r7 I IV!'itCTION. aons a. warruss. The day's sharp strife is ended now, Our work is done, God knoweth how I Asian the thronged, ttnrestfal, town The patience of the' moon looks down, I wait to bear beside the wire, Tho voices of lts tongues of fire. • 81ow, doubtful, faint, they seem at first Be strong, my heart, to know the worst! Hark!—there the Alleghenies spoke; That sound from lake and prairie broke! That suneet-gtm of triumph rent The silence `of a continent ! That signal from Nebraska, sprttng, this, from Nevada's mountain tongue I Is that thy answer, strong and free, 0 loyal heart`of aennessee ? What strange, elad , votee •le that which calls ,From Wagner's grave and 13umter's walls ? From Missiaaippl's fountain-head A sound as of the bison's tread ! There rustled freedom's Charter Oak! In that wild burst the Ozarks spoke I - Cheer answers cheer from rise to set Of ann. , We have a country yet! Thepraise, 0 God, be thhie . alone! Thou gi vest not for bread a stone; ThOri hat not led us through the night To blind uewith returning light; Not through the furnace :have we passed, To perlairatita - teouth at - last - - --= O night of peace, thy,filght restrain ! November's moon, be slow to, wane ;Dine on the freedman's cabin floor, On browa of prayer a blessing pour; And give, with frill assurance blest, The weary heart of Freedom rest ! —Atlantic, for January. A Vault tolturnes Houle. It was a lovely morning as we sailed into the harbor of. Ayr. In . ..the distance west ward could be seen green islands and the highland cliffs of Arran, and the mull of ()en tire. To the north was the barren Troon, spotted with its - clean-looking - houses, - as though they had sprung fresh from the ground. Southward, Ails-craig rises out of the blue sea,and the tower of Dunbere stands upon its high knoll as a sentinel to guard land and sea. As we stepped upon the solid earth of Ayr, we must confess we had peculiar sensations. Not that the old town presented an imposing appearance- ter it was quite otherwise. Ayr stands on a'fiat, sandy coast, having a popu lation of only some twenty thousand. Still we could but instinctively feel the force of the bard's eulogy: Old Ayr, whom ne'er a town surprises _ For holiest men and bonnie lasses. At once we came upon the river whence the town takes its name. Following this, we soon arrived at the "Twa Brigs," and the fa mous scene of "Tam O'Shanter." These span the river not far apart. The lower, which was the New Brig in Burns's day, is the one that is used for public traveL The Auld Brig is not regtuded safe for carriages to cross, and is preserved, it would seem, for its antiquity anel classical significance. "The Drowsy Dungeon Clock" has been removed from this scene to the new •Wallace Tower, in tim centre of the town. "Auld iiiimpson'e at the end of.the Auld Brig,isatill to be seen, tell ing the tele of Tam O'Shanter ' and Boater Johnny, , The County Buildings are quite imposing structures. But for the most-part there is nothing striking in the appearance of the houses, as one wanders through the city. In the suburbs are seen some stately. residences, owned by retired merchants who have been fortunate in this world's riches. Having taken a look at the town,wo turned our steps south and eastward,over a smoothly formed road. On the right and left lay spread out green pastures and golden fields. Occa sionally we would pass groves of stately ash and oak. Now and then we would catch glimpses of cottages and mansions through thickly shady branches. Before we were scarcely aware of it, we had walked the dis tance ofsomelbme miles,and zeally, , here found ourselves at' the door of Burns's Cot tage. Could it be possible that Scotland's greatest, poet first opened his eyes upon the mortal in this humble thatched house ? It is a low, one-story building, with additions at each end. We cared not for the new; it was what had been sanctified by Robert Burns we would sea So we entered the part which remains unaltered. We first passed into the room in which he was born. This is kept quite as it was. I is.n real Scotch kitchen, having a little receis just large enough to hold a bed. Yes , , in tha spot was Robert Barns born. -The floor o this room is stone and deeply worn. Any one seeing it could not doubt that it had long been trod by olden feet. - Through the entry we passed into what was the best room. Here the walls are hung with pictures asso ciated with the life of the poet. In every nook in which it is possible a name has been written, and not only this, but hundreds of names are cut into the furniture. The two tables, cupboard and Chairs are completely A Romance 01 the South Atlantic carved over with signatures. Prominent A 'Yankee Community on a Lonely among them is the name of Peter Jones, of Island. Great Bear Lake, of North America. From an article in the London AthencEum On leaving the house we noticed over the on the recent voyage of Prince Alfred in the door the portrait of Burns, with this inserip- frigate Galatea, we extract the following ac tion: "Robert Burns, the Ayrshire poet was count of a curious little community dwelling born under this roof the 25th of Jan., A. D., in mid-ocean: 1759. Died A. D. 1796, aged 37i- years." On quitting Rio,the romance of the voyage In the rear of the house is a little garden in began by a call at Tristan d'Acunha, the which the poet boy learned to use the hoe largest rock in a lonely group p.islets in the and spade and plough, singing : great waters—a group which is said to be "The simple bard. rough of the rustic plough, further away from other settlements than any Learning his tuneful trade from every bough." other land in the world. Here is a prime fact But what seemed to throw a sadness and a for romance. One of the three rocks is called disgrace over all these haunts, was the fact Inaccessible, a second Nightingale, and the that Burns's cottage had been converted into third Tristan. The nearest spot on which a whisky inn. Why should this be suffered men live is St. Helena; and that dwarf islet is to be? a trifle of 1,200 miles to the north. Leaving the cottage, we directed our course A little story, _something like that of tOKirk Alloway, which stands close by the the Pine Wanders, like that of banks of the Doon. Soon we passed through the Pitcairn Islanders, lendS charm the gate of the high wail, and we were in the to this lonely group. During the early days little graveyard inclosing the old kirk; and of Napoleon's captivity in St. Helena, a few there stood the veritable walls with their win- sappers and guards were thrown upon Tris dews, through which Tam O'Shanter saw tan, who dug a ditch, raised a battery, threw "the winsome dancing party," and "Old Nick up log huts and cleared a patch of soil. When as their fiddler." they had been a year on their lonely station, Tha Kirk is roofless and crumbling. In they were fetched away, no one knew why. the tower on the front wall still hangs the A corporal by the name of Glass got leave to ‘bell of yore, with its rusty chain so high that stay behind, and keep the place for the no ghost can ring out peals as in the olden British Crown. Three Yankees had been days. The yard around is crowded with there before, ono of whom, a man named tombs. The one that naturally most attracts Jonathan Lambert, had taken possession of is that of the poet's father and mother, a sin- the islet, not -for the great republic,- but for gle slate Stone bearing the name of his father Jonathan Lambert himself, who was sleclared and mother, with a beautiful epitaph written by Jonathan, in a regular proclamation, to expressly by Burns tor this tomb. A short be sovereign owner and prince of the then • way from the church we come to the new lonely rocks. Jonathan being gone, Glass • monument of Burns. It is a grand and sic- took up his sceptre, and persuaded gent work of art, standing on an eminence two fellows to stay and share his em ipst above the Doon. It is in the form of a pire. Happily Glass had a wife, a creole Grecian temple, with a balustrade, and a doil- woman, and two children, so that human in ble dome supports - rtiy nine Corinthian col tercets came into play at once. The little mons, designed, no doubt to represent the party, after making Glass Governor of the Sisterhood of the Muses. The dome is island, fell on the soil, part of which Lam surmounted by a gilded tripod, which bert had cleared, and harvested vast quanti ?-ri holds an arty The mausoleum is some sixty ties of potatoes. Now and therm stray sea 'r• feet in height. On the ground floor is a bust man joined the colony, and two women came 7 of the poet in the finest marble, by Thorn. among them from the distant Cape. Seven Itexhibits striking features. The head is years after Glass and his folkawere left alone, large and finely formed. Locality and ideality the colony had grown into twenty-two men are the most prominent. Hence we can see - , and three women. Glass told the captain of 'why he should make the brooks,dells,woods, H. M. B. the Berwick, "that they only re ' flowers and skies so eloquent in song. In the quired a few more women to make the place centre of the room, is -a table, on which lie an earthly paradise." Glass is now dead, and the Bible and Testament given by Burns to ; his little colony exists without either goYer his Bighlarid _ Mary at their_ last - parting. nor or government; the men growing potatoes ' These'are separate volumes, ad on the fly- ; and making shoes,. and the women, strange N' leaf of each Burns placed a Masonic sign, to say, wea ri ng crinolines. adding these texts: Lev. six: 12,, and Matt. The Prince went on shore and visited the 0 v: 83—" Ye shall not swear by my name shanties of those curious people, to whom falaply; lam the Lord.% And "Thou shalt the chaplain offered his services in baptizing not forawmir thyself but shall perform unto all the youngsters and marrying all the stray the Lord thine oaths." couples who might be virtuously incliti6d and From the rebinds we had a good view or ready for the yoke. The youngsters came a_ THE DAILY 'EVENING BULLETINLPHItADELPIIIA, SA:'U RDAY, DECEMBER - 12; 1868.-=-TRIPLE SHEET: the winding course of the Doon—marked by its green drapery of woodland. Far around the surface was charmingly varied. The land, the' sky and the sunlight conspired to make the moat lovely picture. The monu ment is enclosed with about an acre of land. This is ornamented with ivies, hollies, yew and plane trees. pines, hawthorns and moun tain ashes. The walls are curiously lined with bright,flowers. A little way down-from the monument Is a rustic building, in which may be seen the statues of Tani O'Shanter and flouter Johnny—comical characters truly. I do not wonder Barns wrote an epic, taking them for his heroes. Bidding adieu, with feelings of nittetence, to these fair works of art, - conseciated by the sweetest and noblest genius, we descended upon the Auld Brig, over which Tam drove his Meg at full speed, with witches and war locks at her heels, till- the keystone of the arch was rocked, and pouring water put an end to the chaser We were surrounded by "Banks and braes o' bonny 'Doon. The bridge is overhung with broad sweeping branches oftlnis arid : plane trees. _lts aides are interwined with. ivy. Surely nature is endeavoring to give it a green old age. From the top of the brig we went down . under its high , arch of nearly a hundred feet span. We could not wonder that the poet should: revel and sing by the DoOn. The shade was so - thick, the breeze no cool, the water so clear, the gentle rippling of the coursing atream so soothing, and the birds so merry, ho flowery ottrcould the poet but sing, "Ye w bonnie Doon Row can you bloom sae fresh and fair"? Visiting the 'stew Brig, which is some fifty rods below the old, having gathered memen toes from river, bank and tree, we turned our steps towards the town again, and for the train to Glasgow, being : a thousand times glad 'for the experience of that day. More- --than once we • felt the greatness and goodness of the poet's genius. No wonder they - speak of it with pride and Wilderness. When they were most needing help and inspiration, showing them that all men are equal in the sight of God, that the poor peasant and indium have a rightto distinction if, by effort, they exhibit manly elementsand develop noble characters, Robert Burns came forth upon the stage of action from the deld and the lowly cottage, to teach new doctrines and to sing new songs. The ruling sentiment of his heart seemed to be that a true man is the noblest work of God. He keertlFrelt the tendencies of his age and country. -- 'fie well knew that some of the rarest minds and hearts were being crushed unborn by the iron heel of caste and peerage. Only the BOW and daughters of lords and no bles could receive the advantages of the schools and be crowned with titles of honor. Burns knew this was false; he felt it was wrong.„With his genius and fortitude he fought gainst this selfish idea and struck fatal blows to crush it out. At the same time he failed not to speak a God-speed to the noble poor of every class. Be would as sure them that if they could not be blessed with honors of the schools, they could never theless be blest with earnest thought and self-culture. In tius‘way they could become men; they would become conscious of their own worth and human destiny, and make themselves benefactors to their race. We can readily understand why he ridiculed boasted titles, sgendid equipages and extrav agant houses. What are 'these without the man accompanies them? In. the • man, in the soul. in the heart, and in the mind, is that something which is to live through the ages, that something which can diell joy on earth, and can soar to the skiesi r that some thing is noble, and is what - the lioet would ennoble. Hence, -what flashes of light and life dropped trikal2ll3 lyre! nende the -watch word of his bosom : , "ThS rangle but-the guinea stamp; ' A man's a man for a' that!" It istrue Burns had his faults. His acute sensibilities, peculiar force of character, and the customs of his age, did sometimes lead him astray and mar the beauty of his mind. His reason would err, but never did he allow his moral sense to: be debased. When wrong, he struggled to become right, teaching by precept and example the purity and dignity of the soul life. In all conditions 'ld heart and mind he writes and sings. Especially does he sympathize with those who till the soil, spin the wool, tend the flocks, and in honest ways earn their daily bread. With them be laughs, with them he weeps, with them he works, and with them he prays. To the poor man in Scotland the sweet lays of Burns hold the next place to the Bible in his heart. His songs have become house hold words throughout his native land. The humble poet of Ayrshire has become a star, beauteously glittering from the bosom of the past. May it shine on! may it shine ever! Robert Burns is the sweetest singer of all Scotia. May he sing on, and may he sing ever !—Boston Transcript. in troops to be baptized; but when the rever- Mid gentleman mentioned marriage,, the Maidens were coy and the r bachelors slow to appear. Perhaps they did not like marrying in the Prince's presence. Mr. Miller gave them two hours to consider .his preposition, and lingered in vain. As he says, with much professional regret, there were seven girls on the island old enough to marry, and seven young men, all of`whom were "eligible" for the sacrifice, yet the two hours slipped away without bririging.the young men • and blush ing girhito the altar of hymen; The Prince could not wait; and the - British chaplain, 'thd - ugh burning with zeal to bind, these be nighted swains . and' nymphs in-holy-matri mony, had to push off for the Galatea, leav ing them as wild in morals and, free in life as they had been before his adVent. Who will not sympathize in such a case of clerical dis tress? An Fnalliehtnutos'lnew elf the Reath. Not a man was to be seen, but hundreds el negroes were working in the heat, building, repairing, road-making, and happily chatting 'ill the while. - :At last,; - a — doper, came on a hotel, and as a consegnence on a bar and its erowd of swaggering whites— . "Johnny Reba" all, you might =-see' by the breadth of their brime, for across the Atlantic a broad brim' denotes less the man of . peace th than e et-member of a southern . guerilla band, Niorgan's, Mosby's, or Stuart's . . :These southerners were all , alike—all were upright, tall, and heavily moustached—all had long black hair and glittering oyes, and I looked instinctively for baldric: and rapier. It needed no second glance to assure " me that as far as the men of Norfolk were concerned; the saying fromf our Yankee skipper was not far the truth : "The last idea that enters the mind of a southerner is that of doing work." After Atha southern planters are not "the South," which for political purposes is com posed of the mean "whites," of the Irish of the towns, and of the "southwestern- men— Missourians,Kentuckians-and Texans,fiercely anti-northern; - "without being in sentiment What we should , call; southern, certainly not representatives of the "southern chivalry." The "mean whites," or "poor trash," are the whites who are not planters—members of the slaveholding race who never held a slave— white men looked down upon by the negro. The southern planters were gentlemen, possessed of many aristocratic virtues, along With every aristocratic vice: but to: each planter there were nine "mean whites," who, though grossly ignorant, full of insolence, given to the use of' the knife and pistol upon the slightest provocation, were until the elec tion of Lincoln to the presidency as com pletely the rulers of America as they were afterwards the leaders of the rebellion. Every day that you are in the South, you come more and more to see that the "mean whites" are the controlling power. The land owners are not only few in number, but their apathy during the present crisis is surprising. The men who demand their readmission 'to the government of eleven States are unkempt, fierce-eyed fellows not one wit better than the Brancos of Brazil; the very men,strangely enough who themselves in their "Leaven worth constitution," first began disfranchise-• went, declaring that the qualification for electors in the new State of Kansitillliould be the taking the oath to uphold the-infamous .slave law.---Dilkea's Greater Bri _ Dow an Obnoxifinis CiergTiolan was Dealt The London News tells this story: "The quarrels of brethren are proverbially bitter. There is, not far -from the centre of England, a county of which old Drayton could say, after passing 'over half the shires of England: " 'The worst foot of her earth is equal with their best,' where, the Tories lately fell into deadly strife, and politicians who had acted together tor thirty years were arrayed in op position, and their memories with great success to find the means of making one another uncomfortable. Amongst others, an aged elergyman of local fame, who had worked hard on many a platform at a time When c i a bold free tongue could serve the good old cause much better than it can at present, was making himself much too prominent to please his former friends, and it was thought desi rable to make him feel that he had better retire to the tranquillity of hie parish. Various means of doing this were thought of, but while they were under consideration some body of an antiquarian turn of mind happened to light on this ancient epitaph—"in my mind's eye, Horatio"—which was speedily deciphered from its moss-grown stone and transferred to the country piper, of the defunct curiously happening to be also those of the obnoxious living presbyter: " 'There lies a man beneath this sod; Who slandered all except his God; And Him he would have slandered, too, But that his God he never knew.' "The venerable and officious clerk has not since been heard of." Cuzlotus Phonomeno—Dloon Photo. graphs. A correspondent of a Rochester paper writes `•On entering a Third avenue street-car in New York one morning last winter, at the Sixty sixth street depot,l was pleased to find the floor strewn with rye straw. This car bad stood .upon the track during the latter part of the night, while the straw was in it. The frost upon the windows gave a perfect photograph of the straw, and every passen ger looked with wonder and admiration upon the beautiful frost paintings. "A few evenings since, in passing a water trough which stood under a young elm, I noticed—the moon being full—that the shadow of the tree was, thrown upon the water. The next morning the trough was slightly frozen over, but behold there was a perfect photo graph of the drooping branches of the beauti ful elm. Can you tell me bow this was done? Has the moon gone into the photograph business, and has it been engaged in that business for a long time past ?" MINNIE HAucK continues to attract the kindly notice of the London critics, one of whom says : "Miss Minnie Hauck ? who may count am bition among the qualities which give war ranty of her ultimate success, appeared for the first time in the character of Margarita, and secured by her highly intelligent imper sonation the favorable Suffrages she had already gained in the parts of Zerlina and Amina. Her execution of the Jewel Song with its brilliant paskiges and well-articulated shakes, was sufficiently neat and facile to give unqualified satisfaction to an unusually numerous audience, and the voice Was accompanied by action sprightly and unconstrained enough for the most fancy free of maidens. The extreme ingenu, ousness of manner 'was kept up by Miss Hauck in Gretchen's itecqunt of her little sister's death, and in all the earlier portions of the amorous trifling with Faust. But in the latter part of the famous Garden-scene Miss Hauck warmed with hor task, and evinced even deeper feeling than she had yet displayed. When the curtain .had fallen on Margarita's unconscious betrayal of her secret to Faust, the young lady was forced to reappear upon the stage; and she deserved the compliment quite - as well after the im pressive Cathedral-scene, where the con science-stricken girl , is overpowered by the evil spirit." COUSETS. latent (120,11:3.5TA-1-3.JUBBOLRECEIVED. A ultoe. At Mu. Meet% • Mutant .lat a e l t, e tial: /4. Thirteenth. and 20 South Eleventh etreot.!tbovo Spruce. dole 6V,, 1:114ITEi) SECURITY LIFE INSURANCE ANI) TRUST COMPANY, OF FIMISYLV.ANM 011ice,Southeant Oor. Fifth and Chestnut, PIitILADEIsPHIA. Capital, - - $1,009,000 DIIIMISOTOBS: GEORGE - If. STUART. Philatiphia. GEORGE W. AQ4-I.l.Bli ji WILLIAM AI rold ng, P. A DEERJEI4 • - WM. V. fdell, THOMAS W.AVANS. S. EL HORSTmAriht. A. J. DREXEL, JOSEPH PA.TIEEsON. WM. C. 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No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange— , This Company insures Flß from E losses or damage by on liberatterms 'on buildings, merchandise, lurniture, dm, for limited-periods, and permanently on buildings by deposit or premium. The Company has been in active operation for more than sixty years, during which all losses have been promptly adjusted and paid. • DIRECTORS: John L. Hodge, David Lewis, M. B. Mahony, Benjamin Etting, John T, Lewis Thos. It Powers. Wm. B. Grant; A, R. MollenrY.- • Robert W. Learning, = Edmond u ss taton, D. Clark Wharton, StimueLWilcox„ Lawrence Lewis. Jr., Louis E. N orr is, JOHN It. WUCIIEREP., President. SAMUEL WILOOX. Secretary. 8188 • ASSOOIATION' OF PLULAD f i bie N lAtco rti watt h sd trt 111St. lun Ottica, Id o o . useho o ld Furnit e ure L and Morchatra 4F( l . * generally, from hoes by Fire (in tho City of ' .11dIsdelphia only.) • 'Statement of the Assets oh the - Amodation January Ist. 18013, published in compliance with the pro. ablaut, of the Act. of Assembly of April Ilth. Ronda and Mortgagor on Property in the Oily' of l'hiladolpida 0n1y.... .. . .. ......151.076.186 17 Ground Renta,................ ... ... . .... .. 18.814 Si Real v-tate. c. ..........:.. 81,748 67 Furniture eliff 4.490 03 U.S. 620_ Registered 80nd5.... .... . 414,000 00 Cash on hand. ...... .... . . .......... 81.8711 11 William H. Hamilton., bamned iliparhatak.. Peter A. Keyser. , charies I. flouter. John Carlow. __ _ 00/110 Li t filgt e = l. George I. Young. hart Joeph It. Lyn all. _ ° er. Armbruster 2 ` H. Dickinson.. Levi P. V" Peter W arneon. • WM. H. HA.lll.lLTON A _Preside , t. _ B U TLER.YL SPA IG 4 AWIE. Vic e h cadent. WM. T. boorotaeg. UNITED FEMME! INSURANCE CODIPIINY HILADELP This Company takes risks at thelowost tides consistent with safety, and inufirlos its business exclusively to FIRE INSURANCE IN raw CITY OF lIELIADEI. OFFICE—No. 723 Arch street. Fo urth National Bank Building. -- - DIRECTORS. Thomas J. Martin. Charles_ a. Sad . th. - John Hirst. Ar ie he m r , t y tt= Wm. A. Colin. James Monson. Jamie Wood. - r William Glenn. John h_n e d nry hallora. James Jenner Alexander T. Dickson,D u p gr i tegg a mt r li ck. Albert " Eele q le bo ANbliEdd, President. Wm. A. Roars. Treas. ' Wi t. MAGnr. Bec'Y• Inisz , INSURANCE EXCLDBLYBLY.—.TIIB PENN. sylvania Fire Insurance Companp—incorporated 1525 —7Cbarter PerPetual—Bo. 510 Walnut street. oPPoatte in. dependence Sonars. , - • , , This Lompauy, favorably known to the community for over forty yeara, continues to insure against loss or dam. ago by the. on Public or - Private -Buildings, either perms. neatly or fora Limited time. -- Alwon Furniture. - ds of Goode and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital. together with a' large Surplus Fund. to invested in a most careful mane which enabler them to offer to the insured an undoubMd security, in the y me of loss, DARECTOBB. Daniel Bmlth.Jr., John Gevereux. I -- Alexander Benson, . Thomas Smith. . Isaac liatlehurat. II Lewin, Thomas Robins, J. Glillogimm Fell,' Daniel Haddock, Jr. . _ DANIEL bumf, Jr.. President. Wm:um GiCaowatu Boo:actor": , lii (X)LNTY FIRE INSURANCF.HOMPANY—OF. flee, No. 110 South Fourth street, below Chestnut. • The Fire Insurance Company of the County of Phila delphia," Incorporated by the Legislature of Penne:viva. nia in for indemnity against loss or damage by fire. exclusively. CHARTER PERPETUAL. This old and reliable institutlonwith ample capital and contingent fund carefully Invested. continues to insure buildings, furniture, merchandise, dic.. either permanent ly or for a limited time,against loss or damage by fire , at the lowest rates consistent with the absolute safety of its customers. LOPOiB adjusted and paid with all posaible despatch. DIRECTORS: Chas. J. Sutter. Andrew 11. Miller, lienry_lludd, • James N. stone. Jobn Horn. Edwin L. Realdrt. Joseph Moore, Robert V. Masao, Jr.. George Mecke, Mark Devine. J. - SUTTER, President. HENRY BUDD. Vice President. BENJAMIN F. HOECKLEY. Secretary and Treasurer JEFFERSON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF Philadelphia.—ollice. No. 24 North Fifth Weer, near Market street. Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania. Char ter perpetual. Capital and Assets, tiNiieoo. Make hum. ranee against Lou or damage by Fire on Public or Private Buildings, Furniture. Stocks, Goods and Merchandise, on favorable terms. DIRECTORS. . Wm. McDaniel. - Edward P. Moyer. 'lsrael Peterson._ Frederick Ladner. John F. Eielaterling. Adam J. Glaar„ Henri Troemner. Henry IBMixiy. Jacob Sekund ein. John ff~ott. Frederick Doll, Christian D. Frick, William DD. Samuel Miller. Geodner rge N . F o rt., Gar -WILLIAM MoDANIEL. President ISRAEL PETERSON, Via President. Purmy E. Comwsay. Secretary and Trearrarer. ANTHRACITE INSURANCE COMPANY.—CHAR. TERPERPETUAL. • - Office, No. 811 WALNUT street. above Third. Phila. Will insure agairuct Lou or Damage by - Eire =Hull& Num eithor perpetually or for &limited Ume. Household Furniture and floychandite germally. ••. Also. Marine Insurance on Vesaela, Cargoes and Freights. Inland Insurance to-all parts of the Union. DIRECTORS. Wm. Eeher. Peter Meter. D. Luther. J. Baum. Lewis Audenried, Wm. P. Dean. John R. Blakiston, John Ketcham, Davin Pearson. Johrill.HeyL MUM President. F. DEAN, Vice President, jailltu.thAti Mx. BL Elarru. Secretary A MEE-JOAN FIRE IIiESURANOE 00MPANY. E.lOOll - Porated 3840.-42arter terPetnaT No. 310 WALNUT street, above ThLAPidladelPhils. Having a large paid-up Capital 8 and Surplus in vested in sound and available Securities, continue to in.. sure an dwellings, stores. furniture, merchandise, vessels in port, and their cargoes. and other personal property. AU losses liberally and pporroW• aditusted. D=EMOIIB. Thomas R. Marls, lEdmmul G. Utah, John Welsh. 'Charles W. Ponitney, Patrick Bray. 1 1, 1erael Morris. John T. Lewis. John P. Wetherill, William V. Paul. THOMAS B. MARIS, Presid ent ALßEßT C. CRAWFORD. Secretary. FAME INSURANCE COMPANIGINO. 4:09. CHESTNUT PHILADELPHIA FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVSLY. D/RECTORS. Francis N. Buck. PhWp S. Justice, Cum Richardson, John W. Ever:l:4 ft Henry Lewis, . Edward p. Woodson, Robert Pearce.-' ' John Kessler. Jr.. Coo. A. West, Chao. Stokes, RobertA t irer, Mordecai Busby. Cid N. BTIOX/President. WIS. L. C LANCHAR HAS. RI D. t3ocretCHARDSO rY N. Vice President Ba • 'PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED -I. The partnership heretofore existing under the firm of ROOP. KIBBE & (X.. is this day dbutolved by the death of SAMUEL W. ROOP. The business will be settee. by by the surviving partners at Noe. 24 and 28 Bank s JOSEPH C. ROOP% Executor of Samuel W. Roop HENRY R. KIBBE,_ CLINTON J. TROUT. JOSEPH C. ROOP. WILLIAM Y. COLLADY. Surviving Partners PUILADELPIIIA. December 1.1888. PARTNERSHIP FORMED. The undersigned hereby give notice that they have formed a limited partnership, under the provisions of the act of Assembly, entitled 'An act relative to special part. nerships," approved March 21,1836. and the supplements thereto, the terme of which are the following, viz.•' 1. The name of the firm under which such partnership is to be conducted is KIBBE. COLLADAY & TRouT, 2. The general nature of the business intended to Ise transacted is a general Dry Goods Importing and CM minion business. 3. The General Partners are HENRY R. KIBBE, re siding at the Girard House, in the City of Philadelphia ; WILLIAM Y. COLLADA. residing _at No. 1329 North Bro• d Street , in th e same city, and CLINTON J. TROU residing at No. 742 North Nineteenth Street. in the same city ; and the Special Partner is JOSEPH°. ROOK resid ing at N 0.2006 Wallace. Street, in the said city of Phila delphia. 4. The amount of capital contributed to the common stock by said Special Partner is F ifty Thousand ($50.000) Dollars in cash. 5. The said partnership is to commence on the first day of December. A. D. 1833, and is to terminate on the first day of January, A. D., 1871. HENRY R. MBE, WILLIAM Y. COLLADAY, CLINTON J. TROUT General Partners. JOSEPH C. ROOP, Special Partner. sel2-Bmls des Irnoo THOMAS S. DIXON & BONS, • Late Andrews & Dixon, "%, No. 18S4 CHESTNUT Street, rhilada.„ Opposite United States Mint, Manufacturer° of LOW DOWN. PARLOR, • CHAMBER. OFFICE, And other GRATES. For Anthracite, Bituminoue and Wood lire; WARZAIS AI4 ARNACE . For Warming Public and Private linildlngs. REGISTERS, VENTILATORd, AND • CHIMNEY CAPS. COORING-RANGES,..BATH.BOILERS. WHOLESALE, Mid-RETAIL. 12 PEREMPTORY_ BALE,-,JAMES A. FREEMAN Auctioneer.—Valnable Factory Fourth and Ilackley etreets, Nineteenth Ward with - engine house. eulkille) boiler, &c.—On Tuesday .Morning, December 15th, 18cc. 10 o'clock, will be sold at public sale, without reserve, on certainmises the ollowing described real astate: All that three-story brick factory, with basement and one story brick engine house in the rear thereof, situate upon a certain lot of ground in the Nineteenth Ward; beginning at the southwest corner of Fourth and Hackley streets; thence extending eouthwastwardly , along the southeast wardly side of Liackloy street 101 feet flinches; thence southeastwardly at sight angles with Hackles+ street 86 feet 12/ inches: thence eastward at right angles with 1 , carte street 67 feet 936 inches to:Fourth street; thence along the west side of Fourth street 118 feet 11.34 inches to the place of beginning. Subject to $240 ground rent per The above is a valuable three-story brick/actor% lately built. nigh engine and boiler house, sneoke stack, sum. rior 20 horse power on gine,made by fiforpan l Orr Co. ,flue boiler all c ,raytete andtin perfect order. 2 his location is rapit improvingfor marry/adoring purposes, b 3in g "'earl e Ditl , of af the MCA and Sixth street Passenger R. . and the Union Gibe paseine the door. The fac. tory is substantially constructed, on perfect order, and is compiet. to all ifs arrangements. 2'he (aces, partions and shelving will be inctuctedin the sale of thereat meate.. but the heating apparatue, machinery,fixtures..bo., sold seoncra key immediately after the real estate. Or Saha jperemPterY. Mir $6BO to be paid at time of sale. Halo of the machinery of-a trimming manufactory, Jac guard Looms, stock. oihce, furniture. largo fire and bur glar proof safe &cc. Immediately after the sale of the real estate bo sold without reserve, tho entire valua ble machinery, heating apparatus, stock. ere. Qom' Osta, logues containing full particulars MAW be had at the Aucx Son Store.hale peremptory. Terme cash. SW' The factory and. machinery may bo examined At Any time. JAMES A, FREEMAN. Auctioneer.. 4410,12 Store. 429 Welnut street. ....$921,176 70 $432,062.24 Sal•tu tit 8 tfal Vl] : : I V:1 INEATEINS AND STOVER. REAL ESTATE SALES. REAL ESTATE SALES. DRPLIANfP;(22II.IIII%B3.III-LTEIOMAO Auctioneers.—Pouretory Brick Residence. O. 312 south Fifth street. be , ow Bonne etreet. On 'face. day. December 22, 1868 , at 12 o'clock. noon, will be sold et 'public sale. at the Philadelphia Brehange, the following described property. vie.: All that .founatory brick tone. 'Mega and lot of ground, aims to on the °set side of mat street. o 813, between ,Sapruce and Pine e ree.s. in the City of Philadelphia* beginning at a point on fifth street, being a point of ground of Charles Robb; thence extend. ' ing e,etward alone the grounder Charles Robb eforesaid 48 feet ,2 inches; thence extending eouthward 434 inchee ; thence ex.ending raatward 33 feet 3 ; incites; thence extending southward;',l4-- feet ' 1934 inches; thence extending westward at right angles with tfth - street 81 feet 5 *inches to Fifth street. and thence extending north ward along the Came 16 feet 3 inches to, the place of beginning. Bounded on the north bY around of the raid Chat kw-Robb; on-the Oast by the said ground of Charles; Robb, and partly by the _ hoed of a 2 feet 8 inches wide alley; On the s:iuth by ground of Christian Hoeckley. and on the west an Pif th street afoltwaid. Together with. the full use and petal. - - lege of the said 2 feet 8 Inches wide alley. leading Into and from Green% court, and of free ingress. egress and re greet'. into, out of, over and along the same. at all times hereafter forever. and together with the Appurtenances. _ By an order of the Orphans' Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. dames M. Neemith.Trustse of the one full undivided third part of the above described_iire. mimes, held by him in trust for thie generate use of Mary 11, Nesmith under the last will - of _Jaynes Mitche ll . deed - (sue, the said Mary 11 Nesmith:being seized of two natal. vided third parts thereof in fee). was anthorlaedand . directed to unite with the said Mary B. Nesmith in the sale -of the said premised, and sell at public; male, in fee simple clear of all treats and limitations whatever, all that said ono undivided third part thereef.oo.ed held b him fn trust. &c. :N. B.—The house contains ten rooms; bait gas, bath. &e. MARY D. NEdaIiTFL _ JAMES fat NESMITH. Trustee. JOBEPII MEGA RY. Clerk 0. C. M. ROMAB ,h SONS, Auctioneeni. del 1919 - Nos. 139 and 141 South Fourth street. • . , PUBLIC SALE.- TIIOSIAB dr 80N8, AUCTION g recs.—Valuable mill property and farm 4514 odes, _th-yvater power. known asi.'BroadbenVe-Miligi." -- (Igibrs Creek, Twenty-fourth Ward, about four Imes west of Market a tract bridge., On Tuesday, Dec. 15.1660., at 19 o'clock noon. will be gold at public ode. at the Philadelphia Each ange.,all thatyaluable tract of buld.with" the walls of a three-atory stone mill, with barn and stone Montagu thereon erected. situate In the Twenty-fourth Ward, on a road running north and south. between 11 ayerford and Market streets, about 4 miles west of - Market street bridge, containing about 45. a gm. N. 13.-1 biapropertir is about half a mile from the ter. - minus of the West Philadelphia • easeonger Raiisi• , at ii addington ; tars running every IA minutes. It will 110 intersected by Arch, Mace and Vine streets, and 70th. list. 72d and IBd streets, when opened. The mill is of stone. 86 by fe feet (lately b u rned, can be, rebuilt by purchaser to suit himself, walls balm rood), with bagel three-story stone tenant-holite. 16 by 85 feet, partly, burned; double stone farm housr. ice-bouse, large barn. Am. :odes-house. apple orchard. with fine atone quarry and good sand. It to half a mile from second toll-gate of West Chatter , plank road (Market street). The water power is 9134 feet head and fall, from a neve:4lllMß stream (Indian creek). Subject tO a mortgage of $12,664 which may " roe __ - maim Pr Clear of all other incumbrancea. The property can be examined by application at the office of Joseph 11. Rhoads, Eari,, 419 Locust tarot, where -a pplan of the property can be seen. smoo to be paid at the time of atie.- • - - M. THOMAS & 11088. Auctioneent. - ° de.15.12 159 and 1418. fourth street ORPHANS' COURT SALE.—ESTATES OP AIL. ehtbald Mclntyre hobertson. dec'd.„ and Robert Henderson Robertson. a minor.—Thomas A Sons, Auctioneer..—Two three-story Brick Stores and-Dwell: lege, Nos. IE2I and 15113 Sp uce street, corner of Sidartouth Place. with six threeetomirrick- Dwellings fn the rear, fronting on, Eildmouth Place . between Eighteenth and Nineteenth street 37 feet front. 104 feet deep. Pursuant to an Order of the Orphans• Court for the City and Connty of Philadelphia. will be cold at public sale, on Tuesday, December 15,1858, atl2 o'clock, neon. at the Phi ,adelphla Exchange ; the following described property, late of Ar. chibald Mclntyre Robertson, dec'd.. and Robert Header. eon Robertson.. a minor: Ali that lot or piece of ground. with the eight three-story brick mesmerises, or tenements thereon erected... Wrote on the north side of Spruce Moot, between Fighteentlf and Nineteenth streets. in the etty of Philadelphia, at the distance of F. feet east - wan:La 'aid Nineteenth street; containing in breadth together - said Spruce street. fa feet. and in length_ or depth 104 feet Hounded, eastward by ground of John Dunlap. northward by Ann street, westward by ground of Richard L and partly by a P feet wide alley Leading into Ana street, as d southward by said Scrum street Together with the privilege of the raid 3-feet wide alley. REBECCA M. ROBERTSNN. Administratrix. ELI/SALMI ILROBERTHON. Guardian. N. IL—The imroyementa are 2 three story . Mice a totes araldurellings.. g-on-Sprisca-street.-anci6 three— story brick dwelling in the rear, fronting on Shicaouth place. One undivided half of the property will be sold under the orders of the Orphans , Court, tee remaining half under the direction of the roamers Uproot ,• the pa r . chaser will therefore obtain a clear title to the entire premises. The sate will be ipmde subject to existing ten. ancy. Which expires April let, 18t9. M. THOMAS A. SONS, Auctioneers, n 025 dell 12 . 129 and 141 South 4 ourth street. . PUBLIC BALE—THOMAB ds BONO, AUCTION eery.—Very Valuable Germantown Probe:Yr—Two.. story Stone Building Nos. 46E9 and 4671 Main street, Germantown,_sB_reet front 436 feet,. deep. known as the "Old Germantown Bank. , " Twenty second Ward. On Tneedly, L crowbar 12 , 18.33. o'clock. noon. Will besold at public anin, at the rolled groundrkine, e b elo ngi ng . ne mewmagos and the lot thertunto vitiate on tho tortheastaly side of Main street. about 113 feet 2 inches south of • renn... street, Germantown. Twentretcond Ward; the lot tour. taring in front on Main street about 68 feet, and extend ing in d. feet, that feet 6 lathes: then widen. ing to 60nd in depth.* of that width 9e3 feet 6 inches;then narrowing to 45 feet and extending still further in depth of that width 816 feet 9 inches. tin eluding all feet wide alley.) the 'entire depth b 6 1125473 feet 9 inches. and being in width on the rear end 51 feet h•V inches. The-.improvements are a twootory stou building, formerly occupied as-We Clormsatmen Mi9k. and Da oiling. Will be sold according to a survey. which may be seen • at the Auction Halms NV Clear of all ineumbrauk Its cesh. immediate postesidep 86. THOMAS dr BOMB, Au °num 189 and 141 South mirth street. PUBLIC SALE.—THOMAS & SONS, AUCTION. cero. , —Vary Valuable Country Property —Store end Dwellings. and 874 Acres. .Lancaster Turnpike. Lower Merton 'kewnoblp„ Montgomery county. Pcunsyl amnia. 6 miles from Market Street bridge. 2 miles above estenville. On Tuesday, Ilecemberl6.M,•: at 12 o'clock, noon. will be sold at public sale. at the ohiladelphia Hz. change. all those 2 double frame incesuages and lot of ground therminta belonging. situate in the Township of Lower Merlon, Montgome rryy county, Penns-, on the old Lancaster turnpike (treddington road), about six miles from Maiket Street bridge arida mites from Hestonville. comprising 8 acres and 116 perches of land. The improve ments are a twoetory double frame house (occupied as 2 dwellings,- renting for 61160 per annum); also, a larger two-story double frame house (used ass More and dwell ing, and rents for $BOO per annum): stable and carriage house, Large garden. The land is in a blgk state of cal - s ation, and loused as a truck farm. The above is very pleasantly located in what is ktown as Libertyville, and adjoins lands of Owen Jones, Caroline Fry, and others_ [lam Will be sold according to survey, which may be seen at the Auction Rooms. M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers. R 12 1: 7 2 la 141 qnnth IF`nn-th -tryst. lIar2.14111)' lUttUtl4l; isaub.—ESTATE -klakt le Ci. Lowellyn. decease& Thomas At. Bona. Auc. Concern Dwelling, bitippen street. east of Ninth street Pursuant to an alias order of the Orphans' Court for the city and county of Philadelphia. will Deltoid at pub lic Bala on Tuesday. December 16. 493. mill o'clock, noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange the following described property. late of Mary O. Lowellyn. decess. All that lot of ground and the brick meesuage thereon erected. situate;on the south side of Shippers greet 45 feet l3l inches east of Ninth street; containing in front on Ship pen street 19 feet 1034 incheaand In depth 15 feet 2 inches. Bounded on the west by ground late of Maurice Netts.- meemow of Phillia Gm don,on the south by ground late of Charles Ricer. on the east by an alley 4 feet wide, left open by the said chariot Ricer, leading into dhlppen street; together with the common W. and privilege of said 4 feet wide alley leading into and from said Shippen erectus an ailey,passage and watercourse at ail times for ever. and Mao together with the common use and privi. lege of a privy situate upon the western line of said lot at all times forever. By the Court, JP SEPIV MEGARY, Clerk O.C. ISAAC MORTON, Administrator. M. TiIOMAS dr 8O VB. Auctioneers. 139 141 bouth Fourth street, ne21,de5,12 ORPHANIPCOURT BALK—EiTATE OF DAVID P. Moore, deceased.—Thomas & Sons. Auctioneers.— Handsome modern three-story Brick Residence, with side yard. No. 943 Franklin street, above Poplar street, 26 feet frOnt.—Pursuant to an alias order of the Orphans* Court for the City and County of Philadelphia will be sold at public sale, on Tuesday. December 15th , 1868, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange, the follow. lag described property, late of Da id I'. Moore, deceased. viz.: All that messuage and lot of ground, situate on the east side of Franklin street, 438 feet 7;4 inches north of. Poplar etreet, Twentieth Ward of the city of Philadel phia; Containing in front on Franklin street 26 feet, and extending in depth eastward of that width on the north ern line thereof 9 57 feet 6% inches, and op the southern line thereof 56 feet Hi inches. Bounded northward tr. ground now or late of a the estate of Step E. Fotteral. decd; southward by ground of William Sketchiey•. eastward by ground late of Peter Wagner, and westward by F. ank , in street aforesaid. Being the same premises which William Sketchley by indenture dated 14th day of December, A.D. leo, recorded In deed book L. R. 8., No. 144, page 59; &c.. granted and convoyed unto said David P. Moore. in fee. Subject to a certain ground rent of $9l per annum, and the•restrictione therein mentioned. By the Court, JOSEPH MEGARY, Clerk O.C. N. 11.—The house has all the modern conveniences three-story, back buildings; fierier, dining-room and kitchen on the drat floor; gas throughout, hot and cold water, furnace, cooking-range, marble vestibule, wash pave, &o. M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, n021,de5.12 . 139 and 141 South Fourth street. 12 PEREMPTORY SALE.—FOR ACCOUNT OF whom it may concern. - Thomas di Sons, Auction 'eere,-Tweatory Frame Dwelling, No. 8922 Chestnut goat, 26 feet front, 222 feet deep, West Philadelphia, Twentyceventh Ward.—On Tuesday, December 1511868, at 12 o'clock, noon. will be sold at public sale. without reserve, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that two-story frame dwelling and lot of ground situate on the south side of t..heehrut street, between Thirty.ninth and. Fortieth streets. West Phlladelphisilcontainirigin front 25 foot and iu depth 220 feet to Sensate street; - - -- M. HOMAS & SONS,. Auctioneers. 189 and 141 South Fourth street. strattlie — NtilfirtiEs. DEPARTMENT OF sußvEys.--orrioo OF THE Chief Engineer and Surveyor*, Philadelphia,December 8,1868. Nozios.—Driplicate plane of the street lines and grades of the Twelfth Section of the Twenty.first Ward, No. 234 bounded on the • Northeast by the Ridge road: • Southwest by the Schuylkill river ; Southeast by preen lane, and Northwest by Cinaminson lane. Also, the plane or the street lines and grades of the Thir teenth Section, 1 , 0. 230, bounded on the Northeast and East by the Ridge road; Northwest by Shurr's lane, and • South.and Southwest by the river Schuylkill. Are now prepared and deposited for inspection at the office of the I3urveyor and Regulator of the Eighth Sur- District, -MAIN Street, Manayuuk, and also at the office of thin department No. 221 13. FIFTH Street, and the Board of Surveyors have appointed MONDAY. Dec.. Si. 1868, at ball-past ten 'o'clock A.M. to 'consider •any -- objections that may be urged thereto by any citizen in. • terested therein. STRICKLAND KNEASff, •• Chief Engineer and Surveyor. f1011,12.19,t3t 61,45 - WITCA D YOTTVLLLE GLASSWOREB IN FULL _BLAST. And manufacture Carboyvwith or without boxes Demijohns covered with willow or ratan; Wino Bottlos all sizes; Porter bottles Althorn) Water bottles.- end druggist's bottles of eve r t description. . it G. W. DIMMERS. 27.80uth Front street. bbNiT di:Ok'4si/mt: " slop dver,"ilui old itWI-said,- • • ,•• • • As he pineed his hands on the young man's head; "Golt by all hiehils, gu it fain; , - Go it while. leather and horseshoes 'last; Go it.while bide and hair on horse Will hold together. 011, go it, of , eour6o • Go it as rapid As flyer yon tan, • But don't slop over, my dear young man. "Don't alop.,ovcr. You'll find some day That ketplug an eye to the windward will pay, A horse may run a little too low, A preacher preach just a fraction too strong, Auffa poet who gleascs tbe world with rhymes }lay write and tegret'it in after-times, Keep the end of the effort in view, • And don't slop over, whatever you do. " Don't slop over. The wisest men Are hound to slop over now.and then; And yet tbo wisest at tvork or feast Are the very ones who bland& the least. Those who for split milk never wail, Are the once who carry Cho steadiest pall, Wherever yo p go o go in for the fat; But don't slopi over—and trout to that! "Mon'tslop over, distrust yourself, Nor always reach to the highest shelf, The next to the highest will gen'rally do, And answer the needel of,6uch.ne you. Milk of course, but'always stop And take breath a little this Me of the top; And K. you will reach it in led and strong Without'slopping over. Thus ends my song!" %ppee►rtances. (From tbo Loot on Baturday ReVIOW,I The question of appearances was a more prac tical eve than It is nows when one and the same class Includes' the extremes of wealth and narrow fortune in greater number than ever, all trained In the same Ideas and leheriting the same tastes. Yet the plea of doing this or that for the sake of rippearances is seldom used, by persons who pretend to . fiberal ideas; viithout a sneaking sense of shame. We never feel less dignified than when proffering it either as a motive influential with ourselves or as a dissuasive against our friend's course of action. We have recourse to It in deferencesew we 'suppose; to the exigencies of our weaker nature, but not without a con sciousness of some lack of self-respect in this anxiety - to - regulates - our -- Conduct by its outward seeming. Yet it may be doubted whether this is a natural shame, or ono that would obtrude itself unprompted on most minds. Philosophers and satirists have put it info our heads; powers before which nature and mother-wit so often cower abashed. It is a ques tion that regards _the susceptible and feminine side of our humanity,, which is provided with fewest cut-and-dried arguments wherewith to eraser caviller& Open, therefore, and in a man ner clef ncelesa to the' aggressions and plausible refutations of what sets itself up for reason, the poor stickler for externals sees all go against him so long as words fight the battle; though proba bly in no case whatever does either philosopher or satirist so little bold, by his own rule or so Feltiont submit to his own dictation, as in this one of the vanity of appearances. the basenees of shams, and contempt for Mrs. Grundy. In fact. our happiness is inseparable from Appear ances. To live without regard to the im preselon we make upon others and its reflex upon ourselvessor without continual sacrifices to this consideration, were to live the life of animals, not of men; but it is Much easier to contemn a stringent regard to externals as a bondage un worthy of a rational, being, than to prove to a cuptlOda - uti - di:z r etatrdiffit Abe prevailing moral in fluence wbibh they exercise for good. So mach so, that all people zrretieunsed, and in a way con vinced, by pictures representing the folly of res• garding appearances, though nobody, whether author or reader, ever dreams of regulating his own conduct by the lessons which he en forces or subscribes. to. What truth, what practical philosophy, people thought they saw In Franklie'S practical arguments against a sacrifice to appearances! "Almon all parts of Mir bodies require," be grants, "some expense; the feet demand shoes, the legs stockings, the rest of the body_ clothing, and the belly a good deal of victuals. Our eyes,., though exceedingly useful, ask, when reasonable. only the cheap assistance of spectacles, welch could not mach Impair our finances. But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. It all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes,flue houses,nor fine furniture." But whoever thoaght of rigidly ordering his expenses by this rule? Some thing always interposesi well be t weer' social beings and the possibility of acting after this plan of living with a view to merely personal require ments. Can even the much-talked-of young couple starting on a scanty Income arrange their expenses on the supposition of a blind world? and Ls there practical wisdom, whatever it may look in mere precept, in ignoring the observa tions and expectations of the people among whom they live? True,'lt is the duty to class, the abuse of citizenship, which constitutes the diffaculty of their position, and establishes the continual coeflict between the public and private claims on each sixpence; but to hold out is better, morally, as well as in mere feeling, than to give up the battle, and spend the poor sum total on shoes and stock ings, beef and potatoes. In fact, no two persons can agree together to give up appearance. The only people to do so cheerfully are the men of one Inca or ono pursuit—the miser, the man eaten up with self-conceit, and also the victims to some forms of enthusiasm. These let go the sense of universal kinship, and with it that bilanco of the mental powers which constitutes perfect sanity. The revolutionary philosophers of the last cen tury wrote in a spirit of reaction, following an age which obeyed the instinct for appearance with few doubts or scruples, and with an easier part to play than harasses our day; an age in which people consgped their neighbor's taste rather than their owls Ideas of order and consist ency. The fine lady who Managed her notate with care. Yet liked three footmen to her chair. had no doubt to overlook some anomalies in her private enrronndings. We have personal re quirements nowad lye, that would not embarrass the young fellow who Is counseled in the Spec tator to keep up a gay outside, though at some risk. tie might, to be sure, by managenlent save ten pounds in his dress; instead of wearing line Holland, he might mourn in sackcloth, and in other particulars be proportionally shabby; but of what service would that sum be to avert any misfortune, whilst it would' leave him de serted by the little good acquaintance he has and prevent his gaining any others. This is precisely the line, both of the individual and of society towards him, which modern satirists shake their heads over and call hard names. Addison takes the fact, and acquiesces in It, as a trait of our common nature needing no apology., In fact, we all agree with him, what,• ever consent we may affect to give t6 l the demiu ciations against snobs, shams and llunkeyism. We none of us like to recognize a shabby ac quaintance in the street, because to the imagina tion It compromises our own standing in some shadowy degree. No doubt, if all the bystanders were b 111341, the figure one's friends make would give us little concern; but so long ai people do see, and make observations, the members of a community cannot be independent of; their ver dict. We shall never overcome the feeling by being ashamed of it. If we ° could overcome it, our manner Inlght be the wprse by acquiring a sort of brow-beating self-assertiom while by recognizing it as natural in no-evil sense, we may team to keep it in duo subjection to higher considerations. Some people are selfish in this matter of ap pearances; they won't do things themselves or be seen doing thorn, but they 'will not care whom their scruples compromise. Many families have their drudge, to whom is deputed ail the business distasteful or held infra dig.try thb rest. -Like the Croud sisters in the fairy tale, they have their inderella in the kitchen; whichAs a very short sighted shirk and an ostrich-like policy, as society is more likely to judge a whole family by its low est representative than to ignore him altogether, and take the others at their own estimate. Appear ances as such incline, of courfse, to matte the best of things, "putting the best leg foremost." But it / is needful, beyond all things, not to go for too much.,- In the case of young people of limited income, the ill-portioned scions of :luxurious so elety,, their utmost aim should be to seenieasy, not rich. They are wise to keep straggles and expedients as madras possible out of sight. Ap pearances with many Must indeed bo negative, and meet be confined to the creditable desire not to appear poor, and therefore objects of an in quisitive or supercilious compassion. And we. would use the word struggle advisedly, for emir- age and hope and the chance of better times all hang on keepirg "up appearances and all flag on the disregard of them • - - It May be nottd that persons aro often Jealous of appearances in proportion as their mode of life is dictated to.them. The sons and daughters of a home are suspicious of failures in their elders, and watchful to keep them up to the niark—,_ When they grow old and have thingsin their own power, they relax, and will perpetrate little solecisms with a smile at their old punctilio; without reflecting that they may be inflicting the THE 04!aysvn:INGBIJI.J1=1,-.PMI.DERftIik,, SATI7jI.I) . .A,Y, DECEMBER 12.,18,68.7T8,,T.LE51EJW, wound they onciireceived, and ontraging ee nga in their tarn- Which theY tdvidisregard because the world and its ways stand tint in s slippery and receding relation to themaeltces s 'and can do nothing more for them. But even before'we are old in this sense, the fact of being our own mas ters is verr apt to make us defiant of the 0011170Dtlensi restraints .which we think wholesome -for,. (Wier peOple. Yew per sons, 'however, are so loose of ties and obli gations as to be justified in this indulgence. A man who persistsin disregarding appearances is a nulaince to all his belongings. ,There is often niallgaity, or 'at the best a conceited notion:of superiority to finery and prejudice, in the ag gressive line which is taken towards appear ances. A wise man Will respect thorn, even where he deep not`see the'sense of - them. because they represent realities to POMO minds, because by contempt-he is not only Indulging his own humorat the expense of other peoples feelings, but usually is wounding some principle of moral ity or order inextricably associated = with there , : Bven when an extreme leanink to externals spoils, as we all know it can, some character with otherwise excellent points, a rude,assaalt on self-love is the most lid:pelage triode of Cure; it very naturally confirms the habitual identifica tion of pleasant appearances and graceful ex t4-mals with, the_things they_personate, and .so clenches a faith in their parameemt Importance. GOING TO THE The Prehmtheiry, Weee • The prospect of Marriage s like religion, exer cises as .a rule a very soothing influence upon the mind. Of. course we - all know ;that - religion eoothes human nature down into a Mud' of spiritual sieeknesb which lent sways enviable, and not always enviable, and not always attainable even by the devout; but why the prospect of marriage should always produce a calming effect, is not easily conjectured, at, all - events, by those who want the knack of k.nowing bow to reconcile experience with imagination. The truth, we suppoie, must be that a man becomes resigned when once his marriage-day hasbeen Axed. Ho is conscious'- that the event IS ' inevitable. The pleasing perturbation of ' the period of courtship is at an end. Ina little while be feels that you shall see his name under the births and before the deaths. The sense of the duty of look ing happy and _feeling pleased is npon him. ' He does not shrink the condition' of 'premeditated matrimony. He is very anxious to .look happy; and when congratulated at every turn by his friends, professee himself very much pleased. But he is not pleased and he is not happy. A good deal of anxiety - is generated by the con stant contemplation of the day, that is inevitable. Many dubious .reflections upon the minute con comitants of marriage annoy him. He will have first of all, to get, mauled; that is to say, be will have to stand buttoned up in a frock coat Some - twenty minutes or more--Eleaven send that the bride doesn't want choral service ! before a clergyman, subjected to the prying glances of his dear relatives and friends, assem bled to witness, and, by their presence, to solemnize, if you will, the service. Then he will Wive to receive the congratulations of everybody in the vestry room—a terrific ordeal. Then be alai bate to walk down -- the Church timid - the whispering, and wondering, and gaze of ro ffe. of strangers who ' have strolled into the church to witness the proceedings. Thee he will have to push Ms way through a crowd of gaping children, nurses and infants in peramba talons into his carriage. all this kind of thing is delightful to women, but to men—and to nervous men in particular—it Is one of the great est deterents to marriage. -But-tile—bride--- groom's misery does not tad with lilyt getting Into the canine. The silly coachman and foot man have encumbered themselves with enormous and conspicuous favors; and he is dragged through the streets creating almost as much speculation and provoking almost as mach won derment as a new Lord Mayor in a gilt coach. But all this is trifling compared to what is -to follow.--If the bride lives in a square he has the satisfaction ef seeing _the neighboring balconies crowded to catch a glimpse of them entering the house. if she lives in (*street, the windows are filled with heads, while servants grin thronh the area railings and cractemany horrible jokes if there are a few men about. • If she lives In the country a band of hinds and yokels jostle each ether about the doorway and raise a hoarse cry of welcome when the carriage stops. One would think that matrimony was a new invention; that this marriage was the first experiment. After the bridegroom has gone gracefully through the or deal of being curtesied to by the servantsof the honee, whose theta areinflated with various eon grstulatory expressions, he has again to endure the shaking othands -and the spasmodic assur ances of good wishes that follow the arrival of the rest of the party. Then comes the break fast. A wretched old lady, who has been an inti mate friend of his family 'for twenty years, strives for a long time unsuccessfully to catch his-eye; when caught, she exclaims in a load voice that she expects great things from him when he returns thanks. Hang hen He site in great misery, trying to look unconcerned and cheerful, waiting for the moment when the father of the bride shall propose their healths. Why are not these detestable wedding-breakfast speeches banished? The rising of the father is always preceded by some minutea'slience. Every body sympathizea with everybody else. The thin man at the head of the table is sallow, and his eyes are bleared. Nervousness has wrought this unpleasant effect. He knows he will have to return thanks for the bridesmaids; and more than once be inquires earnestly of himself what he has done to merit his present suffering. The father of the bridegroom is thoughtful and pale. He is meditating his reply to the toast proposed to the health of his wife and himself There is infinite expectation among the women ; much dread among the men. But the bridegroom is the most miserable just now. He knows that when he arises he will not only have to address those whom he can see—he will have to address those (also whom he can't see: Servants linger behind the doer to criticise the declamation of the husband of their young lady. Waiters stand be hind him, petrified by his abrupt and nervous ri sing into immovable statues, holding glasses and bottles. of champagne. They know their busi ness do these attentive myrmidons, and will listen with the most embarrassing silence. Bat even when the bridegroom has made his speech his misery is not over. When the bride retires to change her dress, all the gentlemen cluster about him and renew their congratulations, made clamorous by the inspiring presence of cham pagne. Then be has to say Good-bye. The bride's little brother sets up a howl at the loss of his sister, which no promise of panto mimes at Christmas, and boxes of conjuring Implements can silence. The mother-in-law is desolated; she has been crying ever since five in the morning, and faints in the arms of a sympathetic old friend, who entreats her to be calm, in her Christian name, when the bride gives her a farewell kiss. The father wipes his eyes with the napkin which he has carried with him from the breakfast-table. Amid misery and con gratulations the bridegroom departs—the most miserable of the party, the least of all to be con gratulated. No wonder the contemplation of this kind of thing sobers a man: No wonder an element of sadness and doggedness pervades the actions and language of him whose marriage day has been axed. He is sobered by con templated contingencies. Frankly, we pity the man who is going to be married. We cannot ex tend the same compassion to young ladies. 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