henriette Ronxter, Herzog, ijauriac W. Verschuur. E. Verboelthoven. Donut A. Da Bylandt. tt, Erusemier • IL Savry. and others. -The above collet don vtanda unrivalled for artistic-merit -. h 3 any that has over been presented to the American public for exhibition and sale. Now on view in the Eastern Galleries of the Penns l• yenta Academy of Floe Arts day and eveni ,, g until sale. 't D. MoCLEBB s CO. AJ. AUCTIONEER% No. 506 . M A RICRT street. SALE OF 1600 CABER BOOT BEM% BROGANS.' BALMORAtak&c. ON MDAY G December 14, co mm en cing at M 10 0 o ßNlN 'clock.. we All sell raia,ogue. a large and superior assortment' of BoOta. Shoo, itrogana Raimondo, ,no. Alm. Women's. &tines' and (ndidreres city made gooda. BY BABBITT & CO., AUCTIONEERS. CASH AUCTION HOUSE - • No. MO MARKET street, corner of BANK street. Cash advanced on consisnmentt Mazola extra clusrathl IIEGULAR SALE OF 800 LOTS ASSORTED DRY GOODS. • ON FRIDAY MORNENO, Der, ilth, commencing at 10 o'clock. comprising a large , assortment of Fall and Wint or Dry Goods, viz.: Cloths. ssimeres Dress Goods. shirts. Drawers , Hosiery, Ger. mantown Goods, Stocks from Retail Stores, &a. &c. Also. heady 111 ado Clothing, lanbrellas, Boots, Shoes ; Bats, cape, C. Sc. D AVIS & HARVEY. AUCTIONEERS. Late with M. Thomas 4s Sons, Store Nos. 48 aid Co North SOUL! street Sale No. 944 North Thirteenth street. GENTEEL FL 1108.EWuOD PIANO BOI,KCASES, 43ARPETS. &c. - UN MONDAY MORNING. t 10 o'clock, at No, 944 North Thirteesith, drool', below Girard avenue, the furniture of & gentleman le WIWI' the city, inrludhan elegant rosewood soven - .TcfaVir.aklßKild - 0k.. 7-- -- caeca beds. mattresses, gas consumere, glassware, kitchen MIISIVAL• B ALLADB1 1 1 33 1 1 1 S ( 1 1 i0P :13 son& Nineteenth is - eet. so 28 Una- RONDINELLA. TEACHER OF STROHM. PM Ovate lemons and dune. Reatdence t 4oB 0. Thirteenttt treat • sn2Llfl UOAKIfINC• mo LET—WITII BOARD, TWO'HANDSOME rooms.; 1 with rticatelutth.room attached. Appt5,1333804 t' ca CANNED Fnurr. VEGETABLES. 5rA,....t oce .ojkass froah Canned Peaches • 600 omen frosts Canned Fins Applun ; 200 cacek fresh Pine- Apples, in glass•. 1.000 ' -Groan Corn and Green Penit tie oasen-freab Pion* in ---- odui3; MO Mos trod" Green Otago; 500 oxen etterried. syrup i 5;.0 oluseo Blackberries; In only; 500 noes Straw , berrion. in ey'rn2 , ; 600 case* !rah Pears, in Ing; t 3D; 5.005 cases C0.M184 Toms 600 elms' Oystors, Lo ealt and 1:0F For sa t e 500 gases Roast , t Mutton. Veal. Scow p , 40. L , For by JOSEPTiII. n & co...ussoutt, nat. ware avenue ... _ . , . -- I R SALE, TONS OF OIXELLIC altoat. &POT to NVORKX4Ii 41 CO,. 223 Wanat